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The Huron Expositor, 1936-11-06, Page 21 I ' nr^ F 444 TrferRerWinritg'W"il tr, : • . tengnin NO EMBER 1936, Wm* 0 tirt qrr, Ari r nee t7:p $nExpositor ablished 1800 Phail McLean, Editor. ed at Ssaforth, Ontario, ev- rsday afternoon by McLean ' woroorsomommr...e. bsoription rates, $1.50 a year in nce-; 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, November 6. Peace and War As we look out over the world through the windows of the place where this is being written, the scene presented is one of quietness and peace. Cars and wheeled vehicles are passing up and down, their occu- pants on business or pleasure bent. - People are passing unconcernedly along the walks. Children are play- ing on their way home from school, and the rural mail courier jogs along in his buggy. 1 There is • not one discordant note; not one sign of fear expressed in the faces of the people, or in their ac- tions.Not even a single gun is sen, nor a single uniform or soldier. Not even ,a traffic officer is in sight. Even the land that stretches to the leafless woods beyond, though brown and fallow, is not cold or for- • bidding. The harvest from the fields his been removed and stored .away. None of it has been ruined or stolen • or confiscated. And patches of green which hedge and dot the land, indi- cate where other harvests will occur next year. • The sky is dull and leaden as No- vember skies are wont to be. The clouds are low and scud before •the wind, but there is no menace in the clouds and the wind brings no tid- ings of evil. It is neither a pleasant nor a heartening day, but the people take it in their stride. They have no cause to fear. They know that brighter days will come. . And then we pick up the daily newspapers and look out upon the world through their windows. And What a change! Wars and rumors of wars. Battle and sudden death; ravage a n d rapien; cruelty beyond description; intimidation and fear; hunger and starvation; lands and towns and cit- ies laid waste: Mussolini claims the Mediterrenan. Sea as his own; Britain may use it as a gateway to some of her Empire possessions — if she is good- and hearkens to the Duce's commands. If not, war. Spain is blood soaked from civil war. Age • old and historic struc- tures and cities have been savagely • wiped out. Human life means noth- ing. Low flying planes are sweep- ing over Madrid, the Government's • last stronghold, and spraying the non-combatant citizens, men, women and children alike, with machine guns. Corpses are sprawled and p11 - ed on the streets. • • Russia would like to get into the • fight and probably will. Germany • is an armed camp. Japan is trying to swallow China in large and 'ever larger bites. The smaller European States are looking askance at their neighbors • a n d steadily arming. France sits in fear, wondering not what will happen, 'but when. • Even in our own Canada and fair Ontario, there seems to be a discord- ' ant note. Through the windows of the nevvspapers we see that Ogre • Were , eighteen violent deaths and • metes injured over the week -end • (aecidents?), That the criminal, and worse, authorities at Queen's Park are add- ing Millions to the public debt and ht the Province to the bankraptcy (Rowe). Al- , ,,detaulted another million tMdI 61 fhe sbcond in a Ou the., fault ,,of the Inherit (Aberhart),.• e' he seen r1t4rt V10 44r, • papers but that is enough. At least it is en ngh to make us stick to ;the view thr ugh our own windows. 1 And we will as long as we may. BUt the world is too small a place now in which to find -uninterrupted peace and prosperity for any indi- vidual, or group of individuals, either. , • • Another Liberal Daily Gone West , The London Advertiser ceased publication last week, and The vertiser is the second Liberal daily newspaper to pass out of existence in the course of a few months. For nearly seventy-five years The Advertiser las been an eagerly .an- ticipated visitor in thousands of homes in Western Ontario. For near- ly three-quarters of a century it has been looked up to in these homes as a bearer of widespread foreign, Canadian and local news. Clean news. And all through the years it has never faltered in its loyalty to the doctrines of the Liberal party. In fact, the espousal of the Liberal pol- icies through its editorial columns has played a leading part in laying the foundation. and building up the strong force of Liberal opinion that exists in this and other • Western Ontario conntieS. But time brings changes to the • newspaper field as well as to others. Running a daily_ newspaper has be- come a tremendously costly under-, • taking. So much so that the sub- scription cost of the paper is a mere drop in the bucket of its required revenue. • Even the strongest 'financial Cana- dian dailies have been more or -less shaken during the past five or six ,years. And The Advertiser, we be- lieve, has never been financially strong. Its political loyalty has nev- • er brought any financial advantage; and over recent years has undoubt- edly worked to its disadvantage from_a financial standpoint. "-• Most Canadian newspapers learn- ed long ago that blind political loy- alty, from the. Liberal standpoint, does not spell success in the news- paper field and they have turned to independent politics in order to live. • The London Advertiser was' a Lib- eral newspaper, however. There • was never any doubt about it, but it was the last of its kind. It was al- ways a clean, interesting, well con- ducted rieWspaper and a bonny politi- • cal fighter—but it has gone west. WHAT OTHER PAPERS SAY. They'll Have Indigestion (Detroit Free Press) The Thanksgiving turkey crop this year is the • largest on record. According to the Bureau of Agricultural Econ- omics in Washington, about 20,000,000 birds are now being groomed for the market. • The Great .American Bird escaped Secretary Wallace's axe, when he was cutting down the little pigs and their motihers, and the turkey growers stepped up production of turkeys to • Meet a larger demand resulting from "a some- wbat smaller supply of other meats." While that is fine for the turkey' men, we have an idea that this year's Thanksgiving din- ner will lie heavily on the Stomachs of those fanners whom the A.A.A. tricked into, signing corn -hog contracts to curtail the production of pork on the hoof. What have they to aeH at the higher prices brought about by the drought coming on top of the New Deal's economy of scarcity? • The Electric Plow (Woodstock Sentinel -Review) When Rudyard Kipling many years ago wrote "With the Night Mail," an imaginative but cir- cumstantial narrative of dirigibles on regular schedule between Britain and Canada, the made the time "2000 A.D." He under -estimated by 70 years the actual attainment of trans-Atlantie ser - ((vice by lighter -than -air craft, 1 another fiction story he described an electric cultivator at work in a field, with no operator visible, but guided by remote"control. This too, was perhaps less fanciful than the author believed. AfIl electric plough hali been in use for the past 12 years on a lam In East Grinstead, Eng- land, and was under discussion at the recent World Power Conference in Washington. The equipment consists of a two -wheeled carriage, Up- on which is mounted a 12 h.p. motor, complete With starting switch and speed neductiort gear, as Well as two viable drums, either of which can be driven at will by means of the motor., The equipment le anchored in a convenient position in the field and adjacent to the overhead' lines Which supply the power.. The set operates on tine round -about haulage system. A double - furrow anti -balance plough is used, being draWn to and fro over the field by a steep rope attath- ed to the drums on the carriage. The speed of ploughing is front) ote-third to one acre per noun vitienng with the nature of the soil and depth of airmen Five acres a day is the avernee,..With • such a altalt-get. What may be deVelepeinfroni the syStelft depend& nroha,ble tees tipon ha izie gentlity 4)feleettlett; ettigetieene that the eillealif for Midi -inti ; ' rirn• .et ears. • Interesting items pieked from . The Expositor • of fifty and - hwenty-five years ago. • • From The Huron Expositor of November 10, 1911 The Bell Telephone Co. have ap- pointed Williams Evans, of London, as an additional official oa the busi- ness Staff. He has been given charge of the (Mitchell and Seaforth districts. Some day ago Bob Warwick, of Brussels, and some companions went down to the river to do some • ehoot- align In loading a 30 -calibre rifle there was a premature discharge, the mis- 'sae taking its- course through one of Bob's thighs. On Sumilay evening, Oct. 29tilnefire was discovered in the barn, of Hum- phrey Snell, 2nd concession, Hullett. The loss is estimated at over $2,000. Three or four hundred of St.. Co- lumban residents attended the new pipe organ festivities in Dublin last Sunday. Mrs. J. D. O'Connell and Mrs. Frank Devereaux presided at the organ. Mr. T. B. Carling, of Exeter, has been appointed officer for South Hur- on at the approaching provincial elec- tions. Withal:ie. Lee, of Londesboro, cap- tured four coons while. out hunting the other day. Dr. Hugh H. Ross has, purchased the peize-erinning team of drivers from Mr. Ellerington, of Usborne. Mr. Grainger, of Brucefield, had the misfortune to fall and break his col- lar bone last Tuesday while walking on 'the snowy sidewalk. (Mr. J. L. Yule, Miss Iva Dodds and ,Miss Ranee, reader, of Clinton, :will appear on the programe for the con- cert to be given in the Opera House, Seaforth. Mr. IMeKenzie, the contractor of the neve post office, Seaforth, has stopped work on the ;building for thin season and the walls have been cov- ered for the winter. Mr. W. J, Walker has moved from the residence on •Goderich St., Sea - forth, to the rooms over the Camp- bell block. Mr. T. S. Blues, Seaforth, met with a bad accident recently. While work- ing in, his store he stepped on a nail which ,pierced his boot and penetrat- ed into his foetefor some distance. The sudden death of Mrs. 'Charles Regele, which took place at Manley last Thursday,, was a shock to the whole ,community. • The members of the Ladies' Aid of the Walton Methodist Church intend holding a Night Cap box social on Tuesday eveuing next. Mr. G. Benneweis has erected a neat store room near his residence. Canvassers for subscriptions and donations ' to the new Presbyterian Claurch • at Walton are busy. The church will cost about $10,000. :Do:Y.OV REMEMBER awe, we -Do, you remember almost any man anecdote. 'The "off agile, ou agin, gone who is sixty years eld—or older—'agie," tag -oaught his reader's fancy; will remember all .about "Finnigin," it caught his own fancy, too — he says Rued L. ;Keeley. writing recent couldn't get it out of his mind, and y in the New Yorker. "Finnigin to he decided finally to 40 the thing °v. Flannigan," that is; the famous bit er again, in verse. So he sat down, of light verse about the "boss av th' and wrote it—on a piece of laundry siction" Who wrote. as follows to his wrappieg paper, with pen and ink. nuperintindintne "Off agin, agin, _Theprinter who set it up in type gone agin—Finnigin." The six yore- grumbled about. that and "seems to es of :Tinuigin to Flannigan" will be have thrown the original away as !nand In any proper anthology of or soon as he was done with it It less eaustere rhymes, along with wasn't Mr. Gillilan's final version, things like "The Face on the Bar- anyway. Llie rewrote the verses, p01 - room Floor." The expression "off isbed them up, 43opiedi them on a type- agin, en agile"' has gone into the lan- writer, and sent them to Life.. They guage. Wesaid ask a man of sixty came to. the desk of an 'assistant edi- about "Finnigin" because young D1011 tor named Thomas Masson. He in theft: twenties are apt to mernor- thought they were quite comic and ize popular jingles, and a man who bought them. Just a few years ago is sixty now was just twenty when Mr. Masson, in his memoirs, told how "Fin,nigtn" was written. The author close "Fineigin to Flannigan" dame to of "The Face" has been dead these not being printed. He had bought many years, but the author of 'Tin- the verses in the absence of his edi- nigin" is still alive and 'much the tor -in -chief, Mr. J. A. Mitchell, and same as he was when he wrote the when the latter read them in proof verses,, except that he is sixty-seven he called in ;his assistant and said now instead of twenty-seven. He still he thought they were undignified, goes about the country lectueing, as much too undignified. for Life. Mas - he did in his youth, and he still re- son pleaded with him, and Mitchell cites "Finnigin." He has recited it finally relented on condition that two or three thousand times. His "Finnigin" be run in the back pages name, if you have never heard it an- of Life, not up front. This was n,ounced from a platform,' is Strick- done. • It wasn't long before everybody in la day in February, 1897, in Rich- the country was saying "Off agin, on ,mond, Indiana, Strickland Gillilan, agin, gone agin—Finnigan." The ,jin- who was city editor, reoprter, col- gle 'was recited by vaudevillians, umnist,and almost everything else school children, political orators, par- ole the little town's newepaper, the lor performers and whonot. Mr. Gil - Palladium, heard a yarn about an lilan finally took a hand and began Irish railroad section boss and his reciting it hiro.self. He had got superintendent from an Irishman in something of a name as an after -din - the newspaper office, named Fitzgib- ner speaker and took to going about bons. (If nobody has ever told you the Indiana towns telling stories, re - about the situation that existed be- citing "Finnigin." After a few years tween Finnigin' and.Flannigan, we're he gave up newspaper work (he had sorry for you.) Mr, •Gillilan wrote the moved to Baltimore by this time) and story no_in his column, as a brief (Continued on Page 6) JUST A SMILE OR TWO • Clerk:.!'My salary is so small, sir, that I cat even afford lunch." Boss: "Very well, then, from to- morrow we will cut out the lunch in- terval." • • Faith Curist—"Pretend- that you have no toothache. Persuade your- self that it is all imagination, sug- gested by an evil power. Say: Get thee behind me!". Patient—"What, and turn it info lumbago!" Pennington ; Beacom The marriage was solemnized at the Wesley-N/01as Manse at 3 o'cloch on Thursday afternoon last of.. Hugh,' mita Fern, granddaughter of Mrs.. Margaret Beacom, Clinton, and Chas. Ronald, Pennington, sole Of M. and Mrs. Charles Pellnineton; -Gederiebn The Rev. 0. W. ne, Gonne coflducted tbe ceremony in the presence of only' immediate relatives of tlee contract-. ing ,parties.—Clinton News-Reeord. Death of Mrs. E. H. Wise There passeda*ay on Thursday' last at her 'home" Ontario Street, af- ter a severe illness of ten days, Ana' sada Jane Wilson, widow of Edward H. Wise, in her 73rd year. 'Born at Napanee, Ont., she was a daughter of the late William Wilson and Arne arida Scott. At the age of 10 years. she came to Goderich Township and made her home with her grandpar- ents, Mr. and Mrs e A. Scott, of Tay- lor's 'Corners. In December, 1887, she was, married to her late husband. They farmed on the Bayfield Line, and later on the Wise homestead, llth Concession, on the farm now owned: by their sem Charles. Fourteen years, ago they retired and made their home in Clinton where Mr. Wise died in. 1932,—Clinton News -Reefed. Dream Too Realistic From The Huron Expositor. of November 5n 1886 • Morris Township is stricken, almost paralyzed, by a ,disease which has baffled so far all the skill of the med- ical doctor's on one line, the ist of Morris, in the past week no less than four have passed away. Mr. John Weir, of Seaforth, has pur- chased the farm of Mr. Hugh J. Grieve in McKillop for the sum of $6,000.00. He intends using it as a stock farm. Mr. Thomas Hills, of Egmondville, sold his fine rClear Grit" carriage mare to Mr. Roberte Wilson, of Sea - forth. ; Mr. 'Wilson then sold her to Hon. Frank Smith, of Toronto. • At • a, meeting of the Directors Of the McKillop Mutual Fire Insurance Co., held in Seaforth on Friday last they decidedthat hereafter the com- pany will pay the full amount of in- surance on contents instead ,of only two-thirds as formerly. The Seaforth Presbyterian Church Choir are holding a concert on Tues- day evening, which promises to be one of the pleasant musical evenings of the season, e The young ladies of Mrs. Ross' Bible 'Clas at.. Brucefield :presented her with a handsome rocking chair and a pair of elegant vases. Ian Williams, merchant Of Crom- arty, has disposed of his store and the good will of his business to Mr. Jas. Hyslop, of Seaforbh, for the sum of $2,800: At tbe public examination of the pupils of School Section No. 9, Mc - Knipp, anaewhich was very+ successful, Mr. Janine' Hogg, the teacher, was as- sisted by the following teachers: Miss- es Govenlock ane Hillen and Messrs. Johnson, Pearen, Dorrance and Muir. The cheese factory at Winthrop closed down last Saturday, Mrs. Thomas Steaey, of Farquhar, haS rented her hotel to Joseph Arm- strong and has removed to Dash- wood. 4 At the "annualplowing match held' in Usborne Township on Thursday last on the farm of •Mr James Gaird- ner, Mr. lames. Rivers took first prize in the men's class). The annual meet- ing was held in the evening with the preeidenh. Mr. pani, Hunter; in the chair. The following' officers were elected: President, James Millar; •viceepreeident, P. McKey; secretary, laraes. Haliantyne; treasurer, John Carmichael; Directors, Wm. 'Delaney, James Norris, James Bell, Thomas Ottineren, Leonard Hunter and Win. Monteith. The village boys- of Valeta have or- ganized a football club -and will, no doubt, hold their own with the neigh- boring clube. The medical firm of Drs. Bethune & Young, of Wiiigham, has-been, dis- solved. Dr. Bethune intends remov- ing to Tdronto aboutthe let of De- vember and Dr. Young contemplates a European tour. Thomas 'Smith, Lot 5, Con. 5, Grey, has a regular genuine N. P, co* that has :tide for herself a record to 'be handed down' to posterity. On Satur- day, the .16th, she had a Calf and,Ott Saturday the 23rd, she added tnt,"hor faMfly by haling atiOther Calf. Hath are* Oft' WWI. 6' et_iinee nereeten The carpenter had left the gas turned on in his shop, and on enter- ing the following meaning, the first thing he did was to strike a match. There was a terrific explosion, and the carpenter fpund himself in the street again., A passer-by rushed to his assistance, and after helping him to his feet inquired if he were injur- ed. The carpenter looked at Ms shop, now burning fiercely, and said: "No; I'ni not hurt, but I got out only just in time." • *-SUNDAY • AFTERNOONL1 • • (13ii.lnabel Hamilton, Goderich, Ont.) . • Run the straight race through God's es; to make them firm in the day of good grace; conflict with their foes. Lift up thine eyes, and seek His face, The soldier is not fully 'alined un - Life with Its.way before us lies; less he has a shield to defend' lilan- Christ is the path, and Christ the self. So St. Paul makes faith hold ' prize. to the other parts of the armour of a • —John Monsell. same relation which the Shield does to the ither parts' of the armour of 'a PRAYER • ' scldier. As long as the soldier had his shield, ne felt secure; and as long Help us, (-) Lord, in all the relation - as a Christian has faith, he is safe. ships of life to play the game, and so The' other necessary partsof a shall our souls be nourished and strengthened in Thy service. Amen. soldier's full equipment are a. helmet and a sword. The helmet protects S. S. -LESSON FOR NOVEMBER 8th 'the head from the blows of the en- , emy. The' Christian must take. the Lessen Topic—The Christian Warfare. 'helmet of salvation as the defence of Lesson Passage—Acts 19:8-12, 18-20; his soul. The hope of final victory E. phesians 6 : 13-20. • Isustains the soul in its warfare. The &Aden Text—Ephesians 6:10. . sword was an essential part of an On Paul's second visit to Ephesus ancient soldier's armour. The sword he came into contact with a small of the Spirit which is the Word of congregation of the disciples of John Go el was the weapon that Our Sav- the Baptist and these he more fully , iour used to meet the .tempter in the instructed in the gospel of Jesus wildernees. A single text of Scrip - Christ. After this 'addition/ of twelve ture, will help us foil the tempter's men to the iniante church, Paul en- power, so how necessary it is for us tered most heartily -into the Work 01tostudy God's word. No matter how the Jewish synagogue. He was well complete the .armour; no peatter how received for a time. He continuedskilled we may be in. the science of for three months "reasoning and per.I war; no matter how courageous we may be, we may be certain that with- out. prayer we shall be defeated; so St. Patti eneourages the .Church at Ephesus to "pray always with all prayer and supplication in the Spir- it."—(Condensed from Barnes' Com- mentary). • WORLD MISSIONS "New Life the Dead Receive" Under the foregoing caption the an- nual report of bhe China Inland Mis- sion for 1935 has juetheen published. Slowly, but surely, the Gospel is be- _ing presented for a , witness in the troubled land of China, and here and there Men and women are accepting Christes Saviour, and openly confess- ing their allegiance to. Him, the lat- estreport showing that 7,581 were baptized in C. I. Missiohs during 1935. The 'probability is, that several thousand more have been born again or shall be born again through the faithful preaching of the missionaries last year. It is not the first duty of the missionary to count the harvest, but to sow the seed. God will, in Hie own time and place, reveal the in- crease. There is, however, cause for thanksgiving that the harvest reveal- ed is so abundant. Wan one excep- tion, 1935 was the most frtiltful year in the history of the C.I.M. This, in the fate of interreptions, is a glowing tribute to the value of' Christian mis- Slons. Without solicitation of funds the China Inland Mission report shows that the total income for the year was the largest since 1929. An increase in the number of prayer helpers and donors is also shown. Main stations have Increased from 344 to 359 with an estimated mem- bership of 90,000 corainunieants. Workers who serge in isolated' blat64" Many at times be assailed by discosr- agement at he slowness of the bar - vest, bht when the year's total is ag- gregated' there is mist Cause for re- joicing. If this is the case in time what surprises are in store for us in eternity whet they come from the four corners of the earth "bringing their sheaves with thein?"—Prom The Outlook of tbe Church.. Fawning as to the things, concerning the kingdom of God." But, as it was elsewhere, so was it at Ephesus, the offence of the Crosstold in • the long run upon the worshippers of t h e Synagogue. The original Christian Church was Jewish, Aquila and .Pris- cilla, Apollos and •Timobley, and • the disciples of John the Baptist• would have excited, no resentment in the minds of the Jews, but when St. Paul began to open out the hope which, lay for Gentiles as well as for Jews in the gospel which he preached, then' dots and disturbances became mat- ters of daily occurrence, and the op- position at last became so bitter that Paul withdrew his followers to the wheel or lecture -hall of one Teran- nus, a teacher whom perhaps Paul bad converted.,, For more than. two years Paul continued his labors there "so that mightily grew the word of God and preveinedn.. Ephesians 6113-20.--Wheir Paul, an ambassador for Christ, was shut up in .pritione at Rome he had Tychicus write a letter to the Christians in Ephesus. He 'told them life is a -Warfare and that their duty was to nein on the whole armour of God, 'that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil." In whit Way they were to resist the attacks of their assailant, and bow they were to be aranied the 'apostle proceeds to specify; and in doing It, he gives a deseription of the .anelent armour of a soldier. The girdle was used to bind clotely to the body their loose, flow- ing robes which were the ordinary dress in war as well as in peace. So the ,Christian warrior needs the Or- dTe of truth to brace him up, for "Great is the laxity of falsehood! truth- binds, the man."' The breast- plate. or coat of mail was worn to pro- tect the body, for withOut it a sol - ,dies could not defend himself against a foei Just as true is it that no one can successfully. meet the. power of tern.ptation unless he 'is righteous, so 4 Ftelii urges the putting on of the breastplate of rightenusnesk. ,This aloe God our Saviour can supPli. The Chilli -fan 'Soldier Must also be Mt:rated-with the gospel of tieaCe -to Meet attacks in their daily life March- . A dream kidk from a cow was too • realistic for an aged Exeter lady' and she ia now suffering from ; a broken rib and bruises. Dreaming' that she was again sitting at a milking stool...and that the cow was in the act of kicking her, Mrs. John Pedlar, of town, aged 84 years; ix attempting to avoid the impact, fell out of bed early Monday morning and fractured a rib and was other- wise shaken up.—Exeter Times -Advo- cate. Narrow Escape . Carried a short distance . on the bumper of a car, Mildred Hannigan, aged about ten years, had' a narrow' escape from a serious accident when she attempted to -cross Main St. and was struck by an auto about 5.30 Monday afternoon. The accident '.00 - cured at the south end of the town. The driver of th,e car' was IL A. Canip- bell of •Deleware. When the car stop- ped the child ran away crying and a moment later .collapsed. She was brought to the office of Dr. M. C. Fletcher for examination and fortune ately the child was uninjured.—Exe- ter Times -Advocate. Moves To New Store Mrs. M. Ballantyne ,has moved her stock from the building where. Ballantyne Grocery has been located for many years, one door north, to, tbe building formerly occupied by Miss Pearl Jacklia. The interior has been completely renovated, modern shelving has been installed and the entire interior. redecorated. Mrs. Bal- lantyne is now prepared to gii7e con- tinued courteous ,service in a fine new up.to-date store.—BrUsaels Post. Brussels Child Seriously Injured Marjorie Sanderson, four-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Gordon San- derson, who was in a serious condi- • tion for many hours suffering from fracture of the skull ,and scalp injur- ies. received shortly after 7 o'clock Saturday evening, is now improved and hope is now held for a normal re- Covery.—Brussels Post. • Toronto Masons Visited Goderich , Huron -Bruce Lodge, No. 611, A. F. & A. M., G.R..C., of Teronto, made a fraternal visit to Maitland Lodge, No.• 33, A. F. & A. M., Goderich, on Fri - clay • night, when Rt. Wor. Bro. Rev. R.. C. McDermid of , Toronto, recently - appointed Grand Chaplain .of the Grand Lodge of Canada, was. the guest. of honour. Mr, McDermid is a form- er Chaplain of Maitland Lodge, and now serves tbe visiting Lodge in that office. Over 40 brethren came from Toronto, and at the banquet. following the meeting, more than 150 werepres- ent.—Coderich Star. Made Quick Getaway From 'Flames When Bill McKay and Roy Seinen- geour were painting the inside of a: gasoline • storage .tank at the Matt - land cemetery on Thursday, they had to make a quick getaway to es- cape ,being burned. The tank had been purchasedfrom a dealer in gaso- line. Who had used it for a storage tank, and it had 'been: placed at one side of the cemetery to be used as a water tank. The two youth were hir- ed to paint the inside of it and were. using a lantern to enable them to see. As they were painting they were con- fronted by a sheet of ffames. They had 'to do some rapid sminting and escaped. without any injuriea—Gode•-• rich Star. Thompson - Irwin The'marriage was quietly solemniz- ed in the United ,Church.Manse,,glin- ton, on Monday, October 26th, when Rev. Burton united in the holy bonds • of matrimony, Margaret Peale, young- est daughter of Mrs, Thomas Irwin and the late Mr. Irwin, of Wingbaro, to Hugh Malcolm, youngest son of Mrs. Neil Thompson and bhe late Mr. Thompson, of Blyth, The bride was. attended .by Mrs. G. Burton, Clinton, and the groom was supported by his brother, Mr. W. J. Thonipson, Blyth. The bride looked very pretty in a navy wool travelling' suit with blue accessoriee. The young couple left by motor for London and other points. After their return they will reside in Ditn.gannon. — Blyth Stan- dard. "Miss Goderich;". • Miss' Liicy Harrison was announced the winner of the popularity contest conducted for Members of the cast of "It's a Knlo"dkotit," musical comedy presented trhia week .Under the aus- pices of the" Lions Chlb. Miss Har- rison was introduced as "Wall Godo - rich" at the final showing of the suet cessful presentation on Tuesday' night. She won by the small margin of 19 votes over Miss, -Jacqueline Haines. Miss Ifelev Pagel was • third in the • ,conteSt..--00derich Signal. •'Woutilitied in Page 2) • .t el„..,,teeeneereee "' " Atik41‘iirtttgleAl'Atillikr-PlOaidifkriAtArSEINPIrlla44:.4, .444.NOWN.AA"•.,VPOW6'i4410..4k1Si'.44.S.'4',44;..r4rA.i)4,14, .. 4