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The Huron Expositor, 1935-01-25, Page 2ii ny kW ^�t C.j s�- 14 to LronE aosltor l Established 1860 Keith McPhail 1V1eLean,, Editor. Published at Seaforth, Ontario, ev- ier'yThursday afternoon by McLean Bros. Subscription rate, $1.50 a year in advance; foreign, $2.00 a year. Single copies, 4 cents each, Advertising rates on application. r Members. of the Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association, Class "A" Weeklies of Canada, and the Huron County Press Association. SEAFORTH, Friday, January 25th. Paid Town Councils Seaforth, we understand, is to pay its Mayor, Reeve and town coun- cillors for the year 1935. At least, a notice of motion to that effect was in- troduced at the last town council, and action will be taken on it at the next. Paid councils are not a new feature in municipal government by any means. Many towns have followed the practise for years and townshi .reeves and councillors are also, paid for their services. Heretofore, however, the council of Seaforth has always served with- out remuneration, and the new order, if it goes into effect, will be a source of discussion and, perhaps, discen, sion for some time to come. Custom dies hard, but people should remember • that customs change with the years. The business man of to -day 'has many outside di- versions that were not available to the business man of yesterday. He has less time or he gives less time to the study and discussion of municipal affairs. - That may not be to his credit, but, nevertheless, it is a fact. If a business man feels he cannot afford to give his time to municipal affairs without remuneration, he is quite within his rights in asking for it. More than that, the town has a perfect right to pay him. And more than that. If the tax- payers of the town are called upon to pay for the services of their town fathers, there is every Iikelihood of their taking a much greater interest in determining who those town fathers shall be, as well as in their government. All of which will be of benefit to Seaforth. At the same time there is one ob- jectionable feature and that is that the notice of motion to pay council- lors should have been introduced in- to council at the last session of the old year, instead of at the first ses- sion of the new'. • Extending The Municipal Term A number o f weekly papers throughout the Province, and among that number, the Clinton News -Re- cord and St. Marys Journal -Argus, which are both in this district, have been advocating the extension of the life. of municipal councils and muni- cipal officials from one to two years. We believe that these papers and the others are right in their conten- tion. In the case of the Reeves of townships, towns and villages; we would even go further and say that the term of office for which these of- ficials are elected should be at least three years, instead of one year as at present. The Reeves of the different munici- palities are, as a general rule, men who have graduated from the coun- cils and have gained more or less i'rrunfi.ci.a1 experience, according to their ability or lack of ability to pro- fit by their experiences. But on gaining the office of Reeve, they also become, by virtue of their office, members of the County Coun- cil, and are called upon to assume the responsibility for new duties in a much enlarged field of operation for which only time will enable them to dfriltXperienee and to grasp the idea rftl ,slating f'r •their Bounty as a vh{s gather than for.the small in - of it that elected them who goes to the'CoUity riy of a tern of one year, is little likely, as a legislator, to prove of much benefit to his county. His. view of the 'legislation which he is called upon to. consider is much more likely to be viewed in -the light of votes than it is to county advant- age or disadvantage. The mental process of a Reeve serving a one-year term at the Coun- ty Council (and none are sure of more, a fact which is demonstrated at every municipal election) when it comes to county legislation, is, in too many cases, a series of two questions: "How many votes will I make this way?" "How many votes will I lose", ' that way?" With a three-year term this trend of thought would be turned into other channels. County councillors would be given an opportunity to for- get for a time, at least, the people back home, and . bend all their thoughts and energies on producing legislation that would tend to benefit and advance their county as a whole, as well as its individual parts. The County Council, as a govern- ing body, should be, and was intend- ed to be, a very important cog in the government of our country. As it is more near, more intimate and its leg- islation is more readily grasped by the ordinary taxpayer, than is the legislation of either the Provincial or Federal Parliaments. In recent years, however, the sel- fish individualism that has crept into our.county councils has not only rob- bed them of much of their usefulness, but has tended to . deprive them of the control of a great deal of author- ity, which' was for many years ex- clusively their own. More. and more legislation is being taken out of the hands of county, councils and being centralized in' To- • ronto. r That, to a great extent, is the fault of the county councils them- selves. They have failed to keep abreast of the • times.. They have been straining too much over knats and swallowing too many camels. ,They have been staging tremendous fights over nickels, while dollars were escaping from under their nos- es. Something had to be done, so the Provincial Government stepped in and did it. But,•if the Government, be- cause "of the indifference or inability of county councillors, continues to usurp, one by one, the authorities formerly invested in county councils, it will only be a matter of a very w short time until the usefulness of county councils will have vanished, and they will cease to exist. There are many people who claim that day has already arrived and are already advocating the abolition of the county councils. That, however, would not only be a serious mistake but a very expensive pne to the rural taxpayers and those in the smaller country communities. But it will come, has already start- ed in fact, and unless something is done to check the movement, we can not see how it can be prevented. The solution, of course, lies in the hands of the taxpayers themselves, or perhaps more particularly speak- ing, in the hands of the men they choose as their Reeves to represent them. We believe if Reeves were given a three-year term of office it would free them from many of the narrow bonds which now largely control their ac- tions, and enable them to give more unbiased consideration to county leg- islation. In fact, we believe it would go a long way in restoring useful and inexpensive legislative machinery for our counties and re-establish the county council once more as one of our most useful and efficient govern- ing bodies. WHAT OTHER PAPERS SAY., Human Nature (Kitchener Record) Ifterna:n nature is puzzling im s'onve respects. For examrple, somepeople evonat eves cross' the street to volts while others travel several thou- sand mdl'ecs to east their ballets in the Saar pleb- iscite. • A Heavy Tax (Brantford ] tipie i•bor) iA mer a eciste rta.x" ha a beet impinged in Trials • ',dad of 1 8• cenl.I an :as•insve' mriatizifi till tag .....t g , , , tis tbas+t S8 cx�ati'irs. 'Ithie is � v�,')tc+n7>a�d elitti- ixitste all joy in that mon, of 'Mite heti- Years Agone Interesting items picked from The Expositor of fifty and twenty-five years ago. From The Duron Expositor of . January 23, 1885 At a meeting of the congregation of Cavan Presbyterian Church, Exe- ter, held last weekea committee was appointed to proceed with the erec- tion of a new Manse. The Bru'cefield Oddfellow's, are hav- ing their hall fitted up 'in fine style. The upholstery alone will cost $200'. At the anneal meeting of the South Huron Agriaultniral • Society, held at Turner's Hotel, Brucaefield, on Wed- nesday last, the following officers were elected: President, Leonard Hunter; 1'ilsb Vice -President, Thomas Simpson; and Vice -President, Williams Bell; ,Secretary-Trea`.sua+er, M. Y. M•c'Lean; Directors, William Graham; Stanley; Jahn Marquis, Godlen ich Townash•ip ; Robert McAllister, Hay; Jahn. Willis, ISSbephremj; James Packard and Johan Willis, Eheetee; Donald McGinnis, Vie, borne; Robert (Brook, Tuckersmuith; and Dr. Coleman; Seaforth. Messrs. G. E. Jackson and William Charters were reappointed Auditors, Mrlchael Mlurdlie (has' on his farm in McKillop a well which is 60 feet deep and had in it during tlhe driest time last season over 53 feet of water. Mr. Donald M'oGregor, on the same ]ane further east, has a well which is 50 feet deep and -in which the water .has irisen• to within one foott,-of the top. • • At 'Monday's imee'ting of Brussels. village council, F. S. • Scott- was ap- pointed Clerk; D. Stewart, assessor; Thomas Town, collector, and Thomas Kelly, Treasurer; Health Com'mi'ttee, A. Stewart, Thomas Town and Ed. Danford.• At the first meeting of the Tueker- smith council 'held at Kyle's Hotel, Mr. William, tMeConhell was appoint- ed Clerk and Treasurer of the town - 'ship and Messrs. Richard Hicks and George Baird, Jr., Bivicefield, were appointed auditors. Mr. Edward Johns of West End, Tuckerslmith, was instantly killed et the new railway crossing about a mile east of Stapleton vlhen the morn- ing west struck his team and sleigh, '=mashing it into fragments. It wars a stornvy morning and it is supposed that Mr., Johns drove onto the track without seeing the approaching train. - At tale last meeting of the Seaforth Public 'Soh,00l Trustee Board, Mr. M. Y. McLean was elected chairnvan and Mr. William Ballantyne, secretary. The Board will meet in the Town Hall on Tuesday evening to confer with those parents who have failed to send their children to school the requisite rummber of days during .the past year. ' At the firsrt meeting of th11 Hay township council for the present year, Me. Sam Foster was appointed Clerk; Mr. M. ,Zeller, Treasurer; Mr. J. Bonthron, Asseslsor, and Mr. H. Lip- pardt, Collector. • Froin The Huron Expositor of January 28, 1910 The choir of First Presbyterian Church, Seaforth, gave a concert in the Bru,cefield church on Friday last. A good .filly •was purchased by Mr. B. R. Higgins, of Bruce'field, this week. It is two years old and only weighs 1,500 pounds,. and is pro- nounced by competent judges to be eine of the best Canadian fillies in the country. IMr. •Mustard, 'of Brucefieid, is ail- ing up his yard with logs and has iste'veral teams busy. A serious "runaway accident occur- red at Manley on Thursday last when a hens.* belonging to Con Eck -art be- came frightened and in turning a- round tenet the cutter, throwing Mrs. Eckadt ou't, Mr. G. K. Holland was also knocked down and rendered un- consciou 'Oa Saturday last a blinding snow- storm imlade the roads almost imtpas- sab1•e. At the recent Huron County ,Poul try Show, Mr. J. W. Ortwedn showed fifteen birds, winning 9 firsts, two seconds, one third and three specials, while Mr. Fred Bengough won the following prizes: 4 firsts, 5 seconds and 4 thirds. IMr. John Sparrow is very busy these days. He sold a nice four -year - from Mr. B. R. Higgins, Brucefield. this week. 'Mr. Henry Dows•on of the Babylon Lite has purchased a very fine bull from Mr. B. L. Higgins, Brucetheld'. A hockey match 'between London and Seaforth was played here on Tuesday .evening and was , keenly contested. The particular star was Ralph Reid and the beam was as fol- lows; Goal, L. Pe:thick; point, E. Mc- Lean; cover, D. Reid; rover, R. Reid; forward's, A. 'Muir, W. Richardson and C..Jon'es, Mr. Harry Town has disposed of his !billiard room to 'Messrs. J. A'. Roberts and. Wilson Turner. At the South Huron Agricultural Society annual meeting, held at Boss isienlbest y's Hotel on Saturday lest the following officers were elected: (''resident, W. D. Sanders; list Vice- 1resdden't, Jam'eas Paterson; 2nd Vice- Presi•derirt, W. 1MLurdok; Directors, J. Mturdlo'ck, W. Ber=ry, Thomas Russel, Ed. Christie, W. Dixon; Henry Smith, Thoimtas Fraser, D. McIntosh, VS., and P. Bowey. Mr.. M. Y. 'McLean resigned thesecretary-treasurershrilp and Mr. W. D. McLean was appoinit- ed. !Mir. James F. McKay, who recently scold has farm in 'au>eleemsmith, has moved with his family to Seaatflaeth. At the (opening (nneeitling of the County Counicil, Dr. A. J. Irwin•, of Wlinghanry .Was' elected Warden. Sam, Enfn-i farm of 'Goderith Town- ship held a gueceesfuil wood bee one day last Week! The marketer in Seatf'omth were as follows:',any $21; isiborts,, $2$f Mitt - tsar,' ; 0410+ 2'Tii . •(Cali., tp'er ton $13; 1JWlitft0le's, '600;W r loug0 .$1.Q!Ij`* When Seaforth used to have an an- t The wheelereen assembled at the zuual b?•cycle tournament? Held first >l4laeket ,Square (new rttble C.F.M. cat- ,in.1884 the tourmaanent diel plot really Ines') and headed by the Seaforth Band become an ,outstanding event until , prooeeded loo the Re'creattioiv grounds the following year when it was held' where the program was commenced. at the recently acquired recreation One of the meant interesting' ng numbers grounds. was the five mile race between Clarke A high wind, which at times was of Woodstock and 'Foster of Toronto, bitterly -colo, proved 'unncomfo table • finally 'u ion by Clarke: "It ways a fair for the more than 1,000 spectators and thorough test of died, ender - who were present and hindered the asee and sdaill, and iboth c7onwpatitors estatblithunent of new records on the did their bestt," Shays a contemporary part of • the cyclists. Despite these drawbacks, however, tine. tournament of August 27, 1885, proved a decided success), The day was a civic holiday in Woodlatock and a large •nuneber of citizens froom that town were on hand to cheer the Wtoodsttook oomupetti- Thoee from Seaforth who won priz- tors who were entered in the various es in the events included the follow - events. Neighboring tomes and ing: J. Robb, F. W. Armdt'a•ge and country was also well represented. Theo Coleman. repo In the evening a splendid concert was held when the hall was filled to the doors. Here the Chainrean, May- or Coleman, presented the prizes to the successful competifioes. JUST A SMILE OR TWO : The aviation instructor, having de- livtered a lecture on parachute work, continued: "And if it doesn't open --well, gen- tlelmen, that is what is known - as tautening to a conclusion.'" • "I hear you advertised for a wife. Any results?" '"Yes. Hundreds of replies. Each one said you can have mine."—Cedar (Rapids (Ia.) Bulleton. , • Oric: '"Who ,inventied work, any- way?" Cory: "You needn't worry. You'll never infringer his patent." • Clark; "Youropening sale has closed. 'What .now?" ' Nate: -"My closing sale opens." (Small Boy: "Father, what's a com- mittee?" Father: "A co,mnsttee, son; is a body that keeps minutes and wastes hours."—}Coffeyville (Kane) Lionews. • (Sponger—I suppose, old mean, you have laid aside something for a 'rainy day? (Smart—Yes, but it's for my rainy day, net yours. • "Yes, my new stenographer spells outrageously." "You're lucky, many a usteno•graph- er couldn't spell it." • . Director--iWie wet you to play in Shakespeare. - tOoimledianl--A.w right. ;But remem- ber, I write my ow'): linen : SUNDAY_AFTERNOON o� • (By Isabel Hamilton, Goderich, Ont.) • �a 0 God of truth, Whose living word Upholds whate'er hath breath, Look down on Thy creation, Lord, ,Enslaved by sin and death. Then, God of truth, for Whom we long, ' Thou Who wilt hear our prayer,' Do Thine own battle in our hearts, And slay the falsehood, there. Thomas Hughes. PRAYER {Help us, Lord, to take heed to our ways that we may not proye false to our profession and so deny our Saviour. Amen. S. S. LESSON FOR JANUARY 25th Lesson Topic -Peter's Denial. Lesson Passage—Mark 14:27-31, '54, 66-72. Golden Text—I Corinthians 10:12. Devotional Reading—Psalm 51:1-9. "And Jesus- south unto them, all ye shall be offended because of Me this night: for •it is written: I will smite th•e shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered. But after that I am risen, I will go before you into Galilee, iB•ut Peter said unto. Hiim': Although all shall be offended, yet will not 1. And Jesus s'ait'h unto him: Verily I say unto thee, that this day, even in this night, before the cock crow twice, thou shalt deny me thrice, But He spake the more vehement, ly: If I should die with Thee, I will not deny Thee in any wise. Like- wise also said they all. (27-31). And Peter followed Him afar off, even into the palace of the high priest: and he sat with the servants and warmed himself at the 'fire. (64). And as Peter was beneath the pal- ace, there cometh one of the maids of the high priest: And when she saw Peter warming himself, she looked upon him, and said: And thou also wast with Jesus of Nazareth. But he denied, saying, I know not, neither und'erstan'd I what thou s'ay-' est. And be went out into the porch and the cock crew. And, a maid saw him again, and began to say to them that stood by: This is one of them. And he denied it again. And •a little after, they that stood by said again to Peter: Surely thou are one of them; for thou art a Galilean, and thy speech agreeth thereto. iBut he begalt to curse and: to swear, •sayin.g: I know not this ,mlan of whom ye speak. 'And the second time the oock crew, And Peter called to mind the word. that Jesus said unto him. Before the cock craw twice, thou shalt deny Me thrice. And *ben he thought there- on, he wept. (66-72). Peter was confident that he should not do so ill as the rest of the dis- 'ciples. He ',supposed himself not only stronger than others; but so much stranger, as to be able to receive the shock of a bemiptarti•on, and bear up against it, all alone; bo stand, though nobody stood by him. It is bred in the bone with us, to think Well of ourselves, and trust to lour own hearts. No doubt he thought as he spoke when he contradicted His Master. But soon his courage is put to the test and dwindles into cowardice. He en- tered into temptation when ,he joined' himself to the ,servants of the high pries't1's palatee. • The high pn iests' fireside was no proper place, nor his servants proper colm(pany for Peter. He had followed Christ afar off. He went where be thought I' he would not be suspected of belonging to Christ. His rain of desertion was very great; he denied Chalet before men at a time when he ought to have confess- ed and owned Hain, and to ;have ape peered in ,dourt a witness for Him. Christ had often given notice to His disieitpl'es of His' own eufferintges yet, rosiest -they came, they were to Peter as' g't'teat a surprise and terror as it lies had never heard of ltJhe t before idle hadvri't eta tOM >Gbent that they: tracts suffer for fm, tmiust flake tip !eiha lss and follow :gni, . and• yet Peter is so terribly afraid of suffer- ing upon the very filet alarm of it, that he will lie and swear to avbid it. When Christ was admired and flock- ed after, he could readily own Him; but now, that He ia despised and.run down, he is ashamed of Him, and will awn no relation to Hina, His repentance was very speedy. He repeated his denial three times, and the third was worst of all, for then he cursed an•d• swore, to confirm his denial. He was suddenly brought back to himself by the crowing of a cock. Peter called to mind the word that Jesus said unto him, and as he thought ,thereon he wept.—(Matthew IHlenry) ,. The following is written by Dr. Joseph Parker when considering the arrest, betrayal and denial scenes:— "Something did grieve Christ more than the enemy. Peter cut his heart in two. The enemy cannot hurt- a mann "If it had been an enemy that had done this, he could hawse borne it, but it was thou, a man mine equal, my acquaintance; we went to the house of God together, and to- gether kept holy day! That is the sting. No enemy can hurst Christ as a friend can hurt Hiim4 The .enemy does not get at His heart, the friend does. Yet there was one thing about Peter that gives one hope: this was the weakness of violence. If he bad coldly, said:" I know not what thou sayest, he might never have been recovered. When he began to curse and to smear, I began to have hope for -him. Backsliders return. Peter went out and wept bitterly." • WORLD MISSIONS Africa A movement has sprung up among heathen Luinrlbe without in any way affecting mission out -station schools. The native is a keen observer of men and events and is only too conscious of the gulf 'between him and the Ov- indele (white amen) who rule over his country. What can enable him to bridge the gulf? The missionary with his background knows that only the reception of new life in Christ fol- lowed by generations of intensive fol- lowing of the new Way will bring the African to his desired goal. But the uninstructed native has other ideas. A "prophet movement" came. in from the Belgian Congo and strangely en- ough the heathen "fell" for it. This i5 the ,•teaching: our forefathers are all to de resurrected and return to the earth, each one will have a motor truck Which he 'hims•elf will drive and he will be engaged in the work of hauling,maize rbrean•s and wheat which will be distributed freely almon,g his children who will hunger no more nor lack any good thing. for the sus- tenance of the ,body. But the prophet message went on: .som,ethin.g hinders this general re,surreetion of the dead. Once get this hindrance out of the way and all will be well. And what is it that hinders? Black animals, black chickens, black seed. Hence there goes out the order — kill all black pigs, black cows, black sheep, black blank noaccov mtsplant black reseeds. an Many sores of villages, were affeecterl by this "prophet!' beaching and did as the "prophets'" exhorted. Of course, nothing happened except that the harvest was specially email owing to the ban on .black seeds (even dark colored cum seed was pro`hibitedi) and the slaughtering of the 'black animals left theln with seriously impaired re- sources. Two things stand out, The first is Chart the new and relatively smell Christian cdlmtmunity was• in, nowise affected by the strange doctrine, re- vealing the sound foundation on which the work has been built; secondly, the profound disquiet whici is affect- ing the soul of Africa. To the ends- sionary the episodie indicates that ,F]tlhio+pia is stretching out her hands unto God. Hand's stretched out in. &Writes `nrefed' to be guided to . t h e hands pierced ont Calvary,—_wjr, John . Pucker Y.1 , fir? vo I,e.ti is The Tuekersmith Election The Eslitor, ''rhe Huron E,'iapo5,itea: (Dear Sir:` Having given the Reeve and Councillors a week in 'which to, publish their "Thank You," T propose !: to draw to tlhe attention of thet elec- tors of Tudkersmith a few things w'hic'h may.not be sweet pills, for them to swallow, but which, I trust, will awaken them- to the fact that they are men and women and not ehildeen, as they w'o'uld lead one to..suppose by their behaviour during the recent el- ection. You•, the electors of Tuckersrnith, had (before you two men, contestants for the reevesh p' --ate, M'r, Archibald, Reeve for the past 'few years; the other, Mr. John A. McGregor, a coun- cillor well versed in township affairs - After' the nolmlination, 1\fr. Archibald started an elaborate system of elec- tioneering, which is, that he went about shaking hands with you, patting you on ;the (back and telling you what a fine fellow you were and if 'you would gi'v'e 'him your vote he would be Warden and etc., etc. Mr. McGre- gor, en the other hand, said: "t• wink' srtk rte ,man for his' vote." The elec- tors of Tackersmith ane }stere, babies who have to be chucked under the chin and told how wonderful they are. The attendance at the polls at School No. 1 and School No. 9 was very disappointing. You people have the right to vote, why not accept the privilege? The weather was no ex- cuse as the day was mold and the •distance to the pail was not very great. People, wh,o have horses and vehicles, should be ashamed to sit at home waiting for some of the 'con- testants to come and. haul them to vote. Thanking you for your space, Mr. Editor, and trusting that the electors of Tuckersnvitli may wake up and cause this shameful practice of elec- tianee•ring to be abolished, I am. R. E. C. • Enjoys MacTavish Articles Box 130, Reseda, California, January 15,•1935. The Editor, The Huron Expositor: Dear Sir: I have just ,been reading The Expositor and I want to tell you how glad we are to get the news from around the old home place when. we are so far away. I also wanted to tell you how we do enjoy reading your solemn. entitled, "Do You Re- member?" and especially the articles written ,by John alacTavieh, of the bygone days of Staffa and vicinity. Many of the things he writes about I remember; but nearly all of them I have heard the follks talk.about. 'Speaking about John .MacTavish, I don't suppose he remembers me as I Was just a little chap going to school when the three big MacTavish boys, John, Edgar and Newton, were in the big school. I also remetelber their father, good old Dr. 'MacTavish, who was aur doctor and nearly everyone's doctor around there. The only thing I ever remember the doctor doing for me was to pull a couple of back tee* which were hard to pull. In those days we didn't go to a dentist with tb•e tooth ache we just sat in a. straight -back chair and if your teeth were real hard to pull, the doctor had tto get some one to hold the patient down and without any anasratethic. He just 'pulled and, you just yelled. I know 1 , yell led lots anyway, but how- ever the doctor did a good job with- out any (bad after effects. Then speaking of 'r the MacTarvish boys again, it reminds me of the old school days at No.3, Staffa school,. which at that time was a red school with a big and a little room., with a man teacher in the big room and a lady teacher in the little room, and when- the teacher in the little room got too busy the teacher in the big room would send some of the larger pupils •in to teach us little chaps, and I 'remember Newton MaeTavish coin- ing in to the little schoel.and teach- ing us different times. I believe a Mr. Wren was teaching the large school and Kate Stewart was teach- ing us in the small school. '()hen lat- er they took the little school down sand we all went in the big room, and the late F. D. .Hutchison, of your town, was the teacher then, and how' we all did like him. ,We often wonder where all the pupils of that time are. Of coarse we know where some are; some are . scattered here and there over the world and some have passed on. Three years ago while we were its the East while at the home of Albert Narrris, west of Staffa, were were looking at one of the pld No. 3 school picturee—how funny we all looked! We little chaps with our great white collars (for we were dressed up for the picture) and our hands hanging onto our coat tails and many of the girls, large and small, had the great, white collars on boo. I would like to mention a lot of the different names of the old school, but space will not permit, but one ;person on that old ,sc'h'ool picture I would like to mention —a person well 'known in 'Seaforth, a great friend at that time of mine and 'standing beside ,mler in the picture, is William Golding. I do not know whe- ther he will remember it or not, or w'h'ether he would like to admit it, as it probably seems rather foolish to tie now, but we had lots of fun there anyt way, but many a day we' went out together with tin boxes and caught ,bumble bees off the ..large bull thistles that grew on the.rpadsid'e and' brought them into school and how we did like to hear them, (buzz. However; Will 'Golding has been successful in life and we •all join in congratulating hilml. ( Those were the go•odl old days' and we all like to look 'back over the again and, I know we could all think and write .lieges 'about them. Just a few words in closing about :things out here in California. ' We are having a' beautiful winter, al' tfhough more rain than usual. The mountain fields and valleys are a beautiful green. We have had wail 1ifible haat—lug g. few very Iirght white frosts, 1'n the moaning. The (I( v?utEitu d fta Page 8) V 1 �L�uA >y..a �l}all"�3. tF.�o•f MG�tl�l+�4C'r r • .