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THURSDAY, JULY 2, 1942
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Snowdon Bros., Pubitehers
Rev. Chas. Cumming
Passes At Elmvale
The many friends of Rev. Charles
Cumming were grieved to learn of
his death at Elmvale on Tuesday.
June 23rd. Mr, Cumming was born
near Elmvale in 1880 and received
his early education at Phelpston and
Barrie Collegiate Institute. After gra-
duating from Owen Sound business
college, he took a position as ac-
countant in the office of Jas. Mc-
Laughlin and Sons where he served
for ten years before going to Toronto
to complete his studies at the 'Uni-
versity of Toronto and at Knox Coll-
ege. Immediately following graduation
he was ordained and inducted as
pastor of Cookstown, First Esse, and
Nicolson congregations. His next
charge was at St. Helen's in Huron
County where he laboured for more
than six years. While he was pastor
of the Ailsa Craig United Church a
fine, new, modern church was built,
In 1931 he was called to the Walton
and Moncrief charge in IIuron Coun-
ty where he served most acceptably
for eight years. Three years ago he
moved to Norval in the Dufferin and
Peel Presbytery and was very happy
in his ministry there, but 111 health
laid him aside last December. When
informed that medical science could
do nothing more for him, he resigned
from the active work of the ministry
and moved to Elmvale less than two
months ago.
In 1909 he was married in Owen
Sound to E. May Brannigan who,
with one daughter, Margaret, surv-
ives. He is also survived by five sis-
ters and two brothers, Mrs. Wm.
Andrew and Mrs. L. Jones of Elm -
vale, Mrs. A. Richardson of Hills-
dale, Mrs, Robt, Cleland of Edmon-
ton, Mrs. Wm. Campbell of Winni-
peg. Walter near Elmvale, and An-
drew of Edmonton.
A brief service was held at the
house and was conducted by Revs.
Butt and Jones of Elmvale. A public
service was held in Elmvale United
Church and was In charge of Rev,
W. S. Butt of Elnnvale and the Duff-
erin and Peel Presbytery-, assisted
by Rev. C. G. Jones of the Elmvale
Presbyterian Church who had at-
tended college with i%Tr, Cumming.
Two members of the Simcoe Presby-
tery also assisted, Revs. Morrison of
Wyevale and Auld of Midland. Rev.
G. W. Rivers of Bolton, Rev, J. A.
Leece of Huttonville, and Rev, C. G.
Jones of Elmvale paid warm tributes
to the life and work of Rev. Mr.
Cumming. Rev, F. J. Dunlop of Laur-
el assisted in the service and Rev.
W. S. Butt sang a favourite hymn of
the deceased, "It is well with my
soul,"
Friends front Norval and Mount
Pleasant congrregations and from
Walton attended the funeral besides
relatives from Edmonton and Tor-
onto. The pall -hearers were two
nephews, Mr. W. C. Gowanlock of
Uhthoff and Mr. W. A. Andrew of
Elmvale; two members of the Walt-
on official board, Mr, T. H. Leeming
and Mr. Robe, McFadzean; and two
members of the Dufferin and Peel
Presbytery, Rev. E. M. Burgess of
Hornings Mills and Mr. H. 0. Hutche-
son of Orangeville.
The floral tributes were very beau-
tiful and included a pillow from
Duff's United Church, Walton, a
wreath from Manitoba Lodge No,
236, A.F. and A,M., Cookstown. a
banquet front St, John's United
Church, Elmvale, and many ethers
from friends and :relatives.
H U LL ETT
On Friday evening Mr, and Mrs.
Charles Stewartentertained a num-
ber of their relatives and friends in
honor of their son Kenneth and bis
bride, formerly Miss Clarissa Dale.
The friends of George Leitch are
sorry to hear he has been transfer-
red to the hospital for treatment, A
blood transfusion was necessary and
at present his condition isinot great-
ly improved,
On Thursday afternoon, the ladies
of Grail) No, 2 of Burns 'United
Church, met at the home of Mrs.
Peter Taylor and quilted three quilts
for the Red Cross.
On Saturday, many from this neigh•
boyhood attended the beautiful church
wedding of Miss Helen Britton and
Mr, Archie Hoggarth at Constance.
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LONDESBORO
Mr. and Mrs, Charles Stewart and
Miss Marion entertained fifty relat-
ives and friends on Thursday night,
in honor of the newlyweds Mr. and
Mrs. Kenneth Stewart.
DUBLIN
The teacher, Miss Rhea Roney. and
pupils of Dublin Public school enjoy-
ed a picnic on the school grounds at
the close of the term on Friday. The
afternoon was spent in various games
under Miss Roney's direction. A
dainty lunch was served by the
teacher. Miss Roney. who has re-
signed, and will be a member of
Hamilton 'Public school staff next
terns, wits presented with a mam-
moth box of stationery by her pupils
as a farewell gift,
Personals: Miss Gertrude McGrath
of Kitchener is spending her vaca-
tion at her home: Mr. and Mrs. Leon-
ard Steinbach, London, with Mrs.
Kathleen Feeney; Mrs. 'AL Cronin
has returned from Detroit where she
spent several mouths with her dau-
ghter; Mr, and Mrs. Ben Blonde and
baby, Chatham, with Mr. and Mrs.
James Delaney; John E: Molyneaux,
Windsor, with his parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Thos. J. Molyneaux, before re-
porting for active service at Lon-
don; Leonard Nagle, Provost Corps,
Kitchener, with his parents, Mr. and
Mrs. M. J. 'Nagle; Mr. and Mrs.
Frank Evans attended the Benn-
Roche wedding in Toronto on Satur-
day. Mrs, Mary McGrath bas return-
ed home from Kitchener; Jack Jor-
dan has returned to Copper Cliff
after spending two weeks at his
hone; Mr. and Mrs. Philip Flanagan
and children, Toronto, with Mr, and
Mrs, Michael Flanagan ;• Mrs. Lou
Stapleton and daughter. Patricia,
Collingwood, and Captain F. Staple-
ton, Brantford, with Mr, and Mrs.
William Stapleton; Edward Rowland,
London, with his niothor, Mrs, .i,ill-
Ian Rowland; Mr, and Mrs, Clarence
Malone, Kitchener, with Mr, and
Mrs. Joseph Rowland; Rev, Harry F,
Feeney has returned td Kitchener
after two' weeks' vacation with hie
mother, .'Mrs, Kathleen Feeney,
WINTHROP
The meeting of the W. A, and W.
M. S. of Caven Church will be held
on Wednesday, July 8tit, when they
will entertain the mission band Mrs,
H. Kirkby of Walton will ber the
guest speaker. Ladies please bring
sandwiches.
Mr. and Mrs. John Kellar enter-
tained Mr, and Mrs, Wm. Carter, Mr.
And Mrs, Geo. Carter, of Londesboro,
and Mr, Hugh Campbell • of Walton,
on Sunday afternoon. .
HIBBERT
S.S. No. 4, Hibbert—
To Grade VIII,—Catharine McIver
(H), Bernadette Barrie (H).
To Grade PIT—Jack Morris (H),
Frank Jordan, Victor Feeney,
' To Grade V.
Ursula Feeney (H), Josepli Barrie,
Jack Feeney,
To Grade IV with honors—
Loretta Morris, Gregory Morris,
Veronica Jordan, Loretta Barrie,
Anne Feeney.
Teacher, C, Eckert.
BORN
WILLIAM'S—In Clinton Hospital, on
Thursday, June 25th, to Mr, and
Mrs, Frank Williams " (nee Theda
Freeman), Tilisonburg, the gift' of
a son (Wayne Franklin).
Dr. Howard Fowler
Collects Guns and
Makes Clocks
(By Alta -Lind Rodges. in the Lon-
don Free Press.)
A dentist with 39 years' practice to
his credit, a former scholo teacher,
a hunter who made 20 consecutive
hunting trips into the wilds of Ont-
ario and brought home a deer every
trip. a craftsman of no mean ability,
and the owner of a rare collection of
firearms—that is Dr. Howard Fowler
of Clinton. ,
Bonn and raised on a farm and a
graduate of the Toronto Normal
School, Dr. Fowler taught school for
several years before he entered the
Royal College of Dentistry. His
home was in Hullett Township, and
it was his custom to walk 173 miles
hone from his school each Friday
after 4 o'clock. The return trip was
generally made on Sunday afternoon,
some member of the family generally
driving him half way with horse and
buggy.
In hsi 39 years of practice in Clin-
ton, Dr, Fowler has had many amus-
ing experiences. His eyes twinkle as
he tells you of the young Chinaman
with a perfect set of teeth who visit-
ed his office several times and asked
to have gold fillings inserted in his
teeth. This Dr. Fowler reused to do,
and inquired the reason for the
strange request.
"Me wanna look like Melican man,"
the Chinaman explained when press-
ed for a reason.
Some years ago there lived in Clin-
ton a woman of large proportions
and aggressive nature. It was her
custom to come into a store, elbow
other customers out of the way, and
demand immediate attention, One
day a well•lcnown tliraslierinat was
Meeting his steam Wreathing outfit
through townwhen he hecume afftiot.
ed with a toothache,. so Overalls,
threshing dust and all, he visited the
dentist. Just as Di: Fowler was
about to in
work on the offending
molar, in bounced the woman men -
best,
tioned above, dresed in her Sunday
"I want a tooth Filled—at once,"
site demanded as she glanced at two
waiting patients and glared disdain-
fully at the dust -blackened thresher
is the chair, There was dead silence
for a moment...
'I want a tooth tilled right now,"
rho declared belligerently,
"All right," said the dentist in his
best professional tone. "Just climb
into tate chair and be seated on ,the
patient's knee, 1,11 fill your tooth
with one hand and his with the
other."
Tile
woman turned like a flash and
bounced out of the office madder
than a wet lien, while the corpulent
thresher laughed until hte tears roll.
ed down his dusty cheeks. His great
roaring laugh could be heard nearly
a block away, while the angry wom-
an paced down, the street in high
dudgeon.
A peculiar young man of 20
years of age had tate habit of visiting
the dentist every time he was afflict-
ed with a toothache, which was fre-
quently, but he refused to have the
tooth either filled or extracted. Final-
ly, when the toothe became a mere
shell, he was coning several times a
week to have the pain stopped, One
day when the dentist was over his
head with work, the youth arrived
wearing a larg estraw hat. Without
troubling to remove the hat,' which
was of the variety mens wear in the
harvest field, he seated himself Its''
the chair and yelled at the dentist
to get busy, and,hurry up about it.
Dr. Fowler got busy all right—with
forceps, One yank and out came the
tooth. accompanied by the awfullest
yell the dentist had ever heard in all
his years of practice.. The youth
bounced out of the chair. Another
'yell. and he upset the table that held
the instruments and sent then slith-
ering to the floor. Another yell and
he collided with the coal heater, He
raced clown the stairs, still yelling,
.but he never visited the dentist's of-
fice again. although in his frequent
trips to town he could sometimes be
seen stealing a surreptitious glance
from under the straw hat at the den-
tist's office.
Once when a band of Indians were
camped on the edge of the town
pulling flax, a young Indian girl.- ac-
companied by a young brave, evid-
ently the boy friend, approached the
dentist and after much whispering
and giggling together, the girl asked
to have one of her front teeth ex-
tracted.
After a brief examination, Dr. Fow-
ler said: "I'm sorry, but I can't ex-
tract a perfect tooth."
Much disapointed, the would-be pa-
tient withdrew to the back of the of-
fice and consulted the young brave.
She again asked to have the tooth
extracted and again the dentist re-
fused. When pressed for a reason she
whispered, confidentially: "He say I
look better with one tooth out."
During their stay in town a numb-
er of the Indians found time to have
some much-needed dental work done
and. the first thing the dentist knew,
the Indians took to camping on his
office stairway. They came and
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brought their families. They came
and brought their noon -days lunches
and the dentist had to endure much
kidding from We men about town
over his would-be friends,
Dr. Fowler is a connoisseur of
clocks and possesses no less than
three fine grandfather clocks. One
clock; which is very old, has a ,fine
case made of cherry wood, It was
formerly the property of the Webb
family at Londesboro and stood in
the chopping mill until Dr. Fowler
brought it to town with a horse and
buggy, and an awkward load it was
because of its height.
The finest -grandfather clock of the
three was made by the dentist while
his friend, W. H. Cowan, of Clinton,
made the fine walnut case. In this
day and age when practically every-
thing in the home is ntiade by mass
production, it Is very refreshing to
see a beautiful clock made entirely
by hand. Dr. Fowler purchased sheet
brass in two different thicknesses,
and then, after much careful calcu-
lation, cut out all the work pains-
takingly by hand, The cog wheels
were cut from brass of one -quarter -
in oh thickness while other parts
were male from one -eighth -inch
brass. The second hand was care-
fully cut from fine steel while the
dial is of brass, the Roman numerals
being beautifully and carefully en-
graved in it by means of a dentist's
drill.
The weight and pendulum were.
the most difficult to fashion. Sheet
brass was moulded into a cylinder
and filled with lead to form a
weight, while the pendulum was also
cut from brass and hammered into
shape after heating it in the kitchen
stove of his home.
This clock was made in 1926 and
a few years later a little grandson,
William Howard Treleaven, of Luck -
now, just able to toddle about his
grandfather's home, took a great lik-
ing to the clock so much taller than
himself. As soon as he was able to
talk, he lisped the request: "Gampa,
will you make nye a big tick tock like
that?"
The little fellow was very much in
earnest, so Dr. Fowler went to work
again. In 1932 the clock was made
and encased in a very handsome
walnut case made by W. H. Cowan,
and today a fine grandfather clock
stands in the Treleaven home at
Lucknow. On the dial it bears the
inscription: "Made by William How-
ard Treleaven by his grandfather, H.
Fowler."
Altogether Dr, Fowler and his
friend, W. H. Cowan, have made four
grandfather clocks entirely by hand.
They each have one for their Domes
and the fourth clock is now the pro-
perty of the dentist's cousin, John A.
Van Egmond, of Detroit,
The Fowler home also possesses a
ship's clock which was once the pro-
perty of Mrs. Pewter's grandparents
and one which Mrs. Fowler, formerly
Gertrude Crier, learned t otell time
as a child and she remembers quite
well watching the second hand snake
three and a half turns while the eggs
boiled for breakfast.
Dr, Fowler also possesses a Colum'
bus clock, a model which many clock
connoisseurs had never seen until
the World's Fair in Chicago, This
particular clock was one of a thous-
and models made for the Century of
Progress Exhibition but was purch-
ased by the dentist in a pawn shop
in Guelph. This clock, supposed to be
the exact replica of the ones used at
the time Christopher Columbus dis-
covered America in 1492, is made en-
tirely of wood. As one cog wheel was
defective, Dr. Fowler replaced it by
one he carefully carved from apple
tree wood. The pendulum is a horiz-
ontal bar weighted at each end and
Plainly visible at the top of the
clock. This is connected with the
cog wheels by means of a silken
thread and a large spool of cotton
cord is also part of the mechanism.
The face of the clock beats a portrait
of Columbus carved in wood and
below the dial is the inscription,
Anna 1492.
The figures, of course, are Ronian
numerals, but the clock has only one
hand, a large brass hour hand. Min-
ute hands, it seems, were unknown
in the early days of clocks.
Dr. Fowler has other interests be-
sides clocks. He also collections fire-
arms and together with W. H.
Cowan, who shares the same hobby,
they have one of the finest collec-
tions of firearms in North America
and several ,articles on this subject
have appeared in leading periodicals.
For some time before the war Dr.
Fowler had intended retiring from
his dental practice, and indeed it Is
interesting to speculate 011 what he
might achieve if he had more time at
his disposal, but the war brought a
shortage of dentists and as long as he
is needed, he will carry on his chos-
en profession, although he looks for-
ward to the day when he will have
more time for his several different
hobbies.
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