The Huron Expositor, 1940-08-23, Page 2t7
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lithe McPhail McLean, Editor.
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SEAFORTH, Friday, August 23
Still There
The fifteenth 'of August has come
and gone,,and Britain is still there.
That is the date that Hitler told his
own country and broadcast to the
world that he would be in London.
But Hitler is not in London.
By the fifteenth of August Hitler
said his mighty air force would have
bombed Britain off the map; destroy-
ed her navy and his army would be
across the English Channel, mapping
up what remained, of the British peo-
ple.
But the British people are still in
Britain; the. King, the Queen and the
British Government are still in Lon-
don; the British navy is still intact,
and if there are any German soldiers
in England, Scotland or Ireland, ,
-they have not, -advertised themselves
nor have they even been seen.
Not that Hitler did not try to ful-
fil his boast. During the past two
weeks Britain .has been bombed as
no country was ever bombed before,
During that time thousands of Ger-
, man planes, day and night, have
flown over England, Scotland and
Wales, dropping their deadly bombs.
And there can be no minimizing of
the 'fact that these German bombs
have dealt death and destruction.
The casualties in dead and wounded,
are probably heavier than we know,
and the property damage will run in-
to many millions of pounds.
In spite 'of it all, however; and ev-
en if the losses are greater than we
know, England, Scotland and Wales
are still.. there ; still on the map, and
;still densely populated.by, people who
are unafraid.
But Britain has not been the only
sufferer. Hundreds of German fight-
ing planes, of every class, have been
shot down or destroyed. Hundreds of
the pick of .the. German flying force•
have been killed or taken prisoners.
Time only can replace these losses.
Hitler may not yet have done. his
utmost against Britain, but what
has already occurred has proven two
things: Germany may have , ifiore
planes, but man for ' man the Ger-
mans are no match for the members
of the R.A.F., the ratio, in fact, is
given as three to • one.
The second fact brought out by
the present air"invasion of, England
is that if Hitler expected his air
force would conquer the people,.. of
Britain by either numbers or savage
brutality, he must ,.be sadly disillu-
sioned. by now. , Britain is still there,
and her people are prepared, de-
termined and .unafraid.
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The Combine And The Schools
Some of the farming States in the
American Union are finding that the
tractor and the combine are doing
more to bring- about the. ' consolida-
tion of rural schools than all the ar-
gaments of edudators have hereto'
fore been able to accomplish.
The tractor and combine have not
only increased the, size of the . farm
in. these States, but have reduced
the number of people' to work it,
vrhikh means fewer children for the
little red school house. The next
step is to combine the' schools.
But the farm people,in those areas
are very much like the' farm people
in ours. They do not like to give up
local control of child education and
have clung determinedly to the one,
or at best, two-roorin school houses.
Educational experts plead for the
QBsolid'ation of these schools,both
in- the . %interests of edue'ati.oand
thorny, but the farmer there, as
ere,: doh not 'see it that `way. They
aft f(�'keep their children close to
ti and have them taught
rs who" are engaged by lo- .
cal authorities,
Now, .h.owever, those farm parents
are facing the fact that a great
many rural schools have an attend-
ance too small for good teaching. In
the State of Illinois; it is wreported,
that one out of every eight rural
schools has an average attendance of
less than six. Other figures show
that one hundred and seven schools
in that State, have less than two pu-
pils and two hundred and forty-six
have less than three pupils as a daily
average.
Operating siich schools has been
found by the people of such rural
sections to be most unsatisfactory
from the educational standpoint, and
even more so from the standpoint of
taxation. Something has to be done,
but changes come very, very slowly
in rural districts. However, it is the
rural people's problem and they will
have to figure it out for themselves.
It is likewise a problem that has
very shortly to be faced by the farm-
ing sections of Ontario. Combines
may not have the same influence on
Ontario farms , as they do on the
larger farms in the States, but com-
bines are increasing rapidly on our
farms, and the rural school problem
was already at: our door before they
made their appearance.
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Night Flying
Airplanes flying over Seaforth and
district in recent days and weeks
have been so numerous as to become
a commonplace. Scarcely a head is.
lifted when the drone of the : motors
is, heard.
But night flying is something new
for us.. In .fact the first plane we
have ever seen or heard of flying ov_...
er us by night made its appearance
shortly before ten o'clock on Satur-
day evening.
The plane was evidently one from
Camp Borden, at least it came from
that direction, and after circling the
town -headed --back that way. The plane was flying high, some-
times hidden by a fleecy bank . of
cloud and'then appearing again.
When the hum of its motor was first
heard, people listened, then heads
came up with a jerk and eyes scan-
nod the sky.'
It was a pretty sight to' see . that
plane, or the red light which. repres-
ented it flying south, .,and the white
one it showed when it turned to fly
north again.. --
It looked like a shooting red or
white star, crossing the Heavens,
but occasionally the outline of the
plane could be clearly seen in the
light ' of the moon,. against 'a back-
ground of cloud.
,That was the first night plane, but
rio doubt in the • nights before us it
will have many successors. Perhaps
even the night flyer will, become as
common as the day -one,' if this war
lasts long enough. -.
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And Not A Good One Yet
We believe it to be 'a well estab-
lished fact that the can opener has
become the most used implement in
the kitchen of the average Ontario
home. r
In spite of that fact, why is. it that
there is not a 'real good can opener
on the market to -day?
During the first six months of this
year, one• hundred and thirty-seven
patents on can openers were taken
out in the United States, and there
is not a good one there yet, either.
And ••why is it, when fifteen per
cent. of the patents issued in Amer-
ica are on the inventions created by
women, nobody has solved the Sat-
urday night ring on the family bath
WHAT OTHER PAPERS SAY:
The .Engineering Age
(Gvolph Mercury)
To a great extent man ihas• been replaced' by
machinery. In place ,of the rhythmic ring of pias
a few eytperts, direct power -driven roadsbreakrsre
which crash the hard concrete bed with irresist-
ible steel teeth'. There are no 'horses' straining
at heavy loads. Bricks' are'delivered' on the big
job by' heavy trucks,. and transferred, to the work-
ers' bands by cranes,
A machine eats, away a sandbank at the road-
side, another mixes. builders,' materials, another
cuts a 'trench or sinks a shaft. Certainly modern
Industry redudres' fewer- laborers', but its ec'on'.
omlels peevddle mope and mere varier] work, and
Its very' dependettice on mechanism to Mating it •
oration of engineers.
1 Years Agave
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7\wM�TM� years A01.
intoraatln1 stn. • Finked F�
The Huron. Expo. for of Pifty and
Tww.nty;.ffy. years Aqw a,
From The Huron Expositor
August 27, 1915
Mr. J. Elgin Hess, of Zurich,,
passed , his junior matriculation ex-
aminations at Londono Collegiate with
second elask honors.
Messrs_ Harold, Turner and Howard -
Allan, of Tucker•smith, left this week
for the West,
The Seaforth Collegiate Institute
will open on 'Tuesday, Sept. '7th, and
never befoa-,e has the school opened
with .a 'stronger and. more efficient
staff of teachers. They are as fol-
lows: J. F. Ross, M.A., Principal; H.
A. Hazen:, Miss M. E. Allan, B.A.,
Miss Edith Gibson, B.A., and Miss
Helen Wetherell.
Mr. William Broadfoot, of the Mill
Road, Tuckensmith, bad , .the misfor-
tune one day last week to get his
fingers caught, in the driving chain
of his binder and the top of one fin'
ger and' a second one was, badly, cut.
Miss Lottie Pickard, representative
of the Spirella Company, is in Toron-
to this week attending a convention
being held there.
Mr. Ryerson Hartry has resigned
his position on the staff of the Chat-
ham Collegiate Institute and has: join-
ed the 33rd Regirn'ent.
Miss' Cora Geib, of town, has re-
signed Ther position as organist in. St.
Momas' Church and has accepted
the position•' of choir leader and. or-
ganist in the Methodist Church in
Fort Perry. -
The following were ticketed, by Mr.
W. ,Somerville via the new Transcon-
tinental., route on Tuesday's Harvest
Help Excursion to the West: R."E.
ikmmsman', Chiselhurst; W. A. McKay,
Tuckersmdth; J. R. McKay, Tucker-
Synith'; Jelin A. :Montgomery, McKil-
lop; Sydney Doha/age, McKillop; Mr.
and Mrs. Adam Holmes, McKillop; W.
Allan, Tuck'ersmith• James McCon-
nell and Wilfrid ' McConnell; Peter
Cameron, Brucefield:; Louis' Atkinson,
Seaforth; John P. Neely, Seafo'rth•
W. Charters, Tuckersmith; Wilson
Wright, Ttid eremith; L. O'Reilly,
Staffa; H. A. McDonald', Kippen, . aind
W. Somerville, Chaiselburat,
Mr. Isaac Langs,trotlh, for many
years a weld -known resident of Sea -
forth but now residing in Forest,
writes that this is a bumper Year for
honey'.
A despatch from Ottawa says: "Re-
ferring. to the request of Lieut. -Col.
'Wilson and the: officers and man of
the 33rd Battalion at London, Ont.,
to be sent to the front at once to
take -the-- place,cf the 1,000 ,soldiers
who were drowned on the Royal Ed -
vv ard, no action las been taken."
Miss Holland; of l3ieechwiood, has
accepted a pc/silion on the staff of
the Peterboro rrho.nl.
The following rupils from Dublin
passed their doe-er school examina-
tions: Geo: Michell, Margaret Coyne,
Lbretta Roach' and Geraldine Meag-
her. '
Mr. W. E l:Ioggarth; of Heeisal.l, is
moving to London where he has' se-
cured a situation as -public school
teacher in, the London 'East district.
Miss Bessie Urquhart left Hensall.
this week for EaIon, North Carolina,
to resume her studies as Dean of
EaIon College-
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From The Huron' Expositor.
August 29, 1890
Mrs. 'Anne Ross, of Brecefield', ha:,
taken ''a - deep interest in the Point
Aux Trembles College, near 'Mont-
real, and through her "efforts a large
sum of inoney' has been raised, dur
lag the past year for the erection' of
a' new wing at the college for the
bei:efit of girls. This item was tak-
Ln from the Montreal Witness.
Messrs. A. J. Wilson and Walter
Willis' have gone to Michigan 'on a
trip. -
Mr. William Hawks•naw bas rented
his ' ,hotel in Seaforth- to Mr: James
Murray, the very obliging and effici-
ent baggage marl at the railway sta..
t?ton.
Mr. William McLeod left here fol
Augusta, Georgia, where he has, 'tak-
en a situation in the tailoring estab-
lis'hdnent of Mr. J. B. Jones, a formee
Seaforth boy.
The many friends of Mr. Relit Jam-
ieson, of the Golden Lion Store, are
pleased. to welcome 'him home from
a trip to the Old Country.
Mr. A. K. Chittendieoi, clerk in Mc- a
Faul"'s store, left On Monday to go
east on some well-earned holidays:. v
Mr. John Walker, of Roxboro, has.li
been buying apples this season for
Mr. Canelo,, of Clinton. He has pur-
chased in this neighborhood about
1,400 barrels.
Mr. William Hackney, Sr., bas
rtend his farm on the 14th, concession
of Hibbert to Mr. Temipleten, of the
same township, tier a „term of years
at $255 per year, payable in advance.
On Wednesday of last' week an ac-
cident occurred: in Blyth which de-
prived that village of one of Its old-
est and best known citizens. Mr. Won.
Wilson was ;pasisIrmg along Dinsley
Street when he was overtaken by a
runaway horse. Being 'bard of hear -
big the didn't hear the infuriated ani-
mal and was knocked down and re-
ceived such injuries as to Cause his
death.
Miss Cole
, o ' Ethel, has been
ap-
pointed' to the popi;ta'on of organist in
the English Ohur h, Brussels. .nr,
The Toll Bros. have purchased the hi.
property lately owned' ''b • J. Black- to
bron'gh in East Waw'aniosik. It con- re
tains 200 acres and was bought for 'be
$4,700. f , gr
Recently while ; Mr. D. Mact'avisb, re'
of Stanley, was driving a teams'bitch- ta'
ed to W. Perdue's thx'esh�er, the hors- .tb,
es became. unimas geable ,and upalet so
the thresher on Its aide. • MT. Mae- Bu
tavish had .hie✓" atifn broken and the co
machine was slightly broken. we
Mr. William Gllibings; of the Huron 'tor
Road, has pure7ra4ed a kplemd�}'r1, new Af
separator threshing =ethane d!hln sear.
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son,, and tro'W` busily engaged
is ngaged ttrrnr
ing out the grain. fen. hIs iixmnoi is
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"TOYS" ,
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There's somethinig appealing about
a scattered bunch or 'toys. A golden
head bob's. a.raund and tiny hands and
earns- ape busy' abost childish play.
Each toy. -is something new to be tits-
covered and played with and finally
discarded. The head starts nodding
and the toys lose their appeal and a
voice begins to •protest] lack of atten-
tion . . . and Patricia Ann is pick-
ed up to be played with, fed, or put
to bed, as the case may be. There
they are . . . scattered around the
floor, to be picked up and set away
for the next day . . . because .each
'day brings new play.. . . and the
toys hold new fascinations,
Of course' a person doesn't think
about that when they're half running
to the telephone and step' on 'a rub-
bey doll that squeaks, out in unmis-
'takeabi�e anguish. The glamor of
toys is unappreciated when you grope
in the darkened kitchen and the
sharp edge of a toy car nips your
bare feet. Sulphurous, language pours
forth on -occasion when arriving home
a wee bit late, your .-foot upsets
a pile of building blocks into a sand
pail . . . and the noise. is terrific
only .to be followed by a dead ail-
once and, Mrs, Phil's voice enquiring
from the bedroom, "Is that you?" and
the YOU is to some extent in provok-
ed tones.
I find myself buying' toys. For sev-
eral days in walking by the win-
dow in Tim Murphy's store where the
toys are displayed I ' eyed an enarm-.
doll. The natural abilities of
that doll as set forts on the display
card 'were amazing. It could talk and
had another natural :erdency of be-
bies . ". so that at last, screwing
up my courage. the purchase was
made. Of course, getting into con-
versation, with some di the neighbor
at the chopping. mill,, the package
chanced to turn over in my arms and
the "wail" that came from it made
them eye me rather suspiciously. Em-
barrassedly the 'situation was ex-
plained because of .a.....dread of being
arrested on a 'kidnapping charge.
Patricia Ann eyed .. the unveiled
Wonder in a rather reserved way. In
place of going 'into an ecstasy over
its abilities to cry she drowned of
Its feeble efforts with a, life-size
whoop, - The only thing that 'woul
pacify her was' a little, gaudy red to
strainer . . . a premium from:
package of tea. Since then she ha
relaxed a little of her unfrienidlinee
and manages to - play a little. with tb
doll, but still shows a preference &
the tea strainer.
All the ingenuity of man has faile
to provide toys that will give amus(
ment to children like the ordinary li
tie gadgets around the house
a key ring . a clothespin ,
a spool of thread . . . the lid of
pan . , all will keep Patriot
Ann; playing for hours. . . . hon
longer than the latest thing i.n, toy
wouid provide,
Having discovered that' her le
will propel her now into all the nook
and crannies, she also sets out to ;fin
new playthings. ...The little soot doe
under the oven door on the stov
came open for her one -day and sh
was quite .fascinated ...by the gritty
black substance that. poured forth i
to her Iasi. The only difficulity' wa
that she was discovered before sh
could really apply it where it woul
show the moat.
At ten months, of age I very mut:
fear a trifle of the prankster in her
Underneath 'the 4 kitchen couch tiler
reposes a pair of well-worn but mos
comfortable slippers of the typ
known as gaiters. Relaxing from th
day's""work it is my customary pro
tise to pull them on before retirin
to the verandah for a smoke afte
supper. Last night 'was no exceptio
until I slipped' my foot into the righ
slipper . . . only to have the 'toe
double up and pain shoot up in th
leg. Examination revealed ' a' met
coin bank in th'e, toe of the shoe,
don't know .who; put it there . .
but for sorrtehstr•ange reason of im
agination i was certain I detected i
faint glimmer of amusement in a nal
of baby blue eyes.
Yes, toys are appealing when you
see them around the house . bu
like everything else, there are twr
ways' of l'o'oking at it . : and' -af
ter stubbing my, toes last night In
looking at the toy question from the
other side,' '
;JUST A SMILE OR TV�TO:
The Colonel over the telephone or-
dered that one of the unit cars should
be sent round to, him at once_
"Sorry; sir," replied. the N.' C. O.
"The Major is oui`l in the Vauxhall,
the Adjutant has the Bentley, and the
Quartermaster has, borrowed' your
bicycle." .
When the Colonel had recovered
bis breath, he shouted:
"Find my b'atm'an, and if he's not
wearing my boots, I'll walk]"
The quiet man in the crowd had
grown tired of the. boastful'' talk of
the others, so when there was a `hill
in' the conversation be began:
"This morning I went. over to se
a new machine we've got at, our plat
and it's astonishing how it works."
°'And how does it work?" asked one
"Well, ",,.was the reply, "by mean;
of a pedal attachment a fulcrum leu
er converts a vertical reciprocal mo
tion into a circalar movement. Th
principal part of the machine is
.. huge disc that revolves in a vertica
plane: Power is applied. through th
axis of the disc, and work is don
on, the.. periphery, and the hardes
steel by mere impact may be -reduces
'to any shape_ •
"What is this wonderful' machine,?'
chorused the crowd, -
, "A grindstone!"
The • Common People !
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Banker' (By Frank F. Taylor in Toronto
• Saturday Night) •
Thirty -sift years ago a young pro-
merchant rented an abandons]
saloon in .. San Francisco's' Italian
quarter and founded a common'..peo-
p1e's bank. ,Today ads bank has more
two million depositors, 150,000
All of them swear ii'y
% made) Peter Gian'nlni, • whose sus-
has been 'built on a maxim his
told him years ago:..._''Al-
ways treat the poor man as well as
treat the rich." -•., '•"
Ama'dee has. battled state banking
,ut_horities, Treasury, officials, the
lecurities•and Exchange Commission
nd Wall Street. His bank of Am-
rica is the country's fourth largest,
Lith 495 branches, a billion and a
elf in deposits. He is a financial
olossus, but he still treats the poor
well. He still wrrks in a big
pen room at the head `office, where
nyone can talk with ham. He stilt
ves in the house he. built when at
4 be reti'r'ed, from the produce busi-
ess, having accuse°rlared $10,000, all
he wealth he thought—and still
hinks—one man should have. Twice
e has• refused a million -dollar bonus
him by the hank's directors.
Nobody calls him Mr. Giannini. He
either "A. P," or just plain "Gian-
Burly and tall, with a broad
that almost close when
a -is• Ira good' humor but glow like
in anger, so lithe at 70 that he
envie• Et of 'his' chair like a young-
Gia ndni 'still' spends Ms waking
conjuring ways to make
on'ey out of business that' other
takers, don't want.
Shortly after be retired as, a coon-
lesion merchant, a small bank .mtade,
nv a director. Wihen. other direc-
es amiably cut him in on a rake-off
suiting from Inside information• on
;sin'es's loan's, the denounced it as
aft; He induced 11 other men to
itch the $110,000 be put, up for earl-
l stock of "an' honest bank." • In.
ose days no California banker was
unethical; a%s to ask for accounts..
it (Iiannini landed thousands. of ac-
Tuts by going to see merchants,
irltraen and fames+s, Many dept si-
's bought a share or two of stock.
ter that, it was their bank, too, and:
;y' helped' get more business,- . '
Batnkers ignored' diamiini' distil the
a b'ratncisco fire avdi eartlmgilake of
16. Before the dame bleached his
building, he 'loaded the bank'' cash
and securities' into a wagon,' piled
vegetables on top, and drove t� his
tome at San Mateo 20 miles away.
There he ,bid the bank's money in the
fireplace. While competitors were
va.'ting, to get at their cash, "A. P."
daily counted .$10,0000 from his half
million dollar reserve, and in an'"'im=
provised bank on the waterfront
cashed cheques, for all.. Contrary to
the action of the other bankers, he
was making building loans before the'
embers cooled'. as
Gi•annini foresaw the depression of
1907. When,other San Francisco
banks were cashing depositors' drafts
With scrip, he was paying oat gold'.
Noting that the chain banking ayes
tern in Canada had survived bank
runs without . failures, Gian.nini began
to buy banks, or to found new
branches, throughout -northern' Cali-
forma. •
Competitors failed 'to induce, the.'
..legislature to restrict branch bank -
dug, and in' 1913 "A. P,'s" operations
reached:, Las Angeles. Southern. Call -
fornia financial ,powers, alarmed, had
one of their group made state bank -
ing Commissioner, and G•iannini could'
get no certificates' of convenience to
open, further branches. He bided his
time. When,' in the postwar depres-
cion, other Los Angeles banks called
their loans, Giannini advertised that
his little bank ,had money.' Patrons
carf'ie, with a rush. '-Public opinion.
forced, the banking commissioner to
let his chidt, expand,
"Tog time to get business ii$ w eni
the other fellow iemrt giving service,"
is a Manning. maxim. Early In his
career he opened 'dime accounts for
school Mhildr . Other bankers scorn -
ed this nuisance busin+ews,,'i but today
many thousands -of those school. chil-ie
diren are Gian.ndnd ousloejere. •
When he opened in Leis' Angeles',
banks there,' refusing to finance mo-
tion pictures', usually told, prodnicers,
"You can get the money upstairs,"
Going "upstai s" meant going to a
usurer, who stook a 20 .per cent eat on
the pieture'ei earavingg,. Giannini i
e'mae'hed' this racket in 1918 with, a
straight loan, of a quarter of a mill -
lion . to produce Charlie Chaplin's,
elasedc, "The lid;," Altogether Gina- d'
mlvi has fi red more than $150,000,-
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Assisting At Agricultural .Offer
Miss Anna Ai'kenhead', of Brace
field, is assisting in. the agricultural.
office during the absence of Miss Al„.
Henderson, who la on bolid'ays'. ,Clin-'
ton 1' eweR'ecord.
Appointed Radio Engineer •
"Mr. W. E. Murray Dale, son of Mn
W. Arthur' Dale, of the Huron Road.
East, for the past four years has been
employed on the' Production Engin-
eering staff of the R.C.A. Victor Co,
Montreal, has, been appointed: radio,
engineer at the National Research
Council, Ottawa. Hie new duties
commenced August 6th. Murray ;is a
former graduate of the Clinton' -Col-
legiate Institute, and of the R.C.A.
Institute, New York City. -Clinton
News Record. ,
Rangers Returned
'The Ranger's Company returned.
home Saturday: from their camp' at
Buries. Rangers attending were: Hel-
en Herman, Dorothy Maclntyre, Mid
d'red Heard, Jean Hearn, Lois Han-
ley, Helen Miller, Capt. Grace Caastle-
and daughter, Joanne, and Virginia.
Harris.—Clinton News -Record,
Swimming Party Enjoyed.,
The children' held a. swimming par-
ty at the Arch last Friday afternoon
when contests, were held in. swim-
ming and dining." Prizes were award-
ed as follows: Class, 1, Ivan Hilborn;
Class 2, Voilet Thuell; Class 3, Ed-
ward Watson; Class, 4, Billy Johnston;
'diving, Don Ar•neton', Betty CampbelL
—Blyth Standard.'
Lower School Certificates
Those from the Blyth Continuation
School who were successful in re-
ceiving their Lower School Certi-
ficates' are as follows: Gibson Odle,
Elizabeth Fairservice, Helen Howatt,
Helen Lear, Isabel McDonald, Wil-
liam Pollard, Glen Tasker• and Doro-
thy White.—Blyth Standard.
Wins Awards For Fine Horses
J. H. • Budd '& Sons made a very
creditable showing at Cypress River,
Glen'boro and Carberry fairs, with
their entry of six head' of horses.
They won seven championships, 20
firsts,, 3 seconds and 2 thirds, also'
the new Royal Bank cup at Glenboro
fair for the best team. The afore-
mentioned is a native of-- Brussels,• a.
third line Morrie boy, who left here
in; 1903. Joe" has some, of the finest
horses in the dii•strict ' -Brussels Post.
Found Tagged Pigeon
Mrs.. R.. J. Tindall, of the B. Line...
picked up a :tagged pigeon on her
lawn on Monday of this week. The
metal tag on one leg bore the number
8641—U.--'4'0 and a 'canvas tag on the.
other leg bearing the letter "Y."—
Wingham. A'dvan'ce -Times.
Civil Guard Co. Formed at Clifford
A company of Civil.Guard mem,
hers was formed at a nieeting,in Mit--
fora Town Hall with Reeve A. -Dar-
roch, who is chairman of Wellington
County'' Civil Guard. About 35 mem-
bers enrolled. The commander-in-
chief will be William Mason, veteran
of the Imperial Forces in the Great
War, and at present a special. reser-
vis•t.—Wingham Advance -Times.
Cuts Own Grain At 82'
Mr. Andrew Ferguson who farms' "
just north Of Belgi4ave, is 82 years of
age, Mad, this year operates. the binder
cutting his own grain. This, we be-
lieve, is quite a unique record for a
man of his age. His son, Dan, oper-
ates the farm, with him but during
the harvest season runs a threshing
machine,. --w'h'ich .neoessu,tates his abs-
ence, so the father pitches in and
does his own harvesting,-wingrarn,
Advance -Times.„
Manager At Dominion Store" I
Mr. Craig Nightingale, 'of Lis•t'owel„
has been appointed manager of Do-;
minion Store here. He replaces, Earl'
Gray who has' signed up for full time
service in the 99th Battery.= -Wing --
ham Advance -Times.
Auto Accident '''';
• An automobile •drives' by Rev. Cl.
B. Stapp; 'of the Muncey Reserve,
was struck by another car driven by
John Campbell, of town, when the
former stopped to park his car 'ort,
the 'Slain Street, Mr. Strapp was
driving south and was being followed
by Mr. Campbell and. according' to •
Witnesses, Mr. Strapp stopped rathe,•'
suddenly ,ta pull into a parking space. ^
Mr. Campbell's attention being at- •
traded 'at"'the moment, be failed to
see the other car stop in time tow
avoid a colddsdon and his ear rammed
the ' Strapp car with the result that
the latter car was dented in the back
while Mr. O'sxl1pbelll's' left fender and
light were damaged. Mier J. Norry •
investigated. • Exeter Timses'-AdrPo-
Cate.
Reception
A reception for Rev, N. J. Woods -
and Mrs, Woods Was given under
the auspi'c'es of the Young People of
Main, Street United Church Friday
aveni,ng on the church lawn, The •
first petit of the program alas' a ser -
fit contests, theme Mr. W.I. G. Medd,
teaeker of the dose, d'soite' wo'rd's `of, •
('Oumt6ttuiied oar.- rage 3) '
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