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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance-Times, 1941-05-22, Page 5vr’f' Thursday, May 22nd, 1941*WINGHAM ADVANCE-TIMES PAGE Five ■ 4 d APPAREL CLEARAWAY Save Substantially in a Season End SPRING COAT Regular Prices Sizes 14 to 24^2 Mr, and Mrs. George Boyle, Irvin and Miss Dorothy, also Mr. and Mrs. Robt. Deyell visited Owen Sound friends Sunday, A.C. Charles McKibbon, of the R. C.A.F., Mountain View, Ont,, was a visitor with his parents, Mr, and Mrs. J, W, McKibbon, over the week-end. Miss Dianna Larson, of St. Thomas, and Mrs: Arthur Ney, of Port Stanley, visited with the latter's sister, Mrs. Ellwood Armitage and Mr. Armitage, Mr, and Mrs. George Thompson, of Mitchell, also Mr. and Mrs, Norman Thompson, of Bornholm, were recent visitors with Mr. and Mrs, Gordon Hastie. Mr, Joe Wilson, of Southampton, was a visitor at his home here over the week-end. Recently Mr. Wilson was transferred to Southampton. This move was on account of the closing of the Wingham-CIinton line. Mrs, L. Palmer and daughter, Miss Una, of Edmonton, Alta., are visitors at the home of Miss P. Densmore, of town. Miss Una, as soloist, delighted the audience of St. Andrew’s Church on Sunday. Mrs. Palmer was former­ ly Miss L. Hoover, of East Wawanosh and lived on the farm on which stood Hoover’s Church, the beginning of the present Westfield United Church. Tuesday afternoon. The pallbearers were: Ezra Zurbrigg, W. J. Clark, John McDonald, Alex. Forsyth, Jos. Scott, James Halliday. Burial took place in Wingham Cem­ etery, * $15.95 - Values - $10.63 $19.95 - Values - $13.30 Millinery Clearance HOSIERY SPECIAL 79c PURE SILK CHIFFON HOSE First quality and every pair 3-thread, 45 gauge silk from top to toe. New Early Summer Shades. Sizes 9 to 10%. Usual $1.00 Value. LINGERIE SPECIAL 49c Pair SILK KNIT PANTIES AND BLOOMERS Outstanding values in these Panties and Bloomers made by “Harvey Woods” one of the best known manufacturers of lingerie. Panties have cuff knee, bloomers with free-running elastic. Shades: Tea- Rose and Whites. Sizes S. M. ,L. STORE OPEN FRIDAY NIGHT Special Values For Holiday Shoppers <Walker Stores, Limited “The Store Where Lower Prices Prevail” Telephone 36 Wmgham, Ont. Bridgeford Pitched Great Game On the mound for Kitchener Satur­ day, Bob Bridgeford, former local star pitcher, pitched a 2-hit game against Galt. His team-mates went to town at the bat and Galt were snowed under 12-1. Transferred to Auburn George Northwood, sOU'ofJMr. Geo. Northwood, manager of the local branch of the Canadian Bank of Com­ merce, has been transferred from Brussels to Auburn by the Bank of Commerce. Won Prizes The winners on the book of tickets for the, Sports Service Army and Navy League, sold by Annie E. Shiell were: 1st, Mr. Jack Deyell, choice of prizes, and Miss L. M. Leggatt and Miss E. S. Graham, with special prizes nos. 1 and 30. Many Cases of Measles A mild epidemic of measles has de­ veloped in town, we are informed by Dr. R. L. Stewart, Medical Officer of Health. Homes where there are cases have had measles cards displayed on their doors. If you are suspicious that any of your children have measles or are developing measles, call your doc­ tor at once in order that the spread of the disease may be brought under control. Vichy Takes Stand Against British French anti-aircraft batteries were reported to have fired on British plan­ es over Syria and official sources in­ dicated an imminent French offensive to regain empire territory now held by “de Gaullist rebels.” Vichy may hand back the former German - Afri­ can colonies of Togoland and the Cameroons and then grant Nazi troops passage across French territory to strike at the Free French Forces of Gen. Charles de Gaulle, an authoritat­ ive source said. Fraud Charge Dismissed After a 272-hour hearing in county police court, Magistrate J. A. Makins dismissed a charge of fraud against Claude Musselman, well-known Kitch­ ener business man. The charge involv­ ed the sale on May 20., 1937, allegedly by Musselman, of 8,000 shares of stock in Norwood Kirkland Gold Mines .and 4,000 shares of Kelly Kirkland, both at 30c a share, to Miss'Anna D. Hoop­ er, elderly Howick Township lady, Musselman is vice-president of Nor­ wood Kirkland, but there was no evi­ dence that he had any connection with Kitchener Securities Corporation, which underwrote the Norwood issue,- or with Kelly Kirkland. ... _ BIRTHS ST.ONEHO'USE—-At Vancouver, on Friday, May 9th, to Dr. and Mr.s. Gordon Stonehouse, a daughter — Elizabeth Ann. LOCAL AND PERSONAL Dr. Mary Cosens, of Guelph, spent the week-end at her home here. Miss Cora Beckwith, of New York, was a visitor in .town this week. Miss Agnes MacLean, of Toronto, is visiting with her mother, Mrs. John MacLean* Pte. James Owens, of the Anti-Air­ craft Battery, Guelph, was home for the week-end* Mrs. Geor.ge Lott has returned home after Spending the winter in Toronto and Hanover. Robert Chalmers, of the R.C.A.R, Mantling Depot, Toronto, was home for the week-end. Pte. Roy James, of the Sigtiallihg Corps., Camf> Bordeti, was a visitor in town, over the week-end. Marvin Smith, of the R.C.A.F., at Manning Depot, Toronto, spent the week-end at his home here. Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Crandall, of Straffordville, spent a few days with Mr. and Mrs. John Crandall. , Mrs. Alice Sutherland and her ne­ phew, Blake Grant, left on Tuesday for a six weeks’ visit at Winnipeg; Rev. J. A* Roberts, of Milestone, Sask., son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles A. Roberts, is home due to his father’s illness. Pte. S. N. Carter, of the Kent Regi­ ment, London, was a Week-end visitor with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Carter. A*C. Ken Somers of the R.C.AF., Manning Pool, Toronto, was a visitor with his father, Mt. D. Somers, over the week-end. Mrs. Wm. Garton and daughter, Shirley, of Leamington, Ont., are vis­ iting a few days with her sister, Mrs. Marvin Smith. OBITUARY Mrs. W. Albert Sanderson Following a serious illness of sever­ al months, Mrs. W. Albert Sanderson passed on at the residence, Shuter St., Sunday morning. She was in her 78th year and was .born in. Turnberry Township. In 1889 she was married to her now bereft husband. She was an attendant of St. Andrew’s Presby­ terian Church and a member of the Women’s Missionary Society. Surviving besides her husband are three sons and four daughters, Vance and Lome, of Wingham; Elmo, of, Jackson, Mich.; Azalea of Toronto; Mrs. Tolbert MacMonagle, of London; Rollo at home and Mrs. G. Ridler, of Toronto. She is also survived by four sisters, Mrs, Charles Sanburn, White- church; Mrs, J. Latronica, Turnberry; Mrs. Charlotte Browit, Ottawa; Mrs, A. Johnston, of Hamilton. One son, Albert, predeceased her, The 'funeral service was conducted by Rev, W, A, Beecroft and Rev. K. MacLean at the family residence on Mrs, Hugh McKinnon Word was received on Sunday of the sudden death of Mrs, Hugh Mc­ Kinnon, in her 82nd year, at the home of her son, Cecil, in Sarnia, where she had gone for a visit. Formerly Isabel McKay, daughter of Mr. and Mrs, Robert McKay, Grey Township, she had lived all her life in this vicinity, She was married in 1887 to Hugh McKinnon of Grey Township who passed away 39 years ago. Twen­ ty-three years ago Mrs. McKinnon and her son, Duncan, moved to Brussels, where they have resided ever since. She leaves a daughter, Mrs. Alex Armstrong, Grey; three sons, Robert H., of Bluevale; Cecil, of Sarnia, and Duncan, of Brussels; ten grandsons and two granddaughters. A son, Ross, lost his life in the First Great War at Vimy Ridge. She also leaves three brothers, Peter McKay, of Brantford; William, of St. Joseph, Mo., and Alex, of Estevan, Sask.; a sister, Mrs. Jessie Fairbank, Sacramento, Cal. Mrs. Mc­ Kinnon was a member of the United Church and the W. M, S. PHIL OSIFER OF LAZY MEADOWS *' ‘ By Harry J. Boyle “NEWSPAPER OFFICE” I have always been fascinated by a newspaper office. Walk in the door and stop and look around any newspaper office, and un­ less it be one of those glaring, mod­ ernistic affairs you can smell old newspapers. There’s a heavy . . . .al­ most musky smell of dampness and ink and if you look closely you’ll see dust in the corners. Some people are afraid of newspap­ ermen and women. I’m not! I like- to watch a man with a green shade over his eyes leafing through stories that come from the far corners of the world. He does it calmly, pausing in the middle of an assassination in some remote country to light his pipe or pick up the telephone and tell his wife that he’ll be late for dinner. I like to watch that speeding up pro­ cess that comes toward edition time. Reporters begin trickling in and tak­ ing their places, and as they do the clattering increases. Voices begin to accommodate themselvec to the in­ creasing noise . . . growing ever loud­ er. The man with the green eye shade begins giving orders, and his pencil starts working faster and faster. Copy boys begin dashing around! A man with a worried frown searches dili­ gently through well worn reference volumes, finds what he wants and then gets back to work again. A swinging door opens and closes giving glimpses of the place where noisy, hammering, clattering iron mon­ sters take words and. transform them into printed pages. The noise is deaf­ ening, and somehow exciting, as the pages of white paper keep pouring down from upstairs to these men who work magic with them. Stand and watch! Finally the whir­ ring pages of newsprint come out neatly folded and smelling of fresh ink, and you see the work of thousands in­ corporated in the daily paper. Walk back upstairs and see the .calm that prevails once again in the editor­ ial office. The man withthe green eye­ shade leans back in his chair and looks over the paper* Now and again he nods his head. An anonymous slap on the back of praise for a good piece of work, stored in memory’s files for fut­ ure use. . The men are chatting and talking. The typewriters are silent. It’s calm again,'and you smell that same famil­ iar odoir that seems to come from stor­ ed newspapers and tobacco smoke and dust. On my way home from visiting a newspaper I can never quite bring myself to the familiar pleasure of watching Nature. Printed pages and the hiann in the green eye-shade seem to come Up before me. Even the bud­ ding trees of Spring seem to lose their fascination, against that place where news is taken and placed on pages for readers. Somehow, I can’t help thinking that if I had not been a farmer I would have tried to be a newspaperman. They say that a’ man who once works in an office of that nature can never forget it. Perhaps it’s the far away romantic places that hold a fas­ cination for a man. Somehow I like to think that the fascination of newspaper work is the same as th&t of farming. When a man writes a story, he likes to pick up the paper and read it, and see his own thoughts and ideas transformed so that everyone can examine them. When a farmer plants his fields in the Spring, he waits to see his handi­ work come up green and fresh. In place of clattering iron montsers, such as the newspaper men have to trans­ form their ideas, the farmer has Nat­ ure to spread out fields of grain and crop , , that somehow seem like green pages. Be of good cheer, my failing friends, Though the day in darkness ends. However fierce the blows that shake it This sturdy land of ours can take it. GORRIE Miss Dorothy Douglas, a returned missionary from the Far East, will ad­ dress the Presbyterian congregation at Gorrie on Sunday next, May 25, at 2.30 p.m. Miss Ellen Anderson, a returned missionary, will address the Presby­ terian congregation at Molesworth at 8 p.m. Sunday n.ext. Mrs, Rag. Newton and family, also Mr. Kenneth Undewood, visited Sgt. Reg. Newton in Kitchener on Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Mundell visited on Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. J. Turn­ bull, at Ethel. Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Johnson, of Guelph, Mrs. J. J. Pritchard and dau­ ghter, Mrs. Baron, of Harriston, were guests on Sunday of Mrs. S. Munro. The local teachers in Gorrie School are planning on holding Open School on Friday afternoon, May 8oth. Mr. William Brown Sr., of Elora, spent last week with his son, Mr, Gor­ don Brown and .Mrs, Brown. Mr. and Mrs. Pratt, Teeswater, call­ ed on Gorrie friends on Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. L. H. Dane and Miss Mary Dane, also Mr. and Mrs. Everett of London, spent Sunday at the home of W. H. Marshall. Mr, and Mrs. Meredith Fallis, Port Perry, and Miss D. Wilson and Miss C. Fallis, of Lindsay, spent Monday at the home of Samuel and Mrs. Fergu­ son. Communion Services were held in the Presbyterian Church here Sunday. Recent visitors of Dr. and Mrs. Jas. Armstrong were: Mr. Thos. Weir, of Glenannan, Rev. and Mrs. H. N. Watt and sons, Harold and Gordon, Palm­ erston; Mr. Ernest Pollock, Miss Flor­ ence Pollock, of Varna, Mr. and Mrs. Milton Pollock, Billy and Kenneth, of Bayfield. Miss Evelyn Stqphens, local music teacher, plans on presenting an even­ ing of music, with some of her local schools taking part, in the Township Hall here next week. Week-end guests with Mr. and Mrs. F. C. Taylor were, Mr. and Mrs. Bas- sel and son John, Toronto, also Mr. and Mrs. Warwick, of Morris. Mr. Harold Keil, who has been in Chatham training the past two months spent the week-end at his home here before being transferred to Petawawa. Driver Norman Townsend, who has been with his unit in Nova Scotia, and Mrs. Townsend, of Listowel, visited the former’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. George Townsend, over the week-end. 1400 Tulips in Garden Many here are admiring the gorg­ eous display of tulips open now in Mr. and Mrs. F. C. Taylor’s garden. Some­ one took the trouble to count the bloom and were amazed to learn there are some 1400 blooming. We wish to extend to Mr. and Mrs. Taylor (who aren’t as young as they used to be) our hearty congratulations. Toll Brothers Well Received The Toll Brothers were in town on Monday evening and presented their travelogue on South America where they spent sixteen months seeing this vast country, Many interesting scenes as well as the beauty of the country were flashed on the screen by one bro- t’ner while the other gave the instruct­ ive address. The citizens in this par­ ticular vicinity were more interested possibly by the fact that one of Gor- rie’s boys is Trade Commissioner to Argentine, Mr. James Strong, son of Mrs. Strong, of the 9th Con. and the late W. G. Strong. [You RollThemBefferWifh] OGDEN'S'^ CIGARETTE TOBACCO Evening Auxiliary Had Fine Meeting The members of the Gorrie United Church Evening Auxiliary were the guests of Mrs. Everett Sparling at their regular May meeting.- The pro­ gramme for the night was under the direction of Miss Edna Davidson and Miss Evelyn Stephens, who chose as the theme for the month “Walking in God’s Chosen Path?’ The meeting was opened with quiet music iby Miss Ste­ phens and a call to worship by Miss Davidson. Hymn “Lead kindly light” was sung followed by a prayer in two parts, in which Miss Stephens took the first part and Mrs*. Copeland gave the closing part, A poem accompanied by a musical background, was read by Mrs* A, L. Stephens, Part of the hymn “Thy way, not mine, O Lord” was sung, after which Miss Stephens took the topic* She likened our life to a tapestry in which the dark colors form a background from which the bright * PRICES rODAY • Make sure of a happy, carefree holi- day by replacing’ smooth, worn tires* with new Goodyears today! We have your size and a choice of’ eleven different Goodyears for cars at different prices. We are equipped quick, efficient service. Start enjoying protection of new Goodyears now and you’ll enjoy it for many, many months to come. Every tire in our big stock is priced to save you money •,, drive in for pre-holiday service today! Murray Johnson Wingham, - - - Ontario you the colors stand out to greater effect. Our sorrows and troubles are the dark col- lors which, make our happiness more beautiful. She concluded her talk with a solo “My Life Is But A Weaving” which was very much enjoyed. The rest of the hymn formerly mentioned was then sung to draw the devotional part of the meeting to a close. Mrs. Wm. Whitfield, member of the W.M.S., was the guest speaker and gave the Study Book, the chapter be­ ing entitled “Surgeon of the Skeena.” The setting for the story of this noted surgeon, Rev. H. C. Wrinch, M.D., D.D., was in Northern British Col­ umbia, where he did a magnificent work and which the speaker told so well in her own words, holding the members in rapt attention as she gave the details of his full life among the natives of this north land. Mrs. Stephens, president, then took charge of the business when minutes were read and items of business dis­ cussed. The articles for the layette are to be brought to the Jtme meeting and will be displayed. Tim meeting closed with hymn and prayer. The hostess served refreshm’ents. Round Trip Bargain Fares MAY 30 and 31 From WINGHAM To Stations Oshawa and East to Cornwall inclusive, Uxbridge, Lind-- say, Peterboro. Campbellford, Newmarket, Collingwood, Meaford,. Madland, North Bay, Parry Sound, Sudbury and west to Beardmore. P.M. TRAIN MAY 30 ALL TRAINS MAY 3L To TORONTO - WINDSOR Also to Brantford, Chatham, Goderich, Guelph, Hamilton. London^ Niagara Falls, Owen Sound, St. Catharines, Stt Mary?, Sarnia Straf­ ford, Strathroy, Windsor. ■ 14 See handbills for complete list of destinations. For Fares. Return Limits, Train Information, Tickets, Etc., Consult ’ nearest Agent. T-162: CANADIAN NATIONAL WING HAM PROCLAMATION r Whereas the Minister of Finance of the Dominion of Canada has proclaimed that a Victory Loan of $600,000,000.00 is needed Jo carry on Canada’s War effort and that the co-operation of every- citizen in this Dominion is needed; Whereas, the Prime Minister of the Province of On­ tario, the Hon. Mitchell F. Hepburn, has further re­ quested that Ontario municipalities go the limit in efforts to obtain maximum results in a minimum time; I hereby request that all citizens, companies, manu­ facturers, retailers and vendors, decorate their plac­ es of business and residences, prior to May 24th and. that such decorations remain displayed until the successful conclusion of Canada’s War Loan drive. J. H. CRAWFORD, Mayor. “God Save the King” !