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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1934-09-20, Page 7THE EXETER TIMES-ADVOCATE THURSDAY, xSEl»TEMR®R 20, 1034 pHTJEldU^^ Relieved/ Mrs. Edward James’ baby had two teeth when Jess than three months old. She writes: “He has 18 now and I can truthfully say that giving him Baby’s Own Tab­ lets while cutting his teeth kept him fit and well”. Teething is a restless feverish time for babies but the little one can always be soothed and the fever reduced by giving sweet, safe Baby's Own Tablets. Very easy to take, no after effects. Price 25c everywhere. 50 YEARS AGO •McPherson-Braund—At the home of the bride’s father, on the 11th inst., by Rev. Mr, Pascoe, Mr. Alex Pherson to Miss M. A. Braund, all of Exeter. Misses Weekes and Whiteford re­ turned on Saturday from a visit in London, Strathroy and St. Thomas. Hon. John Carling, Postmaster- General and lady were in town last week visiting Isaac Carling Esq., a brother of the memorable gentleman Mr. A. Q. Bobier, of Centralia, has returned from the old country, whither he went to dispose of cattle. Dr. Browning’s mother of Mark­ ham and his sister Mrs, Yule, of Whitby, are visiting at the Doctors. Millie, daughter of Mr. W. H. Verity had a piece of .her finger taken off the other day by getting it caught in a clothes mangle. Captain Bailey .and wife have left Exeter to labor in isome other por­ tion of the moral vineyard. A trotting race took place on the gentlemen’s driving track on Tues­ day between horses owned by Messrs. John Hawkshaw and John Snell. Hawkshaw’is horse was the winner. A cricket team went from Exeter to Bayfield and played a friendly game of cricket with the club there yesterday. The score wa.s 64 to 102 in favor of Bayfield. The Methodist church at Elimville is being torn down and the material yill be used >in the erection of a churph on Mr. Godbolt’s farm, con. 10, Usborne. 25 YEARS AGO , Sept. 1G, 1909 Of the Exeter athletes who went to London to take part in the sports Monday were Loftus Hern, who got third in the half mile and mile races while in the half mile and mile re­ lay race, consisting of Melve South- cot.t, Herb Southcot:, Loftus Hern and Ed. Westcott got third. Mrs. Stephen Hicks returned on Tuesday from the Northwest where she visited during the summer. Mrs. D. Hackney, of Regina, who has been visiting resaxives here left , Wednesday morning for her home. .Mr, Reginald Case, who, has been stationed as operator on the G. T. R. at Kingscount Junction is visiting at his home here. Mr. Andy McConnell, of London, a former well-known business man of Exeter, spent several days in town last week shaking hands with old friends.) Mrs. Russell, who came here from Saginaw, to visit her sister Mrs. Charles Birney, was taken quite ill last week. 15 YEARS AGO Sept. 18, 1919 Mr. A. Moore has purchased the bakery and confectionery business of Mr. E. A. Follick. Mr..Follick has been a successful business man for thirty years and his retirement from business is to be regretted. The automobile shed of Mr. Rich. Hicks, of the 3rd concession of Us­ borne was totally destroyed by fire on Thursday night last, together with the buggy, cutter aud other articles. The fire is supposed to have originated from a hot box on the automobile. Howard, son of Mr. and Mrs. R. D. Hunter, of Usborne, while assist­ ing in working a grinder got his hand caught in the machine and severely crushed. The second finger was so injured '.that it had to be am­ putated close to the hand. Mr. James Weekes, who for many years, has been conducting a marble works here with his brother the la.te D. Weekes last week disposed of the business to Messrs. Walter Cunningham and Thos. Pryde. The show 'team belonging to Mr. John Decker Sr., of Hay Township, became unmanageable on Fair Day and broke away causing consider­ able damage. DIED IN TORONTO The death occurred in the Gener­ al Hospital, Toronto, of Margaret Robinson, wife of Frederick Spriggs after a short illness. Formerly Mar­ garet Robinson, she was born in McKillop township She leaves to mourn besides her husband two daughters and two sons, six sisters and one brother. blemishes. At druggists in regular and new large economy sixes. m TO END PAIN ...rub In Minard* Cheeks colds, taken in­ ternally. Ends skin EDITORIAL m—-...................................................——........ - a And now for the visit of the tax gatherer’* ♦ ***’•«** So far there is no threat of a 'potato famine.** ****** There’s no impudence like the impudence of wealth.******** So they have had a visit of snow and frost out west.*****,«*# These warm, showery days are just the thing for the meadows.^ ******** Paid agitators are rarely the friends of any but themselves. ******** Times are steadily picking up—'that is ,the hustlers find them that way. tAnd those early fall flowers, what a delight .to all who see them.****** ** Johnny these Saturdays has fine opportunity to vary Grammar and Geography with potato picking.******** Because a man is successful in 'business, it does not follow that he is dishonest.******** And how the showers and the warm days have helped out the garden sass and the good things generally.******** Those fires at .sea with the story of the inefficiency of the crews make very bad reading. Someone has been asleep.******** And oh, but the (pasture comes as a real godsend to the farm­ ers, The improvement in the condition of live stock during the last six weeks is beyond all telling.******** Here’s wishing the folk interested in getting up an Exeter band every success in .the world! Nothing like a good band to put life and mettle into the heels and into our spirits.******** CO-OPERATION A great many farm women are doing away fall apples. So is the farm small boy!******** It does one good to visit our Exeter stores these mornings and to note the piles of goods arranged for delivery to appreciative customers. iSay what you will Exeter is the best place in this pro­ vince to do general shopping. Try this statement out if you like, ******** If all .that big business men are saying about the committee appointed to look into their affairs, is true, .and if all that .this committee is saying about big business men is true, we are pretty sure that Canada has within her borders a great many mean folks.******** A LOCAL FRIEND The editors of .the Montreal Star and the Montreal Gazette re­ cently stated that rural and small-town communities1 had no agencies so valuable for their support and mainstay as the local newspaper. They expressed regret that many localities had not given undivided support to this potent organization for its well be­ ing and permitted papers to pass out of existence, afterwards' real­ izing that a grave mistake had indeed been made,******** Important changes are forecast in Ontario’s Educational Sys­ tem by public pronouncements of Hon. Dr. J. L. Simpson, Minister of Education. Dr. Simpson promises for instance to establish‘a course for students not intending to go to University. This is a step which was advised by educationalists' for some time. The minister has also announced that henceforh Middle and Upper School examinations will be finished by the end of June. This will put an end to complaints about late exams and will also ensure earlier publicaion of results, thus giving -students a better chance io make their plans before the opening of Normal School and col­ lege in the ^early fall. Hon. Dr. Simpson also proposes to ’ewer the cost of examinations.—St. Marys Journal-Argus******** The more we hear abou the refreshment rooms of the present day, the less we like them. Here, according to the Owen Sound Sun-Times is the way things are in that good town: “From every part of the province there comes strong, criticism of the new bev­ erage rooms. Temperance people have not been saying much, many of them just waiting to see what would take place. Much of the criticism comes from people who are moderate drinkers and who are astounded at the increasing drunkenness and the disorder which follows the beverage room wherever it appears. Owen Sounders who have had occasion to visit Toront’o, Windsor. London, and other cities lately invariably tell of conditions which are worse than those produced by the old discredited bar rooms under the license system.” The whole business cries to high heaven with repulsiveness. ******* * f THEY KNOW And now comes the pathetic appeal of the women and*children for those in authority not to furnish relief in cash, but in the form that insures them of getting food and clothing and fuel .and shelter. The women know that if cash is given that the men will spend it in wine or beer. The women and children know who benefits by the freer sale of intoxicants. Thy also know who suffer. The butcher and the baker .and the grocer can tell you about the unpaid bills since the n,ew liquor law has come into force and who are the women who conie actually begging for a little food or fuel or shelter. We recall in this connection the words of Hon. W. F. Nickle when the O.T.A was relegated to oblivion, “Ontario lias something to learn, Exper­ ience keeps a dear school but her lessons' are well taught."******** CALAMITY Unless all signs fail the Spy -and Baldwin apple crop will soon be a thing of the past. Inquire where one may he hears the wail, ‘^There’ll be no winter apples. The trees were killed by last win­ ter’s frost.” • Some times folk are sarcastic when they use that word “wail” but we are clothed .and in our right mind when we use it in this connection. We have come to regard the Spy and the Baldwin apple as. an institution,. The small boy has as much right to an apple in the winter time as a dog has to a b’one or as a. well-bred Scotchman has to oatmeal porridge. A farmer simply does not know how to exist of a winter without apple sauce and apple pies. All of us know that an nipple a day is the best thing in. the world for “the system." But there you are! The apple trees in many lo­ calities are dead. What, now, of the deep apple pie‘with its sugar and cream aud otiher delicious goodnesses’ The joy simply lias gone out of the old fashioned farm supper.******** SILO FILLING For really downright solid work we commend .silo filling. The old fashioned logging bee took no more out of its 'devotees- than does the loading of twelve-foot corn soaked in the thorough-going wetness of a September rain. When one is a master of the craft of corn loading he picks- up the sheaf of com by the binding cord, places his free hand deftly under the sheaf, grunts and land® the sheaf in place with an ease and grace that wins the applause or ex­ cites the envy of others less fortunate, To accomplish this feat one needs to have the strength of a Samson and the heaving power of a steam shovel. When one 'does not possess these gifts there is nothing for it but draw the soggy bundle up towards one’s person wetting oneself wi.th a chilling misery that is second to nothing but the bath indulged in by an Arctic seal. In any case the loader Is sure of an aching back and of one .thing more, of a appetite that caused Paddy MacGraw to remark the other day “The way them fellows ate makes me think of cloddin’ turf ata blind windy.” We notice that dad sends the hired man or one of the boys to attend the details of the silo filling. Fortunately, this year silo filling is an unusually heavy job, as the corn Is doing its very best to make up for hay and straw shortage. Further, to see those farm lads dolled up in their Sunday best would lead one to think 'that they never had seen oorn sheaf or that they had never done a hard day’s work in their 'lives. When at a party they are as light of foot as a gazelle and as tireless as eagles. . We’ll put our Ontario lads against any youth that ever existed in any land or at any time, 708 Distinctive Quality ■i Ka Fresh from the Gardens DEATH OF MRS. FORTUNE One of the pioneers of Seaforth district passed away recentlc in the person of Mrs. William Fortune. She was a daughter of the late James Roach and was born at Merrickville 92 years ago. Sixty eight years ago the married Mr. William Fortune who predeceased her by fifty years. She had the misfortune to fall and break her hip the previous week. Three daughters survive. MOTHER SUCCUMBS Mrs, J. W. Parnaby, mother of Rev. H. B. Parnaby, secretary of Middlesex Presbytery and pastor of Wardsville United church, recently passed away at her home in York­ shire, England. ANNOUNCEMENTS The engagement is announced of Pearl Mary, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Patrick Joseph Johnson, of Mc­ Killop, to Mr. Michael Williams, son of Mr. and Mrs. Patrick Williams, of Hibbert, the marriage to take place the latter part of September, TO PAY COUNCILLORS ■At the September meeting of the Town Council, Parkhill, a motion was passed to pay the council mem­ bers on and after January 1, 1935. Councillors and reeve are to receive .$2. and Mayor $3 each per meeting. It was felt that if the council members were paid it would interest others in municipal affairs and thereby provide more candidates for municipal office. All other munici­ palities remunerated their council members it wa,s .said and as all municipal officers such as treasurer clerk,' tax collector, were paid the member,s of the council should also be paid. TTie decision to pay the council will cost $187 per annum and this expehditure was not budg­ eted for in this year's expenditures. It will not’take effect until next year when provisions for this sum can be made. JAMES ST, MISSION CIRCLE The September meeting of the James Street Willing Worker’s Mission Circle was held on Monday evening at the home of Mrs. Amy. Arrangements were made for a ban­ quet to be held in the church on Friday, October 5 th for all the Mission Circles in South Huron. Miss Alice Handford took charge of the program. The devotional leaflet was read by Meta Salter; Missionary for prayer was given by Jean Sheere followed with prayer by Miss Hand­ ford. Readings from the “Watch­ tower" were given by Mrs. Carey, Mildred Rowe and Verna Coates. A duet by Ola Reid and Laurene Beavers and fi* .solo by Reta Rowe were much enjoyed. Mrs. Taylor, of Thames Road, was the guest speak­ er and gave a very interesting Talk on their personal experiences as missionaries in China; illustrated by interesting pictures. A social half hour was enjoyed .at the close of the meeting. MACLAREN—HORNEY A quiet wedding took place at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Horney, Nelson St,, Goderich, at 3 p.m. on Monday last, when their youngest daughter, Dorothy Marie, was united in marriage to James- A. MacLaren, son of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. MacLaren, of Cromarty, Rev. Mr. Craik, pastor of the United church, Goderich officiated. The wedding march was played by Miss Ruby Carter, cousin of the bride. The bride who was given in marriage by her father wore a pale blue silk crepe gown. The bride and groom were unattended only immediate relatives of the bride and groom were present. The young couple left by motor for Port Arthur and other parts. The bride wore a travelling suit of black and white waffle cloth with accessories to match.' On their return they will reside in Goderich before you spend a dollar ©® d/Uf car// MOST TALKED-ABOUT MOTOR CAR FEATURES NO question about it, the best way to judge motor cars is to try the ownership test. And that’s why we have a 1934 Knee-Action Chevrolet all ready for you to drive, today! We want you to try the really up-to-date car in the low-price field before you spend a dollar! Chevrolet, and Chevrolet alone in its class, gives you Enclosed Knee- Action . . . Shock-Proof Steering . . . Cable-Controlled Brakes . . . Body by Fisher . . . and the flashing perfor­ mance of a proved Six, with Blue Flame Cylinder Head. 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