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WINCHAM TIMES.
WINGHAM, ONTARIO! THURSDAY JUNE 22, 1916^
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DRUGGIST AND OPTICIAN
Town Agent for C. P. R.
'Phone 53
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My Best Advertisement
is my Customers'
Rbcommendation
Eyestrain causes headache,
weak, tired and aching eyes.
Other things may give relief
but perfectly adapted glasses
are the only cure.
The most important thing
about a pair of glasses is the
SKILL of the specialist who
fits them.
If I cannot help you, I say
so. if I can I do thoroughly.
Satisfaction guaranteed with
every pair of glasses. I supply
advice free.
C R. WILKINSON
Eophthalmic Optician
Edward St. Wingham
Over twenty years practical
experience.
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Christie's Grocery
PHONE 59.
I SELL
Farm and Town
Properties
Call and see my list and get
my prices,
I have some excellent values.
Office in Town Hall. 'Phone
134 „...
J. O. STEWART
Real Estate Agent
WINOHAM - • ONTARIO
My Best Advertisement
is my Customers'
Rbcommendation
Eyestrain causes headache,
weak, tired and aching eyes.
Other things may give relief
but perfectly adapted glasses
are the only cure.
The most important thing
about a pair of glasses is the
SKILL of the specialist who
fits them.
If I cannot help you, I say
so. if I can I do thoroughly.
Satisfaction guaranteed with
every pair of glasses. I supply
advice free.
C R. WILKINSON
Eophthalmic Optician
Edward St. Wingham
Over twenty years practical
experience.
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Christie's Grocery
PHONE 59.
AN APPETIZING MEAL
Our eatables are all carefully se-
lected. They appeal right away
to the appetite, and there are
NO half -finished meals.
AN ENJOYABLE MEAL
The quality of our eatables make
it a pleasure to dine, and also
brings about that happy feeling
which produces the smile every
time you dip in.
A SATISFYING MEAL
FOOD one hundred per cent
value is what we sell. FOOD
that will make a satisfying
meal three times a day and
every day of the week. FOOD
that is pure and properly hand-
led.
TRY CHRISTIE'S
for your Groceries and Provis-
ions. We make satisfied cus-
tomers.
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LIABILITY FOR ROADS.
Recent Decision in the Court of Appeal
is of Interest.
The Municipal World has the follow-
ing comment upon a legal case which
originated in this country:
The case of Davis vs. the Township
of Usborne, recently disposed of by the
Court of Appeal, is of great interest
and instructive as to the trend of
judicial opinion with reference to the
responsibility of municipalities with
reference to the maintenance of public
highways.
The advent of the motor vehicles has
apparently been looked upon with un-
favorable eyes by many municipal
officers and the feeling seemed to pre-
vail in many municipalities that so long
as they provide a road suitable for
travel by the means in use prior to the
advent of motor vehicles ' they were
doing all that their duty called upon
them to do, and in fact in some
localities they went further and by the
construction of watersheds across and
at right angles to the road and dumping
gravel in hillocks and lumps without
spreading made it impossible to travel
en some of their highways at a speed
of more than one-half the statutory
limit.
In the case mentioned above the
County Court Judge of the ,county of
Huron held that the road upon which
the accident happened was reasonably
safe for public travel by the means in
use before the advent of motor vehicles
and that the township having provided
such a road were under no obligation to
improve it to make it reasonably safe
against the added dangers occasioned
by the use of motor vehicles. The
Court of Appeal, however, dissented
from this view and held that the
statutory duty imposed upon the town-
ship required it to make the road
reasonably safe for the purpose of
travel and so safe from any additional
danger incident to the use of it by
motor vehicles which have been in use
for several years and are r,ow acommon
means of transportation.
The matter under consideration in
that case was of a horse taking fright
at a motor vehicle and overturning
the buggy of the plaintiff in a ditch
alongside of the road and the Court of
Appeal directed judgment to be en-
tered against the township on the
grounds above set, out, holding that if
the ditch was necessary it should not
have been in the shape of an open
ditch but should have been tiled.
It does not seem very far to go
from this decision to one holding the
township liable for any damage sus-
tained by the motorist or to the motor
itself while travelling on the road with-
in the legal speed limit by reason of
holes or defects in the highway.
Institute District Meeting
The annual meeting of the West
Huron Women's Institute will be held in
the Council Chamber, Wingham, on
Thursday afternoon, June 22nd, com-
mencing at 2 o'cloc'k. Delegates will
be present from the different branch In-
stitutes in West Huron and officers are
to be elected for the coming year.
All ladies will be made welcome at this
meeting.
Wednesday Half Holiday
The usual Wednesday half holiday
during July and August will again this
year be carried out by our businessmen.
The first holiday will fall on Wednesday,
July 5th. These holidays have been
fairly well observed by our business
men in the past and there will no doubt
be again this year. The public should
keep this intimation in mind and do
their shopping accordingly,
Died in West Toronto
News came as a shock to the many
friends in Wingham, of the death of
Christina McGillivray, beloved wife of
Mr. David Robertson, who died in West
Toronto on Tuesday, June 20th, 1916.
Deceased was well known by a host of
friends in Wingham, having taken an
active part in church work, being a
member of St. Andrew's Presbyterian
Church, She was born in the Township
of Saugeen, Bruce County, and came
to Wingham with her parents when ten
years of age. She was married to her
now bereaved husband in 1906, having
moved to West Toronto about seven
years ago. She is survi+ed by her
parents Mr. and Mrs. Archibald McGilli-
vray of this town, an infant, two
months old; two sisters, Jean, a nurse
of Chicago, who was with her during her
illness, Mrs. .Dunford (Nellie) of
Portage la Prairie, also two brothers,
James of Detroit, and Duncan in
training with the 170th Battalion at
Winnipeg. Deceased was in her 34th
year, The funeral takes place this
afternoon (Thursday) to Wingham
Cemetery
CHURCH UNION CARRIED
Late Wednesday afternoon of last
week at Winnipeg, by tha decisive yote
of 403 to 91 the Presbyterian General
Assembly definitely committed itself to
church union and to form one of the
bodies in the United Church of Canade.
The last vote was taken after a
strennous day of voting and debate
which began as soon as the assembly
convened in the morning and was kept
up until adjournment late in the after-
noon. The Unionists were determined
to "pound" the issue through to a finality
and no delay was tolerated.
There were votes on three resolutions
and then a final vote on the adoption of
the union report
The three union resolutions were:
1. Dr. Falconer's amendment, al-
ready voted for against the minority
report, and calling for union, 'but de-
ferring action, and appointing a com
mittee to carry out the policy of the
assembly, and at the first assembly
after the close of the war the committee
was to bring the matter forward lin
order that the assembly might deter-
mine when to proceed to consummate
the union.
2. Prof, Ballantyne's amendment to
the amendment, committing the church
to union, but setting no date, not even
a vague date "after the war" and co-
operating with other churches until
some unnamed time when the union
should be consummated.
3. The Falconer amendment pitched
against the majority report.
Here is the result of the church union
vote:
1. For union, 333; against union, 103;
majority, 230.
2, For consummation of union
immediately after the war, 339; for con-
summation of union at some unnamed
period, substituting co-operation in the
meantime, 170; majority, 169.
3. Falconer amendment, 202; against,
2.26. Those voting being mostly union-
ists, the antis refraining.
Final, the adoption of the majority
report. 406; against, 04; a true test of
the respective strength in the, assembly,.
The anti -unionists will not abide by
the action of the Assembly on the
question of union, and have already be-
gan preparation of plans to continue
the Presbyterian Church of Canada.
The decision of the minority raises a
big issue in which the legal aspect of
the question becomes involved. The
future control of property is one of the
points that will have to be settled.
Anti -unionists will hold a general meet-
ing in Toronto the first week in
September. •
Wettest Period on Record.
The past three months have been the
wettest period since the establishment
of the Toronto Observatory in 1840, and
the aggregate rainfall since April 1,
has been slightly in excess of any
corresponding three months on record.
The rainfall in each individual month,
however, has been exceeded on many
occasions, but taking the three months
together it has been the wettest period
ever. The weather -man says, however,
that there have been May to July
periods where the rainfall has been
greater. The total rainfall since April
1 to date has been 12.31 inches, a record
for that particular period of the year
since 1840, when the aggregate rainfall
was 12.43 inches,
Death of Mrs. A. J. Nicholas.
It was with deep regret that the
people of Wingham andvicinitylearned
of the death of Mrs. A. J. Nicholls (nee
Agnes Mitchell) who passed away on
Tuesday evening, June 20th, 1916. Mrs.
Nicholls has been in poor health for some
time, but herdeath came as a surprise
to all. The deceased was born in Cross
Hill, near Guelph, having moved to
Wingham with her:parents about thirty-
five years ago, where she was united in
marriage to Mr. A. J. Nicholls a few
years later. Mrs. Nicholls was a life
long member of St. Andrew's Presby-
terian Church, having taken an active
part in the church work. She was of
a most pleasing and kind-hearted dis-
position, and was very well liked both
in business life and as an associate, and
will be greatly missed by a large circle
of friends. Besides her husband, she
leaves to mourn her loss, five children,
Nellie, of Toronto; Lily, Millie and John
at home, and Norman, now connected
with a Medical Corps in France. She
also leaves one sister, Mrs. Cosford, of
Oak Lake, Man., and five brothers,
Alexander, of Neepawa; John and
Andrew, of Montana; James, of Elk
Rapids. Mich„ and Robert, of Kenora,
Sask. Mrs. Cosford and her brother,
John Mitchell, were present at the
time of her death. The funeral will
take place from the family residence,
Josephine St., to -morrow (Friday) at
2.30 p. m,, for Wingham cemetery.
Service private.
PATRIOTIC SOCIETY NOTES
The Society wishes to acknowledge
with thanks the following 'donations of
cotton;—Miss Priscilla Manna, 10 yards;
Mrs, Thos. Field, 15 yards; Mrs. S.
Bennett, 10 yards; Miss ty1. Fessant, 5
yards; Mrs.. W. JZ. Willis, 10 yards.
Mrs. A. E. Smith, 7 wash cloths. The
above cotton was rolled by members of
the Epworth League.
We are pleased to receive. from Miss
Sydney Holmes the sum of $2.35, being
the proceeds of a patriotic tea given to
a number of her young girl friends„
The girls spent the afternoon in cutting
the scraps of flannel which are left
from the cutting out of shirts, into
smaller pieces, and with these filling
first-aid pillows.
The latest bulletin says that these
pillows are in great demand at the
front just now. We are glad to have
the young girls take an interest in this
work and as the holiday season is now
on, possibly others would assist in the
same way. Scraps may be secured at
any time from Mrs. Wm. Gray.
The collectors for the systematic
giving will make their monthly call
during the last week in June. It is to
be remembered that all this money so
collected is to be used in the purchase
of flannel and yarn, the shirts and socks
being all sent overseas.
Yarn may be obtained from Miss
Fessant and cut out shirts from any of
the following ladies: Mrs. Wm. Gray,
Mrs. Tamlyn, Mrs G'eddes and Mrs.
Tyndall.
Hospital supplies, such as new cotton
for bandages, and old soft cotton for
dressings, mouth wipes, old cloths, in
fact anything in the line of hospital,
should be left with Mrs. Willis, Shuter
street.
New Time Table.
A new time table will go into effect
on the Grand Trunk Railway System on
Monday next. There are two changes
which will affect Wingham. The after-
noon train for Toronto will leave at
3.05.o'clo,k instead of 3.15 and the
night train from Toronto will arrive
here at 9.20 o'clock instead of 9.15.
Married in Toronto
On Tuesday of last week. at high
noon, the marriage ook place in Toron-
to of Miss Vera Beatrice Schadel to
Captain (Dr) Henry Arthur (Harry)
Hessian, who has joined a medical corps
and proceeds almost at once to the
front. Rev. Dr. Patterson performed
the ceremony at the home of the bride's
parents, and afterwards the happy
couple left on a short honeymoon trip.
Captain hessian is a son of the late
Thomas Hessian, formerly of Wing -
ham, and spent his boyhood here. His
old friends here will waft congratu-
lations on his marriage and good wishes
for a safe return from the front at the
close of the war.
Presentation of Jewels
There was a pleasant event at the
meeting of Maitland Lodge, L 0. 0. F.
on Thursday evening last when Messrs_
John F. Groves, J. W. Dodd and W.
J. Deyell were presented with veter-
ans jewels, they having completed
twenty-five years of continuous
membership in the Lodge. The pre-
sentation was made by Noble Grand
Brooks and the recipients heartily
thanked the lodge for their kindness.
Short addresses were made by other
members, all expressing the wish that the
three "veterans" may be long spared
to be useful and honored members Of
the lodge.
Value of Fresh Air
One of the chief essentials to good
health is a constant supply of pure and
wholesome air. "this is as necessary
in the home as in the office or factory.
The open window, the outside sleeping
balcony and living in the open air, all
tend to strengthen the constitution
and build up the nervous system. For
this reason too much attention cannot
be paid to the ventilation of buildings.
A supply of pure, fresh air pays, from
a momentary standpoint. Roughly
speaking, an increase in production of
ten per cent. is not unusual in the aver-
age office, shop or warehouse, following
the installation of a ventilating system.
Fresh air, therefore, properly circulated,
is an essential factor even in success-
ful factory management.
Sale of Women's Oxfords
and PumpS on Friday
of this week.
Read our Ad. on last page.
W. H. WILLIS
ROBERT NELSON DUFF
The death of R. N. Duff of the firm
of Duff & Stewart, sawmillers and
lumber dealers, Bluevale, took place on
Wednesday morning, June 14th, after
a severe illness of many weeks result-
ing from a stroke of paralysis. A1s
though suffering from ill health for the
past two years it was not until this
spring that his condition became
critical. The funeral held on Friday
afternoon from the family residence
was largely attended by friends, rela-
tives, business and other associates of
the deceased. The beautiful funeral
service was conducted by Rev.
Crawford Tate, pastor of Knox
Church, assisted by Rev, D. D.
Thomson, of the Methodist Church
The hymns sung were chosen for
special associations being,—the twenty-
third Psalm, "There is a Fountain
Filled with Blood," and "When on my
Day of Life the Night is Falling."
The pallbearers were friends and neigh-
bours of the deceased, Messrs. A.
McEwen, George McDonald. F. B.
Scott, Robt. Black, Jas. McHardy
and Robt. Musgrove. Members of the
Canadian Order of Foresters from
Bluevale and Wingham led the funeral
cortege to the cemetery and lined the
walk on the way to the graveside while
the body was borne to its last resting
place where the impressive burial
service of the C. 0. F. was carried out
by the members formed in a circle
around the grave.
Robert Nelson Duff was born on
March 8, 1851 at Roxboro in the town-
ship of Hul:ett, not far from Seaforth.
He was the younger son of Robt. J.
and Isabella Gerrond Duff who had not
long previously settled in Canada. One
of the most vivid recollections of his
childhood was the journey north in
March, 1856, when he was five years
of age 'to the thick bush in the town-
ship of Turnherry where a clearing
was made on tee sixth concession which
remained the family home for many
years. After working at farm work
for a time he secured employment in a
sawmill which was run by John Gemmill
on the sixth concession and from that
time sawmilling became his life occu-
pation. In 1873 he married his now
bereaved wife, Miss Anne Jane Elliott
of Wawanosh, daughter of James
Elliott of Co. Fermanagh, Ireland, and
after living for a time at Moncton and
Carmunnoch, sawmilling centres in
Perth County, came to Bluevale in 1875
where his home continued to be until
his death. After working in the employ
of Bailey and Thyne who owned the
old sawmill at the station in those days
he formed a partnership with the late
C. J. Reading to take over the owner-
ship of the busines which was carried
on by the firm for a number of years.
In 1889 he became associated with Mr.
Thos. Stewart under the firm name of
Duff & Stewart. They bought the
Leech sawmill on the river bank and
for twentyseven years a successful
sawmilling and general business has
been carried on to which from time to
time has been added coal, cement and
other lines. On two occasions the
sawmill was burued to the ground
but was both times rebuilt.
In 1904 the chopping mill and water
power was bought from the late Jos.
Leech and operated by the firm until
last year when it was sold to Mr.
Chas. Garniss.
Of his own family he was the last
survivor, his brother, the late W. G.
Duff, of Crystal City, Man., having
predeceased him in December, 1913.
Of his children, one son, Robert Nelson,
died in infancy but three sons and four
daughters are left to mourn the loss of
a good father; —W. J. Duff, St. Thomas,
L. B, Duff, Editor of the Welland
Telegraph, Miss Rubie Duff of Corning,
N. Y.; Mrs. M. L. Aitken of Beeton
and Mary, Eva and Clayton at home.
He also leaves three grandchildren,
Gerrond and Elizabeth Duff of Welland
and Dorothy Aitken of Beeton.
R. N. Duff was a faithful member
of Knox Church. He took a great
interest in the building of the new
church some years ago, served for
many years on the Board of Managers
and for a long period was superin-
tendent of the Sunday School. In
politics he was an ardent Reformer and
held the office of President of the East
Huron Association for the years 1904-7.
He was ohe of the early members of
the C. 0. F., joining Court Douglas in
1879 and was also a member of Camp
Caledonia Sons of Scotland, Wingham.
One of the chief interests of his life
was the literature and lore of Scotland,
the land of his ancestor§.
R. N. Duff was an upright man who
held the respect and confidence of the
community and his business associates
throughout his life. He was a man of
public spirit who never grudged time
and labour in trying to advance the
public welfare while his consideration
for those in misfortune and distress
was known in many homes.
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Wayfarer's Corner
JIM'S SACRIN'ICE
Jim marched away one summer day
To fight the boastful Hun,
In khaki clad, as fine a lad
As ever carried gun.
No braver knight e'er went to fight,
In shining coat of mail,
In days of old, for love or gold,
Or for the Holy Grail,
His aim was sure, his heart was pure,
Like good Sir Galahad,
He played the game when hardships
came,
His face was always glad,
Until, by chance, somewhere in France,
He saw a "Hometown Sun,"
He read one page, then in a rage
He strafed it like a Hun.
The girl he loved had faithless proved,
And with a slacker wed;
That cruel stroke Jim's spirit broke,
He wished that he were dead.
He who had beenso straight and clean,
And every fellows's chum.
Now lived apart with hardened heart,
And soaked himself in ruin.
'Mid rats and mice and fleas and lice
He spent his days and nights;
Waist deep in mud, besmeared with
blood,
He fought a hundred fights.
His faith was lost, the angel host
Of mons he didn't see;
No Comrade white beheld his plight,
With loving sympathy.
The devil strip, where bullets zipp,
The narrow neutral band
Where man to man they fight and plan
To win that 'No Man's Land':
Here Jim would go to hunt the foe,
He thought it only fun,
And that day lost that couldn't boast
Another slaughtered Hun.
His awful deeds, so say the creeds,
Jim's bright young manhood marred;
His health was sound, he got no wound,
But sin his spirit scarred.
Some lost their health, some lost their
wealth,
Of all war to'ik its toll,
Some lost their life in bloody strife,
Jim only lost his soul,
WAYFARER.
Two Weeks Enlistments
Canadian enlistments for first half
of June totalled 5,955. By districts
the figures were: London, 254; Toronto,
1,602; Kingston, 555; Montreal, 561;
Quebec, 124; Maritime Provinces, 352;
Winnipeg, 1,300; Alberta, 607; British
Columbia, 600 The total enlistment
to date is 340,128.
Many New Subscribers
Many are taking advantage of the
present opportunity—before the ad-
vance takes effect—of securing The
Times for another year at the $1
rate. We received several new sub-
scription this week to say nothing
of renewals. After July 1st The
Times will be $1.50 to everybody
and an additional fifty cents to sub-
scribers in the United States, to cov-
er postage, which is a cent a copy.
You save fifty cents by subscribing
or renewing the Times before July 1st,
Canadian Timber Values.
According to a recent Commerce
report the values of the various classes
of timber produced in Canada in 1914,
together with the values of the forest
products, total $176,672,000, being divid-
ed as follows: Lumber, lath and
shingles, $67,500,000; fire wood, $60,-
500,000; pulpwood, $15,500,000; posts
and rails, $9,500,000; cross ties. $9,000,-
000; square timber exported, $400,000;
cooperage, $1,900,000; poles. $700,000;
logs exported, $850,000; tanning
material, $22,000; round mining timbers,
$500,000; miscellaneous exports, $300,-
000; miscellaneous products, $10,000,000.
Celebrated Golden Wedding
Dr. and Mrs. Thomas Chisholm, 15
Plater Crescent, are celebrating their
golden wedding to -day. They were
married in Fergus in 1866 and spent
thirty years of active, useful life in
Wingham and Arthur. The past six
years the happy couple have lived in
Toronto. Dr. Chisolm has always
taken a keen interest in polites, being
a life-long Conservative. In 1904 he
was elected for East Huron in the
House of Commons, where he ably
represented the riding for two Par-
liaments, resigning in 1910 on ac-
count of increasing years. The fam-
ily consists of Mr. .1. H. Chisholm,
broker, Toronto, and Dr. J. S. Chis-
holm, Prince Albert, Saskatchewan,
the sons, the only daughter being
Mrs. W. G. Collison, Lindsay. Many
good wishes go out to Dr, and Mrs.
Chisholm. The above is from the
Toronto Mail and Empire of last Thur-
sday. Many old friends in Wingham
will extend hearty congratulations to
Dr. and Mrs. Chisholm and will wish
them many tnore years of happy wedded
life.
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The makers of these exclu-
sive styles are considered with
:he most progressive high-grade
shoe makers in America, and
we are pleased to say these
shoes are made in Canada.
We are " Empress " Shoe
tgents.
White Shoes
We are showing the very
newest in high and low cuts,
also Pumps and Strap Slip-
pers for ladies, misses and
children.
W. J. Greer
THE SHOE MAN
A RARE CHANCE
A Two Storey Brick House
with stable, large garden and
abundance of fruit, for sale at
a bargain as the owner is
leaving town. Buildings are
nearly new. No better value
to be had anywhere.
Numerous other properties
for sale at good values. We
will not list a property unless
the price is right.
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