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SEAFORTH, Friday, January 8th
. Senator George P. Graham
Pusses
+Senator George Perry Graham
passed away at his home in Brock-
ville on Saturday evening after. a
long illness, at the age of 83 years.
He had been a member of the "Senate
of Canada since 1925.
George P. Graham's name was a
household word in Canadian politics
thirty years ' ago, and it is doubtful
if any public man in public life in
Canada possessed a wider group of
personal friends or one who had few-
er enemies.
No one who' heard him on the plat-
form : during the now historic reci-
procity campaign has ever forgotten
his kindly, genial personality, his
fund pt_ we11-,told stories which "so
aptly illustrated his wide knowledge
of human life. To the present gen-
eration, perhaps, his is but a name,
but to the generation preceding, he
is a living memory and always will
More than half a century ago he
started his public career in munici-
pal affairs. Later he was a member
and for a time Leader of-the'Opposi-
tion in the Ontario Legislature. In
3907 he was, elected 'to the Federal
Parliament, and soon after joined the
Cabinet of Sir Wilfrid Laurier. He
was also a member of Mackenzie
King's first Cabinet in 1921, and a
few years later became a member of
the Senate and Imperial,Privy Coun-
cillor.
The present Canadian Premier is
now -the sole remaining member of
the Cabinet he formed when he first
took office as Premier, and there are
but three now living who were mem-
bers of Sir Wilfrid Laurier's. Cab-
inets, Sir William Mulock, Sir Allen
Aylesworth and Premier King.
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Farm Wages
Living in a farm carmnunity, the
people here do not need to be told
that the supply of farm workers is
spread very thin across the country,
And the reason for the shortage can
be read in official figures released
from Ottawa recently, which show
that two hundred and forty-one thou-
sand male farm workers, both paid
help and family .members, left Cana-
dian farms between January 1, 1940,
and August, 1942.
Since last March, however, manr;.
power regulations have largely tend-
ed to keep essential' workers on the
farm, although there are no restric-
tions against volunteering for ser-
vice.
And because of the shortage, farm
lahorers are now receiving the best
pay ever reported in many parts of
Canada. The average farm helper
in the Dominion as a whole, accord-
ing to the figures released, receives
two dollars and fifty cents a day and
board, as of August 15, 1942, com-
pared with two dollars and six cents
at the same date in 1941, and one
dollar and fifty-two cehts in 1940.
On a monthly basis the average
Was forty-six dollars and eighty-two
Cents with board, ' against thirty-
three dollars and sixty-four cents in
1941, and twenty-seven dollars and
sixty cents in 1940.
Annually, this rate averages five
hundred and sixty-one dollars plus
board, compared with one hundred
and lfty4five d-ollars in 1914; five
iimdred : and forty-three in 1920;
three hundred and twenty-sixin
19g0' e • ailed two hundred and forty-
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,logon .0111001.9 f,i Lirnolighit
Two . well known Unroll 'County
officials figured in the public news
of last week, although in a different
way.
Reeve Fred Watson, of . Stanley
Township, had his car stolen frons. a
street in Clinton, and if it had ,not
been for his •fellow Huron County
Councillor, Reeve Shaddick, of Hen-
sall, he would probably be minus it
yet.
Two escaped prisoners from
Guelph reformatory were the .cul-
prits and escaped convicts are not
the easiest men, ' as a rule, to either
handle or hold, but Peg Shaddick is
no respector of persons—he just
takes them as they come.
And he made a good job of it too.
One prisoner did get away, but when
the police arrived the other was in
the firm grasp of the Hensall reeve.
It is rather unfortunate. that.1943
is the Liberal's year to elect 'a War-
den, .otherwise Hensall might have
had another Warden and that by ac-
clamation, the same as Reeve Shad -
dick receives all his appointments.
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From The Huron Expositor
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Security Is Not Everything
There has been .an increasing
vehemence in the claims of some
politicians in at least one political
party in Canada that the only pos-
sible way to win this -war is for the
Government to take over all the
munition plants, all the industrial
plants, all the -ban -kg -and all private
industry.
And, after the war" is over, accord-
ing to these politicians, that is the,.
only way the laborer will be sure of
employment and security in after-
life. In other words—socialism.
But security is not everything in
life as Austin .Hopkinson, Tory mem-
bier in the British House of Com-
mons said in a 'speech in that House
a short .time ago, a paragraph of
which we ' quotes here and which
should be studied by all thinking peo.-
ple, as well as some others:
"There is only one Way you can
guarantee men against want and un-
employment, and that is by making
slaves of them, 'Slaves are never un-
employed. To achieve these things
you would have to take from a man
his right to choose where he would
work, or how he would work. He
could not change his occupation that adventure anywhere. I tell you that:
the young men who are fighting to
day don't want the sterile, frozen
hell of Socialism. They want op-
portunity, not the security of slaves."
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Hitler's Christmas present
Last June eight German spy -sabo-
teurs were captured in the United
States and in their possession was
found $174,588.62.
The money , was found hidden un-
der rugs, in false bottom bags and
sundry other hiding places after the.
eight invaders had been rounded up
by. Federal agents.
The day before Christmas Attor-
• ney General Francis Biddle, an-
nounced ,from Washington, that be-
cause Hitler sent all this money over
to America, he can have it back.
gain—as' bullets.
Just a little Christmas present for
Mr. Hitler!
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Easy To Tell
Scottish -Canadian girls in Prince
Edward Island have a. custom, it is
said, of wearing plaid coats made up
in the tartan 'of their ancenstral
Scottish clan.
These coats really talk, because by
them it is 'easy to tell whether a girl.
is, say, a Campbell, "aMacLean, a Mc -
Nairn, a Stewart, a • MacDonald, a
MacGregor, or a MacDuff.
But because some of the ancestral
tartans are very pretty and some are
amazingly ugly, we don't believe
this custom of the Island girls orig-
inated with, say, a MacLean.
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A Canadian -Russian
(Private Konstantin Oleinik,' Speaking in a Beti.C.
Radio Newsreel on "Salute to the Red Army").
"It is not enough to ftgiht. You must now what
you are fighting against. 1 know the Germans.
1 Saw the lighting in Spain . . I have lived
under foreign occupation.. /n•1919, the 'Rumanians
took over my -country. '/they;, Would not allow .us
to eaak OUT Ukrainian latigitage. Not even in
Churches: So I decided •to tiui£ iVty uncle wrote
VS Me from Canada: •; 1V'd are free here.' 'o 1
Sarent to 'Oanada. There are p great Many Ukraine
tans, in. Ganada>. We shave rsoriron aehoole and
Canada- heel bedon116 lilt' hotat,i
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ktry 11, 1918
Mr. John. ell, of Tuckerswith,
has disposed, if: his fine farm, lot 6,
on the 2nd' cathessionato Mr. Matthew
Haney, -off , 10erlstburg.
On. Wednlesdey night lash are of un-
known origin destroyed the stable and
contents of l[r°,. Henry Flaxboard, o
Zurich, 'just :east of the village.
Master Thomas: 'Shortreed, son of
Mr. Wm. SLw treed, of Walton, under-
went on operation last week for ap-
pendicitis,
Miss Mildred Jones, of Seaforth,
left • on .Saturday for Saginaw where-
she will train for a nurse.
Mr. F. D. Hutchison, of Staffa, 're-
ceived a cablegram from his son,
Lorne, stating that he had arrived
safely overseas.
Two hundreds and sixty loads, chief-
ly coal, passed over the town hall
market scales in three days last.
week. There has been a serious coal
shortage.
Mr. George Patterson, formerly, of
Seaforth, and eine of its first resi-
dents, died' at his home in Toronto.
Mr. James Collie, of Lake Linden.,
Mich., brother of Mrs.' John Beattie,
has generously` donated another valu-
able collection' of copper and inlaid
silver articles in aid of the Red Cross.
• Alex Thompson, of Brucefield,• sold
a fine pair of .grey horses last week
to a buyer in •Seaforth at a good fig-
ure.
Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Caldwell, of
Hensall, were pleasantly surprised
when' their son, Wesley, came home
from 'France. He „has. not regained
his health after being gassed. Ile has
a military medal which .he won on
the field of action.
A large and sympathetic audience
=assembled in Cromarty Church to pay
a tribute to the following boys: A.
Sewall, D. Davis, S. Howes and Neil
Park, who paid the supreme sacrifice
in this war. The male quartette con-
sisting of P.' S. Barr, E. Templeton,
Ed. and F. Allen., sang a number.
Mr. David. Kyle, of Kippen, dispos-
ed of a heifer and'a steer a few days
ago which were three .years old, and
which netted him $341.
Mr. Thos. Kay, of Kippene who has
been in the employ of Mr. Robert El-
gie for the' past. two years, has en-
gaged for the third year, which is
very evident that master and, servant
are pulling smoothly.
Mr. P. Gardiner, of Walton, is busy
shipping hay this week.
Mr. Dan Bauermann, near Manley,
is ,.getting out building material for
the erection of a new barn on the
farm 'she purchased from Mr. John
Benneweis.
Mr. J. J. Berry, Gilbert Plains, Man.,
is home on a visit with his parents
in 'Walton.
There was. only 55 of a difference
in votes inthe final count of the elee-'
tion between Thomas Niel/Ulan and
J. J. •Merner, Mr. McMillan being
elected.
Choretime is always pleasant at this
time of the year. Of course when you
get along to the enc, of February and
in Mareh it grows a little tedious.
However, I've alwaya •liked doing
chores in January. After, the rounds
of festivities such as theschool eon-
cert and the parties for Christmas and.
New Years it seems to do a fellow
good to get off by himself and just
have the animals for company.
That fellow Walt Disney who draws
the cartoons would have plenty of in-
spiration in our stable. First . of all
we have a gentleman by the name of
sir Timothy. He's red in color with
a flash of fire in his eyes every time
you open- the door to throw in hay or
feed or see that the water -bawl is
operating. He snorts and paws 'around
and bashes his head up against the
side of .the stall and gives• the cows
a dickens •of a talking to for goseip-
ing with the steers, but nobody pays'
much attention to him.
The strange part of it all is that Sir
Timothy has one real friend. His pal
is a fluffy white kitten called "Fluff."
A ,recent arrival at Lazy Meadows,
Fluff wanderedinto the stall one day
and Sir Timothy backed into a corner
and started huffing and puffing and
shaking his head but the. kitten was
quite unconcerned about it, He just
hopped up on the feedbox, purred a
few times and stared right back at the
flashing -eyed bull. Since then they're
the best of friends. I have no doubt
that when the kittens get into a gos-
sip session about the scandals of our
aristocratic blooded Sir Timothy,
Fluff comes `nobly to his defence.
After -chores- I. like to pull. up--•a..bag
of chop and sit in the passageway,
and just watch the scene going on
From The Huron Expositor
January 13, 1893,
The entire staff of teachers". in the
Mitchell high school belong to the
Presbyterian Church. '
Messrs. Clark, of the 6th concession
of Stephen, are busy hauling brick
for the erection of ; a new house in
the spring.
The demand this winter for Credi-
ton brick is'much more than ever be-
fore. They are being taken away from
the yards at'the rate of about 150,000
a day.
The first fancy dress carnival of
the season was held Tuesday evening
in Bayfield and was largely attended.
The prizes were awarded as follows:
Ladies' fancy dress, Miss Nellie King;
gent's fancy, costume, D. Harrison;
boys' comic, John Gallagher; boys'
race; Fred. Elliott; obstacle race, N.
Cameron.
At the regular business meeting of
the Christian Endeavor .Society of
First Presbyterian. Church on Tues-
day evening, the following new offi-
cers were appointed-, for •the ensuing
Six months: lst vice-pres., R. Mercer;
-2nd vice-pres., Miss Scott; fecording
see., Miss Elder;." assist. sec., Miss
Mary Duncan; treas.; Miss Ida, Dick-
son; •assist. treas., Miss Clark;i chor-
ister, Mrs. R. Laidlaw; pianist,^ Miss
Wilson; asst. pia;hist, Miss N. Wilson.
Mr. Eldon Rennie, of Hensel!, deliv-
ered an interesting lecture in the
Methodist Church on Thursday eve-
nine to an ,appreciative audience, his
subject being, "Utah, Salt Lake City,
and the Mormons.
Mr. Alexander Nichol, Jr., 6thline,
Morris, had a number cutting wood
one day last , week. They sawed en-
ough wood .to do the winter's fires. -
After being without a regular pas-
tor for the past eight months, the
parishioners of St. James'" Roman
Catholic Church in Seaforth have at
last head their wish granted by His
Lordship Bishop O'Connor appointing
to the vacancy Rev. Father Kennedy,
of London.
Mr. McCaw, of Egmondville, has
moved into bis beautiful new resi-
dence. which is certainly a `model of
comfort and convenience.
Master Jahn "Wesley_ Matins, of
!Stanley, is only 13 years of age and
weighs 105 pounds.
Mr. Sam Pollock, wife and fear
children, of .Sheldon, N.D., are visit-
ing et the •tame of tVir. Wni. Kyle, Sr.;
Kippen.
Mr. George Gramm, of the Zurich
Road, moved into his new brick resi-
dence last week.
^ Mr. John McIver, of the 6th con-
cession of Hibbert, recently complet-
ed one of the largest and 'bent $nlah-
ed
barns in the tea+^ship. It is 74 by
56 feet, has .a stone wall nine feet
high under it, aifd"'i'e"inaitr-rhf dish
ed lutnber and neater, painted.
.The officers of 'the 32id talion,
intend having a grand Military ball
in Carbio's 11alVell mei e Biting of,
Jan; 27, ` tt is eatpe&tec •• big d sou
ciat even4•h�e.?
t of "de+eti,.
'In the stable. You have no idea how
much enjoyment there can be in it•.
Buttinsky, the goat, is complaining as
usual back in the:. corner but no one
pays much attention to' him except
the calves and they haven't been
around long enough to ge't unto his
/eternal grumbling. Blettinsky..doesn't
like .•his feed or he doesn't like 0.9
draft frown the broken window. He
wants leis stall cleaned out or else
be, wants some other attention:, To
give ,emphasis to it he bashes his
head up against the side of the stall.
The calves bawl but •the• cows just go
on chewing their cuds.
Jessie, our brindle cow, is one of
the worst specimens of bovine rascal-
ity in the country in the summer-
time. She jumps' fences and kicks
milk -pails and behaves like a regular
demon. However, in the wintertime
she -is one of the most contented cows
we have. She stands still for milk-
ing and trips around the straw stack
in the barnyard and never seems to
have a complaint. After finishing her
supper she'll indulge for at least a
half hour in rubbing up against the
stall and then she'll settle off down
in the bedding and contentedly chew
away on her cud and wait for her
next meal.
Some of the hens who have wan
dered into the stable, and who seem
to have a definite dislike of staying
in the• hen -house, stir around sleep-
ily on the partition above where eve
keep the roots, Ais usual, Old Biddy
is perched on the turnip .pulper.. Ev
erything settles down quietly and the
whole stable seems so peaceful and
quiet. We have some very definite.
and interesting characters in our
stable at Lazy Meadows.
° JUST A SMILE OR TWO
"My wife" is the proud owner of a
new modernistic home."
"Wh', you're the owner just
much as she is, aren't you?"
"Yes, but I'm not proud of it."
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Baker: "What's wrong with that
fellow? He's been coming in here
every day for a month to stare at
those -cloverleaf rolls I bake."
, Cle•rk: "Oh„ te's just hoping some
day to find a four-leaf one."
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"I had to fire an old employee to-
day. • I felt sorry—but sentiment has
o place in our businesh."
"What is your business, may I
a$k?
"Oh, I manufacture all sorts, of
birthday and greeting cards."
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Mrs. Putton Ayres: "I fought a
tough battle to get into society in
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A Late Easter
Calendars, wailing to ;head for4g
bring to attention the fact that- blas-
ter Sunday will fall on April 25 in the
coming year. This is the latest date
on which Easter may be observed,
and 1943 is the only year In the i ven-
tieth ,century when it will occaur on
that date. Easter may fall one 'i5"`x ilape
tween March 22nd and April 25, ac-
cording to the phases of the moon.--.
Goderich Signal -Star. •
Boston, but I finally managed it."
Mrs. Moser:' "I . imagine you had
to keep your chin up."
Mrs. Putton Ayres: "No, just my
rose!"
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A very old resident of the town was
reported .to have died. Many people
called, only to find that the old man
was hale and hearty. He smiled whe
they told him of the report, saying
"I knowed it wasn't true as soon as
I heard it."
Dear old lady (at identity .-Parade)
"Yes, that is the man. I'd swear to
it. But lie was a lot taller and stout-
er."
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Mother: "If ,you don't' be. a good
boy P11 fetch a policeman." i
Bobbie: "And if you do I''It' tell.
him we've: got a dog and no license.".
Entire Russian People
Out To Fool Germans,
And They ._Do It, Too
(By. Gregory Clark)
The Germans have . won all their
battles so far in this war by novelty
and surprise. The people they have
crushed, including such British fore -
es as they have bested, were people
who for one, reason or another were
unequipped with novelties and had no
capacity to surprise the Germans.'The
people of France had been patiently
rotted by novel and skilful political
dissension,. The British troops with
whom I shared, the retreat in Flan-
ders in 1940 were to all' intents and
purposes, as far .as equipment and
training were concerned, the same
troops with whom • I had been demob-
ilized in 1919. -
'But the reason the Russians have
!held out against battle -seasoned Ger-
man armies ever' freshly supplied
with novel -ties, both material and .in-
tellectual, is that the Russians them-
selves, at' the very outset, adopted
the principle of novelty and surprise.
This principle of never doing what
the enemy might expect you to do is
fatal to the -German character. If
you creep into 'a room'to,say boo at
somebody, and somebody says boo at
you, it throws you off balance. •
Have Surprised Germans
Technically. and Mechanically, the
Russians have atsonished and sur-
prised foot ..only their enemies but
their allies in the high development
of engines for winter fighting in their
planes,., transport and. tanks. In the
military art,' the Russians have made
contributions to the world thistory of
war in the breaking down of 'big arm-
ies .into small armies, each complete
unto itself in both fighting power^ and
supply.
But in additid'u to organized novel-
ty and surprise, the Russians' have
for . months 'been running' a competi-
tion amongst the men, the boys the
girls. and the women, every last' one
of wiioni lawfully regards himself or
herself as a fighter for. Russia, to see
Who can think up the tnosoirtrag-
nous stir -prise for the Germans.. And
When you ,get ev'er"y ,eaery'
battery', every, air • squadron, every
factory . and every village and: fawn er,
competing invsuch-a eonteet,:4hp, er-
+iiiane are very •Xikei to„ bs 111�'pt -t
ed, ori
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Pavel Nikitin, one of the war cor-
respondents of the Red Star, Russian
army newspaper; fells this',one:
"Not all Russians are big men. A
soldier named Vlaschenko, who is stil
alive and kicking, is all arms and.
shoulders and hardly any legs. ..He
has developed the most extraordinary
technique of long poles with boat
hooks at both ends by which he
travels over the roofs of 'Stalingrad,
crossing streets and 'lanes, by swing
ing across on his pole, and 'also light
ropes with hooks at the end which
he flings across streets from roof top
to roof top, trapezing himself . almost
anywhere he . likes. With carbine,
boinb and 10 -pound packets• of TNT
he' has wrought havoc in astonished
German headquarters and outposts ;
for what sentry can see a white rab
bit in the snow at night? And who
cansee a white cloud drift amid the
bliizard, .high overhead?
Crawls ..Through Sewers
"With a Russian-1•umberpack's pack
sack, containing 60 pounds of TNT
Vlaschenko recently crawled through
a sewer system, many ,hundreds of
yards of which was believed to be in
'ruins, and destroyed a bridge im
menselyi valuable` to the Germans in
Stalingrad. He was gone two days
and we thought he was 'killed. The
the bridge blew up. So we had a
feast ready two more '. days for
Vlaschenko's return. His own explo-
sion had given him a hemorrhage of
the nose and ears 'and •hast strained
his eyes in some painful fashion. But
he was only ',four days in hospital,
and the last I saw of him he was rig-
ged up in, his white nightshirt: with
a new 20 -foot duralumin pole the. En-
gineers bad made for him in his 'hon-
or, and his coils of delicate rope, off.
for another night's novelty and sur-
prise for the Germans in Stalingrad."
It Is not •the governnient, the war
council or the army and air command
of Russia that is tghting on our side
right now. It is • all the people of
Russia. No aid Is too ttiv.oh or too
geed for them. „Seed your °;contritlti�
Van. rand use your •:irgenuityt, to think
Up ways and, m:eana of Inspiring oth
era' 'td wend theirs to •the 'Cancadian ,Arid•,
to Russia F`nnd,, 80 ling •Str<W.r Tor-
'044),
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Less Banking Days
With the object of conserving mane
power In the national interest, it has
been decided to reduce the banking
service of the Bank of Montreal in:
Zurich to a three -day -a -week basis,
and therefore, commencing on Janu-
ary 2, the local office will be open,
for business on Monday, Wednesday
and Saturday of each week.—Zurich.
Herald.
To Take Over Pastorate
Rev. Dr. A. Thompson, of Canner
Cove, Prance Edward Island, has been
chosen to take over the pastorate of
Blyth, Auburn, Carlow and Belgrave
Presbyterian churches, and will take i
over his new duties shortly. He suc-
h
ceeds Rev. A. M. Boyle, wo left here
during the 'summon—My h Standard.
-Local Girls in Car Accident
'.-Two local girls in training at •Strat-
ford General Hospital, .had an exper-
i-ence they will not forget for some•
time. Thursday afternoon they were'
coming by car to Wingham when the
can: went into the-_ditch_.".aut,
over, imprisoning them in the car.
They were freed by a passing motor-
ist. The car was driven by Donald
Jones, of Stratford, and other passen-
gers were Doris Ritchie, of Lucknow,.
and. Arthur Essery of London. The.
only one injured was Miss Edgar, who •
-suffered -slight lacerations on "her
knee.—Wingham Advance -Times.
Another Overseas Arrival
Sgt. Observer 'John L. Campbell
has arrived safely in England accord-
ing to a cable received by his father,
Mr: W J. Campbell, of Turnberry.—
Wiggham Advance -Times.
Tells About Sea
At the "regular meeting of the Park-
hill
arkhill Lions Club, forty Lions and
guests were present. The meeting
was held at the Brenner House, Grand
Bend, where a turkey dinner was
served. Gerald Foster was the guest
speaker and was introduced • by Lion
Alex Cameron. Gerald quit high
school in Parkhill to join the ,nerch-
ant marine, and told of his ex r enc -
es as an ordinary seaman on a ~r a-
dian ship on which in eight months
travelled half way around the world
and home again, Zurich 1terald-
Farewell For ,Departing Musician
Mr. Mervin Snyder, who has been+.
the capable organist and choir leader
of North Street United Church for
over two years, and who is leaving
this week for Bramptpn to take lever -
a similar -position in the Presbyterian
church there, was the guest of henor
at a dinner tendered aim at the jrk
House on Monday evening by mem-
bers of .the Goderich • Music Club, of -
which he was the founder and mov-
ing spirit. Oa behalf of the club, he.
was presented with a beautiful gentle-
man's fitted dressing case by Mrs -
John •McDougall, who succeeds Mr.
Si;yder as president of the chile—God-
erich Signal -Star.
Christmas Draw Attracts Big Crowd
The draw last Thursday afternoon
attracted a splendid crowd, and the
basement of the hall was practically
pac-ked when Reeve' Morritt ascended.
the platform for the final draw of the•
year. After conveying season's greet-`,_
Ings to those !present on behalf of the
Blyth Merchants' Association, . Mr:.
Morritt proceeded to extract the fol-
lowing winners from the churn: $5,
Mrs. Oidley; $3, Earl Noble; $2, Irene
Bisback; $1 each, . Jim Gibson, Mrs
Mary Grasby, Pearl Walsh, Gilbert
Nethery.—Blyth 'Standard.
Breaks Arm
Mrs, Fred Bawden had the misforn-
tune on Saturday to fall at the home•
of Mr. Ed. -Harness, fracturing her-
elbow.—Exeter Times -Advocate.
Breaks Wrist
'Vire W. W. Taman, while on his
way to work on Wednesday morning,
had the misfortune 10 fall on the slip-
pery pavement while crossing Main
Street at James Street, breaking . a.
•bone in 'his right wrist. -- Exeter
Times -Advocate.
Goderich Had Pleasant Yuletide
' Goderich has just enjoyed a most
prosperous and pleasant wartime
Christmas—most unusual, even record
making, in many respeots. Despite
restrictions, people had t. plenty of
nearly everything. Traffic, both im
and out„ was the heatnipst in :history.
Most merchants did as much business
as they wished ;to do with less help ,
and in shortened hour's, while the
grand old public, after a few dissent-
ing frowna,, ,'blrt'ilshecl abide,' with a
'smile, ,numerous Inconveniences and
annoyances caused by 'reed and im-
agizlary,;shortagei of corm diities and
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