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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1917-07-20, Page 4TUE IiERA ..D Issued Thumaday a£ternoone from the HeRALD PRINTIIriG C r'FICE Mems of eebscriptiozl $1 per year In advance; $1,5Q may be charged d£ not so plaid. U. S. subecripti- Wee $1.50 strictly in advance. No paper discontinued until all ar- irears are paid unless at the option Of the publisher, ;The date to which every subscription is paid is denoted on the label. ;Advertising Rates— Transient ad- vertisements, 10 cents per line for first insertion and 4 cents per line for each subsequent insertion Small advertisements not to ex- •ceed once inch, such as "Lost," "Strayed," or "Stolen," etc., in- eert;ed once for 25 cents, and each subsequent insertion 10 cents Communication intended for pub- ' licaation must, as a guarantee of good faith, be accompanied by the name of the writer. Address all communications to. /THE HERALD PRINTING CO. ZURICH, ONTARIO. COUNTY NEWS; ' ihjlr, .G. `M. Kidd, ore the Goderieh Poultry `arm, has lost nearly the ;whole `,of his 'large flock of chick- ens through the ;operations of thie' es. About to month ago same 400 roirds 'were taken aand on the, other night the robbers made a second :visit arid pretty nearly ieleaned out the place, leaving six- mty-sevens chickelns out of a flock of sone thousalnd.. Ransford, tsars of John Rans,ford a prominent raiser and. ,laimer,:near Clinton, nas recently attacked by his Jers 'y buil, and haad a .ivery marrow escape from being 'Ikil'led by the enraged an- iamal.. Mr. Rans+•ord was making some :repairs in ;th,e stable, when the ;bull broke loose and attacked ram • an is prang passage, which ianade escape almost impossible, and 'as is ,result he fought the aan- imal ifor o'. rr 15 minutes. Mr. Bansford suffered othing more venous than some broken bones tried 'bruises. lei the annual ;meeting of the 'directors of South Huron Board lof Agriculture, held hi Rennie on June ;26th, it .avers decided to hold „gulling feourses• this year at d Kirktoxi, and _,_stings Exeter,. Bensal'I,' i3ruce wield, (Zurich an•d 'Grand Bend The question of a District Represent dere •was considered acid it was aecidecl to again send a resolution to the County ,Council, asking them .to again 'consider the grant *orviard a district representative 3The officers for the year are ;Pres ident, Geo, Pe'nhate; Vice -preside tent. Fred. Ellerington ; Sec'y - !1?reas., A. H. Doupe; Executive, Ditrs. A. Bastings, D..W. McNaught - )on, Jas. 'T. Keys, W. R. Elliott, iAlex Buchanan. DIED I.awaason—In Stanley township, on i.uly `,6111, .George Lawrason, {ged�.79 Tears. MARRIED Baton—Mulholland-In Knox Pres- byterian church, Regiina, on July 4th, by Rev. Dr. Murdoch Me- ' Kinnon, D., D., Letitia Harkness 1Mulho'lland, ,eldest daughter of William Mulholland, of Seaforth to J. Paton of Dudley, Sask. HOMESEE!KERS° EXCURSIONS MAY 3th TO OCTOBER 30th Every TUESDAY "ALL RAIL" - also by THURSDAY'S STEAMER f' Great Lakes Routes" d (Season Navigation) Your Future is ion the West The fertile prairies have put Western Canada on the map. There are still thousands of acres waiting for the man Who wants a home and prosperity. Take advantage of Low Rates and travel via anathan Pacific W. B. HOWARD District Passenger Agent TORONTO ri'ake Notice that we run o17 Ithopper every Tuesday, Thursday -land Saturday afteenoon until fur. the notice, 121uuicii Tlr�lzr 11lill GRANT AND MARK TWO. When the Humorist Took the Stump For. the General. The year ISO was a presidential one. Mark Twain was for General •Garfield and made a number of remarkable speeches in his favor, General Grant came to Hartford during the campaign, and Mark Twain was chosen to make the address of welcome. Perbaps no such address of welcome was ever made before. He began: "I am among those deputed to wel• come you to the sincere and cordial hospitalities of Hartford, the eity of' the historic and revered Charter Oak, of which most of the town is built." He seemed to be at a loss wbat to say next, and, leaning over, pretended to whisper to Grant. Then, as if he had been prompted by the great soldier, he straightened up and poured out a fervid eulogy on Grant's victories,add- ing in an aside as 1}e finished, 'I near- ly forgot that part of my speech,' to the roaring delight of his hearers, while •Grant himself grimly smiled. He then spoke of the general being • now out of public employment, of how grateful to him his country was, and how it stood ready to reward him "in every conceivable—inexpensive way." Grant had smiled more than once during the speech, and when this sen• tense came out at the end his com• posure broke up altogether, while the throng shouted approval. Clemens made another speech teat night at the opera house—a speech long remember- ed in Hartford as one . of the great efforts of his life. A very warm friendship had grown up between Mark Twain and General Grant. A year earlier, on the famous soldier's return from his trip around the world, a great birthday banquet had been given hint in Chicago at which Mark Twain's speech bad been the event of the evening. The colonel who long before had chased the young pilot soldier through the Missouri bot- toms had become his conquering hero, and Grant's admiration for America's foremost humorist was most hearty.— Albert Bigelow Paine in St. Nicholas. A "BIT" OF MONEY. The Use of the Term to Designate a Small Coin is Very Old. There is more than one theory as to the origin of the term "two bits" and its multiples of "four bits," etc., as ap- plied to money. But according to a writer in the New York Sun the use of the word "bit" in the sense of a small coin is very an- cient. The "Colonial Records of Penn- sylvania",aver that at a council held• at Philadelphia '""ye 24tie elf Iiie" month, 1683, under the presidency of `Wm. Penn, Prop. and Gov.'" The Govr. terleth Ch. Pickering & Semi. Buckley of their abuse to ye Govermt in Quoning of Spanish Bitts and Boston mon- ey to the Great Damage and abuse to ye Subieets thereof:..... They confess they have put out some of these new bitts.... and in three other parts of the report of said council, the word "bitt" occurs again. But as a matter of fact for whole generations before that time a "bit" or "hitt" was as common a synonym for a small coin in the slang of thieves in England as were the variants "boung," "bung" and "pung" for a purse. In 1007 Thomas Decker said in his "Jests to Make Merle' If they once knew where the bung and bit is - And further back in 1592 Harman in his "Defence of Coneycatching" said: Some would venture all the byte In their bung at dice. What the real origin of the slangy "bit" is does not appear to be known, but it seems plausible that it is nothing more than the common every day "bit" In the sense of something small. Not So Easy as It Seemed. Twelve persons decided to lunch to- gether every dray and agreed not to sit twice in the same order. One of the number, a mathematician, surprised his associates by informing them that their decision meant that one and one. third -million years must elapse before they . would again be seated in the original order. Two men can sit to- gether only in two different ways, three in six ways, four in twenty-four, five in 120, six in 720, seven in 5,040, eight in 40,320, nine in 362,888, ten in 3,628,- 800, ,628;800, eleven in 39,916,800 and twelve in 479,100,600,—Buck fur Alie. Cost of Discovering America. The discovery of America cost a lit- tle more than $7,000, at least so say some documents that were found in the archives of Genoa. These documents give the value of Columbus' Beet as $3,000. The great admiral was paid a salary of $300 a year, the two captains who accompanied him received a sal- ary of $200 each, and the members of the crew were paid at the rate of $2,50 a month each. --American Boy. Her First Day In Church. The two trustees in the church took upthe collection in the middle aisle, then began in front again and worked the side aisles: "I Should think," whiwpered the small girl to her' father, "they would have four waiters , ePas for .each aisle:"e4 Newark News.`".• CORRESPQNDENCE I t ENTRANCE AND JUNIOR GB.t'iD- iJL4I'IQN IEXAM4x". I ° Miss L Ilealmeay, .of yde Plau e No. 5-- L'uretta :Brown, Mabel as holidaying ,with Mas., and Mrs, Brown, Russell Ratcliffe,• Charles Fred iPreetter at preset. Fisher, No. 6— Frank Routley, No, 1— Greta Andrew, honors; 11 ICIa'ra Hutchens 011. No. 10-- Elva Bolton, Agnes Douglas, ..Chr:sterna McDougall.• TeeCKER1SMITJI No. 1- Ruth Caldwell,Sadie !Clark, HAY SECTION .No. 1. Public School;-- Napoleon Demonic, Matilda Papeneau. No.l. Separate School;— Leo Corriveau. No. 3— Willie Blackwell, Annie Richardson. No. 4— Aredia Surerus. No, a2 — Norman Gascho, No. 14—Nellie :Petty. STANLEY SECTION No. 3.— Caroline Laurasan, Fern Taylor. No. 6.— Lulu G. Colclough. No. 10. Lorna Aikeinhead. No. 13. — Russell Barrett.. STEPHEN SECTION No. 1.— Edith Hogarth, Vivian Hogarth. No. 2. — Edward Chambers, Bee atrice IEn•elalnd. No. 6. Separate School;— There- sa Hall, Eileen O'Rourke, Evangel- ine vangel-ine .O'Hara. No. 10— Sara •Hod.eins. No 12— Donald 'Webb. No. 14— Edna fFaskett, Jessie Conner, Marion Neil. The following' were success- ful at the junior public school grad nation taeld in Junfe, 1917. !The diplomas will be sent to the teacher or the secretary of the scho of board when issued by the De- partnient of Education. To pass a eandidate must make 40 leer cent On each subject and 60 per cent of the total of the obligatory` subjects. To pass requires 600 marks and for honors 750 marks, The highest per tentage made in each subject are as follows. Reading— Myrtle Neeb, 86. (Writing -Jean Campbell, 96. ;Spelling—Margaret Hess, 100, • G ammar-Belie Errington,f3 Canadian History—Lottie flee Kensiie, 85. ' Geography — Eldon Becker and ,Crediton, on . Tuesday, the 3rd day Oscar Graupner, 87. off July 1917. at 1 p. m. All mem- Oscar — Jean Campbell and hers Jean Disher, 98. Algebra — John Barnard, 'Jean and 'adopted. Campbell, Oscar Grauoner, Merger- 'The. teoliowing orders were pas - et Hess, Amber McKensie ' and sed;- Margaret 'Pentlatnd, 100. M. Tinlebeiner, cul Con. 8, $1.25; Art Margaret Hess, 55. J:os. Brenner, cement wallas at Gr- Scienee Greta Baker and Ed- land Bend, 139.000 Centralia Red ward Mer+"r•, 51. CYoss Branch, County grant, 100.00; (Boolc.Keeping - Nelle Priestf :.Crediton Red Cross branch County and Edward Meriner.91. DASHWOOD . Mr, ',l.', Mcisaac and Mrs O, Rests aaxneyeu' attended ;the funeral of their brother the late John Me, (setae. The ,deceased ,was well i nowin around ,here. , l 011188; pA, trung ;rreturineld to her „homie fin • .V!elneedy, .Ill., after visit- ink at the Lutheran parsonage, !Mir. G. fIW. (Shore, of Woodbridg is visiting in the viil(age this week, , 1 e , i• Mr. 'Clarence Kellerman has ad- ded la new ik(i�tchen to his house. Miss ',Euloe,en •Guenther enter - tattled the members of her Sapinday icholol Class ;(at her house Mon - ay evening, 1 , 'fr r.. (G. A. Snider alnd•family of ilydingtoin,Ohio, are visiting re- tive's` itaere.. ( "' (Misses %da . and 4Vierda Fassold spent: . 'few {days at (Zurich last' week. t ; A lMiss Maida Routledge its visit-, ing in El/44 this weak. {Miss Lydia Schroeder ;of Exet- er ;is visiting (at her home north. of town, .. i' HENSALL ;The dutch sets are looking fine and :a good chop is expected. Mr. 1Whitesides recently took three ,young men of Dashwood to Goderich on a .charge of placing obstructions an a public highway Judge Dickson imposed a fine of $50.00 and costs on each and bound hem over. Mr. 'und Mrs. H. Webber and daugh''er of Houston, Texas,:are bllsitin • relatives in this vicinity. A. G. Case, G. T. R. agent, has been holidaying in Detroit and .Toron''o. ; $160 was realized at the recent strawberry social held by Carmel iehurch.. ' `• Rev. Mr, Kneght, Mrs. Knight and Miss A. Oonsitt attended the summer school at St. Thomas'last • The Council of the Township of Stephen iciolnvene.d in. the Town Hall were present. 'The minutes of mtihe . previous iueetin;g were read Total Jean Campbell, 848. Out of 40 candidates the follow- ing were successtful;— BAYFIELD P. S. Greta .Baker 773,•honors. 'CREDITON P. S. Irene Brandon, 662; Eldon Beck- er, 695. 1DASHIWOO;D P. S. Oscar iGraupner, 768, honors Myrtle Nee'b, 729; Ira Tiernan, 697; and Florence Turnbull, 780, honors. ;WINCHELSEA P. S. Grace Barnard, 745; John Barn- ard, '748; Theron Creery, 793, hon- ors ; Lorena Johns, 775, honoree' Bruce Meddd, 720; (HENSALL P. S. Mabel Harburn, 728; Mary Hog- garth, 758, honors; Nellie Priest, 768, Ip.onors. iZURIOH P. S. Jean Campbell, 848, honors; Mar- garet Riess, 782, honors; Willie. Manson, 805, honors; Edward Mer - nen • 797, hotnors. Besides those reported above,, three 'othelr pupils of Zurich school passed at !!Easter and went to fettl Sr. •Gracluatidn — Lorne Man- son, ;honors. 1 • Jas. Graduation ; — Marshall La- porte and iCdareince Park. STANLEY SECTION S. S. No. 4, north— Elva F. Dew- ar, 129; Harold D. Scotehrner; 732; Esther 0 aibot, 679; Bertha West- lake, 675. S. S. No. 13—Elmore Keys,653. BLAKE !Osv ig o the wet weather oaa, fruesday night, the Lawin S!ocimala1:, P 1Nlabso(n's has been postponed" to onda,y evening, July 23rd.. flho Ki,ltie Band and the'Bfiglajf'jiiCl, :Pipers will the in ;attelndantee, grant,: 100.00; Dashwood Red Cross 'breech, County grant, 50.00; Gre- ene/ay Red Cross branch, County graGnt, 50.00 ; Grand Bend Red Cross branch, County grant, 100.00; N. :Clarke, re•Sund of statute labor, 10.00; H. Clark contract, Blk 7,S.B. 16.00; Aaron Ireland drawing gran .for, Keys' Bridge 26.00; J. J. Car- ruthers cam. work, con 21, 25.00 Eder, Wilds Rep. drain, N. B.1.00 H. Yearly Rep Mud Creek Drain, 1;50; John Gill, tile, 2.50; R. Car- ruthers tile, 1.20; Gea. Mason con- tract; Allister's side -road 25.50; F. McKeever gravel, 26.10; ditto,5.00; ditto, 1.50; Shenk & Fahner, grad- ing, , 12.00; R.' Hodgins, drawing gravel, 25.00; Geo. Bicks, grading S. B., e3.:80; A. Hicks, grading S. B., 14.00; H. Clark, concrete culv- ert, 5.00; El. Clark cul and tile lot 31, S. B. 26.00; Chas. Silber, rep. 3rd S. Rd., 21.00; A. S. Code, engineer's •exp , 150.00; H. Beaver, roof on:Town Hall, 147.55; F. W. t'H'arneonib, . Mees re; Adair award, e3.55; Municipal World, sup. 20.00; Canadian Law Book Co. Municipal Manual, 20.00; Thos. Webb & others grading N. B. 46,00; ditto, 18,40; David Webb, advance on bridge .constructidn, .25,00, iThe council adjouened to meet again en the Town Hall, Crediton, on Monda'y, the 6th day of Aug- ust 1917 at 1 p. an. , \Henry Dither, clerk CREDITON Our streets have been given a coat of oil. Chris Palmer had to -shoot a valuable horse the other day owing to sickness, i1rs. Mary Alin England passed away at the home of her daught- er on July 5th. • Otto Ewald has operkK1 up a buteher shop 1T1 tl?wh1. Western Fair London, Canada to 15t Sept.. 7thh! 1917' 1887..»i1 Half Century of Szaceess"...,191'x'' The Great Agricultural Exhibition of Western Ontario 1bi i� n � U _ $32,000 in Prizes and Atttactions A very interesting Programme, including Military and other features—TWICE DAILY. FIREWORKS EACH NIGHT TWO SPEED EVENTS DAILY REDUCED RAILWAY RATES Prize Lists, EntrylFoims and all information from the Secretary. LIEUT.-COL, W. M. GAM:SHORE, A. M. HUNT, President Secretary see Don't experiment when you paint your house. Alt experimenting has been done for you, and the result of years of experience in making Paint and of innu a merable practical and scientific tests is SWP, Sherwin.' Williams Paint (Prepared). There is an exactness in the formula, and a thoroughness i the mixing and grinding of the pure ingredients that insures ►erfect painting results. A gallon of SWP. ill cover, if `dn yiiu ever'Tlf`iougf finis -s s e a str ' its color so well that its use is genuine econot; ld b , Preetc Zurich London Life Policies are "CCCIJ AS .GOLD" Ninety-seven per cent of the public when they attain ad- vanced age have little or nothing to Give upon, and are either dependent upon relatives or public; charity for support. Protect your future by a popular insurance policy in the London Life. All the popular plans of insuranca written,. For particulars apply to Andrew (IF. Hess,7. Local Agent DRYSDALE ,CARD OF THANKS Louis Durand of near Drysdale wishes to express his 'sincere and I ;Wa'"':' i ---+--- heartfelt thanks to all thosekivnd friends •w"ho assisted him in his recent bereave;m:ent and to all those who contributed to the sub scription ,list taken up which am- ounted to ov ger $200.00. 1917 CLUBBING LIST -._.:. EXETER Dr. 1Hyndman has received word that his brother was drownded Cooking Lake near Edmonton. He was a returned soldier: IW. E. Sanders sod his 75 acre fanan on the !2nd clon., Stephen, to A. 0. Feanois, golf Usblorinei. Ted lions ;of Stephen was kick- ed lin (the lace the other day by a colt. He twigs fseverly bruised. A Resource Committee has been orglanized in Exeter. Samuel Lamporte, a well known citizen of this sectioin, died at. his homage here onJuly 9th in his .56th yealr; i (J. W. Powellfl attended the Ed- ison dealers eclnvention at New York last week . 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