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SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, OCTOBER, 23:19
• 2 Canadian gaikil7irays_ Begin. To Fight Back'
It has been refreshing during.Te
cent weeks to see that Canadian 'rail-
- yvays, have abandoned the `,9),On't
re" attitude that has .characterizL-
ed their dealings with the:public over -
Many years. There have been; sev-
eral.. signs latelythat the defeatisni
• so long a part of railway thinking is
giving way to a new vitality and a..
spirit of aggressiveness.,
•The railways have 'problems ipso-
fakas passenger traffic is concern-
ed. No one -realizes that More than
those of us on a branch line, who in
•our infrequent.trips by train see.row
on row of Seats, empty of passengers.
Brought on by the Modern antomp-
. bile and smooth highways the. siti
tion in the .past has been considered
by the railways as -unsurmOuntable,
. duce service and. raise bli!es•
But now, a different approach
pears to •prevail. There are ' lower
Bright, attractive ,and well-light,ed
depots cannot help to do lintel' to en-
courage' people to "travel by
After all, the railways must depend -
on ,business that has its beginning in
each of the hundreds of Municipali-
ties served„ regardless of ).-size. By
tidying up, by taking some pride -in
• the part that. can be played in each
community- and assuming responsi-'
bilities simth
ilar to ose, of other good
Citizi
ens for. the .mpresSion it creates
in the:public-Mind at the local level,
much Canbe done to .engendera. sense
..of partnership 111 the operation_ of the
'lines: It is;:not:enough to establish a
partnership only through the ,under-.
wrjting, of -deficits ta)ees.
,Still .LOoking •
_The_ earl ,:immigrA.4,
jooking'for new:he/nes. Their 07S-cell-
dantSstill are ,loOking .for. new hanieS... -
."So- We, are -holding Our own.(Bran,L,
fares for persons. travelling in- don Sun).
,grouPs, Whether family or unrelated:."'
There are package deals Covering-,
fares, meals and berths. There are
• the "go now, pay later" plans—not
milike the schemes under which most
'automobiles are bought
The railways have a place, iibt On-
ly to provide transportation overdong
• distances, but for the short haul as
well. _Admittedly, the public, gr•own
• accustomed to the indifference exhib-
ited by the roads for so many years,
must be sold. But this can be dote.
• With an_imaginative approach, a re
-
emphasis' on service_and the rebirth
• of a new morale among employees,
the railways can recapture that vital-
ity and confidence that more than
half a century ago made possible
development of Canada as a nation.
We hope, too, in their •new ap-
• proach, the railways will remember
that with diesel power their rights--
of-way and buildings need no longer
be the dirtiest and most poorly main-
tained site in most Communities.
Political Basis
We don't like the iMpliCationS
an Ottawa repOrt.'Which States :that,
ProgreSSive 'ConSeOative
officially share the reSpOnSibility in
gOvernment,pUbliCity. releases . for
:projects: It hints
a 10I.11.:,, eiituiy public. re.1.,"ti.On§... •
ol'kbari•el •': WhiCh
• coine than'Old4ashioned.;eaft
Hei e's the new proCedure:.
nouncement of new pubhc woiks in
• .• .a 'cOnStituency wili ,be
ing jOintly froni-: the
"member :(on Conditionthat, he is -a
ConservatiVe)., and the TriiiiiSikr,If
the 4n:oject:i.s- Pr a Libel' al. ,in...CCF,
• .constituediey the sitting The/libel.' is •
just out of luck announcement will. ,
. then be madein the:Minister's name:',,
only End result is that 'Credit 'for'
• new public..orks will .be pit strictly
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APOOTH, ONT.
LAFF OF-) THE_
EX-
'It's going to do you no good to resist ine, Miss Ilallock—
' I'll just turn On more of my indisputable Cliarrn'
(By REV. ROBERT IL HARPER)
.CILALW OF KIN
A newspaper story recently con-
cerned' a ,rennote mountain village
• of Germany Where dwell numer-
ous pereonswhose, name is Herter.
All of Them, it iS told, are deeply
• interested in the fact that one of
• the descendants of the clan has
become a world citizen who seems
• destined to have a large part in
solving "the problems of manidnil.
It matters little to the mountain
• clan that this Herter was born, in
• Paris and that he rose to distinc-
• tion. in the United States, he is a
• Herter and will ever be-theirnwn.
• This sense of kinship is a patent
•fact)in history. The preservation
• of the Hebrew race is remarkable.
Scattered to corners of earth, and
speaking a varied language, they
• have returned„. a host of them, to
the immemorial land •of their
So let us cherish the best in the
• ideals of the mingled eeces that
has built here in • The Western
• Hemisphere a nation that will, un-
der God, lead the world -to peace.
_
Honor "Scotty ' Forbes ,
Jack Bateson ',Was master. of
:ceremojesFriday evening
•when' Braneh 180 Canadian Legion
entertained ,Zone„Cl members and
thelr wives at the Royal T. The
...e•&asion was. in honor of A. M.
• "Scotty" Forbes and Mrs. Forbes.
Mr. Forbes has retired as Western
Ontario Welfare Officer •of the
Canadian Legidn. He will a.ct as
a consultant for Provincial Com-
mand in future, to be called in. on
special cases.—Wingham Advance -
Sits On Car
, 'Clayton Robinson, R.R. 2, Mit-
chell, enroute to- his home and Un-
able to see the bridge over -Whirl
Creek early Thursday Morning due
to heavy fog, spent an anidous
hour, perched, on top 'of his car,
Which plunged into the creek. Soak-
ed to his armpits, he managed to.
crawl from the car to the roof,'
remaining Until. a motorist saw the
lights and summoned 'a tow -truer.
The creek was Swollen from heavy
rains and was about- four ,thet
deep..Mitchell Advocate.' •
.Winter:.Werks :Didn't Work
„.
,One .ghtvertinietit...bOtly .Which:,at-
, ,
tempted to cooperate with the, fed -
'era last
year has:found it 'dOeSict paY. The
„Ausable, 4iithetity:lhas.,„S1eshettilie,
lnidg,et'thr its Winter 'prograni from
,$17,000to:,S5,000,,,: and 'even., that
'amonntIS. cOnditional on suitable
,ProjeCtS'and,Weether,:The Author-
ity ttempted tq provide .
ivtirk-e4..-poseihie.lest ,winter When..
.,the Plea went ,out for governinent.
bodies to help
PlOyment
AnthOrities. 'offered. grants th.offset
the cost of .the work.,' .1-lovVeyer,
-AutheritY officials decided that,...ev„"
en•Avith' the grantS;71t. •WaS, ,costing,
thent. more to tackle.Ihe projeets
the winter :thin -it' would have
iii.the : Sul:diner' .-.SeaSen:. Exeter:
Tinies:Advotate. 'W.
,
. Fire.
,." -Follewing, A firtbat1 eompletelF,',
destroyed:aeattage iiertlf.rit„Grand.,
ntlf last' ''Tneeday,-,:eyeiaing.,...,the•
Ontario Fire:
'beet, reUueetect..toconductafl.inL':
.tiiatitin..:Hya.1.114,, Of the. building
'Wes.set atless-,ThanIS.10,000,49Wlier
of thebel1dirgvas.',D'. R.
.born,: Loncloii,, Who a fire exlin-
guisher
Salesman; :The 'fire "first.
broke Mit.;on TuesdaY., ,afternobn,
and '1,A;'a:S e ii,ihedy the7 Gia0.4
11 end • end:, pa. slividoci... fire depart-.:
irients;,.whO'reMained ,at. the eeene'
te „make Stire•the ,fire
was out. ' Brigades were .cafied.loack
again.in theeVeningat 7 .:1;$'.13.:ru.;:,
lint the WaS, , out of control
-when .flie..baSliWedd :brigade erriy7'
led there:. They • pUnined water'.from,
,tlie lake to 'save neighboring .builcl‘.
ings. Owner Fairborn,,WeS.At. :the.
scene. . ,:shortlY, ..after the fire
brierades. were Called in the, after:::
txoon,.and .he ',was there ,Ni,vlien the
callCarrie at :night..,The..Cottagels:
..in -the RidgewaY • Siibrlivieion abut
four thllSnrth of Grand:Bend.—
Zurich : Citizens Ne„
Williarn” An ers n,,..manage,g .of
the Maher Shoe 'Store:at •Getthrieh
for the past nine Yeers;chas been
appointed. :Industrial ,..CominisSien-
'er,ftlie town, at, .NeWinarket::11e-,
takes, over the post' about mid -No-.
vember.- A native of London, Ont.,
he: Was 'located at Welland.beford
conlitig: to Godetieli.. Intensely in-
tereSted in -,the Work of .the, Jay-
cees, lie was twice president 'of:the.
Go'deriCli Jaycees And:was-aleo dis-
trict ,Jaycee president. He served
on .the ,Goderichtown council; on
the Planning ;13bard .atid, was chair,,
.raanr. of the, ,,Coderieh Industrial.
--CuUtnitssion. ..Always,..: active .
omthuny--bettrtiinthe- will be
missed. iii"Gaderich.Goderich Sigt,
nal -Star. ' • '
. • , ,
McDUFF OTTAWA REPORT
• ST. GEORGE AND The ,
DRAGONS - •
OTTAWA—AS. we predicted a
month beforehand, 'Canada's char.
tered -banks have come 'under
heavy fire recently from bath
Prime Minister. Diefegbaker. and
Finance Minister Fleming as the
villains.. behind the present -credit
drought..
•
During, 1957 Mr. • Dieferibaker
launched a relentless attack from
theopposition benclienn the Com -
molts azid • out len-thehustings
• against the Liberal regime for the
tight money situation which then
prevailed. • .. •
Faced with a credit shortage -that
made that of twoyears ago seem
mild by comparison aTia interest
rates that were climbing. to an all-
time high, the Conservative leader
had to find• a •scapegoat. He set,
tied for the banks,- which politiCal:-
ly can. all too easily be Portrayed
as, the epitorny of Big Business. ,
1Vir.,Illiefeniciakevittade no direct
charges, ,but the . unmistakable•in-
ference he left for the mait-in-the-
street was that. the: banks were.
Solely to Wattle for the , present
Credit shortage "and the, reason they
• were to blame was that they were
depriving smalLborrowers of loans
to lend' money to the big, wealthy
corporations: •.
- "I assure Yeti this, that the gov-
ernment does not 'intend that- the
prosperity resulting from the eco-
nomic recovery shall be foe the
benefit of the few and to the:hale'
tratiOnof, the' many," the Prime
Minister declared. •
pp. to a •few 'weeks „before his
•.speech over th'e hational CBC tele,
visioe network tile bankS-May h'ave
become more heavilY ,committeeti
,to large borrowers than was wise.
• But this is only. a small part of the,
‘vvhich at one time hailed, Mr, Dief-
enbalter as a powerful new force in
the Cominonvvealth hive shown a
sad disillusionment. „ '
In Canada, housing IS already
• suffering % because of the govern.
merit's attempts' to escape blame
for tight money; Private funds for
reSidential construction uoder the •r'
'National Housing Act have almoet
completely dried up because the
six per cent interest ceiling fixed
by the cabinet is below that on ord-
inary government bonds. So far fhe
government has been afraid to in-
crease the rate for par of draw,
ing down criticism uporv,itselL The
prime resdentialmortgage lend-
ing rate of,the insurance compan-
ies has -risen to 71/2 per, cent to re-
flect the differential in risk and-.
administration cost as against hih
• int,erest bearing goveriunent bonds.
• , , •
.(Prepared . bY. the .-ReSearch. f Staff
• ' Of Eaeyelopedia ..Canadiand) -
Which Father ,of 'Confederation
,
Sir Etieene.Paschal-Tache;jbrnt
:premier ofUnited Canada
57, and 186465, died it St.„:' ThornaS
scle: MOntniagny in Canada, East in
1865 hutis regarded as:nne .of the
'fathers of., ,ConfecieratiOn .,hecatiSe
' of hie a chieVethents :during thepre-
linlinarY negottatiOns: , a
,deseetedant:,.ef•' the .:eXpleter Louis.,
.Jolliet,werrierged,froxn.politidal•
ttheinent ;:fcilloiving,:the.reeignatign
Of the ?John ',Saricifield".Macdonald
rnihistiy ii March 1864; and feriri%,.
.ed shartlivede goy,ernreerit.that
Was. defeated'. three inefiths later.
BecauSe", Of. his • ma gnaiiiiiiity rand
iinpartiality, ,Wasithen 'pressed.
into ser.viee„agaireteljsaye..blie
min-
istry known' as.,.,"the:,greatbeeli.-'
tioit",•bY acting as ifs- tituler, heed
he had. the honor ef pre-.
nithngat tbe....,QuebeeConferenee-Ofe
.1864,41te--cenferenee at Wilich, dele-.
gates', from United Canada,: :New
Brunswick, Nova :'Scetia,',. Prince
.,EdWerd...Islarid and Newthundlend,
drew' UP' for ..the:,pro..,,-
posed, ,fetteral
•
UGAR ANIFSPICE
(Bill) BN4T..S/41112,EY
What a difference a- fee weeks . decent restraint, Nobody. sang
can, ineke in this country! Itis a..sordiet to the setting sue. No,
no= wonder that Canadians carry-, body was impelled- to .dance..a
on a deep, lingering, tongue-tied dirge toding summer. It was ad-
lotwe affair ith thein;riativeland mifted, upon the urging 'of one or.
And they do:. Believe the, they do, two of the more flambpyarit mem-
Thou-gill-7 you'd never ,',.know it by" hers of the group, that it sure was
easual observation...They .roay: sal -
to Florida. and; Mexico and
:Europe, bot Most of there would:
be sad beytincl.*eodurance if 'they•
Were banished forever 'Item . Can-
t adz'.
,
• About" six weeks ago we droVe
out to 'spit friends at their cot-
t.age. It was, the lush, bosomy end
of. slimmer, and the evening' air
was tropical. We slowed to cross
I the bridge, and the ever-present,
ev,er-intent anglers peered with
Tury at the black little river, and
rthe birds chortled.,
* * *
a well night. before .we gethered
our kids .ancrwent home.” .
JUst. The other' fright we went
beck to the Sallie beachfor din=
ter with ,some friendsat their. cot-
tage. The air Was -fairly
and the heater felt good. 'Whenwe
reaChed the ;little bridge,,:there
were no fishermen, but We stopped. ,
to Joidr at the late gold sim on the
little black river; And high, away
up: went over a Waver -kV of geese;
•a 'lovely Sight..,.„
• Along the beach there was no
sign of life in any direction: Just
. 'What 'Is 'The, Largest PubIlely
, Owned, ITtility in Canada?
The .Hydro Eledtric Power -Cod -
mission of 'Ontario: Established in
..1.906;. it is. now. one of. the world's
greatest thydre-eleetric enterpriSes;
Its growth .sinee....*.thedays. of :the
Second: World War has been. par-
ticularly spectacular. . In 1946 On-
tario: Hydro ?,goilerated 8,500,000,000
kilowatt hours of electricity. • It
now develops clese.to 2s,000,000,poo
,X,W-.11 annually, •
•;By far', the largest itiereaSF
lean& have'lone to relativelysm all
borrowers. But Bet there is a limit to
.how."mu�h money .tlae.. banks can
• lend and thatlimit- lia-s virtually
the chartered' lqgiks. 1,
Mr;Fleming; . perhaps recogtuz
ing-the absurdity of this -argument,
donfined .himSelf to:blaming. the
Bank , of Canada for ... the -credit
shortage OE two years -,"ago;:: charg-
ing that it .deliberately 'intervened
to promote.. tight inoney..
.:
As one exampleef this policy be
citedthe pressure brought:on, thei
chartered banks. to .turtail what is
.hdown "terni. loans", 10115 for
an, extended period and'ushally to
large, corporations.' hat the Bank,
of-CanadawnSth ng then: was ex-
Actly the sort ef policy now
ing urged by: government!.
Tight, ,'money,, is not iti. itself
-serriething, 'thatany governnient
need be aSha doL It is . a sound
policy to,bel iursud at time
When the; . eceno ic, machine . is
'starting to ;race. Out of eentrol, ,for
• it is to ultithate benefit �f all. Can a -
diens, WaRcs of. life. . .
, Itis, not : pOpnler becanse very
• few People tuiderstand -Why 'they
.,cannot borrow, the, in eney, they
Wain when :they Want it, The Cdn-
Servatives capitalize d: heavily-, On
• that reaction in 1957. Today. they
'are faced with the Seniessitnation,'
but: they' vvon't• fece' up.
•'Because of: this . attitude and the
political dpuble-talk,* Which `it has
been engaging, • confidence in the-
-goverrunent a iii4g MemberS, of The
financial cernmimity, both athome
and abroad has ,been badly shak-
en. , Leading British neWspaperS
•, The .Rank of Canada and .The •
' .Goveniment .
• In its twistings and turnings,
the, Conservative goVernment has
sought to. avoid any respertsibilit3r
for -monetary poliey Iby deny,ing
any control whatever over the op-
srations ,of the Bank of Canada. ,
In the course of ra.few months it
has overthrown a relationhip be-
tween 'the government and.the,ceti-
tral bank that has been understood ' '
by .all authorities to exist for.neani.--
1Y 20 years.
• It is"true that the Bank of Can-
ada' has the initial, responsibility._
for :laying down iminetary epolicyc
but since 1939 it has been assumed
.that ultimate responsibility rested
with• thecabinet. Even Hon. J. M.
Mac4domiell, for Yeats the 'Con-
s'ervative financial critic and until
recently a minister without port-
folio, declared, a few years ago: "I 7
regard the Department of Finance
as finally responsible for the ag-
tiens of the (central) banks."
Fiveyears age, Graham Towers,
,then g'overnor of the:Bank of .Can-
• ada,.. told .a parliamentary eeininit-
tee there was no "alibi" •PesSible
--farethe-governmente-If-it-disagreed
•
with the Bank of Canadapolicy it
-could change the, legislaticin,'" or, "
more 'likely, force the resignation
•Of the goVernor, in. the eVent,
Tight, Money Liberal and
•Tory Style
• IVIoney is .""tight" today for the
same reason' aS in 1956-57' the de.- '
mand for loans exceeds the avail-
ableesupply of -money, There are
two real diferences between
Fleming and Harris' tight met -ley:
-
First, the federal government is,
by far.thday Canada's biggest bor-
rower; whereas under Harris fed-
:etal debt was )3eing.retired.'Under
the Tories, Ithe whole money sup-
ply increase has gone to. the fed-
eral-- gOvernthent to, cover its
defieit. In Liberal -days, all the
mOneY'supplY increa SQ. plus. end- -
• ditional.ernount',released by '• debt- •
retirement' out of., surpluses,was
available for provineial,, Municipal
and priVate borrowers: Secend, ev-
enunder attack,;_the-Liberals as-
surned some responsthility for the
.antisinfiationary „tight money—that
they admitted, it was govern-
ment policy:-
• Tlins, Prime -Minister- Diefenbak-
er contends that two years , ago
tight nioney resulted from the de -
•
•„ Henri 'Memberteu the Sagainos
or chief a the.11icmac Indians vvho
died at Pert Royal in. 'Aeactia in.
1611,, at an, advanced age. As a
young married man: in the 1530's.
:he had,acques ,Cartier;- as .n
Very, old .men in the early years of
;the 17th Century: he was is contact
With Pantrincourt, :Champlain, and
'Lescarbot at port Royal.. -16 Was
a great' and cruel,. warrior.; who
• showedhimself a loyal friend: to
• the French,f, Possibly clinging to
them for protection against his en-
einies'.::•On June 24 1610 .'he .was•
baptized, with. hiS .wife, daughter,'
twoSons and seVerahgrendchildren;
All took the' names s. of :'meiribers of
Along the beach, golden girls steely wateraround green -clumped
waiked and brown urchins swam, islends; salver sand and black -and:
and fat ladies aiumi jndeck blue skY. Cottages all boarded up
hairs, and ears poked around and
.,dogs ran, and people, waved and
water lapped and "motors rdare&
When we arrived, our friends,
about a. dozen of them, sat and
lay under a vast, cig,hing pirte tree,
• drinking chilled sauterne and eat-
ing dill pickles and sinfL Children
from toddlers to junior delinquents
prowled' and begged bites and
squabbled and demanded one last
swim, and laughed and cried aid
Wet their diapers and bothered the.
• mums,
* *
and blank-face(I,,It Was..--Ionely and
bleak and beautiful. ,
'when We came to: the Cottage,
away dewnthe shone, and %so*
the ears and the yellow lights
shining, it, Was a good ,feeling.
And inside; there' was a ,'greet;
glowing fire, a warm . welcome,
familiar faces, and the good rich
smells of rye and turkey and per-
fume.
* ,;*
And, aka*, like decent Cana-
dians, nobOdY Made. any crude res
• markm. about what: a' beautiful eve-
ning it -was,. bow luekY we - were
Out over the lake the sun, al-. th live in such -a country, or any -
roost gone, bad a' last mad fling thing erratic lilKe that. We just
with color, stashing it across the stuffed ourselves with food and
Ow with • the ferocity of a -Van drink, not necessarily la that or -
Gogh, And, the water, darkening derand went home.
,
its blue, looked up longingly; and• ,* * , -
The enn 4sdainful1y Bung' across • Maybe we fl had tocO ninch Bliss
it a few scarlet and geld stream- -caniman; Noinesm Wilfred Camp_
ers- ' bell and Archthaid Lapman as
* *
• And 'we lounged and sipped and
• munched, in shOrts and bare feet,
in jeans and swim stilts, shirtless
schOni children: Maybe we're just
Undemonstrative, But„-surelY there
is no nation on the face, of the
and wordless, ,too laey,and eOrdent emartblo,,Thanadt sinilsesaboltsujit,untoitYlittIT.
1.0,get, up 46.4 go 01, *
the siue. book a deep breath and That's why rm gotsg tosing
Went down like a bomb, -away out outix:ethee igaudiu wrutte, ,,ho;tveavyze
ernek-
at the mid of the water. ed the voiee or coinny the tune or
, 1 en
gCanadians, weceept, incite enough people to form A
•the splendour Of the evening least a quartette.
'
the French royal family; the old
chief hhnself was named fer Henri
What is Ogopogo Spelled
Backwards?
• It is still Ogopogo, the name of a
reputed moneter in Lake Okanagan,
in British Columbia. Some say
that the monster, like tfie, spelling
,..of its naine, appears the same
viewed fretn either end., Others de-
scribe it as-4twenty 'feet 'long with,
a heavy snake's body and a-hoese
:or goat's head, well bearded Be-
fore white settlement „the fridians
revered- the 'monster, said to have
appeared at intervals in the lake,
Report's of seeing it have frequent-
ly recurred -in more recent years
and such reports 'have, of course,
stiniulated the local tourist Maus -
liberate policy of the Libera.l.'Goy-
eminent, ,whereas today it is only
the "consequence of natural ,ece-
nonaic forces." '
•
That this is patently ridiculous
is borne out by his own contention
that the federal government has no
Control whatever over the mone-
tary poliey pursued by „the Bank_
of Canada, That , being so, how...Z.,
could the , Liberals possibly have
been responsible 'for- tight Motley,
which he;claimed then and now
to havewbeeti t.he case?
Garage Mechanic: "Whafs the
matter, lady?" •
• Mrs. ClutChbuster:' "They saY I
have a short- circuit. Could you
lengthenit while I wait?" .;
••
A boy and his mother stoed look- „
ing at a dentist's showcase.
• "If I had to have false teeth,
mother, I'd take that set," said
the small boy, pointing. s ,
• "Hush, Jarries," said the mother,
shaking his 'arm, "haven't 1 told
you ifs bad manners to pick your
teethin
public?
• Interestieg items gleaned frtini
• The Huron Expositor of 2-S, Pa•,
and 75- years ago. •
RS
AGONE
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From The Huron ExPositor
• OCtober 19 1934 •
Mrs. Peter Cleary and her son,
Francis,' of ,Tuckersmith,,
pleasantly surprised on Friday ev-
ening when a '• number of their
friends and neighbors assembled
to express regret that they,were
leaving the farm. Mrs. Cleary was
presented with a purse and...Simi ,of
mony, and Francis With a siaver
cigarette ease. •'
Dr: George F. Rogers, former
Seaforth prindipal, was appointed
as Chief Inspector of Secondary
Schools- for Ontario. '
• Miss Leola Nett, of SeafOrth Col-
legiate InStitine, captured: the in-
termediate girls' ehampionship at
The annuai county sports meet held
• in'Cioderich On Friday.
, .
On Tuesday the Women's Auxil-'
iary of St Thomas' 'Clunth, cele-
,13rated' its,45th anniVersary.r. '
Thomas Henderson, litest
william St. suffered a serious. ac-
• cident on Sunday evenmg She was
oil her Way to church andwas
ing for Mrs. johns t� accompany'
her, when in some Manner., she
overbalanced -on the steps, and in
the fall frattured the bone hi her
arm, just below the aholilder.,
• Mrs. Frank Sills, president of
Seaforth subdivision, attended the
1.4th annual convention of the Cath-'
title Women's League in Relle iv
A very- quiet wedding took -place
on•Monday, Octobers, at Port per-
ry, Nolen vrtnnifred Louisa; young-
est datighter of Mr. and Idt•s. Wxri.
Hruse, Seaforth; was United
marnage to Raymond E. Nott, On-
ly sonqkf 'Mr. 'William 1 Nott *id
the late Mrs„ Nott, of xglneadv-ille,
•Prom The Huron Expositor
oeMber 22, 1909
II. Regan, of ChiSelhurst,_ has .
rented A.) Coates' farm, near Con-
stance, now oectipied, by, William
Lawson; for a tern) of five years.
)(fr. Arnold, manager of the Mols
sons Bank of Hensall, is having
some improvementi made to the
dwelling part, where he is "now liv-
ing.•
• Mr. Wm.' Hills, of McIntyre &
has rented the house on Vic-
toria Street,„forinerlY occupied by
W. J." Allin, and has moved' there
from Eginondville. •.
Mr. William AMent, of the Sea-
thrtly-stave and Cooperage works,
will, send‘out 4,000 apple barrelt
this year to the various apple deal-
ers ih thiS county- At 38c per bar-
rel, this represents a"good clearof
labor and the turnover of a largo
sum of money. .
R, Murphy, of Exeter, bed
an unpleasant experienee the oth-
er night, He was driving along
William St, and ag the night' was
dark lie did not see a pile of gravel
on the road and ran into it. The
upset and Mr. Murphy was
• thrown out, Miming his shoulder.
• The wheel- of the buggy was brok-
en and the hors e thrown into the
ditch.
'Mr. W. Cole, of the tell Engine
Works, has invented and had pat-
enthd a. stratV PiPe_tor wiluisthok•
ers on threshing Machines. The dif-
ficult3', with the present pipes or
flues is that they cannot be regu-
lated so as to blow the straw into
any desired part of the mow, Ur.
Cole's invention is so conStrueted
that this difficulty is 'oVerooltte,
and by its use the strai,v- can be
plated wherever deslred,
From The Huron Expositor
October 24, 1884'
•
The twel.,-yeersoIdsteer which ,
Mole -fist prize at the Seaforth
show, the property, of Mr. James
Nichol, of McKillop,_ has been sold,
to Mr. Robert Winters for $70. It
weighed 1,380 pounds.
Mr, Robert. Wilson w,aS kicked by
one of his horses the other da
The animal struck hint in the side
and be is still suffering. frOM thd
blow. •
Mr. Wm; "Pengally, of Hensall,
who .purchased the &veiling, ad-
30ining, his own residence, on King .
Street, has had the same moved -
back a nuinber of fent from the
street; thereby adding to the- aPw
pearanee of the'proPerty, He has
also added a neat addition M his
present dwelling.
Mr. jameS"Nichol has sold his ,
Perna on the 6th concession,of Mc..
Itlilop to Mr, Charles Andersen, of
Haysville, brother of Mr,„ W An
d,erson, 0 the Sth 'concession, for
the Suiii of, $8,400. The farm -COri,
tains 100 acres.
' The Salvation Ariny have Pur-
chased the lot.on Main St. North,
forxrierly occupied by Mr: S. Stark,
and are making arrangements for
the erection of a barracks in witich
to hold their meetings.
• Over 2000 barrels of apples have
been shipped front Clinton. to .Win.
nipeg ' since the apple season dont-
'noticed -
atm first florry of' snow fell on,
• Wednesday hight. •
•Mr, George PowlerpfornterlY' of
Tuckersmith, but now of 'Sheldon,
Dakota,• tins fall threshed On 'the
'farin• of Mt Wm, 'Smith. PO
bushels of -grain in one day, for
Vida he WAS paid Se per bushel,