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Wednesday. Sept. 17. 1924 THE FLESHERTON ADVANCE HERE ARE A FEW BARGAINS TO MAKE YOUR VISIT TO THE FAIR PROFITABLE Genuine Columbia double-sided Rec- ord s. Clearing price 50c. each 'His Master's Voice' Victrola Large table size, in Fumed Oak with cab- inet to match. Regular $140 outfit Price to clear $100 Easy payments ar- ranged if desired. THE FLESHERTON ADVANCE W. H. THURSTON. Editor KDITORIAL NOTES Victrola No. 50 A Snap in Ladies' Wrist Watches I 5 jewel in white or green gold $10.50 Only a few of these at this price For the young girl. Here is a rtne wrist watch in plain nickel case with j^ood move- ment. Priced at $5.00 Men's 15 jewel, 12 size. Empress j,'okl-tilled dial $12. We guarantee all our watches Special Prices on Diamonds We have an excellent bargain to offer in all kinds of Diamond Rings. Priced from $10.00 up. Men's Cuff Links, white or green gold finish at 50c. Writing Pens and Pencils An excellent Fountain Pen with 14k. solid gold potn â€" for ladies to put (;n ribbons â€" at $1.50. We carry af ull line of the famous Wate'rman Foutain Pens, also VVahl's Eversharp Pencils in gold and silver finishes \. SPECIAL NOTE We are giving with every five dollars purchase a piece of Cut glass fromo ur regular stock. W. A. ARMSTRONG & SON V'ota right on the plebiscite. • * • * Canadian money has tome into its own aftain and the U. S. coin is be- low par. • • « • It is just about five weeks until the vote will be taken on the plebis- cite on the Ontario Temperance Act, the questions being given in another column of this paper. The ques- tions are very simple and anybody should be able to mark their ballot without in any way being confused by the wording. a • • • Here is another way of looking at the bobbed hair question : We have always been told that shaving makes the hair grow. When all the girls who have had their hair bobbed find that they are growing a forest of whiskers on their neck.where the bar- ber has used his fertilizing razor, there will either be a reaction or the victims will have to continue the bobbing more energetically than ever. When the daily neck shave becomes a necessity there will be some sorrow- ing Janes in this old Canada of ours. MARRIED i GRINYERâ€" BURKâ€" At St. Clem- en's church. North Toronto, on Wed- nesday, September 10th, 1924, by Rev Canon Fidler, Charlotte Buchan Burk, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Burk, Sheldrake Boulevard, to George Fred- ' erick Grinyer, jr. Get ready to show at the Flesher- ton Fall Fair, September 25-26. j Mr. Fred VoUans, an enthusiastic radio "fan" when asked the other day to explain wireless telegraphy said: "Well, if you had a long dog reaching from Orillia to Newmarket and you trod on its tail in Orillia, I it would bark in Newmarket. That it telegraphy, and wireless is just the same only without the dog." â€" Orillia Packet. JfELP WANTET j Experit'iKed trustworthy man to take charge of farm with free house, I wood, cow arwl garden in summer. 1 , mile from Flesfeerton Station. Apply ; at once. â€" J. F. Collinson, Ceylon; [ phone FleshertoRi 21 r 14. Flesherton Fall Fair THURSDAY AND FRIDAY September 25-6 $1400 ii\J>fizcs THURSDAYâ€" OPENING DAY AH exhibits for main building to be placed by 11 o'clock, consisting of DsiTy Products, Fniit and Vegetables, Grain a nd Seeds, Flowers and Plants, Lacfies* Work and Fine Arts. FRIDAYâ€" SHOW DAY A great exhibit of live stock, consisting of Horses, Cattle, Sheep and Swine and Poultry will be on the grounds. Judging at 1.30 p-m. HORSE RACES FRL, SEPT. 26 at 130 2.20 Trot or Pace, purse $150 2.30 Trot or Pace, purse $125 mile heats best 3 in 5 mile heats, best 3 in 5 No entry fee. but 5 per cent, of Purse will be deducted from winners, money div- ided 50,'25, 15 and 10 per cent. The Committee reserve the right to call off on account of bad weather or other unavoidable causes. C. T. A. rules to. govern. School Children's Parade at 1 o'clock from Main Street. All Public School children in parade admitted free. ADMISSION TO GROUNDS 35c. CHILDREN 15c.: AUTOS and VEHICLES 15c. Grand Concert On Friday evening September 26 in the High School by the old favorite Jimmie Fax & Co. Miss Pearl Newton and Miss Mamie Mason. This will be the best concert of the season. Come ear'y, and come prepared to laugh. Get yc^ilr reserve seat tickets early and don't be di»appointed. On sale at Richard- i^n's Drug Store. admission .«io«.. res. seats fior. Write the Secretary for a Prize List. J. T. SLED, Pres. W. A HAWKEN, Sec.-Treas. CROPS NOT AS BAD AS^PAINTED Wald«ck, Sask., Sept. 10. Editor .-Vdvance, â€" As a reader of your valuable paper I have taken great interest in Mr. E. LeGard's two letters of Aug. 13 and Sept. 3rd. In Mr. LeGard's letter of Aug. 13 he states that there are Inspectors goiiig around the country and sending in false reports. He makes this a lit- tle- clearer in his letter of Sept. 3rd when he says they represent order houses anJ railways. I do not know what he n.eans by order houses, but I do know that the railways do not send men around the country in run- abouts to collect false crop reports. The railways do, however, compile week'y crop reports which are as nearly accurate as it is possible to obtain. These reports are made up from reports sent in by local agents of the various railway companies, am! are frequently published by the pa::ers. These men would have no object in supplying false informa- tion. Apart from this these reports h:.ve very little bearing upon the price paid the farmer for his wheat. I; is true that adverse reports might affect or be the cause of a raise in the price of wheat for a short time, but it would mainly aflfect the trad- ing in futures on the market. The price paid for the wheat when it is being marketed is set almost solely upon the amount of wheat being put upon the market. This is the best guide to crop conditions. During the month of July while on my vacation I travelled over one thousand miles by motor car in south- ern Saskatchewan. That is, from the main line of the C.P.R. south. In about 30 per cent, of the places vis- ited I found the crops were well above average. About 50 per cent, have an average crop, the balance have below average, and in some places very little crop. Swift Current and Assiniboia are two of the places mentioned by Mr. LeGard as having no crop. I live ten miles from Swift Current and I know that in the district tributary to this place they have a fair crop. Mr. LeGard says from 50 to 75 per cent damage by hafl in Assiniboia. It is possible that some farmers in that district suffered a loss to that ex- tetit, but not. the entire district. I wcrald estimate that one million bush- el* of wheat will be marketed there thisf year. One feature of western farming whicti is brought out very clearly this year is that poor farming does not pay here, nor is it profitable in any place that I know^ of. Mr. Le- GardV letter of Aug. 13th will bear me out in ihis. I ([uote from his letter; "The only grain left is sum- merfullow that was plowed early in ly2H and well worked that has held its Dwn fairly well." This is good farming. Again from his letter of the 'â- aric dnte: "Late and poor siim- nierfai'ow :mil stubble will only aver- are fvori 5 tn 'A bushels per acre. Part of th'-! I would blame to poor farming. I'ubble wheat, as I under- stand it, means wheat sown on land which grew wheat the preceding year or possibly more. This land is top cultivated and again sown to w'.ieat. Fair retu.'ns are sometimes obt lined from firs' year stubble, but second I year stul ble crop came into dis "avor I with the successful farmer many years ago. Stubble farming is in my opinion o;ily a gamble, and only in fa- vorable years is it profitable. This method of growing wheat is not used j in any o? the other wheat growing ( countries, and only in western Cana- da could any crops be expected from this method. In some districts which I visiter!, and in which there was supposed to be a total crop failure, fields of wheat could be found that would yield 25 bushels per acre. This was on suni- merfallow that had been well worked Take Mr. LeGard's own case, 200 ac- re* of stubble and 50 acres of sum- merfallow. In the right proportion he should have 125 acres good sum- merf allow and say 125 acres of first year stubble. If this had been the case possibly Mr. LeGard would not feel so sore on Saskatchewan. You are never safe with all your eggs in one basket. It is only too true that Northern Saskatchewan has a light crop this year, and Mr. LeGard may be unfor- tunate to be in one of the districts hardest hit. However I do not like to see the entire province, or even the northern part, knocked as he has done and I cannot believe conditions are as bad as painted. I might say that I get first hand information on condi- tions in districts which I have not vis- ited personally, from Wilbe't Chard, who is district sales manager for a Winnipeg commercial house and who covers the province of Saskatchewan. I sec him at least once a month. I hope Mr. LeGnrd will not take of- fence at anything I have said in this letter. While I am not a farmer, I have good knowledge? of the condi- tions they are up against and know that it has been proven time and time again that they are not insurmount- able if the right spirit is shown and the right nnethods used. Yours Very Truly, GEO. CHARD. FALL FAIR DATES FEVERSHAM Sept. 30 and Oct. 1 PRICEVILLE Oct. 2 and 3 Dundalk Oct. 1 and 2 CoUingwood Sept. 22 to 25 Clarksburg Sept. 22 and 23 Durham Sept. 30, Oct. 1 FLESHERTON Sept. 25 and 26 Grand Valley Oct. 2 and 3 HoUtein ,, -.... Sept. 24 Markdalc _.. .V. Oct. 7 and 8 Meaford „..'. Sept. 17 to 19 Chatswort h Oct. 9 and 10 Kincardine Sept. 18 and 19 Alliston Oct. 2 and 3 Arthur Sept. 23 and 24 Chesley Sept. 25 and 26 Brampton Sept. 19 and 20 OSPREY COUNCIL Osprey Council met on Saturday, Sept. 6, in the Orange Hall, Max- well. All the members were present. Minutes of the previous meeting were read and adopted and business disposed of as follows: By-law 743, to provide for drain- age work in the township, and for borrowing on the credit of the Cor- poration the sum of $2371.00 for completing the same, was given a first and second reading and laid over until revised by the Court of Revision for that purpose. By-law 744 was passed, providing for the collection of the 1924 rates, and appointing the Bank of Toronto, Feversham, and the Union Bank, Dundalk, as the two places at which taxes will be received. The order was passed for payment of the pay sheets covering the work on roads during 1924. The following accounts were paid: â€" John Robert- son, gravel, $6.50; W. Sctitt, gravel, 111.70; Thos. Grummet, tile, $33.75; C. Heron, stamps, 50c; Lorenza Ad- air, care of Andrew Ross, $21; Wm. Priddel, wire fence bonus, $8.18; G. Long, making office furniture, $80; Henry Heron, winter road through field, $6; Bank of Toronto, excise stamiis, $2.88; W. L. Taylor, letting contra«t for completion of drain No. 1, $3; James Long, gravel, $14.40; E. N. Taylor, gravel, $5.80; Jacob Lougheed, sheep injured by dogs, ' $4; Wm. Hendry, .gravel, $1.10; Jas. Sayres, gravel, $105; T. H. Mether- ! all, grading and gravelling on 40th . sideroad, $87.00; Geo. Foster, wire fence bonas, $2.59; James Sayres, â-  cutting bush on townline, $5; W. J. . McCutcheon, gravel, $5.50; John Gil- ' lies, work on townline, S42.00; Dan Gillies, wire fence bonus, $1.64; H. \V. Kernahan, publishing bylaws and sending notices regarding drain No. 5, $17.00; John Lockhart, letting con- tract on Drain No. 1, $3; H. W. Kern- I ahan, do., $3. i Council than adjourned to meet as a Court of Revision on Drain No. ri, at Maxwell, on Sept. 27th, and in the next regular session at Fevcrsham on Oct. nth. H. W. KERNAHAN. Clerk. L. O. L. MEETING FRIDAY Flesherton L. 0. L. 2855 will hold its regular meeting on Friday even- ing of this week. All members are requested to attend. FARMS FOR SALE OR LEASE IN TOWNSHIP OF OSPREY South half of Lot 16 and Lot 17, ! Con. 13, containing 150 acres, of which 115 acres are under cultiva- | tion, 20 acres in hardwood bush, 5 acres swamp and the balance pasture. â-  The soil is gravelly loam, slightly rolling. The buildings on the farm ' consist of one and a half story frame house and bank barn. There are 60 apple trees on the farm and the farm is watered by well and spring. Lot IS, Con. 13, and Lot 19. Con. ' 12, containing 200 acres, of which 130 , acres are under cultivation, 50 acres ' in hard and soft wood bush, and the balance pasture. The soil clay and gravelly loam, 10 acres hilly and the balance slightly rolling. The bluild- ! ings consist of a one and a half story frame house, bank barn and shed. There are also a number of apple trees and the farm i^ watered by well and pond. For full particulars apply to TO- RONT GERNEAL TRUSTS CORPO- RATION, Toronto. s The Markets Wheat, new 1.16 Oats 48 - 60 Barley 76 Buckwheat 1.05 Bran 1.55 Shorts 1.66 Chop 2.00 Butter, dairy 26 - 30 Eggs SO Sugar „ P. 40 Flour 3.60 - 4.26 COME PREPARED FOR A GOOD TIME Great Northern Fair AT CoU- ing- wood SEPTEMBER 22-23-24-25 RACES MIDWAY Farm and Industrial Exhibits (All spaces taken) Two Bands. Good Music. Live Stock Entries Exceed All former Shows ADMISSION Car8 35c. Adults 35c. Children . . . I5c. Get out the Fivver and Bring the Family for a real Holiday 5 » I