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m' * tr- ® J)je /k0l)Matt Mt^tmu. Vol. 59; No. 35 FLESHERTON. WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY 7. 1940 W. H. Thurston & Son, Proprietors. T. S. Cooper to Give illustrated Lectnre Mr. T. Stewart Cooper of the De- partment of Agriculture, will present an illustrated lecture pn "Making Beautiful Grey More Beautiful," at the regular meeting of the Holdfast Club at the Park Hotel, Flesherton, on Wednesday, Feb. 14th, t 2 p.m. A special invitation is extended every- one in the community to attend, as the lecture is applicable to all district residents and some good ideas should be advanced. Red Cross Work in Poland While Hitlerism is tearing down the Polish race, the Red Cross is holding out a helping hand to up-lift them. 'Warm new clothing of all sizes and kinds is greatly needed for the people of the distresed areas of Poland and Finland. As a sugges- tion, types of wool not used for the armed forces are available in local â- wool stores. This could be made into warm garments which will be both welcome and useful. The report of conditions in Poland indicates the great need there. The total amount of credit already granted for Poland was the sum of $25,000, of which approximately $15,- OOO has been furnished by Pplish Societies in Canada. At the meeting on January 8th, a cable from Dr. Routley urged the pro- vision of an additional $15,000 for the purchase of an ambulance unit for the Polish Legion in France, which will be ready for the front on March 1st, but is without the aecessary ambulance equipment With the ap- proval of the Polish Ambassador in London, and the Polish Consul-General in Ottaiwa, the committee agreed, at its meeting on January 8th, to provide this additional sum of $15,000 and has cabled Dr. Routley accordingly. Mr. Ernest J. Swift, Vice Chairman of the American Red Cross, who has just returned from Poland and Ger- many after eight weeks there as a member of the American Relief Committee, and with the Polish Em- bassy in Washington, D.C., states: "I have every assurance that the utmost precautions are being taken to ensure that these supplies will actu- ally reach the people of Poland -who are in need, and will not be controlled by Germany or diverted for use in the Reich." Note: Have you sent in your con- tributions to assist in the liumane 'work of the Red Cross? Do so. It is urgently needed. Thank you.. St. Columba Church The annual meeting of the Salem church was held on Tuesday after- noon at 2.30 o'clock, with a good attendance.. The minister. Rev, A. R. Mair, re- ported 2 baptisms, 1 marriage, and 3 burials in 1939. Membership is 45, a reduction of 2. The Ladies' Aid reported 18 members and $236 raised. Total raised for all purposes vrt.a $487, an indebtedness of $75 remain- ing on account of the new furnace installed last September. Roy Mc- Nalty, Robt. Ferris and Mrs. Wm. Moody were elected to the Board of Stewards, 1940-2. St. Columba Young People met Thursday evening in St. Andrew's church as guests of the Young People of St. Andrew's. An enjoyable even- ing of worship, drama, games and refreshments were provided. Anna Connie, vice-president, expressed the appreciation of the visitors. The executive of St. Columba Y. P. S., met Sunday morning after church and decided that for the duration of the bad roads, meetings would be held in the members' homes, begin- ning next Thursday at Edna Harris- on's. United^ Church FLESHERTON Minister, REV. G. K. McMillan, B.A., B.D. WALTER E. HARRIS Liberal candidate in Grey-bruce riding in the Federal Election being held on Tuesday, March 26th. United Church maxwell chakge rev. geo. l. mercer, b.d.. d.d. Minister ^ SUNDAY FEBRUARY 11th. 1140 Services will be held as iwaal next Sunday: â€" 11 a.m. â€" Eugenia. 3 p.m. â€" Mt. Zion. 7.30 p.m. â€" W^reham. The Church Schools will meet at the usual time. Note: There 'will be no Servie* of worship next Sunday in Mount Tiion Church. "What I Believe About the Second Coming of Christ" will be the sermon welcome. Wareham, Tuesday, Feb., l^tk. Next Sunday sersrices will be held as usual at the following hours: 11.00 a.m. â€" ^Worship, Flesherton. 12.00â€" Sunday School, Flesherton. 2.00 p.m. â€" Sunday School, Ceylon. 3.00 p.m. â€" Worship, Ceylon. 7.00 p.m. â€" Worship, Flesherton. Sunday morning in St. John's United church, the minister "will con- tinue the discussion of great words from Scripture and life, and will take as his subject, "The Greatest word in English speech.'" At the evening service Mr. McMU- an will begin a new series of sermons on, "Friends of Jesus." It is. hoped that tliis study will help not only to better understand Jesus Himself, but that we may have our knowledge of certain central scriptural characters deepened and more than that, from these we • may discover some of the great qualities of human character. All young people are invited to the weekly meeting held each Sun- day evening following the services. This week Wm. Cairnd and Austin \ McKee will have charge of the meet- ing when they will tell of the Sau» geen Folk School, held recently in Holstein. This was the second school of its kind ever held in Can- ada Come and share in what prom- ises to be a most interesting meet- ing. Major Carltr oxM Spoke to Students (By High School Reporter) Major Caiter, D.C.M., a former member of the British Secret Service, visited Flesherton High School lon Friday afternoon last, and gave an illusti-ated lecture on his work in that branch. Major Carter has been to every country in the world, and has met such important world figures as Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, Goebbleg and Goering. He served with Law- rence of Arabia and many times his life was in greatest danger. While in Turkey his life was twice saved by a young American girl who, on the third occasion gave hers so that he might be spared to carry on for Britain. He spoke quite frequently in Arabic, afterwards translating. Following his address a silver collec- tion was taken. 1^ Presentation to Mr. and Mrs. Lawson White The bargain hunter who buys cheap hosiery certainly gets a nm for hat money. Baptist Church N^'tes REV. F. ASHTON. Pastor SERVICES: Flesherton; 11 A.M.â€" Worship. 12 noon â€" Bible SehooL 7 P.M. â€" Gospel Service Mills. 2 P.II.â€" Bible School. 3 P.M. â€" ^Divine Service. Rock Often enough a man who has pour- ed a good deal of liqour beneath his own belt is astounded to find that his own son goes out now and then in seaxch of a difiilk. »»»»»<^»»<"»»♦♦»«^♦♦»»»»»^♦<»«»»»»â-  > »»»»<^»♦»♦»^><»<»<»<M^<><.v Equipped to hancDe the finest Our Beautiful - Air , Conditioned ;: Funeral Chapel at 124 AVENUE ROAD TORONTO, Ont ; RICHARD MAOOOCKS. Muwgcr Meahw at :e prices :? (By Ceylon Correspondent) Friends in the community of Mr. and Mrs. Lawson White (nee Marjorie Duckett) suprised them at the home of the bride's parents on Friday night and presented them with many beautiful gifts. Kendall Stewart read an address of good wishes on behalf of the friends while Bill Irwin made the presentation of the many gifts. Lawson, in a few well chosen words, thanked the friends, on behalf of him- self and Mrs. White, for the gifts. Lunch was served and a happy even- ing spent in games and dancing. The address followed: Dear Marjorie and Lawson :- On the occasion of your recent marriage, we your friends and neigh- bors, gather here this evening to ex- press to you our sincerest wishes for a long and happy wedded life. It has always been a pleasure fo» the people of Ceylon and community to gather and wish their young people good luck and prosperity when they embark upon the sea at matrimony. We have known you, Marjorie, since childhood, and we hope in this way to become better acquainted with you, Lawson, and we wek'ome you both i proudly to our community. 1 We wish you all health, happiness ' and prosperity in the years to come I and, vrith our good wishes, we ask you to accept these gifts as a slight i token of our g:ood-will. [ Signed on behalf of the community, Dora Hogarth V7m. Irwin Ken Stewart. Flesherton Citizens Donated Blood For Red Cross Work I â€" Six citizens of Flesherton, Messrs. [ S. L. Stauffer, Chaa. McClean, Harry i Fellows, Gordon Wauchope, Norman I Stoddart and Cecil McKechnie, went I to Toronto on Thursday last and do- S nated a quantity of their blood for Red Cross purposes, part of the ex- penses of the trip being paid by the local branch of the Red Cross. The Toronto Telegram of Friday had the following article, in the Friday issue, in regard to the trip: "Issuing a challenge to other muni- cipalities to follow their example, three veterans and three citizens from Flesherton arrived in Toronto yester- day and gave their blood to the Red Cross Society for use if and when Canada's fighting men are foimded. "The party of six, headed by S. L. Stauffer, partially blind veteran who lost his left arm overseas, arrived in the city following an appeal by the Red Cross Society for 1,200 male don- ors, for a wartime "blood bank," Stauffer served 17 months in France with the Fort Garry Horse, connected with the Canadian Brigade of Cavalry- "With him on the trip to Toronto were Harry Fellows, short, thick-set veteran who served with the 18th Battery of the 5th Artillery Brigade, C.F..A.., and Charles McClean, of the 4th Battalion, of the First Infantry Brigade. Others in the party were N. Stoddart, G. Wauchope and Cecil , McKechnie. "I hope that other municipalities around Ontario will follow our lead," stated Stauffer to The Telegram. "We'll offer our example as a chall- enge to others." "When the appeal for blood donors was first made Stauffer wrote the To- ronto officials , offering his blood. Officials here answered that, owing to the difficulty of supplying transpor- tation, ^they would be unable to accept him at that time. "Not to be daunted, Stauffer ap- proached several of the citizens of the village, asking them to offer their Mrs. L. Bennington^ blood. He readily acquired five more, which constituted a car load, and with ! was largely attended Death came suddenly to one of Osprey's old pioneers, who was highly respected by all who knew her, in the person of Mrs. Edmund Benning- ton, which occuiTed late Tuesday evening, January 30th, at her home near Ma.xwell. Mrs. Bennington was in her 78th year. She suffered a stroke in .A.pi-il of last year, from which she was unable to go around and assume her duties. She also suffered from heart trouble for a number of yeai-s Another stroke fol- lowed on Tuesday evening causing her death about ten o'clock, when she passed away to her Heavenly Home. The late Mrs. Bennington's maiden name was Mary Alice Bettb, daugh- ter of the late Leonard Betts and Elizabeth Yai-dley, and was born in Wai-wickshire, England, in the year 1S62, coming to Canada with her par- ents at the age of ten years on a small sailing vessel called "Kitty Darling," being shipwrecked ano landing on St. Paul Island. They came to Artemesia to the farm now occupied by Frank Betts, then moved to Markdale vitinity, returning ,to the farm on which Cecil Betts now resides. She was united in marriage to Mr. Bennington on March 7th, 1 1887 late Mrs. Robert .A.kitt, after which they resided on the farm now occu- pied by Laurie Betts for five years, moving to .the farm where she re- mained until her death. Besides her son-owing husband, Mre. Bennington leaves to mourn her loss, one daughter, May (Mrs. L. Duckett) of Max^vell and three grandchildren, also two sisters and two brothers Mercy (Mrs. John Robertson) of Maxrwell, Carrie (Mrs. John Porteous) of Flesherton, Thomas and Levi Betts, both of Rock Mills. Three sisters and two brothers predeceased her, Louisa (Mrs. Robert Akitt), Matilda (Mrs. Thos. .-Vtldnson) Annie (Mrs. Richard Porteous) Leonard and Jacob. The funeral took place on Friday aftemon, with a short serice at her late residence, after which servict was held at the Maxwell United Church, of which she was a member for many years, at 2.30 p.m., which Her pastor, Red Cross Sends Bale The knitting committee of the Flesherton - Artemesia Red Cross Branch sent a bale aat Friday to Bed Cross headquarters, which contained 5.3 socks, 10 sweaters, 5 scarves and 2 pairs of wristlets. One active mem- of our community has knit up to date, from Jan. 5th to Feb. 2nd, 15 pairs of socks. She is Miss V. Nicholson and we are trrateful for her co-opera- tion. .\t our executive meeting on Monday evening the last Friday of each month ha.i been set for shipping day. .All those interested in the Wo- men's War Work will please try to co-operate with us at that date, in having your work sent in on time. Let us have a get-to-gether and learn to knit the Kitchener toe which is called for. Thank you. â€" Cont. A Corporation Tax the assistance of the Flesherton branch of the Red Cross, a car was provided and their expenses paid to Toronto." MORE WINTER AHEAD FEVERSHAM PUBLIC SCHOOL -Jitr* V- 352 MJ:^ii.Mi^l-'^i FRED R. MADDOCKS. AsMcwte •r th* FlMlmrtMi OM Bjys' A Girki' AsMctetioa BATES k MADDOCKS F*nii«rly of FfcalMrtoa. OM. : 124 Avenue R(»d, Toranto, Ont KI. 4344 L--I Grade 8 â€" Margaret Pocock 80, Florence Pocock 74, Albert Ottewell 69, Ted Pedlar 68, Billie McKee 54. Grade V â€" Harold Parker 81, Mar ion Ba)y 74, Maurice Teeter 46. Grade IVâ€" Gwen Fadden 84, Bruce HoIIini^head 81, Gladys Teeter 70, Dallas Osborne 69. Helen Parker 68, Stanley Teeter 42, Bert Hale absent. Grade HI â€" John McKee 80, Carl Hawton 70, Beryl Fawcett 68. Wilma Wijliams 68, Almeda Tyler 66. Grade II â€" John Fadden 86, Chas. Pedlar 79, Reg. Tyler 66. Grade I â€" Donna Osborne, Doris Sprimsrgay, Ken Teeter, Ruth Frasces and Ranald Davidson absent. â€" D. I. Jamieson, Teacher. B-r-r-r-r! Think of it.! Another six weeks of winter. This is the prospects ahead of us, if the old weather prophets can be relied upon. The bear and the ground hog were supposed to come out of their hiber- nation on Friday and if they saw their shadows, they would return to their dens for another six weeks of winter. This jMiication of the weather for the next few weeks has persisted for generations and refuses to go into the discard with many other ideas from by-gone days. One wonders if these well known animals do come out on this special Febzruary day to have a look around at the white clad world, or do they continue their sleep ? We imagine that on Friday, while they would undoubtedly have seen their shadow, they would have had enough of the cold if they had only put their nose out, in place of cavort- ing around to see if they could see their shadow. Old superstitions die hard, but maybe the bear and ground hog do not emerge for their mid- winter view, it only being supposition that if they emerge they could see their shadow and certain events would take place. We wonder if any person ever saw them out. If possile, it would be lllummating ta arrive at the total number of On- tario citizens who read this annouce- ment and then say something like this â€" "Well, thank goodness that doesn't cost me anything!" What many of us are apt to over- at the home of her sister, the ' ^'"'^' '^ ^^^ f^<;t that this new tax increase is really a direct tax on each and every one of us. For the simple reason that the companies in- volved must add the tax to the price on the products that they sell to the public. So many firms work on such a small margin of profit, that to absorb this and other taxes would mean going into the red. Thus the latest tax may likely be responsible for another slight upward shift of prices for all sorts of com- moditiesâ€"foods, clothing, furniture, gasoline, fuel and dozens of other art- icles which the ordinary citizen has to buy frequently. The pity of it is this: the higher the price, the more sales resistance there is; the more sales resistance, the less production there is; the less production, the greater the unemploy- ment of workmen. Just another vicious circle. .\nd yet, the'i'e is this to keep in mind â€" that if the provin- cial government really needs money for war services, complaints will not be strong. As an example to show how this system of hidden taxation wbrks out. we set down rather a curious piece of information which came to light last week. Someone was talking about the possibility of having the old amusement tax brought into force again, when an official of one of On- tario's largest sport institutions said, "Even without the amusement tax, right now we pay out in taxes the sum of 11 cents out of every dol- lar we get from our patrons." Rev. Dr. Mercer, conducted the ser- vice at the house, church and grave. The favorite hymns of the deceased were sung, "Rock of Ages" and "For- ever with the Lord." The choir rend- ered two selections "Some Day" and ; "Linger with Me" Together with : "That will be Glory for Me'' at the j graveside, all by request. The floral ti'ibutes included a pillow from husband and family, sprays from Mr. and Mrs. Eklgar Betts, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Field and George,, and Mr. and Mrs. 'W. .\kitt and family. The pallbearers were four nephews Messrs Walter Akitt, Edgar Betts. William Robertson, Bert Porteous and George Field and George Akitt. The flower bearers were Edythe Morrison, Lillian Poole and Elda Morrison. Interment was made in the family plot in Maxwell Cemetery. Farewell, dear wife and mother, but not forever. For there will be a glorious dawn, Then we shall meet to part no more On the Resurrection morn. North Grey Candidate M*. J. A. Senn of the Canadian Blank of Commerce staif, is spending three weeks of holidays »t his home at Cakdoah. Alderman W. Garfiald Case, who is also President of the Owen Sound Board of Trade, will be a candidate at the forthcoming Liberal-Progressive ocnvention to be held in Owen Sound on Saturday afternoon. February 10 1940. IN MEMORIAM Shatters Leg In Engine Pulley Joseph Scutt of c^adjeros di.'itrict, suffered a very severe inim-y to his left leg on Mondav night while at- tempting to kick thj belt off a gas- il'r.e engine. His fcot caught be- vfen the belt and the revolving pull- tv and the leg was baJly shattered. He was taken to Dundalk for I tieatment in the earlv jveifng, and I IJ:- D. B. Carter w.ir;^ia until 2.30 a.m. in the office of Dr. Sudden, den- iif-t, with the assistanci. of the latter's X-:'ay machine, in an .itc?mpt to â- 'ot tl.c bones. Finally it *aj .decided that the b€st result could not be obtained for *^he very bad injury with the f;ic;li! es available ar. » Mr. Scutt was taken to Orangeville hospital on T isday !! . ming. EDWARD FAWCETT DIED AT ALLISTQN Edward Fawcett, 93, Alliston's old- est resident died on Monday Feb. 5, after a brief illness. For many years he was a prominent contractor in the Georgian Bay district, building barns and farm buildings. He was active until he reached the age of 90. A native of Bolton, ha resided most of his life in Heathcote and Alliston. He was a member of the United Church and a strong temperance advocate and was a character member of the Heathcote Orange Lodg^e. He leaves four daughters, Mrs. J. .\. Hutchinson, Mrs. T. P. Foster, and Miss Gertrude of .A.lliston and Mrs. W. Hutchinson, Clarksburg, two sons, -Arthur of Thornbury and Percy of Logan Sask. The late Mr. Fawcett was a brother of Mrs. H. Down of Flesherton. The funeral took place on Tuesday after- noon, with interment being made in Thornbury Union Cemetery. LONG â€" In loving memory of a dear husband and father Charles Long, who passed away Feb. 10, 1938. Dear husband and father, you are not forgrotten Though on earth you are no more. Still in memory you are with us .\s you always were before. â€" Ever remembered by Wife and son, George, and daughters. Beatrice and Alice. Card of Thanks We wish to express our appreciation for the many acts of kindness, floral tributes, and sympathy extended to us in our recent sad bereavement, in the loss of our dear wife and mother, and also extend our thanks to the W I. for treats sent during her illness. â€" Edmund Bennington and Family. Member of Advisory Bosurf Mr. W. George Akins of Toronto, a native of Flesherton and graduate of The Advance office, now manager of the Toronto branch of Walsh Adver- tising Co.. Ltd., has been appointed *'0 the Wartime Fisheries Advisory Board. The Board has been set up to arrange the orderly supply of Canad- ian fish to the British market and to reasonably maintain existing eon- tracts. IN MEMORIAM In loving memory of our beloved husband and father. A. H. McLean. who passed away two years ago. Sadly missed by wife and famfly.