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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1947-04-25, Page 2ass .r� nom;; -r;«, •�+,� Established 1$ v 0 nth McPhail McLean, Editor. blished at Seaforth, Ontario, ev- hursday afternoon by .McLean Os. Member of Canadian' Weekly Newspapers Association. Advertising rates on applicatiOki. • ` Subscription rates, $1,50 a year,in _- adv'ance . foreign_ $2.Q0. a. year: Single. copies., 4 cents each. Authorized as Second Class Mail, • Post Office Department, Ottawas, SEAFORTH, Friday, April 25, 1947" All OverFor Another Year When the Toronto Maple Leafs defeated Montreal Canadiens in the .. Maple Leaf Gardens on Saturday ° night last, it wound ' up Canada's greatest fireside sport for another year, There were, it is said, some fifteen thousand people in attendance at the final game and that is some crowd as Sport crowds go in Canada.., But at that, it was but a mere fraction of the number of people from coast to, coast across Canada, who -sat at their home radios and viewed the game through Foster Hewitt's eyes. And the surprising thing about those across Canada spectators, who attend every game during the sea- son, is that they are not all young people. In fact they are not in the majority. Theseair spectators_ are largely composed of men past mid- dle -age and on up, as long as they retain their hearing. What is even more surprising is that there are thousands of women ,of' all ages, who have become rabid hockey fans through Foster. Hewitt's broadcasts,. Women who have never seen a real game of hockey in .their lives, roll the names of favorite play- ers off their tongues as if they were members of their own families. Possibly the majority of the ardent hockey fans 'who get their hockey over ,the air will never see, a real game either. But that is no draw- back if they only knew it, because a game of hockey over' the air, espec- ially as Foster Hewitt reveals it to them, is a faster, smoother and much more scientific game than any of them would see, even from a ring- side seat in the arena. But it is all over now for another year. • More Work Needed This winter a farmer addressed a group of Toronto newspaperiuen and said he hada message that he want- ed thein to pass on tothe people lilt- ing iving in the cities and towns. This, was the message: , "Get to work. Do you realize that reducing the working hours from forty-eight to forty is equivalent to two whole months of lost time in a year? The country and the world needs produc- tion. The farmers are working the same old hours. And the farmers are not willing to pay the town workers for another two months of leisure." All of that is true, but the people in the cities and towns, who have been clamoring for ' a forty -hour week, have failed to realize that it spells the loss of two months work- ing time. And two months Iost pro- duction as well, because it has been, proven a fallacy, over and over: again, that a man will produce as nnuch in forty hours as he will in forty-eight. • Need Better Sires Some time ago whenwe asked a local farmer why he always went West for feeder : cattle, the answer was that they were better. 7That the beef cattle breeding fn Eastern Can- -ada, and in particular Western On- tario, was in a 'bad ' way. That our farmers were using . too many serub bulls„. and that while some of these may be registered,that does not al - way, by any means,' spell better calves. • We remembered' this when we read recently about the Calgary Bull Sales, when 850 •bulls sold for or an , average price of 73WOr These prices ,would clearly indicate that Western cattle Vadil • Will use only good ,bulls and as a con- sequenee of this practise are breed- ing a type of cattle that Eastern, as well as Nfi'estern,farmers want in their feed barns. , ' There is another angle to the pres- ent situation, and a serous one for the Ontario feeder too. The United States market, which has been cloy- ed to Canadian cattle for quite some time, will eventually be opened again, and when it is' our Ontario farmers will have to meet the price cempeti- tion of United States buyers, which means pretty much that they will get just what is left over. Freighting cattle half way; across Canada may be a gainful job now, ° and perhaps for some little time yet, but it 'vigil not always be . that way, and unless our Western Ontario farmers • get busy pretty soon, a lot of them are going to lose a lot of money. t Coming Home .To Roost There are several former labor Ieaders now members of the British Labor Government, who would give a good deal to be able to recall their. words spoken in the days before the responsibilities of office had made then wiser and, possibly, sadder men. One of these is Mr. Strachey, the British Minister of Food, who a very few years ago wroth a book in which he attacked everything the Labor Government is now trying to tell the labor unions of the only way to in- crease production.' In this book he said: "However hard the workers work they will remain workers • and poor workers at ” that. Hard work will not make the workers any rich- er, but it will make their employers richer. It does not take any higher wages to keep a sober, industrious worker than a ='gay' and reckless. Hence the propaganda in favor of. the workers - becoming. patterns of sobriety, parsomany and thrift. For the.exerciseof these virtues by the workers would first of all benefit, not them, but their employers." Today, the, government of which Mr. Strachey is a prominent mem- ber, is saying, over and over again, just the opposite of those words. It is saying and repeating that British workers will, never' be better off if they do not work harder and produce much, much more. That the only way to raise the standard of jiving through increased production is by greaten output per man. But it is hardly to be e%pected that the ordinary British worker, who has been told for years by his Iabor leaders that hard work.will not help him, but only his employer, will understand the falsity of such a theory all at once. Today, not only the Labor Govern- ment, but the whole Labor Party, is paying a bitter penalty' , for their long years bf unsound thinking and unsound speaking on economic af- fairs. We sometimes wonder if our Canadian Labor , leaders ever nbte the 'trend in Britain. • Bombs Cost Money Bombs cost inoney, particularly those 'of the 'atomic breed.' Of course Canada is not at all in the class of the United States when it comes to - expenditures on atomic research, but at that this atomic age has alrady cost Canada plenty of "hard cash. This was evidenced in the House of 'Commons at Ottawa a short time -- ago, when Hon. C. D. Howe told the members that ,Canada had spent $23,557,000 on the pilot ;,plant at Chalk River, on the Ottawa River, up to the end of February last. • Gold Bricking The Long Island Builders Insti- tute, New York, is responsible . for the statement that 'bricklayers are gold bricking. The' Institute claims that these workers lay only one-half ,. to two-thirds as many bricks'per day as they did in prewar days. For •instance, the Institute says, a bricklayer, working before the war at a wage of $8 a day, put in place from 800 to 1,000 bricks a da. To- day he earns $18.03 a day and lays - 400 to . 500 bricks per • day.. The re- sult is, of course, very substantially increased costs to- would,be, 'builders. e rs. gone lin►tere tins itewa 'picked from Tlao kapositor of pity and tweak r 4vd yesre a�o. From, The Huron Exposit`' April 21, 1922 The rendering of the sacred,,: cane tata, '714c, Galilean" by the united choirs of Hilisbreen and Kippen in St. Andrew's Church; Kippen, on Good! Friday night, has won high praise from all, who heard it. Those who took special, parts were Miss Ida Cochlane, Messrs. Love and Carlyle,' of Hillsgreen; Mrs. J. ,,,.B.. McLean, Mrs. kart. Sproat, Mrs..WM..Sinciairi Mrs. Edgar Butt, Mrs.;:Cooper, Misses Etta: McRay. and Anna Bell McLean, and A. Bell„ Kippen. The dialogue parts were given by Albert Alexan- der and Wilfred Meliis he Jewish cos- tume. Mr. and Mrs. •Ben Johnston, of To- ronto, were the guest this week at the home .of 'Mr. James Cameron in Tuckersmith. The Oddfellows of town will hold their . annual church service in the Methodist Church on Sunday next. Mr. Roy Willis will be the soloist. A -difficult situation arose Sunday , evening -when Mr. F. Howard became stricken with appendicitis' and through tee kindness' of Mr. and Mrs. Alex McLennan their home was opened, and the patient removedathere and. oper- tus plants, squatting like toads the clear air, it suddenly popped into "ted• upon by Dr. H. H. Ross, assist- amongst fairies. • 1 my mind: "1 wonder what Dmitri in est by Dl's. Mackay and But -rows.. The In'the next booth I paw a little wiz. Athens would say if he could walk -►• ened, old .Chinaman selling strange, , through this, market on this Easter nursing Wag - 4411e k►Y Miss Marl:"ret dried plants, His wasn't a rushing Saturday morning!" Cleary. For some time "the ,Commercial Ho-' • • tel which has been closed owing to the ill health of Mrs.' Alex McLenrvan, • , has been recently opened by Mr. C. ;JUST MIL ORTW has e e . Mitchell. • The annual meeting of the Epworth• League of Seaforth Methodist Chui•eh ' r was held. Tuesday evening. Mr. Chris. Cheoros gave a tall; on "The Greek "What has your- boy learned; at A yotirig .diet Wds introducing a Church as Compared With Ours." school se far this: term?". friend to his deaf grandmother, `Capt. Edwatrds occupied the chair, The '"That he'll have to be vaccinated, ' This•is Mr. Sneokboddie," he said following officers•were elected: Presi- •that his eyes aren't really mates, that "Eh?" .said Granny• :- dent, Ross Savauge; 1st vice -Tres., his teeth need replacing and that his "This is Mr. Sneckboddie," he said Earl Webster; 2nd! vice-pres., Bea- method of breathing is entirely obso- in a louder voice. , trice ' Seip; 3rd vice-pres.,- Chris. lete." • "I can't hear. • .Speak up:" Cheered; 4tti vice-pres., Oliver El- • • He cupped his' hands' and shouted,:_ Nott; secretary, Miss Gretta Denni- After the parliamentary candidate's "This is Mr.-Sneckboddie," •P son; treasurer, __Mise. Gladys Holland; : first meeting two of his supporters Granny shook her ' head, "It's no corresponding secretary, . Miss • Sara- 'mere discussin; the •impression he had- . use.. .It sounds exactly as if you were EvelynOudnore; pianist, Glad Miss made. saying Sneckboddue tome. .. `. • bel Daley,;,, Missionarytress., YS MC- "There's one pores," said one doubt- � • Phee; assistant pianist, Miss Dorothy fully: "do . you think he put enough Small .Daughter: • "What is alimony Hutchison; guardian agent, Mrs. 'A. fire into his speech?" Mother?" L. Porteous. "Oh, yes;" replied the' other, .'the • Mother (former wife of insurance Miss Belle Cummings, private sec- trouble vas that he didn't put enough agent) : "Alimony is a man's :cash retary to the Hon. W. R. Motherwell, of his speech into the fire." surrender value, dear." Dominioe Minister of. Agriculture, spent Easter at' the home of her 'bra they, Mr. John Crinimings. Miss Alice . Corbert, of Brantford, spent, the Easter holidays with her mother. The Easter dance held in the G.W.: V.A. club rooms on 'Tuesday evening, was the most enjoyable social event of the season. Music wasy�teaplied by the Blackstone -Buckley orG:hestra and left nothing to ' be desired. !!!! Mr, J. G. Wilson, the caretaker, had the hall _tastefully decorated, and the ladies of the Auxiliary •served lunch. Mr. Wm. Black, M.P.,. spent the • Easter Parliamentary recess at his home in Tuckersmith, -~s • Mr: Edmund Keating, of the Bank of •Commerce, , Ayr, spent the week- end at his home here. • x From The . Huron Expositor April 23, 1897 A meeting for hie purpose •of or- ganizing a ,baseball club in town was held in the Commercial Hotel Tues- day evening when: the following offi- cers were elected: Hon. pres., M. Y. McLean, M.P.(P,; hon. yice-pres., W. K. ,Pearce; pres., E. C. Coleman; vice= pres,, W. G. Willis; secretary, J. Ran- kin; . treasurer, - W. D. McLean; cap- tain, M. Broderick; manager, J. A. Stewart; committee, John Beattie, W. Ireland, J. F. Reid, J. E&war'ds, Geo. Sills. The club. will be.knottn. as -the Star Baseball' Club of Seaforth. Mr. Thomas J.' Stephens, of town, leaves shortly for Windsor, where he will take a position as clerk in the Manning HoteL' He .will also play on the Windsor football team. The new hardware store of Silks' & Murdie-• has started business. Both gentlemen are, well and favorably known and no doubt will do a good trade. Mr. William Dixon, of Brucefield, opened hie new- hotel for the first time on Friday last. It is one of the most convenient and most•eomfortable hostelries of the kind in the 'county. McArthur & Co., Hensel', have rented a •reomr frdm Mr. Zeiler, Zur- ich, where they' will start a bank in a few days. The spring show of entire 'stock, under the auspices, of the Hibbert' Agricultural 'Society, was held, at Staffa on ]Tuesday last. The day was, cold and there were not many ,ani - male on the ground, but there was uo chance to work' on the land the - people all came to the show, the fol- lowing is a last of the successful coin-. petitors; Thos. Colguhoun, James Brooks, Wm, Colquhoun, Levy's & Co., George :Swale, Duncan McLaren. The judges were Dr. Shillinglaw, Mit- chell; Joseph Atkinson, ^T•uekersmith, and • M..Y. McLean, • Seaforth: • ' Within the last few• weeks Mr. T. sCudmxore, of Lumley, ig 'Usbornes has disposed of three superior young erne - ham bulls, for which he received a handsome sum. One went to Mr. Laid Jew, of Manitoba;_ one to Mr. Yellow, Exeter, and the other to Mr. Pedlar,. Crediton. • The following )ire the pound:keep- ers for McKillop: John :Maloney, Beechwood; Conrad Eckert, Beech- w-ot;t Timthy,Ryan, Seaforth; Alex McGregor, Seaforth; ''hos, Davidson, Leadbury; George A. Gray, Seaforth; George McKee, Winthrop; Geo, Hearn, Leadbury; Geo. Dorranee, Seaforth- John Rae, Leadbury; fencevkewers, O'Connell, • Dublin; John Itlerray, 'Beechwood; Jas. McQuaide Beech- wood; Jas. Davidson, Leadbury; Alex Kerr, Seaford).;• Alexander Gardner, 'Walton; James Ryan, Walton; Wm.. A. Aflderaon, Seaforth,, ...At tee, aflame'' sweeting of tbe, Gan - Mean Lacrosse Associatida Held in Toronto last week Mr, R. E. Jackson, I gmentdvllte, was elected a member ,of the c'oune L. .W so* I was visiting in the city on the ,business but `several people came uP, Saturiday before Easter and had) a looked inquisitively at the weird, as. Mott del'igiltfui ,experience. Have you eortnxenn anti then hurried on, look ever been in a big city produce mar- tug almost as ,if they believed this vender to be part of ; sc me• ateellge voodoo zits, Then a Chinserye wokpan, with a basket' soveseeter arm, came strolling .along. eller .tsaw' the •,herbs, let out • a delighted cry, and bought What .appeared,'to ane,+te lie .".•little of everything. She vex away^. happy, and the old man looleld hapPY with his .sale. There were puppies ,an ;baskets ane' kittens and rabbits', and arou idi. •tlxese. stalls wide-eyed Youngsters stoodi,9ve and ten deep. Many a harassed part- -meat dtwxeIiing mother •had to do a lot of explaining that Saturday to Junior as to: the whys and wherefores of not having a rabbit in an apartment. ket en the day before a Sunday that combines a holiday with it? 1 was, acrd .the scene 'wee one never by be forgotten.- Looking at the market was to me, a farmer, like seeing some wonderful scenic garden . . , or possibly I. was just hungry. The 'stalls' and booths were loaded with produce of every Med Here you could tied the can-, treating greens of lettuce, ' cabbage and, celery with the bright reds of radishes, the gglden color of an ela- ormous pile of olrions and, the dulls grey white of mushrodrns. Asparagare, looking as ..if it, had just been pulleiii • tomatoes peeking from out •ef lit- tle cellophane cartons ., . . and the good old potato sitting back 'oohing like.- an.. elder Potato, at a fashion show. • , There were• Hovers everywhere, a dazzling array •of, brilliant bloom'& from }the pure gold of the daffodils to the winsome Miss Narcissus, and many more that I had never knew ex- isted before. There were sprouting ,bulbs with queer scents and weird, tropical looking plants and even cac- In the mat Section, meat was pil- ed high everywhere you looked. There were great hams pilled on counters, some'of them euteopen expospwg the, tender; pinkish meat , and stalls' that sold nothing but •glesiming White eggs .k `- and fowl. hanglnrg •in neat rows, , There was. food everywhere, tame' when I had recovered from my orgy of looking, and walked outside into 1111..■.. Huron Federation Of :Agriculture- Ea�rn-News • Hints on Preparing Bees For Summer "All the work if the beekeeper in spring is for the sole puipose of 'se- curing bees for the harvest and that the main essentials ° are: (1) Good queens to produce bees; (2) Sufficient room for the queen to..prodaice all she. can and (3) Abundance of stores to. stimulate the highest brood produe- tioh," says C. B. Gooderham, Domin- ion Apiarist, in a seasonal reminder to beekeepers concerning the removal of bees from their winter quarters. It is better to take the bees out on a dull 'day, he says, morning or eve- ning; when there is little danger of an immediate flight, because this re- duces the dtanger of drifting,, 'eery light colonies''should be marked for early examination, and the popularly accepted time• to remove „the bees from the Cellar is as soon as the wil- low blossoms or, pussywillows are showing yellow pollen. To, conserve heat and prevent rob- bing all hive entrances should be'`re- druced to about one inch ;and the -hives, in which `bees have died should be completely closed because disease may. be present and there `is danger of robber bees gaining entrance and spreading the disease. Very light colonies should be given one or more cofn'bs of ,honey the clay after they are brought out. The ;cappings over the honey should be.broken• and the combs placed next to the brood nest, care being taken not to separate the brood. If honey is not available, sugar syrup may be given, one 'part sugar dissolv- ed in one'' part of water.. If honey is used for feeding, the beekeeper must make sure that the honey copies from disease-free colonies. •Colonies, shouiid. be examined on the first bright warm day , when, the -bees are flying freely. The 'beekeeper must also make cer- tain that each 'colony has a fertile queen, This' may 'be known only by the presence of cappedl•brood, the cap- pings of which will be flat (worker brood), If the cappings are raised and strongly -convex (drone brood)',• the queen should be killed, and tine col- ony re -queened or united with another that has a good queen. The Ifirst examination should, be as. brief as pds•sible andi` care should be ;taken not to spread the brood combs. Do• not move brood or stores from one colony to another unless it is ce•r- Numbers of poultry, on Canadian tain that there is no disease in the farms 'as at December 1, 1946, totalled hives. It is safer to give setup than 58,466,900 head, an increase of 5.5 per to run the risk of spreading disease. -cent over the December 1, 1945, total Theta Egg Cases Save.Breakage of 55,426,900. Many Registered Egg Stations now The i946 total of 58,466,900 tread make a practice of having what are comprises 54,702,200 domestic fowl— knoWn4.as :'Road Cases" available for hens,.:roosters. and- chickens—an in - sale to their producer customers, crease of 5.8. per cent on the 51,696, - "Road Cases" are madeof thicker 80Q_ fowl on Canadian farms• on, De - lumber than, that, used in ordinary Cernber 1, 1945. All provinces, ex - .commercial cases and for -thateason- cept Prime E'di nod` Island, Manitoba 'are snore durable and better able to and Alberta had increases in the nem - protect eggs declog marketing. These ber of domestic fowl: cases also )rave a "lock top" lid which Turkeys at December 1, 19,46, num- wi1l Iast as long as the case. • bored 2,648;900 head, an increase of Poultry„ authorities, 'recommend the 4,7 per cent on the December 1, 1945, use of "Road Cases," and discourage total of 2,555,500: Four provinces, the use of palls, baskets .a'nd ouch like namely, geebec, •Manitoba. Alberta, receptacles • for deliverling eggs be- and British Columbia, increased their cause considerable "breakage results. 'numbers of turkeys "Roac1 Gases" may usually be obtain- Geese on farms at December 1, 1946, ed dv.eer15 to 30 -dozen 'sizes, A pro- numbered 641,,500 head, a decrease of may get the size best suited, to three per eenron the 1945 figure of the size of hie flock and need, not use 558,000, palls or baskets, even if his flock is . Duck's on farms also decreasedis'in srriali number, showing a decline 01.6.9 per death tc (nseets in Home Ely DDT meet from 616,600, in '1945 to 614,6019 The remarkable poisoning effects Of on; December 1, 1946. DDT, make it possible to deal much more effectively with infestations of insect pests of importance to public health and hygiene than in the past. This is especially true in the case of "those all too prevalent species, the house fly and the bedbug, writes, Dr. C. R. Twine, Division of Entomology, Dominion Department of ,Agriculture, in, an article in Scientific Agriculture on "The Newer •Insecticides, Repel- lents and Rodenticides of Value in the Field of Public Health." The simple but thorough application of DDT in spray or durst form to 'Places Where the .bed bug hides, or where it must . come in contact with the insecticide, i eliminates the ,pest and prevents re -infestation for many months, and does away with the ne- cessity, of expensive, inconvenient, dangerous and only temporarily effec- tive fumigation. The application of:DDT residual sprays to .the interior. of buildings of all kinds wherever flies are trouble- some, plus the periodic spraying pr 'proper disposal of fly 'breeding..mater- ial •coulds largely dispose of the . fly nuisance in whole` communities, if carried out on' a sufficiently; general scale. Cockroaches are another pest that can he completely eradicated from in- fested buildings by :the efficient use of DDT. Formulations containing both DDT and pyrethrum are particu- larly effective for 'pais purpose, • Mosquitoes are even. more suscept-• ible • to DDT than house flies, and minute deposits of the chemical left on indoor surfaces by treating them ?With a "'residual spray may remain poisonous to those insects' for • many weeks. DDT an oil solution, emulsion or water suspension applied, as a fine 'spray to vegetation and other resting places oi` the adult 'mosquitoes at a rate of eight ounces or less of DDT per acre will give considerable relief from the attacks of mosquitoes out- doors. About four ounces or less of DDT per acre, properly dispersed on thebreeding places, _kill thelarvae of both culicine and anopheline forms of mosquitoes. Fleas and lice are read- ily destroyedl°by DDT; Hens and Turkeys on• Farms Increase Disposes of Farm .,.Albert. Pearson has sofd the 17-eeie farin which re •regently purchasedi frap4 W, jNllltiazna qn tin@ Base Line.. Ten , acres -with the buildings on it have been sols} to Teen ,'McGuire, Gird- erich ;, Township, and, .the remaining seven acres to Charles 'Stewart. This portion ef'. land, formerly belonged to • Mr. ''PtPwai't's Property, and•makes hirri a very desirable home, situated on the highway and right adjoining town - Mr. McGuire gets pos'sesslon next fails and'°¥r. Stewart rnediately,—Clin- ton Newe Ree di. • 1,000 Acres Contracted For Flax Mr. Charles Godboit, who hal been contracting for the growing oef flax for seed 'for the Middlesex'Seed. Co., has been suoessful in contracting.for one thousand acres in this vicieltY. Five hundred, acres were contracted in the past' Sew days. Altogether the Middlesex Seed Co. have contracted ,for five thousand acres and contracts e,2.ee. row closed.—Exeter. Timee-Advo- tat.. Ninety -Seventh Berthday Congratulations are t extended to 11frs ,.B. S. Phillips, of town, who on esday celebrated 'her 97th •birthday. Friends and •neighbors called• and had tea with her 'during the afternoon and evening.—Exeter Times -Advocate, 'Fire Destroys Farm Residence . Fire of unknown origin ceompletely destroyed the vacant farm :residence of J. T. McCaughey, situated on the 7th .concession of Morris Township,. early Sunday morning. The dwelling' hadbeen: locked up last September when Mr. and .Mrs. McCaughey, went - to spend the winter in Stratford, and since that time has been uninhabited_- —Blyth .Standard, • - .Purchase Property Mr. Norman Gowing; , of 'Grey' Towle.- ship, own .ship, purchased this week through El- liott Real Estate Agency, the 'property situated ori the southeast owner of Morris Street and Boundary Road, owned by Mr. Albert Morningstar, The new owner will engage in the poultry. ;business.—Blyth Standard. Gets Large Contract Gravel crushing contracts have been secured in four townships, by George Radford,.,.head__ oL the Radfo d Con- struction' firm, located in BlyAlt.'e •Sor•--~----- far Mr. Radford has tendered success- fully for •gravel crushing eontractsl in .the Tpwrships of Morris and Grey, Huron County, • and the Townships of .Eldersiie and Arran, in Bruce County. The four townships will require an abproximate;yardage ea 30,000 "yards of gravel. Mr. Radfoi`d also stili has to complete . seven miles :of dredging on th'd 14•mile Beauchamp drain in, Grey township.' He also has the con- tract for the Turnbull drain, also in Grey township;. which measures a dis- tance of fedi miles. Extensive repair, work has almost . been completed' on. his ileetof gravel crushing and dredg-, ing machinery; 'and trucks, and suit- able weather is all that' is necessary to start operations for another busy s'eason.•—EIerh Standard. Post Office Position Goes To Veteran- Confirmation was received during the Reek -end by i arold V. Kerney, Brussels war veteran, of his appoint- ment as postmaster here. He is to assume hie new duties withjn the next week. Miss Pearn Baker, who has hath four years' experience in Brussels post: office, is to continue on duty as Mr. Kerney's eesistant. The new appoin-• tee is a• veteran of. two world wars. In the First Great War he°served as• a sergeant -major, and won the mi'li_. tary medal for bravery in action. In June, 1940, he joined the Veterans, Guard of Canada, with the rank of Iieutenant. He was promoted in 1948 to be major,; and appointed to com- mand; •a: Veterans' Guard unit on the - east coast. Later he,went to Mon- teith, Ont., es a secondin-comarandof the interment camp there; He was ' also in charge of movements of pris- oners -o£ war to •the United Kingdom and of poisoners -of -war movements` to Canadian work projects. In the King•'s• honors list of New Year's Day, 1946. he was wearded the M.B.E.—Brussels Poet. Dormer Cleric Now Doctor McDermid At the convocatioa of Knox College, Toroeto; last week, the degree of dote - tor of divinity was •conferred upon Rev. R. C. McDermid, of 'Uxbridge, a' former minister of Knox Church, God- erich, who is"'rernem'bered with affece. tion by the congregation- After leav- ing .Goderich, Dr. McDermid was min- ister•ef St. Paul's Presbyterian Church in Toronto for ten years, and later was in charge of Knox Church, Oak- ville, during the absence of its min - tater on war, service. On the return of the regular Minister Dr. McDermid accepted a call to Uxbridge. He has been nominated by, his Presbytery for the moderatorship of the Synod of To- ronto and Kingston, which -meets at Sudbury early in May, The members of his 'former -congregation 'here and the people' of Goiieriuli geaerally are pleased at the honor,,that has i'"ome to Dr. McDeretid • and also are glad ,to 'earn that his health, the- failure 01 which Caused the 'resignation 'of his • Toronto eharge, has been 1.argre- r • r stored.—Goderich Signal -Star, Small Balloon Lands on Barkin Logan When Darrell Adams, •son of. Mr. and. Mrs. Garnett' Adams, Logan, way around the 'barn on, Saturday he spied s white object protruding from the eavetrough' and managecd to gee it •down, discovering that it was a small paisaci1ute attacliied to a black rubber .balloon, almost torn: to shreds. The small double battery with its light was still joined: to the parachute and bore the date November 16, 1946. and the words, Signal Corps, U.S. Army - Where it came from and to what pur- pose it waA used, is the conjecture and, there was apparently no note attache ed by which such information could be gleaned,—Mitchell Advocate.' Knitting Company Expanding On Monday• alterations• were begun on the former Oddfellows' Hall in the Hughey Block to accommodate the' Mitchell branch of the Williams -Prow Knitting Co.,. who have outgrown their premrses in the Coade Mime_ Trafal- ger St,, where they now employ 12 girls, Twelve or 14 more machines • wilt be installed, shotty, and It is ex —Mi peeredtchell to,'aceoAmnnodate 85 eventually. t1voeate.