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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1921-05-20, Page 2try. !tin ant Fencing -in. per rol, 50 yds. . $4.65 34 in. per roll, 50 yds. $6.50 4in. per roll, 50 yds. $8.50 69 i11. per roll, 50 yds. $10.50 72 in. per roll, 50 yds. $12.50 Poultry fencing, No. 9 wire top and bottom, 18 wires, 48 inches high. Per roll of 10 rods $9.00 Our Field Fence is warranted the strongest on the market. It is the only fence made of open hearth steel which makes it better galvanized and less brittle. .:These prices are for Cash only: : 6 wire 471/2C per rod 7 wire 51c per rod 8 wire e ...571/,c per rod Baseball Goods Balls, ' regulation size, suitable for playing catch 60c and $1.00 Official Baseballs $2.25 Bats, official size.. $1.35 Boys' Bats - 25c Footballs, No. 5 regulation, 12 panel $7.50 G. A. Silts, Seatorth THE McKILLOP MUTUAL G P. R. TIME TABLE GUELPH & GODERICH BRANCH FIRE INSURANCE CO'Y. TO TORONTO HEAD OFFICE--SEAFORTH, ONT. OFFICERS J . Connolly, Goderich, President sident Ina. • E. Hays, Seaforth,Beechwood, Vice Secy.-Treas. AGENTS Alex. Leitch, R. R. No. 1, Clinton; Ed. Himchley, Seaforth; John Murray„ Toronto, leave B ld, e 6 on J. W. Yeo, Gonderich 137, RG. Jar- Walton arrive mutt, Brodhagen. ' Blyth DIRECTORS I n GoderiAuburch 1lpjlliam Rinn, No. 2, Seaforth; John R lennewiec Brodhagen; James Evans, ! Connections at Guelph Junction with Beachwood; M. McEwen, Clinton; Jas.' Main Line for Galt, Woodstock, Lon- ConnoAy, Goderich; 11 F. McGregor, don, Detroit, and Chicago, and all in - B. R. No. 3, Seaforth; J. G. Grieve, termediate points. No, 4, Walton; Robert Ferris, Harlock; George McCartney, No. 3, . Seaforth. Goderich, leave Blyth Walton Guelph FROM THE GENERAL wroa;B (By Newton MaeTavish) Like all first-class general stores, ours had been painted white. A,o, however, had imported to its surface that rich, mellow quality /that one mil;ht liken la uld• parchment or the skin of a Camembert cheese: A verandah o1' tour posts, with a slant- ing tool, este nd.d from side to side, and th, re w.,., 0 false front that stretched upw:c.1 tam feet above the cdves. Thi+ f' ,lit was ornttimurtud with comics.; and abutments to sug- gest a fortress, and there was enough plain space left upon to impose these words: ANGUS MACGREGOR Importer and Dealer in Dry Goods, Groceries, Hardware Bouts and Shoes. Angus came of remote Scottish stock, not so remote, however, as to attenuate effectively his fine instinct for barter. For his sense of the ad- vantages of exchange always had been keen eneugb to enable him to draw a clear distinction between seller and.. buyer, and indeed this sense had not deserted hint even if, us in our day, he had reached the time in life when he was so bald as to be content to comb his hair with a towel. Toweling you bought by the yard, unless you had fancy fur pink bor- ders, with fringe. Angus sold both kinds, one for the roller attached to the clap -boarding of the kitchen, on the outside, near the rain barrel; the other, for placing on the toilet set in the spare room. But Angus, like everyone else in his line of business in those days, professed to be an im- porter, and therefore he kept for sale much finer fabrics than toweling. He always kept, fur instance, three or four lengths of tweed, three different qualities of cashmere, flannel, red and gray, a bolt of black crape for fun- erals, and, maybe, a few yards of sick. Silk, one should recall, was in de- mand mostly for weddings and parties and it seemed to be only natural, even if perhaps a little unfair, that anyone about to buy silk should drive over to Seaforth or Mitchell, where there was 0 greater assortment. Still, Angus claimed to allow as much for butter and eggs as you could get in the towns, and you had to consider the time lost in going and coming. But we have gone inside the store and conte forth again before we have a.m. p.m. become properly impressed with the 6.20 130 outside.For there, hanging on either -6.68 2.07 site of the door, just as you entered, 7.12 2.20 were 0 lantern or two, a pair of top 9.48 4.63 boots, a halter, a string of sleigh hells, and three or four dried codfish. On the fluor of the verandah stood 8.10 5.10 a keg of nails, a bag of turnip seed, 9.30 620 a nest of patent pails, a coil of rope 12.03 9.04 and a roll of barbed wire, while 12.16 9.18 against the'wall leaned an axe, a hoc, 12.28 9.30 a washboard, •t spade, two or three 12.55 9.56 pitchforks, and a circle of carriage whips. all placed carefully so as not to obstruct the view of the windows.- This view retained in dry season and in wet its chief tone of fanuliar- ity. For strive as Angus might, he always fell back on the pyramids of soap bars the tiers of canned salmon ERU1NEDcause PRxapioactty,. *bra. Sins if you please,dlaed even slightly provoked, that the day after she reeeivi@d• notice that her' niortgtRge was abdut to be foreclosed ev,Qryk}ody in. the .naighborhyod -knew Until '13q Tried "FRUIT-A-TIVES" 'Ito Wonderful Fruit Medicine TORONTO G. T. R. TIME TABLE Trains Leave Seaforth as follows: 11 a. m. - For Clinton, Goderich, • Wingham and Kincardine. 6,53 p. m. - For Clinton, Wingham, and Kincardine. Only 11.03 p. m. T For Clinton, Goderich, 6.61 a. m. -For Stratford, Gifelph,1 Toronto, Orillia, North Bay and ' points west, Belleville and Peter- boro and points east. 1.12 p. m. -For Stratford, Toronto, ' Montreal and points east. iFiERE IS ONLY ONE LONDON, HURON AND BRUCE' Going North a.m. p.m.1 London 9.05 4.45 Centralia 10.04 5.50 j Exeter 10.18 6.02 Hensall 10.33 6.141 Kippen 10.38 6.211 Brncefield 10.47 6.29. Clinton 11.03 6.45 Londesboro 11.34 7.03 Blyth 11.43 7.10 Belgrave 11.56 7.23 Wingham 12.11 '7.40 Going South a.m. p.m.' Wingham 7.30 3.20 Belgrave 7.44 3.36 Blyth 7.56 3.48 Londesboro 8.04 3.56 Clinton 8.23 4.16 Brucefield 8.40 4.82 Kippen 8.46 4.40 Heusall 8.68 4.50 Exeter 9.13 5.05 Centralia 927 5.16 London ... 10.40 6.15 GENUINE ASPIRIN the boxes of smoked herring, with cane open the several glass, jars of candies, the pipes and tobacco, and the two lamps with blue bowls set on brass pedestals. Thcso objects could he siren only as 0 result of careful scrutiny, for the panes of glass v: hick were small. even diminutive, Tablets with "Bayer Cross" """pared with the large sheets of • plate glass seen elsewhere, had Be- are Aspirin -No others( cone coated with a film of dust that imparted, especially from a short dis- tance off, a sense of uncertainty, if not a feeling of antiquity. But why dress and undress windows when people had to buy the goods sooner or later?. Anil why clean windows when all Angus had to do was to put' up the shutters every Saturday MJright-an insurance against desecra- lion of the Sabbath and evidence of reverence of sacred things. Sacred, on the other hand, is the memory of the store inside, For there was displayed, under glass, long sticks of candy at a cent a stick, or six for five, and bulla' -eyes that you could suck all the way to school imd have enough left to keep Lizzie ,Zones going .until first recess. Thos" were the days of the humbug, the peppermint drop, horehound, and the conversation lozenge. Angus kept a stock of these daint,es always on hand, and even if he nad a reputation for being parsimonious, he was known to slip a square or taffy 'into a little boy's hand and to permit the same little boy to sit in the empty hogs- head in the back yard and to compete with blue -bottles for the morsels of sugar that remained in the crevices between the staves. Brown sugar was staple in those days. Angus kept it handy, in a wooden bin just behind the counter. Beside it there were bins of raisins, currants, rice, oatmeal, sago and tap- ioca. Above the bins, on the shelves, reposed a row of tin boxes painted red or green and labelled "allspice," "pepper," "cinnamon," lemon peel," and "mustard." It was Angus's priv- ilege to remind his customers of these goods, and while Henry Per- kins would be testing the "feel" of a barley fork, Angus would be asking Mrs. Perkins whether she needed any ick If you don't see the "Bayer Cross" on the tablets, refuse then: -they are not Aspirin at all. Insist. on genuine "Rayer 'tablets of Aspirin- plainly stamped with the safety 'Rayer truss' .lalurir, prescribed by physicians for r.ihelrrn rears and proved sate by millions for llc•adarhr, 'Tooth. ache. II:mu-Ur, Rheumatism, Iminbago, Neuritis, ::nd I ',lit) generally. Handy lin boxes of 12 tablets -arse huge: "ht.:c•er" lutck:•^cs. Made in Granada. Aspirin is the Tracie p..,:1: (registered in (-:gin, 1 , of 11. -, •' \!annfaeture of 'fmm�aret,,- ri,leater of Salle 'icnrid. `®;\-Lilo it is well known that .1spirin mean- Racer m+nufn,•ture. to a stat the pn1.1:- uRe ia'I im i..n tun.. Ihr 'rabic'. of 21,1., .r''!i ,,• t.unped with 1, rmtc.ra1 trade marl:, the "lla;•er Cron.," Ur'ider'Floo s: $;aatween waits Fox` Lina 310 'Ca:ses and plaster t, Icor Beehii:es 1"or Ice: Houses'' Fca Paclilr� :. A kou.gh cs-alcf .p p r coated ori bona si:sies w"1. spr; i 1c cS1irllr0ur:ii k... 1. Brant. ord.. Roof mg Co. L0rniEed Head Office and Factor!., 'f Can 124 'or Sale by henry Edge and 1.Oluff.. & Sons. I Ml. MR. FRANK HALL Wyevale, Ontario. "For some two years, I was a sufferer from Chronic Constipation and Dyspepsia. I tried every remedy I heard of without tiny success, until the wife of a kcal merchant recommended 'Frait a -tura . I procured a box of 'Fruit -a -Lives' and began the treatment, and my condition commenced to improve immediately. The Dyspepsia ceased to be the burden of my life as it had been, and I was freed of Coustipation. I feel that I owe a great debt to 'Fruit-atives' for the benefit 1 derived from them." FRANK HALL. 50o.a box, G for $2.50, trial size 25e. At all dealers or sent postpaid by Pruit-a-tives Limited. Ottawa. Ont. about .it. And that in face of the fact that she was well able to pay it off at once and be dune with it. That was hard on Mrs. Simpkins. And Angus got the blame. But it wasn't 'half as bard on her as the news was on 'Liza Lumb,era that she had ad- vcrtiscd fur a husband. Nobody scented to know just :how this titbit leaked out. ' 'Liza herself stucl( up for Angus perhaps because she was 'Cute 'enough to see that if she ac- cused hint it would show that she bud advertised. At all events, it wasn't long ;before a stranger ap- peared in the village, decent enough looking for a man of his years, and, as it appeared, he had plenty of money. And that was the last we sow of 'Liza. Gosh!" exclaimed Billy Pringle as the news had been imparted by old Charlie, who was sitting against one of the store's verandah uprights, chewing slippery elm. "Gosh! I hadn't heard, 'Pears to me it pays to advertise. I guess I'll tie up." He tied his horses to the hitching - post. "All depends on what you have to sell," said Si Butson. "Now if you wuz to adverti>fe that there nigh critter o' yourn for sale or to give away, hanging the ad. on her collar bone, I bet you wouldn't get a bid." "Haw, haw!" exploded Joe, the teamster. "That's a good one. What you say, Bill?" "I say you can't buy that mare at no price: She ain't for sale." "What's she for, then?" asked Si. "For lookin' at, I guess," said old Charlie. "Yes, and a dang good picter she stakes, too," said Billy, "beside the finest colt in Hibbert." "Has she folded?" asked Si. "Yes, and what's more, she can draw more'n any horse you've got." Si stepped off the verandah and patted the mare on the shoulder. "She's pretty geed to draw, is she?" 5 k haps, to the farrier. A doubtful cus- tom, a custom, as Hamlet would say, more honoured in the breach than in the observance. Nevertheless it was rot without merit. For the doctor raised a hog of his own, and when- ever he killed, he sent, never failing, a piece of fresh meat to Charlie, to the farrier, and. perhaps, to Mrs. Littlejohn. Mrs, Littlejohn was very punctili- ous as to this custom. She in turn, that is, whenever her good man killed sent some chops to the doctor, a kidney or two to Charlie and perhaps, a couple of feet to the farrier. So that throughout the season everyone, at least once in a while, had a taste c,f fresh meat. Meat-revenons a nus moutons - was apart from Angus's line. For Angus stuck to things that were not domestic. If you wanted tea, well say, he could supply a blend that was called "dust" and that, even if it had not much effect, certainly looked like mud. A dozen eggs bought half a pound, and with all its weakness ' it at least put a face on things. Old Charlie said one might just as well drink dishwater, and the doctor pro- nounced it harmless. One thing, it was not hard on the nerves, and 'Liza Lumbers said she could drink three cupfuls and not feel it. But 'Liza was notorious as a tea drinker, and therefor her experience should be accepted only with a grain of salt. Salt, by the way, was one of An- gus's important commodities. It was sold at a dollar a barrel, and Angus defied any tnan, even the Grange, to sell it for less and live. The Grange accepted the challenge, sold it at 90 cents, and died within the year. It was a greet triumph for Angus, as great, almost, as his luck in getting the post -office. The post -office, it is scarcely nec- essary to record, was restricted to a narrow section located at the rear and almost hidden from view by top boots, oil cans and bucksaws hanging from the ceiling. Its equipment con- sisted of a wicket, a drawer for money and stamps, a book for recording the delivery of infrequent registered mail and - as many pigeon -holes as there are.letters in our alphabet. Some of the pigeon -holes never were used, be- cause there was not any person there- abouts with a name like Zorn, Quantz or Xavier. In these unclaimed holes Angus kept all doubtful or interest- ing matter until he could find time to steam and read it. Steaming and reading was one of the natural perquisities of the post - office. But it was everyone's priv- ilege, if not indeed duty, to examine the backs of one's letters in the hope of discovering an incriminating fin- ger -mark or some other doubtful dis- day of his birth and threatened to figurement.. •Of course, Angus, like .send the womaiy a lawyer's letter. all rural postmasters, carried himself But letters from such a source were • as if above suspicion, but there were scarce in those days, •for. there was some of us who held that if he did not one lawyer within ten mils, and not possess inside information as to there were other ways to satisfaction. local affairs he at least exercised • un- iOne way was forgetfulness. That, . it seemed, was Angus's way. For even if he threatened much, he was long-suffering, and without malice. He seabed his generation from morn- ing until the setting of the sun. And when night fell, still was he there. He trimmed his lamps and set them in their brackets in the whitlows; and inside, above the counters, he set them so high that they made smoky spots on the ceiling. But what was' that to Angus, the very same Angus who had all he could do ta serge us day in and 4.ay out, night offer night? From Mondy until Saturday he was there. And then, oA the last day of every week, on the stroke of mid- night, he would put up the shutters, lock the door and blow out the lights. That was the last we could see of him until Sunday morning, when in Ab Ithfnl. ne savtngreme fine weather he would walk out into �a qsq y 4 the backyard behind the store, sit Men knoida for fifteen years, under the grape arbour and read the b doctors, sold by geil gr P (1.00 m�itie, Ask dopur a¢��eeeea,Ys weekly newspaper. It was cool and tg, •lo forle ttoae,1440ICingaW,, Torts e . welet out there. And after a could see ascending like in ensu, through the lattice and through the Local Agent, E. UMBACH. leaves, the thin, blue smoke of a cigar. ease. "Pretty good," said Billy. Joe stepped off, following Si, to get a better view. "Why," he exclaimed, "she can draw all right, •you bet, she's draw- ing her breath." ` "You don't say so," said old Charlie rising from the edge of the verandah, with a groan, and moving slowly over to where Si and Joe stood. Billy picked up a fork and made a motion with it as if pitching hay in- to a now. Then he leaned against the _farthest upright, bit off a morsel of tobacco, and regarded with an amused smile the three morn in front of him. Si was standing off a few clothes pins, lamp globes, lamp w 'oral oil, vanilla extract, cloves, sar- dimes, factory cotton, buttons, thread or molasses. Molasses, perhaps naturally enough was esteemed by both young and old, but there was a concoction called blackstrap that was not fit for man or beast. We used to try it on por- ridge and pancakes and sometimes meat, but there was not any proper place for it except as a relief in baking or as a counteracting element in pork and beans. Pork, one might mention casually, was not a luxury; indeed, everyone raised one's own hog, and it was a sad day when one could not buy, borrow or steal a side of, bacon, a well -cured ham or a few feet for pickling. For example, it was a cua- tom for old Charlie, whenever he dressed a hog, to send a piece of fresh meat to the doctor to the black- smith, to ,Mrs. Littejoftn, and, per- INCORPORATED 1856 Capital and Reserve $9,000,000 Over 130 Branches h .Molsons There is no safer or surer way of safeguarding your surplus money than placing it in a savings account with The Molsons Banks. Why not begin to -day? BRANCHES IN THIS DISTRICT: Brucefield, St. Marys, Kirkton Exeter, Clinton, Hensall, Zurich. 5. Children love home-made of Cream of the West Flour. And there is nothing else so good for them that costs so little. Maple Leaf Milling Co., Limited Toronto, Winnipeg Brandon, Halifax YOU CAN PROCURE CREAM OF THE WEST FLOUR FROM MARSHALL STEWART and U.F.O. Co -OPERATIVE Co., SEAFORTH feet Inoking at the mare; Joe was examining her teeth, and old Charlie was feeling her spaying. "Yes," said Billy leisurely, "and she's drawing more'n her breath," "You don't say so," said Si. "Can't see it," "Well," said Billy, "if you wuz standing where I am you'd see that she's drawing the attention of the three damnedest lcnowalls between here and Halifax." Halifax was a word that denoted distance. It was familiar _also be- cause we reckoned sometimes by Hali- faxcurrency and the York .shilling, Angus, for instance, never told you that a lamp globe would cost twenty- five cents. That sounded too much. He always said it would cost a shill- ing, "What? Twenty-five cents for a Tamp glass!" you would reply. "At!" Angus would rejoin. "You must remember this is real flint, al- most unbreakable --only a shilling." And so it went, final door knobs to soothing syrup. For Angus kept, you will recall, a small store pf drugs, mostly patent medicines, and these he sold in direct competition with the doctor. Salts and senna, of course, were in constant demand, and there was more or less trade in hair oil, painkiller, sarsaparilla, gentian root, blood bitters, sassafras, lini- ments, astringents and condition powders. So that you could get a remedy for the common ailments of both man or beast; and, what was to some of us of more importance, you could get credit, even if Angus, scrupulous as' he professed to be, was charged repeatedly with o ercharg- ing. That is, he would ' ke two entries for one purchase. d it was whispered about, especially by those of us who were in debt, that his conscience permitted him to enter in the books a charge for something you had not bought. Mrs. Cameron was indiscreet enough to tell here and there that he had billed her for a gallon of kerosine, a commodity she always bought by the barrel. And when this statement in the course of its percolation reached Angus, he threw up his hands, denounced the SRheurnatism Neuritis, Sciatica, Neuralgia. Templeton's Rheumatic Capsules 4t brought good to half -a -million Infferera. Western University Summer School for Arts and Sciences July 4th to August 12th For Information and Calendar write K. P. R. NEVILLE, Registrar Red Cross Aims In Ontario 1. To act as a voluntary auxiliary to' the Ontario . Government in its health work. 2. To co-operate with local Boards of Health, School Boards, and volun- tary organizations working for good health. 3. To enlist the support of Ontario citizens in helping to establish Out- post Hospitals and Nursing Service in remote parts of the Province. 4. To create and maintain a reserve of money, garments and medical sup- plies, and to enlist voluntary aid, for emergencies, such as epidemics and disasters. 5. To create public opinion in favor of sound health measures. 6. To promote better health among children by the organization of Junior Red Cross auxiliaries in the schools, ONTARIO ENROLLMENT, MAY 22-28 "In the field of Public Health, the harvest is ready and the laborers are few." -Prof. Winslow. Enroll with your iocal Tted ('rose. Branch or Enrollment Committee, or, if there is none 10 your community, with the Ontario Provincial Division, 410 SHT;RROTTRNi1 STREET, TORONTO. Canadian Red Cross Society Ontario Division 4 i 15 Ter ��ad *1�,t'n�>sl ,mll��+. Slit , ,i,,r�r�tA� �'�"v,�w'�"�•r�b ,t r �:.:.