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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1931-11-26, Page 6NOVEMBER 26, 1931 JKKTVRNED FROM CENTRAL AMERICA Mr. iir.d Mrs, R. C. Halliday are vlsitiag in Mitchell alter two years absence, Mrs. Halliday has spent the greater part of her time in Re-* trait while Mr. Halliday has been in Central America where he was in the service of the American Bible Society. He works mostly in the Spanish tongue but carries about thirty languages in print. MAUKIAMf— CLARK A pretty wedding was solemnized jat the home of Mr. and Mrs, Alfred Johnston, the home of the bride’s sister when Mr. Percy E. Mackiam, proprietor of the Mackiam Cafe, Seaforth, was united in marriage to Miss Edna E. Clark, of Dundas and formerly of Seaforth, the ceremony tmir.g performed by Rev. A. E, Poulter, of Varna United Church. A hen owned by W. A. Hodgert, of Mt. Pleasant. Fullarton, which was “down in the dumps,” had to 1)0 put “out of business,” in -order •that she might have an end put to lior sufferings. On opening the hen ten eggs, weighing forty ounces were found and they were all of the •name size. This hen nad evidently been working overtime that she jnight help to get rid of the “cry" o£ “depression.” SEAFORTH USERS BENEFIT FROM SURPLUS “Users of hydro, on receiving their hills for the mouth, were pleasantly .surprised to find that, in some -cases their hydro cost them but a few -cents last month. However, Clerk J. A. Wilson has promised that bills will be back to normal next month. He attributes the low charges this -month to the fact that the Seaforth JPublic Utility Commission last year snade too much money.. He doesn’t say how they went about this, but In any case they had a surplus of aome $1,600 for the year 1930. So being a public concern, the Commis­ sion returned the surplus to the pub­ lic in the form of credit on the cur­ rent hydro bill. This $1,600 repre­ sents one-twelfth of the total hydro hill of 1930'. This rebate applies -equally to commercial, domestic and power users.—Seaforth Expositor PROMINENT DUBLIN BUSINESSMAN DIES William Hillti Passes Suddenly on Friday at Age of 55 Years. -One of Dublin's most prominent ■businessmen and highly esteemed residents, William Hills, passed mway suddenly at his home at- an (early hour Friday morning, at the age of 55 years. While- lie had ■been ill for about two weeks death came quite unexpectedly and the news was learned with deep regret Uy a wide circle of friends. The late Mr. Hills was born in Egmond- ville and conducted a hardware "business at Seaforth before moving to Dublin about 20 years* ago. Since that time he had been engaged in the hardware business here and by -Ills honesty and integrity developed ■a most successful bv.srness and com- -manded the esteem and regard of jail- with whom he came in contact. For a number of years and up to the time of his death he was treas- -airer of the township of Hiiblbert. In ^politics the -deceased man was a •staunch Liberal and he was a mem- l)er of the Presbyterian church. Surviving besides his widow are five daughters and one son: Jean, at borne; Ruth, of Ottawa, a former teacher in the Exeter High School; Mary, of London; Mrs. Geo. .Simp­ lon. of Sarnia; Flora, Toronto and -'Thomas at home. Lovely Skin Vegetable Pills Did What Creams Couldn’t "“I find (writes Miss E. T. Clapham) that Carter’s Little Liver Pills will do more to keep the complexion clear and the skin free from blemishes than all the face creams I have used.” Dr. Carter’s Little Liver Pills are no -ordinary laxative. They are ALL VEGETABLE and have a definite, -valuable tonic action upon the liver. They end Constipation, Indigestion, Biliousness, Headaches, Acidity^ All •druggists. 25c and 75c red packages. SPECIAL SALE — OF — Phone for prices DELIVERY MADE ON QUANTITIES A. J. CLATWORTHY M' Phone is -W gl GRANTON. ONTARIO Miss Strang Writes of Mission Field The following interesting letter from Dr, Margaret Strang, of the Peace River, was read to the Coven Presbyterian Sunday School: North Star, Alberta October 28, 1931♦ Dear Caven Sunday school,-— This is your missionary speaking from the Peace River Valley. I had a great trip out here. There was a long train journey to Calgary, Al­ berta, where I stayed over the week­ end and met some very nice people. One of them was Mrs. Dr. Gunn who used to sing in Caven Church choir in Exeter, when she was Miss Anna Martin. Then on to Edmonton—and when I woke up Tuesday morning, Octo­ ber 14th we were into the Peace River country. The train was run­ ning along the rim of a great purple valley with the day just breaking over a line of hills to the eastward. In the afternoon I reached Grande Prairie, where Mr. Wright, the mis­ sionary in .charge of the whole Peace River District, met me. Miss Jec- •kell can tell you what splendid people Mr. and Mrs, Wright are. She heard them both speak at Winnipeg. Mr. Wright brought me up in his car to the Battle Rivei* country the next day and left me here to start work. You ought to see the palace I live in. I call it my Windsor Castle. It’s about as big as the vest­ ry in Caven Church. When I fol­ lowed my two boxes and one trunk in the doorway. I pretty nearly had to get up on the furniture to walk around. But never mind—any castle keeps the rain off and most of the wind out—and there’s lots of room out­ side to do my travelling. Miles of prairie country. It rolls away in every direction. North Star is just a spot where four roads meet. There’s a store that sells everything from ‘boots to bread—-with the Pwst 'Office tuck­ ed away in one corner of it—and two or three houses—and my castle a few rods away in the field. I can’t see more than half a doz­ en houses from here, but if I go along the roads I find them. Not fine big houses and barns like you have in Ontario but little squat ■buildings made of logs, plastered with mud or chinked with moss to keejp the cold- winds out. (Some­ times even the roofs are covered witli sods and in summertime they grow a fine crop of weeds and grass. Wouldn’t it be funny to see a house with green plumes in its* hat? And boys and girls like you live in those houses. Now there’s Tom­ my Rhodes (I don’t think he’s any relation to our Mr, Rhodes, though) He’s just eleven, bus he’s going to be a big man some day. He ban lioe the garden and herd cattle and feed horses and his one ambition is bp able to run his father’s tractor .engine. Tommy rides horseback To school along, with his two little sisters, Jessie and Helen. The whole three of them climb on to the back of a big grey horse and away they go at a great gallop down the road to the schoolhouse three miles away. Some of these cold mornings their fingers and toes nip pretty badly too. Tommy Ives in one of these fun­ ny little log houses. The inside walls are just rough logs but there’s the big cookstove to keep them warm and woolly blankets on the beds behind the curtain. For there is only one room in the house—'but they have' the beds screened off. They have plenty of cabbages and potatoes and if the ,two big cows give plenty of milk this winter Tom­ my and his sisters and’brothers will have enough to eat to keep their cheeks round and. rosy. But not all the liicldies in this country are as happy and warm as Tommy Rhodes. Away back a mile from the road, I found three little tots, who will have to go barefooted all winter unless folks with big warm hearts send them shoes and stockings. Their mother makes little shirts and trousers for them out of old flour sacks, but flour sacks aren’t very warm as you can imagine. Little Mike is just five years old, Mary is three and Fred­ die. the baby, s two. The boys and girls around North Stai’ are looking forward to having a Sunday .School all winter. That’s something they never had before. There’s just a wheezy old organ in the scrool house but how they do lave to get around that organ and sing “When He Cometh” and “God Coes the Little .Sparrow Fall” at the top of their voices, You see that’s the only music they have. No pianos or organs or radios at home in those log houses. We have Sunday School in the schoolhouse because there is no church building here. Just my Windsor Castle, and I’m. afraid if we all tried to get into it, the walls /would soon bulge outward and the roof would iall in, I wish you could have seen us coming home from Sunday School a week ago. About fourteen of its, piled onto a crazy old buckboard. I THE EXETER TIMES-ADVOCATE About all you could see of the buck­ board' was the wheels and when­ ever the horses stopped or started suddenly, the top layer would fall off—-and have to run to catch up again. I travel for miles over the prairie on horseback and next letter I must (tell ypu about my splendid ibig horse culled -Prairie Duke and the long ride we had from Duke's old home at Grande Prairie to his new one at North Star. From your missionary Margaret Strang CONSITT—-TURNER- A pretty autumn wedding took place at the home of -Mlr. and Mrs. Webster Turner, Hillsgreen, when when their.only daughter, Margaret Eileen, was united to marriage to Thomas Russell Consltt, only son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Consitt, also of . Hillsgreen, The “Lohengrin Bridal Chorus’” was played by Miss Gladys Stephenson as the . bridal couple took their places beneath a decorated arch of evergreens. The bride, who was given in mar­ riage by her father, wore a white silk crepe dress, trimmed with rad­ ium lace, and carried a bouquet of pink mums. 'She also wore the con-' ventionaj veil and orange blossoms. She was unattended, save for .two little girls, Miss Julene Stephenson, cousin of the bride, and Miss Ruth McAllitser, neice of the groom. The groom’s gift to the .bride was a case of silverware, to the flower girls fancy mesh bags and to the pianist a silver dish. The ceremony was performed by Rev. R. R. .Connor, of Kippen, in the presence of the im­ mediate relatives of the bride and groom. An interesting feature was the fact that it was the 45th wed­ .* 1 .1 Let Your Dollars Serve Canada I Bearing interest from 15th November, 1931, and offered in two matur­ ities (the choice of which is optional with the subscriber) as follows 3 I 5 YEAR 5% BONDS, DUE 15th NOVEMBER, 1936 10 YEAR 5% BONDS, DUE 15th NOVEMBER, 1941 Department op Finance, Ottawa, 23 rd November, 1931 Principal payable without charge, in lawful money of Canada, at the office of the Minister of Finance and Receiver General of Canada at Ottawa or at the office of the Assistant Receiver General at Halifax, Saint John, Charlottetown, Montreal, Toronto, Winnipeg, Regina, Calgary and Victoria; Interest payable half-yearly, 15th May and 15th November, in lawful money of Canada, without charge, at any branch in Canada of any Chartered Bank; 'Denominations : 5, YEAR BONDS $100, $500 and $1,000 10 YEAR BONDS $500 and $1,000 The Minister of Finance offers for public subscription $150,000,000 Dominion of Canada 5% Bonds TQQTTF PRTCF* Ye«ir Botlds^ 99-^4 and accrued interest ‘ 10 Year Bonds, 99 and accrued interest Payment to be made in full at time of application Subscription lists to the foregoing will open on 23rd November,* 1931, and will close on or before 12th December, 1931, with or without notice, at the discretion of the Minister of Finance. Subscriptions will be received and receipts issued by any branch in Canada of any Chartered Bank and by recognized Dealers; Interim Certificates will be delivered through the bank or dealer designated by the subscriber in the applic­ ation, upon surrender of the receipt; Service Loan ding anniversary of the groom’s parents. The dining-room was dec­ orated in pink and lynite and four of the girl friends of the bride waited on the tables for the wedding breakfast, Later in the afternoon the young couple left for a motor trip to Tor­ onto, Ottawa and other eastern points, the bride wearing a brown satin dress, green congo coat, with brown fur trimming and brown hat. They will reside On the groom’s fine farm, Pan' Line, Stanley FORMER EXETER RESIDENT celebrate golden wedding The Winnipeg Free Press of No­ vember 13tli contained the pictures of two former residents -of JExetei* in the persons of Mr. and Mrs. J. J, Pickard, who on November the 10th celebrated their golden wedding an­ niversary. The Free press' says: “-Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Pickard, of 83 8 Dorchester Ave., celebrated their golden wedding at a family re­ union at their residence, The couple, who are enjoying splendid health, were married on November 10, 1881, in London, On­ tario. Mrs. Pickard whose maiden name was Jennie Hornsby, is a sis­ ter of the late Robert Hornsby, of London, Ont., and Mr. Pickard is a son -of the late James Pickard, who was the first man to open a mer­ chant’s store in the Exeter district of Ontario. Mr. Pickard came to Manitoba 22 years ago, when he started a gen­ eral merchant business in Holland. On retiring he .settled in Winnipeg. He was for some years in Oxbow, Sask., and in Medicine Hat. Alta. He is a member of Crescent United GOVERNMENT OF THE DOMINION OF CANADA The proceeds of this loan will be used to promote the economic and financial welfare of Canada Theloan is authorized under Act of the Parliament of Canada, and both principal and interestare a charge on the Consolidated Revenue Fund of Canada. Bearer bonds with coupons will be issued in de­ nominations of $100, $500 and $1,000 in the case of the 5-year bonds and in denominations of $500 and $1,000 in the case of the 10-year bonds. These bonds may be registered as to principal; Fully registered bonds,the interest on which is pay­ able direct to the owner by Government cheque, churoh. There are three sons and two daughters; Norman, of Napinka, Man.; Robert and william, of Win­ nipeg; Mrs, F. E. Campbell, of Hol­ land, Man.; and Mrs. R, B, Barr, of Beverley Hills, Calif, All members of the family, with the exception of Mrs. Barr, are attending the social gathering being held today in honor of the venerable couple,” Mr. and Mrs. PJckard from their picture look to be a happy and well preserved couple. -Some of the old- er residents of Exeter, who remem­ ber them say they have changed considerably since they left here. A GREAT DESTROYER What is more powerful than the combined armies of the. world?” What has “destroyed more men than all the wars of the nations?” The answer is given in a striking style of personification thus: “I am more deadly than bul­ lets, and I have wrecked1 more homes than the highest of siege guns. z» “I spare no one, and I find my victims among the rich and the That Terrible Pain in the Back Was Soon Gone Mrs. H. Oickle, Caledonia, N.S., writes:—“For several, months I was bothered with my kidneys and thought I|. Would never obtain relief. I received one of your Almanacs containing testimonial#; from women who had obtained relief from Doan’s Kidnovj Pills, so I purchased a box and they did me so muck good-1 got two more, and after using them found th*# terrible backache was soon gone.” < Price, 50c. a box at all drug and general stores, or|‘ mailed direct on receipt of price by The T. Milburn CoJ. Ltd., Toronto, Ont. will be issued in denominations of $500, $1,000; $5,000, $10,000 and $100,000. Pending preparation of the engraved definitive bonds, bearer interim certificates in denominations of $100 (for the5-year bonds only),$500, $1,000, $10,000 and $100,000, will be delivered on all allotments on subscriptions to this loan; Registration as to principal, or as to both principal and interest, will be effected when the interim certificates are exchanged fori definitive bonds, on or about the' 1st March, 19321 H poor alike, the young and the old,, the strong and the weak. Wldow< and orphans ‘know me. < “I loom up to such proportion^ that I cast my shadow oypr everjj field of labor, from the turning o4 the grindstone to the moving off every railway-train. 1 “I massacre thousands upon thou.-* sands of wage-earners a year. “J lurk in unseen places, and do? most of my work silently. You ara warned against me, but you heeds not. HI am everywhere—-in the house< oh the streets, in the factory, andj> on the sea. •’ “I bring sickness, degradation and death, and yet few seek to avoid! me, 1, “I destroy, crush, «r maim. I give­ nothing, but take all. * “I am your worst enemy. < “I am OARE1LE1SS1NESS.” ' ' “Eighty-eight per cent, increase®' demand for canoes in Canada, -du# to American tourists’ desire to getr acquainted with Canadian water* ways.” So, after all, it wasn“t thef hard stuff they were trying to ge!J; acquainted with.