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The Wingham Advance-Times, 1952-01-30, Page 5NEWS OF BELMOIRE Annual' Congregational Mtg., Held at United Church The annual Congregational meet- ing of the United Church, Belmore, was held on Tuesday afternoon, Jan- uary 22nd. Rev. J. H. Martin led the devotions and' presided as chairman, while Mr. Roy Rutherford acted as secretary. The Session report given by the minister, showed thirty families with ninety-four members, two having been added on profession of faith; one baptism and three marriages. Mr. Harry Gowdy, the treasurer re- ported that all financial requirements JUVENILE INSURANCE Modern policy plans designed to serve your children's needs.\ CONSULT— F. C. HOPPER REPRESENTATIVE Canada Life Assurance COMPANY WINGHAM PHONE 462 TAXI DAY or NIGHT Phone 65 JIM CAMERON All Passengers Insured had been met, having an increased balance at the close of the year, Four hundred and forty dollars had been given to Missions. The Sunday School report, given by Wilfred Johann, and that of the also showed in- creases. After six years service as treasur- er, Mr. Harry Gowdy asked to be re- lieved of his office and Mr, Wilfred Johann was appointed in his place, Murray Mulvey was appointed to re- place Wilfred as secretary of the Sunday School. E. McNee, Norman Newans and Fred Doubledee were elected to the Board of Managers, while Mrs. N. Newans and Velma Ballagh were appointed Church or- ganists, and Doris Doubledee organ- ist for the Sunday School and Mrs. C. Douglas, song leader for the Sun- day School. Mr. Roy Rutherford will continue as Superintendent. Euchre Owing to inclement weather and bad roads there was not a large at- tendance at the euchre held in the Hall on Tuesday night. Mr. and Mrs. George Harper and Mrs. Herb Busby were in charge. Prizes went to Mrs. Jack Willits, Miss Kay McLennan, Mr. Glenn Will and Nelson Hunkin. Mrs. Ken Jackson won the lucky draw. Hockey A full schedule was run off in the local arena this past week. Hockey games were played on Monday and Thursday nights. Monday night, Gorrie and Belmore met; with Gorrie coming out on top, Thursday night Ayton and Gorrie played a scheduled game, with Ayton the victors. The other evenings local hockey players, broom bailers and skaters enjoyed The Story of a Vital Factor in Your Community's Welfare Benefits 'for Canadians living in communities from St. John's to Victoria are highlighted in the 65th Annual Report of the Manufacturers Life. 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Premiurfa dollars held in trust for Manufacturers Life policyholders are invested in public and private enterprises essential to community progress. Highlights from the 65th ANNUAL REPORT of the Manufacturers Life 410,000 CLIENTS IN CANADA and over 30 other countries around the world are now entrusting substantial amounts of their savings to the Manu- facturers Life to protect their dependents and their own retirement. $1,443,927,793 OF INSURANCE and retirement protection is provided by the policies they own. $449,783,836 IS SECURELY INVESTED to guarantee payment of the benefits promised under these policies. The interest earned on these funds — which are principally accumulated premium de- posits — reduces the cost of insurance. , $198,033,779 OF NEW INSURANCE WAS PUR- CHASED IN 1951 by over 35,000 clients, many of whom were already owners of Manufacturers Life policies. $2093,997 WAS PAID TO LIVING POLICY. OWNERS, and to the families of those who died. The Life Insurance programs under which these payments were made have been carefully ar- ranged by trained Life Underwriters — one of Whom is available to perform the same service for you. yrs T H E MANUFACTURERS INSURANCE LIFE COMPANY MEAD OFFICE (Established 1887.4 TORONTO, CANADA) Branch ,Office: 208-10, 291 Dundas Street London, Ontario A. Claud Turner, C.L.U. - Branch Manager Representative: W. B. Conran Wingham Sisters Seek Crown Vacated By Susanne MOri"Ow Central eress CAnadian With Suzanne Morrow, 1051 Canadian champion in Europe practising for Olympic games, 15-year-old Elizabeth Gratton at right, of Toronto 15 favored as likely candidate to cop Coveted crown. Former 1950 juniot titleholder who has slew jumped to senior ranks and one of the best free Skaters in the country, Elizabeth will compete against her sister Barbera, left, and, about four others who have been given a chance to sttedeed Miss Morrow, All told there will be about 70 skaters kw' Montreal to Vancouver on hand in Oshawa, ant., for the three-dk Canadian figure skating ehamptbilships--,•whiCh get underway on Jam 17 When you add it all up... WHEN you consider the men, women and money needed to operate 3,700 branches — you see what is involved in looking after the greatly increased demands made by busy Canadians upon their chartered banks. In ten years . with bigger staffs and higher wages, payrolls have jumped from $40 million a year to $102 million . . . taxes, federal, provincial and municipal, have risen from $9.5 million to $20.7 million a year . . . interest paid to depositors has increased from $22 million to $57.8 million a year. And these are only three of many expense items. Yes, today more than ever, it costs money to run a bank. One of a series by yaut bank WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 30th, 1952 THE WINGHAM ADVANCE-TIMES IWIE themselves on the ice, The local ball temp journeyed to Belgrave on Friday night and played a short game With the Belgrave team. The score being 1-0 for Belgrave. How- ever the genial spen,sore of the event awarded both teams a prize of five dollars, Personals Mr, and Mrs. Howard Nickel and daughters of Breslau, spent the week- end with. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Nickel. At the United Church on Sunday, Rev. J. H. Martin based his remarks On the story of the Syrophenician Woman, Mark 7:24-30. Raymond Gowdy sang a solo entitled "An Evening Prayer." Miss Jean Dickson spent a few days with her sister, Mrs. John Douglas, last week. Mr. and Mrs. Stewart Aitken, Glor- ia and Vera, near Kincardine, attend- ed service in the Presbyterian Church on Sunday afternoon and later visited with Mrs. Adam Nickel and George. Mr. and Mrs. Stewart Johann and David of Teeswater, called on Mrs, Fred Johann last Sunday. Mr. W. H. Arktll and Mr. Herbert, and Miss Helen Arkell, of Teeswater, were dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. T. L, Inglis, on Sunday evening, Mr. and Mrs. Farrell visited with Mr. and Mrs. Zinn after church on Sunday. • Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Eljiott attended the bonspiel in London last Wednes- day and stayed over till Thursday to be present at the capping exercises in Victoria Hospital, when their daughter, Jean, nurse-in-training there, received her cap, Mr. George Pomeroy of Qu'Appelle, Sask., and Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Hark- ness visited Mrs. John Harper on Sunday. Mr. Pomeroy is spending a few weeks visiting relatives and friends in Ontario. Mr, and Mrs. Wilfred Walker and Donald, of Belgrave, and Mrs. P. Johann and Wilfred, were guests of Mr. and Mrs, Elmer Jetfray after church on Sunday. Mr. Leonard Metcalf has been con- fined to the house the past two weeks with an attack of mumps. Miss Butcher, who fell on Christ- mas morning and•broke a bpne in her hip, and who has been a patient in Wingham Hospital since, le improv- ing. We are also pleased to report that Mr. August Wilke, Mrs. Leslie Edwards and Mrs. Hunkin's mother, Mrs. Hamilton, are all somewhat im- proved, Mrs. Fitch is not improving as much as her friends would like. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Merkley and George, were supper guests of Mr. and Mrs. Thos. Abraham on Friday evening. Mr. Harry Abram of London, spent the weekend with friends here, prior to his leaving for Kingston, where he begins training in the Royal Canad- ian Mechanical Engineers. Harry is the fourth son of the late Mr. and Mrs. W. I. Abram to enlist in the Canadian Army. Messrs. Harry Mulvey, Win. Merk- ley and Leslie Fortune were among the Huron Farmers taking the bus trip to Toronto on Thursday last. W. J. FLEUTY RECALLS EARLY NEWSPAPERS Walkerton, Ontario, was the birth- place of the subject of this brief sketch. This incident occurred at 11.45 p,m. on Saturday, February 25th., 1865. An old adage' proclaims that a male child born on Sunday will be a gentleman. I missed out. My father was Jarnes Fleuty, who at the time of my arrival was foreman in the office of the ....Bruce-Herald weekly newspaper. Later he became a William J. Fleuty partner in the publication of •he Walkerton Telescope. He had dispos- ed of his interest in the Telescope, when Charles Cliffe, a Kincardine publisher, feeling the urge to get in on the ground floor in a t,s:w and prosperous looking place that had sprung up, Installed a printing i•lant in Wingham and engaged James Fleuty as manager and editor. The first issue of the Advance 3,,ne out on Sept. 5th., 1873. One year later Mr. Cliffe disposed of the Advance to its manager-editor. The Fleuty family were brought to Wingham on Saturday, September 6, 1873, and took up residence in a cot- tage just completed at the corner of Patrick and Minnie streets. So great was the demand for a copy of the new paper that a reader had to be importuned to return his Advance to the office as a souvenir. That copy is still in the possession of W. J. Fleuty. Working in the Advance office was a young man named W. E. Groves, who in this manner was nutting him- Self through school to become a tea- cher, he attained his object and years later became principal ,of one of the largest public schools in Toronto and ranked high in the teaching' ' rofee- sion. Ed. Groves took a liking to the eight-year-old son of his boss, and at nine years had him standing on a box setting type for the Advance, Such was my initiation -to the art of pi int- ing. Of course, I saw type-lice, as was shown every boy starting in, Only a few days ago a friend in Wingham put the question co me, "Did you ever see type-lice." Showing an apprentice type-lice was done by separating a portion of type, liberally sprinkling water on it, then as the subject stared intently into some water to see the object of has search, the two bodies of type were jammed together, the water flying into the face of the apprentice. ,/ At 9 years of age, I was perhaps the youngest compositor in the Pro- vince, At 86 I must be one of the old- est printer, publisher, journalists in Ontario, In those early days newspapers did not enjoy the postage Pacilities of the present era. All town eapers ^had to be delivered, and I was the es.r- Her boy. Did. I know Wingham? Every house and who lived in it, At the age of 14 years I really started in to learn the trade. At '17 years I left town for London to gain further experience. At 18 years, I was in Detroit, employed in one of the best equipped plants in that city. One un- usual experience I h had in that big plant is worth repeating. A man of over 50 years was put to work one morning as an ordinary type-setter. He told me his name, Andrew O'Niel, and said he was often called General O'Niel, This General O'Niel, he informed me, was the leader of that expedition that crossed the river to capture Canada., in 1866. "I'm not General O'Niel, but I was there with him." The old renegade hated everything British. While an employee of this printing office we had under contract a book entitled "Irish Celts." For the publisher O'Niel wrote a brief sketch of the life of Thomas D'Arcy McGee, and I quote from it, "The cleverest Irish- man that ever crossed the Atlantic." I came back to the Advance for a short time, IRA wanderlust got me again and as a member of the Print- ers' Union I roamed far from acme. Some time later, having married, I deemed it time to settle down, so then came my Severance with the Advance which had been sold by my father. But Wingham has always been my home and I am still interested, 'n this town's welfare and the success of the now Advance-Times. At one time Wingham had viree weeklies, one J. T. Mitchell thinking he saw an opening for a third paper, which he' called the Vidette. Then it was a race to the finish between the Times and the Vidette. By a peculiar chain of circumstances these two papers ceased circulation the same week. The Times was resuscit- ated, but Mr. Mitchell moved the Vidette plant to some other point. Pulling the lever of a Washiagron Press seemed an easy matter to an ordinary Observer. The three mem- bers of the staff were just commenc- ing to run off the weekly edition. Into the office came J. B. Ferguson, the town clerk. He asked to be allow- ed to try his strength at printing a copy of the Advance. He pulled the lever as far as he could, out aot far enough, then let the lever fly back again. Result, the steel parts that form he impression flew out on the floor. No man could turn whiter than he did, the press was ruined. But in a few minutes we had the press run- ning again, just a simple matter of adjustment. A gentleman was -stand- ing with his back to the big box stove. The press incident scared him so bad that he had to struggle to keep from going backward over the stove, All this was fun for the boys. The annual congregational meeting of the Westfield United Church was held in the church school room on Friday, January 25th. At noon a pot luck dinner was' served by the ladies at which 28 sat down to a well laden table. Rev. C. C. Washington was in charge of the meeting which opened by singing "I know whom I have believed," A memorial service was conducted in memory of the mem- bers who had passed on. All depart- ments of the church showed encour- aging progress during the aiast year, Each report revealed a substantial balance, Rev. Washington gave the report of the session and reported one removal by death, 3 by certific- ate and otherwise, 12 persons were received into full membership. The membership numbers 117 persons with spiritual oversight of 160 cov- ering 40 families with two baptisms. The Stewards report was present- ed by Mr, John Buchanan with total receipts of $1630.73 and a balance of $245.00. Mr. Wm. McDowell reported for the Missionary and Maintenance and said $417.35 had been given. $70.00 was donated from the Sunday School and $32.00 as a special Christ- mas gift, The Women's Missionary Society sent $285.00 to the Branch Treasurer. There were 23 annual members and 5 life members. A bale of relief work was sent during the year valued at $688.75 for overseas relief, this amount included $14.00 for express. A bale, for home missions valued at $102.93. The missidn band sent $36.65 to band treasurer. The Baby Band $20,39. The sum of $66.61 was raised by the Women's Auxiliary, Sunday School $244.98. The amount contributed by the congregation and its various organizations was approx- imately $2873.52 with an additional $1437.55 for a new furnace which was installed during the summer. The election of officers resulted as follows: member of session re-elected Mr, Walter Cook; Board of Stewards, Douglas Calnpbell and Lewis Cook were elected; church treasurer, John Buchanan; church secretary, Mr. Marvin McDowell; M, and M. treas- urer, Mr. Wm. McDowell; church of- ficer, Edgar Howatt, A vote of thanks was extended to Rev, and Mrs. Washington for their untiring service in the church. The meeting closed with prayer. On Wednesday, 18 ladies of the W.M.S. and Community met in the church basement and quilted 4' quilts for their bale. A pot luck dinner was served at noon, Mr. Ronald Taylor returned home from Toronto on Thursday where he attended the Marine School and was successful in his exams for- mate of the ship, James Norris, a new ship launched by the St, Lawrence Trans- portation Co. in December at Mid- land, Mr. and Mrs. Norman McDowell visited on Tuesday with Mr. and Mrs. Carl Deans of Guelph. Mr. John Gear of Kitchener, spent the week-end with Mr. and Mrs. Charles Smith. Mr. and Mrs. Alva McDowell visit- ed on Monday with Mr. and Mrs. Elwin Taylor of Brussels, Mr. Wm. McDowell visited on Tuesday with Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Sibthorpe of Mitchell. Mr. and Mrs. Duncan McNichol and Phyllis of Walton, spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Maurice Bosnian. Mr, and Mrs. Arnold Vint and family, visited on Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. David Scott of Teeswater. Mr. and Mrs. Roy MeSween and Garry of Wingham, visited on Satur- day with Mr, and Mrs. Harvey Mc- Dowell, Mr. and Mrs. Earl Wightman visit- ed on Sunday with Mr. Henry Math- ers of Lucknow. Mr. and Mrs. Ray Hannah of Bel- grave, visited on Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Bert Taylor. NEWS OF WESTFIELD Officers Elected at 'Meeting of Westfield United Church