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NO. 6064 ---62ND YEAR
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Clinton New Era
CLINTON" ONTARIO, THURSDAY,' OCTOBER 30, .1941.
When You Buy A Watch
Sold and recommended by HELLYAR THE JEWELLER. You
benefit by his knowledge of a good time keeper, gained by over
!MY yearn of his personal experieliee wonting at, and selling, the
watch most suitable to the work the purchaser is engaged in.
' Ow best satisfiedcustomers s} re these we have sold, watches to.
Come in and inspect, our stock of watches -moderately priced,
and movements in cases up to the minute in quality style and
Workmanship,
W. H. HELLYAR
W. H. HEL,L,YAR
Jeweler and Optometrist Residence Phone 174j
WE PAY CASH FOR OLD GOLD
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Now-
iYIarthaWashingtoll
Home Frocks of
Distinction
You will want a couple of
these old favorites.
Sizes up to 51 -- Long and
Short Sleeves.
Priced at $1.49, $1.75, $1.95
and S2.25.
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FOR QUALITY MERCHANDISE
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LoligoF
Choose that most important Christmas gift)
now. We ordered early and our stock of fine
Watches. is the best you could wish for. See all
the new models in such well known makes as:
Bulova, Westfield, Lorie, Rolex, Mido Multifort,
Savoy, Modera, Globe, Tower, Wyda and others. '
Dozens of styles in both Ladies and Mens as well
as all the leading Military Watches. All are at
prices as low as you will pay any place and you can
select just what you want at almost any price you
care for. Come in anytime and we will tell you how
easy it is to secure exactly what you want right
now. This applies on nearly all goods this year, ase
it will be difficult to fill our orders later, so i£ -,its'
anything in Watches, Rings, Silver or other Jewel-
lery it will definitely pay you to see us early as so
many of our friends have already done.
Remember Watch Repair is a Job for Experts.
Our Work Assures Your Satisfaction.
NORMAN'S
Counters for. Finer Jewellery for Over Half a
Century in Huron County.
NOTICE
As a number of names of boys has
been handed to me who have seemed
to form the habit of destroying prop-
erty. Such as tearing down fences,
flower aien
is on
w x nlawns,i
n carrying
steps away, and disfiguring buildings
en Hallowe'en night. I would sug-
gest to parents to warn boys to re-
frain from any distraction of proper-
ty, as the law will be enforced if such
practise continues.
I do not want in anyway to stop
anyone from having plenty of fun on
this occasion, but must insist that
destruction of property cease, so that
it will not be necessary to 'bring
anyone before bef a the courts.
A. J. McMURRAY, Mayor.
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ICED CROSS NOTES
The regular meeting of the Clinton
Red Cross Society will be held on
Monday, Nov. 3rd, at three o'clock, in
the Church Hall of Wesley -Willis
church. Bring along all your old
Woollen garments to this meeting, for
we expect to have a buyer present,
who will take as much of this mater- e
sal as we can gather together. Old
woollen clothing, underwear, bathing e
suits, men's clothing, odd balls and
scraps ap of wool—everything with wool
in it is - acceptable, Please remove
all buttons and cotton facings.
Blankets: Once again let us call
your attention to the fact that there
is a very urgent need for new or p
good as new blankets to relieve the
suffering in Britain. Any donation i
of this Icind will be very mueh appre- I
crated and will be shipped by the lo- t
cal branch.
Donations: Mrs. James Livermore b
$5.00; Mrs. Harold Shaw, Lansing,
Mich., $2.00 for a blanket.
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Receive Their Wings
LAC. William (Blondie) Cook of
he R.C.A.F. at Dauphin, Man., re-
eived his wings, at a ceremony there
ast Friday. Blondie is well-known
o hockey and baseball fame of the
Clinton Juveniles, and is the third i 1
oy from Clinton to earn• his wings t
s a Sergeant Pilot. Sgt, Pilot Cook n
s now enjoying a short leave before
sporting for duty overseas.
Another boy from this district to
eeeive his wings last week was LAO.
Lloyd Stock, son of Mr. and Mrs. M.
tock of Holtnesville. Sgt. Pilot
Stock received his wings at Brandon,
am, and is now enjoying a short
eave at his home.
Reco
The New Era. Est. 1I
THE HOME PAPER)
Rural Canvassers Report
Splendid Response Front
Farmers Of Clinton
District
War Sa Drive W r vmgs is Launched
Clinton is 'Lagging, but Chairman.
Fingland is Optimistic
The War.Savings Drive ('Oct. 20
toNov. 20) is off to a good start in
the rural districts. Each -,farrier is
being canvassed and the' response so
far is very gratifying.
No house to •house 'canvass is being
,done in the Town of Clinton. The
sales of • stamps and certificates
through the Post Office and the
Banks during the least eight days has
been disaapointmg but Chairman
Frank Fingland, Ti C'., is optimistic
as he feels that the town people par-
ticularly the reguI hvagei-earner
stave thoughtlessly put off the pur-
chasing of certificates.
It is not necessary to emphasize the
need of money to purchase WAR
UPPLIES� AND EQUiPMENT, Ev
cry thinking Canadian realizes that
this war is a serious one and to win,
ritain and her allies must put forth
very effort. Canada is an integral
part of the 'British -Empire and is
abed upon to provide the following:
(1)Men forthe he
Active Overseas
R
Forces.
(2) War Supplies and Equipment.
(3) The training of Airmen in the
British Commonwealth Plan.
(4) Foodstuffs for the British Peo-
le.
To fit and equip a modern army,
t is necessary to spend money and
ots of it to pmchase the costly guns,
anks, mobile units, planes, etc. All
of this equipment is needed if our
oys are to meet the enemy on an
qual basis. Only a portion of the
oney necessary can be raised
through taxation: the balance will
ave to conte through Victory Loans
and War Savings Certificates.
Clinton's objection is a "Naval Gun
er month," for the duration, This
cans in the form of money $2500
er month.
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In the month of September, $1015.-
5 was the remelt for Clinton and els,
rict. During the past eight days
early $300 in cash sales were repor-
d and over $50 in new pledges. •
This response is far short of
2500, The people of Clinton and dis-
ict can and will respond. Remem-
ber Churchill's words, "We Shall Nev St, Paul's Church
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Womens Institute Enter •
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tains Auburn Branch! Paul's: church last Thursday, under
the auspices of a groule of the Ladies
Guild with Mrs. C. V. Cooke as con-
venor. The progtram consisted of
talent from the R.A.F. Radio School
anti local entertainers, Rev. G, W.
Moore welcomed the audience and in-
troduced,,
Mr, Boc
Boucher,
chairman rrnan for
'the evening. The program was as
follows: solo, "Beautiful Dreamer,"
by Miss jean M an
g ,.with Mrs. T.
Premlin at the piano; reading, "Norah
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decided to purchase VetcrAft wreath at the Country Club," by Mrs. G. Mc-
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Breaks Leg In Fal Down
Steps
Mrs. Lawrence Delimitate met with a
painful accident - on Satutd'ay while
attending a wedding at the home of a
friend in Drysdale. In the course of
the wedding preparations, she had oc-
casion to go outside and on the third,
step tom -the bottom twisted - her
ankle, making her fall the rest of
the way, and sustaining a"'compound
fracture of the right leg below the
knee, She was -taken to the Clinton
hospital for setting of the broken
bones and is now resting at home.
MILITARY NEWS
AC: 1 Phillip Sperling of the R.C.A.
F. St. Thomas, speht the weekend in
town with his parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Roy Sperling.
Srg. Hugh Hawkins of the Army
Trades School at Hamilton spent the
weekend in town.
AC. 2 Wesley Reddy of the R.C.A.
F. at Camp Borden spent the week-
end at his home in town.
Fruitgrowers Meeting
Tonight
.The windstorm of September 22nd,
caused. such wid
es read damage i
the
fruitrc
o bards• of Huron that the
Fruit Growers' Association are unde-
cided about holding their fruit show,
as had been arranged for November
28th, In order to arrive at a definite
decision in the matter a meeting of
the association executive will be held
in the agricultural office Thursday
(tonight) Oct. 30.
AMONG THE CHURCHES
The minister's sermon subject in
the morning wilt be "The Mission
and Power of the Church," and in the
evening "Reality in Religion."
Baptist Church
The minister's sermon subject for
Sunday evening will be: "Picturing
God."
Conference on Religions education
will be held in the chuieh this Thurs-
day evening, commencing at eight
o'clock, Everybody welcome.
Sunday school at eleven o'clock on'
Sunday morning. Colne to Sunday
school.
er Surrender—Britain will fight the Sunday, November 2, 1941: 11 a.m.
menace of tyranny for years." Holy Communion; 2,80 pen, Sunday
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Evening's Entertainment
An evening of entertainment was
enjoyed in the Parish -Hall of St.
The October meeting of the Wom-
en's Institute was held on Thursday
last when they had as their guests
the Auburn branch, The president,
Mrs. Adams, presided for the open-
ing and for the business session and
voiced warm welcome to the visi-
tors.
a o e V s
tors, Mrs. (Rev.) Silver acted as
pianist, The minutes of. the last
meeting were read by the secretary,
Mrs. M. Batkin, after which it was
for the memorial tablet on Armistice
Day. Miss L. Brigham was appoin-
ted to attend the area convention at
London, Oet. 28, to 30. The finance
committee ' reported a quilting with
the completed quilt donated to the
Red Cross Society. It was also re-
ported receipt of two decorated' bas-
kets of groceries which had been dons
ated to the W.L, and on which tickets
were sold. Later during the lunch
hour Mrs.' Lawson, president of the
Auburn branch, drew the lucky -tick-
ets when Mrs. Stotz of Auburn and
Mrs. Jenkins of Clinton received
then.. Mrs: McKinley gave a brief
report of the Officer's, Rally which
was held: at Belgrave on October 7th.
Mrs. Lawson then took charge of the
splendid program -presented by the
Auburn ladies. She made pleasing
reference to their hearty welcome
and expressed her own pleasure and
that of the group at being present on
this occasion. The programwas of
high quality, the opening• number was
a solo by Mrs. Gordon .Taylor, the
words and mudie being her own com-
position. Readings were given by
Mrs. Bradnock, Mrs. Sheppard and
Mrs. (Rev:) Wilson. Duets were sung
by Mrs. Anderson and Mrs. McClinch-
ey and by Misses Josephine Weir and
Sadie Garter, Mrs, Platzer favored
with a solo and Mrs, C. Howson, Mee.
J. J. Roberton, Mrs. S. Johnston and
Miss S. Carter a quartette with Mrs.
R. Phillips accompanying. The after-
noon, address was on "Horne," stres-
sing the point that the home is found-
ed or tto
ve and religion. n:
gro The closing
s ng
numbers were popular songs, with all
joining in heartily., More than eighty
sat down to lunch prepared by the
local institute.
The November meeting will be held
one week earlier, on the 21sl, Note
the date. Visitors welcome.
Lay; trio, "Over Here, - for Over
There," by Glen, James, Leonard
Johnson, and George Sicribbine, with
Mrs. M. Elliott at the piano. Then
followed an interlude of popular
songs with GPI. Grinden at the piano,
solo, "Stardust", by AC Thos. Wig-
more; solo, The Floral Dance," by
Mrs. H. 0. Lawson; recitation by
special request, "The Human Tonic,"
by Mrs. G. McLay; tap dancing, to
Harlem and Dinah by AC. Derkie
Phillips; solo, "Alexander's Band," by
AC. Wigmore, concluded the pro-
gram wlticj<i was followed by God
Save the King. Teawasserved to
all those taking part in the program,
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Officers Installed
District Deputy Grand Master A.
G. Hicks, assisted by Bros. C. Salter,
R. Hooper, M. Quance, W. Middleton,
C. Fisher, E. Digman and '22.2. Penhale
of Exeter installed the officers of
Clinton Lodg'e i.O.0.F. No. 83, on
Tuesday evening.
After the installation, ceremony
lunch was served and a social hour
spent.
The officers installed are as fellows:
I.P.G.—Bro. George Jefferson.
N.G.—Bro. George Rumball.
V.G.--Bro. Barrett Taylor.
Rec.-Sec.—Bro. H. W. Gould.-
Fin.-Sec.—Bro. 81. L, Kitten.
Treas.—Bro. J. L. Heard.
Warden—Bro. H,Mephersot.
Con.—Bro. Charles Johnson.
J, Ew Cook,'
I.
G Br.
o N. Kennedy,
R:S,N.G.—Pro. J. A. Sutter.
L.S.N.G: Bro. Caryl Draper.
R,S.V:G.—Bro, George McLay.
L,S.V.G. :Bro: G. N. Davis.
R.S.S.=-Bro, Jas. Livermore.
L,S.S.—Bro. W, Murch.
Chaplain—Bro. A. P. Rumball,.,
School; 7 p.tn. Evening Prayer. The
424th Anniversary of Martin Luther's
"Epoch of the Reformation," will be
the subject of the sermon, Rev. G. W. i
Moore, the preacher,
Monday, Hallowe'en Social by the
ASF.P,A,
Tuesday, Ladies Guild at 3 p.m.
Thursday, Prayer Service 5 p.m,
Salvation Army
Next Sunday will mark the com-
mencement t
of a Territory -wide ev-
ev-
angelistic campaign. The Salvation
Army is seeking to win men and
women fori
tie cause of Christ,
Throughout the month of :November
there will be the practice of intense
witnessing, preaching and praying on
the part of every Salvationist, We
invite, you to attend the meetings
next Sunday. Lieut. S. Whibley will
speak on "Spiritual Hunger," in the
morning serviceandLieut: P. peed -
man will speak en "The Roots of
Evil' in the evening service.
Ontario Street Church
11 aan. topic "The Combat of Good
and Evil; 2 p.m. Turner's church; 2.30
p.m. Ontario '-Street Sunday School;
7.30 p.nt. An Illustrated Sermon of a
famous Painting from the Life of
'Christ. Bright Evangelistic Hymns.
Monday, 8 p.m., The Young Peoples
Union, The Christian Fellowship De-
partment in charge. Ali interested
in Young People's Work ase invited.
Wednesday 8 p.nt. Midweek service
of Intercession. Prayer for National
Safety and Fellowship.
The regular meeting• of the W. A.
will be held: on Wednesday afternoon,
November 5th, at 2.80 o'clock. Mrs,
T. Mason, Mrs. E. Ellis and Mrs. Geo,
Potter will be convenors of the lunoh.
Presbyterian Church
Next Sunday Rev. A. M. Boyle of
Blyth and Auburn will be the speak-
er, There will be a special choir
made up of a few of Mrs,. Reyes' sme-
lls residing near •Clinton.. Mrs. An-
drew will also give -a sermonette.
• Rev-. B. F. Anchors will have charge
of the anniversary services at Auburn.
and in the evening the Clinton Choir
will be present at their service,
Wednesday evening, Nov. bth, the
Teachers' es' Tr i
am
Cotse will l be
held at Goderich. Inspector E'. C.
Beacom, B.A., will be the lecturer.
The Women's 'Association and the
Women's Missionary Society will'
meet in the Sunday School - room of
the church on Wednesday afternoon,
Nov. 5th, at 2.30 o'clock.
Engagements Announced
The. engagement is announced of,
Mabel Irene Churchill, Clinton,
daughter of Mr. and ':Mrs. Ben. W.
Ir
Ch rc r'
nt ,,Goderich Goderzch Town '
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Mitchell MoAdani son of Mr. and Mrs:
John McAdam, dirkona, the marriage
to take place early. in November.
Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Barbour , of
Fergus announce the -engagement of
their daughter, Dorothy Roberta, > to
Mr. Charles Ralph McMillen, son of
Dr. and Mrs. A. R. McMillen of Sarn-
ia. The marriage will take place in
November in Fergus.
Mr, and Mrs. C. J. Hedrick of Bien-
helm announce the engagement of
their eldest daughter, Agnes June, of
Clinton, to Mr. Keith Crawford Cutt,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Calvin Celt of
Goderich, the marriage will take
place on Tuesday, November eleventh,
in Blenheim.
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Clinton Woman's Father
Dies
James Alexander Rogers, father of
Mrs. (Dr.) W. A. Oakes of Clinton,
died at his home at 42 Indian Road,
Toronto on Monday, October 27th.
Mrs. Rogers, the former Miss Sarah
Hartley and one son and two daugh-
ters survive. The funeral was con-
ducted
from the
A. W. Mill Funeral
un oral
Chapel on Wednesday, Oct. 29th, at
2 o'clock and interment was made in
Pine Hills Cemetery.
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FATAL BLAST HERE IS
BLAMED; : ON SPARK
A spark caused by the rubbing of
JAMES LEIPER WARDEN!
OF HURON DIES AT
CLINTON
James Leiper, Warden of Heron
County, died in Clinton Hospital early
Sunday morning in his '77th, year af-
ter an illness of less than a week,
from a heart attack suffered while
motoring from Goderich with his.
sonon Tuesday.
Warden Leiper was 'a son of the
late John Leiper
and Agnesz
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P Muir
Leiper and was born in Hullett town-
ship, con. 10, on Api'il 8, 1866. He
wetly took an interest in farming and
his farm home, con. 11, Hullett, is one
of the finest in the township. lie
was particularly interested in horses
and was an importer of first-class
draft horses.
On December 27, 1899, he married
a metal hose against the edges of. an Annie Hamilton, who survives with
opening in a tank car of road farm
family of five sons and two daugh-
was declared by a coroner's jury to tens. They are John M., of Clinton;
have set off the explosion in the, Robert of Toronto; Gavin, William
railwayand Thomas, at home; Misses Agnes
yards here on October 1
in which Joseph BIund was fatally o£ Toronto, and Jean, at home.
burned. The jury added a rider to P` brother, William, and a sister, Miss'
their verdict recommending "iiia! all Martha, of Hullett also survive.
metal hose be covered with rubber James Leiper had served his home
where it passes over erre manhole; also township for many years as councilor
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that tanks carrying inflammable mat- :the e positiono reeve and was the n for
erial be. properly grounded." nof comity warden at a
• caucus of Liberal members of the
Dr. 3, W. Shaw presided at the in- council for 1941,• continuing the cult -
quest anti the jury was composed ..rf' om of alternating the honor between
Fred Mutch, foreman, Thomas Hawk- the two main political parties year
ins, Cree Cook, 0. L. Paisley and. A. about, He was a past president of
E. Rumball. The immediate causo of the Clinton Spring Stock Show mut
the explosion had been a mystery was a director of the society, at the
but it came out in the evidence of time of his death. He also was a
theattending physician that Bland, member of Constance Court of the
although terribly burned over most Canadian Order of Forzesters.
The funeral for the late Huron
of the surface of his limbs and body,'
was able to say itzat he saw a spark County warden, James Leiper, held
and then received the shock of the from his Hullett farm home Tuesday
explosion.
• • afternoon was one of the most largely -
attended in the history of the county„
Evidence was given by men from It was a tribute to his worth as a
Toronto familiar with the handling citizen in both public and private life„
of inflammable products and also by Many comity officials took part in
Ross Scott of Brucofield, oil and the funeral services. The honorary -
gasoline distributor, who had known pallbearers were past county wardens,
of a somewhat similar occurrence in N. W. Trewartha, Clinton;, R. J. Bow -
his own business, man, Brussels; Wilmot Haacke, Gode-
It was stated that Blend had been rich; George Feagane Goderich and
using a metal hose in pumping the J. M, Ecltert,Fordwich; Reeves; J. H.
tarvia front the tank and it wr '
la
Scott
Us -
thought the hose rubbing against theSeafoJth; Percy Passmore, Us-
metai edges of the manhole, in the borne,bs and John ainent, ,Grey, and
members of Parliament, W. H. Gold -
tank ear had struck
a spark, igniting ing, Soaforth, and L. E. Cardiff, Brus-
the generated gas. sola
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Summerhill
The Summerhill
their meeting at the
Ball. In our year and a half of Red
Cross work .our meetings are starting
for the second time in a home. With
the Pres. in the chair the meeting op-
ened by singing "00 Canada," follow-
ed by the Red Cross prayer.
The minutes of the last meeting i Watson and, Alexander McCann_
County Clerk, N. W. Miller, Clinton,
assisted in the arrangements.
The seivice was conducted by .Rev.
A. E. Menzies, pastor of Londesboro
land Burns United churches. The le-
:mains.
e-:mains were interred in Burns ceme-
tery, Hallett.
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The, active pallbearers were: Hul-
lett township and Council officials,
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Red Cross James McCool, clerk; treasurer, Wil -
Warn Carter; Road Supervisor, John
Red Cross held • Armstrong; Edward ckett
Pi, George
home of Mrs, Ed
Browu�, Joint• Ferguson, councilors.
The flower -bearers were reeves of
Huron municipalities, Alex McDonald,
)Ben Rathwell, T. G. Wilson, George
Armstrong, R. Redmond, J. W, Gam-
ble, S. II. Whitmore, Roland Grain,
R. E. Shaddick, W. It Morrill, Fred
were read ,and adopted, 22 members
answered the roll call and 13 visitors
were present.
The yarn reommittee has shipped 2
pr. seamens stockings; 4 pr. ordinary
socks; 6 pr. navy mitts; 3 scarfs and
1 turtle neck sweater. There was
donated at this meeting a quilt 'top
'and lining by Mrs. J. McBrien, a batt
and thread from Mrs, T. Mason and
a batt from Mrs, Joe Watkins. LITTLE. LOCALS '
The party at Ms, Isaac Rapsons The Clinton Collegiate Institute
amounted) to $33.70. are holding their annual Hallowe'en
Apple Butter donated by Mrs. Case party tomorrow night in the school
and lace for pillow cases donated: by auditorium.
Mrs.E . Ball, were won by Mrs. Pen -
found an
$1i15, Holstein Breeder% Association will be
n the afternoon two quilts were held itthe agricultural board room
quilted and a top sewed on, ,Thursday evening, Bryon Jenvey,.
The next meeting will be at the Holstein field man for Western Ont -
home of Mrs, N. Ball on Thursday, a'rio will be the guest speaker,
Nov. 6 (please note day) the hostes- About the most appetizing bunch
ses are: Mrs. Tom Mason, Mrs. G. , ofr berries wo have ever seen were_
Smith, Mrs. N. Ball, Mrs, A. Osbal- ,brought into this office Saturday af
deston, The roll call will be "An ternoon by Mrs. G. E. Saville. She
Article in any medicine cabinet" The reports that her berry bushes are
meeting closed with the National loaded with green ones and if there're
Anthem- Tea was served at the close not touched by the frost for another
of the
meeting.: On Tuesday Oct.. week, there will be a better crop than
in the summer.
The second of the series of boxing•
bouts sponsored by the Clinton Lions
Club will be held in the Town Hall, on
Monday evening, Nov 3rd, when local
and R.A.F. men will compete,
Tomorrow night is, HalTlawe'en.
d. Mrs. Arnold of B C netting The annual meeting of the Hmon
23 the Red Grose ladies met in the
halI at Stunmerhill and in the after-
noon three quilts were quilted, A
donation of $1 was received from Miss
'Harriet Rapson and the tea collec-
tion amounted- to $2.85. Tea was
served by the hostess,