The Wingham Advance-Times, 1940-05-02, Page 5Thursday, May 2nd, * 1940 WINGHAM ADVANCE-TIMES PA
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Mr, and Mrs, Colwell Brock, of
Aylmer, were visitors in town Mon
day,
Mrs. Fenn, of Parkhill, is visiting
’with her daughter, Mrs. W. F. Burg
man,
Miss Florence Barber, of Toronto,
spent the week-end at her home in
tojyn,
Mr, and Mrs. Bibb, of Detroit, spent
the week-end, visiting
Mrs, John T. Currie,
birthday,
Mrs, Alt Mitchell is
her husband is very ill in Toronto
General Hospital,
Rev. A, E, Thomson, of Ottawa,
visited one day last week with his bro
ther, Mr. H, T, Thomson,
Mr. B. H, Cochrane, of Toronto,
formerly operator of the marble works
here, was in town on Monday,
Mr. and Mrs, Peter Gowan,s, who
spent the winter at St; Petersburg,
Florida, returned’home last week.
Mr. and. Mrs, Alan Garpiss , Lon
don, were here for the week-end, Mrs.
Garniss remained for a longer visit.
Miss Alberta M.acLean, Reg. N., has
returned home after spending the past
two weeks in Toronto and London.
Mr. DeWitt Holmes, of Toronto,
who played on the Wingham lacrosse
team some years ago, was in town -on
Monday.
Dr. J. and Mrs. Brown, of Wood-
stock, were week-end guests of their
daughter, Mrs. Crawford and Mayor
Crawford.
Mr, B. Kydd, of Toronto, also Mr.
and Mrs. Kydd, of Uxbridge, and Mr.
A. MacLean, of Toronto, were week
end visitors with Mr. and Mrs. James
Moffatt.
Mrs. (Dr.) J. P.‘'Kennedy visited
last week'with Mrs. I, Davidson and
Mrs. T. E. (Larua) Jeffries, of De
troit, on her way from Vancouver, B.
C., to Aylmer.
The regular meeting of the Wo
men’s Auxiliary to the Wingham Gen
eral Hospital will be held in the
Council Chamber on Monday
noon, May 6th, at 3.45.
her mother,
on • her 81st
in Toronto as
OBITUARY
after-
5John Aitkens
The death occurred at lot 8, conces
sion 4, Culross Township, Tuesday
night, April 23r>d, of John Aitkens, in
his 96th year. Mr. Aitkens was a well-
known and highly respected resident
of the township for the past 80 years.
He is survived by a son, Robert, of
CulroSs, with whom in recent years he
had made his home, and a daughter,
Mrs. Fred Jo’hann, of Belmore. The
funeral was held from the home, ser
vices being .conducted by Rev. J. D.(
Wilkie, of Teeswater Presbyterian
Church. Interment was made in Tees
water Cemetery.
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Mrs. John Smale
(Sault Ste. Marie Star)
It was with deep regret that friends
learned of the sudden passing of Ag
nes Helena, beloved wife of John
Smale, at the Plummer Memorial
Hospital, Friday, April Sth.
Deceased, who was 60 years of age,
was born a.t Bruce Mines, the daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Rennie.
■ She moved to Teeswater, where she
resided with an aunt, Mrs, Malcolm
McLean, now of this city.
In 1896 she was' married to John
Smale and in the year 1901 moved ito
Sault Ste. Marie, where they have
since resided.
Surviving are: her husband, five
daughters, Mrs. Win. Rubenstein
(Emma), Mrs. Charles Taylor (Olga),
Mrs. Stan Smith (Verna) of New
Westminster, B.C., and Dorothy and
Ruth at home; four sons, C. Herbert,
C. Floyd (of Lansing, Mich.),,John
H. and Malcolm R.; eight grandchild
ren; an aunt, Mrs. Malcolm McLean;
three uncles, Capt. Fred Freeh, Char
les Freeh and Herbert Freeh, all of
this city.
Deceased was' a valued member of
the Nokomis Chapter No. 70, O.E.S.,
Flora Rebekah Lodge No. 21, Wo
men’s Benefit Association, Ladies’ So
ciety of the B. of L.F. and E., and the
Margaret Beck Circle of ithe First
Baptist Church.
The funeral service was held in the
First Baptist Church and was - con
ducted by Fev. W. E. Charlton. .
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Armstrong - Pletch
At Lucknow Presbyterian Manse at
11 o’clock Saturday morning, April
27th, Rev. C. H. MacDonald officiated
at the marriage of Llewella Eleanore
Pletch, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Her
bert H. Pletch, Belgrave, to his cous
in, Mr. Hugh Robert Armstrong, son
of Mr. ahd Mrs. Bert Armstrong, of
Tfeeswater. The .bride looked lovely in
a street length dress of air force blue
herfing bone crepe trimmed with
white, with navy accessories. She wore
a corsage of .pink carnations and lily
of the villey. Following the ceremony
a |di^n.e^wA,9;he1,d a| thejhome of. the
bride with immediate relatives in at
tendance. ’
For travelling the bride donned a i
ELECTED PRESIDENT
Andrew O. Hebb, editor of the
Newmarket Era, was elected president
of the Canadian Weekly Newspaper
Association at the association’s annual
convention a't Windsor, Ont.
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navy blue coat with navy and white
accessories and red-fox fur. After a
trip to' Detroit and Pontiac, Mr. and
Mrs. Armstrong will reside on the se-
con concession of Culross.
Priebe - Hubei;
The marriage of Miss Gertrude,
youngest daughter of- Mr. and Mrs.
Jacob J, Huber, of Mildmay, to Gun
ner Harold E. Priebe, of Listowel,
formerly of Chesley, took place quiet
ly on Wednesday morning last week.
The ceremony was solemnized ' at'
Wingham, by Rev. Father Paquette.
Gnr. Priebe, is a member of the 97th
battery, now training at Listowel.
BRUCE LEAGUE
NAME OFFICERS
Murray Johnson, Local President, On
Executive — C. Thompson, Tees-
water, Sec’y.-Treas.
The annual meeting of the Bruce
League Baseball Association was held
at Hanover last week'with the presi
dent in the chair.
The following clubs were represent
ed: Meaford, Port Elgin, Southamp
ton, Walkerton, Wingham, Mt. For
est and Chesley. The majority of the
other clubs in the’ district have not or
ganized as yet. '
The treasurer’s report showed a
balance of $101 in .the bank.
F. A. Knight and' Dr. Sturgeon, of
the Meaford club, spoke On the unfin
ished 'final games -between their club
and Chatham last year,*,Shd felt that
the ruling of the- O.B.A. was unjust,
and the Bruce League passed a reso
lution to be sent to the O.B.A. exec
utive that they consider their ruling
unsatisfactory to the league and incon
sistent with the principle of good gov
ernment for baseball. They urged the
matter be revived, at their next meet
ing when the Bruce League will send
a representative along with-the Mea
ford club to the hearing.
The election of officers was as fol
lows: Hon. presidents, H. H. Stevens,
Port Elgin; A. F. Bowman, South
ampton, and D. McKay, Kincardine;
president, Dr. Carson, Southampton;
vice-pres., Harry Dane, Owen Sound;
sec.-treas., Carmen Thompson, Tees-
water; executive committee, Stuart
Kingston, Meaford, and Murray John
son, Wingham; auditor, Dr. Morton,
Southampton.
strives to.understand what drives the
ambitious farmer to amass a fortune
and land. When for instance I hear
that the fish are nibbling on a bright,
Spring day and sally forth with tackle
and bait . , Neighbour Higgins work
ing feverishly all day nnd far into the
night must wonder how, I can. forsake
work for pleasure, I, in turn, wonder
how any normal man can work so
hard that he, forgets that every man
needs relaxation , » , and that while
.slavish work may bring a great deal,
of money , .. there is no elixir in gold
that will restore the spirit to- a work
torn human frame.
It brings to mind the story of Old
Dan and his brother Eustace. At an
early age Dan stopped working too
hard, and while be was not lazy, he
never exactly went out of his way to
get work, His brother Eustace did
work hard, and his unremitting toil
earned for him a greater ishare of the
wealth of his father. And there the
story begins in earnest!
Eustace slaved , . and in so doing
missed a great many of the pleasant
things in life. He married .and de
manded of his wife the same toil, un
til she too became like himself. Their
farm "was a bleak place, not brighten
ed by the cheer of flowers in the front
yard nor a wife front door that seem
ed to beckon you in. As the women
folks said, “Mrs. Eustace is too busy
out helping him make money to do
anything around the house.” At the
age of twelve all of Eustace's boys
were tak'en from school on the
grounds that they “knowed enough”
. . . and so they grew up in the toil
of their father’s footsteps.
Old Dan led a vastly different life.
As he once said,, “The sheriff was a
nip and a tuck behind me, but then
the sheriff was a friend of mine.”
Yes, like everybody else . . . because
Old Dan had countless friends.. His
farm was never pretentious . . .''but
when the Sunday schools took a pic
nic they went to the river behind his
farm. Old Dan would always appear
to show them where the bass were .
biting . . where Mother Fox had a
nest of pups . . . how to make bass
wood whistles . . the eastiest way to
swim . . and they always had to stop
at the house for fresh, cold milk from
the milkhouse and cookies . . .and how
they loved that house with its bright
ness and cheer . . . and the extra place
set at the table because somebody 'al
ways dropped in for a meal.
Now we can’t, all live like Old Dan,
who at 70, calls off for the square
dances at the village while poor Eus
tace is racked with rheumatism and a
fear that some “slicker” will do him
out of his money. Old Dan will de
part .this life with the sound of friend
ship and cheer . . Eustace will leave
with the cold, forbidding clink' of dol
lars . . . but there my dreaming ended
because the fire was down to embers
and the sap growing cold.
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VACATIONING IN VIRGINIA
Taking a. brief vacation from the rival at the'Cavalier Hotel at Virginia
parliamentary cares of O.ttawa, Prime Beach, Va., by-Roland Eaton,, manag-
Minister Mackenzie King is shown
here as he was greeted upon his ar-
ing-director of the hotel,
GLENANNAN
and Mrs. Thomas WallaceMr.
spent a couple of days with friends in
Toronto.
Mrs. Arthur Lincoln visited last
week with her daughter, Mrs. Harry
Brown, Wingham.
Mr., Donald Fortune, of Wodstock,
spent the week-end at his home here.
Mrs. Earl Johnston and two little
sons, Lyle and Irwin, of Linwood, are
visiting with her cousins, Mr. and Mrs.
Oliver Stokes.
Mrs. John Metcalfe visited a couple
of days with her daughter, Mrs. How
ard Wylie, Wroxeter..
Mr. and Mrs. Alex. Marshall and
babe, of Gorrie, visited one evening
recently'with Mr. Samuel Marshall.
Mr. and Mrs. Dave Eadie, Mac and
Neil, visited on Sunday with Mr. and
Mrs. George Marshall.
Mr. and- Mrs. Thos. Metcalfe were
week-end guests with Mr. and Mrs.
H. Lougheed, Lion’s Head.
Miss Jean McBurney visited a few
days last week with Mr. and Mrs.
David Haugh.
PHIL OSIFER OF
LAZY MEADOWS
. “SUGAR CAMP PHILOSOPHY”
By Harry J. Boyle
The one-man task of boiling down
syrup has probably produced more
thinking than any other task around
the farm. It’s the one place where by
adding sap to the kettles and keeping
a good, steady fire on, you find your
self with a lot of spare time on your
hands. The air is balmy with that
soft, green touch of Spring and a per
son never dreams of reading . . there’s
just nothing to do but think.
With a horse blanket to afford pro
tection from the chilling damp of
Mother Earth, not yet warmed by Old
Sol, I lay back lazily to stare upwards
at the blue sky filtered by the cross
branches of' the maples. A woodpeck
er was playing his customary “trou
ble-shooter” role and prospecting for
grubs and worms . . . and with an al
most childish delight I detected our
“sugar-camp” robin. He saluted cheer-
, fully and then as ithey say “went with
a hoot and a holler” skimming over
towards the swale on the other side
of the. clearing.
Silence ... a smoking pipe and a
comfortable seat can make a philos
opher out of almost any man. It
brings you .to the realization■ that,
when the hermits' forsake the,,,world
for a life of silence, they may not be
so far astray. Man is such a creature
of habit . . . buffetted so much by
what other people say . . ». so given ito
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