HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1933-08-31, Page 2k1AGE TWO.
THE SEAFORTH NEWS.
.EE•N'EIW .BOYHOOD 'FRIEND- '.
SHIP AT SEAFORTH
The GoderichSignal says:
iLtiaLuesting visitors in town' ' this
heck are the McLean brothers of
^Igrida-ldaruy andi Keith, of Weirs
-
gale, and Gregor, of Clearwater, Flor-
ida. They are the sons of Dr. Thom-
as FMclLeati, a practising physician
fnf Goderich who renioved,with his
Family to Florida in lSS8. Gregor, the
,youngest of the trio, has made period-
ical visits to his old home town;
Keith was here once some years ago
urn a very brief visit; but Harry had
• soot been back since the family moved
&rom. Goderich forty 'five years ago,
They have been looking up old
€riends, becoming all too few, and vis-
iting places in and about town tha
they remember from 'auld lang Syne.
(Boys that they chummed with in the
'Ws either are gone or have grown
into men who are not easily recog-
nizable, They give the prize to `Tom
Gundry for having changed least of
•chose they knew in the long ago.
.They note a great many changes is
the buildings around the ,Square and
elsewhere in the town, and remark a
grea't improvement in the appearance
•of the town from the days when i
seas in its 'cow pasture' stage.
'They are making their return trip
by motor and will return by a differ-
ent route in order to see as muel
o£ the country as possible.
Forty-five' years is a long time ou
of the average man's life, and now
that they have found their way back
:again it is to be hoped that the ltc-
:Lean 'boys" will, not stay away so
long again.
The McLean brothers were in Sea -
forth on Friday and renewed a boy-
hood acquaintance with Col. R. S.
Hays. They expressed themselves
highly pleased with Seaforth's nea
appearance.
.HURON NEWS.
To Train for Nurses,—Misses 'Mar-
garet Ellerington and Dorothy Ryck-
khan of Exeter and Zeta Nadiger of
Dashwood will enter Victoria Hospi-
tal, London, in September on probe
lion as 'nurses -in -training.
Underwent Operation.—Alice, dau-
ghter of. Mr. and Mrs. Percy Pass-
more of Usborne, was taken ill on
'Thursday evening last with an acute
•attack of appendicitis and was .rush -
,ed to St. Joseph's hospital, 'London,
for an operation. The operation was
successful and she is doing fine.
Senior-Billings.—The marriage took
place quietly in Parkdale Presbyterian
Church, Toronto, on Saturday, Aug-
ust 112th, of Mrs. Helen Linton Bill -
lugs, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lin-
ton of Toronto, to Maurice J. W. Sen-
ior, of Toronto, son of Mr. and Mrs
Jos. Senior of Exeter. The ceremony
was performed by the Rev. Mr. Ves-
ey,
Engagement Announced.—Mr, and
Mrs. Wm. Bremner of 14th conces-
sion of Grey, announce the engage-
ment of their daughter, Margaret Is-
obel, to Irvin Stanley Hewitt, son of
Mr. and Mrs. A. K. Hewitt, of Elme
township, The marriage to take place
Saturday, Sept. 2nd.
Painful Accident.—A painful and
serious accident occurred ° to Mr.
;Lloyd Bedard, son of Mr. Jos. Bedard,i
Drysdale, an Friday, when in some
•way while operating a threshing ma -
'chine near Drysdale, he got his hand
caught in the running parts of the
machine and unfortunately, severed
part of the forefinger and also part o
the thumb of his right hand, The in-
jury is very painful.
Awarded Contract. -;Some time ago
tenders were called for courier of R.'R
No. 2, Zurich, and word, has been re
aeived front the Department that the
•contract has been granted to Mr.
'Harvey IGelinas, of the Goshen line,
rerth of Zurich. We understand tha
Mr. Gel'in•as' tender was considerably
less than that which Mr. Josiah 'Gei-
ger, who has been the courier for a
,goodly number of years, has been re-
aceivinig.—Zurich -Herald.
:Doing Business.—Messrs, H. Yung-
blut & 'Son, butchers at Zurich, have
re-+o•p.ened since the ,fire, in the Dietz
block, formerly occupied by Mr. Mil-
ton Oeech, and have already installed
-electric refrigeration. Messrs. L.
'lSoh•illbe & Sanare doing business in
Mr. Jos. Duar's block on Victoria st.
An Auxiliary. Well.—,Tile work of
t sinking an •auxiliary well at the Mit-
chell power plan.t has been completed,
A good body of pure water has been
struck which will greatly augment the
present .supply. The .Public' !Utilities
''Coen''mission are apparently quite sat -
'
at' fslfied with the preliminary tests. The
-new well will be connected with the
reservoir inside the power {building'
and will also be coupled up with the
pumps Cansid'etiablfe work will be
necessary before the completion of
• the new addition to our water system
but When finished the project will be
the equal to any of its 'capacity in the
Province. M,r, W. D. Hopper, of Sea -
forth, had the .contract of drilling the
well, and a first-class job was made
of it. Mr. Hopper has had consider-
able experience along this •line, in Cal-
ifornia and, other Southern States.
IWihen certain changes are made and
the work finished -a thorough test of
the output of all the wells will be
•made,=Mitchell Adv'ocate.
Fortner' Treasurer's Ball Not •Re-
newed.—(When renewal of his bail of
1110,000 was not forthcoming, Gordon
Young, former treasurer of Huron
County, was taken to the county jail
at Goderich on Friday, following a
remand of eight days in his prelimin-
ary hearing on charges arising out of
alleged shortages in the county
books. Young is to appear again on
'September 2. Friday's remaacr was
granted at'. the request of 'Crown M-
torney D. Holmes, It was understood
following the 'adjourned hearing that
a brother of the former treasurer had
declined to act again as one of the
bondsmen, Charges on which the for-
mer county official appeared before
Magistrate C. A. Reid were theft of
$2,400, mutilation of the county
books, and failure to account for
monies, the property of the county of
Huron. It is possible that these
charges will be amended, or that fur-
ther charges will be added, before the
Crown is ready to proceed. Young
appeared cheerful when he appeared in
the crowded courtroom He was clean
shaven, and smiled to .friends among
the spectators. The resumed investi-
gation into the condition of county
finances which was slated for Friday
afternoon before a special examiner
was unexpectedly adjourned sine die
when it was announced that County
Clerk G. W. Holman, who wa'a to
have been the first witness to testify,
was conlfined to his bed through ill-
ness. Frank P. Gibbs, Stratford char-
tered accountant, who has been con-
ducting a special audit of the county
books, was on hand, prepared to delve
further into the condition of county
finances. 'Several county officials had
been subpoinaed to appear.
E. Howard Durnin Passes.— Lec-
turer and teacher, Edward IH'oward
Durnin, of Kitchener, Ont., .passed
peacefully away after a lengthy illness
in his 'fifty-second year an Tuesday
morning, August 22. Mr. Durnin was
born on the 16th concession of Ash-
field, educated at Crewe public school,
Goderich Collegiate Institute and
Victoria College, Toronto, and gradu-
ated in arts from Wesley 'College,
'Winnipeg. After his graduation .ht
engaged in teaching, preaching and
lecturing, chiefly in .Western Canada.
He was twice married, his first wife
being Miss Marcia Fraincis of Saska-
toon, who predeceased him in 19?7.
fn 1932 he married Miss Fanny Gray
of Edmonton and they located in Eit-
chener, where they were connected
with Trinity United Church. Left to
mourn his loss are his 'wife, the six
children, (Bernice, Alan, Homer, Gra-
ham, Lorraine and !Lindsay, his aged
mother, Mrs. +William iDurnin, at
Crewe, one sister,. Mrs. (Dr.) Granat
of Vancouver, and two brothers, Or-
ville, on .the homestead at. Crewe, and
Orton of the Technical 'School staff,
Winnipeg, One brother, Earl was
killed in action in, ,the Great'War. The
funeral was held on Thursday in
Crewe 'United Church. Interment was
made in the family plot in ]Dungannon
cemetery. Rev. C. C. 'Katie af' Sea -
forth, a former pastor, conducted the
services.
Fires At Court House, — These
have been three small 'fires within a
week at the 'county court house, :but
they have no 'significan'ce Whatever
with the arrest of the County Treas-
urer and other developments of re-
cent days. The ,Star has been asked
to make this fact plain to the public.
The .fires are a mere .coincidence and
were caused by defective wiring, :El-
ectricians are now at work ripping it
out and a night watchman is on the
lob, He ,caugh1 a blaze 'burning .brisk-
ly Tuesday n'ig'ht. The 'firemen were
called and, put ft out with chemicals,
Two chemical .pumps have been in-
stalled in the (building. It appears that
the cable was pulled through joists
at ,sharp angles, broke a'nfd the metal
dug into the insulation, bearing the
bare copper wire, charged with 'ele'c-
tricity, to the dry, pine joists, which
have caught 'fire several places.
There are other; reasons being inves-
tigated, aman'g them 'being the pos-
sibility of the ,wires being overloaded.
—Goderich Star.
Andrew Porter ,Resigns.—Andrew
Porter, 'Collec'tor -of Inland Revenue,
for the ]':ort o£ iGbderich, -will retire
from the 'Civi'1 Service at the end of
this month, it is announced. Mr. For-
te(' is at present on 'holidays, hheving
just made a splendid recovery from
a serious illness.
Engagement.—.tifr. Fred Lockwood
of Clinton announces the engagement
of his youngest 'daughter, :Beatrice
Maude, (!Janet) of Toronto,' to Mr.
John Leslie Osborne, 'Toronto, .form-
erly of Listowel, marriage to take
place quietly early in September.
Playing Santa ,Claus.—Warden J.
\V. ;Ballantyne rhos a man's job on his
hands at the county buildings these
days, gathering up the odds and ends
and trying to straighten things. out.
Accounts. have been paid before ,.the.
accounts 'were properly passed, the
orders, for payment being signed af-
ter. All this has 'been stopped, the
Warden says.
Goes to Shanghai.—Mr, Fred hIc-
Taggart. yopngest son of Mr. and
Mrs. G. ID. McTaggart, Clinton, who
has been spending a holiday at his
home, left last week and sails from
Vancouver, B.C,, by the Empress of
Russia for ;Shanghai, China. Mr. Mc-
Taggart is connected with the Crown-
china Corporation, in whose interests
he goes to the orient.
Currie's School House Opening.-
On Friday, Sept. 1st, the beautiful
new school house, , Currie's School,
near Wingham, which replaces the
school which was burned last spring,
will be officially opened, A program
will be given during the afternoon,
commencing at 1:30 o'clock. Lunch
will be served at the supper hour.
Ontario Egg :Situation
"In Ontario, as practically over :the
whole of Canada," said 'T. A. Benson,
Federal Poulltry 'Branch, 'Toronto,
"the production of eggs 'has dropped,
and with any increase in demand may
easily drop below the level of con-
sumption.
'The lack of an active demand for
eggs from Ontario, and to some ex-
tent on the Ontario markets, has caus-
ed a temporary further reduction in
prices. This condition, however, is not
unusual at this season and may result
in a somewhat increased consumption,
as indicated by a better clearance of
eggs on the markeit early this week.
"Receipts of the Montreal market
as of .August $ were considerably
lighter that those of the same date
last year. All this may herald the turn
of the market in an upward; direction,
which is about due. Usually such a
turn comes quite quickly at this sea-
son.
"Everything would appear to de-
pend upon consumptive demand rath-
er than upon any likelihood of in-
creased supplies. Although to some
extent economic conditions have han-
dicapped sales of the higher grades,
the demand for extras would appear
to be increasing at the larger centres."
'Douglas' Egyptian Liniment reliev-
es toothache and neuralgia. Invalu-
able in cases of croup, sore throat
',id quinsy. Keep a bottle handy.
ON DISCOV'E'RING
THE WEATHER
I\Vhen .we are in the country,' we
watch the weather Inc more than
town, and we. jiiii.e it Inc terns of our
own , pursuits. Iran town, the weather
does not, really matter. 'We go frotp
place to place in vehicles, and at home
and iso cub office, and in picture gal-
leries and theaters we are hardly
aware whether it is raining or not. 1
often speculate 'on the uses of umbrel-
las. They are still carried by mane
thousands of my fellow citizens and
therefore 'I .must conclude that they
serve some purpose. But, fo'r•my part,
I
should not know how Ito employ
this ingenious-instruuinent, which .was
invented in days when the sneer's '0,1
unbar locomotion were scarce.
i -:mill not pretend that I ant indif-
ferent to the sunshine, 'On- the con-
trary T welcome a 'bright day as a
splendid gift; a'nd' S 'take the 'oppor-
tunity, .of strolling along the Boule-
vard or by the shining river, and' am
delighted by my perambulations. I
become What the (Parisians call a flan
eur; and there is assuredly no pleas-
anter occupation than that the flan-
eur. The flaneur observes, with un-
failing interest, the multitudinous pro
cession of people; he regards the ex-
pression oftheir faces, their manner
of dress,' their different gaits. He loit-
ers' by the etalage of the ,bookseller.
iHe gazes in shop windows—a truly
fascinating pastime. He lingers by the
kiosks and :pauses to read theadver-
tisemett columns. He examines an
antique doorway, and' steps back to
survey a piece of architecture that is
familiar yet perennially' new. To be a
fianeur, in the sunshine of 'Paris, is to
discover how endless 'are the re-
sources of the city, But this is an ex-
ceptional entertainment for which one
cannot ask every day. 'Generally, there
is a roof, if it be only an omnibus
roof, over one's head,
:When 'I return from town to the
country, d find it difficult to . remem-
ben whether it has been fine or rainy.
(But when 'I am in the country, I fail
into the habit of scrutinizing- know-
ingly the morning and evening sky,
of remarking the direction of the wind
and of comparing this years progress
of vegetation with that of last year. I
know in what quarter is the moon and
I could tell you with fair precis'io'n
the hours of sunrising and sunsetting.
lit is not too much to say that I dis-
cover the weather. The weather and
the seasons are elemental things, stud-
ied by primitive folk long before met-
eorology :became a subject for spec-
ialists; and in the country and on the
sea we are all primitive Folk. I suppose
that, even in the towns, readers of
newspapers turn to the corner in
which temperatures 'are recorded and
forecasts given; but I really cannot
imagine why. .Doubtless, too, the `city
dwellers listen to the weather reports
of _the radio experts; but i suspect
they listen merely because it is not
worth while to turn off this part of
the program.
As a conversational opening, the
gambit of the weather has always
been regarded as safe. Starting with a
comment on the weather, the cdtiver-
sation can move toward personal gos-
sip, politics, plays, travel, basebal,,
business, books, fashions, and the
most ;confidential exchanges, Shake-
speare may have unlocked his heart in
the sonnet; most of us find the wea-
ther a -universal picklock. It is the
key to all social communications:
There is no door that will not yield
t0 it, The weather lets us intomany
secrets, and with its aid we penetrate
into the arcana of our fellows. It
may be used like a latch -key by',whioh
we enter legitimately warns domestic
interiors; or it may be used like a
master key by which we obtain bur-
glarious admission to the dark my-
steries of, human nature. It is used
by our tradesmen; our visitors our
THURSDAY, AUGUST 31,; 1933
Enhance the joys of your
Western trip—travel via
Canadian National's train
• de luxe—The Continental
Limited. This modern magic
carpet smoothly unfolds
rugged. Northern Ontario
before your eyes—across the
Prairies—pilots you through
the Canadian Rockies by the
Scenic Route over the easiest
gradient and at the lowest
altitude-yetkeeps you with.
in easy sight of the mightiest
and most inspiring peaks.
W1NNIPEGI
EDMONTON,
JASPER
{ZOCKY
MOUNTAINS
PACiFIC
COAST.
ALASKA
Leaves.
TORONTO
Daily at
10.40 P.M.
(E.S.T.)
JASPER GOLF
WEEK
Sept. 3rd to 9th.
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neighbors, our servattt`, our train
companions, and our interviewers. 1
think it might be used successfully by
our diplomatists ands by our judges:
Yet I am persuaded that in the
cities, ,though everysbody starts by a
reference to ;the weather, nobody .gen-
uinely cares about the weather. 'This
pretended interest id the weather is
an atavistic survival, a traditional cus-
tom, a reminder of our bucolic origins.
If you assert that the ,weather is hot
for the time of the year, though it
may be actually cold, nobody will.
take the trouble of contradicting you.
If you say it is fine, when it is rain-
ing, your interlocutor will readily ac-
quiesce. The talk about the weather
in' town' is .a simple 'formality. It is
a convenient method of making or re-
making acquaintance. at has been
consecrated by time, like the wearing
of gloves, but has no vital signifi-'
canoe.
Whereas, in the country, where I
try to live as much as possible, the
weather is much more than the cere-
monious opening of a conversation,
and is not to be discussed casually
and' inaccurately. The weather is the
fundamental factor. Upon it every-
thing depends. You cannot tell a
cou'ntrym'an it is raining when it is
fine; he knows better. 'It snakes ali
the difference to him whether, the
days are sunshiny or gloomy. There
is no perfunctoriness in the farmer's
views as to =theseasonableness of the
weather. He ascertains the facts as
carefully as a .. mathematician, and
states thein with becoming gravity.
For from them flow specific conse-
quences which must influence his
whole life. The weather is his stock -
in -trade. !He deals in the weather as
the merchant deals in cloth or silk:
The, weather provides him' with his
livelihood; He has learned to-bandle
it like a tool.
Often I ant surprised when, at the
end of what has seemed to me a dis-
mal day, II descend into the'village to
discover that the weather is precisely.
the weather that was needed, For
rain is just as necessary as stcnshl'ne.
Once, when the river broke its banks
and flooded the fields in the plain, I
,went, in my ignorance, with words of
commiseration to my farmer friends.
But it turned out that nothing could
be 'better --that the soil required these
floods and' that the 'wheat would be
more plentiful. 'Occasionally it is
true, when I have rejoiced in the pre-
mature warmth of an early spring,.
the farmer has shaken his head fore-
seeing 'a frost that would ni tb
venturesome blossoms al the fruit
trees.
Despite the legend that would'
make of the countryman ` a grumbler,.
he usually discovers something help-
ful in every kind of weather. He ex-
amines it critically and is .not disposed
to deceive 'himself. IIt is 'not his
(business to encourage illusions or to
count upon- special dispensations. He
is inclined to the skeptical, forneither
grain nor fruit can be taken as a fore-
gone conclusion, and may be destroy-
ed by the weather until it his ripened
and 'been gathered. He reckons all
the odds against him; with a c'ooi
realist eye. He keeps, as the saying,
goes, ,a level .head. Yet with all his
shrewdness, his flack of foolish en-
thusiasm, his unexaggerated calcu
I
latrans, it is remarkable how often h
finds the weather on his side. If it
is not altogether propitious in one
respect, itis almost invariably favor
able iii another, (There are compep-
1satiotis.iNever is he really discour-
aged, for the next moon will redress•
•
p e
the balance,
iSome always preserve their, equa-
tttmity and accept the vicissitudes of
the weather with a smiling philosophy.
That is because they have become
wise 'with experience. They have
watched the weather so tong, as their
fathers before them watched the wea-
they, that they are sure everything
will be evened out. They are not'dis-
tressed by the downs, nor are t
unduly elated by the ups, In ti
course of the seasons which have ,fol-
lowed each other for ages, there have
been bad .times and good tines which
are to be off against each other,
There is nothing which. conduces
mare to an equable temper than the
'steady observation of the weather in
its effects on the crops and the cattle
and the life' of the countryside. But
this observation must not be absent-
minded, detached, and sporadic as in
the towns; it euust ate earnest, inter-
ested, and
nterested,',and continuous as in the coun-
try. There we are taught that it is
wrong to describe the weather as bad
or good; it can be batt or good only in
relation to certain objects; and for the
purposes of the unceasing processes
of the earth, cold and heat, rain and
shine, are equally beneficial,'
Like .\d. J:ourdaigt in Moliere's com-
edy, who suddenly discovered that,
unknown to himself, he had been
talking prose ail nis life, so I discov-
ered that I had been talking of the
weather all my life, but did not know
what the weather, was until I went to
the country. ''41111
REMEMBER
8733 Persons were killed or
injured in Ontario in 1932
BECAUSE OF CARELESS DRIVING
1l.
MOTOR VEHICLES BRANCH
ONTARIO DEPARTMENT OF HIGHWAYS
'Leopold Macanl l' -,coder