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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1929-09-06, Page 1>1E, Y24.111 V115WZ9VVYAIIiZit8228 1101 (S1<ne Deasilsea 02 7th) ,'`Tk8.Y THE HOME ll' I S 7lRST" The idea, that buying in the big city is a saving, is not always correct. 'Years ergo, this was true ---before the day of standardized mereha. Vise, When operating a store was 90 per cent. buying and 10 per cent. selling; in days when a storekeeper bought a six month's stock atone time, and before the present transportation systems and distribution methods were existent. Then, there was no question but what one could purchase newer, more au- to -date and perhaps better merchandise in the city, and for less --.but it's di erent now. The truth of the matter is that standardized merchandising, and that is the only kind of merchandise in which to invest, can be sold, and in millions of cases, is being sold for less in towns away from 'big cities. That you can buy for less in a big city, or that an article or thing pur- chased in the city is any better, is mostly all in your mind—a fact once, but a myth now. But the city merchants are wise business men, and they ]have purposely let the old idea .prevail, in fact, have done much to encourage you to continue to think along the lines of "what used to be." And why shouldn't they? It is good business—on their part. But there is many a city merchant who laughs up his sleeve when you buy from him the very same thing that you could have purchased at home, for less money. Recently, I asked a city merchant: "Why should a resident of Blankville buy from you?" His reply was: "We make them like it," and that is all he would say. When asked if he sold for less, he said: "I'd rather not dis- cuss that subject." As long as there are towns and cities and people in them, there will al- ways be certain ones who will think that in order to be somebody and have something to talk about, in order to "lord" it over others, to be different from what they term the plebeian multitude, they have to go to some other city to buy. People who live in Blankville go to Oshkosh; those in Oshkosh go to Milwaukee; Milwaukeeians go to Chicago; Chicagoites go to New York; New Yorkers go to Paris --.so these people have gone and are going, but every day, more and more thinking people are awakening to the fact that it's all poppy -cock as far as values are concerned. City people -thousands of them—are driving to smaller communities to ]purchase everything from edibles, clothing and furniture to luxuries, and they are buying these things at a saving. Don't be "contemptuously fam- iliar" with the advantages your own stores offer you—do not "stand so close to the picture that you cannot see the frame"—it is to the advantage of your pocket book, evidence of good judgment, and -to the advantage of your com- munity, which is your advantage, to buy where you live, work, play and make your money. Think it over, then "Try the Home Folks First." Copyright, 1929, A. D. Stone. Reproduction prohibited in whole or in 'part. This Town Doctor Article is published by The Expositor in co-operation vial the Seaforth Lions Club. ONTARIO'S ORIGINAL FOREST THEIR DECLINE AND FALL (Forest and Outdoors) What has become of the original forests, the forests that covered the country when Jacques Cartier dis- covered the St. Lawrence? Lumbering began in Canada over two hundred years ago on the St. Lawrence. Operations reached the City of Ottawa a hundred years lat- er. In 1807 the first raft of square timber floated away from the mouth of the Gatineau. For the next fifty years operations in Ontario were confined almost exclusively to the Ottawa River and its tributaries, and the Trent waters below Peterboro. Between 1800 and 1865 we had cut the finest of our white pine forests. As early as 1840 operation had ex- tended almost to the headwaters of the Madawaska and Bonnechere, and had reached Lake Traverse on the Petawawa as early as 1855, and in that year square timber was made on the Jocko at the foot of Lake Temiskaming, In 1856 no less than three and one-half million cubic feet of saw timber was cut on the Mada- waska and fifteen million cubic feet above the City of Ottawa. Lumber- ing operations were also active on the Trent waters as early as 1840 and had reached Indian Point on Bal- sam Lake in 1855 and 60 miles up ]Burnt River and far into the interior in 1860. Little or no lumbering was done in Western Canada, or Western Ontario as it now is, except for local con- sumption, until 1858 when the first rafts of square timber left Big Creek on Lake Erie for Tonawanda. Square timber and spars were shipped from the vicinity of Barrie, Orillia and An- gus near the Georgian Bay as early as 1864. Logging had even begun on the north shore of Lake Huron on the Spanish as early as 1863, and a few local mills had started operations before that time. Little had been done in the way of logging in Mus- koka, Parry Sound, Nipissing or Hali- burton district until after 1860: -From 1860 to 1870 operations were pushed north through Addington, Hastings,. Haliburton and Muskoka, and along the shores of Georgian Bay. Between 1870 and 1.885 operations had reached the shores of Lake Nipissing from the east, south and west and were active in many places along the north shore of Lake Huron from the French River to the Soo, extending inland for a distance of 40 miles. Between 1885 'and 1907 operations extended into all the new districts and in many instances reached the head waters of the streams flowing into Lake Huron or the Ottawa River and as far west as Rainy Lake and Lake of the Woods. Prior to 1857 the province was div- ided into four sections according to the character of the pine: (1) The white pine country extend- ing from Ottawa to Pembroke, an area 100 miles long by 40 miles wide, covering the counties of Carleton, Lanark and Renfrew. (2) The red pine country beyond, extending from Pembroke westerly to Lake Nipissing, a distance of nearly 180 miles with a breadth of fifty u�aiies. (8) The ;hardwood country covering the territory at the heed waters of all the streams flowing into the Ot- r.; wa, Lake Nipissing and the Georg- ian Bay, or what is now included in our Algonquin Parr!:. (4) The rocky and isolated region on the shores of Lake Boron which was then practically unknown. The white .pirse vaunt*' Which was more or les` an agricultural country has been all cut over years ago or destroyed by fire. The same remarks will almost apply to the red pine dis- trict. The hardwood country has nearly all been square -timbered over, and in fact logged -over, although there is perhaps several billion feet of pine still standing. The country to the east of Lake Huron and to the north extending inland many miles has since that date been partly lum- bered over, or partly devastated by fire, and to -day the greater quantity of our red and white pine timber still in the Crown is in the Timigami and and Mississagi Forest Reserves and Quetico Provincial Park. The most valuable of our hardwood timber was burnt by early settlers when clearing off their land or used as fuel, and to -day there is no hard- wood forest left to compare in area or quality with the original forests of the Indian Peninsula, the Huron tract or the older part of Ontario bordering on Lakes Erie and On- tario. Neither can we compare our present pine forests to those which have been cut or burnt over in the last 100 years. Careless operations in the old days did much to lessen the supply of tim- ber in Ontario. Examining the re- ports of the surveys and explorations made prior to 1855, we find that near- ly all of the Huron and Ottawa terri- tory, including the districts of Hall- burton, Muskoka and Parry Sound, the Counties of Addington, Hastings and Renfrew, were practically a vir- gin forest of mixed timber, pine pre- dominating, with only parts of a few townships burnt over. Prior to 1860 a virgin forest covered the territory on the upper branches of the Trent waters. In that year a fire (broke out on the Burnt River in the Townships of Snowdon and Glamorgan in Hali- burton caused by a trapper's smudge. In 1851 the first fire of any magni- tude to visit the Ottawa Valley com- menced at the mouth of the Bon- nechere River and burnt over what was known locally as the Big Pine country. This fire originatedp from the burning paper of a musket fired by a river driver. In 1868 the Bis - setts Creek country from the Ottawa River to Lake Traverse on the Peta- wawa was devastated, and in 1870 the Skead limits on the OpeOngo. In. 1876 the country from the Peatawawa to the Bonnechere River met the same fate, a fire being started through the carelessness of a river driver. In these fe* fires alone the prov- ince lost several million feet of our finest white and red pine. To -day you will scarcely find a township in the white and red pine country that has not been burnt or partly burnt over, and in many instances the fires have swept over them several times. The surveyor who, between 1855 and 1857 outlined the north shore of Lake Huron from Lake Nipissing to Sault Ste. Marie, and extending back from the shore nearly 40 miles, des- cribes the country as a vast forest of green timber. Scarcely a burnt area was to be seen. Tho country was not as heavily timbered with pine as was the Ottawa Valley. There were, however, large areas of excel- lent pine and other mixed timbers. The first conflagration occurred in 1864 with the great fire of that year. It began near Otter Tail Lake on the Thessalon River and worked its way west into the old cutting around the Bruce Mines and east of Blind River, where it reached some old saw log cutting by a French-Qianadian whose name was Salvoil. Continuing east along the shore it reached the mouth of the .Serpent where it destroyed a local mill owned by Lawton. lfero It met fresh fur i in the "old Cuttings and continued east to 1 the Spanish and up that streann for many miles, almost the entire elope of the Xll- larney a Mountain being swep* ovum from White Fish west to Collin's In- let. In August - of the same year, while this fire was burning, a fiercer fire was working its way west from the west arm of Lake Nipissing until they met somewhere in the valley of the W(ahnapitae. But this was an incipient fire com- pared to the one that followed it in 1871. The fire of 1864 followed the dry moss -covered rocks and small pine ridges, but when it struck a swamp or muskeg it stopped or smouldered until it was revived by high winds or found fresh fuel in some of the timber cuttings. The winds and storms of six years level- ed down the dead timber, piling wind- faIls around the skirts of swamps and muskegs. The fire of 1871 start- ed almost at every point of the com- pass along the north shore from French River to the Kaministiquia on Lake Superior. The season was ex- ceedingly dry and hot. It swept ov- er the dry timber and brule of 1864, destroying swamp barriers that sav- ed the pineries six years before. Clouds of smoke, tipped with a fringe of flame, swept from one hill -top to another. Lakes, rivers and swamps formed no barriers of protection. Township after township was swept over south of the French and millions of pine destroyed. The fire extended up that river, along the west shore of Lake Nipissing and up the Stur- geon. Swinging around westerly it crossed the Wahnapitae and continu- ued to the head waters of the Spanish up the Vermillion and west to the head waters of the Mississaga and down the stream for over fifty miles. This fire swept over an area of more than 2,000 square miles, leav- ing only the black skeletons of the original forest in its wake. So was the growth of centuries destroyed, never to be wholly replac- ed. IROAPViI1lNG I[N THE ILOAMENG (By Bil Powl) The sidewalks of Detroit are as crowded as are the sidewalks of New York. With the city's popula- tion and that of the adjacent towns and cities both sides of the river, the combined populations exceed two million people. At busy hours the great bulk of the' two millions con- fines itself to the centre of Detroit, about a mile and a half square. Detroit forty years ago was a beautiful city, and is so to -day, ex- cept for certain spots where the bo - hunk has parked itself. In such spots the grass is worn off the boule- vards. Toronto has this condition, too; the bohunk European is not as fond of grass and flowers as are those of the Anglo -Celtic origin. Detroit'3 streets are not as clean as those of Toronto, nor are its residental streets as well lighted. Coons! Coons! Detroit always had its share of the darkly complected. Since the war the coon has moved north. He got tired of living on cawn meal mush and razorback pork. The coon couldn't see why the white trash of the Sunny Suuth did all the loafing, and he did all the work—and at very small pay. So he hiked for de in- dustrial centres. The colored man is a problem in Detroit, Chicago and New York. Strange to say, the col- ored population of Toronto has de- creased in forty years. At one time The Ward in Toronto was a quarter coon, half Irish and the other quar- ter dives. Cuonesses Hunt Bargains. A big Jack Johnston cooness tried on severalhead-pieces that were on bargain in a Congress street depart- ment. Her head was- so big, she had a hard job getting one over her kinky wool. Without a shoehorn, she got one a'' ross. She took a peek at her- self in a mirror. "Ah looks like da debil," she said as she threw it back on the table. A white woman same along and picked up the same hat, tried it on, the hat suited and fitted, and she exchanged a dollar note for it. I'd like to have a photograph of a Toronto white woman purchasing a lid that a coon has discarded. But Toronto has its kikes. That's an- other coon story. ]Beauty Parlors for Dusky Belles. Human nature has its kinks. The white gals patronize beauty parlor for permanent waves and other waves. The colored gals of Detroit go to beauty parlor- to have their permanent waves unkinked. Don't believe it, eh Said I to my lady companion, a blonde with straight hair, "the color- ed population looks to me to be half - coon and half -Indian. The blacker the gal, the straighter the hair." She smiled. "Don't you know the colored women go to coon beauty parlors to have the kinks taken out of their wool?" I didn't. But I took a look at my Iady friend, who had spent fifteen bucks to have kinks put in her blonde tresses. The colored gals don't go to the lip stick. Too much red lips, 1 guess! Must have lamp black in their compacts, though. Summers Hot, Winters Cold. Detroit is a hot town in summer. Makes one long to get back to the begches of Toronto East. I have seen a good bit of America. Except in a few smaller cities such as Erie, Pa., Battle Creek, Mich., or Daven- port, Is,, none of the United States cities that I have seen have any- thing( on Toronto) as a residential is Thrething CUFF& SONS city. None are as well built, that is, homes. And the American cities have a sour, gassy smell. Toronto is developing that smell down -town among the skyscrapers. Cleveland had its bohunks back several decades. The Hungarians then wore wooden shoes and the click, click resounded from the stone flag sidewalks. To- day the first and second generations of these Hungarians are just as good native Americans as any. Some of these figure in the baseball scores of the big leagues,. The melting pot made a good job of it. Cleveland and Toronto are more alike than any other two cities that. I know of. When I was on the road I came up from Lima, Ohio, where the Pennsyl- vania railroad crosses the C. H. & D., to Detroit one day in February. Down in Ohio the weather was nice, n: snow. At Toledo snow and frost showed st'me. When we pulled into Detroit, the wind and frost s ild freeze a 'Linos monkey. Just as c' ld es Fort t'; ill sui or Port Arth'ir when the wind is on the job. I had to ga to my grip for a cap that night in Detroit. The 27th Cavalry. Back several moons my chum and I were walking along Commercial Street in Detroit. We passed the fort. A recruiting sergeant was out in front looking for cavalrymen to go out of Fort Brenton, Montana, v here old Sitting Bull was raising hell and hair. At first impulse I de- cided to soldier for Uncle Sam. My chum was of a pure Scottish descent. Not so impetuous as myself, he took five or more minutes to make up his mind. He said he would "Jine up." I had time to reflect, and said I wouldn't. I saved my black curly locks that time. For old Sitting Bull and his Sioux didriat 'dq.-,a thing af- terwards to Uncle Saria's 27th cav- alry. A Fair Exchange No Robbery. Detroit was British in 1812 and To- ronto was Yankee. I often wonder if Detroit stayed British would it have a million and a half of population as it has to -day; or would Toronto, if it stayed Yankee, had the million and a half, and Detroit Toronto's three- quarters of a million of 1929. In my boyhood days in -London, Ont., Toronto appeared to us as a good- sized village somewhere on Lake On- tario, while Detroit, but three hours' away, was a large city as cities went at that time. Few Londoners of that time came to Toronto. True, E. W. Hyman and Mr. Kighley came and bought the Toronto street railroad for $28,000, and Hon. Frank Smith came to Toronto to run it. And made a good job of the old horse cars, too. In 1929 London jpeople own a big chunk of Toronto. A real estate fmie' o . tells me . half the mortgages on Toronito real estate s owned by Londoners. A therm 4.re, more native-born !,[turas'; , nen Iii 114' . troit than in London and Tomato combined, Funny how events shape themselves. ' 'Me Police 'Force. The police officers are dressed as police officers should be in this west- ern world. Collar and tie show, cape on their heads, blue cloth, ,neatly fit- ting suits. A bit different to the monstrosities that deck out Toronto's patrolmen. Toronto's helmet and chin strap belong to militarized Eur- ope. How much smarter do the mounted men and the side.•car men of Toronto look than the patrolmen! REPORT 0IF 10G SENPI`VIJ LENTS The following is the report of hog shipments for month ending July 31, 1929: SEAFORTH—Total hogs, 360; se- lect bacon, 149; thick smooth, 187; heavies, 8; extra heavies,- 3; shop hogs, 3; lights and feeders, 2. BRUCEFIELD—Total hogs, 21 ; select bacon, 11; thick smooth, 10. WALTON—Total hogs, 105; select bacon, 35; thick smooth, 57; heavies, 7; shop hogs, 2. HIErNSALL—Total hogs, 509; se- lect bacon, 179; thick smooth, 272; heavies, 28; shop hogs, 9; lights and feeders, 11. TRUCK DELIVERIES—Total hogs 3,019; select bacon, 853; thick smooth, 1,920; heavies, 95; extra heavies, 6; shop hogs, 69; lights and feeders, 2. HURON COUNTY — Total hogs, 7,144; select bacon, 2,338; thick smooth, 4,116; heavies, 256; extra heavies, 16; shop hogs, 175; lights and feeders, 45. PEA.CHEE, We expect ac:;r load of Alberta Peaches in in a- bout two weeks SPEC I L PRICE OFF CAR Phone your orders to 2330 Q 32 S if©r :ll BOWLING TOURN 2MlENT The Seaforth bowlers staged a lo - cola Scotch doubles tournament on Wednesday on the old greens, when twelve rinks were in competition. With perfect weather conditions and keen greens the bowlers had a won- derfuI night and the play was very keen. Three plus and minus games were played, the winners of the first event being Gordon Dick and Russel Sproat. The second event to C. P. Sills and Dr. Bechely. The scores: J. MacTavish J. Beattie -3 losses minus 15. G. Dick R. H. Sproat -3 wins plus 10. Dr. R. R. Ross E. H. Close -2 wins plus 2. J. Devereux W. G. Willis -2 losses minus 5. Sefforth FEllE 0 a "51112SIDA1Y ARD MAY Sept "._9 20,1329 LIVE STOCK, POULTRY, ROOTS AND VEGETABLES FRUITS ANID FLOWERS, LADIES' WORK, FINE ARTS SCiiOOL CHILDREN'S EXHIBIT, ETC. DOMINION SHORTHORN BREEDERS' ASSOCIATION SPECIALS SPECIAL 4 L Al T TRA C11 11 ONS Horse Races, Foot and Bicycle Races. Relay Horse Race, Running Horse Race, ilorseback Potato Race, Horse Shoe Pitching Tournament, Colossal Midway—Amusement Galore. SCHOOL CHILDREN'S PARADE AND DRILL MUSiC f.;V SEAFORTH PIPE BAND ADMISSION: Adults 25c, Children 15c, Grand Stand: Adults 15c, Children IOc. All School Children in Parade Admitted Free. Autos 25c eperz ilk —"Lod e(f Full zsy99 A Musical, Singing and Dancing Revue under the direction of Mrs. Alice 111lenderson Singers, Dancers, Fun Makers, Vaudeville, Entertainment Two Hours of Solid Fun Doors open 7.15 p.m. Concert at 8,02) o'clock ADMISSION—Ali Seats, 55c; Children 25c. lhANCN ]IN Qa.W.V.A. ROOMS AleerleiR THE CONCERT S]RAFOIRTIBi A kIICULTUiRAL SOCIIBhFY Thomas Livingston, Pres. A. D. Sutherland, Sec'y: Tread. Prize ]Lists may as had from the Secretary F. ]liohi1Rso;ta W.•r�Thos apsona-A 1I+, Dade' .• T. Johnston,` Onodi plugs' R, Devereu:s Dr. J. G. Grieve -2 visage. G. Snott R. E. Bright -1 win phis 2. C. 11). ,Sills 'Dr. Beishley-8 wins -plus fi. W. J. Duncan H. Jeffrey --,2 wine plus 5. M. Sanderson R. J. Sproat -3 losses minus 16. J. Hotham R. Boyd -2 wins plus 10. DUBLIN LIN Notes.—Mr. and Mrs. T. +Holland and children, of Windsor, are visiting at the home of Mr. and Mrs. G. R. Holland. ---Miss Marion Hunter has returned to Toronto. -- Mr. William Smith, of Dunnville, is holidaying with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. Smith. --We are pleased to have Mr. P. Lunney around again after an at- tack of pneumonia.—The following visitors spent Sunday and holidays with friends: Mr. and Mrs. F. Dill and babe; Messrs. Ralph and Joe Dill of Detroit; Miss Annie Judge, Mr. and Mrs. J. Judge and children, of Detroit; Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Jordan and children, of Jordan Station; Mr. and Mrs. P. F. Beni and boys and Mrs. K. Evans, of London; Miss Mary McGrath, of Toronto; Miss Aileen Mulligan, of Detroit; Miss Jean Me - Connell, of Detroit; Messrs. Joe Jor- dan, Louis Krauskopf and Lorne Cronin, of Detroit. The following teachers have returned: Misses V. McConnell to St. Clemens; Marie Benninger, Hamilton; Annie McGrath, Chatham; Gertrude Stapleton, Toron- to; Ruth Hills, Ottawa; Mr. Hugh Benninger, to Ayton. EIIILILSGR EIC+ N Notes.—Master John Farquhar, of Hensall, who has been spending his summer holidays at the home of his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. J. Cochrane, returned to his home again. —Miss Jessie Johnston, of Clifford, called on friends in this vicinity over the week end.—Mrs. R. Porterfield and daughter, Mrs. Chamberlain, and Helen, of Seaforth; Mr. and Mrs. Penman and daughter, Betty, of Clif- ford, called at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Jame» Love.—Mrs. D. Nichol and Mr. Joe 'Hiagan, of Hensall, called at the home of Mr. and Mrs. W. Jar- rott on Saturday.—Mrs. J. Consitt, of Seaforth; Mrs. James Wright, of Mitchell, and Mrs. Al. Harvey, of Kippen, were Tuesday visitors with friends in this vicinity.—Mrs. R. Love is spending a few days with friends in this community.—Mr. Russel Love, of London, is spending a few days at the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. Love.—IMr. and Mrs. Frank Coleman, of Seaforth, were Sunday visitors at the home of Mrs. L. Troyer who returned with them to spend a few days.—Quite an enjoyable even- ing was spent at the lakeside at Drysdale on Wednesday evening, when a number of the town line neigh- bors held a weiner roast and with a bon fire and games passed the even- ing off very fine, and all report a good time.—Mr. W. Forrest and Mr. M. McIver, of Goderich, called on friends in this vicinity.—Misses Mar- garet and Bertha Forrest, of Seaforth and Mrs. Sheffer, of Florida, spent a few days at the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. '"ochrane.—Mr. and Mrs. 3. Horner, of Zurich, called on Mrs. L. Troyer.—Mr. and Mrs. W. Carlile and daughters, Misses Annie and Martha, were Sunday visitors with friends in Hensall.—Mrs. J. Petty and daughter, Miss Sara, of near Hensall, were re- cent visitors at the home of Mrs. L. Troyer.—Master Harry Manuel, who has been spending several weeks at the home of Mr. and Mrs. W. Love, returned to his home in London.—The schools reopened on Tuesday. Mr. Stewart Beatty, of Londesboro, has been re-engaged in No. 7, Stanley, and Miss Eileen Turner in No. 3, Hay.— Mr. ay—Mr. and Mrs. George Coleman and daughters, Misses Grace and Gladys, moved this week to their new home in Egmondville. They will be greatly missed in this community, A host of good wishes goes with them to their new home.—Messrs. .Jack and Fred and Miss Lillian Steacy, of Detroit, called at the home of Mr. and Mrs, W. .Jarrott on Monday. IEILUMVI[]LLIE Notes.—Rev. and Mrs. White and children left on Saturday to visit for a few days with relatives in Windsor and Chatham.—The Young People's Society of this church and others of the neighborhood numbering about sixty, had an enjoyable picnic at Springbank on Friday last.—Master• ,Johnny .Jones had his tonsils remov- ed last week.—Mr. Charles Stephen has had the Hydro installed in his home.—Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Davis and son, Mrs Beckett and son, of Woodham, visited Mrs. Jonathan Cooper last week. ---Mr. and Mrs. Will Elford were in Wellburn the first of the week to see Mrs. Elford's father. Mr. Hall, who is suffering from a stroke. His condition remains about the same.—Misses Joy and Evelyn Whitlock, of St. Thomas, were cal- lers in the vicinity on Labor Day.— Mr. and Mrs. Ernie Foster, of Gran- ton, visited at Mr. ,James Hey -wood's on Sunday—Mr. and Mrs. Nelson Baker were guests of Mr. and Mrs. Melville Skinner on Sunday last.— Mr. Robert Roweliffe renewed ac- quaintances on the north part of the 4th concession last week.—Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Pym and ehildren, also Miss Bernice March, 'Were in Toronto attending the Fair for several days. —Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Day, of Ex- eter, were visitors at Mr: IlDwart Pym's last Sunday.—Mi>as Peridus, from England, was visiting at Mr. 4�uwryt �.yJc ;See ter, days wit`. last weak.. eis,efLo41#bS John's and eb'ild er#, 7 Ruth, were at ;M test of the week. and children have been'' � c several weeks, where, been taking a come, ' spend. a eouple of 'w alas $ui and in this vicinity before re,- to their home in Brandon Wile a ,, Johns has- a position in the UYalvens,. ity.—,Mr. Lew Woods and severot boys, of London, holidayed. at Ilk Robert Woods on, ' Sunday and Mon,- day.—Mrs. Foster, of wanton:, spent. a few days visiting her soh, Mr. Hen - man Faster last week. Mission Circle.—The Live Oak Mis- sion Circle met at the home of Miss Elva Horne on Thursday afternoon: last for their regular meeting, These were 26 members and 4 visitors pres=. ent. Miss Marjorie Hunter ledthe meeting. Miss Elva Horne took up chapter 9 of the study book and sev- eral heralds read short articles. Miss Florence Bell favored the meeting with a violin solo, which was much enjoyed. Miss Mae Clarke was ap- pointed delegate to attend the con- vention at Whalem this month. Af- ter the close of the meeting, a ten cent tea was serried. Proceeds from collection and tea amounted to about $5.60. STAFFA The Staffa Chopping Mild will run daily except public holidays, from now till spring. Come in the morning and take year chop home with you. P. O'Brien. 8221x2' Notes.—Mrs. Seth Brown had the misfortune to get her leg broken on Thursday last. She drove in from a mile east of the village with a horse - and buggy and tied it in the United Church shed. When she came to go - home the lines became entangled somehow cramping the buggy short and threw her to the cement floor.— Mr. Treffry, of London, is giving his house here a coat of paint this week, which very much improves the a,p- pearance.--Mr. and Mrs. F. O'Brien and Mr. and Mrs. W. O'Brien, of Flint, Michigan, spent the week end at Rondon Park with their son, who. is camping there.—Mr. and Mrs. Tref- fry, of Flint, Michigan, are ,spending a few days with their uncle and' aunt here.—Mr. George Kerslake and Mr. Sam Webb spent Sunday and Monday at Hamilton and other points. Mrs. Kerslake came home with them after spending a few days there. — Miss Snell has returned to Toronto to take up her duties as teacher.—All they schools opened Tuesday. The kiddies - certainly had a hot time of it. (Copied from a Saskatoon paper) McLellan-Eagle.—The marriage of Miss Winnifred Marguerite Nagle. daughter ofi Mr. and Mrs. George Eagle, 28th Street, to Mr. : arold Mc- Lellan, of the Provincial Department of Agriculture, 'Regina, son of Mr. and MPs. A. McLellan, Staffa, Ont., was a charming event of Wednesday afternoon, August 21st, at the home of the bride's (parents. Rev. Mr. Bunting of St. George's Anglican Church, read the service at 3 o'clock, the ceremony taking place beneath an arch of summer flowers topped by a - white wedding bell tied with pink tulle. The bride, who was given in marriage by her father, wore a love- ly gown of white crepe georgette, the skirt failing in graceful tiers and the bodice finished at the shoulder and waistline with clusters of flowers. Her veil was held in place by a cor- onet of oranglej blossoms and she carried a shower bouquet of pink ros- es and white sweet peas. Her sister, Mrs. Paul Ellison, of Banff, Alberta, was matron of honor, wearing a bouf- fant frock of peach bloom satin with wide handings of metallic lace. Her arm bouquet was composed of pink and yellow snapdragons and fern. Mr. Paul Ellison was best man. The wedding marches were played by Miss Nan Earle, who also accompan- ied Mrs. H. K. Middleton when dur- ing the signing of the register she sang, "Love's Coronation." During' the reception, which followed tin: ceremony, Mrs. Goodall gave much pleasure with violin selections. A buffet luncheon was served immedi- ately after the service, Mrs. Paul Ellison presiding over the table which was centred with the bride's cake in a hed of pink tulle and graced with garden flowers in shades of pink and tall pink candles. Mrs. A. Dunlop and Miss Violet Eagle, the bride's sister, assisted. Mrs. Eagle, mother of the bride, was smartly gowned in salmon /crepe, telsjhorately trimmed with lace in the same shade. Mr. and Mrs. McLellan left later by motor for Regina. where they will make their home. For travelling the bride wore an ensemble of grey with match- ing hat and accessories. The bride's gift to the groom was an Elgin watch; to the bride the groom gave a Hudson seal coat; to the matron of honor a leather hand bag; to the hest man. an amethyst tie pin; to the soloist,. a crystal necklace; to the 'violinist, a pearl and jade necklace, and to 1Xits Eagle silver candlesticks. The many lovely gifts received by the bride In- cluded those -r'von by the tli of McGowan & Company, of vilaacla was a member. Out oiC eueottie at the wedding included Mr. and 'am Paul Alison, of Banff, Alberts.; M. . and Mrs, Munroe, of gott pini', Mr. ilii 11 'is. William ' =ver ] ostite+tn.