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THURSDAY, APRIL 20, 1033
PENNY BANK REPORT
All unconscious of the beauty
■Of your finely moulded knees.
You go tripping down the 'pathway.
Pirouetting as you please.
Just a dream of beauteous girlhood
Pure as lily blooms can be,
Thinking not of aught that’s evil
But of rare simplicity.
O that coming days may bring you
Womanhood that’s just as .sweet.
Then you’ll lift some souls to heaven
Gracious lady, wise, discreet
W. H. J.
MAIN ST. MISSION CIRCLE
The April meeting of the Main
Street Mission Circle was held at the
church, where the Elimville girls
were entertained by the Main Street
girls. Miss Ina Jaques, president,
welcomed the guests and a very
splendid program was put on by the
Elimville girls. Miss Lavona Cooper
took the chair and opened the meet
ing with the hymn “There is a green
hill far away’’ which was followed
by a few' sentence prayers. The
Scripture lesson was read by Bernice
Mur.ch and the devotional leaflet by
Marjorie Delbridge. The heralds
were introduced' the first on China
second, Japan, by Mary Herdman
the third on Korea, by Bernice Mar
ch and the fourth on India, by
Thelma Jaques. A byran “Alas, and
did my Saviour Bleed” followed.
Gladys Johns played a piano solo
A very beautiful reading was given
by Mrs. Chas. Johns, “The Legend
Beautiful,” by Longfellow. A de
lightful vocal duet was sung by
Helen Murch and Florence Bell. An
Easter reading was read by Thelma
Johns. Guitar and mouth-organ sel
ections were given by Kenneth Johns
one of the boys who brought them
out. Laura Ford, gave a reading and
another vocal duet was sung by
Thelma and Maizie O’Rielly. A piano
solo was given by Margaret Johns.
The meeting was brought to a close
with the hymn “Low in the Grave
he Lay” and the-Mizpah Benediction
Mrs. Layton gave a vote of thanks
to the Elimville girls and made
special mention to Mrs. Johns’s
reading. After the program games
were .conducted by Olive Lawson.
Evelyn Howard and Violet Garabrill
after which lunch was served.
COMMUNICATION
A PLEA FOR THE BIRDS
SAVE THE BIRDS BOYS
Winter is past and we are glad to
welcome the birds once more. Their
happy songs in the morning are a
delight. To the early riser or the
sleepless one their songs are es
pecially cheering. Among the early
comers are the Robins, our good
friends, who are so helpful to the
gardener and orchardist. They love
to come back to the same nesting
place year after year, if treated
* kindly and many a householder wel
comes them back as old friends.
The late Mrs. Downie had a pair
that came back every spring for
many years. She knew them because
one had two white feathers in one
wing. She talked to them and they
showed theii' friendliness by alight
ing on the verandah near her.
Devonshire people love the robins
especially and have a legend that
they got their red breasts by. peck
ing at the nails in the Saviour's
hands as he hung on the cross, try
ing to free Him. Robii. Redbreast
seldom chooses a new mate if his
first one is killed. Just now they are
building their nests for the summer
and probably some are already sit
ting on their eggs. Therefore, boys
will you not respect their lives and
happiness. Save them! We believe
you will. You Will be glad some day
The regular meeting of the Cred-
iton W. I. was held in the Institute
Hall on April 4th. The president.
Mrs. Ewald, presiding, The meeting
opened with singing the ode and all
repeating the Lord’s Prayer. The
roll call was responded to by nam
ing a favourite flower. Song, “Bring
back to Erin” followed, Business
dispensed with, our Honorary Presi
dent, Mrs. Zwicker, occupied the
chair for the program under the
heading “Agriculture and Horticul
ture” 'Mrs. T, Mawhinney gave the
following paper on Agriculture; Ag
riculture is the oldest occupation ot
man since it is necessary to the lifei
of man. The cultivation of land.and
the raising of .grain has been car
ried on as fax* back as there is any
record. It is interesting to note that
seeds of grain, buried in the pyra
mids “thousands of years ago are
similiar ■ to oui’ wheat of to-day.
There have been notable changes in
the last few decades, but if we gc
back three centuries we find an in
teresting growth and developement
in farm practice and implements.
This food producing industry has
in three hundred years gone through
five different stages. Crude hoes of
wood and bone were the farmer's
tools of the first or Indian agricul
tural age.
Louis Herbert, the first Canadian
white farmer, ushered in the second
age about three hundred years ago.
This pioneer dug by hand the virgin
soil and scattered seeds among the
charred stumps. In the third age
the landscape had changed but little
Oxen drew, wooden ploughs hitched
by. chains. With a sickle the tiller
of the soil reaped his crops and
threshed them with a flail. The four
th age brought the advent of the
horse to this country and so the
village smith “with brawny arms
and sinewy hands” began to make
iron ploughs and harrows. Then ar
rived the greatest invention, when
Cyrus Hall McCormick hammered
out the clumsy reapers, which saved
the labour of seven men. Men stood
aghast at the wonders of the mow
ing machine, self-binder and thresh
ing mill. Thus farming developed
and began seeking < markets for
their products. The fourth age mer
ged into the fifth and the cry “Go
West Young Man” was heard. The
problem of outwitting the frost and
drought was being solved by scien
tific research and the use of three
and four horse teams handled by one
man and soon there arrived the
tractor and huge grain separators.
Just when t'he present or sixth
stage arrived can scarcely be deter
mined so quickly has agriculture ad
vanced. In conclusion it is interest
ing to note that after all we depend
on the farmer to feed and keep us
alive consequently when agriculture
prospers all else prospers according
and this is well illustrated in the
following bit of verse.
“Thawing Credits’’
Published by request following the
Toronto Convention
The farmer sells a load of wheat
And all the world grows fair and
sweet.
He hums a couple of cheerful tunes
And pays the grocer for his prunes
The grocer, who has had the blues.
Now buys his wife a pair of shoes.
This ten, the shoeman think's God-
sent.
And runs and pays it on the rent.
Next day the rent man hands the bill
To Dr. Carver for a pill;
And Dr. Carver tells his frau
That business is improving mow.
He cheers her up and says, “My dear
You’ve been quite feeble for a year;
I think that you should hav,d a rest;
You’d better take a trip out West.”
And in a .couple of days his frau
Is on the farm of Joshua Howe.
She pays her board to Farmer* Howe
He takes the bill, and says, “I vow
Here is something that can’t be bear
This is the bill I got for wheat.”
He hums a couple more cheerful
tunes
And goes and .buys a lot more prunes
“Old Folks at Home” was then
sung followed by a reading by Mrs.
A. Amy. Perennial Borders and beds
to beautify the rural home. This
being a fascinating line of farming
for women, suggestions as to colour
combinations and proper time for
planting were given and also re
minded us to give freely of our gar
dens, and exchange plants and seeds’
With neighbours and friends. Poeni
entitled “Two Roses” Closed this In
teresting paper under^ Horticulture,
A dainty lunch was served by the
Hostesses, Mrs. A. Amy, Mrs. 0. C,
Misener, Mrs. C. Zwicker and Mrs
A. Wein.
Dull Aches In His Back
Terrible Pains In Bladder
Mr, James E. Dowdle, Bath, Ont., writes:—“I had
such a terrible backache I became nearly crippled,
and had to quit harvesting.
I Could hot lie still at night, and had tettible bladder
pains. ... i *
The lady of the house told toe to get a box of Doan’s
Kidney Pills, which I did, and was feeling better
after the first few ddseS, and I have not been bothered
since I finished the one box.”
For Sale at all drug and general stores, or mailed
direct on receipt of price by Ths T. Milburn Co.,
Limited, Toronto, Ont.
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Good Friday this year proved a
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Times are getting
The time to make
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better.Even
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gloomy day,
the faens are picking up.
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maple
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As far as this April
place.
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sin.
“They /
Rarely
hunter and
enslave their
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syrup is when you can get the sap.
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weather is concerned, anything may take
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children’s children
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who compromise with
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does the grass grow
the sweat shop.
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on the path between the bargain
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There’s something good about the
to deve-lope a firstclass flower bed.
boy
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wlio assists Ms mother
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Congratulations to our young friends of the public schools on
doing so well at the Easter examinations.
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Those
Ministerial
When
union services under the auspices of the South Huron
Association showed an admirable spirit.
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all is said and
and wrong and a relation
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done, there is
between cause
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Cautious Sandy thinks that
eniff for the average farrmer tae
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a. difference between ri|ht
and effect.
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14 hoors per days is quite long
pit in the noo.
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No, the Board of Deacons did not put the man out of the syna-
little something or other when his neighbour's
in his tulip bed.
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gogue who said a
dog buried a bone
These- are the days when the right sort of people are not wait
ing for the jobs they like but who are making the best of such
opportunities as they can secure.
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Those bandits are getting a little bolder and the law admini
stration a little more lenient. ..................'
the law loses its teeth
It’s a bad
and its lash.
days for the country when
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The most hopeful man we know is the party who plants his
garden seeds in anticipation of a good crop of vegetables while his
neighbour keeps a pen of insecurely guarded hens.
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BETTER DAYS
We firmly be
though we wish that the evidences
We have heard that more
— . This
too, that
wholesale hardware merchants are quite busy. This is, indeed gooa
a good spirit abroad,
are delighted.
Right earnestly do we wish for better days
lieve. that such days are coming,
of their coming were more convincing,
freight is moving than there was moving a year or so ago.
of course means that there is mote trade. We hear, t::
news. All of us are aware of there being
Hope is springing, eternal, and for this we
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THOSE SCHOOLS
In opening recently tire wing of a great English public school
the Archbishop of York had this to say:
“In declaring the new wing open, the Archbishop of York
said we did not perhaps often enough trouble about the precious
ness of our inheritance. The main principle underlying the Eng
lish public school, as indeed of all later tradition in English edu
cation, was that the chief business of the school was not to produce
intellectual brilliance, though that had its place, but was to produce
people who were really going to be useful to the community. To
that end the public school and particularly the boarding school
like the ftishworth, aimed at developing in the boys the sense of
being members of a society in which each individual had a respon- ‘ " - .. . . . ............... part. A
qualifiedsibility towards the life of that society of which he was
school of comparatively small numbers was specially well
to be such a society.”
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AN INSPIRATION
The farmers are our inspiration these days. Every business
man knows how hard the farmer has been hit financially. For
four year the sturdiest of them have had about all they could do
to keep their heads above water in a business way. ,So hard hit
have been the farmers that the failures in their line are common
place and no longer are a nine days wonder. The farmer who has
made any money is looked upon as something like a freak of some
sort.
Yet in the face of times and circumstances the farmer has
carried on. He has kept the home fires burning. He has produc
ed so liberally that his product has come to be something like a
drug on the market. Yet he has no intention of lying down on
his job. He is this hour facing forwards. He is faring forth to
sow another crop. He regards it as his function to produce fooo.
for the world and food he is preparing to produce. Without sound of
trumpets and without waving Of banners and without advertising
of any sort he is going forth to sow his seed. He is mending his
fences that his cattle may be pastured. He is repairing his roofs
that his grain may be sheltered* Without any hope of satisfactory
material reward, he is doing what the commonwealth requires ot
him. And as he toils he inspires the rest of us to know spring
time and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter do not fail*
The modern farmer is a hero.
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THE REAL HELPERS
Amongst those who will be rbmembered as the sheet anchor
of business and social security during the depressing days that art,
slowly passing away will be those .who avoided gypsyism. By gyp-
syism We mean the practice of those persons who fly to every new
thing that comes along, meanwhile deserting the men, who by dint
of hard work have a stake in the community and who have done
their best to further every valiiable feature of the community’s life
There is the gypsy trader or dealer or businss man or professional
^nan. Such a man appears suddenly, starts his ballyhoo, offers
his flaring bargains that are not bargains at all, and then flies his
kite for other fields as suddenly as he appeared. Meanwhile the
man .with a stake in the community, the man who has built schools
kept up roads and. who had his finger in every worthwhile com
munity pie, has suffered through loss of patronage* Siuch folk do
hot make for the stability of the community. Oh the other hand
we have the citizens who have worked on, steadily doing worth
'while things. These men remember the good things of the past.
They look over the record of the men who have stood consistently
for the best interest ot the community and place themselves
squarely bohihd them ahd support them arid inspire them to do
their best* Such supporters ot sound business and practice are
beyond all praise. For it must never bo forgotten that sound busi
ness and sOuftd enterprise have carried On for the last tew years
under desparate difficulties. <
Over two hundred friends and
neighbours attended the reception
of Mr. and Mrs. Harold Jackson in
Kippen hall last week. During the
evening the newly-married couple
were presented with two handsome
chairs and a table.
TELEPHONE SYSTEM I
TAKEN OVER |
A meeting of the subscribers of the:
Tuckersmith Telephone System was!
The report of the Penny Bank fur
January and February show's that
the average weekly percentage of
pupils depositing at the Exeter pub-
'lie school was 39. Total amount on
deposit to the credit of the Exeter
I pupils at the end of February was
j $960,51. The comparison figures of
' a yo?.y ago was $915.10
USBORNE COUNCIL
The Municipal Council of the Twp
■held recently in Brucefield hall. The ‘ of Usborne met on Saturday, April
; 1st at the Township Hall pursuant ' to adjournment, All the members or
I Council were present,
The minutes of the meeting of
March 4th were read and approved
on motion of Shier-Passmore.
Communication's — Letter from
'Municipal Board re Rural Telephone
systems, Noted.
Request from Bell Tel Co, for
license to build their trunk line on
2nd, and 3rd Con’s of Twp also lead
lines between Lots 5 and 6 and Lois
15 and 16,
Westcott-Moir; That the request
be granted but
with Councillor
final staking is
Request from
iation for membership fee. Filed.
Communication from Department
of Forests and Lands re farm Relief
and settlement -plan. Tabled.
A delegation from Trustee Board
Kirkton Library applied for a grant
for the Library.
Shier, no seconder; That a grant
of $10.00 be made.
Moir-Passmore: That a grant or
$5.00 be made. Carried.
Treasurer’s Report—$700.00, 1932
taxes together with $13.0l3i penalties
transferred by the Collector to the
Township Account.
Westcott-Shier: That the follow
ing accounts be paid viz.:
Milton Gregory, gravel and labor.
$61.80; Dominion Road Machinery
Co., grader blade $5.25; C. N. R.
railway, freight 50c.; Chas. Johns,
dragging $3.15; Win. Elford, ditto
$i3.1'5; Ben Williams, ditto 80c.; H.
Ford, superintendance and con. exp.
$11.85. Carried.
Council adjourned to meet on Sat.
May 6th, at one p.m.
Henry Strang, Clerk
•meeting was called by the township
council to consider the advisability
of putting the system in the hands
of three commissioners. It has pre
viously been run by commissioners
under the direction of the council.
The voting resulted in the com
missioners plan being approved, 100
voting for and 20 against. Com
missioners appointed were: T. G.
Shillinglaw, Tuckersmith; W. Alex
ander, Hay; and William McEwan,
Stanley. Auditors appointed were:
Edwin Chesney and Alex McEwan.
T.
CHURCH BUILDING TO BE SOLD
Cooper’s Church, Blanshard, which
has recently been closed is to be of
fered for sale by public
shortly. That decision was
at a meeting of the Perth
tery held at Mitchell, It
noted that the trend of the time?
has resulted in the closing of many
smaller rural Churches in this dis
trict during the past number of
years. During the past generation
so, at least five 'Churches have been
closed in Blanshard, the Anglican
and Methodist Churches at Prospect
Hill and Methodist Churches at Mc
Intyre’s, Cooper’s and Salem. With
better roads and cars, the farmers
now go farther to church and a great
many do not go at all. Cooper's,
which is located on the Base Line,
five miles West of St. Marys, is part
of the Woodham Circuit of which
Rev. Mr, Rutherford is pastor. Most
of the members of this Church
which was closed a couple of months
ago, are now attending church at
Woodham and a few at St. Marys.
—St. Marys Journal-Argus.
auction,
reached
Presby-
may be
REPORT FOR S. S. 5 USBORNE
The following is the report for S
S. No. .5, Usborne for March and part
of April.
iSr. IV.—Ray Perkins, 74; Orville
Webber, 70.8; Ivan Webber, 613.2;
Earl Frayne 57.5.
Jr. IV—-Ivan Perkins, 78.4; Anna
Kernick, 74.9; Lieland Webber, 74.-
4; Paul Gregus 66.5; Ferrol Fisher
61; Eldon Heywood, 50.3.
Sr. Ill—Gordon Kliendfeldt, 76.1
Stanley F'rayne, 71.8; Laverne Hey
wood, 70.8; Jack Frayne, 68.9; H.
Westcott, 65.5; Iva Fisher, 59.6.
II Class—Shirley Gregus, 71.5;
Lloyd Webber 70.6; Roy Heywood,
67.2; Pauline Godbolt, 60.
The following will be in the Jr.
II aftei* Easter; Nola Perkins, John
Westcott and Norman Johns.
Pr. Cl.—iSliirley Moir, Marie Flet
cher, Marion Kernick and Marie
Heywood.
No. on Roll 27.
A. R, Dodds, Teacher
Things were badly
California, but even
rocking did not shake
off any of the homes.
they must confer
Westcott before the
done. Carried,
Good Roads Assoc-
The C. N. R.
closed on April
transferred to
Heal to Forest.
section, Granton
1st, John Knox
St. M<arys and
To Comfort
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