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Letters from Overseas
Exeter District Wai’ Time
has recently received many
and cards from the boys
I, acknowledging the re
The
Board
letters
overseas,
ceipt of tobacco sent early in March
and parcels of comforts sent late
in the same moiitlx. All thank the
Board and people back home for
their kindness in sending these
comforts and say that the choice of,
articles could not be improved upon, <
as the various contents of the par- I
cels are very hard, if not impossible !
jjo 'buy in England. Letters receiv
ed- were from L.Bdr. G. O. Desjar-
d'ine,
aid A.
of Grand Bend; Driver Ger-
Masse, of Dashwood; Tpr.
W. C. Cutting, of Exeter; Sapper
D. W. Pritchard, of Grand Bend;
Pte. J. C. Brintnell, of Exeter; Tpr.
Sidney J. Stire, of Exeter; Pte. Nor
man H. Sanders, of Exeter; Trooper
Sam Bower, of Zion;. Ordinary Sea
man John Duncan, of Usborne; Pte.
Wesley Ballantyne, of Usborne;
Pte. W. H. Dickey, of Elimville;
Gnr. Leonard J. Wein, of Crediton;
L.Opl. Lester L. Allen, of Thames
Road; ;
borne;
Exeter;
Eexter;
• Thames
bridge,
Bartie Motz, of Exeter.
Signalman Reg. Taylor, of Exe
ter, says he holds the record on
parcels in his company and the oth
er boys want to know just where
this place Exeter is where' all the
parcels come from, and how come
he rates so high on the lovely boxes.
Reg, says he shares the contents
and his companions insist on send
ing their thanks to the people back
home.
Spr. Gordon Squire, of Us-
Sgnm. Chester Gornish, . of
Tpr. Andrew Bierling, of
0. Tel. Stuart W. Mair, of
. Road; Capt. J. 0. Falcon-
of Centralia-; Sgt. Pilot
* -Signalman Ronald F. Gollings, of
Usborne, says he likes England
very much, perhaps because all his
relatives are there. He says: “Tell
the boys to join the signals, as
there has not been a day I have
not learned something. I am now in
the electrical branch, checking and
maintaining wireless equipment. I
see Andy Bierling, Roy Kirk, Leland
Jory, Doug Gould, Sid Stires and
'Everett Pollen almost every week.
Flight Sgt. Lorne Howey, of Exe
ter says -he-is now in an all-Canadian
squadron and i,t is great to be with
our own boys. He has
moted to Fit. Sgt., and
ron is one of the best.
Pte. W. J. ’Servant,
says: “This is my third spring in
England and the flowers are won
derful. I am on a big estate where
the stable used to house thirty race
horses, and the garage was for six
cars. We live in the stable and
dine in the garage.’
Sergeant Andy M. Easton, of Exe
ter, says that coffee was wonderful.
“I wish we could get the war ovex’
so I could get back to Exeter and
the little family again. I receive
the ‘Southcott Special’ all the time
so that I get most of the news. I
have taken a commando course and
now I hope to be on one of the raids.
You notice I got a promotion.”
Local boys who have recently ac
knowledged the gift of sweater -and.
socks from the War Time Board are
Earl Coultis, of Elimville, now at
Lachine, Que.; Austin Fahrner, of
Crediton, now at London; Gerald
Masse, of Dashwood, now in Eng
land; Burton Green, of Grand Bend,
now in Hamilton; Jack Cutting, of
Exeter,
Lake.
been ipro-
his squad-
of Exeter,
now at Niagara-on-the-
B. C. Shingles
iWe have piles of them on hand.
They are No. 1-XXXXX Best
Grade.
THE PRICE IS RIGHT.
iWe expect a car load of High
land CEDAR POSTS'this week.
Ordained to Priesthood
4Rev. Gordon Dill, of Dublin, will
be ordained to the priesthood at
St. Peter’s Cathedral, London, by
his excellency, Bishop Kidd, on
Saturday, May 30th, and will cele
brate his first Solemn High Mass at
St. Patrick’s church, Dublin, on Sun
day, May-31st. He is the youngest
son of Mr. and .Mrs. Peter Dill.
A. J. CLATWORTHY
Phone 12 Grariton
We Deliver
Engagement Announced
Mr. Hubert Hodgins, of Granton,
has announced the engagement of
his second daughter, .Ellen Eileen,
to Stanley Gordon Crawford, young
er son of Mrs. D. C. Crawford, of
Granton, the marriage to take place
June 4.
A Help to Those Who
Are Past Middle Age
" When men and women get past middle age their
energy and activity, in many instances, begin to de
cline, aixd their general vitality is on the wane.
.. Little ailments and sicknesses Seem harder to
shake off than formerly, and, here and there, evidences
of a breakdown begin to appear. ... ,
Now is the time those wishing to help maintaxn their health and vigour
should take a course of Milburn’s Health and Nerve Pills. ..
They help tone up and invigorate the patient by their-tonic action on
the system.
Price 50 c a box, 05 pills, at all drug counters.
Look for our trade mark a “Red Heart” on the package.
The T, Milburn Co., Limited, Toronto, Ont,
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We don’t know where it
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It’s a long, long way to Tipperary,
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The weather people' seem to have got conditions badly mixed.
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Frost or no frost, the season is passing. Midsummer day is
just round the corner.* * * * * * ♦ *
To reach one’s journey’s end depends not so much upon the
pace as upon the start,
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And there came the killing frost,
came from or why it came, hut it came.ft < ft -ft ft. ft.
The boldest may well hold his breath as portentous events pass
by us. What of the issue in Russia? What of the conflict in the
Pacific? What if frost and drouth do their work? What if the
action or the inaction of Mackenzie King means a divided Canada?* * * * * * * »
, Word has come that some private parties are trying to have
the gasoline companies permit a getting by on the gasoline and oil
regulations. We remind all parties so thinking that the penalty for
violating the fuel and -oil regulations is intended to be so heavy that
it approaches the point of ruin. A very heavy fine with the possi
bility of a jail term is a ipoor return for a joy ride, The government
buzz saw is better let severely alone.ft * * ft ft *
WELL DONE, BOYS 4
Many favorable comments are made on the way the boys of
the town are collecting the papers and such articles. The work
is well done, without inconvenience to anybody,
like step about those youngsters that is good to see.
upon the materials set out for them and are gone before
say Jack Robinson. All of which augurs well for the boys
the state.
There is a business-
Tixey fall
one can
and for
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WHY NOT BE THOROUGH?
who knows the gravity of the rubber and ,
favour of salvaging every scrap of rubber and every
Everything imust be cut to the bone in the
Why then, the wastage of rubber
gasolineEveryone
situation is in
ounce of gasoline,
interest of winning the war. , .
and gasoline in the transportation of commodities that lower human
efficiency and which do not contribute one iota to national success
in the present struggle of life with death? Why not, too, a more
rigid economy in the transportation of the army of inspectors which
has emerged with the war?Kt nr
THE GERMAN LABOUR METHOD
Hitler proposes a pool of the labour of Europe. Under his
proposed way of doing things all working men will be bundled to-
gethex’ to be sent wherever it seenxs best fox’ the big fellow to send
them. Labour may be in an office one day. The next day he may
be out with pick and Shovel. Oxxe -day he may be practising law.
In a week he may be digging out a river bed. Freedom will have
vanished. Slavery will have come. The savings of a lifetime will
be put at the disposal of some favourite who never did a -day's work
in his life. When one is no longer1 able to toil profitably for the
state, old age or weakness of body or xnind will be cured by a jab
from a bayonet.31
are being made for
the corner stone of
the new united church at Grand
Bend.
Mr. Chas. Acheson, of the Bank
of Montreal, London, is holiday
ing tor a cowpie of weeks under the
parental roof,
Mr. Mark Mitchell, has moved
from the hotel and has opened up
a barber shop just south of the
mill in Centralia.
Mr. J. G, Stanbury is in Belle
ville this week engaged in court
work. Mr. Melville F. Gladman, of
London, is looking after
here.
Grant—Clark—At the
United church parsonage
day, May 12th, 1927, Marjorie pe-
lina Clark, eldest daughter of Mr,
and Mrs, H. C. Clark to Mr. George
McBain Grant, eldest son of Mr.
and Mrs. J, S. Grant, of Exeter, by
Rev. D. McTavish.
the office
James St.
on Thurs-
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25 YEARS AGO
Mr. William Andrew has taken
over- the agency of the R. J. Wat
kins Medical Co., of Minnesota, Mi’.
Andrew was agent for the same
company in the West.
Word was received here on May
17th that Major W, J. Heaxnan and
others of the 161st battalion are
returning home about the 1st of
June, having been permitted to re
sign.
Mrs. John Snell and her daugh
ter, Mrs. Clarence Smith, of Wind
sor, who have been spending a few
months *at Des Moines, Iowa and
St. Petersburg, Florida, returned
home last week.
This district was visited by a
severe storm on Saturday afternoon.
The lightning struck the James St.
church tower and ripped off a num
ber of bricks and two window
frames. Considerable damage
done throughout the -district,
50 YEARS AGO
was
• 71 Years of Security to Policyo^^ * 1942
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F. J. DELBR1DGE, Representative EXETER
Totally!) isabled
YOU may have heard some people say
this. What they actually rear is not
the total disability so much as the fact
that they may become a, financial burden
to others.
Why should you be a burden to others?
Confederation Life policies can be obtained
with the Total Disability Monthly Income
Benefit.
The Confederation Life is one of the few
companies still issuing policies with this
Total Disability Monthly Income Benefit,
Write for further particulars.
Before You Insure Consult
Association
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CLEAN UP AS YOU GO
“Clane up as ye go!” was the command an Irish business man
ager gave to all under him. Woe was the dooin of any who slack
ed under lxis direction. At every stage of the work each worker
was required to have everythixxg in such shape that another worker
could readily begin where he had left off or where he might be. re
quired to quit the task. So it must be with Canadians this hour.
All this talk of what we’ll do when the wax1 is over is very -much to
one side of the question. .We must consolidate as we go along. We #
must leave no slack places in the way we are making, We first must ‘
be secure -before all else. We are moved forward by a mighty
force not ourselves. Till, undex’ God, we come to something like
masjery, we had better get our present job well <don.e, Dreaxning
will' not get us anywhere.• ft******
RATIONING STORES
Down there in St. Thomas there is serious talk of the govern
ment’s rationing hardware stores. The board that looks after such
matters says that the good city has t.oo many hardware stores and
that some of them will have to go. And there you are again. Still
others will soon be telling that we have too many grocery stores
and so on all down the line. What is going to be done about the
situation? We’re not prepared to say. We 'do know this, that inter
ference with individual liberty is a ticklish business, when it comes
to say who is to carry on a lawful business. Folks must be allowed
to rush in where angels fear to tread. That’s the only way to find
out who are wise and who are otherwise. Just now, when inter
national affairs have unsettled everything, would it not be prudent
to leave certain, matters to the test of circumstances? Sometimes
we think that a whole lot of boards would do well to go to sleep of
a fine night and forget'to wake up.********
THE PEOPLE WANT IT
Church courts are passing strong resolutions dealing with the
liquor situation. Indeed, they have been doing so for a consider
able length of time. They simply could not do otherwise. But
what we draw attention to is the fact that many people want the
liquor and insist upon having it, government or no government,
church courts or no church courts, law oi' no law. Further, we
point out that there is a cause that induces men to put an enemy
into their mouths that results in their total 'undoing. What is the
'cause? What lies in behind this practice that results in evil and
only evil? . How does it come about that the youth of the land are
caught in a practice that has cast down so many mighty? Why
is it that men and women of the finest mental and spiritual parts
with minds informed on the consequences of the habitual use of
liquor, enter upon a style of living that ends for so many in. but
one way, in destruction? Church courts have this grave question
thrust upon them. Until their cause is removed, churches and legis
latures will legislate in vain against the liquor traffic. -■***'♦*♦* 4
WAR’S REALITY
Since 1915 we have heard Canadians say what they 'would
do were Canada attacked by a foreign foe. The time has come for
those who talked in this way to stop talking and to express them
selves in deeds, fox* Canada has been attacked by a foreign foe in
Canadian waters. As her sailors and merchantmen went about their
lawful work the foe arttacked them in the waters Of the noble "St.
Lawrence. What will the talkers do about it now? AU North
America wonders. We’ll not be surprised to hear that shells fall
in Montreal, .in Quebec. We have been told that all precautions
have been taken to protect our shores. It seems that the precau
tions have been inadequate. It is now the solemn duty of those
who hitherto have failed to -lift a finger in Canada’s -defence to take
care of this invading fleet that hourly threatens to become stronger.
The majority of Canadians Were in favour of keeping
snakes of the seas out of the St. Lawrence. It is
said they would fight them, should they come to
clear them
should lead
g those rattle-
up to those who
Canada, now to
their supportersout of oui' waters. Those rioters and
the van in a duty so imperative.* 4 * * + ft * a
THEIR POINT OF VIEW
interest have we in Europe?” a French-Canadian asked
us the other day. “The battle of the Plains of Abraham was a small
battle at best. At any rate it- left the French-Canadians right here.
When the Treaty of Paris was made, the wealthy and the aristocratic
among our people left us to go back to France. Wo might starve
for all they eared. All we could do was to go to work
our own church, our own schools, our homes and our
doing business. Canada became ours and ours it will
were the first -to come and we‘11 be the last to leave,
and so he evidently thought. Ontario,, fox’ him, was __ ,
It is but a province lying alongside of the real Canada, ___
Brunswick and Nova Scotia are in the same subordinate position to
Quebec. The French-Canadian does not care to be disturbed. The
life portrayed by Dr, Drummond is sufficient for him. What the
French-Canadian seems not to see is that forces are abroad that
will not leave him alone. Conditions not after his liking and not
according to his asking are forcing themselves upon him. Were it
not for his English-speaking fellow-citizens, he would this hour be
tasting those conditions with all their pains and frightfulness. He
must see that he must hang with the rest of Canadians, or be hanged
apart from them by our common enemy,
'Wliat
We built
own way of
remain. We
” So he said
not Canada.
New
KIRKTON W.L MEETING
At the annual meeting held recent
ly at the home of Dr. Jose, Mrs. Stu
art Shier’s resignation as secretary
was regretfully received. The fol
lowing officers were elected for the
• coining year: President, Mirs. E',-
Exeter Salt Well Co. have a large
amount of salt on hand which will
be -disposed of at $3.80 per ton for
land salt and $5.50 per ton for bar
rel. ___ „ , , .
I The plaxis and specifications pre-I Humphreys; 1st vice-p-res., Mrs, A.
| pared by Mr. John Moore, architect, ' Bickell; 2nd . vice-pres., Mrs. W.
! of London, for the new Methodist
I church at Granton, have arrived.
After having gone through the
hands of a number of masons, car
penters and tinsmiths, the Pickard
block presents a much better ap
pearance.
Among the professional cards
listed in 1892 are noted: The Mol-
son’s Bank, N. Dyer Hurdon, the
Exetei* Advocate, Sanders & Sweet;
dental, H. Kinsman, C. H. Ingram;
medical, J. B. Whitely, J. A. Rol
lins, T. P. McLaughlin, T. A. Amos;
legal, R. H. Collins, L. H. Dickson,
Elliott and Elliott; auctioneers, H.
Brown, A. J. Rollins, E. Bossen-
berry, L. Hardy, Fred Farncomb
and David Miller.
Batten; sec.-treas., Mrs.- N. RWat-
son; pianist, Mrs. R. Humphreys;
asst., Miss Roxie Doupe; district
representative, Mrs. W. Harming;
directors, Mrs. Roy McNaughton,
Mrs. C. Switzer, Mrs. B, Hodgins;
war convener, Mrs. A. Bickell; sick
convener, Mrs. B'. Hodgins; local
leader, Mrs. R. Ross; alternate, Miss
standing
Mrs. . C.
S. Shier;
R. Kirk;
STAFFA
Women’s Association of
church held its May meet-
the "home of Mrs. W. J. Fell
theThe
United
ing at
with the president, Mrs. Alvin Wor
den, presiding. The roll call was
answered by naming and giving a
short descriptioxx of a character in
the Bible. The ladies spent the af
ternoon quilting for the Red Cross
Society.
• IO. A. Norris, Toronto and Mr.
and Mrs. A. Demerling and Jean,
of Fordwiclx, were recent guests
with Mr.’and Mrs. A. W. Norris.
TRACK DOWN FOXES
The mystery of the missing chick
ens was solved this week at Con
stance when a posse of farmers tired
of losing their poultry, took mat
ters in their own. hands and tracked
down the marauders. The offen
ders turned out to be foxes and in
all twelve
two dens were opened.-
Expositor.
were discovered when
•Seaforth
B. Doupe; conveners of
committees; Agriculture,
Switzer; Citizenship, Mrs.
Historical Research, Miss
Home Economics, Mrs. R. Morrison;
Social Welfare, Mrs. W. Batten;
Publicity, Mrs. N. Watson. During
the year the Institute receipts were
$148.17, of which $8.00 was don
ated for sugar for Red Cross jam,
$4.00 for Rotary Club and $53.70
for Red Cross. During the year
the Institute held a short course on
Home Cursing with an average at
tendance of twenty -members. The
May meeting is to be held at 'the
home of Mrs. C. Switzer on May 28.
Killed in Action
Sgt. Pilot Donald Cameron Mac
Gregor, only son of Mr. and Mrs.
D. C. MacGregor, 208 Mitton St.
South, Sarnia, has been reported to
have lost his life on active service
over England. Don MacGregor,
Mr. and Mrs. J. Sadler visited in aged 27, was the popular lifeguard
Mitchell.
Mr. and Mrs. A. Smale,
and Ross, were in London.
Miss Marjorie Hannon
with her parents at Zion.
Miss Audrey Swartman,
to, was a recent guest with Mr.
and Mrs. A. W. Norris.
Arthur
visited
Toron-
and instructor at* the Seaforth Lions
Park.
A Good Answer
“Why did you lose your job at the
gown shop.?”
“Well, hear the end of a very
hectic day a fussy, fat womans came
in. After I tried about twenty
j dresses on her, she said she thoughtshock, ishe Would look better in Something
ailingFarmer Giles: “What be
that old hen of yours?”
Farmer Wiles: “Shell
Ducks came out of the eggs she’d j flowing, so I told her to go jump in
been sitting on.” tlie river.
ENGAGEMENT
Mr. William Kerslake, of Gran
ton, has announced the engagement
of his youngest daughter, Audrey
Grace Lavina, to Pte. John Wilbert
Brock, youngest son of Mr. and Mrs.
Charles Brock, of London, Ont., the
marriage to take place the latter1
part of May.
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