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The Huron Expositor, 1922-01-13, Page 1• IDAY: JANUARY,' 13, 1912. 'ReTY-Fie ;i Mean 1 SEAFOBTI, • WiHOLZ NU'M'BER 2822 i 1 MOO A Year in Advisees Melee* Bras, pnbtlsbssl ...•--_._ate--T„r.., tal,investtgent. al farming. it Is safe to swum. That fact is what had pat fours than THE GUWIi for tool will -oR ZO per that good agriettltusi lands eontsln one race off the earth. ,- , The earth is rich is clay and filet `coat. or then her year; Crops represent somethlag wee eh y That animates; and teaches tap anyhow, they are for moat part than labor and interest on the cell/- front 160,000 to aa s7i1 as {300,900 Despite our lnordtnaiel costly sys- What we shall' and shall not do, exactly double the o *ime scale, pounds an acre of tyke much-needed tem of distribution, food to -day is s • The precepts of the Golden Rule, Somethmg may baaav - at the low The ancient sermon from the Mound er limit by buying- secondhand tools Is duly acrohed and Written'down at sales -a doubtful policy upon the Much of .their substance, it is true, In law, that tell us what is right, whole -and a few farmers may save comes directly from the atmosphere prices are low, normally six cobs a i for the welfare of the farmer or the Dissects the Darkness from the Light, eometbing by producing their own and costs nobody anything, but a cer- pound, ere have the startling toted of safety of society. horses.. fain and definite proportion comes $9,000 to $18,000 an acre. There is no greater problem, thea And thus, our rights are boldly writ, Aside from teams for doing - the from the soil and represents a sub d' elements, h f thanthat f educating thepub T1s not for you to question it, labor of raising and harvesting crops have idea 1' hof apt nt Just guide your course, obey the such a farm should and does support strong, an animal population of cattle, sheep Always keep from doing wrong; and swine, varying between wide lim- -And If perchance you're hungry too, its but representing not leas than Have faith, and God will comfort you, But do not steal, lest -who can tell Yorr71 spend your future days in H- -Norman L. Bliss. Wolf Point, Montana. tal investment. Wheat, oats, barley, hay, meat and milk are made out of something besides wind and water. though relatively abundant element. I still the cheapest thing on earth -too If, this be reckoned at the commer-} cheap, measured by the grower's me - m] rate as provided in kainit when ! ager share of the consumer's dollar, WHO IS BIG BUSINESS? ' Everybody realizes, if he stops to think about it, that the annual pro- ' duct of our lands , is not only the guaranty of existence for another twelve-month and a good thing to have on hand to hold the balance of trade; but ee does not realize the immense amaont of heroin labor that Went into its orodn_ ion or the in- conceivable ca^its' required to pro- fends off something of the detoriora- duce the twelve or twenty billions tion in animals because .he is a pro - worth of food and textiles yielded ducer and disposes of many of then{ at maturity; but since the coming of the auto,. for both driving and city hauling. 'that market is Largely cut off ^nil the disposal of horses at ma- turity is more and more difficult, the doterior:tion of which is almost wholly thrown back upon the farmer. The list of operating equipment fol- lows: ' Operating Equipment.. Two teams and har- ness $400 to $800 and up Extra horse ... 100 200 2 plows, walking. 36 230 riding Disk harrow (1)80 160 (two) 2 floating harrows 100 100 of the lives` of the tufa Ds SeSielt Goderich ,,. 879.0* Oliver and Dr.'lllclfellar. Addresses Grand Beard •,. • 1.45.0a have been given to aoane of the Aux- Heos'ali 816.00• iliarfea by De. McKenzie Smith, Hills Green 128.01 Ktpmen ••R•••: 9.88:181 Kirkton • 218.61 Leeburn 106.60 Londesboro . .•102.61 McKillop (Duff's ohorob) • 116.00 Henan; , hilts Lily McAr±thrur, des- onose"'Mon=treal; Wise Shrip)ey,Nocth Bolton; Or. Merman, of Annabel, Info, Mrs. McIntyre Toronto; Mrs. Henderson, S.nith's -Hill; the Presi- dent, Mrs. James Hamilton, and others, Friendly visits for the put, pees of` giving and getting .sugges- 6esfortb 7b62• • Disregarding tumor a ems a; such ore, a o ca tug Smith's Sill' . 125.61= traction from stock }ret aa truly as as lime andsulphur, we tc upon the whole ins me ofThames Road MAO happens when the merchant sells his amaaieg total invoice value of the capital, ,tangible and intangible, ec-' tions helpful in advancing the inter- Union, Goderieh TOmesltip' 14,(14• goods from the shelf. fertility content of the first forty tive and potential, which the farmer oats of their auxiliary were made by Varna For, example, every time s incheso an acre ofe arm a farming„ members of the different auxiliaries. Winthrop armor reduces and sella 100 bushels standing something as follows: Nitro- and the dictates of self-interest as The work of the Presbyterial In the Pres. Ripen the equivalent of a dozen cows worth of wheat he hes takes out oft his land gen, $1,200 to ;1800 'and up; Meas well as of bare justice mean nothing p y from $600 to $1500,according to the the following elefeents of fertility, photos, $180 to $240 and up; pelma- else than our duty toe to It t that apeejsl fortunes, but has been agrad- 0198.94' mal growth which is more eat dace Young octane Assiiiasy d 1 chi f r good f land and we have invested m armng se Fund ......, .176.10' es f psat has not fieen marked b any current market price at the time of his stock in trade: .alum, 19,000 to $18,000 and up; total, farming as a whole-notthe invt u- wry, The Senior Auxiliaries and C. E. D. Associate, Aubtera...$ lb,t!(F Fertility withdrawn by 100 bushels $10.380 to 120,040 end up. al farmer, of course, but farming as 204.00 - 296.27 191.51 investing. Now all this personal property is of wheat; Nitrogen,. 142 pounds; If these acre figures be multiplied an industry -has adequate returns shortlived and subject to rapid de- phosphorus, 24 pounds; potassium, 2u by 180 -the size of the farm under from the actual capital invested as terioration. In the case of animals, pounds. discussion -we arrive at the astotifrd- well as for labor performed. That disease is a constant menace, so much Additional if straw is burned: Nit- ing conclusion that this rather Opt- ! is why the farmer must receive more so that moat farmers, for example, roger 58 pounds; phosphorus, four cal farmer occupies .and has chgrge 1 for growing our food in the future maintain an extra horse in order that pounds• potassium, 45 pounds, of no leas than one and n half to than!in the past unless we gamble a team should not be stopped and a Total if straw is burned: Nitro- , three millions of the peential capl- away our future as many another crop imperiled by the temporary ill- gen, 192 pounds; phosphorus, 28 tal of the race in the term of nitro- race has done, in which case we ness of a single member of a team. pounds; potassium, 71 pounds. • gen, phosphorus and potassium alone, : starve. -By E. Davenport in Country Besides, much of the work of such a These are the three elements of not to mention other neessary ale- Gentleman. of / it needs even more. and for which standard market values i lowance for the energy possibilities REPORT OF HURON PRESBY - form requires three horses, and some crop production most likely to fail . rents of production and with no al - Of course it is true that the farmer exist. Computing not at present 1 of 160 acres of growing , r•,ps expos- 'rERIAL FOR 1921 prices but at what might be called I ed to the rays of the s ui, which is The annual business meeting of pre-war prices, the value represented , our only source of pas: •r. If we the Huron Presbyterial Society was by this draft upon the land would should ever get into tsi: problem, held in Willis' Church, Clinton, on stand as follows: ,the figures would be s • ,taggering Nitrogen, 192 pounds at 16c...s28.80 thst no writer would doe to record Phosphorus, 28 pounds at 3c.. .84 them and no printer w ee care to P.,t.assium, 71 pounds at 6c... 4.26 est them up. Of course it is not cnetended that Mission Bands show an encouraging Birth increase., but the offering of the Brucefield Young Women hes a considerable de-, ranter crease. The Anna Fletcher Memorial Goderich 408.51r • Fund has just been closed and 1860 Seaterb - 648.3$ forwarde4 to China and India for. translation work. $1677.82 Mission Buda Blyth $ 250.00, Bayfield ..... 20.00 Brucefield 1.71.10 Clinton .... . .. 168.00 'Egmondville 72.00 .. Goderich 194.00 Hensall 41.82' 1111118 Green 75.00 Ki nnen 77.37 McKillop (Duffs church) .s35.45. . Seaforth 1,00.00 Kirkton 21.00 annually by our lands. The n=atter of labor is quickly com- puted When we stop to think that the entire lives of fully one-third of all the men, women and children are fully occupied and fully absorbed in producing this• vast volume of value; but the capital required and in one way or another involved is an ele- ment of the situation not so easily comprehended. In the interest of simplicity the problem of invested values is best considered in terms of a fairly typical farm of approximately 160 acres, a farm not far from the average of the typical farming sections of this coun- Grain drill 160 160 try. Planter ... 70 70 This will be a two-man farm and Two cultivators 100 100 presumably devoted to general or so- Mower, one 80 160 (two) called mixed farming, producing Hay rake 100 100 is invested in an enterprise of this er 126 125 kind, re::�embering that we have all Two wagons 320 320 along considered this average farmer Grain harvester 260 260 Hand tools 25 400 as a poor man and wondered why he- - always wanted to borrow so much Total operating ,. money and had to be 'carried" so ui went $1948 $3176 much in order to get results out of equipment • him and his land/ -Here 4a the rays- rn':ths case of machinery deteriora- mainly Train and animals. What new Hay load $33.90 This figure fairly represents the de- terioration of .the land, withdrawal from capita!, or whatever other term Tuesday, January 10th. Weather con- ditions being all that could be desir- A special feature of the Union Aux - ed there wee a good attendance of iliary, Goderich township, was the ladies at both the morning and after- celebrating of the 25th anniversary noon sessions. The reports of the of the organization of the auxiliary, at which the neighboring auxiliaries of Bayfield and Bethany were well represented. Letters of congratula- tion were received from the president of the General Council, the president of the Provincial Society, and also from Mrs. Anna =toss, formerly of Brucefield, but now in Formosa, who organized the society. The Huron Presbyterial was represented by Mrs. J. C. Greig. Londesboro reports some prosper- ity along missionary lines. Two aux- iliaries had a thankoffering both at Easter and in October. Women's Sunday was observed by several of the Auxiliaries. Mrs. McIntyre, of Toronto, occupied the pulpit of the Seaforth church and gave a splendid address on her work in a C. P. R. mining camp, and among the Ruthene lane in Toronto which was illustrated by lantern views. Blyth Auxiliary is determined to increase the average attendance by ten instead- of one. The April meeting of :the Clinton Auxiliary was conducted by the mem- bers of the Missionary Society of Wesley Methodist church, the favor to be reciprocated by them at the January meeting. Brucefield Aux- iliary had a birthday offering. Kippen ton•Secretary deplores the fact that more • Imterdemoninational representative, women in aur congregations are not Mrs. J. Hamilton, Goderich; Conven- taking an interest in this great work er of Programeme Committee, Mrs. Th reportsf -the Y Women's MCDermid, Goderich; Finance Com- mittee, Mrs. B. Higgins, Clinton, Miss McGregor Brucefield; 'Miss Taylor, Blyth; Nominating Committee, Mrs, Moore, Kirkton; Mrs. McQueen, Brgcefield; Mrs. J. M. Govenlock, Sea - forth; Mrs. Ferguson, McKillop. Mrs. H. C. Dunlop, Goderich, was appointed president's substitute to We are rrleased to report the addi- tion of a new Young Women's Mis- sion Auxiliary in connection with the Egmondville church, named in honor of a former pastor, the late Rev. Neil Shaw. This society begins its work under very favorable auspices. The reports from the Senior and Junior Auxiliaries are most interesting and show signs of continued effort and devotion on the part of the members. the present owner of the 160 acres various departments were received has anything like this (webs! invest- and adopted, and matters of busi- ed or is entitled to an ir^ome upon mess discussed. The dedicatory prayer it. But the public has this invest- was offered by Miss Ferguson, of may be used to represent the sub ment and more, for tht• land must Goderich. traction from the real value of the last us forever and a day. end during The officers elected for the ensuing capital investment. It may be ane- all these generations to come the year are: Honorary president, Mrs. ans- wered that the farmer should not several farmers, every man jack of F. H. Larkin, Seaforth; Mrs. James burn his straw, but if he does not, them, controls absolutely hetuse and • Hamilton, Goderich; President, Mrs. then he must bestow upon it a large amount of labor in order to get it back upon the land, and the whole question is one of economics. In any count and for our purpose we may as well assume that, one year with another, this hundred bush- els of wheat or its equivalent will be potential values which the race has produced on about seven acres of a invested in its lands and has putunder tlike the one underproduced considers,-invested the management of the farmer when ton. It should as ourbland on four 'it granted .him his-title,deed. and will when the land values in- There are these two parties to the crease, the deterioration will be correspondingly increased. Of .course,. not all crops, draw upon. Inc land as heavily as' wheat, but the abuse of this enormar capital. J. E. Hogg, Clinton; 1st vice, Mrs. Of course, too, itis net contended McKenzie, Bayfield; 2nd Vice, Mre. that these elements; being but slowly i S. McLean, Egmondville; 3rd Vice, available, have anything 'ate '''s prca- , Mrs. Kydd, Thames Rand; 4th Vice, ent worth indicated by t'' ' fiseres. or Mrs. Gardiner, Kirkdon; Secreitaryl, any other figures that -could be :set Miss 11. I. Graham, Seaforth; Trees - up, but the point is that these figures' urer, Mrs. H. C. Dunlop, Goderich; represent but a meager picture of the Mission Band Secretary, Mrs. L. T. DeLacey, Seaforth Supply .Secretary, Mrs. W. D. Fair, Clinton; Assistant Supply Secretary, Mrs. J. Scott, Olin - ton; Literature Secretary, Mrs. Nat - tel, Goderich; Messenger Secretary, problem of .the capita; investor in Mrs. M. G. Gladman, Exeter; Press Lamming:. One_ is .the oltelder of the Secretary, Mrs. R. McIntosh, Bruce - deed who says shod thinks that he field; Rome Helpers' Secretary, Mrs. tory. •• . tion is rapid at the best. The farmer some draw much heavier, and in gen- owns the land, a$ tee other -it Mil A. Monteith, Kippen; Strangers' Sec., This 160 acres with its buildings is much scalded at for not better oral productive farming means a the rept of us with ori deeeend2Ms Mrs. Arnold, 'Hensel]; Library Sec - and fences will be worth anywhere- housing his machinery, but it is moat- draft . upon the. land ranging from to whom the land rally belongs In retary, Miss A. Urquhart, Kirkton; from $16,000 to $50,000 and up, de-, .ly by people not realising the es. four or -five to' as much as seven or the larger and Iongea Lase of the Y. W. A. Secretary, Mrs. G. Telford, pending upon** section of the men- pease in money and labor for con- eight dollars annually an acre, de- term. This is not to be construed R9 Blyth; Secretary Forward Movement, try, the quality of land and the char- plate housing or that all this machin- pending upon the kind of crop and an argument for public ownership- Mrs. Ross, Auburn; Convener Nomi- acter of the improvements. Rarely ery of necessity does its work expos- the intensity of the farming This nating Committee, Mrs. Moore, Kirk - e8 to all kinds of weather. - Much of it is earth -working ma- chinery, and all the bearings are ex- posed to dust in a way that would drive a real machinist frantic. This, quite the contrary. the farmer stands to lose outright We both, and all of us, have cant- if apt if he is not careful, or if his land is tal invested. The farmer has the new and fertile he may pass it on to $100 or possibly $600 an acre which his children or the general posterity he paid to obtain the deed and which of the public without at the time re- he 'rightly feels represents the earn- ing power of his capitate -whether ac- quired' by labor, by inheritance by homesteading or otherwise.. This is the capital upon which he asks return without shrinkage and which we are bound in all fairness to award. Our capital is intangible bit none the less„ Feat, and the problem is that we as a consuming people should un- derstand both the farmer's rights and our own in a business in which both have vested interests. willed drop to the lower figure and often will it exceed the upper.. In general, it is not too much to say that the 160 -acre farmer hat. much more capital invested in his land than has the best merchant in of course, does not make needless ex- cognizing the loss. his home town and more even than posure to the elements a thrifty prac- 1 We say that the land is worth $100, the bank with which he does business tice. 1 $200, possibly $400 or even $600 an and of which he often borrows money I am told that the average life of acre. We mean by this that it would freely. Exceptions there are, to be a self binder costing $2,40 is only a- probably cost a prospective purchaser sure, but there are exceptions both bout twor years, or approximately.1 that amount of money, based pre - ways, and not infrequently one good thirty working days. Of course that sumably upon the probable earning farm could buy and pay for two or is absnrd;y too little, but it must be I power of the land plus all considera- three merchants and country banks remembered that all this machinery tions of location, sentiment and what and have a little money left. is subjr. t to damage, by runaway 1 not that figure in the mind of the For it is a fact that $60,000 or ; teams and by inexperienced hired men purchaser. By this we mean, to, the even $25,000 may be made to do a lot I and boys one of whom ruined a roller I land plus all the improvements, such of business in enterprises other than fora friend of the writer in one af- 1 A£ houses.. barns, drainage, fences, 1 farming when the turnover' is rapid or ternoon by oiling the shafts while and so on, that would be conveyed in when stock can be bought on sixty I working in a dusty field. Of course, the title deed. y or ninety days. The great mass of a roller should not have been used un- I I wonder, however, if very many stores the country over represent less der such conditions, but there .again w have ever figured upon the than the lower figure of the 160 -acre not every farmer or hired hand is ' People P farm, and few exceed the higher in 100 per cent., informed, 100 per cent. I potential value to society of all that actual capital invested. Here, then, wise or 100 per cents' careful. is contained in an acre of productive d f of xnd as a . is the farmer set up in a so-called "small" business -small because the annual turnover is slight but with an investment of capital out of all pro- portion to what is required in moat vlinee of business and,far greater than is suspected by'the nonfarming pub- lic. In addition to the value of the land, a considerab'e investment is required to operate this typical 160 -acre or two-man farm. It means a double outfit all around -that is. two teams, two sets of harness, at least two plows, a disk, one or two surface harrows, a grain drill and in moat sections a corn planter or its equiva- lent, at least two cultivators, and one self binder or its equivalent. Besides all this, an indefinite assortment of hand tools will have to be provided, such as spades, shovels, hoes, hand planters and weeders, rakes, forks, caws, hammers, eerenchea,.forgo and forge tools; taps and dies, not to men- tion the wood and iron working tools that a well-appointed farm ought to afford.. . It may be objected that we have selected se unnecessarily large unit in assuming.-' 160 -acre or two-man farm,:' but it' Will replied that a two-man farm is ro 1 _the ..rnost economioal of all possible areas, cer- tainly so far as equipment is con- cerned, because as to certain equip- ment one set will serve 160 acres as well as eighty or.less. Besides these implements of opera - Con, the farmer mus. have some Means of getting supplies and repairs more expeditiously and cheaper than taking a work team out of the fur- row, remembering that such 4 team Should not be driven off the-2week: This means *t least a fl(vver Mad may mean, k \Seed shoui4elean, a, light auto truck. ' Without raising the question of in- vesting $800 to $1200 In a tractor, this farmer's minimum account for operating egtrip2aeeet, would stand a- bout $1946. Bis maximum account -would' total about $8176, as Aron' in the table. . It is only !sir to say OA the prices Accordingly the operator stands an farm ran s. I ancy n , immense amount of deterioration, I matter of opening the mind to an necessary and unnecessary, and it is j unaccustomed realization of values not too much to put down the practi- agricultural, suppose the reader 'fol - cal limit of usefulness of all farm low the writer in a brief excursion machinery at five years, while the underground for the purpose of mak- teams can be added to the same list. ing an inventory of what is contain - With careful handling and no acci- ed in the soil, as one way of under - dents both machines and animals standing the capital involved in farm - should last longer than the period inff- An acre of farm land con- about on here named, but we are talking not tains in the f goodoo s firm lfand con200- aact ut w :ar. might be done but of what to as high as 8000 pounds of nitro- - Of c rsepens. Of course, most machines can be gen,'and from the bottom of the kept in service much longer than this furrow to a total death of 20 inches, period bet generally at an expense and therefore, in reach of crops, fuily that is` hardly justifiable, especially as much more with exceedingly wide when it is remembered that moat variations. The total nitrogen actu- manufacturing companies charge for ally present in the first 20 inches of repairs a price out of all proportion our better prairie soils, even exclusive to their value as represented in the of the bottom lands, is from 8000 to assembled machine. 12,000 pounds. Horses often live and work until. Of course it is not all immediately 20 years of age and even more, but available, as is commercial nitrogen, a good m•my go wrong before they and is not therefore actually worth reach the age of usefulness and an- this money at any given moment other large percentage in a year or either to the farmer or to anybody two afterward. All in all, the de- else. Neither is the unworked mine preciatinn of bath machinery and of immediate value, though its poten- horses is high because the work is tial value can be readily figured. As severe and both are exposed to un- a i"1 cosi, this under goodill beconse preventable accidents. Depreciation in farm buildings is but unlike the coal it is subject to extremely high and the cost of up- leaching end loss by drainage throdgh keep excessive, as it is also with processes of nature in continual op - fences, cites and even drainage. eration, and the farmer must get it as Everything is expose= to the extremes it pews or it is Iost. of weather and of climate, while the Our prairie lands, though relative- enrface Involved in buildings or the ly poor in phosphorus, yet contain a linear distances, as with fences or total of apnroximately 3,000 to 4,000 drainage, are relatively great, most pounds and up of this essential ole - fences crating a dollar a rod or more ment in the fret twenty inches, with and having a lifetime not exceeding inches smu hanmere inthe hewithinnext r twenty h f ten years. These are some of the.reasons why' deep -rooting crops, not to mention its the farmer is interested le the pro- tendency to accumulate near the aur- teotion of capital, that it may become face .by evaporation. , Neglecting all abundant and cheap. Anything which below the level of forty inches and injures capital or increases the ex- figuring at the low commercial rate pense and difficulty of maintaining it of three cents a pound, this phos - is hard on the ferrite?. Photos content represents a capital The equipment of the farm is not investment of Nature amounting to the only seance of deterioration and $780 to $240 an acre and. up. loan, but even the land itself repro,- The case od potassium is =eh sent* valve and perishable' loss far j ,porn - slgnhfeant in figural, though public de7osit, and hewillco leet of beyond anything ingradMS0*dr caul- not app s+5Rly so imparts* in sets- us, for nil saeb drafts ark boeoi'ed. If through design, by accident or otherwise, we force the farmer to work for an inadequate wage, he will leave the profession, and our food will be both inadequate and costly. If we force him in order to get a living to neglect keeping up the fertility of the land, and by that we mean the mak- ing good for all the fertility with- drawn in crops, than we are forcing him to draw both upon his own capi- tal and upon ours in order to do busi- ness. This is exactly what has been done in this and every other country that has undertaken to support a large population of rivi-1ized people. That is why every economist who figures on the problem must admit that the country has heen cleaned up and improved at the expense of its virgin fertility just as truly as are the coal mines reduced by working, and we are all the poorer for it. That is why our lands to -day, though nnmin'vlly worth $100 to $300 and -possibly $600 an acre are poten- tially worth less than they were when homesteaded for nothing or bought of the Government at 81.25 and even as low as fifty cents nn acre. And that is why the wealth which seems to have been aeoumuheted by the American farmer, as represented in buildings, fences, livestock and ad- ditional acres, together with bank Re- counts big and little. is really trans- ferred from the fertility which be- longs to all of us to the account which runs to him. Put in other words and seealdng in general terms, the American farm- er up to date has made nothing ex- cept upon the rise in land values. He has worked for a small wage and has thrown in thousands of dollars' worth of fertility in order to market his pro- duce at a living rate. This is nothing short of drawing sight drafts upon generations that will not be born for a hundred or a thousand years yet, end it is wholly un-American. Agriculture is a business requiring largo amounts of 110th labor .and cap- ital -far larger than the average citi- zen has any comprehonsien of. This being the case, we need to wider - stand that the farmer carries both his own cheek book and ours, and if we force hirer to exhaust his own ac- count he will perforce draw upon the $1125.24 DISBURSEMENTS - To Provincial Treasurer March $ 226.00 - May . 1275.00 July 500.00 August 860.00 October 875.00 November 1275.00 - December 950.00: January .2750.00 -. $8000.00 - Recapitulat a of Receipts Auxiliaries $5196.94 Young W'omen'e xiliary1677.82 . Mission Bands - 1125.24 $8000.00 Minnie V. Greig, Huron Pres. Treasurer, W. M. 5 - FROM AN OLD McKILLOP CORRESPONDENT Toronto, January 9, 1922:. Dear Expositor: . Here we are again. As a boy rase aspirations were to be an Editor and -• Publisher, but being much more in- dustrious in those times then what h have been latterly, my father would not let me be one. So a few remarkain.: the press now and then that i, all there is to it. The weather here has been eery The or a Dung gi od A few days before Chris mate Auxiliaries are an incentive to great- it C -:-,pod to zero for a fee hours, er activity. The membership of Logie and on the morn;. of the auxiliary was increased last year by mvnicipai c',>:•t:th went one the a contest to enroll members, but . low. These were -the coldest snaps e - these were not active and merely paid experienced here so far. On Thurs- their fee, so they have returned to day last the weatherman told us to ingold reliables and are only enroll- look out, as it was 25 bellow at Win- ing those who could be active mem- nipeg. But the cold wave either did here' not reach us or else passed us by, the provincial. meeting in Ottawa; Kelly Auxiliary during the first Mrs. James Scott, president's substi- hall of the year raised 823.37 by spe- i which was a very good thing, so tute to the general council meeting c=al collection for the Chinese Tram -mach for the weather. in Galt; Mrs. J. C. Greig, Presbyter- ire Fund. They also realized $19.25 Hon. Mn Cr ear stopped here a ial delegate .to Ottawa; and Miss H. 'f; a,ii a birthday social in July.' An -day or two on his way back from,. I. Graham, 1�o G cit. A resolution, ex- ether Auxiliary gave a successful wa, where he had been in cos. pressing the iety's appreciation of Betsy Babbitt concert to augment sulcation wit our new Premier. the courtesy of the Seaforth branch their funds, and the Barbara Kirk- Newspaper men who approached him of the Dominion Rank in transacting man held a bazaar and, tea, which were told that there was nothing for its business free of charge, was for- netted about $400. �y publication. Neither he nor MT. warded to the Manager, Mr. R. Mur- The Huron Presbyterial alld$�rted Drury could see his way clear to- less Jones $25 from its expense fund for the enter into Union Government. Hon. • Life membership certificates were famine sufferers in China. A num- Mr. King told them there was mighty presented by the Presbyterial to Mrs. her of auxiliaries also responded to little difference between Liberals- and L. T. DeLacey, Seaforth; Miss Evelyn the appeal. It is with profound and Progressives, but the U. F. O. seems Greig, Seaforth, and Miss Janet sincere regret that we 'r5cord the i to think different. The Evening Tele -- Smith, Alliston. A resolution of ape retirement of our beloved president 1 gram, which is a' joker, if anything, preciation of the faithful, efficient. and treasurer, Mrs. James Hamilton suggests that Hon. Mackenzie Ring aervices of the retiring officers, Mrs. and Mrs. J. C. Greig, to whose efand Miss Agnes McPhail, the Pro- - James Hamilton, Goderich; Mrs. J. ficiency and tireless energy and de- , gressive member for South Grey, C. Greig, Seaforth; Mrs. G. Telford, votion so much of the success of this marry each other and have a little Blyth; Mrs. Young, Smith's Hill, and presbyterial may be attributed. Liberal and Progressive coalition of Miss Dunlop, of Goderich, and regret Three other very capable secretaries, their own. at their retirement from office, was Mrs. G Telford, Women's Auxiliary; 1 Alfred McGuire is Mayor of To - presented by Mrs. Lundy, of Kippen.. Miss Dunlop, Literature, and Mrs. 1 ronto, taking the place of T. L. Prayers were offered by Mrs. JamesYoung, Library Secretary, also con- church, who has 'been Chief Magi Magi - template withdrawing. One is al- strate for seven years. The new most overwhelmed at the loss this mayor is a Canadian, of North of- will fwill mean to our Presbyterial Society, Ireland ancestry. He is a Liberal,. but as God has been with us in the' Presbyterian, Free Mason and an= past, so He will be in the future, and Orangeman and other things too we pray that their mantles may fall numerous to mention. He is engag- uren others like minded. 1 act in insurance and is said to have Goderich Auxiliary makes mention splendid business ability. Three of the loss sustained by their auxili- ladies entered the contest for Alder- , are by the passing away of an honor- men honors, only one of them being Hamilton, Mrs. Poppleatone, Blyth; Mrs. Macdonnell, Hensall, and Mrs. Kydd, Exeter. Lunch was served by the Ladies' Aid Society of Willis' church. Mrs. Hamilton closed the meeting with a few inspiring words. We present the annual report of the Huron Presbyterial with grateful acknowledgment to God for his good- ness in enabling us as a society to carry on and make some progress ars member. Mrs. Hunme. Among' elected.This. was Mrs. S. Small. She during a season that has been mark- others who have been prominent in takes great interest in charity and ed more or less by financial strain and depression. The Presbyterial now comprises 24 auxiliary work, who have been trans- social uplift, and is an all round ]ratted to higher service, are Mrs. Mc- , grind woman. Ewan, Clinton, Mrs. Jas Marshall, A It is said that there are more ap- Senior Auxiliaries with a member- charter member in the Kirkton Auxi- plications for divorce from Toronto ship of 764, a slight decrease, con- tiary, and Mrs. A. Taylor, of Blyth. ' than from all the rest of the Do- tributing $6,211.24, and six Young The Presbyterial deeply regret the minion. A number of these are re - Women's Auxiliaries numbering 180 depth of onr Messenger Secretary, turned soldiers, who say their wives and contributing $1,662.82; also 12 Mrs Hastings. The sympathy of the were unfaithful when they were a- Miseion Band's with a membership members of the society is extended way. It would be interesting to of 532, exclusive of Hensel], and an to Mrs. Neil McGregor, an active know if they themselves- were faith - offering of $1,125.24, contributing member in the Brucefield Auxiliary, fol when they were over yonder. $1,125.24 a total contribution of who has been called on to pRsaS Again many men hero have loft their $8,000. Twenty-five life members through a long period of invalidism wives and taken up with some other and seven Junior I,ife Members have and also to Mrs. Lundy, of Rippon, woman, and some wives have ]eft been enrolled, and one in Memoriam in the recent death of her firnther. ,their husbands And taken up with aubscriptiop presented to Mrs. Yuill, H. I. GRAHAM. some one else, and in the face of all by the Union Auxiliary in Goderich township, in memory of a son who fell at Pachendale. Sixteen bales (800 pounds) of excellent material, valued et $975.45, were shipped to Portage la Prairie Indian school. Auburn There are 251 Home Helpers, con- Bayfield tributing 5862.16. Rethany The Literature, Library, Press and Blake Strangers' departments show signs Blyth of progress and activity. The text Brucefleld books studied have been the Bible and Clinton Mtsaions, Canada's Share in World Egmotadville Teske and also the inspirlag account t rarebit FINANCIAL STATEMENT RECEIPTS Auxiliaries this we sometimes meet cheerful idiots who tell us that marriages are made in Heaven. While wishing continued su to $ 172.16 The Expositor, I hope that 134.54 upon which we have entered 6.00 a pleasant and profitable one for tee 109.15 Canadian people in gameral, and f 400.00 the good people of Huron and Perth eetei in particular, and that the virtues of 400,00 Order Honor, Honesty, Tri8t fuisess 94/,90 and Kindness, will prevail. ,180.00 2. J. 1. ,