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Home My WebLink AboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1932-05-12, Page 1BfTJUBLISHED 1873 EXETER, ONT., THURSDAY MORNING, MAY 12th, 1932 FIFTY-FJFTH YEAR, NO. 2732 *- We still have a large range of coats to choose from; These must be sold at once regardless of cost. Come early. They are going fast. We still have a few good Ladies’ Coats clearing at $3.95 Congoleum Rug to be Given Away Free Come and have a guess at the lucky number. Contest ends Saturday at noon. This 6ft. x 9ft. Congoleum rug ab solutely free to the person guessing nearest to the lucky number. The envelope will be opened this Saturday after-, noon. Ladies’, Misses’ and Girls’ Rain Coats Clearing at Real Bargain Prices This Week. Suit Sale, Extra FREE Pants, Thursday, May 19th < Mr. Renault, of the Skill-Craft clothing Co. will be at our store taking : measures for men’s suits on Thursday, May 19th. If you need a new suit J come in and take advantage of this Special Sale. _______________ ' ] SUPERIOR CHAIN STORE GEL-E Jelly Powders...........6 pkgs. 25c. Corn Flakes, Quaker orKellogg . . pkg. 8c Royal Purple Garden Seeds . . 6 pkg. 25c Princess Soap Flakes.............per pk. 21c CANNED PEAS SURPRISE SOAP Strawberry Jam RINSO Old Homestead bundurn Brand large package Brand (No. 3 sieve) 3 tins 25c. 10 Bars ’43c;per 40 oz. jar 29c.21c. .Kraft Salad Dressing, large jar..........19c Bluebell Brooms (five string) each . . 25c. Western Rolled Oats....................7 lbs. 25c. ► Shirriff’s Good Morning , . ► Marmalade.........16oz. 24c.; 32 "oz. 39c.Marmalade . Genuine Wizard Sheep Manure any quantity Nitrate of Soda—an excellent forcer for Tomatoes, etc. C. I. L. Plant Food. Free Flowing Hoes 60c. up; Rakes 50c. and up Cultivators, Garden Trowels, etc. Lawn Mowers, all sizes and prices Royal Purple, Mangel Seed 30c. a pound Steel Briggs, Mangel Seed, 35c. a pound TRAQUAIR & LINDENFIELD .MAIN STREET MEN’S UNION ” The Main Street United Church Men’s Union met in the church par lour on Wednesday evening, May 4, .with the president, Mr. Geo. Layton presiding. The Scripture lesson was read by Mir. ROss, A' vocal duet was given by (Messrs; J. Francis and G. Skinner. The speaker Of the* evening was ReV. Jas. Anthony, who •gave an inspiring address on “Good (Literature’’ .• dealing particularly 'With the poems of Robert Browning, in his talk Mr. Anthony gave .a; ■splendid interpretation Of the poem ientitled "My Last Duchess”. it Was decided that at the ;June •meeting, which is to be-the closing meeting for the season, the Men’s Union will meet with the Woman’s Association at their Quarterly tea* Tudhope Electric Rangettes made to operate off ordin ary wall or base plug. Large Cooking Top with 2 plates 7 3-4 inches Large Oven with Elements on top and bottom. Colors in Blue, Grey, Green and Ivory. ; Unexcelled for stammer use in homes or Summer Cottages Muriel, the six-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mirs. Cecil Rowe, of Hay TWp. was one of the winners of a prize in the Simpson’s Canada Wide Mickey Mouse contest for children under Seven years of age. The con test Was to draw a picture of Mickey Mouse and the 550 winners were each awarded a mickey mouse. There were over 18,000 contestants. OPERATION FOR APPENDICITIS ■‘Bartle'.MOU, Sdn of Mr. and jMrs. R. L. MOtSr, was taken td'St, Joseph’s Hospital, London, on Thursday ’ of last week; where he underwent- an Operation for’ appendicitis. Mrs Mbtz remained with him until Sunday. He is now getting along as well as can be expected* i? Full range of Mangel and Turnip Seeds at lowest prices. George Brown & Son Have opened up a Butcher Business ON MAIN STREET AND WISH TO SOLICIT A SHARE OF BUSINESS THEY WILL CARRY ALL KINDS OF FRESH AND CURED MEATS The store was formerly occupied by Mr. John Stanbury AWARDED GOLD MEDAL The Hoffman family, of. Dash wood, have added a second gold medal from the Stratford musical Festival. On Saturday Mr. Harry Hoffman was awarded the gold med al in the bass class and incidently received the highest marks awarded at the Festival. Two years ago his sister, Miss Alice Hoffman received the gold medal for soprano soloist. Mr. W. R. Goulding, A.T.C.M. was the teacher and accompanist in each case. The Stratford Beacon-Herald says: “Only one entry for the bass class with the well-known song, ‘The Floral Dance.” The singer was Harry Hoffman, of Dashwood, and he was the best of the evening. He has a bass voice of good quality, his lower register being resonant and well developed. Mr. Hoffman receiv ed the very high standard of 86 marks, which is tho highest yet awarded at the Musical Festival.” STEEL REMOVED FROM LEG after thirty Years Ml*. Rufus Cutting, section fore man for the C. N. R., had a piece of steel removed from the shin of the right leg just below the knee that had been embedded there for .over thiry years, Mr. Cutting was struck in the knee With a^plece of steel that flew off white^odvliig a tie spike many years ago. .embedding it self close td the bone. it had been giving him some trouble and on Sat urday evening he had it (removed by Dr, Weekes. TWO IADS FALX/ SO FEET INTO 26 FEET OF WATER Carl Hewitt and Beverley Stone house, aged four years, fall into old well. A tragedy was averted ip a most miraculous manuer on Friday after noon’ when two youngsters aged four years dropped twenty feet into an old well’ and were shortly after res cued very little the worse for their harrowing experience. The well, which is 46 feet'deep contained 26 feet of water. Beverley and Carl Stonebouse, twin sons of Mr, and Mrs. Gordon Stonehouse, who will be five years old in December and Carl, Hewitt, son of (Mr. and Mrs. Percy Hewitt, who will be five in November, were playing around an old well at the Mousseau Machine shop. ‘The top of the well was board ed. in and a half barrel containing stones was placed on top, The pump and logs were still in the well. Mrs,-Mooney, who lives close by, noticed the lads playing about i'the well and warned them to leave •which they did. A few minutes later on looking out of the window she caught a glimpse of the feet of one of the boys as he was tumbling into the well followed by the second. Running to one of the neighbours she informed Hilton Johns, of Us- borne, who happened to be present, and he hastened to the scene and lowering himself to the water down the brick sides of the well and the slimy pole he succeeded in getting one of the boys out of the water and held onto the other until help arived. The word spread and sever al men from the creamery across the road -were soon on the spot. There was no rope available and re turning to the creamery the men se cured a length of fire hose. Charles Salter was the next to go down the well followed by Jas. Tayor. Salter took the first lad and passed him up to Taylor and Taylor up to Wal ter Cutbush at the top. ■Carl Hewitt was the first to fall into the well and in falling he took with him Beverley Stonehenge. Carl fell head first and he was telling his mother that it was an awful feeling as. he was going down. He struck something with his head that raised quite a lump and. the ankle bf, one foot was injured. Beverley had several" bruises. None of the ■injuries were serious and the k’ds were ready to play as they had on There were several the well and some from the top of the wen had been thrown into it and how the lads es caped with such little injury miracle . The fact that they themselves above water until arrived is also amazing. again as soon dry clothes cross pieces in of the planks is a kept help MINSTREL* SHOW DELIGHTS LARGE AUDIENCE The Minstrel Show presented in Leavitt’s. Theatre Tuesday- evening drew a large crowd who were kept in rounds of laughter by the jokes of the colored end men. Mr. H. 0. Southcott acted as interlocutor. A chorus of male and female voices provided some very catchy songs, solo parts being taken by Miss Pearl Wood, Messrs. F. Abbott, A. Davis, B. Cousins, W. C. Davis, G. Skinner, H. Skinner, W. Harness and M. Howey. A quartette was sung by Misses Helen Penhale, Jean Sheere, Mrs. H. Carey and Miss Helen Dig- nan. Tom Walter and Jack Harness dressed as darky minstrels delight ed the audience with a duett. Fol lowing the first part of the pro gram a one-act romantic comedy en titled “On a Night Like This” was presented by eleven characters who took their parts exceptionally well and kept the house in a state of sus pense and amusement. The whole program was exceedingly entertain ing.. It is being presented again this (Wednesday night.) The Min strel Show was under the auspices ofi The Canadian Legion and^ the Trivitt Memorial A. Y. P. A. and was under the direction of Mrs. N. J. Dore. Mr. Thos. Sanders suffered a slight stroke on Friday last and has been confined to his bed. AUTO DEMONSTRATION A display of De Soto, Chrysler and the new finer plymouths was made at the Huron Garage on Friday last and attracted the attention. of many Citizens, (The demonstration was a new feature of the Chrysler Corpor ation ‘being the first demonstration of its kind in Canada. Mr. F. C; CoiiwAy, district mairagqr, Was in Charge of the demonstration, put on by the Stratford distributor, Roy Brothers & Sons through Mi*. Cecil Stewart. The demonstrating cars were kept very busy all afternoon ana evening taking many persons for a ride in the 'new models with feating power, free wheeling . and automatic clutch; The .demonstration proved to be a spendid success and the public seemed to be greatly in terested. BOARD OF EDUCATION Meeting of Board of Education was held in the Public Library on Monday evening, May 9th, at 7.30- All members present. Business submitted and approved was as follows;Per Chairman—-Minutes of the previous meeting. Frincipal Wethey reported for the High School an enrolment for April of 157, Reports of examinations had been sent to parents April 22; final local examinations to begin June 8th; Pupils to be notifed to be at school Friday June 17; De partment examinations to begin on June 2Qth. An explanation regarding method of marking papers was given by Mr. Wethey, Principal Howard reported num ber of enrolment for April 23(5. 4 new pupils had come in and one left, average attendance was 218.65; av erage per room was 40; days missed through absence 2*75; and lates re ported 30'; 4^5 school plots had been planted; Per L, Day and M. Sanders; That the two reports be adopted. Per J3. Sanders and W. H. Dearing: That the request of Miss Bonis for absence to write on ex laminations be granted; she provid ing the substitute, Per L, Day and S. M. Sanders: That the gchoarship for Entrance and H, S. Examinations be cancelled for this year on account of the change in fche method of holding examinations, whereby some pupils are passed their Entrance, Lower School and Middle School Exams, on their year’s work and others be low a certain percentage are obliged to pas& the regular final examina tions. Per W. H. Penhale and T. Jones: That protest against the fee for De partment Examinations being raised from $1.00 to $l.’5O be sent to the Department of Education. Per T. Jones and W. A. Turnbull payment of following accounts: B. W. F. Beavers, .supplies $1.05; Traquair & Lindenfield, supplies $2ri:.50; Grigg Stationery, supplies $2-5.19. Per Mrs. Beavers and W. H. Dear ing: That Examination paper for the Public School be procured. K. MhcFaul, Sec’y. GRAND BEND YOUNG MAN COMMITTED FOR TRIAL Mr. Percy Elsie, of Grand Bend, appeared before Magistrate U, Reed, of Goderich, in Exeter on Fri day last as an aftermath to the mo tor accident which took place on the Lake Road on Saturday night April 23rd in which Fred Triebner, of Hay township was struck by an auto mobile and instantly killed. Mr. El sie was committed for trial at the June assizes in Goderich and releas ed on $2,000 bail. The evidence given at the trial was much the same as that which was given at the Coroner’s inquest. During the hearing the accused was subjected to a vigorous cross examination by Crown Attorney Dudley Holmes. Frank Donnelly, of Goderich, acted for the accused. NEW PRESS The Times-Advocate are this week installing a new Babcock-Optimus press for the printing of the paper. The press was purchased, in Toron to and brought here by truck. It weighs twelve tons and is being set up in the basement of the building. Some alterations have been neces sary to accommodate this new equip ment which will enable us to turn out a better paper with greater speed and will also enable us to handle a class of work; not before attempted. ORGANIZE FOR BASEBALL An enthusiastic baseball meeting was held in the Central Hotel on Thursday of last week and plans were made for the coming baseball season. It was decided, to drop the softball and turn the attention of the fans to another season of base ball. The following officers were elected: Hon. President, B. M. Francis; president, W. G- IMedd; V. President, Dr. Steiner; Secretary- Treasurer, Frank Creech; Executive Committee, Dr. Fetcher, H. C. Rivers Jas. Bowey, Frank Boyle; GoaCh, H. Lewis. The position of managin’ was left open and will be. decided on at a later date. Grounds commit tee were: James Taylor, oren Winer Verne Harness, Bert Rivers and Ern est Appleton. It is the intention of the club to organize a Cyclone League. yrhe' villages suggested for this league are Exeter, Lucan, Crediton, Hensail, Zurich, Centralia and Dashwood. The teams are to consist of all home talent. A meet ing to form a league will be held in the near future, The local execu tive have a number of young play ers in view and it is their intention to give these boys a chance to show their wares. Uniforms and a; cer tain amount of equipment are available from former years,., it is hoped; that the fans will lend their sup port and try to aid in getting base ball going in Exeter again. A vote of thanks was tendered t> Mr. Low ry for the use of his room to hold the meeting* EXETER LADY HAS FIVE RIBS FRACTURED IN CAR ACOWENf A serioua motor accident IqpB place »ear Winfield on Saturday evening when several persona frona Flint, Mich,, who had. accompanied Mr. S. C. Pollen to Exeter and the latter’s mother Mrs, wm. pollen oC town were injured or bruised. Mjv Pollen accompanied by Miss Margar* et Dunlop, W. Gerald Hanson, MXr and Mrs. Harold Porte, and Mis?r Carrie Riper, all of Flint, Mich,, and. all employed With the Bell Tele phone Co., motored to Exeter in MTV Pollen’s Buick; sedan on Saturday- In company with Mrs. Pollen ’they motored to London for the evening and were returning home, Miss Dun lop was driving and when near EI- ginfield the car sideswiped a Lon* don car, took to the ditch and crashed against a large tree. Thft car was completely wrecked, encircl ing. the tree and one would almost imagine the tree had grown up lit the centre. Some of the occupants were seriously injured but how any one of them escaped death is a mys tery, Mi’s. Pollen had her chest crushed and was badly bruised about the body. She was brought to her: home here andon Monday was taken to London for an X-ray exam ination when it was found that five ribs were broken. Miss Dunlop, the driver, suffered a fractured arm. and Mr. Hanson a fractured leg both of whom are in St. Joseph’s Hospital London. The others received minor injuries. Occupants of the other car escaped injury, The driver of the car will face a charge of criminal negligence. Mr. Chas. Waghorn, or Fullarton who is employed with Mr. J. Brint- ell, has moved to- Exeter into- the latter’s house on Ann Street. : . „ MOTHER’S DAY ' ’ . At Main Street Church At the playing of “A call for loy al soldiers” the mothers who had assembled ..in .the auditorium ot Main Street .church walked in pairs into, the school room, where they oc cupied the centre seats for the spec- cial Sunday School service. During:; the singing of the hymns the meth- _ ers remained seated while the otli- ejiSz,.:, stodd. Twenty-eight mothers were present. Those taking part in the program were Mrs. A. Hackney who sang a solo? Mr. Frances Ab bott, recitations, Misses Hilda and Merna Sims, duet. The Superinten dant, M'r. B. W. F. Beavers gave a short talk on “Mother”. While the^'j lesson was being taught the pastor '. Rev. C. J. Moorhouse, gave an ad-i , dress to the mothers. The atten,- f dance was the largest this year, k Beautiful flowers decorated ther school room in memory of mother. At Cavcn Presbyterian Church Mother’s Day at Caven Presby terian Church was celebrated by both congregation and Sunday School with special programs. In the lat ter Miss Coates’ Class was in charge of the opening exercises throughout. Little Miss Coquoline Simmons pre sided and Miss Ethel Kydd led in prayer while the whole class joined I in recitations and singing appro- I priate to the occasion. In the church Rev. J. B. Rhodes, M.A., spoke | shortly to the "children and then gave an excellent address from the text “Both were religious” The choir $ was assisted by the Sunday School orchestra and during the Offertory • Masters Alex Strang and Richard; Stanbury played a cornet duet whieh, || was much appreciated owing to the fi skill of these very young musicians’* a Mi’. Ray pryde sang a solo in honor; « of “Mother” in splendid voice. The J Sacrament of Baptism was adminiS** || tergd by the Minister to Donna LU- | Cille Miclntyre, Gilbert Edward Alex- I ander Dow1 and Joyce Annie Sirtt-' | nions With the congregations stand- I ing during this lovely service. The- church was beautifully decorated with spring, flowers. At Janies Street CJiuvch Mother’s Day was observed iu Janies Street United Church on Sutt-‘ day with special services morninigr and evening and an open session bli the Sunday School in the auditorium in the afternoon. Flowers in honoitf -*4 of mother were much in evidence, fl A. men’s choir provided the musict ’ for the day. Special sermons AVero preached by the pastor, Rev, D. Me- . Tavish, his sermon in the evening being particularly to young people, l At the morning service Mr. Mc'Tav- ish sang a solo and at the evening a Service Mr. Walter Ctitbush sang a 1 solo the choir joining in tho chorus; 1 At the service in the iSunday School j in the afternoon the attendance wa& ,a the largest for several years. A* 1 baptismal service was hold and eight W children Wore baptized. A Special 3 selection was sung by the primary a and a draimtatization on “Honor-19 mg ’Mother” was given by Mrs, Ru-'l fus Kestie and Howard and iStanioy- fl Prcszcator, Mr. George Grant ’played 1 a violin solo and Mr. W. R.’Gould- 1 iilg sang. The. tollbwiiig bliftdrcn 1 were baptized: ' ■ • 1 Reginald Ross Jeffery, Gerald I Maxwell Dearing, . Thomas Lestev I Ruhdle, Ann Madge Luthet, Harold i Parsons PaTS0113 aud Maxwell