HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1936-11-12, Page 7THE EXETER TIMES-ADVOCATE
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wheat.
Truly "Man marks the earth with
ruin!” When we pause to think
that only four hundred years ago
this great American continent was
practically unknown to the white
race it is difficult to realize what
havoc has been wrought in this short
time by men in their greed and ig
norance destroying its magnificent
forests, leaving win’d swept areas
which have become playgrounds for
cyclones, unheard of in Ontario fifty
years ago, Soil erosion destroying
millions of acres and devastating
floods taking toll of life and pro
perty have followed the destruction
of the forests in the United States.
WWW, NOVEMBER 12, 1930
I
50 YEARS AGO LETTER BOX
LETTER from the west
to
sjt-
ex-
November 11th, 18S6
Mr. Chas. Treble, Customs Officer
of Fort Erie/ is spending a few days
with hi^y sister Mys. Trick.
Mr. Whn Ryan has sold his pro
perty on Main Street to Mr. Jame.
Lang, of Manitoba, formerly of Rod-
gerville. Mr. Ryan will move
Hensall where he has secured a
nation in the Patterson Mills,
The turnip crop is something
tra this fall. .Several farmers report
900 bushels to the acre.
The following advertisement ap
peared “A Big Dollar’s Worth”: 2
lbs. Tea, 2 lbs. Soda, 2 bars Electric
■.Soap, 2 pkg. Yeast Cakes, 1 lb.
Starch, 1 box Matches, 1 gents 'bow
tie, 3 plugs Tobacco, 6 Pie Plates,
6 dozen Glothes Pins. All for One
Dollar at Doupe’s Store, Kirkton.
R. H. Fried, who for the past 2
years has been working in Saginaw,
Mich., has resigned his position and
will arrive in Dashwood this week
where he will take the position of
his brother, Mr. W. A, Fried, in the
Dashwood Roller Mills, who quite
recenty lost his arm.
While Mr. Beck, of Hensall, was
nearing the grist mill with a load of
barrels, he got a little too near the
end of the crossing and was percip-
itated with his load into the ditch..
Luckily no bones were broken.
25 YEARS AGO
November 9, 1911
Mr. and Mrs.
nia, are moving
ley is employed
Mr. and Mrs.
W. Greenly,, of Sar
to town. Mr. Green-
with M. II. Gould.
George Moir and
son George returned home Tuesday
afte spending the summer in the
West.
Miss Margaret Smith returned to
Hens^y^fter spending a week with h“'^|^^^.Mrs. Jarrott, Exeter N.
Bawden has resigned his
■Ition as teller, 'of the Molsons
:hcre and ’his place has been
Mr. Earl .Spackman, who
h the Bank in Ottawa.
m, of Hay, has pur-
of his brother,
Elizabeth St.
y Mr. W. H.
Mr.
The ho.
Collins.-
Mr. Herman </t, who for some
time has been wy king in Mancelon-
ia Mich., returndtLhome on Tuesday.
Mr. Frank Case of town, has ac
cepted a position as foreman of boil
ers with the 'Standard
Sarnia.
Mr. George Wambold,
the dry goods store of
in Berlin, was home with his parents
in Dashwood for Thanksgiving.
Oil Co., at
salesman in
Laing Bros.
15 YEARS AGO
November 10, 1921
■Mr. Harold Jeffery, of Usborne,
was the winner of the silver cup in
the .five acre plowing competition
put on by the Junior Farmers’ Mr.
Jeffery was awarded 91 points, El
gin Rowcliffe was second with 87
points Milton Luther 84 1-2 points,
and Earnest Pym 80 points. Mr. El
gin Rowcliffe was the winner of the
cup in 1920.
Mr. Philip Hern recently purchas
ed three lots of land on Carling St.,
and has planted out' 48 silkworm
trees.
Mrs. M. E. Gardiner has returned
after visiting with relatives in Es
sex and Detroit.
Mrs. J. Jarrott .returned home on
Tuesday after a pleasant trip thro’
the West going as far as Vancouver.
Mr. Newman Hardy has return
ed home after spending the past two
years with his brother, Earl at
Connell, Man.
Mr. S. B. Strothers, of Clinton
Mr. .Hartley, of Seaforth were in Ex
eter on Wednesday last week for the
purpose of organizing a Horticultur-
f^Societ^
Mrs, Gordon Sanders, of f ^rtroit, returned to their home on
Friday last after visiting in Exeter
Coldest Winter in Years Followed
by EierVc Heat Wave and Drought
The summer is past, and the har
vest is ended. The summer was per
haps the hottest in history of the
country and the harvest in most
parts of the middle west was largely
a failure.
This coming after several lean
years is making it mighty hard for
many of the farmers to carry on and
when farming, our basic industry is
hard hit, the townspeople share the
depression.
Last year promised a magnificent
crop until the excessive rains of July
brought on root rot and rust. jAs a
consequence many fields of wheat,
especially Gives and Reward were
never reaped.
After July there was little rain,
and the stub'ble land in some cases
became too hard to plow. However,
this was followed by a winter in
which much snow fell, and spring
found abundant moisture in the
giound. This is one indication of a
good crop to follow, but all
fail and when the moisture is
distributed more evenly over
period of growth the crops must suf
fer as they did this year from exces
sive heat and lack of moisture. June
saw prospects fade and for 9 weeks
the west sweltered under a copper
dome and crops died out.
The greatest heat was felt along
International Boundary. From the
Alberta-Saskatchewan boundary to
the Red River the temperature for
July beipg 12 degrees above normal
At Winnipeg it rase to 108 and at
Emerson and Morden the official
thermometer registered 112 degrees.
It took hardy people to s^tand this.
But fortunately out here the sum
mer nights are usually cool.
North of this southern strip on
the Canadian prairie a narrow irre
gular strip marked 10 degrees above
normal, and two points of this zone
extended north, one east of Saska
toon and one west of Battleford. But
up in the north it was 4 degrees
cooler than normal and in Quebec
and the Maritime provinces July
cool.
Around Great Bear Lake
across the Spruce woods of
north and in the Peace River coun
try rain was plentiful.
Coldest in Fifty Years
Scientists who study .climate and
weather tell us that weather condi
tions are not caused by the moon,
nor perhaps it is greatly affected by
sun spots,
cold of last
the coldest
followed in
est heat wave and drought we have
known—were caused by the lack of
movement of air masses. A mass of
stagnant air hung over the contin
ent in the summer, absorbing heat
from the sun and reflecting heat
from the ground. Where this mark
disintegrated—or rose above the
cool polar air mass‘there was pre
cipitation but it was too far north
to help the sweltering prairies and
the middle states and Ontario.
In this northern country we have
a continental climate. It has po
large bodies of water to modify the
extremes. So we have wet years and
dry years or periods of wet years and
"families” of drought—as in 1930-
1936.
signs
not
the
was
and
the
But that the extreme
winter—January being
in about fifty years—
six months by the fierc-
SIMPSON—DATARS
Me
ant!
A quiet wedding took place at the
Presbyterian manse, Exeter, on Fri
day evening at 9 o'clock when Rev,
Mr, Hill, pastor of Caven Presbyter
ian Church, united in marriage Dor
othy, second eldest daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Fred Datars, of Hensail,
to Harold Simpson, also of Hensail.
The bride was attired in a royal
blue tunic gown, with accessories to
match, and she carried a handsome
bouquet. Mr. and Mrs. Simpsoh left
for Toronto where they will in fu
ture reside. The bride was a valued
member of the choir of Carmel Pres
byterian Church, Hensall.
Tree Rings Show Rainfall
From 1865 to 1885 there was “the
wettest long spell on record." From
1900- to 1920 the weather was suf
ficiently wet to produce average
good crops; 1910 and 1914 being ex
ceptions. Tree rings show that
back between ,1755 and 1780
was a more normal rainfall,
other wet spell set in early in
Evidently the air masses had
moving during those" years. The last
general drought condition extended
from 188(6 to 1895 with some good
years as exceptions. So much for
the weather over which we have no
control—and which we cannot pre
dict more than a day er two ahead, .
away
there
An-
1800,
been
Forest Areas Denuded
During the drought periods of the
last century the sun was never black
ened by dust. But in. recent years
war urgencies and higher prices cre
ated a further effort in grain pro
duction. More land was broken up,
much of which should have been left
as nature planted it, in sod. Sloughs
which 'produced hay in summer were
drained. Forests areas, for we have
them out here, were denuded of
their trees and not allowed to grow
up again, but broken up to grow,
Soil Drifting
But in the middle west which in
the U. S. is now called the “The
Great Dust Bowl” a very serious
situation exists. The prairie sod has
been broken up and destroyed then
the fibre worked out of it, till it has
lost most of its bond and the par
ticles have, become so tiny and light
that it takes little wind to lift them.
Though the summer of 1934 was nob
excessively windy we remember that
clouds of this light soil or dust blew
high into the air and spread over the
sky to the Atlantic and people said
our prairies was becoming a desert.
Well—this is not ery likely to hap
pen, especially as in the natural or
der of things, wet years will come
again and in a country which has
produced so richly, that has spent
millions in the purchase of farm im
plements and machinery, where mil
lions have been spent in building
roads and projecting railways, where
towns and cities have sprung up,
and fine bridges span the rivers—a
country peopled by a strong virile
race with the blood of pioneers in
their veins must not be deserted. So
the Government is undertaking the
task og securing the rehabilitation
of the drought and soil drifting
areas.
It is now evident that if this work
has been undertaken twenty years
ago farming and ranchers would not
have been facing the present serious
situation and the industries in the
east which depend to a considerable
extent upon farming in the west
.Golden Wedding
| M< and Mrs, William Berry cele-
; brated their golden wedding anni-
i versa: y on Tuesday, November 3rd,
at their home in Brucefield. Wil
liam Berry son of the late Mr, and
.Mis. Adam Berry, of Hay Township
and Jane, daughter of the late Mr.
and Mrs. John Ross, London Road,
were united in marriage on Novem
ber 3rd, 1886, at the bride’s home
at 12 o'clock noon by the Rev.
f H. Simpson, minister
Building Bums 1 Presbyterian Church.
; maid was Mrs. D. B.
Dams, great, and small, have been of Winnipeg, sister of
and are being built in the U. S. ‘ the groomsman Mr.
Some pretty lakes have been created‘both of whom are still living. Mr.
in Manitoba by darning rivers—as at and Mrs. Berry recall that the day
Birtle, Minnedosa, Rapid City and [ was like summer and during the
Rivers and a small one in the Peace {afternoon the young couple drove to
Garden by one of Uncle Sam’s C.C.C. ‘
When President Roosevelt made a
tour recently through Dakota the re
quest by the people was for “water"
All agreed that what we need here
is more water, and the movement is
to build small farm dams or reser
voirs especially as the present season
has emphasized the value of such, as
the heat and wind has not been able
to drain many of the ponds which
had been properly constructed. In a
municipality to the west of us where
the drought was severe 150 reser
voirs are being constructed with gov
ernment aid.
These small ponds will be valu
able for watering stock, supplying
water for wells and in some eases for
irrigation of small areas.
;So much for dams but the real
problem is with the soil itself, much
of which is too light for cultivation,
and fails to produce a crop wliere-
ever the rainfall -slackens and the
heavier sod produces in abundance
Much of this kind of land has been
abandoned especially in Alberta and
if left to itself may in a natural pro
cess go back to its original state,
sod. The process will be speeded up
by utilizing wet years in planting
grass and control over farming prac
tices enforced in the interests
common safety.
would not have been so hard hit in
the past few years.
Remedial measures worth consid
ering for the rehabilitation fall in
two divisions. One is to -change the
nature of the soil itself—the other
to modify the force of the wind upon
it. Strip farming is the most ready
to hand method of fighting drifting
soil that has as yet been discovered.
Next comes the planting of trees
and hedges which in addition to
forming a wind break help to retain
the moisture in the soil.
U.
J.
of Brucefield
The brides-
M eEwen, now
the bride and
James Swan,WlNt'HESEA PUBLIC SCHOOL
The following is the report of 8.
8. No. 6, Usborne for the months of
September and October. The pupils
were examined in all subjects,
Exeter and back. They lived in Hen
sail a short time., then for three
years cn the Mill Road, now McCart
ney’s farm; and
Brucefield on the
ston farm where
years. In 19<10
Brucefield.
home was in Hay Township about
three miles northwest of Hensail.
Mrs. Berry’s home was on the Lon
don
Mr.
ten
the
Berry have
Brucefield;
velle of Saskatoon and Vancouver,
who visited his parents last Christ
mas; and Hugh F. Berry, of Bruce
field. Dr. H. H. Ross and Mr. A.
Ross, Seaforth, are brothers of Mrs.
Berry. —Seaforth News
later south of
Woodley or John-
they lived for 20
they retired to
Mr. Berry’s boyhood
Road, the farm now owned by
Charles Wasman.
in the
Berry
There were
Ross family and ten in
family. Mr. and Mrs.
three sons, Bruce R., of
Wilson, commercial tra-
4-
TON OF RECORDS AT TRIAL
A literal ton of books and records
constitutes the exhibits gathered in
couit, Goderich, for the trial of
Gordon McLaren and Robert Flet
cher, charged with forgery. They
were piled high in large cartons on
the tables of the courtroom, cn the
floor and the overflow was stored in
a room downstairs. Huron County
town seat was crowded for the triai,
which has created exceptional inter
ests throughout the district.
ROOM II
V Class—Ethel pooley 88, Gladys
Skinner 88, Clarence Ford 87, Mar
garet Miners 80. Clayton
77, Arthur Hern 76, Billy
Alvin
Sr.
Davis
Johns
Prance 57.
Jr. IV—-Eilene Johns
Pooley 79, Etheline Johns 76, Laurie
Stephens 69, Doreen Coultis 66.
L. McCulloch, teacher
Murray 61.
IV—-Graham Bell
75, Doris Elf ord
71, Mildred Veal
Herdman
Brock 70,
82, Jean
73, Bessie
70, Lois
79, Irene
ROOM I
Sr. Ill—Leona Coward 88, Myra-
line Murray 87, Isabel Cooper 82,
Burdene Clarke 73, Harvey Sparling
53, Nellie Sparling 50.
Jr. Ill—Grace Brock 82, Shirley
Coultis 79, Carmen Herdman 73,
Edith Fletcher 70, Shirley Murray
70, Dennis Cornish 60.
II Class—Annie Elford 80, John
Batten 73, Lois Coward 69, Bobby
Ccleman 65.
Sr. I-—George Kellett.
Jr. I—Mildred Miller 87, Marion
Murch 85, Walter Fletcher 81, Mur
ray Stephen 79, Shirley Brock 73,
Patricia Johns 72.
Pr. — Kathryn Batten, Jackie
Cornish, Murray Coward, Rosie
Fletcher, Gordon Ford, Wilma Veal.
M. C. McGugan, teacher
MAWSON—CUORLEY
A quiet wedding took place recent
ly at the Lieury Church parsonage
■when Miss Florence Morley was
united in marriage to Gordon Maw-
son, both of Lieury. The ceremony
was performed by Rev. w. M. Kite-
ley, pastor of the church. The bride
wore
with
After
gar a
groom’s farm,
McGillivray Township.
a becoming borwn crepe dress
hat and accessories to match,
a brief honeymoon trip to Nia-
Falls they will reside on the
19th concession of
TIIOMAS PALY DIES
The death occurred after a short
illness Wednesday at the home of
his daughter, Mrs. Margaret Dever
eaux, of Thomas Daley, one of Sea
forth’s oldest and most highly as-
teemed residents in his eighty-eighth
year,
He was bom in Egmondville in
1849 and spent practically all his
life in this district. In 1871 he was
united in marriage to Miss Alice
Allen who died about thirteen years
ago. Mr. Daly purchased the late
P. McGarey’s grocery business in
1886 retiring a number of years lat
er on account of failing eyesight.
He was a devout member of Saint
James Catholic church and of the
Holy Name Society.
Surviving are one son J, F. Daly,
Seaforth, and three daughters.
J. W. R.
mmm
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