HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Times, 1916-11-23, Page 1HURON COUNTY CHILDREN'S
AID SOCIETY
Society Holds Annual Meeting and!
Report a Satisfactory Year
The annual meeting of Huron Co.
Children's Aid Society was held in the
Council Chamber, Clinton, Tuesday
afternoon Nov. 14th, with a represent-
ative attendance, James Mitchell,
President, occupied the chair.
Reports were presented from the
County -Secretary and County Treasurer
and were adopted. Former's salary
was placed at $600 for the coming year.
The question of Juvenile Courts and
Shelter for Huron was briefly dicus
sed. Following officers were named
for 1917:—Hon.-President, W. II. Kerr,
Brussels, succeeds Judge Doyle remov-
ed; President, Jas. Mitchell, Goderich;
Vice -Presidents, Goderich clergymen;
Secertary, George M. Elliott; Treasur-
er, Sheriff Reynolds. Thos. Jackson
was named Secretary as successor to
Dr. Thompson, Clinton.
A number of short addresses were
given and an interesting letter read.
from J. J. Kelso.
In the evening a public meeting was
held in the Town Hall, with Mayor,
Dr. Thompson in the chair. The pro-
gram was a most interesting one and
well rendered and was as follows:—
Chairman's address; piano solo, Miss
McCaughey; vocal solo, F. H. Gilroy,
Brussels; who responded to an encore;
address, '•A square deal for the boys
and girls." Rev. D. Wren, M. A , Brus-
sels; violin and piano duet, Miss Chant
and Mrs. Floody; Illusurated Lecture
by Co. Secretary Elliott, Rev. Mr.
Powelkhandling the lantern; Offering
and National Anthem.
A few particulars will show that Co.
Secretary Elliott is a very busy man.
During the past year he made 483
visits in the interests of the children;
an address. He outlined the aims of , applicatioue r, ceived for children, 53;
the school and church„ and explained compliants investigated, 58: complait.ts
received, 70; children involved 130;
children made wards, 6; letters received
468; letters written, 768; meetings 20;
miles travelled, 3708; Police Courts, 9;
wards placed or replaced, 24; wards
visited, 229; warnings given 43. The
work is a grand one and means much to
the betterment of the citizenship of
years to come. It deserves cordial and
loyal support, Mr. Elliott tells a wond-
erful story and is well worth hearing.
Invite him to visit your neighborhood
and give an address.
that in order to obtain the best citizens,
it is necessary to have the co-operation
of these two institutions' in the training
of the young peoples
A vocal solo was'' v ri.b'ar Miss
Chalmers of the Business College. The
audience showed their appreciation in
hearty applause.
Miss Nettie Christie and Miss Hazel
Brandon gave a piano duet in their well
known manner and were compelled
to give an encore.
A vocal solo was rendered by Weir
Elliott and the peogram was brought to
an end by a few remarks from the
chairman.
Numbered tickets were then given to
all and the young people were grouped
in groups of six. A puzzle was given to
each company to work out while lunch
was being served. After the inner man
had been satisfied the meeting was
closed by the Natianal Anthem and
a word of prayer by Mr. Hibbert.
Bible Society Meeting.
The annual meeting of the Wingbam
Branch of Upper Canada Bible Society
will be held in the Methodist Church,
Wednesday evening, November 22nd.
Addresses will be delivered by Rev. D.
Perrie, and Rev. T. F. Dingman. The
devotional exercises will be led by Rev.
E. G. Dymond. Prayer meeting in
other churches has been withdrawn for
that evening. Everybody welcome.
Recruiting for 64th
Lieut. Wright and Gunners Charles
and Higmill of the 64th Battery, Guelph
were in town last week looking for re-
cruits for the 64th Battery. They were
not successful in getting recruits but
are still hopeful of securing a few men
from here for the battery. They wish
to thank those in town who gave their
assistance on the patriotic mission of
getting recruits. We hope that the
visit of Lieut. Wright and his assistants
will not have been in vain but that men
from this community will join the 64th.
Lieut. Wright makes his request to
men to join with his battery in a force-
ful, direct yet very gentlemanly manner
and judging the battery by their re-
cruiting offreer in charge here, we are
sure that those joining the 64th will
have pleasant associates in fighting the
country's battles. The officer command-
ing is Major D. W. Walker and any
young men in this district wishing to
join the battery should communicate
with major Walker in tare of the Arm-
ouries at Guelph.
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WINGHAM, ONTARIO THURSDAY NOVEMBER 23, 1916
I SELL
Farm and Town
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PERSONALS
Deputy Sherrill Cameron, of Goderich
was in town on Tuesday.
Mrs. Jas. Hislop, of Stratford is
visiting at the home of Mr. H. B.
Elliott.
Miss Phoebe Bloomfield left Wednes-
day for Paris where she has accepted a
position.
Mr. A. Tipling is in Toronto this
week attending a meeting of Ontario
hay pressers.
Mr. Frank E. Elliot, of Brantford has
taken a position in Rae & Thompson's'
hardware store.
Mrs. D. McInnis has returned to town
from Southampton and will again make
her home in Wingham.
Miss Verna ,Coleman of Atwood,
spent the week end with her friend,
Miss Mae Robertson.
Mr. JohnQuirk attended the funeral
of the late A. St, George Hawkins at
Listowel on Saturday last.
Me. A. V. McDonald, of Seattle,
Wash., was sisiting for a few days at
the home of Mr. Roderick McLean.
Mr. A. H. Musgrove, M. P. P. was in
Alliston on Tuesday attending the
funeral of the late Hon. J. S. D i fi.
Miss Minnie Walker of Turnberry is
visiting with her sister. Mrs. Mc-
Michael, in Rochester, New York.
Messers. A. H. Musgrove, Dudley
Holmes, Geo. Spottou and W. F. Van -
stone attended the funeral of the late
Joseph'Carter at Blyth on Thursday
last.
Mrs. Richard Tennant has returned
to her home in Detroit after a .pleasant
visit with old friends in town. She was
very much pleased to meet many of her
old friends after an absence of nearly
ten years.
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5 lb. lots 36c, per lb.
10lb. lots 35c. per lb.
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EXCELLENT APPLE CROP.
Sample Apples on Display in Times
Office Window
There have been on display in the
TIMES office window for some days
three cones of the best sample of apples
wehave fiver seen. They were of the
Spy, Baldwin and Ontario varieties and
were grown in the orchard of Mr. Ken-
neth Cameron, in West Wawanush near
Locknow. This year Mr. Cameron,
had a crop of 1342 barrels off 365 trees,
and they, graded up `85 per cent, of No.
1. The apples on display in our window
have been much admired and peop'e
were surprised to learn that fruit of
such excellent quality could be grown
in Huron County and again shows
what proper careend attention will do
in producing good results.
Mrs. D. Vanalstyne has returned home
after a tour weeks visit with her
daughter. Mrs. John Radford at Goder-
ich. Her grandson, Master Jack Rad-
ford, accompanied her home and' will
spend a few weeks with his grand-
parents.
Conductor Quirk, of Wingham, gave
the Review a friendly call on Wednes-
day last. He was chaperoning an auto
load consisting of Messrs. H. Davis
and D. Rae, of Wingham, and Mr. Rae's
father, who was visiting him from St.
Paul. Ont.—Kincardine Review.
Progressive Euchre.
The members of Court Maitland,
Canadian.Order of Foresters, will hold
their first progressive euchre party on
Friday evening, November 24th. All
member of the Order are invited to
attend.
Mr. Cameron's .orchardhas had a history
In 1912 he won the prize of '$75 from
the Department of Agriculture, the
first prize in rhe.Ontario orchard com-
petition for district No. 5, comprising
the counties of'Lambton, Huron, Bruce
Grey and Simcoe.
The older portion of Mr. Crmeron's
orchard is considerably over sixty years
old, and off one of these trees, a Spy a
few years ago no fewer than eighteen
barrels of )hand picked apples, in addi-
tion to two barrels of windfalls, were
secured.`' Another tree, one of the
oldest in the orchard which has some-
times born fourteen barrels, this year
yielded nine barrels. The new portion
of the orchard was planted in the years
1893 3nd li95, in each of which years LJanette McKee gave a piano duet. They
about four acres of young trees were were heartily applauded and had to
set out, and about forty trees in the or- give another selection before the
chard are only eight years old. audience would be quiet.
Mr. Cameron sprays his trees five Miss Mary Connell delighted hi r
times in the year and the trees (baric hearers with a reading.
and foliage) as well as the fruit cer- Geo. Fryfogle rendered a violon solo
tainlv shows how clean they can be kept in his usual good style.
by this means. One hundred and Mr. G. R. Smith was called on to give
twenty-five 45 -gallon barrels of spraying
mixtures were used. Mr. Cameron also
devotes a good deal of attention to prun-
ing. and keeps his trees cut back so
that none of them reach an inconvenient
height for picking. The limbs he braces
together, where there is danger of split-
ting. with ,wire cables attached to
hooks shrewed into the limbs, thus
avoiding cutting into the park by puting
the wire arourd the limb. About sixty
days'time spent in thinning, he consid•
ers a good investment and after all his
thinning this year his trees were so
heavily laden that the branches of every
tree swept the ground and had to be
propped up to prevent their being
broken.
Hospital .Euchre.
• The progressive euchre party held in
the Mills' hall on Friday evening last
under the auspices of the Ladies'
Hospital Auxiliary was well attended
and was a sucess in every way. The
proceeds amounted to $63.00 and the
expense wouldbe in the neighborhood of
$5, which would leave a nice balance
for the funds of the Auxiliary. Lone
hand prizes were wont by Mrs. Thomp-
son and Dr. Tamlyn, and prizes for
games were won by Mrs. Telfer and
Harvey Willis, The ladies of the Aux-
iliary wish to heartily thank all those
who in any way assisted in malting the
evening's entertainment a success and
special thanks is due Mr. and Mrs.
W. A. Miller, who so kindly donated
the coffee.
HIGH SCHOOL NOTES
On Monday evening the staff and
students of the Wingham High School
and Business College was given an At
Home in the Methodist church, under
the auspices of the Epworth League.
Both instutions were well represented
and all report a splendid evening's enter-
tainment.
As each person entered the door he
was given five toothpicks and every
time be said "yes or no" to another
party he forfeited one of hie toothpicks
to that person. The scheme was to try
to get some one else to say the word.
Some were fortunate and added to
their numbers while other less fortun-
ate lost all. This lasted a half an hour
and proved very interesting. It was an
ideal way to get the people acquainted
with eines other.
Mr, Willis, President of the Epworth
League, spoke a few words of welcome
to the visitors and invited all, who can,
to attend the regular League meeting
every Monday night.
Mr. Hibbert heartily welcomed every-
one
veryone too and asked all to come back
again.
The remainder of the program was giv-
en by the visitors and Chesely McLean,
president of the High School Literary
Society, was called to occupy the
chair. He thanked the League very
cordially for their invitation to the
High School students and after a
tew remarks proceeded with the pro-
gram.
Miss Gladys McCallum and Miss
Death of . Mrs. Dey.
This week we record the death of a
highly esteemed resident in the person
of Agnes Cowan, beloved wife of Mr.
Alexander Dey, who passed away on
Monday morning at her home on Pat-
rick street after a few days illness.
The deceased lady was in her 78th year
and was born in StranrarrWigtonshire,
Scotland,and when sixteen years of age
eame to Canada with her parents, set-
tling first at Paris and later moved to
near Blyth. When 23 years of age she
was married to her now bereaved hus-
band and five years ago the Golden Wed-
ding was celebrated. The tamily moved
to Wingham upwards of twenty years
ago and the deceased lady was held in
high esteem by a large circle of friends.
During her residence here she was an
honored member of St. Andrew's Pres-
byterian Church. ,Hight children were
born to Mr. and Mrs. Dey, viz: --Mrs.
Ferguson (decease), Mrs. J. W.
Martin, Jackison, Mich., Mrs, Davis
13, Jerome, Hamilton; Mrs. Geo. Irwin,
Wingham; Miss Elizabeth Dey, Chicago;
Miss Rae Dey, (whohas been with her
mother for the peat ten years); John
Dey, Southampton, and James 1iey,
London. The bereaved will have the
sympathy of many friends. The fun
eral took place on Weonesday afternoon
to Wingbam comet y.
Mr. Cameron prefers to keep his
orchard in grass to "cultivating it and
says if he sacrifices a little in size of
the fruit, he gets better color. He
runs the mower up and down between
the rows of trees and uses the scythe
under the trees. A fine mulch is
obtained in this way, which holds the
moisture , well and makes a sort of
carpet which keeps wind -falls clean
even in muddy weather.
Mr. Cameron this year sold his apple
crop to Anderson i& McQuillin, of Luck -
now.
This was an off yeur for apples in
Ontario and the apple crop as a whole
grades only from 15 to 20 per cent.
No. 1. Mr. Frank Metcalfe, Dominion
Government fruit inspector in speak-
ing of the orchard says:—"I never saw
anything, to approach it even in the
most favourable year."
Died Suddenly.
It is with deep regret that we this
week record the death of Walter Tay-
lor Pearen, the six-year-old son of Mr.
and Mrs, John Pearon, who passed
away on Wednesday morning of last
week. The child had been ill tor only a
few hours. .The bereaved family will
have the sympathy of many friends.
North Huron Telephone Co.
The annual meeting of the North
Huron Telephone Co. was held in the
Council Chamber on Wednesday after..
noon of last week. The reports of the
auditor and secretary -treasurer showed
a very successful year's business, not-
withstanding the increased cost of all
materials used in the telephone business.
Last year's Board of Directors was re-
elected as follows;—W, J. freer, H. T.
Thomson, Wm. Maxwell, John Webster,
Geo. Thomson. A. H. Musgrove was
reelected as auditor. A dividend of 6
per cent..was'declared, payable on the
15th o'f: January next. The financial
year of the company will in future
close on the 31,1t of December in place
of the 30th of September. At a meeting
of the Directors following the annual
meeting, officers were re-elected a$
follows:—President, W. J. Greer; Vice -
President, H. T. Thomson; Sec.-Treas.,
H. 13. Elliott.
PATRIOTIC SOCIETY NOTES
MINOR LOCALS.
— Huron County Council will meet at
Goderich on Tuesday December 5th.
—Do it early—your Christmas sbol1'
ping.
—Four weeks from next Monday will
be Christmas.
—Order your newspaper and maga-
zine at the TIMES offices. We can save
your money.
— Buy your railway tickets from
H. B. Elliott, Town Agent for the
G. T. R. at the TIMES office.
The G. T. R. station is being treated
to a fresh coat of paint this week.
This will make a great improvement to
the building.
— The Listowel Banner is informed
that Mr. R. T. Kemp, recently appoint-
ed inspector for Perth under the Ontario
Temperance Act. has forwarded his
resignation to the Government.
--Billie Burke, the barber, has moved
his family from Niagara Falls, N. Y.
Mr. Burke is formerly of Brussels,
and not Camp Borden as was stated in
our last issue.
—L. Kennedy, local agent for the
Overland automobile is this week un-
loading two car loads of the different
models. Mr. Kennedy reports the sale
of an Overland this week to Mr. Wm.
Armstrong of Teeswater.
The Society acknowledges with
thanks a donation of $5.00 from Mrs.
Rees, Ohio.
Yarn to be had from Miss Freda
Vanstone. Cut out shirts to be had
from any of the following ladies, Mrs.
Tanily n, Mrs. Gray, Mrs. Blatchford.
Pyjamas from Mrs. Geddes.
The boys in the trenches need our
continued help.
Hospital supplies to be left with Mrs.
W. H. Willis.
Will the collectors for the systematic
giving have their collecting completed
in order to give their reports at the
regular monthly meeting which will be
held in the Council Chamber on Friday,
Dec. lst, at 3 30 sharp.
Woman's Institute Meeting.
The regular monthly meeting of the
Woman's Institute will be held in the
Council Chamber at 3 o'clock on Wed-
nesday afternoon, November 30th. A
good program and contest on lemon pie'
Will the ladies bring in all the socks
that are finished also their fancy work.
Refreshment will be served. Every-
one welcome.
Child Fatally Scalded
On Saturday night last, Wilfred
Elliott Fitt, son of Pte. and Mrs. F.
Fitt, passed away following an accident
in which the child was badly scalded.
The little boy fell into a tub of boiling;
water on 1 riday. The child -was in his
4th year. The father was one of the first
to enlist in Wingham and has been in
the trenches for some months. The
bereaved will have the sympathy of the
community. The funeral took place on
Tuesday afternoon to Wingham
cemetery.
Tuberculosis Sunday
Through the efforts of the National
Sanitoriiutia Association, with the co -
Operation of,thp Clergy of all Denomin-
ations and the Department of Education
Sunday November 26, and Monday Nov-
ember 27th, next, have been set apart
as Tuberculosis Sunday and Tuberculosis
Day in the schools. Literature on the
subject has been distributed to Minister
and Teachers throughout the Province,
and the ;widest possible pu111idity is
urged—that all may join in stamping
out this dread disease:
BRANTFORD TO YPRES
The illustrated lecture in the Town
Hall on Tuesday evening, entitled
"From Brantford to Ypres," given by
Rev. C. E. Jeakins, a former highly
esteemed rector of St. Paul's Church,
was largely attended, and Mr. Jeakins'
talk was most highly appreciated by
the large crowd. Capt. Jeakins was
Chaplain of the 5Sth Battalion and spent
several months at the front. He gave
a . description of . the Battalion's trip
from Brantford to Ypres, showing the
route from Brantford to Halifax. then
to England and from England to France.
The talk was full of interest from start
to finish and the people who attended
were given a clear idea of conditions at
the front. Tho views shown were good
and gave a good description of the trip
from Canada to England and several
good photos of trenches at the front.
The people who attended the lecture
will long remember Mr. Jeakins' very
pleasing lecture. Rev. E. G. Dymond
acted as chairman and there were
musical selections in addition to the
lecture.° The A. Y. P. A. Society of
St. Paul's Church, under whose
auspices the lecture was held, wish to
heartily thank all those who assisted in
making the entertainment a success,
and especially to thank G. R. Smith
who kindly loaned his lantern and
operated the same.
Recruiting Officer for Huron County.
Lieut. Albert 3. Grigg, of the 33rd,
Huron Regiment, who was special re-
cruiting officer during the early cam-
paign for the 161st, has been appointed
recruiting officer for the counties of
Huron and Bruce. The new campaign
about to be launched will include all
branches of the service.
Newspapers and Magazines.
The TIMES office has the agency for
all ` the leading newspapers and
magazines. and we can save you money
on your orders. We can give you a
rate on any newspaper or magazine and
can save you money. The Toronto and
London newspapers and all the popular
magazines are on sale at the TIMES
office.
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Magistrate's Decision Pinal.
The caseq against Thomas l3erry of
Hensall and N. Contin of St. Joseph
for violation of the Canada'Temperance
Act, which came before;Police Magis-
trate Andrews in September last and a
conviction registered in each case, which
were appealed by both parties and
argued before Judged Latchford of Tor-
onto, who delayed giving his desision,
until yesterday, have resulted in a win
from the temperancepeople. The judge
held that, according to the C. T. A,
there is no appeal from a police magis-
trate's decision, and consequently the
merits of either cases could not be re-
opened in a higher court. Crown at-
torney Sealer of Goderieb, and J. R.
Cartwright, K. C. acted for the ptos-
eeution.
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A fuse farm of 150 acres,
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Bank barn 50x()4, large hen
house and pig pen with cement
floors in both, also driving
house. New cement dwelling
2 storey, 22x30, also a second
house in good repair. One
hundred and twenty-five acres
cleared, balance bush and
cedar swamp. Nine acres of
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For further particulars, see
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