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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1934-10-04, Page 7THE EXETER TIMES-ADVOCATE THURSDAY, OCTOBER 4th, 1934 SO YEARS AGO October 2, 188-1 Mr. C. Senior has reihoved his photo studio to the premises lately known as the Royal Hotel. A number of sportsmen went to Grand Bend this week to participate in a deer hunt. Rev. Mr. Feasant, of Centralia, occupied the pulpit in the Main St. Methodist church last Sunday morn-; 50: ing and Mr. Dirkson took Mr. Feas-' ant’s appointment. Mr. A. L. licbier, of Centralia, has removed to Exetqr, having rent­ ed Mr. Terry’s new residence near good’ the station. I • Messrs, Thos. Gregory, of Exeter,' and G. W. Holnran, of Winclielsea,' energy, no rheumatism, and to my members of the text book commit-; surprise after 'two months 1 lost 10' B !i\c* in -vitlit o* 114. n I + It /att T nAr.. Not too Old to Reduce at 50 Here is a letter which proves that there is no necessity to tolerate ex­ cessive fatness, even at the age of ; t-oo fat after had attacks of ■ "I was becoming . reaching 50 and 1 . . . . i iheumati-m and indigestion. I took , ordinary salts and other medicine.;, biri they did not do any permanent 6uud. i Then I commenced taking Kruscl'en. I soon began to feel diff- ! erent—brighter, stronger had more I the conquered, we see the old exe­ cution block and the deep gashes in it made by the axe; the dungeon where the little Princes were thrown the suit of armor worn by Henry the Eighth when a child, the suit of armour worn by Henry the Eighth when a man (can you imagine difference?) Residential London’ Back, into the bus we clamber swing around the West End London, around Hyde park with soup boxes, Regent Park, Rotten Row, and the apartment house dis­ trict. A great many of the build­ ings are ultra modern in construc­ tion, entirely stream-lined .-mouth sides and no corners, amount of glass used is amazin. j There are almost no trees along the j goes every which way; in the road, four lanes of buses, hoive-carts and automobiles lurch past without bene­ fit of stop-and-go light. The poor po­ liceman dises all lie can, but what is lie among so many? To cross the road, we have to look right, look left, right, left, again, the very op­ posite of what we are used to. We can feel our wits leaving us. It’s great fun to ride around on those double-decker buses. We go so far for a penny, and have the choice then of getting off -or paying in another penny to ride another half-mile. It’s a fine way to isee the city. If our bus happens to be caught in a traffic jam. we climb off walk up past sx ior seven other bu.«- e?; standing in front and hoard one >»i them instead. We save a let of time that way. The difficulty ’ j comes, however, when we try t I climb on a bus in motion .they sei- , ............v,. English people fseem toWestminster Abbey p)P able [0 [lul-Ge themselves on, --- — _ ----- 1: when tile hus is .going a good twentv and Buckingham Palace! St. James'• an hour wWlp wft arp ](lft Palace, the home oi the Prince oi <.lauding open-mouthed on rhe nave-f Wales, is dingy and dark and looks i ' i kip «'K you (town a; like a factory. But we have learn-J ....... ,.I without appearing ed by now that the most unimposing! buildings in London are apt to be j the most important historically,! every .square inch just dripping with : interest. the EdI Cl! a for of its with The ■g- tee of the Teachers’ Institute attend- .-treats—they are all in th parks ed a meeting in Clinton on Saturday Mr. Roland H. Fried, hook-keep- ..... ............... er, who is leaving the employ of an ' u.-ehen stimulate and tune up the of Parliament, Av v.-uiunsirr exten.-ivo manufactory in Grand j bodily functions from a number of pass in review, the Albert Memorial Rapicj-s, Mich., returns fronf that city to Dashwood this week. A few days ago while standing on the seat of a row boat on the Aux Sable river, Edith McDougall, Ci and Bend, missed her footing and fell overboard. Her cousin, AVillie Fulton hoard her cries for help and ran to the rescue. She was safely landed but not without, a groat t-h’tck and a severe cold.. Mr. C. Prouty, of the fourth con- cf'sscn of Stephen, was kicked by a colt while working in the field was knocked insensible. "Mng much more, as digestion fullness 1 ‘ had nearly left me.”—W.II.G. The numerous vital salts in apparntly. Down by the Thames, the Houses j > C7 G/ pure, wholesome, and economical table Syrup. Children love its delicious flavor. THE CANADA STARCH CO. LIMITED. MONTREAL and severe duties Johns mother 'and sister John McMahan and Miss Stella for a few and two Penhale 25 YEARS AGO October 7, 1909 Mr. E. Oe.-treicher has resigned his position with W. IL Leavitt und accepted a similiar one in Berlin. ■Mr. Charles Long, son of Mrs. John Welsh, is very ill in Winnipeg a result of a relapse after a attack of typhoid fever. While about her household on Sunday last Mrs. Well, fell and fractured her wrist. Dr. H. P. Ross, wife and daugh­ ter, of Nampa, Idaho, arrived here Saturday to visit at the home of Dr. Ross’is parents. Mr. Fred Hawkshaw left Saturday for Toronto where he has secured a position and intends remaining. Mr. Walter Morlock, of Columbus Ohio, arrived here Monday night to visit hi’ days. Mrs. children •arrived here from Winnipeg, Mon­ day, to spend the winter with Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Penhale. Mr. Jos. Cobbledick, of Calgary, Alta., who has been visiting here for several days left Saturday for Toronto. Mrs. Thos. Gregory met with an unfortunate accident when she lost her balance while standing ladder picking, grapes and breaking her arm. on a fell, 15 YEARS AGO October 2, 1919 1 Mr. Adair Robinson, of Newark N. J.- is visiting his father, Mr. C. W. Robinson. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Oke, of Tor­ onto, were here this week owing to the death <of Mrs. Clarke. •Mr. J. E. Smith, of Washington, Penn., after a pleasant visit with* his parents, Mr. and Mrs. S. Smith different angles. Your stomach, liver and kidneys .all feel the imme­ diate benefit Your blood is clean-ed of impurities and becomes invigor­ ated and refreished. You forget indi­ gestion, rheumatism and depression in a ney and unaccu.-tomed feeling of physical and mental exhilaration. .JOHNST(>N—-GINGERI( H A very happy matrimonial event was celebrated at the Evangelical parsonage Zurich, on Wednesday morning, Sept ember 2 6th, when the paspr, Rev. E. Burn united in holy wedlock daughter of Mr. and Gingerich Stanley arid of Zurich kind son of Mr. and Mrs. Ross Johnston, of Blake. The bridal couple were attended by Mr. and Mrs. E, E. Weido, of Zurich. Im­ mediately after the ceremony [lie happy bridal couple left by motor on a honeymoon trip. Upon their re­ turn [hey will reside in Zurich and will t'ake up rooms in the Deitz block, and the groom will continue his barber business in the Haist building. Their many friends extend best wishes. Mis- Edna Gingerich, .Mrs. Chris the Bi on om. Line, Mr. Harold Johnston i:f A Day in London You will Shoreditch stone poor filthy crying see build­ people hawk- their East End, West End, All Around the Town. Miss. Elizabeth Eedy, of St. Marys Recalls a Few Exciting Honrs of Her Week in World Metropolis. After a good rousing English breakfast of grapefruit, kippers oat­ meal, porridge, bacon and eggs, steak, rolls, toast and coffee we feel as if we may be able to stand well up under the strain of a typi­ cal sightseer’s day and taking all our eyes and ears along, we start out with a tour of the East End, the old slum district of London. If you expert to find slums, you will he disappointed. The species is practically extinct, around Aidgate and thousands of old gray ings, crooked streets, and in Petticoat Lane, ers with pushcarts wares, but the squalid tenement­ house atmosphere is no more. Dickens of a Time In Paris, everything is Napoleon; in London, this Year of Grace 19 3 4 it is all Dickens. According to the returned <on Saturday to resume his ' guides, no one else ever lived there ■duties in the store. I except perhaps Samuel Johnson, Mr. C. H. Saunders who went to pepys, and Christopher Wren, the Windsor a couple of weeks ago has architect, We are shown dozens and decided to remlain and will move' dozens of houses in the East End of his family there the latter part of London once inhabited 'by Dickens, this week. - I and. marvel how he could have Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Baynham and found time to write even one book ■children have returned to their new jn between rounds of moving fi'om home in Brandon, Man., after -visit- One abode to another. ing the latter’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Smith. LEFT FOR CHINA Miss Edith Sparling, who has been home, from West China on furlough th£ past year, left recently on return journey to Chuan. She sails B.C. for Shanghai, Empress of Russia Following the ocean voyage she will have a two thousand mile steamer trip up the Yang-tse River. Miss Sparling has been engaged in evan­ gelistic work in connection with the West China Mission oif the United Church for some years. She has a busy time during her year of lough, addressing meetings at ious points and during' the past weeks attending the General Coun­ cil sessions at’ Kingston as commis­ sioner representing the West China •Mission. her 'Cheng-tu, iSze from Vancouver on the C. P. R. on October 6th. had fUT- var- twio The TowOp We go through funny old streets with funnier names, past the- great dome of St. Paul’s (see it next day) to the Towei’ which lies on the edge of the mile-square “City” of Lon­ don proper. The Tower (or “Tali” as the English have it) is not in­ deed a tower but a number of such •buildings enclosed within one wall. Guards are everywhere: Beefeaters, with their battle-axes and black-aud- red Elizabethian costumes; the Tow­ er guards, very much like soldiers in the insect killer ads. They 'look very self-conscious standing there motionless under their busbee hel­ mets. We watch the guard change •—click! click! salute!)—ITihe whole proceedings seems senseless and a waste of time, hut that is we do-n’t quite understand is all about. Inside the White Tower, William the Conqueror to because what it built'by frighten Shopping’ de Luv* Bund street, Oxford street. Regent and Piecadily— the very names ‘ire i full of magic-—make you think im- i mediately of Yaidley's, of diamond I jewellery, fine leather, antiques, ' men's fa-limus. What a fascinating Conservative, but in ex- ’he forefront of good taste, liaye have No Stop, No Go at the Savoy tops off the'•?■•• of shops’ satisfyingly, but oh! . The food is wheeled in ’.-nd.-cme far ides in Georgian style, windows. Inside the large department stores, there i a feeling of space, a suggestion of luxury and leisure. One clerk fol­ lows us through the stere, selling ns what wo wish in each depart­ ment. The shop assistants we find to he well-dressed, pleasant of .-pooch and extremely courteous. The people in the street move Lunch morning ; pensively, on dinner-wagons and you take your tad well-groomed choice from what you see before. *’ you. The hot dishes are kept sizzl-■ ing over an alcohol flame. ' Now we are out on our own two feet for the first time. AA7e find our- L-elves standing at the curb on the • Strand wondering how so many Lon-; doners have lived to see this day.' considering the present -state of the * traffic. On the sidewalk, everybody; along happily. They are minus ’hat i ^Jhui.ii-d, worrit’d loMc that Cana­ dian- and AniPi'ic-ns wear on thf ir iatt's If an Engli-hman omt’S any­ where near -olliding with you, he will turn right round in his ..racks, take* off his hat and say, “Oh, I am so sorry!” In France they would km «'k you down and tramp on you! g to notice. Tim men we see on Piecadily are mostly woil-drft'Sed. the women usually dowdy with shoes like boats on thfir feet and no ..-tochines. Mix^d in the crowd are a large numlc r of people irom India in their e lorful nitive dres- and holiday visitors from all over tho British Empire. A cosmo­ politan city. Lend n! Evening in London We rush back to the hotel for dim er, to roast beef and Yorkshire pudding, called tin* joint; and sem­ olina pudding, called the sweet.. Wh't confusion. Drinking-water is at a premium since the water supply in London is low and the Thame-- down to a mere trickle. “Save the water; the need is urgent,'' you read in placards wherever your eyr h ippens to fall. When dinner hu-> hod u ■ hance to sub,-ide, we hail a cab ’<• go to the’ theatre, in England, you don’t phone for a taxi, you stand on the fiont 11< p with, your hand in the air in the lu pe of attracting tho iitUn.tion of a cabman who.will forthwith .-■•irani to a . top and whisk y <u to your destination. Hi- Majr.-tyt' Theatre in th- Hay­ market, then. We t'tko a look around before the curtain rolls up and no­ tice that half of the audience se-ms to he American touri-ts In between acts, attendants circulate in the aisles with loaded trays for the starved .and hungry. You may order tea and cakes or ice- (who would want one after Canadian ice cream? and coffee. The play, incidentally, is Noel Coward’s “Conversation- Piece” but no one seem.- to pay any attention to the too many other going on. It has been a morrow, perhaps, we may go boat­ ing on the Thame-- and watch the swans whizz by. •stage---there are interesting things strenuous day. To- DOMINION OF CANADA 1934 REFUNDING LOAN The Minister of Finance offers for public subscription! Two-year 2% Bonds, due 15th October, 1936 Issue price: 98.90 and accrued interest, yielding 2-57% io maturity. Five-year 2|% Bonds due 15th October, 1939 Issue price: 98.15 and accrued interest, yielding 2 ■ 90% to maturity. 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