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the tribune stouffville ont thursday february 19 14s uhe touffuulp trihunr established 1888 member of the canadian weekly newspaper association and ontario quebec newspapers association member of the audit bureau of circulations paidinadvance circulation as of september 30 2575 issued every thursday at stouffville ontario subscription rates per year in advance 1 it tj id canada 200 in usa s25c a v nolan son publishers notes and comments is your name a problem one there never was a time when so many names are being overhauled and genealogists say that 25 per cent of them could do with a change the evidence is apparent for in america no less than 150000 people a year besiege the law courts in search of better names so many people come to ouf shores with foreign names which may be simple enough in their vernacular but when translated to english they become a nuisance name it is just the same with english being translated to a foreign language at the lions meeting last week somebody asked the guest speaker rev f h muir missionary from china just what his name meant in chinese and everybody laughed when the minister said ten cents the word muir in chinese also means hair like on an animal however it is impossible pronunciation that become a problem a pole would probably have no difficulty in passing the time of day with mr dzienghliewski but in an englishspeaking community such a name is bound to cause embarrassment an american woman who married a greek was seriously perturbed when she became known as mrs demetrois konstantine papastafidas and was duly thankful when her husband was finally persuaded to change his name to plain mr charles staff the indiscretion of a parent has often led to the change of a first name an eminent philosopher once christened his daughter encyclopaedia brittanica whilst another father named his loth child careful genealogists are of the opinion that first names are lacking in variety in a recent survey of names amongst the united statess 66000000 males if transpired that there were 22000000 whose names were either charles john james- george or william whilst the feminine list revealed 6000000 marys the adoption of a new name may of course result in complications of an unforseen nature such was the case of mr george kerstiopolis who owned a restaurant within a week of changing his name to harris he was back before the court pleading for the restoration of kerstiopolis to his surprise he had discovered that his greek customers were unable to pronounce the name harris many family names in use today can be traced back to very early times centuries ago shopkeepers and tradesmen did not number their shops as they do today instead various distinguishing marks were employed such as the figures of birds flowers animals and other common objects as a consequence shopkeepers became known as tom of the finch will of the fox harold of the hart and other such names from this practice descended such family names as fox hart finch swan pike wolf etc one does not require a vivid imagination to conceive some of the unfortunate associations which might follow from the use of this system the tribune recently printed 2100 letter heads for a missionary to india and we had to picture a hippopotamus on the heading a syrrtbol of the tribe the missionary is working with thus the idea originated in the medeval days no doubt contributory old age pension contributory old age pensions are being advocated by one of the candidates in the exeter provincial byelection now in progress it is something this newspaper has long stood for and we hope the day is not far off when a contributory pension scheme is put into effect besides rolling in millions in small payments annually it would provide a pension that the recipient had earned and could be accepted just like any other life insurance the stigma of charity would be wiped out and the nation would be stronger under such a scheme nobody wants to feel that they accept charity and because of this many people are struggling along at advanced flge on their own when they should have more of the necessities of life canadian plowmen abroad by w l- clark president ontario plowmens association this is the third of a series of in fact than the man who when weekly stones which will clark asked bow his potatoes grew said president of the ontario plowmens well there are some as big as association will write about the marbles and some as big as peas- visit of canadas champion plow- 1 and of course a lot of little uns men to the british isles workington now that the empire plowing match is over i would like to tell you something about the contest itself the big news is that john capton the saiada silver medalist came second in the general purpose horse plow ing match we are all very proud of john he is the idol of the people here and wherever we go he is the centre of attraction during the contest which was held at stainburn hall farm workington crowds followed canon croft then compared the present period in england with the year 1s0s when the workington agricultural society came into be ing then as today there was a shortage of food the population had increased from 7000000 to 11000000 and england had to improve her agriculture or starve british farmers met the chal lenge in 1s0s they can do it again said the canon he concluded his talk with a tribute to the canadian people touching briefly on the part they him up and down the field the i piaved m the boer war world war officials offered to hold them back but john said no it didnt bother him afterwards the school child ren vied with one another to get his autograph alf brunton russ hare and glen mcfaddin also plowed excep tionally well if judged by canadian rules we might have had two or three firsts but the british have their own plowing methods that differ from ours this is not meant to be an excuse we realized all along that british standards and equipment would be different and everything considered the boys did very well they took hold of strange equipment the plowmen i here still favour the high cut plow for match work although they use very little of it on their farms and tried to adjust it to canadian techniques they did not attempt to copy the british methods since that would have been impossible in such a short time empire plowing match the day of the match dawned blustery and unpromising light rain fell at intervals but fortunately not enough to cause any serious inconvenience last year as you will remember plowing matches in england and ireland had to be called off due to the unusually severe weather some 50 contestants took part in the workington match and in spite of the weather a large crowd of spectators gathered the scene was much the same as one of our best branch matches the tractors i and world war ii and emphasiz ing the contributions they are making in agriculture in the post war period russell hare moved a vote of thanks to the agricultural society he expressed the sentiments of all of us when he spoke of the pride felt by himself and the other plow men at being the first representa tives of canada to compete in plow ing matches in britain and out- appreciation of the warm welcome received on every hand musical entertainment was pro vided during the evening and our own alf brunton sang amidst great applause to quote from the cum berland evening star alf created a furore with apple blossom wed ding you will probably be interested to know that the plowing match in addition to being filmed by news- reel cameras and made the subject of a broadcast commentary was also televised the boys were featured in a broadcast for the north american radio and will be featured again in a ten minute pro gram which will be transmitted during farmers half hour in the north of england and north of ireland home service on sunday feb 15th exhibition of sheep herding relaxing after the strain of yesterdays contest we were taken today on one of the most enjoyable excursions of our entire tour so far a motor bus trip through the lake district on helvellyn moun- smoked cottage rolls lb smoked boneless picnic hams lb regular smoked hams lb smoked picnic hams lb breakfast bacon lb peameal bacon lb smoked back bacon lb bacon squares 42 slices 36 in the piece pickle rolls lb pure pork sausage lb loin pork chops lb fresh hams lb fresh shoulders pork lb 62c 53c 57c 47c 63c 70c 73c 50c 35c 50c 45c 37c oboyles meat market stouffville we deliver phone 3501 slightly outnumbered the horses tain we watched a splendid exhibi the land was of a gravelly nature tion of sheep herding by border but in good shape to plow as far as moisture was concerned all the events were well contested and in most of them the winners were from the northern counties in england john came second in his class to a chap from carlisle after the match we were guests of the workington agricultural society at a dinner held in our honour we heard a number of interesting speeches including an address by canon croft on the history of the workington agri cultural society prefacing his remarks an anecdote the canon who is a vicepresident of the society told us that his experi ments in tilling the soil had not been too successful little more so collies the dogs are directed by their masters whistle each by a note of its own the intelligence and skill of the clogs in rounding up the sheep is truly remarkable tomorrow we leave for scotland where our first stop will be edin burgh the itinerary planned for us includes st cutherberts coopera tive association farm at bonning- ton the perth aberdeen angus cattle sale glasgow and loch lomond joseph michaud 46yearsold slipped into his snowshoes and covered a trek of 336 miles from quebec to ottawa in 15 days to attend a snowshoe meet cherrywood mr and mrs murray hollinger and son had dinner on sunday with mr and mrs walter hollinger a number of friends from here were entertained to a euchre and lunch at mr and mrs henry michells at markham on wednes day last and all reported a real ood time mr and mrs george todd had dinner on sunday with mr and mrs wm hollinger little miss louise davidson spent a few days with her grand parents mr and mrs russell davidson jim mclean spent sunday with his sister who resides in toronto mr and mrs wes petty and miss margaret purdon were toronto visitors on sunday afternoon miss doris hollinger is spending a three week vacation with her parents mr and mrs w f holl inger worlds day of prayer was well attended on friday afternoon with locust hill and zion church ladies joining with us mrs leonard gates was our special speaker and mrs austin reesor of cedar grove soloist glad to know that mr william sinclair is able to be back to work after being home a week sick miss purdon entertained the school children to a valentine party on friday afternoon mr and mrs leonard hollinger spent sunday with relatives in tor onto on sunday 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