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Home My WebLink AboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1938-12-01, Page 7THE EXETER TIMESADVOCATE Exeter W. C. T. U. Mrs. Charles Christie gave her home for the regular monthly W, C, T. U. meeting held Thursday after- noop, Novembei' 17th. Devotional period was led by Mrs. William Abbott with singing. The scripture lesson and exposition and prayers. Miss Jfartnoll then led in the subject being “Decent Statistics Regarding the Liquor Traffic.” The annual bulletin on the control and sale of liquor in Canada issued by the Fed eral Bureau of Statistics shows that the consumption of spirits has been steadily increasing year by year and also the dangerous consequences of strong drink as seen in increased crime and highway peril. The On tario government received from liquor sale $9,4'56,000 for the fiscal yeax* ending'March, 1938. The rev enue of the Dominion treasury from the liquor traffic was greater than the previous year by $3,185,000 and reached a total of $26,325,000. On tario spent more than $60,000,000 in intoxicants and the Dominion more than $160,000,000 taxed by our gov ernments to say nothing of bootleg liquor sold. Since the beverage rooms have been permitted in On tario there has been a constantly in creasing record of convictions of women for drimkeness. Increased places of sale meant increased con sumption. Also the beverage room meant the return of the treating system, where excess is increased by social surroundings. Also the bev erage rooms meant that youth is lured to drink the first glass through social pressure and the gang spirit. The quantity of beer sold has been multiplied threefold, but the drink ing of hard spirits has also increas ed from year to year. Quebec in 1938 had an increase of 53 per cent, an the sale of hard liquor. It would seem that the beer parlors have been the kindergarten of the Liquor Traffic where youth is initiated into the habit of drinking and the taste for stronger liquor is formed.. Science more and more upholds the wisdom of total abstinence from in toxicants. The facts of the business world show more and more plainly the danger, waste and folly of strong drink and we have the Christian conscience on the side of sobriety. We re-affirm our objective: A nation and a World Free from the Curse of Strong Drink.. It was decided to omit the December meeting. BIDDULPH YOUTH MUST NOT DRIVE STRATFORD — Nineteen-year-old William Lambourn, of Biddulph Township, was granted suspended sentence for two years on condition he does not drive a car for that period of time when he pleaded guilty in police court at Stratford, on November 18th to a charge of as saulting his father, George Lam- bourn, in Blanshard Township. He was ordered to pay costs of the court or spend 30 days in jail. The costs were paid. In suspending sentence, Magis trate J. A. Makins told Lambourn that he could be sent to peni tentiary for such an offence and he said if authorities ever heard of him attacking his father again he would be severely dealt with. His father, George Lambourn was taken to Victoria .Hospital, London, as a result of the assault, but the court was told that the man had been discharged from hospital this week. Landlady (to hard-up dentist): “Uan’t you do anything about pay ing the rent that’s due?” Denist: “Wejl, I could pull out all your teeth for nothing.” A QUIET, WELL CONDUCTED. CONVENIENT, MODERN 100 ROOM HOTEL—85 WITH BATH WRITE FOR FOLDER TAKE A DE LUXE TAXI FROM DEPOT OR WHARF—25c Nagging, Dragging Pains in Back jfluny* WODicii Ii&vg to do tlicir own housework, and the constant bending over? lifting, making beds, sweeping, ironing, sewing so necessary to per forin their household duties puts a strain on the kidneys, and the back aches UrO undoubtedly caused by Some derangement Of the kidnoys, for if there were no kidney weakness the back would be strong and Well, Doan’s Kidney Dills help to give perfect relief and comfort to all weak, backache suffering women, and make their household duties a pleasure instead of a burden. The T. Milburn Co., Ltd., Toronto, Ont, 5-«e 5Q YEARS AGO peeember 0, 1838 s Mr, W. H. Hutchins is putting in a steam barley cleaner in his store house, Mr. John Banton sold his house hold effects on Saturday and will leave shortly to engage in the work' he has chomp — travelling in the Northwest. Qray-Harding In Exeter on Wed nesday, November 28th by the Rev. B, Clement at the residence of the bride’s parents Mr. William Gray, of London, to Miss Jennie, eldest daughter of Mr, Willia’m Harding. Stacey-Chapman At the residence of the bride’s parents 3rd con. Hay, on the 21st inst. by the Rev. E. A. Fear, Mr. John Stacey, of Hensall, to Miss Annie M. Chapman, eldest daughter of Wm. Chapman. Mr. Wm. Aldsworth, of Hay Twp. left the other day foi’ Ashland, Wis. One of our enterprising grain mer chants Mr. H. Levett has recently sold a great deal of barley. Besides large shipments of a few weeks ago he last week sold 32 car loads of barley to be shipped to the American markets, Messrs. Verity & Son have had a spacious engine and boiler house erected at the rear of their foundry for the accommodation of the new steel 100-horse engine, Eight of the Brotherhood of the Sons of England, of London, visited Exeter on Monday and conferred up on the Exeter Brethren the “White Rose” degree. Messrs. John Balkwill and A. Stanlake, who have been at the Soo during the summer are home to while away the winter months. Mr. A. Lammie, whio has been vis iting friends in town has returned to Detroit. Mr. Lammie has pur chased a drug business there and is doing well. Mr. -G. W. Holman has been asked by the Executive Committee of the Ontario Teachers’ Federation to read a paper at its next meeting in Toronto in August li88 9. This is quite a distinction and an honor conferred on a very few. The trustee of S. S. No. 8, Stephen have engaged Mr. Ross to teach the senioi’ department of their school. Miss Lovell has been re-engaged to teach the junior . department at an advanced salary. Mr, Joseph Wambold has opened a hair-cutting and tonsorial depart ment in the Soldan block, Dashwood. / 25 YEARS AGO December 4, 1913 Rev. C. W. Sanders, rector of St. Johns’ church, Brantford, a former Exeter young man has been elected Rural Dean of Brant, in succession to Rev. T. A. Wright. Mr. W. B. Wei'denhamemr, prin cipal of the Exeter school last Thurs day accepted the principalship of Oakville High School and tendered his resignation of his recent position. Mies Olive Wood and 'Miss Gladys (Ford have returned from the 'Chat ham Business College. Misses Ella Monteith and Louise Hackney returned Friday from the West, where they visited for several months. Mr. Wm. Dignan, who with hie family have returned to Lucan after spending the summer in the west, was in town last week. Mr. Frank Hancock, of Maidstone, Sask., arrived here Saturday and in tends spending the winter here. Mr. Hanna, the manager of the new foundry arrived here on Mon day to take charge. Mr. John 'Charlton and family left last week for the West to reside. Miss Edmunds, high school teach- er has tendered her resignation and the same has been accepted by the Board. Fire of unknown origin last night badly damaged the store of P. Bend er, Zurich, and seriously threatened the brick business block owned by G. Merner. 15 YEARS AGO December O, 1923 Remarkably mild weather has pre vailed for some w/seks and some new records have been made for Decem ber. On Monday Mrs. D. Mack pick ed two roses that were just bursting and a couple of buds that were well developed. Miss Florence Vincent has resum ed her position with McKenzie & Son of Exeter North, Mr. Lawrence Fulton, of Usborne, has moved into the residence of Mr. F, Delbridge on Andrew street. Mr. Thos. Coates left last Thurs day for Detroit to take a course in the Michigan Auto and Electric School, Mr. R. E. POoley, of Usborne, is exhibiting some of his choice poul try at the Guelph Winter Fair. Mr. Garnet Miners, of Usborne, made a very excellent showing at the Royal Winter Fair in Toronto With his Yorkshire hogs carrying off a large number of prizes. The cuckoo lays its eggs in the nests of other birds, and it always selects a nest belonging to a bird which feeds its young on food suit able for young cuckoos. World Must Change Its Ways, or Suffer Ml's. J. C. CSardiner, Usborne Town-- ship, Keeps Alive Memories of Iler Brave Sons By Frank Kennedy in the Stratford Beacon-Herald “We have so much for which we should be thankful, despite every thing,” These words came from the lips of a dear little lady, who lives by herself on the 13 concession of Us borne Township. They came from the lips of a mother who sent four sons to serve their country during the Great War. Two returned wound ed, The other two lie in Flanders’ Fields. This mother, nearing her 80th birthday, is Mrs. J. C. Gardiner. The .writer went for an interview with her son, the Hon. J. G. Gardiner, Federal Minister of Agriculture and former Premier of Saskatchewan, who visit ed at the old homestead on Wednes day and Thursday. “Do come in. Jim went to see some of his relatives and he went to buy some cattle, but he’ll be right back,” said Mrs. Gardiner as she greeted the Beacon-Herald represen tative. The Minister of Agriculture showed up two hours later, but the chat with the mother of the Hon. J. G. Gardiner proved most interesting Here was a deal* mother, living by herself, saying that people of today, despite everything, have so much for which they should be thankful. Here was a mother who had tasted the bitterness of warfare. A Proud Mother Naturally Mrs. Gardiner is ex tremely proud of her son “Jim.” She said she could not help but weep when she went to Ottawa the first time and heard her son participate in a debate in the House of Com mons. “He seemed just like a little boy with all those big men,” mused Mrs. Gardiner, because the Hon. J. G. Gardiner is not a giant in stature. The two sons who gave their lives in France were Edwin Lincoln Gar diner and Earl Elbert Gardiner and the two who returned wounded were Robert L. Gardiner, now in a London Hospital, having recently undergone an operation, and William J. Gardin er, who is homesteading in Saskat chewan. Mrs. Gardiner each day lives with the memory of her boys. When they first went overseas she said it was a great strain, but she always re membered another woman once say ing, “A soldier’s mother never cries.’ “When I got word of the death of the second son in France, I was ad vised to go away. I went out west and on my way to Regina I stopped at Clearwater. It was there that I realized there were other mothers who had made s*acricices. It was there that my own self-pity was lost to those poor mothers out there. From that little place went thirty-. four boys. Onlyt two of them return ed,” said Mrs. Gardiner. The dear little mother has written many verses in (commemoration of the boys who did not return from the battlefields. She selected as her favorite the following: Somewhere in France Somewhere in France, I cannot tell, sleeps two boys, I loved them well No stone marks the spot, where they take their sleep, No flower-decked mound, where we can weep, They fell with the brave, in the ter rible fight, That was waged for| truth, justice and right; Although their graves, I cannot see, My boys will never forgotten be. Somewhere in God’s own house above Sleep two boys I love; And when my work on earth is past I’ll meet again the boys I lost. Mrs. Gardiner is one person who knows the Township of Usborne well. She was born and raised on the 14th concession and with the exception of about six years spent in Nebraska, she .Jias lived in the community all her life. Her husband was called by death before the War and she has carried on since then on the 150-acre farm, which is operated by her grand sons, who live across the road from her. She was the mother of five sons and two daughters. One dau ghter died as a child in Nebraska and the other is a neighbor of Mrs. Gardiner. Prime Minister W. L. .McKenzie King is one of Mrs. Gardiner’s best friends and each Christinas morning she gets a telephone call from the Prime Minister. On numerous occa sions when visiting in Ottawa with her son, during the sessions of Par liament, she has been the guest of Prime Minister King. Mrs. Gardiner keeps her home spick and span and next year expects to have hydro installed. A new barn was erected this summer, being su pervised by her son, the Hon. J. G. Gardiner. He spent Thursday after noon out buying livestock for the farm, * From conversing with this belov ed resident, one can plainly see that THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1938 Ford Motor Company of Canada, Limited, Announces TWO NEW FORDS for 1939 ■v DE LUXE FORD V-8: Provides all the basic Ford features, with extra luxury and style. Remarkable amount of extra equipment in cluded in the price. Hydraulic brakes. 85-bp. V-8 engine. Sets a new high for low-priced cars—in appearance and performance. FORD V-8: Now five inches longer from bumper to bumper. Roomier bodies—more luggage space. New styling- Hydraulic brakes, Scien tific soundproofing. Triple-cush ioned comfort. 85-hp. V-8 engine. and the NEW MERCURY 8 for 1939 MERCURY 8: An entirely new car. Fits into the Ford line between the De Ltixe Ford and the Lincoln-Zephyr. Dis. tinctive styling. 116-inch wheel base. Unusually wide bodies. Remarkably quiet. Hydraulic brakes. New 95-hp. V-8 engine. The new cars in the Ford Quality Group for 1939 give you a broad choice. Whichever you choose, whatever you pay, you’ll get top value for your money. That is true of the lowest priced car or the highest. All have one impor tant thing in common—inherent quality. There are three reasons for this quality. They are —-bril liant engineering design, quality materials and precision workmanship—a combination that you will acknowledge when you have seen and driven any one of the fine cars in the Ford Quality Group for 1939. Things are happening in the automotive world this year I And nowhere is the advance more marked than in this Ford Quality Group. See your nearest Ford dealer before you buy any car at any price. FORD MOTOR COMPANY OF CANADA, LIMITED: FORD, MERCURY, LINCOLN-ZEPHYR AND LINCOLN MOTOR CARS SEE THESE NEW FORDS AT OUR SHOWROOMS The DeLux Tudor Sedan with 85 Horse Power Motor, 2Windshield Wipers, 2 Air Horns, Full Front Seat and 600 x 16 inch Tires has been Reduced $80.00 in Price. The new delivered price, with license, only $915.00 See SANDY ELLIOT, for a demonstration. Phone 64, Exeter she is a true Canadian woman, one ■who has unshakable faiith iin Al mighty God. For years she has been an ardent church worker at Thames Road United Church. Before union she was a Presbyterian. Just down the road from the Gar diner farm is S. S. No. 3 school, a fine new brick building, which re placed the old one destroyed by fire a few years ago. “The night that school burned down I stood at the window here and watched it. I could not keep from crying because that school meant so much to me. It was where I had gone as a girl. It was where the boys had gone to school. They call it the Plugtown school,” said Mrs. Gardiner.' “Where did that name come from?” the writer asked. “Well, it seems that years ago, the men who wore plug hats and who attended that school never did seem to grow out of the school age. They would be playing around the school years after they left it and it simp ly got the nick-name’ of Plugtown school,” replied Mrs. Gardiner. She is quite convinced that unless the world changes its way, a disas ter is to fall. “It disgusts me wnen I go down to Ottawa and see grey-haired wo men in rooms with men, smoking and drinking. They say, ’Well, wo men have just as much right to smoke as a man.’ As far as I am concerned I do not think they have that right,” retorted Mrs. Gardiner She was one of the countless moth ers who followed with great anxiety the recent European crisis, when world war threatened. Are We Safe? “We can thank God it did not break out again. But I question whe ther we are safe yet,” said Mrs. Gar diner, She fears the next war, when it comes will-be terrible and horrible with few escaping. It is because Mrs. Gardiner feels that the airplane is a monster built for use in war, that she has no use for aviation and flying machines. “Jim flies a good deal out w>est and I keep telling him there is so much danger that something may go wrong. If anything does, not many come out alive, I look upon the air plane as a machine for war,” she declared. Mrs. Gardiner likes reading good books and hasn’t any use foi’ the radio. The “trash” that some people listen to on Sundays is regret able, she declared. Her correspon dence to members of her family keeps her busy a good deal of the time. In the years following the war when she went to visit her son in Regina, Mrs. Gardiner delighted in doing her duty as a Christian woman in attempting to aid those who were down and out, Visited Prisoners She delighted in going to prisons and chatting with the prisoners, sing ing hymns with them. “I still get letters from a man in the west. He was nineteen when I first met him in prison. It was the first trouble he had been in and they sentenced him to a year and a half in jail. There were tears in his eyes when he told me that if I could do anything to help him from having to serve that long stretch. I could depend on him not getting into trou ble again. I did help him and he got out. I was shaking hands with a group of prisoners one Easter Sun day, I came to one young man. He said ‘I am not worthy to shake your hand, lady.’ Then I said ‘You are some mother’s son and that is good enough for me.’ Tears came to his eyes as we shook hands. “Christian people today are not paying enough attention to these poor boys who are down and out. There is some good in all of them, j We see so many who have no homes. | They would all be good boys if only | they could get something to do,” said I Mrs. Gardiner. j She said her son Hon. J. C. Gar-; diner visited her whenever the oc casion permitted. He was bom in ■w Hibbert Township on the boundary of Usborne and went to the Plug town school and then when quite young went to work for his uncle in the west, working on the farm in the summer and on Saturdays and finally becoming a school teacher. He was only 28 years old when first elected to parliament, and has twice been premier of Saskatchewan. Tax Collections Tax collectors have just about con cluded their task of distributing the annual tax notices to the ratepayers of the various municipalities, and practically every recipient Will take at least a little time off to lament the excessiveness of the fee he is cal led upon to pay foi’ what he terms the privilege of living. There is no doubt that taxation, as a whole, has reached an excessive point in the his tory of our country. The municipal tax is one we should criticize the least. In this phase of taxation the man who pays the shot at least gets a detailed statement of where each dollar of his tax is spent, and if he is not satisfied there is plenty of op portunity for him to take some ac tion to rectify the situation. On the other hand the millions of dollars that are paid annually in taxes, sel dom cause any particular consterna tion. LANDSBOROUGH—FEAR A quiet wedding was solemnized at the Ontario Street United Church, Clinton, when Lyla Margaret, dau ghter of Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Fear, Tuckersmith Township, was united in marriage to James Malcolm Landsborough, son of Mrs. Annie Landsborough, Tuckersmith, and the late William Landsborough. Rev. G. G. Burton officiated. The bride, un attended, was lovely in a gown of empire blue velvet with navy acces sories. She carried a bouquet of bronze chrysanthemums. A reception, was held and the weding dinner serv ed at the home of the bride’s parents.. Mr. and Mrs. Landsborough left by motor for a trip to Toronto and Nia gara Falls, the bride travelling in a dress of rust crepe with navy coat and accessories. They will reside on the groom’s farm, Tuckersmith Twp. Briggs: You’ve been married a good few years now, haven’t you, old boy?” Simmons: “I’ll say we have. We have started on our third toast rack.” ; 0—o—-o The prodigal wrote a piteous ap peal for paternal help, winding up with the confession that he was ob liged to sleep in a disused cow shed. Back came a post card from the father: “Dear Oswald, is there room for two?” T"...>7’ " ■ « • ■ ■ i ycA-'-. v Rub in this Great Canadiani.Ubimeht f For quick RELIEF FROM COMMON, OaolNACV SORE THROAT and CHEST COLDS