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ORONO WEEKLY TIMES Vol. 1. No. 32. ORONO, ONT., THURSDAY, SEPT. 2 1937. Subscription, $1.25 Per Year. Durham Central F air at Orono, Sept. 21 st and 22nd Hall Packed For The Nomination Of Candidate For Durham County <* ---- -- -- Mr. and Mrs. S. J. White Celebrate Golden Wedding And Many Were Present Cecil G. Mercer, Reeve Of Hope Township, Chosen As Liberal Candidate Bewteen four and five hundred attended attended the Liberal nomination, meeting meeting held in the .town hail, Orono on Wednesday, when Cecil G. Mercer was elected to be the Liberal standard-bearer standard-bearer for the County of Durham. Mr. Mercer, President of the Durham Durham Liberal Association was chairman chairman and called the meeting to order. Mr. Mason, secretary, read the minutes minutes of the' general meeting. After the reading of the minutes Mr, Mercer called on the large gathering gathering for nominations for the purpose of selecting a candidate to represent the riding. Mr. W. 0. C'averley of Bowman- ville took 'the floor and after a few remarks moved that Mr. Cecil C. Mercer: be the candidate. This was seconded by Mr. If. H. Ballid'ay of Port Hope. After a few minutes it was moved by. Mr.'Rtlsaell Osborne and seconded seconded by Mr. W. Baker that the nominations nominations be closed and Mr. C. G. Mercer Mercer was elected candidate unanimously. unanimously. . Mr,' Mercer then gave the chair- manshi |> over to Mr. W. J. Bragg, member of the last house. Mr, Caver ley and Mr. H'alliday stated 1 that Mr. Mercer was a hard worker and always took a great interest interest in politics,-and that the Liberal Liberal Party would find him a willing worker at all: times. Mr. Bragg- took: the floor and said that he has been: member for 21 years, first.rejpreoei'itir;g: West Barham when there used to be tw 0 ridings. in- the county, East and West, in 19l<f the .ridings East and West were joined together and Mr, Bragg won the election election from his opponent for the Liberal Party and has held it ever since.' Mr. Bragg said he was withdrawing from the contest and leaving it for Mr. Mercer, but that he would put all liis energy toward helping Mr. Mercer in liis fight for election. Mr. Mercer, in a few well - chosen words, expressed his thank's for the great honour bestowed on him this afternoon in being nominated to represent represent the , Liberal Party at the forthcoming election. He stated that it would be a: strenuous election and asked the support of the large audience audience present for their loyal support. The only sure way of success is for a, great organization of all ranks, to co-operate with each other, and in this way I a:m sure we will hold the seat on October 6th. He asked the ladies for their support and to support support the Liberal Party as a whole, for the Liberal Party in their three years of rein has : reduced Hydro rates, along with other things. They deserve another term of office. He asked what, Hon. Earl Rowe had offered offered to the public,. nothing but cutting cutting remarks. He closed his speech by : stating that if elected on October 6th, he would do everything he could On Monday ' evening over a hundred, hundred, friends and pupils gathered at the homo of Mr. and Mrs. 0. L. Drummond to bid them, farewell upon the eve of their departure for their new home at Brussels, - .The meeting was opened by,the singing - of "O Canada" '■ which Was followed by remarks from the chairman, chairman, Rev. Mr. Os-terliout, Mr." Os- terbout expressed deep regret that the community had to lose such a valuable ' asset as Mr. and Mrs. Drumlmon-d, who took active -part in affairs; of the church, Young People's Union, and any other worthy causes. Next on the prgram was a vocal duet by Mrs. B. 'Shaekleton and Miss Stella, Best. This was followed by to help the public at large. lion. Dr. Faulkner was the next speaker and he talked for one hour and twenty minutes, on the work of the Hepburn government, and showed the audience just what the government government had accomplished in the three years they were in office. He said that now that he bad taken off his coat it would stay off until the election. election. Was over. He complimented Durham County on the fine stamp of men they have sent to represent the county in the past and referred to Mr. Blake, He told of the radium plant in Port Hope and the. hard time it had to exist under the Conservative Conservative government, but when the Liberal Liberal party came into ' power they looked after their home industries. Radium was formerly brought in from the States but the Liberal party patronized the Port Hope plant and saved money. $150,000 was paid to the plant in one lump sum and used for cancer treatment by the Dept, of Health. He 'Stated that when the Liberals totok office there was only one tubercular clinic in the province attending to 3 or 4 thousand tubercular tubercular -cases a year, which is a preventative preventative disease, but now there were 4 travelling clinics " and two more just completed and that 9,000 cases were examined though not all were tubercular, tubercular, and he believes the- government government will soon have this treatment on a free basis, Under the present ad'diministration the death rate has also been reduced. He said that under the Henry government government hospital. grants had been lowered but when the Liberal party came into power they restored the grants -back to their former figures a- the hospitals were losing money. He stated they have also increased the road grants in Durham-North- umberlatid by $13,968. In the Old Age Pension's the Liberal party expected expected to soon assume the whole cost and this would save the united counties counties the sum of $23,865.58. To sum up he said that the Hepburn government government had increased business and increased incomes and was now in a position to hand back some remuneration to "the public at large. He said that the has never seen- Mr. Hepburn break a promise when once given, and that if he was- given another another term in office lie believed that, lie would complete in bringing the province out of the morass that it was in when he took the reigns of premiership 0 f the Liberal party and •put tjie jjfovince on a firm footing. 'On the liquor question he attacked attacked the Hon, Eiarl Rowe on stating about the mushroom hotels that are in existence today, but tie, said that he has travelled through the province and never seen one and would like the Hon. Earl Rowe to show flv.m where they are. The only ones to have licenses are standard, hotels'only. He next told about Hydro and the saving they were making in this department department by cancelling some contracts, contracts, and by that saving were now able' to lower the rates to users, and also make it possibible for more farm- the address, read by Mr. Thomas Turner Turner ; the gifts being presented. by Misses Doris Whyte and Eileen Jones and Mr. Clifford Jones, -Mr. and Mrs. , Dfumimond made suitable replies, followed by a few words from Messrs. J. ,). Me'.lor ijuil Ruhr. :Sher- win. . . 1 "- Af-tel. thisl games were- indulged in by the young. people, with plenty .of fun and merriment. 'Soon a bounteous bounteous and 'delicious lunch,' accompan-' led by ice -cold lemonade, was served. A. memorable gift was an autograph book bearing' the names of all contributors contributors and signed by all those present. present. The' committee in charge were Misses Elsie Rowe, Eileen Jones, Doris Whyte, and Messrs, Thomas Turner and Clifford Jones. ' - PRESENTATION AND ADDRESS On Monday evening about fifty friend's and school chums from Orono and Newcastle gathered at the home of Mr. and Mrs. F. Tamblyn to honour honour Mr. Everett. Brown and his bride- to-be, Miss Gladys Pollard, At 9,00 p.m. they telephoned Everett and -asked -asked them to come down and listen to the fight on the radio. Miss Mary Tamblyn brought then in her car to her home. The friends were gathered on the lawn and when Everett and his bride-to-be arrived the lights were turned on to welcome them. They were certainly surprised to find all their friends facing them. Miss Mary Tamblyn then ushered them to the chairs and the following address was then read by Miss Ella Tamblyn. That the Spartan Said : To Gladys and Everett : It is said that the Spartans said "Hay" to life and the Athenians said "Vav" to life. You have said 'W ay" to life and we'll hope that the Athenians, adventurous adventurous spirit- in the realms of body, mind 'and sou-1 will go with you. You arc both young and life is yours to make of it what you will. It can be kind or cruel, peaceful or warlike, which ever we choose to make it. We know Everett of old and can rest assured as to which path will be chosen. A friend once remarked of a Mr. Kite who was- to be marriedd "so our Kite has taken flight into matrimony, a realm where the breezes keep us up in the air at times." But surely those; solid: old' Lauren tians at Hudson Hudson Heights will possess ' your souls and quiet the storms. The beautiful surroundings will compensate for the bother of the daily round which bothers us all at times. And now wo have a very small offering offering to speed you on- your way with health and happiness. 'Signed on behalf of the committee --Mary Knox, Mary Tamblyn- and Ella Tamblyn. At the appointed time Miss Mary Tamblyn. presented them with a lovely bridge lamp and table lamp, after which Everett replied, thanking one and- all for the lovely gifts. Several contests arid! games were ' then conducted by Miss Mary Tgma- blyn. prizes -being given to the-' winners winners in every game. A lovey lunch was then served by several of the girls, A -couple games' were conducted conducted after lunch. Everyone then journeyed journeyed into the house where a lively sing song was conducted with Hubert Oabbledlek at the piano. This was brought to a close with the singing of Au Id Lang Syne, after which everyone wished the couple a happy journey through life and hoped they would like their new home even though they would 1 be some distance, from their respective homes. ers to derive the benefit from power. They have erected 2000 miles, of ' new lines and have added 8000 new consumers, consumers, and it is the aim of the hydro hydro department to get as close to the late Sir Adam. Beck's policy, v to give Hydro at cost. He then showed'what the government had saved the country country by collecting on Secession Duty bonds. There was $7,500,000 -collected -collected on some of these bonds that were collected: on before and pigeon holed by ,tho Conservatives and up to the present had collected $28,000,000. He said that Hon, Earl- Rowe claimed that the' present .-government bad increased increased faxes by millions of dollars, but he would like to know of one tax that the Liberal government had increased, increased, and he stated tie Hepburn government had lowered taxes instead of. increasing them, :' tie'also touched on far/m mortgages and on the labor question and lie sanctioned the stand that Mi 4 . Hepburn Hepburn had taken on the!latter question, jïo' was*,-in favour of the British aVs- tern, of handling their own labor disputés disputés and not: have any one from Europe to interfere, and the. * same for Canada. Tie stated' that you can take the ' Lleinbu'm admiliis-t-ration anyway . you like and that you, will not fin'd a black m&rik- against it. Mr. F. lii'ckard. ALP., then took (Continued on page' eight) BUSINESS CHANGES Mr. J. J. Gilfillan, who has conducted conducted the drug store in Orono for the last 43 years, has sold. Es business business to- Mr. Ohm B. Tyrrell, of Toronto, Toronto, who took possession on Wednesday, Wednesday, September 1st. Mr. Tyrrell was .in -charge of the dispensary department department in John A. MacMillan's drug store in the Medical Arfr&Bhild- ing, Toronto, for three and. a half years. Mr. Gilfillan still retains the optical end 1 of the business and will have the rear part of the store to carry on this biisness. We wish Mr. Tyrrell every -success in hj-s new venture. venture. Dr. W, IL Ü. Ledger, who has carried carried on a dentistry'business here in Orono for the past five years, has bought the practise from the estate of the lat-e Dr, A. Hynes of Renfrew, Renfrew, where he expects to start his new duties- the first of next week. We are sorry Dr. Ledger, his wife and family are leaving our community but wish him every success in his new venture. Dr. J. O. Milne of Newcastle Newcastle has bought Dr. Ledger's, practise practise here, Mr. and Mrs. Milne and daughter expect to occupy the house and office of Dr. Ledger the first of next week. Wo give them a hearty welcome to town. PAYS SCHOOL CHUM VISIT Coi. Edny White, of Carol Gables, Florida, was in town on Friday afternoon afternoon for-a few hours visiting his old, school mate, Mr, J. ,1. Gilfillan, both attending school, in tiowman- ville. ;":0ol. Whits- told us that Mr. J, J. G-iltfillan's father was one of Ms teacher's in his boyhood days. The Col. is a retired Salvation Army officer officer and -came to his old home town, Bowfaianyille, for the old boys' and girls' reunion. He informed us that in Florida during July and August most of "thé women wore f urs and the men coats .more than any other month of the year. ' NOEL HALL Funeral services were conducted at 3 o'clock Saturday afternoon, Aug, 7tii. at the 1 Edmonds Undertaking company for Noel Hall, 21, who passed passed , away August. 5th at the Swedish Hospital in Seattle. The Rev. H. F. Burgess of 'the Alderwood Community Church read the services. Mrs. John Orymes sang "Sunrise" and "'Some Day We'll Understand," Understand," with piano accompaniment played by Mrs. liressa Zuiauf. Noel was. graduated, from the Edmonds Edmonds high school in 1935. He spent a year in a GCC camp, later entering the 1 rempli ill Diesel Engineering School in Seattle, from which he had graduated and "had taken a position with the Mon.tag company in that city. - He is survived by his. parents, Mr. and Mrs. George T. Hall of Edmonds. Interment was made at the T. O. O. F, cemetery in South Edmonds. Rev. Dr. D. G. Ridout and Air. \. E.:McBride of Toronto who were taking: part in the Layman's Leadership Leadership Conference at Whitby. during the week-end, were welcome visitors at the 'morning, service- of the United Church on "Sunday. ' Air. Ridout told a Very interesting story about superstitions superstitions about evil spirits .in our mission mission field in Aiigolfl, East Africa. He showed some curios' of - this . land f which bo recently visited. Mr. McBride, a busy business man of 'Toronto who is chairman of the Missionary and Maintenance Fund ' for the Toronto Conference and Who takes' time off from Ms bifsines's to O Happy Married Couple Of Fifty Years Ago Are Still Hale and Hearty On Wednesday, August : 25th, the home of Mr. and Mrs. S. J. White was the scene of a happy gathering when their relatives and neighbors met, to celebrate their fiftieth wedding* wedding* anniversary. Mr. Fred Couch acted as chairman chairman and after musical -selections- by June Brown, and readings by Mrs. Jerry Brown, Hilda Rowland read the address and two occasional chairs and a mantel clock were presented to the bride and bridegroom of fifty years. " Gifts from the relatives included a set of -silverware, Aladdin lamp, table cloth, tray and a gold ring and go I d cuff-links. Mr, and Mrs. White, made • fitting replies and after speeches by Harry Jose and Mrs. J. Henry, a social hour was spent and lunich served. Relatives present included the four children : Austin, living at home ; Norris and family of Bowman ville ; Mrs. T. -O. An-dtrews and 1 Mrs. P. B. Andrews and families of Port Hope; Henry White, Port Hope, and Mrs. W. 0. Morgan, Toronto and her four daughters, one of whom is from New Brunswick. Following is the address : Dear Mr, and Mrs. White : We, your friend's • and neighbors,, have gathered: to - celebrate with, you and your family the ' happy occasion of your golden wedding anniversary. We are here to congratulate you on attaining your fiftieth -milestone of your married life which so few married married couplés reach in such health and strength. You have proved yourselves competent competent farmers and. hospitable neighbors. neighbors. , As" parents you have raised a family of four to be a credit to you. Austin, who lives hero with you, is better known to most of us. and we are proud to Claim such a worthy son as a citizen . in our community. In these busy days we often neglect neglect onr neighborly visits but we want you to know that we all think of you often and we stand ready, not only to celebrate with yon to-night but *to help multiply all your good fortune and divide all your troubles and •sorrows. ... "-. Now, we ask you to receive these chairs, and this clock as a : sign of our respeect for you both and we hope that you may live to enjoy using them for a number of years. ISiigned on behalf of this gathering by the committee--Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Adams, Mr. and Mrs. H. Rowland, Mrs. J. Baskerville and Wilbur Bas- kerville. o->-- On Friday evening next at our Community Park, Salem will be the opposing team for the. Forestry with the celebrated Ace Richards as their pitcher. Game called at 6 p.m. sharp ('Standard time). If you miss this game you will be sorry. give much, time to church work, gave a pointed; and spirited address on the work being abcoimplished -thrpugli iiiv Missionary! * .and Maintenance Fund of the United Church, He dealt with the work from the- standpoint standpoint of Christian Education; Pensions:, Pensions:, Evangel i-sto and; 'Social 'Service, 'Service, Home and Foreign Missions, showing in an interesting way the various types of 'work carried on. by the-church, in these different avenues of service. .The congregation will not soon ■forget the visit arid message -.off this enthusiastic layman arid tils, brother minister. Farewell Party To Mr. And Mrs. O. L. Drummond Interesting Service Sunday At Park St. United Church