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SEAFORTH, Friday, December 7th.
No Hurry
Word comes from Ottawa this
week that owing to the Hepburn Gov-
ernment's refusal to carry out the
ternis of the agreement negotiated
by the former Ontario Premier with
the Dominion Government, construc-
tion of the proposed deep waterway
and power development of the St.
Lawrence has been abandoned for
the present.
Seeing that ex -Premier Henry's
agreement with the Dominion Gov-
ernment obligated the Province of
Ontario to an expenditure in excess
of $100,000,000, one can readily re-
' alize the hesitancy of Mr. Hepburn
and his colleagues to undertake any
•such obligation, even if such an ei-
pendittire would make 1,000,000
horsepower available for hydro elec-
tric purposes.
All the more so, because at the
present time Ontario has more hydro
• electric power than it can use, or'
knows what to do with.
Besides having -a surplus' from its
own development works, the former
government contracted with Quebec
for hundreds of thousands of horse-
power, for which Ontario now has
to pay, although there is no market
for it, and although a great deal of
this power purchased from Quebec
is not even linked up with the On-
tario transmission system.
• Construction of deep waterways
and power development on the St.
Lawrence may come some day. Un-
doubtedly it will, but that time is not
to -day, nor even in the immediate
future.
At the present time Ontario is suf-
fering from and paying for an over
burdening excess of transportation
facilities as well as an excess of hy-
dro power, and that excess not only
exists to -day but -will exist as
far as one can see into the future.
Under these circumstances Ontario
taxpayers will heartily back Mr.
Hepburn and his Cabinet in their
contention, that this is no time to
spend an additional hundred million
or so in order to increase the supply
of either. There is no hurry.
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It Depends on the Kind of •
Emigrant
Lord Rodney of Arlesford, a Brit-
ish Peer, who recently arrived back
in London, England, after a visit to
Canada, has announced he would
propose new county and town com-
mittees for increasing emigration to
Canada on a large scale.
It is true that Canada, in the east,
in the west, and in its centre, has
room and the land to absorb and to
support an almost unlimited number
of British emigrants.
• At the same time, it will make a
great deal of difference to the wel-
fare of Canada and Canadians, just
What type of British emigrants his
Lordship has in mind.
If he is thinking af the type who
• pelieve their main mission in life, af-
ter comingto this country, is to teach
is poor ,benighted Colonials how to
. • live, move' and have our being, as
•well as ho v0 to govern our coinitry,
without contributing anythin else
• towards,their own.'support or that of
'Canada, we don't believe their pres-
• ence here 'would be tolerated, let a -
A Ione welcomed: We have too many
• of that kind no.
0n the other hand, if Lord Rod- •
• !ilex has in rnirid the type of British
Ai ant.who came to Canada in the
.
and Womn, who,
•converted a traddegs,
,ifitte a garden. of farina
,
. and whO' formed the pareptal back-
ground of the best .and most able
minds a upwards of three genera -
dons of Canadians—then :Von.ada
will have unlimited room and an un-
limited welcome for them. .
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Premier Hepburn, on Holiday
Premier Hepburn is to take a holi-
day. He will spend some weeks in
the West Indies and in other places.
There are, no doubt, numerous
people who view the position,' of Pre-
mier as a sinacure, a swell job, as it
were, and considering the salary and
other privileges that go with the posi-
tion, they also believe that a Pre-
mier's days are just one long series,
of holidays.
There are others, quite a numer-
ous, class too, of which we could
name a few, \who devoutly believe
that Onfario wiT1 not suffer from Mr.
Hepburn's absence, no matter how
prolonged it may be. Who would ev-
en rejoice if he never' came back.
Whatever your belief or opinion
may be on the subject, the fact re-
• mains that the position of Premier
of Ontario to -day, is the most exact-
ing, longest, hardest, most soul -pro-
voking, body destroying as well as
the most responsible position that
• any one man,in Ontario occupies,
whether that man meets with your
approval or whether he does not.
Mr. Hepburn has been Premier for
six months. In all probability his
term will extend over the next four
years at least. During those years
his duties .and responsibilities to the
Province will be such that he can not
ttfford to take any liberties with his
lealth, nor can the Province afford
to let him. •
He is a young man, of course, but
even youth and strength can only
burn the candle at both ends for a
very limited time.
° With an important as well as a
strenuous session before him, Mr.
Hepburn is wise to take an extended
holiday at this time. It will pay him
and it will pap the Province. For
that reason all well-meaning citizens
will hope it will be a pleasant and
health -giving one.
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" Good Evening, Friends"
For a long time that was the salu-
tation of the voice that greeted radio
listeners when they tuned in to hear
the nightly broadcast of the Toronto
Globe.
It was a somewhat drawling voice
and ,not unmusical, but these were
minor issues. What the public liked_
abitt that voice was its clarity of
diction; its want of accent, and its
• ability to penetrate a fog of static
with clearness and without apparent
effort.
And it brought an all embracing
and at the same time a most concise
summary of each day's news, voiced
in limpid language.
Constant hearers knew exactly
when to 'listen for the particular
thing that interested them, just as
constant readers of The Globe know
exactly where to look for the things
of particular interest to them, in the
pages of that paper.
Many of our readers have com-
mented on that voice, and many have
asked us to whom it belonged and
where it has gone.
It didn't sound like the voice of a
shrinking violet, but it never pro-
nounced its owner's name, so we
don't know who owned it, and we
don't know where it has gone.
But like a great many others, to
us the Globe newscast does not seem
just quite the same without that slow
salutation which sounded so full of
cheer—"Good Evening, Friends."
WIIAT OTHER PAPERS SAY.
The Cartoonist Did It
(Stratford Bacon-Ileeald)
A cartoonist in the Chicago Daily News makes'
merayeat the expense of the "Brain, Trust" which
was .engaged for some time in working out plans
for lowing under millions.' of acres, of cotton,
keepnig fanners from ,growing wheat and pay-
ing them for the bacon hogs which they did rot
produce.
The cartoonist has the "Brain. Trust" se.ate.d
at the Thanksgiteing day table and in the rale of
waiter is a farmer bearing high in his hand a
tray in which there is nothing at ail: The. fernier
• is saying "Here's That Thanksgiving Turkey I
Didift Raise." •
• itfitay have taken the f'Brain Tru*' folk a
long time to see the folly of their own ideas,
hitt, the cartoonist his beef/gin, it out Vane- all
-CM tee:.
Years, Agone
Interesting Rents picked from
The Expositor of fifty and
twenty-five years ago.
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From :The Huron Expositor of ,
Decembei 5, 1884
The total average attendance, of
the Seaforth •Public School for the
November was 408. The
total ber on the roll for the month
was 50'
-1Boas, sneWlyalling at the railway
track oas Saturday, caused a hroCe;
,drivenbyMrs. Williant McConnell,
to riitevay. She was thrown out
and a severe shaking. The
harness ;and crossbar of the cutter
were lerpken. •
;The meeting's of the Choral So-
ciety have thus far been very ,poorly
attended aecordling to Mr. Kent, the
director.; On Tuesday just eight per-
sons—three soprano, three bass and,
'One tends—were present.
Men have been busily engaged for
.some -Vane eredting poles uponwhich
to string a ,telephone line from Strat-
ford to ,Goderich. The central office
in Seaforth will he in Mr. C. W. Papst
fbook stare.
The extension of the franchise to
women for municipal purposes in-
creases the number of voters in Sea -
forth by thirty-one.
tr. Donald McIntyre bee disposed
of his residence in lVfitchell and hav-
ing leased the residence new being
vacated by Mr. D. D. Wilson, intends
moving his family here shortly.
Dr. Vercoe, who left Seaforth some
time ago for Fort Worth, Texas, is
returning to Ontario on account of
his family, as he thinks the influences
surrounding his children in Texas are
not calculated to beneficially effect
their moral well-being.
Messrs. Lumtsden and •Wilsou have
made exteaeive improvements, in the
interior of their 'store, which, with
their new plate glass front, gives
them one of the handsomest and neat-
est. shops in town.
The deintand for wood is not as
large es in the peat.. Ding the
week first class cordwood ranged at
about $3.50 per cord and short wood
at $2.25.
Four or Are young 'men appeared
before the Mayor • on Wednesday,
charged, with disturbing the meetings
cf the Salvation Array and were fin-
al from $2.25 to $5.50 each.
Messrs. Winter and Donovan ship -
ed a car load of splendid heavy draft
horses on Saturday last.
Mr. Good of Toronto has purchased
nom 'Mr. Frank Smith, the property
on Main Street recently occupied by
Mw. Trzorne.
The last few days of mild weather
have had a disastrous effect on the
sleighing which we have enjoyed the
past few weeks.
There are now 2,409 volumes in the
Library of the Seaforth Mechanics.
Institute and 200 new books will he
added this year.
/Mrs. J, Coxwtorth, owner of the
Mammoth skating rink, Hensel!, has
had a number of men at work flood-
ing it.
Mr. Henry Schafer of Rippen ship-
ped a carload of butter and eggs to
Detroit last week.
The audtion sale of Mr. W. S. Mun-
delr, Tiickersmith', was well attended
and the sum oef $1,500 was realized.
Cows brought fororn $40 to ,$63, stock-
ers from $40 to $50, and Mr. Robert
Elgie purchased a two-year-old geld-
ing for $180. The auctioneer's ham-
mer was wielded by the old veteran,
Mr. J. P. Brine, and the manner in
which he .acquitted himself was the
'admiration of'all present.
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From The Huriin Expositor of
December 10, 1909
R. Jeffrey was elected Worshipful
Master of Britannia Lodge at the an-
nual ;fleeting on Monday evening.
William Smithers was elected presi-
dent of the Seaforth Hockey Club at
the annual meeting in the Town Hall
on Friday evening; J. McKenzie, vice-
president, and Henderson Smith, sec-
retary -treasurer.
Steps were taken on Tuesday even-
ing to forni a branch of the Y.M.C.A.
here and J. T, Curtis was elected
President of the organization,.
.0wing 'to the large attendance of
pupils at the Collegiate, it has been
necessary to engage a sixth teacher.
Mr. Alex McDonald, a former resi-
der.t of Egmendirille, died at his home
in Sault St. Marie, Michigan, on Mon-
day. He learned his trade as black-
emith with the late Robert Fulton
and for a time worked with Mr. Thos.
Hills of Eg-mondville.
Mr, Joseph Hurley, for a number
of year a resident of Seaforth, was
killed in an elevator in Brantford on
Saturday. He was in his 75.th year.
The ,S.C.I. Literary Society held an
o -pen meeting in the school on Mon-
day eveting •last when addresses were
given by Rev. Dr. F. H. Larkin and
Dr. F. J. Burrows.
Work has already comemnced in
getting the rink ready for skating
and curling. It was flooded for the
first time on Friday last.
The Penple's Railway Company,
which was planning to 'construct an
electric railway front New Hamburg
to erich, received a set -back this
week when the City of Stratford re-
fused to take any stock.
lMe. J. A. Wilson has had the frame
house on, Goderich Street, between
The f.parsonage and tDr. Burris?ws, rais-
ed up, preparatory to therifig it to
his own let, to use an a stable.
Mr. John Beattie has rented his
residience in 1grnoncvil10 to Mw. Mc-
Mahan, who is already moving in. Mr.
Beattie has Moved' to the rooms over
his store in the old Bank of Commerce
bandit-lg. '
Mr. John H. Moore ha§ opened a
machine and • repaid shop hi Petty's
/3Ioelc, Bengali.
Rev. Mn, Kettlewell, addiresed
largely attended nieeting in the in,
tereets of! Ladd OPtion h Cannel
Church, Hentall, on Tuesday:se „.
Mess -ds. C. Vella and C. ri6dirian
of Zurich were out on a hunting 63t-
peditiOn and in three -bents bigged
ten white rabbits.
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'When -wiled and pitbe
Hailed pasitor? About 1867
Luxton arrived in Sealforth, train
Strathroy, purchased the eqiiipment
and; ,good will of a small four-page
sheet which has been struggling here
for a few yeare, changed its risme, to
The ESepositor aid earritmeneed busi-
ness.
The Yellowing year G. W. Rita,
later the Hon. G. W., joined him and
the two ran the paper until 1.8/10,
when it was, sold to M. Y. ,MeLean.
Luxton went from Seaforth
Winnipeg where he founded the Win-
mipeg..Free .Peess in. 18'72. •
.An interesting, story of 'Winnipees
first election ' in which Mr. Luxton
was a candidate for Mayor, is told by
Fred Williams in a recent issue of .the
"Mail and Empire." He says in peat:
'The &e$ ivic elections in- Wined,
peg were held on 'Deceiniber 1, 1873.
Fort Garry had only just disappeared
es a town; Whinipeg had taken its
place The work of civic erganiza-
tion 1ad peoeeededdapace from No.
vernbe 7th, the date of incorporations
the el etoral maehinery had been
proyid sl; voterslists had; been pre-
pared; ' but, 'seemingly, those lists
were incomplete, for, although there
were, only 308 names on the lists, the
declaration of the mayoralty poll in-
dicated that 562 votes had been case
The rival, candidates were Frank E.
-Cornish, Q.C., and W. F, Luxton, who
had-Ileum/ed. the Free Press, Nealeint Of''
7, 1872, 'anl been the 'Nr.4704414 cif
the citizens' tefianittee whieli` had
forced lnear'Pelotiond and change • Of
name. Winnipeg :has always been
noted for Ito atennsiesoff aidlitdesaleen,0;
paigne. This first mammal eleetidn
was no e-xception.---Tisereawassnotthe
fighting and rioting whiChatad mark-
ed i:ilie, 'first elentionsfor the prom -
trial legislature; but thOre wa.$ lots of
excitement, Many Meetings held in
bet halls or in the ,stibezero .streets,
a good deal of liquor consumed and
quite a nuniof • t ber fight•s. '
'When_ the votes kg Nen: counted
the result for the OraitY as de-
„clared as follows:
:F..E. Cornish : a .. ... , .. 383 '
W. F. Luxton ' 179
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- 204
No tone ever explained_ where the
extra' teetes came from. W. F. 'Wa-
lton', in the Free Press, called atten-
tion to, the disparity between the
number of names on the list andthe
number alleged to have 'voted, and
was justified in asserting that ."the
official returns gave Mr. Cornish
slightly too large a m•ajority..” , He
contended that •Cornish's majority
was only 34, instead of the 204 as
declared; butt he accepted, his defeat
like the good citizen he was and
Frank Cornish was installed in the
mayor's chair."
JUST A SMILE OR TWO :
"I understand you have been hav-
ing your family tree looked up," said
Jones. •
"Yes," replied Brown, "and it cost
'flie $5,000."
"Quite expensive, wasn't it?"
"Yes, but it cost only $2,000 to have
it looked up. The other $3,000, was
what I paid. to have it hushed up."—
Baltinriare Sun. se
Der--/"Dto you serve crabs here?".
Waiter—"We serve anyone; sit
down."—Stray tStories.
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Visitor—"Your son is making good
progress with his violin. He is be-
ginning to play quite nice tunes."
Host—dine you .really think so? We
were afraid that we'd merely got us-
ed to it.." --Border City Star.
:SUNDAY AFTERNOON 'it
• (BY Isabel 14Amilter4 Goderich; Ont.)
Fight the good fight with all thy
-might,
Christ is thy strength, and Christ thy
right;
Lay hold on life, and it shall be
Thy joy and crown eternally.
Run the straight race through God's
good grace;
Lift up thine eyes, and seek His face.
Life with its way before us lies;
Christ is the path, and Christ the
-prize.
—John Monsell.
PRAYER
Help us 0 Lord to show by our
lives that we are in the school of the
greatest of all teachers in order that
we tnay learp how to teach. Amen.
S. S. LESSON FOR DECEMBER 9th
Lesson Topic—The Christian as
Teacher.
Lesson Passage—Mathew 7:24-29,
Acts 18:24-28.
Golden Text --II Timothy 2:15.
"Therefore whosoever heareth these
sayings of mine, and doeth them, I
'will liken him unto a wise man; which
built his haute upon a, rock:
And everyone that heareth these
sayings of mine, and doeth not, shall
be likened unto a foolish man, which
built his house upon the sand:
And the rain descended, and the
floods came, and the winds blew, and
heat won that house, and it fell: and
great was the fall of it.
And it came to pass when Jesus
had ended these sayings, the- people
were astonished at His doctrine: For
He taught them as one having auth-
ority, and not as the Scribes."
Thus ended the Sermon on the
Mount.
Or. Joseph Parker in his ",Inner
Life of Christ," says in summing up
his chapter on the Sermon on the
Mount: "Now I see what it meant
when he went up into a mountain. 1
wondered why he withdrew to that
height; he explains it in the conclu-
sion of his sermon. Why the serrnon
itself is a mountain, in shape, in bulk,
in dignity; beginning with the gentle
Slopes of the beautitedes, easy, vernal
slopes, green with spring's own love-
liness, he passes on to rugged places,
stony, rough pieces that would af-
fright us but for the light of his
smile which falls upon theirs—and on
he t. oes, higher and higher in, his- doc-
trine, he rises to_high challenges and
new proclamations, and now the ser-
mon culminates, in lordships and se-
premticies which overlook and dom-
inate the whole earth: We saw him
by the quiet river, we watched him
driven into the bleak wilderness, we
saw him walking by the seaside; now
we beheld him seated upon a moun-
tain—a culmination in, very deed, an
weathering of all that went before,
and a place whence he projected him,
self across the whole abyss of time.
Henoe forward Jesus takes the name
of Lord; hence forward 'these say-
ings of mine? are to ,be the root and
core of the only idrurable philosophy,
and henceforward men are wise or
feeditsh according as they build or
build not on Christ!
Now we see why he chose the
mountain; no other pulpit would have
been worthy of such a •discourse, no
platform of human, erection could
have supplied base enough for the
projection of sueh teaching.Great
hstsbandman, on the top of the moun-
tain, thou dost Matter a handful of
corn; fruit thereof shall shakelike
Lefba.non and the eitiee of the Plain
shall rejoice in its abundance," •
The comparison Jesus made be-
tween the haute, 'built on a rock and
the ,ofre built on sand, illustrates the
benefit, of attending to his words. It
was not sutheient to he them; they
Must be o-beyed. The wise man is -the'
one Who builds hia haute on a reek.
Palestine was to a considerable •ex-
tent a land, of hills arid ntionntains.
Like ntbesneeninitries (if that deeeriiii,'.
tete 'Antie alibied" te 'Middell. and
violent mains. 'EVerytilling inatha aiery
of a elvers suddenly swellen by theme
Mine, Weald be 'SnrePt.."if#iaY.
'as v ss.: • .
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es erected ,within the reach of these
sudden inunda,tiens, and especially 'if
founded on sand or any unsolid basis,
would not stand before them. • Rocks
in that land were common., and it was
easy to ,secure for their -houses, a
solid foundation. . .
No comparison could, to a Jew,
have •been more striking. So, temp-
ests, and storms of affliction and per-
secution, beat around the soul, Slid-
denly, when we think we are in safe-
ty; the heavens may he overcast;
• the storm may lower; and ckamity
beat upon us. In a moment health,
friends; comforts, may be kone. How
desirable then to be possessed of
something that the tempest cannot
reach! Such is an interest in Christ.
Possessed ef religion, all the Storms
and tempests of life may beat harms
lessly around us.
There is another .point in this com-
parison,. The house built on the sand
is boat upon by the floods and rains;
its foundation is gradually worn a-
way; it falls, and is borne down the
stream and perishes. So fair the sine
ner,
As Jesus ended His sayings "the
people were astonished at Hisdoc-
trine; ffr He taught them as one
having authority and not as the
Srinbees.0
'TScribes were the learned men
and teachers of the Jewish nation.
Triey taught principally the tradition
which had been delivered to them ;
they consumed much of their time in
useless disputes and "vain jangling."
Jesus denvered truth as became the
oracles of Gad; not trifling; confirm-
ing His doctrine by miracles and ar-
gument; teaching as having power,
and not in the main and foolish man-
ner of the Jewish doctora He came
with authority such as no 'man could
have, and it is not remarkable that
His explanations astonished them.—
(Condensed from Barnes' Commen-
tary). •
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' 'Christian Literature Society
(Continued)
The Culture of China—It is some-
times said by non-Christians that
Christianity claims too much, that
the culture and philosophy which
China possessed before eyes were op-
ened to see Christ walking on the
Chinese road, were sufficient. Mrs.
Sophia Chen in the February number
of the Chinese Recorder says: "More-
over, non-Christian Chinese intellec-
tuals rnasr agree with the missionar-
ies that Christianity is one of the
greatest moral forces, but certainly
they will not admit that it is the
only moral force. Although this dif-
f•erenee seems only natural to those
who understand the cultural back-
ground§ of China and Europe, never-
thelese it is very difficult for both old -
f ash ioned !Oh i nem 'gentlemen and
narrow-minded Christians in author-
ity in cultural matters equal to the
one that they have been used te, each
group h‘aving its own."
It IS perhaps true that some Chris-
tians are intolerable, both in actions
and words towards other religidns and
are unwilling to see any good beyond
their own small vision But this alti-
tude 'is not, general. We all remeM-
ber a texts "BY their fruits ye shall
knew them." We therefore claim, it
was, Jesus Christ who taught menes)
care for the siek, the poor, the or-
phan, the blind, the deaf and durmb,
it 'was the •Spiiit �f Jesut Christ that
lifted vrenianhood, unboMid the feet,
of the little
'Methinks it quite 'probable that
Mrs. 'Chen herself would not now be
a woman pre -lessor in the Govern-
ment fluitersity of Peking if those
pioneer saroanOil front .We'eteen Lands,
had ndt .thiortegh much persecution
opened wheals lee' girl e • and blazed
the trail for ,edracation for women
Alse if the Bible had not 66t1, #ans-
lattd, Attto. the ,Chitiese language, if
theaCheistian batiks and traets had
100$66.11 SentS.hreadetast 'there 'Would
haviebe'en differentatery, to. tell.
(To •be adittintied.)
•• curko*, Do*WO. Kftchener ,
A rink of',Iinalenifierts, Are:Wil-
ma T- 1:4 A.:Currie- and:
Donald Rae, Skip, attended the Nit -
Owner Granite Curling Clatle'e anntgal
invitatiern honspeil on linniallay. They
wore ,very succesefui, 'Winning Avoca
games 10-6 and fl -8, and teeing one
9-10, thus qualifying to play in, tliten
Anals for the Goodrich Cup orisFild
AdvanateTimel,
Boitgbi Aero -Cushion Fit ory, •••-•
Eimer llkinsn alai hie slather
have purchased tlat-e Aeeo-CusliiMt-
faetory Unless they cam.
find some useful purpose for this
'building they. will wreck it—Winge•
ham Adeance-Times.
New Business ,in"TOwn •
Mn • Dunican Kennedy, who has
leased the. Wellington Produce.•
Buitd-
ing, wi11beepen for bueiness on,Sat-
arday. He 'will carry a full line of
•poifltry feeds and Supplies, cattle feed
and mineral concentrates. He will; of'
course, in etummer operate his thick
..thatehery also. 'Me. and Mrs. Kennedy -
are living in Robert Allen's house on,
loosite the Park on JoSephine Street..
—Wingham Advance -Times. •
Falconer -• Gibbs
A couple of young Clinton people,.
'Mr. Victor Falconer and Miss Sadie
Gibbs, went to London at Saturday,.
November 17th, and' at °half east elev-
en were •quietly married at the manse'
01 St. Andrew's United Churoh, the -
Rev. Dn. MacGregor, conducting the
farm -lona. The brideis the only
daughter of Mr. Frank: Gibbs and 'the
late Mrs. Gibbs of Clinton, the brides -
"groom the second son of Me. and Mrs.
W. J. .Fedletener, of .Stanley.—Clinton.
News-Reeord.
• Boy Suffers Injury
Clare Kennedy, ost, of Mr. are!
Mrs. W. Kennedy, met with a serious
accident on Monday and one which
at first looked as if it might end fat-
ally. However., his condition has im-
proved somewhat and while he is
stillan a serious state, it is hopbd he'
will ultimately recever. C1an, who.
was acting as waterboy with a gang
of road construction men on No. 4
Highway, was aiding on the running -
beard of a truck, when it was sudden-
ly stopped and be was, thrown wiaIent,
ly to the.pavement, striking his head
with such force that he suffered sev-
ere injuries. Medical attention was
immediately procured, end he was re-
m,aved to the Clinton Hospital where
every care and attention was given -
His, cescat first looked bad and fens
for hie life were 'expressed. But it is
.hoped that 'with care he will pull
through. Clare's friends are very
sympathetic as he is a popular lad
and there is general satisfaction over -
the latest report that his Condition 1.
improving.a-Clinton NewseRecord.
School Have Holiday
Nearly one thou:sand . Public and
S,e'parate school pupils and high school'
students in Goderich on Thursday
celebrated, with an all -day holiday, the,
Marriage of H.R.K Prince George,.
Du:ke of Kent, to Princess Marina.,
daughter of Prince Nicholas • of
Greece. The wedding ceremony, which;
was broadcast, was heard. clearly by,
many in Goderieh in spite of the early'
hour, 5.45 o'eletek.—Goderich Signal.
Nobody Hurt
D. R. Nairn, town solicitor, nar-
rowly escaped injury on Saturday
night when the car he was driving'
collided with one driven by John Ry-
an, of Goderich township. MT. Ryan
and two . passengers, his wife ancf,
child, also escaped serious injury. The.
accident occurrerf at the lower turn
to the Dunlop Hill, one-half mile,
north of Saltford. County Constable
Thomas Gundry investigated.- -Gode-
rich Signal.
Tame Partridges
A •God•erich motorist almost ran ov-
er a partridge near the edge 'of the
Saratoga sw,apes on Sunday. The pret--
ty little grey chap walked out on to -
the road in front of the car and de-
clined to hurry out of the way. The
ear was brought to a stop to avoid
running over him. He stepped daintily.
hack into the ,bushes alongside the
road and looked the car over with a.
most irnpertinent air, not even flying -
away when the car started up again
with a couple of loud toots on the
horn. Apparently Colborne hunters
have not been bothering him very
rauch:—Goderich Star.
• Bumble Bees in November .
'Mr. Harold Blackstone had an en. -
counter with a huge bumble bee ors
Tuesday of this week. The big at
fellow flew at him while be was get-
tip- jos from the icehouse. He knock-
ed it away and it came at him, again..
The opinion is expressed in expert
circles that the ,bee was annoyed- at.
being fooled into thinking this spring
and wanted to take it out on some-
one. Mr. Blackstone won the battle
and the bee flew off to find a mw win-
ter horne.-HGoderich Star.
Hand Cut
'Mr, Silas Reed suffered a nasty cut
on the thumb of the left hand ore
Thursda,y of last week when he stlip' -
ped while carrying some glass up a -
flight of steps at Ineaquair & Lin-
denifiel•d's hardware. The flesh was
out to the bone and required fese
stitches to elose.—Exeter Times -Ad-
vocate.
New Traffic Officer
.111r, W. F. 'RJobinson, of the Pro-
vincial Police, one of the most popu-
lar young rne-n of the motorcyele
patrol, has been transferred from Mel -
bonnie to Exeter, where he will be
stationed in future. He will ,patrot
Highway No. 4 from El•ginfield to
Clinton..Exeter Times -Advocate.
Ninety -First Birthday
On Wednesday Of last week Dr. #1"..
W. Bro*ning observed his ninety-first
birthday. Dr. Browning is to be
found every day at his office and on
Wednesday last a number of visitors
dolled to extend emigre:billet/ions and
seete treated. to afternoon tea. Dr.
Browning is, probablYethe oldest- ilin-
tiene practitiOner lh aill*dit, 'lie be-
gan his •praeliice in flay • von -Whip the
year Of Cenfecieratiora etexixTini;;:
year Of 'Confederation,
.Thise•saAdevicate.
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