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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1923-11-8, Page 4OPE Oflfl NEWS A TeW,LifleOf Stamped Linens Offers Suggestions for Christmas Presents; Ceetre Pieces. puffet Sets. Cushion Coves ' . Pillow, Covers Towels Gowns .leaneheen-Sete Anyone, etc, We liave all the nattia1 na eessary foe the Work. Now line of Asbestos mats at 15c„ 20e,,, 25e, and 400. Order year greeting, cards from our new .semple book. 0‘00PTI2'fiR., ' CLINTON Alwasismeeivaigelaiateremi* 4,011.0===.1%.1.626SeefierfeeMENVO......6 "I Guess I was Just Lucky Ray Lawrence tells how he and a Friend Escaped' From the Stricken City of Tokyo After the Quake. 1 atemmo...•••• 1 Shanghai, September 13, 1923 severe meyertheless. We waked from • there citron the streetaalongside one "Mother Dear:" I expect that ay of the moats to the Imperial Hotel . , which had stood' during the shake. this time you, will wooder just Where I am and what I am cloiha. I know We were just about to enter the ho- . len in Shanghai but to tall the truth tel when another big shake eame a - I'm not exactly sure what I ant going long, this I'would presume was alaout to do here, with the exception of gee- 1E80 Pam We.. quiclely lost all desire ring a little rest. yeaecem aaae had: to enter the building and ran across enemy reports abo-at the terrible the street -to Hibiya Park which was eaethqualce ia. Japan from the new -,just across the witeee • In the meene papers' arid you will probably woridetime there were four. big fires un - how I got away. I guess I was just der way which had started I pre - lucky.. Of course I lost every single sume duo -to overturned stoves and thing I over .owned, with the excep_ short elreadt Wares. We estayed in • time of my life and the clothes I had the Park for about thirty 'eninutee on any back when I went to woree that along -with several thousand other day. I: shall' surely rernembee Sep- Pee* both foreigners aide natives, tembe 1st 1923, for inany a year to until I got fed up with it. I knew come, I'll start at the beginning the boss was away from the dace .so • ad tell yea all I can remember a- I cotad see no ,reason why I should' bout it. .0n Thursday, two days go back there, to when neither Jere before the quake, Jerry 1V1undle re- no: myself could tna a car we decided turned fromsix 'Menthe leave in New to walk , °ye to the railway tracks York. He 'lived in one mess before and see '42 the trains were rning • he went home on leave and we had ,so that, we tould eettien to Yolceamma. saved a Place for him when he got The shake was so selere in Tokyo back. Friday was a- holiday' s° net- that we had no idea it could be worse ther he or eayselt went to Tokyo rte, an Yokohama, and apart feom that work. He worked up there with the ,all quakes that we had ever had, had 'United States Steel Peoducts Com- always been worse in ,Tokyo. , . . pany. Saturday morning dawned • By this One there- wee thousands very wet It -was a regular typhoon of people running' eyound like lost -rath, and the- two Of us consequently sheep, none of them seeming to know . had to get a ear to ride,to the station where they were going. • In aever- to take the Mein to Tokyo. We -4 e- al places the roads .hod crasjes in parated at Tokyo Station and Weneeto them, some as wide as Mir leet, • We our .own offices. His office was in coulda'telo etnything else so we wala-, the new Nippon Yusen laaisha build- -ed over th a station,palled Shim:beset& big very close.to the 'Tokyo station. to aseetain there, was any hope Our office was about ten minutes wane of the trains evening.' We got over* away in a district calledeNilionbashi. there and 'found that all service' had' ramived at the office about 9.20 a.m. and the boss, Tom alorgan, arrived very soon afterwards. a" He left about 10.15 and- was going to his house to get, hie wife -arid take her down to the hospital to see the doetor as she had not been feeling Well for Some little time aredin.det had only short- ly before returned home erom the hospital. I, finished work about 11.30 and, decided it would be a geed idea - to go over teethe N.Y.K. building, get Jerry and go home to Yoltohma for tiffine went over to his office, sat around for a short tine waiting for a letter that Jerry's base veantecl him to ;bake to Yokohama and we .were just leaving about twomr three min_ trtes to twelve -When the quake came. The shock /was tertible. and ie . is practically impossible to explain my - feelings when it happened: Jerry's office was on the sixth floor and it wes luelsy for es that the building had only been finished a short time and Was Wit of heavy steel „girders end stone, The first shake was ea , and down. They say. it Was abbut four althea, Then it shook from side to side until finally before the quake ,wee finished the whole builditig seem. ed to be going arounclea a circle with its foundations acting as the axis, The building was eight storeys high and after the alit bad' shake when it quietened down sufficiettly -se that We -could wallt on the floor 'without being thrown down, we, beat it to • the roof. .1 -can't understaed to this day why we should have gone to the roof but' I expect it. was because it was only two ficeiem above while eve were six floes above tho ground, and. te the building was going to fall. we wanted to be on top where .at lean nothing wouldlall on top of us. Wd got to the reef while the banding was still shalcing ond stayed there for a short time until the quake had more or lase stopped. Then eve iMmed,- lately rah clown the stairs quielsly as possible to the ground floor and out thto file big open plaza in fent of the Tokyo Central statiom We just got away front the beilding time because another quake came ae long ana every time tbe Milldam, hook tons of mammy wehld' 'fall MAY from the steel gieders on to the efteet. Most of the -stone hyia concrete Work on the first, anti seeond floors wee dotaa on the street and severel Peelle dn. the vete had beet lsilled by falling piece% •' ' The official thee 01 the ettlike Wee 11,58 AIM We stayed in the 'eta** plata alma ten minute% the greeted shalelog ell the am eel /ear Melds neethee (Make W,01114, oiii lorries acould not get through with water aeon the rive (lee to the roads being ebsolutelY wreaked, ad houeeel erathed Laerose the On the- way eloWn We met eeveral Japwrieee ;wile i/eld as that Yolsolutriel Mal ibeen absolutelydestroyed and was then bullring fiercely. , Vale ela- n% believe them because snob a thing seemed impossible te as, We found out to our ,sorrow, lepon arrival at the metskirts of, the .oity that .wliat, thee,' had told us was all too true. Wo ereived there, about 9.00 pan, baying walked, including detoers, a - /met twenteefloe nalea. We Men- „eged to get -theoegh about half•ea of road with burning warehoueee, and oi1. dumps etc, on both sides, ae far as. Yokohama station but there we were stopped by the 'ins that swept entirely acres the road, We saw that it was trapoesible to get. through the town thet night so we returned to a big hill• near a .small teen, Kanagawa, jtiet outside. et Yak- ohma, and alept -out on top of that all nightAll during the time we Were walking to Yokohama and the night W e spent on the hillats .up to Monday after -noon when we left fer Kobe the ground Was sneaking. Hooey .liow and thee a big sluice Weald come along. The only (Image was of tae grouncl -opening and then closing ae all the buildings were down and con- sequently there was nothing to fall on top of us, • . ' All deniag, the night ,frona the top or this hill we eould see the city Maiming. Just below us and about a quarter of a mile away was a aig- oil station belenging to the Standard Oil Company. This was burning Vey badly and the heat from it,, even where we were was intense. dey- bi-eak we -cone down -from the hill and started sear weary way through what was. once Yokohama but was eheri &bean ol, ern-ouldering vereekage, towards the ships in .the harbor, None of the natives had' any food and very little water so' we knee it -was im-, peratiee that we reach some' boat to got this. The scenes through' the city were appalling. Everything was down aria, all th'ca streets were littered with ,dead bodies of natiaes who mist have been, roasted allye whentheyi were laying to -flee from the' flames. The streets were also fall ef pole heading for the country all of whom were eovered with burns and bruieee from fire 'as well as from building* falling ore thene. Most of these of course were'nativee. ..I never -saw such a scene of deeolatiori even in "France, . 'We reached, the remaine 'of ,one -dock but it was impossible to .get' eay assistance there so we Made eye way back into the remains of the 'town 'and around to what was left of another pier. We- finally...got a sairman which took ne out into the harbor. From this we hailed a small boat from the Andre Lebon a French' beak; who, put us on the outside ena of ,the dock which was still standing although much kinked from where we boareled the s.s. Steel Navigator. It was with a -sigh of eelief -that we camped down on the 'deck of this ship and had a drink. of oreter and a lit- tle porridge. • It seemed though, bhat we were going to have. all our troubles at one time. By the -time we had a little rest we went to. the side of the • ship and What should we see but the oil °eyeing the harbor wheoli had eon out of broken Standard oil tailks, burning, aad-what• was liege the wind was carrying the &rues to- waeds our thins. . The Empress of Austialid was tied up to the renaiim. ,of the pierend the 'Steel Naedgatoe was tied up behind that. Through • masterly navigation on the pat of Captain ICertan old Shanghai pilot. and Captain 'Robinson of the Austral- ia• both ships were moved out of the eciaegerszone, but not• befoes, most ev- stopped and - of course no one knew when it would etart again. On °ea eryone on board had given up hope of demi: getting away. • way we passed several buileings taat had eellapsed under the - shake but Will finish later. in general the damage ,was not se. nad.. Jerry and myself, of conree, had a, perfectly' good reason • for starting. for Yokohama because we had, our home there and we also thought that the damage would not be so bad -in Yokohama. When ave found, that the train service' Vide sus- pended we started oat to walla along the railway teacke hoping they weald start up son and we • could catch one at some station enroute. As we got farther .away from Tokyo we could. eee., that the damage *as get- ting worse , end ,worse.. Builainge were down on all sides and ,the cracks ea the Toads instead of being six feet wide wee as big as fifteen and -twenty feet In places. I. fact I saw one automobile in one et these fissaees that weei about „three quae- tea out of sight.. The water amine in all the various little towns be- tween Tokyo and Yokohama, had bre- ken -and' Med of the peaces had been flooeed. In 'some _spots the eailway tracks, and in this paetieular sec- -lion there were five lines of tracks alongside each other, were bent about SIX to ten feet mit of alignment. In other places Wbe/. were sunk live or six feet and raised the same dis- tance in other spots, We walked along and before long we were- sure tired- of seeing buildings 'clown and roads cracked. • The first' place we Were ,really stopped was at a big eivew about half way between Tokyo and 'Yokohama ,wheee. theee vvere tvvo ' railway Midges and one load bridge about a quarter of a mile long. The railway bridges were down in waelous spots pal the road bridge was just about down. We eteatecl across cold whoh we got about half way another quake tante aloeg ancl' was atingst certain we web duo for a swim, Ton the bridge held and We got acree 0. X. That has shwa eallepsed. The fest damage by fire tee saW Was er0Und' a email village' eel:16cl Tama- siki. This was laid flat on both sides of the eoad and webtal to wend our way titre the blirnalg dobria part of the Waa,aeleil wo came to a ranee thatewast impthisiblti and we had to detour: Peoria there' into Yokoe hello distance of , about ,eight or nine miles the damage beeeme woree etil the time:- *Praetieally all the beret% Wete dent apd 'tape. seill atenclifig had a Aran/tea list to them, There Wed° Also fikee seaorta pliteeet tidn N ocord from the Navigator to the Jegeeson ana 'went deem to Kobe. The moet ease this letter, or eheida eay weleorne /right of eaY wee when ClaW the entree° to Tokyo Bay hell down oil Monday evening, I was never so glad to leave plame in my life and never hope to feel the same again -ever. There were several things the -1!-V1'97acFnooutiefeld°1-11:kly tell4 ree,,ot:ltes 1'191 °it': v11101 It Was the wenderaul reeeee werle car- ried out by the varietal' foreign ships in the liathor at the time the thing -happened theledieg the Australia, Steel Navigator*, Aeall'b Lebon, Glen, Boa, Wet larospect, Lyeaeon, Don- gola and one or two others wbiele 1 earmot remember. On the other hand there was the glaring neglect of the aepenese Ships, oaawhicli there must have been fully 'thirty in the harbor, none of them even putting a boat down to help anyone, The Austral - la had oyer four thousand eels on board on Saturday night and the Navigator had about a thousand while the Andre Lebon probably had &cou- ple of thousand. Mind you. these people weren't all foreigners, the numbets,included Japanese and Chi- nese, When you compare' this with the fact that the Iecivea lVfaru was the only aapenese ship that hedeany •white people on 'beard at all and she only Med nine and whet is more would_ n't provide this nine with food and, only a little water, a person's opinion, of the Japanese people changes- some- what. ' Ithat I eld so and that's enough, Yoll • book, bp. to the girls so they ecu heve a look eee dt it 1,00, 1 was going to melte carbon copies bat if yen wil/ pass this en it will be alright, , Per the time being Mother doaV YoU Might address my niail me care 'ot the Canadian Paeifie office in Shangeal and if I leave 1 can give them my next addrees so that they may forward it on to Me. Oh, I almost forgot. I want to give you a list of the elothes 1 had on when. the thing aappened So you will know how angel I saved out oe the wreele, One white duck eta (very old, it being bhe third season I had worn it), one suit uncleewear, one shirt, one tie, one. collar, one pair of shoes and one pair of Sox (with garters) one -dm and one reineoat. That is the whole works exCaletelea d eollele of paelsagee oa cigarettes 1 had in my peeleet and a few yen (not menY). I lost the whole ibuneh of steff beouaht out with me as well as elothee and -a few litfle nielc necks I have bought since I came out. Our house went down in the first shake end caught -flee al- mostinimediately. Of course we were an away at °Mee so there was lately no -poseibility of saving anye thing. It sure feele,ftony to be. with- out a thing. - I cabled Edna three times, one wave- less from the President Jefferson, one cable from Kobe and one from Shang- hai, that I was eafe. I sent it on to her .because I thought it might be delivered a little quicker. I hope you got ataeast one of them because I'm not sure about the wireless hor the message I filed in Japari because they were all upside down on acemint of 'the quake. „ Must ran along now. Will write again soon -and let you know what I'm going to do. Heaps of love to all, and loads to you.” As evitera,y Ray - September 18th, 1923 Dear Mother; 1 had to stop writ- ing the other day for some reasonaea another, ,but will tey to finish this epistle now. Let me see, think I' got as far as the ahips•getting away from „the burning oil., I think I mentioned that I was on the Steel Navigator. Well, we pul- led out into the -middle of the bay af- ter having towed our own anchor, whipli we -could not slip, as well aa the Empress of A-astralie about two _hundred yaeds away from the pier, That was Sunday morning about 10.30 or 11 o'clock. The Australia man-_, aged- to get up eriough way to sneak out a little way by hereelf end then a Butch oil boat towed he a little turther out. ' ' We stayed on board the Navigator all that day, that night end the next day which was, Montlay,, until about 4,00 p.m. All the time we were out in the bay we could feel eaethquakee, the ehalsingabeing transmitted through the water. 1 eould imagine how base it was on Shore, ctnd-I found .out later from some people whoewere on shore on Suaday that the quakes were as bad that day as on Saturday:, 0± course there was no delver what- ever of anything falling on top of You because the whole town wee flat with the exception of the Yokohama Specie Bank. The •big danger how- ever, was the possibility of. the ground openirig made your feet and then doting up again which et was doing all the time. Every decent sized quake fissures would appeal: in vela ious spots, open about five to ton eoet arid then close up again, There was ,Olio case, the Oriental Hotel, Wheel in the big svelte the ground opened ana the building wont down cts far as the second floor and then of course the three floors above immediately collapsed. ' • On Monday mottling the President Jefaceson aeriVed freal Kobe and the Erepreee of, •Creiatla aerived 'from VSMOIMIVer. They wore gamely wel- eethe sights. They dropped enehoe '.4;fica bay arid brunedietely stetted transaerring the west casee /tom the tinitn'eS0 of Auetrolia, Andre -Lebon and the ateel Navigator. The Ad- miral Lino terned the • Jeffereoe a. sound emit/ion her back to Nobe, leave bug Voice/lama 'about 5.00 p.mi .011 kit '6480' tollid 'tot ho elie,eked citte 11/1oeciay, The Empeess af Canada 'be the Aorta& of 'eatitee heel eileo stoect by aI night ,end left Inc', Koln! eselehine. 2 transfarrea Between Tokyo ,and Yokohama there were some ten, twelye small towns' and these burnt all Sunday, Sunday night and MondaY up to the time we left. Thismeansthat Tokyo Bay is ringed emend .eor'almat twenty miles with what WON left of towns, but now are only mases of ashes. The dise aster is .too teemeadeus to really re- alize unlese yen Ineve seen it., We stayed at anchor there, in Tok- yo Bay, frorn Sunday noon until Mon- day afternoon, where some, of ue transferred to. the, President Jeffer- son and left for Kobe. We 'arrived in Kobe Wednesday noon and I don't think I ever saw a more grateful crowd in ma life than the •gang ori the ship. Thera' were numlaers of people who had lost husbands sand children but everyone was Wonder4a No hysteria of any kind was evident which is surmising when ie is eoneld- eeed the' pat only did thee ie people lose their relatives butin addition had no teethes en the weld. but what was on their backs. From the dock in Kobe we went directly to the Or- iental Hotel and everyone registered. There were three•ef the boys laded. ing,my,self, who used to live in mu old mess in Yokohama. The three of usewent to stay with some friends, in Kate and / thollleed around a'bit during the. afternoon and bought a- nother shirt and a eouple of collars. I only etayed there Wednesday night as I had decided to come on down to Shanghai on the Empress of Canada which was to leayaaWednesday night.- lidid this, leaving , Kobe about 4.00 am. Thursday and arriying Shanghai about noon on Satuaday, one week af- ter the quake, but it seemed months. The C.P.R. accepted LO.T.T's for the paseages lfroat Kobe Ito Shanghai as, none' of ue had awe money. arrived here Saterday noon and One mediately was grabbed [hp Tessier, the' General Agent of the C.P.R. here who asked nee to come out to his house to stay evhile Iewas in town. Needlese to say the offer was more than wel- come. • Tessier, by -the wety, comes from Ottawa. He came , out here nearly five -yeare di0 With Andy Bern also,. ofe Ottawa who is .heile now.' 1,I think. Ethel knew him.) Se 1 have, been staying with 'Tessier and Mac - Minn both of the D.P.R. since I 'have been here, two weeks now. 1 'have 'been drawing 'acme money from otte Agents here, the Well Chang Trading Corporation, and have been as basy as a bird dog, buying some clothes. rm glad I came down here to stock up because most everything 10 at least one third less than the same thing in Japan. 1 ant just sitting around now waitilig for word from Tom Mor_ gan who is -some place in Japan, He Was InY boss you wilt a:member. 1 don't know whether the Company will keep the office open in Japan or not, but even if they do I hardly thinlc I'll stay there for any length of time. I shall preaably have to go baclt Kobe at least until the boss gets some thinge et4iilitenecl away. Illy idea is that he will probably take his wiee' beak home and if he acres so thee may. be a postibility of. Me getting' away too. But rin not lbanking on it tee much. , ¶lTell Mother.' dear, that is about all,1 ean, think of just tote. Pm here, band I've still got my two good hands and feet Tor which I am more than thankful, I don't undere stand exactla hew I got away without 'getting Mire but the fact remairie Better Than Pills; For You can't feel sogood bet what tR will make you . feel better, eseveeeees...,e, ae. (s. Sold by J. E. Iovey, Melton, Ott W.ANTgl) NOW RELIABLE SALES AdElter tor thilorlettireete eurearaiSeOneuneatel Ttteti, Floass'itt Shrub,. btC‘ 0004 Py, Eateleslene lettateree Tide ageney Is valuable -our etook le the nigheet grade -MI geoveri late own preterits, toad the: lett of, eterletke the vety beef. Peomet aiol detiststetary daliyrie genre -seed., blue/libel 40/aette, • , eco arise ' Po tkotiotevragto littAAtif -vnitStRst 'co, Yor,ata,,, Oat, ' CONSERVATIVE CONVENTION work clogged up in every department, partly as,a result of the Maw ses- sion and the election campaign, awe the new ministere have had to work 'late and early. In my own depart- ment, and I say it not unlrindly toward my predecessor. I see in looking over things to find what- has been done, that he was not on the job half the time." "AT/Other thing is that decisions wee arrived at by the deparements and put up to the ministers, when Sam know that in business and profession- al matters the decisions must be made at the top and go down the line." "It develops tpon me as provincial treasurer to cut dowe expenses, and I am going to cut then clown.am glad to hear applause, because taben you come down to get some extansion or grant I don't lenow that you are goingto get it. a Iwo got to have your co-operation in cutting daran ex- penSe. "You can charge the Drury Govern - inane with U78,00,000 of debt; they covered up some of that in the cam- paign, but we found it out after we got into office. We have had too much extension, money flowing like water, Mow we have to check up. The period of economy and retrench- ment we ought to have had after the war and did not get; we need now, and we need it wom at Ottawa than anywhere."' Among the members, ex -members and candidates noticed at the meeting were Hugh C. MeXillop, M.P., 'West Elgin; J. J. IVIerner, ex-M.P., South Huron; John McFarlan, East Middlesex; W. R. Dawson, late, candidate in East Lambtoro Frank White, M.P., London; Dr. P. T. Coup - 'land, St. Marys; E. R. Wigle, M.L.A.- elect centre Huron; N. W. Trowel:- tha, M.L.A.-elect, South Huron; W. G. Weicael, M.P., North Waterloo; Wil- fred S. Haney, •M.L.A.-elect, West Lambton; E. A. Rea, late candidate in North Oxford, and Frank Boyes, of East Middlesex. Huron county was represented by N. W. Trewartha, membeiaelect for south Huron; Charles G. Middleton, paesidenti of the south riding asso- ciation; W. H. Consite and W. H. nb, Het of the south , riding executive; George Spotton federal candidate in North Huron in 1921; DucllerHohnes; Wingham and Harry Edwards, Gode- rich. e, Mr. 'Dennis' preliminey remelts included a eharacteristie "boost" for Western Ontario, "most populous, in- fluentiaL and enterprising district in the Dominion." He recalled the or - len .of the experimeut in respect to operation of a dietinctlY Western Orie taeio organization, noting with pride that, wheveas previous to the -.Teem elections the party held but one seat out of twenty-one in the distrietwhich was 'conceded to be the battlegeound of the campaign, it °Merged with 14. "With the experience and enthus- iasm and momentum which the asso- ciation has gained, you will do even better in the' federal campaign, which may net be Yeey far off," he said. "I etialize that the successes we gained were clue to the loyaltyeand untiring, intelligent indestrg of local workers and local leaderand I further' real- ize that ie. ridings Where he did not obtain a majority of votes our canal - dates, none the less, deserved suceees, and they are entitled to oval come mondation with those more fortunate in the final count. 'Thie anode -Von is young, bet it Ihag gained valuable eXPerience della ing the past year; 5 believe it can becene a Moot valuable orgenization In two vespeets; first its a force de- veloping and giviag expeession to the best netioeal ideas and giving efface boo implant to exteasuees and men reepectieg the highest ititerests of our nation end empies; second, eta' organ. teatime can be 'made a model for °thee assoeiatione, to derive inspiration clad practiettl help tbeefeom. Yottr pur. Pee here to -day is to diecuse arid adopt Measures ealeeleted to better yotm Ogee/MUM % Godeeith ia to yo-Inoclel its Collo. giate`buildiag next SidAi', ia.ums hav. lag 'been 'aplitOVed by the Depart. merit Of ltd 1• TTItateSDAY, N0V19it4ltii Sti, :10 . CLE [EVERYTHING Less rubbing when you me Charm in the laundry, Saves work— and saves your hands.' 2 for 25c at all Good Grocers minommarommarcunsuataimmagamiomacumonpamagoomponwacsarspam News of iappen813gs Possible 700: St, Helens, 63'7; Gocle- ht the Countu an • District Me. and Mrs. Milne Rennie of Lon- don, formerly •of Heiman, have been. Mille, 65; William McAllister, 64; I. appointed ohoir leader and organist Mille, 04; P. Bisset .64; E, Shear-, of the Presbyterian aimed*, Seaforth, clown, 64; E. Webster, 04; T. Foran, 'and are moeing to that town. rieb, 023; Colboree townehm, 604; Goderich township, 600. The folleee- ing were the individual prize winners, with scores oat of a possible 70: le, Shannon, 68; R. 'Williams, 68; J. Web.. ster, 68; 0. Goldthorpe, 66; W. A. new marine leg, for the unload- ing ye grain boats, was used at Gode- rich last week for the first time. It bas a dipping' capacity of 35,000 bu- shels pevehour. The new annex will be ready to receive grain about the end of tills week. When some bundles of laundry was being delivered to a boat in Godeeieh halter one day last week the horse attached to the delivery rig got frisky and the upshot was that the rig ancl laundry landea in the water. e The hese, kicking himself free, stayed„on the dock. The buggy was fished out but it was some time before the laundry was recovered. That laun- dry got too much water that time and no doubt needed SOWS' more iron.. The death occurred' in Hens& on Friday, October 19th, of 1VIrs. James Carlisle at the home of.her daughter, Ms. David Foss, The deceased had not been in good health for some Wee and her death was not unexpected. Mus. Carlisle's maiden name was Miss Jane 1VIercer, , She was isa her sea. enty-sixth year a,nd the fuaeral tools place from her late residence on Mone day, interment being made in Hen- sall Union cemetery. The Huron County Children's Aid Society at Goderich ackonwledges the gift of 5100 to the funds of the Soci- ety by a Goderieh friend, who re- quests that his hame be withheld from publication. It is further understood that according to the will of -the late Mrs. Isabella Clifford, a Zenner Gode- rich resident, wheedled a feW weeks ag;o at Auburn, the ,funds of the So- ciety will be swelled to the extent of $300. Both these donations are wel- that time Walton was an appointment coined by the Society, whose expen- 1 on the Brussels circuit and Rev. R. ses this year have been greater than Davey was the Paste beginning with last year. 1873. lieWas followed with Rev. C. At the 45th annual Provincial W.C. E. Staffed in '75. Walton became T, tle Convention held at Brantford, the head of a separate circuit in 1877 and Rev. J. G. Fallis became the first resident pastor and was succeeded by Revs. Win, Baugh, Thomas McGee, T. 5. Sabine, W/m. Torrance, Wm, Otte - well, T. W. Cousens, Wm. PoineroY, P. Westman, A. C. Tiffin, A.' W. Dever, C. R. Carscallen,eAlfrecl An- drews; II. S. Baker, R, 5. Curry, H. ,,D. Tyler, R. S. Lackland, S, C. Ed- munds, M. Young, F. W. Craik, H. Bentley, J. W. Bullon .and W. 0.. Robinson, twenty-five pastors in fifty years. Mr, lien' also read the list of the first membership roll. It was various sessions , were as follcoes: a, last of eonsnleable length, and eon - Morning, ;Lev, A. C. Tiffin; afternoon, tained the nancee of the pioneers, Rev. C. F, Cleric; evening, Rev. J. E. most of whom have gone to rest, but Holmes, Atethe morning sessiom in two et them still remain, namely, Mrs. 63; J. Munson, 63; G. Stewart 68; C. Prouse, 62; G. Yungblut 62; G., Xerte- han 132; J. C. Purdon, 62; J. Bissett 62; II. Purelon 62; Wm. Bissett 61; R. Bone, 61; William Chisholm, 61; H. Fisher, 61; 5, Bowman, 60; IL Watson 60; W. Reid, 59; R. Bissett, 59; D. Mooney, 58; G. Symonds, 58, 1V1oet inners, W. Prouse. Most magpies, F. Holland. • The gethodist church at Walton celebrated its fiftieth anniversary on Sunday week, when the Rev. A.. Mee laibbin of Fingal, an old Walton bop, was the special preacher. On tho Mouday following aefowl supper was - served to a capacity house. The pas- tel: of the -church, Rev. W. D. Rabin - son, is to be -congratulated oa the ex.. eellent arrangement of the prog•rant and the services In connection with •the vehole event. Mr. Geo. E. Mor- ley, B.A., was the' elbeutionist for the evening, giving several -interesting numbers. Meesrs, Rennie and Erratt furnished the musical numbers both vocal and instrumental aud were well received. ' Rev. R. F. Trwin. of Sea - forth, filled the part of chairman with dignity and grace; Itar. W. H. Kerr of Brussels gave a very interesting and historical sketch of the church, including among other things the Zol, lowing iterns of interest. The ,con- tract f Or the building was let to the late Mr-Letherland of Seeforth and the work faithfully performed by him. The thumb at that time stood a mile south of the village on the Seaforth gravel. The church was opened and dedicated fifty years ago on New Year's Sunday with a monster tea - meeting on New Year's night. At Fred Jeatet and lleiss Lottie Hest, both of Brussel% won let and 2nd prizes for Temperance Posters. There were °vex 400 delegates at Conven- tion aad a fine time enjoyed. Wed- nesday evening there wag a. Gold Me- dal contest but none of Huron comity young folk competed. , ,A. spiritual conference of the Gode- rich and Winghara districts was held October 25th, in the Blyth Methodist church, with morning, afternoon and evening sessions at 10 aan., 1.30 pen., and 7.15 pan. The chairmen for the addition to prayer and praise and music, there was a period devoted to 'Bible Study," conducted by Rev. D., N. McCamus, of London; and an ad- dress on "Our Devotional Lives," by Rev, J. W. Hedley, BM. The papers in the afternoon were "Hindrances to Our Devotional. Life," by Rev. Harold Mane; "Helps to Our Devotional Life," 1V1r. Wen. Bailie; "The.IVIeaning of Pentecost," by Rev. S. W. Nann, B.D.; "Our Stewardship," Ree,v. J. E. Holmes; "The Need of Reviver' Rev. C. J. Moorehousee "The Revival We Need," Rev. I. A. McKelvey; "How to Get it," Rev. D. N. MeCanius. Irs the evening there was a song serviee, followed by an evangelistic service, condpeted by Rev. Geo. W. Dewey, of London. The fall shoot oe the Huron county Rifle Club was held on Wednesday week' in Biesett's grove. Owing to weather the •conditions were by no means ideal, pardaularly at the 500 - yard range. In spite of this some good seores were lnade, A ftiature of the day was the marksmanship of john W,ebster, of St. Helens, who, although ,well on to 70 years of ego, tied with I'. Shannon in the 200eard range, 'Major Lawless of London, was an interested sputa:tor and con- gratulated the shooters on thole ex- eellent work under such weather con- ditione. Fotm tecuns pareicipated, with the following results out of ..002.11•616.34 Ware Dennison and Miss Mary Swal- low, the former beipg present at the jubilee services, the latter. et present not enjoying sufficient good health to attend. Among the few others who were present at the opening and again at the jubilee may be mentioned—Rev. A. McKibben and T. J. Pollard now of Blyth who as a little fellow re.. members the veil+ sett and the very, spot where he sat crushed against the wall in the second front seat on the right hand side of the church. Rev. A. C. Tillie, of Blyth, whose pastor- ate eat the fifty penis of Walton's history 'in the middle, had many in- teresting incidents to relate. Rev. Buttal, now oe Florence, was' present to tonvey his tongratulotions and renew acquaintance% Rea. Mr. IVIcKibbon was reminiscent, recalling the former days with vivid clearness, giving a list of the day school teach_ erS and Sunday Schoof Superintertd- ents and exhibitieg a package of the school books then in use, and display- ing the old-fashioned stone ink -bot- tles that he and had boys usbd to cork tightly ancl Place on the stove, dueing the teachee's absence at noon. He seid he could still see the splash of ink on*the wiling which of course no Person knew anything about when the teacher made inquiry Altogether this jubilee was a success, and the financial veturris amounted to nearly $400. ,tivalllil I WOO .0* 4.- 'Fill the Children with Delight V sii.• Serve them Morning Noon and Night 1 iruO Roenr 'T A awl Sep him Grote. MVO 0.04 :to 13fibt ,