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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1937-01-14, Page 3the EXETER TIMES-ADVOCATE THL’IISDAY. JANUARY 11, 1037 50 YEARS AGO January 13t 1887 Mr. Will Senior aud_ wife* Toron­ to, spent a few days in tow last week visiting friends. W. B- Manning left last week for ■Cleveland, Mr. T Carling, of Clinton, spent Sunday and Monday in town. Mr. Hugh Spackmani oif Spuck- man Pros., has purchased the half­ interest of his brother in the stove and tinsmithing business and will in future conduct the business in his own name. iMr. G. B. Hoskin-, who has man­ aged James Pickard's store and tin­ smithing eporium during the past year, leaves foi* his home in Strath- roy this evening. ‘ The majority of our citizens were aroiused from their peaceful slum­ bers on Sunday morning about 5.30 o’clock by the sound of the bell. A constitution of the ringing aroiused their suspicious and upon an inves­ tigation discovered that a fire was raging in the body of the town, It was subsequently learned that the fire was inrbosomed in the stores oc­ cupied by Messrs. Rosenberger & Snell, the former a baker and con­ fectioner and the latter a butcher. The buildings were destroyed. IS. C. Hersey has fitted a neat and tidy room in the rear of his store, and intends using it this winter for' oysters. W. Murc'hison, who was employed with C. Lutz has succeeded in pass­ ing his final examination and comes out a full-fledged druggist, I 25 YEARS AGO January1 11, 1912 Mr. James Morrow, member of the Manitoulin Legislature for Mani­ tou, was a pleasant caller in town on Monday. Mr. Morrow was an old 'Stephen boy. A rinlr of curlers consisting of Messrs. Thos. Newell, Alfred Taylor, James Taylor and GeiO'. E. Anders oh skip, went to London to take part in the bonsipiel. Mrs. W. H. Collins, returned on Monday, evening from a visit in Tor­ onto. Messrs. Wright and Atkinson, blacksmiths have dissolved partner­ ship by mutual consent. Mr. Ed.. Willis, son of Mr. John Willis, iStephen, has engaged as teacher at Bright, Ont. Mr. Wm. Beaver, son of Mr. Nich­ olas Beaver, of Stephen, arrived home from Diver, New Ontario, yesterday' with a broken arm. Mr. Beaver while working in the woods was injured when struck by a falling tree. Mr. T. Ellerington, of Lacombe Canadian West, after two years ab­Renew Now! sence is visiting relatives ip Usborpe. Mr, Douglas Blatchford and sis­ ter, of Centralia, have resumed tkeir studies at College in Toronto'. Miss Lillian Elliott, of Centralia, has accepted a situation as steno- | grapher and bookkeeper witli a firm in London.- Clandeboye Man Is Able Thatcher Charles Edington1 Learned Art While in England (‘by W. G. Trestain) 15 YEARS AGO January 12, 1922 | Mr, Mervin Camm is in Toronto . this week attending t;he Rexall Con­ vention, The population of Goderich ac­ cording to the last census is 4,099 a decrease of 423 in the last ten years, Mr. and Mrs, Thomas Dunsford, of Long Beach, Calif., are visiting relatives in this community. Mr, Wm. Leavitt is improving the accommodation for spectators at the rink by erecting -three tiers along ,t!he sides. Mr. H. Rowcliffe was successful in securing seven prizes with seven birds at the St. Thomas Poultry ■Show. Dr. W. T. Holloway, of Peterboro, a brother of Mrs. R. N- Rowe, has been elected a member of the Ald- ermanic Board of that city. ' Mr. and Mrs. Thos. Boyle, of Tor­ onto, are visiting with relatives and friends in- town. Mr. Boyle- came up Monday evening to take in the hock­ ey game. Mr. Wm. Coates returned bio me from the- Old Land late Saturday night. Centralia is very much interested in hydro at present. A deputation Mr. Parsons and Mr. Thomson inter- view’ed the council at Elimville om Monday. Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Hill, Three Rivers, Alta., recently arrived home from the West. Rev. Herbert Maylor, of Toronto, has been appointed rector of the Anglican parishes of Hensall and Starffa. Mil’. Harold Hunter, son of Mr. phineas Hunter, of Usborne, has been awarded the Huron County prize in the Balby Beef Competition? Mr. Hunter gets a 2 weeks’ course at the Agricultural College, Guelph. The dray team of Messrs. Bag- shaw & Easton ran away .on Thurs­ day. No one was injured but the wagon and harness was broken. A few friends of Miss" McDonald, Milliner, gathered at her home on Tuesday evening and presented her with a beautiful cut glass cream pitcher and sugar bowl. Miss Mc­ Donald leaves Thursday for Wood- stock having sold out her .millinery business. CLANDEBDYE, Jan. 7th,—How many people in Ontario can thatch a stack so that rain runs -.off as from a metal roof,.so that the stack looks like a barn in European pictures and the hay smells sweet as. it did in the field? Charles Edginton, of Clande- boye, can do it and did it this year on the farm of W- Whiteford. In that little angle which the pav­ ed highway has out off at Claude-- boye the two thatched stacks stand beside the road. Mr. Whiteford ex­ plained that he has no room for al­ falfa hay in his barns and has been i compelled to stack it. He was afraid I it might get wet and not keep be- I cause of its state at harvest, hence [ his determination to have it thatch- ( ed. Mr. Edginton was the only man he had ever heard of who could do j stack thatching. ; Mr. Edginton said he had thatch- ' ed hundreds of stacks in England. 1 He learned the art from an old man on his father’s farm. It was strange why more English people did not do thatching after they came to Canada so far as he knew he was the only man in the district able to lay thatching. On the Whiteford stack, timothy hay had been used instead of wheat straw, usually used in England. Mr. Edginton said wheat straw was much easier to work with. One piles up the straw for thatching and throws water on it. Then from the! heap is pulled a generous handful of straw, which, on account of the force required, is combed out in one direction. ? The handful is laid along the bot­ tom, or' eave of the stack. It is tuck­ ed, well in at the top and two stakes about two feet long, are driven in slanting upwards. Twine is tied across between the two stakes which are sor placed that the twine holds the thatching in position. A strip two feet wide is run from the eaves to the ridge of the stack. On com­ pletion of this another two-foot strip is run up alongside and “jointed” into its neighbor so that watei' can­ not get through. South of England Mr. Edginton came from the south of England. His home was 70 miles from Old London, but he had never been there. He retained his Englihs cam parison of distances and in speaking of Birmingham, which he had visited, he said it was a “long way from my home, perhaps' 20 miles.” They are begiU’a'jng to tear down one of his stacks now for stock -feed­ ing. The hay is as fresh and sweet as when it was put away. -Heavy rains have penetrated only an inch or so- into the thatching. “There won’t be any five or six inches of good fodder to throw away off this stack,” said Mr. Edginton with jus- tificable pride. Neighbors said that when the thatching was first done, before it became blackened by wea­ ther, it was a thing of beauty, ad­ mired by the whole countryside. It was the first call he had ever had to thatch anything in this counry. Mr. Edginton said. He and Mr. Whiteford had whittled out the hun­ dreds of .pegs required. In England they could be bought anywhere, -—London Free Press CREDITOR EAST Mr. Isaac Sims, of Exeter, spent Sunday with his parents Mr. and Mrs. Job Sims. Mr. John Gardiner, of Parkhill, spent a few days the past week with his nephew and niece, Mr. and Mrs. Eli Lawson. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Heatherley, of London, spent Saturday with Mr. and Mrs. Henry Motz. Mr. and Mrs. Roland Motz and -two children, of Exeter, spent ’Sunday with the former’s parents Mr. and Mrs. Henry Motz. Mr Mark Mitchell, has returned to Exeter atfei’ two weeks’ visit with his sister Mis. Wilson Anderson and Mrs. Chris. Ran. M-r. David Oesch and daughters, Vera and Loreen. of Blake and Mr. John Pfaff and Mr. and Mrs. Clar­ ence Ptfaff and children, of Biw, spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Hy. Pfaff, Sr. Mrs. Mary Oesch, of Blake, is vis­ iting her sister Mrs. Hy. Pfaff, Sr. Mr. and Mrs. David Bail’d and son spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Eldon Merner near Mt. Carmel. Mrs. Rebecca Stewart and Charles of Exeter, visited Sunday with the former’s daughter Mrs. Gordon Mer­ ner. SHIPKA Miss Evelyn Mason, of Parkhill, is at present visiting at the home of Mr. and Mrs. I. Tetreau. Mr. and Mrs. Ernie Gaiser and family, o/f Grand Bend, visited last week at th© home of Mr. and Mrs. L. Schroeder. Mr. Arthur Gaiser visited -last week with relatives at Kitchener. The Home and .School Club held their regular meeting in the school house on Tuesday evening. The annual congregational meet­ ing will be held in the church on January 2O'th, all reports are expect­ ed to be given. The regular meeting of the Ladies’ Aid was held on Wednesday after­ noon last at the home of Mrs, L. Finkbeiner, Ten members were pres­ ent and five visitors. Meeting opened with the president Mrs. M. Baker in charge by singing hymn “Stak'd Up Stand Up for Jesus” after which all repeated the Lord’s Prayer in unis­ on. iScriptuire Lesson was read by Mrs. A, Finkbeiner. Roll was called and repeats were given and adopted, Several letters of thanks were read by the Secretary for boxes and treats sent during the Christmas season. After discussion it was decided to make a^quilt. Meeting was closed by prayer by Rev. J. Johnson, The remainder of the time was spent in quilting. A dainty lunch was serv­ ed by the hostess. Mrs. Wm. Sherritt who, has been confined with a fractured hip at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Harl- ton returned to her home at Green­ way last week much improved. Miss Barbara Dinney, of Exeter, I spent last week visiting with Miss A. Gaiser. * I Mrs. Adams is spending a week at her home here. WOODHAM The first meeting in the new year of the W- -M, S. was held at the home of Mrs. Arthur Rundle, with the new president, Mrs. W. Rodd in the chair. Nineteen members were pre­ sent. The meeting was opened by a hymn and prayer by the president and the roll was called by the new secretary Mrs. M. Hooper. During the business session it -was decided to make and quilt three quilts and at each meeting have a story on one of the Bible characters. The •next meeting the story will be 1 about Daniel. Mrs. (Rev.) (Love­ grove read the Scripture lesson; Mrs. Ira McCurdy gave the devotion­ al leaflet; Mrs. Switzer gave a paper >on temperance; and Mrs. Wil­ bur Wynn gave a reading. A hymn was sung and the meeting was brought to a close in the usual way. A ten cent lunch was served as us­ ual. Wedding bells are ringing. I Does Your Stomach Rebel After Every Meal You Eat? RURDOCK LOO Bitters The bloated, heavy feeling after meals; the empty, sinking, gnawing before meals; the belching and flatulency between meals; the rising and souring of food, all these and more fall to the lot of those suffering from stomach trouble. Burdock Blood Bitters tones up the membrane lining of the stomach, and re­ stores the natural process of digestion. Take B.B.B. and get rid of your stomach trouble. I I MT. CARMEL Master Joe Coughlin while skat­ ing last week fell and fractured his arm. Misses Mary and Ellen Houlahau, of Chatham, visited at the home, of the former’s brother John Houla- han /for a few days last week, Tresa Hogan was rushed to St. Joseph’s Hospital, London, Monday of last week where she underwent an operation for appendicitis. Mr, James Dalton returned to his home in Goderich after spending the holidays with his son Mr, J, H. Dal­ ton, Mr, Hubert Desjardine purchased, a new Ford car from Sandy Elliot/ of Exeteu- last week. Mr. Andrew Keogh and Helen- re­ turned home last week after spend­ ing two weeks with friends in De­ troit. Mr. George Coughlin is on- the sick list his friends wish him a speedy recovery. Miss Sadie Queenin accompanied by Mrs. Harold Ryan of Lucan cal­ led on the Misses Carey and other friends here on Bunday. Mr, Gerald O’Rourke we are pleased to say is improving after an attack ,of tonsilitis. A QUIET, WELL CONDUCTED, CONVENIENT, MODERN 1OO ROOM HOTEI__85 WITH BATH WRITE FOR FOLDER TAKE A DE LUXE TAXI FROM DEPOT OR WHARF—25c TO BE GIVEN AWAY to subscribers of the Times-Advocate = llllllllllllllllllllllllllllllHllllllllllllllllllllllllffl These prizes will be given to subscribers of the TIMES-ADVOCATE who pay their sub­ scriptions before February 13. Coupons will be issued for each years’ subscription. On February 13 a draw will be made and the holder of the first number drawn will be given a prize of $5.00. The next ten will receive $2.00 each and the following ten will receive $ 1.00. Only tone prize to a subscriber Subscription $2.00 a year 3 Years for $5.00 if paid in advance.RENEW NOW? “XXrrswv ■■ ■ vW and magazines