HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1937-08-12, Page 7THE EXETER TIMES-ADVOCATE
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Weeds are no friends of prosperity.
Cattle Are Included
in New Ontario
Government Act
Put in your guess
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as
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to the sort of winter we're to have?
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Anything you’re ashamed of never js worth the price,
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rAs long as a farnier has a corn field he never lacks a job.
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Notoriety, by the
popularity.
airplane .route, is likely to lose some of its
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Entitled to Compensation When
Owners of both Gattie and .Sheep
Animals Killed or Injured by
Dogs
Coroner’s Jury
Recommends
Stop Signs
A coroned’s jury recommended
that tlie gravel road from Exeter
to Grand Bend be declared a
' through highway and that Huron
County erect stop signs at all inter
sections along the road.
The jury, under Dr. Harold Hen
derson, was investigating the death
of 21-year-old Harold Faber, .of
Tavistock, fatally injured on July
24 in a collision at the crossing of
the Exeter-Grand Bend roadi and
the Babylon side road. Although
the accident happened in Huron
County, Faber died ’in Middlesex
County on his way to St. Joseph’s'
Hospital.
Evidence showed that Faber was
driving west on the Exeter-Grand
Bend road when his car collided
with a car being driven south on
the Babylon side road by William
Decker, of Zurich. Decker’s car
was drawing a trailer at the time.
Unable to Decide
After hearing, the evidence, the
jurors said they were unable to de
cide who was to blame for the
crash.
Crown Attorney Newton ques
tioned the witnesses while pecker*
was represented in court by Frank
Donnelly, Goderich lawyer.
Dr. Robert Johnston, who per
formed the autopsy, said Mr. Faber
died from internal serious injuries.
Pictures were introduced showing
that the Decker car was damaged
on the front, while the Faber- car
was /damaged on the ,Vig|ht rear
fender.
F, J. Funk, Tavistock, said he
was in the Faber car when the ac
cident occurred. They were driving
on the Exeter-Grand Bend road
and were going west ta a speed of
about 40 miles an hour.
“We noticed the car and trailer
coming from the north on the other
road. Mr. Faber honked1 his horn
once and then he honked again
later. The other car wasn>t S°inS
very fast, about 20 miles an hour.
When we came to the corner, Mr.
Faber swerved to avoid hitting the
other car. The front part of the
Decker car hit the right rear of the
Faber car. It threw our car out
of control.” <►
iFunk said he thought the Decker
car slowed up slightly as- it ap
proached the corner, but it didn’t
stop.
Mrs. Jessie Ford, who lives near
the scene of the accident, said the
Exeter-Grand Bend road was heav
ily travelled in the summer time.
County Constable Norman Lever,
in answer to a question from Crown
Attorney Newton, agreed that each
of the drivers should have been
able to see the other machine be
fore the accident.
New 2-Year Course
for Young Farmers
A new two-year course in prac
tical agriculture, designed for the
young farmer who has had to leave
school comparatively early, fre
quently with 'an inadequate educa
tion, is opening at the Ontario Ag
riculture College, Guelph, in Sep
tember, according to official notice
received by the Agricultural office.
The cost of the course has been
made as low as possible in order
to encourage many qualified farn>
boys to take advantage of it.
Tuition is free while board and
rooms are to be provided at $3.50
per student per week. It is estim
ated that the total cost fo ra year
will not exceed $140r
The requirements for admission
to the course are as follows: Stu
dents must be 16 years old, he must
produce satisfactory evidence as to
moral character and physical abil
ity; he must satisfy the College au
thorities that he possesses such
knowledge of the English language
as will enable him to profit by at
tendance at lectures; he must pro
duce a certificate of having spent
at least one year of work on a farm
and must have a practical knowled
ge of ordinary farm operations,
such as harnessing and driving
horses, plowing, harrowing, drilling
and milking; he must submit to
vaccination unless certificate of suc
cessful vaccination within two year3
is furnished; he must pay in ad
vance fees and laboratory charges,
etc.
“We feel that this course should
offer a great opportunity for young
men and that we should have a
large number enrolled with' us,”
Dr. G. I. Christie, president of the
O.A.C., states in his letter. “We
are reducing the time to be spent
in the strictly science departments
so that a large amount of the stu
dent’s time may ’be spent in prac
tical subjects.”
The purpose of the two-year
course is to give young men an op
portunity at training that will not
only better equip them for ag
riculture 'but also for the part they
shoiild play in rural life. There
are to be two main divisions of
the new course—livestock and hor
ticulture. Students wishing to spe
cialize in either will have the priv
ilege. It is hoped that there will
be a good enrollment of students
from Huron and Perth counties. !
Funny, but
his roadside.
Ever seen
of tile year?
some people judge a farmer by the condition ot
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the pastures
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and the foliage better at this season
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It takes some imagination to say that an aii* flight over the
Atlantic Ocean is a hop.
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No, we haven’t seen many
strikes—not for three weeks
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farmers indulging in sit-down
at any rate.
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and the golden glow are brighteningAnd now the hollyhocks
• up the gardens. They’re brighter and better than ever.
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We heard a young woman using slang bordering on profanity,
heard her, in their hearts despis-
All owners of cattle or sheep kil
led oi' injured by dogs are entitled
to compensation either by the dog
owners or by the municipality, ac
cording to legislation sponsored
and piloted through the Ontario
Legislature at the last session by
Hon Duncan Marshall, Ontario Min
ister of Agriculture. “Injured” or
“injuring” applies to injuries caus
ed by wounding, worrying, terrify
ing or pursuing.
Up until the 4last session of the
Legislature, the act applied only to
sheep. So many reports of cattle
being killed or maimed by savage
dogs were received by Hon. Mr.
Marshall, that he decided legislation
should be introduced' to provide
compensation for these cattle own
ers, the result being “The Dog Tax
and Live stock Protection Act,”
which clearly defines the responsi
bilities of dog owners and munici
palities in cases where animals
killed or injured.
Whether ar not the owner of
dtog killing livestock is known,
municipality in which the livestock
were killed or injured shall oe liable
to the live stock owner for the
amount of damage as ascertained
by livestock valuers appointed by
the municipality.
jn order to collect, the owner
must notify the municipality within
48 hours after he has discovered
the killing or injuring, and the car
cass must not be destroyed until It
has been seen by the valuer for the
municipality.
If the owner or the municipal
council is disatisfied with the report
of the value
the Minister
Hon. Duncan
days of the
must be made in writing, accompan-
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led by ah $25 deposit and the Min*
ister may name a valuer to make a
•further investigation, t1*6
of this Yalnei- shall be final and
conclusive as te the extent and
amount of the damage done, The-
money is refunded if the appeal is
successful, <but forfeited if the ap
peal is lost,
If no livestock valuer has been
appointed by the council er clerk of
any municipality, the Minister of
Agriculture, on application of the
owner of livestock may /name ia
valuer whose report shall be final ‘
and conclusive, the council being
liable for the cost of valuation as
well as amount of award. Reports
of the award will be forwarded to
both council and livestock owner.
Where livestock has been killed
or injured in territory without mun-
cipal organization, the owner of
the dog shall be liable for damage,
and it iwl lnot be necessary to prove
the dog was vicious or accustomed
to worry livestock.
Copies of the Act as outlined
above, can be obtained by writing
to The Livestock Branch, Ont. De
partment of Agriculture, Parliament
Buildings, Toronto, Ont.
THURSDAY, AVGUST m?
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CODIFYING HARimit BUSINESS
There should bo no more scissor
marks on the old; cranium from now
on, if the new barber code as in
stituted in Ontario by the Appren
ticeship Act is worth the paper it
is printed upon. The barbers of
the province are now controlled by
■this act and every .tonsorial parlor
must be registered which will mean
more fees, there must be only one
apprentice for every five full fledg
ed barbers, in any shop and that ap
prentice must work for three years
before he gets a license to run his
own shop. Minimum wages for ap
prenticeship starts from zero for the
■first three months to ten, fifteen,
•nineteen and twenty-two cents per
hour for succeeding three month
periods. From this angle it looks
as If future “snippers” will have a
hard road to -clip.—(St. Marys Journ
al-Argus.
TAKES NEW POSITION
has
are
any
the
It didn’t sound nice. Those who
ed her.
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Stanley Baldwin is a victim of rheumatism. He walks about
With great difficulty and great pain. Millions and millions of
people sympathize with this great peacekeeper and peacemaker
in his hours of distress. -
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“England hath
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need of thee!”
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son as the son was leaving for Australia:Charles Dickens to his
“I put a New Testament among your books, for it is the best
book that ever was, and becauseit will teach you the best lessons
by which any human creature, who tries to ibe truthful, and faith
ful to duty, can possibly be guided.”
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THE TIME AND THE OCCASION
10 a.m. The barn that hot harvest day. The fall wheat
sheaves had been unusually heavy and rain was threatening. Just
then mother appeared with sandwiches and a cool drink and the
best speech farm
Mother knows.
moral hears these days, “Time for lunch!"
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SEAFORTH WOMAN HURT
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Mrs. J. B. Thompson is ill at her
home in Seaforth suffering from
shock and -bruises, as the result of
a motor accident near St. Cloud,
Minn. Mrs. Thompson, in a car
with Mr. and Mrs. J. Noble, of To-
roto, was on her way to visit her
sister, Mrs. Cardno. of Winnipeg.
The accident was the result of a
skid on wet pavement.
3.6 INGRES OF RAIN IN JULY
The month' of July saw a tem
perature range of 47 degrees as the
thermometer registered as high as
92 degrees in the shade and drop
ped, foi’ two or three days to the
45 mark. For four days in July,
just about a week ago, the ther
mometer registered in the neigh
borhood of 4-5 to 52 degrees, while
citizens shivered in the cold wave
which struck this section of On
tario. For the greater part of the
month, however, near record heat
marks were set. The official ther
mometer showed 92 degrees for
four days and stayed well over the
80 degree mark for 23 days of the
month'. Rainfall for the month
was 3.'6 inches. Rain fell on 10
days..
Guy Ldmbardo and his Royal
Canadians, with other equally well-
known orchestras of radio, stage
and screen, will provide the music
for the dancers in the mammoth
ballroom at the Canadian National
Exhibition this year.
The deep-sea diver was hard at
work on the ocean bed. Suddenly
an urgent voice came over the tele
phone which connected him with the
boat above.
“What’s the matter, chum?” he
asked.
“Come up quickly,” he heard.
“The captain’s just told me that the
bloomin’ boat’s sinking,”
A Bundle of Nerves
Never Free From Headaches
MrS. A. Williams, Alcorn Ave., Toronto, Ont.,
writes:—I was in a very weak and tun down con
dition following* child birth, and Was simply a bundle
of nerves.
“I could not sleepy at night, and was never free
from headaches. I tried several medicines, but none
of them seemed to do me any good. I decided to
try Milbum’s H. & N. Pills. I had drily taken two
boxes, and I am thankful to say that, to-day, X am
fooling better in every Way,**
“Far over the steep hillside it wound,
The path that his feet must go; ■ *
The road that summer knew blossom sweet,
Now covered with ice and snow.
And he sighed, this lad, as he strove to set
His feet on the icebound track,
“Oh, the hardest part of climbing a hill
Is to keep from slipping back.”
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BEATS ALL!
It beats all how those farm women beat their husbands’ to it
when it comes to farm prosperity. The lord of the manor invests
in binders, mowers, hayrakes, tractors, discs-, cultivators, hay forks,
grinders, motors and frequently comes out at the tail end finan
cially. The lady sharpens a discarded hoe, trades one thing and
another with her neighbors till she possesses garden seeds, sets a
couple of dozen hens, coaxes up her special cows by picking up odds
and ends of grass Running to waste, markets dabs of things—and
is away ahead with the dimes and such. It's a great world. Big
business is so funny.
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A GOOD SEASON
Not for many a day has this tract had a better season than
characterizes 1937. The moisture has been sufficient. The tem
perature has been ideal. Sunshine has been abundant. There has
been an almost entire absence of storms and unseasonable frosts.
Hay and pasture have been above the average. The fall wheat
has yielded well. Spring crops have done well. Corn is develop
ing satisfactorily. So far, harvesting conditions have left little to
be desired. In view of all these advantages, let us pay our bills,
catch up on improvements, keep our heads and be profoundly grate
ful.
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WE DON’T KNOW HOW IT FEELS
Living as we do in a community where good crops are the
usual order of things we simply do not understand the state of
mind that creeps upon folk who are disappointed for 5 or 6 years
in succession in regards to crop yields. People soon become at
tached to the soil upon which, they live. Barren, rocky hillsides
have a fascination for those who live among them. Even sand
dunes have their appeal for others. The Arab desires nothing
than the lonely desert. Fishermen cannot be induced to leave
rugged shores that long since ceased to yield their finny harvest.
Fanners on our 'western plains still cling to their prairie holdings
though harvests for years on end cease to reward their labors. All
this is puzzling to us. Is this being apparently satis&ied with fail
ure a part of the penalty of failure? Has misfortune killed enter
prise? Has hope incapacitated for effort? Of is there a convic
tion based upon knowledge coming from some unknown source that
times will surely change and that all will yet be well? Who
knows? In the meantime, governments and churches are at their
wits' end and incalculable suffering is endured.
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“WHY DON’T THEY MOVE OUT”
That’s the question we often hear, asked regarding the farm
ers in the dried-out areas of the West, “These people,” we hear it
said, ‘have been dried out six, seven, eight years, why don’t they
move out?”
Imagine seven or eight years of drought in the 'best townships
in this region. Think of every spear of grass as deadend of not
a decent pasture field in all that period—of cows, two-year-olds
and calves as all dead or marketed! Cud on these things and you
Will see that these westerners cannot move. They have no money
to move with; they have no place to go to and no cash wherewith
to pay for a new home.
“Why don’t they go to work? We’d not be stuck!” True,
friend, but you’re in good Old Ontario, where jobs clamor , for
hands to do them. Ont there in the dried out area there are no
jobs to do. There, to the south of you, a mile away is a settler’s
home. The same may be said of the East, and the North and West
bf you. Between you and those houses riot a tree, a shrub, a tuft,
'of grass—-nothing but moving sand should the wind not exceed 15
miles per; should the wind exceed that rate, there is a dust storm
that destroys all visibility. It is the abomination of desolation.
Unaided, those westerners cannot move out.
they may appeal to
of Agriculture, the
Marshall, within thirty
award. This appeal
' Miss
been a
gus Staff sin ceher graduation from
University three years ago, left on
Tuesday for Toronto to take a pos
ition on the editorial staff of the
Wilson Publishing Company.
* Prior to her leaving Miss Eedy
was surprised by her fellow work
ers at the Journal-Argus at a gath
ering on Saturday morning when
she was presented with a handsome
Mira'pak suitcase. Mr. E. Grose and
John G. Bell spoke appreciatively of
Elizabeth’s services to the paper anil
extended all good wishes on behalf
of the staff.
At a picnic supper held on the
lawn of Mrs. J. W. Graham, West
Ward, the Bookworm Club in
which Elizabeth has been an active
spirit, presented her with a 'beauti
ful electric clock, accompanied by
the best wishes of all the girls.—
St. Marys Journal-Argus.
Elizabeth Eedy who
member of the Journal-Ar-
BUILDING HIGHWAY NO. S3
The work of widening^ fencing,
grading and building culverts and
bridges along the route of Ontario
Highway No. 23 which runs north
from Elgin field through Whalen,
Woodham and Kirkton to Mitchell
is going ahead steadily these days
and many of the culverts and fences
have been installed] During the
past two weeks a cut-off to elimin
ate two had turns on the old road
at Whalen has been under construc
tion. This cut off was purchased
from Wilson Morley, whose farm
corner of
This will
have to
curve tn-
forms ' the south-west
Blanshard Township,
mean that motorists will
negotiate only a gtentle
stead of two right angle turns as
formerly, although it leaves Mr.
Morley with an angular piece of
land on the west side of the high
way.—iSt. Marys Journal-Argus.
Renew Now!
PICOBACl
PIPE
TOBACCO
FOR A MILD.COOL SMOKE
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TELEPHONE TALKS IN THE WATSON FAMILY
frequent
town.
I’ll Wg them
Ub Saturday’
of his
family m
pleasant
the country?
lonely week
the family to re
■ed from
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w ' all
K ||Rys
break in a
opportunity Jf* tl ne<
“It brings me
a farm’’ say’ nd'a‘li£t’j»rtwhen
of mind ana
“1 wo
peace
I need it most
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Tekph-one Kat°
Resorts «c Jr after
W. Lawson*
Manager,