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Clinton News Record, 1955-12-15, Page 9"'�it7R�1TAiL, DLNi$�i 5 CLINTON ;nnvcrs-l!oI? . , Obituaries Ralph Millard. Stephenson (Virden Empire -Advance, Man:), A : long-time resident . of the rlistriot, Ralph Millard Stephenson entered away at his home in Vir= -aaezi' on Friday, November 11. He was in his 83rd year. damn, in Huron Coue ty, 'Ontario, ora September 10, 1872, Mr. Steph- mbit went to Virden: in 1899. Un - la his retirement in 1946 he farm- -ed in the. Pacific Distriet. A faathfu1 member of St. Marys Anglican Church, Mr. Stephenson served for many 'years 'ori 'the. 'vestry an as 'People's Warden:" NEW MODEL Left to mourn his loss are his wife Eleanor; two daughters, Mrs. Frank Finch (Gladys) and Mrs', Cera Carruthers (May); two sons, Ralph and Jack, of the Paeilic district; a brother, Nelson, in New Westminster, B.C.; two sisters, Mrs.. Edith Hutchison and Mrs. Ann Anderson, both of Virden; and nine grandchildren, The funeral servile was con'- ducted. by Rev. W. H. Gregory on Sunday, November 13. Beautiful flowers from the family and or- ganizations bore silent testimony to the esteem in which he was held by all who knew him. Honorary pail -bearers were Charles 'Kerr, Frank Finch, Jerry TV ■ ■ ■ AT NEW LOW PRICES at 'GROVES ELECTRIC with new l7WJerson b Full. front—big screen 17" • Handsome cabinet available in chalice h ii a of wood grain • ps • Full tonal quality for great- er listening• pleasure • -New easier tuning contrail TV • Big powerful Emerson chassis • Brighter . clearer picture • Choice of stands available • Emerson means year of TV satisfaction ONLY 17995 Full service warranty Only 17.95 down delivers Groves Electric PHONE 688J CLINTON PAGE NIM Heamran, William Pollock, Frank Caxeioot, and H. 1VLenaillanr.AatiVe pallbearers were William Ashton, L. Newman, George Knowles,' J Cope, R. Coakbil]. and E, Hales. Arrangements were in care' of G, Roy Carsoadder:'s funereal home. R Stephenson The death occurred at his home, 235 Egerton Street, London, on December 4, of John Read Steph- enson. He was born in Clinton, in September 1882, ,the youngest son of the late John and Martha Stephensorf. He received his early education there and for a short time worked there. He moved to London and for over 40 years worked with the Sher- lock Manning Piano Co., and lat- er with the Spartan Radio Co. He is survived by his wife, the former Pearl McDonald, Londbn, and by two sisters, . Misses Emma and Doreers:Stephenson, 12 Bry- an Street, Port Arthur. He was. predeceased by an only son, Fred, in 1931, and by a brother Fred in 1943, Burial was in the family plot at Dorchester, Ontario, rs Aygileblet AUTO INSURANCE IN TWO SMALL INSTALLMENTS' Not one big yearly bill! Imagine!' Small, easy-to-meit premiums paid every ilii months. TM* is ,a feature pioneered by my company to make your auto Insurance easier tow handle. My company's rates in most states die made up ori the basis of its own "careful -driver" loss exve. rience. This also permits quicker rata reductions whenever they are possible. Call today and find out more about this easy -to - budget insurance. ft pays to know your STATE FARM Agent L LLOYD ETUE Phone Cof!ect ZURICH 78 r 5 CANADIAN PLOWMEN ABROAD by. WILL C.1BARRIE,' Mesgsw 955 — CANADIAN CANADIAN PLOWING TEAM Il9. C. Barele W. C, Barrie, Galt, Ont., a past president of the Ontario Piawinen's Association and manager of the Canadian plowing team at the third annual World Plowing Match in Sweden, has sent Name on-t'he-spot reports of his trip with team 'members, Jae Tran Claremont, Ont,, and Ivan McLaughlin; Stouffrrille, Ont. Here is the fifth of has reports: UPPSAL A, SWEDEN — Even ionahip was over, we still had a though the world plowing champ- great deal to look forward to, for. -- now we were to tour Sweden—a country . in which there is sone - Charles Tudor thing fascinatirig to see almost ev erywhere you go. On the Sunday afternoon fall- owing the Saturday night plowing banquet, our party joined the oth- er visitors on a bus trip to some of the historical places in: old Up- psala, (By "our party" I mean Ivan McLaughlin, who came sec- ond in: the world match; Joe Tran, who placed fourth; plus Mrs. Ma - Laughlin and Mrs. Barrie and my- self.) Near an old church we saw three mounds which are .said to ,have been built by the 'slaves of Viking kings of the fifth and six.: the centuries. • Sacrifices In those. days the people made great saerifices to the gods. When a king died, his ship would be drawn up to the site of one of these mounds by slaves, his body would be placed in the. ship, .his slaves' Would be slaughtered and his ship, would be burned.. Over the ashes, this great mound was built. Our next stop was at the Uni- versity in Uppsala, which, hes a library with some rare documents on exhibit, including a letter writ- ten •1?y Eric XIV of Sweden pro - Posing marriage to Elizabeth r of England. When she refused him, he flew into a' terrible rage and slaughtered 40 prisoners with his own sword. On Monday" morning our tour of Sweden, sponsored by Esso of Sweden, left Uppsala for a two- day visit to Stockholm. On the way we called to see a modern grain dryer owned and operated by the Swedish Farmers' Co-op- erative. Six hugh silos: over 100 feet high were used for storage; In one hour the moisture content would be reduced to 15 percent, dry enough for winter storage. Golden Coaches Next we saw a modern poultry farm with 6,000 white leghorns, a lovely park where wild birds and animals lived in a more or less natural state, and' the Stockholm museum, where we saw eight lar- ge golden coaches used on state y,e occasions by the royal family. Next morning we boarded a bus for Orebro. We visited a piggery, as it is called in Sweden. Here pure bred Yorkshires are raised for sale to the farmers. This was a farm of 500 acres and 100 acres were used for grazing, This farm is also used for cereal plant breed- ing and the production of register- ed seed. There are 200 stations in the country for the production of such seed and the standard is very high. Drawbridge, Moat The next day we visited a Swed- ish military riding school where horses for the cavalry are train- ed The school includes a huge castle which took 200 years to build. It was surrounded by a moat with deep fast -running wat- er, spanned by a drawbridge. We also saw through Sweden's largest and most modern dairy, which is owned 90 percent by farmers. Milk from 5,000 farms was handled here and went on Marks (By our Bayfield correspondent) The burial service for Charles Tudor Marks was held at his late residence in Stanley Township on Friday afternoon, December 9. It was in the charge of the Rev. W. S. Outerbridge, who also officiated at the graveside. . The pallbearers were Harold Penhale, Harold' Stinson, Emerson Heard', Nelson Heard, Archibald A•ienstrong' and Ivan Steckle. In- terment was in Bayfield Cerhetery. The deceased man was' the old, est son of the late Tudor James and Maria Marks, prominent 'cita zens of Bayfield. He was .born on July 31, 1875, and received his schooling at Bayfield. On March 31, 1909, he was mar- ried to Miss .Janna Galbraith, and they set up housekeeping in the family residence in the village (now known as."Century House"). In October 1911, they moved to his farm in Stanley Township (sit- uated on the road, which was then the boundary line between the village of Bayfield and the town- ship) where they have resided ever sines,. Mr. Marks was a member of the Canadian Order of Forresters, and Trinity (Anglican), Church. The deceased man, who was+ a victim of cancer, was in ill -health for six months. He had beers a patient in Clinton Public Hospital for two weeks prior to his death early December 7. Surviving are his wife, and three children, John, at home; Margaret (Mrs. John Wain) Gode- rich Township; and Mary, Toron- to; also five grandchildren; and a brother, Reginald, Edmonton, Alta, Amongst those from a distance who attended the funeral were: Mr, and Mrs. Ritchie McNaugh- ton, London; Mrs, J. Reid and Miss M. Galbraith, Seaforth; and Victor Pickard, Toronto, a Now! Enjoy an owners -eye view of this fine car' THE NEW '56 vaariec I N C W! Push-button controls! 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MURPHY BROS. CLINTON YOU can get your whole winter wardrobe dry clean- ed in short order and in- expensively, too, at Clinton Laundry and D,ry Cleaners. Our cleaning process --reg- ularly used— prolongs the life of .your clothes. Keeps ,them LOOK I, N G much smarter, too. Phone today. WE NOW HAVE A Down Town Office on King Street (formerly Simpsons -Sears) for the convenience of our customers. Cleifrtit*t LAUNDRYrg. CLEANERS `LET ONC CALL DO /TALL o r C"-INTON' s the market as bunter', cheese, and bottled milk. Every operation was done automatically and the place was spotlessly clean; Sev- eral laboratories for testing were staffed with people in white uni- forms. Ninety people are employ- ed there and earn one has a med. ical inspeetion regularly, Their clothes are disinfected daily and no employee works in clothes worn outside. In the attar/Wort we had tix pleasure of "going through the factory of Thermeniusvolters in Hallsburg, where many kinds of farm implements are manufactur- ed. Tile skilled workmen in the big plant gave us an insight into the amount of labour and mater- ial, that aterial,that is entailed, in the produc- tion of farm machinery. Modern, Farms We visited two Iarge adjoining farms of 500 acres each. The farm of Carl Neilson is equipped to feed a large herd of cattle. The other one is owned by Gus- tav Willman, The only animal on his farm is a dog. His farm produces a large amount ' of grain which is sold for seed. His stor- age bins, grain dryers and seed - cleaning ' Plant cost his $50,000. Both fauns were well equipped with machinery. Each :had ' a swirnnririg pool and lovely garden. The houses were large Mr. Wille. man's was like a museum with its array of guns, swords, battle ax- es .and: spears everywhere. The next day Nels Anderson, chairman of the forestry board, led us into a large spruce and pine forest estate of his own, where several men were busy trimming the lower branches from the trees; cutting down and hauling trees with tractors, and taking them away on trucks. One thing we noticed that would probably account for Swed: en's fe}y forest fires as compared to Canada s ig, , that the ground was*Canada's with a thick moss which wasgreen, and damp, des- pite the dry weather.. Conserve. Forests Later that day we had the 'op- Portant,, of seeing trough the Grewons pulp and paper plant 1 . S. Scruton CITIES SERVICE DISTRIBUTOR For Service Call 377W After 6 p.m, — 377J where 65,000 tons of paper are manufactured yearly, The cam. ?any owns one-half million acres at forest land and is practising the latest methods; of forest eon. servation, On our way to Gothenburg, we visited an, average. Swedish' farm which compared favourably with the average Canadian home, aL- though the barns are smaller' and have no basement. The house had all the =ACM ern" conveniences and was quite homelike. On Sunday morning the air was crisp and the sons shone brightly, and a number of us English • speak- ing people and three from Holland attended the morning service cone ducted in English irn' St. ,Andrew's Anglican church in Gothenburg, Nautical Scene In the evening, a farewell party was held lit an exclusive restaur- ant situated on a cliff overlooking the harbour, For miles up and dawn the river we could see ships anchored, tied' up to the docks, and many in ,dry dock for repairs. At a meeting of the WPO Gov- erning ' Board, the European dir- ectors contended that if they were ever to have a chance of winning the contest, the plows used by Northern Ireland, Great Britain and Canada would have to be de- barred and the score card changed to favor the work done by Europ- ean plows. We contended that go plow should be debarred, and that the score card referred to the plowing and not to the plows. Al- though they were in the majority, they saw the point and' agreed to leave the rules largely as they were. At this . meeting a'" letter' was read from the Plowmen's Assoc- iation in New Zealand asking per- mission to send a plowman to the fourth World Match in England next year, :. NEXT WEEK;- A. close -leele.at Britain eletr .,....,a.. CLINTON MEMORIAL SHOP — OPEN FRIDAY AFTERNOONS \--- At other times contact Thomas Steep, phone Clinton 186W; residence, Shipley Street. T. PRYDE and SON , CLINTON — EXETER -- SEAFORTH -- PHONE CLINTON 1620 -- alkaralalaaanalealltaaaaalelatalanaanatetaaaleallataaaalalalaanabak FRESH CUT SCOTCH. PINE SPRUCE - BALSAM BALL-MACAULAY LIMITED Lumber, Linie, Cement, Sash PHONEI sE787 AFORTH CLINTON