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Home My WebLink AboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1937-07-22, Page 7THE EXETER TIMES-ADVOCATE KIPPEN EAST W. I. MEETS J W. C. T. U. Convention On Saturday afternoon recently Kippeh East W. I. held their annual picnic in Jowett’s Grove, Bayfield. The weatherman favored wit'h an ideal picnic day and about eighty- five grown-ups and children came to spend the afternoon. Some enjoyed bathing; others found their pleasure throwing horseshoes and other pre ferred the ball field. The swings and teeters attracted the little folks until about four o’clock when the president rounded up the crowd and began the sports. The first race was for little tots and was well fill ed. All got off to a good start, but difficulties came and some stopped in t'he centre of the field, some fell and other returned to' the starting point, finally Harold Taylor reached the goal aqid so was winner of the race. Th winners in the other races were; Girls, under 8 years, Shirley Caldwell; boys under 8 years, Grant McLean; boys, 8 to 13, Ronald Cald well; three-legged race, Ken Mc Lean and Hugh Doig; couples’ slip per race, Laura Tremeer and Har vey Jacobi; candle race, Mrs. Turn bull, Harry Caldwell; fat ladies’ race .Mrs. Broadfoot, Mrs. Turnbull; mar ried couple’s race, Mr. and Mrs. Pin der; clothes pin race, Mrs. Turnbull, Glen McLean; kicking the slipper, Mrs. Pinder, H. Norris; biscuit race, Carl Stoneman, Jack. Norris. After the races the ladies enjoyed a good game of softball and then all sat down to well laden tables and after all had done justice to the good things the men had their game of softball and then started '.homeward •having spent a very enjoyable after noon. BOY SCOUT JAMBOREE 'Scouts from Huron County to the number of nearly 200 held a jambor ee and bonfire in Seaforth Agricul ture Park, Wednesday night. Par ading from Victoria Park to the Ag ricultural Park, the Scouts and Wolf Cubs, in their uniforms, with ban ners and flags flying presented an imlpressive sight. At the Park the program was in charge of Scout Mas ter P. B- Moffatt and County Chair man H. G. Weir, both of Seaforth. The interesting ceremonies and bon fire was witnessed by a crowd of in terested citizens. District leaders and Scouts from Clinton, Hensall, God erich, Exeter, Meaford and Seaforth were present. (Among the guests were District Commissioner N. L. Kilpat rick, of Stratford, who spoke brief- i WILSONS Y FLY PADS WILL KILL MOPE FLIES THAN 1 lOc WHY PAY MORE Best of all fly killers* Clean, quick, sure, cheap. Ask your Drug gist, Grocer or General Store. * THE WILSON FLY PAD CO., HAMILTON, ONT. PICOBAC PIPE HHH tobaccoJHHH FOR A MILD,COOL SMOKE The fortieth Annual Convention of the Woman’s Christian Temper ance Union of Huron County met in Main Street United Church, Exeter1, With the president Mrs Tinsdall oc cupying the chair. 'The reports of the Department .Su perintendents were not as encourag ing as in former years. The Anti-Narcotic and Medical Temperance Supt., Mrs. Pearce re ported work being done in the Union The Flower Mission flupt.., Mrs. Howell reported work done iu Exeter and Goderich. Together there had been 291 calls made on the sick and distressed besides $70 worth of de delicacies distributed. In the Medical Contest Department Wingham and Exeter held contests, the former in elocution and singing and the lattei’ in elocution, The Department of Temperance in Sunday Schools was given by Miss Murray, Supt. Work was done in Brussels, Wingham, Goderich, Zion, Brucefield and Exeter. In the Tem perance study eight Sunday School ■participated. Zion Sunday School won the shield for the fourth time and one of their number won a provin cial prize. »In the Department of Scientific Temperance in Day Schools and Col leges, Wingham reported contests m posters and health books. An impressive memorial service was conducted by. Miss J. Murray, of Hensall, in memory of seven mem bers who had passed away during ■the year, namely: Mrs. A. B. Carr, Blyth, Mrs. Alice Slater, Blyth; Mrs. Taman, Blyth; Mrs. Amy, Exeter; Mrs. Aikens, Goderich; Mrs. E. Mc Guire, Brussels and Mrs. F. C. Ward, National President, Toronto. Mrs. Gardiner, of Kirkton, in a short address very vividly pictured to us the conditions in home, com munity and nation brought about by the. use of alcoholic drinks. Delightful solos were rendered by Mrs. Hockey and Miss R. Rowe. ‘The election of officers resulted as follows: Advisory presidents, Mrs. R. IL Tinsdale, Wingham, Miss J. Murray, Hensall, Mrs. A. E. Lloyd, Wingham and Mrs. A. T. Cooper, Clinton; ■president, Mrs. Geo. Johnston, God erich; 1st vice president,- Mrs. R- W. Beavers, Exeter; 2nd vice presi dent, Mrs. W. C. Pearce, Exeter; Corres. secretary, Miss E. Murdock, Hensall; recording secretary, Miss A. E. Consitt, Hensall; treasurer, Miss M. Bailie, Goderch. The convention speaker, Rev. G. N. Hazen, .Field Secretary of the Temperance Federation gave a stirr ing address bristling with facts and figures. He showed how inconsistent were the advertisements of the Brewing Industry with the statement made in England at their convention where it was reported that ,The Trade would suffer if more boys were not induced to drink: The following resolutions were adopted: 11. Ever relying upon divine guid ance in dealing with the great pro blems in our Temperance cause,— Resolved that we give more time to prayer and to developing our spiritual life that our hearts may be instilled with courage to continue the fight against the liquor force. Resolved that each Union spend some regular* time for definite pray er especially for tlhose frequenting beverage rooms, 2. Resolved that we heartily ap prove all means used to promote peace and good will among men and that we favoui* an educational pro gram in this regard.- 3. Resolved that we hereby record our appreciation of the Censor Board regarding motion pictures, but real ize that drinking scenes and other objectionable features in the pictures are not only harmful to the youth but disgusting and degrading' to all we request that the Censor Board have also, these features eliminated. 4. Whereas we feel that the Coun ty of Huron has not received fair treatment from the Liquor Control Board in that it has had the sale of liquor thrust upon it. Resolved that We record our continued protest against such action. 5. .Resolved that we hereby ex press odir sincere appreciation ex tended to us by the official board Of Main Street United Church and the ExSter W-CT.U., also we would hereby express oui' gratitude to those who have taken part in the program of the day and to Rev, G.i N. Hazen, of London, fo.r his very thoughtful and inspiring address. Rev, A. E. Elliott 'Closed the meet- Jing with prayer, *♦ Did you ever see beautiful or more abundant?the 9 9 9 CORONER’S JURY RECOAIMENI>S expansion strips FOR pavement The old swimming hole retains its popularity. * * • 9 » roses more • 9 ♦» land. It lias been a favorable season for the farmers in light or hilly 9 • * • •• » • THIHISUAY, JULY -sa.14, W#I ■Ontario scill has to answer ,the with tne C. I, O.?” * * *• * question “What it to be done * * * Any tomatoes yet from mean last year’s product. • ♦ • your ** own little garden? We don’t • • Those green peas with the world is just full of joy. * ** * sass that mother makes! This *♦ The tiireashers are grain with its long straw. * * smiling as they note the heavy crop or «• *« Is the depression over? ' ternoon or Saturday evening! ft ♦ ft Visit this good town almost any af- * * * * • It rained on St. Swithin’s Day. Well. It usually does that very thing—somewhere, that is. * * * ** * * * We saw dad inspecting the that his teeth were watering. ♦ V ft • ■ garden corn patches. We noticed * • • If the law of averages goes for anything in the matter of rain fall, we may look for a dry autumn. ******** July’s more than half gone. Soon we’ll have the green apple and the tummy wubbles. But it’s worth it. ******** Garden vegetables are a spendid crop for them zealously. They may he needed. ******* this season. Let’s care * Cattle have enjoyed the fine pasture cattle are vO be moved to Ontario, now’s ****** Fall wheat reached the early stages the appearance of rust. So fa'r so good, ft* * ** * Farmers are finding the plowing is quite of this season. If western the time. • * of ripening without even and here’s hoping. * * for fall wheat an easy joo. favorable for killing weedsWe can’t say that the season preparatory to the wheat sowing. *****i Friends who visit the lakeside summer resorts, please do not those deep unexpected * * * forget the undertow that appears so unexpectedly and holes that arrive unannounced. Beaches change with suddenness. . < - ***«*•«• And still the terrible war in Spain drags on. IThe patience ot Britain under the circumstances ihas been the marvel of the world as it has been its astonishment. After all, the Great War did some thing to end all war. ******** When1 the next drought attacks this province let us remem ber tihat in 1937 we had too .much rain, for the most part while in 1936 we had a persistant drouth. termining cause of-rain fall. * * * * IThe small boy and his sister berry picking. Two cents a box 'ni one to take home ’n all ye kin eat. If that’s not money making then we have something to learn. Many a fortune begins in the berry patch. ******** One of the real .menaces to the public safety as far as cars are concerned is the driver who drives at a low speed. We have seen one of these drivers on a long hill .poking along at 15 miles per hour at the most. Safety-first drivers are warned not to pass on a hill and for that reason must either risk life and property by passing the slothful driver or lose time. The fast but careful driver is no menace whereas the slothful driver- is a genuine nuisance. '•ftftftft^ft* A DIFFICULT HAYING 1 The hay crop in this region has been unusually heavy. How ever, and there’s always something, the frequent rains have made •the harvesting unusually difficult. All hands and the cook have been requisitioned for getting this invaluable fodder to the barn the minute it has been even approximately ready for the mow. For genuine pluck and ingenuity we take off our hat to the farmer. * Evidently trees are not the de- * * * * are looking forward to the rasp- NOT SO DUMB It’s astonishing ihow much perfectly good energy is expended in teaching folk what they already know. By way of illustration: A lecturer to teachers just last week, was telling just how teachers should guide the operation of the child mind lest the young hope ful should get into wrong habits of thinking. The youngster should be trained to think! At this point one teacher exclaimed “Kids are not so dumb!” This teacher has made a discovery. ,We pass if on to mind tinkers. ITS STILL AT IT ■Strange but true. Yes, it is strange that sensible people fail to recognize the danger that lurks in the quietest looking water and stranger still that folk venture out upon water where there is no supervision while within, five minutes’ walk there, are properly supervised bathing accommodations. Quite as perplexing is the way parents ihave ot allowing their, children to venture out on water without their being properly looked after. “He can swim like a diuck” parents tell voir and then one day there is a tragedy with all sorts of explanations. Let us not' forget, yOung or old, that rivers and lakes, whatever their place in the scheme of things are not toys. They have a deadly power that they sometimes exercise with terrible swiftness and finality. Headaches - Faint Spells Pains Under Right Shoulder Mr. George Young, Delors, Ont., writes:—nI was troubled with head- aches and faint spells, and had severe pains under my right shoulder which jl Were so bad I would have to walk the floor at night, as I could not sleep. I was also constipated. My Wife got me Milburn’S Laza-Livet Pills. With the first few doses X . , ., _ .. A to feel better, and after oneml was used I was relieved of my trouble; also had a better appetite.” A product of The T. Milburn Co., Ltd., Toronto, Ont, killed in plane crash Robert S« Blair, son of Mr. and Mrs. D. S. Blair, formerly of Kippert but now of Tuxford, Sask., was kill* ed recently in a plane crash. Robert, aged 22 was practising for his pil- at’s license tests on the afternoon he met with th® fatal accident. Be sides 'his parents he is survived three sisters. by ■Man*—(What’s ths laziest fish the world? Friend—That’s easy; oysters, oatise they are always in their bods. in be- harbor alarm system INSTALLED AT GODERICH . Installation has been completed at the harbor of an alarm system, sounding much as would a giant alarm clock, which it to be used to give warning, to all and sundry whon a drowning accident occurs, or life is endangered in any way. The- in stallation was made by Bert McDon ald, life guard and manager of the nothing beach. Said“Us cutting quite a figure” the chorus girl as she oat down, on a broken bottle. A Middlesex coroner's, jury .recom- mended that all old highway pave ments be Immediately provided with expansion strips to safeguard against such heat explosions as that which took t'he life last Friday of Miss Libbie Cruickshank, Commercial teacher in the Sarnia collegiate In stitute. When the jury met in county police court room, under Dr. P. J. Sweeney to probe the death of Miss Cruick- shanks, in an accident four miles south of Exeter, a heat explosion on a provincial 'highway came under* the official inquiry of a jury for the first time, it is believed. The jury agreed that it was the abnormal temperatures of last week’s hot spell which caused a piece of the pavement to heave an estimated 14 inches, with a loud report, A few miutes later, Miss Cruicksfianks’ car struck the exploded pavement and went into the ditch to inflict fatal injuries to its driver, who was rid ing alone, Having heard from Hugh E. Mc Pherson, highway engineer, Strat ford, that the seven-year-old highway was provided with nothing to allow for heat expansions beyond the cracks which had occurred since it was built, the jurors added the fol lowing to their verdict: ‘We would strongly recommend that old pavements be provided with expansion strips without any further delay and loss of life.” Fourth Explosion The explosion which cost the life of Miss Cruickshank, was the fourth to occur between Elglhfield and the scene of the fatality, within a week, testified Traffic Officer Robinson. After explaining that the road in question was built about seven years ago, Mr. MacPherson was question ed by Acting Crown Attorney Thos. Gibson about the method of building provincial highways. “Isn’t it usual to block our roads as this, to allow for expansion?” he was asked. “It is now. At that time, the de sign didn’t call for expansion joints “Is there any way to provide expansion by heat?” He said he knew of no way by cross cracks which open are filled with tar. “That for lots of expansion,” he add- cept and lows ed. To a request for his opinion, the highways engineer replied: “It would appear that expansion joints might have been beneficial. I couldn’t say, of course. It is a matter of opinion.” Pressed further on that point, he declared that if there are any ex plosions on roads provided with ex pansion joints, he did not believe they occurr as frequently Charles Isaac, Spruce Grove, had been sitting beneath a shade tree when he heard a loud report about 5 o’clock in the afternoon, and saw a piece of road had heaved up, about 300' feet distant, he testified. The explosion was on the east side of the road, and Miss Cruick shank was traveling south, he said. He was on his way to get a barricade when the mishap occurred. The .car seemed to increase in speed after it hit the broken road and went onto the west shoulder, until it struck, a pole, upended nose-dived into the ditch. Traffic Officer Robinson said car went 3 2'8 feet south from blowout before it same to rest. It was testified by Charles that Miss Cruickshank was a driver of long experience. The jurors, impaneled by Constable Ben Milligan—A. E. lock, M. O’Hagan, John Cameron, M. Gilen, Ed. Gould, Alfred Gregory, C. B. Finney and W. A. Scott. FALL FROM HAY LOAD PROVES FATAL Injured last Thursday when he was thrown from a load of hay as it entered a barn on the farm of Wil son McCartney, Mill Road, Walter Callaghan died in Scott Memorial Hospital Wednesday evening. Suf fering from a fractured skull and fractured vertebra, little hope had been held for his recovery since be ing admitted to the hospital. The late Walter Callaghan was in his 63rd year. Born in Egmondville he has spent all his life in this vicinity. Surviving are three sisters. The fu neral took place from the residence of his brother-in-law, Mr. Charles Flnkbeiner at Egmondville, on Fri day, July 16th, to St, James’ church and thence to St. James’ cemetery. SCHOOL FAIR DAYS Dates for the Huron County school fairs follow: Grand Bend, September 14; Hensail, Sept. 15; Carlow, Sept. 17; Belgrave, Sept. 21; Fordwich, Sept. 22; St. Helena, Sept. 28; Curries Corners, Sept. 29. HURON jCOUNIRY FINES INCREASE 300 p. C. An increase of more than 300 per* cent, from $710 to $2,449 is shown in Huron 'County police court fines for tbe first six months of this year, as compared with the same period in 19316, according to figures releas ed. Of this year’s total, $1,550 in fines were imposed for offences un der the Liquor Control Act, as com pared with $345 last year. The in crease is chiefly attributable to the activity of the reorganized county constabulary under High Constable McCoy. So far this -year, up to July 1, six drunken drivers have been sent to jail, compared with one a year ago. Only six persons have been fined for being drunk in six months in Huron County which, according to the fig ures, is something of a record. There were eight last year. The figures are for Wingham, Sea forth and Goderich courts. Professor—I believe I have dis covered a new star, Miss Brown. Miss Brown — How interesting! But you won’t be sure, I suppose un til you have counted all the others ► Weir good High Sher- Henry Laidlaw, THE TRAFFIC LOTTERY Nearly 800,000 drivers, some good and some indifferent . . • Three times that many pedestrians, includ ing the lame, the halt and the blind . . . More than 600,000 motor ve hicles, some new and some old . . . Seventy-five thousand miles of streets and highways, with a score of physical hazards in every mile. Add all these together and you have On tario’s traffic, lottery, a complex game of life and death in which all of us, willing or not, must have a hand. Many will lose in 1937, some be cause we are willing to take a chance no matter ,h®w great the odds against us, but most of us because we do not fully observe all the rules of the game no.r play it safely. The rules are in any and necessary, but it’s .hard to remember all of them. Constant observance, how- of the simplest and most important one will remove all the hazards for all who follow it. The rule is: “Every day in every way, TRY COURTESY.” BIDDULPH RESIDENT SUCCUMBS James C .Kelly, well-known farm* er on the eighth concession of Bid* dulph Township, died Thursday at his home. He was in his 74th year, The funeral was held from his home at 9.30 o’clock in St. Patrick’s church Biddulph, where requiem high mass was sung and interment made. MOTORISTS Jiy and See How Others Will Follow WHEN NEXT you go motoring- resolve to “Try Courtesy” every inch of the way and see how much more enjoyable your trip will be and how quickly other drivers will respond to your courtesy. If I could but persuade half of the motorists to “Try Courtesy” I am confident that the other half would follow suit and then we would have established the greatest single factor for safe motoring—courteous driving. Again I suggest that you “Try Courtesy” the next time you are driving. Try to refrain from “pocketing” your fellow-motorist when he gets into a traffic difficulty* Try to give him. some warning of what you intend to do next whether it is to slow down, stop, change direction or overtake him. Try to give him his share of the road so as not to unnerve him by a “eloso shave,” Try to remember to dip or dim your brilliant headlights when you meet him at night so that he will hot be “ditched” or drive straight on when he should take a curve. Try to remember that hills, curves and other blind spots are danger spotB—keep to your right side of the road wl en j ou. come to them. In these and the dozens of other ways, which will occur to you, I sincerely recommend that you “Try Courtesy” every inch of the way. The New Spirit of the Road try q COURTESY —*— I I t! .c_ MIMlSTFft OF HIGHWAYS PROVINCE OF ONTARIO I9K