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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1936-02-19, Page 34 THLJt.SPAV, ftEBBVARr M lfl3«THE EXETER TiMES-ADVOCATE .* for the- mail couriers and the 4« <5 * ♦ 4 * Three times three and a tiger milkmen! A cat is tfae only creature that wears with grace an aura of complacency. Even with her there is the danger of dogs, And what a lot of reading we have been getting done. IKIMQFMIN muscular pains, checks colds, end? skin blcm> ishes. Keep a bottle ALSO IH SMALLER GBANTON MAN DIES The death of John E. Nixon oc cured at his home, Granton on Feb, 11th, from pneumonia, Mr. Nixon was in his 79th year. lie was born in Blanshard where he resided until IM years ago . His wife died 33 years ago. Surviving are five children, Clifford of Port Lambton; Homer, Moncton, B, Bert, on the-home­ stead; Maude, at home and Mrs, W. Barnes, of Farkhilh An odd Fellows’ Funeral' 'was held on Friday with in­ terment in G-ranton Cemetery. F F) IJF H R I A IrJCs JU X X VX X JP*. XX • . p n I ' And how children enjoyed those rides in the bobs. Such trips made school a delight. Wh^t a chance some of us have had to get an extra turn out of the old clothes. ♦ ♦ * * ♦ V > * 1< \ v / HOME BURNED ■ ,IVhen William Hill was entering Coiborne cemtery at the -burial of his father he was informed that hiB home in Coiborne Township was in flames. By the time he reached the frame building the upper floor was a mas3 of flames, but willing neighbors and friends managed to save the furni­ ture from the lower rooms.. There were no facilities for fight­ ing the fire which is believed to have been -started -by oyerheated pipe3, and the building was razed. . Mrs, Hill and -$Wo children also were at­ tending the funeral. Neighbors discovered ■ the «if-ire, REAHNISCENCES OF KIRKTON Rev, S. J. Elljott in -gt. Marys JournaFArgus Editor of (St, /Marys Journai-Argus. Dear iSir Some tim® ago 1 received a letter from an old former resijept of Kilkr ton, now of'Goderich, -wheyo I}e W whmT’eaTsed Aarnah Tstimated^at lormer customs and, excise. ofHper, |2 q00 now retired. He takes exception, tQ , ’ ah item appearing in some iie>yspp,p- -ers some time ago by an old school- 1 •?,s-■MH. 4--------... ...---------■■------ . - mate w'h-o claims -that some fifty- MRS. DANIEL GOADING, of McGIMj1vray, DIES PARKHILIll—-Mrs. Daniel Gooding passed away at her home on the 7th concession of McGillivray. Township Saturday in her 58th .year. Mrs. Gooding, whose maiden name was Eleanor Kilgallan, was the dau-glhter of' the late Patrick Kilgal­ lan, whose birthplace was Ireland, ■She was -eight years ago when he first cam® to Kirkton it consisted of but two ■or three houses. Now this gentleman who went to that old Kirlk'ton school some sixty -odd years ago, asks if this idea of Kirkton being; a mushroom village •sprung up over night Should not be corrected and asks me if I could not do something about it. To -use his ! own expression he says he sti-ll has , and Margaret Laughlin, a tender spot in his heart for Kirk- ; born in West Williams on December ton. He says he may be sentimentally batt-y but never was a mushroom village. To years, this I quite agree, our old school­ mate will 'have to go back .much __ ___________ farther than fifty-eight years to find family of three children, Margaret, only two or three houses. I can go _ _ r baclk sixty years and can recall six is also survived by one sister-,. Mar- -or seven log houses, three 0^four : garet Kil'galan. A brother and two still standing and occupied., Qt ’ sisters predeceased, her. , course they now show a fine appear­ ance from a good veneer or paint, the logs are not visible. Also the village of Woodham as Shown by our old- friend, the late Wm. Johnston in his book, entitled “Pioneer!, of Perth.” Woodham is over seventy-five year old, dating hack to 1859. Incidentally, your scribe as a boy enjoyed the shelter <of a log house in that village for so-me years and with other Wood­ ham children passed through the Kirkton village to .and from school ■daily, hence we know something of the population of Kirkton, sixty or more years ago when the ring of the , anvil CQiild be heard from the black- ' smith shop of the late B'. J. Road­ house and John Oall.en.der, and I, am sure they both required a. residence and- of no small dimensions as there were few small families those days. In fact I can recall eight boys in M'r. catlander’s, famiily and I. think there were more. I am not.going.to, take uh too much space. I will simp­ ly mention a few others; The- Doc­ tors, the Methodist Parsonage, Post Office and residence. Even that fine Anglican Rectory was built . more -than sixty years ago. Now I can re­ call three houses standing where E, N. .Shier’s store now stands or between the bridge and the corner. Two were of log construction, one occupied by t'he late Jas. Tufts, the, next by a. Widopr lady, the other a white frame on the corner occup­ ied by i-iank Waters, Joseph Bryan, tailor, where the bakery now stands Bobby Burns, tinsmith, in a log building; at the foot of the incline, opposite .t'he ,late Capt. Paisley’-s, but enough before I mention the great T. Eaton & Co. getting their staijt in Kirkton some seventy years s-in^e before they- moved, to St. Marys and then to Toronto. ■Of -course there is the famous Ag­ ricultural Society in existence sev­ enty -years when it held two fairs a year, Spring and Fall. Probably not just as elaborate as at present when ■ex’hibitprs have only, to back /up their mqtor- -tru§k and speed .away, yet , there was always an abundant display of everything. It ^w^s not necessary to haye a megaphone when the -late Jas. Bryan with his baritone voice could be heard a great distance w'hen calling exhib­ itors to bring their two-year-old filly or gelding, heavy draught etc. Now- in conclusion, we don’t want 'Ouf pld schoolmate to ta-ke offence for we know how easy it is Ao thoughtlessly say “a couple or three ^houses,” .besides, fifty-eight ago is along time to go back; a lot ■of water has run under the bridge at Kirkton since then. But we do not care to sit idly by and allow the younger generations to taK® All, of the credit .from the old pioneers who jnade it possible for th®-, twin Villages of Woodham and Kirkton to b® what they, are today. With very best wishes, Yours trulY getting \ 1-8, 1'87 8 and. had lived on the 7th Kirkton concession of McGiUlvray for 23 " ___ 'She was .one of a .-family, of - five, four girls and ohe boy. Besides her husband, Mrs. Gooding leaves, a James arid Eleanor, all at ;home. She The funeral service was held at the R. C. Church at 10.30 a.m. Tuesday at Mount Carmel. WILLIAhl H. WALKER DIES DEN.FIEILD, Feb. 14.—William H. Walker, son of the late Robert and Mary Walker, died at his home in Lobo township on Monday morning after a brief illness. He was born in Ihe'cOunty of Hu­ ron near'Centralia 73 years ago. The early part of his life was spent in and near Ailsa -Craig, but for thp lastn 40 years he farmed in th.e township* of -Lobo.. Mr. Waltaer was well knowr^ throughout the county as a-buyer of - horses and cattle., The 'home of. Mr. Walker, and his wife who, died near-? ' ly three years ago was no.te-d for. its hospitality. He was highly respected by all -who kne\y him. Th® funeral was held.from his raesf- dpncew W<?^ies,dix^Aftprnppn.. Mr, Morrow, pastor of the Carlisle United iCh^y^jysith. which-. Wal^^ er was connected;- had charge of the- service. Interment was made in the Carlisle, cemetery. He is survived by one son John qri the homestepdp one-daughter/ Mr§, Ellis Thompson, of McGillivray;.flv-e sisters, .Mrs. Hugih McNeil, Mrs. A. Lumby and- 'Miss. Margaret Walker, of Alisa 'Craig, Mrs. Coleman Ho­ garth,. of Pur.veS, .Man., and Mrs, G. E. Hotson, of J^edicine Hat,, Alta.? Relatives were present from De­ troit, Toronto and St. Thomas. i years t •>” S. J» ELLIOTT. Exeter, Feb. 3rd, 1936 WRIGLEY’S - , , PANORAMA OF THE AIR HEARDUVERY NIGHT EXCEPT SATURDAY AND SUNDAY AT 7:45----CFBB Pioneers- Jor manyt .years,in ra/lid entertainment, Wrigleys this year are sponsoring an entirely new-,type of program, the kaleidoscopic Panor­ ama of the Air. Variety is its es­ sence, each night the spotlight twists .turns-and focusses or some new scene of life in Ontario. Believing that there is more real human interest in things and people near home than in more distant cele­ brities, Wrigleys bring to the micro­ phone news and- entertainment pro­ vided by our neighbors. It has been a pleasant surprise.to thousands to discover how fascihating in this news and how distinguished much, of the talent. Neither selebrity nor ob­ scurity is a ban to this programme. So.mo .nights we hear, ‘World- Jamons celebrities, .other people yho are completely unknown, but who may be celebrities some day. People of many .nations-.haye appeared, sing­ ers, and musicians of many kinds, poets, artists and just plain people with, something of human to record. Howard Lindsay, •’Master monies, was formerly one hlghlighj$„,o£ Haijt ,House/ productions. Not only aid in many playg-, .but jwrota a member, of them himself. At one time ltd iy,i’ics,0|f an entire musical play, produced the has just the breadth of Interests and “The man's a fool,” p-nowledge Of humanity necessary . “Yes, but that may be mere coin-1 to maifoo^Hils program an outstand* olden co, . 1 interest of Cere*, of the Theatre 'lie act 1 “The pew member claims to be be­ lated to you and says ho can prove it.” ing success. These stormy nights have given us a fine opportunity to get acquainted with our own families. (Some pleasant discoveries have been made. ****».**« Aufi'jWha^jno.nth Qf,gevete winter weather! A good many moons have waxed and -waned’ since Western Ontario has -seen the like. And now. one .of AL Cappne’s,chief lieutenants has been shot in (hp paplt by fhye? of his -companions In crime. iSuch is the of a life of violence! end to to 0 bin, has A correspondent asks regarding the proper size of a coal That all depends upon the nature of the winter. This season upset all calculations. And npw, Mr. Parliamentary bac'k bencher, show what you are doing to earn yoiy njpney. You made so-me promises. What of election not so very far 1 their being carried out? Then, there’s an off. ; t U seems-timt ,the Canadian hockeyists games 'Whjat they, might, have locked for. ♦ got A from a team- that set out to do that very thing. It is humiliating when one is well beaten at his own game., Canadians played hockey along old line^.. They neglected research and.invention and so be­ come back numbers. If they don’t see this everyone else does. i? V »******** just at the Olympic splendid trimming It is humiliating WORTH HEEDING Aviation Marshall Bishop in his stirring address before the Em­ pire Qlub of Toronto put all Canada under obligation by reminding Canadians that the contribution they are to make to the world must be along the line of high quality. He pointed out that one first class airship was in time of, war worth 300 inferior airships. This was not a wild statement made for the purpose of effect, but the sober statement of a man who knows whereof he speaks, if Cana­ da, in time of stress foi* herself or for the Empire can furnish one such, ship, well-manned, her contribution will be beyond all price. Quality of this high standard of excellence is npt attained m a day, but, as he pointed out, the result of years of research, of selection, of extensive training and of a high order of physical and - mental and moral excellence. And what applies to aviation app.ies equal­ ly .to all other Canadian activities.' We may as well face that so­ bering fact. ♦ ***«<:** GLORY NOT NECESSITY , To thosie who say that Italy lias piade war op Ethiopia because she requires territory whither her surplus population may go, the following from an article in The Monthly News Sheet of The League of Nations should give cause for reflection; . * “Itfind it impossible to interpret Mussolini’s campaign in terms of1 population pressure and of economic advantage to Italy. But if these do not explain the campaign, -where are we to look for the -key to Mussolini’s policy? The key is to be found, I think, in the ar­ ticle on Facisim which Mussolini wrote for the Italian Encyclopedia. He asserts that on,ly war can raise human energies to their highest cappclty. , Other tests of character are shoddy substitutes. Facfsim he says, is contemptuous of Pacifism, seeing in it merely a cloak of cowardice. War, in itself, is ennobling. When Mussolini asserts that Italy must expand ill Africa, he is not thinking, primarily, of economic necessity. What he is attempting to do is to raise the prestige of Italy, extend, its possessions, its responsibility and its power, elevate its standards of self-esteem, and improve its charac­ ter through a process of stiffening, so jls to .place .Italy on precisely the same level as the strongests nations in thq}.wo^ld today.” , Elizabeth P. McCallum * LOVE OF CHILDREN (Further intimate glimpses of King George in private life .were given by Mr. Morshead. “King GQorge," he said, “loved children, as the greatest men so often do, . Every,year lie used t.Q giv.e ,a prize to some selected candidate from one of the loca,^ school’s; and if one of those boys or girls were here at the microphone now instead of me, this is the account he could give you. He would say:^— “ 7 was shown up into the King's study, quite a small room, and there was the King standing on .the hearthrug, and shaking hands With me and talking just as if he had known .me all my life. I was ever so frightened before I went in, .but the funny thing was that, directly he started talking I felt as if I’d known him all my life. “ 'He as'kied me all about home and whether any of our people •were out of work and whether I was as proud of being a Norfolk person as he was, and a whole lot of other things; and it seemed all the time as if he really wanted to know, “ ‘And while I was talking I looked around at the rather hard- looking red leather chairs; and the grey parrot on a stand, which seemed fond of him; and the little dog which was loo’kdng at him; and the neat pile 'Of books on the low table by his chairs; and a lot of scarlet dispatch boxes—-one of them was,open and a great, big paper was lying on it which he had been reading when I came in. “ 'Presently he took up a Bible, saying that, that .was what he Was going to give me; but before doing that he'wanted to tell me a story,, “'When I was your age,” he said, “my grandmother (she was Queen Victoria, you know) gave me a Bible, and- she advised me to read a chapter in it every night, I have always done it, wherever I .'have been—except, of course, during that bad illness! i couldn’t dj^^t^then. Now you can do as you like, but if you make that a rule of your life, and stick to it, I don’t thinik you'll regret it when you come to my age . . •. and ^oufye got a long way to go yet,” And then fe laughed his great boyish laugh, and I came away.” ——The LOfidOri Times KIRK BROTHERS. AMONG LEADING KIRKTON PEOPLE Blanshard, the banner townshin ,of Pei'th, has two important villages Kirkton and Woodham, and the fact that they are only .1% miles apart has always caused considerable com­ ment. Doth are picturesque places, with important business .establish­ ments, fine residences -and beauti­ ful shade trees, and are near the Blanshard-Usborne boundary, which separates the counties of Perth and Huron. Kirkton is of special interest to Western Ontario, as it *was founded by the late Timothy Eaton, after­ wards a prominent iSt. Mary’s mer­ chant, who final’y went to Toronto. The first building in the village was a log house which stood on the edge of the Fish Creek, to the rear of the .Shier & Marshall store of later days. Mr. Eaton opened up a store in this structure, during the early fifties, and for several years it supplied the needs of the sett’ers of the community. A post office was started in the same building in 1865 and, in looking after both it and the store, T. Eaton was assisted by his brother, James Eaton. Kirikiton was named in honour of t'he Kirk brothers, who were among the earliest residents of the com­ munity. Three of them, Alexander, Lewis and James, settled on t'he corner farms where the village is no v 'ocated, and three- others, David, Robert and John, took up adjoining lands. In 1-857, the first brick edi- fi e, a small cottage was erected and this was also used as a store for sev- e.al years. About 1862 Wm. and Ro­ bert Currie built a frame store and by that time the village had become established. The original blacksmith shop was established about 1860 by Tohn Callander and, in after years, Roadhouse & Brown followed the same occupation. Other old-time business men 'ncluded Josenh Bryan, tailor; .Robert Kirk, tinsmith J. Doupe & Co., merchants, the population of the place ’’mated at about 200. Woodham Woodham was founded in ___ . Walker Unwin, an Englishman, who also established the post office in 1865. It was at first called Bull’s Run, probably after the famou's battle of somewhat similar name, but-this was later changed to Wood­ ham as t'he result of' a chance sug- estion by Mr. Unwin and Jonathan Shier. The vil’age also progressed rapidly, until, in 1900,. the popula­ tion was estimated to be about 150, In. its most industrious period thefe was a hotel, sawmill, grsitmill, pump factory and shoe making establish­ ment, as well as the stores, Pioneer family names in the Kirk­ ton and Woodham district include: Kirk, Shier, - Doupe, Switzer, Rinn, Mills, Elliott, Hanes, Sawyer, Lan­ kin, Ford, Avery, Sykes and others. Metropolitan is another commun­ ity in Blanshard which was called after a tiny hamlet of that name and of whch now scarcely nothing exists. It was first named this by John H, Donaldson, a local school teacher, who believed' -the place anight have become a village of importance. Wm. Spence opened a post office there in 1875 and it served the public for a lengthy period. At one time there was also a temperance hall in this 1 neighborhood. Whalen, situated on the Biddulph- Blanshard -boundary, is another ham­ let, part -of which is in the latter township. It was named after Mi­ chael Whalen, who kept a tavern there in the early days J. H. Wilson opened t'he post office in 1871 and it also -served the people for many yhars. TWO OFFICIALS SOON LOSE JOBS The regiipe of two Bayfield men, recently appointed elerlk and. bailiff in the Bayfield Division Court, is among the shortest on record. The men were appointed this year and are now without jobs as an order council has done away with (he Bay- field court, that centre now being under the jurisdiction of the Clinton court, The Dungannon qourt also has been abolished. and In 1900 ■was es~ 1859 by London Free Press OLD AGE pensions to COST MILLION MORE Old age pensions at the present rate and conditions of payment are expected to post the Federal Govern­ ment $1,100,000 more in the next fiscal year, it is disclosed in the es­ timates for 1936-37. The vote last year was- $16,400,000 to pay the Do­ minion’s share. For the next year it is $17,500,000. FREE TREES AVAILABLE TO FARMERS The Ontario Forests Branch - is following the policy of previous years to any farmer in the Province of On­ tario. For windbreak planting any i farmer -may secure up to. 500 frees, and there is no limit to the number of trees which will be supplied for reforestation purposes. The only cost to the farmer is the express charges on the shipment from the igovern- nursery to his nearest railway sta­ tion. • Last spring farmers of County received a total of trees, and of this number ■-o;e oraered for reforestation pur­ poses, and .the remaining 56,411 trees were for windbreak planting. The varieties supplied for wind­ breaks are White Spruce, Norway Spruce and White Cedar and th®, list of trees available for reforestation purposes includes approximately 18 of our better known and m-ore val-4- uable forest trees. The Forests Branch cannot supply trees for decorative or ornamental planting about homes, clubs or other private properties. Application forms to be used m applying for trees, may be secured by writing to Ian Mc­ Leod, Ontario Department of Agri­ culture, Clinton, Ont., and all appli­ cations must be forwarded to the Ontario Forests Branch, Parliament Buildings, Toronto 5, on or before the first of April. Huron 166,759 110,348 “Thank you so much.” said a wo­ man to a laboring man who had her his seat in a street car. “That was very kind of you." “Not al all, ma’am, not at all," protested the man. “I know some men dont give up their seats to any­ one except pretty girls, but looks dont make any difference to me.” Hockey Book and AUTOGRAPHED PICTURES Of YOUR FAVORITE PLAYERS * Every boy will want this Book—' ’Ho w to Becotno a Hockey Star”, by T. P. (Tommy) Gorman, coach and manager of the World Champion Montreal Maroons. Simply take a 1 abel £ rom a ti n of.^RO WN BRAND’1 or “LILY WHITE", -------------- the back your and the Wor label to T Toronto: N SYRUP—write on 0 and address—plainly— oekey Book’-’. 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