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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1958-09-18, Page 24tT ritelt-TWO"-- - re.4.1trt•f .4...•••••••444,44.4, ..............P•••••••••••••••••••••••f•••••••.1•11.1.1.0.•••••••••,, • ----THE-GOICEITICIrgterNACSTAIt' . alit (6alierifil eignal-EPtar 0 HURON commis FOREMOST WEEKLY _ : , ...,,.1.6. 'Established 1848. . In its 111th year of pub/460km. - is -- - •-•‘-^$,•-•`r." ...,.,..rd,m,, uldiliteir.1) - "8 ttikr- 4 40'11 4'1 14111.14ed . . „,,,.. , iittegydR.WattiVit-49'.` It" .,-il 4,„% Advertising Rates on request. Telephone 71. , IP LA Authorized as see'ond-class mail, Post Office Department, Ottawa. Out-of:Town Representative: C.W.N.A. 237 Foy Bldg., 34 Front St., W. Toronto., Over 3.000 -Largest circulation of any newspaper published in Huron County-43ver 3,000 Illsinsbor of Canadian Weekly Newspaper Association. ' Member Of Ontario Weekly, Newspapers , Assatiation, Member of Audit Bureau ' of Circulation Geo, L ELLIS, Editor and Publisher., , ,•• '-'1111URSDW ''''YISEr171-807-1958 'rHVIIISDAY, SEPT. 10th, 1958 40.14.01 FALSE HOPES ON, LONGEVITY Recent advances in medical science, have raised many false, hopes that humans soon may Ave regularly to be 100 or more_ One ,well- known U.S. 'authority on old age has said that the normal life span, from a purely physio- logical point of iew, is probably betw.,een 100 and 120. Actuaries, however, Who usually have their fee' t more firmly on the ground, are, less opti- mistic. Although the 'average life span on the 'Mirth AmericanCOntinen1 has been extended' since the beginning of The ceetury from about 47 to 69 years, it' seems that the most they can promise us is an average age of 75 years. ' The effect of major 'diseases on long life is overestimated. Total elimination of, cancer, for instance, would only add, one or two years to the lives of average, humanbeings. Abolition of heart disease would add, perhaps, nine years. A miraculous avoidance' of all accidents by people of it, and more would still give them less than one year's extra lease of life so long as. bodies eontintie to " Wearout" at their present rate. ?ENGLISHMEN AND HUMOR We have yet to meet a real-life Englishinal who matches the stage version in his inabilit7 to See one who says ".Bah Jove !" However, if you Must have your 'Englishman slow on the joke -up -take, there's the one about • the chappy who. asked his friend if he knew any new stories. !'"Well, I know -one about A dirty window, . but you woiddn',t seethrough it." • Later, in the day the friend heard the Englishman say to anothee, "Reggie had a story about a muddy window but it was so dirty he wouldn't 'tell it to me." • One -of our British born friends hardly falls in that category: We were describing a Beleek pottery dish we had bought in Ireland, a lovely bit of potty of interlaced strands 'like a woven basket, with tiny openings be- tween the meshes. "Makes a good soup bowl," we ,suggested, without cracking. a s_mile. `'- ' Quick as a wink, and equally deadpan, he replied, "Oh yes, leek soup no doubt," • • --ICVP Philosopher. BY-PASS FOR STRATFORD NEXT Many Ontario cities and towns ;that early ^ in the automotive age persuaded the govern,' . ment to route highways over their main streets have latterly been engage1 in trying to get rid of through traffic. At request, and in some eases without, the Department of Highways has constructed bypasses. These are recog- nized as in the 'interest alike of drivers trying to get somewhere, and of local drivers impeded on their lawful occasionsby vehicles 'passing • „, through. , , • . Stratford.,ottucil and provincial alithori- • ties'are to disetiss soonthematerof a bypass, proposed some time ago without result. High- , ways 7, 8 and 19 use one of the city's principal .• business and residentialthoroughfares, and residents of Ontario street have.complained of 'the tioise•fRin heavy traffic. The remedy should not be diffieult; except perhaps in regarcl,to Highway 7. There should be no need to go away out in the country with an alternative route; it ought not to bypass the several excellent motels jut east of the city. But a bypass there ought to be, •for Stratford at most hours of the day iSa formid- able 'bottleneck for through tiaffic. Motorists - baying business in .town can .still get there, ,aided,by appropiate direction signs, as on by- passes at Kitehener, ,Galt; Guelph, North Bay, • and 011 No. 21 Highway here. SUNSHINE. IN ONTARIO-- • • • Youcan'thave everything. _Statistics._ prove it The Ontario .Department of Agriculture has just released a book. of statistics based on information gathered in 1957, One of the il- luminating .groups of statistics has to do with the number of "hours of bright sunshine" en- joyed by various sections of Ontario, Of nine scattered centres in Ontario where records were kept, Toronto had thesecond largest numl)er of hours, of .bright sunshine during .1957. With a widespread reputation As "Hogtown,'_"foronto seems to have a firm grip. on first place in having the inost in almost every .fiehi. in:OntaPio. But,..w.hen it comes to SUIISIIino, that's under a diffe'rent managrnneit and Toronto stood second, In first plaee'was Woodstock. Ontario, with :1,134 hotirs of 1;i:iglit sunshine.- Toronto -had-4046 hours to_2'.. •second. . In third ,place was Ottawa. with 2,038 hours. -Lindsay was fifth with 1,896 hours but May be ahead in the 1958 statistics after.havng had the bull figbt.sfrom sunny Mexico there during the summer. In sixth place was New Liskeard with 1,784 hours while Moosonee on the shores, or •James; t; Bay was seventh with 1,694 hours. The. conundrum is Harrow in Essex eounty-the "Sun Parlor of -.Canada", "the. Banana Belt" and all that sort of Cali- fornia propaganda.''' Of the nine centres,. Har- row stood fourth with 1,921 hours of sunshine. That one is hard to visualize. Closest centre to Goderich for which stored se.eond on the list. THE DAYLIGHT SAVING MUDDLE Goderich District Collegiate Board ha'S made a request, well ahead, that omen .next year switch .the town back 16 :41andard time' not later than the end of September, One draw- back to retaining fast time- through' Ovto.ber id that students in the Countr are getting up in the night -or anyway, the dark -to Nteh school bues. AnotIter is the practice of muni- ealilies terminating dayliklitihne_al.„.valrious_ dates, sonietimes at this time of the yenr ad iancing or xtending the closing' date to suit some local- condition, • When E. N. Lewis, MP. for West Huron, presented to • Parliament 'in 1909 the proposi- tion, then new in Canada, of.gdvancing the clocks in summer, school buses were far in the future, and enmity pupils at collegiate boarded in !Own -five days of the week. When DST was 'adopted in 1918, it was 'mainly as a war- time measure to eonserve fuel, The 1TS soon repdalea it, , as result 'of:siren uous opposition from farmers, and farm people have eonsist; entLy opposed it ever since, for well known reasons, jt may not be a ,"eurse," as'.0 pressive MI. for South Huron once called it, but to mosT rural people it is certainly a nuisance. In the Commons last year, 11. 0. White of East Middlesex,- noted' that Windsor and .Chat- ham remaine.d on sta ndard time all year, and. called upon the Government to hold a national referendum "toend „the time confusion once Ontario bards' • of trade were .reported, pro- posing a provincial iferendum to "let Ontario people decide what they want" Their interest is eommendable, .but as no such vote is likely to he ituaninious, the municipalities that con- form to Toronto time and the group that keeps step with Detroit presumably would continue to go their separate There is no sueh thingas a daylight saving "bylaw," but mere- ly a proelarnation, lienee no penalties to enforce • local observance. -If the present confusion is reckoned suffielenly- objeetionable, a federal, or prpvineial enactment could arbitrarily bring about uniformity, one way or other, in aeoord- ane6 With the -views of. the majority 0106SIN9 AN EMPLOYEE The biggest gamble in farmink is the wea- ther, but the biggest gairrble in a business is people. The right persdn .in the right. ,jb . nothing in the world of liumhn relations is as im-portant. A specialist in the hiring, field gave us some simple rules which will at least help re- duce the number of mistakes commonly-mada. in taking on a new employee of whatever capacity. 1. Beware'folf first impressions. Some people 101th dazzling personalities are complete duds on the job. Sotne with drab and colorless ap- pearance turn out to 'be whizzes, 2. Oct references. Don't be impressed with the nanies given you awl say, "If he gives e- e mu t all ri 1-kt " Get in touch With thein . a o t em. You may that some have never even heard of the appli, eant, or have a limited knowledeo.bout him at best. We ,recall the registrar of a college some years ago- tellittglus .that the poorest re ferene of all' is .generapf a .young person's • r • 23 ori,,e. , pail or, 1Ie is so .eager to help the youngster, of' knows him only on his best 'behavior, that his recommendation is too highly e,olord, 3 Don't rely too heavily on psyehological tests, The- have limited value, and are over- , sold in many eases 'We find thalt true at KVP. Wegive sueh tests.' They are /valuable as to word knowledm, ability to solve arithmetical ttta probles, and in\e area of analytical dedue- tion, but in the n in, as our employment manager saysothey're useful "jpst as indielt- tions.,"-*Andany young-sta. whi) has had some advaned courses in psychology in college can eome tip with any answer he chooses, for he knows what the questionsare shooting at. 4. Talk with people who have worked the 1 a et some idea of Ins family life behav- ior What a man is off his job has quite a bearing 011 what he is on the job. 6. 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Africa 10 Persian elf 20 Burden 21 Stag 23 One who serves in * • 0/1.1 25 On- w, I iuously I sopports "-tuntry- I 28 0 on age Pronoun 30 Surgical ,threail 32 Mediterran- ean vessels 30 Operated 38 Spanish title 40 Royal 41 Brother of • Cain 43 Cut apart 45 Get up 46 Domesticates' 48 TWo-handied 50 ;*(N.a. labor./ lit Lifts • .spirits of 53 Dike 55 French for "and" 56 Snare 58. Missies 60 Annulled 54 Stupefy ' 05 First name of Peralan poet 66 'Caudal • appendage 68 Measure of capacity 71 Withered 72 Eliele 74 'Form of "to he" 75 Drotir,:.t ie:al,t;•tion agatmt • 70 Tratrrred land by instrument 77 Aeeoin- pils,,c1 DOWN 1 Man's .me 2 :rourth 3 Dusk to' claw 4 Wpi'cls off 5 Printer's measure 6 Irati;•.et 7 Hot -weather drinks 8. Dormouse, 9 Looks on approvingly 10 Sliver 11 Succulent plant 12 Arabian 13 Terminates tambourine 10 Hearing •"„ er',.ans 22 / re.es 21 Antlered ,•,1 met -- 71 Corsair C:et,ledrum 37 Gave /1:ts'-rd quality of s'utitil to Wei•:. of 11,tion 73 Shield 34 Day nom- ee rmo,atang Christ's 35'3, -towers rtin and • 37 Itounqw.-nrm 3)) Thrust back .2 ''.;ducated. 44 It:nits 47 A serous fluid tpl.) 49 Coloniced 52• Sensoned tit* IP a.:14ty tarrying case 57 Edible* seed; collective 59 Toward the , center 60 Designer of U.S. flag 61 Optrich-like o.rd 02 reel 03 Corning cubes 67 YOUth ' 09 Sllti.v.-.‘rm 70 1.1orli,.1 73 Hebrew letter p0.T.41 all 0 MB .1AIL T A T no'El ) L'APEL MOIR 15 5 5 4 I T1 1.7461 11 I 13 I R N A P A 11 gra WAS 1AA L. MB 13 A r TETT 63 �N1UOI/ 13111 ,13113[1_1311 EMU t ortail nun EMS A 1113 t Answer to PUzzIe No. 511 .bon Memory's Lane siC.r. 10(,-Yr,r4s; "Iterwierlea 6 editing Thb Signal, W. H. Robertson annoUnced that he was leasing the newspapea for a term to A. E. Braciwin, form- er editor and publisher of the Parry Sound North 'tar. A natiVe of Wingham, Mr. Bitadwin had also published the Blyth Standard for 12 Stears. The new Star TheatrLon the Square, near Montreal stet, was .epened by J. 4. Culver. who pro- mised to conduct a.picture theatre "secon4 , to none." Admissien prices were 10 cents and five cents. The delivery of mail on Rtrral Route 1, Goderich, commenced September 15. The mail carrier was J. R. Orr. Total length of the route was about 18 miles. , The public school board met on Monday night but there was not a quorum so no business was trans- acted. Indicating ,a desire to prevent motorists from speeding through Goderich, the Ontario Motor League suggested to Town C9uncil that signs be erected to show the town boundaries and -the- speed' - limit. Deputy -Reeve Clark enquir- ed facetiously if any auto driver would go slowly enough to, read the signs. 25 Years Ago Town Cotincil agreed to. spend up to $100 to prepare for the forth- coming misit .o.f..Alle_Go_vernor-Gen qral, Lord Bessborough, though. -some 'CoUt-dillbis thought $50 should be enough. Huron Commercial _Academy opened at Goderich -with an enrol- ment of 12 pupils. The instructors were Rev. Donald McLeod, prin- cipal, and Miss Marjorie Stewart. Thougands of people gathered here for the 21-st Eucharistic Con- gress of the Roman Catholic Dio- cese of London. It marked the ' first time this event had been held outside- of a city.. Arrangements for the day were handled by, llev., -Lowry and the congregation of St.' Peter's Church. , Bernard A. Munn, •of Windsor, was appointed organist and choir- master of St. George's Anglican Church in Goderich. ArOre-lotunlukown-otigin,destakyz,, ed the barn mithe 1ifirliVG6nre Irwin, of Dungannon. 15 Yvtrs Ago A newcomer to Goderich, Mrs, Harold Taylor, of Wolfe street, was appointed dietitian of Alexandra Marine and General. Hospital. She succeeded Miss Joan Groves, who was going to Fort William. ' After the engine of a Tiger Moth training plane failed at an altitude of 500 feet, the pilot' brought the aircraft down safely among the lumber piles of the Goderich Manufacturing Co. Limit- ed on Cambria toad. Goderich Public Utilities Com- mission sent Hon. George Drew, premier/of Ontario, the, following resolution: "That this commission wishes to place itself on record in asking for auniform rate for hydro, power throughout the province, as advocated in your pre-election plat- form." R. W. Ryan, a native °Mile, was appointed supervisor of operations fog western lines of Canadian jft Atr JAM, The sandsucker "O'Connor Dick" cleared this port after raising a drill. scow from the bottom of the harbor. The job took a whole month. 10 Years Ago W. McGrath was installed as president of Goderich Kinsmen Club, Ontario Health Minister Ruskll T. Kelley said the Provincial Gov- ernment would be willing to assist in the cost of establishing a nurs- ing class at Alexandra Marine and General. Hospital. Three 'hundred passengers were on board the 8.S. South American when she -docked at Goderich for a three-hour stak. Harry Westlake was elected pre- sident of the Young People's Un - ,ion of Victoria Street United Members from zones 5 and 3 of the Ontario ,Society of Photograph- ers held a picnic at Harbor Park in Goderich. Local -arrangements were in charge of a .committee headed by Gordon Henderson. L HALF -PAST TEE .13UT DADRY-r TH/NK. HOW POOR WED EtE' /F WE LIVED WITHIN OUR wcomel REMINISCENCES (BV W. H. Robertson) Last week's Signal -Star was, to me at least, an especiqlly interest- ing issue, and an article which I read with pleasere, mingled with rekret ,for the passing of a long - familiar institution, was that which told of the closing of the Black- stone confectionery. It recalled to my mind many events with which I vfas more or less .familiar. For the sake of historical accuracy I • W. H. ROBERYSON, for more than half a century the Editor of The Goderich Signal and its successor, ,The Signal -Star, who contributes the accompanying reflections for this week's issue. Although retired, Mr. Rob- ertson visits ,the Signal -Star office frequently and comes downtown almost every day where he, is greeted on the streets by his many friends. ANNI•moimugy 7:- should like to make one slight cor- rection. It was not the present site of the Bank ofMontreal where the former Ball confectionery was- situated. This was -at the other end of the block on the Square, where the Canadian Bank of Commerce now is. Here, a verandah on the upper - story level projected over the side- walk, and customers went upStalrI to enjoy their ice ,cream in the open air- after giving their 'order the store below where candies and other confections were sold- --- I cannot' fecall that I ever was one of the Upstairs customers, but do remember quite clearly that as a small boy I thought how grand it was for older fellows to march throughthe store on the ground level, give their order, "two creams," and proceed upstairs with a companion to be served like a lord. Another little incident connetted with ice cream (flt at still another place, afid years before "Black - stone's" was established) was in the block between West and Montreal streets. 1, don't know who the pro- prietor was. What I remember is that this was the first time I was ever "treated",td ice cream, My host was Percy Shepherd,, whose father had a store at the ,corner of North street and the Square. How Percy ever crie to "treat" me I have not the slightest idea. If he expected it to be "turn about" he was disappointed, for I was too green to realize that this might be, expected, and anyway r am quite sure? I, did not have the necessary ten cents in my possession. In the way of further reminis- cence I might add that the store at the corner of West street and the Square, where the Bank of Mon- treal now is, was conducted for some years by John Butler (after. wards Mayor Butler for -several. Rev. Robert IL Harper • THE CRADLE _ COMt ARE referripg to Iraq AS 1.3 the land where the garden a Eden was locatd. We cnnot ttJL about the other three rivers that had their source in kden. but wo do know of the mighty Euphrates which, we read ia Gehesis; was one of the four great heads in wigoh was divided the river that floivel gut of Eden to "water the garden.' Perhaps, then, in the immemorial landIying between the TigriS and the Euphrates and which has std. fered many of the wars that have ravaged Mankind, including Chal. dean, Babylonian Assyrian, Greek and Boman, may be the breeding. place of a war that will dwarf all preceding wars. Civilization beian on the rivets that offered alluvial valleys and waterways of tinsportation. It would be ironylndeed If the cradle of civilization should lead to its Let us have the faith to believe, that in Abraham, who went outi ifrom the rivers not "knowing whither he went" shall all fanallips k,f earth be blest -in Jesus Christi the greatest of Abraham's deeend. sntq and the Sop of God. 100 YEARS AGO • A copy of The Huron Signal of exactly 100 years ago was brought to The...Signal-Starofficethis week' by -Mrs. Charles- Whitely, Britannia- Toad west, which she obtained from the house of her sister-in-law, Miss Jennie Whitely, now a patient at Alexandra Marine and General. Hospital.' First we notice that the annual,, subscription is $2 a year. Today the subscription price in Canada is only. .$3 a year,despite the fact that the cost of newsprint since that time has7advancd more than 300 per cent and the cost of pro- ducing Ahe paper in general has at leat triptd. Half of the front Page is taken up in advertisements and the other half is, devoted to tIvo -long articles, One is a general story on "The Result of. An Early Courtshi" and theother, moreqhan three columns in length is about "The Montreal Banquet," a gathering of politicians, and continued on another inside page for another four columns. An editorial article said: "The 'Illustrated News,' of London,Ztig- land, has a pictureof our Court -Huse Square,. 6n the Celebration day,, well drawn by our. Huron art ist, Mr, Cresswell. There is also a short editorial notice, of course not of such an enthusiastic kind as those written by ourselves and our Americannewspaper visitors, and not so accurate: But still it is something to let them know that we LIVE here. We hope the draw- ings of the harbor will also appear. They were sent by the same artist." The PostmaSter had, a list 'of names in the Huron Signal of those persons for whom, letters sent to them from a distancewere waiting for them at the Post Office. Current prices On the Goderich Markets were listed as follows: wheat, 75c and 80c; 'poatoes, 50c (per bag, presumably); bufter, 15c per pound; eggs, 10c per dozen; fowls, per pair, 25c; .geese, 50c; beef, 4 and 4/c; mutton, 8c; salt per barrel, $2; common pine 'urn- br? $10' per 1,000; coal, $5.50 per ton; hay, $8 to $9 (per ton,pre- sumably); turnips, 25c (per bushel, presumably). years) as a bookstore and news- stand, and my' recollection that "Jim" Robinson had his drygoods business there when the big fire took place that wiped out the Acheson opera house. • ,• INVITATIONS • ANNOUNCEMENTS RECEPTION CARDS • -THANK YOU CARDS "I'll never drive again as long as 1 live!" That's the vow Fred Smith Wok- when he learned the youngster he had run over had died as a result of the injuries. Fred's conscience was tortured by the feeling that a child had died as a result of his actions. He tore up his driver's license, and has never been .ebind the wheel of a car since. ere s on y One way I avoi. mi Ithwr"itar marish situation. That's always to watch for children on the road. Your Ontario Department of ttansport urges you to support the current Child Safety campaign. 6049 • • - ty INT[NTIONAL-ATGATS • Featuring "THERMQ-GRAVUR" PRINTING (Red Letteiing) LET US ASSIST YOU WITH YOUR WEDDING PLANS ... You may select your Wedding Invitations, Announcements and • Acknowledgmento• with compee confidence as to quality and cortectness of form. WE ALSO NAVE PERSONALIZED WEDDING NAPKNS, MATCVES AND CAKE BOXES a •.. .13UT DADRY-r TH/NK. HOW POOR WED EtE' /F WE LIVED WITHIN OUR wcomel REMINISCENCES (BV W. H. Robertson) Last week's Signal -Star was, to me at least, an especiqlly interest- ing issue, and an article which I read with pleasere, mingled with rekret ,for the passing of a long - familiar institution, was that which told of the closing of the Black- stone confectionery. It recalled to my mind many events with which I vfas more or less .familiar. For the sake of historical accuracy I • W. H. ROBERYSON, for more than half a century the Editor of The Goderich Signal and its successor, ,The Signal -Star, who contributes the accompanying reflections for this week's issue. Although retired, Mr. Rob- ertson visits ,the Signal -Star office frequently and comes downtown almost every day where he, is greeted on the streets by his many friends. ANNI•moimugy 7:- should like to make one slight cor- rection. It was not the present site of the Bank ofMontreal where the former Ball confectionery was- situated. This was -at the other end of the block on the Square, where the Canadian Bank of Commerce now is. Here, a verandah on the upper - story level projected over the side- walk, and customers went upStalrI to enjoy their ice ,cream in the open air- after giving their 'order the store below where candies and other confections were sold- --- I cannot' fecall that I ever was one of the Upstairs customers, but do remember quite clearly that as a small boy I thought how grand it was for older fellows to march throughthe store on the ground level, give their order, "two creams," and proceed upstairs with a companion to be served like a lord. Another little incident connetted with ice cream (flt at still another place, afid years before "Black - stone's" was established) was in the block between West and Montreal streets. 1, don't know who the pro- prietor was. What I remember is that this was the first time I was ever "treated",td ice cream, My host was Percy Shepherd,, whose father had a store at the ,corner of North street and the Square. How Percy ever crie to "treat" me I have not the slightest idea. If he expected it to be "turn about" he was disappointed, for I was too green to realize that this might be, expected, and anyway r am quite sure? I, did not have the necessary ten cents in my possession. In the way of further reminis- cence I might add that the store at the corner of West street and the Square, where the Bank of Mon- treal now is, was conducted for some years by John Butler (after. wards Mayor Butler for -several. Rev. Robert IL Harper • THE CRADLE _ COMt ARE referripg to Iraq AS 1.3 the land where the garden a Eden was locatd. We cnnot ttJL about the other three rivers that had their source in kden. but wo do know of the mighty Euphrates which, we read ia Gehesis; was one of the four great heads in wigoh was divided the river that floivel gut of Eden to "water the garden.' Perhaps, then, in the immemorial landIying between the TigriS and the Euphrates and which has std. fered many of the wars that have ravaged Mankind, including Chal. dean, Babylonian Assyrian, Greek and Boman, may be the breeding. place of a war that will dwarf all preceding wars. Civilization beian on the rivets that offered alluvial valleys and waterways of tinsportation. It would be ironylndeed If the cradle of civilization should lead to its Let us have the faith to believe, that in Abraham, who went outi ifrom the rivers not "knowing whither he went" shall all fanallips k,f earth be blest -in Jesus Christi the greatest of Abraham's deeend. sntq and the Sop of God. 100 YEARS AGO • A copy of The Huron Signal of exactly 100 years ago was brought to The...Signal-Starofficethis week' by -Mrs. Charles- Whitely, Britannia- Toad west, which she obtained from the house of her sister-in-law, Miss Jennie Whitely, now a patient at Alexandra Marine and General. Hospital.' First we notice that the annual,, subscription is $2 a year. Today the subscription price in Canada is only. .$3 a year,despite the fact that the cost of newsprint since that time has7advancd more than 300 per cent and the cost of pro- ducing Ahe paper in general has at leat triptd. Half of the front Page is taken up in advertisements and the other half is, devoted to tIvo -long articles, One is a general story on "The Result of. An Early Courtshi" and theother, moreqhan three columns in length is about "The Montreal Banquet," a gathering of politicians, and continued on another inside page for another four columns. An editorial article said: "The 'Illustrated News,' of London,Ztig- land, has a pictureof our Court -Huse Square,. 6n the Celebration day,, well drawn by our. Huron art ist, Mr, Cresswell. There is also a short editorial notice, of course not of such an enthusiastic kind as those written by ourselves and our Americannewspaper visitors, and not so accurate: But still it is something to let them know that we LIVE here. We hope the draw- ings of the harbor will also appear. They were sent by the same artist." The PostmaSter had, a list 'of names in the Huron Signal of those persons for whom, letters sent to them from a distancewere waiting for them at the Post Office. Current prices On the Goderich Markets were listed as follows: wheat, 75c and 80c; 'poatoes, 50c (per bag, presumably); bufter, 15c per pound; eggs, 10c per dozen; fowls, per pair, 25c; .geese, 50c; beef, 4 and 4/c; mutton, 8c; salt per barrel, $2; common pine 'urn- br? $10' per 1,000; coal, $5.50 per ton; hay, $8 to $9 (per ton,pre- sumably); turnips, 25c (per bushel, presumably). years) as a bookstore and news- stand, and my' recollection that "Jim" Robinson had his drygoods business there when the big fire took place that wiped out the Acheson opera house. • ,• INVITATIONS • ANNOUNCEMENTS RECEPTION CARDS • -THANK YOU CARDS "I'll never drive again as long as 1 live!" That's the vow Fred Smith Wok- when he learned the youngster he had run over had died as a result of the injuries. Fred's conscience was tortured by the feeling that a child had died as a result of his actions. He tore up his driver's license, and has never been .ebind the wheel of a car since. ere s on y One way I avoi. mi Ithwr"itar marish situation. That's always to watch for children on the road. Your Ontario Department of ttansport urges you to support the current Child Safety campaign. 6049 • • - ty INT[NTIONAL-ATGATS • Featuring "THERMQ-GRAVUR" PRINTING (Red Letteiing) LET US ASSIST YOU WITH YOUR WEDDING PLANS ... You may select your Wedding Invitations, Announcements and • Acknowledgmento• with compee confidence as to quality and cortectness of form. WE ALSO NAVE PERSONALIZED WEDDING NAPKNS, MATCVES AND CAKE BOXES a •..