TWO NEW POSITIONS.
It happeneid, so. the ;Btory is told,* iri one of the Scotch : r . corigregations ol Western Ontario that the men had the habit of using. this smokeless tobacoo, which in certain quarters and with certain people is likely to be a joy forever. Accordingly, at the -annual meeting, it was, suggested thai; the congregation should be, furnished :with cub* pidores. Now, this, isv a comparatively new. word, and xwt found in the vocabulary of the average .Highlander. So one of the older members : of the. meeting, believing that the name designated a new and- necessary, office of the church, like. the. " manager*/. ," deacons" or ' 'f elders," x arose, and said: ' ' Maister Chairman, A wiIJL move that Dougal Cameron air* • Laughlan M'Tavish be the cuspidorea of the congregation." ' '
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 8315, 13 May 1905, Page 3
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