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THE FINAL SHARE
There has been a certain amount of discussion
Amongst some of the municipal councils on the question of
paying their share of the cost of the new hospital wing.
One or two of the councils have insisted on checking the
figures in order to make sure, we presume, that they
aren't being overcharged. At least one council talked
about contributing, but contributing less than their assign-
ed share.
A free and open discussion on the question of spend-
ing money is the prerogative of every community,
this matter is being discussed, however, let us hope that
these gentlemen will remember two things.
First that the hospital their people now use so freely,
was made possible almost entirely by the generosity of the
people of Wingham. And secondly, that in this drive to
raise funds for the new wing, the final share will in all
probability, also be borne by Wingham. For there is
little doubt that if the total amount is not raised on the
pro rata basis, the people of Wingham will again be called
upon, to make up the balance.
40 M. P. H.
For a new experience in driving pleasure along the
highways, the jaded motorist is advised to try the 40-mile-
an-hour cure. For today's jangled nerves and-incipient
ulcers it's hard to beat.
The system is simple. All you do is lean back,in the
driver's seat, relax, and let your foot rest lightly on the ac-
celorator. You'll find motoring becomes more of a pleas-
ure and less of a grind.
If the other guys want to pass, let them. You aren't
really in a hurry, anyhow. Neither are they, if they only-
knew it. They'll get there ten minutes sooner, perhaps, but
they'll be worn out before You are.
Never noticed the country looked so beautiful, did
you? Of course at seventy all you really see is an ex-
tended blur. And the old jalopy's purring along like a
sewing machine, instead of snarling away like a two-
engine jet. It's like being chauffeur-driven.
Never mind the safety angle, or the wear and tear
on the car. Travelling at forty for a change is kind of
fun, isn't it?
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MAN'S BEST FRIEND
'The subject of dogs at large has been a matter of dis-
cussion at several of the town council meetings during the
last few months, and the whole thing- is still ,a bone of
contention between dog owners and others.
We doubt if the subject merits all that attention.
Man's best friend may upset a few garbage cans, or howl
in the night occasionally, or mess up the streets once in a
while. But unless these things reach alarming propor-
tions, which is doubtful, it would seem to us that there
are other things more pressing for the council to discuss.
On the other hand dog owners should control their
pets so that there can he no complaints about their behav-
iour. If they would do that, there would he no need for
all this talk about by-laws, pounds and dogcatchers.
AS OTHERS SEE US
In ,a letter to the editor, published last week, a visitor
in Wingham complained of the inadequate conditions in
the town park. She mentioned particularly the absence of
swings and teeter-totters and the acute shortage of park
benches.
We agree with the lady. A park without benches
isn't a park, it's just a large grass plot. And a park with-
out swings probably doesn't rate with the kiddies, as a
park, either.
The Kinsmen wen; to considerable trouble and ex-
pense to build the wading pool in the park. Surely some
one else can take up the torch and put the rest of the place
in shape.
11 Tom
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SUMMER VISITORS
This is the season of the year when our city friends
suddenly realize the advantages of the small town, and
flock with their children to pay us a visit„It's open season,
.and anyone who lives within sight of the country is consid-
ered fair game.
Some of the more nasty-minded of us are apt to
have our doubts as to the kind of friendship involved in
summer visiting. For there are certain indications that
our urban friends are more interested in us, during the
summer than at other times of the year.
Wintertime, "when blood be nipp'd and ways he four',
is the testing time. If our friends visit us then, it's a case
of true friendship,
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REMINISCING
FORTY YEARS AGO
Miss Grace Greer is visiting with
Mrs. Thos, Leaky at Palmerston.
Miss May Davidson, of Wroxeter, is
visiting for a few days with Wingham
friends,
Miss Edna Gannett returned from
Dunnville. where she has been spend-
ing her vacation.
Miss Mary Pattison visited on Fri-
I day with her sister, Mrs. Thos, Leaky,
of Palmerston.
Mr. and Mrs. Abner Cosens and
daughter, Miss Mary Cosens, are away
on a two weeks visit to Machinac Is-
land, Michigan.
Miss Jessie Wilson, who has been
spending her holidays with her par-
ents, Mr. and Mrs. Gavin Wilson, of
Turnberry, left this week to resume
her duties on the nursing staff of the
Sick Children's Hospital, at Toronto.
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TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO
Six rinks from Wingham paid Luck-
now bowlers a visit, W. A. Miller and
J. Mason carried off first prize, A. Wil-
son and A. C. Coombs took second,
while Lucknow team got third,
Mrs. S. Dicola, of Renfrew and Mrs.
Caruso, of Ottawa, are the guests of
Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Bondi this week.
Miss Flo Fleuty and Miss Mary
Casemore are visiting with friends at
Arcadia Lodge, near Huntsville.
Mr. and Mrs. C. Gregory and two
sons, Keith and Paul, spent the week-
end at the home of Mrs. F. Buchanan,
Carling Terrace.
Miss Kathleen Pringle has returned
from spending a short holiday at
Strathroy and Wallaceburg.
Mr. and Mrs. Jack Swan and fam-
ily, also Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Swan
visited with Mr. and Mrs. Robt. Deyell,
over Sunday.
Miss May Allen and Miss Marjorie
Gurney have returned from a holiday
trip on the Great Lakes.
Mr. and Mrs. J. W. McKibbon re-
turned on Saturday from a trip to
Boston Mass.
Miss Helen Beattie and Miss Eurith
Campbell are visiting in Bayfield at
the home of Mr. A. E. Irwin.
Miss Margaret Copeland is holiday-
ing at Oshawa and Bowmanville.
Mr. R. A, Currie has added to his
funeral equipment the latest thing in
funeral cars.
Miss-Dorothy Aitken, of Bluevale,
is spending her vacation in Toronto.
W. J. Greer, secretary of Wingham
Fall Fair, has been informed that
Hon. J. S. Martin, Minister of Agri-
culture in the Provincial Cabinet, has
promised to officially open the fall fair
on Wednesday, October 10th.
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FIFTEEN YEARS AGO
Misses Ivey and Winnifred Fuller
who have visited for the past five
weeks with their uncle, Mr. Fred Ful-
ler, Charles St., sailed on Saturday on
the Empress of Britain for their home
in London, England,
Mrs. Ernest Lewis is in Niagara
Falls attending the Florists' Conven-
tion which is being held, concluding
today.
Mrs. A. P.. DuVal, Mr. and Mrs. W.
H. French and Mr. C. 11. McAvoy were
the golfers from Wingham, who Wit-
nessed the Canadian Amateur Golf
Championship Finals between Sandy
Somerville, of London, and Ted Ad-
ams, of Missouri, at the London Hunt
Club on Saturday.
An enjoyable evening was spent at
Currie's School on Friday evening,
when the members of the Jolly Time
Literary Society held a reception in
honour of the recent marriage of Mr.
and Mrs. Ed. Marsh. They were pre-
sented with a kitchen shower in ivory
and green enamel and the boys of Cur-
rie's hockey team, of which Ed. was a
member gave them a Leautiful clock.
The members of the Alps Golf Club
held an enjoyable dance on Thursday
evening at the Golf course, Music was
supplied by Bill, Pete and Shorty,
Mr.. Herb Fuller spent the holiday
week-end in Toronto.
Mr.• and Mrs, Omar Haselgrove
spent the week-end in London.
Miss Margaret Davidson of Hamil-
ton, is spending a few weeks with her
cousin, Mrs. W. J. Henderson.
Mr. and Mrs. Wright and daughter,
of Hamilton, spent the week-end with
his sister, Mrs. C. N. Merkley.
Guests at the home of Mrs. J. W.
Dodd were: Mrs. John Bowden and
daughter, Irene of Brantford, and Mr.
Bruce Vogan, of Arnprior.
A Walk
Through Town
There have been rumors around the
district for almost a month now that
the police m this area are just about
to descend on an alleged dope ring,
which is rumoured to have been oper-
ating in the Blyth area. Nothing
has happened yet, and we were all
waiting for something to break on the
case. • .Now it appears that there was
nothing in the story after all. The
Goderich Signal-Star went to consid-
erable trouble to track down the rum-
ors, which by the time they had reach-
ed that far, had been magnified con-
siderably. According to the talk in
Goderich, people from the Auburn,
Blyth and Wingham areas were invol-
ved in a dope-peddling ring in which
even high school students were impli-
cated. , . The most the Signal-Star
reporters could get on the case was
an admission that investigations
"have been going on."
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Raising money from public funds
rather than by public subscription
isn't as easy as you might think, as
witness the hospital. . .While nobody
has come out and said they won't
support the new wing, there have been
certain reservations on the part of
some of the councils. . . . A couple of
them wanted to check the figures to
make sure they weren't being over-
charged. , . , And one council was talk-
ing about paying part of their share
instead of the pro-eata figure. . . . If
everybody decided to set their own
figure, it isn't hard to see what the
end would be.
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Joe Clark's 17-pound whopper trout
out of Gillies Lake seems to have put
the chill on all the local fish stories
I we used to hear. . . Or maybe the
season is too far advanced, . Anyhow,
there isn't much to report on the fish-
ing front these days . . Frank Cask-
anette caught some nice ones up at
Silver Lake, including a 3-pound bass,
and no worms, either, he says, . Art
Furness reports getting seven trout
to the north of town last week, in
spite of the fact that trout aren't bit-
ing these days, . And Bill Henderson
seerns .to. be 'having luck with Matt-
land bass in the neighbourhood,
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Jack Welker reports, on a traffic
jam he got involved in between Barrie
and Orillia over the week-end, Took
him .21;4 hours to .go from one to the
other—a matter or abolut twenty miles.
The traffic was bumper to bumper all
the way, . Jack 'never did find out
what was the cause of it all, but figur-
es that the traffic light in .Orillia was
holding up cars leaving Barrie. , „
Trouble with that district is that there
44 three good highways from Toronto
to Barrie, all funnelling into the road
from Barrie to Cortina.. , One nice
thing about this district is that when
you want to go somewhere, you simply
get in your car and drive there,
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People who frequent the stock car
races at Port Elgin report that a cur-
ious change comes over ordinary, re-
spectable motorists after they have
watched the stock cars going through
the hoops, .. Seems that they undergo
a metamorphosis from Which they
emerge thinking that they're stock car
drivers themselves. . Result is that
when it comes time to go home the
parking lot is full of the sound of
roaring, snarling motors, jack-rabbit
starts and screeching brakes. And the
highways leading from Port Elgin be-
come dirt tracks for the fans to prac-
tice their driving skill on . . . It is re-
ported that the stock ear drivers
themselves are quite happy to wait un-
til everybody else has gone home.
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Over at the Brunswick, the unof-
ficial town council went into session'
and came up with some remarkable
facts on the parking situation. . . the
members conducted an on-the-spot
survey of the number of merchants
who parked all day on the main street,
including themselves, and by actual
count figured out that the whole shop-
ping section of Josephine Street, from
Victoria to Patrick, is taken up every
morning by the merchants, before the
farmers even have time to get into
town. . -One of the more irate mem-
bers said he didn't mind merchants
parking in front of their stores, but
objected strenuously when other mer-
chants parked in front of his, . . Es-
pecially when he parks out the back.
While reporting their findings prom-
ptly, the unofficial council bogged
down on the question of what should
be done about it... After a heated dis-
cussion on parking meters, chalk
marks, two hour parking, public ap-
peals and twenty-five dollar fines,
the meeting broke up in disorder.
_SOIL TESTING SHOULD
BE DONE NOW FOR FALL
Farmers who would like to have
their soils tested before planting fall
wheat or treating pasture and hay
crops this fall should take soil samples
now, and send them to the Soils De-
partment, Ontario Agricultural Col-
lege, Guelph.
Soil boxes and instructions for tak-
ing soil samples can be obtained free
of charge from the offices of agricul-
tural representatives, or — from the
Soils Department, 0, A. C. The ques-
tionairre on the back of the instruc-
tion sheet should be filled out, and
samples must be taken according to
directions in order that the soil test
may have any value.
BOX 473
of any official information to the con-
trary, we assume the town is ready to
pay 25% of the cost, which I under-
stand would be $50,000.00 for Wing-
ham!
While the writer holds a definite
opinion with regard to the amount the
town of Wngham should contribute to
his scheme, it is not in that connection
I wish to comment. I feel that regard-
less of whether it is a Hospital Area
Plan, School Area Plan, Sewage Dis-
posal Plant or any other project in-
volving the expenditure of large sums
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of public monies, the ratepayers nave
a right to participate In these decis-
Ions by means of a vote.
It is not enough to assume that the
Public are apathetic about these mat-
ters, lack of interest may come from
a lack of information. A ratepayers'
meeting or a vote would not take so
much time as to unduly delay these
larger municipal plans, and it would
surely be presumptuous of any pub-
lic officials to avoid a public decision
on the grounds that it might be con-
trary to what is proposed,
We read in the papers of other com-
munities large and small around us
making decisions on their future
through either a vote op a ratepayers'
Meeting where large public expendi-
tures can be justified to the taxpayer.
There seems to be a growing tend-
ency of governments at every level,
local, provincial and federal, to govern
as it were, from the top down with
very little reference to John Q. Pub-
lic who foots the bills and whose dem-
ocracy is being gradually impaired
through lack of use,
yours very truly,
N. J. Aelwood
Editor's Note—The following letter
was received by Mayor DeWitt Miller.
We are publishing it in the hopes that
some of .our readers may be able to
supply the information required.
12 Biltmore Apts.
Winnipeg, Man.
Aug. 6th, 1953
To the Mayor of Wingham, Ont.
Sir:
I am striving to gain some inform-
ation, of any old-timers, who might
know my grandparents, in the person
of Mr. E. Rockey.
Some 60 or 75 years ago my grand-
father had a mill (flour) in the town
of Wingham, he had a son, in business
with him. They alSo had another large
mill, near London, Ont, (where I was
born.) Both these mills were run by
water power, and I believe, did a very
fine business. At first, the grain, was
ground by hand-pick, then the roller
mills were introduced.
We have a copy of the Wingham
Advance of March 21st, 1378 (75 years
ago) and it's not very yellow with age,
I am wondering if you still have a
weekly paper by the same name?
My grandfather sailed from Ply-
mouth, England, in a sailing vessel in
June of 1845 and came to live in
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COME AGAIN?
During the recent election campaign, while one set of
candidates was reminding us that we had just come
through the "best years of our lives", the other set was
asking if we had "had enough?"
Under the circumstances the electorate may be par-
doned if it became slightly confused.
, • le 1. s ciagremirSeemowolmorOimermeo
( CHURCH OF ENGLAND IN CANADA)
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ELEVENTH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY
8.30 a.m.—Holy Communion
11.00 a.m.—Morning Prayer & Sermon
7,00 p.m.—Evening Meditation
Pattr5 eburcb
Advance-Times,
The Editor,
Dear Sir:
We are informed in an article on the
progress of financing the new Hospital I
Wing in laSt week's issue of The Ad-
vance-Times, that "Wingham has
already signified their intention of !
going .along with the scheme," In lieu
Diver) a very pretty town as I remem-
ber it
I am wondering if you happen to,
know if any of the Reynolds family
are living yet? The girls were nearly
all red-headed, one Hattie Reynolds
played the organ in a Methodist
church, I believe. One daughter was
married and had a family. She was
much travelled, they anew the Roc-
key's.
I am getting a "Family log" tog4er
and would greatly' appreciate any in-
formation from you or any old-timer
in Wingham. Thanking you in ad-
vance, for your kindness and any in-
convenience,
I am,
Yours sincerely,
Mrs, E. W. Turner
P. S. I was a Miss Elizabeth Rockey,
a daughter of William Henry Rockey,
formerly of Wingham, born in 1846.
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