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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1936-08-27, Page 1EXETER, ONT., THURSDAY MORNING, AUGUST 27th, 1936ESTABLISHED 1873 BOWLING NOTES Special Interest to All Poults FALL AND WINTER We have some exceptionally attractive values for early Fall buyers. Fall and Winter merchandise is arriving daily and our stock will soon be complete, We handle only standard lines manufactured by reliable firms. First Showing of Ladies’ Fall Coats We have received our first shipment of Ladies’ Fall and Winter Coats. Cloths are of very fine English make with luxurious fur collars. Come in and look thgm over ____ ____________________________________________ _____________________ __________________________, SwWers /■ We are ready for Fall with a large stock of underwear, briery, sweaters, etc. for Ladies, Men and Children made by such reliable firms Turnbull’s, Penmans, Stanfields, Watsons, Monardn, Etc. Prices are very reasonable. " ’ r" 1' " ■ 1 ir 11..... ' ' ""......." ' r r ir ' ' .......... ‘ ' Clearing of Suqiriier Goods many bargains to offer in Su^mner merchandise. Prices reduced to clear in a hurry. / Underwear Hosiery Summer Djtfsses for Ladies and Gijb Greatly Reduced BATHING SUITS FOR LADIES, MEN AND CHILDREN CLEARING AT REAL BARGAIN PRICES Special Values for Thursday, Friday, Saturday Surprise Laundry Soap, 6 bars for ...... 25c Crunchie Sweet Pickles, 27 oz. jar...23c Orange Marmalade, 32 oz jar ........... 25c Maple Leaf Peas, No. 4 sieve, 2 tins 19c Cucumbers for pickling can be obtained ed to order these for yoq. . ■■■ » ■—■■ ..■■■■■■ i ;7'»——i—ss Chase & Sanborn Dated Coffee, per lb Lux Flakes, large package Fly Tox, 8 oz...... 33c 16 oz. Choice Asparagus Cuttings, No. 2 tin in the sizes you prefer. We will be pleas- Phone 32 Jones & May Make your pallets pay you a profit this fall. ' tournament at Ailsa Sixty-Third Year $4.00 per 100 $3.50 per 100 ................$3.00 .............. $3.25 Start now by getting them in laying condition—we carry Royal Purple Conc^itrate 40 per cent, j^otein with 5 pounds Specific added each bag......... Less Specific ....../............................ Roe’s Concentrate 32 per cent. Roe’s Concentrate 40 per cent...... Purena Layeria or Lay Cho^ gives wonderful results also steps up thejhatch ability/fest. Ask tlM man who fed it J year SPECIAlIwHILE LASTS—LABRADOR SHELL ‘ Rich in organic calcfum, easily assimilated, makes better fi # egg shells Per 100 Jhs, 8^. cwt. Per 500 lb. lots 75c. cwt. Special Prjcgiron quantity lots on any of above feeds USE PURENA CHICKEN FATENA CHECKERS GIVES YOU CRATE FINISHED BIRDS WITHOUT ANY CRATE —MILK FINISHED BIRDS WITHOUT ANY MILK NO MUSS—NO BOTHER Traquair’s Hardware Miss Reba Simmons, nurse-in­ training at the' Stratford Hospital, visited at her home here for t'he week-end. Mrs. Elsie Douglas, of London, visited with friends in town a few days last week. Mr, and Mrs. B. W. F. Beavers visited With Wallace, in week, Mrs. Fuke Cora Fake, of Chicago, are expected to-day (Thursday) to visit with re­ latives in town. Mr. and Mrs. A. W. London one day last and daughter Miss Miss Thelma Hockey is visiting with Mrs. May Saul, in London for two weeks. Mrs. Archie Ryckman returned home Saturday after holidaying with Mrs. Ernest Constable at Grand Bend. Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Goulding and son Dawson returned last week af* ter a pleasant vacation at Sundridge where they were the guests of Rev. and Mirs. J. H. Stainton. They also took a trip through the Parry Sound district and from Huntsville took a boat trip, A rink of bowlers attended the tournament at Goderich Wednesday afternoon of last week winning two out -of three games and bringing home some of the prizes. Another rink attended the tourna­ ment at Stratford Wednesday after­ noon. Two rinks have been invited to attend the Craig Friday evening of this week. A meeting of the bowlers will be held in the office of the president, Jas. Bowey, Thursday evening im­ mediately following the baseball game. At the weekly bowling jitney on Friday evening of last week several Lucan bowlers mixed with the Exet­ er bowlers. First prize was won by B. M. Francis, Gordon May, Bert Rivers and W. E. Sanders with 3 wins >plus 21. Second prize was won by Wm. Rivers, B. Sanders, E. J. Wetliey and R. N. Creech. The second jitney was held Mon­ day evening with six rinks in play. First prize was won by H. C. Carey, A. O. Elliot, J. M. Southcott and H. C. Rivers with three wins and a plus of 17. Wm. iSmith, T. O. Southcott, W. E. Middleton and Wm. Sanders were second with two wins and a plus of 8. After winning four games in a Scotch Doubles series of challenge games J. M. Southcott and George Anderson were defeated Tuesday evening in a 21 end game by G. Cochrane and W. E. Sanders. The winners hold gold chains until de­ feated. At the end of the season the chains go to the couple who have won the most games. HOME LOOTED While away on vacation the home of Mr. and Mrs. K. J, Lampman was looted by thieves and a quant­ ity of jewellery was stolen, Mr. and Mrs. Lampnran returned Sunday evening after holidaying at Pt. Stan­ ley. On entering the home they did not notice anything out of the way but the following morning when Mr. Lampman went to use the telephone he found the batteries of the phone were missing. Later they discovered that the rooms up­ stairs had been ransacted. drawers had been contents scattered, ‘thing missing was of jewellrj' valued dollars. Entrance to the home had been made through a small window. Dresser opened and the About the only a small quantity at about thirty BUYS TAVISTOCK BUSINESS Mr. Jas. Francis, who for the past six years has been employed with Mr. E. R. Hopper, has purchased the furniture and undertaking busi­ ness of J. Kalbfleisch & Son, of Tavistock. He gets possession Sept. Sth. Mr. Francis, whose .home is in Bright, has made many friends while a resident of Exeter and is very popular among the younger set. He is a member of the Main St. Male Quartette, their services having been in much demand. He is president of the Main- St. Young People’s Association and is also a member of the Exeter Band acting as treasurer. He will be missed in this community but the best wishes of his many friends for his future success will follow him in his new undertaking. PRESENTATION On Monday evening Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Mathers (nee Miss Ilene ’’Valker) were pleasantly surprised at, the home of her mother Mrs. C. Walker, when about seventy-five neighbors and friends gathered in honor of the newly married couple. The members of the bride’s Sunday School class of James St. church and the Mission Circle were also pre­ sent. A pleasing program was given with Mr. Leslie Richard as chairman. Miss Eileen Snell, on be­ half of the girls read an address and Miss Viola Hodgson presented the bride with a beautiful linen table cloth. Mrs. C. W. Christie on be­ half of the neighbors and friends read the address and Mr. E. J. Shap- ton presented the young couple with was eveu- a lovely end-table. Lunch served bringing an enjoyable ing to a close. ACCIDENTS Harold Brintnell, 8-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Brintnell, sus­ tained a fracture of the left hip Saturday afternoon and was taken to Victoria Hospital, London, where the fracture was reduced. Harold was scuffling with a couple of other lads when one of them attempted to throw <liim and became twisted bad fracture. in falling his leg and he suffered a tine of a fork ...J|_ ” 3 foot from the heel to the ball of the big toe was the painful experience of Donald, ten-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Jos. Kernick, of Usborne. The lad was in the barn and attempted to kick away a stool with the back of his foot. He missed the stool and the tine of the fork entered a hole in the shoe and went through the foot. Hy. Delbridge while assisting with the threshing at the farm of his son Horace, in Usborne, received a nasty gash in the head Tuesday af­ ternoon when- the drive belt broke. They had finished the threshing and were in the act of cleaning u-p the floor with only a few forkfuls of grain left, when1 the belt broke. The fork Mr. Delbridge was using became entangled in the belt and whether it was the belt or fork that struck Mr. Delbridge he did not know. The gash bled profusely and Mr. Delbridge was brought to a doctor’s office Where three stitches were required to close the wound. Md’. H. Willis and son, Mr. E. Pat­ terson, Mr. L. Patterson, Mr, B. J. Sutherland motored from Toronto and spent Saturday with Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Rowe. Mr. Ross Sutli- Running the through the bottom of the W. I.GARDEN PARTY Women’s Institute held party on the spacious lawn and Mrs. Seymour on Friday The Exeter aThe garden of Mr. evening of last week. Band provided some excellent music. The members of the institute serv­ ed lunch. A fortune telling booth and a refreshment booth were on the grounds. Although the weather was fine the attendance was rather disappointing, the proceeds amount­ ing to about $38.00. CEMENT WORK COMPLETE The cement work for Exeter’s new waterworks reservoir has been completed. The cement top was poured Thursday of last week. The cement was reinforced with tons of steel rods. The lumber used foi’ the forms has been removed from the outside and the workmen are now engaged in removing the lum­ ber from the interior. Earth is be­ ing filled in around the outside. A brick pump house 24 x 40 ft. will be erected on the west end of the reservoir and the rest of the reser­ voir will be covered with a couple of feet of earth. The reservoir will have a capacity of some three hun­ dred thousand gallons of water with an additional thirty thousand gal­ lons in the stand-pipe at the rear of the Town Hall. The present supply harnessed at the springs will nearly fill the reservoir every 24 hours, This means about 200 gallons af water per day for every man, wo­ man and child in Exeter. In case of a serious fire there should be a good supply of water as the supply at the reservoir would more fill the stand-pipe ten times, water mains from the springs been laid across Mr. Yellow’s and the workmen are now engaged in crossing Mr. Dow’s farm. ... SOFTBALL ■ ■■ Business Men vs. All Stars TONIGHT (Thursday) The All Star Men’s Softball team have challanged the business and professional men of town to an ex­ hibition game this Thursday even­ ing. The business men showed up to good advantage with the girls last Thursday evening and they have accepted the challenge to meet the men this Thursday evening. Those who saw the game last w'eek say the business men will give the All Stars a good game. Silver col­ lection in aid of the Christmas Fund. than The have farm UPPER SCHOOL RESULTS EXETER HIGH SCHOOL 7 5 66 60 to to 100%; to 74%; to 65 %; 59%. The results of the Upper School Examinations ai’e this year distinct­ ly better than the average of the past, over 83% of all attempts be­ ing successful. In the papers French Authors, French Composition, Bot­ any and Trigonometry there were al­ together 35 passes without a fail­ ure. In English Composition, Mod­ ern History, Algebra, Zoology, Latin Authors and Latin Composition there were 42 -passes and one failure in each subject. In only one sub­ ject did the failures run beyond two. Grade 1 proficiency, Grade 2 proficiency, Grade 3 proficiency, Credit proficiency, 5 0 An * indicates the candidate pass­ ed in all attempted papers. One pleasing feature is the inclu­ sion of four Middle School pupils who passed the Upper School Com­ position paper on their Middle School training. * Armstrong, Geraldine L., Hist. 1, Geom. C, Trig. 2; Baynham, Charles E„ Lit. 2, Trig. C, French Authors C, French Comp. 3; Bell Florence, E., Lit. 1, Hist. C, Trig. C, Botany C, Zool. C, Chem. C;*Brown, Wil­ liam O, Composition C; ’'"Coates, Betty B., Hist. C, Geom. C, Trig. C, Botany C, Zool. 3; *Dunsford, Flor­ ence N„ Lit. C, Geom. 2, Trig. C, Latin A, 2, Latin Comp. 3, French Auth. C, French Comp. 1, Group Hon. Latin 3, French 3; Dunsford, William C, Lit. C, Hist. 2, Algebra C, Trig. 2, Chem. C; *Essery, Beat- Bot. 2; * Harvey, Quite a number from town at­ tended the Conservative picnic held at Bayfield Wednesday afternoon ■L _ when addresses were given by Hon. or land returned home with them af-lHarl W> Rowe, the newly selected ter spending the past two months leader of the Conservative party and here. col. Geo. A. Drew, ICC. HITCH-HIKING ’HOUND THE } WORLD” The Toll Brothers Right ’round the world these two^ University of Toronto boys thumb­ ed their way, one full year, twenty­ seven countries, 30,000 miles, and their transportation bill was just $ 75.00 each. Their remarkable travelogue, telling the story of the trip in pictures, will be given in Thames Road United Church Wednesday, September 9th Adults 25c children 15c. 8 p.m. GRAND BEND Dancing Nightly to Saturday, August 29th No dancing Tuesday, September 1st, Thursday, September 3rd or Friday, September 4th OLD TIME FIDDLERS’ CONTEST Monday, August^lst A Night of Old T^fe Dancing Prizes for Mouth (Wan playing and StepyBancing Plan to spend the holiday week-end at Grand Bend. There will be three big dances—.Saturday Night, Mon­ day Morning Midnight and Monday Night. Rent a cottage—Reduced rates now. Apply at Casino Selling Out Sale rice M., Hist. 2, Doris L., Lit. 1; *Hess Paul A. H., Algebra 1, Geom. 1, Trig. 1, Physics 1, Chem. 1, F. Authors 1, F. Comp. 2, Group Honors Mathematics 1, French 1; *Hess, Quimby F., Alge­ bra 2, Geom. 1, Botany 1, Zool. 1, F. Autho-rs 2, F. Comp. 2, Group Hon. Mathematics 1, Biology 1, French 2; * Hicks, Mildred J., Lit. 2; Horner, Jean E., Lit. C, Algebra C, Geom. C, Botany C, Zool. Howey, Lome, Comp. 1; Ireland, R. Bruce, Comp, (attended year); *Lewis, Eileen E., (Middle School Pupil); lArdys E., F. Authors C, F. Martin, K. Patricia, Hist. C, Trig. 3, Latin Authors Comp. 2, F. Authors 1, F. Group ITon. Latin 2, *May, Warren D, Comp. 1; Gordon, Hist. 2, F. Authors 3, Comp. 2, Group Hon. Oestreicher, Donald -’Passmore, Russel * Pepper, L. Nelson, ■Chem. 2, F. Authors Ratz, Reta M., Comp. C; *Sanders, C. Borden, Comp. 1, Lit. 1, Group Hon. English 1; *Sinclair, Norman A., Geom. 1, Trig. 1, Botany 2, Zool. 2, Latin Authors 1, Latin Comp. 1, Biology 2, Latin 1; *-Stanbury, Jean I., Lit. 2, F. Authors 1, F. Comp. C, Group Hon. French 2; Strang, Alex­ ander- D., Comp. 3; *Strange, M. Grace M„ Literature C; *Sweet, Irene C., Comp, C, Hist. 2, Algebra 2, Geom. 2, Trig. 2, Botany C, Zool. 2, Chem. 3, Group Hon. Math. 2, Biology 3; Van Camp, Irene E Comp. 3; *Van camp, Zool. 3; Wilson, William H., Comp. C; ’"(Hadman, Marion R.. Comp, 3 (Middle School Pupil); ’’■McKenzie, Jean G., Comp, s (Middle School Pupil); ^Stanbury, Elaine M., Comp. (Middle School » if \ i > < a In addition to <the Departmental results for Exeter High School the following former pupils by private study have obtained the fallowing standing: Middle School, Frederick Clones, Can. Hist. 3, Ancient, Hist. Upper School, Lome C. Elder, Algebra, 3. AU Lines of LADIES' WEAR 2; 3; C; ofpart Comp. C, McFalls, Comp. C; 1, Geom. 2; Latin Comp. 1, French' 1; May, Prices Greatly Reduce/.! / Jr Some lijies below cXst / ,, Early/buyer's^t first f cliofce c Jjr ..... Wards Ladies’ Wear “Hitch-Hiking ‘Round the^World’* L„ F., Lit. C, F. Comp. C; French Comp. Comp. C, Phy. Al Mary A., The Toll Brothers, ’’World's Cham­ pion Hitch-Hickers” are seen in thumbing formation. The story of their trip, with mag- nigieently coloured pictures on the screen, will be heard in CREDITON UNITED, CHURCH Thursday, Sept. 10th, at 8 p.m. Adults 2il5c, Children loc The funeral of the late Mrs. Charles E. Tuckey was held in Lon­ don on Thursday of last week. Rov. A. E. Elliott of town had charge of the service and Messrs. B. W. F. Beavers and Geo. Mawson assisted as bearers.