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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1927-06-09, Page 34 fjWKWDAY, JUNE Oth, 1027 Carmote White Enameled Woodwork Carmote White High Gloss Enamel goea on rawly-— gives woodwork and furniture a smooth, lustrous surface as white as swansdown—yet tough and wear-resistant. If soiled, a damp cl°th will restore its radient whiteness. Also made in ivory, and ip eggshell finish if desired. CARMOTE White Enamel *Vc/< Carftftttr-iforfin Coinpwfi fit slots, Mas/. THE EXETPt TIMES-ADVOCATg Dr. H, K. Hyndmao, of Exeter^ (MlftS MARGARET STRANG) The foWowiHg RIRT wasWestern University WJW Hclinol awgrdM tlv*t prbto by the popular veto of the audience. * fM ever/fhut the (doctor seldom tail ed to remind them of the time they almost drowned his Airedale in skim milk. Bonthron & Drysdale, Exeter Assets and liabilities 30th April, 1927 I1 11,835,400.79 $784,112,774.02 * ♦ <t a -4- r * II 1? a • rf♦ 43,466,398.50 656,578,714.64 11,835,400.7^ io,398,X33-87 $733,068,547.80 LIABILITIES TO PUBLIC Notes in circulation . « Deposits ..*••• Letters of ctodit outstanding Other liabilities • « . Total Liabilities to Public VARNISHES,ENAMELS L FINISHES J Hensail, Ont W. J. Henman Exeter, Ont. ■^iW'£ Brantford Asphalt Slab Slated are four in one strip—requiring only one operation in handling and (Spacing. (You save 30 to 50 per cent, in laying—and have a roof . of permanent^charm and distinc tion. Made in four fadeless colors. Braatforil ftcofing Cg» Limited, Braatferd, .Qatari^ ROOFS Stock Carried, Information Furnished and Service on Brantford Roofing rendered by _ Rosa-Taylor Co., Ltd dice, Montreal BANK OF MONTREAL Established '1817 ASSETS Cash on hand .•••••••$ 87,464,766.30 Deposits with and notes and cheques-.of other Banks 49,380,374.38 Deposit with Central Gold Reserve .19,000,000.00 Call and Short loans on Bonds, Deben tures and Stocks ......149,696,373.31 Dominion-and Provincial Government Securities .........' 90,007,661.84 Canadian Municipal Securities and British, Foreign and Colonial Public Securities other than Canadian . .38,605,880.60 Railway and. other Bonds, Debentures and Stocks.......................................3,935,431.19 333,496,996.71 11,800,000.00 Quick Assets * « $427,990,376.52 Loans and Discounts and^ other Assets Bank Premises........................... Liabilities of customers under letters of credit (as per contra) . . * Total Assets ♦ Excess of Assets over Liabilities to Public $ 62,044,226.22 ........... — ~ ‘ i'-iMiHjiif When the real history of these Southern Counties of the Dominion is written, it will be reihete with the names of famous pioneers. Not the least among those names will be the doctors, pioneers in their own pro fession, courageous, virile men, who waited upon birth and death and used the greatest of their Wit and skill in the long score between, Perhaps of all those who know the history of any community, the doctor knows the most—and tells the least, He shares intimately in public affairs and in the checkered careers of many families. He must live greatly and give generously, for the demands upon him are never- ending. Such men as these were the doctors John and Hugh Hyndman, who, singly and in partnership, in the spring of 1926 had completed seventy-five years of medical service in one community. The story of their professional lives belongs to the history of Exeter and surround ing district. London a Frontier Town Seventy-five years ago, London was a frontier town and the centre of supplies for many an outlying settlement. One of the many trails that radiated from the town, crossed the north branch of the Thames River and led out into the bush, to end at Goderich and the mouth of the Maitland, Along its southern way were several well-known stop ping places—Lucan, Sauble Hill (the' old road-bed and ford over the Little Sauble are still visible), Flannigan’s Corners, now Clandeboye and Devon two miles south of the present town of Exeter. Along this main trail and along many a back concession and sideroad, pioneers were helving homes out of the bush, logging the heavy timber, sowing among the stumps and reaping their harvests with scythe and cradle. An occasional wolf prowled in the miles of uncleared bush and took its animal toll of the settlers’ livestock. But the settlers feared more certain wolves in human shape. On the Roman Line of Biddulph Township, southeast of Devon, a family named Donnelly made themselves notorious. They kept to the bush and no man dared raise his hand or word against them, for they struck wherever their whims or their revenge led them,— a burnt out stable here, a shot in the dark there. Puts Shingle Out at Devon Hotel Down that early trail from Gode rich in the year 1.851, came Dr. John’ Hyndman, newly graduated from Toronto Medical College. He, was the descendant of an old Scottish family, but was born in Old London. He served as apprentice to Dr. Gil more of Three Rivers, Quebec, and now, at the age of twenty-one, set out to- establish a practice of his own. He came to swell the popula tion of little Devon, and add his shingle to the sign of the Black Horge, Devon’s one hotel, proprietor, Mr. Joseph Quick. The new doctoi’ had no opposition, for he was the first of his profession to settle in the district. Before , his coming, when accidents occurred among the settlers, they replaced the broken bones or bandaged the wounds as best they could. When illness came upon'-them they had three things on which to rely, their own sturdy con stitutions, their neighbors, and such homely remedies as were available. To quote one old lady who had her own pain to bear in those early years, “they just either died or got better, accordin’ as they could.” Over main roads and back roads, good in spots and unspeakable tn. others, or through the bush, the doc tor walked or rode horseback. He carried his satchel and a revolver, the satchel for the relief of I1.3 patients anil the revolver for the edi fication of the Donnellys. Many a bitter but potent dose of medicine came out of that satchel, and many a time the shining instruments that weighed it down flashed in daylight or by candlelight over rough deal tables, for the homes of his patients were his only operating theatres and in them he wrought with all the skill of which he was master. In time, the doctor’s sign and that of. the'Black Horse Inn, became more intimately linked, for the doctor married the innkeeper’s youngest daughter, Charlette. She was Can adian born and well schooled in pioneer ways. She and her mother, alone, and on foot, had more than once, made the thirty-mile trip to London for supplies or on business. She knew how to manage an econ omical household, had entertained, prominent guests in hei* father’s house, and withal she was a woman of wit and of grace. To this union were born, five sons and one daugh ter. Moved to Exeter Meanwhile, the village of Exeter took shape, in the wilderness two miles north of Devon, and there, the doctor moved his family and office. Hugh Kennedy Hyndman was born in Exeter in 1863, and spent an in teresting boyhood in the growing town, with unlimited scope for curi osity in his father’s office. In due time went to school, first to a priv ate school conducted by Mrs. Elston, where he learned a variety of things, among them the rare accomplish ment for a boy, of tatting. When he did not mind, the good lady thumped liis head heartily with her thimble — a treatment popularly known as “thimble pie,” Early Schooling From XlYs. Elston he passed- on to learn the three1 “R’s” in Exeter Public School, thence to Upper Can ada College in Toronto and to BishOi) Heilmuth’s School for boys in L011- Idon, Then Hugh Hyndman became I one of those early irrepressible students, registered at Western Uni versity Medical School, who perpet- rated wonderful and tearful jokes w the first school—a little brick cot-' tage at the corner of Hellmuth Ave, and St.' James Street, took gay rides in the hay*wagpn used at initiations and learned to love Dr. Waugh both as a teacher and a friend. Dr, Waugh wae and still is a famous character, He drove an old buggy and white horse was there on the second for his eight o’clock lectures, delivered his opening sentences as he came in through the door, and his closing ones as he went out, Hugh Hyndman took his degree in 1886t one of the third class t© graduate from the school, and re turned to Exeter to enter partner ship with his father, a partnership that was to last for thirteen years, Though now a doctor, he was still a boy at heart, and through all his busy life was never too busy for.a word to the little folks, or too en grossed in adults to be interested in young people. One of his first acts after returning was the administra tion of a shock to one of the com munity fathers. The doctor was ob served down on the sidewalk, en gaged in a hotly-contested game of marbles with a troop of small boys. And the stern old settler, to his dy ing day, never could reconcile marbles with the dignity that should sit upon a doctor of medicine. Long Drives Both father and son were great readers. They subscribed to the best current medical literature and gath ered on their shelves a fine library. If there was anything new in diag nosis, in medicine or in practical surgery, they were the newest in their wide and varied practice. There were long drives in summer over dusty roads and longer ones in winter through the snow. The drifts were often over the fences and they let the horse keep the road by instinct, for no mere man could tell where it ended and the fields began, and there was always the possibility of the patient being dead or pretty well recovered, before the doctor got there, for there were two trips to make, the messenger to the doctor and he, back to the patient. It was a hard life, fit 'for such men to live, men with a vision of glad and hearty service. Dr. John Hyndman died in 1899 and the son came into his inheri tance. Responsibility in the closiug of the estate and subsequent care of the immediate family was laid upou the doctor and his charges bear ness to his thoughtfulness. Builds Telephone Line When the telephone came general use, the doctor was quick to see its possibilities in a rural community. But nobody in the dis trict knew anything about tele phones,—who was going to build the- lines and keep them in shape? He would do it himself—and he did, the j.xjuuinaii Telephone Line has been an institution Tft the district for twenty years and if has ramifica tions over many miles of adjacent townships. He ordered the holes and equipment to be shipped in, hired men .to do the work, financed the -building, set his own rental rates, arranged an exchange with the Bell Telephone Company and Jus brother kept the books in his own office. The doctor was not witho kt a proper sense of pride in his new telephone line. Some of the first poles were not exactly straight, aid one, in particular, had an alarming twist about its lower Lumbar region. A small boy driving to town with his father one day, remarked that “he bet his dog, Rover, could climb that pole on two legs.” The father re lated the speech to the doctor with much relish, and they both laughed appreciatively but shortly thereafter the pole was replaced by a perfect speciman of linear measure. That telephone line saved time and lives, but still the doctor had his long drives to make. Good horses were not always available when he wanted them, so he brljd and raised his own. Lean, rangy, spirited animals, they were, with an endurance that equalled their mast er’s. He kept a stable of five hors es, yet so wide was his practice, that there were times when, he didn’t have a fresh horse in his stable with which to answer a countrj' call. Storm Stayed for Three Days O11 one occasion, called out town during a winter blizzard, was storm-staid for three days. The roads were so bad, that he fought his way into Centralia on foot and took the first train, a freight,, back, to Exeter. His horse and cutter were brought: home as soon as the roads were passable. Horses were not the doctor’s only pet animals, he also bred Airedale dogs. One of these was the. special pal of a favor ite horse. When that horse went out, the dog went, too, and through snow, rain, wind or darkness, it kept the road and the lead a few rods ahead. Many a night when neither doctor nor horse were sure where the road was, they followed the dog. who by some unerring instinct kept to the trail. Humor lurked in the doctor's eye and around the corners of his month he dearly loved a joke. He was called to a farmhouse one night, just at dark. The dog, lean and rangy, sat at the stable door where his pal was munching a good, supper. Three or four youngsters were doing the farm .chores, they thought the tlog looked empty and proceeded to fill him up on about six more. But he tended state by boys refrained blow up. Then ; "Great Scott! is the matter with^that dog? ' between" and empty milk-pail and ’ certain guiltydooking small boys and girts^-and how he did laugh! The dog recovered. .They saw is sev- oral days later, as lean, and empty Adds Equipment Dr, Hyndman was a keen diag nostician, but cautious in ids treat* wonts. if the case looked like am putation, he delayed as long as there was the slightest hope of saving the injured member, and many a hand, foot, arm and leg stayed on because he was in no haste to take it off. New treatments and new equipment came into general use and the doc tor’s library and * " ‘ accordingly, for them all, though managed to read knew. When he ... diagnosis but not far enough with out the X-ray he installed a small high-frequency machine, and em ployed an office nurse to run it. With this Piece of first-class equip ment, he did not only his own work, but also a great deal for the local dentists. Opens Private Hospital During the same year, he opened the rooms above his office as a pri vate hospital. That was the year of the first Influenza epidemic and the new hospital, small as it was proved an inestimable boon to stricken community. So highly it .commended that even after A IUmilton woman etuck a fork in her hufiband. Probably meant it a hint to him that he was done, —Kitchener Record, ... Bmty contests M W tlwir .pojqilarJty, .At* cause' none pf the ml beauties entered them,—Chatham New*, <. •» equipment swelled he kept up with how and when he so widely, only he could go so far hi the rooms above his office as a pri- 1 That was the year ’ " ‘i and I1 i which would you rather doCHOP WOOD or O STRIKE A MATCH <■ It’s men like the Kaiser that chop wood for the fun •f it. Striking a match is so much easier! Kindling wood days are over for every man once he buys Lis wife a Perfection Oil Cook Stove. His biggest job in helping her to get the meal after that is to strike th^ match. „ . ’n ? « » ' At the touch of a match to the wick the cooking Begins. No sitting around, waiting for it to burn up. Meals are prepared m no time, and there’s no waste of fuel! Every good wife deserves a Perfection. New. models now showing — moderate prices $9.00 to $170 JOO. Distributed in Canada by the Sheet Metal Products Co. ™ McwnsAi. Toronto Vinnipm E»MoN’r<w VaFCOWBr Calcahtt ithe was — --- tll3epidemic passed, it was kept on as a permanent affair. Here the doc tor treated successfully some of his worst cases, and here too, came prominent surgeons Hom the cities to do major operations for those patients who preferred to remain near home. , However, medicine with ail its side-lines was not the doctor’s only interest. He found time to cultivate a garden that waszthe pride of the town. He was the first in the dis trict to grow the canna plant and the gladioli and before his death, fifty-seven named varieties ef gladi oli grew in his garden, and wdre features of ‘the local fair. He help ed to foster a Horticultural Society, first by growing flowers with mark ed success and second, by turning in his prize money to the society funds. He was Honorary President of Hie organization for many years. 'In 1923, the doctor married Miss Victoria Johnston, a graduate of Vic toria Hospital, London, who had served with him as office nurse for a number of years. Dr. ■ Coroner viser of Society, his son was also Medical in Exeter and surrounding district. During the ihfluenza epidemic of 1918, the ' doctor worked day and night till he fainted under the strain. He was put to bed with pneumonia—and stayed there one week. The only help he could get was a fourth-year Medical student and long before he was able, the doctor was back to work again. The heart-breaking labor told upon him, and in the next few years he devel oped Angina Pectoris. He knew what to expect, but kept quietly on, set all his affairs in. order, kept his knowledge to himself and died with out warning on March 6th, 1926, after a day among his patients. The day of his funeral was one of blustering March winds, with tne winter roads breaking up, but neither weather nor distance could keep the multitude of his friends and patients away. It was the least they could do to show their ap preciation of a good and great physician. So runs the scant tale of two men’s lives, that were full of Infinite de tail—one of many such tales for the general practitioner of small town, and countryside formed the founda tion of the medical profession in this country. Men such as these were and are great men all, and none the less great, nay even more so, be cause they chose the hard labor and the obscurity of a country practice, and for reward, the love and esteem of the working people. I wit- into 01 he i 0 Hyndman, j of Huron the Grand In both succeeded senior, was first County and Ad- I Trunk Provident of these offices him. Dr. Hugh Officer of Health SEAFORTH — James David, a highly esteemed resident of Seaforth dropped dead from heart failure Sat urday evening while mowing the lawn at the residence of his late brother, who died suddenly about a year ago. Mr. David, who conduct ed a blacksmith, business, had not enjoyed good health for some time, but was around as usual. 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