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^â- ^HMBI^Mi^ mvm Wednesday, February 19, 1947 THE FLESHERTON ADVANCE THE Flesherton Advance i*ubli&he.i on CoUinr vood ii, Flt:£iiertan, V ndneadky of MCk week. Circulat'on ctmt ',1(W. Pric« in Canada $2.00 per year, ^rhen paid in adTrv-^ $1-M); to U. S. A. 92£0 per yaar, wbM i^aid in advance t2.0a F. J. THURSTON. Editor PRICEVILLE THE LATE BEN CARRLTHRRS The Y.P.S. met Fiiifty night at the home of Grant Sayers. The presi- dent read the scripture and Shirley Hincks led in prayer, while Mr. Simi had charge of the meeting and gave toteresting readings. A spelling natch was also enjoyed. Mr. Gordon Nichol of lH>ndon is Visiting at his hame. Mrs. D. A. Mclntyre of Mclntyre kpent a few days visiting at the borne of her brother, J. A. Nichol, ^n(^ sister, Mr». D. L. MoArthur, snd mother. Laat Wednesday night a euchre party was held at the home of Lizzie ifather, when nine tables were in play. Miss Margaret Nichol held the highest score for the ladies and iffr. Ken Nichol for the men, both receiving prizes. Mr. Cecil Fawcett had the phone Installed in hi.s home Thursday. Mr. and Mrs. DioTc Carson and N.- IdciKenzie spent the week end with friends at 9winton Park. « Mrs. Wm. Brown and J. A. of Bun- •Esan visited on Sunday at the home «f A. L. Hincks. Mr. and Mrs. Bill Hill and Sandy «f Fergus visited Sunday at the borne of Latif;hie McKinnon. Mrs. Belle McLean, who has been visit- ing with theim, returned home. Dr. and Mirs. Burnet of Durham â- Visited on Sunday with her mother, Mirs. A. B. McArthur. Mt. lEJmersoii Meads of Toronto spent the week end at his home. (Intended for Last Week) Mrs. Aldcorn returned home aftei yisiting friends in Toronto. Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Nichol and Barold vinted recently with the former's sistoi- at Mclntyre. The W. I. held a quilting at the bome of Miss Lizzie Mather. Mrs. McMurdo of Guelph is visit- ing her sister, Mrs. Wm. Meads. The Y.P.S. of St. Columba Church ' •ras held Friday night at the par- sonage. The W. 1. was held last Thursday •t the home of Mrs. Boice, with l-l ladies present. (By Eugenia Reporter) The funeral of the late James Benjamin Carruthcrs was held from i the Richards Funeral Home, Flesh- | erton, on Wednesday afternoon of I last week, Feb. 12th. Service was liL-ld in Eugenia United Church, â-  where a large number of friends and relatives gathered to pay their last respects to the deceased. Rev. A- G. Macpherson preached a very comforting and impressive sermon. The choir rendered "Face to Face." Other hymns sung were "Safe in the Arms of Jesus" and "Jesus, Sav- iour, Pilot Me." The late Mr. Carrutheis, who was in his 78th year, was a son off the late Mr. and Mrs. Robert CarrutTi- ers, who lived hijlf way between Kinnberley and E)ugenia, on the fanm now owned by Mr. Robt. Ward. He fifarmed for several years with his brother, the late AJex. Carruthers, after which he went West and worked at farming there for a num- ber of years. Later he returned and assisted his brother again, and after his death moved to Eugenia, He had not been enjoying good health dur- nig the past year or soi After his operation in Markd'ale hospital in August, he came home in November with high hope of recovery, but dur- ing the latter part oif January he gradually failed in health, growing weaker until his passing early Mon- day morning, Feb. 10. He was un- married and was Pre^yteri-an in religion, later attendin(g the United Chunch. He often balked of remin- iscense.s of by-gone days, which were very interesting. He will be greatly missed in the vicinity, where he was a willing worker and helper, as well as a good neighbor and friend. He leaves in berea.vement two half ibrothers, Joseph of E<limonton and Thomas of Clyde, Alta., also sev- eral nieces and nephews. His niece. Miss Muriel Carruthers, stayed with him after he returned to his home from the hospital. Predeceasing him were thi-ee sisters, Isabelle, .Annie and Mary, and one hix>ther, Ale.xander. The pallbearers were: Messrs A. F. Pedlar, C Martin, D. Genoe, J. Campbell, C. Turner and D. Willi;! ins Among the beautlfuJ boral tokens .Among the beautiful floral tokens neighbors and friends. The remains were taken to the Flesherton Cemetery Chapel to await burial in the family plot at Thornbury in the Spring. â- ftjiay- jibMit^tM-^ ANADIAN PLOWMEN (E<litor'sNote: This is the first of a series of weekly stories which Clark Young, treasurer of the Or- tario Plowmen's Association, will write about the visit of Canada's champion plowmen to Britain, and we hope that it will be of intei-est to the fanmers in this agrricultural territory.) Canada's four champion plowmen, their team manager, and I are on our way to Britain. It will be the first time any of us have seen the Old Land and' we hope to bring back a lot of valuable agricultural infor- mation. Our trip will take us into England, Scotland and Ireland, giving us a chance to see farms that have been undei- .oulljivation fo*- hundreds of years. We want to know how Can- adian products are being received over there; how the British farmers managed during the war; and what the farming conditions are like now that peace is back again. The four champion plowmen ai'e two teams and they will take part in plowing matches in Lancashire, England, and County Down in Nonth- ern Ireland. Floyd Steckley and Aus- tin Nairn won the Salada gold and silver medals in the Trans-Atlantic Class for horse-drawn jointer plow It always makes you feel better Jtist to think of all those people who think they would be perfectly satis- ified if only they were in your shoes. We extend our sympathy to the l)ereaved members of the family. Pleasant and happy, always content, Loved and respected wherever ' he went, Thoughtful of others, gentle and kind, What a beautiful memory he left befhind. Things you will be Looking For WATER BOWLS $i.S^ WATER PUMPS $13.75 UP FORCE PUMPS $2.} BRASiS BODY CYLINDERS $1175 OIL BATH PUMP JACKS Wagner ELECTRIC MOTORS JOHNSON'S AIR-COOLED GAS ENGINES HORSE BLANKETS â€" Duck $5.75, Jute $3.95 Wheelbarrow, large Jsize Ferrier Knives Horse Rasps Good assortment of JACK KNIVES Galo SAP PAILS SKIS â€" .Maple $5.60 and up ' SKI HARNESS $2.15 and up BAMBOO POLES $2.95 per set , The Ideal Place to Get Bush Supplies * SimondH and Maple Leaf Cro.sscut Saws SpHtUng Wedges Black Prince. Samson and Wellandvale Axes Saw Wedges Files: various makes Baby Chicks and Brooders We are Agents for SKILING FARMS HATCHERY and GILMORE POULTRY FARM Phone us your Chick Order; reverse the charges COAL BROODERS â€" New and Uted WARNER ELECTRIC BROODER â€" One of the best on the market ' 500-Egg Capacity for $42.50 For me Ladies' Attention ELECTRIC and COLEMAN GAS IRONS TOASTERS Cozette Electric Heaters Stromberg Carlson Radios Sunahine Bsby Carriages Lawn Mower Clothes Pins GAiLL AND SEE OUR ASSORTMiEiNT J. M. STAFFORD Hanlware RooSng Cement Feed Farm Machiaery Pkont 4 r 22 FtEVBRSHAM. ONT. International winner. He was bon on his father's farm in Markhan township, York County, in 1S07, an( now owns a 116-acre fai-m at R.R. 4 in IVbiteolnircli towiMlUp. JU Ukm an active part in municipal affairs and is a member of Whitechuixh township council and trustee and secretary of Whitechurch School Sec- tion No. 9, and belongs to the Stouffe- ville Lions' Club. His wife is the former Dorothy Hood, and they have two sons and a daughter. The two silver medalists Wth are bachelors, and both farm the proper- ties on which were born, in 1911. Austin Nairn, who was second in the Salada event, lives at RR. 1, Munro, in Fullerton township, Perth County. Alex. Black, second in the E«so class, farms at R.R. 2, Guelph. Alex, who is often called Sandy, was re-elected president of the Wellington County Plowmen's Association for 1947. His father, who taught him to plow, was councillor and then reeve of Puslinch township. THE MANAGER Our trip manager, George Waldie, lives at R.R. 2, Downie township, Perth county, two miles from Strat- ford, on "Athelsitane Farm" where he was born 48 years ago. His fath- ing at the International Plowing | er. a hardware merchant, started a Match held in Ontario on the Port Shorthoni herd in 1804 and later be- Albert ainport 'ast October. Fred '^^^^ president of both the Dominion Timber.s and AicX. Black were winn- ers in the Esso Open Tractor Class at the Match. As champions they were awarded this trip and all their expenses and those of the manager are being paid jointly by Imperial Oil Limited and the Salada Tea Co. of Canada, Ltd., while mine are being paid by the Ontario Plowmen's Association. George Waldie is managing the teams. He's a director of the On- tario Plowmen's .Association which sponsors the Intei-natioiial Matches. I'm going along as another repre- sentative of the O.P.A. of which I'm treasurer, and I have been asked to write articles as we travel. MATCHES IN ONTARIO Plowing matches have been beld by Ontario farmers for over a cent- ury and the International Matches have been sponsored by the Associa- tion since 1913. A trip like this ac- ross the Atlantic was planned for winners of hoi-se plowing in 1939, but was cancelled because of the out break of war and the men visited the United States instead. In 1942 it was decided to suspend the Inter- national Matches until the end of the war because pf travel restric- tions. The Victory Match at Port Albert brought the competitions back again and they were bigger and better than ever. Plowmen normally "wet their feet" at township and county matches and when they have acquired sufficient skill and confidence they enter the big International events. There they met representatives from practically every county in Ontario as well as those from the other provinces and from the United States. Let me tell you a little more about the men who are making the trip. We're all from Ontario and you might ««y we're old friends because we've been meeting each other at various plowing matches for a good many years now. THE WINNERS When Floyd iSteckley won the Sal- ada gold medal at Port .Albert it was his (fourth International championship 'in hois^-cfrawn plotwing. He was born 44 years ago on a farm in Whitechurch to<Aniship, York County, and now is .manager of the Harvey Schell 210-acrB farm near Stouffe- ville- He specializes in mixetl farm- ing. iHis wife is the former Lila Grove and they have a 10-year-oki son. IPred Timber.s, the Esso Tractoi gold medalist, is another frequent Shorthorn Breeders' Association and of the Cattle Breeders' Association. George still is carrying on the herd and is a director of the Ontario Plow- men's Association, belongs to the Board of Managers and Session of Kno.x Preslbyterian Church, Strat- foi'd, and Tecumseh Masonic Lod'ge. His wife is the former Ethel Stacey and they have a son and a daughter. -As for me, well' I'm treasurer of the Plowmen's Association and 1 farm 200 acres in Markham town- shij) near Unionville, York county. The property was settled by my jrrandparents in 1841 and I was born there 04 years ago. We had the firs.t light tractor in York county, acquired in 191'5. My first plowing competi- tion, with horses, was in 1911, but 1 used the tractor in 1920 and was suc- cessful in some later championship matches. My good wife is the form- er Jean Grant of We.xford. That tells quite a bit about us, and you'll understand there was a lot of excitement on our farms as we pack- ed and got ready to start the trip. We all met one morning jn Toronto and our new experiences began al- most at once for the two teams did some radio broadcasting. Fred and Austin went on the air from radio station CPBB where they were inter- viewed by Rex Frost on the farm news broadcast; and Floyd and Alex were interviewed iby Don Fairbairn, pinch-hitting for Jack iMcPher^on, over CBL of the Canadian Broadcast- ing Corporation. Two of the boys had broadcast before on the Hot Stove League and so they didn't have "mike fright" although they were all glad when it was over. THE TRIP STARTS We had lunch at the Granite Club as guests of Imperial Oil and Salada Tea. There were a few short speech- es of farewell and we received the gootl wishes of J. A. Corroll of the Department of Agriculture, who is general-secretary of the Ontario Plowmen's Association, Gordon Mc- Oavin, presinent of the Association, Mclntyre Hood, supervisor of pubh city, Dept. of Agriculture, R. K. By- thell of the Salada Tea Co., and A. G. DeMont and C. A. Robinson of Imperial Oil. In the afternoon all the necessary papers were signed, baggage tagged, and tickets and passports distribu- ted. We all received travellers' cheques payaible in poainds, shillings and pence; some of us had picture>' taken at a studio; we had a quick dinner; and then it was time to say good-bye to our wives and families 3 Things the Cornish Brief Demonstrates to Premier Drew The Brief submitted to the Royal Commission on Education by the Inter-Church Committee on Protestant-Roman Catholic Relations was largely the work of Prof. Geo. A. Cornish, BA., the Ebcecutive Secretary of the Committee. It is usually re- frrreed to as the "Cornish Brief." The most outstanding feature of the Brief is its exposure of the extent to which the Roman Catholic Separate School system has suipiplanted the Pulblic School isystem in Northern Ontario. 1. The ROSS Appeasement Policy of 1902 Was Bad The Cornish Brief shows that the Betrayal of the Public School in New Ontario started in 1900, when the dying Ross Government passed iSection 2l of the Seiparate School Act, ing the first school in unorganized and unsoirveyed town- ships to be a Separate iSchool instead of a Public School. Ross was a party-firsit Premier and Minister of Education. 2. The FERGUSON Appeasement Policy of 1927 Was Worse The Cornish Brief shows that this Boss Bod for Roman Catholic votes was out-bid by the Ferguson Government in 1927, when the then Premiier and Minister of Education, G. Howard Ferguson, nullified Regulation 17, "for say five years," and enabled these illegal "Separate" schools to be turned into French-speaiking schools. The Brief shows that French-speak- ing classrooms increased from 362 in 1827 to 88(2 in 1928, to 984 in 1930, to 1,074 in 1981 and reachecd 1,471 by 1944! What a monument to the Ferguson Government's treachery! (It had been elected on a paltform of abolishing French Schools.) 3. The Present DREW Appeasement Policy is the Worst of All The worst blow to the Public iSchool system was still to come. In 1943 the CjCJF. offered to pay from 5 percent to 70 percent of the cost of these and all other Separate Schools out of pulblic funds. Mr. Drew out-bid them by offering to pay 50 percent. Mr. Hepburn in 1945 raised the (bid to 90 percent, and Premier Drew then went "up to 95 percent." These three party-first, vote-catching Premiers and Minis- ters of Education have sacrificed the Public Schol in New On- tario and many other parts of the province. The Cornish Brief demonstrates clearly that the Department of Ekiucation should never be in the hands of a Party Leader. The resoalt has always been a "sell-out' of the Public Schools and a new "grab" of public money for Roman Catholic Separate Schools. We Will Gladly Send You Plans of How to Help Combat the Betrayal of Ontario's Public Schools â€" Write â€" The Public School Supporters' League 140 KINGSTON RD., TORONTO 8 -r < .1 at the station. We boarded the train and the trip had began- Our first stop will be a brief orie in New York, where we are to boaro the Queen KlizaOaeth. We're all look- ing forward to our crossing and to visiting London, the King's farm at Windsor, then Yorkshire, Edinburgh, Lancashire, and Belfast. By the time you read thi.i we'll be over there, see- ing as much as it is possible for us lo see in six weeks. STEPHEN'S CORNERS We are very sorry to report that Mr. Roy Fenwicik is a patient in the Markdale hospital, where he expects to undergo an operation soon. We wish him a quick recovery. We are also son-y to report little Patsy Fisher not well at time of writing. We hope that she will be feeling better soon. Mr. and Mts. Frank Hammill and Bryan of Toronto spent a few days recently with Mr. and M'l-s. Ray Pedlar. Mr. George Fenwick of CoUing- uood spent the week end at his home iiere and, accompanied by Robert and Hazel, visited their father in Mankdale hospital. A nuniiber from -hei-e attended the • card party at the home of Wm. Seeley at Maxr^vell Friday night. RAINBOW SOLDIERS Place, near Chateau Thierry; time September, 1918; present, a Canad- ian soldier and myself, both fed up. Myselfâ€" When do you think the war will end? The Canadianâ€" When the Rainbow Soldiers arrive, I guess. "Who are they?" "Why, the Yanks, of course." "But why call them, "Railbowe?" "Well," replied the Canadian, "doesn't the rainbow always arrive after the storm?" Anon (ex-privaite 8th Bn., The Buffs), Roehampton, in London Sketch. Too Much For Bossie Giving birth to her seventh pair of twins was too much for a Durham cow belonging to Mr. Orville Cann of Osborn Township. In February, 1945, thii cow established some notoriety in press and radio by giving birth to her sixth pair of twins, a record that was unbeaten as far a's we were able to learn. On Sunday, December 29th, the seventh paid of twins were born, but owing to it's age the ani- mal has since died. Altogether she gave birth to 19 calves. Another pair Of twins was born on the farm three weeks previously. â€" Exeter Times-Advocate. ^ If you kee(r> yosr eye on events today â€" you'H probably turn diztj. You never know what you can do until you try â€" and then maybe you shoaidn't. Fred 'liiuban Floyd StMUcgr. *