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SMALLER INDUSTRIES NEEDED
At a l’ecent meeting qf the" Huron County Industrial
Promotion Board, somebody said that the towns of Huron
■County should try to get small industries to settle in the
county, rather than large ones.
It kseems to us that the gentleman had something
there. Large industries are hard to find and harder still
to entice. And if you do by any chance manage to land
one, it may turn out to be like having a tiger by the tail.
Small town economies are apt to be disrupted by the sud
den introduction of a large industry into the scheme of
things.
Small industries, on the other hand, can be the life
blood of a town. They provide more opportunity for
those who work in them; they do not monopolize the
labor force;, they should be easier to get. Many a town
has become a shadow of its former self when its main in
dustry folded up or went elsewhere. No town with a
multiplicity of small industries need ever fear that.
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I REMINIM
SIXTY YEARS AGO
Mr. Thos. Drummond has moved
his butcher shop to the store first
door south of Mr. R. Hill’s restaurant.
The public meeting in the Town
Hall on Friday evening last, was not
very well attended. Short addresses
were given by Mayor Hanna, and
Wm. Clegg and Thos. Gregory, as to
the advisability of asking the Dom
inion government to erect a building
in Wingham suitable for a post office
and customs house.
Mr. Malcolm Lamont of Turnberry,
near Zetland, has purchased a house
and lot from Mr. Wm. J. Deyell, on
Patrick Street, and will move to town
shortly.
Mr. Jas. Netterfield,' Sr., while run
ning a buzz planer in the Union fac
tory, on Saturday last, had three fin
gers taken off his right hand.
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FORTY YEARS AGO
. A big convention of the Great Wat
erways Union and the Hydro Electric
Radials is being held in Ottawa this
week and large delegations are in at
tendance from all places in Western
Ontario. The Wingham delegation is
composed of Mayor Irwin, Reeve Me-
Kibbon, Councillors Bell, Currie, Is-
bister, Patterson and Young and the
party left here on the G. T. R. on
Wednesday afternoon.
J. G. Anderson, M. P. P; was calling
on friends in Wingham on Monday.
Mrs. W. Fryfogle is visiting with her
sister Mrs. Alex Smith, of Detroit.
Mrs. J. Walton' McKibbon is visit
ing for a few days with friends in Tor
onto.
Mr. Wm. Maxwell, of Leamington,
was calling on Wingham friends this
week.
Mr. and Mrs. T. Dunn and family
leave today for the West, where they
will locate on a farm near Moosejaw.
The punns have made many friends
‘in Wingham, who will regret their
departure, but who at the same time
wish them success in their venture.
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Wingham has several small industries of which she
should be proud. If we are going to try to get more in
dustry into town, why not get more like them?
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PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS
Always in the vanguard of progress, our neighbors
to the south are now engaged in a campaign to put the
second television set into every home in the nation. Which
would perhaps indicate that the people who used to cam
paign for two cars in every garage have attained their
objective and are now looking around for new fields to
conquer.
By ail material standards, Americans should be the
happiest people in the world. They have more of every
thing than anybody. They have more T-bone steaks,
mink coats, Cape Cod bungalows, Cadillac cars, two-door
refrigerators and large-screen television sets than any
other nation on earth.
They also have more security than anybody else.
They have no enemies within three thousand miles of
them. They have air bases all over the world, from which
they can strike anybody, anywhere, any time. They have
atom bombs goodness knows how many times more
powerful than the one which flattened Hiroshima. And
they have hydrogen bombs more powerful still.
Yet in spite of it all, one could hardly say the Ameri
cans are the happiest of people. They have an' astro
nomical divorce rate, their mental hospitals are filled with
neurotics, and they are said to have ten million alcoholics.
And judging from the antics of some of their leaders, they
have the worst case of war jitters this side of the Iron
Curtain.
It’s enough to make one wonder about civilization.
Sometimes it seems that the more you have of it, the un
happier you are.
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FAR FIELDS
One of the remarkable things about town life, to us
at least, is the fact that so few people get out to the
country.
In the city, where you h^ve to battle with summer
traffic to get out into the fresh air, everybody and his
brother seems to have a yen for the wide open spaces. In
the towns, where all you have to do is jump over the back
fence to get away from it all, hardly anybody bothers.
The only time some people get out of town is en route
to another town.
With all the countryside around, it seems a shame to
us that more townspeople don’t get out to enjoy it.
Perhaps it’s just another case of farther fields look
ing green.
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BETTER THAN FIGHTING
Prime Minister St. Laurent came back from his globe-
gurdling tour the other day to say that there didn’t seem
to be too much possibility of a war in the near future.
Without going around the world to verify it, we had a
hunch that such was the case.
After all, the present “cold war” has lasted for just
about eight years now. Any really serious crisis should
have come to a head long since.
Which is not to say that there is no crisis in inter
national relations these days. But crises that have pre
cipitated wars in the past have usually lasted only a com
paratively short tifrie. Hitler rose to power, built up his
war machine from scratch, and conquered Europe in the
length of time we’ve spent trading insulis with the Rus
sians.
Just as long as it’s insults we’re hurling at each other,
instead of atom bombs, the world still has a chance to
straighten out its difficulties.
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in height, and is to be placed on Main
Street at the town hall plot.
The Radio Shop has been successful
in securing the Agency for the well-
known products of His Master’s Voice
Ltd., namely Victory VE records, the
selling record in America.
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FIFTEEN YEARS AGO
Mr. Jack Young, son of Mrs. L. C.
Young, of town has been appointed
manager of the Walker Stores Limited
at Ingersoll.
Mrs. Ernie Seddon had the misfor
tune to fracture her leg on Saturday
night.
Mr. and Mrs. George Kerr, of East
Wawanosh, announce the engagement
of their daughter, Dorothy Agnes, to
Mr, William Allen Garniss, of London,
son of Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Garniss,
of Brussels? The wedding to take place
early in April.
The marriage of Elaine Radford,
daughter of Mrs. Nettie Radford, of
Wingham, to Mr. John Mervin Colvin,
of Wingham, son of Mrs. Sarah Col
vin and the late John Colvin, of Tees-
water, was solemnized by Rev. J. D.
Wilkie, at the Presbyterian Manse,
Teeswater, at 12 o’clock noon on Sat
urday, March 18th,
Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Christie left on
Saturday for an extended visit with
their daughter, Mrs. E. C. and Rev.
Pentland, of Assumption, Illinois. Mr.
and Mrs. W. B. McCool motored them
as far as Detroit and spent the week
end there.
Mrs. Alma Falconer has returned
home after spending some months in
Indianapolis '-and Chatham.
Miss Gladys Bradley, of St. Thomas,
spent the week-end with Mrs. George
Peyell.
Mr. Ira Gerry, of Fort William, vis
ited with his sister, Mrs. W. H. Willis,
during the past week.
Mr. and Mrs. W. H. French attend
ed the burial of his aunt, the late
Mrs. William‘ Taylor, of Chicago,
which took place in the Clinton Ceme
tery on Saturday. ''
The crocodile on display in Hanna’s
window this week is the property of
Miss M. H. Williamson, of Amkut,
India. It was killed at Jobat, near
Amkhut, and was brought home by
her as a curio.
TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO
A. R. DuVal wishes to announuce
that until next fall he is moving his
office from the Crawford block to
his residence on North Street.
Mr. George Towne of Wroxeter, vis
ited in town over the week-end.
Miss Eleanor McLean visited over
the week-end at her home here.
Dr. H. W. Colborne was in Toronto
on Wednesday attending the Com
mittee of Mental Hygiene, a division
of the Ontario Medical Association,
of which he is a member.
Mr, and Mrs. W. H. Gurney an
nounce the engagement of their only
daughter, Marjorie.Wilhelmine, to R.
Eldon McKinney of Toronto, sori of
the late Mr. and Mrs. J. McKinney,
of Blue'vale, the marriage to take
place early in April.
Mr. Robert Spotton of Wingham,
has been awarded the contract of
supplying the War Memorial for Tees
water. The monument, with base,
granite shaft, and surmounted with
marble statue, will be about 15 feet
M Raul’s Cfjurdj
(CHURCH OF ENGLAND IN CANADA )
s==== Wingljam
Fourth Sunday in Lent.
Mothering Sunday
<. 11.00 a.m.—Morning Prayer and Sermon
2.30 p.m.—Church School
7.00 p.m. —-Eveiling Prayer and Meditation
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Wednesday—7.30 p.m?—Midweek Lenten Service
Bridge Club
Six tables participated in Master
Point night at the Wingham Bridge
Club on Thursday night with “ the
Howell Movement being used. The re
sults are as follows;
1st., Miss Y. McPherson and V. Ditt
mer; 2nd., Miss M. Johnston and H.
Sherbondy; 3rd., Mrs. D. B. Porter
and W. H. French; 4th, Miss M. Mac-
Lean and Mrs. G. Godkin.
KEEP GODERICH
AS HURON SEAT
Huron county council’' decided last
week that the new Huron County
building would be briilt on the old site
in the centre of Goderich. The move
ended, a bid from the town of Clinton
to be named as county seat. *
The council also voted that the Hur
on county health unit offices should
be moved from Clinton to Goderich
when the lease on the offices expires
in June,
Leopold Street,
Wingham, Ontario
February 12th, 1954
Wingham Advance-Times,
Wingham, Ontario
Dear Sir:
I see that suggestions are requested
re Wingham’s , Seventy-Fifth Anni
versary celebration as a town, As a
descendant of four of the earliest
pioneer families in this "Central Mait
land River Valley District,’’ I am
keenly interested in this anniversary
celebration.
My four grandparents, Peter Can-
telon, his wife, Elizabeth Richardson,
James Casemore, and his wife, Jane
Cornell, came into this district in the
early 1850’s with their parents. My
grandfather, Peter Cantelon, located
in Bluevale in 1854, where he helped
the Leech Bros, construct saw and
flour mills and the first dam 'at that
point. His cousin, Jacob Cantelon, al
ready lived there being its founder a
few years earlier.
My parents brought our family to
Wingham to live in 1906, and except
for several years overseas during the
first world war and nearly twenty
years in Western Canada, I have call
ed Wingham home; and I'm proud of
this town.
. I was educated in Wingham’s Pub
lic and High Schools; worshipped in
Wingham’s Methodist and United
churches, played on the High School’s
hockey and football teams, and on the
town’s hockey, baseball, football and
lacrosse teams; enjoyed aquatic sports
on both branches of the blue Mait
land and had the high privilege of
living in this community which is
blessed with the best of everything in
life.
Those are the reasons I heartily en
dorse this anniversary idea and wish
it to be a wonderful success. Of
course there will need to be sports
events, bands, parades, etc., which
feature all such anniversaries, and I
think Wingham should have some
special attraction. My ideas along
that line are as follows:
(1) As this is at least the centenary
of the pioneer settlement in this “Cen
tral Maitland River Valley District,”
as well as the seventy-fifth anniver
sary of Wingham as a town, I suggest
that the celebration be for the two
anniversaries.
(2) As this celebration is in re
membrance of our pioneer ancestors
I suggest that their lives and sacrific
es be recalled reliving some of their
experiences; and this might be done
by the following expedients:
(A) Build a pioneer log cabin on
the park-land to the south of the
tennis court, or rent the garden plot
just south of there for the purpose
if possible. As this would be a district
anniversary, surely the farmers with
wood lots would supply the necessary
logs, which could afterwards be sold
and the money given to them, if nec
essary. ’ *
(B) Have a building “Bee” to build
the log. cabin.
(C) Dig or construct a well (sup
plied by piped in water) similar to
those of early days with a windlass
to draw up the bucket, etc. *•
(D) Construct an outdoor oven for
baking bread, etc., and furnish the
log cabin with all the antique period
furniture available, including spinning
wheels, homemade benches, tables,
bunks, etc.
(E) Such necessities of. the early
days as muzzle-loading shotguns
(Chief Bert Platt has some I be
lieve), powder horns, shot moulds,
tallow candles and candle moulds, etc.,
should be included.
(F) Get as many meh and women,
boys and girls, to agree to dress like
the pioneers during the celebration.
This would necessitate the women
letting their hair grow or using false
hair, so that they could wear the
same hair-do’s as the pioneer women;
and the men .would have to grow
mustaches and whiskers for the oc
casion. Also, the women and the men
would need to dress like the old-tim
ers.
(G) From this group of “old-timers”
select one family to live'in the log
cabin during the celebration, vising
the obsolete accommodation and uten
sils for their daily living.
(H) ’"Enclose this pioneer home by
a picket or other old-time fence,
through .which spectators may watch
them’.
(I) Have specified visiting hours in
a.m., afternoon and evening, during
which the whole lay-out may be in
spected, for a fee.
(J) Have visiting male old-timers at
specified times for horse-shoe match
es; log-sawing contests, etc. Also,
have female old-timers visit for quilt
ing parties, etc.
- (K) Each evening have the old
timers put on fiddling contests, quar
tette harmonizing; fireside (open
air) sing songs, etc.
Those are just ideas which might
well be enlarged upon, if the idea is
considered feasible and possible by
community effort In Wingham.
I think the citizens of this "Central
Maitland River Valley District” have
enough public spirit and pride to pro
vide the labour gratis and probably
dig up enough ancient relics in attics,
etc., to furnish the needed furniture,
utensils, tools, etc.
Such a log cabin would be quite a
tourist attraction as a museum of
pioneer days. Probably the Huron
MUseum at Goderich would loan some
equipment.
To finance such a project and other
initial expenses of this celebration I
. suggest that tags or ribbons be sold
. throughout the district arid wdm to
advertise the celebration. This would p
form a large booster club, which will GOOD PROGRAM^AT
be necessary to make it U success.
I submit this idea for its novel ape
peal.
Yours truly,
Leon C. Cantelon
Farther Afield
News of Neighbours
In Distant Places
The following is a letter from Bill
McCool, who is spending, a few’ weeks
at Daytona Beach, Florida:
March 12th, 1954
Dear Barry:
The enclosed item was clipped from
the Daytona Beach Morning Journal
today and thought you might be in
terested.
This was an elimination event, and
my partner is also a Canadian from
Sparrow Lake in the Muskoka district.
We had quite a reunion here the
other night, there were Mr. and Mrs.
Art. Wilson, Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Merk-
ley, Mr. and Mrs. Howard Wylie of
Wroxeter and Mr. and Mrs. Alkin
Rann, and Jane of Brussels, along
with Jean and myself.
We have had a few cool days but
now each day is around 80.
We expect to leave for home on
March 29th.
Best regards to your wife and staff.
Bill
The clipping reads as follows:
W. B. McCool and Mrs. Ruth Wian-
cko yesterday won the Olson trophy
mixed doubles at the Peabody Lawn
Bowling Club. Runnersup were Fred
erick W. Thomas and Mrs. Lucy Fox.
HORTICULTURAL SHOW
Some 600 delegates representing 206
societies with a membership of 40,000
persons will take over the King Ed
ward Hotel in Toronto on March 11
and 12 when the Forty-Eighth Annual
Convention of the Ontario Horticul
tural Association gets under way.
Always one of the highlights of the
winter season this year’s. Convention
will be no exception, Reports reaching
the Agricultural and Horticultural
Societies Branch, indicate even great
er interest in the affairs of the As
sociation this year. *'
Two special speakers will address
the Convention, Mr. Perry D. Slocum,
known from coast to coast in the
United States as a specialist in water
gardens, pools and aquatic plants,
Will speak on two occasions. In addit
ion, Mr, M. B, Davis, Dominion Horti
culturist, will be present to discuss
new things in horticulture.
Prof. James Bryden will be on hand
during the duration of the Confer
ence to answer questions on soils, fer
tilizers and grasses. Mr. R. W. Oliver
of the Central Experimental Farm will
be present as consultant on ornamentals/ X
The many phases of garden prac
tices and problems will be dealt with
by panel groups. Colored slides and
motion pictures will illustrate the best
in amateur horticulture.
The Annual Banquet on Thursday
evening will be addressed by Mr,
Norman Moore, Brantford. Mr.
Moore's subject will be "This is Can
ada.’’
Demonstrations, in addition to dis
cussions on subjects of Interest, will
add to an interest-packed program.
Farm costs: The average monthly
wage without board of male help on
Canadian farms at mid-summer was
$140,
TO GROW BEARDS
A beard growing contest will be a
feature of the 100th anniversary cele
brations in Wellington county this
year.
The beard growing idea is popular
in Fergus, where the celebrations will
be held.
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