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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1943-04-01, Page 4TthE BEAF'QRT NEWS TII.E S Eel. FO RTH NEWS Snowdon Bros., Jublissers WALTON The Women's Guild anti W.A. of St. George's ahureh Met at the Dome of the president„ Mrs. Writ, Huls phries on Thursday,. March 25th, There was a good attendance of members. The meeting opened with the hymn "Sweet the Moments Rich in Blessing,,' Mrs. M. F. Oldham read the Scripture Lesson, Romans 13, and prayer was given by the rector, Rev. M. F. Oldham, Mrs. Win, Hum- phries presided over the business session 01 the meeting. Donations of articles for the Deanery bale will be made at the Spring Deanery meeting. The hostess served a tasty lunch, Mrs. M. F. Oldham invited the mem- bers to the Rectory in Brussels on Wednesday, April 21st Service In St. George's Church on Sunday, April 4tlt at 4 p.m. (Holy Communion), Sunday School at 8,30 p,m. Also service and S.S, at same hours on April 11. Mr. Robert Shortreed has left on a trip to Calgary, Mrs. Wnt. Walsh of Seaforth at the home of her mother, Mrs, Shannon. Mr. and Mrs. Jas. Speiran, who were recently married, left on Satur- day for their home at Plenty, Sask. Mrs. David Watson is visiting her sons John and Earl Watson in Me- Killop and Hullett. Mrs. Peter McTaggart has returned to her home in Walton after spend- ing the winter in McKillop. Miss Dolly Steiss from near Wel- land, has been spending a few days around Walton. S/Sgt. W. C. Bennett of Toronto spent the week end at his home. WINTHROP The Red Cross unit are holding a euchre and dance Wednesday, April 7th, in Winthrop hall. This is the euchre you have been asking for, so come along. Mr. George Kinney of London spent Tuesday with his brothers, Messrs, William and Joseph Kinney. Art McClure of Petawawa Camp spent a few days leave with Mr. and Mrs. John McClure and other friends, William Little of London Camp, spent the week end with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Percy Little. Mrs. John Gillies spent the week end in Toronto with Mr. Gillies, who expects to sail soon. Mr, and Mrs. Peter McCowan and. family spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs, George Eaton. Our first heavy thunderstorm pass- ed over the village Tuesday morning. Also a very heavy rain. A circle quilting and tea was held at the home of Mrs. Lou Bolton last week. 2 quilts were quilted. One was donated by Mrs. Lou Bolton and one top donated by the W.M.S. A Red Cross quilting and tea was held recently at the home of Mrs. Frank Johnston. Mrs. Russell Bolton donated the top for the quilt at the quilting. We wish to thank all those who have donated tops and quilts. Mr. and Mrs. Earl Pappie and Mar- jorie, Mr. and Mrs. Harold Bolger and Shirley spent Sunday with Mr, and Mrs. Thomas Pryce. KIPPEN Mrs. Norman Long passed away in Ole hospital in London on Wednes- day afternoon. She is survived by her husband and two daughters and one son. Mr. and Mrs, Joseph Dayman and Howard, Mrs. Thomas Harris, of Chiselhurst, Mrs. John Oke of Exe- ter, visited their father, Mr. Henry Squire, in Exeter on. Sunday, who will be celebrating his ninety-fourth birthday very soon, and also visited their brother George of Woodham and called on their uncle at Granton, Mr. George Squire, who is very low at present. Visitors with Mr. and Mrs, Archie Parsons on Sunday were Mr. and Mrs, Joseph Linden and Verna, of Denfle]d, Mr, and Mrs. Joseph Carter and family of Clandeboye, and Mr. and Mrs. Robt. Parsons of Hensall. Mr, and Mrs. Arnold Gackstetter of Guelph spent the week end with Mr, and Mrs. Wm. Homey, Mr. and Mrs, Herbert Jones at- tended the funeral of the late Mr. Han•y Johns at Elimville on Wednes- day of last week, Master Gerald Parsons returned home on Sunday atter visiting for a week with his grandparents, Mr, and Mrs. Joseph Linden of Denfield. Mr. and Mrs. 'Enos Rudman of Elimville called on Mr. and Mrs. Wm, Homey on Saturday. Mrs, Jessie A. McGregor and Mrs. Grace Ross visited during the week with Mrs. Wm. Ross of Stanley, Mr. and Mrs. Robt. McGregor and family were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Lennis . Seaman and tartly of Kitchener on Sunday. Mr. Norman Long visited with rel- atives in London on Monday. Mr, Jonah Green returned home from 'Medford where he spent the winter With relatives, Mrs, D, Taylor and children re• turned to their home after spending the winter with their relatives in Grand Bend. LONDESBORt Miss Rhoda Govier, London, with her parents, Miss Fern Youngblutt Mrs. Will- lants and little Carol with Mr, and Mrs. E. Youngbiutt, Mrs. Chapman of Toronto and Mr. and Mrs, D. Roberton of 'Ola:keen with their mother, Mrs. M. Rose, Miss Dorothy Little, Toronto, with her mother, Mrs, R. Townsend: Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Awde and Irina of Woodstock with Mr, and Mrs. J. McCool, Mr, and Mrs. Breen, London, with Mr. and Mrs, Griffith. Mr. and Mrs. J. Nott in Seaforth. Mr. FredPrest Is home after spend ing the winter in Brantford. Mr. and Mrs. W. Griffith have re- turned home from Brampton where they spent the winter. Mr. and Mrs. G. Gtifillan are mov- ing to Cromarty. The local Red Cross have reported raising over $500 of their $600 object- ive. All donations have not yet been received, Sunday, April 11, will be com. minion and beginning then the ser- vices will start at 10 o'clock instead of the usual time of 10.30. HULLETT On Tuesday afternoon, thirteen ladies on the 8th and 9th of Hullett met at the home of Mrs, George Carter and quilted three quilts for the Red Cross. A potluck supper was afterwards enjoyed, On Thursday afternoon the same group met at the home of Mrs. Oliver Anderson and quilted three quilts for the Red Cross. All enjoyed the deli- cious lunch served by the Constance members, Mrs. D. R. McKenzie of Lucknow spent several days with her parents, Mr. and Mrs, Wm. Carter. On Sunday Mrs, Carter accompanied Mr, and Mrs. McKenzie to their home. On Thursday Mr. Hugh Campbell of Walton visited at the home of Mr. and Mrs. George Carter, Mr. and Mrs, Elmer Hugill and son Donald of Clinton are visiting at the home of Mrs. Selena Riley. ST. COLUMBAN Miss Mary Downey, R.N., has re- turned to Toronto after spending a few weeks at the home of her par- ents, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Downey. Miss Catharine Williams, Toronto, with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Pat- rick Williams. Dir. and Mrs. Louis Coyne, Hamil- ton, with relatives, Misses Loretta and Gloria Hol- land, Waterloo, with Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Holland. Frank Doyle, Hamilton, with his 'mother, Mrs. James Doyle. Pte. Jack Walsh, Camp Borden, with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Walsh. John Flannery, Preston, with Mr. and Mrs. William Maloney. Thomas Ryan, Windsor, with rela- tives. Miss Margaret O'Reilly, Toronto, with 14Ir. and Mrs. J. J. O'Reilly. Miss Helen Flanagan, Toronto, at the home of Mrs, Lucy O'Reilly. Misses Bernadette Flanagan and Catharine Ducharme, Stratford, at their homes. A group of ladies met at the home of Mrs. Jack McIver on Thursday and completed a quilt for the Red Cross. CONSTANCE Mrs. Oliver Anderson entertained the ladies on the North line to a Red Cross quilting on Thursday of last week. Miss Ethel Dexter and Misses Helen and Vera Byte of Kitchener spent the week end at the former's home, Mr. and Mrs. Austin Dexter. DUBLIN An accident occurred on Sunday afternoon on No. 8 highway, half a mile west of Dublin, when Miss Jean Sutherland, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. Sutherland, was struck from behind by a car driving west on the highway. She sustained a fractured collarbone, fractured leg and slight concussion, With a companion she was roller skating on the highway at the time of the accident. Dr. M. W, Stapleton was immediately called and she. was rushed to Scott Memor- ial hospital, Seaforth, for treatment. Private Louis Looby of the Ord- nance Corps, Simcoe, with his moth er, Mrs. A, M. Looby. Miss Helen Flanagan, Toronto,. with het cousin, Miss Mary Staple- ton. Mrs, Leo Holland and little dau- ghter, Stephanie, Windsor, with tela- tines, Miss Angela Donnelly, Stratford, with her parents, Mr, and Mrs. Frank Donnelly. Mr. and 14Irs, Tom Feeney and daughter, Betty, of London, with Mr. and Mis. Pat Feeney, Miss Agnes McGrath, ICitehener, with her mother, Mrs, Mary Mc- Grath, Mr. and Mrs, Janes Hanley and son, Jimmie, Toronto, with the for- iner's parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Wil)iani Hanley. Ryan Jordan, ,Stratford, with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Pat Jordan, Mr. and Mrs. Philip Hartman and son of Zurich' spent Sunday at the home of Jack and Anne Ryan. We are pleased to see Friel Gor- mley around again after having two', small bones broken in his leg in a car accident. Mrs, Pat Jordan returned from London hospital on Thursday and we are pleased to hear she is mach im- proved in health, Mrs. Tames Shea left on Monday for Chicago to visit friends there, Miss Anne Ryan spent the week end in Toronto at the home of her sister, Mrs. Frank Hutchings, We are pleased to see Mr, Pat Maloney around again after his late serious illness, Miss Dorothy Riley of London spent Sunday at the home of her parents here. Mexican Jumping Beans Are Novelty A tropical Mexican sun shone down on Alamos Sonora, city of dreams where silver once built a conuhunity and a culture that has refused to give up through the vicissitudes of bad times, revolutions and advancing civ- ilisation, ivilisation, Suddenly I heard rain falling. I was sure I did. This couldn't be. The sky was as cloudless as a perfect tur- quoise. Then I saw the little sign over a doorway "Compra Brincadores," and the rain began to Rake sense. That sign meant I was in front of the establishment of Joaquin, Hernandez who buys jumping beaus and the "rain" was simply his jittery merch- andise, Inside I found Joaquin answering his nail, It was in several languages but not nearly so many as before the war. "In the good old days" when he had the whole world for a market, Joaquiu's mail was certainly an inter- national affair. I asked him how he ever got it all answered when it came from so many countries. He explained that Alamos had always been more or less of a cosmopolitan community and very few languages ever turned up in his correspondence that couldn't be understood by one or another' of his neighbors. He told me also of the way the jumping beaus are harvested, picked up one at a time. mostly by children. The tree on which the bean grows is called Sebastiana Prhtglii and the moth which produces the jumping larvae inside the bean was named Car- pecanso Saltitans. I thought I knew all about jumping beans when I left his office and I certainly did know a lot more than one fellows who once confided to me that it was static elec- tricity that made them jump. It remained however for a later ex- perience to show me how little I really knew about these interesting novel- ties. I was on a reptile collecting trip for the American Museum, so, charm- ing as Alamos was, I had to go out into the country where I could get to, work. McCarty's Ranch at Guirocoba, about 28 miles out of town, proved an ideal spot for my headquarters and I discovered that I was located in the very heart of the jumliing beau pro- ducing territory. Every morning I could see the children starting out on their hunt, with sacks or baskets and a bundle of cold tortillas for their lunch. Every evening I watched them come into Clay Montgomery's little store and stand breathless as he mea- sured up 'each liter and patd off in cash. Jumping beans don't jump when they are disturbed so I wondered how my friend Clay could tell whether he was buying good ones or not, "Oh that's easy," said Clay, "the dead ones have a black spot over that little heart -shaped light patch." This still didn't answer my question. After ail there must be thousands of seeds on the jumping bean tree and from the small lots brought in, I judged that there couldn't be too many jumpers to a tree. He explained then that when the Yerba De Flecha, as it is called by the natives, starts to drop its seed, the normal seeds are thrown from their pods like tiny arrows with a sharp ex plosion. Only the jumping beans re- main in the odd triangular shape of. the original pod section. The reason this pod doesn't blow up with its fel- lows and send the worm on a merry+ ride through the air, is soon seen on opening a jumping bean. The worm after eating its way through the first two sections of the three -sectioned pod, finally hollows the last third out and lines the walls with tough thin silk to keep it from exploding. Thus all the uiiexploded seetions that fall to the ground 0011 tain bwworeoams and are marketable juiiup• ]ng unless rain or something has spoiled them and this is easily told by the black spot on the shell. The trees aye small, not'many over twenty feet high. They are scattered through the dense tropical growth and can be located by sound easier than sight. Their mottled spidery branches and long lance -shaped waxy leaves would begrtstanding in most gardens but here they are lost amongst all the other waxy greens that appear as if by magic after the first rains. When I made the remark that the Sebastiana Pringlii can be located during the ripening season by sound easier than by sight, I was not mak- lug a fanciful statement, The noise made every few seconds by the ex- plosion of one or several of the pods sounds like snapping a rubber band againet a paper bag and can be heard: for quite,a, distance even in woods full of noisy parrots and buzzing; cicadas. A second sound, softer and resembling rain on dry leaves, tells that there are jumping beans to be found, From the steady noise of these "Jitterbugs" kicking about in the leaves, I expected to be able to gather up quite a number in a few minutes but they stop jumping when they hear a strange noise and are hard to loc- ate under the dead leaves as they are the very same color, It takes patience and no little skill to salvage as many. as a handful fro ma large tree. Scraping about I unearthed some that had quit jumping. They had lodg- ed themselves under a protecting rock. I laid them in the open sun and in a few minutes they started jumping again, It seems that they jump until concealed. The jumping really isn't a sign of nervousness but one of nat- ure's ature's miraculous protective instincts. If they were to lay out in the open they would be picked up by birds or rotted by the heavy rains. I was eager to find out more. For instance I wondered how they could move the container in which they were imprisoned. I took some home and started taking them to pieces. The worm inside was nothing in particular to look at. It had 16 short legs and a soft yellowish -white body. The four hind legs were equipped with a gripping mechaulsm sud the dark THURSDAY, APRIL, 1, 1043 R GENT TH ATRE Seaforth NOW PLAYING - THURS: FRI, SAT. 2nd show starts at 9,15 Fred MacMurray Paulette- Goddard "The Forest Rangers" The screen's big Technicolor triumph!' Great ae the great outdoors! MONDAY, TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY Double Bill - Second Show starts'. at 8.45 p,m. 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The next morning I trimmed the cello. plume from the edges and found that I had jumping beans with transparent windows. At last I could see what was going on inside. - What really happens is simple. The worm grips the side of the shell with his four hind feet and raises about two millimeters with the balance of Ills body, then with a sudden slapping motion, he brings down his whole weight against the side and the shell moves. What, isn't so simple (and I don't expect to solve without the aid of a good biochemist) is how this tiny worm, without furthe food, can keep on jumping this way every few„ sec- onds for months at a time. For shipping they are packed in perforated tins of varying sizes. Given air and a reasonably temperate stor- age space the beans would continue to jump for six months or more. Joaquim explained that in an aver- age good year he had shipped around ten million jumping beans, This year he sent out a little over half that number to less than a quarter of the countries. He explains that, by the sudden popularity of jumping beans as a gambling game. They are being purchased by more adults than ever before. He thinks they would make good entertainment for wounded soldiers recuperating in hospitals and in need of something to hold their attention. 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