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The Wingham Advance-Times, 1941-06-05, Page 11Thursday, June 5th, 1941 4>' WINGHAM ADVANCE-TIMES PAGE ELEVEN BIB ?z Z- z Our most The Empire fights that freedom may live mines and factories must be kept running night and day, turning out ’’tools to finish the job guns tanks, planes, ships, muni i tions and supplies all are needed! For the sake of our future security and all we cherish cannot, must not, SHALL not fail SCOTTISH SHEP HERD SHARES THE THRILLS OF WAR by Sirdar Ikbal Ali Shah (the well-known Muslim author) Against the harsh background of the Scottish mountain side, the herds stand out — slowly moving shapes upon a field of grey. From tiie Bord­ er Hills to the uplands of Inverness stretch many a league of sheep coun­ try, for Scotland was a wool-bearing Order Bray Chicks riow, and bo “lucky” when egg prices Climb , next Fait See me, or phone me, right away, Pcfidfiftl attention, prompt delivery, A* C. Adams Wingham CHICKS CH DISPLAY use the Stewart Glove Works prop­ erty for storage for the balance of the year. Reeve Hetherington informed the i Council that a representative of the Financial News of London, Hng., had been here and that this publication is producing a special number which will contain advertisements from many Canadian municipalities. Council con­ sidered the matter and felt just now was not the best time for such an un­ dertaking and decided that no action be taken at the present time. The mo­ tion was by Couns, Evans and Lloyd, The Finance committee presented a number of accounts which were order- • ed paid- on motion of Couns. Lloyd and VanWyck. For the Streets committee Coun. Evans reported that work of repairing the sidewalks was being carried on and some curbs repaired. The side­ walk on a portion of Diagonal Road will be lowered and other locations will be raised. Reeve Hetherington informed the Council that the house owned by the town at the corner of Shuter and Al­ fred Sreets had been sold to Mr. C, McBurney, who is to put it in shape. The sale was confirmed by motion of Couns. Wilkinson and Evans. He also informed the Council that steps will be taken at once to have the grass cut at the parks. Permission was granted the local committee of the 1941 Victory Loan to divert traffic off the Main Street from John to Patrick during the demon­ stration of the scroll this Wednesday from 1.30 until after the demonstra­ tion, Permission was also granted this committee to rope off John Street for the early portion of Saturday evening this week as a Kent regiment platoon, will give a demonstration there in connection with their visit here that day, Couns. VanWyck and Evans sponsored this motion, A motion by Reeve Hetherington and Coun. Wilkmson confirmed the purchase of a $500 Victory Bond for the Town Sinking Fund. Community Gathering Suziday Night A community gathering will be held, in the Town Hall on Sunday evening next in connection with the Victory Loan campaign. The use of the hall was granted on motion of Couns. Lloyd and VanWyck. Use of the park for accommodation of the platoon from the Kent Regiment on Saturday was also given. The work of levelling is continuing at the Cemetery, Coun. Lloyd said- 400 yards of dirt will be used this year and it is being obtained from the Laidlaw Farm in Lower Wingham. The fire committee have purchased 150 feet of hose and also replaced the boots and coats which were burned at the Western Foundry fire, Coun. Van­ Wyck reported. R. Carruthers was named a fireman to take the place of Bob- Chalmers, who has enlisted. TURNBERRY COUNCIL The minutes of council meeting held in Bluevale Ju.ie 2, 1941. Members all present. Moved by Wilton and Moffat, that the minutes of last meeting and spec­ ial meeting be adopted as read. Car­ ried. The following letter^ were received and read: Dept. of Public Welfare, Toronto; Mrs. A. Rutherford, Goder­ ich; Dom. Bureau of Statistics, Ot­ tawa. The foil Aving account- were paid: Relief $10.00; Sundries $243.01; Road List $391.80. Moved by R. Porter and J. Breck­ enridge that we adjourn to meet at J’laevale, July 7th, 1041, at 1 p.m. Carried. W. R. Cruikshank, Clerk. R. Grain, Reeve. WMBMaHKMWMMIMMMHRMRMaaMNMMRMMMliraMNWmMaMMWWMwai I."........... Rl Ml I Feared They Would Be Shot But if the Nazis could not under­ stand Jeems, Jeems could comprehend them after a fashion. He guided them across a mile and “a bittock” of moorland to a spot on the highway where stood a road-man’s cottage where the guidwife regaled rhem with tea and bannocks — for ev­ en the sharpest racial enmity cannot quench the traditional sense of hospit­ ality in the moorland heart, “They were great muckle Sumphs,” Jeems told me. “Stufty lads, ye ken, but chaps like that'll no’ win the war, Awfie sma’ herts they seemed to hae, and they kept on askin’ me if they wad bo shot. When I told them oor , way wisna their way and we didna murder folk in cauld blood they seem­ ed awfie relieved.”I Then there was the brace of escap- J cd prisoners Jeems helped to track I down. They were s > weak with cold! and hunger that he and his mate of > the next sheep-walk “drove” them t-U the nearest police-station as though I they had been a couple of their own | half-grown lambs. I So the watch the sky a: TOWN COUNCIL MET MONDAY EVENING between shaw and brae-side. From the bowels of the stricken bomber emerged a trio of crop-headed Teutons, looking as sheepish of Jeem’s own ewes, one holding an arm which dripped scarlet. As the youngster approached them they gave the Nazi salute, and enquir­ ed in passable English as to where they were. “And, maister,” laughed the herd lad I “wud ye believe it, they didna jaloose; whit I said. They askit me what ton-I gue I wis speaking, and when I tellt them it was the Lallan Scots they juist gied their croppit heids a shake.” As the flocks are being thinned out by those who keep watch and tally over the nation’s food supply, this means many a weary moorland tramp for the shepherd in the short hours betwixt dawn and dusk. The work of selection is difficult and the choice of beasts for slaughter long before the tapestries of and the Low Countries were from Scottish fleeces, rule of Mars has so contrived that in these strenuous months of war only old men and young lads can 'mind’ the folds and keep watch over the sheep-paths. That, indeed, has always, been the] often Wails long consultations in a z , .. t—•—wu..'biting wind. In order that the flocks of the future may not be sacrificed to immediate needs, the most fertile ewes of good type must be preserved, nor may the local tweed industry be threatened with extinction by the en­ tire loss of that native wool from which its choicest webs are woven. Saw a Bomber Shot Down I heard the story of a shepherd in Berwickshire who watched a dog-fight between a Heinkel bomber and a Brit­ ish Spitfire. A hail of dropping tracer-bullets fell | about his ears and drove him at last tb| seek the shelter of a drystone dyke I which parcelled two adjoining stretch-1 cs of sheep-walk, | Again and again, he told me in his | own broad “Doric”, the Spitfire at*t tacked the Nazi bomber, discharging its lethal bursts of machine-gun fire, * until at last the Heinkel whirled wild-- Ty like a wounded fulmar and then; planed swiftly downwards to where ao level race of heath-clad moorland: lay j region Arras woven The things manner of it since the beginning. T.he story ofk Scotland itself is full of il­ lustrious names of men who began life as herd laddies, commencing with St. Cuthbert and not ending vyith James Hogg —* saints, poets, creative spirits in literature, mystics, scientists. In these vyild days, the job, always a lonely one, is rendered even more so by the dislocation of traffic, by lack of winter fodder, and the recent inclem­ ency of the weather, which can be fer­ ocious at times in the Scottish hills. In the snow-banks and wreaths the shepherd must search for the newly dropped Iambs now appearing in ones, twos and oven threes — for triplets arc by no means- uncommon — and he must carry them sometimes across a mile or more of heavy, untrodden snow lo shelter, where they can be fed from the nozzled milk-bottle. It is a task for a gentle spirit, and most shepherds are in fact {gentle men. But ton occasion they can reveal the old warrior scntinicftt of the Scot i i ■■ SALLY'S,'SALLIES MR SSiWWraU fc‘ W WWl tt» MW «* «W (Continued from Page One) Main Street To Be Flushed Weekly A petition signed by most of the merchants on Main Street was receiv­ ed requesting that the Main Street be flushed every Saturday morning so as to eliminate the dust nuisance. After consideration, it was decided by council, on motion of Couns. Evans and VanWyck, that arrangements be made to have the street flushed Fri­ day evenings each week for the month of June as an experiment. If this works out satisfactorily this procedure will probably be followed for the sum­ mer months. The Genera! Accident Insurance Co. informed 'the Council that the boiler at the Town and found in Co’nplai received hydrant A magistrate remarked that mar­ riage means the end of a man's troub­ les. He did not say which end. “By whom?” asked a husband when told that his wife was outspoken. DIRECTOR OF WORKS HaH flr-t tn re in {• ha<l been inspected class condition. <m Mr. Fred Spry card to tlie location >nt of the Nortrop Scottish herdsman must a well as the land, ■ must keep a keen fodk-out for Nazi £ wings as well as for fleeces and snow* J bound ewes and “gimmers.” or a property on Minnie Street. He said it was impossible for a driver parked near it Jo «ee it and as a result he and others had dinted' their fenders. On sMim of Reeve Hetherington and Cutin. Wilkinson, a post painted white will be placed along side the hydrant A letter was received front C, Lloyd <& Son in regard to- arrangements to Mr, John M, R. Faisbaiin, former chief engineer ai the Canadian Pacific railway company, ba* been appointed director of work* and buildings .jta the naval s-ervice.