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FORTY YEARS AGO
Mr, A. M. Crawford received hi
second carload of Ford automobiles
and reports the following sales: A
Stewart and John Button of Luckno
and R, J. Mann of Teeswater. Mr
Crawford will likely make anothe
shipment of ears info Wingham
the near future,
A movement which has been a very
popular one is that of observing the
second Sunday in May as "Mother's
Day" by wearing a, white carnation,
In Canada the sponsor back of the
movement is W, G. Rook of Toronto,
President of Canadian Home Journal.
The Bachelors and Benedicts of
Gorrie, gave a most enjoyable dance
to many of their friends at the As-
sembly Hall, which was tastefully de-
corated. Music was furnished by
Tony Vita's orchestra of London,
Miss Beth Calder of Toronto, is
visiting her sister, Dr. Margaret Q.
Calder.
Dr. R. C. Redmond is having a new
verandah built at his residence,
which will make a greater improve-
ment to the property.
Advertised by Willis & Co,, Small
girls' shoes, $1.15 pair; sizes 8 to 10,
$1.15; larger girls' sizes, $1.75.
*
TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO
Quite an unique event transpired
at the home of Mrs. Wm. Young,
Minnie St., on May 3rd., the occasion
being Mrs. Young's ninetieth birth-
day.
Miss Meriam. K. Smith, R. N,, of '
Toronto, is visiting at the home of
her father, Mr. C. P. Smith,
The Federal Rubber Manufacturing
Co., will occupy Mr. Wm. Dore's Car-
riage Works Building,
At the Lyceum Theatre, Douglas
Fairbanks in "Robin Hood," Richard
Dix in "The Vanishing American."
*
FIFTEEN YEARS AGO
This month two new giants of
transportation will make their first
crossing of the Atlantic, the Zeppelin
Hindenburg and the liner Queen
Mary.
A large number of neighbors and
friends gathered at the home of Mr.
and Mrs. A. J. Hooper of Wroxeter,
in honor of their son, Alfred, and his
bride.
Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Isard and son,
Douglas, of London, spent Sunday
with the former's parents, Mr. and
Mrs, J. Isard.
Mr, and Mrs. A. E. Lloyd and MiSs
Dorothy Lloyd, who spent the winter
in North Carolina, 'returned home
On Saturday.
Browne's-
Shoe Repair
The annual meeting of the Wing-
ham Citizen's Band was held on Mon-
day evening when the following offic-
ers were elected for the ensuing year:
President, A, J. Pilon; Vice-President,
F, Johnston; Secretary, N. L. Fry;
Treasurer, H, Hinscliffe. Mr. Willis,
the new bandmaster, is expected from
Smith's Falls this week.
former Wingham Resident
Western Ontario. Then her husband
decided to enter the Church of Eng-
land ministry,
He enrolled at Huron College and
just before he was graduated as a
deacon last May, he answered a call
for volunteers to serve in the north-
ern diocese of Moosonee. Mrs. Wil-
liams' life was entering a new chap-
ter.
In June, 1950, she set out with her
two-and-one-half-year-old daughter,
Runty, for the post that is not even
marked on most maps. When their
plane touched down on James Bay, a
thousand miles north of Walkerton,
they were welcomed at the dock by
Mr, Williams who had gone •on
ahead), and a band of silent Indians,
including squaws carrying papooses
and bundles of wood.
Pour hours later the first Indian
accepted Mr. Williams' previous in-
vitation that anyone needing medical
assistance should come to his wife.
An Indian girl led her to a tent, where
Mrs. Williams delivered her first
child.
Since then the midwives of the
tribe have transferred their responsi-
bilities to her shoulders, and Mrs.
Williams—who served 10 years as
maternity .earn worker with Bruce
County Children's Aid Society—has
been on 24-hour call.
In the first nine months she was
at Rupert's House, Mrs. Williams de-
livered dozens of babies, nearly all
of them in crowded tents, 150 miles
from the nearest doctor. During the
spring thaw she often was called to
tents where the patient's mattress
was a sodden mass, surrounded by
icy waters that flowed across the tent
floor.
The Canadian government began
building a six-bed hospital at the
post last September, and when Mrs.
Williams returns to the north at tie
end of June, she will serve as assist-
ant to the nurse in charge.
While Mrs. Williams kept house
and met the physical needs of the
community, her husband taught
school and conducted daily services
at the church, "The church—which
seated 300 and was lit by lamp—was
nearly full every evening and twice
on Sundays," Mrs. Williams stated.
"Church was something not to be
skipped, The men would sit on one
side, the women and children on the
other. The very young would settle
down under the benches and go to
sleep, After service they would be
wakened and .go off to their tents.
And when the trappers and their sons
went off to hunt or fish, they car-
ried their Bibles in the best silk
handkerchiefs they could buy,"
Mrs. Williams reported that in com-
parison to prices in the James Bay
area, "everything is on sale here." At
Rupert's House eggs cost $1.10 a dozen
and $1 is needed to buy a pound of
butter,
Enjoying a holiday in this district,
Mrs, Williams is visiting with mem-
bers of her family. She has two
daughters, Mrs. Ernest Tolton and
Miss Kathleen Williams, Walkerton,
and one son, Harry Williams, 827
Oakland Avenue, London, She will be
join,e4 shortly by her husband, and
they, together with I3unty, will return
to Rupert's House at the end of Suite.
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High School Breaks into Print
This week we are pleased to carry the first of a regular
series of High written by the students of the Wingham
44striet Hig-h School, We have urged the teachers and
students to make arrangements for this weekly presenta-
-Lion, not merely because it would make good copy for our
paper, but because only those who are intimately associated
with the doings at the Iligh School can report to the public
with accuracy.
There is no doubt that most of the people in this com-
munity are vitally interested in the Wingham District High
school, for that institution becomes increasingly important
with each successiveyear. It is the focus of learning in our
midst, not only for young people, but for many adults as
well, The modern curriculum directs more and more at-
tention to the social graces which should be found in well
educated people. There is a vast turning away from the
dry-as-dust classics and mathematics of our parents' high
school days,
When a modern high Achool is run with that fine bal- C tee Missionary in James Bay
ance of good sense which we have come to expect, there is
virtually no limit to its influence. We can recall our high Area school days in a town not far from Wingham, where we
were fortunate enough have a principal with vision and
foresight. He was one of those rare individuals who could
blend the practical and the theoretical in such a way that
the result was education in its most valuable form. Not
early did that particular high school graduate a superior
grade of students, but the entire town felt the influence of
the progressive attitude in vogue at the school. The com-
munity itself became alive and energetic.
High School activities, being handled as they must. be,
'by a selected group of instructors, all of whom are busy
People, the general public does not have any great oppor-
tunity to acquaint itself with the more intimate details of
school life. The board and teachers make every effort to
:ivercome this fault as much as possible. A case in point is
- he open house to be held at the school next week, and a
very fine idea it is. However,. it is our feeling that this
weekly column from the school itself will help immensely
-_0 let mothers and fathers, and the rest of the adults know
just what goes on at WDHS. We hope you will enjoy
::•eading the column just as much as we enjoy presenting it
to you. •
-------"*"Casitourse
Those who are interested in the establishment of a golf
not only to raise funds for the project, but to secure volun-
the course into usable shape this summer.
course for the town of Wingham have launched a campaign
iary assistance from local residents, with a view to getting
her days in her snug little home in
the proud grandmother of two child-
ren, expecting to live out the rest of
Two years ago Mrs, Williams was
Your first thought may be--let the fellows who want
to play golf pay for the thing • . I'm not interested. And
without a doubt they are the very people who will bear the
BOX 473 :heavy end of the burden. But there is another angle to the
program which will commend itself to those who arc proud
of our town . . . the feeling that the completed golf course
will make Wing-ham a better place in which. to live. We are
all keen on the establishment of more industries here, so
that continuous, profitable employment will he assured—
and when we think in terms of more industries, more fam-
ilies, and continuing- expansion, we are forced to consider
at once the question of whether or not our town is aurae-
nye to those whom we would have come to settle here. A
golf course would certainly help to make it so.
Very fortunately, the men who .are planning the new
course have no thought of making it an exclusive country-
dub type of thing where only those with well-lined pockets
are welcome. They hope to have the place serve some of
the purposes of a town park, where those who want to en-
.,oy the beauties of the open countryside will be welcome.
this purpose the site could not have been more ideally
Selected, lying as it does in ,a bend of the Maitland River,
surrounded by rolling fields and woodland.
We are not supposing that the golf course projetc will
receive universal support, for we know it won't. There will
be a few snorts of contempt from those whose vision is not
highly developed. But we do feel sure that the golf course
has its place in the general scheme of things, just as much
as the skating and curling rinks and the ball park and howl-
ing green. Jar from all of our citizens use these facilities,
lmt practically all are proud of them and realize that they
add much to the stature of life here.
* *
While we ,are discussing the more pleasant side of life,
let's not forget that both service clubs are selling tickets in
,an effort to raise money for similar projects. The lions
Club is raising money for the arena fund, dear to the hearts
Of young and old alike — and the Kinsmen are out to
install a wading pool for the children of the community.
Both of these organizations are offering attractive prizes,
and with their customary energy are likely to put their
projects across with complete success, Don't forget to
give them a hand.
* *
Just to complete the sports' picture, lawn mowing has
-commenced, Now that's the place where father really
Tines and it puts him in first-class shape for the golf
and boWling season.
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Mrs. R. J. Scott, president of Knox
W,M.S. Auxiliary, was in charge of
the May meeting which was held at
the home of Mrs. Leitch, with an
average attendance and was opened.
with a Call to Worship. An interest- 1 ing letter from the MacKay Hospital
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Very fine message on "Mother's Day." (? I WAMP011 s
Arrangements were made for a MDR special June meeting which will be I\
, in charge of the Home Helper's Sec- A
retary, Miss Mason, who will also
for a guest speaker, Rev, Mr. )arrange
Fulton and Mrs, Fulton of Brussels, 4 v :tig....±k,
are to be invited to attend as guests
/Of the Auxiliary, thus affording an
opportunity for our recently inducted h' __ wit wam poiers No
minister and his wife to become better
acquainted with the members of the
W.M.S. The topic was taken in three
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parth,MrsTurdon dealing with "Port This preparation is endorsed Work and Workers across Canada", 'by the medical profession Mrs, R. J. Scott with "Children's because it is an emulsion of Centres and Van Services", and Mrs. pure Mineral Oil and Milk Nichol with "Hospital Visitors and St. of Magnesia "--combining in Margaret's Girls' Centre", this giv- one remedy the benefits of ing a broad picture of various phases two of the most valuable of work across the Dominion. aids in correcting faulty Mrs. Leitch took the Glad Tidings elimination and acidity. Prayer and Mrs. A, Scott and Mrs, Pleasant tasting ...Can be Dunbar read the Scripture passages.
Miss Agnes Mason led in prayer. Re-
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It has been my pride and pleasure
to have been born in the same gener-
ation and reared in the same com-
munity as the departed.
How vividly I recall his parents, Mr.
and Mrs. John McLennan, who resid-
ed on the old homestead on the first
concession of Grey on the Molesworth
road where "Dave" spent his boyhood
days,
It is one of the bright spots in my
memory; to recall upon each occasion
of my return visits to my old com-
munity; visiting his home on the 2nd.
concession of Grey,
What a home of good fellowship and
cheer greeted me from Dave and his
gracious wife.
His sanctum was a veritable "Eliin"
of ray sojourn, It is not the privilege
of many to be great or famous in the
sense of attainments or notoriety; but
to all is given the opportunity to
be "good," That was "Dave" McLen-
nan's inherent quality. Upon every
visit to his sanctum then; was a spon-
taneous exutience of kindness and
good fellowship that "Billy" McLeod
departed a better man. t •
In paying this brief tribute"; I be-
lieve I am yoking the sentiments of
all Who knew him,
May the Great Author of destiny
and adjustor ofall things bless and
sustain his bereaved wife and fannlY,
Sincerely yours,
W, J. McLeal,
Would you graciously permit to
use a small space in your esteemed
paper to voice my sincere sorrow
and loss at the passing of one of the
pioneers of your community; David
McLennan. The intimation of Mr. Mc-
Lennan's death I frist read in the
Advance,
The passing of "Dave" McLennan
was indeed a shock to me,
Melville, Sask., May 6th.. 1951
The Wingham Advance,
Dear Editor:
The official agenda of the Olth
annual meeting of Huron Diocesan
Board of the Woman's Auxiliary,.
Church of England in Canada, was
interrupted here so delegates could
hear an on-the-spot report from Mrs.
Williams. In her address and in sub-
,stitmErr?"--r•Mthrrertult- or
among Canada's northern fur-trap-
ping Indians who carry their Bibles
in their best silk handkerchiefs.
The following article refers to the
wife of Bert Williams who was raised
in Wingham and entered the ministry
of the Anglican Church two years ago.
Mrs. A. C. Williams stepped out of
a plane at Rupert's House, on James
Bay, at four in the afternoon. At eight
that evening, a darkfaced Indian girl
sought her out, begged her to go with
her to one of the tents in the clearing.
Two hours later, Mrs. Williams
straightened up from the paillasse on
the floor and showed a fine, round son
to the Cree woman lying on the mat-
tress. The bright-eyed grandmother
from Walkerton, Ontario, had ,lom-
menced her nursing- ministry in Can-
ada's far north.
Bay Alice M. Waterous in
London Free Press
the