country read THE RESULTS. MA / Nis ; The Banner Publishing Co. (: All Hands — Reach For- It The big majority of the people of Listowel, Atwood and ‘surrounding Listowel Banner *PHONE 61. <4 BS - and The Banner and Bee goes: into 1600 homes, so Mr. Merchant do you realize what’a vast audience you can address through it’s advertising columns ? Let us show yau how, with the aid of a modern ‘service of illustrations, we can make your advertising pull BIG WE'LL CALL. Listowel THE Atwood Bee In many homes there’s a scramble fort it the minute it is delivered and a half dozen or more often read the same paper. 0 ~ . % ; u Z, / “Professional Swallower’ : ——Has_Storehoyse_In Stomach . "WO HUNDRED AND SEVENTY- FIVE OBJECTS TAKEN OUT BY PHYSICIAN—SPIKE TOO STRONG FOOD. Chicago, March 29.—T h dred and seventy-five individual ob- jects were taken from the stomach of William Bartell, “professional swallower,” in an operation per- formed by Dr. Max Thorek at the American Hospital today The = uiladibie official inventory follow Upholstery tacks 12 nails 110; nuts 2; screws 3; tackh eads 4; parts of safety pins 65; whole safety pins 12; paper clips 22; bolts 4; curtain hooks 1; can-openers 1; beer checks 1; cartridges 2; dimes 1; thumb tacks “3 2: The list, acocrding to Dr. Thorek, does not include “crockery, glass or brick.”’ Bartell was taken ill with periton- itis after swallowing a spike at tle Logan Square Theatr last night. The spite penetrated the wall gf the gatomach. His condition is regarded as serious. The Banner Letter Box— ; From week to week the local mewspaper has its say aliout matters, local and general. Sometimés the reader agrees with the opinion ex- pressed by the editor, sometimes he does not. But the reader does not _ need to let the editor have all the say. Letters to the editor on ques- tions of com ag interest are al- ways welcome no matter whether the views ‘expressed are shared by him or not. If you have an idea that you think the public should know, or a suggestion that will benefit the eommunity in any way sit down and write a letter to The Banner. Con- eee eteeeeevweeeeaen ee eve ee eee eereeneeaeneeaneeenneeaae «© ae ricer particularly those on sub- of local interest, are always ell _ What do = Bia when we make the people of Listowel than by insert- ing an ad in this column. * * * e * * * PLANTING A TREE plant the we plait the ‘i, which will cross the We pient the pe to carry We Sant the Dianks to with- stand the ¢ The keel, the keelson, beam, the knee We plant the ship when we plant the tree. es— the What do he 0 when we plant t ae! plant the pire for you nd me we plant the rafters, shingles, the_floors, We plant the studding, laths, the doors The beams od parts tha We plant tne house when we plant the tre siding; What do we plant when we plant the tree? Lege things daily s “ “plant “the spire that out- wers the crag, we plant the staff country’s fila We plant the shade, from the hot sun fre We plant all Sain when we plant the tree. —Henry Abbey. A that we for our * ” * f * ‘YOU CAN'T your wants known cheaper to eeeeerveeeeneeeeeeeseneeeeeeeneaeeneeneeeeaeeeenes Perth County Breeders Eliminate Scrub Boars, The tarmers’ clubs for thet purpose of breeding select bacon hogs ar expected to spring into existence in Perth County soon. They are being encouraged by the Ontario Govern- ment, . Under the plan at least ten farm- ers possessing twenty sows must join the club. The Live Stock Branch of the Department of Agriculture has agreed to loan a_ pure-bred boar for a period not exceeding one year. The 2 ce — _ eect their officers and ap aretaker| whose duty it shail ‘os hd took after the borrowed animal. Jo member of the club is permit- ted to keep a graded or scrub boar for his own use or.for his neighbors for the duration of the agreement. Each animal bred by ,mémbers of tke club is to be identified and the Government notified at the time of the sale as to the purchaser. VACATIONING enre ee eeeee * * . * “ * * . . * This talk is being written in Miami, Florida. Out of my window Bay—which sometimes bright jade, at others like the ge Si of an emerald, and at no two tim exactly the same. Last night I stood upon the shores of the Atlantic and watched the full moon creep up from somewhere and | dash its goldeh smile across the wa- ters until they rippled at my feet ‘like the waverings that the diamond casts when the night light strikes it. And one evening I sat for an hour or more and. just listened to the song of the waves as they swept the sand to the shore and then beckone it back again—for company. Over in the corner, are ol sticks, my tennis racket, my ca rey en the anes where sits my y little ky xt - the wealth of northern Atha abasca NORTHRRNMOST SETTLEMENT IN SASKATCHEWAN a> Recalling the days of a century and a rea og when. the Hud- spon" Bay-Company and the North Bde Her Com were mpanion, aré hooks and papers and “otteas frém those who are far away and whom I wish were here > — am here to play and to. teed my), 30u t have come to the conclusion that, } } after all, a vacations Something you pick up to make’ you more ¢ompan- fonable the rest of the year—some- pes that makes you a human be- ing who 3s more apt to be wanted aot nd. A-Vacation isn’t acluxury, it is an investment. And the dividends. don't r--this» vacation. | Other. people tovikany hayeimade it sage for me. ahaa? possiblé. throygh the of hillions of 1 : whten years ago gave e their life th ga this beautiful petinsula . might ©) cow with only a fair heifer raoaee, and upon which the build-|, Ling I ibe. 1 rests, is made of coral)’ animals}; ~: - HAS THE WEST SOLVED THE Three governments, those of Al- betta, Saskatchewan and the Dom- inion of Canada have spent a lot of money on pte the problem = ormous quantities—o ‘was spent on the erection of a plant cess pro lat Bienfait, Saskatchewan, which. has proved useless. A model plant worked successfully, but when the an | method was applied to commercial production it broke down." Now a ; much simpler and less expensive ‘ method is being alam out in a vis the eiiee plant, Lig anal type | a! PROBLEM OF BRIQUETTING? plant érected, ‘near the original one, at & cost of a few thousand eae! and plant that thirt tons of coal are now bein duced plies at a total cost which = the-cost-of- drying salon of plant is écondinical in construc- tion, e operated with unskill- ed labor, and provides a number of valu The new pro- e ‘coal dustry in Saskatchewan and Alberta | a profitable year-round business d will convert the enormous coal . seit of the prairie provinces into resources of enormous wealth. The, picture shows a part of the new plant at Bienfait. Estimating a Cow’s Future we White Goods Whiter Colored Goods Brighter | SURPRISE loosens and. dis- solves all impurities from fine or coarse fabrics. gentle treatment and thorough cleansing, the pattern, color or fibre is not injured and takes on a new freshness. By its By Her Production It is the custom with some dairy-| men to use the production of the first, or two-year-old lactation per- iod, as a basis for culling his herd. As a general rule’ this is a good policy’ to follow. A good heifer suf- ficiently matured to make a good record at her first calving is a de- sirable: animal to use as a breeder in the herd. Occasionally, however, , a mistake is made in disposing of a} heifer that does poorly during her first lactation. Whether the owner sells her to the butcher or to some unsuspecting neighbour, the fact re- maifts at frequently he makes @ auiek and disposes of a young an- imal which later develops into a fine mature cow. There are many in- stances on record of where young animals were sold at very ordinary prices which inoat developed into magnificent co On the ph etsy Expetimental Farm to date twenty-eight two-year-old heifers haye made R.O.P. _ records. Five producedjover 16,000 pounds of milk seven produced petween 14,000 and 16,000 pounds, -while sixteen gave less than 14,000 pounds. All the heifers which produced oyer 14,- 000 pbunds of milk are valuable an- imals: the cows that made the high- est heifer record also yielded the largest mature production. Of the sixteen heifers which produced less than 14,000 pounds of milk, only wo have completed mature records and each did exceptionally well. The cow whieh stood in thirteenth place amongst the two-year-olds me through as a mature cow with 24,- 567 pounds although as @ heifer she} gave only 13,956 pounds. Had she been culled from the herd because she produced less than 14, 000 pounds as a heifer, the herd would have been minus a good cow and the purchaser would have annexed a valuable animal. An interesting comparison is a- vailable between the production | of two cows, which were of much the same breeding, reared together and generally handled in the same man- ner. The first as a two-year-old pro- duced 12,707 pounds of milk which was 450 unds more than number two. As a four-year-old the first only increased her production § slightly while two years later the second -cow produced 21.071 pounds of milk. The latter is .a good example of a making over 21,000 pounds as mature cow. There are at least two other cows in the herd each of which gave less than 10,000 pounds as heifers and .,have not Been tested since, but are capable of producing over 20,000 pounds. Where a breeder has a large herd and desires. to retain only the choic- -est animals, the first lactation rec- ords are a ‘suitable basis for deter- mining the value of the future cow, but where a breeder is endeavouring! to increase the size of his herd econ-| omically, he cannot afford to. be too hasty in disposing of females until they are given another chance, Some cows mature earlier than others and although the earlier maturing ones are probably the more desirable, many others prove to be valuable in any herd. WHO TOLD YOU THAT eeetee A young fellow was engaged in a clerical nape by a.friend of his father. as,” however, shiftiess,, and nothing ‘ said cauld be relied employer called . him ¢ day his ice and gave him into bi pee “I would have 4 tat” ¥ amo “eet To-day is giving back life to ht man beings and sending them h wettat. people to their, homeg;all over. e A vacation, into which is crowd medi : ‘years and worked through the days . . * e o o * THE TOUCH OF HANDS = * ca ea eae . o * . . oO me the very picture of a harp is inspiring. But that is only because I have lived witpin the strains of this heavenly instrument. Just watch the touch of a pair of white arms with fingers that eel their path across the strings and you have a bit of another world breath- ed back to you. Softly into almost a silence of melody, then into a ripple of chords that thrill the heart—and you get another caliber of a soul, The other day I watched a moth- er gently touch - the face of her sleeping baby. You could almost see the rays of golden love as they stream from‘the eyes of mother to child. can remember the touch of my mother’s hands. It was a beautiful touch, for I knew so well how éach finger had warmed me_ through of anxious hardship that life be just a little better smoothed for me love to watch an artist touch his canvass with his paints. And I re- aall that one writer once said Hugo must have dipped his pen into his heart, for ink as he. crude garret. It is said of Legros, the. greatest painter, etcher and a sr “he improved everythin uched The touch of Barnard'’s soul went into.the great bronze of Lincoln that stands in the-little park in Cincin- nati. hen I saw it for the first time, I said to myself that it was a bronze Ad Barnard quite as much as of Linco If we wants touch lives and mo- ments and events, we must touch them with clean hands, consecrated to service, Every time you bring a gift to someone your fingers touch the rays of immortal light. - You give—and that is really what we are here in this world for. —George Matthew Adams. Ready For Action An old lady visiting the prisoners in a certain®prison was ‘chatting| pleasantly with a burglar who had been sentenced to serve a long term. She thought she detected signs of re- form in him. “And, now,” she said, “have yoy’ any plans made for the it heralds the good days coming. There is ai fine line of such readable advertising\jin The Banner this wee future, on the expiration of your sen- tence?” “Oh, yes, madam,” -he said hopefully. I've got the plans of two banks and a post office.” wrote in his; ng —and he. touched everything.” What —_ ia noble tribute! What Magazine Do You Take? or What Newspapers? You can’ order any Magazine or Newspaper you want—Canadian, American or British—at this office, saving postage, cost of express order and trouble of writing. 7 We are focal agents for the Toronto Globe, Toronto Mail and Empire, the: Lofidon Free Press and London Advertiser. SAVE The season js short. Shrubs and Perennials, is out of the ground. * Now is the Time to Place Your Orders for Hanging Baskets, Flower Boxes, Etc. Get them started early. and we will call ‘for containers We have a‘lot of orders in for which “will be here as soon as the frost The stock ‘will be good and the prices right. on these papers by ape ae them at The Banner office. yp $5.00 -a year when you can get thats for less and we both make a little? "Phone us Rose’ Bushes, Flowering e F loral Designs for Fasaxal Work a Specialty — ‘Phone 260. Plowright’s Greenhouses Listowel. re pays touse | MAR TIN-S SENOUR D-LAC STA for tor Goalies tte & meedrort ‘HOME ‘PAINTING MADE aeae SOLD BY R. B.. WHITE Listowel Z The old gentleman was returning | can | yt after spending the week-end e rien ng and his host's i Whad“ariven “him add | and son to the station. . “Good-bye, ee eds ea my dear,” he said, “Pm afield 1 I pape aon ode tay ne such a bad pis ins glanced at the girl mt do anything - [tor zo, a A