The Wingham Advance-Times, 1955-04-13, Page 4The Whigham Advance-Times, Wednesday, April 13, 19SS
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EDITORIALS
A FINE PROJECT
The decision of the Wingham firemen to purchase an
inhalator is a public-spirited gesture which should meet
with the support of all the citizens of town and district.
A great deal of credit is due the firemen for engaging* in
Such a worthwhile project.
There are many uses for an inhalator, and many ways
in, which it can save life. In cases of drowning or asphyxi
ation from smoke or electric shock it could mean the dif
ference between life and death. Inhalators are considered
necessary equipment in many fire departments and are
used to good effect in most of the larger centres.
The cost of the machine is in the neighborhood of
$500, and it will probably keep the firemen busy raising
such a large amount, Whatever means they take to. raise
the money should be well supported by everyone in the
district, for the life it saves might well be your own.*
BETTER THAN SIGNS
One of the poorest advertisements for many a town,
we’ve always thought, is the condition of the roads lead
ing into it/ Wingham suffers in this respect, along with
many other towns.
So often it seems that you drive along a smooth, un
blemished highway, and then all of a sudden—boom I
You’re being tossed around between the bumps and pot
holes that seem to grace the approaches of ,almost every
town. “Welcome to Jonesville” the sign says, but the road
says anything but welcome.
We’ve never been able to figure why it should be like
that. The highways are reasonably smooth, tjie streets of
town are reasonably smooth. But right at the entrance to
town—where for public, relations’ sake you’d think the
road should be the best—there’s usually a stretch that
will make your eye teeth rattle.
There is one blessing, however, about such an arrange
ment. Poor as it is for public relations, that stretch of
road probably does more to slow down incoming traffic
than all the traffic signs in the world.
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SOMETIMES IT’S TOO FAST
The Ontario Government has decreed that the speed
limit within towns shall be 30 miles an hour, and any
motorist is within his rights in travelling at that speed.
There are times, however, when even 30 miles an hour is
too fast for road conditions and safety.
On Josephine Street, for instance, with cars parked
on both sides of the street and children liable to run out
from between them, 30 miles an hour is definitely too fast.
It’s unsafe to drive a car at that speed on streets which
pass parks or playgrounds, or any place 'where children
congregate—-which might include almost every street in
town.
There is no way, apparently, of reducing the speed
limit without the express consent of the department of
highways, and that is given only in particular cases.
It is up to motorists themselves, therefore, to govern
their speed according to the conditions under which they
are driving. Because the speed limit is 30 miles an hour
you don’t necessarily have to go that fast.
DON’T LIGHT THEM ,FOR FUN
From the looks of things spring has definitely arrived.
And with it will probably come the annual rash of spring
grass fires.
Some grass fires, of course, are accidental. Others
are set deliberately and seem to provide fun and games for
the entire family, until the wind changes or things get out
of control, and then the fire department has to be called
to put them out. Either kind can be dangerous, directly
through the damage they may cause, and indirectly by
the fact that while the fire department is fighting a grass
fire,, a house may burn down in some other part of the
district. Even without considering the danger involved
or the damage done, grass fires cost the taxpayers money.
The simplest way to avoid trouble with grass fires is
to resist the impulse in the first place. Failing this a squad
of neighbors with rakes and brooms and a bucket brigade
standing by may be sufficient to get the fire out before the
fire reels arrive.
MIGHT COST TOO MUCH
The recent controversy regarding parking meters in
Wingham has brought out several points, both pro and
con, in a question which was bound to stir up an argu
ment. And there is no doubt that both sides of the argu
ment can be supported with good and sufficient reasons.
Parking meters would unquestionably alleviate some
of the parking problems on Josephine Street. On the
other hand it might be quite possible to do this without
resorting to a method which appears to be very unpopular
with many people.
One important aspect of the idea appears to have
been overlooked so far. Judging from the amount of
show ,that AVingham has had this past winter, the cost of
removing the drifts from the main street, so that the
meters might be visible to possible customers, might in
the long run amount to more than the revenue from the
meters.
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> Reminiscing
SIXTY YEARS AGO
Mr. John Hanna had three young
men of the town before the Mayor on
Saturday charged with furious riding
or driving on the public streets. After
the evidence had been heard the
Mayor reserved judgment until Mon
day. We understand he fined the
young men $1 and costs each.
A plasterer who had been living
in town for some months, was charged
before Mayor Brockenshire, on Friday
last, with using abusive language and
threatening Mr. George Russell. He
was found guilty and the Mayor in
flicted a penalty of $10 and costs or
twenty days in Goderich jail. He was
taken to Goderich on Saturday by
Mr. John Groves, not having the
wherewithal to pay the fine.
The rain on Sunday and the warm
spring day on Monday ‘ caused the
snow to melt very fast and the result
was one of the greatest freshets ever
seen in Wingham. The ice broke up in
the north branch of the Maitland,
and all Monday and Tuesday the- CPR
bridge and Messrs. Carr’s dam were
in considerable damage. The Gorrie
dam broke away about five o’clock on
Monday afternoon, and the body of
water thus let free reached here about
2 o’clock on Tuesday morning and
had the effect of raising the water
here a foot or more. This result was
expected and preparations had been
made as far as possible to avoid any
danger from it. The south branch of
the Maitland was also greatly swollen,
and the prairie was covered with sev
eral feet of water. The new race track
was completely submerged, but it is
not thought that it sustained very
much damage. Of course Lower Wing-
ham was flooded and some of the
sidewalk was taken away, but we have
not heard of any great damage being
done.
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FORTY YEARS AGO
Mr. W. H. Yuill, a former member
of the Times staff and son of the late
Sam’l Yuill, a former well-known
Winghamite, is serving with the First
Canadian Contingent in France.
Mr. Alfred Galbraith; a member of
the Times staff in 1886-87. and a
brother of the late S. W. Galbraith,
a former editor of the Times, died
last week at his home in Flint, Mich.
Mr. Galbraith has been engaged in
the newspaper business in Flint for a
number of years.
C. Templeman, John St., is open to
take in ladies and gents suits to clean
and press at reasonable prices. All
orders can be called for and promptly
attended.
The members of "B‘” Co. 33rd Regi
ment held a very successful assembly
in the armouries on Thursday even
ing last. There was a large number
present, including a number of people
from outside points. The interior of
the building had been nicely decorat
ed for the occasion by Mr. Harding.
All present report a very pleasant
evening.
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TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO
Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Crawford and
son, Kenneth, who have spent the
winter months at their home in St.
Petersburg, Florida, left this week to
return to their home here..
Mr. Jimmie Deacon, of East Wa-
wanosh, while getting over a fence
discharged a gun he was carrying. He
was taken to Wingham General Hos
pital, where he had the toe removed
in an effort to prevent blood poison
ing.
As Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Edgar were
driving in Howick Township on
Thursday, a runaway team, owned
by Richard Griffith, crashed into
their cutter, upsetting it. Mrs. Edgar
is suffering from injuries to her back,
while Mr. Edgar escaped unhurt.
Mr. Clayton Fryogle carried off the
first prize for the best gentleman’s
outfit at Clinton Spring Fair last
Thursday, and also took second prize
for roadster in harness.
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FIFTEEN YEARS AGO
Due to the condition of the roads,
some of the weekly budgets of news
were not received this week. We re
gret that these were not received but
under the circumstances it was im
possible for these letters to reach our
office.
Muskrslt hunters had a field day on’
Monday afternoon and evening when
the water became so high that it
drove the animals out of their holes
into the open. The men. Went after
the rats with clubs and it is reported
that some very fine catches were
made.
The Maitland River here was as
high or higher than it has been for
some years. Betweeh the first two
bridges south of town on Highway
No, 4, the water was flowing over the
road 2% to 3 feet deep on Tuesday.
The flats, of course, were completely
inundated, Scott Street at the junction
of Josephine, was covered with water,
During Monday the fiver rose very
quickly and by 5 o’clock about four
inches of water covered the road and
it Was only a short time after that
that* motorists had to be drawn
through.
Rev. W. A, Beecroft, B.A., B.D., of
Haileybury conducted the services Irt
the United Church oh Sunday, Rev.
J. F. Anderson, the pastor, Was in
Sutton West, a former charge, for the
week-end, officiating at a wedding oil
Saturday and preaching on Sunday,
THE MAN ON IKE STREET
I Worked With a Fenian
Star Gazers
How many printers in Ontario today
can say that they at one time worked
with one of those fellows who came
over to Canada in 1866, known as
Fenians, and whose object was to
capture Canada?
Along in the 1850 decade a young*
man came to Canada from Ireland
and located in Toronto. He was highly
educated and a printer by trade. He
started a weekly newspaper, one of
the earliest in Toronto, which he call
ed “The Mirror’*, and published it in
the interests of the Roman Catholic
Church. It was a failure from the
start and it lasted only a few months.
He removed the printing plant to
Windsor, where the'presence of many
French-Canadian Catholics appealed
to him, as a more lucrative field for
his paper, still known as The Mirror.
The fates, however, were against him
and he had to discontinue its publica
tion.
Hating with an intense hatred
everything that was Canadian or Brit
ish, he went over to the United States
and sought a new home in Detroit. His
name was the same as that of the
man who was in command of that
expeditionary, force that invaded Can
ada, familiarly known as Fenians,
Andrew O’Niel.
In the year 1884, at 19 years of age,
I was .an employee in one of Detroit’s
largest and best equipped printing
and job printing plants in Detroit.
During that year the office had two
story books in hand, the one in par
ticular on which I was engaged would
be known by the title of “Irish Celts,”
it’s author being a lawyer by the name
of James Flynn.
One morning-1 found a new man on
the staff, a compositor, who was
started to work on this book mention
ed. Naturally we were bound to come
together at intervals and we became
on friendly terms, days before I had
any knowledge of whom my work
mate was. My ^fjoreman, Thomas
O’Keefe, a lanky subject, with a keen
knowledge .of printing in all its diver
sities, quietly informed me of some of
the early history of . this employee’
.One day he disclosed to me that he
was frequently termed Genetai O’Niel,
on the supposition that he was the
famous' Fenian leader. “I am not
General O’Niel,” but with something
of an air of pride, he continued, “but
I was there with him.”
Mr. Flynn, the publisher, approach
ed this literary O’Niel and requested
him to write a sketch of a well-known
Canadian character, Thomas D’Arcy
McGee, member of the .Dominion
House of Parliament and one of the
Fathers of Confederation. He acquis-
ed, and it fell to my lot to set the type
for this piece of history. O’Niel wrote
“D’Arcy McGee was the cleverest
Irishman who ever crossed the At
lantic”. Those familiar with Canadian
history will recall that this .famous
Canadian by adoption was shot to
death on the doorstep of his place of
abode.
Then one morning when the shop
opened for business O’Niel failed to
show up. It had been a long Stretch
of steady work for him, I never saw
nor heard of him again.
It was a matter of amusement that
a sign on the front of this place of
business read “Job Printing—Books
and Stationary.” Notice the spelling of
that last word,
WWell, the amateur star gazers soc*
iety is at work again, and already the
first reports pf flying Saucers have
been heard. Two members of the
Provincial Police, in the Huron Coun
ty Town of Goderich report having
seen a strange type of aircraft fly
ing over* their town, at an early
morning hour on Good Friday, and
we have to recognize the fact that
these men are not the type of go off
half-cocked on a story such as this.
They are reliable men, who have good
vision, and they only report what
they see. This story should certainly
result in a storm of reports from
others who will tell us of wierd and
ghostly apparitions that have either
passed over, or landed in their back
yard.
Humans are subject to epidemics of
mass hysteria, and I would guess off
hand, that the first report of strange
aircraft will be followed by similiar
stories, as well as countless cases pf
sunburned tonsils, stiff necks, and
greatly increased- business for the
chiropractors and osteopaths. How
ever, we must accept the fact that all
these reports are not entirely without
foundation. Reliable people have re
ported them many times, some Gov
ernment officials have acknowledged
the existence of unidentified missiles,
there are those who even report hav
ing seen or talked to strange little
men and women who have landed. I
leave the whole thing to your own
imagination, but I would suggest that
local star gazers consider the fact
that anything circling this town in the
near future, could very well be
our own Don Hildebrand, who has a
pilot’s licence, and is quite busy put
ting in hours and getting experience.
So much for the star gazers and the
flying saucers. With spring 'upon us,
in varying degrees, it would be wise
for us to keep our eyes upon the
ground a little more these days, and
watch the wonderful things that nat
ure can do. The grass is starting to
turn green, and so are some of the
home owners, when they think of the
mowing contract this summer. The
beautiful spring flowers are makirig
their debut. The snow buds and the
daffodils, the crocus and the wild
flowers, the tulips that are starting
on the way toward their early sum
mer development. Spring is a time of
beauty, when God and man work
hand in hand in developing a new,
bright and green world. If you go
around with your head in the sky
looking for strange apparitions,
you’-ll miss the beauty that is to be
had right at your feet. As a matter
of fact, you could very well trample
some of the beauty that others would
enjoy. Beauty is where you find it,
and you will find it right in your own
garden, your own flower bed, these
spring days. The song of the birds, the
green of the grass, the colours of the
flowers and the perfume of the flow
ers, the'buzzing of the first bees.
Just as a plowman looks ahead
when he sets up that first furrow,
so must we all look ahead. But let us
look around, and‘also ■ look back and
appreciate everything that we have.
There are things in the garden more
beautiful and more strange than fly
ing saucers.
CHANGE URGED
The annual meeting of the South
Bruce Game and Fish Club was held
in their clubhouse at Walkerton,
A resolution asked the Department
of Lands and Forests be petitioned to
take racoons off the restricted list as
they are a menace to farmers who
wish to raise com.
A second resolution to the depart
ment asked that laws relating to
after-season mink trapping be chang
ed, Trappers who catch mink in musk
rat traps are unable to market the
furs properly under the present set
up. A Government-sponsored market
ing board would be favored.
Parents were urged to caution
children about catching rainbow trout
which go up the small streams to
spawn at this time of year.
LOSS HEAVY IN SHED
FIRE NEAR SEAFORTH
Firp destroyed a 30 by 40-foot mach
ine shed and considerable equipment
on the farm of Mervln Deitz, McKil-
lop Township.
Some 8,600 chickens in a large
three-storey bam less than 50 feet
away were saved by the Beaforth fire
brigade.
The fact that the barn's siding was
of asbestos assisted firemen in their
fight.
Lost in the machine shed were a
forage harvester, manure spreader,
tiller, plows and other equipment.
Fed by oil and rubber in the equip
ment, the blaze is believed to have
started from sparks from a bonfire.
BRAND
Crop Report
Land dried off so rapidly during
the week of March 28th-April 2nd.,
that seeding started in the south end
of the county on Tuesday, April 5th.
However rain and light snowfalls
later in the week, delayed this pro
gram somewhat. Many farmers have
been caught unprepared and have as
yet to secure their seed and fertilizei’
equipments, reports G. W. Mont- i
gomery,
To date approximately four hundred
4-H Club members have signed up
in thirty 4-H Agricultural Clubs in
the County. New clubs this year in
clude three 4-H Poultry Clubs, a 4-H
White Bean Club and two 4-H Grain
Clubs. Interest in this program is
above average for this time of year.
(CHURCH OF ENGLAND IN CANADA)
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* First Sunday after Easter -
° 8.30 a.m/—Holy Communion
11.00 a.m.—Morning Prayer
2.30 p.m’.—Church School
7.00 p.m.—Evening Prayer
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Wed., April 13th—3.00-5.00 p.m.—-Junior Auxiliary
Easter Tea at the Rectory
Tues., April 19th—8.00 p.m.—3
Sale.
Guild Auction
A.
7 VITAMINS
7 MINERALS
$4.50 Per 1OT
Wampoles Ext.
Idaphos ............
Idafer Capsules
$1.50
$1.25 I
$1.25 J
$4.50
Neo-Chemical Food
$1.55, $3.35, $5.90
B. Complex Liq. $2.95
Energets..........$5.95
Halibut Capsules
100’s $1.29
500’s
Syntona............
Burdock Blood
Bitters .....
Pierces G.M.D.
$4179
$1.25
$1.59
$1.59
Hyett Remedies
We carry a complete
line of HYETT
Remedies
at all times.
Owing to the passing of Mr. K. G. Kerr, we have
engaged Mr. C. L. Guest, Phm.B., of Toronto, to
take charge of our store. Your continued patron
age will be sincerely appreciated.
KERR’S DRUG STORE1
THE HOME OF FINE MEDICINE
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