CANADIAN MUSKRAT
-lts shimmering brown tones and rare beauty bespeaking the ultimate in luxury. A coat imbued with youthful charm-
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Shown.
ISLAND FURRlERS
The Potato Starch Factories
At MURRAY HARBOR and
HUNTER RIVER i
are now open and provide a cash market for
small, scabby and cull potatoes.
QUICKIES Bv Ken Reynolds
"l'm gonna sell this blame violin with a (luardian Want Ad-it nearly kills me every time l play ‘The Flight of the Bumble Bee'l”~
, explode.
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One of the best fields of
ever harvedslttesd ilelk meg‘ (gill-fl o‘ was slug we on l U111- Russel Hyde, Meadowbank. ‘rho five and a half acre Plot ll llld w have yielded sovrozimltsly 2.500 bushels and a ne
er who helped to dig bilnper crop said, "I have seen some good crops in my time but never one like this." When the 61B!!!‘ h!!! tumed them out. the ound was literally white with I cobbler-a. The apuds were of exoellmt quality and so uniform in size that hardly any grading will be necea. sary.
The heavy frost which covered
our country in beautg. we shall have to be satisfied with indoor plants.
Friends of Mrs. Frederick Duns- ford, will regret to learn of her serious illness in the Charlottetown Hospital
Mr Island Stcevsas. a resident of Kingston for a number of years has returned to his na/tive New grime-trim to mete his home
ere.
Local sportmen report. s drought of Hungarian Part-ridge, wild ducks. and native pheasants. Native
too, are scarce as hair's and unless hunting condi. generally improve in these districts, no game warden need worry about the boys exceeding the “Bag Limit."
The beauty-minded idea, so often stressed in this column. has indeed born sood results. A goodly num. ber of rural dwellings have been painted, or whitewashed with pleasing results. Among these is the dwelling-house and barns of Louis MacDonald, Oomwall. and this week Wesley Cann is paint- ing the home of the Jewell farnlly in Meadow Bank
Friends of Sgt .l R lfluml Dochcrty, New Haven will regret to learn that hc is confined to hospital in Montreal.
S I-f Colwell, New l-faven. is suffering from a bad case of blood poisoning. and his many friends are udshing Mr Colwell a speedy
recovery. Mrs. Herbert Eaten n at present in Boston, visiting rela-
tives and friends.
A wide circle of friends are re. aretiinz the illness of Mrs Daniel Nfacxinnoir at her ‘some in Churchill
Jap lalloons
(By {he Associated Press) TOKYO, Oct. 3—Japan‘s paper balloon bombs. launched by the thousands at Western Canada and the Western United States, were perhaps one of the Wat's most expensive and ineffective revenge weapons. lvfore than 9.000.000 yen -- in excess of $2,000,000 at DYE-Wm‘ 9X- change~wns spent to manufacture the odd weapon. Two years were required to make complete experi- merits. And 9,000 of the big paper bal- loons were launched from thrre sites near Tokyo before the whole fantastic affair was abandoned be- cause neither the Japanese nor the Canadians nor the American! paid any noticeable attention lo ll- The balloon bomb was Japan's V-1 weapon in efforts to get re- venge for the Doolittle raid on Tokyo in April, i942. The Japanese listened eagerly to pzcllo reports, but learned of only one bomb landing in the United States. It was_one which came , dovrn in Wyoming and failed to
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More than 200 of the bombs were reported found in the Western Un- wd States and several score in Western Canada but property damage was negligible. Some chil- dren on a picnic in Oregon found one bomb which exploded and kill- ed six.
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.7 i? By an Island Farmefs Wife KKK
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CAADKS
The Duke of Wellington said “The Battle or Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton." That was in 1815. But in i944, General George C. Marshall, chief of staff of the United States Army, declared: "No group of boys represents more truly the typical American qualities of alertness and initiative than the youngsters who serve the public and the press as news- paper carriers. Any boy who has mastered the many lessons to be learned in this teen-age career of news- paper route work is already started toward the full manhood which has always characterized the Arwrican soldier."
In 129 years the boyhood training grounds for leadership have spread from the size of a great school's playground to the vast expanses traversed daily by the newspaper carriers in countries where home delivery of daily newspapers is a peacetime service which was ESSENTIAL in war.
Living proofs of the correctness of General Marshall's judgment are two winners of the Victoria Cross, the highest award for valour in the British Com- monwealth of Nations. They are Major john K. Mahony, V.C., of New Westminster and Vancouver,
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eyes‘ on the exquisite shades of the changing woodlands. I must remember to see the glint of the mill stream through the fringing alders and to hold the quiet and peace and ripeness of the season. u; have through the chill and drear of the days to come. Nor was I disappointed. Never was an Autumn day more mellow, more lovely, granted especially for mine ‘and others enjoyment.
Mr. C. at the house on the hill -the mill-farm-was also at the digging today. Into the serenity of his morning, a crowd of help- ers came and all day the "fnllt" of his field was ferried between field and store-house. The lad who attended to the wants of "the inner man" there. came across. briefly on an errand and be- cause at that very time I was giv- ing the mid-afternoon lunch to Jock to take to the field there was nothing lost anywhere by the two of us sitting down to a friend- ly cup of tea. And we talked shop and exchanged recipes and our day was brightened because of the time spent thus. "And did you hear ., .. ..?” and of course either one or the other of us had not and was alternately charmed or chagrined. It came to my mind at the time. we should have worn long dark gowns and over these white aprons beautifully hem- stitched or with a depth of hand- made lacs at the bottom, our fin- gers employed all the while with our knitting, or perhaps apinni and “doubling and twisting." An we might have been out at
potatoes then‘! Oh, no. Older ladies like me were ever privil- eged women. Their busy days
were over. Theirs was a seat in
a comer. with a bit of hsndworh-
a toe to a cradle.
And we would “kayiey” together. "And did you hear. Mrs. McTonall that Dugald is after courting Findleyb widow and him poor man that he was, scarcely cold in his grave?" "You don't be telling me, Mrs. Stewart- It's light and wanton this genera- tion are becoming." So not un- like many of our forbean, we vis- ited this afternoon. We could easily have extended it but both of us were rather "on pins and needles", e to ref/urn to the house on the hill to make the supper preparations and 1 to have a spell with my workers, in the patch beyond the rise. And so presently with cod-byes that were lingering, for resh topics came up, ahe was gone down the short
Y cut and 1 joined Jock and Jamie
who "just had to drive" on the
way to the field. Did I mention Pard? He ‘was there too, running away ahead, this time a stick in his mouth instead of the potato he usually has at this. work. a
At Alderlea, these fine days, supper com/es with the twilight when all the family gather ro our table for the meal. Jamie sits next to his grandfather, when I know, ert-ra tidbits find their way to his plate. When the meal is concluded. Rob's set off home to their milking and other chores. and we go at once to ours. I could barely make them out as they left the yard this evening. in a farm cart instead of their car of-sorts. the three of them and Mutt riding beside them state, as if it was his right, while Pard, I‘m carry to say. hurled in-
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aw n some room”
suits at him from the ground. Then Jock and Jeanie went away and for the first time this season, I held the light for James to com- plete the chores. A drink to a stabled calf: the cows to be let to their pasture, a farm cart to be greased for the morning's work. By thh time the wind had changed, ominously to the south. Bslmy and soft on my face but tossing the tops of the trees until I saw the first yellow leaves come drifting down, and all the while it held a disturbing murmur. It rushed through the basement door- ways with a lonesome weird sound when we went view toda ‘s mcrrcw,
down there to yield. "Rain, to- en," James forecast.
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Ha is reading the papers now, glasses and light sddusted to suit him. I brought my writing to the kitchen where there is less sound of the Wind's laments. The Vir- ginia Creeper is restless against a pane. Ferd at the door s for admittance to our circle an then ts off to bark at a car on the driveway — our folks returning. James looks over his glasses, and buts down his paper to say anxi- oualy. "For all the war is Ellen. the world is in a turmoil, with strikes and unrest and dis- satislsction and all." The adjust-
ment period is aims a trying and critical time. can recall save 1 have witnessed. One
betgweesavgiudyiand myself. which
and understand-
m develrmed into very pleasant time. a reetlem old world given time and good leadership will one day safety weather the preamt storms to sail into more Jock and
MAJOR FIB A. TILSTON. Vi. '
B.C., and Major Frederic A. Tilstcn, V.C., of Toronto and Windsor. In their boyhood, both were newspaper carriers and were succeeding in business when they joined the crusade against our enemies.
Heroic leadership featured the manner in which Mahony and his company won and held a bridgehead in Italy against a withering counter-attack.
On March 1, 1944, a similar victory was won when Major Tilston led his company forward in the Hoch- wald. His effective leadership spearheaded the breach in the forest defense-line, last German bastion west of the Rhine.
Mahony and Tilston were each wounded three times in the actions for which they were decorated by King George VI. Such is the measure of men who, as boys, train in the ranks of newspaper carriers.
Resourcefulness, devotion to duty and consideration of others are not new‘ qualities in the characters of Majors Mahony and Tilston. These traits were developed in boyhood because they were needed then to be successful as newspaper carriers. The boy or girl who delivers your newspaper is training now to become one of Canada's beet citizens.
Opl. G. Peterson and Pie. M. A. Peterson. twin brothers of It. Vilni- Mam, are seen as they stepped from a train that bore them from BI" Francisco to Vancouver Wednesday afternoon. The brothers sailed in!‘ Kong Kong together on Oct. 2'1. i941, were captured together 0" Christmas Day '4! and shared the horrors of Japanese prisoner!‘ ‘ (Canadian Arse; time).