a MIDLAND • PENETANGUISHENE Vol. LXII No. 42—First Section MIDLAND, ONT., WED. OCTOBER 20, 1943 ' 5c PER COPY POPULAR MIDLAND LAD MAKES One Man Killed MIDLAND-BARRIE KIWANIANS SUPREME SACRIFICE OCTOBER 5 6 Hurt in Orillia GIVE FARMERS AN EYEFULL WAS WITH 48th HIGHLANDERS Boat Explosion AT SUNNIDALE PLOW MATCH Another Midland boy. on the Honor Roll for King and ORILLIA—A' gasoline explosion By J. H. CRANSTON last Wednesday evening in the en­ Country, has been killed. He is Sgt. Joseph William (Joe) gine room of the Fairmile warship SUNNIDA.LE—The major event scheduled for the annual Lapp, eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. William Lapp, 9 Horrell recently launched at the Hunter plowing match of the Centre and West Simcoe Plowmen s As­ Avenue, Midland. He was killed in action in Italy on October Boats shipbuilding plant wrecked sociation failed to come off as scheduled. 5. The flag on Midland s Town Hall flew at half mast over the stern of the vessel, resulted in Barrie Kiwanis Club fielded” a team of five plowmen, all the death of Stanley Peacock, and the week-end in honor of the fallen soldier. in serious injuries to five other of them former farmers, but the Midland Kiwanis Club could Joe was thirty-two years of age. (store on Roncesvalles Ave. for workmen. The explosion was felt not produce more than three, and only one of them had had Born in Midland in 1911, he gt- some time, then went to Mactier.all over town, It is believed to farming expeience. The Barrie Club plowed a full piece of tended school at Regent and Mid- ..whece kivsv ***-he alsouiov worked••Vi 1Uin a JIVICstore have been caused by gas fumes land, and made,a good job of it, while the three Midlanders land High School. He was fond j He enlisted in the army at To- arising from the escape of gaso­ who undertook to give an exhibition of their skill did a round of sports and did some amateur ironto on September 13, 1939. and line The gasoline in the tank did boxing. He attended St. Paul’s spent his training period at To­ not explode. • apiece and were mighty glad when it was over. United Church, and sang in the ronto. At Christmas of the same Stanley Peacock was the 16 year ; The judges -consequently could 'parachute handy I s’id down the choir for several years. year he .went overseas with the old son of Harry Peacock, who con­ make no award, and the four handles till 1 reached terra firma. An employee of the A. & P. 48th Highlanders. He completed ducts a shoe repair shop on West plump roasting chickens which had The “Land Horse” Laughed store in Midland in the meat de­ [his training in England, and was street. been set up as prizes for the event I have heard about horses laugh­ partment. and assisting as a but­ [oneone oiof inethe orBritish usn anaand vanaaianCanadian The slx men injurcd were Ern- were auctioned off at the evening ing but I never had actually seen cher at the Midland Market when soldiers at Dunkirk when that port est justm no burns, but a com-____ , banquet by Charlie Sproule and one till just then, The "land’’ it was held in the old Craighead 'was evacuated before the pursuing pound fracture of the right teg atj brought $3 each. The $12 was do­ horse, which really was a “land building. Joe became very well Germans. ^Sgt.^Lapp met his bro* ankie and a fracture of the nated by President G. W. Middle­ imare,” looked back at me, snif- ton to the British War Victims known in the town. His winning iher Pte. Lloyd Lapp in England 1 right fibula; Norman Johnston, Ted, and then began to paw the air personality made many sincere and they spent a happy leave to- i first degree burns of the face, Fund. Those of us who upheld the ' with her left front foot in hilarious honor of Midland did so at great friends, and everyone speaks high­ gether, then Joe was moved to Sic­ hands and j forearms; Howard fashion. Now I do not mind be­ ly of the young soldier. Ever since ily. He came through the Sicilian Brohm. first and second degree cost and the money might well ing laughed at by human beings, have been donated to us as plow he was a small child when the last campaign without a scratch and his blirns of the face and hands; Har­ but when a horse undertakes to Great War was being. fought, he last letter from there told of how old Ariss, first and second degree victims. laugh at me it is almore more than played ^t soldiering, his mother well and healthy he was,, ^ifd how burns of the hands and legs and Archie McArthur was all dress­ I can take. However the “sea said, and was never happier than he had escaped even a scrrattch. The lacerations; Reginald Bradley, first ed up in his Sunday best, and be­ horse"—I suppose the other one when he was shouldering a make- letter was written on A'Vugust 31, and second degree burns of the fore he had gone twenty yards the must be the “sea horse”, since he.; believe gun, and marching with an and was received by His parents face and hands; and Russell Heigh- cuffs in his neatly pressed pre­ walks in the furrow or the hollow imaginary army. As soon as war in September. 'ton. burns and lacerations about war trousers were carrying about of the wave—was much more con- ’. was declared he joined up with the | Surviving Sgt. Lapp are his wife, the face, injury to left eye, frac­ two pounds each of 'Sunnidale ____________sjderate. He __________did not laugh at all, 48th Highlanders, a regiment that his parents, his two children, Al- ture of the right arm ,and contus­ soil, while the creases were show- being better manneredI than his he had always admired. “He was a len 5 and Joanne 4; three broth­ ions in various parts ol the body. ing signs of disappearing. But la(jy frjend. good boy and a good soldier," is ers, Walter in Toronto, Lieut. Am- : when he completed the round puf- The. men injured had been work-| - -- - i After lugging the plow back a the tribute paid by many who knew old Lapp overseas with a Canadian ing on the boat finishing the.elec’- ‘hE j?? ««?*»• him. - Tank Division, and Pte. Lloyd Archie just shook himself and his* this time with better luck for about In 1936, Joe went to Toronto, Lapp with the Queen’s Own Cam- trical installations. A crew of sea­ trousers and the creases went back men were uptown, having arrived fifty yards. Then all of a sudden where he married Elizabeth Hurst, eron Highlanders in Italy; and two into place. the darned phow took a notion to He was employee! at a Loblaw’s sisters, Doris and Helen at home. to take the boat away. None of them were aboard. Young Pea­ Ready for Emergencies fly and came up into the air. Once more with the aid of Archie, Dave cock was employed as an electrrc- Dave Haig had come prepared [ians’ helper. [and Roy, I hauled it back in the for emergencies. Dressed in tbe [furrow. Again all three helped me COMPLETION TRENT WATERWAY A large hole was blown in the comfortable old clothes and sweat­ 'side of the ship near the stern, and get that team started. A few min- . er that he uses when .he goes utes later we hit the tough end of BACKED BY MIDLAND C. OF C. the deck over the engine room shooting ducks he made a remark­ blown off. But the injury was all the field. Everyone had been com­ ably fine showing, particularly as I plaining about it. The soil chahg- - SKI JUMP TO BE DISMANTLED ■ above the water line, and the ship ne had to follow me around and 'did not sink. ed from soft loam to stiff clay,-and puzzle out the general direction he there were stones aplenty. Paving the Midland - Orillia coming Victory Loan Campaign should go after looking dt my highway, completion of the Trent This committee is composed of twisted furrows. He did so well Had Me on the Run waterway, the Midland-Penetang Mayor O. H. Smith, V. G. Edwards. I rather suspect Dav? has done I had always thought that plow airport, the formation of a post­ H. J. Thompson, George Ross, J. COMING EVENTS some secret plowing somewhere. horses were slow movers up till. • war reconstruction committee, and H Cranston, and C. H. Bushnell. Notices under this heading 10c I then. I learned differently. The the pulling down of the ski jump ! H. J. Kettle was appointed as a per line. Minimum charge 50c. When my turn came I jumped eagerly to the plow handles but I tougher the going got the faster were on the agenda of the first fall member of the Merchants Com- those "dashed critters wanted to meeting of Midland’s Chamber of | mittee to fill tbe vacancy created soon discovered that all I had learned last year down on Joe Mar­ travel. Soon they had me on the Commerce held on Thursday. by the transfer from Midland of j On Thursday. October 28 from run trying to keep up with them, Leslie Gandy. 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the basement tin's farm near Elmval? had been Those in attendance were Presi­ largely forgotten.