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The Wingham Times, 1914-02-12, Page 1THE WINGH 1,47,Wir147 Ti VOL. XIIII.—Nt), 219i No opiates in Mother Kroh's Baby Cough Syrup Very fe w Cough Remediee that are useful for adults are safe to give Fables It's dargereus to expert - Meta Mother Kroh's Baby Cough Syron Contains neither Opiate, Morphine cr other dangecous optetes It is especially dezigned for babies and small children •and just suits them. It is made so pleasant they like it, but it does he'p baby to throw of the chckirg eecretious, loosens the cough quickly and gives the child norma) rest Sells at a quarter a bottie Satisfaction gUaranteee or money refunded J. W. McKIBBON DRUGGIST,AND OPTICIAN The Itedeicai Storo;,.. 14 ,M11 "Eyesight Tested Free" Glasses Fitted and Satisfaction Guaranteed COAL We handle the only genuine Le- high Valley Hard Coal in town Do not pur- chase from other dealers thinking you are buying the genuine Le- high Valley Hard Coal for it is not INASCNIA•PROMMIG.1112311• Rae 86 Thompson Phone 27 Christie's Grocery PHONE 69. Store opens 7 a.m. Closes 7 p.m. Agents for Fleischman's Yeast 2% lb. bar Laundry Soap 15c. This we consider good value. It is a high-grade Laundry Soap and is certainly much cheaper than buying in cakes. Sold extensively in most large cities, Don't forget — 2% lbs. Soap for 15 cents 14 lbs. Soap 10C• Thie soap we recommend for rough Work. For a 10c bar of soap there is eo better value on the mars ket. Remember 1.eg lb. Soap for 10 cents Come to Christie's for good Tea, and Coffee. ,Wented— Choice Butter and Fresh Eggs 410100011011111111101101111104111111111.611111101/1110BWOO1LOSillit11.00011111 WINGHAMI ONTARIO DIURSD.A.Y FEBRUARY 12, 1914 $1 A YEAR IN ANTE Wear Oreer's Shoes and Rubbers. MAYOR IRWIN RESIGNED. • New Election for Mayor and Public School Trustees. For the first time, we understand, in the history of Wingham, it wilt be nec- essary to hold a new nomination for the office of Mayor and also to fill six vacancies on the Public School Board. Following Mr. Morton's discovery of a change in the law in respect to the formation of a Board of Education, whie,h was noted in our last issee, it became evident that both the High and Publie School Boards were still in exis- tenee. Dr. A. J. Irwin still had one year to serve as a member of the Public School Board, and should have resigned this position before seeking election as Mayor. / With the High School Board, Messrs. R. Vanstone and W. F. Vanstone will continue as members appointed by the County Council at the June session W. F. Vanstone's term will expire and he will be re -appointed or a new man and a new man wjll be appointed in place of Dr. Kennedy. Messrs. J. .A. McLean, W. J. Howson and C. P. Smith are the members appointed by the Town Council and Mr. Smith was the member whose term expired this year, but he will serve until re -appoint- ed or a successor. Mr. F. Buchanan is the Public School Board's representa- tive and will also serve until he is re- appointed or a successor. With the Public School Board there are only two members who have another year to serve prier to seeking re-election, viz. :-11. E. Isard in Ward one and W. A. Campbell in Ward two. J. L, Awde for Ward three, having left town, and Dr. A. J. Irwin for Ward four, having resigned, leaving two extra vacan- cies. The Trustees whose two year term expired were Wm. Robertson for Ward one, Dudley Holmesfor Ward two, Amos Tipling for Ward three and Robt. Allen for Ward four. All these gentlemen are eligible for re-election. In order to clear up the whole mat- ter, Town Clerk Groves has issued the necessary notices for a nomination meeting which will be heldin the Town Hall next Monday evening from 7.30 to 8.30 o'clock to receive nominations for the office of Mayor and to fill the six vacancies on the Public School Board. Dr. Irwin is now eligible for election as Mayor and it is not likely that he will be opposed, It is also probable that the six Trustees will be elected by acclamation and in this way save the Town the expense in connection with an election. The Times man was op- posed to the manner in which the Board of Educationet as brought into existence, holding that the members of the High and Public School Boards should have been consulted in the matter. We will not say that the change in the law would have been discoyered had a con- ference of the members of the two Boards and members of Council been held, but we do say that considerable hard feeling would not have been creat- ed and the responsibility of making the change would have been largely shifted from the shoulders of the fourmembers of Council who supported the proposi- tion, The Ontario Legislature no doubt acted wisely in the matter when a law was 'tamed making it compulsory to take a vote of the ratepayers before a Board of Education can be elected to perform the duties now under the charge oZ High and Public School Boards. Taman of the Apes. Next week the TIMES will commence the publicatioh of a new story "Tanen of the Apes" by Edgar Rice Burrotsghes. This story is the fiction hit of the year and is full of interest from start to finish. Watch for the opening chapter in our hext issue. Accident at Steelton, Mr. Geo. Elliott, son of Mr. Jas. El- liott, formerly of the Wingham brick yard met with a serious accident while at work in the woods near Steelton. Mr. Elliott was hauling loge and his right leg, was very badly crushed. Died in Goderich. Word was received in town on Mon- day of the death in Goderich that morn- ing of Janet Burns, wife of Dr. W. J. R. Holmes, the county treasurer. Mrs. Iloh»es had been in poor health for some bine. She was a woman held in high esteem and 14 resided in the cOunty town for a nutnber of years. Mrs, :Holmes is survived by her husband and three sons, viz: —Dudley, of Wing - ham; Hilton, of IPort William; Frederick, a St. John, N. P. The funeral will take place in Goderich thie (Thursday) afternoon and Mr. Dudley Holmes, and hig,sen, Dudley, ere in attendance. Will Continue Salee'd Isard's Clean Sweep Swill be con- tinued until Sateirdayglieb. 21st, Two stores crowdede with shrewd Buyers. There's a reason. Come and see. Band Concert. '1 he Citizens' Band concert advertised to take place on Thursday evening of this week has been postponed until Thursday evening, February 19th. A good programme has been arranged and there should be a large attendance to encourage the band, boys. Seventy Loads in one Day. Mr. J. A. McLean, of the Wingham saw mill has this winter received an extra large supply of all kinds of saw logs. The fine sleighing last Thursday was responsible for seventy loads of logs being delivered at the mill yard. There were twenty-six teams in the mill yard at one time. Work on Mr. McLean's new mill is just about com- pleted and the logs will be converted in to lumber as early as possible. Wins Rhodes Scholarship. )"Mr. John Weir, of Saskatoon Univer- sity, is the Canadian winner of the Rhodes scholarship for 1913. This scholarship entitles the winner to $1500 per year and three yeara tuition at Oxford. Mr. Weir is the son of a for- mer Huron uld boy, Rev. R. Weir, of Saskatoon, and a nephew of Mrs. Wm. 5, Linklater, of the town plot. John will no doubt make good in staid old Oxford. An Old Huron Boy. Mr. J. R. Bone, President of the Canaaian Club, Toronto, who presided at the splendid banquet given to the Ex - President Taft in Toronto, with such marked good taste and ability as to merit the most complimentary refer- ences from the Toronto press, is a well- known Huronian, having been barn in East Wawanosh. Not a little of the success of the Toronto Daily Star is due to Mr. Bone, who is one of the mana- gers thereof, Mr. Bone is a brother of our townsman, Mr. Wm. Bone. The Times Mailing List. The TIMES mailing list has been cor- rected up to i. ebruary 9th and we would ask subscribers to examine the label on their paper and see that proper credit has been given. If any error is dis- covered let us know at once sothat cor- rection can oe made. To subscribers who are in arrears we would ask that they kindly pay the amount owing as early as possible. The individual amounts are small, but in the aggre- gate make a large sum of money which the editor could use to advantage in meeting his obligations. Mount Forest Shut Out. In a good game of Nothern League hockey on the Wingham rink last Fri- day evening, the local players won from their old rivals of Mount Forest by a score of 3 to 0. All the goals were scored in the first half of the game. There was a good attendance. The lite -ups — Wingham Position Mt. Forst. Groves Goal ... .. Cowen Tedort ... ....Right defence Sinclair F. McLean .. .Left defenee Laggon Telfer ..... Rover.... .... McNevitt Elliott .... ...Centre --Duffield C. McLean .. Right wing .. —Pattern Miller. . Left wing . ...Murphy Referee—Ward, of Harrison. Achlress and Presentation. XThe gentlemen employees of the Bell Telephone Cm in Wingham recent- ly presented Mrs. John Radford (nee Miss Nettie Vanalstine) with a music cabinet as a slight token of their regard during Mrs. Radford's tenure of office in the local telephone office./ Following is a copy of the address:— Wingham, January 26th, 1914 To Mrs. John Radford:— We take this opportunity of express- ing our thoughts and actions of one who though absent from us has alwaya seemed to be near and that one is your- self, Believe us when you were amongst us you were elle who did your duty with credit to your employers and yourself. In parting from us we missed you and while a few months have rolled by with. out any reeogeition of this fact we wish to show you that we are deeply interest- ed in your welfare as ever and that we Will ask you to accept this Music Cabinet as a slight token of our respect toward you and may thie sznall piece of furniture ever remind you that we are your friends. Signed on behalf ef the boys. L. F. Bientetre, E. 5. COPELAND, A. GitEGORY, W. 13, tLLIOTT. Bad Business Read about it in our ad, on last page. W. H. WILLIS & CO SINIMICIAMMOIMINIMNOSS211011101,316111101aillOMMOMINEISM ••••••1,1moYez Accident at Foundry, While at work in the Western Foun- dry Co.'s works on Tuesday morning, Mr. J. Cook met with what might easily have been a fatal accident. He was working on one of the machines ad his clothing caught in a pulley and before he could be removed a great portion of cloth'ng had been torn from Mr. Cook's body and he received sever- al bad cuts about the body. We trust Mr. Cook will soon recover. Huron House of Refuge, Huron county claims the honor of hav- ing the best and most ecouomical house of refuge in the prevince. The institut- ion is located just outside the town of Clinton and at the present time has 96 inmates, The cost of feeding these pat- ients, by scientific management, has been reduced to 9.2 cents per day each, and the keeper is prepared to wager that no better victuals are doled out in any such institution in Ontario. Mr. and Mrs, Robert Mutch are in charge of the institution, with Mrs. Parfitt as ass- istant, and the houne is very well man- aged. There is a large farm in conn- eetion and every year no inconsiderable revenue is derived from the sale of pro- duce. The question that confronts the authorities at the present time is that of accommodation. With 96 inmates the house is crowded and extra, room will have to provided at once. The house of refuge committee consisting of Warden David Cantelon, of Clinton, Dr. Clark, of Godericb, Reeve Goyeelock of McKillip Township, Reeve J. W. McKibben of Wingham, Reeve Shortreed of Morris Township and County Clerk W. Lane, Goderieh met thers last week and discussed the proposed extensiohs but without arriving at any decision, An- other conference will be held shortly to go into the matter further. The Huron County authorities are taking up the idea of relieving the congestion in the provincial asylums by eating for, in the house of refuge, a number of county in- sane patients who are not dangerous. Already one or two patients have been trought home in this way a:nd, with further extra accommodation, which it is proposed to provide, it is anticipated that many others may be looked after. Fall Fairs' Association. Th e fourteenth animal meeting of the Ontario Fall Fairs' Association Was held in Toronto on Thursday and Fri- day of last week and was largely at- tended. Mr. J. Leckie Wilson gave a very optimistic report, briefly summer- ed as follows: — "Perhaps never before in the history of our fairs and exhibitions in all classes of live stock were exhibits as numer- ous or of as high qeality," said Mr Wilson. "In certain sections of the province the root and vegetabie crops were a partial failure owing to the dry season, and the entries in these classes were not so large as in previous years, but those shown were of good quality. Few exhibitions suffered loss in gate receipts owing to inclement weather. This year only $3,600 of the appropri- ation set aside by the Governmeet to indemnify sach losses was required, io contrast to $4,600 and $10,000 two 1 three years ago respectively.. In t the association sent out 199 judge.. to fairs and exhibitions, and in 1913 the number was increased to 212, 20 societies having to be refused becanse the supply of judges was exhausted. 3,600 farm- ers took part in field competitions last season. Gambling devices on fair grounds were deplored and the negli- gence of directors in allowing them to be carried on way censured Several excellent addresses were delivered by prominent gentlemen on topics of inter- est te fall fair direetors and exhibitors. A feature of the meeting was the pres- entation of A solid gold watch, suitably engraved to Mr. J. Leckie Wilson, the popular Superintendeet of Fall Pairs and Exhibitions. Officers cleated are AA followst—Presitlent, Dr. W. A, Crow, Chesley; First Vice -President, 3. C. Stewart, Dalmeny; Second Vice -Presi- dent, Wm. Seurff, Durham; Treasurer, Alex. McFarlane, Otterville; Secretary and Editor, 3, Leckie Wilson. E. Chris- tie, of Exeter, is Direetor for District No. 8. cetnposed of Huron, Perth and Middlesex counties. Messrs W. J. Cur- rie and IL B. Elliott attended the meet - Inge as delegates from the Turnberry Agricultural Society, PERSONALS. Miss H. Wilson is visiting friends in Hensel!. Mr. B. II. Cochrane was in 13uffalo for a few days last week. Mr. John Kerr, of London, was in town calling on old frierids. Miss Della Haugh speut the week end with friends in Brussels. Mr. John Gray, of Toronto, is visit. ing with his son, Mr. W. G. Gray. Mr. Thos, Small, of Foreet was calling on old friends in town on Monday. Miss Alice Palmer, of Sarnia is visit- ing at the home of Mr. W. F. Vaestone. Miss Pethiek, of London, has been the guest of her cousin, Miss May Smith. Reeve McKibben attended a meeting of the House of Refuge Committee at Clinton on Friday last. Mr. Arthur Gurney took in the ball at Ripley last Friday night and reports an enjoyable time. Mrs. Dinsley has returned to Detroit' after spending a few weeks with rela- tives and friends in town. Miss Mollie Hammond was in Clande- boye during the past week to see her nephew who is seriously ill. Miss Jennie McLean, who has been ill for some time returned this week to Toronto much improved in health. Mrs. Joseph Pugh is in Dundas wait- ing on her daughter-in-law, Mrs. Chest- er Pugh. who has been seriously ill. Hockey Friday Night. The next home gazne of hockey will be played at the rink on Friday night. The visitors will be from Lucknow and the game promises to be a good one. Band will be in attendance and will play during game and for skating. Usual admission. Game called at 8 o'clock, Dominion Bank Report The Annual Statement of the Bank for the year ended 31st December, 1913 was the best ever issued by this In- stitution. The Net Profits amounted to $950,402 as compared with $901,000 for the previous year and $704,000 for 1911. In addition to the Net Profits of $950,- 000, the Bank received as premiums on new Capital Stock the sum of $811,000 and brought forward from the previous year a balance of $683,000, making a total of $2,449.000 available for dis- tribution. Dividend disbursements and bonuses took $762,000 and Reserve Fund $811,000, Investments Account $200,000 and Officers' Pension Fund $25,C00, leav- ing $647,000 to be carried forward. The Bank has now a Paid-up Capital of $5,- 811,000, a Reserve Fund of $6,811,000 and Total Assets of $30,606,000. The year has been an excep ionally prosptrous one for the Dominion 13ank. ediateisennea Minutes of council meeting held in Bluevale, Monday, Feb. 2nd, 1914, Mem- bers all present, Reeve in the chair Mr. John Rutherford took the Declar- ation of office. The minutes of last meeting were read and adopted on motion of Messrs. Wheeler and Ruther- ford. The report of the Auditors was then received, Rutherford— McBurney — That said reportle accepted. McBurney—Adair-- That Wm. S. Xing be appointed assessor for 1914. Any ratepayer wanting a ehange of Pathmaster will please notify some member of eouncil or the clerk on or before the next meeting. The following accouets were passed and cheques issued:— Stephen King, filling Linton's bridge, $2.00; M. J. Smith, rent hall, nomina- tion, $2; J. W. Xing, Deputy Returning Officer, $10; James Porter, Deputy Re- turning Officer, $10; D. II. Wallace, Deputy Returning Officer, $10; Alex. McPherson, Deputy Returning Ofileer, $10; P. Powell, Returning Officer, $10; Gavin Wilson, refund taxes, Pell; Municipal World, rolls, easa book and supplies, $19.60; P. Anderson, E. Wa- vvanosh atcount, •$2.60; Robt. Black, Auditor, $15: 13. Oruickshank, Auditor, $15: Duff igs Stewart, lamber, Morris $7.27; P. Powell, births, marriages and deaths, $10,60; Thos. James, filling Sink hole, $700; W. J. Campbell, imp. and filling sink hole, $108.65; P. Scott, spikes and drawing plank, :$1.10; J. E. Hoinuth, repairing culvert, tots. 10, 50e.; Wm. Deans, cedar pests, *22.60;J, Mul- Vey, attending audit, $3: Fred Lewis, error In taxes, $1,80; Rey Adair, part payment Wood's bridge, $15. Next tneeting of council at Bluevale, Monday, Mareh 30th, 1914, at 10 ann. P. Pewell, Clerk, CHURCH NOTES. Rev. Dr, Rutledge, formerly of Wing - ham has been invited to remain a sec- ond year gs pastor of Wesley °hunts, Clinton. The Ladies' Aid Society of St. Andrew's Church will meet on the afternoon of Wednesday, Feb. 181.11, at three o'clock, in the lecture -room of the church. All the ladies of the con- gregation are invited to attend. Interesting and successful Evangelis- tic services are being held every night this week in the Methodist Chure Rev. A. J. Thomas, M. A., of Forest is assisting the pastor. On Thursday night his subject will be •'Question of a Cowardly Ruler." On Friday eve- ning,``A King in Terror," Every one cordially welcome to these services. Services as usual will be held in the Methodist Church next Sunday. The pastor, Rev. J. W. Hibbert, will preach morning and evening. Morning sub- ject will be "God's Question." The services of praise in the evening will be conducted by the male choir of thirty voices. The evangelistic services will (D. V.) be continued every night next week. The Anglican Young People's Asso- ciation held a patriotic concert in the schoolroom on Monday evening which was very much enjoyed by all present, when the programme consisted of the following patriotie numbers: Vocal solos by Messrs W. Mural), J. Holland, and Master Jack Coshen; readings by Rev. E. H. Croly, B. A., Miss Made Fleuty, and Mr. H. Jobb; instrumental duet by Misses Maud Davis and Mrs. Harold Deem; an Harmonica selection by Master Jack Coshen and a very good dialogue "Going Somewhere" was given by Miss Lilian Robinson, Messrs. Jobb. and Lamb and Master Harold Mann. The sehoolroom was very tastefully decorated with Rags and bunting. Misses Maud Fluety and M. Jobb who had the affair in charge carried it out with much success. Miss M. Davis and Miss Evelyn Garrett acted as accom- panist during the evening. The victory of the Blues over the Reds in the membership contest in con- nection with the Adult Bible Class of St. Andrew's church teas fittingly cele- brated on Thursday last by a sumptuous banquet being provided by the losers. About 75 sat down to a supper of jellied chicken and various other appetizing dainties, beautifully set out on long tables in the Sunday School. Mr. Peter Wilson, vice president of the class and one of the Reds, presided, and was accompanied by the president, Miss Wilson, and the Rev, Mr. Perrie on his right and the captain of the winning side and his:worthy lieutenants on his left, From start to finish th me was some- thing doing all the time arid things got pretty hot when Capt. Deans of the Reds almost accused the captain of the Blues of corrupt or at least shady practices in entising away the prospects of the for- mer side and enroling them under his banner. A brief but interesting toast - list was submitted. "The Ring" was the first, after which Mr. Ewing pro- posed "Our Class" in a very happy man- ner, and Mr. Chas. McLean in reply gave some interesting statistics of the growth of the class, especially this sea- son, "Our Guests" was proposed by Capt. Peter Deans and responded to by Capt. R. Brooks, each viewing with the other in the use of complimentary (and otherwise) language totvards their opponents. "Our Teacher" proposed by the chairman and replied to by Mr. Perrie, the latter complimenting the class on the happy results attained and expressing the hope that much good might follow their efforts. "The Ladies" of course called forth the most ambitious oratorical effort of the even- ing, Dr. Ross speaking with grtat force and eloquence to the toast, as only one of his experience in that line can. He propounded the theory that compared with the opposite sex, they stood on an equal footing—It Was a case of six of one and half -a -dozen of the other. Mr. Lindsay Mitchell, who re- plied for the ladies tried to upset this theory by saying that half -a -dozen ladies' were equal to four of the other sax —whieh seemed hard on the ladies: Most of those present were inclined to favor Dr Ross's contention. Mr, It. Brooks proposed "The Biases" and this Was heartily responded to. During the evening songa Were sung by the eom- pany frotri a printed song sheet got tp for the occasion, having in 'Argo letters , on the top "Everybody Sing". Mr. Hinkley played a banjo aolo and sang a song to banjo accompaniment. Mr. Weir Elliott and Mr. Peter Wilsen sang solos. The benquet ended With "Auld Lang Syne," everybody haying enjoyed one of the best evenings this year, and all feeling that the neXt move sheuid cane from the Mime. MONEY SAVED HERE There is a "best time" t ) buy Shoes i,nd that time is right now. our p cy is to u!, ar out all the odds and encl..; at any old Frice br fore they get stale. 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