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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1934-10-25, Page 7THE EXETER TIMES-ADVOCATE THl'BSDAY OCTOBER 23th, 1»34 Dr. Margaret Strang Says Fortunes of the Settlers Hanging in the Balance (London Advertiser) The fortunes of jtlie settlers ip. pix- onville, Alberta, are hanging in the balance, according to Dr. Margaret Strang-Savage who writes of the crop conditions in that far portih Peace 1x5 Biver district. Jn a letter to Dr. Jag. MacKay, of New St. James Presbyter­ ian Church, this week (the medical missionary says that conditions this* winter will be better or worse de­ pending on whether .t»he- farmers cap get their crops threshed before the severe weather sets in. The long weary 'hours of impatient waiting for suitable threshing weath­ er is the lot of the Western farmers, at present according to the writer, who says: “Far and wide between reaches of bush are -the fields, bur­ dened with their stocks, A good croip and most of if safely cut before the frost hut this is no threshing weather. Impatient men are moving restlessly about home—doing chores chinking and banking houses and barns and waiting for the weather to clear to let them go threshing, For three weeks we’ve had rain, snow and fog—and waiting is never easy, especally iwiith stinging frost in the tail of the wind such as has vis­ ited us so often lately. However, this may be the worst of winter— we hope so, even if we won’t expect it!” Local Graduate The letter was written on one of those grey fall days, “much pleas­ anter indoors than out,” as Dr. Sav­ age describes it. For many weeks there has been no word front the young woman who ha§ been doing such splendid services for the 'Pres­ byterian Church in Canada in that Northern area. Dr. Strang-Savage is a well-known missionary tQ London­ ers as she graduated from the Uni­ versity of Western Ontario Medical School in ’29 and later went to serve on the frontier of Canada for the church. The weather, always of deep con­ cern to Western farmers, .seems to be specially so to the Peace River dis­ trict people for the writer devotes a third of the letter to t and the re­ mainder to the needs and activities' of the people. She says: “Spring came fairly early but it was it-oo dry so the crops got a late start and here we are ait September’s end again, (and the letter is dated September 26) with no threshing"" done. When the rain came at the end of May we never lacked for moisture afterwards Often we had itoo much of it. I was tout at daylight one July morning when the two wheel marks on the trail were foaming torrents of wa­ ter. We had a summer flood too, which made the haying late. Gardens Excellent “But gardens were never better. Potatoes almost as big as my head— though not quite. Half our grub­ stake comes from the gardens' so it behooves us to itake good care of them. The writer gives a brief glimpse of her work as “relief officer” for she has charge of the distribution of clothing and other supplies in that district. She says: “ Relief work last Avinter was very heavy and I had to be exceedingly 'Scotch’ about the quantity given to each case, to make the supplies go round. If we get threshing weather and grain prices don’t tumble too far the situation will be easier this winter. If winter .sets in now the need will be greater than ever.” A brief mention is made of the orchestra which the writer organized when she first went to Dixonville. The group was to play for “Rally Day” and there are to be weekly per­ formances through the winter. On Thanksgiving Sunday there was (to be a special service with the little church decorated with fruits, flowers and vegetables and on that day spec­ ial thanks were to be 'offered up “for all the good things we enjoy.” Af­ ter the service the fruits and veg­ etables were to be sent 0U|t. to the nearest hospital. W. M. S. Organized The formation of a branch of the W. M. S. during the summer was a new venture for Dixonville and there are now eight women attending the meetings and “earnestly remember­ ing the Master’s work and workers at home and abroad.” The study book is Dr. McNab’s story of Canadian Pres­ byterian Missionaries, “They Went Forth.” Evangelistic services for a week were also undertaken by the little minister-doctor of Dixonville, who says that Rev. F. A. Rodger and two young (musicians from Calgary Were there to take charge. “The meet­ ings did us good—so much so, that the devil has been working overtime ever since trying ,to undo it all again as Dr. Savage expresses it. Toward the end of the letter a poem of praise rises from the writer to the Great Provider for all the bless Ings of the slimmer, She says: “We have much to be (thankful, for here. Often and Often it comes to me on the trial or sitting by some sick-bed in he small hours of the night, how dependent we are on the bounty and mercy of God, We ofiten forget to thank Him, yet He i.s long suffering still. One untimely frost, a big bush fire, a week of continuous rain of d month of utter drought would spell ruin and starvation 4for many of us’— and yet the seasons come and go and these disasters are kept from us.” in closing Dr, Savage says ehe is in good 'health to start the winter work which promises to be more than unusually heavy. Loafer—“Will you marry me?” Working Girl—-“Pm afraid not” Loafer—“Aw, come on, be a sup-* port/* .................................mil...■ml■ Ml.........f(WlM.I|Ml1. H—(III* III 11 wm.ll EDITORIAL «-----—-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------—r- Have you planned your garden for next Spring?*** ***** Fall wheat ip going into winter with a good top, ******** Let’s keep our hearts out of the heels of our boots. ******** ' Average farm prices in the IT. S. corn belt have advanced 23 per cent, since 1933,******** The best news from the 'Canadian West is that they are having " weeks of rainy weather, **•*•*•« Once more Ontario bas demonstrated that her citizens know how to respond when a real call for relief is made.******** In modern warfare there are no gainers; there are only losers. European statesmen know this and keep their heads. * * « • * * * ♦ Word comes that the beverage rooms are to be kept open till all hours to put the bootleggei’ out of business. We’ll see. So they have a few murder rings in Europe! We notice that the blood spillers keep out of England. John Bull has hempen ropes and judges and juries to handle such parties. A murderer is no hero in the eyes of an Englishman,******** “Yes, politics are pretty bad with us in the United States,” remarked a man from Chicago the other day, a .former Canadian, who had made good in that mighty city. “They are just as bad with you folk in Old Ontario only there are not so many of you and you'are self-righteous about it.” .* * * * if. l * 41 “How’s business?” inquired the man walking along the street of the man with his coat off and going some. “Not so bad!” re­ plied that busy brother. “I wish .some one would tell me the truth. Things are simply rotten,” replied the man, ou the street during business hours. But, you see, he was the man on the street during business hours and that tells t'he whole story.******** A HINT What happened to the few blackmailers of London who have been .given their medicine is but a hint of what is going on and of what is sure to happen. Unfortunately, there are a whole lot of offenders in this line who have not been caught. Worse still, there are a whole lot of people whose social conduct is of such a character that the blackmailer can get them, by the scruff .of the neck any minute he chooses. As a rule, if men and women will but mind their own business, the blackmailer is out of a job.******** THE BRITISH WAY More .births,- With an increased proportion of boys, more mar­ riages, and a decrease in .the number of death of infants, are record­ ed in the quarterly return of vital statistics for England and Wales of the Registrar-General for the three months ended June 310. Two foreign steamers have been chartered to load wheat in Bri­ tish Columbia for this country. One is the Yugoslav steamer Trig- lav, of 6,363 tons gross, and the other is the Virginia Nicolaoui, of 6,869 tons1, which is owned in Athens, but flies t'he flag of Panama. —The London Times »«*•»**» NO USE Speaking of conferences—labour—Lord Snowden has this to say: “Of the hundreds of resolutions I have seen passed by Labour Conferences outlining a drastic program of reform. I can hardly call to mind one which 'has- had .any practical result.” The same may be said of other Conferences. Speaking of strikes he holds that it can never be effective “as a general policy for raising the condition of labour.” He states that “though the Labour Party professes to be iSocialist it is the most individualist of all the political parties”; and, of course, he is the oiutstanding proof of the point.” He knows. He has seen, and he has been disappointed. HERE’S HISTORY We were having lunch with a man the other day who was good enough to take .us to an eating place that he said would interest us. “What do you think of that .bacon?” lie inquired as we smacked our lips and asked for a 'second helping. -“That bacon is made by a couple of young fellows under 20. They used to weed onions for me for 50> cents a day. Their mother almost paid me to keep them out of town when they were not in school. Then they worked for a 'hardheaded old English butcher who never heard 'of mercy. How­ ever, the harder he drove the faster the boys ran. Well, t'he old chap was gathered to his fathers' just about the time they had learned their trade. The estate wanted to sell out to the youngsters ""but I got them this nice little shop almost for a song. 'They cure their own meat, they deliver orders on e 'bicycle. Last Saturday night these youngsters won the prize .for the best dressed butcher’s win­ dow in the city, the Chamber of Commerce being the judge. Yes, these fellows are making money. And .that’s why!” and the man who was talking pointed to the beet cured meat in ithe city. “There are dollars rolling past our doors every day. Fellows like these are stopping them.”******** A CONTRAST We were making a call the other afternoon on one of our farmer friends of more t'han three score and ten years of age. We noticed’that this fine country gentleman approached us on a bicycle. He owns 300 acres of land and lias1 a neat sheaf of government ' bonds laid away in his safety deposit box to say nothing of a wad of mortgages that requires some time to estimate. He has as fine a, home as one will see anywhere. More than t-haj, his name is about the first on any list got up for helping a lame dog over a stile or a sick or crippled child to soundness. He is a good churchman 'who sees to it that church moneys are provided. He 'has raised a good family, both in size and quality. On one of his farms is a house that be loans on very easy teams to a family hit badly by the depression. Mark you, the old chap was riding a bicycle. “It’s quicker than walking and not so costly as a car," he explained. (Just as we were getting down to business in our conversation the wife of the man to whoun t'he'house was let, got into her car and drove to a neighbor’s 'house though the walking was good and the October afternoon dry and the air the very best. iSo tliere you are. The man who has1 made good walks or rides a bicycle. The woman on the ragged edge of nothing financially drives a car meanwhile looking towards the relief officer who smirks and says: “Too bad! They are such a good family. I wish the times would mend.” „Worse still, the old chap on the bicycle pays the taxes that help out t'he woman who is too lazy to walk.* * ^> * * ^ * * We clip the following from The New Outlook: Now the last thing in the world that we want to be is self- righteous but we .submit that this clipping is worthy of the front page in the biggest Canadian dailies. We think it far more worthy of such prominence than the lastest word about politics scandal or o social rottenness. For one thing this item is news, for it is news to learn of a young man who thus remembers the iS'abbath Jay. Further, we like to .Commend any young man who fears God and keeps His commandments. Youug Wilson 'has done more ro put moral tone into this province than any dozen politcians that we know anything about. Yet our big brothers of the press1, at least all that we have seen have soft pedalled about this display of moral courage: “When Harold Wilson, of Ingersoll, won the speedboat race .for t'he President’s Cup, before a crowd of a, hundred thousand spectators in Washington, D. C., all Canadian lovers of sport were justly j)roiid of their young .fellow-countryman. But only a few Canadians are aware Of the fact that Harold refused to run his boat on Sunday, the day set for the race. He notified the committee that it was against his principles to race on Sunday. They could make no changes. But when the young Cahadlan began to pack up his boat for home, the speed-boat people petitioned the race committee .to have the race transferred to Saturday. That night the papers came out In black headlines announcing that the date of the race had been changed because Harold Wilson, of Ingersoll, Ontario, on account of religious principles, would not race his boat on Sunday, That stand was taken by Harold 'himself, with­ out any Suggestion from his friends. And when father and son were congratulated by many Americans on the lad’s splendid loyal­ ty to principle, they seemed at a loss to unders'tand t'he reason for special commendation, “As this Was* the natural position we all take,” says Mr. E. A. Wilson, father of the ciham'plop, “it did not appear to us as being anything out of the ordinary/’ in a day in which the alt of this continent is so cluttered up with raucous an­ nouncing of Sunday games the story of Harold Wilson, world* champion speedboat racer, comes like a breath from the hills attd the sea.” SO YEARS AGO Miss Julia Spicer returned from a seven weeks Hay in Chicago last week. Five more deer were shot at the 1 sand hills last week by Messrs. John Snell, Wes. and Man. Rissett, Mr. N. J. Clark and- his brother, W. J. returned from a trip to the Pacific coast last week. Gilfillan-Turnbull — On October 16th at the residence of the bride’s father, by the Rev. J. A. Turnbull, B.A., L.L.B., brother of the bride, assisted by the Rev. C. Fletcher, M. A., Mr, John Gilfillan, of Usborne, to Agnes, youngest daughter of Mr. David Turnbull of the same place. Turnbull-Hackney—On Wednesday October 29th at the residence of the bride’s father, by the Rev. C. Fletch- M.A., assisted by the Rev. J. A. Turnbull, L. L, Bj, brother of the grom, Alexander, second son of David Turnbull, Esq., Usborne to Elizabeth, only daughter of James Hackney, Esq., Usborne. The voting on the Scott Act took place in this county on Wednesday when it was decided that t'he .Scott Act should have a trial in this coun- I ty. Exeter gave a majority of 32, Usborne 51. The majority in favor of the Act will be over 1,600. 25 YEARS AGO Miss Bella Miller, of Forest, is here in attendance on her aunt, Mrs. Jas. Sutton, who is ill, Mr. Alf. Huston, .of Wyoming, formerly of Exeter, has been trans­ ferred as G.T.R. station agent to Woodstock. Mrs. J. Smith left 'Thursday to vis­ it at the home of Mr. James Russell at Victoria Hospital, Mr. P. Frayne returned Tuesday night from an extended trip through the Canadian West. Mr. and Mrs. Herb Hutiton and children visited at Mr. T. B. Car­ ling’s during the week. Mrs. W. A. Gregory, of North Battleford, Sask., who has been vis- itng her friends at various points in the East arrived here Tuesday to visit with Mrs, Thos. Gregory. ‘ Mr. Robert S'anders returned on Tuesday from a three months’ out­ ing to British Columbia, Washing­ ton and Oregon, as well as a four­ teen days’ trip to Alaska. Mr. Harley Sanders met with a painful accident on Friday. He was assisting in taking a threshing tank of water out of the river when the tongue struck the cap of his right knee injuring it considerably. Mr. W. R. Taft, of Toledo, Ohio who is visiting in Centralia, Avas a caller in Exeter last week. Mr. (John Horton of Lumley ha3 returned from Brockville, Man. 15 YEARS AGO Mr. W. D. Clarke, of Richmond, Quebec, who has been in Chesley for a' week owing <to the illness of his mother spent Sunday and Mon­ day in town. Dr. McGillicuddy, w’ho has been a medical practitioner 'here .for a num­ ber of years, has disposed of his practice to Dr. Graham, of Rodney, Edward Davis and George Hinds were on Sunday elected <to represent James Street Sunday School in the Mock Parliament to be iheld in Nov­ ember. James Morley and Beverley Acheson will represent the Trivitt Memorial Sunday School. Mr, Joshua Johns, of Usborne, re­ cently 'had the misfortune to fall from a tree onto a plank and is con­ fined to his home as a result. Mr, Hugh Eacrett is visiting his brother, Mr. M, Eacrett in town. Mr, W. G. Medd, Miss M, Jones and Miss A. May attended the On­ tario Sunday School Convention in Toronto last week. Mrs. Fowell goes to Tor'onto today to spend a month with her sister Mrs E. J. Spackman, who has just re­ turned from several months in Eur­ ope. Mr. Frank Sims, who has been in the West for some months returned home on Friday. Mrs. Henry Montietli, of New On- itario, is visiting her sister-in-law, Mrs, J. Dallas. SERIOUSLY INJURED A door unbalanced by a sudden gust of wind, fell 30 feett onto Lar- mey Stone, of Parkhill and inflicting serious head injuries. A bolt on t'he door penetrated his skull, and the injured man was taken to St. Jo­ seph’s Hospital, London in a critical condition. Stone, who is 54 years old, and the father of six children, was at work in the silo on the farm of Sid Emery, concession 2, McGilliv­ ray township. The -door had- appar­ ently been loosened for filling oper­ ations and when it fell Stone was at work on the inside of the silo. Dr, George Racey attended Stone ail’d ordered 'his removel to tlhe hospital. ALEXANDER HODGERT By the death of Alexander Hodgert Russelldale has lost one of its be­ loved and respected residents; Mr. Hodgert had been a resident of that village for over 510) years. He carried on a blacksmithing­ business and owing to ill health re­ tired this summer. He was in his 78th year. His wife predeceased him four years. Surviving are three sons, Archie and Osborne, Russelldale and Kenneth, Port Hope, a daughter, Mrs. Campbell Dow, Russelldale; two brothers, lAlrcliie, of Regina, and W. H,, of Exeter and o>ne sister, Mrs. J. Bell, of Exeter. The funeral was held Saturday afternoon to Roys ceme­ tery. Crediton District Evangelical Rally The annual W. M. S. Rally of the Crediton District of the Evangelical church was held at Dashwood with a splendid attendance from the So­ cieties of Zurich, Crediton and Dash­ wood. Mrs. E. Wenzel, of Crediton, the key yoman of the district presided at the afternoon session. The devotional exercises were conducted by Mrs. E. Burn of Zurich, after which Mrs, F. W. Snyder, Waterloo, gave a splen­ did report of General W. M. S. Con­ vention in Bucyrus, Ohio. Mrs. Sny­ der, gave a few interesting statistics of the Canada Branch of the W. M. S. Total membership 783; amount of Jubilee Thankoffering $805.00. It was organized 15 years ago, and has sent out 15 missionaries. The Cana­ da Branch has been assigned the support of the following mission­ aries, Rev. and Mrs. Arthur Faust, in Africa and Miss (Laura Mauk, of Japan. A ladies chorus of Zurich group sang with Miss Pearl Pfile as accom­ panist. Mrs. D. A. Merner, of New Ham­ burg, gave an instructive synopsis by ichapters of the Study Book, “Ja­ panese Women (Speak,” also a bio­ graphical sketch of the writers. An informal report of the General Board of Missions at Bucyrus, Ohio, was given by Rev. A. E. Pletch, of Crediton, after which the delegates adjourned to the basement for re­ freshments. Is Your Health Run Down? Are You Nervous and Restless? The present generation of women and young girls have more than their share of sickness and misery. With some of them it is nervousness and rest­ lessness, with others anaemia, weakness, faintness and dizziness, hysteria and melancholia, and a dozen other ailments to unfit them for work or pleasure. Let those women suffering from a run down state of health take a course of Milburn’s H. & N. Pills and see how soon they will be brought back to normal health and strength. Ask your druggist or dealer about Milbum's H. & H Pills. 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