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New Building for British Mortgage and Trust co, FAITHFUL, REPORTER
MRS, WALLACE MILLER
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THE NEW British Mortgage ,a• Trust Con-many Head Office building in Stratford -will
combine a handsome design with usefulness of structure. Situated au the large south-east
corner of Ontario and Church. Streets, with tar exterior of granite, limestone mitt Oates, this •
modern office building, to be floodlit at night, will greatly enhance the appearaucte or.
Stratfolers business -district.
SHOES—SHOES—SHOES—This was the picture at one of thin roue-
ters at the Hospital Auxiliary rummage sale last Saturday afternoon as
people thronged to the armouries to take advantage of the bargains—,
in this case used footwear by the hundreds,-aAdvance-Times photo.
Goforth Auxiliary
Hears Missionary HOLD COMPETITIONS
FOR SCHOOL FAIR Irma S. Garton LIFE MEMBERSHIPS Douglas Tells Kinsmen
About Life in Russia
Wed in Leamington AUXILIARY HONORS
Irma Suzanne Garton became the Two on
:bride of Dennis Rae Siddall on
Saturday in a candle-light service
ANIZERS
Friday evening of last week was
the annual Past Presidents1 Night
at the local Kinsmen Club, which
is always a rather hillarious event
in the organization, Past Pres-
idents are in charge and the fin-
ing of members for various items
of nonsense is the order of the
day, Taking turns presiding were
past-presidents, Jack Gorbutt, Mur-
ray Stainton, Jack Walker, Cy
Robinson, Jim Currie and Al
Williams.
Former ,Resident
Dies in England.
Friends of Mr. and Mrs. Robert
Rider of Carehaltan, Surrey, Eng-
land, formerly of Wingham, will'be
saddened -to learn of the death of
Bob Rider on October '20, .1960 'at
,his residence, He had been ill for
the past two years.
Mr, Rider emigrated from Eng-
land with his family in 1948 and
settled in Lucknow, In 1940 he and
his, -family moved to Wingham,
where Mr. Rider was =played at
Edward's Garage on Victoria Street,
and also was in the employ of Joe
Kerr, until be, Mrs. Rider and
Brian returned to England in 1959
for a visit -and later settled in
Lohdon, - Ontario. ' arid Mrs.
Rider and Brian returned to Eng-
land in 1958, and shortly afterward
Mr, Rider became ill.
Mr, and Mrs. Rider and family
had made .many friends in this
community while they resided here.
They were members of. St, Paul's
Anglican Church.
Surviving are one son and one
daughter, Brian, at borne arid Mrs.
Patricia, Chorozy, St: Catharines;
one brother, Lidnel ItideseStratford,
and two grandchildren, .
With a standout attendance
figure, the club was addressed by
Vaughan Douglas, farm director
of CKNX, who spoke on his recent
trip to Russia with eight Ontario
farmers.
He explained that the group
travelled by air to Denmark, then
to Finland and on to Moscow,
After a short stay hi the capital
they were taken on a tour of farms
in the area near the Black Sea.
flu tits: return trip theyp • sev-
eral days in England and Scot-
land,
The fall Thankoffering meeting
of the -Goforth Evening Auxiliary
was held on Tuesday evening at St.
Andrew's Church with members of
the Baptist Young Women's Mis-
sion Circle as guests. The meeting
opened with the call to worship
-by the president, Mrs. Leonard
Phillips, after which everyone join-
ed in. singing "Co-me Ye Thankful
People, Come" A Psalm was read
alternately followed with an inter-
esting account by Mrs. Kenneth
MoKague, of the origin of the
Thankoffering meeting in the Wo-
men's Missionary Society. Prayer
and praise was the -purpose of the
first Thankoffering meeting.
Mrs, Jack McBurney led in pray-
er. A beautiful duet "Anywhere
With Jesus" was sung by -Misses
Betty Ann and Mary Joan Lapp. A
review of an article in the Presby-
terian Record entitled "Nigeria's
Peaceful Revolution" was given by
Mrs, Jack Lloyd. The minutes were
read and the roll call recorded by
the secretary, Mrs. Thomas Hen-
derson and -.the , offertory, prayer
str41.sda Uy I4rs. Juek Lloyd.a -A?311?la
VC:is e irg• With-each letter of
the word Thanksgiving formed an
acrostic fore the Thanksgiving
theme. "We Praise Thee .0 God"
was sung inunison and Mrs. Hazel
Hardie gave an autumn poem.
Mrs. Kenneth Leitch introduced
the special speaker, Miss Elizabeth
Webb' of the Sudan Interior Mis-
sion, missionary on furlough from
Nigeria, Africa,, andwho at present
is residing at her home in Glamis,
-Ontario, Miss Webb -began her
work in Africa as a teacher and
principal in elementary schools,
where she had colse contact
spiritually with each student. Ap-
proximately one-tenth of the town's
children attend school, She is at
present engaged as the only white
teacher of a staff of eighteen at a
senior boys' teacher training school
in Nigeria, where about 39 young
men graduate every year from a
five-year course, Upon graduation
they go out fully equipped to teach
their fellow Africans and to lead
them to Christ. Basing her talk on
Scripture Miss Webb outlined some
prayer requests for which she ask-
ed each member to pray.
The first was to pray More mis-
sionaries out to the mission harvest
field, The need is great and it is
op to us to show young people the
need. Pray that young people will
want to 'help those in the foreign
Veal that they will catch the vision
and continue to have it until they
reach the mission field as mis-
sionaries,
Travel Until-ad
performed at Leamington United
Church, by Rev. William Bell.
The bride is the daughter of Mr.
and Mrs, J. C. Garton, of Leaming-
ton, The .bridegroom is the son of
Mr. and Mrs. T. Sieldall, of Wheat-
ley.
For her marriage, the bride chose
a gown of nylon organdy, the bo-
dice in lace ,and -white sequins. A
matching lace cap of white sequins
and seed pearls held her fingertip
veil of nylon tulle and she carried
a cascade bouquet of pink roses,
white carnations and, trailing
stephanotis.
Miss Linda Fulmer, of Learning-
ton, was maid of honor, Her dress
was a moss green sheath, with
matching overskirt and bolero of
nylon organdy.
The bride's sisters, Misses Cheryl
and Durelia Garton, as brides-
maids, wore gowns matching that
of the maid of honor of sunni-gold.
Their headpieces were matching
nylon tulle -with nose veils. They
carried cascades of matching
inUMS. '
While in Russia, the speaker
said, they saw only one jet aircraft,
but ordinary air travel was very
widely used, other modes of travel
apparently being rather limited.
The country, he said, was very
beautiful, but they were impressed
by the hardships of the people in
some areas.
Raymond'Crown was best man
and seating guests were Murray
Siddall, brother of the groom, from
Brantford, Out., and Bill Crozier,
of Ayr.
Following a reception at Leam-
ington Golf and Country Club,, the
couple left for a wedding trip to
Northern Michigan.
They will reside in Dutton, Oat.
BELGRAVE—The Foresters Hall
'ens the scene on Friday evening of
the competitions for the school fair
coneera including recitations, public
apeaking and a spelling match.
Bdgar Wightman was chairman
for the program with the results
as follows:
-Recitations, Grade I and II -
Paul Grose, 16 NW; Billy de Yong,
5 Morris; Peter de Yong, 5 Morris;
(r ice McDowell, 12 NW; Gail Mc-
ennan, 8 Morris; Richard An-
derson, Belgrave, •
Recitations, beginners -Joan Mc-
Lennan, .8 Morris; Mary Anne
Wheeler, Belgrave; Sharon Cook,
6 NW; Joan Currie, 9 NW; Marion
Armstrong, 7 .EWaDwayne Currie,
9 EW,
Recitations, -Grades III and IV-- „
Judith McDowell, 13 NW; Ricky
Orr, Belgrave; Joseph Sanders, 5
Morris; Brenda Bone, 6 Morris;
Billy Fear, Belgrave; James -Gil-
(Weer, 16 FW. .
Public speaking, Grades V and
Y1-,-Panl,,wals,4.).,..5914.30,v(4;:ji,9-P.7 aid MriBerney, 6 NW; Malec Sane
-does, 5 Morris; Sharon Reavie, 'It
NW; -Gordon McMurray, 7 Morris;
Lynda Coultes, 9 NW,
Public speaking, Grades VII and
VIII—Margaret Nicholson, 5 Mor-
ris; Rees Wightman, Belgrave;
Sandra Henry, 16 NW; Peter Ma-
son, 7 'NW; Susan Clark, 8 Morris;
David Wheeler, 6 Morris. .
Spelling match Ross Wightmane
Belgrave; Mary Ellen Hallahan, 10
EW; Rosemary Cowing, 10 Mor-
ris.; Marjorie Hopper, 7 Morris;
40 nee ,Speileberg. 6 EW; Linda
isemore, 7 Morris,
-Musical numbers, two-part chorus
and triple trio numbers were en-
joyed between the classes of -com-
petitions).
Mrs. Harold Vincent presented
the awared as Edgar Wightman
called the pupils forward, •tor the
highest points in the fair, Joyce
Procter and. Ted Lutz, They also
gave out the awards for the Libr-
ary Board classes, to the follow-
, ing: Junior boys, Billy Fear, Clay-•
ton Bomar, and •Doneld 'Bosnian,
all from the Belgrave school; Jun.-
tor girls, Donna Edgar, 7 Morris;
Joyce Coultes, 9 16-W; Manna Par-
don, Belgrave; Senior girls, Joyce.
Procter, 5 Morris; Sandra Henry,
11 I6W; Maryann Phelan, 1 Morris;
Senior boys, Gordon McMurray, 7
Teton,
Ted Lutz, 6 BW; Keith
Belgrave, .
The judges for this event were
Miss Sally Slosser and D, Raper, of
the Wingham, District High School
staff, and Mis. 0, Struthers, of
Mitchell. •
During the tour the group visited
the birthplace of Stalin and a town
where he had lived as a young
man.
Goderich Minister
Is Sunday Speaker
55,000 acres per farm with any-
where from 2,500 to 3,000' people
and 150 tractors to operate the
business, Women, -he said, work
alongside the men if they want to
share in the crops. Pay for the
farm workers is about $60.00' per
month, The homes on the farms
are run down and shabby by our
standards. The state governs the
purchase of all machinery used on
the collective farms. Cars are
very scarce; and it doesn't 'matter
how much money a man may have,
It would -be necessary to apply to
the state before he could purchase
a 'car and then wait his turn to
get it. Other things such as cash
registers, lawn 'mowers, refriger-
ators and so forth, the speaker
said, are in very short supply. •
• aft. Douglae said his group .Was
very well treated and while visiting
the farming areas the food 'Was
plentiful and good, Farm produc-
tion seemed -to be on a parallel
with Canada. Be felt that Canada
would eventually trade a good , deal
more with the U.S.S.R. and. that
Canadains should learn more about
the country,
Shorts Are Out
In pointing to some of the in-
teresting sidelights of -the trip, the
epeaker said the women were never
seen in shorts or slacks, nightclubs
as we know them do not exist and
the stores are open all day Sunday.
Marriages are civil ceremonies sand
he did not hear of any divorce
cases. Very few people in Russia
leaveobtain permission to .
country, but visitors are welcome.
The Russian people are proud of
their planned economy, which the
speaker felt, had its good points as
Well .as many pitfalls.
The trip as a whole, he conclud-
ed, was most interesting with
Russia an ' exceptionally fascinat-
ing country to see .and
The speaker was introduced -by
Bill Connell and thanked by Jack
Corbett. A brief question and an-
swer period followed.
Club business was kept to a
minimum, with the decision being
rearthee to hold ladies' night at the
Formosa community centre, on
November 18th.
The club welcomed as new mem-
bers, Dave •Carneron and Bruce
Lott. Erie. Walden of Wingham
and Irwin Lobsieger of Walkerton
were guests. Al Williams and Mur-
ray Taylor Won the dab raffles.
Mr. Douglas sa id there were
many very well-kept parks for the
pnblic end thet the tour members
were allowed to take pictures of
anyt•hine !hey wantea with the ex-
ception of ran depots and air
ten/lino IS.
'nip Russian people, he said,
shower great interest in Canada
and the U.S.A. and asked particu-
larly about radio, TV arid cars in
thin reentry, The only progaganda
he heital was -directed mainly
againer the lNitrrl States. In every
city they vented the lutnurist guide
always asked them to write their
ham-es:alms of the city.
•Collective Farms
In vomit-maim with the agrictin
atria teipeet of the tour, Mr. Meg-
l ee pointed out that the. biggest
pereentege of the farms are of the
collective variety, averaging some
The regular monthly meeting of
the young Women's Evening Aux-
iliary was hold on Tuesday even-
ing at the home of Mrs. (I. Gibson,
with 30 members and two visitors
present. Invited guests were Mrs.
W, Tiffin, limeade/it of Huron
Presbyterial, and. Miss Frances
Stevenson, missionary on furlough
from Indore, India, Mrs. N. Under-
wood and Mrs, N. S. Copeland.
A very interesting report was
given on the 35th annual conven-
tion of North 'Seaton of Huron
Presbyterial W.M.S. Mutt, W. Cara
liek gave a report on the morning
session and Mrs. It. Zurbrigg on
the afternoon session.
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The call to Were/lip' was given
by Mrs. R, -Sinnamon with opening
prayer by Mrs. H. Me.EUrney, Mrs.
G, Robinson read the -Scripture.
The study book "It'h.st Stop Eur-
ope" taken from Miss Betty
Thompson's book on her trip
around the world, "firth all 'the
World Together", was given by
Mrs. 'W. (testi:eta The closing prayer
was, given by Mrs. S. Scott,
The meeting was thee turned
over to the president, Mrs. G. Gib-
son, who presided for the business.
Mrs, -Gibson, addressing Mrs.
Underwood iiucl . AIM Copeland.
epoke of their work and intereet
ten years ago in organizing the
Young Women's -Evening Auxiliary.
Mrs, Gibson asked the two ladies
to come forward and Miss Steven-
son presented cavil with a life
memberehip to Lime WMS.
On heliell of herself auk!
copeitind, Mrs, ihrleyWood thanked
Mrs. 'Gibson for tea words,. She
maid it was wish great interail. tie
bad frillowea the work male-eel ee
by the group, ilea were more than
pleavd to „pp how the group he'1
grown in membership, Mis. Under ,
wood :stated that, ten years age et
'the first meeting there were mine
young ladies pre:tone and in order
to fill every alive each gee we:;
given a jib to rim'.
A dainty lunch wart eerved
the group in Owego, after while!
Miss Steven: on dreesiel hi at beaus
tiful indian soil, moved ;Oren ea
en the women multi tee her tiami
spoke briefly on her life end iii'.
etre for reineatien In fit has for her
preaenl work. and the sjo:s 111:1
received from it:
BIOLGRA_VE - 'Special weavers-
any service was held in Knox
Presbyterian 'raiment. on Sunday af-
ternoon with - Rev. R, J. McMillan,
of Go.derich, in charge of the ser-
vice. The choir from Melville Pres-
byterian Church, Brussels, presept-
ed special music. The church was
nicely decorated with baskets of
flowers for this special event,
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Complete- Plans. for
Annual Fall Tea•
Twenty-three members of the
Wingham Kinette-Cleharmet at the
home of Mrs.- Jack Walker on
Monday evening,: Theh•president,
Mrs. Cal Burke, was in charge arid
welcomed arra Stewart Leedham to
the club, presenting her with a
Kinette pin and a set of the Kin-
etic by-laws,
Final arrangements 'were made
for the fall tea. Each, member was
asked to invite five friends .to
attend.
Mrs. Alan Williams reported, that
it accordance with the 'advice of
Mr. Madill, principal -of Wingham
District High School, the $100.00
lainette Scholarship will be -award-
ed for higheet marki in Grade
XIII as it has been in the past, and
this year will go to Miss Irene
Saint, of Wingham, by reversion.
A 'motion was made that each
kinetic pity 25e ,per meeting into
the club account to -cover -the cost
of ehaire to -be purchased for the
club's use at the Scout House,
.Mrs, Freddie 'Teniplenian .amid
Mrs, Dave Burgess gave Very in-
teresting reports on the Kinsmen
add Kinetic' fall coenell held in
Stratford, which they attended.
Mrs. Ivan Gardner Was the winner
of the evening draw,
The next meeting Will take the
form of a 'pot luck supper and
will be held at the home of Mrs.
Freddie Templeman on- November
4th.
Jean Miller; one sister, Mrs. Stan-
ley Taylor thnizabetha of Victoria,
B.C., and two brothers, 1/7 1:14,` Mul-
ler, of St. Helens, and Stuart, of
Calgary. -She was predeceased by
two brothers, Robert and Charles
Miller. ----
Happg Hostesses
At Irwin Home,
Mre. Wallace A, Miller, who has
Petted as the St, Helens eorrespone
dent for The Advance-'Times for'
many years, died very suddenly at
her home on 'Sunday, October 9th.
Tim ()evasion was anniversary Sun-,
day at the St, -Helens Church and.
Mrs. Miller was up and about her
household .chores in preparation for
departure for the church when she
sufferaa a heart attack and died:
within a few minutes.
It would be difficult to Irapeove-
tame the expreseion of rasped and
appreciation which was carried by
The Lucknow Sentinel, for which
Mrs. Miller also acted as cerreSs
*pond ee
Me. Miller was 67. She was, the
former Christina Robertson Miller,
daughter of'Richard K. Miller and
Annie Satkeld, Chris, -as the was
familiarly known to many, was
born' on July .13th, 1893, at St..
Helens where her father was a
general merchant, She attended
Wingham High School and Strats
ford Normal School and taught
school at Wartburg and 5. S. No.
4, St. Helens. After her marriage
in 1918 'to Wallace A. Miller, they
took up residence at the Miller
homestead where her death occur-
red so suddenly on Sunday. ,Mr1
and Mrs, Miller were married by
Rev. John Little,
The funeral service was held at.l.
the MacKenzie memorial chapel. on'
Tuesday, October 12, when Rev. B.
F. -Green paid tribute- to her life of.
efficient and faithful service in
church and 'community. Mr. 'Ralph
Howlett, of Brantford, a former
minister at St. Helens read a pas-
sage of Scripture and Mrs. Howlett,
sang- most touchingly "Beyond the-
Sunset" with accompaniment by
Elmer Burbach.
Interment was in Greenhill Cem-
etery with Gordon MacPherson, An-
drew Gaunt, William Forster, Wil-
liam Webster, Lorne Woods, Camp-
bell Thompson acting as pallbear-
ers. Neighbours -acted es bearers of
the many lovely floral tributes.
The funeral service was largely
attended and scores visited the
funeral home to extend their sym-
pathy to the bereaved and to pay
their respects to the late Mrs. Mil-
ler whose 'life had been one of
unselfish service.
For 35 years she had served as
organist of -St. Helens Church, have
ing given up the duties the first of.
the 'Vat. Mrs, Miller • succeeded
Mrs. Elizabeth (Rutherford)
and was succeeded by Mrs. E. W.
Rice. .
Mrs, Miller was interested and
active in all phases of the church
and community work. She was
treasurer of the M. and M. fund
and a life member of the Women's
Missionary Society. She was also
a life member -of the St. Helens
Women's Institute and an active
supporter of -all worthwhile corn-
triunity projects, and in -the borne
was a devoted wife and -mother,
Faithful Correspondent
In spite of all the demands on
her time,. Mrs. Miller had long serv-
ed as the St. Helens correspondent
to The Sentinel and to the Wing-
ham and Goderich papers. She had
a flare for presenting a news story
in an interesting, readable way, ard
to this service she gave the punctu-
ality and faithfulness, which mark-
ed all her activities.
The extent of her service to the
community in keeping St. Helens'
activities In the public; eye, can
scarcely he measured and too often
such services go unrecognized.
Mrs. Miller's -mother served sir
St, Helens correspondent, and in
the late years of her life was as-
sisted by "Chris", who took oeer
the duties upon her mother's
death in 1939.
Truly St. :Helens has lost a be-
loved and devoted citizen whose
-place in the life of the community
cannot easily -be filled,
She is survived by her ahusband;
a soil, Allan Miller, and a daugh-
ter, Mrs. Everitt 1/eQuillin,. (Lam-
int), both of West Wawanosh
Township; three grandchildren,
Terry Wilson and Douglas and Lori
Miss Webb asked prayer suppott
for "the supply of every- need".
Missionaries are needed but funds
are needed also to support mis-
sionaries. We. must give to the
point of sacrifice for Him, If we
put -Christ first and give to Him
He will take care of us. Thirdly,
Miss Webb -asked the Auxiliary to
"pray down God's blessing upon
the work", She explained we earl
de the work of aeaching the Af-
ricans -but only Christ can give the
Life. -Pray that the Africans may
see their need of Christ and have
the courage to take their stand
and be faithful in -witnessing 'fit'
Him, Lastly prayers were asked
for the missionaries themselves,
that strength -may he given for
physical needs and in the warfare
against Setan that they, too, might
be faithful,
"The Day Thou Gayest Lord is
Ended"- was the eoneleding. hymn
and Mrs. Meet Hardie dleiniseed
the meeting with prayer, A -social
tithe folloWed„
tThe happiness of married life
depends upon making small sacri-
fices with teadiness arid cheerfill-
riese.—john Selden,
BEnCIRAVE — The Happy Hos-
teses met on October 22 at the
honle of their leader, Mrs, Hereon
aewha combining meetings five, six
and seven, The meeting -was open-
ed by taking up the home' assign-
ments. Sixteen members answered
the roll call, "Why I Like to En-
tertain", Marilyn Campbell mace
as secretary and read the minutes
of the last meeting. -
Finns •wore made for a Hallow-
e'en party to be held out October
29th, to take the place of the
eighth Meeting. Mrs. Clark John-
in, assistant leader, addresser
, group on party scenes, ilecera-
tioris and recreation, and Mrs. Ir
Win explained introductione Fund
duties of a party guest,
After the home assignments and
the roll call Were given out, the
Meeting closed and a delicious
lunch, prepared by the girls, was
Served.
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