The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1931-12-24, Page 6THE EXETER TIMES-ADVOCATE
'The daaith occurred on Tuesday,
Boeemamr 15, at the Scott Memorial
BmpML Seaforth, following a pro-'
tMeted illness of Catherine Park/
■daughter of the late George Park-
of 'Stanley^ Miss Park who was an
estimable lady was born on the Go*
aihen line in Stanley. She lived in
Bayfield for a time where she and
hex* sistox’ engaged dress-making
After the death of their father sev
en years ago, she moved to New
York later returning to Bayfield.
She disposed of hex' property after
ward and went to reside on the
homestead in Stanley,
old
HIBBERT GIRL DEAD
(Gladys K, Stacey, daughter
Mrs, Oliver Stacey, of lot texx oix
third concession of Hibbert, •
had been in poox* health for the past
six months, passed away on Tues
day, December 15th, in hei* thir*
teentlx year. Her father died some
, years ago ond besides her mother,
she is survived by a number of
brothers and sisters. The funeral
took place from the family residence
on Fi’iday afternoon to Woodland
cemetery, Mitchell for interment.
of
i the
who
FOOte- BMNSH ARD BOY D» ;
Mr. W» L. Swit&eL of Wpudlxam,.
received ward recently of-- the sad
death of his nephew, Mr* OHvax*
Thompson, of Calvin, North Dakota
from diphtheria. He was only 36
years of age. Mr. Thompson was a
sou Of Mrs. W. D- Thompson (form
erly Timh Switsei') and the late
Mi'. Thompson, who formerly lived
on lot 4, con. 9, Biaushard. The
family went West about 82 years ago and will be remembered by
many of the older residents of this
community, Mr, Edward Switzer,
of the 4th line Blanshard is an uncle
of the deceased. Mr. Thompson
leaves to mourn his untimely death,
his wife and two children, Jimmie
and Betty, his mothex* and sister.
Miss lone who also live at Calvin,
North Dakota and another sister,
Mrs Frank Shortridge (Rita), mis
sionary jii Sefou, North Africa.-—-St.
Marys Journal-Argus.
FOUR DENTS FOR L’AR WASH
The Salvation Army pf London
has discovered a case wfyeto a man
gets 4 c, for washing a car and the
most he earns is $4,0O' a week,
To earn four dollars a week he
must wash on an average of cars
per day for six days, as it takes
an average of three-quarters
hour to. give a car g, hath.
GRANTON
GRANTON W» M, S,
Day“I heard the bells on Christmas
Their old familiar carols play,
And wild and sweet the word repeat
Of peace on earth, good will to
men!”
Dull Pains Around Her Heart
Shortness of Breath
Mrs. H. Warren, 107 Ferguson Ave. N.,. Hamilton.
Ont., writes:—“For some time I had pains around
my heart. I was so short of breath I could hardly
, go up stairs, and could not get any sleep at night.
A friend had told me about Milbum’s Heart and
Nerve Pills, so I thought I would give them a trial.
I am thankful I did Tor after taking three boxes I
felt like a different person; can sleep soundly all
night, and do all my own work now.”
Sold at all drug and general stores, or mailed direct
a • pa. . lx„ on receipt of pnce by The T. Milburn Co., Ltd., Price a VC a DOX Toronto, Ont.
Oh
•an
Wo-
the
held
Officers
The regular* meeting of the
men’s Missionary Society of
United church, Granton, was
recently. The following
were elected: president, MrS. Lloyd;
1st. Vice-Prels., Mrs. M. Lindsay;
2nd Vlce-Pres., Mrs, Alp; recording
secretary, Mrs. Roy Sherritt; cori'es-
ponding secretary, Mrs. W, Gregory;
treasurer, Mrs. W. Langford; secre
tary of Christian Stewardship and
Finance, Mrs, John Middleton; fi
nance committee, Mrs. R, Sherritt,
Mrs. Yeungson, Mrs. Keith, Mrs.
Wells and Mrs. Wetman; stranger’s
secretary, Mrs. William Lankin; se
cretary of Missionary Monthly, Miss
Maitland; supervisor of Study Book,
Mrs. D. Westman; superjintendent.
of Mission Band, Mrs. C. W. Mc
Roberts; assistants, Mrs. Duffield,
Mrs. Westman; associate helpers'
secretary, Mrs. G. Jamieon; super
intendent of Baby Band, Miss F,
Rigney; literature secretary, Mrs.
D. Westman; secretary, of temper
ance education, Mrs. C. Fitzgerald;
pianist, Mrs. James Hodgson; as
sistant, Mrs. N. Gunning; supply
secretary, Mrs. .Scott; assistants,
Mrs, Jamieson, Miss Maitland, sun
shine committee, Mrs. Switzer, Miss
M. Rigney; press secretary, Mr. Alp.
III
EXETER, ONTARIO
“APPRECIATED ALL YEAR”
When the question arises as to what you will give the absent members
of the family or a former friend for Christmas, it may easily be
solved by sending them the old home town paper.
It will be appreciated—And it costs so little, the price being
THE TIMES-ADVOCATE
Mr. Thomas Lebbln
ly at bls home in st.
1872 a» a young man
by his brother and sister he came
to. St, Marys with his sister and took
Up residence on tha same Jot where
he lived the rest of his life,
ceased is survived by a family
seven sous and daughters.
died recent-
Marys, In
accompanied
De*
of
PWW OHASHHS ON
FARM WAR C14NTON
Two avaitors from the London
Flying club when endeavouring to
make a landing in the sembdark-
pess about two miles from Clinton
in Hullett Township, crashed their
plane when turned over pinning the
pilot in the cock pit, No serious in
jury however was sutained by the
avaitors, The plane was badly
wrecked and was loaded on to u
truck oxi Thursday morning and
transported to. London.
50 YEARS AGO
Mr, John Fisher, who pas been a
resident of Exeter for the past ten
years, has removed his barber shop
to Mitchell, of wihch he intends to
become a permanent resident.
The installation of officers
of Lebanon Forest Lodge A.F.
M. took place in the Masonic
on Tuesday evening last.
elect
& A.
Hall
The fol
lowing are the officers: Bro, W. D.
Bright, W.M.; B. S. O’Neil, S.W.;
D. McEwen, J.W.; G. Samwell, Treas
C. Benior, Secretary; Rev. E. J. Ro
binson, Chaplin; Walter Drew, S.D.;
S. E. Jones, J.D.; W. E. AVilkins,
Guardian; G, K, McLeod, Tyler; J,
Hawkshaw and E. Drew, Stewards;
L. Hardy, D.C.
Mr. B. Grigg, who has-- acted in
the capacity of book-keeper in Mes
srs. Samuel & Pickard’s establish
ment, for a number of years, was on
behalf of the employees presented
with a gold chain and locket on
Thursday evening last prior to his
departure for Montreal, whither lie
goes to take a position as a book
keeper in a wholesale house.
A shooting match took place at
the Centennial Hotel, on Monday
last which resulted as follows: A.
Bigsett, 8; J. Wood, 8; W. Bissett,
A. McPherson, J. Heywood, 7; Su
Fairburn, 6; P. Curtain, W. Drew,
5; J. Westcott, G. F. Dyer, 4; R,
Sanders, W. Carling, 3. A. Bissett
and J. Wood being a tie three birds
were shot at and resulted in a vic
tory for Bissett.
;SpiceisSmale-In
21st, inst., by the
Mr. Ezra Spicer
Smale, both of Exeter.
.'Bailey-Brown_In Exeter on the
28th inst., by Rev. G. Webber, Mr.
Alfred Bailey to Miss Lizzie Brown
both of Exeter.
Exeter on the
Rev. G. Webber,
to Miss Annie
Miss Pope, Deaconess, is In town
soliciting for the benevolent worth
of The Upper Canada Tract society.
Last year $40.97 was contributed in
Exeter.
For nearly one hundred years the
Tract Society has ministered by,
means of the printed page, in many
langxiages, to those in Hospital, in
Prison and In the Home, It distri
butes the choicest Christian litera
ture and thus helps in counteract
ing atheistic aixd communist tend
encies, it has sent (gratis) many
thousands of selected books to Sall*
or, Soldiers, Lighthouse Keepers,
Canadian Mounted Police, Miners,
Lumberjacks, sick Children, etc, It has for 63 years maintained an ex
tensive to the thousands of Sailors
on the Great Lakes; owns and oper
ates the Royal Sailors’ institute at
the head of Lake Superior,
smaller Institutes at Kingston
Toronto.
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CHBISTJIAS EVE
*
The swinging bells have settled
to silence,
And from 'the byre there comes the
muffled sound
Of restless beasts that, weary, shift
their, balance,
Knee-deep in rustling straw on trod
den ground.
now
Riding above the hill’s dark height,
the moon
Touches the earth with her white
wizardry,
And all the Milky Way is tinsel-
strewn
With stars like candles on a Xmas
tree.
Surely on such a night, when skies
were clear, =»
The clarion trumpet called: “Be
afraid!”
And shepherds, crouching to
ground in fear,
Heard that their Lord was in a
manger laid.
not
the
And hurrying from the fields, and
down the street,
•A village street as rough aixd steep
as this,
Came, wi-tli a star to guide their
stumbling feet,
To where His Mother worshipped
with a kiss.
The village sleeps to-night; no an
gels sing,
No wise men, bearing gifts, come
from afar.
But, bright upon our darkness, her
alding.
eternal Incarnation, burns a
star.
The
Fox*
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EXETER, ONT.
At Lucan Monday and Thuroday
a
Dr. G. S. Atkinson, L.D.S.tD.DM
DENTAL SURGEON
Office opposite new Post Officer
Main St., Exeter
Telephones
Office 84w Houm Mg
Closed Wednesday Afternoon.
Dr. G. F. Roulston, L.D.S.,D.DJL
DENTIST
Office: Carling Block •
EXETER, ONT. '1!,
Closed Wednesday Afternoon
Oristmas!cine
^BELFAST
^zl
“In half a minute Mrs. Cratchit
1 entered—-flushed, but smiling
proudly~with the pudding, .like
a speckled cannon-ball, so hard,
ahd firm, blazing in half of half a
quartern of ignited brandy, and
bedight with Christmas holly stuck
into the top/’
Not very many words, but in
those few Wfds Charles Dickens
t seems to have gathered together
all the reasons why, every year
Canadians from all over the
* Xy*** ***
EnglandDominion look towards _Ji
and the old-fashioned Christmas.
And the ghostly smell of that
Christmas pudding, f‘like an eat
ing-house and a pastrycook’s next
ddbr to eSch other, With a laun-
dfesB’s next ddor to that!”, has ah
Influence tin steamship passenger
dfncials as they make Up their
aailih^liStS.
This year the Canadian Pacific
has arranged four sailings from
Saint Jellify N.B., designed to
allow home-ward bound Canadians
to reach even the remotest parts of
the British Isles in time for the
great English festival. They are,
the: Montclare for Glasgow, Belfast
and Liverpool, December fifth,
Duchess of Bedford to the same
ports December ilth, Montrose to
Cherbourg, Southampton and Ant
werp December 12 th, Duchess of
Richmond to Glasgow, Belfast ahi
Liverpool December 16th, for the
real last-minute travellers.
25 YEARS AGO
Mr. W. T. Hawkshaw, of London,
has purchased Mr. John Hawkshaw’s
residence on Main Street and the
latter has purchased the residence
of Mrs. Airtlx on William Street.
(Clifford, son of Mr-, and Mrs. G.
Vosper, of Toronto, formerly of Ex
eter, underwent an operation at one
of the hospitals in that city for ap
pendicitis. '
Mr. Wm. Bawden arrived .on
Thursday last from Scotland with
thirteen ,fine horses.
'The bellringers of the Trivitt
Memorial Church were kindly re
membered at Christmas by Mrs. A.
Q. Bobier, who presented each with
a fine large turkey.
Mr. Wm. Prigsley left on Friday
for Detroit where- he will spend the
winter, with his daughter Mrs. Jas.
Vise.
A very pleasant event took place
at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Wm.
Yearley, Credit-oil, on December
22nd when about 70 guests
invited to help them celebrate
wedding, day.
Some of the students who
li'ome for the holiday are; Elmore
Senior, Roy Farmer, Herb Gregory,
Ed. J. Facett, Miss Winnie Carling,
of Toronto; Herib Pickard, of Mc
Gill University, Miss Martha Carl
ing, of Toronto.
Miss Mary McArter, teacher at
Sodom left Saturday for her home
in Brussels,
A colt belonging to Ml’. D. A.
Sanders ran away on Friday after
noon last when lie was driving it up
the London Road turning the cutter
over and the horse ran home.
not ixx time alone the mystery
Of heavexxly blossom on axx
•stem,
But every cottage shall a
be,
And every English* village
them.
earthly
mangel'
Bethle-
—'Phyllis Hartnoil
were
their
slats’ diary
Friday—Pa was asting Bill Hix
wliut did his new lieffer die of and
Bill sed he did-
d e n t remember
whut the vetin-
ery called ■ it but
he was pritty sure
it was sum thing
seryus he thot.
Satorday — pa
like to of reeked
are chances cf go
ing to the pitcher
show tonite. Ma
was saying that*
so menny of the
new was lacking
marryed men
in cleverness
pa
sed
was
that. He sed ifyou
a lot of clever men
Bachelors. Ma was 1-2 sore but she
wanted to see the pitcher, she was
Very quiet all evening.
Sunday—-Pa got a present yester
day. of a box of segars but he has_
sent started sxnokeiig them yet and
I dont gess he will becuz the fel
low witch give them to him is the
Undertaker here in town.
Munday—last' week pa lent
replyed
he thot
rite
are
Kansas, in the
the
left
the holidays at
operator at
Office here
15 YEARS AGO
iMr. Robt. ganders received word
last week that his old friend Mr.
William Sharpe has again been
elected to the House of Represent
atives for Topeka,
recent election.
Miss A. Kadwell
Central 'Telephone
Saturday to spend
her home in Petrolia.
Mr, Ed. Triebitei' after foxti'
months illness in London Hospital,
was brought home last week. Ho is
still in a pooi’ condition.
Mrs. Louise cudmore leaves to
day for a visit in Wifiiripeg and
Crystal City, Man.
she
and
and
she
about
Avant to find
just find the
a
fanner witch lives acrost the crik
a gallen of gasoline and today the
farmer witch lives acrost the ci'ik
went and died and ma sed she nevei’
did trust him enny ways.
Teusday—Hatty 'Grimes witch
wirks for- us evry Munday came to
wirk yesterday with her face all ty-
ed up and she ser her liu&bend had
stepped on her mouth a purpus bub
She diddent pay no attenshun to
him becux he was drunk agen.
Wednesday—'Mrs. Gilelm wants
to reduce so she wont be kwite so
fat and way so much so she was ast-
ing Ant Emmy if she new of enny
maggasines she sliud ought to
so she cud emprove her figger
Ant Emmy sljested Forum.
Thitsday—-To nite we had
boi'ger cheese and liverworst
pickles and ice
ade. And then
and it made me
issent very good
hoed
and
l!m-
and
cream and lemin-
I eat just 1 apple
sick, I gess apples
for meamny more.
DR. E. S. STEINER
VETERINARY SURGEON
Graduate of the Ontario Veterinary
College
DAY AND NIGHT
CALLS PROMPTLY ATTENDED TB
Office in the old McDonell Barn
Behind Jones & May Store
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Merchandise, Real Estate, Fans
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prevailing prices. Satisfaction as
sured, write Oscar Klopp, Zurich^
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If iXianimato things can’t think
how does the paper cap of a milk
bottle know you have on your dress
up clothes?
‘Recital given in Toronto by neg-
coloratura soprano.” That’s thero
only kind of soprano a negro should
sing.
A. tramp at Orilla swam out and
captured a wild duck hiding in ttid
water weeds, That tramp has nd
duckless glance.