The Huron Expositor, 1931-11-27, Page 1hTl
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Seventy-second Year
Whole Number 3337
SEAFORTH, FRIDAY;: NOVEMBER 27, 1931.
Col. Apthony VanEgmond and the
Rebellion of 1837 in Huron County.
Written for The Expositor tioned T. W. Luard, Esq„ left town
next day to canvass the county. At
by Wl Brenton Kerr, M.A., Hick's Tavern he addressdd a meet -
Oxon., Ph.D., Tor. ing, well attended according to our
Prof. Kerr asks any per-
' sons having in their pos-
session letters or papers
bearing on the early his-
tory of Huron County, to
leave their names at The
Expositor Office in order
that he may compare
the information contained
therein with that already
in his possession.
CHAPTER X,
THE FIRST ELECTION IN HURON
If, as we have surmised, Van Eg-
n:ond returned to 'Huron in February,
1835, as a recognized officer of the
'Reform party, he had not long to de-
lay in putting principles into prac-
tise. The proposal ilad early been
mooted that the Trac should have a
representative in the Legislature of
Upper Canada; and as the population
increased, this suggestion seems to
have been looked on with favour by
the authorities. In consequence the
inhabitants of the Tract commenced
to make, preparations for an election
early in 1834. • i
As we have seen, the dissatisfac-
tion with the Company might have
been expected to create an atmosphere
favourable to the Reform cause. Bpt
that such was not the case seems 'due
primarily to the men of Colborne. As
the Misses Lizars inform us, with the
exception of ehe Edinburgh Radical
Lizars himsel • the Colbornites were
solidly Tory; and whether Tory or not,
they were first of all goodScotsmen
and British subjects; full of pride in
their nationality and the imperial tra-
dition,determined to maintain the
tonne ion with the empire at any
cost tithemselves. They had wit-
nessed with alarm the flirtation of
some extreme Reformers with re-
publicanism and separation, and they
responded to the cry of the Family
Compact that the British connection
was at stake. Accordingly when they
saw Van Egmond adopting the Re -
account, under the chairmanship of
C. Mountcastle, Esq. The worthy
captain "a in explained his political
sentiments" to an audience no doubt
well satisfied; then proceeded to Strat-
ford on Avon. In this village the re-
sult of his canvass was `,`highly satis-
factory" and left `(but• little doubt
that the Captain would be returned
for .the new county." ' Such was, ac-
cording • to the only account which
seems to `have survived, the first elec-
toral 'campaign in Huron County.
The' date of the actual election had
been set as from 'Monday, June 29th,
to Wednesday, July 1st, the polling
to take place in Goderich. Of this
election there seems to exist only one
account, that in the Toronto Patriot
of July 14th, a description obviously
biased in favor of Dunlop and dis-
torted by clumsy attempts at humor,
but from which it is possible to ex-
tract an outline of the chief occur-
rences in this the first election in
Huron.
'In accordance with arrangements,
the election commenced on June 29th
atGoderich. The blue ribbons of
Captain Dunlop were "in every bon-
net" and the Union Jack floated from
various quarters of the village, a fact
from which we may deduce that Dun-
lop's supporters were endeavoring to
identify their opponents with disloy-
alty and to make political capital out
of the flag. The captain himself ar-
rived presently from his home, Gair-
braid House in Colborne, and went to
the Steamboat Hotel, where he was
received with cheers by a contingent
of bluejackets and by "all respectable,
people," or in other words, his friends.
These then drew him in a car to the
place where the hustings had been
erected in Market Square for the busi-
ness of the day of days.
In charge of the election was Henry
Hyndman of "Lundaston," Township
of Colborne, now appointed Returning
Officer for 'Huron. On Dunlop's ar-
rival he commanded silence and read
the government's writ authorizing the
election. Preliminaries thus finished,
Daniel Lizars of "Meadowland," Col-
borne, took the platform and propos-
ed the name of Robert Graham Dun-
lop, Genageender in His Majesty's
Navy, en eocount of "the deep inter-
est" he had shown in the welfare of
the settlement since his arrival. Mr.
L' R „needed .to an attach
form cause, they turned to a man a- onhe !Reformers ormers and their senti-
gainst him, ignoring their grievances•,ments as• represented by the Colonel
against the Company in their hostil- and the Coloirel's address to the free-
ity to the disloyalty of which they i holders, in what he conceived to be
humorous fashion. His first essay in
this art was a'repetition of Van Eg-
mond'sformidable series of names
with a pause ofter each for the ex-
pected laugh: Mr. Antony! Jacob!
William! Gyebert! Lamoral! Ven
Egmond! Having thus tickled the
ears of his audience,' Mr. Lizars went
on to expose the "inconsistencies, as-
sumptions and malicious fabrications"
in the Colonel's address, of which he
made a reputation that was very sat-
isfactory at least to the correspond-
ent of the Toronto Patriot; and
achieved some applause which from
the standpoint of the quality of the
wit, seems .distinctly undeserved.
From Van Egmond, Mr. Lizars turn-
ed to a new topic. He had heard it
reported that a certain William Ben-
nett Rich was to be a candidate, but
he had seen no written document to
that effect; accordingly he would leave
it to Mr. Rich, whom he saw on the
hustlings, to explain to the freehold-
ers his pretensions if he had any,
meanwhile (Lizars) confiining himself
to observing that he understood Mr.
Rich had declared himself an Ultra-
Tory and an anti -Reformer. It seems
)that Mr. Lizars had his suspicions
Jof the third candidate, but was not
certain enough to take a definite
stand.
Thomas Williant Luard of Langford
in Colborne, followed Lizars and sec-
onded the motion with rather exces-
sive compliments to the proposer, af-
ter which he turned his attention to
the Goderich Harbour Bill, the peti-
tion in favor of which had been en-
trusted to his care,. so that he nad a
personal interest in the matter. This
bill, sponsored by the Company, as
we have seen, was intended to per-
mit that organization to charge toll
on all vessels entering the harbor, the
proceeds to be used for improving the
harbor; (but it had been rejected in
the Last session of the Assembly, an
outcome which Mr. Luard charged to
the "unfounded assertions and wilful
misrepresentations" of Van Egmond's
communication to several members of
the Assemblf, Continuing, Mr. Luard
accused the Colonel first of ignorance
of the English language, and second,
of antipathy to British institutions,
proof of which was his adherence to
the anti-British and anti -Constitution-
al panty in the present House of As-
sembly, i.e., the Reform Party. , Mr.
Luard declared his opinion that Van
Egmond was no more fit for a seat in
the Legislature of the province than
an Englishman would be qualified to
fill the chair of the First Burgomas-
ter of Amsterdam, and• sat down, amid
cheers. It will be seen that .both Mr.
Lizars and Mr. Luard felt themselves
much more at home in delivering per -
tonal remarks than considering polit-
icalarguments; that 'both made the
same , principal point that Van Eg-
mond was a Dutchman and a Reform-
er, a fact which might freely have
been conceded before the election be-
gan in order to clear the ground for
rational discussion. A third speaker
there assembled. Having thus mange followed,, Joseph Wilson, "oldest pro -
mated an active carnpaign, Captain prietor of the Township of (lederieh,"
Dunlop accompanied by 'tike aforemef. I who supported AZlYlop with entire
suspected the Reform Party. In the
existing electoral conditions they were
likely to have their way; for the fran-
chise was restricted to freeholders,
persons who held full title to their
lands. In Huron this class compris-
ed not many beside the well-to-do Col-
borne men, who acting as a unit could
control the election while the major-
ity of settlers, struggling with their
payments to the Company, had no
voice in political affairs.
In these circumstances the Colborne
men held a nomination meeting in
Goderich on February 4, 1834, and
designated the man of their choice,
Robert Dunlop, ex-comrrnander of
His Majesty's Navy, brother of the
doctor and recent arrival from Scot-
land, whose late profession would af-
ford a guarantee of patriotic political
opinions. It does not appear that
the Colbornites selected Captain Dun-
lap because of his connection with
Lhe Company through his brother,
rather.in spite of that connection, for
ai this time, 1834, they were least
enamoured of the Company. Capin
Dunlop was in no sense a Cari da
-Company man but the man of the
comparatively wealthy settlers in Col-
borne. IHe accepted the nomination,
doubtless gratified at this prompt re-
cognition of his merits in the com-
niunity to which he was a newcomer.
There was no doubt that if elected
he would find congenial company in
'the ranks of the Family Compact
Party.
For the Reformers of Huron, only
one name was posspble, that of the
Dutch Colonel who had led the op-
position to the Company and had
gained the confidence of the leaders
of their party. Some time during the
spring of 1835, Van Egmond circu-
lated among the electors an address
concerning the issues at stake; prob-
ably he also' held meetings and can-
vassed voters, though of these activi-
ties we have no record. His opponent
Captain Dunlop held his principal
meeting on June 12th at Reid'e Hotel
in Goderich "for the purpoee of ex-
plaining his political sentiments." Ac-
cording to the Toronto "patriot," at
one p.m. on the date mentioned, a
large and respectable assembly met
at Reid's. T. W. Luard, Esq., the
chairman, stated to the meeting the
reason which moved Captain Dunlop
to explain himself publicly, to wit
that attempts had been made to lead
the freeholders into error concerning'
the captain's political sentiments; and
called on the gallant ex -officer to ex-
plain Himself. What the doubt was
about Dunlop's political faith we can
only conjecture, perhaps concerning a
leaning to Whiggery such as that of
another brother, Sandy, in 'Scotland.
At any rate, according to the Patriot,
Captain Dunlop explained his senti-
ments "even to the satisfaction of hie
political opponents," and left rib
dou5t blithe minds of the people that
prinbiples were strictly Con titu-
tional--a conclusion em'i'nently satis-
factory to the respectable freeholders
xi„i4,P+ir
approbation, from which brief account
one might guess that his speeeh con-
tained no personal allusions and was
therefore most worthy of respect of
the three.
The Dunlop party had now deliver-
ed themsehtes of their sentiments;
the captain himself did' not speak,
perhaps from distrust of his ability.
Van Egmond was expected to appear
next, to'be nominated by his support-
ers; but for unexplained reasons he
delayed. Not until noon, two hours
after the election had commenced, did
his proposer appear, Michael Fisher,
whose speech seems to have been con-
fined to the' bare nomination of Van
Egmond. Fisher's nephew, Joseph,
seconded the nomination "amid the
laughter and derision of the assem-
bled electors" or at least, of Dunlop's
party. Another delay ensued. Fin-
ally, between one and two o'clock the
Colonel himself appeared and ascend-
ed the hustings, accompanied by two
of his sons but by not a single free-
holder.
At this point tl(e correspondent
takes a hand in the game of suppos-
ed humor at Vane Egmond's expense.
The Colonel was ` an old, crusty, crab-
bed, sour -looking Dutchman" distin-
guished by "a stoop and a squint like
Wall in Bottom's Tragedy," -an il-
lusion to the interlude of Shake -
spear's 'Midsummer Ni'ght's Dream, or
Iike a distinctly different character,
"the knight of the rueful counten-
ance," Don Quixote. The Colonel, says
our authority, declares that he has a
Latin certificate to shoW that he is
tee eldest son of the late Count Van
Egmont, consequently that he is now
Count himself and lineal descendant
of the famous Count Egmont, leader
in the Dutch revolt against Spain, but
our corresppndent assures us, some
lately arrived Dutchmen state that
the title is extinct, 'that Van Egmond
was merely a suttld''r to Napoleon's
army in Italy, that at the peace he
became a barber in Dort, that thence
he emigrated to Five Points, New
York, where he engaged once mord
in barbeijng with such lack of suc-
cess that he was obliged to pack his
all in a wagon and corn( to Canada.
These disparaging detail:' are so ob
viously the product of partisan imag-
ination 'heated by election fervour
that they may be entirely disregard-
ed, but from the date of the Colonel's
arrival in Upper Canada, the suppos-
ed biography becomes somewhat less
distorted. At Waterloo, says our
authority, the Colonel's party were
obliged to submit to quarantine in a
barn, to ablutions and purifications
Lest they carry disease; a requirement
which is by no means improbable, in-
dicating nothing more than Van Ege
mond's compliance with immigration
regulations. Thereafter, continues
our authority, the Count descended to
driving a team for the Canada Com-
pany, presently by "low cunning" he
crept into the good grates of Mr. Galt,
by which means he entered on a pros-
perous career and became the wealth-
iest man in the Tract at the expense
of the Company "or, more properly,
of their •settlers." Yet, sui(h is his
ingratitude, "he has been abusing the
Company and its officers with all his
might ever since." All of which is
merely our correspondent's way of ex-
pressing his opinion of Van Egmond's
opposition to the Company and its
system of settlement.
Having finished his account of the
CoIonel's career, our authority ex-
plains that the Reform candidate ap-
peared on the hustings decorated with
three foreign orders of knighthood,
which he said he led obtained "for de
honorable service" i but which he had
probably bought from real soldiers at
a pint of Holland's per order, a sneer
which was another touch of the cor-
respondent's imagination. Van Eg-
mond's sons, he adds, wore similar
decorations, but as they were either
not yet born in the war time or were
at most too young for military ex-
ploits, they trust owe their blushing
honors to their papa's wuelence rather
than to their own owess-•-a hit
which seems another' allusion to sus-
picion of purchase. We may conjec-
ture that our correspondent was in
error concerning the nature of the
decorations worn by the boys, and
that Van Egmond earned his orders
of knighthood, we have little room to
doubt. Returning to the subject,
however, our authority states that•the
Colonel requested a short time to
compose himself, then came to the
front with a written. paper and ad-
dressed the electors in imperfectly -
spoken English which affords another
target for elephantine humor.
"Freeholders of the County of Hur-
on: I have come to inform dat I of-
fer mineself to your notish as de fit
and proper person to represent you
yid de Parliamiente at de particular
request of de principal part of de
free and independent elect' s of dis
Countie. Gentle-mans!"There fol-
lows an account clumsily burlesqued
by our correspondent, the first point
of which seems to be that if he were
elected, Van Egmond would desire. a
committee appointed in Huron to cor-
respond with him on Matters to be
taken before the House. Apparently
because of his age some such ar-
rangement would be a necessity, pre-
sumably to save him from obligation
to travel frequently 'between 'H'uron
and Toronto. "Don't 1 keep de best
tavern on de Huron Road?" he asked,
in a good-natured jest which his op-
ponents at once seized on as evidence
of exaggerated self-esteem. As sec-
ond point, he proclaimed his detesta-
tion of bribes, perjury and the barter
of principles for places and pensions
by which perhaps he referred to the
actions of certain members of the
Legislature who, elected as Reform-
ers, had succumbed to the temptation
to modify their beliefs in return for
well-paid government' positions. "If
you want a pian who does (these
things), don't elect me." To which
one of the audience, wittier than
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!provocation, as we have seen) and
declared ththe ..,,ers were all
guards whom it was iio honor to re-
present in P rliament, thus commit-
ting a serious indiscretion, if our
authority is correct. Hearing of this,
Mr. Lizars challenged him and
brought three charges: (1) That Van
, Egmond had solicited a' gentleman of
high degree to perjure himself in a
case involving Van Egmond's inter-
ests; (2) That in a letter to the Di-
rectors of the Company the Colonel
had slandered the inhabitants of
Goderich as paupersin the country
from which they came and persons
accustomed to oppression; (3) That
he had tried to plunder the Company
by a monstrous claim of £2,000 on the
plea that he had stopped the cholera
• from coming into th,e 'Tract. • All
three of these are probably fevered
others of Dunlop party, replied:
"Don't alarm yourself, old boy, we
have no idea of it." The Colonel con-
tinued, "if you want a man dat will
betray de liberties, lives and pro-
perrish of yourself, children and gen-
erations yet unporn, don't elect me!"
At this a worthy Scot took up the
tale of the previous heckler, "Dinna
fash yeursel', mon, de'il a fear of your
being elected!" Apparently ignoring
these, interruptions, Van Egmond
went on to explain his opposition to
the harbor bill, seemingly on the
ground of the constitutional provis-
ion that no toll was allowed on lakes
or navigable rivers such as the Mait-
land was supposed to be. In con-
clusion, he sta d: "If you dink pro-
per to elect m, I pledg@ myself to
become your humble sarvint and de
sarvi p
of de eoplish! and shall al-
ways to obey deir commands an' oder
link!" --language which May not in-
adequately represent the Colonel's
struggle with the English tongue. He
had perhaps exaggerated the import-
ance of this , Huron bye -election in as -
sliming that on it depended the lives,
liberties and properties of generations
yet unborn; but he had refrained from
personal remarks and had attempted
an intelligible political discussion, in
consequence of which we may rank
nis speech as probably the best deliv-
ered that day in Goderich, though
this s but faint praise.
When Van Egmond had finished, Mr.
Lizars took the platform again and
denounced "the extraordinary and un-
cpnnected rhapsody" which (hey had
just heard, declared he could not com-
prehend what it really meant and
whether the electors understood Van
Egmond to have declared himself a
candidate or not. On this, the first
epecimen of his appearance in public,mon
was not Van Egmond d the most unfit
man to represent the electors in Par-
liament? Wasn't he unsupported by
anyone except the prosper and sec-
onder? In these circumstances, Mr.
Lizars declared his astonishment at
the presumption of that individual
having the effrontery to thrust him-
self on the public. All of which in-
dicates only strong partisanship in
the mind of Mr. Lizars and an inabil-
ity to raise the discussion above the
level of cheap personal sneers.
The third candidate now appeared
Mr. Rich, an Englishman, recently a
J. P. and appointed Commissioner of
the Court of Requests in Upper Can-
ada. He stated that he had been so-
licited by the almost unanimous wish
of the people of Goderich to stand for
election, a unanimous wish neverthe-
less decidedly qualified in action since
no one but himself proposed or sec-
onded his nomination. According to
our account, he spoke in great excite-
ment and he ,also misrepresented cer-
tain expressins dropped by Dunlop's
seconder, a thodification which if ac-
curate might almost have been a kind-
ness to Mr. Luard. Here our corres-
pondent closes his brief notice of Mr.
Rich's spe ch and interposes an item
c,f his o information, that Mr.
R.•eh sent to Van Egmond's tavern at
Ross at 11 p.h. June 30th, for a let-
ter which had nothing to do with the
election business and read it to the
people, presumably next day. What
the contents of the letter were, we
do not know; probably, however, they
were in some degree damaging to
Dunlop and an example of a "roor-
bach" already in this first Huron el-
ection. At any rate, the correspond-
ent concludes that Rich must have
been secretly at least in allegiance
with Van Egmond's party, to have
conceived this "nefarious attempt," a
connection which from the Colborne
point of •view put hint out of court
immediately. Nevertheless, it is dif-
ficult to see how any slander the let-
ter contained could be more highly
colored than those which Messrs.
Lizars and Luard had heaped on Van
Egmond.
Meanwhile the campaign was con-
ducted among the electors. Accord-
ing to our account, Van Egmond
"prowled and sneaked" or at least
canvassed among the people, exciting
them against Dunlop's proposer and
seconder (an action not without its
misrepresentations of innocent and
necessa +y t' n theCol 1'
r actio s on oone s
part. In conclusion Mr. Lizars dte-
nounc(?d Van Egmnocl as a recreant
to the principles he had avowed and
a renegade to the country of his birth,
accusations which reveal only too
plainly Mr. Lizars' poverty of intel-
lect and oratorical ability.
•
It will be seen that the manner of
the contest was not of high order.
Captain Dunlop's d self-effacement is
extraordinary, tosay the least, and
his principal supporters had no inkling
of the ehtics. the methods or the con-
tent of political controversy. Van
Egmond appears in better light than
Lizars or Luard, and Mr , Rich ap-
pears the perfect example lief the new
arrival with an exaggerated estimate
of the impression he is creating
among the people he meets. Persons
with a preference for reason in pol-
itics must have been pleased when the
election came to a close at 1 p.m. on
JuI•y lst. According to our authority,
Dunlop received 59 votes; Van Eg-
mond, 2, and Rich, none at all. Had
not freeholders alone enjoyed the
franchise, had persons still strug-
gling with their instalments to the
Company been allowed to vote,•AVan
Egmond's poll might have been con-
sideraibly larger.
When the result was announced,
the captain, his proposer and second-
er, were borne in triumph through the
town preceded by the Union Jackaand
a band as parade leaders to a cele
bration dinner in Fisher's Steamboat
Hotel. The Reformers, or as our cor-
respondent would have it, "Van Eg-
mond's armed ruffians" with Michael
Fisher, the sole voter of the lot as
standard-bearer, held a parade of
some twenty to thirty "deluded sim-
pletons" waving the Dutch flag or an
imitation thereof, or, we may guess, a
harmless Reform banner. The Col-
borne men countered by displaying
and burning an effigy in the Market
Square with the inscription "Van
Humbug's Last Trip to Goderich," the
wit of which, to say the least, was
not of high order. As finale, the
hustings were destroyed. Huron had
had its first election and its first re-
presentative, Captain Dunlop, sup-
porter of the Family Compact and
man of the Colborne Clique.
County Live Stock
Improvement Asso-
ciation Meet
A meeting of the Huron County
Live Stock Improvement Association
was held in the Agricultural Office,
Clinton, on Thursday, November 12th.
Mr. Hugh Hill, Goderich, who is presi-
dent of the Association, occupied the
chair and all Directors with the ex-
ception of four, were in attendance.
This .f1ssociation, which was formed
last April, is interested in the con-
stant improvement of live stock
throughout the County and it is
through this organization that the 20
per cent. bonus is paid on all pure
bred .bulls purchased by farmers in
Huron County, providing they have
not pt;eviously owned a pure bred sire.
Of course, before any bonus is paid,
the animal must first pass inspection.
The report of the Secretary showed
that during the month of June seven-
teen animals Ore inspected for the
bonus. Of this:number two were not
eligible because they had previously
owned a pure bred sire but the other
fifteen passed inspection and $293.00
in bonus money was paid. In October
fifteen more animals were inspected
and eight were passed which will re-
sult in about $175.00 being distribut-
ed among the owners of these anim-
als. Of the remaining number, three
were not eligible, and four were tutt-
ed down on conform tion and type.
In view of the e cisting economic
copditions the Association feels that
the results obtained to date are quite
gratifying, and undoubtedly, when
conditions improve, more farmers will
be interested in purchasing pure bred
sires of approved type.
At the organization meeting in
April, the following directors were
Annual
Commencement
More Interesting
Than' Ever.
Cardno's Hall
Seaforth
Friday, Dec. 4th
at 8 p.m.
Plan opens at Aberhart's Drug Store on Saturday,
November 28th, at 9 a.m.
General Admission 40e. Reserved Seats 50c
•
PRINCESS THE
MANY YEARS
Old Landmark, in its Time
Patronized by Thousands
of People, Will Close .This
Week. Lack of Silent' Pic-
tures is Reason, Says the
Management.
After an existence of 24 years the
Princess Theatre will, on Saturday of
this week, close its doors. Started in
September, 1907, by Messrs. Dill and
Cady, it was known as the Star
Theatre, and was operated in the Car-
michael block, its present location.
The Expositor of October 4, 1907,
says: "The moving picture show by
Mr. Cady in the Carmichael tbiockis do-
ing a good business. The admission
is only five cents and we are sure
we do not know of any way in which
a person can get so much instruction
and amusement combined for so lit-
tle money, and the people seem to ap-
preciate this fact. The pictures are
elianged twice a week, Mondays and
Thursdays."
In May, 1908, the Star was purchas-
ed by Messrs. John McKenzie and
Oscar Sproat and rechristened the
Princess, which name it has borne
ever since. Again we find the Ex-
positor of (May 15, 1908, has recorded
the event: `(Messrs. John McKenzie
and Oscar Sproat have purchased the
Star Moving Picture Theatre from Mr.
Cady and are now in possession. They
are both bright, clever young men,
popular with the public generally and
should do a good business. They will
maintain the good reputation the
theatre has had in the past, and will
give their patrons the best that can
be got in the inovix
July of that year,
chased Mr. Sproat'.s best that•
upas
Carried on the business •since l it
In the early days the: manag
booked their pictures but did not,'
re
til they arrived what the subjects
re.. It "'teras a case of trust the
good taste of the producer. Puling
the week of March 12, 1911, Mr. VC -
Kenzie showed "The Cowboy .Girls,"
a big feature picture, full of dash,.,•
vitality and go, as the advertisement,'
of that date said. This was the first
time that the management knew in
advance the title of the picture they
were about to show.
Incidentally Mr. McKenzie has been
a consistent advertiser in The Exposi-
tor for over twenty years, the first
ad appearing on March 10, 1921. It
is peculiar to notice at that time that
no stars are ,mentioned in the adver-
tisements. It was not until a number
of years later that the stars assumed
their peculiar importance.
During its long run the Princess
has provided entertainment for many
thousands of persons. Men and woe
rnen, long'since moved from *Seaforth,
remember the big thrills they- used to
get •on seeing the exciting serials
that were shown at the Princess. This
theatre has the'unique record of hav-
ing run a picture longer than any
other small theatre in Canada. This
was "Aibie's Irish Rose," which ran for
nine days with matinees.
Another, record in convection with
this theatre is the fact that Mr. J. B.
Thomson has been associated with it
from the time it opened as the Star
until he suffered a stroke a few weeks
ago.
Mr. McKenzie found it necessary to
close because of his inability to pro- ,
cure suitable silent pictures.
appointed, one for each Township:
Ashfield, John Farrish, Lucknow, 7;
Colborne, . Hugh Hill, Goderich, 4;
Goderich, Herbert Cox, Bayfield; Stan-
ley, Clifford Keyes, Varna, 1; Hay, L.1
H. Rader, Dashwood, 1; Stephen, Wm.
Oestreicher, Crediton; W. Wawanosh,
Frank Todd, Lucknow; E. Wawanosh,
Melvin Taylor, Belgra've; Morris, W.
J. Henderson, Wingham, 4; Turnberry,
I. J. Wright, Wingham, 1; Howick,
R. J. Sanderson, Fordwich, 1; Grey,
Oliver Turnbull, Brussels, 2; Hullett.
Howard Armstrong, Seaforth; Mc-
Killop, Gordon .McGavin, Walton, 2;
Tuckersmith, Melvin Crich, Seaforth;
Usborne, Ernest Pym, Exeter, 3.
Anyone wishing information or any-
one applying for the bonus, should
get in touch with the director for his
township, or write direct to the On-
tario Department of Agriculture, Clin-
ton.
Huron Judging
Team at "Royal:"
Huron County was represented in
the Inter -County Live Stock Judging
Competition at the Royal Winter Fair
by a team composed of the following:
Mer•vyin Cudmore, Hensall; Clarence
Down, Hensall; Gordon Reynolds, Sea -
forth.
This team competed against thirty-
one other counties from Ontario and
one team from the Province of Que-
bec. Competition was exceptionally
keen and, with 33 teams competing,
Huron County finished in 15th place
and, although not standing higher in
the contest, they made a very ,credit-
able showing. In the individual stand-
ing Clarence Down stood in 16th place
and received a cash award of $10.
The County will again be repres-
ented in the Inter -County Live Stock
and Seed Judging Competitions at the
Provincial Winter Fair, Guelph, on
December 7th and 8th. The members
of this team is as follows: Frank
Wright, Ifiippen; Walter Woods, Wing -
ham; John Fotheringham, Brucefield;
Douglas Hemingway', Brussels.
The first three mentioned will prob-
ably be selected to judge in the Live
Stock Judging Competition, while Mr.
Hemingway will replace Mr. Fother-
ingham in the Seed Judging Contest.
57 (Geometry, Arithmetic), Dorothy
Stacey 56, Peggy O'Connell 64 (Gram-
mar, Arithmetic, Geometry). Form
I-1Mary*Eckart 83, Dorothy Riley 81,
Dorothy' Donnelly 74, Rose Arnold
721/2, Mary Walsh 68, Marjorie Byers
64, John Krauskopf 62 e;Algebra,
Composition), -Norman O'Connor- 59
(Literature, Composition), Charlie
Beiin 56 ((Botany, .,Algebra), Lloyd
McCarthy 53 (Botany, Algebra, Gram-
mar, Comp:, Literature), Margaret At-
kinson 52 (History, Comp., Algelbra,
Literature), Michael Walsh 52 (Latin,
Algebra, Composition), Mar' Feeney
511/2 (Botany, Histp�, )ge'ra),
.Clarence O'Reilly50. .Y•lrli"
;ra
( � Com-
position, Literature), James Eckert
36 (Latin, Algebra, Grammar, Bot-
any, Commosition, French).
Death of William Hills. ---On Friday
morning, Nee -ember 20th, Mr. William
Hills, one of Dublin's most prominent -
business men, passed away at his
home here, following a short illness.
Mr. Hills was a son of the late Thos.
Hills, one of the pioneer residents and
business men of Egmondville, where
he was born 58 years ago. After
graduating from Seaforth Collegiate,
he attended Toronto University for a
year and then entered the hardware
firm of Reid & Wilson, in Seaforth as
bookkeeper. Later in partnership with
Mr. E. McIntyre he purchased the
business, but shortly after disposed of
his interest to his partner and twenty
years ago moved to Dublin, where he
opened a hardware business under the
firm name of W. Hills & Co., which
he carried on with great success un-
til his death. For some years he had
also been treasurer of Hibbert town-
shi•p.' Thirty years ago Mr. Hills was
united in marriage to Miss Mary Mc-
Clarty, of Stratford, who survives
him, together with a family of five
daughters and one son, Jean, at home;
Ruth, df Ottawa; Mary and Flora, of
Toronto; Mrs. Simpson, of Sarnia,
and Thomas, of Dublin. He is also
survived by one sister, Mrs. Maria
Cole, of Toronto, and one brother, Mr.
George Hills. of Egmondville. The
funeral was held from his late home
on Sunday afterroon and wee one of
the largest that has been held in the
district in some years.. The services
were conducted by Rev. Mr. Clapper,
of Mitchell, and interment was made
in the family plot in Staffs cemetery,
the pallbearers being Messrs. Frank
McConnell, Joseph Lerner, William
Stapleton, James Shea, James Jordan
and Alex. Darling.
Mr. and Mrs. L. Beale and sons,
Lionel and Kingsley, of Palmerston,
spent Sunday with Mrs. T. Beale.
'Miss Veronica McConnell, Guelph,
spent the week end with her father,
Mr. Frank 'McConnell.
Mrs. H. Weston, of Galt, called on
friends in the village during the
week.
Mr. Peter Dill, of Detroit, spent the
week end with his parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Peter Dill.
DUBLIN
Continuation School Report. -The
following is the report of the Dublin
Continuation School for November.
Names of subjects in which students
failed are in brackets after percent-
agel of each: Form III -•Eileen Eck -
art 88, Bridet Delaney 82, Harry Mc-
Iver 801/2, • ack Molyneaux 80, Gene-
vieve MCCarthy 80, Donald Bennin-
ger 691/2, Veronica Molyneaux 681/2,
Irene Donnelly 66, John McIver 66.
Failed' in: Agnes Coyne 71 (Com-
position), Elizabeth Carlin 681/2 (Al-
gebra), Francis Krauskopf 67 (Lat-
in), Francis Doyle 66 (Composition),
Gordon Dill 54 (Composition), Nellie,
Doyle 64 (Composition), Ursula
Krauskopf 62 (Geometry), John Mc-
Quaid 61 (French), John O'Reilly 60
(Can. History), Rose Melady 59 (Al-
gebra), Clare Gormley 56 ('Composi-
tion), Irene O'Rourke 51 (French),
Vincent Eckert 68 (Composition, Al-
gebra), Leota Ryan 58 (French,
Geometry), (Monica (Roache 57 (Geom-
etry, Chemistry), Dorothy Brennan 55
(Composition, 'Can. History), Dan Mc-
Carthy 50 (Literature, Geometry),
John Holland 61 (Geometry, Algebra,
French). Form LI: Frances Delaney
82, Ellwyn Morris 66, Arthur Looby
67 (Grammer), Agnes 'O'Connor 62
(Geometry), Matilda !Dorresteyn 57
(Arithmetic), Bertha Britton " 59
(Grammar, French), Cecilia Feeney
58 (Algebra, Zoology), Rita ~Stapleton
IiULLETT '
Wins ease Against Insurance Com-
pany. --At the court In ''Goderich last
week the cases disposed of included
Tyndall vs. West Wawanosh Fire In-
surancel'Co. Judgment was given by
consent for plaintiff for $4,100 with-
out costs. The plaintiff, 'rank Tyn-
dall, of Hullett township, sued for
$4,340 for losses in a fire on April 8,
1931, in which his barn with contents
was 'destroyed. A question was rais-
ed inpleadings as to the use of a blow
torch by an electrician in installing
electrical power at the barn, the fire
having as alleged been started by thio
blow torch. The matter, however, did
nob come to trial: The dei'idatt
cohtpanyi it was understood, had Of-
fered to pay an amount hot greattlee
less than that 'fixed by consent in set-
tlenaent of plaintiff's claim.
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