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NEW EQUIPMENT WORKINQ WELL
It has been interesting to observe the' innovation
in railway equipment which has been operating be-
tween Owen Sound and Toronto for, several weeks,
The new units, we understand, are. generally referred
to as Budd ears, and are a type of self-propelled diesel
passenger and express car,
Among those who have been seriously concerned
about the changes contemplated in railway service,
many have suggested. the use of such cars on the
branch lines in this part of Ontario, where the Canad-
ian National Railway contends that operating deficits
are too high. The operation of the new cars in and
out of Owen Sound is therefore more than ordinarily
.interesting to people in this area.
First reports of the new equipment indicated that
considerable time had been lopped off the run from
the Georgian Bay city. to Toronto. If this faster
schedule can be maintained 'there is indeed plenty of
hope for the feeder lines which criss-cross rural On-
tario, We know of many business men, including
ourselves, who would gladly take the train'to the city
for a day if the trip could be made in reasonable time,
It is no longer any joy to fight one's. way through
heavy traffic into and out of the city by car — and the
adtomobile is just ,about useless as a means of travel
in the city, due to parking problems.
Apparently the new diesel equipment can be op-
erated at much higher speeds over present rail lines
because it is lighter. It has the added advantage of
fast Pick-up after stops so that there is far less delay
along the way, 'With comfortable seats and an en-
gineer to do the worrying, we would be happy to
travel by train when a day in Toronto becomes neces-
sary. More particularly, the return trip in the even-
ing, after a trying day in the rush of the city would
give one a chance to relax.
It must be admitted that passenger trains have
been operating on our local linesmith virtually ,no pas-
sengers for several years, but it could be that con-
ditions have changed to such an extent that the rail-
Ways will be coming back into their own before king.
Our cities are growing in size and consequently the •
movement of traffic becomes more difficult each year.
No one thinks of driving his .own car to work in New
YdrIc City and the same may soon become true of
Toronto.
,Naturally the old type steam powered locomo-
tives will never stand 'a chance Ito carry the passenger
traffic, but it would seem that if railway workers can
be convinced of the wisdom of permitting smaller
crews on lighter equipment, there may be a chance to ,
maintain the rail service which no one in this area
wants to lose.
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CHILDREN NOT POPULAR TENANTS
Ofie''of the least likea.ble -types we know is the
property owner who wants tO* rent a home or apart-
ment but stipulates "no children". According IO the
letter of the law he has the right to choose only ten-
ants without youngsters, but in the eyes of his fellows
his stature seems pretty small.
Be it said, of course, that there are isolated cases
where accommodation is not suitable for children and
then the landlord is justified, but frequently it is a
simile matter of a property owner-who wants only
quiet couples and no scratches on the stairs. Again,
we have all known families who have.so little/regard
for other people's property that their youngsters
would be a menace to any decent home.
When, however, new citizens arrive in our town
and spend weeks searching 'for a place to live, only
to be met with refusal because they have families,
the whole situation is frustrating to say the le2ist. One
of the finest aspects of the construction of the homes
in the Hillcrest section was the fact that large families
were given. preference.
Somehow this stipulation "no children" seems to
fall into the same category as "no dogs" — but few
of us feel inclined to give our children away or take
them to the Humane Society.
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FARM ORGANIZATIONS STRONGER
THAN EVER
This is the season of the year when various farm
organizations, notably the various levels of the Feder-
ation of Agriculture, hold their annual meetings and
'make plans for the next twelve months. Soon, not
only township rederatioris, but those of the counties
and the provincial body will gather to review the
accomplishments of the past year and to discuss with
intense interest the future, as far as it can be foreseen.
For several years we have attended the annual
meeting of the Ontario Federation in Toronto and
never fail to come away with a keen sense of the
f.,vita,lity of the organization. Only a few years ago
farm people, were without any body of representative
nature to provide a ground' for discussion or a voice
to the rest of the nation. Today the Federation has
:become one of the most powerful and respected
groups in the DoMinion of Canada,
Re-reading editorials we penned ten or twelve
1!Yearg ago we have, been please to note that the •or-
reatized farm groups have followed a trend which we
trongly advised at that time. They have forsaken
'Me unhappy cry' that farmers weren't getting a fair
break. Rather they now deal with their own problems
u"ts important business men- whom the rest of the
tion simply cannot afford to ignore
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Symmetry of willow trees anelawater composes a truly 'beautiful scene -as one • (mks north along the mill
race in Lower Wingham toward the . dam, This particular corner of the town is especially attractive in
the tall months as well as in the early spring,
Reminiscing
during the war, was macTo by
firm of elocis.makers calk d 'peat,
Descendants of the . men Who
made it still have the' job of
oiling It !and keeping it in refuel
War Cry,
ECLIPSN EXFLAINED
A total eclipse of the moon is
due on 'Saturday, November 174,1b
and, the Book ,of nneW1000 4-• e
plains simply how it comes about,.
An eclipse is really caused b),k
shadow, With an eclipse tho
moon, the moon might be consider'o
eel as a screen which reflects the
light of the sun, but the rneOn gets
In the earth's shadow and Is thereby
lib:A:tort out for the time being,-
In an eclipse of the sun, the.
moon comes directly between 'the.
earth and the sun, It is never
quite big enough to cover the sun
entirely and there is always
of sunlight around. the Mitside of
the moon's shadow,
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make the elm* go faster by one-
Marvel
fifth of a second per day.' This
People buy The 'Advance-Tirnea
of time-keeping, whose to read' and read T ,. he Advance
ohhhea Were so badly mi ssed Times to buy, •
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FALL
October •29 to November 3
A full week of SPECIALS liou cannot ,
afford to miss!
BATHROOM SCALE $595 .• 250 lb. capacity - a year guarantee
• $1.50 value al° 14°2.50 val. $ 1 *794.00 val. $2,;50 BILLFOLDS WIG,
COCOANUT OIL SHAMPOO 39c 8 oz. - reg. 49e
Cold'Cream SOAP 9
Bath size-reg. 2 for 25o 6,!' for
- ° COMBS
2 Bobby, 2 Pocket, 1 find', 1 Dressing
DRESSER .SETS .
Brush, Comb Sz Mirror fir lined box
ENVELOPES
JP
Packet ,of 20,- regularly,100
FLASHLIGHT.
Sturdy metal case; prefocussed spotlight
FLOOR WAX
Easi-Gless Paste Way - 1 lb. tin, reg,•53e
$3.29
$3.'98
$1.29
$1.69
59c
Ladies' BEAUTY KIT
7-row Hair Brush, Nail Brush, Comb & Man. Kit
Men's MILITARY KIT
8-row Military Brush, Nail BrUsh .Ss Comb
MILK of MAGNESIA
16, 22 oz. - reg. 35e, 60n
MINERAL OIL
Heavy Grade - 16,, 40 oz. reg
PAPER NAPKINS
White - Box of 70 - reg. 17e
34 grain
SACCHARIN Tablets '
3 grain F.17c, 49c, 79c
23c, 12 fur
6
8c,2
$3.98,
$1.29
for l9c
$4.98
for 15c
49c
HEATING PAD
3-heat switch - soft, blanket cover, guaranteed
HOT WATER BOTTLE
Guaranteed 'tor 2 years reg. $1.79
,IDAMALT '
Ext. of Malt &; MO-1,2,4 lb. j„,,,s 59c9 98c,
IDASAL TABLETS
Relief for Irea.daelie 300's, reg. 89c
39c'
Halibut Liver OIL , 89c, $1.69 Capsules, 100's, 250's, 500's ,
$1.98
in case $1.9$'
29c, 49c
55e, 410 ,,,,, „ 43c, 87c
15c 2 co, 29c'
PLAYING CARDS
Double Deck, Plastic-coated; $2.50 value $1.98
SACCHARIN T'ablets .I7c, 49c 9 - 59c -
Badger & bristle mitre a $4.00 value 10,08h ,,,,,, $2.98
SHAVING CREAM
litegUlat 49e tithe lather cream
TOILET TI$SUE
IAA. 'team. - '750-sheet roll, reg. '2 for me
TOOTH PASTE
Save Mei Reg, 75c tribe 1'.n.& paste
WASH CLOTHS
12 melt square Terry Cloth • 2110 value , ,,,,, , „
8c, 2
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79c
25c.
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The Bible Tedag Y uftev. G. P. Parson, B.A.
The lowly, despised hodge-podge
of English and Malayan dialect
known as "Pidgin English", spoken
by generations of Smith Sea traders
and natives, is one or the latest
forms of speech into Which the
Bible will be translated and print-
ed.
"Pikonini bilong God", is the
way "Jesus Christ, the Son of God",
is described in this Bible. St,
Mark's Gospel, because of its
compactness will be the first por,
tion published, Its -title becomes
"Guid nuis Mark I raiturn", which
literally means, "Good news Mark
he wrote it".
This Bible is designed to be used
among thousands of natives of
Papua and New Guinea, who speak
501 different languages. Although
Pidgin is despised by linguists as a
jargon, it is the only language
SIXTY YEARS AGO
• Mr. G. W. Cline war in Kincar-
dine on Monday, where he took
part in the Presbyterian entertain-
ment,
John Linklater is moving into
the residence lately occupied by
John Bell, who recently moved to
Southampton.
Mr. Ranks, of Ayr, Ontario, has
taken charge of the practical de-
partment in Gracers Undertak-
ing and Upholstering shop.
A fire in the Queens Hotel on
Tuesday evening caused' a stir
among, the citizens :for few- mom-
ents. It is supposed to have origin-
ated from a match being thrown
upon a curtain. The flames were
extinguished before the firemen
could get the hose cart out. Dam-
age $35, On Tuesday, Walter
Hawde, of Turnberry met with 'a
painful accident. He was ettgaged
in sawing a maple tree that had
slivered at the butt. When one part
had been cut it sprung together
catching Mr, Hawde's leg and held
him• as in a trap. The slivered
part had to be chopped 'Before he
could be released. The result was a
bad bruise but fortunately no bones
were broken.
Beattie Bros. have some of the
material on. the ground to remodel
their livery barn. They will begin
operations in the spring when they
Will raise the barn five feet and
put stone work under the entire
length, The stabling and the box,
stalls will be in the basement, and
part of the space occupied now by
the stabling will be Used _for a
mow and the rest for' additional
carriage room,
One of those interesting events
which cause s'o much eXciternent
happened Tuesday evening, Octo-
ber 27th, at the residence of TVfr,
Haslarta telgrava, when his daugh-
ter, Miss Carrie, and 4r. James
Haugh, of 'Wingham, were united
hi marriage. The 'ceremony was
performed by Hey, Higley,
FORTY )JARS AGO •
The annual Meeting of the Wing-
ham General. Hospital shareholders
Was held in, the Town Hall on Mon-
day evening with the president, R.
Clegg, presiding, The reports pre.,
seated showed that for 'the year
ending -September 30th, the hospital
had had the most successful year
in the history of the institution.
There were more patients treated
than in .any previous year. The year
Was eloped with a cash balance
and this in the face of •the fact
that tie donations <were asked from
the public during the year.
The Hoard of .Direetors Was re-
eleated follows.. ft, Clegg, A.
McLean, V'anstone, :Or., A. J.
/twirl, Dr. a neamorka, .or.
P. ltennedy, Smith, T, C.
ging, IL D. Elllett, A. H. Mus-
grove and W, Mcltibbnn were
reoeleeted ag anditOra.
On Monday evening of last week
Mr. Robert Sturdy, one of Huron'S
pioneers, died at the age of eighty,
six.
Mr. Sturdy bad lived for the Past
time in the vicinity of Dungannon,
Previous 'to this he resided in West'
Wawanosh on farm near St. Hel-
ens,
Rev. and Mrs. J. F. Dingman
were taken by suipriSeUn Tuesday
evening when about.60 members of
the Baptist Church presented them'
with a good supply of vegetables,
groceries, etc.
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TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO "
Mr. William Isbister; atone time
Reeve of Wingham, called on
friends in Goderich on Wednesday
of this week, He will celebrate his
91st, birthday next week.
Keen interest is being shown iu
the Chamber of 'Commerce play
"Safety First" which has been or-
ganized under the leadership of
Gar et Baker to add to the grow-
ing funds for an X-ray machine
for the Wingham General Hospi-
tal, •Col. B. Pettigrew, of Mildmay,
has perfected a burglar and fire
alarm and that looks to he Unbeat-
able, He is busy selling and install-
ing these in Western Ontario, and
it looks to be a good money-maker
On Friday evening, November 6,
the Wingham L.O,L. No. 791 will
as well as filling a long felt want.
hold a Past Masters' night in con-
nection with the regular monthly
lodge meeting. Addresses will be
delivered by prornineat local
Orangemen and refreshments will
be served.
Mr. John McMichael, local agent
for the Prudential Insurance Com-
pany took in the week-end fishing
trip for agents of the Stratford
division, on Friday and Saturday.
The ladies of the Women's Insti-
tute are holding an opening meet-
ing in the Council Chamber on
Thursday evening, October 29th,
with Mr, A. H. Musgrove as guest
Speaker.
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FIFTEEN YEARS AGO
One reason that the War Savings
Certificate Campaign here is get-
ting along so well is due to the fact
that four factories are pledged 109
percent. They are Western Foundry
Lloyds, Fry and 13Iackhall and
Howson's Mill, This- means that
every employee is' doing his or her
share; to put the campaign here'
over the top and More important
still do their part to help defeat
Hitler.
The High School Literary Sod.
lety held its Meeting of the fall
term Friday afternoon. The prti,.
,grantine eerisitited of a piano duet
by Elaine Walsh acid Evelyn Wil-
Sena a talk on Army Life by till
tkecroft; duet by Dorothy
ton and Lois Bateetm; readhig,
Of the Journal by EvelYri
the editor.:
The tilltd Witighain Bolt Nita
draw for this season took place
Saturday night, These •SatUrday
night dre,Ws 'have been apordlOred
by the Bank Nite Merthants hiride
the first Week in IViay,
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WHY IS BM DEN
SO FAMOUS?
A thing few people 'know about
pig lien, is that it is the second
clock to be built on the site of
the Palace of Westminster, in
T minion, England. In the time
of Edward I X a clock tower was
MA in the courtyard across
from the entrance to Westminster
Hall, and from 1371 onwards
there are various, accounts of the
cost qt repairs and upkeep of
the clock as well :as paymept for
the keeper of the King's (,lock,
At the end of the 17th century
this clock and tire tower that
housed it were allowed to tafall
into disrepair, Big Ben was built
during the reign of Queen 'Victoria.
'It was.. this .memory of this old
clock that inspired Pugin and
Barry to build a tower for a
new one 'arid what a Wonderful
eleelt Big Ban is, It has been
going' without mishap for nearly
a hundred years, and it has been
'described as the final perfec-
tian .of the clockwork turret
clock 'before electrically driven
clocks came into Use For eon,
trary to some opinions, Big, Ben
is not an electric clock. After
nearly a century of, hard work
its daily variation is less than a
few teriPs of a Second.
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Remarkable Mechanism . .
Close up it is r an astonishing
sight. The great bell, on Width
the hours are struck, Is nine feet
in diameter, and weight thirteen
and a half tons. The four dials of
the clock are twenty-two and a
half feet across, and the minute
marks .round the outer edge, are
one foot apart, The movement
of the ..elock is ,housed in a room
ing a pig, shooting a deer, salting
down fish, stacking vast piles of.
firewood and hustling his wheat
to the, mill.
It must rot his Celestial socks td
look down and see his grandson
hunting deer -for a holiday, buying
his pig pre-cooked at the meat
counter and laying in his fuel by
picking up the phone and calling
the oil dealer,
And 'what about Granny? In her
day, fall was the, time when you
worked like a beaver, Making sau-
sage, putting eggs away in water-
glap, spinning Wool, storing fruit
and 'Vegetables and making candles
and soap, st
She must do a little quiet cuss:
ing in the shadow of her halo
when she sees her granddaughter
bravely' facing up to the rigors of
winter, racked by the horrible in-
decision of whether to buy a home li
freezer or a fur coat, ,
But Of course, that's only, look-
ing at one side of the situation.
Your grandparents and mine had
their troubles in the fall, but the
only cellar my grand-daddy , had
was a root cellar. And it wasn't
full of, water. Nor did he have to
struggle up the cellar stairs with
great buckets of wet ashes. Nor
did he have to get up on a ladder
in a biting fall breeze and try to
hang storm windows that fitted
perfectly last spring but had in-
creased in size about half an inch
all the way around since then.
And Granny didn't have to cope
with, a kitelienful Of machinery,
kids who were smarter than she
was, and the late.movie on TV like
her granddaughter . does.
Glandclad didn't have tb worry
about anti-freeze, atom bombs, in-
come 'tax or payments\ on the car,
Granny didn't need sleeping pills,
cigarettes or psychology.
Say, come to think of it, those
WERE the good old days. They
didn't have much, but what they
had was their own, not the finance
,company's. No auto accidents, no
Alcoholies'Arionymons, no aspirin.
Let's stop worrying about the hard-
ships of our pioneer ancestors and
get back to sweating over our own
neurotic chaos,
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fir
below .the dials, and the oloelt is
driven by weights hung on steel'
ropes. that descend through the
floor -into a weight shaft,. that;
ratio down the whole length • of
tho tower,
The clock used to. he wound
by hand, three amps a Week. In
these modern times the clock as
wound by an electric motor, Big
)3en is a pendulum. clock. Its pen,,
dulum (which. has . an effective
length. of something over thir-
teen feet) heats intervals of two
seconds at each swing, which
means that the hands. On the dial,
move on a little every two seconds.
A special device; called a gra-
vity escapement keeps the pea-
(whim swing at this constant
speed" and the hands moving at
this constant speed too, in face of
high. winds, heavy snow aceurm/-
lations and such things as flanks
of roosting, starlings.
So finely adjusted- is the time-
keeping of , the penduied, that
the addition of a half-penny to
a Special flange on the upper
part of the pendulum rod will
SUliAR AND SPICE
By Bill Smiley ,
Uo youn ,like fall? I do. For me,
it's Canada's most glorious season.
I know that,' according to the
rhythm of nature, it's supposed to
be 'a time of dying, of melancholy,
of preparation for the deep, dead
sleep of winter.
Maybe humans are just contrary,
but they don't react In the way
they're supposed to, at all in the
fall, Instead of cautiously prepar-
ing for winter, draWing in their
horns and going around with long
faces, they bust out all over as,
soon as that October nip creeps ,
into the air. Which it dia;early• in
September, this rear.
Maybe they're just tooling them..,
selves, .but people act as though:
they love the fall. They come • to
life. They bustle, They form com-
mittees, make plans. Perhapt it's
jyst a last hysterical fling, with
the grim visage of six months'
Winter lurking over their shoulders
but they certainly fiddle while
Remo burns.
Where is the earnest household-
er who should be thinking up the
nooks and crannies, getting in his
fuel !supply, putting on the storm
Windews and battening all hatthee
for the bitter struggle with winter
that *looms ahead?
I'll tell you where he is on his
day off. liQ'3 standing in icy water
nearly up to the tops of his waders
trying to catch a rainbow trout.
Or he's squatted in a duck blind,
blowing happily on his hands, Or
he's out on the golf course, so
bundled with sweaters he can
hardly swing. 9r he's sitting with
a noggin, welching the football
game on, television. That's where
he is.
And where's the good wife , who
should be knitting woollen socks,
putting away preserves and canned
meat, airing the flannelette sheets
and patching the -family's long
underwear?
• I'll tell you where she is. She's
on the phone, talking about what
she's going to wear to the tea. Or
she's. off in' the car to attend a
wedding. Or she's out Playing
bingo. Or she's sitting around with
her feet up, Watching "I Love
Lucy". That's where she is.
It must shake our pioneer an-
cestors rigid to look down, or up,
from their present abode and see
us preparing for winter, About this
time of year, grandfather was kill-
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common to all natives of the South
Pacific Islands.
The British and Foreign Bible
Soblety in Australia which has
translated part or all of the Bible
into 55 different languages for New
Guinea, Papua, the' Soloman Is-
lands, and New Hebrides will now
for the first time use Pidgin to
tell the story of Christianity in
print.
It will be remembered that the
New Testament first appeared in
the "Koine", or common tongue
Greek, •
Suggest readings for the week
Sunday, Philippians 3:1-21; Mon-
day, 2 Timothy, 1:1-18; Tuesday, 2
Timothy. 2:1-26; Wednesday, 2
Timothy 3:1-17; Thursday, 2 Timo-
thy, 4:1-22; Friday, Titus, 1:1-16;,
Saturday, Titus, 2;1-15.
pper. Canada Bible Society
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Twenty-Third Sunday after Trinity
Loyalty Sunday
4 8.30 a,m.—Holy Communion
11,00 a,m.—Morning Prayer Sermon
Commissioning of Visitors':
12.15 p,m.-1,unchcon for Visifors.
2.00 .p.m,--,--E,'very Member Visitation
2.30 fail,.—Church School
7,00 p.m.,—Evening Prayer iii Sermon
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ALL SAINTS DAY
Thursday, November lst
10.30 a,m, Holy Communion.
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'Thugs,, Nov, lst,• 5.30 :p.m, - 7.30',p,mY Annual
Fowl -Supper
nuts, Nov, tst----Annual Meeting.of Doany
. Cry .of Huron Chapter of . the :Brotherhood
of Anglican Churchmen,
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