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Home My WebLink AboutThe Huron Expositor, 1918-01-04, Page 1• • • -ORCOND Y A 01.1i 14111111Elt 24/2 f ......... Greig Clothing Co'y Second to None" '0'...".4•00`044.4••••••*•••••• EAFORTH,O, FRIDAY JANTJ RY 4, 1918 let 1•••••••=0.1111••••••••••tollallima••••••13•OMM •••••••••••••••• „ 4 • Intensely cold weather turns the attention of all people to warmer clothing, Our special sale at this time deals exausively with heavy goods of all sorts. An advantage worth whge, because all such goods,are advancing rapidly in price Invested Now will go as far as one dollar. and Lhalf later on -„ • See partial partial _list bellow of goods 'offering : We show a v-ery,large4ange of the choicestrbest qual- ity furs. We stand alma and guarantee every gar- ment we sell, protec ing all customers. Make an early selection, you get b tter picking. Heavy i'rice Reduction in Coon Coats, China Beaver Coats, Black Wolf Coats, Black Dog Coats, Musk Rat Coats, Red Fox Sets, i3lack Wolf Sets, Natural Wolf Sets, Sable Sets, Mink Marmot Sets, Persian Lamb Sets, Jap Coon Sets, Natural Lynx Sets, Sable Opposum Sets, Musk Rat Sets, Persian Lamb Cdps, Seal Caps, Odd Muffs, Stoles and Scarfs. All prices so much reduced that •a fur purchase of any kind is made easy on the purse. OVERCOATS and Coat Sweaters On Sale ust now at the beginning of winter you have the oppor- tunity to buy what you really need. Don't wait until the best of these are gone. Overcoats $12 to $20 Coat Sweaters S2 to $7 Greig Clothing Co SE AFORT11 ett•O*********040040.00.40,000•0490:›ie 1 1 Why is this thus? He is perfe well aware that there is re more f less form of human endeavor than [passing, of resolutions -whether i vidnally or in eo mitte . He Itn th . at he won't ca out his noble p for his moral im rovem itt, -mid t if he did, they. would make - him tremely unco , e :12,1,ce proved is a, pa a Than does it ,to done by legal ena, . ',,t or *GOA*. And yet melliOns of mei-the hati are ustially eith too i or good to do it -go jright n year • year making the same silly set .resolutions that hardly lest out N Year's Day. i It is a natural reactiOn from too much Christmas key and pudding: sauce? There he o stronger impulse. towards moral advancement than an, attack of indigesti n, Just as soon as we get a pain denthe pimiy out inind seems to t to higher andleet- ter things, things of the spirit -.-(we trust the reader 11' make no riba suggestions concerning the sort - spirits we probably tura to.) Chri mas bills may also have emnething do with this sudden desire for upli •'ANOTHER PAGE. Of course, there is int 1.a.1 and co- gent reason why a man should break i out n a rash of good resolutions on• New Year's Eve -"rash' is right But - the rasher they; are, the more a seems impelledl, to ;fortie them throws his evil Old pipe e out the dow, put the ca e good t in a dist and in accessibl corner ;of, the eel and giveeiup sw, aring, Sunday mo ings in bed, miice pie, oharus and •debt. coated and silk-battedeiightly glazed as to the eye and le doggish Toll to their gait, but debonair, and deter- mined, men not to be (taunted by any thing in bowl, bottle or barrel. man "And it's y self, Mrs. Doolan, tha He lights up the w Year like the morn win- ing sun steppi on the hill tops," say ant the gallant B rnarcl O'Reien-he ha lar, • already said i to eighty-seven othe rn- ladies that a ternoon. Shure, ye had a bit of the Blame, Stone in yer teetiiin&ing," archl etly ruit- the ndi- owS lane hat, ex- Irs,- sorted Punches, PrAieSSI Iiimaelf, Or , :replies Mrs. Dookin, .11A won't Y sprinkle yer compliments with a littl rum punch?" I ' And the gailarit 1 d sprinkle with three fingers of a and vigo s Wine irl. He h ous compoundlthat _• •make th head of Beech had' three gallons *0* :or less of a ALS- toddie cake to bulge t p steiunitiN • But with ..to MOO he is et1.11 know a thaVilomehow b will tike him home Brien:Will nurse hi th pro*' tcluderne he8 perform and a social e and fer- , and. enoiigh it , *mos on a tra • ,,forty more ea °es*daunted. R. amnetime his. too 1 aftel and that Mrs. of back to life ow .She will know the• duties of a gentle* favorite with genuine 5 vnre Nothing but in the family e to bed conscio in those reckl That -was befor about hardenin cirrhosis of th some unusually developed a in treinens' but n and the will o it. It was reit getting a cinder erious aent or death eused who went on New ear's. night s but happy yea people lei* W-anythi 'of the *arteries Id . liver isk* and t of, soft-headed gitetle st- or en an ld case of deliri m to ft. igneminedattache to It is wonderful hew virtu* -a man gets when. he discovers thae his in- come won't permit of hie being' any- thing else. • But there is also something in t occasion itself. A man may forg his own birthday,' and thus escape m ancholy reflections such h milesto on the road of life suggest to one after one has passed thirty -odd , thern. ButNew Year's Day is an, niversary there ie no overlookingt is the birthday of the hurean race, to speak. The world is a year old a • year wiser and sadder end wearier. se rded. as *enisfort ne God, something. like in your ,eye , But they are 'allt.geti sw, thoseWale-Reeve, Dr. W. J. Milne, N. nold-fashioned leash ge en whom A. Taylor, J. Cutt, Gut, Blackwell, t? • we remember as a little. Aid to have Homey. Councillors -H. A. Thom '• seen pouting our generous libations Henry Horney, B. D. Crittenden J. ei to the gods of laughter and -good for- E. Taman, R. H. Robinson. Sc tune ' on those distant_ pn Year's G. E. McTaggart, John Mains, G Da.ys. Light the turf tiove them, White, Herb. McIlmer, Luxton Hill. nt and may their raves be ',green ewith Clinton -Mayor, D. Thompson, A. an- mint! This is more eeneible otind T. Cooper, Reeve, James Ford, A: It pore decorous age, but itis also much T. Cooper, R. J. Miller. Councillors -- s° duller People eat and drink and kill A. T. Cooper, Murray McEwen, W. er one another with a sort • of coldly T. Hawkins, Bert Langford, W. J. Paisley, Wiltse, G. J. Wallis, R. J. Miller, W. J. Nediger, J. P. Shep- herd. Utilities Comenission-H. Wiltse and B. J. Gibbings. Schtocil Board --N. Ball, T. J..McNeill, J. Rands, J. S. Evans (acclamation). Hensall.-Reeve, J W. Ortwein, A. Smith, G. C. Petty. Councillors --J. W. Ortwein, W. F. Pfaff,' T. Hud- son, George Hudson, John Coulter. School Trustees- W.M. Harburn, G. J. Sutherland, George Foffick. Bufiedd--Reeve, A.E. Erwin. doun.. WSitintelj&weekit,CAPWY. Elliott R 3. Fer- - Trustees-G. E. Greenslade, George King, Fred Geminhardt. All elected by acclamation. Tuckersrnith - Reeve, Cede Councillors. Thomas Colenin, Jno, Mc- Naughton, R. P. Watson, Jos. Crich. All elected by acclamation. McKillop -.Reeve, J. M. Govenlock. Councillors, F. McQuaid, J. M. Reg - seats, people, for the Big Show in the main tent in now on. • MUNICIPAL NOMINATION Seaforth-Mayor, 3. .A. Stewa aeclaertation, ex -Mayor Harry Ste retiring. Reeve -F. Harburn, V. 3. 3. Cluff, John Grieve, V.S. cillors-Wm. Golding, Robert tosh, George P. Cardno, John G V. S., Thomas Stephens, Jaes E. L. Box, F S Savaugc, '} ton. Water, Light and Sewer Lae sion-Jt F. Daly (acclamation). Brussels -Reeve S. T. Plum. cillors-S. Wilton, ,D. Walker, M. ser and G..4. Best, all bytacclama Goderich-Mayor, B. C. Munn Dr. A. H. 1VIacklin, E. R. Wigl Sanders, Reeve -R. H. Cat, J Laithwaite, E. R. Wigle, C..4. N and Robert, McLean. Deputy Ree Dr, W. F., Clark, J. J. Moser. Co cillors, R. H. Cat, T. M. Davis Wallis, C. M. Robertson, H. J. Cooke, John Story, Dr. Clark, J. Wilton, 3. J. Moser, A. J. Paltri C. H. Humber, R. R. Sallows, Walker, H. T. Edwards. Water Light Commbisioners-prank Ell J. W. Craigie, A, S. Chrystall, L. McLean. School' Trustees -R., • Acheson, A. J. Cooper, A. Saun J. W. Craigie, Thomas Gundry. Exeter -Reeve, B. W. F. Beav Councillors -Wm. Penhale, Jesse ston, C. B. Snell, Louis Day. ities Conunission-K. H. E. Hues School Trustees -A. E. Fake, F. Gladman and E. M. ' Dig all being elected by acclamat Mr. Aarnstrong resigning, in fave Mr. Dignen. Wingham-Mayor, F. 114.13inkl H. B. Elliott, Simon Mitchell. Re -Aid. Tipling, J. W. McKibben, Isbister. MeLICAN 11110€4 Pailashern $1.50 a Year in Advance ••••••••••••••••••••••~•••••mamwar*-- About the greatest trouble that cmoes 1 No, 5 , 81 64 to, a trustee board is the constant No. 6 , 45 50 changing. of teachers; it is still going l N 7 . • di 68 S. on in the schools near us. There is• ' rt by always a good deal of time lost to the eNvi, pupils in the change let the teacher afl• be ever so good. We engaged Mrs. 4-'4' • ehenham five and one half years ago. No. Conn- _her salary for the last three years Ian- has been $60G. Now as the minimum - 84 Hriaeyv:: salary for inexperienced teachers has •Recapitulation. oil been $600: surely Ars. Farnham can- A lif ld 368 384 16, Wroxeter 64 30 e not be accused of being too anxious Colborne . it1116- nett eatery when she asked for the Gresr ; °tun- $6ou way has not nearly the pur- Morris tion. years ago. Mr. t..otear says the -inane ' of $50, for we all know that 'Howiek • Fra- chasing power tnat $600 had three Turnberry incti trustees said No. lies part of our 'business is supposed in a way to be •ai‘-': private. However, he has been =is- in.formed; the trustees said nothing ve- of the kind, but being -expected by the seedehitotnietoiedss9, twhheiebhesatethtioelly oconu)dur, opaireft-, 110 D' feel none too 'proud of, and the teach - D. „ 15C3 24 64 . • 278 63 56 West Wawanosh 107 East Wawanosh Myth • eree4aes*ose,... 92 Brussel; 1600110**04140,60. 45 Galeria . • .ees•O•401i • 428 Winghaia . .... ........ 226 Wroxeter 34 16 8 ,••••••10, er accepted it When we consider that I majority for Bovnoon, Unionist, 1479' dgee Mrs.. Farnham has had twelve years Wes- experience in teaching and that this and is. one of the heaviest schools in the township with an enrolment of 38.and w,• an average attendance of 33. There have been a goodly number of pupils ders, to try the entrance examinations in this time and not one of the number en' has failed. In 1914, five tried, all El - e passed and two took honors and one Tette took the tountry scholarship. Now trynn• aside from this there is a teachers' " • moral influence en the children, who nail, are so much of their time under her ion. care. No trustee.who thinks serious - r ly can overlook this. Surely any ee trustee 'board will have. the :approval vat of the ratepayers in raising the salary eve of a -teacher who has given such 88t18- • faction faction and I am satisfied that they will. Yours very sincerely, H. Thos. E. Livingston, Secy.-Treas, as, S. S. No. 1, Hullett J;J ;tool ELECTION RETVRNS FOR NORTH eo. •' HURON. : And so, dearly beloved' reader, we all feel impelled at this season to . go through that frivolous and rambling process which we dignify by the name of reflection. We smoke our cigar more thoughtfully than 'eusual after dinner, while we revive soOthing Mem- ories of pies we stole from mother's pantry, boys we, licked at i'school, and girls that kissed' as When we were too m w'oung to defend/ourself, This is our way of bluffing ourselves that we have : :Intreadchzdgewg! !ehiloso.p,1!!yb,bre..!_dtle fa It seemito be e basic need of human in nature to stop now and then and look fit backwards and forward along the road. Both views are probajely almost equal- we ly misleading -p, grown mait's recol- lections of his 'boyhood are no more ett to be trusted than his 'mums of the. re years to come. But it is a natural es and salutary thing to .do, just the same. It helps one to establish some sort of continuity in the kaleidoscopic patterns of life. Just for al moment we seem to drop an anchor through the swift tides and gain e fleeting rreeesktr grappled to the fundamental ientific preci ion Persenatly, we like .the old times best -it is our in- grained cussedn ss,,perhapi, or mere- ly a premonitory eyroptoin• of middle age. We say "premonitory" by way of kidding ourse f • - It may be, t.., that.the:etrelis and peril of the pres nt leads .4ne to take refuge in retros ; ,Certhiely there is little tempta leetc forward to a future o el At and hea Ihanetetlir tening. xch,1 chnids so ation rather t n the traditionally _10111 en the most at Optim' M inu. ee, the 'F,ivii• ontlmf.7. ', 'fretten-, iitteeen;\41' i a wenn- detsirm- ting one of jo oas expectancy g ' j And so, person ly, we look not for - rd, but backw d. We cheer ourself by recalling ew Year's' Days of ago, when. we sat silent • and und-eyed in .the corner of the parlor tening to the sleigh -bells as they tingled up to the door, and watching in stamping. the s ow hone their boots the very merry ,;entlemen who came. elected by acclamation. ele, John Dodds, G. D. C. Harn. All and shaking it from their greet -coats Grey—Reeve, R. Livingstotie. Coun- t° wish their frends the best their cillors, W. Fraser, Oliver Harris. Dep- 1, hearts desire. ; uty Reeve, John McNabb. All elected ' Perhaps we iilernber it so well, because the toddy was, not . for us. Older heads were probaly vaguer. We sat on the beaded ottoman. in the cor- ner, to be led out gravely bythe hand from time to tiine, and presented to mellow gentlemen I who gazed at us over glasses of punch and commented dispassionately on our appearance and our resemblance to various relatives. Sometimes, in answer to leading ques- tions, we told their' our age and that we were a good boy -on the latter point grandenoth r seldom furnished much corrobation.j Then we were given another carrawa -seed biscuit, and sent back to the corner to .wonder if • the punch tasted as good as it smelled. an. R. McGowan. And now all that is as extinct as the Fullarton-Reeve, S. C. Millson (ac - dodo. There are no more New Year's clamation). Councillors, L. F. W. Calls, no more bowls of punch -they Turner, J. G. Ray, C. Ratz, We W. don't even. make such carraway seed Rodger, Jas. Nairn, Harvey Willis. biscuits as we tasted then. Instead Stephen ,. Reeve, W. R Elliott; people sit sedately in the bosoms of deputy reeve, John Love, Wm. Year - their families and drink tea and dis- ley; councillors, Alex. Neeb, Thomas cuss the news from the Italiate front Mawhinney, David Webb, John Hays, or the probable course of the new Un- Gorge Penhale, Russel Warner. ion Government. As General Sherman said, war is certainly , wellso is Prohibition. It may seem to the reader that we are not doing ourtbit in thus giving New Year's Day is Jpartieularly well fitted for this exercise ot the soul, even though the division of time it markt is an arbitrary thing with no actuality in nattire. New Year's Day is really just like Jany other day, ex- cept in our sentimental attttude to- wards it. lleveteen the last eecond of 1917, and the first of 1918, there is no gap, no real ending and jbeginning.. The Time Machine whirrs onwith the same unrelenting and.terrifying per- sistence and smoothness. J Our arbi- trary divisions of time are as childish andunrealas though we tried to sep- arate the Atlanticnto parts by throw- ing a chip into it. ; People are not even agreed as to when New Year's Day occurs. Our little Russian brothers, noncomforniists in this as in everything else, insist that it comes thirteen days after ours. But perhaps each of the vaeious Russian republics will now pick a Ne* Year's Day for itself alone. Then there are the Hebrews. Theirs come soinewhere in March. But, of course, they don't • permit this ancient prejudice to in- terfere in any way with business. Our favorite pawnbroker always eends us a New Year's card -on our day, not his. But whether you celebrate New Year's Day on the first of January, or the Seveeteenth of March, or the Twelfth Of July, it still remains a highly significant and suggestive oc- casion. One is expected to be serious and reflective incidentally, difficult to be serious now as it used it ie not so to be before the present era of dry- ness and decorum 1 4 Out mind'goes back to Nets Year's Days in the good old carelest times before people took to world -wars and the uplift. No one wanted esiecially to kill anyone else -except at .• few persitsent creditors, possibly -end no one was very anxious to make other people any better. In those days the First of January was really a social function and a test -a test of endur- ance and capacity. Lordy, the big bowls of punch they used to brew! -real punch that would float half a brick, not the kind you get nowadays. And the decanters and plates of cake and bewels of Tom. and! Jerry! And all the afternoon andI evening gentlemen kept dropping in with the compliments of the season and the thirst of a newlyearrived camel at an oasis. How they con- trived to keep up their liquid enthusi- asm is a marvel to us yet. Those death were the heroic days. Potations that pertie would lay away the feeble bibblers a to -day merely teased the throats of 'he f the p those Gargantuan guzzlers. Down the line they went, frock- pages by acclamation. Hay -Reeve, H. H. Neeb and John Laporte. Councillors, Casper Walper, John Campbell, E. Deters, Alex. Ren- nie, Sam. Dietz, W. F. Turnbull, J. Hey, jr. Morris -Reeve, W. Fraser, W. C. Laidlaw..Councillors, 3. H.I Fear, A. Proctor, W. Elston, W. J. Henderson. West Wawanosh-J. Mallough, ac- clamation. Hullett-Reeve, . Matt. Arinstrong. Councillors, James Watt, W. Miller, C. Howson, T. McMichael. All elected by acclamation. East Wawanoel-Reeve, N. Camp- bell (acclamation). Councillors, J. Stonehouse, J. Irwin, Robert Btichan- A REPLY TO MR. COOPER Dear Expositor: -Perhaps. you will way to the melancholy influence of allow me a few words of explanation the time) in regard to Mr. John Cooper's letter of last week, particularly when I as - "Aren't things gloomy enough," we sure you that I do not intend to talk can hear the reader ask, "withoutyou sniffling. despondently over the mem- politics. I am sorry there.is so much bitterness stirred up at election times. self, fool, shake your silly cap and friends who voted Union. Although Now I have a good many real genuine ories of other times? 'Bestir your - cheer us up a bit. Your king, the were conscientious and we are still our .opinions differed, I expect they bells, tumble head over heels, and public, is sad and would be amused." just as good friends as ever. I know Mr. Cooper will not resent it when I But hang it all, the most determin- ed clown in the world cannot forever say that I am still as proud of and sympathies - and ' griefs like everyone tahse satisfiedlteelectwi tie, go on cutting capers. He has his as thhe e sitsa,nadltIhetuogohk he in else, poor devil, and there are times won and I loet. In regard to Profes- when he sits in the tumbled sawdust sor Drummond's opinion of the French of the empty ring and thinks of dar- Canadians, I am quite willing to take ing horsemen that are gone, and dain- Professor Drummond's word for it, ty ladies who flashed like stars among and let it go at that. To the only the flying rings and new are but mem- the section, now that it has been French-Canadian family we have in orits of spangled and wreckless grace. Perhaps he thinks, too, of a time when to say that we very cordially extend mentioned by Mr. Cooper, I would like he had other dreams than to scamper with Dog Tray at the end of the pro- to them the hand of fellowship and hope that they may always 'Consider cession and make faces at the crowd. us as their neighbor in the truest But the great Barnum of the UP- sense of the word. As to who de- No. verse is never idle. There is no check, feated the French language a year No, to the flow and variety of his in- ago, I will have to confess I do not No, vention. And here comes Ringmaster know, but will leave this to someone No. Time, cracking his great whip for the with a deeper insight into polities than I No. new show -the Follies of Nineteen I have. I now come to the part which No. Eighteen! See the mighty monarchs caused me to write this letter. Mr. No. in their chariots, and the mail -clad Cooper casts some reflections on the warriors in their stupendous and teacher of this section, Mrs. Farnham, defying feats! The stage pro- and also places the trustee board in s are battered and worn, and a somewhat false position. I think erformers are weary and spent. in this case at least, I have Mr. Cooper No. or flame and frenzy there has at a disadvantage, as I have had No. been such a spectacle in all the children going to school for ten years No. ntry of the ages. Take Your and have been trustee for longer still. No, The follewing, are the official returns the North Riding of Huron for the Dominion Election held on Monday, December 17th: - Bownmn Hyslop Howick. No. 1 103 No. 2 42 No. 3 118 No. 4 129 No. 5 97 No. 6 72 • 561 278 East Wawanosh No. 1 . 31 No. 2 .... . •••••••• 64 _ OA, 3. -wr. 4,-f a 4.4.11••• IP 41 IDAP' lire Alt ... • • *I/ • 1.111, 43 No. 5 . 40 212 West Wawanosh No. 1 . • .. .. . n. 83 No. 2 67 No. 3 r• • • - • 51 No. 4 48 No. 5 46 • 295 107 Turnberry No. 1 lee 93 No. '2 78 No 3 54 No. 4 45 270 • 56 Morris No. 1 39 No. 2 59 No. 3 53 No. 4 . 49 No. 5 . 66 No. 6 67 333 63 Wingham. No. 1 77 No. 2 . . . . 76 No. 3 . 95 No. 4 112 No 5 47 — ellameler•••=•••••••.. }Myth No. 1 79 No. 2 69 407 _226 . 148 92 Brussets No. 1 87 No. 2 64 151 45 Colborne No. 1 73 No.2. No. 3 No. 4 . . g 29 241 64 Ashfield No. 1 90 No. 2 85 No. 3 •••••••••••••••• 76 No.4. . 77 No. 5 5 No. 6 No. 7 ... • • • 18 50 391 110 Goderich 1 128 2 119 3 • • II • ...... • • • • • 104 4 4,90.4r ....... .04d. 122 5 40 • 04O 98 6 .. 144 7 . 85 1 2 3 800 428 Grey. ,14,114.• ...... #0... 71 • • • a • .0 41 • .. 82 4 .... 467, 57, 38 77 40 42 52 34 283 39 47 42 31 220 8 • CANADA. - -The license conmri,,sioners of Montreal have cut off 100 liquor li- censes. The city of Morezeal is now - left witli 200 licenses. --The Roxborough Bte Block, at the co- . ner of Rideau and Mosgrove streets,. Ottawa, was completely gutted by fire" on Saturday morning, causing a. damage of over u75000, -High prices were realized at a sale Of 44 head of llolsteiii cattle at Brantford, recently, -under the auspi- ces of the Brant District Holstein Breeders' Association. The total re- ceipts was $8,150, an average of,j$189.-- 53, with $395 as the highest arid $120; the lowest. These are record -prices for the annual sales. • -Fire which broke out about 6.30- e'elbek on Sunday, from what is be- lieved to have been incendiary origin,. destroyed the storehouses of the Sim- coe Wool Stock Company, owned by. Harry Brooks. The damage, estireat- ed at $25,000 is partly c,overed by in- surance. Only the prompt work of the fire department prevented the des- truction of a considerable portion of the town. -The total catch of sea fish inthe whole of Canada during the month of November realized a value of *2,145,- 240 atethe point of landing, according - to a statement issued by the Depart- ment of the Naval Service. In Nov - her last Year the total catch ,was val- ued at $1,074,398. The groat increase in the value of the catch ix largely* accounted for by the fact that prices pad to fishermen this year are mucl. higher than they were last year; -The Doraimen„ Gov 11=11, Quin& ore according to Gideon Virsart) counsel of three leading' 'Zomba Abattoir Com- panies, which were charged in court on. - Wednesday in,Toronto, with maintain-;- ing a nuisance. In the course of the t 33 trial Mr. Grant said he understoode 31 an order-inecouncil was being prepared 38 atOttawain connection with the Gov - 49 ernments proposed action. 37 -A proclamation has been issued — by Mayor L. E. Weyer, of Hespeler, 188 whereby orders for coal for the next 80 days must be placed through the town clerk. The move was taken on. 63 = advice of the Dominion fuel controller - 65 The regulation canie into effect Olk 38 Wednesday. The reason for this step, 48 being taken was two -fold, a scareitSe of coal in town, and the fact that many, 214 who had sufficient supplies for the pre- • sent were buying more. - -James 3. Berry,. of St. Thomas,. 43 aged 54 years, died in A.masa Wood. 49 Hospital in that city on Sunday, fol - 33 lowing the amputation of both legs. 49 While at work in the Michigan Cen- 42 tral yards on Saturday, he was caught. 54 in the machinery of a clamshell- and — both legs were terribly mangled, Nee - 270 one witnessed the accident. When_ Berry was found by a workman he - was lying tangled ill, the machinerye, with only his head and shoulders vis- ible. It is presumed he was in the 47 act of oiling the machinery while it. 46, was in motion, and while doing so was. 26 caught between the drum and the cable.. His left leg was crushed to a pulp. 181 and the right leg was also badly man- gled. -John Milroy, aged 91, and for 90-i 32 years a resident of North Dumfries,. 24 died on Wednesday, after suffering* for the past five yers with paralysis and selenng the last two years of hig life in bedt He was born in Scotland and came to Canada when only a year - 65 old settling in North Dumfries, H- 41 had farmed all his life, and at one time took an active part in municipal 106 affairs of the township, serving for. a number of years in the council and also in the county council. He was. one of the oldest 'members of the Pres - 50 27 byterian church, Galt, and a staunch Liberal. Two sons and one daughter 58 survive, and one sister, Mrs. Alex. 34 28 56 32 McBean, of North Dumfries, who is 98. years of age and who is still quite - 167 active and about every day. 00 -Fire of unknown origin damaged • ' a two-torey brick building in Windsor, 25 occupied by the officee of the hydro - 29 ;electric company, and a new three - 25 torey brick structure adjoined, owned 15 and occupied by the Studebaker; Auto> 82 company, to the extent of MX00 on 48 Sunday afternoon, For more than 5 59 hours the fire department, assisted by a chetnieal truck from Walkerville de - 281 pertinent, fough the flames in a bitter north wind, and it was close to 7 o'- clock p.m, before the fire lines were 59 taken down. During the height of 56 the fire an explosion of natural gas 48 following the breaking of a large pipe 76 in the teller of the hydro shop, blew 41 Chief De Field and three of his ,ineit 57 out of the front door of the building 35 into the 'street, The thief escaped — with slight burns abern the hands and 872 face, but Richard Stephens,`a retinae - ed soldier, now a member of the 16ca7 ;re oeperin ent, fleitd severe burns . about the head, and at the Hotel. Dieu, where he was removed after receivingsfierrsitousai.d, his condition is reported as 84 57 49 " 62