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The Wingham Advance Times, 1933-11-30, Page 2PAGE TWO THE WIN •HAM ADVANCE - ES Thursday, Nov. 30th, The Wingham Advance -Times Published at WINGHAM' - ONTARIO Every Thursday Morning by The AdvanceeTimes Publishing Co. Subscription Rate --* One Year $2.00 Six months, $1.00 in advance To U. S. A,, $2.50 per year. Foreign rate.. $3.00 per year, Advertising rates On application. EDITORIAL ONE ETAOIN 56433•,. VETERANS' PENSIONS That there is a .determined effort. on the part of `the powers that be' in Ottawa to cut the pensions of the veterans seems to be an established fact. There is no argument against the fact that these last few years have been such that those in power are grasping at every idea imaginable to cut expenses and increase revenue, so that they may balance their budget. It would seem to us, however, that any government that would take this means of reducing their expenditures is acting in a manner most unfair to the disabled veterans. It is said that time is a great healer and thismust be so. Fifteen years have passed since the great war came to a close when the'. sick, the maimed, accompanied by those who were supposed to be Al category, came marching borne. It is impossible to estimate the suffering and the loss sustained by even those who returned as fit. As a gesture of goodwill and as a mark of apprecia- tion the present pension system was set up as a means of paying in part the veteran for his disability. Now it is proposed to cut these small pen- sion he receives. As the years go by the sacrifices and the services of the soldiers during those terrible war years, are gradually being forgotten or underestimated. The pruning knife of- the govern- ment should not be trained, on the pensions of the veterans. * .* Just Twenty -One more shopping days until Xmas. * To see all the ground covered with snow so, early reminds us of the old pun "snow matter." * • * .* * Make your Xmas a truly happy.one this year by helping someone who is not so fortunate as you. * * * * A Judge at Hamilton made the re- mark that "Education is not a neces- sity." He never could have been a judge if his parents had thought that also. • * * * ' John Ringling, the Circus King, says he is broke, It was estimated that at one time he was worth $100,- 000,000. It looks like the more you have the more you lose. * * * * Doris Duke is America's richest girl` as she received $30,000,000 from her father, 'a tobacco magnate. Con- traryto the usual custom, it was .a case of the more fire, .the greater the wealth. * k * * The Royal Winter Fair ,has once again conte to. 'a successful conclusion. If one reads closely the reports he will find that there were cattle, sheep, horses, etc., exhibited. * * * * Hugh S. Johnson says that the N. R. A. results so far are a. "seventh wonder of the world". We are incline YOUR LIVER'S MAKING YOU FEEL OUT OF SORTS Wake up your Liver Bile —No Calomel needed when you feel blue, depressed NOW en the' world, that'd your liver which isn't pouring itt daily two pounds of liquid bile into your bowels. ti are b • slowed Digestion and elimination erhC , lip, food is accumulating and decaying inside you and making you feel wretched. Mere bowel -movers like salts, oil, miners water, laxative candy or chewing gum, or roughage, don't go far enough. You need a liver stimulant Carter's Little. Liver Pills ie the best one. Safe. Purely vvet table, Sure, Ask for them by name. substitutes. 25o. at all druggists. 63 AFORE PLAC 4 YOUPORDER PHON US FOR PRICES Look The for riga The w n. o f r '- Mop! UaIity ed to think that if the N, R. A. does. one-half of that which it was suppos- ed to do it •should be placed in that cite„ tory, * * * * The men in the northern bush went on strike. It is said that the Reds were responsible. If that is the 'case Canada is having a tough break as in England Russia is stealing our lum- ber business and at home the Reds are seeking to create trouble * , * * * At the Banking Probe in Washing- ton the word `gravy' was used for large profits made in stock transac- tions, Mushrooms might have been a more high-class caressing' for that kind of steak. * =1: * x Italy has prohibited the use of im- ported wheat and it is said that at some future date Europe will provide enough wheat for its own use. These are queer times. REMINISCENCES By An Old -Timer. Another teacher I remember well, tiro' not belonging to Wingham, was Dr. Young, .who taught at Zetland, a hamlet two miles from Lower Wing haat. He was a gentleman of breed- ing and education, a graduate of a Scottish University, a Greek and Lat- in scholar, teaching the three R's in a little district school! What a tra- gedy! . A man, who thro' some -mis- chance, had missed his proper niche in life. My brothers took lessons in Latin from him at one time. He was a tall fine looking man, very stout, but active, with a florid face and white curling hair. He wore or car- ried in his hand a peaked cap such as conductors wear. Every Saturday we used to see hint coming over Fi- sher's hill and across the bridge, cap in hand, waist coat open and alpaca coat over his arm. At our end of the bridge he mopped his face and head with a red bandanna, adjusted his cap and walked on into the village. Later in the day he returned, crossed the bridge, removed his cap which I pre- sume he carried the rest of the way home. In the winter it was the same save that he wore a short military cape • but if • the day were mild he carried both cap and cape, To .show how teachers soinetime.i obtained certificates in the eighteen sixties, l offer the following authentic story Over forty-five years ago I met an old Ontario teacher who had received his First Class Certificate years before from the Registrar of Huron County. There were no writ- ten examinations then, and this is the manner in which he obtained it. Hav- ing studied the subjects considered necessary, Mr. X drove to Goderich. Finding that the Registrar's office was in one of the hotels, he interview- ed the hotel clerk, telling him to send liquor and glasses alp to the Regist- rar's office. ;Mr. X preceded bun. to the rooms, made himself known to the -Registrar, the liquor arrived, they drank together. The Registrar asked hien one or two questions in Geog- raphy, one or . two in History and said: "Really Mr. X this is merely a matter of form. I know that • you have the necessary knowledge." He then wrote out the certificate. They drank the remaining liquor and Mr. X drove away, a teacher of the high- est standing. I wonder what the pro- cedure was with lady teachers. .Per- haps they did not aspire so high as a first class certificate. Up to the time that I left Wingham in January 1881 there was no town bell. For years the townspeople set their clocks by the bell at: Ainsley's (afterwards Robinson's) foundry. -- When it became cracked a triangle was beaten at the new market -place beside the old cemetery near John Hanna's store. The old school house had been moved to that spot and be, town -hall. arae the first tow i a c r In. 1864 the nearest doctor, Garner by name, lived at Lucknow, He was a rugged Scotchman who went the round of his patients on , foot. He frequently .walked to our village twelve miles. I have seen him coin- ing over the bridge and going back across it again the same day. We children gazed at hire with awe, for it was said that he ate frogs and also, swore roundly at his patients if they did not follow his orders. During 1865 a Dr, Shrigley who carne from the States practised in Wingham but had to return as he had not finished . his medical course, In 1'866 Dr. Robert Sloan began to practice in Wingltarn. He was a bro- ther of, Dr. Sloan, of i3lyth, His first office was itt Lower Town. He war soon followed by Dr. Tam- b!yn. In '68 or '69 Dr. Sloan sold his practice to Dr. Towler—later he went to China, His son, William Sloan, became a Cabinet Minister in the British Columbia Government. De, Bethune was another doctor itt the 70's Any sterekeepet could sell drugs itt Ontario before 1871 by paying a license. T. G. Jackson was ,the first druggist. ( When the Pharmacy Act � was passid in 1.871 those who had sold drugs' before were allowed to TI-IREE ILLS ROUTED Health Tip from, Woman of 67 "For Iteaclache constipation --: rheumatism -- I use Kruschen. And since I have used it, I" am in very much better health. In fact, I hard- ly ever wake with those bad head- aches and that general feeling of las- situde. Kruschen . has helped me be- yond words. I axil 67 and feel young," —thus writes Mrs. M. G. It is reasonable to ask why it is that headaches, constipation and rheumatism all yield so completely to Kruschen? What is the secret of Kruschen's effectiveness against these different complaints? The secret is an open one. 'It is revealed in the analysis on the bottle—for physicians and everyone else to see. Six vital, mineral salts, That is the secret, Each of those six salts has an action of its own. Where one cannot penes trate another can—and does. Stom- ach, liver, kidneys and digestive tract are all benefited and toned up to a top-notch condition of efficiency, continue 'in the, business. A College of Pharmacy was instituted in .con- nection with the `.University of Tor- onto that year. Incidentally I might mention that the first lecturer at the College was Mr. Heys, who had no diplopia but had taken up chemistry as a hobby in England. A Mr. Hod- getts was the first Secretary -Tress carer. of the College. I can remember that doctors kept their owndrugs at one time. The first druggist with a diploma in Wingham was, Mr, Bray who opened a store on Victoria St. Later in 1874 Andrew Eadie opened a drug store on the east side of Jo- sephine sephine Street opposite Kent's store. I have in my possession the first photograph taken in Wingham. ,It was taken in 1865 by Geo. Blackwell, an .amateur, who bought a camera for his own pleasure. This carte was his first attempt and is not so much fad- ed considering its age—sixty-eight years. It was taken in a house on Helena Street. Abdut two years later Mr. Woodland built a small photo- graph gallery, beside Fisher's bridge. The first spring flood tore it from its foundation, cracking most of the glass.. The next flood ,carried it. nearly to the Market Square where it stranded on a stump. Meanwhile a man named Burroughs had opened a gallery in "Upper Town. He brought his camera and photographed the wreck to show how his competitor had been recommended. Next flood carried the building to the middle of the stream and it probably finished its earner at the Big Bend or per- haps Lake Huron. I cannot remember when the first newspaper was printed in the village but in a letter of 1872, I find this statement: "Messrs. Leet, Sinclair, Bray, Peter Fisher and T. G. Jackson have bought the Times, Wingham's first Liberal paper." Mr. 'Osborne" was the editor. In 1874 the Wingham Advance was in existence with Win. Fluety as editor. In most villages in my youth there mingled with the clang of the black- smith's anvil the cheerful hollow whang from the cooper shop as the cooper drove and tightened the hoops on barrels and butter tubs. We hail- ed with satisfaction the inauguration of factories that turned ottt so many hundred pairs, barrels or tubs a week. But can the factory worker, turning a machine, ever feeI the same pleas- ure that the honest cooper felt a, he drove the last hoop on a well -made kegs of ash or butter --nut wood. With the "pessimism of age I loofa back and wonder whether if the old cooper shops and others' of their ilk had re- mained, would we today have the Evan Bring unemployed—or the bread iine There were several tragedies in connection with the mills in Lower r Wingham, The first was the drown- ing of Widow Simie's ,twelve -year-old son, Fishing one day, from the top. of the sluice where the water passed through to the inill, he fell into the mill race, His head caught between the upright bars and kept him front rising to the surface. Georgie Hut- ton, the Miller's nine-year-old son, while showing another boy how the belts connected the machinery tried to put a belt in place, it started the whole works. He was caught in the belts and his leg so bady smashed that it had to be amputated. For days his life was despaired of but he fin- ally recovered. A curious thing itt connection with the atnputatiort was that he cried for two days with cramps in the toes. The kg hadbeen buried but they took it up and the doctor straightened the toes -- the cramps ceased at once. The "circular saw in the lutnbei' mill had a great fascination for Eddie S:Iarnilton, He was warned to keep away until one day it took off his aura. David Camp- beil also, loot on artn in the saw quill, lrarly in 1874 the woollen and flour mills were destroyed by fire. A youth sweeping the lower floor of the wool- len mill shoved the ewee,pings into the box stove with the broom. It caught fire and to put it ottt he very foolishly thrust it into a pile of greasy wool. In a 'moment the pile was ablaae. It was near the stair leading to the long room above where some men and three women were op- erating looms, The youth ran to the stair and cried "Fire! Fire!" Then men ran down at once but the wo- men, Mrs. Bruce, Janet Anderson and Lizzie Taylor, though he was trying to scare them as -he had beea.in the habit of doing, so they paid ne atten- tion until the stair was in flames, Their only way of escape was by the. windows. They climbed thro)• and clung for some time to, the window sills, a ladder was brottight but was too short to reach them. Finally they dropped to the 'ground; strange to say altho' all were more or less in- jured and scorched, none were killed, iIn 1875 the flour mill was rebuilt and a small carding mill erected on the. mill race between it and the sawmill., A •Highland Scotch boy named Mc- Leod used to watch the machinery by the hour. One day he went there at noon when the workmen were at their dinner. , What ,-happened .was never known but, suddenly the ma- chinery started and his mangled 'body was found whirling around a shaft. It was in October of 1872 that the. board sidewalks were completed , in Upper .Wingham. Lower Wingham was to have them as well, but they failed to materialize. It was in that year that a by-law was carried by, the council to have the :London rail- road built into the yillage, After the people had paid taxes on large bon- uses for two years no trains were running altho' the road had been built and in disgust the council asked the Toronto, Grey and Bruce Railway to come in as that road passed within four miles. This they did but the vil- lage and township had to build the road. The corning „of the railway tolled. the death knell of Lower Wingham. At one-time it had been expected' that the road would cross the river at Fi- sher's . mill, but ,Upper Wingham .had the ear of those who ruled the des tinies of the railroads and the lines were built where they are today.' Those who had ventured their `little all' in Lower Wingham were ruined and that part sank gradually into de - gay. . I will copy here a curious postscript which my mother added to a letter in 1863 or '64. "Mr. Flack has just re- turned from an excursion to a re- markable lake three miles from here. These are some of the flowers. Bear and deer tracks, snakes, mud turtles, cranes etc. are seen, he says. At the edge a pole, sixteen and a half feet long, did not reach bottom. Standilig on the edge the ground shakes, an island in the centre, waters deep blue —boiling springs can be seen thro' the clear waters." It would- appear that somewhere in the vicinity of Winghatn was a quagmire. I never heard of one? but Mr. Flack's word could be relied; upon. In writing this rather inadequate account of the early days, I have en- deavored to save from oblivion some of the "old forgotten far-off things.'' My recollections are confined to a small area. There must be some who retnexuber more about people and things in the larger area of the town. Old stories should not be lost, .They' make history. (.The End.) tiri,'Q• A HEALTHSERVtCE OF THE CANADIAN MtEDICAL. ASSOCIATION AND LIFE iNSt1RANCE COMPANIES IN."EANADA DISTRESS, DISEASE AND DEATH 'When it i$ realized that distress, disease and even death' may follow upon the use of food, it becomes ob- vious that as we are all frequent con- sumers of food, we should be inform- ed on this subject, We might begin by correcting a common misunderstanding. There is no such thing as ptomaine poisoning, as the tern is commonly ttsed. There ARE ptomaines, and they ARE pois- onous, but they are not present in food which can be eaten. Ptomaines are produced in the last stages of putrefaction, when food is in such a condition that no one would 'eat it, It is well known that, at certain seasons, some fishes and animals are unwholesome, We knoyv too that there are some poittsonotts vegetable foods, stick as in the group of mush- rooms and other fungi. The real danger to us, however, comes from foods which, in them- selves; are perfectly harmless, bttt which may and do become dangerous if they are contaminated' by certain bacteria or germs. Some changes in foods, which result from the action of germs, are desirable, such as the souring of milk,the makieg of cheese and saner kraut. The effects of a few. germs ate harmful and 'dangerous, Botulism is a form of fobd poison- ing which, fortunately, is rare, be- cause it is deadly. It is eased by the poison which is given off by a germ., In this country, most cases have re- sulted from the use of home -canned vegetables, where, in the canning process, sttificient heat has not been used to sterilize the food or destroy the germs, This poisonIs readily des- troyed by heat, and if these canned foods are boiled before being used, they are rendered safe. The cotntrcon form of food poison- ing, which begins with nausea, ab- doneinal pain, vomiting and diarrhoea, and which is popularly, but errone- ously, knpwn as ptomaine poisoning, is seldore fatal. .It- is caused by the action of any one of several germs which are related. to• the germ of ty- phoid fever. As ` a 'rule, it is due to the careless handling of food or to improper cooking. ' There is no danger in fresh fruits or vegetables. Cooked foods should be kept cold or hot ;they should not be allowed to stand for any length of . time at a luke-warm temperature, as that offers .germs an excellent op- portunity to' grow. Foods that do not look right, or which have a peculiar or unusual taste or odour should be avoided. Canned foods should be boil- ed before being used. Questions concerning Health, ad- dressed to the Canadian Medical As- sociation, 184 College St., Toronto,. will be,answe*ed personally by letter. ASHFIELD Mr. Kenneth Thaine, 'of Toronto, is assisting Mr. Jack McDonald, 10th con, Mr. and Mrs. Norman Patterson have returned to. their home in Mont- real after spending a month with the latter's parents, Mr. and M'rs. Robert Drennan, Lake Shore Road. The funeral of.the'late Miss Flora McDonald who died at the homeof her brother, Robert McDonald, Kin - Cemetery. Our sympathy is extended to the. bereaved brothers, Messrs. Alee., of Kincardine, Robert of Kiat - tail, and Jack, 10th Con, Mrs, D. K. Alton spent a few days with her daughter, 'Mrs, •Sam Morri son, East of I.,uckiow, Mrs,, Andrew Gaunt, east of St. Helens, 'spent Thursday afternoon with her mother, Mrs, Sam ,Sherwood,- Mrs Richard Johnson, near Mafe- king, is visiting with her daughter; Mrs, Herman' Moffat, of Sarnia. "I wish "I could find out just how many relatives I have here, on this earth," "That's .easy—just buy a summer` cottage." • "I think marriages ate really xnade in heaven 'don't you." "Well, if all men took as long to propose as you most of .thenqwouid have to be." Evolution of Farming In the history' of world's agricul- ture, the introduction of new plants, which rnade it possible to dispense with the bare fallow, and still later, the application to husbandry of scien- tific discoveries as to soil,' plant con- stituents, and manures, brought about a revolution in farming. Market Export Egg Cases Now case containing Canadian eggs for export out of Canada, the Egg Regulations prescribe, shall be ship- ped unless it is, before shipment, marked on botheends in a legible and indelible matinee, with the correct name of the grade' of eggs contained therein according to the Canadian Standards, and the words "Canadian Eggs". Canadian standard cases con- tain thirty dozen. Four Fergus • Stores. Looted Four Fergus storeswere ti� r e laotecl of over $1000 worth of merchandise tail, was held on Saturday to Kintail in the early hours of Friday morning 1933 • NEVER IAS • INDIcESTION Fruit -a -t4 es make stomach like new "I had always been in good health until i be, gan having trouble with PLY etomnch. I Couldn't Fat anything without discomfort and contin, wally had peas tburn severe gas pains and headaches, I, can truthfully' MY'Fruita-rives' completely restored me to health." Fruit -a -lives . . «Fl ytrag stores by burglars, who in each instance jimmied the. locks and entered "by the front door of the establishments. The robberies were first noticedby a milk- man making his rounds about 5 a.m.; who notified the proprieters and Con- stable McDougall Steele Bros.' de- partment store was theeheaviest loser with between $800 and $1000 worth of women's wearing apparel being ,itolen. Authorities Agree That tuberculous infeckion does not, as a rule, take place in adult life, but 'that the disease, breaking out in later years. is an outcome of child infection—the dormant germ only :awaiting some run-down con- dition, some lowering of •dtality, to break into . activity; authorities now agree. Cthildren are especially suscept- ible to infection; there is scarcely a chance of escape if they are al- lowed llowed. to remain in the . homes of the 'tuberculous. We have, there- fore, in this disease a vital child problem. Guard them from contact with consumptives. Keep them in the fresh air day and night; cleanse and nourish their bodies sb that they may grow -up strong, healthy men and women, and the fight against (consumption will be.won. For children. , already, infected there is the Queen Mary Hospital where they should be taken without. delay, for only through such treat- ment as is :affordedat this institu- tion, is there hope of recovery.. As this hospital is maintained Iargely by voluntary contributions —please : send your gift to George A. Reid, Treasurer, 'Queen Mary Hospital for Consumptive Children. 223 College Street, Toronto 2. 11111tM11■ ®iii iiiNi■■ie11111111e 11■11ie®■11■■■11•■s■■1111■■■111111■1111,i111■> 111111111 ■ IN ■ ■ 1 ■ a N.■ • ■ P Hel - Us ■ ■ ■ ■ •■ ■ • ■ ■ •■ ■ ■ e • ■ ■ ■ ■ • ■ • • • ■ ■ ' ■ • ■ •■ • ■ • ■' ■ ■ ■ ■ • •■ ■ ■ '. ■. ■ ▪ '. • ■ ; ■• ■ We Want The News! 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