"snag Vegetables Plscajrsn ~ We are in the market tor a large quantity nl PARSNIPS, CARROTS and BEETS Highest Prices paid-Delivered Charlottetown Write, Phone, Cull or Contact our local agent. Thompson Produced COMPANY LIMITED aaARCH 4, 194s fl Iv Zorn Q CHA RLOTTETOWN THE GUARDIQE ..WW'...:~ a , g7 Mgnxvw u, Mal/NH‘ vxwwwrw/m. outfit.’ 4 (By Thornton W. Burgess) SPOOK Y UPSETS THE N ICIGIIBORHOOI) Who to his own affairs arilcndl Will not, depend upon his iriunds. -Spooky lhc scrcech Owl. J l Ii; was in the night lllnt Spookyl I NQTICE All Members will attend. “pedu- Special Meeting of the Benevolent Irish Society at the WHELAN MEMORIAL HALL 0N FRIDAY, MARCH 5th AT 8 P.M. To make arrangements for the St. Patrick's Day Parade L. DOWLlNG, Chief Marshal. E. HOGAN, Secretary. day-old prices. March 5 or 6. smitten GlIIBKS lf interested phone us collect. DILLON and SPILLETT We have an hand a limited quantity 0t N.H.R. x B.R. Cross Bred IO-day-old Started Chicks, which we will sell at Delivery must be taken Friday or Saturday, SUGGET‘ METERING WATER OWEN SOUND Owen Sound-population 14.000 —— wlll have to spend more than $328; 000 on capital equipment during , Ont... "' (GP) - ths next five years, or mvfierlnz o! water. chairman A. A. Kennedy told the_ utilities eom~ mission. Metering would dlgcqufa‘; wasteful use of water. he uld. institute i, ‘s. 4i“\_'s'§-llll r Nonoleon and Uncle Elby Iy Clifford Maclrlde 1 tr Noiiolrulrsoo ottom- llstllligtlleillltvi o Too Como" HUSBANDANDEVERY- stliilillifil our: ElfiE wlocuv _ ‘"6 PICKING our A a DRESS TllAT WAS NFFERFNT“ the Screech Owl moved into the Old Orchard for the winter. Noni-I IO,IGD...I'HEY'LLLETI5 m‘, 0! the Old Orchard folks kn -.\' ll: mow§5oollhsma o“ because none of them was tiwnkc Seflmoaglww Fill lo see hm take possvsi-iirn l»! an 9"‘ empty house tltcrv. That» house! i w" had been cltlpty c\cr sincc it had w‘ been put up hy Farmer Brown's (It, M W bo‘. No one had nantcti it. it - "-” l’ .- .' hall been thoroughly locked over‘ "Mun hm“ l by all the lllIJlGSCEKEFS in the Oldl ~ ~ ' Orchard and no onc had been “D99, Dee. D99!" "Rd T051111! T" mflyhrr o . _ ,,,Y l - “Q enough interested in ll to so unich the Chicfldee W880i ' l f ‘l r‘ ‘ “a as spend a- night in ii. All hurl the “"3 -~ ___ y ' P _ " » ‘IF ' same fault to find with il. For, _' C e i one thing it was a liltlc too higQat Farther Brown's house, then 1 I y‘ just a little. But this wouldn't gone over to the Old Orchard. He , l V‘ ' have mattered had it not lvcun for Yllmlletl 111E IP98 l0 U18 hOI-LIO ll " " ' “Mr -~ li._ _ which Spooky was asleep. Because that was the only house there witha doorway big enough for him to enter he 5lma5t always at lcast looked into it when he was over there, He never had found zinyhody in there and didn't expect toSo now when he poked hi; head in lie got, the surprise of his lilo. the daorivay. 'l'i1at was altogether too big. “Dec, dec. nee!" cried Tit the Chickadee. “I sleep a wink in :1 house with a doorway that sizo. No. s'r, I couldn't sleep a uink. I vmnt n doorway that n0 one hitiSvl‘ 11in" mysclt can pass through. 'I‘h»-n I can sleep in peace. There is no one my own size whom I Sear." Yank Yank the Nuthatch (elt the same way. So did Dovmy and Hairy, the Woodpecker cousins.‘ contfact The size oi’ the house didn't H181‘. n’ Josephus c“ ter so much as the size of the_ doorway. No one can sleep rom- m§§fi§xc§§afifi fortably knowing that nn enemy :';._.-”'_;_—l awn!- U51. ’l‘o1nmy couldn't . ‘sum-carry RUPERT AIM WHY 0o 1 NAFTA wast-i y I WANTS TO KNOW IF ‘TV 3 i YOU'LL WAS I'LL ONLY GET DIR l CAN COME OVER AGAIN ‘l’! TO HIS HOUSE _. FOR A _ » r / , - i a - i’ ll ' " . 1 --:'u. LIV we mrea _ i iecrntmwnsisoaus-r "t. worry vwu. THINK l; l» ' ; "k l? MWASWNG 0o can come right in without c-vcn PARTIAL VICTORY knocking. Oi’ course not. North-South vwn a victory in So thart house had rvmalned thc bidding or today's deal. but full amply. Farther Bron-ifs hoy had success eluded thcm in the ploy {Pi guessed the reason. Lately he hml been thinking of making that East dealer. doorway smaller. lie had made it 30"‘ side! Wlnerflble. big in the first place because the ‘4 hauls bad been made in the hopes QAK‘ that Mr. and Mrs. Happy Jack the ‘AK; 13 Gray Squirrels would move into ll. ' ‘A Q; 4 He had thought- it. would he fun ml 4.! 1o a 5 QA K Q I have them tor. neighbors ln the Q Q 8 7 6 N 7 3 g Old Orchard. But the Ha 4' l --'s " Jacks were satisfied with tlllellz- 0Q 8 5 3 ws E zit d" ~ fr‘ hoem in the omit Forest. They e-—— 4.x 1 s: \ ~~ ‘ wq‘, _had looked this house over and O5 ' #53,“; decided that they nould rather v1 was ~_.\ \\“|t']l/ stay where they were. _ Q96 . ~\ 1. But one night in winter Spooky . ‘W935i ' _- I the Screech Owl by chance hadi The bidding: seen that big inviting doorway and' - had entered to see xvhat the lmuse! f?‘ $222” gut was like insldc. It had suited‘ 4. pa" p?" Dbl: him. He had decided to stay. nl Pas: s4. pa“ p", seemed like a snug, warm, good, Pass 1 Si?” giaiftlrlaliil‘ tgottfiiatélilrglglijtlhsil, East could have made (lve spades _ _a.gainst any defense and therefore 5122;]: agiarly dugeri he ‘euledlNorth-South could’ congratulate one l“ th mug has eel’ and "fithcmselves for having taken the e o re rd kmw any" bid away from an enemy who had thing about H‘ lthe highest ranking suit. Conver- Owl sely, of course, East-West were at. Inuit for not pcrsisrling to their limit. Aizainsi. the actual five-club con- Now Spooky the Screech like most of his cousins", van-kg agl 1118M and sleeps lhroilgh the day’ I say works because hunting for] food that it well hidden, lnrl t" ,_ - . '0 kwp hiqden- leans’ h “that; tract, West opened the spade Jack. [East overlook and returned his Th“ is m” Rim‘ "I “W1 mall ll letrr le rt South l ed the Spooky llllFl have in rrlcr t liv _ 5 l.“ H. l a ' pay A" U", "nth" of‘, " ° lint k, west lhc queen, and dummy Orchard‘ the king. The ace and queen of feather“ folks wmk M" d“ “ndl clubs were now led; West held oft sleep through the night. SQ not 0'19 was about. when Spookyl moved in. and hnnnusc the nlhpr| Folks were so mail Ir; ihnl rrntplfs’; house llOllP n1 llwnl even Péeknd. into it. and for several daysl Spooky. l-he little owl in lllF rod‘ with the king, but won the next trick when the club jack was led. East then returned a high spade, nml declare!" could not resist the opporl-rtnity to discard a diamond while he ruffed in dtmmy. It was . m1 expensive maneuver, for now he //% ma“ 11995 l" l"‘-""P "ill “‘""l°Tl-‘ would not got out rrt rlumtnv in draw “:H'h°"" """°"" ""P“"'l"‘! m" h’ i l-tasifs inst trump, and vonsoqilently “a; Hwnl‘ ' I _ v _ thn rcnlrart wont down one trick. fnuhdwalanlliggiffl'l“"k ~"‘vl"l'l'f‘l “h” l South should have been extremely "Gmk, "W; fmin-dl"l‘tl;l_a~l"‘lé‘ll"d suspirlolts, {run the distribution "p If I‘ _t tic Jririri ilif-‘Sli that hnrl nlrcnrly been revealed. ' " """9'l_'l‘” [Wdmg ‘limml, Lhztl. East was very short in both " “’*'“ rod suits. Thus, hon East took the BY Fugull’ 9nd Slwllffl lclub trick and izturned the spade, I rSoulh should have ruffed in his I BUEMADAMJVE lawn hand (discarding a diamond SlQMN YOU from dummy) in order to take the THING IN THE diamond finesse; and after the dia- mond jack held, South could draw East's last trump. Mean-while, West would have lound it impossible to hold both a diamond and a. heart stopper. l-le jumped back in such a hurry that {or an instant he lost his balnncc rind almost loll. But he lcnnght himself, dodged around the trunk of the tree, climbed above the house, and ran out on , la branch where he could look down at the entrance. Haw his v ' tongue did go then! He lhrleked TlPPY AND "CAP" STUQIS ‘ i “Miners ' a i ~ assassinate. r“ MY LAND! IT'S east u - ' l FROM ‘ti-PTIDPIEJS WELL, HOT nos _ GIMME" WAGONJNC. , Arioeul-Jss WHICH our sue FlNALLV . (‘AME ur WlTH? rutnsouoms filer/Am sew/fir, Wit/ATM, woe. BEA LAW!‘ ‘ft/ml? tit xmv and scolded as only a squirrel can. with every word ha iorkad his tall 1,: it salnhhdw it Md scmething to do with getting the y words out. - All the neighbor's in the Old Orchard came hurrylnl (We! t0 llnd out what l-laPPY Jack was l making such a fuss about. In the mom‘ mm: iM Miss mares. A‘! HEART HE'S 195T doorway of that house so long empty sat. Spooky the Screech Owl snapping his bill angrily Such angry excited screaming as resulted the Old Orchard had seldom heard. The neighborhood i was completely upset. l The next story; "What to Do?" By h» a innit “"7145? 7 i