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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1923-09-20, Page 5Always Good •> I TH E NEIGHBORHOOD CORRESPONDENTS ” lvcknow swtinwt; Thursday, September 20,1923 _____ ___ '■ • < INDIANS HOLD CAMP MEETING I have before me as I write a let­ ter written to the editor of this paper from a far off town in Saskatche­ wan. The writer is speaking not for herself but on great number who county their tercd to the continent but as the home behalf of once made They are corners of only that this scat- this When you buy SURPRISE you get a big, bright, solid bar of the highest grade household soap and it is always the same. A Pure Hard Soap 1 •i •• >: EVERY genuine piece of SMP Enameled Ware carries the SMP shield shape trade mark. Only the choicest articles carry this sign. It guarantees the value in the article, and the use of SMP Enameled Ware itself guarantees quick heating of foods; absolute purity; ease of cleaning, tenderly cooked food and long wear. Ask the hardware merchant for SMP&^WARE Three finishes: Pearl Ware, two coats of pearly grey enamel inside and out. Diamond Ware, three coats, light blue and white outside, white lining; Crystal Ware, three coats, pure white inside and out, with Royal Blue Edging. 156 WINGHAM FALL FAIR and Championship School Fair for Huron County with Championship School Parade MONDAY ggpj 24 & 25 TUESDAY Liberal Prizes in All Departments Forty-seven Special Prizes ranging in value from $2.00 to $20.00 Attractive Fall Fair Concert produced by Bob. Wilson Concert Company I I Admission to Grounds, 25c. I. T. WRIGHT, President.W. T, BOOTH, Sec’y. GODERICH i John Straiton, formerly Grand Trunk agent at Hagersville and God­ erich, and latterly accountant for the Goderich Elevator and Transit Com­ pany, died here on Sept. 13th after two days’ illness. He was prominent in Masonic and Odd Fellows circles, being a member of Huron Lodge, No. 62, I. 0. 0. F., Maitland Lodge and Huron Chapter of the Masonic Rite, as well as a member of St. Elmo Preceptory, Stratford, and* Mocha Temple of the Shriners, at London. The deceased leaves a widow and two Isons, Alex., of town, and Wat­ son of Toronto. AS SEEN BY THE WAY Recently, on a lengthy trip through the highways and byways of nearby counties, a few sights and occur­ rences that appeared to us worthy to be chronicled, are as follows: A farm-; smoking a cigar while plowing. <.................... 4 Th? Indians . from the Reserves along Lake Huron and Georgian Bay, last week held a camp meeting at Southampton, or to be more exact, at the Saugeen Reserve. Red "men were present from Sarnia, Walpool Island, Depo Harbour, Rama and Cape Crok­ er. The meeting appears to have been of a relgious nature, and three ser­ vices were held daily, and although the weather was wet and cold for out-door meetings, there was a good attendance. The Indians of the JSaug- een Reserve entertained the visitors, providing them with shelter and food —o-o-o— OCTOBER ROD AND GUN ” It trifling to say that Mrs. A. Mrs. B_, or Mr. W. is kill- or threshing his clover, or and Mrs. N. have gone to Another farmer, who, When asked how things were going, unhesitating­ ly replied: “Couldn’t be better.” A girl driving a democrat filled with milk cans and at the same time read­ ing a yellow-backed novel. A skunk that sat in the middle of the road and held us up for ten minutes. We never hurry a skunk. Stopped at the side of the road to gather some flow­ ers. A chap in an expensive sedan, thinking we were stalled, stopped and asked if we needed any help. Quite exceptional this! Ran across a fellow backing up a hill. Thought he was crazy until he explained that his gas tank was nearly empty, and discover­ ed the reason for his odd procedure. Bought gasoline at a roadside sta­ tion. Left without payin'1- membered, and went back the bill. Very odd! Garage got we hadn’t paid. Very, ordinary! Saw a red-headed kid fishing, Over his head hung a sign: “No fishing here.” ‘Twas false. The kid had 6 fish, Met another skunk in a wagon who would not let us have enough room to pass on a hill. Pre­ fer the striped variety.—Ex, L 1 home, four they Suill think cf us folk, and the part of the paper which possesses the great­ est interest for them is the local news sent in w eek by week by our staff of faithful correspondents from the dif­ ferent parts of the county. These patient, untiring, often much abused new'^-gatherers are building better than they know. They are like* the ancient prophets, “not without honor save in their owm neighborhood seems sb called on ing hogs that Mr. town. But now look at it from the view­ point of the readers of this paper, living in different parts of the coun­ try. They have gone away for vari­ ous reasons, but they are building for themselves homes as their fathers did, faced with the same conditions, perplexed by the same problems and they are anxious to keep the old-time traditions and transplant the old-time ideals in the new places to which they have gone. The hope of oui great new land which is opening up is in many things— the church, the schools, the class of settlers which they are getting. But not the least among the influences which will make this land an ideal place to live in, is the preservation and transplanting of the home ideals which girls who have left the have had instilled into youth. Anything then the spark of the memory of the old home from going out, anything which binds them to the things of the past, is playing a big part in keeping Can­ ada a land of the best ideals. Now for some years after these people went away, the -weekly or monthly letter followed them. No one can estimate the inspiration or restraining force of these letters, one by one the writers laid aside pen or their eyes became dim their fingers cramped with age, the letters grew less frequent finally ceased altogether. Hosts of the boys and' girls who have been ab­ sent from this country for twenty, thirty or forty years, have not had a written letter from the place of their birth for years. Is the inspira­ tion of this sacred memory to be al­ lowed to die out? Here is where the home paper comes in. It comes as a weekly let­ ter freighted with the fragrance of the memories of bygone days. The first bit of news they look for is the news of their old neighborhood. There they see that Mrs. A. is visiting Mrs. B. and they smile and say, “Well, well, she is still on her rounds, is she?” Mr. D. has* just cut his clover, —and they see again the field where as boys they picked berries from the fence corners, and the hollow rails where they had many a losing fight trying to rob the bumble bee. They read that Mr. W. was dead. “Well, well, he seemed an old man when they were still young.” They remem­ ber his rugged honesty and the home­ ly advice which from his desk as superintendent of the Sunday School he gave them. And so he is dead, but his words and influence which can never die, come back to them and they live over again their Sunday School days, but now realizing what they did not as boys and girls, how necessary, how important, the need of a character built upon the ideal of the Holy Word. So we could go on. The weekly paper with its neighborhood news has brought before the people the do­ ings of their home folks, their work, their play, their social joys, their sorrows,—little unimportant happen­ ings to those who live in the neigh­ borhood, but to those absent, a link that binds them to the best in the past. A drink of cold water to' a thirsty heart, like a drink from the old spring at the foot of the hill at home where, as boys,, we were wont to refresh ourselvgs. And in the strength of that refreshment they can go on to do continually better work—and so they are thankful for the home paper and the neighborhood correspondents, who, by much sacri­ fice, constitute themselves a link which bind them to all the best in the past.—Picton Gazette. One of the treats in store for the sportsman in Rod and Gun in Canada, in The October issue is a story by IT. C. Duff us on “Bear Hunting up Bute Tinlet, B.C.” which is written in a particularly readable manner. Bonny- ■castle Dale has a good article on the “Virginian Deer of Nova Scotia,” while an interesting account of a ten days’ trip in a canoe is contributed by A. David Fraser. E. F. Ward has a story of a fishing trip in the Rockies vhile F. V. Williams and Martin Hunter gave two good stories in this ’ssue. YOUNG FARM HAND- STEALS MONEY AND IS QUICKLY CAUGHT Later re- and paid man for- very ex­ the boys and older portions them in their which keeps but the and and and a young Toronto on the Elgin, which Parkin named Telfer Parkin Leslie Parkin; ehap, who has been working County Highway near Port pulled off a stunt recently handed him behind the bars, was boarding with a farmer Robert Telfer and while Mr. was away taking in the Ex. went through the: pockets of the hir­ ed man, named Wm. McFarlane, and got away with ninety-five dollars in 'ash, a gold watch chain, fountain nen and pocket book. The hired man vis.ely concluded J that Parkin would make for his home city of Toronto and got Mr. Teller on the long-dis­ tance phone. Ac; a result Parkin was arrested and brought to Walkerton for trial. Parkin* pleaded guilty be­ fore Magistrate McNab who consid­ ering the fact that full restitution had. been made 'and that it was the voung man’s first offence, let him off with thirty days in the County Gaol. -----------■■""’’Zx Mrs. Christena Matthews, of Wiar- ton, has just completed 50 years as telegraph operator in that town. When the telegraph was first in­ stalled at Wiarton in 1873, it was placed in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Matthews, on the condition that Mrs. Matthews would learn to operate. She did so, and now at the age of 70 she is still among the most ex­ pert operators oh the system, Plere an dTh ere Russia has more illiterates, and at the same time, more bookshops than any other country in Europe. The largest consignment of silk from the Orient for many months, consisting of 5,500 bales, valued at $9,000,000, formed part of the cargo of the “Empress of Russia” recently. A shipment of silk from China, consisting of ten carloads, valued at two million dollars, went forward from Vancouver to New York under special guard over the Cana­ dian Pacific lines recently. The first of a series of six new seaplanes being constructed for the Canadian Government has just been delivered. The new planes are to be used in forest patrol for the pre­ vention of destruction by fire. Following the disastrous earth­ quakes and fires Iwhich devastated large areas in Japan, the Canadian Pacific liners “Empress of Canada” and “Empress of. Australia” were thrown open to the accommodation of thousands of refugees, while the officers and men of the vessels did splendid work in organizing and assisting rescue parties. The rapid increase in the export butter trade of Saskatchewan during the past year or two, has been the outstanding feature of the Provin­ cial dairy industry. Recently the Saskatchewan Co-operative Cream- . eries made* a shipment of 25,000 lbs. of butter to China. _ ------For almost two decides the major portion of the world’s supply of cobalt has been . derived from the silver-cobalt-nickel arsenides of the Cobalt district, according to figures compiled by the Dominion Bureau of Statistics. The cobalt production of Canada in 1922 was 569,980 pounds, which at $3.25 a pound, would be worth $1,852,370. Canada’s trade within the Empire is increasing. For the twelve months ended July, Canada exported to other parts of the Empire goods amounting to $453,437,899. This is in comparison with $354,992,074, the figure for the corresponding twelve months previous. Imports from Brit­ ish Empire countries during the two twelve months’ periods were: Ended July. 1923, $195,811,190; ended July, 1922, $153,185,581. | A wheat crop of 382,514,000 bush­ els is forecasted in a report issued by the Dominion Bureau of Statis­ tics. The report is based upon the condition of crops at the end df July, and indicates that the Prairie Prov­ inces will produce 357.295,000 bush­ els of wheat if weather conditions continue favorable. Manitoba, it is expected, will have a total wheat yield of 44.468.000 bushels; Sas­ katchewan 211,051,000: and Alberta 101,776,000 bushels. Alberta is the only province to show an increased yiaid as carp^grad 1,025 Greatest Fall Fair You Are Welcome ALIVE AND WELL AT 107 Come to the Bruce County Make This Store Your Headquarters Meet All Your Friends Here The Store With The Stock MUNN’S RIPLEY CARRICK FARMER LOSES BARN AND SEASON’S CROP Fire Bug Suspected—Fire Marshall To Investigate Mr. Fred Goll’s barn on the 10th concession of Carrick was destroyed by fire on the night of September 6th. Shortly before midnight, he was a- u aliened by the furious barking of his dog, and noticing a light at the bam he thought .an auto was coming up the lane. But the smell of burn­ ing straw quickly ifndeceived him, and he hurried downstairs, gave the general phone alarm, and rushed to the barn. Upon reaching the barn he saw a small flame about six feet high in the strawshed. He got some water and nearly extinguished the flames, but when he got back with another supply of water, the fire was beyond control. In a very short time the whole building was a mass of flames, but Mr. Goll succeeded in getting out a horse, 27 pigs and two calves, be­ fore any help arrived. Mr. Goll had just threshed a week before, and his loss includes 1500 bushels of oats, 100 bushels of wheat, 150.bushels of barley, 33 tons of hay, a new wagon, cutting box, fanning mill, shovels, harness and about 100 hens. His gai- age, located between the barn and the house was also burned, but Mr. Goll was able to save his new Ford car, although he had his feet badly burned in doing so. The barn was a good building 66 x 4 ft., with good stabling, and was insured for $1090, with $1800 on the contents, in the Formosa Mutual. Mr. Goll’s loss will therefore be very heavy, as the barn cannot be replaced for less than $3000. The origin of the fire is more or less a mystery, but indications point so strongly to inceniansm locality he may be detected and pro­ perly punished. Mr. Goll will com­ mence rebuilding at once, having pur­ chased a frame from his neighbor, Mr. Fred Klages, and hopes to get it ready to erect this fall.—Mildmay Gazette. or less a mystery, but indications point so strongly* to inceniansm that the insurance company will like­ ly ask the Provincial Fire Marshall for a thorough there is any t-- rumors that are S0-'S very startling —the inquest. Ten barns have been de­ stroyed by fire in. that section of Garrick during the past nineteen years, Mr. Goll having lost a bam himself four years ago on his farm on the 8th concession, and m every instance the origin was more or less mysterious. The theory that spontan­ eous combustion was responsible m some cases is not accepted, and no­ thing short of a.most searching in­ vestigation will satisfy the farmers of that vicinity. In fact, matters have | become so serious that the insurance ( companies look with the greates suspicions upon all applications tani that s&tion, and it is hoped that there is a fire bug operating m that gh investigation, and if truth in the many ugly „.3 afloat, there may be startling disclosures at o-o-o—— . CATTLE GOT MIXED still going doubt, the of Canada, the district Recently while delivering cattle to Turner’s Station, George Osborne and Chas. Kelly got into a strange mix-up. In driving the cattle across No. 20 side-road from the 2nd con­ cession to the 4th, the cattle getting out of sight over a hill must have been joined by a strange beast on the road. This was not noticed until the men were weighing the cattle at Tur­ ners’, when they found there was a beast too many. On examining the cattle, Osborne, thinking the extra beast resembled one of his that was supposed to be in the pasture at home, and coming to the conclusion that he must have left home with eleven instead of ten head, and not washing to drive one beast home, sold it to the drover and it was shipped to Toronto. On counting his cattle the next time, George dicover­ ed that the beast he thought he shipped was in his own pasture. He immediately made inquiries to see if he could find the owner of the extra steer, which turned out to belong to Arthur Kulp, and for which a satis­ factory settlement was made.—Port Elgin Times. ——o—o----- A careful driver is one who can wear out a car without the aid of a locomotive. Almost any man can convince a woman he loves- her; but he has to work overtime in c'der to keep her convinced. It is a funny world in which people show great courage in time of war and are afraid of one another in time of peace. still en- in the Norfolk he mov- i One of the interesting figures of the district around Avon, Ont., is Mr. Lawrence Johnston, who recent­ ly celebrated his one hundred and sec enth birthday, and is strong. He is, without oldest man in this part and is noted throughout as a good neighbor, always cheerful and ready with a word of encourage­ ment for the younger folk. Much of his leisure time is spent in his garden, which is about two miles from the old homestead, where for nearly a century he wrested his living from the soil. He cultivates about half an acre of garden and fruit land, and pro­ duces all his fruit and vegetables. No doubt his work in the garden accounts for his excellent health. Every day he goes to the postoffice and on his one hundred and sixth birthday he motored 11 miles to In­ gersoll to watch a ball game. He has smoked all his life, and joys his pipe. Mr. Johnston was born township of Charlotteville, county, but while still a boy ed with his parents to Bayham town­ ship, in Elgin county. At 21 he pur­ chased a hundred acres of bush land in North Dorchester township, Mid­ dlesex county, and to get to his farm he had to tramp 23 miles, mostly through the forest. He carried all his belongings and supplies on his back. He tapped maple trees for sap, which was used for drinking purposes until he could clear sufficient land to build a shack and dig a well. There was an abundance of wild fowl and game at the time, and Mr. Johnston, being a crack marksman, had no difficulty in living by his gun. Mr. Johnston married twice, his first wife being a Miss Barr, of North Dorchester, and his second wife, Miss Backus, who is still living at the’ age of about 80, and enjoying good health. 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