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The Huron Expositor, 1920-01-09, Page 1• • • ....okoeuk•sweaftiefoNailotkeiMehr FIFTY-FOURTH YEAR WHOLE NUMBER 2717 MAO:MTH, 'FRIDAY, • JANUARY 9, 1920 McLean area., Publisher* $1.5La Year in Advance Greig Clot4ing Co'y "Second to None" Big Snaps in Cloth . mg and Furs „- - anuary Sal Fur Coats Fur Sets Fur Collared Coats -- for Men and Women Overcoats, Men's and Boys' Wool Sets, Mackinaw Coats. Women's winter Coats, Heavy Caps, Gloves and MittsCoat Sweaters, heavy Underwear. The Big Sale is Now On 1 Greig Clothing Co. SEAFORTH Id POLITICS UNDER THE SHADOW Waiting and watching describes the attitude and occupation of the two old parties at Ottawa. They're wait - ng for heaven knows what and keep- ing both eyes on the greater produc- ton of farmer farer statesmen. On second thoughts they have decided that the farmer triumph in Ontario: was what they had always hoped for. As law- yers, they have naturally concluded that no Government that is not made- up of lawyers can possibly be a suc- cess. So they're sitting back waiting for the loud bang that will tell. a waiting world that Ontario's Agricul- tural Cabinet has blown up. Then, by grabbing pieces of wreckage, they somehow appear to hope to be able, to buffet the political waves and float. back into that calm public confidence they feel is owed to them by a pres- ently disgruntled people. Briefly the lawyer statesmen hope and try to believe that the farmer uprising is one of the unpleasant af- ter-effects of the war and that, once the publie has returned to normal, it will immediately recognize that the first essential to good government is lawyers, that what the country really needs is more lawyers and that this Do- minion never will be contented, happy and prosperous till it gets more lai,v- yers, Meantime it is getting farm- ers and yet more farmers. Every election return from the outlying con- stituencies shows that in one respect at least the Canadian people are go- ing back to the farm. However, some good friends of the farmer movement are not too well pleased that the first triumphth at e polls came in Ontario. For the rural forces in the Banner Provinces are neither as well organized nor as well led as they are out on the Prairies. Neither have they learned that tolera- tion is the corner -stone of political succees. If you want the evidence look at the latest election returns. In Assiniboia the farmer candidates carried the towns and villages almost as solidly as they did the townships. In Ontario the towns and villages voted almoat solidly against the farm- ers and were only plowed under by the almost unanimous vote of the men who hold the plow.. Nor does the Drury Cabinet indi- cate that feelings other thari agricul- tural are to be considered at Queen's Park. A union. with ,Lalsor that had little in common save a protest a- st things as they were had to be continued to give the Granger Premier an excuse for forming his Govern- ment, It was Oslo neoestarl to take_ te fill Pie Attorney - General's portfolio. But, except for this union, which does not even sug- gest permanency, and this slight in- fusion of law, the new Cabinet smells of nothing but the new -mown hay. It lays itself wide- open to the charge that it is purely and simply class government. In fact, there is a shrewd suspicion that it is also min- ority government, for the vote polled shows that the farmer candidates did not gain even one-third of the total number actively participating in the election. Consequently, action that may have a tendency to consolidate the opposing majority is neither wis- deni nor good politics. SO good a farmer as Hon. T. A. Grerar when called into counsel with the newly discovered statesmen is said to have impressed on them that a Government to be, permanent must represent all classes of the 'people. Therb -was an early disposition to listen to the Crerar advice but it so hapriened that business called him West. After he departed the news came in from Assiniboia, Carleton and Glengarry; and the Cabinet makers -immediately discovered, that the entire population had turned farm- er. It hurt their feelings a bit to have to take in even one lawyer and they are reported to have prepared an oath of allegiance for the outsider so strong that at least three men re- fused to swallow it before it was finally poured down the throat of Hon. W. E. Raney. That they also picked a lawyer with whiskers is not so significant as it might appear at first blush, for let the fact be heralded abroad that the Attorney- General—bred in the cultured city of Toronto—is the only man in the farmer Cabinet who wears those hirsute adornments once attributed ed to the hayseed but now by almost unanimous consent allotted to the billy goat. And while mentioning appearance, it might as well be added that the Ontario Cabinet looks all right to the casual observer. From Premier Drury down every man looks as if his credit was good with his tailor and he was not appalled by the high priep of modern footwear. Hon. Manning Doherty, Minister of Agriculture, is particularly presentable. The word "natty" is frequently used in describ- ing him. As to what they carry in their heads the future must tell; for at this writing they are "gun shy" and trail off into a deep silence when a newspaper man is discerned on the horizon. To be sure Premier Drury has made a few speeches in public. It Was fiXlieetied that he., Yreald. • 3-, one of those born orators who are self-starting and hard to stop. That may have been the reason he was chosen leader. Canadians have long been troubled with a suspicion that it takes an orator to make a states- man. That suspicion, perpetuated at the polls, is one of the reasons why the country is wrestling with bankrupt railways and other muddled problems that required brains rather than fluency in their solution. But I'll tell you 'more about that later. The reason.' for so much of this Ontario stuff is that all Ottawa is gaping in that direction and we just had to take a "look-see" with the rest. For, regardless of the facts that the Farm- er Movement got its start on the Prairies and that its future must de- pend on the West, everybody here seems to think that said movethent must stand or fall by what happens in Ontario. Of course this is the last hope of a hopeless Government. The Ontario elections in which Unionism was clubbed by proxy, followed by the by-elections in which 'Unionism was clubbed in person, have enabled our great War Cabinet to see themselves as others see them. It has at last been borne in on them that • an un- grateful country has turned to bite the hand th4t saved it from the Hun. Things will never be the same again. Hon. James Calder may still wear the smile that made his reputation for shrewdness; lion. Wesley Rowell may continue his splendid effort to uplift his fellow man; Hon. Arthur Meighen may yet quibble and split hairs; and Sir. George Foster may throw a merry quip or bewhiskered jest across the- floor; But—and I say again BUT—the shadow of a great sorrow is over the Union Cabinet= the shadow of that sorrow that can only come to men who have labored and whose labors have been unap- preciated. Leaving them in their gloom it might be well to hark back for a moment to -the second and last sec tion of the famous indemnity session. It was a'aad moment for the, patient back -bencher when it was announced that the Grand Trunk legislation Would be brought down. He had done his thirty-one days, Sir George Foster had announced that he could pack his trunk and the indemnity. check was fluttering in front of his eyes wheii Hon. J. D. Reid, Hon. Wesley Rowell arid Hon. Arthur Meighen united in glad chorus of shouts that the Grand Trunk was .411 ready to be bought and that -neither It nor this suffer- ing country could wait a minute longer. That gladness was neither infectious nor contagious. The rank and file. of Unionism are recent con- verts to public ownership. So are their leaders for that matter. But said leaders live in Ottawa while the - common herd had . homes elsewhere— homes where families were waiting for dad and the extra $2,500. More- over, board in Ottawa has gone to prices that would make even a food controller blush. Consequently in al- most any corner of the corridor you could find a budding statesman giving almost profane emphasis to a belief that the Government already owned railroads enough to keep it amused till another sessidn rolled around. Of course if it had been left to the Union- ists it would have been over in a day. They'd have taken the bill as read and shoved it along to the Senate unsight and unseen. As it was it's a good bet that not more than a dozen of them ever tangled their brains with the fig- ures the deal involved. But it was diff- erent esith the Opposition. Their bus - is to oppose anything and everything the Government brings down. More- over, it had been whispered to them the C.P.R. was against the deal. And you know there will be an election some day so it is always well to have rich friends on such occasions. So with one voice those goodly Grits yelled: We're again the deal and we'll fight it to the last ditch." They did fight too. They fought with the utmost obstinacy and the densest ignorance. D, D. McKenzie distinguished himself by a speeh which will ruin his chance of ever Egetting a job as bookkeeper. That boy statesman, Mackenzie King, blew in from Prince Edward Island in time to evolve a school of finance all his own. He was laughed at -by the Gov- ernment and blushed for by his own followers. In justice to him it must be said that he never turned a hair He carries in his repertoire a sublim self-confidence that is sneer proof and blush proof too. But the bill finally passed The Op- position in an attempt to make the Government resort to closure literally talked till they ran down. They told all they knew about railroads, which took tin -ie. The -n they told all they didn't know, which took more tinie, But: when the bill. got to the Senate the real fight took place. There the line was so finely drawn that for days the closest figures could not manage to make it better than a tie. Threats that the Government would resign and go to the country only b‘rouvht laugh- ter from the Opposition. Those cast- offs of the old parties knew only too well that no Government goes to the country before its time unless it has some chance of coming back. Gradu- ally, however, the Government pull brought the stragglers back to the fold. But even on the night of the vote the outlook was so uncertain that Gerald White was sworn in and held ready to break a tie if necessary. As it turned out he was not needed, for public ownership triumphed by a majority of five. But all through, that vote thenew Senator sat in the last back bench with a Government whip by his side. The latter ticked off the vote on a card and heavO a great sigh of relief as he turned to, his newest recruit and told him he could take the rest of the night off. Of those old Senators it can be said that they debated the bill much more ably than did the Commons. Senator Ross criticizedit mercilessly and with a lizootirledge of the subject that was surprising, while Senators Foster and Fowler came to his aid- with hefty arguments. But in the Senate, as in the Commons, it is votes and not ar- guments that count., The Government has the whip. When it crackin .earnest it is all over but the groans. With the Railway Bill out of .the way, the rush to a finish was on. Sir Getirge Foster took the House in hand and put his foot on the accelerator. - Ever see the old Knight get busy on 1 a job of this kind? If you. haven't you've a treat in store. It is long since he passed his .usefulness as a Minister of Trade and Commerce. As an orator he has deteriorated till he now lectures the assembled states- men as if they were a lot of school boys. But when he sits in at the steering wheel and heads the House. for pro- ' rogation he has neither superior nor equals. He feeds it scrap legisla- tion till its eyes laflge out and the order paper is as clean as Wesley Rowell's conscience. Then he grabs the estimates and juggles millions till everybody's head swims. He keeps all and sundry going from 11 a. m. till along towards daylight the next morning and seems to grow younger 1 s I crawled for the tall and lofty. Wha do you think scared him? Did he hear the farmers coming -and discover that he had mislaid the corn cob pipe? Or was it the success of the Victory Loan that got him going? Remember when the munition works were run- ning overtime and patriotism was, in bloom, Sir Thomas argued that he eouldn't sell anything but tax-free bonds? Then when Sir Harry Dray- ton happened along and put out his issue of taxable bonds, how sorry everyone was for him. But the pubs lie ate up the taxable certificates as if they had never seen anything nicer. Guess Sir Thomas decided it was time for him to get in out of the spot light for a few days. If he had thought that new loan was going to be the success it is, would he have got out' when he did ? Not on your life. Even if he had intended retir- ing he would have waited till the money was in the till and then gone out in a blaze of glory." Now this line of conversation may do injustice to the most popular An- azicial knight Canada ever knew. But you can't keep people from talking, especially when the golf season is over, and they have to kill time in Ottawa and between sessions. And at the best it looks as if Sir Thomas White had bid a long farewell to the senior eireles of the political game. He /may potter about a bit as a com- mon M. P., but no num who has re- turned to the big corporations can hope to again reach the higher rungs. "So, good-bye Tom; take keer . of yourself." . i Then coincident with the slipping of a one-time favorite for Premier comes a, report from Quebec that Sir Lomer Gouin has resolved to slip his political cable and sail serenely into financial waters. Of course Sir Lomer is no amateur' at.the big -money game. He's already rated as a millionaire and in appearance is more fitted to be the head of a trust than an applicant for • the suffrages of the people. But now the wise ones tell you that he is finally going where he best belongs— with the Canadian Pacific Railway. He's to advise them in matters of la*. Incidentally, he may find means of making an odd dollar on the side. It's a way those financiers have. And with his goings,things may happen in Quebec Provincial circles, that may have large effects on Do- minio,n affairs. When that master of political intrigue, Sir Charles Fitz- patrick, threw up the position of Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of. Canada, to accept the job of Lieu- tenant -Governor of Quebec, folks marvelled. For Chief Justice is a place to which even a Dominion Premier may retire with honor. But down Quebec way, where "Fitz" is best known, the politicians did not find time to wonder: They were too buy -trying to find out _what the as- ute Irishman was after. And finally they figured out that Sir Charles, scenting the likelihood of Sir Lomer Gouin's withdrawal from the Pro- vincial field, had moved into a posi- ion where he could best enjoy his avorite game. For, be it known that Hon. L. A. Taschereau, who is next n line for the Quebec Premiership, s related to Sir Charles. Mr. Tasche- eau is neither any too able nor any oo ;popular. But Sir Charles has rains to burn. If he can put part f the family over for Premier, why he head of the family can do the est And if he can and does, what hen? Look out for Hon. Mr. Caron nd the farmers. If they get busy he whole political map of Quebec may have to be re-arranged.—By J. K, Munro, In MacLean's.• t with every passing moment. And he always keeps a nasty, snaggy little bill till everybody is too tired to fight it. This session it was Rowell's pro- hibition measure he kept for the tit bit. You'll remember that at the spring spasm, Hole Wesley got his extra -dry through but the Senate re- voked on him. This tinie Sir George must have patted him on 'the head and said: "Run along to Washington, Wesley, and play with Labor. Leave your extra -dry to your Uncle George. He'll show you how to handle it." So Hon, Wesley wentIo, Washing- ton and 'Uncle Georgeeswell he lived up to his promise. How did he do it? Well, Sir George has been at Ottawa long enough to know that the French Senators catch the 3.40 train for home on Friday afternoonand don't get back till Monday night. He also knew that if those French Senators were absent the extra -dry measure - would go through the upper House a -flying. So he timed his prorogation drive accordngly. It was well along on Saturday evening when the Pro- hibition Bill was reached, but a sug- gestion that it be laid over till Mon- day was scorned and the discussion was on. • Gus Porter of Belleville quoted the B. N. A. to show that any attempt to prohibit importation from one province into another was uncon stitutional. The act "-provides that "all products, growtha and menu - factitive of one llitittliice Must .be admitted free into any of the others., lion: C. J. Doherty blandly assured him that this applied to the imposi- tion of duties, not to prohiition. And while the argument wascat its height the hands of the clock crept past the midnight hour and Sunday was in their midst. But neither the laws of God nor man could obstruct the onward march of the Uplift. At a quarter to one on Sunday morning, regardlessof the breaches in the Fourth Commandment and the British North America Act, the bill 'passed. Bright and early on Monday morning t was before the Senate and, when the Honorable Senators from ecluebec arrived back in the evening, another degree or two had been added to the general drought and Parliament had prorogued. For the French Senators t must be said that they were more or less disinterested. The new law only applies to provinces that already have bone-dry laws. And Quebec'as you ow, flows with beer and wine, has al growing contempt for the re- stricti ns placed on the stronger bev- erage and rejoices in the prospect of a ouris trade to the only area north f the Mexican boundary where a man can quench his thirst. Dur ng the last week of the session he pr dude of the by-elections began o rol in. 1 They brought' two who occasioned no little curiosity—the armer members from Carleton, N. B., and Glengarry, Ont. The one rens the far East is a husky repre- sentative well over six feet in height; and if he was a stranger he wasn't prepared V) stay that way. He sent he door -keeper in for a couple of he cross-benchee from the Prairies and announced himself to them. "I'm Caldwell from Carleton," he aid, "And I just want to get into hat House for long enough to thank Hone Arthur Meighen for corning in-. o my constituency. He was worth a thousand votes to me." The Westerners, out of a growing xperience, informed him that he could ot get in till the writ for Carleton was returned, so he sat for a ew ays in the gallery and watched the how. And as he sat his enmity for Hon, Arthur possibly turned to pity or, when he at last rested his lanky orm on a cross -bench chair, he was s mute as an oyster. There's scne- hing in that Parliamentary atmos - here that gets them all. As to the man from Glengarry, his appearance was much less spectacular. He just appened in, dressed in an ordinary usiness suit, and fitted into the sur- oundings quite naturally. - It need only be added that there reworse-looking men in the House han either of these farmers. With Parliament gone, Ottawa re- apsed into its usual morgue -like quiet. Sir Robert Borden's absence made it close season for the national sport of Cabinet reorganization and there weren't enough politics about the place to start a respectable conversation. To be sure the success of the Victory Loan cheered the contract hunters, but it wasn't till Sir Thomas White began to accept directorships in var- ious financial corporations that the po- litical sharks began tolprick up their ears. Then the hum of goasip was resumed and it all sounded like this: "So Sir Thomas is a director of Steel of Canada; the National Trust and the Bank of Csulliaorool Well, Ler one* brothers and sisters Bona of well, another Inmeible ir render has mine aig the: welgeti ' - FROM AN -OLD McKILLOP • CORRESPONDENT Toronto, January 5th, 1920. Dear Expositor:—We have been getting a touch of zero weather here for a few days but there is not more than an inch of snow. Tommy Church is again mayor of the city. His ma- jority was nearly 5,000.% Ile is a safe man, and a good friend to the soldiers, and a staunch Imperialist. Your readers will recollect that I promised to say something about that farmers' crowd who went to Ottawa to impress upon the Government the fact that they did not want their next of kin to face death, fighting the battles of the Empire. I was born and brought up on a backwood farm in western Ontario. A minute's walk would bring me from the cabin where I spent the first years of my life, into the wOods in every direc- tion. After •helping my father to clear his farm, 1 worked out for five or six years and alwaye for farm- ers. The day was from twelve to sixteen hours according to the greed or otherwise of the man I worked for. I then came to Centre Huron and bought a small unimproved place out of my earnings, aud kept adding to it. I was different from our friend, Mr. Drury, who inherited his lands. On many occasions I have cradled, grain all day and tied it up all night. until daylight appeared in the eastern sky; and many times I have driven a load of cordwood through pitch holes a distance of twelve miles and been on the streets of Seaforth shortly. after daylight. I just Say these things to prove that •I have been a farmer, first, last and all the time until a year ago. And I will say. this The first time I ever felt ashanaed of be- ing a farmer was when that bunch went to Ottawa. Russia had fallen down. Italy was hard pressed. France and Britain were nearly ex hausted. The enemy were driving many portions of the allied line be- fore them. The Dardanells blunder and tragedy had 'messed into history. A • fellow of the Bourassa type hr- angued in Montreal. Among other things he Shouted, "We have done enough in this war," and the tagtag and bobtail crowd shOuted back, "Yes, too tam. much." And our Ontario and estern young men over there, sven' fl)t.1,t • ing the word back, for Heaven's sake send us help. I will have to be care- ful lest I might say something about the farmers' deputation which would not look well in print. They just wanted the other fellows to face death and do the fighting. The lives of the sons of merchants, manufac- turers, professional men, etc., were a secondary consideration. To be sure they made -production an excuse. Well, a poor excuse is better than none. It eccurrs to my minds they did but little in the way of produc- tion for a fortnight after tramping the streets of Ottawa all night, or lying on the soft side of a board in the parks. The kids at home were not doing much work either. For when the cat's away the mice can play. One of them, who I talked with, told me of the treatment they received from what he termed the Tory Gov- ernment. Who ever heard of Sifton, Calder and Crerar being anything else than leading Liberals? And all read- ing people know that Hugh Guthrie, Wesley Rowell and general Newburn were prominent Liberals from away back; anir Mr. Sifton, who had left the judiciary to lead. the Liberals of Alberta, afterwards entering the Union Government, was leading the Goversunent the time the farmers' crowd went on their visit—J. J. 1. MUNICTPAL ELECTIONS The following is the result of the elections held on Monday last through- out the country: ' Seaforth.—Mayor Dr, Harburn; Reeve, Drs Grieve; Councillors, C. A. Barber, J. W. Beattie, G. P. Cardiso, W. II. Golding, G. D. Haigh, R. Parke. McKillop. --Reeve, F. J. McQuaid; Councillors, John Dodds, Edward Horan, Daniel R,egele, John Scott. • Tuckersmithi. — Reeve, Herbert Crich; Councillors, J. McNaughton, C. Riley, I. Moore, J. B. Cick. Clinton.—Mayor, Thomas Cottle,. majority 31; Reeve, R. J. Miller, ma- jority 2; Council—C. Middleton, H. Wiltse, A, 3, McMurray, W. J. Ned- iger, J. E. Johnson, Bert Langford., The byla* to establish a municipal fuel yard was carried by 187 maioritY, or a vote of about 2 to 1. Brusels.—Reeve, S. T. Plum; Council by acclamation. Stephen. Reeve, Alex. Neeb; Deputy, David Webb; Council, John Hayes,George Penhale, William Sweitzer, Howick.—Reeve, Peter F. Doig; Deputy, W. J. Spotton; Council, J. Bryane, George Hubbard, T. Inglis. Ashflield.—Reeve, J. Hackett; Dep- uty Reeve, T. J. Richardson; Council by acclamation. East Waysanosh.—Reeve, W. J. Currie; Council, J. Gillespie, W. Strangham, G. Robertson, R. Coulter. Grey. — Reeve, John McNabb - Council, R, L. McDonald, (O. Harri, J. Collins, T. McDonald. Hensall.—Reeve, G. C. Petty, ma- jority 55; Council by acclamation. Bayfield.—Reeve, E, Merner; Coun- cil by acclamation. Blyth.—Reeve, James Cutt, acclam- ation; Councillors, Joseph Taman, J. Dodds, George White, E. Geddes. Goderich.—Mayor, Wigle was re- elected for a third term, defeating L. G. Parsons by 167. Reeve, T. R. Wallis, by a majority of 67 over T. M. Davis; Deputy. Reeve, W. F. Clark by acclamation; Councillors,- H. C. Dunlop, John Storey, Thos. II/lite-hell; b J .T Th • . m er, . . Mosier, ernes Knight. Winghame--Mayor, W. H. Gurney, acclamation; Reeve, A. Tippling; Councillors, II, B. Elliott. T. R.. Ben- nett, J. J. Cunningham, T. Fells, S. Mitchell, R. A. Currie; New school Trustees, W. J. Haines, Reg. Williams, F. Hill, L. Bisbee. Exeter.—Reeve, B. V. F. Beavers; Councillors, W. Ward, J. Davis, S. Elston, Ws Penhale. The by-law to form the high and public school boards into a board of education carried favorably„ 281 to' 82. HURON NOTES —The 200 acre farm. of Alex.,For- syth, Brussels, being south half of Lot 30, Concession 3, Morris, and Lot 1, Concession 6 Grey, has been pur- chased, by Thomas Pierce, the ten- ant for past two years. The price was $6,500. Mr Pierce will proceed to make improvements and we wish him success in his, securing the prop- erty. —We are sorTy to state that while assisting ata synod bee at Mrs. Wm. Fralick's Tuesdy afternoon of last week, Lewis ECkmier had the mis- fortune to ,have his left leg broken, between the knee and ankle. We hope he will soon be able to get about. —On Wednesday morning last, A- bout 10:30, the house belonging to - Harry Fowler, 6th concession, West Wawanosh, was completely destroyed by fire, together with all contents: The cause 18 unknown Mr. Fowler was at the barn and Mrs. Fowler barely escaped with her five children. A heavy gale was blowing and nothing was saved. —A quiet wedding was solemnized at Caven Presbyterian Manse, Exeter, on Wednesday, December 31st; when Mr. John Leslie Kydd, son of Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan Kydd, Exeter N„ was married to Miss Lamina Fredie Wil- lard, daughter of Mr. and Mts. Al- bert Willard. The young couple in- tend making their home at the north end of the village and will have the best wishes of their friends. —At the meeting of Lebanon For- est Lodge, A. P. and A. IC, Exeter, 'held on Monday evening, the follow- ing officers were duly installed by Very Wor, Bro. M, swat, viz: W. Bzeriukat4 314s.Rw. iNilowmgnane, 1 W.; C. H. Sanders, Treas,; R. N. Creech, Secretary; Eacrett, Chap.; R. W. Puke, S. 11; J. M. Southeott, J. D.; Homer , Bagsliaw, I. G.; M. Quanee, 5.53.i A. Hastings, J., 2.; W. W. Taman,Thr. of C.; L A. Stewart, & Wood, W. J. Beer and W. W. Taman, Board of Gen. Purposes; Master and Wardens Board of Relief. —The marriage of Miss Ida ATIII- strobg, youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Irwin Armstrong, to Mr. Dungan B. Smith, took place quietly at the home, Huron street, Exeter, on Tues- day evening, December 30th. The -ceremony was performed by -Rev. M. J. Wilson, pastor of Jaines St. Meth- odist ,elaurch, in the presence of the immediate relatives of the bride. Mr. and Mrs. Smith left Thursday znorn- sinid. gefor Toronto, where they will re- -Quite a gathering assembled in McIsaa.c's hall, Dashwood, on Satur- day evening to 'witness the presenta- tion of mementos to our soldier boys, who served overseas. Addresses were - 'given by Rev. Graupner and Rev, Yager, Prin. Howard and Dr. Taylor. About $300 was collected for the pure pose. Twrity-one boys, who enlisted from that neighborhood for service overseas, were each given a band ring and a medal suitably engraved. The boys expressed their thank,s in reply. 1 —Friday evening of last week a company of upwards of fifty young people assembled at the home of Alex. and Mrs: MCLauchlin, -east gravel road, Morris, and shored Miss Miss Irene, who is shortly to remove from that locality. Mrs. C. Davis and ,Miss Ida Rands brought a big basket into the presence of the visi- tors and from it were taken many articles useful., 'minable and that , be necessities in a housekeeping Out- fit ,. ,Bach was accompanied by a poetic effusion, original or borrowed. Although taken by 'surprise Miss Irene made an appropriate replY. A jolly time was spent after which lunch was served and, with many good wishes for days to tome, -the folk left for their respective homes. —At the Presbyterian- manse, Col- borne atreet, .Goderich, on the morn- ing of Decenilser 27th, the marriage WAS solemnized of May, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Alex. Henderson 'to Mrs Leslie Van Hoten, of Detroit, Mich., Rev, R. C. MeDesenid officiat- ing, The bride, who was becozningly attired in dark brown with hat to match, and wore a corsage bouquet of Ophelia roses and -maidenhair fern, ' was attended by her sister, Annie„ with Mr. M. N. McDonald assisting the groom., After the ceremony the bridal party returned to the home of the 'bride's parents, where a fowl dinw ner was sereied, after which the happy couple left en the 1.40 C. P. R. train for Toronto, Niagara and ether points. The bride and the groom were the recipients of marry bettutiful, The groonasglft to the bride was a cameo neckb0 to the bridesmaid a pretty goldroch, and to the grooms- man a fot4tain pen. Mr. and Mrs. Van Hoten will spend a few days at the home of the bride's parents be- fore returning to their home, 108 Hooker avenue, Detroit. —The home of .Mr. and Mrs. a A. Nairn, Keays street, Goderich, was the scene of a, very pretty wed- ding on Saturday •Morning, December 27th, when their tined daughter, Jean Frances, became the bride ef Mre James S. Hume, C.A, of New York, eldest son of Mr .i and Mrs. J. P. Hume, Goderieh. Promptly at 1130 o'clock the, bride entered the draw- ing room with her father, to the strains of the Lohengrin wedding iriareh played by her sister, Mrs. Athol MeQuarrie, of Toronto, and took her place before a. floral arch which was erected at the end of the room. Rev. R. C. MeDermid, pastor of Knoxchurch, performed the cere- mony in the presence of about thirty close friends and relatives. The bride wore her travelling suit of navy French serge with seal trimmings, with hat of brown velvet and gold lace. She carried a handsome shower bouquet of sweetheart roses and ni- fantsbreatk During the signing of the register Miss Esther Hume, sister of the bridegroomsang very sweetist Guy D. Hardelot's "Becaue" Mti and Mes, Hume left on the. 1.40 P. R train for Philadelphia, in whiklit city Mr. Hume is at present stationed, —The marriage took place on Ne Year's morning at Knox church, Gode- rich of Elsie Lena Douglas, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Galt, to Colin de Vere -Headlee, Lieutenant U. S. Navy, formerly of Everett, Washing. ton, at present eosin/landing the U. S. destroyer Tucker, stationed at • Philadelpha. The marriage • was solenmized by Rev. E C McDerniid; minister of Knox church, The young bride, who was given away by her ather, was sweetly pretty in.444 egovar of white satin with bridal veil of silk net caught up with sprays eforane-s„ blossoniss(sent espedally brfier in Florida for this occasio), and carried a bouquet of brid's ewes,. She was attended by her sitter, Mise Margavt, and Mss Eleanor Hays, who wore gowns of Belgiau bine georgette and Meek nicture bats and carried bouquets of Sunset roses.The groomsmen were Mr. George Karl Weber, Lieutenant U. S, N, at pres- ent attached to U, S. S, Ohio, and Mr. Robert Carey, Itt. a, tormerir Lieutenant C. E. P. The ushers were Messrs. E. Portcr Terence Kidd and Ernest Lee. The church auditorium was decorated with plants, and, Befit- ting the internetionel eharaeter the wedding the flags of Britt& the United Staten i'ere -'draped the pulpit Mr. FreJeriok 1 E Muse Bae. play' vet* iduri-al ceremony, and 1VIL5P Esther sang very sweetly "Bealm the register wag being wards a reception was hozzle of the brides parent, and Mrs, Heatilee left dr terno-on for the IC to New York arrA