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8 The Guardian, Charlottetown, Thars, May 13, 1965.

FEDERATION NEWSLET TER”)

Tractors On Piahvway, Dryness Causes Concern

Br J LINCOLN DEWAR ed strip shen traffe ts moving ‘foundation for eventual regula- This vears record indicates TRACTORS AND TRAFFIC tion and is, in addition, creating he! forthe pedestrian_our hizh.[n dealing upgth fhis~narticular a poor imnres:ion for himself

highway .problem we fee! in position te he ohiective arth hoth

has the hizhway

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they have every richt this i previehc 1n_any ways

a and his industry

having vehicles every and nicht that. shouldn't be

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with a

In practically atl hest rule courtesy. ths more co-operative attitude gen- arty will do much tc make our safer niare

ta falleu

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highways 2

te dn ths hyt. thew are certainly

— mz fate Fosithi? the car However. the artion of some BEEF PRO) _— eos dever os m 2 murh better posi- tractor drivers. ¥ cortinned will On Friday " - . wis) pai hae tm weice the danzer hut he ead vent ta unwelcomed Court the Bee eee - sso fore many nf the pede:trians restrictions AAs. an examole the ciation wil! he - holding ms an- hecnme drivers the realization farm tractar which helds up a Bua! meeting, the time - ns

ail) eeme ton late long line of traffie behind it P™ and the place is Bire The soce walker Nn i be when the driver could pull over a Association was formed values his Ife, keep off the p2v- to the shoulder, 1s laying the with the original idea of im- cae ae ‘proving the marketing s:tuation for cattle and thus putting a

* them and they

ACROSS THE ISLAND

Yarns Are Gruesome

~ But Ghosts Harmless:

By NEI A MATHESON

Provincial-Farm Enitor rite

“GUNSTS, APPARITIONS, and elves had @ large place in

the heliefs of our forebears in the Old Country.” W. D. Johnston, Montague succested. when I called om him at Hillside Inn where he -recidet When they emigrated te our Canadian

shores they took their religion and their ghostly belefs with stiick as tenaciously te one as to fhe other of those beliefs, you * he emphasizes netmnc evil or

T you weuld oppose them or make littlesof would brace down their wrath upon your head,’ But the VMontacue man insists there is

harmful —aboutthe people _or_spirits_who_ belong to the ghost

‘

“listened to the ald folk relate some . aw eRnMe

world. thouch he ‘ when he

tales concerning those persons from the ghost world, was young

“Lone aco when Montacue was only a small wilace’’, Mr Inhnstone told me. “it was claimed that a man met with foul play on the cnad leadne to Wizhtman'’s pomt’’) His ghost, the old story satd “was seen there many times in later years.

4 fine Christian centleman, Charles Poole, a carpenter by trade, lived in Montacue In those days caskets were un- known by that name. they were called coffins. Thev were made wide at the shoulder. taperine a httle toward the head and they had 2 very lonc taper tow ard the foot’

Coffin Maker's Saws Tingle

FACTORY MADE coffins were not obtainable then and the local carpenter was called on to build one when it was teed- ed | have heard manv forerunners about deaths and coffins, of noises in miles of pine boards of the smind at midnicht of ghostly saws and hammers working, but here is a different ae > Is Foole, 1 was told by Mr. Johnston, would know when he was about to he asked to make 2 coffin ‘The saws hang- ing on pegs im his workshop would tingle—give a ringing

sound” . “Incidentally Mr Johnston made manv coffins He worked the Montacue Furnishing Company and. made coffins for People gr every, province of Canada He made a trial ship ‘ment of three coffins once, he told me. for a dealer in Come South~Afiica but the freicht charges were so high, husiness was not economically sound

Some of the old chnst stories would fairly cur! your hair, and Mr Iqhnstone the most blood-curdhns”’ of which he ever heard. and it cones something like this: ~ <~---.

Tun men were returnine home from Charlottetown “im a eart Shortiv after they passed a saw betucen Millview and Pownal Corner “one of them looked hack and saw somethine hovtthie Innianz”’ He /nudced his companion and “hoth were almost petrified with fear as they

mar A feu days later ‘2 man fell on the ary sax in thee mill and his head was cut off by the saw.”

Terrible Dread Of Nightly Travel

A RELATIVE of Mr sthle dread of beins out after night fell home with 2 horse and waggon, horse in an effort th get more he would get home as soon as possible convincing reason for this fear

If darkness overtook this man om the road he would he ettacked by zome horrible creature that would take the form of 2 ferncions bird ‘It would fly upon the man and punish him most severely, and he couldn't cet rid of it. Mr-John- ston The man used to take a lantern with him when posible ‘to keep the evil snirits away," but how well that worked, I cannot say.

This is a forerunner, of which many were experienced in ether vears, and some of them in the not so lone age

Two womer were down at the North Shore of the Montage Giver On their wav in broad daylicht. they saw a light leaving the home of a neichbor: it moved dione the roadway, turned East and then moved alone the roadwat and disap peared. The women were mvstified bv this strange sight Im the course of 2 few davs a2 child in the home took sick. and died 2 few days The day wended the same sav en route to the Rrudenell cemetery

for

toun

recalls

Tohnston ‘knew @ man who had pe ter- If he was away from

“he would almost Eill his speed out of the animal eso ' There was a most

recalls the old story said

home

later the funeral.

“One of the «omen who saw the light was my mother-in- law,"’ Mr. Johnston told me Anothér story told of 2 man whe met ea funeral when he

was drivine alone the road one nicht It was so real to him that he onll@d his horse to ome side of the road. and waited for the procession te mess

Even more interesting to me is the story of the horse pull- ing over tn the side of the rnad hy, itself, end refusine to start Sor a few minute: A fex davs week later. the man would meet a fineral at the same spot I've heard of that happening when I wes 2 boy, thouch I never had the experience myself’

Black Dog Devil-Tam O’Shanter

THIS GRUESOME story wat tnid me by 2 fine old gentleman who lives in Eastern Kings. but does not want me to use his name. lest some of his friends should think he was ying to ze some netoret:

A man lived in his declining soms. ard two danchter: The ard darichters bad to him that they earned his bitter resentment old story “he willed his farm to the devil ”

A Wack dog wast seen around the farm marr Black dog came and lav fore he was biried. the story

Recents of the commnity mmuczlelInadme shot sun % at the animal. but the

or pessiblv 2

as a story teller years wren Ms fart sors were so So, the says times. The under the man's coffin once, be- stated used to fill ar old Fashioned with dimes and nictels and fire sver newer tank anv effect

The reference here is fr the old helief that onlv a silver bullet would kill an evil spirit Incidentally the “devil ap pearing in the fort: of 2 black dng” is an old belief Wilfred

Sandy’ Macleod of Moore and “MecLeowis. whe is now a Southport ner chhorr me that the old “black decdevl” story goes back to Bobbie Burns and his “Tam O Shanter’™’.

C. W. Judson 103 On Saturday

1 DIDN'T realize wher | started ts column that Saturday, May 15 is the 10rd anniversary of the birth of © W Judson the grand old zentieman of Churchill! Several vear: ago I did 2 column on ‘his man which took readers back to the davs of vesteryear

Congratulation: came from the Queer and frem the Prime VWinister, then John Diefenbaker. when Mr Judson cbserved his

100th birthday et Churchill three vears azo

ae Judson lives with Mr and Mrs Damel Lamont and the is hic granddaughter 1 haven't seen him now ‘or more than 2 vear but the man had a crip in hic hand like a wrestler. when 1 last caw him Mrs Lamont tells me he stil] has that grip Born in Cherry Vallev he spent most of his life there where was

tells

secfetary of schoo! trustees once He moved later to before he went to live atth the Lamonte He has been to bed aow for almost two years, but is in reasonably health.

i

| better foundation under an in dustry which apneared to he

making rather indifferent pro

gress The ®rst president, Mr. Gass after years of study had con-

~ludedthat market relationship hetween prices bere and in oth- er markete when related te meat prices weren't what they

should be It was obvious that = = of the Assnciation at mning had some infin.

‘ence — that the relationship | improved More recently. with the ap” pointment by the Department of Agriculture of a heef fieldman, there has heen available a ser- vice of considerable value Mr Cotton will be the main speaker on Friday evening and farmers “who have cattle to sell or wish to buy feeder cattle could profit from Mr Cotton’s knowledge of

: _the business

the .procession

The: Association. hasn't had the support that it merits. if cat- tlemen see the need for im- provement. then mnre interest in this Association might be a worthwhile initial step

Reported on also will be the Proposed cattle survey and pro- gress or otherwise tn this con- nection DROUTH

Drv weather is never quite sn j evident in winter but statistical- ty it has heen demonsfrated that

\for the first four months of -1965 ~we have had--quite a-serious- drouth. Through. April there was Practically no rain and the first half of May also

Due to dryness and cold wea- ther, growth of grass has been very slow and unless the situation improves the stage is now set for a short hay crop. Already complaints are heard ‘from the Western half of the province that the cround ts very dry. should the drv weather con- tinue then there is real trouble ahead DAIRY FINE PRINT

On Wednesday representatives of dairy plants met in Moncton

;with Mr Goodwillie of- the Fe- deral Department of Azricul-

ture for a /briefinge on matters related to the new dairy policy which is now in effect. Up to the present tune there has been a dezree of uncertainty on the part of plant operators as to

milk or cream

matters wit! be EDUCATION

On Wednesday members of the Farm Forum Committee and others interested met to con- isider the eventual termination of Faren Forum and to ensider what mght be a lopcal develop. ment in the adult education held for this province. —

\ Present were Rodger Schwass of Toronto. formerly Farm For- um Secretary and Rudy Dalles. bach representing the ARDA administration On Friday a Maritime meeting takes place in Moncton to deal with the same matter cn a broader ba- sis

While there ts notinng definite to report on at the moment it can be stated that a number of different zroups are interested in this matter of adult educa- tion and that progress may de-

230 pend to what extent coordina

tion of ideas may be brought

about

MARCH ON OTTAWA

ae i ee oe

last Sunday afternoon

‘avhic report on

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a

3

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ion” No w be

a

men vi impressed by the ag-

ssive, militant approach and many would say, “Why doesn't the Federation of Agriculture do something like that?"’ _

Some of the leaders i= the Un- ion march ate known personally to;the writer — Mr Atkinson

are others who are certainly not lacking im ability and aggres- siveness

If there is a hasie difference in the two organizations, # rests in the two different approaches. The Federation has rehed heav- ily on negotiation based on sound economic reasoning The Umion has tended to be more aggressive in a public way with “marchers and a militant ap- proach

The focal point of the- Union's demand in this particular in- stance has heer of parity prie- es, that §$ prices for farm pro- ducts which are related to the cost of goods and services..which the farmer must use. On the face.of it this would appear to be a reasonable demand Hoew- ever. the joker {s that parity Drices will lead to regulation. Testriction and regimentation which-the-Federation—feels most farmers-are not-prepared to ac- cent

ROK SOLDIER KILLED

SEOUL AP? — AUS. At Force plane accidentally fired

38 rockets into a South Korean Army position during firing practice Wednesday. kiline a Korean soldier and injuring four others. The United Nations

“command said the accident oc-

curred at a range north of Seoul where UN forces were conducting an air-to-ground ex-

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