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Home My WebLink AboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1936-12-10, Page 12THURSDAY, DECWEB 10, 1936 THE EXETER TIMES-ADVOCATE Mr.50 YEARS AGO a whip 25 YEARS AGO 1911 1 EXETERPHONE 86 and in bay or Walter Exeter, son Lit. in the cake with apun the With the theatre a re- and then later thir- where a tourinig car. came in for some evening when they while up a Emma Could were married November 23, 1886, where ■ daughter, isband and G. Arthur Aind rews and family, Gould, Doris and ^Teddy, all through expedition the route uip the head of miles of un- S£ •it. We have a very large stock for the coming Christmas Season Below we offer a few Suggestions to help you solve the Christmas Gift Problems Great Reduction in Prices of Ladies’, Misses’ and Girls’ Winter Coats We have a large stock of Ladies’, Misses’ and Girls’ Winter Coats to clear out in a hurry, regardless of cost. Nothing would make a finer Christmas Gift than one of these beautiful coats. Many have luxurious fur collars. Smal , regular, large and half-sizes at great reductions in price. LADIES’ MISSES SILK CREPE DRESSES We have just received shipments of the very newest styles and colors in Silk Crepe Dresses. Prices are very attractive for the Christmas trade. GIFT SUGGESTIONS FOR LADIES AND GIRLS Linens Gloves Parasols Sweaters Hand-Bags Bed Spreads Neck Scarfs Silk Lingerie Knitted Suits Fancy Linens Fancy Collars Fancy Towels Handkerchiefs in fancy boxes DINNER SETS ' A few nice patterns to clear at Bargain Prices. WOOLLEN BLANKETS AND BED-COVERS Nothing wou d be finer for Christmas Gifts than a pair of our handsome All Wool Blankets or Satin-Bound Bed-Covers. We have many combinations of colors to choose from at very moderate prices. BATH-ROBES AND DRESSING GOWNS Bath-Robes for Ladies, Men and Children are here for the Christmas trade. Every member of the family would enjoy one of these. SPECIAL—GENUINE AXMINSTER MATS 27 BY 54 IN. ON SALE AT $2.45 EACH AXMINSTER, CONGOLEUM AND LINOLEUM RUGS AT REDUCED PRICES FOR THE CHRISTMAS SEASON GIRLS’ AND MISSES’ SKI-SUITS Ski-Suits are very popular at the present time for sports We have a nice stock for Misses and Girls in the very newest styles. LADIES’ SILK AND SILK AND WOOL HOSIERY In new shades in fancy boxes for Christmas ASK TO SEE OUR ROSE-OF-SHARON GENUINE IRISH LINEN TABLE CLOTHS^AND SERVIETTES Finest New Dates, Golden Finest New Dates, Saar... Finest New Dates, Pitted Extra Fine Texas Grape Fruit Extra Fine Texas Medium Grapefruit Fancy Bleached Sultana Raisins......... Canada Dry Ginger Ale, bottles extra Re-Cleaned Currants ... Superior Baking Powdei Cooking Figs 3 lbs. for 25c. 4.lbs. for 25c. .. per lb. 12c. 5 for 25c. 6 for 25c. ...per lb. 19c. .. 13 and 20c. 2 lbs. for 25c. ... 1 lb. tin 23c. 3 lbs. for 25c. G R O C e R I E S GIFT SUGGESTIONS FOR MEN AND BOYS Handkerchiefs fancy and initialed Shirts, Ties, Braces & Garters in Sets and separately, Gloves, Umbrellas, Suits and Overcoats, Neck Scarfs Sweaters, Bath-Robes, Shoes, Etc. MEN’S OVERCOATS, LEATHER COATS, ETC. How about a new Overcoat before Christmas. We have a fine selection of $15.00 and $17.00 each. Also a ful1 ^AVindbreakers and POULTRY We will w|te in poultry daily, inclu offer best caisb prices and give caref tra for trade on all poultry and. reasonably quantities. a we captive you. Phi chang^'at this time »y^ear "&^$^^pack a nice basket of groceries for you to send to a needy family as your gift. This could be made up to a price according to your wish, and would be a kindly deed. fr-Saturday. We ing. We pay ex alt in the country for TheKf^^ho better deal offered than r prices as these, are subject to N’S SUEDE WINDBREAKERS Genuine Suede jackets in brown, suitable for all" seasons...... $8.00 each Hockey Boots and Skates Low prices on skating outfits for men, women, boys and girls. Get our Prices. We can save you money these lines for Chrstmas Gifts. OVERSHOES, BEDROOM SLIPPERS These make a suitable gift, variety of these gives you a wide sel ection. Our JONES & MAY SPECIAL Men’s fine Irish Linen Handkerchief^ in any initial 25c. each Santa Claus is Coming to Town We Have Many Suitable Gift for Every Member of the Family The finest ENGLISH GRANITEWARE in Willow Pattern, Ivory and Green and Ivory and Red Pitchers, Teapots, Coffee Pots, Tea Kettles, Rice Boilers, Sauce Pans, Bowls CHRISTMAS TREE ELECTRIC LIGHT SETS AND BULBS for Home and Tree Decorations Priced from $1.00 to $1.95 each. See ours Coleman Gasoline Lamps ....................... $5.95 to $9.75 Coleman Coal Oil Lamps ............................................................ $7.45 Lanterns, Irons, Heaters, Mantles and Generators ;E GIFTSTOOLS MAKE SUIT. Hand Saws 65c.^|n $3.75 Hammers 20c. toi$2.50 each Planes at Sp.^ial Prices Brace and Bits, File rills and Wrenches •jl STAINLESS CARVING SETS $2.50 to $5.00 PER SET Stainless Table Knives and Forks in a variety of kinds and prices V *1 1 * 1 The Coloured^Kd Self Basting Kind in colors of^yhite, ivory and blue PRICEDjFROM $1.00 TO $2.00 Westinghou^ Mazda Electric Light Bulbs up to 60 jfatt for 20c. each colored bulbs 30c. each he boys arid girls are asking Santa fojf^Skates. We have wonderful values in $hese skates and shoes ranging from $3.00 TO $4.95 ee them for value. Hockey Sticks & Pucks A fine assortment of Flashlights, bulbs and ■ batteries Let us do your furnace work. We do high grade plumbing and tirismithirig Bring in your repair work* December 9, 1886 Business during the .past few days has been very brisk, wood, grain, hay ■pork, etc, being marketed in large quantities and sold in the majority of cases with but little delay. Good wood brings $3.00 per cord, while hay is selling at from $9 to $10 per ton. •Mr. Tom Hanford, of Centralia, returned home from Manitoba on Friday last, tie reports times lively out there and feels confident that Norquay Government will be elected. Seven years ago when Mr. Handford first went to Manitoba it took him eight days to go from London' to St. Vincent, Man., while last weak he made the same journey with 1100 miles added in three days. The cost seven years ago was $37 while now the fare is reduced to something less than $27 and still the C. P. R. is ruining the country incalculable. Last -week I. J. Dearing met with an accident which laid him up for several days. He was wrestling with another party and not having a .good hold, slipped and fell, a slight dislocation was the result. A Kirkton reporter says—The cow nuisance has begun in earnest. As soon as a load of hay comes it is at once besieged by a horde of hungry bovines, who are only kept at by the vigorous use of pitchfork. shortly for Cleveland Hur don will run The new band i'uffs oil Monday mas^e their first appearance in the Opefca House. ■Miss Elsie ‘McCallum, of London, and Miss Edna McCallum, of Toron to, last week presented the Main St. Methodist Churh with four beautiful oak collection .plates. Mr. and Mrs. S. G. Bawden left last Friday for* Ontario, ‘California, where they will spend the winter. 15 YEARS AGO December 15, 1921 Mr. Jack Dearing, of Flint, Mich., brother of Mr. Wm. pearing, of town is visiting with relatives.■Mr. Czar Harness Kas the highest score made on the howling alley since it ‘was taken over by the Y. P. C. A. His score was <202 breaking Mr. F. 'M. Boyle’s score} of 190. (Miss Flossie Hunteu, who has spent the summer with ‘her brother Mr. W. W. Hunter, a!t Newdale, Man., and with other friends return ed home last week. « Mr. G. W. Miners won the cham pionship with his Yorkshire hogs at Guelph Fair. Mr. Ezra Tiernan, of bashwood, has rented the store formerly oc cupied by Thaler Bros., from Mr. Jonas Hartleib and intend opening a general store after the New Year. now assistant superintendent of Garnd Rapids Schools. Their Douglas Dawson is a senior in at Ann Arbor and a freshman Medic. He will have enjoyed privilege given to but few, that of attending the golden wedding of both paternal and maternal grand parents. The Andrews’ only son, G. Arthur is president of the Junior College of Grand Rapids. His wife was Flor ence Belford, of Holly, and there are three children, Gould, Doris and Edmond (Teddy), ‘Mr. and Mrs. Andrews are both very active in their daily life, enjoy the best of health and .regret that they can’t hold open house to ineet^ their many friends who showered them with congratulations, gifts and messages of good will. December 14, Mr. Frank Knight, London Road, returned from the west Saturday evening after a two months’ visit. Mr, Welington Neil, London Road, North, who was injured last week by a fall is able to be around again. The two general merchants of Dashwood, Messrs. Tieman & Edig- hoffer and Siebert & Co., have, ship ped from this station over twenty tons of seed onions known as Dutcli sets, Mr. A. S. Deavitt, while coming down the .stairs from the Conserva tive committee rooms Monday slip per and fell down several steps, He received several bruises about the face. Sir. and Mrs. R. H. Dyer Hurdon, who have been visiting the latter’s father Mr, N. D< Hurdon, of the Molsons Datiik, returned to Buffalo on Friday evening. They will leave Celebrate Golden Wedding Anniversary ■On Thursday, November 12 6, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Andrews Celebrat ed their Golden Wedding Anniver sary with a dinner party at Fhe Nor ton Hotel, Holly, Mich. A large three tier wedding iced in white and ornamented dozens of tiny yellow roses* of sugar occupied the centre of table flanked on either emd tiered bouquets of yellow ?snapdrag- ons and bay mums. 1 iflSVrltGcl wit ii co ranges of tiny tgolden rosebuds with gold streamers for the ladies and rose bud boutonnieres for th©j gentlemen. The dinner party included the bride and groom; their Mrs. , D. Dawson and hi son Douglas; their son, Andrews with M|rs, of Grand Rapids; Mr. and Mrs. C. Coates, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur [An drews of Detroit and Mrs. Edith Ferguson, of (Pontiac. The ladies of the last three mentioned are sisters of Mrs. Andrew. Following the dinner the older peo ple of the .party spent a social hour at the Andrews home younger members made party. Jessie Andrews Ontario, they both resided and continued to make it their home for about five years, Mr. Andrews conducting tail and wholesale furniture undertaking business. They •came to Detroit, a short time to Pontiac, and then to Holly, ty-one years ago last month, where they have continued to make their home. Mr. Andrews first had a half interest in the Holly Bending Works, a successor to the Holly Wa gon Works. Later as a fine wood worker he spent some time at the Grinnell Piano factory A desire for more outdoor work took him into- the chicken business of which he has made a great suc cess and he is now (considered an au thority along that line. A few years ago he imported 1,0 00 eggs from a well-known Bri tish iCiolumfbia Leghorn Poultry farm paying one dollar apiece for the eggs, and it proved a good invest ment. Although the Andrews town home is on 'East Maple Street, his ever in creasing flack made necessary the purchase of a small farm just with in the northeastern city limits and there they sipend the greater part of their titne. Mr. Andrews is one of the few survivors of the Riel Rebellion where he served as a corporal in the 33rd Fusiliers as part of an armed force composed of British regulars and Canadian volunteers that was sent to quell the uprising. As a mili tary force could not pass the United States, the was compelled to take Lake Superior, around that lake through 500 broken wilderness. Later he completed the Royal [Military College with Tommy—*1 wonder why fat men are always so jolly and good natur- ed? Billy—That’s easy. They can’t irun and they can’t fight. a; T/ze sftme fine o . Sera /JI {cite tlfj/rt I \the D.L. Anth\ beet in Co /orj write ft homes F 50 years •is sold in —- EXET E R — by —- H. T. ROWE his work in a Captain’s commission. This, signed by Her Majesty, the late Queen Vic toria, is one of ihis most 'prized pos sessions. Their only daughter Elva viola married 0, D, Dawon, former super intendent of Holly High School and PHONE 40w ALBERTA COAL & COKE