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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1929-08-15, Page 71 I THE EXETER TIMES-ADVOCATE THURSDAY, AWW J5th, ’IMHf' OBITUARY John Bechler Passes (Zurich Herald) There passed away at his’ home at .JBlake, on Friday, August 2nd, John Bechler, .a highly respected citizen of the community, and also a life­ long resident, having been born in Hay Township, being a son of th© late Mr. Christian Beqhler, of the ■ Goshen Line, south of Zurich, De­ ceased was aged 74 years and 4 months and about four months ago ,was seized with a paralytic stroke • Ifrom which effects he never recov- «ered, ,and the end came only to re­ lieve his sufferings, For about 50 . years Mr. Bechler was a resident of Blake and community, and leaves a large number of warm friends. Be­ sides - doing considerable farming, Mr, Bechler was also engaged in pump making, at which trade he was hard to equal. He was a man of „ great physical strength in his prime. Besides his widow he is survived by the following grown up family: Christ, and Jos; Bechler, of Stanley Township; Edmund Bechler, of Illo- uois; Mrs. Bergey, of Ill.; Mrs. Ben Bergey, of Indianna; Mrs. John Gas­ cho, of Emily City, Mich.; one bro­ ther, Mr. Menno Bechler, of Zurich ...and nineteen grandchildren survive. The remains were laid to rest in the ••-Goshen Line cemetery on Sunday . afternoon, Rev. Crespman, of Kit­ chener, of the Mennonite church, as­ sisted Vice. Rev. C. Schrang in the. ser- Bate Christian Stade (Zurich Herald) reaper of death claimed an-The other of the outstanding elderly men -of the community,. )yh©n/Mr. Christ- ■ fan Stade, of Dashwood,-was .called ta, his eternal reward on Monday, Au­ gust 5th, aged 74 years, 7 months -.and 24 days. The deceased had been in ailing health for a number - of years, but regardless of this was very active and kept going as best he could, till his great life of ambi­ tion and exactness was called away. Mr. Stade was a man of true hon- .esty, and his, word was as.(good, as . gold in all hie dealings and activities . -and consequently he had large num­ ber of friends who will greatly miss . him, he was a worthy and highly es­ teemed Director of the Hay Town­ ship Farmers’ Mutual Fire Insur- i ance Company for some twenty-three . years, and only for ill health would still be an active member of this board. Besides his sorrowing widow ' he is survived by: Wm. Stade, of Dashwood; Rudolph Stade of Zur­ ich; M'rs. J. Eidt, of New Hamburg; Mrs. Herman Eidt, of Ingersoll; al­ so one sister, Mrs. Peter Kraft, of Dashwood. . Deceased was born at Preston and came to the Dashwood v district over 50 years ago, about 16. years ago moving from the farm to the village. The funeral was held -on Thursday to the Bronson Line Lutheran cemetery. The elevator bins at Goderich are rising rapidly and are over half their weight. An aftermath of harvest—those trucks laden with a high grade of fall wheat.******** Farmers who stook-threshed this year are in luck. The weather proved suitable and the yield was satisfactory. ******** Just when croakers were sure that the poultry business was being overdone, word comes of an egg-scarcity in Toronto. ******** Is public opinion losing its teeth? -What about those shame­ less performers of one sort and another who make our public breath­ ing places., hideous in their indecency? 1 oi’ a woman when shorn of modesty. A to find himself in the company cof some should not become the vulgar* season. ****** There is little left of a man decent walrus would blush humans. The silly season ** * ' That wonder of patience, the British taxpayer, is getting a bit tired of the everlasting side-stepping and duty-dodging of those who are' said to meet to settle the war debt situation. John Bull knows when the other fellow insists all the time upon playing the g.ame of “heads I win, tails you loose.” He has gone and he will con- ■ tinue to go .the limit in all that makes for a just and lasting peace. At the’, same time anyone who. twists the lion’s tail beyond a cer­ tain degree of tightness may as well be prepared for trouble. ******** All signs are pointing to considerable unemployment”‘this win­ ter in our towns and cities. Labor complained of certain kinds of work as hard and degrading. Such wonk is now done-by machin­ ery, witness the digging of post holes, roadmaking and -gravel-haul­ ing. Rigid economy and the keen picking up of such jobs as they can do is the only course for keeping an open space between the wolf and scores of .dpors. Everyone who can. lick a spoon should .b©( making’.good during these .shining,.hours. Hunger and Febru­ ary are an. ill-mated pair. « * * * * That five days a^eek system: pounds all right.. ,O'f course it sounds! ForYhe other two “days folkSjAvill’not live, there will be no expenses . All right to people w like that sort of noise. But is it not a fact that the days of th^week when men do not work' are the costliest days of all the seyen? It’s not the hours between seven and six that make the big/hole in the pay cheque^but tlie hours between seven p.m. and d§pr knows when that runaway with the dollars. Further the rub i/not with the folk coifing into this- country. The Shoe pinches born when they are askted tq? fingers. Folk will need to t$ke such jobs as ith far too many the Canadian bend their back^For harden their y can get. Winter’s coming and some .folk now/spending dime^fand quarters for tom bread. Well^ineaningfoolery will be hungry !fo] District News the has the About fifty members of the Clat- worthy family held a picnic at Springbank recently. Mr, Herbert Baking, formerly of Southampton, England, has been ap­ pointed the new manager’ of Windsor Hotel in St. Marys and Commenced his duties, A happy event took place at home of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Hardy Colborne Tp., the occasion being the marraige of their eldest daughter, Annie Hilda, to Mr. Graham A. In­ gles, of Goderich. On Civic Holiday afternoon bunch of forty pigeons belonging Montreal fanciers were released the baseball diamond at the Agri­ cultural Grounds, Goderich. On Wednesday several had arrived in Montreal. Mr. N. B, Flarity, ho whas been the very obliging and courteous C. P. R. agent at Goderich for the' past three years has been transferred tp the port staff at the dock in Quebec City, Mr. J. Beatty, of Wingham, is taking his place. Mrs. Wm. Searle passed away at the home of Mrs. Rapson where she has made her home for the past three years. Mrs, Searle,, whose maiden name was Mary Ann Lee, was born in London, but has lived in Clinton for many years. She is survived by four sisters and one brother. While, shoeing a team of horses owned bJ-' Amby . Rea$y recently, Frank. Klein,T well-known black­ smith of St Marys was painfully in­ jured when one of the animals rear­ ed up and brought its fore foot down on Mr. Klein’s unprotected knee, splitting Mr. Klein’s knee’ cap. will be laid up for some time. A pretty wedding took place in St. Joseph’s Church, Clinton, when Mary Cecilia, only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John McIntosh became the bride of John W. Sorel, of Ft. Wil­ liam. The happy cuple left on ' a motor trip to Montreal, Quebec and up the return Saguenay River and on their will reside in Fort William. and remodelled organ was observ­ ed at St. George’s Church, Goderich, on Sunday last. Under the new ar­ rangements the great organ no long­ er stands out in the body of the church hut the organ is divided, part beng on each side of the console has been chancel also, where closer to his choir. real, Upon their return Mr, a»<t Mrs. Coates will reside in Havelock^ Ont, th© chancel and moved into the the organist is A quiet wedding took place in the Chapel, .st. Columbia United church, Toronto, in the presence of immed­ iate relatives, when Margaret Mae, daughter of Mr, and Mrs. William H. Maunders, of Brusselsy became bride of Mr. George Franklin Coates son of Mrs, and the late Mr. A. E. Coates, of Seaforth, After the cere­ mony a dainty Incheon was served at the Royal York; Hotel, The brid­ al couple left on a motor trip to New York, Washington D.C. and Mont- Mrs. ;S. Jameson, of Toronto, died in Wingham Hosptal from injuries? suffered in an accident near Tees* water in which her sister, Miss Mar* garet O’Callaghan, of Whitechurch* I was instantly killed. A double fuhr I eral was held from the home of their parents, Mr. and Mrs. P, O’Callag­ han. The ters were purred on road. The in a icoupe driven by Dick O'Malley, of Detroit, who escaped injury, order to avoid a collison with an­ other car, O’Malley swerved his ma­ chine into • the ditch, The ear crashed into a telephone pole snapp­ ing it off and then crashed through a fence. crash in hich the sis- both fatally injured oc­ tb e Wingham-Teeswatey sisters were passengers; iii a to at for the new, Endurance* John Taylor ON THE Sensati#! of 19 Frankly; we can’t quite lbw so much tire It is a wonderful tire made of the right stuff —and plenty, of it—and b’acked by Dominion Rubber Company, A keen buyer will get his money’s worth in “ En durance.” Blue Water Highway Assoc-The iaton which met in Owen Sound re­ cently, proposed to link up with State Highways number 1 and 34, forming a continuous route to Mia­ mi, Florida. The bject being to ad­ vertise the route and induce traf­ fic south in the winter and north­ ward in thb’ sumihdi'r" "The’ pl ah" is- to issue 100,000 maps or pieces of literature about the route. people should wearing bath- •WHA T ’ENTRANCE eople nowkeep a list of these wasters. 'Scores o ing suits would look better in overall *‘. * ome in and find out all about it girl to attendthat permits a boy or iat® Institute marks something like a Parent and child on that occasion The official opening of the rebuilt EXETER. Passing the examinfitio a High School, or a C crisis in a young .person’s life, naturally asks “What next?” When possible the pupil should spend two years at a good High School or Collegiate Institute. Better still the student should at­ tend such a school -till the Matriculation Examination has been pass­ ed. We said a “good” High School or Collegiate Institute by de-> sign for there are such schools where ambition is not kindled, where the spirit is not ligted up, but where bad habits of mind are , inculcated and the young person is degraded into general soft-fin- ’ gered good-for-nothingness. Never more than now there is a demand for soundly educated citizenry. For -men and women who can and who will think and Calculate and work scientifically a thousand doors are ready to open. But such men and women must not bear the stamp of med­ iocrity in thought or in labor. ful tel Six De Luxe Sedan IT AGAINST Agent for I ALLISON, BROCK >por^mans ew& COACHE SEDAN ■e Wheels) $970 $1125. .ESSER shorn • OLIVE RVl AR HibboB. F Residents of Goderich were sad- .'.dened by the news of the’unexpect- . ed death of John Alexander Forden. Although he had been in poor health for several months, hope was held for his recovery until he took ja sudden turn for the worse near tire last. He was born in Goderich 37 • years ago and with the exception of ,-a .few years'spent in Kitchener he . had spent all ' his life in Goderich, He is survived by his widow, his par- ents, one brother and three. sisters. Bad Headaches Al! Run Down Could Not Sleep Mrs. J. G. Ellaschuk, Calder, Sask., ' -writes:—“I was all run down in. health. I could not eat, had awful bad headaches, :-.and could not sleep at night. “I tried many different medicines, but —did not get any relief. “I was advised to take ;-snnd after having taken four bottles rm (headaches do not bother me at all. . -certainly have great faith in B.B.B.” Maniifactured’Only by The T. Milbum ■Co.. Ltd., Toronto. Ont. JOH > USBORNIfl & FIRE INSl Head Offi .President 'Vice-Pres. D .ANGUS SINC NO HIBBERT MUTUAL ANpE COMPANT . Farquhar, Ont. SIMON DOW RANK <McCONNELL {ECTORS IR, J. T. RIS, WM. GENTS , Centralia, and Biddulph IS, Munro, Agent* Jo f lartoii and Logan TURNBULL •y-Treasurer xetfer, Ontario STANBUR They must show evidences of care­ training' and of accurate .accomplishment. For many a day to'’come-Canada will have little use for the handed, lounge lizard class. The commonwealth calls loudly youth who are the masters of the elements of sound learning lily for and who are willing to learn the elements of business, of a trade or of agriculture. Only the specially gifted—and this class iS rare—should even dream of entering upon the professions. Dis­ appointment in middle life lies that way fo#any but those with outstanding gifts and iron determination $Td untiring diligence. Jpreen forests fensure an even !’ flow of clear run­ ning water; burned timber means muddy torrents in flood time and stag­ nant pools in dry weather. The good sports- •man, in his own interest, is care­ ful with fire‘in the woods. Issued by Authority of Honourable r Charlei Stewart, Minister of the Interior. WHIPPET FO $930, Co rumble se Sedan $102 Sedan $1070 Sport Roa-dLi De Luxe De Luxe Coupe$750Jx>upc (with rumble seai£$19O, Sedan Roadsters (with rumble 2 5, Touringseat) $675- wrif/o. l>, fartory,. yFER BEFORE has an inexpensive been distinguished by such stylish lines, rich colors and arris- ' tic^Enish as are now winning sweeping cess for the new Whippet Six De e Sedan. he new larger body of the De Luxe Sedan was designed by a creator of custom-built cars. Its beauty is a triumph of modern design. Its spacious interior < a revelation of restful riding. Exceptionally wide doors on all models afford easy entrance and exit. The broad, deeply cushioned seats have form-fitting backs, so that passengets enjoy restful, relaxed positions at all times. Vital engineering advantages—and Whippet is the only low-priced car that has them all-— include full force-feed lubrication, silent riming chain, big four- wheel brakes, invar-strut pistons, "Finger- Tip Control” and in the Six, a heavy < fully drilled seven-beating crankshaft. Whippet’s dependable performance, and low consumption of gasoline and oil, make it a decidedly economical car ra operate.