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EAFORTH, Friday, December 10
Beginning to Look Like
• Christmas
It is beginning to look like Christ-
mas—or _was when this was written.
Snow enough for good sleighing, and
not too much for wheeling.
That should suit the old fashioned
as well as the new. Only some of the
old fashioned are wondering why
they could not have had highways,
which lend themselves so beautifully
to perfect sleighing, when sleighing
was our mode of winter transporta-
tion. When sleighing really meant
something to the business and plea-
sure world, and not now, when
neither business or pleasure is inter-
ested.
And it is about time for Christmas
weather, which helps so much to de-
velop the Christmas spirit within us.
Christmas is only two weeks from
to -morrow.
You may not
realize it, in fact we
know that very few do. That does
not alter the fact, however. So get
busy and start your Christmas shop-
ping now. It will keep you hustling
, to finish by ‘Christmas.
And do your Christmas shopping
at home. Your merchants can sup-
ply anything that any other merch-
ants offer—if you give them the
chance and the time.
When you spend your money at
home, ninety-nine times out of a -
hundred, it comes back to you again,
in some form or another. When you
spend your money away from home,
it has gone. Not one time in a hun-
dred will you benefit by buying
abroad.
And when you are buying, remem-
ber those who can't buy, and particu-
larly the children of those people.
Christmas should mean more to
children than anything else on earth. -
Bring or send it to them, even if you
have to sacrifice a little. It takes so
very little. It means so very much.
•
When an Apology Is News
When the M-a-yor of a municipality
apologizes to the ratepayers, that, in
itself, is news.
But when the Mayor of a munici-
pality apologizes to the ratepayers
for having too large a bank balance
left over at the end of the year—
well! What do you call that? And
in Alberta too.
Nevertheless, it is a fact, as we
leai'n by the papers, and the man is
Mayor E. S. Hogg, of -Red Deer. Re-
porting to the annual ratepayers'
meeting in that town on Friday ev-
ening of last week, the Mayor re-
ported a surplus ,of, $16,080, more
than double the surplus of 1936, and-
cOmpared with $3,369 in 1935.
And h e apologized f t!
Wouldn't the ratepayers of -every
township, village and town in On-
tario (not to mention the cities) like
to be greeted with an apology like
that at their nomination meeting?
Wouldn't they?,
And that Mayor lives in Alberta!
Why a man like that might even
swing Social Credit. We wonder if
Premier Aberhart has heard .of him
yet?
•
The Special Session is Over
The Special session of the Ontario
Legislature, called for last week, is
over and gone. And, we are told,
both the Government and members
are well satisfied with the labors per-
formed, -
Partienlarly the members. The
sional pay of twenty dollars per
gO quite a long way 'in the
fog of some, and
° 'eleetion experts-,
r
have a,djourned the session over the
holidays, -to Meet again at the regu-
lar time in January or. February
next, thus making the regular ses-
sional indemnity do for both. But
the Government did not see it that
way, even if the members pointed
out that fact to them. Or did they?
The- session was called an emerg-
ency session for the purpose of
jm-
plementing legislation to further
stiffen the Succession Duties Act.
And it did. A little too harshly and,
high-handedly, a great many people
in Ontario think.
However, the Government needs
the money that will be collected
„through the new legislation and the
every day taxpayer will be quite
willing to let the wealthy estates
throughout the Province supply the
extra money needed, rather than
supply it himself. To •his way of
thinking, he is supplying the Gov-
ernment with too much of his own
money now. And he is.
It will be hard on the beneficiaries
of big estates from now on, and still
harder on the beneficiaries of some
of the big estates that have already
been taxed during the past dozen
years and more. In fact, one can
readily see how this new legislation
couldeasily ruin these beneficiaries
of other days.
No one, however, should accuse
the Government of any such inten-
tion. Large estates should contri-
bute liberally to the Government,
through death duties, and the whole
story is that Premier Hepburn in-
tends to see that they do.
•
Is Social Credit Slipping?
There was a by-election in the
former Social Credit constituency of
Lethbridge,„ in the Province of Al-
berta, last week. The first test of
the strength of the Social Credit
Government, at the polis, since it
was swept into power over two years
ago.
And the result was not very en-
couraging to the Government whose
• candidate was defeated by a major-
ity of several hundred. It is true
that the Government's opponent Was
• a strong man. A pioneer „doctor of
the district, and a very popular one,
makes a strong opponent in any elec-
tion contest, but when such a one
has the backing of every other. par-
ty 'outside the Government, he is a
force to reckon with indeed.
The fact .that stands out, however,
is that the Opposition won, and won
handsomely in a Government con-
stituency. And won in a campaign
personally- led by Premier Aberhart,
whose battle cry was that his Social
Credit Government was battling for
the common people against the banks
and the monied and privileged inter-
ests in the Province.
Perhaps it is too early to say that
Social Credit is slipping in Alberta.
• In an entirely rural constituency the
result might have been different. It
is not too early, however, to say that
the people of Alberta are not finding
Social Credit, or Mr. Aberhart's in-
terpretation of it, all they expected.
They are finding out that the So-
cial Credit Government can not ac-
complish what it promised to do.
Worse, still—for the Government—
the people have already found out
that the only achievements of the
Government since it came into
power, have been attacks upon the
individual rights of the citizens, and
upon the Dominion constitution.
That the,Social Credit Government
has made the Province of Alberta a
by -word over the rest of the world,
as a paradise for those would-be or-
ganizers of a new Utopia.
WHAT OTHER PAPERS SAY.
• A Well -Rounded Life
(St. Phymas Times -Journal)
Athlete in his youth, statinch churchman, de-
voted family man, municipal legislator, business
man and member of parliament, Hugh C. Mc-
Klflop aad a well-rounded and most useful life.
His death before the age of sixty-fit-e—a young
age in these days of longevity—la a loss to thin
numerous friends and the community he loved eo
well to serve.
•
.. Sports and Morals
(Guelph Mercury)
A sporting city is generally a good moral city.
the pit/Motion of omits is both a Ohne and Fite
elal.duty.' Yoit promote etale gatriotignt by keep-
ing the boy. interegted it hen* tipoilss De a
goo ki *Ott and glifaliott the gailleta A OM bail&
Of Vela* Whig fai.fleatfta Whintn*
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Years Agone.
Interesting Items Picked From
The Huron Expositor of Fifty and
Twenty-five Years Ago.
From The Huron Expositor
December 13, 1912
Successful anniversary services
were held at Varna on December 1st
when Rev. Mr. Barker, of Seaforth,
preached both morning and night. On
the following night Miss Iva, Dodds
and Mr. Will Brig,ht, soloists, of Sea -
forth, were on the program.
The schooner Julia Larsen brought
a cargo of lumber to St. Joseph
wharf in August and one month later
went to pieces on the rocks on the
Miohigan side. The cabin and other
,parts of the boat drifted to shore just
south just south of Drysdale.
Mr. Fred, G. Mitchell, formerly, of
Seaforth, now a prominent business
man in London, has been appointed
managing director of the Royal Motor
Car Company of London.
Mr. Phillip Ament, of Brussels, has
leased the mills and cooperage works
of Mr. William Ament and will run
them for the next year.
Mr. A. E. Forbes, of Seaforth, has
been awarded the contract for wiring
and installing the electrical fixtures
in the new Carnegie Library.
Miss Myrtle Horner, of Zurich, has
just completed a quilt containing
4,148 pieces.
Anniversary services were held in
Brucefield last Sunday and on Mon-
day evening a fowl supper was held.
Among the artists on the programme
were Miss B. Morson and Miss Pat-
terson, from' Toronto; the Egmend-
ville quartette, Messrs. Hudson, Hol-
man, Beattie and McGregor.
Mr. William McIntosh, of Brucefield,
again occupies bis former position. in
Scott's store.
Seven carloads of fat cattle were
shipped from Brucefield last Satur-
day. The buyers were Charles H.
Reid, William Taylor, William Arm-
strong and Mr. Stinson.
A very pleasant time was: spent re-
cently at the home° of Mr. and Mrs.
Thomas Hunkin in US:borne in the
celebration of the twenty-fifth anni-
versary of their marriage.
ba..Manday evening last as Mr. and
Mrs. Armour Todd, of Hensall, were
driving in to attend the fowl supper
at Carmel Church, they met Mr. Baw-
den in' his automobile and did not e-
alize they were meeting an auto in
order to get clear of it, the buggy was
struck and overturned. Mr. Toddes-
caped but Mrs. Todd was seriously.
injured.
•
From The Huron Expositor of
December 16, 1887
A Tuckersmith correspondent re-
marks:"For nineteen years Mr.
David Walker has been Reeve of
Tuckerssnith and in' all that time be
has never missed a zneetingof coun-
cil, nor hasAhoaaver .been one how
late. .'
Mr. James S. McFarlane left Wed-
nesday last for East Saginaw, Mich.,
where he intends going extensively
into the lumber business.
Mr. 0. C. Willson, has purchased -
from Mr. Arthur Forbes a spotted
team for $280.00 and has taken then
to Chicago.
Mr. D. B. McLean, of Kippen, has
Jet the contract of mating ,00 cords
of wood to Messrs.. J. Dudo and Wm.
Hart. The boys have built a -shanty
and are getting along well.
The' efficient postmaster at Kippen,
Mr, Robert Meals, h a s' secured
the contract for carrying the mails to
and from the station.
Messrs. R. Caimeron, C. Wasman
and M. Prendergast, of Tuckersan4th,
cut, split and piled 50 corde of wood
in four days.
Mr. Samuel Hannah, formerly cf
McKillop,' has now a large tract of
land near Griswold Station, Manitoba,
and this year had 13,800 bushels of
grain.
While Mr. William Harris was
working around the buzz planer in
the .Unien Furniture Factory, Wing -
ham, recently, in some way his hand.
slipped and fell on the revolving
enives and the third finger of the
left hand was taken off.
At a Sabbath school entertainment
held in the Kinburn Methodist church
lately, a; pleasant event was the pres-
entation of a silver cruet to Miss Bar-
bara yvilson by her class. At this
salami there is an average attendance
of 6o scholars with abcint 100 names
on the roll.
Elam Livingstone is building a saw
mill on his bush farm near Marnoch
and expects to have it running this
week. He is ;going to put a grain
crusher in; the mill and this will be
quite a Convenience to the farnierg
in the neighborhood.
Mrs. Otis, of Chiselhurst, has pur-
chased a house in London and in-
tends to remove there in the spring.
A wood bee was held on the .farm
of Mr. E. Wightman, of Marnoch, last
Monday when about -30 cords of wood,
were cut.
•
When the congregation knelt to
pray the little fellOw on his first at-
tendance in. the chureh, agked, "What
are all the people doing, mummy?"
Site answered, 'Shush! They're
saying their prayers."
"What," exclitifted the nipper, in -
Credulously, "Atli all their clothes
•
A farmer was gloomily regarding
the ravages, of 'the big flood."Sant," shouted a neighbor, "I hear
your cattle were an washed down the
rivets"
"Aye," was the reply, "How are
Brown's cattle?".
"They're gone, too."
"And Green's?"
"011, well," said Sanl, aetsrIng
"it ain't as bad aa I thoUght." •
uX
4/ was a fool -When / married y60,"
lie said bitterly.
ellee4- tilt I WWIIiuIGO With PM
aa* didn't moo
Phil Osifer of Lazy Meadows
(By Harry J. 130Y10) ••
" EAT I N G"
, I was reading the paper to -day with
the wind starting to howl in the
eaves and tthe snow that was coming
down in raggy spots was gettjng toss-
ed against the windows. lust like
last week when, I was! in. the gabfest
with the old-timer, there was a fine
fire on in the parlor heater and T -was
mighty glad that I cut that wood last
winter.
I see where some of these learned
fellows are all talking about tbe busi-
ness, of eating, and of how Botha.' peo-
ple should have a diet, and' just mope
along on orange juice and toast and
some fancy ooneoctions and maybe a
promise to their stomach that as soon
as the doctor was in a better hurnoe
they would have a beefsteak.
Now, I don't hold much by any
such actions as that. To me a man's
a man when he cansink a good meal
down under his belt and then go out
and do a good day's work.
Somehow or other the sight of
women picking away at a little dab
of this and that ia dishes reminds me
of old 13iddy, our little red hen. Scat-
ter some grain on the chaff of the
hen -house floor and watch her pick-
ing away. The only difference is that
she eats until ehe'ssatisfied and
that's a lot more than you can say
for some ee these pernicity women.
I wonder how some of them would
like on a farm. You take in the win-
ter and you're anxious to get off to
the bush for an early start, and may-
be the wife is away. You come down
to the kitchen and the fire is out. and
there is a strange, silent chilliness
that seems to come over the world
just before the break of day. You go
into the pantry and the floor is cold
and you have the St. Vitus dance
when cold comes creeping up through
your stockings.
You're in a hurry and the butter is
as hard as a rock and usually the
bread is pretty fresh. When you try
to spread the butter on, the bread
comes purling up around it and makes
1:ttle balls of bread i and butter. You
usually put too much tea in the tea-
pot and the result is that the tea
tastes like lye for making soap. But
you're hung(ry and the mixture all
rolls downy even if there is a trail of
bread crumbs all along the floor and
you can figure that Mrs. Gaiter is go-
ing to raise surprised eyebrows when
she comes home.
Then you take the time when we
went to school back on the old Ninth
Concession. I suppose you would say
that school was air-conditioned, with
its continual draft of air through tthe
cracks. The old box stove was all
red and when you sat close to it, one
side of you was always burning and
the other side in a mild state of treez-
ing.
But.just imagine the poor lunch -
boxes. • They were always parked out
in the ante -room, where Jack Frost
really played riot. They were always
frozen to the paper on the inside of
the lunch box and biting through one
of those sandwiches was a trick for
strong 'teeth. If you set it in by the
stove, through time I suppose it
would have thawed out, but that
would have taken up too much of our
noon hour, so we just put up with it
and that was because there was too
much attraction in romping around in
the school yard.
Old Joe Saunders has been, a bach-
elor all his life, and he has been
cooking his own. meals for about 40
years. Everything is mighty plain: at
his place, but of caurse he keepe ev-
erything clean., but his knowledge of
cooking is on about the same level
as what I know about flying an air-
plane. Sometimes in. the winter when
he gets mewed in back there he
makes bread for himself and they.say
he freezes it to take the taste of the
dough off of it. You would think a
man like that would be a total crip-
ple or something, but Old Joe is as
hardy as "Suchansuch," our Collie
pup. He went in to the doctor one
day and said as how he wasn't feel-
ing so well. The doctor examined
him all over and then said: "Come
cn now, Joe, quit your kidding; there
isn't a clang thing wrong with. you."
Joe just sort of grinned then and said,
"Well that's what I thought but I just
wanted to make sure."
So you see, folks; I don't hold much
by this bufinese of a diet, '
:_JUST A SMILE OR TWO
Man: "Do you believe in luck?"
Friend: "Well, I should say z do.
See that fat woman in the big hat and
the red dre613?- Well, I once asked
her to be my wife."
"Pidd," roared the boss, "you seem
to be ignoring our efficiency system
altogether!"
"Yessir," returned Stew Pidd, the
office cut-up, "but somebody's gotta
get the work dione!"
pinks: "Sorry I can't stop, old
boys, but I've got to go home and ex-
plain to the wife."
Jenkins: "Explain what?"
Sinks; "I 'dti:ont know till I get
home."
•
Jones: "Do you remember you said
you were hunting hone in India?"
Smith: "yes."
Jones: "Colonel Sh.00tem says
here are no lions in pie."
Smith: "Quite right. I shot them
all."
•
"Bring in the oysters- I told you to
open," said the head: of the house-
hold, growing impatient.
."There theyssare," replied the new,„
maid, proudly. "It took me a long
time to clean them, but I've done it
at last, and thrown all the insides a-
way."
•
"Odd names your towns have," com-
mented the Englishmen: "Weehaw-
ken, Hoboken, Poughkeepsie, Osh-
kosh."
"I suppose they do sound queer to
English ears," the American agreed,
"Do you live in London all the time."
"No, indeed," said the. Briton, ."I
spend part of my time at Chipping
Norton and divide the rest between
Biggleswade and Leighton Buzzard."
•
Motorist (after knocking over a
butcher's boy): "I'm sorry, my boy;
are You all right?"
Boy (picking up contents of his
basket): "Dunno. Here's me liver
and me ribs; but where's me kidney?"
•
•
Auctioneer: °You keep bidding a-
gainst yourself, air!"
Customer: "No, I'm not. My wife
and my brother both asked me to bid
for ties gramophone, and I'm curious
to see which of 'em gets it."
:Buried River Believed to ;
Join Lakes Huron, Ontario
Fifty to sixty years ago a common
subject of conversation was the sup-
posed untlergeount river connecting
Lakes Huron and Ontario, says W. H.
Johnston in the London Free Press
recently. It was believed at that
time that it was impossible for the
large body of water in Lake Huron
to find passage to Lake Ontario
through the shallow Lakes St. Clair
and Erie and the small connecting
rivers. Therefore, the idea of an un-
derground passage was conceived
and discussed.
To bolster up the views of the cred-
ulous, many facts were cited. At
least some prevailing arguments were
widely accepted as facts. For in-
stance, in the vicinity of Sarnia it
was told that there was an under-
ground lake 300 feet deep. hen.eath
the town of Clinton' and extending
to the southeast for many miles was
another lake of considerable depth.
Besides these, there was the ex-
perience of Attrilt, a rich American.
who went to: Goderich and purchased
a large block of land along the Mait-
land River. It was rumored, he had
made his •wealth at the time of the
American Civil War, 1861-65. On the
southern slope of his estate, looking
towards the town, he built a beauti-
ful mansion, overlooking a vineyard
on the lower sloe.
Inspired by the successful discov-
ery and manufacture of salt, ' he de-
cided to sink a large shaft down t o
the bed of salt, when he would: mine
It dry, as they do in Austria.
After he had gone down to a con-
siderable depth, he encountered a
huge flow of water, and his work
stopped euddenly. Nothing daunted,
he went to Belgiutn and bought a
Wonderful puinping outfit at a cost,
it was said, of $30,000, but it was of
aaall; there was too much Water
to be tamped nut, :and the whole
scheme was abandoned
• Is it any wonder that many bellev-
sed there was an-lInclargrOund move-
/tient of Water, tatiteriode as it might
be.
In the district surrounding Hensel/
am Ent& them are to, be found
Woe coots Wbene Water dieapnears
s6 rapidly as to make people, won -der.
bn the farm of the late Mr. Morri-
son, two miles east of Chiselhurst, in
a small valley, are holes in the rock
down which the water pours in a
torrent. Some venturesome spirits
have been lowered into one of these
holes, but have cried out lil terror to
be drawn up at once.
On David Leech's farm, three or
four miles northwest of the Morrison
farm, is to be found a large MO
bele where the water disappears
the spring. On lot six, concession 2,
Stanley Township, is, another depres-
sion, solid enough to be cropped, over,
but, nevertheless,- gives a drainage
that is unexplained.
On lot severe concession four, Hay
Township, are ether localities where
water action. is evenmore peculiar.
Whenthe father of the present own-
er, William Gould, was alive, he tried
to make a watering place for his,
stock at one of these spots. For the
sake of safety he put in some fence
roots around it, but these posts gra-
dually sank into .the earth and dis-
appeared.
But the greatest of all these holes
is to be found on lot 10, concession 4,
in the Same township. When I visit-
ed it first in 1889, it was In the great
Hay Swamp, but now, owing to a
large drain, having been put through
the swamp, it is surrounded, by dry
lanItd. was in the month of June when
I saw it first and there was only a
small trickle of water, running into
it and down, its side to the bottom
where it disappeared, but my guide,
the late William O'Brien and others
since said that in the spring, in tho:se
early days, it was full to the top; In
fact, it was not able to take all the
water and mush of it flovredover
and past it.
In order to have an idea of Its size,
r stepped around it and found it was
108 yards in circumference. On the
sloping inside Was a large log that
I believed was long enough to ,yield.
four 12-foet logs. As, It did not reach
either the top or bottom I .ealtalated
the Slant aide. of the thole 1,1mA be,
tween 60 and .60 feet longlit sham
t haVerte,d 00110. ;
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Seen in the
County. Papers
Entering Upon Her Tenth Decalle
PAR/Ping the best of health and a.
befght, alert mentality, Mrs. Robert'
Mutch on Tuesday quietly celebrated)
her ninetieth birthday at the home of'
her eon, Mr. J. E. Mitch, Victoria:
Street.' At a pre -birthday dinner ons
Sunday Mrs. Mutch, Sr., entertained
a fewsfrienda, among whom were Mr.
and Mrs. 'John Robertson, aged 91.t
and 82, respectively, who were ne
bors in Colborne half a century ago..
—Goderich Signal. •
Str. D. B. Hanna Aground
Four God.erech boys are aboard the'
.str. D. B. Hanna, which went aground:
fourteen: miles off Port McNichol last
week -end. The ship apparently is in
no danger and attempts are being
made to pull her off the shoal, wire! e
she was driven during a storm. • 'The
four Goderich sailors are Bob Muir,
Harry. Fritzley, Carl Stoddart and
Jack Rimmer.—Goderich Signal.
Walpole - Bennett
St. Andrew's Church, Sudbury, was
-
the scene of a quiet wedding on Nov,
27th, when Ethelda Jane Bennett,.
third daughter of Mr. and Mrs, T. Rs
Bennett, Wingham, was united in;
marriage to Cecil Earlby Walpole,
of Espanola, eldest son of Mr. 'and.
iMre. William J. Walpole, of Litm's
Head. The officiating clergyman was.
the Rev. W. Ewart Cockram.—Wing-
ham Advance -Times.
New Accountant At Dominion Bank
Mr. M. R. Roberts, recently of the
Yohge and, Queen Street Branch, of
Toronto, of the Dominion Bank, has
been appointed accountant of the
bianch here. Mr. Roberts took over
his duties here on Monday. On be-
half of the citizens of this commun-
ity we extend a hearty welcome.—
Winghata Advance -Times..
Celebrates 90th Birthday
Tuesday being the occasion of Mrs:.
John Cluff's ninetieth birthday a few
friends gathered at the home of Mrs.
C. Bartliff, where Mrs. Cluff was the
guest of honor. Mrs. elute was
presented with a number of gifts to.
mark the occasion. The evening was.
spent in. a social way. • Later the hos-
tesses served a dainty lunch.—Clin-
ton News -Record.
• Cole - Pethick
Two popular residents of Tucker -
smith were united in marriage in a
quiet wedding ceremony at Grimsby
on Saturday, November 23rd, where
Mrs-. Mabel Pethick (nee Mabel Arm-
strong), became the bride of Mr. Jno.
Percy Cole, Rev. Mr. Leckie, of
Grimsby, officiated at the ceremony,
which took place at the home of the
bride's brother, Mr. Fred Armstrong_
—Clinton News-Recond.
Venison Was Good!
Thanksto our fortupate hunter, Mr..
Earl Yungblut, who treated the pubs
lisher of The Herald to a liberal sup-
ply of venison steak from the big
stag he shot a few weeks ago. While'
some people do not consider venison
as such a great delicacy, we must
say that this was just O.K. and hit
a very nice spot on a Sunday dinner
menu, and again we thank Earl for -
this fine treats—Zurieh Herald.
• Skull Fractured
Lois Hunter, daughter of Mn. and'
Mrs'. Gordon Hunter, who was in-
jured in a bicycle accident two,
weeks ago, was taken to London for -
an X-ray last week ,and we regret to
report that the little girl. has a frac-
tured skull and will be confined to.
her bed for some time. She is get-
ting along as well as can be expect-
ed. --Exeter Times -Advocate.
. .Truck Damaged
A light delivery truck belonging to.
Mr. A. E. Ravelle, of Grand, Bend,
skidded from the slippery road near
Crediton and: in taking to the ditch
struck a tree. The side of the truck
and the chase:is were badly damaged.
The truck was brought to the Ford
garage Monday morning. Mr. Arnold
Ravelle, the driver, fractured a cou-
ple of ribs.—Exeter Times -Advocate.
Eight Stitches to Close Wound (
Mr. Harold Whyte, of the Hydra,
staff, suffered a cut eirk the face on
rrida.y last which required eight
stitches to ciese. Mr. Whyte was
working with a Delco plant, in the
Hydro workshop and' was in the act
of cranking an engine when the.
crank slipped and struck him in
the face, breaking one of th'e lens of'
his glasses and Inflicting a nasty mit.
He was attended by Dr. Fletcher.—
Exeter Times -Advocate.
Dr. Barnett Surprised
Mystery, in so far, as the recipient
is concerned, surrounds the receipt by
Rev. 3. H. Barnett, D.D., on Tuesday,
of a handsome Coronation medal In
commemoration of the ascension, of
King George VI and Queen Elizabeth
to the throne of Britaile—Goderich-
Star.
Almost Ready
The last of the carpenter 47:ork will'
be completed at the new armory
building on Newgate Street before the
end of the week, and another week,
It is expected, will see the painters
Mashed arid the Wilding ready for
.occupancy, Cement floor, whitewash-
ed walls and three spachaus rooms on
an entirely 'rebuilt balcony have
transformed the old building into a
modern, well-turnedeut armory for
"C" Company of the ,Middlesex -Hur-
on Regiment. Captain` b. R. Nairn, is
in charge. New heating, lighting and
plumbing have been installed. On
the balcony are an offreeta? room, lec-
ture room and store rOom, all neatly
finished to please the most critiCal.
°frit/erg hoe to traftsfet the Ettore
from the old armory on Hamilton St. •
Within Ova weeks....-410delt Star.
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