HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1941-09-26, Page 5a SEPTEMBER 26, 1941
News'
of the
Week
in Scut and
Guide Circles
Scouts will get ugdenway with their
Tall and winter activities next Wed-
nesday evening when the first meet-
ing of the fall season will be held.
' All Scouts, are requested to be pres-
ent at the Scout Hall at 7.30 pan.
A meeting of the 'Girls' Atthletic
Association was held in Grade XIlI
on 'Sept. 24. Helen Moffat presided.
The Meeting opened with the read-
ing, of the minutes for the last meet-
ing which were adopted by Isobel Mc-
Kellar and seconded by Kathleen
Holmes. The judges for the Field
Meet are: •chief clerk, Miss- R. Fen-
nell; assistants. Helen Monfat, Isobel
,Robinson; senior judges, Miss S. I.
Wood, `Mrs. W, J. Duncan, 'Mrs. I. H.
Weedmark, Mrs. G. A. Ballantyne,
Betty Moore; intermediate judges:
Miss M. Allen, Mrs. E. A. McMaster,
Mr•s, D. Best, Esther Patton; Junior
judges: 'Miss E. Lester, Mrs. J. F.
Daly, "Mrs. P. B. Moffat, Mrs. E. Rus-
sell„ Lois Harrison. The girls chosen
to look after the equipment are Dor-.
othy Theobold, Lorna Dale, Anna.
Watson. The meeting then • ad-
journed.
Scboel
The Week At the Seaforth Collegiate Institute
(By Harry Scott)
Once again plans are being made
for the Annual Commencement. This
year it will be held on the ninth and
tenth of October and this will be the
earliest the Commencement has been
held in many years. Melburn E. Tur-
ner of London who d•id such an excel-
lent job last Commencement will
again be in charge and practice will
begin on Monday. Pirate Gold is the
name of• the Play this year and it 's
supposed to be even better that last
year. Although many of the older pup-
ils who took pan, last year have left
the school, there .'' ! , 'any- new pupils
who look like girl ✓ material.
In the meantime the event that's
holding the spot -light now is the
Field Meet• which is .being held on
Friday afternoon. It is doubtful how-
ever if there will be a Huion County
Meet in which all the schools compete.
The meet will again be held at the
race track and will start about half
past one.• •
War Savings Stamps are again being
sold •every Wednesday morning. Last
term the average was over ten dollars
a week and now the pupils are out to
better that mark, This week the sale
was $15.75.
Frank Golding the spark of that
old spark plug Basketball team last
year has left the school and is now
in the Air Force.' He is situated at
Victoria•ville in Quebec. "
The weekly meeting of the Cavell
Club was held on Tuesday, Sept. 23,
in Grade XI of the Seaforth Col-
legiate Institute.
The new president, Mary Duncan,
presided.
Tbe.following people were placed in
office: Vice-president, Wilma Hay;
convener of Finance Conirmitlee, Jean
Hurford; reporter, Isabel McKellar.
Wilma Hay read a portion, of the
"Charter of The Atlantic," after
which the pupils adjourned to their
knitting and sewing groups.
WALTON
Scott.
Mr. and• Mrs. Carl 'Weitzman of
diagara Falls New York visited -,among
rlends over the week -end.
Mr. and Mrs. Alex Crago and Mrs.
ruby Routly of Kirkton at the home
f Mr. and Mrs. A. McLachlan. '
Mr. and Mrs. Duncan Colquhoun of
taffa and Mr. Robert • Wilson of
imith Falls, at the home of Mr, and
In. Ernest Allen.
Mr. •and 'Was. Carl Stauskopf -of Selb-
ingville and Mrs. Scott of 'Fillmore,
askatchewan, with Mr. and Mrs.
)uncan . McKellar and other friends.
Mr, Alex McKellar and daughter
arah 'McKellar, • accompanied by
Vfiss M. B. Currie, also Mr. and Mrs.
eorgee Wallace and daughter, at -
ended the funeral. • of Mr: ArchTh
ussel.of Downie on Saturday.
Tars. -John Mcllwraith, of Owen
found, is spending week among re-
atives and friends in the vicinity.
Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd—Mille' of Strat-
ord "at, the home of Mrs. S. Miller.
Red Cross Meets •f.
The monthly meeting of the Walton
Red Cross unit was held in the Com- F
munity Hall db Tuesday when three c
quilts were quilted and 6 quilts donat-
ed. Over 125 were in attendance. In E
the basement a number of ladies made E
Sam and in the evening prepared ap- 1'
pies- for jelly making on 'Thursday.
After the business part of the meet- r
ing was over much enjoyment wa • --,
had in a Waistline Tea. Everyone's I
waistline was measured and a nibe
sum of $30.68 'was made, after Which iE
sandwiches and coffee were served. .I
The meeting closed' with God Save
the King. t
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ROMARTY - E
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The Young People's Society of the
Presbyterian , IChurch met''on Sunday t
evening and re-elected Miss Mary
Agnes Hamilton as their president
for the ensuing year. Last year und-
er the . leadership of Miss Hamilton
and the executive the organization '
succeeded in tripling their member-
ship, and great .improvement was seen
in their efficiency and contributions
to the work" of the ,church. Repre- t
sentatives to the annual convention t
to be held in Guelph, October 3 to 5,
will be Miss Margaret Scott and Miss 1
Hazel Laing. Rev. -Jamieson gave an
'address on the life of Fanny Crosby,
the blind hymn writer.
A large crowd attended the shower
given to Miss Agnes Scott at the home
of her mother, Mrs. ,Russell Scott
Prior to hex marriage on Sept..20, to
Mr. Wesley Russell of Russeldale.
Mrs. Wilson, of Toronto, visited. at
the home at her niece Mrs. T. 'L.
FALL FAIR DATES
The following is a list of Agricul-
tural Societies' Fairs' and Exhibitions
in this district for 1941:
Blyth, Sept. 25-26. '
Kirkton, Sept. 25-26.
Atwood, Sept. 29-30.
St. Marys, Sept. 30 -Oct. 1.
Teeswater, Sept. 30 -Oct. 1
Meaford, Oct. 2-3.
Dungannon, Oct. 2-3.
Corrie, Oct. 3-4.
Tiverton, Oct. 6-7.
'Landon (Junior only), Oct. 10-11.
Underwood, Oct. 14.
USED CARS
39 Plymouth Sedan -
38 Chev. Coach
34 Dodge Sedan.
29 Ford-Coach
28 Ford Coupe
'Chen. Sedan
Many Lower.Priced
. Cars to choose from
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DEALERS
Seaforth .:. Phone 141
Seaforth
We Soil the Best «Supertesto
Miraculous
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ruck ran between us," Mr. McKenzie
.aid. "I jumped towards the road
nd Steinberg jumped in the other
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(fro ti>�n d sxom Pao .)
Beath, aide 01.4110buildiPg., :. •
A reel on.the 'i WU .ef, the residence
of r. Ed Io}e, J& les street was
split in."•twos, half• of • 4failing across
the house, i'tontggate the building
was not d'anlagett
'While walling along main street
at the height of the •store 16 year
old William Taman had- a narrow es-
cape when 'a large slate blown from
a building and being carried along by
the wind struck 'him on the legs,
bruising them.
A large tree at the residence -Of H.
G. Meir North main street. was blown
down as was a tree near No. 7 green
at the Seaforth golf and country club.
The storm disrupted Bell Telephone
toll lines according to Mrs. • Lloyd
Hoggarth, local manager. In Seaforth
phones went dead in the north west
corner of town when a cable Was car-
ried away by a falling tree on Ce, ltre
street.
Hydro off in Hensall.
Hydro went off in Hensall•Thursday
when a tree fallling near the residence
of Miss Reid carried with it main
transmission lines. Another tree was,
blown clown on Main 'street opposite
the home of Mr. J. Kaiser.
direction."
The crash was heard for blocks
and attracted a large crowd within
a few minutes. George Reeves was
at his 'home on the north road nearly
four blocks away, when the accident
occurred:
"I heard the crash as plain as if it
happened in front of me," he said.. "I
jlimped on my wheel and was there
about as soon as anyibody. Armstrong
was half leaning out of the truck and
another man was lying on the ground
beside it," Mr. Reeves recalled.
J. J. Cleary wt.ose• home is nearly
opposite the scene, heard the crash
and ran out. He summoned medical
aid. The injured were attended by
Dr. M. W. Stapleton, Dr. E. A. Mc-
Master and Dr: J. A. Gorwill. They
were removed to hospital in Holmes
and Boxes ambulances..
A cow in the truck was thrown out
as the truck swung around. It landed
some distrce away but was not in-
jured.
The accident was investigated by
Chief John Currie, County Constable
Helmer Snell and provincial -traffic
officer George Govier.
Bowlers. Hold
(Continued from Page 1)
13. F. Christie, Seaforth, 1 win phis 3
Lorne Dale, Seaforth, 2 wins plus 1.1
R. J. Sproat..Seaforth, 2 wins plus 7
J. Hothanr, Seaforth 1 win plus 7
Har!y Stewart, Seaforth, 2 losses
M. A. Reid, Seaforth 1 win plus 7
E. H. Close, Seaforth, 2 wins plus 20
W. G. Willis, Seaforth 2 wins plus . 7
John J. Cluff, Seaforth 2 losses
R. E. Bright, Seaforth, 2 losses
A. O. Pringle, St- Marys, 2 wins plus 11
W. Snell, Exeter, 2 wins plus 8
Dr. Roulston, Exeter 2 wins plus 4
H. Lewis, Exeter, 2 wins plus 5
J. M. Southcott, Exeter, 2 wins plus 7
T. N. Elliott, Exeter, 1 win plus 9
G. Cochrane, Exeter, 1 win plus 7
M. Binkley, Stratford. 3 wins plus 14
L. McConnell, Walkerton, 1 win plus 4
T. E. Brant, Walkerton, 1 win plus 6
S. Robinson, Goderich, 1 win plus 10
F. Hunt, Goderich, 2 wins plus 20
B. Sanderson, Goderich, 2 wins plusl5
G. Matheson, Goderich, 3 wins plus 17
I. Robinson, Blyth, 2 losses
C. P. Sills, Seaforth, 2 wins plus 9
Wins at Goderich
Mr. and Mrs. M, A. Reid Were in
Goderich Friday night competing in
a mixed tournament and were succes-
sful in winning one of the prizes.
Ladies Entertain Men
IMemlliers of the' ladies bowling club
entertained the men of the club on
Wednesday afternoon and evening
with supper being served at the greeds
between games.
Lady winners were Mrs. Gordon
Muir 3 wins plus 10; Mrs. E. H. Close,
and' Francis Mathews, ,? wins 'plus
"15" -(tied). The men who won were:
H. J. Mellen, 3 .wins plus 17; W. G.
Willis and , J. Doherty 2 wins pltia 16
(tied).
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War Relics Aid
Bomb Victims
w.awe.ay.ra.A1P0.arwx^x.,rww441," u:
a toll'lBer I>i0.0114,
The ' Oorl!uopitiee, e4Mrpagelt at
Tattlea'elmiil;zx!,'anr Nyet.sletx Ja»es'
Leiper, 'ReevesN.: O ane, R, k,
Siraddiek, 4. E. Bpgw }Kala, cud' Ben
R'a'tbwell, visited the dir N'avi1'atian
School at Pert 4inert, to' inspect
recreation room a;?id hpeirzta•'l,there, to
which grantii had, beteg mane previone-
ly. These grants were >nde possible
by the setting aside of ', patriotic
fund at the January eesslon of the
county goluu'eil.
STANLEY
Death of Miss Eliza MCClinehey.:.
r A beloved and highly respected
resident was called to the, great be-
yond on Sept. 11, in, the pern of
Eliza MoClinchey,' eldest daughter of
the late Mr. and Mrs. Henry Mc-
Clinchey, of Stanley Twp. The de-
ceased, who' in her 84th year was rn
her usual good health till the day of
her passing when heart seizure over-
took her. The funeral took place
from her late home on ,Saturday con-
ducted by Rev. Graham. Interment
in Bayfield cemetery. Many rela-
tives and friends attended the fa -
neral. The pallbearers were: RobertMcClinchey, Jack Armstrong, Henry
Hayter; _Lorne Armstrong, Thos. Reid'
and William Armstrong.
Sympathy .of the community is ex-
tended to the surviving brother
Arthur at home, and a sister, Mrs.'
Wm. Hart, Varna.
British war relics from treasured
buildings in old ' London damaged
by Nazi bombs, a wrecked. German
bonrlber shot down in one of the raids
the fork that captured Hess, and
other trophies will be exhibited in
London Ontario all next week in the
interest of the Queens Canadian fungi
for British Air Raid Victims.
'Coupled with the War Relic exhib-
ition sent to Canada by the British
Governwient will be a great display
of Canadian War 'Munitions arranged
by the Department of "Trade and
Commerce War Munitions and supply
Branch. The Exhibition held with the
co-operation of all Canadian light-
ing services will fill the Armouries
which have been loaned for the entire
week beginning Sept. 29. Military
Ibands will be in attendance. There
will be parades and exercise.. Among
the British exhibit will -be parts of
Buckingham Palace blown off 'Tis
bombs, a charred beam from West-
minster Abby and fragments of St.
'Paul's •C'atberdal.
The two exhibits come to London
direct from the Canadian National
Exhiibition where they were a feat-
ure,. Admission prices will be twenty
five cents and ten cents for children,
'every cent of which without reduct-
ion will be sent to Britain to help re-
habitulate bombing victims who have
lost every thing in the Empire's bat-
tle.
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ST. COLUMBAN
Mr. and Mrs. Mark Miles who have
resided here for a number of years
having been caretaker of the church,
have moved to North East Hope, a
short distance from Stratford Where -
Most of his family are living.
Mrs. Edward O''Hearn and baby
girl of London have been visiting
her parents Ma'. and Mrs. James O'
Sullivan.
Mr. and Mrs, O'Sullivan and Miss
Mary O'Sullivan spent ;Sunday at
Bayfield With the let'ters. sister, Mrs.
Valentin Wilds. -
Mns. Blum and baby of Ackingham,
Ii.aste'rn Ont, is visiting her parents
Mr, atsd Mrs. Jno. DelalIey. -
fit
Goderich,Exeter
Receives Grants
25 Years Aao
By Grant Dexter in The Winnipeg
Free Press
Ottawa: National unity, so marked
in August, 1914, was desperately in
danger in August, 1916, though few
political leaders were aware of ;t.
Smooth water lay behind: ahead Was
the whirlpool,
Sir Robert Borden was weary to
death. So- were iris chief lieutenants.
Cabinet toiled endlessly, harassed by
seemingly insoluble problems. There
Was no respite: no sunshine. "Sciat-
ica, neuritis and lumbago engrossed
Sir Robert :n
weary of this
sick I am 'of
my attention," writes
1916.,"Very tired and
life," "How tired and
this infernal life."
War sucked greedily
of his strength. It was
those in authorityy, . "Cochrane un-
able to deal with his department
incapacitated." "Reid absent and ill."
There are many such entries, each
of them like a cry of anguish.
Nothing would go right and yet,
generally, the government had done,
was doing, h splendid job. Casuality
weeks ahead, would cost 6,000 casual-
ties. Ypres, Festubert, Givenchy; St.
Julian, St Eloi and Sanctuary Wood
were already history.
Exact figures on the war effort as
at August 4, 1916 were,uo`yi,given, but
official statements made earlier and'
later enable an accurate estimate to
be made.
From August
1914, 33,000r
In 1915 enlist
In the first hal
160;000. Indeed,
but 40,000 enlis
On n August 4,
320,000 in the a
3,000 in the na
The country.
less.
The rail
and the'dis
The Libe
to the shel
the second
stench o8 d'
of pork bat
would, Sir
the' cff rrupt
Conaervativ
that $2'00,0
friends of
being paid p
at the vitals
so wih all
The Warden's Committee or Huron
County Council, meeting in Goderioh,
on Monday, authorized a grant of $400"
to the. Empire Service. Club of Goder-
ich to be used in their recreation
room in McKay Hall , provided ' for
men in any of the armed forces. This
amount supplements a 'former dona-
tion for a refrigerator.
'A grant of $500 was voted to the
Exeter Service Club, which will open
a recreation room in that village. The
Clinton Club was given a similar
amount at a'former meeting.
As the 95th Battery, of which Maj-
or R. S. Hetherington is O.C., is the
only county unit to be recruited in
Huron, a donation of $400 was granted
for recruiting .purposes; the accounts
to be approved by County Clerk
Norman Miler and County Treasur-
er A. 11. Erskine.
The Queen Elinaibeth Viand for Wer
V3ctims -will, receive 000. The turd
Masror's, Marnd had been ghr0fl $60 at
4 to December 31,
ecruits were enrolled-
ments totalled 180,000.
f of 1916 the total was
from January to May
enlistments averaged 1,000 per day-
Recruiting sagged, never to recover,
in the second h
a1f of 1916. There were
tments,,
1916 there were some
rmy. There were about
vy. There was no Can-
adian air force.
was discontented, rest -
way problem was 'becoming
acute, thr
eatehing a political crisis
solution of Parliament. The
appointment of the Drayton -Acworth
commission
eased the situafion-
nal opposition had uncov-
ered one scandal after another. From
the booth
scandal in December, 1914,
1 scandal at the close of
tyear of war, there -was a
shonesty, war' profiteering,
-rel politics. Try • as he
Robert could not root out
ion. In/1915 he read two
e metfn�bers out of the
party. Yet
the Meredith ;commission
bn shell,s revealed in July, 1916, thak'
00 of graft had gone to-'
a cabinet minister. A 'com-
mission of
t o cents per fuse was'
to clinicians and their
friends. '
"It is the ill -fortune of every gov-
et•nment in time of war," writes Sir
Robert, "to be assailed by unworthy
men with every possible fraudulent
device and scheme for the purpose of
profiting during national emergency
at the expense of the country's re-
sources."
And there was another bitter les-
son which Sir Robert was learning:
"In the excited condition of public
opinion during a war, rumor is us-
ually accepted as fact and loud out-
cry gathers headway against the gov-
ernment, supposed to be derelict 'n
its duty in 'permitting irregularities
This outcry. naturally concentrates it-
self against the leader of the govern-
ment who is supposed' to be mater-
ially responsible, as he is constition-
ally responsible, for maladministra-
tion or inefficiency. In m8'§t cases
outcry arises in respect or subjects
that are of a .purely departmental
character and with which no human
being occupying the position of prime
minister could possibly keep in torch.''
Sam Hughes was intolerable and
was marked down in the diary for
dismissal on April 3,1916, six months
before tihe event. Sir Robert had to
take oder this depaftment from March
to July, 1916, while theshell inquiry
was under way. It was galling, tort-
uring worts.
There was the Roes Rifle,, In mld-
1916 the opposition was demanding
that it be condemned 04 that the
troops be egrti'pped tn'ih .tie Enfield's,
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HONOUR YOUR PLEDGE—Buy War Savings Certificates Regularly
The decisibn to condemn was nearly
a year away (although the First Div-
ision in France ,bad 'already mode.
the 'change), and meantime, as the
second year of war closed, Sir Rob-
ert vigorously' defended the •Ross
rifle, He denounced the critics: They
were trying to make our soldiers be-
lieve they were badly armed, and their
criticisms had disastrous effects` on
home morale. The Ross rifle was an
excellent rifle. The British gov`ern-
men't ordered 100,000 of them. He was
proud to announce that we had ex-
panded production 15 times over. We
were still expanding production. "We
!have to use the Ross rifle or nothing,"
he said.
Sir Robert knew that the rifle was
THE weapon in the war. This was a
'war of rifles. The governme;rrt ball not'
'ordered in the United States because
of difficulties in getting deliveries.
There was, he said, a great short-
age of array equipment. He spoke in
i the Commons to this effect in May,
1916. We lacked rifles to train and
i arm the troops in Canada. There
were very few machine-guns avail;,
able. There were shortages in field"
artillery and so on. "Machine-guns,"
said Sir Rdbert, "like rifles, cannot
be procured in a moment."
He could not silence the critics
'Tihe 51st battalion, recruited in 1914i"
had trained in Canada: up'ward's of a
year . and' bad natter seen a machine
gun. So, too," with the 63rd and 66th,
aiithotigh they had been recruited lat-
er. We were sending men to Britain
to be equipped and trained. Why
could we not equip and train them at
home? Sir Robert's answer was that
it could not he done any other way.
And there was the mess about
Webb equipment. Why should the
government—continue to buy Oliver
equipment when it was useless?
Seas of trouble beat down oui the
unhappy government. To cap all, the
Duke of Connaught, Governor General,
came to the view that the Borden gov-
ernment was sq inefficient as to be
imperilling not. only Canada but the
Empire. His excellency -wrote to Sir
Robert, protesting against the "per-
sistent neglect of the Canadian gov-
ernmen to' -carry out recommendations
and requests . . . and thereby , ex- •
posing the Empire to real and ser-
ious danger." And again, that the Can-
adian government did not appreciate
the "undoubted danger both to Can-
ada and .the Empire." The Duke took
the field against Sir Robert in= --full
panoply. He wrote, officially, as Gov-
ernor-General and a Field Marshal hi
His Majesty's Forces. Sir Robert
yielded never an inch to royality at -
Rideaug, Hal 1. His reply to the second
attack was dated August 4, 191-6.
Conscription, too, was still in the
future, although the shrinking totals
of enlistment were causing grave anx-
iety.
Sir Robert in 1916 renewed his
pledge again? conscription. He said:
"In speaking in the first two or three
months of this war, I made it clear
t� the people of Canada that we did
not propose any conscription. I re-
peat, that announcement today with
emphasis."
Sir Robert announced conscription
on May 18, 1917.
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