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P1ra11 McLean, Editor.
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shay afternoon by McLean
Q .TH, Friday, April 33, 1948
A Timely Warning -
As" is well known; inflation, to a
,certain degree, is well underway in
the United States, and powerful in-
fluences are constantly at work to
push their claims for favored consid-
eration.
Within recent weeks, however, the.
President vetoed a measure that had
gone through Congress and the Sen-
ate promoted by the "farm bloc."
This measure would have the effect
of increasing food costs of the coun-
try and consequently have given in-
flation a strong boost.
'The effects of this measure would,
,possibly, be repeated in Canada if
some projects which recently have
had powerful backing in Parliament,
had not been squelched by our own
Government.
For that reason, the very blunt
terms in which the American Presi-
dent pointed' out the effect this mea-
sure would have on inflation should
be noted and recognized by, 'Cana-
dians as well as Americans.
Mr. Roosevelt's grounds of objec-
tion were clear when he said: "It is
impossible to control the• cost of liv-
ing ,unless it's vital elements are
stabilized. The time has come when
all of us -,-farmers, workers, manag-
ers and investors—must realize that
we can not improve our living stand-
ards in a period of total war. On the
contrary, we 'must all cut our stand-
ards of living for the duration. We
must adopt simple wartime stand-
ards.
"If we do, none of us need want for
the real necessities of life. We can
all have enough if we do not try to
get too much. . We can ,only make
sure that the present balance does
not change materially for the worse;
and that those on the lower rungs of
the 'economic ladder are not ground
down below the margin of .existence.
Further, we can not go during the
War.
"We are only beginning to feel the
cruel effects of total war. Men, hap-
py with their families, must give up
good and well-paid jobs to become
soldiers for $600 a year, with only.
modest allowances for their depend-
ent wives and their children. We who
remain in civilian life to produce the
food and supplies for them, and an
irreducible minimum for :ourselve's,
must not quarrel among ourselves in
• vain effort to better or even hold
our position at the expense of: the
Other fellow. We must adhere loyal-
ly to our stabilization programme
and sanction no exceptions save in
the.. case of genuine hardships and
distress."
That is preciselythe situation, but
as long as we are human we will still
have the sincere conviction that the
government could easily help our
particular business 'without hurting
the other fellow. And that quite re-
gardless of the fact that every in-
crease in price..ailow.ed to one com-
modity or to one line of production,
is invariably followed by an increase
somewhere else, until the circle is
complete.in-
That," time, could bring forth
nothing but inflation, and Canada's
experience. of inflation during the
• tact war is something no true Cana-
dian would like to see repeated.
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School Time
We have noticed that many coup-
' ti schools have changed the start-
ing time of classes to nine o'clock in-
stead of ten as was the custom Bur-
inthe winter months.
cast time not only affects the
farmer but his family and household
SS,- Well. }tiring the winter months
cotixitry children, who " had any con-
siderable ... distance to to. reach
them l hoof, and that the rule
• ettthan the eitceptiori, were fore-
out
,d! s before daylight to
crobf • in tiite.
f alas `OUnd, was neither a
or ea1thfi l handicap to sub-
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u! to .,conSe ue' •; ttl.
S
V
'eninga ut.
Ir d ..t; .. •
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That would seen to be a very sim-
ple 'solutiion,. but it is not quite as
'simple as it looked. In a great many
instances it completely disorganized
the household arrangements and add-
ed additional work to them. Not only
did children have to start out in the
dark of the morning, but darkness
overtook them on, the way home at
night.
It disorganized meals and farm
work as many farm boys and girls'
too, are counted upon to supply con-
siderable labor around chore time. 'It
is not hard, therefore, to see another,
reason why school hours were chang-
ed.
Daylight, saving is now taken as a
.matter of course in the towns and
larger centres, and people have for-
gotten the change of time. But it will
never be that way in the country.
The working time in the country is
set by the sun'' and not by the clock,
and it always will be that ways
Starting work an hour ahead of
the sun in the morning and stopping
it any hour .before the same sun sets
at night, is sheer waste from the
farmers' ,viewpoint, and from that
angle he is absolutely right too.
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Not The Onlp One
If a'ny' Canadian has been reading
the newspapers•or Hansard over the
past months or even years, he or she.
must long ago have come to the posi-
tive conclusion, however reluctantly
it may have been arrived at, that
Canada is the only country in the
world possessing a government that
makes mistakes.
That is apparently, however, an
entirely wrong • conclusion, as is evi-
denced by the fact that in his latest
article in Das Reisch,' Propaganda
Minister Dr. Joseph Goebbels admit-
ted that "the German -Government
did .not forsee all that has happened
during the past few years," and said
that "the right of a government to
make mistakes must be conceded."
That might .be a comforting Ines-.
sage , to Mr. King if it ever got
through to him.
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Take Time Out To Plan
- Possibly no people in any country
in the world have had their mode of
living more greatly changed by the
war than have the people of Britain.
In no ' other ' Allied country, at
least, has the war taken as complette
control over a man's time an:this en-
ergies, and in no place in the world
has that time and energy been more
cheerfully surrendered to the coun-
try's need. ,
But the people of that country
have not forgotten how to play and
when the opportunity offers no, peo-.
ple put their whole heart into , it as
the . Britains do.
That fact was evidenced on Satur-
day last when a 'hundred and five
thousand people attended the annual
England -Scotland football game in
Glasgow on Saturday last.
What an opportunity for a. German
air raid! And no doubt the Germans
were well aware of the event, but for
reasons well understood by them,
they passed it up. And it is more than
doubtful if they could have put much
of a scare into that crowd anyway.
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In Bonds—Out Of Bondage
(An Editorial in The Bostbn
Monitor)
Bonds there are that bind with a
tyrant's will, bonds that in this war
have cut deep into millions of hearts
and homes, And the bound hands
stretch out in mute appeal to those
still free to carry freedom's banner.
Bonds there are that bind with
true affection and hold loved ones
close, no matter to what far shores
the call to preserve such -ties may
take them.
Bonds there are of humanity,
kindness, and brotherly love that can
draw all nations and peoples into a
closely knit world to which oppres-
sion and war and slavery can find no
entrance.
And there is yet another type of
bond that can aid immeasurably in
severing the first and tightening the
others—Victory Bonds. Would Am-
ericans help further in loosening the
thongs of :the •Axis and strengthen-
ing the eorde of. fail ;,,an -
brother-
MO?
in4e .
brother;
hd? �he�h ywill `buy moresnd
+andfibre Vicor
Bo+sP
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Yea* Agon.e
/nterestinrtteins picked from
The E,Ap Ytor of fifty and
twenty -dive, years ago..
From The Huron Expositor
April 26,', 191$
On Friday afternoon the ladies of
the congregation of the Varna. Presby-
terian Church met at the Manse and
presented Miss Jessie Foster with a
miscellaneous''sllower, and on Monday
evening the 'Patriotic Society met at
the home ,of Mr. and 4yErs. Alex Fos-
ter, and presented her with several
pieces of Limoges.
Cook Bros, Ford agents of Hensall,
have disposed of new ears to the fol
lowing in that vicinity during the past
two weeks: John Wolff, T. N. Den=
omme, D. Gascho, Zurich; A. Sreen-
an, St. Joseph; W. Forrest, R. Pollock,
Hensall; Montgomery Davis, Staffa,
and a Studebaker car to Mr. C. Joynt,
Hensall.
Mr. Joseph P. Johnston, of Manley,
has purchased a new Chevrolet car
from Mr. Dan Shanahan, of Seaforth.
Messrs. Theo Jordan and Jos. Doyle,
of Dublin, have enlisted in the Royal
Flying Corps.
Mr. R. Cudmore, of Hensall, has laid
out the ground for the erection of his
new dwelling on Main St. and will
rush it on to completion.
Miss Marjory McCuaig, of Walton,,.
is laid up with typhoid pneumonia.
Mr. and 'Mrs. W. Sholdice, of, Wal-
ton, intend leaving for the West on
Thursday of 'this week to visit friends -
Mr. Arthur Hoy, of Walton, has in-
vested in a Ford car. °
Mr. Robert Orr, of the Sauble Line,
Stanley, has purchased the property
and flour and feed business of Mr. H.
H. Johnson in Bayfield.
Mr. Jas. Mustard, of Kippen, was in
Sarnia during thepast week getting a
new auto, which he purchased there.
Mr. R. Broadfoot, while working on
the Gemmel farm, Tuckersmith, had
the misfortune to sustain a severe
fracture of the leg from a kick by a
young horse he was working with. -
Mr. J. E. Willis is having the popu-
lar Strand Theatre re,modelled this
week.
Mr. Harry .Charters, of town, :has
leased the Kennedy residence on Vic-
toria St., at present occupied by,Ntr.
J. Cummings.
Mr. Geo. Benne*eiss, of Leadbury,
has purchased a new automobile.
• Miss drotty., of London, was a guest
at the home of Mrs. M. Williams this
week.
Lieut. Gordon Geoid was killed in
action' in France recently. He enlist-
ed in 1915 after graduating from Tor-
ontii University, where he obtained
his B.A..,degree. ,
Mrs. J. G. Mullen is visiting at the
home of her brother, Dr. J. H. Mc -
Fan', in Toronto.
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From The Huron Expositor
April 28, 1893
Mr. Cyrus Kolosky, of the 'Bronson
Line, Hay township, has two lambs on
his farm, -seven days old, weighing
17% and 19 pounds respectively. .
The heavy wind storm which .pass-
ed over Exeter en Thursday last did
considerable damage, blowing the roof
completely off Caven Presbyterian
Church, and blowing' the east gable -
end through the ceiling into the base-
ment, -doing damage to the extent of
over $1,000.
Mr. Arthur -Forbes, of lite Seaforth
Livery, has solo a .very fine driving
mare to•a gentleman from Detroit.
Mr., Edwin Latta,. _ of Chiselhurst,
has secured a good situation with Mr.
Cudmore at ^bricklaying -and plaster-
ing.
The tug "Despatch" of. the firm of
Messrs. Craig & Laing, Port Huron,
has arrived at Drysdale with a crew
of ten men, who are now busy driving
the poles for the trap nets:
Mr. Henry Rau, of Drysdale, has his
house nicely repaired and fixed up, and
we are sure that his young -bride will
feel quite comfortable in her new
home.
The great windstorm of last week
deroofed a barn -on the farm of Mr.
George Watt, near Millburn, and it al-
so took the roof off a barn of Mr. San-
derson in the same vicinity. - Mr. Wnr.
Oke, who lives near there, had a shed
which shared' the same fate.
Mr. Edward Etue, .Drysdale, had
the good luck to shoot a large wild
goose last week. ..
A ,meeting was held in Kidd's Hall,
Seaforth, 'on Tuesday evening for the
purpose of organizing a bicyfle club.
The following officers were elected:
Hon. pees., D. D. Wilson; hon. vice-
pres., M. Y. McLean; pres., J. S. Jack-
son; vice-pres., W. Pickard; sec.-treas.
J. W. Livingstone; captain, Geo. Bald-
win; 1st Lieut., W. Prendergast; 2nd
Lieut., Fred Franks; 3rd° Lieut, W. D.
McLean; standard bearer; Jos. Abell;
whipper -in, Dan Hutclii eon; race track
committee, W. 11. Counter, J. O. Roso,
J. S. Jackson.
Mr. Piercy, or the Bank of Com-
merce, Seaforth, leaves on Saturday
'for Great Britain where he will visit
his parents.
Mr. F. Beattie, V.S., has rented and
moved into the cottage on Goderich
St. Fast, formerly owned by Mr. Jas.
Stewart, but now the property' of Mr.
' Thigh Grieve.
Dr. MacTavis'h, who is not a, strang-
er to Brucefield, has begun practice in
that village.
Mr. Frank La3fton; . Tuckersmith,
Who is agent for J. Fleuhy & Son, of
Aurora, hoitig dis o b4,,of a #uniher
a...'*alkiiite plows. % ni IMMO; la
now
,
hls,
first kale, ko :gr., '• )s 7and0bo !pitl9' i. • -
Phil Osifer of
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• Lazy Meadows
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I rode about six miles with Jim
Fletcher, the mailman, on our route
the other day. Wanting to save gaso-
line and having to go down the con-
cession to` see about buying a couple
of cows; I hitched this ride with Jim.
It was one ofthe most pleasant ex-
perien.ces of the year for me. As a
matter' of fact, it was downright fun
to ride along and chat with the man
who hags been going over thisroad for
the past twenty-one years, come next
November 1st. If anybody has a real
line on the people in our township,
it's Jim Fletcher.
It was one .of the few pleasant days
that we've had this year. The sun
was warming and Nellie, the hor.“..
was inclined td take her time. B'• -
sides that, Jims wife is away at the
present time and he didn't have to
get home in time for supper. Jim
was smoking 'away.' and everynow
and again he'd take the pipe out of
his mouth and use the stem to point
out something of interest. Maybe' it
was the way the water jay, on the
undrained field at the front of the
Abram farm. Possibly it was the ero-
sion in a gully . . the fact that the
township hall needed painting. -
Jim is a real. lover of nature. He
stopped to feed some bread crumbs to
the robin in the nest in the hollow
post in the creek bridge. Jiminy
Crickets turned out to be a friendly
Tittle 'chipmunk .that raced us down
the road for a piece. We took the
roadway and he took the rail fence.
Nellie loitered all the way through
the swamp as she has no doubt done
every, trip since she started on this
roadway. -
Jim brought a parcel of groceries
for old Mrs, Smyth frpom the Murphy
Emporium. She hasno way of get -
ting out herself unless she goes with
the neighbors. He brought a bottle
of medicine 'for old George Wilson
from the doctors. He talked for at
least twenty minutes with a woman
who had 'just received word that her
son was missing in air operations over
Germany. I feel that when we start-
ed off down the road again that wo-
man felt a whole lot better. Jim has
some particular quality about him that
seems to. make people have confidence•
In what he says., He can calm you
down . . . no matter how high-strung
you may be.
I asked him if he didn't 'ever get
tired of delivering mail, That stop-
ped him for a little while, but after
delivered the mail to the twin
u' i, t i,aat the cemetery, he said:
I u to gat a little tired of this
job hen 1 had the car. I used to
get home too early and then I had to
poke around and find something to
do." That made me wonder a little
and so he went on, "Nellie was pas-
turing out at my brother's farm. Now
and again I'd° go out 'and see her and
tike `ler some lump sugar. She just-
seerro,d. to be itching to get back at
the job again. Gas rationing and tire
Shortagas came along and I didn't ev-
en stop to arghe with the government
about getting extra gasoline. I just
hitched Nellie up and we started out
again." • "
Nellie got her tail up then and
leathered down the road for a. quarter
mile or' so„ and finally "got -back into
the spirit again and• slackened down
to a comfortable pace again. I cer-
tainly enjoyed my little trip w=ith Jim
and every time I see his horse and
buggy coming down" the concession
after this I'll have a better realiza-
tion of what a grand fellow he really
is.
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® English Newspapers In
: Wartime (BY Walter R. Legge) ••
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Like everything else, the newspa-
pers in England have been very much
changed by the war. Imagine news-
stands whist will not sell you a news-
paper. Imagine the advertising man-
agers of newspapers being courted
by those who are trying to ,buy a lit-
tle of the space available. •
One of our first experiences was at
the news stand in our London hotel.
We had heard rumours of the Dieppe
raid which took place just as we were
leaving Canada, but we had noy read°
anything about it. We were anxious
to see a newspaper. However the
news stand could not sell us one un-
less it was ordered in advance.
Thus we abruptly ' learned to appre-
ciate a privilege . which we do ,not
think about here, the privilege of be-
ing able to buy a newspaper at any
time.
People over there are now glad to
have any paper at all. The privilege
of having a paper delivered every day
is a highly prized one. A household-
er who goes away for a time often
,finds on his return that someone else
l has taken the right, to, get his daily
paper, and it may be a hard task to
get back in the good graces of the
paper boy.- ,
People travelling on 'a' train will
nearly always pass their newspaper
around to the other people in the
compartment after they have read it.
Newsprint is severely rationed in.
England. Ndt only have the publish -
era been forced to reduce the number
of pages to a fraction of the usual
volume, but 4110 circulation has had
to he drastically curtailed. In many
cases the iiize of the pages and the
width of the columns have been re-
duceii.
Our party was entertained at the
Daily Telegraph, the " Daily Express,
the Times` 440 Rectors AgA'coy, . We
were
.(4111)4"n throii h •their p is and
,gi�
•ett eery cdvrts sl
I., y
of these .newspapers, we
fpun4 that the panel', has been cut
down from an average issue of 28 pag-
es to..four pages. In addition, the cir-
culation, has been cut from 920,000
daily average to .650,000. Several hun-
dred applications for subscrigirfi'ons
each day have to be refused. This is
typical of the restrictions on all- the
newspapers.
All of,these plants have duplicate
plants deep in the ground, very cora-
' fortably and completely fitted up so
that the entire ,work of getting out
the paper can be carried .on without
interruption during raids. Moreover,
several of these papers have complete
plants in other cities ,where some edi-
tions are printed 'every day. For in-
stance, the Daily Express, which .11as
a daily circulation of about two and
a half millions, is printed in three
places—London, 'Manchester and Glas-
gow. They are so co-ordinated by
wire service' that although they are
set up and made up in eaoh city, they
are eicactly alike on most pages.
Advertising has been cut to almost
the same degree as, the rest of the
paper. The Daily Telegraph, we were
told, refuses about thirty columns of
advertising every. day. 'Di. splay adver-
tising usually has to be booked sev-
eral weeks in advance, and even then
without any guarantee that it will ap-
pear.' In cases where legal advertis-
ing must appear before ':a 'certain date
care must be taken to advise the cli=
ent if it cannot be printed, in order
that an effort may be made to have
it printed elsewhere.
Advertisements for beer and liquor
may be carried in ,the English
papers, althoug h they are now,'banned,
in Canada.
With so much difficulty In obtain-
ing adyortising space in the newspa-
pers, it .IS , nut surprising. to see a
new derelopnient. Large numbers of
notices, that,ojfdinarily wi)uld be want
adg„1.n the papers; are nowr,,ditiplayed
<k
Seen inthe,
County Papers
Navigation Opens Al Goderich
The navigation t•r'ason of 1943 was
opened here last' Saturda,, morning
at 8.30 o''clock wh, n Cantr 'n Duncan
Williamson, of Sa, la, brou, it the Im-
perial Oil°°Tan•ker I ,col ite i n f o port. It
was a comparative'v late o, ening, but
not a record by • t ny m s ' as. Last
year navigation is 'opene'l here on
March 25th, one a• the e.,.• test dates:
At the annual ria' ,resenta7.on at the
Town Hall in l after: 'ton' Capt.
Williamson said IL, n i, was en -
mi Sarnia
',alf miles
Sarnia
,'nd ap,
i`t> sante
e field
hours to
,•:11f, The
countered or the
until his
off Goderic :,. '1'I.,
at 2,31 'l" ..-
pealed off
evening. so lteav,
that it reu'.tired II :I;
make the u,il-
Io olite cl, :Irl'' ' lir !,
Goderich
Town,..":ler•'k Pesicl. s
At the ,;,,r ,,,., i tho town
council on \•Vrrl:, ., the res-
ignation o Nt iI 1: \:: us town
,clerk and 'rr-asur1. • wr 'n',':\•ed and
regretfully ncec'Ot i. n'fective
from May .1st r.e, ,.,lust' mo-
tion Mr. MacKay : ; to l,r ained in
an advisory c•ai a t , "'rel of
six months from .`,:;t.: I-, ' .\t, at his
present salary.—t'..cleri' 0 real -Star.
From North P,fr%c,a
An interesting vls'tnr 1(411.11 the
last ten days +;t 13' "'rill Beev-
with
been a
Jr. and
ning plan
ers, wtrre]rss i+t_.t!
the Merch:cnt
guest of his •uac'if :11
Mrs. Arthur 1144, c
was born in C n;lf , I,:,, son"of
Alfred hewers, ; f '. but the
family- went (1"r::l, c\ ,s quite
young an,' ta,a;r: :'„ I' at Cal-
gary. For the tie has
been. x11111 ;r; 1!4,, I ' :ts had
many ihrillil;'•=. r..l ' , I r t:led and
water. He h a ju• r n:r I . nil; North
Africa and is of row. „,,,cl leave
and is now ott.l'',- tray. t visit his
mother at ('alg:u•'.. ll,,ar•t', It Signal -
Star.
Firemen H''.c r.iircl Coil
Three troll;; 0441 1':' the ' :, r couple
of• years the has
been callrc-t to ere • .t- !hr ':P I Pehlke
estate, Mein Si. 1';:w.• ?'i',;d it was
the barn, aur'. t.', n tI 2 oil] house
twice. The third time wa= at about
12.30• o'clock Sling ,ty .r„,ruiog. Each
time the are i[ppc (1101 to .he of in-
cendiary origin. 'i'hr l,00, r was bad-
ly gutted a1. the erten^ Ore. there,'not
much of the building left, handing.
At any rate, rhe' firemen answered
the fire siren 0p.ain Far1y Sunday
morning and 'he blaze
after running out one tine of hose.
Someone apparcrtl: with nothing
more to do than. e•,se 1;i; milky mind
fit the place •ltp.- `.'1 tc`ler1 Advocate.
Home From Cvers.,as
Mrs. Clara Bent oti gut a very hap-
py surprise on Mc),'11 1 • ::0- t her bro-,
ther, Sgt. Frank 5,,,];i.. „rl•i•:,-d at her
home, ha}'l1' r•r;, ' ' n'1n,1 boat
via New York ,!',..i:'; ;n r ,:'on. Go-
ing overseas in 1.,, :,.altar. -1930, with
the Supple �'o;ui;.. :,. .,un,'bn, he
later was ,L .t,h, l'''",`r ".. - rtfice of
the Petro!' C''-,. ":+ t :{- ,',•ed in. a...
motorcycle accuse, 111 (i cel in man-
oeuvres snst,Iil, 1 i m, c° i,:"ee and
back injury, cotilir ..... 10 hospital
for, about Seven n..r,1 OS dn..ing which
he underwent on 'iperc:tirtt-. He now
goes into Wesim:-ister, i-i"s,,iti (. at
London for treatment. 13-, saw ser-
vice -twice in Franc, e, io. 'rlh all his be-
longing at ,yile'evrttr•ti•ation of Dunkirk
and was also on convoy al Dieppet—
Mitchell Advocate.
Injured in Fall 'From Ladder -
When w0rlcing al the British Amer-
ican tanks on Wednesday fait week,
Mr. Alex Reid fell backwards off a
ladder, He was twelve feet up when.
he fell and although;, Lc 'bones were
broken he suffered painful injury to
his back. On Monday he was up and.
about the'house for awhile, but it *111
be ,sometime., yet 0r--'o:'c `,u is about
as usual.--GVingharu Advance -Times..
Fractures Arm
Mr. Wilfred Riehl -suffered a brokerr
arm last week while changing a tire•
On the road grader. Aa it was a
rather bad break. Lr 7•-:41 to spend a
few clays in , Wingnaiu (=eaerai Hos-
pital, but is home again with the arm
doing nicely. -- Wingham Advance
Times.
Fire At Foundry
There was considerable excitement
at the Western Foundry ,on Friday af-
terndon when a blaze that threatened
to destroy a building containing the
paint strop was brought under control
after it had made charred ruins of all
the contents of this shop and had
made a wreck of that end of the build-,
ing. The walls we,ie of bricIVand did
not appear to be damaged. The losS
will include the spraying outfits, and
all the other 'utensils usedin that
shop. Several cottipleted chemical
toilets were lost as were a number in
the process of being completed. It is
just two years ago exactly that the
fire at the foundry razed the shipping
Wilding. This fire started in a. most
peculiar manner. The C.N.R. section
oh slilall cards In shop w'indairo-s. men 'were burning. grass along the ,
,we saw i 1g1'!9'at a iiy'' of sial od. right•of-wayr, . which abuts the build -,,
t oliit; 1fed on � pa ,
tnnni�' .
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