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FORTH, Friday, May 19, 1939
Delayed Arrival'of King and
Queen
The arrival of King George and
Queen Elizabeth in Canada, which
happy occasion was scheduled for
Monday morning last, did not ma-
terialize.
Owing to fog and ice, the Empress
of Australia on which they are cross-
ing, did not reach Quebec until Wed-
nesday, which means that their
stay in Canada has already been
shortened by two whole days.
As a consequence, it is possible
that their four day stay in Ottawa
will be shortened, to two. Either that
or a change in their whole travel -
itinerary, which would seem an im-
possibility.
The arrangements for the visit of
the King and Queen have been in
process for many weeks, and with-
out a precedent to follow, the work
has been long and exacting, conse-
quently it is not hard to understand
what the delay means to the Govern-
ment and other officials who are in 'I
charge of the Royal tour
That Canada is disappointed at the
looked for delay goes without say -
ng. But after all the main thing is
the safety and pleasure of the Sov-
ereigns and it is quite possible that
-the extra two days rest on board ship
will be thoroughly. enjoyed and ap-
preciated by them.
It is a relief and pleasure to Can-
adians to know that the suspense
and danger is now past, and that for
the first time in British history the
reigning Xing and Queen are on our
soil—and theirs.
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Frost, But Not Much Damage
This district suffered two or three
rather severe frosts last week, but
fortunately we have not suffered a
great deal of damage. Some plants
were blighted and alfalfa and other
clovers were curled up a bit, which
will set them back, but on the whole
we got off easily.
Fruit blossoms 'were not damaged,
and vegetables came through nicely
and it is unlikely now that we will
have anything more severe in the
way of frost, than we have already:
experienced. But then again, we
might.
On the -whole the spring has been
somewhat backward and somewhat
dry. The rain the first of this week
has made a marvellous change in the
appearance of the country and
should make the land work more
easily, which up to now has seem:e'd
cold, hard and lumpy.
But it might be worse. Far worse.
Last week there was dust in the air
and enough of it to make the clouds
look Iike thunder, if they had been
black instead of brown. And enough
to make us a little uneasy too.
We have been unable to learn
where this dust came from, but it
was here all right. And there was
just as much dust in the air as we
ever want to see. We have never had
the land blown away here, and we do
not want to have that experience.
Nor is it likely that we will. The
rain of the early part of the week
has practically settled that question
and we are quite content to let it
stay settled.
What we are looking for and con-
fidently expecting now is rapid
growth. Young cattle are out on
pasture, or what would be pjasturre if
there was only a little more. grass,
aia until we get that we will not put
much weight on the cattle either.
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Taking Weekly Halt -Holiday
Taking a weekly half holiday.dur-
ing the summer months has become
very general custom among the
merchants of Ontario towns and vil-
lages, ' We do not know whether the
.fie, originated in the minds of the
& halts thetnselves, or whether
inspiration had its origin in the
of their clerics, but at any rate,
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the weekly half -holiday has become
a very poRular institution, in the
towns at least.
But there is one exception. And
that is the town of Collingwood. In
Collingwood the merchants close
their stores on Wednesday after-
noons during the winter months, and
remain open during the summer
months.
The idea is to make hay while the
sun shines. That town is very pret-
tily situated on the water, and, as a
consequence, draws a certain amount
of tourist trade. And the tourist
trade does not wait on the pleasure
of the stores. 'It is concerned only
about itself.
On the surface the idea does not
appear to be a bad . one at all, not
only for Collingwood, but one that
might readily be adopted with pro-
fit by a great many other Ontario
towns. In fact, the 'whole of Ontario
is rapidly 'becoming tourist conscious
during the summer months.
We would hate to suggest that
anyone should be deprived of a holi-
day, but wouldn't a holiday in the
winter be just as advantageous to
public health and morals as a holi-
day in the summer? We believe the
original idea of the weekly half -holi-
day, at least the propaganda that put'
it over, was the idea that the half -
holiday would give the merchants
and all concerned an opportunity to
be healthfully and gainfully employ-
ed out of doors.
In this way more time would be
available for ,home improvements
and for getting acquainted with the
family. Garderis could be enlarged
and enough vegetables and fruit
grown to provide for winter use ;
lawns would be cut and trimmed,
andan opportunity given to wives
and children to join in happy family
picnics in the great outdoors.
No doubt some of these dreams
have been happily realized. But as
far as we have been able to see, we
would lean to the belief that the
great manpower which the half -
holidays have released from business
has been 'expended on the bowling
greens, the golf course, the trout
streams and other delectable places
far away from the home and its
cares. Another thing, if there are no
places of business, open, wives do not
need a car to go shopping. And ch il-
dren •do not want the car until night
time anyway.
Just because we don't get a week-
ly half -holiday we don't want you to
think this is just sour grapes, be-
cause it isn't. But because we don't
get a holiday, we are on Main Street
those half -holiday afternoons, and
on every one of them we have seen
tourists and forgetful people from
the country there trying to do busi-
ness, and it does seem a little bit -un-
reasonable to them that the store
doors should be closed in the face of
prospective business.
Perhaps it would not be any differ-
ent in winter. But we think it would,
because during t h e real winter
months, in this county at any rate,
one half day a week would not mean
a thing to the merchants, the people
of the town, and more particularly,
to the people of the country, to whom
we are always looking so longingly
for business, and often are so lament-
able about its absence.
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At Least We Will Be Able
To Recognize It
Any person who has ever gone to
school—and many others also—has
heard of the famous Leaning Tower
of Piga. We know where it is and.
what it looks like.
We know it is one of the great
wonders of the world, and now We
learn it is the latest fashion motif
used by Italian hat designers as a
basis for the summer styles of those
greatest of all world wonders—wo-
men's' headgear.
No longer will one get the impres-
sion that a woman is bareheaded be-
cause she is wearing her hat on the
other.side. Not with the Pisa hat at
any rate.
No matter if she wears it thirteen
feet off the perpendicular as the fam-
ous Leaning. Tower carries itself
aloft, we will+.still be able to see it
from every angle.
And what is still more impoftant
to the peace of mind of mere man, we
will Mill be able torecognize it for
what it stands for. And that is a
good deal more than can be said of
other present day women's headgear.
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Itlterestlnp iMIM I Picked From
The Huron Expositor of Fifty and
Twenty-five Years Ago.
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From The Huron Expositor
May 22, 1914
Mr. George Harn, of McKillop, has
purchased a new Ford auto from J.
F. Daly.
A thirty-seven pound snapping tur-
tle was captured in the river at Brus-
sels just below the mill dam a few
days ago.
Mayor Ament and Messrs. Oscar
Neil, John Beattie, G. A. Sills and W.
D. Bright motored to Auburn for a
day's fishing
Miss Marjorie McIver this week
met with a painful accident by having
a needle penetrate her hand, and
which broke off.
Mr. Ed. Hallett has a prolific dande-
lion crop in his garden. He showed
us three stems which had on them
eleven distinct flowers.'
Mr.. _Thomas Livingstone, of Hulett,
near Alma, had three registered
Clydesdale breeding mares in town
one day last week.' The combined
weight was 5,160 pounds.
Last Friday evening the young lad-
ies and the young men's. Bible classes
of the Methodist Sunday school .ten-
dered a reception to Messrs. ° Willow -
by and Gillies andtheir brides. Mr.
John, Button acted as toastmaster or
the event.
Two young daughters of Mrs. Robt.
McElroy, McKillop, north of Roxboro,
were driving into town when their
horse got frightened at an auto 'on
Main Street, 'and turning around up-
set the buggy, throwing the young
ladies out, one being rendered uncon-
sciaue.
The annual meeting of the Wo-
• nen?s Institute of Staffa was held in
the Town Hall ' on Wednesday, at
which the following officers were el-
ected: President, Mrs. T. M. Hamil-
ton; vice -Ores., Mrs. H. Kennedy; sec.-
treas.,
ec:treas., Miss Penelope Worden•; direc-
tors, Mrs. Wm. Worden, Mrs. F. D.
Hutchison, Miss J. Butler, Mrs. J.
Gillespie, Miss Marie Davis.
The railway crossing en Seaforth
"SLEEP" bed a great old dresser with several
souvenirs of toipther's lhionleymoon, on
it seems strange to say that you • it, including a scenic shot of Niagara
are so tired you can't sleep, but that Fails and a pads of wetly brushes
is actbually the way 1 tette night. with bedew p)atnres the back of
Atter following Bin and Bmownde,all them, and a washstand with an ore
days at the seedling operations,, and ate white pitdfver and. washbowl on
spurring myself past my usual oom- wane a fancy white soap disie
pdacent trate of speed, I was defin4e- In vain i •woulxl protest about not
ly tired. being sleepy, but Mother always said
You sit down in the rocking' chair that the rest would; de me good. She
after supper, and after a half pipe -of would make me take off my shoes and
whacco try and drag your weary . climb up in the centre of the bed,
bones °up the front stairway, Some- while she adbusted the window and
wheme along the route you dump your drew the blind. Then she closed he
boots, ana your eyelids droop almost door and went out to the kitchen.
shut as you take your clothes; off. Rest o'f all a little breteae would come
There's an ache in every (twist of your in through the window and ruffle tkve
hrandts. Them you snuggle drown into muslin that kept the flies out, and
the comfort of cool sheets, and can moan as it whietled through it. The
just imagine yourself, being wafted off window blind would start scraping •on
into a deep and comforting sleep. the sill, and, the sunLatht would start
Then your left Leg starts to ache; pouring in through the place where
you 1sry it out flat, and try to relax tt the blind was torn. No matter how 1
completely. By that time a symapath turned or twisted that sunlight would
etic ache has started in your right strike at my eyes. And the squirrels
ehouide'r. You get out of the mood of that kept up a busy highway of tom
sleep, and while, every bone an your •merce.in the ,side of the old bundling
body cries for its c9mfort, your mind would dash around like mad. How I
decades to keep you awake. You im- used to hate those afternoons, and it
agine that you 'brave been lying there was with extreme delight that I wel-
for horrs . . . and every sound ;n comaed the time when my father said
the house is like a cannon exploding '.That boy is old enough not to
and the sounds of the insects have to sleep in the daytime."
outside come pouring in through the
window like a full synhphony orches- During the tame when I was too
tra . and a dog barks mourn- young to venture out from home my -
fully in the distance . and you self on Sunday afternoon,, or stroll
lhear the horses champing in the over to see the children at the neigh -
stable . and you imagine what bons?' I hated Sunday afternoon: As
it's going to be like working tb,e next soon as the Sunday dinner was over,
day without sleep. But some time you Mother would set about putting my
lose consciousness{ of it all, and by young brother to sleep, white father
the time you wake up neat momming ,rolled gracefully on to the sofa in the
you have forgotten all about it. front room' and went to steep. Mother
No matter how easy-going my na- would hustle through the .dishes and
ture may he, I could never sleep in with a vague remonstman'ce to me
the dray time. I believe that all goes that I should stay around home, she
back to the days then I was a -very would go off to bed for a rest.
young codger. My mother was•a firm And that hated silence of a desert -
believer that every young fellow of ed home would settle over the place,
my age should have some sleep in and I would, wander around with -no
the afternoon. At two O'clock I was on to talk to, and wonder if there
rounded up and escorte • into the was any chance of anybody coming
bedroom . . . that is the spare room to visit us . . . and how long it
on the Left side 'of the house. on the would be before I could stroll away
for a visit. No, I stall hate steeping
in the daytime!
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A Fact A Week
About Canada
(From the Dominion Bureau of
tita"tfalilce)
r. ECONOMICS IN FARMING
The complexities of' modern busi-
ness have brought to the fore the con-
trlbutione of the specialist. Very of-
ten, the more dlivense the businese
Eche greater the need for his assist-
ance. Nowhere, perhaps, is this more
`'evd'delt that. in farming.
Fifteen or twenty years ago stories
were being commonly told of how a
brokendown automobile was made to
run with a piece of -fence wire. To-
day, the rnajdrity of motorists have
little more than a speaking acquaint-
ance with th'e engine of their car. It
is now neceesary to call in a trained
mechanic when there is trouble with
the car. Similarly, in days gone by,
when agricultural incomes, fell and
farmers had difficulty in makingends
meet, it was often possible to re,me'-ly
the situation by adding another cow
to the (herd, or ;by seeding an extra
ten acres of wheat. These methods
may still be effective in many in -
,stances but they do not always, give
the desired result It is frequently
necessary to call on some one quali-
fied to give advice and guidance.
To carry the analogy of the motor
mechanic one step further. 'When.
the meohanic tackles his job, he first
makes a thorough examination and de-
termines which part or parts are
dausing the trouble. Then after he
has 'discovered the point of trouble,.
the proceeds to deal with that specific
problem, 6o with the agricultural
economist. He cannot possibly ex-
amine.the whole industry at one time,
because of limited time and resources.
Rather, he must be content to iso-
late the most troublesome points and
then concentrate his efforts on the so-
lution of ,t~ihat specific problem. His
next duty is to bring together all the
facts beefing on. this particular prob-
lem and; analyze the facts in such a
way as to discover the true answer.
This has been the work of the Econ-
omics Division of the Department of
Agrioulture in the ten years since
that branch was established.
At the present time the Division is -
carrying on research on more than
twenty separate agricultural prob-
leins. We await With interest their
findings, which will no doubt Have an
important bearing on Canadian farm.
economy.
bottom story.
Main Street was the scene of another The room had
serious accident on Saturday last and
although serious, it was a miracle it
was not very much more so.. D,r, J.
G. Scott was &riving Wirth just as the
10.45 passenger train was approaching
the station. The engine struck the
hind wheel of his buggy with such
force as to throw the doctor out of
the vehicle. He was rendered uncon-
scious.
At the amnia/ meeting of the Con-
stance Epworth League the following
officers were elected for the ensuing
year: Honorary president, Rev. J. H.
Osterbout; ;president, Robert Clarke;
let vice-pres., Mrs. Robert Rogerson;
2nd vice -Pres., Irene Canter; 3rd vice-
pres., Mrs. P. Lindsay; 4th vice-pres.,
William Britton; secretary, Evelyn
Clarke; treasurer, Stella Clarke; or-
ganist, Irene}�'Carter; assistant, Miss
Mayne Hall. , V M
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From The Huron Expositor
May 24, 1889
Upwards of 50,000 feet of
were destroyed when Mr. J.
way's sawmill in Logan was
down a couple of weeks ago.
Andrew Morrison, of 'Walton, who
was seriously injured some weeks
ago by the upsetting of a load of hay,
is able to get around again.
The bylaw to raise $6,000 for the
purpose of purchasing electric light
and) having this town lighted) by elec-
tricity, was voted on on Monday last
and was carried by a majority of 51.
The Mitchell Woollen Mill has been
purchased by the Dufton Bros., Strat-
ford, and will commence running at
once Mr. D. H. Dorman, former pro-
prietor, has been engaged as foreman.
One day last week while attending
to some cattle in his stable, Mr. John
Knox, of the Base Line, Hul•lett, re-
ceived a severe kick on the knee from
one of the animals.
The merchants and business men
of Blyth have unanimously granted
their clerks and employees permission
to quit work two evenings each week
during the svmmet months at 6 p.m.
During a recent thunderstorm a
fence post within 12 feet of Mr. John
Kenay's barn at Dublin was struck by
lightning.' Mrs. Kenny and her daugh-
ter were near by and sustained a
severe shock.
A farmer tied his !horse to a shale
tree on the street in Clinton recently.
The animal took a -mouthful of bark
from the tree and the owner was sum-
monsed before the Mayor and taxed
one dollar and costs for his careless-
ness
areless
mess.
John McIntosh, Sr., of Cranbrook,
who recently located there, had a nar-
row escape from being struck by
ligaturing on Wednesday evening of
last week.- The electric current enr
tered the chimney, seatttering it in all
directions.
On Wednesday morning the eldest
sen of Mr. John McKinnon, a farmer
near Brussels, while leading a year-
ling colt from town, got entangled In
the batter and the colt dragged him
abort 40 rods. 'When he finally got
elehr the animal had trampled the life
Out of .him and '• he was found shortly
after by John Skick.
We record this week the death of
Elizabeth Nicol, relict of the late Rob-
ert Scott, Burnside, McKillop, which
took place on the 16th. Mrs. Scott
was born in Castleton, Roxboroshire,
Scotland, on the. 14th of April, 1814.
She came in; 1834 to McKiIlop, where
her husband died. 23 yeare ago, being
the victim of a t$reah'itag machine ac-
cident. -
Mrs. David; Walker, wife of David
Walker, Of the Mill Read:, Tucker -
smith, who was over three score and
ten years, died recently. Her maiden
name was Gordon McKay, and was a
native of Bourg, Kireudbright, and
leaves a family of eight children.
Mr. Robert McCowan, who resides
on the Klippen )Road, south" of Mr.
Kyle's Hotel, hag a cow Which gave
67 pounds a4 Milk per day when test-
ed, and 16 pounds of better were
made from this eoW ittr seven dia3r}s�
lumber
Longe -
burned
a massive wooden
JUST A SMILE OR TWQ
"Your sore throat seems, worse."
"Yes, I've been telling so many
people about it."
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' The much ' preoccupied professor
walked into the barber shop and: sat
in a chair next to a woman who was
having her hair bobbed'.
"Haircut, please," ordered' the pro-
fessor.
"Certainly," said the barber. "But
if you really want a haircut would
you mind taking off your drat first?"
The customer hurriedly removed his
hat. "am sorry," he apologized as he
looked around; "I didn't know there
was a lady present!"
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Mother (on train); "If you're net
a good boy I'll slap you."
Junior: "You do and I'll tell the
conductor how Old I really am."
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"I was outspoken at the meeting
of the Woman's Club today," remark-
ed Mrs. Saynt.
"Hm-m!" hmr-mod her husband. "Who
outs'poke you?"
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Teacher: "Who was the nation's
greatest inventor?" , •
Willie Wise: "Edison. He thought
,out the phonograph and the radio, "no
people would sit up all night and use
,,his electric light bulbs."
Address of the Common
People
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Your Majesties:
We, the ordinary, ,commonor-arden
people of Canada, desire to greet you.
We desire to welcome you to our
country—which is also your country
because we are your people: We 'de-
sire above all to assure you that we
know, and are grateful, that it is we,
and not the great and .mighty of this
land, whom you have come to, visit.
True, we shall not be presented to
you; ovagames--which are Jones and
Macdonald. and O'Higgins „and. Hebert
and Johanseen and Schneider and
Straus and Salvatore—will not be
registered in the official diary of your
tour nor an the tablets of your re-
tentive royal memory. Nevertheless
we are the people whom you are vis-
iting—We, and not the three hundred
guests with whom you will dine at
Rideau Hall or the five hundred at
Hart House. These we know have
been picked for you by the officials
according to the rules of the game.
We are not jealous of them, for we
know that you would much rather
have dined with us—or, since there
are rather too many of us, with a run -
of -the -mine sample of us; say a far-
mer or two (yes, we are a bit sorry
you are going to be slfort ton farm-
ers, they are still the backbone of
this country, even if the backbone is,
a bit bent with shouldering the na-
tional debt), a printer's foreman, an
automobile mechanic, a corner gro-
cer, a telephone switchboard opera-
tor, a professor of swine husbandry,
and the man"who mends the breaks
in the Niagara transmission, cables.
We wish you could go for 'a night
run with the- chap who drives the
fastest motor truck between London
and Toro'n'to. We wish you could•
have a lunch with the girl who does
the secretarial work for old ---of the
--Manufacturing Company; you will
meet him, but he won't tell you that
he couldn't run the show w'it'hout her
aselstance. We wish you could go
to the bottom of the ---Mine with
Old Charlie, who has slaved at least
forty men from pretty certain death
because he knows{ the tricks; of the
old hole -in -the -ground as a mother
knows the tricks of ''her baby son. We
wish You could take tea with the
young wife of a young doctor up in
the young Peace Rive teou.ntry. We
wish you could attend a meeting of
one of the little Canadian Clubs., say
in the Okanagan Valley, We think it
would be nice if you could spend a
day up in a fine -ranger's tower near
the B.C.-Alberta boundary, and just
look out over ten . thousand square
miles Of mountain forest with not a
mayor or a provincial Minister or a
telegraph operator—,and scarcely a
human being—nearer than twenty
merles away. And we should have li,k
ed you to drop in for ten minutes at
the meeting of the United Church La-
dies' Aid Society of —, Sask.
We know that it was not possible
that these 'things should be done,
though we know also that you would
have liked to have them done if it
had been possible; but we think they
would have helped you to do what
you are coming to Canada for, name-
ly to know and understand your Can-
adian people. What can they know
of Canada, who only official Canada
know? -
And so, Your M'ajes'ties, for the next
three weeks we resign you, not with-
out our deepest sympathy, into the
hands of official Canada, which will
see to it a that you meet only the Best
People—some of whom are very good
and; some not so good, but all of whom
can be relied upon not to drink out
of the finger -bowls nor 'to slap you on
the lack and call you "Old Pal."
For ourselves, we shall be content
to stand along your line of march and
wave our little flags and cheer our
little cheers—which collectively will
make quite a, good flag-waving and
quite a noisy cheering—or even, if we
are too far from, your line of march,
to wave flags mentally and to cheer
in imagination as we think of yar
passing by, it may be- two or three
hundred miles away, and yet nearer
to us than any king and queen of
Great Britain and of Canada has ever
been before.
And one other thing, Your Majes
ti'ee. We are emboldened to address
you in these respectful but unconven-
tional berms, 'because we believe that
both by your short royal experience
and by the long -developed instinct of
the great families to which you each
belong, you ane not uni'skibied in read-
'ing beneath the official veneer to the
solid timber of popular feeling that
lies 'below it. We believe that the
Cheers and the flag-waving of us, the
m•illiona of the Canadian people who
will line your path, will mean more
to you than the conversation of the
official dinner -parties and the resolu-
tions, loyal and .we trust grammati-
cal, of the legisilators and the alder-
men, th'e bankers and the beef -barons
and the 'boards' of trade.
Seen in tie
County Papers
Lighting Expert Here
Mr. T. L. Cook, Hydro
lighting expert, is '
days,, =kiny
electric li
stores, with a view to the
ing lighting problemes and securing
the most efficient service possible. He
is working in conjunction with the lo-
cal Public Utilities Commission, and
Commissioner Wigle introduced him
to merchants on the Square Thursday
morning.—Goderich Signal -Star. '
Business Changes Hands:
Mr. W. F. H. Price, who has suc-
cetsfully cohducted a grocery busi-
nese for the last 'eighteen years on
Elgin Avenue, has sold the business
to Mrs. Enslow Aitken, of bhe Huron
Road, who takes possession May 15_
Mr. Price has made no definite plane
for the future, but will celebrate his
freedom from the cares of business
by spending a holiday at Detroit.—
(;oderiola.- Signal -Star.
We are the people wbo will do the
fighting for you when your Crown
next needs to be defeated by force
of arms. We are the mothers who
bring up the next generation of your
Canadian peopi'e in love be your per-
sons and loyalty to your throne. We-
are the amen and women whose brain
and brawn keep the life of this your
Dornibllon going, so far as official Can-
ada *ill let us.
We are the people yore have come
to visit. We wean ens jou to your
beset.
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The Doll Parade
The doll parade sponsored by the,
Lions Club will be held on Saturday
and those participating are asked{ tot
meet at Court House Park at 2.15 in
the afternoon, The parade will com-
mence promptly. Three prizes will be -
awarded in each of the following ev-
ents, and candy will be given to an
children taking part: Best decorated.
tricycle or wagon; best dressed doll in,
arms; beet dressed doll is carriage;
best rag dell; best comic. The events
are for both boys and girls 10 years}•
of age and under. Prizes are on dis-
play in the windows of O. F. Carey
& Son Ltdi, on West St. In addition
to the Goderich Banal, Mr. Harold
Bogie, Scots piper, will take part in
the parade and the Lions• Club would
like to see a good turn -out tor 'the oc-
casion. The judging will be in charge
of Mrs. F. J. Little and other mem-
bers of Maple Leaf Chapter, LO.D,E.-
-Goderich Signal -Star.
Remodelling Building
Mr. Stan Sibtihorpe is this week re-
modelling the back end of his. store
building with the intention of build-
ing a garage in connection with the
store. Mr. Charlie Reihl is doing the
work.—BLyt'h. Standard.
Bush Fire Threatens Grand Bend •
Residents and cottagers at Grand
Bend spent an anxious few hours Sun-
day afternoon when a bush fine in the
Pinery fanned by a high wind from
the south-east, swept through the dry
underbrush towards the village. Sev-
eral hundred persons gathered at the
spot, many of them armed with shov-
els to do battle against flames
thla:t rapidly ate their y towards
are village. The "fire ,started several
miles south of Grand Bend when the
burning of a 'small brush pile Sunday
amornin'g got beyond control and
spread over several hundred acres_
Fire-fighters who endeavored) to fight
the flames; were driven from the bush
by the heat and the intense smoke.
The flames spread mostly along the
ground and odcaaionaliy went part
way,up a pine tree. Thick smoke fill-
ed the wooded area and curled high
into the air, ' At times between the
smoke wird the dust, visibility was cut
off along the highway. The fire was "
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