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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1923-08-03, Page 1CLOTHING :._ That Will Live tip to -:Our Guarantee and Your pectation` We ne*r ; sold t Men's Clothing with greater confi- dence irl its ability to give the maximum of satisfac- tion. l9; Every suit in our nlense new stock hasbeen selected with the greatest care from the foremost clothing manufacturers of Canada. The new patterns y i are a revelation of the skill of the modern designer, the colprings include the best shades of grey, brown, navy and fancy Ijxtures. The linings are of a high stand- , and; and the price is the very lowest, consistent with dependable clothing. We are proud of these New Suits; we are anxious tp show them. PRICES $15 to $35 HOME GARDEN CON The following is a list of those who took part in the. teat for Huron County, 'organized by, Mr. 8. B. Ste Representative for the County. The prize aauoney amounted to $10, in each class, distil - 64; 2nd, ivtil64;.2nd, Pi 3rd, $2; 4th, $1. The winners . in each 'District werei North Huron. Melvin Buhrew, Clifford George Sholdlce, Brussels Nerve! Petrick, Gorrie. Loretta Meyers, Dungannon. Contestant NORTH HURON. Address Melvin Buhrew R. R. No. 2, Clifford George Sholdice R. R. No: 3, Brussels Norval Pocock R. R. No. 1, Gorrie Loretta Meyers Dungannon Mildred Howard Brussels Helen Fowler Lucknow Jean Holishouer Auburn Doris Eibben Lucknow, Willie Gray Fordwich Gertrude Fol.' R, R. No. 3, Goderich Edna Wallace R. R. No. 2, Clifford Dave' Murray Walton Kenneth Jackson Walton Lillian Dalton Dungannon Charlie Weymouth Londesboro ldith Jacklin Bluevale Earl Drennan Lucknow Margaret Sullivan Dungannon Elizabeth O'Conner Goderich Mary Little Londesboro Thomas O'Neil Goderich Dune. McKay Kintail Elva McKay R. R. No. 2, Bluevale Jack Wilson Fotdwich Summer Under wear. Men's Balbriggan elastic knit, cuffs on sleeves and drawers. 75e All sizes Men's Balbriggan Underwear, best Egyptian thread; well made, gener- ously'cut. - All sizes Boys' Balbriggan elastic knit, cuffs on sleeves and drawers. All sizes-- .. Boys' Combinations in Nainsook or Balbriggan, an excellent value Men's Combinations, all sizes, in white or natural shade. All sizes, Price ...,,, ....$1,50 to $2,00 Luella Powell Marion Turnbull Goldwin Smith Ruth Turnbull Edith Sweitzer Elea noVM Ewan Edwin Cartright George Potter Laura Currie Mabel Corey Clarence Perdue Jim Ross Stewart Keys Mervyn Barkin Edgar Smith Hugh Radford Rebecca Lewis Alfred Evans Dorothy Stirling Pears Webb Helen Ratcliffe Elgin Porter Clarence Ball SOUTH HURON Clinton R. R. No. Clinton R. R. No, Crediton Clinton Londesboro Clinton Clinton R. R. No. 6, Clinton Clinton R. R. No. 2, Goderich Varna Clinton Varna Londesboro Centralia Clinton Clinton Grand Bend R. R. No. 3, Exeter R. R. No. 2, Goderich Clinton -Came to THS 0441I E'N .PARTY en J. W. Elliatt'e Lawn BRUCEFIELD FRIDAY EVN'G, AUGUST 10 Seaforth Kiltie Band and others will entertain you. Tea served from 6 to 8 o'clock. ADMISSION -40c and 25c. Towna&ip, Howiek Howicll Ashfield. Grey .._ Ashfield Hullett Ashfield Howiek Ashfield Howick Morris McKillop Ashfield. Ruliett Grey - Ashfield Ashfield Ashfield Hallett- - allett- Ashfield' Ashfield Grey - Aowiek 1, Dashwood 1, Dashwood Godericb Hay Hullett Hay Stephen Stanley Hullett Goderich Goderlch Goderich 89% Goderich 88 Goderidh 87% Stanley 87 Goderich 86% Stanley 86% Hullett 84 Stephen 82 erich Goderi81 SGodtephen 74i5 Usborne 72 Godericfi,ch 70 'Hamlett' 64' acknowledgemente of registered mails will be discarded. It is estimated that this alone will result in an an- nual saving of at least $50,000. C. O. D. Service. 91 A Post Office C. 0. D. Service was 9014 established in October last, and is 9o% providing an additional commercial s9% facility which business firms, par - 85 ticularly retailers and those in var- g0ii5 sous lines of repair business, appar- 80 anti, appreciate. The nt mber of 7736 C.O.D. articles mailed since October, 77 1922, has increased from 14,684 in - 70 that month to 39,000 in June last. e9 The increase since Christmas has 01 been gradual and shows that this 57 service is beeoming very popular. The 66 total number for the eight months 63 the service has been in operation is Go approximately $200,000. The C.O.D. 48 fees and the additional postage which 4,7 this business has brought in show a favorable balance for the 8 months of approximately $70,000. , w IlseC.O.D. service has proved to 95% be of particular advantage to firms u 98 who do not issue cataloguesi and u 94 whose prices are not known' to the r e3 buyer, and in cases where the buyer s 91% is not known to the dealer. It pro- esi,fi teats both the buyer and the seller, 90% eliminates the carrying of small t 90 charge accounts, makes refunds and d 90 adjustments unnecessary, and speeds efi their and Wirt xala the iv)* + t, ! lieu ttrt f3 extending-the-petteddu r a s .anaeal leave is taken and by,'.eil - ' -1 ahing reserve staffs known co llafit again a hely, as the Postal Pool it has -beekrho out possible to take care of the hole previous• relief and other eiumgenales ,pachildrtl dOAPto'. the postal service with compare et Lively no .. additional expenditure Moreover, this reserve staff' consti- tutes a training school and nate$. it possible to. give better p pet'gica through retaining ea peroiCed hien instead Of reloading them in the' Frill' of each year and taking on. "gzeen" bands In the Spring. " By` the intro- duction of the Postal Pool, it fins. been possible to give a greater degree of permanency to the positions of :the men engaged on relief work than was formerly practicable, which ereatee a greater measure of content' amongst the staff and reacts favorably upon the public service. This arrange, meat has been further developed to provide avenues of promition to all branches of the service, thereby en- larging the field of opportunities to e b ore the give the Are Brigud4l' hist`a wrt - discuss this matter and representative to ins" to. Some the Atli of other day.ba; Gln p t yy A days the Firma' wt Aaps7 f. in Burlington and there w iced ,rt: three members of the .Brigga. . felt they couhl .not be uwsy b business three days in surcesatprt also said it had been si.gges, theirmeeting that 'the followin day would be quite aatis , 000061 - There was no mention then for 'We nesday as outlined in the petition ale terwards received, and had-there.bee- ;' it would have been another matttar entirely. But for August 13th, one-- week after every other town had.ob% served' their holiday, seemed most un which postal employees may aspire. reasonable, more especially so vrhen Steps have also been taken to im- Mitchell was baying their Old 'Boysri prove conditions under which em- Reunion from the 4th to the ployeea work. Lunch . rooms. have Quite a number of citizens had oak -- been established at the larger gen- en to me in view of this and.hopef tree, and this will be further extend- we would hold our holiday on the ed at other offices where circum 6th, so they could celebrate in stances are favorable and the neer- chelL Considering the request of sary accommodation available. these citizens and the voice of tthet' - "Crime Wave" Diminished. Council, as already outlined; what Two years ago thefts and abstrac- would any of the men, whose name tions from the mails were increasing nacre tpitio, done under ancircumstances?see in .to an alarming extent and reflected what was known as the "crime wave " the list the names of several business men who told me I bad taken the proper stand on this matter„- not 46 hours before the petition was placed in my hands. How can a person hope to satisfy citizens like that? In all matters of this kind I have always tried to be fair to the business niers and also to the citizens in general. I. have always endeavored to give both the Band and Fire Brigade my moral, and financial support, but if the ser- vices I have given to the best of my' ability have not been satisfactory, it is perhaps better that I have tried. and failed than not to have tried at all. I have also a petition in my hands, signed by some 176 of our citizens, asking that the holiday stand as has been proclaimed. In deciding the Matter it seemed only fair to follow the precedent established by my pre- decessor, who was in the same post= tion as I was, and that was sider the petition containing the.. greater number of names. .I could not be expected to do otherwise, se our Civic Holiday will be observed August 6th. Respectfully, W. H. Golding. inch at the time was more or less niversal throughout Canada and the nited States. In carrying out the eorganization of the Postal Service pecial attention has been given to investigation work with the result that in the past two years a greater number of arrests and convictions for hefts from the mails were made urine any corresponding period, and a greater percentage of the cases were satisfactorily concluded. This has resulted in a marked diminution of the so-called "crime wave" in so far as the postal service is concerned. Oui, Oui, ' Mam'selle Corsets Your govin is indeed charming, but one can see further then that. dihtipte. Your Corsets are responsible for its graceful, natural lines. We cavy C/C k la Grace Corsets in all chiles and sires. They ere made of pretty yet durable materiels, and the steels will not break or nut. tewartBras INCREASED SERVICE AT LESS COST IN THE POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT Judging from some remarkable re- sults in the way of enlarged service to the public, coupled with decreased cost of administration of the Post Office Department during the past "Genial Fighting Charlie„—Canada's Postmaster General, certainly earned the three months' recuperative holi- day he took last session. Mr. Mur- phy started in some eighteen months ago to houseclean thoroughly the big Department of which he took charge. Economy and efficiency were made meaningful words and were ap- plied to every branch of the Service with Mr. Murphy's characteristic en- ergy and decision. He overworked on the job and last winter suffered a nervous breakdown. Under doc- tors' orders he took a long rest in the South. He returned last month and is now again actively superintending the big smoothly working Depart- ment and pointing with justifiable pride to the results already achieved. For the first time in the history of Canada, the Department is able to present an Annual Statement show- ing decreased cost of administration despite largely increased service to the public. For the fiscal year ending March 31st last, the revenue increas- ed by $2,707,694, while the expendi- tures show a reduction of $326,923. This means a net betterment, as compared with the previous twelve months, of $3,034,617. The business of the Department continued to ex- pand and the mail matter handled was larger than ever before. By the a- doption of more business -like methods and the to -ordination and economiz- ing in the services rendered, the Postmaster General was enabled to show this remarkable betterment without withholding necessary ex- pansion in any direction and without interferring at all with the conveni- ence of the public. The increase in revenue is due, in large measure, to the larger revenue from parcel post facilities, including the insurance and C. 0. D. features, and the marked increase in Money Order business. In the month of May last, for instance, the Depart- ment sold over one million Money Orders as compared with 750,000 for May of last year. In fhe economies affected were in- cluded from $300,000 per year in bet- ter organization; $400,000 per year in railway transportation of mail; and $50,000 per year through a simp- lified form .of dealing with registered mail. United States Postal Conference. In December last the Postal Con- ference between the United States and Canadian authorities resulted in changes in the postai arrangements of considerable advantage ee both countries. Agreements were reached facilitating the exchange of mail be- tween Canada and the United' States and providing for a more equitable division of the expense involved. As a result of the conference, Canada was saved at one stroke, $110,000 per annum which was formerly paid for the conveyance of American of American mails across Canadian ter- ritory from Buffalo to Detroit, tha United States authorities agreeing to take up that payment. A further advantage secured by Canada was in increased payments by the United States on express par- cels carried to Canada aggregating about $300,000 per annum. These are some of the new sources of rev- enue of the Post Office Department. Among other advantages accruing to Canada from the Conference are the increased facilities for parcel post exchange, reciprocal arrange- ments for insurance of parcels, in- creased indemnity for lost registered articles, better speqial delivery ser- vice, improved Moni+y Order service, more convenient arrangements for the treatment of mail t>t8tter posted without sufficient postage and a very much improved exchange of the dead letter service between the two coun- tries. -- Arrangements were also made un- der which parcels from Canada will be conveyed through the United States to all South .American coun- tries with some of which, such as Argentine and Brazil, it is anticipat- ed, that considerable parcel post business may develop. This new ar- rangement means a saving of from three to four' weeks in time, as prev- iously, parcels for South America had to be sent to England and thence shipped back across the Atlantic to South America. Dominion Postal Conference. In pursuance of a policy inaugur- ated in the month of i-ebruary, 1922, weekly business conferences are held in the Post Office Department at which the heads of the several branches are present. These confer- ences have had results beneficial a- Iike to the Department and the pub- lic. As an extension of that policy, a conference of Dominion postal of- ficials was called in October, 1922. The purpose, broadly speaking, was a desire to promote ee-operation be- tween employees of the postal ser- vice of Canada, and to increase and extend the efficiency of that service. The results of the conference amply justified the expectations of those *eho collaborated in arranging it. Discussions took place . which have since served as the basis for the con- sideration of the policies of the De partment and improvements in pos- tal arrangements have resulted and are continuing to result which are proving of material advantage to the postal service and the public at large. In the first half hour of this Con- ference an agreement 'was reached regarding a change to the method of dealing with registered letters, where by for the future the records will be simplified and forms in the nature of up the whoie transaction. Post Office Philatelic Stamp Agency. Iii response to requests from phit- eletists of Canada covering a long period of years, Hon. Mr. Muraby established in March last an agency for the sale of current issues of all Canadian postage stamps. This is proving very popular with the stamp colleetors, and although the agency has only been in effect for a period of four months, it gives promise of proving a substantial source of rev- enue lo 'the Departmen-tn 'Recen'tly orders have commenced to come from foreign countries and the sales are inereasing accordingly. Poet Office Publicity. An aggressive policy in regard to Post Office publicity was inaugurat- ed some months ago whereby the var- ious services were brought before the attentiap of the public with a view to inereased business and increased rev- enue. This publicity included poster advertising, advertising by leaflets distributed to householders, radio talks, and postal talks by Postmas- ters, with illuminated lectures on pos- tal subjects of special interest to the public. One result of this educational cam- paign is evidenced in better. delivery of mail matter, a marked decrease in mails forwarded to the Dead Letter Office, and an evident improvement generally in the better comprehen- sion by the public of postal regula- tions so as to avoid delay and non- delivery. A Post Office Weekly Bulletin has been sent out to the employees mak- ing for general improvement in the morale of the Service and a better spirit of co-operation among all the branches. Improvement in the Working Condi- tion of Employees. It was the practice in the past to take on relief employees in the postal service during the annual leave sea- son. These temporary men com- Mitchell Old Boys' Reunion Reduced Rates Paid to Railways. Of the various economies effected, perhaps the most important in postal matters is that which was made by reducing the rates paid to railways for conveyance of the mails. This was brought about through confer- ence between officers of the Post Of- fice Department and the Department of Railways and Canals respectively, who were directed to make a compilat on of the cost of operating the dif- ferent kinds of mail service perform- ed by the railways, with a view to fixing rates which would give fair compensation and put the baggage car mail service on a fairer basis. The railways agreed to accept the new rates effective from the first of June, 1922, and these have resulted in a saving of $400,000 per annum to the Post Office Department, and con- sequently to the tax -paying public. Foreign Accounts Settled. A considerable number of accounts for the carriage of mails of foreign countries across Canadian territory had not been attended to, nor had set- tlement been made. Eventually, the Postmaster General succeeded in get- ting all these accounts settled, with the result that the treasury of the Dominion of Canada benefitted to the extent of $950,000. Improved Business Methods. Improvements have been made in the method of conducting Post Office business, both in the operating field and at the seat of administration. These improvements embrace a var- iety of subjects and cover such items as mechanical accounting in connec- tion with money order accounts, Gov- ernment owned motor truck trans- portation service for the collection and delivery of mail, improved reg- istration system, improved lay -out of Post Offices in connection with the new buildings. Other ' potential im- provements are being tried out. In addition, changes in organization have been effected, resulting in an aggregate saving, on this account a- lone, approximately 7200,000 and at the same time increasing the effici- ency of the Service, The Old Boys' Re -union in Mitchell AUGUST 4th to 9th provides a very attractive pro- gramme. The town is bril- liantly lighted and decorated and the programme shows every day crowded with inter- esting events. Horse Racing will be the sport for Monday and Wednesday,— $2,400 in purses and mile heats. Tuesday and Thursday. will be given to athletic sports of all kinds, Lacrosse, Baseball'tourn- aments, etc., with an outdoor spectacular play, "Cinderella,” on Tuesday night, August 7th. The programme for the week will close on Thursday evening with a Monster Tattoo and Fire- works Display. No doubt, man of the people Y e of the town and surrounding country will avail themselves of the opportunity of the good time provided by our Mitchell friends. CiVIC HOLIDAY CONTRtJVERSY The following letter has been re- ceived from Mayor W. H. Golding, respecting- the selection of a date for Seaforth's Civic Holiday, which has been set for Monday, August 6th: Editor Huron Expositor. Dear Sir: In view of the trouble that has arisen with regard to Civic Holiday and of the many different stories that. have been circulated as to my action in the matter, I feel that an explanation from me might help to show the people the situation as it really stood. In the first place 1 have been charg- ed with taking the authority of issu- ing this proclamation entirely upon myself, but that is not true. In 1921 the matter of Civic Holidby was brought before the members of the Council and filly discussed, and it was mutually agreed that' for the citizens in general, Monday was the most acceptable day for this holiday, and they also proposed that we adopt the same plan that practically all towns and cities have adopted, that is, to observe the first Monday in August of each year as Civic Holiday. - The members of the Council felt this THE PETITIONS The first petition received by the Mayor was signed by 73 names and 10 G. W. V. A. It read as follows: "Believing that the best interests of the Band, Firemen and citizens generally, for the good of the -pro- posed Old Boys' Reunion, 1924, would be best served by holding Wed- nesday, August 8th, as Civic Holiday, instead of Monday, August 6th, as proposed, we, the undersigned busi-. ness men of Seaforth petition your worship to have said date changed from August 6th to August 8th. We beg to point out that Seaforth is making a special effort to secure the Firenies Convention for 1924, and to do this, as good a representa- tion as possible of Band and Fire- men at Burlington is necessary. It is manifestly impossible for individ- uals, largely business men, to observe Monday as a holiday and then lose two days besides. We also wish to point out that the business supply men cannot possibly close their plac- es of business for the Monday with- out undue trouble to themselves.. "A canvass of the members of the two town organizations has shown that too large a percentage must re- main at home, if the holiday is held on the 6th, to make a decent showing at Burlington, and therefore as it is to our interests and citizens gener- ally, to make the 1924 Old Boys' Re- union as great a success as formerly, we would ask you to give our petition every consideration." The second petition had 176 names attached and was as follows: "We, the undersigned citizens ,of Seaforth, have appreciated very much indeed the effort that you and the members of your Council have made during your term of office to hold Civic Holiday on the day that prac- tically every town in this part of the Province have adopted and which they have decided that Civic Holiday should he held, namely the first Mon- day in August. To the great mass• of citizens this day has proven • ac- ceptable as it gives a splendid op- portunity to visit friends of other towns with the knowledge that they will be having a holiday as well as Seaforth. We regret very much that an effort is being made to change this system, and especially do we re- gret that this effort is being made by citizens who are enjoying for five months a holiday that the great nih- iority of workman cannot participate in. We are not convinced that the holding of this holiday on the date set will have the disastrous effect that is outlined in the petition whish you have now in your possession, aYit1 in view of this fact, we humbly peti- tion you and your worthy Connell to hold -the holiday on the day thatYonhave proclaimed, namely August' t'- 1928."