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OFFICIAL OPENING
Exeter’s New High
School Building Friday, June 23rd
Thames Road Sunday School
ANNIVERSARY
SUNDAY, JUNE 18th
Services at 11 a.m. and 7:30
Friday, June 16th, 1939
Something New in Entertainment
One and a half hours of First
Class Talking
VISITORS’ DAY
The Building will be open to the
general public from 2 to 6 o’clock
in the afternoon and from 7 to
8:30 in the evening.
Motion Pictures
THE GEORGE WASHINGTON
RAILROAD
and
CANADA’S COAL BIN
DR. ROGERS
of the Department of Education,
Toronto, will officially open the
Building in an address in the
Gymnasium at 8:30 o’clock.
Reeve W. D. Sanders and others
will address the meeting.
Supper at 5:30
Admission 35c and 20c
□wasrowni
Band Concert
The Board of Education Invites
You to be Present
Mr, Lome Howey, of Strong’s
Drug Store, London, is home on his
holidays.
— at—
Victoria Park
SUNDAY EVENING
at 8:30 Silver Collection
Ted. Walper, Leader
EXETER COUNCIL
A regular meeting of the Muni
cipal Council was held. AH members
present. The minutes of the meet
in held May 22nd were read and ap
proved per motion of Djgnan and
Hern. Carried.
Mr. D. A. Gordon addressed the
council in regards to having paid
Business Tax belonging to The Hur
on Lumber Co., and asked for a re
fund, Motion $er councilor Tuckey
and seconded by councilor Southcott
that the council pay over to he Exe-
er Lumber Co. taxes paid in error.
Carried.
Motion per Tuckey and Hern: That
Mr. Norry see that all catch basins
be cleaned out. Carried.
Per Hern and Dignan: That Mr.
Andrews be ashed to clean the
streets Sunday (mornings. Carried.
Motion by Dignan and Tuckey:
That the Clerk send a demand letter
to the Royal Bank in Clinton giving
June 19th the last day for taxes to
be paid on Owen Geiger’s property.
Carried.
Mr, Andrew Easton, on behalf of
the Exeter Race Committee spoke to
the council regarding having been
billed for water used on the race
track last year. The council decided
that if the Race Committee are bill
ed for water this year, to present
the bill to the council.
The following list of accounts
were read and ordered paid:
i John Cann, 555 yards crushed
'gravel at 11c. $61.05; John Cald-
jwell labor R&B, $6.50; The Exeter
iTimes-Advocate,- printing $106.00;
Hector Heywood, repairing & paint- ! ing benches atUTown Hall $5.25;
j County of Hiy^n hospital fees $2.-
I 60; R. G. Seldftn, cement, $149.50;
I W. W. Tainan, 1;
stable $41.00; I
trucking calciu|
Twp, of Usbornl
SEVERAL CASES OF
STEALING REPORTED
ing gravel $1^3.75:
6 yards of cement
Mrs. Peter W| '
ment gravel aft
filling at 15c.,4S
er, gravel & tr
24; Joe Kerr, J
suit and cap for con-
,Turkey Transport,
ri chloride $68.75;
= , grading and crush-
Glenn McLean,
; gravel $1.50;
l tlock, 42 yards ce-
30c. and 3 yards of
Several lads have been in trouble
during the week and have appeared
before Magistrate B. W, F. Beavers,
who, while taking a serious view of
the misdemeanors of the lads, has
led them off with
a serious warning
tions might lead
Three young lads
occasions entered
and stole a fishing rod and some
fishing tackle. Constable Norry in
vestigated and the lads returned the
stolen articles and in a private ses
sion appeared before Magistrate
Beavers. The above, however is not
the only case of pilfering as there
seems to have been an epidemic.
The office of a local merchant was
entered on Saturday night and a
small amount of money was stolen.
On Sunday evening some lads enter
ed a house where seemingly the oc
cupants were awa^ but on hearing
a noise the owner switched on a
light and some lads made a hurried
exit through an open door. A few
nights previous another garage was I entered and entrance was made
through the garage into the base
ment of the home and going up
stairs the lads rifled some drawers
and a secretary securing only some
small change. On entering the cel
lar the lads passed through a room
with a clay floor and the footprints
left behind revealed that it was the
work of some boys. There is a
strong suspicion as to the guilty
lads and some severe lessons may
have to be taught unless the lads
heed the warning, A few weeks ago
we made mention of some shop-lift
ing that had been going on in one
of the stores.
Mrs. Peter Wj
ment gravel at filling at 15c.,4^13.05; Severne Win
er, gravel & till eking chloride $34.-
24; Joe Kerr J trucking gravel 50 8
yards at 42e„ ($213.36; John Stire,
labor R&B, $15
trucking gravel 50 8
50; Eddie Coombes,
ditto, $15.50; Peter Coleman, mow
ing the park $2.20; John Hunkin,
mixer $7.00;’F red Smith, labor R&B
$2.50; Clifford Blanchard, ditto $2.-
50; Howard I Iverty, ditto $2.50;
William Laveij ■, ditto $1.25; Wm.
th. -Direct relief ac-Andrews $3T?&5
counts, Wm. Hatter, milk $1.75; C.
Tanton, meat $1.50; Bruce Rivers,
supplies $9.00.
Adjournment by Southcott.
Amelia Acheson, Acting Clerk.
BEQUEATHED $2,000
Miss Dorothy Lillian Cox, of Ex
eter, who for several years has been
living in Sarnia is a beneficiary in
the estate of the late Mrs. Theresa
White, with whom Miss Cox resided
and who died May 23rd, of this year.
Miss Cox was bequeathed $2,000
and furniture valued at $300. Mr.
Harry West, a former Exeter boy,
now of London, but who for a num
ber of years worked in Sarnia, was
left the sum of $200. The estate
was valued at $17,587.49 and twenty
persons were remembered in the be
quests.
Y. P.SERVICE
pan.
ofRev. Dr. Manson Doyle,
Toronto
will preach at both services
Sunday School at 10 a.in.
The children of the Sunday School
led by Mrs. A. W. Morgan will pro
vide the music for the morning ser
vice and the choir in the evening.
STRAWBERRY SUPPER
TUESDAY, JUNE 20th
followed by a 3-Act Comedy Drama
“PAYING THE FIDDLER”
by Sarnia Young People accompan
ied by St. Paul’s Sunday School Or
chestra, Sarnia.
Tea served from 6 p.m.
Admission 40c; Children 20c
Children of the S. S. under 12 Free
WM, MOODIE REV. W. MAIR
Supt. Minister
Mr. and Mrs. Hunt, of .Ripley, have
rented the residence of Mrs. H. Gid-
ley on Main street and will move to
Exeter in the near future. We wel
come them to our midst.
kindly advice and.
of what their ac-
to in the future,
last week on two
a private garage
REPAIRS SHOES AFTER 25
YEARS
Twenty five years is a long life
for a pair of work-boots yet Mr. H.
S. Walter last week had the exper
ience and pleasure of repairing a
pair of shoes that were made by his
father, the late Alfred Walter, over
a quarter of a century ago. In those
days it was a common thing for
shoes to be made by hand and the
workmen of the older school took a
particular pride in the workmanship
and material that went into the mak
ing of a pair of shoes. It was over
25 years ago that the late Alf. Wai-,
ter made a pair of shoes of French j Mrs.
kip leather for Mr. Hv. Delbridge.
The shoes were worn on the farm
before Mr. Delbridge
and since then they
general use and last
soles worn thin and
heels they were resoled and given a
new pair of heels and with the lea
ther in the uppers still soft and
pliable it is difficult to say how many
years they are still good for. Refer
ence to hand made shoes will recall
to many of our older citizens the
days of the travelling shoemaker
Who used to visit the farm house in
the community and make the shoes
for the family boarding in the home
until the work was completed. With
the large families of those early days
the work of outfitting them all often
took several weeks.
LOCAL NEWS
Mr. Wilbur Martin’s new residence
on Main St,, south, is going up rapid
ly.
Mrs. H. C. Rivers, who has been
ill for several weeks in Victoria Hos
pital, London, following an operation
is slowly improving.
Mr. Judson Corbett, after being
ill in Victoria Hospital, London, for
one week, on Monday underwent
an operation for chronic appendicitis
Mr. Ed. Fisher, who has spent the
winter at the Melville Inn, left on
Saturday, for Goderich, on a visit,
prior to leaving for the West for the
summer.
Main Street Young people held a
weiner roast at Grand Bend Monday
evening. It was a jolly get-together
prior to closing for the summer
months.
Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Moir left Sat
urday last for their home at Stettler,
Alta., after visiting with Mr. Moir’s
mother, Mrs, J. Moil’ and with Mrs,
Moir’s mother, Mrs. Mary Gould.
Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Easterbrook
and Irene were in Hamilton last
week attending the funeral of Mrs.
Easterbrook’s brother, the late John
T, Westcott, a former resident of
Exeter.
Provincial Police report swamps
aud bushland in Middlesex County
contain a large number of deer. One
herd near Ilderton containing four
teen was sighted by Provincial Con
stable Ben Milligan.
Mrs, Michael Finkbeiner and three
daughters, Helen, Lillian and Bernice
moved to Exeter on Friday
the residence they recently
ed on Andrew street. We
them to our midst.
Mr. and Mrs. James Willis,
Stephen, celebrated their fifty-sec-
and wedding anniversary, Thurs
day of last week. In company with
Mrs. James Etherington they spent
the day visiting with Mr. and Mrs.
Malcolm McDonald of Mt. Carmel.
A reunion of the Brokenshire fam
ily was held at the home of Mr. and
Mrs. C, L. Wilson on Friday, June
9th. It was a beautiful day and a
picnic lunch was served on the lawn.
Relatives were present from Atwood,
Crediton, Centralia, London, Grand
Bend, St. Thomas and Hagersville.
Miss Charlotte Brooks, of Brant
ford, a retired missionary from China
and Miss Jean Holt, of Stayner, ta
ah /Ri"h h-Ama nn Fill’--
retired to town
have been in
week with the
down at the
UNION SERVICES
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last into
purchas-
welcome
4 a,
of
Juveniles Tie Clinton
Baseball is coming into its own in
Exeter after being a dead issue for
a couple of years. Headed by the
Exeter band the newly organized
Lions juveniles in their natty new
uniforms of grey flannel accompan
ied by the Clinton Juveniles-and the
two managers, Jas. Bowey and Hugh
Hawkins, paraded to the ball dia
mond Thursday of last week where
an official opening was held. Reeve
W. D. Sanders, pitched the first ball
with Lion President Dr. W. E.
Weekes at the bat and Lion W. H.
Moise catching. The batter connect
bed with the ball pitched.
The local team showed up well
against the more seasoned visitors
and held them to a 9 all tie. In fact
it looked as though the locals would
| come out on top as they had a com
fortable lead until the Sth inning.
Clinton collected five runs in the last
two innings to tie up the game.
Murray Moore was on the mound for
the first time and he turned in a
great performance for seven innings
and was relieved in the 8th by Jack
Moise after being freely hit. Hawkins
relieved McDonald on the mound' for
Clinton in the 4th inning. Exeter had
12 hits and 4 errors; Clinton had 11
hits and six errors.
Exeter
Clinton
002
020
510 010-9
002 041-9
The line-ups:
Clinton—Lockwood ss;
Monteith 1st, Hawkins 3rd, Cook cf;
Bartliff 2nd; Counter If; McEwen rf
McDonald p.
Exeter—-Moise ss: Sweet 2nd;
Motz c; Baynham If; Kleinstiver 3rd
Wein 1st; Moore p; Hicks cf; South-
cott rf; Green relieved Southcott in?
the 4th. '
Umpires—D. Thornlyke, J, Creech
* * *
Exeter 7—Lucan 8
Exeter’s newly organized interme
diates under new management lost a
with the highly-rated
Powell e.
interesting and impressive
People’s service was held in
Presbyterian church on Sun
morning last. A children's
choir led the service of song. The
service was presided over by Wal
lace Seldon, who read the Scripture
lesson. Misses Ethel and Irene Kydd
led in prayer.' Short and well
prepared addresses were given by
Harry Strang and Grafton Cochrane
the former speaking on consecrated
youth, and the latter on security and
stability in a world today. Both
messages were well received. The
pastor, Rev. D. C. Hill was in at
tendance at the General Assembly
which was meeting in Midland.
An
Young
Caven
day
Will Meet in St. Catharines
At the General Assembly of the
Presbyterian Church in Canada meet-'
ing in Midland, an invitation was
extended by Judge J. G. Stanbury to
hold the 66th Assembly in
Church, St. Catharines next
and it was decided by a near unani
mous vote to accept the invitation.
Judge Stanbury said, “The standard
set by Midland will be hard to equal,
but. Knox Church, St. Catharines,
will give you a royal welcome.” in
the appointment of committees, Mrs.
J. H. Hill, of, Ottawa, mother of Rev.
D. C. Hill, of town, was appointed a
member of the Missionary and Dea
coness Training Home for two years4?five years ago.
Arrangements have been made for1
the holding of union services in the
Main St. and James St. United
churches during the months of July
: and August. Services during the
month of July will be conducted by
1 Rev. R. C. Copeland, of Main Street
Church and the music will be fur
nished by the Main St. choir. Union
services will begin in Main St. church
; on Sunday morning July 2nd and in
the evening in James St, church al
ternating each Sunday. During the
month of August and the first Sun
day in September, Rev. Mr. Page, of
James St. will be in charge and the
music will be in charge of the James
Street choir. Joint committees met
..Monday evening and made the above
, ,arrangements.
1 V
"DEATH OF MRS. HODGE
Knox
year,
missionary from China home on fur-1 tough game v-jlu <.«<=>
lough, are visiting with Dr. D. A. and -''Irish Nine at Lucan Tuesday evening.
. Ivlic. Anderson. /Miss,/Holt expects ' A home run in the last innings with
'to return to CliiiiaXh\September go-: ‘ '........
ing to Chungking in tlie war area.
A large limb of a chestnut tree in
front of Mrs. J. G. Jones’ residence
on Main St. was blown down Sunday
with the wind. Master Jim Tanton
while out walking with his father,
was under the limb when it com
menced to fall and he escaped from
under it just in time to avoid a
serious accident. [
Mr. Charles Cox, who has been
employed with Southcott Bros., has
resigned his position and has left
for Goderich to take a position in
the electrical store of his uncles,
Messrs. Cornish Bros. Stanley, son
of Mr. and Mrs. Clayton Frayne .is
taking his position here. Charlie’s
many friend^will wish him every
success. V
Six rinks took part iii" the ’week-'
ly jitney at the Exeter Bowling
■ Greens, Friday evening of last week.
The winners were Mrs. Jaques, G.
W. Layton, H. C. Carey and R. N.
Creech with three wins; second,
: Miss S. Southcott, S. B. Taylor, T,
H. Elliott and W. H. Moise, two
. wins plus sixteen; third, Wm. Rivers
E. J. Wethey, Gordon May, W. G.
Cochrane, two wins plus four.
“Miss Maragret Isabel Kirk, B.A.,
has returned from Toronto where
she attended the School of Library '
Science and received her B.L.S. de-
: gree. and is with her parents, Mr.
, and Mrs, R. Kirk, of Glanworth.
Miss Kirk will return in July to Tor
onto where she has accepted an ap
pointment.”—-London Free Prss.
Miss Kirk is a former teacher of
the Exeter P. S,
: a man on bases gave the home team
the necessary runs to win the game.
Exeter got away to a bad start when
they allowed Luca.n three runs in the
first innings but they more than
‘evened the score in their half when
the first four batters chalked up
runs. After the first two innings
the game was as fast and close as
anyone could wish to see. It ended in
a spectacular finish.
I had pounded out a
across the lot to lose
flower garden scoring Hudson ahead
of him. Jos. Creech, in left field, re
tired the side with a spectacular
catch when running at top speed he
caught a fly with the left hand that
was just below the knee. Rogers, a
new man from Mt. pleasant, was in
the box and gave a good account of
himself.
Exeter ........
Lucan ........
The line-ups
Exeter—-F. Creech cf; H. Pickett
1st; Brintnell ss; J. Creech If; E.
Beavers 3rd; A. Goetz 2nd; Carscad-
den rf; E» Taylor c; Rogers p.
Lucan—Burgess cf:
Lamkin rf; Hudson
Amos If; Murdy 1st;
dows 3rd,
Exeter 5 hits and
11 hits and 7 errors.
Umpires—F. Stevenson and L.
; Battersby.
< , * * *
Juvenile Game Thursday Night
X The Hensall Juveniles will play a
return game in Exeter Thursday ev
ening. Come out and see a fast game.
» * »
Crediton Wins From Mitchell
After Chown
homer clean
the ball in a
400 200 01-7
310 010 3x-8
R. Paul ss;
p: Chown 2nd;
Murray c; Mea-
5 errors; Lucan
Mrs. John Hodge, formerly a resi
dent of the Fullarton-Blanshard
town line, and for the past 25 years
of St. Marys, died Sunday night at
her home in her 81st year. She was
born on a farm near Mitchell. Mrs.
Hodge was a member of the United
church. Surviving are Hires daugh
ters, Mrs. Wilfred Doupe, Kirkton;
Mrs. Norman Malcolm, Dublin; and
Mrs, Percy Sparling, Ilderton; three
son, Charles Hodge, Fullarton Tp.;
Wesley Hodge, Kirkton and Walter
Hodge, Goderich, Another son, Ro
bert Hodge,’died in Barrhead. Alta.,
Chiselhurst W. M. S. Entertained
A very pleasant time was spent at
the h-ome of Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Py-
bus, of town on Tuesday afternoon
June. 13th when the members of the
Chiselhurst W. M. S. and friends Of
the United Church meet for their
regular monthly meeting with Mrs.
J. Ferguson, president, presiding. A
splendid program was rendered in
cluding a very interesting mission
ary address by Mrs, George Layton,
of town, which was much enjoyed by
all present. Aftp’ the program a
dainty lunch was served.
Crediton defeated Mitchell by the
score of 5-2 in a Huron-Perth Base
ball League game played at Crediton
on Monday evening. Given pitched
fine ball for the winners. He fanned
nine batters and did not pass a single
batter. Given kept his hits well scat
tered and his impressive display
brought encouraging remarks from
Manager P. K. Fahrner, Casey scor
ed the opening run for Mitchell on
an error. McCaree for Mitchell pitch
ed a six hit ball game and fanned
batters allowing two walks.
Mitchell....... 100 010 000-2 1
Crediton .... .. 102 110 00x-5 6
McCaree and Casey;
Bowden,
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Given and