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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1934-04-05, Page 7THURSDAY, APRIL 5, 1934 Tag THE SEAFORTH NEWS PAGE 'SEVEN` '3!o__en�tilt.ptt��IIU $ i__unluhI___ur-au 1 1 1 0 1. 1 1 Du / lic Me o th > 1 State . n.ts We can save you money on Bill and Charge Forms, standard sizes to fit r white or colors. ledgers, It will pay you to see our samples. Also best quality Metal Hinged Sec- tional Post Binders " and Index. uCi ii i 1 1 The Seaforth News1 1 Phone 84 1 u�un�un�un�nar�an�mt�no�ou�'nu�u Q A DOLLAR'S WORTH Clip this coupon and mail it with $1 for a six weeks' trial subscription to THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR Published by$ Ins CHRISTIAN TSecant 7 0011 00 5001007 In w you :del find the daily votegood women s and alis dren o interests s sports,�music, B well a deation, oarless 0 udy000 radia, ere and will ha Clad to welcome Into Your home e, Tearless an advocate of- peace and prohiblElon. And don't mise Snubs. Our. Doc, end the Sundial and the other Seaturel. I THE 01 0105105 8010500 M0I•t1000, Back Bay Station, Boston, Ivr000. Plesse sand rae a sex weeks' trlatsubbsoriptian. r enolose one dollar (51). Nome nlease print) p. er-•"r d�c, (Address) h (Town) (state) HISTORY OF ROY'S CHURCH. (Mitchell !Advocate) 'At Nhe. social 'half hour ,following -die evening service of Bain St. Unit- ed Church, -Mr. William Balfour gave e. most interesting history of (Roy's Clench, a short distance west of R.usseldale, of which 'he was a most active and ,valuel nnemrber for many gears, and knowing that it will he of interest to .many throughout this vi - deity whose ancestors worshipped in this 'historical old church, we 'feel :irivileged to pass it on. The original 'Roy's •Church congre- one and a quarter miles west of Rus - ration,. said the speaker in opening selda1e. That fall the walls were 'fin- •ti3 talk, was comprised of two 's'hed,but 'having no shingles, for they sreups. The 'first group came to this had to be spit out of trees and ried, eistxtet -from the Niagara Peninsula that, work was not done until the fol - zed settled on the Thames Road lowing spring. 'then the pulpit on- 'r.•tm 'dtusseldale to -Farquhar, If one ;istiing of two '2 x 4 perpendiculars aches along this road they may still upon which was :placed a square piece see eight stone houses in a stretch of for the Bible and (Psalter, and the ene'and' onc.quarter miles 'which were minister's 'bench was made of two erected by 'these people over sev- blocks with timber across, were in- o(ity years. ago and stand as 'a alone- stalled. •There was no ,floor in the o etnnt to 'their labors. These men were church for eighteen months. A few emsons and stone cutters 'by (trade. scattered 'hoards enable the mem- 'During .the winters they 'hewed the bars to step to the ground and be - forests and in the summer when they come seated -on the joists. 'In •those 'yetut to 'woke et -the Welland 'Canal days, veld Mr. !Bal'four, 'the 'front their wives and ,ch'ildren 'burnt off the seats had to be filled •first as late- 3tnd. The money these mon earned comers could not have passed any- -had to' -keep -the families both winter one sitting farther back . In chase and summer ,until they -could convert 'days the young men 'brought their stile •land into usable soil. axes to :prayer meeting to cut wood a_'`.. second group 0'f People. came for Sunday anfl prayer meetings, and •'tom: Lanark County, settling on :th-e no doubt, said the speaker, many of rarnarty, tine !between 'Fullerton_ the young women .admired the youths Boendary and !Cromarty and -on the as they were -cutting - this wood. „3taffa Iine between IF'ullarton bound- tIany •from 'Cromarty, 'Staffa and wry and lStaffa.;Here ,Mr. (Balfour told Farquhar carried 'their shoes and of the Fane Of !Lanark, County for its stockings to the church, put them on maple and sugar and said: "If foe service and removed .them to go you 'won't good syrup or sugar, just home, 'both to save thein and because go to. (these people who really, know they had to cross streams. There 13iow 'to make it" were no bridges tth-en; every half -mite These , two grotips of people, aux- two felled trees were placed side by teras as we all sh-ou']d be to hear the side ,to form 'bridges. Andrew Morg- Gospel, were 'first served 'for three an was the 'frit 'precentor in this years' by travelling ministers iro'in church, one of the first -elders, one of 'Leedom iD'uring that time the 'sacra -;.the first ,Sunday S'ch'ool superintend - meet of the Lord's Supper was twice eats, and one of the ;first teachers. Fle nic•d'at the home of lA'le anderPark,' was ass!is,ted. 'by James 'Russell, Mrs. gran'dfat'her' of our townsman, iNorin-,'Will,inin Roy and Archibald -McLean,, ati (Mart%.'During this time, too, ,two father of Mitchell's •present mayor. deaths occurred, The 'first was ca3s- Peter Me:lvil•le•was'; he ,firs.t.child !bap ed 'From a !falling tree which !claimed tlzed, and the ifirst marriage 'soletn.n-' Prise life of Andrew 'Clark,' an uncle of ed in the lellaurch Was 'between Alex - Sandy 'Cole. There ,is a spot in the ' ander (Park and 'Miss `,Kennedy. This -forest 'w'h'ic'h was afterwards.to be F ended !the services of the it ravelling 35oys. Cemetery, where nerve body was 'Buried. There, too, was interred the %iod'y,of dittle gone (Rhodes, the .dau'gh- ter of alt !English s-ettler :who 'had dost hits •wife near Thorold after a short ••,tetdou'ce there and had comae with his two :Children to this part nt the country. -Waiting in vain all day .for one of the travelling'min'istera to con- duct the service, a neighbor, 'Richard Moore, read the commitment -by ,ntooniight, !"Donald Park has told me more than once," said Mr, -Balfour, !nim for years." in I11S5'1 a meeting was"called at the home of William Roy to consider the building of a church. To this meet- ing orale -people from !Staffs, Crom- arty, Farquhar, IRusseldale and near I'Zitktom, an area over six mile square and they decided on erecting a church •was-.ord'ainsd by Prof, ,Proudfoot, father of Dr. 'Proudfoot of Monk - ton, who rode on horseback thirty - l3, e mites from London to conduct the ceremony. In about ten years the church was too ,small to serve all its congregation so some of the mem- berg withdrew to. join with others in the outlying community to form a new' church. 'Arnoegst the nafe's •rc- called were those of ,Norris, VI'btler, Kennedy, MclD'ougall and McVey from the !Staf'fa group; and (Barr, Currie, ggenyilton, .McKellar and Park frons the 'Cromarty group. They 'form- e cl the Cromarty Presbyterian Church, lak. miles this side of Cro- marty and these two c'hurc'hes were served by the same minister from that t3mme until 1925 Ayhen Oromanty .Churchct voted Co 0e n ria nil -the Pres- byterian Church. The minister call- ed a meeting of Rays -for the saute purpose and it was moved and sec- onded that no vote would "be taken to split up the' church, All but two inelnbers rose to 'favor this n'totion and no amendment was brought in, hence they united with the Method- ist Church to become a United Church of Canada. 'Another group 'from' Roys then built the Thames Road ;Church w'hic'h stood almost where the church of that name now stands, and became a sister Lethureh to Roys, being served - by the same Minister, Names of those: Road, It rkton, ".Mout Pleasant' and 11 ullarton Churches and find descend- ant after •descendant of, those people in that area of six square Miles who helped to build 'the !first !Roys' -Pres- byterian Church. Mr, .Balfour has also given- many years to the Church, serving in iRoys' Presbyterian' from .1842, to 1901 with Rev, Peter 'Scott; ,11901,11907 under Rev. Richard. Cranston; 1i907tf1ti1111 with Rev, R. !G.:McTZay :McKay; 191111.1'9'14 %vial Rev. David Ritchie. THE CALL OF SPRING Of all the four seasons of the year, spring is possibly ' the most heartily welcome. 'The cold and dreary winter taxes the vitality of both man and beast, and' life is show- ing signs o'f the strain. Spring'heralds' the end of the eternal fight between the cruel th'and of winter and the pro- tective 'hand of Nature, and, as is -al- ways SD, Nature emerges victorious. Somee of her children may have per- ished in the struggle, but the great majority have been saved under the shelter of her 'hand, and life for theta begins anew. !Ends appear on the dead -like trees as -evidence of victory; spring 'flowers tmidly show their foram through the yet cold earth, and bird migrants drift back to • the land Of their birth, The great Maker of all things living makes provision for the Protection of man and beast who 'went to this chdre'li include against the chill and storms, but -man 'Ilecknelq Mc'GiiI, ;McCurdy, ,Duncan,' lacks the perfect 'faith of the dumb Kay, Gardiner, McNichol.. creatures, To man, `seeing is believ- ISttll another group built a ehuroh mg" and w'hi'le there are no visible tet/miles this side of 'Kirkton wvhere signs of Boring . in the way of fine resided the families of Gillfi'llan, ,Ruth• weather, 'he gru'tnbles, ant! refuses to erlord 'Brawn, 'Gilmour, 'Somerville, the season's ptesence. It. is not Murray, etc. They -had removed ifroris so with Etre dumb creatures; they are Roys as families ,increased and . the content in the natural instinct that church could not serve them all, tells then( the struggle is;over, and While those in the vicinity ofi Mt, perfect 'faith set about the tasks Pleasant had worshipped with 'Roys allotted to t'heni, they never -joined nor took an active 10 the cold-blooded and slove- n creatures( such hedge - part, arc rites s c as the g r part so built their own church, still lcnowe as Mt Pleasant 'Church, Thus hog, there is comparative comfort it wastihat there were four distinct and shelter deep down under the leaves of some windfall, in a state of groups originating from ,Roys that Clearly suspended animation, when branched out into a wider field of food fails and cold wind's blow. To service, the members of the bird family who In 'lm Rev. Fatheninghain resign - cannot withstand the cold is given ed ,Broin' Roys and Rev, Peter 'Scott wisdom or 'instinct, to 'Ely at the end was ordained. 'Iu that year a congre of summer to warmer atmospheres, gational 'meeting was called to coif- they be called time1 e skier a new church resulting in the until such as ey contract being let to Alexander Park in safety. To the creatures who have of Caoutarty at' a pates of $1200, It. been destined to stay with us, Nature was of brick and was constructed ,in has gifted high blood temperauures the fall of 10711. and the following and warm coats, which defy the ole - spring, Again the congregation went merits. Her protection extends to into its new church free of debt and each and all, 'Anel so, when the dark for thirty-one years Rev. ;Scott served days are over her creatures verily rise them, '"I .nevei saw nor heard of .any up and 'call her blessed, The song of system for conducting elle business of the thrush. so full of good cheer, a church that was superior to Mr.gives a message of hope to the world Scott's method," said Mr. Babiour, at the ;first ' sign of dawn, and, in 'flute - The first Sunday of the .month was like tones, the birds sing a vesper at devoted to 'Missions, the other Stun- the c lose of day, days the collections went for the up- tAs early as February the migrants keep of the church and! mever'•during Put ill a welcome appearance. The those thirty-one years was money for first arrival will probably be the ntiseions or the minister's salary ask - than a shy little .bird, no bigger ed Inc from the pulpit, Twice yearlythan a sparrow, who likes the solitude p- of the moors 'ra4'her than the haunt's the Managing Board made a canvass of (nen, Birds in wedge-l'ike formation and .gathered the salary which was always paid six months in advance. seen flying south in the autumn are Its 1004, Rev, Cranston succeeded now -retracing their way back. They Rev. Scott and in 10017 he was i<'1 are gannets, or solar geese, heading far their breeding grounds. These lowed 'by 'Rev. R. G. McKay,birds congregate and nest in large co - In 1910 it was felt that the oke lonies, but, for some unknown reason Church had served its day and :gen- only certain isolated parts of the sea- eration, and the congregation' was board arc 'favored by their presence. canvassedto see if the subscription. One of the best known haunts of the could be raised for a new one. $6,000 gannet is the Bas; ;Rock, where thou - was subscribed, hence in the fallow•- .Funds of .them gather each year. Their ing spring the third new church for clic( is mostly 'fish and they are adepts Roys was built. the contract going to at tete "gentle art," only in their case Roger '.Bros far masonry work, and there is nothing gentle about the ape- -Wm. 'Merman of Mitchell, carpentry' raion. From a great .height the gan- Ort JuneMnd the cornerstone was stets dive down after their prey at the. laid by Giibent McIntyre, bI T., and Speaker of the House'of Commons, tate of an express train, and their 'Gilbert \IcItit re, one marksmanship leaves nothing to be a nephew of G y desired. Their nest is but a'llthy Cress of Leh first elders of the church. The of seaweed and 'fish bones, and the Sunday School corner:,tone was laid young are brought nap in a very rough by :Donald Park, another of the first aad ready manner, As ,soon: as th-e eld-ers, :Being a very ;backward fall, young are sells to move about they only the walls, roof and wiindo'ws are simply pu's'hed over the edge of were completed and the church was the cliff, and if they are fortunate to not aflfcialIy opened until February escape death against some projecting 1st, 191)3. by 'Rev. Dr, Martin' of Lon- rock at the way down, they speedily don, and .now minister of St. Thomas find themselves in the water where First United Clittrch, the only Pres they must suint orbe drowned. They Pres- byterian trines'ter going into the live thereafter on the water and are.! union who has stayed continuously in fed by the _Docents until their wings' the one church to Mr. IBalfour's are strong enough to raise thorn to knowledge, he said. Knox Church the rocks above. choir from Mitchell supplied ` the We look upon spring as the season music on this occasion. Ti was the of love and devotion among wild airs -of the congregation to .again things and with few exceptions this, enter their new church free of debt, is the-case,IBirds and animals that are oubscriptions were made 'freely and sliv'and Lfea'rfu'1 at ocher seasons will 11100 remained after all had• been allow man to approach thein and ;of - paid, ten handle them, in the breeding sea If one family would be mentioned son, .rather 'than expose their young more than another inthe history of to clanger. Perhaps one cloes not ap- Roys C'hurc'h, ,saict Mr. ,Balfour, :it is p,meciate the `bravery of -the bird who thjit of Morgan. Andrew Morgan w+as sits on her nest at the approach, of the firsit precentor ogee of the first man; with terror its her heart, and elders, superiaatenctent and Sunday faces danger, fortunately more Often School` teacher, IIe has now gone to imaginary than real, rather .than for - his rewardand his son, Jaihml( who sake her 'little brood, As a general was the next precentor, one of the rule in bird life and atinnal life the next' elders, sdperifittendento and tea- parents-bestave devoted 'attention • to chars also.. served his generation and 'their youlag.':l-low often do we see the sassed on, Nbtv his son, John, •is act- common sparrow on our !lawns, on a. ing elder -La Roys' Cthurclt, Thus the la e spring day, with two or> three three generations of the Morgan fa- chicks as big as :herself, d'an.cing'at- tinily served its the 'highest positions . tendence on: 'them In the shape of in the Church. Iln conclusion, said ,Mt. dainty morsels. 'They 'are the off - 'Balfour, may, I mention that one. can ;o into' S,taffa, Cromarty, Thames the' lowly and ,c much abused sparrow to the lordly golden eagle, spring- time is a season of love. and devotion. ,As there is originality iii human lite, so there is in bird life. 'Conven- tion is not always adhered to and you find birds that refuse to nest where one might expect. One al Che- chief culprits in this respect is the robin, which quite often has nesting ideas all its own, A year or so ago a work - Manfor an 'u a public garage went 111 Fitt 1 l l old jacket which he' had left unused' los sosise time banging on the wall and w -as surprised to 'see a bird flut- ter out from its 'fo'lds. On investiga- tion he found a robin's nest, with four eggs, in the inside pocket of the coat. Being very human the workman re- placed the jacket and issued a "hands off" warning to his nates, and the fa- milysuccessfully reared her -little mily-•atnfd•st all the noise and bustle. A robin seems conventions and builds its nest as the spirit moves it. t appears 1 old ea o Atin can, or a1 L P p 1 to make a special appeal to this bird, One would imagine that the robin tried to mieke its nest in the most ab- surd place possible. But although he perhaps (holds the "record" for this kind of thing, birds of other species are found to break away from the us- ual custom. I have ',found nests in very strange places—a 'hedge spar- row building right in the centre of a coil of wire netting; a blackbird's nest on the axle of a disused cart; and -a -blue 'tit who (had made her bonne main under the railway platform of a a lune where dozens of trains pass'deily. These are but a few examples of many and as each nesting seasoe. comes round, one meets with nests in equally strange places, No man can tell why birds nest in such strange places. It is not often with a view to safety, for in nine cases out of ten, their 'homes, not to speak of them- selves, run a grave clanger of disaster. do do e le who ran life o findinhut P WeP odd things and break away from the orthodox, and possibly the saltie idea is at the back of such action's in bird. and. animal life. Life, 'however, would' be a dull affair if conventions were strictly -adhered to. Animal life is much more reluctant to respond to the call of spring than bird life. The hedgehog, the dormouse and the frog family will not rouse themselves from their slumbers until the suit becomes warm and the earth has had time to bring 'forth food 'for their needs. Birds can find food to exist where these animals veou•ld' starve. The squirrel, which only par- tially hibernates, is a law unto him- self. >Nature has gifted him with wis- dom to store food in the atltum•n when the nut ,harvest is plentiful, and on a bright, sunny day in early spring he will rouse himself tempor- arily and scurry op _ the tree to his larder for refresh'm'ents. Hie actions are based on weather conditions, and he prefers to snooze in comfort, even on an empty 'stomach, rather than venture forth on cold . and: dull days. 'Little encouragement is neeeded to create activity in bird 'life. bright,. sunny day at the end of February, and the crows, -one of our earliest nesters, can be seen feverishly collect- ing mateiial for house building, as if they feared they overlooked their bus- iness and they let all the world know about it. Nesting in colonies, 'hig+h up in the trees, they know that their homes are immune from trespassers, and that their ceaseless chatter will not bring disastrous attention upon them. IBor-n thieves, the crows have no scruples regarding where they. procure materials 'for their nests. Uri - less 'there is one' bird on guard, others will quickly tear a neighbor's nest to pieces and use the inateriat,for them- selves. But' let another species of bird approach with evil intentions, and the whole rookery will unite in ,battle. A nest is built, not haphazard, but according to plan, just as a house' is built. 'Foundations are laid in such a way as to give strength to the whole structure and the different materials utilised are used with a purpose. One can appreciate that the nest of the rook, built high tip in tree, and ex- posed to every wind that blows would have. to be strong and well wedged amongst the branches. No two birds build their -nests alike. Some have comfort without 'tidiness, others com- bine both qualities, while others 'build, no nest at all, but lay- their eggs on ground that harmonizes, best with the colour of the eggs. The nest of the common sparrow is a warns but untidy 'bundle of grass and .feathers, while the clamed -like structure Of the long-tailed tit is -a work of art and the nest of the chaf- finch appears as if the bird had used a compass to make it absolutely round. The gathering of nest material calls for untiring' energy.' The late Earl Grey of IF'al'lodba tells in one of his books on bird life that, on taking the nest of the willow warbler 10 pieces he counted no fewer than. 11;,0'0 tiny feathers. A wild duck uses her own fealthers to line beer nest and the in- side is as comfortalble as a down quilt. Some birds, on the other hand,. use few or 110 feathers, The •blackbird' ministers 'and i•h' - their ' stead the -church was 'served Iby catechists Fraser and (Kennedy 'from • St. Marys, The great feature was that [this, church was opened tree of debt :in 1118515, when Rev. John l 'atheringham Services We Can Render fn the time of need PROTECTION is your best 'friend. 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The kingfisher it own and con- es an aline of its goes structs its nest of nothing but dried fish bones, gathered roughly together and situated in a hole in a- sandy bank, ISO, when the season of love comes •ound again the dumb creatures re- oicc and are glad la the triumph of satire over the devastating forces of vinter, The beginnkg of a new era las dawned for them, 'bringing with t the never-Pailing promise of bet- er clays ahead, frill of warmth and comfort when Nature will again ad- orn d- r . 'land with beauty and the o n the l .earth bring forth fruits abundant for vl•l need's. --'From !Spring Tinie in Scotland. Want and For'Sale Ads, 3 times. 5,Oc IHere and There' A. C, Leighton, R.B.A., presi- dent of the Government Art College at Calgary, will again hold his summer art school for selected art students from the province of Alberta at the Kana- naskia Dude Ranch near Banff, Alta. Mr ,Leighton, who is a grand nephew of the late Lord Leighton, president of the British Academy from 1878 to 1996, has been painting. for years at Banff and through the Canadian Rock- ies. He is also head of the In- stitute of Technology and Art in connection with .the University of Alberta. The Kananiskis Dude Ranch operated by Mrs. Bill Brewster, is well known through- out Canada and the United States, and is surrounded by the most magnificent of Canadian Rocky Mountain scenery. Governor Frank Murphy, of the Philippine Islands, was the guest. of Commodore R. G. Latta, of the Canadian Pacific liner Empress of Britain, at Manila on March 15. Governor Murphy inspected the liner, which is engaged on her annual Round the World cruise, and wished Commodore Latta and his ship many happy returns to Manila. Captain, Cyril D. Neroutsos, for many years' Manager of the Brit- ish ritish Columbia Coast Boat Steam- ship service of the Canadian Paci- fic • Railway, relinquishes his duties on April 1st under the pro- visions of the Company's retire- ment regulations. He is succeed- ed by Captain R. W. McMurray, formerly. Marine Superintendent at Vancouver. Three cruises to the Norwegian fjords and the Land of the Mid- night Sun will be made by the Empress of Australia this sum- mer. The first cruise, of 14 days, leaves Southampton June 29, the second from London July 14, for a 19 say trip as far north as Ham - modest, North Cape and Spits- bergen, and the third from Im- mingham, 12 days, to the fjords and Oslo and Copenhagen. Con- necting sailings from Canada for the three cruises are the Empresa of Australia from Quebec Juno 21, the Duchess of Atholl from Mont- real July 6, and the Duchess of York from Montreal July 20. springs of her 'love and she is loathe believes in a dining of dried grass to part with them. And so it i5 'frons while .the song -thrash goes one bet - Your favorite picture stars, from Greta Garbo to Betty Boop will be seen as well as heard aboard the "Duchess" liners, as well as the "Empresses" of the Canadian Pacific this summer. The Duchess of Bedford and Duchess of Mork are already equipped with talking picture machines and the Duchess of Athol] and Duchess of Richmond will have them for their first voyages this summer. The Em- press of Britain and Empress of Australia have been showing talkies for some time now. The Easter holidays, commen- cing March 29 and extending to April 3rd, offer an exceptional opportunity for travel. The Can- adian Pacific Railway is making generous fare concessions and indications are that extensive travel programmes will be carried out by Canadians and visitors to the Dominion. A large party of Holy Year pilgrims from the Maritime Prov- inces sailed from Halifax recent- ly in the Canadian Pacific liner Moftclare. On Easter Eve they will be received in audience by. the Pope. They will visit Lon- don, Paris, Milan, Assisi and other cities In if'lurope before returning to Canada at the end of April, - -