M. R. HAY, grow. We could cit when the small business has grown to be the leading industry in the commun- ity in which it is established. The service of the officers of this Bank may assist your business to become a leading industry. | IMPERIAL BANK LISTOWEL JEL BRANCH, % Manager. . \ Editorial Thursday, April 22nd., * 1926 The man who says a woman can’t “Keep a secret probably never tried asking one of them her age. v ~The best way to chase.a customer to another store is to Urge him to “take something just as good’ when they ask for an advertised product. know of one Listowel business ™ who confides his financial trou- bles to his wife—-whenever she asks him for money. Zu - The next generation of - grand- mothers will probably not know any more about darning needles than the oS generation does about tallow ip ™ Oné thing that surprises a small town citizen when he makes his oC “casional trip to the city is to of the number of men who have time to attend a show in the afternoon. ye -= Neither retail nor receive scandal willingly; defamation of others may for the present gratify the malignity of the pride of our hearts, cool re- trol and regulate traffic. Many of lunsuccessful. The feeble attempts at these laws have been makeshifts and ‘efforts at enforcement have — been traffic regulation have, in the main, béen ignored, and the results that have been obtained have not solved - municipal and provincial nd yet they are violated thousands of times a day. True, ‘there is an_oc- casional arrest, but it does not tend to respect for law to the driver who -keeps within the law and sees others pass him at a speed ey double that allowed by statu The same is true ie ‘light regula- tion. Hardly a day passes without a tfaws story of some gd pee ed to the blinding glare lights, and yet there is title attort to.enforce the simplest of the head- light laws. If these laws are impossible of enforcement let them be removed from the etatutes, and not continue to be a farce. If the driver gains a disrespect for automobile laws—and how can he help doing so—will not this same disrespect associate itscl with all laws and their enforcement, WiththeGbharches _ flection will draw every “sous conclusions from such a dispos- ition; and in the case-of ecandal, as in that of robbery, the re en is always thought as bad as the thief. —Letters of Lord Chestertield to his Son, October, 174 The advertising given Irving Ber- lin, the song writer, who married Millionaire Mackay’s daughter a- gainst his wishes, has.sold more than 400,000 copies his latest “Always.”’ Some of you this will want that song, probably buy it. That's what advertising docr. The fact that newspapers said so Galvary Evangelical Rey. M. L. Wing, Pastor Sunday, April 25th 40 a.m.—Prayer meeting. 11 am.—Sunday School . Evening service withdrawn on cc- count of Annual Conference. Monday, 8 p.m.—E.L.C.E. ahout the Berlins, made peo- ple want his a who never be- fore heard of "= It ought to be a timely warning to residents of Listowel and vicinity to know that recent official reports at- tribute most of the fires in the smal- lertowns. and rural districts of the country to ‘defective flues.” Spring cleaning time is here once more, and this highly important part of it should not be overlooked. Do’: wait until next fall and possibly be ‘ forced to forgo it then because of a sudden turn in the weather. Look at the flues now. Clean out the chim- neys, lodk carefully at every joint of stovepipes to see that it has. not to a dangerous thinness. The fact that a defective flue has not yet been responsible for your house catching fire means nothing. Be sure that it never will catch fire from . that source by a close inspection now. The Hydro Commission announced the- purchase of 250,000 horsepower annually “Quebec to provide for the threaten- * @@ power shortage in this Province. This should prove an excellent ar- rangement, but possibly what we in Listowel are more vitally concerned *about just now is the efficient ser- “wice of the power we now have. In the recent severe storm Listowel was -without light or power for a-period ~-of over three days. We know it was etorm that caused the trouble and ) the damage was great, but conld tt “not have been remedied sooner if the ( Hydro Commission was rendering) “the service it should? What. guaran- tee have we that this would not oc- recently “our gee Re ye have it that the service just what it. gen have Pedagg The local “through to Milverton, but the eat trouble was reported between Mil- fent service is maintained, and that Seadwitey fg not crippled.> a _ FINANCE YQUR OWN INDUSTRY 'C. B.. Brown,.chief of the -organ- “zation service bureau of the U. S. ; ber of Commerce, in speaking = Eaters the Seattle chamber recently, _ teld them, “the industrial growth of come from within. You 1 by local men ae he local capital. er sa te nwo matter East et the group “manafactu in mmiunity, sey should oatabiish the. xatoth ot mee with their chamber of com- Skew Seah ge ta fordiscussion of Ee problema.. That's how. things accontp!ished—frpm within.” the above ad-} the emall hut growing indus- we already have... When .the of the necessary eepital is put by loea!l-people, that industry more often be a success use : aret ownerailp and our natur- CHEMISTRY DEPT. AT 0. A. C. HAS MADE SPECIAL STUDY. [1s Your Soll Acid or Sour? If So Lime Will Help—Anyway the Sub- ject Is Worth Your Study. (Contributed “ie Gntario Department of Agriculture. Toronto. What is soil acidity? When we speak of a substance be- ing acid we think of it having a sour taste, something that will-put our teeth on edge, like lemon juice, or vinegar. Th acidity, Cheim‘sts go much further and draw much finer distinctions, one of which is the ef- litmus pa: aper seenkee color ti biue to red when it.co tact with an acid. Many: 2 Oren dissolved in water have an “atid reaction. these is stole. it in a tf or iron pail it will -‘‘eat t.” This is due to acid formed on dissolving. There - com- pounds in a soil which have the same. property—not copper compounds but compounds of silica, aluminium and fron. For oa ple if we heat ordi- nary sand i in pena under pressure it becomes cn acid, silicic acid, which has propefties cdmmon to all acids. Sour Soil. So often we hear the expression “sour” in speaking.of soils. It is gen- erally used to describe a soil which is poorly drained, more or less water- logged and in poor physical condi- tion. It may be acid or it may not, and therefore the term is misleading. can cor- Ifa haves under chemical investi- gation in a certain wa acid, we will drop thie term “‘sour’’ when speaking of soils. How Soils Become Acid. The acidity of soils is, therefore, due to acid’ salts, those that have an acid action when in solution, or to free é ese acids and atid salts may result from- decomposition ‘Or organic matter or from changes which occur gradually, due to leach- ing or washing away of bases from the soil, Thus we have two types of acidity which may occur singly— and they generally do—or may*eccur together. Decaying - ic Matter. Acidity due to decaying organic matter is largely oh in peaty soils which are/not affected by hin from surrounding high ne. We find this condition of affairs in Northern Ontario muskegs, where the sub-solls which normally might contain lime are buried deeply under a soil com- posed entirely of decayed plant mat- er. High Lands and Acidity.” High lands tend to become acid first. This idea is-new or compara- ¥ 7 to the - Baptis Rev. Harry W. Jackson, Pastor ‘Sunday, April 25th 10 a.m.—Sunday schoof ti-avm:—Public Wership: 7 p.m.—Public Worship. Monday 8 p.m.— —B.Y.P.U. Thursday 7.30 p.m.—Prayer service ei we ‘ited And the ane mail be with) music, And the cares that infest the day ' shall fold their tents like the Ar. ahs \nd silently steal away.” United Church. Listowel SERVICES Sunday, Apri) 25th Hear the ners Compositions of P. FE. adley, Sunday night 11 a.m. = Subject: “GOD SENT MEN.’ snes, ot. Shall Wipe ae 1 Fiel Solo oT fase That My Seistent Liveth” Handel Mr. P. F. Hoadley 2.45 p.m.—-Sunday School. * others 7 p.m.—Sibject: VES NT." Bring “A SAFE IX- Anthem.-“I Will Call Upon Goa” Ms , Hoadley Solo; “More Love to Thee. O Christ Hoadley Master Jack Wakeford. Come early and invite cece your e. enjoy these a no tend welcom \ ADMINISTRATRIX’ NOTICE TO CREDITORS ; In the Matter ef the Estate of Wil- liam Haddow, Deceased. © Nee is hereby given that all per- s having any claims or demands cat Township of Elma, in the County of rth, Farmer, cease: }on or about the 6th. day yt April, 1926, at the Township of Elma, in the Province of Ontario, are requir- }ed to send by post prepaid or to de- liver to the undersigned, the solicit- or for Jessie Haddow, the Adminis- tratrix of the property of the said William Haddow, De their names and dresses and full partic. ulars in writing of their claims and statements of their accounts and the pure a the securities, if any, held t William Haddow, late of the| ‘® who died p by t ; ice is further given that the said had me as and that the said ministratrix will not be Mable for |e any An aN rafter cng Neth, day of mak soak Administra whose ere’ % ‘then fiave ee ‘notice. tario, es ‘ of many. has béen generally un- derstood that al lying land is gen- erally acid but now the opposite has been proven. Let us see how this is. In a.clim 80 inches of'rainfall in a year. As ; this rain falls on the sofl it soaks ih. In passing through tht air it dis- solves carbon dioxide which is always present and forms a very weak acid. So weak is this acid that we cannot detect it except by very delicate tests. This acid dissolves the lime out of the soil, in action, within a hu. dred yee t disepives out a great. .eal. f strokes will fell great oaks,’’ and though the solution of lime is very slow we can readily understand how after a hundred years a great deal of lime will be removed. How do we hy lime is dissolved? Look pi oe de of a tea kettle and ask y seit how this Hme-got there Plainly from the wafer. water comes frpm the well or shetndl so that the rain water must have dissolved the lime in passing through the soll.. We can readily understand how higher areas are more subjected to washing and leaching than more level lands. Don't forget this—all linde will be- come acid in time and it fs only a question of time; but the higher Boe tions will be affected first’ becaus the lime removed from them will largely be carried to the lawer levels. Lime Concentrates In Lower Levels. Let us now look at the case of a more or less level fleld. The sam dissolving attion take® place. in the soil, and the water percolates down ward carrying lime with it. It then passes out of the soil by the drain tile or natural me gine or remains | in the soil, gradually being oe by evaporation. The fact established, ecg y teat: Fg cap. lary water rising to the surface to replace that lost by euapeutinn. does not restoré the ime ares on its downward morement. So w that there is a tendency to aeeseateats the lime in the “lower layers of the soil, while the soil at the surface may become distinctly fact Nesting on this par- has no further effect. e affected and layer ip deepe and pretees supply the lime Dekcnay t becomes ous, Ask for Bulletin 313, and get the rest of the ry.—Dept. of Chemis- try, 0. A. Cullens: Don't Plant Diseased It would seem wise _ seed belief |. ate like outs we get about: nee “2 Listowel, Ont. fect 21, 1 4026 5 would like to conducting the business town, he Sa ae took his oath that he would look after the interesta of this to Hag he kept that oath? No, I say. not. Bu t. t eee is only one item just now that I would like to bring before =e meh « of lic, and that is the éale belts, that he, the Mayor, sold for arrears of rent, income at the same time that teed ss the property of the.town. This he has acknowledged at the Council Board. If ‘he aid not know I would like to know. -who should have known better thén he; it was he who had the agreement drawn up between the town and Mr. ochrane, and if he “pmaitted putting in the belts as part of agree ment, its no excuse for him. Why did he hand the town the cheque for $43.00, simply because he knew he had dene wrong. More than that, perhaps there: are a good many of the ratepayers in town. Who don’t know that the Mayor, after having the lien notes : up himeelf, wherein it was written that none of those machines were to leave this corporation ni oe paid for, yet he was pres corte lathe was ren out of town, and h took no steps to stop it. Is that the way to-look after the town's inter- est? Then again, the statement that he made to the Chairman of the Property Committee—“that he was not going to offer the said lathe for sale, and. that the belting did not belong to the town.’’ Then right in the fgce of that he told the Coun- cil he made no such. statement to the Chairman of Prope tee. Who is telling the _truth,- Chairman of the Property Commit- tee or the Mayor? The proper thing that the council should have done was this: they should not have ac- cepted te cheque _offered,. but should have demanded that the May- or replace those belts; but this is nothing new, it’s J. C. Hay’s inter- est he is posits after, not the Town's, and its time he was stopped shat 5 oft atin like. this. Yours truly, A RATEPAYER. r To let her know you are thinking of hef” Your Photograph oa, CALL or PHONE 162 R. J. Russell Photograp er —Listowel A go SITTINGS BY PPO ee S Cand ies Young and old: Thank You alike can enjoy. Caramels, Taffies, Hard- Instead of sending receipts by mail, which in each..case requires three cents postage, The Banner kes this more convenient method of acknowledging receipt of the fol- lowing new subscriptions or renew- als, received during the past few days, and for which those gies will please accept*our thanks ~“Phureday, April 220d), 19287 Mr. W.-R. Logie, Windso Mr. A. F. Klugman, itchwacr. ass. C. Ballantyne, Hengsall. Alf. Edwards, Wiste, Alta. Mise Jean McKay, Brantford. Mr, W._E. Davidson, Sask Mrs. C. A. pets, . Galcare- Mr. E. W. Kidd, bi Miss Violet Bho, “Mille Mra. C. Duval, Queen charlotte, and though it is very slow | B.C. Mr. D. L. Mr. Chas. Alta. Mr. W. Sask. Mrs. N. Ferguson, St. “Thomas. Mr. A. Munro, Port Elgin. Mr. N. Kitchen, Kawende, Man. Mrs. M. Calder, Chatham. Scott, Pasadena, Cal. W., Coulter, Provost, ian Merrick, Hodgeville, Dinsmore, | centered and fancy Candies for the yOungsters. A select variety of Choco- lates and Bon-Bons you grown-ups can appreciate because of their wholesome- ness, tastiness and freshness. moral and refined. Aucusies : 25e and 35¢ ‘ Music Hall, Listowel ONE NIGHT ONLY ‘Saturday, April 24 THE BIG COLORED SHOW WAY DOWN SOUTH Company of Colored Artists introducing the old time Plantation Scenes, Songs, Dances and - Melodies. Best of its kind on the road. Strictly Popular Prices---35c and 50c |. Re-Investing Your Coupons vA ‘Messrs. Carl Mewhinney and M Logel spent ait in Linwood with friends. DISASTROUS FIRE THREATENS VILLAGE OF GLENALLEN One of the most disastrous fires in the history of Glenallen took place cleats 0 5 > =i a « ~~} about 6.39 a.m. when the generat = elle eideitolieiintetieh tie | tore and residence of Mr. A. EB. te BORN z Wolfe, formerly the business stand Ps ° + of the late A. B. te and —_ adtecte sakesfoate SestesTosfe Meter ware and residence of Mr. eecatnt. te cease ypc > Foell, formerly John Goodwin's “Wallace oa Briday, “Aor 16th stand, were totally destroyed.. The eae sURY, | ABE hI fire broke out in the store of Mr. 1926; to Mr. and Mrs. Emerson Salter, a daughter. OPFER—In’ Listowel, April 18th. 1926, to Mr. and Mre. Henry Opfer, twins (boy and girl). BENDER—In Toronto, on Sunday, fon Friday, Wolfe. from eome unknown origin. Mr. Wolfe and family had a very narrow escape as the entrance to the house was at the back of the store and when they discovered the fire, the stairwa@} was a raging furnace and they were forced to get down over the front verandah. They were able to get a small portion of_their clothing out but none of their furn- iture; including a player piano. Mh REMEMBER THE ‘PHONE You know all about it. You didn’t let the paper know it. You found fault because the paper didn’t have it. Hardly fair, When you have an item April 16th. 1926, to Mr. and Mrs. | { | remember the Banner. Gordon .C. Bender, a son; any quantity, bese quality of vege- table parchment. paper. Office. BUTTER PAPER Plain or printed butter wraps, in Former Listowel Resident Dead— The death of Elizabeth Robinson.) widow of the late*eJohn Hetheringe- ton, occurred last month at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Peter Duns- more, Giendale, Man: at the advance ed age of eighty-five. Mrs. ington was. born in township, Morniagton the West about ten years ago. =e viving tmembers°of the family - ndale, At Banner ia and was a resident of Lis- towel over forty yeara. She left for Wolfe was nearly overcome smoke in getting his accounts, which were in a McCaskey ey bogkkeeper. Mr Foell was.able to get all his hard- ware stock out, but he had no in- surance on his building as he had not moved in yet, as he had come from Hamilton a short time ago. The United Church was on fire twice but the residents of the town were able to save it. Mr. Charles Ward's’ house hed a very narrow escape and = so also had Mr. C.‘Foell’s house. If there had been a high wind it Is be- lieved the business section of the town would have been destroyed. > ala la Fale ci te itech KURTZVILER.. ¢ Sesfeelectecdefesfeebeeledeterbeteledeetede dodo: bob doe Mr. and Mrs. Biden. Ankerman land baby Glen, and . Mre, Charle Mehring, spent Sunday at the home of Mr. John Schaefer. ? Mts. Orth is .spending + > + * several -,; days this week ate Lhe home of her rt cane 4 Mrs. ‘Wright,-Fisk, Sask; Mr. Arthur| ©, Mr. Osea pig he Page Clan Wittiam, Man.; Mr, and aera? Alex McCabe spent and Mrs. “Tompkins, boundary;Sunday at >the home of Mr. Geo. west, Licibeal: Burial was made in | Riverside cemetery, Neepawa, Man. gt eee 28 * DORKING o + Mrs. Joseph MacTavish t sanday with nie paar Alling- #iten, Nora an Faust, 2nd. line Howick. Mr. and Mrs. Wilford Fisher and baby Marjorie, apent Sunday at the hame of Le Mrs. Schmidt, 2nd. line DS Etuwick, Mrs. Otto Minko and two chita-}™ d Roy, are on the sick list this week. We hope fore apeedy recovery. Mr.. James Leppard “ of slats) sper vig meet fox ae ne of a Brett a on eld Ah aud pupils last Sho RESENT your ; ee oe “they 2 l due and and id they will ~ be paid AN she Tie is to. de- : posit the proceedsin a Sav- ings Account until you have lated enough for r investment. : Listowel Branch THE CANADIAN BANK | OF COMMERCE Capital Paid Re $20,000,000 26 Reserve Fund $20,000,000 H. P. Wanzer, Manager Western Oats Standard Re-Cleaned Screenings good with - Unleaded. another car of Western Oats. These are exceptional, test- ing 45 lbs. tothe bushel. prices in quantities. Unloaded another carof those large percentage of wheat _ Qur stock of Bran, Shorts, Flour and other Feeds is complete at Reasonable Prices. L. PF EFFER | MILLING CO. » ‘pene Promptly acea ‘Busoeiatiy done. Special screenings. Show very a heavy flax sprinkling EERE EEEEE EEE EEE EOE TED WALLACE “ts debt eee bbe bbb} Mr. and Mrs. Arlando Pike and. Miss Myrtle and George Pike, 3rd.| pees also Mr. Stanley.Bridge and sis-! ter, Miss Mary of Palmerston, spent Selene at the agian of Mr. Clarence Vines, 3rd. lin Miss Elsie ee visited at the Some of her sister, Mrs. Roy Ronald, last week. Rev. L. H. Pletch left Tuesday to attend the annual Canada ance at Kitchener. : Mrs. John and Dan Walters have returned home after visiting in Kit- chener and Drayton. Mr. Allan’ Fallis,. of tage La Prairie, anda gdeares sath 1 teacher f S. S. No.’ 6, ut 33 years aco, tnes . and Mrs. es H. Pletch. 41+ » ¢/4 VANDRICE’S Gi | apres ie aid Confer-| * + ; on ES Pee deteseedebedepede bile ceopaqees | Tuesday, es ia 27th.—Por Mr. Jessie rary at North halver town line. Sale at one o'clock, Sc bills. oy ee LISTOWEL MARKETS (Carefully Revised Each Week) WR Ss ce Pe ee eri ‘ yt RAR es Pepto a Ty ee a Barley ae. ess Sees Re E65 tea cae ees Sass ve ee’ ee ee oe ea eee eee eee Mrs. Gordon Walter has returned Bran gage: tiene ian 34 hotme after a few weeks visit. with Butter 2.6. .s 205. +s te bee 46-30 ver mother at Carisruhe. BS ee esneree Vereen hee ee 24 ‘Messrs. Car} and Morgan sPletch. vane een ++ . . 20 at Kurtzville, spent Sunday with! Ucrens .-- ‘to 28