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"GREAT WALL OF CHINA„
St. Marys council recently awarded
a pavingeeontraet to a London firm, which
put in the lowest tender, • and a citizen
Wrote to the Journal -Argus regarding fail-
rnre to give the job to a 'Si. Marys firm,
which bid 12 cents a th,n pt asphalt higher.
The editor cites a comment by rural people
that 'whereas they are urgedto patronize
businesses in their hoixie town, they find
the town buys its _paving elsewhere.
Similar controversies arise at times
in connection with dairy prodnets. An-
nexation by London of pari, of London
township, brought into the city three out-
lets of a St. Thomas dairy firm. These
stores were given two weeks to stop selling.
milk originating outside the London inspec-
tion area. A year ago, London hoard of
health.rejeeted an application by the Acme
Farmers Dairy to haul.,packaged milk
—The tit speet n refile is
bitdifferent here: it is earried out Under
the Public ITealth Aet of Ontario, but many
Huron dairy farmers now ship to Toronto,
and the Toronto milkshed is under eon-
tinnous striet inspection of herds and en-
uipment. Two years ago, tloderic'h eouneil
was asked by-prodiieers and distributors
to pass a bylaw barring' proeessed mill;
ifrom outside the distiet, lint evidently did
It is
man's
love.
MESSAGES
WORD
BY
GODERt.CH MINISTERIAL w
ASSOCIATION
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(By Cept. Roger-i?etersen, The These people made a ` very
simple choice between, their
pocket and their piety —. and
their pocket won. We may
criticize these short-sighted Jews
Jesus visited "the country of the who foresook their Saviour to
Gadarenes." The ` first person save their swine; but our super -
that met Jesus was a lunatic who iority -might 'not be as real as
was living in the caves. The we would like to think. How
poor • man had become; so un- do we decide when we are faced
manageable that he had been with a choice between Jesus
forced to find shelter in the Christ and all that' He reprea
hills. When he saw Jesus, he sents, and our 20th century
ran to Him and flung himself ,swine herds? . The loose moral
down on the ground before Him standard of today makes a mock -
and worshipped Him. Jesus ask- ery of the principles of fidelity
ed .. the game of the "unclean and chastity introduced by
spirit" that controlled him and Christ. 'What do you think
ordered it to leave the man. Christ would say of our busi-
The "spirit" Said that its name fiess ethics which is willing to
was "legion" and requested per- sacrifice honesty just to show
mission to enter a nearby herd a profit? The list of questions,
of swine. You will remember we could pose is endless. But
that when the unclean spirit it is not the questions that are
did • enter, the herd of swine, important—rather the answer
they stampeded down a steep Your answers would indicate
hill and were all drowned in your
ouldashow if toward responseChrist; to
it
the lake.
When the owners of the herd Him would be any different than
came to see what had happened. those of the Jewish hog raisers
the spectators told them how of Gadara.
"the madman had been cured It is not possible to separate
and what had happened to the the principles of the teachinp
igsee Then thiNAtfatlitd. desks c . g 21 -,...,.• Ie$s.leg
to leave the district." (Mark' 5; twe •woulett: he hope of His
16-17, The New English Bible). Salvation, we must abide by tl
te
We might well ask, just what 'principles of His Gospel. "Who -
business these Jews of Gadara soever HEARETH these savings
had in raising swine, since their of mine and Doeth them, I will
law forbade the use of pork as liken him to a wise man... .
food. The Roman authorities (Matt. 7:24).
maintained a vast military estab-
lishment in that area with thous-
ands of spldiers quartered there
at all times. These Roman sold-
iers enjoyed their pork and
were willing to pay a good price
for, it, which made a very pro-
fitable situation for the Jews
since the country was well
adapted for the raising of hogs.
s
not wish, tq set up a monopoly.
Aurora council rejected an applii^ation
from an outside cleaner to pick up and'
deliver ,there, and the Banner criticizes
the reasoning behind barring outside comp-,
etition. In an editorial treaded "Great
Wall of China" the .newspaper says:, "It
was used a few months ago regarding milk.
If for milk and'for eleaning, why not. for
our bakeries,"or a dozen other things. We
do not think any aggressive Aurora bus-
iness wants to confine its activities to the
borders of its own municipality, and we
should be might- careful about setting pre-
cedents whereby Aurora businesses .eould
he hurt if other municipalities took similar
action.
Tt is easy to lay down as a prineiple
that loeal taxpayers. should have the ben-
efit of the lowest hid ion , coiltraet, ,and
that consumers shout -d age €rhl=e o:bny "out-
side" products for reasons of price, qual-
ity or convenience. This prineiple works
fine — unfit'" the inevitable sneeial ease
come` nn. Then the munieipal board- or
eonneil is on the spot,' and perhaps under
nressuire from one side or other, or .Both.
T't has to •decide on the basis of the best
thine- fo'r the greatest number. And that
only settles the matter until next time.
PROMOTING FALL .BUSINESS
said that in the Fpring a yonng to business people in Grand Bend. telling
fancy lightly turns to thoughts of them o -f. "an important meeting'" to at -
If that pian goes into the z•etai us_ tend. Of these 130, less than 15 members
turned mit. The (;rand Tend- holiday
iness in a' town, his thoughts in the fall are
ealled this "an -apathetic sitniation."
likely to turn enthusiastically to a prom- Today business is not oily more com-
otional sale.
Salvation Army)
The fifth chapter of 'the Gospel
of Mark r;,te'lis us of the time
•" petitive but also more eomplieated. By
September is usually the• month when the time the averanc tnwm bnsines.sman
town merchants go all out in bargain daysattends to the many details faein ' 'him in
offerings for 'the benefit of their rural and business. he finds a surnrisino• lack. of time
urban customers alike. In this connection to attend meeting's dealing' with what and
it is possible that the (:xoderieh Business- how things should be done for the pro -
mens' Association, formed last June„will motion of extra business. Not that he could
likely be staging a co-operative feast of not stand extra gutsiness, hot simply t1natl•
Down Memory's PORTER'S MILL
Lane
PORTER'S HILL, Aug. 21.—
The W.A. of Grace Church met
at the home of Mrs. A. Harris
50 Years Ago --1911 with the president, Mrs. Alvin
J. H.. Tigert was appointed i Bettles in charge of the meet -
town auditor to succeed Andrew ing. which opened with the
Porter. theme song. The Scripture,
Because iif the resignation of Mathew 24, was read by 1Virs. T.
b �]�« n }p �a{� ,�A. So,,w�.erby. t� Top .a; ..a.nd prayee{r�;
Mxa toga 4i e ,,,. $J K,`dgi! At -1l f. V v a 4 7J� T%�il r 7k
Vic one School, -wise Bertha
Millian was hired at a salary of
$475.
A beach party was held by
the young people of the Dunlop
district to honor both Miss Edna
Taylor who was leaving for Van-
couver, and Miss Jessie Link -
later Min was going to Calgary
where sile would teach school.
At Kingsbridge, John Bowler
was 'playing on a sofa when a
needle entered his thigh.
30 Years Ago -1931
Miss Rose Aitken returned
home from Montreal after suc-
cessfully completing a McGill
University Library such per'
.course. ��
Mrs. George MacE*an, Miss
Viola Osbaldeston an Mrs. W.
L. Horton were the winners in
F. E. Hibbert's guessing con-
test.-,,„
Mrs. Charles Elliott, Dungan -
eon, was a patient in hospital
following a car accident can con-
cession 4, Ashfield, near Orville
Free's farm.
Mr. and Mrs. Nelson Hill and
Mr. and Mrs. Russell Shaw left
on a trip to Northern Ontario.
15 Years Ago -1946
Contracts for transporting
pupils from the surrounding
townships to G D C.I. had been
Duckwworth, • W. . lark,- Edit
Wightman and Alvin Sherwood.
Reeve Robert, Turner sold his
house to Edwin Hartman and
Mrs. A. Cornfield sold her resi-
dence to John Thorpe. J. E.
Huckins and Mrs. Edna Cowan
had both purchased houses from
The famous and frequently re- James White.
printed portrait of Robert Harris
of the Fathers of Confederation
was destroyed in the'1916 House
of Commons fire; it is the o.rilzin-
al, fullsize charcoal sketch that
now hangs in -the House.
I can imagine- that the owner
of the swine were reasonably
pleased to see the lunatic "cloth-
ed and in his right mind," hut
they could not overlook the fact
that it had cost them 2,000 hogs.
The .cure of the demented tomb -
dweller had affected this very
sound and practical arrange-
ment: at feast wh9n he was mad
he had never erased this kind
of trouble. Tf this' was how the
ministry of .Tesus was going to
affect them then they fust c diuld
not allow Him to •stay — the
whole economy could he dis-
rupted in no 'time.
bargain: for buyers. If so, it is not too lie is so lacking in extra time.
early to start.planning now for those spec- But a:• eommunity promotional sale in
ill sales days. - ,the fall is something well worth while.
Such a sale is only as good as the eo- 'particularly this year, and it is to he lin/1(.4
operative effort of the individual members. that if and when a' sneeial meeting of the
Thus. it is imperative that there be all-out Gnderieb Businessmen's Association is call -
planning' by all merchants. NI for this purpose it will meet "with the
In ffh s conites•tion. itis interesting to full support of all n e>:ehrants... — _ ,.,—.
note that when' a meeting was called- last
May to form a Goderieh Businessmen's
Association, only 14 turned out of a poss-
ible S0. A meeting the following week
brought, out 29.
But this situation. :apparently, is not
unlike other centres. We note. for example,
sari editorial from a I'eeent issue of The
Grand Bend Holiday. a newspaper piub-
lished for Grand Bend. Tt told of the sec-
retary of the Grand Bend and Area Cham -
bei' of Commerce sending out -1:30 notices
WE READ THAT . .
Life is '-cry mneh * like Christmas ---
yoil'rr' more siker, to ii'et What yoiu cxpeet
titan what you want.
A person with charm is. ole who can
make another r( ;01 that both of them are
pretty wonderful people.
UR
roll call was answered with a
verse containing"Peace.'' Mrs.
D. Harris read te secretary's re-
port and Mrs. A. Lockhart gave
the treasurer's report. -Items of
business were- discussed and
lyirs. Olive Bell donated some
articles that were auctioned off.
During the afternoon a crib quilt
was quilted.
$10,000 invested in January
1950, in Commonwealth Inter-
national Mutual Fund --
sold by Joe Allaire
(Phone JA 4-7671, Goderich)
was worth $36,427.34 on'
July 15, 196.1.
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A reception tvas held at the
home of Mrs. W. Gledhill. Ben -
miller, to honor four war brides,
Mrs. Arthur” 1'JcMichael, Mrs.,
Clayton Millian, Mrs. Alfred
Hov, and Mrs. Dawson.
A. Holmesville wedding • was
that of Ross Feagan and Betty
Harris, -.
10 Years Ago -1951
Keith Gardner and Kenneth
TTazlitt were drowned in Lake
Huron.
The Leeblurn W.M.S. met at
the home of Miss Helen Clark
with Mrs. Bert Bogie as 'leader.
Mrs. Ttod Bogie assisted. the
hostess in serving lunch.
A eosnel mee+ing was held on
tr^ property of Robert Dures.
Nile. -
Mr. and Mrs. Pehert .Tohnston
returned to the West after visit -
Ernest andMiss' Mabel Hick-
ingbottom, Auburn.
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This Sunday there 'will be a
special service in Grace Church
as a number of young people
are joining the church. The eld-
ers of the church are asked to
be present by 9.30 a.m
Mrs. Grace MacDonald; - 4t=
tawa, Mr. and Mrs. Albert Bart;
Stouffville, visited Mr. and Mrs.
John. MWCowan 'last weekend.
Bruce Betties is visiting his
grandfather, Ephraim Snell, at,
the C.N.E. this week.
.Miss Lynda Torrance has been
visiting relatives in Sombre,
Miss Marie Cox, Clinton, has
been visiting her uncle and aunt,
Mr. and Mrs. William Cox.
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