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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1942-04-16, Page 2PAGE TWO T]YE SEAFOWIll NEWS aeon Me Mo440s cika "SALA TEA BAGS 11 Tame Wild Ducks— Jack Miner may boast of his wild geese and wild Swans. but they merely n.'r hint a visit when passing through. Gut at Aberdeen. some four utiles from Durham in Bentinck, there is a colony of wild docks that ,rake Aberdeen their home, both win- ter and summer; feed 'with the rest of the fowl, and seem not to object being cooped up for the winter in a part if the barn reserved for their use. Anti this has been going on for the past four or five vears.—Durham Chronicle. Two• Fish At One Time— an tin Fia•ld end avant Symons wer.: busily et gt sed patine boards in the shn' way -over the dam" last Aloud; y, whoi ttwy noticed :t couple of fish fighting their way out of the drag of 117.' fans: waiting until the pair calm-. 4 to t -. k and in line with the bon , tl. obhnk ,vas drop- ped. nr Iv tinning both fish Ono Proved to by t vire big "sucker.' ;he other a bass. Not bad fora starter. way it?—Teeswat-r News. Plumsteel-Laidlaw— A gnier wedding was that of Mar- ion Roberta, younger daughter of Airs. Laidlaw. Clinton. and the late David A. Laidlaw. to Harry Rathwell Plumsteel, son of H. Perry Plum - steel. Clinton, and the late -Airs. Plumsteel. The wedding was solemn- ized at the new Thome of the bride's brother -in -raw and sister. Air. and Mrs. George B. Beattie. Rattenbury street, Clinton. Rev. Harold Snell. of Ethel United Church, cousin of the groom. officiated. The bride. given in marriage by her brother-in-law. was lovely in a floor length gown of dawn pink sheer. Miss Jean Laidlaw, Reg. N. Guelph, sister of the bride, was bridesmaid. wearing a gown of pale green ninon. Lawrence Plumsteel, ' w Hamburg. brother of the groom. w:1$ best man. Miss Emma Flumeteel. aunt if the groom, was pianist. Dur - lug the signing of the register. Miss Lorna Plumsteel, Toronto, sister of the grooms, sang. After the ceremony a wedding luncheon was served. Mr. and Mrs. Plumsteel left for a motor -rip to Toronto and other points. the bride wearing a spring ensemble of 'v>iGa and brown. They will reside on the groom's farm. Landau road, Tuckersmith. Among the Honored guests was the groom's ;grandmother, Mts. Margaret Plumsteel. to whom the bride presented her bouquet. Pasteurization Plant For County Home— The County of Huron is. shortly ',o establish a mlik pasteurization plant ::t the County Home near Clinton and a new building is to be erected i.; which to house it. This move is being made further to safeguard the e::lth o1 the inmates and was taken at a meeting of the County Home committee held last week. The plant already has been purchased front a ;i. Marys firm and as soon as plans and specifications are ready County - Clerk Miller will call for tenders for the erection of the building. Tenders tot various provisions for the Home alsi were opened at this meeting and contracts awarded. The meat will be supplied by Ross Fitzsimmons. bread by Harry Bartli$. tobacco by J. Av new and groceries by T. J. Riley. all of Clinton. The size of the new silo to be b lilt. shortly,"i-eeently awarded to Hngill Bites., was iiged at 12 by 3,?•s feet. 'Reeve Fred Watson, of Stanley township, is chairittan of the committee. Sutler -Fowler-- A quiet wedding was solemnized at the Baptist Church parsonage. Clinton, when Elizabeth . Matilda, eldest daughter of Mt. and Mrs, Foster Fowler; Mitchell, and former ;residents of- Seaforth, became the bride of John Robert Butler, eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. John Butler, of Clinton. Rev. A, E. Silver perforated the ceremony. The bride was lovely in a street length gown of powder blue French crepe and straw hat of matching shade. Her only ornament was a necklace brought from Palest- ine by her aunt. Miss Audrey Butler Of Clinton. sister of the 'groom, as bridesmaid chose a dress of powder blue with old rose accessories. The best man was Mr. Harvey Clutter of Clinton.' After the ceremony the bridal party motored to Wingham for dinner. later motoring to London. Mr's. Butler will reside in Mitchell while Mr. Butler is in training at Kitchener, Celebrates 85th Birthday— Mr. Edward Floody of Toronto, formerly of Clinton. celebrated his S5th birthday on Thursday, March 26 Unfortunately. he is on the sick list but it is hoped that soon he will be around again. Engagement Announced— Mr. and Airs. Herbert Uttley, of Zur- ich, announce the engagement of their daughter. Edith Marguerite. to Sergeant Edgar Strader of the Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps, Camp Borden, son of Mr. and Mrs. 'Noah estrader, of Walkerton. the marriage to take place the first week iu.May. Smelts Are Running— The smelts are running. First inti- mation of this came on Tuesday with the tip-off from a well-known angler that he had filled an eleven -quart basket in a very short time from a stream somewhere on the east coast of Lake Huron. He emphasized that the news n -as not for publication. Not long after information came that • Hydro -Electric energy, handmaiden of progress in peacetime, is indispensable in time of wart In guarded laboratories all over Ontario, night and day, chemists are seeking out formulas for ever more powerful explosives that will help to shorten the war. The chemical. industry and Hydro go hand in hand. Between them they produce explosives for aerial tor- pedoes, depth bombs, land and sea mines, chemicals for flame throwers—and many other weapons that will hit the enemy hard. From the day that war w,as declared Hydro's two million electrical horsepower was ready to be harnessed to the war effort and today more than half of it is at work, fashioning the myriad THE HYDRO -ELECTRIC POWER tools of victory. In Ontario's chemical industry, huge plants using over 150,000 Hydro horse- power are funning out chemicals and high explo- sives—and more .such plants are being built. That means greater demands for electrical en- ergy, demands your Hydro must and will meet. Here, every citizen can help by conserving Hydro current, by using it sparingly. That's an important way we can all "help to finish the job" , , , sooner! CONSERVE ELECTRICITY In cooking, um automatic controls and watch the swathes. For large quantities of toast, use top oven element with Moiling Pan and rack inilead et open elemenb. Cook complete "oven" meals In range oven, with bottom elements. Have your electtkat deoler or local "Hydro" keep VOW appliances in not class order. COMMISSION OF ONTARIO LAUNCHING A DEPTH CHAROI THURSDAY, APRiL 16, 1942 a Man had landed 1$O pounds in less than an hour in the Bayfield River. Yesterday such." stories were gen- eral and last evening fishermen were out in large numbers.-TGoderich Sig• nal -Star. Milk Gans Reported Stolen-- AIr, Mel. Elliott, of the Ilohnesville cheese factory, has complained to police that at least six five -gallon rtrilk caus have been stolen in recent days from the various ruotes which serve his factory. Sintilett reports have come from isolated parts of the county and police are making a checkup. The loss of these milk cans is a serious one, not only because 01 their increased value at this time but also because it Is very difficult to re -1 place them, owing to the seareitY of tin. Hand Injured— Mr. Lorne I{lope had the misfort- une to lose part of the third finger of his right hand and part of the second finger of the same while operating a scoring machine in their honey pliant. The third finger was amputat- ed at the first joint, and Lorne will have a painful hand for a few weeks besides the loss of the fingers, Zur- 60th Jubilee— A happy event took place at the home of Mr, and firs. William L. Sie- bert, Zurich, on Saturday, April 4th, the celebration of their 60th wedding anniversary. This happy couple were married in Kansas by the late Rev. J. Roe, and to them were born ten children: Mrs. W. Major, Toronto: Nora, R.N., of Lansing, Mich.; Edgar R. of Detroit; Mrs. C. Hoffman, Galt; Willian, A., Zurich. and Frank of De- troit. Albert was drowned' in St. Jos- eph in 1959. and Tera died in Febru- ary, 1919. Two children died in in- fancy. Their 10 grandchildren and one great-grandchild were present, as well as their children and friends. Mr. Siebert was born in New Hamburg, later operating a general store in Kansas. Crediton, Plattsville and Dashwood before coming to ur- ic" where he served as postmaster until his retirement from active duty. He also serveZd as clerk of the Tenth Division Court for a number of years. He is in his S3rd year. while Mrs. Siebert, the former Anna L. Kolb. was horn in Kitchener, and is in her 76th year, Died In London— The death took plaee at her resi- dence on London. on Monday, April 6th, of a former resident of Exeter in the person of Airs. Edmund J. Wethey. Mrs. Wethey was taken ill on March 27, having collapsed from a heart condition while walking on Dundas street. Born at Alerrickville. Ontario, her maiden name was Irene Whitmarsh. She was married to Mr, ; Wethey in 1903. Besides her husband she is survived by two sons and two daughters. The funeral was held in London. Among the floral tributes was a wreath of flowers from the Exe- ter Board of Education. Narrow Escape— Mr. Wm. Gould of Hay Township. had a narrow escape one day last week. While engaged in cutting wood with a power circular saw outfit, in some manner the belt came off and in trying to get the revolving belt out of the way with his foot, the belt caught the right foot and threw him to the ground. He was dragged to- ward the engine and fortunately his Wrapped to keep it pure full strength, ROYAL never Iets aa�, you down � ®e ®r Give you bread that's extra fine._...,., oothest, sweeter e in the town! INDIVIDUALLY WRAPPED MADE IN CANADA TRAVELLERS Observers forming part of the air crews of a Royal Canadian Air Force torpedo -bomber squadron of Coastal Command in Great Britain are a complete cross-section of the many types of graduates who have passed through the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan. Described by their commanding officer, Wing Commander E. L. 1i Wally 1 Wurtele, of Montreal, as "one of the best and keenest bunch of observers I ever saw," these lads arrived with the' empire's air forces in the United Kingdom trough many devious routes, For example, the officer in charge of observers in the squadron, Pilot Officer Norman Hill, found himself with the unit via England, Singapore and Canada. Soft spoken Norman Hill, who boasts a moustache in the approved R.A.F. tradition, was born in the Old Country and held a post with .the North Borneo government in Singa- pore for some years before the war. In the summer of 1939 he went to Canada for a holiday. When, in Aug- ust 1939 it was'evident that war was imminent, he applied for enlisthient in the RCAF but was turned down. Instead of catching the first boat back to Singapore, he got himself a job in Toronto and worked there un- til May, 1940, when he applied again to the air force. This time, he was accepted and did his training at No. 1 I.T.S.tand No. 1 AOS in Toronto, No. 1 B. & G. school, Jarvis, Ont., where he was•awarded his observers wing and No. 1 A.N.S., Rivers, Man. For a short while he was at an operational training unit where he received a course in the navigation of bombers across the Atlantic, and finally, in November, 1941, navigat- ed a U.S. built Consolidated Libera- tor four -motored bomber to England where be was promptly posted to his present squadron. Another observer in this squadron who arrived there by devious routes is Sgt. James W. Stirling, an Ameri- can citizen who hails from Niagara Falls. N.Y. He was born in Scotland but carne to the United States some years ago when his parents moved across the Atlantic. When they re- turned to Scotland later on he did not go with them but stayed on to take out Itis naturalization papers. In 1939, he decided o take a trip to Scotland to see his parents for the first time since their return. He was still overthere when war broke out but managed to get a passage to Montreal, returned from there to the States. In June, 1940, he travelled to Windsor and applied at the Windsor RCAF Recruiting Centre for enlist- ment as a pilot. He was told he was underweight. his by no means dis- couraged him, however. "I went back to Chicago," says Jim, "and Proceed- ed to stuff myself with whipped cream and that kind of stuff, Then I went back to Windsor. This time the doctor passed me but the recruiting centre had all the pilots they could use for a while, So I went back to Chicago again. They finally sent for me in October, 1940, and I trained as an observer at Toronto, London, Fingal and Penfield Ridge. I arrived in England last November." By contrast is the story of Pilot Officer Gordon Frederick, of Lind- say, Ont., a skilled mathematician and actuary and graduate in mathe- matics and physics of Queen's Univ- ersity, who left his job as an invest- ment analyst with . a big insurance concern in Toronto to become an air observer. Pilot Officer Frederick, who is very highly regarded by the senior officers of his squadron, enlisted in November 1940 and after training at Toronto, London, Fingal and Pen- field Ridge arrived in England last November, Both his brothers are in the RCAF. One, Eugene, is a ser- geant and senior armament n.c.o. 'with an operational squadron on the west coast of Canada. The other, Bruce, is nearing the end of his training as a pilot Flight Sgt. James McIlrath, of Toronto, has been overseas longer than the others, He enlisted in April, 1940, and after training at Toronto, Mahon, Jarvis and Rivers, Man., went to England and was posted to a Royal Air Force. Blenheim fighter squadron which was very busy pro- tecting convoys and conducting sweeps over the Norwegian coast. Although he put in many operational hours with that squadron, Fligh Ser- geant Mcllrath will say precisely nothing about his experiences. To the question "Do you remember any particularly exciting times you had in those days?" he replies very briefly 'No." Pilot Officer William Cameron, of Vancouver, B.C.. who is serving with a coastal command squadron of the RCAF overseas is currently without a great coat. Reason: He left it -by mistake in a big. London Hotel where he had been staying while on leave. Later, while he was staying at a place called Thorney Island in Sussex he phoned the hall -porter and asked that the coat be sent on. When it did not ar- rive he caused inquiries to be made, discovered that the missing garment had been sent by the hall -porter, who apparently does not hear very well on telephones, to Phorney, Tire.. Bill is hoping that Premier Eamonn De Valera won't decide to intern the great coat. rubber boot pulled off, freeing him' before he was drawn into the revolv- ing pulley. The hoot was torn into several pieces and scattered in sev- eral directions.—Exeter Times -Advo- cate. Simpson-Arnold— On Saturday, April 41,h, at Erskine Presbyterian church, Hamilton, Rev, R. J. Wilson officiated at the marri- age of Eileen May Arnold, 'daughter of Mr. and Mrs, Alexander Arnold, of Hamilton, to Albert Graham Sinn), son, of Goderich, son of Mr, and Mrs. Robert Graham Simpson, of Hamilton. The bride, given in marri- age by her father, was attended by Miss Lenora Hardwick. Mr. Craig MacFarlane was best man. The bride- groom is a member of the staff of Goderich Collegiate Institute. ON A DIET ? MAYBE YOU DON'T NEED 1T It depends on whether you are an endomorph, mesomorph, or ecto- morph, say scientists, as Robert D. Potter reveals—in detail—in The American Weekly with this Sunday's (April 19) isatte of The Detroit Sun- day Times. Be sure to get Sunday's Detroit Times for The American Weekly and other attractions. The Detroit Sunday Times is "Michigan's Most Interesting Newspaper." HARIIY PL\NTS for Canadian Homes ORNAMENTAL 211 VARIETIES EVERGREENS. 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