HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Times, 1888-02-10, Page 1OL. XVII, ---NO 6
WINGHAM, ONT„ FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1888. WHOLE NO. 831
LOCAL NEWS.
A. sleighing party drove to',13e1gra a en
j ?riday evening.
The USe"of. • tea made from red clover
eWoote is said to bo au effectual cure for
'cancer.
What has happened the Wingham Mock
Parliament 2 Is the question not a few
havp,.been heard to ask.
4114. A. Wright's town dray has been
.epurchased and is now run by Mr. Porter,
;formerly of London.
James Bartlett, a native of Aberdeen-
shire, Scotland, for over 20 years a resident
,.of Mitchell, died last week in his 55th
year.
'A sleighing party, about 30 strong, went
, out to the residence of Mr. T. Jobb, of
eTurnberry, and spent Tuesday evening
agreeably
The Guelph Banking Co. suspended last
last week. Mr. Cettou and The Federal
Bank wero the conductors. The deposits
wero heavy and the prospects are poor to
realize anything much.
A syndicate of Mt. Forest gentlemen,
composed of Messrs. L. H. Yeomans, H.
L. Drake, A. T. Gregory and Wm. Brig-
ham, have gone into the purchase of
thoroughbred Jersey stock.
A young woman of Malden, England,
declined an •invitation to join the Primrose
League with the reply that statistics of the
, past fifty years show that the marriage
rate rises whoa a Liberal government is in
power. -
There is one thing about me, said Darn-
ley, as he wrote his name in the hotel
register, I pay as I go, and don't you for -
;get. Any baggage? demanded the clerk,
o 1 Then. you won't pay as you go ; you'll
:pay as ,ygt1. eeme 1 Two dollars, please,
and don't you -forget It.
aev. J. H. Moot house, of St. Pauls
ell; iroh, Wingbain, is to lecture before the
Cedarville Literary Society on Friday
eveuine .on " The importance of formingat
Atli -atter er ratvg '"
e lY"geniai, earnest 'and GbaitnoraigrlUnion, Will btirhelclit:I3rus
scholy man, wehave no doAbt his lecture els on the evening of Wednesday the 15th
'of February. Addresses are to be given by,.
Messrs, McMullen, M. P., Dr. Macdonald,
M. P., E. E. -Wade, barrister, and T.
Strachan, ex -reeve, of Gley,
Mr, J. A. Cline has been appointed by
the council to explain the statements and
charges made against the Fire Company.
The general impression is filet somewhat
exaggettited statements inimical to the
town's interests have been made. Mr.
Cline is fully conversant with all the de-
tails of the case and an extended report
may be looked for from him next
we
,
A social, uuder the auspices of the Young
People's Literary Society of the Con-
gregational church, was held at the resi-
dence of Mr. Peter Deans, sr., Turnberry,
on the evening of Friday, the 5th Feb.
Mr. Robt. Currie acted as chairman The
programme of the evening consisted of
music by the Zetland choir, the Cedarville
choir, and duets by Mr, and Mrs. Ward ;
,grain, his wheat averaging 40 bushels to a song by Miss Mary Huggan ; readings by
;the acre. He has 100 acres ready for crop Misses Bruce, Currie, Harrington and Geo.
next season. The above mentioned is a
sOn-in-law to Mr. Alexander Forgie, ofthis
town, who spent a portion of ]laat season
,plea ently in the wast.
The regular meeting of the school board
will be held on Tuesday evening next.
Police magistrate Noble, of Middlesex,
had last year 275 convictions, imposed §12-
800 in tines, §9,445 being collected.
Mr, Notliercott,lprincipal of the Mitchell
public school, in 16 years' teaching has
been late .but one time, Who can beat
that?
A handsome new library has been
,purchased by the St. Paul's Sunday school.
The books ,,were secured at Mr. A. Ross'
popular book store.
;The dog poisoning sneak is verily abroad,
a large• number of canines having succumb-
ed•to his whims and compounds in ti;e
last fortnight.
'There will be a four mile race on t
rink, on the evening of Monday next,
tween K. McGregor, Kincardine, F. Me-
Cutcheon and R. Cornyn, Wingham, for a
silver medal.
Anxious mother (to her husband) : I'm
afraid you are giving the baby to much
sugar, Reuben. Father : Not at all, my
dear : I want him to have plenty of grit --
plenty of sand in his crop, you know.
That life -like and pathetic play, Uncle
Tom's Cabin, is to be given in the town
hall on Tuesday evening, the 14th, by
Mason .k Morgan's combination. They are
well spoken of by the press wherever they
have appeared.
Poor fellow, he died in poverty, said a
man of a person lately deceased. That
isn't anything, exclaimed a by-stander.
Dying in ,;poverty is no hard -ship; it's
living iu poverty that puts the thumb-
screw on a fellow.
In Canada there are ahout 650 ,news-
papers, and periodicals. Of these 72 are
daily, 12 tri -weekly, 21 semi-weekly, '453
weekly, 13 semi-monthly, and 4 monthly.
Ontario has 397, Quebec, 113. ' According
to the last census returns the printing
employ 5,311 hands.
A meeting to discuss the question of
e-
Easter falls on the lst of April this year.
A. description of the salt black and an-
other leading industry have to be held over
;for want of room.
The newly appointed police magistrate
fu Simeon county has about 80 oases to
come before•him indifferent parts of the
county.
xv be full of interest end profit.
Mr. R. Elliott, proprietor of THE Times,
' ,^expects to.take up his residence in Wing-
ham early in March. Well then, the Times
will have considerably more than twice the
force and labor ou it that it now has and
the interests of readers and patrons general-
ly, as, a matter of course, will be better
.attended to.
We have for the last three weeks issued
cover eight hundred copies of THE Times
,weekly. Still our regular circulation is
,not just up there yet, but of course we ex-
pect it to be before the end of the year.
"New names are being put on our list daily.
We hope many of those who have receivei'i'
;sample copies may see it. to their interest
,toowe subscribers at an early date.
We are pleased to hear of the continued
;success in the west of a former Wingham-
ite, Mr. Jos. Young, of Plum Creek-) He
:has been west about'8 years, has a section
.of land, had last year 7,000 bushels of
It is said that certain young and inex-
perienced yopths are being badly drawn in
aud.,viotimized at poker by those older and
more expert a1 the game.
Cprrespondeizce from East Wawa -
nosh, Bluevale, Belinore and New-
bridge, besides sessional notes and
otherinteresting matter is- unavoid-
ab crowded out.
Officers wero chosen for the Methodist
Sunday school on Tuesdayeveninglast thus:
H. Park, superintendent; 1. Buchannan,
assistant do.; R. MoIndeo, secretary; J.
Cooper, treasurer ; R. Orr, librarian; E.
Bowles, assistant do..
A wedding party left the Queen's the
other morning so hastily as not to collect
the odd half bushel of rice and other good
will•betokoning etceteras; thrust on them
at their nuptials. No names being
left, the valuables can't be forwarded..
There was a crowded gathering at the
Methodist ohureh on Sunday evening to
hear the Rey. D, C. McDowell preach the
funeral sermon of the late John Snell. The
discourse was an able and appropriate one
and contained felting references to the
character of the deceased;
Waterloo county council unanimously
adopted a memorial to the Ontario Legis-
lature praying that no Provincial moneys
be voted to aid in the euforcement of the
Scott Act, which being in principle the
same•
as a local inprovemeut measure
should be enforced ;entirely at theexpense
of the counties adopting ft.
The Turnberry Boundary Line Literati
'Society have secured front Mr. A. Ross a
very Handsome library of choice books."
Amongst those obtained are not a few of th-
Lily Series which are exceptionally good
in interest and torso. Over fifty volumes
have been put in. The tendency of the
age is in the direction of more knowledge.
'The establishment and vigorous mainten-
,auce of literary societies is a wholesome
,indioatiou. They have a splendid effect
when conducted under the most unfavor-
able circumstauces.
The Beethoven Quartette, composed of
Misses Hattie Morell, Ethel Woods and
,Stlxgssrs. Shins Richards, Chas. Kelley and fnoonsistent stand taken by the editor of
1 ax aro to give one of their splendid the AfZvance on the question Of the Fire
high class Concerts here on the evening of
Thursday, the 16th February. The press'
fn Toronto, :Ottawa, Kingston, as well as:
Barret. A ;collection was taken at the
(Apse for theipurpose of paying the debt of
the organ recently put in the above churoh,
a• c `realized 1622.81.
It is not the man Mr. Scott .has to
deal with, it is the subject. Nor is.it
necessary to sign ones name to a pub-
lic letter, What 1 said about the
matter I am prepared to prove. It is
true the fire hall is in a better shape
now than when I made theatatemont.
A number of the coats have been re-
turned, the hose keys or a 'lumber of
them found and things put in better
order generally. This I know, for I
have been .told, by firemen and officials
of the town. They should be careful
when they are talking about the mat-
ter SA they might be talking to "Citi-
zen." I also saw a man working at
the fire alarm, and it may be working
all right now. The wheel house is
also being overhauled, and by this
time both pumps may be in working
order. Now, Mr. Scott wants "Citi-
zen to prove what he said. Allow the
to say, when I made the statements
they' were true. I also noticed in the
TIMES that Mr. Scott will answer any
question asked in the writer's own
name, but may 1 ask him is the fire
company the work of Mr. Scott dur-
ing his term of office, as chairman of
Fire and Water Committee. 2 If it is
he should indeed be riled at
what "Citizen" says. The firemen
should do as a stranger in Wingham
told them at the Anderson fire to go
Iay their hose away m cotton batting
as their company was no good. Now -
;. Editor that my first letter has
done,some good is generally acknow.
ledged. Let me tell him whose duty it
is bo see that articles pretaiuing to the
fire department are in their right
place, that there is about 400 feet of
hose, one nozzles and one hydrant
key at different places in town. Let
these be taken to the fire hall; and
when the cry of fire goes out let the
firemen be able to say "aye, ready."
Thanking you Mr. Editor for the
space you have allowed me,
Yours Truly
• Curling oC `mpebitioil.g-
A. match was played between Hensall
and Wingham .on Tuesday on the latter's
rick. The players and results were as
under:
PEnsoNALa.—Miss M. Yates, of Goderich,
visited at her brother's, W. T. Yates, this
week.—Mr. J. Mason, photographer, re-
turned from Torono onSeturlay, rejuvena-
ed by his trip. t ie,;ee :'scriie .time+in
the leading art galleries of that, city to his
pleasure and profit. BrusselsPedget: Wm
Hill, of Wingham, was in town a few days
this week. We will see him very often,
or " someone" else will go to Wingham.
The Brussels Budget:,Lawyer Meyers, ex -
mayor of Wingham, waslin town on Mon.
day on a professional visit. It would make
a strong man's arm ache, to receive the
shakes he got. This , is one of the con-
sequences of popularity: Mr. R. Kins-
man returned home, lash;eveek from a visit
to Mitchell and St. Marys.—Mr. John S.
Moore left on Tuesday last on a visit to
his riends in Oil Springs.—Quite a few of
our townspeople were in Gerrie this week
attending a county ineeting in connection
with the L. O. Te.—Mr. James Pomeroy
and wife, of Blnevale, were in town this
week.—Mr. George Powell is indisposed
and unable to leave his house.—Misses Al lie
and Jessie Hiles, of Londesboro, have been
visiting in town a few days, the guests of
Mrs. John Henderson.—Mr. John Kerr hes
been in London during the present week.
—Mr. John A. Tracey, late of the Bank
here, was in town this week.—Mr. F. W.
McLean, of Lower Wingham, left for To-
ronto this week, He is in the drug store
of PMMr.W. J. Davidson, Queen street.—Mr.
F. Holloway spent a few days with his
father at Ethel this week,—Miss G. Marks,
of Bruoefield, is visiting at Mr. G. Shaw's.
—Mr. A. Carr spent Sunday with friends
at Luoknow.—Mr. W. J. Lawton, of the
Chicago et North Westerp railway, Omaha,
and Mr. Geo. Norman, of St. Thomas, have
been visiting at Mr. A. 0, Strathdee's der.
ing the past week.—Mise Harriett Heals
returned from a visit to friends at Fergus
avid Elora last week. --Mlles Etta Ford, of
Iamilton, is on a month's stay with Mrs.
Herdsman.—Mr. Moffatt, son of George
Moffatt, of Turnberry, is visiting friends
in town and vicinity. He has been about
4 years a residest of Chicago, as a dry
goods salesman. He was for some time in
the law offiee of S. Rogers iu this town.
Mrs. J. Made has been for some time in
attendance on her father who is rapidly
declining in health in the township of
Tuckersmith. He is in his 93rd year, beta
ing over 50 years a resident in that locality j
Over half a century ago, on his return (rod'
looking for the cows one morning, he ex-
pressed great delight and surprise at hav
ing come across a neighboring shanty on
what is today the farm of his nearest
neighbor. He went through the full ex.
perionces of the early pioneers and on the
verge of a hundred years is suffering
simply from natural decline of life's forces.
A Correspondent calls attention to the
Company. Instead of quoting mere state-
}rents made by anonymous writers, and
drawing conclusions on the strength of
in other cities and towns, in notices before their veracity, he as a citizen ought, the
writer claims, to be in a position to state
facts. This would also be mere in keeping
with his position as the conductor of a
public, journal whose functions it is to keep
the people posted en the actual facts in -
us, speak in
most unqualified terms of
„praise of tho performances' of the great
artists. ktany of our citizens have heard
then and need no introduction. The
imitable Fax is a host in himself. Wing-
hamites are indebted to Mr. E. F. Gerater, stead of givfag eurrency ton. ere tinsub-
,1er bringing se admirable a musical treat staetiated statements and attaching blame
cvithiu roach ' '" ` ea the strength of such.
Citizen Replies to His Critics.
To the Editor of Tits Timm I—
N DEAR SIR,—Last week's Trams had
a letter signed by Mr. Scott, ex -chair-
man of the Fire and Water Committee,
in which he says Citizen's statements
about the fire department are false.
He also Bays he does not wish to eater
into ii newspaper controversy without
knowing with N'll}g►p he, has tQ dealt
nma 1.
wINfiIIA3f. HENSALL.
J. Inglis,
A. Mitchell,
A. Paulin,
S. Kent, skip, 32.
RINE
C. E' Williams,
J. Coad,
D. McDairreid,
W. Chaters,
R. Coad,
W. Elder, skip, I0.
2.
R. Patterson,
W. McLean,
J. Neelands, R. McArthur,
3. Dinsley, skip, 27. R. Bouthrou, skip, 17.
The Wingham team beat by a score of
32.
Change of Officials. •
ANNIVERSARY SERVICES..
Lucid and Practical'Scripture Exposi-
tions by Dr. Latdlaw, of Hamilton.
On Sunday the anniversary servi-
ces were well attended and the dis-
courses given by Dr. Laidlaw well:
appreciated. Based on John 8-31, Mlle"•
progress in the Christian life was set
forth under the similitude of a stu-
dent passing the different grades of a
school. The progress was gradual.
The seven grades were : right desire,
right belief, right choice, right prac-
tice, right consecration, right experien-
ce, right aim and persistence. In
God's higher school the grades Were :
righteousness, godliness, faith love,
patience and meekness. Am. exceed-
ingly entertaining and impressive ad-
dress was given to the scholars ,of the
Sunday school in the afternoon. ' A
pleasant youthful home, a fond father's
enchanting tales of the old land, the
carrying out of an early formed resolu-
tion to visit it, a vivid description of
the St. Lawrence rapids with the
skilled guide, were skilfully used to
point out the dangers in the path of
life and the vouchsafed guidance of the
heavenly pilot. In the evening a
powerful sermon was preached on life
and its purpose—God's view and man's
view of the same.
Tune ANNUAL TEA MEETING
might be thus briefly and appropria-
tely described: A sumptuous spread,.
splendid singing, short and superior
speeolies, a cleli;hted audience and a
well replenished treasury as the result.
With the pastor, Rev. H. MoQuarrier
genially presiding, the first speaker
was Rev. A. J. Anderson, B. A.,
Whitechurch. A s regards matter,
literary excellence and delivery, ilia.
speech was well worthy of verbatim
reproduction. Seldom, have we listen-
ed to anything, anywhere, more ap-
propriate or well spoken. Under the'
title of " Every man the architect cf
his own fortune, "lig gave a4...ad 1kii
able portraiture of difference of mental
aptitudes and inclinations in youth, and
tha great importance of studying and
being guided by these in selecting oc-
cupations. He beautifully elaborated
the two following heads: 1. What
occupation am I adapted for 2 2. As
to proceeding'skilfully carefully, pray
erfully and perseveringly to accout
plishing the work. Dr. Ward, in a
brief, but exceedingly pointed and
pithy speech, referred to the stronger
and closer bonds of union now con-
necting the various churches than.
formerly, and urged that as we all
receive from the same Source of life
who invigorates, purifies and sancti-
fies, it ouught not to be lived indiffer-
ently, carelessly or sluggishly. Dr:
Laidlaw, in carrying out the same
line of thought taken up by Mr. An-
derson, emphasized the importance of
what are often regarded as trifling,
events and illustrated by biographical
sketches He emphasized the importance
of industry, humility and perseverance
in character building. Rev. J. H.
Moorhouse, rector of St. Paul's church,
made a brief address, but lofty in tone
and well delivered, containing the
most sterling and manly utterances on
Christian goodwill and associations in
religious matters, and the parramont
importance of a sure foundation to
build on for time and eternity. After
paying a high tribute to the noble
character of the late Norman McLeod,
he recited with pathos and fine effect
his well known production, " Trust in
God and do the right." The choir,
under the leadership of Mr. Jas. A.
Cline, Miss Hutton eleverely preside
ing at the organ, acquitted themselves
in such a manner as to obtain the then
hearty applause as well as many sub-
segment warm commendations. The
usual votes of thanks were heartily
passed, The total amount realized as
proceeds was 5320.
Not a little surprise and regret was ex-
pressed on the intimation a few days ago
that Mr. B, Willson, manager of the Bank
of Hamilton, was about to remove to
Simcoe where a new branch is being open-
ed out. A shrewd and cautious business
man, who took an active interest in every-
thing pertaining to the town's well-being,
an obliging and clear-headed bank official,
his departure will be a keenly felt loss to
Wingham. If, however, his new field does
not prove congenial to him he may elect to
return to Wingham. He will be followed
by the good will and wishes of Wingham's
citizens generally, His successor is Mr.
W. Corbould, a former manager here, of
Port Elgin. He is favorably known and
will be welcomed by many of the bank's
customers.
New Postal Regulations.
A new regulation cores into force
at the post office to day (Friday),
which practically supersedes the parcel
post on all packets up to four lbs. in
weight. it provides that all articles
of merchandise and other trausmiss-
able matter, tint hitherto admitted to
pass by snail in Canada, except at
parcel post rate, may now be sent'by
post between. places within the Do.
minion, in packets limited to four lbs.
in weight, two feet in length and one
foot in width or depth, at the rate of
one cent per ounce. This is cheaper
than the parcel post, tho rate for
which is six cents for every four
ounces, or fraction thereof. This.
class of matter must be so put up
as to be fit for conveyance in the
Coxn+xxercial Qurreney.
Slippors from 25 Cts. up at McCormiele
Ce's.
Try the Thins office for bill heads, state•
ments mud letter heads.
Wanted to rent a comfortable dwelliii
Wail bags, and yet admit of ready and
house in Winghan.. Those Laving wucth
full a amination by the pincers, of + are requested to enquire at Tut, Tata*
the post office. c,ilicoti
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