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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1933-01-12, Page 3THE EXETER T1MES-ADVOCATE THURSDAY, JANUARY, 1^, 1033 McTAVISH STERN DOCTOR FRIEND TO STAFFA FOLK SALAM tea "Fresh from the Gardens" Joseph Gatenby, who for the past. 19 years lias served the town Mitchell on the police force, has tired from active service. oi i re- I George . Thornton, Brussels, was given suspended sentence' on condi­ tion he refrain from driving an au- j tomobile for five years when he ap-' peared in police court Stratford charged with criminal negligence. H. Kalbfleisch, of Detroit holidays with her aged the h-ome of Mr. and Mrs 40TH ANNIVERSARY Mr. and Mrs. Adam Thiel, larton, recently celebrated 40th anniversary when more 100 guests w-ere present. Ful- th e-ir than THIS ’N THAT Down to His Own Scale “G-ood heavens, George — how much longer are you going to be finishing that chicken-house?” “Patience, dear! Rome wasn’t built in dear! a day!” with her the wed- Halfway Little mother ding of through her mother tears usual whispered, you crying, wedding.”—Unidentified .Sympathy Betty was sitting in church during her elder sister. the ceremony sne noticed shedding the materna1 at such occasions, and wonderingly, “Why are Mummy? It’s- not Braved Storms and Uncertain Roads To Reach Patients At AH Hour/s Of Day and Night. Remuneration Often in Potatoes Harns by Martha Slhillie Staffa was an isolated, sleepy little hamlet that was fighting its valiant way through indigestion and rheumatis/n ana measles with the help of castor oil and mustard when its first doctor arrived with $70 in his confidence t-ook the settlement ZURICH Miss Melvin Schade, of London is spending a few weeks at her home on the Blue Water Highway Mr. and Mrs. Theo. Wagner, oi Guelph, spent the holidays with the former’s parents Mr. and Mrs. W. C Wagner. Mrs. C. spent the mother at R. F. Stade. Miss Phoebe Gelinas, of London spent the holidays with her parents on the Goshen Line. Mr and Mrs. Ed. Daters Sr., and children Clarence and Anna were recent visitors with relatives in Kit­ chener. Mr. and Mrs. Wesley Surerus, of Detroit, were holiday visitors with friends and relatives here. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Fowlie and Mr. Laurie Fowlie, of holiday visitors at Lie and Mrs. E. Koehler. Mr. Victor Deichert Line was rushed to the pital recently to be operated on for appendicitis. Mr. Casper Walper was also taken to London hospital for treatment suffering from appendi­ citis. London, -were home of Mr. of the Blind London Hos- HURON MAKE BACON LITTER COMPETITION COUNTY FARMERS EXCELLENT RECORD IN wrapped in his tattered blanket, his hand gripped in a friendly -vhite man’s palm, palm. The doctor never spared himself For half a century he came and went through heat and cold and storm. He died too soon. In spite of the bags and potatoes ^nd fat pumpkins and cheese and jelly and love laid at his door, he died—went out while the sun was shining. fixed up and in becl and was stand­ ing in the kitchen door drinking a cup of tea. The doctor seldom sat down, on these occasions. He deliv­ ered his ultimatum standing, begin­ ning as he went out of the door and flinging back a word with one foot in the gig. When the doctor was young he had ambitions and a voice, but his mother had set her heart on a less spectacular career for him, one in which there was no flowers. But Staffa was not the loser for that. The touch of his hand sung to every square inch of it some time or an­ other in the dust and heat of ex­ istence. I don’t know about the ambitions but he had the voice still. Some­ times, with old Nell picking her way through the dark along a rutty back­ road, the doctor would he heard crooning1—oh, just a long ago old song set fo heavenly music, singing it in a golden undertone to the night and the listening trees. The doctor was a long-suffering man, but there was once that he was tried and found wanting, patient was the doctor, EXCESS FAT RUINING HER HEALTH Better after losing 14 Jbs. There are a number of bodily ail­ ments that are apt to arise in over­ weight men and women, and if ex­ cess fat is reduced in the right way very often improved health follows —as it did with this woman: — “I used to have a great deal of fat that seemed to nearly stop me breathing, especially when I knelt down to do my housework, or was walking up a hill. I would simply have to fight for my breath for about 20 minutes. But now that has all gone, thanks to Kruschen. I have lost 14 lbs. in weight, and am able to get about in comfort. I can work all day and not feel tired. I feel so much better, and am so pleased to have lost some of the fat that was surviving husband! steadily gaining ground with me and Loan ill ■ V11 111i n rr mV wnftrnl health ” /Mlael NOTE—The subject of the above sketch was the father of John Mc­ Tavish, dry good merchant, of Sea­ forth, and of Dr. Newton McTavish, of the civil service, Ottawa. AGED LADY Die,-? pocket, and youth a-nd that goes with it, and straggling backwoods under his wing. He wasn’t driven with work except when epidemics came along. In those far back days no one was sup­ posed to die young on account o’ goodness. If a man dropped before he was 80 his relatives it as a personal affront. People were huskier in the of strain and stress. Its the and anvil that puts the power the blacksmith’s arm and it the rack and the thumb-screw __ ____ _ made the old martyrs tighten' to diet and But now and again, to find the set there was a Roman holi- | day. He gave his foot such a stamp , _ i the It! room vibrated and a crock of yeast 1 ' j slid from its place and rolled along 11 he floor. It was a time-worn floor which age had made elastic. And there was the day that the i doctor, on his way to set Aleck j Walker’s broken arm, came upon a j big elm fallen across the road. I was three miles around and snow was level with the fences, was the only time the ever heard to swear, everything in creation world and back again. Willie, on his way to with a load of pigs, drew up at the other side of the tree at the iden-1 j tical moment and listened in ad-1 miring silence and when the oration ' was ended, turned and wen-t his way with his vocabulary braced for life. ! A band of roving Indians, ekeing out a meagre existence by hunting- and trapping, camped for a while | in a patch of brush on the out- i skirts of the town. The doctor would I have befriended them, but they were . leen Pridham) died at the home of I wary of his advances till the day he, her parents, Mr. an« Mrs. Alfred , dug a half-frozen Indian hunter out Pridham, of Fullarton, a few miles | of a snowbank and- rubbed him back south -of Mitchell , to life. Thereafter the Indians Her husband, Rev. Daniel Baillie, is i looked upon the doctor as a very pastor of the Baptist -Church the | great magician, whose hands could ig the dim trial that paradise. And it came to be that now a-nd ..... „„ x___ them a spent ’Jibway warrior went and Mrs. Alfred Pridham, and one his way to the happy hunting ground sister, Miss Reta Pridham. off took mer into was that their belts. .. _ „ ............. some person did die, and even under ] orders the doctor’s care people continue tc ; hearsay, die. ‘ ‘ The age of Methuselahs was past i that every movable object in when Staffa was in its bloom. F' ” ' ' ' was a big field for there was only a sprinkling of medical men in the bush country 60 years ago. A quack- penetrated here and there. It was the day of quacks and ready-made veterinary surgeons. But Staffa was too isolated for even a quack to take it in hand. So the straggling, little hamlet received the new doctor graciously and gave him all the work it could muster up. And if you throw love and gratitude into the scales and sacks of potatoes and hams of meat and pumpkins and turnips and a goose for Christmas, niay>be they paid him the best they could, too It was in these little, straggling pioneer places that a doctor saw the rough edges and turned down cor­ ners of life. Mrs, John Foster was called awray by death on New Year’s Day. Her maiden name was Margaret Mittle- holtz, who farmed for many years, in Hay Township, years raige Mrs. time. oumuug me live suns, aJ uis Foster, of Kitchener; Alphonse,| There are six vital mineral salts fl^'of Hensall; Albert and Fred of the hi Kruschen. These Salts combat the * West; Alex Fester, of Zurich; two/muse of fat by assisting the inter- ; daughters Mrs. S. Dieterich and Mrs., nal organs to perform their func- r—t-o throw off each John! day those waste products and poi­ sons which, if allowed to accumu­ late, will be converted by the body’s chemistry into faty tissue. Unlike ordinary aperients, Kruschen. does not confine its action to a single part of the system. Its tonic effects ex­ tend to every organ, gland, nerve and vein. About fifty-five] ago she was united in mar-j with her : Foster had been ill for some! ruining my general health.” (Miss) Surviving are five sons, Lo- A. K.An old very near death and, after leaving orders r- * so on, came next day old man worse and the ‘ aside. According ------ —- - ---- --•J. Battler, of the Babylon Line, Hay tions properly- Two brothers Andrew and Jch" +1inoQ Mittleholtz, of Kitchener and also three sisters survive. Interment took place in St. Boniface R. C. cemetery, conducted by Rev. Father L. Powers. SIXTY-FIFTH ANNIVERSARYi It j the - I wedding anniversary at the home oc or was; Qf tlieir daughter Mrs. H. H. Irvine He cursed )n Toronto around the g2ll(i Turnpike' the market. g00(I I their were! parsonage Mitchell by Rev. William - R. Dyre. Of a family of thirteen ithree daughters and three sons are living. | Mr. and Mrs. James Bell, of Mit­ chell, recently celebrated their 65th, THOMAS J. McLAREN Mr. Bell is in his year and Mrs, Bell is her 82nd Both are , enjoying fairly heatlh haviiig retained all facilities. Mr. and Mrs. Bell married in the old Methodist The death occurred last week of Thomas J. McLaren at his home in Mitchell. He was in his 7'3rd year. He leaves besides his wife, four daughters and two sons. RELATIVES SHARE W. PEDLAR ESTATE .Son. daughter and grandson share the estate of the late William B Pedlar, Parkhill, gentleman, whe died on November 25' last. Under the terms of the will, filed in sur­ rogate court for probate, Mr. Pedlar leaves $20,013.72 in personal pro­ perty. The estate is made up of securities, mortgages, promissory notes and cash. A grandson, Ronald Victor Ped­ lar, Parhill, receives $1,000 as a legacy, wlijle the remainder is div­ ided equally between Arthur Samuel Pedlar, son, Parkhill, and a daugh­ ter, Mrs. Alice May Parker, also of Parkhill. Each will receive $9,506.- The Fifth Series Bacon Litter competition is now completed, com­ prising a prizte list of fifty-eight farmers who again provided evid- I ence that there are Ontario farmers [ who need take second place to none the ; in bacon hog production. | Mr. Frank E. Johnston of Dublin i Huron County had the second high­ est score in the Province and also j won first honours in District No. 3 comprising the Counties of Welling­ ton, Grey, Bruce and Huron. For the past three years this District has • been won by Russell T. Bolton of j Dublin and although beaten by I three points he again demonstrated * his hog feeding ability by .winning second and fourth places, with twe litters entered. Mr. Johnston had a litter of 14 pigs marketed at 17-5 days weighing 2,89 6 pounds and j grading ten selects, 3 bacons and 1 I butcher. It is interesting to note . in this connection that the dam of the litter fed by Mr. Johnston was prehased from Mr. Russell Bolton. Probably the outstanding feature of this- year’s competition was the consistent records made by previous competitors. In the list of 58 prizes winners a total of 21 had won one or more prizes in previous compe­ titions. To illustrate this point the following is a summary of the re­ cords established by Mr. Bolton: Period, 1930 Spring Series, rating 1st prize; number of pigs, 15; num­ ber of selects 11; weight 3,010 age 174 days. Period, prize ,14, Period, 10, 2,450, Period., prize, 11, Period, prize, 11, Totals, ber of selects 49; weight 12,981 lb? age 835 days. Average pigs marketed -per litter 12.6; Percentage of selects for five litters 77.7; Average feeding peri-od 167 days; average weight 20)6 lbs. Of the fourteen prizes in District No. 3, 11 are residents of Huron Co Third prize was won by Wellington County, seventh prize by Grey Co and the ninth prize by Bruce Co The Huron Co. prize winners are as follows: 1st, Frank E- Johnston, Dublin; 2nd, Russel T. Bolton, Dublin; 3rd, Russell T. Bolton, Dublin; 5th A. C Turnbull, Brussels; 6 th, George Pryce, Seaforth; ; Walton; 10 th, C. Londesboro; 11th, sail; 12th, David l-3ith, Percy Stone, M. Dolg, Kippen. your To AU Appearances It was Billie’s first trip to country. Outside the farmhouse he i saw the farmer’s wife plucking a fowl for next day’s dinner. “I, say ma’am,” he said, “do you undress ’em every night?”—Pear­ son’s. Bookkeeper—-What is the boss’s college son so swelled up about. Stenographen—A life insurance doctor just examined him and found him O.K.” “What of that?” “Well, you see, it’s the only ex­ amination he ever passed.” Children have their own peculiar way of expressing themselves. “Well, Peggy,” “and how do you erness?” Peggy thought said the neighbor, like your new gov- for a moment and then said; "I half like her and I half don’t like her, but I think I half don’t like her the most.” “Dad, how can guns kick, when they have no legs?” asked Bertie. “Don’t ask such absurd questions!” said his father. “Guns Haven’t any legs, have- they, dad?” “Certainly not!” “Well, then, what’s the of their having breeches?” lbs.; use the“Thank you very much,” said clergyman as little Tommy handed in his offering for the harvest tival. “I must call round this ternoon. and thank your mother these eight beautiful apples.” “P-p-lease, sir,” stammered Tom­ my, “would you th-than,k h-her for tw-tw-twelve.” fes- af- for “Plaise, sorr,” said an Irishman to a farmer going to market one day “would yez be so obligin’ as to me coat to town wid yez?” “Yes,” said the farmer, “’but would you get it again?” “Shure, that would be aisy,” Pat, “for I’d remain inside of take how Young Hopeful—'Father, what is a traitor in politics? Veteran Politician—A traitor is a man who leaves our party and goes to the other side. Young Hopeful-—Well, then, what is a man who leaves his party and comes over to yours? Veteran Politician—A convert, my 1st1931 Spring Series, 10, 2,910, 160. Fall Series, 1st prize, 163. 1932 Spring Series, 10, 2,352, 173. 1932 .Spring Series, 8, 2,259, 165. number of pigs. 63; num- 12 2nd 4th Brussels; 8th Earl Habkir.k. H. Cartwright A. E. Neil, Hen- Easom, Clinton; Exeter; 14th, W. and Dizzy Spells Neil Crawford, Hamilton, Ont., writes:— My nerves were in such bad condition I found it almost impossible to get a good night’s sleep. I was also bothered with headaches and dizzy spells. I tried many different remedies, but they did not seem to give me much relief, but after I liad taken Milburn’s Heart and Nerve Pills I could hardly believe the change they had made in my condition.” ror sale at all drug and general stores; put up only by The T» Milbum Co,r Limited, Toronto, Ont. Country Doctor’s Life A country doctor’s life wasn’t al1 a song 60 years ago, and when ithe whole community contrived to put itself out of gear at the same mo­ ment a broken leg here, a fever there, croup and measles and chick­ en pox on the rampage—life .was mere existence. When a call came out of f .___ night the doctor would fight his way I guide them alone into his clothes, light the lantern leads to the Red Mairs and go out into the storm and the old ny. in.g the feel dark. She was a wise old beast and knew when there was urgency, leisure moments, with the half asleep in the gig, amble slowly along, stopping and then to niblble at a bitt of grass by the roadside, but when the battle was on, she would go with face set and head benit, running like a tim­ ber wolf. Two cronies, comparing notes on a street, corner, would hear a thud of hoofs and look around to see the doctor’s gig whirl by in a cloud of dust. “That’s McTavish!” one would ex­ claim. “The auld mare’s daen her best the day. There’ll be a fecht on an’ the beast kens.” “It’ll be Hillside. They’ve taken the up road,” The other would affirm storing into the’ distance, ‘Old Ne'lll’ no let Hillside go without a struggle an’ him no come to his years. She’ll no let Sandy slip awa’ in his seven­ ties.” Certainly a doctor’s life wasn’t a song. There was respite in the sum­ mers when the frogs were singing and the fireflies dancing above the pussy willows. But when the snow was wait high and a storm raging and the .drifts so high that he had to take to the fields with the in his face, the grace notes paintakingly crossed out. horse hearing him, would whin- Sometimes a gust of wind com around the corner would blow light out and the doctor would for old Nell’s strappings in the She helped all she could she In doctor she -would now Charge Moderate DIED IN FULLARTON Mrs. (Rev.) Daniel Baillie (Ei- ., on January 3rd. tor East and West Nissouri. Besides her husband, she is survived by an in­ fant son, nine months old. She is also survived by her parents, Mr sleet were mo el­The doctor’s charges were erate and there were times when he forgot to make a charge at all. Pa­ tent medicines weren’t on the mar­ ket then and Chase’s Recipe was the pioneer’s chart pass. The doctor made his cines and ointments. It the day of sugar-coated and Book com- medi- before ■ The doctor finished his in the raw and any luckless Individual who had them thrust upon them still remem­ bers the taste. The doctor’s equipment wasn’t ex­ tensive, but it brought results. Old- timers still remember the day Jim­ my Forsythe got his arm caught in the threshing mill. Word was car­ ried to the doctor and in five min­ utes old Nell was pounding down the road her feet a mile away- there she stood and her tor was is he?” seconds on the threshing floor and was at work. in half an hour he had him own was pills. They heard the sound of ■a minute and splashed with foam distended. ‘The doc- off his coat “Where he said, and in two him oil a blanket nostrils flinging was all he had When the Dominion of Canada was established in 1867, the Bank of Montreal, then already half a century old, had nearly a fourth of the total paid-up banking capital of Quebec and Ontario, and more than a fourth of the banking assets of those two provinces. Today it has the same proportion of the capital and assets of the banking structure of the entire Dominion. Established 1817 TOTAL ASSETS IN EXCESS OF 4 7 5 0 , 0 0 0,0 0 0 Exeter Branch: T. S. WOODS, Manager ■nswrr QjMaintaining' Jjjyig'Establislied Position Today, as yesterday, it employs its resources and facili­ ties for the upbuilding of the soundest elements of Canadian business.