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hap spent a year teaching in a Girls'
College in Stockholm, Sweden,
Archie Scott of Morris, met with a
serious accident Thursday morning
while unloading hay at his barn when
the hayfork fell and struck him in the
side. There is a possibility of it having
punctured the bowels. The injured
man was rushed to Clinton Hospital
for X-Ray,
Mrs, R, A. Bonner and son, Douglas,
of Toronto, and Mrs. H, J. Hoose, of
New York, are visitors with their par-
ents, Mr, and Mrs, J. A. Haugh, Diag-
onal Road.
Miss Margaret MacLean successfully
passed the Grade IV Pianoforte Ex-
amination, Miss Dorothy Patison suc-
cessfully passed the Grade II Piano-
forte Examinations. Both are pupils of
Miss Cora Phair.
Many farmers in this district have
reported over the week-end, the invas-
ion of their crop by the army worm,
which has created genuine alarm.
The agricultural representative, Ian
McLeod, of Clinton, has visited the
affected areas and suggested remedies
for controlling the pests.
A meeting of the farmers of the
district will be held in the council
chambers, Wingham, on Saturday
evening, July 23rd., at o'clock for the
purpose of discussing the export
freight rates on Ontario wheat and
wheat products.
Misses Alberta Walker and Gertrude
Kelly have returned from a motor trip
to North Bay and Callander where
they viewed the Quints. Miss Ruth
Mitchell relieved at Cosens & Booth's
office during Miss Walker's absence.
BOX 473
Editor:
Advance-Times
There is a cry resounding. strong,
Agushing from a frenzied throng,
By mighty lungs sorely inflated.,
This anguished cry has been created,
Against high taxes 'tis chrectelj
To which we all have been subjected;
`Gainst reason, wisdom and fairplay,
For almost an eternity.
Those cries claim we are o'ertaxedy.
That taxes now should be relaxed.
But if relaxed, they cannot see,.
Our welfare thrown: in jeopardy..
A state with low taxation rates,.
Does nothing, only stands and waitsi:
While one with rates of ample girth.
Attempts to make a Heaven of earth,
James G. Webster
11AYFIELD SUMMER
RESIDENTS REPORT
FLYING SAUCERS
The Flying Saucers (products• of
this earth or another planet) are with.
us again! Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Cun-
ningham, Clinton, were enjoying a.
quiet picnic lunch on Heard's. sideroad,
south of the village on July 3,. when
Mrs. Cunningham saw a very bright.
light in the sky which she at first
took to be the sun's rays, reflected
from the tip of a wing of an aero-
plane. But then she noticed that it
was disc-like in shape and she could
neither see nor 'hear an aeroplane,.
although its altitude did act seem
high.
She drew her .husband's. attention
rather ridienle.c1 the idea that she had
seen a flying saucer, But in ten ;ninth,
to he pointed one out to her. A seem-
ed to be about 600 feet to the south-
west of the one Mrs. Cunningham had
spotted. They both watched it for a
thin air. Mr. Cunningham describes the
Mysterious object as 'being about the
size of a teapiate, bad-like, with, per,
haps, a flat top, and exceedingly
bright silver in colbur.—Clinton News
Record.
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TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO
Miss Jean Lepard narrowly escaped
drowning on Tuesday afternoon last
week. While bathing with some young
people she got, into deep water, and
being unable to swim went down two
or three time. H, Burgess, seeing her
plight, shoved out a stick hitting her
a smart blow which seemed to arouse
her instinct. for she grabbed it hard
and was brought into shore. She was
unconscious for some little time.
This being leap year the Kincardine
merchants have been offering to
pretty near equip a home for the first
maiden who puts across a proposal and
is accepted. However, as yet, these
merchants have not had to part with
any of their proffered gifts. There must
be a lot of sadness among some of
those eligibles in Kincardine and dis-
trict. A chance to get set up in a home
practically free of charge and no Jean
or Mary willing to pop the question.
Mr. Wm. B. McCool, Mr. J. Morris
Christie, Miss Jean G. Christie and
Miss Vesta D. Fox are visiting at the
home of the Rev. and Mr. A, Pent-
land, Loami,, Illinois. They motored by
way of Athens, visiting with Mr. and
Mrs, Fox, the parents of Dr. J, A. Fox.
Master John Currie, of Wingham„ is
visiting his. grandparents, Mr. and Mrs.
R. T. Kemp, Listowel.
Carl and. Samuel, sons of Mr. and
Mrs. Chas.. Bondi, were both operated
on in the London Hospital last week.
Carl is recovering but baby Samuel is
reported in critical condition.
Miss Mildred and Scott. Reid are
spending their holidays• at their uncle's
home, John Reid's of Culross.
Edith McClaren of Toronto, and
Claude DuVal of Hanover are visiting
with tehir uncle, Dr. A. R. DuVal, B.
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FIFTEEN YEARS AGO
Mr. John Thompson, of West Wa-
wanosh, had the misfortune to lose a
horse this week, when it suffered from
sunstroke due to the heat.
Mrs. A. R. DuVal won first prize
for approaching and putting at the
Walkerton Ladies' Invitation Golf
Tournament on Thursday of last week.
Miss Mildred Redmond, daughter of
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FORTY YEARS AGO
Provincial constable Phippen found
the empty beer barrel which was stol-
en from the Dinsley House on the flats
near the GTR bridge.
Wm. H. May, one of the most pros7
perous farmers of Ashfield was in-
stantly killed one day last week by
breaking his neck in falling off a
load of hay.
The Wingham Lacrosse boys went to
Goderich on Wednesday of last week
and played a league game with the
boys of that town. The town players
lost by a score of 8 to 3.
Three rinks of Brussels bowlers vis-
ited Wingham on Wednesday after-
noon of last week and played a friend-
ly game with local bowlers. The visit-
ors were three shots up on the game.
Last week Mr. Alex IVIeNevin of this
town moved a log house from Mr.
Geo, Simmons, of Turnberry. The
house was built in the early days and
Mr. McNevin moved the building
without damaging it.
Mr. Wm. Gannett wishes to thank
Mr. Wm. McPherson and the mem-
bers of the fire brigade for their good
work in saving his barn last week. Mr.
Gannett's barn was destroyed in the
windstorm on Good Friday and he
considers himself fortunate in that it
was saved from fire.
Mr. Win. Merkley, Sr., and his dau-
ghter, Miss Pearl Merkbay have re-
turned home after spending a month
at Kingston, Thousand Islands and
Rideau Canal, where they visited Mr.
Merkley's sister, Mrs. Houghton and
visited the scenes where Mr.IVIerkley
spent his boyhood days. They report a
most delightful trip.
Mr. Harry Foster, city editor of the
Galt Reporter, is spending his vacation
in Wingham and vicinity. He paid a
fraternal call at the Times office, and
met his -old confrere, Mr. Peter Wilson.
Mrs. A, M. Crawford and Miss Ethel
King are away on a trip to Duluth,
Minn.
Plain Worcis on the Hospital
Wingham General Hospital has the worst case of
overcrowding of any hospital in Ontario. It leads the rest
by a healthy margin of 20%,
It was designed to take care of 48 patients, As this
is written there are 86 sick people packed between its.
bulging walls, You can see them up there, lying in the
halls, in the X-Ray room, in the laboratory—anywhere
there's space for an extra bed. If you didn't know better
you would think there had been some sort of disaster in
the district,-
Any other hospital considers it has a full house if
80% of the beds are occupied. Tonight in our hospital
180% of the beds are in use. And the staff is thankful that
it isn't over the 200% mark—as-it has been several times
in the past.
Of the 86 people lying sick in the hospital tonight,-21.
of them are from Wingham itself. r , rest come from
Morris and Turnberry and Luckno,.c Teeswater and
all the other surrounding municipalities. What started
as a Wingham hospital, built and paid for by Wingham
people, has become a Wingham district hospital. Over
the past five years patients from the surrounding districts
have outnumbered those from Wingham by three to one.
Wingham folk don't begrudge them the space.
They're proud of their hospital and proud of the fact that
it serves the district. They've proved that by building a
new wing, practically unaided, in 1946. They proved it
by the labors of the auxiliary, which does all the work of
the sewing for the hospital, right here in town. Now they
need some help from the other seventy-five per cent.
This is the year of decision for the hospital. Some-
thing must be done now about the terrible conditions
there. This year the hospital must decide to build a new
wing to take care of its extra patients. Or it must decide to
revert to its original capacity of 48 beds.
Enlarging the hospital is relatively simple. The plans
are already drawn. The provincial and federal govern-
ments have pledged half the money. Wingham and the
township of Morris have agreed to pay their share of the
$200,000 needed to make up the balance. If the other muni-
cipalities will share the burden in proportion to the a•
mount their people use the hospital, work can be started
within a couple of months.
he other alternative is not quite as simple or as
'Pleas.ant. Nobody likes to turn away sick people from a
hospital. .But if, through lack of support, the new wing
cannot be built this year, no other decision is possible.
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Seventy-filth Anniversary
At the last council meeting the Mayor remarked on
the fact that next year will mark the seventy-fifth anni-
versary of the incorporation of the town of Wingham.
Tired councillors deferred action on the matter by agree-
ing to think about it during the summer months.
While the council is thinking about it, the citizens of
Wingham might do some pondering on their own, for it
is a matter that should be given a good deal of thought.
Wingham owes it to its own self-respect to put on a show
of some kind to mark such an important occasion.
No doubt a lot of the good citizens of this town will
have ideas of their own as to what should be done by way
of celebration. Any and all suggestions should be of some
assistance to the council in making their plans for the year
1954.
As a public service to the town this paper would like
to extend the hospitality of its column "Box 473" to any
citizen who has constructive suggestions on the matter.
Men's Wear
With the advent of the halter and shorts ensemble,
the emancipation of women is now complete, for the pur-
pose of attire, at least. No future progress in the field can
be envisaged without bordering on complete nudity, and
when it comes to beating the heat, women are about as
cool as they can get.
Men, on the contrary, are still struggling through
ninety-degree temperatures in clothes that differ very
little from the days of the nineties. True, they have dis-
pensed with such anachronisms as waistcoats and spats.
But the basic costume remains the same. And that most
useless of appendages, the necktie, is still worn by men
of distinction even on the hottest days.
One of the pressing needs of this age is a suitable
summer costume for men. Something light and flimsy,
with short pants, open sandals and a low neckline. Who
wants to be masculine when the mercury soars?
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A special delivery letter posted in Montreal on De-
cember 19, 1952 has not yet arrived at its intended destina-
tion in the same city, says The Printed Word.
The District P.O. Inspector has been unable to turn
up any clues but thanks the sender for drawing the matter
to his attention.
And mail not delivered requires just as much postage
(prepaid) as mail that is delivered.
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