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\ A copy of a letter written
by a Goderich resident more
than 118 yeersnagoto his bro-.
tiler in Scotland was unearth-
ed by Mrs. Bruce L. Smith, St.
George's Crescent, recently as
she was sorting out papers of
the late -Bruee-Smithe
The letter was written by _Daniel
Lizars, wbo ceme out with the
Canada Company in 1833. He was
the great grandfather' of the late
Bruce Smith and also' of Mrs. W.
J. Davidson, CoboUrg street, and
Mrs. (Dr.) Ivan D. Wilson, Light-
house street.
Dated "Meadowlaeds, Col-
borne Township, August 11,
1836" the letter continues on
in part as follows: "Atter all
this about •others,- I stitSpect
that you are wondering what
Ihave been doing myself. We
have encountered what ' you
old -country people would call
(-le `every species of priVation.'
Sleeping for nights together
e oil the open deck of a ,stearee
boat. Eight of us stowed in
a schoonefe cabin (more pro-
perly, den), not larger than.
your breakfast table, and that
for three nights without a 'fire
on board the vessel. Ship-
wrecked at the goal of our
.destination, . and after our
escape, pigging together in a
slab house without lath or
.plaster, floor, windows, fire-
place or chimney. From thence
removed to a log -house the
whole area of which was 24
feet by 18.
Afterward, (May, 1834) we went
to our own -land where we occupied
a shentie.or bothie constructed of
saplings and the bark of the black
ash tree. All this while we had no
other bedding or raiment than the
little .we had brought along with
us, our heavy luggage haying been
no less than 12 .months in transit.
For five months ef the. above 'men-
tioned period tvhile my family
were lodged in ia log -house belong-
ing to nays.excellent friendDr.
Dunlatisa I Was rotated (as Jona-
than calls it) up. at my land in a
log-shantie. There „I and my men
sat on the gniund ate ,from our
laps, all the while the 'clothes
never being off eny back except
when I went down on a 'Saturday
ight to visit the Wife end weans,
busily was I engaged along. with.
my choppers clearing the land and
preparing logs for- a home°, At
length 1 did get a house up, and
to it we removed on the lst
November 1834- .
It is a good house and is eon-
sidered the best log -house An
the settlement. I.was my own
, architect, and when 1.". next
write you I Shall send a plait
and eleVation of ff. It con-
sists of. a kitchen and six. cap -
'Rai rooms. The apartment we
intend to use as a dintrigLroona
, is 20 feet by 17,- the height
fear') the Iloor to the ceiling
rb.eing 9 feet 7 inches. We
have besides a closet, a scul-
lery, and an excellent cellar
as.dry as a bone. Things are
beginning to look up with. me ..
at the time they ought, namely_
when the money is done. We
are eating bread baked from
our own wheat, also our own
'mutton, pork, poultry, turnips
and potatoes. We have fire-
wood in abundance for the
labour of chopping and haul-
ing, and" the purest crystalline
water in the world. We have
besides, ralebrewed from our
own barley. -The year before
last wehadour own beef; last
year (1835) we had none, but ,
this present year we shallebe
"full and fetch .inair" as to
beef, mutton, pork, veal, poul-
try, eggs, milk, butter, cheese,
ale, beer, and sugar the latter
from our maple grove which'
also yields us molasses, vine-
gar, and a beverage ',resembl-
ing between chaniPaign and '
ginger -beer. We are ;also look-
ing forward to have honey of
our own.
I have 19 acres under crop, and
11 more chopped which I hope to
have ready for wheat in the fall or
autumn. I have also 10 acres of
beaver meadoW under hay or in
pasture. My stockconsists of a
pair or yoke of capital 34:lung work-
ing oxen, nailch vetvs, 4 ;heifers
(the whole seven in calf) 2 young
two-year-old bulls, 2 calves, 3
sheep Mid a pony, besides iny
poultry whith•consists" of 3 geese
and a gander, and 30, or 40hens
and cocks. My trop in hand is
430 bushels ;o1 -potatoes, 70 bushels
of oats, 70 of barley and 60 Of
wheat, also the straw anda gandlY
stack of hay: I 'omitted to Men-
tion 5 large mine, 3 of Mete sows,
all in pig, a prime handsteme boar
and a hog fattening for the Table
which will be ready for the knife
in a month hence. a „fortnight
thereafter, the first litter of pigs
will make its appearahee, when We
shall be able to indilIge oarseleet
with two be 'three Of the little
squeakers roasted,
The next litter Will COMO
March. the Mire its Ma
Besides what' 'Id. ,Useit ,fOr 't
SuPperf , theanfly
reserve for Seed 'I, •
for displisal 000' ,b4Shela,,
I(COntfritted" .paeg' ' )
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Statement Requested
nRecreation Costs
Goderich Town Council at its next regular, meeting will
likely study. a financial statement, showing the cost of oper-
ating Goderich's "recreation program, last year and the
estimated cost for this year.
At last Friday night's meeting; couneil asked that John
Berry, secretary of the Recreation and -Arena" Committee,
and Town Clerk -Treasurer S. H. Blake, prepare a etatement,
before consideration is given to le grant to Cover this year's
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'Give Facts
APpearing before cooncil, Mr.
Berry and Gordon Bannister, chairs
man of the recreation committee,
gave council ,factsand figures on
recreation operation., e
TWINS MISS $500
- Pak twins to be born at
Alexandra Hospital in 1955
arrived. on Saturday. Parents
of the twin daughters are Mr. n
and Mrs. William
Mary etreet, who have three
sons and two daughters, the .
latest arrivals increasing ,the
number of children to seven.
During 1954 there were six
sets of twins born at the Gode-
rich hospital.
The arrival of the Million
twins on January 22 was just
21 days late to cash in on a
$500 prize. A Chicago firm
'offered 'this amount in gifts to
any parents having twin girls
born between midnight and
noon on New Year's Day. '
'Mucha' Snow
Away She Go!
"Have you' any snow up your
way?" asked Cayley Hill, sales
manager of The Dominion Road
Machinery Company, Goderich,
over the phone on Monday.
"We sure have our share," re-
plied W. A. Galbraith, town clerk
of Wingham.
Soon after, an experimental unit
snow blower of DRMCO was on its
way to Wingham for a piece o1.
test work. Sure enough, Wing -
him h,ad enough snoW to make it
look 'like Hudson's Bay .in cortre
parison to, Goderich's banana belt.
In -short' order, the DRlytC0 snow,
blower made the snow on Wing -
ham's streets diseppean like dew
ih the morning sun. It loaded,
snow without stopping into three
trucks and kept,them busy carting
it away to Wingham's outskirts.
The snow removal didn't cost
Wingham a cent. The whole job
was just to show others and to
assure DRIVICO once again that
their snow blower really does a
job.
It seems a strange coincidence
that an the very same day there
should arrive at the 'Goderich Post
Office a parcel from a Wingham
resident reminding us of the com-
paratively littleesnow we have in
Goelerieh. It was a voluminous issue
of "The Miami Daily News" and its
pages were full of bathing beauties
cavorting on Florida heaches, or
seated in comfortable lounge
chairs under the shade of gorgeous
trees while the blue colored waters
.of the Atlantic sparkled in the
sun just a short distance away.
Thank you very much for, the
interesting newspaper, Jahn
Hanna, • M.L.A., of Wingham, and
we hope you have an enjoyable
holiday in Florida.
.Giving a summary of activities
at the Memorial Arena and Judith
Gooderham Memorial Playground,
Mr. Berry exPlained the commit-
tee's first full year of operation.
He noted that council had made
a grant of $5,000 at the beginning
of last year to enable the commit-
tee to pay off debts that had been
incurred in previous years. Also
received were a $4,000 grant from
council's parks department budget
and a $2,902 grant from the pro -
v 'MC lel' government.
At present, he said, the cOrn-
mittee was asking council for a
$5,000 grant to balance the books
at ;the end of 1954. ;This grant,
tOgether with the $4,000 parks
grant would mean a $9,000 grant
for 1954, he explained.
For 1955 operations, he said,'
the committee wanted a $6,000
grant from eouncil, actually $3,008
less than last year's total grants.
He pointed aut also that it was
not entirely through .arena oper-
ation that the committee needed
money to balance the books. Oper-
ations at the playground showed a
loss, he said.
Mr. Bannister told Council that
wages made up a large part of the
committee's expenses, although
salaries were being kept as low as
possible.' Cost of insurance for
the arena, he noted, was $2,700
annually and the arena's water
and hydro bill was about $600 a
month for six months of operation.
Answering a question eft.=
Councillor C. M. Robertson, Mr.
Bannister explained that children
have free skating 'periods at the
arena as least four times --a week
and there were free hockey -periods
for 'minor teams.
Pay Insurance
He noted, also that it was the
committee ;and not council that
paid the insurance premiums.
"That changes the picture," com-
mented Councillor Reuben Besse.
"It's something I hadn't known
before."
"I think it . would be wise to
have- a statement prepared and
published te educate and inform
the public what is being done with
the money spent on recreation,"
said Councillor James' Donnelly:
"Give the .public a true picture."
On the suggestion of Mayor J.
E. Hackies, council decided to
have the statement prepared.
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AT MEETING
E. D. Weaver, ' manager of the
Goderich Public Utilities, Commis-
sion attended an executive com-
mittee meeting of the Western
Ontario Waterworks Conference in
London last Friday. Mr. Weaver
is vice-chairman of the committee,
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'Neighborly News' Program a
Marking 15 Years On Air
A, familiar radio voice.. h
whic
each Sunday...announces the birth-
days Of -people 90 years and over
on Sunday tak-eepart in a spec -
al national prograin markingthe
h anniversary of "Neighborly
s," a popular radio feature
he d every Sunday at , 10 a.m.
ove the CRC.
will be 15 ,years on Sunday
since e Ontario program of
"Neighborly News" went' on, the
air, For, the past seven years it
has been broadcast by Don Fair-
bairn with Reid Forsee in charge of
production. The ,program is pre-
sented by the CBC in co-operation
with the Canadian Weekly News-
papers Association.
It wic11- be remembered that Don
-Fairbaratraand-Reid Forsee were in
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WhlOr'•Will'hietk. the
' Goderiai for the 1952 Old Home
Week and broadcast their popular
program direct from the Goderich
Memorial„ Arena.
Don Fairbairn took over the
broadcasting of "Neighborly Ne*s"
seven years ago , fallowing the
death of, Andy Clark.
The special anniversary program
will be heard at 6.30 p.m., on Sun-
day, January 30. , It will include
voices of other regional comment-
ators and also that of W. B. Saw-
don'af Sackville, N.B., president a
the 'Canadian Weekly Newspapers
Association.
During the fifteen years of its
existence "Neighborly News" com-
mentators have scanned more than
150,000 Copies of the ,Eriglish-
language weeklies of Ontario and
Quebec, and have read on the:
"'air
more than 30,000 items totalling
some million-arid-aehalf words.
Since the program leegare greet-
ings have been extend -ed-, to seine
40,000 people in 0/aerie and Que-
bec entering the ranks of the
"Over-Ninety-BirthdaY Club." CBC
personnel have travelled rnany
banes daring the 'fifteen years to
produce the regular-Sun.day morn-
ing broadcasts from 25 commun-
ities, as a special sabite marking
an "Old Rome Week", or some
other local celebration.
• The fact that city dwellers like
the peogram as much as those
Who ;live in smaller eentres has
been proved by surveys—Neigh-
borly News as a larger a,utilence
:than any 'other )prograM on • the
air at the titne of its broadcast.
se CBC's Reid rorsee"will produee
ihe special anniversary program
Dan'Pairbairn will net as he'd.
orste has been'jvitlt Neighborly
-since the; prograrn 'began.
artingout as. its anneunCer erld
later beaming -producer, the post
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ONTAR10,.. THV SDAY, 4ANITARY
27th, 1955'
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Next time. you drive past doderich 'PublitiOSchool, watch for the youngsters ,. who make up the safety
patrol guiding the pupas across betsy intersections. The patrol, under . the sponsorship. of Goderich
Jaycees, is being trained and instructed by Chief Constable F. M. Hall, Grade Six student Richard Watson
is one of the efficient members of the patrol. He is shown at left in the above photo. At right are Ron
Ripley,first vice-president of the Jaycees and Chief Hall. (Signal -Star Photo by Henry)
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ouncil Agrees To Install Clocks
On New County Court House Here
The new Huron County
Court House and County ,
Building in .Goderich definitely
will have otaside clocks.
Town Council in committee
of the whole last Friday night
decided to accept plans from.
International Business Ma-
chines Co., Ltd., for two four -
foot clocks on the outside
Walls at the north and south
ends of the building.
Council agreed that it would
pay $1,682.50 toward the cost
of the clocks, which weuld be
fully automatic: • ,
In a report received from
County Clerk -Treasurer A. H.
Erskine, information obtained
front the company showed that
the time -keeping, system,
--- Would include a master _clock,
18 inside wail clocks end ,the
• two outside checks. All the
timepiecewould be controlled
from the master clock. '
Divide Cost • -
Town Council aged to pay
one-half the cast of the master
clock, $317.50, along with
$1,300 for the two , outside
clacks plus $65 for installa-
tion.
.The connty will pay oh•e-half
the cost of the master clock,
plus Wiring to all the neces-
sary outlets.
The two outside clocks
would be enclosed in a brass
ease and would be illuminated
and weatherproofed.
After the centwer-old Court
House in Goderich was level-
led aby 'fifi in February, 1954,
there was considerable 'specul-
ation among residents of the
town whether the new build-
ing would have outside clocks.
Town. Council, realizing that
people had become accustom-
ed to consulting the four -faced
clock on the tower of the old
,building, has been working on
the project with county offic-
ials for several months.
Gave Assurance '
Goderich's deputy -reeve last
year, Joseph Alleire, who also _
sat on last year's County Court':
ell, had assured Town Council
on a couple of occasions that
plans -were geing ahead to pro-
vide outlets for .the clocks and
county officials were giving ' Plans forthenew bridge to
jgetGoderich, eliminating the use
good co-operatiall an the pro-
,
cross the Maitland , River at
Only thing left to be decided of the present bridge at Salt-
ie whethee the new clocks will ford, have been changed',4 ac -
have striking devices. Town cerding to information Oven
Council has obtained informa- to the Signal -Star by a semi -
ton on different types; of official source at Queen's Park.
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Chimes; although no -.decision It is expected that an an -
has been reached on -' obtain-
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nouncement will be made
ing them. some time this year, possibly
'Keechoo! Kerehohl.
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-before the provincial election, Yes; it's surprising the number .
stating exaetly where the new of colds there are. -arOund riett
bridge will be built. Work on now. Have you seen the Cold. ..
it is at present scheduled to remedies listed in Einerreinae Dint
commence in 1956.
What the "new plans" are (S4totrhee agivgenratii.esetamre?nt 'Oin,r ththeas toniestue:
was not disclosed. It has been for kiddies and adults to help ward
previously stated that four dif- off these annoying colds?
feeerit routes or plans for We think yoU're the loser if you
crossing the Maitland have fail to read carefully the ads of
been considered. Among these Goderich merchants inethe_Signal. -
was one in which the highway Star. Net that we expect yotr to
would leave the foot of Cain- rush right down and buy., every
that's -
. .bria road and reach the oppo- thing at's advertise*-, but the-
site bank near Meneset Sta- there are suggestions Mt ,the. ads •
tion. This would involve con- which remind you of Vikings you ,
siderable expense; neces.sitat- need and which is to, yeur advent-
nig , e long suspension -like age to eventually buy,. You sirnp-
bridge to span the Maitland.. "ly:can not help but notice where
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film, the largest crowds in the his-
valleyprices of various articles adver-
tised have been very 'definitely re -
tory of the tournament watched a
dieted. These particularly low
special East-West challenge match
,
Derry Day Parade. prices will not netsa
esrily continue
between ,the WinniPeg and GodindefinitelyWhy not make a lkOlf
rich entries. The first game end- To Attract 25,000 of them now—and if you need
them, buy now at the 14)w prices
utes of overtime play, but Abe'
ed in a 6-6 deadlock after 22 min -
offered, *eying dollars oil the fam
eGoderich, for the first time in ily „budget
youngsters nngisgthetr scamet,t;re
replaythe
tghaemfeo,ilaonwd-
about3o0tindr
yearfso2
,wiI01,10)0e0thteo 250gather-,0oho
11 you heerteanr,i tehrfiereeitritw, ,t,theriaifixticy ,
the 'Peg team edged Goderich by inggr
a 5-4 score. members of Black Preceptories of -7 -news for you in the advertise,ment
Ad on team from Water- the Orange Lodge on August 13 in this iseue of F, E. litibbert and
na strthis year for the annual Derry Day Son. Read their ad noW,_anct' see
'loo won the Grand Cham,ionship
parade and celebration. what'we mean. '
trophy for the second timep, having
Town Council greeted penrnis- Right now there is a sale on of
won it previously in 1952.
sion last Friday night for use of washers at Blackstone's Furniture..
. So, now that the entry forms are
th hien d r
Agricultural Park and town streets Look at the prices quated in their
the Vnnnci
Or the huge, celebration, ; ad and figure out bow mucli you
Appearing, before council to re- save,
quest that the event be staged here Heading into the home stretch is
was Elmer Webster, Varna, who Pridham's 55th anniversary suit
Predictions are that there will said that the celebration, held last sale. We know they've sold a raft
e over 50 teams on the list by the year at Port Huron, would have of these specially price.d quality'
middle of March. an all -day program. suits. There's a reason ' fOr. this.
... Yotell get an idea why by looking
4 up their ad in this itstie. . .
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, Ranges Reduced
Maple Leaf :I.O.D.E. Praised It's "no foolin" with Service
. . . Electric as ther a nuny offeaber of
. brbdegg,iiegY.1;
e ranges at prices which arefrank
FOP Interest In Immigrants
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January sale and we suggest you a
Because of his interest in the e'
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neck off the food buys offered in
their ad andfill the faniilly lardeT
Depertment of Citizenship and tin- '
wi;Gthertrilacnird'S is offering • weekly
migration in whigh he formerly
lines for men, women and t141
served, Han. Walter E. Harris,
specials in
ren. All you have to,,do is ibok at
Rea so n a ble 0:Ali/lig
present Federal, Minister of Fin -
the prices in the ad, and
mice, has written a letter to the
realize they are Undeniably "spec .
Maple Leaf Chapter of the I.O.D.E.,1
leis."
as follows:
in the furniture line Lodge Ittirni.
Ottawa, December 22. 1954.
In order to cler od
ture is selling a number of items
a.ds,and endt
Maple Leaf Chapter, I.OrD.E.,
Regent,
Mrs. A. A. Nicol,
a'
at real attractive prices: . Just Invili
t them and youll understand why t '
Goderich, Ontario.
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Dear Mrs. Nicol,
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we say "attractive prices."
,Heving served as Minister of urning over en
11 been
a new watch, now .is the there to
four and a half years prior to July
Citizepship and Irnmigeati6n for
yauf maid the prOble.mof getibng
.. 825 far
last, may I say with what keeh,
act—and at N. T. Ormandy Sewel-- .
ppreciative interest I read the inYou ean get In) to
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1ery
resting revert in The Goderich your old watch at Qrrnander 4 leade
s ea• Coats, suits, dreeses and Skirts! "
ignal-Star of the seventh annual
0.D.E., 'G.-oder-1th, on Deeember
ructive work yen have' been Protri the generous 'Vont "pageit 6 od:461., , of* ' ,
bristmas party for new Canadians 1 (l
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yen by the Merge Leaf Ch;aPter,
gMaanyizlateixotitenindlte your
ngratulations on the fine eon- spirit..... .
yl*kipee-arswo?ael able, constructive community ,riuge' itaarr ;liar it4
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ityip,g an for years past in tnak- sace iveri. in The Signa ,ta.14.7.1.:, fgir 1.:4„ :fil:''''tYi'i!ii.,
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Seeking a trailer by -1w with "teeth” in it, 'eiftt..
at its next meeting wig -receive a motion asking„. Town,
Solicitor J. K. 1-junter to prepare such legfsletion 'aimed .
licensing the use of trailers as living accommodation within
the town. ,
The by-law would not affect the use of Harbor:Par:lel) '
tourists in trailers during the sununer anonthsIt wourd,
however, rescind a by-law passed by council 'est, year'epre-
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hibiting the use of trailers as livingeacconamodation for. more-',"
than 60 days in any 10 -month .period.
Three Absent
At 2 special meeting ' of Town
Council on Tuesday nig)* decision
was made to refer a motion for
preparation of a by-law to the next
regular council meetieg. Three
members of couneil, Mayor J. E.
Huckins, Deputy -Reeve Ernie Fish-
er and Councillor John Vincent,
were absent from the Tuesday
night meeting.
Mr. Hunter expleined to council
that the proposed bY-law would
•not be aimed at stopping tourists
in trailers from coming into town.
But, he said, it would, give the
town jtiriediction over people who
pet trailers on private land of oh
the roadside and Nye in. them.
At least two members of council,
Reeve J. H. Graham and Councillor
C. M. Robertson, said •they felt a
licensing by-law was not necessary.
Councillor Robertson said he felt
that a by -law -Would discriminate
against tourists and he did not
want to give thetown a "black
eye" as far as tourists were con-
cerned. Reeve Graham ,said he
felt a by-law would be a `polite
way of driving out" trailer dwel-
lers.
Reeve Graham said later in the
meeting, however, that if trailers
were to be licensed, he would pre -
New Bridge Plans
fer to have the fee •collOteill.
monthly rather than annalhf„
Mr. Hunter said that „eouncil
brought up. the question of beets.'
ing trailers used' as living moan-
modation last year when it was
discovered that trailer dwellers
could stpd their children to school
without paying taxes. lef the tre,i1:-
er dwellers lived on their . own
property, he said, taxes hatilelebe,
collected for the property -only,
but the trailer could not be aase,sa--"0,
ed under the statutes.
Cites Example
"At present we don't have any -
prohlems with trailer dwellers,"
be said, "but .we could -have one."
As a hypothetical case, he said
that construction workers 'could
moye into, town and live inelerailere
Lor a period of time, send their.,
children to school, perhaps-ga,use-
overcrovvding of classrooms -or tete.; • -
eseitating the building of ae_new
school. Then they mild Melte
away to another project in another
town, but the town could not col,
lect taxes from them. And 110
charge could be made far the
children attending school as long
as the trailer was within the „foam:
Councillor Frank ,Walkoina .eup- '
ported by Councillor' Frank -Skel-
ton; brought the matterle a -head
by makiog. a motion that council
be asked to authorize drafting ,
the by-laW. He said he would pre -
ter to have the entire cOuncil pre-
sent for the decision
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Blizzard Here
Of Bargains
Expect Record Number Of Entries
For Young Canada Week Tourney
Easter holidays may seem a long
time away, but for hundreds of
yeungsters in various parts of Can-
ada,, it can't come ,soon enough.
The reason is obvious for anyone
who knows that the biggest week
in winter sports for youngsters
will be underway at Goderich Man-
orial Arena — the sixth annual
Goderich Lions Young Canada
Week Pee Wee Hockey Tourna-
ment.
Send Invitations
And members of the Young Can-
ada Week committee have .,started
the new year right by sending out
inVitations to pee. wee teams to
come here for the big tourney.
If last year's record-breaking
tournament was' any indication,
this year's week Of hockey should
be an outstanding success.
This year, as in the past few
years, the teams will he classified
according to population -- Group
AA, populatjon ever 10,000; 'Group
A,, population 5,000 to 10,000;
Gawp B, population 1,500 to 5,000;
Group C, population 500 to 1,500
and Group D, population up to 500
and rural.
One entry will be accepted from
Circulation Boost
Reporthd To Board
An., increase of about 10 per
cent in the number of non-fiction
books circulated by Goderich Pub-
lic Library was reported at the
annual meeting of the library
board by Miss A. R. Aitken, librar-
ian. •
Clayton Edward was re-elected
chairman ' the board. °thee
officers are: Vice-chairman, Glen
Gardiner', property committee
chairman, W. A. Bole; finance
Committee chairman, C. M. Beech -
ler; secretary -treasurer, Miss A. R.
Aitken.
An increase in circulation of
2,862 books was alsti reported by.
the librarian -1,913 adult and 040
juvenile. Circulation for 1954 was
32,125 made up as follows: adult
fiction, 16,216; adult nen-fiction,
3,950; juvenile, 9,466; periodicals,
Z493.
There. were 826 books ,purchased
-during the year at a cost of
$1,401.95 and 251 books were dis-
anted. Beaks in the adult depart-
ment total 8,308 and 3,179 -in the
children's:room, .tnaking a total of
11,487. Receipts ,',for cards, fines:
and rental collection totalled
$080.03. .
IcifeMbership tOtalledo ,211,410
1,254- adults and 920 chiftiren.
All.Itoportant acquisition during
1054 was the addition' of a nuton
COunty Atlas of 1079 to the fib -
TAO refer 6 d p t.
Afarnb'eira. Of -the -board are Clay -
ten; V4Wardi:?.016n,. Oardiner, -Mal-
eot StephenS, C,
Wt. lIatehleii:. W. A:
R Taylor and t. Pit- ain,
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each community, except where the
population is over 100,000. Then,
one entry will be accepted for
each 100,000 population. The first
entries in will be the teanis -to
compete • and the population of
any group will be aslaid down by
the Ontario Hockey Association.
- Deadline
In the invitations, the committee
has pointed out that no entries will
be censidered after March 19. Any
boy born on or after August' 1,
1942, is eligible, and. players' .cer-
fificates listing players must be
accompanied by birth certificates
of the players. Entries may be
mailed to R. G. Emerson, secretary
of the 'Young Canada Week come
mittee, Goderich.
The entry form also points out
that each entry is to be 'accompan-
ied by a cheque for $10. payable
to the Gederich Lions Club, and
the cheque will be returnee' when
the tem plays its first scheduled
game.
Chairm•ari of the tournament i
committee again this year is Le 0: b
"Nip" Whetstone, who ' recently!
was named "Mr. Hockey" of the b
Ontario Minor Hockey Association
and was presented with an award
at the association' e annual meeting
for his work in the staging of
Young Canada Week.
ament will have to go some to beat
last year's event, when 47 teams
participated in the week-long com-
petition, keeping the localearena
humming from early morning until
lateat night. .
As television and newspaper
cameras recorded the games on
'Week 'committee is waiting anx-•
ously to see how many teams will
e corning here it(' April.
Western Entries
So far, word from Western Can-
ada has it, that Winnipeg is plan-
ning to send a' tearp,. again this,
year. The 'Peg team entered the
competition for the first time last
year. Only- other entry from out-
side Ontario last year was. from
Tenaiskaming, P.Q.
But for thrills, this eear'stourn-
New Officers
Huron Chapter
Installation of Huron Chapter,
NA, 30, Goderich, R.A.M., wes con-
ducte,d by Ex. Comp. Robert Bisset
and his officers, 'assisted by: Rt. Ex.
Cornpe-W. a Roope, II.; Ex. Comp. 1
W. Ross, J.; Ex. Comp. W. Curry, a
D. of .,C.; Ex. Comp. C. MaeDonald, te
S.S. The installation was held on s
Tuesday night of last week. C
Offieers installed were: Russel gi
Pfrim4Iner, Z.; ,Gordon Keating, It; 1..
Frank;, IVIellwairi, J.; Benson 10
Strati n, P.S.; C. Laithwaite, S.8.;
gen tinter, J.S4. J. Vroema.n, in
as,f W,"..1j. IRoope, S.E.; Robert co
Bia'set..; H. T. Barker, organist; st
Bushell, 0..G.; M. of Ist Veil, ca
L. E. Westbrook; -M. of, 2nd Veil, in
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Doug oDonald; M. of 31x1I'Veil, in
Mel.. ex; M. of 4th Veil, Ralph
Henderson. ' . • in
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Canada. ;. . I Chriet" efepatty, and,,, , ;10,
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list, .1. .took tbe, oecasion to., ilsher ',i e.'t.,,,,-,-,g
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itri ,,,,_, 'pert tonittirriit , ,S "17t.: ilEt'00#
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