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From time to time this newspaper has an hearsay. This Is not a gossip sheet. It's a , Dr. and Mrs. James Price Ken -
been accused of purposely withholding news newspaper- nedy came to Wingharrt in late
items as a favor to „ , rnsone with enough You may have noticed that we no longer 1893, and bought the practice of
dato keep us silent. The latest of there carry reports of small accidents _ the Dr. Meldrum, who in turn had
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stupid remarks was addressed to one of our "fender benders" in which no personal succeeded Dr. Bethune' Their
employees, the gist of the message being injury occurs and no criminal charges arehome and office was on the north -
that the newspaper "can be bought'. It to be laid. We prefer to put the emphasis T;.
east corner of Patrick sect Centre
seems that the son of an Influential resident on news items which have some positive Streets. Dr. Kennedy was a
was Involved in a car accident and nothing significance rather than detailing the pettygraduate of Western University
appeared In the paper about the Incident. misfortunes to which almost all of us fall try .
in London, with the gold medal in
,:•a Let's get one thing clear. Accident re- victim at times. The two police forces have 1891. His wife was an Conor
:i ports In this newspaper are based solely on agreed that they will keep us Informed of graduate from Victoria School of
the Information we receive from the police, cases in which there Is personal injury, and Nursing the same year. They
¢ were married in Strathroy in the
"I or provincial. If theh�weekly reports to those we do report in ourcolumns.
us 4* not contain Informattwof an given bride's home h May with the
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Y 9 As to the They carne to Witlgham,
accident we have no way of knowing any- suggestion that we can "be '`` ,: doctor planning to spend the win -
thing about the mishap — and If we do hap bought' — just try that little trick and find.:: ter only, but he became in -
pen to hear of an unreported accident we out what Witt happen. We can assure you that
certainly do not intend to write a story based You won't trybribery // the reed in the people and spent
bery a second time. / a► ,v:...1 the rest of his life here. He turned
down two offers of university
GESMPMT appointments over the years.
Those were interesting days in
-'_ Wingham. Shortly after the arri-
® val of Dr. Kennedy, there was a
The tail • s wagging, the dog :: :.. fight at the Dinsley House, and a
; .. man had his nose bitten off. When
the patient was brought to the
When marketing boards for aprlcsJltural still permits a quota system which not only '
y products were set up a few yeas apo most crest" the need for imports, but effectively doctor's office, the nose was sal-
farmers hailed the new system as a way out Prevents the Production of farm products for o vaged and taken along. It was
'' �••" stitched back in place and healed
of the financial wilderness. Quota systems, export. Industrial milk quotas are so string- satisfactorily.
r which were established for some products ent that Canadian agents in Europe are cry -
appeared to be yet another boon to an . ing for Canadian cheese to meet the de- ® cq�a.t, �:' Dr ed had
Indulin which had been plagued from time mands of a foreign market. At the same time Kennedy a Priv
j Y P ag 9 hospital in 1898, over Mr. A. E.
Stain -
Immemorial b cycles of feast and famine. Canadian cheese factories are facie flnan-`¢" Smith's private bank (now Stain-
* The orderly cY production of fell under --trial ruin because the can't et facing
milk :>:i °
' Y Pry eggs Y 9 enough 1 '� ton Hardware). It was the first
the control of the Canadian E Marketing to k their staffs and machinery bus t_ <.k= : 3`:.--o •, - - .,�,.,.,,.,,,.
99 np keep eery y. ........... hospital in Huron County. It con -
Agency (CEMA). As a consequence of Three years ago an interdepartmental ``" ` _ ,
listed of four rooms and Mrs.
i CEMA management Canada was forced to task force of federal food experts submitted Hodgson was the nurse in charge.
let 28 million eggs rot five years ago because a study report to the Trudeau government Shortly after the turn of the cen-
of errors in the quota system. In a recent which concluded that supply management tury, he purchased the Webster
i speech Max Roytenberg, general manager by marketing boards Is undermining the ef• house on Carling Terrace, and
of CEMA, announced with pride, "The ficiency of Canadian agriculture and costing some extra lots around it. Most of
demand for eggs In Canada is greater than the consumers an extra $350 million for milk, the other doctors as well as other
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professional men and friends
the supply for the first time In nine years. eggs and poultry.ett P
Mr. Roytenberg, who draws a salary of Canadian farmers have no reason to be- t t e i r bought shares in it. This was the
$105,000 a year, apparently did not dwell on lieve that their countrymen In other occupa- beginning of 'the Wingham
the fact that Canadian producers lost the t10ns are unsympathetic to the economic General Hospital.
revenue from 67 million eggs which Canada problems of the agricultural industry. Can- •
was forced to import from the United States ala has one of the world's broadest and most on the T.H.&B. Railway. There Their %nO�Jt11s �' Kennedy had one of the
r I n f o r m a t i o n wan ted were seven sons and three first x-ray machines in the coun-
4 to meet our domestic needs. Add to that they generous programs of legislation to assist its Theprinciple had been lis-
` daughters. Son William was a b'Y•
f cost to Canadian consumers who had to pony food producers. And those laws and regain- Wingham Advance -Times was said to have gone to never c Tose covered by Roentgen in late 1895
up the additional 14 cents a dozen it costs to tions were passed with the support of the Percy m •
Pa PPort Dear S Wingham, Ontario. He was a the Furst World War, Frank a in Munich. The medical pro -
administer the marketing agency. majority of Canadians. Not all marketing Y f builder, George, Herbie Kean; Wingham Advance -Times
cBride chairman of frit- boards have the same dismal record as the Thaw ou for sending me a:; armer, married to Charlotte fession in America was quick to
Dear Editor,
MurrayY copy of your centennial edition. Pattison whose mother was most remained in London, Ont. weren't put it to use. In the Wingham Ad-
a CEMA board recently resigned his $45,000 a CEMA, but the system In general is one Elizabeth La ord. Geon a and The league finalshad _too vane of July 9, 1903 Dr. Ken -
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my delay in answering; a � B bad. They only had two '
year job because he found it impossible to which deserves thorough re-examination by death of a si-*W in Canasigj•.; Charlotte had two children, The article on the death of , nedy filled two columns defend-
c�krsr5nner Ezq -- farmers them Ives. Consumers are not the Ebenezer and M nest. Queen Victoria was v m- �' �s t° tell us what, how,
. delayed the Anil ige , ,� a d arg very the use of Roentgen rays in
"rbeaspite'1Canada-s •crying need for the only victims of market regulation; pro I�� diligently fp. �., I noted the name Blackwell teresting. As a genealogist I am why and when. Also the games his work. He cited man cases he
forst n extra a which can be generated ducers too are being caught in the web of who worked with a Mr. Lloyd interested in the 1800 to 1900 were very interesting and even Y
9 1'n9 9e� name Bisbee without success.: Y the extra innings games didn't had been able to diagnose after
{ only by export sales, our agricultural policy inefficiency. George Bisbee was a son of Blackwell is my mother's name; years. other doctors, without x-rays had
Reuben Bisbee ,of. , Middlesex ; there are many Blackwells in drag too much. vee
who went to • London, Ont. The But the World Series Now we Bi Cup. This was in reply to an
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County, London, , Y originally Again, thank you. have three aakkers deo on article written by the Lower
Kansas in 1873. James, my ; e from Cambridge, En and, Elsie Bisbee Jacksom Town t, ,.,. ;:, .dent the week be-
tincessantly. The TV started at 8
a grandfather, rapnained on the around 1840 and lived in, London 1206 Garden Drive m. but we were nuc if the first fore -
homestead in Middlesex County, all their lives. William Blackwell,
tl '� until his death. George Bisbee my grandfather, was an engineer Danville, Illinois, 61832 ball was pitched by 8:30. The In 1906 Dr. Kennedy was
inning changes are lengthened to among the group that was suc-
Y@a �' t e c rl,! t"1 c.i1 put in more commercials. What cessful in having a new high
happened to all those rules intro- school built in Wingham. He was
doted 20 years ago to speed up appointed to the first high school
For the past ten or fifteen years most Possible that employees, too, will find theyr the game so the fans could leave board by the town council.
Canadian employers have. tried valiant) to have to bite the traditional bullet or go with- the k in two hours?
y out obs. Man employers are bein f e s P� on it was just
increase w levels at something at least i Yforced News Ifrom 0Wel , Saturdaage n99Y I A Dr. Agnew of Londesborough
close to the national rate of inflation. In the to get along with less help or install labor- too much, so we turned the sound nearly died from typhoid fever.
Savin equipment OCTOBER 1932
' case of larger corporations with plenty of re- 9 eq P ent if they want to stay )n Teeswater, and Donald Hen- Leader's hat badges. off and watched the game. It was Dr. Kennedy made two trips a
serve capital the spiraling wage bill has been business. Three pioneers of this district; ;t` derson, Lucknow• 3 much better±
something they could live with. For small Neither economic depression nor run- all having reached four score Mrs. Bert Taylor of Zetland Throe Whitechurch John residents, much
You still write the most in- nay by horse and buggy to
businesses it is another story. away inflation are easy to live with. years, Passed away last week. received word that her son, Gnr. John Hutchison, John Boyle and formative and interesting editor- several weeks. As nn to enurses were
James Alexander Morton, 84, J. G. Gillespie, have had
. Employers and employees alike have to face W. Carl Hart, had been wounded isle in the business, with Canada- Mrs. Kennedy went to
91, and Mrs. televisions installed in their scarce,
Firms with limited capital have William Lsbister, while serving with an anti_ wide as well as local interest.
forced to a lower and lower the hard fact that their standards of living Thomas Gregor, 85, all died at aircraft battery in France. homes. Stan Dane nurse him. Following his re -
forced P will be curtailed. Just how sharply the pinch m homes in Wingham. Friends here will ho covery Dr. Agnew set up practice
margins to meet the higher wage bills. Many wl I I be felt no one as yet knows. If the price of a fine bank barn, together with pe for The Amy Johnston School of Midland in Wingham.
employers have personally foregone thele favorable word soon. Dan is now o in the
energy rises as drastically as feelers! 1500 bushels of grain, a large A call n•� the W �B Pen
own salary Increases in order to meet the authorities are predicting, Wingham Wingham Legion Hall on Monday , -dm W .� .� .� „
needs of their employees. There is, however, P ng general economic quantity of hay and several Baptist Church congregation to afternoons. Classes are held, in In 1908, six young people died in
a limit to this sort of financing. editions will indeed get very rough.
No implements, belonging to Oliver �,_ John Norton of Wiarton.has tap, ballet, acrobatic and rJin t w from typhoid. A move-
seetor of the economy will be able to absorb Hemingway, tenth concession of been accepted and Mr. Norton dancing. New BOOKS hent was started s have a
As inflation continues and promises to ail thte impact. It will be a matter of sink or Grey Township, was consumed will commence his pastorate Highland, Mrs.
municipal water system and
leap upward in the coming -year it Is highly swim together. by fire. The loss will be at least here next Sunday. 'and Mrs' Edward Wedel in the LlhrarV sewers installed, but the bylaw
a xi,000 and the cause of the fire is P° and family have moved to was defeated. In November 1909,
j Several cases of lio have Teeswater after several years'
a mystery. developed in this district. So far residence in Bluevale. Dr Kennedy gave a lecture on
¢ More than 50 airplanes, all our community appears to have Set in German-occupied prgt entive medicine in the Wing -
true -type fighting ships of the escaped for which we can be Mr. and Mrs. George E. Greece during World War 11, this hIm Town Hall. Following this
German and Allied nations trujy thankful. Harron of Islington have pm•_ spare, elegant, often emotional meeting the bylaw was again
during the World War, take part At a meeting of Howick chased the house formerly owned novel tells the story of a young presented and passed. As a result
Any pyou'd rather be? in Howard Hughes' new aviation Townshi Council the clerk was boy's emergence into manhood in Wingham was one of the first
spectacle, Sky Devils", playing - authorizes to ase an all- Athol Pardon on Victoria a land of tyranny. The country is towns to have pure water and
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P Street. Mr. Harron will cover the
We used'to know a fellow who would oc- prosperity continued unabated. this week at the Lyceum Theatre. wool Union Jack thre and a half Western Ontario area for the held by the enemy, but the sanitary sewers, with no more
casiWe us complain, somewhat in lest, that 1 n those earl ears of this century much Mrs. John Gibbons was elected feet by seven feet for use on the Grolier Society of Canada. partiam in the hills keep alive cases of typhoid.
j Y Y Y president when the annual pp: Dole at the Township Hall, the spirit of the local inhabitants.
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his immigrant grandparents snouid neva .........__ . neon about the underlylna causes ..Ivor;I,o 3,t' ii,e women's �;e• „ - - �� rawr� revs .ram •-•••••• ••-•- •••.e ••"w•.•••• •�•
settled in California Instead of in winter-rtd- of earthquakes. Although some points on the- p _ to the General Hospital 1!M SEA by Vella Johnston over twenty-five years Dr. Ken -
Y OBPi StuartStturt Bryams, who was Mc Rexall Drug Store, '
den Ontario. Perhaps he should think things surface of the globe were known to be quake- was held. Vice presidents are reported missing in air one of Wingham's long- Set against the background of nedy died in 1920. His wife sur -
over again. Prone, few understood that repeated earth-, Mrs. James Fowler, Mrs. Georgeopera tions overseas lad Amat, established places of business Manhattans West Side and the vived until 1952. They were
Two weeks ago a severe earthquake quakes in the same zones are Inevitable. The Hanna and Mrs. A. Bishop. is a prisoner of war interned in a has been sold by the owner, John farmlands and wide beaches of blessed with four daughters. One
created extensive damage In southern Call- San Andreas fault is the juncture point of two . Secretary is Mrs. A. Peebles and German prison cam His the Hamptons, this is a daughter, Irlma followed in her
P• McKibbon, to a Toronto man ,
fornia, providing a grim reminder that the massive "plates" in the planets substruc- treasurer Mrs. R. Clegg. ppmM, Mr. and Mrs. E. Bryam Wallace F. Johnston. Mr. Provocative novel of super- fathers footsteps and carried on
whole state sits right on top of the San ture. The quakes occur when the plates The blacksmith shop in of Walton, received a letter Johnston and his wife have natural suspense, a story of love his practice for some years. She
Andreas fault — a crack in the earth's sub- change position even slightly. Thus the pos- Wroxeter, owned by the late John dating that he is in good health. purchased the Sid Adams home and terror and of some very was the first woman intern and
surface which has already proven Its Poten- sibility of another disastrous quake in Call- Davidson, has been rented to Mr. A splendid sale of farm on Catherine Street. dangerous human secrets. first undergraduate at Toronto
tial for death and disaster. fornia Is almost a certainty. The question Is Rennie of Orangeville who will, machinery and stock was held at BALLS! by Richard Rohmer General Hospital. She was the
in 19W seven hundred San Franciscans not If it will occur, but rather when. take charge on November 1. Mr. the home of Thomas O'Malley of Tenders have been called for It's 1985. America is sent first woman to get the Dominion
died as the result of an earthquake and fire Yes, Ontario does have some draw- Rennie and his family will oc- Whitechurch last week. the construction of the John reeling by a disastrous energy Council in Medicine!. Dr. Irlma
which sweet that prosperous city. Frisco backs,
but few of them hold potential for copy the home where James Hanna Memorial Bridge. It will crisis. An extremely harsh Kennedy -Jackson M.D. (TOR),
Sangster new resides. Mr. replace the winter creates a drastic natural F.R.C.P. (C) . F.A.P.A. is- still
was extremely important to the entire Unit- widespread disaster. Earthquakes here are B ep present McKenzie ,
ed States, providing, a: M still does, one of minor tremblings; we have very few de Sangster has purchased the OCTOBER 1955 Bridge on Josephine Street Bas cut -oft to over 300,000 active in medicine in the City .of
to the Patlfld Ocean and structlhurricanes we don'Smale property. When the door of the Wingham North. residential units in the Buffalo Hamilton.
the ^ajar mew veurrcanes or tornados;t Willis' Shoe Store offers ex- Armouries opened Saturday,area during the most brutal
the Orient. With typical American zeal a new even have locusts. Well, yes, we do have cellent value on women's strap afternoon, Chief of Police Platt At a meeting of the Public storm in its history. Twenty
city rose swiftly from the ashes of the old and winter. dress shoes in fine calfskin and admitted the 1 gest crowd that School
ld o� d a will Tion was a former wand people die. It's up to a
tent leather, only $1.89 a pa m'S' passprincipal of the school, the late A. president P his itnex-
- - - - - - - - - , Men's work boots are $1.95 a pair. rummage asa eB toor ��n was L. Posliff. A $26 cash award will �iencedlvice t resident to make Three win $150
John McGee of Whitechurch is ready to charge the happen again.
driving a new car these da be made io the pupil who receives shopping vouchers
THE WINGHAM ADVANCE -TIMES nB days. doors. The proceeds amounted to � Marion Irrglia Medal each PULLING YOUR OWN pp 9
more than =900, making the sale STRINGS by Dr. Wayne W.
Published at Wingham. Ontario, by Wenger Bros. Limited OCTOBER 1944 one of the larged ever held. ter, for obtaining the highest Oyer Two Wingham women are
members of the Wi marks in Grade 8. Dr. e,, B
Mins Anna Chittick of Two memn8�m DY s bestseller', Your among the winners of 1150
Barry Wenger, President Robert O. Wenger, Sec.-Treas. {gingham was re-elected Scout Troop were presented with Rev. A. E. Willis was inducted Erroneous-lZnes, showed how to shopping vouchers offered as
president of the Young People's Second Class badges at the as minister of Calvin United rid yourself of self-defeating part of last week's Midnight
s Member Audit Bureau of Circulations Societies of the Huron -Maitland regular meeting of the troop. Church. St. Helens. behaviour and begin to take Express sale.
° . Presbytery of the Presbyterian Patrol Leaders Brian Rider and charge of your own life. In
Member Canadian Community Newspaper Assoc. Ontario Weekly Newspaper Assoc. Church when the annual rally Byron Adams, the first two boys The Whitechurch Junior soft- Pulling Your Own Strings he
Mrs. Maxine Robinson and
in the troop to complete their ball club, under the management zeroes in on those le and Linda Bakker both came up
was held in Bltleva}e. Other of- Prop
Subscription $14 00 per year Six months $7.50 titers include • Gordon Wall of tests for the badge, were of Joe Tiffin, defeated Wellesley institutions that manipulate you winners in the draw. The third
Lnpde, yup ,Made Little honored. They were also to win the WOAA championship and tells you how to get them off voucher went to Mr's. Lloyd Robb
Second (lass Mail Registration No Ml Return postage guarafiteed Grin els, Miss Etch Ballagh, presented with their Patrol for the seventh consecutive Year. your back forever, of Goderidr.