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The Seaforth News, 1932-05-05, Page 4PAGE FOUR. THE SEAFORTH NEWS. THURSDAY, MAY 5, 11932. THE SEAFORTH NEWS. Snowdon Bros., Publishers. WALTON Mrs. Day o'f Preston, niece of Mrs. IWm. Neal, is at •present helping to attend her in her illness. Mrs. Neal is not improving as fast as her many friends would like. (Mrs. Susan S'nuith is on the sick list 'for the past week and has gone to her sister's, Mrs. (Fred Scarlett's fill she', regains her strength. Mr. and Mrs. Naylor and daughter Lois of Rochester; N.Y., have return- ed to their home after spending a few days with relatives in and :about Wal- ton. 11Mr. John Shortreed is iii a serious condition at present as the result of a stroke which he suffered on Thurs- day last. H'is many friends .hope for a recovery soon. Watch ad, next week for full par- ticulars of Toronto talent which will be at Duff's 'Church, Walton, the fol- lowing Sunday and; Monday, BLYTH. Dr. Toll's concert orchestra has lead a busy week playing at Monkton, twice at Brussels, and at Paris during the week. Tihe personnel includes Messrs: Ken. Ashton, B. Watt, Jack Tierney, Roy Toll, G. -Blackstone and Misses Ella Toll, Ruth IBettger, Eliza- beth Mills, Dr. and Mrs. Toll. The annual meeting and election of officers of the Women's Institute will :be held in Memorial Hall .on Thurs- day, May 'Sth; at 230. Roll call will be answered by paying fees, sugges- tions for next year's program. Host- esses, Mrs, F. Oster, Mrs, L. Scrim- geour, Mrs. El. ,Johnston, Mrs. J. W Mills. Those who attended the sixth an- nual meeting of the Huron Presby- terial W.M:S. at Winghlam last week were, St. An'drew's United Church, Mrs. 'Wm. Laidlaw, Mrs. Wm. Jenk- ins, Miss Mary Milne, Mrs. George Leith Jr.; Queen street, Mrs. R. lWig'htman, Mrs, A. M. Colclough, Mrs. A. B. Carr, Mrs. S. G. Leslie, ,Mrs. Wlm. Hesk. Mrs. Wm. Woods of Walton visited her sister, Mrs, H. M. 'Platterson on Monday, ICONIS'TANCE. Mrs. Mina Wynne, George and Ho- ward and Helen and Mr. :Lloyd Jow- ett of Forest visited with Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Britton on Sunday. Mr. !Wm. Jowett Who spent a couple of weeks with relatives, carate up with ahem. A numlber are laid up with the flu this week. The members of the Women's As- sociation 'gathered on, Friday evening to present Mrs: ,Edwin 'Britton with a travelling, wardrobe before rShe .took cher departure for Walton. Mrs. 'Brit- ton will be greatly missed as she has always talcen an active part in all the department of the church. IThe Ladies' Aid will meet in the church on Thursday and hold a quilting, The following is the school report of S. S. No. 3, Hullett (Constance). !Pupils were examined in all subjects and their names appearin order of merit. Honours 75.% (H), Pass 60% (P), Failure, .below 60% '(iP). !Sr. I'V,-1Doris Lawson '81..4% (11-1), Hazel Jamieson 711.4% '('P), Ethel Dexter 67.2% (P), Jahn, Thompson 65% (P), Bernard, Riley 64:1%, (P), Ella Dexter 98.4% (F). Jr. IV. --Fred Riley 71.3 % (P), 'Charlie Sundercock 52:4% (IF), Gor- don Peth'iek 40,6% OF): Sr.' III'L. Jean Anderson_' 75.12% +0H), Edna Armstrong 68.12% ('P), Elva Sunclercacic 5325% (IF), : Olive iGrintoldby 3825%a ('F) Jr. II11L-Manion Lawson 67.25% ,(P), Kathleen Yungblut 41% (F), Al- vin Riley .35x62% (tF), Jean Wakefield` 34,5% (F), :Sr III-y:ola`Dexter 80.2% (H). David Anderson, '744% 0P), 3Mary Thompson 69.6% ('P), Stella Arm- strong 61% (1'), Ellwood Clarke '516.8% (IF), Reg. Lawson 43.8% (F). Jr. .fl.-�Allau 'Sunclercock • 75.3% '0H), Jim Jamieson 71% (P), Harry Yungblut 57.5% (F). ISr. Pr. --'Norma Dexter,' good Best attendance,- at school: Bern- ard Riley, Ethel Dexter... Number oft roll 28. Average attendance 19,33. V'iola J. Morrison, Teacher, HURON ROAD WEST •Mr, and lifts, Allen Dale of Owen Sound are vnsitingwith the former's parents, 2str. and . Mrs. Christopher .Dale, Miss Jessie Ball of Detroit spent last week with her parents, Mr. and. . Mrs. Wm. Bail, •\fits. Albert Vaudeirburglt and babe Marion of Clinton are visiting with Mfr. and .Mrs, Christopher Dale and at 'George Uanclerbuitgh's. 11Mr. Albert Vandenburgh is helping :.his grandfather, Mr. George Vander - ,burgh to put in his crop.' bfr. 1Ainder' son Scott sang a solo in Wesley Willis church, Clinton, last Sunday and it was much enjoyed by ail; Come in and See Our New and Used Cars 1 Am Agent For Durant t Carse St Rugby Trucks Massey Barris Machinery ery and Repairs JOHN GALLOP AGENT FOR FROST FENCE SUPERTEST GAS and OILS All Repairs and Labor Cash, WINTHROP. Mr. and Mrs. Adam Dodds of Lis- towel spent the week end with rela- tives here, Mr, ,Folin Montgomery has return- ed Nolte from T,oroato Geheral • Hios- pital where he has spent,the past two ,weeks. • Mr. and Mrs. Leo Murray of Dub- lin spent Sunday with Mr, and Mrs. John Pryce. •Mr. Jas. Simpson spent Sunday in London ,with his sister, Mrs, Ross. 'We are pleased to hear that She is •innprovan'g nicely and 'intends to re- turn to her h'om'e this week. Mr. and Mrs. Thos, Pryce 'and fa- tuity spent Sunday with Mr. acid Mrs. M. Armstrong of Hullett. Mr. and Mrs. Fergus Bullard spent (Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. John Arm- strong of London. TUCKERSMITH. '.Mrs. E. Ross is .visiting her daugh- ter, Mrs, Gordon Hayter. of Flint. Mich. Miss Mabel McDonald, of Staffa, spent the week end with her cousins, the Misses Margaret and Marjory Hay. (Miss Margaret Patrick spent the week end with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. G, Patrick. The recent 'fall of rain has helped the spring crops and grass fields. Mr. Dlavid MejLean wears a smile these days, as a little girl came to brighten the :home. Mrs. Andrew Kirk returned from Detroit Saturday where she had been called through the illness of her son- in-law, Mr. Frank Creighton. Mr. Oliver Kirk of Detroit and fMrs. Beecroft and children of Dun- gannon spent Sunday with their par- ents, Mr, and 'Mrs. Andrew Kirk: Mrs. Lewis Tebbutt accompanied Mr, and Mrs. H. MdL'achlan of Stan- ley to Stratford one clay last week. The weather has been fine and the farmers; have completed the seeding. The following is the report of S. S. No. 5, Tuckenamith for, the month of April. Those }narked with an as- terisk missed several examinations: Sr, PV, -Gavin Gemmell 82%, Ed- na MacDonald 74, Harold Rice* 64, Jean Macdonald and Harold Chesney Jr. I'V,_-Edith. Wallace 78, Arthur ILeyiburne 69, Dorothy Gemmell 61., Robert Patrick* 47, Ethel Chesney Jr. III. -Warden Haney 75, Arnold Archibald 69, Grace Wallace 64. III. -Hazel McNaughton 75, Gord- on Macdonald 71, Marie Williams 65, Murray William's 47. Absent for all examinations, John Otdfierid. I. -Pearson Chesney 80, Clair Ha- ney 78, Shirley Oldfield 72, John Pat- rick 66, Donald Wallace 61. ,Pr. John Rise 80, Harold Mc- Naughton 7,6, Robert "Wallace 75. Number on roll 26, average atten- dance 23185. Alice M. Archibald, ;Teacher. (Report for S'S. No. 9, Tucker - smith for April: Jr. IV, --Robert McLachlan 86%a. Sr. IIIC--Bobby Gemmell 80%, Glen IIouston 68.5%, Stewart Love 54%, Kate Dalrymple 45.5%. Jr. IIIA. -Jack _Mackay 78%, Willie Hodgert 66%, Billy Powell 61%. Second Class -'Prances Elgie 91%, Doris Mackay 69%, Helen Houston .67%. First Class --Bruce Hodgert 63. ,Primer Class ---Frank Ryan 50, Jack Powell 48. ,Number on roll 14, average atten- dance for April 13.6. Margaret E. Grieve, Teacher. LONDESBORO. Mrs: John ,Nott returned on Sun- day alter spending a fewdays with her daughter, Mrs.Stevens of ':Sea - forth. Mrs, Mains and Miss . Elizabeth spent Sunday with Clinton friends. Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Armstrong and family spent Sunday with 'Westfield friends. Messrs. Charlie and Sid Lee spent a few days. in Orville, New Ontario, last week, Mr. and Mrs. Harold Adams spent' Sunday with Goderich friends. Mrs. Dodds returned to her home iu Chicago on Saturday. Miss Martie Sheddick accompanied her for a visit there. Mr. Jas. 'McCrea was in Stratford on Monday. Some of our village sports took in the play last Friday night in Biyth and report it good. Messrs. Carman Moon and Jas. .McCrea spent a few days in London last week. 'The contractors are intending to start to rebuild the community hall this week, which was burned a short time ago, Mr. George Barr and _Miss Sarah (Barr were .Bayfield visitors on 'Sun- day. Mr. Will Elsley and mother of Bemn,iller were guests at the home of Mr. Jas, 'Sisley recently. McKILLOP. The following is the report of U. S.S." 12, Grey and •McKillop, for the months of March and April. *!Means the pupil missed examinations: Sr. bV,-lsalbelle Coutts 77%. Jr. IV.='George McCallum* 43%',, Sr. DIQ.-Thelma Forbes* 59%, Archie MdCallum* 27%, J'r. IE. -=Ross Coutts 71%, Donald Coutts 62%, Evelyn Williamson 60%, Willie Coutts 57%, Olive McIntosh* 39%. IiI.-+Kenne'th Forbes 76%. iSr. I. -Russel McCallum, good. IJ'r. I. -•Florence Williamson, good. Sr. Pr. -Viola McCallum, good. 'Teacher, 1M. C. 'Robertson. MANLEY. Mr. W. G. 'Siemon is putting up a great fight for life and his many friends hope, he will come out victor- ious, if it be God's will, for he is a patient sufferer, with seldom a murm- ur. The late frosts hindered vegetation but the last few days have made a rapid change in growth and if i't con- tinues the country will 'show the mantle of green. 0 3oi g Win? The Gibbard Solid, Walnut Suite for MAY This is the 'last month of this Great Contest and we would ap- preciate 'having some of . our Customers secure this wonder- ful suite. Either a Diningroont or a Bed- room Suite given absolutely FREE in this contest. Come itt and 'get details and see the suites, Waikers' Furniture Store * * * * * * * * * * * * NEWS AND INFORMATION * * FOR THE BUSY FARMER * * (Furnished by Ontario Depart- * * ment of Agriculture.) * * * * * * * * * * * * !Pigs are rapid ,growers if well and properly fed, Butt they require plenty of nourishment to make vigorous grlowth. Illi is a good plan to have the young pigs eating: before weaning so as to avoid a setback. If growth slowed Up at any .stage a loss is pr b'able, especially at a low price .of hogs. 1Grain atone will not give rapid development, When to Plant Garden Seed. ,A timely suggestion with respect to the planting of the home vegetable garden is that the hardy seeds should ,be sown as early as weather and soil con'ditio'ns will permit. Smooth or dimpled peas, onion, radish, lettuce and spinach can be sown as soon as the soil has dried enough to permit working without injury,to the tex- ture. Beet, carrot, parsnip and wrink- led peas inay follow, with beano and other tender crops' sown or planted after the danger of freezing is past. When to Apply Lime. A test df the soil should be made to make sure that it requires lime,. 11 the soil proves to be acid then the answer to the question when to apply liinne might be "when you have tune." Lime is for the benefit, of all crap's in the rotation, but particularly of benefit to legume's. The best tune is possibly just before a grain' crop that is seeded down with alfalfa or clover. Liming 'land plowed for fall wheat which is to b'e• seeded with clover in 'the spring is a convenient and satislfaclbory practice. Lime is not a fertilizer, but simply neutralizes the acidity of the soil, and should be Ithor- ough'ly worked into the soil during ,the preparation of a seed bed to be- come efficient. Iit is poor business to farm land that is lacking in lime and strongly acid itt reaction. The productive power of the soil is re- duced when it becomes acid. Correct ing this condition with the use of ground limestone increase's the effi- ciency of the manures and fertilizers applied and therefore contributes to the cutting downof costs , of crop production. Interesting Publications Among the publications recently is- sued of interest to farmers are the following: Report of the Ontario Ve, terinary College 1,931; 53rd annual report of the Agnicultural and Ex- perimental Union, 193'1; and a bullet- in on the subject of Draft Horses, by J. C. Steckley, Professor of Animal Husbandry, and M. W. Staples, ,Lec- turer in Animal Husbandry at O:A.C,, •tainable free upon application to your local agricultural office. Feeding Young Chicks ;Tests made at the Central Experi mental Farm, Ottawa have shown that better= results are attained by feeding chicks early than by the me- thod's of delayed feeding formerly in. vogue. The following is a chick-sttart- er, that has given excellent results' at the farm: 1 part shorts, 1 part mid- dlings, 1 part ground yellow corn, 1 part ground groats, % part animal feed mixture, 3 per cent bone meal. 1 per Cent. salt, 1 per cent. cod liver oil. The' animal feed mixture used is. made up of equal parts ground beef scrap, fish meal and milk polwder. When liquid milk can be ltad the, milk polwder is omitted. Hoppers of chick ,grit, oyster shell and charcoal• are hung at a convenient height on the walls. Weekly Crop Report Seeding operations, in Ontario are in progress front as far west as Rainy River to Glengarry County in the east. Reports from the Agricul- tural Representatives would indicate that the land is working up in a very friable condition. Fall wheat is re- ported in excellent condition and the majority •o'f counties .re'por't Red Clo- ver and Alfalfa haying withstood the whiter much 'better than was antici- pated. Sweet clover seems to have fared the worst anct-many cases' "of heaving are reported. Cheese factories are opening up and farriers are anxi ous to get their cattle out on grass v7 as feed is letting scarce Prices for hogs, eggs, bt.bter-fat and lambs are very disappointing. Orchard's are looking welt with a goodly number of fruit buds in those orchards where fertilizing is an established practice. Wellington County seems to be typi- cal of the general attitude itt regard, to alfalfa, as it looks as if 412,000 'acres .will be 'seeded to alfalfa itt that county this spring, Alfalfa a No wi S xth Alfalfa now stands sixth in area among all field crops grown in the 'Province of Ontario,' and occupies about 650,000 acres. According to James Laughland, Field Husband- ry Department, O.A.C., Guelph, the great increase in this crop during the last 20 years has been due to the development of hardy strains along with the outstanding merits, Of alfalfa as a forage crop. Being a hardy deep- rooted perennial legume alfalfa im- proves the .'texture Si tlhe' crop, adds 'humus, mid aids itt the storing of ni- trates. Lt begins to grow early in spring, helps to control weeds and rental green - throughout the sea - ;son. Home Surroundings Count, "We ate influenced to a greater extent than we realize by our sur- roundings" observes F. C. Nunuick. chairman of the More Beautiful _Can- ada Cam'paign Com'mittee of the Oa nadian Horticultural Council. As he points out "elvildreat,are patlticulari.y responsive to home surroundings and !where these include lawn's, shrubs, trees and flowers they make a ntttch (better place in which to 'bring up children than in a home wthere no at- tention' wlhatever is paid to these friends of the plant hingdo'1n." ,Environ'ment is an important fac- tor with children. 'The constant con- tact with the beautiful things of na- ture which well-kepthome grounds affords is too important in the wel- fare of the house and the child to be overlooked. Cow Testing 'Ontario has 22 per cent. of its cows under test; New Zealand has 1917 per cent. of its, cows under test, The following figures show a remark- able increase in cow testing in New Zealand: ' 11922-23 184,8.25 caws 19iZ'3 24•1'5'1',914 c'olws 11924-215'196,850 • cows '1925-16'169,7416 cows 4026X2.7. 170,1150 cows :1927J28:,.„.'224,1'30 cows tlO2$.129 .1259,5914 cowis 11929=30..,....283)731 cows' • I1 has been estimated that in the last ten' years the average production of butter fat in New .Zealand has in- creased by 50 pounds per cow. Here in Ontario our dairy farmers are not cow testing to any greatt ex- tent, herd improvement has not been very rapid and it seems more than desirable thiat Ontario farmers should weigh the milk from individual cows, have it tested far butter fait -thus be- ing able to eliminate poor producers in order to compete with New Zea- land or any other country that fol- lows a system of scientific itnprove- meat. STORY OF A MURDER NEAR SEAFORTH IN 1853 (;London Free Press). Unfortunately school historians have not always been interesting in their presentation of Canadian his- tory. They have limited dull text books to a duller recitation of the dates of 'battles ..and the dates Of births and death of qutstandin'g men. Only in recent years have writers' been dealing with the history of Canadian people - the simple, hardy pioneers who did more to build up British Canada than military strategists and representatives of tite cr'lwn. 'N'o country in the world, so young, is yet so rich in romantic and colorful his- torical incident as this Dominion. Of all the sections, Western Ontario, or Upper Canada, is probably the 'most fertile ground of research. An inter- esting. historical 'd•ocutnetrt has just conte from the presses of John Bale, Sons and Danielson, Ltd„ London, Eng. Lt is "The Queen's Bush, a tale of the Early Days in Bruce, County," by W. 'M. Brown, M.D. "Tate Queen's 'Bush" will not go down in history as a literary master- piece, but its 295 pages are filled_ with interesting and rarely known data of the life of tate common people that make it valuable to students, 'The author takes some representa- tive pioneers, those who were the batltbone of the country, through their adventures. The Man Who Was "Hanged" One of the most interesting stories in the book deals with a famous MUT- der near Seafortlt in 1853, of the trial off the guilty person in 1854, his hang- ing and his subsequent "resurrection from the dead." While the .yarn reads 'much like a' modern shocker, it has its place itt the records of Upper Can- ada jurisprudence, although the even- tual frustration of justice t'ttay be ap- ocryphal. Yphal. Anyway, it is a good story. Ltt the winter of 1553, a young attd upright fanner, Stephen Neubecleer, was transporting a load of wheat be- tween Belptore, Brussels and Seaforth and other points. Just after leaving ,Seatortlt in the morning he was bru- tally attacked with a club, his •head pounded in, and left to lie in the cold overnight t g . i%is team :.wandered to Jolla 'Chambers' tavern in Belt/tore, carry- ing the body. Investigators searched back over the trail led` by, Mlchadl TRY Gillespies' Cleaners & Dyers WITH YA,UR NEXT ORDER Phone 196w. We call and deliver V. J. Gillespie, Prop, ILaborcle, county constable, who for his diligent work in the case became known as "Gallows Mike." Irrefutable ,circumstantial evidence pinned the crime on John Haag, •of Brant town- ship, :a quarrelsome, dissolute char- acter who was in love with the same gi i. courted by Neubecker. Haag es- caped across tate border into Michi- gan, 'but by smart police work was traced there by "Gallows Mike" and arrested in Saginaw. On Friday, Sep- tember 18, 1454, he was brought to trial in Walkerton before Judge Ad - ems Wilson. The names of his jury •were Thomas Black, Robert Hall, Robert Mc1Donald, Matthew Ham- mond, James Stark, Henry Dick, :William Sing, Geddes 'Thompson, C'h'arles Crow, John Boyd, Benjamin • (Lawltoli and Joseph M, Gunn. So con - elusive was' the evidence presented by •Crown Prosecutor Gwynne that t'o defense was offered. Haag was sen- tenced to hating at 10 a.in. an :Tuesday, !December 15. Now appears the only anonymous character in the recital, but none the less the moist ini'portant. He is• des- cribed as Dr. M., a Scottish phys'ician 'with an office on Main street, Walk- erton. Te hint went old Go'ttleib Haag,, aged father of the doomed man, and pleaded that. he be given some poison to administer., to Itis son =- that he and the ,family might be spar- ed the ignominy ofdeath on a com- mon murderer's gallows. The physic-, •tan threw up his hands in horror at the suggestion, but did offer ;a way out, on a promise of secrecy. He told the oldman it would cost a good' deal of money, although the doctor him- sei'f received no share, and the father mortgaged his farm to raise some $1,300. Bribing the Hangman Sheriff Sutton; a humane man, op - .posed to capital, punishment, who quailed at the thought of hanging a fellow man, delegated the authority to one Dan Beasley; a rake and gam- bler of Toronto, to whom •he agreed to pay $100. Dr. M.'s audacious scheme, briefly, was that the con- demned Haag's sh'oulder's and neck should be fitted with an apparatus whereby he would be hanged, but not choked to death or have his neck broken. To this end he had to have as his confederates the han'gman,"and the turnkey of the •Walkerton jail, George Meyer. He got them for 5500 and $300 respectively, The maker al the weird apparatus, designed by the sahenring doctor, charged $500, ' Dr. M., in his position as jail sur geon at Walkerton, took the nteasure-f. .meats for Itis apparatus and Beasley had them made in Toronto on his mi- nute instructions. Pt consisted of a sort of flat steel shoulder -brace, in which twosteel curved arms, .well padded, passed under each armpit, curving from behind forwards. These were united be'hiud a two-inch broad band of steel, which ran up the back between the shoulder blades and pro- jected halfway up the neck in a flat band of steel, where. it turned down - ward's, forming a short curve, The apparatus was not to be noticeable !beneath the Shirt of the condemned, and the part appearing above the col- lar was to be covered by Haag's long hair. Wearing this appliance the jerk of the rope was to be carried to the armpits, not the neck. Choking ',to death was to lie prevented by placing a knot in the loop of the rope, that the rope would tighten so far and no is further, so that the pian was to be suspended by his armpits, "i• It was in the day when the author- ibies decreed that hangingsshould be public, as a 'horrible example to ph- tential murderers. A great crowd wsas\ present to see Haag drop through the '1' trap 'to his death, Everything was a•- ranged , to the conspirator's satisfac- tion, the sheriff fainted on the Scaf- fold as the hangman sprung the lever and tate jail surgeon hurried, below the trap bo Gut down the victim, with the assistance of the turnkey. Dr, M. certified, in itis official caipacity as ti jail surgeon, the "death" of II'aag, who had merely fainted from fear. It was in the days before coroner's jur- ies were required to view the body after being cut down, Haag and the turnkey ptit the "dead" Iran in a cof- fin, so drilled to let in air, and with the perntiss•ion of the sheriff, inter- red the body outside the town limits. The kited -,hearted Sutton did not want the body in the jailyard, continuously to t•entiaid hint of the tragedy, !in the 'lead of night Hlaag was re-'' leased from his "coffin," made.. his way to his father's home and thence to S}iiawa ase ,County, 'Michigan, where he' thereafter led an exemplary life as a tailor, ntarryitigand having children. •