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SEAFORTB, Friday, July 12, 1940.
.Why Be Squamish About It?
The British Navy has engaged a
portion of the French Navy at Or-
an, in Algeria, sinking one battle-
ship, badly damaging a second, and
capturing scores of other units of all
kinds.
The same navy has taken over and
demobolized a large unit of the
French Navy at Alexandria, and in
all now has under its control about
two-thirds of the navy of France,
when : France was Britain's sworn
Ally.
With the betrayal and collapse of
France, what else could Britain do?
. And yet, there seems to be a some-
what general feeling in the ' world
that these acts of the British Navy
need some apology.
Germany and. Italy, ,of course, had
guaranteed in the Armistice that the
Frencrh Navy would not be used
against Britain, But what, use are
German and Italian guarantees?
Both countries also guaranteed that
the French Air !Force would not be
used for- the same purpose. But
French planes, manned by French
pilots, are now fighting on the Ger-
man side.
And t h e French Government,
headed .. by then Fascist General
Petah', is -grieved -and even horrified
at the action of the British Navy in
the face of the signed assurance of
the ' French government that { it
would not fight against her former
Ally. In the light of present day ev-
ents, what does the -assurance of the
French government amount to?
Then why any need of -apology?
Britain is fighting for her very ex-
istence, with her back to the wall,
against an utterly inhuman and ut-
terly unscrupulous foe. Why should
she be ' the least bit squamish about
fighting the devil with fire?
The real facts are that no action
of the British Navy since the war
began, and there are countless ac-
tions that have added to its renown,
has , been more vital, or has done
more to maintain and increase the
3noral of the • people of the British
-' Empire, than -its action in ' taking
over, by force where, necessary, of
the French, Navy, or the greater
part of it.
It has shown us that the British
Government can be tough. And we
need that .assurance: Better still it
leas shown both Germany and Italy'
,that it can and intends to be tough.
A;tl, judging from the squeals, that
are coming out of those countries,
the exposition of that toughness has
found its mark. It, has hurt.
Great Britain has both room and
cause to be tough., and she should
continue to practise along that line. ,
It is the only thing that the enemy '
can understand, will appreciate, or
ears.
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Ontario Is Going To Economize
We have the assurance of Hon.
Harry Nixon, Acting Premier of
Ontario, and one who commands a
great deal of confidence in the Prov-
ince, that the Government is going
to wield the axe on expenditures.:
That henceforth, or at least for the
'duration, spending is going to be cut
to the bone.
It is a welcome assurance to the
people of this Province and one that
has been overdue in finding expres-
sion. The recent Federal budget has
brought home to the people what
taxation is going to do. It ` is going
to make every person who earns two
dollars a day make a contribution to
the . tomi.nion Fxche'quer, for one
F'br another, itis goingto make
these two dollars -a d'a . citzens, men
ted: women .alike, very self conscious
:. �' c ialiis
'd vel' in uisit1ve about taxation
,
,
r
�•,�' . � y art going' to ex-
lestion d tax'mone yy, and
they ,never elan.-
ined it before.
-And the Arse pl'a'ce their will; , ook
wa
be at the expencditures ilw the
Depart inen s of the Ontarky Qq', 'ern -
Deni. Sind One cook at these apart-
ments wilt tell them a great deal. It
will tell them that every one of those
departments is IQPbly and in some
cases, triply overstaffed. That men
- and women are in many instances
being paid fairly 'large salaries for
work they never do, and that the
real work is hampered and cluttered
up by a maze of expensive ma-
chinery.
A. glaring instance ;of this ispoint-
ed out by Toronto Saturday Night,
when it explains that it takes . the
services of at least three able-bodied
men to sell a twelve -ounce bottle of
liquor in any Government store.
Simply because an unnecessary, im-
mensely complicated and expensive
system of liquor permits and record
books has been set up, and regard-
less of the fact that this system was
completely nullified when the single
permit system was put in forge some
years ago.
There is something like that in ev-
ery department, and it extends all
the way up the line from the door-
keeper to the chief clerk. •Perhaps
people were not so greatly interest-
ed before, but that personal. touch on
the two.. dollar pocket - is going to
change that.
Before; too,there was the ques-
tion . of employment. Why throw
these' people on relief ? But now the
situation is' entirely changed. If we
are going to keep this country Brit
ish, we have got to spend every dol-
lar we'Acan raise and more. To that
end registration and conscription of '
man power • and money has become
the Iaw.
Canada's industry and war effort
must be and will be geared up to the
place where it will provide work for
every able-bodied man and woman,
and that . time will be very soon'. -
Under the circumstances, Mr. Nix-
on is wise to take up this matter of
economy now, and he will be still
wiser if he is ruthless in his pruning,
where pruning is so glaringly need-
ed.'
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! Getting Near Home
Saturday night or early Sunday
morning two young girls between
the ages of seventeen and nineteen,
were instantly .. killed, three others
-about-the same age, are in hospitals,
very seriously injured, and two boys
of the same party, are less seriously
hurt.
.The.cause? Why seven young peo-
ple were travelling in one e it and
. doing something up in the seventies,
when something' happened and the
car hit a steel 'bridge south of the
village of Gorrie.
- Not only did the car hit the bridge,
but it wrecked it. And to buckle a
.steel bridge and drop one end of it
into the river is going some. Appar-
ently these children were going. Just
last Week The Expositor lamented
the death toll over the previous week
end, but Gorrie is getting so near
home to us that we can not help'from
repeating the warning.'
It is hardly fair to blame these
children, for they were just that,
and at the most dangerous age of
childhood too. The age that can not
be told—that knows it all.
Nor can the blamebe laid at the
door of the traffic police. They do
their best in an almost ,hopeless
cause. Where should the blame .be
laid?
Undoubtedly the blame falls back
on the home. On parental authority,
or the lamentable lack of it. • Seven-
teen year old boys and girls are not
in a position to buy their own cars.
They use and operate thecars of
their parents. Use and operate them
without restraint. That is the trou-
ble.
It is no excuse to say the parents
do not know. Do they ever try to
find out? It is not much more dif-
ficult to tell from the condition of a
car when it • returns from . one of
these midnight trips whether it has
been 'abused, than it was to tell when
a horse had been abused in the horse
and buggy days. And, let it be said,
parents attended to that matter, and
attended to it pretty thoroughly too.
But with the car it' seems toe
diff'ere'nt: Still every once in a whil
t.
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it
gets
a little nearer 'borne, Per-
haps suriie day it may caime a little
to near aih'd then, perhaps, we, will
learn—if it is not already late.
tpia+t ,`1"a9• litems Picked From
The trt nce' gxeesitor of Fifty, and
`:'Twenty kee Years Ago.'
From The Huron Expositor .
July 19, 1915
The annual Sunday stehooi picnic
in ga uz eotion with thie-•anati ensar'y
services of Elimville Church, was
held in the orchard. of Mr. Silas
Johns on Dominion. Day.
The following is a list from Sea -
forth who have passed. their Normal
School examinations: Evelyne Greig,
Vincent P. Murphy, Marguerite Wil -
hams.
The 21st annual tournament of the
Seaforth Lawn .. Bowling Club was
;held on the greenhere on Wednesday
and Thursday of Iast weer. It was
four o'•oloak on Friday mewing be-
fone,the last event was finiphed. The
trophy mlattah was won by W. G. Wil-
lis' rink composed of Dr. 11. H. Ross,
Postmaster Williams; J. Tartan and
W. G. Wtlis.
Mr. George Bell, -local agent for the
Maxwell automobile, recently.. dispos-
ed of, three nevi^ cars, the latest pur-
chas:re" • being Mr. Hugh Hamilton,
McKliicip; Mr•. Boyce, ' Stanley, and
Mr. Robert Smith, Seaforth.
Miss Edith Hunt has successfully
passed her Intermediate Toronto Oon-
se.rvatory musical examination. She
is a pupil of Miss Cora Gelb.
Mr. Milton Chesney, Goderich St.,
who has been on the staff of the Dun-
d•aa and Queen St. ,branch of the, Do-
minion Bank, Toronto, but who has
been home on sick leave, lteft on Mon-
day for Marmara, where he has been
promoted to teller.
Police, Magistrate Holmsted left on
Friday to spend a couple of weeks in
Parry Sound District with hie sister,
Mrs. G. ° Gouinlock, of Poronto.
The Brussels Post of last week
say': "Mrs. William James and.sons
have moved, to".Seaforth to 'join. thus -
band and father, who has taken a
position -in The Bell Machine Shop."
The body, of Robert S. Walker, who
was drowned , in British Columbia,
rotas • Pound rlecenntly and moved . to
Ashcroft, and buried made beside his
brother; John Walker, at Roxboro..
Mr. Ed. Davidson, of Leadbury, is
having lids barn reshingled.
Mr. A. S. McLean is here from
Grande Prairie, Peace River Distract.
Mr. Robert Garrow, of Melidlop,
delivered about 1;100 bushels of oats
to Mr. William . Cu -dm -ore, Seaforth,
for which he received, 50 Cents per
bushel.
Mass Christian Alma Oakes, a for-
mer Seafort1i girl, • and a graduate
nurse of St: Joseph's Hospital, Victor-
ia, B.C., has taken a position in, St.
Ann's • Hospital, Douglas,. Alaska'. •
W.h,i1e i'n Seaforth she made her home,
w' her grandfather, the late Thos.
yd.
Miss Gladys McQuarrie, who re-
cently graduated from the Stratford
Normal S'cihool, has • been engaged as
teacher in Monenieff public school for
the coming year.
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From The Huron Expositbr
July.18, 1890
Mr. 1). Johns, postmaster of Exe-
ter, has purchased' from the Canada
Oompany the park ground at Grand
Bend, and will•thave the same improv-
ed- and refitted for pi'tnicking purpos-
es. It is --situated at the rear of
Brenner's Hotel:
The brickwork •ef ' the new town
hall in Zurich.- was begun last week.
The cornerstone was laid by ,Mr,. F.
Hess, Reeve of the Township of Hay.
The vault contained a ..history of the.
,township read liy the Clerk, Mr. S.
J. Latta. and the following newspa-
'pers. The Huron ..Expositor Exeter
Times• Exeter Advocate, Daily Globe;
Daily Advertis *r, Free Press German
papers, "Berlin. Journal and Stratford
Colonist. ate M. Zeller, treasurer,
put in a copper Coin dated --i708:"
Mr. D. D. Wilson having purchased -
Mr. Thom
as' Govenlock's grain ware-
house, is having it removed and,splac-
ed on a stone foundation, adjoining
the oatmeal mill, and will keep it for
storing meal.
Miss M. E. McLean, teacher of the
infant class in the Presbyterian Sab-
bath school, entertained the little
folks, their parents and some friends,
at their annual picnic in Beattie's
Grove on Friday afternoon last.
Misses Jennie and Annie Sproat,
daughters of• Mr. John. Sproat, Tuck-
ersIDith, are off on a pleasure trip to
Manitoba and the" Northwest.
Rev. Mr:. Musgrove, of Duff's
Ohurch, McKillop, left on Thursday
g, to spend a nvo, nth's well-earned holi-
days in the vicinity of- Wiarton.. in
Bruce County. '
On Tuesday, evening last Captain
Thomas Jackson•, who resides on the
Goderich Road,. about two miles. from
Bayfield, met, with a very painful
accident. Hie Was adjusting the cut-
ting bar when the man moved the
bar and Mr. Jackson's little finger
was caught'between One of the blades
and a guard; and - the top was cut off
at the first joint.
Mr. Charles. Aitzel, manager of the
Cluff farm, recently purchased by Dr.
Coleman, has commenced a series of
extensive improvements. He i,s, hav-
ing the barn removed, enlarged and
Placed on a atone foundation. •
A very melancholy and fatal acci-
dent occurred on the 5th coai:Cession
of Stanley on Mosiday evening last by.
while a most prom'i'sing .young man
lost 'his life.. It seenee that Donald
Smith had been engaged planing An
the field with a, team of hot'tties. • He
quit work and was found lying sense. -
less with a wound in his head. He
died shortly after.
A n.urn berr ^ iif the friends of Mr. and
Mrs. Stanley Anderson, of Brussels,
asseml>'led, at their residence in that
place on Wedm.•esday evening of last
week to celebrate their w'oo'den wed-
ding. A most enjoyable timed washad
by all. "
The Ora.ngora:t n; Of Sotith Huron; and
snrrounxlibrat
ng mubdcip liti•eb eelebra
the ',MINI]; anniversary of the Battle
of the , Boyne art; C intuit on. Saturday
last. Headed blY" Mk A. M. TrodkI ' of
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bon, the pop
ular ; ,County
nty Mast
er
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a�' slaaLl�by� -ca tyMasier
• Jiexcarlef
a' )11i0I[i,llop, bdth,
mounted en gorgeously trapped stn.
_the procession Milircived •tihrough t-
P111101pai' htreefi •,audl;;;tom tar the
agricultural gt+cl'lirnkin.
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"I.NVEIW'FIDNS"
You bear a lot about inventors and
pltaquets for the men who have con-
.trilbwted the moat to .mankind. Take
for instance the -ladle, and, the elec-
tric light ands the telegraph . , . and
ho many more things. Let credit be
given to their originators . . but
Let us not forget tlha farmer. He,
too, IS a great hiventer . . . in a•
mild sora of way.
Necescity, of course, fosters the in-
genuity -of tete farmer. Take, for in,-
stance,
nstance, the average farm. The hinges
break ,on the henhouse door .
and every time anybody goes, to town
they forget to get a new Pair .
or that twenty-five Cents isn't handy,
so the farmer stalliee out some day at
the insistence of his wife end •reme-
diea the broken hinges. The._chances
are he takes, an old pair of •h,a.rness
lines, cute off six chunks about sev-
en or eight inches ,in length, and
then ,tasks them on, making a per-
fect . . well 'workable set of
,hinges. ,
Daily, the farmer works wonders
with wire and a palm of •pliers. He
patches everything, even to his over -
ales with a few well-turned loops, of
wire . . a deft twist here and
there and a set of harness, is nr,ade
to wear.: as good es new.
it has always " been a source of
wonder'tto m!e as he wlh'o might haye
invented the self -closer for the barn-
yard gate on Mrs. Phil's father's
place. Heaving ,along with two• pails
of milk, it's a source off annoyance to
have to set the pails down to latch a
gate so that a hog or a calf won',t
on a rampage around the front lawn.
This farmer inventor took a part of
a lis carded logging chain, threaded
it through an old hay fork pulley
mounted on a •snntall post and ,hung
,some scrap iron, on the end so that
the weight• of the ballash would ptt11
the gate Shut after him. It works
like a charm.
The Model T was always a great
toy for ,farmers to ,play around ,with.
Jack up a hind wheel, attach a pulley,
and those veterans( of. the open road
would do anything from sawing wood
to turning a grindtatone. -And, speak-
ing of `grindstones, do you remember
the weird attachmentsour glrand-
fa'tihers used to have for foot power
on a grindisirone? On one end they
mounted a sort • of saddle and then
(bad a.' Taddio tanr'au�,getuenrt wig ebY
you could pedal like a bicycle and
turn the grjpdtitone to raft- .heart's
content. That solved tine problem of
how to turn the sharpening device
when jail the, 'young Isthtavers were
packed away off to school.
Not all inventions, however, 'met
with full success.. They sometimes• ran
into unexpected difficulties. Back a
number of years ago, an old gentle-
man of the neighborhood who mis-
treated banks and whe kept bis mon-
ey tucked away in ,psis' mattress, be-
gan to be' fearful of bumglnra. Ae
the story goes he went to work" to
,plan. some way of foiling any burg-
lars who might attempt -to take his
bankroll. He, had a trusty old shot-
gun, but being unable to sit up all
night and guard ,the treasure-trove
in ,the mattress,' acoordingl"y rigged. a
contrivance to hold the shotgun on
the stairway, Froin this. he strung
a string so that if anyone opened
the door or' attempted to pry open
the window, -the Shotgun would ex-
plode with, a blasting "welcome."
Each night when he went to bed he
installed the cocked shotgun in his
patented tack on the staircase
and put the stringy up. One night
•there was a terrific explosion and
when he rushed downstaira•it was to
find the front door virtually blown
away and his pet cat dead. Pussy
had explored' the string with dire re-
•sulis. Of course, I suppose the merit
of the invention was that if it had
been a burglar' he' would Nave re-
ceived the. lead Poisoning dispensed
so unwittingly to the cat.
Now .that people are collecting ev-
erything that this generation has- pro-
duced and are seoording it for pose
terity, how about a coll•ectien of ev-
eryday inventions on the farm. I'.ve
only skimmed a very few from the
top , . there are millions of there.
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:JUSTASMILE OR TWO
"I have checked up almost '57 var-
ieties' of places for' a public speaker -
to park his hands," writes Dr. John
F.J Cowan, "In . pockets =-' trousers,
coat, vest; upper pockets•, lower,
rear; hung by thumbs or 'immersed';
.hooked in. vest armlioles:; clasped. a-
cross. t .,, .y ditto back; wadding
band:kerchi • and unwadding; clench-
ing lapels o.l c.et; pounding desk;
brushing hes, , slapping (camouflag-
ed) at flies; full -arm gesture, half -
arm, finger; pointing at audience;•
twisting mustaehe; finger-tips to-
gether uplifted; fumbling papers;
,pulling down vest; snapping, and,
when not otherwise emphasizing the
truth, sawing imaginary wood in the
air..' ::.....
"So Joe will make a fortune;" you
think?"
"Yes, he sells cellophane masks to
keep children's faces clean while
their mothers are getting 'ready to
take them visiting,"
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"I can 'hear your new radio set as
though it were in my room."
"Then would you, care to help me
pay offsome of the instalments?"
Smith bought a new car- that im-
pressed, his. friends favorably. One
day a .friend remarked:. "It's not "a
ibacielooking bus, old man.. What's
the most you ever gat out of it?"
"Seven times in one mile," answer-
ed Smith wearily.
;s New Budget Affects
Canada's Middle Class
Canadians awaited with anxiety,
and heard with considerable relief,
the first budget of the new war,
which was brought down in Parlia-
ment by Finance Minister Ralston on.
Monday of last' . week, according to
W. A. McKague writing in Toronto
Saturday Night. The tax increases
are not to be slighted, .but they fall
short of implementing some of the
fears 'which has been aroused by a
previous measure providing for the
conscription of men and money.. In
fact they permit us to except per-
haps too •placidly. a situation Which
is very grave. If any .general criti-
cism i5 due, it is to the effect that
the government is not adhering to
the "pay" -as -wee -go" policy, for which
it declared so strongly at the begin-
ning :of the war. ,
The real' situation is indicated by
the figures of total, spending, and the
offsetting revenue. For the tfiseai
year ended March, 1940, during less
than seven months, of which we were
at wear, total expenditures were $681
millions, and revenues were $562 mil-
lions, leaving a deficit of approxi-
mately $118 millions.. For; the Cur-
rent fiscal year expenditures are esti-
mated at $1,148 millions, and rev-
enues at $760 millions., This would
leave a deficit of about $400 millions.
But it iso hinted that the entire
story of expenditure is not yet in-
cluded, and in view of other commit-
ments Jar war purposes, the Minis-
ter said it would not be safe to count
.on an over-all • deficit of less than
from $550 millions to , $600 mi]lions',
and possibly reaching $700 millions-.
As the new taxes are computed to
furnish• .'only $110 millions in the
-current year and possibly as much
as $280 millions nen year, the pay -
'as -we -go declaration has been some-
what embarrassing. This is not nec-
essarily a Briticism of the budget.
Events ,have moved beyond expecta=
tions. Possibly the .governme2int now
finds revenues 'so hopelessly outstrip-
ped by"' expenditures that it can do
no more than give taxes a stiff jolt
upwards, and trust to borrowing in-
genuity for .the balance. •Neverthe-`
less this,, does leave us with a bor-
rowing program of the first magni-
tude, int view of der fact that this
wa' is not creating 'wide margins of
profit nor large new incomes, but ra-
ther tends to leave .the .average efti-
zen with less Savings' margin( than
formerly. And it also anent( ulatek a
debt , probllam to hatunt un. With the
fear of a capital levy^ or other diraa.tic
meaetir^ When the war is tier.
Aeeorddngiy, we moist aecbpt the
new taxes ss' modterate., -They a,re
anuch along, the lines, and well with-
in the range, of the forecasts'. They
are notable almost as much fof what
they omit, as for what they levy.
Broadly speaking; the taxes aim at
the middle cias•ses. This was inevit-
able, `,since the possibilities in the
higher ranges of income tax has been
-practically exhausted. They curtail
luxuries, especially the motor car and
tobaccos. That was also expected,
since the tax on liquor had reached
the point of .diminishing returns. And
they make a drive against imports
from the United States, which is in
accord with the exigencies ofour
trade balance.
' .It is not the purpose of this article
to review all the changes, which will
be well "known by the time this is in
print, but rather to comment On. the
principal items. Of these, the income
tax is of widest interest. The lower-
ing of exemptions to •$750 for a single
person and $1500 for a married cou-
-ple• is in order, since no one can com-
plain about these. amounts as a mini-
mum standard sof living; apparently
there is no change• in the dependent's
exemption of $400, which. is also ade-
quate. Above the exemption,, the tax
starts at 6 per cent, which is double
the former rate' of `3- per cent, but
granting that the exemptions are en-
ough to live on, then it could have
been made 10 per cent, or 15 per cent;
orl kick. even 'higher, and no one Could
Meanwhile, whatever is left to us,
over and above the exemptions, is
s'o much available for comforts and
luxuries, and for savings, to finance
the 'loans that will be an even'bigger
factor in the program of war finam'ce
than are the new taxes. In the high-
er brackets of a intone , the general
rate is advanced from 56 per cent . to -
no less than 78 per cent. But on
top of the 56 per cent,"there already
were a surtax on investment income,
a five per cent additional tax, and a
further war surtax, the net. result of
Web t• was s'onrewhat complicated
.Over and above all. these Domifrion
taxes, however, there are levies by
Certain provinces, which in thecase
of Ontario was 50 per Cent of the
Dominion. rate, . after the Dominion.
tag had been ailodt*ed as a deduction?
Now it is obvious that the provi ices
will fed their income' tax field s,ome-
%hat eurtalled, after the Donal/akin
has taisen an increased slice. The to-
tal lead .alreadiy 11un so .curse to -1.00
per "d'40;t, that the,juke was nearly
all extracted, Thafs whyit wae�
Said, earlier In this article; ,t"hat the
middle 'cfesses .,weree the ones, Chief•
(Contintaed on Page 7)
aper
injured By Cru&iher
While working on, the crusher for
Huliett Towwsbip which wasp station-
ed in C gtwrigllit's pit 1'aa�t Saturday
afternoon, Mr. Denny Ballahail Chad
the misfortune to get caught on a.
sba+ft, n'ciI' as a Iiit wast. fatkona t
o
Gl�iutou. RcSSPital: wl>i,:•e +be -uriderw nt
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treatment .for various bruises and
cubs. Mr. Hia1 chants! - braces !first
wore cangi t . and almost immediately
his clothing 'was, entangled, the top
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part of which were .tour, off. Other
men working at the scene -rushed to
hie rescue, and it was at first feared
that ,Be was seriously injured.. Since
Saturday he has been able to return
home, and is now reported as resting.
oomfor•tablete--Blyth Standard.
Surveyors Move On To Port Albert
Resident Engineer Whitely and hie
gang of surveyors who staked out
Sky Harbor airport preparatory to the
commencement of construction Work,
moved op,, to the Port Albert site on
Monday morning and began the work
of staking thinteen miles of lines
marking the airporlt boundaries, run-
ways and clearances. Today , four
"property surveyors" from the C.N.R.
lands] 'purchasing department, Toron-
to, arrived an Goderich and are busy
staking out the acreage of farms, or
parts of farms, which are,,to be pur-
chased' for the project. It is. under-
stood that farmers will have time to
take off their crone. There are somne
splendid fiel'dls of wheat, ;now as high
as the armpits. Surveyors' stakes
are being driven well into the ground
and will not be disturbed by cutting.
One farmer has begun removing the
contents of his barn, in preparation
for tearing it down,.-Goderich Signal -
St.
Dies in Sacramento, �Cai.
Word bas Sac -
been received of the
death on Satunday, June 15th, in Sac-
ramento, �alifor ria, Iof Matt Levy,:
son of Mr. and Mrs. James Levy, of
town: . There survives his wife, Min-
nie L• evy, • one son, Donald, of Detroit,
Mich.; two brothers., • Norman , and
Jack, of Detroit; :two sisters, Mrs.
Charles, Mayhew, of Sarnia, and Miss
Lucy Levy of towns -Clinton News --
Record.
Celebrates -79th Birthday
Mrs. T. A. Moon, of Londesboro,
celebrated her seventhy-ninta birth-
day, one day 'lash week. A bountiful
Iunch was served) at six o'clock -by
Mrs. Moon's daughter, ,3yfrs.. Sloan.
Mrs, Robert' Caldwell, who presided
at the head of the table, poured the
tea. Mrs. Moon received many lovely
gifts from relatives and friends..
Those present numbered more than
twenty. 'Mrs. Moon hada large birth-
day oakeadorned with seven, candies
Which Mrs. Moon blew out. -Clinton
News, -Record.
Given Send Off
A farewell Party was held for Ar-
'thur ,`Furness and Warnoldt Finley( on
Friday evening at the home of the'
latter's parents., Mr, and Mrs. Alonza
Finley. They both returned to Camp'
Bordlein after spending a few days''
leave 'here. - Wingham. Advance -
Ti mes.
Headed Her Class
On behalf of sires friends here, we
extend eo:rgrlattilations to Miss Doris
Armitage, :daughter, of Mr. and Mrs.
C. B. Armitage, as she was not only
succcess•ful •in .her recent examinations.
at Macdonald Institute, Guelph, but
wasp at the top of her class.--wung-
atham Advance -Times.. •
' Transferred To- Seaforth
Mr. Benson Hamilton, of the staff
of the Dominion Bank, has been trans-
ferred to the Seafofth, branch, taking
over ice new position on Tuesday.- -
Wingha.m Advance -Times.
Cheese Factory Destroyed By Fire
Fire destroyed the cheese factory
at Silver Corners in Huron Cou.nty,
Sunday .night. The origin, of the fire
has not been determined but it- is
supposed to 'have been from(• defective
wiring, and started in the engine --
room. The proprietor, Grant ,Kealy.
has' been in the north, but was due •
to arrive 'home on Monday, A house.
near- the factory- lead. tits windows
broken with the heat of the fire, but
the house was saved by neighbors act-
ing as a bucket brigade.-
_Brussels
•Post.
Former^ Brussels Man Dies
Word was received here of the
passing in Medicine Hat,- Alta.,- of
Ephraim Downing, a well known for-
mer resident of this place. Mr. Dow-
ning tad been severely injured in an
auto ,addcident on April 1st, from
which he did not reoo,ver. He was -
the soon of the late John and Mrs.
Downing and spent his boyihbod
learning the, printing business with
the late W. H. Kerr, of The Post.
During the last -twenty years, he has
been coanneeted with; the Medicine
H(dt News. He . is' survived by his
Wife, farmterly Miss. Viola McRae, of
Gladstone, . Man., one. son, Leonald,
and one daughter, Mrs: William Car-
son, of Mediicine Hat; Alta.,, Oleo two
brothers William and Robert, and two
sisters; Elizabeth and Hattie, Brus-
ee,is.-••Brussels Post.
Seap'lane Visits . Goderich Harbor
A brand-new, triol little Taylor Cub
seaplane was set .gracefully down, en.
dile" water aft Goderich bathing (beach
Denrinion Day afternoon. The craft
Wait puThed' up on the beach and out
of it'stepPed' Albert Hill and "Red"
Han tantels, instructor of the. Sudbury
Thing club, the pilot. Mr. Hill, a
former Stratford . boy, now an engin-
eer With..tha_ International Nickel.. Cts.
af,
Sudbury,.had, Mme here to vie*
With Stratford IrientlSi title came h'ere
the day. SliOby after its arrlvoi
'ri. e
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