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HURON COUNTY'S LEADING NEWSPAPER
News
WHOLE SERIES, VOL. 65, No. 31
SEAFORTH
ONTARIO, TI3URSDAY, AUGUST 5, 1943
Phone 84
31 a year
Horses and Cattle
Killed by. Lightning
Five Horses and Several Cattle'
Victims of Storm Early.
Tuesday
Pour horses , were killed in Me-
Killop during the heavy storm which
passed over the district shortly after
midnight early Tuesday morning„
The horses were standing together In
the open, at the farm of Mr. William
T. Dodds. In Seaforth a hydro trans
former was blown out near the
creameryand the fire alarm, set off
by a bolt pf lightning. It is reported
that late grain was ,damaged by the
heavy downpour,
Two cattle were killed at the farm
of Mr, Wm. Herr, McKillop, and a 1
horse on the John Powell farm, Mc-
Killop, was also killed by the light-
ning.
DIED IN TORONTO
Word has been received of the
death in Toronto of Mrs. A. W. Mor-
ley Campbell. Mrs. Campbell died
at the home of her sister, Mrs. Sam-
uel Deem, 81 Ohudleigh avenue, on
Tuesday. ; The. former; Caroline Jane
Shaw, she was the eldest daughter of
the late John Shaw, Seaforth. Mr,
!Campbell" died sol ie. time ago, The
body is resting at the home of her
sister, Mrs. Deem, where the funer
al service will be held on Friday af-
ternoon at 2 o'clock. Interment will
be made in Pine Grove cemetery,
Prince Albert,
Mrs. Shaw was the eldest of a fa-
mily of five daughters of the late
John Shaw who resided in the pres-
ent Cudmore house in Harpurhey.
*'blue coal'
1HE SOLID FUEL FOR SOLID COMFORT
E. L. BOX
PHONE 43
Union Services
First Presbyterian and Northside
United congregations in First Presby-
terian Church, Rev. H. V. Workman,
minister in charge.
10 a.m. Sunday Schools,
11 a.m. Subject, "A Prophet's Plea
for Righteousness."
7 p.m. "The Growth of the King-
dom
ingdom of God."
Welcome to these services,
St. Thomas Church
Rector: Rev. Dr. Hurford.
11 a.m. "The Christian's Vows."
7 p.m. "The Power of Faith"
St. Mary's Church, Dublin
9.30 a.m. "The Christian's Vows-"
Egmondville United Church
10 a.m., Sunday School.
11 a,m., Rev. James Elford..
LONDESBORO
Rev. A. E. Menzies and family are
taking their holidays this month at
Sarnia. There will be no church ser-
vice here on Sunday, Aug. 8, but on
Sunday, Aug. 16th, Rev. Mr. Chand-
ler, of Parkhill, will have charge and
on Aug. 22nd Rev. Wm, Fingland,
Niagara Falls, will preach.
3 rs.' Marfha Lyon is visiting at the
home of her daughter Mrs. Bert Lobb
in Goderich Tp.
Mr. and Mrs, T. Fairservic, had
friends from London and Toronto
visiting with them last week.
• Mrs. Alfie Tyerman and Mrs. 3.
Tamblyn are visiting at the home of
Frank Tamblyn for a couple of
weeks.
Mrs. Lillie Webster and Jack, Miss
Kirk, Mrs. 111. Lyon, Mrs. Nellie Wat-
son and Elda and Mr. Riley of Gode-
rich spent part of Sunday at Bayfield.
Misses Lois Wood and Gail Mann-
ing are attending the summer school
at Goderich this Week.
-Mrs. Williams and babe are visit-
ing at the home of her parents Mr.
and Mrs, Ed Yungblutt,
Mrs: Win. Lyon spent the week;
end and holiday with her daughter
and family at Stratford.
Misses Beth Govier and Fern Wat-
son are holidaying at Barrie.
A. few farmers have been thresh,
ing their fall wheat but the heavy.
rain Tuesday morning put a stop to
stook threshing.
TAYLOR WINS BY 465 VO TES
DR. TAYLOR
BLOOD DONORS' CLINIC
WILL BE AUG. 19TH
The next Blood Donors' Clinic in
(Seaforth will be held on Thursday
morning, Aug. 19th. Donors are
asked to keep their appointment if
at all possible as the need is very
urgent. New volunteers are asked to
call Mrs. Reg. Kerslake at 341.
Please remember to bring your don-
or books with you.
Nixon Government
Defeated In Wartime
Ontario Elections
Two Huron Seats
Elect Progressive -
Conservatives
SEAFORTH RINKS WIN
AT GODERICH, CLINTON'
Two rinks of Seaforth lawn bowl-
ers composed of Jim MacDonald,.
Jack Hotham and Lorne Dale, and
John Boshart, Ed Bright and W. Q.
Willis, attended the Clinton tourna-
ment on Friday evening, the latter
link winning first prize,
The lawn -bowling doubles at.Gode-
rich on Thursday last drew anrentry
of 28 pairs from six towns, the silver-
ware being won by R. J. Sproat and R.
Winter of Seaforth. For two years it
, had been held by Free Hamilton and
1 Mayor Harley Crawford of Wing -
ham. Other tournament winners were
W. McCoy and Isaac Miller of Luck-
now,
ucknow, Donald Rae and Murray Rae,
father and son of Wingham, Neil
Mackay and Rev. Richard- Stewart of
Goderich, William Nephew and J.
Parr of Kincardine, James MacVicar
and Frank Martin of Goderich.
ST. COLUMBAN AND
LOGAN LIONS WIN
Highlighted by the slugging of
Frank O'Connor, .of St. Columban,
who clouted two homers and three
triples, double-header in the Logan
softball league resulted in a 19-13
victory for St. Columban over Dub-
lin, while .Logan Lions defeated Kin -
kora 8-3.
St. Columban—J. Roach, c; F.
Moylan, ss.; P. Jordan, 2b; T. Morris No. 1
r.f.; J. O'Connor, p; J, Roach, 3b; No. 2a
IF. O'Connor, ib; J. Stapleton if, H. No. 2b
O'Connor cf. i No. 3a
Dublin—Turner ss, Looby cf, Wil- No. 3b
son p, M. Ryan rf, J. Delaney 3b, No. 4
McGrath, Darling ib, H. Ryan lf, Advance
Tickle e.
Logan Lions -B. Beer c, W. Ma-
amp-Iloney ss, H. Kummer ef,• A. Camp-
'bell
bell ib, G. Diebold p, J. Campbell
lf, L. Dill 3b, S. Costick rf, A.
Bauer 2b.
Kinkora—J. Cassidy rf, C. Brown
cf, A. White c, L. Stock p, L. Wahl
2b, G. Dwyer ab, H. Kenny ss, L.
White if, W. Kenny 1,b.
Oestricher Taylor Tuckey
Seaforth
No, 1 10 57 64
No, 2 ,,... ,12 61 67
No, 3 18 30 71
No. 4 8 39 60
No. 5 30 43 23
No. 6 13 45 61
91 275 846
Majority for Tuckey 71.
McKillop
No. 1 4 17 145
No. 2 57 36 63
No. 3 69 24 71
No. 4 33 47 55
163 124 334
Majority for Tuckey 210
Tuckersmith
No. 1 51 40 40
No. 2 24 45 45
No. 3 40 16 72
No. 4 17 28 84
No. 5 29 82 57
No. 6 18 26 54
179 187 352
Huliett
No. 1 52 27 65
No. 2 16 40 36
No. 3 11 26 41
No. 4 30 39 77
No. 5 • 3 17 21
No. 6 7 17 61
No. 7 27 48 54
146 214 355
Goderich Township
No. 1 13 75 32
No. 2 21 45 40
No, 3 16 62 38
No. 4 8 55 22
No. 5 31 48 31
No. 6 21 32 32
110 317 195
Stanley
No, 1 11 29 • 48
No. 2 3 20 72
No. 3 13 21 38
No. 4 23 129 32
No. 5 12 57 24
No. 6 ..... 12 57 49
No. 7 3 12 24
No. 8 7 100 59
W.I. TO MEET TUESDAY
AT MRS. A. CROZIER'S
The Women's Institute will hold 8
their August meeting at the home of,
Mrs. Andrew Crozier on Tuesday.
August 10th, at 2.15. Roll call is a
seasonable fruit or vegetable and its.
vitamin value. The topic, will be 1
taken by Mrs. Bob MoKercher . and
the motto by Mrs. Will Hay,
84 425 346
Clinton
21 115 89
15 57 38
,,,•14 57 57
21 67 . 39
7 51 40
33 86 67
7
Poll ,,`1. 6
112 438
Henson
'No: 1 ..... 18 165
Hay
1--. 14 36
2 ..... 1.2 21
3a .....: 29 25
3b..... ,..,_.. ,... 23 31
4 63 54
5 20 33
6 26 144
8 22
13 15
Eight members of/ the Nixon
Cabimet defeated.
Leaders of all three parties'
win their seats.
208 381
Osborne
18 53
2 .... 26 38
3 .. 211 25.
4 11 48
5 .... 13 64
6 14 4?
7 ...... , 19 61
r. W. H ,Pro ressive Con
Progressive
wins by 139 votes Progressive Conservative par- :.i
suns g ty under leadership of George 2
over Hugh Mill, Liberal, in the Drew have elected largest group a
Huron -Bruce riding. but lack a clear majority, 4 •
337
GEORGE DREW
Oestricher Taylor Tuckey
5 14 75 15
6 ....,..:._.... 17 158 45
7 15 38 25
8 2 98 18
9 ....._.. 22 121 49
268 728 270
Exeter
la . 9 65 41
111) 8 71 47
2a 8 73 50
2b . .7 69 69
3a 16 75 63
8 71 66
4,_ - 8 41 24
64 465 350
Goderich Town
Advance poll 0 2 3
12 46 32
2 17 37 52
23 95 . 66
27 40 23
20 67— • 71
8 ,,, „ 19 80 41
7 .. 22 91 71
8 .. 4 26 45
9 19 122 72
10 15 91 68
11 .,. 14 35 52
12 26 68 49
- 218 800 645
Central RCAF
0 2 3
Cornwall Camp
0 1 0
Grand Total
1782 4847 4381
NORTH HURON
Hanna, Progressive -Conservative
elected by a majority of 139.
PERTH
W. A. Dickson, Liberal, maj, 15.
Red•Cross Notes
The following is a list of work
completed in July:
Br. Civilian: 19 boys' shirts, 6
boys' longs, 23 girls' night gowns,
16 girls' pyjamas, 19 blouses, 12
pinafore dresses, 3 ladies dresses, 6
turkish towels.
Hospital supplies: 25 bed jackets,
6 triangular bandages, 6 bed sox, 2
face clothe.
155 Knitting: 24 pr. socks, 1 short
seaman's socks,. 13 1. seaman's stock-
ings. 40 gloves, 6 mitts, 57 alt. caps,
4 toques, 3 v -neck sweaters, 6 long
sleeved sweaters, 3 ribbed helmets,
1 cardigan, 1 girls sweater.
Quilts: 11 returned, 9 made in
work room,. 9 tops donated, 5 bi-
products made, surgical dressings,
1370 compresses.
•
46.
54
44
37
78
36
25
26
74
420
48
41
46
40
54
16
38
122 326 273
Stephen
19 79 38
24 57 8
43 36 82
112 66 45
The jam committee has 1600 lbs.
of honey on order. In former years
this fund has had a generous res-
ponse. It is hoped many will contrib-
ute again
ontrib-ute.again to this project that gives
our men in the hospitals much pleas-
ure.
With so many reports of shipping
losses in war years,. Red Oross re-
minds us that "During the years
1940, 41 and 42 our goods have been
carried on 616 steamers against
which we have had losses due to en-
emy action and strandings on 14
steamers, all others having reached
their port ofdestination safely. To-
tal losses are 2 per cent. of the value
of goods sent amounting to $319,-
919.00."
Former Seaforth Girl
Killed In Crash
Ruth McNairn Dies After Mot-
orcycle Accident Near Bur-
lington
One person was killed and four in-
Jured in' a head-on collision between
a motorcycle and an auto near Burl
ington early Monday. Miss Ruth Me -
Nairn, 20 -year-old domestic employed
in a Toronto hone, died in Hamilton
General Hospital at 3 o'clock Monday
morning, two hours after she was
burled from the pillion seat of a
motorcycle which crashed into an
auto. She died without regaining con-
sciousness from a fractured skull
suffered when she landed head first
on the pavement. Miss McNairn was
a daughter of NIr. and Mrs, L. J. Me -
Nairn of Dartmouth, N.S., 'where her
father is stationed, and a grand-
daughter of Mr. and Mrs, Fred
Reeves of town. Miss McNairn re-
sided with her parents here for some
years and attended school here,
Percy Bench, 42, of 96 Stafford
Street, Toronto, operator of the mot-
orcycle, was taken to the Hamilton
Hospital in a critical condition. He
received compound fractures of both
legs, broken left arni, deep cut on top
of the head, multiple cuts and bruises
and shock.
The Bench motorcycle, in company
with two others from Toronto, was
travelling to Niagara Falls on the
Queen Elizabeth Way near Station 26
on the Burlington Beach cut-off when
the accident happened. Bench's was.
the last of the three cycles and in
turning out to pass a car travelling
in the same direction it crashed
head-on with an auto coming from
the opposite direction.
Miss McNairn was catapulted'from
the saddle seat behind Bench 37 feet
through the air. John Spelich, 41,
of 55 Beverly. Street, Toronto, driver
of the car, was unhurt, but three pas-
sengers were injured.
After treatment at the scene by
Dr. W. A. Weaver of Burlington, the
auto' passengers" were- taken to •Tor-
onto by taxi. Miss McNairn and
Bench were brought to Hamilton by
ambulance. Provincial Traffic Officer
A, R. Smith of Burlington investigate=
ed. Dr. R. T. Dingle, Burlington, dis-
trict coroner, viewed the young wo-
man's body and ordered an inquest.
Miss. McNairn, whose home is in
Dartmouth, N.S., was employed as a
domestic at 66 Fuller Avenue, Tor-
onto.
It is expected that the parents will
arrive from Nova Scotia for the fune-
ral at Mitchell on Thursday after-
noon.
The body was released on Tues-
day morning and broug it to N. J.
Boyd's undertaking parlors at Mitch-
ell and rested at the home of her
grandmother, Mrs. David McNairn,
Sills street, where a funeral service
will be held on Thursday afternoon
at 2.30 o'clock with Captain the Rev.
N. MacKay of Knox Church officiat-
ing. Interment will be made in Knox
Presbyterian cemetery, Mitchell. She
is survived by her mother and father
and two brothers, James and Ken -1
neth, all of Dartmouth, N. S., 'where
her father is stationed with the
RCAF.
HURON'S NEW MEMBER
The new provincial member in
Firron riding is well fitted for his
new position. He has been a close
student of public affairs for many
years and is an authority on matters
of public interest. Dr. Taylor was
born in London, Ontario, in 1896, a
son of the late Mr. and Mrs. William
Taylor. His education was .received
in the schools of London, where he
graduated from the medical school of
University of Western Ontario. Lat-
er he went to New York Polyclinic
'for post -graduate work.
In 1928 he married Letter Ruth
Guenther. They have one daughter,
Anne Kathryn. Their home is at
Dashwood where Dr. Taylor has an
extensive practice. Golf and yachting
are hobbies of the candidate. He is
an excellent platform speaker. As
a physician he has taken prominent
part in medical groups, being past
president of the Osler society, and
past president of the Huron Medical
Society, He is president of the New
Day Study club. In religion he is an
Anglican.
AT MIDNIGHT
At the midnight the standing was
Progressive Conservatives 38; 0.0,10.
32; Liberal 13; Labor 2; Ind, Lib 1;
TWO FEATURED
DIAMOND VALUES
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Jeweller and Optometrist
Opposite Post Office, Seaforth
Lake Resorts Busy
Over Week End
Holiday Visitors Cause Food
Shortages at Many Res-
taurants
The civic holiday week end was a
busy one for the summer resorts
all along Lake Huron, despite war
time restrictions. Food and lodgings
were scarce at all places. For ex-
ample, at Port Elgin on Friday night
every one of the hundreds of cabins
and cottages was occupied and every
available room in the village was
taken. The same conditions existed
at other lake towns.
Week end boat trips out of Owen
Sound were booked up weeks ahead,
Road traffic was not heavy, as mot-
orists were driving as little as poss-
ible to save gas and tires.
Tobermory, np at the tip of the
Bruce Peninsula, was crowded owing
to a line of cars waiting day and
night for the ferry to Manitoulin Is-
land. Only one boat is operating on
the ferry service this year and in-
stead of the scheduled two trips
daily, the motorship "Normae" was
running twenty-four hours a day,
making the round trip once each six
hours. It carries only 13 cars and
there were never fewer than forty
cars waiting, which meant a whole
day's wait to get on the ferry. There
were many American cars in the
line-up, mostly from Ohio. Some of
the occupants slept in their cars or
on the roadside during the night
hours, others secured accommoda-
tion in cottages or cabins.
Eating places felt the food short-
age by Monday, when some had to
close for lack of supplies, Ice cream
and pop were unobtainable, and cust-
omers asked only for a drink of cold
water.
A11 these inconveniences seemed to
be accepted as minor hardships how-
ever, and little grumbling was heard.
Many took advantage of the excel-
lent fishing. At Tobermory there is a
fleet of a dozen launches with guides
i who take parties out trolling for lake
trout A boat costs about $2 an hour.
Each boat puts out four lines of
flexible copper wire, varying in
length from 100 to 150 feet, with a
large shiny spinner and hook at the
end. A day's catch varies from one
or two fish to more than a dozen,
i These splendid fish average around
three to five pounds in weight and
are valuable at present retail prices
of 40c a pound. They are a real deli-
cacy, coming from water about 300'
feet in depth that is cool and clear,
The fishing boats pass close to the
famous Flower Pot Island. It is said.
that. the Indians to this day will not
set foot on Plower Pot Island. The
legend is that the "flower pots,"
which are two . odd -shaped forma-
tions of limestone at the water's
edge, are an ancient Indian brave
and Indian maiden, son and daughter
of the chiefs of rival tribes, The
couple eloped to this island, were
followed by their tribes and a bloody
doubtful 4. Continued en Paso 1