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The Wingham Advance Times, 1933-02-02, Page 4PAGE TOUR. THE WINGHAM ADVANCE -TIME$ 4rsday, F+ bxuar, :2 /93Zu kela eeteseSekeelleere See "l ;\!h:\d:Seesees .alas;:Wib\Neiseeesi sees:se \eJ!: I,C I'c Ie. IE 411M. Wee les 13 cents a word per insertion, with a minimum charge of 25c. ., m ra�reles erieseitaiieraierer 4 a iteareeseetee rrs\1 eetreeraelas reetragesse iareien ere ereersear er FOR SALE -Used Model B Ford Coach, mileage under 5000. Ban.. gain for quick sale. Apply Ad- vance -Tinges. FOR RENT OR SALE -5 114 acres of land, good house and barn. Ap- ply to Mrs. M. McCoy, B, Line, Wingham. FOR SALE—Very Special,. Bedroom Tables' Medicine .Cabinets, Towel Racks,. Bathroom Stools, Magazine Baskets, Ferneries, Bookstands, Radio and Phonograph Cabinets, at Factory Cost Prices. Brown Bros. & Co., Limited. FARM ANLL TOWN PROPERTY If you want to buy or rent, see T. Fells. HOUSE FOR SALE, CHEAP—Cot- tage, well decorated, furnace, hot and cold running water and all modernmodernconveniences, Apply to J. W. BUSHFIELD, Barrister, etc., Wingham, .Ontario. MATTRESSES — Special prices for remaking your old felt mattresses over like new including new cov- ering, $4.50 np. Feather beds clean- ed and made into sanitary mattress- es $3.50. All work kept separate. We call anywhere with no extra cost on above 'work, Modern Fea- ther &.Mattress Co,, P.O. Box 379, Goderich. UNUSUALLY GOOD FARM TO Rent, House with all modern con- with new i n e s . Barn 40x60 vee e e cement stabling. All land well .drained: A bargain to the right per- son. Elmer Wilkinson, Wingham. WANTED -50 Cords Hardwood, ' 4 foot long. Apply at : office in per- son. Brown Bros. Q. Co., Limited. CARD OF THANKS, Mr, E. W. Orvis and sons, George and Alvin, wish to thank all their neighbors and friends for their many kindnesses arid expressions of sym- pathy during their recent .sad be- reavement, also for loan of cars. CAI1D OF THANKS The family of the late Mrs. Wm. Baptist are exceedingly grateful for the kindness extended during eur re- cent sad bereavement also for the many beautiful floral tributes and the loan of cars, -✓jt Of Farm Stock and Implements Under a certain chattel mortgage -there will be offered for sale on Mon- day, February 6th, 1933, at 1 o'clock sharp, at Lot 9 in the 3rd Concession of the Township of Morris, the fol- lowing farm stock and implements Horses: 1 matched team of; brown mares, 1 general purpose mare, aged, 1 aged horse. Cattle: 1 red Durham cow 9 years old supposed to be in calf; 1 red Dur - AUCTION SALE HIGH SCHOOL PUPILS' ENTERTAINMENT (Continued from Page One) teachers, our gratitude cannot be made known in worde. The ';results of your endeavors lie in the next de- cade and it is our sincerest wish that your work may bear in us thea most worthy fru its You have given Us the highest ideals instilled ih • us the de- sire to live up to them and by -word and example .have striven to stren- gthen in us the moral stamina to ap- proach them, We would remind the graduates of future years that most of us do not realize the opportunities at our dis- posal in high school until those op- portunities are almost gone. Doubt- less less you have been told, there is no royal road to learning:. We graduat- es agree thoroughly with the state- might add that although nr.ent but we g the road to learning is travelled with no small difficulty, the student ex- periences immeasurable satisfaction at each success he attains, As we leave behind forever our high school life paths diverge, . each of us entering the, field which we hope to snake our life work. .7n the course we have, as it were, complet The new Ford was the last word in ed our general education. .A wise beauty, luxury and comfort and I ham cow' aged, supposed to be in calf;: 1. red Durham cow 8 years "old supposed to be in calf; 1 red.Dur- ham. cow aged, supposed to be in calf; 1 white Durham cow, 6 years old supposed to be in calf; 1 roan Durham cow 10 years old supposed to be ' in calf; 1 roan Durham cow aged supposed to . be in calf,.1 red Durham cow 4 years old, calf at foot, 1 white heifer 2 years old, 1 red hei- fer 2 years old, 2 roan steers 2 years old, 5 roan heifers rising -2 years,'2 roan steers rising 2 years, 5 calves rising 1 year, 2 young calves. Hogs: 2 brood sows, 1 Yorkshire sow with little of 6; 2 chunks about 150 lbs.; 17 chunks about 100 lbs:; 12 chunks about 50 lbs.. Sheep:10 Oxford ewes, 1 ram. Implements: 1 Massey -Harris 'bin- der, 7. ft. cut;1 Massey -Harris fer- tilizer 1 Massey -Harris steel ire drill; hay rake; 1 Massey -Harris mower, 6 ft. cut. 1 set of bobsleighs; 113 int- erest in steel roller; 13 interest in. l in plow, 1 walking t manure spreader; 1 w g p riding plow, 1` Massey -Harris culti- vator, 1 set 4 -section harrows, 1 set team:' harness, 1 set plow harness, 1 stone boat, 1 yelper, 1 Bain wagon, 1 gravel box; 1 turnip sower, 1 cutt- er, 1 top boggy, 1 Frost & Wood hayloader, 1 roller hayrack, 1 fanning mill, 1 smellier, Hav and Grain: A large quantity of hay; about 150 bus. of oats; about 75 b,us. of barley, about 150 bus, of turnips. 1 Ford Sedan. TERMS — CASH. DATED at Winehain Ontario, this first day of February, A.D. 1933. T. R. 1 ENNET T, Wingham, Ont., Auctioneer, WM. McMICHAEL , Wingliarn, Ont., i3ailiff. Isabell taught the boys scene basket- ball tactics while Russel gave the girls a few lessons in sprinting. It was Isabel who showed me ar- ound the school. I saw the new gym nesiuna and the science rooms,.: where Dimples Stewart was in charge. Oth- er members of the staff were Willie MacDonald and Anna Cbittick. All the staff were talking about Miss Hanani;ond's new book of French songs -all her own :composition. Last but not least, Herb Fuller was the newcaretaker and they told me that he used his little mouth -organ much more than he used his broom In 1955 the finest Ladies' Ready- to-wear Shop was down in Lower Wingham. Most ofthe lady employ- ees were very fond of their boss, Mr. Jack Herd, but the head clerk, Reta Hastie, was forever scolding him. I was astonished to learn that the stub haired giant in the hosiery depart- ment was none other than John Patti- son,'. One day on Josephine, Street I saw theq�iteerest looking trio.A tall dark gentleman •tva.s escorting two ladies down ''the street. On his right flut- tered a meek little shadow while on his left moved a very short stout woman. The .man was Bill Cruik- shanks, the wealthiest bachelor in Wingham: The stout lady was Nora Hiscoi who was determined to win. him, but Bill seemed to prefer Eva' Homuth, the other member of the trio: When the day carne to leave Wing - ham and return to Ireland, I took a street car to the Ford Building where I could get a bus to the air -port at Belgravc. This structure was the finest' in the city. Beautiful Ford models were displayed in the spacious strip#iig'af the top of his voice: This little ball of humor was Elgin Coutts. His orchestra was composed entirely of girls. He was delighted to see isne. Did he know where George :Ging was? Sure; after many futile at- tempts to gain the hand of Leah Robertson, he had gone to China to forget his woes. "Do yoatknow where ,Audrey Mc- Michael is now?" I asked Elgin. "Yes. She and Frances Currie have a reducing establishment down on 'longe Street," was the reply. We talked of Lloyd Henderson, the' Prime Minister in the Farmers' Gov- ernment at Ottawa, and of George' Wheeler, his Minister of Finance. I was sorry to saygood-bye to Elgin, but the boat train for Montreal left at 11 o'clock so I hurried over to the Union Station. There in my hurry I bumped into a tall gaunt man wielding a broom and long -handled dustpan. His , big blue eyes blinked and his huge gray moustache became active. Ella Rae' I heard and was so surprised that. I almost toppled over. Immediately' the moustache and broom seemed to disappear and the Alton Adams of High School days stood before me. What a chat we had. Alton had taken his children to a great circus.. two' weeks before. "You'll be interested in this," he said and pulled the circus programme fromhis pocket. "See here—Thomp- son's son's Super Circus—that's old Rae. And look at this, `Tarzan, the Ape" Man Act,' John Keine and his jungle princess, Blanche Weir. Then 'The world famous dancing partners, Vera Fry and Toin Wilson.' That was a good number. We saw The Midget show' rooms. One exhibit caught my Trio' too. See the names -_- - Grace eyes: a brand new 1955 Ford sedan Donaldson, Mary Dobie and and standing or rather, propped up Cather- ine Fry. beside it was a 1920 Ford touring. I was so interested in this circus manhas saidta that "to be well edu- cated cated is to know something about ev- erything and everything about some- thing." Perhaps we can not say that we know something about everything but in .our Matriculation curriculum we have learned something , about a great many subjects. As for learn- ing everything about something that should be our task in the future.' Whatever may be our particular.call- ing each of us should endeavor .to do our utmost in it. In this present age especially it is not only preferable, but it is almost necessary to be an expert in one's own sphere. . Howev- er, although in a few years we may be established in our career and per- haps considered very well qualified kr our position the time should nev- er come when we complacently say that our education is quite 'complete. "New occasions teach new duties, Time makes: ancient good uncouth, We must upward still and onward Who would keep abreast of truth." PROPHET'S ADDRESS B.y'Ella Rae Plow on, dear river! not alone flow To outward sight, and through marshes wind; Fed from the mystic springs of ago, Your twin flows silent through my world of mind. Reclining lazily on the verandah of a little Irish cottage overlooking the green Shannon this thought took me` back twenty-seven years to 1933. What gay faces, smiles of love and friendship, what happy times those words recall,..... The last time I saw Wingham was five years'ago, that is, in 1955. It had gone right ahead after he boom of 1940.' What interested a most was the beautiful new high school which you your long t m had been erected on the ruins of the old building; The interior of this Imagnificent structure had been dee-. orated after much quizzing and epees - have been must theol onem thoughtd g the first word. As I stood compar- ing them, along came the manager, Jim Weir; grown very fat since the old days. The old Ford was the one that used to bring him to school and take him, and as many;others as it would hold, home again. We had quite a chat.. Jim said that he once thought of marrying but he couldn't decided between Ida Kelly and : Corinne McLean. Consequently he remained single and ` employed both the girls in: his office. '"By the way", he said, " do you re- member Miss Carson, who used. to teach. history?" "Most certainly," I replied. "Well she was in here about a. week ago looking over the 1955 Force", con tinued Jim, "I bad quite a, time sell- ing her one but when I told her that, it was guaranteed to do. ninety-five she took it without hesitation. I heard later, that after she got. this speedy model, Mr. Bigelow always took the train home. As we walked -through the repair shop I almost fell over a pair of long, lanky legs which' were protruding, from under a carr. The owner scram- bled out awkwardly and there stood Carl McKay. Not far off two' other familiar looking men were working with another car. These'were Lyle Ludwig and Bruce, Scott. - Jim said that they were all excellent mechanics but Bruce had five grandchildren who insisted on coming around 'to. watch him work and hindered him very much. Of course I was anxious to know whom Bruce had married and you can imagine my surprise when Jim said, Donalda Fixter. In due time I boarded the aero- plane at Belgrave. My pilot was quite obviously a grouch since very attempt I made at conversation was dismissed by 'a rude shuffle of his number 11 shoes. Certain things about his per- son—large feet, pouting lips—seemed familiar to me so I was curious. On learning his name `I realized.it could have been no other—Jack Bracken - bury. It just occurred to me then that it was not the least bit unusual for him to be up in the air," We landed in Toronto about six o'clock', . on the roof of the newest Eaton. Building. I .hurried to the din- ing room -and was just in time to see and hear the new Neilson Chocolate "It is time your baby was christ- ened." "Yes, ,'es, yotrr but we .don't reverence; , know for certain which of his uncles has the most money.'' Dentist's wife: "Why do you n.pen t:17c door of the waiting room when' 3 sing?" Dentist:Dentist:. "I want to show other cli- eats that the noise is not made by the patient in the chair." tioning, by Jack Fortune. All the members of the staff were former students. George Brackenbury filled his father's old place as principal and taught all the French, His father had been able to retire in 1945 on the proceeds front the sale of scientific appartus for appropriately dealing with those who showed to great an incination to argue. Bruce Fox was there; he bad be- come so attached to the old school during the few short years that he .had spent there that he just had to come back. Be was earnestly striv- ing to impart his knowledge of Latin and Greek to the eager students. When 1 inquired about. Dell his ears turned a deep scarlet. Dell had left him flat as soon as he told her that he was going to settle down in Wingham; She had eloped with John Norman soon afterwards and the hap py couple were now living in Lang Singhani Hi side. High Sschool was still' g taking the honours at the field meets, due to the fact that it had two of ,the best P.T. teachers in the province, I. abel Fowler and Russel Barnard. Sometimes they traded places and that 'I almost forgot to ask' Alton who his, wife was. When I asked him I forgot he said "0, my goodness, g all about my little Gracie, Grace Ire- land, you know.". Just then a gentleman in uniform, that I' know was Ross Harrison, tou- ched Alton on the shoulder with a curt "A11 right, get' to world" and Alton reluctantly resumed his sweep- ing. Still thinking about .Alton and his boss, turned to the nearest book- stall and bought a copy of my favor- ite magazine, Travel Guide, 'produc- ed;by our old Journal Editor, Jack Pollock. Bernice Blake and June Bu- chanan were still his faithful hench- men. As I turned over the pages I learned that these two had just re- turned from a successful aeroplane journey over Africa with Marion Mitchell as their pilot. They were: collecting material for" a series' of travel articles. In this,'. their first in- stalment, they .had a good yarn to tell. One day'they arrived at a vill- age where the natives seemed to be very highly cultured and whom did they find in charge there but Miss McDonald and Miss. McGregor. Miss McDonald, after a long struggle, had filially given up all hope of ever tea- ching mathematics to the fifth form- ers because they wouldn't bring up their difficulties in class. 'When she decided to'go to` Africa, Miss'Mc- Gregor, who had experienced the same trouble at.: High School, readily joined her. Their devoted servant was none other than the good-natur- ed Norman' Hall. The natives asked a fine lot" of questions and readily grasped' Latin, Greek aid mathemat- ics. Weill Well! how a little group will scatter! A few more pages and I came upon the 'now familiar adver- tisement "These five wonderful books will quickly supply you with a good High School education. Just' a few minutes of interesting'reading every day or so, No tedious study; no lab- orious lessons. The set will be sent to you. without delay. Write for yours to -day to Miss Jean Webster, 31 Un- ion Square, New York. On the opposite page a little pic- ture of three' pretty middle-aged lad- ies attracted my attention. They all looked familiar and I was not long in discerning the features of Olive Tiffin, Agnes Louttit and Edna Jen - program over one of the finest tele- kins. Below the picture I read the p vision niodels produced. The master words: "Restore life and beauty to of ceremonies on this famous pro- faded blonde hair, Almost overnight gram was none other than the great your hair may be given a beautiful maestro,' fames • Thompson, assisted blonde tint by rising Tifloutki'ns' Got - by a . charming actress. Another den Hair Wash," blonde of course, ' By this time my train had been During dinner, a dark man near me made up and in my harry to get away let a glass of water- fall with a crash, the magazine fell the floor, face and there followed a flow of language down. When I looked down I not- that instantly, drew my attention. It iced on the back cover the picture was Scott Mitchell. The ,lady sitting across from me said that' Margaret 1VrcNeill, the famed 'opera singer, had refused to marry; him. and that he had beers living a life of moody reserve ever since, surprises a aired me At the ever p w Royal York. The orchestra —• one of Y the best jazz bands that t had ever, --was in charge of a chubbyon the verandah of my little Irish lteai•d g the eo� rant cottage that overlooks the greets fair chap who enlivenede p g g by turning cart -wheels, dancing, and Shannon, aper 11 0 q of a handsome man with beatitifully waved hair, 1 picked it op hastily and saw the advertisement; Specials in permanent waving by Canada's Master Hairdresser, Charles W. Coul- ter. My train carried me to Montreal_,.,. ag r•eat boat brought me to Cork -- 'musing and here I am, in 1960, idly 'r t g Wall Paper o IIOur Big Senii•Annwal Sale of Wall Papers Starts.; Satur., Feb. 5th. ioi and continues all the next week.1 This is not for the purpose of clearing out a few odd patterns. Come in and you will find a wonderful display ofpatterns from low-priced kitchen pa- pers g P r -nit to buy to the best quality living room papers.. This is your opportunity y goodbefore --Come in and see for quality:'papers at a price. lower than ever yourself. Buy. 1 Roll at Regular Price Lot No. 1 Regular 121/2c Roll. Kitchen and Bedrooms in a variety of patterns. 2 for13c1/2 Lot No. 4 , Regular 35c Roll. 0 Sunworthy Patterns, suit ,m.., able' for any room in the, 0 house. 2 for 36c - Every 2nd Roll lc ri Lot No. 2 Regular 18c Roll. Better quality kitchen and dainty bed room papers. 2 for 19c Lot N. 5 Regular 50c Roll. Better quality Sunworthy pat- terns, including many 30 inch. designs. 2 for 51c Lot No. 3 Regular 25c Roll. Beautiful Colorings, suit- able for Bed Rooms and Living Rooms. 2 for 26c Lot No. 6 Bundle Lots Special values. Enough for only one room. HALF PRICE And LESS. If you are planning to decorateyou; your rooms this Spring, why not ask us toquote our special price to do the work during February. ri Good Work at Moderate Prices. Elmer Wilkinson, Decorator o. 5 11 A LETTER FROM THE SUNNY SOUTH St. Petersburg, Florida, January 22, 1933 The Advance -Times, Wingham, Ontaroio. Dear Boys: I told you I would drop you a line• so I am going to be as good asmy word. We are sitting here in the house with all the windows and doors open, it is just '79. We have not had very mtich .rain this winter, I think it has just rained twice since we ar- rived, we have, however, some . very heavy dews and of 'course these help to take the place of rain. There are, lots of strawberries 20c per qt., green peas 5c lb., beets, radishes, onions; carrots 5c a bunch, sweet potatoes. 60c bus., oranges 40c bus., grape fruit 30c bus., and which are very large, 7 will fill an ordinary pail, The roses and flowers are all out in full bloom, the same as they are at home in June and July, they certainly look very nice: You can • go in bathing . the gulf ev- ery day if you have the time or go fishing, for there are all kinds of fish caught here. There are about 25% more peoplehere this year than last and living I. would say is 25% cheap- er, a good dinner for 25c, the best for 50c; rent for furnished apartments from $10.00 a month up, a good house can be had for $20.00 per month, They have about the same number bowling as they have had other years. Our membership is 201, and we ex- pect it will run to 275, at $10.00 per member you _can see they handle a lot of money. We start the open tournament the 6th of Febtirary. A lot of bowlers are here from Toronto The rink that won the D. 13. T. at Toronto are here. Fred Wilkinson and Wm Taylor of Owen Sound came in last week, and a few are here from Kitchener, London, Lindsay and King ston and Windsor, There was a con- cert put on in the park last Thursday' evening, it was dedicated to the Lawn Bowlers. It, went over big, they had between ten and twelve thousand peo ple there. I` am enclosing :a program of the same. You will notice they have Kenneth down for a Highland fling, he was a pupil of Mrs. Van- .earyck of town. Our president told thein how the game was played. As you know there are thousands of peo- ple here that have never seen it play- ed. It started as far back as 1200, that was something 1 did not know. I guess I have given you all the news, ,hoping you are all having a good winter at home and not too much flu. I remain, Yours truly, A. M. Crawford. Alex. Won, Irish Trebles • St. Petersbttrg, dada. — The 'lawn bowlers in tournament evente here observed Robert Burns' anniversary, always an outsanding event here. A- bout 150 bowlers took part in the e- vent, which covered a period of two days and proved to be a wonderful demonstration of international good- will, A comprehensive program of Scotch games was arranged. In the bowling game of Irish trebles, scored on the points system, first prize -went to the rink skipped by 'Alex. M. Crawford of Wingham, Ont., while Kenneth won generous recognition by his per- fot itance of Highland dances in full costume. ENTERTAIN KORAN FARMERS' CLUB Fortner Wingham Couple Entertain i armers' Club at Korah. Korah—The Korah Farmers' Club held their regular, meeting Monday night at the borne of Mr ,and Mrs, James Elliott, and as it is the season of not much business doing for the els.tb, the members just ,resigned themselves, to the cheerful hospital's ity of .Mr. and Mrs. Elliott and a most enjoyable social • evening was - the result. At the lunch hour several of the ladies assisted 'errs. Elliott in serv- ing an excellent repast, to which the appetites, sharpened by the chilly drive,dill ample justice. It was just thirty-one years ago to the day that Mr. Elliott landed in Korah, and re- miniscences became the order of the evening. Mr.. James Elliott arrived in Korah. in January 1902, with his brother,. Frank and Fred and Billy- Walters, built a 12 _x 18 foot log shanty on the hill side, and lived there all that winter, cutting a few hundred cords of wood for exercise. They had pre- viously lived at Wingham, Ont.; for 28 years, where they operated a birck plant, coining there from Devonshire, Eng. Mr, C. Elliott, Bluevale Road, acid Mr. Wm. Elliott, Glenanu ,n, are re- latives of Mr ,and Mrs. Jas. Elliott mentioned in the above article. DIED DYER—In Strathcona Hospital, To- ronto, on Wednesday, Feb. 1, 1983, at 10;30 in the morning, Miss Zella Dyer, formerly of Auburn, and dau- ghter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Mar•. tin Dyer. The funeral will beheld from the Presbyterian Church, Au- burn, at 2 p.ni;, on Friday, Feb. 3. Interment in Auburn Cemetery, "My tette in Venice is sending ine a gondola. How ani I going to play' it?" "You don't play 'a gondola;; you throw it over your: shoulder like a shawl." An irritable old woman stood next a very fat man in a train car,' "Stop pushing, can't You?" erelaim, - ed the woman, suddenly. -"I'm sorry," replied the maxi, wasn't pushing. ' Ji only sighed:"