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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1932-02-18, Page 2f 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. ss *. 7,7 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 (Continued on next Page.) r L Cinter i � K eck tiff • We Are Selling Quality Books Books are Well Made, Carbon is Clean and Copies Readily. Ali styles, Carbon Leaf and Black Back. Prices as Low as You Can Get Anywhere. Get our Quotation on Your Next Order. The Seaforth SEAFORTH ONTARIO. Nws