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•s THE, HURON EXPOSITOR •
JUNE 0, 1936.
uronExp► s for
• Established 1860 •
eith McPhail McLean, Editor.
Published at Seaforth, Ontario, ev
ery Thursday afternoon by McLean
Bros.
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be contested by the Liberals. '
Times have changed in the On-
tario Legislature: To -day we have
--a—Premie r and a --leader of the -
Opposition, who are farmers, and` if
the last farmer proves his worth as
well as the first, the country will not.
suffer in any way from the. change.
Years Agone
Interesting items picked -froom
The Expositor of fifty and
twenty-five years ago.
Members of the Canadian Weekly
Newspapers Association, Class "A"
Weeklies of Canada, and The Huron
County Press Association.
SEAFORTH, Friday, June 5, 1936.
The New Conservative Leader
On Thursday : of last-. week the
great Provincial Conservative. Con-
vention in Toronto chose as its
Ontario leader, the Hon. W. Earl
Rowe;-M.P.
The choice, was not made without
opposition,' but Mr. Rowe had a com-
fortable lead over his opponents, and
his election as leader has been re-
ceived with great enthusiasm by a
large majority of the rank and rile .
in the party.
The new Conservative leader is
forty-two years of age, and a prac-
tical dirt farmer, operating a 1510
acre farm in Gilvillinlbury Township
in Simcoe .County, land his, chief hob-
by, besides politics, is said to be rais-
ing and racing harness horses.
Although a . comparatively young
man, he has been in public life for a
number of years, first having Served
as Reeve of his township. In 1923
he was elected a member of the Leg-
islature to represent the' riding of
South Simcoe.
Two years later he retired from
the provincial field to Contest the
federal riding of Dufferin-Simcoe,
which he won, and • has represented
that riding in the House.of Commons
continuously since that time.
When Hon. P.•, B. Bennett re -
or aniz.edtis cabinet .shortly..bef•or-__
the 1135 general election, Mr. Rowe
was..taken into his cabinet- as Minis-
ter Without Portfolio.
He pis staid to be very popular with
his fellow members, on both sides of
the House in the Commons a good
platform speaker, and one who
makes friends easily.
And last, if not ,least, Hon. Mr.
Rowe, in the ecent beauty contest
in the House of Commons, was rank-
ed by Miss Agnes McPhail as one of
the eight handsome men in Parlia-
ment. •
Judging' by the enthusiasm of the
convention delegates and the rank
and file of the. C. ons•ervative party in
the country districts, 1\lr: Rowe will
have, the undivided support of his
scattered stiliporters in those dis-
tricts, at least. HOW the• old guard
and Tory Toronto will take his ele-
vation to the leadership, will be dis-
closed later.
Mr. Rowe comes into the Con-
servative leadership at a fortunate
time for -himself. His party in the
Province has never been more divid-
ed$; or its 'fortunes at a ,lower ebb. It
has reached, tle depths. so that any,
future change will, undoubtedly, be
for the better.
It is very unlikely- that ever again;.
Premier Hepburn will have as great
a following in the Legislature as he
has at the present time. Perhaps it
is not desirable that he should.
Too great. a majority in any Leg-
islature Assembly is often as great
a handicap to a Premier as one too
small. It- is so unwildy that -discip-
line suffers, and discipline in. the
ranks of either government or, op-
position, is a very necessary and es-
sential thing in the interests of good
government:
As a member of the Dominion Par-
liament, Hon. Mr. Rowe will not be
able to act as the House Leader of
his party, and whether he will con-
tinue to direct from the outside until
the next provincial general election,
is a matter he hes, as yet, made no
pronouncement.
At the present time his presence"
in Ottawa is almost as desirable to
hs paity as it would be in the 'Leg-
1ture, but s1iould he choose to
foil the • latter, Premier Hep'
hoar droadk promised that in
,r: , its election will not
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The County Tax Rate, s
A despatch from Goderich, the -
county town, in one of the daily
papers on Monday last, made the an-
nouncement that the county tax
rate would remain unchanged at five
and a half mills.
The rale is not an excessive one,
in fact compared with many other
counties, it - is exceedingly modest,
and if the county can do its legitim-
r ate business in a legitimate way on
that assessment, the people of Hur-
on and the county council, which leg-
islates for them, are both to be con-
gratulated.
If, however, the county council, as
the despatch says, is counting on a
reduction in bank interest charges
during the balance of the year as a
substantial receipt item to balance
their budget, the situation is not
quite as reassuring.
No one, least of all, a county- coun-
cillor, looks with any favor upon an
increase in taxation, but if adding a
half mill to the rate would dispense
with all, or even some,: bank borrow-
ing, would not the people, as a whole,
'who have to put up the money for
both taxes and interest on borrowed
'money, be ahead in the -deal?
It is all. very well to point with
pride to a low county rate, but the
business -like thing, one might even
say, the honest thing for the council
to do, is to explain to their constitii
ents, in black and • white figures,
what this low rate is accomplishing
towards the desired cid of a balanc-
ed budget and a reduction in the
county debt. -
If the present rate will .accomplish
that desired end, well and go,od. But
if it is 'doing less than that, what
about it? A half mill or a mill is .a
comparatively small thing when
spread over the towns and hundred
acre farms in the county. Would it
not be cheaper and more to the point
to pay that additional tax direct,
than to raise the extra money need-
ed by borrowing? Carrying a sur-
plus never made any county poor ;
neither did the payment of heavy
interest charges ever make any coun-
ty rich.
Both methods are direct taxes up-
on the people whether the people
know it or not. Unfortunately most
of them are unaware of it. And they
are unaware of it because so many
"'of our county legislators are too
prone to stress upon their constitu-
ents the lowness of the county rate,
while at the same ,, time keeping in
the very distant background the un-
business like -methods they are using
to balance their budget.
Money In Being Quintuplets
Something we read in the papers
the other day rather made us wish
we could be quintuplets.
And this was the announcement
of Hon. David Croll, Ontario Minis;
ter of Welfare, and one of the
guardians of the Dionne quintuplets,
that this famous five had proven
such attractive motion picture ac-
tresses, that a contract had been
signed for three feature films which,
besides $250,000 paid in advance,
would bring the children $50,000
more before the end of 1938, and 10
per cent. of the net proceeds of the.
films. '
Besides the present funds .and the
film contract, which will bring the
famous quints bank account to about
$750,000 in two and •a half years,
they already have an annual incor`ne
of $80,000 from other sources, so
that when the year 1938 draws to a
dose the Dionnes will be worth just
$880,000.
But unlike inost people who be-
come millionaires over night, the
Dionne quints are • not throwing
money away—at least not yet. All
they are spending on their living to
date and for some years to come is
$15,000, , and they will never be in
want at that rate:
Rather nice to be a quintuplet,
isn't it?
FrOen The Hurons Expositor of
June 9, 1911 -,.
Mr. James McKerevee of Mount
Carmel', was engaged at ffauling out
manure. '.with a spirited team when
they. ran away. I'fr. McKeever was
thrown off the wagon with the result
that ;bath legs were 'broken. Dr. Mc-
Laughlin, Das'hweed, .and Dr..IWash-
art, London, both did ll that could
bre done, .but he passed away on
Thursday lalsb.
,Over a ton .of butter was grade at
the Brussels Creamery one day last
week.
Dr. • Rilvie'rs, of 'Crediton, has been
appointed Warden of the ne'w provin-
cial jail alt Lethbridge, Alta. ,
Mr. John Denholm, of Brucefield,
shipped 20 cars of hay this ,week to
the States. -
Mr. Joseph 'Bedard, of the Sauble
Line, had a very successful barn rais-
ing on ;Monday 'of'la`st week. It is
40 x 72 and will have a hip roof, stone
stabling underneath and all the up-
to-date 'im!peovennen•tsL Mr, S. Deitz
is the builder.
The corner stone laying of the new
Knox Presbyterian Church in Mon-
oriedi will 'be held on June 22.
Mr. F. S. Scott has been appointed
pos'trnlas•ter at ,Brussels, as• successor
to iMr. Thomas Farrow, who had re-
si•gned -the office on account of ill
health.
On Tuesday: afrternioon Mr. A. P.
Jloynt left. a team of horses hitched
nn front 'of "thee Dominion Bank, Sea-
fioirtih, when they started off and
crossed in front of the E. McFaul
Cotmpany's store. One horse fell and
put its head through a large plate
glass Window.
Miss Marjory Johnson and Miss
Mary Walker of Seaforth, have taken
diplomas 'in the shorthand. department
of the Stratford Business College,
s,tandin'g first and second in the grad -
"hating class.
Mr. Thomas Fowler, of Hullett, has
purchased the old McDerm;id prvorper-
ty in Harpurhey.
Another landmark, in Eg,mon'dville,.
thepottery, has been torn down. At
thins' place a prosperous business had
been done for half a century..'
• ,Mo-.• W. L. McLaren.. of Cromarty,
came across a curiosity in the shape
of a gosling with four legs and two
taiLs.
Mr. Charles Gormley. of Hibbert,`
passed peacefully away dn. Friday
last - having ing reached the age 'of 82
years.
Mr. J. D. Buchanan, of Tucker -
smith, and a graduate of the Seaforth
Collegiate. Institute, passed his third
year examination at TororIt) • Uni-
versLtoy, standing sec :nil in first class
honors in mathemaccs and. physics.
Inthee/le:g nt exa rrinattons in con-
nection wilt.. the i rivers ,y of To-
ronta,'-Mr. E. .J. Vhittaker, son of
Mrs. Whittaker. Seaforth, stood sec=
on•d in first class h'Fnirs in geology
and min.r-aing-,•,- in the- third 'year.
Rr'-r. F. H. Larkin and Rev. Nil
Shaw are in O't'awa this week at-.
tending the- Gent•ral Assembly of the
Presbyterian Church. •
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LP1OU EVER IC:
Did your ever know that ino']itedea
in the new "Queen 'nary" are four
large (eighty by sixty feet) boil4r
rooms, which are as clean and pool
as a 'madam dairy but without any
smell, says a writer in "Fortune." In
each room is a unit of six water -
tube boilers. Every day at sea the
unit gulps 160,000 gallons of -, water
—water that must be so carefully
,purified and • softened (lest mineral
_deposits clog the 6,500 tubes. in each
boiler) that the meed act of spitting
in
the 'feed line will set off an auto-
-mra'tic alarm.. To boil the water into
.stealm there are fifty bunkers full of
furnace ea -8,300 tons in all. From
the hunkers the oil is .pumped- into
'settling tanks„ heated, filtered, heat.t'
ed again until fluid enough to make
a fine slpray in the 168 burner -nob
zles where it becomes ..a series of
white-hot jets within the boiler. Four
the most efficient combustion, air is
forced into the open sbokehold by
•olo!wer fans developing s'ucii a joy-
clonte draft within the 'boiler rooms
that Men are ;obliged to pass through
a double-door•ed air lock upon ent'er-
i.ng or leaving: All boilers are cov-
ered with asbestos, and all pipes,
,pumps,_a.nd' open spaces are enameled
White to -show the slightest trace of
Stain, for stain means a leak, and a
leak might iean a fire.
[Steam from the 'boilers, at 400
pounds pressure and superheated to
700 degrees Fahrenheit,' is piped aft
to two turbine roams where its tre-
mendousy bursting energy is 'harness-
ed- to' the task of turning four gear-
wheels fo•uriteen feet in diameter. The
harness is called a turbine, It 'over -
From The Huron Expositor of
June 4, 1886
.Jr,hn A. McEwan. of Morris, has in
his rir, ssss i',n a g•rose that has laid
33 eggs this spring and is still lay-
ino.. W' wi,•h for the sake- of our
friend 'halt they were golden. eggs.
Meesee Jahn and 'Henry Roes.e.
have bought the cider millfrom.
Christian Fayer and have removed it
to Zurich, where they will have it
fitted un for the fall trade. •
The.Hicks House, Mitchell, was last
week swindled out of .several clays'
}ward by two swells, one from Lon-
don and the other from Listowel.
• At a meeting of the Directors. of
the McKillop Mutual Fire Insurance
Company, ;h:eld in Seaforth on 'Satu•r-
day last, •there were ,102 applications
for irnsua-a.nce .acceptod. Of these, Mr.
Neilans brought in 49, Mr, 'McMil-
lan 34 and Mr, 'Carnochan 19.
Mr. Robert Willis, Seaforth, has'
had a large addition made to his shoe
shop in order to accommodate his
his rapidly increasing business.
Mr. D. 'Watson, Seaforth*,,has 'pur-
chased from Mr, James Beattie the
three lots 'apposite the public school
building for which he paid $900.
Ott Saturday night about 1 o'clock
the people of Hilbsgreen° were awak-
ened by fire. It seems that Charles
Troyer Was sitting up with a sick
baby and Lifted the window when he
smelled smoke conning from the
house of Henry Phaff's, He leaped
out the window and the roof broke
through and •hoe fell ionn the verandah
floor and broke his leg.
The congre'gati,on of Union Church,
Brueefield, started upon a new. era in
(heir existence on Tuesday lalit, Rev.
Mr. Siinips'on was inducted into that
church. The sermon was delivered by
Rely, My Forest, of Exeter. while
Rev. Mr. McLean; of Blyth...address-
ed the minister, and Rev. Mr. Mus-
grove, McKtill'orp, addressed the people.
Me. W. 13. McLean, of Hren'sall, re-
cently purchased from Ja. Hudson.
four good building' lots situated at
the northwest part of the village:
The other Week Thames Lockhart,
Seaforth, left his studio for a I'itttle
recreation and in seven }tours found
the bottom of :45 post holes. The
sante day, on his bicycle, Mr. Lock-
hart went 5% •mi les to and from Sea -
forth in 25 minutes.
At the London Caledonian games,
on May 24, Gideon Perrie, a Grey Tp.
athlete, took prizes in Platting the
heavy stone, throwing bhe light ilham-
rirer and throwing the 56" high. Oh
the same day Mr. Jas. Ballantyne dis-
fingwished ehimsrelf at St. Marys and
was awarded a silver medal for danee
inieletesword d'anrce at the Caledimrian
games in that town.
Messrs. • Oak , and Willis shipped
from Exeter last week 55 head of
the finest export cattle that ever left
that Millage. They were purchased
front Mr. James Hackney of • the
Thames Rel.; Frank Hamilton, Croat -
arty; ;ohm Sentt. 1ffiIibeirt, and, Mr.
• MittXeralake, Hibbert,.
ages like "a 4he ►.etiga)tly ea;lg'd wun'd
mill, only in place of wand` there is
steam, blasting out. ai flailed nozzles,
and ;instead of big vanes there are
tiny blades -157,000 blades in the 16
turbines ,of the Queen Mary, ' each'
blade tested and fitted by hand. The
Queen Mary's turbines are "four-
-stage," which • means that they are
bniilt isi sehs +off fount—hilgh ,pressure,
first intermediate, second' inbeiimedi-
ate, and low pressure. • Each set is
Imiorunted a o ural ;one of 'tihe gear-
wsheels: Pounding.' madly from the
tboaiera the shear charges into the
high-pressure turbine, loses part of
its"energy in turning the blades, pass-
es somewhat chastened to the Second,
third, and fourth turibin'es, which
work at successively lower pressures
until, thoroughly tamed, the steam
collapse's into condensers that return
it as water to the boilers. Mean-
while;•••ih its wild spree, the steam
has done its work. It 'has whirled
tihe tiny windmrifll blades on a shaft
with a pinion at the end, 3,600 revo-
lution's per minute (normal speed).
Each pinion of the foureturbines is
geared to the ,big 14 foot gear -wheel
by double helical teelbh accurate to
one-half of one-thousandlth of an
inch. So the big wheel, fifteen times
greater than the pinions lin circum-
ference, turns over 240 times a min-
ute. From this gearwheel a hollow
steel shaft.; 27% irnches .in diameter
extends aft, penetrates the '$.turn c f
the hull; aid holds at its oii1tbaard
end a thirty-five ton propeller, nearly
twenty feed in' diameter, The pro-
peller and its three mates at the ends
(Continued on Page 6)
JUST A SMILE OR TWO
Angry Father (at 5 a.m.): "Well,
young lady, explain yourself. Where
have you been all night?"
Flapper Daughter; "Oh, daddy,
dear, I was sitting up with the sick
soon of the •sick man you are always
telling ,mother you sit up with.'"
An Irishmra.n who had been advis-
ed by his .attorney •to vplead guilty as
a first offender 'stood in the dock.
Judge—Are you guitty or not guil-
ty
Irishman --'Guilty,, your Honor, and
I've got witnesses to prove 1t.
SUNDAY AFTERNOON
• (By Isabel Hamilton, Goderfch, Ont.) 0
Thy way, not mine, .0 Lord,
'Hoiwever dark it be!
bead me by Thine own hand,
•Choose out ''the path' for Me.,
The kingdiclm that I seek
Is Thine; so let the way
That leads to it be Thine,
Else I must surely stray.
Not mine, net ,mine the choice,
In things; or great or small;
Be Thiou my guide, my strength,
My wisdom arid• my all;, Anien.
Hloratius Bonar.
S. S. LESSON FOR JUNE 7, 1936
Lesson Topic—Jesus in Gethesmane.
Lesson .Passage•=Luke 22:39-53.
Golden Text—Luke 22:42.
Canon Farrar in wri't'ing about this
garden scene says we 'are told of but
one• incident in that last and me?ior-
able walk through the midnight to
the familiar Garden of Gethsemane.
It was a last warning to the dliscip-
ies in general, to St: Peter in par-
ticular. Sadly did Jesus turn 'and
say to thein that on 'thallb very night
they should'all be offended in Him
—
all find their association with Him a
'stumbling black in their path--and-
the Old prorpinecy'' should be fulfilled,
"I will smite the shepherd, and the
sheep shall he scattered aforrioad."
They all relpudirated, the possibility of
such an abandonment of their Lord,
and Peter, th.atiated perhaps by some
dread. lest Jesus felt any doubt of
hint, was 'loudest and most emphatic
in hiis denial. Even if all should' be
offended, yet never would he be of-
fended. And Jesus Only listened in
mournful silence to vows which
should 'eo•sloon be scattered into air.
'And so they came .to •Geithsemane,
which ist about '1-m.1f a mile from the
city walls. Jesus (know that His hour
of deepest humli'1'iati'on and suffering
had arrived. But one thing remained
before. the actual struggle Ibegan. He
rhrad to 'brace Hils„...body, to nerve His
soul, to,cadlm His spirit by prayer and
solitude to :meet that hour in which,
all that is evil in the Power of Evil
should do its .worst upon the inno-
cent and Moly. And He must face
that hour alone; no human eye must
witness the depth of His suffering.
Yet He would have gladly Shared the
sympathy of 'Hi's•••diseiples;, it helped
Him in this hour of darkness to feel
that they were near, those who lov-
ed Hien best, "Stay here," He said
to the Majority, "wir•ile I go there
and pray." • Le'aving them to sleep'on the damp grans, each wrapped in
his outer garment, He took with 'Him
Peter and James and John, and went
about a stone's throw farther•. It
was well that Peter should face ;ill
that was meant by allegiance to
Christ; it was well that James and
John should know what was that cup
'w'hich they had desired to drink,. But
soon He wilttdlrew even from the
co'mpani'onship of these chosren three.
His was a tumult of emotion none
must- see. Kneeling, He prayed say-
ing, "Father, if Thou be willing, re-
m'olre this cup from me: nevertheless
not' My will, but Tine, be done." And
theme appeared an angel from heaven
strengthening Hiim. And 'being in an
agony ,lite ;prayer more earnestly: and
has 'sweat was as it were great drops
of blood falling down to the ground.
And when He rose up from prayer,
and was come to ,+His disciples, He
found them Sleeping.. for sorrow, and
said unto thein, "Why sleep y4? rise
and pray, lest ye enter into telmrpta-
tlon. ' •
W9uilre 'Jesus was thus addressing
Hos disciples Judas drew near lead-
ing a great nvulUitude, He had been
very active since Ieatvnng''i lie 'supper
moist and now, -,hurriedly appt`roaehing
Jsrio, he kis' lllim that being the
sign agreed Upon. The awfulness of
his • tread/try would force itself ttp-
en Ankftes thpe wror& fell ulpon 16s
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I ears—"Judas, tbetrayeat thou the
Son of ma.n with a -kiss?"
"Lord,.. shall we, ,smite with the
sword?" was the eager question" of
St. Peter. His rash action led to the
last •human touch by Jesus befcrre_..His
s hand,
arrest:—He He s'brertch'ed out His
touched the ear of the man and heal-
ed it. Then, not attempting to get
away, He stood before the crowd in
•the• full moonlight in ' H'is lonely ma-
jesty and asked, "Wh'o're are ye 'seek-
ing?" This, St. John points out,, Jyas
to 'secure' His disciples from, being
molested.. •
Seeing in the multitude •sronie• of
the ,chief priests and elders, Jesus
turned to 'hem and said, "Be ye come
out as against _a,'tthief, with swords
and sW
taves? hen I was daily with
you. in the temple, ye stretched forth
no hands against Me: but this is your
hour, and the power • of darknass."
Jesus was -now • abshduk'ely alone in
the power of His enemies, for His
disciples; all of th!emh-eve•re the fiery
Peter, even the loving John—"fors'ook
Him and fled." — (Condensed from
Farrar's Life of Christ).
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.tn Experience in Gethsemane •
fly Rev. Leslie D. Weather•head r
To visit Getlhsenrrane is bound to be
a deeply moving' devotional experi-
ence., 1 wanted 'too visit the garden
at night and pray there. This the
kindly old monk refused. I pleaded
with shim but he. was firm. I did the
next bast thing: Adjacent is an or-
chard of young olive trees which
looks now inuaeh as'Gethsemane must
have looked when Jesus lived, I tried
to calculate the time, of night it
must halve -been when ,1'esus knelt be-
neath the ollives, like Gethsemane on
the slope of the. Mount of Olives, I
looked across the Kedron Valley to-
wards, Jea•ueaIe.m,. with its towers and.
minaretts standing up against • the
dark.blue velvet of the night sky.
It was a wonderful night, full of
mystery and awe: mystic and hushed
and starlit. Across in the city a dog
banked, and, as is ao often the c -ase
in a.great silence, !the sudden sound
seemed to emphasize the stillness. It
seemed natural to kneel quietly there
under the trees amongst the' "little
grey leaves" whidch 'had fallen on to
the ground. One by one as I waited
the lights of Jerusalem bn the hills'
'opposite, ,winked and went out. The
city slept. All was quiet. They call-
ed it Jernrsaleim, the City of Peace. It
was the eioty which brake Has heart:
We like to -fasten the windows and
draw the 'curianns on a night of
'storm, to crouch before the • fire, to
build it sup with begs so that the
crac'kl'ing flames and the bright room
may dull our senebe to the beating
Of the 'rain on the panes and the
moaning 'Of the wind about the house.
Yet, somehow, we have too make terns
With the storms, cannot.blot it out or
live as though it were not. Some-
how we must take it into our heart.
Nb 'harmony, No depth of character is
Possible tto bn'e wihlo runs away from
life, shirts hie earns to its *nand his
heart •to its anguish. And grappling
with the Storni we shall gelt wounded.
Yet lit is better so. Can you think
of great anusnc without anguish,
great poetry' without sorrow, great
art wdtliout agony, great Ziv-ing which
has never dome to terries with pain ?
It was an the garden of ethsemarte 1
that I learned that lesson.. saw dnauly
and imperfectly, that gldn pse of a
afisaon. I went home to bed 'at last
M a eharmSng room in the cathedral
garden of Jerusalem, But I shall
never forge, tlhalb, n;rvgih% amongst the
trees. .
(G'etthsesname yielded io me .a '' tiny
fraction of herr age:long secret; the
Setcret which the o'liv'es whisper to one
another in the wind that stirs before
the d'a'wn, when the little grey
feigner," dying, fila back gently trill
the Intuit kyr the gays, a* mother.,
pia .ir' a.
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Wheat For Kingston; • Salt For Fort.
William -
Docking light frons Kingston on
Friday afternoon the freighter Gtod-
e'rich book on aboard a cargo of 282,-
00Q
82;00Q 'bushels of wheat from the' Gode-
rich House and ele'ared on Saturday
morning for the Penitentiary city.
The Superior arrive on Sunday
morning with ' 100,000- . -bushels of
wheat and loaded salt from the God-
eeru'ch Salt 'Company's plant for Fort
Wii1•laarn,r-+Goderich Star
'Saltford General Store Sold
;Mr. W. J. Syr.nonds, of SaLtflord,
who operated a -general store cam-
binsd with a tire and gasoline busi-
nees for ;,':'me 2,0 :yeart', has sold to
Joseph Petrie, of Dungannon•. Mr,
Symonds has not enjoyed the 'best of
health far about •two years and the
de l`•h of Mrs. Symonds last Novem-
ber has made it doubly difficult to
cairry on. He is at .present visiting
among friends who will hope he will
remain in this vicinity. Mr. Petrie is
not a stranger by any means around
Goder`.rch, and his business career will
be watched with . much interest by
those who know' him. He is now in
possession.,--Goderich Star.
Car and Truck Meet in Collision
A car driven by Leslie Clayton of
Chatham, whe was driving north
three miles fir om Goderich on Mon-
day r.fght, was dah:'aged to the ex-
tent of al'araut $60, when it came into
eoilislon w0t'h a truck driven by Max
Laker+•, of Wind-ier. The truck isal-
leged to have been on the wrong• side
of the road and to have been without.
clearance' lights. No one was hurt ire
either vehicle. County Traffic Office/ -
Norman Lever investigated the acci-
dent.—Goderich Star.
Arm \Broken When Horses Bolted
Whilvisiting at Mr. Ben •Stuady's
farm, on Highway No. 2, Ren Free-
man, of Goderich,. fell from a • land
holler when -the .hn•s'es bolted. His
injuries included a badly broken arm..
—Goderich Star.
Big Gas Well
Operators for the Aloka. Oil Co.,
brought in cone of the largest wells
struck in the Southern Ontario gas
field. The well ds located..a half-rnile-
fr•om Brownsville, and the flow iso
2,368,GC'0 feet daily.. This' is the fourth
well
baeught in'' that •district and the
third.. by this ccm,pany-. The 'holding -
on the field `fatal more, than 1,000
acres and it is understood that the
officials vfan en ' extensdre driliang
campaign. Three of the 12 wells un-
der contract 'will be dril'•led on a most
favorable location. 200 aere lease own-
ed by IFt ward C. Truemner, of Credi-
ton. Financial arrangements are now
well under way to commence drilling
shortly. This field is 'probably the
.mlost; • active of allet:ze-.gas. fields in:
the province at this time and only
one of the five formations which pro-
duce gas has been tested yet in this
field lea•vinrg four more to be drilled
into later.,—Zurrieb Herald.
Hydro ..Purchases Elliott Building
The Local Utili,ies Commission have
purchased the Elliott building on the
corner of J'os'ephine and John Sts..
The building will be overhauled and
put into condition to• occupy. The -
front will be made more Modern and
the •front stare will be used as sales-
room and office space. The back shop
will he, a work sh'o'p and, above the
w-rk ehop will be used as a store
rocnn. The apartment above the stare
will be made irl'•o two ,offices. The
building will have new: heating equip-
ment installed, hot water or steam -
This building .is well located and has
atnvple space for carrying on the busi-
ness of the commissione-XWinghanrr
Advance -Times.
Celebrated 80th Bfrthday
Mrs. W. Dawson, Shuster St., cele-
brated her 80th birthday on Sunday -
She spent the clay with relatives in.
London- Winghain Advance -Times.
Nurses Graduate Friday Es -ening
The graduation exerrci ties in connec-
tion With the Winghem General Hos-
pital was held in the Town Hall on
Friday evening at 8 o'clock. Four
nurses recedvect diplomas: Miss' Jean
Coulter, Wuinrghan; MissMarie Mc-
Kemzrie, Parkhill; 'Miss Leila Hislop,
Wroxeter, and Miss Kathleen Austin.
Teeswatea•.. The speaker for the ev-
ening was Mr. 'R. J. Deaohman, lecaI
member of Pawl ianient. —. Wlirngharn
Advance -Times.
A Near Calamity
What might have been a drowning
accident with fatal results happened
at the arch at the C.P.R. track ors
'?iPonday afte!rrndon,. It seems that
Macr:•er Donald Merritt, son of Mr.
and 'Lis. James Morritt, was bath-
ing with his brother, Garth, and while
ridding a tog slapped miff into the deep
seater and sank. Garth who could not
swim tried to rescue his brother but
his efforts ..w were of no avail, but luck-
ily George Haggiitt came along and
seeing the. prediettthent the boys were
in came at once to the rescue and
RStatndain had the young boy on sthore. But
there is no 'doubt if he had not ap-
peared om the +scene when he did, Don -
aid waould have been drowned.—Blyth
arck
Record Time Made by New Hamburg
Horse
Entries in the races 'here en Mon-
day were • sotmewhalt dislappoiii,ttug
!bust the splendid crowd which as-
sembled for rtthle events saw some
well -contested and spectacular rac-
ing. Miss Beiwtin's Hoy owned and
driven by 0. IHlodgbis, of New Ham-
bumg, ,ea'rne within a quarter second
of 'the tratek record for a mile, set by
Peneko, lammed by the Dart Bros. of
London. The record of 2.0914 has been
held by the London • stables for teff
,rears past and on Monday .this re-
cord was eerihusly threatened. Miss
Bedlnwin's Boy in setting the toast p
for one hemp in the 2.1-4 class trot
pace wore • the special trophy of the
Miechell Ttirf Curb: 'loris, horse led
l41e field in all three heats of the race,
MS owner carrying, 4off the purse of
'$225.'•—Mt,tobelil Advocate. •
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