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The Wingham Advance-Times, 1940-07-18, Page 7GORRIE OBITUARY WROXETER wish her the week- Leaming- is SALEM Missionary Society VanVefsor, Weston, is holidays at her home spent , Mr. Mr.'Wilfred Weir, of'Galt, the week-end with his parents, arid Mrs. D. L. Weir. Mr< and Mrs. Edwin Palmer called for peace by Mrs. R. Stocks the meeting. Women’s The July meeting of the W.M.S. was held in the church schoolroom on Thursday, July 11th, at 3 p.m* when Mrs. Henry Timm took charge of the Women’s Institute August meeting of the ^W. I. Institute Meets Thursday The regular meeting of the Wo men’s Institute will be held on Thurs day of this week at the home of Miss Nellid Dinsmore. ‘ ’ Mr. J. G. Mundell, who is attending •summer school at Toronto, spent the -week-end at his home here. Miss Alice Ritchie, of Toronto, • spending a vacation at the home of Miss Mary Green, of Saltcoats, Sas katchewan, visited last week with Mr, and Mrs. Ray McIntyre, Sunday vis itors at the same home were; Mr, and Mrs, Walter Ballagh, of Teeswater, • and Mr, and Mrs. Roy Gowdy, Salem. Miss iM. Maguire has returned home .after spending two weeks with Toron to friends, Mrs. Litt, of Marmora, is visiting * .at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Bradnock, Dr. and Mrs, Hamilton, of Brussels, •were Sunday visitors at the .home ■ of .Mrs. A. Hamilton, Mr. and Mrs. Percy Morrison and little daughter, of Mount Forest, spent .‘Sunday <at the home of Mr. and Mrs, E. W. Bolton. Maxine Bolton, who had spent a couple of weeks at the Morrison home, returned with them. The July meeting of the Evening Auxiliary of the United Church will "be held on Monday evening, July 22, ait the home of Mrs, Chas. Black. Miss Marie Noreau, of Sault Ste. Marie, is visiting with her friend, Mrs. Ball and Rev. J. L, Ball. Miss Marian Woodcock is spending • -some time with Belmore friends. Mr. and Mrs. Carter McKee and children, of Galt, are viisting with the former’s brother, Mr. George McKee. Mr. and Mrs. C. Cooke, Mr. and Mrs. M. Nay and children spent Sun day with Mr. and Mrs. Cooke, of Clif- .ford, Mr. and Mrs. Zimmerman and (Mr. Jack Zimmerman, of Milverton, visiit- ■ ed on Thursday of last week with Mr. .and Mrs. Cloyne Michel. Mr. and Mrs. Archie Miller were Sunday visitors at the home of Mrs. Agnes Earls, Wroxeter. We a?e pleased to report that Miss Edith Ritchie, who had been in Wing ham General Hospital for a week, has returned to her horde. Mrs. Mary Prescott, Mr. and Mrs. Victor Murray, and children, George •and Nadine, of Toronto, Mr. and Mrs. Thos. Stokes, near Belmore, were Sun day visitors at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Cathers. Orange Hill L.O.L. No. 575 at their July meeting voted $30.00, to be divid ed between Gorrie and Fordwich Red •Cross Societies. Miss Evelyn Stephens is spending this week at the United Church Y. P. ’.'Summer Camp at Goderich. Mrs. Chas. Kent and Mrs. Thomas Bennett, of Fordwich, visited Satur- -day of last week with their sister, |Mrs. Robert Ferguson and Mr. Ferguson. Mr. W. J. Scott, Mr. and Mrs. Ar chie Scott, near Blyth, visited last "Thursday with Dr. and Mrs. Arm strong. Mrs. J. W. Wylie and daughter, Miss Bessie, are spending a few days -■this week with friends in Galt. Mr. Sandy Hastie, Mr. Walker Has tie and Mr. Fleming, of Toronto, were ■week-end' visitors with Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Hastie. Miss Jessie Hastie, of New York, and Mrs. Robert Hastie -*of Toronto, are spending a couple of ■weeks at the same. home. Miss Jean Lane, of Belmore, visited on Sunday with her aunt, Mrs. J. "Wylie. Mrs. A. Hamilton is spending some time with fyer daughter, Mrs. Archie -'Scott and Mr. Scott, near Blyth. Recent visitors with Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Stephens were: Mr. and Mrs. ' Lorne Stephens and son, Kenneth, of . Midland, Mr. ahd Mrs. Wm. Raine, of 'Toronto. Mrs. A. J. Sa'unders is spending some time at the same "home. . ' The sympathy of the community is ■extended to Mrs. Robert Walker who received word last Week that her sis ter, Miss Elsie MacGregor,'had pass bed away at Cardiff! Wales. Miss Marjorie Hockridge of Guelph is visiting with her aunt, Mrs. Graing er. * Mr, and Mrs. John Hutcheson, Hugh and Mac, visited on Sunday with Listowel friends. ,, John H. Miller Following a stroke, which -he suff ered ten days prior to his death, John H, Miller, of Lakelet, passed on at his residence Sunday, July '14th, in his 78th year. He was a life long resident of the district, having been born in Carrick Township. He was a highly respected member of the Evangelical Church. His wife, formerly Lydia Leiscmer, of Carrick, predeceased him. FTe leaves to mourn his passing two sisters and one brother, Lillian, Mild may; William, of Brock', Sask.; Hilda, of Lakelet. ■ The funeral service was held Tues day in Mildmay Evangelical Church and was conducted by Rev. Trueblood of Clifford, Rev. Fennen, of Clifford, and Rdv. Hayne, of Mildmay. The pallbearers were: Isaiah Ma- whinney, John Farrel, Alex. Sangster, William Wright, Geo. Hubbard, Jos. Chilners. Burial took place in Mildmay Evan gelical Church Cemetery. Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Gibson and children, also Mr. Ed. Gibson, Ham ilton, spent Sunday with their sisters. Misses Elsie and Marion Gibson, in town. Mrs. Knight, of Cranbrook, was t£ie guest of Mrs. H. Knight last week, in town. Miss Jean Sangster, of Toronto, spent last week with friends here re turning to Toronto on Monday. Mrs. Fred Kitchen spent last week 'with friends in Grey. Mr. D. D. Sanderson, who has been confined to his bed for some time, is improving, we are glad to say. Mrs. Palmer S.r. is at present fined to her bed. We hope she soon ibe better. Mr. Thomas Sanderson and Bruce, Detroit, visited last week with Mr. and Mrs. D. D. Sanderson. Mr. Barry Rann, London, is a vis itor at the home of his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. R. J. Rann. Celebrated 91st Birthday Congratulations to Mrs. Douglas Fraser who on Wednesday, July 10th, celebrated her 91st birthday. Mrs. Fraser, who lives with her daughter, Mrs. Joseph Lovell, enjoys fairly good health. She has knit about 25 pairs of socks for the local Red Cross. Mrs. Fraser’s many friends will many .happy returns. “her mother* Mrs. Ritchie. Mr. and Mrs. W. (Mountain and dau- -ghter, Miss Gladys, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Youngblut, of Londesiboro, were Sunday visitors at the home of ’Dr. and Mrs. Whitley. “Rev. and Mrs. Fydell and daugh ters, Misses Ruth and Jean, were re- * tiewing old acquaintances in the xil- “lage last week*. MONUMENTS at first cost Having oUr factory ^equipped with the ihoSt modern machinery for the exe cution of high-class work, we ask you to see the largest displaytOf-monu ments of any retail factory m Ontario, All finished by Sand blast machines. 'Wejmpdrt all our granites from the Old Country quarries direct, in the •rough. You can save all local deal* ’■ers’, agetits’ and middleman profits by seeing us. E. J. Skelton & Son .at West End Bridge—-WALKERTON Thursday, July 18th, 1940 By “Bartimeus” (The famous British Naval writer) WRECKED HOMES, SCATTERED TOYS,-ARE HITLER’S T RADEMARK “Somewhere in England” this pic-' iture was made after the all-clear sig nal had been sounded to announce that German bombers had been driv en off. Workmen start in to .clear up the debris of a village left in the wake Kw-wi of the«>road. Eleven killed and scores injured was the toll, according to the British information ministry’s report, but seven Nazi .bombers were brought down. At RIGHT an- English police man crawls through the window of a "WI If BjJI lit-wrecked home. In this room two tie children died, and as a monument to the wanton fury of a Hitler ithey leave behind their broken dolls scattered toys. and R. C. A. AT PETAWAWA Mr. George Fischer spemt end with Brussels friends. Miss Beatrice Howe, of ton, is spending the vacation with her sister, Miss Mary Howe. ,Mr, and Mrs. Frank MacLellan and children, Jean and Ian, of Oshawa, were week-end guests of Mr. and Mrs. W. E. VanVelsor, Mrs. MacLellan and children remaining for -a longer visit. Mrs. H. MacLean, Mrs. A. Wilson, Miss M. Henning and Mrs. E. Hast ings, all of Wingham, were visitors at the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. Lovell on Wednesday of last week. tMr. George Brown was in Guelph last week attending the convention of Veterinary Surgeons.. Mrs. Isabella Fleming, Toronto, is spending the summer months with her daughter, Mrs. Th’omas Brown and Mr. Brown. Mr. and Mrs. Jac.k McTavish, of BattlefOrd, Sask., also their son, Rev. Stewart McTavish, of Pinehurst, Sask, are visiting Mr. and Mrs. Jim McTav ish and other friends. Mr. and Mrs. Allen McTavish, Lucktiow, spenit the past Week with the McTavish family. Cameron McTavish Was a Sunday guest as were also Mr. and* Mrs. Dave Walker, Fordwich, Miss Flora McTavish, also Messrs. Jack and Alex., were Sunday guests of Mr. and Mrs. Harold Grant. Mr. and Mrs. Tom Grant, Brussels, were also Sunday guests at the home of their son. Miss Rona Spending the here. gun crew of the Royal Canadian f Artillery in the process of. loading an 118-pounder field gun at the Petawawa I Training Camp in Ontario. devotional period, and opened with the hymn “Break Thou the bread of Life”. ^The Scripture lesson was .tak en from John 1: 35-51. Mrs. Timm then led in prayer. The leader’s itopic was “Personal Work” and she spoke especially of the work of one min ister. The second hymn chosen was “Ldo not ask that life shall be a pleas ant road.” The president,. Mrs. Wear ring, too'k charge of the business per iod, plans were discussed for the au tumn Thank-Offering meeting. The treasurer reported the allocation for first six months almost met, following a special appeal. The roll call was an swered by the verse containing the word “Rejoice.” The hymn “O God of Love, O God of Peace” and the prayer closed % ... The August meeting .of the W. I. will be held on Thursday, August 1st, 3 p.rn., at the home, of Mrs. H. Wal ler. Current Events will be reviewed by Mrs. Cooke. Roll Call—One mem ber of the Royal Family. Topic sel ected, Mrs. L. VanVelson Reading, Mrs., MacNaughton. Hos'teSsCs, Mrs. Waller, Mrs. iMaclean. Fornier Rector Goes to Durham Rev. R, S. Jones has been appoint ed rector of Trinity Church. Durham* His new appointment’will be effective the first of August. He is a former rector of Gorrie, Wroxeter and Ford- wich and was rural dean of Huron from 1928 to 1931, * on friends'in Wroxeter last Sunday,ous man in a black coht, grey afternoon. ers and stiff collar, mumbled A large number from this vicinity I his nose, attended the celebration in Harriston last Friday. Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Weir and dau ghter, Shirley Anne, returned to Pitts burg after visiting friends here for a couple of weeks. Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Cathers spent Sunday evening with Mrs. Stewart Edgar, south of Gorrie. PHIL OSIFER OF LAZY MEADOWS By Harry J. Boyle “BUYING A SUIT!” wonder .some men grow pros.No perOus as salesmen! It’s simply be cause, othfer men like myself haven’t the gumption to argue with them. An other reason is because we forget our selves and buy goods away from home. I’ve »a confession to make about a new suit I just purchased in the city. Before leaving, Mrs. Phil reminded me that my overalls were a sight. They, Were ripped and torn and patch ed' and plastered With chop and water until they looked like a suit of armor. She said, in no uncertain tones, to buy a new pair. Agreeing reluctantly, I promised to buy them when in the city , . . or else on the way home at Tim Murphy’s in the village. Events conspired to keep ift| long er than was expected, and so, just be fore six I stepped into one of those flashy places with the "glaring silver railings and the marble floors and the little holes in the wall with suits of clothes in them. The sign said “Men’s Furnishing Store.” “Something for you, sir,” a pomp- trous- down well I“Yes . . . I . . that is . . would like a . . .” But the sentence was left unfinish ed. He chimed in, “Something in a suit perhaps. Right this way. We have lovely summer models in trop icals . . light worsteds . . summer tweeds . . and blah . . blah.” Try and get a word in edgeways. Try and tell him you’re only a farm er and you want a pair of overalls. I hadblundered into the wrong store. These clerks didn’t realize that any thing lay beyond the suburbs' of the city except wild country and people who wore skins. Maybe you could have stopped and said, “Look here, I want a pair of overalls.” Perhaps you could have said it while being whisked up on an ellevator that was making your heart dance like it does in a car with the fastest driver in the township . or when you step off and that same heart squishes around inside trying to recover. Try explaining it after you’ve been herded into a room with a bunch of fussy men. Think of the fuss they make and how they disrobe you dbwn to patched underwear. Quite distinct ly looking down their assorted noses, they I start draping cloth around you someone jabs you with a pin someone else starts measuring a wicker chair . . . handed me a cigarette . * * lit it , and start ed parading models of suits by me , . and me still in my underwear, I determined not to flinch but gaze stea'dily at the passing array. Then the cigarette smoke tickled inside .and a red shock of hair started bobbing vigorously. At that they immediately took it that the nodding indicated pre ference for that model . 3 , a double- breasted. creation with floppy legs, a cream colour and a red stripe. It may have been intended for the flag of some of those small European coun tries that passed out of existence about the time that Adolph got his first big ideas. I don’t know about that , . . only that I was shepherded back into pants, this particular cuit was cut to meas urement in a mysterious way ... I was sold a brilliant red tie ... a striped shirt and a straw hat and ush ered back out onto the street. I’ve got it down in the driving shed yet . . . waiting to get enough cour age to walk into the kitchen wearing it. Mrs. Phil will faint if she ever sees it! MINESWEEPING - AND THE MEN WHO DO IT you. That’s the way they started. Then they withdrew to one corner while the main fellow who ushered me up to the torture room kept talking So’s I couldn’t say anything. Evidently the council of Wai* had decided that I wasn’t in a position for one of their hand tailored models, and so they ushered me (the victim) into In their attempts to paralyse British shipping and. as part of their Naval “offensive” the Germans are laying mines which are of two types, the magnetic mine and the moored impact mine. The magnetic mine rests on the bot tom and does not require to be struck by anything. It is sufficient for a ship to pass into its magnetic field for it to explode. These mines are laid by aircraft which drop them in fairways when conditions are favourable to aircraft operations, dark moonless nights and calm seas. They are attached to para chutes. These mines are also distrib uted by submarines and are laid in complete disregard of international law, which requires a belligerent to declare the position of a minefield laid in -waters accessible to- neutral ship ping, to whom the seas are, or should be, free. The first intimation neutrals are given of the presence of a German minefield is when one of their ships is blown up. Counter-measures consist in towing a magnetic sweep — that is to say, magnets attached to a wire — between two fishing vessels or small craft, ov er the area in which mines are suspect ed. The magnets provide the requis ite disturbance to the mine’s magnetic field to detonate the mine as they ^ass over it. The horned impact mine is moored to a sinker by a length of wire. It has' a number of horns projecting from it and is detonated by a ship striking these horns. International Law requires that if the wire is severed and the mine floats to the surface it shall be harmless ev en if a ship strikes the horns. A safe ty device has been introduced into all British mines whereby the tension of the mooring wire alqne keeps the mine operative. Directly that is re laxed — if the mine is torn from its mooring by a storm, or the wire is cut by a minesweeping operation, the detonator becomes inoperative. Counter measures against the im pact mines, which are laid by both submarines and surface minelayers, consist, in towing at the end of a wire an object which floats and is built on the stream lines of a fish. By connecting to the wire in the vicinity of this float a board which Works on the principle of a rudder, the float travels parallel to the tow ing vessel on the surface and the curve of the wire, drawn along beneath the surface, can be made to intercept the upright mooring wire of the mine at any desired depth. This is cut by the strain and the mine floats to the sur face, A patrol vessel follows in the wake of the minesweepers — several of ■which follow each other in echelon —* and by rifle and machine gun fire per forates the mine case, which fills with water and sinks to the bottom. Both these operations involve very skilful handling of wires. Steel wire is always dangerous. Under great strain it is liable to part, the portion above water springing back like elastic; it will decapitate a man as effectively as a guillotine, and break bones like match stalks. Wire out of control on the narrow slippery deck of a minesweeper roll- ing in a heavy sea can behave like a cageful of mad serpents and be even more dangerous. For this reason the min’e sweeping personnel is largely drawn from the fishing population of Great Britain* These men,, besides, being accustomed to handling wires and living in small ships in all weathers, have a tradition of hardihood and unassuming courage. They have ,po illusions about the duty required of them. The trawlers in which they work ■— the fishing ves sels to which they are accustomed, converted into minesweepers —- do sometimes strike a mine. And when they do the trawler usually vanishes, with everybody on board. If sighted by German aircraft they are bombed and machine-gunned,. They work from dawn' to sunset in fair weather and foul, in the bitter cold of a North Sea winter. They are a soft-spoken, gentle-mannered breed of men accustomed to the perils of the sea in peace, They have accepted the infinitely greater perils of war with unobtrusive gallantry. I went out one one of these trawl ers to gain experience of mine sweep ing and the lives the trawlers’ crews lead. The skipper had been thirty-five years in trawlers fishing in the North. Sea. He knew it like the palm of his hand. I asked him if he had ever been wrecked. He said he had — once, as a boy. When the little vessel struck he went below and put on his best suit. This angered his captain who asked him what he meant by such conduct. He replied that he wished his dead body to look respectable when it was washed ashore. TAKE YOUR TAN IN EASY STAGES “Good morning,” said Dr, Macken zie to the waiting young interne in. the rotunda of the hospital as he ent ered ait 8 a.m. that Monday morning. “Anything new?” It was a legend of the hospital that its dock's were set by the movements of the red-headed, doctor. The interne, intelligent-look ing. answered: “Yes five or six; bad case of sunburn; a blonde mannequin of a well known department store spent Sunday with her sweetheart splashin’ round Wasaga Beach. Got a proper scorchin’; came in here hyster ical at four this morning.” “What did you do for her?” enquired the doctor as they moved towards the elevator. “Gave her a hypo,” replied the interne. “Six please,” he said to the attendant, “and sprayed her with 2% tannic. She’s easier now.” There is a present-day craze on the. part of young men and women to ac quire a rapid tan. Because of this a mid-summer holiday may be spoiled the first day. A healthy tan may be secured and a painful sunburn escap ed by making the first sunbaths brief. It takes about 16 days safely and pro perly to tan the body of a child. Taken in proper doses a sunburn has a most beneficial effect on one’s body. The ultra-violet rays of the sun. activate the ergosterol in the skin and produce viatmin D. This vitamin has the specific action of retaining calcium and phosphorus in the body and of the building of bone. Sunlight is of the most value in the early parts of the day, from dawn to mid-day dur ing June and July. The noonday sun should be avoid ed and the first exposures should be to the limbs, changing the pasture ev ery 15 minutes. During the bath itself beginners should alternate beitweea shade and sunshine. The head should be protected. Application of a vege table oil before sunbathing is useful; the oil reflects the sunlight from the skin, The brown-skinned tolerate ithe sun best and the fairheaded and red headed worst of all. The effect of tan is to increase the pigment in the skin. The pigment absorbs the short waves of the sun. • TREATMENT. The application of a saturated solution of the homely Epsom Salts is one of the most effect ive methods of relieving ithe pain of a .sunburn. Baking soda and water* vaseline, carbolized vaseline or salt and vinegar give similar relief. In treatment the spraying of the part& with 2% tannic acid is Very effective* “Is my hat straight?” “That depends upon how crooked it’s meant to be!” YOUR EYES NEED ATTENTION Our 25 Point Scientific Examin ation enables us to give you Cleary Comfortable Vision F. F. HOMUTH Optometrist Phone 118 Harriston