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The Huron Expositor, 1923-05-25, Page 1u G tewart • Seasonable.. Specials At Attractive P i . •ices " READ OVER THE LIST OF• SPECIAL PRICES BELOW; THERE IS SOMETHING THAT YOU " WILL NEED, AND THE PRICES ARE VERY INVITING AND ADVANTAGEOUS. • Women's Vests Fine knit, with shoulder straps; good quality, size 3619 only. SPECIAL .. .... Extra quality vests with quar- ter sleeves or straps, full cut, neat trimmings• all sizes. SPECIAL ...... 25e ' Men's Underwear Fipe Balbriggan Underwear, elastic cuff on sleeve and draw, era; good summer weight, Siz- ea 34 to 44. • 75c SPECIAL Merino Underwear, mot-, . tied shade, Penman's make; union cotton. and wool; elastic cuff on drawers and shirt; good quality; full sizes, 34 $1.00 to 44. SPECIAL 1 Women's Hose Silk Hose, the greatest valfie yet; all the new shades, plain or fancy stripes, sizes 8 $1.00 ' to 10. SPECIAL Fine quality black, fast colors All sizes. 50c SPECIAL .•• - Boys' Cotton Hose Fines black ribbed, good weight; ei{cellent selmol stockings; good wear. Sizes 7% to e 29 la. SPECIAL Lt7 bra quality, .fine cotton rib- bed Stockings,in sizes 6 r/z, 7, 7'r, 8, 8i/a• Regular Mc value. SPECIAL33c h'xCra ilr�ality'silk• Lige, elastic tops, color and wear gu aranteed. SPECIAL.. 75c Black Cotton Hose in extra good values, full size and length; ribbed for children, or plain for women. All sizes. 25c SPECIAL Men's Overalls Black Denim with or without bib; blue and white stripe,' made with two seam leg; plenty of room, double stitched; built for wear, heavy material $135 SPECIAL Children's Dresses Best qualities of Gingham, good patterns and styles, well. made, very neat and attractive. Sizes 3 to 14 years. Regular up to $2.50. 98c SPECIAL ' Men's Work Shirts Made full size with yoke, double stitched, gusseted seams in Blacks, Black and White Cham- bray, Khaki, Oxford Stripes. Sizes 14toi17%. $1 25 SPECIAL • Heavy Denim r Just the weight and quality for men's overalls and smocks, plain blue and blue and white stripes; regular 60c quality. A few pieces to clear. SPECIAL 4 C Boys' Cotton Sweaters Goodweight, Tan, Brown, nal, fan Navy,.' color combinations. ' Sizes2to 32 SPECIAL 50�C Scotch Madras For Curtains in white or cream, full assortment of patterns; 36 inches wide,S SPECIAL 35e ' Men's Khaki Pants Well made, generously cut; five pockets, belt loops; made of Duck or Drill in various shades of Khaki. Sizes 32 $2,25 to 34. SPECIAL .... �D G Unbleached Cotton Eine even weave, in good weight and quality, extra value; 35 inches wide. ' SPECIAL c • Men's Fine Cotton Sox Brown, Navy, Grey, Black, fancy knit, elastic knit tops; excellent quality, dressy sox. Size 9% to 11. 35c SPECIAL .7::77 Women's Suits Here is an extra good bargain. We are going 'to clear 20 only Women's Suits, made of good Sergea, Tweeds, and Gaberdines in Black, Navy, : Brown and mixtures. These suits sold regularly for from $80 to $40, Sizes 8& to 48. • $14 95 SPECIAL s Men's Work Straw Hats wide or medium rims in canton or peanut straw. All aiQeCIAa. L, 15c t° 30c SPE I StewartBros. . _V THE LIBERAL CONVENTION AT- , x1ENSAL4 :. 1, • •• The Convention of the-Liberals'or Smith Huion field in t Tbwh Halt Hensall, on Friday afternoon of last week, 'was the largest' and most re, presentative of. any convention held in this historie riding in litany years. - Every .polling aubrdivision in the Riding was represented; and 'the un- bounded enthusiasm manifested by the delegates and. Members of the plrrty, augurs well for thesuccess of the candidate. The names of Weers, Hairy Smith,. of Hay Township; Richard Soldan, of Exeter; D. F. McGregor, of Tucker - smith; ]Mise L. Jekall, of Exeter; Owen Geiger, Reeve of Hensall; John Morgan slid Thomas G. Sbillinglaw, of Tuekerenlith, were proposed. All withdrew excepting Messrs. Seldan, Shillinglaw and McGregor. On the first' ballot Seldan dropped mit.' On thc second ballot McGregor received a majority. Mr. D. F McGregor, the nominee, is one of the best knovun and most popular municipal Clerks in the county., He was born in Stanley Township, and after graduating from the Collegiate Institute, taught school for some years in Hay, but for four- teen years he has been the efficient Clerk of Tuckersmith Township, in which township he also owns and op- erates a farm. Mr. McGregor is a man of exceptional good business ability and has acted at different times as .county auditor. John Morgan, former candidate, acted as chairman, while Thomas G. Shillinglaw acted as secretary. Major J. C. Tolmie, the speaker of the afternoon, declared much of the legislation put through by the U.F.O. had been Reform party legislation. He thought the Farmer Government should have carried on until the end of its term. All the nominees pledged their support to the candidate. A resolution of confidence in the King Government was passed. • THE CONSERVATIVE CONVENTION At the South Huron Conservative Association Convention, held in Hen - sail on Thursday of last week, Mr. N. W. Trewartha, of Goderich township, was chosen to carry the Conservative standard at the forthcoming provin- cial election. Ten names were put in nomination, but all withdrew except N. W. 'Trewartha, William Consitt, Hay Township, and WIllbtint >;lliott of Stephen. Oh the - first and only ballot Mr. Trewartha had ten ajor- ity over the combined vote Mr. Elliott and Mr. Consitt. Those who did not allow their names to go to the ballot were Henry H. Eilber, ex-M.P.P., Crediton; Henry Horton, Herisall; Fred Ellerington, candidate in 1919; J. J. Merner, ex -M. P., Seaforth; W H. Cobb, Goderich Township; David Cantelon, Clinton, and Alex. Neeb, Stephen. The nominee was for seven years clerk of Goderich,Township, then four years its reeve, and in 1922 warden of Huron. He is a high schen] graduate with commercial training,'and taught school for some years, but his voca- tion is agriculture, and he operates two farms, one on the Huron Road west of Clinton, and the other on the ninth concession of Goderich Town- ship. Some time ago he took over the former Government poultry sta- tion at Holmesville. Charles G. Middleton, Goderich Township, was re -ejected president. George C. Petty, of Hensall, continues as secretary -treasurer of the associa- tion. Other officers and representa- tives of municipalities named were: Ilonor' r presidents, H. H. Eilber and Rend', Horton; Auditors, H. H. Sillier, Ushorne..township; Richard. Coates and Thomas Hurikin, Stephen; Alex. Neeb and Henry Eilber, Hay; W. H. Consitt anti Harry Neeb, Stanley; D. McNaughton and John McKinley, Bayfield;. William Stinson and Robt. McMurray, Goderich; N. W. Trewar- tha and Fred Middleton, Tuckersmith; John Moffat and 'Lewis Clark, Hen- sall; G. C. Petty and Robert Higgins, Exeter; Will Carling and Charles Sanders. 'the facts. , Latter on in the session', Hie Premier, giving; namesof those .c Mr.'lrurl, ,stated his office and cut Al! the names rot, g days of attacked the a caucus and at which,' e to resign e Cabinet. given were .present; except one ' 'Ma e men, too; indignant and disgas wait until the business of tiro ''o a was over, immediately left ',Belt Beata,`leaving the. Government "early on" as best they could. th;depleted "mem- here the party plet;,ig4z;caucus and again passed a strong;• ;worded reso- lution, condemning Hi attack and statements, emphasizg the fact that his report of`tittit caucus wad` deliberately false and far from the facts of the case. And according to press reports, at nearly?. every U.F.O. Convention, he has been branded as a political mounteback.bY his fellow members.• Has he the nerve toask ua to elect him to represent us again? We are sure he has, notwithstanding the fact there are many 'meq, in the South Huron U. F. O. of -intelligence and principle, men that can. be trusted and will be a credit to us. Why did Windy Andy do what he did? Several reasons'; are given, When you listen to hint styling him- self as the Premier's "trusted lieu- tenant," or second in' coli nand, it is easy to believe that he aimed for leadership of our party. Trusted lieutenants are usually:' given the leadership when the lea$ers will not, or can not, lead say longer. We have not forgotten the time ' Windy Andy made sontlie wild state- menta ata picnic,. and when called to account he blamed the wind. But it was his own wind that got him in- to the muddle and Mao, got him out of it again, but we doubt if he has wind enough left. to get' him out of this muddle. We think he'll need to rent a southern cyclone to lift him out this time. IL F. O. lissomeVery high,fro heavy rains and .snow found the' water `was ,�, Barr • attempted to tarn ,,and go'biac e, but the a was' Strong' u s a o e o ' ea'' the 'Wagon, and. hogs and Men Were thrown into the strewn Harris man aged to to hold on the terra with the linee 'which saved .biro'' from being, carted "down -stream Faucett ' was. ,castic& down stream for, snout 40 rods before he was descued in an al- most exhausted condition. Harris got one horse out, but the other one was drowned, as well as four of the rs p •This .happened just, as the 10.80 train from Buffalo was in, and the Oat was witnessed by a large num- ber. Those who could go rushed to the unfortunate men and rendered assistance, �'•;alwa sour,y hie d peetC 13hl� reap 1 f'kiendu In cat 'with re of gT9t s r'week he super of.lines. at, lbs , 3r 'disastrous fe in fru flames had Only' been p :titled he managed to holm' temporary, line and within a erw hours after the start of the. lire he had establitihed the that communica- tion with the Outside world. He lied remained at that village until service was restored and wentlast week to Exeter. Ii' A particularly sad feature of .the; 'accident is the fact that the deceased was only married six months age to One Solid Hour.iof meat and TWO FARMERS HAVE CLOSE CALL About 10.30 Friday morning two young men, Harold Harris and Thos. Faucett, from • Fullerton township, came near being drowned while at- tempting to cross the River Thames, south of the CC N. R. traqlcs, Mitchell. Harris was bringing AVM live hogs to town for J. E. Walker, a butcher, and Faucett was riding to town with him. Ih order .to take a near cut they attempted to cross the river and come. through ,,ti[e.-ardhwaydg` the C. N. R. track, but. got Igo "difficulties' when they got into the river, which ELECTROCUTED AT EXETER When a telephone wire, which he was stringing across the main street at the village of Exeter, became en- tangled in some way with a high tension hydro wire, William Mailing, an. employee of the local Bell Tele- phone, met instant death by electro- cution about 11 o'clock Friday morn- ing The voltage of electricity was car- ried with such velocity that young Mailing dropped without the slightest warning from the pole on which he was working. It was thought by those ,who witnessed the accident that he had merely lost his foothold. Medical aid was at once summoned but a cursory examination revealed the fact that it was electrocution and not the fall that had killed Mailing. Whether or not an inquest will be held has not 'yet been definitely de- cided. The ,cause of death was quite evident, buin view of the fact that the accident occurred within a block' of a\similar fatality in which a Bell Telephone lineman lost his life just two years ago, it may be necessary to make an inquiry into the circum- stances. Young Mailing had of late resided in London, operating under the super- vision of the local branch of •the Bell Telephone Company. He was an ex- pert telephone lineman, having been engaged in the work since leaving , school. Prior to being transferred to the London offices some months ago, he was engaged in expert work at the St. Thomas exchange, and in the sur- rounding district. He was well known throughout Western Ontario, for his work had brought him in contact with I citizens in the majority of mpniei- palitieS in the territory covered by both London and St. Thomas offices. Miss Annie Fleming, a St Thomas girl. He was in his 80th-yeagr •Sind prior to going to London he h"d.epent most of his life in St. Thomas and vicinity, A BAND OF BROTHERS • The old-timer will recall a peculi- arity of the old Seaforth band—it was composed mainly pf brothers. Three of John Kidd's, (the tinsmith's) boys, Jack, Andrew and Aleck; two Carmichael's, Bob and Billy; two Sooles, Charlie and Tom; two Jor- dans, Tom and Jack; the others were Pete Dailey, Levi Lattimer,, Bob Campbell and navid John Foster. Charlie Fitzer,'known as the profes- sor, was leader There were no reed instruments in the band -`--all brass and drums. A man named Holland, was the leader when we first came to Seaforth. He departed and then ap- peared the Professor, and a good scout he' was. My first recollection of the reconstructed band was a Sat- urday night in early summer. Sea, fcrth was a far more densely popu- lated town than it is to -day. The town and Egrpendville and Harpur- hey would muster a population ex- ceeding 3,500. Of course, every one and his gill, and those who didn't have girls, and girls who didn't have fellara, and dad, mother and the kids were out to hear them perform. Charlie Fitzer wore long black curly hair, a plug ' hat and black clothes—a good dresser. By trade a cigar maker, he came from some- where up in Michigan around Grand Rapids. But he had a sort of a. Southern accent. I believe he origin- ated somewhere. in the old Sunny South. This Saturday night the band passed favorable inspection from the gathered.throng—for Charlie tilted -the bell of cornet skywards 'and madeit say something: -It was as a violinlist, the professor was all -to the good. He was a real per- former. At the shows in the then new Cardno's• Hall, the orchestra fill- ed in admirably. I can see him still making the bow go some in the Grand Duchess Quadrills. Of course, we kids with true town pride, thought Gcderich and Clinton and Mitchell were on the blink in a band way. And we'd scrap and argue about our band; the other towns were nowhere. A favorite tune with Charlie was "safe in the Arms of Jesus," the well. .known hymn. I don't know why, for the professor was not what one would say 'religious. Still, he was what you'd call a fair every -day man of good habits. • Strange how a single incident will fasten itself in one's mind, and will he retained through the years. Sonic big gun was coming to town, and the band practised "God Save the Queen." The first public attempt was a howl- ing and squawky success, but not musical, The time was too slow. I recollect they tried it out first down near the railroad track on a warm summer's night. The professor was absent this night. The run in the second part strangled the cornets The effect was something like a squawk from a goose that was under the death sentence. "Hully gee," said a visiting kid from Goderich, "that bend can't play God Save the Queen yet." And he had to make tracks. For the town kids showed such signs of belligerency that he concluded he was not safe. and the faster he ran, the faster the hunch followed, bawl- ing him out and presenting him with Irish confetti to heat the band. It's a virtue possessed by Seaforthites to the present day, "No town like the old town, our town.''' The hand progressed. The last time I saw the old hunch was in June, 1557, the golden jubilee of Queen Victoria. They were Gazetted regi- mental hand of the :33rd regiment but a short, time before. The red tunics fitted some of them like the paper on the wall, and the trousers ditto, which means that the uniform was made for someone else than the wearer. Sergt. Edward Hallett was drum major. It was easy for the practised eye to tell that the sergeant was late of the British army. Tunic and trousers Spic and span, boots al- so, clean shaven, tidy and' trim, like a Guardsman en parade. Sergt Hal- lett wielded the drum -major's staff, and kept step with the beat of the drum, only as an old soldier knows how. He had served with the 9th regiment in the Crimea war. The bib were known as the "Holy Boys." When leaving England kind-hearted ladies had presented the men with Bibles. Touching at Gibraltar on the way out, the Books were traded to enterprising dealers for packs bf pitying cards. Hence "The Holy Boys," That June day the band marched to Victoria Square where the Seaforth company of the 83rd fired the salute. The band had learn- ' ed how to play "God Save the Queen." It may be news to those not versed j1$ZRGVRE' ACR RIOS OUT. OtdvP -� (REPRESENTATIVES OF SOUT11 HURON, PAST AND PRESENT When looking back over the re- presentativds of South Huron in the past and present, one naturally turns to the revered memory of the late M. Y. McLean, Editor of The Huron Expositor, that tireless worker for church and state. One knew also what to expect from Honest John McMillan, intelligent Henry Elber, and if J. J. Merner did not set the world on fire, at least he conducted hi pself With dignity and common sense. Ijtit what can we say of Windy Andy Hicks, discredited and disowned' by all loyal members. of the U. F. O.:"Government, and they are all loyal except one or possibly two? When Hicks threw his' bomb—his Conservative friends knew all about that .beim!) and home of the Conserve -t tive papers, announced its coming several days ahead, and one wonders why he anomie them to publicly claim him the.Way they db—the U. F. O. memberSNaniik immediately and pass- ed a leaeltttion expressing every confidence in the honor and honesty of their leader,Hon. t. C. Drury, and stated that Hrcks' attack on biro was wholly undeservedand unwarranted, or, in other words, his statements were absolutely false and far from 0 • • t • 0 .f • • U 1 • You owe it to yourself to sea the gree.test heart - drama of a decade -- A policeman nod his wife and their two Soya — simple -kindly For k — caught 'amid the cruel onrush of Fate and swept, along to the Dawn of Enduring Flap' Dineen. • t STOOD HOW YORt( on ITS New°. FOR. ONE $01.10 MONTH 0.31 Shows Saturday Evening — 7.45 p.m., and 9.30 p.m. Adults 20c. Don't Miss It Children 10c Dr. Simon Flinch. ' specialist of t'he' Roc +Irl says: Laughter is the Ates tonics. N s dm* remedy the sick, the near sick, and healthy. There's a dry -as -dust re son why you should ''" FOR YOUR HEALTH '' FOR YOUR HAPPINESS eels "BR. JACK," the 'that rocking the World from the N Pole to the South. Here Thursday, Friday$ Saturday.: Matinees 8.15 'p.m. ,Victoria Day and Saturday. Evenings, 20e and 1,5g .,i.; Afternoons, The and lOs1' k$eIi PRINC in military lore to learn that the 83rd: regiment of the line was the Duke of Wellington's old corps. A very amusing thing happetidi one summer's evening when the than, Capt Alex. Wilson was dsi the awkward squad on the banks very Creek, close by' the old' . The squad were real "bay -a st a footers," save two, George. Watson and Walt Cardin). These were-" dote ,. the pivots, right and 'left. The squad did not seem to hear the, command* of the captain, but had an eye on George and Welter. Whatever these two veterans did, the others did like- wise. Finally, after a half hour drill, Capt. Wilson commanded' "Stand at ease." • The hay -foot -straw -footers had an eye out for the move.Georgi Watson turned right-abo, ut--face. Everyone of the squad did the ,same. George's broad smile caught the',. on - Junior W. F. BRUSSELS vs. BRUCEFIELD MONDAY, MAY 28th At Brucefield. Come and help the youngsters along. Admission, 125c and 15c. lookers, and all laughed heartily at the one the veteran had put -over the hay -and -straw -footers. Heck, you should have seen how they got mixed up in the feet: Can't stop laughing now at that bit of comedy of the long ago. I've let the blame old corncob go out. Couldn't raise' a whiff if I had a mustard plaster on the back of my neck. So long BILL POWELL. McKILLOP North End Notes. --Colds are again prevalent owing to the unseasonable weather.—A few from Toronto have been on the rounds with an assort, ment of men's clothing. I wonder does he pay his license. He says he does, but that is mighty poor proof. —The pastures are very good con- sidering the kind of weather we have had. --We feel saddened on account of the death of Alexander Gardiner and Michael Wall, two cheerful and companionable men. We extend our sympathy to all their relatives. They arr dead, but not forgotten. Coming to Egmondville Church ON FRIDAY EVENING JUNE 1st Kippen Dramatic Club the Kippen Dramatic Club of 2$ Characters will put on the play en- titled, "The Young Village Doctor." This flay was put on in Kippen late* ly to a capacity housemany not be- ing able to gain admittance. They will be here on Friday Er1>- ing, June 1st. .e ADMISSION - - - 26.Olintay,'