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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance-Times, 1951-10-24, Page 97rt ne 0 0 Four attractive young girls aNhe Howick Fall Fair try out Grandpa's convertible and find that it had its advantuges. Left to right are Doreen Hutchison of Listowel, Marjorie Felker of Listtowcl, Betty Sanderson of Fordwich and Marianne Doig of Fordwich, Giddap there boy! Quality Always Spare yourself the pain of "shopping around" for a Monument to honour your loved one. Depend on our reputation for highest quality and fair dealings. See Us First. ALL CLASSES OF MONUMENTS IN STOCK. Moat Modern Equipment for Shoo and Cemetery Work Inscription Work Promptly Attended to. Brownlie Memorials WILLIAM BROWNLIE, Owner and Operator Alfred St. Wingham Box 373 'Phone 450 At Home and Overseas SERVE CANADA Zhou I. of freedom::. :(qte°44-ieV 8,4rrz.t-s eec. Modern inventions have not taken away from the Infantry its all-important part in victory. Again and again, in the battles of 1939-13 and in Korea, Infantry has proved itself —"Queen of Battles". The job of the infantryman has become tougher, more complex. He must be able to handle more weapons and to meet a greater variety of situations in defence and attack. MORE MEN ARE NEEDED IMMED144TE01 Enrolment Standards: To enlist you must: * Volunteer to serve anywhere. * Be 17 to 40 tTradesmen to 45 * Meet Army req uirements. • Married men will be accepted. Apply to the nearest Recruiting Depot: No. 13 Personnel Depot, Wallis House, Rideau and Charlotte Sts., Ottawa, Ont. No. 5 Personnel Depot, Artillery Park, Bagot St., Kingston, Ont. Canadian Army Recruiting Station, 90 Richmond St. W., Toronto, Ont. No. 7 Personnel Depot, Wolseley Barracks, Elizabeth Street, London, Ont. Army Recruiting Centre, 230 Main Street West, North Bay, Ont. Army Recruiting Centre, James Street Armoury, 200 James St. North, Hamilton, Ont. A4598,0 Join the CANADIAN ARMY ACTIVE FORCE NOW!. "'eeieeeeeeeete,,,„r' m; ii C 5. S rr 'en eiee.,,zee W.KONESPAY, OCTOBER 24th, 1951 TFI VIN GIANT DVANa-TINIES rAGE Nom Old Times By S. Fisher Within the last few weeks I have been asked by several townspeople if I were going to write more .articles on Old Times.. My eurprise in these questions was that comparatively new comers were much interested in old town incidente, few now living are privileged to recall, Right now, I am thinking of the new front being installed on Mr. Wm. Clark's store next to Stainton's. That was one of the earlier locations of the Wingham Post Office and as my father was postmaster for over forty seyen years I remember many inci- dentse, in connection with that building and those adjacent to it. The out- standing thing that conies to my mind as I write now is the November night when about nineteen, I was operated on for appendicitis, beyond those four front windows you can observe, below the big crown, from the street. Just in passing, here is a $64.00 question, and I will give a dollar to the first one giving the correct ans- wer, who had that crown placed up there? That was in the days of Queen Victoria and the"-'stare coach, when we drank from a cup without a handle Made out of half a cocoanut and when a nut, meant a nut; and made you think of a hardware store or a groc- ery store, but never of a person. The night of my first operation, (oh, you had morn than one) my brother elected himself to the pool- tion of the first traffic officer Wing- ham ever had; for lie stood in the middle of the muddy road and slowed down to a walk all vehicles going up or down, establishing a zone of quiet to give the patient up above, every chance, for a while longer, to stay down below. I fancy that is what is meant by brotherly love, My nurse was Miss Maxwell, Fol- lowing upon a teaspoonful of barley water the first day, she gave me junket, and I rewarded her with a rhyme, At night when you lie down to bunk it Bo sure to take with you some junket, And then when you wake and the jun- ket you take, You roll off to sleep and curl up like a snake. 'Tis easy to make, is this junket, And many a time I have drunk it It's as sweet as a rose And as white as the snows Drugs do not equal it to make you doze. It's smooth as a fish newly caught, 'Tis better when cold than when hot Down your gullet you plunk it To your stomach you've sunk it And now you are happy, 'cause Chock full of junket. My specialist was Dr, John Wish- art of London whose face was a ben- ediction to behold. My regular Dr. was J. P. Ken- nedy, a man of commanding pres- ence, an arresting personality, a man of initiative and courage who inspir- ed confidence and hope and without whose vision and enterprize the Wingham General Hospital might not have been. I well remember the etir- rine appeal he' made one night from the stage of the town hall auditorium. There is an excellent portrait of him at the hospital and a plaque that ac- companies it, hut instead of being half-hidden away in a corner of the office it should adorn the foremost place in the building, and now, "Hon- our to whom honour is due." I fear in our day we stress the im- portance of events and tend to forget the characters who made the events possible. Biography will ever he the richest reading for mankind, and the noblest personalities emblazoned on ; the pages of h:story, will ever be the most heroic examples, and the surest inspirations to accomplishment in the worthiest fields of endeavour. Whatever be the honorable urge in the heart of any who are young, let it he worked out and developed at all costs. Yes, Wingham has possessed many unusual people, grave and gay, and methinks there was an individual ex- pansion of character in the men and women who put the corduroy roads through this dense forest of Ontario ---men and women who were not blacked out at night by the turret top of a motor car, but who without fear of a collision, saw the stars on their homeward way and had time to medi- tate upon the grand galaxy of the heavens and commune without inter- ruption with their Maker. Oh, I know of the wonderful inven-1 tions that introduce manifold con-1 veniences; and yet, push buttons do I not increase piety, and with all our ; speed on land, sea and air, our fore- fathers outstripped 'us in nobility of character development, making up- ward progress on their knees. We used to have local preachers when I was a boy. Half the men in the churches were not merely mem-1 bens, they were theologians. They I could conduct a service, if necessary, ; just about as easily as men of today take up a collodion. They thought on things solid and sacred, on the moral: mandates of the Almighty, of their, accountability to God and their re- I sponsibility to their brother man; and men in any age, who do these things ; are strong men in a crisis. The progress in any civilization that curtails man's freedom to think and contemplate and pray, and ex-J heart. A modern writer claims that "we learn each day that gain is expensive. that each step advanced is as well a retreat, that progress may be achiev- ed only at a cost of an earlier pro- gress, or of the spirit." Mark the thunderous importance of those last four words. "Or of the spirit," In conclusion listen to a trenchant declaration rrom the prophet Isaiah. What a personality description, the flaming evangel of the Old Testament portrays, when he declares, " A man shall be as an hiding place from the wind, a covert from the tempest, the shadow of a great rock in a weary land." Down in Toronto my wife had a laundress whose husband's name was Charles. Now and again, .she would ask this wife of Charles if she would care to have one of my older shirts, Invariably she would say, 'Charles could do with a shirt." We "could do" with a few .stalwarts such as Isaiah describes. Let each of us aspire to the highest. Established 187i I Security 'V Dollar Interest if Patriotism Eav CANADA SAVINGS BONDS • See your local Dominion Bank manager today. He will tell you about the many ways to buy them ... and offer every assistance to you. THE DOMINION BANK • And the progress tion evolved from a life, that secures by press himself .with the fullest liberty is a progress, that is cankerous at the core and therefore of fatal tendency. of any civilize- worthier way of the genius of its multifarious inventions, a larger measure of freedom and leisure for its citizenry, tends equally toward disaster if that leisure so secured be dissipated in folly instead of utilized to improve the mind and enlarge the REFRESH . DRINK tC4q: TRADE MARK RED The Cazg oar Ohs Lidia " By Roe Farms Service Dept. vL-il DOC,I I M HAVIN6 TROUBLE WITH PICKING OR. CANNIBALISM IN MY NEWLY HOUSED BIRDS. i WELL, BILL, THE FAULT MAY BE IN YOUR FEEDING OF ALL PELLETS INSTEAD OF REGULAR VITA-LAY E6G MASH, SUPPLEMENTED BY PELLETS. WHY, DOC, I r_-, YOUR PELLETS 0N RANGE AND THEY DID A WONDERPLIL. JOB OF GROWING THIS FLOCK. 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