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THURSDAY, F I$RI.IARY 25,, 1943
Goxdon, McGavin
Heads Ont• Plovwmei`i
Welcoming delegates to the. 83rd
annual meeting of the Ontario Plow•
men's il.ssociation President Gordon
McGavin of Walton explained why
the International Flowing Match .was
notheld in 1942, Farre machinery
exhibitions had• been hulloed and as
title is a machine age farmers would
have been disappointed in a .plowing
' match without exhibits. Because' of
the shortage of labor the practipabtl-
• ity of single furrow walking plows
was questionable, Besides it Was telt
that cancelling the match would
mean a saving of much needed time,
gasoline and tires,
He considered it the dutw of plow-
melt to .pass on to neighbors what
they had learned through plowing
Matches, For instance, a properly ad
justed three -farrow Plow needs no
more hauling power than an improp-
erly settwo-furrow plow. Think of
all the saving in gasoline if all plows
were properly repaired and adjusted!
Members of the association could do
a good deal to bring this about.
Sixty branch plowing matches
were held in Ontario last year, re-
ported J. A. Carroll, secretary -
manager, and some new records
were made, Mr, Carroll declared that
the junior program should be main-
tained at the highest possible level.
With the war interfering with young
people's education junior events
should be last to be dropped,
Plowmen are taking an active part
M the 250 farm mechanics courses
being held throughout Ontario, in
order to help farmers get the most
out of their equipment. Instructors
in these courses include Gordon Mc -
Gavin, Clark Young. W. C. Barrie,
Roy Shaver, Frank Bell, M. G. Mc-,
Lead and many branch officers and
plowmen, who are thus putting their
experience to national use.
Officersof the association are:
Past president. J. B: Ketcheu, Fer-
gus; president, Gordon McGavin,
Walton; 1st vice-president, W. L,
Clark, Gormley; 2nd vice, Walter
Downey, Minesing; secretary - man-
ager, J. A. Carroll, Toronto; treas-
urer, Clark Young. Milliken; honor-
ary treasurer, Wnn, Doherty, Toronto;
honorary life directors, J. Lockie
Wilson, Toronto, and Geo. B. Little,
Agincourt, and auditor, .J R. Herring-
ton, Richmond Hill,
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standing iu front of it when a truck
came from behind, knocking him
down, one wheel passing over his
body.
Iron is Pig Food
Iron is a necessity for little pigs,
It is a food, not a medicine, Iron i5
not contained in milk, and it must
be supplied to young pigs in two
ways; (1) by placing earth or sods,
Preferably in a separate enclosure
where the pigs can get at it without
disturbing the sow, and (2) by plac-
Ing on each pig's tongue once a week
the amount of reduced iron or iron
sulphate (copperas) which can be
held easily on a ten cent piece. The
coin should not be heaped because
that amount is too much. The drat
feed of sods should be given a day or
two after birth. New sods should be
given daily, and the chemical . iron
once a week until the pigs are eating
solid food freely. Do not delay feed-
ing iron until its lack causes pale,
shivery, anaemic pigs. — Dominion
Department of Agriculture.
Robt, Gilmour, Stanley Twp.
The death occurred in Stanley
Township on February lath, of Rob-
ert Gilmour. aged 62 years. Mr.
Gilmour had beeu a sufferer for many
years with a form of paralysis, but
had ouly ben severely sick for the
past few weeks- He was a son of the
late Mr, and Mrs. John Gilmour and
had been a life-long resident of
Stanley Township, where he resided
with his brother Hugh Gilmour, and
sister, Miss Mary Gilmour.' on the
and concession. Surviving are four
brothers, Hugh of Stanley, and
Thomas, George and Alexander in
the Canadian West; two sisters, Miss
Mary, at home, and Mrs, Janet Ross;
of Brucefield. The funeral was held
to Baird's cemetery.
Presumed Dead —
A• Hamilton airman, LAC. E. R.
(Ted) Watson, 19 year old son of
Mr. and Mrs. E. T. Watson, 26 Edge -
vale Road, Hamilton, previously re-
ported missing on active service, is
for official purposes presumed dead
in a RCAF casualty list recently re-
leased. LAC Watson was a member
of the ground crew of the f amed
Demon Squadron of a coastal com-
mand station. He had remustered for
air -crew, and was a member of the
crew of an aircraft which took off
from the base on June 13th, and
which was seen to have crashed into
the sea. Education at George R. Allan
school and the Westdale Collegiate,
he was a boy soloist in the choir of
Christ's Chnrch Cathedral up to en-
listing. He enlisted withe RCAF
when only 17 years of age, and at-
tended Galt Aircraft School and St,
Thomas T.T.S. He went overseas in
September, 1941, He was well known
in Clinton and Goderich where he had
relatives. He was a nephew of Harry
L. Watson, and of Mrs. Geo, Sillib,
Mrs. Wm. McWhinney and Miss
Grace Maskell of Goderich, and Mr's,
Geo. A. Walker of Clinton.
Run Over By His Own Gar
As a result of being struck down.
and run over by his own automobile,
Meredith Nediger of Clinton was
taken to Hospital with serious head
and other injuries, The peculiar ac-
cident happened during a snowstorm
as 'three motor vehicles, two can's and
a truolc, were proceeding easterly
along No, 8 highway, near Sandy
Sterling's farm between Goderich
and Clinton, Nediger first bumped
into the rear of another passenger
car driven by Archie Sturdy, who
drove on without stoppling. Nediger
stopped his,own ear and got out to
examine the damage done, He 'Was
Appointed To Senate —
A Toronto lawyer and two Mari -
timers, one from Prince Edward Is-
land and the other from Nova Scotia,
have been appointed to the Senate.
Prime Minister Mackenzie King an-
nounced Friday night that Hon.
James Peter McIntyre, 59, of Mount
Stewart, P,E,L; Wishart McL. Rob-
ertson, 52, of Halifax, and Gordon
Peter Campbell, K,C., 44, of Toronto,
were the new appointees. Mr. Camp-
bell, a native of Ridgetowo, Ont„
was educated at Ridgetowu Collegiate
Institute and Osgood Hall, Toronto.
He is a member of the Toronto legal
firm of Arnoldi, Parry and Campbell,
and president of several Ontario min-
ing companies. He also is interested
in steamship, grain and elevator
concerns. In 1927 he married the
daughter of the late Mr. Justice
Charles Garrow, of Toronto.
History Of The I Mr; Balfour took on as his business
Village of Kippen was managed by this trin until 1911
partner, W. Cueson and this store
weeks and is still, suffering fromthe .
effects of his injuries, The truck was
loaded at the time of the accident
with poultry feed. which it is alleged
was a total loss. 131115 and accounts
are listed at 91,322.91 and loss of
business and depreciation of truck at,
9%225. General damages of $10,000
are asked, The corporation, in its
statement of defence, denies 'faulty
construction, lack of repairor inspec-
tion of the bridge, and maintains
that the action was due to plaintiff's
own negligence, maintaining that
Davidson drove his heavily loaded
truck on to the bridge at a high rate
of speed off the traveled portion of
the highway, and into the lateral
supports of the bridge, which were
broken, causing the bridge to coil-
apse,McConnell and Hays, Seaforth,
are acting for the plaintiff; Campbell
Grant, Walkerton, forthe defendants.
There was an appeal case listed,
that of Colin McNeil, a farm hand,
who claimed wages from Louis Pea-
cock, 'farmer, formerly of Hullett
township. Judge Costello, who heard
the case in county court, gave judg-
ment in favor of McNeil for 91,080
with court costs. Peacock appealed
the judgment, Frank Donnelly is ap-
pearing for Peacock and H. G. Meir,
Seaforth, fpr McNeil. This case was
not before the court on Monday As
there were no other cases, the court
was not held at Goderich this week.
Supreme Court —
At the spring assizes of the sup-
reme court to have opened Monday
before ?Jr. Justice J. C. Makins there
was only one non -jury action. This
action was transferred to another
court for hearing. There were no
criminal cases. Charles R, Davidson,
Brussels Trucker, sued the corporation
of the County of Huron for $13,547.91
damages allegedly received when a
county bridge, which spans a creek
on the county road just south of
Ethel, collapsed on May 29. 1942. The
driver and his truck were thrown
into the stream. The plaintiff alleges
that the collapse of the bridge and
resulting injuries and damages were
caused solely by faulty construction
or lock of proper repair or both; and
also improper inspection is alleged.
Davidson is said to have suffered a
fractured vertebra and ankle and
other injuries, Ile claims he was
totally incapacitated for fourteen
CARAVANS FOLLOW THE BLITZ
When the place again changed owner -
Post Office Named after Parish ship and was purchased by J, Det -
in Scotland. — A History weilier, who in turns after some
Written by T. N, Forsyth Y'e,ars, send to P. Bowey of Bruce -
'field and the store was carried 00 bY
continued From Page Ono P. Bowey and Son until the death of
pen, where they lived until the his father, when James P, Bowey
death of Mr. Ricker and later the continued a successful business until
death of their son Arthur in 1941, the store was purchased in 1931 by
Contemporaneously, the other car- D, R, Kyle, the present owner.
riage shop in the village was sCre- The store on the Hay corner of
ied by, Hugh McIntosh until his re- the village was built by H. Sclneffer
tirsnlent nnany years ago- and was conducted under successive
The Kippen Hotel with Henryownerships of D. weismiller, James
Shaffer as proprietor, was also a Canning, Duncan Hay and Robert
Their eldest son .Gordon paid the
seeremo saerillce lit , the first Great
War: the others ill positlotts'of int-
pol'teilee and trust lu various parts
of ,111e world,
The Honor Roll in Kipped Church.in the last war is; 'Murray Fisher,
Gordon Gaulle, Harvey Gauld, James
Jarrett, 'Edgar Lovett, William Mc-
IKay*, J. E. F,aSken, S. A, Fasken,
Harry Horton, Bruce Logan*, (.red
Ricli5i'dsol14' aid Fred Skelton'.
In 1902 ourmodern and up to. date
Sabbath Selsool room was built with
CUSS 1'apms andauditeriunt and in
1908 after this structure had been
Milk equipped with, au acetylene gas
lighting plant and during a week -
busy and well patronized spot in the Brownlee. It was during Mr. Brown- night banquet iu
early days of the village, and was lee's regime; that the. Post Office Was year an explosionNovember occurred,of when
throughout the county famed for the transferred to this store, several persons were more er less
excellence of the meals served at Inn 1921 W. E. Butt, the present pro- seriously brhised or burned and the
their hospitable board, Mrs. Shaffer, prietor and Post. Master, purchased building partially wreclted. It was a
being an exceptionally kind and con -this store and we venture to say that miraculous escape, as most of the
alderflte woman, never..ailowed'any- 110 village of its size in Western On- gueets were in• the basement at the
one to go away hungry. She died in tario has more efficient, courteous, time, with only one narrow exit by
1908, and the passage "I was a orobliging storekeepers than either which to get out of the building.
'stranger, and ye' took me in" was the Mr. and Mrs. Butt or Mr and Mrs, In 1899 a Public Hall was built a
appropriate theme of her funeral Kyle; •
sermon, conducted by her pastor, the In this paragraph we ' shall give little to the south of the present Butt
Store by a committee of several
Rev, D, W. S. Urquhart. On the but a brief outline of the origin and literary minded and public spirited
death of Mr. Shaffer in 1928, their progress of the churches in Kippen, citizons including George T. McKay,
grandson, Cliff Watson, assumed We here `refer our readers to the. W. M, Doig, Robert MoMordie Sr.,
control of the hotel and which has local papers of October, 1927, for ,Wiliam Thompson and others, and
son: who also caters to the public in
since been conducted by Mr. Wat- two splendid and more detailed ac formed what was celled the Kippen
counts of the churches, written on public Hall Co, This hall was built
various capacities, in several other the occasions of the Diamond Jubilee primarily to provide a suitable place
of meeting for the furtherance of the
towns and villages of the county.
After the building of the London,
Huron and Bruce railway, Kippen
was for many years quite an import-
ant shipping centre for the shipment
of livestock, grain, hay and other
farm products. In this connection we
recall the names of Robert Clegg,
one of the first agents of the Railway
Co:, other agents who followed were
Mr. Reynolds, Mr. Fasken and later
still, Bruce Field, the last of the list
of agents, and who with his wife and
family were esteemed residents of
our village until about 1932.
Other familiar personages at the
ation down through the
Kippen st
years, were those who took in the
grain at the elevator: among the lat-
ter were John Moffat and Isaac Jar -
Britain Has 600 Builders in Flyin rot.
Squads. 1 Mr. William Cudmore was for
Ten flying squads of builders are many years an extensive shipper of
now being rushed round Britain doing hay. But with the advent of the
emergency construction work in re- motor truck and other changes of
cord time. more modern days, this railway sta-
Each squad has 60 men who travel tion which had been a hive of busi-
about the country in motor caravans Hess for so long, has degenerated to
specially designed for them, with the status of a flag station.
The present church edifice was social and literary activities of the
built in 1867, on the site donated by village and surrounding district.
Mr. William Cooper, on the farm ad-, Many splendid debates and literary
joining the village, On the 20th of programmes
of this werehallgivenan
from the
November, 1866, the new congrega- •pl, for excellent
tion was organized as St Andrew's Literary.' Society was formed and the.
Presbyterian Church, Kippers. During boys and the girls, the young men
the winter of 1866 and 1867 the ser -and young women had a chance to
vices were held in the old log school, develop their latent musical and lit-
s
lit -
sentstood near the site of the pre- . erary talents. And many Kippen
sent manse. As the attendance in- people would indeed be very hypo
creased and when the weather be- 'critical if they did not openly confess
came 'warm, the services were Held their inclination to indulge in trip -
in Mr, Cooper's burn, and continued ping the light fantastic. and that this
there until the new church was com- same Hall'had often been the scene
pleted and which was officially open. of a happygathering for' this sole pur-
ed on Sunday, December 22nd, 1867. pose, This hall, although it served its
The first resident minister of the varied purposes for so many years,
church was Rev. Joseph Eakin: fol- has also been removed.
lowing in chronological order were Nor has the recreational side of
Revs. Cameron, Acheson, McLennan, the lives of the young people of. Kip -
Urquhart, Richardson, Aiken, Lundy, pen been neglected, and rightly so,
Conner, Chandler and Grant, for the for it is on the,baseball or softball s,
Kip -
most part a galaxy of devoted, diamond or the football ' field that
scholarly Christian mea, boys and girls learn to play the game
In 1868 Kippen Methodist Church of life: by obeying the laws or rules
was erected; a small frame building, of the game they learn to respect the
at the north end of the village. At , *;
bunks and kitchens. Five -ton lorries A. McKenzie conducted Kippen's first the church was only a Mission;
carrying materials and plant con - harness shop and being an expert connected with Exeter, but later it We recall a Kippen Football team'
plete the cavalcade. collar -maker he enjoyed a large became a three point circuit: Sex- of the gay nineties, winning the cup
When a town is blitzed overnight, share of public patronage. He was a smith, Fansville, and Kippen forming at Exeter on May 24, 1896, at the
one or more flying squads are on the wide reader and possessed a very re -the circuit. In 1806 the congregation Football Tournament in cdhspetition
spot next morning in their mobile tentive memory and everyone had a asserted its independence froin mis-
with five neighboring teams,
homes which have everything the good word for this estimable citizen. sionary aid under Rev. Mr McKibben. The personnel of this team lu-
men need to keep them going until After Mr. McKenzie left the village, In 1899 the congregation built a chided: George Greenslade, Bob Mc -
the job is done. They therefore make the residence and also the business, new brick church onthe same site as Niordie, T. N. Forsyth, Tom Doig,
no demands at all upon the blitzed was acquired by John Workman. the old one, The church cost about Jim' McGregor, Stewart McMordie,
g, $.000.00. It was a very thrifty con- John Balfour, Joe Dayman, W. Qpm
poPttlation for biIIeting, food, tools or The building, which was converted Flag, Bob Dick` and Dave Workman,
materials. into a garage by Mr.. Workman, was gregation, and burned its mortgage
The new squads take on urgent the first in Kippen, which was later three years after the church was Other teams about the turn of the
built, century included Dan Bell, Dave
present proprietor, who being a The congregation continued to Blair, Gib -Sinclair, W. J. McLean
me
acquired by Mr. Elzar Mousseau, the
splendid mechanic, now carries on a thrive under the able leadership of (who played with Seaforth Hurons
good trade., its ministers. In 1911 there was a re- against the famous Corinthians in a
The pioneer store and post office arrangement of circuit boundaries, game at Seaforth in August, 1906),
already referred to, was built by Ro- and the Methodist Church, Kippen; 'Bob Dayman, John McKay and many
others of later dates quite within the
'Memory of present day citizens.
In ''our next paragraph we record
the delightful evenings spent in the
homes in Kippen and in the neigh-
boring farm homes, some twenty-five
years ago when the Kippen Reading
Circle was initiated, chiefly by Mrs.
Aiken of the Manse. Both old and
young would gather to read and.
discuss the plays' and poems of:
Shakespeare, Burns, Tennyson, Long
fellow, Dickens, Byron, Scott, Cole-
ridge, Pope, Pauline Johnston, Bliss
Carman, and others, It has been said
that, , outside of the Inspired and
Sacred page, our poets are our great-
est teachers: When we listen in en
many of the radio quiz programs
some of us are thrilled at hearing
the answers of the contestants to
such questions as: Who was Portia?
Quote es much- as you 'can. of. her
notable address. Name other charac-
ters in the play, Who wrote the poem
entitled
"? 'ThWelio Cwaorti s tship
an. of Miles
,JoAlden?
Priscilla?' Just last 'night 'as 'I was
preparing this paper tate question
came over ,the radio: Narita three'
Service work anywhere, arriving in
an empty countryside, quite indiffer-
ent to the absence of huts, beds, or
canteens. Their first job was a site
construction for an Army camp in a
remote part of Britain. Normally
there is a delay of three weeks be-
tween inviting tenders for new
camps and beginning the work upon
them. Coming along during this inter-
val the mobile builders in 16 days
ran up huts for the advance party of
the main contractors and put down
their roads in the rough.
Want and For Sale Ads, 8 weeks 50c.
bert Mellis, and for a long time was Varna, and .Goshen formed the cir-
the nucleus of the village and after cult which remained until the con -
many years of faithful and useful summation of Union in 1925. Among
service, the place was taken over by the ministers who labored with the
John Balfour and for some years Wesley people were: Revs Living -
was conducted under the firm name sten, McKibbon, Cousins, Torrence,
of Balfour and Caldwell. In 1906, Fear, Irwin, Barnby, Hart, Walker,
the original frame building was sup- Wadeli, Long, Melotte, Shaw, Brown,
planted by the present larger, more Snowden, Wilson, Jones, Foster and
modern structure of cement block. Durrant, who was the minister at
the timeof the consummation of
Union. Under the capable leadership
of these men, the people were greatly
blessed and among whom were many
of the finest laborers in the Master's
service.
The celebration of the Diamond
Jubilee of the . United Congregations
was held, as already stated, in Octo-
ber, 1927. Rev. Archie Cameron, son
of a former minister, was the speaker
at the Sunday services of the cele-
bration. At the week night meeting
of the occasion, the addresses were
largely reminiscent of bygone days,
and many of them very humorous.
It will be remembered that three of
the ministers already mentioned; had
each married a girl in • the respective
congregations. Rev. Barnby wound
up his address by advising any young characters in ''The Christmas Carol.".
minister seeking a wife, to follow in Who was the author of the story?
the footsteps of a Barnby or a Rich- Last, but not least of the many.
ardson or a McKibben, and the open- organizations in the life of our vill-.
ing sentence of the next address, that age was the formation of the
of Rev. D. McTavish, London, was "Kippen East Women's Institute",
"Judging from the remarks of the which even before the outbreak of
Previous .. speaker, you would think ,the present World's War, carried
the Kippen congregation were a sort into fruition, many philanthropic
of 'Clergy Reserves," ' and praiseworthy projects. During
Inn 1862 Rev, William Gould, miss- the present stren:ious war years
'angry to China, Was united' in mar- this organization with its indefatig-
riage with Miss Gretta Mullis, young-, able' president and its other unflar
est daughter of Mr, and Mrs, Robert ging officials and members have
Mullis. This young couple eliortly been ever mindful of the comforts
embarked on their long journey to and necessities of our boys overseas,
that far distant land where they a list of whose names follows: The
December 16, 1939, Australia, New 7eaiand and Canada signed the agreement which launched the
wealth's answer to the Luftwaffe's threat, Novi in its fourth year the vast British Commonwealth Air
Plan is pouring out the trained men Who are gaining mattocy of the air, Men trained in Canada, most
Canadians, form the crews of Britain's biggest bombers like the Stirlings above., The terrific lambasting
industrial centres tells the best story of the training plan s success. Its graduates are serving on every
Britain, the Middle East, the Far East, Australia and Alaska,
Common- labored until' the death of Mr. Gauid. Chipchase boys, Albert, 13i11 and
raining We are all justly proud of Mrs, Jack, the Taylor boys, John, Mel,
of then Gauicl for her sacrificial life' and also and Sidney,. Frank Young, George
of Naiznni their illustrious, family, still nememb- 'Few, Wilfrid Cameron, Tom Sinith
frottt, eyed by the Majorityof our people;
and victor Black,
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