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THE ALMANAC
'Phe almanac always hung from a
nail driven into the outer end of the
cupboard, ao that it Would be
in case o1 sickness or for pro
94tion of the Weather. In 'inpoz'kance
popular esxt teem it came n to
'Bila►lttr wb3cb, quite properly, tor
pelted serene dignity owl th.
,parlor stie betside "The • Pilgr1m'a
Progress," pox's "Book .of 'Martyrs"
and the bwto albums --photograph and
m We. To the bice it offend'
insydrartirt eiecommended eerta
e could be obtained, Al.
If your blood was.
it t � to enrich it If your •
'beck oohed or you sew specks float-
>wbnWre the eyes, you could obtain
re if you would not be discourag-
ed ottertaking ave or mix battles 'if,
Pen' would only persist in testing the
or al ' g sickness, or palpittation,'a
trey t. If'you ad rickets, or palsy,
autograph As an entertainment for i the d heart, or rheumatism or Stt.
visitors it could not compete wit the - Vitus's danee, you could cured,
stereoscopic views, but for ready ref-
erence as to commonpiace"thingshhat
affected all households it was in coai-
stant use. For it contained an abund-
ance of 'nferm,ation' concerning both.
marl and. beat, as wall ae anecdotee
and comical tales that relieved, 4nd
enlivened the long winter nights. Its
arrival...in late autumn, always cans-•
ed. every 'member of the family to
gathers round the kitchen stove, where
someone, reading aloud, would make
bedtime come all too soon. Then, as
if to add to, the attraction, it was
replete with illustrations of a miscel-
laneous character—likenesses of per-
sons who had been cured of divers
diseases, signs of the zodiac and
drawings of celebrated stack animals.
Animals, perhaps naturally enough,
came into our lives then more closely
than they come now. For the arrival
of Is new calf, the swarming of bees
and the killing of pigs were events
of capital importance. Everybody
knew that the man blundered who
killed for meat when the moon was
on the wane, and yet how could any
man forecast the waning or the wax-
ing without consulting the almanac?
Then, too, it gave us a feeling of sat-
isfaction, even of security, to hbe ad-
vised that the new year would begin
with cold weather, • heavy snow-
storms and high winds. These con-
ditions alinost invariably would be
followed by a January thaw and con-
sequent exposure of the fall wheat
to ruinous frost.
Fall wheat, one must recall, was a
factor of grave concern throughout
the whole year. The precise time for
seeding never was a certainty, but its
calculation was assisted greatly by
reference to the almanac. Then there
was the constant probability of grain
being pipped by frost before being
covered by the mothering coating of
snow. And, having been amply cov-
ered early in December, .italways was
reassuring to read in the almanac
that there would be a steady winter,
hard and unrelenting, with plenty of
snow until well into the month of
March.
March, of course, ever has been a
very uncertain month. But we be-
lieved, . and we had witnesses to
strengthen our belief, that if it
should come in like a lamb it would
go out like a lion. ,Coming in like a
lamb was pleasant enough for the
time being, because we relished the
first breath of spring, but the change
to the lion caused forebodings and
many prophecies of damage to ten-
der growths. Still, we had the alma-
nac as a 'guide; and, even if the
worst came to the worst, it was with
no slight sensation of relief that we
knew just what was going to happen.
Here and there, as is always the case,
could be found doubting Thomases,
but most of us ,believed the almanac
and could produce penof that, year
in and year out, it generally, as the
blacksmith said, •hit the nail en the
head. Of course, as to the sun, the
noon, the stars, the tides and all such
revolutions of nature, we knew that
the almanac was, mathematically,
correct. And we had the gratifica-
tion of knowing something of the
Roman indiction, the Dqminical let-
ter, the solar cycle, thi epact, and
the Julian period. ,We ciuld tell also
to the very hour•when the sun would
enter Aries, when he would enter
Cancer, when he would enter Libra,
and when he would enter Capricornus.
And, as matter perhaps of more im-
portance to us, we could refer to the
almanac as final arbiter whenever any
argument arose as .to the date of
Ash Wednesday, Easter Sunday, All
Saints' Day or the feast of Corpus
Christi,
Argument was one -of eur chief
forms of entertainment. We would
argue as to the qualities and .peculi-
arities of anything and everything.
It .might be the weather, the crops,
the strength of Jack Lamb against
the strength. of Joe Hans, the chances
for an early election, the qualities of
"John A." over the qualities of Blake.
And if we couldn't arrive at a settle-
• rent by reference to. the almanac
we wouldadjourn sine die. For we
had the •inherent pertinacity of the
Scot who confessed that he might be
convinced if he could find the man
who could convince him. It was like
another'Scot, an old, man wholay on
hie deathbed, with friends and rela-
tives gathered round for the dlasolu-
tion.
"Would you lake us to ay for
you. Sandy?" asked the minister.
"Naw."
"Would you like ens to sing one of
. the \ Psalms?" -
even after all doctors bad foiled. And
to- prove it, there were: aiker}essei of •
men and women and children who
had been rerbored to health, as well
ai„their testimonials, which were set
dQwn so that even 'those who ran
might _read.
Reading Was believed in those days.
Joe Hasp, after quietly trying the
hair tonic on his bald plate, read hili -
self into buying a bottle of the other
remedy in hopes of curing his back-
ache. The result. was ; miraculous.
One bottle so completely cured him
that he got drunk and sent a tintype
of himself to the proprietors of the
remedy, telling them at the same
time of what had been done for him
and acknowledging regret that he
hadn't some other ailment so'that he
could make a further test of their
wonderful ,medicine.
The news of Joe's cure inspired
Henry -Perkins to try the remedy on
his dyspepsia. He had tried every-
thing he had ever heard of from
starvation to condition powder, with
only indifferent success. put this
new remedy, right from the start, and
notwithstanding the fact that Henry's
complaint was chronic, seemed to put
new life into him. Mrs. Perkins said
that she was ashamed, especially
when company came. to see him eat.
Still, it took six bottles to make hire
feel satisfied that- he was completely
cured. After that, on his own'avowal,
he could eat raw onions, fried ham,
and mince pie without turning a hair.
He could drink tea, coffee, milk, or
even communion wine, and never feel
it. Gas no longer troubled him. And
it was a relief to everybody to see
him sit in church without belching.
He became so fat he had to buy a
new suit of clothes, and the celluloid
collar he had worn every Sunday for
years had to be put carefully away
against the terrible possibility of his
turning thin again. That contingency
however, never happened. But some-
thing perhaps worse aesthetically did
happen. Por as Henry waxed his
wife waned. And argue as much as
he dared and refer to the almanac as
much as he Gould, Henry found it im-
possible to induce his wife to try the
remedy. For Mrs. Perkins contend-
ed that there comes a change in
every person's life, that to interfere
with the processes of nature is to go
against nature. Nevertheless She re
engined wonderfully cheerful and sang
in the choir until within two Sundays
of the end. She died, poor thing, a
mere fraction of her former rotundity,
because, as we all knew, she would
not act in accordance with the in-
structions given in the almanac.
These instructions, everybody re-
marked, .seemed to have been put
there especially for Mrs. Perkins's
'benefit. And if she did not profit by
there her action was a timely warn-
ing for the whole community and an
absolute proof of the restorative
qualities of the remedy. . From that
time on everybody had faith, and it
really seemed as if there would be
in our village no demand for the doc-
tor. Of course, the almanac did not
claim that the remedy would reset a
broken bone or extract a tooth, and
for that reason, one must suppose,
the doctor stuck to it, until new ail-
ments appeared, such ' as pleurisy,
pneumonia, ce-e bral meningitis and
appendicitis, ailments that seemed to
require something more drastic than
merely a few drops of laiquil taken
internally. ,
Liquid was the form to which, as
was natural, so it seems, we liked to
receive our remedies, for we had no
faith in external application or the
laying on of hands. We believed that
there was in existence somewhere,
even if the almanac had not discov-
ered it, a real panacea, a panacea
that could be bottled up.and sent to,
the four corners of the earth.
One of these corners, I might
claim with appropriate modesty, was
our village. For it seemed to be on
the enter edge of everything, and
could get into touch 'with the rest of
the world only by means of great
agencies, of which, it ..is well to ac-
knowledge. the almanac was not the
least. And the almanac, quite apart
from its original -purpose, gave many
hints of great value in everybody's
daily routine. Who, for instance, if
•he did not read it in the almanac,
could know that in sewing it rests
one to change one's position frequent-
ly? Or who could imagine that a
bag of hot lartd will relieve neural-
gia 7 Then, again, how delicious are
young green onion% eaten with bread
and butter at breakfast! But, oh, the
consequences!' 'Nevdrthelags iwe ate
fttaeely of them, for the almanac in-
formed ue that a cupful of strong
coffee would remove the odor. The
arkxas+nac- told us also that oatmeal
thickens water and lightning sours
ani I't - told us that castor nil
-night be taken internally or used for
greasing the buggy. It told us that
mud relieves a bee citing and that.
cobweb Will atria 'cleeding. It gave
good advice, snobs mite go to bed when
sleepy, to eat when hsangry, td use
warm borax for revenging dandruff
and not to sot spitefully towards •one's
neighbors.
Neighbors used adddaSttbries to *merle
epirbe by borrowing '� fwd
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17, 1922.
E. Mother 1 Be 'Careful 1 Unless you stop at once we are Both- Ruined
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as that was unpardonable. For
withot?t the almanac how was one to
know the significance of Gemini, Leo,
Sagittarius,- Aquarius, Taurus, Virgo,
and 5copio? How was one to know
the dates of the festivals and anni-
versaries? Could one guess as to the
probable appearance of the morning
and the evening stars, the recurrences
of the tides and the several changes
of the moon? No. For these things
were determined for us, tet down in
proper order, in the yellow -covered
booklet that hung from the nail driv-
en into ,the outer end of the cupboard.
—By Newton MacTavish, in The
Canadian Magazine.
A REPLY TO FIFTY-FIFTY
March 14th, 1922.
Dear Expositor:
I scarcely know what heading to
give this unless the above, or call it
a reply to the reply to the article on
the meat by-law, which appeared in
The Expositor of March 3rd. In this
I am not going to dip my pen in
human blood or bitter gall. After
the personal abuse by the writer of
that so called reply, he may expect
me to come back in kind. Perhaps I
night paraphrase the expression of
my moldattitude in the following
lines:
A "Is there anything at all, At all
that we could do for you?"
"Na',''
fllhen ' for a .minute Or two there
was deep silence.
V
" ee1," said Sandy, breaking die
tenslton "If ye''re in the mood for it,
ye. adrift argie a bit."
,Slire- almanac' was useful in
Other ways. For it told bow to bean.
ti. the' complexion by mixing one'ew
e01an: balm and 'paw to re-
store�a lin ', hair by using a
hon a et aide It game "skiable
Stints for the of 2itla just
entering Dorf idea dter
I will not dip my pen in blood,
Nor yet in bitter gall,
For I can keep my temper cool •
And bad cuss words forestall.
Although in the defense of right
and juirtice it may sometimes be nec-
essary to say some rather harsh and
uncomplimentary things, I refuse to
take any part in personal abuse simp-
ly to hit back or get even; such abuse
does not usually make the fellow that
gets hit feel any better, nor does it
do any good to the fellow that throws
the stone. Now, before I say any-
thing about what is said in that so-
called reply, I wish to thank Fifty -
Fifty for the very high compliment
he paid me, in that he did not re-
fute, call in question or deny one
single thing that was said in the let-
ter to which he was replying. The
first statement in that reply is that,
"No one having replied to the attack
upon our council, the writer has taken
it upon himself to say a few words."
Now while it might possibly be said
that it was an attack upon the coun-
cil's action in regard to the meat by-
law, there was no general attack
upon the council. In the words, "No
one having replied," I would like to
inform the writer that he did not
wait to see whether anyone would
reply or not, for his reply was in the
very next issue of The Expositor.
Next, he says, "As a citizen he can -
rot understand why the most hard-
working of all our merchants should
be singled out to share the abuse."
I presume in this he meant the but-
chers, for he goes on to say that the
meat retailer's hours are long, the
work laborious and disagreeable. Now
although some things were said about
the prices and profits in the meat
business, there was no general abuse
of butchers. He then says he is for
the butchers. So ant I for a square
deal for the butchers, or for anyone
else, but I am not for special by-
laws for the protection of the butcher
alone without any thought of other
merchants or the consuming public in
general, nor do I believe that one
hundred. per cent. on a turnover is a
legitimate profit.
However, if any injustice or wrongs
were done the Seaforth butchers, I
would be just as ready in my very
weak way to come to their defense
as to the defense of the Egmondville
butcher for the farmers. Next the
writer launches into a sort of general
lambasting of that class of human
who assumes to dictate what is, or is
not, best for the other fellow. When
we express our views on matters of
public concern, it is -by no means as-
suming to dictate --the thing is so
ridiculous that it needs no eomment.
He then goes on to class me with
non-,producing do-nothrmg class.
I think that I quite agree with him
in regard to those who do not and
will not work, for I do not believe
that well, strong, able-bodied snen
have any business to continue is
idleness. I was brought up on a
farm about five miles from Seaforth,and .'for the last thirty years I have
been in the West and have worked
bard all my life. •I venture to say
that dew people of my�age in Sea -
forth or the Townehtlp of Tueker-
smith • have done snore hard work
than t This slant becomes• the snore
1 . when I comfier the very
i
those Wbta bed,
artrsar ylfidd aetiteoting to tetura tt....., tlbAit
laborious work Fifty -Fifty is engag-
ed in. I hope -he enjoyed this as
Much as I have done, for I have had
many a good smile since I read his
reply, the smile sometimes becoming
almost audible. Fifty -Fifty was the
more justified if he read what I once
said in a letter about the people who
will not woi.k, but he should have
made sure that I belonged to that
ciao before he -fired his run. Then
had he thought how unfair it would
have been for me • to cone, here and
go to work and take a job away•from
those who live here continuously, es-
pecially at a time like this when work lighted to step into the ring, but as
is scarce. I have been here for the soon as aifyone tries to discuss the
last six months doing very little; am
.tot going to give any reasons or'ex-
cuses for this prolonged idleness, but
will say that severaldoctors. includ-
ing one of -the doctors of Seaferth,
have tried for years to persuade me
to take out a life membership in the
de -little never -sweat club, hut as soon
as my present temporary or honorary
membership expires, I expect to drop
out of the club and again join the
ranks of those who earn their bread
by the sweat of their brow. I in-
tend to drop out of this club if my
physical condition ,permit-, 'because side is trying p eir own
the rules and regulations of the club advantage. Whenever those engag-
do not quite coincide with my views
of man's duty and responsibility.
I was in this country in the year
1917 during hay and harvest time and
worked out in the country tight
through the harvest, in fact it was
very largely for that purpose that I
came here that summer, when men
were so scarce on account of the war.
I am of the opinion that• I can yet
pitch h,ay very much better than I
can push a pen. In Fifty -Fifty's re-
ply he goes on to say, "They (le not
work, they 'own' for a living." Now,
if he had said of me chat I tramp
for a living he would have been muchri
more nearly right, for dung the last
six months my wife and I have been
going all over, village, town and
country, and believe me we have been
living high. The young roosters, tit
for the pot. ;tiniest die with fright
when they see us coming. The ladies
of the land use lots of shortening.
but they are never short of pies, If
Fifty -Fifty would go out with -us. ami
enjoy the bounties of country life he
might not be quite so abusive of
those who own a dollar or two. Then
the writer goes'on with a sweeping
statement toward the close of his re-
ply, something like 11 following:
"And because their species is multi-
plying so fast, the red blood in the
arteries of the two m f=t productive
nations the Creator ev. r bequeathed
to Aman, is being sucked white and
dry." Then he suggests that J. A.
L. turn his attention t'1 a discussion
of the crisis this condit i+ , is bringing
about. Now I will have 'o admit that
r- must be thick headed and dull in
the comprehension, fie. I could not
catch the drift, so I to it to others
for an interpretation. Some, like
myself, were unable 1., solve the
mystery, but some said the interpre-
tation was that, their species meant.
the captalistts, and that the two pro-
ductive nations meant the United
States and Canada, or the United
States and Britain, and that he was
referring to the seemingly ever in-
creasing struggle and trouble be-
tween Capital and Labor. If, this be
the correct interpretations 1 agree
with the writer that there is cer-
tainly a great field for the right
person to direct his attention toward,
but it has been a fight for years and
will, perhaps, be a fight for years to
come, If I were suf'ei ntly intel-
lectual, diplomatic and literary pug-
ilistic to have any hopes of striking
a Jcnock-out blow, or even a good
heavy body blow, I wound be de -
matter in a fair and impartial way
to .both Capital and Labor he is shot
full of +holes from both sides. The
best that most people have been able
to do in this fight, is to run in and
take a side swipe at the monster
problem, then back out and go for
cover. I will just say that not being
endowed with the necessary educa-
tional and other qualifications to
tackle the fob, I will have to leave
to another the opportunity of be-
coming world famous by straighten-
ing out the tangled ropes that each
to ull to th
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TUESDAY, MARCH 21st, 1922
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annce pedlaep , vote eft you tray. 130,, Ai those who ere'lookin'g. out
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I' do wart ca,ce to say more either •
about that reply or the by-law, but
will gladly stop ,now and lee►ve'itt With
the people. The farms seem to be
delighted, also Many of the' citizens
of Seaforth and several of the mer -
cheats. and business; people: have 'ex-
pressed their approval and p1easurre.
However, if Fifty-'F5ifty feels that he
must say more I have not .the slight-
est
objection, fpr I believe that every
•man has not only a right •to hie own
opinions hat also a perfect right to
express them, and I am not like a
poor fellow that cannot take a knock
out blow and come back. Perhaps
after my challenger gets through with
me I will know myself better than
I have before, and be able more
clearly "ta see myself as ;there see
me. I wish to say before closing,
that I question the right of any man
to indulge in such unfounded, as well
as confounded personal abuse through
the public press and not sign his true
,name or true initials. If Fifty -Fifty
was a pen name, under which the
writer had been writing, I should
say then that he would be quite with-
in his rights to so sign himself, but
I have failed to .find that this is the
case. Inasmuch as he -has appatient-
ly seers fit to try to conceal his ident-
ity, it would not be gentlemanly,
courteous or kind of me to bawl him,
out as the saying is.
Now, +Mr. Editor, 'I feel that it is
imposing on good nature to ask you
to give this space in your paper, for
it has very little bearing on my let-
ter of t o weeks ago, and can scarce-
ly be c ed a reply, for I felt that
there was very little to reply to and
have treated it very much as a joke
or in a joking way, and I hope the
reading public will not mob me for
my wanderings.
Yours respectfully,
J. A. U
ed in the struggle are willing to do
to theother fellow as they would
that he should do unto them, there
will be very little to settle. I have
very little use for the Capitalist who
is willing -and anxious to accumulate
wealth by fair means or foul, caring
not how much he crushes or oppress-
es the laboring man or his family.
But I have no quarrel with the man
of means who has acquired his wealth
through industry, thrift and econ-
omy. Many a man who has acquired
a competence, had no better chance
in his youth than the rest of us,
many of whom are always ready to
throw stones at him simply because
he has a few dollars- I once said
some pretty severe thing about Capi-
talism and Graft in The Expositor,
and I meant every word of it, but
labor is also badly at fault in their
attitude toward capital and in too
many eases they fail to apply them-
selves in a way that will better their
condition. Some men put in too
many hours spitting fire and not en -
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with only one hand." Said Ned,
"That's nothing; Nelson had only
one leg and one arra and one eye,
and be won great victories, why
shouldn't I?"
I snow admit my mistake ;in saying
that this ' would be a severe winter.
I also had * of a pound'of candy
on the the last' Damkuion
election, and> ; of.couree,
I win a bet f ter get it, and
I lose, I sometimes .;ps.y.
FROM AN OLD McKILLOP
CORRESPONDENT
Toronto, March lith, 1922.
Dear Expositor:
I will just mention a few of the
many things transpiring here. A
temperance gathering has been hold-
ing meetings as a convention, at
Massey Hall. Ben Spence and some
others waited on Premier Drury with
a request that native wines be pro-
hibited and •that the strength of beer
he reduced to one per cent. spirit.
The Premier said he would do noth-
ing one way or another with the act,
but would leave it all with the peo-
ple. At one of the meetings the
management announced that they
were in fifteen thousand dollars debt,
and made an appeal for funds, which
was received in silence.
A short time ago Bishop Fallon,
of London, gave an address in Mas-
sey Hall on the subject of Separate
School Grants. Since that a number
of the clergy, as well as others in
position here, have been combatting
his arguments and picking holes in.
his address. My advice to all con-
cerned is, for goodness' sake, quit;
thin sort of bitter controversy between
religious groups cannot be produc-
tive of any good, and may result in
much evil.
There is a great deal of •humor in
the press as well as among the peo-
ple here, concerning the last night of
the session of 1921. The Evening
Telegram, which brings it up at the
end of every verse aiid calls it a
Wine Women and song Jamboree.
Some of the other newspapers say
wine women and whiskey would be
more appropriate. One i nformant,
w•he peeped into the room in the cast
end of the Parliament Buildings
where the spree was held, noticed
four U. F. O.'s, three Grits, and one
Tory. These stayed around pretty
steady, others came and went, stayed
long enough to get their bitters and
then hastened hack to the assembly
room to engage in making the coun-
try's laws. The informant. referred,
1 to also noticed three very pretty
girls, who slid not appear to be the
. least bit stingy about kisses. The
good time was held in the apartments
of the Provincial Treasurer, who rep-
resents my old native riding of South
Perth. "O dear! see whatyou have
brought on ns, Pete!" A fellow who
'takes a drink out of a bottle in a
lane is fined two hundred dollars, but
the fellow who drinks out of cut glass
in Queen's Park is whitewashed, or
winked at. This seems hardlIs fair.
e There have been a great number of
assignments and bankruptcy cases
here recently. Some of these have
been brought about by wild=cat specu-
lation and ventures, but the greater
number by buying extensively in a
rising market and trying to sell with
a slump on and a drooping market.
The somewhat notorious Ned Clark
has again been heard from in the
police court on the same gid charge
--drunk and disorderly, The magi-
strate wanted to know what was
wrong with his hand and arm wltioh
were bandaged. "Oh," said Ned, "I
hit a Yankee a clip for saying the
Yankees won the war, and your hon-
or, I Mt him good and hard. .1 don't
care," said Ned, "I Will lick any meas
who says the Yankees won the war."
sir,"
"i fa -said the magistrate, "that
you w> ii id not make Batt meth noe
J. J. I.
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Young LifeArmate - On Friday.
March 14th, the lam! six ntoatiall oM
son: of lir. and Mxw games O Rourike
ptaseed•"'away, the funeral b hold
to St. Piatriek's eeae;dtery, pan.
Muchis attended-' to the
bereaved
l'ersonal.---Mnr.Haar R. ,Brume
of New York city, and beeblether;
'Captain T. Earl Heron, of New,, GLae-
pow, days
w Hestia, are nd.ependi1 oh
few days with Mr. . and
Kerr, North Road. taT y are
natives of McKillop p and are
enjoying a Pleasant visit with old
friends. They are grandchildren of,
Mrs., D. MacDonald, formerly of thirdline; `McKillop, now residing in Ed -
Ironton, Alta.
BAYFIELD
Breezes.—Robert Murray attend-.
ed the Orange Convention at Sendai
last week—Mr. Glousher, of Godo -
rich, has moved to Mr. Dupee's house
and has opened a butcher shop is
part of John Tippet's shop. ..-- The
Lenten services -in Trinity cnureh are
proving very interesting and impres-
sive and will be held each Thursday
night.—Rev. Alfred Macfarlane at-
tended the Presbytery at London this.
week.—Mr. John Darrow, of Leek-
now, is visiting here.--iMrs. Goven-
lock, of Seaforth, who has been vie- .
iting her daughters Mrs. Ferguson,.
returned home Sunday-
Death
undayDeath of a Former Reeident. —The
death took place on Monday, Maroh
13th, at the home of ber sister Mrs.
Marjory Beacom, at Midland, ;Mich.,
of Jennie Erwin, a former well known
resident of Bayfield. Deceased has.
been away from Bayfield for about
ten years but spent some months
here about two years ago She had
been in poor health for several years
and had a stroke about Christmas -
and another about two weeks ago.
The funeral to* place from the home
of her .brother, A. E. Erwin, .oar
Thursday afternoon to Bayfield cem-
etery, Rev. S. Quinn conducting the
service. The pallbearers were Geo.
Ring, Thomas King, John Gairdner,
Henry Darrow, Wm. Fergueen- and
John Cameron. The remaining mem-
bers of the family are: Mrs. Beacom,
Midland, Mich.; Samuel, Mansalona,
Mich-; Thomas, Akron, Ohio; Robert,.
Toledo, Ohio; George, Prince Albert;
John, of Edmonton; Alfred and Henry
of Bayfield. Mrs. Beacom and Mrs.
Andrews accompanied the body here.
TUCKERSMITH
School Report. The following is•
the report of School Section No 3,
Tuckersmith, for the month of Febru-
ary: Entrance Class—Hazel Haugh
457, Ina Scott 436, Mae Simpson 430,
Lyla Chapman 420, Kathleen Elliott
375, George Munro 367, Wilson Mc-
Cartney 271. Jr. IV—+Fred Boyce
227, Lfonard McKnight 227, Lillian
Richardson 174, Clifford Broadfoot
157. Sr, HI—Helen Davidson 204,
Harold Armstrong 198, Clarence
Armstrong 194, Erma Broadfoot 191,
Wilson Broadfoot 180, Alice Munroe
179, Willie Scott 173, John Fother-
inghant 180, Ella Papple 127. Jr;
III—Gordon Papple 79, Jr. II—
Mary Papple 79, Marion Chapman
75, Dorothy Broadfoot 72, Mildred
Taylor 35. Sr. I—Murray Walters
86Jr. I. --John Broadfoot 46, Dor-
othy Wilson 45, Helen Munroe 44,
Greta Broadfoot 44, . Erma Walters
35, Ellen Mae Scott 35, Isabel Mc-
Knight 33, Clarence Taylor 12. Pr.—
Robert Papple 9. Number on roll for
February. 35; averac•e attendance,
10.15.--M. Wilk, Teacher.
Address and Presentation.—Ladies'
Aid No. 1, Egnrnndville, met lest
Tuesday afternoon at the home of
Mrs. George Dlgie, on the 2nd line,
this being the last meeting of which.
Mrs. H• M. Hamilton would be tires-
ent, as they intend moving into the
village in the near future. The ladies
tock this opportunity of presenting
her wi(.lh a beautiful leather bound
Book ((4f Praise. The address was
read by tee Secretary, Mrs. Thomas
Coleman, and the presentation made
by tire President, Mrs. George Elgie.
Mrs. Hamilton, although taken com-
pletely by surprise, very ably made a
suitable reply, thanking the ladies•
very much for the appreciation shown
toward her, and assured them she -
wonld never forget the happy meet-
ings she had with them. The fol-
lowine• is the address: "Dear Mrs.
Hamilton: The pleasant duty has
been assigned to us of presenting you
with this token, as an evidence of
our lasting esteem, friendship and
love. We could not consent to part
with 'you without leaving in
hands some,memorial however tr�,
of deep and +slbiding gratitude for
your increasing efilorts to besaeflt ns
while having the presidhip of
Ladies' Aid No. J, from the daze tt
was organised nnetil this year. When
in future days you look upon this
memento, lett tt be a pleasant token
of the deepest love, and r'eroarence of
onr Ladies' Aid and the happy meet-
ings
eetings we 'had together. Nor, In part-
ing with you, we al from 4n worisMng
you long 1106 and Itappiveeai ire► your
new Lome, and may`a r low be some
one elves gain. 1114.48 bibes-a-
the Ladies' Aid and k1.
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