The Seaforth News, 1928-02-23, Page 4•
WALTON.
Me IVfaagaret Oughanan, Wee
Margaret Buchauan, en old resident
41 'Grey Townaltip, died on 'Wednee-
altty Of last week. Mise Buehtlean'e
Parents were arnottg the aionePas of
•etheast vicinity, She was in her seventy-
aatital year. The funerel took Place or.
;Sat from the farm on which ahe Was
born, Rev. W, j.11V6, Of Daff'S
ailed Church Walton, officiated.
'he remains were tera in13111s-
sets cemetery. Mrs.'George MeTag-
gart Margaret and if, Robertson,
.af ',seafortla were theees and nePliew
of the deceased.
Mr. T. H. Jackson • has leased is
Jam at Abernethy, Sask, north •of
Regina, where he will MtWe shortly.
lie will hold an auction sale of feral,
farm •atocle anti iemlements ott Tues-
day March ath, Mr. Jacksoe s re'
Melling to the west after our years
ea ()Mario, having lived at 'Bateman,
Sask., for I17 years,
Mr,. jack Carter, of \Vaterdown, ie
aisiting Mr. Jim Carter, over the
week -end, e
Mr. and Mrs. R. Conners, of Ed-
moaton, Alta., left for their home on
Monday last after a three months'
iiisit with friends.,
Mr. jos, Carter is taking a holi-
day by a trip to Detroit.
Miss Jean Drager spent the week-
end in Blyth at the home of Mr. E.
Launder.
Ur, and Mrs. Joe Holmes were Sat-
arday night gttests with Mr, and Mrs.
• L. teeming,
Mr. and Mrs. T. Leeming and fam-
ily and lfr, and Mrs. C. Hudie and
Harold were guests of Mr. and •Mr,
j. Holmes Friday.
Mr. Orval. Holmes of Seaiorth Col-
legiate visited at his home over the
week end.
GIANTS QF 'HURON QGUNTY.,
The Toronto Star Weekly, contained
equate W. la, Forreat Gode-
heading, Mr. Forrest is well known
an illestreted collectiou of of Interesting
• mch, in its last lame under tile above
here, beinga brother to Mesas. John
and Joe 1..herrest and the Misses For-
rest, 3rd concession of 'Tuelceremith,
and Mrs, S, Elgie. He was born in
Stanley township, son of the late Ur,
and Mrs. John iForrest and for the
past seventeen- years has been in the
coatracting business at Goderieh, He
lived for several years on the 3r4 of
Tuekerstnith. 'FolloWing is the story,
whieh we reprint by permission of
The Toronto Star Weekly:
'There we're giants on the earth in
the long' ago -in 'lluron
'Bill 'Forrest, W. L. Forresteef God-
crichhas a whole eveeing's repertoire
of greet tales about them. '
Bill is' hot a celebrity except among
those favored folk who have had the
honor of hearing 'him in action, his
teegue ratepeet as' he hurls his Yarn%
Btit to•them he..iaae character indeed,
a raconteur par excellence, a minstrel
whose lyre is tuned to his native soil
of Ontario, a trodbadour who sings in
thunderous prose, A be -Mall 'Sche)ier-
'azad*.of prgautuAti tones.
You always know when Bin id in
the mood of one of his stories or has
one of them under 'Way. '
He staffers a sea change. He be-
comes an ogre, 11-Iis voice booms.
He makes your mind go back, some-
how or other, to jack mid the Bean
Stalk
His very appearance is transformed.
His features_ awell. His color deepens
His eyes roll. At intervals, fulleorbed
in their challenge, they turn ott each
auditor as if to say,e"Disbelieve if you
dare." He leans forward in his chair.
His hands grip between his knees.
He has a severe, high, jovian look -
until he has ended his narrative of the
moment, when he relaxes, twinkling.
He has another mood, too. Ask
Iten to recite a bit from Bobbie Burns
and he will jump to his feet -for this
is a thing to he saidsthnding, face to
tlte stars. Then he will thunder out
a gem from the Immortal Bard with
a triumphant bellowing that proclaims
him the greatest of poets.
There is considerable 'of the homeric
about Bill Forrest, who is somewhat
of a Brobdingnag himself, over 6 feet
high, over 250 pounds of live weight
on his feet; not fat but virile, hearty,
vastly torsoed, sturdy as a ship's
winch, straight-backed as an R. M. C.
cadet; with piratical swing to his
stride mid a dab' of gray goatee to
his chin which call te mind all Three
Musketeers.
He is fit repository for the heroic
folk -lore of Ontario of which he
delivers hitreself. A Viking; a great
Goth. Bred of the great lakes. The
roar of wind. The thud of pounding
water. The vigor of elemental forces.
By rights the man should have been
• born in his ancestral Steamed several
generations ago. You tan easily
imagine hint in a defile, -claymore in
hand, rallying his clansmen with his
hattleaxe voice. He should have
become the legendary head of a great
line of men.
As it is, he is a bachelor, but with
many friends. Por they say he is the
best hearted man in seven ounties
who never refused anyone bite or sup.
Like Lord Rosebery, he once said
that he had three ambitions, all of
which he realized: to own a farm, to
have his name on a ship and to be a
contractor. He has been also a pros-
pector and a diver. He may have
oiled other strong roles. It is hard
to say. He does not talk about him-
self. All I know is that he now oper-
ates a dredge or a couple of 'dredges.
As Bill Forrest Tells Them
With his figure, his face, his bearing
what parts 'he could play in the movies
-where men ,may masquerade. But
the movies would lack his voice. His
voice is so • much • of him, and his
whole manner of 'telling a story, the
somewhat Rabelaisian note in his
talethat must 'be carefully toned, the
forceful expressions that might seem
a little startling if set down in black
and white.
That is the worst of trying to
'eeproduce his stories. No matter how
well one. may try to give the actual
words of them, as be told them, they
lack the vitality ef his personality. But
oevertheless they are worth setting
down since, even anemic as they be-
came under the touch of the type-
writer, they have a savor of the good
earth of Ontario that is worth put -
:mg on record.
So here is a string of them as Bill
Fereest tells them:
he' back baud of the hartutaa, lifted
Jahn beck. on his knee and held hint
there, soothing hina, eetil the •
lag
mell of the gas. ,beggy had dile
eppeared. • •
Then he set him hack the road
ltd
and drove oa in to Hensel!.
That was the first record of an
.utornobile along the Zurich read.
Pant Bell weighed 375 pounds. He
ived to be 98 'tad was never sickewo
days le his life.
BLYTH.
At rite mornitig service, Feb. 12,
192,8, of the Queen St. Ll'aited Church,
She following resotution was naoved
by Mr. R 'Fleecier and seeonded by Mr.
John Maines: "Thht having learned
'that our esteemed friends, Mr. and
Mrs. Benjamin Taylor have today at-
tained the fiftieth anniversary of their
wedding, we, the pastor, officials, and
numbers of the congregation desire
to congratelate them upon reaching
Ibis happy occasion. We rejoice that
they are found itt the full possession
of their faculties, bath physical _and
mental. In the providence of God, we
pray that they may be spared to see
many more anniversaries of their
wedding day, and that in the sunset
sof life there may be no clouds but the
Yarightness and beauty that heralds the
coming of the Eternal Day. (Signed),
R. H. Barnby, Pastor. E. .Bender,
Recording Steward. Blyth, Feb. 12,
8928," This motion was carried un-.
nnimously.
United Y.P.S.-The regttlar meet -
...mg held he Queen Street church was
not largelyattended owing to the
weather. Being citizenship evening,
the convenor of teat conentitte, Mr.
Earl Mille, presided, and opened the
meeting with two well-kmewri hymns.
Dr, Barnby offered prayer. The
Scripture passage from Mark 435-41,
was read by Mr. Mills, after which
'nymn, 'Abide with Me," was sung
rogether. Dr. Milne addressed the
audience for a length of time, con -
seeming the general scientific view of
health. This topic was well explained
and proyed to be very beneficial and
instructive to us. Rev. George Weir
moved a hearty vote of thanks to Dr.
Milne, which was seconded by the.
?resident, Mrs. Leith: After a time
devoted to business, the closing hymn
was sung and Rev. Mr. Weir dis-
missed the meeting with the lefizpah
benediction.
Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Biernes, 7th
'tate, Morrie, entertained their neigh -
begs and friends lee" Thursday even-
ing,. The evening was epent in euchre
.id dancing.
Mr. Calin Finland is spending a
'few days with her parents, Joseph and
Mrs. Johnston. Mrs. Johnston has
not been as well as her many friends
would wish.
Mr. and Mee. John McNichol and
eon Aubrey were guests of Mr. and
Mrs. Leslie Fear.on Friday evening.
Mrs. Robert Johnson has gone to
Listowel to spend a few weeks with
'relatives there.
Messrs. Cherie, George and Har -
•old Cunningham spent Tuesday even-
ing at Mr. Nelson Nicholson's,
Mr. William Phillips of town 15
very ill at present,
Mrs. J. Smith is spending a weel.
with her frieeds. Mr. and Mrs. Em-
pey, St. Marys. .
Mr. George Leith Sr. is on the sick
1:st.
Miss Elizabeth . Mills of London
e -pent the week end with her parents, I .
Mr. and Mrs. John, Mills, Mullett. ' In the long'ago we had a family tip
I
'hahliss Sara Howatt is inending a there he Heron county by the name of
few days at the home of her. brother, Rel. ' The old man we always called
'George Howatt, Westfield.. Grandaddy Bell. He came out atom
' Mr. Duncan McDonald left. -on I Scotland. He rang grist mill on the
Thursday fee his home ie Provost, ereek near the villitge otKippeit. He
raised a fainily anchtliveil there to the
tiar of his death. He could walk front
.Lendon the forty'addmiles and be up
te his afiame in aiime for ,dinner,
through the bush. f
.His Son •Pattl had afarin and a saw
mill just west of Hensill.
One time when they raised Bill
Grand's berm Paul Was at the raising,
The barn was 82 feet fogg. That was
one of the first barns raised in that
.--eirt of the country.
There was the usual procedure.
They hauled the Wall -plate and the
nerloin plate end on the building
before they started the raising. When
'he bent e were tip, Patti grabbed hold
af the wall plate -it was ten inches
square and 82 -feet long, rock elm -
climbed up to the corner of the wall
mei laid the end on ;the top bean".
That man Bill Grand was a cousin
e. My grandmother,
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'NOY tell yon a mad wolf story
hat's authentic. It...took place in, the
ownship of Colborne in the early
days. There was a yOttag eottple
here by the name of Sullivan,
One eight they heard an uproar
emong the stock, The husband got,.a
antern and went out 'Being almee,
the wife dressed, got the butcher 'knife
and started for the stableee-When
she got out there .she found • her
husband in a•death struggle with a
full-sized timber wolf.
Naturally she took sides 'with her
husband. She cut the well' with the
keife, killing him. '
Shortly afterwards, the husband
developed hydrophobia, , the wolf
having been .mact. There vas no cuee
for that in those deys and they had to
Strap him to the bed till such time as
death eagle to relieve his sufferings.
Mrs. Sullivan afterwards married a
man by the name of McCarron; lived
to a good old age and raised a family.'
You can look ap the records Quin-
lan, a matt who used to work for me,
married her daughter,
Stretching a Sciatic Nerve
- In the long ego when you drove up
the London road north, as you crossed
the Mill road at the village of Bruce -
field, you could see at the northwest
corner a wooden building painted
white with a sign aver the door oaf-
ing, '`,Surgeg--gaines Stewart, MD "
One day in the fall a stout man by
the name of MeEwan crippled ilito
the office. "Doctor," he said, "what's
wrong with me?" -
"McEwan," said the doctor, you
heve a contraction of the sciatic
erve."
"Can you do anything?"
"If I can get hold of it and can
stretch it half an Met I can cure you.
13tit it will be awful painful."
"All right, doctor. Get busy. I don't
mind the pain if it will 'make me able
to walk."
So Stewart sent gut for the five
strongest men in ,Brucefield to hold
alcEwan. He 'called across to the
butcher, "Sharpen up your knives and
come over." Then he weet across to
Kaiser, the blacksmith, who had his
shop in back of Rattenbury's hotel,
and said, "Kaiser, Be me up a .pair of
tongs draw.n out long and fine at the
point."
1When the doctor got the tongs he
cleaned and sterilized them.
'The ,five men were holding down
'aloEwan with his face on the table.
So the doctor took one of the knives
and split his hip open. Then he got
hold of the sciatic nerve with the
point of the tongs and pulled and
stretched it half an inch:
You -could have heard the roars ,of
MoEwan half a mile, Only the five
men were strong they could not have
held him down. .
It must have cured hint for he ne-
ver came back.
Stewart afterwards went to McGill
as progressor of materia medica. When
Sir John A. MaeDonald took 111, they
sent for Stewart as the greatest auth-
ority on nervous diseases in Amer-
ica. His operation, first performed in
the village of Brucefielcl in Huron
county, afterwards went down in me-
dical history as the .Stewart Operation'.
'Bob Marks, a big Irishman, one of
the men who held IvicEwan down, was
so strong that he couldn't work. If
he forgot himself and squeezed a
crowbar, for instance, it would just
fall in pieces like a woman making
curly cakes.
That's as true as preaching,
Bob Marks was the postmaster, 'VVe
always called him Big Bob Medea.
He once ran a fellow out of townowith
a fork handle.
They tell me I'm bigger than he
was.
ne never wore a belt or suspenders.
He just took a reef in his pants -
like this.
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Alberta. . •
"Miss A. Toll, of Guelph, spent the
:weaker -toe. with. her pareate, lir. Aina
Mrs.' Feed Toll, Sr, e- - goe
•Brighein is spendieg a
kW' daOehat -.the, battle of her uncle,
Mr Jantes „Rai hetioa ,
Ur, and -Mese Tholetis Jeffrey, of
Colonsftr,'Sask., were gue'ate- at the
h011te of •lifr. John Teo' last week,
Mr. and Mrs. John Craig visited
with Mr and lfra, John Yea 'Wednes-
day,
While Miss Alberta Richmond was
home last week end she had the rms.
forteme to -fall and bruise one
badly.
Mr, Robt. Wallace was a Detrole
visiter last week.
• REPORT OF HOG SHIPMENTS
For month ending Jan. 31st, 1928.
Seaforth.-Total 832, select bacon
209, thick smooth 486, heavies 52,
extra heavies 1, shop hogs 49, lights
and feeders 47.
Brueefielcl-Total 230, select bacon
81, thick smooth 134. heavies 7, extra
Ilea -les 1, shop hogs 1, lights and
feeders 4,
‘Valton -Total 569, select bacon
165, thick smooth 350, heavies 21,
pxtra heavies 1, shop hogs 10, lights
maid fetadella 5. ,
'Huron. Courity-Tatal 9,413, select
'haute 2,728, thick smooth 5,488,
heavies 408, extra heavies 14. shop
hogs 406, lights and feeders 94.
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I never saw Paul Bell driving a
uggy. He had a light waggon and
brown horse.
One ae.. be -had been down the
eecond of Hay,
Tiirnin east on the Zurich road.
coining home to Hensall, he met a gas
buggy., tlargl the little horse thought
.'he intent. 1hSt1g_tdo was stand on
-tile -itieed-itteat Heeetttequite a caper
end loof:larlike "melon.' awaea
But Paul reached forward, caugh"
SRA.EQRT
NENVS,
autleing ..Weedett PatliPe then,
teke s threethich auger mid screw It
'through the lettgth of a twenty -foot
log --.1 was going to, like a hot
tteedle going threetgli beeswax, but
that would hardly tell the way he
cottld snap it through,
They were strong men in the long
age.
ful horsemen. .T forget what he called
itt
a well as far as the horse culd hear
hini.Lawas Of the Meat Waliden.
Itis big bay horse but he'd go down o
It would lower him down.
I ain't sure but it seems to me he
called it Jack,
.He'd hook the bucket, jump in and
say, "Let rine down, Jack." And Jack
would back up and 'ewer him down.
He'd fill it and yell, °Jack, hoist up."
That was the way he'd dig a well
joat as far the horse coati hear his
shouts. -
I'm not sure whether that horse got
Poison in his two feet or whether he
bit a cartridge and got shot.
iLattg used to tell toe that a horse
was inore intelligent than the average
man.
Walking Off with 1,050 Pounds.
Once just after civil war, there was
a fellow by the name of William tang,
from Huron county. He was firing ort
the ferry boat , Port Huron to
Sarnia, .Captain Moffatt.
In those days Port Huron was just
Water street along the riverfront
There were two factions, at one and
the Catholic, at the other end the
Protestant.
John D. Cameron, of Brucefield,
was in the saloon one day, getting on
towards spring, drinking his schnapps,
when, looking out of the window, he
saw'a mud hook lined up on the dock.
So he said, "I can get a man to pick
it --up and carry it, Yes sir, I'll bet
twenty dollars that I can get a man
who will lift thatemud hook," -
He got a man but the man couldn't
tneee the mud hook.
So Captain Moffatt jumped down
the companionway of the ferry . boat.
Lang was in the bunk. "Billy," .Mof-
fatt shouted, "I wish you were only
four or five years older and I'd have
you go up and lift that mud hook and
save ,Cameron from losing his twenty
dollars."
The big kid pulled himself up out of
the bunk -he was only eighteen but
hig-and he said, "If you like, cap-
tain, I'll try."
"All right," said the captain. "Try
end move it, at leas!. If you move it,,
we'll cheer and maybe Cameron won't
lose his twenty dollars."
Lang turned the fluke, got tinder the
mud hook, raised it, walked fifty feet
with it and set it down.
How much did it weigh ? It weighed
'ten hunched aad fifty pounds,
Lang told me himself afterwards he
neVer got a mirtute's rest, He'd fall
take!). Then he'd leap two or three
f ett.
Picking up the mud hook was easy
"hough, he said, but letting. it dowe
mst twisted hine - to places. His
mtscles were so tight that he jumped
erten he fell eskap. •.
I knew Lang at shrty-two He WRS
salt block fer Dr, Coleman at Seeforth,
• He would roll three herrele of salt
on to the deck. ,
'He'd take one barrel and set it on
end, Then he'd take the second arid ,
lift it on top. The third he'd lift on '
top of that again.
The gross weight of eech bareel was
300 poencts.
itIe'd do that as easy as you weld
set that waste basket on top of the
eusoldor.
.It',Itere was 005 time he bet be could
throw 42 cubic feet of white oak 20
fee
He picked it up and threw it some.
thing over 30 odd feet
How remelt did it weigh ? Well fig-
ure it for youreelf. There is 60.poends
te a ctibie foot of water -and white
oak sinks in water.
Yes, I suppose so. That would
make over 2,500 pouede. That's whht
it make, isn't it 1 That's mhat he
threw ahem thirty feet.
Of'eourse, he didn't Say how he
would do it, He set it LIP horizontal
about the height of his shoulder. Then
he took a snap and shot it a heave
siciewaYS;
JohnGillingham was afterwards
killed by the explosion of a boiler.
His ordinary everyday work was to
bring in the wood to keep sleam itt
the boiler. '
When they got the boiler repaired
they had to get a horse and cart and
two men to do his everyday wark.
There was Philip 'Sipple, 1 -le and I
were raised in the same county,
Huron, tOle learned the black-
amithing. He blacksmithed, drank
whisky and minded his own
buainess for ao many years that he
aot to be a father in Israel,
'To show the respect he was held in,
the sheriff made him bailiff.
'Shortly after the Hensel' Observer
weat into liquidation. And the sheriff
sent his bailiff to seize the,Hoe print-
ing press for . the benefit of the
areditors.
The bailiff, being illiterate, thought
'o seize .was to carry away. -
tHe drove from Zurich to Hensall,
hacked his dray tip to the building
mid picked up the press. It ' wasn't
quite wide enough for both to go
through the door at once, They stuck
in the jamb, and the casting broke,
making the press a wreck.
A junk dealer had to 'come and
gather it up. 1Ole took it home and
weighed it. He had less than five
tons.
Anyone who doubts the veracity of
this ease may look up the court pro-
ceedings in Huron, the Hensall Ob-
server versus Philip 'Sipple.
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Snapped Tree Like a Match.
• When I was a kid there was a man
named ,Pete Geiger who had 'the repu-
tation of being a strong man. Tom
Sherritt was angther strong man. He'd
heard of Geiger and • wanted to try
conclusicens.
iSherritt was drivin,g along the road
one winter day when he meta big ,man
crossing the swamp with a wagon.
Looking him over; he thought he must
be 'Geiger.
"Good day. Are you. Mr. Geiger ?"
"By gees, yes, Pete Geiger,"
"I'm 'Tont .Sherritt, I've often heard
tell how strong you are. Let's see
wha's the strongest."
"All right," Pete said. `Set's see
'wlitis strongest oit the lazyeatialc."
.That meant they were to sit down
opposite, brace the soles of their feet
against one another and pull on a
"I'll soon get a stick," said Pete.
He walked into thee swamp -tile
ground was frozen very hard -and he
grabbed a little green rock elm. He
twisted it like a match and snapped it
in two over his knee.
He brought the piece over to Tom.
By this time Tom was tip and away
over the top of the hill.
Later, curiosity Made him steal back
when 'Geiger was gone and measure
the rock elm which 'Geiger had twist -
ad as if it was a mateh and then
broken over his knee.
It- was three and one-half inches
through.
* .
One time for a bet of ten dollars
this Geiger lifted a ten -horse Pitts
Power. It had a wheel as big as a
wagon wheel, geared with teeth, The
horses were put on to poles sticking
out, in five pairs.
Me picked that horse power up for
a bet of ten dollars.
Ile died about fortyafive.
When they went to get a coffin for
Mal, there wasn't one in the country
big enough for him.
When he was buried, they were
lowering him into the grave with the
straps they use for ordinary people.
Otte parted. He dropped down
head first.
He was a tremendous bulk of a
man.
Bigger than me? Was he 'bigger
than me ?I'm not a fly's wipe to that
man I
Although I was reckoned the best of
the whole darn bunch 1 (This with a
roll of the eve that showed he was
merely romancing.)
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•
In the oldeu .time 'when I ,w,as a
young fellor. ttp there in the 'teens
there were two brothers, William and
Jim McKinley, men over 200 pounds,
young and active:
One day they were at a barn raising.
The wall plate • was ten inched by
• ten, forty-five feet long -red beech.
They shoved it up over the bents,
Billy was at the far end.
'When it rolled, it rolled over, the tip
coming under the beam.
Bifly just reached down front where
he was standing, about a foot below
the level of his feet -reached down,
picked it up and raised it while the
rest moved it forward with pike poles.
All he had to stand on was it 10 by
10 inch 'beam.
It was than that his eye turned up
in his head, I don't think it was
anythiegeelse but the strain oi lifting,
That.' was in June. I did not see
him till September,
"33111," I said, 'hoer are you
feeling ?" •
"I'm all right except for my eye."
A cottole of years afterwards they
beried him.,
A Ton of Hay on His Back,
We 'Wad a min ttp there bythe name
of -John Gillingham. John fired the
liVRSPA
P
VARY 23,
900.
In the long ago we had a short
chunk of a {German, a 'bricklayer and
plasterer by the name of Casper
Weaver. His arras were as big as the
ordinary oak tree -oh, a tree that
would cut about 1,500 feet. His hands
were as. big as sides of bacon.
One day at a bee a man said to him,
"I think you are strong enough to put
yourself on your own shoulder,"
'So a Scotsman said, "I think that
the potash kettle would hold him."
Caaper got himself into the kettle
end he was picking himself up and
gutting himself en his shoulder when
he put his feet through the, bottom.
That was lifting on the sides.
You may imagine the 'shape he
was in.
It was, the regular old 45 -gallon
potash kettle. The bottom was niade
of seven-inch iron,
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Itt the early days in the county of
Middlesex, near Strathroy, there was
a man by the name of Joe Berryfield.
He framed barns.
One year, hay being very searce, he
took his horse and 'two -wheeled cart
and he went to one of the farmers
looking for hay.
The farmer said, "You can have as
much hay as you want to carry away
on your .back for half a dollar,"
So Joe got a' couple of poles and
laid them across. He loaded them eft
with ha. 'Then he aot underneath,
making a hole through -the hay through
which he stuck his head; He straight-
ened up and walked out of the barn.
!He looked at the hay when he got
hoine.
"Sy gee," he said, "I've got quite a
bundle of hey."
tHe. added it up and found he had
just 1,800 pounds.
"By gee,' he 'said, "I could have
carried thr other 200 pounds,"
TUCKERSMITH.
Miss Mary E.- McKenzie visited at
the home-ohlvIr. and Mrs, Jas. Allan a
few days last week.
Mrs. B. Johnson .and Fay were
guests of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Char-
ters one day last week. a •
Mr. and Mrs. Win. Wright visited
at the home. of Mr. J. Nichcolson on
Friday last. •
.. Hockey. -- On Saturday evening,
Feb. lath, e very exciting game of
hockey was played on the Palace
Rink, Seaforth, between the two old
rivals, the Brick Yard and the Mill
Road. The result of the game was 6-8
in favor of the Brick Yard. The
teams were equal in size hut the Mill
Road goal tender had an off night.
The winners played rings around the
Mill Road in the 'first two Periods,
scoring 6 goals to 1. The two Archi-
bald brothers played a wonderful
game and Sandy Doig in the fBrick
Yard goal was a star. He must have
had horse shoes hanging all around
him as it was impossible to .score on
!inn until the very last tninute, when
Nicholson got a nice goal from W.
McOartney's pass. The third period
Mill iltoad goalie changed pads with
his brother Wilson and the team came
out determined to overcome the spore.
There was some smart and fast hock-
ey in spasms. G, McCartney, scored
the first -goal front a pass of D. Mc-
Intosh. Following this came four
more goals in quick succession. But
Paul Doig, the Beiek Yard deienee
man, played a plucky battle all tfie
'way through. The .13rick ,Yard came
back playing nite combination, and
scored two more goals --Archibald and
Bo'h Tyndall, doing the 'trick. The
last goal for the Mill Road was
scored by R. • McGregor. The Mill
Road ' played a hard game and were
the best of losers. D. Reid ,refereed
the eame With satisfaction to bath
teams. Lineup: IBricic Yard -Goal,
S. Doig; defence, la. Doig, 13. Tyn-
dall; centre, Bin Archibald; Wings,
Bob Archibald, 'L. Coleinan.• Mill
Road -Goal, .G. McCaitney; defence,
T. McIntosh, . W. 'Wright; centre, . -D.
McIntosh; wings, A. Nicholson, W.
McCartney; sub, R. McGregor. •
Mr. John A. 'Murray attended the
annual meeting of the Western Farm -
,,it' Weather Insurance Mutual Co.,
of which he is agent, at Woodstock,
last week. The report of the auditors
showed a surplus of $1'80;579.88, with
insurance in force to the value of
$22365735, It haa been the com-
pany's experience that frequently In
the case of small dahlia the tost of
.eakine' the adjustment was greater
than the amount of the claim. In
some cases, agents had hen allowed
to valuate small losses rather than
send out the valuator from the head
.The directors are now con-
sidering the advieability of securing
the services of a man in each ,of the
countita where the company does bite -
'tress, who will .act as local valuator
when called tmon,..this man being pre-
feeirbly 'eel:edifier. • • ..
Mm, ,Cheeney. Who hAS been
visiting Mrs. A. McKean in Hamile
ton, 'has returned home.
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• KIPPER.
with Mr, and Mrs. I. Jarriostt. v
Nee Violet 13urleigh
isialtinegr fa/113,111.1Y, and mrs. Bert Allen, also Mr,
. McivEliwiangid.
entirtained company Wednes.
1.1M. Thomas Colson and
etany friends are glad to see her back ' day evening.
for a few days, sYcfniciaNI eaitlenLso, nadtetesnbdoerod tiheuec6hdaicykeerivepaie_
Miss Etta Jarrott of Toronto is a
ing of last week, and also put on the
Mr. Roy Butt of Seaforth 'is visite
Edgar, of the the village.
visitor at her home here.
his brothers, Thomas and
A number from -the village were play which the Londeaboro Presbyter -
'male during the intermissions of the
ing with
ieceerrregmigoriNleeilfaalvse.furnished the
present at the play in Iiensall on Fri -
music for the dance at Mr. Alt
day evening and all reported a very
Machan's last Wednesday evening,
hearty bine,
The Y.P.S. Was held on Friday ev- Femh•r.d Mrs, Herb. Toll and baby,
an
ening. The vice president had the
and Mr. Lorne 'Toll were guests at
chair. The Great Men of
Americathe hOine of Mr. and Mrs. Cliff Hal -
Whose Birthdays were in February
land on Monday evening of last week.
Miss Florence Watson visited her
friend, Miss Marie Rapson on 'Sunday
afternoori.
'There was a small attendance at
church on Sunday morning owing to
the cold, windy day. Rev. Mr. Abery
was -home and took charge of the
service, .
' The pupils of No, 7 school had a
holiday on Monday' owing to it being
such a cold, stormy day.
The Allah orchestra furnished the
music far the dance put on by the
"True Blues" in their hall in Walton
on Tuesday night of this week.
Mrs. IN= H. Knox visited her sis-
Were taken up. Mr. er .
gave a very interesting reading.
The play' erititled, "Wanted a
Wife," is being put on in St. An-
drew's United Church on Friday,
March 2red. This plaY is wen worth
Miss Jean Ivison has been visaing
seeing. a. .
her sister, Mrs. Reid Torrance, of
Goderich township.
'The Beaver Trail Rangers are hold-
ing a father and son banquet on
Thursday evening.
Miss Avery, teacher in Stanley No,
14 visited her parents at Mitchell,
over the week -end.
Mr. and Mrs. WilliamaHorney ab- "' ter, Mrs, Thomas Knox, on Friday
tended the funeral of Mr, Horney's
aunt at Elimville. lagTt
A large' number from Kippen at-
he Short Course girc-held theitended1d the Masonic "At Home in
Febrary meeting at the home of Miss
Hensel! hall on Wednesday evening
i:s::
and-even though it was a very wet day
Irene Ferris last Tuesday afternoon
there was a good attendance. The af-
MANLEY. ternoon was spent in quilting a lovely
quilt whith the girls had pieced. The
quilt consists of velvet, silk and satin
Patehes and the girls purpose selling
tickets, 10 cents aaticket or. 3 for 25
cents, anti whoever gets the lucky
number gets the quilt as -soon as pos-
sible after the tickets are sold, As
soon as the quilting was finished, the
-girls held the business part, after
which they partook of a dainty lunch,
and all went home feeling they had
spent an enjoyable afternoon.
Mr. Matt. Murray has returned
home from Detroit. Times are opt
so promising -in, the .eity itt present.
The many friends of Mrs. Thomas
McKay are pleased to learn that she
will soon be able to return to her
young family, .
ItcraeRagin, of Logan, was awarded
the contract of gravelling 200 rods „egf
Concession 113, McKillop, for 65,-aints
per yard. •
The happy baneh hayeeaW.ound up
their season's sport mai hope to have
it renewed again...an-other season,
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.•••ST. COLUMBAN.
Thomas Downey, of Detroit, is
visiting at the home of his parents,
Mr. and Mrs. M Downey, St. !Col-
lin -Man.
Miss Mary Malone entertained a
large number of the young people to
a social evening and dance last Friday.
Mr. and Mrs. John Shea, ofelvic-
Killop, were Sunday visitors with Mr.
and Mrs. Joseph Atkinson, of Hitt -
beet.
Mr. Joseph Doyle, of 'Detroit, was
here on Saturday attending the fun-
eral of his brother-in-law, 'Mr: Louis
Atkinson, of Seaforth. He spent
Snnday with his parents Mr. and Mrs.
Michael Doyle, of Hibliert, and other
relatives.
Mr. and Mrs, John Dalton and Mr.
Maurice Dalton, Hibbert, attended
the D'elaney4Bruxer marriage_ in Dub-
lin oti Monday and were guests at
the home of Mr. and Mrs. Tames
Delaney.
Mr. John L. Malone is teaming a
lot of first quality saw logs to Dub -
Int station, where they are to be load-
ed on traia for shipment to a Wood-
stock fire:I.-He receives a fancy price
-per thousand for them.
,Mr. and...elirs. John . Delaney and
family, •Ma.hhoseph =Delaney, Mr. and
Mrs. J. L Malone,Mr. and Mrs,
Frank IVIcQueld and Mr. and Mrs,
Joseph McQuaid evere all guests at
LONDESEORO. •
Miss Esther Lyon was in .Stratford
last week attending the funeral of
her friend, the late Mts. Marks,
-Mr. Stewart, of the township of
Grey, is visiting his friend, Mr. X.
• Millar.
Mrs. T. Millar 'entertained a num-
ber of friends to cards on Wednesday
evening last in honor of Mr, F. Gibbs,
who leaves for Briar Crest, 'Sask.,- on
Monday next..
Mr. Stewart Little and his uncle,
Mr. George Bruce, spent a few days
lag week. with Brussels friends.
Mr. and Mrs. C. Redden entertained
a number of the neighbors to a fowl
supper on !Wednesday last.'
Miss Jean Maines, who has been
visiting her home here, returned to
Chicago on Satiirday, accompanied by
Mrs. Maines and Miss Lizzie, who
will visit there till some time in May.
Mrs, Hooper, who has been visiting
her parents here. Mr. and Mrs, Risley,
teturned to her home in Woodhain on
Saturday last.
Mrs, Snell, of the parsonage, 'return-
ed home on Friday last, after a pleas-
ant visit -with her daughter in To-
ronto.
Mr. T. Moon is -spending the week
at his home here. ,
Mr. Jim Moon, -of Stephensville,
who has •been visiting friends here.
returned to his home on Saturday last.
Miss Gladys Grainger 'is spending
this week with her friend, Miss
•Y
the home of Mr. and lies. hames Del- '
(Too late her lest week.)
aney at the wedding of their daugh- Rev. 'Mr. 1-14wIcins, of Blyth, was a
ter Mary, to Mr. Louis Bruxer, .of visitor at • thd. home • of Mr, Realarfaa
McCrea on aonday last. •
Mr, Carman Moon is spending this
week in Clinton,
Miss 4sther Lyon is spending a few
•ditys at the home of her brother, Mr.
ne Lyon.
There were three carloads of cattle
and one of hogs shipped from the sta-
tMn here last week, IWIto says the
farmers aren't producing ?
Mr. Jas. ?Leper is in London this
McKillop, onlast Monday.
One ,of the' worst blizzards, and
snowstorms of theeavinter visited this
district during Saturday, Sunday and
1\fonday. It was intehsely cold all
during the three days -end was ear-
marked like an old timer. Between
the Government snow Mow and- the
heavy- snow fall It has left a lot of
the Highway in an impassable con-
dition. A lot of auto drivers had out
their distress signals on Sunday af-
ternoon and night Tt serves them
right,
HARLOCK, •
lir. and Mrs. Charles Parsons, also
Miss Amy, visited at the home of Mr.
and Mrs. Cliff Holland and family on
Wednesday evening. of last week.
Miss Marjorie 13lekell spent Satur-
day and Senday with her friends, Mr,
atd. Mrs, George WAR.
Miss Elizabeth Mills returned home
front Toronto Thursday, .
.A. Wa Beacom returned home
Thursday after attendhe ing tspring
tssizes at Tederich,
The Alert Club met at Bert Bea -
56111'5' Thurgday'evening, A splendid
.by all present,• .
Mrs, Darid..;Reitl spent. Tuesday -M-
emnon with her sister. Mrs. A. W.
week.
Mr. ,elei,.. Wills unloaded a car of
corn this week,
The chicken pie supper which was
held in the .Comenunity Hall on Tues-
day the 14th, was a decided success. A
splendid supper' was served by the
ladies. The play entitled "The Path
Across the Hill," was well rendered,
eaeh antl 411 taking their parte splen-
didly, Mr, Sid .Lee also Mndered two
excellent solos, and the Allen orches-
tra, which everyone likes to hear, did
exceedingly well. The receipts were
almost one hundred dollars, which will
be handed over to the treasurer of the
Ladies' Aid 'Society.
Mts. Will iFairseovice returned home
on Tuesday night after spending a
connle of weeks .with • 'Kitchener and
.New Dundee Heinle.
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