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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1940-12-19, Page 744. DOEININUILINI 311101a, 101041 ......441000.10.0.000.4.0400,1•044001••••• •. , apie Leaf Bake Wake* the khld of Christmas ..POOdOp that ;nether Wed, to Makes Their talteS; tarts and Dante, pies are setinallY as gOod hristmas Cakes Made especially for this festive orre*Itheetheslesst:gradereof beats and ingredients. A choice -stock of greCerieseeare tied at all tinies. Phone 4.60J -.et- se-• We Deliter ••••• GODZECE SIGNAL -STA* Let us be ef,geod cheer; remembering that the ntlifortunes hardest te. bear are those that nerver come.-4ames Russell Lowell - Work is healthy but worry is net ilPen the blade. It Is not movement that destereys mechinery but ,Trietion. •seBeechers. " •‘• ARE - - FOR WINTER. DRIVING? , Drive in to day and we will JR-16-ur 4. -a -sr to protect' you -from the delays and discomforts of being stuck on the ro - We repair and supply pelts for all makes. • . is important to keep your ear inegeod mechanical tondition A all thnes, butparticularly dur. mg the winter. We are at your service, • We handle. the Goodrich tires and batteries on the budget plan. Let usexplain it to you. Shell Service Station • HARVEY EAXTER ALLAIV LINPIELD 1ingston St Phone; 535 111111111111111111111111111111111,' • Things Around 044001••••• 14 say last Mama on Thispo Aroload Bon* itimost 'Protested about beittg ealled Eat if 1tillair set (Mt +a ituot 1 454UOtV6IX:teeri tO getting rattled. YeSi r•attled le the buly word to USe of this SIVenitig, Vieitiug et the Itespifal yederday, when I DetUrtied to the lobby 'where 1 had left WY Overeottt 'Una 4gt-0 I fouled out when. 1 hiad %/tit on the coat tliat 1 hutl another pereon'a coat. %he feel Of It and thontents 1tho poekete aeeured Ine of thie„ thoughthe make urtd style and color were just like mine, 1 hurriedlY replacedit on, its peg and found; righebY itemY 'own, Reelkag gratified thut I had not gonO away with it When, 1 got down the Street, smiling- at the mistake, I .104 made, and' cerefortiug rayeelt that it golug too ter? Of cow* Mi Wrey came filen this loeitlity. * * My first Oh -riotous eard itrrivest wonting. It wee from England 04 it beauty, An Old firieue who steed to Loudon, Ontario, sent it It cern- taiued a threefold wish, Und ea it hi 'Christmas let me pass on the we as mine to my many friends aud readera of ethe constitueney of The Goderieh ISigual4,9tar. "•Ilay Peace, Goodwill And Joy abide, Within your heart To eheer and bless' yow,tuthr Iluo4Upsertinaessnd.,71lome Xiy Arid; Christmas gift arrived one 'week before. -What de you think It It would be hard to gluesS. It beet not been earried too Ter, 1 began W" a Package lelder ete needles It to feel there Wes ,soniething Wrong, with my head, or rather the hut that rested ;oil Iteel had better' not' say "ifittedPsen ift. It had a way a drop- ping down fere sand aft, that made ine suseleioue something sl'iraer wrong. Itemseaing it, and looking it over, I was astonished to find it was a strange\ hat of eintilar coler Vo mine, and, very eeticiesuperier. Oreat (Caesar! I had Wadn. the seine, mietake as with, the coats Thanks to my goOd'bringing nIo and a workingejender conselerteCI ebeeklo,./- teeltoliRistaleto-Plgle-UR, ny much inferior hat and. restore 'the ProPertY of -the stranger, before he could discever that-, ae preacher .htitd headtereentlereritieflethe 1Lth oyeecoat, and his hat had erowited rattled' minister. . This is the second time .this year mistake like this has been. made. One "Sunday „evening, seme' niOntliS ago, I eMerged from the vestry -0.'46- 'lfeene with an overcoat on sthat caused gales of laughter to earn° froma few Women who had remained ,to talk atter the congregation had 1f1 1 was wearing anergoittg away, unknowingly • (though I didn't !feel dressed just right), with the organist's rovercoat, Now, our organist is a tubby fellow and quite shokt. You' Can imagine what kind of spring overcoat he would wear. While it was all right for me at the Shoulders,. it was Scant at the sleeves, and the •length and breadth a ,J!t--(0 ay'sI laugh, yet tthrink how ridiculous it appeared 1 didentiy-see 'MC -grotesque - es .of it all 'in theedimly... lig Vestry ; but wino isget intb the glaring quickly retreated to Correct the mietake had made visitieg the wrong peg, Had I been fifty , pounds tea** and nine inches less in height' that eout might have clothed me with dignity and " • eontained a bodkin, four darning need les, OW large thread nOtales and a Package of 'email meetile$'; and one Of those very yea% needle threader. I 2400se 1 should be lest in an IMMense 'thankftflneses ?for this present, for I am the last man to 10.a needle. (I don't think I ever Set a bUtton mein iny !aftesodd years) ...soy wife is an excel- lent needlevvoinute 'She sines and, she is Arappy when she is se;sing. You Shoruld, See the',gleant of delight when she saw this lahristouts gift,,A.ed Ito* she Joked 'beingesent to: me) Arider'ned have had an uncanny knowledge of the msany buttons on mete and plants that have gdt loose„ soMellews lately; atsiehave Ibsen- a• iconetant source ef trouble. And then the•anysterious holes that Itave• appeared in socks, and tears in other 'wearing apparel, 1040 has been. a bid year for me in that respect. But now- there will be no ?Vegan- for no to go eround with a. hanging ea. missing button, or updarned socks, ok an uinsightly tear in any ga.rment,:and espeelally it anyone takes a notion to seed me some spools of thread and cotton. " Ger visitors have been many the last month. We are always glad to see our , friends and try to exercise the grace of shospitality in a glad sort ,of Wily. Nene were more:welcome than the trainees in military ate4ker4he'eniii in from the Brantford ased, Woodstock -military camper Two boys from ther atter camp ,were here lest Saturde,y for supper and we_had a line visit with l'We'faTIBraTeirali'Ulti&-e--re -srwiii of Ashfield. ', Cl/1y, what ra tall big fellow Blake is! Wheel the khaki was handed out at the censti they r,Vould nave'to go' to the pile- of largest sizes to cover 'his length and breadth. There is ntith- ing puny about those farm lads: ' *, r * . * • * * . The daughter, the:. teachee, told inc 11e doorsto is being well worn. Our the other day .oiedndueting an examin- cullers of...late have been many. Here ations in her school of word meanings are a 'few : the boys and girls selling and how. one boy defined the Meaning Christmas ,eards; wives of men in the of zephyr; a light 'breeze, as "a wild eillitary serviees end in the Uir service animal- like a horse •Only with stripes 1 srwho wish •governatent documents to, be p -and-down." "- ..' *gnett-}for-14identilitation -, purposes; a--- ' That was*the Ziay chewing gum. was boy who wished to have a certificate' condemned by the 'teacher in class. .signed by his miniater'as he Made Out of a classof forty about tele,weee through it application- to join the nevYse ehetvieg. The teacher saying nothing ‘a,, man who goesto the Bible to find about ehevvieg gain qeletre remarked curious things and requested that I that she 'would like fry see $6, end so should specially read the 18th ehapt,er and so stay in -After four so she eould of Job and say Who is meant "there; :Meat: to them' about some matter. These two tough-lookin•g fellows ' 'who said named happened to be the . ones . they- had-hitelrhiked- from :Windsor and who were letting. their %jaws have iwanted enough given to theta te provide -the chewing exercise. The whisper a night $ lodging (how they 'find out went round, - `4ViThat does • she where_the reverend lives 1 ) t the -insur- 'want erste after filial?? What'iwrong?" anee man tv.ho fele Otte sure I should By and by ,each One noticed that the be better protected ,fillancially against c_sthers who had been mimed 'wet* clieW' possible tifisifortnne and disaster; the dug as' they did their work andexer- canvasser for one's vote to help to get eiseS. Presenilly a boy get' up, one of municipal honors; the -peddlers of smiall the offen'derS, and deposited a wad of wares ( they will wear out our electric mutt in the wastepaper basket. - Then bell) ,and. fast -but not leasttlie-haIting, another Came up and did the same, and timid yOUng Man who seems hilf dumb' as Billy Sunday used to get the guilts 'and blushes as he asks if he might see to take the sii-Wdust trail to the front else alone for a moment. I ktviw wrhat of the, evangelistie hlall, Ione by one he , has come for before he gets going. came and,did the Setae thing, surrender- Ile wants to, be married r and I help big, their eheiv at the wastepaper basket him otit by saying, when he asks if I br the teacher's deek en.- their 6,-vo11 am going tobe 'Very busy. on a pertain volition. Ielftethis grim habit on the day, `!`Xes, 1 um, if it, is. your wedding inereaSe? I ---saw an, old Man in his and you have come'to- arrange 'Air it eighties at the presbytery of 'the- 114 looks very much : relieved that I chu:reh 'the . other dlay rchewieg all ,se eaSily came to -the point he has strug- through one session. At a young ped- ple's . meeting at a church', just the other night, five young fellows chewed throughout - -the- meeting, ---one- reading the IScriptiires as he did so. I,sn't that ANal 1.404401Prw# Sooty ANA* if Pf YOU Wm. 100 (Witt leuployameit k pretcsl1y richnocoormot rwitokras Woo, to liMitirEL Ttix.d Arouttetkor. Oirourn and Urromon Po' itrOtvx14 Ofircluato trocomrsit of thsit ottility to haudl. Oar OW Of SOO** Work kr 4 toropotroot xorr000r. 104fARVEL for arsultoreaodeot ress Ii*bleBeauty School with naivety °kerns 40viore-thirlr stu4asit rv trwo*a to Pao Ill Uuvri oot r000niturtirorrs undo tutArto ot fovea* ia evroi brooch of Beauty Cuittuv, ENROLL NOW! Write for lilusittirtfr4 00Pkiet. C1414406 now !Omit*. MARVEL REAUTY—$010013 # Coorodrea Lorribt SAGA 34$ INOolt MOT WEST, TORONTO stro KING STREET Warr HAMILTON DUNLOP riuzvrED axiowilio pion= • or noitow TR.A.OT .(Br H. Johnston In The Louden kiree Press), t ,th ,period from 1830 to 1845 efi1eia1aot the,Cturada Company as well as the 'comp ny itself Were made the butt of an, amount oef abuse that h! kuown as the Warden of the Forest, must bear cousiderable blame tor this fact. -A, writer of nd'intan ability, he vvrOW-----*The WhiCeh-- painted the 'Buren: Watt inr:siteh rO$ie, ate Caere that 8 largenumber of Seats-- men were atttoterl to ,61oderie1, in the years1833, 1804 and len, From (Godes rich they -erossed.- the Maitland and locatedein the tOWnship of Colborne. With charaeberistic pluck' they set- tled down to hew out heroes for them- selves; blinding and. elearing home- steads, • - . But though a 'measure of success and contentment came to thetne there was always the stnlborn fact that coed'. tions in this land. w ere far from beink, equal to erhat were pietured to thexn before'they leflt the old land. They looked. in -Vain- for the, drawbridge at the mouth of the river as Shown in the illustrated -map on the wall of the home office in London; Fai„T., with the draw open and a line vessel passing into the haebor where it fleet of sTessels rode at eaneircaeeeWhatstbeeyefottrtdeineteed a Highland 'fieherman plying 'betweep the Ridge- and the 1C4ioderie1e side, who charged a 'York' ginning as his fare. "Why," asked the elder Airs. Hynd- man, the sheriff's mother; "why' did you write as you dild? You must have knovvri that all of 'The Backwoodsman' Was not true." "Oh," was the replyi. "I knew 1 didn't .tell the truth; but I Wanted good set - den of, the better *Sort." The Ilyndmans, tizars, Kippens, Law:sons, Clultes, John Galt, inniori and a host of others were of the Col - 'borne Ofique;4while some among the -English • contingent of linanigrants,, though hot of the Clique, were anti- -Canada Oonipany. So *rote the Misses Lizars in later years. The Ifirst arraignment against the • company •e ried three indietunente, 'bridges, roa s and mills, and Henry Ilyndlian was, the dIrst complainant. ¶rhfltiiestiiIit was a -floating bridge across the Maitland which parted' in the afilddle to let pas-sih'. boats through - Strangely enough, the only one to come to grief was Mre.Elyndanan himself, He fell in. • • The building of the bridge was fol- lewes1 by the erection of Pypor's mill, but as it was small and lacked power the Olioue wrote of it thuse "Their little tuppenny irnilI down op. the Flats was, Worked- by. a spring, not by the river, 8,6 It couldn't aiWays rim. ,Twas just a little tevo-stone mill." At another time it was charged.: "Pyper's mill was a humbug 4of a mill. 1,V, did the best :we could and ground u ;or own wheat in 'ascoffee mi11 xed on the -wall, or pounded it with a stone In the hollowed top of a Et ax,PIL'''- The lack of ships for titidi1fg the caftuPany's stores of which its Was said they sold Only fish, theSineed for the removal of the bar a:t the -entrance to the harbor, _and many...other grievances gate the Clique- cause for complaint. It was evident that Henry Hyndman I was not only a clever writer but a " „master of invectives as an extract froin one of his contribution s to The 13ritisli Colonist proves. A 'Ain IShade had spoken against the road and bridge building of the Canada, comptpi3i, In such fy way a§ NJ draw forth a defencefrom the company's commissioner. Mr. ,Hyndman did not lite what the commissioner had written . and he followed it with a series of letters to The British Colonist. In one of these We read: "I have no doubt the charge against him (Mr. Sha(1e) will he • triumph a n tly refuted and it will be shewn that Mr. •Jones, priding himself on his skill in navigation, has, in attempting to avoid Scylla, plunged himself and' thcs, Canada Company into Charybdis. °My present business with him 'will ronove him from thte• Straits of ,alessina, to •the wlaters..of Lake Huron and the rapids • of the Maitland, which he may lind as deep and dangerous aird though not no salt mulch more bitter." • Continuing in as:Ong akticle he speaks .of the bridge; projected to cross the Maitland,' as the "Suspension Bridge," bemuse its ereetion had taken abOut five years'to hulkL • An :indignation meeting ofthe free- . 1111111111111111111111111•1110MW111111111111,1W We don't preten,d to know everything, but we do claim to knovir inaolithery and lOw to repair breakages or worn: out parts. Our Machine- Shop is open every daynlid-we are at your service. Geo; PHONE MX W. Stokes m.AoamusT EAST ST. 'SAVE MONEY ° When ycht. buy D&H CONE -CLEANED ANTHRACITE CO4Ly, ou save raoney \as it is coal With little ash, no slate and 'abundance of heat. When requiring more coal try this coal, and prove it for yourself. • CASH PRICES CONE-OLLANED,ANTHRACIT.E, del. $15,50,, BARTL*Ey. VOUlt-POINT POCAHONTAS, del. CHESTNUT,' del. STOKED, COAL, der; FORD COKE, del.. LONE STAR., DOMESTIC and STEAM COAL, elivercd LONE .STAlt, DOAIESTIO and `STEA COAL, in, yard Chas. C. Lee COA,LYARD an.d IIARDW'ARII 'STORE Phones—Office 22 House '112 11.00 10.75 13.50 9.00 8.50 At the arbo • gled for,'Und am so glad to gh•se hiM services: • r r . . , 0 " , • -RADIO-1.1MSPRONUNCI4TION InSaturclat\gTight John C. Kirkwood _ , registers a protest against tile intspro- nounehrg of many 'words by CBI. and other broadeastere, and in long para- graph assembles a number of words that he has heard Mispronounced by•. a'nnouncers, and other speakers. Can you read it aloud without :tripping? For a few WOrds, sti:Ch as :patrietiem and ration's, there may be good author- ity for either of two pronunciations: "As We sat in very comfortable chairsh in tont of a blazing Ilye, we talked aboilt many •things---abeut the war ; about books; about the vagaries of Mussolini; about the incomparable courage 'of, the Britieleoeople ender .the rainGerman' bombs; about the decaden'ee of French, morals; about the machinations of Hitler; about the Duke of Windsor's. being 'eent', to a; post -in the BahamaSeabout the Reich's Balkanaims; about the inhospitable shores of Northern Russia ; abcattethe irrefutable rights of Polantk_ti..) he an independent Country; obOut the irrepar- Ake damage 1Wilieli'GerilianY 'Itaff done literself regarded as a country hof learn- ing and, ceilture; about the strafing:of German:theld perts on the English 'Channel; 'about Germany's despicable treatment of colintries conquered by her; about the inexplicable Japanese; about the admirable patriotism Of the 'Philanders; 'about ehe inadequate ia- t'Ion of the (lerinan people; about the menace to the lelediterrapean trade route between' tUritain and Pak East; about the amenities/ of public air- raid shelters in Combat; about the neeeesity for greater leisure in these days Of great tea:talon ; about, the naive • proposal of tire Axis powers to give Canada to the United' StateS.if and • when they win the war abOrat the baffling problem of the world's) super - litmus wheat production ; about the ,indispatablessaperiority of the; rt.A.r, pilOtS over. Gentian pilots c, -land %about , the obligation restino on u114pUb1ie broad-catlertram141614wood stars. to he InetietilOusly correct In, pronunciation." —Mount Poreet Confederate. ••••••••••••••••• (Trestilloaal) A. child tide ditY borstr A. ehild of high mown, Most worthy of it alcePterk A. sceptre itod a crown; Itefraiu Nowell, Nowell, ,Nowell, Nowell, sing ell we IteeitUile the Xing Of 411 MHO '7!V.as born this Wooed day ''i'$titlinos shepherds heard. In -field watehing their foltIr Were by an angel to them That night revea.al and tO14; _ To --w1t-044,111e anek spoke, '$aying, °.ndre Be glad, poor eilly eliepherds-, .Why are you so dismayed? or lo' 1)4ring you thlin Of gladness and a mirth,\_ Whieh -eometli to all people by Thits holy infant'a birth: Then was there with the wage' ,An host lueentlitelit- 01 hearvenly bright soldierer' rout e g es .wite sen X.4 a110 k the Lora OUr And, his celestial King; All glory be in'Paradiee, ThiS heavenly host did sing; Mul .s the angel tO1d tlieni, 00 to them die appear'; They., found ',tile' Young Child, Jesus Ohriet„ With Mary, his mother dear. igilgutts :fur altIrtrit-, maxi- - A rhyme for Aohristmas, ye good_telks all, • ,& song tor the time of year, - Make merry music le bower and hall, With, hey! 'for a day of eheer. • But season the jest with a kindly word, And let love deepen the song ; In the outer way s thereare hearts that "' bleed, • • And hands that labor long. . • As the feast is laid, andl the cup goes round., . And the, Christmas fun r4ns high, -Orgentiesieleark-tb theetIolefal-souude Of the homeless "neath the sky. For how shall, yo keep the Christmas •r. • Or therish'ifS Founder's name, Unless that your hearts be open wide To Ins people's want and ehame?„ - • holders Of Ooderich, Colborne and - Stanley Was held to cendeniu Mr, Hynd, mare but, he„ nothing daunted, eon- tinued to -write more and more letters. _ The Dunsosseerote. an able defenre the company, but the Controversy ton - tinned for years and probably slid 'some good. Of one thing we may be certain, the Colborne 'Clique, led.' by Henry Hyrodnum, waged a long and' bitter battle against wliat they called: -the sins of othission and coroanission of the Canada Company." IN THE GOOD OLD bAYr - ' A man whe says his grandmother raised eight children snceessfully the West when the Indians were on' the waniath sendsr along the following: Grandmother, on a winter's day -Milked the cows and fed, them ban Slopped the hogs, saddled the mule, And got the children off' to school; - :Ntite; "Did you ever ,Ikee eompany of women silent?" Ike: "Yeah." Mike: "When?" Ike: "When the chairman azAka LO ol&kt VtriyUP," .9 # , • Agonizing Eizeitia (Salt Lein) • No rest, day or night, for the** afflicted with that • awful tkin dia- enema, or"sallt rheum as it is commonly called, The *Wasp burning, itching and smarting, especially at night, or . whet the atecte4 raft exposed to i3trong heat, or hot water, are almost unbearable, and, relief is gladly welcomed. To get rid of etterna it ia necee- BOY to haVO the blood clewed by tee WM of a thoroughly reliable blood medicine Jet& tot BurdOek Blood Bittera whisk during the past 60 years has met with great success in relieving au& diseases by its Wood cleansing =a purifying properties. net it. Unborn Co., Ltd., l'amattr, OM.,1 t• _ . , O4 Yr. villiMillik909140 ; • Headquarter on enjoy doping at "wad% HO= GEMS An MOT ••• _ ammo 04411. Cutlery Scissors' Lank irons Carving Sets Iitch ets Aladdin Lattips, P,YREX Ot:iTEN- WARE TEA POTS TEA -irrnizs FOR EDAD Pocket 'Knives, Razors, Carpenter's Tools For :the, Kiddies Sleighs CoasteiNagousi ockey - NUT CRACKERS CHRISTMAS TREE UGH orse 'N. TKE HARDWARE _WITH A Eon- OF GIFTS PHONE 283 THE SQUARE 11114WCMCV011441Ct. tintarerttart •••• Did the washing, anoppeththe floors, Washed the windows' and did some *__ehOrilS; Cooked a• dish a home -dried fruit, • Pressed her huSband',s Sunday' suit, ,Se'sept the parlor, made' the bed, • Baked a dozen loaves of bread; "• Splikosome Lfirewoed and lugged it in, Enough to fall the (kitchen bin; Cleaned the lamps and purt en oil, Stewed sorde apples she thought would Spell; • :Cooked'i sumer, that was delicious, .And afterwards washed up all the -dishe.s; ' 'Fedi the- eat and sprinkled the clothes, mended a. basketfu.1 ofhose, ¶Clien"opened the &tan and began to AWhen. you Como to the End, a a Per - Pet Da,ye I1ow march have oost us the evils that,, never happeeed l—Thomsae Jefferson,. • 'Don't Let It Be "Too pttle Too Late" , Don't—we beg you—let it bethe same old story—"TOO LITTLE HELP— TOO LATE!' , • • , Don't let Greek heroism blind Ili to the fact that Greek civilians and childrev. behind ,the lines need help—food, clothing, bOmb shelters, niedical supplies and .equipment‘.. Don't let Greek courage smokescreen the , fad that Greek cities—from the immortal Parthenon to peasant hut, are being rath1ess1Sr bombed, women and children blown to bits. Don't let the colossal problem of civilian care and, relief become 'a millstone around the ,neek Of fighting Greece. ° This may be the turning point of the ira:ri Don't let it be "TOO LITTLE HELP—TOO LATE!" Do ,it now with. dollars—the help that doesn't *have towait for factories or produetion lines. Greece can tse tomorrow the help you send today. • For the, people and land where democracy SaW its birth -h -open (your hearts. Any contribution, large or small, left wall Mr. T. Manjuris, of the Vein's Restaurant Goderich, for the families of his heroic fellow-coutrymen, will be ferwarded to and • gratefully acknowledged by the Central Committee in Montreal. 4 • TEAR GOT AND MAIL- OR DELIVER' ANY BRANCH of:the, goY4 BANK: of Endosod is my contribution $.... , civilian relief in qyeece. Name „ , Street ... ° • City • • ** le # • • • • 4 . •• V • • • • • • • 0. • • • • 1,1 • • '• 'CANADA 4 4fOr • • • • O, • ar. 44•64*0 • I, • • O. • • • * V • II 4 • Make eheques payable to GREEK WAR Rztazr rum) Ir • t.4