Payee Thursday, F: February cot, 1924 ARON. ENDED When He Took “Fruit-a-tives” For Rheumatism q The ie Medicine Made ade From Fruit . Se = come ed sape n of Parrs- » six months an Rheumatism was all goneand I have neverfeltitsince’’. FS BEWARE of IMITATIONS Bed ‘ Merits of Ps bd MLNARD'S LINIMENT = (All articles credited. The "FROM. OTHER PAPERS Ban with views expressed.) ner doesn’t. necessarily PUBLIC MONBY (London Advertiser) . Chatham. City Council has voted $750 “for the encouragement of base-ball,"” and ancore=ne to reports from that place the move has caus- ed a great deal of arene criticism. There is no reason why it should not. Chatham, g like other centres, talked economyf at the time of its municipal election, and the citizens have a right to expect the actions of the council - run parallel to elec- tion promise: Apart erent tnat the precedent is not sound. The y is open for similar demands kn “the encourage- ment’ of hockey, lacrosse, tennis, football or any other sport. It is good business to keep close to the very safe rule that S public money is for the carrying on public business and nothing else. Once a department from that posi- tion is made it becomes an increas- ingly difficult matter to call a halt. “TOO MANY CARS" (London Advertiser} “Too many automobiles.” ‘The tame phrase seems to come to the; surface every time men meet to\set- tle what's wrong with the world. It came up at the annual meeting of the farmers’ ‘organization in Toron- ie to, although it is not recorded that; t was generally indorsed. It came) up at a gathering north of London the other night. “Too many cars. ij People are so busy Tanne for them ; they have nothing left over,’ and so | Admitted “_ there are many cars| abroad—what it? Is there any! way in which a ons can be stopped from buying one if he can find the first payment? | It is not many there were no cars. wealthier families in the community | kept driving horses, and the rest of! the community stood by and wateh-/ years ago when! .ed them drive past. Today it is different. Even man with a small income can proach the car market. He may start! on a used car; perhaps he gets ale bargain, and has a year to finish up the payments. When he gets in be-| hind the wheel and bas the family | tucked’ in around him, the roads of! the country ear on the market. has it; family can go places and view local-! he is a car owner, and his! i 3 reach before. Now, who is going to that man! and say, “Here, mister, you have no; ers, the pub-* lic, have found us to be reliable and capable. The quality of the service rendered by us reflects credit upon our profession. W. A. BRITTON | FUNERAL DIRECTOR | JERMYN 22 ne, Ww THINK! Isn't it far cheaper to keep clothes clean than to keep on paying monéy for new . clothes? You want to be well dressed, of course; but dressing well does not always mean buying new clothes. Rather does it mean wearing clothes that al- ways look new To kee> your clothes looking new—thut's our job. The more you use our service the better your appearance will be—and the more monéy you will save on your wardrobe. e —_— J ‘ ee May We Serve You ? Joe. Lockhart 4° Over Koch’s Shoe Store | Southern Service Lord Burnham, the English news- per proprietor, said ‘on his return to 'New York after a tour of the sow | LT like: the south, k cooking is excellent, but the service es eaves something to be desi -. 25.) “In e Georgia hotel one her balanc’ shor Tes secre ak? Chak turtle seer seis tt It isn't hot enough. Sttun: oon Re Gel® pe mela at ‘} of the situation? A “peddler previously. fin unmistakable terms, the southern} day i to‘a waiter, as he ‘fame tovards he fan hic cas business with a car. 4 have} mortgaged yourself for a year to pay | for it. You can't afford to run it.’ And so with much of this com- plaipt about “‘too many cars.’ ho | °o feels | that a car is going to make his fam-; ily life more evorth- while is entitled’ to credit if, he is willing to trim here and there %o attain his end. | After Good Day’s Business | He Removes Wooden Leg Guelph, Feb. 11-—The appeal to! the sympathies of men and women; always appears to get across and, this fact is made to work to the per- | sonal advantage of some in acquiring | a living in unusual ways. | Last week there arrived in Guelph | a man who “sported” a wooder peg- leg which is a common sight nowa-| days. This man was otherwise husky enough physically, but also wore a down-and-out look as he. peddled needles and such small wares from door to door. easjly making se'es be cause of his apparent defcrmity. At the week-end, having finished with this city, a man tallying with the description of the peddler, walk- ed briskly into the Canadian Na- tional station, threw his grip on the floor and ‘another parcel loosely wrapped. An employee in straight- ening up the place picked up the parcel and was surprised to find it the identical peg-leg worn by th The miracle of securing the perfectly good leg in place of the wooden stump is left to conjecture. eo Barbers and T ps— Stratfofrd Beacon-Herald— The Canadian Barber (Toronto) says that Thomas Lambert of Dunnville and several other boss barbers have refuted the assertion that the “boss is hungry for a tip.’"” Mr. Lambert says “No one is asking the customer for a tip and the customer who.gives the bar- ber a tip and then crows about it is worse than the barber who receives it.” The Canadian Banber says it a- grees with this and adds. “Tipping is unwholesome and degrading and the better class of barbers are opposed to it and justly so.’ + Ee ote ale ale ale fe oe ote ole ote ate of ofe oe *% . + + “A DISTANT HUSBAND OF + * ~~ *) MINE” + *- ~-> SS +> % The following ona fide + + letter, from a good woman, + + seeking advice on a most im- -+ ‘ portant matter was received + + by,one of the western work- + + ers of is 7 “Methodist Episco- + “ cal chu + + Kind ond gee cir: + cod I see in the papers thata * ‘+ man named J—S—was atact- + ed and et up by a bar whose + cubs he was trying to giwhen + the she bare came and + stopt him by eatin -him up * in the montains near your. * town. + What I want to know is + did it killor was he only * ea + + + + % + * A few of the! 2. lie before him just as Mf they do for the best eight-cylinder: ote He may have: .. to dig in a little harder for the mon-j .. ey needed to pay for the bus, but he| eS Se ities that were positively out of their} « . partly et up.and was he from your place and all about him and the ; i dont know but what he is a distant husband of mine. My-first-husband was of that “+ name and i supposed he was * Killed in the war but the name of the man the bare et up bein the same { thought it might be him after all and i * thot to know if he was not killed either in the war or by the bare for i have been married twice since and their ought to be divorce papers got by him or me if the bare ~ did not eat him ~ If it ise him you will know : him because he has_ six toes ~ on his left foot. He also sings ~ base and has a spread eagle * tattoed on his front chest and + a ancor on his right arm, which you will know him if the bare did not eat up these ~ parts o If alive dont tell him { am married —W—for he never liked J. Mebbe you had “ better let on as if i-am ded but find out all you can + bout him without him know- + ing what it is for. That is if the bare did not eat him all + up. Pf it did i don’t see how you can do anything and you neednt take any trouble. My respeck to your family and please ancer back. Was the bare killed also was he married again and did he leave any property *. od * c- : R + rer oe i *, + % of 5 *, + fe fe ole abe ole fe ate of Da te *, Oa fe ole ole fe of ote re oof ofp age ofe 2 ot th +t + * Wort me laying claim to? + - (Once Mrs. J—S) + J‘ + Sfoefanfontent, Socfectoofecforfoefente efoefonfenfesfoofeeloege / Weed Twenty Your Years / Ago Now A Popular Feed LUMBER .KING IS ILL John R, Booth, one’ of the most igures, ” picturesque f in Canada to- day, now in his ninety-seventh year, is ill in Ottawa, and interest ada is divided. between him and his granddaughter, , Miss Lois Booth, the first Canadian girl to contract a roy- al wi her marriage to Prince Erik of Denmark linking the Booth families with half the Royal famil- ies of Europe, Prince Erik being a nephew to Queen Mother- Alexandra and a cousin to King George. John R. Booth is Canadian-born, his early home being County Shefford, Que- bec. He became the largest timber limit owner and-lumber manufac- turer in Canada, and was also a railway builder and» paper manu- facturer. He an intense dislike of secial display and has always been averse to personal publicity. Missionary Speaks In Methodist Church REV. J. R. EARLE HAS SERVED FOR SIXTEEN YEARS IN FOR- EIGN FIELD. | Convenience Getting out of a warm “bed, to go downstairs and answer a telephone has its drawbacks. An ex- tension telephone alongs side the’ bed saves many _ a man or woman that unpleasant necessity. Extension telephones cost only&$1.24 a month! The charge for install- ing is only $1.00! They are a wonderful con- venience. Save your “better half” many fatiguing steps. Business and _ profes- sional men find them in- dispensable in homes ~~ ‘and offices. Let us talk it over! Every Bell Telephone is a Long Distance Station Speaking Sunday evening in the Rev. J. R. E Furnace Work Hot Air Heating Plumbing Electric Wiring Satisfactory work keeps me busy. - CARL ROSS Phone 81. Listowel. Methodist church, arle of Toronto, returned’ missionary from West China, emphasized that China's greatest need to-day was men positions of leadership who are true, straight and courageous in the right. He paid compliment*to the mission schools for the important part they are playing in character building. The speaker’s{ sermons morning and evening were’striking emphasir of the power of Christianity and th: | lt influence for good resulting from missionary activity, particular- ly in the cases of certain prominen Chinese, Including General Fon whose lives have become permeated with the Christian spirit. There aré‘one hundred different Christian denominations represented in China, and ‘this, the speaker J. W. Sangster, of Listowel, Ont., president of the Ontario Grain and eed Growers’ Association, which will soon be holding its annual meeting, was one of the pioneers of sweet clover in Canada. That sounds strange when one realizes the part which sweet clover plays in the ag- ricultural life of the country nowa- days. But twenty years ago it was regarded as a weed. In fact one farmer in western Ontario was pro secuted for growing It and probibit- ed from further use of it in his fields. when alfalfa had proved a doubtful erop for the farmer, Mr. Sangster began to preach sweet Clo- ver in 1903. He wrote about it, for he was then an agricultural writer, and he talked about it to such good effect that it was experimented with and found eventually to be not mere- iy a wonderful pasture plant, but splendid for silage and for building up soil. For fifteen years Mr. Sang- ster Was an apostle of sweet clover. Gradually the belief in it grew. One of the first men in Ontario to grow it was William Linton, of Aur- ora, who published the first pamph- let on its success. Others experiment- ed. The present premier of Manitoba, Hon. John Bracken, when he was a the agricultural college of the Un- iversity of Saskatchewan, after ex- periments, developed a useful strain known as Arctic. Now Mr. Sangster has the satisfac- tion of knowing that In the west this year sweet clover is going to be us- ed on a great scale for the purpose of making big tracts of barren land fertile “7 have shipped sweet clover seed to every civilized country in the world,”’ declares Et Sangster with satisfaction. ‘“‘And I have an enquiry for five tons at present from con- servative old England.” Our very ibest friends have a tinc- ture of jealousy even in their friend- ship; and when they hear us praised by others, will aseribe it to sinister and interested motives if they can. —C. C.- Catton. “How's Jack Blunde ‘on! By ia" {¥ietim: -Dr. We Supply Floral Designs for Funeral Work Your orders appreciated and sive Prompt and. careful at- E. E. SCHLIMME ~ (Phone GOO» D4 handicap. The first step in the move- ment for one great Christian church in China was started less than a year ago at the great gathering -.of the National Christian council, Rev. Mr. Earle state Rev. Mr. Earle is supported in the foreign field by Portage La Prairie district, Manitoba, and’ at time of furlough wes stationed at Jenshaw, West China. He has served in the} foreign field for sixtee years, and was a member of the same party as Wellace Crawford, well known here, and a brother of Mrs. W. B, Screaton. Rev. Mr.. Earle’s station is about sixty miles from where Dr. Cra ford is located. This is two journey by chair, and the trip each way costs $2.00. The chair is sup- ported by three Chinamen, and a fourth carries the luggage. They: commonly make thirty miles a day and receive fifty cents, Rev. Mr. BRarle states. Rev. and Mrs. Earle have a family of six children, and when returning for their next seven years’ service in the foreign field, purpose leaving three of the family behi on ac- count of the educational advantages offered here. Glad He Heard , Of Dreco Dreco a great scource of help to Mr. and Mrs. Denton, who gladly tell of its remarkable merits as a system ‘builder. “There is nothing like it,’ says Mrs. E. Denton, of 54 Cedar st. South, Kitchener, Ont., after trying and proving the merit of Dreco as a health builder “For the past two years I have been in a generally run down condi- tion. ach was very weak, this condition often causing severe attacks of gas- a yr I felt tired out all the time d had ‘severe pains through my back’ My liver too, was sluggish and ould get very dizzy at ee with be a before my eye “Sin taking Dreco, nearest I am feciing more like myself again. My nerves are much quieter; I have no more dizzy spells or gastric at- tacks; my food»digests better; my appetite is better/ I sleep better and constipation, whi ch was formerly aateele with me; has greatly improv- oonar, Denton has also been taking Dreco. His system had been gener- ally run down, but now he fs feeling 100% better and joins me in recom- arate Ie epee SPECIALS ut BANK OF J Ps / THE CANADIAN COMMERCE announces that as a result of the amalgamation ef- fected with the Bank of Hamilton, it now the following branches in the County of — and the -mmediate vicinity : af Atwood Bra Sub-ngeusy "kt Listowel Branch Capital Paid Up $2°,000,000 i GEORGE’S Reserve Fund $20,000,000 RESTAURANT Hot and cold Sand. wiches, Omelets, Steaks and Chops. STILLMAN’S | Ice Cream Bricks, Sodas and Sundaes. F. W. O. Meeting— The monthly meeting of the Lis- towel U. F. W. O. was held in the rest room, on Friday, February 8th. The president, Mrs. kson, was in the chair. The roll call ‘was re- sponded to with suggestions for ways of improving the meetings and in- creasing membership. Following sg business part of the program, Warren Hay gave an Interesting talk on matters pertaining ‘to farm wo- men, an my} avidson, on some of the important doings of the resent government.’ The meeting was closed by singing the National U. Either in sandwiches at the Tea, Reception or other social event, or with your everyday meal, our well made Bread is a mighty tasty and wholesome item. Buy Listowel-made Bread. and we feel sure will please you. ZURBRIGG BROS. The Bakers *Phone 85 It satisfies most citizens, POSTMASTER 68 YEARS PEEL’ HARDY ALFALFA We offer Variegated Seed that has stood the: test of many winters. All fields inspected in bloom and each bag examined and sealed by a Government Inspector. As our prices are reasonable, don’t take a chance on getting “soft stuff.” ORDER NOW—We won’t have it at sad Time ‘o have been gre ‘on the at the Acton, Phe: tario, post-| Insist on the seal. It Protects you. « “Peel Alfalfa Seed Producers’ Kiatintien “PRED G1RVEG; Means Box 691, Brampton.