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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1948-11-05, Page 2EXPQSITOR Malls#ted 1860 eLean, Editor. eaforth, Ontario, ev- ay afternoon by. 11ZcLean Members of Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association. A " r' • rates, 2.00 year in �� Uptona-a � aY t vance foreign $2.50 a year. Single `iies, 6' cents each. (Advertising rates on application. A.uthorized as Second Class Mail Poet. office Department, Ottawa EAFORTH, Friday, No vember 5 Cottle On Highways Farmers who permit livestock to graze or roam on public highways without proper supervision had it brought home to them last week that it, ;iS not always the motorist who pays if a rambling cattle beast and a car • are in collision. hi police court at Brockville on Friday, Magistrate George Wright fined • William Caville, a farmer of nearby Elizabethtown, $10 and costs Of $18.90, when he found him guilty of failing to provide proper care for the animal. The charge followed an accident in. which the animal in ques- tion was in collision with a passing motor car. The conviction is said to be the first of its kind. Heretofore the mot- orist generally has been held to be in fault, and farmers too frequently have been prone to take refuge in this tendency and have not concern- ed themselves should a cattle beast roam the highways. That the law has recognized that the owner pf livestock loose on a highway is equally responsible with a motorist, or anyone else using the highway, is quite right and proper. Too frequently in the past have un- suspecting motorists, driving well within the speed limit, found them- selves the victim of a costly accident which resulted whenan unattended animal jumped in front of their car. • A Farm Rebuilt Something every farmer has dreamed at one time or another as lie looked over a hundred acres that he Jknew he must plow within a few weeks, was that some mighty hand would reach out and do the job for him in one sweep and save him the long hours of back=breaking toil. That's exactly what happened to the owner of a 175 -acre farm in Maryland recently. Here more than the plowing was done. The farm was litterly torn apart and replanned ; buildings were rebuilt and landscap- ed, necessary drainage installed. The demonstration, arranged by the State Department of Agriculture, was planned to show in a practical manner the benefits of properly ap- plied agricultural science and tech- nique. The job began on the stroke of nine, according to Woodland World, who tells the story, and was over by milking -time. It took the labor of 600 men and 150 machines. Ordinar- ily, four to five years would have been needed by a farm family of lim- ited means to obtain the same re- sults. Here is what happened: The 175 acres at 9 a.m. represent - led a traditional Maryland farm, or- iginally laid out by guess -work. All fields followed straight -row methods of cultivation, with furrows running directly up and down slopes and with considerable erosion in evidence. At 5 pin. it represented a model of soil, water, forestry and wildlife conser- vation. It was a demonstration packed with action, �Up and down the pro- irerty supervisors directed machines nd workers, each with a walkie- lkie in haled. The show started With detonation of a string of ';ltiiate sticks to form a drainage ch in one of the low poorly -drain - areas d£ the, : farm. Then began 0 tearin awn of fences, followed nes ; recting 600 rods of • new a on ': the contour to sep-ial irest Land f'rorn. as- s' yip ed across the height row a..,,. - Giflce a + a � d' th Winding, fC pattern, bending around the slopes to prevent erosion and Conserve moisture. Four diversion terraces were constructed to carry. off excess' rainfall to suitable outlets. While this was going on, 52 acres were prepared and sown to hay -type pasture, with 13 acres of permanent ,pasture, treated, limed and enriched with fertilizer. Unsightly gullies were sloped in and seeded. Simultaneously, a gang and their machines constructed a one -acre pond, and a building crew put up a new 22 -cow dairy barn of the quonset type. In a wooded area, a wildlife refuge of five acres was established. Mean- time, the old farm house was repair- ed, insulated and completely repaint- ed. Most 6f the other farm buildings also received a coat of paint. Grounds surrounding the house and buildings were Landscaped and equipped with tile drainage. Tree 'surgery was also demonstrated. During all this revolutionary tur- moil, the farm owner, • Mrs. Nellie" Thrasher, a 53 -year-old widow, was counting her blessings at the rate of three -thousand dollars an hour. • Discipline Is The Base Child psychology may be all right, but in the Aberdeen area at least, children are not allowed to take ad- vantage of it. The Scotch view is that psychology is fine, providing it is based on discipline, according to an article in ,the Edinburgh States- man. Prof. Rex Knight, of the Chair of Psychology, Aberdeen University, minced no words at the summer school of the Scottish council of health education, when he warned that "children need a stable frame- work in which to live their lives, and this can be provided only by discip- line consistently applied." The professor might profitably have gone a step further and defined the point of application. However, he did go on to say: "In view of the nonsense talked by faddists, it is time a few plain words were said by a professional psychologist about discipline in the home and school. Where there is no discipline there is no order, no sense of security, and no justice. Children have no need for absolute freedom ... The doc- trine of no discipline whatever for children is both false and pernicious. "Children need the influence of adults on their thought and behav- iour. In the absence of such influ- ence, and the control and discipline which it entails, they cannot be hap- py or make the most of their abili- ties; or acquire the sentiments that distinguish the civilized adult from the creature of instinct." i 1111111111115111119? ANN WHAT OTHER PAPERS SAY: Prophetic Wisdom ( Winnipeg Free !Press) Politics and prophecy have little in common. Yet occasionally a statesman looks beyond the present and speaks With prophetic wisdom, This was -pre-eminently true of Herbert Asquith, on February 1, 1919, when he was speaking in Lon- don at a meeting in support of the League of Nations. The invention of the atom bomb shows how accurate was Asquith's warning of the de- structive powers of science; and everything that has happened since 1919 confirms his belief in collective security as the essential need of our age. Asquith said: "The experience of this war has made actual what was unimaginable before. But there are, or would be, if the old system were to continue, two new factors at work. The first 'and most obvious is the unexplored aid still incalculable effect of the harnessing of science to the chariot of de- struction . . - Science has in these matters not only not said her last word; she is still lisping the alphabet of annihilation. If she is to be di- verted, from her humanizing mission of recreat- ing our shattered -resources, and reviving our waste places, and endowing and enriching our common • ,fife, if she is to be diverted for another twenty years into the further elaboration of the mechanism and chemistry of destruction, we may as well pray for the speedieat possible return of the glacial epoch. Better a planet on which 'hu- man life has become Impossible than one on which it has degenerated into a form of organiz- ed suicide." The oecond factor which Asquith feared and referred to le Inter patagrap1ze was the •Political and social upheaval in Thxrepe dee to the disturb - ante of the old 'balance of power egtxilibriurn,; am tiplieabat which could lse stopped from destroying Wined peace only III a seatem of e<alleetive gesture sty. TRF HU. 0 F ,1 OSI PHIL o11 BY Harry .1. Role 1 think that the country .fowl supper is just about the beat social event of all, Tbere's a place for strawberry festivals and garden parties and box socials, and they are all enjayabte. But, whem'you get right clown and! examine canes it's pretty hard to beat agood old-fashioned fowl Slipper. It comes at the time of year when a naan'•s appetite gets awhet- tin'. Drive along the road just be- fore dusk on these nighty when the night is threatening to drop that old curtain, and feel the chilly taste when you go through, the swamp. You resolve to get 'the window of the car fixed afore the snow comes. The wind comes gent- ly but persistently across the flats on the other side of the creek and you feel the cold sort of oozing into your spine- Pull the car up and debate for a minute or so about throwing the blanket over the •:radiator. Then take a look up over the church at the moon that's shining fell but cold -like over everything. The maples are getting a little naked but the pines stand etched like black spooks against the sky. The church shed looms up Iike a mys- terious bulk in the distance. Ah, but this is no place to be standing around when there's good food inside. Cars are pulling up and the menfolks who bad.been sent home to attend to the milk- ing ate all arriving now. There's some gooduetured' banter back an'd. forth. Somebody asks ,Big Jim 'Gibson if he ie going to sit at the Widow Meetennan's table, and Big Jim laughs. He's too usxed to such `kidding to be bothered ay it. Of course he'll sit at that table, -be- cause the widow will fill him to the gills with the very best of food. She's been going the same thing now for 'five fowl suppers, and he doesn't seem to be a whit closer to popping the question. When you start down the stair- way there's a good smell that comes wafting up to greet you. It's a combination of many things, which includes the savory in the dressing and the smell .of roast chickens and the cinnamon in pumpkin pies, and the wonderfully eweet and 'sour smell of fresh bread. You pay fifty cents for a meal that would cost three dollars if you paid for it by amount, and the quality is such that not even the finest restaurant could equal it. You watch practically the same concert as you've watched every year, but your stomach is too full to allow you to complain. Then you go out and chive home, happy) and contented with another fowl supper. Just A Smile Or Two Teacher: "Give me a sentence containing a direct object." Junior: "Teacher, you're beau- tiful." Teacher: "What's the object?" -Junior: "A good report card." • "Unless you pay up soon," wrote the 'blackmailer. "the gang will be instructed -to kidnap your wife." "I have no money," came a rep:y, "but I am interested in your pro- position." • Pat: "That was a foine sinti- ment Casey expressed at the din- ner last noight." Mike: "What was it?" Pat: "He said that •the swatest mimories in loife are the ricollec- tions of things forgotten!" A man ialist. "What seems to be the trouble?" asked the doctor. The patient responded by vigor- ously brushing imaginary things off his arm, explaining, "See? I have dragons on my sleeve!" The specialist, backing away, screamed: "Well, you don't have to brush them off onto me!" • The barber had cut him, nicked him and gashed him. "Give me a glass of water, please," gasped the victim. "You aren't going to faint, I hope," said the barber in alarm, "No," replied the victim: "I just want to see if my mouth will hold water." went to • • a mental spec - 8 Huron Federation of AgricultureFarmNews Soil Testing Has Limitations During recent years, sog ties -lag as a means of determining the fertilizer requirements and the fer- tility levels of tee soil. has axone-- eel rota=ed considerable interest. Perhaps a too rapid growth of this interest and lack of a proper understand- ing of the purpose of the so-called rapid teats, has caused misunder- standing of the information they provide. and a tendency to expect too much of them. - Plant nutrients occur in the soil in more than one form. Each form contributes in a greater or lesser degree to the feeding of plants. depending upon the degre, of availability. The availabare of the plant nutrients depend, upon many factors because so;l it tot a simple system. It is a complex body in which may reactions take place. These reactions are regu- lated by the nature of the soil, seasonal conditions and by soil management practicessay; G. B. Experimental Dominion Station. Charlottetown, P.E.I. The so-called rapid soil tuts are designed to provide a means of obtaining a relative measurement 'of the plant nutrients present in the soil, which are considered, to be readily available for plant use under the prevailing soil condi- tions. Carefully interpreted, the information obtained by rapid chemical tests may serve as an aid in determining the kind of fertil- izer treatment required, but not necessarily the specific quantities of fertilizer to be applied. Experience has shown that there is not always a direct relationship between the amount of soluble plant nutrients in the soil, the amount taken up .by the plants, and the response of a crop to fer- tilizer treatment. Plants differ in their feeding properties. The pro- portion of the soluble plant nutri- ents present in the soil, which are taken up by crops, will vary with different crops. .Seasonal climatic conditions and difference in kinds of soil will also influence tale amounts of the soluble nutrients used. Soil tests for acidity serve as a fairly reliable guide for the need of applying lime to the soil. They may also serve to indicate the suitability of a soil for certain crops, For instance,the degree of acidity or akalinity of the soil may or may not be favorable to the development of potato scab (A. scabies), 'Soil reaction or de- gree of acidity or alkalinity is al- so an 1 mportant factor in tbe growth of legume forage crops, Soil testa may also serve to indicate the approximate organic matter content in the soil which is a very important factor in main- taining soil fertility. Mile the soil testa do not give an accurate quantitative measure- ment of .the amounts of nutrients present in the soil or of their avail- ability over a long period of time, nor do they provide a measurement of the exact fertilizer needs, they' can, With experience, be used as a valuable guide in estimating the approximate ferfiger treatmente which are 'liable to glue best re- euite. In order to use soil tests for this !purl:Wes 'With a fair degree, of. reliability, it is necessary to have some information on the results of similar tests or similar kinds of i soli with respect to response to i fertilizer treatment tinder average !seasonal conditions. It is also nec- escary to have information with respect to the physical condition of the son, both surface and sub- soil; drainage conditions; plast cropping history over a period' of years; soil management practices I followed and the kind of crop to be grown. The value of the results of a ! soil test will also depend to a Ilarge extent upon the care taken in the selection and taking of the soil sample. The sample should be a composite one representing an area of teimilar spil conditions and treatment rather than any single place in the field. Great Increase in Use of Fertilizer A lot has happened in the fer- tilizer industry in Canada in the last thirty years. It has grown from almost nothing to its present dimensions. Back in 1918 the in- dustry was mainly centred around the disposal of packing house or- ganics. That was before it was discovered that tankage and other organics were needed for feeding livestock and poultry. There was a relatively small production of nitrogen materials, in Canada then except cyananide and the total pro- duction of superphosphate was a mere ten per cent of the produc- tion in Canada in 1947. The total consumption of fertil- izer in Canada at that time was not more than 50,1000 tons as compar- ed with a 1947 consumption of 670,- 000 .tons, In addition, the quality of moat of the fertilizers thirty years ago was relatively poor both in plant food content and physical condition- Today Canadian farm- ers are being supplied, fertilizer of as good quality, as in any other country and of leiter quality than in most countries. Fertilize To Suit Crop and Soil There would seem to be a defin- ite trend toward making fertilizer better suited to s.oii and crop re- quirements, and e•quirements,and it is believed that the industry is on the right track in co-operating fully in this respect with. the crop and soil specialists of the ,Provincial and Dominion Departments of Agriculture and the colleges and, universities. Such relationship is bound to result inn bringing to the fore the latest in- formation on crop and soil needs and gives the .industry a chance to adjust its production to actual soil and crop needs. In addition, it enables salesmen and dtstrlbutors to be trained so that they can sell fertilizers to farmers, beat suited to their needs. The standardizing of grades as far as possible for the different eon, and crop requirements has already, proved a great boom to all eoncerned. It .has simplified the problem of, mamufaeture and the fertilizer has given good restdts! in Crop !predtbctlon if not maxfinem. remits its all eases, the -great mar jordty of farmers have benefitted by usiftg the standard gra*. contttlended by the Ad vlsory tat:lents Ana Co-tnoil& of the different peeve Meet', Y -ars )gone interesting Items Picked From The Huron Expositor of Twen,. ty-five and Fifty Years Age. From The Huron Bxpositpr November 9, .1923 The Indian doctor, who is going the rounds' near Walton, is doing a reeillag 'business. The choir of Turner's C1iureli,, Tuckeygnaltb, had a ffw'i supper at the home of Mr. !Herbert Crich on .friday: evening of last week. Miss Emma Dickson,, of Hensel), has taken a position in the Hensall post office. Miss Beatrice Seip and Miss Glades Hilliard were in Goderich on Tuesday attending the Epworth League convention as delegates from the 'Seaforth League. Mr. J. Balfour, who has• taken a position with Mr. C. G. Thompson in the oatmeal mill, has moved,in- to the Royal Apartments. Mr. Arthur ,Routledge is moving this week to the residence in lag- mondville which he recently pur- chased from Mr. James .McKay. Mr. J. M. Eckert, just north of town, has' installed a milking ma- chine In his barn. Cwing to i11 health, Mr. J. A. Williams has resigned the position of Postmaster in Seaforth. No ap- >;ointment has been made, but it is' expected that Mr. A. D, Sutherland, who has been connected with the Seaforth office for the past' thirty- three years, will be promoted to the position. The following are the officet:s of the ,Egmondville Mission Band: President, Mrs. W. D. McDonald; let vice-pres., Miss 'Gemmell; sec- retaey, Margaret Forrest; assistant secretary, Jeanette Finnigan; treas- urer, "Bill" McDonald; organist, Miss Knechtel. A Literary Society was formed: ia.t the Collegiate Institute and the following officers were elected: Honorary presidlent, Miss Amy L. O'Dell; president, John Archibald; vice-president, Miss Thelma John- stone; secretary -treasurer, C, J. Mercer. 4 The young son of Mr. Nelson Crich, Tuckersmith, was taken 'ser- iously ill and was taken. to Clinton Hostpital, where an operation was performed and the child is now re- covering. ,Mr. William Fasken, who for some years has been station agent at Kippen, has retired from that position and intends taking a well- earned rest in. the future, Mr. Bruce Field, of Harrisburg, has been appointed in his place. The first meeting of St. Col iYm ban Literary Society was held in' the parish hall on Friday last. The election of officers resulted• as fol- lows: Hon, pres., Rev. Father Dantzer; pres., James McQuaid; vice-pres., Thomas Morris; record- ing secretary, Miss A. Benne treas- urer, Miss C. Eckert; editor, L. O'Reilly; assistant editor, Joseph Melady; committee, Miss L. Burke, Miss J. !Hyde, Vincent Lane, Ger- ald Doyle. Mr. Webster Turner's new home at Varna is nearly completed. Mr, }loan, Zurich, as masop, and Mr. Weseloh, as carpenter, deserve much credit. From The Huron Expositor November 11, 1898 Mr. R. Richardson, of Zurich, and his two gangs of men will finish packing apples this week. He has handled about 3,000 barrels, which will net a nice sum to the farmers, Mr, Robert Dickson, of Detroit, and his son, Mr. James Dickson, of Langdon, N.D., were in town on Saturday calling on friends. Messrs. T. R. F. Case & Co. got in a fine large deer on Tuesday. It was shot in Muskoka by Mr. John Turner, of town. The union revival meetings con- ducted in Clinton by Revs. Hunter and Crossley during the past four weeks, came to a successful close on Tuesday night. Mr. Alex McKenzie, of the 2nd concession of Tuckersmith, is the possessor of a beautiful Arabian horse. Until recently he was us- ed in the great P. T. Barnum Show viaslla parade horse. The new- Presbyterian Church building at Chiselhurst will be op- ened for divine service on Sunday, the 20th' 'inst., when sermons will be preached, by Rev, R. P. McKay, Toronto, and Rev. Neil, of Egmond- e, Miss 11. Sutherland, of Hensel), spent the week -end in Clinton, Mr. John McConnell has been en- gaged as teacher for Blake school until Christmas. The smoking concert, under the auspices of the Beaver Lacrosse Club in the town hall here was well attended and a good time was. spent. A window in Mr. Case's, meat store and one in Mr, Papat's hook store have attracted much atten- tion from passersby during the past week, The chrysanthemums in Mr. Case',swindow were grown by Mr. John Finch and those in Mr. Pa,pst's window were grown by himself. Mr. John Stogdill, of town, has gone to Exeter, where he has start- ed in the laundry business. Mr. William Archibald, of Mc- Killop, intends! retiring from farm- ing. The merchants. had to !shovel snow off the sidewalks here Tues- day morning. Mr. A, Morentz,! of Egmondville, removes on Tuesday next to the farm in Stephen, hear Dashwood, which .he recently purchased, Mr. Neil 'Smith, of Bracefieid', whopurchased the Kennard prop- erty in that village, is! having the shop fixed up and will oecupy it ltimsleif. The Sheppardton correspondent of the Gederich Star makes the fol- lowtnlg.•referenee to Wm. Brownell, km of Mr. Syd. Browallell: "Ort Thursday evening of last week a hot supper was. served In the 1Itethodlet !Church. One of the Mt- eessful' t'eaturea wase a •pr esentetion ttj Mr. Brow'itell, who has• been teacher fee saver three years of the Bible Claves and leader of sittgingl ht both. ehureli mild school." Seen leaves For the teekon Mrs. Henry Dyck (nee Paullee. Qodbolt) leaves Wednesday for Watson Lake in ,the Yukon to join Iter h'ueband vwkto is a mein opera- tor with the R:C.A,F. She is being accompanied as far as Edmionten, Alta„ by her father, Mr. Charlet, Godbolt, from where able' will take a plane for a live -hour trip to het. destination. Mr. Godbolt will visit' with this sister, Mrs. E. A. Russell at .St. Paul, Minn., and with other relatives on his way home. Exe-' ter Times -Advocate. Injured When Strunk By Car Rodney .Coulter, three year old son of Mr. and Mee, Wilbert (Wi'b;) Coulter, of Grand, Blend, was on Friday adn fitted tot St. Joseph's Hospital, London;" watb a fracture of. the upper left ;leg and possible head injuriee aa the result of a, traffic mishap: on thealteue"Water Highway. Police tartd the 'boy was crossing the highway from west to east, accompanied by another child, Richard Gill, when he ran into the. path of a southbound car driven by Joseph Fisher, 'Kincardine. The accident occurred at 4.10 p.m: The boy was treated by Dr. Donald Fer- guson, Dashwood, and removed to hospital in an ambulance of Harry Hoffman of Dashwood. Provincial Constable John Ferguson, Exeter, and Chief Constable J. Cowan, of Grand Bend, investigated:—Exeter Times -Advocate. Hand Injured With Buzz Saw Harold Kirkcotanell, son of Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Kirkconnell, of Auburn, sustained severe injuries to his hand in a buzz saw accident on Friday. He was operating the saw when it caught his hand, op- ening a nasty cut. He was rushed to Clinton (Hospital for medical at- tention and remained there until Sunday. The wound required sev- eral stitches, and the hand is now in a cast.—Blyth Standard. •Extend Call To Minister At a congregational meeting held in Knox Presbyterian Church on Monday evening it wa's unanimous- ly deeded to extend a call to Rev. George Lamont, •of Pictou, Nova Scotia, to become their minister. Rev. B. L. Walden, of Stratford, presided over the gathering.—lMit- cheli Advocate, Air Marshal Visits Goderich Sky Harbor Airport was visited by two large planes at the week- end. On Friday an R:C.A.F.Dako- _tt��, 21 -passenger aircraft arrived Will Air Marshal W. Curtis, Chief of Air for Canada, who was, accom- panied by Mrs. Curtis. They were the guests of Air Vice -Marshal J. A. Sully and Mrs. Sully at their home, `9Rosny .Manor," for a brief visit. Air Marshal Curtis also call ed on Mr. G. L. Parsons, with whom he had had, some negotia- tions when he was here early in the last war and selected Sky Har- bor and Port Albert sites for air- ports its the Commonwealth air training plant The plane returned on .Saturday to take the distin- guished visitors back to Ottawa, Sky Harbor was talso visited by a twin -engine Grumman Goose am- phibian aircraft on a business' trip from Toronto. — Goderich Signal - Star. Marks His 92nd Birthday William H. Campbell, Auburn, has observed his 92nd birthday. Mr. Campbell was born at Brook - lin in 1856 and later moved to Hue ' lett Township. He taught school in Wallace Township. In 1879 he mete; ried and settled on the home farm l nty ers in setts Wawanossb.. Later he eoldt his farm to his son, .Albert, retain - lag an acre. Detabllshing a home' there he .lived there until nine• years ago '74911.10a }vdfe. died.; 'Since then he has lived With Mr. and :Mrs.. Albert 'Campbell and utter- ed with them. to :Auburn about.two Years ago. He bite: another sons Cohn, Ottawa a#d a datnghl;er, Nxr's, W! Q. •terozier, London.14hOlintl ton .News•3,iecordl, Buy Business At .Ethel Alex Pearson has •sold,".lite dgg grading station, col storage 'anti feed besixese to Glen ,a.nd,'Stac ley Bray.' Glen Bray Is'holdingoaux uo- tion sale soil' will move to Ethel' early in November: Brussels• Post.. , . Hand l.,acerated By Saw , Same/ Thompson, of near Bei- grave, was admitted to Winghanz General Hospital on Wednesday, afternoon with severe lacerations to the right hand. Thompson was assisting 1 buzz-tsawing wood at the farm home of Clarence Chaim - ratty, East Wawanosh, when in some manner his hand caught lap the saw. Mason and Roy Robinson! were ajso •assisting at tbe bee. The index finger and three others were - amputated at the first joint.— Wingham Advance -Times. Observe 59th Anniversary Sunday, Oct, 24, was the fifty- ninth .anniversary of the wedding' of Mr. and Mrs. John Young, Elgin. Avenue, Mrs. Young unfortunately has not been in good health for several weeks and the anniversary was very meetly observed. Their - immediate family and a few .friends. called on them during the day. Be- fore coming to Goderich in May' last, Mr. and Mrs. Young were well known residents of Colborne Town- ship, having had their home fors many years at the Loyal Corner' of the 8th concession, Mrs. Young, the former Elizabeth Fisher, de a native of Colborne, and. Mr. Young, although born in Goderich Town- ship, has lived nearly all his life in Colborne. They have a family of four daughters; Mrs. John 'Pat- ton (Pearl), of Colborne Township; Mrs. Frank Wilson (Mildred), of Nile; Mrs. Stanley Todd (Hazel), of St. Helens, and Mass. Ruby, at home. All the daughters, with the husbands, were with their parents for the day. Many friends of the worthy couple in town and district will join in wishing them good health and a fine celebration of the sixtieth anniversary in 1949.— Goderich 'Signal -Star. Dalrymple Clan Gathers At Staffa A social evening was spent in! the 'Staffa Hall on Friday night when a number of the descendants of the Robert Dalrymple can with their guests. to the number of around one hundred and twenty- five, danced to the music of the Howe Orchestra. Lunch was serv- ed at midnight after which prizes were donated as follows: The old- est person present was Mrs. John Balfour; couple married the most years, Mr. and Mrs. George Wlal- lace; the one coming the longest distance, Mrs. Lowton, of Cobourg. The lucky number went to Wilma Jean James; step dancing by Bilt Dalrymple, Dalton Balfour, Len Houghton, Frank Hamilton, Jack Houghton andMrs, Ross Hough- ton, was much enjoyed. The Kemps sisters sang a trio with Mrs. B. Leigh, of London, as accompanist. Friends were present from Lake- side, London, Cobourg, Hyde (Park, Birr, Mitchell, Brucefield, Varna and the surrounding community.— Mitchell Advocate. Poppy is Symbolic of Remembran ay, Nov.11 The local Branch of the Cana- dian anadian Legion is making its annual Poppy Day appeal to the people of this community on November 6. The Poppy Fund is now a recog- nized institution wherever the Can- adian Legion exists in Canada and it serves a two -fold purpose of very great merit. 1'he money which. is raised by the sale and distribution of the Wreath and Poppy •— the symbol of sacrifice—is used entire- ly to relieve unusual distress among War Veterans of all the Empire Wars, and their families, This is where the Poppy Fund, raised through the sale of Wreaths and Poppies by the local Branch of the Legion, s'teps, in and pro- vides relief for the situation. A highly important reason why every citizen should purchase a Wreath long before the National Day of Borrowing, November 11, to display in homes„ offices and every- where that men and women live, work or congregate, and to also wear a Poppy on Poppy Day, Sat- urday, November 6, is that all Vet - craft Wreaths and Poppies sold by the Canadian Legion are manufac- tured in Veteraft Shops throughout Canada solely by partially disabled and handicapped veterans, men and women, who urgently require earnings in .addition to their meagre pensions for their susten- ance. By purchasing a Vetcraft wreath, citizens can find much satisfaction in knowing that they are helping these handicapped, veterans to ob- tain alivelihood which they would otherwise lack on account of their special disabilities. This appeal is not made on !be- half of the Legion ar of its mem- bers, but on behalf of all -ex -ser- vice .men and Women who are in need, The collection and adminis. tration of the Poppy Fund has been entrusted to the Canadian..Legion. This, 'however, does' not mean that the Poppy Fund 18 part of the funds, of the Legion, It is kept entirely separate and! is treated! as trust fundg 8or one purpose 014 rite pin, biose oirlyeatetter. In p n1 n1 bregl ito te- net berg oP the Legion re= tette no special pireferenee, but all ex -service men and women stands on an equal footing. Any veteran who has served and who is, in need, has' a claim on this fund, The wreaths and poppies which you are asked to buy are made by an or- ganization of disabled and handi- capped ex -service men and, women.. These veterans are so definitely handicapped that they cannot be open competitors in the labor mar- ket and but for this industry many of them wouldbe a charge on pub- lic funds. If Poppy Day did noth- ing but keep these veterans self- supporting elfsupporting and self-respecting citi- zens, it would be worthwhile. The organization of Poppy Day, the sales of Vetcraft wreaths and poppies, the handling of monies collected;, the investigation and re- lief of all applicants•, are drone by voluntary workers. No person eon - meted in any way with the sale and distribution of wreaths or pop- pies receives one cent as wages, salary,- bonus., commission or al- lowance for expenses,. All monies collected are placed in a special account which is controlled by a Board of Trustees of this Branch., or a Branch Poppy Committee, Ev- ery expenditure made is approved and every account checked by the Board or Committee. Every appli- cant for relief isinvestigated care- fully but. sympathetically. Relief may take tee form, of food, cloth- ing, fuel, rent or medical assist- ance. It is .practically never is- sued in cash. Two million citizens of Ontario - wore a Poppy in, Remembrance last November; 9;000 Wreaths were placed in Churches and at Memor- ials, in honor of the dead. !Slhi nld anyone desire further in- formation on any point in connec- tion with Poppy Fund. aetieities, officers of the local Branch will be glad to !supply it. The Canadian Legion is grateful for the hearty support it has always received from the general public to make the lot of the distressed ex -service men and women easier, and It is hoped that there will be no partial• or 'permanent blackout fox tacos Bu' Wreaths generali'ely blow to display in' year wlndow atrdr Wear - 61, Poppy on Novettiber 11.