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The Huron Expositor, 1921-10-28, Page 1EUTY-Fxrru YEAR WBQLE NUMBER 2811 - - � ;.►•-.ter SEAFORTH, FRIBAY, OCTOBER 28, 1921. Overcoats and Women's Winter Coats Sale Big Tumble in Prices on all Coats in Stock. Right now is the time to make a selection of a Winter Coat. All other lines in our big New Stock are much reduced in price. UNDERWEAR Heavy Ribbed Shirts and Drawers 99e. RAINCOATS A splendid assortment. All Sizes , $6.85 SPECIAL ODD TROUSERS In neat stripes, and good weight $2.45 OVERALLS Black and Blue stripes with or without bib $1.75 MEN'S CAPS Medium and heavy weight $1.25 to 31.75 BOYS' MACKINAWS I Alia sizes and different .pat • - 1 terns 36.95 MEN'S FALL SOX Heavy mixed brood 30c I Heavy all wool 60c 1 MEN'S WORK SHIRTS Heavy weight, stripes, •Khaki, grey and blue $1.25 FIN E OVERCOATS Form fitting and Ulsters, blacks and graye,..$20 to 325 *BOYS' COAT SWEATERS and pullovers, odd sizes and different colors..$1.50 to $2.00 WOMEN'S COATS 75 new 1921 models of every color. All sizes. Your choice 325.00 FINE SUITS Men's Suits of Sterling quality cloth, well tailored. All colors. All sizes. 325.00 The above items are only a few of the good things offering. We s ty to you—come and see these. The Greig Clothing Co. YEXT TO ABERHART'S DRUG STORE West Side Main Street MRS. SPRATT EATS LESS FAT That the price of beef steaks and pork chops should change the size of steers and hogs seemed to me open to doubt. In fact I was not disposed to believe it. I remembered bow some delver in abstruse lore had found a vital connection between a liberal supply of old maids and a gond crop of red clover seed, through their fondness for cats which ate the mice which destroyed the nests of the bumblebees which pollinated the red - clover blossoms. But that was easy to understand as compared with the assertion_that the farmer must trim the size and adjust the style of his pigs and cattle to the purse of the meat consumer. But when the pack- ers actually pay a premium of two cents a pound for yearlings and med- ium -fat, lightweight cattle over heavy prime beef,.the matter will bear.look ing into for an explanation. The first thing to do is to set down the actual facts in the case which need an explanation. I made a little study of the live and dressed weights of meat animals over a considerable series of years. Forty-five years ago back in the seventies, the average live weight of hogs slaughtered in the United States ran round 270 pounds. Since that time the size of the hog has wavered up and down, but mostly down, until now the average weight is about 220 pounds. and the packers say they really don't want hogs 'heavier than 200 pounds. Superhogs used to come to market, weighing 400 to 600 pounds or even more. But no- body loves a fat hog now. Wlhen you turn your attention to cattle you find the same thing. For example, Armour's kill from 1910 to 1918 shows the average weight -of beef cattle going, down the toboggan. from 1061 to 946 Pounds. And for all cattle killed in Chicago during the period 1913 to 1920.the average weight 'dropped from 1046 to 978 pounds. Or, taking the country as a whole, the average live weight of beeves was 1069 pounds in 1899, 1047 in 1904, 1019 in 1909, 991 in 1916. and 925 in 1919. At the same time the average dressed weight fell' from 583 to 495. pounds for cattle, from 170 to 160 pounds for hog and from 43 to 38 pounds for sheet And the end is not yet: The adiustment t6 the consumer's purse in not quite completed, the heavy demand being for still smaller animals. But of course the tide hnsn't sim- ply ebbed without reaction. An oc- casional ground swell lifted things up a bit. 'In years of big yield and low price of corn the weight of meat animals was greater, And it requires I no sleuth to ferret out the reason for it. What else could be done with the corn, far example in the years 1889, 1896 and 199.0? The weight of cattle, hogs and sheep were appreciably high - ler in 1920 with corn at 67 cents than! in 1919 with. corn at $1.35. Right in this connection there is something for all of us to think about, for, if the consumer stops calling for vielf fat- tened meat front large animas, some- body will have to find other uses for corn or else quit raising so much corn. Are we eating less meat? Where: ever you turn the answer is yes, and very emphatically so. The decline in meat consumption is so serious that the packers are worried about it. "Per capita ;beef consumption in the United States," said C. B. Heine- mann of the - Institute of - American Meat Packers in Chicago, "was 107 pounds a year in 1900, 100 pounds in 1909, 74 in 1914, 73 in 1919 and 57 pound.* in 1920. We maintain that there is no substitute for meat. But scarcely a magazine is printed but what carries diatribes against the eating of meat. In 1914 so-called meat substitutes were advertised in thirty-siy leading magazines to the extent of 32,000,000 and of more than $4,600,1100 in 1919." G. K. Holmes, statistician of the United States Department of Agri- culture, and T. E. Wilson, the Chicago packer, are awthority for the state- ment that our per capita consump- tion of all meats was 182 pounds in 1900, 171 in 1909, 163 in 1918, and 154 pounds in 1920. During the same period our per capita production of meat dropped from 248 to 196 pounds. Incidentally, I learned that our aver- age annual meat consumption for the five-year period, 1907 to .1911, was 175 pounds as compared with 154 pounds for 1915 to 1919. There are oceans of available figures along this line, but they all point to one con- clusion. As a nation we are eating more cereals, eggs, dairy products and vegetables, and are actually in- creasing the amount of nutrients in our diet. But we are refraining more and more from meat, and especially are turning away from beef. Thus, comparing, again the two five-year periods just mentioned; it appears that, during the second period we ate sixteen pounds less beef per capita but only two pounds less pork and one pound less mutton and veal. But we don't have to take the word of The packers and statisticians for it. We can ask our butcher about it and then we can put the question to ourselves and other meat consumers, and finally to the farmer. Therefore I •naestioned the butchers, and they said that the people are eating less meat and also that they are buying smaller cuts and leaner meat. Fin- ally I started out one day to take a straw vote orr.the question, spending a day in •getting the statements of 53 persons Whose eligibility as voters on the meat problem consisted in their liking meat and in having only a moderate income, $1500 to $4000 a year, out of which to pay for it. There was no selection of voters. They were the first fifty-three per- sons I met on my quest. There hap - petted to be no vegetarian among them. Of the fifty-three people all but one were eating 'less meat than five years ago. This man's family consisted of himself and 'wise only. /When meats went up in pore he tried fish and other substitutes more expensive and less satisfactory .than meat, and therefore retdrned to meat. Of the remaining fifty-two voters one, a woman who did the marketing for her Mater and mother, reduced her meat purchases not because of the price of meat but 'because she concluded that it was "better for women in office not tot eat meat more than once a day." The family` had been eating meat twice a day. But the most interest- ing point brought aut by my oral questionnaire was that a single state- ' ment could be -made for the answer of all the other fifty-one persona: "We cut down our meat purchases because meat coat too much. Then we found that we could get along with less meat. But we shall—probably buy more meat again if meat • prices come down. The spread between packers' and retail prices is alto- gether too great." About half of the voters felt that they\ had perhaps formerly been in the habit of eating too much meat, but gave meat prices as the first reason for reducing their meat consumption. But the other half were unanimous on the point that the _only reason why they ate less meat than formerly was that it cost too much. And 96 per cent. of the persons whoinin interviewed to viewed explained that they reduced their•meat consumption not so much by eating meat less fre- quently as by eating less at a meal. That means buying smaller cuts. And smaller cuts mean smaller animals. You can't get a two-popnd sirloin steak out of a fat 1200 -pound steer. It will weigh nearer three and one- half pounds. But if we are to have smaller meat animals it means that they must be marketed younger or thinner or both. And thus this whole chain of consequences is firmly link- ed together and reaches from the butcher's block to the feedlot and to the farmer's plans -for the future. 1 began to see how the mounting prices of meat were reducing the size of the steer and hog, by the irresist- ible pressure of' economic force step by step from the meat consumer to the farmer. The consumer demands small cuts, thereby forcing the but- cher to. buy smaller carcasses, there- by forcing the packer to pay more for small animals, thereby forcing the farmer to sell his livestock young- er or to feed less heavily. And there seems to be no way of stopping the process except by relieving the pres- sure where it first pinches— at the neat consumer's purse. But the present tendency of neat consumers seems to be away from fat toward, lean meat. Does the high price' of meat also explain why Mrs. Spratt eats less fat? Yes, t6 a con- siderable extent,'according to my in- formants. As one of them put it: "I found I couldn't afford to buy fat meats When the butcher makes a cut from a fat piece of meat, he first weighs it and then trims off the ex- cess fat Which goes into his collection of suet and other trimmings. I got tired of paying fifty-five cents a pound for suet that could be bought for ten or fifteen and then not even get the suet after all. Finally we decided that the most economical scheme was to select lean meat from which almost no trimmings had to be cut, and to buy our cooking fats separately." That simple fact in itself may ac- tiet for much of the falling off in demand for fat meat, for most of my informants could say with Speed in the Two Gentlemen of Verona: "Though the chameleon love may feed on the air, {/�'/71 one that am nourished by my (.j{).uats and would fain have m u eat. 1T s,o GhICa �con- I aultei Dr. R. J. De Loach, director of Armour's Bureau of Agricultural Research. 'The export trade," said he, "has always demanded fatter meat than the home trade. Re;,nluction on the European meat trade has effectively stopped the outlet for big fat cattle and has temporarily produced a sur- plus of this class of beef. That in turn makes it look as if the people of the United States didn't want fat meat. But in 1919 we fed to live- stock about 80 per cent. of our grain crops, or 4,250,000,000 bushels. That doesn't look like backing out' o1 the livestock (business. Nevertheless, there are some troublesome features of the meat trade. The demand for different cuts is very uneven. Thus the most popular hog products are high-gradc.ham and bacon, which to- gether constitute only 811 per cent. of the hog. Then the beef cuts in greatest demand average only 14 per cent. of the live weight of the steer. Apparently 88 per cent. of the hog, 86 per cent. of the steer and 69 per cent. of the sheep are unpopular, and the problem is to get rid of these unpopular cuts. That fortes meat dealers to make the popular cuts carry the financial burden of the rest of the carcass. "Yes, vegetable oils are rapidly dis- placing lard. Cottonseed oil, coco- nut oil, palm oil and 'soy -bean nil are coming into everybody's kitchen as cooking fats. They have revolution- ized the hog industry. We no longer look upon the hog as a barrel of lard. We no longer want a 300 to 500 pound hog but a 175 to 200 pound hog. That .means that the hog should not be kept beyond one year of age. With a brisk European demand for pork we could dispose of a good supply of big fat hogs. For the European de- pends for his food fats to a greater extent than we do upon the fat cook- ed out of his meat. The American buys his cooking fats in tins, and they are coming more and more from vege- table sources. No; the failure of New Zealand lamb in America was due mostly to the large carcass and sec- ondarily to its fatness. 'Big sheep carcasses now rum two to four cents a pound under small caneasses." Dern W. C. Coffey, of the Univers- Extra Special—Mon. Tues. Wed. Douglas Fairbanks The great' hurricane of joy and excitement, in "The Mark of Zorro" From the Ali -Story Weekly Novel "the Curse of Capistiano" by Johnston McCulley ` Directed by Fred Niblo. !Brings to the screen a wholesome, gingery mixture of melodramaand vigorous comedy, crammed with whirl -wind action, thrills, suspense and irresistible funny angles ; with never a let-up in its headlong pace from the very start tothe rip-roaring, rattl- ing, eminently satisfactory climax. Adults 20c, Children 15e Matinee Monday, 4.15 p.m., Adults 15c, Children 10e Read Our Ad on page 8. ity of Minnesota, had also been look- Swine Husbandiry, "are years of ing into the latest fashions in meat. heavy animals. Hogs are now run - "You ask why the packers want "ning 20 pounds ahead of last year, light cattle?" said he. "It is because . But it's quite true that a too heavy many people want only lean meat. ! animal is not wanted. Fat 1200 - More and more meat eaters are turn-' pound steers, fur example, bring less ing away from fat. Australian mut- than 900; pound yearlings or heifers. ton failed to make a place for itself The' heavy steers go only to a limited an the American dinner table because fancy trade. In the average small the carcasses were toe big and•'fat town you couldn't sell the big fat cuts Much of it had to be picked up and from the grand champion steer at an reshipped to England." International. Nobody wants big ani - In Urbana, Illinois, I called on a mals, because the cuts would be too boardinghouse keeper who feeds 200 large for their purses. Just look at university students. "I noticed," said these price quotations on ibacon sides she, "that whenever I served fat cuts —47''4 cents a pound for sides weigh - of beef the students cut the fat all . ing four to six pounds and only 38 off and pushed it to one aide, eating cents for the ten to twelve pound enly the lean meat. • lhhe'refore, ra- ' sides. That tells the story. The 12 thee than buy fat at meat prices to pound side yields too big a slice. And be thrown away, 1; buy, only chuck, the retailer has to be prepared to meet round and other. lean cuts and my demands for smdll pieces, small slices boarders are satisfied." and small portions of everything --6- 1 had already had a talk with pound sacks of flour, 2 -pound bags of Prof. Andrew Boss, of Minneapolis. sugar, quarten-pound block of butter, "Students want lean meat," said he. quarter -pound pork chops and gill "I have been observing their dietary bottles of cream. habits since 189.1 and have seers no "Thi.; tendency to buy everything essential changes during that time. in driblets has a most obvious effect The only denand for fat meat is in Or hog raising. The large type of the fancy hotel and restaurant trade hog, when fat enough to be mature and in a small minority of the fam- for market, is too big for the average :ey trade. Even the Englishman who retail demand. For example, the loin mast have his fat mutton chop cuts roast cut from a 300 -pound hog will out the juicy least renter to eat, leav- yield only two chops to the pound. ing the fat on the plate. Yes, the But only a few customers ask for farmer in his beef feeding should half -pound chops. Now, the loin of stop short of the overfat condition a 200 -,round hog gives four chops.to end sell his animals young." the pound. And that is about the "The packers claim," said Dear C. right size for the present fashion of F. Curtiss, of Ames, Iowa, "that buying. i have spent hours in meat there is an undue proportion of high- shops sizing up the purchases. Most ly fed cattle among the offerings in customers want 25 to 30 cents' worth the stockyards and that they can't of pork chops at a purchase. The pay so much for fat because the pub- unit of measurement is cents rather Pc seems to want lean beef, lean pork than pounds. I think the average and lean mutton." Confirmation of consumer's prejudice against fat meat these ideas was received at many nests on economic considerations. But points along the line of my trip. Thus all this has a decided effect on th' Dean J. iI. Skinner at Purdue Uni- 'size of the meat animal. At present verity was wondering what feeders the upper limit of live weight for the were going to do with their corn so hog should be 200 pounds, 900 pounds long as the packers discriminate for the steer and 80 pounds for the age.inst beef cattle that will dress lamb. The 80 -pound lamb will yield more than 500 to 600 pounds. And a 6 -pound leg. and that is big enough M. B. Possnn, of the Nebraska Agri- for family use. In feet, the size of cultural College, had been looking in- the family market basket, or rather to the matter. of the family purse, settles the whole "There are thousands of acres of matter of the size at which the farm - fine range in Nebraska," said he, er must sell his steers, hags and "running wild to grass without a hoof lambs. Big families, of course, any on it. Feeders are wondering what big hams, big legs of lamb and big kind of beef the peeile want. They rib roasts of beef. Butthe prevail - evidently want thin hogs, bacon ra- ing style of meat buying seems .to ther than lard. For the people ar; he set by the great number of small using vegetable oils as .subsfltutua fa tltilirs." for lard." Plainly, war prices played havoc "We have a new breed of cows to with beef eating. A hig change oe- reckon with now," =aid C. J. Srhroc- coned at. the beginning of 1917. The der, secretary of the Wisconsin Ia`arm packer found that to line his sides of Bureau at Madison. "1 mean the herf tip with the retail demand Inc coconut cow. Enough filled milk smaller rugs he must reduce he size made from eocnrnl oil is nianufac- of the average beef carcass by forty lured in the United .States to dis- nounds. .And ns usual ho paced tlir place 200,000 caws, For years the ,buck to the farmer, with the result packers have encouraged and pro- that the average dressed weight of rioted the Use of vegetable oils as beef cattle for the five years 1912 to substitutes for lard and milk fat. 1916 was 587 pounds ".and only 547 And now they say they want no fat for the five years 1917 to 1921. hogs because the people don't buy Doing my investigation of this lard." matter I heard nn all sides about var- Dean F. B. Mnnil rd, of Columbia. ions kinds of propaganda against Missouri, ,threw n side 'light on the neat and animal fats. You meet this problem. "No one can tell what the propaganda everywhere -in news - meat market will be during the corn- papers. magazines, hooks and govern- in.g winter," said he. "It's imam- ment ,hulietins. ft is hacked up chief - lar enough now. Meat exports will ty by certain dietitians, health crank: probably increase The meat consum- and the premntoers of vegetable oils. er now buys a 2 -pound steak awed a 1 can't tell you how much effect it four -pound roast in place of the for- has had neon the consumption of mer four -pound steak and ten -pound me t and lard, but many urge drastic roast. And you can't get small cuts reductions in the quantity of meat from big steers. But we have to feed we eat. our corn to something. That means The most charitable interpretation that there will be some fat steers that one can put on such presnmp. for the European trade." teems blanket recommendations na to Upon returning from my trip what the whole world and his wife through the Corn Belt I consulted should eat 'a t.hat their authors did with some of the 'livestock experts in not really expect them to fie- follow - the Department of Agriculture. ed. For with their adoption Ameri- "Yea, years of big corn crops," said K. F. Warner, of the Division of s. can agriculture would be utterly re- volutionized from top to bottom, and the. American farmer would be plung- ed into a reconstroetien maelstrom compared with' which his present troubles 'would. Nevin aIle a SSI/ Sunday afternoon. But what is the. verdict? I-sub- rnitted this case to a jury of far more then (twelve American citizens. The jury rendered a unanjrnous verdict on three points, namely, that we are eating less meat; that the consumer is buying his meat in small,* cuts which, in turn, can come only from smaller animals; and that the aver- age size of meat animals has 'already been reduced. Wbat caused all these disturbances? Again the 'jury . is unanimous in finding the high retail price of meat guilty in the first de- gree. The jury was not unanimous on the question why the consumer doesn't buy so much fat meat as formerly. Moat of the witnesses ad- mitted that they changed from fat to lean because the. lean cuts were cheaper. VDhat can the farmer do about. it? Well, he may hope some way will be found to force down retail prices so that meat lovers can again afford to buyfatjuicyroasts oats and Savo savory T-bone steaks. When that time comes I predict that the fat won't • worry the meat consume. in the least. In the meantime the farmer can continue to dd what he is new doing—market his steers young and only medium fat; and not hold his hogs beyond a year. Every farmer knows that the younger the animal the faster and Cheaper will be the gains in weight. Yearlings will produce as much meat from 85 pounds of feed as 2 -year-old steers from 100 pounds. So long as meat eaters cannot afford to buy the meat from large, fully fattened ani- mals. it's so much the cheaper pro- cess to produce the meat. The farm- er can continue to sell his live steak vounger and only medium fat, know- ing that the main reason why Mrs. Spratt eats less fat is that she can- not afford to pay the price. INTERNATIONAL PLOWING At the Internation Plowing Match, held near Woodstock on the 19th, 20th and 2lst of this month, we note that Mr. Murray Tyndall was successful in winning a prize for tractor plow,- ing in stubble. Mr. Tyndall is to be congratulated on his success in an entry of 26 con- testants. Ile operated an Imperial tractor, manufactured by The Robert Bell Engine & Thresher Co., Ltd., pulling a four furrow 12 inch Cock- shutt plow, competing against two and three furrow plows drawn by smaller tracters,,,r; In the particular section where Mr. Tyndall plowed there were nine other entries, and he was the only one to receive a prise in than field. There were tractors exhibited from all parts of the United States,'Eng- larnd and Italy, and the Imperial was the only Canadian made tractor enter - 06. to receive a place in the prize list. We again conggratulate our friend, ?tr. Tyndall on his first attempt in an event attended by over 50,000 people, and the largest plowing match et. the continent, and the Robert Bell Company, manufacturers of the Im- pi•rial Tractor, which- also won first prize tw"a years in succession at Portage La Prairie, Man. This match was held earlier in the year. Murray Tyndall is a son of Mr. Harry Tyndall, of Tuckersmith, and operates his father's Imperial Trac- tor, on their farm*adjoiningthe town of Seafurth. iiIBBER'r Death of ,John Morris. --The unecr- taint;; of life has once snore dawned open us and the sorrowful facts re- vealed In us in a most. .emphatic way by the sudden demise of John Morris, a valued and much respected citizen of Hibbert Township. De- ceased was born on lot 27, cpneession 7, the old homestead of the Morris family, on the 25t.h of September, 1557, where he resided till the early eighties, when he purchased the farm -'n which he lived till his death on Friday, October 21st. On June 30th, 1885, he married Ellen Jane Gormley, who with an infant daughter pre- deceased hint thirty-four years ago, and cast a shadow of gloom over his whole life. But he struggled on and those who were his confine in those da vs know it was a strugglie. to clean the forest, the swamp and the muskeg and make the virgin sail productive :and sustaining. For about. 12 years he was a member of the Hibber, r••nr'.1 and always endeavored to do 'tis ditty, and labored faithfully far .i best interests of the township. lir resigned List year and since that titer has lived quietly at home with his only son. who with his wife and ti'r children, mourn for hint as a lov- ing father and an affectionate grand- father. Two brothers and a sister also survive him, Patrick an the old temestead and James on the farm adjoining his own, and Mrs• M. 3. \1,--Quade, who resides in Stratford. Another sister, Mary Ann, predeceas- ed hint fifteen years ago. In religion Mr. Morris was a devout Catholic, and he passed peacefully away in the early nue-nine fortified by all the rights of his church administered by his beloved pastor. From the time of his death on Friday morning a rnnstant stream of friends and kins- men poured in to pay their bawt re- spects beside the -bier till the funeral en Monday morning conveyed his mor- tal remains to St. Columban church, Where a solemn requiem high mans was celebrated by Father White , as- sisted by Father •Goeta as deacon, and + Father Mc0ardle, of Dublin, u tab - deacon. From thence the large prn- { McLean Bros.. Publishers cei4lon continued the fait lap of the journey to 8t. Columben cemetery, where he was borne to his lastrest- ing place beside the remains of those he yearns to meet in that beautiful Land on High; by .hie six nephews: John and Sandy McMillan, Thece* end Maurice Malady, and Thomas std Joseph Morrie. USBORN$ Successful Annivdraaryr—The• Pres- byterial anniversary service*, 'which were held on Sunday, October 23rd, were a great success from every point of view. The church was filled in the morning, and at night it would not accommodate .the crowd. Rev.. McCrillvary, of St. Thomas, preached two eloquent and forceful sermons. In the morning his subject was "Touching Christ," lied in the even- ing "Enthusiasm." The choir of the church sang fine anthems and Miss Margaret Moodie sang solos in her usual pleasing manner. , On Monday., evening the fowl slipper wail Served to a largeo crowd and the entertain- m nt e was of high order. Thames Road Notes.—Among the viritora in the neighborhood on Sun- day were Mr. and Mrs. Norman Wise- man and 'daughter, Kathleen, Mr. and Mrs. John Here and family, Mr. and Mrs. Charles' Christie and fa2n- ily, Mr. and Mrs. Ben Case, Mr. and Mrs. John Morgan, and Miss Myra, Mrs. P. Gardiner, Mrs. Jas. Monteath,. Mr. and Mrs. Will ,Passmore and children and Mr. and Mrs. Ed. Stone, Jr., and family.—IMisa Flossie Switzer of Kirkton, -visited her friend, Miss Joy Whitlock, over the week end:—. Rev. W. L. Hill, B.A., of Parkhill,. preached in Bethany on Sunday in the interest of the Generial Mission Fund.—Mrs. Earl Johnson, of Whalen is visiting at the home of her par- ents, Mr. and Mrs. John Cann, this - week. 82,00 A Year in Advance tl BRUCEFIELD Kelly Circle.5-The monthly meet- ing of the circle was held last week. At this meeting it was decided to hold our annual bazaar on Deeem'ber 71h. . Arrangements will be made .at• the- November meeting and a full attend anee is requested' at this meeting. - Successful Anniversary.—Our anni- versary services of last Sunday prey-, ed to be a decided success. The weather was well nigh ideal. The - preacher of the day, Rev. Finlay Matheson, B.A., of Stratford, con - 4.1144 y copggelyl9p.01, Moraine artd :, evening in a mostecceptable manner.':' He preached in the morning on "The Marred Vessel," Jer. 18:4; in the - evening on "The Ideal of the -Christ- ian Life," Acts 2:051 His eeltie zeal,. his breath of outlook and his spir- itual earnestness, combined to im- press these subjects indelibly on the minds of those present. The church was filled to capacity with chairs in the aisles. The Sunday offering a- mounted to 3132. On Monday eveir- ing the fowl supper and entertain- ment were no less of a success. There was no cause to kick frond any guar. - ter unless it be on the part of the fowl, which supplied the major part of the supper. As usual at the time of sucth functions around Brucefield there were provisions in abundance and muni fowl, rake and other dain- ties to be carried home again. The pr:,gramme was well received by one .,f the. 1;. lost auCience that has as- se-nbled in our caunch. Notes.—The nice weather of the neat fen days bus been much ap- ereriated by the farmers of the vicin- ity, end a'1 have been busy lifting ,�-it rents, nM•.to:s and sugar beets,. We had quite a number of visitors :'Itending nor .services on Sunday. It `s twenty-three years since Rev. F. ill, n a student for the !1 1' istry, supplied nor_ pulpit three eienlhs for Rev Walter Mair, who v.,a our minister a'. that time, and who was then en a visit. to Scotland. Mr M •it1,stn sees many changes in mt .trout- un- village and in the t.o we11. Some who r.hipm d herr :1 ti of tiine having moved ,o other '°calitirs and many ',Ave rata'aal to the Creat. Beyond.— The IT. F. W. (1 not at the home of. Mrs. !'.:•ll,ur MoIue•n on Wednesday telt• n a c•-:� I faceting was held. \ circ+,, of London, end t• awhn t'sn,l tern visiting at the m of Mr'. Cihstn here, have re- -nrned Leel. n. --Mr. and Mrs. Fnherr, of Rrnsea's. and slaughter vis- '•od at, ";,, 'von- of Mr. Moodie std Mr. 11-sQlso,s of our village this :i' ' :11::'=v -:in has returned from visiting relatives in Hamilton. Our e.wan nnity was well repre- aented .,, toe na'itical meeting last week. . \t s. Nei,1 McGregor, who has been i11 for some time, is now able to be out again. --Mrs. Geo. Baird end dun"h'er are visiting at the home. of William • Baird, Toronto: Mrs, Robert Yuill of Carmen, Manitoba, ,s visiting old eemraintancee in our midst. She formerly lived ion ,the farm now -owned by John Graham, of Stanley. Her many old friends are glad to meet her. --Mrs. Duncan Mo- .Ewen, of London, and her daughter, Dr. Isabel McEwen, of India, were this week the guests of William Rosa, Stanley, brother of Mrs, McEwen. Dr. Nebel expects to return to India starrtly. She has been there for several years teaching medicine in a college in India.—,Ilugth McGregor, Wallis McBeath and Win. Colin have returned from the West where they spent the summer,--tMt s E. John. son, of Clinton, spent the week end' the guest at the home of Wks Myrtle Rogerson.