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Kruschen Salts consist of several
important mineral spits blended
carefully in exactly the right propor
tions. These gaits are highly refined
and their quality is the highest
obtainable anywhere in the world.
Maybe we sacrifice something by
giving you the pure mineral salts •
without adding any flavouring in
gredients, but we beljeve you prefer
to have your medicine concentrated
in small, compact and easily absorb
ed doses, That’s why you only need
take enough Kruschen to cover a
dime. It’s the economical way of
taking salts, too.
Another thing to remember about
Kruscfien—it doesn’t achieve, its
result by irritating or inflaming the
colon, It attracts to the colon the
moisture which is absolutely, essen
tial if you wish to avoid constipation
and achieve easy evacuation. You
can get Kruschen from all druggists,
75c, and 25c.
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15 YEARS AGO
The school gardens were judged
on Saturday last by Messrs. Q. Maw-
son and S. J. Hogarth. The follow
ing were the prize-winners: Fourth
ejass, Wm. Ellerington, Joe
son, Grace Christie; Third
^Dorothy Davis, Utah Clarke,.
Laing.
A
laid
just
The
rew
block north.
Miss Lillian
ed home after
couple- of weeks
Mr. Wm, J. Smith has purchas
ed the Centralih chopping mill from
Mr: W. J. Huxtable.
- The Exeter council are having
stop signs placed on several of ’the
streets leading ^into the Main Street.
The Hay Township H.S. entrance
Scholarships for 1926 have been
won as follows: 1st scholarship of
.$27.50', Lome Chapman (aged 12)
of S.S. No. 10, Hay; 2nd, of $16.50,
Mildred Johnston, (aged 13) of S.S.
No, 14, Hay; 3rd, of $11.-00, to Gor
don Ti’oyei-, t(aged 12) of S.S. 14,
• Hay.
Mr. Jos. Grant, Miss Betty Grant
and Miss Florence Walter visited
in Glencoe on Wednesday of last
week, c
Mr. W. J. Beer and Mr. J. M.
Southeott- spent a couple of days
' ai> Port Ro-wan on Lake Erie this
week. ■
jack-
Class, 0 Cecil
beingnew cement sidewalk is
on the south side of John St,
north of Jones & May’s store,
walk on the west side of And-
Street .is being extended one
Payne has retui’n-
holidaying for a
in London. .
25 YEARS AGO
Heywood - Bedford—In Exeter,
on July 20th, at the. home of the
bride’s parents, Gordon] Clifford
Heywood, to Evelyn Bernice, daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs, G.t R. Bedford,
by Rev. J. W. Baird.
The Exeter Canning Factory has
installed a silo-filling outfit made
by the'Connor Machine Co., of town.
This machine cuts the pea straw and
fills the large new silo built this
spring at a cost of $1,000.00.
Two rinks of bowlers, consisting
of R. N. Rowe, W. T. Acheson, W.
D. Clarke, R. G. Seldon, skip; and
W. Rivers,, W. Fritz, J. A. Stewart
and W. W. Taman attended the
Seaforth ^tournament last1 week and
the latter fink, got first prize in
the second event, electric toasters.
Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Heywood re
turned home on Sunday evening and
are now settled in their new 'home
on the second concession of Usborne.
A large number of the soldiers
were home from Camp Borden for
the week-end. 'Several are remain
ing to do harvest Work, Among
those home were Sgt. Mallett, Pri
vates Hoggarth, Parsons, Millson,
SoU’thcott, Harness, Munn, Rivers,
Kellett, Oke, Birney, Stewart,
Walker, Willis, Cann and West.
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Barred Bocks* White Rocks* White
Jersey Black Giants, New
: Hampshire Reds
Write or Phone for Prices
‘ A* H. SWITZER HATCHERY '
phone 38-3 Granton, Ont.
Painful Boils
Bad Blood the Cause
\Vhfen bofla start tri break riht cm
diffierent parts of the body it; b an
Widence that ths blood is loaded up
irith impurities. « A -
Just Whan you think you aro rid
of one, another crops up to take its
place and prolong your misery.
All the lancihg and poulticing yon
may do will not stop more coming.
VThy not giv® reliable,
blood purifying medicine Burdock
Blood Bitters a chiinCe to banish tho
boils? Thousands have need xt fhr
this purpose during the past 60 years.
Take B.B.B. and get rid of tho bad
blood ahd the boils too.
Tho T< Stliharn (to., Taronie* Ort*
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THE MWER TIMES,APVOCATK THlMDAY, »tth, WX
R. C* A. F* Manning Depot Makes
Recruits Into Aircraftsmen
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Third in a Series 0f Articles Deal
ing with the R.C.A.E, and the
Commonwealth Air Training Plan
Written by Hugh Tmnplin,
of .the Fergus News-Record, for
the Canadian Weekly Newspaper
Association, of wliich the Times*
Advocate is a Member
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impression one gets on
Manning Depot at To-
The first
visiting the
ronto is one of si?e‘, and that im
pression grows and, deepens. Every
thing is big, or tremendous, ox* col
ossal. The building itself is the
■Coliseum, With adjoining livestock
buildings, the largest under one
roof at the Canadian National Ex
hibition grounds. Outside, the build
ing looks the same aS ever, except
the sign ovex' the door, but inside
it is utterly changed. In parts of
the building, there are double-deck
ed bunks everywhere, A portion
that used to house the trucks and
farm machinery and the flowers at
the Winter Fair, is. now a huge
dining-room that will seat five thou
sand at one time, and' there’s a
mechanized kitchen that enables the
.five thousand to be fed inside an
hour—a modern miracle—and they
don’t eat just loaves and fishes,
either. fThere the newly "enlisted man
■comes from a recruiting centre
somewhere in ; the province. His
papers are made out for him and
his records filed in the office. He
is gftven an' identification card,
signed and sealed, Without it, he
cannot leave or’ enter the depot.
He gets a number and. a bed, and
the system is so ’Complete that
when his friends come, to visit him,
a runnei’ knows where to find him
and; "pages" him more effectively,
than if he was a guest at an expen
sive hotel.
The entrance hall is impressive.
Long racks hold the "time cards"
of the men at Manning Depot, and
there are literally thousands and ■
thousands of them. I watched aif
Aircraftsman come in, pick his^card'j
out of the rack, fumble in his pock
et for his identification card,
punch a time clock as he passed
the entrance, and then deposit his
card in another long rack inside.
A glance over this rack showed
that, while most of the cards were
white, a few were, blue: those dn-
lricky
racks
their
fence.
any
im-
plications. I was. with two Pf-
ficers and there was a sign on the
door saying that, officers were
strictly forbidden tft eat xn the
men’s mess. The officers solemn
ly affirmed it was because the men
got better meals, so some officers
had formed the habit of slipping
away from theiy own mess and eat
ing with the men, I asked gome of
the men'about‘it and they just
smiled, but they said the food really
was good:. I think maybe the of
ficers told the simple truth. I saw
theixx mess, too, and although it’had
white tablecloths, it didn’t look
more attractive.
Nowhere does one get the
pression of size at the Manning De
pot so much as in the men’s din
ing hall, Row after row of long
tables stretch across the width of
the Coliseum. A 'skylight makes
the room bright and a great ea-
emblem covers one wall. The
tables were being set fox* supper aud
the waiters were carrying in big
bowls of Canadian apples, one more
surprise for an old soldier.
The kitchen, completely fascin
ated me, This is a mechanized war,
as everybody knows, but even the
cookg must be skilled mechanics.
There were huge m,otor-driven food
mixers, with monel metal bowls large
enough to mash a bushel and a half
of potatoes at >0^1 e time. Anothei'
machine peels them. Half a bag is
dumped in a big hopper, a switch
turned on and a stream of water
from a hose directed into the mach
ine. It Whirls around, and the peel
ings are taken .off by coarse disks of
sandpaper and washed away down
the drain. There isn’t any waste
because of unskilled peelers. In
stead. of hundreds of unfortunates
doing kitchen patrol, half a dozen
men were digging put the deep
eyes.
There seemed to be wonders
everywhere 'around that kitchen. I
went into a big refrigerator room
Where the meat was stored and
into another where deep pans of
jelly cooled on the shelves. The
meat stopk for tomorrow’s soup
boiled in great monel metal ves
sels and tempted the appetite.
Fresh bread and cakes lined the
shelves of, the
POLICE AND WBWRS
EXCHANGE SHOTS at WCAN
The London Free Press reixorts a
robbery at Lucan early Saturday
morning and an exchange o£ shots
by police and robbers, The report
in Monday’s paper was as follows:
Despite an intensive search
throughout Western, Ontario ovex’
the week-end* no ti'ace has been
found of three men traveling in a
stolen dark LaSalle sedan, who
escaped after an exchange of shots
with provincial police early Satur
day morning, when discovered ran-,
sacking the Lucan drygoods store
operated by Duncan Ross, M.P.,
tor Middlesex Elast.
It is learned that at least one
shot was fired by a member of
the gang, and that it hit one of
the police patrol cars, jphe bullet
was only discovered after police
returned to London and it has3
not yet been examined to deter*
mine its calibre. Police believe
that at least two of the three
shots they fired may have struck
the car driven by the men. while
it sped away through a darkened
alley way.
Residents living near the store,
reported that the gang posted a
man outside with a rifle, and that
when he spotted the police car, fired
a shot, presumably in tho air, to,
warn his companions in the build
ing.
The value of the merchandise
stolen from the store is estimated
at several hundreds of dollars. A
near-by grocery store owned tty
George H. Paul, was also entered
and a quantity of cigarettes and
bananas stolen.
An alarm was- phoned to the Lon
don office of the provincial police
about J'-IS a.m. Saturday by Mrs,
Kathleen Ohown and Miss7 Clare
Vincent, who lives across the road
from the Ross store,, after they saw
lights in the store and :an auto park
ed in the laneway. The women crept
out the buck door of their home
and went to a neighiw’s to phone
the police.
Stop to Investigate
A police patrol car in the Lucan-
district at the time went through
the village before another police
car, in charge of provincial Con
stable Erie MacMillan with Pro
vincial Constable W. J. Carmichael,
raced to the scene from London.
The first car containing Provin
cial Constables Joseph Powell and
II, H, Graham cruised past the store
just in time to see one of 'the men
standing in front.* The constables
jumped out to Investigate, but the
thieves, with a couple of minutes’
start, raced away through the dark
ness towards the back street.
It Is thought that the shot which
hit the police car was fired just as
the thieves ran around the corner
to their waiting car.
Constable poweil, who was
closest to the fugitives, pumped
three bullets aftex1 the fleeing car,
and it is believed that at least two
of the shots may possibly have
struck it. Moments later the other
police car roared on the scene, and
despite an intensive search of the
district by bofh cars, the thieves
managed to elude the searchers.
Warning Shot
, It was reported that prior to the
arrival of the police, one of the
men, carrying a rifle, stood in front
of the store, and that when the
patrol car was spotted, fired a' shot
to warn his companions.
The trio fled in such haste that
they abandoned two cartons of silk
stockings in the laneway beside the
Ross store.
The gang is believed traveling in. *
&, stolen car. The neighbors who
gave the alarm reported It bore li
cense 221-2-L. Provincial police
in London, ’say that the auto is re
gistered in the name of John C. Nich
ols, 64 Old Forest iTxll road, To
ronto.
MAI41WMWW
A pretty July wedding was sol
emnised at Bt, Patrick's Church,
Dublin, when Miss Theresa Delaney,
deputy sheriff of Huron County,
fifth daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
James Delaney, of McKiTlop, was
united In marriage to Joseph Malone,
son of Mrs. Malone and the late
John T. Malone, of McKillop. Rev,
Dr. Ffouikes officiated and sang the
nuptial mass, with Miss Mary Reale,
presiding at the organ. Rev. Fath-,
er O’DroXvskl, of St. Coluxnban, oc
cupied a seat in the sanctuary, The
bride, given in marriage by her fa
ther, wore . a sheer street-length
1 gown of pink beige, with picture hat
and white accessories and corsage of
; cream' roses with delphinium. -She
was attended by her sister, Mrs,
Ren Blonde, or Chatham a recent
bride who wore a gown of precious’
aqua crepe with white accessories
and corsage of Talisman roses and
baby's breath,... Ben Blonde was
groomsman, During the offertory,
Miss Veronica Molyneaux sang
"Ave Maria," Immediately follow
ing the ceremony a reception was
held at the bride’s home, aftei’
which dipner was served at the
Royal Hotel, Mitchell, to 35 guests,
immediate relatives of the two
families, The tables were decor
ated with white delphinium. Mr.
and Mrs. Malone left on a honey
moon trip to Northern Ontario, and
on their return will reside on the
groom’s farm in McKillop.
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What this country needs today is
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ther than more leisure for men who
work,
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One pad kills "flies all day and every
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big pantries. ■
men were confined to ’ bar-
because they forgot to make
beds, or for some other of-
Beds—“Then and Now
weeks.
Depot.
leave,
that.
Neither’ .had
He had far
But • there
The majority
To an old soldier who had spent
many a night in Exhibition Camp
in 1916, sleeping ^n hard boards,
those beds seemear unreal. They
stretched in endless rows in every
direction., like the young stalks in
a field of corn — and each one
had springs and a mattress. But
my guide, Flight-Lieutenant R. L.
Phxley, Wing Adjutant, pointed
out ’that there were also ' white
sheets and pillow cases. Some of
the boys Who come in have never
used them before and keep them
carefully folded up under the mat
tresses all the time.
I sat in the. Adjutant’s office
while he explained to me just what
they do with the 'raw recruits
at, the Manning Depot to make
them, into creditable Aircraftsmen
in four weeks or so—drills, innocu-
lations, lectures and the like. A
knock'at the door interrupted the
talk and a< telegram was’ delivered.
It was from a wife with a foreigp-
sounding name, living out on the
prairies somewhere. ’She wanted
to know where her husband was:
she had not heard from him for
six or seven
the Manning
overstayed a
are few like
are keen to learn and get ahead.
If. not, they are soon Weeded out..
Once oi’ twice, two different
"wives" enquired about the same
man.
But, as I said, these are the ex
ceptions. The young man comes
to the Manning Depot in' 'Civilian
clothes with the most exciting weeks
of his life lying ahead. A few
are probably homesick ,at first,
thOtigh the Adjutant said lie had
no complaints along that line,—and
few about anything else „ in the^
camp. The -man gets his uniform
and.lils kit, I saw two men in brgpd-
new uniforms going Out th At after
noon and
Were.
In the
lures in
first drills.
duty1 for the future, air crews, with
lectufeSj drill and physical train
ing. Then the coming pilots Arid
gunners go out to various schools on
guard duty till there are Vacancies
at the initial Training schools. The
men of the ground crews stay three
or four Weeks, then go on to the
various trade schools.
Feeding Hie Five Thousand
Lunch time was past before I
went to tile Manning Depot.
I saw tlie dining-room, I was
I would have lifted- a meal
but there might have been
Plenty
Beside the
recreation room,
and reproductions of paintings of
Canada’s air heroes | qf Ahe last
war on the walls, There is a radio,
the gift of some friend, and writ
ing desks' here and there, I most
of them in. use that afternoon?
The theatre is in the north ebr-
ner of the Coliseum, and is has full-
sized stage,' the letters "R.'C.A.F1."
on the curtain the thousands of
seats. An electric, organ provides
the music. Current moving pictures
are shown there several times a
week. M \
The arena where >the horses per
formed during the Winter Fail’ week
is used for games. At first it was
left with the . tanbark floor till an
epidemic of colds cast suspicion
on the tanbark. Now -there’s
new asphalt floor in the
the colds have Ceased,
different games were in
there^that afternoon.-
The day begins at Manning De
pot at six o’clock, with physical
training for half an\ houi’ before,
breakfast. At 8.30, there is the
first parade, with drill till' 11.30.
An hour and a quarter is allowed
for lunch, followed by more drill
from 1.15 to 4.J0. Supper is over
by 6 o’clock. The evenings are free,
except for some lectures given by
college instructors on mathematics
to brush up the future- air crew
members, who will need their trig
onometry and algebra again,
A .month at Manning Depot and
the future pilot or gunner is ready
to ?go to. the initial Training School,
which is one of the most fascinat
ing branches of -the ROyal Canadian
Air Force.
of Recreation.
dining-room is thfe (
with easy chairs
a
ring and
, Several
progress
Next Week—Initial Training School
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a proud looking pair they
first Week, there are lec-
service methods and the
After that comes guard
Granton. W. I.
A donation of $5 was voted to the
Queen’s Fund by the Granton W.I.
,at the meeting which honored mem
bers who are grandmothers. Pldhs
were made to make a wreath for
Decoration Day on August 1% and
Mrs. J. Forrest and Mrs, iC. Gof“
titt were appointed the committee
in charge. Arthur-Gibson, of Trin
ity College, Toronto, Was the guest
speaker, addressing the institute on
/‘Historical Research/’ Mrs; H.
Coxon* presided and the progi’am
included readings by Mrs. A, Knox,
Mrs, J. Knox, and Mrs* C, Gorvitt,
and musical numbers by Mrs. A.
Berryhill, Mrs. Aves and a trio
of little girls representing a grand
mother, a mother tad a daughter,
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A NATIONAL EMERGENCY
Canada is right up against an acute shortage of gasoline^ and fuel oiL
Tankers that normally supply our country have been commandeered for
vitally important overseas service. f
The Commonwealth Air Training Plan, the rapid development of Cana’da*s
mechanized army units and thp great work carried on by our corvettes
make the demand for fuel urgent
Ofir crude oil intake Ss limited. There is just one thing
to Ho if pur fighting forces are to carry on with cr "full
tank". Every Canadian motorist is asked to cut his
daily gas consumption in
half!
When
sorry,
there,
com-
Wally: "Gee^ pep* there’s a man
in the circus whb jumps oh la
imrse’a back,
catches hold of Its tail and finishes
tip on the horse’s iieok,v Father:
"That’s nothing, I did ail that the
first time I ever rode a horse/’
Mips underneath,
Canada does not ask or request you to put your car
up. She merely asks for your help ».» asks that you
walk sometimes when the distance isn't too great» H *>
There are many ways by
which this 50% saving can
be made » . » ways and
means to . give you more
mileage per gallon. You can
drive slower so that you will
use lesis gasoline* You can
go fifty-fifty with your
neighbours, inviting each
other 40 share cars . . * for
business* and for pleasure,
people call readily go to
an4 from work together*
usijxg one Par instead of
four *.. using one gallon of
gasoline instead of several.
Women as well as meh can
make these savings*
The amount p£ gasoline used
in Canada tor business,
Social and non-essential
activities is amazingly high
in proportion to that used
by oar lighting forces* One
look at the figures would
convince you that this
situation must be reversed.
17easy ways towards a
GASOLINE
SAVING
that you take a shorter'drive
on Sunday afternoon». - that
you look after your car and
keep it in good condition « • «
that you say to your neigh
bour: ’‘'Let's use my par
today, Jim; we'll use yours
tomorrow."
4 (Approved by Automobile Experts')
Reduce driving speed from 60 io 40 on the open rottd*
Avoid jack-rabbit starts.
Avoid useless or non-essential driving.
Turn motor off when not in use, do not leave idling.
Don’t race your engine; let it warm up slowly.
Don't strain your engine; change gears!*
Keep carburetor cleaned and properly adjusted.
Tune up, motor, timing, etc.
Keep spark plugs arid valves clean.
Check cooling system; overheating wasted gasoline.
Maintain tires al right pressure*
Lubricate efficiently: worn engines Waste gasoline*
Drive in groups to and from work, using
ears alternate days.
For golf* picnics arid other outings,
* use one car instead of four.
Take these Short shopping trips ON FOOT
arid Carry parcels home.
Walk to and from the movies.
Boat owners, tori, can help by reducing speed.
Your regular service station man will gladly explain
these and other ways of saving gasoline. Consult him.
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Every day# in greater and
greater quemtiiy, we must
release gasoline and oil by
the thousands of gallons io
our throbbing munitions
plaints . .. to our tonics and
armoured cars . to our
fighting planes and bombers
, . , to our corvettes and
merchant ships that ply the
vital sea-Icmes « . » so that
the day of victory may
sooner be at hand
GO 50/50 WITH OUR F1GHTIHG FORCES
it is also vitally iifrportaUt
that you reduce the use of
domestic and commercial
fuel oil»
The Goverttmemi of the
DOMINION OF CANADA.
acting through
THE HONOURABLE C. D. HOWE, Minister of Munitions and Supply
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G. R. COTTRELtE, Oil Controller for Canada
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