“Thursday, July ‘9th, 1925 c. Save Both Time and Money > SELL--- That car, home, livestock,funnecessary - furniture, incubator--- ANY THING! 4 That house, Typewriter, Garage,--- EVERYTHING Ata bargain, what you happen to need most and the other fellow needs least. _- FIND--- Employment if you need it. if you have lost it. A watch - BANNER CLASSIFIED ADS. The Listowel Banner * ; + SOME FACTORS + ENCING THE CONTAMINA- +: TION OF MILK. O-bRt Ba oe Dee aa ee (Ex apa fielean Ses Note), While tion of ,inilk a ok understood in @ general way, there is perhaps seed fous factore upon which the germ content of ve milk as it leaves the stable depe With the. raat of determining more closely the relative effect of the various factors, a series of ex- periments extending over tive months was conducted at the Cen- tral Experimental Farm, Ottawa. In the tests the various sources of contamination were considered un- der a wide range of conditions, the numerous factors being divided for conveniénce into four classes, viz: careof the stable care of the animals, care taken by the milker and care.o ‘oe -e- By extending the test ver a prolonged period, during which daily ee eta tests were @ oft a large number a cows Rape Tear ‘os nearly identi. - : + sige | STORY. amina- TO. more ‘a relative importance of the var- RY OF FAMILY AND LAND TO CANADA One hundred and forty descendants of Anthony Zurbrigg gathered at.the home of Wm, Klein, Gowanstown, on Domnion Day to celebrate the first re-union of the Zurbrigg family in Canad: day was one for the renewing of ge yeaa Pe the older folk, and of gam for founger. The atiteas, in the inform- of the ree wa reache Zurbrigg outlined some of the saely history of the family. After the read- fing of this the gathering rose to their feet and wit heads remained silent eeveral moments in honor and revdrence of their grandparents who ha@ made the great sacrifice for The Family Record Ito thetr happiness and success fp life | is not confined to its ntiers anc } as inability after the age of ten y to read or write in any language, analyist j ulation of Canada ie illiterate. -rovinces, Ontario has the lowest il- among Canadjan born. OF the for- WISE PF = * i eENY OF {oosler NATURE from’ Jeleon's eye-ball stands out so far that! You will have to move fast to get it out of the way before it's time to get There Ms a urious resemblance be- head the muscles function!supper. Do the hardest pieces first, tween the =! h ofa 2m and a}so very curiously that the pupil can while you're fresh."” And away ehe éorn mill: | unswering to the be turned in any direction. He can| went hopper and K tt he stones; look backwards without turning his) Anne had jnst finished the dishes Which crush « corn. But the most) body. nd the dusting and had unfolded remarkable ree blance is is—to} The parrot would have an incop-, and shaken out the first piece to be prevent too : eorn from ol | venience in the very honked ehape of' ironed when there came a rap at the e into the st: once iver its upper mandible, if the mandible) door and a pleasant voice. placed beiwe em ad the ehiele were stationary like that of o ‘m coming right in, as uénal. go that the notmay be dribbled out: birds. But it is not. and the hook ‘can see you are busy,” and a roly-poly int. just as fast as s require The(, be used in suspending aoe and it'tle neighbor walked in and sat dawn gatne proces tkes place in the hen|can be used in a varie ways;in the easiest chair. She looked at as the crop ma « filled and jte food| since it is capable of pais moved | Anne, at the ironing board and the only enters the gizzard ,gradually| at pleasure. empty clothes rack, then at the large, sf and as fast as /t is abe to digest it. Many quadrupeds have long eare:embroidered piece that Anne was tig A grub called the glow-worm gives| that they can move backward and} spreading on the board, 4 out a phosphoris light in the dark-| forward with great ease, and in this | “You're never going to begin on pess. Why? may find her, he ie in the The web of pensating contrivance. Ne he spider is fl Ry Ge them + a ings? His we only knows how to wea w without his own body jes of in 2 is fixed and cannot be socket. To supply this these creatures than In order that her a for while she is a w he isa fly. and while she Is on earth,| so constructed. air most of the ee Ng - coe zt ears of the ‘time } The food ofja proboscis, The queen . Yet- how is he to|ries brilliant lamps which she lights a queer thing. having with phosphorus furnished her by 2b is a net, and he not hie i nature. Moles’ eyes are ve it, furnishes the thread to weave it from| in. eects the eye| turned in its | great defect,| .-The- ba: was “the éye of such insects is a sauitipin: (ostpebls colded slotaen: glass with a lens looking in ev- going to iron them went rid , is im. reality /tiny orphan, usually planned -a. full Cradvantage, as an eye so construct-/ day's. work for Anne . whether: she, ed seems better adapted to the wantu at to beat home. or Martha, was any . “Now, meck = ine: chamepiecs. is stitt Ke e cham-|4 way detect the species of sounds. dog, cat and horse are| THE Riegel THINGS tha, who had “raised” Anne from The! that?” she 6aid. beetle car- again just as quickly. Rising, piece from the board, ny and fur-| and. tucked it weli dow heaped’ Anne e Aunt Mar- Aunt... Mar- a et = ry going at it way,” a calm saat done Brera and you Aunt Martha in spirit, ter. She means well she's got the wrong idea. “Why—what do you ed ‘Anne, half shocked. ean j “Aunt Martha always Says to de ithe hardest pleces first,’ The elephant's short neck is COMIs| > spider is a com-| pensated by the admirable device of Anne re- plied. The little ‘neighbor opened her lips to say something and closed them Then she did she took the folded it up n in the mid- but he! bedded, so that the dirt may not get! dle of the pile. Then af unrolied:a n gingham apron\and laid it on the na before the astonished nn in the Lord's if not in let-. ‘ og doubt; but mean?” gaep- That on herd, agp tle things t exercises They w trained we -W about a typogra chances to ma your rack. seed carefully, as well as“ can, when the big things come, Anne just opportunities to are in And the little neighbor nodded and smiled her approval as Anne sljd her iron over the gingham apron. It will not hal are that is the work,” ean do for in service. will make 2 warieee array smooth your trons and get them ready to tackle the finer work. Ir will not tire pau too much for that; up and get you into the swing of iti. Then go after your hard pieces—and | you will find they just limber you t 0 | as if you bad done them first.” face brightened. geems to me the Lona gives us our on the litth neighbor, gently. the hardest things first. Just easy lit- at we without wearisome effort. He kno — are good practice, good — If way Him grer we YHEN THE PRINTER ERRORS. The next time anyone complains| phical error in a new: wrong. errors, and lions| We need many “ont-posts’’ if we are tion. Inthe sen-| to deal with this vexing ephiaws not.to be” by. 8 paper think of this—in-an ordinary tions for eath Jetter there are. 70,000 r€ we English. —a condition which should make us, as Canadjans think. 6 are doing much, but y Canadian in! of Canadian t are perpetuating tam! iy. ees tn the ranks of illite For ins 39.46 | horn Ukraini ans in Canada are illit and %7. ~ of thelr Canadian, : frorn children can neither read nor arte! INiteracy however -onfused with inability to spe This is another problem and| a serious one. In Saskatchewan a- lone over 40,000 citizena cannot} speak English. @ economic waste and the dang-/ ers of illiteracy in emocratic country are self-evident. Henry Dyke says “To place the ballot i: the hands of illiterate people Js like hanging a diamond around the neck of a little child and sending it out into.the crowded etreet.'" Four mil- lion illiterates vote in the United States and two hundred and fifty -* igen are eligible to vote in Can- ada. nts ) lower urban than rural iNiteracy In Canada, . even among foreign born demonstrates the exce}- lent work that is being accomplished by night schools. Tt is > ps that pela’ is rather fortunate that some enough to @ good ahonts Unfortunately gro in Canada| | | newer territories, Defining umerecy | they years of the | The oldest son An Compulsory ed-| born} % of foreign | Van! | ed boy of 16 to enlist trated militarism and war and longed of the pop] wat fre -edom “— niiiary ould be secured there 846 veral of these men a ties ¢ n Of t «s A a] = eign born In Manitoba 20.71 % are i} to their families and friends. During literate. In the three Western Pro-| 14. long winter evenings the neigh. vinces there are 69,636 illiterates) ; bors gathered to listen to the stories! [2x of these 81% are foreign bora! 0078 Ba ; storie aml 19% Canadian and British born) ¢ f the great land beyond “| Fences in Switzerland were unknown ‘so these men would bring a bundle jof slats a foot long and show the peo- ple how the settlers in Canada built stake and rider fences. They told af ithe deer. bear. partridge, geese ; ducks. and all the wild life in the | woods and waters, and of the freed om they enjoyed in Canada. | Asa result of these thony Zurbrigg and amily decid ted to anada Bi dding fare | well to parents and loved ones w hom y never expected to sée again; KY startin g ona voyage from their Sues jin Switzerland. to the seape in F rance In an crosai ne e ocean in a sai | Geteed States in a wage jand then takittm—-«rp a homestead in | the forest. proved to be no —_ M ork and caused many a sleepless even before leaving their comfortable home in Switzerland. When the day it found Mrs. ttherings An- come to C for departure came igg sick bed he sake of the children and, future decendante it would have been impossible to leave under such circumstances. However last farewells and caresses were giv- en, a last fond look taken at the old home, and Grangmother Zurbrigg; then a woman of 43, was placed in a large basket which was tied under- neath the large wagon used. to con- . gs the day before and they had to wait a week for the next one. The voyage across the ocean was a elow and opi gly nm something interesting to talk we “Bae? ae She Label had ios fous one and 48 days, One the children took sick and died. and 18 TOLD OF EARLY HIS. THEIR _ EMIGRATION FROM SWITZER-|™ the |; tm the army and Lhis meant separation from home service In the fall of} returned the sea. d start the axe sick child, Jacob, who now Hamburg, had his turn in the basket underneath the wagon. Many pathetic and amusing hap- penings might te told of their voy- cross land and water. In those _— travelling by sati boat and a- cross cordu rough bush and swamp waa vastly different from today when we can cr n large steamships, or & the continent on steel rails in “intuiienn cars or in the modern grip ov- er concrete or scraped gravel roads, Wallace township roads yee} eatadade They .éventnally landed at Hamburg and for a short time they made their home with a brother, who had been in this country a couple of years. Grandmother Zurbrigg, never fully recovered; and within two years of their departure, died, leaving her husband with six young children. A cal conditions as le, results} Anthony Zurbrigg was born in|number. of years later, Grandfather were obtained which tedinin dift- Fruetigen, Switzerland on May 24,|married Catherine Wettlaufer and to ferent degrees to which various fac-|igo99. In those days education a-|this union was born two daughters, tors an aa to the contamination| mong the middle classes of Switzer-| Katie and Mary. Grandfather died in of the lav was not very elaborate, but the| March 1877 and his wife a number It ws found possible, by the care-|enjldren were taught to read, write, |of years later. ‘ ful exercise of ordinary sanitary pre- add and subtract, to reverence their | cautions, to produce a milk of excel-| parents and those in authority, and | @+¢44¢4044¢4¢45¢24¢44¢2444442 lent quality without resorting to el-!to be courteous to everyone they met, | # > aborate expensive methods. One Of/ Rove must always raise their caps to] MIKE'S SCIATICA ” the points brought out was that the! military officers when and where ev-| # 4 principal sources of contamination) o» they met. them. “" Sir William Orpen, ‘who is + are represented by dirt.and manure) yixe most boys young Anthony|-+ better known as the fashion- * dropping into the pail during milk-|:ook quite a fancy to the fairer eex,|*» able portrait painter on the ‘+ ing, and by improperly cleaned utet-}.4q became very intimate with Miss|-+ other side of the Atlantic, has + sils, The contamination from the alr,/\jagdalene Traxcel, whom he married; followed the prevailing mode + to indicate another source, is relat-jin his early thirties. They were a/+ among celebrities and turn- % ively less important, even when COM-|hanpy couple, living together in! ed writer. His “Stories of Old + siderable ‘dust is afloat yeace and harmony, and raising a/¢ Ireland and Myself" isrichin + The importance of the milk pall| amily of seven, five sons and two|+ anecdote of which the follow- + was clearly indicated, {ts state daughters, Anthony, John, Gillian,|- ing is typica + cleanliness being of m concern! peter, Margaret, Jacob and Susan-j- In a little Irish village the + than its form. While = open-top! nah. “+ priest was greatly troubled ‘> pail was found to result in an in - : : % by the activities of one of his % creased germ content 200 per} 4. oneaned gy ton wae whe Sache called Mike. If a man's + cent as compared with one with aj / ae aoa Grover. following the|‘? Jaw was broken, who did it?— + small opening if the animals were dairy "baatauns rincipaily. All the|* Mike. If a young girl looked negiected, yet when care was taken) 1 i, wes made. into cheese. Their|* moody and sa@. why was it # with the animals and the udder wi Some Sati among the mountains|** —love of Mike! If there was % ed before milking, very little extra) )) o's, aa it re ae to move sev-|‘* @ @runken brawl, who was + contamination resulted from an un- ora tienes in a summer to secure|* the worst?—Mike. te eovered. pall. mach more tpt pasture for the cattle In the spring |* One afternoon, as the priest + ance was the sanitary state of the Le » would move + the hi whey planes > was walking down the village + pail. The tests brought out that this| ey ¥ ye as firet aa ic “la street, he met Mike who, in- +> factor affected the contamination | * a tor a ihe aun’ bor yee hen hot. |“ stead of trying to avold him, < more than any other connected with! one highland Gacavne part od ahd they |? sual, came over. * milking. Under clean milking condi- eae te the lower Leber ‘Wherev- | touched his hat, and said: + jons a change from a careful scour- m the er one castte ca that Is where|** “I beg your pardon, your riv- + lng. preferably with the was nt steam th ir oa t vat Id be nitche i By nee, but would ye kindly to a neglect In the care of the pails mee Their ease ife “ be Te me what gives one + resulted in a greater increase In me er podbot 1 econe|? sctatics rs germ content that the neglect of a ; , eevit ho rovide what won % a 4 sciatica, Mike?” said other single precaution, while on tha} — eed age oh cane at wast the priest. “Sure, that's a ter- “ other hand, where generally unsan!- <| family in Switzerland. Financialty he|? rible awful disease, and it + tary conditions prevailed. a change i= bs dared % fort ble _ ir-|t comes from drink and run- *% to a proper treatment of the pails} Was consid red in comfortable ¢ BE ning after the girls, and all + resulted in a bigger improvement BSLAnCes. e °, ent. @ you % than from any other single favour- | Their food consisted largely of)" tan i ig gel , PS able ange rati milk and cheese and potatoes. Meat |** § . . . SMSICRERES OF ISREERIOS was not served more than twice a|* “ he —— no, your rfy- % —_ | week as a rule, generally Sunday for|* erenc said ti uke ri EEPEEEEEEEEEEEEEEETEE EEE | dit nuer, and once during the wack ~ terrible 9 awful disease the > fe +, Bread was used very sparingly. Cakes - Fe F _ = 5 ILLITERACY IN CANADA rar and pastry were considered luxuries i? The Hip ad wpe, ye 2 Da Marjorie Bradford. <+| while candies and ice cream were un- ls, me ee vel” naka Mike. “I've Do Social Service Council of known. ie : the : al aud ¥ Pt Canada. _The home was plain and comfort-|** been reading the papers ‘Holy + able. ‘The large living room was the|‘* in them I see that the ne , = | sosteateagecfenteafectonecfesteateefecfesTnfesfectecteatentestet +! favorite spot for the children. In the} he Father in Rome is very bac % | To provide educational facilities | centre of {t was the stove which wae| 4 with it. jin the front/er settlements of Can- \ bricked in. On top was a space | . sete nt tt ttt ttt jada, the Minister of Education in| eight feet square and this when COV- | Aeetesterfodeeleedestosteelectesdsdreteed | Saskatchewan has recently announe-| ered with blankets, previded a beau ed the decision of his department to! tiful warm place for the children to] ORANG E CELEBRATION, Kitchener jestablish the “Outpost Correspond-) Play This was their play grounc - Saturday, - Ttth. ence School” for the purpose of serv.| most of the long winter months. Cc anadian Nation jlways will 'ing children who live beyond the! The clothing was plain and warm goperate spevial tra: vice to te lborders of organized school die “Once a year, the tailor and shoemak-| chener and return in connection with \tricts. This will do much to relieys|er was brought to the home for one| Orange Celebration at that*point on lthe minds of paper soneleag are pion-| or two weeks, according to the eize! Saturday, July 11th. Patrons will eering in remote district nd whose/of t»e family. and the oeetias Saal find a very convenient service in both ordinary hardships 2 weafficient shoes were made up for the directions You can leave Listowel at price to pay for the new heme in a itary Ra §.10 a.m., arriving Kitchener Aas new land. These children need a | witisecs law of ee ccotiand 1 a.m. aa peal ave prepa - deprived of at least the element ‘ ; at 6° rm he above 8S & tary ae ‘ation which is so necessary [that time called -for every abi hod Fastern Standard, Reduced fares in effect for of ten or more trav- Full particulars from party elling together or ew yeare. Then. the country aa = . faci peac egy sg ge sehen Canadian National Railways Agent. were allowed to go home but sod were subject to call at any time.|pjoGcs ON © AR RUNNING Sr{eoth mother and father Zurbrigg 30ARD IS UNNECES SARY AND c RU Ri, Crrrving dogs on the running proaching the age "whe must] + i : yoard ‘ot motor cars has heen deplor- | iteracy—2.90% and New Brunewick | je; ave home and enlist. and the moth-|.4 by the Ontario Society for the |tops the list with 7.61% illiterate.) ers heart beat warm for her son Praventi , ¢ z ; ; Manitoba comes ‘second to New! ~ vention of Crueltv to Animals Brunswick with an {literacy of 7 { Canada, Land of Hope jand In combatting this practice the 09. In that Province the high per-| For several years previous the peo-j co-operation of the Ontario Motor v*% ; sd had been looking towards Can-| Learne has been p ised. centage is dne in great measure to } : 1 a. promisec the Iarge immigrant population in| fhe land of 2 roege ais Several] The practice has been described as which iliiteracy is much higher than} ren had gone ahead to sea if a ho me} n particutarty ernel one, whether the dog is tied to the car or not. In bath te na number of animals have heen killed. either through being | jolted on in the pathway of traffic or strangled by the chain which held | them to the car | While those who indulge in the [practice may draw some cheap at- tention to their car. a little tee will convince ae aside rom th }cruelty involved, having a dos ride on the renning ho ard of a car ts about jas necessary the hathion girl pas s on the winda Wield and shaw a like decree of intelligence on “the part of the owner. | _ —eeanemenane 4 USES MATCHES ON ELECTRIC STOVE » Apparently they know little or nothing abont electric heating de- viees down In Pennsyivenia ipast that the opinion of Utilities Com- ion als miss ing ¢ offici of London, follow- that occurred Wed- lady from that state, accompanied by 4 party of friends, proceeded to prepare lunch shortly after arrival and being shown the electric stove, she was highly e- lated at the conveniences available at l.ondon's camp caretaker’s surprise can be better imagined than somemet when a half hour after he was called rath- er hurriedly by the lady in question, who declared that she coud not get the ere working! won't. light and I've used this ole box of a on it already,” declared the 1 “Mr..Chairman,”’ complained the speaker. stopping in his address, “T. havé been on my feet nearly - ten minutes, but thére is «so much ri- baldry and interruption, r Howe Si ly hear myself s eer ts guv'nor,”’ came a voice trom the Bhd “you ain’t missin’ much.’