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Seaforth, Ontario, ev-
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SEAFORTH, Fri,day,, 'April $, 19$.
Is the County Council on` the
Way Out ?
Has the County Council lived its
thy? . Is it, on the way out? If we
are to judge by some of the clearly
expressed opinions in the Legisla-
ture last week, the answers to both
these questions would appear to be
yes.
In fact, it would appear that the
wiping out of County Councils has
been considered at several Cabinet
meetings, and had not the more im-
portant
mportant questions of power contracts
and taxation jurisdiction blocked the
way, legislation towards this end
would have been introduced this ses-
sion-
Apparently the only ones who did
not see the abolition of County Coun-
cils movement on the horizon were
the County Councils themselves.
Many times in recent years The Ex-
positor has, mildly pointed out that
unless County Councillors stopped
playing politics and got down to
i brass tacks, there was a strong pos-
sibility that their few remaining
powers would be taken from them.
There has been a sad let down in
the legislation of the present day
County Council, compared with that
of the pioneer days and for some
years succeeding them. The pioneer
county councillor was a man -of _edu-
cation and foresight. And he was
unafraid.
Unafraid to legislate- for the good
of the county as a whole and not for
one particular constituenc in it.
Not afraid to spend the taxPayersr
Tnoney where he believed money
should be spent in building for the
future as well as the present. Not
afraid of his own constituents.
The Huron County Court House,
its road system, its early education
and administration policies are mon-
uments which have stood the test of
time for the better part of a century
when they were first inaugurated.
Unfortunately too many county
councillors have shown a tendency to
view county matters in a different
light. It has been a case of you
scratch my back and I'll scratch
yours. To view all county legisla-
tion, not from the standpoint of the
county's good, but from the stand-
point of how it will affect his job. To
vote the taxpayers' money to help
his own constituency, or in other
words, to help himself get re-elect-
ed.
It is unfortunate. Unfortunate
for the taxpayers, because abolishing
the County Councils and centralizing
the authority in Toronto, with the
present Government, or any succeed-
ing Government, is not going to Less-
, en the taxes. Make no mistake
about that.
It will be convenient for the Gov-
ernment, of course. But the people
In the country will pay for that con-
venience. They will not legislate for
themselves. Their legislation will be
handed to theme instead, and they
-ll pay the bill for its administra-
tion. ....,
However; the :abolition of County
Councils, however much it may, have
under advisement by the Gov-
e rent, is not yet an accomplished
fid' before it is, we have not
Slightest doubt but that Mr. Hep-
7Y`n tl li; . have- heard the country
concernnirg it,
her, can x
,,be said that aboli-
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ounclls originated
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Provincial Lotteries
The Ontario Legislature last week,
by a substantial majority, passed a
measure in favor of Government
supervised hkpital sweepstakes.
Thus hast the lottery question
come out into the open. Premier
Hep turn is in favor of hospital
sweepstakes, and'. so is. Premier
Duplessis, of Quebec, and it is believ-
ed that the passage of the measure
in ' the Legislature will tend to
strengthen the hands of both P)re-
miers on a joint drive against ,.the
Federal Government, in the field of
taxation.
That there would be opposition
against legalizing sweepstakes for
hospitals or any other purposes, goes
without saying. Nor are the people
in Ontario, who comprise this op-
position, whether clerical • or laymen,
to''be set down as hyprocrites.
As a matter of fact, there is, and
always has been in Ontario, particu-
IarIy„ in the country districts, a very
pronounced -feeding against gambling
in any form. And, if sweepstakes
are not a gamble, what is? And,
when Premier Hepburn, in the Leg-
islatre, branded all those opposed
to 1 galized sweepstakes as hypo-
crites, it' looked very much as if he
had gone out of his way to give per-
sonal offence to a large and influen-
tial body of the electorate,. including
many of his own supporters.
It is a well known fact that while
lotteries of all kinds are illegal in
Ontario, the law concerning them, in
many cases, is a dead letter. And it
might be said further, that churches
are among the main offenders. There
is no proof, however, that the clergy-
men in charge of any or all of these
offending churches, personally ap-
prove of the actions of their congre-
gations in holding lotteries for the
purpose of raising church funds.
As ' a matter of fact, we know of
one church which has a mild raffle
under way at the present time,
whose minister was never consulted
on the matter. And the reason he
was not consulted was because of his
well known opposition to such meth-
ods. And, no doubt, there are hun-
dreds of other ministers and mem-
bers of their congregations, who
have been placed in a similar posi-
tion.
Two wrongs never yet have made
a right. And it is not light to say
that because a law is being flouted
by a small majority, that that law
should be repealed, and something
else substituted in its place.
At the same time, if the Govern-
ment is going to continue to wink at
the infractions of the gambling laws,
perhaps it would be better to legal-
ize lotteries and sweepstakes, and
bring them out into the open.
In such an event, no one would be
forced to buy a sweepstake ticket on
a hospital, which would be the thin
edge of the wedge. That, in itself,
would be a great relief to the aver-
2ge man on every main street, as
well as to countless others through-
out the country.
As it is now, the church lottery
and every other kind of private lot-
tery to which we are ' afflicted, is
pretty much of a hold-up ; a racket,
or anything else you might like to
call it. The Government lottery
might, at least, be an improvement
in that respect. —
However, it is the Federal Govern-
ment that holds the trum cards, and
before the people in the Province try
to make an issue out of it, it might
be well to wait and . see . what the
Federal. Government is going to do
about it.
WHAT OTHER PAPERS SAY:.
East' Plus West
(Calgary Albertan)
From Ingersoll, Ontario, comes a very inter-
esting little item of news.
Both the Collegiate Institute and the Public
Scheel in that smell city have "adopted" an en-
tire ,school in • the drought area of Saskatchewan.
Pupils of tdre.Ingers+oll schools are sending school
books, supplies . and clothing to their western
"wards," The, s'c'holars in, each of the .schools
are keeping in touch wfth those in the etherg.
Such a gesture 'repeeseflte the und'erly'ing re-
ality of Carrad4•an unity. It. Is gratifying to see
that beneath the vaporings of noter ledit1iiisns
and 'extremist minorities the People of east and
wPt quietly deMonetrate their tommon citiz
n
ebip,
The ti•Idr-en eangaged in 'such a coo•operative
vefitere as that instigated in Ingersoll cannot
vet 1•ec'onze rabid 00titiliallete, And vr'hiile patch
tendIt ,action # enteteitt,: tthere need be no "heal
'Years Agone
Int•restlpp Items Picked "From
The Huron Expositor of Fifty Wand
Twenty-five Years Ago.
From The Huron Expositor
AprilApril 11, 1913
The Wingbeam council have raised
the salary of their Clerk and Treas-
urer to $1,000 a year.
/, The stage line between Dashwood
and Parkhill is to - lye discontinued
owing bo a rearrangement of the rural
mail routes. This line has been eon -
ducted by Mr. Gunther, of Dashwood,
for over twenty' .years.
The Dashwood post office hag been
removed 'to George Kellerman's block
and the. Postmaster, Mr. H. Wilder!,
takes charge of the Office with Mr,
Peter Mclsaac as deptity.
One day' 'fait week a party of Eng-
lish immigrants arrived in Wingham.
The party numbered 76 persons/ and
they were engaged br the farmers of
the district through Mr. D-' Louglr'ead,
Dominion Immlgintion Agent.
Miss F. R. Keyes, Zurich, who has
been attending the London Normal,
has successfully passed the examina-
tion for a permanent second-class cer-
tificate.
'Mr. W. W1 Cooper is now busy get-
ting material for the remodelling of
one of his barns.
Mr. Ernest Di:nnren, 'of near Chisel-
hurst, delivered ,to Mr. James Smillie,
of the London Road, a fine year-old'
goading that tipped the scales at 1,840
ends.
f A social evening was held In First
Presbyterian Church basement and
was quite a euceess. Miss Olive Ran-
kin and Dorothy Wilson played an in-
strumental and Mr. John Beattie sang:
Mr. Jenner also sang a solo, and Miss
Eva Chittenden gave a humerous'reci-
tation.
Miss Cona Dodds has taken a posi-
tion in Mr. W. G. Willis' shoe store
as successor to Miss Della Thompson,
Who, goes to Waterdown.
Mr. Joke T. Dickson 11a' daspsed
of the 100 -acre farm opposite the
homestead to M,r. Forest, who was
the purchaser of the other farm.
Mr. F.� H. AtirfaIley, who succeeded
Mr. L V. Fear in the drug business
here,. left this week for. Waterdewn.
Mr. John J. McGavin, of Leadbury,
has again come to the front at the
Spring Sthow 4n Seaforth, held on
April lst, taking first prize for his
year-old colt.
On Monday evening the members
of the Seaforth Methodist Church to
the number of twenty-five, aesemibled
at the home of Mr. and Mrs. John
Dodds, to spend a social evening.
Miss Iva Dodds was presented with a
half dozen tumblers and a handsome
pitcher.
The work of repairing the furniture
factory is about completed and the
employees, are about ready to go back
to work again.
;Phil sif eri of Lazy Meadows
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(By Harry J. Boyle)
"HOUSECLEANING"
It seems that my annual spring
twinge of rheumatism always man-
ages to come at the wrong time and
leave in just the same way. Yester-
day, when I got up, the warm sun
was streaming in through that east
window and I did a few fancy steps
just to show off 'how well I was, and
to prove that the shooting paints had
all disappeared.
"That's fine," Mrs. Phil piped up,
from where the was doing 'up her
hair. "I'm glad you're feeling so good
Phil, because I want you to :helix me
with the housecleaning."
There was nothing I °quid do about
it then, such as feeling a lot of pain,
and so I had to go ahead and help
her with the housecleaning. All that
furniture has to be moved around and
shunted back and forth like they do
with those empty cars at the station
down in the village.
First of all it 'starts with the front•.
room. All the great giltedged fram-
ed pictures of bhe ancestors at Lazy
Meadows sort of frown down at you
when you start to move everything.
But this is no time to consider feel-
ings, and so you have to bundle ev-
erythingup and move it out of that
room into the next one.
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From The Huron Expositor
April 13, 1888
Messrs. McDonald and Waugh, ,of
HensalL, have secured the contract of
•roofing, with galvanized=iron •the large
foundry and agricultural works own-
ed by W. H. Verity, of Exeter.
About two o'clock last Saturday
morning Mr. John Murdock's resi-
dence at Auburn was burned ten- the
ground. Most of the, contents were
saved!
We notice that three of Hu'ron's
sons have distinguished themselves at
Trinity College, Toronto. Mr. R.
Knechtell, of Brussels, stood second;
Mr. Charles Mackay, Seaforth, fourth;
and J. W. Shaw, Brussels, ninth, Hz a
clasp of 80.
The Stratford Beacon of last week
says: "Oscar Neil, a well-known
sprinter and lacrosse player, a former
resident of the Classic `City,, has.been
elected captain of the Seaforth La-
crosse Club."
Dr. N. D. Gann; formerly of St.
Thomas, has succeeded in carrying off
the highest honor 'in the gift of Mc-
Gill University, Montreal, having won
the Holmes' Medal:
Mr. Noble Cluff has taken into part-
nership with him Mr. Samuel Ben-
nett in the pump making business.
Mrs. A. D. McDonald, Mrs. L. L.
McFaul and Miss Janet Anderson at-
tended the annual' meeting of the Wo-
men's Foreign Missionary' Society
held in 'Guelph this week.
Mr. John Keefe, of OhiseLhurat,
commenced to plough on Monday, the
9th inst.
At the Harlock public school exam-
ination Lately there were upwards of
eighty visitors. Mr. Newton is the
teacher. Messrs. A_ Plummier, D. C.
Dorrance and John W. King assisted
in conducting the examination.
Mr. Foster Hutdhison, a forever res-
ident of Ribbert, now engineer on a
western railroad, :bad a narrow escape
from instant death 'last February
while running a Nebraska cattle train
into Chicago. Seeftg a collision in-
evitably, he jumped; from hisetragine
into the .Fox River 441 feet 'below. He
oweshis life to the open water and
swift current, there being f no ice
where he stnlrck.
Mr. Gottieib Mernee of the Branson
Line, 'Zurich, sewed 10 acres of oats
lest Friday. He Is :the first in the
field with grain in this vicinity.
While Mr. Steinbach and his fam-
ily, of Zurich, were sitting in the par-
lor conversing, One of them noticed "a
smell of burning Wood and on open-
ing the door they found that tbte hall
was .on fire. It was quickly put out.
T. a.. Pearsall, df, Meaford, hiving
purchased the Methodist Chirrcli pro-
perty in Centralia, Will remodel Rand
convert the same into' a cheese fac-
tory. "' L
Much ayfdpatrhy Is•felt tor 1tll": and'
nitre. Nixon, 'of the 9tti•' edneeaeton' near
Fordyce, who lost two of their chil-
dren in .Ices., t'hpn two weeks • 'With
di • lntberl • .
a orov •anda Chir i 'Cit
p t►,
� s
with tire diseat'e:...
•
flidetlher: "If yon den't" be a goad
boy I'l'l fetch a . trairrelhnn;'"
. 3bbh1e ' Ar> N ` yotl „.:!dt. IMeti
Idea **eve got
that she will scarcely. talk. Curtains
are hauled down, and there's quilts
and sheets and pictures all piled up
on the kitchen floor. Every, time you
try to sneak•Into an easy chair, slle
has a.,job for you.
There's hot water on the stove all
the time, to scrub With., and the smell
of dust seems to .get clogged ,up in
your nostrils. Mattresses get rolled
up and you sort of half trot and half
let the mattress pull you along as
you -ease down the front steps with
one all rolled up In your arms. You
try to make the ends of a bed and
the spr`in'gs stand up against the
nearest wall and after trying to coax
them for half an hour, and when they
finally do stand up, you disoover that
they 'have to be moved out in the
hallway until that floor is scrubbed.
Then there's woodwork to be wash-
ed. If there is anything as tiresome
as rubbing away at the woodwork
with a little rag and watehang water
get,_dirty and only a little patch of
the woodwork get clean, then I would
like bo know what it is.
But, of course, there is beating
rugs. First of all you try the broom.
N,,,hamm , . . and a cloud of dust
comes streaming back into your face.
Then you try it from the other side
and discover that it doesn't seem to
make much differenee. The rug seems
to be made ?of India rubber and it's
like trying to drag a hand sleigh ov-
er gummy mud. Then you try the
axe or a stick, or whatever you can
find, but it doesn't make much dif-
ference.
You stop then- to • sneak a few drags
at the pipe and looking across the
fields you can see that the neighbors
hale their rugs out on the line and
there ie your neighbor whamming
away at the rugs.
The upstairs window opens and the
wife yells: "You keep on at those
'rugs or well never get done!"
But it Will be nice when everything
is all cleaned up, again and you feel
something like the Irishman on the
gallows, who said in a rather phil-
osophical way: "Weil, it's• going to
be nice in Heaven."
It's strange but every woman, even
if she only has a two -room shack
with a few sticks of furniture, has to
go through two spells', •of house-
cleaning . . . Spring and Fall.
There's a smell; of polish and var-nieh
and coal oil, and it even gets into
the food. Your wife goes around with
a perpetual worried look on her face,
and it's about the most trying tiipe
possible for the men folks of a fam-
ily.
Just like yesterday! Mrs. Phil has
some sort of a cloth tied .over her
hair, with an old pair of stockings on
her arms and hands to keep the dust
away. She's all business and no mat-
ter what type of flattery I used all
during the year, it just didn't seem
to work then.
She's so busy bugging at rugs and
mats and hauling them out to beat
JUST A -SMILE OR TWO
Dear old Lady (at identity parade) :
"Yes, that is the man. I'd swear to
it. But he was a lot taller and stout-
er."
Correct this sentence: "I don't lis-'
teneto comedians," said ,the radio fan,
"because it is dangerous for me to
length too -much."
•
Mr. Hlardup: "Can't you cut down
expenses?"
Mrs.
Mrs. Hardup: "The same result
could be accomplished if you'd earn
more."
•
G -Man: "Got away, has he? Did
you guard all the exits?"
County Constable: "Yes, but we
think he must have left by one of
the entrances!"
•,
When the time came for the read-
ing on the Scotch farmer's will it was
found that all his property was left
jointly to his two sons, Donald, and
Hamish. , But the boys found it quite
impossible to agree on the division
of the estate.
They took their problem to a local
professor, another Scot, and asked for
his solution.
"It is simple," said the learned man.
"You, Donald, will divide the proper-
ty as you think fit."
Donald beamed with pleasure, and
Hamish'sr face clouded.
"And you, Hannish," continued' the
old man, "will take whichever half
you please."
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Seen in the
County Tapers
The Weather One Year Ago
Everyone ae talking abattt the ex-
tremely, nice weather ,these •days• and
they'. have i goocli reason for talking as
on Mar$h 21st and 23rd it was 70 de-
grees in the srhade. On March, 26ttr a •
year ago the tenyperatu're was not so
balmy as ' Mr. Gordon Cunt ghame.
tells us .that, ,that day we had quite a
!snowstorm and about one foot of snow
fell, providing good sleighing for two,
days. Then the snow disappeared
quickly, but the %weather !remained
rather cool., Again on April Gbh more
snow came and it was not until Ap'r'il
13th that the first mild weather ap-
peared. Up until that time the fur-
nace had• to be, kept going steadily
every day.—Clinton News -Record.
Bridge Players At Hamilton
Miss E. T. MacNauglatoni and Mre
P. F. Carey, members of.; Goderich
Bridge Club paeticlipat:ng in an invi-
tation tournament at "Hamilton on Sat-
urday, placed fourth in the Anal!.
round. Thi^ were second in the qual-
ifying round_ The trophy was won.
by a Hamilton pair: Other members,
of the Goderioh club taking part firm
the tournament were Mre. P. F. Car-
ey, Mrs. George Copeland: and Mr. T..
R. Patterson..--Gotterich Signal -Star..
All through the football match an
enthusiast had loudly urged the home
team on to victory. Presently he turn-
ed to his neighbor and said in a
whisper:
"Do you know, I believe I've lost
my voice through shouting so ,march."
"Don't worry," came the bitter re-
ply, "you'iil find it in my left ear."
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"Is ink so very expensive, father?"
"No, dear. What makes you think
so?"
"Well, mother seems quite disturb-
ed because I spilled some on the hall
carpet."
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A very old resident of the town was
reported to have died. Many people
called, only to find that the Sid man
was hale and hearty. He smiled when
they told' him of the report, saying:
"I knowed it wasn't true as soon
as I heard it."
•
"You don't mean to say this is the
first you've heard of it?"
• "Yes."
"Why! It's the talk of the neigh
bonhood!"
"Maybe; but my wife's been away
for a visit to her mother."
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Mrs. Putton Ayres: "I fought. a
tough battle to get into society in
Boston, but I finally managed it."
Mrs. Noser: "I imagine you had
to keep your chin up!"
Mrs. Putton Ayres: "No, just my
nose!"
THE POWER OF CHOICE •
• (By J. Boyd -Thomas)
•
One of the greatest days in a per-
son's life is_that on, which he discov-
ers for himself that the power of
choice is his very own; with the thrill
of this new discovery he enters into
a reinvigorating, fascinating, all -ab-
sorbing consciousness of a new free-
dom and with jubilant heart and
buoyancy of spirit he exclaims with
the poet:
"It shatters not hovi strait the gate
How charged with punishment the
scroll,
I am the master, of mly fate,
I am the captain of my soul!"
It . is an inspiring, captivating
thought. The power •to think, to, read,
to act voluntarily, deliberately; to ac-
cept or refuse, to embrace, or reject,
to decide big issues. ,It is a birth-
right which none may sell for a mere
mess of pottage 'without feeling just-
ly recompensed if mother nature
withholds her finest end beet trea-
sures for those who mentally, moral-
ly and spiritually, deserve the best
which 'her bounty unfailingly gives to
those more worthy of her seeming
lavishness.
It bac appropriately been stated
that "our choke lies between a world
within, ourselves and a world out-
side; the crux of character is in that
decision . , , What is wealth? A
eons'eienoe void of offence, cleansed
by frequent prayer, inade verile by
high resolve and noble deed—the glad
outgoing or- human love-compas-
ision's springs kept qulek and warm,
obedience to ideas which brood' over
our mortal journey like a galaxy of
stars; the 'q'ueen of a Soul washed
white, worthier borxies, kindlier 'Hides
try; purer petriotislte, a planet epi'nr
!ming in destined righteouertrese and
tiegneeethe flnd1izg of the Great Corn
partied Whose love atones' for • our
nllatakes and eine, .Het eitt is
Wealth beyond all -price; "the trdasur"o
Of one wortld' Within"'
The peen* tti abo'oste in moinlen a or
,prisata of aittt'1 :able • itfipdrtaridex
fhb dootlrt�y;la ltlttiOi
and nations is involved. It would
sometimes appear that the most im-
portant decisions are tirade quite free
ly; and yet in, every choice and de-
cigion is revealed the powerful mo-
mentum of the past. The secret de-
sires and ideals which we cherished
a while ago demand a hearing and
attention now; the resolutions and
'habits unconsciously formed, assert
themselves at the critical moment.
Thus our silent as well as our audible
acquiesence, our :involuntary as well
as voluntary consent become the mot-
ivating and deciding factors which
must, finally, be termed our choice.
We are not left to the mercy of
chance, nor should we ever consider
ourselves as victims, of the whimsical
caprice of fate or circumstance. In
'all fairness to our manhood We are
more than pawns in the game of life.
The crowning act of the 'Creator ,of
the Universe was Man: into whom was
breathed the breath of life. By that
divine act man was endowed with a
royal prerogative --THE POWER OF.
CHOICE. It follow:i! :..Hh'en, that our
choices are pot fated but are; beyond
dispute, th'e' fruits of charades' and
for character we are accountable. We
choose by the gathered contents of
cur 'lives,' sometimes it may ben by
way of struggle,' sorrow, disappoint-
ment, and temporary defeat;- but his-
tory and experience have proven be-
yond the shadow of doubt that, if we
will, we. may decree that these shall
become veritable stepping stones. to
+higher things and to nobler ways of
living! --a 9highway to the gate of
Hea;vev,l
"To every tinan, there openeth
A Way, and Wayd, and a Way,.....-,
And the High Saul climbs the High, Way
And the Low' Soul gropes, the low; '
And in between on the dn,3'aty Minn .
The rest, drift to add fro;
$tit tiJ e'tr'ery.'il)an there (i' Ienetri)
it
A itt way' and a LOW' `,
And drrit t matt det,ldeth
'.!Ite*ar,hiS ooil eltti%1 ;'"
New Band Leade,
Commencing Aprtil lst the band or
the Goderich Musical Society will bet
under the leadership of .CAarles Black,.
Montreal St., a bandsman of forty
years' experience in Canada and, the
United States In bands and orches-
tras. Mr. Black succeeds Mr. J. L..
Taylor, who concluded the band last
year with success and t -'ho, it is hop-
ed, wilt Continue 'has a:;soeiation witie
the organization. — Goderich Signal -
Star.
Hospital Equipmrent
At the regular meeting' of the •Wo --
men's Hospital. Auxiliary on Monday-
afternoon
ondayafternoon the pmesideat, Mrs. F. R..
Itedditt, antvounced that an oxygen
tank and tent had been installed at.
the hospital, at the expense jointly of
the Hospital Board and the Women's.'•
Auxiliary. The treasurer, Mrs. A. F._
Sturdy, reported $201.70 bad been re-
ceived for the gas machine fund. The -
annual hospital birthday party will be
held at the nurses' residence on
Thursday, May 12tb—Florence Night-
ingale Day. Arrangements , for the
nurses' graduation exerci'ves in June -
also were discussed.—Gclerich , Sig-
nal -Star -
Farm Horne Burned '
Archie McCurdy barely escaped'
with his life from the home of hie
son, Alvin McCurdy, of :,the l2tlr
• concession of Usborne Township, near
Kirkton, on Saturday night when the
one and a half storey frame house
too$ •fire shortly before ten o'clock -
Mr. McCurdy, Sr., was at ;tome' alone
andhad retired early. He was awak-
ened by, dense clouds of smoke and
the crackling of wood burning. He
attempted gallantly to c,ubdue the
flames which seeniaett to have origin-
ated in the kitchen., but all in vain.
and :be had, to flee the house.' The.
sparks and flames illuminated the sky
for miles around and within a few
minutes cars cumbering almost a.
hundred had congregated at the farm.
A bucket brigade was formed to save
the barn, but according to one eye-
witness the direction of the wind was
the only thing that saved it. Had
the wind been 100 feet in the oppos-
ite direction a thousand men couldi
not have saved .the barn and driving
shed. Only a few odd pieces of the
house furnishings were saved, but it
is understood that the house and
furniture are insured. , The fire fan-
ned by the high wind, burned the -
dwelling to the ground. It was very
fortunate in one sense that Alvin Me -
Curdy, owner of the house and his-
family
isfamily were away as there might
easily have been a fatality. Mr. Mc-
Curdy has' two children, both under
five years of age Cause of the fire -
has not been determtned. — Exeter
Times -Advocate.
Dungannon. Boy Struck By Auto
Donald Squire, six, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Howard Sgielre, Disugranion, es-
caped serious injury when he was.
knocked down by a motor car on:
Main Street. Attempting to avoid the -
boy, J. Talbot, Goderich, the car driv-
er, struck a parked machine. The boy
suffered shock only. A few minutee
later, Lorne Popp, five, narrowly es-
caped being knocked down by arma-
chine.—Wingham Advance -Times.
Cuts Hand With Saw
While Edwin Miller, 14, was en-
gaged in cutting kindling with a buzz:
saw Tuesday after school, the first,
finger of his right hand was cut
down its entire length, with the tip*
partly severed while the end of the -
thumb was' also cut. Dr. H. B. Gil -
1 e took him to Stratford General
ospital, where the injured members
were given attention.—Mitchell Advo-
oate.
Purphased Elmira Paper,,,
Ann Anderson Perry, well-known.
through Canada, as a ' Canadian Club,
'lecturer, has purchased the Elmira.
'Express, her home town paper. As
a 'young woman She became a widow
;and entered newspaper work at Win-
mipeg. Later she went to L Toronto
,and tarried on •the same profession,
much of her time being spent in free
lance. worst. Following the death of
.:the litte editor, and proprietor: of the
;Express the paper was offered for
sale and. Ann Anderson Perry enter-
ed the s'eekly newspaper field, She
is well kpown; here, •having lectured
•rrn C;irrreltt Events bene when, the
zea1.
la-
CanadiarClub
was
operating. Her
atiild'!y as a writer' has long been re-
oogni'zetl• and Elmira 4s "indeed for-
ti4n'i to 'that its papier Will be edited by.
brio so We11'qualtfed to de
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