HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1935-01-03, Page 1SERIOUS FRACTURE WHEN
Annual Stock Taking ■ ■
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I LEG DRAWN INTO BELT
We are busy this week with our annual stock taking,
are placing on sale all remnants and many odd lines
broken ranges of merchandise at greatly reduced prices.
We
and
Final Clearing of Ladies’ Misses’ & Girls’ Coats
The balance of our stocks of Coats mi^st go regardless
very fine Coats to choose from. See these real bargains,
as $3.95 each. A few Ladies’ Coats at $2.95
of cost. We have several
Many Girls’ Coats as low
ALL LADIES’ AND MISSES’ SILK CREPE DRESSES THIS WEEK AT REAL
BARGAIN PRICES
Ladies’ Silk Plaited Hosiery at 59c
5 dozen Ladies’ Beautiful Quality Plaited Silk Over Wool Hosiery* Our regular
85c. quality. Many excellent shades in the lot on sale this week at 59c. a pair.
36 inch Chintz and Cretonne at 19c yd
Excellent for Comforters, Draperies, hundreds of yards of 36 in. Chintz and
Cretonnes to clear this week at 19c. yard.
36 inch PRINTS at 17c a yard
About 25 webs of 36 in. Prints, fast colors and good patterns. A real value this
week at 17c* per yard.
Men’s Ties on Sale
Any $1.00 Tie in ou|r store on sale at 69c. each.
Regular 59c. and 69c. Ties on sale at 39c. each
Regular 39c. Ties on sale at 25c. each. Stock up well at these prices.
Linoleum, Congoleum and Axminster rugs at reduced prices for this week
Superior Chain Store Specials for Thursday, Friday, Saturday
Quick Quaker Oats ..... .*••• per pkg. 20c.
Raspberry or Strawberry Jam 32 oz. jar 25c
Clark’s Spaghetti........................2 tinsel 9c.
Aylmer Choice Golden Bantam Corn 2 23c.
Loose Ready-Cut Macaroni . . . per lb. 5c.
NEW PRICES ON OVALTINE—Large 98c,,
Heinz, Catsup, large bottle ............... 21c. i
McCormick’s Ginger Snap Cookies 2 lb. 19
Peanut Butter in bulk..................2 lbs* 25c.
Mixed Nuts in shell to clear .... 2 lbs. 29c
Royal York Tea, black or mixed, 1-2 lb. 28c
Medium 58c. and Small 38c. j
Phone 32 Jones & May Phone 32
ALWAYS INSIST ON BUYING
Cedar Chests
AND NEW FURNITURE
Royal Purple Protein Concentrate
AND BEWARE OF IMITATIONS
100 lbs. can be mixed with 600 lbs. of your own feed
Royal Purple Hog Tonic and Worm Specific 30 $1.25
Royal Purple Stock Specific
Royal Purple Poultry Specific
Royal Purple Louse Killer . .
Royal Purple Roup Cure ....
Cooper’s Drikil Louse Killer
C. I: L. Sol-Min for Cattle . .
No* 12 Galvanized Pails 20c.
No. 14 Galvanized Pails 25c.
Strainer Pails . . 90c., $1.15
Milk Pails.........25c. to 90c.
Oyster Shell .... $1.25 cwt.
Grit..........................$1.25 cwt.
Epsom Salts .... 6 lbs. 25c*
30
.60
.60
.30
.30
$3.00
$1.75
1.75
1*75
.60
.60
.75
cwt.a
25c.Sulphur..................6 lbs.
Bone Meal ...............4c. a lb.
Flax Seed Meal .... 4c. a lb.
Beef Scrap.................4c. a lb.
Salt Petre................10c. a lb.
Royal Purple Calf Meal
Royal Purple Chick Starter
TRAQUAIR & LINDENFIELD
New Years Eve passed off very
quietly in Exeter. About the only
thing to mark the occasion was the
ringing of the town bell by some ofj
the boys but this was cut short
when the bell overturned. A success
ful diance was held in the opera
house with Shorty Grant and his or
chestra providing the music.
Mr. D. B. Stewart, of Mtoncton,
New Brunswick', visited for several
days with his parents 'Mr. and Mrs.
J. A, Stewfart. Mr. Stewant, who
has been confined to his home for
several weeks 'through illness
able to be out Wednesday for
first time.
was
the
Also Furniture remodelled to order.
We take orders for all kinds of ca
binet work for ki't.chens, etc. <at the
DASHWOOD PLANING MILL
OFFICERS INSTALLED
Old Man Winter showed this teeth
on New Years day and there was
very little visiting and not much
stir around town. A heavy Snow
storm waged most of the day block
ing tile traffic. Numerous families
that were invited but for the day
had to improvise meals because they
were not able to keep their engage
ments.
Exe-At the annual meeting of the
ter branch of the Canadian Legion,
held on December 28th, the follow
ing officers were elected: President,
S. McArthur; 1st Vice-President, J.
Willis; 2nd Vice-President W. Stone;
Secretary-Treasurer, A. M. Easton;
Sergeant-At-Arms, W. J. Seymour;
On Friday evening -of last week
the officers of Lebanon Forest Lodge
A.F. & A.M. were installed flor the
ensuing yeax* by the Installing Mas
ter V. Wor. Bro. W. W. Taman as
sisted by Wo,r. Bro. E M. Dignan and
other installing officers.i The offic
ers are as follows: W. 'M., Wor. Bro.
M. W. Pfaff; I, P. M., Wor. Bro. C.
G. 'Salter; Sr. Wor., Brio. W. E. Mid
dleton; Jr. War., Bro. W. E. Skelton
Chaplan, Wor. Bro. E. -M. Dignan;
Treasurer, V. Wor, Bro. W. W. Ta
man; Secretary. Wor. Bro. R. N.
Creech; D. of C., Rt. Wo.r. Br-o. T.
Pryde; Sr. D., -Bro. -Silas Reed; Jr.
D., Bro. C. Morlock; I.G., Bro. I-I.
Pollen; Sr. ,g., Bro. C. Mawhinney;
Jr. S., Bro. J. W. Batson; T'yler, S.
Sweet. Board of General Purposes,
Rt. W. Bro. T. Pryde, Wor. Bro. E.
M. Dignan, W. Bro. W. R. Frayne,
W. Bro. Geo. Thompson, V. Wor.
Bro. W. W. Taman. 1935 will be
the Diamond Jubilee of the order in
Exeter and this will be fittingly ob
served. Several committees for
making arrangements for the cele
bration were appointed. Following
the business of the evening refresh
ments were served followed by a
program with the newly- installed
master, M, W. Pfaff, -acting^as toast
master. A number of short speeches
were delivered. Thanks were tend
ered the installing officers for the
efficiency of their work and also to
the retiring officers. The lodge has
closed a very successful -year.
When Mr. Charles Prout, who re
sides on a farm a mile and a half
south of Exeter, attempted, to re
move a belt from a revolving pulley
with his leg, the leg was drawn, info
the pulley with ’the result that Mr.
Prout -suffered a compound fracture
of both bones of the leg. Mr.
Prout had just finished operating a
grinder when he attempted to re
move the belt from the gasoline
engine. When the leg was caught
in the belt the foot was drawn a-
gainst the foundation of the engine,
The snapping cf the bones could he
heard some distance away. Dr.
Fletcher was called immediately and
he had Mr. Prout removed to Vic
toria Hospital, in London. The ac
cident 'happened on xrriday last and
Mr. pr-out was able to be removed"
to his home on Sundiay. He will be
laid up for some time in conse
quence.
TAKES OVER NEW JOB
The position of registrar of deeds
for the County of Huron, which since
June 193-2, has been -held by Mr. A.
Neeb, formerly of (Stephen Township
was taken over temporarily the first
of the year by Miss Lillian McPher-
sen, who has been deputy registrar
under Mr. Neeb and who for years
was deputy under the late Registrar
Coates. The retiring of Mr. Neeb
was made in t'he interest elf eclonomy.
The announcement by Hon. A. W.
Roebuck, Attorney General -of On
tario, of Miss. McPherson's appoint
ment states that it is pro temporary
at a salary of $2,0'010. Miss McPher
son received a salary of $l.i5010i a
year as deputy registrar. The office
staff is being reduced from four to
three persons at an estimated saving
to the County of Huron of $2,80.0 a
year. Some further amalgamations
are being proposed at Goderich to
take place later -which is estimated
will make a total saving of $4,400
year.
SCHOOL IN USBORNE *
NOMINATIQN RESULTS
Ten in the Field for Council in
Usborne
The ratepayers of Usborne will
have some difficulty in deciding
their ballot in the election for the
municipal council which takes place
Monday of next week. At the nom
ination meeting on Monday at the
township hall, Elimville,
names were placed In
and ten have qualified
names will appear on
The meeting was attended by one of
the largest crowds ever seen at a
nomination meeting in Usborne.
The hal-1 was packed and some were
unable to gain admittance. IThe
Clerk, Mr. Henry Strang, accepted
the nominations following which
Mr. ’Joshua Johns was elected chair-
LJman for the public speaking. Reeve
James Ballantyne, M.L.A., was again
nominated) but withdrew and Mr.
George Westcott, who has been a
member of the council for several
years, was elected by acclamation.
The names of the councillors who
are standing for election are as fol
lows; John Ballantyne, Hugh Berry
Bruce Cooper, Dan Dew, Clark
thirteen
nomination
and their
the ballot.
McGillivi*ay Tup.
McGillivray Township will elect
all its officers this year, with two
qualified for the reeve-ship, two for
the deputy’s job and five in the field
for three council seats. The candi
dates : for reeve Henry Belling and
David Sheppard; for deputy, Cecil
Ellwood and Eldon Hodgson, for
council, William J. Allison, W. J.
Thompson, Wilbert Young, John W.
Morgan and Sidney M. Emery.
Binns I laid Twp.
Qualifying for re«re: Dr. G. H.
Jose, Earl w. Berry, Merton Rea.
For council: Peter S. Morrison,
I-Iubert Hodgins, Alex. Irvine, Wil
liam Arthur, Russell Burgess. (Four
to be elected.)
West Williams Twp.
Reeve Simon McLeod was return
ed by acclamation. 'The new coun
cil was also elected by acclamation.
They are’: James Hill, Ivan McLei-sh,
Wilson Blanchard and George Mc
Lellan.
McICiRop Ttvp,
McKillop Township elected its
council for 19'35 by acclamation.
The men who will take -office un-Fisher, Gordon C. Heywood, Percy opposed are: John Eckert, reeve;
Passmore, J-ohn H. Prance, Clarence ■ councillors Hugh Alexander, Russell
B. Routley and James Squire. Those I Dorrance, Elmer Hackell and Joseph
who were nominated for the council O’Rourke.
but did not qualify were Petei* Moir,, ’_______________
Reuben N. Shier and John M. Glenn, |
The only member of last years coun- FURTHER WORD OF WRECK
oil in the running is Percy Pass-': ,, _
more.
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DESTROYED BY FIRE
1 The old stone schoolhouse on the
- 11th concession of Usborne, known
as No. 3 or familiarly known as
Plugtown, which‘"to‘f' "the ’ past 68
yeais has seen several generations
oof scholars come and go,- was on
■ Ayednesday morning completely gut-
'%(1 tyy fire, the stone walls alone re-
,mairiin.g. On New Years day tihe
'school had been cleaned and made
ready for the new term. A coal fire
had been burning during the day.
Everything' seemed in good order
when the caretaker left between
five and six o’clock in the evening.
' Between nine and ten o’clock, the
- next morning fire was discovered in
the building. .The neighbors were
quickly on the scene and succeeded
in saving the woodshed which was
close by. The contents of the school
which included the books of the
pupils together with a splendid lib
rary were completely destroyed.
, The bell which has called the puipils
to school during
came through the
, worse.
■of Mr. Ray Francis.
Mr. Maitland Hammond.
tees, of whom M'r. Wilfred Doupe is
chairman and Mr. Ray Francis, the
secretary, met the same afternoon
and decided to call a meeting of the
section on Thursday, January 10th.
An -offer has already been made of
two rooms in a home near by. We
understand that there* is an insur
ance of $750 on the
$-2'50 on the contents,
of the school was tihe
Thomas McLaughlin, a
A couple of years ago
and old girls of the school held
very successful re-union.
all those years
fire none the
The school is ton .the farm
The teacher is
The trus-
building and
The building
worlk of Mr.
stone mason,
the old boys
a
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NEW FORD ON DISPLAY
Mr. A. O. Elliot, local Ford deal
er, and F. Wood were in Toronto on
Friday last and brought home a new
Ford deluxe sedan which has been
-on display in the Ford showroom
and which has attracted the atten
tion of many visitors. While in To
ronto Mr. E'lliot and Mr, Wiood heard
Henry Ford, Edsel Eord, President
Wallace R. Campbell of the Ford
Motor Company of Canada, Limited,
and others of the Ford Motor Com
pany address the entire, Ford organi
zation in Canada and the. United
States over an international tele
phone hook-up which extended from
New York to SftnFranciso and from
Minneapolis to Houston in the Unit
ed States, and from Vancouver to St.
John in Canada. They afso witnes
sed motion pictures of the New Ford
cars.
Word has been received that 'Ern
est WoTavish, younger son of Rev. D.
and Mi’S. McTavish, of Roiit Hope,
formerly of Exeter, had the misfor
tune to break a. bone in one of Msw•« u. oeyaiiuiu* uuuu uu uretui ouixts xxx uxxe uii illid
Members of Executive Commttee, Dr. I arms on Christmas day. This is the
S. Atkinson, Thos. pryde, Ken. second time that he >has had an arm
Clarke. broken.
A report last -week stated that it
was believed that Mr. and Mrs. R.
E. Davis, of Toronto, were on the
train wrecked at Dundas J Mr.
Mrs. Davis fortunately took
train that runs from London
Stratford and Toronto and thus miss
ed the wreck.
and
the
to
Stephen Council Re-Elected
Stephen Township have re-elected
Obe former council for another year
by acclamation. At the nomination
meeting on Mtonday a,t Creditton the
township hall was crowded. Reeve
William Sweitzer reviewed the work
of the year and outlined county mat
ters.. Considerable discussion tlook
place on the question of beer and
wine licenses. The council had pre
viously decided that if an election
took place a plebiscite be submitted
ton the quest-ion. A number of can
didates were placed in nomination
but .only the -old council qualified
being as follows: Reeve, Wim. Sweit
zer; .deputy-reeve, Chester Mawhin-
ney; councillors, Ed. Lamport, Al
onzo MciCann and Roy Ratz. The
•following were jjjomiSiated but with
drew; for reeve, Reuben .Goetz; dep
uty-reeve, Alonzo McCann; council
lors Edmund Shapton and Thomas
Love.
Centralia
Village Trustees: Fired Pen warden,
Fred Bowden, Lome Hicks,
elected by acclamation.
were
Crediton
Village ‘Trustees: Ezra Faist, John
Morlocik, Alfred Wuerth, were elect
ed by acclamation.
Bashwood
Village Trustees: Edward Nadi-
ger). Thomas Klumpp and Clayton
Pfile\were elected by acclamation.
\t Grand Bend
Villag\ Trustees: Thomas Webb,
Aaron Ireland, Peter Ravelle, Hei<
bert Pfile, William Elsie and Henry
Green. Election.
Hay Twp.
Reeve: A. Melick. Councillors:
Geo. Armstrong, Edmund Walper,
Wm. Hauch, Max Turnbull, all re
turned by acclamation.
iZuricli
Village Trusteed: Henry Eickmeir
Oscar Kltopp and R. S. Stade
elected by acclamation.
were
Stanley Twp.
Reeve, H. 'M'. Hanley; Council,
Roy Lamont, Webster Turner, Fred
Watson and John Pepper; all by ac
clamation.
Tuclcersmith Twp.
Reeve W. R. Archibald, J. A. Mc-
Gregtor and Cjharfes McKay. Coun
cil, Andrew Bell, Harry M. Chesney,
David Gemmel, W. J. RintouJ, Sam.
CharlesWhitmore, Gifford Crich,
McKay rand W. Jefferson.
reeve -of
Joseph
Hibbert Twp.
Two were nominated for
Hibbert Township namely
Nagle, incumbent of the office last
year and Frank O’Brien. Those
nominated for council were Robert
Burchill, William Kay, Frank Allen
■William Jeffrey, Clifford Dow, Wil
liam Keller .and Joseph Atkinston.
Biddulph Twp.
For Reeve, Eli Hodgins, Cecil Mc
Roberts, John .Park. For council,
Charles H. Coursey, Myron Colbert,
Frank Langford, Percy F. Armitage,
Sydney Hodgins, William Morkin,
Joseph Ryder and Joseph Bryan.
Irticaii
Qualifying for council: William
Dignaii, W. E. Totokey, Frank Hardy
and Roalnd Hedging. Accl'amation
were given to Reeve H. B. Lang
ford, Hydr-0 Commissioiiet C. W.
Hawkshftw and to School Trustees
Harvey Hodgins, Roy Fiairless and
Harold Corbett.
j Mr. S. M. Sanders on Thursday
' morning received a letter from his
son Grant, of Camden, New Jersey,
who was a passenger on the'Inter
national Limited in the wreck on
Christmas night at Dundas. Mr.
Sanders stated that be was in the se
cond section and was in the last
coach, a pullman, when the accident
happened. They ,got a sudden jerk
and the train came to a sudden stop.
“iStome of uis,” he said, “looked out
to see what had.happened but all we
could see was a bright light at the
front of the train. We walked up
to see what happened and you know
the results. A relay train came
out from Hamilton to taiko the in
jured to Hamilton to the hospital.
I rode on the relief train and helped
as much as I could. I held a man
whose back wais broken. I was de
layed in Hamilton until two o’clock
the following morning. All in all, it
was quite an experience.”
DIED IN TORONTO
A former resident of Exeter in
the person of Miss Reta >M'. Davidson,
dauightoi’ of Mrs. ana the late J-ohn
T. Davidson, of Toronto, died at her
home in that city on Monday.( Be
sides her mother the deceased is sur
vived by her sister, Miss Vio-la. Da
vidson, and her brother Mr. W. G.
Davidson, of Brantford.
INGLE—HA YTER
Oliver Ingle,
IThe marriage was solemnized in
St. James’ Church, Parkhill of Laura
Helen, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W.
II. Hayter and Charles Stanley Irigle
son of vMr. and Mils.
T.he bride entered the church on the
arm of her father bo the strains of
the wedding march played by Mrs.
F. Lewin. The bride was beautiful
ly gowned in white transparent vel
vet with a train. She wore a veil,
held in place by a crown of pearls
and orange blossoms and carried a
sheaf of white lilies. She was attend
ed by her sister, Lillian, as maid of
honour, gowned in royal blue trans
parent velvet with silver -accessories
and by her cousin, Miss Addie Hick
ey, gowned in wine velvet with gold
accessaries. They carried yellow
mums. Little Eleanor MciLinchey,
niece of the bride, dressed in yellow,
taffeta acted as flower girl. |Thei|
groom was attended by Willis Hay
ter and Le Grande Wright of Detroit
Miss Doreen Lewin sang “O Perfect
Love” at the signing of the reg
ister. After the ceremony the brid
al party returned to the bride’s
home where dinner wais served to
twenty five guests. Ellen and Doris
Hicks, friends of the bride and Mrs.
Laura McLinchey assisted
table,
short
bride
black
at the
Mr. and Mrs. Ingle left flor a
honeymoon to points west, the
travelling in green velvet with
-and white accessories.
PRESENTATIONS
A double presentation was held
on New Year’s night in the Clande-
boye school house when a large num
ber of friends gathered in honour of
Mr. and Mrs.
Lulu Rollins)
Harold Sutton
bert., During
Mrs. Neil were presented with six
dining room chairs and an arm chair
end Mr. and Mrs. Sutton received ft
kitchenette Suite. The address was
read by Ml’. Bruce Hodgins. Lunch
w-ais served and an enjoyable time was
spent in dancing, music being fur
nished by Dtobbs, Flannigan and
Neil. The sponsors of the success
ful evening wore Messrs. Harold.
Bice, Amber Carter, Grant Brooks
and Rupert Williams,
Alton Neil (nee Miss
and Mr. and
(nee Miss Ruth Her-
the evening Mr. arid
Mrs.
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