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The Huron Expositor, 1925-01-30, Page 1SEAFORTH, FRIDAY, JANUARY 30, 1925. Stewart ..smapimitMemiumew 4....1 me ros Tempting Prices 0 Seasonable Goods SPECIAL SERVICES IN EGMONDVILLE CHURCH Shirtings Dark blue, light'blue, and black, white striped, 28 inches wide. An excellent shirting. Regular price 25c and 30c. SPECIAL PRICE , 19c Flannelettes In Blue, Pink and Sand shade, 27 inches wide. Real good quality. SPECIAL PRICE I7c Extra weight •Flannelette, in all colors; neat attrac- tive stripes; one yard wide. Regular 30 and 35e value. SPECIAL 25c PRICE Flannelette Blankets White or Grey Flannelette Blankets with Blue or Pink borders, 68x88, full size. Nice new clean stock. SPECIAL PRICE . $2 . .25 • 44: - Women's Silk and Wool Hose A real Hosiery Bargain in Women's Silk and Wool, in Sand, Grey, Tan, Heather, Plain or Fancy Rib. Regu- lar $1.25 quality. SPECIAL 95c PRICE 'Omen's Kimonas Made of heavy Wrapperette, attractive patterns, in Navy, Grey, Rose. Regular price $3.75. SPECIAL PRICE $ 1.98 A Big Special in Women's Coats $13.75 We have assembled all the odd Coats, some as high as $25.00; these Coats are all this season's new coats, most with fur collars, some with fur cuffs, others without fur trimming. All made of real good materials, well lined and trimmed. Full range' of this season's popular colors. SPECIAL PRICE S13.75 Clearance of Women's Gloves Cham�iijtte,G1oves in White, Black and natural fancy fronts. Will Om excellent wear and are dressy and lish. S1ECIAL PRICE Rev. F. A. ROBINSON, M.A., of ,\ Toronto, who is conducting the spe- cial services in the Egmondville Church. The special services which are to be continued in the Egmondville Church for the next two weeks, were begun under very lofty auspices on Sunday last. The day was ideal and both morning and evening capacity congre- gations gathered, saw, heard, were inspired, and went away delighted and helped for the time and determin- ed to hear more. Mr. F. A. Robinson, who is in charge of the mission, has had a wide and varied experience in Evangeleatic work and speaks with a force and eloquence born out of his intimate knowledge of the power of the Gos- pel of Jesus Christ, to save men from sin. His earnestness and intensity are frequently relieved by flashes of humor, which catch his audience un- aware, and cause them to smile al- most in spite of themselves. Speaking in the morning on the subject, "The Mission and Commis- sion of Jesus," Mr. Robinson held his audience in spellbound interest from beginning to end. Incident after in- cident from his own rich experience in the Master's work served to point and illustrate the truths he wished bo enforce. Perhaps the truth that reached the hearts of the majority witb the greatest compulsion and most telling effect, was that Jesus can use the humblest lives and low- liest talents, to the abounding glory of- Nil name, if only there is the spirit of consecration and love. In the evening Mr. Robinson spoke on the subject, "The Name that is above every Name," and in graphic and vivid fashion he showed that Jesus must have His rightful plaee in the life of the individual, in the life of the church, in the life of the nation, and in the pulsating life of the world, if the individual is to get beyond a living and achieve a life; if the church is to fulfil her Mas- ter's programme; if the great na- tional and international problems pressing so insistently for solution are ever to be rightly solved. Mr. Robinson is not only an earnest and impressive preacher, but a tal- ented musician and director, and the singing of the splendid Gospel Hymns is a most helpful part of the ser- vices. In the music, Mr. Robinson is most ably seconded by Miss C. B. Gruner, pianist and accompanist. Miss Grunert's playing is of an ex- ceedingly high order, and her inter- pretation of the hymns gives them a new response in many hearts. Mr. Koffend's solos also have been ex- ceedingly appreciated. A meeting for "Women Only" has been arranged for Friday at 3 p.m., When Mr. Robinson will speak on "Redemption Work for Girls." There will also be a meeting for i'Men Only" held in the Town Hall, on Sunday at 3.30 p.m., at which Mr. Rdbinson will give a talk to men, en- titled, "Seeing Life." An exceedingly interesting and helpful feature in connection with the mission will be the lantern views. Mr. Robinson is a continental expert in this work and his views are in a class by themselves. On Tuesday night of next week an illustrated story entit- led, "Probable Sons" will be given occupying the entire service. Be sure not to miss it. On Saturday evening a special set of slides, entitled, "Palestine, the Land of the World's Greatest Book" will be shown. No such opportunity has ever before been granted to this Community, and it is to be hoped that the public will take full advantage of it. 59c Stewart Bros. 'CONCERING THINGS COMMON IYear Mr. Editor: For some time I have been think- ing of voicing a matter in the columns of your paper, a matter which, owing to my contact with the general pub- lic, I find very prevalent. and which badly needs adjusting. Perhaps our Canadian ideals of life are as high as those of any co -entry, and a great deal higher than those in_some coun- tries. There is one point, however, on which many people need touching up. It is the question of unpaid ac- counts. I am not referring in this letter to the person on whom unex- pected misfortune has fallen, but to these who know they have tmpald bills in stores and eltewhere, who ean pay them, but do not pay them. Talk to the average business matt or pro- feesional man, he will telt yob a eta:raft* tale of the indfiratence of people who owe accounts of month* and even years' standing, people rote) wish to bold their heads high and be 'pill?, Doors Contribute Greatly to the indoor beauty of Modern Weil Appointed Homes 11100111.01101111..111 . We Specialize in the Manufacture of French Doors. N. Cluff & Sons SEAFORTil - - - ONTARIO. considered 'honest anditeepeetable, yet Who show * strange Moral laxity en this matter all because their money is drawing a little Interest in the bank. Let me state a ease that ewe un- der my personal notice. °ascertain day one, Mr, Skinflint ,came into the business place of Mr. 'Mayfoir, making purchases to a certain- value. He asked the merchant if"he would oblige him by letting him have six months in which to pay the account. The obliging merchant granted the favor. At the expiration of Ore time stated, this man, Skinflint, without any men- tion of interest, again asked for an- other favor of six months more, which was again granted. That very day this exceedingly honorable Skinflint loaned out some hundreds of dollars at six per cent. interest. If such ideals and et:induct marked the dealings of all min, how much better would society be than Russia is at this hour? There are thou- sands of dollars in unpaid accounts on the books of bigness and profes- sional men in this town left stand- ing there by men like akinfiint. That man must have an ppi4etatia. akin to the rhinoceros, who liken, unpaid accounts, takes risers- plerasure in get- ting a little bank interest than being able to openly and honestly look his fellow men in the face and feel he is treating them as an honorable man should. A merchant in a certain city was found dead. The post-mortem reveal- ed the fact that he had died of want. He had many unpaid aceounts on his books. 'Many who owed them, rushed to pay them when the cause of his death became known, but, •alas, such could not restore life.:.Could such debtors free therneelveiv however, of being in part responsible for his death? How often youAtear people say "this town is the dearest town on earth." They don't °Wart at the same time to run account* long in figures and long in years in the same "dear town." Yet when they have cash in hand it is a Toronto store gets it when anything is_wanted from a spool to a jar of pickles, indifferent to the fact that no merchant has yet appeared on this planet who can keep a varied stock, pay his hands, meet depreciation of stock and all overhead expenses on columns of unpaid bills. Such people may reply, "I can spend my ntoney where I please," but sure- ly not at the expense of honor and justice to local men who obliged them whenthey had no cash in hand. Such people must have a strange view of the golden rule of our Lord: "Do un- to others as you would they should do unto you." If goods are high in price in local sotore e it is certainly not the fault of some customers. I stood one day at 'counter while a eertain daughter of Eve was purchasing an article. Her volubility poured forth like a Niagara in beating down the price. When the merchant had reached the lo t vr price notch and her tornado was 'ot longer of use, she threw the mo ..ty on the counter, somewhat short of the full amount and said, "That's the last copper I have." I, thought my dear woman you must be a first cousin of that wriggling thing that whispered to your grandmother in the Garden of Eden. Such people seem not to care a bean whether a merchant sinks or swims, so long as they get goods at the lowest possible price. I fully admit that all merchants are not guiltless in this credit busi- 11088. Many of them foster it. The cash customer is often unfairly treat- ed in comparison to the credit cus- tomer. Yet it is largely owing to the cash customer the business can Egmondville Church Sunday, Jan. 25th to February Ilth Special Meetings under the direction or Rev. F. A. Robinson, M.A. SPLENDID ADDRESSES EXCELLENT MUSIC WONDERFUL PICTURES Sunday Services 11 a.m. and 7.30 p.m. Week Night Meetings, 8 o'clock. EVERYBODY WELCOME THE SEAFORTH RED CROSS SOCIETY Cordially Invites You to An Old Times Dance In Cardno's Opera Hall IN AID OF THE NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR THE BLIND 0.411.0.11.1•11111M.11 DANCING COMMENCES AT EIGHT-THIR'TY MUSICIANS Miss Edith Haat, Yrs. J. D. O'Connell, Mrs. G. T. Scott, Messrs. , P. M. Cheaney, H. II. Chesney, J. F. Daly, Henry Forsyth, Abe Forsyth, Herbert Fowler, Joseph Hogg, Sr., Adrian Hogg, Joseph Hogg, Jr., Jack Innis, Earl VanEgmond. FLOOR MANAGERS Harry Charters, Chas. Dolmage, Peter Cameron, Ed. Rowland BASKET LUNCH—Bring your eats and cups; put your name on your basket es host and check it. Coffee supplied at the hall. Admission $1.00...Everybody Welcome 11111A.POIRTH RBD CROSS SOCIETY Mrs. F. flo1assd, Mis Jas. G. Mullen, Mrs. L. T, DeLacey, President 'Treasurer. • Secretary. Managing Committee: Jame. a. IOU* L. T. botany, A. D. Sutherland. Articles made by the blind are now et display and for ma -a Seed's Bookstore. MOO a Year is A.dvastee McLean Brae., Publishers be carried on. A friend of mine (now I "One cyf the dining-mktri girl's put dead), stood in a store one day while • a. part of a dish cloth in a bowl of a man was paying a book account of $100. As he did so the merchant thanked him, turned to his, shelf and handed bin% a dollar package as gift. My friend said to the merch- ant that is in part the reason -why you have so much credit on your books. "I have left you more cash in the same length of time than that man has now paid you, yet never have you given me five cents worth in re- cognition of it." Be that as it may, my contention is that no man in any line of life has a right to be expect- ed by his debtors to make an effort to collect his accounts. In honor and justice they ought to be paid with- out his expense and labor in collect.. ing them. No man can dislodge me from my contention in saying that no man with a sense of honor or moral' rectitude, will let money lie in the bank; for the sake of a little interest, while he has just debts unpaid, un- less he pays interest on such debts. These , are serious matters. A man who does so is profiting on money that is really not his own. We may escape the law of the country for our injustice to one another, but no man escapes the judgment of God. Thanking you, Mr. Editor, for your space concerning a matter which is a great evil in our midst Yours, R. FULTON ERWIN. The Parsonage, Seaforth, January 28, 1925. FROM AN OLD McKILLOP CORRESPONDENT 29 Elm St, Toronto, Jan. 20th. Dear Expositor: As I write, the snow is coming down heavy and is being driven by a strong wind. The coldest we have had so far was last Friday morning, when it went eight below zero.. Mackenzie King, Prime Minister, had a meeting in Massey Hall a few evenings ago, and the hall, which seats nearly 4,000, was -filled. He told his hearers that everything was rosy and blooming, and that Canada was destined to become one of the greatest countries on the map. The eclipse was well advertised in advance but peteried out so to speak, and the people who lined the water front and who climbed to the city hall tower and upon the skyscrapers saw little more than a cloudy sky and experienced a moment of darkness.. A pitiful event took place on Col- lege Street three or four blocks from here, a few days ago. A man was having his house fumigated for the. - purpose of destroying insect which might be in evidence, but did not sufficiently warn a father and his daughter, who were roomers, the re- sult being that the deadly gas pene- trated into their rooms, causing the death of both in a few moments. A very sad thing is that two other daughters had come from the Old Country a year ago and earned money to bring the two who have perished out here. The name of the family is Bird. The mother died in Ireland some years ago and the four who came to our shores were highly thought off. J. J. I. WHAT THEY'RE CRACKED UP TO BE It's a long time since I axed you for a match. The bobbed -haired stenog. has just made the office boy shell out. I'm all set, and away to a good start. The old corncob • is throwing up ringlets like Paddy Hughes' chimney did in winters' mornings long ago. Rheumatics are vihat they're crack- ed up to be. I know. I courted the figures of the wall paper of my bou- doir. I was parked there for three weeks. At intervals I talked as elo- quently and as picturesquely as a Cockney drill sergeant ever talked to a hay -and -straw -foot recruit—and as forcibly. I'd never been on my back since I had the measles—and that's some time back in the misty past. In short, rheumatics are what Mike said about the mass. "They beat the divil —that's the intintion." So that's my alibi for not axing you for a match before. At the round -up of the old boys and girls in August I picked up some good ones. Many I knew as hearsay. The best ethics of the press do not permit of hearsay stories. There's a reason -617 of 'em. Nor would I set them down here without the per- mission of the actors who played lead. During a day that week of good times I chanced along Main—at John Street A familiarly -gaited lady was walking on the north aide of the lat- ter street. I asked my companion who she was. "Why, that's Hannah Carmichael," he said. "You should know her." I refrained from yelling out. Didn't ust know how Mrs. Bob Laidlaw would have taken the familiarity. If the incident had happened on Jefferson or Woodward Avenues, Detroit, I would never have thought of doing such a thing, but this was Seaforth— we were boys and girls once again. We met that evening on Main Street —a bunch of us—Mrs. Laidlaw, her daughter; Mrs. Livingstone, and her daugfhter, and others. We had a regular old-time fanning bee—had a delightful Om e. Finally, I said, "Say Hannah, I came nearly saying 'Hello, Peggy,' to you as you walked on John Street this morning." "Good Lord, I haven't heard that name for a long time." She was the same Hannah Carmichael, one of Main Street's most popular young ladies of the days passed into time. "It is true, Hannah," I asked, "that yon fed Bill Curtis the dish-eloth a bowl of stewed tripe?* She limat ed heartRy. stewed tripe, and I carried it in to him. Bill sawed away at it. He was half -lit. Of course, we girls watched him. It was a tough job. But Bill got away with it. Fina)ly I said: Mister Curtis, how'd you lilts the tripe?" "Well, Miss Hannah," came back Bill, "de first was tender, but the last piece was damned tough!" 1301 was colored and the next thing to chicken and water -melon, give a colored ntan tripe. Robert Carmichael kept the old Mansion house. We stood before the lire where Ferguson's hardware now stands. The building now at the southwest corner of Main and Gode- rich Streets was the Mansion house built after the big 'fire of le6, which wiped out the block from Goderick to John Street --both sides of Main. Another one. Jack Kidd, son of John Klidd, the tharmith and hard- ware man, was among the bunch that returned to the old home town. Mr. Kidd was one of the real old-timers, moved his bulginess from Harpurhey to, Seaforth in the. salt trek. Pretty sure Jack was born in 114ml:they. T. get to where I want to get by the shortest route, Jack had ihme 001** - thing at school that old man Dewar didn't like, and he fired the. two 11:14d- %rye—Jack and Bob. They then at- tended NensondrIlle school, those days on the hill, over the wirer. 'Pow bridges then spanned the %wiled at Egreondville, built of wood, and of course had aides, 0 feet highbe ta the Rills by bars of iron. ' The awe adventurous boys of the time wanted' aeroes these side supporta, up fee* the river -bed about 18 or 50 feet Jaok Kidd was one at these. One day and he fell kerplwik to the river bed below. The fall was nasty'One,. and stunned him for a few moments. As he lay on the banks groaning, Bob Kidd, became frightened and starlet to cry, and between sobs said, "Now,. jack—if—you—die—you'll—ketch it: When—you—get--home." Got to dig up another match. long. BILL POWELL. CANADA Ottawa, Ont. --Canada has enterai into 'negotiations with Germany for a trade itgreement 'which will give her the borscht of the most favored na- tions arrangement Exports to that country very nearly doubled durbig- 1924 and at the close of the year Ger- nrany was practically in the position of being Canada's third best custom- er. smorsoormirri Winnipeg, Man.—Trees at the rata of 20,000 a day have been planted by farmers of Western Canada in tite last twenty years, according to a re- port of the federal department of agriculture. A total of 150,000,001, young trees, the report shows have - been distributed to farmers in that section since 1905. Banff, Alta.—Among the many at- tractive winter sports events to be held during the carnival week, Febru- ary 7th to 14th, will be a carnival parade in which seine 800 people in costume will appear before the cern- ival queen on the ice throne in the ice palaee, and an ice maze in which 1,200 blocks of ice will be used. Dog sledding will be available for all at- tending the carnival. Montreal, Que.—Building activities in Montreal for the year 1924 sur- pass the record of any previous year by the sum of $3,887,556, the grand total for the twelve months ending on December 31st, amounting to $31,- 013,419. In 1913, the year before the war, construction work in Montreal was particularly active and the to- tal reached in that year has never been equalled till the last year. Vancouver, B. C.—With a view to- re -establishing sockeye salmon in the upper Fraser River, the Department of Marine and Fisheries has this sea- son distributed 1,,000,000 sockeye eggs in the tributaries of Bowron. lake and 4,000,000 in the principal" tributaries of Quesnel lake. Arrange- ments also have been made to make similar planting in the Seton -Ander- son lakes and the Shus-wap lakes dis- tricts. Toronbo, Ont—Ontario's gold pro- duction for the last year is estimated: at $25.000,000—the highest yield ever recorded, according to a bulletin is- sued by the provincial department of. mines. In the previous year produe- tion amounted in value to 220,082,586 while in 1910 it only totalled $41,- 537It is estimated that during 1925 the mines of Ontario will produce gold to the value of $32,500,000. Regina, Saek.—Saskatehewan live- stock exhibitors were uniformly suc- cessful at the recent Guelph, Toronto, Ottawa and Chicago exhibitions. A. total of 214 prizes were won. consist- ing of eighteen championship, five silver cups, four -medals, 51 first priz- es, 29 second prices, 23 third prizes and 75 other prises. This splendid' showing is further emphasized by the fact that in 1920 only 38 prizes weis. won by Saskatchewan exhibitors. Ottawa. Ont.—Sea fish caught Oft all Canadian coasts dming 'Novem- ber, 1924, increased In vohtme, but decreased in value, as ecnnpared wltb November, 1923. In the recent No - "ember 67,872,800 pounds, valued at 11,828,123 were taken, while in No- vember, 1923. «5.008,000 Podite012111" tied at $1,2484413 were lambed. TM* wore big %eremite In the est ei eit Modem, cod and mackerel on tik• bottle ••••t, avid ate. r 1. S:7 ''!"