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^«pp (TEnNESDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1M4 THE FI.KSHERTON ADVANCE f A^^« If «^^i'^<^lWM^''^^>V>. Furniture Sale Two Full Weeks of Bargainsâ€" Feb. 7-14 On February 15th our prices must advajnce, as manufacturers' prices have already gone up. Compare our prices. Don't delay ! Buy now before our stock is sold out! 1 1 only Solid Walnut DINING TABLE rc^^ i?35. 00 Sale $20 1 r.i.ch WALNUT DRESSER Lar^o size inindr rvix. $21.50 Sale $16 P.irch WALNUT DRESSER 32 in. twp. rc-o-. S14.50 Sal^ $11.50 See (his dandy BREAKFAST SUITE HI p:rc(.'n and cream cnaiiiel. buffet, exten.sion t;ible and 4 chair.s, reja:. $39.50 Sale $31.50 BEDDING 1 only Burl WaTnut Bed 4 ft. f>in., re},-. $27, Sale $17 1 Didy Steel Bed, 4 ft. 6 in reg-. $15, Sale $10 Otlier beds from $6 and up Springs â€" $4.50 to $12 MATTRESSES .Marshall, 1 (inl\- 4 ft. ''iin. rej4-. $28, Sale $22.50 Marshall. 1 only 4 ft. 6 in. reg. $13.75. Sale $11.50 2 odly reg. $20. \'erv Special $14,75 Congoleum RUGS 3 only 9x12, reg. $10.50 Sale $8.75 Oilier sizes at reduced price Congoleum MATS 27.x 54, reg. 55c Sale 30c each REXOLEUM MATS 27\ 54, reg. J9c Sale 15c LINOLEUM 1 end piece of 4 yds. wide, reg. $3.(')0 Sale $2.95 per yd. LAMPS 33'/i% discount off all the lamps in stock We have a real good assortment of used furniture for sale including : exten- sion tables, side board, dressers, beds, sewing machine (White), console vic- trolp, victrola records 1 So each or 2 for 25c., kitchen chairs, drop leaf table, and many other articles at ridiculously low prices. Phone 78 Emerson J. Bennett Modern Funeral Services At Reasonable Prices We Deliver THE FLESKERTON ADVANCE i Poblisked on CoUin^wood street, i Flesherton, Wednesday of each ! week. Circulation over 1000, ! Price in Canada $2.00 per year, I when paid in advance $1.50. In i U. S. A. $2.50 per year, when paid in advance $2.00. W. H. TIIL'KSTON, . - Editor F. J. THURSTON. - Assoc. Editor , A DOUBTING THO.MA.S The Advance has boon wondering if all we see published in the news- papers can really be true? The editor of the Toronto Star i.s evidently a doubting Thomas, judging: by the following editorial paragraph from its issue of Monday: "Raven.s arc said to have "hovered like vultures" over three men who were caught in the storm near Great Boar Lake. As a rule ravens avoid human beings, and for that reason are seldom seen in the settled parts at Ontario where they were once .common." These three men were three weeks ci-o.-ising this great ice-covered bo<ly of water and are said to have sub- sisted largely on stewed rabbits! What breed of rabbits could this be? In this country the rabbit is a deniz- en of dense forests. The Star is quite justified in raising the question of veracity in this harrowing narra- tive of adventure among the rabbits of Great Bear I.akc. The onerousness of the sugar price iii Canada, compared with that in the United States, is shown by the fact that grocers in the United States art celling ten pounds for 47 cents, where- as the Canadian house is assessed 61 L-ents for the same quantity. EDITORIAL NOTES Wm. MdDonald, proprietor and editor of the Chosley Enterprise sufflered a paralytic strokie while playing checkers in his office on Sat- urday evening last. His condition is said to be critical. Should he be permanently disabled it would be a distinct loss to Bruce County Journal- ism. Grey County Notes Thf AVav.anesa Mutual Insurance Co. has moved its offices ami staff from Owen Sound to Toronto. Karmers between Owen Sound and Chatsworth are complaining tliat too much snow has been taken off the road liy the plows, niakiinf travel for s!eigh.« difficult. GETTING AFT!;i{ SHEEP KILLERS The slaying of sheep by marauding dogs continue to disturb the farmin<.: community, and calls have gone fn-ih in nearby counties for drastic action to abate the expensive nui.vance. The iatcst action h.is Uvn taken by the Wellington County Game and P'ish l>rotective Asscriation, the 500 mem- bers of which have offered to co-oper- aHe with all farmers to put nn end to the activities of the slaughterers. It in recoirnixed that there are many wel]-l>ehavrd dogs in town and country biit it is clear also that ill-disciplined • •â- â-  vagrant curs, without even partial restraint, are too often permitted to roam at large and menace valuahK- pheep flocks. A drive to combat raiilers would seem much more neces- â- ary than wholesale gunning aftrt unwelcome birds. S.iiawak township an<l the town of Orniieoville were loft off the revised (lection law when the changes were made last year. This error has now been correited and the citizens will f.ow h;ive a cnance to vote at the next Dominion election. Joseph Ess«x of Osprey township (Hcd last week four days after he had atta'ned his OUrd birthday. Ho is survived by four sons and two daugh- tt:s. Owen .Sound fire brigade has had a busy lime this year, an average ot one call a <lay being received, but none of the alarms were of a serious nature. OFF WITH THE .SUGAR TAX .A range in the home of Mrs. J. A. I'owland of Durham exploded last week without warning, when the wat- er in the intake pipe beneath tho floor had frozen. Mrs. Rowland o.scapcd from being injured by the flyir.g debris. The Owen Sound band committee reports a successful year, under the leadership of J. A. Cowie. S. I). Dick of Collingwood. reteran shipbuilder ha« celebrated hii 90th birthday. A bi|r deficit will have to be pro- vide<i for in the Canadian Budget this year, at in recent years of depression. But we are all hoping that timn will •oon show decided improvement, and that we may be able to return to an era of lowered taxation â€" especially ot the necesniti^K of life. One of the first taxes to goâ€" imposed for the first time last year â€" is the tax on Ruga^ Two cents a pound is alto- gether too high to collect on an aiticle of universal consumtitio-i. and it presses ton scv.'.ely on those least •ble to bear it â€" the common peop'j Mr. Geo. T. Stoddart of Calfary, Alta., formerly of Ifarkdale, died recently at th« ar« of M yaars. Tkree sisters and two brothers aurvive: Wm and Wesley and Mrs. Wm. Levi of Markdale, iMrt. Jas. Goodwill of Glen- clg and Mrs. Geo. Goodwill of To ronto. Three carloads of horses were rec- ently shipped from Tnra station. The weigh .scales at Hnnover. muni- cipally owned, showed earninirs foi last year of f287.()0. Grey Musical Festival The first Musical Festival of Grey County was held in Moaford on June 6th, 1933, and it proved to be a very enjoyable and successful affair and it reflected great credit on the music teachers of the different centres taking part and on others who gave time and money to make the event a euccess. Much credit is due to Mr. T. Stewart Cooper, Agricultural Representative in Grey County, for his untiring efforts in promoting musical etiucation in this district and for his inspiring leadership. Plans have now been completed for the holding of the Second Annual Musical Festival to be held in Meaford, June 5lh. 6th, 7th. The Syllabus which is now ready and which will be .sent out in due time comprises two divisions: â€" Part I and Part II. In Part I, all events are open to competitors from the counties, Bruce, Dufferin, Grey, Sini- coe and Wellington. In these coun- ties, centres of 20,000 population or over are excluded. The Executive is planning for a '>ig event and expects to handle all details with smoothness and precis- ion. Much thought has been given to the selection of the test pieces and it is hoped that the .Syllabu.s will give ueneral satisfaction throughout the counties and that it will be a means >if advancing musical education in this pari of the pi-ovince. Yours for success, David Warner-Smith, President. Selkirk A. Morrison. Sec'y.-Treas. Grey County Musical Festival. INTEREST RATES (Country Gui<le) F.ven a casual survey of federal and provincial finances and more especial- ly in the four western provinces indi- cates the chief problem to be the cru.-^liing burdvn of interest on the rublic debt. It is very doubtful if all tlu'.oc del)ls can ever l>e paid in full, and the high interest rates render the possibility of final principal payment nven more dubious. The way to avoid repudiation is to reduce the interest rates on public debts and at the same time adjust the national sacrifice more •venly. ALFALFA TARIFF REDrCTION LIKELY FOR UNITED .STATES The Departuieat is advised that in order that quantities of Turkestan alfalfa May bo brought in from Sussia, the Uaited States Tariff Board has b«ien considerinr reducing the tariff on olfalfa seed from eight cents to four cents a pound. It is further reported that this type of alfalfa resists wilt which affe.'ts home-grown seed in certain states. Th: larger p.lfalfa growers' organi- /r.lions are sti-enuously attempting to ).revent such a move, claiming that the United States grows sufficient alfalfa for her own needs. Oa Parilameot Hill With AGNES C. MACPHAIL, M.P, So much has happened since I last wrote that we will never be able to catch up in one article. I am just brimming with thing's to say to you, which is almost as bad a plight as having too little to say. After my visit to Halifax last November, I planned to tell you some of the inter- ostiag things about that splendid old Province of Nova Scotia, but my ill- ness prevented. For some yearn the students ot Maritime Universities have been con- ducting a model assembly of the League of Nations Society at which the different students represented the member nations of the League and argued from that position. This year they departed from that prac- tice and while keeping the form of the assembly, discussed subjects of vital interest to Canadian students, .-.uch as, the N. R. A. and its affect on Canada; recent changes in the British Commonwealth in trade, out- look, etc. They very kindly asked me to address one of the plenary i;essions. I also sat, in at some of the committees and I thought the students a keen lot. The following night I addressed a large meeting in the city of Halifax and to my surpri.se found a ready ac- ceptance for my views on banking and financial reform, or possibly 1 had better be careful and say a ready sympathy. Nova Scotia has been weathering heavy seas in the 67 years since Confederation. The fiscal pol- icy of Canada has been detrimental to the trade of Nova Scotia. She has the advantage of open harbors all the year around, making foreign trade easy, if it were by law allowed. The greater manufacturing concerns ott central Canada have injured materially the smaller factories of Nova Scotia and with a lessening of their indus- trial population, it has been more difficult to find markets for agricul- tural product.s at home. According to the Superintendent of Educ.^tio^, who sat by me at a faculty luncheon, fanners in Nova Scotia come closer to being self-sufficient than in any other part of Canada. No inhabited part of the province is more than twenty-five miles from the sea and for the most part not farther from a deposit of coal. This makes it easy 'or the farmer to provide himself an& family with food and ,fuel, but it leaves him in just as difficult a posi- tion in regard to debt and luxuries as the farmer of any other part of Canada. The whole water-front in tho port of Halifax, and indeed much of the city, has been rebuilt since the terrif i; oxplosion of a British boat in the 1. arbor during the war. At that ime 1,700 people were killed and 10,- XO injured. I could scarcely believe ii when the Mayor of that day gave •ne the figures. "It was," he slid, 'the greatest civilian disaster d.:"!ng those awful four years of slaughter." It was on the way home from Hali- fax that I admitted to myself tnal i was seriously ill. I consulted a specialist in Montreal and reall" in- tended to go back to Montrea' for the operation, which he told m»; was necessary, but after getting home 1 felt I wanted to stay near there and lo be with people wiiom I had long known. Emerson w.»s right when he <.ii'n\. "Everything Ksr its compensa- tions." At any v:i!e, an ope otion has. After the fi'vt four days ot intense suffering w.-re over, 1 .xper- lenced a feeling of such grea^ joy tial it could, I think, be called exal- tation. In my li'llc room in the Markdale hospital I lay and witched I tl.e snow softly fallir.i: and was glad ] .;lad to be alive. For the fir.;t time in a long long while 1 bad no respon- .ibd'.ties, no ambition and no worry. I couldn't read, I did \'t even war.' to, :,v.ug was enough. Then, tc^ an '.Iness reveals the sn'&t kindnes" of Sviiinn beings and ca.'ses one to know attain, that undi'vn^ath tba prejudices >>i<i little meannesses which wc all have tbero u a great well of good- wiil, which in th« dark days wid nu*. fitil us. Last, but certainly not least, there is the skill and devotion of ti^vtors and nui-ses which we possib'y too often take for granted. Tjkinjt It all in all 1 can say that th-i last weeks spent in the Markdale hosj>itaJ are among the happiest of my life. TTie weatherman put on a special show for me the morning I arrived in Ottawa, 3& below zero and a bril- liant sun. Parliari'.ent Hill was a sight, with the white nnow piled high on the many drives leading in to the beautiful Gothic structure carried out in gray stone powdered with white snow with a cold and brilliant sun over all. The session is getting under way. I didn't hear, but I dutifully read, the four hour speeches made by the Prime Minister and the Leader of the Opposition. When I finished reading the speech of the Rt. Hon. Mackenzie King I was convinced that there was nothing right with the Government; and when I finished with the speech of the Prime Minister I was convinced there was nothing rig'ht with the Op- position. It would be a tragedy for Canada should both the honorable gentlemen be correct in his estima- tion of the party of the other. If inythin-; I thought the Prime Minister had the edge on the Leader of the Op- position. A cartoon in the Toronto Daily Star of February 7th expresses my opinion exactly, it is called "Pillow Cases" and shows Mr. Bennett and Mr. King boxing with huge gloves on, labelled "Four Hours and Twenty- five Minutes" in one case and "Foui Hours and Twenty-three Minutes" if. the other and underneath "They fight hard enough, but the gloves are too big to be effective." Two resolutions of great interest have been debated, the first asking for the Government to assume full responsibility for credit and finance to be controlled in the interest of the people and under the jurisdiction of the Federal Parliament. And the other that a large scale program ot public works be inaugurated to be fin- anced, not by borrowed money, but by a diveet taeu« of BOS-kitoN*! frm mg aotes. I will gn» a rvviow •! these debates iMzt week. Saturday. Feb. 10. I»t4. Ice 19 Inches Thick The harvest of ice at MoCauky's pond still continues. Only half of the amount required has been cut Jky Mr. Fred Mathewsom and hi* belpot and work i« still proceeding. Two or three inches were added to Vkt thickness of the ic« by the recent oold weather and the blocks stored on Monday were slig-htly over 19 inckoi in thickness, and this year it onjoya a record. WE KNOW, WE TRIED THAT ONCE There isn't a newspapermam in the country who would not live longer ani be happier if he could do a strictly cash business with those who patronize him. But only the big city papers would dare to cut your name off their mailing lists when your subscriptioa expired. They can do that and it is quite all right. Out here in the country where Bill knows Jack and lack calls Jim by his first name, wt do things a bit differently. We know one another personally and we sooa learn who to trust. If we were to cut your name off our subscription !i.5t just because you might allow your subscription to expire in a few weeks, many of you would not like it. And about the first thing you would say to us would be, "So you can't truat me for a couple of dollars, eh?" We know. We tried that once. â€" ^Trenton Courier Advoeato. The ice cream man may be down but he is not out â€" recall this next Augrust. That's a good little boy." said the visitor as Johnny picked up his scat- tered toys. "I suppose your mother has promised something if you cleaa up the room." "If I don't," ha correeted her. WHEN you land that big order . . . and it*s sure to mean more salary t^^ m m . and you know how slad they'll be at home . . . Tell them by Long Distance â-  â-  . and let them hear the good news now. ^ For good news cr emergency, for friendly visit or an S.O.S., you can't beat Long Dis- tance as an easy, quid:, personal messen- ger. You can talk with somebody 100 miles or so atvay for as little as 30 cents. See the list of rates in the front of your directory. j..:":.**.:":":***'"^*^"!''!-:**** ^•^•••••-••^••J'^'^*:*<~^<">r>'>"S''><"X"X"X":~><"><~><'<-<~:M:.<":":~:.<~:~>.>.:~:..><.<.<~:.^^^^ I Grape Fruit I Ljirgc Size 4 for 25c 2 ]A\<.C.K TINS Pink Salmon 18c MACARONI 4Lb8. 25c JellyPwdrso 6 for 2Sc Why Pay More FOR GROCERIES AND MEATS? try Kennedy's and be convinced Nice Juic\' t)raiigfs. doz. .. 39c & 29c Ginger Snaps, 2 Lbs 25c Pork & Beans, large tins .. 2 for 25c Qtiart Bottle Cat.sup 20c Tomatoes. Lb 25c Rose Baking Powder, Tin 18c Ken Kennedy We Deliver in Town Phone 37 Soap Flakes | 3 Lbs. 25c I â€" 5 Lux Flakes! 3 for 25o t Chase and Sanb orw's COTFEE Ground Avhile U rrmit 39c and 4»c Lb. Meats Fresh and Cured