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STEPHEN COUNCIL
Township of
Town Hall,
tile 26th of
close of the
All members
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The Council of the
Stephen zmet in the
Crediton, on Tuesday,
May, 1942, after the
Court of Revision,
were present. The minutes of
previous meeting were adopted
motion of Roy Ratz, seconded
Thomas Love.
The -Clerk was instructed to
vertise for Tenders for the repair
of the Centralia Drain up to Mon-;'
day, the 6tli day of July next at
1 P-m.
Moved by Arthur Amy, seconded
by Nelson Schenk: that By-law No.
569 to appoint Ivan George Green
a constable for the Township of
Stephen for a period of twelve:
months without remuneration, hav
ing been read three .times, be pass
ed and signed by the Reeve and
Clerk and the Seal of the Corpora
tion attached thereto. Carried.
Moved by Thomas Love, second
ed by Roy Ratz that Pay Sheet No.
6, amounting to $i&6.05 and the fol-'
lowing orders be passed: Provin
cial Treasurer, insulin account,
$2.2'3; Provincial Treasurer, hall
license, $3.00; Dr. H. H. Cowen; ac
count re Kinney, $7.50; Mrs. Cora
Gaiser, milk, Jackson, $1.20; Trea
surer, County of Huron re Gossman
and McPherson, $66.50; H.E.P.C.,
hydro for town hall, $7.23; Welling
ton 'Haist, wood for town hall,
$91.00; total, $178,66.
The Council adjourned to meet
Crediton,
1942,
again in the town halt
on Monday, the 6th of July,
at 1 p.m,
H, K. Eilber,
JTHE EXeiER TJMK.AOVOCATK
Yes, we’re busy, but let us not forget the fine and beautiful
things of life.
15 YEARS AGO
Fire completely destroyed the
Clandeboye chopping mill on Mon
day morning.
Mr. J. Harold Wood has been suc
cessful in passing his pharmacy
examinations at the Toronto uni
versity.
Mr, John Kuntz and Miss Doro
thy Kuntz, of Windsor, and Miss
Marguerite Kuntz, of Detroit, spent
the week-end under the parental
roof.
Rev, Barden Cunningham has
graduated from Huron College and
Western
will be
minister
Miss
teacher,
sage from the premier, congratu
lating her on her pageant, “The
'Crowning of Canada”, which was
published by the Department of
Education as the Jubiliee Confed
eration pageant,
Messrs,' George Jaques and Mel
ville Hern returned Wednesday of
last week' from a trip north through
the mining country, visiting Kirk
land Lake and Lake Marron in
Northern Quebec. There were twelve
in the party, some being from St.
Marys and Stratford.
The first draft of the Stationing
Committee of the London Confer
ence has been published. Rev. F.
E, Clysdale, of Main. Street, is down
for Ridgetown, Rev. Capt. ®. W.
Edwards, of London, for Exeter, and
Rev. R, E, Southcott of Jeannettes
Creek, for St. Andrew’s church, St,
Thomas.
University, London, and
ordained as an Anglican
in Windsor next Sunday.
Nellie Medd, an Exeter
received a personal mes-
1
'Clerk
Drive
says:
WELL DONE KIRKTON!
Speaking of the Red Cross
the St. Mhrys Journal-Argus
"Kirkton has done excellently as
might be expected from the Red
Cross enthusiasm centring around
that busy corner. Treasurer Dr.
Jose states that $800 has been re
ceived from the Kirkton area. Dr.
C. A. Campbell, president, is auth
ority for the statement that every
-family in the district contributed
something to the Red Cross Drive.
One hundred per cent!’’
25 YEARS AGO
Robert Sanders returned
Monday evening after spending the
winter in the middle and southern
States,
The matter of making the Exeter
Continuation School a High School
was discussed at the Board meeting
on Thursday evening.
Mr, G. W. Davis, who is in charge
of the Exeter branch Of the Jack-
son Manufacturing Co., Ltd., would
be pleased to have you call. The
factory has now been in operation
for nearly eight years and gives
steady employment to almost fifty
people, turning out thousands of
garments.
One hundred and twenty-five in
valided soldiers were entertained
.at the town hall on Wednesday af
ternoon. The streets were lined
with people and the business places
were gaily decorated. Short ad
dresses were made by Major Mc-
Dermid, F«, W. >;,Gladxnan,. J.v. *A.
Stewart and Reeve Beavers.
Report of room 8, class 5, of the
Exeter Public School — .Honors:
Eugene Howey, Kathleen Heaman,
Nona Reeder, James Connor. Pass:
Clifton Andrew, Hugh Creech, Rus
sell Brock, Reggie Beavers, Frank
Creech, Myrtle Beavers. Class' 4—
Muriel Howald, Gale Clark, Vera
McDonald, Cora Sanders, Grace
Hunter, Gerald Cockwill.
Mr.
50 YEARS AGO
J. ' Clark’s harness shop in
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■JThwrsjIto June 4th, 194?
Rarely has
experienced last
this region
Saturday.
lot ofWe know a
who should make the
mean maybe.
witnessed a more rapid growth than it
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sturdy boys and girls swirling about on bikes
acquaintance of a hoe handle. This doesn't
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In the matter of conservation,* we still believe that the govern
ment should insist upon saving at the bung as well as at the spigot-
,* »,* * * *. * *
We have just heard of a farmer who is feeding several hundred
military camp,
the military folk
no
pigs. He carries on near a
and suggest and suggest to
haveloss by wastage. We
»*
We wonder
We win
reference to the farmer
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The cows are no Last week the
and wonder
nothing but
in question,
intake
a very
in intake over last
slackers,
the butter factories was the best this season by
amount.. This week there is a decided increase
week. Meanwhile bossy is putting on the glossiest coat evei’
* * * • ■* ■ ■*
of cream at
considerable
SQUEEZE IN AN ACRE QR TWO'
Every farmer who can do so will be serving liis country and be
putting a few nice dollars in his pocket at the same time, by
squeezing in an acre or two or sugar beets. If the beets get in
they’ll be cultivated and harvested, June is a better month to at
tend to this duty than February.
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ARE WE MISTAKEN?
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We refer, of course, th conditions existing in
Hast Saturday the word got about that, there was plenty
Is it true that there is no shortage of gasoline as far as the
supply is concerned.
Canada. ’ ' ' .
of gasoline available for Canadian requirements, but that the prob
lem was in the way of transportation. We’d like to learn the facts.
*******'*
IT DOESN’T MAKE SENSE i
All of us are willing to do our very utmost to’help win the war.
Not the least earnest on this point are the grandmothers of this
good land. Not .one whit behind anyone else in patriotism are the
ladies and the general women war workers. All of these have put
What they can into keeping the naked children clad and the hungry
folk fed. But what these valiant workers are asking is “Why
should we do without our own tea and coffee while the liquor
drinkers are not restricted?” Bqer parlors are wide open, as- wide
open as usual. Why should the rest of us be forbidden our usual
amount of tea? Tea and coffee fill neither jail nor poorhouse. Why
allow liquor its usual freedom of sale and consumption?
*#<**»**
A LUCKY MOVE
“Invest in land!” is the advice of the
modern instance illustrates this principle,
acquaintance made a lucky stroke of business and bought a farm,
a good farm, that someone was eager to sell. The farm was rented
and the young fellow continued in business. Came the war.
young fellow,saw his opportunity, returned to the farm and is now
doing exceptionally well. His one-time prosperous.-..business has
gone to the dogs. * Anyone Who 'Understands soil anF livestock had
better keep one foot, at least, on the good old solid earth. Just now
we have heard that twenty-eight per cent of. smal£ business men
have been Squeezed out. The business, these * small' fellows have
found, simply is not to be had. w
old time-* economist. A
A young man ■ of our
The
Brown: “Why has Jones carried
that mortgage on his house so
long?” Smith: “Because he can’t
lift it, I guess.”
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Monthly Rates u
TORONTO
Hotel Waverley
Spajduu Ave. at Collegb St.
. RATES
SINGLE • $1U5O to $3-00
DOUBLE . $2.50 to $6.00
Special Weekly
Mr. _. _
Crediton is being built, i
The Exeter North hotel is un
dergoing repairs, a new coat of
paint and renovating throughout.
The Lutheran congregation of
Dashwood are making preparations
for the erection of sheds to place
their rigs in during service.
Notwithstanding the recent ad
vance in cotton goods, Richard
Pickard & Son will sell grey cot
tons at 4 cents per yard and white
cottons at 4 Scents per yard during
the great sale.
The members of the Exeter Gun
club visited Seaforth on Wednes
day and defeated them 62 to 55.
A bicycle club was formed here
on Friday of last week,
are: President, Dr. Lutz;
sident, N. Dyer Hurdon;
A. J. McTavish;
Wood.
Officers
vice-pre
captain,
lieutenant,F.
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A MODERN . . .
QUIET . . <
WELL CONDUCTED . . .
CONVENIENTLY LOCATED
HOTEL . . .
Close to Parliament Buildings,
University of Toronto, Maple
Leaf Gardens, * Fashionable
Shopping District, Wholesale
Houses, Theatres, Churches
of Every Denomination.
A. M. PoweiIl, President
CLANDEBOYE RESIDENTS
CELEBRATE 58rd WEDDING
anniversary
A BIT OF GOOD LUCK
There are but two men, neither of them fit for military ser
vice, running that one hundred and twenty acre farm. Yet one of
those men has given a whole week to the present salvage campaign.
The other brother is busy trying to overtake the work ordinarily done
by the two men. This in addition to the full share of general war
work. The farm is by no means neglected, but it is being done at
the expense of stern self-denial and of the hardest planning and the
severest toil. One of them told
good meals. We sleep in clean
let. We know nothing of the
is impossible to defeat a nation
us, “We’re getting off easy. We get
beds. No bullets make us their bil
awful work of the battlefield.” It
that breeds men of that sort.
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FORGET ABOUT IT
Of course we can’t help wondering about the length of the war.
At the same time there is one thing we must attend to and that is
the day’s work. The very withers of civilization are being wrung.
✓Hundreds of thousands of brave men are doing all they can to
kill each other. Were the struggle not actually going- on .the state of
affairs would be incredible. Food by the ten thousand tons is'being
sent to the bottom of the sea. Cities, the result of the toil and tears
and sacrifice of millions foi* centuries, are being, blown to bits. Hor
rors unimaginable are coming to be commonplaces. Worst of all,
humanity seems utterly impotent to do anything to remedy a situ
ation -so terrible. Must this awe-inspiring battle go on till the race
utterly destroys itself? How
with the hurricane? How can
standing with the coral reef?
* * *
can the earthquake come to terms
the yeasty waves come to an under-
* * *
Check Discharges
From the Bowels
Bowel troubles, although happen
ing at any time of, the year, ate
mote prevalontdufirig the hot Sum
mer and early fall months,
Summer Flu is one of the worst
troubles, but diarrhoea, dysentery,
colic, cramps and pains in iho m-
tfistlnes, or any looseness of the
Bowels Should have immediate ■ 'at
tention.
The, action of Dr. Fowler % Extract
of Wild Strawberry is pleasant,
rapid, reliable and effectual in help
ing to check the unnatural dis
charges.
It has been on the market' lot the
past 91 yedrS, sb ivhy experiment;
With hew and untried remedied
Got *fDr« Fowler’s” and feel safe.
Tho T. Milburn Oo., Ltd., Toronto, Ont.
Mr. and Mrs. James McRann were
honored by the members* of their
family connection when they cele
brated their 53rd wedding anniver
sary at their hbme in Olajideboye.
A radio was presented, a gift from
the family. Caftbn A, A. Bice, of
London, a nephew, made the presen
tation.
A dainty buffet supper was serv
ed during the happy evening.
Mrs. McRann is the former Ma
tilda Simpson, daughter of the late
Mr. and Mrs. James Simpson, of
Clandeboye. She was born in Bid-
dulph township; Mi\ McRann in
McGillivray.
The couple -have three childrens
Roy of
Hodgihs,
McFalls,
Clandeboye, Mrs. Harold
of ijttcan, and Mrs. Cecil
of London.
Sergeant; “Have, you any prefer
ence?” Dfaftee: “Yes, sir?’ Ser
geant: “What Would you like to
be?” Draftee: “An ex-service man
with a pension.”
* *
PUTTING ON THE POLISH
We’re all in a big hurry these days. In fact, we’re so busy
that there is a great tendency for us not to get anything done.
Here is an instance. A farmer who had -.patronized a certain shop
for twenty years had a job done the other day. When the farmer
got home the whole job fell to pieces. That shop is slacker by one
customer. Again, a dealer was in such a big hurry waiting on a
customer that he failed to be well mannered. That store is quieter
in business by one customer. Here is another shop where two men
drove up in a car, asking the shopkeeper to do some work for them.
“We hear that you take pains with your work and We’re particular
about this job.” “So I am,” was the reply, “but I have more to do
now than I can do. I’m sending work away.” Said another party
to us, “I overworked the other day to oblige a customer. Next day
I. was peevish and draggy. I work ten hours every day and what
I can’t get done in those hours goes by the board.” Let us be a bit
careful. Quality in work is the only thing that- counts these times.
Quality wears. The customer you oblige by hurrying but at the
cost of good work, soon will forget the accommodation, but he'll
keep the bad work in memory for years.
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ZONING
■ Thoughtful people have been perplexed for years
trucking of a good many articles, Bitch as bread and
milk and cream. In the days not so far in the past
milk and cream to the factory at a comparatively low
each qheese or butter factory had its own special zone
with a minimum, of competition from other factories. ____ _ ____T„
of the truck and nearly every farmer woke up to find out that nt
least half a dozen factories were ready for his butter or his cream,
The same principle held for groceries and a dozen other commodi
ties. Lately the government is waking nip< to the folly of this pro-
ceodure and Is doing considerable zoning for a great many products,
One of its latest moves in this direction is asking 'cream and, but
ter factories to get the collection of butter and cream on a more
reasonable basis, It is hinted that if the managers of factories do
not attend to this, the government will do the zoning for them.
All this is done In the interest of conserving gasoline and rubber for
military purposes. The outsider looking on believes that more
economical collecting and delivery of goods should be carried on
in the interest of good business. Has it required- a war to have us
stop, look and consider? ”
4
regarding the
groceries and
farmers drew
cost, Usually
that it served
Came the day
WHO KILLED DOCK ROBIN?
There was po doubt in the birds' mind a?,out ths death of
Cock Robin. There was fete poor little body and inquiry alone
would bring out the cause of his untimely demise. Enterprising
Americans living close to the supply of materials for making syn
thetic rubber have no doubt as to the shortage of rubber. They
know altogether well whence rubber may be made. They know,
too, that the rubber Is not being made in the quantities the present
Allied necessity demands. Like their bird friends they are going
to inquire through their government who the holdbackers are. Al
ready they are pointing their fingers at the supposed offenders and
crying “Fie! For Shame!” They are certain in their own minds that
they can locate the colored gentleman in the wood pile but they want
the suspected parties cleared or condignly punished. Weeks ago
The Exeter Times-Advocate drew attention to the rubber shortage
and suggested remedies. Why, we enquired, does not the Ottawa
government take action? Why is not more being done about the
Mackenzie River valley situation? Why are not the hundreds of
millions of unused and soon-to-he-added-to bushels of Canadian
wheat being turned into industrial alcohol and our industries of
many varieties benefitting therefrom? We asked a party whom we
believe fp be informed about all this, but all We got from him was
a smile and a smile and still more smile. Are the interests saying
“The war will soon be over and we must maintain control of the
gasoline and the oil and the rubber. What care we? if we fare
sumptuously at the oil and gasoline and rubber table, wftat care we
who is inconvenienced or who loses his job or whose babies go hun
gry or what businesses are wrecked? What care we if the war be
prolonged for* a year or two? Why should we care if a few more
tens of thousands of our finest and best are drowned or slaughtered,
proyided we control the cash boxes of the country? We cannot
think that there is any ground for asking any such questions, but
the questions are being asked and the government should not
hesitate one day in making free inquiry. We’d like to hear Ottawa
say to the oil companies with all their privileges, “Make oil and
rupbei' for us forthwith, or as soon as the process may be started,
or we'll take the whole business over; * Should the government fail
to read the lessons of histqjjy the people will read them. The oil
and rubbei’ situation is taking on a very grim aspect,
Flt.-Sgt..
say that
as usual,
Confederation
Association
F. J. DELBRIDGE,
Representative,
EXETER
been
ships
by a
The following account of the at
tack made on shipping off the Dutch
coast, May 3rd, by Hudson bomb
ers in which Flight Sergeant E. L.
Howey scored four hits, has been
received by his mother, Mrs. L. F.
Howey. On May Sth a second hit
was made, the account of which is
also given in the Daily Mirror.
Writing on May 7 th,
Howey says:
“This week I cannot
things have been going
because I got a break”* the other
night and I surely used it. I can
not tell you what happened or ex
actly what I did, but these news
paper clippings will give you some
idea. Yes, that is I they refer to.
It’s the first time I have hit the
papers over here and it was on the
nine o’clock broadcast, although no
names were mentioned. Gee, I was
i thrilled as it was my first real chance
to take a slap at the Jerries and I
gave them all We had and we sure
were lucky they never touched us.
May 10 th
Your cable and the one from the
War Service Committee came today
so my episode of last Sunday night
must have, been in the Canadian
papers or over the news. Needless
to say I am quite happy about it but
now you know exactly what I am
doing. The score is now two instead
of one, because of the “do” describ
ed best in the enclosed clippings.
Oui* C.O. describes the attack and
I was right beside him- as we went
in.
The WingCom. is a great leader.
He never asks the boys’to go any
where he wouldn’t go himself and
believe me the boys would go any
where with him. The best part of it
was that we never lost a man or
aircraft. Boy are we really happy!”
The accounts in the newspaper
clippings are as follows:
“May 5th—British bombers round
ed off a night and day offensive
against enemy shipping and land
targets by attacking two convoys off
the Dutch coast yesterday. One
supply vessel was hit four times
and set on fire. It blazed so fierce
ly, that the glare was seen 30 miles
away. The man who did the dam
age — a Canadian flight-sergeant
pilot, said: “We had to go through
heavy flak to drop our bombs, but
we got through, undamaged.”
May 9th
Hudson ‘Demons’ Hit 8> Nazi
Supply Ships
Crews of eight Coastal Command
bombers on their return to base yes
terday morning reported hits on a
convoy of 12 heavily escorted en
emy supply ships which they at
tacked twice on Thursday night.
These attacks, says the Air Minis
try News Service, Were the climax
to a week of intensive operations
which marked the opening of the
Coastal Command’s spring offensive
against enemy shipping. In (six
days out aircraft have bombed and
damaged at least 11 supply ships
and a destroyer. This latest attack
almost doubles the figure. Tile at
tack was made by Hudsons of a
Royal Canadian Air Force squadron
known as the ‘Demons’. The Can
adians, who calimed seven of the
eight hits wore led by Wing Com
mander A. 0. Brown, D»F;C,, of Win
nipeg. Wing Commander Brown
said “There were 12 ships, heavily
escorted by flak ships, steaming
northward near Den Holder. I div-4
ed to deck level and unloaded my
bombs as I went over. Four of them
landed smack on the ship’s deck.
There was a brilliant flash-—it was
terrific. I think I must have blown
the ship’s stern right off, t got
clear and saw the other fellows go-
ing in. Each took a ship—all of
them fair-sized. In quick succession
there were four bright orange flash
es along the line of the convoy, each
flash telling that a/ bit had
made.
Two of the bombed supply
were again seen yesterday
Beaufighter patrolling the Dutch
coast. One, a large merchant ves
sel, had evidently been very ser
iously damaged, since it had been
ibeached, probably to prevent it
sinking. The other, a medium-siz
ed vessel, was still on fire, with
her deck almost awash, and was be
ing towed by two tugs.
in marriage Helen ‘Gert’
daughter of Mr. and
Dietz to Clair Woodrow
of Mr. and Mrs. Roland
BROCK—KERSLAKE
A quiet wedding ceremony took
place at the Evangelical parsonage,
Zurich, when Rev. C, B. Hecken-
dorn united
rude Dietz,
Mrs. Milton
Geiger, son
Geiger, both of Zurich. The couple
were unattended. The bride wore
a street-length dress of tropical 'moss
green sheer, a white picture hat and
accessories, with a corsage bouquet
of burnt orange rose buds and mai
denhair fern. Following the cere
mony Mr. and Mrs. Geiger left for
a short honeymoon trip - to Midland,
and other places of interest to points,
north and east;
A quiet wedding was solemnized,
at Hyatt Avenue United church par-j How Does Your Label Read?
sonage, London, when Rev. P. N. J
Caven united in marriage Audrey j
Grace Lavina, youngest daughter of
William Kerslake and the late Mrs.
Kerslake, Granton, to Pte. John
Wilbert, younger son of Mr. and
Mrs. Charles Brock, of London.
After the ceremony a reception
was held at Wong’s. Mr. and Mrs.
Brock left by train to take up re
sidence at Ottawa.
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Is Yours!
Il is intended primarily, for the individual to dis
pose of the things he wishes to sell or to secure
the things he desires
Read the Classified Directory tonight—Note how
other people are taking advantage of it. Note
all the different classifications covered—Surely
you must have something you wish to sell; some
thing you wish to buy; some service you have to
offer; real estate for rent or Sale; or some an
nouncement you wish to make in the special notice
column—-Lost, found and strayed—‘Help wanted
or situation wanted—We doubt if there is a single
person who cannot profit from the use of the
Want-ad (service.
You will be surprised how really inexpensive this
service is. Classified ads shell as For Sale, For
Rent, Wanted etc. are I V2 cents per word for the
first insertion and 1 cient per word for succeeding
insertions. Minimum charge is 25c per insertion*
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