The Huron Expositor, 1947-06-06, Page 20 'I')!z*Vosiirop
1947
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SEAFORTH, Friday, June °6r 1947.
Lest We Forget
On . Labor Day, 1928, six .cairns •
e dedicated on the Huron Road
to Goderich, commemorative of
' the pioneers who opened .up the
Huron Tract, and a century ago that
month completed cutting of thefirst
road through the Canada Company
lands to Lake Huron.
One of those cairns was erected at
Harpurhey, a mile west of Seaforth,
which on that Labor Day was dedi-
cated in memory of Col. Anthony
Van Egmond, who cut the "road
through the bush from Guelph to
Goderich.
The other cairns erected were at.
Fryfogles, east of Shakespeare; See-
bach's Hill, west of Stratford; Mit-
chell, Clinton and Goderich. We have
no knowledge •of the., condition in
which these latter cairns are now in,
but the one at Harpurhey, is in a pit-
iable condition, and unless some im-
mediate action is taken to have it
repaired, -it will have crumbled to
the ground in another year.
__. That_should never be allowed, be--
cause
e-cause these .cairns were erected to
commemorate' the memory of" those....
pioneers• who opened up the country
for us. and succeeding generations.
We owe them a great debt, and
one that we should be proud to
acknowledge. •
One hundred • years before the
dedication of these cairns, John Galt
speaking of the building of the Hur-
on Road, advertised in the Ancaster
Gazette in these words: "This road,
when completed, as going to make
the journey from Hamilton, to,Gode-
rich possible in four or five days."
And although that journey is now
possible in fewer hours than the
days he predicted, that .fact princi-
pally rests on the foundation work
undertaken and ably completed by
those great . pioneers and . country
builders. °
It 'is our understanding that the
cairn at Harpurhey was erected by
the Townships of Tuckersmith, Mc
Xillop and Hullett and. the ,,Town of
Seaforth, but whether the necessary.
funds were contributed by these
municipalities or by private subscrip-
tion, we are unable to say.ut does
it really make any difference ? It is,
or should be, the duty of every - resi-
- dent of Huron County to see that
these memorials are fittingly main-
tained • and more direct and quicker
action °would:" possiblyresult if the
councils of the 'different ' municipali-
ties named took separate or joint
faction. • •
Also as the Huron County Coun-
cil should be actively interested in
perpetuating the history of •pioneer
days and events, we think this mat- ,
ter should be dealt with at the June
.session of that council.
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It Happens Here
Speaking of Main Street traffic
congestion in that town, the Kincar-
dine News of last week said:
"Heralded by a blowing of hprns
which was •far more clamorous than
the combined, efforts of a 'score of •
wedding parties, a traffic jam- of con-
Siderable magnitude developed on
Queen Street shortly before noon on
Saturday.
"One transport, parked. diagonal-
ly, succeeded in blocking ,off a goodly
portion of the• street. Across from
it and down the street a short as -
:Wide , was another truck double
parked. Two cars with trailers, pro-
ceeding in. opposite directions, man-
aged and there were
;aged to fill the street
eight ...ht• cars trying to get,through the
• .'
�am What chance'pedestrian
would Rage in. attempting
ng a crossing
under the conditions . is 'open to
conjecture.
'Die— and,, that ?is people of
Kincardine -I -do not have tp pit Lip.
with these ..conditions. If they are
going to develop as traffic increases
--rid there is every indication they
wi11-the town police should be de-
tailed to see that traffic is kept mov-
ing, especially at the busiest hours
on the busiest day, with drivers,
whether of cars or trucks, who fail
to abide by existing regulations, be,.
ing penalized,. if found guilty.
We reitetate that it is ;more
through good fortune than to 'ade•
-
quate supervision of traffic here,.
that accident and fatalities are as
few• a r they have been, and the law
of averages can not always work in
our -favor."
That has happened in. Seaforth
and. other towns in the county and
•district many times, and. suchtraffic.
tieups will occur with increasing fre-
quency assummer advances and
tourist cars are added to the local
ones.
But what all these towns -fail to
realize, or choose to ignore, until it
is too late, is that the law of aver-
ages can not always work in their
favor.
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•
Parliament Gan Only Have
Two Languages
A week or so ago Hon. Ian Mac-
kenzie_, Minister of Veterans' Af-
fairs, was brought to task by the
Speaker for attempting to introduce
a third language into our already '
bilingual House of Commons.
This is the event as : recorded in
Hansard on Monday, May 26th:
Right Hon. IAN . A. MACKENZIE
(Minister of Veterans' Affairs) Mr_
Speaker, I rise to a question of priv-
ilege. Last Friday, at. page. 3433 of
Hansard, the authenticity of my in-
terpretation retation -of :hwrit .was.. chal-
lenged-by--one
hat-
p y
oly.
i'enged-'- by one of my --good -friends-
from Toronto. I was supported by
the book, sir, the Bible on which you
were brought up. I went home and
got 'my own Gaelic Bible, and I am
going to put the quotation on record.
I have a. precedent for doing this,
because John Tolmie—
Mr. MacKINNON: '' He was my
uncle.
Mr. MA'CKENZIE: —did this
aboutforty years ago, in the" Gaelic
language' as used in that part of the
country' from which my colleague
the Minister of Trade and Com-
merce (Mr. MacKinnon) comes. This
is what it says in Genesis, chapter
27, part of verse . 22: -
Is' e 'n guth guth Iacaib, ach..is iad
no lamhan lamhan Esau,. .
The translation, which I give to a
long suffering Hansard, is:,
. The ,voice is the voice of Jacob,
but the hands are the hands of Esau.
Mr. GRAYDON: Mr. Speaker,
does this mean that this house is be-.
coming trilingual?
Mr. MACKENZIE: -It should be.
Mr. SPEAKER: According to the
rules the right hon. minister 'should,
-hot try to introduce a third language
in the house.
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Gratitude
When the United States Govern-
ment decided to honor Robert Fulton
by placing his portrait on a new cur-
rency- issue, they borrowed for the
purpose a miniature of the great -in-
ventor from his grandson, Robert
Fulton Blight.
When the .Government thanked
Blight . for the use of the picture,
the latter acknowledged the letter in
the following words: "Naturally I
am delighted to learn that you will
honor my grandfather by placing
his picture on the new currency. - I
••am particularly glad to know that
he .will appear on a two -dollar bill, •
not on a ten or a twenty, or some-
thing larger. Since grandfather is
going to be, on a two -dollar bill, I
will be able to see him more fre-
quently."
•
Settlers From Britain
(Sydney Fest-Record)
Speaking at the Toronto Liberal convention
that chose klarquhar Oliver as tae Ontario leader
of the party, lion, Lionel Cheerier, Federal Min-
ister of Transport, assailed Premier Drew bitter-
ly tor going to England in quest of immigrants: of
selected, groups, Immigration, Mr. Cheerier
argued, woe Ottawa's job., But •1b is a job Ottawa
shows no sign of attacking seriously, • 7A.11 Provin-
;cia1 Governments ,have sought new settlers from
the British /saes since early ;Confederation days.
They shall Have to step up their efforts now, if
Canada's Miciretipied spaces arta to ,bec' ale, in
-
'hafted, for -alyparently the Federal aut tiee
are not dietideed to de much about ,it...
Years Agorae
i9tVtl9yPB 1tMID! Vw?ed'tro0
TLe. HRp4eltot of �'p' and
lvi0nlf'Me flu's }6a
I ►te eettate iteasus picked• from
The E positot fifty and
twe tlef !e yearn
From The Huron Eajpositor
June 2, 1922 '
9.
Messrs. Eckert and Scott, the well
known, cattle buyers,' topped the To -
babymarket again .this week with a
baby beef purchased from Mr. Hugh
Currie, of .Cromarty, This animal
weighed 650 `pounds and !brought 10
'cents per pound. "'
John Foote, one of the pioneer resi-
dents of Stanley, died at his home at
Bannockburn on .May 22, at the age
of 85 years.- He came with his par-
ents from Dundas, Scotland, 80 years
ago, when Stanley township was a
forest wilderness. '
Eggs were selling on the local mar-
ket this week at 25'e per .:dozen; but-
ter at 30c; bogs, $13; beans, $4.25;
chickens, dressed, 65c; ducks, 350;
and turkeys at 30c per pound,
On Tuesday morning last Mr. T. E.
Hays left .Seaforth on the morning
train, reaching Toronto shortly after
ten. From'there he went to the Un-
ion Stockyards where he purchased
a load of stockers, and by nogn was
on the train again for. home. That
is quick work for any man, but then
Mr. Hays is only 82 years young.
The following "have been appointed,
officers of the Maitlandbank Ceme-
tery Board: Chairman, S. T. Holmes;
secretary -treasurer, F. S. Savauge;
Dr. F. J: Burrows, W. Hartry, W.
Morrison anti; J. H. Reid.
Seaforth is the only town in the
county without oiled streets.
Miss Monica Eckert has returned to
St. Mary's Hospital, Detroit, to re-
sume her duties as nurse,
Miss Kathleen Burrows is enter-
taining e. house party of eight Uni-
versity 'of Toronto friends this week
at the home, of her. parents, Dr. and
Mrs. F. J. Burrows.
, The Goderich Golf Club is seeding
a team to Seaforth to play the first
inter -club game on Wednesday after-
noon, June 7: ,
Mrs. J. H. McLaughlin met 'with. a
very serious accident •at her home in
Walton on Sunday last. She was in
the barn feeding some chickens, when
she stepped eh a loose beard of a
trap door and fell through on to •the
cement floor in the stable below, a
distance of some ten feet. She was•
rendered- unconscious..._£ar:_ serif e_con,-
sideraol.e -time, but fortunately no
bones were broken.
A reorganization nieeting - of the
,Seaforth Board of Trade will be held
in the council chamber on Thursday
evening next. {
At the May meeting of the McKil-
lop towns+hip council, the following
motion was passed: That 'patrolmen
on the county and protrincial roads;
in gravelling or resurfacing, give, an
opportunity to the owners of.proper
ties bordering on county and provin
cial roads, to work under Contract, -
an equivalent of their statute labor.
Mr. and :Mrs. Wm. T. Coldwell, of
Hay, west of Henasal1,-celebrated• their
golden wedding on Monday last,
OSIFER' of
MEADOWS
I hear the radio jangli They
with
a song called "What Do They Do On
a Rainy Night in Rio?" I wish some-
body would write one to go, "What
Do. They Do Ou a Rainy Day in Seed-
ing?'" The .things' we've !been doing
certainly aren't as glamorous as the
happenings down South America,
way. -,
We've got some of our seeding
done, but there's still a whole, lot left
to be done. It's heartbreaking to see
everything growing to beat the band
and then look out at the fields that
have been made ready for seeding
and realize that for the most part
t'hey're "just sticky and muddy. .
The first rainy day that comes
along can be a welcome relief from
working. You poke around and fix
up a broken window in the hen house
and mend the catch on the screen
door, and ,put some more shelves in
the cellar. It's pleasant even to .be
able to sit in the driving shed and
smoke and listen to the earn' patter-
ing ,away on, the roof.
Finally you get in the car and drive
into the village. This is really a trip
you could do without, but there'll • beg.
a lot of farmers in town. They'll be
sitting on nail kegs in the 'blacksmith
shop, or in the back of the feed• store,
or. • possibly down at the garage.
There'll be a lot -of talking and smok-
ing. The talk will'be ascombination tomorrow.
Sy Harry J. $oYh
of gossip and general- supposition
about the weather.
Some fellow will have a, theory
that it"s sunspots. He will then give
a, long harangue about the wondrous
ways of sunspots and of how there
are more of them • this year than ever.
before. Somebody else Will have . a
theory; about a rainy spring every
seven years, Still 'other§ will blame
iton the atomic 'bomb. It will all be
pleasant bonyersation without too
much scientific fact to back it up.
That's alt right for the tfirst rainy
day, but when the eecond one comes
along Ws more difficult. You try put-
tering around cleaning out a ,boxy
stall._ Then -you get the mower knife
out and go over it. Your heart isn't
in the "work. You don't want to go
into the village again, and your wife
trys to find work for you. The mail-
man brings the newspaper and you
devour it, realizing • of course that by
doing so you will have to face a• long
evening without anything to read.
The third rainy day just' about
rsends you to distraction. You go in-
to town and you notice that the con-
..versation is gloomy. People don't
even 'bother to trot out their reason-
ing about the causes of the rain, The
fields are waiting, but Nature is not
letting you get to work.
Oh well, maybe it will stop raining
SeL1n
Covflty. Papers.
'MacKenzie Mouse Sold In Clinton
Th'e. most important local real es --
tate' deal of the year was made pub-
lic when" W. Glen. Cook and Frank
Cook, proprietors of Glenniels Lunobt,
announced the .purchase, of the ,lu(; ,ce
,Kenzie House, including building and
furnishings, and vacant lot to the
south of it, Opposite the • post office;
on Victoria St., from Mr. and ,Ml's.
Hugh MacKenzie. — Clinton News•
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Record. ,
Rescued From Water At Sayfeld
Jack Tillman, London, experienced]
a dip in Bayfield River, whioh he did.
not enjoy, on Victoria Day. Had not
Byrd Sturgeon, George Foote andi
Ritchie McDpol been at the' scene to
rescue him, he might have bean:
drowned. ¶the incident occurred at
the dock where the water is very
deep. Mr. Tillman was' in a row boat.
and when he moved to hand ;tin out-
board motor to his, son, who was on
the dock, the boat capsized. lie was,
going under the water for the 'third
time when he managed to grab the-
u'pturned boat and clung to it until..
the three men got t� him.—Clinton
News -Record.
County Home Matron in Accident
Mrs. Martha Jacobs, Matron of
Huron County Home, Clinton, suffer-
ed' shock and bruises when a car in
which she was. a passenger, and driv-
en by Mos. Thomas Morgan, of Clin-
ton, •was struck from the rear by a
'car driven by George Buchanan, of
Goderich, i1/z miles west ,of Seaforth
on No. 8 Highway. Both vehicles,
were damaged. The Morgan car.. had
parked on the edge of the highway
when it was struck•by the Buchanan.
car, also proceeding west —Zurich,
JUST A SMILE OR TWO:
A Sunday school teacher was show-
ing her class of little boys a picture
of four Christian martyrs in a lions'
pit.
One .lad lookedvery sad. "Gee, look
at that lion way in the back. He won't
get_ any!" n
Two men went to call on, a friend.
The welcome was so lavish and liquid:
that both visitors were not themselves
when they climbed into the ear and.
started home.
The driver whirled . his car along
at 70 miles 'an hour. As the speed-
ometer climbed toward e0 his passen-
ger Rrotested:
"Bill," he begged, "ain t you' ,going
And .Bill looked at him in .utter hort
rer, gasped: "I thought you was driv-
ing:"
Magistrate: "You 'say you were
arrested while quietlyy attending' to
your business. What is your busi-
ness?"
Prisoner: "I'm'a burglar, sir."
•
From The Huron Expositor
June 7, 1897
Mr. Smillie, of Tuckersmith, had a
narrow. escape at .Exeter recently
while on his way to Crediton for a
Toad of bricks. His- horses ran away,
throwing Mr. Smillie out and bruising
him considerably:
Mr. A. R. Sampson, who has acted
as teller 'in the Dominion Bank here
since the branch was opened, has
been transferred to Lind•say.Ad his
plaice will be filled by Mr. Loose -
more, of Toronto.
. Mr. David Donovan has returned to
town after a very sueceteful•:.trip •bo
the Old Country where he bad lee.en
with horses, -
Mr. Henbert 'Crich, • of Tuckersmith,
has disposed of a •fine'young bull to
Mr. Thomas Elder, 'of. Kippen.
Mr. L, Proctor, of •Constance, left
lat't"we.ek for .Bluevale, where he will
assist Mr. McDonald in snaking
cheese,
Mr. John B. MVIdLean, of Tucker -
smith, is attending county council- at
Goderich this week.
Mr. John McNevin, of Kippen, has
been -1)116y the past week loading •sev-
• eral carloads of lumber- for Broadfoot
Rc Box, Seaforth.
Rev. Mr. Muir, of •Brucefield, leaves
Tuesday 'to attend the General, As-
sembly which meets in Winnipeg.
Mr. Jamieson, . of Brucefield, the
worthy boot and shoe merchant, bee
rented and, moved, into the store own-
ed by Mr. Dixon, aid will ,there con-
duct his business as in the old stand.
, The brickwork of 'Mr. C. Hartleib's
hardware store at Zurich "has been
completed, .
Mr. Joseph ISpeare has, completed
his barn near Cromarty and• is now
in possession of one of the finest
barns in the township.
Mr. D. D. Wilson leaves here, Mon-
day for Winnipeg, 'where he will at:
tend the General .tj,s•sembler.
Mrs. Swan, of 'ITsborne, has moved
into her comfortable (levelling in
Hens'al 1.
Mr. ,James Archibald, of Seaforth,
was in Exeter on. Monday purchasing
'horses.
Mr, ,E. Murray, of Egmondville, has'
rented Mr. S, Carnoohan's comfort-
able residence on North Main St. '
Miss Aggie Murray, who Was vis
iting relatives in Le'adbury arsdeTtick-
ersmith for stone weeks, returned, to
her home in Algoma a few days ago.
The Brethren of Britannia Masonic
Lodge, Seafortm, to the number of 40,
met in their lodge rooene on Tuesday
evening for the purpose of s4 enddng
a 'farewell evening With Mr. A. R.
Sampson, of the ,Dominioii Bank.
They presented him with a •M'asonic
jewel,
Mr. S. Reid, formerly of H'arrlock,
with his family are now comfortably,
located in their new .horde part the Mild'
Road, Tuckersmith, Mr. Reid having
leased the farm recently: occupied bit'
Mr. Alex Grey.
Mr, Robert Paterson, Jr., of Hem-
.
sall•, is beginning, to excavate for .the
foundation of hie new brkeIs Wok in
that village.
"And now, children," enquired the
Sunday school teacher, in a review of
the • day's lesson,' "who can tell 'me
what we must do before we can ex-
pect forgiveness of sin?"
There was a 'moment's pause and
then little Wilbur made his logical
contribution.
"Well," he said, "first we have got
to sin. .
•
Ashy lad wanted to marry the girl
but he felt he would choke if he tried
to mention the words "marry" or
"marriage" to her- So, after giving
much• thought to the problem, he ask-
ed, ;her, in a .whisper one . evening,
how ow would you like to be bur=
-tett-with-my---people?"
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•
"Yes, son," said the man- of the
house, "when I was your age I was
next highest in my; grade
"Don't take . that too =.seriously,"
sighed' mother, "your' father went to.
a little red schoolhouse. and there
were only two pupils in, his class.',
:H\ur�ztFederation. Of
:Agriculture- FarmNews
„
Millions Lost in Hog Raising
Millions of dq,lllars' are being lost
every year by fdrmers in Canada by
'raising pigs under unsanitary condi-
tions.. It has .been estimated •-that
about 30 per cent of all pigs farrow-
ed die before reaching market weight
but this loss is really small compar-
ed with losses sustained by feeding
unhealthy, sickly pigs which,..do not
' die. Unhealthy hogs do not return
market prices for' grain, sats''H. E.
Wilson, Dominion Experimental' ,Sta-
tion, Laoombe, Alta., "'liege hog breed-
ing_and feeding is an intensive study.
It is the practice of good farm sa-ni-
tation, ,not medicine, that is needed
in many cases when the pigs are not
doing well. Conditions en many
farms are 'very unsanitary and pigs
wallowing in manure cannot be ex-
pected to remain healthy. When kept
in unsanitary quarters -pigs may con-
tract one of they many filth -borne •dis-
eases' and die, Many outbreaks of
dieease would not occur if pens, .yards
and equipment were kept clean.
There is no substitute for rigid swine
sanitation for disease cooti'ol,
Contrary to popular opinion, the
rig is an animal w'hic'h thives best in
clean, < dry, comfortable quarters.
Many of the troubles coronion to
swine can be traced directly to un-
clean surroundings such as the .old
permanent hog lotts,. filthy hog hous-
es and unsanitary feeding;, places: bur-
ing the summer season -too many pigs
have the run of wallows and yards
fouled from many years' use, deep in
duct and depend for orate: ou drain-
age pools. Keeping pigs healthy le
chiefly •a , matter of - good Seeding,
cleanliness and protection from, ex-
tremes of weather. It is a better pol-
icy for a farmer to direct his efforts
towards the prevention of disease
rather than the costly and unsatis-
factory treatment of preventable dis-
eases. .
Pigs are born free or diseases anal
parasites so that if infection occurs
itcan be traced directly to 'contamin-
ated soil, to infected pens, or ,to di-
rect contact with diseased pigs. The
immediate isolation of sick animals
from the remainder of the herd, will
help in preventing the spread of dis-
ease. Young growing pigs a.reore
.susceptible to worm infestation and
the ,soileborne diseases than are older
Figs. It is, consequefitty' good busi-
ness in the interest of healthy, thrifty
,bacon Bogs to give them access at
weaning time to a clean lot or pas-
ture, free from bontamination.
At the Experimental Station, La-
combe, every yard and lot in which
pigs run to any ,considerable extent is
plowed and seeded to '•a temporary
pasture crop at least Once every year,
The . strict adoption of this precau-
•tionary measure has materially re-
dniced the losses of young pigs and
improved ,their general health during
the whole feeding period:.
Future Farm Barn May Be Smaller
Mechanical' engineers have often
expressed the °pillion that itni)rove-
. -.,a:
inents in the design of barns have
not kept pace with the advances an
the design of farm machinery. This
is not exactly true, writes W. B:
•Denys• in an article on "The. Farm -
Barn""
armBarn in the Agricultural Institute
Review., Through the years, he says,
barn designs have 'improved. If chang-
es seem to have been show, there are
very...good reasons for this situation.
The replacement value of farm
buildings is close to the sales value of
the.land and buildings. A farmer can-
not "turn in" an obsolete barn for a
new one, so 'he hesitates to scrap
usable barn and ,build a more modern
one, Many of the good barns scat-
tered .across the older provinces of
Canada, never would have been built
if the old barn had not burned.
• Perhaps a farmer's greatest fear is
that of fire originating in a mow full
of hay on top of a stable of pure bred
accredited cows. Doused in a one -
storey, metal clad and _:metal lined,
insulated And,
ventilated stable, cat;
tle are mach safer, and if a 'fire does
happen, there is more time to release
them. In an emergency, an extra five
minutes may be the difference, be-
tween' getting the cattle out or not.
'Considerable work on the' advent -
Ages of feeding, and handling chopped
hay has been done in recent years.
Field baling is also becoming popular:
Moch resea'rc'h, too; has been done on
mow curing of they, preferably in
chopped form. Either of these meth-
ods will reduce the storage space
needed and smaller barn lofts will
suffice. These new methods of hay
handling ' will probably make drive
floors obsolete, with a saving to the
farmer, • because about 25 per cent of
'the upper storey is. now taken up as
a drive' •floor. Greater use of corn
silos and ensilage hay' will reduce
barb •sizes.
Obviously the changes in -:barn de-
sign must follow, not precede, im-
provements in the mechanization of
the farm: Canadian contractors are
able to supplry suitable' barns and
good value for money expended.
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Stocktaking of Co-ops in Ontario,
A stocktaking survey of Ontario's
co-operatives will be started in mid-
June, G. F. Perkin, Commiss'idner of
Marketing, Ontario Department of
Agriculture, 'Toronto, and Dr. J. F.
Booth, Associate Director, Marketing
Service, •bominion Department of Ag-
riculture, Ottawa, Egaid in a joint
statement.
The survey will cover the number
and location of marketing and pur-
chasing co-operatives in Ontario; the
kind and volume of business or ser -
Vide they perform, and their financial
structure. Also included in the, sur-
vey will be urban as well as rural re-
tail co-operati e stores and organiza-
tions providing co-operatively such
sereices as telephone, restaurant,
transportation, recreation and med'i-'
cal.
This survey has been requested .bY
(Continued on Page 6)
Heiald. d
Visitors From England
.Mr. Wm. Cook has greatly -enjoyed
a, visit from former friends and
scboolmates, Mr. and Mrs. Gilbeit
Nixon, of York, England, who are
-. isiting relatives in London. Mr. and
,Mrs. Nixon came over on the •Queen
E1;rabeth, landing in New 'York Leto
in April. They are much impressed
with Canada and can relate many un-
comfortable experiences. during, the•
lattl•e of Britain. They are return --
Mg this week on the Maurenta.ina.—
Exeter Times -Advocate.
Heads District Oddfellows •
.. The. annual nteeting of _. W.ingham..
District No. 9. LO.O.F., was held in
the- W4-ngha:m--lodge-._room _setegnty-:._..
D.D.G.M. David Benedict, Wingham,
presided: 'Representative's were Pres -
ere from Brussels, Blyth, Teeswater,
Wroxeter and Wingham. The Past
Grand's Degree was conferred on a:'
class of candidates, after" wbich the
r€pular business of the meeting was
disposed of. The variousPcommittees
gave their. reports which were adop
ed. -.The representatives gave repo
on the activities of their lodgef,
showing substanlial gains i
,bership. The overalil gain
.members was 10 per cent
past year.—Blyth Standard...
Newsboys Enjoy Detroit Week -End
Murray Cameron,. Bob Rann, Don- •
ald Edgar and Johu . Kerr, carrier -
boys for the Stratford:Beacon-Herald,
were among the group taken -for a
week -end trip to Detroit by that pa-
per. The boys enjoyed their stay at
the Fort -Shelby Hotel. Entertain-
ment included attendance at a Pall
game on 'Saturday ,and a tour of the
zoo and many more points of inter-.
est. Brussels Post,
Prize" Winning Baby
• At the bab show held at Barrier.
last week, Katherine Ruth Keays,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur
Keays, was awarded second prize.t
The winsome young lady was baptize:
ed in Goderich by Rev. B. H. Farr!
on Jeer first visit to this town ,in.
March of this year. Her mother is
the former Ruth Curwen, of Goderich.
Her father is, with the R.C.A.F, in.
Bar rie.—Cioderich `.Si;gnal-$tar.
Cars Damaged in Collision
Approximately $800 damage was
caused to :cars owned by 'Leonard
Overholt and Frank S. Skelton, in an
accident on tlie hill north- of S•altford,
'hear Sky' Harbor airfield, on Satur-
day afternoon. Jackie Garrick, driver
of the Skelton car, lost control on a
curve,, skidded hroad.side-'acrosa the,.
road, and crashed headon, into the
Overholt car, coming from the .oppos-
ite direction. Fortunately no one wag
injured in the aeryideut, which was
investigated by Provincial Constables
Wm. Gardner and James Culp:Gode--
rich Signal-Stai•.
Appointed to University Staff
Miss Isabel Park, daughter of Mi-:
and ,Mrs. Norman. Park, town, who
has been a lecturer in home econ-
omics and household science at Mt.
Allison University;. Sackville;
for the past year, is home on•-holi-•'
days and in .the fall will , do similar
work at the Uuive.rsity- of Western
Ontario. -Mitchell Advocate.
C.N.R. Conductor Retires
Well and favorably khown to hun-
dreds of travellers • on the Clinton -
London section of the Canadian Na-
tional Railways—his run for the past
12 'years—Conductor Fred Steele made
his last run Wednesday prior to re-
tiring ou pension after •42 years' ser-
vice. He celebrated his 65th'birthday'
Thursday May 22. The short white-
haired man, affectionately known ag
"Friday," greeted many, friends in
Clinton and,;along the line on •Iiia final
run Before retiring to Sarnia, where, '
his home is located. The past wine
ter's weather he terms the worst fry,,,
his experience. His t.rkin wag' snow-
bound twice, -Clinton News -Record,.
Observe Fiftieth Anniversary
Congratulations to Mr. and• .,Mrs.
Eli C'oultis, who on 11Jdnday observed
'their fiftieth wedding anniversary
quietly at their home when a number
Of friends called to offer their felici-
tations. They'are enjoying fair health.
in tbeir comfortable "home on Andrew
St. Mrs. Coultas' maiden•,.uame wase
Rhoda Christie and the marriage took
place at the,.home of• her parents on •
the 3rd, concession of Stephen Twp,,
and thy resided on a farm on the"
6th, eolncessdon. of Osborne 'tail re-
tiring -and Moving to Exeter in 1914.
--Exeter Times-Ad.voheate: