The Wingham Advance Times, 1930-08-21, Page 34
Thursday, August 21st, 1930
PIONEER REACHES
90th BIRTHDAY
One of the best known pioneers of
"Huron County is William Montgom-
, cry of Gorrie, who celebrated his 90th
birthday last week and a number of
his friends called. He received also
a great number of gifts.
Although born in Ireland, Mr,
Montgomery has lived 'most of his
life in Canada coming to this pountry
in 1847 when eight years old.
Mr. Montgomery was born in Don-
• egal County, Ireland, in 1839 and has
thus lived under the three British
Sovereigns and during she British
wars. He came to Canada with his
• parents in 1847 on •a sailing vessel,
the Yorkshire, which put into Quebec
after a voyage of seven weeks, which
was so rough that she arrived in port
with all sails and masts swept away
by the terrific storms thrOugh which
• she passed,
• From'Quebec the Montgomery
amily continued on to Montreal ,by tensive traveller. He crossed the oc-
steamer and from there made ,their
way in Manvers township, Durham
County, where they remained for five
months,. They then went by steamer
to Hamilton and continued from there
to Wellesley township, Waterloo
County. After nine years in Waterloo
they continued west making their
home in Howlek township,
In 1862 Mr. Montgomery took up
a hundred acres of bush, hued down
trees for his home. This he cleared
and developed into one of the finest
farms in this district.
Three years later he married Miss
Mary Corbett. There was a family of
six, five boys and a girl. Mr. and
Mrs. Montgomery lived on this farm.
for 28 years and then moved to
Wroxeter where they lived on a farm
•for seven years. At one time owning
five hundred acres. Thirty years ago
Mr, Montgomery retired from farm-
ing.
• Mr. Montgomery has been an ex -
ean five times, and has visited in
•Louisiana and Colorado in the United
States, and has been a visitor to the
Canadian West, Three of his sons he
put through for doctors, they are: Dr,
R. •C, of Winnipeg, Dr, W. G. of Los
Angeles, and Dr. William who with
5.. 5. are deceased, and Alex also of
California and Mrs. Bingham who re-
sides, with
Mr. Montgomery bas been an Or-
angeman for '75 years and has always
been a staunch Conservative in pol-
itics. He is the oldest voter in How -
ick, and has voted for 72 years. He
voted in the last Dominion election,.
marking his own ballot. He was a
Methodist now United in religion.
While at this •ripe *old age, Mr.
Montgomery is enjoying fairly good
health and reads without the aid of
glasses.
Diamonds have been rising steadliy
in value for the last century.
YOU CAN PREVENT.FOREST FIRES
1114
Canadian
forest industries
add five hundred
million dollars
annually to the
national wealth.
Their very exist-
ence is threatened
by forest fires,
which directly or
indirectly affect
every citizen
through their
menace to the
national pros.
perity.
Every Canadian
should be careful
with fire while in
the woods.
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A. SACRED /110UNTAIN.
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Temples of Mt. Lushan Falling Into
Ruin—Now Shelter Bandits.
Mt. Lushan, one of the twelve sa-
cred mountains of China, famed alike
for the piety of its monks and for the
beauty of Its scenery, has been en-
tirely pre-empted by bandits, The
once -famous temples of Mt, Lushan,
which in past centuries were the
goals of imperial pilgrimages, are
now failing into ruin and shelter ban-
dits. The once sacred grottos, for-
merly given over to the contempla-
tion of immense carved images of
Buddha, or to the rites of Taoist
priests, are now used by the bandits
as prisons.
Ancient Chinese writings declare
that Mt. Lushan was "10 miles high
and 240 miles in circumference." To-
day Lushan rises only a little more.
than 4,000 feet, but it affords an un-
surpassed view southward over the
Gulf of Pechili and eastward toward
the Liao-tung Peninsula, on which
the •Russiaas built Port Arthur and
on which the Japanese now occupy
Dairen. Lushan is very rugged, and
in olden times every cliff was orna-
mented with a temple.
• Yehlituyu, the famous Qhitan who
rose to irower under Genghis Khan,
was an especial devotee of Lushan
and,legends have it that he selected
this mountain to be "the eternal
trustee of wisdom." Accordingly he
is supposed to have buried 10,000 sa-
cred books in a cavern under the
peak of the. mountain, and then to
have erected over his repository the
temple which to -day is a bleak ruin.
TO MODERNIZE HARBOR..
Port of ,Callao, Peru, to Be Brought
• Up to Date.
The port of Callao, Peru, which
has served the ancient city of Lima
for 400 years, is being fully modern-
ized and will be completed hy the end
of this year. All port profits will re-
vert to the Govermaent of Peru, with
the result, it is hoped, of a general
lowering of port rates, the cost of
imported goods and the cost of living.
Two rock - fill breakwaters, about
two miles in length, are to be con-
structed to enclose and protect a
basin in which large stethnships-can
dock. These are being built on a soft
bottom silt overlying a hard -pan of
cemented gravel. The traprock for
the breakwaters is brought erom a
quarry abOut four miles away, where
it is blasted by the use of large shots
of black powder. As much as forty -
!lye tons is used in a single month.
On an area to be fillefi in by dredg-
ed material there is being built. a
bulkhead wharf. Back of this will be
erected. steel -framed warehouses with
asbestos roofs. The contract for con-
struction calls for dredging the en-
tire basin to a depth of thirty-two
feet and for dredging the main chan-
nel to thirty-seven feet, the dredged
material being used to fill in the
space between bulkhead wharf and
shore.
Gdynia, In the Baltic.
"What, never heard of Gdynia, in
the Baltic?" said the insurance man
rather haughtily at the club lunch -
.table. Four of us adnaitted we never
had, writes "Looker -On" in the Lon-
don Daily Chronicle. Indeed, we
threw doubt upon the existence of
such a port. Yet he declared he had
been effecting insurance on cargoes
to it for some time past. We looked
up our atlases. No mention of it.
"He must have seen the Polish name
for Dantzig, which is Gdansk, and
got confused," we said. Yet next day
he turned up with cuttings about
Gdynia from a shipping paper. Five
years ago it was a fishing village with
300 inhabitants. Now it is a fully
equipped modern seaport. It is Po-
land's only one. That is why they
have been so quick about making it.
The First Mouth -Organ.
Although the mouth -organ has
been very popular with our young-
sters for a vorylong time—it has
been estimated that 60,000,000 are
sold every year—extremely little is
known about its origin. Yet there is
a romantic story behind it.
This story is a favorite with Lord
Baden-Powell. He uses it to illus-
trate the 'possibilities of boys and
youths discovering new -things or im-
proving old ones. He tells how a Ger-
man boy was told to get out of the
house by his father. The youngster
went up to the pigeon -loft, and there,
to pass the time, li Set to work an an
idea that had occurred to him. ',the
result was that he Made the first
motaT-organ.,
Very Polite,
True to their reputation -ter pelite
ness, the French traffic authorities on
the -Riviera have Worded their:road
signs and warnings very differontlY
from .the.!brief commands seenen the
English- roadsides, (such as "1)...!:vc
lowly" and "Beware of crossroads."
The road from Nice to Monte Carin
has now been adorned tit dangerous
points with signs saying "Picas()
drive :nicely," written itt English fol.
the benefit of English and American
visitors. Even the worst "speed mer-
chants," it is hoped, Will be moved
by such a charmingly • Worded re-
quest. .
'Aviation Creoles New Words. •
Two neNV words, "enplane" and
-deplane," are to be included in the
forthcoming edition of ,the Amerleau
New Standard Dictionary. The rat -
hag of the two words is impeccable,
It is added, •according to the editc,r
of the dictionary, who says that their
use in air transport is synonymous to
Here and There!
(588)
Successful Canadian Jt bnors In
the International Grain and Hay
Show to be held at i 111014:0, No-
vember 20 -December 0, will ho
awarded liberal bonuses itt addi-
tion to the regular premiums or-
fered in the prize list now being
distributed. ..,The provincial govern-
ments of Quebec, Ontario, Alberta,
Saskatchewaa and Britise Colum-
bia, the Calgary Board of Trade
and the Canedian Pacific Railway
have also aanounced offers of spe-
cial awards for Canadian *exhibi-
• tors, --
That elk are attracted by music
seems to be established by the ac-
tions of two fine specimens of that
animal which stroll out of the
bush when dancing begins at the
Banff Springs Rotel every even-
ing. Under the ballroom windows
they begin to shake their heads and
prance, cavort and caper while the
music lasts, not even stopping to
eat anti] the orchestra has ceased
• playing.
Canadian poultry are rapidly being
recognized throughout the world
as reaching unusually high stand-
ards and recently the S.S. Empress
of Canada, clearing from Vancou-
ver to China, Japan and the Philip-
pines, carried 60 head of registered
white leghorns consigned to Manila
to be used in building up the poul-
try industry of the islands. The
birds came from a poultry farm
near Vancouver.
Captain R. W. McMurray, for the
past five years marine superinten-
dent of the Canadian Pacific's
British Columbia coast steamship
• service at Vancouver and prior to
that d commander with the Cana-
dian Pacific trans-Atlantic fleet,
has been gazetted itt the London
Times of juily 14 captain in the
Royal Naval Reserve, promoted
from the rank of commander,
R.N.R. Captain McMurray, whose
, rank is equivalent to the army
rank of brigadier -general, is one
of the few living Canadians hold-
ing such a high. position in the
R.N.R.
The province of Manitoba last
month celebrated its sixtieth birth-
day. Where 60 years ago the buf-
falo reigned alone, Manitoba far-
mers are now pasturing 360,000
horses and 680,000 cattle and the
pi airie dweller instead of return-
ing to fort or wigwam from his
day's work, spends his evenings in
his radio -equipped home or motors
over good highways to the nearest
city.
WROXETER
Miss 5. Ritchie is spending a few
'weeks with friends in Toronto.
Miss Esther Davey of Hamilton is
visiting at the home of her brother,
Mr. Fred Davey.
Dr, and Mrs. McLeod motored to
Toronto last week for a day.
The Chautauqua will be in Wrox-
eter four days, on Sept. 11, 12, 13,
and 15th.
The split -pea mill has been repaint-
ed, improving the appearance consid-
'erably. The front of the jewelry store •
is also getting a 'fresh 'coat of paint.
Allen, the young son of Mr. and
Mrs. Richard Griffiths, was taken ill
s.gtiitdidse.nly Saturday night. The doctor
diagnosed them
case as spinal enin-
Mr. and Mrs, H. Patterson, Mr. and
Mrs. W. J. McLean and IYIr. and Mrs.
Tom Wright: spent Sunday at Bay-
field,
Misses E. and K. Hazlewood have
returned home from a short trip to
Kitchener, Waterloo and Guelph.
• The Women's Institnte will meet
at the home of Mrs. Sellers, the last
Thursday in August. Subject, Food
values of fruits and vegetables, given
:by the hostess: Come prepared to
take part irt roll call and cookie coun-
er
in charge of Mrs. Brown.
The W,M.S. of the Wroxeter 'Unit-
ed Church held their August meeting
on Thursday with an attendance Of
fifteen, In the absence of the Presi-
dent, Mrs, D. W. Rae presided. After
the usual opening and business,' a
short talk on "Knowledge of our
Hymns" was given by ,.Mrs. T. Gib-
son, giving the history of "O. God of
Bethel."' "Abide With Me" was taken
by Mrs. Wendt, and "What a Friend
the have in joes" by Mr. A. J. Sand-
erson. A very interesting and instruc-
tive talk on "Work among New Can-
adians" was given by MiSs Elva Hup-
fer, who has been teaching in "Stitt -
bury tor a number'of years, and has'
also taken an active part in *Ira'
life. She told in a very able way of
their work among the Finnish • pep-;
plc, and of the Alt People MissionS
at Sudbury and Copper, Cliff. The
meeting was closed by singing "0
Master let me 'walk with The," and
prayer by 11,Irs, Stott.
Mr. and Mrs. Smyth and children
returned hoine after spending a three
Weeks holiday with friends in Toronto
that of "entrain" and "detrain' in iid. otber
Pall1"Y a"vie°' •Mr. and Mrs. AieN. Pleasance, of
A Real
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• Ilealth is always beautiful. It gives
color to the cheeks and sprightly vim •
to the movements of the body. Health
comes from the right kind of food._
• Shredded Wheat with milk is the
Health Food supreme—contains all
• the vitalizing elements of the whole:
• wheat grain in a digestible form—iron
for the blood, calcium for bones and
teeth and proteins for building healthy -
tissue. Delicious with fruits.
Widahomilf
WITH ALL THE BRAN
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Port • Elgin, spent Friday afternOon
with the latter's parents, Mr. and Mrs.
NOT White.
Mr. and Mrs. Robt. 'McAllister and
family of Ethel, spent Sunday with
friends in town.
Miss Cathleen Armstrong of Lon-
don was a guest at the home of Mrs.
Sarah Gibson last week.
Mr. and Mrs, Stanley Gallaher of
Bluevale, spent Sunday with friends
in town.
• • BELMORE
Rev. Mr. and Mrs. Turnbull have
returned home :after a well -spent holi-
day. •
If the dry weathercontinues the
root crops will suffer.
Mrs. W. H. Irwin and Mrs. R. E.
Jackson and son, Kenneth, of Wing-
ham, have returned.home after a week
in the city.
Don't forget the picnic up to Port ,•
Elgin next week.
W. H. Irwin shipped a car of cat-
tle to Toronto Monday morning.
• Threshin
ri 01V.
• is the order of the
ay
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AUCTIONEER
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Men's Fancy Stripe V -Neck
Sweaters ..... .............. ....... .. $2.75
Men's Fancy Silk and Wool
Sweaters $3.00
WORK PANTS and O'ALLS
Men's Khaki stripe pants
something new $1.85
Men's Grey covercloth work
pants $1.75
Men's Work Shirts, fast col-
ors, from $1.00 to
Boys' Blue Chambray Shirts 75c
Boy's Khaki Shirts 95c
All new goods. Note the prices
Orders for Made -to -Measure
Suits Taken any time.
• GROCERIES
G. M. Jelly Powders, 3 for 20c
Peanut Butter in pails, lb. Atte
Quart Bottle Catsup 25e
2 Cans Clark's, Pork and
Beans 25e
Redpath Sugar, 100 lbs. $5,50
BRING US YOUR, EGGS.
WE SAVE YOU MONEY.
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