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The Wingham Advance-Times, 1940-11-28, Page 7tv Thurs,, November 28, 1940 Wroxeter News and Gorrie Vidette cruiser. Newfoundland; for the Home will be packed WROXETER (Dr.) Shirk, who has been Mrs. a wa§ Mrs. Nay, held it was an after- By Harry J. Boyle THE PANTS PROBLEM Unconditionally Guaranteed win- ■ the Gorrie Wo- asking that the tone was you suits with long turning to father she makes me feel old to Quickly the children G. in . Captain Olander, who was in the convoy defended by the Jervis Bay, turned his ship back to return to the scene of battle and pick up survivors of ed for the Orange Orphanage at Richmond Hill and a bale of useful articles shortly. A legal investment for Trust Funds a Swedish freighter under the com mand of Capt. Sven Olander. SHOWN RIGHT,' with the mate of tTWUJNG TOWER TORONTO «-x - armed merchant His return meant rescue for 65 survivors of the gallant defender? Pictured from LEFT to RIGHT are: George M. Squires of St. John’s, ............ .. , GORRIE Older Gentlemen Very Active In our correspondence we have ne glected an Item of interest for our readers, ,in which is the congratula tions to MrT Charles Irwin, who on *Nov. 2nd) reached his 87th birthday, and Dr, Jas, Armstrong, the very ac tive veterinary surgeon on reaching his 89 th birthday Nov. 6th. men are extremely active, strong, accompanied by strong, took a two weeks’ Winnipeg in October, While Mr, Ir win walked to town last week, a dis tance of three miles and home again. Not only this, but during the summer he pitched 18 loads of hay. At pres ent he’s doing the chores on his 200- acrs, his grandson being called to put in his 30 days training in the Non Permanent Militia. Our congratula tions to both of you, gentlemen; These two Dr. Arm- Mrs. Arm vacation in Mrs. Arthur Stephens visited with her sister, in Harriston, one day week.' Mr.’ and Mrs. Ray McIntyre little daughters, left on Tuesday for Watson, Sask., where they visit the former’s parents. They ex pect to return home early in the .spring. Mr. Cloyne Michel spent Tuesday last in Goderich. Little Miss Verne Cook visited her ’ grandparents near Clifford a few days last week. Mrs. Edgar Welsh, and Mrs. H. C. Ellis, of Drayton, also Mrs. Ernest Wells, of Englehart, were guests of the former’s brother, J, T. Shera and Mrs. Shera on Thursday last. Rev. and Mrs. G. W. Butt, of Har row, spent a few days last week with- Mr. Thos. .Bradnock. Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Bolton spent a few days last week in Lndon where Mr. Bolton has secured work, and who reported on the job on Monday morning. Mrs. Bolton and children will follow shortly. The sympathy of the community is extended to Mr. Thos. Bradnock in the loss of his wife, Sarah Earngey, who passed away late Wednesday, night. The funeral was held on Sat urday afternoon from' her late resi dence to Gorrie Cemetery. Mrs. R. G. Newton and Mrs. C. Cooke spent a few days last week Kitchener. . tY.P.U. Had Fine Meeting A very enjoyable evening was spent at the home of Margaret and Evelyn Dane on Friday evening when the Gorrie Y.P.U. met for their regular . meeting, with 30 members and guests present. The meeting opened with quiet music with Margaret Dane at the organ, and Jean Heibein in charge. The theme of the meeting was Peace. Jean Heibein gave the call to worship which was a peace challenge, and “Land of our birth” was sung. Mar- garet Thomson read 'the scripture les son, Micah 4, in which Micah the pro phet, visualizes the day when all na tions will listen to the voice of God and there will be peace. Dairy Neil son favoured with a solo “Lord of the Lands”. Evelyn Dane led in prayer for' peace all over the world. “God bless our native land” was sung. The ■topic “Peace in Our Time” was taken by Jean Heibein-which was a chall enge to young people to do all they could to promote world peace with out being pacifists because Jesus was always quick to defend others from harm, and. we should follow His ex ample, and to promote peace we should practice .the Christian Spirit of love in dud. relationships to others. “O God our help in ages past” was sUng and the Pres., Janet Watson, took charge of the business, followed YOUR EYES NEED ATTENTION Our 25 Point Scientific Examin ation enables us to give you Clear, Comfortable Vision F. F. HOMUTH Optometrist Phone 118 Harriston SURVIVORS OF GALLANT JERVIS BAY ARRIVE AT CANADIAN PORT WITH THUMBS- UP □VW’ These Canadian survivors of the being picked up from the sea by his freighter. gallant Jervis Bay, LEET, are shown as they arrived at a Cana dian east coast port after having by election of officers: Pres., Harold Hyndman; Vice pres., Margaret Dane; Sec., Margaret Ruttan; Treas., Lloyd Hockridge; Citizenship Con., Bert Al ton; Literary Con., Janet Watson; Missionary Con., Dairy Neilson; Fel lowship Con., Reita Galloway; Social Con., Don Copeland; Pianibt, Phyllis Hemingway; Assist. Pianist, Jean Heibein. Don Copeland took charge of the games which were enjoyed by all, and lunch was served by ,the hostess, Janet Watson, and Jack Thornton. The meeting closed with the Mizpah Benediction and “God Save the King.” illations. Mrs. Wm, Fraser, of Cleveland, O., is visiting her brother, Mr. William Whitefield and Mrs. Whitfield. Mrs. Fraser accompanied the body of her late husband to Brussels1 for burial last Thursday, he being a former res ident of that village. The funeral was conducted by the Oddfellows’ Society. George Beaman, Halifax; Dalton Green, Ottawa; K. larginson, New Glasgow, N.S.; barren Stevens, Lunenberg; John T. Smith, Toronto; Everett Morrow, St, John. BISCUITS AND MILK Woman’s Digestive Troubles Everyone who is subject to any* form of indigestion should know of this woman’s experiences, Advice from one who has had such severe attacks js advice worth having. She writes;— “I. suffered from indigestion,, gastritis and constipation, and was. so very ill, I had (on medical advice) to live on soda biscuits and milk for three months. Well,, a friend advised me to take Kruschen, and now I am pleased to say I am greatly improved, I can eat and enjoy a good meal without any painful after-effects, my skin is clearer—in fact, quite clear—and there is no sign of constipation. I would advise anyone suffering the same to take Kruschen.” ’ — (Mrs.) M. L, .. The immediate effect of the several salts in Kruschen is id stimulate your liver and kidneys to normal action and help to free your system of poisonous waste matter. Soon after you start on Kruschen you will find that you are able to enjoy your food without distressing after-effects. Rev. and Mrs. H. N. Watt and sons, Harold and baby Gordon, of Palm erston, were.Sunday guests of Dr. and Mrs. Armstrong. Mr. and Mrs. Cloyne Michel spent 'Sunday with Mrs. Michel’s parents at Milverton. Mr. and Mrs. Darling, of Mildmay, were guests of Mr. and Mrs. S. Fer-' guson on .Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Dance and Miss Mary Dance, of London, spent the week end with Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Mar shall. Mrs. Hodgkinson and Mr. S. Marshall, of Glenannan, were guests at the same home on Monday. Miss Eva Willits, of Salem, visited her sister, Mrs. Harvey Reidt, a few days recently. Mr, and Mrs. Jack Douglas and family, of Listowel, were visitors of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Harrison on Sunday. Mr, and Mrs. Alex. Corrigan, Lon don, were guests of Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Mundell on Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Reidt spent Sunday in Toronto. Mr. and Mrs. Carson Watson have moved to Georgetown to reside where Air. Watson has secured employment. We wish them every success. Gorrie Public School are holding their Christmas Concert in the Town ship Hall on the evening of Wednes day, Dec. 18th. It is some years since this school have held their concent at night, and the teachers are in hopes more will be able to attend than in former years when noon party. The members of men’s Institute the people of this community take notice of the three storey Xmas Cake on dis play in Charles Black’s window. Tic kets are being sold on this cake, the proceeds to be used in giving the children their usual bag of candy when Santa visits oUr town. Only by the support of the citizens can the Women’s Institute sponsor this and we ask for yot.tr co-operatidn and see your child is not disappointed. Mr. and Mrs. Ed. Johnson, of Blue vale, spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Wm, "Whitfield. Mr. Carl Johnson and friend, Blue vale, were guests of Mr, and Mrs. E. W. Whitfield on Sunday. . We extend our sympathy to Mrs. Nay and sons, Bobby arid Bill, in the loss of their husband and father. The funeral being held to-day (Wednes day) to Clifford Cemetery. Rev. and Mrs. J. Ball and daugh ter, Catherine Marie, spent Friday in London. On Thursday night the friends of Mr, and Mrs. Archie Irwin gathered at the township hall here in honor of their recent marriage and presented them with an address and miscellan eous shower. Both Mr. and Mrs. Ir win made suitable replies. We. too, extend to them our heartiest congrat- OBITUARY Mrs. 'Thos. Bradnock Following a ■ short illness, Thos. Bradnock, of Gorrie, passed away on Thursday, November 21st, in her 68th year. Her maiden name was Sarah Earngey and she was born on the 9th Concession of Howick. She was married in December 198. She was a member of the United Church. She is sruvived by one son, Harold, of Eureka, Calif., and a sister who is the last of a family of eight, five girls and three boys. The funeral was held from her late residence, on Saturday afternoon and was conducted by Rev. R. C. Copeland and Rev. G. W. Butt and Rev. J. F. Fydell. The pallbearers were: S. Bricker, J. Hyndman, A. E. Toner, J. Sparling, J. Walker and G, Inglis.*' Burial in Gorrie Cemetery. i ■ I ■ Nay Melvin residence on Robert William The death of Robert Gorrie, took place at his Monday, November 25th, following a long illness. Mr. Nay, who was in his 47th year, was born in Howick Town ship. In 1927 at Clifford he was mar ried to Edna Cooke. For some time he was employed by the Dept, of Highways. He leaves to mourn his passing, his wife and two sons, Rob ert George, ,age * 13 years;. William Nicholas, age 9 nine. He is also sur vived by four sisters, *Mrs. N. Steur- nol, Gorrie; Mrs. J. Hymen, Toronto; Mrs. E.-Osbourne, Montreal, and Mrs. J. Hubbard, Bloomfield. The Service was held in Gorrie Un ited Church on Wednesday, Nov. 27th, and was conducted by Rev. Mr. Watt and Rev. R. C. Copeland. The pallbearers were: Chas. Black, Cloyne Michael, Gordon Underwood, Earl Underwood, Frank Chapman, Aitcheson Wallace. Burial took place in Clifford Cemetery. Mrs. spending the past few weeks in Tor onto, returned to town on Friday. Mrs. Sandy McDougall left for Ow en Sound on Thursday, to spend the winter with her daughter, Mrs. Alex. Sanderson. Mrs. H. Knight spent a couple of days last week with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. McCosh at Ripley. After spending the past two weeks in London hospital, Mr. Wm. Case- more returned home on Friday im proved in health. iMr, and Mrs. A. E. Gallaher, Sal em, were guests of Mrs. F. Kitchen, Sunday afternoon, also Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Gallaher at^the same home. After some years in failing health, Mr, John 'Rutledge, of Brampton, for merly of town, passed away Tuesday of last week. Interment took place in Wroxeter cemetery on Thursday af ternoon-. Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert Howes spent the week-end with Toronto friends. Mrs. B. Martin and Mr. Billy Mar tin were week-end visitors with Miss Edith Martin at London, Mr. and* Mrs. Robert Gibson also Mrs. Harvey Wright were Toronto visitors on Saturday and took in the hockey game at Maple Leaf Gardens. Mrs. Eldred Nichol is visiting Strat ford friends this week. Mr, and Mrs. Harvey Timm spent a day in London last week, Mrs. Frank Sanderson spent the Week-end with Toronto friends. - Mrs. J. Lovell spent the week-end in London _ with her mother, Mrs. Douglas Fraser, whose condition is slowly improving. Mrs. D. S. MacNaughton spent the week-end with Toronto friends; The sympathy of the community is extended to Mrs. Vern MacDonald, whose mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Hein- miller, passed away at the home of her daughter, Mrs. John Gedcke, of Howick, Con-. 3. The funeral was held on Wednesday last with service in Kurtzville Evangelical Church,. Inter- fnent in the Sixth Line (Wallace) Cemetery. Miss Isobel Milligan, London, was week-end visitor at her home here* held. The local lodge were congratu lated on their effort in purchasing and renovating the property so suitable to their needs, having taken over the fine brick building on main street in which the late George Town lived for many years. Bride and Groom Showered iMr. and Mrs. Frank Graham (nee) Velma Higgins, were guests of honor when about 160 relatives and friends gathered at their home, near Ford- wich, one night last week and pre sented. the young couple with a Studio Couch and a walnut End-Table. Frank expressed the appreciation of he and his bride for the beautiful gifts and a very enjoyable eyening spent by all. i) 1 - , Masonic Banquet Rt. Wor. Bro. Dr. R, C. Redmond, of Wingham, D.D.G.M. of North Hur on District, paid his official visit to Forest Lodge on Monday evening of last week. There was a large attend ance of local and visiting brethren and following the conferring of the first degree by Wor. Bro. Ewart Whit field and his assistants- a banquet was Young People’s Union The weekly meeting of the Y.P.U. was held on Monday evening in the church school room, Miss K. Nicklin presiding. The meeting opened with the singing of the hymn “Faith of our •fathers”. Eva Musgrove led in prayer and the Lord’s Prayer followed in uni son. The Scripture lesson was taken from St. Matthew’s Go'spel, chapter 10. “Stand up for Jesus” was the sec ond hymn chosen a girls’ quartette, "Frances Wylie, Alice Howes, Mar garet Moffat and Agnes Wearing sang “The Great Physician.” Miss V. Wright gave an interesting topic bas ed on “The Challenge ito Young Peo ple in the Time of War.” The presi dent, Jack Maclean, presided over the business period. The meeting closed with the. singing of “Blest be the tie that binds” and the Mizpah Benedic tion., ( , . Mr. Archie Edgar, from ;?he Peace River District, is visiting his mother, Mjs. Mary Edgar and Mr. and Ken Edgar, MONUMENTS at firat cost Having our factory equipped with the ftiost ttioderri machinery for the exe cution of high-class work, we ask you to see the largest display monu ments of any retail factory in Ontario. All finished by sand blast machines. We import: all our granites from the Old Country quarries direct, m the rough. You can save all local deal ers’, agents* arid middleman prof its by seeing us. E. J. Skelton & Son It West Eiid Bridge—WALKERTON < GORRIE L. O. B. A. NAME OFFICERS The annual meeting of Gorrie L. O. B. A. was held on Monday even ing, Nov. 18th, when the following of ficers were elected for the coming year; » W. M.—’Evelyn Dane. J. P> M.*—Mrs. E. Carson. D. M.—|Mrs. Geo. King. Chaplain—Mrs. Anson Thornton. Rec. Sec.-—Mrs, Norman Wade. Fin. Sec.—Mrs. John Dinsmore. Treas.—-Mrs, H. V. Holmes. Director of Ceremonies—Mrs. Alex. Taylor . 1st Lecturer—Mrs. Lloyd Jacques, 2nd Lecturer—Mrs. Jos. Sanderson. Inner Guard—Mrs. Alf. Taylor. Outer Guard—Mr. R. H. Carson. Sr. Member of. Com.—Mrs, Irving Toner. Members — Mrs, Lome Walker, Mrs. E. Grainger, Mrs, A. Taylor, Mrs. Albert Toner. Guardian—Mrs, A. Toner. Organist—Margaret Dane. Auditors—Mrs. E. Grainger, Mrs. G, King* • On Tuesday two quilts will be quilt CAUGHT IN GAMBLING RAID In the biggest gambling raid aver made ih Canada, 303 persons were arrested as "found-ins” when police raided the Combine club on the outskirts Of Toronto. Police Were forced to batter down four- doors before they reached the main gaming room which measured 90 feet by 126 feet Some of the "found-ins” are shown here being unloaded at the police station* Woman’s Association The W.A. of United Church, their November meeting on Monday afternoon in the church school room. The afternoon was spent in quilting for 'the Red Cross under the capable direction of the president, Mrs. W. T. Maclean. A Pot-Luck Supper was en joyed by the members. Women’s Institute And Little Tim said: God bless us every one.” “Home”, Mrs. J. H. Wy lie. Roll Call—Donations for Christ mas Cheer. Topic—“Christmas” Miss Davidson. Sale of Candy, each mem ber -to donate 1 lb. of candy. Host esses. Mrs. Sawtell, Mrs. Burke. thought didn’t have as much money as his Father. I talked to him,..just as civil as possible . , . but he was wearing long trousers . . , and they were store-made ones at that. “Mother says I’m quite a little man now,” he said, munching on candy. I didn’t mind his not offering me any candy but those long pants made me}. feel silly. What had seemed perfectly right before, ow seemed to be out of place. I was ashamed of the short pants and the space of bare leg be tween the top of the black ribbed cot ton stockings and the garters that a. fellow couldn’t quite conceal. He had long pants and I had short ones and ' he was just the same age as I was. I staged a campaign for long pants. First of all I asked for them and was refused. Next, I refused to go to church or town wearing my short ones. The toe of father’s boot placed quite carefully on the seat of my pants and accompanied by a box on the ears hcanged my opinions in that regard, however. •* The campaign seemed to lack tact. The next step was to carefully cal at tention to the boys wearing the long version of trousers. At the dinner table I would suddenly remembgr certain boy whq haj just acquired a spit with long pants, “Is that so?”* Mother would say, and, Just to add insult to injury, "He’s two years and*- three months older than you. Good ness, in a few more years we’ll have to be buying pants.” Then, would say, “It think of how grow up.” Time, somehow, eased the hurt of wearing short pants. I grew taller and the space between the pants and the stocking tops grew bigger. In win ter time the goose-pimple would ap pear if you didn’t wear underwear and, if you did the combinations would ease up with the pulling of the stock ing garter and wrinkle down into a puffy bulge. Then came that day when Father took me to town. On the way in he lectured me about staying on at school . . , and he told me about the time > when lie gave pu school and of how he missed the education. We went into Tim Murphy's store and back in the clothing corner. There among the clothes racks nad the pile of overalls I was fitted with a coat and vest. My heart was stopping and starting and tripping . . . and finally Tim stroked his handlebars on his moustache and said, “Long or short pants, son?” I didn’t dare say a word. This was my chance and I couldn’t talk . . . and father looked up at me and as soon as I saw that twinkle in his eye I knew what he was going to say. “Long pants, Tim,” he said quiet-like, “The boy’s growing up, you know.” PHIL OSIFER OF LAZY MEADOWS. The question has now been raised, "Should small boks be given long pants?” The problem may seem fool ish to some, but to any man who led a normal boyhood on a farm it is of far-reaching importance. Think back- over those days when the biggest problems of your life included how to escape school and how to sneak icing from a cake without being detected by Mother. I can well remember my first yearn ings for long pants. Mother had sal vaged a pair of legs from father’s dis carded blue serge suit and had tailor ed me into a pair of short pants. They looked well, inspite of the fact that they were cut square on the knees and the black thread stitching was fairly obvious. But I was proud of them as I strolled casually down the sidewalk to see the candy display in the' dow at Murphy’s Emporium, “Hello there Phil,” came in a that could not be mistaken, It my “dear, dear’* cousin from the 10th Cottcession ... a Mother’s boy with a sneer on his face for everybody he On Guaranteed Trust Certificates tHt STERLING TRUSTS CORPORATION