The Huron Expositor, 1946-08-23, Page 2s t ►r,
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�,.EAFO11TH, Friday, August 23rd
Farmers And Income Taxes
In' a rural district like this much
heard these days about the income
tax and its burden upon the farmers.
At the same time,, it is ratherodd
one hears so little said about the sub—
sidies • the ' government is paying
fanners for products of the farm in
Order to -maintain ceiling prices and
:keep down the cost of living for the
Canadian people at large.
As we have said, before,' 'having,
spent a lifetime within forty rods of
farms, our , viewpoint is largely that
of the farmer. 'Consequently,' some
recent statistics we received on the
income tax and subsidies, as they
concern the farmer, were rather en-'
lightening, and we might add, rather
disconcerting too..
From 1940 to 1945, cash income
from the sale of farm products in
Ontario jumped from $233,415,000 to
$436,800,000, or practically they have
, doubled. During the same years the
cash subsidy paid to Ontario farm-
ers was increased from $1,524,000 in
1940, to $32,096,000 in 1945..
It was the statistics on the income
tax, However, that made us wonder.
Why all.the bitterness? Why all the
swimP laint? In 1940 only 671 farmers
• in, Ontario paid- income tax.. In 1945
the number was up to '4,000. But
considering the fact that in the year
1945, there were 175,749 farmers in :'
Ontario with a cash incomefrom
subsidies and the . sale of farm pro-
ducts totalling $468,896,000, it would
appear that all but a mere handful
of the farm population pay not the
slightest attention to the income tax
law, at least . as far as contributing
is concerned. Here -are the figures:
Cash Income and -Subsidy Income From Sale of
Farm' Products -1940 to, 1945
Year Cash Income Subsidy Total
1940 .... $233,415,000 $1,524,000. $234,939,000
1941 .:... .286,487;000 3,664,000 290,051,000
1942 .... 355,976,000 5,558,000 '361,534,000
1943 .'... 383,711,000 15,531,000 399,242;000
1944 410,554,000 29,543,000 440,097,000
1945 .... 436,800,000 -32,096,000 468,896,000
Income Tax Assessed to Farmers
Ontario number of !Farmers,,••.175,749
Year No. of Farmers Amount
Taxed Assessed
1939-40 671 ' $63,998.00
1940-41 - . 569 54,566.00
194142- 239 ' 20,922.00
1942-43 . - ' 784 79,834.00
1943-44 1,234 181,270.00
1944-45. 4,000 810,023.00
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Reallp Astonishing
It is a well known fact that the
people of,, Canada as a whole are
much more conversant with United
States thought, 'customs and geogra-
phy than are United States about us
in Canada. And particularly is, this
true of the people in some of the
Middle Westerns States.
Sometimes this difference is aston-
ishingly exhibited• . in the weekly
press of that country, asinstanced
by the Deer River News, of Deer
River, Minnesota, in a recent editor-'
la] in which it said:
"Up :: in ,Canada the people have
plenty of white bread they. have no
shortage of 'meat; they have plenty
of everything. Nothing is rationed
except sugar, which seems to be
short everywhere, though, why is
hard to ,tell. They don't send food to
starving Europe and Asia. -It doesn't
make the American ' people feel so
good to see Britain get a loan for
four qnd a half billion dollars, which
will probably, have to be 'charged off
be'caus'e it will be uncollectable, -When
far flung colonies are . contributing.
nothing to feed the starving."
If for nothing less, that paragraph
is really astonishing for the mass of
misinformation it contains. To start
with, meat, butter, liquor and other
-things beside sugar are rationed in
Canada, although most of them are
not in the States. The reason we
have more of them is not because we
are keeping them for ourselves, but
'because we have made a better job
of our rationing and maintaining' our
telling, prices..
i As ' matter of fact, considering
Canada's population and wealth, it!
has sent more free food all over the
' world than any other nation, the
tiithd States included. We do not
say` that Canada could not have done
pyre for -the Staring p,eople of Eur -
Asia beeaus'e hke the people
the line, *e are. enjo ng the
i
e s in o • rrr story.,
�Sr�spero�s times u y`
t ,.the sane time, it dqe$ not help'
e'ther the starving or. the interna-
tional friendship, when we are so
completely misrrepresenttd as in the
Deer River Newsand other • 4meri-
can papers..
And finally, about ` Britain's far
flung' colonies. Where are they?
Possibly the Minnesota editor has
never heard of the British Common-
wealth of Nations, and it's neighbor,
Canada's position in it. Which is, as
all the enlightened world knows, that
Canada is just as free and independ-
ent, as far as Britain is concerned,
as is the State of Minnesota, or any
other State in the Union.
•
Words To Remember.
The people of Canada and the
United States should remember that
there is more than just the human
element in supplying the starving
people of Europe with our super-
abundance
uperabundance of food. Should remem-
ber that the experience of democracy
those European people have had is
not one of the happiest experiences
in their lives, and that the way we -
treat them now may prove a decid-
ing factor in determining their form
of government for years to come.
Because if these- European coun-
tries see nothing in our democracy
but a system that overfeeds 'their
own people and neglects to feed them
in their extremity, it is not going to
make us many friends, . nor gain
many converts for our boasted dem-
ocratic government and ways of liv-
ing.
Writing in. the 'New Republic re-
cently, Rev: A. Powell Davis, minis-
ter of All Saints' Unitarian Church
in Washington, D.C., . paints to the
vital importance to the 'people of the
United States of what it does in this
food crisis. And' a great deal of
what he says should be taken to
heart by Canadians as well:
"American food consumption per
person is now 14 per cent. greater
than it was before the war.. If we
doubled our overseas ' shipments, and
thus saved countless lives, it would
still be five per cent., greater. • Is it
strange that the United States, once
the • shining focus. 'of a stricken
earth's reviving hope, is rapidly be-
coming the most hated nation inthe
earth ? .We are betraying the future,
We are handing .back the victory to
the dead man, 'Hitler, just as he pre-
dicted. Only the least that we could
possibly have done, have we been .
willing to do. Unscathed within our
own territory, our cities and coun-
tryside unharmed by the ravages of
war, in gratitude to those who bore
the brunt' of the struggle we have
flung the crumbs from our table.
We have allowed the little -minded,
shrunken -hearted • men among our
leaders to havetheir way. The .leth-
argy of the gluttonous has stupefied
us, while in the'•halls of government,
perfidy grows rampant and con-'
science sleeps."
Yeais ► 'o E
Iatel4 items puked, from
The' - E .ositor 0f ' Arty and
twentty-'fve.years ago;
From The Huron Baipositor
ADOWS
ByHasi7J.WAS
apers
August 26, 19221
Bayfield held its first regatta on
Saturday afternoon. The,_ vintagers
and summer residents,: together with
visitors from Goderich, Cunt and
Sbaforth, lined both sides the har-
bor to witness the, events,
Messrs. Herbert and Ira Toll, Robt.
Smith and Jas. McClure, Harlock took
in the excursion 'to the West. "
Mr. W. Brenton Herr, son of Mr.
and Mrs, James Kerr and 'a • former
graduate of Seaforth .Collegiate Insti-
tute, has returned from Oxford; Eng-
land, where he, spent the past two
years... studying in that famous Uni-
versity.
Mr. and Mrs. T. S Smith : and Mr.
and Mrs. J. G. Mullen left Saturday
morning on a trip' down the St. Lawr-
ence anct Saginaw 'fivers.. Thep in-
tend spending -several days in Mont.
real and Quebec City. ,
'Mrs. J. E. Willis and son, Fred and
Miss Hazel Reid have returned from
a. two weeks' holiday in Bayfield.
Mr. Charles Neely left on Wednes-
day -for London, where he will take a
position with the G. T-11..
A rink consisting of Harry Stewart,
Jack -Beattie, W. D. Bright and J. ' M.
•
Some 'Request !
The Canadian "steel workers • who
are fast bringing down industry to
an almost complete standstill by
their strike, have made a final. pro-
posal to the companies concerned. A
- proposal that would spell even ` a
greater disaster to . our people than
the strike itself.
The steel union request 'is not only
for more wages, but it goes much
further. It insists that if the cost
of living goes up by- the first of the
year, their wages must again be in-
creased, and for every point of in-
crease the steel workers `must be paid
an additional cent per hour. But if
the cost of living should go down at
any time, their wages must ,not go
down with it.
That, surely, is .seine request.
Naturally if the steel workers ,have
their demands met, other unions will
demand similar increases, the same
as they did across the border. Under
such: conditions, because wages are
a, basic factor In the cost pf living,
those costs will go up too. In fact it
would be the start of a vicious" cir-
cle of inflation. Wages going up to
meet the, cost of ;living, and the cost
of living - climbing again to cover
wages.
_ If wages are to be tied to prices as -
the steel workers, or rather their un-
ion ileaders, •demand, i would certain-
ly 'protect the steel it
from a
rising o living, s ng c st of I v g, but it just as
certainly would give ; no such protec-
tion
rotestion to the -"rest of the people of Ca
ada, and they are in the mass major-
ity,
a or-ity,
There's something camiiorting about
the sound of crickets. 1 canremem-
ber ray first• impression, of the sound
of crickets so very well. 1 can't re-
member how old 1 was, but 1 wasn't
very big and my.' grandfather was sit-
ting with me 'on the •back stoop.
"Grandfather,'" I said, "what's that
sound?" He•sat with his ear Docked
and his pipe in one hand -and 'lis"ten-
ed. , Finally he said, "Some of the
fairies are musically inclined • and
others are not. The ones who aren't
just never have the -instruments to
play. Once upon a time a kind old,
lady came upon a little fairy sitting
beside the road crying. He„,w.anted
'to be musical and he didn't have any
instrument to play, and his "voice was
too old ,for` singing."
Grandfather stopped: then to listen
to the sound of the crickets. • Finally
he continued and.' said*: "This' "fairy
was quite old and in his .younger days
he had been quite a lad shieping•to
sea when he was no more than ,a b'by.
During a terrible storm in the. South
Pacific he lost his leg and the ship's
carpenter fitted him up with a wood-
en one. That immediately set him
apart fi.om ail the •othe.r fairies and
he was quite unhappy."
I can' still remember t'he eight and
the way he would pause every so of-
ten to listen. There was a bright
Best .'(skip), were in Stratford on harvest moon in the sky and I crouch -
Tuesday playing against the British ed' closer to grandfather as' he con
bowlers. tinued with his story. ,
Mrs. Mackay, Miss M. W. Mackay
and Mrs. Oscar Neil motored to To- -
"The good old • woman, waft very
much touched Eby th'e }whole thing. It
was just such a night as this. To
give the old fairy an instrument
wouldn't be enough,':: He would have
to have, something that would set him
completely apart from the others. She
thought for a while and then reach-
ed down and tapped his wooden leg.
She asked 'him to takeit off. He un-
screwed it very carefully and hand-
ed it to 'her. She rubbed it with her
cloak and lo and behold, there in
front of his eyes was t'he strangest
kind of a flute any creature ha,d ever
seen.
"The fairy was delighted and im-
mediately started to blow upon it.
The -music.:.was of ' a kind never be-
fore heard by man or animal, nor
fairy for that matter. The old wo-
man told the fairy that it was ' his
and he could wear his leg•during the
daytime, but on warm summer nights
when he felt' lonesome, his leg .would
turn into a wonderful flute. Since
that 'time -the same thing has hap-
pened to every one -legged fairy in the
world."
I forgot to ask him if there :were
many one -legged fairies in the world,
:'but it didn't seem important anyhow.
Right now as I sit on the back stoop
the years haven't dimmed .the charm
of grandfather's story a bit., The one -
legged fairies are certainly playing
their flutes tonight, and it's a won-
derful sound.
ronto this week.
Kippen ' Road Sunday School held
their annual picnic in Mr• Thos. Shil-
linglaw's grove on Thursday after-
noon last. Among those who' won in
the race events were -Wilson, Broad -
foot, Robt -Upshall, Alfred Ross,,Lloyd
Stewart, Jos; Upshall,.John Sinclair,
Clifford Broadfoot, Jos. McLellan,
Peter Simpson„ Jas. Doig, Verna Mc-
Gregor, Jean McLaughlin, Vera For-
syth, Barbara Simpson, Sarah'Brown,
Jean . Fotheringham, Lorene Bell, Mrs.
-Sydney' Gemmell, Mrs. James Hay,
Mrs.- Andrew Houston, Mrs. William
Broad'foot and Mrs. George Bell.
Mr. John A. Morris has returned to
Winnipeg after spending an enjoyable
holiday with friends in Cromarty.
Miss' Lila McCullough, Cromarty,
spent the past week visiting„friends
Miss Maude Porter, of ' Hensall, is
spending a week' at the home of her
sister, Mrs. W. Kerr, in McKillop.
On Monday the people of ,I3rucefieid
and vicinity had a great musical treat
when Miss Lammie and friends, two.
blind girls; gave a delightful pro-
gram. Mr. Moodie was chairman.
• •
From The Huron Expositor
August 28, 1896
Thr- Seaforth agency of the Domin-
ion Bank has beep removed to its new
home on the corner of Mains and
Gouinlock Sts. .The building has been
thoroughly ogerhauled, remodelled
in Logan.
and repaired and. is 'a very handsome
building.
Mr. Alexander Wilson, of the firm
of Lumsden & Wilson, and Mr. J. S.
Roberts have gone to' Toronto to
shoot at the annual meeting of th'e
Ontario Rifle Association.
Mr. S. Dickson is having the post
office building neatly and tastefully
repainted. The” Work is being done
by Mr. J. G. Crich.
Mr. Alex Gray, of the Mill Road,
•threshed the other day 150 bushels
of barley from three acres of land.
The Brock, of the Mill
Road, it . " have ..Weir barn ,finished.
It is one of the finest buildings of its
kind in the county.
T. F. Coleman and J. C. Greig, Sea -
forth,
eaforth,' assisted the Clinton cricketers
to defeat the r.pndtin asylum team in
Clinton on Civic Holiday.
Mr. E. E. Hallett, of town, has kill-
ed no fewer than nine 'snakes within
the past two months, the smallest of
which was 18 inches in length and the
largest measured 36 inches..
Mr. Wm. T. Gemmell, son of ' Mr.
Thos. Gemmell, ' of Tuckersmith, left
Thursday morning for Wimbleton,
Alta., where he has obtained' a posi-
tion as a school teacher.
Alfred E. Faust, ,Wm! Hess, Robt.
Steinbach, Albert Deitz and John
Dumart, of Zurich, attended the New
Hamburg horse rases last week.
The election expenses of Mr: Thos.
E. Hays, McKillop, the, Conservative
candidate for South Huron at the last
election, amounted to $160.80; those
of M. C. Cameron, in West Huron,
$368.75, and those of Robert McLean,
Goderieh, to $258.14.
Mr. W. Prendeilgas, of town; is at-
tending the Grand Council of thew C.
M.B.A. ,at Ottawa as ' a, delegate from'
the Seaforth Lodge.
A boy aged 14 :years, son of Mr.
Silers, near Dashwood; died orf dipth-
eria. This is the second death from.
the same disease that has occurred
within a few days in the same fam-
ily.
Rev: J. Westman, of .Walton, and
Mr. Gregory, of 'Winchelsea, made a
visit to Shipka on their,/ wheels on
Tuesday.
Mr. John Welsh, of Ayrshire, 'Scot•
land, is at present visiting his -uncle
and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. John Weir, in
Seaforth.
Messrs. Foote and Lensuare "wheel:
ed to Drysdale, froth Londoin " Past
week' to Ball en rinttd'e in that'vieittity:.
Mr. John IMOiteitale, of Die tame ha
Road, has ,purcliaaerl, the residence' of
lifer,. Robert NMeLead,;'. df"Brtreelit40
tiaying•,for i't t13e, auri `b1 006 cash,''.
Gets Blg •Qo-ntract
The ideal colutraetere, Mr., Henry
Lawrence & Son, have been awarded
the repairing of the Geinhelder drain
in Elnia Township. The contract in-
cludes the sum of $10,300, which to
most of us is a lot • of money.- — ur-
ich Herald.
:JUST A SMILE OR TWO:
"I wore this gown, to the party.,de-
spite my husband's objections -'
"That shows a lot of backbone."
"I 'know. That's why he objected
to it."
•
He went in to 'bat in the village
cricket. match, and Was out first ball.
"Not ,,so good as last Saturday,"
said the vicar pleasantly. •
"No fear! When I'd finished that
fifty I found the other fellows had
drank all the beer!"
•
Farmer (angrily) : "What • do you
mean by it, madam?' I give you per -
Mission to pitch your tent in my.niea-'
dog and .you are' 'careless enough to
leave the gate open and let my, cattle.
out." •
k
Lady Camper': • "I'm awfully sorry.
It's my husband, you know; he al-'
ways sleepswith his bedroom door
'open."
Girl is Bitten 'By Dqg
An eight -year -ped, •!Centralia. girl,
Alexia Davis, was admitted to -St.
Joseph's Hospital, London, Wednes-
day with a severe laceration to her
face, caused when she . was bitten by
a dog.. Hospital officials said an op-
eration was performed by Dr. Geo.
A. Wainwright, London physician, to
close the wound; which was inflicted
just above her upper lip and extend-
ed. diagonally almost to her ear. Fif-
teen stitches were required, , it was
learned. The girl is the daughter. of
Mr. and Mrs. Heber Davis,' and she'
was apparently near her home in Cen-
tralia. The dog has already been de-
stroyed,. the parents said, and an ex-
amination of its 'head is being" -made
to determine whether it was afflicted,•
with rabies. --Clinton. News -Record,
A visitor going over to a country
c'hurc'h one day -saw • a group of men
near the pulpit talking about repairs
that were needed. Going up to them
he said:
"What is wrong? Have you got.
dry rot in the pulpit?"
Whereupon one of the, men replied:
"No, there isno dry rot in the pulpit,
bat there are worms in the pews!"
•,
The door of the ladies' hairdressers'
shop opened and in came a meek -
looking little, man, twisting his hat
nervously 'in his hand.
One of • the assistants approached
him.
"What . can I have the pleasure—"
she cooed. "
"Er—could you spare a'blonde hair.
for my shoulder?" he stammered. "I
want to make my wife jealous."
•... uron .e. eratio-n
Of
Agriculture--FarmNews
Peaches Are Plentiful
:Hundreds of thousands of baskets
of peaches are now on the markets
throughout Canada from the orchards
in Ontario and British. Columbia: The
Ontario torch) this year is estimated
at 1,566,000 bushels, ' about 330,000
'bus'hels more than in 1945 and about
548,000 bushels more than the 10 -year
average; and the British Columbia
crop at 670,000 bushels is 206 per, cent
above the '10 -year average crop , of
219,000 bushels.
With the • recent increase in sugar
ration it will be 'possible for more
peaches to be canned both in the
home and in commercial canning
plants than has been the case in re-
Cent years. Peaches take less sugar
for canning than any other fruit.
Peaches can a be served on, the menu
in numerous • ways as fresh fruit and
they can be pickled' and made into
.marmalade.
Of all the fruits grown 'none is more
luscious or more healthful as food
than peaches. Canadian grown peach-
es have an incomparable flavor, -and
quality. They' will be available in
plentiful quantities at reasonable pric-
es from now until the end of Septem-
ber; and are sold in Canada by grade,
thegrades in the order of quality and
size being: Select Nu. 1; No. 2 or
Domestic, and No. 8. The grade mark
is plainly indicated on the basket or
other container.
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4t
Sharp, Increase in Chick Output
Prior to a "complete report on the
operations of approved hatcheries in
Canada, giving all the final figures,
the Hatchery Outlook report for the
period.en'ded' June 303.1946, issued by
the Labe Stock and Poultry Division,
Dominion Department of Agriculture,
contains many interesting facts. The
estimated chick production in Can-
ada . for the period up to June 30
shows an, increase of about 23 pet
cent compared with the correspond—
ing period' of 1945.
In 'detail, by' -provinces, the chick
production • inm. British. Columbia for
the"period is -estimated at 7,146,477,°
an increase of 29 per cent, compared
with 1946; Alberta, 5,711,423, a 16
per cent increase; ,Saskatchewan, 5;-
948,378, increase, 2I per cent; Mani-
toba 8,692,117, increase, 14 per cent;
Ontario, 19,153,612, increase, ,31 per
cent; Quebee, 8,618,951, increase 16
per eent;' New Brunswick; 1,290,256,
increase, 16 per cent; Nova Scotia,
1,817;695, iiicrea0e, 35 per dent; , and
506,022, increase; 8 per cent,
'Chia, 'Prot/Italian durin'r4 1' June 4
9 6,,
increased 65,6 ,per
tient'n
0Wer p
roue-
tiott-in the' corresponding month
of
1846, .New Brtinewick Fade an. in -
crease of 250 per cent, with 386,624
chicks as' against 110,481 in June,
1945; Saskatchewan registered an in-
crease of 99 per cent; British Colum-
bia, 92 per cent; Alberta, 85 per cent;
Nova Scotia, 71 per cent; Quebec, 68
per cent; Manitoba, 49 per cent; On-
tario,'43 per cent, and P.E.L, 28 per
cent.
For Prolific- Ewes
• Cross -breeding of sheep 'for the pro-
duction of strong, healthy, prolific
breeding ewes and first class market
lambs at the Animal Husbandry Divi-
sion, Experimental. Farms Service,
continues to attract considerable . at-
tention every year, not only' as a
means of increasing lamb' production
but also as a possible; :basis for the
organization of the sheep industry
for Tears to come.
*' *,• *
Oats F1or Pasture,
During the past~ ten years' it has
been proved at the 'Division of For-
age Plants, Experimental Farms Ser-
vice, that oats are among the mosl
important species for summer pasture
in Eastern Ontario. Because Of that
fact, a large number of varieties and:
strains of oats are tested for that
pifrpose every year.. The main char-
acteristics considered are early
growth, leafiness, recovery after graz-
ing or mowing, and total annual pro-
duction. The Roxton and Ripon var-
ieties of oats were outstanding in the
production of pasture.
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. British, Bridge" Given Welcome
About thirty friends and neighbors
gathered at the home of Mrs.. Bartley
Managhan, Clinton, on Monday eve-
ning to welcome Mrs. Roy .Pickett,
who arrived from England three
weeks ago. Rev. C. C. Anderson wel-
comed her in his most fitting and'
jovial ' manner. ' The evening was
spent in the form of. a -shower and
•Mrs. Pickett was the recipient of
many lovely and useful .gifts. Mrs':
Morley Jordan also gave a short ad
dress welcoming--the--bride--to-Clinton.
Contests .,were enjoyed by all, Miss
M. Judd and Mrs. A.' Murray winning
the prizes, after which, a dainty lunch
was served. Mrs. Picket served in
the W.A.A.F. and Roy in, the R.C.E.
'during his three years' overseas. Mr.
and Nirs: Picket are residing in Cun- I
ton.—Clinton News -Record.
Fractures' Wrist
A painful, but fortunately not too
serious 'accident, happened to.. Mrs.:
Jerry Taylor, of Auburn, on Friday,
when she fell down the stairs in her
home, while she was alone. Dr. Weir
attended her to ' Alexandra Marine
Hospital, Goderich,,' where examina=
tion. proved a fractured ',,wrist,' but
nothing serious.—Blyth Standard.
Clearing Farm Land of Tree Stumps
From the farmer's point of view,
the' methods of removal of 'tree'
stumps will depend , on the general
object in view, because stump remov-
al may be considered from 'three dif-
ferent aspects, namely,- green stumps,
dead stumps and decayed stumps. If
the land to be cleared is required im-
mediately, sturpps arn'normally re-
moved in the summer, following tim-
tl'ering operations. This is the most
expensive procedure and will involve
the use of heavy equipment, if the
work' is to be done quickly.
Where the amount of land under
c,,ultivation is being only gradually
extended, the usual procedure is to
seed doivn: the stump land and pas-
ture it •for. a few years to kill off
the elump shoots and allow the
stumps to die. Dead stumps Can ,be
more easily removed than green cues.
Where time -ii -not a' 'factor, sttini s
p
May be. allowed to dedap." ''Iix trim
candi,•tion they eat,. be 'readily rerisoy'-
(Continued on Page' 8)
7,
Alterations 'At .Bank
Workmen are engaged in making
alterations to the grouuud floor of the
Bank of Montreal. A partition : has
been taken out that will do away with
a small cloakroom and will add'more
space to the banking room. The front
doors will be recessed 'so as to al-
low admittance from the street to the
newly renovated apartments above
the bank now occupied by the man-
ager, J. L. Hendry:The counter space
in the bank 'will be remodelled to
give more working space for the
14 persons now employed: — Exeter
Times -Advocate.
Golden Wedding Anniversary
, M.r: and Mrs. R. G. Seldon have
returned' home after visiting with
their daughter, Mrs. F. Newman, 'of
Kingston. On Saturday last Mr. and
Mrs. Seldom pbserved their golden
wedding anniversary and they were
royally entertained when Mr. and
Mrs..Russel Derry, of Kingston, were
hoststo a delightful dinner. party in
their honor. -Exeter Times -Advocate.
' Honor Bride -Elect.
Friends and neighbors met' at the
home 'of Mt. and Mrs: Chester Rowe
on Tuesday evening to honor their'
daughter, Helen, 'bride -elect, with a
miscellaneous shower. Helen was es-
cortedtb a chair by Mrs. Homer Rus-
sell, who had arranged the shower.
An address was read by Miss Doreen
Campbell after which a decorated'
basket was carried in by Mar' area
Campbell and Margaret Wildfong.
Several• ,other girls ' also ,carried in
gifts. Helen made.. a suitable reply,
thanking all for gifts and good wish-
es and invited all' to visit her in her
new home in Windsor. Lunch was
served at the' close.—ExeterTimes
Advocate.
Finger: Crushed While Threshing
Charles F. Johnston, 'first conces-
sion of 'Morris, met with 'a painful
accident this week while threshing
Cm the farm ofClarence Goll. He
was adjusting something hot connec-
tion with the blower when his. hand
came in contact with a cog wheel. He
was taken at once to: the gingham
General Hospital where `it was found
necessary to amputate the fore finger
on the right hand. The other fingers
-are badly •cut. and bruised and it will
be some timebefore he will, have any
use of his hand. He was able to re-
turn to his home the following day.—
Wingham• 'Advance -Times.
Present Wedding Gifts
Miss' Alice Silk, whose marriage to
M'r. John Robbins, of Ingersoll, took
place Wednesday, was guest of honor
at a parity'- heId at •the home of Miss
Donna .A,dams and Mrs. Hubert How -
e11 on Tuesday evening when she,,re-
ceived h walnut magazine rack as a
group gift from sdine twenty girls,
fife most of wiiom find been -asgoci-
died with heir, in the fornder Ocbere
Glass 01. Mabe Street' Sunday' Schools,
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