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The Wingham Advance Times, 1930-02-20, Page 5Thursday, Febrtaery 29th, 1930 Lovers of file tea prefer S la a quality to premituns 762 `Fresh Trews thegardens' TRY THE ADVANCE -TIMES WITH YOUR NEXT ORDER OF JOB PRINTING FOR YOU AND YOUR S Five Minutes with Myself OIT down and think about yourself.,. Takeinental stock of what you are, and what you stand for. Perhaps you have every reason in the world to be satisfied with your life. Probably you can look back to a steady record of achievement. College -a career—recog- nition--all these may have followed in their natural order, yet have you real- ized the biggestb.azard of professional life—the very fact that your success will always, to a great extent, be dependent on your own efforts, that you as a pro- fessional man, carry your entire busi- ness "under your hat"? Today, on the crest of the wave, with an assured position, it may be hard to vis- ualize -what can happen unless you have made security secure. Advancing age, declining skill, all these are possibilities. Added to them, is the definite uncer- tainty of tomorrow. Facing facts like these, the wisdom, of planned insurance is self-evident. It is the only way in which you can guarantee economic security for the years ahead. A postcard to the address bellow brings.' you . full information on anything you would tike to know of Mutual Insurance. T 11 E MUTUAL LIFE ASSURANCE iR.ANCE COMPANY OF CANADA, WATERLOO, ONTARIO Established 1869 W. T. Booth, District Agent, Wingham, Ontario Wm. Webster, Agent, R. R. No. 2, Lucknow, Ont. R. H. Martyn, Agent, Ripley, Ontario COLLEGE: Oke ALBANIA.. Rulers , Give it 'Their ;i;ntle slestic Approval, The Collegeof Albania ial now at work, Tts faculty consists oe three' members and 1te student body of thirty boys. Its halls consist of one brick building as y tt unfinished, TO the casual observer It seems to be a very humble enterprise, but as a mat- ter of fact, it is a very promising beginning, Forit was only Last March that Dr. Samuel W Irwin, former the later a a and a vi sionar Y in Jugoslavia, R head of an American school in Rome, first approached the Albanian Gov- ernment concerning the institution of such a college, says the Christian Science Monitor, When the plan was fully explained, to the rulers ai° Al- bania, they not only gave it their en- - thuslastio approval, but promised their co-operation. As the result of an agreement be- tween Dr. Irwin and the Albanian' Government, a beautiful campus on tete Boast of the Adriatic Sea, about six miles south of the main seaport Durazzo, was given to the school, It consists of nearly 400 acres and con- tains • woods, orchards, fields, mea- dows and a large water frontage. .Most of it is level and: fertile, but it ends in a chain of high, gently slop- ing, wooded hills, which afford a most excellent site for the buildings. The American schools in the Near East are distinguished by theirbeautiful campuses, but none has a more beau- tiful location than the new College out, bag and baggage, for the far ,which read—"Wanted, an usher, px e f Albania. WINCHAM 4DV,A,NC] ,-TIMES KESS PROPHET'S PRET S ADDRESS AT OPEN LITERARY Otr 1080:: 4 ' 1 t•irailr Nov. 80th, , 'Vat b , I am an old woman, dozing by the fire, on the eve of my situ' -sixth birthday. .1 have been reading over sopie old newspapers and letters which I received sortie thirty'years ago, and taping an occasional peep, at; an old diary, Of the many friends whose names appear: on these faded sheets, some are dead, some : are far some across the sea and s, are, "Ah, rue! Nvbere are they? From these pages I have gathered together a few facts; which I think will interest, Do you remember the Gold Rush away back in 1945? I re- member ix as clearly as though it were, yesterday. Gold! gold! gold! Everyone in Wingham and the surrounding dis- trict thought and talked of nothing else. In October of that year, a group of pleasure having Wingharnites"head- ed by Jack I3rackenbtiry and Ross Harrison, started out in search of ad- venture and found plenty in the shape of large glittering nuggets buried deeply near a,small river flowing into the Hudson Bay. Word was quickly sent, with the re- sult that all young Wingham cleared Rae and Thompson Hotel, which was; successfully .run by Messrs. Rae Thompson and. Murray Rae, The sup- per teas daintily served by Margaret Iviliehel), dressed in her' white:aprran• and cap. • Upon retiring, I set my shoes on the threshold, and in the morning they were beautifully polished, hav- ing been blackened by Stuart Mulvey, the Boots-irechief. The lively bell- hop was Elmer Johnston, who was courteous to everyone, especially to' the ladies. f s U acs Y the overat re l read , As I Fort Huronia Daily, whose editor ' was Charles `Coulter, I chanced to come upon an advertisement of Velveteen Soap: It upheld as a model to the public a gentleman none other than David Anderson. Underneath his pic- ture appeared the old slogan "A Skin You Love to Touch." Robert Weir, I was told, worked. in one of the .mines. His untiring ef- forts had raised him to the position of foreman, and Joe Tiffin, Roger McDonald and Helton Dickson, who were under hires, were working by the. sweat of their respective brows to support large families. George Ait- chison held the responsible position of time -keeper. On Sunday we went to church. A sign was posted outside the door ces of the town was the property"af' o north. To describe the journey Besides the . land, the State alsoings ferably a pian with experience." gave the college $10,000 for building purposes and agreed to .support twen- ty students in it the first year and ten additional eachsucceeding year, until the number of statescholar- ships reaches fifty. Mr. Irwin and his board are to provide the rest of the money for the buildings and for the School. upkeep of the school. The faculty is. to be largely American and the course is to be carefully adapted to the needs of the country, of the different groups would make a long story, but they filially reached the goal of their ambitions, and not only The service was very inspiring, Ha- zel Wilson played the organ, and gig- gled so much that her fur -trimmed Dr. Kate King, eixiinent physician. She took. special interest in the wel- fare of the Eskimos, and her ;;Brei figure eoutd be seen at dawn, as s}ie i drove for miles with her team of cari- bou, to visit the igloos of the .sick and' needy. 1)r. King had refused rnany suitors, saying that she was "wedded to her art." Olive Garniss was the capable sup- erintendent of the hospital. She would slip through the hall at mid. - night to stroke the fevered brow of _a ' •nv a sleep, sing n' Eskimo t or to .t a I patient g About a week later; the whole town was talking of elle big show that; was coining. The theatre could hardly be seen for signs, ,and at night lights twinkled out' everywhere the myster- ious words "The Twins", Upon ex- amination' of. the pamphlets which were being distributed night and day, the following confronted the reader's eye—The Twins, hhmsical comedy and dancing, starring Ida Brill and Fairy' Fells. Another interesting feature of the programme teas, Mr Cleric Elliott 1 OYE RNIONT r'JAn toils 44" PA*, Dc.l tot laid..-. lanes. yrled "Soottta-SS1va' first; hoila vaniSlaed overnight." 0, T. Scott.. "'Sootli'a-Salva"std Ps pain int minute; boilsgoin€ewlioure. int all druggists. Fowler was a rich divorece, having her money invested. in Canadian pa- cific Railway Bonds. She ; divorced her fifth husband because he Pei hist - ed in picking his teeth in public, and always said "Huh", instead of "Par- don me". Gertrude Kelly's history was somewhat similar, but she had had only four husbands, and was quit jealous of Isobel, Edna Jenkins, the famous artist, left for Paris, where she was painting portraits of the ar- istocracy at five dollars a square inch, and giving all her sitters four good coats,` Betty and Dell Walker were running the Walker Wigs, the best hairdressing parlour of the city, and advertising their goods by say toeedancer, tight -rope walker, wiper- ing that their hair used to be:awfully sonator and ventriloquist, and his pia- straight, but this new treatment had. nist, Mrs. Elliott, (nee _Reath Robin- made it "what it is to -day", and per- sonally, they'd advise you to try some of it. Wilma and Nettie Dow were both spinsters,: Wilma was President of the Willing Workers, Secretary of the Ladies'.Aid, and founder of a new girl's school for Manners and Morals, which taught "The Young Idea how Dreariis of Childhood" In this cern- to park it's knife and fork." Nettie son), whose compositions have"becrr recognized by European Masters as out of the ordinary, The cemetery of the new town was picturesquely situated on "yon jut- ting craig",' as the poet, Scott Mit- chell, wrote in his last sensation "Me etery u a grave and on that grave assisted Wilma in the gymnasium, and the men of the town, but their mortar -board fell off her head, .and was "a slab of granite so grey"bear- gave the first three reducing lessons the wives' went too, - most of them beim; te ni'anister, Kenneth Carter, picked ing tete simple but touching inscr}p- free of charge. Olive Tiffin said the former students o t the Wingham reign TO RAISE SUGAR CANE. Big Irrigation Plan fox Portuguese East Africa: Some 80,000 hectares of land sit- uated in the. higher and middle dis- tricts of the Limpopo Valley, in Por- tuguese East Africa, will be irrigated and utilized for extensive sugar cane plantations, according to : present plans, which are arousing much in- terest here. It is hoped that the scheme will greatly increase the agri- cultural and economic wealth of the Pr:wince of Mozambique. One of the aims in view is to at- tract Portuguese colonists to this na- titive territory, another is to widen .the scope for native labor there. At pres- ent over 45 per cent. of the Portu- guese natives are employed on the Rand. mines and on the Union's agri- cultural industries, Although there are over 60,000 hectares of profitable soil, it is thought advisable at present only to irrigate' the land on the right side of the river up to Chaimite, which is naturally defended from the floods that frequently swamp the lower part of the Limpopo Valley. The irrigated region will be used for sugar production on -the- system adopted in Natal, Cuba and Mauri-. ties. While each colonist may culti- vate ulti vate a tract of 100 hectare$, •grants are simultaneously given for the es- tablishment of sugar refinery and alcohol distillery plants, the latter supplying the national fuel, on the lines successfully adopted in part of the' territory of the Mozambique Company. Skeleton Trees Bauued, Belts of dead and blasted trees, standing like maoabre processions around the edges of lakes created or by power and irrigationpast, t ' w it tip and with,a chivalrous hove=, Ilan- than, "Donald, he died of a broken north had no charm for her, and see ' ded it back. The male quartette, con- heart." It seems that five proposals : eral years ago she left for the golden sisting of Jack Pollock, Jim Thomp- and five refusals were toomuch for west, where she married a cow -boy. son, Harry Mann and Hugh Mundell, nue pian in erre week, and Mr. Grant. Jean Copeland was a very industrious dexterously executed their music un- succumbed to the oldattack of heart- washerwoman, and got fourteen cents a garment, with three cents deducted. Going north. With household goods and families proved to be too much for some of their friends, and they turned back, but the hardiest and Most headstrong got there. We have the report of a small party nearing their destination. There was a small river or stream, five miles from the airdrome from which our party hacl walked. Reaching this place, they Were at a loss to find e means of cros- sing. George':Allen finally solved the problem by kindly offering one of his boots which he set adrifting. on the water. Several of the girls jumped in; Mildred Morgan among the first, and the boat was sailing along nicely knee," was taken down, and there when Harry Fry, fearing be alight beKenneth Somers,who declared left behind, forgot hie manners, andstood Plunged in. In his frantic endeavour he had had years of experience, and to scrabble aboard he grabbed one of the laces, and over went the craft, with its precious burden.. Fortunately 11 the boot wrecked mariners could der the able leadership of Carman break. Coutts, choir leader, who put them Excitement gripped Fort Huronia for cvery missing button. uaiarg'aret • on the right tune whenever they made for the next two weeks, and no won- 'prizes Praetor lived a life of :leisure. The der. The Dotnini.on's greatest earn -'prizes taken by Muslr,:in the athletic' an error. The choir was composed of many of my old friends, namely, teal vvas ,to take place in:,.the ore field suppiled al.l lie:l• wants. Katherine Fr and Agnes Louttit, Valley, at the foot of Gold Mountain.. One day a large sign appeared on Y y, (who sang a duet), Loreen Gilkins Athletes front "all parts of North Am -the corner of main Street. It read;— stip A •atba Coulter Mildred Scobie erica were to be present. On January i Wanted—A_Santa Claus. Tenders g. and Jean Coulter. After the singing 3rd, the eventful day arrived. Crowds ;must be in before Dec, 1:5tiaa Quail - the collection was taken up by Her- of old Wingharnites, and Fort Her- `fications: bert Louis. onions, and Americans, and Eskimos i. No taller than five feet, four Next Sunday, the sign, "Wanted an and Indians ;:warmed throught the inches. Usher, preferably one with exeper- valley. 2. Must be ruddy of countenance. Suddenly the cry "Mush! Mush!" t weigh at least 200 pounds. 3. illus vv g arose, piercing the. frosty air: I over -1 I heard that Alan Garnish was the heard a well-dressed New 'worker • talking to one of our own citizens, (first applicant, and got the position "What's this Mush they're all holler- ; owing to the fact that he filled all ing about?" "Why.. don't you know? ;three requirements perfectly. Merger - :et Currie made a charming Mrs. Santa a It's Mush Proctor, Canada's t; rt ux woman athlete.„ I CIaus, always denying herself Some swish, but we are soap to relate Mr, was taitgltt by Principal cipal \ . Lennox, little thing to snake seine one else Fry perished on the'pot The only whose mighty arms had grown hard "Oh!" said the stranger, "I thought gave recommendations from Captain Adams of. Wingham. The school which was composed of half Winghamites and half Eskimos, conclusion Dr, Mac 'Watson, surgeon from the use, of the dreaded ruler. same one was advertising a, new kind of the party, could corse to was that Now, at one glance from her stern of breakfast food, noon I noticed a gentleman striding the enortility of his action suddenly eye, the children shuddered, and sank A big price of one thousand dollars up the avenue, The first thing 1 ob- of apparent to him, and be died down into their seats, as peek RS was given to the two who could climb upr the was .e, Pair it paddy green of shock. lambs. Elizabeth Ross, her assistant, the mountain in: the shortest time. socks ands could guess their Paddy-green ,We will not dwell any longer on handled the children in a much dif- with the most graceful movements, sockre he was closeoenough for closeae r the mishaps of the different parties, ferent maturer, making funny faces and most pleasing attitudes. Mary observation. Sure enough! It was On. January 1st, a collection of for them till they cried with laughter, King and ieleirma Coutts were the Henderson, the U. F. O. shacks adorned the Frozen Banks of and settled down With a greater de- winners, climbing the mountain in Arthur ate fH the son, t Provincial F. 0. can- thei- Ore river; . a small village had termination to leant. twenty minutes, three and three guar- dileader in Parliament was the Hon. sprung up in the night, one might say. In September I returned home to ter seconds, and nnly falling once. Gordon Stonehouse, whose oratory Naturally, the first thing that entered Wingham, to tell all who had stayed ;1 stout robust figure pushed 1114 the minds of our friends was a name behind, the glories of the Northland. fur their village. 1 mei Mary Mitchell on the streets Ross 'Harrison timidly suggested of \,U}ngham, gazing blankly about the publication of her book of pectus Verasbtirg, while Laura Hicks stoutly her, and muttering vague nothings. told th people he was a lover of oat,entitled`soup ries of the Frozen declared that it should be Reidville, She is now a widow and since the door life. A murmur ran through the North" with apologies at the front by enlarged Thal no one's feelings might be drowning (we hate to mention it), site crowd, "Who is he" \\'hy he" the Untie axe- now things of the Inter- iia •e'd andbeen different woman. She 1iv- l\'rtrl(1`s Chatttpion ewe.). me G. L Brackenbury. United States. Secretary of the Inter- hurt, a cvmmittce was appointed has aThe Geddes Academy of Art le,uk- ior Wilbur announced before a meet- •which ,decided to call the Owe Fort I es alone, and stares for hours at a Searling. the city. from a near- Hineeria !lack of red ]fair, which site keeps Just then two aeroplanes reseed ed out over] happy. Wall ing down the street that after - vvay through the crowd; and stood staring leisurely around him. His thiel. iron grey lecke and rosy cheeks and quick thinking had won him 'fame. Miss Finch had become known throughout the entire Dominion by ing in Washington of members of the President's committee on oudoor recreation, says Science Service. Suck eyesores are being removed where they exist, he said, and all new permits for the construction of dans several a.rcoplanes came no the new 'gave up the idea of a white-collar job The pilots were none other than serted in them clauses providing for 1 pet,and t Iliad madetr ful study ,1r aviation. . the removal of all trees likely to be • 1. shall try g Y Y 1 During the winter of 1t;1 0, shops, tucked away in her bureau drawer. over our heads. They soared grace- lrrl1. Its founder, . s :, ran r u l ' ii Tb-awle > didn't go north either. fully up to • the clouds, and began tee been a former teacher of the Whig- factories, and residence. . ]r � to I T tl ) like weeds in a field. Im :tile spring iAfter much debating with himself, he cing smoke patterns on the dear sky. ham High School. rM}ss Cackles lead on the public domain now have in- tnvvn, nryself atnetnt; t . 'passengers. 1aris1 went in for fox -farming, One of I13racc Fite and Wallace Gurney, whe r s r to Tee you nt impression 'tete foxes is an espccla has as a c, e drowned before the water is allowed of pori I3urnnia as it aoiiked in May, 'done his housekeeping for several 44M.r. Gurney owned the airs 1oute t 4'his, r I eves, then a millionaire, while Mr. T� mitten has torus as the result of the -1 ��=c were met at the airdrome Uy a Mildred Redmond rvefttse$ to go an his spare time, played minor roles ADVANCE -TIMES lncr'easinr; use •of publicly owned. lands as recreation and educetional driver in 'furs, who was skilfully Con- al as she had a great task Seessel in motion pictures. areas; for tourists and students tai trolling a team of paalrcing reindeer, iof her. I met her near the site of the The graceful walking was very. in- ton nature alike have found such skeie- I and' whom T recognized as Blair Gib- ;old town hall, anal asked her .how teresting, and Mae Nicholson easily t :fringes as now disfigure Gee ( t 51 lac''an walked away with the plllt tact. I 1'hc tellers we drove through gave. Inn promulgating your esoteric euE;T- there were the costumes of differett one the impression ;of paving been !Whew, or articulating your senerfic- nations shown, Duns Aitchison, rep .Spent $715,001},000 Ti '.Imes.. thrown down in a careless heap, as 11al sentimentalities, and amicable phil- resenting japan, Massie Milligan The United States, spent; in I9214, a little boy might throw an armful of isophical tar physchological observe- France; Daisy Nichol:fon, Holland $75,00o,0O0 for airplanes, according ivuoclee houses and playthings. Ev tions"" and Alberta Shiell, the South Sea Is to a report of the aeronautical chasm g was buzzing with energy,' I bee of comtteerce. ProdtladOn of c0111- eryihin; and Boor Mildred! It scents she was lances. Dorothy Pollock and Anne oe RENEW YOUR SUBSCRIPTIONS NOW FOR THE to back up over their roots. 1,,4Ca l years. Remitting Money We sell drafts, money orders ces on•all and cable remittances — low- the world—at parts of w est rates. Quick service at all branches. THE DOMINION BANK Established 1871 !28 ..A. M. Bishop, l'3rattch :Manager, W�in liam Ontario g �� ' On. i)(i 115. - she etas getting .. Along. Site .g , iva e - . shores of tack most hike and other t bodies of water most; ob3entionable, mereiel aircraft in 1928 was 140 pet' people shouted to one another across writing a dirtinnar•y of six -syllable McGillivray won the fancy skating cent. greater than the year ` before, 5,000 airplanes being built and solid and 8,500 °aircraft motor's nenteketed.. +1Viclrita, Karts„ is the centre of the airplane -manufacturing industry with. 021 planes built in 1928, seventy sttuetald in New more than were eon. York city, which •ranked second. Rapid extension 'of air passenger routes and the opening of joint air- rail lines indicate the advance of comtneecial aviation ie - the United States. Language; With 500 %Voids, Scientists and scholars at Cam- bridge University have developed a new international language. it con- tains just 500 words and can be printed on k single. sheet of note- asi- ton ua l Isthe basic g eT English list ra 8' 1 p ehosen and It It Is sald that persons c i av learn t.}te reduced tr.tton � duy rr . vocabulary In a few weeks or months, It is called "panoptic Eaglish,"— Poptillte beelutruCS. 00,000,1000 Years Aga. lrcot•ding tc!, 'geologists, chestnut' trees flourished in the terrain now rallod W ors0p : 80,:oo0;p0`o YtearS. the street. Spring was in the air, al- words, and this had so completely while 1)ottalda Fixter came a close though it •was still guitc cold, and the taken possession of her mind, that second, impersonating a rabbit, aeroplanes flying overhead seethed' 5110 was unable to converse in any No Annie. the snrh as he vanished like huge birds joyful to be un tete other wetter. behind the purple mountain, thought 1.larriet• Strohm taught Domestic he had never looked oil so ,jolly w mg g again, • A large stone strtictttr'c on the right Science in the High School at 'home, attracted my altetrtioll • first, The which was much smaller, and Lovtisa .day. The next morning 1 paid visite 1, sign -board liking the top read, "'i'lie. Brill was capable physical culture in- my old schuolniates, and learned some Fort Tlurunia Stay -But Corp., Ltd.", struetress, . Katherine McKenzie and 'facts concerning the irthabitants. \ innifrttd Rae kept a neat little No- Coin .T'hair was. a teacher in Itu \Tlly Shoppe, where they sold every. Conservatory of Music, and ae a lire, thins; tram Raphael's paintings t', j fessur, she drew a salary of five leen safety pills. Heeel Morgan had gone idrei:l dollars a Montle* Mary Inglis 1n, fer 1iotllt:ry raising and she oyer-. had just written 'a book on "Tete Woods in Seeing," vvelicit had mad her f trot's. ar lgeees Robertson and 1)orine Web stet ran the\v'atro Shop,1, when r they veld- avratrtn outfits:It vvav th, first shop ,1f its kind where every thing could. 1,e purchased from gee :tics to paraehattes, Ella Pae hoc gone in for astronomy; chiefly hems: eltc liked Bred; Foe. � and Wa (<rr Gurney to take her ep intheir acro planes to • look at, the tars, isobc'1 T'rop., Rhys Pollock; agent, Kenneth McT.cotl; and eederrrcath in email let- ters,- Guaranteed to meleethe utast unruly hair stay clown," Farther ore We ranee to tire Seai- 011 'Drug Store, where Jr,hn P. Ir- sibbou said Scal Oil 5tan en Sc tl (ell' Dentifrice and Bear's Grease Soap; n every side (mildicbe s cc n ti 1 fine 1 andI'ex- perienced v promises t f t f town, c t perie aced quite a thrill seeing the Harries of my old schoolmates printed on. Shen tl.indows ere+l -.as:, Tom Hera dvrsntt an(l '•Blob, hitchers., Fresh Pislr and 'DMA AtenrlteyWat-Lavv, r Notofte ; 1,'Nf,o t • of tis spent the• 111 ght at the. alod a small farm hear Wingham, Where the ill tv firvv eitasquickly. at they floe M. T learned also, that. Beryl C nntrtlrl,l ,t t Was a celebrated radio 1atttnee . Foie year's later, 1969, found 1111 again in Fort 1-ittronia. My, whet 'change! It was then a ftotti•ishing town bigger than Wiugliam had been t1wag back. in 1O„SO, there was a thea- tre, a hoslniai, large warehouses and factories. ()Ire of the fittest teside•rt.' Miss Pcrrott was happily married to en explorer, very happily married, as he spent six munths of the year in the Arctic regions. Mr, Brackenbury and Mr. Phillips. spent their time. exploring the Calces,• looking for plants and animals, and'.. rare stones. They founded a schoe'l for the study of geology, and were - appointed by the government to research wore.. In all respects this was one of the finest alining towns in Canada Mee - leg a beautiful situation, wide streets,. and fine educational facilities. The old letters slip from my lap, the embers die down; and in the semi - twilight of a November clay I Muse on the past. Sweet familiar meirlories conte rushing. back, memories „f friends and teachers, and school dale, Which have gone forevrer, "When I i`enrein e • • ll iiifriends, T've• seen around me fall Like leave in wintry weather; I feel like one who treads alone Some banquet hall descried,: Whose lights are -fled, tiy:110 gerlatnds dead, And all brit he departed." This circle of friends, biose whet tF'e"1'c dear 10 1110 1111 the iitrrrtiitig,' . (11 life, and the old HTigh School Days, Will -never be forgotten. ) rotll Aitken. . Dade Angel's Caprices Of this total 204 were determined' rJ• _ to be from natural causes and 2� . 1 occurred in tete city of Los Angeles, —Spokesman Review.