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DECEMBER 15, 1939.
'Huron Expositor
Established 1860
Keith McPhail McLean, Editor.
iablished at Seaforth, Ontario, ev-
e Thursday afternoon by McLean
Eros,
Subscription rates, $1.50 a year in
advance; foreign, $2.00 a year. Single
copies, 4 cents each.
SEAFORTH, Friday, December 15.
DoingTheir Best
These are perilous times. We are
at war and don't know much about
We don't know what Germany
may do, or try' to do. We don't know
what is in Russia's mind. We hope
the submarine menage has been ov-
ercome, and that the British block-
ade will prove a speedy success, but
we don't know much about that
either.
All of which tends to form anxiety
in people's minds and spread a feel-
ing of depression over the land. But
things are not as bad as they might
be, and often have been in other
wars. There is really no cause for
depression, and anything that light-
ens the shadow is doing a fine work
in our midst.
If you look about you, you will see
that every Main Street -in the Prov-
ince is fighting this feeling of war
depression, and instilling in every
mind the Christmas spirit instead.
- In this the Main Streets are doing
their part and doing it well too. It
is hard to keep the mind feeding on
war and rumors of war when every-
where one is faced with Christmas
trees, Christmas lights, Christmas
decorations and the prospect of good
Christmas cheer.
No doubt it causes the Main
Streets a lot of work and costs them
a ,lot of money as well, but if they
only knew how much sunshine they
were bringing into a cold dark world
we don't believe they world be-
grudge either. In fact, we don't be-
lieve they do anyway.
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Boards of Education
Boards of Education which com-
bine the functions of Public School
and Collegiate Institute Boards are
not, by any means, new in Ontario,
although they have largely existed in
the larger centres of population.
There are, however, some excep-
tions. Fergus, for instance, which is
the largest village in Canada, has
had a Board of Education for up-
wards of seventy years. Collingwood,
a good sized town, has had one for
thirty years, and there are many
other places of varying size and pop-
ulation who prefer that system of
directing their educational affairs.
The newest recruit to the combin-
ed Board system is our neighboring
town of Clinton, which at the munici-
pal elections of last week, voted by a
very substantial majority to form a
Board of Education to replace the
two former Boards which had 'exist-
ed.
Just why the two Board System of
governing came into existence is not
bard to visualize. In the early days
of settlement few villages and towns
had other than a public school, with
its attendant board of trustees, and
that was as far as education extend-
ed to the rank and file among the
youth of that day.
With changing times and large in-
creases in population, however, a
higher system of education was
deemed desirable, which led to the
fol matioxn' of high schools and Col-
legiate Institutes. Apparently, at
that time, it never occurred to the
ratepayers of these communities to
enlarge their public schools suffici-
ently to house this new system of
higher education. Rather was this
gher education looked upon as a
separate and distinct form of educa-
tion, which necessarily required ..not
only separate buildings, but separ-
ate boards to govern them. And it
has been that way ever since.
But there is another way of look-
ing at it, Why are public schools and
!Collegiate Institutes looked upon as
-ftwe distinct forms of education,
When as a, matter of fact, a boy or
g r ys edtteationJroxn the kindergar-
ten to matriculation is a single
irse 7 And if a single course, why
'cO;e Mty. of tWe separate school
t*o separate board's of
kere is this to contend
Cit tion of .an =alga-,
mated system of school buildings.
The two schools are already built and
in operation, and to discard them
and build a new school •which would
accommodate both, could only be
done at a prohibitive cost to the rate-
payers.
There is, however, no such ob-
stacle placed against a system of am-
algamation of the two school boards.
When two separate boards with two
separate overheads are each expend-
ing:the public money, there is bound
to be additional expense to the rate-
payers, an additional expense that is
not at all justified by the return it
brings.
But established customs are hard
to break. We complain of hard times
and high taxes, and very justly too,
but when /a community has an op.-
portunity`of reducing the taxes, and
at the same time improving the stan-
dtard of education, the possibility is
that personal propaganda combined
with indifference or the fear of mak-
ing a change, will defeat the ends of
progress every time.
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Make Baste Slowly
We noticed the other day that out
of a total of thirty-eight Norfolk
County residents, who had applied
for naturalization papers, twenty-
eight had been accepted as Canadian
citizens.
Of those accepted, eleven were
Hungarians, four Belgians, three
Polish, three Austrians, two Ruman-
ians, two Slovakians and one Ger-
man.
Canada, of course, has living room
for many millions of new citizens,
but just the same the test of citizen-
ship, particularly at this time, should
be a very severe one. We have too
many of the undesirable kind now
without adding to their number.
Nor •is there any objection to a
European born individual becoming
a Canadian citizen. But there are
European countries and European
countries, and the native born of
some have neither the mentality nor
the moral fibre that are found in the
native born of others.
At best, all are different from our
Anglo-Saxon and other first pion-
eers. So different, in fact, in their
ways of living, views, of govern-
ment and in their understanding of .
the responsibilities and duties of our
citizenship, that it often requires
years of residence in Canada before
they can, as it were, be born again.
But if a man comes to us from any
foreign country with no other inten-
tion than that of making this' his
Permanent home ; of !learning our
ways and abiding by our laws, it is
only right that he should be granted
citizenship. That is the kind we wel-
come, but, unfortunately in the past,
we have welcomed far too many of
another kind.
Fortunately the granting of citi-
zenship is not a political privilege,
but Iies solely in the hands of the
Canadian Judiciary, and Canadian
Judges are very impartial, independ-
ent and competent observers of hu-
man 'qualities and can, at this time,
be trusted to make haste slowly in
the matter of adding to our popula-
tion, foreign or otherwise.
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Could You Believe It ?
Looking about you to -day and see-
ing the thousands of cars that travel
our country roads, and the speed at
which they travel, could you believe
that just thirty-five years a g o
an automobile on a country road
was just as much condemned and un-
popular as a horse and buggy with
or without a light at night, is on our
roads to -day?
But, nevertheless, that was the.
situation, and was a situation which
called forth endless discussion and
condemnation at the hands of our
municipal and county councillors.
In fact the county council of Mid-
dlesex went so far as to pass a un-
anitnous resolution to petition the
Ontario Legislature to amend the
Act which regulated the speed of
automobiles on township roads so as
to give county councils the power of
settling such spend limits.
One councillor gaid that the high
rate of speed at which automobiles
were run --they were not just cars
then --was exceedingly dangerous.
That although they were not allow-
ed to run in London and other cities
at a greater speed than ten miles an
hour, and the Act fixed the speed at
fifteen miles in the country, they of-
ten went at double that speed.
Another councillor went so far as
Years Agone
hitea ve:leg items picked front
The Expositor of fat,, mad
twenty -Arne rears ago.
'From The Huron Expositor
December 25, 1914
The American Road ,Machine Co.,
of Godenich, has received an order
from the Government for over a hun-
dred army Wagons The order will
total about $15,000.
The new Salvation Army Barracks
in Seaforth eras formerly opened on
Sunday last. The cost was about
$2,500 and we understand the whole
has been phid. The halo' was filled to
capacity. Mr. James Beattie presid-
ed and the various churches in town
were represented, while Revs. Brown,
Larkin and Barber occupied seats on
the platform.
M. Matthew Thompson, of Hen-
sali, was in town a few days, ago and
has jest returned from Scotland,
where he had spent the summer. He
says there is less excitement and
tallk about the war in Scotland than
in Candie
Mr. Thos. Pierce, of McKillop, was
kicked by one of ids cows on Mon-
day and .had his leg broken.
In the doll contest for the large
and beautiful doll offered by Mr, Mil-
ton Ortwein at . Hensall, for the one
having the most votes, the little
daughter of Mr. Charles Farquhar, of
HiIIsgreen, was the winner, craving
30,000. The s'econri was Mr. Dioinde's
daughter and Dr, Malloy's daughter
was third.
At a recent meeting of Court Sher-
wood Ancient Order of Forresters in
Seaforth, the following nnen ibers were
elected to office for the current year:
W. D. Hogg, Chief Ranger; J. T. Fell,
Sub -Chief Ranger; Ed. Daley, treas.;
E. L. Box, secretary; G. Fraser, Sen-
ior Warden); A. Stobie, Junior War-
den; George Reeves, Senior Beedle;
A Daley, Junior BeedIe; Dr. J. G.
Scott, Court Physician.
On cine day last week the tax col-
lector in Brussels took in over $6,-
000. There was only $330 left to col-
lect.
The boys of Clinton are giving a
big ten -cent show in the Town Hall,
in that town on• Christmas night.
Howick township had the distinc-
tion of giving more produce than
any other township in the county and
with considerable less expense.
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From The Huron Expositor
December 20, 4889
A meeting was held in Duff's
Church, McKillop, on Friday to es-
tablish a branch of the Woman's For-
eign Mission Society. Mrs. George
.Hableirk was elected' president of this
branch. Mos. T. Flair, of Clinton, con-
ducted the meeting.
Mr. Hugh Ross, of the Leadbury
Line, shipped a car load of very line
Iambs to Buffalo last week.
The Grand, Trunk Railway Com-
pany is putting in a fine new bridge
about three-quarters of a mile south
of-Henselt.
Mr. and .Mrs. William Muir, . of 'Os-
borne, have moved to near Oil
Springs in Laanbton County. They
will be much. massed and especially
Mr. Moir, from Carmel Church choir,
Hensall.
Mr. 1. Bowerman, of Exeter, was
enjoying a day's sport last Saturday
with this eon, C. Bowerman, teacher
of No. 8, Grey. They bagged a part-
ridge and ?oar rabbits.
Miss Lottie Lattimer, daughter • of
Ed. Latti•mer, who secured a first
class grade 'C' certificate last sum-
mer, has been engaged as assistant
teacher in Elora High School. Mr.
Harry Beattie has accepted a situa-
tion in the Brantfond Collegiate Insti-
tute. Mins Cecelia Calder, of Grey
Township; has secured a school in
the neighborhoods of Blyth for next
year.
Mr. D. D. Wilson entertained the
teachers of the Collegiate Institute
and the Board of Trustees at a social
supper at his residence .last Friday
evening in his usual 'hospitable and
open-hearted style.
Mr. Snaith, of the Broadfoot & Box
Furniture Company, left here Wed-
nesday for Brandon., where he takes
charge of the business there.
Mr, John Irwin has •purchased the
farm of Mr. S. Burrows on the 13th
Mr. Osborne, of Clinton, was lifting
board off a hand car the other day
when a bar of iron dropped on his
foot, breathing several bones.
to say that the only cure for
the automobile danger was
their total prohibition, be-
cause he did not believe it
was in the interests of the
public that they should be
allowed to run on the roads
promiscously. And another
expressed the firm belief
that automobileswere a
curse to the country and the
day would soon come when
they would be driven out of
existence.
Pretty strong language
that, but., not nearly as
strong as would be used to-
day against the man who
would limit his gait to fif-
teen miles an hour on our
country roads or against the
man who would tempt Prov-
idence
rovidence by driving along the
same roads at night, with a
horse and buggy.
Time has a way of effect-
ing changes, but in the last
thin years or so, there is
no, c ange so great as that
which has been effected in
the speed of transportation
on our country. roads.
Phil Osifer of
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• Lazy Meadows
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(By Harry. J. Boyle) • •
WINTER MORNING
What could be grander than a win-
ter morning? It's' true that a great
many folks grumble about the winter
and the fact that the county doesn't
keep the .. concession roadie open for
cars, but just the same they must en-
joy a morning such as this was.
There was a fine white blanket cov-
ering the bleakness of the earth and
shingled roof of the barn and topping
the stack in the barnyard, so that it
resembled a, monster toadstool out of
a fairy tale. Suchansuch, our Collie
pup, went romping down the laneway,
and with a burst of speed, sent the
gossipy odd bene fleeing from where
they had. been standing rather be-
wildered that "their scratching ground
was covered by a silken white cov-
er.
The air was clean and fresh and
the great blossoms' of white snow
that were tumbling down so lazily
grazed your cheek and half melting
slid off down to the ground. Smoke
frown the kitchen chimney went dodg-
ing slowly upward as if evading the
smothering fall ,f the snowflakes, A
slithering rush of snow toppled from
the barnyard gate estI opened it and
plumped down into the feathery bed
afforded by the snow blanket on the
ground.
Across the Big Meadow there came
loud and clear the strand of Neigh-
bor Higgins as he shouted instruc-
tions about feeding the .calves to his
hared want. Down the gully behind
his barn ran the younger boys, find-
ing the snow to the right constitu-
ency for ammunition they had a full
sized war already under way, and
their war whoops ,echoed and re-ech-
oed, a happy and glorious welcome
to the winter that may or may not
stay with us.
The wheelbarrow that I had care-
lessly left behind on the night before
was a weird looking contrivance cush-
ioned with snow. Grunter, the dis-
contented parker, as usual having
managed to escape her pen, was wan-
dering down around the far end of
the baanyard completely bewildered
by the snow that had covered her
favorite mud hole.
Tabby, our feline mouser, rose lux-
uriantly from her bed among a pile
of horse blankets as I opened the
door, hopped ,dbwa to the floor, yawn-
ed sleepily and arched her back for
the customary moaning scratching ex-
ercise. The horses stamped in their
stalls, the cattle moved restlessly
waiting for their rations. But it was
peaceful and comfortable as if even
the Stock sensed the quietening effect
on the earth that first real fall of
slow brings.
Then back to breakfast I went and
to the cozy kitchen. --where the slivery
sticks of hard'w'ood, that caused so
much muscular exertion to be pre-
pared and stowed away in the wood-
shed, were shedding out dry 'heat that
chases the chill of morning from my
bones. Then down the road from my
chair at the kitchen table, I sa'w that
first hearse and cutter, and actually
raced to the front door and threw it
open to hear the merry "jing jong"
of the first cutter bells of the year.
I can't understand why so many
people complain about winter. They
start in late fall worrying about how
soon the snow will come. When it
daIIies as it did this year then they
worry about winter edging Spring out
altogether. When 'winter actually
does come they worry about when
the roads will be blocked and start
wholesale agitation to have the coun-
ty plow out the concession roads.
Winter never was intended as a
time for grumbling. I believe it was
given to farmer folk in compensation
for their hard summer work. They
were to enjoy to the fullest the com-
panionsthip of arm -chair chats before
a blazing fire, sleigh' rides over vir-
gin white road's, pleasant parties with
the neighbors, the happiness of
Christmas time . . . and above all
that gentle peace that seems to des-
cend on the earth on the first morn-
ing when you awake to find snow
blanketing the ground,
:JUST A SMILE OR TWO
Some people's idea of having a
cus is making a show bf themsel
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cir-
ves.
'Va-
nes
and
Frew
"How do you afford such long
cations?"
"Easily. One month on the sa
and, eleven on the rocks."
"Movies are educational."
"Yes, I took my wife to one
she learned that she needed
dresses."
Son: "What is meant by the bone
of contention, Pop?"
Pop:, "I'd say it was the jaw bone,
son."
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Professor: "Give me the name of
the largest diamond?"
Student: "The ace."
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"Is the head of the house in, son-
ny?"
"No, sir. There's nobody home
but Dad and mea"
Finland and Russia :
AContrast (By June A. Mayer)•
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Oa the desk before me lies a :•e-
celipted hotel hill from the Hot el
Kamp in Hels•ingfors. It recalls a
series of experiences which are fresh
in my memory today.
On my way to Finland, I crossed
the border from Leningrad — that
border where we were so thoroughly
searched both incoming and outgo•
ing, when a,Ll curtains were hastily
pulled down and rolled up, mirrors
and pictures were taken fray the
wails, and cushion, seats as el] as
baggage were taken out and examin-
ed with minute care. The very trains
marked the difference between the
two countries. '.The Russian train
was antiquated and upholstered in
leather none too clean, but the same
class in the Finnish tnain had rest-
ful green 'plush and smelled fresh and
newly swept.
From a fair acquaintance with tare
two totalitarian nations, Germany and
Russia, I can say that the great dif-
ference between their system of
government and that of democracies
Ties in 'their lack of consumers'
goods. • They promise, of course, more
than can be obtained under less cen-
tralized economic control, but prac-
tical observation forces me to con-
clude that whatever their intentions,
totalitarian governments have Attie
time to devote to consumers' goods
because more pressing matters, suoh
as i'n'ternal control and, military needs,
persistently claim their energies.
The size of the Finns' Little coun-
try gives no indication of the shock-
ingly dds'pro,portionat.e level of pros-
perity which the visitor remarks be-
tween it and Russia, Russia has in-
calculable mineral wealth; Finland'
has only her trees'. Russia has fifty
times Finland's populatuon• available
for industrial work, yet the, striking
difference between the t*o neighbor-
ing countries is the far higher stand-
ard of living which has been d'evel'op-
ed in the smaller one.
The things' whish struilk me most
forcibly after my arrival in Helsin.g-
fors were, first, the country's name,
Suomi (swamp), for in Finland the.
name of Finn is used only in describ-
ing the people and their coin,- the
Finnmark; then the darkness, which
conies early, for at three in the af-
ternoon, dusk was already with Us
and the downtown.' Rights bad begun
to twinkle. But of all the changes
the most noticeable was the presence
of well-to-do ,pennons' of riper years.
Having just left Leningrad and Mos-
cow, where the only older folk I re-
called were a group of nondescripts
cleaning a Leningrad; tee -covered
street, rush browns in hand, Finland's
prosperous residents brought me
back to my senses. My world did
exlst after all! Here as in the Unit-
ed States, were many fine fur coats
'n the shop winches, and on the
streets •were matured, dignified men
and • women• wearing similar fur
ts,, or. • the men often a broad fur
collar, The Janie Tor coat Pod, seen
in Russia, aside from my own, was a
gray squirrel worn by an elaborately
dressed Negro woman's Mose ow.
,had missed the prosperous mtiddle-ag
ed class more than at first appeared
possible. The well-being of these sil-
very -haired Finnish people could not
be mistaken.
The shop windows along Nevsky
Prospect in Leningrad had made a
dreary impression upon me. Nearly
twenty years had gone by since the
Revol•utio'n, yet plate glass windows
on this main thoroughfare were still
cracked and mended with great iron
bolts, or boarded up from within. A
bloody revolution had occurred in
Helsingt'ors, boo, after th e World
War, yet no grins reminders were
visible now. In Moscow 1 had grown
used to the khaki serge Russian
blouses worn by party members. Its
hotels and streets had' a uniformed
unified air. Here in Hebssingfors that
uniformity had vanished and the
Finns were clad. In that freedom of
color which civilian dress permits.
The Hotel Kamp was th,e accepted
meeting place of HeIIsingfors' bls•i-
ness elite and many of these men
brought their wives in to luncheon.
In the dining room's center was a.
table crowded' with delicious hors
d'oeuvres and a five -course, highly ap-
petizing meal •was served for about
35 tents A,nnerican.. money, including
the tip. It was quite observable, in
the faces around me, that the upper
class in Finland has much Swedish
blood, a fact apparent, too, in their
habits and food, which are patterned.
after Sweden., a night's ride away ov-
er the Gulf of Bothnia, rather than
after adjacent Russia.
I walked around Heis'i.ngfors, down
to its wharves, saw the modern mus-
eum and gazed at the magnificent
new, red railway station, the forest
is Northern Europe, recently a tar-
get for Russian, bomber That evening
I talked with the manager of an
English, bank who confirmed my ob-
servantiong. Butter, eggs, Bax and rye
were abundant; food was cheap and
taxes were low becaus'•e the Finnish
Government, Idlre the Swedish, pur-
sues a wase policy concerning the de-
velopment of its nationally -owned tim-
ber forests, supplying, in some mea-
sure, its own income.
THE ALGONKIANS
The Algonkien peoples have inhab-
ited Eastern Canada for as far back
as we have been able to trace. They
were divided into the fallowing tribea
—Beothuk, Micmac, Malecite, Mont-
agnais, Naskapi, Oreer Aigonkin and
Ojibwa. Moat numerous, were .the,
Cree and Ojibwa who together may
have numbered 50,000. The Beothuk
of Newfoundland, who numbered only
about 500, were exterminated early
iw the 19th century.
The Micnnacs were located in the'
Maritime Provinces, the Naskapis.
north of the Gulf of St. Lawrence,.
while the territory of the Algonkins
was north of the Ottawa River, west
of the St. Maurice. The Montagnais
and the Mabeoites were east of the
St. Maurice, the former to the north.
and the latter to the south. West of
the Algoakians axed to the north of
Lake Superior, all the way to Lake:
Winnipeg dwelt the Ojibwas, while to,
the, worth of all these tribes were the
Crees, &tretchaxig not tlr until they met
the Eskimos. In short the Algon-
kians inhabited all the uplands of
Eastern Canada from Lake Wiunipeg.
to the Atlantic. They were often
called the Birch -Bark Indians.
Some scholars maintain that the
Algonkians were of partly white des-
cent andi that they entered America.
from Northeastern Asia long before
most of the Indians of the New
World. However, during the last four.
centuries they have intermarried ex-
tensively with French and British.
colorists, se it is difficult to tell ex-
actly what they looked like prior to,
European settlement. It is conject-
ured that they were taller and slight-
er than the Iroquoian tribes. The
earliest artists give them a very Eur-
opean -like appearance, so that their
complexions must have been quite'
fair.
The A•Lgonitians did not cultivate
the soil; they were skilful hunters -
They we're continually on the move
and their dwellings were portable -
wigwams, domed and conical, cover-
ed with skin, bark or • rush mats -
Taney were often short of food in win-
ter; at times whole families died or
starvation. Their favourite food was,
the flesh of the moose, For fishing:
they used lines with bone_ hooks,
wooden spears with bone hooks, nets
of nettle fibre, and wicker traps. They
did night fishing with torches blaz-
ing in the bows of their canoes, Very
few tools were needed.
From the Algonskilens we learned-
the use of snowshoes and other to-
boggans; their birch bark canoes.,
were the models for our canoes. The
Ojibwa canoe, with its rounded bow
and stern, was the most graceful.
Every Algonkian tribe consisted of
a number of small •band's, each of
which occupied a definite Minting ter-
ritory. Neither the tribe . nor the
band recognized a real chief. At ir-
regular intervals' the bands united irr,
festival. They had no enemies ex-
cept the Iroquois south of the St.
Law'i•en.ce. They believed in a Great.
Spirit, but deeming him too remote•
to trouble greatly about human af-
fairs, they generally pinned their
faith to Iessetr deities, to the spirits
of nature—the sun, points of the cora-
1 pass, mother earth and *there—ani.
_ I to an even greater extent, to the -
sprats of birds and animals Every
hunter carried with him a charm_.
There was only one religious organ-
ization, the Grand Medicine Society
of the Ojibwa.
Three centuries ago all the ALgon-
i kian peoples decorated their clothing
with porcupine -quill or moose -'hair
embroidery, but this disappeared
rapidly in favour of silk -work and.
bead -work.
The next day I rode the railroad
to Abo where I hoaxed a thousand -ton
steamer for Stooleholm•. The Finnish
customs, on. leaving were absurdly
perfunctory in contrast to Russia's
severe ones. We passed through a
turagahe and no one examined our
bags.
When I registered at the Hotel
Syljan in Rattvik, North Sweden, I
was placed at a table with another,,
American woman, whose home was
in Helsi,ngfors.. We talked a goods bit
about the Finns and she told me
how dleslighted ,her family was to
bare been transferred to this coun-
try up north, where they could share
Seen in the
County Papers
New Frigidaire Counter
Mr. Harvey 'McCallurw has instalied'
a new Fzigidabre meat counter in his
butcher shop, which adds greatly to
the appearance of the place, and w111L
be a service to the public. Mr. Mc-
Callu.m will be in a still better posi-
tion than ever to serve the publics
with good meats—Myth Standard.
Fifty Years Married
Comsgratiullations were extended tee
Mr. anal Mrs. Thomas FL Cook on
Tuesday on the occas'i'on. of 'their 50th
wedding anniversary. Mr. and Mrs.
Cook were married in Clinton on De-
oemtber - 5, 1889, by Rev. J. Living-
stone in the presence of Joshua Cook.
and Mary Miller. They have con -
tinned to live in Clinton and. have ex-
perienced their ehaare of the ups and -
downs i,n life do the time that has
elapsed, but continue young in. spirit-
and
piritand enjoy fairly good health.—Blyth..
Standard,
Red Cross Shipment
imports from the local headquar-
ters of the Red Cross Society reveal
the fact that the lad'l'es of Exeter and
district here not been idle shoe this
organization • was ion ed+, Already
the society have shipped 150 pairs • of
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in the Finns' :happy' and highly com-
fortable mode of. living. Alli my •sub-
sequent contacts deepened these or-
iginal impressions that the Finns, in
their economic development, closely,
resembled the Swedes. Now when I
read of the Russians warring upon
their land, I ask myself if it can be
possible that in this enlightened. era
the brave and progressive Firms can
be forced back again by the domina-
tion of a s'tro'nger and less advanced
nation, Into political' dependence and.
a ni eh lower standard of Mving.
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