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Wodnesday, January 4, 1950 THE FLESHERTON ADVANCE Small Ads SKATES WANTED â€" Size lO'/i or II, enquire Advance office. FCIC SALE â€" Good young purebv-'d liMcford bull. - D. W. Adams, phone 10aw4 Flosherton. 32p'i FOR SAI4E â€" Trio of Toulouse jji'fse. â€" EA. Genoe, Ceylon, phone o2wl Flesheiton. 32c2 JKkSTED â€" AMtamta ratUbU foi mink and fox feed. â€" Bert Mclntost H:uc«iiui, plkoa« P«rv»nh*-i 6r26 F>R SALE â€" Quebec heater, large -size, good as new. â€" Mrs. Thos. McKt-e, Eugenia. 31p2 F 'R SALE â€" Ladies' white gkate outfits, siaes G &nd 6V&. Can be .-cen at The Advance office. FOR SALE â€" Lady's skate outfit, >vhite, size 7, excellent condition. Ian be seen at The Advance. FOR SALE â€" Lady's white skate outfit, size 5, in good condition.â€" Phone llTw Flesherton. 30pl Local aod Personal FOIf SALE â€" 10 little pigs, ready to wean.â€" Fred W. Smith, R.R. 2, Flesherton. FOR SALE â€" 14 little pigs, ready to wean. â€" Alex. Ehincan, Ceylon, ('iidiie Flesherton 40J4. 'Ic2 â- â- (â- H S.ALK â€" Child's large size cream enamel crib. May be seea at K. G. Betts' store. 32p2 FOR SALE _ Small box trailer, in srood .sh.-.pe. â€" Apply to P. Dow, Hank oi Commerce, Flesherton. FOR SALE - 2- wheel trailer with 6.00x1 G tires and one spare. â€" W. -Meredith, Phone llGw Flesherton. .NOTICE. â€" Any type of steady work wanted in Flesherton or within commuting distance C. A. Bas- tin, Fi-sher .\pt., Flesherton. NOTICEâ€" Well trained office work- ers are in constant demand. Now cla.sses begin January 3rd. Write for booklet. â€" Northern Business College, Owen Sound. SOcl LOST â€" L«rge back and tan hound about Dec. 27th. Information ot his whereabouts dead or alive, thankfully I'cceived.â€" Walter Play- ter, phone l^eJ Markdale. 32^3 For sale â€" Hog, 7 months old; 3 sows to larrow March 10 to 15, 24 small pigs 9, 10 and 11 weeks old. â€" Arnold Ralph, Feversham, Lot 23, Oon. 12. Osprey. 32p3 FUBNISHiHD CABIN â€" Will rent a double cdi>in until April 15, suit- able for eouple, fully equipped foi houseikee^ng, $25.00 per month.â€" H. Best, Flesheiton, phone 13. FOR SAIiE â€" Flannelette blankets, liest quality, 70x90, |*.75, 80x90 95.36 pair; Men's fleece-lined com- binations $2.96 suit; heavy weight Sna^-I'roof overalls $3j98; striped broadclotih dress shirts 2.76; wool ntitts 78c; wool work socks 66c, 76c, 85c pair; mottled 2-ply yam $1.20 lb., other colors $1.36 lb.; complete line of woollen blankets and auto rugrs at special prices. We accept woollen rags. â€" Flesh- erton Woollen Mills, phone 25w HARRIS & DUNLOP BABitlSTERS, SOLICITORS, Etc- Phone 38 MARKDALE Mr. Dunlop will be in C. J. Bellamy's office every Sat- nrday from 6 to 8:80 p.m CHARLES J. BELLAMY MUNICIPAL CLERK Oiriee, Toronto Street, Flesherton Issuer of Marriage Licenses CONVEYANCER WiMs Mortgages, etr. Deeds Agreements A conMnissioner for taking affidavits Telephone 29w Ml'. Everettc Parker of Brampton was a visitor in town liiis week. .Mis. Geo. Bliickburn of Toronto spent New Year's with her sister, Miss Tena Henderson. Alessis. 'led Banks of Sault Sli. Marie and Don Banks of Pickering were home for New Year's. Mrs. Geo. Lavvler .spent New Year's day with her son, Walter, and family, at Maxwell. Mr. and Mrs. Ken Scuwart and children, Stayner, spent New Year's with Ml', and Mrs. John Stowari. Mrs. Robt. Alexande:- is ill with pneumonia at the home I'f ber son, Cecil, south of town. Mr. and Mrs. Herb. Akins and Claudia of Lansing were New Year's visitors with the former's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Claude Akins. Mr. and Mrs. Robt. Banks of Ft. Erie are visiting this week with the former's parents, Mr. and Mrs. G. E. Banks. Mr. and Mrs. Harold Black and I sn .oCraig. spent New Year's with 1 Mr. and Mrs. Harry South, at Brampton. -Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Walker and family and Mr. and Mrs, Ed. Genoe were recent guests with Mr. and Mrs. Francis Genoe. .Mrs. Ernie Batchelor of Saugccn Jet., is visiting this week with her mother, Mrs. Jos. Thom^pson at Feversham. Mrs. Jas. F. Caushier and Mr. and Mrs. Jas. R. Caushier of Hageri- town, Md., are visiting the Alexan- der and Stoddart families and call- ing on other friends. Mr. and Mra. Herb Dorey and family of Toronto, Mr. and Mrs. Ed- win Fowler and Mr. Milton Fowler of Swinton Pai-k were New Years goiests of Mr. and Mii-s. Russell Lee. Mr. and Mra. Wm. PatLon and children of Toronto and Mc anil Mrs. Jack McDonald of Gravenhurst were holiday visitors with Mr. and Mrs. John McDon.ild. Misses Jessie and Clara Knight ol Chatsworth, Miss Marion Caesar of Hamilton and Rev. and Mrs. A. E. Armsti-ong of Meaford were New Year's guests of Mr. and Mrs. F. H. W. Hickling. "^Mr. Ted Newell has been taking a course on diesel engines in Toronto the past few weeks and has parsed with highest honors in his class. He loaves Monday to take a position in Toronto. Mi. and Mrs. "W. G. Ferrier. Mrs. Win Newell of Grand Valley, Ted NewfcU of Toronto and Mis.? Mabel V'o! ds of Markdale were Christmas visitors with Mr. and Mrs. Earl Hill East Backline. \sMr. and Mrs. F. J. Thivstc.i at tended the reception at Meaford on Saturday afternoon, at the wedding (.1 Evelyn Hcnning, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robt. Henning, and M*r. Lynold Waite of Owen Sound, son of Mrs. Geo. Park of Owen Sound The W.I. will meet Jan. 11th at 2:30 p.m., at the home of Mrs. Cecil McKechnie. Two-minute talk trom each of standi njj; committee conven- ers. Prognini: Mrs. E. Fisher Mrs. Thurston. Lunch: cake, Mcsdames McDonald, G. McTavish ind Corn- field; .sandwich, Milligan, Tooter and Johnson. HOCK FY SCOR7S Staynei' won from Shelburne 3-1 Monday afternoon and Dundalk took Honoywood 8-2 last Saturday at the opening of tho new Honoywood rink. FARM FOR SALE 77-acre fai-m. Lots 133-13*4, 2 N. E., Ai'temesia. Ijarga brick housa, good lieni. Apply to Fred W. Smith, R. R. 2, Flesherton. 33c4 NATURE PROVIDES HER OWN BALANCE â-ºâ™¦â™¦<••:•<•• International Harvester SALES and SERVICE FOB IMMEIDLATE DBUVERY â€" Fsrmall Super A Tractor with 2-furrow adjustable beam hydraulic plonr. Tractor 2-wheel Manure Spreader. 18-Marker Fertilizer Drill. No. 46 Power take-off Pick-up Hay Baler. 2 4'fMrrow Tractor Plow* acc bottoms. Grain Grinders Hammer Mills, Cream Separstcn, Stc. We have PRBSTONB for your traotor and ear. Goodyear and Seiberiing Tir«e H. H. SAYERS GARAGE RaiMurs to all makes ot Tracftof^ snd Farm Maehinary Phone 51 DUNDALK Conservation seems the popular idea tiiese days. We are trying to ronserve our wild life, our forests, and other natural products which the p;>st foolishness of man and his civilization have caused. We are stilt a long way from success, per- haps beeagLae_\ve do not go far enough in our consei-vation principles, where selfishness seems to have hampered the work to be done. We have our game and fish conser- vation societies. These societies would conserve the game and fish, but would do away with the kingfish- ers and the herons because they eat the fish. The members of the.se soc- ieties are selfish. Professing to be interested in conseivation and the "balance of nature" they are really interested only in themselves and the sport in which they engage. Ever since the dawn of civilization man has been upsetting the Balance of Natiu-e. It is a well known fact that if man had let things alone we would not now be in our present state so far as Nature is concerned. The English sparrow is not a pest in England and Europe, where t is na- , tive. It has enemies to ..eep it in 1 check. The same may be said of ^ne starling. In his native habitait the starling is no pest, and was not until somebady brought a few of them to North America about 100 years ago. The muskrat is not considered a i)est in Canada, hut, imported into Denmark some years ago, they have taken over. They had no enemies m Denmark to keep them in balance. We could go on and on, but per- haps the best answer we have noticed was in the last issue of True Maga- zine. One of its subsscribers asked why there was a law against the 'm- portation of mongooses, and if there wa.s a mongoose anywhere in the United States. True says the answer is that man i.-, getting hep to mistakes he has made in upsetting nature's long es- tablished balance. Before we humans started moving about the earth, the planet was tak- ing care of itself. Natjure had work- ed a nice equillibrium among insects, birds, reptiles and animals. They helped or preyed on each other. If one ate or killed too much, he was starved down to size. On each con- tinent a balance was achieved, pecu- liar to its climate, flora and fauna. Roving man begfan to change this. A Scot in America, lonesome for his thistle, imported one. In its home, the weed was kept in check by Na- ture. Checks were absent here. The thistle became one of our worst weeds. A colonist- in Australia thou- ght rabbits would provide sport and food. In America and Europe, v&b- bit population is controlled by owls, hawlks, coyotes, weasles and other foes. Australia had no rabbit foes. The -abblts took over. A concentratted example is found on a small Hawaiian island. Plant life was luxuriant. Rai'e birds made the island their home. A' white man thought raibbits would provide food and introduced them. They had no enemies and their famous reproduct- ive qualiies were unimpaired. They stripped the island of vegetation. The rare birds fled or died. Even he rabbits staiwed in the end. Balance can be upset withouit im- portations. Pennsylvania farmers e- manded a bounty on hawks and owls which were destroying chickens. The state paid $90,000 in bounties, and saved $2000 worth of ckickens. Then field mice, free from th^ir natural checks, hawks and owls, caused f4,- 000,000 worth of damage in grain fields. Insects have come through foreign shipments and caused losses of mil- lions because they had no natural enemies here, which brings us to the mongoose. He is a near relative of the weasal and mink. In his naltive India, by speed and skill, he can kill the cobra and other" poisonous snakes, which annually cause thousands of human deaths. The mongoose kills mice and rats that eat precious grain. Someone planted him in .Jamaica to battle snakes and rats. He killed all the snakes, then lizards, which are insect eaters and brought on a plague of fleas. He started on the birds and killled t?hem oflf. Turn the mongooses loose in the II. S., says True, and they'd wreck 'he country. We haven't even a lone male in a zoo. A swell beast in his own land, he isn't for us. All research has brought out sim- ilar findings to those of True Mass- zinc, and most of thom show that if man could mind his own business and quit interferring with things. Nature could pretty well look after herself. Man, and man nlonc, Tiaa upset this balance and the more he muddles with It the worse It will become. There used to be a sayintr that we rive this country back to the InHmai A cfuestion mother often has to answer after leaving department stores: "Mommy, is Santa Claus nuintuplets?" A WEARY CHRISTMASâ€" A Chinese boy, hungry, hurt and tired, wearily seats himself along the curbing to eat his dish of food, probably the first he received that day, supplied by the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF). Canada and a score of other United Nations member-coimtriea are helping to feed the sick and hungry children now living in former theatres of war. The postal address "UNICEF, OTTAWA" is accepting funds from Canadians to buv Canadian food for six million hungry children. â€" if they would take it. One hing is sure, the Indians did not interfere with Nature's balance, and if they owned the country for the next thi-ee hundred years the ehancei; are t would bo in a much better position from a Nature standpoint than iit 's- today. The white man, with his .vis- dom, may be a hell-cracker for knowledigt?, but the results pretty well show he has had the wi-ong kind of knowledge. Any place the white man has settled, be it in the South Seas or the continents, he has upset nearly everything, the Balance of Nature included. Just now he is en- gaged in "improvin-g" the Arctic. We would like to live long enough to see what kind -of mess he makes of this locality and the Eskimos. ELECTION CARD OF THANKS I wish to express my appreciation to the electors of Osprey Township in their confidence in electing me as a meimber of the Council. I will en- deavor in every way to warrant the confidence placed in me. Wishing you all the best in 1&50, 1 remain, Yours truly, â€"VICTOR WRIGHT ELECTION CARD OF THANKS My thanks are extended to the ratepayers of the Township of Os- prey for their loyal support at the polls in Monday's election and I pro- mise to look after your interests in township affairs as I would my own. Yours truly, â€"JOSEPH WRIGHT ELECTION CARD OF THANKS il greatly appreciate the support given to me at the poll in the elec- tion On Monday. It is my desire to serve the people of Osprey to the best of my ability. Again thanking you all, I remain, Yours truly, â€"GEORGE DOBSO.N Picture Show TOWN HALL FLESHERTON THURSDAY. JANUARY 5 •.UNDERCOVER MAJLSIE" with Ann Sothern She's the cutest Cop that ever wore a skirt. "BAdMINTON" (An M.G.M. Selected Short) also "Woody Woodpecker THURSDAY, JANUARY Ig "RED STALLION" in Glorious Color The Picture with a Heart as Big as all Outdoors Added: Toonerville Trolley" also Comedy THURSDAY, JAN. 19 "THE COCKEYED MIRACLE" also "Easy Ufc" Abbott and Costello aaOiW STARTS 8:00 P.M. Eighth Line Concert Eitrhth Line, Artemesia, school was tilled to capacity for the annual con- cert held On Dec. 22nd. In addition tu tlie usual children's program ol songs, rythm band, dialogues and' drill, the Misses Hazel and Ruth Fletcher, with Isaibel Minard, sang "Silent Night." Mr. and Mrs. Court Smith provided mouth organ and piano music. Mr. Ben Hanley sang "My Great Grandmother" and "My Great Grandfather," while Douglas and Eldon Turner whistled "The Mocking Bird" and "The Stranger of Galilee" to guitar- accompani- ment. Donalda MacDonald render- ed a piano solo. Mr. .Anderson of Chesley presented the Naitional Film Board pictures. At the close of the program Santa ari-ived with gifts and treats foV all the children. FEVERSHAM Mr. and Mrs. Jim Hudson spent New Year's with Mr. and Mi-s. Alex. Mullin. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Montgomery and daughters of Dundalk spent New Year's day with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jas. Long. Mr. and Mrs. Ivan Alexander and sons of Creemore spent New Years with Mr. and Mrs. Howard McKee. Mli-s. Henry Alexander has returned home after visiting her son. Mrs. Pearson and Mr. Bob Elliott have returned to their school dutiec. Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Hudson and Lonnie speiit the week end with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Poo'e. Mrs. Ern Hawton of Toronto visit- ed her daughter, Mrs. Geo. Sled. Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Short spent a few days with their daughter, Mrs. Ernie Morrison. CoUingwood. Mr. and Mrs. Laurie Sewell spon* Sunday with her sister, Mrs. Gerald Hill, near Markdale. The panhandler makes the best i living whose story is most touching. * 4 * Orondma ond P«goif just Iowa bus trip. Th«y f««l sal* and happy In the core of a com- petent and friendly driverâ€" and foee lofuHy enioy the delightful drive and ail the inter- esttng sights along th« way. Next time, let your loved ones travel by bus. Add enioyment to their trip. FARES ARE LOW Barrie North Bay London - Buffalo - $ 5.90 13.85 8.75 9.65 ROUND TRIP (Subject to «hange) ^5. « .».â-  ^^'^'^'^'-f^f' Logs Wanted We will pay you HIGHEST CASH PRICES for good MAPLE, BASSWOOD and ELM LOGS wm also buy PINE, HEMLOCK and SPRRUCE Lengths â€" 8 ft. to 16 ft., containing a good percentage of 14 ft. and 16 ft. lengths Can pay an extra price for Elm Logs 24 inches and over at small end andfree of all visible defects. WE WILL ALSO BUY GOOD STANDING TIMBER i! 11 We don't want any Beech at present, and we won't accept rough, low grade logs of any species. DUNDALK SAW MILL i> Phone No. 3 BoxNo.291