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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1932-01-21, Page 2PAGE TWO HURON NEWS. Goes to Brantford.—Rev. .F„ W. Schaffner, rector of St, Pat s Anglic- an Church, Wingham, received his of - tidal appointment last tveek from Bishop Seeger, to become, pastor of St. Judt's Anglican C•hurch, Brant- ford, .and', will take charge on Feb- ruary 1st. '14r, S'ehaffter came to Wingham six years ago front Water- loo, Que. Young Woman Charged With Assault,— The village of Fordwich is all worked up over an interesting and anizsing' police court case, which will. come before Magistrate Reid. 'M'iss Mary Byrd, in her 2.0's, athletic, born- on the prairies, a good horsewoman and musical, is charged with assault- ing William Boehler, age 50. Both live OR the sixth ,concession of How ick Township. The fracas took •place ir..a Fot'clwich hardware store on New Year's Eve. +v1iss Byrd' is aI'legeed to have led' off witha lelft to the face, followed by a kicic .to the shins. The trouble is said to have originated over the future permanent abode of a hired man, formerly' with Boehler's, now at Byrd's. One day last week seven knights of the road arrived in Wingham via the "bumper of a C.N.R. train. The .town officials didn't show much 'enthusiasm over such an increase in poettlation, so they left during the same afternoon to continue on their tour. Wed 63 Years.—liixty-;three years ago on Monday, January lith,- wed- ding bells rang out for Mr. and Mrs. Sampson Webb, 126 Wellington st., Stratford, whose marriage took place at the home ell the bride's parents at Pickering. Mr. and Mrs. Webb have resided in Bantle Dublin, Wingham and Clinton,': and for 46 years in Surat - ford. :\4r, 'Webb was engaged in the waggonmaking business. Both are in good hearth; They have one son, Chester Webb, Detroit. !A second' son died a year ago. •Accident Causes Death of Two. Two' Toronto then lost their lives in a bad motor accident at ,Elginfield last Saturday evening and two Exeter men who figured in the accident are congratulating themselves that they escaped with only minor bruises. 'Messrs. Severne and Oran 'Winer were bringieg a load of asphalt shingles to Exeter and were ap- proaching the intersection at Elgin - field. A large coupe driving west failed to stop at the intersection and made the turn south going' toward London. Owing to the slippery con- dition of the road the driver of the coupe lost control, the end of which swerved and struck the front end of the Winer truck, and the truckwas forced into a six. foot ditch, The gasoline tank ofthe coupe exploded and scattered gasoline .which caught fire and flames leaped up to a height of fifty feet. tBoth men in the coupe were thrown out onto the .pavement, one of them being badly burned. The two Toronto men in the coupe were F. A. Morton, 65, and Stuart Laurie, 25. The elder of the two was dead when assistance arrived, his clothing and body having been somewhat burned. Mr. Laurie was taken into one of the gas stations on the corner and first aid was rendered. He died later in. London. The front of the Winer' truck was badly damaged, one side being crumpled right in: How the occupants escaped serious injury is a mystery. .A Sudden Call.—The death of Hen- ry Gorier, a well-known resident of Auburn cornntunity and for the last eleven years mail carrier on R. R. 1, Auburn, occurred suddenly on Friday afternoon last while sorting the mall tate in the afternoon. Deceased was 75 years of age, was a native. of Hul- lett township and after his marriage ell years ago to Alice Sheppard, took up residence 00 a farin a mile east of Auburn. Some years later, on the death of Mr, Gevier's father they moved to the old :homestead where they remained for seventeen yearly going then to Auburn, Deceased is. survived by his wife and two sans,. William of Westfield and Herbert of Hallett; Mrs: A. C. Jackson, of God- erich, Mrs. W. B. Patterson of Aub- urn and Mrs. H.- MclBrien of Detroit are sisters; County Bar Association. -The an- nual meeting of the County Bar As- sociation was held at the law library ;at the court house on Saturday. OfEi- ,cers for the year were elected as fol - 'lows: Hon. president, Judge T. ':34. Costello; honorary 'vice -'president, R. C. Hays; president, L. E. Dancey; secretary -treasurer, R. C. _.,Hays, jr.; librarian, F. R. Darrow; library com- mittee, Judge Costello, F. Donnelly, D. R. Nairn. Teacher: "How many wars did Spain wage during the seventeenth century?".. Tommy; "Seven, sir." Teacher: "Ei1umeratl'theml" Tommy: "Odie, two, three, four, five, six, seven." THE SEARORTH NEWS. ualiy "4as no stitte Former Resident Dead in B.C. In her 26th year and after over 30 years' residence in Saenich, B:C., Mrs, M. Ferguson, one of the hardy race of Scottish pioneers who have helped to build up Canada, died on Friday. Born in 1836 in beifeshire, Scotland, the then I'sabe'lla Moore came to Can- ada with her parents when she was 12 years old. They sailed on May 19, 1348, from Glasgow, on the sailing ship, Jessie Stephens, taking seven weeks to make a tempestuous pas- sage across the Atlantic. Married, in 1556, Mr, and Mrs. Ferguson pioneer- ed at Seaforth, Ont„ unti'i 1902, when they went to Saanich. Mr. Ferguson predeceased her in 1913. Former Goderich Hotelman Dead. —John S. Bedford, a well-known cit- izen of Goderich, passed away on Fri- day night .at his home en West street. Mr. Bedford had been a sufferer from diabetes far a number of years, but his death was due to,pneumonia only being confined to bed for a day and a half. Mr. Bedford was born in Go- derich 64 years ago, the son of John Bedford and Jessie adeLean Bedford. For a number of years he sailed the great lakes, later settling in Goderich. Where . he conducted the Hotel Bed- ford in the Bedford block until his retirement. Mrs. • Beford, formerly Miss Catherine McIntosh, predeceas- ed him by treee years in December. He is survived by two sots, John, of Los Angeles, Calif., and Kenneth, at home, and by one daughter, Mrs. H. G. Allard and a sister, Mrs, William Green, both of Los Angeles. John Bedford and Mr. Allard left Los An- geles on Friday in order to be pres- ent at the funeral. Critically Ill.—Robert S. Winter, well known drover of Huron County, is critically ill at his home in Goder- kb. Miss Jean Winter, B.A., of Lon- don, was called home owing to her father's serious illness. Ashfield Barn Burned.—iAbout six o'clock on Wednesday evening fire d'estroyed the smaller of two barns on the farm of Ed. Schmidt, conces- sign 10, Township of Aelefield. It is thought the upsetting of a lantern caused the fire. The big barn was saved by heroic efforts of the neigh - hors who tore the ends out of the barn and with a plentiful supply of water and favorable wind they ,prev- ented the fire from spreading. Mr. Livens Appointed.—The board of managers of Knox Presbyterian Church,- Goderich, has engaged as or- ganist and musical director, Mr. Har- ry Livens, late of Main street United. Church, Mitchell, Mr. Livens su'c ceeds Mr. W. B. Rothwell, who ac- cepted a position in Brantford. Improving Dairy Herd.—Mr. Hugh, Hill of • Co'iborne township, breeder of purebred Guernsey dairy cattle, recently sold to, J. Hugill & Sons, o:f Seaforth, a purebred bull to head his herd. Mr. Hugill intends to build up a herd of Guernsey cows. Mr, H. Weymouth also has purchased a Guernsey herd sire from Mr. Hill.— Goderich Signal. Foxes on the ranches` in Prince Edward :Islaied'are getting Vitamine "d" in their diet through the 'medium f fish. o Twice a week su - n dried her- ring are .fed to the foxes on the ranches, This new item on the menu' was first tried s couple of years ago and the foxes thrived on, it; now they get it twice 'weekly. The owners of the fox ranches in Prince Edward Island pay fisherman $8 per hundred- weight for the herring. BERMUDA REMAINtS AUTOLESS. (Hypersensitive pedestrians who vis- it, or hope some day to visit Ber- muda, rejoice in an item of news from the ,lovely tropical colony, the oddest of all British Colonies, Bermuda leas just cotrupleted a finerailway to carry passengers back and forth acro''ss its lair r lomat n but Bermuda ,will nolt weaken •in its determination to bar automobiles from+ desecrating the charms of nature, The 'favi'• •staiidsr Horses and carriages and, bicycles 'and human feet remain the only forms of transportation in Bermuda, apart;froyn the silent, dmooth and smokeless rail- way, HURON 'CENTENARIAN Brief mention was made. in The News last week of Mr. Thomas' Sage of Wroxeter; brother of Mrs. McCuI la of Seaforth, iyho celebrated. his 100th birthday last week, and a more extended congra'tulation is given be- low: The grand old man' of Hawick township, Thomas Sage, celebrated' his 100th ,birthday on Tuesday, Janu- ary '12th, at the home of Mrs. B. Wade with whom he had resided for the past 'four years. Despite the fat that his sight is impaired the general health of the centenarian •has been good up to about a week ago. At the age , of 94 he ploughed between sixty and seventy acres of land for D. D. Sanderson, East Walwanosle and he still feels he could plough as well as many a younger man; if his eyesight was good. Farmer, stone mason, stage coach driver, bushman, this 'veteran of the Dominion is a real pioneer. Receiv- ing his education in the school' of ex- perience he was of the type that could turn his hand to anything. He had his adversities as did every pio- neer ioneer of this country, but he worked and worked hard and provided a good. livelihood for his family. iTh'onas Sage was born in Smith township, Peterborough 'County, on January 12th, 1332, and :came to How - ick township during the time of the Fenian Raids by the one and only railway in these parts at the time. With his wife and family he loaded their scant belongings in the train at Port Hope and came by train as far as 'Clinton. From there his wife and family went by stage to 1Wingham which at that time boasted nothing more than an old hotel. Mr, Sage fol- lowed on a wagon 'bringing along the household effects, ']their arrival in Huron County be- ing in the spring df the year, 'Mr. Sage took to farming, workinga stretch ofland near , Biuevale-' on shares. Bluevale in those days e -as a much larger place than it is to -day. He sowed' wheat and harvested.' a splendid crop as he also did the se- cond year. The year following he moved to Proton where he rented a farm but awing to the wet weather and frost his crops 'were a failure and he was forced to spend all his meagre savings. ffn addition to farming Mr. Sage was proficient as a stone mason and much Of the stone work in this dis- trict was fashioned by him. Mr. Sage recalled when b one of a, family. of twelve, his father wanted' him to get an education: In this 'the youth did not agree and, pos- sessed of strength and vigor, he ent- ered the bush and became a lumber - inane His jab was "swamping tim- ber” with the aid of oxen. For' this he received between $35 and $40 per month. Much of the timber he took out was used for masts on lake ves- sels. He also recalled how" the com- pany he marked for brought hien in from the Province of Quebec but , as a oy, proudly emphasized the fact that these men did not get the wages that were paid to the native's of Peter- born county. ISpeakin'g o'f the great amount of snow* during the winters of his 'early years in this district, Mr. Sage says ,he cat reineniber'iu March when the snow was four feet deep and covered, with . a crust 'th'at would bear a team of horses. The Jamiary thaw . in those days lasted . a'bont half a day. The centenarian much ,prefers : a real cold frosty winter to the type that this district has experienced during the last couple of years. (Briefly Mr. Sage recalled the maple syrup making in ,the days of bong ago whets the sap was caught in wooden trough's hewn from the trunks of maple trees. Speaking of the prices of farm pro - matinee when he was a youth Mr. Sage related' 'th'at the farmer in those days killed his hogs, packed them in barrels and sold thein to the bush- man at from $12 to $20 a barrel, that, is if the pork was free from beechnut taste. .After leaving Proton Mr. Sage and family moved to Wroxeter where he bought his home and for a number of years drove the stage from there to Walkerton by way df Belmore and Formosa, quite often making the trip alone and many timers withonly one passenger. He drove a, team of mules. ',Married at the age of 25, Mr. Sage was bereft of his wife in 1924. Seven members of his family are„dead, three dying df diptheria contracted from a man to whom they gave a night's lodging. 'T'here are three sons' liv- ing. 'Although he gets about very little in the winter, Mr, Sage is accustomed to 'taking long walks in the summer. Speaking of travellfhg he has been to visit his son Charles in Michigan. He has also been in Seattle, Wash„ where he spent three months with another son, Robert, and while tfiere was engaged as a night watchman in a factory,' He has also taken trips to Manitoba on harvest excursions. Mr. Sage told how he learned to plough between the stumps and how he oftets turned out piles Of beechnuts that had been' carried there by the squirrels for their wiulter store. Besides his three sons, Charles of MLchiigan, Robert of Saiowitomish, Wash:, and Bent of near Wroxeter, he has one sister, Mrs. McCulla, of Seaforth. Mr. Sage comes of a fam- ily of long=livers, his mother living to the age of 99 years. LOGAN. iLogan Township _Council 'niet at I1 o'clock -Monday, Jan. 11, for its in- augural session. The declarations of office were made and filed. All mem- bers were present and the Reeve pre- sided. Appointment of oeficials and salaries are as follows: J. A. Rudolph clerk $450; T. M. Linton $1V,e; John Dwyer, assessor $110; William Vock Reduced Prices Owing to the depression of times, I have ,reduced my prices to the following: 75c Finger Waves for 50c. M'arcels at 25c and 50c. 1.50 Facials for1,00, 2.00 Masks and iPacks at $1:50. $ that give a Natural Glint to the hair at 35c. for Dandruff and Falling Hair, $1.00 per treatment or 6 for $5,00, Reyam treatments for. Baldness, Oily, Dry, Itching Scalp. Manicuring, Eyebrow Flocking, Etc. Hours'1 to 6.p.in. everyday. Special attention to morn'in'g appointments; also Tuesday, Thurs- day or Saturday evenings by appointments. Thurs 50c Rinses Try, my Oi;1 Rubs Oonsult about Breaking Hair or Also INA GRAY at S. C. PULLIfAN Better Shop—.pihone 125. ar House'lPbone 229. collectbr` 512,0; George Gell earetal e hall $20; Fred Rock sanitary inspect or fees 52.70and mileage, disinfec tion of house 5450, ivf,10'11. Dr Smith, 5345; fees members 13.10,51 $2.70 each sitting and ' mileage; 3+ Rook, school attendance officer, 522. 50; J, 'Roger, engineer, 70c per itou and mileage; road•foremen 22 cent per hour, labor 29 cents per hour man ' and team 45 cents per hour Road foremen appointed,, C. Golluitz G. Thompson, G. J. Eickineier, H. L Diegel, William IDun+gey, A. Wolife j. Drummond, J H. /Ritz, T. Cleary D. ,Fischer, J. C. ICostello, j. Par rott, H. Engler, G, Renitick, W. I'll man, C. Horn, J. Regan, +C. Roiph E. Prueter, M. Elliott, W. IWard, J L. neiller, L. Wolfe, J. Herbert boundary E, and L., J, :Flynn;"Johi Mogk, weed inspector, '35 .cents at hour; William Bach, drainage in specter, 35 cents an hour; "sheep val uators, Dan DdConrsey, Edwar Fuller, Benson Leake, 'Bryan 'Bar ker, fees $2;70; 'fence viewers ap pointed; J. J. Id'agarty, William A McKenzie and' Otto Bauer, ' fee 52.170; pound keepers•, J. Watt, Harr Lawrence, W. Eiseler, T. Hannon C. Horn, ID. Schneider, 'D, Hinz, P Nicholson, F. Fischer, P. Campbell W. G. M.dPh•ers+on, A. Stewart an Harry Ghaffe, tees as per' -bylaw's • a township; inspector township publi hall, (J. A. Rudolph, fees nil; fees 'o' members of council, $4:50 per day auditors, W. Leake and H. W. ,eeiegel fees $30 each; solicitor, MdPhersot and M'akins; George Geil, road super intendent, fees 35c an hour and mile age. The auditors' report was re ceived• and adopted, showing assets over liabilities $1,432.99. Bylaw No 145 was read and passed, contfirmin the appointment of officials and fixity their fees. All officials appointed are require to make declaration of office and ar asked to do so within' the time set by statute from date Of receiving notic af. appointment. Byl'awlNoo. 149 con firrniug the, appointment'of road sup erintendettt was read and passed. Th Mitchell Advocate was appointed t do township printing for 1932. By law No. 150 was read and passed Road estimates for 1932 are $12,000 Bylaw 'No. 151 was read and passed empowering the reeve and treasure to borrow as required for current ex pen'ditures up to 515,000. The` cleri was instructed to order ,twelve capie af. the.Municipal World for township officials, George Geii arid' George Ahrens were appointed delegates to the Good Roads Convention. A reso- lution was passed authorizing the reeve and clerk to sign and submit to the minister of public highways re- questing that the statutory grant on the sum expended on township roads, $10,766115, be paid. A resolution was passed as follows: That this council having heard John Be'nnewies and John Murray re complaint that the clerk did trot retain the Dublin tele- phone service, .be it resolved that this council will contribute hall the cast of Bell and 'Dublin service upon the condition that ,both the Bell and IDub- lin companies forthwith publish all Logan Tdwn'ship subscribers in their telephone directories and continue to do so, the clerk to contribute half the •cost, 'Miscellaneous expenditures paid totalled' $97!83. Roads expendi- ture, general account, $8.75; bound- ary of Fullerton $1.95, tota'1 510.70. Council them adjourned to meet on Feb. 21 51 10 o'clock a.m.—J., A. Ru dolph, clerk. FORMER STAINiLEY MEN HAVE NARROW ESCAPE August and Louis Wild, former residents of Stanley township recently had an experience in their place, o'f business. at Nekoma, North Dakota, Which might have turned out, touch. more seriously than it did. The C'av- a'lier County Republican, published at Langdon, NMD., tells the story in its. issue of December 31st: If the condition of August Wild of i4''ekoma continues to improve and he tegains his health, it seems that en affair which started out to be a rob- bery, and alinos,t ended in a murder, will be nothing' mare than au un - ,pleasant though an exciting memory for the Nekoma man and his brother, Louis Wild, hardware merchant. According to reports, the hardware plan was working in the office at the back of his store and his brother was sitting in the semi -darkness near the middle of the building Sunday even- ing at about 6 o'clock when a 'large sedan, thou'gite to be :a 1932 model, Buick, drole up ill front of the busi- ness place and three mien went from the car into the store. They walked toward thebackofthe store, seem- ingly not noticing t o tim g Y g t ne thou sitting in the middle of the building. ,Two of the intruders hung back` while the third went toward the office and ask- ed' if they could, purchase ga+s4ti'tte. Louis 'Wild .got up, went to the coun- ter and, as he neared the second man, was 'ordered to .hold his hands up, Sotne command was uttered con- cerning the safe and Mr. Wild turned L T,H7JI uDAY, JANUARY 21, 1932. to go and open the safe; E'videutly he,' had misunderstood the remark and was riot wanted to move, because the, ratan dearest him struck him upon the back of the head with a revolver butt, rendering him unconscious. About that time the older man, Au- gust Wilda arose and moved toward a door on the semen side of the sltore. One of the robbers shouted "Get him!" and another of the trio fired, the bullet entering 'Wild's breast, just to the left olf his heart. Authorities' believe the hold-up men to have been amateurs because they allowed the wounded mean to leave the building and go to his rooms above the store. while they hurried away without bur- glarizing the place. When the unconscious man recov- ered he Looked for his brother, found hint upstairs, gave him temporary re- lief, reported the affair and $11111'01'0 11 - ed medical aid, 'While only three Wren were seen during the Nekoni+a raid, six men were in the car when it .stopped at a Brockett service stardomhad the car j' taiuue filled with gasoline, and drove away when the station attendant went inside 'for oil. The attendant df a station in Larimore reports that there were four tall and two shorter then in the car when it stopped.., at his station, held nice up, took five dollars from him, :fifteen dollars from the station cash register and firearms and ammunition froni the station office. Sheriff Ed. Hough of Grand Forks county was waiting for the big black car at the north edge of Grand Forks. He chased it through the city and south as far as Thounpson, where his tire chain broke and wrapped around the axle of his car, forlcing him to Step. He resumed the cha'se, but lost the trail after Hillsboro officials re- ported seeing the car, and being un- able to stop it. r 'Officials are of the belief that the party might be the same that terror- ized 'Pine City, Minn., Tuesday after- noon. That gang entered the city early in the morning, took a man pri- soner, slugged .a constables. got other people out of bed, forced them to op- en their stores, surrender money and other valuables, locked the people in one of the homes and fled. Only six 1 invaders were counted by the vi:otirnseae - though one of the hold-up men com- mented that there were nine in the gang. , WWiNTER2NG DIAI1RY CATTLE. There is no doubt that big b'arn's generally snake a farmer feel that. his - lot in this world is as goad as that of any other member of society. On the other hand, there is no getting out of the .factthat these imposing structures are costly propositions when interest, insurance,"and depreciation are ;taken into consideration. They certainly do bring up the cost of barn room for each accupent. iDitring the last 16 years, '10 bulls and more than .100 helloes 'have been wintered in single boarded °'peri' front' sheds at the .Cap Rouge Station and only a !few had to be brought in under exceptional circumstances when suffering irotn injury. IAnnon'gs't the ' wfi tot were future champion producers 11 of the breed; in the 2, 3, and 4 year, p and mature classes, and it is thought that exercise and pure air gave them the vitality and ruggedness necessary- for ecessaryfor making high 'records. 'The herd is accredited 's'ince 1912 and has passed. +four consecutive tests ,for abortion without a single reactor, which shows that it is at least as well to prevent diseases with pure air as to try to cure thein. It should however be understood that no cow in milk, or weak calf, shoul'd be flirts wintered; that calves not six months old at the beginning of •November had better be kept in; that stock should be turned out before September to gradually get -•used -to cold; that no hale etarveei cuff which .has been tormented by 'flies all sum- mer should be 'win'tered outside; also that sheds sh'ould' 'front .,,sot>;th and have lio cracks' to create drafts.—G. A. Langelier, Superintendent, Domin- ion Experimental Station, 'Cap Rouge, Que. Cleaning Out Couch The eradication of couch grass, otherwise 'known as quack, twitch or scutch grass, is ane of the hardest problems with which the farmer has to deal. Few people realize the enor- mous quantity of couch' grass roats which exist in infested sail, Tests con- ducted by the Central Experimental Farm at Ottawa show weight's aE roots 'ranging frotn 1,511 ,to 69.97 lbs, to the acre•—as much as a heavy crop of hay. :No wonder it is hard to clean out when it spreads by roots as well as seed. Thoroughly cleaning out the loot is the ,one effective way of . get- tiing rid of cou'c'h. IIn small areas by shallow plowing and . working thoroughly with• the cultivator to keep the roots turned up 'to the sun. long en'ough for them eta "kill," Only as large an area las can be thorough- ly cleaned up at one bim'e should be undertaken, as hallfewy measures are only lost time and effort, et us 'Move the names -of your visitors