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Mt, AND MRS. '3 E„ inirett
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TAYNCIAINNON0 Sept: 1.,-.-V1OtOrf) Winghalla. ..FShe haii Spent Six Weeka
as 84PerviaOr Of AVOn pl4YgrOki1dt•
Stratford. •
Di'M and Cheryl Kilpatrick,
children of Ur. and Afrfi... Palmer Kil
Janice, AtwO0(1; patrick, :Toronto, who ItaNte been
We are giad to 144.0W Zr: 1103r lealidaYing at *Benrailler, SPent Sat4
.0111434 Whe 14 StiA atgleafOrth- 11087" urd4/ With the co4Sins? Linda;
ptta, Is 011OWing Signa of 110We; anaMy and Billie Blake,
•,ment, after the aCcident aleVv• Weeks'. , Mr. and MrS. JX, ,D4Waela and
•.ago ,in whiCh.'4411,e'Watil SerfOnslY•.4n-- Kr. and Mrs, E,Verett ear
„,.4nred
%BOO.). at3 I)Ossible- AIMS, going via Manitoulin and
pip
• Mtgs. Gwen Fineigen .1s. spending rettu*Ing by xprt,b. Bay,. ,
a„.feW. 11011E10A Wi.th• be ParentS. Abner Mearrie etterit TkntOdaY
111.0ei'•36... taking over teaching duties. with her daughter,' Mrs, ^DoUglae
9, East Wavvalloall. near Freeinant Olinten. ••
with Mr and M. Cecil 1/14ke• en*
,Rundax were,„Mr, and lVirst, 0004
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ISIr and Mrs.' Zack GtikiPviskt'ithd
the latter's: brether,,', Ronald Dickson
Of fAende in spent the Weekend. ?fitia"
•Kr. an.d Mrs. Thos. Dickson. • . ,
•Visitors recently with Mr. and
Mrs. Barney Beninger -were .his
nePltew, Rev. Father D, Beninga of 'years and 4 is not without rano-,
Rochester, N.Y,, and Kre. Patiterine ance that they are leaving the ,town
I3eninger of London; also Mrs. Joe of which. they will. always have
Lambertus, Teeswater,,, and Mies M. pleasant memories. • Their manY
Larabertes 'and .O;LambertuS, fi,3ask- friends wish them. good luck and
atoou. - ' ,....happines6 in their neW location.
'WWI OVven Stewart has returnea; •. • ,- -•' - , • v .
\
, front suinmer employment at Iver - LEGIONE'I'TE$ • '.''Ale ' Rolm'
The Gecieriela. -'LegionetteS -jeur-
71Zillt 130f.ei.Dellon:;:an:on U•'n'i'ted ch7ti' rch for an eithibition. game with the
- Mr. ,,Alex. Smith will. occupy the neyed to Ripley Wednesday evening
on Sunday morning. • , Ripley' . Flyers, The Ripley ladies
Mr. and Mrs. 'Albert_ OrSer "are
celebrating their diamond. wedding
anniversary on 'r s*:ee
,A.shfield Township Ceinacil laas
awarded the contract to the Gaffney
Construction Co. for the construc-
tion of a new Ridge over the Nine
Mile River on the 6th cencesalon,
t� replace the one that was wrecked
I by the Spring floods. The new bridge
will have a 78 -foot span, 20 'feet -
wide etcement and steel, and' will
144 and Mrs, EKutch. left
on ,Viontlay'eOrIbAr new -home a .
LondOn. BefOretheir deParture 34r,
'Milt 04 Wit presente1 bill* neigh'.
poring blaStneSS men With a Ronson
ligbter Its a farewell tokee... The
• Are brigade, o Whigh Iz Wag a
Member and. „secretary for mOy
yearSt.nlet Mad Vated hint his salary
for the reniainder of. the Year; Mrs.
THE GODtRIOR 'SIGNArral;
The 1841 Election of Dr. Wm. mtiorkas
Member of Parliament for uroo
(Coiatinued le6m pa:01)4 . tipael‘ umrhaYe the- effect prent.,
. This sort (if •Oloutrast Ang disturbances whieh. May. be Of
4 ,iast issno, in the_ eipetio4'. was replied tliat Wolald be resPOOSible•
wakii well played up: • very seriout, Db_itiop
the ill feeling between the Colborne NI'th b'is °YerYt414 t4at
• • . • - he yossesSed /or the orderlY,
Seatch 1)-i.eabitarian.s and Oa Iria4 and peaceable behavior of, his sup-
(Itontan, Catholic and Oriinet) porters. 'And 'that was all the Sat-
iSfaction thatIones, received, •,
the•-actital.--:-openhtg
of the electiOxi, ,theprotednre
propesing the candidates • cent-
Ineneed, . Dunlop Watj PrOpeSed bY
shave ot aj4 irishman .404 RansfOrd,' a magistrate of the
Mr. Muteh WaSt the 601041' Weather
wignas
wit liy,40
The largest nutnber' of M4l,te gild
trailers art the Ooderieh 0400 CaMP
at '/Iarber Park on an one* 4ay ,thia
SlinS'On,. 'VAS' 400Ording: tO 4he.,
Xeeercis" of. Pert 'Prereton. About
1.24 trailera have, visited *the camp,
so far this season, ' • •
. Kora :people pine fFolgl4ra,tfoO,
than from any other ' . Two
Stratford PAM' Slyeel. And. 0,'
.W who elements in the popolation. Jones Shurtie, . have camped at the park
daps, wea the goeat. of honor ata otase be was an jrishman Others haVe cOme groin Various parta
,,,r-F-Yeartor-the-pastletentYleafer
follews. them to T4Ondon.' in 4 feW.•• had won over the partly bfr.•
;.gathering of* tter friends and was 2
p yo y e S. e 0 .0 •
art' b j Th lb r !tea had Montreal, Sault, Ste. Marie, "NeW
ef the Thalted*',States and Canada.
•111-coneeitied.contenapt fer,•ataytthing -Plekeard and • Sask. ; •are
presented with a rhineStene breeeleT,.
Thnrv are° t,the ointa troln theY',
addition, te his otiler activities
observer,, and his successor ha W•rr;: rsa than
•Post'IS •Mr. GUrd'Qn SaMPSOn, Bri- t qni• Pne b°r41 we"
tannwroad. big, 4 gathering of ;the elan re,
Mr.' 'and, Mris.. Mnteh. Were re:1414' /narIced: "Ye-1ra irerra' happy
eople
Se t h er a Presbyterian
deiatt; of Goderleh for". thirtY-filre Ter a ° ° '
and ye have narffe-raff,Irish amen&
,
cost $27,800. The Provincial Goy-
ernment will pay a subsidy. to take
care of a large portion Of the cost.
To Train at Stratford Hospital. --
1 A. number of. friends gathered at
the home of Mr. and ,Mrs. Isaac
Cranston, Ashfleld; on Friday even -
leg in honor of' Miss Rhea Durnin,
who has entered Stratford General
• Hospital as a nurse -in training.
• Mrs. Percy Blundell read en ad-
dress and Ruth Ann Kerr presented
Miss Durnbx With a purse of money.
'A Social • hour was spent and a
dainty luncli was served..
Bainfold-Aiderson:=-The-Unita-
church, Dungannon, wag the setting
..., ...teran:_e_ta_r_12.2...veddhag- on
Wednesila ' afternoon, Serateraber-
W-Vilien ---4-151itaIT-'1011.ngeSt
. _.
•tfaugliter of AIrs. D. Edwin Anderson
Iii-d-tlielateMel-Anderson;-Dungrtn,.
non; --became _the., hrldef - WArre.n
Craig ,..Banaferd, of: Pr.esfiiii; --Eli'
son -of -Mr„ and Mrs, Thomas -J. Bam-
Won, 11-9. After the game, .
Such statements were not
eondudive to harmonio,us relations;
nor was Dunlop'S well-knoWn
�pin-
lon that the Orange Order was "not
Oatir arrilimeeeSSary but a positively
'pernicious union."„. Be was on good
-terms with individual Orangemen
(as he was With nearly everyOue
in lauron), but 'the, CoMPatgAl of
ficerS .naturally played ,04
known dislike of the Order and dr
collated the rumor that, if elected
cenntY. and•; large. PrOPrieter-
7-t'er•n'S roiloPtVegas aren
l and . and • se, •
'Prevent him from .being heard,' but
he calmly waited' until they had
shouted 'thenaPelfes Q.U.tZroseph,
ng,s p
have come, ' ' •
•-1V1r: V. itedfOrd, of tlinbut'st,
Whose. grandfather tinge ()ivied; the
Bedford Hotel spent twa weeks at
the Camp during the Oret part p
Wilsom-managed to make himself'
heard to second the motion, • Dun-
lop then made a brief .speech. ;ohn,
Rignall, chairman. of Strachan's 'STO,ATFORD, Aug, 39:-Ma.gia.,
eommittee, exPeeted to propose trate A. 10. Cook on Saturday 1412
Strachan; and if DunidP ia" correct, Pesed two-year sespended.sentence
he had been Preparing, sPeech on Rosa Cook, 101 Heren road,
fer‘ the past' twelVe montiol.MUIS Goder10, after the accused,pleaded
doubtless exaggerated, but he ,had t6 g charge Of false pretencea.
been making elabOrafe Preparations P. was charged that 'Cook traded a
or some time.' The spe6ch,' how- dump truck' that bad a lien of
ever, - was not to be • heard; for 0„250.50 to R. Kenneth Sebben, R.R.
, Thomas Galt, the Doctor's scrut- 4, Stratford. In exchange he re -
Meer, took particular*delightin pre- ceived 41,800 and a car valued at
. venting him from Presenting it on $1,000: • The- accused -was also,
ound--thatras--he-had---no4et, e ntled.ant4h I LI to kee
. he should not be allowed to address the peace; ordered to Make restitu-,
d tife- electors., For lack of Bignall, tion and _assessed court costs:
Al-
e an honest Irish yeoman was picked though the exchange tOok place in
- .out of the crowd, and though he November, 1947, Sebben told the
y was, in the Doctor's Words, "as my • court he did not 'Itnow of the lien
t friend t am Slick bath it a little until a week before the'eharge was
o b,um-squabbled" at the totally laid last July. • ,
, expected honor, he got thrOugh the
d formality of proposing Captain Mrs. G. • J. Hetherington has pur-
y Strachan creditably. He was sec- ehased the dwelling heuse of Mr. -
a onded by - Morgan Hamilton, who Earl Pratt on St. David's street.
e "staniped, and roared, and raved, Mr. Pratt afid_Alaughter, Lorna, are
c- snd in the energy and passion of moving to Stratford. ,•' •
his address utterly demolished a
1. fur cap which he held in hiklmnds."
c-• On Monday* the polls closed. with reported on August 29 in favor of
n- a majority of six in Dianlop'S favor. Dunlop. •
s- Consideratle tension prevailed all When the news reached, Goderich
's day . as the voting proceeded, and it spread- like wildfire.. A group
s, various incidents occurred. • The of the inhabitants Assembled at the
d barroom window . of • the itiSh Steamboat Hotel to celebrate' the
r- 1.Hotel was.driven with -brie Vats, victory; - and---,-41anYz:•-n-glase• went
r- and Isaac RattenbUry, the hotel- aramd. Numerous festive dinners
d keeper,..repeived a. blow on the head were held. Typical was one in
m-- that causect-severe,ednkosion, 0,the_r honor_ of Sechar Brongh-, -DunloP's
in violences were Committed during the able counsel in the investigations-
August. •
•
maKay,-kaaiiaget of the Ripley tea,* .DunloP would en-eourage the Scotch
d-refreshmentsr.---erc----the--li
at her home, a courtesy whieh. was
much enjoyed by the Legionettes.
Manager MacDonald of the Legion-
ettes thanked Mrs'. McKay for her
hoSpitalityi. z_The Ripley Flyers will
be the next visiting team on the
Goderich softball diamond in the
near future:
TENNANTS TO MON'XglEAL
Kr: and Mrs. M. B. Tennant, 'left
this week for Montreal, Where they
will in future reside. During a
residenceof ten years in Goderich
they Alere 'active in many social and
conamunity affairs and Bruce was
prominent in the Lions Club, oc-
cupying the president's chair for -a
term. •They leave many warm
friends'. in Goderich,
• •
_ork Done._
IILIAM FERGUSON annoinices the establishment of -irt
servt in plastering; stucco work, etc.; in Goderieh and district.'
Rates are reasonable and' first •class work assured. Get that
job -of -plastering -done NOW.
PHONF.--94LT -TODAY--
CALI, AT 98. SOUTH_ Sr. GODERICH.
- ,a9lf
ford, orAttburn. Rev. W.4: Rogers,
of Blyth, formerly of Dungannon,
officiated. Wedding music was
_played by D.onald Aoss,•ofalt, and
1Vliss Marietta Sanger of Dungan-
non sang ".Because.". Duringthe
sIgning-o ge
to drive -the Irish from the county
!Se -cliff One-"Feltpl-drtratIreirDtiar;
lop 'had plenty, of Orange opposition
Besides,- all theSe-grievanees eta
disagreements to make election tiro
upriiiirious, there was a ready will
ingness to break loose eccasionall
and celebrate and, drink and figh
and have a rousing good thne t
relieve the\monotony of pioneer life
In all ,this welter of grievances' an
clannishness and infiammator
speeches and plain 4polling for
fight, there is little wonder that th
1841 Huron election was a specta
ular one.
It *as to begin on 22 Mardh, 184
For Some time previously the pie
tion committees of the rival- ca
didaeS had beetverybusy canvas
ing the cOnnty for votes: Dunlop
committee included Daniel Lizer
John Galt, and Henry Ransford, an
niet expenses by subscription or -b-5
rowing. John Bignall was chat
man of Strachan's .committee an
no deubt had money from tfie Co
pa.ny. 'Dunlop as very 'popular
•
•
altar was decorated with giii-dfort
4_0(1'..before
place and was given- in marriage
Thebifir CrAmiersom -
She wore a white slipper satin gown.
fast one t
the:Tract,,and seemed, am_easy win.,.._ night, butthe hourly expectation of Henry Hyndman.presided; noise and
ner ; "at any rate,' aeeerding to th,e 1e Military" served-ta•-eurb4he-ex--- atighter-kepther-table--in-.:
Britisholonistheaptaiii-LStrt-tatant; r ision...-zor...,44ssionmkero.op, -st4nt_ unruar, jp,:chael_Kelly push- ,.i, ,,,cAttmuzlEmerjEwsmo.T.,, THANKSGIVING DA
'has no more. chnnce than 4 stump- arrived on Tuesday 'afternoon. and. ing 1 the Canada waligiThre-'-'587' .1'"'i
'i:. FOAL- '-'2,:irloiii. niarriiiTY esettlied' ,=---1176gli'=--iartifhtiatettbelitin'EitiZ*.
trilled-V.X.':.iii "i1Y7TIM'er:'-:-.-Tlift-ir.'weret-ror -effective--stabiliziarg-inflo•-, in,.his--A;beelb...q.trOw-svas.alway,S, gosid„ „,,,
eVetiiiblition 'when' .1'..--elat'tiriven.-13y• ,hity.,Yet-been,inaderlt.,isAnnoun!lett,;,-
notto..be....,wondered4440en.hi 04-1,.. nee. _Dunlop„exiiressed the opinion for., --a. jok-e: When a speaker 1 ...
1 f G derich crashed from Ottawa that Thanksgiving Day
dettoieirlingiply—sroir-witir-yourrery 7 "
need for ichool.
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11 d' wi h'sweetheart neckline
are not freeholders."
vvith 'sfa4 drape. land train which
was previously worn by her sister, -
Mildred, who was married In Bri-
• carried white,gardenia and stephan-
Otis with a streamei of -white -ribbon.
Her sister, Hlen: 'Anderson, as
bridesmaid, wore a floon-lenfth gown
of powder blue taffeta faille with
matching iteaddreaS and gloves,: and
carried deep Pink gladT1l. Mr.
-Harry-Brauley of Terarlto--attendo
the groom. The ushers were David
Anderson of Locknow and J. W.
• McLeod of Kincardine.-- After the
ceremony a reception we:h. held at
the bride's _home. •Mrs: , Afiderson;
the bride's mother, wore a greY
crepe frock -with blaek accessories
and a• corsage of pink roses.' Mrs.
Bamford; the. groom's mother, wore
Slack crepe and matching acees,...
.sories-and-earried_a :Corsage of
pink roses. After a wedding trip
to Northern Ontario points, Mr. and
• flueeee, and many -of Ats members porters would not havP been able._ fore the horse,"• another rose to a anto 'a ITYdro Pole -oil Iftlienty '214. :this' year,:wilL-ber ast,usual, the sec-
prou , o o
mittee, even, is possessed of no . in that hid -trey iiiit -a-friVerhir -gtilt1-• ferretrto-something-as-sthe.Pcirrt-be-. :,- 7 .1-3 .a. , ,
Joint •of order graVely correcting a -shurt-distance-north of Bayfield, onti.--Moulay---,0f---0e-toberr-the.-71,1th., .
him as to the vehicle being "not a
cart but a wheelbarrow."' All the
i)octor's supporters were jubilaet
and someriileelin.g prese• quite in-
adequate to express their feelings,
---oVentiowedin conpletk ,such...alsw.: '
Old Tiger; -smooth your angry
A floburiifissthleis7 w ‘jf p, en,n.,y,,.. whis,tles, _
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-Wave, 'flags, and banners -,' beat ye
The (111111111urso'n•s - charmin-.& mem- ber
cast -whenever an hour threatened: •;-";•--ecaues.
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tan Mb.rch. The full-length veil
of illusitd,tulle trailed from .a cor-,
• (met ...of_anuige blossoms_fted_she
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, •
__4:11),e_plection aPProa0,ed, feel
ings ran higher and higher.- The
to approach -the polls. - •
. Tuesday ended with a majority
of thirty-one for Strachan owing to.
intimidation by the Company, if
Dunlop's supporters are to -be be-
lieved:: The Doctor and his com-
ittee-saw-an--adv ta ge--1 keeping
the polls open as long as possiblb to
give their friends frame the outlying
regions time -to ieach town. As one
vote had to be cast every honrsto
keep the polls open,, the Doctor's
_town supporters saved their votes to
• at 11 o'clock Saturday night The
pole Was broken. off,. carrying the • HEAT MEETING •
live wires to -the'ground. Bayfield .„ The intense heat of last ..Frida.y.
Saturday before, Bignalrtold Henry was thrown into darkriess, and night delivered a knockout blew to
Ilyndaran that. unless he retracted patrens at the dance hall had rlif- a. scheduled , executive meeting• Of
his decision • to exclude LohgWorth
r(f-nf. -he -polIS-thete would he -a riot
1.-Ietary, who • never • backed ,downin
bis life,, *loftily infprniek I3ignali
that ••ir mai; his responsibility, *12 he
knew of -persons Who were goirig to
create a riot,' to deal, with -theni..
-Alarming -reports -of • •threatened
nine of of- Dunlop's Supporters from -
Williams township arrived in, Col-
borne _- Saturday., ,night- ,,,or early
Sunda,' morning; and when Lizars
VMS escorting them, to '-a-ocierich- en-
Slinday, the ,party found trees
thrown faprosS-tlie rond- andde-
fended by a group of Strachan's
supporters . under • Longworth's
leadership. Some of these men, not-
ably' a George McOonnel, grossly
-bullied-bullied-endebiised Liar.
However, nothinglatit words passed
in this encounter and the party suc-
.1Ars,,,B.asaftz.kr.d,„ vd-
-*here -groom,-,is_ .tne'e-"Ttlhedul-ti_ to7irre-own W-f7uilldoefiehbatie
staff of the Collegiate Institute.
didates• supporters and littie,
an -
vas
ASTIFIELD needeti to touch things off. Dunlop's
in
account states that his men,-
' deference to the day, furled th
•
ASHFIELD, Sept. 1. -Miss,, &tilt _,
MacDonald is spending the •last
week of holida.yS in Detroit with
. . .
relatives. •
Miss Joyce Gould of Toronto is
visiting -with Mr,- and Mrs.-J-ack
Gould before entering the General
Hospital at 'Toronto to train as a
ntirse., .., - -
- Mrs. Sara MacKenzie and Bever-.
-ley are attending the C.N:E. this
Week. '
Mr. Hector MacGregor of Texas; is
leaving, -for his hod& today • after
visiting with. his brothers -at the
-old nine here.
Miss Lois MacLean has been visit-
ing in Owen Sound with Mr. and
Mrs. Shilroth.
Mrs. Brandt and son Andy visited
last week with her sister, Mrs. Will
-MacDonald, and Mr. -MtreDonald.
• - Former Resident -Passes.- Wor
hag been received' by relatives here
of the death of Mr..Sirrton Styles at
Halkirk, Alberta. He *as the eldest
son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Thos.
Ow
t .lesa„.,110,
was bo , ao farm -
1
us noillitritrn a ' , tiliTiflY
left 'here almost Utz, AI'S ago -for
the West. At first . !Mon worked
at the steel works at Sault Ste.
Marie, but later he joined his fain-
ily in the West,, where be engaged
in farming. He is survived by two
sisters and .two brothers. . •
TAYLOR'S CORNER
•
TAYLOR'S CORNER, Sept
-Misa--Aattliey Gino-hris- been vialting-
hr. PindOn and Oshawa and will
Visit the C.N,E.
Mr.. and Mrs. • IRin..7Snyder are
spestulingn .few dayik at the psnitdinn
National m,Fhibition. •
Mrs, Ben • Whitely spent a few
days in. London -recently.. • •
Ladies' Aid •Moetingoi,arlie Ladies'
Alirittlr:Tireir*Septeinberneptingi•
at 'the bottle •of Mrs, Iloward 'Sturdy.
ednesday a fternoOtt.. There
aS a good. attendance; A'splendid
humorous readirig WAS given by'ivIrs.
Ken, ' Holmes. It was decided •to
hold the, annual baZttar about the
'early ort ot Noi'etuber. tWaS
repotted by ,the tit:ensurer thitt over
tn,d-been ,reniized. ticnn tho:'
nottes tor the, antograph • (Milt.
Plana were made .tor „quilting. tile
quilt And 'gelling it. A delicious
.lunch .' was. served by the. hosteatea.
?rho October -meeting, will be held
nt the- lioine of Alfs.,
-LIS418ses•-.I-nne-ond-42.-41s---Soirerby-of-
. (loderieh tnwnshlty,kpent -ii-114t week
at Growl Ouests of Atr. And
, gt'S. 1atclatsypit.
eir
electioneering flags, went quietly to
the tavern recommended by his con1-..
mittee, and. from there to church in
the afternoon. Strachan's • sup-
porters, however, "having been met
by a mounted -posse- iwith banners,
insignia, and the other ridiculous
paraphernalia of electiOneering,
entered the town with colors flying,
hurra ing, shouting; and yelling, gal-
loped '•up one street nod down antf
other, for no earthly purpose, that
•.we could divine, than tb make an
ostentatiens display of -their 'nume-r-
feat strength,." Two-thirds of them
had no vote and were only trouble -
makers: .I'robably both 6andidates'
f(
the oproar ; the town was in such ced to do so, for he was well
supporters added about equaBy, tat f
a -state by Sunday afternoon that
nen rl y everyone- ); vya s somewhat
alarmed,as to what the actual ppen-,,
ng---ott-the--electlon on the morrow.
would bring. .
Slitolay afternoon, Lizaret
rlyndman, and Ransford decided on
their °own initiative that it would
.11.kaLiAlgerje,,AlliAkteallitn.
Wrinie on -the- shfe'sfilr. fife
to -be . voteless, • and volunteers_ rOde' ...See him, evertors- ihere-he--stands-,-
expresses to the outlyingdistricts1 A masterpiece from, Nature's hands.
to bring in the voters. ,,,,,.• After a Behold his thonsaird-natural graces,
Week's Protracted 'doate§tin 'whithl•Ilis opera- stem hiST.sweet-grImaces4
nearly every eligible citizen in the i Thy mathhless fitness _all surpasses
district (and many - whowere not ' To rule a 'commonwealth ot Asses ..
as events were to prove) _managed Go home,. Old Boy, thy brain is
to vote for one sitie---or-the---other,--it-,-- .. _addled,. - - . . . ..
Was' announcedthat Dunlop had 149 1For HurQn's,membernow is saddled.
votes and Strachan 159. This beg-- of the more - interesting tis•
garly majority the 'Doctor did not . peets of. the 1841 election hi Iluroll
call a triumph for the .Canitda Com- lare its turbulence and e extent
pany, put a disgraceful defeat, tak-ifo whieh its result depeu d on local
ing into account the fact* thitt.litlt,harrels. The_ violence a 04
.'as polling nit its 'lierVants, debtors; companied it was hot -unique, 1)
and those ."whoni-Btirke"-ltas So ir7,n-inee-w 1.11 e,- -phennmenon,If, ,one
justly desCribed:_as ,pascus with a' my judge by the close to twenty
lively sew% ofgratitude for favoels contested elections that 'took many
to come." Election week ended
,with a parade of both victors and
vaiantished. . .' ' . •
This, however, was not (0 be the'
_end. Dunlop decided to contest the
election, and his ,Colborne friends.; proceedings . which have attended
especially _Danial Lizars, set feVer•-:- many ,of the contested *glens."
ishly_to work to collect the .necessarli -we might almost be justified., in
evidence, In three .letters . in the saSfing that in every county were
British Colonist .addressed to the i there has been a contest, there has
free -holders of. Huron, the Doctor heen, .a riot. -.Tories .and. Liberals,
I
set lorth- his case. For Captain rnionists- and. Anti -Unionists, Cola-
Strachwit's:Tersonal conduet, he had servatives- and Reforiners; after
nothing but praise -it was "honor- struggling at the polls all -day, .have
able; upright; and .gentlenitudy." iinishedwith a 'general hand-to-hand
Against his opPonen•64, he bore no fight in the evening." • .
enmity -neither against those who This widespread prevalence of
hopestly supported Strachaii„, nor vieleoce during electionproceedings.
even less' agaiat those who were was, to a certain extent the result
of a feeling of uncertainty over the
Pxtent. to which responsible govern-
ment was to be introduced. It was
also a result,, if on'e can judge. from
the Huron' election, of the personal
issueft on which ,the contest turned.
The two rival factions hi the com-
munity ,Ileh ptit up their 'candidate'
and fituglit the election on.the basis
of ,local ntul. persona differences.
44:11,11;;IIZZartid,tilterlettefeCtiOnsg:416011,,,
Mg "free-for-all"' which provided an
excuse for anyone with an old score
to •settle.it -violently. • The continO-
ons presence of large numbers of
the opposing candidates' sepporters,
who after potning many milea over
tlifflcolt • roads usually; ,stnyed . in
town until' the contest was over,.
made einshes almost. inevitable.
Perhaps a factor tahe considered
in accounting for the singular tacit,
lotion of the IIPper Canadian elec.,
&irate (it ehrtliged.its-mind in prat,'
tinily every election in the .eighteen -
thirties and forties)' is the possibli,
ity that the outhome •of ,many elee-
tions, especially In the *outlying dis-
tricts, -depended .primarily• on 'Meal
affairs. .. The power of tlie . local
group to which the candidates ite
,tivegteitnNvitt it.)4trnitoe_oreiiitnrfietirtnpeetAttihoe4irt
record of the Reformers- • and the,
-entistitutionAlista, especially if they
had Maria . the same polities Or .124
In the unsettled 'state a prittles#,'
they did not ••clearly belong to 'an,
party in particular,. At any.; rate,
'Dunlop was elected lit 1841 in Huron.
Mere because he .Wakt the represent.:
.ative--of - the- CliOtter.ond' hermits?. he,
was; personally popplar, than le,
cause he; wiis 11...00nStitaitionatiatl
Straeltan was, , a • - COnstitutiOnalist
too, but It was -oniy his' ,a8Soelatiati
'4th the. -Company 'that won hint
IS `VofeS-. Urlietlier'oe titirthivati
.n_izenernliv nrevniling' characteristic
weeks of the Assembly's•time to in-
veStigate ; or by remarks in, the
press such as the• complaint in the
British 'Colonist:of April 7 concern-
ing the "Violent and disgraceful
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aware that they would have had to
vote "for one of .• Cominiasioner
Jones's coach -horses, if that gentle-
man, like Nero, had been ambitious
of proenring for his ,resbectable
quadruped . senatorial honors."
Though -he did n'ot charge Strachan
or the commissioners Wfth personal-
ly . using any irregular Means,' tile
latter were_ to blame in that they.
Vln-jitltla'aIW-ifkt1b1frrttlti.fifi4A
Acuity in finding their way out; Goderich Beard of.Trade. When -
-AS---alieged--thatiprpta Wa.£3
driving the car • while his ;license
was suspended. • Re is being held
on a • charge of careless driving.
Betty Kennedy, an occupant of the
car, escaped with A shaking up.
Two other OCCupants were unin-
jured. •
ProVindial Constables-- A-ubr
Butler and James Culp ffivestigated.
THE -WEATHER
Temperatures of .the past week
in Goderich, with those of the cor-
responding week a year ago, as
• officially recerded, were as folloWs:
1948, ' 1947
-Max..•4Min. Mai. Min.
Thurs., Aug. 26 ..92 69 , 78 ' 62
Fri., Aug. 27 .-.94 75 ,82 61
Sat., Aug. 2g ....91 74 76 64
un.,- Aug. 29 ....85 .,-69 • 74 56
Mon., Aug. 30 ....76 62 80. 63
only aboot•four members defied the
humidity -and Showed, up -tor the
meeting, it was deeided to postpone
it until Monclay,--September._13th.
•
WAR PARTNERS
Now the democratic nations „in an- .
other tillibtilS
g___Iiteparations for , an-
other common cause; •
Thotigh .'peace is highly spoken of,
- the wstwar-worithdivides • '
And possible belligerents , are busy
changing sides,
So when our next V -day' is due, for,
these alive to see, .
With fighting -friends .of Vorld_War,
-Two opposed „in World War '
Three, - - .
Though_old Allies have fallen' out,
• new ranks will 411 the gaps -
We'll maybe cheer 01M, Germans,
• OUR Italians and OUR Japs.
-Sagittarius in .The New States -
Wed., Sept. IT ..72 46 75 5'2 -
1)r. Dunlap nor Commissioner Jones the. election. that they did not care
was. con s ul ted-proba bly because
they both wonld have objected to
Snell a, proceeding. John Galt, a son
of the tioVeliat and pioneer of the
,sanie name, Was., a famous pedes-
trian, and was chosen for the under-
taking. He set out to -walk the sixty,
miles to London, the ,nearest- gra*
risen town, to accomplish the mist,
Sion. Dunlop, when he heard (JULIO
how a maii voted. Jones -did make
a statement to -this effect • at the
polls, bait was scarcely convincing
when for .weeks all the Company1s
servants had been'using every means
In their power to securethe return
of Strachan ;• and when, an officer
of the Compnny with 5 *Company
list of deeds (which Dunlop's sup-
porters were ndt permitted to see)
appeal, said that he really regarded was acting as Captain -Strachan's
it 'as tnneeessary ; but lie wag hi scrutineer. Not only ignorant but
lip position to protest, as it wag
his -cotemittee \which Wns respons.
ible . fon it jelleS, however, tva0
extremely indignant at the slight
on- the -county implied in the 'need
Intelligent settlers were -fully con-
vinced' that the -Chinpany would
, • •
adopt vindictive measUres- against
all who opposed their candidate.
• -Colonel John Prince, a close -friend
of the -Military to get throtigh ae of, Denlep's, presented his petition
election ijeacenbly. He was prob.- eoncertling, • the, eleetidn' result to
,the 1410..,Tlie,, matter., was .refer -
get hlni it -ergot -Tally lido d1ft1eti1t1 red'''"tit' -•geteat'i.Ortaillt166"-ficr'liP
,as the .manager -of the area. „ ovetitigation,' which. waS duly. carried
On Stinday evening a s,pectal Ineett• ont first at Rstcktibnry% ilotet snid
Whith both Ditnlop and ;torie later at an init-on the London read,
attend'ed, was held to swear in mat 'The Inanity was mostly a matter
Constables. Jones apprOathed MM. of sifting th1-tit1bS0 fhe voters' for
lop •sttying that Jte-koew that they Strachan. The Oftinda COMpAny's
both wanted the, election to pass off books were part of the evidence,
,peacetibly!„ „told chained that the needed, anti 'a • highly comic touch
greatest ittimedlitte-thi'eaf ora 'at -BE' Was added tertlieprotteedints -by the,
turtiance arose, from the 'feeling twice daily pilgriniagei that Kichael
aroused by. Ryan -11'11011'a deelsien to Kelly; a ilttieese1, Irishman,
e*chnle Longworth frOnt ..fhe p'6110.,' the, C,oropairea" Very lOyal and deL.
Me' offered:1)A oPiniotC"on fhe pra 1Voted doorkeeper, made With the
priety,** **ortherwt8b �• mi„ book#111...k.),sg*.boei.Nttio*,. to Itat-
IIrocluntn'i ..objeCtiotis-htit X sub.l totibury's in the Morning, and baek
o tssuitg4 to -the COntiiithY.OfflOctorsa2etfl.,„
theta, atstlie Present morneatl is . at- .tveryone anxitttisly
vety ,grent,„ Told tlint wlr.,:klyndinonts,
..fitoPrOSsing his feelings for tbe
of f"*piTeirrit ita Man- -ele-ct1o)it1it,-(•e1t4
awaited the' result of the levestiga.• tory ago. only s widen study of hwat
tiOn, The Select toitintittee •tinally 'history will reveal.
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vett '11,1*-e..iladil!.s.
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Ice Cream
Bisset Bres, are donating 5 cents on EVERY
GALLON OF ice cream zolit i.0 Godetioh
and Siltford to the New Artificial Ice Arena
Fund.
'''''44INSLIT"TartISZET'BROS.4*10E
CREAM! Get it at the following
dealers:
.Harvey Cutt
K. C. Cutt--
Godericb. 'Frosted Foods
Alexandra Marine and
Geneyal • Hospital
Thos. Rand411 •
Mitchell 85 Bedard.
W. Roope
K. E. Aitken
Bi4tsh Fxe.haAlgt gcbtPl.„
Park House
'Club Grill
Burow's Grocery
Vallee'a Restaurant
.11ogan's Confeotionety
Beri:s7.an.A4Donald
o
,Venus Restaurant
Cafe
People's .0tore
Sunset Hotel
Mait1aii4 Golf 'Club
E:esaBemanstellt.
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