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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1935-08-02, Page 2tlt l4a, tlh it; h)3 al 'TI1 E iiCTRQN z2krubricuR.• V a'! kr IF A. .14 rOS.. UronEiposltor Established•1860 McPhail McLean, Editor. dished at Seaforth, Ontario, ev- 'hursday afternoon by McLean Subscription rates, $1:50 a year in advance ; foreign, $2.00 a year. Single copies, 4 cents each. Advertising rates on application. Members of the Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association, Class "A" Weeklies of Canada, and The Huron County Press Association. SEAFORTH, Friday, August 2, 1935 Good and Bad Wheat cutting in this " district is general. Much of it, in fact, is al- ready in the stook, but there is no general or decided opinion as to the yield. One farmer in this office on Sat- urday afternoon declared that al- though his wheat was all down and had to be cut one way, it was a bum- per yield of excellent quality. Thesame evening we were inform- ed by another farmer that his wheat . stood well, but was mere chicken feed in quality. Both were honest and practical opinions and both were right. The situation seems to be pretty much that way over the whole -county. Whole townships are good; whole townships are bad, while in between there are townships where the wheat is both good and bad. Hot weather and rust are given as the cause of the failures and there is no doubt but that the latter has laid its blighting hand on many fields. One look at some fields is en- ough to show that. Where the results vary so widely with the location, it is hard to form a general estimate, but on the whole, we believe the wheat yield and qual- ity will both be good. One thing is certain. There may be a divided opinion as to the heads, but there is 'no division about the straw. It is all there and it is good. • No Cause for Worry The result of the recent election in the Province of Prince Edward Is- land seems to be giving the people, as well as the politicians of the rest of the Dominion, a great deal of worry, if not foreboding, if one is to judge by the continued newspaper comment upon it. The situation, of course, is unusual, if it does not create a precedent. The election was a straight party fight between Conservatives and Liberals, and not only was the Conservative Government defeated, hut out of a House of thirty members, thirty Lib- erals were elected, which means that there will be no opposition party. As we say, the situation is unus• ual, but we fail to see in it any cause for worry or alarm on the part of the people of Prince Edward, or the people or politicians in the rest of Canada. Rather do we believe it may prove a worth while experiment. By the result of the election the people of the Island have placed their new Premier, Mr. W. M. Lea, pretty much in the same position that a private company or corporation places its President or Managing Director. In fact the new Premier is placed in an even more favorable position than he would enjoy under private employment. He has been placed at the head of an old and established business—one that is well oiled and well staffed, and has no competitors. For capital he has at his back the resources of the whole Province. He has a free hand in the selection of his .fellow Directors, who will head the different departments of provin cial business, over which he has com- plete supervision. The new Premier's responsibilities, of course, will be great, but no great- er than those of the head of any other large corporation, and with ,,this advantage, that he wilI be free tont `all dictation and interference. t hider these circumstances,' and most favorable ones, if Mrd 4!r"r tt } ;4l -l4( f.rl,G ,F+�, ; f Lee can show, at the end of his four or five years of management, a bal- anced budget, reasonable taxation and can point to a prosperous Prov- ince, there is no question of doubt but that he will receive, as dividends, the votes of the people and be returned to power. If not, he will be defeated, and in defeat he will4have no alibi. Both his successes or his failures will be of his own making, and his alone. In the meantime, and for the next four years, if the Province of Prince Edward Island does not benefit as a result of its recent election decision, it will not, at least; be permanently injured or bankrupted, and' the ex- periment will be watched with the keenest interest by the other Prov- inces of the Dominion. • No Work, No Relief Premier Hepburn's recent an- nouncement that all able unmarried men who refuse to work on farms or anywhere else, will be cut off relief, is timely, if not a little over due. Relief, as now administered, has come to the point where the taxpay- ers of the Province can no longer af- ford to pay it, and a showdown had to come. If there was no work available, the situation would be different. But' there is work available, and in the country districts, plenty of it. Farmers are going up and down the streets of the towns and villages trying to secure labor for harvest op- erations and most of their seeking is ;n vain. Compared with the cities, ' the number of unemployed single mere in the country is small, but they are to be found there as well. Able, but most unwilling to work: Farm labor is not easy, nor does it pay high wages. But it is honest work and it is available. Even the most unskilled can learn it. Our pioneer history is evidence of that fact, and even if the able unemploy- ed single men do not choose to maks: of it their life work, it will provide a living and a good living until other work is available. Premier Hepburn is right. No work, no relief. We believe too, that -there is little, if any truth, in the statements that are being broadcast from the larger centres: that unem• ployed single men are justified in their refusal to accept farm work because farmers are taking advant- age of the unemployed situation, and exploiting such labor. If a man is willing, no matter how unexperienced he may be, he will nave little trouble with the farmer. 'The wages, in•comparison with other labor, may be small, but it should not be forgotten that the returns the farmer receives from unskilled labor are, in many ca*sgs, even smaller. while good board and good lodging are thrown in. Still Thep Come A despatch from Winnipeg under date of July 25th, says: "Three Kansas City tourists, who registered here to -day, were prepar- ed for Winnipeg's famed cold wea- ther. They carried winter over- ciats and a supply of winter under- wear, and asked, as the city swelter- ed in a heat wave, how far do we have to go before we need these coats?" That is not a single instance in a single year. Already at Niagara Falls and Montreal other American tourists have crossed into Canada bringing . with them not only over- coats and underwear, but snowshoes and skiis as well. It is the same every summer and Canadians marvel, as well they might. Perhaps there is no nation on the face of the globe, whose citizens are so well versed, if not steeped in the history of their own country. • Perhaps there is no nation on the face of the globe, whose citizens are so ill-informed, if not ignorant, of the climate, customs and history of other• nations, as are the citizens of those same United States, even when one of those other nations lives only across an imaginary boundary line from their own country. r, ,e tittilitretteit Years Agone Interesting items picked from The Expositor of fifty and twenty-five years ago., From The Huron Expositor of August 5, 1910 The following is a list of those who were successful candidaites• in the ex- amination held by the Toronto Cent' serva:tory of 'Music: Helen D. Lar- kin, Helen Fear, Cora Beatrice Gelb, Lillian Isabel Wilson, Agnes E. Smith, Mabel Swan, Gladys E. Cous- ins and Emma Sadler, Dublin. What came nearly proving a fatal aeeid'ent happened to Mr. Thomas El- liott, 5th Concession, Logan., on Mon- day when he was cutting grain. He left his seat to oil the machine and the horses became frightened and he was thrown to the ground and was struck by the wheel which broke his thigh 'bone His face was also ;badly sor'atched. Samuel Johnston, of the Babylon Linn !Stanley townt'h'itt, committed suicide„ on Thprsday last by taking a dose of carbolic acid. He had been in :poor health for a year or more. The little two-year-old daughter of Mr. and 'Mrs, Harris, of Exeter, met with a painful accident when a cow her mother was milking kicked and struck the little child in• the temple. Nearly all the business' men have been seriously .inconvenienced by the Grand Trunk Railway strike in the matter of receiving and sending out freight. Lorne S!peare, of Cromarty, is re- covering after having ;had a brass rod run into hss peek several. inches! Mir. Harry Tyndall, well •known thresher and farmer of Tuckersmr'ith, near 'Seaforth, has been making ex- periments in plowing with his trac- tion engine and' maintains that it can be done cheaper with steam than by any ether method. • • The .families of Rev. F. H. Larkin, J. ,M. Best, James Watson, H. Edge and Mr. S. T. 'Holmes, of Seaforth, went to Bayfield this week to enjoy the lake. IMr. E. 1H4. Close has purchased the barber :business of Mr. James Pender in the Cady Bleck, Seaforth. Messrs. Robert Winter and George Chesney shipped three loads of ex- port cattle from Clinton on Wednes- d'ay. 'On 'Wednesday Mr. R. Henderson, of the Huron Road, Tuckersnnlith, did some fast threshing on the farm of 'Mir. John Archibald in Harpurhey.. They were threshing wheat and turn- ed it out at the rate of .two bushels a minute. Mr. Matthew Armstrong, of Hui - lett, 'had four sheep killed by dogs on /Monday. Min George Bennewies, of Manley, out 10 acres of wheat which required 65 pounds of twine to tie it. Mr. Ed. Drager, of McKillop, had the misfortune to fall off a load of hay while loading and received a sev- ere shaking up. /Me. Robert 0.' :McTaggart, of Wal- ton, ofpas passed' away at the advanced' age 94years Another of the pioneers of Hibbert! passedaway in the person of Mr. G. Habkirk, who was. 85 years of age. The smoke ,stack on Mr. F. Kalb- fleisch's mill, Zurich, was struck by lightning. • From The Huron Expositor of August 7, 1885 On Thursday morning last as ;Mrs. Wm. 'McConnell, of Tuekersmith, and the Misses McConnell were driving into Seaforth with their horse and buggy with the „intention of taking the excursion train to Goderich, they met with a serious accident. As they crossed the railway track the horse took fright and ran away when the buggy collided with a wagon and they were thrown. out. Mrs. McConnell suffered from shock and' Miss Mc- Connell had her breast bone fractur- ed. The spring wheat in this district is likely to be an entire failure on ac- count of the hot days and wet wea- ther. Early on Thursday morning last the residence of Mr. W. M. Gray, of Seaforth, was entered and ransacked by burglars. A few evenings before the residence of Mr. Robert Lumsden and the store of Messrs. Johnson Bros. had been 'entered and' •several articles taken. Mr. Robert Fanson left with us this week a sample of the 'choicest goose- berries we have seen fora longtime. One of them measured 3%, inches one way and 4 inches the other. Messrs. Case, of Seaforth, bought and shipped 500 cattle this season. They averaged $70 per head. Nearly every farmer in this vicin- ity now uses a self -binder. IMr. John Laing, of Zurich, has started out a new shop in C. F. Wag- ner's old 'stere, Goldie & M'cCiullioch, the well known engine builders of Galt, have placed a very fine engine of the Wheelock patent in the new woollen mill at Brussels. Thursday of last week was a gala day for the Od'dfellows of Cl•inrtbn, when they dedicated their new hall. On Tuesday evening last a son of Mr. Michael •Germley, 4th concesaibn of Hibbert, aged 14 ,years, met with a terrible accident. He was holding a span' 'of horses which were attach- ed to a reaper just as a heavy storm was coming on. The horses were 'Startled and started up knocking the boy down in front of the knives Which mangled and tore his body. Besides this an arni was broken and a finger cut /off. His recovery in almost im- possible. Mr. N. Fried' has let the contraet for putting the roller process into his ,mill at Das4h'wo'od. When other improvements are completed the mill Will have a capacity of 60 'barrels a ,day. The other day Mr. A. T. Salt, of Clinton, had a small r removed from' the top of his ead. Ill{e had had one removed some airs ago and they decided to pull • hes one out, tio whn!Nervedich !Nerved a very painful opera- 314 SKETCHES FROM A FARM HOU E KITCHEN No. 4—On Sleeping Out Nights By Mrs. Paul Doig. There are 'almost as many different kinds of sleeping out as there are days of the week. There is the 'kind indulged in by the fellow on, a "ben - dee when he rolls under some shrub- bery in the park. There is the- kind we indulge ins-eccasionally--+when we are at war with all our little World and we feel that no ten -room- ed house 'i5 big enough to bald! both ourselves and the other inmates. • But the most eonrnnon variety is when the temperature of the upstairs !bedrooms is about the same as that of a dry killn or bakery, and we feel with Byron that it is a case of "no sleep 'till •m'orn" unless we can get outside where even a hot breeze is better than no breeze at all, So a pi•ilaw and coverlet is snatched up and we head cut to the old sofa un- der the maple tree 'on the lawn. If there is a moon nearing the full - with a few clouds floating across it occasionally, so much ;the better. We looked at the moon for almost an hour not Tong ago, trying to. recall different poe•mss we had read' about it and the 'only- ones we could' think of were two learned in school: "And it shone on distant Bingen, Fair Bingen on the thine." The other was: "That breed maiden with white fire laden, Whom, mortals call the moon." .We can remember shedding copious tears. over the former but the latter —well, we were twenty-five years old :before "that orbed maiden" made any. sense at all. The peasants in Italy believe that sleeping in the moonlight will drive teen mad. It has the opposite effect :on us. We majr go outside into the mo onli g(ht fe'eJing "mad," but half an hour' under its beneficent beams and we are soothed, comforted and 'at peace with the world. So much for these superstitions. • The cattle are always interested in the outd'o•or sleeping at our place. The maple tree under which the od.d Sofa is placed is right at the fence between the lawn and the pasture field, 'and about 11:30 'pm,. the cattle wander u:p from the creek bottom where they have been masticating bull -rushes and 'breathe heavily in one's face through the strands of barbed wire. Not se good. The m;osquitoee have been remark- ably well-behaved thisi year coneider- ing the amount of rainfall, and it is only on ;stall wendlesis ntightts that they leave the creek and come up around the house and lawn. And then a smudge of dry grass or leaves is enoug4h to make outdeerrs quite liveable. iWle have often noticed how sounds that are indistinguis'halble in the day time stand out so plainly at night. A dig barks over on the next conces- sion :and our pup answers back like a faithful eoho. . The late express puffs noisily in and out of the sta- tion three-quarters of ;a;• mi'Ie away, and where the wood'1'ot is thinnest the lighted windows of the cars' can be glimpsed' occasionally through the trees. On the highway through the eillage we can hear the auto'moliles rip noisily along, but to ue in the country it means less than nothing. Let 'em rip! The fireflies are back with us. Jolly little 'bugs. In late spring and early summer scores of them dark back and forth over the marshy ground of the creek (bottom. One :mearbrable evening an adventurous members of the firefly family settled on a blade of grass not over two feet away from Seven Past. Seven Past held has breath:. • 'Gosh, Mum; don't scare him." There he sat, and' now we saw him and now 'we didn't. He night have been there yet .if •Soonibe-Nine hadn't become too curious about how he worked his 'lit'tle lantern and tried to catch him: :We must look up "firefly" in the Public Library on our next trip to town. The only encyclopaedia we have in - this house is dated 1866 and is tucked away in the attic. • Any- way, they will have discory ered a lot about fireflies since ;then. The dic- tionary says: "a winged insect that emits light at night." Huanph! Any- body knbivs that. What we want to know is where' does he get the 'Fight to emit? IIt, might be mentioned in closing that the springs of the old sofa have long since given ,place to plain boards and those •boards get very, very hard about 3.30 a.m. JUST A SMILE OR TWO Leslie Howard' insists that it once happened do a London theatre where he was getting experience in reper- tory. The company put on different shows every night and sometimes two different shows a day. This was. Most confusing to the cast. One afternoon Howard forgot his lines and rushed backstage to the company director. "Quick," the star asked, "what's my line?" '`Quack," the director returned "what's the ,play?"—New York Post. "What a big family you have, Mrs. Jones," said the visitor. "Ye's'm. And the funny thing is that all the names begin with a haitch. There's 'grace, 'Eerbert, 'Eery, 'Ugh, 'Ubert, 'Arold, 'Arriet and '"Ettyl----all except the last one, and we 'ad 'ex named Halice."—Troy Times Record. • "My derter is gain' to play Bee- thoven tonight." "I 'ope she 'wins."—,Smith's Week- ly (Sydney). -SUNDAY AFTERNOON • (By Isabel Hamilton, Goderich, Ont.) - - • Sometimes a light surprises , The Christian while he sings; It is the Lord who rises' With healing in His wings; When comforts are declining, He grants the soul again A season of clear shining, To cheer it after rain. Wm. Cowper. PRAYER • May all those engaged in Social Service work carry on, in the assured hope of doming victory. For confid- ing in Thee they cannot but rejoice. nen. S. S. LESSON FOR AUGUST 4, 1935 Lesson Topic—Josiah (A Religious Reformer). Lesson Passage—H Kings 23:1-5, 21-23. Golden Text—Matthew 4:10. Josiah, king of Judah, was put on the throne, at the age of eight years, by the people, who frustrated the de- signs of his' father's murderers. He reigned for thirty-one years (B.C. 641- 609). The account of his reign as given in Kings and Chronicles tells nothing of his early history or of the influences under which he grew up. The narrative in Kings begins with his repair of the temple in the eigh- teenth year of his reign, and that in Chronicles with the beginning of his destruction of idolatry in the twelfth year. During the repairing of the temple, which apparently had not been made since the days of Jehoiada the priest as recorded in II Kings, 12th chapter, the book of the law was found in the house of the Lord by Hrlkiah, the priest. He gave it to Shaplharn the scribe, who read it be- fore the King. The King was se ter- rifie'd'iby the "book," Preirbably Deuter- onomy, that he rent his clothes,, and immediately sent Shaphan and 'three others to Hu.ldah the prophetess, to learn the will of the Lord. She re- plied that the Lord intended to pun- ish the people for their._long-contin- ued diso'bedi'ence, according he the warnings of the book; but, in conse- quence of Josiah's ready and sincere humiliation, the strokes. were to be delayed 'until after 'his' death. As recorded in to -day's lesson, Jos- iah, after receiving the message from the prophetess, gathered together all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem,' the priests and tthe prophets, and all the people, and read to thein the "book of the law," and with them en- tered into a solemnt. covenant .to keep all ifs words: Tien 'began a vigor- ous cleansing sof the • silty and the land of all traces of idolatry. The "high places" were destroyed feint the northern to the southern, bona - t.4 ),)+`,.eel clary of the land of 'Israel — from Geba to Beersheba. The great work of purification end- ed. the King returned to Jerusalem, and celebrated the Passover exactly according to the "book," so that the sacred historian says of it: "Surely there was not holden such a Pass - o' rr from the days of the judges that judged Israel, nor in all the days of the kings of Israel, nor of the kings of Judah." The newness to Josiah of the book of the law need occasion no surprise, :.either that he heard of it with as- tonishment, for even he in those days of idolatry may well have been lit tle instructed in religion. Josiah lost 'his ]rife in battle and his death was the occasion for an outburst of popular grief so great as to kec'glne proverbial (Zechariah 12: 11). In II°thronicles 35:25-27 it is writ- ten of him: '"Anal Jeremiah lamented for Josiah: and all the singing men and the singing women snake of Jo- siah in their lamentations to this day, and made therm an ordinance in Israel: and, 'behold', they are written in the lamentations. Now the rest of the acts of Josiah, and his good- ness, according to that which was written in the law of the Lord, and his deeds, first and last, behold, they are written in the 'book of the kings bf Israel; and Judah."t-('Condensed from The Encyclopaedia of Religious Knowledge) . • WORLD MISSIONS Social Service Work in Canada HALiIFAX, N. S. The year 1933 began with a week of united prayer services at five cen- tre's in (Fairfax. The six Protestant churches of our district received such blessing art ins'p'iration that further meetings were planned and carried out during the year. In 1934, God' willing, we shall cele- brate the one hundredth anniversary of Brunswick street church. It is our earnest desire that the work of the second century may be begun and carried .on in a manner worthy of the 'sp'lendi'd .achievennents and traditions of the past.--'A•I4ee 'Mitchell. • AAMIIUPON, ONT. ' All Peoples' Mission. — As in all community centres during the past year we have ;been in touch`"virith urg- ent distress, searelty of food, lack of clothing, malnutrition and illness'. Through -tclo-operation 'with) social ag- ('Continued on Page 8) yIN "It 'WI'`p lF ys r,..:..«..a f.. to&,Il Seen in the County Papers Broke Hip By Fall John 'MieGlure, East Street, broke his 'hi'p Thursday morning at 'Salt - ford 'Heights farm when the tre'p'=hine broke while a wagon was being lead- ed with 'hay. The injured man fell about Tuve feet to the ground. He wast nem/rived to A'lexand!ra Hospital,: .Goderich Star. • 1 • To Celebrate Anniversary Mir. and (Mrs. !C. S. Hawke will be at home to their friends attheir resn idence, Townsend Street, on. Theirs - day, August 1st, from 3.30 to 6.3a and from 7.30 to 9 p.m., the occasion (being the fiftieth anniversary of their wedding.—IO1inbon News -Record.. Survives Broken Neck Mfr. H.' C. Young ,who is confined to Kitchener hospital as the result bf aiz automobile accident on July.,5th, is reported as ppro!greIssing favorably. Mr. Young, the eon of Mr. .and Mrs. Thos. Young, South Street, suffered a broken neck and other serious in- juries in the mishap. He will be confined to hospital for some weeks• yet.—Goderich Signal. Good Wheat (Fall Wheat in this section is con- ceded/ to be very fine this season. Mr. Leslie Jervis, of Goderich town- ship, has a field` near the Maifiland river which old-timers say they have never seen equalled,. There are be- tween• four and five acres in the field anti it took twenty-nine poun& of twine to tie it up. In cutting it he wasobliged to take .but half a swath, the grain was so thiele and the sheaves are almost covering the field. —Clinton News-Redord. • A Nice Purchase The small farm belonging to the estate of the late John Jervis on the Bayfield road, has been purchased by Mr. Frank H. Powell, of Goderich'.. township, it is. an ideal location, near town, has a nice stone house and other :buildings and can 'be made in to a very ,pleasant ih4ome. We con- gratulate Mr. Powell on his purchase. But a little bird wliispeys that it is not to be the nest for the old birds to spend the last restful years of life, (but rather to be. the first nest of a couple just start ng life to- gether. But in either case it will make an ideal home.—'Olinton News - Record. Auto Accident Detroit Motorists Painfully Injured iMns. Arthur B. 'Mowbray received severe lacerations to her eyes, lips and scalp and had her nose partly out away when the ear in which she and her husband and her mother-in-law were driving, struck the corner of the cement bridge about half' a mile this side of Port Albert after a rear tire of the car blew out. The pas- • sengers, all from Detroit, were ad- mitted to the hospital hereon Satur- day, shortly after .moon. Mr. 'M,ow- bray had 'his lips and face badly cut by th'e windshield -glass, while his mother, who was in the back seat of the ear, sustained a number of brok- en ribs, concussion and a fractured ankle.--(Goderich Star. Disastrous Fire The clang'of the fire bell was heard. here on Tuesday afternoon _when it was d'isc'overed that Mr. Joe lriamil- ton's garage was on fire. It seems that 'Mn. James Scott,' the efficient acetylene welder, was working on a job when in some manner a. spark from" the torch he was using, started a blaze which made great headway and only for the presence of .mind of Mr. Scott in grabbing the tank and rushing outside with it, which, no cloi-)bt,, ]averted an e dplosdon which would have wrecked the whole build- ing . and probably injured' same of those around: The firemen respond- ed very rapidly to the alarm and in a very few minutes .had streams of water pouring' on, the flames with the result that the flames were soon under control, but not before consid'- era!ble damage had been done both to the 'building and 'also to a stock of im'pleme'nts and repairs owned by Mr. Doherty, who had part of the building. The loss is covered' 'by in- surance. This 'building was erected in 1899 by the late Messrs. Slater & Sims, 'being used by them as a 'black- smith and carriage shop but has' been used as a garage for a great many years. It is a solid brick .structure, and it is hoped' that it will be repair- ed and continued es a place of busi- nesa—Blyth Standard. Goderich Scouts Under Canvas Twenty-six members 'of the local -scout • Croup are at present enjoying the annual camping expedition to Point Farm, under the leadership of District Smut Master Harry Wat- son, Scout Master Glen Lodge and Troop Leaders Jack Kershaw and Ross Pennington. • Then are four patrols, Goderich troops) numbers lst and 2nd, at the camp in eight tents, including one pup tent. The major- ity ,of the boys have spent the last few days in comparative m'is'ery, only two of them escaping the annoying rash, apparently caused by some beach disease, that has spread: all along the lake shore in 'th'e vicinity of Goderich. The scouts left Gode- rich last lMlonday and wdl•L.break camp next 'Monday, 'Goderich Star. A Real Game 'ball What as seen on the diamond' last Friday evening, when the Mitchell boys were up and had it out with the locals. The remarkable feat of the game was the invincibility 'of the 17 - year -old pitcher, Albert Heideman, who kept the 'heavy -hitting Mitchell bats very silent, only two safe ..hits were registered in" thea -eight -inning game played, and the longer he play- ed the better he seemed to get. We are i'nde'ed proud of Albert, end he continues increasing with his deliver- ies along with'e'onfidence he will make a real star pitcher in the very near future. The score at the end of the game stood 5-1) in favor of the home team. And 'here's 'good luck to you, Albert; we appreciate your week.— Zurich Herald:. a R • a a K le r'd .{ >A Yl;