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The Clinton News Record, 1934-12-27, Page 4re v+ateremeltetgt w.rerotaseeratatateletatetct tatgteetteiettaeletatattrateletalatetgtetes[t�S., a,CCa NOTICE f A NEW MANITOBA FLOUR SNOWHITE POSITIVELY GUARANTEED OR 14i'ONEY REFUNDED T Y �. ABA: AT $2.55 H. W. CHARLESWORTH Agent for Melotte and Renfrew Cream Seperator: Phone1 99.. v llYse" aaatagrataant,err'9' raiireagnet `¢;were,` se's were; eetie,e PAGE 4 THE CLINTON NEWS -RECORD• VasaslaleValaaasaleaalaleaVesanaeetataleletananalesnatte M IL,PNASAfiteme eo, x4 COOPER'S STORE NEWS THANK YOU for your generous" patronage throughout the Christmas Season and Throughout the Year WEW'SITYOUALLAHAPPY P NEW A PY YIJAR A. T. COOPER. Variety China Dept. 1st floor Phone 36w. a1.1raatatat ststat at"ratbta House and Men's Furnishing Dept. and Floor Phone 36j. eta ue Au atataara tetteakettereeertereteretmeteteareetetteateteratetatameetaWastetratetatanetessnMelWaSetale s Your Turn Now -You Have Thought of Others for Christmas I NOW Think of Yourself and Your Health If your stomach is on strike, take BISMAREX It Hasn't Failed Yet WE WISH ONE AND ALL A HAPPY NEW YEAR W. S. R, HOLMES PNM, 0, ie. . CLINTON, ONT PHONE 51 elhta;tetiit'u'6,i7'37n"r„`i. ,`•;2ti"rain„gu•`tiib�a`ntatnlet`sY`,r�T>h`7n"idr'vtei'b�t2il.7Let>}ts`aEa1o}s``r37ir4atat`v`]-"wt3ru^7b.c?ata"1+Y g t$ motzt,,1 G 4.i xtm: t.`te tt; traVZ'3tgtde3+MIAM+Q4`t.'g 40EVCXtAsi WISHING EVERYONE A HAPPY NEW YEAR 0 A 1u DAVIS & HE !'MAN g CLEANING, PRESSING AND REPAIRING es Se AGENTS FOR GILLESPIES CLEANERS & DYERS, SEAFORTH `exrd `+;; orb't3r2t,=`u^tatMar••ri i2eintin Dani ima9r9h`t` ZW2a tsWa^t=1nt&+ oinipt t filti is ANNIMMI a• tato Gaels tw'.aregat vat,3'•2telatatStVakaldtaseletalatalat:,'•o Wass eyelet eteeet t"esanee by WENDORF'S �5 42 WISHING EVERYONE A HAPPY NEW YEAR air. WENDORF'S 04-3. 1 ai -GODERICH TOWNSHIP Mrs. Eva Wheeler' and son Doug- las of. Parkhill is spending the holi- day season with her brother, Mr. ;Lawrence ,Stephenson. Miss Shirley Beacons of Toronto is spending .the holiday with her par- ' ents, 14 r. and Mrs. John Beacom. Mr. Randall Cole, Western Univer- :sity, Landon, is holidaying at his. home. .'Mr: Hugh Middleton of • Toronto spent the vacation with his parents, .Mr. and Mrs. Charles B. Middleton. Miss Dorothy Stirling is spending 'the vacation with her mother, Mrs. ILillaan Stirling. 'Terra Report of S. S. Nor40, Gode- rich Township: Sr. 4t11. Helen Welsh, 90; Alfred • Butler, 83; Frank Thompson, 76; Eva Switzer, ,72; Kathleen Middleton, 66; Camiel Hendrickse, 6'. Jr. 4th: Donald Sundercock, 68; Arnold Rathwell, 46. 'Sr. 3rd: Helen Thompson, 70; Ted. Middleton, 61; Albert Steep, 52; Jens ny H.4tnleng, 36. Jr. 'rd: Phyllis Middleton, 87; 'Al- bertCraig, 62; George flunking, 63. Sr. and: Anna Townshend, 94; Betty Middleton, 90; Merrill Switzer, 86; Ruth Middleton, 81; Bobby Rath - well, 78; Sam Craig, 50. Sr. 1st: Jean Hendrickse, 97; Eva lyn Steep, 76; June Middleton, 94.; El- inor Sundercoek,! 94; Eileen • Craig, 84 'Alwyne; Hunking,'.8$ Pr.: Donald na d Middleton. —Marion Forbes, teacher.•, ESCAPED INJURY Mrs. James Snell and Miss Mary Snell, well-known in Ihillett, were on the train from London that crashed with the other train at Dundas on Tuesday night. They both escaped injury and were able. to proceed to Hamilton. PEOPLE YOU KNOW Miss Iattie Turner of Toronto is home for the holiday. Missn Macao Thompson of Granton is home for the holidays. Mr. and Mrs'. E. A. Fines and chil- dren are spending a fhw days In Kitchener. ' Miss R. V. Irwvin spent the holiday with her sister, Mrs. C. A. Vesey in St. Marys. • Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Shaddiek of Hensall are visiting Mr, and Mrs. David Churchill. Miss Vera Ohurchil, ''Toronto, is with her parents, Mr.,and Mrs, D. Chur- chill far the holiday. Mr. Andrew Oke of Toronto is vis, iting his, sisters, Mrs. T. J. McNeil and Mrs. Wm. Higgins. Mrs. Massey and children of Poet Carling are visiting ' her parent's, Mr. and MTs. David Churchill. Misses, Luella and Ida Walkinshaw spent Christmas. with Mr. and Mrs. Rees Jenkins of "Wbodiands." Mr. and a fes. M. T. C'or ess and fam- ily 'spent Christmas with Mr. and Mrs. A. J. McMurray of Harriston. Mr. Ross Carter of Pain -right is spending the Christmas vacation with his partes, M;r. and Mrs. Will Carter. Mr, and Mrs, J. Mervin Elliott and son Gerald, are 'spending a few days with Mr. and Mrs. Channer in London. Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Lobb and fam- ily spent .Christmas with Mr. and Mrs. Robert Pearson of Goderich townhsip. Miss Elizabeth Gibbings of 'Toronto spent Christmas week -end with her brother, Mr. B. J. Gibbings and her sister, Mis. W. J. Treleaven. Miss Olive Lawrence of Port Arthu r Messrs. Fred and Harry Lawrence of Hamilton are spending a few days with their mother, Mrs. S. Lawrence. Mr. Jack McKenzie of Regina who is attending Queen's University, Kingston, is spending the Christ- mas vacation wih his grandmother, Mrs. McKenzie.' ' Mr. J. A. Gibbings of • the staff of Vocational and High School, St. Catharine, is spending the ,Christ- mas vacation with his. parents, Mr. and Um. B. J. Gibbings. ' Mr. Tack -Mute's of Detroit spent Christmas day at .the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Mutch. Jack started home yesterday but had to remain until today on ac- count of some large snow drifts that got in his way. BRUCEFIELI) Mr•, Hugh McGregor of Detroit is visiting at her home in the village. Mr. Z. I•I. O'Neil of Flint visited friends in Clinton, Tuckersmith and Brncefield. Air. Wnt. Forrest and daughter; Msis Beth, of Clinton spent Christ- mas Eve at the home of Mr. and' Mrs. L. 'Forrest. • Misses Margaret and Janet Wat- son of London are spending the halt- ing ing Mr. and Mrs. alansowrbNUPdN. days at their home village and' vicin- ity, Mr. and Mrs. Manson are visiting at the latter's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Barn Thompson. Mr. and Mrs. John McIntosh of To- ronto are spending their holiday with friends in the village and commun- ity. "HOW'S BUSINESS?"•. IS QUES- TION PUT TO MAGISTRATE BY TRANSIENT This article is from the St, Tho- mas Times -Journal: "The joke was on Fred_ King, a one -legged, red-headed transient,' who visited the municipal kitchen in the city hall basement, Wednesday. He admitted that the joke was en him. • Fred was in Tilsonburg and saw a good-looking young man get- ting ready to leave in an automobile. Fred solicited a ride and was. invited to get into the ear. He learned that the young man behind the wheel was going to Aylmer.. Fred decided that the young man must be a commercial traveler, .anal so wishing to be pol- ite, he asked: "How's business?" "Business is very good," answered the young man. Fred continued the conversation for a few minutes, then enquired what business the young., man was in. "Oh, I'm the district magistrate," answered the young man at the wheel. 'I certainly enjoyed the look on that fellow's face when I told him my business," Magistrate. E. S. Liver- more told The Times -Journal, Thurs- day morning, when questioned about the incident. "He' didn't know , just what to say." WINGI1AM: Considerable dam- age was done 1VLonday by fire to the second storey of the Thomson Creari- ery. Apparently something had been piled . too close to the overheated smoke pipe, igniting the• egg cases, where it gained great headway. For tunately the fire was confined to the. back end of the second storey, 'and the machinery abai lex`Were u' n damaged. The, loss se coveted by in-, surance. . , , FIVE-YEAR TREK OF REINDEER HERD ACROSS ARCTIC NOW NEARING END 3,000 Animals Will Bt Released Near Aklavik After 3,000 Mile March From Alaska—Victory for Lap- lander. Moose River, N.W.T.--The drum of hoofs across the rim of Canada's Arctic Circle wrote a march of .vic- tory for Andrew Bahr. It sounded the end of a five year struggle across a 3,000 mile stretch of ice to re-estab- lish a lost reindeer herd for 25,000 Eskimos in .scattered settlements from Kittigazuit to Coronation Gulf. Lead by Bahr diminutive Lapland herder and his nine wind -tanned as- sistants, 3,000 sturdy, reindeer set out from Ktttebue, Alaska Christmas Day 1929. New it is moving slowly across the Mackenzie delta to Kittigazult; east of Aklavik, where it will be re- leased. The animals spent the sum- mer at this Arctic' coast point, 150 miles northwest of Aklavik. To Aid .Eskimos Behind the venture was the decis- ion of the Dominion Government to replenish • depleted reindeer herds. Since 1929 starvation has stalked Es- kimo skimo camps throughout the barren lands. Invasion of the white man drove out the caribou t and for five years natives •have, substisted almost entirely on the white man's diet of canned beef and tea. The five-year trek told . an Arctic saga destined to live .forever in the lore of the north country. Long jour- neys over frozen trails in 50 below weather; daring drives through per- ilous mountain passes when a slip of the foot meant sudden death and bat- tles at night with packs of hungry wolves that continuously stampeded the herd, Despite the addition of 1000 spring fawns to the original herd, Bahr ex- pected to deliver only 2,300 head. Their arrival however will inaugur- ate an Arctic new deal with a full dinner pail and eventually two rein- deer eindeer sleds in every Eskimo garage. Bahr and his assistants will remain with the herd long enough to instruct the natives in the fundamentals . of reindeer breeding. Despite thelong struggle, Bahr be- lieves the real battle is now just be- ginning, eginning, The establishing of the herd will give the Eskimo something approaching their primitive foods. But the animals must be protected from the ravages of extermination by the wolves until the herd is built up. The hand-picked cavalcade left El- ephant Point, Alaska, in late. Decem- ber, 1929. In preparation for the long march; Bahr secured 53 specially, made' sleds drawn by trained teams ofdomesticated reindeer to trans- port equipment and supplies. The great herd was able to move only in the Winter months. This allowed for the fawning season and eliminated, the dangers of Arctic. travel in the Summer months. The route lay through the Noazak river valley in a north-easterly dir- ection to the Arctic watershed, and thence across the Continental Divide through the little used pass to the head. of Colville Basin, southeast of Point Barrow. Here the herd rested in the Spring of 1930. 300 Added to .herd With 800 fawns added to the herd Bahr pushed on with freeze-up in the Fall andreached a point southeast of: Point Barrow the following Spring. After a' Summer's restthe expedition arrived at Flaximan Island sostheast of Harrison Bay on the Arctic ioast- line. Blue River 300 miles east of FIaarnan was the next stopping point. The original schedule called for' the crossing of the Mackenzie river basin in the Spring of 1931-32 but timber wolves, lean and hungry from long years of privation swooped down on the , strange procession and took their toll. Bahr and his men escaped death by keen vigilance and sharp ahn with the rifle but their antlered ed charges were less fortunate. For 'many months the location of the hbrd was not known to the out- side world. Last October, within stri- king distance of their goal the party started on the last lap t a drive that will take then .across the 14laeicenzie delta to Kittigazuit east of Alclavik, where they will be released. Speaking of the .wolf menace Bahr in his first account of the trek said: "They would come in .the bleak hours before dawn. Timber wolves in packs of from four to twelve. They would hover in the shadows, terrify the herd a hd .. then lea in for a kill. Often -,p times, days were spent in quieting the deer and persuading them to. move forward again in orderly fash- ion. Then when the move was made the wolf menace would assert itself again within a period of 24 hours. R. T. Porsacl, Dominion Govern- ment reindeer expert and his brother A. E. Porsild, kept the party supplied, with provisions while the herd trav- elled. Through biting blizzards they drove their dog teams more than 2,- 000 miles during the winter, back and forth between Herschel Island and Aklavik. LONDES,BORO Mrs. Win: Hoggart has returned home after spending a few days with her mother in Clinton. DUTY THURS., DEC. 27, 1934' By Frank H. Shaw the famous author Of sea stories Every day, at sea or in port, Cap- cresting a 'wind that blew at a hun- tain John Brayne, of the Pioneer, Made a point of writing at least a page of a serial Letter to his wife, 15;000 miles away. Not that these voluminous letters were historical documents, dealing as they did with trifles; but they evidenced a sincere affection, dred •miles an -hour,, snarled over his head, as if the solid sea were being. scooped up. "They'll have to take their chance below," Brayne said, realising that he must now concentrate on saving the ship rather• than the .individual. He warped himself to the bridge, He was dipping his pen into the ink where the wheelhouse had collapsed to tell of the'bad state of the baro- like a house of cards and been whirI- ed away; the quartermaster stood there at the small wheel, bent double and shuddering. "Get her into the wind!"' yelled "Right, I'll look 'ems over," said •Brayne, mouth against the man's Captain` Brayne, and reached for his ear. battered cap. He didn't think much of "Won't steer•--nvon't answer!" he the mate, who was the best he'd been got back in a reedy whisper ;that be - able to pick up at Kowloon when his gan as a roar. previous first officer had gone to hos- "Let's .see!" He got the spokes and pital with a Chinese knife -slash along eased ,the helm off, the ship swung a his short ribs. Always apt to panic, little, then he ground the helm down.. Mr. Weston. He was a half-caste, Inch by inch the reluctant bow crept which probably accounted for it. up. The ship straightened a little, but a On deck, Captain Brayne eyed the fell off again. It was possible to feel weather. her decks still a -throb, showing that "Got her snugged down, have you " the engines worked. "I£ she breaks he asked in a mild voice, looking at down now—" thought Brayne. He the mate's belt buckle, for he seldom pulled the quartermaster to his niet a man's glance squarely. "It's mouth. • going to blow like blazes!" "Fetch the mate!" Ise ordered. The The mate admitted that the task second mate was no good --an old' was not yet done, and was advised to Frenchman who always went sick in get busy about it. hard weather. The Pioneer was "It 'looks like the plague to me thriftily run and boasted only two sir," he said in a high-pitched voice, mates The man was absent a l• ureter, when the first mate put nisi head in at the door and said: "There are three of the coolies" sielcly, sir ong and Brayne grunted. There were 600 time, during which Brayne devoted coolie passengers crammedinto the forty years' sea -craftiness to steady- Pioneer's 'tweendecks, and be had ing the stricken ship. mentioned to his wife in embarkation day's instalment that he now cont.It was weary work; the drive of marded a passenger vessel, though wind was like solid wall advancing without extra pay. He had made a irresistibly, and the force increased jokeof it. every minute. The Iifeboats crumpled The Pioneer was five days from the into rnatchwood and vanished one nearest port, and a typhoon was strayed out in a single tackle like a menacing, and if this were actually banner, its keel narrowly missing plague there'd be hell to pay. Cap- Captain Srayne's bare head. His old capvanished. anrshed. Thene tain Brayne was a quiet man, whoth tackle seldom swore, and many people snapped, and the boat hurtled away thought he -would have made a bet- to leeward to be lost in spray -mist. ter shopkeeper than shipmaster. The funneIl guys harped an eldritch There was no debtor en board The tune, like fiends snaking game of Pioneer was merely a stodgy freight- ! human effort. After eternities the er, using the China. Seas. 'So far as quartermaster returned to say he was her lower holds were concerned, she unable to find the mate, feared he was over -loaded and consequently had been washed overboard. Brayne, crank; and she carried far too much knowing his subordinate, thought dif- topside, being an ancient ship. , ferent. "Hold this and watch her!" he Captain Brayne: went down a trap- snapped. Resigning the helm, ho hatch into the 'tweendeclts and collar. awkwardly left the bridge. Every ed a headman of coolies. In pidgin corner he searched failed to reveal English he demanded to be shown the the mate. He went to the door of the c sus iiou cases. s engine -room and bellowed; and the "H'nz!" he said, and felt here and chief engineer, a Scot,' appeared, there. His brown face did not betray wiping hands on greasy waste. his sinking. heart. He'd seen plague "Can you rig a sea -anchor, chief?" before and recognized the symptoms. asked Brayne. Fully a dozen men had the signs. "Ma job's don there; but I'll try "You nrakee cally demsick boys my 'hand, captain," said the chief. aft," he ordered, and saw it done. He "TJ'se all hands—and whack those employed the passengers because rte coolies into it if you must. It means needed his crew. He had studied that the ship or the sea -anchor:' barometer very carefully, and knew The ehiof vanished fount] a seven. that ,the mercury was concave -topped eights spanner, and with this as in the tube, and pmnping• sceptre and club collected men. In IIe made the carriers wash all over sixteen hours he hada workable sea - in carbolised water when they had anchor over the bow. deposited their loads in the after part Sixteen incredible hours. Only four of the 'tweendecks, beyond the water- men were damaged in that effort. The tight bulkhead. Then he went on typhoon continued to increase in deck and looked at the weather on his vfglenee meanwhile. The sea -anchor way to the medicine locker outside dragged the Pioneer's bow towards his cabin door. He was chiefly aware the wind a little, and the weight of of annoyance, because the was feeling water poured over her forecastle, to verytender towards. Mrs. Brayne,burst busily against the midship waiting in England. He wanted to structure. tell her that with luck he might be It drove in thca front of Brayne's able to send for her to join hint in cabin and wrecked two store -rooms; another three months' time, if it flattened every ventilator and freights improved at their present washed away everything that was not rate, riveted to the main fabric. "Yes, it'll be a snifter when it comes!" he thought,. and suddenly An unnoticed night had passed in let out an unexpected roar at the titanic effort. There had been times mate, who was smoking a cigarette -¢belt the' chief's spanner failed to instead of hustling the native crew keep the crew at #aril, and then about their work. Then he went on, Brayne had descended and used a and mixed a fearsome brew from the hatch -batten. The ship still 1[ved medicine locker, with salts and Wer- that was the main thing, costar sauce predominating, though Captain Brayne occasionally dipped to thereinhis was also a lot of ginger in- � q uarantine station to ¢d- eluded, and, as a final precaution, a minister fresh doses of that curious bottle of cheap brandy. He stopper- cordial. No one was yet dead, but ed all this in a five -gallon demijohn. the, sick men were rolling about like "Call ate if anything happens; I'm empty casits. He lashed them to the down the after 'tweendecks," he told stringers with strands of rope -parr the nate. Then he descended into his and left then. own appointed inferno. In rho main 'tweendecks other men Nornaliy he was scared cold of sickened,'but\ were unnoticed in the plague. He had ottce had 'Ye1Iow general chaos. The whole comple- Jack in Brazil, But these poor ig- ment rushed helplessly from side to norant brutes of coastwise coolies side at every surging roll of the ship, were put in his care for safe trans- Captain Brayne had the newly sick port to Hei WIai,. baying •cdmpleted transported to quarantine — and he their term of indentured labour. It used first and boot impartially in do - behooved hint to fulfil the contract. ing it. ire doctored theseand return - With this batch -isolated 'something ed to the bridge, He was aware of might be done. The trouble was the weariness. But the barometer show - headmen had panicked, and mulishy ed that even worse was to come. refused to help, Shooting a couple of After forty ]tours of unbroken them wouldn't get a man very far, labour he had oil-drmns placed so Captain 'Brayne thought, puffing that a ];cella would tabu the piling through his short grey. beard. seas. By now the Pioneer was bare "Best do it myself, then I know it's as a picked bone, her rails were flat - done," lre decided, and got to work tened, and .solid bulkheads 'were' With carbolic and hot water, plus his warped like tin. Her engines still diabolical ,brewage, which bred a glow worked, however• of warmth in the eolicked stomachs. Sixty hours after starting the ty- He was actively doing it, when phoon reached its climax. It seemed the Pioneer heeled sharply over, pre- to lift the ship ,solidly from the ocean eisely as if a gigantic and resistless and toy with her :in the startled air. hand had pushed her. There was a Another dozen hours of ungovernable clattering and a clanging, a swoosh- fury elapsed; and Captain Brayns ing rush as if most of the ship had still alternated between :the bridge. fetched loose. Through this discoi?e-, and the informal hospital, mice came a piping scream. Salt was caked in every line of his "Alt, the mate!" diagnosed Brayne, face, and his eyes were red and ins He made hasteless haste to the deck flamed; be walked like a cripple. He Mr. Frank Englebrecht has re and found himself in horror-stricken r , ,- Iturned to, Hamilton after spending tumult. The threatened typhoon lied: the Past few Year9 with hisebus.m..bur burst on the, ship with mneredtbl , Mr. Richard Scot j,, , force. Vast : Showers of spindrift, could' not remember eating or drink - in anything. But e ' g y g u h had to save his ship =that was his duty, what he was. Paid far, 'a Wage that supported the' wife to whom he wrote a page every' day. After ninety hours the typhoon eas- ed, and the Pioneer climbed' wearily upright again. The sea still a •oared high, but it had lest a lot of its venom . The mate crawled out fronts some , hidie-hole and reached the bridge. Quite dispassionately Brayne hit him on the nose, yawning as he did it. "Look ,out for her!" he ordered. "I'll be up in an hour." He had re- membered that for four days he had - not written to his wife. He found his s, cabin a wreck, but the last page of the letter was still undamaged, He spread it out and wrote:# "I'm sorry nob to have written since Monday, but we've had a bit of. weather. Trouble with the coolies, too. Nothing serious." Reaching for more ink, he, yawned and rested his head on his hand. Having performed his duty, Captain Brayne slept.—London Answers." STANLEY Mr. Chas. Falconer of Bayfield is visiting at the home of Mr. Hugh Gilmour. Miss Margaret McGregor of Tor- onto and Miss Kate McGregor of Wlingham spent .the holidays with their mother, Mrs. Neil McGregor. Mr. Hugh McGregor of Detroit vis- ited at home of Mr. John McCowan and Mr, pm T. Baird, during the holidays. LONDON ROAD Mr. and Mas. Gordon Ross of Clin- ton, Mr. and Mrs. George Elliott, Jr. of Clinton and Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Ball of Detrlot spent Christmas with Mr. and Mss. W'm. Crittenden. Mists Annie Crittenden of Toronto tpent the holiday with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Crittenden. Mr. and Mrs. Will Wright and daughter were holiday visitors with thelatter's tatter s parents, Mr. and Mrs. B. Rawcliffe. Mr. and Mrs. Tom McMichael and family of Hullett spent the holiday with Mr. and Mrs. Milton Wiltse. Mr. and Mrs. Jinx Sangster of Hensall were holiday guests of Mr. and Mrs.Fred Anderson. Mr. and 'Mrs. Garon and family of Clinton spent Chritsmas with Mrs• Lebeau and family. Mr. and 'Mrs. George Falconer and daughters, Margaret and Kathleen, spent 'Christmas with Me. and Mrs. Frank Rathbun of Kippen. Mas. Lindsay returned with Mr. and Mrs. Falconer, Mr. and Mrs. Roy Plumsteel joined the Plumsteel families in Clinton for Christmas. Mr, and Mrs. Moffat spent Christ- mas with Davit's in Clinton. Mr. and Mrs. Glen McKnight spent Christmas with Mr. and Mrs. J. T. McKnight in Clinton. Reeve and Mrs. Hanley and chil- dren spent Christmas with Mr. and Mrs. George Taylor In Clinton. Miss Jean Falconer of Paris spent the Christmas holiday at her home, Miss Helen Davidson of London was hone for the holiday. Mr. and Mrs. J. Davidson spent Christmas with the latter's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Lawson of Hal- lett. Mr. and Mrs. Norman Tyndall spent the holiday with Mr. and Mrs. James Forbes of Hullett. Mr. and Mrs, Jahn Quigley spent Christmas with their nephew, Mr. Thomas Pighe of Hullett. Mr. and gas. Howard Snell and daughter, Beatrice, spent Christmas with Mr. and Mrs. Ephraim Snell of Hallett. COUNTY NEWS GODERICH: An outstanding evi- dence of the Christmas spirit was given by the Goderich Salt Company Limited here. Every one of the 60 married employees were given a 10- pound tueke ande p Y all of the 100 odd employees were given an extra day's pay and the single ones a bonus of 52 each. Last year Mr. Wurtele, the president of the company, gave a Christmas tree for some 380 employ- ees and their dependents. The salt company ran continuously every day this year and it is no wan- der that its employees :are the most contented and happiest in Goderich. SEAFORTI1: 111. and Mrs. Thos. Johnstone, Seaforth, announce the engagement of their eldest daughter, Thelma Ruth, to Dr. James George Diilane sono w Dillane, Edward br a f 1 ne To- d ronto, the marriage to take plate in London, England, in January. COLBORNE: John A. Millian, 75 - year -old Colborne Township native, died at his home on Picton street, mi Thursday. He was a son of John Mil Tian and .itfartha Cluff and was raised on the homestead and was married 54 years ago to .Elizabeth Rutledge, daughter of William Rutledge and Elizabeth Ross. They lived on the homestead for several years then Moved ' to Goderich Township, retir- ing 49 years ago to Goderich. ile was a member of Victoria Street Uni- ted'Chureh and formerly was a mem- ber of the Orange •Order. He is sur- vived by his widow and one brother, Andrew, of Goderich. There were no, children. Two brothers and a sister predeceased him, The funeral' was conducted on Saturday at 2 o'clock from the United Church. The pastor, Rev. F. W. Craik, • having charge of the service. Interment in Colborne+ Cemetery.: ) .