to co-0 is always willing to Pusiees problents and to co-operate to TMPE ERIAL LISTOWEL EL BRANCH, s _ OM. RL HAY, This Bante Wid Yea Busiad” acta: of ¢ Bank and tt willingness. — Ponrenien ttre The res te igoften cee sic aga tor in: @ success of a business house each branch of this Fee manager of roy tpn nei yileae Faron) ares advice Bank their BANK Manager. The Listowel Banner Published every Thursday afternoun by The Banner Publishing Co. CO. V. Blatchford President and General Manager The Banner has a large and grow- ing cireulation throughout North Perth and portions of the County of Wellington. No advertising can effectively reach the public in the thriving district of which Listowel is the centre, without appearing in The Banner. NOTICE TO ADVERTISERS All space advertisements must be in this office not later than ten o’- elock Tuesday morning to insure in- sertion in the following issue. Liner advertising can be accepted up ‘till ‘Thursday morning. Telephones: Office 61, Residence Our Commercial Department is well equipped for turning out the best work. We do superior work at'as low prices as you pay elsewhere. Thursday, Aug. 9th., 1923 Editorial Some poor roads lead to lovely towns—Listowel for example. Those from* Palmerston and Atwood are a disgrace. But who cares? We'll bump over them some how. Anyway it helps the garage business. . 7 . Kincardine has erected the corporation limits, reading: “Kincardine greets you. Twenty please.’’ Motorists who can’t read, or decline to observe this polite request as to speed limit, are liable to get it again, but with different meaning, from Magistrate oe signs at The editor has only compliments to offer its staff of five, who, with- out previous responsibility of the kind, turned out two creditable is- sues of the paper during our scence on vacation. They have well shown what they can do, an the only trouble now is that the people|- will wonder what we're hanging a- round the office oe _ Perhaps for the first time, Su y School picnics were held this y at the town park, which has the mak- ing of an attractive recreational grounds. There is ample room for a variety of sport and the grove of young Maples is coming along nicely. Why couldn't the town put up some substantial swings and other equip~ ment for the amusement of the young and turn this almost idle property into a — of pleasure? Some grading has been done on Campbell street, the farthest con- necting link nerth between Wallace and Division streets, which if prop- erly completed should make a good road-way that will switch consider- able traffic from the pavement on — street. There are some at- ractive building sites on Campbell street, and no choicer section for ex- tension of the residential area. A lit- tle attention to this street should therefore not come amiss. wa Speaking of the value of the week- ly pregs{ the ‘‘Morning Halifax” a daily publication, says: “The weekly newspaper fills a large place in the life of the country. In_the nature of things it is essentially a focal in- stitution. Lt degls with the every-day affairs of the community which it serves and enters more closely and intimately into the daily life and con- duct of the people than a daily journal serving a larger constituency, can possibly do. It may be a factor of gyeat influence and of great service to the public if it is directed as the weekly newspapers of Canada in the main are, in the service of the com- monweal." “2 NAME PLEASE! ¢ In the following item, the Milver- ton Sun: of last week tells just enough to make us curious: “The telephone service was put thea on the blink last revolver bullet Po "tne cable nearly in half, putting fifteen lines out of com- cable man wav brought from Stratford dt the beginning of the week and had the repairs made.” *Sounds like a good story there. Wonder who the guy was playing with the revolver. Must have been some prominent citizen‘or why was- n't the name given? Perhaps the vil-; & lage banker, was having a night mare ana. thought yeggman were making off with the cash. The cub Jeg must have written that, Surely Ed- itor MacBeth can, nga. Us some more. CAN TOLERATE. NO LAXITY Everybody at once recognizes that it will not do to have or women who are even in a smal! degree -un- der the influence.of liquor driving automobiles on the pAblic streets or oe lade: ayn The /Gucknow Sent- nerebbing vumber of fatail- Ing of the temperance law and make procuring of intoxicating liquors eas- jer than it is now. One has offly to recall conditions. as they were in the days of the bar-room to recognize ,that such. conditions cannot be per- mitted in this automobile age. Drunk- en men driving horses (horses which often had more sense than the driv- er) were dangerous to themselves and others. What would such men be in an automobile? é We need not w worry much about the drunken driver himself. He will either have a ‘drunken man’s luck’’ or a short career. But what of his wife and children or friends who may be in the car'with him? and what a- — other folk driving on the ‘ame row With anything like free access to liquor, it will be impossible to guard against this danger. <A driver may be sober enough on getting into his gl and five or ten minutes later be in a very dangerous state of mind—- either reckless or stupid. One has only to think of these things to recognize that liquor and automobiles cannot go together. FROM OTHER PAPERS ——— $—-—— + EGG TRADE RUINED. (London Advertiser) The “hotter the a, o better are the hot weather stor Here’s one from uthess that is very good. It telis of a merchant Who bought eggs, just one dozen of them, and put them away to sell to some customer. In the afternoon a clerly working“ around the store heard the peeping of young chickens A clucking non “was rented and in a few minutes she had finished the ‘ces and made chickens out of them. Folks may flock in there to buy}. cheese and poultry, but the fresh egg trdde will surely get a black eye. WOULD BE AWFUL HOWL (Farmers’ Sun) — A group of oil men propose to close every refinery in the mid-con- tment field during ~August as a means of forcing up the price of gas- oline. Action such as this is so com- mon in manufacturing that it no longer excites comment in the daily ress. But if farmers proposed to shut down on food production for a month in order to bring the prices of food products up to a level com- mensurate with prices farmers have to pay for their necessities there would be a how! that would rend the air from the Gulf of Mexico to the Artic Circle. TRACTORS UNDER A CLOUD (From Engineering) Farming is an industry which changes slowly, and it follows that thére is always a great similarity be- tween the machinery exhibits at the successive annual shows of the Royal Agricultural Society. The importance and the representative character of these shows, however, render them the best means of noting such de- velopments as are being attempted or are taking place in the agricultur- al machinery industry. A few years ago the predominant feature was the number and variety of the agricultur- al tractors to be seen, and the only question appeared to be which type of machine would ultimately prove most generally useful. Matters are very different: teday. The tractors which were -going,to savé.the British farming industry..have not ‘done so, and, indeed, are themselves hard put to it to survive. Theré were plenty to be found at the Newcastie show, but little or no interest seemed to be taken in them, and the general im- pression appeared to be that the day of the tractor had passed, at any rate for the present. Experience has shown that these machines require more skilled attention than they .can get on the average farm to keep them in working order, and the re- duction in the value of horses and of labor has made their advantages less important. Mechanical methods of ploughing and cultivation are, how- ever, almost certain ultimately to pre- vail, but for the time being the trac- ‘| tor is under a cloud. | THE PIONEERS’ GRAVES {Toronto Globe) The condition of many rural cem- eteries was for, years a reproach to the neighborhoods in which- they were located. In not a few cases these little cities of,the dead show ev- ; idence of neglect still. There has, however, been a fairly general and exceedingly gratifying change of at- titude of late years. Fences, once in a state of Tones yg att ha yin n num- erous ins es been put in repair; grass ats Sade have been kept owas Seid and mowats have been plant Such improvements as have been made, while deserving of the fullest commendation, are not of themselves sufficient.. They lac @ assuran o nce and do not care for all parts of the resting plates of the cemeteries that have dead. Even in coe in’ cistents Tor Punt little over a century, no u mon to find third of the, cepted by “those, hoes” ey es ate no longer heard’ - ty. As eo f* rs r 6 'th a ie #3, ing a great eae help put + 0 owns gre doing all they can an blag from Trenton. Newspa- r advertising is one of the. mgest magnets that can be uséd to hold trade and bring new buyers to town. ‘And once the path is travel-_ led from farmer’s oF villager’s door to a shoppins chi sie htt LEbEEEEESEEDESEDEDSESEROTETSR OE RED EDR pecially if a good reception is given the out-of-door buy- ers when they come here. With probably .half the population of thee. country travelling around in motor cars at a speed of fifteen to thirty miles an hour be expected that @ many accidents from col- lissions on the roadways, but eternity issa startling precau- tion on the part of the mot- orists when about to pass over level crossings. 2. he Be is he che he ba hh sitet aeceaaa cana a a a a ro® Wa? MEF OEP EP MEP MEP OGe ME OEt MGR OEP MEP mE MEP Mae MEP EP EP OE OE SE Ee ee + a ae ae eae a oe Ss a a Oe a a for an endowment fund that will pro- vide a revenue sufficient to ensure perpetual care for the entire grounds. The/trustees of the little rural cemetery at Stroud, following an example already set, have adopted this plan, and the movement’ so put under way should extend to all parts of Ontario It is well to establish community halls and community parks for the living. Another duty remains after this: to show due honor to _ those whose labors laid the foundation of that prosperity which has made com- munity halls and community parks possible. CURBING THE PRESS (Woodstock Sentinel-Review) It may be surpfising, and, perhaps a little shocking, to some people in this country to learn that a British parliamentary committee has found it necessary in the interests of public morality to place restrictions on the printing by the press of the country of divorce proceedings. When we speak of sensational journalism we usually think of the United States; but even in the United States sensa- tional journalism is not general. The ‘great majority of the American pa- pers are decent and responsible; but in Great Britain evén respectable pa- pers, however, careful and scrupul- ous otherwise, allow themsolves ex- traordinary liberties in the printing of divorce reports. The theory used to be that the publicity in such matters had a de- terring effect, and that exposure was more dreaded by offenders than any other punishment. There is, no doubt, some truth in this; but it has be- come a question if the evi] that is good. The parliamentary committee which has investigated the matter Pap eel tO have been Soneinaed that “The flaunting of inicneratity be- fore readers of all ages and positions must be injurious to public morals, and the making light of such conduct challenges the whole structure of family life, on which society is found- ed.”” So the committee has decided and, has reported. The committee, however, would not put a stop to all publicity. It would allow the maximum of public- ity consistent withthe adequate safe- guarding of public morality. It real- izes that it is a question of balancing the advantage of unrestricted pub- lication to secure justice with the disadvantage of lowering the stand- ard of national character. The com- mittee, therefore, proposes to define the kind of information in regard to divorce proceedings that may be law- fully printed, and at this distance it» does not seem that either public morality, justice or journalism is likely to suffer from restrictions pro- posed. It may be d little humiliating to the newspapers to have Kg of the press" thus curtail- by law; but the strange thing is ‘&, the newspaper publishers thein- selves did not see the prosperity of mposing some such restriction with- se waiting for the law. >= They were-looking at the kang- aroo at the zo} when an Irishman said: ‘‘Beg pardon, sor, phwat kind of a crature is that?’’ “Oh,” said the keeper, “that is a native of Austral- ia.” “Good hivins!"" exclaimed Pat, “me sister married wan av thim!” eertee SEVEN SENTENCE SERMONS e e e e« ¢ cs e¢ 6s e oe In heaven an angel is oo In particular—George Bernard Show s o 2 Reaching one person at a time s th reach all the world in time. —H. md ‘Trumbell. a . To-morrow is with Goa viene, And man hath but to-day. ~ — Whittier. ,* we God was never more kind than when I thought. Him most unkind; never more Raa! than when was ready sy, His~ faithfulness ci. fatled. pe Ls: Payson. s * > But not in the flesh, but in the Spirit. it it se be tha the Spirit of dw. ‘in you.+-Rom. 8:9. Our wils are we iahnaraaie how | Our wills are ours, to” make hy ; ine.—Te: ee 7 > TEE. 4, eh gS Me aks a nae At ats. “He : SWF oe Lor done does not greatly outweigh the| Mrs Edmonton, $15.22 TO WINNIPEG | Plus half a cent a mile beyond to McLeod all points in ‘Manitoba, Saskatchewan, amet” and East. SPECIAL LOW FARES BEV EEE COING DATES August 13th and 22nd Toronto, Caledon Meaford, ‘ood, P , Mi Capreol and east thereof in ‘in Ontario, also cil se Lechute and East Andrews in Quebec. August 15th and 24th— Toronto, lapenond Jet. and all stations south and west thereof in On East, Beeton, arry Sound; Sud TO Au QNTO, Union Station: 15th.—12:30 P. M. po Augi 15th.—10,.80 P. M. Aug. 24th —12,30 P, M. “Special Trains waver ana Time) Aug. 24th.— 10.30 P. M. PALMERSTON: , Aug. 15th.—5.00 Pp. M. ‘ AL ra ah Through Trains with Lunch Counter Oars—Food Prices. Special Oars for Women and Colonist pwanbe Travel the National Way to any point in Western Canada ‘ AA LIINE d Refreshments at Reasonable on of Latest Desi 4 A ba SOCIAL and PERSONAL | Mr. N. A. Gibson was in Waterloo on Monday. —o— Miss Olive Robb is visiting friends at Port Colborne. —t£o— Mr. Gordon Philp is holidaying in the Muskoka district. — Mr. Walter Schlimme was home from Port Elgin for the holiday. —o— Mr. R: J. Tanner of Milverton, spent Sunday in Listowel. —o— Constable Joseph Wilson was in Burlington on Tuesday of this week. —_—— Miss Lena Cowing is visiting friends at Kitchener and New Ham- burg. —o— Miss Nora Voll of Hamilton, is a guest of Mrs. Roulston, Wallace street. Dr. J. D. Monteith, M. P. P. Stratford, was in Listowel on Wed. nes —o— Mrs. John Hill and son Jack, of oo are suse at the home of Lee — a Mr. and Mrs. Aaron Ringler were in Mitchell on Wednesday, attending the re-union. \ Mrs. Devid Fell of of Seaforth, is a guest at the home of Mrs. . Ww. Thompson. oo Miss Florence Gibson is leaving Friday to spend a few weeks with friends in Detroit. —_—o— Mr. and Mrs. Albert Baker and Billy, spent the week-end with friends at Ingersoll. —o— Mrs. W. Edwards and Eric re- turned mangas, after holidaying at a cottage near Allendale. —o— Mr. and Mrs. W. Hannah of Ham- {lton, spent the meee ene * the home of Mr. and Mrs. W. J. ——O-— Lloyd Bean is holidaying at the home of Mr. and Mrs. George Dier- lam, 18th. a. Minto. Mr. and Mrs. E. EF. Finkbeiner and and Mrs. ©. H. Finkbeiner, spent civic holiday at Stratford. —o— Dr. H. Moore, license inspect- or, was in Mitchell Saturday and Sunday, assisting provincial officers. —o— Mr. and Mrs. C. B. Simms and Bert have returned from their vacation in Hamilton, Woodstock | and Grand Bend. KR Dawson of Tillsonburg, are at’ the home of Dr. and Mrs. Moore. James Mr. and Mrs. “James Stewart and family, of Hampstead, spent the week-end with her mother, Mrs. L. W. Thompson. . —o— Mrs. Ben Couch and Harry, left guests at the cottage of Mr. and Mrs. Vidney Greenslade. —o— Mr. Louis Pfeffer was in sg er = Saturday, visiting a friend, M J. Eidt, who is ill at the Kitchen- a Waterioo hospital. —— Mr. and Mrs. Fred Bender » and Olive, accompanied by Mr. and Mrs. Mahlon Good of Gowanstown,motor- edto London to-day. —_—o—- r. L. W. Crawford and son, Mr. S. A: Orawford, of London, visited |.gundsy and Monday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. W. B, Screaton. . — 4 Rev. H) Hamfel@-of Toledo, Ohi, and Rev. and Mrs. R. Pfeifer and fainily of Desboro, were cuits y at the -home— of Rev. H. i eat Berge 07 20 ¥t tee anit . Mr. epee eke ae Tuesday for Point Clarke, and -are 7 Mrs. Pirie and Kenneth, Mrs. Howe and Miss Kate. Berdux, visited Mr. and Mrs. John Mayburry at Carthage on Monday. —_o— Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Mothersill and Dick, of Toronto, have been the guests for a few days of Mr. and Mrs. A. B. George a ge ter Telescope—Mr. and H. Zilliax and babe spent Civic Holiday at their-old bome at Listo- wel. —o— . Capt. Bowers of fhe Salvation Army, with his mother, are leaving tiday on a three weeks’ vacation with triends at Chatham. Oe wi Mrs. Andrew Newbigging and fam-| a ily, of West Toronto, and Miss Marie ag of Walkerton, are visiting h Mrs. Newbigging'’s father, Mr. Daniel Schell. —o— Mrs. Herbert Dawson of Buffalo is ee this week at* the hom® of d Mrs. David Orr. She will be joined on ly wey by - Mr. ee and daughter. —o— Mr. and Mrs. John Petch of List- owel and Mr. and Mrs. Walter Mc- on of Guelph, spent a few days ast week with Mr. iy Mrs. H. W. namusan West Lorn —0-— 7 Mr. Jacob Filsinger and Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Schell motored to Han- over on Wednesday, to attend the funeral of Mr. Schell’s uncle, Mr. Valentine Tneaing. Rey. and Mrs. H. Td. Leibold, Clara, Harvey and Mabel, of Port Elgin, yisited Saturday with Mr. and a Jacob Filsinger, enroute to Elmira, where they attended the Old Boys’ re-union. M?#. and Mrs. R. Ri. Coghlin; fourth concession Elma, Mr. Josiah Aiken, istowel, and Mr. and Mrs. John A. Aiken of Royal Oak, Mich., motored to Ayton and Proton Thursday of last week. —o— Elizabeth Gibson of Fordwich, is visiting with her ‘grandfather, Mr. George. Campbell, and also er friend, Margaret Rogers, who was her guest in Fordwich from Friday ‘till Wednesday — Mr. and Mrs. Reuben Karges and guest, Miss Adeline Erb of Teeswa- er, spent a few days this week vis- itis friends at Kitchener, and op their return took In the Old Boys’ re- union at Elmira —o— Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Drumm of Hol- stein, Mr. and Mrs, Norman McLaugh- of Palmerston, and Mr. Dalton —t-— " lin Mrs. Dawson and Miss nee Reid of Seaforth, were guests over the week-end at the’ home of Mrs. L. W. Thompson. cctoniiie se Mr. and Mrs. A Kyle and Mr. and Mrs. A. Bronhman and Master Teddy, of Ayr, spent civic holiday with Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Featherstone, Inker- man street east. Mrs. Kyle is a sia- ter of Mrs. Featherstone. —o— Mr. and Mrs. John A. Aiken and three children, Viola, Iréne and Bil- ly, are- returning Friday to their home in Royal Oak, Mich., after spending two weeks at the home of his father, Mr. Josiah ‘Aiken. —o— d Mrs. Harry Thiele and Mies ‘Edna Stewart, of Detroit, and Mrs. J. Lykés and daughter, of lahoma, motored Sunday, and vis- ited ‘till Wedn y at.ithe home of Mrsand Mrs. B eel Schlimme. Mr. and. Mrs. Ne Ward -and fam: ily of Listowel,.Mr. and Mrs. Walter Ward, fourth concession, Elma, Mr. and Mrs, William Kitchen, 12th. con- ‘cession Elma, and: Mr..ahd Mrs. ‘Ed. Baga bo = and - Mrs. David Mills. : Seat ato Mr. and Mrs, Albert Terhune, ang two, ag en abe get Gand» pha gad ang a Miss Berdina Gabel was home from Kitchener’ for Sunday and the holiday —Q—— Mr. Brock Windsor —_ friend, Mr. John Sutherland, ored from Winnipeg on Friday ae are visit- ing with the former’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. B. ‘Windsor. , Mr. J. Riddolis and Miss H. &. Riddolls of Listowel, are leaving Fri- day to visit with their brothers, Mes- srs, Albert and Simeon a at Lebanon, also: old friends. tipi Mr. and Mrs. Ed. Ward, who, while here for the funeral of her ta- her, the late John Lindsay, purchas- ed the farm on the sixth concession Wallace of Mr. Solomon Weber, re- turned Tuesday to to | NenpERe Guests Sunday | and the holiday at the home of Mr. and Nathan Calder e Mrs. L. Tyler and Mrs. F. King Grace Cooper of Toronto, Mr. and Mrs. Wallace McKenzie of Toronto, and Mr. and Mrs. A. T. Wallace of Hanover. Mrs. Tyler is spending a few weeks with Mr. and Mrs. Calder, but the others have returned to their homes. —_—o— Mr. Jack Featherstone of Thorn- ton Heath, a part of greater London, England, spent & few days with his cousin, Mr. A. W.-Featherstone. He has since gone to Detroit where he expects to locate. Jack Was a real “British Tommy” ‘during most of the great war. He enlisted within a few days of its commencement, < dar still a ‘soldier in France and o few miles away when the qrinteliok was signed. He took part in many hard and desperate’ struggles, but was lucky and escaped without a wound, though he was invalided home to England for a short time through illness and to recruit. Pat was highly ck at being \ealled a Canadian, alth h born in Canada. “I’m an hisiituen, and no Canadian at all, at all,’’ he averred. “Now, Pat,’’ said his tormenter, *how can you be an Irishman when you were born in this -country? Your oe may be Irish, but you are a Canadian. You e the na- tionality of the country you are born in.” “Begorra!"’ said Pat, ‘if the cat had kittens’ in the oven would you cali them bishkits?" * PSALM 29:2; 150:4. “Worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness: Praise Him with stringed instruments and organs."’ Coanpe of copy for church notic cepted Tom pastors "till as inte on on Thun. day forenoon of cach week, :so as to make it possible to also insert » insert subjects chosen + CONGREGATIONAL Sunday, arene 12th.; 1923 10 a.m.—Sunday ool 11 a.m.—tThe past tor Evening service withdra Weitiesday 7, 30—-Prayer” and "yailee eeting. Friday 8 p.m.—Christian Bndeavour. ALL ARE WELCO METHODIST Sunday, August 12th.; 1923 ethodist ch 1 a.m. 2.45 p. m.—Sunddy * shoal. Evening service withdrawn’ ‘on tauqua tent. All invited. BAPTIST Main s' t. Master Walter of Stratford, Miss Union services with Presbyterians in a é on we: count of mass mieetiag’s at ha 34 A > ry rigors August 12th:, 1923 Rev. Gonder, s 10 a.m. as schbol. Evening service withdrawn. Aa pm.—The Pastor. { ° ® ae Van ae ta i pete ts E 7 NC > cj Rev MS Lo Wink, pastor. Mia : Sanday, - h., 1923 11 nms+Sunday: ech ution, =: acest! a