The Wingham Advance Times, 1933-11-16, Page 2tAG TWO
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NOMINATIONS NOVEMBER 27
The Proclamation calling a meeting'
of the lectors of this town for the
purpose of receiving; nominations for
Mayor, Reeve, Council, a Commis
signer and Public School Trustees,
has been issued. Nominations will be
held from 7.30 to 8.30 on the evening
of Monday, November 27th, after
which the candidates will address the
meeting:
There has been little election task
this year and regardless of whether,
many nominations are received, it is
wise thing for the electors to be
present at this meeting as it gives
those who have been in office an op-
portunity to tell about their steward-
ship and to explain first-hand the
business that has. been transacted dur-
ing the year.
H the electorsdo not turn out in
large numbers and hear these speak-
ers much is left to hearsay, which is
not a healthy condition.
Be on hand at the nomination meet-
ing and get your information first-
hand.
LETTER FROM A MAN
OF 99
About His Rheumatism
I --Ie asks us to excuse his writing.
We do more than that—we congrat-
ulate hint on being Bible to write at
all at his age, especially as he has
been suffering from rheumatism. This
is what he says in his letter;—
"Three years ago I was in bed for
six weeks with inflammatory rheum-
atism, Since that time I have been
taking Kruschen Salts, and have not
had another attack. But my .hands are
still somewhat stiff. I take Kruschen
every morning before breakfast, and
shall continue to do so, because I
am sure it has kept me in good shape
for three years. Excuse this writing,
as I am ninety years old, and use
both hands to write."—J. R. G.
Kruschen dissolves away those.
needle -pointed crystals of uric acid
which are the cause of all rheumatic
troubles. It will also flush -these dis
solved crystals clean out of the sys-
tem. Then if you keep up "the little
daily dose," excess uric acid will nev-
er form again.
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The heavy snowfall during the last
week has given some of the weather
prophets a chance to say "I told you.
sol,,
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Fioretto H. LaGuardia, newly el-
ected Mayor of New York, crushed
the Tammany candidate. His name
has the sound of dictatorship but tune
will tell how strong he really is.
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The latest method to get rid of
mosquitos is an electrical death -ray.
What strides science makes these
days.
F is*
It is said that many places in the
United States are not waiting for the
repeal of prohibition, but are openly
selling liquor. The authorities will
now have the, job of forming a Iiquor
law to suit everybody.
y;
Each day of the Royal Winter
Fair this year will be named after
the different provinces. This is an
appropriate idea as the exhibits from
every province are great attractions.
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Now that the four Toronto detect-
ive sergeants charged with shooting
with intent to do grievous bodily
harm to Albert Dorland and Wm.
Toohey, are free of this charge, little
more will be heard of this case. The
newspapers surely played it for all it
was worth and now that it is placed
in the archives, may it rest in peace.
* >Y * 8:
All Canada will be pulling for the
recovery of Sir Arthur Currie. The
messages of encouragement sent him
by many returned soldiers' organiza-
tions was a signal honor well deserv-
ed.
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The Mayorality
Thomas may bring out six candidat-
es. Municipal " politics there guest be
taken very seriously and that is how
they should be taken,
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The Canadian dollar is once more
at par in the United States. What a
great many people cannot understand
is why our dollar suffered such a sev-
ere discount for so long a period,
*
Someone took a ,$340 diamond ring
from the hand of a dead girl who
e
crash. Ther
highway
was killed in a
rare still some low-down people in the
word, -tui theok goodness there are
few of this type," ;•M
Mae West's latest picture asserts
"I'm No Angel' but then how could
:slie be after "I Done Him Vwri`ong,"-
I<iticardine Review -Reporter.
REMINISCENCES
By An Old Tinier.
(Continued . from Last Week)
East of the flour, and woollen mills
on. Helena Street was Archie Fisher's
saw -mill and the lumber yard, occu-
pying several acres. There 1' have
seen pile after pile of saw logs which
were brought by the farmers during
the winter to sell or to be sawn into
limber for their own use. The saw-
dust from the mill was . dumped into
the river, and, drifting down the main
stream formed small banks along the
river's edge. In two or three years
these banks would be covered With
purple iris or flags adding much to
the beauty of the river but the saw-
dust drove the speckled trout from
the stream.
The southern branch of the river
was deep but rose only a few miles
from the village. On the southern or
lower bank was Green's Prairie—an.
ideal picnic ground where oak and
butternut trees grew, with willows
dipping into the stream, where red
and mauve bergamot dotted the prair-
ie grass, and to whichepicureans has-
ted in the early September mornings
to gather mushrooms. Here yellow
and white water lilies floated near,
the bank, for this branchwas sing-
gish and the river bottom of rich
black loam unlike the stoney bed of
the more swiftly flowing main stream
which it joined just east of the saw-
"Opposite Greeri s prairie on Victor-
ia St., were houses whose gardens ran
down to the water edge; Jas. Shrig-
ley's, Dr. Sloan's, Jos. Nichol's dwell-
ing and carpenter shop, and 'a cooper
shop and dwelling belonging to one,
Shaw. These belonged to Upper
Town. • Next to these was Scott St.,
which ran diagonally from Victoria
Street to the Gravel Road toward
Belgrave. On opposite sides of this
Street were Ritchie's house and wa-
gon shop. From Scott Street Vic-
toria sloped toward Josephine St. On
the south side was "Newlove's cobbler
shop and "a number- of dwellings af-
terward turned into stores, with Fol-
,* ey's Tavern on the corner of Jose -
Contest in St. phine and Victoria streets and facing
small dwelling houses, ther inn
afterward replaced by the Commerc-
ial end Price's General Store, The
Storekeepers o diose,,, dilyyx 1iyed;,,C)fi.
the premises.i/Beyond k'rise's store,
'wgliere the first railway crossed Jo-
sephine Street, was the village cem-
etery which finest have been started
about 1866, for in '65 my baby sister
was buried- in Reid's grave -yard ten
miles from, the village but in '68 there
were quite a number of graves in the
cemetery and I remember that wheat
was growing on the western half of
the grave -yard, and across Josephine
Street up the eastern hill were fields
of grain owned by the Cornyn family,
who sold their land in town lots. 1
think the site of the present cemet-
ery was chosen in '79 and later the
graves were znoved to it from the old
grave -yard -
Ot Lower 'Winghan►-the original-
ly surveyed townsite—I am told that
nothing now remains, but in the six-
ties it was quite a busy mart. Close,
to the bridge on the east side of,Hel-
ena Street stood Peter Fisher's grist
mill and woolen factory, next to this
a '.road on the Fisher property ran
across the mill race to Archie Fish-
er's ';saw mill. Across this road ! on
Helena Street was Peter Fisher's
hotne and the drying ground, where
yards and yards of flannel were
stretched ontenter hooks to dry.
Next to the yard was Bailey's Car-
penter shop, Kirby's Bakery (later
Peter Liinklater's, grocery) and next
to it was Thom's general store. On
the corner was Geo. Green's • general
store. „At one time,.: but not for long,
when Miss Kate Fisher • first became.
deputy postmistress, the post office
was kept in the store afterward oc-
cupied by Mr. Thorn, the Misses
Fisher also kept a toy, book and sta-
tionery business there, Afterward the
post office was moved to the corner
of Victoria and Leopold Streets, op-
posite Jas. Shrigley's houses George
Green built a hotel on the corner of
lVlcIntosh Street opposite his store.
.North of this hotel was the cottage
where Mrs. Spence the first assistant
teacher lived and the first house oc-
cupied by MacGregor, the tailor.
Then carne a double house occupied
by the Baptist minister and Mr.
Woodland who rented—guy father's
store. Beyond was the first Baptist
church. I believe it was the first
church in Winghan
ir-Ort the west side of Helena Street
Vaudeville singer: ".. A,nd for Bonnie
Annie :Laurie I'd lay me down and
die."
Listener (rising) i . Laurie
itr the aduien ce?"
"Is Miss
Her BACKACHES
have
GONE!
�**kizi ahtzre
relief w
e titsasfives
"Vont- splendid
c
remedy' acted like a
tonic tbnt
Y entire
[re
-"' gyaten►. X can G be-
gin to tell what i auffered from backaches due
to kidney derangement.. When 1 would bend
down It teemed that X couldn't straighten en
fro the same cane, isyr,sick lieada
in a wgesrk steinach rrtide nio feel ir•erf etlyt
Nhan
ow tks to your wonderfuf
V, e Ito enioi'ing life agElw
again. X wan continually awalxn-ed at it h
in
it
a
jalap into some of the :apples on the
trees ---there followed an epidemic
among the boys of the village.
There was a spring of beautiful
cold water in the river bank opposite
the orchard gate, We called it the
"Spring which is at the; gate of Beth-
lehem". The first Baptist manse was.
built on the hill south of this orch-
ard. Peter Fisher's family lived in
the manse after their horse and stills
were bruned in 1874.
Further east was Arthur Street
with Graetne's bridge crossing the
river to Victoria Street. This street
skirted Green's Prairie and on it. liv-
ed people named Wright, Cooper,
Hartt, Netterfield and several of the
Green family. Between Graeme's
Bridge and Helena Street on McIn-
tosh Street lived the Johnstons, Fos-
ters, Cruthers (or Carruthers) and
Bruce families with blacksmith, wa-
gon .and cooper shops.
The first bridge was probably, the
one "near Gregory's Mill on the Gra-
vel ' Road north of the town. The
bridge that was on McIntosh Street
must have been there when we arriv-
ed in '63. It was rebuilt twice before.
1879. I do not think it was ever en-
tirely carried away by a flood, altho'
if either clam broke it received the
full force of the torrent.
Graeme's Bridge on Arthur Street
was built later. 'when, as frequently
happened, the bridge at :Fisher's Mill,
was put out of commission by a
flood, Graeme's bridge 'carried all the
traffic from the west side. The skel-
eton of this bridge hung over the
stream for years despite numerous
spring floods,
Continued'.` Next Week,
A northern farm-hand went to work
for a Texas rancher. There had been
an unusually long drought in the reg-
ion and everyone on the ranch was
hoping for rain. One day it did start
to sprinkle, and the farm-hand, to
show his delight, proceeded to dance
in the rain. •
"Come in out of that rant!" the
rancher shouted.
"Oh, I don't mind these few drops,"
replied the man. '
"Who cares about . that?" bellowed
the rancher. "We want every bit of
•
that rain to fall on Texas."
beginning at the, bridge was my fa-
ther's kitch-
en
store, adjoiningthei
trier s and
R
en garden was the inn driving -shed
for the convenience of farmers, with
an outside stair leading to a hall
above. Then came the inn with a
undersame roof.
grocery store the sa
The inn belonged to Robert Eddie.
He kept the grocery store and rent
ecl the inn to Mr, Copeland. Mr..
Copeland .had several fine looking.
daughters one of whom married Mr.
Thomas Gregory, brother_ of John
Gregory who built the mill at the up-
per dam. Next to Eadie's store was
a general store rented by Mr. Lainp-
bell of Luck -now and managed by Jas.
Maguire. Mr. Fraser owned the
building and lived . in the dive'-iing-
part. behind. Laclde McLean, the
foreman of the sawmill, lived in this
house before he built his ewn house
further up Helena St., and later Mr.
Mathieson, foreman of Peter Fisher's
woollen mill lived there. A. store ancl
dwelling, next to this house was 'burn-
ed in 1864, Stewart's store and nta-
thieson's woolien milis were built on
th'e site. Neat to these was a stre
That must have been a continuation
of Victori.t Street for it was not in
lii,e with I•fcfn'.osh Street which was
crooked, cause 3 probatey by the
building of Fisher's dam. This street
led west past the Market Square (al-
so called Victoria Square) across a
small creek, and beyond were houses
surrounded by good gardens where.
lived the Campbell's, Turnbulls, Ru-
therfords,
Zile s
h lei
P ri ens � ,
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pp ,
Netterfields, Grahams and Fairweath-
ers.
To continue north or Helena St,,
beyondn mill on
the cor-
ner o
I
lVathiesa s
stood the
home of C
girth e shoe-
maker and a space • further on was
Bolton's house, in a piece of tnarslty
land beside the creek—a fearsome
looking place -too tall for its site,
built on.. stilts, for fear of floods—I
am sure any flood would have car-
ried it away. Mr, Bolton was an En-
glishman, Disgusted •rvith the cold of
Canada, lie moved to Chicago and
was drowned while teaching his boys
to swim just before the great Chi-
cago fire.
Beyond the creek was Flack's tan-
nery, with a tiny dam and several
dwellings further on Here Helena
Street seemed to lost; itself among
park lots but by following devious
corduroy roads one carne in sight of
Gregory's mill (flour'), In the middle
70's this mill passed into the hands
of a Mr. Ilarnitoir.
a
On the hill south of the bridge on
Helen Street, were the bosses of Ar-
chie Fisher and old Mts. Sit/mete. To
tihe east along Maitland street were
a, number of lots facing the river, One.
esl these was our orchard. (We never
had arty fruit frons it unless we pick-
ed it green. Once someone ittjccted
the former, later enlarged to hotel-
size, and owned by Silas Griffin who
sold to Mr. Macintosh. ,
On the north side of Victoria St.
were, Barelay's tailor shop, Lang -
dale's watch maker's shop (where the
first telegraph office was opened),
Money's tinshop, Risdon's Shoemak-
ing shop and on the corner opposite
Griffin's was Sextus Kent's general.
store. This was really "Kent and
Styles" but Mr. Styles, who had mar-
iecL Mr. Kent's eldest daughter, died
in the sixties leaving a son, Arthur. A
younger daughter married. Ben Wil-
son, the banker. Ted Kent, the eld-
est son married Maggie Griffin, `• A
younger son, Charles, came to Wing -
ham later;
In those days there were no build-
ings on the east side of 'Josephine
Street (also called Main Street). A
swale began at the Diagonal Road,
extended south past Victoria Street
on toward Bluevale. Jas: Graham's
blacksmith shop and dwelling stood
at the north end of the swale far be-
low the level of Josephine Street.
(Jas. Graham's eldest daughter,
Charlotte, married Wm. Mclndoo),
When the first stores were built on
that side of the street their back
doors were ten feet or more fromthe
ground and water stood all sunlriter
in their back yarde.
The Royal Hotel was later built at
the corner of the Diagonal' Road and
Josephine Street by Lewis John
Brace, who also built and lived in
the .first house north" el the north
branch of the river, i near the
bridge
e
on the Teeswat.crroad. Mr, McKen-
zie from Goderich, afterward lured
there. On the west side of Josephine
Street, north of .Kent's ' store Was
Warren's st6re, itis with a driving
shed with a hall over' the 8111'ci (the
whole being under one roof), some
One the
largest cargoes of
O e ofg
lumber shipped from Saint Tohn
on the Canadian Atlantic sea coast
was forwarded to Great Britain
recently. It " consisted of 3,043,-
596 feet, mostly of deals.
Output of nickel
nada in
iaCa
1932 totalled. "30,327,968 pounds
valued at $7,179,862.. Production
during the first six months of 1933
amounted to 22,802,434 pounds -is
compared with 21,162,786 pounds
for the corresponding period of
1932.
Every home at some future date
will have "air conditioning" and
the word "heating" will pass out
of use among home owners, J. J. -
Donovan, General Electric Com-
pany expert, told a largely -at-
tended meeting of the Electrical
Club at the Royal York hotel, To-
ronto, recently.
Steep - grades of the Rocky
Mountain areas presented no dif-
ficulty to the Royal Scot, crack
British flyer, en route to Winni-
peg and the east from Vancouver
recently. The all -British train is
attracting great popular enthu-
siasm throughout Canada on its
return journey to Montreal.
Montreal's "million rdoilar hole"
on Dorchester street, where a rail-
waY terminal was to have been
built, will become the world's
most costly sunken garden, if
Canada sees eye to eye with a
couple of Montreal aldermen who
advocate beautifying the gash.
with flowers and shrubs.
Canadian Pacific employees un-
der 21 and minor sons of em-
ployees are again offered the op-
portunity of twoni est of
Montreal scholarships, by ootnpe-
titive ,examination, according to
an announcement by Grant Hall,
senior vice-president of the com-
pany. Applieants have until May 1,
1934, application.
to make a lication
Twenty-one months of training
in 'a recognized shop, junior ma-
triculation or its equivalent and a
course in, an academy to be estab-
lished in Toronto is the ordeal for
novices for Ontario registration as
barbers and hairdressers, it was
stated at a meeting of tonsorial
arbiters at the Royal York hotel,
Toronto, recently.
Five ports, hitherto net On the
Schedule of ''world cruise liners
have been added to the 1934
itinerary of the Canadian Pa
oific liner Emprees of Britain
when she leaves New York,
January 4 next. They are Sema
rang, Java; '.Boeleleng and Padang
Bay, Island of Bali; Pohang,
Straits Settlements; and Zambo-
anga, in the Sulu Archipelago.
In, making a chel e between,.
transportation by rail and byroad,
Shippers should consider what the
railroads are doing and have Acme
for their advantage, G. G. Om.
manner, develoInnent commis-
sioner, Canadian Pacific Rahway,
told the Rotary Club of Lyndbn.-
ville, Vt., recently: Ile cited inaity
eases where the rallwaat had f lrs't
Invontotxedr tires developed the
Thursday, Nov. 16th, 1933
PENSION YOLRS1.
$9.55 per month saved from
o
age 30 will provide a pension of
-50 per month for life at age 65.
Annual dividends may be used
to reduc t e' rein ain
eh p �n�py
period or increase the pension.
Pensions can also start at 5a s 55 or 60.
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TIM ON ONE-
MAN GOVERNMENT
To the. Editur av all thine,
Winghani paypers.
Deer Sur:-
Fifteen years ago lasht Saturday
the Paice Thraity wus soigued, which
accordin to Presidia Wilson av the
Unoited Shtates, wus to kape the
wirrruld safe fer. dimockracy, imitate
that the common payple in iviry coun-
thry wus to hev the runniin av tints
from that toirne, but a lot av tings
don't wurruk, out the way feilahs in-
tind thim to do, an the Pelee Thr City
is wan av thin.
Inshtid av kaipiri the wnrrulcl safe
fer dimockracy i tis kapin it safe from
dimockracy, which is a diffrunt ting.
altogether, so it is. How much hev
the common payple to say about tings
in Italy, fer 'inslrtance, wheer Mus-
solina is the big boss, arr in Germany
wid Hitler as the head serang, arr in
Rosshia wid thim Bolshies taking
turns at the whale,. arr in India, arr
in Turkey arr Shpain, arr in almoslit
anny counthry ye cud minshun.? Aven
in the Shtates Prisident Roosevelt is
throyin to kape tings safe fer the
Dinimycrats, be rayson av shwinging
a .bag shtick called N.I.R.A_ over the
heads av the payple, so that half the
mothers in the counthry do be callin
theeir baby girruls Nira.
`
Yis, an in Canada Mishter Binnitt
tt
runnin tings to plain hinsilf, wid-
out askin wan wurrud av advoice from
Jarge Shpotton arr Charley Robert
son arr anny av the other laidin pole
l 3Ttishans av the counthry.
Rernirober I ant not afther sayin
Evan wurrud agin this wanman i;ov-.
ernmint oidea, fer mebbY 'tis bet'iher
so. Governmint by the payple, an fer
the payple an wid the payple sounds
party well in, a spaicli, but wud nivir
'gurruk in thiscounthry wheer Grits
an t,7,F,O,'s an C,C•F.'s art avert
min, hev the same roight to.vote as
good Tory rain. Mishter Binnitt wus
roight to take the law into his own
Bands, an not be afther lettin iviry
1'om, Dick an Harry, aver in the
Tory earthy, dip in tlieer shpoons in
the same dish wid him.
Fury shwarm av bees musht hev a
quane bee at the head av thim, arr
they wud soon shtop gatherin honey,
so they wud, an iviry flock av woilil
geese' floyin Nort arr Sout always hev
some woise ould gander ,who knpws
the way, in the lade,
Mebby this town wud be betther
wid wan good man runnin it, but I
heven't quoite tought the matther out
yit.
Yours till nixt wake,
Timothy Hay.
HITLER POLICY
IS SUSTAINED
D
Berlin—The most tremendous vote
in the history of the German repub-
lic piled up as returns poured in giv-
ing Chancellor Adolf Hitler and his
Nazi policies an unchallenged victory
at the polls.
Returns ore Sunday's Reichstag el-
ections and the plebiscite vote gave
Hitler's followers practically a unan-
imous victory and placed the people's
seal of approval on the chancellor's
withdrawal from the League of Na-
tions and the Geneva Arms parley.
The final official count showed the
following retuns:
Plebescite—
Votes cast 43439,,
Yes 40,588,804046
No 2,100,1:81
Invalid 750,061
Reichstag deputies—
Votes cast 42,975,009
For Nazis 39,626,647 ".
Invalid 3,348,362
The plebescite results represented
nearly 97 per cent. of the total elec-
torate in the Reich, and in the Reich-
stag vote, 96 per cent. of the total
voters eligible—a showing which even
Hitler and his followers had not ex-
pected.
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