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The new clock which is to be placed
in the tower of the post office build-
ing arrived in Wingham last week
and is now stowed at the post office.
Contract will be awarded on Friday
for the work of raising the tower some
ten feet, The clock cannot be placed
in position until this work is complet-
ed.
Miss Elva Dodd is spending her
holidays with friends in Detroit."
Mr. Fred Guest left last week for
Hamilton where he has accepted a
position.
Mr. Alex Robinson, of Hamilton, was
visiting for a few days with his cousin,
Mr. John IVIcCool.
Dr. and Mrs. A. J. Irwin, with Miss
Oneida and Master Arthur Irwin and
Miss Margaret Perrie, left on Friday
last on an auto trip to Detroit and
Leamington.
Mr. Ernest Greer left on Wednes-
day morning for Winnipeg, where lie
purposes residing for a time prior to
going to Weyburn, Sask. Many Wing-
ham friends will wish him every suc-
cess in the West.
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TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO
Mr. Claire Adams, of London, visit-
ed at his home here over the week-
end.
Mrs. E. A. Hammond and son,
Robert, of South Bend, Indiana, are vis-
iting at the home of Mr. John Kerr.
Mr. and Mrs. A. Baxter of Walker-
ville, and Wallace, of Windsor, are
visiting at the home of Mr. and Mrs.
John Tervit.
Miss Luella Hopper has returned
home after spending the past week
visiting friends in Detroit. •
Congratulations are extended to
Miss Mary Cook, of Beigrave, in pass-
ing her primary piano examinations
of Toronto Conservatory of Music.
Miss Cook is a pupil of Miss Sarah
Cole, of Beigrave.
The three nurses, who graduated
from the General Hospital, Wingham,
Miss Alma Free, Dungannon; Miss
Irene Collins, Armow and Miss Lil-
lian Hetherington, Wingham, have all
been .successful passing the Depart-
mental examinations for registration
of nurses in the Province of Ontario.
The annual picnic of St. Paul's Sun-
day School was held on Wednesday
afternoon to Clark's Point, where a
very enjoyable afternoon Was spent.
Miss I. Allen of Cottam, is spending
the summer holidays at the home of
her parents, Mr, and Mrs. George Al-
len.
It will gratifying news to Wing-
ham citizens to learn that, another of
its main .ndustries is compelled to
enlarge its factory to take care of
its rapidly increasing business, in
fact the staff worked overtime for
several weeks to fill orders. C. Lloyd
& Son have also purchased the old
Salt Block property, which may be
used as a lumber yard,
About 50 cars containing the em-
ployees and their families to the num-
ber of 300 left about 10 o'clock for
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REMINISCING
FORTY YEARS AGO
Hayfield to attend the annual picnic
of the Western Foundry Co. Ltd.
Miss Dorothy Golley is visiting with
friends, in Flint, Mich.
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FIFTEEN YEARS AGO
Congratulations to Mr. and Mrs.
Chas. Shiell of East Wawanosh, who
on Tuesday, July 25th, were the proud
parents of twins, a boy and a girl at
Wingham General Hospital.
Miss Helen Miller had as her guests
this week at their cottage at Kincar-
dine, Misses Eileen Underwood and
Isobel Habkirk of town, Margaret
Robinson of Napanee, Mary Walkley,
of Harriston and Helen Peel, of Ford-
wich, all graduates of 0. A, C., Guelph.
Mr. and Mrs. Donald Rae, of town,
and Mr. and Mrs. Robt, Rae, Luck.
now, are motoring through the Bruce
Peninsula and Manitoulin Island to
North Bay and Callendar where they
will see the quints.
Mr..and Mrs. Peter Gowans left on
Tuesday for Owen Sound where they
took the boat trip to Sault Ste. Marie,
At Seaforth on Wednesday night,
bowlers from Wingham who won were
Rev. 3, Pollock. and George Williams,
with first prize, winning Gladstone
bags. At Walkerton tournament J.
Mason and A. Wilson won first prize.
R. W. N. Wade, popular Gorrie
Mason, was elected the new District
Deputy Grand Master from North
Huron Dis;:sict at the annual meeting
held on Wednesday in Toronto. Those
who atteniled Grand Lodge were: W.
T. Booth, T. H, Gibson and Fred
Fuller, '
BOX 473
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BOX 473
The Editor,
Advance-Times,
Wingham, Ontario.
Dear Sir:
As a recent visitor to Wingham I
would like to comment on the very
inadequate .condition of the Town
Park,
To begin with, I think there should
be benches near the wading pool for
any adult who has accompanied the
children. Also it must be very disap-
pointing to the children to see just
the frames of the swings and teeter-
totter, Has no one got around to put-
ting them up? If so this is very inef-
ficient.
The toilet facilities are very poor.
The floor was covered with water
from the children's wet feet, and the
children who were in the wading pool
had to leave their clothes in piles on
this wet floor. It was a clammy, cold
spot to use, as a dressing room,
I am not criticising the attendant in
charge of the children, who appeared
) be interested in the welfare of th.
children.
Surely your town council can do
better than this. I have visited ether
small towns in Ontario, and feel that
Wingham's park was the most unsatis-
factory children's recreational centre
of any place I have visited.
Yours very truly,
(Mrs.) Marion Lint
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FOR HOME, OFFICE AND SCHOOL.
A Walk
Through Town
It'a an iii wind, they say. . All sum-
mer lightning storms that have been
plaguing the district and playing hob
with the hay may not be too popular
with the majority of citizens. But
they have built up a brisk business
for the electrical repair men in the ap-
pliance field... Seems that radios and
electric clocks are in continual danger
of being struck by lightning, and
when they are, somebody has to sort
out the tangle inside.. • Two or three
of the shops around town report quite
a volume of this type of work, and
one shop in particular has a backlog
of four or five radios, all struck by
lightning, awaiting repair. . . Accord-
ing to experts, the way to avoid this
kind of trouble is to pull out the plug
when an electrical storm threatens.
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TENTH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY
8.30 a.m.—Holy Communion
11.00 a.m.—Morning Prayer & Sermon
7.00 pan.—Evening Meditation
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According to the round table dis-
cussion on the hopital over station
CKNX last week, the new hospital
wing will cost the taxpayers of Morris
Township $1.00 per person per year,
for ten years. . . We don't know just
how they arrive at this figure, or ex-
actly what is involved. . But on the
race of it, a dollar per person extra,
is strictly peanuts. . . ,Looking at it
tnat way, hospitals aren't as expensive
as you might think.
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01" Ever notice the crown on the face
of the building now occupied by W. J.
Clark, on Josephine Street? Accord-
ing to Bill Fleuty, who ought to know,
the ornament was placed there at the
time that building housed the Wing-
ham post office. . Must be some
fifty years ago. . .Since that time the
post office moved to the McDonald
block, before moving to the premises
it now occupies. . . Several of the old-
timers around town have tried to re-
member who put the crown up there
in the first place, but that's a mystery
that hasn't been solved as yet.
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A couple of weeks ago we ran an
editorial on the subject of Wingham's
75th anniversary, which comes up
next year. . .We figured maybe it was
time to start thinking about some
way of marking the event... Even of-
fered to print any worthwhile sugges-
tions that the readers might have, . .
So far nobody seems to have any sug-
gestions at all.. We had thought of
some sort of celebration or old boys'
reunion or Gay Nineties festival, but
no one has even suggested these tried-
and-true promotions. . . . Could it be
that nobody gives a darn that Wing-
ham will be seventy-five years old
next year? So far the only suggestion
we've heard is a beard-growing con-
test, and we made that one ourselves.
And we must admit that, as much as
most males would like the excuse for
growing a beard, there must be better
ways of celebrating an anniversary. , •
But we're still 'waiting.
Members of the town council may
not be aware of the fact but they
have a rival organization meeting
more or less regularly in the Bruns-
wick coffee shop. . This unofficial
town council has a somewhat fluid
membership, depending generally on
who is in the most need of a cup of
coffee at nine o'clock in the morning.
But it has been generally agreed that
a quorum shall consist of any four
members having one or more com-
plaints about the way the ' town is
being run... Sitting members usually
incrude Alf Lockridge, John Strong,
Jack Reavie and Bob Carbert
Other members are often standing,
because there are no seats left. .
There are no minutes, correspondence
or accounts to be passed, but they
have a lot of fun anyhow, , ,The re-
markable thing about the unofficial
town council is the dispatch with
which they conduct the matters of
business that come before them . . . .
Often a decision is forthcoming in a
matter of five minutes, on a subject
that has been plaguing the regular
town council for a couple of months.
Perhaps its the early hour that makes
the unofficial members so sharp... Or
perhaps it's the fact that they have
to get back to work and can't afford
to linger too long .... Maybe the reg-
ular town council should try meeting
at the Brunswick, too.
The Winghs.in Advance-Tines, Wednesday, AugUst 5th, 1953
DON'T BOTHER TO VOTE
Personally, we're a bit tired of this vote-as-you-like,
but-vote routine. It's too much like leading a horse to
water.
We're convinced that the most important half of the
electorate—the intelligent half—is already exercising its
franchise. These are the people who control the destiny of
Canada, and for our money they're doing a reasonable job
of it. We doubt if the presence at the polls of the numb-
skull half—the non-voters—would improve the situation
any,
If you. don't "take any interest in politics"; if you
don't care who runs the country; if you like to beef but
don't like to do anything about it; if you don't realize the
importance of voting; if you're just too darned lazy to get
out on August 10th to mark "X" on a ballot—
Don't bother to vote, Your vote wouldn't be worth
the ballot paper, anyhow. * * *
FALLEN HEROES
Down in Lower Wingham there's a memorial gate-
-way to the "Fallen Heroes of Turnberry Township". It
was built some twenty-five years ago by the Women's In-
stitute as a tribute to those from the township who fell in
the First Great War.
Twenty-five years ago it must have been a gracious
tribute to the fallen heroes, But not any more. The letters
of the inscription have fallen out one by one, and what
used to be the entrance to a park is now the entrance to a
scuffy-looking, weed-ridden pasture. To any stranger it
would seem that those who had fallen had also been for-
gotten,
A memorial park is a fine tribute to fallen heroes—one
of the finest tributes possible, in our way of thinking. But
if it can't be kept in proper shape, better do away with it
altogether.
The last time we mentioned this subject we had a
hasty reply from Turnberry Township to assure the public
that the township no longer owns the property. However,
private or public, the remains of the sign above the mem-
orial gate should be removed.
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BOOSTERS NEEDED
According to a story that is going the rounds, a west-
ern Ontario town got a million-dollar industry because a
eservice station attendant was a booster.
:fAtit•lals that an official of the company who was
looking for a suitable site stopped in for gas. He asked
the attendant what he thought of his town,. and got such
an enthusiastic reply that the official decided to investi-
gate further. Eventually the company decided to lOcate
there on the strength of his investigations.
True or not, the story illustrates a point. And it
'raises a question, too. What would the official's reactions
have been in Wingham? * * *
WHAT'S IN A NAME ?
Doubtless with an eye to publicity, several towns and
cities have added an extra "handle" to their given names.
'Thus London is the "Forest City", Guelph the "Royal
City", Stratford the "Friendly City". Toronto is known
by several nicknames, the most popular with non-Toron-
tonians probably being "Hogtown", of doubtful value for
publicity purposes. The town of St. Marys is known as
"Stonetown", and in addition boldly bills itself as "The
Town Worth Living In". Closer to home, the village of
Lucknow is familiar as "The SepoY Town".
Nicknames for towns, if flattering, are often of value
in publicising the town. If the nickname is apt or the
slogan catchy the traveller will remember it a lot longer
than a bare sign reading "Wingham Pop. 2661".
Perhaps our town could use a nickname and a slogan.
Has anyone any ideas?
AXES TO GRIND
John 0. Public's self-esteem would shoot up like a
rocket if he only knew about all the people who are trying
to get his attention. Most of these people are organiza-
tions for the prevention of propagation of something or
other, and they indulge in what is known as iSublic rela-
tions or just plain publicity, Their principal target is John
Q. Public, but in order to hit him they first take aim-at
the editor of Mr. Public's newspaper.
Each day we have twenty or thirty letters from peo-
ple with axes to grind. They all contain propaganda for
some cause, often anonymous. And they all want the same
thing—free space in the paper.
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NO TOWN FORUMS?
A European visitor in America is reported to have
said that the thing America needs most is the sidewalk
cafe. Americans, he said, (Sand Canadians, too) have no-.
where to sit and watch the world go by, angl nowhere to
gather to discuss their problems.
The local pubs in England are examples of the type of
'forum where citizens can voice their opinions informally.
And they have probably had as much to do with the vigor-
ous democracy in that country as any of its more staid
institutions.
In this part of the country, where such things as pubs
Are mentioned only in whispers, perhaps we should go hack
-to the old coffee shop for our town forums.
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