® J>je /ksl)erliJtt %hmnu. VOL. 56; NO. 21. WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER 2X, 1936 W. H. THURSTON & SON, Proprietor* i> . j5t^ s, f. I Wm. Simpson Dies The sad news was received on Sat- urday from Wilder, Idaho of the pass- ing of William J. Simpson after a short illness fi'Om pneumonia, in the hospital at Ontario, Oregon. Mr. Simpson leaves to mourn his passing his wife, of Wilder, Idaho, three brothers, Dorsey of Wilder, Joseph of California and Samuel of Washing- ton, also one sister (Mary) Mrs. Wm. J. Osborne, also of Wilder. Mr. Simpson was born 58 years ago at Rob Roy in Osprey township, mov- ing with the family some years later to "Kiraberley. From there they mov- ed to the gravel road near Rock Mills where they farmed for 11 years, mov- ing to Idaho in the spring of 1907. Mr. Simpson was twice married, his first wife being Stella Burns of Iowa, who pre-deceased him seven years ago. In 1934 he was married to Mrs. Logue who survives him. Two years ago, Mr. Simpson with his brother Darcy and Wm. English spent a few weeks with friends in this community. In religion Mr. Simpson was a Bap- tist. While here he was a member of Rock Mills church and one of the building committee of the church. He took a great interest in Sunday school and church work, being super- intendent of the Sunday school for some time. His many friends here extend their sincere sympathy to the bereaved wife and relatives. IN MEMORIAM WHYTE â€" In loving memory of my dear father, Daniel Whyte, who pass- ed away October 12, 1935. He bade no one a last farewell, He said good bye to none, His spirit fled before we knew That he from us had gone. â€" Ever remembered by his Daughter. Mary Ellen McNalty. Owen Sound And \ Hill's Store Robbed Grey Compromise The City of Owen Sound and the County of Grey w|Lll sign a new agreement with regard to the division of the costs of those services in which both pay a share, according to an announcement made on Saturday. There has been a deadlock over the matter for some time, but a compro- mise plan was advocated and accepted by the special committees of both bodies. The County Council repre- sentatives were: Warden J. Oolphin, Recbe of Derby; Reeve W. S. Hunter, Durham; Reeve H. A. McCauley, Flesherton. and Reeve W. P. Riley, Meaford, while the Finance Com- mittee of the City Council represented that body. The agreement will read that the County will pay $250 a year toward the upkeep of the city Police Magis- trate; the city had "hsked for $500. All other contentious clauses were settled some time ago. The city claims that a large proportion of the cases tried in the city Police Court room are from outside the city. Martin â€" Segna Thieves broke into the F. T. Hill & Co. store in Markdale between closing time Saturday night and Sun- day noon and stole the sum of $609.30 from the baby safe in the store vault. The storo wUs entered when a win- 1 (low was broken in the rear and en-i trance made through the hardware section. Apparently violence was not used in opening the vault as there, were no marks to show that it hao been forced open. The small cash drawer in the baby safe had been smashed to reach the money. Mr. Wm. Hill discovered the robbery when he visited the store Sunday noon and he immediately called Constable H- Noble, who started an investigation. That Great Beech Tree in The Park Crowd At Fowl Supper Three Oratory Winners From This District Paving Completed Paving operations on No. 10 high- way, finished on Friday with the com- pletion of the roadway between Mark- dale and Berkeley. The roadway was I? id in two strips of ten feet aach for the convenience of traffic and the last half was completed Friday. .Mr. Joseph T. Clark, editor of the i'oroiito Star, accepted our cliallenge j last week about that old beech tree i which fell in the recent blasts, and { whose obituary appeared in the last I issue of The Advance. His very in- teresting memories are chronicled below and will make interesting' read- j ing to many Flesherlonians of the old ; school. The letter is as follows: You will, I imagine, understand the shock it was to me to read in The .-Advance that that grand old beech tree had been blown down in a gale. It's fifty six years since last I climbed that tree, but 1 know the structure of its limbs, so often have I climbed it. Ihere could never have been a tree that loved children as did that ti-ee. U siiaped itself for the convenience of L;aie-toi)ted boys. It grew limbs for the young hands to catch and limbs lor young feet to rest on. It pro- vided safe seats for several boys to jccupy, and fifty years ago it grew a prodigious supply of the best of beech, nuts. Three or four generations oi children must have climbed into thai IN MEMORIAM SPRINGGAYâ€" 4ln loving memory of a dear Husband and Father, Reu- ben W. Springgay, who passed away October 27th, 19»5. Oh, how 1 miss you, God only knows. After so many years together, Death was so sudden, the heavy blow, Can I forget? No, never, I find the hill so hard to climb. Without you, I'm alone, But hope to meet you some day Around our Father's throne. Rest dtar i)ad. your troubles are o'er. Your williiDg hands will work no more ; You did not fail to do your best. You worked so hard for those you left, You lived your life and lived it well, With always a cheery smile whate'er befell, A cheery word you had for all. What a sweet memory to .recall. â€" Sadly missed by his loving Wife and Family. Lighted candles in tall candelabra, fern and large baskets of pink and white dahlias were used as decoration for the marriage of Beverley Bell Segna, only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John C. Segna, Long Beach, and Lorenzo Martin. The ceremony took place Friday evening, October 2nd, at 8 in All Saints' Episcopal Church, with Rev. F. A. .Martyr as officiant. Mr. Richard Dixon played the wedd- ing marches and Mr. Thos. J. Ames sang ''Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life,'' and "Because." One hundred and fifty guests were in attendance. â- The bride, who was given in mar- riage by her father, wore a princess gown of white slipper satin and a fingertip veil held in place by a cap of tulle, adorned with a spray of orange blossoms. She carried a bouquet of gardenias, lilies of the valley and bouvardia. Mrs. Howard Halladay, acted as matron of honor, the other attendants being Miss Ruth Kneller and Mrs. Edith Swanson. Mr. Howard Halladay was grooms- man and the ushers were Mr. Law- rence Betts and Mr. Carlton Deneen. The bride is a graduate of Poly High, Junior College and of t'.ie Uni- versity of California, and is a mem- ber of Sigma Alpha Sorority. The groom is affiliated with Phi Lambda Epislon, and is employed by the Union Oil Company. After a trip to the southern part of the State, the young couple will reside on Olive Ave., Long Beach. â€" Long Beach, Calif., Press-Telegram. Mr. Martin is the only brother of Miss Irene Martin, teacher at Orange Valley, and for a number of years he resided with his uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. Robt. Gorley, at Eugenia. The King Paving Company is now ^.^^^^:,^^^ a„,i mviting tree, and. pos busy shouldering on the west side of; .^, ,„,,,__ ,.i.;i.i....„ ,i:.i .., !,.,+•„.. the road and are also taking some of their machinery to their plant at did so before Oakville. EUGENIA DANCE In HaniniiU's Hall SINGHAMPTON Wednesday, October 28, 1936 nui.sic .supi)Iif(l by "Blue Marine" Orchestra Admission 2,x- |)liis tax. On Sunday, October 25, anniversary i services were held in the United church here. Psalm 37 was used for scripture reading. Rev. Mr. Bushell gave a fine address taking as his text verse 3, Psalm 37: "Thou shalt be fed." The choir rendered a pleasing anthem, "Watching, Work- ing, Praying." Rev. and Mrs. Bush- ell sang a beautiful hymn accompan- ied on the organ by their daughter, Miss Jean. In the evening. Rev. G. R. Service of Flesherton occupied the pulpit and i-ead the first 15 verses of Matthew, chap. 10. taking his text from verse 8 "Freely ye have received, freely give," from which he preached an interesting sermon. The Ware- ham choir rendfered two beautiful anthems and a trio, Mrs. Percy Loug- heed was organist for the evening. Both services were well attended. Peanuts Grown Here The l)est: novelty to appear in this office for some time was a branch of peanuts grown in the garden of Mr. 'Thos. Taylor of Flesherton and which was harvested last week. The peanuts wei-e well formed with large shells and are an oddity for this country. They could be raised here as a com- mercial venture. (Last week's Items) Miss Gladys Williams of Markdale visited at her home here over the week end. Mr. and Mrs. Warren Lougheed, Vancouver, accompanied by Messrs. Ben and Alex. Carruthers visited friends at Beaton the first of the week. The Y. P. S. met as usual on Wed- nesday evening for their regular weekly meeting. Mrs. Martin pres- ided. After the opening hymn and Lord's Pi-ayer. scripture passages were read by Miss Grace Saunders. The minutes of the last meeting were read and approved and some items of business were discussed. The topic, "Foreign Missions'' was taken by Mrs. Martin. Mouth organ music by Mr. Victor McKenzie with organ accomp- animent by Miss Hazel Turner was en.joyed. A game was then iilayed and the meeting closed by singing. "Day is Done.'' sibly Indian children the white man came. 1 do not know the possible life ot a beech, but I must have climbed into that tree at tile age of six (1872) and it seemed a grand old tree then to me. Since I left Flesherton in 18-80 I have never spent a night at Mun- shaw's hotel without getting up very early, before the village was astir, and visiting the cemetery. Flesher's Pond, Campbell's pond and the old beech tree. I have always leaned against it and rested. You mentioned in last week's Ad- vance that 1 found the Drimmie cow- bell in that tree. It came about in this way: Frank Sullivan. Tom Bul- mer. Archie Malloy and I were pro- posing to go beech-nutting in a big way, spreading table clothes and things under the trees and shaking the nuts down, but we were not sure that the nuts were ready to be shaken down. So we tested the gi-eatest of tiees. I got up the tree first and lur up found a cord hanging down. I grabbed it and pulled and The Drim- mie cow-bell rang out. Mr. Drimmie lived three hundred yards away and came straight for tiie tree. When he got near I called out: "I have louiid your cow-bell." "So have I", he said you would pay me fift.y cents if I ("und it ,aiid Tve found it at last." He used the word bi-azen. It is now â- lear to me that he suspected me of having taken off his cow's bell. He had offered me a i-eward of $5 for finding his bell, and how I searched! No.xt day he reduced the reward to S4. This made me work harder and longer. Then at night the bell be- gan to ring, tauntingly, and he re- -luced tlie reward to $3, next to 2, then to SI, and finally to 50 cents. So it stood when I found the bell. I lower. li the bell to .VIr. Diiniiuie but ' claimed the string when he refused lie reward. "Keep it," he said, "it One of the largest crowds to attend a fowl supiwr in Flesherton was the one given in St. John's United Church on I'iiursday evening last. Ihe ladies were busy for over two hours attending the tables filled to uverflowing with a splendid array of good things to eat, found at most of these affairs where country and vill- age lad:c..i supply the edible end of the program, and the large crowd did .iust.ce to what was sot before them. Plenty of l'"wl was available for all to thoroughly enjoy their visit to the church. Following supper a program was 'jiven in the auditorium of the church, which was filled to capacity. Com- munity singing was first enjoyed fol- luwed with numbers iiy the church male quartette and the Dougla? brothers' harmony ti-io. Rev. Service was the chief actor in a surgical oper- ation in silhouette that brought howls of laughter from an appi'eciative audience. k travelogue showing scenes in Canada from coast to coast was shown with lantern slides. Mr. H. L. Eubank giving the narrative. The fowl supper and concert was in connection with the anuual anniver- sai-y sei'vices of the church. The ' receipts of the fowl supper amounted to $115, and the special collection the Sunday (iievious $2(KI. LOOSEMNT. MORALS PEOPLE OF YOl'NG .Sadie Mc.\rthur, H year old daugh- cr of .Mr. and Mrs. Thos. McAithui- <i .Sydenham township, won the right. \ U) represent Grey County in public speaking at the district contest at Ai thur on November 5th. Sadie took iiist prize in public speaking at Mark- dale on Saturday last in the final of the Rural School Fair public speaking- contest, taking as her subject 'Tlie Viniy Memorial.'' Marjorie Bates of Proton Station won second prize, her sibjecu being "Citizenship" while Pat- iic;a Bemrose of Maxwell, Miltoi* Shouldice, teacher took third, also peaking on the Viniy Memorial. Fourth place was won by Dorothy Boyd of Markdale, whose subject was â- The Mystery of Mars. There were 27 contestants out ot a possible 36 eligible, taking part in public speaking at Markdale and l.ie winner is congratulated on her victory, as also are the other prize winners, who were almost eQually as good. To have three among the first four win- ners is a notable victory for Osprey .\rtemesia and Markdale school fair winners. The judges of the contest were'. Mr. Hamilton, principal of Hanover high school. Mr- Gardiner, principal of Meafrod High School, and Mr. Carr of Owen Sound. Inspectors Pentland of Hanover. Game of Walkerton and Wilson of Owen Sound addressed the gathering while the judges prepared their report. MAXWLi.L (Barrie -Advance) , Social workers in Barrie. as! throughout the province, find that I since the opening of beer parlors there | has been a loosening of morals among i .voong people. But how could it be j Mr. Miles Heron ant two daughters otherwise? When boys and girls of Buffalo are visiting their cousin, in their teens start meddling with beer Mr. Charlie Heron and other friends and other intoxicants their self-res here. pect is jolted and anything is liable to. Miss Mildred McPherson of Guelpl* happen. It is too much to expect a totally temperate people but even many of those of mature age who in- dulge are becoming alarmed at tht. effect of the present liquor laws and the way they are administered. is staying with .Mrs. Emerson Wright, Mr. and .Mrs. Wes, Douglas and daughter and Mr. and Mrs. Douglas "f Markdale visited with Mr- and Mrs. Leslie Adams on Sunday. Mr. and Mrs, Geo. Long and fam- ily visited in Owen Sound on Sunday. Mr. Garfield McLeod left for the It was the bard of ".Auld Scotia,' the immortal Bobbie Burns, who many northern woods last week- years ago referred to the glorious Visitors at the home of days when: "Man to man the world o'er, shall brithers be an' a' that." But international amity has not made Mr. much progress with the diffusion of education, advance of .science, and the 'But your last offer was that ^P'^^'id of Christianity, and the day ' dream of the plough-boy poet for un- iversal brotherhood still seems to be a long way from realization. Geo. Ross on Sunday vere Mr. and Mrs. Jones and son Lloyd and daughter, Meybelle and Mr. and Mrs. Renfred Acheson and faniilv of Cheltenham. There is more action in an ounce of kitten, observes the Ottawa Jour- nal, than in a ton of elephant. PLAY AT MT. ZION A iilay -.V 1< atuH'." h\ tlic niatic Clnl) \\i at Mt. Zi.in ,in !-'ri. 30. Music ln't wfcn I<unch will he served, mission : 25c and l.x". aniily Di-iiiirli- iJ.aclycnis I)ra- li bo iircsented OctdlUT acts. tin- Fowl Supper - Concert under the auspices of St. Paul's Church will be held at .SINGHAMPTON - on - WEDNESDAY. OCT. Z8th, Slipper served in the Blue MoiinfaTh Inn from 5 t" 8 p.m. Admssioii; Adults 40c: Children 25c pro! ably yours anyway.' That! That Salt Lake man who boasts that he has sneezed 100,000 times has certainly set up a record that is not to be sneezed at. HALLOWE'EN Specials Hallowe'en Candy, per lb 21c Hallowe'en Faces 15c â€" 5c â€" 3c' â€" Ic Boy's Windbreakers $1.75 Men's Work Sbirts 85c and 98c New F«J1 Shades, Silk Hose 69c VARIETY STORE FLESHERTON ONTARIO was hard to take. It was a carpen- I tor's chalk line and my dad was a : carpenter. i Two things I learned that day. The i Mrs. Bowers of Cleveland, Ohio, vis- i fji-gt, was not to rely too much on cir- ited with her niece, Mrs. Edgar Betts ' cumstantial evidence; the cord in this! and husband and Norval the i)ast case was a carpenter's chalk line, but i week or so. the son of the carpenter had not put it We extend our sympathy to Mr. and there, and (2) the thing I learned at Will. Harbotlle of the ;ird line, that early age was this, that you ; Mrs. Euphrasia in the loss of their little son, whose death was caused by eat- ing some iiills which he had found. Mr. Arthur Lawlor is attending military school in Toronto. Messrs Geo. and Clarence William.'' and Mr. and Mrs. Thos. Crowe and Hilda of Toronto were recent visitors with Mr, and Mrs. Joseph William."? and -Toev. should never ))ull a string until you I had found out what it was tied to. J. T. CLARK i Illinois blacksmith told a story that won him the title of the state's champ- ion liar. But then, he probably for- !jeH tHo yarn. R. E. Knowles, a special writer for I the Toronto Daily Star, who reported proceedings of the recent General I Council of the United Church at Ot- I tawa, suggests that all prospective I rural preachers should take a course I in agriculture and on support of this contention the brilliant reporter points out that when a city born and bred preacher took charge of a rural ap- pointment and was invited out fff» dinner he remarked to his host and hostess on seeing a jar of honey on the table: "Oh. isn't this lovely. I see you keep a bee." Fish and Game IKeeiing Dr. Norman K. Douglas. President of the Grey and Bruce Game and Fish Protective Association, will address a j meeting of sportsmen of this district | 'o be held iit the Munshaw House, j Flesherton (h's Wednesday evening. October 38th. He will also have with hjin Mr. .lohn Macartney, conservation : â- ffirer Di nnrtmeiit of Game and I Fisheries, who will al.so i.Jdres;\ the j meeting. 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