The Huron Expositor, 1920-07-16, Page 44
THE HURON EXPOSITOR
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• THE HURON EXPOSITOR
SEAFORTH, Friday, july 16, 1920.
THE NEW CABINET
Hon. Arthur Meighen has complet-
ed the organization of his Government
and he and- his colleagues held their
frit council meeting Tuesday after-
noon. The new Prima Minister ac-
cepted office and was sworn in by the
Governor-General on Saturday last.
At the same time Hon. C. C. Ballan-
tyne toek the oath of office as Min-
ister of Marine and Fisheries and of
the Naval Service. Nine more mem-
bers of the Cabinet were sworn by
the Duke of Devonshire Tuesday
morning and three in the afternoon.
Three, Hon'. S. F. Tohnie, Minister of
Agriculture, Hon. P. E. Blondin, Post -
mater -General, and Sir Edward
Kemp have yet to take the oath of
office. The Cabinet of seventeen con-
tains three new men Hon. F. B. Mc-
Curdy, M.P, of Colchester, N. S.;
Minister of PubIic Works; _Hon. R.
W. Wigmore, M.P., of St. John City
and the Counties of St. John and
Albert, N. B., and Hon. E. K. Spinney,
M.P., of Yarmouth, Minister without
portfolio. The complete Cabinet
slate is -as follows:
HON. ARTHUR MEIGHEN Prime
Minister and Secretary of State for
External Affairs.
SIR GEORGE E. FOSTER, Mini-
ster of Trade and Commerce.
HON. C. J. DOHERTY, Minister
-of Justice.
HON. ARTHUR SIFTON, Secre-
tary of State.
HON. J. A. CALDER, President of
the Privy Council and Minister of
Immigration and Colonization.
SIR HENRY DRAYTON, Minister
-of Finance.
HON. J. D. REID, = Minister of
Railways and petals.
SIR , JAMES- LOUGHEED, Minis-
ter of the Interior and Superintend-
ent -General of Indian Affairs.
HON. P. E. BLONDIN, Postmas-
ter -General.
HON. C. C. I3ALLANTYNE, Min-
ster of Marine and Fisheries.
HON. GILDEON ROBERTSON,
Minister of Labor.
, HON. HUGH GUTHRIE, Minister
of Militia and Defence.
HON. S. F. TOLMIE, Minister of
Agriculture.
HON. F. B. McCurdy, Minister of
Public Works:
HON. R. W. WIGMORE, Minister
of Customs and Inland Revenue.
SIR EDWARD KEMP and HON.
E. K.SPINNEY, Ministers without
Portfolio.
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JULY 16, 1920.
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who, ben it serves, their turn, have conscription *draft,for Bennie told me
little scruple in, over-etepping all that "My bro'er he hidtes und Z's
barns und he no go for kills Man on
de var!"
So it was under Z's barns the stal-
wart foreign lads were hiding, eh?
,One day I met "Bro'er" on the trail
and asked him was he not going to
enlist and fight for his country?
"Nor he said, "War iss badt. I no
go for kill noder manss-noder manss
no go for kill me!" German propagan-
da, clearly.
But the draft got "Bro'er." He
was hauled from under the barn,
dressed in khaki, drilled, made ready
for Over There, when the armistice
came; and one of the stoutest soldiers
in Canada was "Bra'er," who came
back -to the farm, remade, rebuilt, re-
baptized, so to say, swinging strong
and husky with the emotion which
made him say: "No, I'm not want
now. .Armistice' they say -I wish I
get whacks at them Germans! So!"
He ,whacked the heads off the dande-
lions on the roadside, and stood there
in the prairie sunlight a fine Canadian-
ized citizen.
possible legitimate bounds, both of
criticism and of counsel -Statesman.
ereesreeeeatta
THE STRANGER• IN OUR MIDST
Continued from page 1
ed necks, it being too much to ask
"every" day), we marched around the
school, grounds, singing The Maple
Leaf, Little John carried =the Fla
(being the youngest scholar), wear
ing a proud smile and was allowed t
pull the rope which sent it flying
gaily from the top of the forty -foot
pole. There it fleeted while we sang
Gad Save the king in a chorus you
coul& hear down as far as the .Ger-
man's place; and after that T'ch'r
"made a talkss," telling the little ones
what a wcniderful flag it was, and how
it "took care of all little Canadian
children which WiE all are." When
asked "1/4VHY we must never Let the
Old Flag Fall?" only Little John
answered, shouting in his childish
treble:
"Pia T'eh'r, und it vallss it gets
durties!"
Oh! Little John, aetat six years!
In you I see a splendid = Canadian
twenty years hence.
It wasn't all song -and -dance. Many
of these children were coming miles
to scheol through broken weather,
trails muddy and frozen, slush and
*maw, and later_ when the Jenuary
winds blew and the thermometer went
to forty below. The breakfast of
some was rye bread with milklet3s
coffee, and perhaps potatoes. One
day a little girl fainted dead away
on her arrival at school. I put the
child to bed on a couch in my cottage
and -discovered she wore a pair of
old broken boots with the footless legs
of stockings rinside, a cotton frock, a
fragment of shirt made of used salt -
bags, and, over this, a woollen sweater
as an outside garment! She had
walked two miles to school and she
was exactly eight years old. You
mothers who 'tuck up your little ones
at night in warm nests with full
stoniachs, glad minds, doll -amused
from the day's play, Consider the
"foreign" sister on a prairie farm!
Oh get in touch with T'ch'r,
who knows where the ,offcast gar-
ments will make gladness!
I wrote to the Department asking
for enough money to furnish two hot
lunches each week to those starved_
little children. The answ-er came
promptly, "Get what is needed"; for
my official trustee, while an educa-
tional Burr in many ways, had the
heart just needed for such work. Then
came the fearful question :• How to
differentiate between, those who had
a breakfast at home arid those who
had not? The child must not be'
pauperized. •I considered this ques-
tion, arriving at a happy -solution, I
think. Twice each week, at noon,
just when leaving the school -room I
always just remembered that I need-
ed some wood carried in, or some
water brought, or a message taken
somewhere and "would some kind
little girl or boy do this for T'ch'r?"
A dozen would volunteer (usually the
well-fed ones). • There was,
of course,
nothing to do but -draw lots to decide
which four, or five, or, indeed, some-
times six, helpers would comethat
day." '
Paper slips were cut, short slips,
long slips, held in T'ch'r's hand, and
it was a caution the way the right
one got the long slips every time!
In lotteries now you never can tee
can you?= Especially when T'c'e'r
manipulates the slips! Oie! Oie The
work was done while T'ch'r prepared
her own lunch, usually hot soup on
certain days, with boiled rice and
sometimes a small spoonful of jam,
for the H. C. L. had hit the settle-
ment as well as the city. It was only
polite to invite anybody who helped
you to stay for lunch, wasn't it, now?
And everybody's table manners im-
proved. Indeed, after a while we
never threw beef bones under the
table, or sounded like a cataract when
we took our soups and nobody licked
his or her plate, or knife, after the
very first "party!"
• WHY IS IT?
Last year, on the day before the
referendum on the Ontario Temper-
ance Act was taken, the churches of
most of the various denominations
were all agog. Tubs were thumped,
the metaphorical drums were beaten
until they nearly burst, the preachers
-screamed themselves hoarse, all with
the object a showing that the man
who liked an occasional drink, or who
-was unwilling to support the harsh
and inequitable 0. T. A., was little
better than ee lost soul. Yet, after
all, the taking of alcoholic refresh-
ment is not a question between abso-
lute Right and absolute Wrong. Still
less can approval of so crude and ill -
devised a measure as the Act in ques-
tion be considered to. be that. But,
last week, a matter of public concern
which involved nothing other, and
nothing less, than a conflict between
Right and Wrong did arise in the
Dominion Parliament -it was the
question of whether members of Par-
liament ought, or ought not, to vote
themselves larger sums of money
-Wan those for which,they had con-
tketed to give their Services during
the duration of the present Parlia-
ment. To its lastingdiscredit, this
Parliament, by a large majority -in
which, we are proud to know, Hon.
W. L. Mackenzie King, the Liberal
Leader, was not included -took the
wrong and utterly indefensible caurse.
Here is a matter as to which there
can be no possible doubt as to where
the Right lies -and where the Wrong.
Every man with a conscience knows
for himself that the majority of the
Dominion Parliament acted in a man-
ner that cannot he defended when
submitted to any of the possible
tenable ethics that attach to trustee-
ship. Yet, where were our pulpit
fulminators? So far as we have seen
reported in the press, only one cleric
has come out with a declaration
against a proceeding that, as peculiar-
ly concerned with Christian ethics,
was much more entitled to treatment
from the pulpit than the highly de-
batable questiorr of Prohibition.. That
was the Rev. E. R. Burgess, a Pres-
byterian minister at Kingston, who,
in the course of a sermon, last Sun-
day, at Zion Church in that city, de-
clared "that the state of morals could
not be very high when the members
of Ottawa voted themselves $1,500."
The preacher called such self -boosting
of salary a piece of low, mean
rascality. These are, strong words.
But how can you weaken them. and
still characterize that reprehensible
action truthfully? The practical sil-
ence of pulpit and press alike, usually
so strong on "moral issues," on this
matter of deep and far-reaching im-
portance is a very disquieting symp-
tom of the sort of guidance that the
Yohan came to school two days
before the Christmas tree distribu-
tion took place. He was - fourteen
years old, had never been to school
and appeared to seer from a mild
form of hydrophobia. He presented
a fearful and wonderful picture of
rags and dirt, grinning in at School-
house door. He had on a pair of
man's trousers; they were attached
toa cotton blouse by a single safety
pin, and his shoes were not mates.
His head was a mop but his blue
eyes were smiling wonderfully. He
couldn't understand one word of Eng-
lish, but he watched the class work
with delight while 1 watched that
single safety -pin, for its responsibility
was tremendous! Later a jacket and
mitts and braces brought out the fact
that Yohan was an extremely good-
looking boy. Soap and water assist-
ed in establishing this fact; and didn't
Yohan learn! Why, in a week he
could say "Shut ups!" und he knew
"Dtwo und dtwo makess yours al-
reaelty!" but he would, in spite of
everything, spit absolutely and uner-
ringly lipont a desk seven feet away.
At that desk sat his feud -friend; hut
then, you see Yohan had never, danc-
ed!
For a week the next midsummer
Yohan was away. One sizzling
August afternoon I heard a plaintive
chanting sound and saw a sorry little
procession moving down the trail.
Yohan was leading bearing a wooden
Cross quite six feet long and heavy
in proportion. Behind him his father
drove a pair of starved -looking horses
attached to a ,high wagon in which
a long box, cOvered with a white
cloth, reposed. Seated upon the long
box, calmly smoking his pipe, was
Yohan's parent! The chief mourner
was bearing his grief stoically, I
thought.
Yohan, staggering beneth•= his bur-
den with the tail -of -his -blue -eye man-
aged to draw attention to a large.
white ribbon bow pinned to his rag-
ed bosom, and in the centre of the
bow was an artificial spring of
flowers. Yohan's joy that T'etar saw
this ornamentation was greater than
his weariness his grief. He threw up
his head, the black rag streaming
from his old straw hat fluttered in
the air. Yolian had already walked
two miles bearing. that Cross, and
there were two miles further yet to
the little God's Acre set out on, the
pallid prairie.
The white ribbon with the flower
inset, belong to "best families" be it
understood; it is always r4ady to
hand for a wedding or a funeral, as
the case may be; but it asserts iteelf
as belonging to the Four Hundred.
The wonderful thing about these
"foreigners" is the absolute content-
ment of mind. Sometimes, looking at
their squalid homeS, their hard lot,
the labor of their gnarled hands, t e
poverty of their minds -and t e
contentment" there -I asked' h-iyself
the question, Does education do an'Ye
thing but make a man a little higher
than the beasts of the field? Here,
education had never had a chance,
and religion seemed to have done
nothing in the way of redemption of
mind or body.
There was -no church within miles.
During my administration )of 'ten
months, birth and death happened,
but no clergyman of any creed carne
to those benighted people to cheer or
to help. When they = married they
drove to the small "Town" where the
tiny church with its high spire stood
in silhouette against the horizon be-
yond. In the settlement Sabbath af-
ternoons = were given over to dances
at each other's houses; the fiddler
leading the way along the trail, the
young folk joining in the gay proces-
sion at forked -trails, and it wae at
these dances that courting was done.
• Courting and marriage amongst
these people partakes of a quite busi-
nesslike arrangement. Young Pol-
chuk feels that he has reached the
age for matrimony. He goes to
Boluks' place and says, "Me go for
make a houses and me marrys your
girl!" He may have to duplicate this
visit at other places, but eventually
he is told.: "Go and make your
houses, then!"
The wedding follows. Now wed-
ding customs differ in all countries,
but I defy any country to produce a
more poetical wedding custom than
that, 1 was told, exists in these West-
ern prairie settlements. The evening
before the wedding, the bride -elect is
dressed in her wedding garments
(usually a silk or muslingown, with
artificial buds set in her veil) and, on
her feet, a pair of, it may be tennis
shoes (as I have seen). There, in her
home, she is surrounded by all her
girl friends, who sit around and tell
her good qualities to each other; sing-
ing love songs and playing games
(foreign), then having a feast, to
which the groom is bidden. After
the feast they dance a while, and,
coining time for separation, the girls
beat the groom from the premises,
whereat much scuffle and horseplay is
allowed; but the girl's mother and
grandmother and aunts and uncles are
wringing hands, weeping and sound-
ing "Oie! Oie" notwithstanding the
fact that they have made the bargain
quite willingly.
Brides of fourteen and even young-
er girls are taken to homes that
baffle description. I saw one such,
Everybody enjoyed these twice -a -
week parties except my German neigh-
bor. My - German neighbor objected.
to all things on- general principles,
being a German; and, one day he in-
formed me he "Wassnot pay for hot
soups for ngder beoples childrings!"
You see the ratepayers must bear
the heavy burden of three cents a-
piece per month for these festal
soups. I told the German literally
to mind his awn business. The Ger-
man swore he would "Chucks T'ch'r
out!" und T'ch'r (being Irish) said
"Chuck!"
Then something terrible happened.
The German neighbor's little child
wandered from home at four o'clock
one 'autumn day and at sundown was
still lost.' My only English neigkbor
had brought her husband (a returned
soldier) to see me that evening, and
we were taking' eoffee together, when
a loud "Hallo!" sounded. I went to
the doov and there was the German,
mounted on his horse. He shouted:
"Mein little poy iss lostwill der
soldier mans coom und help fiild?"
"We'll all go," 1 said, and go we
did with speed and beating hearts.
The place was a densegrowth of
underbrush. Waterholes for cattle
were everywhere -wolves were plenti-
ful and hungry! Up and down the
trail, beating the bushes, ran the dis-
tracted mothercrying her child's
name as her terror grew.
The.father was riding up and dawn
the trails calling. out to the settlers
to join in the search -asking • field -
workers la.ad they seen the child? but,
&though some sixty willing hands
beat the buSh for hours, no sign of
the little last one was found. ,Along
the trail the four other children( one
a nursing infant) trailed, crying bit-
terly in their excitement, adding to
the poor mother's trouble, for the
infant must be nursed and left again
to resume that mad cry and call,
Nunchie! Nunchie!"
It was almost midnight when a
settler living miles away came driv-
ing up with the child, whom he had
found crying upon the trail to town.
After that my German neighbor look-
ed through friendly eyes at things in
connection with the "sghoolss." He
even sent his little girl! He rather
wanted to establish friendly relations
but I knew that he was assisting the
deal table with one chair -a cook stove
(second hand) -a sin:gle iron kettle,
some cracked cups, iron spoons and
old broken knives; With a timble-
down bedstead upon which, as. sole
furnishings, was sonae hay, and old
coats and trousers, with empty potato
bags! And yet, into this "Doll's
House" the bride went with smiles.
The next thing bought would be a
sewing machine (it. being purchased
on the instalment plan), for = rivalry
exists in strong measure between
cally demolished and its occupants
hurled many feet from the car or
pinned under the wreckage. Mr. Mc-
Rae was thrown clear over the
cattle = guard and sustained terrible
injuries about the head. He was
renderel unconscious and died from
his injuries in the local hospital a-
bout three hours after the aceident,
without having • regained conscious-
ness. Mr. Allen sUstained a fractur-
ed arm and other, injuries to his
head and body, while Mr. Storey
families; those = possessing a gram.o- and the driver escaped = with minor
phone being leaders in the social injuries but were badly shaken up.
swim, The wedding -itself is always Mr. Allen is in the hospital and is
held at the groom's home. Here
dancing is kept up for days, and the
feast (with beer and whisky) grows
into a saturnalia sometimes. This
is the occasion when (in liquor days -
the axe used to figure prominently;
for, lett any swain attempt a pleas-
antry with the bride, and lo! the
houee axe 'becomes "Exhibit I" in the
murder trial -which ensues.
- During the flu epidemic of 1918,
the settlement went under in this
dread disease, and when sixteen
families were affected, school closed.
The Education Department sent doc-
tors and nurses (when available-, but
largely T'ch'r accepted the duty of
administering aid.. What possible aid
could one lone woman give, where the
homes were miles apart -impassable
trails -filthy home, unventilated -
beds with froni four to eight occu-
pants, all ages, all sexes -hens, dogs,
everywhere -and the iron pot boiling
on the stove sending out whiffs of
garlic! All Teacher could do was to
calI= at the shack door, ask after the
sick; carry the soup and the medicine
Bente-and here the danger was, for
none could read the directions, and it
was by tying a red yarn string around
the linament bottle (for external use)
and a blue yarn string around the
"drops" (for inward use) things
didn't "happen!" Then when the
disease subsided and school re -opened
Teacher took a pail of fumigation
fluid, with a whitewash brush, sprinkl-
ing ceiling, walls, door -lintels and
floors, to find some of the scholars
going down on their knees at her
approach, and, at a flicker of the
sprinkling brush, everybody crossed
themselves -piously! It suddenly
dawned = on T'ch'r that the children
thought the cleansing fluid was holy
water, and the wall -sprinkling a sort
of religious rite! -Maclean's Magazinel
WALTON
Notes. -Mr. and Mrs. JeRiddell, of
Toronto, are visiting at the home of
Mr. and Mrs., R. McLeod. -P., B.
'Gardiner is putting a cement wall, un-
der his barn on the farm which ad-
joins the village. -A goodly number
of people from the village and vicinity
went to Goderich on the 12th:= --Hay-
ing has started and promises to be e
fair crop. -Mr. and Mrs. J. Gardiner
are visiting the,former's parents, Mr.
and Mrs. A. Gardinen-J. McDonald
has finished painting his house which
adds much to its appearance. -Mr.
J. Bishop has rented A. Hoy's farria
Mr. Hoy is moving to Waterdown,
where he has secured a good job as
section man on the C. P. R. -Mr. and
Mrs. J. Morrison are • holidaying at
Mr. and Mrs. Hoy's.-The station is
closea from 3.30 o'clock in the after-
noon until the following morning which
means a- great' inconvenience to the
public. A petition has been signed to
have it opened for the night train.
reported to be much better to -day and
no serious results are anticipated,
while his son, Edward, was removed
yesterday from the hospital to his
home on Wesley Street, but is still
auffering considerably from shock.
The late Mr. McRae was 47 years
of age, having been born in Huron
County, Ontario. Coming to Namai-
um 20 years ago, he had lived here
ever since. Heis survived by his
wife and two children, also by five
brothers and two sisters. Both the
sisters, Mrs. McIntosh and Mrs. Mc-
Laughlin, live in Ontario while of
the brothers, Alexresides in the east,
Roderi:ck lives .in Vancouver, and
Malcolm, Henry and D. H. McRae
are residents of this city. -The re-
mains were conveyed to the 'undertak-
ing parlors of Mr. D. J. Jenkins, where
they were viewed this afternoon by
the Coroner's Jury, the funeral tak-
ing place from the family residence,
Milton Street, Sunday afternoon at
three o'clock, Rev. Dr. Unsworth
offleiating.
McKILLOP
Notes. -There was an immense
crowd at the picnic held in McCulla's
Grove, near Leadbury, in McKillop
Township, under the auspices of the
U. F. 0, and the Women's Institute
on 'Friday afternoon. The gate re-
ceipts amounted t� $200. Interesting
and informing addresses were given
by Mr. J. W. King, U. F. 0. federal
candidate for North Huron; Mr. Chas.
McCurdy, U. F. 0. salesman at the
Union Stock Yards, West Toronto;
Mr. McKee, of Toronto; Mr. Robert
McMillan of Seaforth, and others.
Mr. McGee, soloist, of Auburn, also
assisted. Music was furnished by the
Goderich Orchestra at the dance held
in the pavilion. -The lawn social, held
on the lawn of Mr. Robert Scarlett,
in McKillop, last Thursday evening,
under the 'auspices of the Ladies' Aid
Society . of Cavan Church, Winthrop,
was a decided success, despite the
unfavorable weather conditions.
School Report. -The following are
the results of the Promotion Exam-
inations in U. S. S. No, 1, McKillop
and Logan:. Jr, IV to Sr. IV -Joseph
Shea (H.), Patrick Maloney (H.),
Nellie O'Rourke, Elizabeth Hicknell.
Sr. III to Jr. IV -Mary Malone, Jim
Shea (H.), Eileen Mulligan' (H.),
Esther Ryan, Jim Kelly, Joseph
Ryan. Jr. III to Sr. III -Mary Ryan,
Joseph Malone, Ruth O'Reilly, 'Willie
Kelly (recommended). Second to Jr.
Ht -John Moylan, Annie Ryan, Pearl
Horan,' Patrick Flannigan, John
O'Rourke, Willie Dantzer, Emmet
Malone and Margaret Mulligan (re-
commended). First to Second -Rose
Krauskopf, Clarence Malone, Flor-
ence Kelly, Mary Flannigan, Joseph
O'Rourke, loseph O'Reilly, Frank
Maloney, Joseph Ryan, Zachaniah
Ryan, Eileen Burns, Angela Mulligan
(recommended). - F. E. Reynolds,
Teacher.
Killed In British Columbia. -The
Nanaimo Free Press gives the fallow-
ing account of the accident by which
Mr. Angus McRae lost his life in that
city recently. Mr. McRae was a na-
tive of thistownship and for two
years, prior to his removal to the
West, he taught the school in Section
NO. 4: Mes-srs. A. Halstead, W. R.
Griffith, John Eastham, John Cowie,
Charles Bennett, J. A. Irvine and
Ernest Hygh are the members of the
jury empanelled by Coroner Hick -
ling to enquire into the circumstan-
ces connected with the death of Mr.
Angus McRae, a well known resident
of Nanaimo, who died in the na-
naimo hospital Wednesday evening
several hours after being fatally in-
jured in an auto accident at the N. &
N. railway crossing on Comox Rad,
widway between Northfield and Wel-
lington. Messrs. Angus McRae, Wm.
Storey and Henry Allen were cipmii2g
into town from Grant Mine in Ford
car No. 11214, driven -by Edwin
Allen, son of Mr. Henry Allen,
at about ten minutes to 5 o'clock the
car was struck by a freight train on-
KIPPEN
Early Closing. -The Kippen stores will
close at 7.30 o'clock p.m. on Tuesday and
Thursday of each week, conunencing on July
13th, until further notice is given. Signed
-R. Brownlee. P. Bowey & Son. 2744,3
Notes. -The Mission Band of "St.
Andrew's church are having a garden
party on the Manse lawn on Monday
evening, July 19th. Supper will be
served from 6 to 8 o'clock, and the
programme will be furnished by Clin-
ton Kiltie Band. The grounds are be-
ing lighted by Delco electric light for
the evening. -.A very enjoyable time
was spent by the W. M. S. of St.
411MIONNEW"
AIM
SHOES
For Elderly People.
We are offering splendid Shoe Comfort for Elderly People, in
High or Low Cut Shoes. The Feet that have travelled so far do not
want to be 'crowded or made tmcomfortable. We appreciate the Shoe
requirements of Elderly People, and have had Shoes constructed that
embody EASE AND DURABILITY. •
A few of our lines of Comfort Shoes are here described. Look
them over or, better still, come and tit them on and see what Shoe
Comfort redly means.
Women's Laced Boots made on a plain wide toe last with low, broad
+eels, uppers of fine, soft kid leather, per pair ....43.50 and 44.00
Women's Laced Boots with uppers of the softest kid leather and
made with cushion = soles and rubber hetls, per pair ..46, 46.50, 47,
Women's Oxford low shoes in kid leather With cushion soles, rubber
heels and turn soles, per pair ..
Women's Slippers with one strap over instep -soft kid tippers with
medium low heels, and turn soles, per pair . = . =.43.50
Women's Slippers with uppers of black or brawn canvas, leather toe
caps and leather soles, a light, cool slipper for house wear. at
perpair .. .. . s ......... . . .. .
Old Man's Laced Boots with soft kid uppers, plain wide toe and lo
broad heels, per pair MOO
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SEA FORTH
CiPlPOSITH COMMERCIAL }mai;
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Brucefield, visited relatives in:
village on Wednesday last. - Miss
Snetsinger, teacher, has been spend-
ing a week or so here with her mother.
-Mr. and Mrs. A. H. King, of Chi
aompanied by Mrs. Rey Neel -
Andrew's church at its last meeting, clig°' cc
ands, are visiting MTS. Neeland's, Mrs.
when it was visited by Mrs. McQueen, King's mother. - i
Considerable hay s
of Brucefield, representing the Pres- being brought into market and meets
byterian. Executive, and also Mrs. N.
McGregor, of Brucefield. A social
time was spent after the meeting when
the Kippen ladies served tea. -Mr.
_David Cooper, of Colorado, was call-
ing on relatives and friends here last
week. Mr. and, Mrs. Cooper and two
sons are visiting at Mrs. Cooper's,
home in Howick, and intend going
home by the Canadian West, to visit
Mr. Cooper's parents, Mr. and Mrs.
John Cooper, formerly residents of
this village. - Rev. Mr. Smith of
Lucan, who fol. many years was the
pastor of Carmel church, Hensall, will
on Sabbath, and the following week
conduct the services of $t. Andrew's
church. Mr. Smith is no stranger to
St. Andrew's people as he has given
them many grand sermons and the
people of St. Andrews will be delight-
ed to have him with them again for
the two Sabbaths: -Mrs. Garden
Pybus, of Saskatchewan, is home on
a visit to her parents, MT. and MTS.
H. Bicker. Mrs. Pybus purposes stay-
ing for some mouths with her On-
tario friends. -Mr. Fred Mitzel, Sr.,
of Moorefield, the fore part of the
week, visited his daughter here, Mrs.
J. Detweiler. Messrs. Arthur and Ira
Wilkinson, of Elmira, were also visit-
ing with 'Mr. and Mrs. Detweilen-
Mrs. A. McKenzie the past week
visited with friends at Goderich and
also attended a meeting of the sum-
mer school- which was held there. -
Miss Margaret Mellis, the fore part
of the week, was a visitor with her
cousin, Mrs. M. Harvey, of Wingham.
-Mr. Georgie E. Thompson has just
completed the erection of a fine corn
silo. -The Misses Bertha and s,Carrie
McKenzie were with friends at Bay-
field and, Wingham during the week.
-Mrs. Robert Paterson, of Calgary-,
is visiting with her aunt, Mrs. W.
M. ,Anderson. -Also during the week
Mr. Webber ands Miss Bengongh, of
Hensall, visited their sister, MTS. W.
M. Anderson, of the village. -- Mr.
Garden McNevin, of London, is visit-
ing with friends in this vicinity.
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HENSALL
Briefs. -Our council are gravelling
part of Main street and a number of
our villagers between Nelson and
Albert Streets have procured oil to
put on in front of their residences,
and are just waiting to get the street
in the right condition before they
apply it. -Mr. G. = E. Heist has been
improving the front of his bakery
and confectionery store by having it
nicely repainted. -Mr. James Priest
was visited during the past week by
two of his sisters and members of
their family coming a long distance
in their -auto. One of Mr. Priest's
sisters, who resides in Washington
State, he had not seen for over forty
years. -Mrs. J. Lorne Scott and chil-
dren, of Toronto, -are visiting Mr. and
Mrs. G. C. Petty, Mrs.. Scott's par-
ents. -Mrs. G. MeMorran and on, of
Chicago, returnea the first part of
this week after a pleasant visit here
with their many relatives and friends.
-Picnic parties to the different points
along the lake shore are the order
of the day. -Mrs. R. Bonthron and
Mr. and Mrs. W. White were. this
week visited by a number of friends
from Wroxeter who autoed here, -
Mr. R. Cudmore and sister, Miss Ida,
of Toronto, are here holidaying with
their parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. Cud -
more. -Mr, William Towers and mem-
bers 'of his family and of the family
of his to the fourth generation had
a family photo lately taken.-Hensall
has long been noted as an onion centre
and this season ,the yield will be a
bumper one according =to all present
indications. -Mrs. J. H. Petty, of the
township of Hay, has during the past
week or two, entertained a very large
nember of relatives and friends, in-
deed so many that we could not well
give all their names and places of
residence in the space at our disposal.
-Our park at the southeast part of
our village being recently much im-
proved is now a valued park and is
the scene of many games and sports
incident to the summer holidays. -
Mr. and MTS. E. Papple, of near
with good demand. Fruit is also
coming in freely, the yield being ..good.
-A large number from the village
and vicinity are this week attending
the Chataqua meetings held at Exe-
ter. -The rains of the past week have
been bringing on all vegetation with
leaps and bounds. --Our business men
report trade quite brisk in the village
for this season of the year when many
of the farmers are so rushed. -Dr.
James' W. Bell, of Harrisburg, Pa.,
William, of Regina, Sask., and Daniel,
of Flint, Mich., were all here recently
visiting their mother, Mrs. James
Bell, Sr., and sister, Mrs. Hugh Mc-
Ewen. -Mrs. Richard' Pollock return-
ed last week from Battle Creek,
Mich., where she spent several days
in family reunion and was accom-
panied home by her two brothers,
Eugene Moore and Frank, and two
sisters, Mrs. A. B. Metcalf and Mrs.
A. S. Morgan, both of Battle Greek,
Mich., and coming here in a large
Cadilac car, had a most enjoyable
trip. -Miss Mary Broadfoot, of the
Mill Road near Brucefield, =and Mrs,
Benaizer, of Abeline, Kansas, visited
Mr. and Mrs. John McKenzie during
the past week. -Mr. and Mrs. E.
Rannie accompanied, by three friends
motored to London on Tuesday last.
-The Rev. E. F. McL. Smith, M. A.,
B.D., is expected to occupy the pulpit
of St. Andrew's church, Kippen, on
the corning Sabbath, July 18th, and
a large number of his friends from
this village and vicinity purpose go-
ing to hear him, being the former
pastor of Carmel Church, Hensall,
and a moat able and =talented preach-
er. -Mrs. Wm. McDougall and daugh-
ter, Mrs. Nelson Blatchford, have
been visited by their relatives, Mr.
and Mrs, Wm. Glen, and Bert Glen, of
Toronto, Mr. and Mrs. Glen being
here quite recently after their mar-
riage, and their many friends were
pleased to meet them. -Mr. and Mrs.
James Paterson, of Toronto, have al-
so been visiting relatives and friends
in Hensall and vicinity. -The masons
are running up the walls of Mr. Owen
Geiger's fine dwelling on the corners
of Queen and Nelson streets. -The
crops of all Ideids are looking most
promising in this vicinity and if safe-
ly harvested will make splendid. re-
turns. ---A nantus in the window of
Mr. W. A. McLaren's hardware store
raised by his mother, MTS. Robt.
Laren,. Sr., is being much admired, be-
ing something rare and certainly most
beautiful .-Rev. Mr. Pitt, of Bayfield,
preached to the Orangemen in St.
Paul's Anglican church on Sunday
evening last, delivering a very able
and interesting sermon.. The attend-
ance of the brethren of the Hensall
Lodge and some visiting brethren was
large and on the Monday following
a large number motored as well as
went by train to attend the celebra-
tion in Goderich and report a good
time. -Mrs. J. B. Slava, of Windsor,
accompanied by her daughter, Beeline,
are visiting Mrs. Shortt's father, Mr.
Andrew Jolmston, and her sisters,
Miss Mary and Miss Emma. -Mrs.
Walker and two youngest daughtetr
have been -visiting Mrs. Smallacom
Sr., Mrs. Walker's mother, and also
nisiting Mrs. W. McKay, Mrs.
Walker's sister. - Miss Florence ,
Reynolds, of Calgary, Alt, aceorn-,
panied by a little neice, is visiting
her mother and her sisters at their
horn'e here -Rev s Mr > Abrey, of
Londesboro, will preach in Carmel see
church on Sunday first, the 1.8tle
changing duties with the Rev. mt.
McConnell. -Our bowlers are inakin
good use of the green and playing
number of matches. -The installation
of officers of Hensall Rebecca Lodge
will take place on Monday evening
next, when Mrs. Robertson, of dodo -
rich, District Deputy President,
perform the installation ceremony,
It is expected - that there will be
very large attendance of nieinbers
present. -Mr. and MTS. Ferguson, who
have been spending some weeks at
the home of MTS. Ferguson's parents,
Mr. and Mrs. D. Grassick, have re-
turned. to Toronto. -Mr. and Mrs. T.
Hudson, of Marlette, Michigan, are
visiting with relatives here.
CATI
TIME
Holidays! Off for a good time
to the camp, lake or seashore.
You, of course, must take along
suitable baggage, and we have
just the right thing for you. Our
Suit Cases & Club Bags
will stand the hardest knocking a-
bout, and our steamer trunks are
exactly the size, and of the 'materi-
al you have always been looking
for. Come in and see them. They
are worth your while.
H. R. SCOTT
THE HOME OF GOOD SHOES
OPPOSITE CANADIAN BANE OF COMMERCE.
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