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sitor
I McLean, Nditor,
eaforth, Ontario, ev-
y, afternoon by McLean
and completed under ideal condi-
tiona,, but then things 'came to a
standstill.
• There was no rain andonsequent-
13r no growth to speak of. Good
crops of timothy and other feeds are
going to be scarce this, year unless,
there is a „y,ery immediate change in
weather" conditions. Alfalfa, , it is
claimed, has been killed in many sec-
tions, and ordinary pasture every-
where is anything but good.
The recent rains have helped ev-
erything including the spring grains,
but we needa lot more help of that
kind. Of course, it is not yet too
late, but why prolong the anxiety.
Please act, Mr. Weatherman.
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We Can Take It
The British battleship Hood was
sunk by a German naval force off
the coast of Greenland on Saturday
last..
The Hood was the largest, battle-
ship,afloat and carried a complement
of thirteen hundred men. What she
was doing off the coast of Greenland
and how many of her crew went
down with her has not yet been dis-
closed.
But Britain still has fifteen capital
ships to Germany's two, and one of
these, and possibly two, were in that
engagement on •Saturda*,which
means that they are several thousand
miles away from their home port,
and much may happen before they
can get back.
The loss is a severe blow to 13ri='
tain, but at the same time the loss
of a single ship, even the Hood, does
not mean the loss of Britain's naval
supremacy of the seas, and still the
British answer is, "We can take it."
ubsjption rates, $1.50 a year in
Irange;' foreign, $2.00 a year. Single
00PleS,, 4 cents each.'
SEAFORTH, Friday, May 30, 1941.
• What War Is Costing Canada
In the Canadian House of Com-
mons a short time ago, Hon. Mr.
• Ilsley told the sitting members that
forty-four cents out of every dollar
that_ the average Canadian earns,
• will this year be used to buy war
goods that can not be worn, eaten
• or used in any other way.
And Mr: Ilsley also told the House.
how this forty-four cents would be
• spent.' This expenditure takes many
forms, too many in fact, to be en-
umerated here, but just a few Of
them will tell a pretty complete story -
of what war is costing Canada and
will continue to cost in increasing
volume' as time goes on.
For instance, before an infantry
soldier goes on parade, his equip-
ment has cost the Canadian taxpay-
• er one hundred and fourteen dollars'
and eighty-two cents. As long as that
soldier remains in Canada his daily
• maintenance cost is five dollars and
fprty-six cents.
When the soldier goes overseas his
daily maintenance cost is seven dol-
lars and eleven cents, but when that
soldier gets into action, no one can
estimate what his cost will be, but
during the last war it cost six dol-
lars and fifty-eight cents per day to
keep the Canadian soldier in am-
auniti on,
In this war, however, it is the wea-
pons and not the man that eats up
the money, and makes the expendi-
ture on all previous wars look like
the height of economy.
In the last war it cost eight thou-
sand dollars for a fighting plane. In
this war it costs twenty-five thousand
dollars to build a Spitfire, double that
amount for a Hurricane, and one
•kindred and fifty thousand dollars
-0 build a Bolingbroke bomber. Put
• in an understandable way this means
that if a Canadian Saved his maxi- -
• .mum of War Savings Certificates at
the rate of four hundred and eighty
• -dollars per year, it would take three
centuries to pay for the loss of one
of those bombers.
This is a mechanized war, where
the ordinary infantry soldier tray -
els on wheels, and it takes three thou-
sand, five • hiundred and twenty-
five vehicles for a division. When a
tank brigade is added to Canada's
present army corps in Britain it will
est sixty million dollars.
..But it is .when these mechanized
units get into real action that they.
really begin to burn money. One
five hundred pound bomb costs any-
where from one to two hundred dol-
lars, Antiifdraft guns cost twelve
thousand dollars, and. in a single
hour's firing such a gun will spend,
more than forty thousand dollars.
Mr. Ilsley also gave a summary of
his needs. He wants six hundred
and sixty-six and a half million dol-
lrs for the army ' this, year; a hun-
dred and sixty-nine and a half for
• the navy; three hundred and eighty -
ix and a half million for the Air
Force, and one hundred and eighty
and a half million dollars for muni-
• tions.
And that is not by any means the
whole story of war costs, but surely
• IL explains why the Canadian Gov-
• ernment is asking next month for a
War loan from the Canadian people.
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We Need More Rain
The long awaited rain came last
week, and it was more than welcome.
ut to date there has not been in this
liarticular section, nearly enough to
soak the sil, which had become
" kty thoroughly dried ' out.
ere was enough, however, to re-
in large measure, and
conditions will be greatly
° And improvement was
hole this sprinewhile it
asant Vfe has also been
• early with
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The Huwon 'kxpositor of Flfty and
Twentrfive Years Ago.
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Do You Remember?
This fifty -year-old item in a recent
issue of the Stratford Beacon -Her-
ald will bring back many fond mem-
ories to most people of middle -age
and over:
• "The fine weather of the .24th
brought out the firecracker fiends in
great numbers. Drivers had to keep
tight rein on their horses, and pedes-
trians had difficulty preventing holes
being burned in their clothes."
.No doubt those things did happen,
but what did a few burns on. face or
fingers, or a few burned holes in
clothes mean to a boy of fifty years
ago?
Or what did that boy care about
•the driver of horses either? The
higher a horse could jump, the more
enjoyment there was for the boy and
his friends.
But that was fifty years ago, when
the Twenty-fourth of May was the
Queen's Birthday, the holiday of
holidays, not even second to Christy
ms.
To -day the 24th does not mean a
thing to the average boy. And this
year it was even worse than that,
because it fell on a Saturday.
But many of you will know what
we mean, and all of you will sympa-
thize with our present-day boy. He
nay, as we believe, possess- many
• things, and too much of most of
them, but one thing he can not pos-
sess, andlacking that, is poor indeed.
And that is the real spirit of the
old Twenty-fourth of May. , You re-
member, don't you.?
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A Good Idea
Along With a hundred or more On-
tario weekly newspapers, The Ex-
positor is this week sponsoring a
page of advertising featuring a
"Home -Coming Week" for former
residents now living in the United
States. •
The idea is a good one—in fact, a
very necessary and important one—
if erroneous and harmful beliefs in
the minds of some of our neighbors
across the line are to be counteract-
ed.
It is a well known fact that stories
have been spread, whether • with
malicious intention or not—and be-
lieved—that Americans cannot enter
or leave Canada without passports;
that they are liable to interninent
here; that thir personal effets,
camera, and what not, are subject
to • confiscation; that gasoline is
strictly rationed or. - unobtainable ;
that nod is por, scares and dear,
and that Canada dOes not want visi-
tors while she is at at.
eVery Canadiankriows, nothing
From The Huron EXpesitur
June 2, 1916
, The farewell given to the boys of
the 3.614 will long'be remembered by
the boys and also by the citizens of
Cliaten aid sur9endading country, who
assembled to tile number of 2,000 for
the London catnip ou Tuesday morn•
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ing.
While assist:bag in the erection of
a shanty on Mr. Casper Walper's 100 -
acre swamp land on the Town Line,
Stanley, on Tuesday, Mr. Jacob Deite,
rich had the ruiseortune to sustain a
compound dislocation of the ankle.
Mrs. k. H. Larkin left on Monday
for Gueneh and Galt and Miss Helen
Larkin left the same day for New
York, where she will take a course of
training in a 'New York Hospital.
In the draw for the quilt at the red
Cross meeting on Thursday last, Miss
Erie•Stewart won the lucky prize and
Mrs. W. 0. Reid won the tray.
At the annual meeting of the
Ladies' Aid of the Walton Methodist
Church -the following officers were
elected: President, Mrs. Hugh Ful-
ton; viegepresident, MPS,. J. N. Camp-
bell; treasurer, Miss R. Barrows.
Mr. Norman Park, of Cromarty, has
moved back into his home, a Crom-
arty landmark, whioh has been trans-
formed into an imposing two-storey
resdence.
Sgt. James Gillespie, of Cromarty,
was home on sick leave, having sus-
tained a broken finger whale engaged
in, physical drill.
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Geary, of
Seaforth, met with a serious accident
on Friday afternoon jast They were
driving down Main Street and . he
turned on to Mill Street until a train
would pull out, when a sudden ex:
plosion from, the exhaust frightened
the animal and it plunged into the
ditch, throwing both occupants out.
Mr. John Rankin, of Seaforth, has
sold the Howard 'property on Victoria
St., recently occupied by Yin C. Con-
signey, to Mr. Thomas Daly.
Mr. James Watson has purchased
the McCallum property on Goderieh
Street, recently vacated by Mr. John
Dodds.
l'Ilessr. Cook Bros., of Hensell, re
ceived two carloads of automobile
last week and recently sold the fol
lowing Studebaker cars: C. Zink
Blake; Milton Russel, of Exeter, an
this week sold to J. W. Ortwein, o
Hensall; William Hay and M. Vol
land, of Zurich, and William Sproat
of Seaforth.
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From The Huron Expositor
May 29, 1891
The Woodham hotel near Exete
has been rented by Thomas Father
ing-ham, who has taken possession
and Wallace Brown, the late landlord
has secured a position as manager o
the Frazer Honse, Port Stanley.
Early on Sunday morning last the
citizens of Blyth were aroused by the
cry of fire. eltexas found to be the
salt vet:Mts.' "nM.. first noticed the
stave factoren was all an flames. The
derrick and all the machinery and
contents were destroyed. The insur
mace amounted to $2;000.
A team of the Huron football club
Seaforth, visited Detroit 011 Saturday
last to play a match with the club of
that city and the Seaforth club nobly
suatained the reputation, of the Can
ucks by beating thesubjects of Uncle
Sam by a score of three to two. The
men who went to Detroit were: W
13. Sloan, goal; W. Willis and D. Mc-
Donald, backs; J. Livingstone, R.
Jackson, and T. Stephens, half backs;
G. A. Dewar and J. Killoran, right
wing; W. McDonald, centre; II. J.
Crawford and J. Smith, left wing;
George Hammill was umpire for the
Hurens.
Mrs. Kirkman, was appointed by the
public school board as their repres
entative on the board of examiners for
entrance to the High School at Sea
forth.
While Working a circular saw in
Broadfoot's planing mill on Tuesday
last, Mr. Murdock Campbell had the
misfortune to have the first finger on
his left hand cut off.
We understand that Mefirs. Ogilvie
of the Seaforth Mills. intend erecting
4arge addition to their present grain
storehouse here.
Mr. Robert Logan, Seaforth, and
Mr. Hugh Grieve have exchanged reit-,
idenees, Mr. Logan giving his resi-
dence on Goderich St. and $2,400 to
Mr. Grieve for his new brick rest -
Once on North Main St.
Mr. James C. Laidlaw was at Brant-
ford last week attending the Grove
Lodge meeting of the Royal Arcanium
as a delegate from the Seaforth
Court.
Messrs. George Anderson, George
Hammill and William Govenlock have
returned home from Toronto for the
summer vacation.
could be further from the
truth. What better way
could we adopt to kill these
stories than by playing host
to our American cousins
this summer? If every On-
tario citizen were to write
to some friend or relative in
the States extending an in-
vitation for a visit this sum-
mr, both we and they
would benefit immeasurably.
The first week in July has
been chosen for Home -Com-
ing Week, because Canada's
national holiday falls on the
first, and America's nation-
al holiday on the fourth,
both in the same wek, and
in the litter ease on a F4 -
day. And it is also the time
when Ontario, i. at its best
from the stir/4°11A of out
dot, reoration,
can't do a thing with him—It's spring, sir!"
Phil Osifer of
Lazy .Nleadows
tny Harry J. Boyko
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'Grandfather always enjoyed storms.'
He would sit calmly on the veranda
and watch the black clouds rolling up.
Over the horizon, and -as I look back
on it now, it seems that he was hap-
piest on such an occasion. 'It seem-
ed on our road that Storms always
blew up from the west. There would
be those first puffs of wind that swirl-
ed dust up from the laneway and sent
the curtains and blinds flaping.in ev-
ery room in the house. Mother would
go 'scurrying through the old' house
slamming: down windows and pulling
out the window screens. Grandfather
would remain 111 his rocker on the
front veranda. The smoke from his
pipe would be curling upward through
the place where the shingles had rot -
fed on the veranda roof'. But the
time that mother had. fthe windows
down, the first few splattering drops
of rain would be coining d,oWn.
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I used to like sittingbeside grand-
father on those days. Generally, the
storm followed a hot .spell and As- the
firstrain came down you could hear
the ground drinking up.the water with
a sucking, little noise. The air felt
almost misty as the cool rain mingled
with the hot earth and the air around
us. Grandfather would take his pipe.
out of his mouth and lean forward so
as to get a better viewof the sky.
After clue examination he would use
his pipe stem for a po,inter•and say;
"I figure- she'll break about there."
Sure enough; a black cloud would be-
gin to foram and conae rolMng 'up in,
the direction, to which he had point-
ed. Mother would stand inside the
screen door and scold us forstaying
out on the veranda. Every so often
she' would peer out at the fields be-
hind the barn to see if father had
started ehe horses for the barn. When
he finally did she would breathe a sigh
of relief and say, "I can't for the life
of me, figure out why men -want to
take such -chances with a storm."
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About the time father reached the
stable doors there would be a sudden
Clap of thunder and the • rain would
sluice down. Invariably he would get
the benefit of the first downpour. Tle.
storm would .break ail around us, it
seemed. Great thunder blasta would
rattle the windows and the sharp;
cracking of theolightning seemed, like
a circus ring master's whip , . . the
black clouds like 'sulky lions in a cir-
cus cage. The storrn wa8 on! Mther's
voice was sharp and not to be trifled
with as she ordered finally-, "Both you
get in here." Grandfather would pick
up his cushion and -brush the rain
drops from his hair anti finally do as
she asked. A. storm disclosed the
coward in Aunt 'Hilly. She always ar-
ranged. her chair so as . to be as far
away as possible from the chimney,
the doors and the Windows. There
she would sit plucking at her hands
andfussing all the time the storm
was on. Sometimes she went to her
room, and Grandfather always main-
tained that ohe hid under the bed.
About the time that, the din. of the
storm wa,s at its pitch, grandfather
would start telling stories about the
bad storms he had known; It would
make your skin creep to hear him tell
his yarns about times when he saw
great balls of fire burst out of stoves
and chimneys and chase people
around a roman
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His masterpiece was about the time
that a ball of lightning came down
the chiimndy and as he delighted in
saying, "It just zoomed around the
room twice and landed in a .corner
. • . . just something like the corner
that Milly is sitting in." About that
time Aunt Milly would gasp and squeal
and grandfather would abide his time
until an extremely loud 'roll of thun-
der came along to say, "Well,sh, the
lightning ball just seemed to explode
and -it blew the corner out of the
recur" • As an afterthought he would
say, 'Phey never found that -renw
again .. The one sitting hi the
corner." Grandfather certainly enjoy-
ed storraa . . . but then you see
Aunt Milly was on the other side of
the family and Grandfather never
did have much use for her.
:JUST A SMILE OR TWO:
"I woind like to meet you again" "" The angler had just landed a catch -
he murmured, as they glided thrOugh when the inquisitive woman chanced
the waltz. "What about letting me to be passing.
have your telephone number?" "Oh," she exclaimed, "that poor lit-
tle fish!
The angler replied: "Well, madam,
if he'd kept his mouth shut he would
not have got into trouble!"
"It's in the book," she told him.
"Good! What's your name?"
"You'll find that in the book also,"
she said.
WhereThe Money •
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:Comes From • (R. J. -Deachman) •
Perhaps the editorials of The Huron
Expositor were the first I ever read.
Father took the paper when I was
a youngster wearing copper -toed
boots, before my legs were big en-
ough to wear the long boots which
required a bootjack to pull them off.
I still continue to read your editor
lats.
Last week there was one entitled,
"Where Will the Money Come From?"
If we both went at that problem,
am quite sure we could solve it.
If there were one hutdrecl people
living on an island, starting without
tools eto begin the development of
their owtn civilization, they would go
to work, first producing the bare es-
sentials of food, clothing, shelter, then
expanding into the production of tools
and machines which would enable
them to lessen the strain of effort and
produce more products than they oth-
erwise would.
The only question on that island
*would be: How can we get the labor
erformed? Money woUld not be es-
sential. The whole problem would be
one of labor. So far as capital is con
cerned, it would be the product of
their own effort) We do not alter that
situatioro, eXcept in detail, when we
take a' country the size of Canada.
The ;Ideation Is not: "Where, will the
navel, tome frem?"; the querstion is:
"Whre *ill the labor eome frornr
The limitatidn of Canadian production
Is labor, net motley Medley la only
a convenience and a great aralveill'
ends at that. It Is Simply a wham
O ettelinge„
tit 102, the, itatiOnal indottle of Cn
adtt Was $030 MillioM by i99 It had
t'fii tosonleWhere aretlird $4,rnjt-
ilon. This year it may approach $6,-
400 million. The latter figure is not
exact because certain factors are still
unknown. However, assuming it to
be $6,000 million, you will have this
situation. We could spend in Canada
$1,370 million more than we spent in
1938 on, our own needs and still have
left $2 billion with which to canal' on
the war. I tetould only be necessary
to divert this $2 billion, by means of
taxes, from the Pockets of the people
into the coffers of the gotrernment.
It would then go ahead—let contracts,
ezteployemen, produce goon for war.
There is this peculiar characteris-
tic of an expanding economy, such as
has developed since the war — the
government could not have imposed
bite femendous taxes of the last bud
get at the opening of the war. The
burden would have been too heavy.
It would have stifled progress and dis-
couraged the people. We start in War
by sUbstantial expenditures—this in-
creases employment. When We em-
ployment increases, taxes are increas
ed and thus, we provide the way for
further ependiturs, further Increase
of employment.
If there is re lesson in, this little
story it is thies, that the first furectiore
of govrnment, indutry, finance and
basic production should be full em-
Ployment. When a nation reacb.es full
erapIoyment then it has raised the
standard of living Of the people to
the highest osalbIeIjjt, If thie oc.
tura itt #eae Vita)? Vie statilard of
living MO. If it-bearits 10rtheil
Prbtnietlea Of witf, routOrlitts will be
tallied 'Lb the lirait of Capatty' —
feed atid elothe otirale-11 Olde
,f0f3 Witte , .$ • a .
Aeroplane Crashes Near Brussels •
A military Plane from Camp Bor.
den crashed ou the farm of R. Sell -
ling, 4th eonceesion. of Grey Township,
about 11 o'clock on Tuesday morning.
The pilot escaped) serious injury. In.
making a scheduled flight from, Camp,
Borden to Lucknow, Brantford and
back to Camp Borden the fuel supply
from one tank was exhausted when
passing ever the district. When the
pilot turned, on the supply from •the
second tank it failed to work,proper-
ly and he was forced, to attempt a
landing.—Brussels Post.
Banker's Son Joins Airforce
„Robert H. Prost, son of Mr. and
Mrs. T. Prest, of Brussels, has poin-.
ed the R.C.A, and is stationed at
Manning Depot in Toronto. Bob, who
has been with the Canadian, Bank of
Commerce for three years, was at the
time of his enlistment at Auburn. One
brother has been on active service
With the R.C.A. overseas for some
months.—Brussels Post.
Received Credit Cards
During the winter months Miss
Barbara Snell conducted a series of
nutrition lectures, sponsored by the
Red Cross Society. The aim of these
lessons, was to teach Canadian house-
wives to conserve food in wartinae.....
The classes proved to be 'profitable as
well as enjoyable and were handled
in a very efficient manner. The fol-
lowing Clinton, ladies who attended ekn..
8 to 100 per cent of the classes re-
cently received their credit cards:—.,
Mrs. J. Stevenson, Mrs. R. H. John-
son Miss D. Shaw, Mrs. W. Plumsteel,
Mrs. 13. J. Gibbins, Mrs. J, Zapfe,
MiSs A. Stirling, Mrs. M. Counter, •
Mrs. M. Pollock, Mrs. J. Shannahan,
Jr., Mrs. A. E. Fremlin, Mrs. (Dr.) F.
G. Thompson, Mrs. P. Fingland, Mrs.
J. D. Thorndike, Mrs. H. M. Monteith,
Mrs. J. Radford, Mrs. P. 0. Ford and
Miss E. Proctor. — Clinton News -Re-
cord."
Presentation To Departing Couple
At a very pleasant social evening
held in the Sacred Heart parish hall
last week, Mr. and Mrs. Barney Ben-
ninger were honored by church as-
sociates and friends. They have tak-
en up residence in Dungannon .where
Mr. Benninger has secured a position.
The evening was spent in cards, 'ten
tables being present. Rev. Father Pa-
quette and Mrs. Keiswater were the
winner, and atter the play at cards
a presentation of a beautiful floor
lamp was made Ic- members of the
parish, the presentation and addrcss
being made by Ed. Rich a -ad Mrs.
William Forgie.• Mr. and Mrs. Bennin-
ger were also the recipients of a
table.This presentation was made by
Mrs. W. T. Cruickshank and Mrs, H.
ganapbell maid the address. Songs by
Mary Louise and Jimmie Benninger
were enjoyed. — Wingham Advance
Times.
A Six -Year -Old Lad as a Barber
Shave an -si a hair -cut 10 cents" is
an old saying, but Jimmie Henderson
put that one in the shade when he
undertook to give a hair trim to two
his pals, Teddy Kress and Wain
Jimmie is six years old but
he felt after watching his father wield
the clippers and scissors that he also.
could do -a good job. He cut quite a:
swath across the heads of his chums
before he was Convinced that he need-
ed more practice before he could fol-
low- in his .Dad's (Barber Bill);, foot-
stps. The hair-dohe performed, we
would: not recommend after a close
inspection, butone cannot say that
Jim did not try. Jimmie is somewhat
disgusted and says he does hot think
he will be, a barber when he grows
up.—Wingha.m Advance -Times.
Birthday Party For Robert Johnston
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Johnston en-
tertained the family to a birthday
party on Tuesday everting. The occa-
sion marked the 75th birthday of Mr.
Johnston and ihis. twin sister Mrs.
Eilaekborough of California. Mrs.
Blackborough was not present. Mem-
bers of the family present were Mrs.
Archie Radford, MT. and- Mrs. Uslie•
Johnston, Mr: and Mrs. Geo. John-
ston and Mr. and lVfrs. Stanley John-
son, Mts. Clarence Clark of Listowel•
:was unable to attend. Mr. and Mrs.
Will JohnstOn, and Mrs. Nathaniel
Johnston' alo' attended ;the • cerebra-
tion.—Blyth -Standard.
• House Burns
On Saturday afternoon the large
stone house of Mr, Elgin McKinley,
ofthe Goshen Line, three mlies north -
of Zurich, took fire from the roof and
before it was extinguished, it got al-
most beyond control. The terrific.
Wind blowing at the time made it al-
most inapossible to extinguish the
flames at they were fanned by the'
wind. The Zurich •fire brigade with its
equipeuent went up and did good work
in getting it undet control. Practical-
ly all the upper storey of the house
is gutted by the fire, while much of
the lower storey is being oared. We
join in - the many friends of Mr. and
Mrs. MoKinleY and family in extend-
ing our sympathy in their hour , of
great loss.—Zurich Herald,.
Ladies Organize Por Bowling Season,'
Piens were made for the openng'
night of the Ford Memorial Lwn,
Bowling Club when the ladies' divi-
sion met on Monday evening, a date
not being chosen) as rain is essential'
to have the greens in fit condition, for
Playing. The following officers were
eIeeted for the current year; Honor-
ary president, Mrs. John Ford; presi-
dent, Mrs. IL G. Berry; 1st vice-presi-
dent, Mrs. F. E. Ruston; secretary
treasurer Miss Bernice Ruston; mem-
bership convener, 1 Mrs. Nell Riggs;
games convener, Mrs. Wilbur Elliott;
soeial, WS. H. Allan, and buying com-
mittee, Mrs. P. E. Ruston end Mrs.
W. Elliott—Mitchell Advocate,
With Ordnance Corps
Q/1 June lst Lietrt. W. F. Elliott,
who has been in command of tile' Mit-
Chen platoon, Perth Regiment (Mo-
tors) RF. leaves for Kingston to take
a course of \ inetruction prior to tak-
lng command Of the 65th Light Md
DetachMente Ordnance Corps. 13111 is
one o. ,10clials popular residents
When Will e altlleatid in Many of the
to-win-tied:kitbg; but the good wish,
es of Alt Will go With hint as he takes
11,14 itinlietrY thities.—MItelaell Ade
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