The Wingham Advance-Times, 1964-05-21, Page 8Pa
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FOUR GENERATIONS -- Mrs. eehn T.
Strong, of Gorrie, marked her 92nd birth-
day on Sunday when members of her fam-
ily were present for the occasion. Pictur-
T e Target
Accident statistics tend to
relri.tin Monotonously alike
each year. Sometimes, the
fissures ;:et a little lower, but
more often they increase. Too
many of us take the accident
forecasts as a part of the annual
rt.:irine of living -- and dying
unless a member of our family
becomes number 29 or number
id? on the statistical list.
:.:any agencies are trying to
do something to prove the
"gloontheads" wrong, and one
of these agencies is St. John
Ambulance.
Each year, 1,200 Canadians
die by drowning. They die in
baths, ponds, building excava-
tions and lakes. They die work-
ing, at pleasure and at play and
many of them die needlessly.
Seconds count, if artificial
respiration is to have a chance
of saving a nearly drowned per-
son. A minute's hesitation re-
duces the chances of success
and five minutes to run and get
help can mean death. Action
must be immediate and it must
he right. A St. John Ambu-
lance S ave -A -Life course: can
mean the difference between a
happy ending ora funeral.
St. John Ambulance Save -A.
Jan ISM
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ed with her are her son, Hartwell, left;
grandson Stewart, and grea t -grandson
Robert.
—Advance -Times Photo.
Life courses are tree and take
only two hours of your time.
Courses are being conducted
across Ontario throughout the
summer. To obtain further in-
formation, you should write to
St. John Ambulance Provincial
Headquarters, 46 Wellesley St.
East in Toronto, Don't delay,
the target is life.
Instructors will teach classes
of 20 or more interested people.
Good Source
Of Vitamin A
One medium-size carrot
provides all of the vitamin A
recommended for the daily diet
of a normally active man, wo-
man or child.
More vitamin A is provided
by a cup of cooked carrots than
a cup of raw carrots because,
due to water loss, it takes more
cooked carrots to fill a cup and
vitamin A isn't lost in cooking.
Vitamin A is stored in the body,
so it we take in more than is
needed for one day, the body
will use it up later.
Romance on Credit
A New York jeweller re-
cently advertised in a glossy
consumer magazine three or
four costly engagement rings.
In suitably small type, in the
lower left corner, was the in-
formation that the store honor-
ed certain credit cards. That
advertisement had plot enough
for a short story, a Russian
novel, or at least a bad rhyme.
Of course, my dear, I want to
marry.
It's not from coolness that I
tarry.
The banns will soon be posted,
honey --
Just wait until I've saved some
money.
I've a bill to pay -- for here's
the rub --
I bought the ring on the Diner's
Club.
Somehow, to pop the ques-
tion and pay later seems less
than romantic, and a far cry
from the saving up for the re-
sponsibilities of marriage that
went on in Grandpa's day. --
The Printed Word.
SOME NOVELS you just
can't put down. Others you
don't dare to - if there are chil-
dren in the house.
SAME MORE THAN CENTURY OLD
Stone aand Slump Fences Links with Early Days
TORONTO -- c;ood fences
make good neighbours, it has
been said, In parts of Ontario,
some are links with the pro-
vince's early history and some
stone fences date hack a cen-
tury or more.
Farmers use f, pees pri-
marily to separate one part of
the farm from another, so
that they can control the move*
ment of their 1;:estoek, They
also prevent harmful grazing
in farm woodlots.
Most common of the older
fences in the Tee ‘;‘,1 District
in the eastern p.:rt of Ontario
is the stone fence. Biologist
R. E. Whitfield, of the Depart-
ment of Lands and Forests in
the Tweed Dista, t, points out
that the building of these
fences in pioneer days served
a two -fold purpose, first, as a
means of makie.: some use of
the rocks and boi'tders cleared
from fields intended for culti-
vation and, sec udly, to form
barricades around areas to be
planted with fall:: crops against
entry by livestock.
One has onl) to ,;Iance along
a mile or so of the type of
fence to realize the amount of
hack -breaking labour entailed,
even using horses and hoist
booms in the process.
In Prince Edward County
and South Frontenac, as well
as in other areas of the district
can be seen some of the old
flat limestone slab fences that
were built by earl% settlers,
not necessarily because they
needed somewhere to put the
flat stones but because lime-
stone was plentiful in nearby
quarries and was inexpensive.
Many mined the limestone from
quarries on their own land.
Stump fences are less num-
erous than the stone or lime-
stone slab fences, but there are
DEATH
COIJTTS, Mrs. Margaret,
86, of Scott Street, Wingham,
Tuesday in Wingham and Dis-
trict Hospital. Survivors:
Daughters, Mrs. Carl (Margar-
et) Hansen, Toronto; Mrs.
George (Burdette) Stewart, Lon•
don; son, Alex, Wingham;
sisters, Mrs. Al (Edna) Dumas,
Mrs. Gertrude McGough, both
of Detroit. Service, 2 p.m.
to -morrow, R. A. Currie and
Sons funeral home, Wingham.
Burial, Wingham Cemetery.
Gorrie News
Mrs. Glenna Edwards, of Port
Credit, and Mrs. Martha Baker,
of 4W-'ingham. spent the week-
end at E. H. Strong's,
MIDDLE AGE is when a guy
keeps turning off lights for eco-
nomical reasons rather than ro-
mantic reasons.
THESE ARE THE students of Form Two, Wingham High
School 191.4-1915. Prom left to right, back row: George
Patterson, Gordon Adair, Jim Ferguson, Harry Armstrong,
Garry Wilson, Fred Walker, William Wallace, Donald Mac-
Kenzie, Jack Maxwell. Next row: Irene Scott, Irene Allen,
Susie Sherriff, Olive Clow, Ethel Howe, Bertha Ellis.
Third row: Heloise Kennedy (middy sleeve showing),
Eccles Beecroft, Gertrude Cantelon, Maude Tisdale, Olive
Rintoul, Nora Kennedy, Kathleen Pringle, Inez Law. Sec-
ond row: Myrtle Walters, Dorothy Roth, Nellie Breen, Vic-
toria Patterson, Marjorie Haines, Anna Scott. Front: Mar-
jorie Harrison, Rose Weiler, Gertrude Deans, Lottie John-
ston, Agnes Devereaux, Verna Macdonald, Christie Robert-
son. Absent when the picture was taken were Nora Gra-
cey, Christine lsbister and Weir Elliott. The photo be.
longs to Miss K. Pringle,
still some to be seen in the
Tweed and other areas. These
were built by simply uprooting
large stumps, roots and all, as
part of the process of clearing
the land for cultivation, and
lining them up, one beside the
other, with the great roots pro-
jecting out like fingers to
create a barricade that would
stump even the most ornery
heifer, Mr, Whitfield explains,
Further about fences, he says:
"Split cedar and ash rail fen-
ces were of more recent vintage
and, in some parts of the coun-
try, were quite numerous at one
time, Now, however, they are
fast disappearing. Many of the
old stump and rail fences have
been replaced by either steel
or cedar posts and modern wire
fencing or by the less expensive
electric fence consisting of
one strand of wire hung on
short stakes with insulators and
an electric coil and batteries
attached.
"As a wildlife conservation
aid, the old rail, stone and
stump fences attracted a great
deal of small game animals
and birds, especially where
brush grows up along the fences.
"Fences, however, do pose
a hazard for hunters; some
climb under, through or over
them, Most walk over the old
stone fences, some without un-
loading their firearms, pick
their way through the stump
fences in the same fashion, or
swing a leg over the rail and
single strand electric fence,
climbing a wire fence between
the posts leaves sagging wire
behind and an irate farmer.
Find a solid post, shake it to
make sure it is steady !- and
unload your gun! If alone, lay
it under the bottom wire.
"Climb the wire fence with
your boot as close as you can
get it to the post, take another
step up, then swing the leg
over, bring it down on the
other side as close to the op-
posite side of the post. Result:
a safe crossing, no sagging wire
and, with the owner's per-
mission, to grunt, no com-
plaints,"
PESONAL DOTES
-Mr, and Mrs. Frank J. Gib-
bons and daughters, Vicki,
Francine and Patricia of Londot
spent the holiday week -end
with their parents, Mr, and
Mrs. .lames Gibbons,
-Mr. and Mrs, i'rank Hopper
and Jojiil were week -olid visitor.
with M r. and Mrs. Van Hopper
- Mrs, E. Keith joined the
tour sponsored by the. liorticril-
ture Society of I'eeswater to
attend tulip time at Holland,
Michigan, leaving Saturday
horning and returned Monday
et'eiiing;.
to Detroit.
- fir. end Mrs. Ronald Ral-
ston of Calgary, visited with
her sister-in-law, Mrs. W. W.
Currie, recently.
-,Mr, said Nits. Alan Patti -
sou visited tcw days Iast week
with the r daughter. Nir...nd
Mrs. Gerald Wat.u:i and fam-
ily at Forest,
- '.:r. and Mrs. hon Haw-
thorne :aid Susan UI Toronto
spent the wee•.; -end with her
parents, :.ir, and Mrs. Hustl:
Carinic1aei.
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