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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1942-04-23, Page 1fl * ( 1 fft A each 49c « ESTABLISHED 1878 36is Ladies’ Misses’ and Girls’ summer ankle socks are now in stock.Watson each 95c each 19c Phone 32 9c V. Fletcher, this for that the that outlined the work following the blitz No sooner had the LOCAL MEN CALLED FOR ' MEDICAL EXAMINATION MANY TAKING COURSE IN RED CROSS WORK No less than 22 adults and school girls have signed for courses sponsored by the local Red. Gross under the leadership of Mrs, Weekes. A vacant room in the public school’has been furnished with beds and will be used by ten graduate McFalls, Hyndman, Mrs. M. EXETER COUNCIL The the only connecting link Cocoa Door Mats Nice size ................. Pork & Beans 9 9Cp ‘Large 20~oz. tins, limited quantity** French’s Prepared Mustard 6-oz. jars ............... ♦............ Kellogg’s All-Bran Large packages ........................ Ladies’ and Misses’ Dresses Ladies’ and Misses’ figured Celanese dresses, sizes 16’ to 44, are real value this month at $2.95 each. EXETER, ONTARIO, THURSDAY MORNING, APRIL 23rd, 1942 Linoleums—Owing to the extreme shortage of materials used in the making of linoleums, particularly jute and cork, it is anticipated! this floor covering will be very hard to get in the near future. At present we have a large stock of 2, ,3 and 4 yard widths in the new spring patterns, all at the same price as a year ago. These are selling fast so place your order soon. We have a* very large range of congoleums, feltols, in rugs and by the yard—cur tain nets—made-up curtains—curtain rods—window blinds and draperies at very attractive prices Window blinds, 37in. wide, plain green and plain cream, very slightly imperfect. On sale at 85c and $1.00 each. These ar e good quality. Large size linoleum rugs, sizes lOVaft. x 12 ft., 12ft. x 12ft. and 12ft. x 15ft. slightly imperfect. On sale at real bargain prices We have a large range of spring coats for Ladies’ Misses’ and Girls’, featuring re gular, extra large and half-sizes. Our prices are very reasonable Ladies’ and Misses’ blouses, plain colors including white, while they last at $1.00 ea. Ladies’ fine silk lisle hosiery—new spring, shades—sizes 9 to lOVa 90c a pair. iiiiininiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiHiiiiiiiiuiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiHHiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiioiiiiiiiii Special Values for Thursday, Friday, Saturday ” St. Williams Strawberry Jam 9 1 32-ounce jars ..............................'„Cdvll tdAC Aylmer Soups Vegetable or Tomato, LO-oz. tin .. Canned-Apples Aarh 1 Choice quality, large 28-oz, tins ***** Nabob Coffee 1-lb. bags, a popular blend. Your Superior Store illllllllllllllllllllilllllllllllllNIIIIIIIIIIIN JI iij ------14 lovely shades to choose from------- quarts 75c pints 45c Va pints 25c H pints 15c JUST ARRIVED—Another shipment of Oil Brooders POULTRY SUPPLIES Founts, Feeders, Chick Charcoal, Chick Grit, Dr Roe*s, Pioneer and Purina Chick Starters, Chick Grow Mash that really makes them grow Oil Brooders, Electric Brooders, Coal Brooders I.O.O.F. DIVINE SERVICE The members, of Exeter Lodge, No. 67, I.O.O.F., will attend Divine Service in Thames Road United church on Sunday, April 26th, at 7.30 pan. Speaker, Rev. Wm. Mair. Members and visitors are request ed to meet at the lodge room at 6.45 pan. The third degree will be exempli fied next Tuesday night. J. B. PRYDE, N.G. E. R. HOPPER, Sec. See the new Eectric Fence .$15.00 V1GRO The square meal for all plants, for new and old lawns flowers and vegetables* shrubs and hedges, trees. Sold in 5 1b., 10 1b.* 25 1b., -50 1b. and 100 lb. lots ■Feed everything you grow with Vigro ROYAL PURPLE GARDEN SEEDS 7 pkgs, for 25c RED CROSS NEWS The treasurer, Mr. W. J. Floyd, wishes to make the following ac knowledgments: Grediton Unit, S.S. No. 2, Stephen, sale of quilt, $14.10; Centralia Un it, memberships, $6.00; Lions Club Salvage Campaign, (pei* Exetei” War •Time Unit, Unit, ville Trivitt Traquair’s Hardware TINSMITHING PLUMBING SIGN WORK '<l||||||||||||||||||||||||l||llllll|IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIH Wednesday, July Sth. Mr. G« W, Board), $9/8.90; Elimville sale of quilt, $30.63; Elimville Mi% Prior, quilt, $4.00; Elim- Uiiit,’ collection, etc., $8.90; Memorial church Unit, euchre party, $20.1'0; James St. church Unit, Red Cross Service, April 20, $64.44. Monday, Apr. 20, 1942 The regular meeting of the Muni cipal Council of the Village of Exeter was held in the town hall with Reeve Tuckey and all Coun cillors present with the exception of Councillor Dignan, who is still ill. The minutes of the regulai” meeting of April 7 th, were read and. adopted on the motion of Council lors Taylor and Southcott. Communications were read and dealt with as follows: Frank P, Gibbs, acknowledging receipt of 1941 audit fees, Filed. County of Huron re hospitaliza tion of indigent patients. Filed. Department of Municipal Affairs re provincial subsidy. Filed. Huron County Ploughing Match committee acknowledging grant. Filed. Office of Fire Marshall, Toronto, urging attendance of representa-. tives from the local fire brigade at the Firemen’s Training School to be held at the University of Wes tern Ontario May 7th and ’8th, 1942. The Council felt that representa tives from Exeter should be present and asked the Chief to take up the matter with the members of the brigade. Expenses will be defray ed by the Council. The Navy League of Canada, in forming the Council that Mr. R. N. Creech had been named to organize the Tag Day’to be held in Exe ter on May 30th,|1942. Filed, A request froqi the Exeter Dist rict War Time Board, that Council accept ' ■ responsibility making arrangements to ensure everyone qualified votes at forthcoming Plebiscite. Also the Council use all its influence to make the vote unanimous “Yes”. It was moved by Councillors Tay lor and Sou.thcott and carried Un animously, that this Council accept the responsibility for getting out the vote on the day of the Plebiscite and now go on record as being strongly in favor of a “Yes” vote. Also that the Reeve issue a procla mation calling upon all qualified citizens to vote and to vote “Yes”. It was moved and seconded by Councillors Hern and Southcott that a garbage collection be made on Tuesday and Ws^hesday April 28 and 29, and that notice to this effect be inserted in the Times-Advocate. The building committee was giv en instructions to continue the ne cessary repairs to the town hall. The matter of repairs to sidewalks was discussed. It was reported that this work would be commenced with in the next three weeks. The following accounts were read and ordered paid on motion of Coun cillors Southcott and Hern: The Western Assurance Co., W. C. Pearce, fire premium, town ’ hall, $9.33; County of Huron, hospital ization, $21.00; John Cox, snow ploughing, $2.5'0; William Andrew, labor, streets, $26.85j S. Winer, trucking, $15.75; John Stire, labor, streets, $-23.36; Walter Cutbush, repairs, town hall, $21.00. All motions were carried. Ad journment was moved by Council- loi- Hern. C. V. Pickard, Clerk, THE LATE ERNEST ELLIOT LARGE CONGREGATION FOR RED CROSS SERVICE That Exeter is Red Cross minded evidenced by the large congrega tion present for the Sunday evening service in James St. United church, It was further hacked up by the statement of Major Watson, field secretary, the speaker of the even ing, who, on congratulating Mrs. N. J. Dore and her splendid staff of j nurses to demonstrate in the courses officers and workers, stated that I he questioned if there is an organ ization of its kind in the province of Ontario. During the past year the Exeter district had raised $4,000 in one way and another and the amount and quality of the work accomplished was evidence that the women of this community had been very active. The Sunday evening service was a union meeting of the churches of town and the large auditorium in James St. was pretty well filled. Rev. Mr, Page was in charge of the service and Rev. N. J. Woods was on the platform and led in prayer. An anthem was sung by the choir and a quartette by Mrs. Robt ertson, Miss P. Wood, Mrs. E. Lin denfield and Mrs. P. McFalls. At the request of the Exeter War Time Board, the president, Dr. R. H. Taylor, of Dashwood, made a plea for support of the plebiscite to be voted pn next Monday. He urg ed all, for the sake of theii' homes, their boys, their girls and their church, to go out next Monday and register a “yes” Vote. Party affili ations -should be forgotten and a record vote polled to impress upon the government of Canada that noth ing short of an all-out effort to win the war is what the people of Exe ter district are anxious J:o see. Major Watson was introduced to the audience by Mrs. Dore. He told of the great work the Red Gross is doing'. The Red Cross is supported by voluntary contributions and in spite of the fact that there was no direct financial appeal last year the society had been able to ■ carry on their work. For some time now 40,000 food parcels have been ship ped from Canada each week to pris oners of war. Each parcel costs approximately $2.50. The Red Cross is between us and our prisoners of war. Major of the Red Cross on Coventry, all-clear signal sounded than the Red Cross were on the ground to render every assistance. Quilts from Canada were greatly appreciat ed. He also emphasized the im portance of the Blood Donors’ Clin ic at London and this work is in strumental in saving many lives. Following his address Major Wat son showed several motion pictures of the blitz on Lon-dMi and the var ious activities of the ■air’ force, the coastal defence, mine-layers and mine-sweepers at work. The pic tures were very interesting. A col lection was taken for the Red Cross and amounted to $64.44. in home and emergency pursing. The ten for Exeter are Mrs. Geo- Wright, Mrs. A. Page, Mrs J. G. Dunlop, Mrs. W. D, Sanders, Mrs. P. Miss Ballantyne, Mrs. C. Mrs. Lounds, Miss M. E. Tape, of the high school staff, lectures on dietetics, Drs. H, H. Gowan and G. F. Roulston will give the dental training and Dr. Fletcher and Dr. Dunlop, the infant feeding and com municable diseases. For the vicinity the following graduate nurses will participate: Mrs, Eugene Tieman, for Dashwood; Mrs. Gerald Zwicker, for Grediton; Mrs. Ross Hern, for Zion; Mrs. J. Delbridge, for Elimville. In Exeter the lectures will keep the room in use daily for some weeks to come. RETURNS FROM OVERSEAS * Lieut. Donald Gladman, who a few months ago went overseas with the Perth Regiment (Motors) A.F., surprised his relatives and friends when he arrived in town the first part of this week. Lieut. Gladman has been transferred to Canada: and will be attached as an instruc tor to the Fusiliers now stationed at Niagara-on-the-Lake. They had a great trip coming home. At dif ferent times submarines were spot ted but the convoy was able to out manoeuvre them. DIED IN THE WEST Mr. Wm. J. Ryckman received a message on Friday morning of the death of his youngest brother, Phil ip, in his sixty-sixth year. He was born in Michigan and lived there un til he was fourteen years of age, when his parents moved to Hibber.t township. a few years later he ^went West and took up farming in t-he Drinkwater district, later re tiring to Moose Jaw. Surviving are his wife, formerly Miss Amy Dew,-, of Hurondale, also two brothers,. Edward, of Vancouver; Wm. J., of Exeter, and one sister, Mrs. George Van Horne, of Clinton. A number of young men from Exe ter have received notice from the military % authorities to report for a medical 'examination. Five notices were received on Tuesday and three or. four times that number were re ceived on Wednesday. Included in the list are a number of married men. A CALL TO VOTE AND TO VOTE <(YES” Early in th© present war period, when a Dominion election was the Premier of Canada and later the then leader of the opposition pro- mised the people of Canada that a selective system*-of manpower would not be introduced for overseas ser* a vice. That was in1 the days of the so-called phoney war, where France was expected to- be a real military power,* when -the Maginot line was expected to hold against all attacks, when no one surmised that tanks and airplanes, would take on such- an important role in the conduct of war, when Italy and Japan were only silent partners of the Nazis, when Denmark, Norway, Belgium and Holland, Greece and Jugoslavia were still free nations;. when no per sons thought that Canada or United States could possibly be attacked. Events since that time have happen ed at a furious tempo. Things have -happened that were not even thought of, let alone considered a possibility—all the nations mention ed have fallen before the terrific fighting power of the enemy. Japan and Italy are in the war against us and Japan has had remarkable sue* sess in the South (Pacific and in Burma. Our own country is threat ened and if we want to keep the war away from Canada we must give the Government of Canada the right, if the need arises, to do our (Continued on Page Four) ATTENTION As warden of the County of Hur on I hereby urge that all electors in the County of Huron .exercise their franchise on the Plebiscite vote which will be held on Monday, Ap* ril 27th. It is necessary that a “Yes” vote be recorded so that our Government will 'be relieved of theii” pledge and in a position to wage an all-out war. A “Yes” vote at the forthcoming Plebiscite is a vote foi” a United Canada. To stay away from the polls is paramount to voting “No”. Use your fran chise and vote. GEO. ARMSTRONG, Warden, County of Huron PROCLAMATION TO THE CITIZENS OF EXETER I have been instructed,' by your Municipal Council, to urge you all, as loyal citizens of the Village of Exeter, to avail-your selves of the opportunity of helping our Country by voting at the forthcoming Plebiscite. I have been further instructed to ask each and every -one to vote “YES” so ' that we may let our government know that we are unanimously behind them in an all-out effort to bring this war to a sucessful conclusion. (Signed) • B. W. TUCKEY,’ Reeve God Save the King ILDERTON LADY DIES Mrs. S. R. Prebble, of Ilderton, a native of Cromarty, died in St. Jo seph’s Hospital, London, on Satur day, April 17th, following an ill ness of two weeks with influenza. Mrs. Prebble, whose maiden name was Jean Hamilton, was a daugh ter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Francis R. Hamilton, of Exeter, and was in her 59th year. She was born at Cromarty.and twenty-one years ago she was married to her now bereav ed husband, who with a family of four children, Frank, Agnes, Rich ard and Jean, mourn the loss of a kind and mother. Hamilton, of Thornhill, Man.; Wil liam, of Cromarty; Andrew of- Exe ter, and one sister, Mrs. Wm. Sil- lery, also survive. The funeral was held Monday from1 the United church at Ilderton, conducted by Rev. F. E. Clysdale. Interment was in Mt. i Pleasant cemetery, London. A num-| ber of relatives from this commun-• ity attended the funeral. [ affectionate wife and Three brothers, Albert I PUPILS FOR FARM LABOR Ninety-one pupils of the Exeter High School tried examinations to leave school to do farm work and of these seventy-six either -passed in all subjects or failed in not more than two and hence would not lose their year even if the two papers were not completed at midsummer. It is expected that many of them will write off theii’ papers at mid summer. The time-table will appear in the Times-Advocate. The num ber leaving by forms are: Grade 13 10; Grade 12 “ ‘ " Grade 10. Grade 9A, 11. PROCLAMATION I hereby call on all citizens of the Township of Usborne to vote Mr. Ernest Elliot, a life-long re sident of' Exeter, passed away Thursday of lash week at his home just south of the village. Mr. El liot a few weeks ago suffered from pneumonia, and was recuperating nicely when he passed away from a heart condition. He was in his 79 th year. Born and educated in Exeter, he was a Son of the late Benjamin V. Elliot, who for many years was a prominent barrister of Exeter. The deceased was a con veyancer. He was quiet and retir ing and highly respected by all who enjoyed his acquaintance, unmarried. Of a family children there are two brothers, Herbert, of Sask, in Exeter and of Haileybury, private funeral home Saturday ed by Rev. M. Memorial chhrch, of which the de ceased was a faithful member. The pallbearers were Messrs, Taylor, Wilbur Martin, J. W. Mor ley, Harry Smith, G. A. Hawkins and Dan Dew. Interment was in the Exeter cemetery. Among those who attended the funeral wei*e Mr. and Mrs. Norman Devitt, Toronto; Mr. and to and Queen’s I The executive of the Exeter Dist rict Red Cross, the nurses teaching in the home nursiilg course ahd the students taking the course are ask ed to assemble outside of the Trivitt Memorial church at 10.45 next Sun day morning to attend worship with the Middlcsex-Hufbiis. He was of eleven surviving Yorktoh, 12 16; Grade 11, Grade 9B, - -•> 14; 13; HENSALL RESIDENT SPENT j THREE DAYS IN LIFEBOAT on April 27. the Govern- a stumbling Vote to re at home’’. there Herbert. who has spent the winter Frederick, formerly now of Exeter. A was held from the afternoon conduct- A. Hunt, of Trivitt EXETER LIONS CLUB their Hector Mrs. J. B« Wallace, Toron- Gifford B. King, of the Own Rifles, Toronto. has been received fromWord ____ ___ Pilot Officer Ralph Delbrldge, who has been in England for several weeks, that he had volunteered for the East and was being transferred th that theatre of war. EXETER RACKS JULY Sth Arrangements are being made for LaWsou is the secretary, the holding of the Exeter races on The Exeter Lions Club held regular meeting in the Central Ho tel on Friday evening of last week. A report from Lion Secretary Jas. Bowey revealed that 6,300 British children are now being cared, for through the Lions British Children’s War Victims* fund. Twenty-five hundred of these children are un der 5 years of age. The amount of money raised in Canada was $44,- 316.67. Of this ambunt the Exe tei* club cohtributed $413.90. It costs $120 a year to support one child. A number of pictures of the children how under the care of the Lions clubs were cir culated. Lions Art Harris and Earl Hichols, of London, were guests of the club and Jiut oh a very inter esting quiz program. Delegates were appointed to attend the Lions In ternational convention which meets in Toronto in July. Mr. and Mrs. John Kaiser, of Hensail, were visited by their son, Jack Kaiser, who has been work ing in South Africa for the past two years as representative of Chrysler Motors, at Detroit. While he was returning home, the boat he was sailing on was tonpedbed at both sides. Jack was able to get into a lifeboat as the ship started to sink. It was in this lifeboat that a baby was born while waves 15 feet high tossed the small craft about ill the heavy sea. Jack and his companions worked continually bailing the water out, He was in the lifeboat from Sunday until Wednesday. On arriving at Norfolk, Virginia, he was taken to a hospital for some days. Jack said the captain’s lifeboat was blown to pieces and the cap tain was later rescued from a raft. Jack also saw boats capsized, and people drowned before his eyes. He said It was a terrible experience, one from which he has not yet recov ered, and one he wishes to try and forgot. He is still suffering from the shock and exposure. "YES’* on the Plebiscite Past pledges of ment may prove block to Victory, lieve them. “DO not remain It is our duty and Privilege ■ to help along in every way. Vote “Yes’*. PERCY PASSMORE, Reeve of Usborne Anyone willing to drive their car for one trip or more on VOTING DAY 8 a.m. to 8p.pt, please leave their nartie at Tuckey Transport Office by Saturday night* April 25th Your kind co-operation is solicited. Thank You. a