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HURON NEWS.
Help Destitute Family. -.On Sunday
-last the Exeter braitich ,of the Cana;
dian Legion made an appeal through
the churches of Exeter for furniture
and supplies .for a family in distress in
the township of Harbert. The family"
moved to that township last summer
from Detroit. Besides the ;parents,
there are three children, aged 14, 7
Years, ' and one 15 months, who were
found to be in absolutely destitute cir-
cumstances. The appeal met with a
most gracious response and a quan-
tity of household effects and neces-
sities were left at the Hogarth Baby
Chick (Hatchery on Monday. Monday
evening the veterans were able to load
up a truck with one complete bed-
room suite, together with two beds,
springs and mattresses. There was
a large supply of co'naforters, quilts,
blankets and sheets, stove and pipes,
rocking chairs, a number of bags of
potatoes, apples and coal, canned fruit,
groceries, clothing and, other provis-
ions. These' were taken to the home
where they were 'very gratefully re-
ceived. The father of the family was
a war veteran, having served through-
out the four years of the war.
Bat in Church.—,An added attrac-
tion at the evening service at the
lames 'Street United Church on Sun-
day was the presence of a bat whose
acrobatic stunts in flying, diving and
circling the auditorium caused both
amusement and consternation. The
soothing strains of the first hymn
caused the bat to settle down and ev-
idently enjoy the remaining part of
the esrvice. The large pipes of the
organ seem to be the breeding ground
for these uncanny specimens of flying
mammals.—Exeter Times-A'dricate.
Died in London.—'Lieut.-Col. Tho-
mas J. -Murphy, London barrister, ed-
ucationist and officer in the 'militia,
died unexpectedly at his home 23$
Hyman street, London, in his '79th
year. Although he had not been in
the best of health and for the last 'two
months had been taking a rest cure,
his condition was not considered crit-
ical. Both in times of peace and war
the career of Mr. Murphy had been'
one of conspicuous service to his city
and his county. Barrister-at-la'w by
profession, he gained distinction in
his Iife's work when he was made
King's Counsel, He also won military
honors in recognition of his war ser-
vice. His public interest also carried
him Into years of service as alderman.
member of the public library hoard
and member.o'f the court of revision
He was born in the Township of Hib-
bert. On the organization of the
Mothers' n
Allowance ce Commission he
was appointed one of the provincial
commissioners by the Drury govern-
ment and was engaged in this work
until his recent illness, He is sur-
vived by his widow and the following
children: Major Albert H. Murphy.
L'ond'on; C. J."Murphy, Detroit; Fer-
gus E. Murphy, London; Dr. Eugene
J. Murphy, Detroit; Miss Norma A.
Murphy and Miss Mary Murphy of
Detroit; Mrs. Paul de Ma'rky of Mon-
treal, apd Miss' Bernadette Murphy of
London. The . funeral was held from
his home on Friday. Requiem high
mass was sung. in 'St. Peter's Cathed-
raf and interment in St. Peter's Cem-
etery, London.
Penny Bank.—The total amount on
deposit under the penny bank system
at Seaforth at the .end of December,
W31 was $1;592,7. . Comparative fig-
ures of a year ago: $1,5,21.62. School
savings was once looked upon as a
by-p'roduct,of our educational system.
or as an accessory added to an 'al-
ready completed machine. The close
relation existing between wise money
management an the one hand, and
success and happiness on the other
has been demonstrated to people in
all walks of life during thepast two
years. The function of the school is
to lay the foundation for usefulness,
success, health and happiness for its
pupils in years to come. The children
in Ontario have over $1,3.00;000 on
doposit. About 39% of the children
in 474 schools make weekly deposits,
while for the months of November
and December 1931 there were 23
schools having banking records of
N°Jo or 'over,
Zurich Pioneer Gone. -A wellres-
pected resident of Zurich for a:great
inesay years passed away last week in
Victoria 11-lospita! at London in the
person of Mr. William H. Uttley. On
the previous Sunday he was rushed
to the .hospital al be operated on for
cancer of the tbowels,°,. and after the
operation he gradually grew weaker
rill Saturday, February 6th he passed
away aged 713 years. He was born in
Waterloo and came to This district 60
years ago and was an employee of the
Zurich milli"for over fifty years, dur-
ing which <time he was fireman of the
m'll and electric plaint till Hydro
sante in 1916. Surviving him are his
widow, one brother, John of ,Waterio,'
and •bis children, as folllows: Joseph
1Jlttley of Ailsa Craig; ,Fflrank, Herbert,
Milford and Ralph of Zurich; Mrs.
Birk, of Mitchell; Miis's Lucy, of Tor-
p ; Mrs. Clarence Wilds and Mrs.
THE SEAFORTH NEWS.
!Uality ;has
ono substitute
fres roin t`ie yardens"
Jos, Wilds of Stephen. The funeral
took place from the 'family home at
Zurich, to the St. IBonit"ace B.C.
Church for service and interment.
Has Placer Mine in B.C.-+An inter-
esting visitor to Goderich last week;
says the Star, is G. A. Brown, of Vic-
toria, B.IC., ..a Goderich buy, who.
scent' last summer in the Cassiar dis-
trict of Northern British Columbia,:
close to the Yukon boundary. Mr.
Brawn, with two business associates,
is interested in a placer gold mining
property which they have re -located
and this summer a hydraulic" plant
wilt be in'sta'lled. Mr. Brown is in
Goderich an a visit to his parents,.
Mr. and Mrs. IYavid Brown. Mr.
Brown has an interesting story to tell.
His property is reached via the Skag-
way water route, in from NWrangel
Island, Alastw+ka, up' the Stikine river
by boat to Telepgraph creek, 72 miles
by automobile over a Government
road to Dease, across Dease Lake and
past the old mining camps of Lake-
ton and Porter's Hill, thence up the
winding Dease river to MctDeane's
Creek, where the property is located.
It is 1,100 miles from Victoria. Mr.
Frown brought some interesting spe-
cimens of gold .with him.
Retires' After Sixty Years—A uni-
que record belongs to Mr. Robert
Clark of Goderich, veteran ice dealer,
who announces his retirement from
business. Mr. Clark twenty -Ave
when he started up the ice business
sixty years ago in Goderich,
Lightning Burns Bluevale Barn.—
An electric storm in the Bduevale
section on Thursday morning caused
the destruction of a barn belonging
to Richard Johnston on the Laughlin
Fraser place, .concession 1, Morris
township. The barn was struck and
completely burned. The loss is quite
heavy. This is the first time in the
memory of the oldest inhabitants of
such an occurrence erre iii February.
NoSala Salaries $ nes in Thos Days.--
These Day .
While Iooking through some old
papers in a dresser drawer recently,
Mfr. Becker found a receipt for taxes
made out in favor of W. Woodcock
and signed by A. S. Doan, collector.
The little document (it measures 114
by 43 inches, paper was evidently
not too plentiful in those far off days)
is dated Jan. 31st, 1832. Another odd
thing about thisis the amount of.
taxes, $5,17. We do not know what
property Mr. Woodcock may have
had but this wasfull of taxes for
1858," so even if they charged him a
five per cent. premium, which was
probably unknown in those days, it
would not have amounted to much,
The smallest assessment in Clinton
last year was on a vacant lot, the taxes
being $2.50, the largest.tndividual levy
being that on the piano factory,
$1,092. This is on one property, an-
other taxpayer in town, Mayor 'Coop-
er, pal's more taxes, but on several
properties --Clinton News -Record:
Improving Live Stock
Addressing a banquet of 600 live
stock breeders and exhibitors tender-
ed by the C.1N.E. directors, Hon. Tho-
mas L. I{ennedy and Hon. Robert
Weir offered the utmost assistance of
their departments to raise standards
and obtain cheaper feed,urged qual-
ity breeding and stated that the star
lets were open for high-class stock in
unifatan quality. Hon, 3{r. Kennedy
declared: 'We are going to try to get
a large ,export market by producing
beef of a better quality than in any
country of, the world, and no tariff
walls or exchanges will be able to
keep it out di the United States or the
export markets of the world. Every
day buyers from the United States
are aearchitig the Eastern.` part of the
province for purebred 'T.,13. tested art -
finals and the only reason Canada
does not send more across the border
is that there are not enough pure
breds." The Minister also paid tri-
bute to the Junior Farmers' teams
and clubs which encouraged the
young farmers to .appreciate their
opportunities .and which taught thetn
all the knowledge that had been ob-
tained for the improvement'af the in
descry. He said: "These young farm-
ers will improve the live stock of Can-
ada to •su'eh a degree that the ,coun-
tries of the world wilt come to us, We
shall not have to go to Denmark or
any other country for our purebred
bacon sires, for there will be no place
ie the world where' we can get the
stock we will have in Canada."
McKillon. Resident Is Native
McKillop
of Historic English County
The present winter in ,Ontario is
much like ordinary winter weather in
Southern 'England, according to Mr.
William 'Smith of McKillop, a native
of one of the historic shires of old
England, having been born in -Som-
erset on the borders of Devon and
near the city of Taunton, the county
seat, which figured 'so Largely in the
Monmouth disturbances of 250 years
ago and described in detail by Conan
Doyle in his well-known novel, "Mi-
cah Clark.
After coming to manhood Mr.
Smith learned the railway business
and went to Southern 'Wales to work
for the Great Western Railwayy at
Cardiff, where he lived for three
years.
At that time the Welsh people were
just teaching the ,English language to
their children in the schools and if
one wished to talk to the older
people it was necessary to get a child
to act as interpreter. Mr. Smith says
while he understood the Wefsh dia-
lect, he could not speak the peculiar
words fluently- and his attempts to
talk in Welsh met with the laughter
generally accorded strangers who at-
tempted to produce the sneeze -like
sounds.
The countryside about Cardiff is
mountainous .suith very little farming.
At that time small sheep to some .ee
tent were raised for the London mar-
ket.
Mr. Smith received Word from his
brother at Walton that he had pur-
chased a farm for him and the next
year he and his wife and three child-
ren sailed from Liverpool for Canada.
After paying his fare Mr. ,Smith di5-
c ered that hat the authorities were pro-
viding practically free passage for set-
tlers. When he reached Toronto he
drew this to the attention of the of-
ficials, but found that he could not
have the passage money refunded.
However, they kindly -provided him t
and his family with free tickets from
Toronto to-Seaforth. He arrived here
during a heavy downpour of rain, ac-
companied by severe thunder and
lightning •which did not exactly serve
as a welcome to his new hone: But
the neat clay the weather cleared and
they drove to Walton.
That was more than fori'yfive years
ago -and Mr. 'Smith 'says that, to hiin,
Seaforth has not changed radically
from the first` time he saw it. He
farmed in McKillop and later' retired
to IHarpurhey and the past few years
has resided with Mr. and Mrs. Archie
Kerr, the latter being his daughter.
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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1932.
and language.
Disgraceful as this manifesto was
to those who put it forth, it was not
unskilfully, framed for the purpose of
stimulating 'the passions of the vul-
gar. The great mass of the popula-
tion of this district adored Monmouth.
They came to his standard ill crowds
and !before he shad been on English'
soil twenty-four hours he was at the
head of fifteen hundred men.
But a force was collecting at 13sid-
port To oppose the insurgents.
While the Parliament was devising
sharp laws against Monmouth and
his partisans, he found, at Taunton a
reception which might well encour-
age him to hope that his euterprase
would have prosperous issue. Taun-
ton, like most other towns in the
south of England, was, in that age,
more important thee at present,
Those towns have not indeed dec'lin-
ed, On the contrary, they are„ with
very few exceptions larger and richer,
better built and better pecipled, than
in the seventeenth century. Rut,
Though they have positively advanced,
they have relatively gone back. They
have been far outstripped in wealth
and ,population by the great manufac-
turing and .commercial cities of the
north. When Monmouth marched in-
to Taunton it was alt em'inently pros-
perous place. Its markets were plen-
tifully supplied. Ii was a celebrated
seat of the"'wool'Ien manufacture. The
people boasted that they lived in a
land flowing ;with milk and honey.
Nor was:this language held only by
partial natives; for every stranger
who climbed the graceful tower of St.
Mary :Magdalene owned that he saw
beneath him the most fertile of',Eng-
lish valleys. Tt was a couatry " rich
with orchards and green pastures,
among which were scattered in gay
abundance, manor houses; cottages,
and village spires, The toiwlt had
long leaned towards Presbyterian
divinity and Whig polities. In the
great civil war Taunton had, through
all vicissitudes, adhered ..tb the Par-
liament, had. been twice :closely be-
sieged by .Goring, and had been twice
defended with heroic valour by Ro-
bert Blake. Whole streets had been
burned down by the mortars and gre-
nades of the Cavaliers. [Food had been
so scarce that the ,resolute governor
had announced his intention of put-
ting the garrison on rations of horse
flesh. gut the spirit of the town had
never been subdued either by fire or
by hunger.
The Restoration - had produced no
effect on the temper of the Taunton
men. They had stilt continued to cel-
ebrate the anniversary of the happy
t day on which the siege laid to their
town by the royal army had been
raised; and their stubborn attach-
ment to the Old cause had excited so
much fear and resentment at 'White -
half that, by a -royal order, their moat
had been filled up, and their wall de-
molished to the foundation.
Taunton, Sedgemoor .and 'Somerset-
shire are names which are prominent
in histories of the !Monmouth upris-
ing and are excellently described' by
Th'omas Macaulay in his writings.
'As 'Monmouth's ship passed by the
cliffs af Dorsetshire, it was thought
desirable to send a boat do the beach
with one of the refugees named Tho-
mas Dare. This man, though of low
mind, and manners, had great influ-
ence at Taunton. IHe was directed to
hasten thither across the country and
apprise his friends that Monmouth
would soon be on English ground.
'On the morning of the eleventh of
June his ship, the Helderenbergh,'
accompanied by two smaller vessels,
appeared off the port of Lynne,
As soon as it was known under
what leader and for what purpose the
expedition came, the little town was in
an uproar. The ensign of the ad-
venturers, a blue flag, was set up in
the market place. the military stores
were deposited in the town hall; and
a e Declaration o setting r
g fo th the ob-
jects of the expedition was read.
This declaration was not a grave
manifesto such as ought to be put
forth by a leader drawing the sward
for a great public cause, but a libel of
he lowest class, both in sentiment
The children or the melt Who, forty
years- before, had Manned the ram-
parts of ITssttnioe against the R,oyal-
ists, now welcomed 'Monmouth with
transports of joy and. affection. Every
door and window wit& adorned by
wrcatlps of flowers. 12o man appeared -"
in the streets without weaning is his
hat a green hough, the badge of the
popular cause; -Damsel's of the best
families in the toWi wove colours for
the insurgents, One flag in particular
Was embroidered with emblems of
royal dignity and offered to Mon -
Mouth by a train of young girls.. He
received the gift with the winning
courtesy which disitinguished him.
On the ,morn'ing .of the twentieth. of
June Monmoisth was proclaimed King;
in the market place of 'Taunton. His
foilo'wers repeated his new title with
affectionate detigth, 'Bu1, as some
confusion, night have ,eri'sen if he had
`been called King James the Second,
they conentoiily used the strange ap-
pellation of King Moanmoeth; and by
iitis,itanretheir unhappy favorite was
often .mentioned' in ' the western
counties.
On the day following that on which
Monmouth had assumed the regal title
he marched from Taunton to
Bridgewater. " His Own spirits, it was
retnarlced, were not 'high. He had too
readily believed that, as .soon as he
had landed, there would be a rising.
in the capital. But though.. advices
came down to him that many thou-
sands of the .citizens had .been entailed
as volunteers for the good cause, no-
thing was done. The plain' truth was
that, the agitators who had urged him
to invade (England, who had promised
to rise .on the first signal, and who had
perhaps imagined, while the danger
wag remote, that they should have the
courage to . keep their promise, lost
heart whenthe critical time drew
near.
The 'acclamations of thedevoted
thousands who surrounded him wher-
ever he tutned (could not dispel the'':
gloom which, sate on his brow. Those
who had seed him during his progress
through So'mersetshire five years be-
fore could not now obsepve without
pity the traces :of distress and anxiety
on those soft and pleasing features
which ,had won so many hearts..
,Bridgewater wee one of the few
towns which still had some Whig
magistrates. The Mayor and ,Alder-
men •came in their robes to welcome
the Duke, walked before hint in pro-
cession to the high cross, and there
proclaimed hila King. His :troops
found excellent quarters and were
furnished with necessaries at littleor
no cost by the people af the town and
neighborhood. He took up his resi-
deuce in the Castlebuilding
a which
had beenhonoured toured by several' royal
visits. In the Castle Field his :army
was encamped. It now consisted of
about six thousand men, and might
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