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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1921-01-07, Page 1r i , rl �'s4t��° s? ��y�,,'titg 1�"tt1�,?t` • �lr t .. i.: lei e.n3a S1�� i tisAt 1��1f�ri�Yih�41Y+� °y�tAy,1:.6itS!'I: 4 to 1-; Off Regular Prices makes the Greig Clothing, Sale the great - Fest clothing selling event that has ever taken place in Seaforth. Look at the size of our Stock of Cltthing for Men and Boys, and Wornen—Furs and Furnishings—and then think of the few weeks left to make a complete clearing out of everything in stock, even to store fixtures, office outfit, tables, racks, etc. ALL MUST be sold even at what ever Cash can be realized. Hundreds an:. Hundreds of people are malting prtsfitablr lis.' of this greatest of all buying opportunities. ARE YO Special Notice After thirty years of continued mercantile business in the Town orth, dining which period we have conducted many big sales, ve positively decided to retire from mercantile business, and in g this Last Grand Final Sale shall eclipse all former efforts ry respect—greater volume of goods offered, as most of our jfall Goods have been passed into stock as we could not cancel orders. are slashed as never before. e have terminated the lease of our store and all goods must mg -Clothing 1 • FOR THE NEW YEAR ly a shall go with thee, Sbthy troubled fears, ly Atethnise is unchanging T hoot the changeful years. firnes of gloom or gladness, W9Yiweary or distressed, price shall go with thee ;will give thee rest. ce shall go with thee, t assurance here, his lower valley doubt and fear. 1 befall thee ltered to my breast; ce shall be with thee, ill' give thee rest. e shall go with thee en a foreign land, home and kindred ant shall' stand. nor space can sever, not East or West; shall go with thee I give thee rest. Graham, in Presbyterian ,,THE REVIVAL on MacTavish, in Canadian e.)' everything else, had ods of depression, and val meetings had not would have been touch jfet$teen the devil and the 1,-* we knew him, was a iehtrg, cunning, artful and, r things, plausible. well. For he pass - time in our midst, is .{lesigns in the most e.r,and succeeding beyond at f in corrupting an go ng people. a vet/ sympathetic devil. 1 it, many of ns went to t mach provocation. For Wil almost anywhere, strencies. The Most at ra t `@i4ve It is headquarter*. But nts of advantage. b1e eft jlhreshings, logging paring bees, picnic$, and it said that he had the enter the holy precincts h. As to thatI haee no evidence apart from; the 'bid John Noyes became ere night during Revival the „ atm 4111- ng. titlgng. Gergesenian swine, a ready looking - place for the devil. But devil or no devil, John withdrew from the meet• ing, resigned later on from the church and ever .afterwards until he died. the year of the San Jose scale, he lived in quiet retirement, doing his few chores night and morning, and not bothering, as far as we could see, over religion, theology or his soul's salvation. Salvation, of course, wa,s the grand purpose of the Revival. ft was in- tended also that there should be a great quickening of religious fervor, especially amongst the young and that the whole community should be purged of its ungodliness, its worldli- ness, its deadly indifference to things spiritual. Indifferent we must have been in normal times, for we never knew how bad we were until the revivalists carie along and told us. Then we realized the enormity of our offences and the little chance we had of en- tering the pearly gates. Some of us who did not profess to have any religion, and others of us who were Presbyterians, attended dances oc- casionally and indulged in so frivolous and si::ful pastimes as playing cards, singing secular songs going to races. and, most of all, indulging in strong drink. And there were as well the secret sins. On them the revivalists always laid great stress. Sin's known only by ourselves and God! That is where the revivalists struck home. where they touched everybody. Se- cretly we all were more or less covetous, selfish, lustful, deceitful, jealous, avaricious. With these sins in our hearts we dare not meet God face to face. We dare not meet.even our fellow men. We had to slink away, with lowered heads, abashed by our own secret vices, smitten by our own consciences. We might lie and cheat and steal and not be revealed. But God knew. We might hoard our treasures and heap up our goal, but it was easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich ., man to enter into the Kingdom of God. The eye of a needle! What did `lens mean that day as he spoke these words, standing on the coast of' Judea beyond Jordan, after the rich 'young man had gone away sorrow - having great possessions? Did he mean, as same held, that it is easier for a camel to go through the' Needle's Eye a smell gate in the wale of Jeru tem, which is possible or slid he me , as others held, that if is easier for a camel tg go through ,the eye of a sewing needle, which is impossible? If he meant sewing • needle, then the rich man had no change. But we were net content to let it go at that, for in Matthew 29, it -aft "Thep paid Jesus � his �s , Verily 1 say unto you,' that- a rico, man shall hardly enter the kingdiem of heaven." We wereenjeined:by Oarlie, the agnostic, and by Mea. n iib an arch critic, to observe that here Jeaua plainly= indicates that' as rich niaa may. enter•, though hardly; into the kingdom. If so, then, what' else but the Needles Eye !amid Jeans when he ma s the .comparieon in the next verse? Mrs- Hammili,-.wiio awed ne by her knowledge of grammar, Bald that it all depended on the article and on capitalization. IYin the original text the article were "the" and not "a", as translated in the unrevised version, the comparison almost certainly was to the Needle's Eye, an apereeure th,tpugh which it was poeeible for a camel, after having its load removed,' to stoop and squeeze through. Plain- ly, therefore, the inference to be drawn was that the rich man, throw. ing aside his rii hes, might squeeze into the kingdom. But riches with us was not a beset- ting sin. The incident, therefore, of the comparison to the camel having pass:•d, conditions of more immediate interest were considered and our se- cret oats dissected, much to our dis- contiturc and chagrin. The local par- son, a had reason to suspect, might have known or divined our peculiar weaknesses, but it was marvellous how directly a visiting revivalist could diagnose our individual cases and reseal sins that we had believed to be outlived and forgotten. Not that he ever mentioned names, but everyone knew, for instance, when he emphasized jealously, that he includ- ed al! the members of the choir, when he P d charg eride and haughtiness he meant Lizzie Lavery; jealousy and two-facedness, Mrs. Simpkins; sel- fishness and vanity, Henry Perkins; °nordirnte display, Mrs. "Ezekiel Brown, who always wore the puffiest sleeves and the largest bustle; se- cret sifts. me. As a matter of fact, whenever it (fame to secret sins II hadn't a word of defence, and several times 1 was on the point of going forward. Going forward was the sinner's avowal before the world of his sin- fulness and his penitence. To some backward' persons it was a hard or- deal. Others went without a qualm. But in most instances confession was a result of prayer. It was the prac- tice to ask whether anyone present desired special prayers to be peesent- ed in his behalf. The request was made standing. And having once stood it was not so hard as it other- wise might have been to confess sin, step out into the aisle and go for- ward to the penitents' bench. The bench never would have been erowded had it not been for those few Mae se who realized moat keenly, 1hc+rr nee oT saiv n and who, like' deadhead applauders in a theatre, al- ways could be relied on to give the movement a start. One of_ these was old Mrs. Blake. With her went also Miss Smith, the dressmaker, Mrs. Pigeon, who everybody said was on her last legs, and ofd Mr. Mullett, who never failed to start "Rescue the Perishing" without .provocation and who shouted "Amen! Aeaen!" with unexcelled frequency and emotion. Emotion, it must be confessed'stir- red in everyone's breast. Andwhe- ther one responded or not, none could set aside lightly the fact that the call had come. A great stillness would settle upon the meeting, and we boys at the back would stop throw- ing conversation lozenges, wondering who would be the first to give his expe rience. Experience Meetings 'usually took place near the end of the Revival. They would begin with Mrs. Bake rising and saying ,with a thin, pith - less voice that she thanked the Lord for what he had done for her. Im- mediately the leader would shout "Hallelujah! who'll be the next?" ,And just as Mrs. Pigeon would be rising old Mr. Mullett would begin "Rescue the Perishing". The first verse finish, d, and while the old man would be „eking in breath to begin the second someone would start to pray. With that'the old man would fall back on "Amen! Amen!" and there would be some groaning, much sing- ing, with a tincturing of tears. Tears frequently acconipanied the experience. Who could have withheld them the merporable night on which Henry Perkins, wild Charlie Mitchell and the local Member all gave their experiences. It had seemed enough that so notorious an offender as Charlie, had been converted, while to see the Member go forward was the sensation of the year. Charlie and Henry had agrerfi before the meet- ing began that they would speak out, and it seems that the Member, per- haps uncertain about his condition, but professing a change of heart, had obtained from the revivalist a cer- tificate of conversion. Certificates of that kind were not common, and Henry Perkins, at feast, did not demand one. He stood up like a man and thanked the Lord for what had been done for him. ,,,He had been steeped in sin, but now he o mo - was free H allelu•ahr The c m tion that followed as Charlie Mitchell -ode to his feet( was enough to drown all but the first bar of `Rescue the Perishing." Joe Ham said afterwards that Charlie was as white as -a sheet, end Miss Pringle avowed that he shook like a"' leaf. It was known that Mary Mullet had warned her father not to be attesting "Amen!" so often, but as soon as Charlie stood up, the old roan, having failed in his attempt to start hie favorite hymnshouted "Amen!" rind was just opening -up to repeat It when Mary fledged bim in the ribs; and he aeftted back in the Seat with a third. 4,j . t nk the Lord," Charlie be - gen, and then be seemed to choke sad SEAFORTH, F. A`K.,a,A,tx 7, 1921. all fill up. But presently be yqt to often raised with bleak and again. , k1e ' ' hstead o; the Armstrong "Iye been a' terrible bad.sinnpl' q.,rnnt}tod of yeara.ago. The block,ai(itI my day, I have," he began..,,W;*: *hie teetbod, no doubt, 'is the safer get drunk. I've ewore. I've d caner way, but it takes awttyy a I've played nerds and danced of t she pleasure 'that the young committed • sins not tit to rnei f yeare ago' enjoyed, for a barn But thank the Loid, Pm saved,," • laiiaing, some year, are was looked "Amen!" shouted old Mr. .to wit as as much leas n cat wed wr pleasure 1 Mit `feWw p by hit or plies." . the .young folks as"a picnic. "•But as Here wijs.•an opportenity for fila .vyell as being safer, itrntust also be Pringle to start "We'll Cross Nip less expensive to' raise by block and River of • Jordaµ," And as sooht an. tackle, for it certainly used to be the singing died down the Member quite an expense to .a farmer, and a got ,t11). great deal of work for his wife to "All. along," he said, "I WAS in ,imare to feed from fifty to one doubt whether or not I was aetheini� . hundred and fifty men, for there sure converted. For I had led a Iver; ly,always was. a big spread on such life, but, thank the Lord, now a occasions. Then there ig the added convinced that have been cony expense of -the farmer returning the Some have said that they coupeclot compliment and helping his neighbors convert me, but," he said, rt ►t}ig' when they build; but this was not into his pocket, like every good ,tel 'Usually looked upon as an expense itician, for the certificate the Ysgvjvgl- but rather as a pleasant d'ay's outing, ist had given, "if any persoh''Igt,dm that gave a little recreation and ex - doubt about it, I have here the dam}.- citement. ment to prove it." `• I will just recall three cr four "Hallelujah!" shouted the revtvaiiat baru raisings and a few things about and in the same breath he started to them, and will also mention a few sing "There is a Fountain." of the people attending these rais- During the singing Henry Perkins ings, some who 'are gone and -others came down the aisle with his dieky who are with us yet.- The first barn sticking outside his waistcoat, and raising I remember anything about began 'to wrestle with Charle, the was at Jim Irvine's, on the east half agnostic. There were a number pre- of lot number 7, Concession 6, Tuck - sent who were known to be •seeking ersmith. This was in 1872, just be - salvation, and it had been whispered fare I was three years of age. I quite here and there that Charlie was one well remember going over the cor- duroy • thein. Miss Kringle, Lizzie lav- duroy road'across what was then call- ery, old Mr. Mullet and Mrs. Pigeon ed the Beaver meadow with my two were moving' up and down the aislesed and half sister; 1 remember asking for any who were not et ,peace of crawling trough the bars which with the Lord, and the revivalist by on as a gate about fifteen rods this time was intermittently h s i m$' g and praying and shouting encoura 1west of the little bridge where the ditch enters that farm at the south went. east corner. Then we crossed a little r could see Miss Pringle coming log bridge across the creek right near perilously near to me. I was sitting the place where Bob Hay was drowh- a little apart from the other boys, ed ten or twelve years later. Lizzie but close enough for them to ever- Irvine, my sister and I atm d at a hear anything that might be sated. I distance' watching the frante go up, hung my head and waited ft' the the only other person I remember be - Pringle, having sung with me in.. the. onslaught, because 1 knew that he ing there was Jim' Gemmell, I do not know what age Jim was at that time, choir every Sunday for six months, 'but from where I stood he seemed was interested in my future estate. to be a pretty big boy. 1 do not re - Bending over me, the gentle lady as memberwho the grog boss was, but ed timidly yet distinctly enough to ,yo doubt there was one, far regarlesa be overheard by the other boys. • of the admirable traits and character - "Don't you want to be saved?" istics of the early settlers• it was Fora moment I was unable to an- thought almost impossible in those swer. If 1 had answered . that 1 'days to raise a barn without whiskey. wanted to be saved, then she.wpnld In fact a good.many years after that have started in to save me. And if w it as,paid thafea certain man propose 1 had said that 1 didn't want, to be 'raising his barn without whiskey and dead right then and there and, bee saved, 1 might have been and, beenn some predicted that the barn would not go up but it went up just the lost. Therefore' 1 answered in as same. I think I must have gone to low atone as possible and trying Then of one sleep during that afternoon for I have to be no of vital, Mebbe." no reooliection.of going home, but have the boys sni ke# d, a Alight .recoll_ection.(f.hearing the That was enough for me; I ..k ' raising: ' diacusseti at home right.ayvay that .i didn't war 'fid: alnx..tlil�,e44g1' rite. cows were saved', that no potrer our esteenircnn d mitkkd and t e e work r%ne *- eternally • me, that I was forever and for the night. This barn now stands eternally damned. on the west half of the same lot, up Please, Miss Pringle," 1 said, "if on a stone wall which . is used as you don't mind I'd rather not be Wright's horse stable. saved." And before Miss Pringle had time The last barn raising I attended to reply everyone close at hand was before coming west was at. Leonard distracted by Henry Perkins. For Sholdiceei in the year 1890. Sam Henry had stopped beside the agnos- the b and Andrew Archibald were tic. the Captains. I do not remember "Are you at peace, Charlie?" he who were the• men of first choice on asked. either side, but in some sections of "I am," said Charlie. the country it might have been John "But you haven't been converted." or Henry Friel, or in another section "No." Robert Charters might have been a- "Wbuld you like us to pray for mong the first called, or in some ,places you?" Jack McMillan or Paul Boa might have "I would not." been early choices. Or had the cap - "Don't you think it's dangerous," tains wanted a man who oould stand Henry,, asked, "to keep putt; it off? on the top of the highest post with You never know," he argut "what one foot on each side of the tennan a day nor an hour may bring forth. and with wooden commander in hand It's well to be prepared. I may come drive the bent up to place while the up to the village to -morrow and find men on the ground rup on the you dead. Too late!" pike poles, they woulduld h have called "Ole. I'll be alive all right, never Jim McConnell. Or if they wanted fear," said Charlie. four men who could stand on the "But you never know," said Henry. beams, pick u,p the plate in full length "You might be dead." and place it on top of the posts, they "You come up," said Charlie, "I'll would probably have selected Matt. be alive all right. And I'll be asking Scott, Jim McEwing, John McCloy you some questions about the Bible and Bob McGowan, Or for a man and religion and maybe, if I see you who could stand on either his head can follow me, about theology. I'll or his feet on. the highest timber in be asking you who was Cain's wife. the barn, Billy Waters was the fel- And I'll be asking you about .Jonah low. Or for a fellow who could and the whale. And I'll be asking walk up one rafter to the ridge' and you about others of the miracles. down another to the plate on the other And I'll want you to tell me about side, Charlie Aritstrong was the Mary and Joseph, about the resur- man. But getting away from these rection and John on Patmos." men and their special stunts, just a Henry looked at Charlie with a little about the Sholdice raising. Dur - puzzled expression, and then `he gave ing the afternoon a thunder storm again the warning, "You never know came up and a very heavy rain; what a day nor an hour may bring work stopped and the men all rushed forth." for cover. As many as possibly "You come up in the morning," could find room crowded into the old Charlie replied. "i'll take a chance log house (foe that was before the on being here. And bring your Bible present brick house was built). The with you." scene that was enacted in the log 'Hallelujah!" shouted the revival- house that afternoon during the ist. "We'll close with the singing of thunder storm might have been called 'Shall we Gather at the River?'" a series of dissolving views, for thecakes, pies and all the other good things to eat that , were piled high and everywhere absolved and melted away like ice on a red hot stove and Editor, Huron Expositor:—Perhaps disappeared like"fiew in the morning to the relief of some of The Expositor sun. However, the rain cleared readers I have been so busy for the away late in the afternoon and it last six months that I never seemed was decided to go on with the rais- to have time to write any has-been ing, but it was agreed that there; stuff or ancient history. B t when should be no race on ac count of I noticed in your paper a few weeks everything being so wet and the tine, ' ago some mention, made of a barn ber so slippery. But the_men took raising near Chisethurst, I thought 1 their own sides, and befortwo bents would some time recall a few raise • were up, it was quite evident that ings of several years ago. 1 have the race was on and that it would sometimes thought that the young be almost as ease -Jo hold a loeomo- men of to -day in Ontario are some- tive engine as to Mold the "men back what to be pitied because they eel- from that- race. This was the last dom- get to an old-time barn raising. barn raising I ever sow my father There are two reasons for this: one at and although he was well up in is , that moat of the farmers hieve years and usually cautious and per - good barns, and new ones are only haps. mere specially cautious in' this built when others are destroyed by tate,, because of the timber being- so fire, or when a farmer finds Ms barn slippery, yet when the lace was too email and has to - .teat it doetm really._on he was just as energetic rend build larger, tha ' he may have and enthusiastic se any' 01 the young a lace to bestow goads.. That et men. The race pros, fairly e : other realmis that barna now ate and the job finished without any NOV SOME BARN RAISINGS Sacramento, Cal., Dec 24, 1920. dente..-" By finisb3ng-4061ob- night �t paved the necreis s ef: e mop linok next sSlf} st- so sa5ed 8holdiee ging •til, .bakd another train ad of pies, cakes; ate. . After bewhig been inCapfe** 14 ten ye my wife .and I ttooQk a. Iii back to -Heron County in the 'year poring that summer lith Camerels todik down Tris old" barn And built it new one on lot number 13, cancels}on 5, H.R.S., Tuckeranlith.- When the time arrived to put up the frame, nig wife and I went to the raising %salient an invitation, but with characteristic Canadian hospital- ity, Mrs. JIM Cameron her- plater Maggie- Coleman, and their mother, Mre. Gelman, as well as the many other !idles present, mode us feel jut as much at home as if we had is right to be -there. This was my wife's first barn raising and it was my first for ten years. It seemed father strange that Sam McGeoch again was one of the captains, and again he was on the north side, while Bill Chesney was captain on the south side. During the day there were sev- eral minor accidents, such as toes, fingers and hands hurt, but nothing very serious happened as far as I remember. George and Sam Cole- man were hauling in the timber. Rev. Neil Shaw was in the thick of the fray with his coat off and just as industrious as any of the rest. . Many of my old-time acquaintances were there but I will not mention any more pf their names. The race again was fairly close and I well remember the rush for the long tables spread in h r am oftheopinion the orchard. I on P that t the table was the one place wh I always did shine at a barn 'rail and there sure always was a feed. I hope next time•I come to- tario that some one will have a new barn„do raise. I mentioned Bill Chesney as one of the captains. I think perhaps Bill was captain 'at barn raisings more often than any other man in that section of ,the country in my young days. Another raising right in the same neighbor- hood where Bill was captain, was at Leatherland's on lot number 11 on the same line, just half a mile east of Jim Cameron's. This, I think, was 1n the year 1887. Bill was cap- tain on the east side and Bill Cum - riling captain on the west side—now both Bills are gone. Bill Cumming died in the spring of 1889 and Bill Chesney I think early in 1917. I might mention Dan Clark, who was the framier of Leatherland's barn. He is living here in Sacramento, where be, has been nearly all the time since leaving Huron County in the year 188$. He has almost' lost his eye- sight; he can tell when. Bergen -is *aiding in front a Ith1A :• - tell, who it is, otherwise he is feel- ing fine. I had quite a talk with him to -day and he looks wen for a mail of his age. Many of these things will be of little or no interest to some of The Expositor readers, but I am of the opinion that there are still sotae people in whom reminiscene 3Strikes a responsive chord. I have been very much enjoying some of the letters in The Expositor, such as Bill Powell's, Robert Mc- Naughton's, John Mundell's old horses of the 8th and 9th, Petronius Minor's poetry on S. S. No. 6, Mc- Killop, some sixty years ago; also "The Tavern," by Newton MacTavish in the issue of August 6th. He does not say where the tavern was, but his description comes.very nearly fit. ting the old tavern at Springhill some forty-five or fifty years ago be- fore the name was changed to Staffs and in the young days of Tom Cokes - hour and old Lord Beddow. These letters take a fellow back to the good old days of the past and make life a little more tolerable for those of us who are so far away from ,the familiar scenes and surroundings of our boyhood days. J. A. L. t �.t A LETTER FROM MANITOBA Killarney, January 3, 1921. Dear Expositor:—We have passed into another year and a new calendar. is hung up, with these twelve de- tachable sheets of paper, represent- ing the coming months of 1921, which are probably fraught with many im- portant matters to us all, and joy and sorrow both will appear to us as the months go by. The mere hanging of a calendar is such a common place event, and yet it may mean so much before the twelth page is finality re- moved, and yet what a wise provision it is that we are ndb' permitted to peer ahead into the future and see the year's shadows mapped out. i think a good many of us would lose the necessary courage for life's bat- tles. One of the most important events' beginning with the January page of the calendar. at least, for the West, will be the Provincial Convention of Farmers to be .^,gaged at Brandon about the middle 'Of January. I say important for hundreds of men of both old political parties, who 'are not fanners, will watch that conven- tion very' closely, and if the farritera in convention assembled aro well ad- vieed, will Sake up the Recall and make it d definite plank in their plat- form in the Dominion field. They will sweet,, these webtmt, pyovilitees like a *mile fire for as' things,.atailds .at present, thousands of eleaibnt,, Iliad formerly ere either Tory oil', �t, are yeti to have a t' voice' In. Piddle aft'airti- an pi r farmer 'ceedidate(. amt *kerne, an fpi' ; jr d • shit federation, tingre eye years witijqut s; l bow check upon thea n'who ere s aMerin th ;Pub e opo► termt have Jltet tets".gine ariy jamplaisria ao.� ppl]owing Sieh, bin j ng 7.tlwself fbe lie years, and no po*er'to dismike that help no matter what that help'• did to the injury og,Apia lnteiness. That la only a fair illuatratieu as. applicable to our ,pull & affairs,; to have the right to disnd* our OttJiwa help;, if they are recreant' to thheir platform or pledges. With this power we would have better government, fot if a member' had broken' bis pledges, it would net be a pleasing thought to have to fate bis eenetitu- ents in a short -twelve months Which would be a powerful incentive to bim, not to turn to the right -or left. A good many people, who have not made a study of the principles of recall, imagine it is an intricate ques- tion; not so at all. The Act need only be very simple. Wlhen fifty-one per cent of the electors addressed a petition to the Governor-General he would have no option but' to dipsolve the House and let them come back to the people. That to all there is to it, and that power need. not be used at all if there was no questionable legislation. They would be allowed their _five-year term and no disturb- ance of an election. But how much better it would have been in the past to have had an extra election, to pre- vent some of the legislation which has proved so injurious to Canada's interests. We could enumerate many legislative acts ofthe past if it were necessary but the public knows it only two well, and to my mind now is the opportune time to take thia ti*xtter up and make it an issue in the coming Dominion election, and have an emergency brake fashioned, that when we see a, misplaced switch, we can stop the Ottawa train at our .pleastire. It is very amusing to read 'some • of the inspired articles in the press against recall. That it is imprac- ticable and inconatitutional and many others, when in reality it is only human selfishness. But that emerg- ency is going to' be fashioned in the near future. The months of November and De- cember, just closed, .bold the record for absence of storms, very little frost, and not =eh snow. Cars have been running all through December and people enjoying the outdoor world immensely, and even the boys halsing football matches. In speak- ing of cars it reminded me of a friend, who has been many years in the States and is now .i►aeJt homefor q,-latlideF and, Vito in,the interval has gtoteif Voir trot Wei 1' aaiteit liirn, the. eause of his hair begone, g so Grey; his reply was: Once,) un a time I bought alt'ord, and . found upon further inquiry that while driv- ing two ladies in the State of Ore- gon, he had lost control of his Ford and went over a cliff some fifty' feet higji That would certainly be .pretty hard on the color of anything. In conclusion, Mr. Editor, I wish �;s you elf and staff and readers that old, old New Year's wish, , for all %that a generous Providence is able to, bestow upon you all. Yours truly, W. BARBER, Killarney. r LONDESBORO Notes'.—Dr. L 'W. Brigham, of Star City, Sask., who has been been prac- ticing there for the past fifteen years, is spending a few weeks with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. William Brig - hare, 1'•,e doctor has been one of the successful i..en of the -West--, Rev. Mr. and Mrs. Fingland, of To ionto, have returned after spending the past week with les parents.—. Rev. Mr. and Mrs. Sawyers have Ye - turned after spending the past week with Stratford friends. -Rev. Mr. Abrey has returned after spending the past two weeks with Toronto friends. -- The. concert, .wihich was given by the W. J. last Friday even- ... ing, was a •grand success.—Miss O. Brigham, teacher of the Amherstburg high school, returned to he'.sluties on Tuesday.—Miss Main, of Chicago, who spent the past week with her mother, has returned.—Mrs. 1'amblyn who spent the oast month with her son in Toronto, has returned. HILLS GREEN Notes—Anniversary Services will be held in the Presbyterian Ckurel* on Sunday, January 16th, when Bev. Mr. Lundy, the newly inducted easter will each morning ,and evening tit- ... 11 land 7 o'clock. Everybody We ., come.—Mr. Boa conducted services here the last two Sabbath and w listened to by- good arid, atteir eongregations.-.-.Mr. Appel, of ehener, Is visiting her brother, M. • F Stelch, who we are so to flay; is confined to his bed thi'ou ngst, Mr. Stelch's many frienda .. war him h"onof a sed recove yMme.tth speedy ry , Bay City, Michigan,',,ideited her bro- thers, George and FraQnk . Coleman, and called on other frie'tids.—M1e8 Alice Cochrane is a visitor'. at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. Cochrane. ---Miss' pearl Teel*,: of' gBayfield hag commenced her;tlt eiteber of : School $esti Stanley. M. Taylor is 51, eo the section ,as..she to t .stew year* iauo, --Mr. ,Tom /010 -ton, paid a visit to hie old the end el last :Week. -,'Mr.' . agar, dentist is a visitor at the; eine. - ti 'q end e 6.