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The Huron Expositor, 1920-11-12, Page 1EMBER 1921t ousememwoneweipan Winter Coats that youl Admire. "TRS! ill suffice to tell you [ here. If you don't tion guarantees you ese Furs to you, and bur satisfaction will ?w ideas from "Fur - much :!f value and 'm if you donot buy. ; sets and separate md quality that you Aing for. - ..i/Vhether ; or the cheapest you here now. A visit STYLISH 3, SUITS ;SES is ear for Fall ter The great demand for comfortable, good wearing, good fitting Winter Un- derwear is best met with our leading, popular makes: PENMAN'S -WATSON'S TURNBULL'S ZE:'411-1-1 STANITIELD'S Wome1':4, Misses and Children's Un- dk-.,i'Wear in the " Value" Standard makes. Garmetits at all the popular price steps, startinc< at 35c and going to the high grade lines. VISH STYLE STORE EIFTY-FOURVE YEAR I WHOLE N1J11BER 2761 j 7- SEAFORT4 FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 12,1620. Greig Clothing Com- pany Big Closing Out Sale offers Wonder- ful Bargains in Cold Weather Garments. • Up until now we have been selling mostly milder weather -Apparel. We now place our huge stock Of Heavy Winter Goods on the tables and racks. - PRICES ARE SMASHED Away below Manufacturer's Cost Ments heavy Overcoats.... .... . . .. $18.00 to $30.00 Boys' Heavy Winter Overcoats.. .$10.00 to $20.00 Men's and Boys' Mackinaws $7.00 to $12.00 Heavy Ribbed Underwear $1.25 to s $1.65 Fur Coats 7-7- $2500 to $60.00 Heavy Wool Sox .75c- to $1.00 Heavy Wool Sweaters, all colors.. .$3.00 to $7.00 Heavy Mitts and Gloves . 95c to $2.00 -WOMEN'S WINTER COATS. $15.00 TO $25.00 TO CLEAR EVERY COAT IN STOCK Special Notice After thirty years of continued mercantile business in the Town of Seaforth, during which period we have conducted 1111111/ big sales, we have positively decided to etire from mercantile business, and in SG doing this Last Grand Final Sale shall eclipse all former efforts in every respect—greater volume of goods offered, as most of our new Fall Goods have been passed into stock as we could not cancel Fall orders. Prices are slashed as never before. We have terminated the lease of our store and all goods mus be sold. The Greig Clothing Co. THE EGMONDVILLE THAT ISN'T Huckleberry Finns and,Tom Sawyers were plentiful in the Egmondhille that isn't. I'm creditably informed that there are many in the Sgmendville that is. The old mill dam itu the days of the past was a first-rate substitate for the Alississift.Pf River. There were two tanneries; a chtuntt and a graveyard. No Egmondvillian ever heard his funeral sermon preach- ed, but he should have, because ,th.at's the one occasion when, good .things • are said of a feller. Nor did ever •an' aggregation put it over them with fish-hooks, a no -bladed jack 'knife, • second hand-false•teeth and St& like. Whitewashitig 'fences was not in their • line. • Swiping Brett's English cher- • ries and Constant VanEgmend's pears were. • Sitting upon and around the plat- • forth of Bob %Fulton's old house at • the corner of the second line and • Main street, were many bate -footed; straw -hatted boys •one summer long ago. The good boys' straw hats were as • intact as they left their makers' hands, the other boys had chunks here and there out of the. brim, perhaps a tuft of red or black hair sticking through the place where the crown. should have been. "Gee, fellers, here comes. them Seaforth bucks from the dam,". the Egmondvillian General Foch said, and then the army, well led, would dig in till the Seaforth fellers dug out, followed by the young Huck Finns and Tom Sawyers. It's the same to -day, so I'm told. Seaforth boys and Egmondville have their • little differences. But when • they get away from homed all are from Seaforth, and hold up the old town in all parts of the globe. In this they are like an? Irishman and his wife, who lived on. Duchess street • in Toronto. These two would agree to disagree, but let anyone try to stop the fight and. Pat and Mrs. Pat • would. give a correct imitation of an Irish - Republic, punctuated with a cdnfetti, known s half and whole •bricks, which ever came handiest. The Egmondville that isn't was a live industrious village in the days that I write of. • Two cooper shops, four hotels a brewery, a grist mill, a saw millAwo blacksmith and wagon • shops, two tanneries, two shoe shops, a potter's' shop, a.brick yard on the eutskirts, a carding mill, Jackson's• big store and Daddy • Collins'; and • two tailor shops. •The latter is where I fell down. A tailor's young- est daughter grabbed and still hangs' unto me. At first she called me WIIIr but after thirty-five years she calls me Bill. We've travelled the middle of life's road all thee years; the Al- mighty has been good; to- us and ours, • A little grand daughter -bosses the tailcare 'youngest daughter, which more than I ever coeld. Paradoxal as it may seem, it's the way Of a happy world. • But I started eut to say something of the men and women of the .-Eg- rtiondville that isn't, as they appear- ed to a boy's mental rating.' Seldom is the boy's judgment at fault. Hands behind his back, bare-footed, a torn straw hat,- he sees nothing but the pure: gold in the grown ups. That perspective. still remains, notwith- standing themuch I have seen in -the big newspaper show these many years. I have yet to -see the man or woman that has not something about them _that's worth wile. Oc- tasionally the old boys would take a drop too much, as was the custom of the time. Yet not one of them was less than a hundred per cent, man. The sylvian acres of old Tuckersmith township, the splendid homes-, debts paid to the last cent, they never wronged a neighbor. These speak loudly of the make-up of • the old pioneers. - My first dance was in tha Widdow A•1111.1111MIRIBIIIIIMI Special otic We are in a position to accept orders for Hot Air and Hot Water Heating Pumps and Piping Eave Troughing • Metal Work Ready Roofing Bathroom klumbing, including Pressure Systems. Leave your ;orders at once. Estimates cheerfully given. I have had over 30 years' experience in all kinds . •of building which enables me to plan your proposed bath- room irtd furnace Work, etc. 01.11•100. The Big Hardware H. EDGE girlhood; Nellie married Jack Hous- ton, and is now in California; Bob is out in the West; Tom, one of the Mdose Jaw Plains' big farmers; Litzie sleeps tin Egmondville kirk yard Jennie also passed awity. She was still in the fleeh. -When I was htime at the Seaforth `old, boy gathering in August, 1914. She made me forget the years as «he yelled froher buggy,- Helloa,, gill," one evening that ; week as. I was going up towna Mary i Bowden and Tom Bowden are buried in Los Angeles, Cale Ida Bowden: lives in Portland, Oregon; the Fultien boys in Puget Sound in Washiegtoti; Robt. Fulton, sr., is . buried at Port Towns- I end; that State, as is also his son, s Walter; William McGeoch is in Lon- don; Pete Kennedy some where in Michigan; Mrs. Gemini bedide her husband and daughter in Egniondville ehurch yard; the violinist in Adelaide township cemetery, and Bill, Who daneed his first dance with the Wid- dow Gensmill, writes this. So moves the play of life. George and Henry Jackson, two industrious, useful citizeins Of Ege naondville, are gone. They furnished employment to many. Both -fine business men. That fine old Scots - 'nen, Tom Hill, the blackeraith, al - •most died in harnehs. The old •red shop did, not seem the same as I peered into its open doors the other month as I passed by. Remy Colbert,' the brewer, is buried in London a fine type of a man. too; •Neil. Hill, the .other tanner, hae joined the silent. Henry Weiland and. Mr. Kruse, ,the coopers, have long since passed; John Steet and William Bubblz, the shoe maker, also James Ryan, sleep their •last sleep. Leopold VanEgmond and the Charlesworths were the -millers. An.drew Smith, the harness' Maker, I think, is buried in Aylmer, His daughter Maggie, is the wife of Dr. Fear, of that town. John Flurschtietz, the tailor, whose youngest daughter keeps the writer in the straight and narrow path, lies •beside his wife in Egmoridville cemetery. He Was one of the oldest of the pioneers, With his pack, in 1844, he made 'clothes for the sparsly settled Tuckeismith. Many of the old boys still living re- member_ the grey homespun, a half an inch thick., Robert Burns wrote of it as "hodden grey." Many a good -man has been sheltered beneath its warmth in Huron County. - Several years' after the timed I wrote of above, a good piece, of real comedy was pulled off at "the corner" in Egmondville ,by Jim Mit- chell, brother d Public Commissioner Fred Mitchell of London. A citclead of Irish people- were distributed: in the Seaforth neighborhood by, the tate Father Shea. Among these were a family named Douttintei •Aaedtaithenallue eves: a diameter, nefeal Mitchell had caught a big snapping turtle .abeat half the size of a wheel barrow. The boys had been poking sticks at Mr. Snapper till he was as 'vicious as a bulldog looking for trou- ble. No stick handy,' Andy poked his finger at the turtle, who grabbed and hung on some. "Oh, oh, lave go; I'll kick you out av that box," he re- peated again and again, but Mr. Snapper held on. Of course, every • one laughed to split their sides but Andy and the turtle. They were otherwise -engaged. • I must not forget the two carpet weavers, Mr. Denby and Mr. Suther- land. The former lived on the Main street and the latter on the Mill Road; also that tidy faine old Irish- man, John Daly, who kept* the. hotel and free pump and well of water for .man and beast; and MT. Boehler, ehe mitten on the Mill Road, an Alsation, as were many of those who spoke the German tongue that live around Egmondville. My mother-in-law was of the latter. • France never had a • more loyal. daughter. Her native Gemmill's house, just across the Strasbourg was more than of passing Siteercreek bridge, on the second line. interest to me, for it is the. cradle of An uncle of mine, who was a good my craft. In 'Place de Concord, in violinist, visite& us one fall. Tom Paris, draped in mourning for fifty Gemmel' her son, was Aelling on years, her moninnent stood, a lost his now 'Wife, Mary Ann Cox, ab John Bowden's home at the brick yard. It was suggested that we "go over" to Gemmell's. A crowd of village and second line boys and girls were soon rounded up. Memory now recalls among these were Pete Kennedy., Sam and Billie MeGeoch, Jack Fulton and his father Bob, Jane Ann Fulton, Martha Kennedy, Agnes Gemmell (Tom's daughter from the adjoining farm), her brothers and sisters, Mary .and Ida Bowden, young Tom Gemmill and his now. wife, Jennie and Agnes Gemmill (known as the twins), Lizzie, Sarah and Nell, and a host of others. • A couple of dances had been gone through with. I was doing the wall- flower act, whensome one suggested a Scotch reel. "Come on you; Bill," said the Widdow Gemniill. I was baShfUi and held back. But .she grab- bed me by the arm, Bob Fulton se- cured one of her daughters, the fiddle started •and so did the reel, Now Mrs. Gemmill and Bob Fulton couldn't be beat in a Scotch reel, and they pulled and,pushed us through. A reel is like a Gilson engine,' it goes like • sixty, and that's the way we went. I Was only about 14 years old, then. The Widdow Gemmill was an angel of mercy. Dressed in her shepherd's plaid shawl and a bonnett, no home that was afflicted with sickness but had her helping hand. It mattered not wheather she was well acquainted et not. To alieve human suffering was her mission in life. And this he did for miles around her home. A daughter of one of the old pioneers of the Mill Road, a native of Auld Scotia, Jean McCartney, that was her maiden name, knew the pangs of widowhood. She raised a fine family of educated sons and daughters. Sarah on the old homestead and Mrs. Sam MeGeoch are all that are left around the neighbdrhood of their city of the sisterhood of France. Gut in the everlasting stone the city'e motto, "In spite ,of all." And so it is. Strasbourg is not a lost city of France. I fancy I see the faces of the Egmondville Alsatians smile in theirtombs. •BILL POWELL. The New Musical Phonograph 111••••••••••111•1111•MOMIT. -Y.-- - {$2.00 A Year in Advance McLeamBros., Publishers INo actual timing was dote, but a, drain of at least .one hundred yards in length and two and one-half feet deep was finished in less than an hour. This was by no means a re- cord, since the same machine, working on a damp day sad in wet clay at I,Arthur recently, is said to have com- pleted sixty yards of drain, two feet • in depth, in twenty elinutes. Cer- tainly, 'in the case of the ditching 1• on the Municipal Farm extremely satisfactory work was done; whe- IN this remarkable instrument the phonograph principle has been • brought to sueh highperfection that every reproduced tone has true musical cmelity and value. This is the reason that the Vocalion is attracting people who never be- fore have Fared for phonographs. Perfection of tonevcontrol obtained • by means of the Graduola—the distinctive Vocalion feature—is the added touch which makes the Vocalion the most universally in- teresting of all modem musical instruments. e E MAN-, VOCALION v Let us .demonetrate thie wonderful new Musical Instrument in our newly fitted up demonstrating room, where you can sit in comfort and hear the world's finest music played as it was originally platred by the greatest of masters. E. Umbach, Phm.B • "The Resell Store". PHONE 28 SEAFORTH ing machines at. times when these could best be made use of on their land.. Some eounties have been more fortunate than others, very of- ten because of the availability of a local supply of tile, and here and there farmers with a. great deal of work to do have co-operated in the p-urelitise of eel° outfit. This letter preceduie, hove -der, has been the eid- ception, and thousands of owners of farm land in Ontario have had to post- pone indefinitely the laying of tile drains across their fields. During the past month demonstra- tions have been made at several points in the Province of a ditcher manufactured in England and now on trial in Canada for the first time. Last Friday on the Municipal Farm on Yonge street there was a repre- sentative of the English ditcher at work ated by horse power and on any The machine is of very simple -con- struction and may be operated by tractor or horse -power. When • the ditcher is drawn across a field a cut- ter scoops up a continuous layer of soil seven inches in width. and from one to four inches in depth, the loos- ened soil being eaeried by an inclined elevator to the top of the machine, where a discharge thute delivers it to the ground. Three men are re- quired to operate the ditcher, one on the tractor or driving the horses, one on a platform to regulate the depth of cut, and one at the rear to steady the carrier and keep the machine di- rectly over the ditch it is -digging. ,The field chosen for weak on the Municidal Farm was fairly level, free, • from loose stone and of fairlystiff clay. Through this soil the ditcher worked without the slightest trouble. League of Nations is concerned the United States must and•will eventual-. ly become one. of • the members of that great family of nationsor tourse, it will be under different con— ditions as , framed and devised ble^ those four great statesmen, Premier - Lloyd George of Great Britain, Clem- encau, of France; Orlando, of Italy, and President Woodrow Wilson, of the United States. Already I believe 43 nations .are full .pledged members. Germany, Austria and Bulgaria are ther or not the heavy clay soil was knocking for entrance and at a com- particularly suited to the machine is ing session of the League these three. a matter upon which the writer can- candidates will have their names pre - not pass an opinionsented by neutrals for admission, and . Among the spectators a Friday's if they give satisfactory evidence that test were several farmer's from the they will be good, pay their dues and county of Waterloo, who had come other obligations; they evill be admit - to Toronto to inspect the work of ted probably on probation. Even - the contrivance on behalf of their Bolshevik Russia, Nvhen she has cast community. These men have had aboard the Lenine Trotsk7 -de Co. very wide' eipdiefrde• in' filen'. &din- gang df bloody -cut-throets and has age, and the 'points of performance established a stable form of govern.. that they failed to discuss -might ment, will be given admission when well be left 'Untouched. Would the she knocks. When this mighty Re - machine do. as well tie stony -soilas public joins the great family combine in the clay,? -- this matter they it will $o strongly help to preserve brought up as soon as they saw the the peace of the world, set the 'differ - ease with whicb the etioe tore through- ent War-torn nations en their feet, reaesure business between the eations, give the debtor nations who oare this eountrY over trin tiftiondoll ers a <thence to pay the interest at part of the principal, and above ail, the lirahe Yankee boys who foughi, died and suffered along with the sem of Bull -dog Britain, those of chivairmis. 'France, outraged Belgium raid other Entente Allies upon the war-torn and bloody battlefields of northern France, Belgium and elsewhere, in order that freedom and liberty might survive, • will not have died and suffered in vains- AI write I imehine I see -that pathetic figure at Washington, our almost martyr, President Wilson, who would have eacrificed hie life for the League of Nations. With care and worry his form is bent. his body weak- ened, face pallid and drawn; with silvered hair, but his mental powers as yet unimpaired,. In conclusion I will sati the oldest. • woman in Duluth who voted on No- vember 2nd, was Mrs. Johanna, Mein- • ing, 87 years of age. The oldest in the United States to vote was Mis• e Anna Stone, of Roxbury, Conn., 102 years of age. The oldest man to vote was uncle John Snell Leslie county, • Kentucky, 132 years of age. He has been. a -voter 111 years. Is young chaps will never equal that record- • Robert MeNaughton4 • Duluth, Minn., Nov. 8, 1920. the stonelese .soil. on the feral., reply of the official in charge was that -tests had beehimade en leird that er-1 bounded in ordinary-sizedstones, aud that, in every ease, complete satisfac- tion was experienced,. "The cutter works equally, well iin .clay,•loain or gravelly soil," he said, an does the. poorest work -Lis. iniiliti lie tetdeefed, and as is the case with-azy• ditcher— in sand. Of eourse, if the shoe comes in contact with a heavy boulder, it .simply rides over it; then, as would be the consequence with any other machine, the bould,er has to be dug' opt." Some fault was found on the ground that, sincethe channel left is but seven inches wide, large -dia- meter tile could not be used. A counter argument was that five -inch tile wouldserve almost any ordinary purpose in farm drainage.; that drains might be put closer together amithat the comparatively insignificant cost of machine and of ope aticm put out of court any objectio1. s that might be raised on the basis o the width of cut secured. At the demonstration last Friday the ditcher worked across the field at the will of the man on the tractor; it seemed to be able to accommodate itself to any speed and with four or five trips over the given line left a completed ditch of two and a half feet depth. Where •the surface of the ground was rough and covered with hammocks, the operator first put the machine over it with the ehoe working only- on the high spots, and in the course of a couple of.runs had a level grade on which to carry_ set with his ;little' The finished chan- NO PROLONG= DEPRESSION nel was straight -sided and clean -bot- After discussing recent price re- to/lied and read -y for the reception of tile. cessions the National City Bank in its November circular takes a 'highly Purely on the basis of its work on encouragingview of the outlook. the field of the Municipal Farm, the ,iThereare good -reasons for confi- English machine appears to have dently believing that this country is inany excellent points to commend not 'going into a long period of de - it, regardless of the fact that it was pression," it says. "Such experiences built, primarily, for use on the level, in the past always have followed long heavy -soiled fields of Great Brit- periods . of internal development, in- ain. Its cost is but a tithe of that chitting extensive construction work, of heae-ti outfits, and it can be oper- such as railroad building, town build- ing, etc.. OUT periods of prosperity and credit expansion have been of this eharacter, and it has usually hap- pened that the movement has •over- run the needs of the country at the time, and a period of growth was *re- quired afterward to bring the country up to its new facilities- This was the. case in 1873 and. 1893, the two most important crises if our recent history. In the period following 1893 recovery was delayed by the contro- versy over the money question." Further: ."The boom period which; has been. responsible for the existing expansion of credit and high prices was not due to internal development or construc- tion work; on the contrary it inter- fered with normal development and ‘improvements, -and the facilities of the country are behind its needs. Never before Was there so march work in sight needing to be done, or so many opportunities in the world* oat - side. The immediate problem. is ;that of price readjustment. It is not a ease of exhaustion or of waiting to grow up to investments that have been made. The new work would not go • forward upon the level of costs created by the war. and regarded as abnormal and temporary. "The reserve resources and reeuper- ative powers of the country are far greater thanat any previous time when a check of this kind was ex– perienced. The credit situation is stronger. The banking sithation is wholly different, which in itself is a factor of great importance. In view of the extent of the price declines the comparatively few cases of em- barrassment among. business concerns of importance is significant. _ "There is *no gainsaying that the fall season has been seriously de- moralized by the unsettlement -which has developed. The buying power a great many people In the aggr4igate has been impaired, meaeuring their ability by the prices that have been prevailing. The general feeling that these prices cold not be sustained has been thoroughly confirmed; the public will have nothing to do with • them. When the general level is re- duced, so that a common bads for trade is -restored, conditions are such that business will be quickly resum- NEW MACHINE TO CUT DRAINS A fairly favorable season in so far as the natural moisture -content of the soil was goncernedf has not serv- ed to lessen the interest: of Ontario farmers in the vital matter of under- drainage. In most counties of the Province much lees ditching has been done than: was called for in plans laid earlier in the year, due, for the xnost part, to the scarcity of labor, the high cost of tile and the inability of farmers to secure ditch,. Poultry Wanted We are buying up a ear of live poultry for shipment on MONDAY, NOVEMBER 15th All Kinds of Poultry Wanted. HIGHEST CASH PRICES. W. G. NEAL WALTON - ONTARIO 110111/111111111. GIRLS WANTED In Al]. Departments • Experience Not Necessary BEST WAGES • BOARD ARRANGED FOR Write or Call AVON HOSIERY LIMITED STRATFORD, ONT, _ spare occasions when the farmer finds himself free to devote an hour or two to under -drainage; in short, it makes it possible for ahnost every farmer with ditching to do to own his machine and to be independent of. the outfits that will move only when guaranteed certain amounts and kinds of work, and on terms that make tile drains a very expen- sive item in farm equipment. • A LETTER FROM DULUTH Dear Expositor: We are enjoying splendid weather up this way. The coldest this autumn to date in Duluth was 1.9 above. This weather certainly is ai blessing, as coal and wood in; priee has been soar- ing skyward, with profiteering wretches in the saddle. In 1919 winter set in on October 10th, with a very heavy fall of snow. This was suceeded by heavy rains, thunder and lightning, then again followed by heavy snowfalls. And winter in his cold and freezing authority held the fort until April. Even April's smiling sun had a hard job to make him let go his strangle hold grasp. Our first SeOW of any consequence in this city this season was an inch fall on No- vember -1st. It was mixed with rain and was a gloomy, foggy, dismal day and peobably presaged the awful rout of the Democratic hosts on November 2ficl. The result of the Presidiential elec- tion was simply a Republican land- slide unparadelled in the United States as far as a Republican, victory is con- cerned. Out of 531 electoral votes President elect Harding got 404. The Senate will have 59 members to 37 Democrats. In the lower house 28Q Republican members are assured t� 137 Democrats and 4 of other denom- inations. At the present time 8 seats are still in doubt. It is better what- ever party is in power to have a safe working margin but not unwieldly. The Republican landslide certainly was a surprise to the majority. Even its most sanguine prophets did not think it would be so overwhelming. The millions of women voters was a mighty factor to be reckoned with and kept forecasters guessing, but the result would seem to prove that ed. That cannot be accomplished at least ninety per cent, voted the now for the fall season, but if busi- same way as dia their husbands or nese men will set about getting their male --relatives. It was thought they houses in order for spring trade on would. cast their votes heavily for the Democratic presidental candidate, who openly spoke in favor of the League of Nations. As far as the a regular basis the situation ehould be well stabilized by that time and the field cleared for a long period of prosperity,"