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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1931-09-03, Page 2PAGE TWO THE SEAFORTH NEWS. HURON NEWS. Bound Over to Keep the. Peace.—Alex." Powell, of Goderich, charged with as- saulting Ben Goldthorpe, pleaded guilty to !the charge in police court. in - apparently t . ,' ed•a a suit co,tast pp S The as -a' T e threats, in gesture and language rather than actual attack and he rnagietrate $ecided to hind the defendant over to keep the peace for twelve months in the stem of $200. Wanted on ,'Old Theft Charge.— Rack in. 1426 one J, B. _Biller, who Was secretary -treasurer of the school board at Halmeeville, was short in his ac- counts $500 and he had not been heard of since, the result being that the Crus - tees had to make up the shortage. Now it has been found out that Miller is at Port Arthur and Constable Gun- dry of Goderieh, left on. Wednesday to apprehend him on the old charge of the theft of $500.` ,Low Water Yields Relics.—The low water in Lake Huron this summer has 'helped expose large portions of the beach, and intereseting relics are being uncovered. Recently, several miles. south of (lode -rich, there was removed from the water, a suety -foot chain which, apparently, had lain there many years. And the members of the St. Joseph fishery have located what they are postive is the remains of a schooner that went aground about two miles south of St Joseph about sixty years ago. Part of the chain which was used on the anchor was lifted and taken up. and it is thought that •the remains of the boat is in the bottom of the take at this point. Built a Boat.—During the past seek Brueeelites have been able to view a boat which Chas. Pope Jr. has built at Stratford and which was brought to the Pope foundry at Brussels to have the engine installed and other work done. Mr. Pape was assisted by his father-in-law. \Vm. Stewart, dur- ing their spare time, and they will use the boat for holiday trips on the Georgian Bay, as this trim little ship can be carried on a trailer. Vagrant Arrested, -A man with a strong Irish accent, giving his name as i:-,hn Finn, was in. Goderieh police court charged with. Vagrancy. He was found by Provincial Officer \\'hite.idee in the cook house of the Pee-byterian ramp a: Khitail busily engaged frying e.zgs and making apple sauce. Infermatiat had been phoned in by one of the farmer_. The man claimed Brueeele as his haeme but could not give the name of a single resident of the village. This finest Orange Pekoe tea costs less than others if IP al ORANGE PEKOE BLEND 'Fresh from the gardens' neclay last at Manson, North Carol- ina, svhe•n \Liss Gertrude Rebecca Snyder, daughter of Mr. Henry Sny- der, of Goderieh, bacatne the bride of Mr. Charles Louis Kimball, sort of lir. and firs, Warren Kimball, of Manson, N.C. fir. Kimball's sister al - chased another tractor and . isbtisy getting it ready. for .use. This give's him two threshing outfits. Friends of Mrs. K. J. Sims will, be pleased to learn that she is improving after her recent operation. Mrs: Sites has been in poor health for .some so was married at the same time. lir. months and hopes are now entertained Kimball was at Goderieh the latter for her recovery. part of the week and he and his bride- Mr. and Mrs. John Hind have re - to -be and her youngest sister, Mist t turned fromtheir honeymoon trip to. Elsie. and Mr. and Mrs. Wilson, of Muskoka. The funeral of the bate Mrs. Robert Keyes, sister of Mrs. James Lawson, was held at the Exeter cemetery on Tuesday last. There was a large num- ber of relatives and friends present. Mrs, L. V. Hogarth underwent an operation for the immoral of her ton- sils and also far sinus trouble. Mrs. Hogarth has been ailing for some time. An old time resident in the person Of firs. George Vosper, is visiting with her sister, Mrs. Caleb Heywood at the home of airs. Garnet' Heywood. Mrs. Victor Kestie attd daughter are visiting her ,parents, Mr. and Mrs. F. Clarke, Crediton. Miss Dorothy '\\'alper of Wood - stack is visiting relatives in town, Mr. and lire. Oliver Davis .have re- turned to Fort Erie after spending their vacation with his parents, -lie. and Mrs. Sidney Davis. Miss Olive Wood, R.N., has return- ed to Toronto after visiting friends in town. Delhi, left on Sunday by motor from Delhi, for Manson, N.:C. Mr. Kimball is a tobacco grower at Delhi and is also ,supervisor far the Imperial To- bacco Company. Engagement.—Mr. and Mrs, W. H, Higgins of Ray -field announce the en- gagement of their elder daughter, Ruth Helen, to Mr. M. D. Smith of West Lorne, son of Mr., and Mrs. C. E. Smith of Forest. Death of Mrs, Robert Shedden.— Chrietina McKenzie, beloved wife Of Robert Shedden, Brussels, passed array after being bedfast only a week, in her 68th year. Deceased had been in failing health for some years but was uncomplaining during her sick- ness. Besides her husband, she is eur- rived by one daughter, Ars. William Little, of Brussels, and two grand- children, Miss Jessie Little and Ar- chie Henderson. Mrs, Wm. Header- sen, another daughter, passed away eine years ago. Deceased is also sur- vived by two sisters, lire. William Geddes and lir s. John Cole, both of ilelgrave, and one brother, Daniel, of Owen Sound. Deceased was born its Hallett township and was married 47 years ago this December and mored to :Morris township where they resid- ed until they moved to' Brussels 11 years ago. The funeral took place on Wednesday afternoon to Brussels ce- metery, Death of Robert McDowell.—There passed away at his home, 6th con'. of East \Vawarosh, on the banks of the Maitland River, a loved and esteemed reeident in the pereon of Robert Mc- Dowell. Mr. McDowell was born in S'ten•aick, Colchester county. Nova Scotia, on Feb. 2.7, 1845, one of a fam- ily of ten wh.)with the parents, came to East \Varratosh in 1851. In 1873 he married Charlotte E. McClinton and they cleared new ciuntrytogeth- er. They moved to Iowa where lir. McDowell farmed for a few years. Their family consists.. of four, one sin, Marvin, residing on the adjoining Tartu; three daughters, Mrs. Frank Kershaw, of Goierich; Mr,. Jdhn Cowan, on the hone farm, and Miss Gladys, of the Central public school staff, Goderieh. Wearying of the wind swept epaces they returned to Old Coterie, living in \Vaw-anosh. Godes rich and finally Blyth and East 'Wa- wanosh. :ire: McDowell predeceased her husband four years. Being of a constructive nature, -lir, McDowell took up carpentry which he fallrerned more or :eS'S all his life. The remains were interred in V eetfield cemetery. Mr. M1cD:sere,l etas a member of the \\'e ,'field United Church. Carter Reunion. — Descendants of Thomae Carter, member of a well- known English family who came to Genaela seventy-five years ago. gather- ed in Queens Park, Stratford, on Thure<tat afteraeon far their annual reuni;en and pieni . Members came. from c:in:,u. Seaforth, Londesboro. Be!grare and Helmeeviae, the maj''r- ity being tram Clint.en and Seaforth. Thirty-eight in all were present, lir. and lire, Cater came to Canada from Dever hire, England. and settled three mules west of Seaforth where the homestead still standing. They purchase! the :and which is now being worked by their only son, Norman, from the Canada C nfpany and much work had to be done in clearing- away the brush and building their home. Al- though many of the members of the Carter familyhave left the section in which they were raised the majority still reside in or around Seaiorth, Clin- ton and Londesb'aro. The officers to ° horn rite sticce's ,f this year's gath- ering may ',• attributed tvere Mrs. H. Jenkin, Catton president, and her committee c enneeeel of Norman Car- ter, arter, Seaiorth, Mrs. Stanley Carter, I ;nde 't ra Mrs. W. Jamieson, Sea- r, th and Miss Edna -Jame ,on, Clin- ton. Winners in .the various races were: Kitchc'.f contest, H. Jenkin;; eerier fit e J cyce Carter; n',ys. ender 12. t e:,ree C.trter, Lloyd Cart- er; girls, 10 to 13, Alma Carter; young girl's, Beth Shol brook, Alba Carter; men's hopping race, Hiles Carter; po- filo race, married tcbinen, 'Mer. D. Carter, 31'.. N, Nair; married men, N. Canter sirs.' slipper kicking, Beth Sleebbe.,ok, E. Jamie:;en; married wo- men'e slipper kicking contest, Mrs. A. :McCool, Mrs. D. Carter; men's race, Hiles Cater; Wren slipper conte N. Carter; bas; thre ing contest, Ivan and George Carter; Wig -bursting, Hel- en Gibbing, Alba Carter; horse :hoe throwing. ladies-, If Curry, and men. W. Jamieson; driving nails, wo- men, lies, W. Jamieson, and mea. Norman Mair; travelling gift, :Mrs, H. 'Jenkins. Mrs. Carter of Clinton wen the prize for the, oldest one on the grounds and Joyce Carter won the one for the youngest. The officers elected for next year are: President, Norman Carter; secretary, firs. H. Jenkin,; sports cones!"tee, Mrs. W. Jamie -,,n. Mrs, D. Carter, M:s. C. Carter, Mrs, M. S. Carter; social committee, Mrs, Norman Canter Mrs. Fred Shan bra, ,t, Ll,:_ 3an..eeoa, Evelyn Nott and Mrs. Nieman flair: Married in North Carolina. — A double wedding took place an Wed - THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1931 Barley, to Britain. Final anrangente its have been com- pleted by. Hon. 'Thomnas L, Kennedy, Minister of Agriculture, and Hon: G. H, Ferguson, Canadian High Corn- inissioner to Beitait, whereby Ontario wile mamake adeHitite bid to,capture the overseas barley market this year. Test shipments of eighk different grades of barley are being dispatched to England and after the market con- sumers there have, made their selec- tion a carload of the .preferred grade will be forwarded from here. It is tvtderstood that 20,000,000 bushels of batley can be taken from Ontario if conditions are satisfactory. At pre- sent a price of $1.07 per bushel is being .paid, less costs of . shipment. The British market is fairly. ;well, Fined under Tractor Law, -A law not generally kn,,wn, is for the pre- venti,n 01 c.t t uz up of reade by trac:,r cleats. and pi veli tea: these meet he an inch ant a half wide. Ear' Nott, Clinton R.R. 4, has a tractor with cleats less than the required width, and ;vas fined $5 and cost,. EXETER Gecr_e Smith. ei Kitchenee, farm- erly of Exeter, whe no -ked in the elanut1 mils of the R se Taylor Co., retie:m:1Enc:er t:vi week; age. saving been et:gaged by the new firm a: hi. ! job.He is planning to re - :neve his family hack to town as soon es he can eecure a biose. Almost ev- ery h Use in town is occupied. Mr. and Mrs. A. Spencer of Hensel: called on Mr. and Mrs. J. T. O'Brien iur.n the week and accompanied them en a visit to St. Thomas. Dr. Alex. H. Phillips, noted sur- geon of Chicago. accompanied by his ister, Mrs. James Hodgins; of Strat- i nee called en their cousins, lir. and Mrs. W. H, Johnston. The doctor .till return by way of the Soo. Mr. and Mr-. William Richman •is.ud their niece, Miss McNdaught, at the Scott Memorial Hospital, Sea. - forth, who has been seriously ill for everal weeks but is improving. • ll -tarry Trick of Crediton has 'pur- agreed now that O.A.C. No, 21 barley is the best barley that can be obtained fot malting purposes. • after being ,given permission to,speale on his own behalf, before sentence was passed. His remarks wereMade after those of the Crown Attorney and defence counsel, "I went to look far work," he con - t!trued,and met aSale tton Army man in Toronldo. He got me a job in the city driving a truck. I had to Have a license for this job and I went to the naeliamen1 b'uiledings. I was told there I would have to get recom- mendations and take them to the chief of polies, They asked ane if I had other convictions and as a result I didn'tget the required license, How- erer, 1 got a job and drove on. an op- erator's license. This 'went , on, for two years and I went with a respec- table .girl. "Ocie night we had a party at her house and I' got in an. argument with the girl's brother. There was liquor there 'an'd a fight resulted. I got hit over the head with a milk bottle and tiro others came at ane. I grabbed a knife and cut a •man in the 'face. When I saw what I had done I went to the police station around• the corner and gave myself up. I was convicted of Wounding and sentenced to a year. The year was given me'beeause I had a previous record. I had, tried hard to go straight and there was something to go straight for. I got out the day after Christmas and lived on the 'folks for some time but 'finally got a' job in a cafeteria in Toronto. There was a robbery one day and I vias picked up on suspicion. My employer found I had a record and tI was fired." •Lamontagne then told of meeting the fellow in Toronto who ,he claims was involved in the Mitchell case and who' is still at large. He had met him at the 'Ontario "reformatory at Guelph. MITCHELL BANIDIT GET 10 YEARS AND 16 LASHES Guilty of two charges of robbery while armed, Annie Lamontagne, 26 of Toronto, central figure in the thrill- ing episode in M'itc'hell onthe week end of July 26, was sentenced to ten years in Portsmouth Penitentiary with sixteen strokes of the lash when he appeared for sentence before Magis- trate -::skins its police court at Stret- iprd on Wednesday last. He also pleaded guilty to a charge of wassail- ing 3'falcotm Graham and on this count he was sentenced to ten years but they are to run concurrently. One charge of robbery while armed was dismissed. Addressing the court in a dramatic. appeat on his own behalf. Lamontagne while he did not ask for leniency, told his life story; told of how in 1929 when he left Kingston he determined to go straight and of how he was in- vited into the week end affair which was to eventually land him behind the bars for ten years. John Murray, his counsel, and Acting Crown Attor- ney L, J. Long, spoke some time. ?Lamontagne asked to speak for himself before sentence was passed. He spoke in a clear tone and held :the. court in silence while he told his story which led back to the days when as a lad his father sent him to the In- dustrial school at Toronto. "When my time expired in the pen- itentiary itt 1928 I made up my mind to go straight," declared Lamontagne AUBURN The funeral al the late Thomas. Fhtleen, which was held on August 17th, was largely attended, a fitting tribute to the esteem in which he was held by the people of West \\jauan- osh, in which township the deceased spent practically all his life. A son of the late Thomas and Bridget Finleon, he iras born seventy years ago on concession 4, West Wawa:melt about two miles east of Dungannon. The late fir. F•inieon was a very i:,duetri- ous and careful workman and early in life learned the trade of stone tnasan. which he followed tar many years. He also proved a successful farrner and in 1417 bought his late residence, the old Scrimgeour homestead about four miles northwest of Auburn. He enjoyed goad health until about six years ago, when a foot infection nec- essitated the removal of the member. Good health returned and continued until last March, when the infection appeared in the remaining foot which was amputated in June, For a time after the operation he rallied and was able to join the family board. How- ever, his condition became critical and his suffering ended when he entered into rest at midnight on Thursday: 'lir. Finieon took as his life partner. Matilda Devereaux, who survives him. He was predeceased by one son, James, who at the time of enlist- ing for overseas service was teaching echosl at Sioux Lookout. While on his last leave during his training in England the young man visited Ire- land, but on the return voyage the ship on which he was travelling was sunk in the Irish Sea by a German submarine and he was among the 200 drowned out of a total of 400 on board. The deceased is survived also by one daughter, Mary, of De:reit; one eon, Joseph, at home; four sis- ters, lire. James McConnell, 'Mrs. Joe Keeker and lire. David Gillespie al! of Buffalo, lira. J. Foran e: Kien \Wattanosh; and two brothers, Mar- tin and Patrick, of Detroit. The fun- eral service was'held in St. Augustine Church and intenment in St Augus- tine cemetery, Rev, Father Paquette officiating. DUBLIN like' Mary Delaney of Dubin (Sis- ter ilsrietta) was ening the eight postulants to receive the habit of the Ursuiine Order at an itnpressive cere- mony herd in the chapel in the \i'oth- erhouse of the Ursuline Order, "The Pities," Chatham on Thursday mor- ning. The officiating prelate for the ceremony was Very Reverend fion- sigeor A. .P. Mahoney, administrator Of the Diocese of London. Among the clergy in attendance were Rev. Greg- ory Blonde, Seaforth, and Rev. J. J. Gibbone, St. Marys. A critic says you can tell a girl's character by her clothes. tWe refuse to believe 'that the mod- ern girl has so little character. time 11 had ever handled a revolver. I was told toehold hint, up. I didn't want to do this but at was done. We had no idea of robbery until we got to Mit- chell. The, 'fellow with'tne said, Here , is a m'an !closing sap and should halve some money. o t Y 'Here Lamontagne broke his narra- tion and told of having become addict- ed to the use of a form of drug known: as paregoric, which he said he learned about while at 'Guelph. "The Crown Attorney says I didn't; care whether I killed Graham or not. I didn't even know the. gun was Load- ed. When. this fellow started to hos-. ler in the garage 1 fired a. shot on the floor, to scare him, When 'I got into the street and sates' this fellow double crossing me I nearly went crazy and my .one thought was to escape. The coupe coming after the was the only chance I got. I '.got it and told the fellows to get off, The one fellow hung on the back and I said, 'For God's sake get off there.' I fired a shod and 4 heard a groan. Somehow cer other I ended up in Waterloo or Ki;t •chetier. I didn't know Which. When I was arrested, there was no happier person than 'ate to :know that I was through with it all." Lamontagne then went back to his earlier days, telling 'how his father seemed to think alt Industrial Seleo'of was a fine 'thing for a young boy. He,/ d:eclared that what a person didn't know when he went into an industrial school he knew av'hen he came .out. He had served at lSt. John's Indus- tria'l School and escaped. He went Name and having the school 'garb on stole a suit of his brother and his fa- ther laid a charge of theft against him and he was sent to Mimics and later to iBurwash, having 'been caught in a stolen ear ,with another Chap. 'He was later convicted of •forgery, he said, forging- a cheque for $500 against his father and he was sent to Kingston. "This .fellow shorted tree a roll of bills. 'I had gone hungry and they looked good to "me. He said he won them at the races. We went to West Toronto and got in a car there. 'He said he had had the car far about two weeks. We got out on the 'highway and 'he showed me a gun. and said all I woad have to do teas the driving. One thing one learns in. a penal insti- tution is not to let anyone think you are a `quitter' or a `rat'. I didn't want him to think I was a quitter so I went an. We drove up as far as Walkerton and had purchased liquor at 'Elmira. We met Hodgson, the traffic officer, and even then I didn't know the car eras stolen. lly:partner handed me the gun, It was the first "If ,someone had told ane that night I left Toronto that I was to be charg- ed harged with shooting a man, well—we' rain over a rabbit on the road and I got out and saw the thing dead and cut up and it made me sick at my stomach. "The Croton Attorney said I didn't care if I killed a man. I wouldn't ltt%1 a snake. I nearly went crazy when I: heard a groan from that man When he fell off the back of that coupe. Camontagne's closing sentence was, "I have been the victim of circum- stances." ev ,,rte" • • Walk on the LEF of counts?' l°'`it ds • Face the Traffic This rule is important at all times, but especially so at dusk and at night. At such times, no matter how careful the driver of a car is, he may not see you until he is very near to you and it may be impos- sible for him to stop, in time to avoid inflicting serious injury. Should he swerve to avoid hitting you, though you may escape injury others may be hurt. Of the 524 fatalities on the highways of Ontario last year a large number were caused by persons walking with rather than against traffic. Why take a chance? ONTARIO DEPARTMENT of HIGHWAYS sa THE lOO,N. LEOIROLD MACAULAY, MINISTER.