Winnipeg Free Press

Tuesday, May 16, 1950

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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 16, 1950, Winnipeg, Manitoba Page 18 Winnipeg free press. Tuesday May is 1950 Scott s scrap Book the. Had solid warmth in it this Spring Day in the Northern new Hampshire Valley and the men. Coming Back to the Mill from Noonday meals lingered in Square of Yard outside of the drying shed to smoke and talk. Guess you Veall said Onei. Tom Matthews letting his Lance travel darkly around the ring. word made a Low rumble of sound. Of Elisha Forrestal s will Leav ing All he had the Mill the big old Stone House up on the Hill and everything in it to his granddaughter Eliza Forrestal provided she came to this Valley town of new interval to live and furthermore took Over the management of the Mill. Think he d gone soft in the too. A harsh appearing Man of few words but fair in All of his dealings. Now he was gone their feeling of Security was gone too. Culbert was Boss for the time and this girl was coming maybe. refused to come the Mill and House were to be sold and the Money to go to three or four big charities Elisha had named. There d be changes whichever Way it was. One of the outer ring broke the silence. Where s the girl any head asked one of the men another answered for Tom mat thews. Him sane As any us to the minute the stroke hit but her a someone exclaimed . Not More like Twenty seven. Twas Twenty-three.1 years ago that Day Young Robert s gun went off and killed Nate Beebe said this and no one disputed it for it was he who had Lourid the dead body of Young Roberts Over a log. Up on Spruce Hill. Nate added the girl was a Little tyke to even up Tom Matthews said heavily me be Elisha did it to even up with that wife of Roberts for taking the Youjun off to furrier she did t i wait til. Young Robert was if Young Rpbert d married Rirl of hereabouts Istead of an out Sider. A. Lew eyes Slid to Dave Wilson s face. It was still remembered that Robert Forrestal once had paid at Tention to Annie. Aldrich Here in the Valley. Then he a gone South count of old Elisha s notion Tor him to see something of the out Side and come Back with that wife of his and. A year later. Annie Aldrich had married Dave. Dave was a heavy Man but Quick with fists and temper and no one cared about starting any trouble him. Apparently Dave was not think ing of it. He said darkly what c girl know of a running a Shell have Culbert to teach he d Likely have his Way with get it so much with eld Elisha. Some of the younger men laughed giving the words a differ ent meaning but others growled in their throats and then All Fel silent taking the moment to Brood with suspicion on George Culbert the Man Shisha had brought in from the outside a year Back. Few words but. Fair the men knew Elisha As a drive but they no one to a certainly. Somewhere abroad. Likely one said she would t be any More Content to slay in the Valley than her Mother had been. She d prob ably sell. The whistle blew. They moved heavily toward the Sheds. Others in the Val by talked that Day about Elisha Forrestal s com info. Annie Wilson and Hespeth months but he had brought with him a girl he d met and married secretly in new Orlean. Her dreams now Annie married Dave Wilson the next summer. She d been she would have told anyone St butry that she had been Happy the years since. Her dreams now were for her. Boy Tod and if something of the fabric of the old dreams was Iri them it was a secret with Annie and that sometimes thought of Tod As the boy she and Robert might have had. Hespeth answered her dryly. Don t know As it d be much Dif girl or strangers. But come find the House bedded in he. Kitchen of a House on inc River Road Marilyn Streeter asked her husband John Streeter in he d heard whether that for i costal girl was coming. She. Put his luncheon Down on the Kitchen Crabbe. At Annie s Jeanc. Annie and table As she asked it. Dave Wilson lived at the Corner of j the Road where it turned to Start e ascent up Spruce Hili. From window Annie had seen Hespeth iming along and had run out 1o allay her. Had stayed on Hespeth might know something in d been old Elisha s housekeeper t thirty some years and after s death had stayed on in the g House at Elisha s lawyer s re West. Annie waived any greeting. Have you heard from. The girl " Hespeth sucked in her lips. She As a gaunt woman All Bones the wore a Woolen Cape faded to Stiness. And the skin of her face he answered with a weary in difference How would i he slouched a Little Over his plate tired to death though Allne d. Done his morning was drive ten Miles up Over a lumber Road to give an old woman a hypo of morphine. Maybe he d collect two dollars for the service maybe he would to. Marilyn caught the Coffee pot up from the table and set it Down on the stove with a Little bang. You Don t care but i do be someone Here. Juhn let this pass. Whatever he answered would Only set Marilyn off on one of her. Outbursts of Dis Content. He could see her Small by r. J Scott Winnipeg stocks by r. J. I i tuesday May 16th, 19 ouf or Eam 7 Mol of s jus x Fayo Ftfe. Fri Mph general seeding operations seen underway soon seeding should he general throughout Manitoba this week except in the flooded area of the wholesale a spar a pm 32 Ibi beets 50 ibs beet i new so it cab Tasse new. 50 Ibi. Cut Ryoti. 50 Ibi carrots new 50 Tbs cauliflower. Calif., Case celery. Calif., Case cucumbers greenhouse Doz garlic. In lettuce calif., 5 Rioz pm Elly to it. Face twisting working up to be looking backward from the free press and the same Butternut color. No word that i know of Hope she said Annie fervently. It would be so awful see the old House shut up. Or old to or maybe torn own. That s what i m thinking architecturally the old House As. A monstrosity built with no tour it of Grace of Gable or Wing r Oil. But Annie never seen so to her it symbolized Perma seventy Venus 16, 1880 once. Roots that were a very part f the Stony Hillside she had been a intern that autumn. Long ago. When they gave or the lower grades in the Valley school to Leach. She d held her cad Aldrich s girl with enough learning to Leach now he could do the ouse up some buy a suit of Lothes for her father clothes for Erscle. She would keep on study no. She planned Lake some Cor Respondence courses and then she d in qualified to teach higher grades and earn More Money some Day. Gel an appointed mint in i Ity school. Both skating that Winter she met Robert. For Estal. Not that she had t always Cnown him but. That Winter Day t was different. It. Was a late saturday afternoon and they were both skating on the River above he dam. Robert coming out onto chief Dick Power of the City Vilice swooped Down on a newly arrived Fla boat. Captain just As he Vas sitting Down to a breakfast of. A bottle of whisky and a loaf o1 read the Fla boat Captain had Cut the ferry rope at Emerson when it got in the Way of his Craft. Sixty Farmers of Kiji Arney were agitating for a grist Mill and a Good Cash and wheat Bonus was offered to anyone who would build one the great actors 2dw m Booth and Lawrence bar rett had formed a partnership. Red River Valley. A crop report issued by the Federal and Alberta Pacific Grain companies stated monday that due to unfavourable weather very Little seeding had been done to Dace in Manitoba. Total precipitation for Manitoba was above Normal in most districts for the period Between april 9 and May 12. Saskatchewan Cool in Saskatchewan the weather continued Cool during the first Hall of last week with Snow and rain reported at Many Points in the Southeastern seeding is under Way at Many Points in the Western half the province an should be week. Mois Ture conditions Are generally Gooc and fair through most of the pro Vince. Mois fire conditions in Alberta Are fair according to a report put out by the National Grain company except in some Centra and Northern districts where poor soft soil conditions Are reported seeding is advancing with a Gen eral average of l 5 per cent o wheat seeded and a Small percent age of coarse grains. Onions cooking 50 ibs. Onions Green 1oz. To Ninon Spanish m ibs. Ireen peppers in. Potatoes Man., 75 ibs. 3otatoes, p.e.i., 75 ibs. Radishes Doz. Bunt is spin adv 20 ibs. Tomatoes Texas 28 ibs. Turnips 50 ibs. 2.75 commission House prices butter produce May 36 2.90 3.uo 3.00 4.25 6.50 2.50 by 2.00 .33 1.90 tuesday May 16th, 1950 bid ask Anglo can. Oils Ltd. 6.00 Ashdown hardware a 15.2s 3.5.50 Beaver lumber Pla. 28.uo Beaver lumber clan a 19.00 Beaver Luton or com. Bird construct Lon 25.00 can. Fire ins. S10 . 21.00 can. Indemnity 510 . 33.50 Ciot. Nov 6.25 cent nor. A 2.50 la Compaq like Yonciere Manitoba x45.75 80.00 Crescent Creamery pit. 70.00 Federal Grain pfd.122.00 125.00 Federal Grain com. A 31.25 k liver and burp a 11.25 Fibber and burped 3.25 Tif ineral Jisc Ogunti 7.75 great West Coal 21.on great West life Assance. 440.00 it. West Saddle y con. Onich life 40ft paid i. Can. Web. Gumti 1s.oo Ortner 9.00 Orth Oil pad. 5fi 5% Orth Star Oil com. 9.25 30.00 Truin Coin. 2.50 Liea s brewery a 15.00 16.01 Ives Elan Lite 2511 paid 50.25 Radert building Assn. Grain a is.10 Grain Phil. 15.00 50.ih Drain com. 2.0ui Stern grocers pad. Estern grocers class a 32.50 34.oc vhf Lei a grocers com. Products vol Sun stationers pad. 97.30 Illson sch liners com. 11.7ft Vinni poc electric 5% pad. 99.50 1.10.0c Venn leg Al cell u com.17.50 x indicates add Golf Salks sales .11.30 . My 35th to 31.30 Lay 361h san Antonio 100 flt forty four mines 325 Willynn com. 50 at . Rompa Finly Fon Clere de 0 at aunes if oils Obj -1-1 i Ruck cons.01 .01v e. Corporation 7.90 Leinan Fin flon .07 enu Al .06 Cryderman Gold mines .03 licks Lonc copper.02 w Lin Gold .0 Vlay hit Canadian sales Creamery prices jux producers poultry average paying prices Tor unt Radet poultry delivered in Winnipeg. Live fowl no. I Over s bs.21-.21 no. 1, 4 to 5 ibs.18-.11 no. 2, All weights .1 eggs wholesale dealers paying on aver afe. Basis uni add Cess delivered in Winnipeg a parse. Per a medium a pullets 8 Ronde Grade Bond quotations the invest Man j. Dealers association of Dominion of Canada 1st Vertory loan 3% 2nd Victory loan 3rd Victory loan 3% 4th Virlor loan Sci 5th Victory loan 3% fit i v id Ory a 7th Victory loan sch Victory loan Grain inspection cats inspected monday. May is fifty Venus ago May 16, the Winnipeg orchestra society celebrated the of the first. Year of its existence by a. Concert n Friendship Hall directed by l. Re. To. Min Chin. Higgins Avenue Between main Street and Louise Bridge was a quagmire and re urgent petitions for a pave preferably of Asphalt. Man. Nor u Man. Nori mar. Nor Man. Nor no. 3 no. I smugly re cycled Tough Sample no. 3 Garnet Toul a Garnet am. Durum 3 am. Durum 4 am. Durum Rej. Am. Durum durum and Spring Sample 1 White Spring 2 Spring mixed wheat six 2 . Six 3 . Mixed grains grand total he ice on his skates watched her congregation of Westminster a pretty girl with Rosy Church had the pleasure of listen knew he drove himself Cheeks and soft dark eyes and on he to their Pioneer pastor. Rev. Z. B. Pitblado or. Pitblado Dur Annie Aldrich. Aren t you ing his visit to Winnipeg was stops headache come on. Do a turn with he c staying at the Home of his son Isaac Pitblado 91 Balmoral place. Taken her Mitt ened hands masterfully swung her ahead Over the gleaming ice. Thirty years in 1820 the Falcons hockey champions he d walked Home with her that of the world arrived Back in win Day Annie knew she d prettier the Nipes from their tour of Conquest parlor for just such an hour. Even for double the Price you can t buy anything better than overseas they were Given a presentation and a banquet the boys inter and ir4o the Spring arid the reported that everyone overseas them Well especially As More than a Friendship with Saar commissioner Dick Waugh. Former mayor of Winnipeg who out words of it spoken but Weer had tendered them a magnificent banquet in Paris. Lit talc schoo marm. Tajc Valley a copied it. Old Elisha approved in Robert s Mother had been a school Twenty years a Archbie Sloop . Matheson appointed Rev. J. Ranee As Rector in Cranford. But Elish of St. Martins in the Felci Winni wanted Robert of the outside Down in or. Ranee had been Rector of before he Settle the anglican Church at Keewatin Rev. Vav. H. Wood former screening Secretary of United Farmers Home dry behind the cars for. You. Of Manitoba was Catherl to Austin had snid . Nob Crl had in inc Home Rafiei Fer tolling your own try at neg. J 2 19 1 1 1 1 1 total West called Lune 15 102.75 103. Al 103.4 102. I 102. 0-j. A j03.o .102. 102.25 ii 302.2s 101.30 102.l 01 h Victory loan . Guir province of Manitoba Piliro 15, Ifko c Tir ill 1, 1964 c dec. 15. I sub c 96.r province of Saskatchewan 4% nov. 1, Lithio 1c 101.so 102.5 pcs. 15, 101.00 102.1 nov. 15. 1.962 c 36.00 97.r Mai. 1. 1963 1c 91.50 96.0 province of Alberta 1, c 100.00 100.5 Jet june 1, by 110.00 110.k cd l v of Winnipeg 9i oct. 1. 1966 a a nov. 1, 1968 corporations auit Ibi 314co 1067 Anglo can. Oil 1964 Dollar shortage casts Shadow on wheat pact London May 16 thoughts on Canada s wheat marketing Outlook is ventilated Edi orally tuesday by the financial times. In a column length editorial on the eve of the departure of it. Hon. C. D. Howe Canadian Trade min ister for talks with it. Hon. Maur ice Webb food minister t he news paper says prospects Viust spell misgiving in or. Howe will be accompanied by his Deputy Max , and George Milvor chairman of the Canadian wheat Board. The paper says the Canadian officials desire to negotiate a con tract additional to though within the International wheat indicating that the Canadian government is concerned with the Sale of the 1950 crop. The International agreement guarantees Canada an annual Export quota bushels of wheat. But the newspaper said Dollar troubles still Are among the most .02 -90 god s Lake m Gold Lake of i .03 great Falls m. I s.02 a .04 Gunnar Gold .18 land Lake .01 Larvel Dili .o2 a .03vi Normandy Gold mines .03 ick sack .01 a de k. S.02 lice Lake Gold mines .01 it san Antonio 3.30 cotia golrt.01 Sherru Gordon Star Lake .01 .02 Pekusko consolidated .07 Vinn Ipek River tin .01 .01 la Mutual investment shares can. Amer. Truit 4.25 s.65 4.02 9.95 . Has Active fur Sale Vancouver May 16 up Milady s fur coat is big business in British Columbia. Some Worth of Mink skins were sold Here last week can. Invest fund. Enl 1 corp. 3.93 corporate investors 9.21 grouped income 7.51 in one of the most Active fur auctions in fur auctioneer Theodore Pappas said monday. Prices he said were 15 to 20 per cent higher than last month s Sale. There were Mink skins on consignment. Other skins Selling readily were mainly Muskrat Ermine Martin and Fisher. Important influences in the world. Wheat Market and the agreement task t helped to overcome them. In act currency troubles. L punched two holes in the agree ment s Case the financial time said. This happened when Britain fearing inroads in her own sources of Supply consented to admit Many to the International wheat Council Only on the condition that her 1950 wheat quota of bushels be entirely from the United states and that until 1953 she get Only annually from Australia. _ the second effect of the Dollar shortage is that while Canada has sold s3 per cent of her Export quota this year the United Stales has sold Only 5s per cent. Whether the United slates will continue to make Marshall dollars available to Purchase Canadian wheat is begin Ning to look doubtful. It looks increasingly doubtful to canadians even although there Lias been reduction in wheat acre age both in the United states and Canada thai . Dollars will available for next season s Pur chases. The Crux of this negotiation us of All Anglo Canadian Trade negotiations must of course be the l United kingdom s Supply of Dol Lars. And this depends on the ability of the United kingdom to increase its Dollar earning sex unlisted mines James Richardson Bel Telephone Suto 1973 . Electric s in 1967 . Electric 196s Burnt and co. 1963 can. Steamship 4t. 1966 Coch shut plow Colum. Cellulose 5ti 1968 cons. Paper o to Winter Wikul 10 17 30 14 3 1 in 3 a 4 1 4 100.00 101.50 102.s 107.50 10s. 102.00 103.ul 96.75 97.75 101.25 102.75 99.00 100.75 99.00 101.00 102.00 iu3.5u 101.25 103.uo 101.75 iu2.5u Advance red Alexander red Lake Al Etc Baker Uki Barri Nelun Lake 3i-0re Boulder Hill Brown Mcdade car. Exploration Carn Rny Central Manitoba Cocheran red Luke Dom Manue Foi to four j a Mont Gold 1045 Granville Kuga pan Insco jeep jul i Jensen . Kiwayo Sally Lassie died Lake life Nora Linkey Mallyn red Lake Mccuaig red Mcfinney Ren Miles lied Lake murmur new Anna i la a Nichi ni5lo sons eld 3 b 1 14 20 1 9 4.75 r 4 7 30 25 2 11 6.ixj to 5 i 114 6 2 of 90 6 3 unlisted oils James Richardson sons Alliance j m. Ballac Oil crusader Pete Jevon Leduc Franco oils 5s Era Leduc oils 7 Ireat Bend Oil 1 enter Leduc Oil it oils i Jupiter oils 25 Lone Nock Oil Madison Oil Mcleoa. 1 Terland oils 3a Cilc Oil and Reg. 4 Qualli oils s Redwater Pete 1 rib Stone Valley Oftle Rose Leduc trend trl Flold pole u a Stork Pele i1. T. Eaton realty 3wt. 1ss8 102.50 103.so Federal Grain 1964 99.50 102.00 get. Plain Dev. 156 1964 99.50 102.00 Imperial Oil 3% int. Pipe line 196a 1970 9s.75 100.50 270.00 280.00 h. R Macmillan 1963 1u1.5u 104.ju Massey Harris 4k-s 1063 ioa.50 Power corp. Asifo 1967 Bros. 3 lift 1966 Alban 1970 Simpson i 3% is i960 . Grow i 4% 1963 97.25 99.25 101.50 lttj.30 102.50 103.25 102.25 103.25 100.50 sice. 1971 102.25 103.50 Cotton futures new York May .16 a Cotton futures monday closed unchanged to 70 cents a Bale higher. Nor Payne Ocllo Knite tantalum Fuesl. Yellowknife Rand Malar tic pie Wood Refina Vellow Neft russet red Lake sail to smelters Gold Snow Lake Squall Lake Sunbear Thornhill Wesley Gold West red Luke Yellowknife Gold Vounce Davidson Zakor May try. Oct. Much. May 2 nil .1 581 a on track wheal move mkt by roads .c.n.r. 4-16 . Of Coffee futures new Stork co face and Exchange prices cents and hundredths per Pound. A contends Lor Ali recent. Collect. Basic Trade Santos no. New York May 16 a _ Coffee spot Santos no. 4 monday closer at 46n. Cost and freight offerings include Santos bourbons 3s at 46.10-85a and 5s 43.85 44.60a, Santos no 4 a futures closed 135 to 200 lower sales 247 con tracts. High 32.59 32.75 31.37 31.26 31.30 31.28 Low 32.47 32.62 -31.18 31.09 31.13 31.09 6 i 2 2 6 4 j 4 v4 is 4 9 4 20 1.2fl 5 2 j5 2 s 8 6 20 6 u ii .12 1.30 7 Ofia 4 close Asli 2 25 20 r 5 12 30 30 3s 30 . Car exports at March record London. May 16 ish production and exports of automobiles both set records in March the society of motor manufacturers and traders re ported. The country exported More than passenger cars to the United states that month comp ared with Only 353 in March 1949. She exported to Canada up from t total exports of pleasure Auto mobiles were conv pared with in March last year. Exports of trucks and buses totalled about 13.000, compared with Wem. Pete a St Lack p 4 i London stocks v. Close Babcock a Wilcox a citral mining cons. Gold Fields our aulds Hudson s Bay Imperial chemical Box mexican Kapic Rand mines 2 0 9n Loans fund incs is g0- 90 close r-i9s fish 41s s7s 1ss 1 Sll 1-1 is in hrs thu69-% i so 10 id vis 7 id 7ks m los its irs id 342s 6rf aluminium Cormui catch and ribbed for roofing and siding Sheet 5 to m i it. 36" covered 32" we 24 Send roof a f thing cull Lor i Louir a. L Gunneville mfg. R. Q. I 1 1.22 19 s 1.23 20 10 last 32.55 32.69-72 31.10 ?1.17n .31.09-10 middling spot 33.40n up 11. Sipma mines Ltd. 25 cents tidy 29. Record june 2e. Newsprint outfit up London May 16 bup Western Europe s newsprint production in 1950 will raise slightly Over last year s total a British uni Ted press Survey showed tuesday but prices Are higher and there will be change in the surpluses available for Export. Figures on estimated production in 12 countries disclosed that Post War High of inns will he Mamta Clit de this year. The 1949 total was at of comr hardware department and variety High .41.50 42.55 40.17 3s.60 37.39 Low 43. 85 41.40 38.91 37.45 36.25 last 43.85 41.40 38.31 37.45 36.25 Jsantos no. 4 a futures closed 5 lower sales one contract. High Low last Lay 42.90 42.90 42.75n sugar futures new if orc coff and sugar Exchange or Lei and Hundredth per Pound. Dom tic sugars include american. Puerto re cafe cuban and Canadian. Nui. 5 and 6 and world no. 4 Are Pecille May 16 a _ Domestic sugar futures no. 6 close unchanged monday sales 2 contracts. High Low last 5.24 5.24 5.24 Domestic sugar futures no. 5 closed quiet. No sales. World sugar futures no. 4 closed 2 higher sales 14 contracts. High Low last try. 4.16 4.17n . 4.14 4.13 4.14b much. .3.87 3.s7 3.96n raw sugar spot 5.ton. Wholesale Index new 16 the associated press weighted wholesale Price Index of 35 commodities Mon advanced to new High for 1950. Previous Day 164.11. Week ago 163.37, month ago 159.61, year ago 154.96. 16432 177.37 20s.14 507.34 Low 159.30 150.05 176.70 164.05 behind the entries and withdrawals on the books of our branches behind the records of Loans made and repayments met Are numerous stories of human Progress. Like Chr of Jimmy now going in College u to used to visit us weekly to do posit his news route earnings like the Case of Bill who started his successful business with a sound ides modest capital and the help of Bank loan like Bob and Betty now nicely settled with a new House and growing family who tre glad they took their Bank of manager s advice and held onto their Bonds helping you grow is the essence of banking As we see it at the Bank of Nova Scotia. Why not talk Over your financial plans with your Bank of Nova Scotia manager you la find him a Good Man to know. A sign of Good Friendship Portage and Garry main and Rupert ;