the new Hale For Farm Improvements Ard you in need of financial assistance to buy seed or to increase your tillage, your stock or equipment? The progressive farmer will find this Bank ever ready to extend reasonable leans for legitimate pur- ee poses. so The ere naan You will find him interested. "37 IMPERIAL. BANK LISTOWEL EL BRANCH, M. R. HAY, Manager. snenmametementl The Listowel Banner Published every Thursday after- noon by The Banner Publishing Co. Cc. V. Blatchford President and General Manager The Banner has a large and grow- ing circulation throughout North Perth and portions of the County of adele the ; ane in the thriving district of wtich Listowel is the centre, without appearing in The Banner. NOTICE TO ADVERTISERS All advertisements must be.in office not later than ten o'clock Tuesday morning to insure insertion in the fol- lowing issue. Telephones: Office 61, Residence 166. Our Commercial Department is well equipped for turning out the best work. Thursday, Nov. .10th., 1921 Editorial F The advértiser of to-day is the! business getter of to-morrow. To be successful in these times, the ~mer- chant must be aggressive and ‘keep the public informed by generous use of printer’s ink. cal Farmers in this locality, who be- cause of poor crops, are having to buy grain with which to feed ‘their stock this winter, should be thank- ful this time that prices are low. One of Canada’s biggest banking institutions has resolved to remove as many as possible of the women em- ployees ‘from the--payroll at the end of the present year, concluding, quite probably, since bandits are becoming | $0 common, that it’s a man’s job. | a . We acknowledgé receipt of a 109- | page publication from the Canadian) Manufacturers’ Association, showing us why, in their interests, we eagene support the Meighen government an high tariff. We cannot even yen that it will have our serious consider: ! ation. We are told that a ‘‘wag” from the! rear of the audience, put an embaras- sing qyestion to Miss Agnes McPhail, | maiden lady and U.F,O. candidate for | North Grey, when she complained at) a recent public meeting in Hanover, , of a decrease in Ontario's rural pop-! ulation. ~ | If the party which works the hard-| est and spends the most money, is! going to win the election, we can} bank on a Conservative victory, for| through our exchanges and_ else-; where, we see signs of much aggres-! siveness. They are digging in tooth! and nail,'and leaving no stone unturn-| ed, in their strenuous fight to hold! the reins of power. | ~ Motorists in general, read with no! surprise, of the numerous ‘accidents! at night, as the result of cars coming into collision with other vehicles that are not required to carry a light. Par | ' the protection of human‘life and _ re- lief of motorists who have narrow es- capes no matter how careful, the law, should be changed and every occu-| pant of a vehicle be required to carry | a light that will show from front and rear. | \ = W. J. Taylor, publisher of the Woodstock Sentinel-Review offered $1000 for the recovery of liquor stolen from his cellar and conviction of the guilty ‘party. The alleged thieves, four in number, have been io- cated and are now in the county jail waiting trial, but the booze is report- ed to have been sold in Detroit for $8000. It not only pays to advertise, but advertising must pay, or Mr. Taylor couldnt have afforded to have stocked ung heavily. . The Ffffmers’ Sun is taking an un- fair advantage of its political oppon-: ents by starting to print Its editorials} in French. An issue of last week con- tained one of consideralhe length. | headed “‘Les Allies du Fermier,” in) the heart of which we recognize the name of Tommy Church. This is sure to arouse curiosity and cause conster - nation in the offices of Toronto con- temporaries, who are placed under u mean handicap. Like as not, they'll have to send the “devil” out after an interpreter. -. If Hon. Mr. Biggs is the callibre of man the position he holds calls for, then he will surely’accept the chal- lenge of the Christian Guardian, which finds it hard to understand his seeming inconsistant attitude regard- ing the cement manufacturing busi- ness in Ontario. The Guardian quite fittingly asks *‘Was Mr. Biggs Bluf- fing?" and savs further: “Better to have said nothing about the price of cement than to defy the merger and then back down. Canadians do net like g auitter.” Mayor E. 8. Little of London would appear to have been hard at ya pa something to say and possessed poor sense of the propriety of chines. when at the corner stone laying street Methodist} pee shigkeals night and the roll | No. 1, John Torrance; No. 2, John M. week. ; eT- -Labor eandidate for North Perth f a| three years ago the church, he directed his speech to Rev. Dr. Chown, general superintendent of the Methodist church in Canada, and advocated that the church basement be used for dancing, card playing and billiards. If Mayor Little wasn’t speaking for the devil, he certainly gives the impression of being a man of the world, and with little idea of what the church = instituted for. s The Dominion Alliance is appeal- ing to the citizens of Canada and urg- ing that, regardless of ‘party affilia-| each} tion, they shall work and vote for the} nomination of, and election to the Dominion parliament, of men who believe in, and will, if elected, pro- mote the enactment of a nation-wide | law prohibiting the manufacture, im- portation, exportation and inter-pro- vincial transportation of intoxicatink : liquors for beverage purposes. As as temperance principles of the Con- servative and Liberal candidates in North Perth 4s concerned, a promin- ent Conservative of town, tells us we will be safe to toss coppers in making our selection, in which case some will see it the part of wisdom to support the farm-labor candidate, who is ia clear-cut prohibitionist. There are o- ther issues than the tariff and the ap- peal of the Dominion Alliance'is one hat thoughtful supporters of tem- perence will seriously consider. Secure Committee Room— iF Local Liberals have secured the} traveller’s room of the Arlington ho-| tel for committee Reameaeeec | —- Watch Him Girls— ~ j The Milverton Sun says: “It i rumored that Dr. Livingstone of Lis- | towel, who is away on vacation, will) be bringing a bride home with him.’ | - Cut His Hand— While pulping turnips on Thursday of this week at the farm of M h| Darroch, Murdock Wetherall had ‘the | ! misfortune to cut his left hand, |‘ causing a wound requiring several | stitches. 7 Bishop Williams Coming: The Right Reverand spavid *will- iams, D. D. will pring in Christ church on Monday evéhing at 8 o’- clock. Special musie will be renderea by the choir and orchestra. Epworth League— _ ‘ At the‘'Epworth League meeting ' Monday night, Rev. T. W. Blatchford, | B.A., gave an address to the! young) people on “Doing Your Best.” It was! was! calle Registrars For Wallace— Registrars for Wallace were appointed as follows: township Disiaien Kincade; No. 3, Adam Strong; No. 4, Walter Long; No. 5, Wm. Ackerman; No. 6, John A. Nelson. At Milverton "Meeting— Mr. H. B. Morphy was in Milverton | Wednesday, attending a do meet-} ing in his interests, at hich the principal address was siven by Dr. | Tolmie of British Columbia, Federal | Minister’ of Agriculture. In New Office— Mr. S. L. Adolph has moved his of- fices trom over Kibler’s store, to the opposite ‘side of the street, above Miss Tabberner'’s office and next to Mes- srs. J. W. Bernie and Son. Miss God- win, Methodist choir leader, will oc- cupy the premises he is vacating. To "Preach at London— Rev, Dr. Hazen goes to London Saturday to preach anniversary ser-; mons on Sunday at the Centennial Methodist church, of which he was a former pastor. Rev. David Rogers of St. Thomas'will take Dr. Hazen’s work in Listowel. In a challenge contest for business, between the Eastern and Western: general agencies Of the London Life; Insurance Company for the month at} November, Mr. Henry Hemsworth o Listowel led all the agents of the for the An Energetic Representative— | company in Canada first Arranging for Stratford Meeting— Mr. W. A. Amos of Wallace, Farm- in the Féderal arena, was in Strat- ford on Wednesday, assisting with the details for the meeting Saturday night in the ae rink, to be ad- | dressed by . A. Crerar, leader of ‘the National- Progressive Party and possibly also by Premier Drury. Released the Foxes— Port Elgin Tnmes—The fox farm of Messrs. R. J. Phillips, near ‘the lake-shore was ‘visited on Friday night by some miserable mischief maker, and the door of one of the wire pens wrench- ed off, allowing four of the foxes to escape. Dr. Phillips, on learning of the dirty work next morning, armed himself with a shot gun, and while another party beat jthe swamp sur- rounding the farm, he took up 2# position in‘an adjacent field and shot three of the four escaped Reynards as they crossed the clearing, the re- maining fox making good its get- away from the doctor’s unerr’ng aim. This is the second ‘time that the pens here have been tampered with, about entire pen of Mate ‘freedom by foxes being given th of| some mischievous eiere in the same manner. | ? Toronto, Noy. Sti 8th. —~Ainelita Galli- Curci, world-famed war pote was re- cently confronted with graphs of Canada’s three politicel cnlarteiaa. ¥rom the trio, she chose the Liberal leader as the whom =v would many if she had the choic ackenzie.King sdmitted while in cio ‘city that he was the man in the} @F ase. He even pidshiagly confessed that he had wired Madame Galli- Curci to thank her for the ‘tribute which she had paid him and, as he jocularly adde@;-to express his high respect for the good judgment and na aaa which she had dis- -No telegrams of cowdolenes, how- ever, have as yet been @ispatched to the Conservative and Progressive leaders. Of the two, Mr. King thought that Arthur Méighen would perhaps feel the most aggriev at. being passed up by the fair songstress. But he felt that even Mr. Crerar woul be considerably perturbed at having been overlooked. Possibly, he said, the Farmer leader would even go to the extent of removing his historic mustache which had _ sp6iled his chances in the beauty contest. Seriously Hl— Mrs. Philip is serioudly ill at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Fred Holt, Wailace township. Genuine Disarmament— An exchange says:—‘‘At the Tor- onto Fair this year they had a coop of skunks, that had been rendered quite harmless for polite society. It was the most complete and concrete example of disarmanent that we've heard of in-many a moon. Good Potato Crop— Walkerton Times—Mr. and Mrs. Andy Goode of ‘Greenock motored to Listowel on Sunday in their special Gray*Dort car, on 4a visit to the lat- ter's mother, Mrs. R. W. McCutcheon They also visited Mr. and Ww. Martin of Elma. The latter says he lifted 40 bags of potatoes from 40 | rows 10 rods long. That’s raising po- tatoes. ‘ Not Very Consistent— Fergus News-Record—A our merchants are great “kickers” | just now over outsiders coming to town and getting orders for goods. , Yet these same merchants are the of | | very first to give an outsider a*print-| Thou art a ence and a hol- on the g job. Consistaney, v rirtine. What a diff ler when the shoe oot. | Moor. j the king Activity in Real Estate— Mr. W. J. Dowd has put through: the sale of the 150 acre farm of Mr. Harry Diamond at Millbank to Mi.) Harold Lee of the 3rd. concession,} | the Phoenix, or King Charles Tower, other jfrom this tower King Charles I., Tra "Trace the Very bs + ee ning of English History. cities in _nsiand retain so distinct a flavor “ot mediaevai times f as ‘‘Rare Olde Chester,” on the river Dee. Winchester is hoary with dge— so are Gloucester, Canterbury, Cov- entry and countless other places in the United Kingdom, writes Kath- arine Shepherd Smith In the Spring- | field Republican. But should one disembark ~ re erpool studying English and, above all, English ho Chester, 16 miles distant, would be an ideal place in =_— to set out upon-such a pilgrimag Theze, more pore ‘than almost ‘anywhere else, one can trace the very beginnings of England. Chester's ancient walls still surround the site ofthe Roman deva, or Devana Castra ( p of the Dee). The Anglo- Saxons call it Seaster. The Romans, whose occupancy lasted four centuries, selected this high, picturesque spot overlooking the river and the mountains ef North Wales for the station of their famgus Twentieth Legion. Excavating the solid rock:to a depth of to 10 feet, upon which to found the camp, they built round- about th defensive walls. The Roman camp was in the form of a parallelogram and Chester fol- lowed the same lines in the original =e of the city. The four’ princi- pal thoroughfares now cross at right angles the rocky Roman oblong. After the Romans there came, in turn, the Welsh, Saxons, Danes and Normans. Chester was not taken by William the Conqueror until 1070. In viewing the city the walls claim one’s first attention. The present residents seem to live in 2 phantom city of the past, and almost to be a part of the mediaeval pericd in which they arevso well versed. They tell you, apologetically, that only 1 three of their four sides do the walls follow the exact lines of those built by the Romana, and that they are not of earlier date than the fourteenth century But. a stroll of two miles upon thebe grect arms of masonry, which have encircled the city for seven hundred years, should satisfy the ee exacting antiquarian. \ As one traverses this now peace- ful promenade, frequent reminders of a turbulent past are encountered. The most impressive of these—per- haps because the most tangible — is | bearing an inscription recording a viewed the battle of Ral A local chronicler relates how “witnessed with growing mortification and despair the defeat | of his army and the overthrow of his {last field force.” Besides the King Charles towe-, 1645, Minto, Mr. Diamond taking Mr. Lee’ s| others bordering the parapet of the 100 acre farm on the deal. This! makes $67,900 worth of real estate that Mr. Dowd has turned over dur- ing the past two months. c Business Outlook Bright— A London peper says: The Mal- olm Furniture Factories, “Listowel, are in full swing. The Perfect Knit in that town find difficulty in; i mine girls. The mills are turning, n eal between $25,000 $30,000} worth of goods monthly, despite re- duction in price to about half that} paid for the product a year ago. The outlook for business is bright. Must be Paid For— Wingham Advance—The Advance has received a lengthy ‘‘In Memor- iam" of a dear little girl who died recently. We find that we are com- pelled to'charge for these notices as they take considerable time to set and we must pay wages for people to do this work. A printer sells his space exactly as a grocer sells his groceries. ( —ae Keeping Hotel H Mr. W. G. Merriam of Sisteworth, formerly proprietor of the Queens hotel, Owen Sound, was in Listowel Wednesday and Thursday, to consider the matter of starting in the hotel business here. He was in interview with Mr. George Bender of Kitchener, owner of the Arlington hotel, with a view to taking over these premises. Nothing definite has been reported. Thanksgiving Service— There were one hundred and fifty present at’a union Thanksgiving ser- vice Monday morning at 10.30, in the Methodist church, under auspices of b the Ministerial Association, whose Listowel members were all present. A thoughtful and fitting address for the occasion, was giyen by Rev. M. L. Wing, Evangelical minister, from the text, Psalm 100: 4—"‘‘Enter into his gates with Thanksgiving, and unto his courts with praise; be thankful unto him and bless His name.” Tuxis'C ge) at Banquet— The T. T. Tuxis Square of the; Methodist ‘chase gave a banquet Fri-| day night in the basement of the church, at which their parents and members of Knox church Tuxis Square were guests. The banquet and: toasts were followed by a.- splend’é program given by the visiting club, includjag musical numbers by Staf- ford on and Arthur Fritz, a read- ng by Jim Dick, and numerous group —— which were greatly enjoyed by all. There were also addresses by Mr. Roy G. Allan and Mr. Lawrence Wenzel, respective heads of the Knox} church and Methodist Tuxis Square. Goes to California— Stratford Beacon— Mr. George Inglis, son of W. G. and Mrs. Inglis.; “53 Centre street, who has been in the employ of ‘Peter & Sylvester, elect ricians of this city, for the past five vears. is leaving on Tuesday for Los’ Angeles, Cal. Mr. Inglis has been a faithful ard enthusiastic member cf Knox church, he has capably filled, official positions in the Sunday School and Young Peoples Rociety | and his presenc? will be greatly miss- = in Stratford's social and church rcles. Mr.‘and Mrs. Inglis moved to Sirattecd some time ‘60, from Elma township. jand the water tower; old. walls are the then there are those known as Morgan's Mount and | Pemberton’s Parlor. During all the assaults made upor | | Chester these and other watch tow, | |ers, long since dismantled, were van- | tage points for the guardians of the | old city, who, when scanning the val- ! \ley of the Dee and the mountain | passes of nearby Wales, gave little |heed, we can believe, to the beauty lof the panorama spread out before jthem, which to-day claims the atten- ‘tion and delight of every beholder. Bonwaldesthorne, clothed witb wines and reached by the greenery of swaying tree tops, is by far the most picturesque of towers. Chester Castle is rathe> disappoint- ing, but much as one wants a castle to be up to the mark, everything else | | in Chester is so satisfying that this | one ‘‘fily in the ointment” Bhould be | Bonwaldesthorne | | | ; Iam offering Molasses for stock food at 2c per lb. in any quantity. Bring along your can and get it filled. \ 4 GROCERIES FA / Our stock is complete and new goods are ar- riving every day, including ‘this season’s raisins, currants, dates, etc. ROYAL HOUSEHOLD FLOUR ; 4 Has dropped to $4.50 per hundred. A car of governnient inspected feed, good | for Main Street Phone 91 ie | HARDWARE Do you keep Hens for the Eggs they lay or just to lock at? If for Eggs, feed Blatchford’s “Fill the Basket” Egg’ Mash which supplies abundantly the Materials needed by the Hen for Maximum Egg production. It contains, {five sources of Animal Protein, twenty one sources of Vegetable Protein and one of lime content; no drugs used. ~ Purchase a Bag at Once and be Convinced. W. B. Screaton Successor to S. L. Adolph Phone 5 Main St. overlooked. The only remaining relic of the Norman period, during whick~time the castle was built, is the Julius Caesar Tower, @ square keep, which, having been incased in red sand- stone, has now no adequate appear- ance of age. Chester Cathedral, like many oth- ers in England, is interesting, both in itself and for its history. Since the time of the Roman deva the ground centres, not alone of religion, but ‘of learning, also. In 1541, after the dissolution of the monasteries by Henry VIII., the ‘abbey church became the Cathedral of Chester, and remains of Norman construction, dating back to 1093, are incorporated in the cathedral, ut most of it dates from the twelfth to the sixteenth century. Stmte 1819 restorations have been made at in- tervais, as is the custom in practi- cally all European cathedrals. In monastic times the abbey was rich and of much importance. The “Chester mysteries,” or miracle plays, were performed each year bc- | fore its gates, when a fair was held , jon the feast of St. Werbergh, the patron saint of Chester. A cucious | custom among builders in the Mid- | ate Ages was that of carving frot- . | esq: 1e figutes—n 4 only on the ex- jteriors of church like gargoylus, but often on their interiors. Perened ecoyly in a corner, high up on the wall of the north aisle in Chester ' ‘Cathedral is such a joke, known es ' “toe Chester Imp.” } <A wonderful work of restoriticn to be seen in Chester is that in the Church of St. John. This was a! cathedral church and dates from the | late eleventh ceftury. It was occupied | by a Norman bishop in 1073, but in | a.few years he removed the seat | {of his bishoprit to Coventry. The | chureh as resto-ed to-day—a gem of orman architecture—includes only | ; sections of the nave and transepts | ‘that belonged to the original struc- ‘ture. Standing apart from it are the picturesque ruins cf the ancieut choir. { | Where will be'a special train front Stratford , Nov. 12th., go | that those from Listowel and vicinity may have the privilege | hearing Hon. ’. A. Orerar, leader of the Na- tional-Progressive Party At Climie’s Grocery | Try our Almond Paste for your next cake s New Seeded Raisins.,........ 25c per Ib. New Prunes, 20c per Ib. New Peels, 4Sc per Ib. Silver Gloss Starch, 2 pcks. for 25c Corn Starch,......<+., 1 peck. for 10c . 41b. tin Marmalade 95c _3 1b. tin Apricots 60c SPECIAL FOR SATURDAY AND MONDAY 20 Ib. pail Lard ..$3.40 Pe 100 lbs. Sugar. ee we R. A. CLIMIE Wallace Street Phone 72 ~ Banner Readers Should Watch The Advertisements It Pays To Read Them. hogs or cattle, at $1.10 per hundred, will arrive in a = few days. 4 W.. A. McDonald |