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THE EXETER TIMES-ADVOCATE, THURSDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 1942
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son of Mr.
of Usborne,
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THE WILSON FLY PAD
CO., HAMILTON, ONT.
Beef Cattle Men
Meet at Clinton
A crowd of beef cattle producers
crammed the Clinton town hall on
Sept, 16th at a meeting called by the
Huron Federation of Agriculture to
discuss the betterment of the beef
situation. A, W- Morgan, president
of the Federation, presided and
outlined the unsatisfactory condi
tions prevailing amongst the far
mers whp normally .purchase feed
er cattle. He~ stated that prices of
feeder cattle were now equal or.
highex* than those prevailing fpr
finished cattle. He also outlined
the unsatisfactory methods employ
ed so far by the Wartime Food Cor
poration in the Toronto market, re
sulting in many cattle being sent
to the packing houses for killing
that should have been( sent to pas
ture farms for proper finishing.
? Mr. R. J. Scott, Belgrave, a mem
ber of the executive of the Ontario
Federation of Agriculture, discuss
ed the negotiations carried On _ by
the beef cattle advisory committee
and the Wartime Food Corporation.
He emphasized the fact khat the
price ceiling on .beef should be re
viewed and moved upward if proper
supplies of beef were to be forth
coming on the markets.
tained that there should be parity
between Canadian and
prices.
He main-
U.-S. beef
The failure of the Wartime
Food Corporation in not giving pub
licity to their -policy was mentioned
by several speakers as being detri
mental to confidence in the beef .pol
icy of the Government.
- Among those who entered the dis
cussion were Thos. Kerr, Atwood;
Russell Knight, Brussels; Wm. Stir
ling, Bayfield; ‘fiT. L. Whyte, Sea
forth; Wm. Ellerington, Exeter; W.
• J. Dale, Clinton, and Milo Snell,
Exeter.
Announcement was made that a
meeting of Western Ontario beef
.cattle men would be held at Lon
don in the near future. At this
meeting would be invited Hon. J.
G. Gardiner, Federal Minister of
Agriculture; Hon. Gordon Taggart,
Food Administrator, and R. H.
Graham,- Chairman of th e War
time Food Corporation. It was de
cided to appoint a committee from
Huron County to prepare a brief to
submit to the London meeting on
recommendation for the improve
ment of the beef situation both from
the farmer and the consumer view
points. The committee will be
headed 'by A. W. Morgan, Usborne,
with the following members: Jar
vis McBride, Colborne Twp.; W. L.
Whyte, Hullett Twp.; Findlay Mc-
Kercher, McKillop Twp.; Sheldon
Bricker, Ho Wick Twp.; Chas. CouL.
tes, Morris Twp.; Fred Middleton,
Goderich Twp.; Russell Brdderick,
Tuckersmith Twp.; Milo Snell, Ste
phen Twp.; Wm. ' Ellerington, Us
borne Twp.
15 YEARS AGO
Coates-Hodgert—-At James
United church parsonage, on
■nesdhy, September 21, Miss.
Rosella Hodgert, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Wm, Hodgert,
Thomas Whitney Coates,
and Mrs. Frank Coates,
by Rev. D. McTavish,
Mr. Clarise Snell has rented the
residence of Mrs. Madge, on And
rew Street, recently vacated by Mr.
A. Rumford.
In the running race at the Exeter
.Fair, Jim Taylor came first, Pete
Willard, second anci Harold Mc
Donald third, The bicycle race was
won by Russel Collingwood, with
Ivan Stewart second and Eldon lea
ding, third.
Mr. Fred Faist, of Crediton, left
this week to attend Nortlf Central
College, Napierville, Ill.
Shapton-Powe—In Exeter,on
Wednesday, Sept. 28th, at the home
of the bride’s mother, Miss Hilda A.
Powe, daughter of Mrs. Agnes and
the late Wm. Powe, to Mr. Earl
F. Shapton, son of Mr, and Mrs.
Jas. Shapton, of Stephen Twp., by
Rev. D. McTavish.
The chopping mill at Shipka^
owned by Mr
burned -to the
afternoon last,
in the engine
explosion of a torch,
ing was a bricli
years was used as a hotel, known
as. Hannon's Hotel.
, Milton I^atz, was
ground on Thursday
The fire started
room following the
The build
veneer and for
25 YEARS AGO
Skinner - Motz—In London, on
September 19, 1917, Cecil Skinner,
of Usborne, to Miss Othella, daugh-
ter of Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Motz, of
London, formerly of Crediton East.
Mr. Wm, May, who has been liv
ing in the house of the late Samuel
Hicks’ estate, formerly the property
of the late T. B. Carling, Main
street, moved last week into the
house on Main street- vacated by
S. C. Hanna.
Mrs. Hockey last week sold ^fier
residence on Gidley Street, occupied
by Mr. Lee' Wilson, to Mrs. Allan
Mr.. Wilson has moved into the
tage on the corner of Carling
Ann Streets.
While attached to a buggy
tied to a fence in Stephen, Mr. W.
E. Sanders’ .driver became fright
ened at a threshing
away, damaging the
erably.
Mr. J. A. Stewart
his house on Main Street, occupied
by Mr. N. Sheere, to Mrs. Gumbrill.
Among the cattle exhibited at the
Exeter Fair last week was a fine
Shorthorn steer, 10 months old,
owned by R. D. Hunter, of Usborne.
cot-
and.
and
outfit and ran
buggy copsid-
this week sold
50 YEARS AGO
Exeter Fair was a great suc-
Visitors and sightseers con-
to arrive until nearly 4/000
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Here’s sincerely hoping for fine weather for hean harvesting and
silo-filling,
What becomes of .all those hindquarters of the beef animal?
The army require^ the front quarters.
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We’ll miss those fine,
to get at the fall suppers,
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fat,,luscious pumpkin pies that we used
Ho hum.
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Bettex* have, the cobbler
are threatened with bootless
{in a pumbex* of ways.
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i'
man
days
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look over those old shoes, We
as well as with, bootless efforts
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meatless days?'And now pre we to have
have a heart for your cousins living in this good town,
a little something in tlie way of meat to stay nature.
, * * * $ * * * *
Now brother farmers,
We’d like
j CONGRATULATIONS
Everywhere we hear approval expressed of the Exeter Fall
Fair, Especially is the board to be congratulated op its fine exhibit
of live stock of the sort that every fai’mer will find (profitable to
nurture. Such an exhibit brings to the show ring purchasers with
money in their pockets and with the eye open to p profitable ibar-
gain. Young farmers are all the better of seeing the best stock
in the country and of having the opportunity of discussing methods
of breeding, feeding and development,
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HOW IT WORKED OUT
Ct • ’ *
John iCitizen was earning a dollar and a half a day and his
board and washing. He heard of a job where the -pay was three
dollars per day, when the work was going on. He worked steadily
at his new job for two weeks. Then he was laid off for a week.
Then followed another week’s work. Then a week’s idleness.
Meanwhile he was .paying eight dollars per week for his board and a
dollar a week for his washing. And so on for three months. Then
the job failed altogether and John_spent a week getting another
job that lasted for just
in in changing his job.
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one week. Figure out where the gain came
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NOT UNIFIED EFFORT?WHY
Every day we hear of some new requirement or restriction. We
expect a good deal of this sort of thing. We wonder if our rulers
and leaders are doing what they should in the way pf seeing clearly
that everything is contributing to winning the war. We fear that
there is not a well-defined plan of action that unifies our war ef
fort. There, is rushing about aplenty, ibut we are not impressed
with anything that assures us that every ’blow struck lands squarely
on Hitler’s nose. We’ll put up with anything our rulers ask of us,
provided we are assured that our self denial puts Hitler into discard.
We do not expect omniscience of our rulers • and leaders. We do
look for co-ordinated effort that ’brings results.
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results.
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IMPATIENT
Now that the terrible casualty list
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Association TORONTO
F. J. DELBRIDGE, Representative EXETER
congratulated the
on having gradu-
From Directorate of
Public Relations Arnty
said
"I think it’s grand,
real work begins,
of Victoria, B.iC.,
officer to the
how you feel,” the
said. “When you
parade in Montreal
marched shoulder to
your
NEWS of
Two girls whose forebears came
from Suffolk met in the natipu’s
Capital recently.
Major-General Jean Knox, Con
troller-General and Director of the
Auxiliary Territorial Service itf
Great Britain, who is on a tour of
Canada in connection with the Can
adian Women’s Army Corps, was in
terviewed by 2nd Lieut. Barbara
Bullock-Webster,
public relations
C.W.A/C.
General Knox
Canadian officer
ated recently from Macdonald Col
lege Training Centre, Ste. Anne de
Bellevue, “I know you must be
terribly proud of your ‘pips’?’
General Knox,
and now your
doesn’t it?”
“I know just
A.T.S. Leader
■tell me erf the
when you
shoulder with your brothers-in-
arms, do you realize that in Great
I Britain, in Canada, in Australia and
in New Zealand as well as in South
Africa, young women are doing ex
actly the same thing and feeling
just as you did about it? Can any
thing but good come of that feeling
of unity? I think not.”
Second Lieut. Bullock-Webster,
who has been a member of the edi
torial staff of the Daily Colonist, is
the daughtei’ of W. H. Bullock-Web
ster, well-known British Columbia
barrister, whose father served in
the British Army in India, and whose
relatives belong to Suffolk, the home
county of General Knox. “Some
of the best of people come from
Suffolk,’’ she laughed, adding, ‘
wish you the very best of luck.”
An “If” for the C.W.A.O.
If you can keep your buttons bright
ly polished,
And sew your tapes and markers
■firm and straight,
: If you can make your bed-roll in a
i jiffy,
i And for parades be not a second
late;
I If you can tell a femoral from an
{ ulna,
And recognize all those conventional
signs,
Like windmills, churches, cemeter
ies and bridges,
And indicate important power lines;
If you can figure out a simple
gradient,.
And give the answer in a second or
less,
If you can recognize friends, “Dick”
and “Arthur”,
And not get muddled in a gassy
mess.
If you can rise at six with muscles
twitching.
And think it grand to sweat and
toil like hell,
And have no aches or pains or fallen
arches,
You’re on the road to doing fairly
well.
If you can eat the meals Macdonald
offers,
not increase your girth or
dread spare tire,
laugh at your mistakes and
take your medicine,
reach the goal to which you
would aspire . . «
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to take a glimpse of a good old Exe
ter Times-Advocate. I didn’t look
at it very close when I was at home.
In fact, I used to say you could
read everything that was of any in
terest in about five minutes. You,
can tell Mr. Southcott that his is
a big paper after
the biggest paper
I have been here,
dailies in London
big a paper. They have only a four-
page paper and it is only a two-by-
one per page. Well, I am anxious
to get back to the papers before
‘lights out’.
I remain, your loving son,
stop a day or so in Hull.
Well, I got my cigarettes the
other day. They have an order out
now that each man can only receive
a thousand cigarettes a month. If
they receive any more than that
the orderly room holds them back
until the next month. Imagine what
they would cost over here with
English cigarettes selling for
shillings for twenty. Besides
cigarettes they get over here
terrible.
We are getting three meals a
and tea at nine-thirty every night.
So that isn’t bad going, is it?
I hdve just been having a grand
time. Bob Palmer, one of the or
derly room clerks, just came in for
his tea and he told me that there
was a bunch of papers in the of
fice for me. Boy, it was good just
Now that the terrible casualty list following Dieppe has 'been
published, Canadians are -asking serious questions.* “What good
has come of Dieppe? Our men went over, fought as heroes fight’,
obeyed orders and returned Jiome, their dead and missing and wound
ed making a terrible list. What good has 'come of it?” the plian,
patient, taxpaying' citizen who has given his son is asking. Opr
streets are lined with our best and ibravest all in uniform. To what
purpose? Men and wfi'men are working themselves to the bone.
To what purpose? We have paid out our tens of millions of trea
sure. To what purpose? 'Our men enlisted to fight the ibattles of
freedom. What have they been enaibled to do? Canadians are
prepared to endure any hardship in a just .cause, But what are the
visible fruits of their offering thus far? Our sons are overseas and
that Is about all they have accomplished outside of drill and all
that goes'with drill. We are looking for results. The ’plain man is
not satisfied with the measure of success, if success there has been,
that now attends his efforts. Who or what is holding up
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two
the
are
day
all and that it is
I have seen since
Even the biggest
do not put out aS
The
cess,
tinued
people ••■were on the grounds. The
opening of the new half-mile track
was looked to with interest and was
the centre of attraction.
Fire started Friday night in the
Hensail house occupied and owned
by R. A. McIntyre. The fire spread
to the dwelling house of R. Welsh,
and all
stables
troyed.
Mrs. ----- B...
her 5>0-acre farm west of Exeter
North, Township of Stephen, to Mr.
Wm. Dearing, for the sum of $2,'800.
Very little wheat is being mar
keted in Manitoba. The farmers
are holding off for advanced prices,
the quotations now being from 55
to 60 cents.
. An enormous cheese mould has
been shipped from Ottawa to Perth,
where it will be -ushd for (manufac
turing the monster cheese intended
for the Chicago World’s Fair. The
mould stands 7 feet high and is 9
feet in diameter. Ip order to make
the cheese, arrangements are be-
ipg.made for securipg three days’
milk from 600 cows. The weight
i of the cheese when made will run
| into
the adjoining buildings and
of both dwellings ‘were des-
John Sweet has disposed of
I
t
A aivan noticed a woman whom he"
disliked coming up his front steps.
Taking refuge in his study, he left
his wife to entertain the caller.
Half an hour latei’ he emerged
from his retreat, listening care
fully on the landing, hearing noth
ing below; called down to his wife.
“Has that horrible old bore gone?”;
The objectionable .woman was j
stiU in the drawing room, but his
wife was equal to the Occasion.
“Yes, dear,” she called back, “she
went long ago. Mrs. Parker is
here now?’ ■ I
thousands of. pounds.
schoolmaster was lecturing to
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CUT FINE FOR CIGARETTES
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a class upon the circulation of the
blood. “If I stand on my head,”
said he, “the blood will run down
to uny head, will it not?”
“Yes, sir<” assented" the boys.
“Then,” said the master, “Why
does the blood not run into my feet
When I stand on my feet?”
There was a pause for a few min
utes, when a bright youth replied:
“Please, sir, it’s because your feet
ain’t empty?*
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LUSCIOUS SPENDING
Miserliness gets no one anything but misery. On
hand luscious spending paves the way to folly and want.
the other
___ „____________„ - - . . - . Just now •
■young people have lots of money who a short time ago found a
quarter of a dollar a fortune. Yet we never knew’ a time when
so many young people are broke and who look eagerly for next
. pay day. Worse still,' these easy spenders with a fair prospect of
a nearby pay day, have a way of going in debt, a practice that both
debtor- and creditor are bound to find unsatisfactory. Such spenders
are liable to ’be moved to another locality before the cat can wink
her eyelash and the creditor is left howling like a dog with a split
stick on his tail. The spender is almost sure to have an interview
with a hard-eyed boss who says some plain things to him and is
liable to give him the boot. The youth or the youngster who buys
war stamps is on the right line. Bosses like folk of' that sort.' Then
when the inevitable sore foot Comes along, the thrifty one is not
obliged to stand with his hat in his hand at someone’s kitehen door.
Moreover, genuine -business men are taking notes of the luscious
spender.
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WITH A GRAIN OF SALT
There is a deal of war talk that needs to be taken with at
least one grain of salt. There’s the matter of Russia, for instance.
Last Winter we read or heard at least once a day that Russia was
making ducks and drakes of the German army. Later we learned
that the Russians had not recaptured a single place of Outstanding
importance from the German armies. 'For a considerable time we
have been hearing that the Russians have annihilated one German
army after another. Next day we’d lipar that the Germans were
throwing still another million men into the fray, It Would be in
teresting to recount lioW many Germans have ibeen reported to have
been slaughtered. On the other hand, we were assured when the
Germans .attacked the Russian armies that the aggressors would go
through Stalin’s forces like a hot knife through melted butter. The
facts, are the othei' way. The Russian army still is a ,'inighty force.
We heard, too, that Mr. Churchill and .Stalin, when they met not
so Idng ago, enjoyed a regular love feast. A pair of love birds
could not have been sweetei’ than were those two doughty men.
Then come word that these men differed Sharply on a number of
interesting things. The folk who dole out the news must be amus
ed at the credulity of a whole lot of us. Again, we need have no doubt
but that the men at the head of affairs are doing a really good job.
When one is disposed to be critical he will< do well to put himself
in the leaders’ placb. They have a good deal on their minds, have
those men who must say when navies are to sail and armies are to
march, what people are to be cast off and who are to be placated.
clerks
he be-
clerks.
The boss called one of his
into his private office.
"I have noticed, Johnson,”
gan, “that you of all my
seem to put your whole life and
soul Into your work. No detail is
too small to escape your attention.
No hours are too long for you.”
Johnson glowed with pride and
satisfaction.
“Yes, sir?” he asked, waiting for
whp.b he thought was cpming next.
“And so, Johnson,” his employ
er went on, t “I am forced, anuch
against my will, to fire you. It
is such chaps as you who go opt and
start riva4 establishments.”
RO® 01
WHY HAVE
C A D P 1
FEET?
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A34966 Pte. E. M. Harness,
9th Non. Div. Fid. Pk.,
R.C.O.C., C.A.,
Canadian Army Overseas.
Max./ j
And
And
Max Harness Writes to His Mother
Mrs. Eltnorc Harness
And a
If you can be a Mend who holds
no grudges,
And keep your head when all seems
in a whirl,
You’ll make yoUr section proud to
have you in it,
YOU’RE what the Corps is looking
for, MY GIRL!
—‘Barbara Bullock-Webster, (2nd
Lieut.) Ste. Anne de -Bellevue,
September, 1942.
Mother
August 8, 1942
Dear
I received two more of your let
ters today and two yesterday. To
night I have only time to write a
short letter and anyway I am aw
fully tired. I have been away all
day driving. There was a truck
load of parts to go to Nottingham
and there had to be a storeman go
witli.it They sent me. It is only
a trip of about a hundred miles, but
driving on these roads it seems as
if it were a thousand. The roads
are all right but it is the way they
are built. I have never soqn as
many bends and curves in a road
fifty miles long in 'Canada as there
are in five miles in this country,
One doesn’t mind it, though, be
cause it is one way to see the coun
try. You see new scenerey when you
go around the curves, I think I
will go to Nottingham on my next
leave, if I dqn’t go to Scotland and
' Gasoline vapor is so highly explosive it has been aptly
called liquid dynamite. Every year the .losses of property
and life testify to the gross carelessness of individuals
around this most dangerous of fuels.
The Ontario Fire Marshall has stated that anyone tak
ing an open flame lamp or lantern near gasoline is trying
to Commit suicide!
Don’t drive a car, truck or tractor on the barn floor—
it is folly. Never use gasoline or kerosene to revive a fire.
Don’t use gasoline, benzene or other inflammable liquids
for cleaning in the home. Never fill lamps, lanterns,
stoves or heaters while they are burning.
Gasoline kept in a building should be in an approved
safety container, painted ted and plainly marked GASO
LINE. Don’t keep more than a gallon—larger amounts
should be stored in heavy drums at least 7$ feet from the *
neatest building.
Be your own fire warden. Treat gasoline with all the
"respect with which you treat dynamite. It’s dangerous
stuff!
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