HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1938-11-24, Page 7THE EXETER TIMES-ADVOCATE THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 1088
HOW TO GET RICH PRANKISH PROBLEMS
If it were possible for every one
to be of an equally high order of
intelligence and free of the moral
and mental prejudices that grow out
of ignorance, there might be no la
bor difficulties.
o. Wealth is based on goods and la
bor. (Capital begins with a surplus
of time which which can be used
for the attainment of. a surplus of
goods. Every laborer who learns
this lesson becomes a capitalist in
some degree.
Raising wages raises prices. As
most people spend all they make, an
increase in wages leaves the earner
just where he was before.
People get rich according to law.
The law is very simple but hard to
obey in the beginning. It is: “Work
hard and save.”
A big percentage of the popula-
ton disobeys this law all their lives
and condemn fortune for favoring
the ones who observe it.
The nation spends millions of dol
lars for pleasure and millions in time
enjoying it-—and most every one re
sents the idea of self-improvement as
the basis of success.
’To him who hath industry shall
be given.’ The gatekeeper at the
■portals of success is still 'Hard
Work.’
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The guy I despise
And thoroughly4 hate
Is the iir-cultured bimbo
Who taps on his plate.
***Zeke of Xelia
(We are collecting a menagerie of
■pests. So rhyme yours, if any, and
send them in.)
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Misery loves company and some
times the result is matrimony.
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A village is a place where every
body knows the next morning that
it’s a boy.
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Answer to Prankish Problems No.
40; Boiler’s present age, 21; ship’s
present age, 2-8.
Prankish Problems No. 41; A
farmer had 3 sons. He gives Harry
10 apples, Leo 30 apples and Oscar
50 apples and tells them to sell them
for the same price and each is to
bring back the same amount of
money,
What amount of money did they
bring home?
(Read this problem twice before
you start figuring the correct answer
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Prosperity is a time when people
contract for debts which they must
pay when hard times come.
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PRINTING IN TIBET
The Three hundred and seventeen
volumes of Tibetan classics are print
ed from walnut blocks carved by
hand. The blocks are carved on both
sides and each side represents a
complete page, A skilled'' lama, or
priest, can carve a block in four
days.
The printing is done with a hand
press which can print only one page
at a time. Forty-five lamas, work-
Very thin paper is used, but eight
thicknesses are pasted together to
form a page. Four buildings are
required to house the blocks for the
three hundred and seventeen volumes
ing continuously for about nine
months, can print one complete set
of books.
Hi Hi *
We only hear about fooball when
it is being practiced—now if only
people were that way about religion.
H: * *
Most people of 80 pre vegetarians
—and we always thought they were
octogenarians.
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Can you name even one man at the
head of a big business or industry
who' was valedictorian of his grad-1
uating class? j
$ Sfc SR
An undesirable citizen is one who |
breaks laws different from the ones
■you break. >
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Most wives spend more time try
ing to mend their husband’s ways
than their clothes-.
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How Mark Twain Proved It
When Mark Twain was living in
Hartford, 'Conn., where Dr. Doane,
later Bishop of Albany, was rector
of the Episcopal Church, he went to
hear one of the clergyman’s best
sermons. After- it was over, Mark
approached the Doctor and said po
lite: “I have enjoyed youi’ sermon
this morning. I welcome it as an
old friend. I have a book at home
in my library which contains every
word of it.”
“Why that can’t be, Mr. Clemens,”
replied the rector.
“All tne same it is so,” said Twain
'“Well, I certainly should like to
see that book,” replied the rector
with dignity.
“All right,” said Mark, “you shall
have it.”
—and the next morning Dr. Doane
received, with Mark Twain’s compli
ments—a dictionary.
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ONE IDEAL
.You may talk of “clinging vines”
With their M;id-Victorian lines
And their dinky mincing highrheeled
number threes.
But give me The girl
Who can change a tire,
Sew on a button
Oi' build a camp-fire—
, And you may keep your frails
Who hug a Pekinese.
** Earnest
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Perhaps people hesitate to accept
your beliefs because they are afraid
it would make them the kind of a
fellow you look like to them.
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It is easier to dig bait than to
•catch fish—so- too, it is easier to
make or buy something to sell than
to sell it.
Robust Health for Young People
What a common sight it is to see
a young person whoso bloodless face
and feeble frame ate evidence of
poor circulation and weakness where
bounding health and rosy cheeks
should reign. ,
Young people in such a condition
need a preparation containing iron,
Milbum’s Health and Nerve Pills
meet this requirement as they con
tain. three concentrated forms of iron
of ftn easily assimilated nature to
gether with other valuable ingredients
indicated to build up your system
and add to your physical attraction,
Tlio T. Milburn Co., Ltd., Toronto, Ont,
ARE YOU RUNNING A RISK
“Wipe out all my mills, take away
my accumulated capital, but leave
me my staff of .trained managers
salesmen and factory experts and in
a few years, I shall be back on the
high road to prosperity again.” That
was the way Andrew Carnegie felt
and expressed himself—a statement
many times quoted before and since
his death.
And not so long ago, another
manufacturer said: “If the unex
pected should happen to my plant
and stock be wiped but entirely, I
would still have one thing of greater
value than all else I possess—the
good-will of my trade—and with that
assured, I could come back with col
ors flying because I could rebuild
my plant and buy new stock. But
Good Will is something which can
not be so easily replaced once it is
lost—that is why it is so valuable.”
A concern that is doing nothing
NOW to build up and hold good will
is running a grave risk.
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Most anyone can accept a favor
graciously but the real test of man
hood is to know how and when ito re
turn it.
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DIXIE
Voices gentle, soft and low,
Fluffy cotton, white as snow;
Brooks that babble, bobolinks,
Muddy rivers crammed with kinks;
Cabins, dodgers, sorghum, mines;
Blue Ridge mountains, palms and
pines;
, Sweet-faced women, smoke that curls
Pretty, peachy, peppy girls;
Corn-cakes, toothsome, hard to beat,
Egg-bread, moonshine, horses fleet;
Winding, winsome sooners’ lanes,
Cinder spitting Southern trains;
Porkers portly, razorbacks,
Endless caverns, shoe-box snacks;
Pillared mansions, spacious lawns,
Gorgeous sunsets, golden dawns;
Tempting toddies, gray grist-mills;
Honeysuckle, birds that hum,
Stalwart Anglo-Saxondom;
Happy blend of old and new—
Dixie, darling, I love you!
***Wm. R. Shields
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How can we expect honesty in pol
itics when we all know it takes
trickery to get elected.
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To acquire new friends, one must
have the ability to hold old ones.
* * *
A ‘he-man’ is one who isn’t weak
enough to go ahead and do a silly
think just to show his 'wife whose
boss.
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Closing a sale,- so I’ve been told
Is the hardest task for the sales
man bold;
But ending a Column is my woekly
problem
To do it quick and not too solemn
THE COLONEL
A RIAL
Johnney and Mqry have been getting out their skates.
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Yes, we’ve scoured the rust off that good old snow shovel.
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The melting snow was just the thing for many cisterns and for
many a well.
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Nothing like a strong sou’ Easter with the thermometer about
20 to take the pride out of the coal bin.
Those fine days after the first snow fall gave many a farmer an
opportunity to get that little bit of extra plowing done.
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We’re glad to note those popular regional church schools held
in the region of St. Marys and Kirkton. The attendance has been
from 70 to 100 for six nights over a period of six weeks.
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As we do. a little buying and selling we’ll get our best know
ledge of that new ‘Canada—British-United States trade agreement.
Its the consumer who pays the piper—and who casts the stupid bal
lot.
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As the wind was blowing great guns the other day enriched by
a lively sleet storm we saw a farmer and his wife trying to house
half a dozen. marathon-prepared steers. Neither the steers nor the
farmer folk looked happy.
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SAND THOSE HILLS
Provincial highways are well sanded in icy times. This is at
it should be. Of course such sanding costs money. So do hearses
and law suits, as some councils have found out.
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It seems too bad that Canada is not taking a more active part
in the work of reconstructing the world in these stirring days. For
her not to pull her weight and a little .more in times /like these, is
for her to miss her opportunity and to welsh when she is needed
most.
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THOSE JEWS QF GERMANY
Civilization recoils in horror at the treatment now meted out
to the Jews of Germany. Whatever may be the faults of that strange
people, the treatment they are now receiving, at the hands of Hitler
and his governement is an offence against every fine instinct of
humanity. Even if the Jews have proven a difficult race for the
Germans to deal with, oppression and murder and starvation and
exile are no proper punishment for any alleged offence of which the
Jews have been accused. It is high time that the methods of the
ape and tiger had died out of every German breast.
Let no one be deceived. What Hitler and his followers have
done to the Jews, is the treatment they would mete out to any other
nation that may come under their domination. Let no one, whether
private citizen or government official blink the fact. Germany but
waits her opportunity_ to ravage the world. The only argument she
respects is a heavier mailed fist than her own.
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WHY NOT CANADA?
It is asked “Why does not Canada give access to her wide open
spaces to the Jews in their hour of trial? The reply is simple. The
Jews are not an agricultural people. They are a trading people.
Further, their traditions and their practices have made them a very
difficult people for a nation to absorb. Whether they are in Russia
oi’ England or .Brazil or Canada, the Jews do not become Russians
or English or Brazilians or Canadians. Jews they are and Jews
they insist upon remaining. History proves that as a race they
wish to continue a separate people. Yet they insist upon taking
part in government, and some fear, a dominating part in govern
ment. We may as well admit the difficulties enlightened govern
ments have in welcoming large numbers of the Jewish people.
Shakespeare puts these words into the mouth of Shylock, there
by expressing the Jewish spirit of exclusiveness. “I will buy with
you, sell with 'you, talk with you, walk with you, and so following
but I will not eat with you, drink with you, nor pray with you.” The
Jewish conceptions of life with its ideals and hopes are racial rather
than national. Their intense racialism and exclusiveness make the
Jews a very difficult race for governments to deal with satisfactor
ily from a national standpoint.
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GROWING PAINS
A university is like a man on a bicycle — it must move on or
it must move off. Unless a boy grows he becomes a dwarf. Queen’s
University is aware of the two principles thus enunciated. She must
move, she says, because she must meet the ever-expanding needs of
the commonwealth. She is a child among the great Universities of
the world, for in 1941^ she is to celebrate her first 100 years of life.
Just now as she reviews her splendid service she is looking to lib
eral minded people to assist her financially to do., better what she
already has done well. It will be interesting to read what her pres
ent leaders set forward as their conception of the function of a uni
versity. "Queen’s should not attempt to do everything, but the
things it chooses to do it should do superlatively.” And we are
glad to say that Queen’s during the whole term of her existence
has striven with a large measure of success to accomplish. Her slo
gan is “not how much, but how well” .this very thing. That is why
Queen’s men are found in every walk of life where careful thought
and action are required. It is inevitable that such a lusty young
ster should have growing pains. It is quite as certain that all who
believe in accurate thinking and courageous action should come to
her support now that she is taking a forward step, come forward to
her assistance as they have come for 100 years.
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WITH COMPROMISE
We have just heard a comment made by an exacting School
Inspector upon the work of one of his teachers. It seems that this
teacher had been given a real problem class, consisting, of pupils
some of whom were downright lazy and indifferent, some of whom
were saucy and ill-mannered and “tough”. This had bden the his
tory of this class for years. Well, the new teacher took charge and
was given a free hand. After months of the heartbreaking and
backbreaking work the inspectoral visit was made. “You have got
that class under control” said this inspector and added the words.
“You have done this without compromise.”
Here were a number of youngsters who were potential crim
inals who now bid fair to be good citizens. Estimate the finan
cial saving this teacher has affected to her community. Estimate the
moral worth of her work in restraining the contagion of evil these
roughnecks might have spread, Then estimate the value of their
conduct as good citizens. Yet the board employing this teacher has
not recognized her special worth. She succeeded where half a doz
en others had gone down to defeat. She did what others of her
craft had utterly failed to accomplish. Yet she goes unrewarded
for special service. The worth of such a teacher to the common
wealth is beyond price. She won without compromise of her prin
ciples or of her ideals, but at a price to health and in brain fag and
moral effort that passes unrewarded. She lived more in those few
months than she would normally have lived in years. We have not
heard one word of complaint from this achieving teacher. She says
it was all in the day’s work.
Log Barn Raising
Were Risky and
Friendly Events
By VV. IL Johntson in London (Free
Press
Life in the bush as lived by the
pioneers was made endurable and
enjoyable by the spirit of co-opera
tion and helpfulness among them.
The knowlelge that in the next
shanty and in all the homes in the
bush, dwelt friendly neighbors that
were glad a new one had arrived,
helped people to endure the solitude
of life in the forest,
It was this spirits of co-operation
that cheered the newcomer to a
neighborhood where he had to build
a shanty and knew little about how
to proceed. The older settlers were
glad to put up the walls and some
times even cut the logs for a green
horn in wood lore.
For such inexperienced men, if
worthy, helpful neighbors did a
great deal. Logging bees often re
sulted in having eight or 10 acres
of a fallow piled up in log heaps in
a day. Such was a wonderful lift
to a new settler.
But the opus magnum was when
a farmer having made a small clear
ing decided to build a log barn. This
was often from 40 to 50 feet long,
25 to 30 wide and about 17 feet
high. Such a barn required about
100 good, straight, even-sized logs,
8 or 10 of which, besides the plates
and sills, ran the full length of the
barn, For the green woodsman this
was a herculean task, requiring days
and days for the selection, cutting
and assembling of so many suitable
logs but kind neighbors were free
with advice and labor.
a Skids made of small peeled bass
wood trees, some short and others
long enough to reach the top of the
barn in a slanting position, had to be
provided as well as mooleys to. slide
up the logs. These mooleys were
crescent-shaped bows into which
were inserted fairly long poles thro’
a hole in the centre, the pole, enter
ing of course, from the convex side.
As the building became higher
the men worked with great care in
sliding up the logs to prevent an ac
cident. Clever axe-men attended
to the corners. In the case of barns
they generally made a horse-and-
saddle joint but for houses the ends
of the logs were carefully dove-tail
ed so as .to fit sungly and neatly.
About 50 neighbors were required to
erect a* log barn, all of whom re
sponded generously to the call. '
At logging bees in the early days
in some neighborhoods, whisky was
freely provided and some men were
drunk before noon but not so at the
barn raisings. At the only one I
attended after school hours the drink
had been carefully hidden in the
dwelling house but when the last
plate was in place some thirsty chap
shouted. “Now, Tommy, bring out
the grog.” and as I moved towards
the house where the mother was
helping with other women to pre
pare the meals I met Tommy with a
huge stoneware jug filled with the
“crathur.” This was ovei’ 70 years
ago.
But it was in the raising of frame
barns that co-operation on a large
scale had to be resorted to, since
about 100 men were required to
erect the framework of a 40 by 60
foot barn, especially if much of the
timber were of rock elm or oak.
Generally the timbers were put
together in four cross-sections, call
ed bents before sides were called.
Two’leading and capable men who
where not afraid to go aloft were
captains and they divided the men,
choosing the strong, clever and ex
perienced hands first and alternate
ly.
Then with pike poles in which was
inserted a strong, sharp spike the
bents were lifted to a vertical posi
tion and joined togeher by girths
along the side. It was in the rais
ing of these bents that the first
thrills were experienced. Some one
had to take command and rouse the
men to lift.
In South Huron, a man, named
James O’Brien; a farmer, would
jump on the cross beam of the bent,
and in a voice that often was heard
a mile away, would shout, “Now,
men lift” and in unison with his en
couraging call “Yo Heave,” the bent
would rise two or three feet but if it
appeared to be slow in the rising
the men heard: “Come, men ‘this
will never do. Now” and with a
mighty “Ho Heave,” up went the
bent and he went up with it.
All seemed to like to hear the
commanding call and inspirational
tone of voice used by the leader.
The bents locked together there
DEAD LIVESTOCK
Phone Seaforth 15, Collect
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Making Canada
A Better Place in Which to Live and Work
A Series of Letters From Distinguished Canadians on Vital
Problems Affecting the Future Welfare ojf Canada
Specially Written for Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association
and Addressed to the president, George W. James, of Bowinanville
LETTER NUMBER 28
Dear Mr. Editor:
While I consider it a great honor
to be requested on behalf of the
people “down by the sea” to express
their views on “How to make Can
ada a better place in which to live
and work”, I feel that my outlook
may be somewhat limited and sec
tional.
I have lived all my life in the east
and naturally feel its limitations
because of its industrial setbacks in
the past twenty-five years.
I have seen great and thriving
industries wrecked, whole towns and
villages turned into “ghosts towns”
by consolidations and mergers;
where the great plants have been
closed down and thousands of men
thrown out of employment.
Naturally my thoughts turn to
some form of social security; some
way of preventing the wrecking of
such industries and the consequent
misery of working, men and their
families who have been deprived of
a livelihood and the loss of the
means of security by the vanishing
of real estate values.
Our people are essentially labor
ing people, and some means should
be provided to furnish work for
them.
Large and thriving industries! in
other sections of our great Dominion
which have been responsible for in
dustrial mergers should plan to keep
our small industries functioning.
We are favorably situated for ex
port business through our great sea
ports, and we feel that such indus
tries which were built up here could
be employed along these lines,
Dur citizens for the most part, are
thoroughly loyal to our British con
nections and to our Dominion but
when they are deprived of a means
of livelihood by influences beyond
their control their thoughts natural
ly turn to the “isms” of radicals.
Therefore I feel that if Canada is
to be happy and contented our great
industrial corporations should hot
centralize all industry in central
Canada, but should bear in mind the
needs of the east and the west.
I feel that we should cultivate the
finer feelings of brotherly love. It
has been said that corporations have
no soul. While this statement is
not true in many cases, it is unfor
tunately apparent in some.
We should, through our papers
and by example in our daily lives
foster brotherly love, kindlier feel
ings towards the under dog, and a
helping hand to the unfortunate.
We are living in difficult times.
The great majority of us feel socially
insecure. Our pressing need to-day
seems to be some means to prevent
this, some form of social security.
Yours very truly,
H. B. ANSJLOW,
'Prop. The Graphic,
Campbellton, N. B.
F. J. DELBRIDGE, Representative, EXETER
was no need for a leader. 'Each .side
attacked its wall plate, a huge tim
ber 60 feet long, and often 12 in.
square, but with one end raised to
the top cross beam the men soon sent
is sliding along to the other end.
Some of the strongest men lifted
it on the top of the side posts while
the captain directed the men below
to send up th'e smaller purline plate.
These purlines were to support the
roof and with long posts and braces
had to be managed carefully.
As soon as the last pin was driven
home the captain called out “Now,
men, out of the building,” and a mad
rush was made for terra firma when
a mightly shout went up from the
winning side The losers were sel
dom far behind and good will kept
everybody happy.
The long supper tables, set out in
the open, claimed the attention of all
and what a supper was there. The
finest f oods the farm could produce
and dainties that tempted the most
fastidious appeite. All were good
humored and glad that another
■farmer had a frame barn.
The log barns lasted for 15 to 20
years or longer but after 1870 frame
barns became the order of the day
in Huron and in the Queen’s Bush
generally and were symbols of the
prosperity enjoyed by those men and
women who had worked so hard to
secure it.
Veteran Hotelman
Passes
SEAFORTH, — The well-known
veteran hotel-keeper, James Dick
passed away on Friday in his 75th
year following a protracted illness.
He was born in Hay Township. When
a young man he spent a few years
working the gold mines in Carson,
Neveda. Returning to Canada he
was married in 18iS 0 to "Miss Susan
Schaefer, of Kippen, who predeceas
ed him a number of years. He kept
a hotel in Kippen for a time, coming
to Seaforth about 40 years ago where
he was the proprietor of the Carroll
Hotel on the present site of the
Carengie ILibrary and afterward pur
chased the Dick House where he
spent the remainder of his life. A
son, Thomas Dick, a druggist in
Drumheller, Alberta, died several
years ago. Surviving are three sons,
Joseph, in California; Gordon, Sud
bury and Arthur W., at home; also
two step-sisters, Mrs. Agnes Thomp
son, Hensail; Miss Nellie Dick, near
Hensall and a step-brother, Robert
Dick, of Hensall.
HITLER MOUSTACHES
;ARE BANNED IN HURON
Huron County Council unanimous
ly passed a resolution banning Hit
ler moustaches and authorizing
the courthouse officer, Sergeant-Ma
jor George James, to arrest anyone
wearing anything resembling one.
The motion went through in jig
time and everyone looked at every
one else. The moustache of Peter
Scott, dean of the council, would
make 10 of Hitler’s as would those
of other reeves, and they were quick
ly counted.
The sparse upper lip outgrowth of
a reporter was carefully scanned,
then ignored, so the search narrow
ed down to the sergeant-major him
self as the nearest approach to a Hit
ler moutache. If he carries out or
ders he will either arrest himself
or bare his upper lip.
He; “What would you say if I told
you I have come a thousand miles
through ice and snow with my dog
team just to tell you I love you?”
She: “I’d say that was a lot of
mush.”
BRIDE IS HONORED BY
MITCHELL FRIENDS
Mrs. F. Cameron, a recent bride,
of Mitchell, was honored by over
one hundred friends who> assembled
in the Odd Fellows’ Hall Tuesday
night and presented her with a mag
nificent shower of gifts. The presen-
taton included a tea wagon, occa
sional chair, Windsor chair, hall
tree, electric toaster, percolator and
grill, silver tea service, floor and
table lamps, set of enamel ware, end
table, magazine rack, bedroom bench
linen silver and innumerable other
costly and practical gifts.
CHRISTOPHER WARD, 65,
STANLEY TOWNSHIP, DIES
Christopher Ward died in Clinton
Hospital in his 66th year after a lin
gering illness. He was born in Stan
ley Township near Varna, in 1872.
He spent his entire life in the district
in which he was born. For the past
25 years he was employed on the
Snowden estate, south of Bayfield.
He was not married. Mr. Ward fa
survived by two brothers and two
sisters, they are John Ward, of
IBrucefield; Emmanuel, Clinton; Mrs.
|Clinton; Mrs. Robert Armstrong and
Miss Elizabeth Ward, of Varna, He
was a member of A.F, > A.M,