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[MIR of Buffalo, dy of his >y the fam- nmie“ had Indian wo- the alleged Store Prop. ‘This con- ]: is pus on “mez'gency. ‘ 'I see. some- ATIO‘N fls with k’s LS for .19 $1.00 .10 .15 .10 .75 .19 The meeting clos ad by singing “Abide With Me" and praver by Mrs. Groves. It was decided that the auxiliary meet with the Circle at their April meeting, when the report of the Toron- to Conference Branch meeting will be gww. Arrangements are being made for the Easter Thank oflering meeting whiih will be held on Easter Sunday Mrs. Groves. The Heralds responding to the Wat ch Tower were Mrs. '3’30, 10.) and Mrs. B. W. 'Vilson. “Come my sou!" was sung after which prayers were offered by Mrs. Twamley, Mrs. Piddes and Mrs. B. W. Wilson. Mrs. Gagnon took charge of the pro- gram. The devotional leaflet was read by Mrs. Chapman. Individual resoon- sibility was stressed in .1 reading: by Mrs. Twamley. followed by a recitation by Mrs. Slack, “Ho is counting on you” Mrs. Gagnon gave a very fine paper on Chapter III of the study book. “Prom Jerusalem to Jemsalem” which was followed with prayer by Mrs. Kncchtel. The W. M. S. of Queen Street church met on Friday at the home of Mrs. Twamley, Mrs. Groves presiding. The opening hymn. “0 Worship the King” was followej by the Lord’s prayer m unison and Scripture lesson taken by study book. Mrs. D. C‘JcKeclmie and Mrs. G. Boyd offered placer. The meet- ing closed by repeating Lord’s pray- er in unson. The April 2nd meetifxg willbeheldatthehomeotMssM.J. The president, Mrs. Vessie warned the Hear My Saviour Calling" and “Let the The offering was for #13101) work. Interesting papers We given by Mrs. G. Boyd, Miss Helen atson, Miss Mae Bell. Miss L. Fletcher, . 1). MW- The W. M. S. of Rocky Saugeen met at the home of Mrs. John McKechnie with 16 members present and 2 visitors. ROCKY SAUGEEN W. M. S. QUEEN STREET W. M. S. mead from the McKechnie and Miss Mary Bailey of Toronto visited this week at the home of the latter-’3 parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Bailey of Miss Allie Smith of Domech visited with Miss Daisy Mather for a few days the latter part of last week. Mr. Frank McIlraith of Toronto vis- itedhishomeherethebegirmingof the week. Misses Beatrice Grasby and 0mm Burnett of Listowel, accompanied by Mr. Conly and m. Matthews spent the week-end with Mr. and Mrs. Geo. S. Burnett. Mr. Harold Wilson, Owen Sound. ac- companied by Mr. Lorne MacDonald and Mr. Kyle Barclay of Owen Sound. visited over the week-end at the home of the farmer's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Mrs. Nelson Harding and daughter, Doraleen returned to London after spending six weeks with her mother, Mrs. E. W. lein in Durham. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Whitby, Toronto. visited her parents, Mr and Mrs. Philip Lawrence over tho week-end. Mrs. Wilson and son 01 Owen Sound are visiting her sister, Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Duflield his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Thos. E. Brown, spent the week-end in Hamil- Mr. Andrew Smith, who has been en- gaged at Sudbury for the past couple of years, returned to town Monday and is visiting his brother, Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Smith. here, to? a time. Mr. C. D. Kent, manager of the local branch of the Canadian Bank of Com- merce, is ill at his home and for a time it was thought he was threatened. with pneumonia. We are pleased to know that his physician anticipates no such attack and that Mr. Kent will be about again in a week or so. SOCIAL AND PERSONAL The meeting was a very enjoyable one. and the attendance was much larger than expected. as the evening was anything but pleasant. The choir will net quite a nice sum as a result. the funds to be spent on the necessities (I this organization. Mrs. Hardng was the accompanist for the evening. team up with. The contest consisted of historical facts and well-known sayings in which the names of the bus- iness and professional men of the town were used. The trick was to pick the proper names. Several contestants an- nounced that they had worked out all of the 18 questions correctly. character costume. gave .a number. a prominent part made a big hit. At the close of the first part of the pro- gramme singing was indulged in under the leadership of '1‘. M. McFadden. Following the entertainment a luncheon was served, and during the hour spent over the teacups a contest was held in which each attendant drew lots to see which “town” they were to bers without announcement. The d11- ferent offerings were varied and of a high quality and judging by the ap- plause were very much enjoyed by the audience. There was a piano solo by Miss McComb and vocal solos by Mrs. Lauder. Miss E. Harding. and Messrs. E. Buschlen and E. S. MacArthur, the latter also giving a couple of Harry Lauder’n character songs. Ensemble singing by the choir was also well re- PRESBYTERIAN CHOIP. CONCERT The ml ponoert and entertain- ment of the choir of 51 byteljian church was held mountains. He saw a man walking ahead of him and oflered him a lift. The man, obviously was a trampâ€"un- shaven, ragged. tired and dishevelled. He gladly accepted the ride. They chatted as the motor hum-med alongâ€"the general and mum-million- aire and the ne’er-do-well. Suddenly the carâ€"an open oneâ€"turned into the ditch and overturned McRae was pin- ned beneath the wheel in an exceed- ingly dangerous position. The tramp was lucky. He was partly flung out or the car and, extricatlng himself, man- fully strove to achieve a rescue. Un- aided he lifted the ear and somehow Gen. McRao got out from beth it. war to predict that Canada would have a population of 25,000,000 by 1950, and Ito plunge into politics. He began an independent political party in British ‘Columbia, but here for the first time .his genius for organization failed to “bring results. The My was not suc- cessful. In the end McRae gave it up and went to Ottawa as a straight Tory. His colleagues in Parliament either forgot or forgave the little sortie into independent politics in British Colum- bia and made him Dominion organizer. And so he has been organizing ever since. But Gen. McRae finds small dif- ficulty in directing the organization of a political party. He has met many stiffer problems in the past. One of them is adrift somewhere on the con- tinent today. Gen. McRae met him several years ago while motoring in the Rockies. Darkness was falling with a suddenness only experienced in tho Gen. A. D. McRae chiei organizer of the Conservative party has just re- turned from a tour or British Colum- bia, where he inspected the party fences, says an article in the Toronto Star Weekly. In recent months while Hon. R. B. Bennett has been making speaking tours through the various: provinces, General McRae has been busy arranging for candidates in the next Federal election and looking after the other essentials in the economy 0: political parties. As a matter of fact, Gen. McRae has been organizing something or other ever since he began thirty years ago to build up a fortune which today is es- timated variously in the millions. To begin with he organized the coloniza- tion of thousands of acres of land in Manitoba and Saskatchewan. Then when the war broke out he gave his services to the state. Sam Hughes sel- ectedhhnasthebestmaninCanada to organize the Canadian remount ser- vice. Next he organized the supply and transport departments to serve the Canadian army. And in the closing years of the war he organized the Bri- tish Ministry of Informationâ€"whose business it was to spread war propo- Mr. Cecil Barber. The judges were Miss Florence Kerr and Mrs. Bert Bar- ber. Both sides put up a splendid 2r- gument but the negative won by a few points. Following the debate was the gazette which was prepared and read by Miss Myrtle Marshall. The remain- der of the evening was spent in contests and games after which lunch was served. TRAMP REWARDED BY RESCUED MOTORIST meeting opened with the reading 01’ the minutes followed by community singing. Misses Wlnnle Blyth and Florence Kerr favored the club with a splendid duet. The main feature of the evening was the debate, “Resolved that the present system of farming 1:; not profitable and that we should adopt a co-operative system. The affirmative side WM upheld by Mix McAlister and Mr. Harold Watson, while the negative was taken by Miss Ellen Marshail and The young people. of the Vamey Wide Awake club held their monthly meeting at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Palmer Patterson on Friday evening, March :31. There was a good attendance with between thirty and forty present. '1110 Mrs. Herb. Hopkins and Mrs Donald Stewart each presented the Institurc with a bedspread to be donated to the Aberdeen W. 1. room in the hospital. It was also planned at this meeting to hold a progressive crokinole party in the school on April 23. The nation- al anthem closed the me sting, Mrs. Hopkins and helpers served lunch and an enjoyable half hour was spent to- gether. The next meeting is to be held at the home of Mrs. Wiliam Noble when Miss McGirr will address the meeting. All ladies are cordially in- ity singing. The Aberdeen branch of the W0- men’s Institute met at the home of Mrs. Herb. Hopkins, on Friday, March 21, with a good attendance of both General McRae came back from tho ABERDEEN WOMEN’S INSTITUTE THE GREAT SOUTH AMERICAN RHEUMATIC REMEDY In all their varied forms quickly relieved by RHEUMATISM McFadden’s Drug S Central Drug Store, VARNEY WIDE-AWAKE CLUB NEURALGIA Mrs. Noble led in co V a mnun- THE DURHAM CHRONICLE For Sale by AND of both Live stock were changing hands fre- quently among the residents last week. E. R. Peart purchased three head from Chas. Smith; cattle deale1 William Tlmmins bought five promising stock- ers from Joseph Haley; Herbert Tim- mins sold a brood sow to your scribe and there were several other deals but we lack particulars. Mr. and Mrs. Ernie Ellison of Dark- ey’s Comer attended Zion’s afternoon service on Sunday and spent the ev- ening at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Mrs. J'. J. Peart attended the funeral of a former friend, Mrs. Wilson Hillia near Hanover last week and remained for a few days visiting kindred. roads are bare, yet, there are places. where hard frozen drifts are several feet deep. Miss Florence Ewen of Aberdeen is a guest at the home of her uncle, Mr. Thos. Timmins these days. news came from that home this week of the arrival of a his baby brother to social time was spent by the ladies. Traverston (Our Own Correspondent) The weather during March has not been a fit subject for complimentary weeks ago are weary waiting the drip, drip in the buckets. Miss Jennie Davis spent the past week with Mr. and Mrs. H. M. Lew- monthly meeting on Thursday last at the home of Mrs. William Aitken. The president, Mrs. N. McGuire was in the chair. The ladies voted 810.00 towards the Library and $5.00 towards having a Tennis court started in Holstein. Miss Marie Aitken gave an instrumental solo which was enjoyed. Mrs. McGuire gave a splendid paper on the History of Ireland. The meeting closed by the singing of the National Anthem. tally good. This social ends the series held during the winter. Mr. Alex. McMillan or Dundalk spent a day last week with his parents, Mr. Miss Laura Bailey of Grand Valley motored here and spent the week-end with the Arnill family. Miss Beatrice Finder, RN. of Detroit is at home owing to her father's illness. Messrs H. Stewart of Detroit and R. Robinson of 0. A. C., Guelph. visit- ed the Tyndall family recently. Miss Jean Ellis and friend of Toronto spent last Thursday with Dr. and Mrs. Mr. and Mrs. George Armstrong and little daughter of Proton spent a day last week with Mrs. Armstrong’s par- ents, Mr. and Mrs. G. Calder. (Our Own Correspondent) Miss Vera Allan is spending holidays at her home here. to the nearest doctor. The tramp had saved his life. Gen. McRae desired to reward the tramp but he presented a real problem. It Gen. McRae gave him a large sum of money it would not be of permanent benefitâ€"tramps not being distinguished for their thrift. Finally he hit upon tials. authorizing him to present him- self once a month at any bank on the continent and receive an allowance. This allowance is to continue as long as he lives. Those who tapped the maples some The Women’s Institute held their The gum-chewing girl And the cud-chewing cow Arc somewhat a'ike, But different somehow. What difference? Oh. yes. I see it now; It’s the thoughtful Look on the face of the cow! $500,000 HEART BALM Mrs. Charles D. Gibbons has been awarded $500,000 heart balm from Mrs. Blanche Powell, wealthy New York society woman. Mrs. Gib- bons charged that the latter had alienated the affections of her hus- A DIFFERENCEâ€"YES! Theawardissaidtobethe Holstein aners. W. H. Kmmeesmllnuc- One). a daughtez. Wefinesday. March 26,1930. to .Mr Feeâ€"In Durham hospital. Saturday. March 22.1930,to Mr. and Mrs. Elmer E. Bee (nee Irene gum), Normnnby. bers of the four community groups that have held such high cm literary pro- grams in No. 3 school during the winter months. A big crowd attended and a most enjoyable evening spent largely owing to the tact kindness and hospi- tality oi the young host and hostess. Mr. Ray MoClocklin has been laid upthepastweek with unattwkoi bronchitm HE Nun. Barnaby Howard, little son of Lord Strathcona ad descendant of the great Canadian who was one of the foundm d the Canadian Parific Railway, is here shown embracing the III. daughter of tho Hon. Mrs. Arthur Howard in Hyde Park, [53% England. 1301?: mildren are livin links with the great past when one tlte major events in the history 0 Canada waa in the making. CARD 0!" THANKS Links with a Great Past â€"Sons and Daughters. Simple glycerin, buckthom but. .- line. etc. as mixed in Adlerih. m oonstipation in TWO hows! u medicines act on only lower Ila-d. H Easy! Quick! 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