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The Huron Expositor, 1937-01-01, Page 2•i• e • • l`t • 'On 14. •1* 4 . ; 1. • trr 1.4 ,‘• OS, ubstription rates, $1.50 a year in vance • foreign, $2.00 a year. Single es, 4 cents each. P • •sto ed.,1$00 McPhail Lean B4itor. jsbQd at Seaforth, Ontario, ex- ursday, afternoon by MeLea.n Advertising rates on application. Members .of the Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association, Class "A" Weeklies of Canada, and The Huron County Press Association. , SEAFORTH, . Friday, January 1st. This Year of 1937 There has always seemed to be something sad about the passing of the old year: Not because we will be a year older, because the passing of time should make us a year wiser. Not because it has been a good year, certainly not because it has been a bad year. But because in ev- ery year of our lives there has been some incident, the loss of a friend- ship,the gain of a friendship; some kindness we have received; some good that has come ourway; some- thing that is near to us; something that is fresh in our minds; something that we do ,not want even the pass- ing One year's time to- dim. The hardships, 'the disappoint- .ments, may outweigh the blessings and the expectations—they general- - ly do—but we are willing and even • anxious to forget them. The hand of time, with its d-ulling influence, can not pass -too- swiftly over them. So the passiqg of the old year is • not all sad; and the coming of the new holds so much of hope, so much of promise, we want -to welcome it, to be of it, and live in it. • And no new yek in many passed has dawned with brighter hopes, and the promise of better things, than this year of 1937. May these hopes and promises all be fulfilled. May ?depression be finally and completely lifted; may unemployment cease; may farming come back to its own again, and may the cities prosper. May peace reign at horde and abroad. And may we _wish .you a Happy and Prosperous New Year. 4u• e • A New Conservative Leader ? . Are we going to have a new Con- servative leader in Federal politics? Newspaper reports from Ottawa and other large centres in the Do- minion would seem, at least, to be pointing in that direction. The latest rumor from Parliament Hill which found its way into the newspapers over the week -end, was that the choice might fall on the not unwilling shoulders of Denton Mas- sey, the handsomest member in the House of Commons. Mr. Massey might be a little young and a little inexperienced, but he has a wide following in Ontario, at /least, and has gained quite a standing as well as much popularity with the younger element throughout the work of his noted Bible Class in To- ronto. • But Mr. Massey is only one of many men who are prominent in the Conservative party. There is Hon. Earl Lawson, who is said to be pro- moting a new Conservative party paper, and Col. George Drew can scarcely be left out of the running. Then there is Hon: Dr. R. J. Man- ion, a man of wide experience, popu- larity and ability. And what aboll:t Mr. Bennett's • own brother-in-law, the Hon. William D. 1Ierridge, who has been much in the limelight re- cently. •Other names are former Premier Harrington, of Nova Scotia, and for- mer Attorney -General M. A. Mac- • pherson, of Saskatchewan, one from each end of the Dominion. •Nor would the roll 1:)e complete without the name of ,Senator Arthur eighen, one of the ablest men in nada, either in or outside of the seivtative party, although 'never nlar with the rank and file. d 'rail, is Mr. *theft :it g Iletleaderskip-of his par. �net1inno one seems „ssr at. 1 4 • it t• k ** i? 4 1 I 1 li, .;1 ti. r1 ii 4, 4 (A4, t)te 6111eSS for Vanted, east no one ibut r.BellnPtt knOwst and as he has b'een on an, Bmpire wide tour since last suramer?, no one has ever beard his view expressed, One thing is certain, and that is that Mr. Bennett knows his own mind. ' And if he is not through with his term of leadership, just who is going to oust him from the job? e'sist •,,e4WeOne .„, A Green Christmas Strictly speaking, perhaps, it was not a green Christmas, but there is no doubt about' the fact that we did not have the old-time • Christmas weather. Rain came driving down in sheets the greater, part of ChristMas Day, and the snow and key we had -been having a little too much of during December, melted and vanished be- • fore it. In fact from Christmas' Day to • Stinday, rain washed away winter over the whole of Ontario. But don't look for spring yet, because the weather man says the Christmas weather was unusual as well as un- seasonable. • But Christmas Day is a home day. We like to have good weather for it, of course, but after all it is the spir- it, not the weather, that makes a real Christmas. • And the weather before the great day was Christmas like and season - ,able. Clear and cold arid easy to get • about in. And people got about, and seemed to carry the Christmas spirit about with them too. It was, we are told, the best Christmas season that the town merchants have enjoyed in many- years. That, too, is pretty much the re- • cord reported over the whole of On- • tario. Perhaps good times are back again without •our having noted their approach. At least there must 'have been • more money to spend this year and the people spent it. Which is all good, because we have had some' pretty lean years, and we can stand a lot of the other kind. So even if it was a green Christ- mas,, it proved to be a pretty good Christmas after all. • Not The Christian Nor The • Christmas Spirit Judging from the Monday reports published - in the •large city dailies, both in this country and those across the line, "Peace on earth and good will towards men," found little place in the Christmas celebration of 'many people. In Toronto, it is said, the day and the season were marked by a wave' of crime that taxed the whole police force to control. Fighting, drunken- ness, and thievery were rampant, and that was the sordid story in many other large centres and cities. It may have been only a small minority element that brought dis- grace upon the day, themselves, and their towns and cities, but even a minority element, at times, can make • itself conspicuous. • It is not a new element in Ontario iife, but it seems to be a rather rap- idly growing one, and the time has come when a sharp check should be made in these kind of celebrations, whether they come at Christmas or any other season of the year. WHAT OTHER PAPERS SAY. When The Pig Rides (Peterborough Examiner) e There is oomethingsnew in the railway business which May have been overlooked. On the Cana- dian National system it is reported that nearlY all the Cars which Carry livestock to marketing paints has been equipped, with friction springs. In this way the little pig 'Piing to market is as- sured of a ranch, smoother ride. That seemed pleasant enough at first reading, but pleassant contemplation lives, only a short _time when one looks deeper. The Pig of 200 pounds or so gets best one ride on the train, but the pirs comfort Wag not actually the motive for putting new springs ander the coach in which he was given tetanding roe= We learn that With. the iterteetved •Stelick car the, pig was not so Much braised Ile artilved at the stock' yard, nor had he lest so Maley patieds in, being shipped. So it vtayg better" for the railway Mariann, better for theste -Who Seld nigg and better also for the Steck Wag parehased the pigs. •Vire ft *fib 'say: otit* 'jelling he ine,de IVO pfgTT•.11.,thasMelde much diffeteithe the etiOntalitable niedillastalidett ti`e de net knew. 'rhe Pig get t; but citta i1d On the train ad eni hag itie OPPOritailllity tti Sein- ed, . se, s 'A:re-sees' nene rAit 11 From The Huron Expositor January 5, 1912 A *Wag man named William Rea- nio, ARO shout 20 years, is dead and Thomas xenRedy is very • seriously 1,11 rui a -result of taking an .overdose of .bromide and chloral. Rennie had been unable to sleep and had asked Dr. Kennedy, Wingthen for a dose of morphine which was refused but gave a small bottle of bromide and appar- ently' Rennie took -it all. Ere going to the Hotel National be went to Ken- nedy's room and gave him a dose. Both MED were soon overcome. Mr. Roy Geiger, of Zurich, thai been engaged to teach, the school on the 14th concession, of Stanley, for the coming year. The Ladle& Aid of the Chiselburst Methodist Church have placed a fine new pulpit and set of chairs in the •church which adds greatly to the ap- pearance of the church. Mr. J. C. Greig was elected Mayor and Mr, William Ament, as Reeve, at the Seaforth elections held on Mon- day. . Master Georgie Pattergon, son of Mr. John Patterson, fell from the top of a car at the Seaforth station on Friday and fractured his 'leg. Do you ternerer sxta"thirt.T Mira ago When "A 1404344gta• .Garcia" wa*Plor pr ear every) inalee in the country?, ' Elbert alrbbard, he of. the nearly equally well limOwn. 'fSerapt.. hook," wrote .the article for his liMe Monthly magazine, "The Philistiae," and Jared L. 1.VlanleY, writing in the New Yorker, recalls its, amazing .car- eer. in, a. house on Russian Hill in San Francisco, around which foggy Winds blow . frequently in the •winter, a alight gentleman, w h o is /Seventy-nine yeatis old, spends great deal of •his time in bed, listen- ing to his wife as she reads to him, says Mr. Manley. On those occasioins when a long illness permits hiin to arise,' you would see, IV you were there, a man About five feet seven, with a trim grey moustache, white hair; and, for all his feebleness, a certain, military straightness to his back. , He has an aquiline nose, and a jutting chin not unlike, that of Gen- eral John s:.Persthing, whom, indeed, he considerably resembles. Hisname has been printed millions of times, probably oftener than Pershing's, but it is doubtful if you will recognize it right off; Andrew Summers • Rowan. One a lieutenant 'coronet in our army retired a major more titan a quarter- century ago, he became famousfor what he did when he was a first lieutenant, seventeen years out of West Point.. This little old gentle- man is the man who carried the mes- sage to Garcia. Another name, of course, springs to your iaind ttqw, the name ,of a man who sat u a desk one -night after dinner on Washington's Birthday, in 1839, and gave Lieutenant Andrew Surnreers ;Rowan to the world: the late Elbert Hubbard, called Fra El- bertue. who ran a little print shop in East Aurora, New York, published a magazine, and turned out tracts and pamphlets by the 'Score. This glib and 'facile .inspirationaliet ,dise cussed the Spanish War at dinner with his son, Elbert, Jr., called Bert, and at the mention of Rowan had hayed UQ, inspired. His little menth- ly ,magazine, "The Philistine," was about to go to 'press and needed an ed nod al tdfill.El bent Hubbard wrote it Mean " hour ("The thing • leap- ed hot from' my heart," he said later). Perhaps one reason it enlarged the fame of •Elbert Hubbard rather thaii of Andrew Summers Rowan is that it mentioned the gallant officer only at the start (sketchily recounting his undertaking and getting most of the fade wrong), And then, went into a typical attack on slipshod .office work- ers, their inattention, indifference, and ihelfheartedneSs. • It was exactly the kind of theme to catch the eye of rthe American business, exectifiVe, standing restless on" the threshold of the Go -Getter Era, the Live -Wire Ep- och; it annealed to him the way Sen- ator Vest's oration on the dog appeal- ed to dog lovers. the Centitry Witk tbFt• twpfiletfk, PriAte Nribl,159# Orgotor o Ituouto, Irat,tvvam here to atudy how the won- derful Ateriertna managed their wide flung •Illtess,. was bei.vildered but Ira - Dressed by Mr. Daniels' PattSion, for the Hubbard bookiet. lie never did understand • the ..phenomenon. Tem clearly, but he took one of the things back home with him and had it trans- lated into Russian; 4 copy was giv- en, • to every railroad employee in Rug. ela. It is probable thatthey. were as puzzled by the message as they would have been by a tralaniathep of the jingle "Out Where the West 13e - gine," se Popular many years later, but they dutifully carried it about with themi—even into the war with Japan, where it was to give the en- emy pause, too. "The Japanese," wrote Elbert Hubbard, in a proud fore-. word to a special edition of "A Mes- sage to Garcia" published in 1913, "finding the booklets iti possession, of 'Russian prisoners, •conoluded that it must be -a good thing, and aceording- ly translated it into Japanese. And on an 'ender of the Mikado, a Copy was given to every man in 'the employ of the Japanese Government, soldier or civilian." It has been printed in eighteen or twenty languages. The demand for the tract has' died down a little in thirty-seven years, but the Roycrofters still print a lot of 50,000, three times a year. You can get it in five different editions, from a plain pamphlet at ten cents to the super - de -luxe edition at $1.25 (printed in two ooloin, bound in limp ...leather, with silk -lined covers). Says the Robycnoft Shop in a big advertisingcili'cular, circular, "You want your men to 'Carry the Message' because progress demands You sueround yourself with men of .gumption.” Now let us return to Andrew Suni- mers Rowan and strive to resurrect him and this adventure from the flam- boyant and paltry allusions of the Great Editorial, with which„ however, we must, for all completeness, begin. "In all this Cuban business," wrote Fra Elberttts, "there is one • man stands cut on the horizon of my mem- ory like Mars at perihelion. When war broke out between Spain and the /Unit- ed States.; 'It was very necessary to communicate quickly with the leader of the Insurgents: Garcia was some- where in the mountain fastness. of Cuba—no one knew where. No mail or telegraph [message could reach him. The President must .secure his co- operation, , and quickly. What to do - Someone said to the President,. There is •a fellow by the name of Rowan will find Garcia for you; if anybody can.' Rowan was sent for and given a letter •to be delivered to Garcia. How the `fellow by the name of Row- an' took the letter, sealed it,up in an oilskin pouch, strapped it over his heart, in four days landed by night off the coast of Cuba from an open boat; disappeared into the jungle, and in three Weeks cattle out on the oth- er side of the island, having travers- ed a hostile country on foot, and de- livered his letter to Garcianeenenthinge I have no speciettAlegfrrnow to tell in detail,.. , ,• Andrew Summers Rowan was bsorn in 1857 ih Virginia, and entered West Point when he was 20. He married when he was 30., When he was 40, rotting beyond the ordinary routine of army life had happened to him. He had been to this post and that, as a second lieutenant in the 15th Infan- try,' as a first lieutenant in the 9th: In hie fortieth, year he found time to write, for some reason, a book called "The Island of Cuba,"' with maps and illustrations, all a bit ,stiff and stodgy,. and exactly as accurate as th,e books from which he took his material; he bad never been to Cuba.' 'If was, nev- ertheless, probably this book which accounted for his being summoned on April 13, 1898-12 days before war was declared en Spain --by his chief, Colonel Arthur Wagner. The War Department, the Colo-nel told the Lieu- tenant, wanted to get in touch with General Garcia (Calixto • Garcia' y In- igues), the outstanding Cuban Insur- gent leader, who was somewhere in the interior of the island. This Gar- cia was no tatterdearation. The sen of fairly wealthy parents, he had stu- died law, had even started practice in Havana, when revolution fired his heart. Born in 1840, he had, three years after our Civil War, first struck at the power of Spain in Cuba. Five years after that, still, fighting, he found himself with twenty men wur- rounded by five •h•urvdred Spaniards, Garcia, the story goes, put a pistol to his head, fired, missed his brain (Cub- ans are famously bad shots), and liv- ed. He was captured and deported to Spain, but soon found his; way back to start a new revolution. He was captare,d, again, and this time he spent 17 years in Spain tinder, surveillance. In 1895, he evaded his guards, got ov- er the French border, made his way New York, and fitted out first one ship and then a second. From the, second, he managed to land 62 men, six field gune, and a load of dynamite in Cuba. With these he 'captured Guimaro and, in January, 1897, w,on decisive victory over the Spaniards,, following it up with the capture of an•othser town. From then ten, he held the interiot• of the Province of Sant-iago until Mr. Hearst got around, the following year, to starting the Span- ish-American War. Garcia was some- , (Continued on Page 6) Mr. George Thornton, of McKillop, who is 103 jreare sold, polled his vote last Monday in spite of the inclement weather. • Mrs. Hammill, of Alameda, Sask., was burned so badly in a fire in, their 'home that she passed away from the effects. Shearas a former resident of Seaforth. Miss. H. Downing, of Deuesels, was made the recipient recently of gifts from the pupile of the public school where she was a teacher. Huron COunity Council for 1912 is as follows: Seaforth, Wm. Arent ; Tuckertemith, Robert McKay; Un - borne, A.. Barnhill; Exeter, W. J. Hea- man; Stephen, H. Willert and Wm. Yearley; Hay, L. Kalbfleisch; Stan, ley, Wm. Glenn.; Hensall, Geo. Petty; Bayfield, George Lindsay; Goderich • Twp.,•john-McLure; Clinton, D. Can- •telon; Hullett, James Leiper; McKile lop, X. M. Govenloch; Grey, R. Liv- ingstone and John' Brown; Brussels, John Leckie; Morris, J. Shortreed Blyth, Dr. W. J. Milne; Wingham, D. • McDonald; Turnberry, T. K. Powell; • Wroxeter, C. Reis; Howiek, J. T. Win- ter and JAS. Underwood; East Waw - &nosh, John Gillespie; West Wa.wan- ash, W. Bailie; Ashfield, Thos. Sto- thers and W. Hunter; Goderich, B. C. Mundingse Colborne, J. Kerngbesna. The reeve and councillors of Wrox- eter for last year were all re-elected • by acclanaation. D. L. Strachan, of Pine River, Ash- field "Toiling:hip, has disposed of his general store and will resumesteach- ing at Hanover. Nearly 300 people Dorn all parts of the district attended the dance given • in the. Town Hall, Clinton, on Wed- nesday. Guests were present from Mitchell, Seaforth, 'Wingham an d Blyth. From • The Huron Expositor • From $10-,ri. da • 510" -Ora, St., Daytell, December 1926. The Editor, The Huron Expositor: Dear Sir: Just a line to let you knew that to -day we received! ear first Expositor an,d 1;4 surely were all glad to get it, all pulling it on ,froza the other, as it brings so mueli of the home news that our friends forget to write us. We had a fine trip down here, no car trouble of any kind, not even a Rupture in. all the 1,000 milee. • We• left home Tues -day meriting, Dec. 1st, in 15 degrees below zero weather and arrived here December 7th in fine Sunshine with weather temperature about 70 degrees—gets a little cooler at nights. We are living just three blocks from Daytona Beach, Atlantic Ocean, where Sir Malcolm Campbell made the 280 mile. per hour automobile speed re- cord. This is said O be the finest speed beach -in the world, and it sure- ly is as the ocean tide keeps' it waste ed smooth and hard. Daytona BeacS is a city with about 18,000 steady pop- ulation and about 60,000 tourists reg- ister here during the year, so you see it is a popular tourist's resort. Wishing you all the complinaente bf the season. Because the history of Mr. Hub - bard's editorial gitice 1899 is mon- strously interesting and the annals of Colonel Rowans (as he is now call- ed) comparatively simple and quiet, 'we must take up, •first, "A Message to Garcia." it hadn't been called that when Hubbard wrote it; it had car- ried no title at all. But suddenly there were demands, by the hundreds, then by the thousands, for the, March, 1S99. edition of The Philistine. in two weeks the • issue was sold out". A (lay or two after that came a telegram from 'Mr. George H. Daniels, an of- ficial sof the New YorlinCentral. He' wanted- 100,000 reprints of the article with an Empire State Express adver- tisement on. the ,back. Hubbard's Printery, the Roycroft Stop, had no 'facilities for such a large order, so he arranged with Daniels to have them printed elsewhere, under the name "A Message to Garcia." In a few months, Daniels had had 500,000 copies printed; before the was through hp had ordered 1,500,000. They were sent ,by him to anyone who asked for one and to tens of thousands who didn't., Churches and schools, corpor- ations and stores; became interested. The Roycrofters worked overtime printing sasemany as they could. Ten years after the reprint was first pub- lished, Wanamaker's Ordered. zoom copies. - By 1913 40,000,000 copies, in vedette forms, had been given to the December 31, 1886. One evening last week Mrs. Kirk- . man. was surprised at receiving a vis- it from the tnembers .of her Bible Class in connection with the Presby- terian Church, which is composed of some twelve or .fifteen young men: They presented her with a handsome photograph album and a silver cake plate. Mr. James Beattie was elected May- or and Mr.' Willem,. Reeve, by accla- mation in, Seaforth. About noon on Tuesday last the fire alarm was sounded' and soon politics, business and everything else was for- gotten in the desire to render asedet- aloe. The fire was, legated in the large brick warehouse and refrigera- tor of Mr. De -B. WiIson, on the cot- t,..orld. The little Roycroft Shop grew ner of Main and, Goderich Streets. larger and 'larger, along with these The day 'Mil bitterlt cold and, many orders for "A Message to Garcia." of the boys were c vered with ice. Bert Hubbard, whose words inspired So great was sthe heat in the building this father and who is now head of the Roycrofters, estimates that the towering total of me sea ges which have flooded this country and other countries must be all of 80,000,000 by now. To give you some idea of the preaehment's range, a- copy bagi been given to every member of the United States _Marine Corps and. the Boy Scouts of , America, • the Davey tree Workers, the , employees of nine life insurance companies, and the em- ployees of the Milwaukee Gas Light Cortipany, the Peoples Drug Steins, inc., the Reading Den, Comany, the John Deere Plow Company, the Dig- uid Veneer Corporation, and scores of ethers. The late Jesse Straus always bad copies in his pockets and on his desk at Macy's to give to new em- ployees, and on his desk in the Em- bassy at Paris to give to reluctant code clerks and puzzled visitors. When the New York Central: was deluging that the ice in the refrigerator was nearly all Melted. On Wednesday Mr. Wm. Ballantyne was re-elected school trustee in the north ward; Dr. Hanover for the east, and O. C. Wilson for the south. The following school- trustees' were elected in •Tuckersimitb. on Monday: Charles Mason, Samuel Wallace, Jos. Atkinson add Geo. T. McKay. • The other day on the farm of Mr. 17trilliam Bubolz, Tuekersmith, Mr. Thomas Carter did ,some quick weak. He left the house at 9 a.m., walked 50 rods, felled, a soft elm tree meas- uring 6 feet 2 inches one way and 5 feet 8 incites the Other way and was les past • E. J. DINNIN. The Alumni Year Book Clinton, Ont., Dec. 26, 1936, The Editor, The Huron Expositor: Dear Sir: Concerning the grotto photograph, on page fifteen of the, re- cently published Alumni Year Book, I would like to say that the photograph was. taken in June, 1887. It was oh the occasion of the Jubilee, con:mam- orating the fiftieth year of Queen Vie- th, la's reign, and it was a great onca- sion. Everybody celebrated; proces- sions and precessions•--alsost the whole school turned out in uniform. Many, were the blistered foreheads and sunburned noses. For after we had marched up and.down and , gone through our "drill," we stood at 'at- tention tie listen to the speeches and music. Drill was drill in those dayse, military drill for both girls and boys, addressed as "Squad." Our drill -mas- ter was Mr. E. N. Hagarty. I can still hear his clear voice as he gave the commands . . and see the look on his face whin • some of us failed tot . carry out the command properly. The words "M you were" would ring out.. Mr. Hagerty was Classical Masted' . at the High School at that time. Lat- er gained considerable dietinction. as Head Master of the Harbord Street Colleeiate in Toronto. • ONE OF THE OLD BRIGADE. • Seen in the County P •, ..P tS,' 407.7~•••••••••••••ilft,•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• Had _Pleasant Tine A large number of the employees of Richmond Hosiery No. 2. attended a joint banquet with the Lend= branch M the Masonic Temple, Lon- don, on Tuesday evening. A turkey dinner was served at 6.30, followed by a good program and dancing.— Clinton News -Record. A Golden Wedding Celebration • , . The Town Hall, Wroxeter, was the • scene of a happy gathering on, Fri- day evening, When a large, number, , gathered in honor of one of our popu- lar village boys, Stewart. Nigeria and his bride (nee Marie Doig) of Moles- worth. During the evening in Which dancing was enjoyed, an address was read to Mr. and Mrs, Higgins by Clif- ford Denny and two, Ohairs, an end back at the house at 15 metable and numerous other gifts were .. / nine. presented. Mr. Higgins replied ex- MT1. and Mit H. T. Gii4 , who in- pressing the appreciation of his *lie ' tend leaving for Dakota ere long, ea- and himself. Refresbenents were aertr- tertaiaed their friends to the num- ed at the dose of a verY enjoyable ber of over one hundred at a fare- ,evening.—Winghara AdvaneeTimes. well party On Thursday evening. The Work Progressing . musio was 'furnished by Mrs. James hael •and Miss Iterr, on. the or- Splendid Progress has been, made McMic gen, •and, Meters% Forsyth ' end Cheis- during the past week on Exetee'e new' community building. The' steel eov- ney, on the ,violints, wing en the rink has been'completed„ . 4,* Mr. and' Mrs. Adam Glazier wilt observe the 50th anniversary of their' marriage on Tuesday; Dec. 29th, at - their home, Frederick St.. The day will be obsei'ved quietly owing to the recent bereavement in the family, Congratulations are in order.—Clintore News -Record. • Appointed Ki'ng's Counsel R. C. Hays, who since the death ef his father is the sole member of the law firm of Hays & Hays, reeeived word on Tuesday that he was among — a number of Ontario lawyers who' have been raised to the • rank of . King's counsel. Notice of the 'appoint- nit7nt came by telegram from Attor- neyilleaeral Aithur Roebuck. Ira. March of this year Mr. Hays was. elected( a bencher of the Law Society of Ureter Canada, the first in Goderich to 'hold that position since the death of Senator Proudfoot in 1924. The young King's counsel—he is forty-one :.-ear,0 of age—is a graduate of the idaneersity of Toronto and Osgoode Hail and has practised, law in the then of his birth for fifteen years Heis secretary of the Huron Law As - Gelation and is solicitor for the• County of Huron—Goderich Signal. Bride and Groom Showered ' • e*. • • 4. • ; 4 4 , • 1. fp 'Mr. Wm. Ours barn was burned On the morning of the, 17th hist. It Was a new one and was worth $300. Mrn Edward Hoop ef of " Centralia, gad gild his fermi and *ertock and mov- ed: to Michigan. b On Wednesday Mr. Balsden, of Ex- eter, Met with a mishap which is very uncoimslitou Wiettit to Howard's swamp Bay ToWingliips for the Mr- •posee Of edileallig "tv‘rorgrettto, anal ' thretiel the *010de Came liven g qu�gtftti which allowed the • bore," aigd ocenvent terd &not to a depthr of four feet Ite ,ettirteated,.kinizeit, but the horsea had hirinlintroitt. With the aid ging eitatia • ' JUST .A SMILE OR Thoughtful Friend: "My good man,. you had better take the street , car .home." .ffirminated One: "Sh' no •u•she. Wife wouldn't let rakes keep 'it in the hough." Clistorner: "Would you take my last scent for a shave?" Barber: "Sara!' • .Catetotaer . (getting, out of c,httir and handing the barber a penny): "Here'a My..last , • ' . • • SpeakerLeVni: ,pleaged 10 :S5S alleth,stellealge &'o� here tight" • • Ireton; iiiiara tti rittilYalite,be 'toe ninon .0tetinint 'We're tot, att. dettO:0, • • 44 t TWO The man at the theatre was annoy- ed be conversation in the row behind." "Encuse me," he "but we can't hear a wend." . . • 'Oh," replied thd talkative one. "And Ir • it any bileittete of yoursewhat I'm telling my wife'?" • , Drown and Jones *ere' retaining lather rate fratil the eftild; 'bt'• ear- • Gradually thesipeecloilsitiee crept up —20, 40, 40, 60; -55. at** at boit, bean •••to feet 4141* neeireinio • "Mot driitring a bit light; etre we, 01' Flee feet_en etcher side of the rink is being used for seating capacity for the spectatorie atd this, work is now nearing c'oinpletion. There will be tyre Itliws of gea,ts.. The ends' will be circular in. elia,Pe. A splendid ligh:t- systein in being installed with the ' work well under way. For the gyea- =Shim the -outside Walls and thereof are almost comPleted. A brick chim- ney for the furnace was erected this Week by Mr. Walter Cutbusih. It is elateeted that before another week ice king will, be Well Wider way, A • niatk?" m1141441: • gtAtidpilt*Ovitt will be ,artart-ged Seen diSh tee if atilt Gni after the Meelling takeS planed•;eVae- n s 'Aticiintect the oplinf, •net 0,0 60)1 ter Thnes..11.4roonte. oditteltwo•• ' (06irttrined on tnge 6) 14 ‘141401111 1* t., 11 '4 45 4