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.‘\L‘L’tli'tiing to the chairman of the I I'nitml States Shippingr Board, .-\mâ€"- «I» eriean rewital amounting to thirty i . ' million tillilal‘s‘ is interested in a When John Wannamaker, the Prince of newlyforniml company that intends ' to engage in the transatlantic pas.â€" senger trade. According to Mr. Las- ker‘s statement the company is manning to build several ships of f seventy thousand tons each, which are to be driven‘by electricity in- . . . ess, small as. a A . f _ . _ p it was, the light of pub11c1ty, and the pub- “ead 0‘ 5‘93“”: ““3 MaJeS“°-â€"~'“°“’ 11c of. Philadelphia entered the shop on the largest. ship afloat, has a ton- » hi ch the li ht Sh nage of only fifty-six thousand. It ' W g one. . appears, however, that the building ' In this community the publi C i . . . s entering of these monster ships depends on - . the passing of the ship subsidy bill those shopson which the light of adver- â€"-which may or may not happen. tISIHg IS falhng. ‘ Meanwhile the Shipping Board, or rather the Emergency Fleet Gorpor- ' ' . A WORD TO THE PUBLIC 3:33:11 ”3:0 $031123;ng ‘i‘hea 5231;111:53- . Be sure of this : those Who are using our eminent built during the War. They cqlumns week after Wieek d0 nOt glv? y 011 - cost about one hundred and" my . poorer goods or- servme, or have higher . ‘ "million dollars. and they sold for prices. , .. . ~...; Seven hundred and fifty mom“ . .o Shops which are illumined by advertising a , ollars! Even that was conSIderably \ - . - . . more than, the best price that was . . court. With full confidence your favor. A, . sacred last spring when the Fleet 1 - ' ’ corporation triadic .sell them. " ' ‘ _ ‘eThe Probable world we '91. M ' . , ‘ . ‘ '. .' 4 f A‘.’ ‘ ‘ o T m ~ ‘ fl. ‘ .- ' J ‘ a . .,- .r‘ v‘ ' .- ., , ‘. A . o > - ,1 -_n . -'. A ‘_ .. i v,‘_ r-' ~ ,. ' ' u ' . The' grand jury in Williamson County. Illinois, has indicted some forty men for taking part. in the coal mine murders at Herrin. Some of the men are under arrest; others get away from the town Define the grand jury finished its sitting. Judge Hartwell made an excellent address to the jury and impressed on them‘ the importance of seeing that, justice1 is done. The indicted men .are shortly to be hI‘nght- to trial. -- » ----A V the practice and defined the word as meaning "an article well plated on a base metal of nickel silver of not less than ten per cent. nickel content.” The manufacturers agreed to abide by that definition in their business. vvwv ed hollow ware. A recent confer- once of manufacturers condemned "Shefl'ield Plate" was originally a sheet. of copper 0 which a sheet of plate was fused on each side, and took its name from the English town where it was made. Electroplating having superseded the fusing pro- cess. the trade used the term reck- lessly. even applying it to thin-nnaf_ June '1. the Wenalchee Valley in Washington shipped sixteen thou- sand rarloads of apples. or one apple for almost every inhabitant in the world. It is reckoned that the yield this year will be one-tenth less. The prosperity of the Wenatchee apple district under its syetem of co-Operâ€" ative effort should be an example to other communities that are adapted by soil and climate to produce a spe- cial crep. voilm! 102 miles, which is considered as :vmarkable. for the day was rainy. Most. of the balloons travel- led about twenty-five miles. A department store in Antwerp recently conducted a race of toy bal- looms as an advertisement. On a given day some four thousand en- trants let lcmse toy balloons each Of which carried a post card with the request that whoever found it should return it. The winning balloon tra- A Chicago civil engineer proposes a system of subways under the side- walks instead of under the city streets. He says that is possible to construct a good subway system of that kind at less than half the depth of the ordinary underground railway, and at a tenth of the cost. I There were ten and a half million motor vehicles in the United States in 1921, an average of one automo- bile for every ten.inhabitants, or one car for every two families. The rations range from one car for every five inhabitants in California to one for every twenty-eight in Alabama. 1 During the year that. closed on I." 5 ~‘ ‘ ”9. ’5 j :1 . " 3'2; "337" m" When a man buys an automibile in Japan he bargains for his car as we in this country dicker for a piece of real estate. The asking price is generally $500 higher than the sell- ing price; automobiles that sell for $1,300 in the United States bring about $2,500 there. FACT AND, COMMENT ASK Your More than 50 Million Packets I! SALAI A" 11m. October as, 1922. r0 Sold Annually. _ grocer for a packet to-doy. DELICIOUS The Hoactzin of British Guiana is one of the most remarkable birds in the world. Almost as soon as it is hatched the young hoactzin crawls out Of the nest by using its wings as foret'eet. The “thumb” and “forc- tinger” of the wings have clay *s with which the young bird climbs about‘ the branches. As soon as the wings grew strong enough to support the bird in the air the claws disappear. The New York Zoological Park has just got the first specimens ever to be held in captivity. The League of Nations has been in session again at Geneva. The meet- ing did not produce much that was interesting to the general public, but the newspapers reported that there was a strong feeling among the delegates that the League ought to consider taking the European sit- uation out of the hands of the Allied ' premiers, who seem unable to come to any practical agreement about either Germany, Russia, the Near East or the relations between Italy and the Southern Slavs. An attempt to do that would offer an excellent Opportunity to test the actual strength of the League. ’made by he United States depart- 'ment of agriculture, will be about 3,019,526,000 bushelsâ€"forty million bushels less than the crOp was last year. Europe outside Russia is rais- ing much less than last year, North America somewhat more, and Japan and India considerably more. The United States and Canada raise more than a third of the entire crop. l On Tuesday evening many other friends and well-wishers gathered at Riverside Farm and after a pleasâ€" ant evening spent in games. contests and music. Messrs. Bert. Henderson and Robert Watson presented Mr. and Mrs. Oldfield with two beautiful .Jalgianese Feagrass chairs, a silver bake-dish and pyrex pie plate on behalf of the Methodist Church and friends. On Monday eV ening ReV. Mr. Rose acted as chairman and aftex a few kinle expiessions of goodwill and appreciation. the presentation of a beautiful quarter- cut oak china cab- inet W as made bV Messrs McMuxchv. Tom Aldcorn and Urquhart McCosh on behalf of the Presbyterian Church: Mrs. Oldfield was formerly Miss Janet E. Livingstone of Markdale, who for the last year was teacher of Corbetton school, where she made many warm friends. ADDRESS AND PRESENTATION The home of Mr. and Mrs. Colwell Oldfield, Corbetton, wasthe scene of two \erv pleasant social events on Monday and Tuesday evenings, when their friends gathered at their home to show in a very tangible vs ay their good wishes to Mr. and Mrs. Oldfield. v â€" â€" _ v--. 15“. The Supreme Court of Ohio has was elected when the salary was ordered the Secretary of State to put $1,400 and the fact that the gabfest on the ballot for the election of No- towards the end 01' the session of vember 7 a referendum whether or 1922 lengthened it, that did not make not the'state constitution shall be any. change in principle that the ,so amended as to permit the manu- ”3‘31” sessionlal indemnity was all ’facture and sale or beer and the he could rightfully claim. Leeson lighter Wines. Legal representaâ€" tries to ease his conscience by trying tives of the Anti-Saloon League have t to bribe hlS constituents with a gift appealed to the Supreme Court of from the Provincial treasury, but the United States to prevent the ref- Normanby Council spurned histaint- erendum on' the grounds that the ed. money. Bentinck has 50 many proposed change in the state con- bridges to build this year that the stitution would violate the Consti- COMIC“ accepted the $54, $0 did all tution Of the United States. the other municipalities. It has been i955? , The United States still owns one railway that it took over during the war, The road has twelve miles of track along the waterfront of Ho- boken, New Jersey, and with an op- erating equipment of three steam locomotives and him electric en- gines hauls the freight cars of other roads to and from the steamship; piers. The road recently declared a‘ cash dividend of 62% per cent. on its capital stock of four hundred thousand dollars. The government has held it to prevent it from falling into the hands of speculators, but has reached a tentative decision to sell it to the Port of New York Au- thority. coal and with means to keep stock even at all seasons, mining would be stabilized, coal would be cheaper, and there would be less disruptive competition for labor. "‘"'w““._ w " ' “ll. -~ ku‘a, ”UV _ N ormanby Council spurned histaint- , ed money. Bentinck has so many: : bridges to build this year that the . Council accepted the $54, so did all the other municipalities. It has been said that corporations, meaning big financial institutions, of course, have : clock which, in one man strikes a- loud and gives warning; in another the hand points silently tothe fig- ure, but strikes not. One man’s clock of the 111 members of the Ontario Legislature struck, but with the other 110 the hands just pointed to the figure 600 and the looters of the treasury never heard the tick-tock ,ot’ the pendulum, but they’ll hear a noise about one year hence on the ' hustings that will sound like an ; earthquake. That clock struck too .' late. so far as Leeson is concerned, 1 and the others never heard it go off 1 at all. The looters of the treasury ‘ will soon see the handwriting on the 5 wall as plainly as Belshazzar did, 1 and they will not have to call in I anybody to interpret the handwrit- 3 ing either. ‘ 5f+++$+++++++++++++ Our Stock of HOSIERY, GLOVES and see.the.latest in tweeds Toronto W111 be here to t - t_ . v--v- w WWUOUU he got as a bonus at the end of the last session. Three members of the Council claimed that the money was not, theirs and they could not in. all good conscience aCcept it. That’s striking a high moral attitude and places Normanby in an unique po- sition. in the riding. Of course, the money didn’t belong to Leeson. He was elected when the salary was $1,400 and the fact that the gabfest towards the end of the session of 1922 lengthened it, that did not make any change in principle that the regular sessiontal indemnity was all he could rightfully claim. Leeson tries to ease his conscience by trying 4“ Lulu-Irxn LzA ‘ l (Chesley Enterprise.) \By resolution Normanby Council returned to George M. LeeSon., M.P. P., the $54.00 he donated as that Township’s share of the extra $600.00 1‘_ L-‘ , 1 NORMANBY COUNCIL RETURNS TAINTED MONEY it has reached a point of proficiency that places it far in the van. 'The publishers promise even greater value in 1923. It is already the greatest value on this continent and no home can well‘ afford to he with- out it. ~ ' If in need of a SWEATER comé in and try on Our Real Class For HATS and CAPS We $1.;fo Say! If You L934 EVERY SUIT GUARANTEED ___v .. v In! V ‘7 V‘ “11” [as a light cannot be excelled. We 'ays been well satisfied with the service. We are delighted to know there is a prospect of a. reduction and we be- ' lieve the meetings of representatives a splendid service to Ontario, but they are the public’s servants, not their masters, and the press of this tion of arrears for annual adjust- ments, it was time for municipal stock-taking, We believe Sir Adam Beck is wrong on his hydro radial policy because his lines would com- pete with our publicly-owned rail- ways, besides we are spending large sums annually for highways to com- pete in the spring, summer and fall months with our railway lines. Nevertheless. we believe Sir Adam Beck to be the right. man to be the , and as a surplus is expected this year, the debt will be wiped out, it is expect- farmers’ buildings near town, the. J present plant stands us about 830,000. ‘ The hydro is a desirable power and 1 .AA A 1-.- '3 , V? 1.55, rm; Gentlemanâ€"He‘s a Parseeâ€"an In- dian. you knowâ€"a sun-worshipper. Sandwichmanâ€"W 01‘ships the sun, do ,‘e sir? I suppose 'e‘s come ’ere to ‘ave a rest! In Darkest London. (The Passing Show, L011d:an,;. Sandwichman (on wet “Slimmer" day)-â€"W0t kind of bloke is that. mister? head of the Hydro COH'lIlllSSlOfl for he is incorruptible and his great aim in life is to make a success of devel- oping the wonderful water powers of this province. We believe the people 'of Paisley would be making a great mistake in constructing a dam and. lines of their own at a cost of $50,000 to $60,000, when they could hitch up to the great Provincial Hy- dro’ system. The agitation to gee their own power has come through the delay in the extension 01‘ the hydro from Chesley to Paisley. head of OJ Elamilton Spectg. Now I have no regular unless I n my feet from late at night. 1 L11 my own work I have recom- Pinkham'é