The Huron Expositor, 1935-11-22, Page 2110.
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eith McPhail McLean, Editor.
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SEAFORTTi, Friday, November 22.
The Reciprocity Pact
The Reciprocity Treaty between
Canada and the United States, which
was signed in Washington on Friday
of last week, and the terms of which
were made public on Monday of this
week, has created, perhaps, greater
public interest than any political ev-
ent in Canada in some decades.
It is not, of course, the Reciprocity
pact of 1911, but it is, nevertheless,
the most sweeping tariff revision that
this country has ever witnessed. And
yrhat is even more to the point, is
the fact that the new treaty has been
hailed by the Canadian people, ir-
respective of politics, as the forerun-
ner of freer and greater trade with
our American neighbors and the
forerunner, too, of better times in
our own country.
When Reciprocity was defeated in
1911 it was not because the Canadian
people, and particularly the Canadian
farmer, did not see the advantages
that would accrue from such a trade
Agreement. Its defeat was wholly
due to the selfishness of interested
big business and the appeals of pas-
sion and prejudice raised by those
interests, appeals which were ,ral-
lowed whole by the people alike/ in
town and country.
-The new agreement is on a some-
what different footing. It is, in a
measure, the work of both Canadian
political parties. That has come
true which Sir Wilfrid Laurier pro-
phesied in 1911, when he said in the
House of Commons: "The time will
come, my friends, when my fellow
countrymen will wonder if, after all,
Fielding and Laurier were not right
in seeking freer trade in natural pro-
ducts with our neighbors, while in-
creasing our trade with England
through British preferences. Even
my brilliant young friend from Cal-
gary (Mr. Bennett) may concede it
some time. I cannot pierce the Mists
of the future, none of us can, 'but I
am confident that coming years will
vindicate our course."
After a span of twenty-four years,
and perhaps long before, Mr. Ben-
nett did see the light. At any rate,
it was he, who a year ago, first en-
tered into the negotiens with Wash-
ington, which .Mr. King carried to
such a successful conclusion on Fri-
day last.
It is not to be supposed for a mom-
ent that the new trade agreements
and the lowering of the trade bar-
riers between this country and the
States, will meet with the unanimous
endorsation of all Canadians.. Hu-
man nature is not built that way,.and
that part of it which has been con-
nected with pap -fed industries which
have been thriving mightily for the
past five years because of the fact
that prohibitive tariffs had made
trade opposition to them impossible,
will have much to say.
Legitimate industries, however,
and they are the only kind that
should be given consideration, will
not suffer, or will not even be embar-
rassed by the , terms of the new
treaty.
On the other hand, the benefits
that will accrue to agriculture, can
not yet be even estimated. That
they will be of immense value to the
farmer goes without saying. To the
consumer, too, the Reciprocity pacts
will be a boon. In fact, the Toronto
Mail and Empire (pretty disinterest-
ed opinion, in this case) says the. new
-agreements are a "consumer first
tariff."
And, after all, in Canada, when
the farmer and the consumer get a
chalice to prosper, -does not the whole
eotrltrt prosper with there? At
1b04. that has 'been the past history
iadat, and we believe it will be
'a `at
ya
cif
lief'
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Stratford Beacon -Herald
Burned Out
The sympathy of this, and we be-
lieve every other paper in the On-
tario and Canadian Newspaper As-
sociations, is extended the manage-
ment of the Stratford Beacon -Her-
ald, whose large three-storey plant
was almost completely gutted by fire
on Friday evening last.
There is not a business that is as
disrupted or suffers to as great an
extent in the case of 7 z as does a
newspaper plant, a f Stratford
paper was no exception.
Expensive electric equipmen w
destroyed; linotype machines, job
presses and even the big newspaper
press, were so injured by heat and
water that they will Ml have to be
rebuilt, while large stocks of news
and expensive paper and stationery
were utterly ruined.
The loss, it is stated, was covered
by •insurance. That, however, is im-
possible, in the case of a newspaper
fire. Insurance never meets the re-
placement cost, and there is no in-
surance that will cover the loss of
time and work and the cost of pub-
lishing elsewhere until new premises
are secured or the old one rebuilt.
By commendable pluck and enter-
prise on th.Q, part of the Stratford
management, however, the Beacon -
Herald has not yet missed an issue,
although it has had to use St. Thomas
presses instead of its own, and the
large place it holds in the daily life
of this and other communities is
still administered to.
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The British Elections
The British general elections held
on Thursday of last week resulted in
the return of the National Govern-
ment by a majority of 260.
The size of the majority was a
pleasing surprise to Prime Minister
Stanley Baldwin and even to the
most optomistic of his supporters in
the House as well as in the country.
While called a National Govern-
ment, the new government is almost
solidly Conservative in politics, and
the opposition will almost entirely
come from the Labor party.
Ex -Premier Ramsay MacDonald
and his son, the Hon. Malcolm Mac-
Donald, both members of Mr. Bald -
win's former Cabinet, were defeat-
ed, and in all probability both will re-
tire from public life, at least for the
time being.
The result of the election was a
strong commendation of the policies
of Mr. Baldwin, and there seems to
be no question of the fact that Bri-
tain looks upon the Premier as the
right man in the right place.
That Mr. Baldwin is a strong and
able man is also without question,
and with- the new lease of life his—
government
is .goveri .ment has received, and the
place he holds both in his'party'and
in the country, he would appear to
have a free hand in the government
of the Empire for some years to
come.
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Read, And Think It,Over
From a statement issued by the
Dominion Bureau of Statistics we
learn that 1,108 persons were killed
in automobile accidents in Canada
last year.
And that is not the whole story.
In addition to the killed, 17,998 per-
sons were. injured, and the property
damages resulting from these fatali-
ties and near fatalities, amounted to
$1,266,413.
If you are either a motorist or a
pedestrian, and most of us are one or
the other, just read those figures
again anfl think over them a bit.
Were you responsible for any of
those deaths, injuries or money loss-
es? Of course not! It was the other
fellow who did all the damage, wasn't
it? And it was the other fellow
whose belief in personal liberty was
so great that he thought he had a
perfect right, night or day, to walk
anywhere on the highways he pleas-
ed.
Well, may be it was. But you take
our word for it: Unless you do some
serious thinking about this matter,
it ma3r not be the other fellow who
has the next accident. It may .be
you.
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o TRE. HURON E P SITOR •
Years Agone
Interesting items picked from
The Expositor of fifty and
twenty-five years ago.
From The Huron Expositor of
November 27, .1885
Mr. Robert Fulton, of Grand Bend,
leaves shortly for Allba, Michigan,
where he has taken the contract for
sawing 10,000,000 feet of lumber.
Miss Annie Hough, of Londesboro,
was the successful applicant out of
forty, for the intermediate depart-
ment of Blyth school at a salary of
$275. The staff consists :of J. W.
Shaw, re-engaged at an advance in
salary; Miss Hough, as first assist-
ant, and Miss Radcliffe, as second.
Donald Fraser, for many years the
Deputy Registrar of the County of
Huron, died in Goderich on Satur-
day last after a short illness.
Mr. A. W. Thompson, of Port Ar-
thur,. a former Seaforth boy, has
been appointed police mragistrate for
that town.
Mr. James Sutherland, form.erly of
Hallett, has purchased one of Mr.
,Wm. Campbell's cottages on North
Main S't., Seaforth, and has come to
town to reside.
.11•1r. F. G. Neelin, 'of Seaforth, and
Mr. John O'Sullivan, of McKillop, -are
applicants for the position of Revis-
ing Barrister's Clerk for South Hur-
on under the new franchise bill.
Mr. D. D. Wilson, of ,Seaforth, has
stored about 700 barrels of apples in
his refrigerator which he intends
keepiing for the spring market.
One .day last week Mr. Webb, of
Hibbert, who resides on the 14th con-
cession, lost two young cattle in a
peculiar way. The cattle had bor-
rowed holes in an old straw stack
and were in the habit of going in for
shelter. The threshing machine com-
menced work and without being ob-
served the old stack was covered up
and the animal's imprisoned. They
were found dread.
We are pleased to state that the
salt well in Hensall, under the able
management of 'Mr. Ge'orge McEwan,
is and has been doing a large share
of busifiess.
Mr. ''Owen Geiger, of the Bronson
Line, moved into Hensall a few days
ago and is occupying a house belong-
ing to Mr: F. Demuth.
'Ro'bert Graham, grain dealer of
Brussels, shipped this week 11,000
bushels of peas, being 25 carloads,
from that station for export to Eng-
land.
Mr. Dickenson, barrister of Wing -
ham, has been appointed Clerk of
East Huron, under 'the new Fran-
chise Act.
Mr. James Henry, of near :Marnoch,
East Wlawanosh, has erected this sea-
son a handsome new residence. The
building is of concrete and stands on
an eminence overlooking the River
Maitland.
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From The Huron Expositor of
November 25, 1910
The position of head of the depart-
ment of Englieh and History in the
Techn'ical High School at Toronto has
been offered to Dr. J. M. Field, Prin-
cipal of Goderich Collegiate Institute.
Hugh MacKay disposed of his 180
acre farm, Lot 10, Con. 9, Grey, to
James Moses, second line of Morris.
Six neighbors on the London Road
are talking of forming a rural mail
themselves and eaclh one vi11 have a
special day to go to Clinton for the
m:ail and deliver it to the other five.
Those interested are W. and Frank
Grant, Robert Hunter, A. Stevenson,
Fred Nott and 'Henry Livermore.
Mr. W. D. Sanders, of Stephen, met
with a painful accident recently. He
was working around his cattle when
a steer kicked him in the leg and as
a result was laid up for a few days.
:On Tuesday evening last Rev. G. C.
Ross, late of Charlottetown, was in-
ducted into the ministry in Knox
Church, Goderich. Rev. F. H. Lar-
kin was one of the officiating clergy-
men.
Mr. Wm. Ruby and family haus
moved into the dwelling recently
purchased from Mr. Wm. Bender in
Zurich.
Mr. C. Fritz, of Zurich, has had a
new plate glass front put in his shoe
store. He believes in having every-
thing up to date.
The other night, Messrs. Smith,
Little and W. J. Ross 'went td Mr.
Ross' bush where they located a 'bee
tree. On cutting down the tree they
found a quantity of excellent
honey.
The wareroomis owned by the
Grand Trunk and occupitd by the
Canada Furniture Manufactures Co.
and Walker and Clegg Furniture Co.,
of Wingham, were entirely destroyed
by fire early on Tuesday morning.
The 'loss is about $12,000.
Mr. A. Dickson, our genial tax col-
lector, of McKillop, has made his
rounds in the community.
Mr. James Berry, of Tuckersmith,
has sold his farm, Lot 8, 'Con. 6, H.R.
S., to Mr. Roger Rice, of Hibbert.
The price was near $7,500.
Mr. James Harvey, an old resident
of Exeter, died on Tuesday of this
week at the age of 76 years. He 'was
born at Nortonham,pstead, Devon-
shire, England. He served in 'the
army of the Crimean War, in' the In-
dian meeting, and took part in the
bombardment of Sebastapol.
The unloading of the first grain
into the new cement 'annex to the
Goderich Elevator Company's plant
was greeted with the Mowing of all
the whistles at the haabor on Tues-
day Morning. The Steamer Niebdng
brought in the cargo on Monday
night.
While entering the hallway of the
public school at Brussels a couple of
weeks ago, Menota, youngest daugh-
ter of E. 0, Danford, had the thumb
of her right hand badly bruised by
@the door slamming shut upon it.`
The hunting party, consisting of
Dr. Fowler and Charles 'Glew, Clin-
tan, Walter Cole, Seaforth; John
Johnson, Dungannon; Ed. Williams,
Holmesvillee, and Ogle Cooper, 0oI-
lingwood, who spent the first two
weeks of this month in the northern
'Weods huniting deer, have returned,
bringing four deer with %here.
DO YOU REMEMBER
Do you rememtber when the
Me'chanic's Institute was one of the
thriving institutions in town?
A repeesentative annual meeting
was that :held on the evening of
Tuesday, Dec. 1, 1886, which was well
attended by the members numbering
at that time some 310, an increase of
•88 over the previous year.
The secretary and librarian that
vear was a Mr. Moore and his re-
port showed that there were ',60-.10
Looks in the library, 200 of which
wore purchased that iyear.
'A feature lof that year which the
report mentions was the clawing
clans conducted by Mr. Craekett and
the free night school over whirr: hiss
Cowan had charge. Both classes
were largely attended each week and
proved very popular for a number of
years.
During the year the Instita:;e or-
ganized a literary society whim niet
on alternate Tuesdays during the fall
and winter. Programs consisted of
readings and debates by the mem-
bers. The officers of the literary so-
ciety were: • President, S. G. Mc-
Caughey; secretary, L. E. Dancey,
and treasurer, Won. Moore.
The officers of the Institute in the
year 1885 were: President, S. G. Mc-
Caughey; vice-president, Dr. Camp-
bell; treasurer, F. Holmested; here-
tary, J. J. Darwin; Directors: John
Hannah, R. Lumsden, J. • C. Hart -
stone, Rev. A. D. McDonald, D. 1).
Wilson, M. Y. McLean, Dr, Smith
and John McLaren.
'rhe records of the librarian show-
ed that during the year 11,602 books
were issued, made up as follows:--
Biography 630, fiction 5,042, history
1,421, miscellancaus 812, periodicals
1,086, poetry and drama 245, religion
86, science and art 720, travel 1,610.
The Institute had on its reading room
tables, 5 illu'strat'ed papers, 6 dailies,
6 weeklies, 1 semi-weekly, 5 monthly
magazines and 7 reviews, Annual
membership was $1 a year.
JUST A SMILE OR TWO
Sandy M'Pherson was travelling to
Glasgow, and on the way he • felt
thirsty, so he took out a bottle and
drew the cork. Just as he was about
to take a taste, a fellow passenger
in clerical garb addressed' him:
'"Excuse me, sir, but I am 65 years
of age and I have never tasted a
drop of whiskey."
"Dinna worry yersel'," said Sandy,
"you're no' gauntae start n'oo."
A dapper little man applied for a
separation order to be made out
against his wife on the grounds of
cruelty.
When asked bye the magistrate if
he could prove his case, he replied,
meekly, "One night I dreamt I won
£20,000, and the following morning
my wife nearly killed me for not put-
ting it in the bank before I woke up."
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SUNDAY AFTERNOON
(By Isabel Hamilton, Goderich, Ont.) -
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Glad was my heart to hear
l-Vfy old companion say,
Come, in the house of God appear,
Fqr 'tis a holy day.
Our willing feet shall stand
Within the 'temple door,
While young and old, in many a band,
Shall throng the sacred floor.
Within these walls may peace
And harmony be found;
Zion, in all thy palaces '
Prosperity abound. Amen.
J. 'Montgomery.
S. S. LESSON FOR NOVEMBER 24
Lesson Topic—The Message of Hag-
gai and Zechariah.
Lesson Passage—Haggai 1:2-8, 2:8,
9; Zechariah, 4:6-10.
Golden Text—Psalm 122:1.
The work on the rebuilding of the
house of God in Jerusalem, referred
to in our last lesson, was stopped
during the reign of Artaxerxes by
representations from the people of
the land whose offer to help the peo-
ple of Judah rebuild was refused. It
was not resumed until the reign of
Darius.
The great prophets of these p•ost-
exile days were • Haggai, Zechariah
and Ezra. In to -day's lesson Haggai
addresses the peo.pl•e, saying, with
exactness, that the word of the Lord
came to him "in the second year of
Darius the king, in the sixth month,
on the first day of the month." No
.doubt at the new moon the people
would be assembled, and the lack of
any sacred building would be more
pressingly felt.
There were those who dissuaded
the Jews from any attempt to con-
tinue the building upon the founda-
tions which had been laid fourteen
years before. They argued that "the
time is not come, the time that the
Lard's house should be built." Hag-
gai asks them whether, then, it was
time for them -to dwell in their own
ceiled houses while the house of God
lay waste? He bids them, in God's
name, to look to their ways, look at
the wretchedness of their present cir-
cumstances. There was no prosper-
ity in the community; all their un-
dertakings were smitten with fail-
ure. Again he calls them to consider
their ways. Having done so, they
are to arise and build. The promise
accompanying this command or ex-
hortation was that God would take
pleasure in their work and He would
be glorified thereby.
There are throughout Haggai's
prophecy three great moral truths
taught. The first is that faithful-
ness is directly connected with ma-
terial prosperity. He is commission-
ed to tell his people that even the
blessings of the earth may depend—
though they do not always and nec-
essarily depend—on the honor which
they pay to God.
The second is that discouragement,
l-,owever profound, is not an ad'e-
uuate reason for neglecting duties,
even when they seem to be encom'=
passed with difficulty. "Be strong
is a glorious motto for
11u -filen life.
A third truth is that, when a. good
work is awaiting its accomplishment,
the time to do it is now. Thousands
are always eager to find excuses for
procrastination. But the :procrastina-
tion of duty is an offence in the eyes
of God, and we cannot look fox His
blessing until our work is strenuous-
ly taken in hand.
Zechariah 4:6-10. — Like Haggai,
Zechariah began to prophesy in the
second year of King Darius. The
first six chapters of this book nar-
rate seven visions, all of which pass-
ed before the mind of the ,prophet in
a single night, and of which the ex-
planations are furnished. Nightly
'visions' were one of the recognized
sources of .prophetic inspiration.
The fifth vision is r'ecorde'd in the
second part of to -day's lesson.
The angel interpreter awakes Ze-
chariah as out of sleep, and he sees
a golden candelabrum, like that which
had existed in the old Temlple, but
different from it, and greatly super-
ior. For 'ox the top of it is a bowl
and it has seven lamps, and seven
pipes to the lamp, and on each side
of thrid 'bowl an olive tree. Since he
cannot explain the' meaning of tike,
vision, the angel tells hien that it, is
meant to teach Zerubbabel, who was
directing the' rebuilding of the house
of God, that he is to rely wholly on
God. For just as the lamps of the
candelabrum, which typify the pres-
ence of 'bhe Spirit of God in His
Temple, are not supplied by human
hands, but come direct from the ol-
ive tree, so he is to learn the lesson,
"not by might, or by power, but by
My Spirit, saith the Lord of hosts."
Zerubbabel has laid the foundation
of the house, and he shall beingforth
its coping -stone, while the , glad
multitude shout "Grace, grace to it!"
Henceforth who will despise the day
of small things? The seven eyes of
the Lord which run through the
whole earth see the plummet in the
hand of Zerubbabel and they rejoice.
The vision is full of meaning and
comfort. By it the prophet was as-
sured, and through h'im the people,
that the good work of building the
temple, by the special care of Divine
Providence, should be brought to a
happy issue; that Zeruibbalbel, the
leader, was to know that he was a
worker together with God, and that
it was a work which God would own
and bless. The same blessed assur-
ance is with God's 'own workers in
our day. It is still "not by might,
nor by power, but by My spirit,
saith the Lord of Hosts."—From The
Minor Prophets, by Archdeacon Far-
rar.
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WORLD MISSIONS
The Conquering Book
St. David's Day a hundred year
ago is a date not likely to be forgot
ten in Madagascar. On 'March 1st
1835, there began one of the bitter
est persecutions the Christian 'Churcl
has .known. For a quarter of a cen
tpry it continued, and ended, as re
ligious persecution always does, ii
the .complete discomfiture of the op
pressor and in the increased vitalit
of the Church.
It was an impressive occasion. The
Malagasy queen had summoned al:
her people to assemble near the pal-
ace hill in Tananarive, and thither
all the tribes went up. W'hen• at last
the stage was set the queen herself
appeared, and the royal message was
plroclaimedt The state claimed to
control every detail of the whole life
of the citizen. Caesar could not tol-
erate Christ, and all who had bowed
the knee to Him were given a per-
iod in which to recant. Those •who
refused must surely die.
Some recanted, and small wonder.
They were scarcely more than 'Chris-
tians of a day. The faith in Mada-
gascar had no deep roots. Barely
'sixteen years had passed since the
first 'Christian missionary had set
foot in the land, There had been rto
time for the development of those
Christian institutions that buttress
men's loyalty and strengthen their
hearts. The wonder is that so few
recanted. The majority stood firm.
The persecution lasted for nearly a
generation.
What was it that kept the infant
church of Madagascar alive when all
the forces of the state were mobiliz-
ed to crush it? It was not the pres-
ence of missionaries, for they were
all banished from the land. It was
that the people had the Bible in their
own tongue.
The completion of the translation
and the printing of the 'book was one
of the stories that will nevem die. The
queen had given the missionaries a
time -limit during which they were to
clear up their affairs and quit tflie
land. They set themselves bo the
task of finishing the translation and
printing of the whole Bible during
the time that remained. Already the
New Testament and some parts of
the Old Testament had been translat-
ed and printed off on the small mis-
sion press. Could the rest he done
in the interval that remained? It
became a race against time.
Missionaries and Malagasy converts
alike shared in the task. While one
was finishing off the 'translation and
giving the final touches of revision,
another was setting up the type, and
a third was working at the heavy
hand -press. The missionaries' wives
took their share, too, stitching the
printed sheets together as they camp
front the machine, putting on the
'binding, anti tevep lending a hand to
NOVEMBER 22, 1935.
Seen in the
County Papers
Broke Left Arm
Ross Rutledge, student at the Col-
legiate, suffered' a fractured left arm
on Tuesday when he fell while play-
ing s'ocoer at the Agricultural Park.
Ross had been .playing on a "pick-
up" team and was in the act of drib-
!bling the football down the rather
rough field when the accident occur-
red. It •wlould be the left arm!—
Goderich Star.
Found Arm Fractured After a Fall
When the lonob of the door which
she was closing came 'off, Mrs. rAd-
am F3•ster, St. Patrick St., lost her
balance and fell to the pavement,
breaking her right arm above the el-
bow. She did not realize the serious
extent of the injury until the frac-
ture was disclovered by the doctor
who she consulted.---Goderich Star.
A Neighborly Gift
Before leaving for thelir new home
,in Toronto, Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Mor-
rish were reih'emb•erwed by their
neighbors with a very nice little gift.
About thirty of the neighbors club-
bed together and sent in a most
beautiful moroeca leather handbag
for Mrs. ,Morrish and a Yardley
shaving outfit for Mr. Morrish, to-
gether with a neat little packet con-
taining cards, strung together with
white ribbon containing the names
of all donors. A' couple of the ladies
called with the gifts and expressed
the regret of the neighbors at the
removal of the family from towm
and also the good' wishes of all for
a ,happy future. --Clinton News -Re-
cord.
Former Local Druggist Dead
A. L. Hamilton, of Windsor, and a
former druggist of Wingham, passed
away on Wednesday morning follow-
ing a short illness. Interment will be
made in Mount Pleasant Cemetery,
London, at 2 p.m., on Friday.—Wing-
ham Advance -Times.
Accepts Position with University
Mr. G'e'orge C. Allen, 1\LA., son of
Chief and Mrs. Allen, has accepted
an assistantship in Chemistry at the
University of Toronto. George com-
menced his duties on Monday.—Wing-
ham- Advance -Times.
Won Third Carter Scholarship
Miss June Buchanan, who graduat-
ed from the local High School last
term and is now attending Western
University, was successful in winning
the Third Carter .Scholarship in 'Hur-
on County which has a value of $40.
—Wingham Advance -Times.
Primitive Carving?
Mr. George MacVicar is displaying
in his window a piece of granite
which has aroused much speculation.
It is shaped like the leg and foot of
a child from the knee down, even the
ankle bone showing prominently.
The unusual feature of the object is
that it appears to have been shaped
by human hands, the surface being
rough and apparently chipped off. It.
could be the work of some primitive
craftsman, Indian or possibly soane-
earlier inhabitant of the country, al-
though where such people would find
or make a tool which could chip hard
granite is not known. It appears to
have been originally what is known
as "hard head," and every farm boy
knows just how hard such stones are.
it was picked up on the farm at
M.en'esetung by Mr. Harry McCreath.
—Godenieh Signal.
A Good Old Citizen
Mr. Giles Jenkins on Saturday last
, celebrated his 84th birthday. He has
been receiving many congratulations
and at the morning, service in North
Street United Church on Sunday Rev..
W. P. Lane expended the congratula-
tions and good wishes of the congre-
ration and paid Mr. Jenkins a warm
tribute for his good qualities, par-
ticularly as a devoted and zealous
church member. If Mr. Jenkins'
smile has been, if possible, a little
broad'er than usual the last week or
two, it is because of the• success of
his clever young granddaughter, Miss
Marian Snell, in winning one of the
Carter Scholarships, as was announc-
ed last week.—Goderich Signal.
Ripe Strawberries Picked •
Mr. William Casey, of the west
end of Main Street, picked ripe
strawberries out of his garden on
Saturday, November 9th. — Mitchell.
Advocate.
Elevators Jammed
The Goderich elevator storage ca-
pacity is taxed to the limit of 3,-
000,000 bushels, after the arrival last
week of the D. B. Hanna with 100,-
000 •bushel's of barley aril screenings.
The Steamer William Sc hupp unload-
ed 110,000 'bushels of wheat at the
mill, and during the week the Super-
ior loaded 600 t'on's of salt from the
Goderich Salt Co. warehouse clear-
ing for the head of the lakes. Perch
were still biting last week and fisher --
men counted from 60 to 100 fish a,
fair d'ay's catch.—Zurich Herald.
Triplets Born
For the first time in the history
of Alexandra Marine and General
Hospital, triplets have been born
within its walls. The proud parents
are Mr. and Mrs. Fred' 'McCabe, R. R.
2, ,Goderich Township. The babies,
all boys, were born on Saturday. Two
are four pounds, and the third 3i/z
pounds.—Zurich Herald,
the 'turning of the great wheel. It
was a grim fight, and in spite of their
feverish haste it often looked as if
they would not succeed'. As they
marked off the days on the calendar,
and saw how near they were getting
to the end of their time, they worked
yet harder, toiling like galley -slaves,
hardly stopping for meals, until at
lost the man who had oharge of the
press burst into the room of his sen-
ic t• colleague, David Jones, with the
announcement, "We have finished':
here is the whole Bible in Malagasy."
Jones took the book, handling it rev-
erently, and saying, "Now the Queen
can do her worst." By the time they
had to quit !Ma d'agasoar seventy cop-
ies of the completed Bible and some
thousands of New Testaments, Psal-
ters and other portions had been
handed 'out. --.(To be continued).
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