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The runeral of the late Mr. Benjaâ€" min Bricker, who passed away at the home of his sister, Mrs. Aaron Bowman at Mannheim, was held at the Blenheim [Mennonite Charch last Wednesday afternoon. Rev. Isaiah Rosenberger of Haysville was in sharge of the service and the pallâ€" bearers were: Messrs. Leslie Mcâ€" Donald, Roy Campbell, Roy Baxter, Weonard Duncan, Walter Lillico and Jackson Clark of Drumbo. Interment was made in the adjoining cometery. District Markets â€" Want Adsâ€" The biâ€"week‘y meeting of the ND.CS. Christian Fellowship was Meld at the school last Thursday with the president, Miss Alice Hallâ€" man occupying the chair. Following an opening song service Principal E. R&. Wood, B.A., gave a talk on the mubject of. "The Refining Fires". A piano solo was also rendered by Miss Velma Baver. Mrs. Ezra Gascho received painful injuries to her right eye as the re sult of being burned with caustic soda while boiling soap at her home last Monday. Last winter it was floods but this year it is ice and more ice. In the epinicn of many villagers who found # practically impossible to keep on #heir foot while walking, Thursday, was the worst day for ice in several years. The streets with their smooth, shiny surfaces, were perilous for moâ€" #oriats and a number of cars landed tr the ditch when all efforts to stay fa a straight course proved futile. Comditions were better on Friday a‘ter sanding operations were carâ€" wled out. The continuous rains also erused the Alder Creek to go on its weekly rampage for the third conseâ€" eative time, and much of the lowâ€" Wrimg land was again inundated. The M B.C. Young People‘s Society wiet at the home of Mr. Clarence Roâ€" semberser on Friday evening with M:.e president, Mr. Nyle Shants, preâ€" s‘dimg. Miss Greta Stoltz read an Interesting letter received from Miss %. Fuses. a missionary in Syria, after which Miss Laurene Stoltz read the seripture lesson. Mrs. Lyle Bingeâ€" mam gave a reading, "Jesus of Nazaâ€" reth" and Mrs. Oliver Eckstein and Miss Dorothy Burkholder rendered a vyocal duet. A Bible study and obâ€" ject lesson on the subject, "A Livâ€" ing Sacritice". was conducted by Mr. Victor Rosenberger, followed by a reading by Mr. Clare Stoltz. Miss Althea Bock was then elected deleâ€" gate and Miss Evelyn Cressman, alâ€" fernate delegate, to the annual @prinz Young People‘s Convention which will he held at Port Elgin on May 24th Mrs. Norman Weber entertained members of the St. James Lutheran Ladies‘ Aid at a quilting bee at her kome last Wednesday afternoon. i driving rain, awirling snowâ€"they‘ll all roll off a Council m~:fium:mnmd-dfllhdhh';odhrn lifetime and is byuwithnflrmnnho.Andtthompany is well able to live up to every clause that guarantee. Ask your banker. You will find the best roofing value 5 T A TL T 6E Sn en it on might over your ols o i NA oT I 2 i t. You can Cea.Haed Nalls | Foof Ircombines them by nam famous Presten Steol ARE YO/R ROOFS FIREâ€"TRAPS 2 February 22, 1988 ing an d Poultry NEW DUNDEE 44 Gpeiph Sreet @ Mammearsed foritee A splendid program featuring two plays, musical numbers and physical culture demonstrations, is being arâ€" ranged for the anngal Commenceâ€" ment Exercises of the New Dundee Continuation School which will be held at Kavelman‘s Hall on Wednesâ€" day evening, Feb. 23. Personals. Mrs. H. Kavelman ard Omar Sn+ der were business visitors in Toâ€" ronto last Tuesday. Messrs. William Goettling and Max Bogusat spent a few days of last week at Virgil Mr. Noah Boshart of Wiimot Centre with Mr. ard Mrs. Ezra Gascho last Monday. Messrs. Arthur Lantenschlager and George Campbell motored to Strathâ€" roy last Monday. Mrs. Henry Bechtold of Petersbarg ws the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Simon Weber for a few days last week. Visitors at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert Bergey last Monday were: Bishop M. Haliman, Mrs. Hallâ€" man, Mr. Jacob Hallman and (Mr. George Milne of Manmheim, and Mr. J.eslie Musselman of Preston. Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Bowman of Guernsey, Sask., spent a few days of last week visiting relatives in the community. To Keep A Husband Home _ _"Yon say your husband no longer |<ponds his evenings at the club?" "I soon broke him of that." "How did you manage it?" "Before zoing to bed I put two easy ‘« hairs close together, then held a \match to a cigar until the room got ‘a faint odor of smoke." Mr. and Mrs. Edem Bechtel and family. Mr. Gilbert Bergey and Mr. Omar Snider attended the funeral oi Mrs. Bechtel‘s mother, the late Mrs. Williamn Rudy at Waterloo on Thursday. Mr. Reuben Ruthig of New Hamâ€" burg visited with Mr. Samucl Hill last Wednesday. Miss Nellie Main of Kitchener is spending a few weeks with Mr. and Nrs. Albert Fiederloir. Mr. Marcus Lehman of Orville, Ohio, was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert Bergoy last Wednesday. Mrs. C. A. Sinclair visited with relatives at Toronto last week. Mr. I. H. Toman attended the hunt held in the New Hamburg district, last Wednesday by the New Hamâ€" burg Hunt Club of which he is a member. In the evening the club was entertained at a chicken dinner at the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Berger at New Hamburg. Mr. and Mrs. Max Bogusat called on Mr. and Mrs. Emil Bogusat at Kitchener recently. ;'niihm l“’ weather Comes in large, easily handled THE WATERLOO (Ontario) Potatoes Top Price Seventy Cents A Bag ldeal weather on Saturday afterâ€" noon brought out a large crowd of vendors and townsfolk to the Waterâ€" mUy higher while other produce id firm in price. _ > â€" Potatoes ranged from 70 cents down to 55 cents per bag, turnips at 8 for 10 cents, cabbage 3 for 10 cents, beets 20 cents for 6 quarts, and carrots 15 cents. Soup beans were eight cents a pint. _ Ap{l:s sold as high as $1.75 a bushel for Northern Spies down to 75 cents for Golden Russets. Meat prices were slightly higher. Spare ribs, 26 to 27 cents a pound; fresh and smoked pork sausage 24 to 26 cents; bacon, 25 to 27 cents; lard, 13 to 14 cents; head cheese 14 to 15 cents; sirloin, 32 cents; tenderloin, 33 to 35 cents, and jellied meat 20 to 22 cents. Prices Of Pork Firmer At Mart Top Price of Eggs 32 Cents.â€" Butter 36 Cents and Chicken 25 Cents. Eggs nnged in price from 25 to 32 cents a dozen, butter at 36 cents a pound and chickens at from 20 to 25 cents a pound at the Kitchener weekly market on Saturday mornâ€" weekly market on Saturday mornâ€" PORONTO.â€"Dressed weight bacon | ing. hogs advanced 10 to 40c at Barrle, : At Meat Stallsâ€"Fresh pork sausâ€" Kitchener and London Saturday and ! age sold at 25 cents, smoked pork liveweights were up 25c at London. sausage 27 cents, ribs 28 cents, Other markets reported | steady ham 26 cents, bacon 27 cents, prices. | tenderloin 35 cents, sirloin 32 cents, â€" Live weights: Hull. 9.00; London, jellied meat 22 cents and head s 75; Peterboro 8.75; Chatham, 850. cheese 16 cents. Lard was 14 cents Dressed weights: Barrie, 12.00; a pound, two cents lower than last jy1! 9.00; London, $.75; Kitchener, week. Pork prices were up twO j170; Peterboro 11.60; Chatham cents a pound. _ _ ___ _ _ _ _ ;140, 1 leats, Vegetables and Apples F‘I-dlls;s.»lenw.urh. At Vegetable Stallsâ€"Turnips, 5 cents each or 3 for 10 cents; root celery from 2 for 5 cents to 10 cents each; cabbages at from 3 for 10 cents to 10 cents each; beets at 20 cents for six quarts; carrots 15 cents for six quarts; Chinese lettuce at from five to 15 cents a head; vegetable oyster, 5 cents a bunch; parsnips 5 cents a quart; parsley root 5 cents a bunch; soup beans 8 ;ents a pint; potatoes, 65 cents a ag. At Apple Stallsâ€"Northern Spys sold at from $1.75 to $1.90 a bushel; Greenings at $1.50; cookers $1, Baldwins $1.50; Talilman Sweets from 75 cents to $1.25; Snows 75 cents; Baldwins $1.50, Blenheims $1.25; Kings $1.50 and Golden Rusâ€" sets 75 cents. Buys Store Business. An important business transfer was made recently when the Barâ€" gain Store retail business of Counâ€" cillor Albert E. Strange was sold to John Fischer, for the past three years manager of the store. Mr. Strange who came to the village five years ago has been in ill health for some lime and â€"will take a well earned rest . TORONTO GRAIN ‘TORONTO.â€"Grain quotations Satâ€" nrday, carlots: _ â€" Northern wheatâ€"No. 1, 164%; No. 2. 155%; No. 3. 137% ; No. 2 durum. 1093 ion Oatsâ€"No. 2 CW, 681%; No. 3 CW, ; No, 1 feed oats, 56%. Barleyâ€"No. 3 CW, 17%. No. 1 feed sereenings. $27.50 per No. 2 feed screenings. $25 per ton. K.D. corn, 93â€"96 F.O.B. Ontario country points: Ontario wheat, 90â€"93. Ontario feed oats, 43â€"45. Ontario malting barley, 67â€"70, Ontario feed barley, 62â€"64. Ontario tye, 75â€"80. Ontario buckwheat, 65â€"68. Natural corn, 70â€"71. NEW HAMBURG feed barley, 62â€"64. tye, 75â€"80. buckwheat, 65â€"68. corn. 70â€"71. CHRONICLE easing noticed first on Friday. Durâ€" ing the recent whiriwind advance of egg prices a tendency was manifest !to hold receipts at country polnts pending completion of the rise. Phese eggs are now expected on the market any time. Egg and Butter Opposing trends for egz fl:nâ€" bat: tled out the week‘s short closing sesâ€" s.on at Toronto Seturday. The marâ€" ket for graded eggs, cases free, was reported to be easier and slow partly aitributable to an extension of the There were but few eggs available in oither graded or ungraded sections of the market but it was in dealors‘ quotations for ungraded eggs and in selling to the retail trade that egg price movements were made. A large moved at 27¢; pullets to 25 and B‘s to 21. The retail trade paid 31 for A large; 29 for pullets and 26 for B‘s. Some supplies were still being atâ€" t~acted to Montreal by one cent het ter price it was said. Butter Little or nothing was done in butâ€" ter ou the Toronto board Saturday. Some dealers reported being entirely sold out, others were offerings Onâ€" tario No. 1 creamery, solids from 35% to 35%4c. Western butter was reported sold in Winnipeg at 34â€" equivalent to 36¢ here. Churning Cream The U. F. Cooperative Co. Saturâ€" day reported deaters‘ prices for churâ€" ning cream, delivered ‘Toronto: No. 1, 37; No. 2, 35. Livestock Receipts at Toronto Toronto Livestock TORONTO. â€" Livestock receipts during the weekâ€"end, as reported by Toronto branch, Dominion livestock burean were: Catte l..l. mormmcstmunce | BTC Calves .. m se 117 Hogs e opmmamimens 1,206 Sheep and lambs . im 205 East Buffato EAST BUFFALO.â€"Hogs 100; steaâ€" tr; good and choice 9.40. Cattle 25; nominally steady; light ieceipts and no great demand. Calves none; good and choice 12.00 top. | _ "Mine was so short it was hardly ’\\'nrth cutting." said one. "Short?" queried the superâ€"grumâ€" ibler . "Did you see mine? 1 had to } Sound Advice \ ‘The openâ€"air speaker one morning jin Hyde Park was dealing with staâ€" |fistics WINNIPEG GRAIN Closing cash prices: Wheat: No. 1 nor., 143%; No. 2 nor., 136%; No. % nor.. 121%; No. 4 nor., 113%; No. 5 wheat 90%; feed 80%; No. 1 garâ€" vet 121%; No. 1 durum, 94%; No. 4 special 105%; No. 5 special 95%; No. 6 special $6%; track, 142%; screenâ€" ings 500. Oatsâ€"No. 2 CW, 56%; No. 3 CW, !437&, ex. 1 feed 49%; No. 1 feed 451%; No. 2 feed 41%4; No. 3 feed 28%s track 54%. Needed a Razor Two farmers were discussing the poverty of the hay crop. owing to unâ€" seasonable weather. lather it to mow _ "You should try cloves, mister,"} came a voice from the audience. Bacon Hog Prices Shvnp- none: good and choice tops Market Prices On Up Grade t." Treasurer‘s Adjourned Sale Of Lands For Arrears of Tazes in the Tows NOTICE 18 HEREBY GIVEN held by me on the 11th day of F. , 1988, was at such sale adjourned uie until Friday, the Eleventh day of March, 1938, at the Waterloo, at the hour of 2 o‘clock in the afternoon. than the amount due for arrears of taxes, charges and costs, or if no price is offered it is the intention of the Corporation of the Town of Waterloo to ‘rurchm the same for the amount due thereon. s NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN, that if the price offered for any land at the adjourned sale is less | _ On Friday evening of last week the |Y.P.U. of United Church ontertained the loca} Luther League to a Valenâ€" tine Social in the basement of the !rhurch. Grant Schnurr was in charge of the devotional period. Elmer Ogram presented the topic, "The Light of the World". Rev. W. (. Mather gave a talk on "A ‘Trip !scross Canada and the Rockies". Imâ€" |portant cities and manufacturing ‘centres were shown by means of |lantern slides. Games and contests ‘\followed afterâ€" which hot refroshâ€" ‘ments were served. Rev. W. Schultz moved a vote of thanks on behbalf of the Luther League. Town Treasurer‘s Office, Waterloo, Ont., Feb. 18, 1938. !Mr. James Farrell who has been spending some time at his home here returned to London. Dr. H. J. Cairns V.S., of New Hamâ€" burg was a business visitor here on Monday. Mr. and ‘Mrs. John Doerr of Blyth spent a few days with Mr. and (Mro. Bert Doerr. Rev. W. O. Mather attended the Winter School at Rockwood as an instructor. Mr. Gordon Musser is v.tending the school as a delegate for the local Y.P.U. Miss Isabellie Fleming spent the weekâ€"end with Miss Ethel Ogram. Miss Hilda Mueller spent the weekâ€"end at her home in Kubryville. Mrs. Conrad Hahn and Wilfred atâ€" tended the funeral of the late Mrs. Henry Roth at Tavistock. ‘ The pupils of the local Separate School held their Valentine party Om Wednesday. Meeting opened by the singing of "O Canada". Minutes of |the last meeting were read. The proâ€" giram consisted of recitations by ‘Donnle Koebel, Deiphine Karley, Jack MoCormick, Auna Marie Baess ler, jokes were read by Betty Schummer. Valentine songs by ® group of girls. Riddles given by Donnie Friedmann; song with guitar accompaniment by Helen Dechert. Betty Schummer read ‘"The Life of lSl' Valentine". ‘The postman then gave out the valentines and the mail â€"carriers delivered them. This was followed by lunch. Mr. Ken Wright of Newton spent Monday in town. * ANSWER TO PREVIOUS PUZZLE NORMAN G. BOLDUC, Treasurer, Town of Waterlo®e LINWOOD PAGE SEVEN â€"16