The Seaforth News, 1934-03-08, Page 2PAGE TWO
THE SEAFORTH NEWS
THURSDAY, ,MARCH s, 1934.
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HURON NEWS
Little Interest—.A meeting to dis-
cuss soyaheans was called to meet in
the town hall Saturday afternoon last
by ;he Can: ciiau Snyabean Co. of \Iil-
ton, but the meeting nos not largely
attended. The farmers in this district
.who -grew soyabeane last year were
.aot too well satisfied with the returns.
--.Exeter Times -Advocate,
Another Attempted Robbery,--Ear-
iy Sunday morning, last another rob-
bery attempt wae made in Exeter but
it proved eu nice sfuh About three
o'clock in the morning _Ir, J, S. Grant
beard a peculiar noise and on going
down stairs to investigate lie found
that someone had entered the building
and had made a hurried exit leaving
the front lour epee. A lock had been
:pried off, bnt tate marauder took leave
before diecutert".';Ty any loot.
Exeter Discusses Water Supply.—
A meeting was held at .Exeter last
week to discuss the town water sup-
ply as many ni the domestic wells are
showing cnntatrtination. The sinking
of a deep well is discussed, the total
cost of which, including sinking well,
large underground storage tank; and
incidentals, would be $15,000„ Exeter';
present system is on an excellent pay-
ing basis and covers most of bhe town.
It is thought that eventually the pro-
vincial board of health will force ac-
tion,
account of De. Hart, Listowel, was
laid over for further consideration.
The Reeve filed with the clerk a no-
tice from. McKillop township giving
notice of the intention to appeal to the
referee against the report of the en-
gineer on the Kinburn 'Swamp Drain,
Relief paid out VI1',&7, Total miscell-
aneous expenditures paid 51,72.92.
Road expenditures read and paid.
General account $3710, Council will
meet next at Brodhagen, March 20t'h,
at130 pin. to .holdCourt of ;Revision
,n assessments for I<inburn Swamp
Drain, and the next regular meeting
at Township Hall, Born'holtn, Ai arch
doth, at 100 o'clock in the forenoon
for regular business,—J, A. Rndnitph,
Clerk.'
Government Takes Over Blue Water
Highway. ---Announcement. has, been
made that some 55 miles of county
road in Lambton county, including the
St. Clair River road from Sarnia to
Thedford, the Blue Water Highway
from Goderich and Grand Bend to
Thedford, and the Forest tou-nline
will become part of the provincial
highways ,system, At present Lamb -
ton has only nine miles of provincial
road. Belief is expressed that the Go-
vernment will this year pave the river
road from Sarnia as far as Courtright,
the Forest townline and the stretch of
tBluc Water Highway running through
the pinery.
Serious Accident.—A very painful
accident occurred to little Albena .Be -
(lard, the eisht-year-old daughter of
Mr. and Mrs, Then. Bedard, of the
1'-Ith e.'nee;=inn, Hay, on Saturday
morning. It seems the previous day
the children had found a piece of wire
spent -ix in•hes long lying itt a tree
and as it 110s ,: unueeal appearance
they 'trought it in the house and play-
ed with it. Everything was all right
n al Saturday morning the little girl
took the wire and as there was some-
thing attached to the end held this
part in the stove, with the result that
an explosion folaowecl, blowing a piece
out of the stove door 'and the little
girl's hand was badly injured, as it
blew off the thumb to the second
joint, also the first two fingers at the
second joint, and the _third finger at
the first joint, also splitting the other
fingar and gashing the right hand
badly. The piece of wire it is thpilght
,had been the cap part to set off dyna-
mite and had been thoughtlessly laid
in the tree some years ago.
Buys Garage.—Mr, Elgar Mousseau
of Zurich has bought the Kippers ,gar-
age from Mr. John Workman, Mr,
Mousseau Itis had considerable exper-
ience in this line of work,
Death of Mrs. Joshua Snider—The
funeral of the late Mrs, Joshua Snider
took place Tuesday afternoon last
from the home of her son, Gerald Sni-
der, north of Drysdale. Deceased had
beet a resident of the Drysdale dis-
trict fnr nt:uty years. till the death of
her furs 11nn.1 fifteen years age when
site none;; t, Kitchener and fnr a time
lived with her slaughter at Parkhill.
;Site had been ailing for a year. The
deceased w•as 73 years of age. Her eld-
est ten, Emmerson Snider, who had
the old homestead, was killed in a fat-
al accident about five years ago, Sur-
viving are: Gerald, north of Drysdale,
and two daughters, Mrs. Clarence
Montgomery, of near Parkhill and
Mrs. Charles Mac'Cregor of Grand
Bend.
Logan Council. --Council met purs-
uant to adjournment. All members
pre:cat. the Reeve presided, Minutes
were read, •confirmed and signed, Cor-
rv.9.ttideu,ct w:ts read aarl disposed of.
The clout of Mitchell Fire Brigade
was settled for the sutra of $75:00. W.
S. Riehl was granted a license to op-
erate two :pool tables Fee $1.5.;:}, 'Che
Born In Tuckersmith.--The death
of Jemima Turner, widow of Amos
Fisher, occurred at her home, Gode-
rich, on Monday, February 26th, after
an illness Of only a few clays. Deceas-
ed was born in the township of Ttck-
ersmith in 14414 and was thus in her
eighty-sixth year. She was married in
11870 to Antos !Fis'her and they settled
on the 2nd concession of Colborne
township one-half utile east of Ben -
miller, where they resided until their
removal to - 'Goderich in :119:116. Mr.
Fisher died in 11922, Surviving are five
sons,' Herbert, Ed -ward, Arthur and
Fletcher, of Colborne township, and
Horace, of Goderich, and four daugh-
ters, Mrs. H, R. Long and Mrs. W,
E. Stethers of Goderich, Mrs . \\ral-
gate Tetbbutt of Druid, Sask., and
Miss Pearl, at home. A daughter,
?vers, M. 'Ohlcr (iSanny), died in '1924,
,Belonged to Distinguished Family.
--The death occurred at Goderich on
Friday last of Arthur \\rardlitw Cur=
zou, who had lived for about forty
years at his estate on the Huron road
about three miles from Goderich. De-
ceased was in .his seventy-fourth year,
He was a member of a distinguished
Englis hfamily and a cousin of the
;ate Lord Curzon, for many years
one of .the great figures of British
public life and for a terns viceroy of
India. Deceased received his educa-
tion at a private school in England
and - was an expert linguist. For a
time he was an officer in the British
army, but while still in his twenties
he case to Canada to engage in
farming, and after a titite purchased
a farm on the !Huron road which was
formerly known as the Hawley es-
tate. He married Charlotte daughter
of the late Mr. and Airs. ,Radcliffe,
who died in 191115, and he was further
bereaved in 1029 by the death of his
only child, Miss E•delitte Curzon. De-
ceased was of a most sociable nature,
and was an interesting talker,
,Will Tax Repeaters.— The follow-
Mg letter has been sent to the parents
of students by the Goderich Colleg-
iate 'Board: "The- classes in the Col-
legiate are becoming so overcrowded
by reason of so many students hav-
ing to repeat their year, largely
through neglect of hone study and
lack of parental co-operation in en-
forcing it, that teachers can give no
individual attention to students, Be-
sides that, the Upper School had so
many students entering- the form in.
September- that they could not all be
accommodated in the class roost and
places had to be found for thein in
the second -year. commercial- .room,
They have to return, however, to the
upper form for the subjects he which
they -failed last year, and it necessi-
tates some students sitting two in
single seats, The outlook for next year
is worse, So many of the present
class may have. to repeat that there
will not be sufficient room for them
and for the students coming forward
from the Aliddle School, The numbers
in the school at present who are re-
peating last year's work are as fol-
lows: First year 1:3, second year 1!3,
third year 7, fourth year S, and fifth
year 13, making a total of 54, •fully
seventy-iftre per cent of which is
due to neglect of studies, High
School education has now for some
years been made free to all pupils of
the ,Province and compulsory for all
those up to the age of sixteen, and no
parent pays any more for the educa-
tion of his son or daughter, - apart
from their maintenance and their
hooks, than does each of his fellow -
citizens with equal assessment who
has tto children at school, The De-
partment of Education, recognizing
this fact. passed legislation in 103,3
empowering high school boards to
levy a fee on .students who take more
titan six years to complete Upper
School standing., which regularly can
be completed in five years. The fee is
not to exceed the average annual cost
per pupil, u-itich in 103.3 was $9.7.50,
At tate fleet meeting. of the Collegiate
board this year this letter was direct-
ed to be prepared by the chairman
and secretary, and sent to the par-
ents and students interested, advising
tbem that such a fee will be imposed
where the students are increasing the
cost of education by their dilatoriness
and their lack of appreciation of their
'tpporttntities."
A Cold Flight,—On Thursday last
"Dick," the pet canary in the home of
G. L. Parsons, West street, mysteri-
ously disappeared, says the Goderich
Signal. The bird is allowed a few min-
ites' freedom each day itt which he
lies at will from room to roost in the
souse, afterwards returning to his
cage. But on Thursday "Dick" did
not return to itis perch and a thorough
.cards of the house revealed only the
`,'•-: that Gte bird wet conspicuous by
•i+ absence. Concluding that ''Dick"
`.a 1 tl•,o -: ot11 the door when a
:ra lesnlan entered, Mrs, ;Parsons
c.tsualiy mentioned her loss to 'Reg.
Newcombe, who was in the house at
the tme, and gave her pet up for
lest, AS the thermometer outside reg;
'sterid but a few- degrees above zero.
The story now shifts to the -evening
of the sante day. when. Reg. ,and a
friend, Carl'Baeehler, were talking to-
gether. Baechler told a story of a can-
ary flying into -the office of his father's
lumber company at the east side of
the town that afternoon.;Although the
Parsons home is on the west side,
nearly a mile ffrono the lumber com-
pany office, .Newcombe pttt the two
,les t"''graft'' and name to the Con-
clnsion that the bird in both stories
-aas one -.. i t , '1 .Y
proved to be, t:he.case.
he bride and groom unite in extend-
ing congratulations aad best wishes
for ,the future,
No Depression. --Cpl. H. B, Combe
of Clinton says; "Since the depres-
sion started some :foitr years ago, the
'Clinton 'Knitting Company hits been
going day and night, and we have paid
out in wages some $3:00000 which
has ,mostly been: spent in Clinton. I
Milk if the papers wroeld cti't out the
depression talk and spread a little
cheer• instead,, that we would all be
better off,"
Play Against Palmerston. — Sea -
forth defeated Palmerston 7-4 in a.
fast, clean, semi-final Northern hock-
ey league Friday ,tight. ,Palmerston
scored the first goal .abotet -halfway
through the 'first irate when Hudson
shot on .Stade from outside the blue
line.. The puck deflected off and Stade
had no chance to San's. Culliton knit-
ted the count en a pass from •Leppamd.
Seaiorth scored four goals in the sec-
on(1 round, and %Palnterstott came back
strong with three itt lite third. [Hudson
drilled is long shot from outside the
flue line to score'Palmerston's fourth,
Stade tried to catch it, but it slipped
through his fingers. 'Seafort'h--:Goal,
Stade; defence, E. lRennie and G. Ren -
ole; centre, Buckman; wings, Yung-
14elt and Foster; alternates, Hilde-
brand, !Flannery, Culliton, ;Leppard.
•Palmerston --!Goal, :Johnston; defence,
McKay and Collins; centre, 'Hodson;
wings, Horne and Euglish; alternates,
Nforrisntt, ,Fair, Strike, .1 -Tent,
Edgar-Meadows,—The ,home of Mr.
and Mrs. John 'Meadows, Brussels,
was the scene of a quiet but lovely
wedding on Ticurclay evening when
their daughter, Wlnnifred Ai'c1lillan,
'became th'e bride of Murdie'Edgar of
!Wroxeter, On 'account of a recent be-
teavetnent in the bridegroom's family,
only the immediate relatives were
present. Mr. and Mrs, Edgar will re-
side in [Brussels; -
Presbytery Meeting, — The Huron
Presbytary met in the iPresbyterian
Church, Clinton On [Feb, '227, a good
representation of ministers and elders
being present. Routine business was
transacted, Rev. T. W. Mills of'B7yblt
was elected Moderator, A-(rs. Reid of
Seaiorth 'attended and reported that
the ladies of the Presbyterial ,had ex-
ceeded what they set out to do financ-
ially during 1'9.13, and had raised $3,-
:) Committees' were appointed as
follow,: iStatistics—'Rev. T. W, Mills
and !F, Weir. 113uclget—Re v. S. M.
,Gordon and ivfr. Strang. Church Life
and Work—Rev, D. Lane and S. Mc -
t, You leg People's Work—:Rev.
Ale. Young and Mr, Scott, lPension
bund=Dr. Dougan and 3Ir. Weir.
Colleges --+Dr, Barnett and 1R. \1c-
Kenzie.:All reports were encouraging,
Married at Bayfield,—The marriage
was solemnized quietly at the rectory
at Bayfield on the evening of 'Feb.
26, when Mins Mabel 9Wantsley, dao
ghter'of Mrs. Mary \\'avis ey and the
late John \\ramsley, and John P
Cameron, son of r 5tie. `.ir. and Mrs.
i - e ;;;;;;—.4 ''e
holy bonds of matrimony, They were
unattended. The many friends. of both
Committee Report.—Phe following
is the :finding of the commission of
the Huron Pres'by,tery in the matter
of the union of Queen Street and St.
Andrew's United Church congrega-
tions at'B•lyth, T'he commission was
appointed by the !Huron [Presbytery
of the United Church at a recent
meeting: The Commission 'having
visited the churches involved, • having
canvassed .the whole situation and
having carefully looked over the
church properties, asorder"ed by iuhe
'Presbytery, the Commission has ar-
rived at the following findings: (Il)
The Commission deeply appreciates
the action of the congregations of
Queen Si, and St, Andrew's in maks
itig request to ,the Presbytery to pro-
ceed toward the merging of the two
congregations into o n e pastoral
charge. (2) That union of the, congre-
gations shall take place at',the open-
ing of the next Conference year, July.'
,1st, 111934, (3) That St. -Andrew's
manse be used as the minister's resid-
ence, that the Queen St; 'parsonage
be vacated and that the final disposal
of the buildings and its furnishings
be left in the hands of the Presbytery
for the benefit of the united congrega-
tions, (4) That the church buildings
-be used as follows: viz., Queen St.
church ito, be used for the first six
months from July 1st, 11934, to De-
cember SIliet, 1034, St. Andrew's
church for the ttext,six months, Janu-
ary list, 193'5, to Qtily ']1st; 193'a, for all
church purposes including the Sunday
School and that at the expiation of
this period the 'Commission will stake
its •final decision as to the use of the
church tbuiidings for the future. (5)
That the pastoral relation of both
ministers shall terminate at the enol
of the present 'Conference year and
another minister shall be settled over
the united congregations. We base
this finding on the fact that both
ministers, in order to promote a fav-
ourable union, have expressed their
willingness to accept another settle-
ment, 06) That in view of the fact
that both Rev. W. G, Buell and Rev.
'G. W. 'Oliver have thus voluntarily
placed themselves on the list of min-
isters moving, this Commission res-
pectfully requests the Conference
Settlement Committee to see that the
interests of these men are fully safe-
guarded. (17) The Commission desires
to express and hope that the con-
summating of this union, at the re-
quest of ,the congregations, may re-
sult in a great spiritual blessing to all
concerned and that in its details it
may be carried out with such unani-
mity- that the people will be impress-
ed with the dignity and beauty of a
large and harmonious congregation of
the United Church of ,Canada in iBlyth
anti community. Signed by the Com-
mission—F. W. Cnaik, F, ,G. Farrill,
F. 'S. Savattge, J. E. Hartwell, 'Geo.
T. Watts, VV. A. Bremner.
Bone in Throat Removed by Cough.
—Mrs, Lloyd ;Porter of the 9th con-
cession of Grey coughed recently, and
coughed up a fish bone she had -swal-
low -ed a year ago last June. The bone
was 44 of an inch long and 4 of an
inch wide. .When it lodged in her
throat it choked her and made her
gasp Inc air. The doctor took an x-
ray, but no trace of any object, suoh
as a 'bone, could be seen anywhere on
the plate, arca so the doctor said that
it was Itis belief that she had either
asthma or pleurisy. Airs. Porter and
family were surprised to see the bone
ciente from her. -throat when she
coughed, but now she knows that
the object is out of ,her throat and can
not cause any harm,
Section Foreman Passes Suddenly
--:On tFebruary 27th, shortly after 1
o'clock Archie Thompson, C. N. R.
section foreman at Brussels, passed
away suddenly front a :heart attack
while driving a jigger abotit' three
miles ;ttoward Winghant from ,'Brus-
sels. He and Martin Thornton, his
section hand, were operating the
jigger and when they came to ;the
place where they wrere to pull off and
the jigger slid not stop, Mr Thorn-
tori looked back and Saar Mr, Thontp-
saIt slimmed down on ,the jigger. lie
(fagged the train that was proceed-
ing to \Wi1tgltani where he was exam-
iIle d\ by Dr; Stewart but he had al-
ready passed away.. ir, '[Thompson
had been section, foreman at Brussels
for_29 y=ears, a=le was 57 years old and
is survived by his wife and a grown-
up fautily. •
Formerly of Brussels. - Stricken
with a heart attack, Smith Fox pass-
ed suddenly away at his home 1" T.;
motto last week Surviving aro hit
wife. (Jean M. Ross) -and one daugh-
ter, Mrs. J. G. Deacon, of Athabaska.
WHEN
you think of a friend far away...
and you haven't seen him (or
maybe, her) for weeks . .. and
you don't like writing letters ...
Have a visit by Long Distance ... it's
the next best thing to being together
For friendly chat or emergency call,the quick,
dependable Long Distance telephone is at
your service; your personal messenger at trif-
ling cost; easy and pleasant to use. You can
talk 100 miles or so for as little as 30c. See
list of rates in the front of your directory.
Alta. Mrs. Fox was a daughter of the
late Robert Ross, a former well
'known resident of :Brussels.
THE PASSING OF
THE (WILD HORSE
Out west, in the fastness of the
hills attd the open of the plains, man
is waging a relentless war with the
wild horse for supremacy of the prai-
rie.
Gone are the days, when the chasing
of wild horses was considered a sport
second to none for endurance, skill,
and strength, Now that .machinery, the
snorting automobile and the p'loddin'g
reaper, is usurping .the horse's power,
'the wild Horse, as well as. his domesti-
cated brethren is to be destroyed by
thousands.. It is estimated that there
are about 1,000,000, of these free pon-
ies roaming the open ranges and
tttotut'tain retreats of Montana, Ore-
gon, 'Idaho,'\'eva:da, New Mexico, Ut-
ah, ansi Arizona, and that 400,000 of
them are in Montana. Sheep and cat-
tle men everywhere are protesting at
the wild [horse's consumption of grass
—grass enough to feed 2,000,000 sheep
and 500;0:00 head of cattle. Hence the
wholesale slaughter of ''man's friend,
the horse."
The mustang has long been an in-
tegral part of the romance and history
of the old west, lending much to its
development and color, Wild horse,
have been classed as native animals
of the State of Texas, especially ite
southern portion; -they were there be-
fore the first white settlers, Since the
mustang is of the sante breed as the
Mexican horse, it may be assumed.
that the mustangs were descendants
of -the horses brought to Mexico by
the conquistadores ander the leader
ship of Cortez nearly 400 years ago:
later. Juan de 'Orate and Coronado
took them further north.
They roved in bands off .one .to three
dozen head under the leadership off a
cunning stallion. One or- two male,
yearlings or two -year-olds may be in
the band but' no stature orale can en•
ter ttttless he defeats the leader by
rightofconquest in what is usually a
fight terrible to see. The astutencse
and sagaciousness of these leaders
were alntvst .hthmam'. Their heritage of
wariness -and cautions intelligence,
strengthened by stress of generations
of evading man's traps, ..oftentimes
was more than ;a match for the pur-
suer
.Rn.011:i11g wild 'horses was fascinat-
ing but dangerous patsimes for the
cowboys. The mustangs were gener—
al', too swift 'and clever fnr the hun-
ters. One method of catching them
was to fence a spring or water lode'
with carhotufaged greenery, leavitig
the gate` opens ,After several clays if
the animals were itot frightened, they
would ester the enclosure to reach the
water; then a trapper who had re-
mained hidden so that Itis scent would
not 'carry, would shoot the bars ac-
ross the opening, capturing the whole
band. -Many times the animals through
sheer fright would plunge around the
coral, sonretintes killing or maiming
th nm -selves - bel re calming down. An-
other common method of capture, be-
cause of the brood tingling sport, was
to run the 'hand on tate o•pem range un-
til they were exhausted. A relay of
riders was necessary for such purpose
,\'Iustanges were in the habit of no.
grazing beyond certain limits (of
range. 'After studying 'the habits of a
certain hand, riders would "estalblislt
themselves at definite points in this
huge circle. ,Then a rider would ap-
proach the band directly fromthe
front. The horses, taking fright, would
soon outdistance rhe cowboy, . for
there was no ntoun•ted horse that
could coque within rifle shot of them.
The rider would then follow at a
fast but not a killing pact, keeping
theta always on tate move. Cowboys
at different intervals .would continue
to chase then keeping the band con-
tinuously swinging in the huge arc.
This would carry on day and night,
not allowing the mustangs to eat '1t'
to drink, The riders themselves t
use up two or three horses a day. Af-
ter a few days of this unceasing pace
tate wild mustangs would be so ex-
hausted that they were easy victims
for the lassos and hobbles,
They were then corralled and "bro-
ken" for the saddle by experienced
"bronco busters",
But now, eheir usefulness being at
an end, these animals must make way
for the more useful sheep autcl cattle.
!Slowly being gushed ibacic farther
and -farther and fenced off from the
best -pasturage and water these rent-
itants of proudequine ancestors are
slowly starving to death, In several
states a reward of five dollars a head is
offered to stimulate mass extermina-
tion.
T -hese feral horses are now regard-
ed as unfit for- commercial purposes.
in summer they roam far in search of
the few trickling water holes and in
winter they paw the ice eed snow for
the scant grass and foliage, but for the
most part they roam over country
which hes little- grazing value,.
In recent years tetany animals have
been converted into marketable prod-
hrcts—canned horse Flesh which is ex-
ported to Europe and consicle'red as a
table delicacy there; the 'hides are ut-
ilized for baseballs and glares. Ani-
mals not worth shipping are taken by
government -trappers to be ,used as
bait for the coyotes and wolves.
There is something of tragedy in the
passing of the wild horse, but for
them to have fallen to such low estate
as to wa'rran't .their destruction as a
nulsa:nee is tragedy beyond reparation.
TO STAMP OUT GANGSTERS.
Paris,—;War on t'he terrorist band
"of .Stat"is'ky 11111t,4S1Crs" t•as o-iif•cial-
ly declared by the Douniergue Gov-
ernment anis week.
Prosectors in Paris and at .Dijon
were .instructed to "track down and
punish the gang believed to have
murdered Jusbge Albert Prince to
silence the most important witness ini
the Bayonne-p'aieslrop scandal in-
vestigation, Judge Prince was myster-
iottsly slain near Dijon,
Rumored: threats to loicheap tw'o
children off the late 'Serge Sitavisky,
wiVbs:e dealings are charged with re-
.sponsibility for the pawnshop col-
lapse, in au effort to intimidate the
mother caused the posting of a de-
tec,tive outside the apartment. Mean-
while, Medallic Stat isky, once the
toast of the gayest French resorts, re-
trained in, prison,