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The Signal, 1929-12-26, Page 3Save a Little Mone by taking advantage of the Signal's clubbing offers. We can procure for you almost any paper or magazine published in the continent. 'ns SIGNAL. PRINTING CI), LIMITED, I'ubltshera. 0. F. CAREY & S Limited INVESTMENTS AND INSURANCE Telephone 230 AI:un)nic'retup;. Building GODERICH -- ONTARIO N Geo. Williams 'Miler la UOYLNION, PROVINCIAL. IMt'M1ICIPAL AND CORPO- RATION BONDS Flew Amident, Automobile, and Geeing bowsaw Agri t afee, next to Bank of Commrrer Pho0e 53 (iodericli W. J. Powell Stocks, Bonds, Insurance and Real Estate Cat, Us and Fore Ineursace Nelson Street, t;c.lenclr One 29'2 , P. 0. Box 43S We extend to our customers and friends the Season's Greetings J. R. WHEELER FURNITURE DEALER sad FUNERAL DIRECTOR Phones Stare 335, Rey. 355w Rataike, Street G.deriel, Oat The Armstrong Real Estate and insurance Agency LiFE INSURANCE (9® Lite (a.) A('CIDRN7'. S1CKN'tt,f3, AUTO. RTC. iNSURANCE Some eery cheap House. sad Lots for .ala Large somber listed to select from. Karma Fpr; tFarm t Ire price; tine /oration ownsh p et/Manley. county of Hunan; till serer of x110 is cb.oce clay Inane sell in tine eon- dinnn, excellent for sheet alfalfa or any Amin, hay or nate. High undula- ting surface, well tile -drained. Nearly lilt weld down; goad water supply; 40 sews of this in valushlr tim er, enough to mow than hall pry for entire pmItert . Gael brick barn. furnace beaed imp.', situated on excellent high- way, chess to arh,ol, chnvclea, convent - mete 11. K. station and good markets. Price ler quick sale $45011.00. Terms 91000 cash down will he accepted ; rlear- ly five years' time for balance if required. Immediate prinwwnon given. A number of other coed fanny for tale. Many good !louses and Lots for sale very CIwep. Good brick Hnuae, Kruse start, near North street, fit!: modern equipped and garage• I'ricc r2ttpe•00 Good brick thew, full modern equip- ped, with garage and small barn,F:aat street. ['ries' 91500 00. Fine Fenno Hous. full modern equip- ped, choice l.s•.atiotl. Price $31()0.O0. awed flatlets and Lots MOO, Vim, 112011, $16(x1, eW. Furnished Hotter, to Rent Hones to Rent. For rt1TrlteJ WARMSRONp Real Estate Agent Oalerlvin )tit Lig M0.uarr ionat GODERICH, ONTARIO, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1929 .')ome Elections 1 Remember Written for The Signal by John Elliott, B.A., London, Ontario Glue of my earliest mental pictures i, that of a watt in a covered buggy, jthe first I had ever seen, driving up to Dur little borne on lot 12. eo mss• si.,o 7, Colborne. 1 heard mother say, 1 Wow he'll vote for you, Mr. Young." and the man seemed pleased as he drove away. That Was Wm. Vetting. uut fur,the reeve -ship In opposition to Gavle /fewllniw, nearly sevouty yeah! ago. t knew in after yeun that Mr. I Young was elected and that he held the position for many terra, uud be- came ecame Wartier of the cowry. ' A few years later we were Living at Varna, township ut Stanley. lu the year PIZ, 1 believe it was, one utter - 0000 some member of the family ran 1D to mother with the new. that three WAN a flag up uu leolry'a tavern, our ifs We two wbicb the village Wrested at tint time, That w•ua sad news for her and in after years 1 understood ' why. Staines township wars voting un the Punkin Act. This was the seroud day that L•,ther had been tut with James Wanless and others nriugiug 111 antiliquor voter-. There carer no Bal- lot« in those days and everybody knew the count as 1t went akwg. The busting of the flag media the vk•tury 1 of the liquor party. This Act, passel in 18tS4. gave counties, cities, towns or township weer to prublbit retail sale within their limits. In 1M7 we were livlug 1t, Colborne township again, at the Hollow, as Hen - miller was often called. John Craw- ford and James %suites drove up )rum Varna one day and took father ewer. as they said, to vote. That was Confederation year and this was the fins eieetkon after the passlug of the act. Y. C. Cameron of t;oder)ch and Y. Ritchie of Stanley were up for the House of Commons; ltuI,ert t;lhls.tm of (;odericb and Isaac Carllug of hix- et.r were candidates fur the Ontario House. That afternoon 1 was at my uncle's ou the pleb torwexsion, and my Con- servative girl cousins. who were older and better informed on the politics of the day than 1, told me that my fath- er had gone to vote for the Reformers, Cameron and Gibbons, and 1 was made to feel the disgrace of It. Cameron wax elected and became the first member from South Huron In the Dominion House, bat Mr. Gibbons had a rough experience. He was declared elected by ■ majority of 10. and tben protest and Investigation showed that a nom - ter of German voters 11» Hay town- ship who had voted for-+atilbbona were not British subjects—they had not been naturalised. It was open voting. and votes were known, and the ser was awarded to Yr. Carling. Four years after Sir. Gibbons turned the tables and defeated Mr. Carling. In later years be was well known as Sberlff Gibbons. For North Enron W. T. hays. a clever young (ioderlcb lawyer, son-in- law of Robt. Gibbons and father of Stanley Hays of Seafortb, was elect• ed for the Outerie House, and Joseph Whltebead of Clinton for the Domin- Ion ,House. These two were the first atter Confederation to represent North Huron. i here a distinct recollection of an Incident at the municipaal election in Goderitb in January, IMOD. Who the candidate* were 1 do not know, but from the way men were being rushed In to vote I should say It was a Mir - ring contest. I saw a well-known stal- wart eltIten (mase into the hall. excit. el. whip in hand and bleeding from n cut uta the side of his bead. In SD el- ection dispute another Prumineut cit- izen had atruek him with the butt of a whip anal he was in !'arch of his man. Friends gathered around to TAW - Hy him uud efforts were made to keels the two men apart. I heard no more about it, w. 1 wuppamse the dispute wa4 amicably nettled, hut good men could get hot and lime their temper+ over an election, even in the gem) old (4874. About twenty yearn ago I heard Sir John WillMwm, at a ('anadtan ('huts banquet in Bowmanville, tell the story of his tinct attendance at a prlitleal meeting. He was born at Hills (;ran, Stanley township. and the meeting he attended was at the crossroads In Varna village In 1872. Thomas Green- way of Centralia and M. 1' Cameron of (hmlertch were candidate* for the ('ommonn and at this meeting Mr. Oreenseny and F:, B. Wood of Itrant• ford. "Big Thunder." were the chief J. W. Craigie Real Estate and Insurance Sun Life Assurance Co. of Canada A TOWFR OF STRFNC,TH Aseaeastes in Fere" 81.8.8bl11,000 - 94aa,$Sa,000 Amge; Dividends to Polieyholdera increaard for the ninth ierce'aaiv0 year in addition to a special maturity dividend bonus! H. R. LONG (Moe 116 Pp(3NF14 : Resideseo Iib f District Agent asts�t� sneakers. 1t wag my privilege t.. telt Mr. Wllllsou afterwards that 1 tau was a Huron man, of Cullonae town- ship, and that my first political meet- ing was in connection with that sawe election, at I)uggan's tavern to. the Hunan road, l:oderich township. Sir. t;rewuway himself being the male egeaker, 1 forget mus' of the address. but 1 remember well the trouble Mr. Greenway had with one of hie cuffs as he warmed to hie subject. It would tome down ata! it worrle,t me greatly and marred wy enjoyment of his file speech. Them WAS a large party out from Goderich, among thew a yuul.g man named "Barney" Doyle whom 'he crowd called on for a speech. !u later yens he was known as lit. H Joints Isuyle. Mr. t;re•nway was de- feated at this election, but he sulsee- quently became if member of the Howie of Vein/units and transferred his al- leglanre to the Liberal.. miming es Crystal City, Manitoba, he entered ale Legislature in that l'revinre and he- ttime Literal I'rrtnler of Manftehe. - In ION? I was u senior student ut the lllgh School lu a;stench. it was the day before the cies-tluu. Hun. Ed- ward Blake, the Liberal leader, else• ou the Square in the afternoon, and zit ■ etrstegic )Dint in the tdwnshlp of Ashtleld in the evening. on leltabf of his trusty follower M. l'. Cameron Students were allotwed absence from High School classes tit heur Mr, Blake. There were no more interested listen- ers than our mathematk•al master..A. J. Moore. and the group of lads that included Ed. le ane, /irk. Shannon. John Taylor. Ilnrry Horton. Etter liu- garth. Will t'luttun. Tum Henderson. Fred [their, tiro. Wei and other. whom i do not now rec-at;ery 'Ukely Roderick Voting, Archie Hyslop and David Perrle were in the party. it was time well spent listening to one of Canada's most brilliant 4008. 1 re- member particularly Mr. rilake'e ex- hortation about getting out the vote. He had just come from bis own con- stituency. West Durham where one of h is enthusiastic worker% had told bim they would have Darlington town- ebIp cleaned up by 12 o'clock. Ile him- self expected to cast three votes the next day In three different constit- uencles. One man One 10(0 was 1101 tbee (he law of the )and. it was July. 1896, before 1 bad a ehande to mark a ballot, for these were not the /Faye of manhood frau- chime. -1t 1 eledonla, in Ilaldimaud cranny. 1 cast a vote in favor of the Scott .to', a niece of temp'ranee 1- Irintfuu whieb was a furs of county prohibition without the proper mach- inery for enforcement, 1 could not vote otherwise after the training i had as a boy in old Huron county. Hnldim■nd carried the Act as did many another aunty, but the Scott Act went the way of the Dunkin Act. What a !succession of legtalative at- tempts we have had in the long .strng' gle against the drink evil! Fashion Fancies by-.I.i-� 1 i I'd like to describe at leugttt the great meeting 1 attended la the Opera Bourse, Brockville, in March. 1'(M7, when 1 heard Sir John A. Maclkntald for the first and curly time: bat ray story is already too lung. 1'11 merely estate that Sir John wore a red tie, that he bad an uprourfousy cordial re. cepkon. that John Itaggart., after -1 wants Postmaster e;enerai, was wit It bite and that Sir John in his appeal 'o the latser men in the audience jok- , )ugly der -land that he was somewhat of a !alewitng man himself, 11e hail worked a grasp seal at c•nlelnet mak- ing, lent he declared 1k' hod never been n turner. 1 was living 1t, Walkerton Vehrin.ry. 1*1)1, where Sir ,101111 MCI hne aid Made his fitlal appeal to the conutry. The Liberals under their sen leader ,Laurier semi, on the plat- form of I'nrestricted Ite4pneity and freer trade with our neighbors to the South. There were those who m11w III the proposal it weakenhtg of British connection. Sir Johu's dtr•IHratiuu, "A' British subject 1 was torn. it British strnjee-t 1 Will 1111'." was freely quoted Accessories Attain High Importance A costume may be the host beauty ful thing in the world and yet be spoil- er) through lack of carr in eelectiug the right a&eeusorles• One oee. 'nu 1011111 of this, that !t owes enough can not he said with a view to impressing the fact on 'every woman') mind. A cbarmiug ett.emhle of black trans - parrot velvet was perfectly eowpk'. 'Dented by Ilx' hut, hag and glove. %hewn here. The hat Is of Week felt, with point, ed lnerustatfons which cup on the left side and on the top of the crown. The right ski. is effectively draped and forme a charming frame for the face. The bag and gloves are of black .tilde, nut they are distinguished by Mack velvet wbicb Is run through holes at the edge and tied in tiny bows at the corners of the bag and at the siin of the cuff. A nlarcaslde monogram further encbances the bag. by his party. Feeling wax intense. The railways book sides. Sir William Van Horne organised the force. of the C. P. It. In oppoeltion, believing that free trade to the Mouth would be damaging to the interests of his rail- way. The Grand Trunk was just as strong on the other side. 1 bad 110 vote in Walkerton, but my name was on the list in Brockville, wbicb 1 bud left a year before. Mr, 0. K. deraser, nephew of Hon. C, F. Fraser, a mem- ber of the l.lberal Committee in Brock- ville. sent mr a railway return ticke' Issued by the G. T. H. agent at Broek- vllle, and appealed to me on behalf of Dan Derbyshire. the 1.1Ieral candidate. Why 0 WAS thought I would vde that way 1 do not know, unless It was be- cause 1 was a friend and admirer of "big Dae," whose eon was one of my students In the High School. Mr, Thos. Southworth, of The 71rocieville Recorder, meeretary of the local Re- form Asaot'Iatlon, wrote under the beading "For Derbyabire-4-t90reotriet- ed Reciprocity and Better Times," as- suring me that i bad a perfectly good 10l0 thud bidding me be sure to come. I did not go null my vote was not needed. for Mr. Derbyehire was de - Tested by a considerable majority. That wag the last time Sir John car- ried the country in nn eie'ticm. He died in the fallowing May. I, returned that G.T.R. ticket and afterwards 1 was *wry 1 did not keep It as a 0011- venior of the batik' for and agall et 1'nrestricted Iteciprelty. 1f some reindeer o1 The swim; 1s 1n- tereatel in the foregoing rake -up of o1ld election mentor*); or1 shall be leaned. Vick —"If you spend ase much time zit golf yen won't have nnything laid aside for rainy day." Slick—"Won't, eh? My desk is load- ed down with work I've laid aside for ,a rainy day." 4" PANDER SAILING VF.sSF.L (3419,4 ASHORE. The "Garthpred." the nnly anresvhcg feet merited sailing 'hip on the Dritleh register, has goner ashore on Reset Pond Head in Beavie•ta lalrn4, ofi the waster.** of Africa She is the only surviving .hip of the eighteenth cindery (nnr-masters and aim on her way to An.Iralia to take part in the grain race nett year. HAVE YOU SEEN The Signal Calendar? One for each paid -in advance subscri- ber. Renew your subecriptiou now and make sure of one of these beautiful Calen- dars CARLOW Intended fur hart week) i'.tltl.t►W. 1kr. 1:1. —Sir.. W. le. I ung tut. returner) from u two months' visit to her daughter at tUtu- toe. .Mr. and Mrs'. Wilfred Ito uncurl were in $11111 f11141 011 business last Saturday. Mies Mary Robertson, of Niagara Falls, 10 again visiting at the home of her brother, Mr. C. A, Robertsou. The Sunday school ('hrlstwa. tree 501(.0 was to be held in the township hall Met night was lsseapotlerl 1.1 toe -I night uu account of the rough weather. With the roads blocked as they are, it hooks as if there would have to be nut her poslloneweut. The schools will close tomorrow for the Christmas vacation, and will re- open on Monday, January t1th. The attendance at No. 1 has been very small -of late, uwlug to do epidemic of chickenpox. The anal w.e ingof the 1929 township council was held at the hall on Mon- day. when the business of the year WA.' concluded. There tray be tonne changes in the personnel of the coon• cat next year. All the old member*, ee heur,'ure to be hu the field uguln, but there are saki to be a ttnmber of new' aspirants who will go to the polls and give the ratepayers au opportun- ity of cltuo.dng or rejecting them. The uuwinutlou meeting will be held at the hall on Monday, December 30. The regular monthly meeting uf,.the W. M. S. auxiliary of .Smith's 11111 church was bell in the township ball on Thursday, December 1210, welt the president, • Mrs. Marsh, in the chair. This was also the annual meeting, and officer. for 1930 were elected us 1n11uws, President, Mrs. Wm. Marsh; vieeponsident, Mra. Jas. Feagan ; sec- retary, Mrs. A, Stoll; treasurer, Mrs. Wm. Wataon ; rinancta! secretory, Mrs H. Clark; flower committee, Mrs. John Young, Mrs. Geo. filen, Mrs. Treble; organist, Mims Jean Glen. The severe storm and heavy snow- fall have rendered the roads almost Impassable for a time. Winter has settler) down upon us rather early thin year. Aeolus! 8. 8. Meeting.—The annual meeting of the Smith's Hill Unite! church Sunday sellout was held in the towe«hip hall last Monday evening. There was a gaol attendance and much interest was shown in the work of the Sunday school. The meeting opened with a short worship period by the pastor, Rev. R. B. Cumming. The report of the secretary -treasurer was given by Tait Clark, and was received and adopted. Mrs Warner Walter gave the report of the mia.ilon- ary superintendent, Miss Vesta Fish- er reported for the young people's play committee, who during the year bad supplied the church with Cole- man lamp's, for which a vote of thanks was passed. Some discussion took place with regard to the periodicals, 'rut fieney It was agreed to .secure The Northern Messenger her ' next year. and to take up the temperance iminentlunal epwpttlgu a-hle•h start - through The Messenger In January., The 011'0 4111 of officers for fie ensu - lug year resulted et lir. Wilhelm, M...eh being returueedt as suta•rluteud• I eat for another year, Mr. Arthur Clark iseing opt.dnterl his assistant, Mr. Fordyce .('lark was aplafuted sec retary-trea$urer, with Mr. James Coe, 11111 1/0 H.ststatut. Mies Amelia Mc11- wain was appointed as organist, with Miss 1Vinnle Mane)) a. assistant. The grading of the school and the app)htt• went of teachers for the junior opus- es wa* left with the executive with lower to act. The young ladies and young men will elect their own teach- ers, It mot with great regret that it was learned that Mr. Gordon Young would not be able to continue a. teacher of the Itible class during the winter months, a position which he has ably held for a number of years a. well 110 assisting 1n other work in the Sunday school. Sir. John Young moa appointed to take his place when he 1s not able to be present. Mrs. Warner Walter was continued as tuls- slunary superintendent. A canoe is like a small toy—both behave better when {saddled from the rear. A little girl was acting as a brides- maid at a welding. When the Gere - minty w•as over she asked the bride if she were very tired. "No." wee the reply. "Well." answered the small girl, "Mother said the other day that you had been running after Mr. Jones for two years." MORE COMPETITIONS FOR FREE TRIP WINNERS 1 omit; Fanner,. of Huron ('Gamy Taking Part In ('onteata The 7' Enloe l'oalliany donated 4111.".'» ae,rolurebse f 1W uW be upplted un two ilyear.ecu3ureesratck the Ontario Agricultural College, Guelph, for µ•Inners of the free trip to the. Royal Whiter Fair. The uwurds will be made to tboue winuing highest marks lit a wrltteu .examIuation. Sev- en Ilurun county buys competed and Mr. W. Jae. Turnbull, Ethel, who made the highest marks, ell! compete against whiners from other comities. Au essay contest was Hist, open 10 winners ut the free trip. All ten boys from Huron county entered this cow teat and Mr. AWL' Pnx'ter, Wiugham, was declared wiener. MN essay will be Judged agaltatt the wiuulug esaa7 from other counties. The ten emu - lata securing the highest maria with nrx'ive u free two weeks' course as tax• Outsrio Agricultural t'ollep, Guelpb. Ali others tompetlug in these tyro ,onteeter must be congratulated oa their earnest efforts and are well die Nerving of special mention. They are: Haney N'. Stephenson, Ethel; Clar- ence ('lark, Ethel; Johu Mceraviab, Blue -vale; Walter Forester, l.ueknow; t'lar nee Impute, Henan 11 ; Frank Wright, Klppen; Mervyn t)udwore, itensill; Wand Hera, Wwxlbam. "A btt.y woman in usually a bapa)y w'OWall."--Kathleen Norris, This week's prize for brightness to the boy, who, on being aided dw oke a pennon born In 1890 would b. now, Inquired: "Man or woman " TELEPHONE ENQUIRIES Direct wires to Toronto, Montreal and New York assure -the latest quotations and the speed- iest service. Our office has three telephone lines to central!' They are always at your service and any enquiry will be answered gladly. KIPPEN, NEWTON & CO. 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