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THE - B. y Collingwood.--Fi1'e completely de- stroyed the Collingwtod Ev21po1'ato:'x_ and 50 tons of choice apples on Sat-`j urday. The plant was owned by` Jas. Vancise, of Collingwood. The 105. is estimated at nearly ten thousand dollars. c I The night watchman, Sandy Mc- Queen, called the re departmem`. when he saxv smoke and ames ris- ing from the kiln. The blaze spread quickly through the large t,\\'0-store`; building and when the remen ar- rived the whole plant was a mass cf ames. Several remen were forced to duck an ;.=.'aIanche of bricks and burning timbers when the south wall collapsed and fell. At the same time the rnrrf cmshc-cl through both 23;`. destroying me apples which we:--.2 stored m. the basement. . Lsrr . A stiff no1'thv.`esL wind e11c1z\1m0:'ef1 the Dougherty service station in the ; adjoining lot and remen were kept 1 '53! extinguishing a. shower of : `irks t.hro\\'n from the buminzg; ` I Ming`. T01. ;\c1:11. `N77. Percy Faun. _\`I semblcd 21. new 0-. vocal sol-').. -.m Sel(?M`(`.". `W this co1n;.`v' '. under the (EH0. .....,.. --...,... points out ...... lvavcn .. ..-.,._ of a possible cf: South Simcoe Club Teams Do Well at .A.C., @uelph w 32)- ' I '1; Already scores of an`-minded youths : iin Great Britain and C:m2Lc1a`s sis-. 5-tcr Dominions are packing up their iiduds to join an Empire group ofl 1":1ir ghLcrs to be trained at a hun- Liclred air elds clotting this country. .` Provided there is no unforeseen de- Ojvelopment, citizens of Canada willl 3'be witnessing the awesome spectacle 1 AF nan:-z-no"! 5ln~'l-si-n :\1\Q~`I1 .......L News behind the news of the pastlw few days is the intense preparation} for a long and serious war being :made at Ottawa, Toronto and other h canadian governmental centres. Be- D ,hind closed doors, and without the` ':accompaniment of publicity, ourelect-`S ed leaders, our paid public servants [and representatives of business en- 'terprises, have put their collective 1 : lcl !noses to the grindstone, bent on * transforming plans for a tremend- ,ous Canadian war supply organiza- Etion into an accomplished fact. ,| Great Britain s mission, recently _`augmented by further arrivals from {the Old Country, is busy advising ['Ca.nacla what is needed at the cen-; ,`tre of operations. Inclustrialists are: [projecting new factories and addi-i ftioris to existing plants, and adem 3 quate steps are being taken to make! sure there shall be suicient com-= glpetent workmen to man the fac- -vtor1es when the big machine is 1!n:i.lly thrown into high gear. I v `I1 .. _...-......-.a .,-.V ... .. -.,..... yof massed ights early -`and by then thousands sfcanadians will be invited ai;' force. , Gradually the general public i.s 2 coming to the realization that Prime r [Minister Chamberlain was not re- sorting to propaganda when he warn- 1 ed the Empire to get ready for 2.5 war of three wears or longer. De- fterminecl to ght until Hitler is ` `beaten and Hitlerism banished, the Allies have apparently settled down] to a. siege of Germany, preparing isteaclily for a grand offensive later`. `on, if necessary, but saving as manyll. :of their own men as possible in the] meantime. It; is not unlikely that future his-iq Lory books may show that this sit- 1 nation is the reason why only one : Canadian division is in training so` I far. with no call yet for its trans-` - be plenty of men left in the coun- portation across the Atlantic; \Vh}'_' care is being taken that there shall` 1 try to furnish workmen in the fac- {mics and pC1':~;onne1 for the Air| I Force. .. .,...`.. .....\.-.u-.;.-. uxuv-.u . :11 he gave qualied aproval to the development of the St. Lawr- ence waterways project-somethin.r_r he has vehemently opposed for , years. Of course, with such an am- bitious program for industrial expan- ' natural that Ontario's leader shoulr`. I ' sion ahead of the country, it is oniyh .fe01 that the whole country's expect- 4 Far-sighted Premier Hepburn pull- ed :1 real surprise packet from his cupbozwd of unpredictable moves -~~`~r\ ` I'rr\Ivr\ -.....1:n,..x ......_.__1 1., BEHIND THE SCENES Twelve boys representing six clubs; in outh Simcoe made a very credit-i a showing in the annual inter-1 . ....z......,.. ,.....4-m.+,. I-.n1r1 np thn of the Times TREFW ._.. .,K.<......--- next year. of young 1 to join the ` expan-` ` 1 Ion spec Min mot] I gmm ` prou ! hors ....~n..., -.- VCCV --..-...... .... -_ t -..o judging contests held at thef Ontario Agricultural College, Guelph,! on Friday, Oct. 20. The Alliston Po-' tato Club Leann, composed of Ralph Bfuting and Warren Mackenzie wasli paced 4th in competition with 23} teams. Ralph Banting was high of the 46 boys competing with a scorn "A" :An .--:.-L.. f\In" ..r .. n....,..I.1A nu I poin I strin ! mot I the I whal poin and ` scho s. Nott 0. 23, Second Line. (Runner-up, S.S.[ -1 Essa Township--S.S. No. 6, Hill. `Close runners-up, SS. 7` n 17.. n rs r1 xv n\ \;vuuu-.4. y -.l..... -.... ., .....,.,. Adjala To\vnship-S.S. No. 5. lington. (Runner-up, S.S. No. 6). of 543 poi: 600 points. rru-.. r~,...A Tossorontio Township-S.S. N (Runner-up, S.S. No. 1, Essa). A .1 1./\1f\ nan... ..1..:... G c 'kYn E tied need for more power and greater 3 [ocean port facilities transcends the: `limportance of battling over pmvin-I fcial rights. Whether one agrees or `disagrees with the opinion that the! ` big waterway development; is $1`: Vsound economical venture. most} upcople will nod in approval when} Mr. Hepburn backs up his talk of unied national effort with action: .lthaL must go against his personal - | feelings. I ` Glamorous tales of the Canadian~ Northwest Mounted Police from n(;'.'.' J ;on will be changed by the deletion ; of the horse. Now that cars and ' motorcycles have replaced the faith? ful animal, Defence Minister Rogers` has authorized the R.C.M.P. at Rock- ` cliffe barracks to rent; their horses . to any one who will take care of `them properly. In fact, Ottawa citi- zens can rent :1 p1'anci.n;` steed from the Mounties for as liutle as one `dollar a month and keep. -..., , . ,,,:u_ u. - .~_....-m.,. ...`...,i:.. The City of Toronto is reachingxl out for more revenue in these times.( of war. The abolition of tax ex-`z emptions now enjoyed by 1)rivate| schools, collection of increased taxes ; from chain stores and gasoline ser-I1 vice stations and the repeal of cer~ .* tain corporation income tax exemp- : tions are proposed. The interesting` 'fe:1ture of increased emergency tax- imion is their tendency to stick. Of j itlie taxes imposed as war measures [during the last great war, about the 7,only one to be abolished was the` |L=i::e:'t:1i1i1nei1t. tax. And now therel` ;is talk of that going into force once I | Despite the ruling of the Supreme : "Court that the Canada. Temperance ;1\CL is valid in Huron, Perth and . w ` .-~,\. . | _ ment has I 0 2.2".`-'. rm ! in determined on the district `of Manitoulin, the Ontario Govern- nggresswe ;cnfo.`.`cement of the Ontario Liquor (`.`a:11-()1 Art in these terr'1torie.~<. This iscems bound to load to conict. and perhaps 3. rich lm1`vest for lawyers I I 1 S'S'| But that was a long time back` - ' 11 land, when the family moved intoi. 'S'S' Cherr":itO\V11, there was only Roselle, aid`: 3"s'up' No` 1'Fanny, the house girl. The house in B No` .2)` town was unpretentious, but it had=n rnShlp-S.S. No. 1-`la wide hall and a square-columned i . `verandah with high steps, so that 8.`: --S-S- 5 AI"chi1d might learn, mounting them,` `up S's to carry his back as straight as the`: back of his grandfather, and thew %;1'0i1? .0`.` yard was full of shade trees. I re- V ties the member waking in those summers .tt1ing p1'0Vill-land autumns in my grandparents : ther othouse, in a big room with the blinds! e the drawn. I would get up and dress` levelopment $1 myself and go out back into the .1 mostkitchen, where, with Roselle cheerily whengbustling about her baking, my grand- I .1-,. ...- I-:.. s.-.11. n4` ...-,\L|...... .......I.1 I... .......I.:...... L._.......: L.-.. I E r um man sea.-'g1ad< with my .ching`big times.o1d K ex-`rm 1 -..-_.--..;, ..........- --_- _..._.-., .-._, 3----.. I mother would be making toasted bis- cuit for me, or pouring milk in 3.! < 1. l . tall blue glass. Then we would mi` ' Nanny to me, would sit there talk-` on the steps at the kitchen door and}! my grandmother, who from the rstlf was. for some reason of my own.!, :1 ing with me in the morning sun that 1 was silver on her hair, and her smallr 1 hands would be folded on her blue- Nchccked-apron lap. In the apron" pocket were a number of things: a ' 9 small change purse full of nickelsyj f and dimes, some string for kites and} tops, a twig of sassafras for chew-I` 1 ing and a small penknife for whitt-4` ling and sharpening pencils. We would sit there on the steps while I had my breakfast, Nanny talking ' softly and I drinking in the nectar h of sun and nectar of her voice. N:mny's name was Frances Jnnv, but, nobody had ever called her that `Even my g'randfather could not re- V..- l.u......u. 9 'I`he South Simcoe Grain Club] team, made up of Victor Sma11,;1 Stroud, and Lorn Carruthers, Thorn-" ton, won third place in competition with 40 teams, while the Nottawa-I sago Grain Club, composed of Robtugi Coates, Avening, and Jack Selfe,` Stayner, was in 16th place in the` same competition. n-u-- f1-_I__L-.4.._ 1-.1..-` r~n..|. L.._.__ But I {Wright}, Gene St1'att.on P01` er :?W1'll N. Harbin. And once a month ( tithe postman brought, the home n1ag- ; 1~azin.e called Comfort, from which we ; _ read the stories writ.l,e11 by an in- ; Jldividual who called himself Unc7c; 3 Charlie, and the adventures of Cub- ; Slby Beer. When I was ten years old . 3!}: wrote the first; pago; of a novel,~ `concerned largely with a young girl - I` ischon I 1 xavnnwn-Aa.A\-5L .5.-Du; nu... vv _,...... running up a. hill with a white and: brown collie dog bounding along at` her side. Nanny said it was very ex-!; citing and encouraged me to w1'i1,e' more. When I was eleven, I wroteis a. poem which she read to anybociv ; who would listen. `g\ a. .. a--- _, 4 4 s In thz: :=:.\rm:.iI1gs. the two of them_; ; sat togaimzr in the corner where the ; ,lamp was-grandfathe1' at his writ-| 7 ing desk, writing his letters to the 3 Gazette, grandmother in her rocking `chair reading The aim of the Lim- 2 l berlost. Her smooth hair was part-' 1 1 w ed down the middle. she moved her : ,;lips 9. little, shaping the words as` too: l_busy reading to get up and go for -.1 1 I) 3 `she read. But she was st.roIl under the stars; 01`, never if it was ` Your `Wife Will E1 T M ILYONLOP STREET Iell her to-marrow morning 1 at home . . . you are meeting at the Olympia at 6 p.m. SI again and the cheers from sound like a, touchdown. He dinners. THE A`! (in s;"l`DI'.`Ir'I` and re! also ` met and \4\'AAl` ........ .. . The Cookstown F0211 Club team! composed of Robt. Brown, Bra.dford,`= and Jim Steers, Bradford, won third ` place, and the Nottawasaga. Foa1;` Club team, made up of Wm. Tuck,` Dumroon, and Allen Vancise, Stay-'1` ner, was placed 14th in judging of horses. There were 40 teams in this contest. I Aufl `me | In the Calf Club competition. the, Bradford Boys Calf Club, represent-i` ed by Geo. Faris, Cookstown. zmtli Arthur Webb, Braelford, was pl;1cr:`_; 12th with 34 teams competing. ` A total of $35.00 in (.'av.;h prizes. was won by the South Simcoe boysf The Guelph competition this year: was the largest on record, 330' boys.` all between 16 and 21 years of agrff took part. They were guests of the: Ontario Agricultural College and xv-3r2' entertained at a banquet in the evening. at which Hon. P. M. De-5 Wan, Minister of Agriculture, wasf the special speaker. : nu... r'I.\..Ll` 2-'4 .... ..,. 1.....- .......,. ._.. Collingwood Evapor- ator Last in $10,009 Blaze Sattiray .,.... ..`,......... ..K..........- . The South Simcoc boys were ac-3 companiecl to Guelph by F .A. Lash- ley, agricultural representative. 1