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,WINGHAM FALL FAIR
Wingham Fall Fait • was a decided
success this year, The exhibits in La-
dies Work, Dairy and Provisions and
Fruit were the largest seen here for
, years, ' in/ fact a couple of judges
claim they were the largest they had
ever been asked to•judge. Since mov-
ing from the race track the fair have:
not had races and this year there was
not a single gameof chance or any
'midway tent. It was probably the
most exclusively agricultural show
held in We tern Ontario this year.
Almost eve other show 'will have
horse races or a cat game of some
kind or other.
Following is'a list of the prize winn-
ers in the toutside section of the fair,
which were judged on the last day of
the fair:
HEAVY HORSES--
General Purpose -Team in harness,
Arch. Kirkland.
Agricultural -Brood Mare, foal at
side, Alex. McDonald, J. T. Moore,
Peter Fowler; Spring foal, Alex. Mc-`
Donald, Teeswater, Peter Fowler,
Jas. Stewart; One -year-old Filly or
Gelding, Alex. McDonald; Wingham,
Geo. Deyell, Thos: Taylor; Two -year -
,old Filly or Gelding, Jos. Gaunt, Gray
Bros., Thos. Taylor; Team in harness,
Duncan Grant,' Chas. Stewart, R. R.
Fear. - •
Heavy Draft -Brood Mare, regis-
tered C. N. R., foal at side, Alex. Mc-
Donald, Wingham; Spring Foal, re-
gistered or eligible, Alex. McDonald,
Wingham; Brood, foalat side, J. B6y-
./ edges & Son, D. Deacon; Spring Foal,
J. Brydges & Son, D. Deacon; One-
year -old. Filly or Gelding, Gray Bros.;
Two-year-old Filly or 'Gelding, G. T.
Dale, Gray Bros.; Team in harness,
Wm. Watson, Jas. Forster, Alex. Ms -
Donald, Wingham; Best three-year-
-old Heavy Draft or Agr. special prize,
Gray Bros., `Orville Tiffin..
Best Tandem Team driven by one
man,1st. $10, donated by J. A. Mc
'Lean, 2nd. $8.00, donated by, Rae &
Thompson, Wm. Watson.
Best Colts sired by "Drumburle Fa-
vorite"
avorite" two years and under. Prizes
$4.00, 3.00, 2.00 and 1.60, donated by
the President, 1. J. Wright, Alex. Mc-
Donald, Teeswater, W;, A. Mines, J.
Purdon, J. Moore.
(Continued on page two)
Local. and General News' of
Interest to The Community'
The Western Foundry is now busy
with orders and working every. -day.
Special display of Dresses, Thurs-
day, October 8th, at King Bros.
A jar" of fruit or jelly will be gladly
received on Hospital Donation Day,
Tuesday, Oct. 13th. •
Turnberry District Meeting of the
L. O. L. will be held in the. Orange
Hall,' Wingham, on Friday evening,
Oct. 16th.
In the Presbyterian 'Church last
Sunday evening, Mis's Gurney render-
ed a solo in a'manner which showed
good taste combined with ability.
Political Meetings
Gossard Corset Demonstration,
Monday, Oct. 12th,. From x to 5.3o,
at King Bros,
Mrs. Copeland, sr. who purposes ma-
king her house into a Duplex, has one
half of it newly decorated throughout,.
and says it will be ready for .rent
soon.
W. E. Brawley, C. P. R. station
agent, has been'successful- in h\ving
his company erect a` -couple of splen-
did large cattle sheds in the stock yard
west of the Salt Works. They area
credit to the town.
Wingham bowlers weredefeated by
Teeswater when playing to retain the
Henning trophy here, on Tuesday last,
although they managed to have 'the
smallest score at the end of the game.
A Tea Meeting and Anniversarx
Services will be held in the Presby-
terian Church, Whitechurch, on Sun-
day and Monday, Oct. i8th and igth.
Rev. G. M. Dunn, a former pastor will
be the preacher. Admission to tea
50c and 25c.
Hospital Donation Day, Tuesday,
Oct. 13th. Have your donation ready,
it will be called for.
Mr. Geo. Spotton, the Conservative
candidate in North Huron; is holding
public meetings in Jamestown on. Wed
••nesday night of this week, and in Wro-
xeter on Thursday: night. Tariff as
related to Farm Products will be dis-
-cussed in detail. 'Opposition speakers
invited.
'Hospital Donation Day
The Women's Auxiliary will have
their annual donation day for Wing -
ham General Hospital, on Tueeday
next, Oct. 13. Donations of canned
fruits, Jams, Jellies, Vegetables, But-
ter, Eggs, etc. will be gratefully re-
ceived and will be called for on the
above date. This is a worthy cause
.and deserves the support of every pu-
„ blit minded citizen.
'Our New Serial Story
Readers of The Advance -Times
have been much pleased with the ser-
ial story "The Smoking Flax" which
has just been concluded. This week
.we start out:.new serial story "The In
,$tan Drum" which we believe our yea-
.tiers will find just as interesting. The
story is written by William Mac -
'Hardy • and- Edwin Balmer, and it is
,illustrate by Irwin Meyers.
If you are considering subscribing
-to this paper, this issue is the one to
start with to get all of this bright
story.
We are pleased to learn that Mr. J.
A; Bosman, son of Mr. and. Mrs. Har-
ry Bosman of Morris has been suc-
cessful in getting his M. A. degree at
Queens University, Kingston.' Mr.
Bosman is a graduate of Wingham
High School. He is at present attend?
ing the Ontario College of Educat-
tion.
Special Demonstration of Gossard
Corsets at King Bros., Monday Oc-
tober 12th,, from: 1 to 5.30:
Among those who attended the fun-
eral of the late Mr. Roderus,'wei.e:-
Mrs. E.`Wadland of Sarnia; Mr. and
Mrs. F. Burge, Mrs. Wm. Dean, Mrs.
Wm. Preston and Mr, Geo. Moore. of
Toronto; Mr. Logan of London; Mr.
and Mrs. Chapman . of Seaforth; Mrs.
Jas. Walker, Messrs. Will and Austin
Huestoit of Gorrie, Messrs. Ed.. and
Arthur Ney of Stratford.
Rev. M. M. Bennett of Wingham
United Church preached anniversary
services in Blyth on Sunday. Rev.
W. D. McIntosh preached an . elo-
quent sermon here in the morning and
Rev. Mr. Barnaby of Blyth, was the
speaker at night. Next Sunday Rev.
Mr. McIntosh will occupy the pulpit
of Bluevale United Church and Rev.
Mr. Bennett will have charge of both
services at Wingham.
Five Lillies Flour (made frem all
No. x Manitoba Wheat) you cannot
get better flour anywhere- $3.go per
bag. Quality Flour (blended flour)
makes` a very fine loaf of bread and
has sweeter taste than any other
flour.; You will like it at $3.70 per
bag. Both these ' flours are guaran-,
teed to give satisfaction or money re-
funded. Shorts $28 per ton. Bran
$26 per ton. Our 'shopping mill runs
every day; fine chop and quick ser-
vice. Howson & Howson.
EAST HURON TEACHERS
'The 52nd meeting of the E. H. T.,
was held in the Parish Hall, about 140
teachers being present. The chair
was occupied by the president, A. L.
Posliff, principal of the Wingham pub-
lic school. Devotional exercises were
led by Rev. H. W. Snell, and an 'ad-
dress of welcome was delivered by
Mayor. Willis.
An excellent report of the O. E. A.
convention was given by the delegate
4V1iss Margaret Willis, in which the
main features of the meetings were in-
terestingly presented to the teachers
The paper of Miss B. Carter, of No. 6
Turnberry, was full of helpful sugges-
tions to teachers of primary classes in
arithmetic. In the afternoon Miss
Sotheran, of the Wingham staff, kept
the poachers interested in her ;outline
of art and construction work in the
primary classes, showing the work of
her classes in developing in pictures
the thought of their lessons.
Mr. Davison, of the Hamilton Nor-
mal School, gave most interesting
talk on teaching how to think, placing
this phrase of the teacher's work high-
est among his. activities. Dr. Field
gave a literary talk on Hugh Miller's
schools and • schoolmasters, ranking
him -"high among Victorian prose wri-
ters, and placed before his audience
the means by whictt as a stonemason
he'became one of the leading geolog-
ists, and because he loved good books,
one of the leading journalists and wri-
ters.
Friday Sessions
The election of officers"resulted lit
the following selections:
President, N. M. Geddes.
Vice -President, -Miss Ida Cornish.
Sec.-Treas., A. F. Johns, all of Clin-
ton.
Librarian, Dr., Field..'
Executive Committee, Miss Ruby
Taylor, Mr. Earl Webster, Mr, Wil-
fred Bisbee, staff of Clinton Public
Scliool.
Auditors, Mr, R. J. Beattie,. Mr, F,
Fowler.
Delegate to O. E. A., Miss Mary
McNaughton:
A, geography lesson on the rivers
of Ontario was a very instructive it-
em on the morning program, and was
greatly enjoyed by, all. Later all 'ad-
journed to the school' grounds where
a series of games was run off by Mr:
Posliff and his pupils.
In his second lecture Mr. Davidson
spoke about "Arithmetic and its cor-
relations". He believes that the train-
ing received in any subject is most
•
useful in that particular suyect. Arith-
metic is most valuable as a practical
subject. Many powers of the mind
are exercised in it, and the powers' of
analysing, arranging, combining facts
and habits of conciseness, clearness,
accuracy and concentration are form
,ed by it. Good English, proper ab-
breviations and punctuation should al
ways be required.
Mr. Brackenbury, Principal of the
Wingham. High School, ,gave an in-.
•structive lesson on the "Honey Bee,"
He described the various parts of the
insect and their uses and told in a
very interesting manner about many
of the activities of the bee in its col-
ony or cummunity life.
The concluding paper of the pro-
gram was given by Mr. Crawford of
Seaforth, upon the subject, "Spelling",
He% believes the teaching of spelling
may be improved by teaching approp-
riate wordsin each grade, and by a
good selection of words. The new
spelling book is written and arranged
very systematically and provides for
tests, study and review lessons. Pro-
per pronunciation and anlysss of long
words greatly assists in obtaining cor-
rect spelling. Short, well prepared les-
sons are usually best. Records of er-
rors should be kept for frequent re-
ie s.
TIN Resolution Committee present-
ed the following report:
"Be it resolved that we tender a
vote bf thanks to the people of Wing -
ham who Have helped make this con-
vention a success. •
."A vote of thanks to Mayor Willis
for his address of welcome.
"A vote of thanks to all who have
ttakenpart in the proceedings, partic-
ularly to Mr. Davidson.
"Resolved that a copy of our 'pro-
ceedings be sent to the leading pap-
ers of the Inspectorate:
"Resolved that in future every mem-
ber should make some effort to take
an active part in all discussions during
the convention."
The singing of the National Anth-
em brought a very successful conven-
tion to a close.
The next convention will be held in
Clinton. •
A. L. Posliff, President; A. F. Johns
Secretary -Treasurer.
Charlie *ay!,
b . re Otte tolerate
frowire of pants,
.3t,
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HARVEST HOME SERVICES
Rev. C. E. Jeakins
Rector of St.. judes Church, Brant-
ford, a former esteemed rector of St.
Pauls Church, Wingham, who preach -
d. Thanksgiving Services here on Sun-
day and lectured at the :entertainment
on Monday night.•
The Late Thomas Forbes
The late Thomas Forbes was born
in the County of York in 1853 the son
of Margaret and Robt. Forbes. When
a very small child the family moved
to Wawanosh and Mr. Forbes has liv-
ed in, the vicinity of Wingham ever
since. Several years were spent in
town and during that time he was a
member of Winghani Council. He
was a member of St. Pauls Church for
over thirty years, and was also a pion-
eer member of the Orange Associa-
tion.
Of late years the family have lived
on the Bluevale Road just east of the
town, and only very recently sold the
property to Mr. Chas. Blackhall and
moved to their house on Francis St.,
just a couple of weeks ago.
The funeral services were conduct-
ed in St. Pattie Church on Friday af-
ternoon .by Rev. H. W. Snell and were
under auspices of L.O.L. No. 794wh
assisted with the -service at the grave.
The pallbearers were: Dr. Stewart, J.
W. McKibben, J. J. Kerr, J. Brydges,
Albert Sanderson and A. G. Smith. U
Besides his widow, deceased is sur-
vived by two daughters, Mrs. C. H.
Simpson; of Santa Monica, Cal. and
Mrs. C. C. Cannon of Cleveland.
Inter School Field Day
The Inter School Field Meet in
which the High Schools of Drayton,
Harriston, Listowel, Mount Forest.
Kincardine, Arthur and Wingham
will compete, will take place in Wing-
ham Town Park on Friday, Oct. g.
Boys and girls events will run con-
currently. Morning events commence
at 10.3o and will be as follows:
Boys Events -I, 44o yds. run jr.; 2,
44o yds. run sr.; 3, Pole Vault jr.
(Elimination); 4, Pole Vault sr.,
(Elimination); 5, High jump jr., (Fi-
nal); 6, High Jump, sr., (Final); 7,
Shot Put jr., (Sinal); 8, Shot Put sr.,
(Final), Inter -School Shoot, (In. the
Armouries).
1
Girls' Events -I, High Jump jr.,
(Elimination); 2, High Jump sr.,
(Elimination); 3, Throwing 12 in.
Soft Ball jr.; 4, Throwing Soft Ball,
sr.; 5, Running Broad Jump, jr.; 6,
Running Broad Jump sr.
'Afternoon (commencing at 1.30
sharp) -Boys, 9, High Jump, jr., (Fi-
nal); 1o, High Jump sr., (Final); Ix,
Pole Vault, jr., (Final); 12, Pole Vault
sr., (Final); 13, Running Broad Jump
jr.; x4, Running Broad Jump sr.; rs,
Running Hop -Step -Jump jr.; x6,
Running Hop -Step -Jump sr.; 17, zoo
yd."Dash jr,; x8; loo yd. Dash sr.; 19,
220 yd, Dash jr,; 2o, 220 yd, Dash sr.;,
21, Relay Race, (open 4 boys 220 yds)
2a, Hurdle Race, jr., (70 yds, 5 Hurd);;
23, Hurdle Race sr., (7o yds. 5 Hurd.);
Girls --7, High Jump jr, (Finals); 8,
High Jump sr„ (Finals); g, 75 yd.
Dash jr.; 1o, 75' yd. Dash sr.; 11, Hur-
dle Race jr., (70 yards, 5 Hurdles, 2
ft. 6 in); 12, Hurdle Race sr., (7o yds.,
5 Hurdles 2 ft. 6 in,); z3, Pass Ball
(Team of xa,sover and under hand to
hand); x4,' Relay Race (Open, 4 girls,
75 yards each).
There will also be a girls basket-
ball tournament in the afternoon,
Admission: -=Children Free. Adults
25c.
W n harn Population Increased
in Spite Of E p y Factories
Only ordinary routine business was
attended to at the regular monthly
meeting of the Wingham Town
Council held on Monday night. Mr.
E. J. Mitchell was the only absent
member from the board.
The assessor's roll was returned. In
a letter to. the council Mr. McLean
explained that the reason the roll was
not complete was due to the fact that
we have yet to receive returns - from
several sources on income. Probably
never before has the town as a whole,
the places of business and the private
residences been as clean and neat as
they' are this year, There is however,
a couple of large factories owned by
the C. F. M. which we would all like
to have running full blast but until
such time as the owners will sell
them at a reasonable figure, we must
be contented. Wingham would be at
the.top of the ladder if we could have
200 or 30o men employed in these
shops and they would be' there if
these factories were still privately
owned. •
The following summary of the stac-
ticts are: -The actual value of land
assessed at $229,975; the value' of
Building's on a so to 65 per cent..val-
ue, $808,o6o; the value of property as-
sessed for schools only $25;750; tate va-
lue of local improvements only; is
$280,750;. the value of business assess-
ment is $92,1oo; the value: of income
will run about $25,000, making a to-
tal of $1,461,63o. the value" of Gov-
ernment property $53,o0o; the value
of Municiliai property is $170,000; the
value of School property is $45,0oo;
the value of Church property is
$63,000.
The population has increased some
25 or 3o being due to the number at-
tending schools and colleges. The
number of deaths runs about 20 and
births about 15.
There are 357 hale persons between
the ages of 21 and 6o. Dogs continue
at about 80. Mr. McLean concluded
his letter by suggesting that the coun-
cil go back to the spring assessing
and that taxes should be collected in
only two instalments viz 3oth of June.
and ;14th of December as that would
give the clerk a betfer chance to pre-
pare the voter's list.
More Fresh Raspberries
Mr. O. V. Hayden brought a nice
freshly plucked raspberry branch into
the editor's sanctum on Tuesday ev-
ening. There were several large red
berries on it He plucked it from a
sheltered spot near the C. N. R. track.
'Mission Bands Of Maitland Pres.
The Annual Rally of Mission Bands
of Maitland Presbytery was held'ain
'St. Andrew's Church, Wingham., Sat-
urday, Sept. 19, at 2 o'clock. Mrs.
J. F. Linklater, Teeswater,. Mission
Band Secretary presided. After sing-
ing hymn .599, Miss Florence Oliver,
Brussels, led in prayer, Mrs. Doug-
las Lucknow, gave the Scripture read-
ing. Roll, Call was answered by the
Presidents leading in sentence pray-'
ers and each band standing. Hymn
399. Secretaries reports were receiv-
ed. Brussels Ethel, Lucknow, Moles-
worth, South Kinloss, Teeswater,
Whitechurch and Wingham, all report-
ed splendid work. The following pro-
gramme was them given. Reading,
Dungannon, paper in two parts
"Young Canada in China", Wingham,
Chorus, "We are a Missionary Band",
Brussels, Reading "Patch. Work Win-
dow", Miss Helen Arkell, Teeswater,
Chorus, Lucknow, Reading "It is
Nothing Try on 0 Christian?" South.
Kinloss, Chor is "All the World for
the King", Teeswater. Discussion on
various problems in Mission Band
Work followed.. Mrs. Linklater
stressed the needof greater earnest-
ness and faithfulness .in the work. Mrs.
'Ferric closed with prayer.
A social hour followed when tea
Was served.
Christmas Greeting Cards
Not three months till Christmas.
Before buying your Christmas folders
look through the bright new stock of
cards at The Advance -Times Office.
We are able to sell your Christmas
Greeting' cards at less than other pla-
ces and agents for we do the printing
In our own office and do not send
them away to have your name printed .
on them.
Those Tape Lines Are Going
We wish to again remind our sub-
scribers that they will have to renew
their subscriptions very early this year
in order to get one of those neat little,
tape -lines which we are giving as a
preniium.to each subscriber paid twel-
ve months in advance. People are
conting in every day and pa3ritigup
for their paper in order to get 'ithe
premium. And several who have
ceived one have been back again to. ..
have the paper sent to a son or daugh-
ter who live in the city. Get yours
how.
Bowling at Lucknow
Twenty-seven rinks participated in
the Lucknow Annual Scotch "Double's
Bowling Tournament. Six local rinks
took in the event, Jack Mason and A.
M. Crawford won the Trophy taking.r`''I
the final from A. Turner and J. Cant-
een of Lucknow. The prize being
beautiful pure wool blankets.
Both the Association prizes went to
Lucknow, G. Smith and T. Watson.
winning final from. T. Reid and Ed.
Hodgins. Consolation event was won
by R. Sproat and E. Bright. of Sea -
forth with D.'A,rcher and J. Agnew of
Lucknow runners-up.
Officers of League
The Young People's League of the
United Church, Wingham, organized.
for the coming season on Monday
night and elected the following of -
fibers:
Past Pres. -George Taylor,
Pres. -Stanley Hutchinson.
1st. Vice -Elmer Wilkinson.
and. Vice -Miss Sotheran,
3rd. Vice -Roy McLeod. ,
4th. Vice -Miss Phyllis Johns, Miss `^�
Jeanette Murray.
Secretary -Miss Vesta Fox.
Treas.--Morris Christie.
Pianist -Miss Marjorie Gibson.
Assist. Pianist -Miss Norah Beattie.
Harvest Hoare Services
The Annual Harvest Thanksgiving
Services were held in St. Paul's
Church last Sunday; when large con-
gregations were present both morn-
ing and evening. Rev. C. E. Jeakins
of S. Jude's Church, Brantford, preach-
ed two very ; eloquent and impressive
sermons, taking his text in the morn-
ing from Psalms 65;13, and in the ev-
ening front St. Mark 4:26. ,
The church was beautifully decorat-
ed with a profusion of flowers, fruit,'
grain, etc., and appropriate music was
rendered by the choir under the able
leadership of Miss Bessie Abell, the
anthems being, "Fear Not 0 Land",
and "Thou Visitest the Earth" from
Simper, while Miss Iva Logan of St
Paul's, London, sang sweetly, "Oh
rest in the Lord"
The fowl supper on Monday even-
ing was well patronized and everyone
was loud in their praise of the good
things provided. A splendid program
followed the stepper.
Salvation Army Notes
Envoy Schoester of the Army's So-
cial Dept. of London, Ontario, is can-
vassing the town for secondhand
clothes, furniture, toys, etc. A truck
will do the collecting on Friday of this
week.
The Envtzy is froth Holland, and
has had a wide experience, having trap
veiled twice round the world, We.
will telate'some of his interesting ex-
periences ences insP
special public
lie n
eett
ng
at
the Army Fall, S p, rn,Tl Thursday, An , y
urgent and hearty invitation extend-
ed to all.
BORN •
Death of William Ruddy
There passed away on Sept. 29th in
the Goderich Hospital, a well known
resident of East Wawanosh, in the
person of Win. 5, Ruddy. About four
weeks ago he received a kick from a
colt playing in the yard. He was
rushed to the hospital and operated
on and for a time appeared to,be pro-
gressing favorably, but on Tuesday
`became suddenly worse and passed a-
way that evening.
He was born in 1858 near Hamilton,
and when a child moved with his par
'eats, the late Mr. and Mrs. John Rud-
'dy, to the 9th con. where he continued
to reside until eighteen years ago
when he moved to a farm one mile
east of Auburn,
Mr..Ruddy was a kind neighbor, of
a genialdisposition he made many
friends as was evidenced by the beau-
tiful floral tributes and by the large
crzlwds that assembled at the house
and grave to pay their last tribute of
respect, there being upwards of two
hundred autos in attendance. The fu-
neral was held on Sunday to Wingham
cemetery, the service being conducted
by his pastor, Rev. P. 5, Banes of the
Union Church, Auburn.
By his sorrowing widow, formerly
Mary L. Irwin, and son, Lewis, he will
be greatly missed, as also by his bro-
ther Joseph of Belgrave, and three
sisters, Mrs, Stewart of Fargo, N. D,
Mrs. Lande of Galesburg, N. D., and
Mrs. Jas. Ritttoul of Simpson, Sask.,
to all of these friends is extended the
sympathy of the conrmutmity,
Allis, Stewart
art and
daughterhter
of
Fa
r
go,arrived on Satuday to attend the
'funeral.
Breed ..Itt Fergus, on Thursday, Sept,
24th, to Mr, and Mrs, Win G. Breen.
a son. •
Mellor -las Wingham, of Thursday,
Oet. set, to Mr. and Mrs. Mellor,
twins, a boy and girl.