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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1919-05-09, Page 1L919 Curtems Dreeories Lineleurns Cergoleum Rugs Carpet Rugs use and there the wmters -he wonderfu ft the wonder tomers for the and you will this store. w Spring )eing offered. .rinection with attract much sted in beau- Llity Marquis7 hemstitched, borders, etc. • _ re Repps lorings, suit - curtains and End cushions woman who Yo or the home, t emphasized been indoors ad the rugs st; Renewals tore of help- ipplying tho ate. ms and 46w tmport- nient Floor Fheretore, i-riore than pf care,mon:- gathering e collection kbouts. patterns Gf perfect and in ail of by a en pie tock of Oil- Sp�fldthgiy a re chosen d service, t the serv. -furnisher or schemes 4esiGns and oths, often oc a yard, o in stock, ip e stair car - Heavy eat d account the house pleasing yd. $1.75. . - - • • ..eeaee"-a-eeeeraee-eee-eaeeeaeeeeeee-eeae''ieaeeee•,eeee''.eer'''eee'ee • ,-, tt-t. 4-teete-e. • 4 . teeette_o_ea FIFTY THIRD YEAR WHOLE NUMBER 2682 iffiliK11111111111111111101111111111111111110111111111111110M14$111111111t10111011110$1111111111E 141 Greig Clothing Coy " $econd to None " That In NM Suit Ei We are just now showing the finest ready-to-wear suits that have ET: ever been "shown in the Town of Seaforth. The quality of work- rnanship on these garments is not excelled in any niade-to-rneasure shop and in fact many sokalled taller shops workmanship is actu- ally inferior to these beautifully made garments; superiority In de. sign of garment and excellence of finish are features indicating the workmanship of expert taliorina., 4. E All garments made in cloth. Teo ..±.E per cent pure wool. E Come tn and see these garments- - —52O to $:30. IOW SOD ET Choice and dependable Raincoats, Es very dressy $10 to '$20 = We are the headquarters ih this section of Ontario — _ for Hats and Caps. No other store shows the variety E of absolutely new styles and of the very best makers- E .... and theseatless money than you are asked to pay for a styles not so new and less satisfactory. -- ,,,. u _ . ,.., a riats-..-2. 50 to 3.0 p tO 4.50 .....-- Caps—soc-to 1 ..,o up to 3.00 SEAFOR4111, FRIDAY be the friend, philosopher and gui of the rural.teachet and her child He should be able to demonstrate E be to encourage new developments ,prorgote, initiative. He should be = lowed to introduce novel ideas,- 3 vided they are useful to the child and to the community. But usu the seh041 inspector is restrained 3 'official iimitizt,- and can do little cept praise or blame. He usually c siders he is not really inspecting , .less he can find one or two fau To sum up the present conditi .of our rural SC11.001S, we might state that they are faulty because they are bookish and not practical; they rely 3 on uniform cheap text -books, rather than on good inspiring teachers; th.e buildings are unsuitable for anything except book work, having, usually to ff basement, no workroom, flinch room or gymnasium.; they coffer from.- the of the edu,cational ladder from ee kindergarten to university " and from = the fallacy of examinations, red tape, = 'Useless inspeetrial visits and statisties. Now what, should' we have instead of a condition of affairs as shown above.? Wen, in the ,first place; we e. • should bare special schools ter .coun- try purposes, having little or no ref- - „ea. erence to city schools. Such sehools = exist in -Denmarle France, Scotland = and elsewhere After the Germanwar of 1864, permute* was left araputated E and nearly bankrupt. Two of her most = important provinces, Schleswig and eet Holstein, were- annexed to Germany. — She was reduced to 1,500 square•miles E = with soil light and in some places • very poor. With a raw and. inhospit- able climate, with poor agricultural practise, the outlook was desperate. But the very ,despair of the people caused them to make the most of the country left to them, and to improve their chief industry which was agri- • culture. . In the fifty years since that time, there has been a radical change in Danish .rural Wei agriculture and ed- ucation.. Now, Denniar-has become one of the feremost agricultural na- tions in, Europe. Co-operation in.pro- duction and marketing .has helped the farmers to obtaiiitmaximum prices for their produce. and has made them comfortable and happy. This is- due to the improvede rural schools which were organized for this purpose. Den- mark's prosperity became a reality after the institution of better rural schools, high schools, local agricul- _ de ren. and and al P toe ren illy m addition as cario by course, this *eons ti ex- A larger school gr ora ealluies; butinothin • un- be done without payi its. The re -or ganize& oil for our futuie rural on a new plan, witheellie, various • tivities of country Melees, a- basis. hard and fast coursef study silo IA fixed, but rovisioteeahoeld be Triode for at least a a da spent in -prac- .ilea' work. s :`,.cal work would vary at different ; • a the year, just as fa opera es vary. And it will. be found that: practical work will not cause date -ration in the ether subtec t contrary, ex- perience in Scotland; Denmark and elsewhere has shown that the practical subjects makeeleilditii more keen to attend school, and then). more interested in the fixeil, part- of the course of study. et These changes canliot be brought about by any One 'person. There must be a co-operative Whitt among farm- ers, farm jouenalse .farmers' associa- tions, rural %adore and professional f such ges as these h about. It is a healthy rimes *at there is so n about:: inefficiency • "cow, and pessibler also a horse. This IWould prove good material for instru- purpeses the school,: as was jthe case in little 13YTder village of lEdnaln Scotland, i Where milk test- ing, butter and, chee*Slinaking, was a I'egular part' - of t school course, Yor =finals. Of t we must have ted and better Orth while can for it Y 9;1919 • Hats and Caps "Ng • " 4:1 0` g- SEAFORTFI Mural schools, and special scaools fo • = small holders All of these school • = aim to .build local character and em - The agricultural highe ischools in our uctioriSale -'39 Head Re ister- ac- be High -Class Grades, led Shorthorns and lad N° dual purpose type. II%would of study edealeneabteorsbr,0 sign of the inuell diecussi of our rural hoolseiabout the con- s°11dation. of echoOlsa and about edu- cation generallae R* ent legislation in „Engdend and in Ontario ' shows the trend that is" likely to be taken in edueational •reform, - t' - It is . also. sail excelbint sign; to find so many . pteminent agricultural journals and weekly pipers agitating for better edecationat facilities in country 'districts. Unless the public supports this and demands it, it will riotebe obtained. A - c.onselidated .school , something to More use should b .. made of the school plont lie a c eflunity centre. be proud of, and may-lim .used for; all kinds of community activities. Farm: ing-will then become,* more sociable occupaaandio8n,a, bo n*efites.,t46004 Ava:ignesh,e and' re- garded. not merely as .a heart -breaking prison for the. young. The country districete must also be r organized into larger -divisions, in s order that there shotter be at least - one rural high school fru each county. = phasize the teaching of scientific ag e3 • ricultural and practical homemaking fact, they, are continuation sWool r. yurat Their_Aabook, 4/9 evitalized andir-,-acluiys. ve be- ome -permanenfinembers. Of the, mei !ammonite. Male, teachers; are in •a arse majority, incleeir nearly eighty E two out of every hundred elementary teachers are men, many of them mar- ried -men. • In France the young men of the Normal School take enstruction market gardening as welt as in botany. At , the present dine is confusion a The school garden is used to teach the between the activityl in the Depart - practical part of preparing the -Soil, ment of Agriculture nd, the Depart - sewing seed, grafting and pruning ment of Echication, in most of our fruit trees. All this is done with•a provinces wherever teaching is con - view to making young male teachers cerned with irural subjects. There .qualifiai to teach the agricultural should be mi real opposition .in such work in rural elementary schools. cases, althotigh the purposes of both ,Many of these teachers are after- are educational and: agricultural. It wards as effective agricultural coin- would be far better, to have these missioners as our district represent- rural high schools under the control of the Depattment of Agriculture, be cause then there would be some chance of getting away from the red tape of the ordinary education., department. Such are some 0 the ideas that ,must be adopted to secure better rural training. for country children. We must have a separate educational sys- tem for country schools; we must .have rural high schools connected with them in every country; we must make agriculture and rural homemaking the centre of all ipstruction; we must cor- relate ail subjects around the centre. The whole course study should be revised on this basis. We must have centralized I or consolidated ischools -vvith teachers' residences and good echooli ground end better salaries sufficient to a.ttractli married men, and we must have strong agitation and continued co-operation between farm •journals, farmers & teachers, if we e this change. It is- surely t wherever censolidateo e been;tried,the people d to go back. to, the 'old e which:had so many sup - he generation just passing.. d is to lee. worth living in, ave the very best schools and the very best i education for our rural children as Well as for 'our city children., Commereial interests will. take care la technical and advanced education :in the cities. It will take dour present public schools, but all the energy of Or rural leaders to teed of these we need rural secure better education for country h schools similar to the ones in I children.-eSinclair f Laird in Farmers nark, which are called folk high Advocate.1 1 ools, and give a thormigh training1 • = fa " , = c • Western Provinces. aro -A good begin - S' 11 , in this 1.directitate but we must ..! eemaedicee ?to- tetweetelhem in- the, East as well. These high! schools should rea y; be junior e agricultural colleges with a• thoroughly -trained staff and plenty of equipment. They should be sepporbed by the State rather than by the local coramunity, and from their walls !should graduate all the brightest boys; and girls of the - E TRE RURAL SCHOOL, PAST AND FUTURE Fifty years ago, the rural schools I in eastern Canada, were remarkably efficient and satisfied the needs of that time. Old people who know this are opposed to any change now, but many things have changed in the last fifty years, and the rural school has rarely kept pace with the changes. • Cities have developed rapidly in • wealth and in population. ,City schools have been graded and have developed carefully organized courses lof study. Uniform text books were introduced into city schools, and also new sub- jects of instruction. As wealth in- creased, cities developed better and more expensive public schools, then high schools and • laboratories and kindergartens. They could afford to pay high salaries for the best teach- ers, and so secure them. In short, the city schools have been changed and improved at a very rapid rate to suit - the city conditions. Gradually, this has had the inevitable result of Mak- ing cities dominate all our educational systems and forcing rural education into the background. Teachers flock- ed to highly paid city positions. " Text, books kept city requirements in view' andginally rural schools degenerated frem the fairly efficient type suitable in primitive times, to second-hand im- itations of rural schools, such as we have in many !places tosday; .The ehief fault is that they are only com- plementary to city schools, whereas they should teach what the farmer and his wife need to 'mow. • In this connection another fault arises. Provincial departments of ed- • ucation have gone mad with warship of uniform text -books. They should. rather Worship good teachers,but they, pin their faith on uniform text -books, especially cheap text -books; the cheap- er the better. The cheapest horse is not usually the ebest one; but rural people are expected to belieVe that the best school books are the cheap-, -:, est ones However, even if they were, it is still the teacher who is the most important piece of equipment in tbe school. There are great advantages in uniformity, but it is questionable if rural. 'schools have reaped advant- age s -sufficient to outweight the dis- advantages they have suffered. For all these text -books were written with city requirements in view. One has • only to read an arithmetic 'text -book to see this. Then again, the course of study is g overwhelmingly booldsh. This was not such a bad fault in primitive times, because practical things were learned by imitation and application at home. But nowadays we have swung to the other extreme. We teaehrbooks. Per- haps that is all that young girls can teach; but rural children should learn tO sew, knit, eook and care for a home if they are girls, and to judge live s.itock, understand crop growing, dairy- ing and elementary horticulture as well as making things, if they are boys. In other words % we worship. book knowledge. - Of course, it sould be admitteil hthat rural schoolhouses are not construct - fashioned ones seeeldom have a. -base- ment fitted • up „with apparatus for manual work orcookery, and a room • for a dining -room and another for a gymnasium. Of course, in addition, there should be school gardens and home gardens and experimental plots as well as a schoolyard with, plenty of playground equipment. It is pathetic how few rural child- ren play football for example, or even baseball. Then We are plagued with the fill-- . lacy of the well known educational ladden from the kindergarten to the university. Now, a course of study from six to twentir-one years of age for those who wisa, to attend a un- iversity is very niee for them. -But ever) at, that, they are a -very tiny proportion' of the school children. Ninety per cent. of them never go beyond the public school, and it seeing unreasonable to make our Whole school system prepare children for the uni- versity when less than five per cent. go there. Children do not exist for , schools, but schools exist for the sake ' of the children, and, therefore, we should have a course of study in our public schools suitable for those who will never,- go, any further. In ,other words, we require an all -mood educa- tion, -and. a special curriculum for children between the ages of six and dourteeri. In the case of ruralschools this curriculum. should :be ',entirely different from- that adopted for city schools,. _ Then we have a plague of exam- inations and red tape. Wherever systems becorr highly organized, there is a danker that the organize- tians will forget what it was intend - 'e . to help and will be developed for the sake of more organization. De- partmental examinations do much good in making a uniform standard for all schoo/s, so that ehildren in the same grade may b ,transferred fror any one school to -another without l On the other hand however, the, ex- t oth. aminations make them cram their work and destroy what would be ex- cellent educational impulses on . the part of the children. In other words, our schools prepare children not for their adult life in. the world, but for their school examina,tions. Rural schools should have -very few of these, but should have more supervision on the part of the school inspector. This brings us to the true consider- ation of the uselessness of the visits made by school inspectors to rural schools. Frequently they only visit .a rural school for halt- a „day at a time, and probably only twice. a year. Only a -superficial examination can be made of a rural school in that time. Very little /help can be given . to the teacher, and very little inspiration imparted to the children. The in- spector, of course, is -not to blame for this state of affairs, because he has a large number of school's to visit, and has to prepare educational statistics and reperts which require that the ?Ile of his visit must be- occupied by he gathering of !material for his ree ort. Now the inspeotor should not merely be the hand and the eye and he ear of the DepartmentAut should a ti ed for anything- but bookework, Old -6 entire neighborhood, ativ men scie cou s in Canada. The French Govern - deliberately trees to disseminate rfLtiflc ideas in .this way so as to teract the movement of the pop- ulat on from. country. to city, which is just! as common in France as in other countries, It should also be remem- bered that rural teachers have a school residence attached te the school, and in their own gardens some rural teach- ers do excellent agricultural work in training French children how to prune train and care for grape' vines in the wine districts. Indeed, after the out- break of phylloxera, it was the rural teacher who really saved the vine growers from ruin and restored the incijistry on a healthy and sound basis. ural schoolshould exist within reach of all children. This does not mein that the country should have a m tiplication of schools, because this pr es- has gone too far already, and we have too many weak rural schools. It would be better to have fewer se ools, -with a larger attendance and a tter staff with more possibilities of rading, and with at least one male tea her in charge. These larger rural se ools should again be connected with rtu al high schools, having a special co rse of study suitable for country c 'Wren. Agriculture and all its ace ti ities would naturally form the basis of this course of study. At the pres en time we have high schools be - yo in ht se are to sec strange th schools ha have ref schoolam porters in If the wor we must in scientific agriculture and homemak- - In other words, the rural school s ould look to a better developed rural hi h school, and not to a city high s hool. Another step which must be taken make the rural schools efficient is e attractron and retention of more arried teachers into the professim, e eldefasthdoned Mominie" may ha.ve d faulte, but he certainly left his nark on the intellectual development o the school children.. We need men take teaching, positions as a per - anent occupation. At present we aye to endure young girls and young omen who are not always cepable of r al leadership, and who do not make practice of remaining long in one sition. To do this, we must have ntralized schools providing an ed - cation for a htrger area. These cen- alized schools -must alsrovide achers residences suitable for mar- led men. The teachers' gardens.would hen be one outlet for teething tort- ' ulture. As in Scotland nearly every aeried rural teacher has a stable and lakge garden, so in Canada we should aye rural teachers' residences at the chool with a suucient anemia of land %table them to keep at least one SWALLOWING trHE RAILWAYS 1 A gulp or two—the Government had to choke 1 the - thing doyen with the closure—and the bill incorporating the Canadian National Railways Company passed the House. The bill having been rendered, so to speak, all Canada has to do now is to pay it. Our experiment in public ownership will cost 'us seventy f million dollars this year in repairs and betterments and there's re to f llow. No doubt the overnrnent will give f us a chance to in est in railway bonds froia time to tim and show how much we love bur country at five per cent. or better. One 01 the speakers alluded to our. latest acquisition as a halt bil- lion donor elephant. An elephant -like that eats a lot of hay but nobody- will complain if it does the work and shows results. 1 It is quite true that ,its chief feeder—or what 'ought to be its chief feeder—hat is to Say the thing it rakes the hay together with—in other rivOidsthe Grand Trunk—is not an integral 'part of our elephant yet but we have hopes. The Act is wide enough to take in any elOhaa- ,t or laity part of an eleph- ant and MIWOUWill Car elephant's xest i 7 7 .10....1•01, C. W. Robinson has been in- structed to sell by public auc- tion on West Half of Lot 22, Concession 5, McKillop, on Wednesday, May 14th, at 2 o'clock sharp, the following • 20 breeding cows and heifer, 2 bulls, serviceable age; five yearling steers, 12 calves (4 bulls, 6 heifers and 2 sters). Also 1 DeLaval cream separ- ator, No. 15, as good as new. This is particularly choice -offering. For further particulars write for cata- logue, or better still, plan to attend. this sale. .TERMS. --Six months' credit will be alloiwed on bankable paper. Four per cent will be allowed off for cash. G. W. Robinson, T. Brown, Auctioneers Jos. Dorrance & Son Proprietors Are hobbled to the extent that he is net allowed to underbid -the C. P. R. on freight- rates, the the may come —not yet nor very soon ---when public ownership of railways will accomplish itsreal purpose: which is service, not dividends. Meanwhile there will be fifteen di- rectors on the board of tin!, Canadian National Railways Com.pany—not a „labor man among them—and the one shareholder will be the Dominion of Canada to -Whom the -directors Will eratiert via, the -ctoveaeraneCouncil • This means- that the dirdetolke 'meet- higs will be about as public as tors' meetings usually are. While ad:- initting that the Dominion of Canada is the only shareholder—indeed the Government made no attempt to deny it—Sir Thomas did not take the House into his confidence on the subject of the bond holders—the canny fellows for example,- who bought up C. N. R. bonds at forty cents on the dollar and now find them at par because Can ado stands behind them. Naturally, the Act -said nothing about these lucky dogs, it would have been an unkind Act if it haft, and Very' cruel to some good trends of Union Government. Perhaps it was certain nervousness that the House might get round to this ticklish subject that suggested the closure to Mr. Meighen, who has the kind of disposition to which closures appeal. The House has been dawdling over all sorts of -small stuff, wasting 0 0 ission in St. James' Church McLEAN BROS-, a Year in Advance daylight and electric light worth a thousand dollars an hour to the rate- payers on any kind of piffie that would stave off the tariff until Premier Borden could get back with five,cents • on the dollar ---or less --and becloud all the other issues. The Government has had all sorts of time to squander on knighthood debates and Sir Seen's little quarrels, but assoon as it round to. the Canadian National ways Company it was in such a of a hurry that Mr. Meighen 110 clap the closure on before the eines was fairly opened. The closuee has been used since 1913 when it employed to expedite Rrernier Hord Dreadnoughts which never got n the water, having done all their fig ing in the House of CoMMO/1S. The closure, ae I remember it, is always trotted out when there is a Menace to be discussed The menace in this case was not, I take it, public ownership but the want-to-kow spirit which makes sarcastic remarks about the nigger in the woodpile when the Government refuses to answer ques- tion. Sir Thomas, it is true, carried the war into Africa when he hinted that the Opposition was in. love with the C. P. R., whereas the Govereuneet doted on public ownership, but words of the man who made the fa ous speech on Naboth's vineyard not can eonviction. In short th was considerable dissembling, On the other hand, there is doubt that -the Government has. a re affection for the C. N R. Those w think that the National Rail Com ant's Act gets rid of Macken and ann have another guess eomin revenue fund—if there are deficits; but they will not check in—if --there are profits, The only open theAin% the national railways aim to do is in the 'baggage room. II. F. G. A CHANCE FOR SHORTHORN BREEDERS get The Farmers' Advocate, Lon -don, of lealle last week has the following to say a - devil bout- the herd of Dual-purpose Short - Utz of McKillop, which are to be disposed not to horns of Messrs. J. Dorrance and Son, of at their dispersion sale on Wedpes- was day, May 14th: "Anyone wishing to en's secure dual-purpose Shorthorns should ear keep in mind the sale of Joseph Dor- m,- ranee & Son,at their farm near forth, Ontario, Ontario, en 'Wednesday, May 14th. In- the offering are a number of big, smooth cows a strong Short- hrn character, and -carrying large, wll-balanced udders. These cows are sired by Royalista--71399re, by Blood Royal Imp. ree-68199-ee, There are 9 young cows by Royal Princee---9167= and a few heifers by Royal CaenThis as a particularly choice offering of Shorthorns. A representative of "The Farmer's Advocate," who called a the surprirs. edThlarmt finnedinesgfasnnuchreaeleanrgtley,171M"- did ere leer of high-qualiy, heavy -producing - cows in one stable, It is seldom that one will go into a Shorthorn herd where Practically every cow in Milk has as large udders and as long milk al veins, thus giving indieation of be - ho ing a profitable individual at the pail. ay Practically every animal in the herd zle has been raised on the farm. The cows. In sonie slight disguise or other, we have these two gallant gentlemen al- ways with us. We can't lose them any more ethan we can Sir Jeseph Flavelle 4e the high -cost of living. There i. no woodpile on Parliament Hill wh re these .two blackbeards do not lur Last session we. had them with us lecting the Last Ten Million which ¶va considerably easier to round up thm Premier Borden's Last One Hundr Thousand which never got to the front. This session they are still °with us under various aliases and alibis. Not only • are they with us but their lawyers also and their lobbyists and the other friends of public ownership who drew -nourish- ment from their pay roll. They are with us in the shape of` Z. A. Lash, K. C., who drew up the Can dian.National Railway Company A with his own fair hands, Mr. Lash, everybody knows, hates the Canadia Northern as a cat hates cream and tia Act of his is a masterpiece. The are clauses in it which enalge t Govern/tient to do alinostanythhig h." -people or 'with them—to t:sial ar aset • " HURON NOTES • ' —Mr. D. Cantelon, of Clinton, e'er ing the month of April bought 534 re hogs,' for which he paid over .$231000. he The largest one wire delivered hee llgee have transmitted their miking. propene sities to their offspring, -which is a valuable characteristic The young things in the herd are also of exel- let comformation and give promise of developing into something choice. All the cows in milk are hand-milket and the returns from the creamery during the past year have, indeed been very creditable. Besides -the rows in milk there are two bulls of service- • able age, both roan in color, and one is a show proposition. There are 4 youngerbells that should develop, to good herd sires. There are also 6 heifers that are particularly smooth, sweet youngstets. If in need of Short-, horns with the right type and confor- mation and which Vill give a large ilow ef nalk, you cannot afford to miss the sale at Seaforth, on May 14. out Sir Adam Beck, for instance, or to unload the Torooto Street Railway on the Dominion of Canada as a work of general utility. Mucb, as they love public ownership Messrs. Mackenzie and 1VIann are in no danger of losing money by it What proats there were in promoting the C. W. R. they took. What profits -there were in building the C.` N. R. they took also, " What profits there are in tinkering the crip- ple they will take to and when nosey members of Parliament ask the Min- ister of Railways who the Northern Construction Company is that he buys ties from he will reply that kis -not in the public interest to answer such questions. Foolish question No. 149— why should it be in the public interest when Mackenize and Maim are work- ing for their own? The National Railway Company Act at I see it, merely operates to embed eo Mackenzie and Mann more firmly la in the Canadian constitution. They M are, so to speak, amendments to the 110 British North America Act and are as now an integral part of the national W edifice. They- are not only part of br the national edifice but they will take of any contracts 'lire connection thiere- Pie with that can show a profit. They ao are not ,stingy—they do not want A. everything—far from it. Any Losses 35 they have they will gladly 'hand overt ar to the Government. The C. N. R. is to 4, Neat 4 weighed raw ound ty broughtits owner $111. Mr. G. /audit delivered twelve which weighed 2,656 and brought $549.55, and Mr. R. Guff delivered nine weighing 1,880 pounds and bringing e404.20. —Mr. John GorbUtt, of Clinton, who - assists Mr. Wilson Elliott his re pair work, happened with a very pain, ful accident the other dayevehich will lay him up for genie Um& He Was assisting to load, an empty barrel which had contained roofing pitch, on a wagon when gas, which had form- ed in the barrel exploded blowing the end out of the barrel and a flying portion -inflicted a severe wound in his leg below the knee. Half a dozen or so stitches were required to elose the wound. —The Stapley Maple Leaf Patriotic Society 'after three years of splenaid work for the boys at the front, aid not feel that .it was advisable to dis- ntinue their meetings so at a. meet - g at the home a the president, rs. John Innes, on Friday after - on last, they re -organized, with the sistance of Mrs, Layton and Miss. aldron of the London Roan, into a aneh of the United! Farm Women Ontario, with the folloeving offices: sdent, Mrs. John Jervis; vice, MTS. hn Macfarlane; see -treasurer, Miss Sinclair; directors, Mrs. John limes s. Henry Deihl, Mrs. John Butch- --Mr, James Linklater, aawell known riner resident of the Lake Shore Roan, Colborne, passed away Thurs- dy morning last at Alexandra hos- ital, Goderich, his death resulting from hijuries accidentally sustaived the previous miming. He retired from the farm a few years ago and had been living in Goderich, laterly with MT. and MTS. Thomas McKenzie, Victoria Street Wednesday morning he arose at an early hour, and in sorne• manner fell from the Window of his upstairs bedroom to the ground beow, sustaining very severe injuries. . He VISA taken to Alexandra hospital, where he died as above stated'. He was in his eightieth year And was not married; The fuiieral took plaee frem the residence of his brother, Mr. John. Linklater, Caledonia Terrace,on Sat- urday afternoon. at 2.30 irelock„ to Colborne -cemetery. Mr., Linklater be- fore his removal to Goderich residd. formany years at Leeburre ' He was a kindly okl gentleman, with a bearty greeting for his friends, wbo will hear • of bis death with sincere regret —After an illness covering the past one and a half years the summons came to an ola --resident of Brussels locality in the person of Isaac 3. Tuck, last Friday and he passed a- way, at the home of his sister, Mrs. D. Robb, Turnberry street, Brusels, in his seventy-fifth year. He was born in Toronto locality and -came to Cranbrook when ten. years old. He clerked in the dry goods etore s 'of the late John Leckie, J. Livingston and James Lynn and had lived for yeaz-o in Chicago. He was an expert book- keeper and pennian. r. Tak wile unmarried and had his sister in Buse ears. The fan day forenoon, Reir of. stJohns ehur service. Interment -family plot -at Mrs Roble is the familyho and attention to, Mr. Tuck broke one of Noaember 117 and later -of paralysis whiele rendeed. belpiefie, ea or th - h Two Redemptorist Fathers, McLaugh- lin arid Barry, will open a Mission in St.- James' church, IL Seaforthon Sunday May 11.th and close Sunday eveg May 18th, 1.1919,._-A very eir latest &nation. Not nly' have these generous men ended over their railway ---at a price —to their beloved country—but they have handed over the whole executive of the C. N. R. which now by a simple twist of the wrist becomes the brains of the Candaian National Railway company with Mr. D. B. Hanna as Managing. Director. When Mr. Han - ma's salary is asked- after, Sir Thomas late feigns forgetfuness. The Min- ter of Railways whern. reraeznber e have overlooked a little matter ten rnillion dollars in his railway budget, also professes loss of memorY• messenger, beihg hurriedly dese patched for the fedi, comes back with the information that Mr. Han- s salary is $25,000 a year whereat ey axe siirprised and grieved be- cause it is such a small reward for t talents. That's th Mr. Hanna s grea cordial invitation is what's the matter with Hanna—he is ziot getting enough tnoney for his extended to all non- 1 big job. Catholics. •---1DANC IN CARLN0'S HMI 001•011=M WEDNESDAY EVENING • May 14th • SLOG a Couple Everybody 'Welcome A.T.REEVES* Fve-Piece Orchestra of Stratford On this chorus of praise impinges Euler of Waterloo who suggests that the C. N. R. directorate is probably entrusted with the greater task of runmg' the national railways because it did so well with the smaller task of running the C. N. R. into a hole. MT. Euler has a pretty wit. Some people might call it logic. At all events it sounds reasonable. The forty-four charters become ours too. The fact that Mackenzie and Maim had forty-four disused charters in their clothes when they went under the ice only goes to show what a brisk pair or collectors they were. ' One of these charters, I am Wormed, Whic for a two hundred and fifty mile railway of wkch thirty-five miles' had been built. 01 _course the subsidy...on the other two hundred and fifteen miles had been cashed, so Mackenzie and Mann were not out of pocket. r Public ownership is to have -a' run for our money, but lust what the run on our money IS going to be la hard to tell because the rattWaYS are to do their own bookeeping. In a word they will cheek out of the orteolidated • •°. • ji • 4