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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1923-09-14, Page 1.1TriltatiVEATH. .'•, ER slurp A HURON I BYTEiIUAL • The semi -annuli' onference of the Huron Presbyte omen's Mission,. ary Society melp. Tuesday, Sept. 11th, in Carmel byterian Church, Bewail, which aN• j eautifully decor- ated with autuntf leaves and flowers for the occasien fi. here Was a very large attendance : interested ladies at both the my ng and evening sessions, in fact e attendance was the largest in t history of the Presbyterial over 0 delegates being in attedance Th resident, Mrs. J. E. Hogg, of C1 n, occupied the chair. The ops exercises were conducted by the pen, Hills Green and Blake A es, Mrs. J. Fin- layson, of Kippen, presiding; Mrs. W. Finlay, of Blake, taking the Scrip - tyre reading, and 11,rs. W. Turder, of Hills Green, the prayer. Remarks were made by the ensurer, Mrs. H. C. Dunlop, of Crederich, and the Supply Secretary, *he. e. W. D. Fair, Clinton. Rev. J. 4. McConnell, of Hensall, in a neahl'.y-worded speech, conveyed the greetings of the Huron Presbytery, after Which the Presby (- terial delegate, Mies H. I. Graham, read the report of the Provincial meeting in Windsor. The roll call y the Secretary wing some out - he work of their Band. Some usinesa and dia- which was that der the advisa- ney to buy the est, instead of eretofore. Huron n asked for a 4ienin&vi 6=-(7a7 AND FOLLOWING DAYS Exploiting a Bewitching Galaxy of all the New Models in Hats, Coats, Dresses and Suits, for Women Misses' and Children. A Vast, Fascinating Assemblage of Practical and Pic- turesque Apparel, Revealing in all their inter- esting Moods and Tenses the Sea- son's Formal showing of Fashionable Things to Wear WHATEVER YOUR TYPE; WHATEVER YOUR AGE; WHATEVER THE WEIGHT OF YOUR POCKETBOOK, YOU WILL FIND SOME- THING TO INTEREST YOU, SOMETHING TO SUIT YOU—SOME- THING TO MEET THE NEED OF YOUR AUTUMN WARDROBE. A Wonderful Display of Our. Greatest Effort In Suits and Coats There is a display of New Coats and Suits here that will delight the eye of every woman in this vicinity. Dame Fashion has ordained so many radical style changes this season that description is almost futile. The new side fastening coat, the one _pocket model, the lnaliy new materials and trimmings, the diversity of designs; all these new features are so differ- ent that each garment presents a new pleasantly interesting appeal to your sense of becoming beauty. We specially invite you to come and see these delightful garments Opening Days. .MILLINERY If we have pleased you in Millin- ery heretofore, we will delight you this season more than ever. We have assembled here for your ap- proval a glorious collection of all that is stylish and, appealing, from the small turban to the large picture hat, bedecked with pompoms and feathery trimmings, metalic orna- ments and autumnal colorings. Come in and enjoy a style feast that will not only be a pleasure and an educa- tion, but a demonstration of the cor- rectness and cleverness of our Fall 1923 display. Stewart Bros., Seaforth ,343 gt SEPTEMBER was responded to of each Auxiliary, standing feature of;,l Auxiliary or Missile time was devoted to cussion, one item of the Auxiliaries cone bility of sending m supplies for the sending clothing as 'Presbyterial has b library of fifty or ,ixty books. Any donations from Suelday Schools sent to Miss A. Urqui2a;'t, Library Secre- tary, Kirkton, will.,be gratefully re- ceived. The sum 'Of $10, from the Presbyterial Expellee Fund, was do- nated to Dr. Struthers to assist in the purchase of a lantern and slides. Following the morning session, which was closed with prayer by Miss John- stone, of Blake, all inviting repast was provided in tbgd school room of the church by the iilensall ladies for the Presbytery whit was convened in the Anglican •ehnrch in Hensall and the delegates. Exeter Auxiliary:, took charge of the afternoon progrprnme, Mrs. J. T. Morgan, Mrs. T. CAoneron and Mrs. G. Manson taking Mart. The Pres- bytery adjourned rntthe afternoon to listen to a mostyh`spiring address given to the Presbyterial by Dr. Strid$ters, of Wei -Mei, Ronan, on educational, evangellitie and medical work in North China.' Dr. Struthers introduced his sub- ject by amusing the audience with a couple of selections of Chinese music on the gramophone which were rather weird successions of shrill shrieks and sounds. The Chinese, he said, are very fond of their own music and plays, but ours do not appeal par- ticularly to them. The music com- pared with ours is a great contrast and so is China. Moat of the people are very poor, a working man's wages are only 10e a day. The masons get the same. Some of them, subsist on a meagre amount of vegetables and leaves boiled to- gether and the children, though not absolutely starving, are still hungry. If the laboring man is badly off the merchants and rich men are not much better because of the oppression of the robbers and unscrupulous officials, who are very corrupt. In Honan province one year they were forced to pay their taxes ten years in ad- vance. The government • collector then resigned and another came in his place who said the taxes had never been paid to him and that he was short of money which Dr. Struthers said, no doubt was true as he would have to pay $20,000 or $30,000 to obtain the position. The result was that he exacted another ten years taxes in advance. The only man who owned a house built in foreign style had never been able to live in it, although it had been built two year, and a half, for fear of being robbed and kidnapped. When one of the best families wer_ out attending a funeral all of a sud- den down came 200 robbers, picked out two of the w, althiest members of it and carried them off. A native young man, a very brilliant graduate of a university, wile was greatly be- loved by his own people and also the foreigners, contracted tuberculosis. One day while his aged mother, over seventy years of age, was tenderly caring for him, the robbers kidnap- ped her and despite his entreaties left the poor lad to die alone. Dr. Struthers spoke of the way in which the Chinese ,offer at the hands of the native doctors. Here is one of their prescription'. Take two grass- hoppers, three flies, two ants, a little elephant skin, tooth of a tiger, put in a bowl, boil and drink the whole at once. One man hi -might back a bottle of medicine iir. Struthers had given him, refusing to take it because it was inhabited by a spirit. When he had tried to open •t the cork flew up to the ceiling and he supposed the spirit had escaped. They imagine, too, that their bodies are inhabited hy evil spirits and they often disfigure people by punt' t,n•ing them with needles to let them out. Even at the present time in the in- terior the feet of lit !le girls are bound 'and the poor chill weeps day and night. They hobble around in sore feet and are crippled for life. Dur- ing the famine 500 mothers, each one of them carrying a baby, walked some twenty, some thirty and some forty miles in order to get $1 worth of grain given by the missionaries in Old Boys' Rena Public Meeting Tuesday, Sept. 18th At 8 p.m., in the Town Hall, Seaforth. - At this meeting the Striking Committee appointed to form the' different committees in connection with the Old Boys' Reunion, will report and officers will be elected. W. H. GOLDING, Mayor. charge of the relief fund. The people stone. Exeter is to be the next place appreciated the help and it gave the of meeting. missionaries an entrance into their hearts and homes such as they had never had before. China is really ruled by the mili- tary people. There is a group of war lords, each building upon army and trying to gain his own ends, conse- quently they have the largest army in the world, the soldiers are simply swarming over the country, taking what they like. China to -day needs Christ, the speaker said, and that righteousness which exalteth a nation. The churches are trying to supply the need through evangelistic . work tents, churches, Bible schools, Y. M. C. A. country schools for boys, board, high schools, hospitals, etc. In Honan where Dr. Struthers practices, there are only two medical men for two million peo- ple. The attitude of the Chinese is turning towards western medicine. The types of cases show the same disease aa we have here, but very much aggravated and a great many Others in addition. No one is isolat- ed, you see cases of small pox, fever and diptheria walking the streets and little babies less than a week old dy- ing on tetanus for leek of cleanli- ness. A quarter of the clinics are for little children, many of them blind for lack of attention, Dr. Struther8 said there is no joy, like being able to help those that are in need. The conference of Mission Band members and officers was held in the school room at the close. Miss Ola Cook, of Hensall, contributed a pleas- ing solo. A very helpful address was also given by Mrs. Johnstone, Presi- dent of the Toronto Presbyterial. A motion song by the King's Own Mis- sion Band, Hensall, "Come With Us to China Land," was greatly appreci- ated by the audience. Prayers were offered by Mrs. James Hamilton, Goderich; Mrs. Robert Archibald, Seaforth, and Mrs. R. Kydd, Thames Road. Miss Jeckyll, of Exeter, of- fered the closing prayer. The following committee was ap- pointed to confer with the Presbytery in regard to the Social Service De- partment: Mrs. Neil Gillespie, Sea - forth; Miss Jeckyll, Exeter; Mrs. J. E. Hogg, Clinton, and Miss Graham, Seaforth. A very hearty vote of thanks was tendered the Hensall congregation Auxiliary and Mission Band by Mrs. Strachan, of Goderich. The apprecia- tion of the audience was also convey- ed to Dr. Struthers and Mrs. John - THE NEIGHBORHOOD CORRESPONDENTS I have before me as I write a let- ter written to the editor of this paper from a far off town in Saskatche- wan. The writer is speaking not only for 'herself but on behalf of that great number who once made this county their home. They are scat- tered to the four corners of this continent but they still think of us as the borne folk, and the part of the paper which possesses the great- est interest for them is the local news sent in week by week by our staff of faithful correspondents from the dip ferent parts of the county. These patient, untiring, often much abased news -gatherers are building better than they know. They are like the ancient prophets, "not without honor save in their own neighborhood," It seems so trifling to say that Mrs. A. called on Mrs. B., or Mr. W. is kill- ing hogs or threshing his clover, or that Mr. and Mrs. N. have gone to town. But now look at it from the view- point of the readers of this paper living in different parts of the coun- try. They have gone away for var- ious reasons, but they are building for themselves homes as their fathers did; faced with the same conditions, perplexed by the same problems and they are anxious to keep the oldetime traditions and transplant the old-time ideals in the new places to which they have gone. The hope of our great new land which is opening up is in many things—the church, the schools, the class of settlers which they are getting. But not the least among the influences which will make this land an ideal place to live in, is the preservation and transplanting of the home ideals which the boys and girls who have left the older portions have had instilled into them in their youth. Anything then which keeps the spark of the memory of the old borne from going out, anything which binds them to the things of the past, is playing a big part in keeping Can- ada a land of the best ideals. Now for some years after these people went away, the weekly or monthly letter followed them. No one can estimate the inspiration or restraining force of these letters, but one by one the writers laid aside bhe pen or their eyes became dim and their fingers cramped with age, and ere is. .o1nea in, It ter ,fret wit th0.'f them es of ygoue, dl frac 1:00\ uf.neva toy loo •news ' of their Old net* or rood they see that Mrs A is visitin 'P. and they audits and•i; well, shy is still on she?" Mr. D. has jus cut;b , —and they see again. the field,„. as boys they picked berries 'gni* fence corners, and the hollow where they had many a losing trying to rob the bumble bee. The read that Mr. W. is dead. "Well, well, he seemed an old man when` they were still young.” They remem- ber his rugged honesty and the home- ly advice which from his desk' as superintendent of the Sunday School he gave them: And so he le dead, but his words and influence which can never die, come back to them and they live over again their Stay School days, but now realizing what they did not as boys and girls, ';how necessary, how importantthe need of a character built upon the ideal of the Holy Word. So we could go one The weekly paper with its neighltorhopd news has brought before the people the do- ings of the home folks, their work, their play, their social joys, their sorrows, little unimportant happen- ings to those who live in the neigh- borhood, but to those absent, a link that binds them to the best in the past. A drink of cold water to a thirsty heart, like a drink from the old spring at the foot of the kill' at home Where, as boys, we were wont to refresh ourselves. And in thea strength of that refreshment theig`i•r can go on to do continually better t work—and so they are thankful for the home paper and the neighborhood correspondents, who, hy much sacri- fice, constitute themselves a link which bind them to all the best in the past.—Picton Gazette. Seaforth Fair THURSDAY and FRIDAY September 20 and 21 HORSE RACES 2.25 pace, purse $150.00 2.15 pace, purse $150.00 SPECIAL ATTRACTIONS Rural and Urban School Children's Parade from Victoria Park at 1.30 p.m., headed by Seaforth Highlanders' Band. Prize for Drills and Best Appearing School CHILDREN iN PARADE ADMITTED FREE' Baby Contest. under 6 months old. Baby Contest, over 6 months and under 12 months. Seaforth Highlanders' Band in Attendance. Admission: Adults, 25c. Children, 15c. PR. HARBURN, President R. M. JONES, Treasurer. Autos, etc., 25c. M. BRODERICK. Secretary. CLINTON Accidents. -- Robert Fitzsimmons was quite seriously hurt when', horse, which he was leading to Pas- ture, turned around ;mod kicked "him in the middle of the back. At pres- ent Mr. Fitzsimmons is in the hose pital, where they have not yet de- termined the full extent of his in- juries. —An accident occurred between Clinton and London on Sunday after- noon, when a touring car being driven by Capt. Kendall, of the Flax Mills Company, turned completely over, pinning him under the car. His com- panion, Lieut. Fowles, also employed by the Flax Mills Company, was thrown clear and received no injuries. When Capt. Kendall was finally re- moved 'he was found to have broken two ribs and was quite badly bruised. Capt. Kendall is at present in the Clinton Hospital, where he is doing fine. Decoration Services.—The annual union decoration services were held in Clinton on Sunday, when the Clin- ton Lodge, I.O.O.F., No. 83, Murphy Lodge, L.O.L., No. 710, and the 161st Battalion veterans, headed by Clinton Kiltie Band, marched to the memorial tablet in front of the post office, where an address was given by Col. Combe, who placed a wreath of flowers from the war veterans on the tablet. The procession then marched out to the cemetery, where a short service was held. A suitable address was given by Rev. A. A. Holmes. The service closed with the singing of the Na- tional Anthem, after which each lodge decorated graves of their fraternal brethren. The procession again form- ed and returned to the town in order. STAFFA Notes.—Mr. and Mrs. W. O'Brien spent Sunday with friends at Listowel. —Miss Verna Drake, who took hon- ors at her late exams, is attending Mitchell High School.—Mr. and Mrs. Iiarnbley attended the London Fair on Tuesday -.--Mr. and Mrs. John Bar- bour are in Toronto where their baby boy is undergoing medical treatment. —Mr. and Mrs. William Worden, of Stratford, visited friends here on Sunday.—Mr. and Mrs. Verner, of Stratford, spent. Sundlty at Mr. A. Miller's. --Harvest thanksgiving ser- vices were held in Grace Anglican Church here en Sunday, September 2nd. Large congregations were pres- ent. The interior of the ehurch was beautifully decorated ' with flowers, fruits of the field, etc. Rev. C. L. Hillery, M.A., B.P., rector of St. Pant's .Anglican church, Clinton, was th' preacher for the day, and eloqu- ent anti very penetrating sermons wore delivered. The reverend gentle- men took for his morning theme, "Consider the Mlles of the field—Hu- mility, contentment, purity ; their shedding sweetness on all who pass by." Evening, "Be not deceived, God ie not mocked: for whatsoever a man snweth, that shall he also reap." He, left a good impression and the con- gregations appreciated his efforts. Special music was rendered by the Hensall choir throughout the day and reflected great credit on their singing: Mrs. Drummond presided at the and a quartette was rendered at ea service by Mrs. Robinson( Mra. i34? sham, of Hensall. The serelaas the day were very succeesfuL - ., 'C: cif te. •