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The lives of great men serve as an
:Inapiration to all of Mi. This is as it
Should be! The lives of many of the
esfamous men of our time and earlier
ages, are yonrs for the asking at the
Wingham Public Library. This week's
two books are a biography of an art
dealer and the biography of One of
our great authors.
ADVENTURES IN Two WORLDS
by A. J, Cronin ,
In this„hook, one of the world's
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Fish Story
An unusual fish story is going the
rounds among the local nimrods and
this one does not concern the length
t or weight of the "big one that got
away." While fishing one day last
week in what is kown as the River
Sticks, some distance east of the vil-
lage of Elmwood, Mr. Harold Scott,
of Harold's Garage, Walkerton, sue-
seeded in landing a good catch of
speckled beauties, While preparing
the trout for the frying pan at his
home here, Harold felt something
round and flat in the stomach of one
of the catch, and on investigating, ex-
tracted one of those ancient small
Canadian five-cent pieces which have
been out of circulation for some years.
The coin was of the Queen Victoria
era and was minted in 1856. However,
the trout which had swallowed the
nickel was only about three years old,
and where it picked up the money is
a mystery. One explanation is that the
spot where the fish was caught is in
the neighbourhood of what is known
as Crawford's church, and that the
tiny piece of currency had dropped
from the pocket of one of the old
Scotehmen as he crossed 'the adjacdnt
bridge, and the trout struck at the
shiny object as it sank towards the
bottom of the stream. Be that as it
may, many things have been found
in the stomachs of game fish, but to
extract real cash is an occurrence
worthy of the Believe It Or Not Col-
umn. Harold is retaining the pice as
a souvenir of the fishing expedition.—
Walkerton Herald-Times.
told In the most exciting narrative
form. The reminiscences of an active
general practitioner are always fas-
cinating, and here, surely, are some
of the strangest tales any doctor ever
told. Be relates a terrifying exper-
iences in an insame asylum when he
almost lost his life at the heads of a
Madman whom he had tried to be-.
friend, As ship's doctor on a voyage
to India, he dealt a svith a Smallpox
epidemic among the crew while gaiety
Went unchecked among the first-eiass
passengers. Every day in his memory
seems crammed with 'extraordinary
events and a vast variety of colorful
people.
DUVEEN by S, N, IEHRMAN
He furnished a Washington apart-
ment, handed the . key to Andrew
Mellon, later sold Mellon the apart-
ment's contents for twenty-one mil-
lion dollars:
He told his American clients, "You
can get all the pictures you want at
fifty thousand dollars apiece—that's
easy. But to get pictures at a quarter
of a million apiece-that wants doing!"
His "doing" skyrocketed the values of
art masterpieces to astronomical
heights, transformed the American
taste in art, and, in five decades, est-
ablished American collections as
among the finest in the world.
He loved fawsuits, In one instance,
having won the case, he paid in full
the amount for which he had been
sued. His fabulous transactions with
men of great wealth-Mellon, Rocke-
feller, Frick, Kress, Morgan, Altman
and others revealed the perfection of
his salesmanship, yet he relished buy-
ing more than selling,
He was Joe Duveen, Lord Millbank,
the most spectacular are dealer of all
time, His astonishing career was built
upon the simple observation that Eur-
ope had art and Amercan money. To
trade one for the other became the
ruling and highly profitable passion
of his life,
Former Resident
Passes At Ft. Frances
Harper C. Simmons, for many years
bandmaster of the Fort Frances civic
band, passed away in LaVerend rye
Hospital, Fort Frances, on Monday,
April 28th. He was 63 years of age:
The family home is at 401 Coloniza-
tion Road E.
Funeral services for Harper C. Sim-
mons were held at 2 p.m., Saturday,
from Knox United Church with Rev.
G. A. McMillan conducting the ser-
vices. Interment was in the Veterans'
plot in the Fort Frances cemetery.
Born in Wingham, Ontario, on Jan-
uary 20th., 1889, Mr. Simmons came
to Fort Frances from Brandon in
1922, and in 1924-25, when the town
hand was reorganized, he became its
director, a post he held off- and on
for many years. Under his guidance
since World War II, the civic band
developed to such an extent that Dr.
C. S. Lang, British adjudicator, could
say of it in 1950, that "This is an
astonishingly fine band. Any town
should be proud to possess such a
band."
Mr. Simmons served in both World
Wars. In World War I, he joined the
45th regiment from Brandon, later
switching to the 28th regiment over-
1 Former Wingh am
Boy Marries
Miss Eleanor Fox Goetsehius, dau-
ghter of Mr. and Mrs. L, Berdan
Goetschius, Knob Hill, was married at
2 p.m., Saturday, April 19th., in the
First Congregational Church, South
Egremont, to Irving- James Boyle of
Peekskill, N. Y., son of Mrs. George
W, Boyle of Toronto, Ontario, and
the late George Boyle. The ceremony
was performed by Rev Ernest Simon,
in a setting of daffodils, white snap-
dragons and yellow pussy willows,
The bride, whose father gave her hi
marriage, wore a gown of embroider-
ed organdy, with• a fitted bodice,
sweetheart neckline and short .sleeves.
Her three-tiered skirt was bouffant
and her veil, fingter-tip length, was
caught in an embroidered organdy
cloche. She carried a bouquet of or-
chids, bouvardia and ivy.
The bride's sister, Mrs. Edmond D.
Cotter of Warren, Pa I., was matron-
of-honour, in a pale yellow embroid-
ered organdy gown, similar in style
to the bride's, but of ballerina length.
Her hat was of matching organdy
with purple flowers and she carried
purple pansies and ivy,
George Boyle, brother of the bride-
groom, was best man. Ushers were
Albert Impara, Mount Vernon, NY.,
and Charles Totero of Larchmourit, N,
Y.
A reception followed at Egremont
Tavern. The bride's mother 'received
in a navy blue print silk dress with
navy accessories. For her wedding
trip, the bride was attired in a rose
suit with black and white accessories.
Mrs. Boyle attended Berkeley Secre-
tarial School and Syracuse University,
She is a graduate of _Hackensack (N,
Y.) High School. The bridegroom, who
attended New York University,
served three years in the navy, and
is now assistant-manager of J H.
Newberry Company in Peekshill, Y.
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Maater storytell ers relives the most
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his own life, Pr, A. J, Cronin has had
two careers, both of therm immensely
successful, In his early years he was
a physician in Scotland, Wales and
London. Later, when he made the dif-
ficult decision to abandon his practice
he became world-famous as the auth-
or of such brilliant novels as Hatter's
Castle, The Citadel, The Keys of the
Kingdom, and The green Years,
Adventures In Two Worlds, Dr,
Cronin's first book of nonfiction, is a
skilful fusion of , his experiences in
the fields of medicine and literature,
Within less than two miles of -1#>m
until they have entangled themselyas
in the nets and drowned. Then beghis
the arduous and unremunerative ilaSk
of removing the birds and seattarql
feathers from the nets. As marry *a
82 ducks have been removed frond no feet of net and sometimes as
many as 500 ducks have been takon.:-in
a day's haul.
The Presence of these ducks around
Goderich is nothing new. Nor is their
habit of diving into the nets at what
seems like a fantastic depth—the
deepest point off Goderich is tiS fat*
mils West-North-West of the liashose,--
but never has the effect been so 4.18<
astrous before. •
Early in the sason, as many as two
tons of whitefish were being talaest
up in a day's haul—the most fn 40
years, They are shipped mostly trt
New York, Detroit and Montreal.
Maybe this battle with the ducks IS
an example of Nature's mysterious
way of achieving balance. At any rate,
commercial fishermen here feel that
man's battle with nature isn't over
yet, by any means,—Goderich Signal-
Star.
seas, playing in the depot band. Then,
during World War II, Mr. Simmons
„served as bandmaster at A4 headquar-
ters in Brandon and later at Debut,
N, S.
His wife, four daughters and two
sons survive. They are Mrs. Ewald
Gustafson of Fort Frances, Mrs. J.
Makahanik of Port Arthur, Mrs. Jack
Young of Aurora, Ill., and Mrs. Stan-
ley 'Walczak of Brandon; Ernest of
Port Arthur and PLO 2 Frederick,' of
Halifax.
survivors include his mother, Other
Mrs. A. Simmons of Calgary; six sis-
ters, Mrs, P. Brown, Brandon; Mrs W.
Campbell, Winnipeg; Mrs. W. Way,
Mrs. B. Dennison, Mrs. J. Manning
and Mrs. W. Good of Calgary, and two
brothers, Archie of Kenora and Wil-
liam of Los. Angeles.
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Goderich] Fishermen
Are catching Ducks
What looked like a record whitefish
season for commercial fishermen has
been turned into an exasperating
struggle with one of the strangegt
Phenomena in nature lore. Duaks—
bunched* of them—are diving into
nets set as deep as 40 fathoms, driv-
ing away the fish and filling the nets
with feathers which sometimes take
as long as two weeks of painstaking
work to remove,
Pausing about five miles out of
Goderich on their flight north, the
ducks, known around here variously
as pin-tails, hell-divers and pop ducks
(apparently because they can pop
under water at the crack of a rifle
before being hit) have long overstay-
ed their welcome, and, according to
fishermen, are driving the fish off the
fishing grounds.
The sight was described by one local
mariner in this manner. The ducks
fly in huge flocks like black clouds
and then swoop down on the nets in
one united effort. Observers can't get