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The Wingham Advance Times, 1928-02-23, Page 5Thursday, February, z311, :x900' 11 .•14091t I11IY11tiotioli1111iii 0111 ` 1 i 11 I I 1 1 .1.i ill L. I .�!# MM.II Mi I N1 l I�IMIIIIIMIIIIIfIII1Nl11■IflRill�il afl) Mlll i l� • ■_ 111 • y..„... ;lin .„.... .... ■. i... • ..14, .... uulstanding Values �. ■ .11. • which will apt -cal. to:: Mt G Ir the Keenest Buyers • R▪ . -1 it I. 125pairs Hose Wool, andSilk 1 val- ti l- � and Wool, a ue up to $1.25, now . . , , -.69c it Scarfs --In Silk and Georgette Crepe, value up _ to $2,75, now .. .....$L95 • GinghamDresses, House Bargain gg Girls' All Tool Sweaters, February Price ... $1;00 ---� 10 lbs. Granuulated Sugar for ... .. 75c Children's Grey or, White Pullovers, reg. 1.50..1.00 98c s 2 lbs. Best Dates for .. .19c it Heavy English Flannelette, reg. 30c, now . ..25c 5 yds. Heavy Linen Towelling, 25c quality ... $1.00 i Heavy Silk Hose, $2.50 value, now ' ... : $1.95 20 Per Cent. Reduction off Boots and Shoes. I Rack of Women's & Misses' Dresses, your pick 3.95 i_ ▪ 'Flannelette Embroidery, Pink or Blue, now ....5c • Clearing Laces, Cream or White , :..:....5c Women's Bloomers,Silk Rayon, reg..$1.50 `...$1.00 Striped Flannelette, Bargain 7 yds. for ... . $1.00 tit Choice Quality Old Cheese, per lb: ...28c Large Can Finest Sockeye Salmon 50c,for ▪ Clearing Eines,of Women's Rubbers .38c i 5 doz. Men's ;Heavy Overalls, February Price $1'95 15 Boys' Suits, good models, see them in north window .......... . $3.95 .. Men's Heavy Wool Socks, 2 pairs for . ... 95c • Men's Fancy Tweed Suits, Bargain. $14.90 Boys' Pulloverb and Sweater Coats; at .. ...$1.39 1 Fine quality Silk and Wool Socks, now 50c R Men's Heavy Wool Shirts and Drawers... . $1.19 Men's Overcoats to clear at $10.00 to $15.00 Boys' Strong Tweed Bloomers, Bargain .:..$1.49 Boys' Fleece Lined Shirts, only .. .49c Men's Work Shirts, special at 98c TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THIS CLEARANCE OF LADIES' FUR COATS At a Saving of from $25.00 to $50.00 Belgium Coney, reg. $125.00, Sale . .$98.50 Korean Mink, $135, Sahle Collar and Cuff ..99.50 sale .... ;110.00,. One Seal Coat (Self.trim) $150,$ h Sable Collar and Cuffs Special Seal Coat with S Regular $175.00, for . .$135.00 O 150.00 on sale . . . $99.5 One Rat Coat, reg,. $ One No. 1 Seal Coat with best Sable Collar and Cuffs, regular ular $225.00, now ......$175.00 Two Rat ` Coats, regular value $175.00" to 200.00 out the go at $139.50 . Clearance of all Women's and Girls' Coats to 35 per cent. discount. • H. E. ISARD iflllil11m11111111®uIIIrI m I11111111111UAI11■Il11111111um111x111 um IIIIAl■IIIm11 u I m IIN1111■11 a Ill■ • ■ ■ eTs ■ • u ■ at 25 a fee CO. it THE FULL OF THE MOON When I was a kiddie Andv lived ed onthe farm Mother made our home And her garden a • charm, From insects and blight Was her garden immune, Per she planted her seeds In the full of the )noon. With the earliest onions Our table was set; The neighbors all wondered And are wondering yet, Why we had our lettuce And radish so soon; Mother planted the seeds In the full of the noon. Green beans, new potatoes, Came in as a treat I3efore our neighbors' Had any to cat, sL, 6a,d 3: We had our cucumbers Earp in June; Mother planted the -seeds In the full of the moon, The first pumpkin pie ' On our table was found, We delighted in telling The neighbors around; The squash ripened up Like a Chinese balloon; Mother planted the seeds In the Rill o1 the moon. Now I'm sending this secret, And sending it free, If you don't wish to try it That's nothing to me; The farmers, I'm certain, Will prove it a boon If they sow all their seeds In the full of the moon. T. A. Calhoun, PROPHET'S ADDRESS OF rga8 OF WINGHAM HIGH SCHOOL (Continued from page e,) ties to the innocent childreh'so eager to learn. None of the teachers of the staff that T. knew in my time were there now. The position of principle was held by Jack Braekenb.ury, Nettie Honzuth was Mathematical teacher; French and English were taught by Erma Finch, while Laurette McBur- ney handled the Latin and History, Before I left this building I met the janitor who was cleaning the cob- webs off the ceiling, It was now George Allen who hardly needed to stand on a chair to do this work, As 'I went from this building out on the .boys campus I met Goldie Wheeler, a tall manly figure, teacher There: was now a magnificent park here, where the citizens both old and young could enjoy many happy hours. The park contained a fountain, a play ground for the children, many flower beds in different shapes and beautiful shrubbery. .A large number of fine buildings had been erected both in the residential and business sections. As I was strolling about the town I turned around and beheld with won- derment a man some six foot three who looked with a strange stare at me. .He wore a tuft of hair upon his chin, a fine moustache well waxed but rather thin, and his hair had turned a funny shade of gray. But not, with age. Oh, no, it looked as though per- oxide had been used but had stub- bornly refused to act correctly. When he had scanned me o'er he said, 'Geo. Young you've met before." I said I surely have but tell me why you-ve changed so much. "'Tis a said sad story," be replied in a strong deep tone, "As you know I have always been a great friend of the ladies.. Sometime ago I thought I would be- stow a blessing on - all womankind, and so I made aire aration for dye- ing - p p o ye ing hair and was turn it either dark or fair. But I first experimented on myself. 0 horrors! when I took a little peep inthe mirror., That night I didn't sleep a wink." Poor Salt sad- lysighed s ghed and stroked with care that little tuft of hair upon his. chin. He went his way and did not even cast a look upon a pretty girl who passed. Large g posters announced an ap- proaching proaching election. I noticed one in particular which read, "Vote for George Mines and abolish the 'bob- bed? hair and dancing, as well as many other existing evils." Among the business students of the W. H,' S., Margaret Finley is living a life of retired ease having massed a fortune by the .manufacture of new complexion creams and powders. Wallace Gurney has fallen heir to Gurney's Glove Works and is ably as- sisted by Mary Mitchell. Mary. King and Norma Coutts control the candy and gum business in the the much en- larged Wingham. Cora' Phair and Gertrude Kelly are proprietors of a Hairdressing and Beauty Parlor, ad- vertising permanent waves at four dol- lars a ripple, while the rivalry still continues over Carmen. Henry Fin- ley is now a butcher and is noted for the bologna which he makes by sub s;tituting certain parts of the old Ford for the horse, carrying out the idea o the car replacing the horse every- where. Carl Deans had a couple of sessions in Parliament but found that it did not pay well enough. He:, is now president of a long line of "Cash and Carry Stores." Eva McInnes is wife of a Canadian Bank of Commerce Banker. Jack Mc- Kibben turned his studious mind and winning personality to good advan- tage. He now owns tea rooms on Josephine St. and has turned part of the building• into a self service boot shining and chewing gum parlour. He is a great success and just to keep his hand in the business. Jack takes an occasional turn, at hash -slinging, and when an esPecially nice looking girl conies in he insists on her allowing the proprietor to personally demon- strate on emonstrate'on her shoes. Mildred Redmond married a weal- thy old man for his money and enter- tains hint by ,frequent outbursts in French and Latin, and that reminds me of Velma Lennox, •who, with Jan- et McLean has organized a spinster's club. They have certain rules to which all members .must' submit, such as "never speak to a man who smokes. or swears, never walk on same side of the street with a man who chews to- bacco, etc." Some of their 'followers. are Margaret Currie, Lillian Hopper, Beth Barnard, Betty- Walker, Olive Garnis and .Reta„Hastie. At the corner of Josephine an John. streets I' heard a sharp voice behind me say, "Wingham seems quite stran- ge to me ilthough.I spent my High School days here long ago. Could you tell rite, just the way to go to Robertson's Garage" he asked. And I. looked at this inquiring mnan I re- cognized hien to be the former Hard- ware Specialist, W. T. McFadzean, He handed a business card which showed that. "he was a surgeon of some note, his slogan being,"He who WINGHAM Al VANC: waits to die comes straight to me, says .a last so long to all leas friends arid: three minutes afterward he's gone", "Gone where?" I asked. "How should I know" was the calm reply, "For some go up and some go down below, But I must be off to Robert- son's Garage, for I• see it in the ,dis-, tante," Bill Brawley is proprietor of ,the famous "Waltz Inn and Stagger Out" Cafe in Wingham and has for his partner Dorothy Stephenson, while Marie Mines, Margaret Mitchell, Dor- othy, orothy, Aitkens and Elizabeth Ross, ab- ly serve as waitors, Near the Arena I met Louise Thompson' and Glen Garnis and we were soon joined by Vesta. Fox and Morris Christie. On Vesta's left- hand a brilliant ring winked and blink- ed at me. I said "Tis years since I have seen any of you." Morris spoke up quickly and said, "I am a very mo- dest man you know, for years the High School has been running just for me to teach Commercial 'work, the street cars and beautiful parks too are mine." I felt quite insignificant in this man's presence. But Louise saved the situation by saying that they must be going. I was then left alone and I. kept on wallt,rg to see what I could find out, Much commotion and amusement was being caused among the citizens as the "Elliott and King" circus was in town. On their advertisements whom should I- see enthroned on the neck of Jumbo, the African elephant with huge orange ostrich plumes •like palm branches) around her head but Hazel Wilson. Just behind her was shown Wilma Dow perched between the two humps o fa camel, - Now and again several blocks distant the loud sharp voices of the announcers could be heard. These were Allan Garniss, as the fat man, and Gordon Mundell, as an acrobat. At length another stranger on .me gazed, what a fine crop of whiskers he had raised. He was indlined to be quite stout and a merry twinkle show- ed in his eyes as he said, "Don't pass Red Thompson by." He told me he was the city coroner and his busi- ness was 'progressing wonderfully. But then I asked is there a Mrs. Thompson yet? He made quick reply "well rather I shouldsay so, and you. have often seen her too,my wife is "Mushie" of the Bluevale road". With this he left while I was beginning to understand that this match had begun in the days at the old High. "Much excitement was caused when Grace Mitchell's pet, a good sized "Stork" was nearly run over by a pas- sing automobile. Grace imn, ediately fainted when she thought the "Stork" might be killed. Olive Kilpatrick, who had abandoned a brilliant teach- ing career for the, greater joys of dish washing, Nancy Taylor, toe -dancer, and Grace's sister, Mary, were with Grace when' she regained conscious- ness. When Grace again had her pet in her arms she cried, "Stork! Stork! my darling! When you die, I die tool' It was a very pathetic and trying in- cident. Olive Hoinuth, Beryl Cunningham and Ruth Armstrong are running a successful millinery ,shop. Durward Preston, President of the 1927-28 Literary Society, has gone in- to seclusion and become a hermit, be- cause he said the women would not leave hire alone. Bessie. Wylie and Wilma Johnston are both married. Bessie has taught her husband carefully to carry coal and wood, and when she speaks he says not a word. 'While Wilma lives near Currie's School and regulates her house from husband down to mouse. Kenneth Hicks, having become weary of his task of delivering milk, used his education in inventing a ma- chine which not only milked: the cows but also distributed the milk auto- matically to the customers and collec- ted the tickets. Our friend Margaret Stoltz, whose name is surrounded by gold and laurel glories, is an authoress and earns her living' by writing stories. Blanche Cunningham is a lecturer and gives very interesting talks on "Health and Diet", while her most fanned lecture is on "Why be fat when it 'isi so easy to«be thin," She is accompanied ori' her tours by Edna Henderson' who hands out pamphlets at the door and acts as companion and chaperon fur the lecturer. Among those who have, fortunately escaped the holy, bonds of matrimony is Alex. McBurney, He has the only trade an Irishman would have, grow- ing potatoes, eta He has declared he couldn't have a woman puttering around his lovelygarden all the time, and if he did need one now and then it would be cheaper to hire her by the day than the ' life time, Poor chap such a notion. Gertrude Hamil- ton is a Mathematical teacher. : A few years ago she was almost deported frees her country because she had pro- ved conclusively that the square on the hypotenuse of a right angled tri- angle is not equal to the sum of the squares on the other two sides. An- gella Gibbons is Making wonderful esee S'N4u�,ew. progress in research work among mice, snails, toads, earthworms, etc., and spends some of her time follow- ing the instructions of a noted French scientist to prolong her life to at least one hundred and fifty years, so she would have a career in he voca- tion: of the boys P, "I". Goldie informed me that 'Mr. Phillips now travelled from coast to coast in Canada, inspec- ting cadet corps; in the various cen- tres. Goldie, I learned had accepted his present position after Jean had be- come Mrs, Dr. Stonehouse, Goldie's idea was that if he could not have Jean for his wife he would at least live in the same town. It was through. hire that I also' found that Gordon was a very successful doctor, and has a large practice, I soon departed from this place and scanned other parts of Winghain, i saw that our old town had most of its streets paved and that they"everestill lined with beautiful . shade trees. Mr: Tanner is now Mathematical Master in a large city school •and is very well liked and meeting with great success in his work there. W. A. Henderson is principal of a ladies' school; Edwin Phipps is also. a teacher there and never stops flirt- ing with girls, : In the sante college Jack Wright in on the verge of a ner- vous breakdown, due to his efforts to teach the°pupils the irregularities of, French verbs. Grace Fry married an undertaker, and is living happily in. London. She always dresses in deep mourning to carry out the thought and advertise- ment of her husband's profession. Grace had a very difficult time, when it came to deciding which to take a "Young" man or the undertaker, but she decided wisely in marrying for. love. Bruce Fox, the most famed lawyer of the city settles up the es- tates of the deceased. Mary Douglas, tall and beautiful, is playing in her latest stage success, "Broken Hearts". Her manager W J. Henderson, pleases 'the audience be- tween the acts with his toe -dancing Over in New York I see Nora Bea- ttie organist in one of New York's largest cathedrals. Kate King pianist in a Broadway Theatre which she packs to the doors, while the Colonel has become a second Valentino. Several years ago Mr. Brackenbury was given the position of Minister of Education and now resides in Toron- to. He has gained fame and is very popular among his colleagues. • But this is not the only source of his pop- ularity, . as the students all over the province loved him, for he had al- ready taken one subject off the High School, course and was contemplating subtracting another; in short, he was making life easier for the poor burd- ened down students. In Toronto at the corner of Queen and Young streets, the traffic cop had a 'lively existence but managed very well by usually keeping the accidents down to one a day, and he was none other than Joe Ellacott, now six feet, six inches tall. At the' Princess theatre "The Perfect Shiek", written by Harry Garniss and starring Z'ylda Webster and Bert Thompson was drawing larger crowds than could be contained in the building. Down at the Union Station a "Fly- er" came whizzing in and a flock] of red caps rushed head -long to reach. the passengers when they came off. Among these I recognized . a few whom I knew to be Harold Mitchell, Ross Vokan, Russel Copeland and Jack Carr. Soon the porter alighted and I realized that George peacock made an exceptionally good one. Then the passengers began to stream out, I saw two couples cone off one after another, who were literally covered with confetti. A double wedding! Surely it wasn't Evelyn McKay and "Little Henry" and Bertha McGee and Norman Rintoul. Yes, it could be nobody else. I wished to congrat- ulate them but it was useless for me to try and reach then in such a crowd, so I had to rest content with- out even shouting at them. They hur- ried along with the moving crowd and were soon lost to my view. After Miss, Finch had left Wing - ham several years ago, she was given the appointment to the first chair of English Literature at Toronto Uni- versity, and still holds that position. I was then transported northward and I see that Marion Simpson is most of the time with her husband who has been exploring around the North Pole. Oh yes, she goes with him. She explained to one lady that she had to care for the tape measure, so she could measure the Pole when they, sight it: Miss Gordon has gone up north to see if she could get artistic ideas for art up these, and if the climate suits.l her she intends toopen a school of creative art there, and start a series of Olympic Games among the citizens. In Winnipeg, 'Wilbert Tiffin, Bead of a large insurance company, is very fond of talking about the immortality of modern ideas, and spends his Sat- urday nights coining gents for wise and otherwise, In the same city Ross ▪ IIIIIIMINXISKE c A�1 lw ■ 1 1 ■ ■ ■ N 0 1 0110 ■ to■ ® 1 A. MILLS, WINGHAM LIIIINMEMENIUMMINEMMINIMUMEMEINIM 1 1 it OEM Si FLANNELS, -, -- - 54" All Wool English Flannels, Special, yd. , .$1.19 60" Import AH Wool Flannels,'"Checks, stripes $2,19 DRESS GOODS --.„. 56" All Wool Botany Serge, Navy, Black, yd..$2.19 54" Wool Blanket Cloth, red only, special yd. ;$2,25 56" Coatings, reg. values to ,$4.00, for $1.95 COTTONS 36" Fine English Factory Cotton, reg. 25c, for ,20c 36" Bleached Cotton, fine Eng. make, reg. 25c at 20c 42" Circular Pillow Cotton, best import gtaal- ' ity, reg. 65c for .......50c. 81" Bleached Sheeting, Wabasso Best makeskes regular $1.25, for .. . .95c -- TOWELLING -- Pure linen hand & roller towelling, Blue, Red border, plain, striped linen crash, 30c for 23c Fancy Checked all linen towelling heavy quality 19" wide, colors of Blue, Hello, Rose and Gold, regular 35c, for 29e HOSE ---- IF 1 Silk and Wool Hose in new shades, splendid si wearingqual,, size 8% to 10, reg. 1,25 for 79c in All Wool, Silk and Cotton and Cashmere Hose 11/ Misses' and Ladies' size 8 to 10/$1.25 for.59c at CORSETS is 1 Two lots of broken lines and sizes 19 to 32, val- 1 ues to $2.00 for 95c, values to $3.50 for .$1.50 o YARN a Monarch Down,2 oz. Balls, special 2 for .. ..45c- 1 seeelveeterseemeeees ]yeas sesseveseasete ai1eriearresame\esasetS\�jvls�u\2K essevaestesseeeessesitres Beet We handle Stationery and. Su plies --for-- Schools, Business Offices and Churches ooks, Magazines and Newspaper Dealers H. B. LLIOTT Bookseller WINGHAM and Stationer ONTARIO a - 11Y•Itli iYanfas Harrison, a Drugless Physician, has made a great name for himself, hav- ing cured a medical doctor of pneu- monia. Miss McKee became so weary of teaching Latin and History' to Form V that she gave up teaching and join- ed the ranks of the benedicts. They are said to be living happily ever since, . Myrtle Isard rejected one suitor af- ter another and now she lives in New Westminster and keeps house for her brothers. I next find myself in China, where I see Billie Gibson toiling strenuous- ly. She told me that she had had hard times as a missionary on the Yangste River. Her work had made her look old, and wary, very wary. Wandering up the Ganges in the Himalaya Mountains for soot]), I suet a guide, who stooping low made a bow, profound and in the usual man- ner said, "Lo, I will take you any- where you want to go." 'For a mo- ment we looked blankly at each oth- er, when 'I recognized him to be Al- lan lefacKenzie. He informed me that Grant MacKenzie's oratorical powers were as a, stepping stone' in gaining for Mae the office of foreign ambas- s'ador and that he resided at Delhi. I next visited the Holy Land, and at one of the four gates of Jerus- alem I met an auspicious looking gen, Liman with long white flowing robes. The turban on his head and his white beard as he was heard chanthig, "Then sound the load timbral o'er Egypt's dark seas", most assuredly gave,' him a foreign aspect. But who, gazing at that figure and looking into his face would not reeirgn izc 1' re- neth Somers, • looking much the same as when he used to take the tickets at the show thirty years ago. For some years ]3ill Taylor has oc- cupied a prominent .pulpit ian the Sa- J hara Desert. Warren Bamford al ,o lives in Africa. He has 'a jumbo to train elephants and other ansa.`. which he will later , send to other lands. He is rejoicing that he hadn't struck a snap, but :he has a cinch at last. But, lo, what strange spectrum nn my sight appears, a vision of myself grown old and haggard and very gray, wandering still wearily up that old hill] to the W. H. S., once more my Upper School Composition to at- tempt. But so great was the shock. of this vision that, with a start, back. to this earth I came and cried in a loud and lusty voice, "Long live the students and staff of the Wingham High School,".. I thank you, A. F. Yvonne MacPherson. '1'or-nto--An ontimistie note with regard to the market for Cal -melee I neee was struck by A, 3. Mills representative of the British Min. isti y of Food in ' conference with pnelcers here. Ne expressed the cons v etien that Canadian farmers would be esery po. rly advised to slacker in hog production at the present tine, stating that an improvement rn the British market was in sight, with marry of the countriee which hail been flooding Britain with baser. during the past year being pae. tically out of the business. Witharound a thousandguests eentet« in the Ball Room, the Mair. Dining Room and the Jacques Car tier Rooin of the Chateau Pron. tonne, Quebee City, that fumble-, hotel presented a remarkable seetn�r on the occasion of the New Year's . ve festivities. Among the eueste were the Governor of Now Jcreey and officials of the state, while im partanf parties came up from Nryo York, Boston, Philadel phist, Be IS i - mare, Chicago and other citiesf, the United States.