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. i ,y : this year and probably not next year, 'The free lands are gone, the cheap
= hut r think 'quite rapidly after order lands are gone, There as still the pos;
. r . .is restored: I don't take much stock ibility of largely increasing the pro -
C E in. the theory that European agricul- -diction of foodstuffs, but it must be
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= • = ture Will be Prostrate a long time, or done from, lands that require a cOnsid-
. 2 stock Great Britain has as much, ing or for, drainage or irriration, and
a that Europe .is evvept bare of live erable expenditere of eapital for clear -
all Coats A 20,0001000 cattle and Austria-Htmgery
.4- before the war, and the reduction is all the improvements made in industry
. had only 12,000,000 head of cattle'
not great. Germany had about
3 live stock as before the war. France
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= about 15,000,000 before the war; there
and Suit 3 ex beds the increase that has taken
a. if the reduction in the herds of Europe
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arrangements for delivery of a great quantity a goods E
3 for every department. These goods are arriving most E-
= every day and at present we are in a position to serve E
LI customers for the eariy fall requirement in Suits, Over- F.:
FE coats, Fall Rain or Shine Motor Coats, Coat Sweaters, Lim
the result's in living conditions are not
more epparent. They read of all the
labor-saving machinery in use on the
farms—and yet farm products go up!
They read of the improvements in
clothmaking machinery—they are won-
p- 1 e in the United States, , South derful; you can go into a weaving
= America and Australia.
mill and see one man tending acres of
The high prices will stimulate agri- looms, but if the mill did its- work for
-"" ▪ cultural production, not only in Europe nothing with raw cotter' at the prices
- but all over the 'world. England. as 1 of recent years, clpthes woeld have to
E— a matter ef settled national policy, cost more. And so they read of im-
- is going to grow more food in the provements. upon the steam engine and
E future. The British colonies are ex- the locomotive, of the applications of
pecting a large immigration and mak- electric power, and of new inventions
ing, prepaasations to settle •people on and facilities in all the industries, and
= the land Our own Secretary of the they ask what becomes of the benefits:
3 Interior, Secretary Lane, sis asking Where is the leak? What is the mat-
Coegress for an appropriation of ter? •
$100,000„000 to'settle soldiers On public 'The advocates of socialism say that
lands, and many of the States which there is a lack of distribution; but the
have unoecupied lands are taking steps answer to that is that all new accumu-
to aid soldiers in making farm homes. lations of capital, whoever owns them,
Then we must look ,for some results are employed in improving and en -
from the work of .the Agricultural larging the ! facilities of 'production,
Depertments, national and State; the and yield redults for the common wel-
agricultural colleges and county ag- fare. The earnings and profits of the
ents, and all the other efforts that are
being madd to develop a more
scientific ;agriculture.
'In short, we must recognize that
.agricultuke is being subsidized, and I
think it is for the common good that a
more scientific agriculture shall be de-
veloped. But I Oink the total result
of all this will be to bring a decline
in prices of farm products from the
war level, e
'When this occurs, What ,is going to
be the position of the farmer in rela-
tion to the other industries? The re-
port, of the liateniational Harvester
Company, published last month, shows
that its wage , scale is 100 per cent.
aboye -what it was 'before the war. The
farmer is paying these wages to have
his implements made, and he is pay-
ing similar wages to have his clothing
and his shoes made, his goods trans-
ported, and to everybody who does
any Work, directly or indirectly, for
bib. If now ' his products fall, will
these othei goods and services fall, or
will he be expected to feed everybody
= else at pre-war prices while he goes
on paying wages and prices, that use
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'I believe thatthe bankereanstender
no better service to the farnver than
- by advising him to use the proceeds of
= these -high prices to pay off his debts.
• = It is a singular fact that people com-
arionly go into debt in good times and
pay their debts under pressure in bad
'It seems to he the accepted thing
nowadays that eVery class or group of
workers shall fix its own conditions of
labor and compensation but the farmer
is bound to be at a great disadvant-
age under any such arrangement He
has neVer been able to fix the prices
of his productS, and ;there is no likeli-
hood that he can do it in the future.
He must take the natural price, made
by supply and demand, and there is
no hardship in that if everybody else
is paid on the same basis. The farmer
is not interested in supporting artifi-
cial methods of price fixing. He will
be the goat of the whole system:
'Moreover, let no one think that
wages and prices can belong sustain-
ed in the other -industries when farm
products declines. Ope-third of the
population of this country live on the
farms or in communities directly de-
pendent on the farms. When the pur-
chasing power of this one-third de-
clines the rest will feel Kt,. There is
a necessary reciprocity iiiitthe modern
industrial system. If the farmer's in-
come falls to tetiat it was before the
war, but he is asked to pay double the
pre-war prices for what he buys, he
will only buy one-half as much, and
the effect will be felt throughout in-
dustry. General prosperity cannot be
had qp any such artificial basis
`To those of us who havelseen much
of the settlement of our western coun-
try, there 0 no mystery about the ris-d
ing costs "of living of the last twenty
years. From the beginnings of set-
tlement in this country our people
have been exploiting the natural re-
sources, a wealth of soil and timber
and minerals -that had' been in pre-
paration for thoushnda of years. They
had little value to the first settlers,
but transportation facilities opened:
them up to the world. In an incredibly'
short space of time population corn-
ing froth all quarters spread over
and occupied the country. There has
never been a parallel to the settle-
ment of this country and there never
will be, for there is no better country
like this to be settled. When my
father came to Iowa there were about
17,000,000 people in the United States
and my children, ,if they live ' the
normal term, will see 200,000,000.
And, the population of the ,whole world •
has been increasing: At the close of
the .wars with Napoleon the population
of Europe was about 175,000,000, and
at the outbreak of the great war it
was 440,000,000.
'All of these people must be fed
and clothed and housed, and the cost
r,of food, clothing and shelter depends
upon the land and supTily a raw ma-
terials.
'Until a few years ago there was
always an abundance of cheap land
further west to which the populatiOn
Continually -qverflowed. These iands
played the part of a spillway or safety
PROSPERITY4' AND THE FIFTY.
CENT DOLLAR
Have you paused to reflect that the
dollars you are spending nowadays are
fifty -cent dollars?
Of course you know that your dol-
lars only buy about 50 cents' worth pf
shoes or T-bone steak, but probably
you have thought vaguely that prices
had' gone up, and. let it go at that.
There has been so muck talk about
the increased cosi of living and -so little
about the decreased value of money
that the facts have been obscired. The
fact is that the dollar has been so
diluted as to do only half as -much as
it did, say, before the war. It is as
thotugh you had diluted an acid with
as great a volume of water. It takes
twice as much to do the work.
If the United States had issued
- greenbacks instead of bonds to finance
the war there would be a clearer un-
derstanding of the inflation which has
cut in half -the purchasing power of the
dollar: It vrould-be apparent that the
production of useful commodities hav-
ing been curtailed, and the turnout of
dollars haying been greatly expanded,
it would take more dollars to buy a
given commodity, under the law of
sapply and demand. But the step from
greenbaCks to bonds was a step out
of the realm of currency into_ the
realm of credit, and it confused the
The man who had a savings aceount
of a thousand dollars before the war
has only about ha.lf as much now
The man who works for $50 a week,
say, is actually getting only $25, Those
things are true, whether you blame
high prices or inflation. But if you
are prone to consider high• prices a
kind of inescapable 'juggernaut, you
are wrongs-, because, according to
George E. Roberts; former Director
of the Mint, and new; Vice -President
of' the National City Bank, high prices
_Ire chiefly a reflex of the credit infice
tion from which this country is suffer..
mg, and the inflation is remediable.•
'Twenty years ago the people of
this country rallied against the fifty -
cent dollar,' Mr.. Roberts said. the
other day, 'and Free Silver was voted
down. But we have got the 'fifty -
cent dollar to -day, and it is a question
whether we are going to make it
permanent.
'Everybody knows that the purchas-
ing power of money has declined, that
prices are twice as high, but most peo-
ple think it is due to the fact that
something has happened to commodi-
ties. Few think of it as due to changes
on. the side of money. There is some-
thing delusive about 'a rise in prices
due, to depreciation in currency.- It
sets up a situation which looks like
proSperity, and which for a time has
some of the features of real prosper-
ity. Rising prices stimulate buYing
and stimulate prodnftion while they
last. They make besiness good and
bring profitable employment. We
have had a geeat increase in bank
deposits, and some people, including
some banker's, regard that as prosper-
ity. They think it is proof of an ac-
cumulation of wealth.
'But bank deposits are not wealth.
If you borrow -$10,000 from your
banker, and it is credited to your
checking accotint„ the depaits of
that bank rise $10,000. And when,
you check it out; your checks will be
deposited in other banks; and will
itcrease_their deposits. Bank deposits
constitute purchasing power and the
$10,000 we have taken as an, example
remains in circulation until somebody
pays off the $10,000 out of savings.
'So long as that $10,000 remains in
circulation it is not an increase in
wealth. But that is the kind of pur-
I chasing power we have in ehis comp
try. It is pure inflation, a kind of
bloat or dropsy.
'If the present level of prices is
permanent the value of money and of
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all obligations to lety fixed sums of
1 money -will, be .depreciated approxi -
Imately one-half. It means that _all
the savings of the people which are
in the form of bitnk depositS, pro is-
soey notes, or life insurance are in
1 large part, possibly one-half, wi _ed
out as with a sponge. The farmer or
business man who, in the declining
years of life, has conveated his
property into bonds or mortgages will
find the interest as he receives it,
and the. principal when it is paid, of
only about one-half the purchasing
power that he bargained for. . A great
many salaried people and wage
earners are unable to get ,a, prompt
adjustment of their pay. The rail-
roads aild public utilities have been
reduced to a state of almost financial
ruin. Nobody gains anything by the
higher scale. except at the expense
of some one else. The distribution of
higher pay is not based upon any
principles of 'equity, laut upon the
power of coercion.
'The inflated state of bank credit is
a faetor in these _high prices The
whole situation is a:rtificial. Bank de-
posits are all up 50 to 100 per cent.,
and a large part' of the increase is
pure inflation, due to the increase 'of
loans. The *ay people are befuddled
into thinking this state of things
ts prosperity has been the despair of
economists' in all -times. These de-
posits have the same effect as s6 much
paper -money. •
ought to bepaid off, and the loans of
the Federal Reserve Banks might te
be liquidated. The Federal Reserve
Banks were never intended to be a
resort for continuous borrowing. They
were intended, as the name implies,
to be banks holding reserves of credit
for emergency and reasonable re-
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'It will be interesting eto see how
the fanner comes out of this situa-
tion.- He is getting high prices for
his products now, owing to conditions
which are evidently abnormal and
temporary In normal times Eastern
Europe, including Russia, exports
breadstuffs in large quantities- to
Central and Western Ehrope. At
present grains and meats are beipg
shipped from the United Statesonot
I only to supply an unusual deficiency
in Western Europe, but to supply a
1 deficiency in Eastern Europe .as welL
McLean Brosa Publishers
, $1.50 a Year in Advance
to logical ,restsoning or intellectual
leadership. Twice in my own time I
have seen the monetary system and
standard of value nearly upset in this
tountry, because times were hard.
subjects ; whieh produce distraction of
attention, and on account of their
namiber Can only be superficially dis-
ceased. !Again no results of educa-
tional *due can resift from mental
once by the greenback party and once application devoid of the interest
by the free silver party. In both of element! In the hasty and superficial
these instances the farmers were the examination of many subjects it is al -
chief complainants, and the grievance most impossfble to arouse and sustain
was that prices were too low; now it any degree of interest. In the close
is the wagesearning elites and •the and careful examination of one subject
grievance is that prices are too high. of which the time at the pupil's dis-
'The arguments for greenbacks and posal permits him to learn something
free silver were all washed airay in definite; it is out of the question that
the periods of prosperity which fol- a good her should not be able to
lowed, but the same type of agitator arouse sufficient ieterest to assure
is always on hand—just as ready -to educati nal results of real value. For
argue from high prices as low prices, the que tion of time is an important
and always landing the more effective factor i the arrangement of a school year. As the crops are not so bounti-
appeal in the play upon class suspicion curriculim. It is not merely a ques- ful this year the reduction in taxes
and class prejudice. The solutes; of tion of hat subjects may advantage: win be very welcome to the majority
bli
Qur problem lies in reducing our credit ously studied; but rather what are of people.
inflation out of savings. and getting those fe subjects which may be care -
back to a rational economic basis ' fully s died to the best advantage,
back to a rational economic basis '— in the yery limited thne at our dis-
(The Times, New York). posal. An exaMination of a present-
day On ario study curriculum would
induce the belief that; it had been
lex a race of juvenile im-
, with all eternity before them
n scarcely believe that sane
uld ever have designed it for
generation'of Merely mortal
part royally as hat and hostess. The
company separated wishing • Nurse
McNair many happy years. It is two
years since she went overseas and she
saw many sad scenes as she did her ,
—The ratepayers of Goderich town-
ship will, no doubt, be pleased -to hear
that at. the Angus* meeting of the
township council a substantial re-
duction was made in the township
rate of taxation, the rate struck be-
ing two and a half mills which is a
mill lower than last year. The coun-
ty rate is also down one mill this year
on account of the provincial war tax
being withdrawn. The rate this year
is six mills instead of seven as last:
OUR EDUCATIONAL PROBLEMS
It is not in the best interests pf
this Province that any attempt should
.be made to alter the eoriditions which
natuae and circumstances have estab-
lished to iefluence its economic devel-
ppment—the conditions under which
,Ontatio is, and shall be, a community
having agriculture as its basic indus-
try. It is not to our interest to en -
past have provided the industrial Mirage the growth a large cities
equipment of to -clay andswithout that or to stimulate the unnatural develop-
•inent of the manufacturing industry.
-The manUfacture of such articles as
our clirnate msd natural resources
render profitable will be taken care
of by the operation of natural econ-
omic laws. Further than this the un-
natural fostering of manufacturing
and commercial development is bound
to work injury to the body politic.
Manidacturing and commercial de -
'The census figures show that capital velopment beyond the'point necessary
is a constantly increasing factor in for our own local economic needs
production. In 1899 the cepital in- merely results in making our people
vested in manufacturing in the United hewers of wood and drawers of water
States amounted,. to $1,770 for- each for alien overlords. It substitutes un-
person; .employed in the same induss healthy, monotonous and uninteresting
tries, in, 1904 it was $2,117 to each indoor employment for healthy,
person employed, in 1909* it was natural and interesting out-of-door oc-
$2,448, and in 1914 it was $2,848, all. cupations. The real benefits and ad -
of which means thit-we are werking ventages of such industries,—the
with more effective agencies. Even ,financial profits—are sent out of the
the farmers row must have an import- country in the form of dividends, to
ant investment in equii)tisent, and the the foreign capitalists who are in
real hope for social pregrees in the every case their owners. It eneour-
future depends on large ',investments .ages',,,the growth among us of an ins
in equipment. , desirable foreign element which..de-
stroys the residential advantages of
'Neverthelegs, the fact is that, with
locality', which it invaded, end
all that has been doneaawith ill -the everY
keeps our jails filled, nnd our. offiees
new capital and energy tfairesiureeNbeen
of justice busy. The sites of what
poured Mt° industry, the '.results do
were once peaceful towns atid villages
not seem to be adequate. It is as
filled with happy homes are now
though there was -a brake on the ma -
covered by the slums of large maim -
chine somewhere, as though the belts
facturing cities. • We surely do not
were slipping .and 'failing to transmit
desire to copy the Australian example
the power.
of building huge cities -with congested
'It a depressing fact that, for the
populations in the midst of deserts.
last twenty years, the, greater part
And yet it is to this that we are
of all the gains achieved M industry
apparently drifting. Of late we have
by the geisius of invention and man-
agement, and by the accumulation of
capital, has been offset to the wage-
earning population by the higher cost
of food, and raw materials.
'Now, this is a grave situation. It
looks as though mankind was losing
out in its contest with nature. It re-
vives the Malthusian theory that pop-
ulation naturally increases faster
than the food supply. We know
to be true that as population grows
more dense it becomes more difficult
to provide for it, except as increasing
knowledge gives larger command over
the natural resources. Aside from
man's ability to improve the methods of
production, the tendency is against
him. It is a steady pull against the
current. Malthus published his famous
essay on population about 100 years
ago, and years ago; at that time,. be-
fore the influence of machinery and
the, posSihilities of scientifie 'research
were. fully appreciated, the outlook
for the masses was thought to be
very gloomy. The command of man
over the resources of nature did not
seem to be equal to providing even
a miserable living for the population,
not to speak a ameliorating their
condition, and intelligent and kindly
people, the leaders of society, serious-
ly discussed starvation, plague, and
war. as • perhaps necessaty means of
,,the population.
'But the development of the steam
engine and the loeomotive changed
this situatibn rapidly. It opened up
the Mississippi Valley and other fertile
regions and gave relief to the world.
But relief for how long? The rise of
prices in the -last twenty years shows
that the problem was only pushed
back. It is a preblem that never can
be finally disposed of so long as popu-
lation continues to increase., And there
are no more Mississippi Valleys to
come to the rescue. There are ex-
tensive areas of land in South Amer-
ica, in Africa, and Asia, but they will
not be occupied rapidly. There is
land in Canada, and, as I have said,
we have nowhere near reached the
limit of production in this country,
but you are as familair with these con-
ditions as I am,
equipnient living conditions would be
worse than they are./ Sippose that
with our present population we had_
to cultivate the fields of Iowa with
the implements of fifty yearn ago, arid
transport the products to the eastern.
markets upon the railways of fifty
years ago, with the locomotives of
fifty years ago, and the little ten -ton
cars of fifty years ago.
do not wish tit)" play the part of
an alarmist. I don't say that the
world is on the brink of starvation.
The great increase in food production
which we have had in this country
during the, war shows something of
our latent possibilities, but this pro,
duction is stimulated by Very high
prices. I want to emphasize what I
believe to be the chief factor in the
social situation, the economic pressure
and unrest occasioned by the rising
cost of the common necessaries of life.
'Nobody is responsible for it, but
valve to relieve congestion in the cities when great numbers of people axe dis-
and Supplied a new field -for the dis- appointed and discontented somebody
contented The statesmen of EuroPe is always held to be responsible. The
said long that the rear test of Amer-
ican institutions wohld come when
our cheap lands were gone. Eighty
years ago Lord Macaulay, in a dis-
cussion over popular government, said,
most thoughtful students of history
have held that all the great crises and
upheavals of society have been due to
economic causes, to direct economic
pressure upon the ,people, Tether than
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HURON NOTES
—Mr.1 and Mrs. John Ferguson, of
Auburn, announce the engagement of
their daughter, Cora Belle to Mr.
Guy W.1 Durham, • of St. GeOrge, the
marriage to take place quietly the
latter part of the month.
—Miss Hazel Lowry, aff Brussels,
has been engaged as primary teacher
in the Institute for the blind at Brant-
ford, at a salary of $900, plutt board-,
lodging and medical attention if nec-
essary. he begins work on September
24th.
, —The e is some _talk of acquiring
the gro a east of the village of Ethel,
as a pe anent picnic grounds to be
fitted u for the putpose of summer
outings and camping, with a small
charge o assist in maintenance. It
.is a me t suitable spot.
—The Miniater of Education has
approve the granting of High School
entrance certificates to the following
candida s. Goderich—Stanley, 'Mc-
Lean and Willie Baker. Hensalle--
Merguert Fisher. S. S. No. 6
Stephen oseph Carey.
—Miss tuella Parrott, of Blyth, who
was sch ol teacher near Walton last
term, h secured a school at Fenwick,
Welland county, and will eommence
her duties next month. MSS Parrott
is a most capable, teacher and the
services rendered last term , were
siatisfactory to the section.
—Will am Hempton, of Ashfield,
finds that automobiles- are expensive
things to keep up. On going to his
garage last Wednesday morning he
found hiS spare tire missing. On
examining the tar, he also found the
tire and ;inner tube gone off one of
the whee s.
—The derich Signal of last week
rsons travelling up the Lake
in Ashfield may see a
s animal in one of the fields
ve Charles Stewart's farm.
ade Durham steer of enor-
When last weighted it
,970 pounds arid as it is
flesh at the rate of fifty
month it may by this time
vincial Department of Highways, To -
s in the county last week
of inspection and called at
house on Wednesday. He
attention particularly to
ns to the county highway
oposed at the June session
ty council. He -was ac -
of Auburn, who is acting
ineer in the absence of
Mr. Donald Patterson, who
the summer in the West.
been threatened with the prospect of says: P
increasing stream of immigration
tremendo
rural depopulation. A steady and ever
from the country to the sity has set of- Ex -Re
It is a
in. To the sorrow of their, parents
and to the dismay of all true patriots mous siz
recorded
our rural youth are in ever increasing
numbers forsaking the certaion pros- Putting o
pect Of an existence free from aare Pounds a
and capable Of affording great hap- be an eve
piness for the hazardous chances, the
unhealthy stimulation, and the sure
disappointments of large cities. This .
movement is not caused as many
contend, by the necessities of changed
industrial conditions, but is fntirely
the result of a prevailing thought -
fashion engendered by the extravagant
productions of our modern writers of
.fantastic fiction, and by the tone of
our periodical and daily press, aided
and abetted by our pernicious system
of so-called education.
One of the most well-founded
eharges brought against our present
German-born system of education is
that it is directly antagonistie to the
agricultural interests of our popula-
tion, that it encourages the unhealthy
over -development of our urban centres,
at the expense of the rural districts,
and so is largely responsible for the
present steady flow of emigration from
the farm. It has done nothing to in-
duce better conditions in farm -life,
and has done everything to encourage
both directly and indirectly the false
idea that the conditions of city life
are better and' more desirable than
•are the conditions of rural life. A
true educational policy for Ontario
would recognize the fact that the agri-
cultural interests are the basic and
the most important interests 'of this
province. Al due regard for these
interests should by no means overlook
the peculiar educational needs of such
-urban communities as our genuine
economic necessities demand, it should
do nothing to promote their unhealthy
The first great measure of reform
to which our present system Should
be subjected would be to substitute
simplicity in place of its present be-
wildering complexity. All great and
genuine things are essentially simple.
When we describe a problem as com-
plex we simply mean that we do not
understand it. When we have solved
a problem' we have discovered its -true
simplicity and discovered that ap-
parent complexity was merely due to
our ignorapce of its nature. Our pres-
ent school.curriculum is overloaded ad
nauseum et ad absurdum, Many of
the subjects on which time is wasted,
are of no educational value whatso-
ever. Therefore, in determining the
•subjects which should be eliminated,
we should bear in mind that the main
object of' a genuine system of educa-
tion should be the development of
power, not the acquisition of know-
ledge, except incidentally. For the
development of this power, one sub-
ject well-chosen, on which attention
can be concentrated is of much more
value than, a dozen or more different
Tonto, wa
on -a tour
the court
is givin
the additi
system p
of the co
companied
Patterson,
county en
his father,
is spendin
—Mr. Arthur Trick, of Goderich
township,' 'brought into Clinton re-
cently a bea.utiful specimen of oats
which measured forty-six inches
in length. There were four stocks
from one
larly well
good spec
spring' cro
rather sho
oot and they were particu-
eaded. It was an especially
men for this year when
s are for the most part
These oats were rif the
Ehnhurst ariety and if Mr. Trick
has a gooill field of them hiS horses
ought to be well fed the ceining
winter. .
--A pre y August wedding was
solemnized et the home of Mrs, Helen
Thompson, !Donnybrook. on Wednes-
day morning, August 5th, when her
daughter, ora Helen, was milted in -
I;
marriage t Mr Hetson J. Irwin, of
wedding dinner the happy couple left
on the afternoen train for a short
honeymoon trip to London, Toronto
and 'other points. On their return
they will s ttle on the groom's farm
in East W wanosh, and will be fol-
lowed by t e best -wishes of a host
of friends.
—Wednes ay evening of last week
about 'one hundred relatives and
friends of Miss Beatrice McNair,
nurse, recen ly returned from France,
assembled a the home of llobert and
complimen ry address was read by
Lenore Patt rson, Muriel McNair and
Margaret eNair presented a -gold
ring gold b oocli and purse of money.
After a br'ef reply of thanks for
safe arrival back and the kindness
shown by o d friends, "She's a Jolly
Good Fello " was sung and a short
programme ,of speeches followed by
M. Harrison James Maim, A. Hislop,
A. McLean„ James McFa.dzean and
others. orge Evans and Elgin
Porter gave, instrumental music and
Miss L. Harrison a Solo. Councillor
Robert McDonald was chairman. A
most enjoyable evening was spent,
and at 'the close lunch was serge&
Mr. and Mrs. McTaggart did Weir
•
McKILLOP
McKillop Pioneer Dies In Regina,
One of the early settlers of Huron
county and a pioneer resident a this
township, died at the home of her
daughter in Regina on Sunday, in
the person of Margaret Armstrong,
widow of the late Anthony Boyd. The
'deceased was born in County
Fermanagh, Iteland, but came to
Canada with her paretns and sister -a
'now Mrs. Frank Morrison, when eight
years of age. The mother died on the,
voyage from the old land of ship feveit
and was buried at Hamilton, a.fter
which the father brought his tom
daughters to what is now, Seafor*,
where they residedIfor seine yearas
Sixty-three years ago she,was married
to the late Anthony Boyd and 'to-
gether they ;started their married life
on a fifty acre- farm where North
Main street Seaforth now stands,.
Later they worked one of the Meyer
farms in Harpurhey for a nuniber of
years, and then took up the homestead
farm in McKillop, at that time looked
upon as nothing but a -wilderness.
There she helped her husband clear ai
home, cheerfully tuidergoing all the
hardships of a pioneer wife and
mother. Industrious, capable and
lovable, her memory will always re-,
main green among her own family and
among the neighbors and friends with
'whom she wah associated for so many
years. Of recent years sinte.the death
of, her husband, she made her home
with her sons and daughters in Me --
1611°p, but made frequent trips to ttie,
west where several members of the
family resided. About a year age
she left for Regina to visit her daugli-
ter and it was` there the end came
aftr only month's illness, caused not
'tso much by any special ailment, but
by dsreaking up of a mice robust
constitition. Mrs. Boyd is survived.
by a family of five sons and five
daughters, Mrs. Albert Dundas,
Killpp; Mrs. E. Godkin, Regina- Mrs.
Gedkin, MeXillop; Mrs, McKenzie,
Regina; David and John, of McKillops
Thomas, ef Montana; Albert, of Met
stone, Sask., and Robert, of Seaforth.
The remains were brought east for
burial, the funeral being held te-day,
Friday, from the home of her Sort -in-.
law, Mr. Albert Dundas, to the Mait-
landbank cemetery.
The Late Solmon Shannon.—We
made brief mention last week of the
sudden death of one of this towriship's
best known and most highly respected
pioneers in the person of Mr. &Amen,
Shannon which occurred in Seaforth
on Sunday, August 10th. The follow-
ing further particulars which have
been sent ue will' be of interest to
all in the township and many old
friends throughout the county am*
elsewhere; '‘‘Mr. Shannon accomp-
anied by his son, Solomot, drove into
town Saturday evening, and while
there called on Dr. Burrows to get
some medicine for his stomach. He
had been waited upon by the docter
and had left in his usual good humor
but had searcely gone six rods .when.
he was seized with weakness of the
heart. He managed to, get back to the
doctor's office, where he received the
best care the doctor and Mrs. Bur-
rows could possibly give, and steerned
to'revive and gain 'strength for a time.
He chatted with the family and at
times slept until about five thirty
a m. Sunday when he again took ill
and 'all that kind nursing coWd do
was of no avail. Deceased was in bis
usual health on Saturday and had.
helped with the work around the -
home all day, and his sudden death
was a severe shock to his now be-
reaved family, which are Thomas and
Solomon at hornet John, west- of
Winthrop, W. J., of Underwood, and
Mrs. W. A. Johnston and Mrs. George
Love, of McKillop. Mr. Shannon was
born in the County of Armagh, Ire,
land, on November 20th, 1836, and
came to Canada with his parents in
1844 settling in the township of
Chinquesey, near Toronto, and later
settling in the township of McKillop
where he resided until his- death. In
,1870 he was married to Sarah Ann
Switzer, of Meadowvale,twho prede-
ceased him six years ago., Mr. Shan-
non had been a very active man in
county and municipal affaire, had
assessed the' township in 1866 and
1867 when he had to walk qr travel
,on horse back. He was also treasurer
for a great number of years and a
member of the Board of Health, and
no one seemed to enjoy -meeting with
the public better tha-n he. He alwaylis
had the glad smile and the ready band
shake for every one, which -won for
him thahigh respect in which he was
herd. In religion he was a good_ Pres-
byterian and in politics a staunch
Conservative, both of which he at all
times upheld. The funeral .was held
from his late residence on Tuesday,
August 12th, 1910, and was 4me-of the
largest in this vicinity. There were
floral tributes from different bodies,
which the family deeply appreciated..
The pallbearers weie his fora sons
and, two sons -in -Jaw. The remains
were laid peacefully to rest in the
Maitlandbank cemetery in the family
plot "