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S'EAFOI TH, Friday, March 6, 1942
Sounds Like Old 'Times ,
A - recent despatch from Shallow
Lake to one of the daily papers said:
"A co-operative bee furnished the
year's supply of ---fuel for Park Head
Community Church. Twenty-two
iehnirch members met. at Jack Gray's-,•,
bush to cut and trim the trees. The
logs were cut and stored in the
church woodshed:"
That -••sounds very ' much like old
times, doesn't it? One does not have •
to be very . aged to ' remember when •
'the country "bee" was a well known
institution and common .practise in
our immediate country district.
One can -remember, too, how much
zeal Work Was accomplished at these
• country. bees. low barns were 'built,
farms were ploughed,. fields were
seeded and harvested, and wood Was
cut- and split for some neighbor who
through sickness" or accident was in-
capacitated for the time .being.
It was a good old custom, that
brought the people of the district to-
gether and welded, them into a kind-
ly, neighborly atmosphere that eon-
' tinned to function as long as they .
lived. -
But it is very largely a thing of.
.the past now. Modern communica-
tion and -travel facilities, instead of
drawing the- people of a district to-
gether, have scattered their inter-.
ests for afield, much . to....., the derti-
ment of the country districts and the
community. spirit that really should
exist therein. -
Perhaps with things' as they are
and are likely to be for quite some
time to come, it might be wise for
people to think back and then' take
a leaf out of pioneer days. The 'de-
mand, and it is an insistent demand,
on the farmer to -day is for produc- -
tion ' and more production. With
farm labor as scarce as it now is and
as impossible to obtain as it .possibly . •
.soon will be, how is the farmer go-.
lug. to --produce- more and still more?
Well, one of the ways is to go back
- to the co-operation of 'earlier days.'
Fanners can .learn to think of . a
`Whole section as a: single farm. -Can
use the machinery to 'plow, to- seed,
to harvest and thresh the crops of a
. whole section, using all the available
-help of the whole section as ...if It were
a single- unit.'
It is astonishing what co-operation
• acc.o'niplished' in the old days, and it
would be still, more astonishing to
the present generation what close,
unselfish co -,operation would accom-
plish to -day --if it was thoroughly
organized and tried out. -
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It Is Coming
Government officials have an-
nounced that Canadian homes are
going to be stripped of frills and -
non -essentials, and are going to be
operated on a Strict wartime econ-
It may take 'a year or more for the •
restrictions ',already put into effect
to reach every home, but they even-
tually will, and• when they do, well,
life is- going to be different, that's
all.
Orders restricting, or .entirely
banning , articles considered home
necessities, or taken for granted in
every home, are coming faster every
day;' -and still the government says ,
thio isjust a beginning.
The first wartime clothing chang-
es. came when women were deprived -
i' t; Of their • silk stockings. , Now with
the 'rubber and steel shortages, they
,)F *ill hod to 'make' the old corsets do
for; the duration. The men are go -
get get theirs too, No ,more dou-••
`%.bl °a •ted suits, and other changes
to be made to 'reduce.. the Con-
&
i i of cloth..- •-
Are -going to be -fewer dee,
r l broiler* grills' .and Are-
:,-be'tse they are ; no
ide: erasers dre .
end 'of pexla lay rad -
hot water bottles will soon he an-
• Owes,
Bldexs, contractors and owners
of iiew Wimps are already felling ie
pinch. Lighting fixtures are °already
hard to obtain and galvanized hot
Water tanks are very much second-
hand or not purchasable at all. Cop-
per for roofing, eave troughs, plumb-
ing, screens, or anything else, is . `a,
thing of the past. Even the caps On
soft drink bottles will be changed
under present •-- tin restrictions, and
tin cans for preserved fruits and
vegetables will be replaced for some-
thing else, and whether that some-
thing else answers the purpose as
well or not, will make no difference.
It is coming, so be prepared to ac-
cept it with good grace.
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It Might Be Passed On
Amid the • storm of voices raised
against Prime Minister Churchill
the British House of Commons a
month or so ago, Was one. in his de-
fence, that of his son, - Randolph, a
Major in the British Army, as well
as_ a Member of Parliament, who at
the time was home on leave from
the Middle East. • -
After listening to the long-. criti-
cism of his father's war leadership,
Randolph asked - the House: "Al-
though this might not be a very
good government, ought we not to
ask ourselves, is it a very good
House of Commons."
Any one who has beenreading the
Hansard reports of the doings in the
Canadian House of Commons since
the session opened in January last,
might well ask himself if that would
not be a very proper question for
some one to put in our own House of
Commons.
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True In Canada Too .
Ambrose Haile, of Galena, Illin-
ois, a munitions handler at the Army
Ordnance proving grounds, Savan-
na, was recently commended by the
American War. Department for a
slogan he submitted for use in manu-
facturing plants: -"The man who re-
laxes is helping the Axis." -
That is just as true in Canada as
inh United e Un ted States,and applies not
only to the munition workers, but to
every -citizen of the Dominion, man
and woman, boy and girl alike.
The present war loan has not yet
been fully subscribed, and there will
soon be another; all the war savings
stamps have not • yet been sold; all
the oldiron and tin and rubber and
paper and bottles -and bones have not
yet` been collected and sold and the
money used to buy new ships, new
tanks, new .guns, and a hundred
other things that are urgently need-
ed
There will be time to relax after
we have won -the • war. We haven't
done that yet. There is something
that every person roan t4 -o: Let every-
person
veryperson do it.
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. Have ,You Noticed It?
An item.in the ,St. Louis. Star -
Times last week said: • "We . don't
suppose we can blame it on the rub-
ber shortage, but just • the same a
dollar can't be stretched very far
these days."
Have you noticed 'it? Even' in
Canada, where 'there has been no
profiteering since war began; where
the -consumer. is protected by, a price
.ceiling in most of the 'things he has
to buy; where work is abundant and
wages good and farm prices are
climbing, we believe the average
householder and man on the street
has already found out that there ap-
pears to- be less rubber in the Cana-
dian dollar, to give it stretching
power, than there ever was.
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Those Other Pledges
(Winnipeg Free Press)
Dr. 'Manion was • leader of the Conservative
party in March; 1939, 'raving been elected to- this
high •position the previous summer by a properly
constituted convention.
In a speech broadcast on March 4, 1940, dur-
ing the election campaign,- the Hon. Mr. Manion,
still leader of the Conservative party, said:
"In my opinion, conscription was a failure in
the last war, for ,it only added 10,000 men to our
army of over half a miliion. and it stirred up mis-
understanding in this country. For the reason 1
have just stated; because conseription is not nec-
essary in this war and because a public man is
11 duty bound to maintain national unity, -es I
have said on other occasions, I am' absolutely
opposed -to conscription. I have made that quite
OW a year ago, or Mareb -30 in the Hansa of
Comanons."
This addition to the reetird should be borne
in mittd by the ptiblicib $.(l
vitig eentideratlatt to
' the (Medioof hat •pingto Palley rhonld be 111
vieW • of the duogottitetut, ace b •iyolltical WOOS.
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TiCrt: iurolA gkiMltar of Fifty And
;SO , trig .Years Ago.
From The Huron Expositor
March 9, 1917
Crows were seen and heard quite
often last week, but the Northeaster
of Sunday sent them to shelter.
The house purchased by Henry
Thornton, of Walton, with which
there has been so much work in Mov-
ing, fell near Calvin Hillen's hill. • it
will now have to be moved in pieces.
Mrs. Thos. 'Carr; of Brucefield, has
knitted over 200 pairs of socks for
the soldiers and is still hard at work.
Mrs. Alex Jamieson, of the Huron
Road, has diggposed - of her fine 100 -
acre farm to Mr. Thos. Glazier of Hul-
lett township.
Tuckersmith boys journeyed to
Brucefield on Saturday last to play a
friendly game (if hockey with the yil-
la.ge •team and came out on top by a
'score of 5 to 1. °r lie following was
the Tuckersmfth line-up: Goal, W.
'Manson; r•.d., A. Nicholson; l.d.; -W.
Wright; centre, G. McCartney; 1.w.,
J. McMillan; •r -w-, 'S. McMillan; and
the ' Brucefield- men were: Goal; W.
Mclntos•h; l.d., J. Boyd; r.d., R. Scott;
centre, A. Mustard; Lw., W. W. Swan;
r,w., J. Ross.
Mr, R. J. Muldrew, manager of the
E. A. Walker Hardware & Furniture
Co., •of Grenfell, Sask., was here vis-
iting his•••sisters, Mrs. R. Scarlett and
Mrs. J. R. Scott, He has severed his
connection in• the West'and' has 'mov-
ed to Brockville where he has accept-
ed a position.'
Mr. Cdifftrd Bell, government In-
spector of shells in one of the mum -
tion 'plants- in Galt, spent Sunday at
the parental home of Mr. and Mrs. J.
P. Bell.
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur George, Mr.,
James Sleeth, .Miss Gemmell and Miss
McCloy, of Seaforth, assisted with
the concert program given by tthe
Ladies' Aid of Kippen Presbyterian
Church.
-Irene, the little daughter , of Mr.
and. Mrs. Noble, T. CIuf, met with a
painful accident on Wednesday when
she upset a cup of tea over her hand,.
scalding it very badly.
Mr. Joseph Hoggarth bas purchas-
el the residence of Miss Annie
Brooks in Egmondville, and will oc-
cupy it. Mr. Henry Forsythe, who re-
cently disposed of his farm in Tuck-
ersmith, has purchased the residence
occupied by Mr,' Hoggarth and in-
tends moving to Elgmondville to re-
side.
A delightful tea was given by' the
girls of Mrs. J. A. Stewart's Sunday
school class at the home of Mr. and
Mrs. Robert Winter on Wednesday,
Mr. 'Gordon Hunter, of St.' Marys,
spent the past week at the home of
Mr. and Mrs. John A. Wilson.
Delegates from the Walton Farm-
ers' Club, John McArthur, J. J. .Mc -
'Gavin, William Shortreed and George
Kelly, attended the convention. of)
United Farmers at Toronto on Feb.
28, March 1 and 2 ..
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to 'club
has now a inembe"1 ,hip of 92.
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From •The Huron Expositor
March 4, 1892
While Mr. Angus McDermid, of the
Huron Road, Hullett, was hauling ice
off, Van Egmond's pond on :Monday of
last week, his team broke through
and 'a neighbor passing by had to help
him
out.
The Forresters and a large number
of •invited 'guests enjoyed an excellent
supper in the Forresters' Hall, Wal
ton, on Friday evening. Mr. Blashell
of Brussels and Mr- Win. Humphries
delivered addresses. Mr. J. B.- Mor-
rison, who.'for many years has acted
as financial secretary of the court and
ls.ho shortly leave for Manitoba, was
presented with a complimentary ad-
iress and a well-filled purse. Those
who- tack part in the' program were
the Misses Sage, Miss Millen, Mrs. J.
Smith and Messra; McLeod, Murray,
_.Campbell --and Morrison. -
Mr. Dan Quinlan, of Egmondvil+e;
has this winter shot 29.foxes, 9 mink,
50 muskrats acid 49 skunks, besides
other game- •e
Mr. Bert Johnston, of The,.Eirposi-
tor staff, has receive& word .,from his
solicitor, Mr. R.. S. Hay -s, that his
Canadian and • United States' applica-
tions for patents, have been allowed,
We have no doubt- but that in a few
-months his •apparatus for the locking
up of printers' forms will be found in
,almost every printing office.
We understand that the 33rd Bat-
talion Band of this town, under a
heavy expense, has'..engaged the fam-
ous. Arlon Club of Boston and Toron-
to, to give one of their celebrated con-
certs in Cardno's Hall in the near
future. •
Mr. Geo. A. Sproat's sale in Tucker -
smith on Wednesday :last . was one of
the most successful' held this season.
Horses ranged froth $75 to $135; a
yearling bull brought $72; cows ran
as high as $70. Tlhe sale,` realized
82,500 `and thewhole was rattled off
by Mr. W. 11 Duff of Seaforth.
On Thursday night last a farewell
party was given by Mr. A. Blcoat, of
Tuckersmith, to , his sister-in-law,
Miss H. Taylor, prior -to her depar-
ture for Kansas.
At the last council meeting of Mc-
Kiltop the following persons were ap-
pointed fenceviewers for the year:—
Messrs. B..O'Connell, Conrad Eckert,
James McQuaid, Wm. 'Catneron," Alex-
ander Kerr, John- 'Mowbray; Wm. A.
Anderson and Jas. Ryan; the follow-
ing were appointed pounditeepers:
Messrs. John- Maloney, John Irvine,
Timothy Ryan, rllhomas 06e7Alexan-
der Johnson, John T. firckson.,
ward McNamara and Thos. liAsElroy.'
Oh Saturday evening last as W. C.
Caldwell, of Hullet't, near Kinburn,
was on his way home he overtook,
two men who asked him .for a ride.
They rode along until opposite the
residence of Mr. M. MCDerm1B When
one 'made the exetfiiie oi` MOO oust
of the cutter 'and ,going'behind hint
held him while the other rifled 11te
pockets. They took; a silyep watch
and on bearing befit: oonxing •-iiiade"'oit
through the -fields, io_tkacp;of them
was found, afterrward'
Mr.- George Patterson, Of Seaforth,
haus been *painted reeo`r8er for the
'bite ,•Workmen in teiha in !!Made o'f
11iir. A. 'Stroiig: -
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Lazy 6 Meadows
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(tiy Harry J. Boyle) •
"WINTER FISHING"
Every so often a man' gets a fool-
ish idea that practically always gets
him into trouble. I guess that is just
another trait of -our being human. At
least every farmer that I know of
who is honest will •admit.that he gets
a big idea now and again., The idea
hits him right between, the eyes as •
being something giganti. He broods
over it , goes ahead and., does
it and usually manages to get into
trouble.
Neighbor•Higgins was helping me
to clean up seed grain in the gran-
ary the other day. It was a dusty
job and the granary was frosty cold
and both of us were getting .pretty
tired. . He aske-dr•me if I would sell
the big bay horse. Now we need
that horse at Lady lMeadow°s and
there isn't a chance in the world
that we would sell him . . . but it
was a good excuse to get down in
the stable where it was a whole: lot
warmer than up in the. granary. •
After a time we gat down on the
two chop b �gsin
the Pass
a e-
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Va .
a front of the•,cows and (notwithstand-
ing
notwithst rid-
ing Fire Marshall's orders) started
smoking. Politics and war and the
farm problem having been disposed
of, the conversation drifted to sundry
lines and he happened to mention the
'fact that he saw a piece in tthe news-
paper where a man had- caught a big
fish simply by ehciping a hole in the
ice over a deep hole in a spring
creek on his farm and then snaring
the fish with a wire.
That was' all -he said but that- night
staring up into the inky blackness
of the bedroom, I started thinking
about "Old Sam," that wily bass who
has eluded capture in the creek on
Lazy Meadows for several years now.
You can see him in the deep hole
just below the bend in the creek.
gliding and flashing around in the
-water but he refuses to bite. It might
be possible to snare him because in
the winter, he hugs 'close to' the
bottom, of the creek!
Armed with snare wire,an..axe and
other etluipn ens which- might come
in (handy for the expedition, I set out
after the morning chores were finish-
ed the next day. It was frosty cold.
and you could feel the pinch on your
cheeks. The snow crunched under•
foot like salt.
It was an easy matter to chop the.
hole it the ice. Then came the task
of trying to find the big bass, The
sun •seemed to be shining in • just
such' a' way that there was.no use in
trying to peer down through the wa-
ter. Two of the bags which I brought
along served as shields against the
sun and that helped somewhat,,. Have
you ever looked down , through the
cool; green depths of a creek in the
middle of winter? Isnt it a pleasant
sight. •' I have no doubt that it is,
but when, you're looking for a fish it
isn't.
A' dark lumpish object along the
side of a log looked as if it might
'be "Old Sam." I poked with the han-
dle of the axe at the object but the
blade of it slipped through my mitts
and the axe plopped' down into the
water. That was what provided the
amateur fisherman with'" -an oppor-
tunity to try his ab 1ity with, a snare.
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An eddying current of water swept
the wire away each time that it
came close to -the handle .of .the axe.
Finally- the axe slumped. down •until
it seemed ler be: almost' an impossi-
bility to catch it. The weather seem-
ed to grow warner as, time wore on
due no -...doubt to the warmth di'
the words expressed as The noose
persisted in avoiding contact with the
axe. -
Finally 'it -landed --the -axe and pick-
ing up, the equipment I decided to go
home. A plane flew o verhead at
about the stere time and I gawked
up at it, stepping back to get a bet-
ter look. One leg plunged down into
the icy water of the creek- Try
walking with one boot full of chilly
water on a• frosty morning and see
how enjoyable
When Mrs. • Phil heard the story,
after a certain amount of persuasion
she just looked at me toasting my
feet in the oven and Basil, "Men do
•the strangest things-" I couldn't say
a thing..
:14 any People Still Sleep
In Shelters In London's:
Underground Stations
:•This is the twelfth in the series
of articles written ex.ciusiveiy for
the weekly newspapers of Canada
by Hugh Templin, editor of the
Fergus Newsjiecord- ,Ile flew to
Great Britain as a guest of the
British Council and was given an
opportunity to •see what is being
done in Britain, Ireland and Por-
tugal in wartime.
This series has stretched out and
this story -will complete the twelve
that I originally •planned to write. It
seems that there has been so much
to tell—,much more than I thought
when 1 arrived back to Canada. •
For the twelfth story, I am choos-
ing one of the simplest ofthem all,
and yet one of the hardest to do. So
many people want to know jwhat Lon-
don is really • like in Wal -time, with
'the blackout and the bombing, So
many -as'k for a description, yet it is
hard to describe London, as one real-
ly sees 11, particularly at night when
the eye sees little. There have been
so many descriptions and yet most -of
them fail to paint a true picture.
Perhaps I should not try, vehen so
many experts have failed. But it
ought to be easy enough. I'll take one
evening walk and tell about it, as I.
Wrote it clown- after reaching the light
and warinith of my room at the Savoy,
It was the night of October 1st,
and,,; as it happened, the anniversary
of my wedding -the first time f hard
been away freta home on that dafe-
in 20 years of married life, .It was my
turn to broadcast -a Message to 'Can-
ada that night and I had sent m'
wife a..cable t be:•-lisfenthg. I.lxopM
alta would.hear nay Voice, at leail't,
The' British 11irbadoasting '1T it ! ia
in the West :Trine" of London. Potiotit
fait Slane Seen pieturea -of it in idly
of peace. It has been an enemy target
and it looks rather different now, but
we thought.it had been designed with
bombing in mind; for much of it is
'underground. We' decided that when
the Hun knocks a bit off the top, the
• staff just ' moves down one storey
farther into the, cellar, but I cannot
vouch for that.
It isn't an easy' building to enter,
for it is' guarded by' both police and
soldiers. 'once has, to have a pass and
a definite appointment 'to get past the
soldier Who stands with fixed bayonet
hoside' a portable bomb. shelter in the
main hallway.
It was about 10:30 when 1 came
out, showing another pass at the door
before I could get out. I had done my
broadcast from a :basement room, two
storeys below the • surface of the
earth. It Hadn't been an ordeal, in
spite Sf the sign that; said that we
would be warned if enemy bombers
were direetlq' overhead; and would
we please continue as long as pos.,.
Bible -after the first warning sounn'ed.
There is much less formality about
the broadeastirig in the B.B.C. than
in studios on this side of the °Oeab..
I soon felt quite at home: When the
director learned about the •annivers-
sary, he insisted that 1 add a personal
message .to my wife. I appreciated
his thoughtfulness,
There Was no taxi in sight as I
came- out_ into the 'blackout, but it
was a moohilit night and I was used
to the blackness by this time; so I
started off. It isn't hard to flnd..one's
way ill Ldndon. The moon was in the
south and the'hamtos lay in 4bM di-
rection.
-At -a corner- in Regent Street./ stopp,
VA to theft pp WWI a Po1i'eethan;:
He was .standing -outside his 1#ttle ft
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• Cousin Dies` 4n Active Service
Mrs. M. T. Corless' -received word —
this week cif, the death of her coilssf,
Pilot Officer Ray Colquhoun, Moore-
field. He was killed •in active ser-
vice at Frishman Health Berkshire;
England, on February 11, and was
-buried in Brookwood cemetery twen-
ty miles from London. A memorial
service was held forr him- last Sunday
at Moorefield church where he form-
erly took an active part and will be
greatly missed. He is survived by
his father and mother, Mr. and Mrs.
Enos Colquhoun.—Clinton News -Re-
cord.
Fractures Arm
Miss Ann Shaddock, daughter of. -
Mrs. William Shaddock, tof town, had.
the misfortune to fracture her arm
while playing at recess at school on
Monday morning—'Clinton News -Re-
cord. • -
Pictures of . War Prisoners -
In the Globe and Mail on Monday
was. a picture of a group of Cana-
dians who are war prisoners, •et
Stalag, Germany. In this group , ,7 d
M. Jarrell, of Kincardine, and
few weeks ago we published a mes-
sage he sent to 'Mr. Colin Crozier,
principal of the fublic school here.
He looks, well in the picture and is
wearing a beard.-Wingham Advance -
Times.
Enlisted in Radio Work -- -
Mr. George Henderson, son of Mr.
and Mrs. W. Joseph Henderson,' Blue -
vale Road, has enlisted in the R.C.A.
F., and will take up radio work,—
Wingham Advance -Times. -
Elaborate Variety Show -
From the elaborate and spectacular
patriotic opening.with twelve lovely
dancers in R:C-A.F, uniforms, plus the
remainder of the outstanding cast of
twenty-five footlights and radio fav-
orites, "Sing Out the New§" was
one of•'the most rousing and spa'i'kling
revues to be presented; in C1ntuon
last Saturday evening in the town
hall, This splendid revue was pre-
sented under the auspices of the Vic-
tory Loan Committee, with the entire'
supervision in the hands of Eric
Greenwood, who has just returned
from New York to contribute his ser-
vices to' this invaluable phase of his,
country's war effort. "Sing Out the
News" was replete with talent rang-
ing from •dance teams to rousing
quartettes, song and dance soloists•,
and Ted Rust, the famous ventrilo-
quist, and many other outstanding,
artists. --Clinton News -Record.
Flies To • Vancouver
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Mrs. O. R..... Smith (formerly Ger-
trude Wheeler) and baby son, Owen,
left Goderich on Mond 'for Coal
Harbor, ate the no ern nd of Van -
Island, w ere :Ztl[r. Si nith, . a
w*.. •operator. an1re' it-0t�F:. +^.-
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no
wlocated.
Tile i -
tr p wlas made by
Motor to Toronto, airplane to Van-
couver, and thence by boat to Coal
Harbor, the water trip alone require,
ing a day and , a half. The air trip
w~ase1nade in less than a day. This
is the .second time Mrs. Smith' has
flown across the continent. She was
accompanied as far as, TQron-to-,.by,,her,.
parents, Mr. and Mrs.',J- R- Wheeler,
With whom 'she }bad been visiting for
some mouths--Gocler-ich--..Signal-Star.
Injured Are Recovering
Reports' from Victoria Hospital,
London. are that William, Sutherland,
of Goderich, 'and Lieut. John Lamont,
Of London, who were Very seriously
injured in a fh.ilway crossing accident
at London on:.Pebruary 1st, •are mak
ing satisfactory progress. Mrs. Suth-
erland, who was .less severely iiijur-
ed at the same time, has quite recov-
ered -and -has returned to• her home
here.—G.oderral Signal -Star.
111 With Pneumonia
We ree'ret to'oreport. that Mr. W. J.
yetis is quite ill at his home with an
attack of pneumonia: Miss Isabel
Fox, R.N., is in attendance. We hope
for' Mr-,'Petts' speedy recdvery. Mr.
Potts had the misfortune last week
to catch his hand in a machine while
working at the planing mill, injuring .....
it rather severely. Medical• aid and
stitches were required to heal the
wound.—Blyth Standard.
Car Turns Turtle
County Constable John Ferguson,
of town, who has investigated many
an accident, was himself ,the victim
of an accident Thursday evening of
last week when. his car left the road
and turned over three times, landing
up on top of a fence: Mr. Ferguson
was unhurt, but his car was damag-
ed to. •the extent of about $300. He
had driven about 175 miles on Thurs-
day and was settling down for the
evening- when be was called to Credi-
ton to investigate the theft of some'
money from the till of one •of the
business places. The call, was urg-
ent and Mr. Ferguson ---Was travelling
rather fast for the condition of the
road. On a slippery portion 'the, car
left the road and -turned over. The
accident was investigated by Provin-
cial Officer Fox, of Goderich.—Exe-
ter'Times-Advocate.
• Accident At /airport
When a large crane used in the
erection- of the girders for the bang -
ars at the Centralia airport slipped
on its footing Wednesday morning of
last week, it allowed one of the gird-
ers to fall a1tl -in crashing down it
carried four others with it. ' Some of
the workmen on the job narrowly ,
escaped injury whenthe timbers
came crashing down around them.--
Exeter Times -Advocate.
Injured in Fall
Mr. W. '11tZ. Taman had the misfor-
tune 10 fall on some slippery lee at
the corner' of James and Main, Streete
on, Saturday and sustained , some torsi
kigainentsotif the hip. Th;Ie hob been
• entplicated by jautldide ,TES thany
loflt *OP 'tope to Hee hiM, eroithdi
train, Boni'.- ggeter Times-A,dvoeatoi •
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