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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1932-09-15, Page 3FDDDARTON FLOWER SHOW THE EXETEg TJMES-APVOCATE THURSDAY SRWWR WILSONS REALLY KILL One pad kijte flies all day and every day for 2 or 3 weeks. 3 pads in each packet. No spraying, no stickiness, :po bad odor, Ask your Druggist, grocery or General Store. 10 CENTS PER PACKET WHY PAY MORE? THE WILSON FLY PAD CO., Hamilton, Ont. If " ff1" 'I".*'.' 1 IT""" y .......... ...U, J . '■ .......... FERGUSON RE-UNION “Iona Farm" the home of Mr, and Mrs. C W Christie was the scene of a happy gathering on Saturday, September 3rd, when the Fergus­ ons held their first reunion, Mrs. Clarie, of Newark, New Jersey, act­ ed as Secretary. After the guests had assembled all repaired toA. the sporting "Arena” when the fdllow- ‘irig sportb were heartily entered in­ to with Mrs. C. W. Christie as con­ venor: Water Race, Capt. Mr. Geo. Ferguson and Mr, D.McMartin, Mr. Ferguson’s side winning; [Sew­ ing Race, Mr. D. B, McDonald, Mr. G. Ferguson, Mr. Me Donald’s side winning; Soap race, Mr. H. Hyde, Miss E. Ferguson, Mr. Hyde’s side ■won; Elastic Race the women de­ feated the men; Pitching ball into pail, Mrs. D. McMartin, Laverne Christie; Paper Hag . Race, capts.. Miss V, Hyde, C. W. Christie, Mr. Christie’s side winning; ■ Lunch Race capts., Mrs. G. Ferguson^' Mrs. F. Glair, Mrs. Ferguson’s side winning After this lunch was served and then the officers were appointed ■for the ensuing year 'as follows: Pres. Mr. George Ferguson, Hensall Secretary, Mrs. D. B. McDonald; Sports, Mr.' C. W. Christie. The ev­ ening' was then spens in music and community singing, couple present were Mr. and Mrs. G. Ferguson, Hensall. Guests were present from Newark, N. /J., Seaforth and messages were ton, Montreal, ^nd Parkhill. 'Labor Day next year at the home of Mr. and Mrs. George Fergu'son. . The eldest Galt, Hensail., Telephone received from Bos- Royal Oak, Mich,,.. Reunion to He on WINS SCHOLARSHIP In the recent June examinations in Form V, Harold E Johns, second son of Rev. and Mrs. A E. Johns, of McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario Was successful .with high honours. He completed the whole of the Upper iSch-col examin­ ations in one year-, taking eleven subjects and obtaining iirst class honours in seven. For the Entrance Scholarships to McMaster Univer­ sity he stood ninth in General Pro­ ficiency, third in Mathematics and Physics and first in Science. He was awarded the • Harold Matthews Memorial Scholarship for first place in Science. This Scholarship is val­ ued at three hundred dollars and entitles him to free tuition for two” years at McMaster University and one hundred dollars in cash. Harold took his High School work previous to this year at Brandon, Manitoba, where last year he won the Isbister Scholarship for that ..district and a special prize in English and History This past year he , has been a stu­ dent at Westdale Collegiate in Ham­ ilton. The Times-Advocate extends congratulations. \ .x The annual Flowr show of Full* arton H. S. waa held on Wednesday August 31st, opening in the after­ noon. Thein was a splendid display of all kinds with about 200 entries. Mr. Hunter, of (Stratford, was judge In the- evening a fine program was rendered to a good audience with the president in the chair, It open-' ed with singing “Maple Leaf” fol­ lowed by a Musical (mouth organ) number by 5 young men of ’Roys' Mrs. Felling gave a solo, a pianp* forte duet was given by Mrs, Har* per and Miss Maxine, then an in* teregting. address by Mr. W. E. Sanders, of London, on Horticulture He also gave a quantity of seeds and plants for distribution amongst those interested in planting. Master Lawrence Anderson then rendered a pleasing, solo, Mrs. Wallace Mc­ Donald and Mrs. H. McKay gave a duet. Mr, Hunter then spoke for a few minutes chiefly on showing and arraying flowers. Past President Mr, Thayman, of Kitchener, then spoke for a, few minutes at the close of which a beautiful silver flower basket filled with sweet peas was presented to Mr, Thayman as a token of apprecati-on and esteem from directors and officers of the Society, Mrs. John Hodgert then sang“ The End of a Perfect Day*’ amjU Mrs, B. Ross sang “Sunrise and You” followed by lantern slides kindly loaned" by O.A.C. at Guelph, Mrs. Drown then proprosed a vote of thanks to all who so kindly help­ ed to make the evening so success­ ful and was seconded by “ Mrs. Geo, Urquhart. The evening thenz closed with the singing of tl;e National Anthem. Following were the prize winners: 1 bloom', straight, Mrs. H. Aster, Mr. Aster. 6 blooms, HELP YOURSELF Get ready for the new sort of radio-n-the wired kind, ■» # w# > ■* # Have you seen the bargains offering. « a . » • our thrifty Exeter merchants are ■9 1 Farmer Brown says that no system ss it is well worked, xof farming works well/ -urn- and you help your country Jlelp yourseLf today to Shredded Wheat and yow help others eat top, for Canada’s leading product, wheat, is back of this great * food bargain, Just a few cents for twelve big biscuits,** # * to This is the time for townships and balance the budget. counties and for all of us * * Peter Doleful complains that h© didn’t see the recent eclipse because it came the hour of his afternoon nap, • * * It Kaye Don got well whipped because his boat was not in shape takes more than money and a gaping crowd to win a race. **♦*••♦* We’ll never master the present economic situation till we first master ourselves. ing ■we’llAnd'1* opr own bootstraps. t • * • Margaret Ravior is said never get ourselves in hand by puli- ***** to. have won the C. N. E. swimming Marathon by stroking a steady crawl. She must have ha a an up-to- date business man for her trainer, **♦ ■»**** Does Kaye Don’s complete and thorough defeat tell the story of defective workmanship on the part of the'British workman or lack of skill on the part of Kaye Don? SHREDDED iAf u r At 12 b,g b,scu,ts WnEAl ",SVEI,V •°x "■'MADE IN CANADA •’ By CANADIANS ♦ OF CANADIAN WHEAT * Sunday saw an interested gather­ ing of the descendants and relatives of the late Lieut-Col. James Hod­ gins of. Tipperary and Biddulph, to commemorate the centenary of the settlement of the Hodgins family in Biddulph, when a cairn was unveil­ ed to his .memory in St. James’ cem­ etery, Clandeboye. The cairn was unveiled by Rev. G- L. Harrison, rector of ;St. James, assisted by ReV. Canon ■oil, a gins. The stones Wilmot McMillen, of Inger- great-grand&on of Col. Hod­ The house fly is the filthegt thing alive, It is responsible for 75,000 deaths, annually. Keep this in mind and then visit some kitchens, food sales places and some schools, • ♦ ' • ♦ « memorial is built of granite gathered by five grandsons from the farms on concession 2 (Coursey Line), where he and his sons settled in 1832. The cairn is ' ll1 feet high and seven feet square at, the concrete base. The black gran­ ite tablet, inserted in the southern side of the cairn, bears the follow- inscription under the coat-of-arms of the Hodgins family. “Memorial to Lieut,-Col. Hodgins who, emigrated from Tipperary, in Ireland, in 1832. 'Settled in what later became Biddulph Township. Became agent for the Canada Co., in which capacity he secured a grant of the site of St. James’ Church and cemetery. He was largely re­ sponsible for the settlement of Bid­ dulph. of which he was the first reeve. Erected by his descendants, 1932.” ■ ' Lieut.-Col. Hodgns was born in 17 85 near Nenagh, County Tipper­ ary, the eldest son of John and Mary Hodgins. He was descended fr-cm one of two brothers, disbanded Cromwellian of Hodgkins, at the close wars, settled about 1650. who had been chief of Constabluary at Borisokane, County Tipparery, decided, with Dr. Hobbs and a few close relatives, to emi­ grate to Canada, but it was not un­ til 1832 that his plans could be put 'into effect. same name, who later settled 16th concession, or townline, of London Township, th© home of Jas. Stanley Esq,, of Borrisokane, who had emigrated from thence in 1822, settling in London Township in 1824. Here Col. Hodgns stopped until hjs own log house was erected on lot 39, concession 2, Biddulph, Tp., in 'September 1932. His sons and relatives, who had emigrated with him, settled along the same conces­ sion, loiter known as} “Big Jim’^ Line” and the ‘Coursey Line.’ The Hodgins families were among the first settled in Biddulph and Col. Hodgins was locally known as Big Jim, due to his stature, and to dis­ tinguish him from relatives of the in Biddulph on nearby farms. He was elected first reeye of Biddulph and his son “Deputy” John Hodgins, later served as deputy reeve, under Reeve Robert Hill O'Neil, Miss Liz- ars in her interesting volume, “In the days of the -Canada Company,” gives a graphic account of Col. Hod­ gins leading his family and rela­ tive John (Stout) Hodgins, to vote at a closely contested election of Capt. Strachan versus Dr. Dunlop (Tiger Dunlop). The boys from Biddulph arrived on the scene, arm­ ed with their trusty shillelaghs—in this case axe handles—and fought their way to control the election,- which resulted in a majority of 10 votes for the candidate of-the Irish, Capt. Strachan, the son of the well- known Bishop Strachan of York (Toronto). Encouraged Emigration In 1S35, Col. Hodgins became the agent for the Canada Company, and in this capacity he encouraged the 'emigration, of his own relatives and friends from the counties of Tip­ perary and King’s, as settlers in Biddulph, supplying them with land near his own holdings. He took the .contract for and built the Bid­ dulph section of the Proof Line road. At that time it was of logs, (corduroy,) and was controlled by a syndicate, to whom tolls were paid at stated distances by those who had occasion to use the road. Since then it has become part of the provincal highway system. He died jn Biddulph, Jan. 1, 1869 at the age of 84 years. He married in Ireland, Mary Napier .Hodgins, (1790-1880), his own kinswoman, and eldest daughter of John. Hod­ gins of Ballymacke-ry,. County Tip­ perary. LieutJCol. Hodgins, his wife Mary and the latter’s mother, Jane Napier Hodgins, are buried in the cemetery of their first parish church, that of St. Joan’s at Arva, London Township. They left issue as follows, five sons ancr three daugh­ ters: “Deputy” John Ho (3 gins, J.P. (Hodgins) de Courcey or Coursey (1817-1892); Adam Hodgins (1821-1872); Mary- Anne (Hodgins) Carter (1819-1906) Elizabeth (Hodgins) c»e Courcey or Coursey (1823-1906); James Hod­ gins (1827-1896); William Napier Hodgins (1828-1884), and Thomas /Aster, Clarke; straight, Clarke; colors, straight, Mrs. H- Clarke 2nd; Asters, Clarke; Mrs. J. teys, 6 Mrs. H. blooms, Clarke; Mrs. J. Cosmos, Drown, Mrs. J. Morgan; Clarkia, six blooms, Mrs. J. ML Hackney, Carrie; Rice; Celendula, 6 blooms, Mrs. N. Heal, Mrs. J. Morgan; Coxcomb,, Mrs. H. Fanson, Mrs. Hackney;' Dahlia, 1 bloom, show, Mrs. Gallop, Mrs. Cliff Dow; Dahlia, 1 bloom, decorative, Mrs. Cliff Dow, Mrs. W. Rice; Dahlia, 1 Cactus. Mr. Gollings; Dahlia, 6 bloom, pom pom, Mrs. H. Fanson; Dahlia, collection of 4 as­ sorted, -Mrs, Clif. Dow, Mrs. W. Rice; Delphinium, 1 bloom, Mrs. Cliff Dow Mr. Gollings; Delphinium, 6 blooms, Mr. Gollings, 2nd; Geranium, four double, Carrie Rice; Geranium, 4. single, Mrs. J. W. Hackney; Gail- lardia, 6 blooms, Mrs. C. «L Drown, Mrs. W. Hotson; Gladioli, 1 named,. Mrs. J. W. Hackney, Mr. Gollings; Gladioli, 3, named, Mr. Gollings, Mrs. C. J. Drown; Gladioli, 3 alike, named, Mr. Gollings, Mrs. MacKay; Gladioli, 6 alik§, named; Gladioli, 9' spikes, Mrs. McKay, Mrs. J. Hack­ ney; Larkspur, 1 bloom, Mrs. N. Heal; Mrs. M. Evans; Larkspur, 6 blooms, Mrs. C. Dow, Mrs. M. Evans Marigolds, 6, French, Carrie Rice, Mrs'. H. Fanson; Marigold, 6, Afri­ can, Carrie Rice, Mrs. M. Evans; Nasturiums, 12 blooms, Mrs. J. Hackney, Mrs. Gallop; Pinks, 3 blooms, Mrs. N. Heal; Petunias, 6 double, Mrs. H. Fanson; Petunias, 6 single, Mrs. H. Clarke and Mrs. W. Hotson; Pansy,4 1, Mrs. Cliff. Dow, Mrs. N. Heal; pansy 8, Mrs. W. Hotson and Mrs. H. Heal; Sweet Peas, 12, Mrs. C.. J. Drown and Mr. Gollings.... Scabrosa, 6, Mrs. Mor­ gan, Mrs. N. Heal; Salpiglossis, 6, Mrs.s Morgan, Mrs., W. Hotscjn; Snapdragon, 1, Mrs. J. Hackney, Mrs. R. Reid; Snapdragon, 6, Mrs. H. Fanson, Carrie Rice; Stocks, 6, Mrs. H^ Fanson, Carrie Rice; Soiii- flowerS,' 1, Mrs. Gallop, Mrs. H. Clarke; Sunflowers, 3, Mrs. Gallop, 2nd; Rose, Mrs. Cliff. Dow, Mrs. Mc­ Kay; Rose, 6, Mrs. Fanson, Mrs. Drown; Verbenas, 6, Carrie Rice, Mrs. N. Heal; Zinnias, 1 straight, Mrs. W. Rice, Mrs. N. Heal; Zin- nas, 6 straght, Mrs. Fanson, Mrs. N. Heal; Zinnias, 9 straight, Gar- rie Rice, Mrs. Drown; Zinnias, curled; Zinnias, 6 curled; Zinnias, 9 curl_ed, Mrs, Drown, Mrs. Gallop; Phlox," coll of Annuals, Mrs. Mor­ gan, Mrs. Gallop; Phlox, coll* of Per­ ennials, Mrs. Fanson; Coll, of 12' annuals, Mrs. Morgan, Mrs. McKay Coll, of 8 Perennials, Mrs. McKay; Hand Bouquet, Mrs. Morgan; Bas­ ket of Cut Flowers, Mrs. R. Reed, Mrs. W. Rice; 1 Rex Begonia; 2 Tuberous Begonias,. Mrs. R. Reed; 1 Gloxinia, Mrs. W. Rice, 2nd; Odd Plant, Mrs. Morgan; odd Cut Flow­ er, Mrs. McKay, Mrs. Gallop; play of Asters in basket, Mrs. son, Mrs. H. Clarke; Display of nias ift basket, Mrsi Hotson, W. Rice basket, Mrs. 'Hotson,' Mrs. DOW; Display of 6 Dahlias in bag. ket, Mrs. Cliff Display of 6 Mrs. H. Clarke Glad. (Prem. Dihning-room Cliff. Dow, : room table bouquet, Mrs. Mrs. ML Rice. 3 blooms, Gollings, 1 color, Mrs. H. assorted 1 bloom, curled, Mrs. H. Asters, 3 blooms, curled, Morgan, Mrs. W. Rice; As- blooms, assorted, curled, Clarke 2nd; Balsams, three Mrs. Jt. Morgan, Mrs. H. Cosmos, 6 blooms, double, R. Brown, Mrs. C. Drown; 6 blooms, single^ Mrs. C- -J. ■So -the man-eating tree is. believed by competent scientists really exist. f We know of profit-eating cirumstances. There o need of a Royal Commission to prove this fact. e • • - "/" ’ • * to is Folk in South’ Huron, who grumble about hard times, should think of the 76,000 unemployed in British mense area in Saskatchewan that for a fourth time. * * * ♦ Professor Piccard, who mad© I LAKE HURON LOWEST LEVEL IN 72 jZEARS The water in Lake Huron has dropped to a critical low levels only two' and a quarter, inches higher than the lowest level since I860, ac­ cording to a report of the Canadian hydrographic service. / Montreal harbor water dropped only 1 1-2 inc'hes from July to Au­ gust as compared with a 73-year erage drop for that period of 13 inches. Increased precipitation the Ottawa River watershed was reason. •Lake .Superior maintained a high­ er than average level in August, while other Great Lakes and -St. Lawrence River levels were' some­ what lower than aVeyUge. av- 3-4 in the on all kinds of lumber and shingles. * Call and see for your­ self or phone 12 Matched White Pine $35.00 per. M. A. J. CL AT WORTHY Phono 12 CftANrofcL ONTARIO is being ♦ * * Columbia or of the im- cleaned up by drought * an ascent^ into the great-above- us is making some valuable discoveries regarding the nature of ght uncontaminated by dust or vapours of any kind. We’ll soon understand pur radios considerably' better. « * * * ♦ * *♦ The League of Nations has decided that Manchuria still is Chinese territory. ’’Japan is discovering that ■ needing territory and desiring territory and being able to make an apparently good economic territory. use of territory must not be confused with the right to Justice still lives. * • * * • B . This report that the Endowment fund of Manitoba University lias shrunk from $1,600,000 to $100,000 is alleged to be due to‘ bad investments—to say the least. It is the old story of incompetency .in high places. Till conscience and «brains are put into business things are bound, to keep on in this evil way. A stupid audit is bad enough. Heedlessness of a good audit, is ruinous, to be sgid when no audit is made .for years on end? * * * * * What is * ♦ its best for all has done what Concerned it can to at a fair YOUR MOVE• • s The Economic Conference has done | It has suggested channels of trade. It show the folk who need goods wherfe to purchase them price within the Empire. It ,has gone a long distance towards hav- •ing the various portions of the Empire understand each other and 'to trust each other. It has given expression to the best business opinion within the Empire. There it’s work shops. The Conference is over. All, that it can do has been done. The next move is the move of the individual ” whether that worker be a merchant or a street sweeper. Each cit­ izen must get out on his right of way and make his deadlevel best of the new conditions brought about. Each must put- a new roll on his sleeve, trust more fully in Providence and push and pull and build his very best. 'To wait in idleness or in halfheartedness is to commit 'Business suicide. There’s a real elbow to take the job you’re not workng at. * * * * * ■ * ** - hustler It’s up * right at your to each of us. WEED THEM OUT Attention is being paid to our hint given a short student idlers should be weeded out. It is seemly that such-a'pro­ cess Should be begun forthwith. Education is greatly needed in this country. School and Uni­ versity and College loafing is a public menace. The student who is 'doing little but cultivating bad habits is a very costly, nuisance to . every taxpayer. High School and University .and College authorities do not seem to understand. Because of the failure of these authorit­ ies to weed out idlers under their care the taxpayers of this country are deprived of money that makes losses in other departments of public life look like mere drops in the ocean by comparison. Worse . still, the students themselves are done a grave injustice. Further, folk whb later in life^come under the influence of these High School and University and College loafers suffer more than pen can tell. The High School ou University' or College- that does not detect and fire its idlers is unworthy of public •'confidence and is incapable of rightly spending public money. The time has come for action. time ago that officers by the name from Cheshire, who, of the Cromwellian in- County Wicklow In 1829, Col. Hodgns, the Irish Cholera Year It was “cholera year” in Upper Canada, and those who have read Catherine Parr Trail’s and Susanna Mood’ie’s books on pioneer c-ondi-z tions in Canada in those early days will know’ the hardships under which the early settlers arrived. A cousin, “Dublin” William Hodgins, died en rote, leaving a widow and several small children. After their arrival sin (Montreal they communicated with three younger brothers, Adam, John and Thbmas Hodgins, who has oeen set­ tled for some time up the Ottawa' (1814-1898); Jane River, near Bytown (Ottawa) in the Carp and Huntley Township dis­ tricts. Adam Hodgins had, in the previous year (1831), returned from a survey of the wilds of the Talbot and Huron tracts in Canada West. In Biddulph, which had just been' surveyed and opened up for settle- (Hodgins. ment by the Canada Company, they ' ------------- decided settle I Their schedule had been disor- VNITED AFTER 36 YEARS ganized, due to severe storms on I a happy reunion had been affect­ ocean, which necessitated their re- ed in Goderich of brother and sis­ turn to Cork for a new mast and ter Peter Hussey, of Los Angeles outfitting. In connection with this ’ and Mrs. D. P. McCarty, an amusing story is told of John lapse After a duringan amusing story is told of John lapse of thirty-six years i'_. Hodgins* return to his native village twenty-six of which no letters were while the boat was undergoing re- written and each thought the other pairs.s H(is relatives mistook him' dead. Mr. Hussey, a bachelor de­ fer a ghost when he appeared in cided to come home and see his sis­ church on Sunday morning. As a ter and when he arrived he was iit- result of these delays, the party did.formed that his sister was dead. He .................................. " went to the cemetery but failed to1 find his sister's grave. On returning to Goderich he made further inquir­ ies and finally succeeded in locating her at her home. not reach York until later tna.n they had planned. After travelling by ox-team-> over the Governor's road from Hamilton to London, they plodded northward to lot 25 on the Dis-’ Hot- Zin- Mrs. ; Display of 10 Glads. In Mrs. 'Hotson,' Mrs.t Cliff Dow, Mrs. W. Rice; Glads, from prem., : 1 Pfitzer's Triumph 2), Mrs. J. Brown; table bouquet,. Mrs. Mrs, Hotson; Living- Hotson, Mrs. Jas. Porter, bfiGoderch, had both legs broken in an automobile accident five miles south of Goder­ ich Wednesday afternoon of last week. The car got out of control and smashed into the heavy concrete abutments of a culvert. The funeral of the late George R. Stevenson was held from his late residence 2nd concession to Carlisle cemetery and was largely attended. Mr, Stevenson died suddenly,from a heart attack in his 66th year. He Is survived by his*wife and two sons. INJURED Florence Malcolm, daughter of Norman Malcolm, west of Mitchell, a student of Mitchell High School, while standing close to a calf, the animal threw its Florence on the her teeth to go lower lip. This, was the Smith had inside of twenty hours where persons' had met with an ac­ cident in which they had biten through their lip. head up, striking chin,, and forcing right through her second case Dr Suffered A Severe Attack Of Dysentery Mr, P. L. D. Moullard, Vernon, B.CL, writes:-—(tLast Summer I suffered from a severe attack of dysentery. I tried nearly everything on the market, without getting any relief, until a friend^jtold mo to use Dr. Fowler’s Extract of Wild Strawberry, which I did, and I got immediate relief. Now I am making it a rule to always keep a bottle of it in my medicine chest. “Wild Strawberry is sure relief for dysentery, colic and diarrhoea, but I always see t get the genuine ‘Dr. Fowler’s’.”