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Home My WebLink AboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1938-01-13, Page 6WJiVRSDAY, JANVAPY 13, 1938 THE EXETER TIMES-ADVOCATE then before him was born in God erich in 1834. His father, the late Robert Reynolds, came from Ireland in 1854. He was an his way from Detroit to Hamilton, but when he Prominent Goderich Families “When I was a boy about 10 to 1'2 years old I remember a group of about 25 fishermen and their fam ilies who cagne to Goderich from the reached Goderich he went no further ,Qr^ney islands, and they .built a reg- He settled. here and soon atterwards * ular Httle settlement on the slope ......J I t|ie wjier6 th© C.P.R. station I don’t recall how they hap- , pened to come here, hut I do remem- Nothing is more important to a modern woman than her personal appearance. Sufficient lighting at the dressing table is the secret of natural, attractive make-up. Poor lighting exacts its toll in unattractive make-up, giving that artificial ap- nearance all women wish to avoid. opened what was known as “Medi cal Hall.” Actually it was a drug'is now. store and was located where th,' Bank of Montreal now stands. ‘r“’ original block was burned down many j ears ago. The elder Reynolds, by profession, was a. .chemist. As a youngster, Mr. Reynods at tended old 'Central ,School on North (Street, which was .built in 18:54. Lat er he went to the Old Grammar School, where McKay Hall stands today. His teachers there were the late James Preston and the late H. I. Strang. “The population of Goderich when I was a youngster was as big, if not a little bigger, than it is today.” re flected Mr. Reynolds. “There were not any more families than there are today, but what there were were bigger. A family in those days wasn’t considered a family at all un less there were from five to ten children. Nowadays people stop at one or two and you can’t call that a family. I ihad three brothers and two sisters, all younger than myself but I am the last one «eft," the > *lle i her they all spoke Gaelic and many • Light up the dressing table so that there are no shadows, or too much glare. • Have plenty of light in the dressing room so you can see yourself as others see you. Proper light is essen tial to an attractive appearance. Our Lighting Service Department will gladly check your lighting and advise how and where improvements can be made. There is no obligation. Phone............................. . HYDRDf^LAMPS will go a long way toward solv ing your lighting problems. • 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. • Phone for a carton today. Exeter Public Utilities MAKE EVERY ROOM A^tuuui^omi AT NIGHT! < Two Left of 15 Who Made Fishing Trips in the 90’s Hecalls Ono Execution After completing his education at the Grammar School Mr. Reynolds eventually landed in the office of his grandfather, Robert Gibbons, who was then sheriff of Huron Coun ty. In <1’887, exactly fifty years ago he became deputy sheriff and ten years later, on the retirement of his grandfather, he became sheriff of the county, a position which he fill ed until his own retirement in 1927. He was called upon to efficate at only one hanging during .his thirty years as sheriff, and that was in 1910 when a 21-year-old youth was execu ted for the murder of a young God erich girl. “Did young people have as much fun in those days, back in the 70’s, as they do today?” we asked Mr. Reynolds. “They had more," he .came back without hesitation, ‘But of course I may be biased. We certainly used to have lots of fun as youngsters. I know. Shinney was rue big game in those days and we played it both in the schoolyard and on the street. Then there were lacrosse, cricket, crack-the-whip, duck - on - the-rock, and hounds and .hare. All of them were popular back around that time. Dancing in the 70’s “Yes. we used to have a lot of dances too, the popular place back in the 70’s was McArthur’s 'Hall, which stood on the site of the late Dr. A. C. Hunter’s home -on Hamil ton street. There was a dance there once a week all winter long and there used to be great crowds. Then we used to dance too, at the British Exchange hotel and at Dark’s hotel, which is now the Bedford. Sleigh ride parties were the rage in those days also, and many was the night we used to rent a hayrack from the liveryman, there was skating too, but we used to have wooden skates that buckled on, with a screw in the to keep them tight. “Roller skating came in during the middle 70’s and it was the craze for quite a spell. We used to skate in the old rink on West street, right across from where the arena is to day." Mr. Reynolds used to belong to the old Goderich Dramatic Glut) which put on plays in McLean Hall on Kingston street and in the old Acheson block where the Bank of Montreal is now. Outside of Mrs. David Anderson, of Windsor, form erly Miss Maude Start, he is the only member of the club still living today of their descendants are living in Goderich today. Among them are the MacDonalds, the McKays, the Mc Cauleys, the McKeevers, the Craigies the McLeods, the McNivens, sters and the Wylies-” Next to walking, and it be nothing for him to take of ten miles or so. Mr. Reynolds , favorite pastime is reading, “I like fiction and biographies, but I’ll read anything I can get my hands on. Yes, I like a rousing detective yarn and I also like the newspapers especially the editorials. One tiling, though, I am disgusted with a lot of the silly books being published today. Some of these called best novelists are turning nothing but trash to my mind.” Mr. Reynolds went over to table and brought back a book received for Christmas. It was titled “Great Contemporaries," and contained biographies of many of today’s great men. “Now there,” he said, “is the kind of a book I really enjoy.” Treasurer for 30 Years Mr. Reynolds is 'a member of George’s Anglican Church, and belongs to the Maitland Lodge A.F, and A.M. and Huron Lodge I.O.O.F. He has been treasurer of Maitland Lodge for the past 3 0 years and has been through all the chairs in the Oddfellows Lodge. Mr, Reynolds was married in 1883 to Miss Annie Bond, whose father, the late Thomas Bond, was one of the pioneer settlers of York County Miss Bond young lady school, but short time. Reynolds, and they spent a long and happy life together until Mrs. Rey nolds’ death only a few weeks ago. The people of Goderich will ever re member Mrs. Reynolds as a won derful and charming woman. Mr. Reynolds has one daughter Miss Claire Reynolds, whom he calls his “right-hand man.” iShe lives with hei* father. the Ink- used to a jaunt so- out the he en- st. he came to Goderich as a to teach in North (Street she taught for only a Sihe soon became Mrs. Wrong From the Start The holiday resort was dull and the weather was bad. Mrs. Miggs was in anything but an amiable mood. “John,” she said, “whatever made you choose this place for a holiday?” “Why darling,” he said, “you sug gested it.” .' “T know,” she returned. “But why on earth did you agree?” GRAND BEND Discount on Early Orders A worthwhile discount on all chicks booked before Janu ary 20th for delivery any date during the hatching season. Place your order now, take advantage of this big discount. Be sure of getting Lakeview Chicks.. . By all indications we will be sold out away ahead this season. Lakeview Mineralized Feeds and Mineral and Wormfood for Poultry, Hogs, Cattle and Horses. Lakeview Mineralized Concentrate ..................... $3.90 Mineralized Laying Mash ................... $2,70 and $2.50 Mineralized Hog Concentrate and Pig Starter Watch this paper for testimonials and further details on our Mineralized Feeds and Wormfood in the following weeks. with Fay with Mr. and Mrs. Walace have return ed home after a, week’s visit Mrs. Sarah Hamilton. Miss Hamilton went home to Toledo them for a couple of weeks. Most of the ice is harvested for the season, it being the best ice for some years. Mrs. Oliver, of Sarnia, is visiting with her daughter Mrs. Gilbert Stat ton. The balance of the new cottage that was burned last week has all been cleared away and Mr. Jake Switzer is preparing to build a new one, Mr. Nester was up from De troit shortly after the fire and got things in shape for a new cottage. The annual church meeting held last Friday with nearly all same officers being re-elected. The new mail route to Exeter been going a week and has been a boom Mr. troit, Geo. Eisenbach for the past week. Bruce Tiedeman who has Fergus returned was the has to the mail service. Peter Eisenbacli, Sr., of De is visiting this brother Mr. Mrs. been visiting in heme on Sunday. Mr. Eldon 'Gill Tiedeman were in day. and- .Mr. Bruce Fergus on Sun- Don’t Count Sheep When You Can’t Sleep Help You To Get That Desired Rest So Necessary To Make You Fit For Your Day’s Work 25 EGGS or 50 EGGS? Get, 25 to 50 eggs extra per bird by following our entire program 1. Start with Lakeview in'inei-alized chicks (from Brenders wormed with “wormfood” every month) as your protection against danger of transmitting paralysis through the eggs. We know a lot of Poultry troubles start in the egg. 2. Start your cliicks early in February or March. It pays to start them early! By starting your chicks in February and giv ing them an extra 2-4 weeks development before forcing them for production you can get bigger egg size right from the the start and your pullets will stand up better .under iheavy production. Sep tember and October • prices are good, don’t start your chicks so late and only get the tail end of the highest prices and small eggs at that. Grade A Large'are always about 10c more than pullets and that is good profit in itself. If we pointed out ten of our 'best cus tomers who make tihe most profit in a year I’m sure they would all be ones starting their chicks in February. 3. Most important of all this coming season we think. Start worming with “wormfood” with its action through tihe blood stream at 4 weeks and worm every month through the growing period. We all know in other diseases and ailments prevention is easier than cure and so it is with “wormfood.” :We are fully convinced “wormfood” will do a 100% job if used first-to the breeders sev eral months before chicks are hatched and then every 4 weeks through the growing period. We have seen enough flocks with a mortality of around 50 % with paralysis, bleary eyes, etc., and after using wormfood to the breeders and from chicks on up mortality was checked to a stand still and you could not wish for nicer flocks. Note we will have the correct amount of ‘‘wormfood" mixed in our chickstarter and growing mash for different numbers of cihi-cks on hand at all times, this will make it convenient to feed. From our information received on a recent trip to Cornell Uni versity and other good authorities on Poultry and paralysis we be lieve paralysis, etc., may 'be ten times as serious in this province as it was this year. Protect your flock against this terrible loss. 4. Start your cliicks on Lakeview Mineralized CliicJi Starter and growing Mash or Growing Mineralized Concentrate with your own grains. Health Mineral is without question of doubt in our mind the biggest step in the improvement of feed for Poultry we have come across since we are in tihe Poultry business. With mineral you can develop bigger hardier birds that will be more resistant to colds and ward off contagious diseases and infestations. 5. Shut up the pullets early in the fall, before September 1st, worm them again and put them on mineralized Laying Mash or Mineralized concertrate right from the start. We certainly believe Egg prices will be high next Fall if ever. While eggs have been a fair price this Fall they are not as high as they might be and this together with the fact that many had disease in their flocks this year resulting in poor production has discouraged many, poultrymen and therefore we say. prices will be high next fall. We know by past experience in any line of business or agriculture if prices are low on a certain product they will come back strong. Pices of hogs and cattle have risen from a very low price to a good price and so we are convinced eggs will do the same. Lakeview Poultry Farm Wein Bros. Ex-Sherriff R. G. Reynolds, Recalls Geocl Tinies Young Folk Had In Goderich Years Ago — In Perfect Health As He Nears 82nd Birth day—Worst Illness He Ever Had Was The Measles—Walking and Reading Are His Greatest Hobbies By Howard C. Obeay GODERIGH, Dec. 31. — There is nothing in the world that R. G. Rey nolds enjoys more than a .hearty laugh. It is what has helped to keep him young and active these 81 years. And. a hearty laugh he had indeed when we knocked at his door the other afternoon and announced we had arrived to interview him. “Interview me?” inquired Huron County’s former sheriff, as if he had got to thinking he may have misin terpreted us in the first place. “Why, what have I done?” “Well,” we offered, as he took our hat and ushered us into the living room of his lovely home on Welling ton street. “Any man who looks like 61, and is really 81, deserves to interview. (How do you do it?” “How do I keep young, you mean? Simply iby trying as much as I can to be one of the boys and never worrying about anything, no matter what it is. Worry is one of the worst enemies a human being can have and when you get as old as I am you’ll find that nine-tenths of the things you worried about through life nover happened.” That, briefly, has been Mr. Rey nolds’ simple formula for keeping young. Nothing more. A Sparkling Wit It A list of the remarkable con temporary citizens of Goderich were being complied we would be inclined to p.ut Mr. Reynolds’ name way up close to the top. A kindly and gen ial host, alert, humorous and pos sessed of a keen memory and a very sparkling wit, he makes brilliant and interesting conversation. An after noon in his company is an afternoon well and profitably spent. It sends one away with a new knowledge of the fulness and richness of life. With a real, zest for living. The worst illness Mr. Reynolds has had in the 81 summers that have passed since he was ushered into the world was the (measles. And if mem ory serves him well he was “quite proud of it at the time.” He was the only youngster in the neighborhood who had them. In addition, of course, he had the whooping cough and the mumps, and if there were any other children’s diseases going around at the time he believes it would be safe to say that he had them too. He rarely, missed any thing like that. Today, however, he has never an ache nor a pain, and it has been that way for many years back. He eats anything anytime and, in an un guarded moment, he might brag of a “corking good appetite.” Walking affords him his daily exercise and it takes something more than a rattl ing good blizzard to keep him in side. Large families Then Going way back to the beginning Mr, Reynolds, who gets a big kick out of being referred to sometimes as iSlr Wilfred Laurier, was born in Goderich On April 8, 1856, He will be 82 dh his next birthday. His mo- Main Station, near I talked over the old to have on those fish- We used to rent a tug Only Two Survivors A few evenings ago—on Christ mas night to be exact—Harry Vid- etan, weightmaster at the Goderich Elevator Company dropped in to call on Mr. Reynolds. They are the only survivors of a party of sixteen God erich men who went fishing earh summer back in the SO’s to the is lands around Wiarton. “Harry and times we used ing trips. from Capt. John Craigie, who went along with us, and we would stay for eight or ten days. Just the other night we made out a list of those who used to make the trip each sum mer. There were Senator William Proudfoot, Judge Masson, Judge Philip Holt, W. L. Horton, manager of the Goderich Elevator Company, Ernest Heaton, a barrister, Edward Attril, Charles Ross, a barrister, Dr. William Ross, William Lane, county court clerk, D. 0. Strachan, customs officer, D. /L. Grant, mathematics teacher at the Collegiate Institute, Lionel Eliot* manager of the Bank of Montreal, Capt. Craigie, Mr. Vid eau, and myself. All of them are gone now except Harry and myself. “Great times we those trips. There fishing around the days. We used to morning and bring back from 30 to 50 bass. We could have caught lots more .but that was enough to keep uS from getting hungry. Every night we lighted a big bonfire on the beach and I remember the boys used to call me the leading soloist. 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