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Home My WebLink AboutThe Wingham Advance-Times, 1954-02-03, Page 9FOR I FIRE, LIFE . & AUTOMOBILE i INSURANCE Call Stewart A. Scott Phone M* Wlngtam BEAL ESTATE SALESMAN I Representing: Dudley E. Holme* Lbtowel jaismMiiiiiHimmimimptmMiuMmiitiiiiimiiiiiiiMiiiiiiii, WROXETER United Church Annual Meeting* The annual meeting of the United Church, which was to have been held on Friday of last week but was post poned owing to bereavement in the congregation, will he held on Thurs day of this week, February 4th, com mencing at 7 p.m., with a ppt luck supper to be followed by the business meeting, Member^ of the Women's Association will provide meat, pota toes and rolls. Ladies of the congre- gration are asked to provide the re- —■ I INN .....■■■■■■■■■ ■■■uni"....- £IHniin!IWIiniMIIMIIIMIIHIIIBIIMIIIH mniie FIRST CLASS WATCH REPAIRS AT MODERATE PRICES Owing to lack of space, am com pelled to confine my repairs to watches only. George Williams Located in MASON’S STORE | HASEIGHOVE’S I ■ BILLIARD ROOM f f WILL CONTINUE | | TO CLOSE AT | ! 11 p.m. ■ ■ ■ YOUR FUTURE depends on them Don’t be hindered in your work by the “nerves*’, headaches and gastric disturbances resulting from defective vision. The only safe plan is to have your eyes examined at least once a year. It’s the smallest invest ment you can make—and the soundest Do it now. W. R. HAMILTON, OPTOMETRIST “A Complete Visual Analysis” mainder of the menu, Women’s Institute Family Night, which was to have been held on Wednesday of this week, has been postponed to February 17th, (Wednesday). - A thirty minute skit will be presented, entitled, “Second Class Citizens”, with eight members in the cast. There will also be a de bate—“Resolved, A Tractor is of More Value to a Farmer than a Wife" Mrs. John MacLean is in charge of games and contests, Members of the cast of the play, “Raggedy Nan", which was sponsored by the W.I., will be guests at family night. „ Mrs. James Sa lighter This village and community was saddened to learn Mrs. James Sang- ster, who has been in Wingham Gen eral Hospital for some weeks, died late Sunday night. Widow of the late James Sangster, she is • survived by five daughters, Mrs. Mac MacDonald, Molesworth; Mrs. Lloyd Hupfer and Mrs. Ruth MacDonald, of Wroxeter; Mrs. John Barlow, Toronto and Miss Gertrude Sangster, of Detroit. The funeral arrangements are incomplete at time of writing. St. James’ Annual Meeting John Milligan was appointed rec- tor’s warden and Jim Clarke people’s warden when the members „of St. James’ Anglican Church held their annual meeting in the church base ment. Lay delegate is Ken Bennett and sub lay delegate Bob Bennett, Board of management for 1954, Wes. Paulin, Jim Clarke, John Milligan, Bob Bennett, Alex Petrie. Bob Ben nett was elected secretary-treasurer. J. Clarke, Bob Bennett and John Milligan were named a committee to arrange for the anniversary services. A unanimous vote of thanks was ten dered Mrs. Victoria Brothers for her faithful services as organist, also to lhe minister, Rev. Douglas Fuller and Mrs. Fuller for their leadership during the year. At the close of the meeting ladies of the congregation served re freshments. Welcome Visitor from England Mrs. Elsie Stone, of Bournemouth, The’RLCAF would need immediately additional experienced men and women for Technical and Non-technical posyions, in the event of a national emergency. Veteran RCAF Senior N.C.O.’s — providing they have up-to-date knowledge of Air Force procedures and activities — would be among the people required. To train former RCAF Senior N.C.O.’s to be ready for such openings THE ROYAL CANADIAN AIR FORCE is giving ASSIGNMENT TRAINING * in specific positions 0 for possible Air Force needs By volunteering now, you will be given annual training for a period of from 15 to 30 days full time — when con venient to you. You will receive during your training t free transportation, Regular Air Force pay and allow- f ances, for your assigned rank, and other benefits. Civilian employers will be requested by the Department of National Defence to permit and encourage their employees to take advantage of reserve, training. andinterestedareIf you with to know more about RCAF Assignment Training — don’t delay! FILL OUT AND MAIL THIS COUPON—---------> Ex-Senior N.C.O.’s {including former- Women’s Division N.C.O.’s who are single) may apply. Applicants must not have reached their 45th birthdate on date of ■ application. By acting now, if a national'emergency arose, you would have a place and know how to fill it, and be ready to contribute immediate and important service. Director of Xirmen’t Postings and Careers, Air Force Headquarters, Ottawa. Please send to me without obligation additional information about RCAF Assignment Training. FORMER RANKNUMBER | NAME.,, | TRADE......................................................... I ADDRESS,, I > I n h I STREET........................TOWN.. .............-o I AGE,.........EMPLOYER. o | PRESENT POSITION.,,.,,..'................................................$ I EXPERIENCE................. i..........................................•• j CAF-M-t? BEV. akw earn a«w gtoswdseae toueWto atoib «em*m*** ** *•* *■** •"P W < MT I I I I I I I I I I I I I J I England, is a welcome visitor this week at the home pf Mr. and Mrs, Alex Corrigan, Highway £7, Back in the days of the second world war, when the Canadian boys were overseas, Mrs. Stone, who with her husband, ran a tourist hotel, came to the bar racks where the Canadians were sta tioned andn invited three for Christ mas dinner the following day. The three boys who accepted the invita tion were Alex Corrigan, Bill Newton and George Tervit, all of this com munity. From then on, when on leave, the .boys returned to receive the same fine hospitality at the Stone home. Since the boys returned to this coun try Mrs. Stone has made three visits to Canada and always receives a warm welcome from the boys who were her former guests. Injured in Car Accident Jimmy Wylie, son of Mr. and Mrs, J. H. Wylie, is a patient in Wingham General Hospital, following an acci dent while driving on Highway 87 Saturday at noon. Jimmy was re turning home from the Bank of Com merce, Fordwich, where he is em ployed. At the time there was a driving snow storm with visibility al most nil. When in front of the farm of Russel Ruttan his car and one driv en by Thomas Pritchard, going east, collided. Dr. G. L. Mills, Wroxeter, was call ed, and Jimmy was taken by ambul ance to Wingham General Hospital, suffering from shock, lacerations and possible concussion. Mr. Pritchard, who was not so extensively injured, was able to return to his home on the 10th Line of Howick after receiving first aid. Both cars were damaged considerably. Mrs. .Thomas Lawton Isabella Lawton, 92, widow of the late James Lawtori, and beloved mo ther of Mrs. Gilberta Howes, died on Tuesday of last week at the home of her daughter, following months of failing health. Isabella Thompson Lawton was born at Lakeside in 1862, daughter of John Thompson and Ann Fairclough, who came from Scotland and settled in Ontario. She came to live with her daughter in 1925. Mrs. Lawton is survived by her daughter, Mrs. Gilbert Howes, three grandchildren and two great-grand children. A son, John, died in 1918. Until her health failed she was a regular attendant at church and liked to read and write letters and was in terested in community and world events. A gracious lady, she will be remembered by those who knew her through the years of her long life. Private funeral services were held from the Edgar funeral home at Gor- rie on Thursday with Rev. E. W. Todd in charge. Pallbearers were neigh bors, Thomas Burke, J. H. Wylie, Robert Gibson, Jack Gibson, Craw ford Gibson and Harvey McMichael. Interment was made in the family plot at St. Marys. James Douglas At his late residence, on Tuesday, Jan. 26, a life-long and highly respect ed citizen, James Douglas, died fol lowing a heart attack. Born in Turnberry Township in 1877, James Douglas was* the -sori^f the late Ro bert pouglas and Helen Robertson, who came from Scotland annd took up farming south of the village of Wrox eter. In 1905 Mr. Douglas was united in marriage with Angelina Young. They retired to the village in 1937. Be sides his wife, one son, Leslie, resides on the homestead. Also a grand daughter, Ann Douglas, and a bro ther, Andrew, of Howick. A faithful member of the United Church, he served for many years as member of the session. A good neigh bor and friend, Mr. Douglas will be missed and sincere sympathy is ex tended to his wife, son and family as well .as his brother in their bereave ment. Funeral services were held from the Edgar funeral homb on Friday afternoon with Rev. E. W. Todd of Wroxeter United Church in charge. Pallbearers were J. H. Wylie, Allen Munro, Thomas Shearer, Alvin Mof fat, George Gibson and John Adams Interment was made iin the family plot, Wroxeter Cemetery. Personals Ernie Millward, who has been a patient in Wingham General Hospital with pneumonia, was able to return home on Friday. Ernie’s friends and playmates hope he will soon be able to be around. Glenn McMichael is nursing a bro ken wrist these days. A member of the Gorrie hockey club, he was in jured during a game at Wingham on Wednesday night. Glenn’s brother, Ron, injured his ankle playing hockey some weeks ago. Friends and fans hope both boys will soon be in the game again. Word received from Mrs. Mac Mac- Kenney states Mac, who has been in Hillcrest Hospital, Orillia, following a heart attack suffered while curling, is making good, progress toward re covery and is up for an hour each day. His many friends here extend best wishes for a return to good health. ■ Andy Gibson, who underwent sur gery at Victoria Hospital, London, on Tuesday of last week, is making good progress and riiay be home in ten days or two weeks. Andy fractured his leg during haying last summer. Since then he has been in bed. His many friends hope he will soon be up and around. Forty .were in attendance when the members of the Young People’s Union held a skating party at the local rink on Wednesday night. Members of the Gorrie Y.P.U. were guests. Betty New ton Was in charge of recreation and Don Gibson, refreshment convener. Hot dogs and coffee were served by Wes Hiempcl, manager of the rink. Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Doubleday, of GravenhurSt, spent the past week-end with Mr. and Mrs. Alex Corrigan. Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Jacklin have moved to the village and have taken Up residence in the house owned by the late Ellon Brown. Mr. Jacklin is employed on the county roads. „ Mr. and Mrs. Thofnas Burke spent Sunday in London, where they visited Andy Gibson, who is a patient in Vic- [toria Hospital. Mr, Bill Ager is in Toronto this week, where he will undergo on up- | At the Library I I By Omega | Monday, January 25th, was not only Burns Day but also the eightieth birthday of Somerset Maugham whose novels, short stories and plays have been popular for most of the twen tieth century. We read in the daily papers that he has chosen CAKES AND ALE as the novel to be reprinted in a special limited edition to com memorate the occasion. CAKES AND ALE was first pub lisher in 1930 and is sub-titled “The Skeleton in the Cupboarci’’. In it Alroy Kear, a distinguished English writer, is planning a book on the recently dead Edward Driffield who is con sidered the greatest of modern novel ists. Kear asks the narrator, Ashen- den, another writer, for information about the life and interests of Drif field, This sends Ashenden’s thoughts back to his early associations w>th Driffield and his attractive wife, Rosie, and from there the story pro ceeds in the present and the past. In the past, Rosie becomes the central character but in the present Kear thinks of her as the skeleton in the family cupboard and wants to repress most of Ashenden’s references to her. When we first read CAKES AND ALE we thought it the, clever, fluent sort of thing that Maugham could dash off in a few weeks—full of enough sex and sensation to make it popular, and shot through with the author’s own distinctive comments on love, life, and literature. We read it —too quickly perhaps—because we were interested in Thomas Hardy and we had heard that the' character of, Edward Driffield was a fictional re presentation of Hardy. It now appears, according to Maugham's preface to the new edition, that Hardy was not being pictured at all, though the searching and unflattering depiction of Alroy Kear was based on British novelist Hugh Walpole. When CAKES AND ALE first ap peared there was great excitement as everyone tried to identify the char acters of the novel with real-life figures. But now it is acclaimed as a technical masterpiece, a judgment that may have been first made by Alexander Woolcolt in 1937. We read the novel again last Week and enjoyed it again/ Certainly the structure and general technique of the novel stand up under analysis: the ’writer moves easily and often from the present to the past and back again as his story proceeds steadily along two planes of time. Everything seems- woven neatly together with no arti ficial links between time periods. And certainly the novel is full of life, as any good novel must be. But still we have a notion that the The Wingham Advance-Times, Wednesday, February 3rd, IBM Page NtaM novel remains too /nuch a vehicle for some of Somerset Maugham’s4 pet theories on such subjects as beauty or novel writing. These theories may segm to be worked naturally enough into the novel and may be clever and exciting and controversial, but we think they find a better place in such works as Maugham’s own THE SUM MING UP. Our final comment on CAKES AND ALE is that it is, like almost any- think its author writes, first-rate entertainment, but personally we’d ne happier with more of Rosie and less of Maugham. 0-0-0 FOOT NOTES: Did you know that no proper leg of real spring lamb ever weighed an ounce over five pounds? Well, we didn’t until the other day we thumbed through a pocketbook reprint of COOKBOOK FOR BEGINNERS by Dorothy Ma lone. It is just what it suggests: it be gins with a description of how to make coffee by the various methods and goes on to discuss 'meats, fish, vegetables, leftovers, desserts, etc. It contains a glossary of cooking terms and is well indexed. Prospective brides will note that its sub-title is “Cook ing for Two.” What’s more, it’s a sprightly written book—at least as sprightly written as a book of rdcipes and advice can be. 0-0-6 The library bulletin ■’board has™or had, when we last looked—a news paper story on delinquent hook bor rowers that every library member should read. As a Practising Procras tinator we can •Sympathize with the delinquents, but we sympathize even more with the harried librarian who has to keep after them and at the same time placate others wanting the overdue books. 0-0-0 When we started this column we said that its title at present, for want of a better one, was to be “At the Library". In view of what we have written* so far; that* title may not be too accurate. Has anyone a sugges tion? Perhaps we could make this into an exciting little contest and offer as a prize to anyone suggesting an acceptable title an autographed copy of the Advance-Times. FORMER BLOEVALE MINISTER PASSES Rev. A. Vallance Robb, United Church minister, died suddenly at his home in Monkton on January 28th, in his 72nd year. Born in Scotland, Mr. Robb went to Newfoundland ip 1911 as a student missionary. He graduated from McGill University in 1915 and, after serving a year • in the Methodist Church in Newfoundland, came to Ontario in 1916. He has had charges in Centralia, Arva, Bothwell, Bluevale, Camlachie and Courtright. He became pastor of Monkton congregation in 1949. He was a member of the Monkton Lions Club and of the Masonic Order. Mr. Robb was for six years pastor of ■ Bluevale United Church from 1933 to 1939. * His first wife, Annie Wornell, of Newfoundland, died in Bluevale in 1937. Mr, Robb later married Ora May Abbott, of Oshawa, who prede ceased him op March 25th, 1952. Sur viving are one daughter, Mary Wil helmina, 14, and one son Ian, 11; two brothers, William and Thomas, and two sisters Miss Mary and Miss Jean, all in Scotland. Funeral services, conducted by Rev. J. W. Bulton, Atwood, secretary of Perth Presbytery, were held in Monk ton United Church on February 1st. Temporary entombment was made in Woodland Mausoleum, Mitchell, with later burial at Hampton, Ontario. BLUEVALE Mr. Henry Mathers and sisters had as their guests on Sunday for dinner, their nephew and niece, Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur Mathers of Kincardine. Be fore leaving for Florida for their holi days they also had their friend, Mrs. James Peacock, of Bluevale. It's a Gift for Beautiful Hands! eration. He was accompanied by Har vey McMichael. Bill’s many friends wish for him a speedy return to good health. Messrs. Fred and Russel McIntosh of Blucher, Sask., and former residents of this district, are spending a few days with their cousin, Miss Margaret ^Jardine and other relatives. Miss Beatrice Shearer spent last week in Sault Ste. Marie, where she visited her brother, Andrew, and Mrs. Shearer. Mrs. W. G. Gibson is spending some time with -her daughter, Mrs. J. D. McGillivray, at Paisley. John Howes, Toronto, spent the week-end with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert Howes and daughter, Jeannie. Mr. and Mrs. Willard Michel, who have lived in Toronto for some years, and formerly were residents of this village where they owned an egg grading station, visited with friends here and at Gorrie during the past week. Mr. and Mrs. Michel and their little daughter Dana, will leave short ly by plane for California where they expect to make their home. 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