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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance Times, 1926-02-18, Page 3.C.TORIZIE NEWS Raiz and l3owinan shipped ,a .c, lumber to Waetrloo and several t loads to Brussels; This week. Mr..and; ',Mrs, Wilfred Xing :are visiting TiToronto o this week, Mrs. Moffatt, who has been very ill. at the bottle of her parents, Mr. and; Mrs. Robt, Pathers, just south of this village, is, we are 'pleased to learn re- covering, There is .a lot of town these'idays. Mrs, ;James Hyridimui was .called to Detroit last week, owing to the illness of her 'sister. - Of am wood .corning into M this vicinity Many of :the farmers n t y are joining the egg pool. The Young People's League o ;he Gorrie United 'Church .accompanied 1» .the Gorrie Orchestra, ..drove over to Wroxeter ori Monday evening and entertained the League of that, village Although the weather was very un- favorablethere was a good. turnout. 'The Wroxeter League will return the visit in [he near future. Mr, E. Carson is in Toronto this week attending the Hardware Dealers Convention. Mr. and Mrs. R. F, White, enter- tained the A. Y. P. A. of St. Stephens Church on :Monday evening and a very enjoyable time was spent. Mr. and Mrs, Fred Coates and fa- mily and Mrs. James McKinney of Wakada, Man., who have been spend- ing a couple of months with friends in and around Gorrie, started on Tues- day' on 'their return .home. The ice harvest is now in full sat=ing and the crop is a good one. Miss .Loiiise White -is inLondon again this Week in the Wholesale Millinery and will attend : the open- ings. Miss White has taken over the Millinery Dept. 'of Stephens & Ash - ton's Si ore; and hopes to be qute rea- dy for her openings before Easter. HOWICK Mr, and Mrs. Doig and :family of Saskatchewan are visiting: at Mr. Nel- son Gowdy's last week. -Mr. and -Mrs.' John. Dixon entertain ed a number of their friends last week all report a jolly time. Mr. and Mrs, George Foster were guests of 1blr. Bei Stafford last week. Mr. and Mrs. Ralph,'Metcalf from the Boundary were visitors at `Mr, Nelson .Gowdy's last week.• DIED • ITastie—Ii1 Gorrie on Wednesday, February loth.,' 1926, William Has - tie, in his 79th' year, use PURIT9,d m ie e Better thits Crids& If your pie -'crust isn't always what you would like it to be, don't' blame the recipe,' or the oven chances are it's the flour that's wrong. P ti c i t y Flour, milled from the finest hard wheat, silk sifted and oven tested, is f u 11 y worthy of your talent for baking. With Purity Flour you can always make flaky, golden -brown, delicious tasting pie' -crust. • Ask your favoriteretailer. rail our Ming Get the PURITY COOK $U0IC Send .,0e hr stamps for the Purity' Fleur 186 - page Cook Beek Sent Postpaid. WSSTERN'CANADA FLOUR MILLS. Co Molted I•lead oifide: Tdi'tcNTO Br'Aoclieit front cosiet to col *t. �7ITJJ2ON tCOU'N `Y COUNCIL FIS YEARLY GRANTS (Continued from last week)' solicitors for Mr, Geo, A. Mc,,ubbin, C,E,., asking that .certain portions, of the report .of the •special coinmittee appointed at the June session to in gttire into the M(cCt}bbin, charges a- gainst Roy Patterson (county 'engi-� neer) be, expnnged.,from rhe iniiiutes' and not published: Said committee inade,.no report at; June session, feel- ing .that the whole matter would be dropped. The report of the srecia}` committee in December 'vas based on the evidence given in June by Mr. Geo. A, McCubbin and Mr. Patterson, The report of the special committee was -passed in committee of the whole with instructions to be printed in thiel. minutes of the county council of De cember, 1925, and the Warden's com- mittee in session after dtie'considera- tion can see no valid reason why the report should = not be printed in s the miutes of the December session." The report of William Coats, ...minty' registrar, for 1925, . was in part as fol- lows: 'Total number of instruments registered during the year, 2804 fees. therefor, $4674.8o;; other fees, $957; gross amount of fees earned for the year, $5631.80, as compared with $5228.17 , for the previous year.- Dis burserhents, included $15oo to senior, deputy registrar and $600 to junior deputy registrar; amount paid to the county $544 4o, and the net amount' received.- by the 'registrar... $2944.4o, The total amount of mortgages regis- tered during "the year was $1,487,791.- 09. The county engineer, Mr. T. R. Pat- terson, reported: I beg to submit herewith my annual report on the county highway work and expenditures. The year 1925 was a most unusual ear for carrying out Y ,„r work. The faun crops entailed a great amount of work throughout the year, so that there 'vas not the Usual surplus of labor available for wor:;.,,_: the highways, and weather conditions during the fall were very unsuitable Thursday, February /8th,, xg26 Ts WIFE -WHOM WE NPA lts.D THERE WAS NOTHING OF INTEREST, It% OUR ' <, 'AST 'UFE, I, r 1V. q I I 1 t -ANIS 'MEIMBE4t,�, HI\ 1-1-V SIGHT ,W ilA JACK BARNES. OVER TtiNV 51(1 NY - SM1'CK GIRL. AND Y013 N , U . M T 'TOLD NER'"C4.4AT `(4 1 :” CAUL N F,, VAIN HERR `e0l30 NirVER, MARRY AM'( B0©Y ELSE, 't' VDU (At(Nt' 1, 1 E C MMI 8 ICIl� ... EY C T U E o / -11•4A1' SOME BIRDS HAVE To BE . ALWAYS' DRA66INC BACK T to DEAD AND;: BURIED PAST_., SAT es Road northerly, one mile. `• .. And such other works as may later be deemed: expedient.. • I re ret to Say that I think it will g y be advisable too pay to Stephen town- ship the disputed assessment on the WROXETEii NEWS Redpaths Sugar $6.95 Per, cwt, this week tit 17avey's Store. Miss l3owcs a'of the 'teaching staff, silent tile 'Week -end at her lionle in Ethel. ,Arnold .Edgar- was in Landon, last week to, see his sister, who .is in deli- ,Y. GORRIE UNITED CI•IUR The Young :People of the I..ea,l put on a special program at Wroxeir) Monday ; evening, The social very successful: The iiiterdenoitainatioila] day prayer will be observed by the 4� este health.' 'Miss Frances :T Edgar of men's Missionary.. Society on Fid g February iOth., <it 2.30, The setvieel .3 Winghai n went clown with hint, Mr. and Mrs; John Gibson gave an old time house dance last Thursday night to a large crowd of friends. , The Mission Band hof the, United will be held in the United Ghurcli schoolroom. Women of all churches are cordially invited. Regular nteetiig of the Ladies ,Aid' Church served a,laot supper in the will meet at the home of Mrs, W, H.' basenient'Thursday evening. Gregg, this Thursday afternoon at Mrs. William Carter left last week 2.30. for„ Cleveland tovisit friendsds fifore As theUnited Church year con Vbst, eludes 011 lilsii"cIi 31-st., members and. '. /loved friends are requested to arrange their house 'contributions, to the :Maintenance and Extension Pund so that the ofiieial Miss Ruth Stocks has been indis :l'3oard pias complete the years nvoih posedt£or some time with throat'trou- Iat the lime set for -Final reports; to the ble, , !Presbytery. returning to ber home in the Mrs, JamesHuffman has: from Wingham into her own oil Howick St Gavot _Davidson who apparently 1' Good congregations nnet fair was• in his usual good health ^'on` Sat- I ship in 'tile united t hurch last Sob - tor Sunday morning, who pronounced' a slight stroke as• -the trouble. ' �nlornin `theiaae Wh t about tlic E1 - Mr, Les. Ike at ghe n of Oshawa tiler Son," The pastor sciccted the was in town last week, _ .portion of scripture dealing �n=ith the !attitude of the elder brother as, given r Mr. Robt. McLaughlin, went throw- in the parable of the prodigal son. gh an oleration in Wingliam Hospital ;The address was an attempt to draw Monday, but is expected home in a lessons from,the life of the son avllo few days., The Young ,.People of. the United slid not go away from Home, yet wlio failed to take life's priveleges and op - Church entertained the Young People len doors of opportunity' to enrich leis of Gorrie who furnisltedtlieprogran, iu�day was obliged to call in the Doc- t' which consisted of a V dentine Even- i soul and analee life worth while for Ilairnself arid the rest oil:'the old honie- irig and contests followed with a 1.11n - pie.. ch prepared by Wroxeter young pco' pie. At the; evening service the minister W. A. and Mrs. Edwards of i4�iska- took the experience of Demos and his toon are visiting with .Mrs. Hazle-1 forsalcutg Pand I'aul'h I ord basis for' hisaul sernrort. '.Clae telt wasas,a wood this week, The Women's Institute \trill meet "Demos Bathe forsaken rile having lo - .BELMORE f II of the -Presbyterian Church will be a . the 'home of the President, Miss E. ved this present world , and. ,Timothy held on the nineteenth of this month 4, verse, so. ,The pastor indicated the International day of Prayer will be ; Y. Hazlewood the last Thursday of this month. i o According to held in the Union, Church Friday of program,, The Knox Presbyterian Mission Rev: •Mr. Armstrong ill leaving the great hearted friend Paul ternoon. g w address rile at thehome of Mrs.;John Darling, great loss which Demas sustained by r • Band will meet on Saturday, Febru- meeting on the Institute Motto for a worldly career in:•Thessalonica. To fill the vacancy left by Mr. John • The appeal of the pastor was for an ars loth, Darling, Mr. Douglas was voted in - Im"Hoe' and Country." Shipka drain.. I advised in December elder in the Union Church. Mr, and Mrs. Cecil AfcNeil and Mary Edna McNeil; attended the -vfed- John Duffy Passes Suddenly allegiance to, Christ with no thought whatever of deserting the army of the and rendered the work much more that a private owner woo, have to Among those who attended the Lord esus Christ, chug reception of their cousin Miss S 1 J difficult. Our practice' has been to Bonspre in a.n� a Mary Migliton of Durham to K H death ui -At the morning service the .choir conduct any extensive gravelling o er st i mons which carne to Mr. Y g P sans appropriately, '''Be a Helper," be established on a different ba=rs J G d M ] y John Duffy, one of . Carrick's most ations in the fall, so that progress was , a impeded considerably -until December, when it was possible, to do a large a- chance of evadingpayment, but I was m Startling sadand sudden was the P Y l' W h m last week were of 'the opinion that the coupes could Kenzie James Darling, Geor- •Rev: Mc 7 g' Greer of Toronto- �e Johnson; Gordon Mulvey. since no definite+opportunity is ,given Victims of La Grppe for a few days for an appeal. Our objection would: f 1 d bl 1 be upheld in a court of equity but were Miss Clara Collins, Eleanor. Jef-' Died in Toronto , mount o work- and' we were enabled fray, Ferne Jeffray. The officials are anxious to see at to ,`complete our 1925 program, precedents indicate that to avoid Robert Earl Jameson, one of On- having given. signs of weakness, and Mr. and Mrs, Cecil McNeil and least too at Sunda -weakenin the IVlunicipal Itraiinagc tario's well known lumbermen, died his physician ordered hien to bed for Y School next Sttn-, Traffic on our roads'continues, to in- Miss. Mary attended a . wedding in l Oease enormously, and indications aro in a court'of coin- at the residence of his daughter, Mrs, a complete rest fora couple of tt,eeks, day Morning: Come yourself and ;highly respected '"citizens, last Friday: and, at the evening service the choir 'morning.. Mr, Duffy had not been in number was "I have made my Choice 'good health for three, weeks, his Heart to Follow Christ each, Day." that the traffic of 1.926 will be greater than ever. The condition of our roads over the county shows the effects of this increasing traffic, and cloying tftu king dry summer months theybecame very pitted and sough. This condi- this ondi- `'` `"`" would "`" I3anover last week. 1 Moreover, the payment lir of W, F. Moser, 843 Logan Avenue, on Last Friday morning, feeling quite bring the children. Classes for all Mon law, : Mo eov p Y e v Irene Mundell s cert Sunda 1 i money ill• lace a black ;nark Miss P Y Saturday, after a few hours' illness, well again, he rose, and while prepar- ages, • Good music, Interesting less-', t r s i y w Place evening with•Eleanor and Minnie Jef-Tin his 86th ear, The late NIr, areae in to tape his breakfast he suddenlyons. on a creditable reord. 'The cage- Ertl y < ' J g i , , peers of the Department of Highways y son v*as' a native of Lynden, Ont., experienced a shortness of breath, Services next Sunday will be,. 11 a. Timothy says, ' balky horses and „ who inspected this drain advised me'land lead during his busy life as a and sank; clown on a chair: Mrs, Duf- ni.., -.elle Double Cure.' 7 p: m., Thy men with weak hearts should be ship lumber merchant operated at Tees- `i and sou FTerbert assisted him" that they'could see no value repro P Y ec to Touch has still its Ancient Power. ped to the States, but°1 say let thein r �, seated bythis assessment and that water, Blyth, Bannockburn .and other !the couch, but death ensued almost The United Church is for the general tion gives very' poor' service, and the � join lap with the curlers. the cold not a rove of the usual sections. He homesteaded for some immediately, Deceased was the eld- good of the public and: community Y 4 pp he Bel ?rely course to be taken rs'•to groom our, The re -alar meeting of t roads 'more intensive maintenance. Roads which have not been reshaped within the past few years are high in the centre, and loose gravel placed on thein is soon forced to the edge, the centre becomes . bare and unpro- tected and soon becomes 'rough. The only remedy for this condition is to reshape' these roads so that they are practically flat, and have only sufli- cient crown to shed,the water. . In carrying out this work the ditclias should also be reconstructed and the grades widened. ',It is imperative that ruuch, of this work be done during 1926. During ' the , coming construction season there will be the usual amount of bridge construction and maintenan- ce, and in connection with the main- tenance nearly all of our b.ibridgesdges should be painted. Some machinery formerly, used on, the roads deleted from the system in 1925 92S wi l'available ..elsewlhere-this 1 be year,. but,' a number of sci•aI ers' and Y , other small ernP leinents must he.pur- chased. The matter of replacing some of our tractors has been considered before, and no doubt sonte action s1iculd be taken. The use of tractors of greater Horsepower will, no doubt, keep our crushers running more stea- dily, and at lower cost,- 1loadconstruction should be car- ried on at various points,rthroughout the county, as follows: Road •No. °30, Howick, northerly from the, south town line.. Road, No. 28, Howick, northerly froth concession 2. Road No. 24, Grey, westerly 'from lot 6o. Road No. 21, the town line, Turn - berry and Grey, and westerly, Road No. 21, westerly from Iot 19, West Wawanosh. Road No, 25, westerly from lot 16, Colborne 'township. Road No. 2' Stanley, southerly from lot Lake Range. Road No: 2, Hay, northerly fiorlt Port Blake, load No, 36, UJsborne, from subsidy 'being•,• paid toward it, This time at Biggar, Sask.; and had lived est son of Mr. and Mrs, Patrick J. 1 ld more Literary Society was e on ietiiecl in Toronto [or the past 14g will be the first ire rr of expenditure a _ Duffy, and was born in Pilkington Monday evening Feb. 8th, The 1 r es -1 ears. He is survived byhis widow: township; y made on the IItrroti county gad syr- Y p; near Elora, The family ident Mr, Henry' Johann acted as 'two daughters, Tris. W. F. Moser and y y a tem to be disallowed by the ttario came to Howick over fifty ears ago, chairman. The program consisted of 1 Highways Department for bad 'work Mrs, J. E. Davis, both. of Toronto, and sonic years later to Carrick. too selections singing readinms etc nianslup since the syster l ,Was inaugu- rated in,1917, The Holrnesville ,,bridge over the, should be under Goveiaunent Control last of the Jameson -branch of the fa - 1 River 11a been' subjected to Maitland It v r s b s aj rather than private). The affirmative ' rilY—Toro to I nn � ZV ail & Empire, ice jamming against it lin' the past, was taken by Otto Johann and Myr- and in view of the; :fact that it was inMy s. Stokes while the negative was up- home in :Toronto after visiting with g being danger of broken 'do ,vu and held by Elmer ZinnandJames Disk- 1 r .pother -in-law, i\Irs. II. Davis washed away it was deemed expedient song. After which a humorous Jour- 'home e- 1 who is quite -low at present. The late to raise.it. This was done. at a cost nal was read b ' 1Miss Mabel Stokes„ 8r, o onwhich the Province' } Y \Ir. Jameson conducted a sawmill on of $ 4,, :Ile decision of the debate was given the farm now owned byMi George will pay $1792,6o, Other, expenditures -in favor of the affirmative ttlte Judges g on .county bridges, amounted to -were liter. Hainitbn, Messrs. Scott, Falconer, 2.11d concession of Culross, $ 4o8,24. Tiiglis•' and Win Weir. The meeting 1 The Late William Hastie The report gave a statement of was brought do a close by singing One of the few remaining pioneers amounts spent on "deleted" roads in "God Save the Xing." tc e passed peacefully away on 1925, amounting to>$io,804.93, and Mr. Robert Baird has disposed of of How1 1 s P Y Y Wednesday evening of last week. in amounts spent on county roads, $38,- his property here, to Mr. James I. n Mr. William Plastic in -- 657.32. Scott, Mr, Baird and family intend, the 9111 r 573 his 79th year.' moving to a farm 'near Blyth in the Grants to towels ,and villages were Mr. Hastie was the eldest sort of nearfuture: as follows: near the late Capt. FIastie and when a lad ,,/ There were a' great Member from of about nine years of :age came to Brussels, re Turnbe'rry St $ 1400.00 these parts attended the .funeral of Howicli with his parents from Den- mark Cwho settled on lots 1 County, Y, and 2 on ,the 9th. concession. He was married in 1878 and his wife prede- ceased hint about seven weeks; Their 111111N1111111111111111118111111111111111111111111111K1 1111B111tg union was 'blessed" by three sons; Williaila ®r S•R. of Gorrie, Gordon of Ttu•riberr• and Milton �'+ ti i ton at home and ��.e ,— Li one daughter, who died in infancy. One of tlie. best 200 acre = Since his marriage deceased had lived farms' in North Huron with ' on lot 2, until the death of his wife w• good buildings, r 12 acres bard- - since then lie has made his liome with wood' bush, 20 acres fall wheat, a his son Writ R,, in Gorrie Mr. Has - A never failing well, all in a good Ili tie was a, Presbyterian in religion and state of cultivation and close to IR in politics a Liberal, gl-Te wsa a man three different markets, i• of unassuming character and highly On account of the owner's; = respected by all who knew hint, The funeral which was prit=ate tailing health this property will.� � ' be sold cheap. = took place to Wroxeter cemetery on Saturday afternoon last The family � Now is the time to buy as the = S Y valtte of farm land is certain to s have the Sympathyof all in their be- - increase during the /told year or _• reavcment, 11-1u ABNER COSENS Insurance and Real Estate. ill hMI II�f11�IlliMill�l l Iii l Irf I IlMIIIMIII�III�iI IM� rtan- Winghanl,foul a of rt nual grants Hensall, fourth of To'annual' grants Clinton, for improvement of Connecting links Goderich, for hiiproveinent of connecting, links 6766,00 3055.00 1500.00 29495S $1567o.58 The machinery account shows ° that new machinery ^ryas purchased ,luring the year as follows; Sia. snowplows $200; 38 road plows, $1748; one No, 4 'grader, 8o 22 gr ade , $ •9 2• , Sii sera 00.- P scrapers, ,. 28; 5 gravel screens, $122 to; one uin $50--2-total 25oi:iO, Machinery p P, $ 5 , � repairs, $1490,45. Under the heading "Superintend- ence were the following' items: Sal- ary of county engineer $3,000; railway fares,. ,$8.38; automobile expenses, 1$359.40; hotel bills, $71.80; clerical assistance, $73o; Stationery, $259.46; telephone and telegraph,' $92.9,5,' ex- penses to conference, $4o.15—total, Thant- $456z14 Mr. Duffy at Huntiirgfield. on Monday of last week,' • A special meeting of the W. M. S. two. All: BORN Radford—in Walton on February 8th. to Mr, and Mrs. Ernest Radford, a 5011. - .Thirty-two years ago he was married to Miss Mary Haskins, and after a short stay on the 4111 concession they moved to Belntore, About twenty 'years M •. Duffy. aur hale ago i c d the f. farm:. on the first concession of Car- rick, upon which be resided eversin- ce. Deceased was a nasal of reinark` able physique; being tall and excep- tionally well built, and had been "a is very active man. He, was nearing his 67th birthday, but he looked fully fi- fteen years younger.• He was fair and 'honorable in all his business dealings, and those who knew 71irn best were his staunchest friends. In his home life; he was, an ideal parent, and it was his greatest delight to have his family about Inn and enjoy their companion ship, His sudden ;and unexpected dea- th was a crushing blow to t.he, family, to whom is extended the deepest syni- 'paths of a wide circle of friends, Mr. Duffy is survived by his widow, two � "t flit Renwick of daughters; Mrs. S e Wingham, Miss Freda Duffy of De- troit, and one son, Herbert at home;, also by tvt o sisters, Mrs. 1), McPher- son of Wiugham and Mrs, Henry Busby. of "Carrick and two grandchil- dren, Frank and Roy Renwick. The funeraTtook place on Monday afte•- ,noon to'the Mildmay Evatigelieal 'ce- metery. Service was held by Rev. C. N. MaeXenzie in the McIntosh Chur- cit, at which the building was crowd- ed' to the doors. The pallbearers Were the six brothers -0r -law of the deceased, Messrs, Albert, Wesley and', Daviel Haskins, ',Joint Wilton, Henry Busby and Jonathan Hugill, Rev. ,MtcGowan of Mildmay assisted at the services at , the grave—Mildmay Gazette: Mrs, Renwick has the sympathy of her i my Wirtghain friends, Her fa- titer the late M. Duffy Was a :con- tractor and worked on the erection of the Wingliarn • ; Methodist Cla'rarc}a, twenty-five years ago. life. A Sabbath well spent brings a week of content Give the church a fair trial: .It has a message for you and yours. FRED DAVEY Village Clerk • Issuer of Marriage Licences The law now requires the license be taken out three days before the .cere- niony: Subscription taken for the Advance -Times. Clubbing rates given NORMAN WADE Gorrie, Ontario Agent for Hartford Wind Insuraiscd Also Walkerton. Fire Insurance Co. Automobile, Lire Stock and PIate Glass Insurance DR, H. A. MUTTON Graduate of Royal College of Dental Surgeons of Ontario Graduate `of University of Toronto. At Fordwich Tuesday and Thursday At Gorrie the rest of the week, GEO.' FOWLER L.D.S., D.D.S. Teeswate'r, Ontario Will be at the Gofton HottSe, Wro;. aeter est and 3rd Wednesday of each month: Will be at Gorrie the follow- ing Thursday, G, S, DAWSON GORRIE' Director of Funeral Services Motor Hearse or Carriage, w ever is required, Phone it HARRY AIKINS 1'ordwach, Ontario Licensed Auctioneer for the Counties Of Huron and Wellington Phone t9 Or atterson's Hardware Store