The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1938-01-06, Page 7THE EXETER TIMES-ADVOCATE THURSDAY, JANUARY «, W
There is nothing so precious as child
ren’s eyes. Protect them from injury
caused by improper and inadequate
lighting. You may not realize it, but
2 out of 10 children of school age have
^defective vision, due largely to study
ing and playing under poor lighting
at home and at school.
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THESE POINTS
• Do you provide lots of light wherever the children
read or play at night? This will help their young eyes
to develop normally.
• Do you insist that they read, study or play where the
lighting is best?
• Do not let them spread papers over the floor to read
the "funnies" or books in a poorly lighted room.
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It is wise economy to keep
spare lamps on hand so that
there will be no empty sockets
and lack of necessary light.
Use bulbs of the proper watt-
age to give plenty of light.
will go a long way toward solv
ing your lighting problems.
Our Lighting Service Department will gladly check your lighting and
advise how and where improvements can be made, r There is no
obligation. Phone..................................
Phone for a carton today
Exeter Public Utilities
MAKE EVERY ROOM A gannufamiK NIGHT!
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The Reunion: "A Reverie
(Dedicated to my old Pupils and (Schoolmates)
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From out the dark and distant past,
'There came to me tonight
The forms of those I knew so well
In youthful days so bright.
The same sweet, modest girls were here,
The girls we used to know;
Who knew not sin in word or thought
Pure as the driven snow.It
well-
ceie-
their
Elm-
resided
by the
8, icon.
50th Anniversary
Mr, and Mrs. James iScott,
known Cromarty residents,
brated the 50 anniversary of
marriage at their residence,
bank farm on Tuesday, December 28
In the same residence, Margaret
Russell Laing, daughter of the late
Thomas Laing, and Elizabeth Cut
hill and James Scott, son of the late
Jas. Scott and Penelope Hamilton
were joined in wedlock fifty years
ago on December 28, 1887. Rev. R.
Scott, minister of Cromarty Presby
terian congregation for 29 years was
the officiating clergyman.
After their marriage they
on the farm formerly owned
groom’s grandmother, on tot
12, Hibbert, for 19 years, but for the
past 31 years Mr. and Mrs. (Scott
Lave lived on lot 13, con. 11, -Hib
bert, the farm where Mrs. 'Scott’s
parents settled in 1870. Their fam
ily of three children are Mrs, R. G.
McKay, Prince [Albert, igask.; Rus
sell James, lot 14, con. 11, Hibbert,
and Thomas Laing, at- the parental
home. There are six grandchildren
and one great grandchild.
Mr, and Mrs. Scott have been
faithful and active members of Cro
marty Presbyterian Church through
out tb,e years, Mr. Scott having been
an elder for 35 years and Mrs. Scott
having a record of unbroken atten
dance at the Women's Missionary
Society meetings since the organiza
tion in 19 0'3.
iDuring. the afternoon Mr. and
Mrs. Scott were “at home” to their
friends and at six o'clock dinner was
served to about forty immediate rel
atives who were served in the din
ing-room which was tastfully decor
ated with gold and white streamers
and yellow chrysanthemums. The
table was centred with a three-lay-
led wedding cake with golden can
dles in brass .holders on either side.
iMr. J. H. Scott, iCromqrty, who
acted as ibest man fifty years ago,
acted as toastmaster and read
address of congratulations and best
wishes o-n behalf of the “Scott” fam
ily. Other addresses were read con
veying best wishes from the Session
and Romen’s Missionary Society of
Cromarty congregation and the im
mediate family. Mr. and Mr. 'Sciott
were the recipients of many gifts
and best wishes.
Guests present included: Mr. and
Mrs. N. Gillespie, Mr. and Mrs. J.
Laing, Seaforth; Mr. and -Mrs. O.
Francis, Bright; Mrs. M. Routly, of
Kirkton; Mr. and Mrs. J. Wordenf
Staffa; Miss Jessie IHodgert, Exeter;
Miss 'G. 'Chalmers, Mitchell; Mr. and
Mrs. J. H. Scott, Toronto-; Mrs'. R.
G. -McKay, Prince Albert; Mr. and
Mrs. T. Scott, Mr. J. Laing, Mr. and
Mrs. T. Laing, Mr. and Mrs. E. Al
len, Mr. and Mrs. A. 'McLaughlin,
Mr. and Mrs. K. iMcKellar, Mr. and
Mrs. J. Wallace and Shirley, Mr.
and Mrs. Russell Scott, Agnes, Mar
garet and Donald and Tom, all of
Hibbert; Rev. and Mrs. Beidie, of
Cromarty. Tro grandchildren and
one son-in-law, Rev. R. 'G. McKay,
of 'Prince Albert, were unable to
be present.
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Wiho helped us all to better be,
Those girls of tong ago,
Just like the best of girls to-dayM
The ones we’re glad to know.
Yo-ung men were here, -our former -chums,
(Bright and alert were they,
As chivalrous and just as clean
As in the earlier day.
We played the games of long ago
And we again were young,
Out hearts were filled with gayety,
Our nerves with tension strung.
Old sweethearts in a fond embrace.
Were filled with ecstasy1,
Old chums rehewed their earlier days
In glad felicity.
Then, one by -one, they vanished all
AndLl alone was left,
My heart was sad, old friends were ’gone,
I felt as one bereft.
W, H. JOHNSTON, Exeter, Ont.
We’ve kept some of them, so far.
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And we’ve had some fine holiday weather.
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It’s just fine to be back on the day’s work.
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There’s no substitute for a good tome training,
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'Congratulations, successful municipal candidates.
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Farmers are good workers and good spenders.
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An East wind and a sore
a popularity contest.
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Our Exeter Merchants
Buyers bring bliss.”
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Jack and Jill have had a lot of fine skating lately, The snow
spirit has seen to ,it that they have earned their fun,
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To leave on time, to be proceeding at a reasonable rate and
then for the car to sink, deep into the snow!—(need we say miore?
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thumb are keen rivals when it pomes to
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are singing
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To raise the local
method -of preventing
spirit.
church and missionary
national strife and of
budget is
drowning
the
the
best
war
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attended with
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Every noble acquisition is
fears to encounter the one nrust not expect to
Metastasio.
its risks;
attain the
he
other.-
who
Prime Minister ofWhen Mr. Stanley Baldwin was elected
Great Britain, a friend felicitated him on his success, “You mean,”
was the quiet reply, “that it is
What did Mr. Baldwin mean?
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an occasion for prayers!” Now
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MONEY COME FROMWHERE DOES THE
Where does Japan get the money to- carry on her war? Japan
never produced the wealth she is using,
the money. Who is doing the lending?
with the munitions and the material for making munitions? We’d
like to -know whence comes the cash that keeps this appalling slau
ghter going.
Someone is lending her
Who is supplying her
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SOMETHING ABOUT
In that quiet thorough way she
been making inquiry about road accidents and reports as follows
through her minister of transport, Mr. Burgin; Out of analysis of
100,000 such accidents the following was found; l'0(,0’0'0 were caus
ed by drivei’3 turning from -one road to another without due care;
7,000 by inattention. Over 11,000 were injured through not
heeding traffic, 8,000 children were hurt because they were unac
companied or inadequately protected. Readers will note how
largely slackness bulks in what we call accidents.
ROAD
has of
ACCIDENTS
doing things, Britain has
THE WAY OF THE SCHOOL
“Multiplication is vexation;
Division is twice as bad,
The rules of three, it’ puzzles me,
And fractions drive me mad.”
Yet Gladstone and the youngsters of his generation “rassled
Blake and Macdon-
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CANADIAN NATIONAL
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American Civil War
News Found in Free
Press of the 60’s
By S, Armiage-iStanley in the
London Free Press
While searching through. a pile
old papers and documents I
agreeably surprised to find several
old issues of The Weekly Canadian
Free Press, forerunner of The Free
Press of today. They were publish
ed London, Canada West. One of
■Friday morning, January 8, 13164,
had been kept as it contained the
announcement of my grandparents’
wedding, the previous December 30.
I noticed that the Canada Com
pany was applying through their
commissioners, Robinson & Widder,
to the next session of Parliament
for amendments to thei charter.
The Biddulph School Section No.
12, wanted a teacher, applicants to
apply to Daniel Shoff, of McGilliv-
num-
Clan-
or
was
had
John
own-
intends to “eventually establish a
school on a plan in every way com
mensurate with the requirements of
the age , . . ”
S0-
and
per
was
of the American
dispatches from
Louis, Baltimore
These .gave the
Civil
New
and
news
of Ireland, now
the scene on Oc-
Fall Exhibition of
' Agricultural ,So-
of Simpson,
News of the Civil War
Shares of the London Parmanent
Building and -Savings -Society at $50
payable by monthly instalments,
were advertised for sale. The
ciety received deposits of $4
over at the rate of 6 per cent,
year. The office of the society
located in the Carling building.
Later issues of the paper, dated
October 14 and October 21, 1864,
contained official accounts of the
latest news
War, with
York, St.
Richmond.
-c-f the ups and downs of the various
war fronts, with particular atten
tion to Gen. Sheridan’s retreat
from Lynchburg.
The Willage
Clandeboye, was
tober 7th -of the
the McGillivray
ciety. The names
Shoults, Windsor, Stephenson, Bur
gess, Bowman, MacFarlane, Morton
Bice, Marr, Cobbledick and Grundy
are still well known in that Town
ship. The London Township Show,
at Montgomery’s, on the Proof Line,
was also a success, with families of
Langford, Walker, Styles, Robson,
Williams, Routledge, Campbell, Mac-
Arthur, Patrick and Talbot com
peting.
ray P.O. He was later for a
ber of years the postmaster at
deboy-e.
A thin, dark brown mare
strayed on to the -premises of
O’Donohue, Biddiulph., and the
er could have the- same by proving
property and paying damages.
The Biddulph election for Janu
ary, 1864, resulted as follows: Ward
No. 1, Robert H. O'Neil, 68; John
Hodgins, 20; ward No. 2, John Mc-
Falls, re-elected, no opposition; ward
No. 3, Bernard Stanley, 6'6’, Henry
Burke Hodgins, 26*,' ward No. 4,
Timothy Toohey, 53; William Mc
Laughlin, 29; ward. No. 5,®Charles
Gowan, re-elected; no opposition.
The McGillivray T’ownshi-p coun
cillors for 18-64 were James S. Smith
Andrew Robinson, John Corbett, J.
W. Marr, and Robert Fisher, the
last named being new, all the others
being re-elected by acclamation.
London’s mayor was noted as be
ing F. E. 'Cornish, while lengthy
lists of aidermen and councillors
follow.
One of the orginial settlers of the
Wilberforce colo-ny had lately de
ceased, in the person of Ephriam
Taylor, Bernard Stanley, of Lucan,-
as administrator, advertising the
said estate.
Immigration was still unrestrict
ed, as the arrivals at the Port of
New York in 181&3 are given as 155,-
223, an increase of 79,927 over the
preceeding year. The Irish were still
much in the majority, leading those
from Germany, the next point of
numbers, by 55,4'4i5.
The weather was" a fine topic of
conversation even then. The last
week of 1863 “went out like a lion,”
with a sudden drop in temperature
to 10 degrees below zero, accompan
ied by severe storms across the
province. ‘
[Among several lengthy editorals
one remarked on the appointment'
of the new solicitor-general, Albert
Norton Leeds, of South Leeds, with
a rap at The Toronto Leader, which
had “scooped” this information be
fore the papers farther west were
aware of the appointment. Indigna
tion was aroused regarding the ‘sud
den dismissal of 35 old and trusted
employees of the Bank of Upper
Canada.
An interesting item was the an
nouncement .by Secretary John Mc
Lean, M.A.„ of the opening of Hur
on- College on the 9th of January
(186'4) and particulars and applica
tions could be secured from the
principal the Ven, Archdeacon of
HellmUth (later Second Bishop Of
Huron from (|li871 to 18'8'3).
Among the notices were the fol
lowing,: Richard: Deacon, of London
Township, advertised the loss of two
notes about December 19, 186'3, near
Roy’s Hotel, Elg'infield. -One note <
was made by Joseph Berryhill in •
favor of the Bank of British North
America; the other »by John Gould-
ing, In favour of the same bank.
Payment of the notes has been sus
pended.
James Ryder was advertising for
a lost son, Michael, who disappear
ed after leaving his Biddulph home
for London on December 7, 1363.
He had. not been seen for over 12
days. Mrs. Holmes, of London, an
nounces the extension of the number
of pupils of her ladles* Boarding
School on York street, where she
BLIND BOY IN BIG MONEY
A blind English youth, who not
long ago was struggling to make
a living as a musician in England
has signed
that assure
$100:,000 a
pieton, 21,
estate manager. Alec, was discovered
by Hylton, British band leader. The
.blind youth was playing, the piano
at a party in the north of England,
and displayed such genius for mus
ical and vocal impersonations, Hyl
ton took him to London, where he
broadcasted several times, and then
brought (him to the United States.
Now -he has become one
most popular entertainers,
piano he gives imitations -of
musicians and singers,
broadcasting, he plays in
concert halls and hotels. Now Aiea
Templeton’s parents Lave come to
join him in America, his father hav
ing given up work in England to be
come his business manager.
a musician in England
•contracts in New York
him of an income of
year. He is Alec Tern-
son of a West England
through” these matters and did not so badly,
aid tackled them with some stiff latin thrown in, yet lived nicely.
The youth of those days simply “had to” get their lessons whether
they liked the job or not. The new way says the thing is that the
school youngsters must (be -happy. Lessons # and -discipline
take a second place to having a good time. ’
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IT’S THE ARROGANCE
No person would stay the hand of the man who does
that issue in the people’s interests, even when his doing so
that he accumulates a fortune or acquires power. When the wel
fare of the race is promoted by anyone in a high place, sane people
are the friend of the one who dio-es the good work.
But what folk never will stand for is the arrogance of -power
or pelf. When a man acts on the principle that because he has
made a few dollars that he is an authority on everything from bun
ions to statecraft, he -is out -of his place and very likely tio- speak
out of turn. When the wife and family of the successful ,pei£
chaser walk with noses at a disagreeable tilt, -other women despise
them and are likely to speak their mind. When yyealth and power
get out of place no end of pain of io-ne sort and another is sure to
follow.
Weather Guide
When the mercury is unsteady
during calm, expect shivers.
A paje, yeMow sunbet, even ,i£
clear, foreshows rain.
A ruddy sunset, especially if small
horizontal lines of cloud-like shoals
lof fish about the horizon, betokens
windy weather.
If the sun sets behind a rugged,
rocky, or mixed bank of clouds, very
stormy, ’wet, or showery will the
morrow be.
ilf setting in a general sheet -of
haziness |of a dusky or leaden hue,
bad weather is near.
When setting in part clear, but
among curly lock.s of thin icloud-
like tufts of hair, or the strippings
off goose quills, expect fog lor rain
next morning.
A very -clear sunset of pale gold
colour is a sign of fine weather, If a
calm and dewy evening with. it.*
A clear grange-coloured sunset
foretells a very fine day to follow,
and more surely with rising * baro
meter and a. calm dewy evening.
A clear sky, and sun setting in a
well defined form, without dazzling
the eye, and of a deep salmion col
our, foreshows a yery hot and bril
liant day to succeed.
The same appearance with a
cream-coloured haze on the horizon,
'is also a sign of fine hot weather,
but in this case the sun becomes
deep red just before he -disappears.
The same alppearance at sunset In
winter is attended by the sharpest
frost of the “Season.
In showery seasons, and when we
have a fine day before, if the wind
returns again from ’'west or north
west to south, ior south to south
east at sunsdt, be sure of a return of
rain and storm.
After fine dear weather, the first
sighs in the sky of a coming change
are ■usually' light streaks, curls,
wisps, of mottled patches iof white
distant cloud, which increase and
are followed by an overcasting or
murky vapour that grows into ctoud-
iiiess. This appearance more or less
oily er watery, as wind or rain win
prevail, is an infallible sign.
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4
things
means
of their
At the
famous
Besides
leading
AN INFORMED MAN’S OPINION
Some people seem to delight in talking down progressive men
and cheering circumstances. They see every mote in the cup of their
neighbor’s or of the nation’s good cheer. Thank fortune all our
men are not that way. Here this from the columns of our wise
old friend The Lopdon Times
“Fears of a coining slump have already 'been deprecated by
Ministers and some of the statesmen of business. A speech made
by Mr. McKenna in Birmingham to the National Union of .Manu
facturers was a welcome antidote to the disappointing figures in the
latest .unemployment returns. He firmly refuesd to interpret the
setback in certain sections of trade during the past few weeks as
the herald -of a general decline, and he attributed the partial slack
ening to the recent fall in commodity prices caused by developments
in the United Stales. Conditions here, he went on to say, are in no
way similiar to those in the United iStates, and, even if there was
a decline in American industry, there was no ground for expecting
a like decline in this country. He refused to believe that the ex
pansion of the home trade was likely to stop as though the country
were at the top of a boom, for he could not believe that Great
Britain was booming until employment had been reduced to a
normal level.”********
SOME THINGS CAN’T BE DONE
Australia has her great open spaces. Well-meaning people in
Europe have been looking to. these spaces to solve some "of their
social problems, believing that if they could once get their sur
plus population settled thereon that the race would be advantaged.
Very wisely, the Commonwealth of Australia, before heeding the
suggestions -of those w.hio would have the land settled, asked, “Is
the land suitable for settlement? Would it support a population?”
The answer has been largely in the negative. The Commonwealth
has spent millions of money, but in 2'6i years the population in the
region under consideration has increased, by only ’2,144. We are
sorry that the land is so poor but commend the wisdom of Australia
in investigating the land before entering upon any extensive settle
ment scheihe.
Will the rest of the world consider the experience of Australia?
Top often land settlement schemes are undertaken by incapable
men who know nothing of what land will support. Too often the
job of settlemehtJs given over to some politicians who have an
axe to -grind. The politician -hands the job over to, some company
whose one object ds to sell at a profit. An advertising campaign
is launched and well-meaning, but inexperienced people make their
investments and loose all they -have. Meanwhile, the country Is
saddled with debt for schools and railroads, and administration,
while the church is mislead into a fruitless building and educational
campaign, followed by_an appeal to the benevolance of people Who
have won out in a small way by looking before they leap. We com
mend Australia for -her common honesty and her common sense.
Canada will bo well-advised to take a leaf out of Iler book.
PINKNEY—- CUDMORE
(Seaforth Northside United church
parsonage was the scene of a quiet
but pretty wedding when Annie Mil
dred Louise, only daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Samuel Cudmore, Seaforth
was united in marriage to Lome
1 Joseph Pinkney, son of Mrs. Pink
ney and the late Joseph Pinkney.
Rev. T. A. Carmichael officated. The
bride was lovely in a wine colored
velvet dress and velvet hat of sim-
iliar shade with brown accessories.
She was attended by Miss Margaret
Beattie, of Hullett, who wore ibrown
crepe with matching accessories. The
groom Was attended by Harold Cum
mings. Following the ceremony sup
per was served at the home of the,
bride’s parents,
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Notwithstanding the serious dis
location of trade at Shanghai thro'
the Gino-Japanese hostilities. Canada
exported 506 quintals (111,320 lbs)
of wheat flour to that port during
tihe month of September, 1937. The
only other imports of flour to
Shanghai during that time were
28,380 pounds from Australia,
RESTORE VIGOR TO
EXHAUSTED HERVES
by Taking
They Help To Bring The
Shattered Nervous System
Back To Its Old Time
Condition