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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1941-06-05, Page 2PAGE TWO • Say—de you think we are getting the }tors OVER trebled e Celebrate 55th Wedding Anniversary— To au interesting Stratford couple, Mr. and Alts. 'William H?igins, 44 Argyle street. .Tune "_lid wee the .ae st momentous day in 1:141. On teat day 55 years ago they were married. and a tlttin3 e•elebration was planned fur their eeth wedding anniversary. Both Mr. H. tigins and hie bride of more than half a cent- ry ago have spent the greater part ee their lives in Perth gutty. M... iieep:in . the former Mary Haines. has lived in Stratford since 1S7e. Mr. Hodgins was born near Sea• forth and lived at the Alma corner on the Huron road. He learned his trade wtri1 Bright Bros Mr. Hod -Ins. who +, a 'atter by - truce-. - goes to work eeee morning. rning. The Hodgins family knows a -geed .deal about. wars. Stn. Huggins and two of his son. eerv. + in the First Gr• .ar War. the two beye citing i:: recent years tree, ever .ti._b.lrtie.. Now :Mr. au1 THE SEAFORTH NEWS gnereleene f_, seeeveee presete ....eleetey ceuele tel.- ri tee ... te?ie Large' ilyTeey a, e . eie't citil.ir.'n now Gyle, ,., i.. W11:1).i W.,r.- h,)ra ie teem. 1';:,-h: grand •itildreu and fou great r,t e iicitihiren are another. • r1ue.:' .+t pride. The wedding cera - motif' which rook Plitt 5e Feat's ago - was perforMed be Rev. Gordon Smith of the Congregational Church at Srtatferd. Although seeming to he lu geed healthe possibly because of the excitement of the anniversary, nei- ther Mr. nor Mrs. Hodgins has been completely wait for the past few years. -Of the cigar surviving child- ren. four are living. in Stratford. - New Radio Schoai— A fair sized mushroom town is pr'ingine up on the it of tate new R. A. F. air radio school in Tucker- sntith. at Granton corner ou the Lon- don road. Os r two thousand stud- ents will eventually be. housed there. This is the second radio school to be erected in Canada: the other is at Montreal. Building,. are already springing up everywhere ea what was naee the verdant farm of Norman Tyndall. It ie sett in beautiful land- seape. snrronndings. A powerful aut- omatic. scraper. :with (1tunning equipment. bee heed busy on the hack end of the farm scraping off -the knolls and filling in rhe holtoevs. The Piggott Ceastruetion Co, are the contractors for the airport which is being cottstrue•re1 under R.C.A.F. auspices tar the British Government, The Tyndall barn and drive -shed will be torn down but the house will t'e- ntain. A gravel toad is tinder eon - se -minion almost the full length of the farts. Mee of lumber are rising. Grottn,i has been cleared :ltd nutter ens huts have been staked out. Foun- dation pests dot the landscape. Wing Commander Cox and a group of R. A.F. technicians are now on the ground. They are to supervise eon - ,r a , .. tt1,1,t e t,a; « , tee teiettle,1 .td seieetbe. ..cis. fend eel t't:it setee of the telveee.el s.r- int, r 1:1 ,-. its,t1 in neeieer. t adielo y will b, housed it. , Lie iter:ditty on the lied• radio iehoot, rite and that it will be tender treaty- guard. There will be a landing strip on the site but no air - pieties will be housed there. Hydro officiate are making preparations to .ripply the school with 2,Otl0 horse- pewer anergy. Half of this will be taken from the No. 8 highway high• tension line and half from the Lon dolt road lia'. Estimated cost of the new rind is one million dollars. Heifer Goes Wild— .k heifer belonging to Wm. Freyne that was being delivered to the Hurondale beef ring went wild while being weighed at R. G. Set. don's weighsoak,: at Exeter recent- ly. It rile e1 several of the men, eeatrering them in different direc- tions and then headed across the a'ailwety tracks and through the farm of Preeton beating inrt a bush where tt Was afterwards shot. To Instruct in Night Flying— Sky Harbor Elementary Training Sehool is to be equipped forthwith foe advanced flying instruction and night dying. Much of the instruction now beim given at heavily taxed ser- vice ;schools is to be given there, it is undot'stoeid. The warden's committee of County Council of Huron. which owns the ground, asked for tenders by June 7 for the demolition of an ofd hangar building at the southeast corner of the property. This was done :it the request of Huron Couu ty Flying Training Co. Ltd.. opet'at• ere of the school. The haugar was the first to be built before tate wet in MS. Townships Lose Taxes— Airp_'-t 1•'' `y 1- nee l e.e• •[ i;. four tewtr..t.ip- ef iron ;, ('rtttht.y. ti transfer to tee t .1,:. tent means that it is exempt from taxation and that the townsltipe ;Lffeete(1 will line varied amounts la taxes each year. The situation affects the t'ounly's equalized assessment and Ir will have to be revised and brought up to date. In this connection the equaliza- tion committee of the County Coun- cil met on Tuesday and instructed County Clerk Not•ntalt Miller to pre- pare a new table for submission to the Juue session. Colborne has lust $15,000 in assessment. Ashfield 817,• 500, Tuckersmitit $6,900, and Stan- ley a small amount. Total flgtu'es can not be changed: but what the four townships have lost will have to he absorbed, so it is said, by those mull - [dualities whose equalizer) assess- ments were raised at the. last county- wide ountywide equalization. hi this instance the amount of money involved is only a few hundred dollars.—Uodetictt Signal -Star. Mrs. W. D. Fair, Clinton— A life-long resident of Clinton in the person of Harriett Loa's Leslie, wife of William Dickson Fair, died last week after an illness of three years. She was born is (Tinton. the second daughter of the late Mt. turd Mrs, John Leslie, and one of a fans• tic of six, 2 boys and 4 girls. Thirty- two years ago she married Mr. Fair.. Mrs. Fair was a member of the Presbyterian flume' in Clinton and took a practical Interest in the ac'th itis_ of . t•hurc h and community. She was aspeciatly prouthreut iu ladles' organizations during the great war. Besides her husband there survive One brother. John Leslie. of Oakland. . California, and cue sister, Mrs. Pat• terson, whose husband, Dr. J. J. Pat. terson, is a prominent ntinist,'r in Sarnia. The funeral was held last Thursday to (Tinton tenner',ry Escapes Unhurt— After rolling ever tone or file times completely wreeking his c.tt a resident of Nes Hamburg crawled from the wreckage practically nn hurt. nighty thankful that steel bodies and shatterproof glass will stand a terrific strain. The motorist was travelling west on No. se High- way. better known as the Thames Road. When opposite Arthur Run- dle's farm. about a utile east of town, a blow-out occurred in one oe the rear tires. The car was travel- ling at a fast elip and took to the ditch. rolled over a wire fence and came to rest on its side In a field. The body of the car was damaged and the top caved in on the left rear side. The driver was able to shove the door up and crawl out, having suffered only a slight tear in the seat of his trousers. He had clung tightly to the wheel as the car trolled oven—Exeter Times -Advocate. Bea Man Among Heli You'll feel like a million dollars the minute you step out in that fine new uniform now ready for you. You'll be a man among men, a vital cog in Canada's great mobile war machine. You are needed to handle guns, tanks. armoured cars and other motorized equipment. Canada is waiting for YOU to spark them to victory. Canada wants ACTIO'\. You want ACTION. This is your chance to get it. The Canadian Active Army requires men for Artillery. Engineers. Signals. Armoured Cars, Tanks. Infantry. Trans- port and Supply. Medical and Ordnance and other branches of the Service. The Army is prepared to teach many trades and to train you to efficiently handle Canada's weapons of war. Go to your nearest District Recruiting Office. Find out about these Units; how they work, what they do. See just where you'll fit in. See where any particular skill you possess can best be utilized. Then join up for .4CTION Pise for ACTIVE E o SERVICE RATES OF PAY IN THE RANKS $1.30 per Day with Board. Lodg- ing, Clothing, Medical and Dental care provided. EXTRA: (i) Rates varying from 25e to 75e per day for skilled tradesmen while employed. (2) Dependent Allowances in Cash: $35 to wife, $i2 each per month for 2 children—only 3 dependents per soldier. Apply to nearest District Recruiting Office or any local Armoury DEPARTMENT OF NATIONAL DEFENCE CANADA Barges Into Funeral Cortege— Motorists as a rule show every re- spect for the dead, but a gent 01 the other ilk was unearthed in Walker- ton when a driver. arriving at one of the town's busy intersections, forced his way unceremoniously through a funeral procession and went on his way rejoicing that he was not oblig- ed to await the passing of the long cortege bearing the mortal remains of a citizen to a last resting place in God's acre.—Walkerton Herald -Times Graduated From Toronto Hospital MIss Isabel Habkirk is now a grad- uate of the Toronto General Hospi- tal, the commencement exercises be- ing held on Thursday. Attending the ceremony from here were her par- ents, Mr. and IIrs. J. 0. Habkirk and son Mac. Miss Blanche Bennett, Mr. Ross Howson. Miss Evelyn Edgar and Miss June Buchanan.—Winghtlm Advance -Times. THURSDAY, JUNE 5, 1S4-1 Engagement Announced— Mr. and ,tics. J. H. Hopper, Wing harts, anununce the engagement of their daughter, Atha Lillian. Rag. N., to Robert Earl Johnson. son of Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Johnson, St- ('atha.y. ines, the marriage_ to take prate quietly early in June. Engagement-- Mr. ngagement—\ir. end \Ir.. iiYi•.,r1 D.ta•. 't 1, aitnotttl'r the .114 tzement ,)f ,n „ daughter, lee ie Irur. dr. Ha -,;,1 E:hoit t'rldhant t w to t f Me, and etrs. jeetter Pei haat. ter . 11,rte, rho' . tuarrit4e to Cilie X11.1,t;: 11 Hoe Police Were Looking for Man With a Red Checked Shirt— lint iv rel' hri,lay a'te.rtl , t. :;1.•' gre ••t F nett attroanthi.c•. ,l"+•lit melee 'rout aartize. ? at,•rat. 'Pbe t'lefitwe, not ret,. rt.•d +.trait 7 ?+.:'s11. ', t « u . ,cel'it 1s i «• to n 1 ), lit ' r ht r•1 t•ckt 1 1n. r, t 'ti:. nct -1) 71'1,111 t rhe etertee. Ma -.e s et 1- ,“'.•Milt! 1.,1 tamaber 11. hal tier .ti i., ear t'al te, .p ; t ote..leeekteg -rt- check urte i melt xnti .1 t ,Saturiay night in G„dera'.t there tta, art arni; itt:. inti•kitt. The poker. 1 yll.:1114 fellow rt,swering tate lose-te tii.n1 Tat 1' they attpr'itched he ,:,-eke ran brass 'fait,nts in pursuit, 1\"urn girt 1t the youth explained the+• tie htt.1 been ,lrinkine beer .ted that Ire 1111, under eget. That was way he ran.. Police rales:.l him. There are en nt.tnr reel-andebtaat.-cheeke:d shirt: ort the street- three days they heti the Cent-taitiet e ee:et-eyed.— tF ,drrica Sizna.-Star. Filnt Director—"Don't forget twee, You look around, discover that same one is chasing you, and then dive off this 200 foot cliff." Stunt Mau—"But there's only 2 feet et water at the bottom!" Director—"Certainly. Do you throe we want you to drown'." You Rolf Them Better WW1 OGDEN'SRNE CIGARETTE TOBACCO) Sun Life Assurance Co, of Canada Assures Security for over One Million Partners H. R. LONG, GODERICH District Agent 3. 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