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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1931-04-30, Page 1•>r p I j J %■ A i I ESTABLISHED 1873 i 4 EXETER, ONT., THURSDAY MORNING, APRIL 30th, 1931 .4 '*’*FIFTY-FIFTH YflAIl, NO. 287> Congoleum Guessing Contest - FROM MAY 2nd to MAY 9th - Size 6x9 ft. Genuine Gold Seal Congoleum rug to be given away absolutely free. We have arranged with the CongoleuLm Company for another rug guess- ing contest, commencing Saturday, May 2 &* closing at NOON, Saturday/' May 9th. A sealed envelope contains the lujcky number between 1 & 5,000. There is absolutely nothing to buy in connection with "this contest. Come in and have a free guess. The nearest guess to the correct number gets the rug absolutely free, Anybody purchasing a rug of a larger size during contest, if the win­ ner of the lucky number,, will receive the larger size free, instead of the 6 foot by 9 foot size. * 'Wilton and Axminster Rugs in standard room sizes for sale at reduced prices. . ? ' < 5 only Tapestry Bedroom rugs sizes 2 1-4 yds. by 3 yds. and 2 1-2 yds. by 3 yds. to clear at only $9.85 e^ch. * •Y , <4 [> •1 : 1 i. s r s' V • ■ 1 7 ■ ’ ■ " ......................• $ :............. Ladies Misses and Girls’ Spring Coats We have received our last shipment of Spring Coats and we are show- ' *ng rnanY smart coats at very reasonable prices. Coats Clearing at $4.95 each We have on Sale about fifteen good style coats to clear at only $4.95 ea. J SUDDE^ DEATH OF CHARLES DOBBS Word ims been received in Exeter that Mr, Charles J, Dobbs, of Us- borne, had passed awaY suddenly in Victoria Hospital, London, about eight o’clock, this (Wednesday) morning, Mr, Dobbs who was In his 41st year, was taken to jjhe hospital, on Saturday last, where he under­ went an operation and his death comes as a shock to his many friends His death is particularly sad in view of the fact that he was married in November of last year and on Feb- 5th his wife suffered a paralytic stroke and at present is at the home of her parents atnRidgetown and owing to her condition she was not made aware of her husband’s illness. Mrs, Dobs maiden name was Miss Nellife Brien, eldest daughter of Mr, and Mrs. C. R. Brien. Mr. Dobbs was a son of Mr. and Mrs. F. A, Dobbs, of Lucan, who recently celebrated their golden wedding an­ niversary. Besides his bereaved widow and parent? he is survived by five brothers and four sisters, Min­ or, of Biddulph; George, of Strat-i ford; Albert, of Lucan; Ray, of De­ troit; Fred and Mrs. Lome Sch-ol- dice, of .Bididulpli; and Mrs. Charles Fisher, Of Usborne. Funeral Friday afternoon to St. James’ cemetery, Clandeboye. ' " . DEATH OF MATTHEW ROL’TJ^Y The death took place on Tuesday,' April 28th of Mr, Matthew Routly a prominent farmer of Usborne town­ ship in his 64th year. The funeral will take place from his late resi­ dence, nth con, of Usborne on Thursday,, service at. 1,30 o’clock p. m. interment in Union cemetery, Kirkton, CLINTON A* M. P- A, ENTERTAINED BY TRIVITT On Monday evening about forty members of St, Paul’s AjY.P.A., of Clinton motored down and were royr ally entertained by the members of the Trivitt Memorial branch of the A. Y. p. A. in the Parish Hall, Fol­ lowing the reading of the minutes and roll call addresses of welcome were extended to the visitors by the president, of the Exeter so­ ciety, Miss Amelia Acheson, and the rector Rev, Mr Vivian, The meeting: was then turned over to Mr. Taylor, who acted as chairman for- the visit­ ors and a splendid program of read­ ings apd music was-carried out, This was followed1 by games and contests in which everyone heartily. Lunch was Trivitt Young People thanks was extended folkjtnd was ably responded to by Mr. C .vian. Dancing was then in­ dulged in for the rest of tlie even­ ing. entered most served by the and a vote of by the Clinton Boys’ Ribbed Stockings at 19c. a pr.. • 10 do?en pair Bbys’ Ribbed Black Cotton Stockings to clear this month at 19c. a pair. Dinner Sets on Sale 10 good patterns in full 97-piece dinner sets to clear during May at real bargain prices. ’ GROCERIES GROCERIES “Our Own Blend” Tea is selling fast. Put Up especially for us in lead packages. Black or Mixed per 1-2 lb. 2$c. 1 Can Old English Floor Wax.$: T can. Rug-Sta (prevent slipping) for 85c. Quaker Brand Catsup, 12 oz.. . 2 for 25c. i Very large Grapefruit ........ 3 for 25c. Ham-N-Aise Sandwich Spread per jar 25c. Canned Tomatoes, 2 1-2 tins .. 3 tins 29c. Canned Apples per gallon tin...........25c. .Broken Sweet Biscuits.........2 lb. for 19c. A FULL RANGE OF GARDEN SEEDS—MANGEL AND TURNIP SEEDS; PLANTING ONIONS; EARLY COBBLER AND DOOLEY PO­ TATOES Rte AD Y FOR YOUR NEEDS. WE WILL GLADLY LOOK AF- TER ANY ORDERS FOR SPECIAL VARIETIES OF SEEDS YOU MAY REQUIRE. YOU MAY HAVE THEM MAILED DIRECT TO YOUR AD­ DRESS. Phone 32 7 }• A Phone 32 A Vacuum We Offer ONE QUART OF D. C. W. PAINT IN WHITE, BUFF, QUAKER GRAY, TOBACCO BROWN, PEA GREEN, CREAM REGULAR PRICE $1.00 PER QUART AND —. A FIRST QUALITY BRUSH—REGULAR PRICE 50c. (TOTAL VALUE $1.50) ALL FOR 99c. During This Special Sale BOTH PAINT AND BRUSH REPRESENT REMARKABLE VALUES - SHOP EARLY - AND SAVE 51c. WHILE THE SALE LASTS TRAQUAIR & LINDENFIELD Phone ytour hardware necessities to 27 I BIRTHS '.HAUGH-—-At Dashwood oh Monday, April |7th to Mr, and Mrs. Arthur ‘ Haugh, a son ‘(Robert Arthur) ■•-GUDMORE—•At Clinton Hospital- on April.22, 1931, to Mr. and Mrs, ’ Edgar Cudmore, a daughter (Mar­ jorie Heiie.) BRiNTNELL—Ou Lot 27, South Boundary of Hibbert on Monday, April 27th, J hell in his DEATHS _. :JEIUNKiN-T-Xn Mitchell oil April 23, : Elizabeth Campbell, wife- of Mr. ‘ Harry Hunkin. ' SM.ITH—>On the Goshen. Line, Ste­ phen, on Sunday, April 26, Henry t Smithy in his 65th year/ ELEVEN PIGS DEAD AFTER. BEING KILLED OR WORRIED BY DOGS When two; employees of Mr. H, C'. * 'Rivers went to his slaughter-house i Wednesday after,noon of last week > they found that a pair of police dogs had entered a pen of eleven pigs and had killed seven of them, while > four others either died shortly a-fter- » wards or had to be- killed. Njne of I th© pigs were badly mutilated. Some of them had their legs chewed off while others had their ears off and > were badly chewed about the body. I When the men neared the premises . the’ two dogs jumped the four-foot fence surrounding the enclosure and ’ made off aicross the fields. It was I a sorry-looking sight that greeted j the eyes of the men as they discov­ ered w'hat had taken place. Seven of the pigs were dead; and two of /th© others died shortly after. Act- ^g; 'em'-the instructibhs of' ■Veterinary ( Dy." Steiner and: Constable Norry the remaining two- were killed and bur­ ied with the rest. The pigs des­ troyed were feeders of about three months old and weighed' in tlie neigh­ borhood of 80 pounds apiece. The two dogs were pups and one of them was killed later in the day. > folON PRESBYTERY the on ♦ Cleaner, for Furnaces I have engaged the services of a1 Vacuum Cleaner for Furnaces for two weeks, commencing, May and. I WILL SERVICE FREE OF CHARGE can be handl- 4th, done without any inconven- as many Furnaces as ed in that time. This work will be Dirt in the home or ieiice to you. If you wish to take advantage of this service kindly phone 157. MRS. E. J. CHRISTIE COAJa & COKE t , Mr. Henry Francis, of Seaforth, iS M.visiting with his son, Reeve Francis. ! B. CARD OF THANKS Mf. and. Mrs. John Pollard, Centralia, wish to take this oppor­ tunity of thanking the Women’s As­ sociation for the beautiful gift of flowers, and also the neighbors and friends for the many kindnesses ex­ tended during Mrs. Pollard’s recent illness.' < ' CARD OF THANKS of William Donald Brint- 6 2nd year. UshornC, on Tuesday, .1931, Matthew Routly year. ROUTLY—-In April 28th, in his 64th DOBBS-—In Victoria Hospital, Lon­ don, oil Wednesday, April £9 th, Charles J. Dobbs, in his 41st year. .. ........ ■ > If yon are nftor cheap caransur- nnco with a maximum of protictioii, get it at cost, in tho L-M-C,, ‘World’s Greatest Automobile Mutual/’-—-Eim* jbst C. Harvey, Insurance office on | Main street. Th© sisters and bi’bther of the late Lucy Gunning/wish to extend their sincere thanks- to the many friends and neighbors for the many kind­ nesses and sympathy shown during their sister’s illness, and hi their reavement, be* IN 5IEMOIHAM HATTER-—“In loviiig memory Mrs. Thomas Hatter, away May 3rd, 1913. Only &. memory of bygone days* And sigh for a face unseen; But a constant feeling that God alone Knows been. of who passed just, what should have I Husband and family The Huron Presbytery of United Church met - in Kippen Tuesday and all ministers were pres­ ent with the exception of one, to­ gether with a good representation of laymen, there being around 100 delegates'. *“ The chairman Rev. C. J!. Moorhouse presided. The devotion­ al message was delivered by Rev. E. F. Chandler, B.D., of Fordwich. The Scripture reading was taken from the second part of the first -chapter of Phillipi-ans. The speaker deliv­ ered a very able paper and made a very strong appeal to all as citizens of Heaven to look up and press for­ ward, making the statement that there is no other appeal bomp'arable to this. Two students were passed for or­ dination at the coming iconference, Mr. Albert Lott, of Brussels, Mr. Keith Love, of Hillsgreen. Lott .is blind but in spite of this handicap he lias obtained his and Theological degree. The Chairman, Rev, Mr. Moor­ house, was appointed, to carry the greetings of Presbytery to the W.M. S. in session at. Hensail. Rev. Jas. .Scobbie, of Belgrave, and Mr. B. W. F. Beavers, of town, were appointed^ to the Settlement committee for 1932. Rev. R. R. Connor, made an ap­ peal on behalf of the Summer School to be held in Goderich in July and Mr. W. G. Medd who is a member of tlie Rural Board announced. the Rural conference to be held at Whit­ by on July 27, 2S, 29th and urged the- appointment of Ministers and laymen to attend.. The Presbytery voted to have "the manual changed so that ladies might become members of ’the Sess­ ion, This remit will also be voted on by tho congregations in the fu­ ture. ' . Delegates wore appointed to- Con­ ference and Sessional committees will be apointed later. A meeting is to be arranged, pos­ sibly in Exeter, sometiino before Ucmferonce for licensing „ the- two •Sen provimmly meiitlonod to preach r Ro. J. VL Down, of Exeter, Is com­ pleting bis fiftieth year fu th© min­ istry. ’The next meeting of the Urosby- tery wil be held ih Bayfield in June, •f and Mr. B.A. CUT AND SPLIT 11 CORDS OF WOOD IN A DAY The Times-Adyocate has reported some fast work that has been done in t'he bush with saw and axe in by- gbne days. Along comes another story of a days work that will make some of our readers sit up and take notice. Messrs.’ Ko’ble Scott and A. Lousby in the days before Mr. Scott was out of his teens and. while a re­ sident of Bosanquef township, start­ ed for the, bush one morning with their dinner pails with the idea of cutting up ten cords-of stoVe wood. By night, they had cut eleven cords of wood out of the trees and had split, piled and. measured it, This surely was -some- feat. . . >---------------------------y~~ DIED IN KIRKTON ‘ ' • The'’death took place in Kirkton on Tuesday morning of one of tlie oldest residents of the community in the person of Mr. Thomas Elliott, who passed away in his 90th 'year, Mr. Elliott was born in Devonshire England, in 1841 where for a num­ ber of years he followed the cooper trade. In 188G he took up farming in Fullarton tp. near Russeldale and later bought a farm a mile north of Kirkton, where he resided with his youngest' son until his death. His wife predeceased him 19 years ago He leaves to- mourn , his loss three sons, Thomas and S. J. of Exeter, and Willfem with whom he resided. One daughter, Mrs. H. W. Hill,; of Flint Mich., passed away a year ago. The funeral will be held Thursday afternoon with .interment in Kirkton Union cemetery.., ■ ’ ST. S. S. ANN.rVEIt»AlXY SiJeutlid Serwiee^ Despite Un favor* able Weatiier The Sunday School of the Jamec* St, United Chuilch held anniversary services on Sunday. In -spit© ©f tbo inclement weather there were fair* congregations during the day. A children’s choir provided the musie at the morning service and the difS* dren overflowed the choir loft and! were seated about the platform. A chorus was sung by six young ladies Misses Florence Stewart, Hazel HI* liott, Adileen and Gladys; (Stone, Ruth Fraser and Eileen Snell, Th© spec­ ial speaker for the day was Rev, E. AV, Jewitt, B.A„ of Kincardine, In, the morning Mr. Jewitt tooikl for hf» subject “The Church and Childhood/ He emphasized the importance of the work of the Sunday School from; which the church draws the greatest number of its members. In the afternoon the Sunday School assembled in th© auditorium where an open session of the school was held'. Th© Robert Raikes Di­ plomas and Seals were presented ta the scholars who had made a perfect record in attendance during 1930,- Altogether there were 15 Diplomas, 39 Seals and I Alumi Diploma given out, A iduett was sung by Grant Taylor and Allan Renhaie and.a read­ ing was given by Miss Grace Strahge. Mr, Jewitt gave a short address that was interesting and appealing to the* boy©1 and girls. . At the evening service, although a heavy snowstorm was raging at the time, there was a splendid: turn­ out, The hydro: had been cut off shortly before the hour for the ser­ vice but with t'he dim light of sever­ al icandles1 which appeared rather at­ tractive as they adorned the pulpit, the pianoi and choir rail, the service, was commenced and before the closer the lights had come on again. A violin s-olo was played by Mr. George Grant and a solo was sung by Mr. D. A. Gordon. Mr. Gordon is a new­ comer to Exeter and has a splendid! bass voice and his singing delighted /lie., congregation. Mr. Jewitt’s mes­ sage in the evening was, ‘,The Over­ crowded Life.” He (pointed out that a lit© devoted to doing good things might easily overlook the best things; that .a .person may give, of their su.br ..stance to cgTry on most worthy eri-' personal r touch the giver misses the. greatest?' blessings. Mr. Jewitt is a son of Rev. Geo; Jewitt, a former pastoi’ of th© Elimville and Hensail circuits, and 'throughout the day he met many old friends of his younger days. THE, YOUNG PEOPLE OF ST. JAMES’ CHURCH, ST. MARYS ' Will present their Comedy play JThe Fascinating Fanny Brown* in the FARQUHAR HALL — on — FRIDAY. MAY 1ST, at 8:1-5 p.m. Musical Program between acts Admission^ 25c. Taylor attend- his re- IMPROVING ‘ . - «. Mr. John Taylor, of the Tire Shop, who was up and ing to his business following cent illness, was again taken ill on Wednesday of last week with heart ■ trouble and for several days he was in a very, critical condition. His friends will be pleased, to know that lie is improving. Mr. Taylor’s Tire shop lias been tlie meeting place for a number of the checker players who have -wiled • away many pleasant hours- at this popular pastime. Fifteen members of the Laymen’s Association of ' Trivitt Memorial Church attended the Deanery Lay­ men’s Banquet at Goderich Tuesday night. Canon Skey, of Toronto, ad­ dressed. the gathering. Canon Skey is .^'. cousin of Mrs. M. R. Complin And' visited with them On Monday. Permanent Waving a Specialty given by experienced operators at W. J. Hockey’s Barber Shop FRIDAY/MAY 1 AND EVERY 2ND FRIDAY * FOLLOWING Permeatoil Wave ....... $4.00 La Mona Wave....................$5.00 Le Mur Wave.......................$7.50 Make your appointments with Mr. W. J. Hockey Operators—Mrs. N. McMartin Miss E. McMartsn W. C. T. U. MEDAL CONTEST IN MAIN STREET UNITED CHURCH on FRIDAY. MAY STH at a p.m. Contestants in Elocution for Sliver Medal ate Patsy Martin, Jeannette Taman, Dorothy Hicks, ,33illy Xvilson, John McTavish and Charlie Complin. ,a For Junior Medal in Elocution are: ■Margaret Melville, Eleanor Abbott; Betty Hogarth, Olive Caldwell, Leonard Harvey, Grant Taylor and Jack Harness. Contestants in Singing for Medal are Kathleen and Lillian Kestle, Thelma Hockey, Jack Harness, Billy Walpcr, Kelvin Hey­ wood and Bills Pearce. ' ■, Iri1 addition to> the above th® Ladies* prehestfa of Main Street Church will contribute special number's and little Lor/aine Melville will sing. COLLECTION at the door * /