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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1932-09-01, Page 3BEAUTIFUL EXETER DAVIS—-JORDAN THE EXETER 1'IMES-ADVOCATE THUiWD.w, samauw », "’T Any flower lover lylll t>e amply Tfr* paid for Ms trouble ip taking a walk around town tMs week and ip a leisurely planner takes time to look in upon the puiperons gardens that are to be seen on every street,, in fact there are so many of them and their owners , have taken so much pains, to have them looking wen-that very sojm ,if pot now, we many- christen our towm Exeter, the Village/ Beautiful, Not only do we see ’beauty in our village but many of our visitors are struck with the clear streets, the nicely trimmed lawns and boulevards, the beautiful homes and the splendid gardens that are everywhere ‘ seen. Last week we passed alopg Carling St., and. stopped to admire Mr, Charles Birney’s garden. Here were flow-? ers in. large numbers and varieties, Mr. and Mrs, Birney with pardon­ able pride and real pleasure showed us through the garden and pointed out ’ some of the rarer flowers but they hud so many that neither they nor we ^ere able to name all of them. Suffice it to say that we ad­ mired Sjl'l of them, especially their Hibiscus, covered with giant flow­ ers about four or five inches in. dia­ meter, the luxuriant Rudbeckia’s and many others but especially a novelty flower of about three inches) across which when, we looked into we got the impression of looking at a tiger’s face and head, Beautiful it was, but not being in love with tigers, after two or. three good looxg we- left him alone in his beauty. Bet­ ter go to see him in his native haunts, -On Andrew Street we dropped in to see Miss Murray’s garden and found that this year she has taken great pains .with her borders around the home and barn, enlarging them and fashioning them artisically. Some of the flowers have lost their beauty but other varieties are tak­ ing their place. The Petunias, Dahlias, Verbenas, Patience, Pan- ’sies, etcT, were still beautiful. A Zinnia was displaying blooms in at least six colors, viz. bronze, ’ three shades of pink, bright red, dark red and mauve. In her garden proper she has enlarged the pace former­ ly given to flowers and therefore grows a larger number in all varie­ ties. This garden-lias cost the own­ er a good deal of labor but in the results she feels she is- amply repaid. Another look‘ into Mt. O’Brien’s garden told us of the fine develop­ ment of his Leon Douglas variety of Gladiolus. The first one cut was five feet nine inches tall and pro­ duced thirty-four blooms. The up­ per part oil the spike branched and thus gave room for this extraordin­ ary number of .blooms. The nexc one was five feet eight inches tall and produced eighteen blooms while there were still growing two others of the same variety, ’on.e five feet tall ''and the other five feet three inches. We hope to be able in some fu­ ture issues to give' our impressions of other gardens, in Exeter, the Vil­ lage Beautiful. KILLED IN ST. MARYS The badly mangles nady of Jas. Hackney was found on the tracks near the St. Marys junction one day recently. It is thought the unfor­ tunate man, who had been a resident of St. Marys since April, had been Tiding on an oil-tank oar on the east-bound freight passing through St, Marys and which had stopped to drop a car on the siding., Apparent­ ly Mr. Hackney had either been thrown or jumped off the train as it started away. After being r'un over by the car wheel the body had been dragged a distance of over a thousand feet along the track. Mr.. Hackney, who was twenty-two years of age and the son of Mr., ana Mrs. Chas. Hackney, of Motherwell was born in Kirkton, In April last lie decided to take up auctioneering, and had gone to St. Marys to- live. He si survived by hi£ parents and five sisters1: Mrs, Bfrnest Roger, of Motherwell; Mrs, Ernest' Waddell, Hawkeston; Madge, Laura and Ida at home. The funeral was Held ’’at the family residence, Motherwell, conducted by Rev. Dr. Leckie with' interment in Exeter cemetery. A pretty weeding was solemnized M the Mupe of Mr. and W. D, jordan, Mitchell, when their eldest daughter Miss Isabel Jordan, was united in, marriage to Elwyn C, Davis, of Little Current, youngest son Qf Mrs, Ida Davia and the Ute Mr,. Thomas Davis,. of Barrie. Bev, R. C;, Capper, rector of the Anglican Church, Mitchell, officiated- Miss Marlon Jordan, ^sister of the bride, acted as bridesmaid while iMr, Al­ vin Jordan was the best man. After the ceremony a wedding dineer was served to About twenty-five guestg,- Afte'r a short trip Mr. and Mrs, Davis will reside at Little Current, where Mr- D.avis is editor of the Manitoulin Expositor, * Btook threshing this season has not been one round of uninter­ rupted joy, oats * i?rf' * and the barley heartened * ♦ > • ,* A ‘ « - The rain that discouraged the the sugar-beets and mangles, ' f. ♦. # * The best way tn make a paying use of the Economic Cnnfer- enfie is to produce something that someone else wants tn buy at a paying price. » It w L*. PURCHASES BUSINESS JMr. A, L. Maxwell, former theatre owner and 'now operating the “Pee- Wee” minature golf , course in God­ erich, has purchased the well known Mustard service station, and refresh­ ment business at Bayfield. / When using v WILSON’S FLY PADS READ DIRECTIONS / Wx CAREFULLY AND ^-FOLLOW THEM / i EXACTLY/, Each pad will kill flics all day and every day far three weeks. 1 3 pads in each packet. 10 CENTS PER PACKET at DtiiggiitSj Grocers, Gert erat Stores* WHY PAY MORE? THE WILSON FLY PAD CO., Hamilton, Ont. PUSSY’S TRAGEDY A cat which was the pet of the roundhouse of the Canadian Nation­ al Railways at Calgary decided to have her family in the centre of a hollow casting beneath an oil-elec­ tric car. ' She and her kittens" were carried to Edmontop where the mother cat left the car presumably in search of food. Unfortunately sh© missed the train when it left on the return journey and was not able to rejoin her family until the car re­ turned again to Edmonton. Her mewings then attracted attention and the kittens were discovered. They had travelled nearly 1,000 miles and had ‘been away from their mother for thirty-six hours, also with fatal results. “SAY IT WITH A HAND-BAG” Canadian National Telegraphs Have Facilities For Transmitting Presents Including Flowers, Canaries and Hand-Bags Montreal, August—When^-a mere man ■ forgets his wife’s birthday or some other family anniversary)—that is not. new, any more than it is news when a dog bites a man. 'But when a .resourceful telegraph clerk ans­ wers that man’s appeal and saves, the day by arranging delivery of an almost-forgotten birthday present to friend wife who has remained at home, in New York while hubby cel­ ebrates her birthday in Montreal— now, that’s a horse of/entirely dir-, ferent color. Down in New York there is a grateful wife—grateful because hubby in Montreal remem­ bered her birthday; in Montreal there is a grateful hubby, grateful because of a telegraph clerk’s re­ sourcefulness, and in the Montreal office of Canadian National Tele­ graphs there is a clerk who declares that helping out harassed customers is all part of the 'day’s work; and ,what telegraph service is 'for... Foi« a ffew mbments,f hoWeVer, the!'?'tour- ing. husband presented a problem. It was his wife’s birthday—his wife was in New York—and he .Wad for­ gotten to arrange a present- for the occasion. Could the Canadian .Na­ tional Telegraphs help him out? he .asked. They could-—and they dici. T'lie telegraph clerk, with memories of having been handed a pot of flowers and asked "to send them by wire, or a canary in a cage,, sug­ gested that perhaps Friend "Hus­ band would Tike to transmit a real- present. A nice hand-bag, <- for in­ stance, was suggested, The arrange­ ments were made by wire with Ne<w York, a hand-bag was purchased to be delivered at oiice to the. tourist’s home address. Life was once again serene and the birthday had been duly aAd fittingly remembered. X ----------------------------- - OASHWOOD The following"" clippings were taken from the Kitchener paper and , -wiR be read with interest 'by the 'piany friends of Miss Hartleib: i “The nurses’ home of the K.-W. hospital was the scene of an inter­ esting event recently when a‘trous­ seau tea was arranged there in hon- or of the approaching marriage of Miss E. Hiartleib, a member' of the hospital staff. The attractive rooms were gay with mid-sUmmer flowers and a mixed bouquet Of garden blooms graced the tea table where Miss K. W. Scott, the lady superin­ tendent of the- hospitals, poured tea. Miss E.JEIardy and Miss'Sylyia. Hall­ man were -assistants in the tearoom and Miss Alice Bechtel and Miss ^Gladys Guenther showed the beau­ tiful trousseau. A handsome silver cracker-and-c.heese dish was the gift of the- nures-ln-trainshg to the po­ pular bride-elect. The hospital staff gave her a pewter tea service. Both ■presentations were made informally before the trousseau tea.’ “A delightful eVent took place at the home of Mrs. Harold, Bflug, of Gruhn Street, recently1, when a num­ ber of ;the girls of Calvary Evangel­ ical church assembled there and tendered a surprise party to Miss Elizabeth HartlOib, a member of the staff of the K.-W. hospital, whose marriage takes place shortly. The event took the form of a miatcellan- •eous kitchen shower and the gifts wrapped to match the pink and white color scheme carried out in the decorations of the rooms, were presented to the guest of honor frolin a tiny make-believe garden, aglow 'with make-believe flowers and com­ pleted with a white picket fence, a rose trellis arid Japanese lanterns. Following the presentation supper* Was served by the hostess assisted by Miss Grace Underwood. I .0 4 We' had a caller the other day who offered us a cold blooded business proposition that “if it went through as we expect it will” would return the investor about ninety per cent, on his monpy, ♦ 4< 4f • * * • ♦ 15 There needs to be a good deal of waking up in Ontario pub­ lic schools and universities. This thing of allowing teachers and doctors and preachers to get by on a fifty per cent, basis is the way to failure all life through, and all the nation oyer, , Germany is having its share of political ructions these days. Old Mr. Hindenburg may get cross one <of these days and turn loose a few of his trained troops, much to the inconvenience of a whole lot of shouting people who would be better looking for jobs than acting as cats’ p.aws for political agitators. The last thing that Germany or Europe needs just now is war or agitation., . . IT WOULD MAKE GOOD LISTENING . We’d like to listen in when our friend Fergie is telling some Canadian packers just what he saw in England when some of their goods-were unpacked and just what he thinks,.of their methods. !»**•■•**• ARRIVED JIO.ME ' ' We saw a news item that excited our curiosity. It was to the ^effect that Bertie Deer was spending some time at home with his. if EltllGT ..■ ‘ When we saw Bertie last he told of the job* he had in the city. “I get down to the office by 9:30,” he went on. “Then I get oft • 'at 4:’3O.” Inquiry brought out the following particulars. Bertie breeze-d into the office at 9:45, He had time to read the sports . news before getting down to work. He had time to take a leisure­ ly lunch at noon, He had time for talks over the phone during busi­ ness hours about sports and drives and parties. He was out of the office and on his way to something or other by 4:15. He was caught in a miserable little mistake, he told us just this -morning, The other members of the staff, he said, w&re afraid of his being promoted over their heads, became jealous of him, and “worked the boss”- so as to get him out of the business. 'Bertie is home now for a permanent vacation as far as that firm is concerned. He last­ ed less than three months1. Dad’s cash got him his job. It couldn’t provide him with character or brains or vim. MORE THAN EVER Every scholar in the land means something for the welfare of the country. Such folk are-greatly needed not only in ’our profes­ sions but on every farm and in every store and workshop of the Dominion. The days when folk must understand not -only local conditions but world conditions as well are here. The world of 1931 is not the world of 1932. Adjustments of the most radical kind must be made in every department of life, trade and manu­ facture and exchange. -Grim necessity makes these .changes im­ perative. Hence the need of wide knowledge well analyzed by trained intelligence. Hence, too, the need of each child’s receiving ’ the very best the schools have to afford. Here js a case in point. We know a certain merchant who has won wide distinction as trader hut who was severely criticised be­ cause he did not take his son into the store with him. Instead the boy was sent to the Collegiate Institute, and to the University. Af­ ter the son was through the University he was taken into the store and started in on the lowest rung of the ladder, on a. rung where it was seen that he takes orders pifeasantly’ and’ obeys these orders thoroughly, the same as is expected, of any other underling in the ‘" big place of business. He is shown no favors in the school. , He enjoys no special privileges. That is what we h’ave in mind when we say that educated men are needed more than ever in every walk of life-. We^rsquire the trained intelligence the right sort of school provides. Such training needs to be supplemented by the development found in the Univers­ ity of hard knocks.' For this'reason it behooves every citizen who has a practical interest in the welfare of his community to see to it that the public school of his community reaches its maximum of efficiency. As a child likely to be when he is ♦ » is when he leaves the public school he Is fifty years -of age. Mt * * * ♦ * * DON’T HURRY W'e have a bit of advice to give to a whole lot of people who a»e eager to .get back on the land. For the most part that advice is contained in one word. Don’t! • Wliat we paean is thjs-. Land destroys same folk though it may make others. Take She man who issused to making’liis living im the city or town or village. He knows practically nothing about, soil or poultry or cattle or fruit or vegetable culture. He ’ has' beard or read that the soil will afford him and his family a living. He forthwith gets together his cash from his savings account, from his insurance policy and from all the friends and money lenders who will give him credit. He buys his bit of land and supplies himself with his equipment of tools and machinery and live stock. He finds that this part of his venture takes nearly all his capital. Tp keep himself going he must go in debt, as returns from his investment simply refuse to -put in an appearance. Even when autumn comes he is up against all the experienced termers ‘‘who seemed to have pre-empted his market. Further, his work being the production of an amateur does not bear favorable com­ parison with that -of experienced men. The result is a discourag­ ed man who discovers in a year or two that he lias made a foolish venture and that his cash and his credit and his time invested have ''all been lost. This is a simple statement of the experience of scores of folk who have heeded the alluring stores of strong talkers who had something to sell. The fact- is that those who talk of getting the city folk back to the land as they describe it, is largely misleading. Those who have given heed to it should think twice before leaving a fairly good thing to launch upon a venture that is almost sure to prove disastrous. , „ **,*’**•* • THEIR REPLY It seems that some of the Eligible Maidens have been exercis­ ing the privileges peculiar to Leap Year, The members of the Bachelors’ Protective Association have been alert andvwary though open-eyed to the possibilities and opportunities they hopefully look- to come their way. The members of this ancient and mysterious body are for the most part a timid lot of “bodies” as the Scotch sayx and remind the representatives, of the E. M. society that they have shunned matrimony for several and varied reasons. Bald­ ness on their part. is\one. So far science has no-t come effectually to their aid. , Stern faced and hard hearted and somewhat mercen­ ary barbers refuse to extend to them t’he benefits and comforts and emoluments of the tonsorial art for a less fee than they require of the members of the male sex whose head resemble, for bushiness, a well doing and well going alfalfa.” True the E. M.’s have said something about switches and such matters but the B. P. A.’s re­ ply that till the druggists mind their ways and proudee the real article in first hand hair producing goods that they must continue on their ancient, solitary way. The'B. P. A. mournfully reminds the E. M.’s that the Imperial Conference that has just come to a close failed utterly to heed the B. P. A.’s petition for the reduction in price of certain four-wheeled vehicles regarded as necessary to matrimonial happiness while certain’bottles so often found neces­ sary to home comforts have not even been considered1 when ifedme to price reduction. The R. P. A*, further reminds .the E, M’s of certain statistics that have lately come to light to the effect that one of our great railway companys find that the married men ate much more likely to suffer from accidents tlian«are the members of the B. P. A., the reason assigned being the probability that the married men have not been allowed to sip their morning coffee and to read the morning paper in uninterrupted silence. Meanwhile the sale of silk dresses and of silk hats drags on at a disappointingly slow pace, The situation is giving the Cham­ ber .of commerce considerable concern. "Fresh from the Gardens" A TRIP TO CUBA Mr. Brie Tuer, B,A„ has return­ ed to St Marys after a trip to Ha- vapna, Cuba, Mr. Tuer, who is a teacher on tlic staff of the Orillia Collegiate has been to, many places on vacation but he enjoyed his trip to the sopfhern part of the North­ ern Hemisphere the most of allf His brother Mr, Errol .Tuer, who>’ has spent several years in the Cuban Branch of the Royal Bank returned with him on vacation. NOVA SCOTIAN FLAG OLDER THAN THE UNION JACK For the first time since the sev­ enteenth -century the flag of the “Ancient Province of Nova Scotia” which comprised what are now the Maritime Provinces and the Gaspe Peninsula in Quebec nas neen flown from the mast of a ship in the St. John Harbour. The ship is the Sz S. “Saint John” which, with its sis­ ter ship S. S. “Acadia”, plys between St, John, Boston, Ney York and Yar­ mouth making direct connections with passengei- trains of the Cana­ dian National Railways. The flag was presented to the ves­ sel by the Mayor of St. John. The '■“Ancient province of Nova Scotia” was set apart by King James I for a colonization scheme in 1621 ana led to the creation by King Charle-s I of a hereditary "order of the Baro- mets of Nova Scotia. FAMOUS DOG DEAD the great­ picture ac- last week. Rin Tin Tin, probably est of all animal motion tors, died on Monday of During his life many pictures were, filmed in which he played a leading role and for which his master receiv­ ed large sums of money. “MAGIC” PERFORMED BY HOTEL MANAGER New York, August—The feats- -of “magic” performed by the Manager of th© Chateau Laurier Hotel in Ot­ tawa in accommodating the great crowd of guests that assembled un­ der the Chateau roof at the time of the Imperial Economic Conference are featured by Isabel Paterson in a special article printed by the New York Herald. Tribune. Mrs, Pater­ son describes her adventures on a recent trip through Canada. In Montreal he was advised that it would be practically impossible „.to secure a ‘room at the Chateau Laur­ ier because of the Imperial Confer- Her notes, on her Ottawa vis- declare; “Room invented for us at Cha­ teau Laurier, . .,. Obviously non-existent before pur arrival; hall ends definitely, and then, this room manifests itself, pro­ jecting from corner of building, ovei* a pretty canal.... Pro­ bably a folding room, ence. it Ontario’s Record! 104 Children killed 1,827 injured by automobiles in 1931 Nearly half of these accidents were caused by children playing in the street 1 ’I '■ ■ ' What a shameful record—what a startling appeal to both mothers and motorists! This year let us Give Every Child a Chance! MOTOR VEHICLES BRANCH Ontario Department oe highways Leopold Macaulay, Minister f Her Children Were Troubled Diarrhoea Mrs. J. J* Bickert, B.B. 1, Endcrby, B.C., writes:— "Last Summer all my Children Were troubled with diarrhoea, and were So bad t did not know What to do. A ftiond. told m& to give them Dr. Fowler’s Extract Of Wild Strawberry, so I got a bottle, and after a couple of doses you should have seen tha change. The Children were soon well agmn, and I am Very thankful to yotir Wonderful remedy. T find it the only one tiutt relieves So easily and quickly? ’