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uron Expositor'
Established 1860
ett. 1VicPhail McLean, Editor.
Wished at at Seafortli, Ontario, ev-
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+;AFORTI , Friday, February .9th
Open. Roads in Winter
The severity of the weather • and
the depth of snow in this district this
winter, has no doubt ' had a good deal
ito do with making the question of
4ening all country roads for motor
traffic, a live and general topic of
conversation these days.
Five 'years ago, to have advocated
an open road policy, would have.been
rooked upon as impracticable idiocy,
not to mention the expense angle.
But five years ago is not to -day.
._'To -any the ,open road policy has. al-
ready taken form, and as far as
,county roads are concerned, is al-
. ready in operation 'and the ;reason of
the change is in evidence On • every
Mand; -
To -day the' farmer has not a.driv-
ing horse and no harness to put on it
if he had. Neither has he a cutter.
Pis heavy horses are not accustomed
to the road and he dislikes to expose
them to the many dangers they would
run by using therm there.
There is no teaming to do because.
all the teaming is done by car or
truck, and when the concession road
is blocked to these vehicles, the farm-
er is tied un tight. He does not like
that, and what is more, he cannot
.afford` to like it if lie did. With open
county roads the farmers bordering
on those roads have a great advant-
age over those living on the conces-
sion roads. The 'concession farmer
does not like that either. And why
lould he, when he •helps -to -pay for
:keeping the other fellows road open?,
And then there is the great ques-
tion of expense. But expense has
not kept the cars and trucks off the
' farms, . nor is ,it going to keep the.
plows off the concession roads. As
a matter of fact the cry of • expense
- SOMething of a bogey: Viewed -as -
a ,total, it iodks , pronibltive, but
spread it round a bit, and it almost
vanishes.
This fact was brought home to us
by a statement contained in the
County Engineer's report to County
Council at the 'recent session, to the
effect that if the county was to
spend six thousanddollars on keep-
ing the oads open for motor traffic
on top of what was ordinarily spent
on keeping them open for horse ve-
hicles, the cost to an ordinary hun-
dred acre farm would be twenty-six
cents. ,
Is there a car owning farmer who
would not be willing to .pay twenty-
six cents for the privilege of having
an open` road all winter long? A
few, perhaps, but not many, and how
many farmers who have braved the,
blocked concessions with horse and.
cutter or team and sleigh, that have
not been forced to part with a good
ileal more than twenty-six cents by
way of repairs to harness or injury
to their horses?
As far as we can learn it would
cost a township in the neighborhood
of "4:,000 to provide equiprlent for
'keeping all roads ploughed in winter.
That equipment, however, would
serve a double purpose. The motive
part could be used as• a power grader
in the summer time, and a plow could
be attached for winter use. ' Power
-graders will appear on the budget of
every township in the immediate
future, so if eventually, why not
now?
Or there is another alternative.
The county, we understand, charges
two dollars and a half an hour for the
the use of their plows in towns and
we imagine the charge to townships
would be very similar. Even the end
of an eight hour day would••••see•-•a lot
of concessions free' 'of snow and the
i i ence of .a week's operations+ would
not prove prohibitive.
We may be a little optimistic, but
we do, not 'believe that - five years
in now there will be a street in
Or village ora road in any
Sricp that will not .be open to
or t o 11✓1111 winter long, no that.
evoke the weather or how
o falls
Not Proud Of Huron-
„
`uron„ In a recent editorial on the ;delib-
erations. of the Huron `County Coun-
cilrespecting reforestration the
Brantford Expositor says:
"The Huron County Council rec-
ently voted down a motion to place
$2,000 in, this year's estimates with
Which to inaugurate a long -advocat-
ed programme 'of reforestration.
Warden Feagan expressed disap-
pointment, In that he will be joined
by all who realize the definite and
high value and, in fact the' necessity
of reforestration, in Ontario. The
$2,000 staved will not mean more than
a few coppers in the pockets of Hur-
on ratepayers, where the same $2,000
spent on reforestration would have
been an investment that would have
yielded big dividends in the future.
The Hirron, Council is not to be con-
gratulated”.
It is sometimes good to see our-
selves as others see us, And in this
case the words of the Expositor are
both appropriate and timely. While
we have been patting ourselves. on
the back for this Measure ..of•'econ-
omy, the - opinion of an unbiased
world is that it is not at all proud of
Huron, nor are we even open for con-
gratulations.
But reforestration.. is not.. the only
point wherein the Huron council has
shown a lamentable lack of economic
foresight in the administration of
county affairs. It is generally ack-
nowledged that :Huron has the ' best
system of county roads in the ' Prov->
ince of Ontario . Deputation after
deputation has come to this county
to see our roads and to see the spec-
ifications from which they were built
and the manner of their building.
County after county has modelled
their roads on our pattern because
none other has been proven better,
more lasting or cheaper. -We have a
bituminous hard surfaced road north
of Seaforth that for smoothness and
durability has no superior and we
doubt if it has an equal, in Ontario.
We have a similar road from Bruce -
field to Bayfield and ,a number of
miles of similar road in other parts
- .of . the,. County.
We also have in Huron a -blituin-
inous hard surface road running
from Bayfield to Grand Bend on the
Bluewater Highway, that was built
by the Province of Ontario. This
part of the highway has been most
highly commended .by. every motor-
ist who has travelled it, and it is a
road very heavily travelled by Am-
erican as Well as Ontario motorists.
And yet, this highway is no srno.other
no better built than our own hard
-surfaced roads, while its cost to Hur-
on ratepayers, as well as to those in
other counties, was”' three times as.
great.
If any proof is needed in support
'of these -statements, we would point
to the fact that the Ontario Depart-
ment of Highways has in contempla-
tion the immediate construction of
six hundred miles of bituminous
hard surfaced highway to be built
from the specifidatidns prepared by
the Huron County Engineer, and
from which our own county reads
were constructed.
One would naturally think then,
that an engineer possessing the abil-
ity and the capacity to save the rate-
payers two-thirds of the cost of what
other ratepayers in other counties
are paying for similar transportat-
ion facilities would receive the rec-
ognition as well as, the solid support
and backing of an, economy, minded
County Council.
Judging, however, from a perusal
of the proceedings of the recent ses-
sion of County Council, this is not the
case at all. In fact when a. motion
was made to restore the salary of the
County Engineer to what it was
when he was' engaged by the county
something over fifteen years ago
the move was bitterly fought until
a -compromise was reached and the
salary was placed some three hund-
red dollars below that figure.
We noticed in this case, however,
that the Warden did not express dis-
appointment as .he did in the (fatter
of reforestration. App=arently, he is
more concerned about the tax bur-
dens of _. -lti"tare---generations than
those of the present:
There is . another department of
Huron Can ity faffairs that merits
F\
ears Agorae
Intereetiing items Picked From
The Huron Expositor of Fifty and
Twenty-five Years Ago.
From The Huron Expositor
February 12; 1915
A log was brought into Pordwich
mill Tett week which measured 1Q40
feet.
Weans. O. Oast. weight, F. Gainey,
F. Brown, and 'F- Prest, left Londese
boro, last week for London where they
went into training for the third Cana-
dian Oont1gent.
A very pleasant evening was spent
February' 1st im Varsity stadium rink
Toronto, it being the arenniou of the
graduates of the Seaforth Collegiate
Institute, Among those 'present were,
Miss M. Cowan, Miss Mary Cowan,
Misty Florence Knight, Miss Jean
Carswell, Misr Mary Habkirk, Miss
Helen Larkin, Miss 1r,. Laidlaw, Miss
M, Johnstone; Miss Pearl Ross. The
gentlemen present were Mesmer': Gor-
don Ganld, John Dickson, Jamee Dick-
son, Arch. Dickson, J. A. Mahoa, W.
G. Str ng, N. Trucenner, A. Suremus, J.
Watt, M. Maher, G:" Stephenson, E.
Rivera, B. Scott, R. Scott, Fred.' Latakia,
11. L. Donrance, A. Archabald, A. J'ahn-
stop, R.Geiger, B. Kerr. Mrs.
Pangman and Miss Dickson: acted as -
patronesses.
Lyle Hill, of Brueefiield who has'
been taking a course at the O. A. C.
Guelph, has, enlisted for the army and:
left on Monday for Toronto for train-
ing.
The following 'list of those who have
run hotels in Seaforth during. the last
fifty yearn has •been 'furnished us by
Mr. Thomas Stephens of the Queen's
hotel. Tiros. Downey, A. Mcle non,
R. Carmichael, Thou,. Knox, R. L,
Sharp, Thos. Foster, Wm. Houghton,
James Welsh, James McBride, John
McBride, R. Richardson; Sohn Currie,
David Currie, A_ Mcpeod, John Murry,
Patrick Murray, Simon Powell, Jobe
Bmigham; • A. Lancaster, A. Montgom-
ery, , FL, Hunner) ,1V J,.:,,:Ohambers, James
Foster, R. Dennie, R. P. Lloyd, C.
Dunlop, -P. McCallum, Wmm, Pinkney,
Jas. Weitz, Wms Simpson:, R. Ritchie,
Wm. Hawksha,w, R. Devereaux, E.
Dawson, Peter Markle, James Ross,
Jast, White, John) Carroll, Robt. Hays,
M. Purcell, A. Davidson, J. Ceniplbel•1,
W.m,. Hergott, R. Roach, C. Wolper, 3.
Bowden, - •J. Dopp, 'Themes Stephens,
11 Ritchie, Heady Beoe., O'Leary,
F. Kling, W. Andrew's, A. Kling, Jno.
Miller, War, Flannigan, J. McClinclhey,
A. Strong, T. Pigukney, C. Broad,Soot,
A. McLennan, J. Dick, F. Shanley,
Ellie„and Kain, F. Carlon„ IL P. Ken
nedy,. Henderson end DeLace, H.
Carno+chan, J. Hamilton, J. Fitzpatrick.
L. Weir, James Mutely.
Five !hundred acres of flak sail in
the melgh'b,orhood of the mills ' at
Zurich will be leased for a season at
a ,rental of $10.00 per acre,' the owners
to do the plowg and cultivating only,
the mall owners ,doing the balance of
the' work.'
,Mr. William Wes4 catt of Usborne
has pur�s,ed a house en Hiffea- St. in
fnom Ma Daniel Woodts of Exeter.
The names, of the winners in the
recent bonspiel at London, from Hen -
pall,.. are Messrs. Jorn Steacy, Alfred
Taylor, George Joynt, and Charles A.
MMDoneli, skip.
•
From The Huron Expositor
February 14, 1890
Mr. South has sold:"hits, farm in the
TowaStrip of Hay to Mr. Wm. Calweli
for $121)0, Mr. Soldate has purchased a
(Continued on Page 3)
lar attention. The Hur-
on County Treasurer,
might be referred to as an-
other prophet who is not
without honor, save in his
own county. However he is
recognized as one of the
most able financial men oc-
cupying similar positions in
the Province. - His methods
and advice have repeatedly
been sought by municipali-
ties in and out of the Goon=
ty, as well as by financial
officials in other counties of
Ontario.
During his term of office
he has brought order out of.
chaos and built un a smooth
running financial machine
that so ably administers
Huron's financial affairs
that even an economy coun-
cil is abundantly pleased and
satisfied.
In this case too, one would
naturally think that , Huron
County, above all counties,
would recognize these things
That instead of paying him
the salary of a minor county
official it Would pay him a
a salary in keeping with the
importance and responsibili-
ties of his office and that
would only be a proportion
of what he Saves the county
in dollars and cents every
year.
In these two things as well
reforestration we join The
Brantford Expositor and
the rest of the outside bus -
hie -, world' in Saying "The
Huron Connell is not to be
e'ongratu1 "
®
Phil Os fexq yof •
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Iaazy A ea owe :•.
I►13+' Katie J. DWI,
What! Again
I "!had a letter this -Week- from a
lady to New York. She is a regular
sebscriber of thie paper and she flat-
tered:me by saying that thus column
of mine. was one of the first things,
sthe' reale. In the letter she says,
"Do write more about that baby. It
seems to me that nothing could be' of
more interest than Patricia Ann. Why
I've even got her picture in 'mg mind!
Do write more stories about her."
Somehow there seems'' to be a uni-
versal appeal to babies, It rather did
my heart good to be visiting recently
and having the piuvi'lege .of meeting a
eouti'med ok1 bachelor with whom
the word "senti•mentality" just. does -
nit seem to rhyme. Before leaving he
whispered to me, "By George, but I've
enjoyed hearing about that baby of
yours, and the • very first time I get
I'm going over to see), her."
Needless to say I'm tempted to
switch th'e theme of this column over
to that off babies and forget about the
farm doings,- but common sense has
!b en telling :me 'pe'ople would • get
ti ed of hearing me rave about this
new addition to the Gaiter th•ousehold.
There',s a story in every smile of
baby. Strange how each time that
Patricia Ann 'smiles it seems even
.more wonderful than the last time.
You detect that it looks 'more grown
up . . that she's developing the most
wonderful dimples.You even call for
Mrs; Phil to stop her industrious
mixing of batter to come over, floury
arms. and all, to see the baby smile.
She oom;plains a little about the fam-
ily nuisance, but: always comes Over
to peer Into the cradle at the newest
development in 1940 smiles.
Or take,- for instance, the times
yvthen you suddenly get tired of clean-
ing grain or some of 'the other 'menial
tasks and amble up to the house. Mrs.
Phil is busy . • the baby's good and
youl're warne.dI not to disturb cher:
"But ,just one tyny leek." You look!
Baby' smiles! You put your ,hat down
and venture a finger ill the neighbor-
hood of ,her chin. Baby chuckles! You
pull up a chair and start talking very
low. Then rembering the work, at -
ter several minutes, you ease away,
reach for the hat arid almost get to
the -door when Patricia Ann dli'scovers'
year absence anal let's forth a • clarioiu
oak, - It develops into your being ohm,
ed entirely or else ushered into the
task of amusing baby, who, as is us-
ual under such, circumstances, wants
to' really be amos'ad
Yes, ,there's a slteryi ie' the way she
chuokles, to herself . . plays with a
flimsy gew-g'aw of a rattle . , tries
to rail over In her eradle , ..d?seuvei•s-
for the first tine the fascination of
playing hide and seek with the growma-
ups . . pertly flips the- nipple" ,from
the corner of her mouth when )she's
simply tired of that same old diet 'of
prepared milk. `
In calmer ,times you even recall
the ,nights when you re, ire playedt' out
by the busy grind of daily work. -You
slither &into bed- with sin ache in every
bone, thankful for the warm comfort
of. the .seta sheets and pillow case . •
the luxuriant give to the mattress ,
and in a few seconds, go sliding off
down into that black abyss that is
sleep . . onlg to be awakened with a
start as the wailing sound of the baby
pierces your comforting ,, slee,p. Is,
sane fooling? Is she getting teeth? Is
she sick?. Try the hot water bottle on
her,.stormach? And as you struggle,
around in a half • coma, you wonder
in a irague sort of way if you were
ever a baby • yourself, forgetting that
it's been weeks since baby acted like
this.
You discover that there are other
babies i'n the world. You find your-
self leekin '. them over more intently,
and wondering why their smile is not
as fascinating as that of your own!
There's a story in the way you
watch her at play and wonder what
she will be in the years to come, You
' try to puzzle_ o out the v tthefeatures will
develop .. • whrat she will look like -.
and so on.
No matter who they are, hard heart
or soft heart .. there's, magic in the
velvety touch of a baby's fingers that
seems to reach out and strike home
in a warm, pleasant way making you
forget the. harsh realities• and think
only of the pleasant side' of affairs.
It looks, folks, as if the baby., has
taken up some more of your time,' Do
you mind?
Shipped First App1CS •
TOronto,O ttardo.:-
The Editor, The Huron Expositor:
Dear Sir; I enclose a'M+oney Order,
for $3.00 re may subsori+ption,
1 noticed a, few months agoin your
paper an article dealing with the ex-
port of apples: to the British Isles,
You mentioned a number of ship-
pers of many years ago but I notice
you o'm,itted the ramie of my late 0
father, H. N. McTaggart, who had a
general store and' was, Postmaster of •
Chlselhurst and whom I beleive was,
the •first, exporteai of apples, from that
district and continued for many years
in that business,.
Yours very truly,
W. O. McTaggart
:JUSTA SMIIaE ORTWO:
"Your school report is disgrace-
ful, Bobby. Aren't you ashamed of
yourself?"
"Dad, you prom:i'sed me $5 if I
brought home a good report, and
mummy told me you couldn't .afford
it."
•
Bismarck was commissioned by the
Emtperor to diecorate with the Iran
Cross- a s'a'idiar--wtho .had shown. great
Presence of mind in a moment of ex-
treme. [dangjer. t''I lam authorized,"
said Bismarck, "to offer you 100 that -
'ars instead of the cross."
"Plerase sir, ,how much' is' the Cross
worth?" enquired the soldier.
"Three tlb,alers."
"Very well,- your highness, may - I
take the cross and 97 thaless."
Busnnazr* was so pleased by the
shrewdness of the reply that the sol-
dier received' both.
- Name (suspiciously): "What have
you been doing, Ellen?"
Ellen: "Rover's eater, my delly's
sdi'ppers, so I'v'e been punishing him."
Nurse; "How?
F111'en' '`I've been, to his kennel and
dtrdnked his milk." '
•
CoOwner: "1` fixed that knock in
my motor Myself."
Mechanfie:__ "How?" ,
, "Simple --I just loosened up one of
the mudguards!"
•
A teacher was impressing upon her
Chase the fact that .you ca not sub-
tract one thing from others, unless
they are of the '.same denominbtinii.
"For 'ins'tance," she said,, "we cannot
take two apples from three oranges."
Thee, .a bright bo.y said: -"But,
teacher, can't we take four apples
from two trees?"
® VanEg:ond's Apology ;
For" His Presende In
O
:MacKenzie's Camp
'(Introduction and Nates Profe•ssof
W. B. Kerr of the, ti riversity of Buf-
falo.) And reprinted t'rom the papers
anti' records, vol, XXXIII of the On-
tario Historical. Society. -
'.The claim of Anthony Van Egmond
to ,be remembered by the people of
Western Ontario rests on his leer -
vices during the settlement of the
Huron Tract, 1828.37. It is for an-
other reason, however, that his name
occurs in the histories of Upper Can-
ada. He fell out with the officials of
the. -Canada Company who s,ucceded-
Jelin Galt, joined the Reform Party
and canine to know W. L. MacKenzie.
As Van E'gmeed was. reputed to have
-h,aa; much military experience under
Napoleon, MacKenzie offered him the
command of the rebel force in Nov-
ember 1837. Van Egmond accepted
and arrived at Montgomery's„•in _the_
muorrrin:g of December 7th., 1837, too
late to be any real service to his.
friends., Ilis life has been sketched
by the author in a serlee of articles
in the Huron Expositor in the autumn
protesting against +certain . practices
• of the. Company and instructing Van
I':gn-end- t ----publish a circular about
hem; and some smart business 'let.-
1;ers,, The officials of the jail added
to these a letter from., Van Egmond to
the cosntmissioners •of the court of en-
quiry into the rebellion December 21,
1837, and the document which follows;
and so the Van Egmond packet in, 'the
Upper Canada Sundriesr was made up:•,.
In this s'ocum-ent, Van Egmond was
evidently trying, to frame -a story'
which would' -make him appear an in-
nocent
nnocent bystander in the Montgomery's
I evern affair. His version was, that he
was proceeding, to Toronto on bus-
iness when he was made prisoner by
MacKeniie's men and carried to their,
headquarters at Montgomery's. There
he 'advised Gibson and Lount to sur -
Fender. MacKenzie offered) ,hirci the
-com-nvan.d; but he refused it: Such a
version of course will not bear exam-
inations That MacKenzie should of-
fer the oomman,d .to a mere chance
prisoner of uncertain sympathies, is
of couns'e iwconceivable. In addition,
there isthe best of documentary evi-
dence tc refute Van Egmond. He
'himself sent a ld'tter to MacKenzie
which was
minted in the Constitution,
,September 27, 1837 and which speaks
the .language of revolt. "Our present
disease requires, the ,s'tr'angest of rem-
edies; we the patients need a radical
cure, aro palliatives,, humbugs).” James
Craig of Galt heard an inn -keeper
named Everitt say that Van Egmond
'had ,been• et his, ,home about Novem-
ber 27 ox 28 on a journey to Toronto,
had displayed letters from MacKeneie
and: declared the the province -.,would
have anlotlhler... government 'ahefore a
month' was out, (1) Joins Ralph;, MacK-
-enaieis associate, knew at the end of
Noye giber that Van Egmond, had eon
serbted to take the command and would
be in camp for the, advance do ' the
city on Deeen l»er 7111 (Dent Ii; 12-13,
19=20), 'The evidence of John ti,nfoot
and others during the trial, of Joh.rt
-M'ontgom'ery, (need by Dent II, 121-23,
+Proves...Grtat••Ven EgMen4 was with the
rebels voluntarily, took part in their
council and made the dispositions of
the her, for the 51dr ntsk " • •
The Stor'y of the kidnapping Cannot
be &eclapW. DM it Soothed -to Van
00611.1ted opt il)•
of 1931, I am bound to say that a
difficulty hes arisen, with regard to
Van Egmonrd'S career as a soldier. He
spoke of it often • himself and all his
oonutemmpararies io Upper Canada took
it for granted. But my 'enquiries- et
the war offices of France and Holland
have evoked no trace of him. It may
be that he served in 'ono of Napo'l-
eon's German contingents; bet I am
unable to solve the problem at ,present,
Van Emend was captured, by the
loyalists in the afternoon, of Decein-
her 7th, 1837, and taken to the city'
jail of Toronto, He was carrying a
bundle of Miele at the time. These
were taken from Brim, and examined.
Z1hey, erre now in the Upper Canada
Sundries, Public Arcth'ives of Canada,
in the v"olurcnt of Deeeniidier 1 to 22,
1837. For the meat part they are re-
eordig of Van Elgrmond's hostility to
the 'Canada Company and in particu-
lar to Thomas Mercer Jones', its coni-
nndssion'em of Graderiolll, There is 's;
draft of 'a letter to Jones. anal the let-
ter itself, dated November 21, 1837;
tWO drafts of a 'panipblet against the
Company, annals printed address to its
ifrobriete'er; an esbayw is praise: Of Galt
the tames of m; meriting Of the sett
tl ,l i
Huron in NoVeltliher 5887
, From California
The Editor, The Huron, Expositor:
Tarzana, California.
Dear Sir: Well, I see it is time to -
renew our subscription to your paper,
so enclosed you will find $2.00' to pay
for' same, and I want to thank you for
:sending the paper so promptly. If we
didn't get it we would amiss,- it. We
like to get all the newts,! and lately we
have been much, interested in your
weather reports after your beautiful
Autumn and. early winter. You have
been having a, ,real old fashioned win-
ter, which, as children we used to en-
joy, but it is quite a contrast to our
weather here just now, as we have
had .hardly any frost here this winter
so. far, and the geraniums, and otlher
flowering Plants are giiife fresh and:
blooming away in the garden and after
our .recent refreshing rains the whole
country side is nice and green too. It
has made the dry termlers happy for
their .gratin' crpps are growing ,S;(1, • ..... .
To give you an idea bow our weath-•
here with the weather in the East and,
'it seems• just now most of the South-
ern States, at least, Where it is "cold:
will try to give you a short discriptiont
of a short motor trip we took last
week. As we live lin the San. Fern -
arida,' Valley, a suberb, of Los Angeles,
we thought we would like a dray at the
sea -side, sic cn a beautiful sunny morn,
ing, we headed for the coast. Our'
_-road took us„up .throngth.'a law ridge
of mountains, and, as we were driv-
ing mostly facing the ."sun, all the
evergreen trees and shrubs in, the cane,
yons and; op the 'mountain sides were -
just glistening in the morning sun-
light,' and as we wound down out of
the hulls, we passed fields and fields,
of Poidee:tas, in fun 'bloom (you know"
that large reds Christmas flower which
we see .so much on Christmas card'e.
and decorations): It was a great sight
to see the law hills and valleys cover-
ed with the brilliant scarlet flowers
while around them the green of the
wobde, of course the season for Pain --
.b ttes as 'over, but . they: are._ sti1Lin-
bloom yet.' By, the way they grow"
these flowers for scale at Xmas time.. •
Well, from here we passed on and
soon arrived at the beach. I,'dlon't.
think ,we ever saw the ocean and• sky
so blue and clear. Looking out over
the glittering waves, on the horizon,
we could see several boats and across.
the bay' to the •east we could see) the
Cities of Sanl.te Monica and Venice,.
which •looke5 like dream cities int the
distance:- We parked our car on the
cliffs 'abbove,"but below us, people were
sunning themselves,in the sand. After -
speeding about three hours at the. sea-
side.,we started back on an. other road
through the mountains and,'headed for
borne, after having a. grand day of
rest.
Yours truly,
A. R. Oliver"'
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Seen in the
bounty Papers
Badly Lacerated When Struck ev Car
Airs. ' Valera Armstrong, of ,town_
while in London, Thursday of last
week was kn,o'cked down by an auto-
mobile while in the act of boarding
a street cam at the .corner of Rich-
mond and Dundas, streets. She re- „
ceived a nasty gash in the forehead
over the right eYe which required
fifteen stitches, to close" A lady •
driver was at the wheel of the car"
that -struck Mrs. Armstrong and her
head came in contact. With the radi-
ator. She was taken, to Victoria
Hospital where her wound, was dres-
sed. The following day she was•
able to return. home:—•Exeter Times
Advocate.
Enlists In Air Force
Mr. Robert Norris ,a mechanle at the
Ford garage has enlisted with the•
Aero Engine dills -fen of the Royal'
Canadian Air Force, He was in
London Saturday for hismedical ex-
amination and is new awaiting or-
ders to—report for duty.—Exeter
TimeS.Adivocate.
-..._.. The Cat Caine Back •
After an absence', of seven yearg
a cat has retUmned to the home of
Mr, Henry—Seem, Exeter North.
Seven years ago following the.,dle'atl
of Mr, Green's (mother, the oat left
the home going to the home of Mr.
next door. Following the death of
ant), Mrs. Ed. Coem3bes whir lived
Mrs. 'Coomber about three weeks ago,
the, cat again returned to its) former
hemielr•-Exeter Tlimee-Adrvocate,.
Honda Seeer'ely Scalded
Mess Meaner Jordan:, daughter of
Mn, and Mrs, Milton Jordon, numse-
1n}•traln)ing Id Stratford General'
i>tfepite,l, do still off date d's1ng,A•ttf an
•
. (�i (Clentianed any )E'er B);
te.
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