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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1929-08-23, Page 1nele0114 „ ,,,,e,seeentgorTenerni-',fe: •••., ,,..•• , ,J;;,e, 7171rillirirrir"111711111-;:et'S.0,00.;e'ekm), • • 35-11vizik,ralzTiff -YEAH NVECiliald Nill.IMBEB 3219 NISIGHBOBLIN 'TOWN DOC Mao cei anoneel SSP SS /IS TH.3 BetSliS COMB/UNITY LITZ Those factors that, of recent years, have robbed us of our neighbors, have struck a hard blow at real community unity. While the automobile has en- abled us to go places and see things, w 'le it s enlarged our little per- sonal world and shoved the horizon of everyday life further and further away, it has at the same time made strangers of our neighbors. In the next few weeks throughout the length and breadth of the land there will be thousands of celebrations in the form of fairs, home comings and festivals. Such are Canadian institutions --they are good for the com- munity, good for the people in the community, and good for those who at- tend them from other communities. Should the progressive business and professional men and women of your town plan for you a celebration this year, show your appreciation and mani- fest your good judgment by doing everything within your power to help them make it a big success. If you can't do anything else, here is one thing you can do: stay at home that day and meet your friends and neighbors. Better acquaintance with them will increase your interest in them and theirs in you, and a better understanding of each other's problems will help much in the work you may do together for all your neighbors. But above all, what a splendid time it is to invite visitors on those days, what an influx of visitors your town would have! The new friends that will •be made will be an asset all the rest of your life. The money they willespend in your town will add just that much to the capital in circulation in your town, and before the end of the next week every individual in town will have benefitted by money thus left behind. The community gains by becoming more neighborly, by introducing visitors to the charms of. the town you call "your town," by the money spent by them while there, and finally, by the greater community spirit developed by every- body joining in the performance of a worthy, common task. When your home town opens 'its doors to its people and their friends, be community minded and take advantage of the opportunity. Copyright, 1929, A. D. Stone. Reproduction prohibited in whole or in I. This Town Doctor Article is published by The Expositor in co-operation eeith the Seaforth Lions Club. • r SO TEES aS CANADA! (By A. E. Kirkpatrick, in MacLean's) I have often asked myself the ques- tion: "Why is it that men and -wo- men from the Old Country display such appalling ignorance of Canada and things Canadian?" It is rather sad to realize that such ignorance must be put down to misre- presentation on the part of those who ought to know better. Something must surely be lacking in the educe- below zero. When once winter sets tional system of the Old Land, which is, and has been, producing results that are almost tragic in their con- sequences to the Empire generally and to Canada in particular. For many years Canadians have been trying to persuade the excess population of Great Britain and Ire- land to come to Canada and help us build a great British nation in this half of the Continent. We have tried and are still trying, to persuade Brit- ish capitalists to come and see it for themselves, and use some of their surplus wealth in building our indus- tries; but despite all our efforts there appears 'to be a lukewarmness to- ward Canada and things Canadian, which is distressing to those of us who love our British connection, and mourn -to see it endangered through no fault of our own but through a policy of dislike or neglect or. the part of many of the people and a goodly portion of the Press in the Old Land. Why is it that after Canada's great e ort in the World War, only some 50,000 British people migrate to Canada in the last twelve month per- iod, while during the same year 100,- 060 from the British Isles stood humbly, hat in hand, waiting for the quota to admit them to the United States? It cannot be entirely the climate, for parts of the Province of Ontario, greater in extent than Eng- land and Scotland, lie south of one- third of the United States and en- joy a much more equable climate than is encountered in one-third of the whole of that country. In Brit- ish Columbia there is a territory as large as France with a climate much milder and more equable than that of England and Scotland. The most vivid recollections are those of childhood. All of us can remember the impressions we gained in our earliest years, and it is aston- ishing with what tenacity we cling to the often erroneous teachings we im- bibed at school. I wonder how many of our great Canadians who were born and brought up in the Old Country can remember the sinister impressions they gained of Canada in their school days. The courage they displayed in coming to this region of ice and snow is, to me, simply astounding. I have in my hands Our Empire Overseas by H. W. Palmer, of Rich- mond County School. It is published by Blackie & Son, of London, Glasgow and Bombay. The current editibn 1924, reprinted 1926, is still used in many schools throughout Great Bri- tain and Ireland, and purports to be an historical and geographical history of the 'British Empire, the geography being treated originally so as to im- press on the pupils the phenomena connected with climate. Some ex- tracts from this current work make amazing reading for Canadians. The presentation of facts therein seem almost incredible, but is possibly among the causer for statement on eke repeat of the Seleot Standing Oemmittee which considered irmnigra- tion and colonization at the 1928 ses- sion of Parliament, which refers to the fact that it costs Canada $16.67 for each British immigrant that comes to 'Canada in a given period, and only eleven cents per capita for those from the Continent of Europe. Pages 38, 39 and 40 of this extra - or nary book are devoted to a glory lone description of Canada's climate. Highly paid secret service propagan- dists in the pay of some competing nation could do no better. It reads so -smoothly, it sounds so genuine, but it damns 'Canada and/ the Canadian: climate to evitglantin6 perdition. I wish II had the pen to deraerlhe in such glowing lanegnage the told and suffering we or Cannelians enduredon Salisbury Mei% MA-1DM But let us read what this writer has to say. In discussing "Climate" on page 38, he informs the child: "In such a vast territory there are great differences in climate. Speak- ing generally, it may be said that the country has a climate of ex- tremes . . ." "In the centre, snow., is the rule throughout the winter, and one nifty have to guard one's face and fingers from the bite of frost many degrees in, it seldom relaxes its hold or plays such freaks as it does with us. For months together the cold is greater than our coldest snap of frost. Yet it is more bearable. The dryness of the air and the settled weather make it even pleasurable to the hardy. Win- ter is the Canadian's holiday, the merriest time of the year. The snow- ed -up inhabitants lay themselves out to have a good time." And now follows the story as it might have been told by our pioneers of sixty years ago. "Outdoor work ceases unless where there is lumber or produce to be haul- ed over the -snow. Once its surface has hardened, the whole country is turned into a playground, about which people can skim freely in tinkling sleighs, on skates along the rivers, and over the lakes in ice yachts with sails for wings. Long journeys are made, and visiting is done more eas- ily and agreeably than through the dust and heat of summer. Snow shoes, like tennis hats, help them cross the plains covered with dry pow- dered snow. Toboggan runs are made artificially where no slopes of- fer a slide; and in cities fairy palaces are built of ice as scenes for torch- light revels. It is a merry time for youngsters who can enjoy, to their hearts' content, months of skating, sliding, snowballing and other games on the ice. When_ the long frost breaks up in April or May, spring comes with extraordinary rapidity. The bursting of the ice in great riv- ers sounds like thunder, and the sweeping along of the broken ice of- ten causes destruction. Should it get jammed together, or floating timber choke the course of the stream the enormous volume of pent-up water bursts through in a flood, sweeping everything before it." The terrors of life on the plains are very well depicted in the first two paragraphs of page 40. "Summer comes so hot that in the south maize, melons, grapes, peaches and tomatoes grow in the open air; while wheat flourishes within a few degrees of the Arctie Circle, the sun there making up in length of days for the shoitness of the season. Yet snaps of icy cold sometimes occur, and a haymaker has been frozen to death on the plains. for the nights are often intensely cold in exposed or lofty situations," The haymaker story must have caus- ed the inventor great joy in the tell- ing. But let us continue: "The sunmei has its annoyances in dust and mud, and in clouds of stinging insects There are prairie farms where hay- making has to be done at night, be- cause men dare not encounter the swarms of bloodthirsty insects brought out by the sun." Remembering again that this book is supposed to be modern, having been reprinted in 1926, one is interested to learn what the author has to say about the great City of Montreal, with its present population of over a million people. Op page 49, we read as follows: "The largest and busiest place in the Province is Montreal, about 170 miles higher up the river than Que- bec. It is the •business capital of' Canada, and every native industry is carried on in it, from meat packing to the production of wood pulp. gThe city elan on an island be. tweeze the two months of the Ottawa River, where it joins the St. Lawrence and its harbor, =tending for miles down the river, in one of the finest in America. art has a population' of ov- er 270,000, 0 little mere than half of these being of em.& orien. Von- treal has many nOtable buildings. Some the churches we very gine. One of them, Notre Dame, is ennoble of seating 10,000 WiereapPers. t.? "The river is two miles or so broad and is crossed by a long railway bridge that counts as a wonder for length, but in the winter the people have only to lay rails on the ice and be carried across to the opposite bank.” One can almost see President Beatty of the C.P.R. in his Eskimo suit of fair bossing the job. Speaking of the Canadian forest3 on page 50, the author lets his im- agination, run riot until we seem to be reading a quotation from a child's book describing frontier life in the early part of the eighteenth century. Perhaps some of my readers may re- cognize it as culled somewhere from Fenimore Cooper: "There is something very striking in these dark woods, often as silent and unbroken as when none but the fierce Indian stole through them on his errands of slaughter. Few sing- ing birds are found in their depths. By day all is fearsomely still, save for a raven croaking, a woodpecker tapping, or some shy beast of prey rustling through the undergrowth. It is in the darkness that the forest wakes up with the howl of the wolf, the hoot of the owl, the blood -curdling screech of the panther," (Why not add the roar of the lion and the trumpeting of the elephants?), "the ceaseless hum of the mosquito, or the hideous croaking of frogs.' Among these on winter nights may ring out suddenly a crack like the report of a gun, telling how the frost has broken the heart of some old pine. "The maple is noticeable for the glory of it autumn tints — scarlet, gold, purple and yellow. In early spring its leafless trunk supplies the sap which is boiled down into maple sugar, a favorite sweetmeat all over North America. Other trees yield a tough gum, which Canadian boys and girls are fond of chewing. "The first work of the original set- tler was to make a 'clearing' for his fields. Nowadays there are ma- chines for rooting out the stumps of trees as a dentist pulls teeth; but not every farmer can afford such luxuries. He has mostly to cut out a ring of bark round the trees and leave them to decay and fall in their own time, or to fell them with the axe. This is usually done in winter, when no other work can be done. If in a hurry to clear the ground with the least trou- ble, he may simply set fire to the wood, leaving the ground for a time covered with rows of blackened stumps, among which he has to guide his plough." Have you no sympathy with the poor kids who have to learn his stuff? Citizens of Toronto will be delight- ed to know what the author has to say about this city off 800,000 people. On page 53, the author tells us that "Toronto, the flourishing capital of Ontario, is situated on the north shore of Lake Ontario. The `Queen of the West,' as it is sometimes call- ed, is of recent growth, for little more than 100 years ago it was a wood wilderness, the haunts of the wild beast and red Indian. The ' streets of the city are broad and are laid out in straight lines. One of them, Yonge Street, stretches far beyond the town into the open country, although for a distance of thirty miles there are no buildings on it." (Forty years ago there were fifty-eight taverns on that thirty -mile stretch). "But Toronto means to grow. It is an enterprising city. Al- ready it has large iron foundries mills, railway works, pork -packing establishments, carriage factories and distilleries. It makes annually great shipments of grain, livestock, fruit, flour and many other things, and boasts a population of over 200,000." The description of Ottawa will re- call pleasant memories in the minds of its oldest inhabitente. "Ottawa is a very interesting city. finely situated on a height overlook- ing the river of the same name, and crowned with the really noble block of Parliament Buildings. It is the centre of the lumber trade, an 1 his many sawmills and factoriee fcr turning wood pulp into paper. The mills are driven by water power de- rived from the falls in the river above the town, and are engaged day and night in sawing logs into planks in such quantities that they seem enough to 'roof in the whole 'world.' " On pages 62 and 63, Manitoba, which developed so rapidly in manu- facturing that recent statistics show that the value of the output of its manufacturing industries is equal to the value of its agrinultural products, is, according to the writer, a land that seems to be one great wheat 5eld; but lest somebody might be attract- ed to come to this great wheat field, the last paragraph in the chapter (page 63) reiterates the terrors of the plains, and he tells us "that the chief thing to be said about Manitoba is the intense cold of its winter. Yet the hard winter is not attended with serious discomfort to hardy people, for the air is dry and invigorating. It is worst when the snow comes driving from the icy north with the stormy force and fearful cold of a howling bliizard." Moving across Canada to the great city of Vancouver, with its towering skyscrapers and magnificent hotels, we find that the city is now the larg- est in the Province, having a popula- tion of over 80,000 inhabitants I think the 250,000 inhabitants of great- er Vancouver will be interested in these reminiscences of the olden lays. But the railways, as described on pages 71 and 72, present, perhaps, the greatest terror that has yet to be presented to the youth of the Old Land. How interested the directors of our two great railways, each of which is entitled to rank among the largebt cornmerci I undertakings In the civ- ilized world, will be to read the fol- lowing. I presume the autho/ ft nes!titers COali N. CLUFF & SOX speaking of England when he says: "In our thickly populated country railways are made very carefully with all precaution 'against injuring people or property. In Canada they go straight ahead through forests, over open prairies, and even along the streets of tovvnse-hrithout so much as a fence to 'shut them in. Persons walking or driving have to look out far themselves; and the locomotive has in front of it an apparatus f catching and throwing off any stupid cow that may have strayed on to the, line. Even the shape of the engines is odd to our eyes. They are usually built with a curious funnel, wider at the top than at the bottom, to let out freely the smoke of the wood they of- ten have to burn instead of coal." Shades of our grandfathers, I am telling you just what he says! "In winter the trains may be stop- ped by heavy storms, the snow, some- times twenty feet deep, drifting on to a line. Then the engine will have a machine called a snowplow in front of it, by help of which it clears its way through the snow. When the drift is very great, several engines may be employed to -clear the track in a singular fashion. Two or more of them are coupled together and push themselves into the snow, - other following behind to pull them back out if they stick fast. In the Rocky Mountains parts of the line have to be covered by long sheds, to protect them fro avalanches of snow that come bounding down from the heights." "In summer the danger is fire. A train may push across a burning prairie through smoke so thick that the passengers are almost stifled. But in a blazing forest, there is the risk that a fallen trunk or branch may at any moment block the line and throw the train off the rails. "Another cause that seems small enough sometimesbrings a. train to a standstill. The rail', heeennes cov- ered by such a multitudesof worms or insects, that the wheels get greasy with crushing them and will not turn. And that is the sort of stuff your child would be compelled to swallow if you lived in England, and he as a wise child, and you as a wise par- ent, would close the book with a sigh and say: "Well, certainly, wherever we may emigrate to, it won't be to that God -forsaken country." To you in the Old Land, who are the senior partners in our great Em- pire, I say: "Revise your school- books, teach your children the truth, not mischievous lies; and if you will tell them half the truth of Canada's greatness and loyalty, they will come to Canada in thousands and solve your problem and ours." ROAMING EN °THE LOADEING (By Bil Powl) Two years at the desk without break got my chin whisker. To heck with the desk. I went roaming in the 'owning. From Hamilton the DeSoto was pointed up John Street hill and we made for Jarvis, on No 3. highway, the old Talbot road. We were back again among the people we know best —the pioneers who came from New York state, from Pennsylvania, from Yankeeland, from Nova Scotia. And now Southern Ontario is the garden of Canada. Tobacco and corn and flowers and fruit and melons and vegetables now grow where once grew walnut, chestnut, shell -bark hickory, pine, 'beech and maple No. 3 highway is the most inter- esting of all the Western Ontario highways. Population in a very few spots is what the old Sunny South call "white trash." But, if all were good white people, how would one make comparison? There would be no owners to sit on the fence, whittle sticks, chewing terhaccer, while the coon dawgs hustled out the coons. Norfolk County .loins the 400. Since some gentlemen from old Virginia found out that the sandy loam of Norfolk would grow better tobacco than the old Dominion state, the price of the loam has risen in hops and jumps. Twenty years ago we would not have given $20 an acre for land that now sells from $600 up. Delhi village now slogans itself as the centre of the Ontario tobacco dis- trict. But it isn't. It is but the be- ginning, for tobacco grows long No. 3 highway right up to Windsor—and 'beyond. So you see, we of Ontario do not know exactly what our buds will produce. Now everyone knows our politics. But we do want to hand out :word of commendation for Eon. Howard ` Ferguson's scheme of land chemistry and research. Ontario in itr/ south front can vow peanuts, send 4t potatoes and many tether things we now import. In climate it in as watatit or Northern Xenttelly. You didiet IMOw that perhapsA Wash. inNtot ti7a*Sthdr map gave me the in- , formation, so we say to Zargi.e, "gre ahead, and good luck to youP Hon. George Bleary Arrfisaaa, Hon. George Henry, Minister of Highways, didn't arrive won enougle for our oonvenience. He came three days late for us to open 28 mile e of a detour west of Chatham. So we had to go roaming in the loaming. Still, the detour wasn't at all bad. In fact, in other days a feller in a cov- ered baggy could handle the reins with one hand on a moonlight night, his other arm around something. The only thing that would show up would be talc on the shoulder of his blue or black suit.' The world changes, and, if the speed cop gets you driv- ing single-handed it's ten -and -ten when the judge gets through with you. We got along the detour at a fair speed, and then we left it behind at "Jarring" Cross, more COMM0/1' y known as Charing Cross. It's in beautiful Kent, well named. If Kent of England is more beautiful and prolific, it has got to go some, Took a Peek at Jack Miner. The highway down to Kingsville is smooth concrete. A mile or less be- fore you get to that pretty town of 2500 people, the car is turned to the right a half mile, and there lives Jack Miner and his wild swans, wild geese and wild ducks—all as tame as Jack himself. The pretty two-storey lad brick home nestles among evergreens and flowers and a green sward. It is an inviting spot, such as you'd ex- pect as the home of an idealist. A place for everything, and everything in its place, including a concreted pond in the front of the house for the wild fowl. Time was short, for we had to make Leamington and Kingsville, where I had a talk with 'Magistrate Smart, a man of 85, clean of person, of mind alert, clear-eyed—a well -spent life. My youngest boy represents the Pur- ina Company of St. Louis and Wood- stock. He is one of 1500 travellers employed throughout North America. They have 17 mills. The St. Louis mill ships a car load of their produ't every three minutes of the day of 24 hours. They plan to add six mills in Canada. So they employ road men who can sell and know how to talk and illustrate their product in a sci- entific and beneficial way to the pur- chaser. The president of the big or- ganization is named Danforth, said to be of the same family that gave our Danforth avenue its name. Kingsville has the prettiest avenue of soft maples we ever saw anywhere. They arch completely across the street as it leads to Lake Erie. Kingsville is the most southerly town in Can- ada. Prosperous, and it looks it. Leamington is without doubt the prettiest town in Ontario. Port Hope claims that distinction. But it would be hope deferred if it could take a glance at Leamington. The southern town is about 6000 in population. Busy and thrifty. To give an ;dea. Six men in white coats were kept on the jump serving refreshing drinks and ice cream combinations to its patrons. Leamington and surround- ings is Puritanical, mainly Baptist, United and Presbyterians. A hootch pedlar would go broke. Fruits and early vegetables are its products. Much that we get in Toronto as "im- ported" comes from Leamington. Potato fields are long since cropped. We bought a 12 quart basket of ripe tomatoes for 25 cents a week ago to- day. Heinz's big factory there is a typical American get -there organiza- tion. Clean as a new pin. The Border Cities. What is now known as the Border Cities is a fast growing section. What were farm lands in 1922 are now row upon row and street upon street of beautiful /brick homes on 50 -foot lots. The Border Cities in combined popu- lation will give Hamilton a run for it. The population exceeds 137,00(1, and that does not include the "hootsh exporters and bootleggers," for Bill Price's efficient Provincial cops have forced a change of residence. The reader will recall that a bunch cf booze exporters and their able assi,=t- ants took the Border Cities Star camera man for a ride, broke his ma- chine, and so on. That settled it. The Attorney -General of Ontario is :an old newspaper man, a fellow -feeling for Brother Herman of the Border Cities Star and his sworn duty as Attorney -General of Ontario started the Provincials in real earnest. And what they did was good and plenty They cleaned house. That simple sentence tells of their work more than a bag full of newspaper wind. MEDDLE SCHOOL EXAMS The results of the Departmental examinations of the Middle School are given below in detail. The names appear in alphabetical order. First Class, over 75 per cent.; 2nd Class, 66 to 74 per cent.; 3rd Class, 60 to 65 per cent.; Credit, 50 to 59 per cent. Beatrice M. Aberhart — Cr., Can. Hist., 2nd, Anc. Hist; C., Geom.; C., Physics. Robert J. Aberhart-2nd, Can. Hist., let, Ana Hist.; Geom., C.; Physics, C. Helen Ament—Can. ,Hist, 3rd; Anc. Hist., C.; Geom., 3rd; Physics, 3rd. Jessie V. Archibald—Eng. Cow., C.; Lit., C.; Can. Hitt., 1st; Ancient Hist., let.' Geom., 1st; Physics, 3rd. 'Muriel 11. Beattie—Eng. Comp. C.; Eng. Lit., C.; Can. Hist., 3rd; Arm Hist., 1st; Geom. 2nd; Physics, 3rd. George S. Black—Comp., C. Aida Bolton—Eng. Comp., C.;EnE,P. Lit., C.; Can. Hist., C; Are. Mitt, 21.41. Norma F. Solton—Eng. Oomp., C; Can. tint,, Srd; ADO- 2214.A ard. IrmaBroaelf.neteara Eleanor 1=ov/04—Alger a#1; A, 2nd; Lat A., let; Lat. Co'scal3.p: French A., 144; Comp, essi. elea,rgaret Cantle—Fen& CAW. lind; Eng. Lit., C.; Can. tint., 2Ml, Ana. ist., 1st. Geom., Ce Phypies, 2201 - Nelson Cardne—dan. Hest., 2 Arm, Hist., C.; Physics, C. Thomas R. Cluff—Alge 2nd; C.; Chem., C. Margaret Cricla—Eng- Comp., C. George Daly—Chem., 3rd; Comp. 3rd. Charles S. Dickson—Eng. Comp. C.; Eng. Lite and; Can- Hist., 1st; Anc. Hist., 1st; Geom., 1st; Physics, and. Margaret E- Drover—Eng. Comp., 3rd; Eng.- Lit., 2nd; Can. Hist., 1st ; Anc. Hist., 1st; Geom., 1st; Physics, 1st - /Margaret L. Ferguson—Cream., C.; Chem., 2nd; Lat. A, 1st; Let. Comp, 2nd. Arthur J. Finlayson ---Eng. Comp., C.; Eng. Lit., C-• Can. Hist., 2nd; Ana Hist-, 3rd; Geom., C.; Physics, 1st. M. Jeannette Finnigan --Eng. Comp. 2nd; Eng. Lit., C.; Can. Hist, 1st; Ana fist., 1st; Geom., 2nd; Physics, 1st. Isabelle Forrest—Eng. Comp-, C. Can. Hist., 3rd; Anc. Hist., 2nd; Geom C.; Physics, 3rd. H. Margaret Forrest—Alg., 1st Chem., 1st; Lat. A., 1st; Let. Comp. 1st; French A., 3rd; Fr. Comp. 2nd. Vera M. Gardiner—Alg., eat; Chem 1st; Let. A., 1st; Lat. Comp, 1st Fr. A., 2nd; Fr. Comp., 2nd. Glen Gemmell—Anc. Hist-, 3rd Geom., C.; Phys., 2nd. Thomas Govenlock—Chem., 1st - Norma J. Habkirk—Eng. Comp. C Can. Hist., 2nd; Anc. Hist, 2nd Geom., 2nd; Phys', 3rd. Annie Hanna—Alg., 1st; Chem. 2nd; Latin As, 1st; Latin Comp., let, Fr. A., C.; Fr. Comp., 1st; Greek A., 2nd; Accid., C. Madeline E. Hotham—Eng. Comp - C.; Can. Hist., C.; Ana Hist., 1st; Physics, 3rd. Mervyn R. Keys—Eng. Comp, C.; Eng. Lit., C-; Can. Hist., 1st; Anc. Hist, 3rd; Geom., C.; Phys., 1st. M. Helen Lanc Chem., 2nd - W. P. Lane—Eng. Comp., C.; Eng. Lit., C.; Can. Hist., C; Alg., 1st; Geom., Co Phys-, 1st; Chem., 3rd Margaret P. McDonald..—Phys, C. William A. McDonald—Alg., 1st ; Chem., 2nd; Lat. A., 1st; Lat. Comp., 2nd; Fr. A., 3rd; Fr. Comp, 3rd ; Greek A., 3rd. Margaret McKellar—Eng. Camp., C.; Lit., C.; Can. Hist., 2nd; line. Hist., 2nd; Geom., C; Phys., 1st. Elizabeth L G Harry M. McLeod—Can. 1st., C.; Phys., C. S. Anne McNaughton—Anc- Hist., C.; Alg-, 1st; Phys., C.; Chem- 2nd; Fr. A., C.; Fr. Cowl, C. Grace I. Mason—Eng. Lit., C; Chem., 1st. Gertrude I. Mathews --Can. Hist-, C; Anc. Hist., C; Geom-, 3rd. Laura A. Mole--Alge 3rd. Iva L. Nott—Emg. Comp., C; Eng. Lit., C.; Can- Hist., 3rd; Anc. 2nd; Geom., 3rd; Phys., C. Ignatius A. O'Leary -.-Can. Hist., 2nd; Anc. Hist, C; Geom., C.; Phys., 3rd. George Parke—Eng. Comp-, C; Eng. Lit., C; Can. Kist., 3rd; Anc- Hist., 1st; Geom., C; Phys., 2nd. Margaret E. Patrick—Alg., 1st; Chem., and; Lat. A., 1st; Lat. Comp, 1st; Fr. A., 2nd; Fr Comp., 2nd. R. Rossie Patrick—Alg., 1st; Chem. 2nel- Lorne J. Pinkney—Can. Hist-, 2nd; Anc. Hist., 3rd; Geom., 1st; Phys., 1st. Joseph (M. Purcell—Chem., 3rd. Mary A. Purcell—Chem., C. Mary D. Reid—Eng. Comp-, 3rd; Eng. Lit., C.; Can. Hist., C; Anc. Hist., 1st; Phys., G Margaret R. Rolph — Alg., 1st; Chem., 3rd; Lat A., 1st; hat. Comp., 2nd; Fr. A-, 2nd; Fr. Comp., 2nd. Florence E. Ryan—Eng. Comp., C; Eng. Lit., C.; Can. Hist, C; Are. Hist., and; Geom., 3rd; Phys., Alice M. Siemon—Can Hist., 1st. Grace J. Scott—Alg., C.; Chem- C.; Let. A., C.; Let. Comp., C; Fr. A-, C; Fr.Comp., C.;Greek A., C; Greek Accid., C. Mildred, Shinen—Alg., 1st; Chem., 2nd; Let. A., 1st; Let. Comp. let; Fr. A., let; Fr. Comp-, 2nd. Margaret A. Smith—Can- Hist, C; Alg., 1st; Geom., C; Phys., C; Cnem.. 3rd. Charles B. Stewart—Chem., C. E. Neil Tyndall—Can- Hist., 3rd; Anc- Hist., C; Geom., 1st; Phys-, 1st. Clare C. Way—Eng. Comp., C; Chem., 2nd, Fern E. Wheatley—Alg., let; Chem. 1st; Lat. A-, let; Let. C,omp., let; Fr A., 1st; Fr. Comp-, 1st. Ernestine W. White—Lat, A., 2nd; Lat. Comp-, 1st; Fr- A., 2nd; Fr. Comp., 2nd. Margaret W. White—Geom., let ; Chem.2nd; Let- A., 2nd; Let. Comp. 3rd; Fr. A., 2nd; Fr, Comp., 3r1 Joseph Williams—Can. Hist., C; Anc, Hist., 3rd; Geom., 3rd; Phys., C. Edith R. Wolsh—Alge 2nd; Chem., 1st; Lat- A., 1st; Lat. Comp., 1st; Fr. A., let; Fr. Comp-, let. Erma M. Workman—'Eng. Lit , C; Can. Hist., C; Anc- Hist., 3rd; Geom. 3rd; Plays., 3rd. Gordon A. Wright—Eng. Lite, C. ; Chem., 1st; Lat. A., 3rd; Let. Comp., 3rd; Fr. Comp., C AN IINTEROKUNG OMIT A few interesting things 'about the City of Dearborn, formerly Spring - wells, then Fordson, by a Canadhen visiting in the city: Notedly oat from Dearborn in the Ford airport on Oakwood Boulevard, where the aeroplanes land from all over, and as we entered the gate a „ Op'4 if r g - g. Cleveland .4).4' a 12 peacemertil oral veoplo wove:* but our 'party Wotkr. was the thene,Ri444P14°Rotto;; 17; pal,21n0x0 a pools-,cr s s iwt wbraet h yap,t74r,r bathing suit, get a loolmc 00, to for 15 cents, given a showeV he$hi 49. inspected Were you can enter.. pools. The depth of the' 4iff1,0 pools vary from 3 to 1.2 feet, , guards are upon pedestals l rfkgV"- in case of accident. There were • thousands of bathers and thanalKitil • ' of autos parked in the free parking space. The picnic grounds are equip. ped with tables, benches, stoves and fountains. There are stoves where' you can cook and fry to your hearts content, and across the way the Riven Rouge gently ows, underfoot bridges and cement walks. Dearborn has a population of 54,000 and 106 police on duty at in- tervals to protect the citizens. Clyde M. Ford, nephew of Henry Ford, is Mayor. The new High School recent- ly built at a cost of over $10,000 is an imposing structure, and an arm3r of 11,530 students will enter the dif- ferent schools in September. The Ford Motor Factory employs approxi- mately 100,000' men and a Graham - Paige factory is one of the other in- dustries. There are a lot of Canad- ians in this city, and several from the town of Seaforth, and all are seemingly prosperous in this neat and progressive city of Dearborn, Michi- gan. tat tIOR WALTON Notes.—Mr. and Mrs. John Watt,. who spent the past week visiting rel- atives in Hamilton and Guelph, have returned to their home here. — Miss. Gertrude Miller visited with relatives in Mitchell recently.—Mrs. Robert Ferguson and three daughters, Miss- es Annie, Maude and Jean Ferguson,. were guests at the home of Mr. and Mrs. William Woods. --/Miss Violet. 'Moon, of Stevensville, is at present visiting with relatives here.—Mr. and Mrs. Peter B. Gardiner, Mrs. Robert. J. Waugh and Misses Vera M. Gard- iner and Lois E. Naylor spent Sat- urday calling on friends in Stratford.. —Cameron Dennis, of North Bay, is, atpresent visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Dennis.—Mr. and Mrs.. Joseph Carter motored to Kitchener' on Sunday.—Al Strang and Harold Swan, of London, spent the week end visiting friends here.—Miss Margaret. Love, who has been in Stratford for , some time, has returned to her home here.—Little Lois Hackwell is at pres- ent visiting her grandparents, Mr.. and Mrs. Freeman Rockwell. TUCKERSIVETTE Ladies' Club.—The regular meeting of the Tuckersmith Ladies' Chile was held on August 7th, at the home of Mrs. N. Garrett. There was a splen- did attendance of members and sev- eral visitors. The programme was' under the convenorship of the Social Committee, put on by the children and consisted of chorus, trios, recitations and mouth organ selections. A ques- tion drawer was an interesting fea- ture and many weighty matters were discussed and settled. Following the business part, the ladies quilted a quilt, after which lunch was served.. 'Mrs. W. Landsborough is to be the hostess for the next meeting, to be held September 4th, and it is expect- ed the an outside speaker will be present. The roll call is to be answer- ed with "What others do that annoy me most." Notes.—Miss Marian Houston, of St. Marys, is visiting her brother, Mr. F. G. Houston.—Mr. Andrew Bell pur- chased a new tractor which he is - now using for ploughing for fall wheat. Mr. Bell believes in being up to date with all modern improve- ments.—The many friends of Robert - McGregor are pleased to see him a- round again after his recent opera- tion in the Seaforth rospital.-11fr. Lennis Seaman, of Kitchener, visited Robert McGregor on Sunday. He was - accompanied home by his wife and son, who have been spending the past couple of weeks visiting the latter' brother.—Mrs. Grace Ross, of Sea - forth, is visiting friends, in the neigh- borhoed.—Mr. John C. Doig, of De- troit College of Law, received word that he had successfully passed his law examinations. He also passed the - Civil Service examination, for which he has been preparing for for some time.—Mr. Charlie Trombley and Mr. and Mrs. William Rush, of Stratford, who have been visiting with Mr. and Mrs. Jonah Green, returned home ac- companied by Mrs. Green, who will visit with them for a few days. -- Mrs. William Fairburn, of the Bend, and children are visiting for a few' days with friends in the neighbor- hood.—Mr. and Mrs. David Foss, of Hansen, and Miss Flossie Foss and Mr. Stewart, of Toronto,, visited on Sunday with 'Mr. and Mrs. William MoDonald.-11r. George Murray, of AMars, Iowa, visited his cousin, Mrs. .1. D. Stewart &wily the woet. —ffVirs. Markham, of London, fir via. iting, at the horse of Mr. 'and Mro. J. D. Stewart. ---Mine !kelp 'gavel,. ford, of Toronto, Vas Vaulting her. brother, Bernard, at the home ad and Mrs. W. H. MIL:sc.% — Mildred Voreat risikd littt friend, Moo Agnes l'nan adChit6l40 burnt, over the =eh erig