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D. L. & W KIPPEN EAST AV. I. MEETS
District News I
PARKHILL—Joseph B. Young, of
Moray, died last vreek after an ill
ness of two years. His wife and a
son Gordon predeceased him. Inter
ment was in Parkhill cemetery.
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KIPPEN— Four generations ap
peared in a picture in Saturday’s
Free Press of Mrs. James Mustard,
Chesley, who celebrated her 89 th
birthday on April 22nd; her son
James Mustard of Kippen, his dau
ghter Mrs. Malcolm Dougall and her
son Jimmy Malcolm Dougall, also
of Kippen.
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PARKHILL—Death took place in
McGillivray Township of Mrs. Dun
can A. Graham, aged 7 9 years. She
is survived by four sons and one dau
ghter.
was
'53
tlhe
She
and
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PARKHILL—Funeral services was
held in St. Paul’s United Church in
Parkhill, for Mrs. Ada Lavery, who
died in Toronto. Mrs. Lavery
born in McGillivray Township
years ago being a daughter of
late Robert and Mrs. ’Smith,
trained for a nurse in Detroit
after her marriage to George Lavery,
of McGillivray made her home in
Toronto. She is survived by her
mother, two brothers, Sandford, of
Parkhill and Melvin, of McGillivray
and five sistesr, Mrs. Eldon Steeper,
of McGillivray Township; Mrs. Al
bert Nimz. Mrs. Floyd Ott and Mrs.
Harold Campbell, all of Detroit, and
Miss Jessie Smith.
Scranton Blue Coal
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Hamco Coke and Mill and Al
berta Coal on hand
A. J. CLATWORTHY
The Kippen East Women’s Insti
tute held its annual meeting at the
home of Mrs.» William Workman.
The officers are as follows: Presi
dent, Mrs. Glenn Mac-Lean; 1st vice-
president, Mrs. Harry Caldwell; 2nd
vice-president, Mrs. William Cole;
secretary-treasurer, Miss Grace Tre
ia eer; assistant, Miss Audrey Din-
nin; pianist, Miss Lorene Martin;
directors, Mrs. William Kyde, Mrs.
Lolis Clarke, Mrs. William Dinnin,
Mrs. Ardhie McGregor; press re
porter, Mrs. William Doi'g; district
director, Mrs. Harry Caldwell.
Granton If you would avoid boring, avoid
chatter.Phone 12
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Prices are lower than at this time last year
because there is no sales tax. Write to-day
for free estimate. Address Dept. 906.
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Eastern Steel Products
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PRESTON, ONT
Factories also at
Montreal and Toronto
Miss Ruth Webb, of
Granton, Returns from
South Africa
BANK BARNS UNKNOWN TO
THOSE WHO CAME TO WESTERN
ON ARK) AS SETTLERS IN BUSH
By W. H. Johnston in the London
Free Press
The pioneers in some townships
appear to have known little or noth-
1 ing about bank barns. The first
barns, built for the protection of
their crops, were of logs, the sills
consisting of large stones or some
times of cedar or oak blocks. Stables
for stocks .and the pigpens were in
separate builidngs, erected before the
barns.
One exception known to the writ
er was a log barn, built by William
Finlay, on Lot 5, con. 9, Township of
Ashfield. A small creek ran across
his farm with hil-ly banks. He exca
vated on the side of one oif these
hills a site for a barn, built of logs
from the bottom of the eaves. The
threshing floor was on the level of
the top of the hill with ample stab
ling beneath for all his stock. It was
the talk of the country side, with
many coming to see it.
About 1870, frame barns began
to supersede those built of logs in
North Huron.' The foundations were
the same, with this exception, the
blocks and stones were larger and
the sills generally were about two
and one-half feet from the ground,
thus giving that much more space
for the storage of hay
clay floor was often
rails or poles, across
placed a few boards to
tom layer of sheaves dry.
Our nearest neighbor had his gra
nary built across the barn, alongside
the threshing floor, and extending
back over half the mow. The space
behind was almost 12 feet deep, and
I have a vivid recollection of an
other lad and I having to throw the
large sheaves, bound by hand, to the
top of the granary, whence a man
carried them to the table of
threshing machine. It was hard,
work, even on a winter’s day,
two lads in their early teens,
it was in the day’s work, and
sumptuous threshing-day dinner al
ways made up for the extra exertion.
In the spring of 18)75 I went to
Donegal, in Elma Township, in Perth
to learn cheese-making. We boarded
in the home of the late Mr. and
Samuel Vipond.
Mr. Vipond ‘built a barn 60
by 2 feet, resting on a stone
eight or nine feet high. It was a huge
affair for those days, and it was a
masterpiece for economy, since the
one roof covered his barn and stable,
thus saving double expense in roof
ing and building. Since that time,
scores of bank barns have been built
throughout the township, and almost
all of them were erected in the next
10 to 15 years. Many of them were
built on level- land, and when they
were raised it took a large amount
of filling to build a driveway to the
barn. The late William Campbell,
of the Township of Hay, drew 800
loads for his gangway. Many farmers
had their roothouses there, thus sav
ing space.
Home in Ashfield again, I related
J the story of Mr. Vipond’s wonderful
barn, and one farmer decided to try
his luck in building one like it. He
raised his barn on large cedar posts,
instead of a stone wall. That was in
are
the
it
the
had
ground.
or grain. The
strewn with
which were
keep the bot-
the
hot
for
but
a
Mrs.
feet
wall
1877, and some of those posts
doing duty 'under the centre of
barn. When the frame was up,
looked so much like a castle in
air that the owner wished he
built the barn on the
fearing that wind storm would be
the of it. Ten to fifteen years later
the majority of the barns were rais
ed and placed on a stone or cement
foundation.
Nurses'
of staff
The re-
By Thelma Craig in Globe & Mail
Miss Ruth Webb is glad to be home.
But she thinks she has come just in
the nick of time.
'She and Miss Winnifred Perrin,
two attractive nurses from the Hos
pital for Sick Children, Toronto,
went out to South Africa in January
193*8’ to accept positions on the staff
of a new general hospital by the
name of Groote Scliuur, which was
opened in Cape Town. Last week
they returned to Toronto.
"The British fleet was massed at
Gibraltar when we came through the
Mediterranean and we. saw two
French warships just outside Tan-
giers. It did startle us a bit and
we were definitely glad we were get
ting close to old England, for there
seemed to be no telling when hos
tilities might break out.” Miss Webb
commented.
Tribute to Canada
When the new hospital in ■Ca1pe
Town was ready for occupation, a
call came to the Canadian
Association for members
with which to help man it.
quest was an obvious tribute to tlhe
skill and efficiency of Canadian
nurses.
“There is a great lack of nurses
in South Africa,” Miss Webb said.
“Few of the daughters of the whites
study nursing. But there’s a new
hospital 'being opened for the blacks
now and some of them with a little
training would make excellent
nurses.”
Miss Webb prefers nursing the
blacks of 'South Africa to the Europ
eans, she says. “Any of the blacks
who come into the'hospital are thrill
ed with the snowy white sheets and
.pillows cases, and they are the most
appreciative people in the world.
They are tremendously good-natured
and carefree people.” And although
there are eight blacks to two whites
one could never imagine them mak
ing any trouble for tlhe British people
she says.
Adventurous Tri)) ®
She .thinks the high spot of their
trip to South Africa was the voyage
home when they came up the coast
of Africa, through the Suez h
and the Mediterranean. They
camels at Cairo until they were
They climbed mountains and
took temperatures of 126 t in
shade in their stride.
‘And now we are home, we
memories that nothing can
away from us,” iMiss Webb said.
Miss Perrin had already taken the
train for her home in Lindsay, and
Miss Webb was discovered just be
fore she left for Granton “foi’ a holi
day.”
Canal
rode
s sore.
they
the
have
Take
FORRISTAL—HODGINS
A quiet wedding was solemnized
at St. Mary’s rectory when Pauline
Elva Hodgins, daughter of Mrs. Ida
Hodgins and' the late Alfred Hod
gins, of Centralia, became the bride
of Richard Stanley Forristal, only
son of Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Forristal,
of London. Rev. G. A. La-belle of-
ficated. The bride was attended by
her sister,'Mrs, Eileen Braund, and
Samuel Cooper acted as best man.
The bride was smartly dressed in a
navy tailored suit with japonica ac
cessories. Mr. and Mrs. Forristal will
reside in London.
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A CANADIAN BOYS’ BAND
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One of the most successful bands
of its kinds in the world, consisting
entirely of boys, is revisiting ‘the
United Kingdom this summer. It will
be its third British trip. Known as
the Vancouver • Boys’ Band, it was
formed in 192 8 in a small way by a
music teacher, Mr. A. W. Delamouiit
and soon, with the practical support
of parents and townspeople, it had
acquired instruments worth a good
deal of money, had reached a stren
gth of seventy and had made its uni
form of white shirt
cloak familiar across
It won championship
pionship and in 1934
its winning touch in
The boys contrived
own fares, were given
ception - including a
shake from the Lord Mayor 'Of Lon
don - and carried off the first prize
for its class at the Crystal Palace
Band Festival against
rivals.
The Band returned to
Kingdom in 1-936, the
paying their way and filling thirteen
weeks of engagements, their per
formances in many cases following
or preceding civic receptions. Among
the cties where they played in ad
dition to London where they played
several • times, were Southampton
Yeovil, Wolverhampton, Rodditch,
Derby, Matlock, Loughborough,
Gloucester, Cheltenham, Cinderford,
Northampton, Coventry, Kettering,
Luton, Hertford, Folkestone, Leices
ter, Dublin,
Dunfermline.
Eastbourne,
‘This year,
New .York World’s Fair,
again cross tlhe Atlantic, arriving in
England on July 8th and remaining
until the end of September to fulfil
many engagements,
and coloured
the continent.
after chain-
decided to try
England.
to pay their
a notable re
special hand-
thirty-three
the United
lads again
Southport, Morecambe,
Bath, Newbury and
after playing at the
they Will
PIONEERING
demands constant pioneering—discovering
* developing the new and better method of doing
the things we have to do.
Time was when the introduction of a new implement was a mem
orable and historic event, but these were the early days in the appli
cation of mechanics to .farming operations. Today, changes succeed
each other with greater rapidity and even the most revolutionary
innovations are accepted with little acclaim.
Not in any period of the ninety years'of Massey-Harris history
has such skill been employed in the designing and developing of
machines for the farm as there is today. The Company’s engineers, in
their extensive field experiments, are constantly testing new ideas and
developing, under actual conditions, machines and attachments specifi
cally suited to the requirements pf the territory for which they are intended.
Thus, whether it be a one-handled walking plow to be used by a
native, and even perhaps drawn by natives, on the South African veldt;
a power-driven mower to cope with the luxuriant growth of grass on an
English meadow, or the One-Way Disc Seeder developed to help the
farmer on the prairies of Western Canada combat soil drifting, it is
the result of definite scientific research by the Company’s field engineers.
And in the motorized mechanization that is taking place in farming
operations, Massey-Harris is in the forefront, still pioneering in bringing
to farmers the latest developments in Tractors, Combines and other
power equipment.
MASSEY-
LEADERS
Motherwell Clergyman
and Wife in Accident
Rev. James Anthony and Mrs. An
thony of R.R. No. 8 St. Marys suf
fered bruises and minor injuries in
a traffic crash on No. 4 highway a
short distance south, of Elginfield
last week. Mr. Anthony was driv
ing to London following a large
truck. He pulled to the left with the
intention of passing and then notic
ed approaching traffic. He applied
his brakes and his car swung across
the road and came to a sudden stop.
Another truck owned by Roe Farms,
of Atwood, was following the An
thony car. The driver applied brakes
and pulled to the right but the left
front of his truck struck the rear
of .the minister’s car. The force of
the impact was such that Mrs.
thony was thrown from the car
knocked unconscious. However,
and her husband were able to
ceed to their home. Traffic officer
H. Lemon investigated but no charge
has been made.
An
and
she
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BACKACHE
A Cry for Help
Most people fail to recognize the
seriousness of a bad back.
The stitches, twitches and twinges
are bad enough and cause enough
suffering, but back of the backache,
and the cause of it all, is the dis
ordered kidneys crying out a warn
ing through the l?ack.
The pain in the back is the kid
neys cry for help. Go to their
assistance. Get a box of Doan’s
Kidney Pills. A remedy for back
ache and sick kidneys. Be sure and
get “Doan’s.”
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