The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1939-11-23, Page 3£
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THE EXETER TIMES-ADVOCATE NOVEMBER mi)
SALADA’
' STAMP CLUB
"DRAMA of STAMPS"
A letter describing an Arizona
desert has been received by Bill
Davis at the Times-Advocate from
Gerald (Torchy) Hurdon, of Phoe
nix, Arizona, which will be read
with interest by our readers:
WEDNESDAYS
AT P.M.2210 W. Van Buren St.,
Phoenix, Artz.
CFRB
Wm. Cunningham, of
Clandeboye, Fatally
Injured when Hit
by Auto
Struck down by a cai’ late Tues
day afternoon as he attempted to
cross No. 4 Highway just north of
Lucan to get a ride with the mail
carrier, William Cunningham, 72-
year-old resident of Clandeboye, re
ceived a compound fracture of the
right leg and suffered from shock
considerably,
He was taken by ambulance to the
Victoria Hospital, London, where an
X-ray examination was made and
treatment gven for shock. Failing to
rally from the shock ol’ the accident
he died at 6.45 p.m. Wednesday.
The car that struck the Clande-
boye man was driven by Dr, P. J.
O’Dwyer, of Zurich, who was going >
to London, taking with him a pa
tient who was to have an operation
in a London Hospital.
Police was told that Mr. Cunning
ham
side
man
The
across the pavement to inquire if he
could get a ride and apparently did
not see the car approaching and is
reported to have stepped out direct
ly into its path.
Traffic Officer Harry Gilchrist, of
Lucan, was called and as soon as he
arrived Dr, O’Dwyer continued his
trip while the accident victim was
taken to London in Murdy's ambul
ance. *
brought
torist.
Chief
structed
-Smith, of Dorchester, to conduct an
inquest. The preliminary was held
at the Lucan mortuary at 8 p.m.
Wednesday night. The probe was
then adjourned until 8 p.m.
nesday, November 22, at the
police court room, London.
Provincial Constable Geo.
impaneled the jury while the inves
tigation of the accident had been
carried out by Traffic Officer Harry
Gilchrist, of Lucan. No charge was
laid aganist Dr. O'Dwyer who was
transporting a patient into London
hospital for an operation at
time of the accident.
Mr. Cunningham was born in
Gillivray Township, a son of the
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Cunningham.
He spent most of his life except -for
some years in Stratford where he
was employed in the 'C.N.R. carshops.
Recently he had been working as a
farm laborer in the Clapdeboye dis
trict.
Mr. Cunningham was twice mar
ried, first to Mrs. Agnes Carter, of
Stratford and to Mrs. Robert Robin
son, of Lucan. The latter predeceas
ed him seven years.
•Surviving are two daughters, Mrs.
Monte Potter and Mrs. Arthur Simp
son of Woodstock, and one son, Geo.,
living in the United States. There
are three sisters: Mrs. Frank Tilley,
Leamington; Mrs. Charles Lewis,
Mooresville and Mrs. William Mc
Williams,, McGillivray Township;
four brothers, Robert and Frank, of
McGillivray; Walter, of Exeter, and
Benjamin, of London.
The funeral was held Friday from
the home of his uncle, iGeo. Cunning
ham, second concession Of McGilliv
ray Townshp to St. James’ Church,
'Clandeboye for service and inter
ment.
was walking along the west
of the highway when the mail
driving northward stopped.
Clandeboye resident started
The police investigation
, no charge against the mo-
Coroner Routledge in
District Coroner Dr. Arthur
Wed-
county
Clubbe
the
Mc-
late
the
any
Neff: “Is that Nice?”
Dean: “In one Italian city
people go swimming without
clothes on." N™. 1
Children's Coughs
Quickly Relieved
It is hard to keep the children
from taking cold; they will run out
of doors not properly clad; have on
too much clothing and get overheated
and cool off too suddenly; they get
their feet wet; kick oil the bed
clothes at night. The mother cannot
watch them all the time, so what is
She going to do?
Mothers should never neglect the
child’s cough or cold, but on its in
ception should procure a bottle of
Dr. Wood’s Norway Fine Syrup. It
is so pleasant to the taste the
youngsters take it without any fuss.
The T. Milburn <X Ltd., Toronto, Ont
Dear Bill:
Now that the girls are away down
in old Mexico for a few days visiting
some friends; there descends on our
humble abode a quietness .condu-
• cive to a hit of letter-writing and so,
without having to stuff my ears with
absorbent cotton to shut out the ra
dio or an animated discussion of cur
rent topics there may be a moment
to dash off a few lines of press
agenting for our sunny vale down
, here where every road leads to ad-
■ venture, scienic grandeur and the
desert,
Speaking of deserts Bill, reminds
me of the fact that very few people
can form anything like a comprehen
sive picture in their minds of an
Arizona desert and, come to think
of it, my own conception of what
sort of an affair a desert might be
like, prior to my first 'Sight of it, was
gleaned from an occasional picture
of the great Sahara.
Deserts, that is taking the run-of-
the-mill variety may differ quite
considerably so we’ll take our own
particular desert and try to paint a
little word picture of what you may
find should you accidentally stumble
across one. First, this desert isn’t
sandy - far from it - it’s hard adobe
covered with a light sifting of multi
colored fragments of quartz and
rock — gorged in places by dry
draws (dry creek beds) and studd
ed with sage-brush, tumble-weed,
greasewood mesquite catclaw, iron
wood and palo-verde -— the latter
quintette being a low, skimpy type of
half tree and half bush — other
growths of course include over 100
varieties of cacti ranging from the
giant Suliuara, that grotesque sen
tinel of the desert, to the tiny little
spiked miseries that somehow or
other invariably wriggle their way
into one’s shoes — desert growths
have the ability and a decided in
clination to rip, tear, prick and
scratch anyone passing anywhere in
the vicinity — not the sort of ver
dure you could take to your bosom
with any degree of warmth or affec
tion. The amount of growth natur
ally varies with the locality and in
places it becomes very sparse thou’
rarely disappears except in sinks
(dry lakes) where excessive alkal
ine deposits form a chalk-like pow
der to discourage even the hardiest
—so much for the jolly old verdure.
Stand anywhere in the desert and
it seems to be entirely surrounded
by rugged, rock-bound mountains of
semi-volcanic appearance, the peaks
of many of these are surmounted by
ruins of ah cient Indian fortifications
and the sides are often pock-marked
by glory holes (abandoned mines)
and caves — then again they may be
eroded to wierd shaped spires until
they take on the appearance of fake
movie background to a holly wood
horse-opera — others of the butte
(straight sided) type tower • majes
tically to enormous heights forming
lofty, flat - topped cathedrals that
seem to frown down on, the desert
floor — rarely can anyone visit the
desert and escape the spell of its
nature-in-the-raw allure — difficult
to describe, yet once seen, never for
gotten.
One somehow assumes that a des
ert would be an endless expanse of
waste land where nothing lives or
grows — and even at a cursory
glance it appears to be somewhat
barren and desolate — its only
when you begin to take more than
a passing look that its real interest
starts to assert itself — tiny flowers
no bigger than the head of a pin
and barely visible as you stand over
them’ cover acres at a stretch —
rockier areas conceal myriads of var
ious forms of cacti — growths so
queer they don’t seem real — many
covered with needle-like spikes of
up to three inches long and from
that down to the fish hook and fuzzy
varieties, some so fine they resemble
velvet — until you happen to touch
one — after which you sit down and
start a half hour’s plucking opera
tion — this last procedure is not
condusive to spiritual uplift in a big
way — just part of the initiation to
the great open spaces whete stick-to-
it iveness is more than a mere by
word.
Various assortments of mineral
deposits, semi-precious stones and
portions of petrified wood are to be
found in endless variety and rarely
does anyone come in from a desert
walk without at least a pocketful of
interesting specimens.
Then of course there are always
those denizens of the arid lands such
as little lizards, pack-rats, horned
toads and pocket gophdH — no one
pays any attention to them —— they
scurry away at incredible speed at
one’s approach and seem to melt into
the lanscape in an amazingly short
space of time —- the lizards are to
me the most interesting — they
come ill assorted hues and have long
tapering tails half of which they
can break off at will in the advent
of danger of capture *— a new tail
replaces the lost one in from 10 to
12 days they’re perfectly harm
less and toed on tiny insects such as
gnats and ants which they gather by
means of a long slender tongue pro
jected at lightning-like speed to
seemingly spear their prey in mid
air •— sometime I’ll send you a cou
ple • they’ll live for months on
two degrees less than nothing so
you won’t have to worry about a feed
bill —• in spite of their appearance
such as a deeply furrowed brow and
general furtive, worried expression,
I am informed they are really con
tent almost anywhere and if kept
warm and allowed sufficient space
to cavort about a bit for exercise
they make excellent pets' — their
agility is extraordinary and, like a
political^ they can wriggle their way
out of almost any situation.
To get back to the desert again—
the usual impression of a desert
(seems to view it as a place of exces
sive heat — no
thing of it as a
cool enough to
True in summer
and last summer I spent days on
the desert from sunrise to sunset
when the temperature exceeded 120
degrees in the shade — that shade
business is a mere figure of speech
I assure you - a mere comparative
term — however I can’t say I suffer
ed to any notable degree and much
prefer the heat to the cold of an
eastern winter — dressed as we were
in light loose fitting coat and trou
sers heavy soled huaraches and rice
straw helmets the heat seems to
have practically no ill-effects — only
the lack of drinking water makes it
unbearable and we always saw that
our drinking bag was amply sup
plied.
The question usually asked by the
easterners is ‘but how about snakes?’
Well Bill, I should say that snakes
are somewhat of a rarity because in
all my ramblings
hundreds of miles,
on horseback thru
run across three
seen' that many on a Sunday after
noon's walk on a Pennsylvania hill
side and anyway fear of snakebite
is lessened here because there’s
practically no grass for them to hide
in — you’d probably get a laugh out
of the fact that the thing most
people seek to avoid is a little red
ant whose bite seems to be about
5 0 mosquito power
lasting from 24 to
feet.
This description
could really go on endlessly — there
are hundreds of phases as yet un
mentioned so we’ll leave the rest for
a later date and conclude with my
Spanish lesson for the day.
Sin mas por el momento, su ami
go que epprecia
(with nothing more for the moment,
from one Mio appreciates you)
TOUCHY
, 50 YEARS AGO
November 28, 1889
the Baptist
on the 13th
iC. Campbell,
one ever seems to
place that can be
be quite livable,
it gets plenty hot
covering literally
both on foot and
this country I’ve
rattlers — I've
in intensity and
3 6 hours in ef-
of desert life
ALFRED SCADDING PLANS
TO WORK MOOSE RIVER MINE
Alfred Scadding, survivor of the
Moose River mine accident in 1936,
is making plans to go back to the
Nova Scotia property to put it into
operation. Scadding, D. >E. Robin
son and Herman Magill, all of Tor
onto, were trapped in the mine by
a rockfall in 19 36. Magill died un
derground but the other two emerg
ed after ten days’ imprisonment. The
rescue by Nova Scotia draegermen
was one of the most thrilling in min
ing history and attracted world-wide
attention. Scadding has acquired
a couple of new associates and they
have leased the Moose River proper
ty from the Nova Scotia government.
A government geologist has reported
the existence of tungsten in the mine
and 'Scadding believes that, with a
war on, the price of the valuable
wartime metal should rise.
SOUTH HURON SOLDIERS WILL
RECEIVE BIBLES
Involving an outlay of some $10,-
000 the British and Foreign Bible
Society has arranged to distribute
copies of "Khako Testaments"
among the fighting forces of all na
tionalities. Rev, J. B. M. Armour,
general secretary, has just complet
ed a seven-weeks’ tour of Eastern
Canada, the latest meeting having
been held in London when many of
the 47 branches in Middlesex and
South Huron were represented by
their officers. The meeting was un
der the chairmanship of Rev. L. C,
Harrison, of Lucan,
KIPPEN EAST
BANQUET
W. I HOLDS
TO END CONTEST
Women’s InstituteKippen Ea'st
held a banquet at the home of Mrs.
Harry Caldwell, with 50 members
and ex-members present. The color
scheme of the table was yellow
orange. The banquet market
end of a contest and the losing
provided tile program, which
sisted of a play, ZL" ™.
Convention,” with a cast of 22.
and
the
side
con-
“The Old Maids’
■sweet
CAPORAE
CI 0 ar£tTeS -(ma
7>TI>« («ra» In wMeh
«»• •molted'"
Mr. Jas. Hodgson, formerly of Us
borne, but now of Palmerston has
been again promoted by the G. T. R.
authorities.
Mr. Rd. Hawkins and family, of
Hay, left Monday for Iowa where
he has rented a farm.
Lett-Meidinger - At
parsonage, St. Marys,
inst,, by the Rev. M.
Mr. Joseph Lett, of Yarmouth Centre
r to Miss Brigita Meidinger, of St.
Marys, formerly of Dashwood.
Essery-Parsons-In Qrediton, on the
27th inst at the residence of Mr.
■Chris. Beaver, by the Rev, M.
Thompson, Mr. Geo. G. Essery, to
Miss Molly A. Parsons, all of Cen
tralia.
McVey-Clarke-At ’Revensmere’ the
residence of the bride’s parents, But
te City, Calif., on the 27th inst, Mr.
J. E. McVey to Miss
ond daughted of Mr.
formerly of Exeter.
Mr. D. Shoff and
Bice, of Clandeboye,
Muskoka to hunt deer.
Mr. Jacob Taylor, of
harness maker, has opened
shop in Centralia, Mr. M. 'Callander
is carrying on the business in Kirk
ton.
Mr. Chas. Taylor, who has been
on his farm in Michigan for the past
two months in now home to spend
the winter in Crediton.
On Friday last at Crediton a
shooting match was held. In the
glass ball match the score was—10
balls: Wm. Sanders, 8; Ben Eilber,
8; Wm. Holt, 6; Wm. Kerr, 3;
Eilber 0.
Anna V., sec-
N. j. Clarke,
Mr,
are
Lawrence
going to
Kirkton,
a branch
25 YEARS AGO
November 26, 1924
Sam.
aaccepted
will move
Calgary, a
Mr. Cecil MoLeod has
position in London and
there shortly.
Dr. W. J. Knight, -of
former Exeter boy, has qualified as
lieutenant in the Army Medical Corp
and is attached to the 17 th Field
Ambulance, Calgary.
Mr. and Mrs. James Frayne and
daughter have moved to town and
are now comfortably settled in their
home on James street.
Mr. and Mrs. Nelson Stanlake are
moving to town this week.
Mr. Chas. Dyer has been trans
ferred to Alvinston to relieve in the
Molsons Bank.
Dr. Hardie, of Guelph, has open
ed nip an office in Petty’s Block, in
Hensail and intends practicing den
tistry in Hensail and Zurich.
Mr. Wm. Pfaff, of Dashwood, has
moved to Grand Bend and is occupy
ing Wm. Clarkson’s house.
Mr. Paris Anderson and wife have
moved to Crediton from Ailsa Craig
into the residence owned by the late
Henry Motz. Mr. Anderson
painter.
Mr. Garnet Rau, who has
West for a number of years is
ing friends at Crediton.
'Mr. Wm. Heaman has moved into
the farm he recently bought from
Robert Mawhinney on the 10th con
cession of Stephen.
is a
been
visit-
15 YEARS AGO
November 27, 1924
Messrs. Wm. Rivers and E. C. Har
vey are up in Bruce county hunting
white rabbits.
Miss Lila Taylor, a promising ar
tist of Usborne has had her work
recognized by having one of her pic
tures a winter scene, “The Home
stead" hung in the Canadian Acad
emy at Ottawa.
Mr. A. D. Taylor, of Saskatoon an
Exeter Old Boy, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Alex Taylor of Exeter North has
been granted a patent for his inven
tion of an automatic hot-air furnace
humidifier.
Mr. and Mrs. Phalen, who have
been here for several weeks, return
ed to Clinton last week. Mr. Phal
en was cutter for the S. M. Sanders
Co. ;
Mr. W. H. Gregory, of Stratford,
formerly of Exeter, has been ap
pointed manager of the British
Mortgage Loan Co., in place of Mr.
J. A. Davidson, who retires owing to
ill health.
HUNDRED AND TWENTY-TXVO
SHIPS SUNK DURING WAR
A Canadian Press despatch from
London, Eng., Nov. 15th says: —
“Intensification of warfare on the
seas was seen in the announcement
Tuesday of the sinking of a British
destroyer, three British merchant
vessels and a Norwegian tanker,
leaving at least 28 persons dead Or
missing and 15 injured.
The number Of ships sunk since
the start of the war twelve weeks
ago thus was raised to 122 and the
known tonnage destroyed to 500,117.
At least 1,875 persons have been
killed; many others are missing.
Probably the greatest loss of life
occurred in the torpedoing of an un
identified Norwegian tanker, Kjoede.
At least 17 were missing after 23
surviving crewmen were picked up
from an open boat in which they had
drifted 30 hours. The survivors
charged the ship was torpedoed
without warning.
Branch Formed
Zurich has formed a branch of the
Red Cross. The local objective is
,$1,000. Zurich's territory is two
and a half miles both east and south
five miles north of Zurich and west
to Lake Huron. Canvassers are
now at work. Tbe following offi
cers were elected: President, E. M.
Dagg; vice-presidents, Rev. Fathers
Powers and Martin, Rev. Mr. Tuerk
heim and Rev. Mr. Heckendorn; sec
retary, V. Dinnin; assistant secret
ary, A. V. Watson; treasurer, Dr.
O'Dwyer; assistant treasurer, Miss
Ruby Church; finance committee,
Elmer Klopp, convener; work com
mittee, Mrs. Oesch, convener; cut
ting committee, Miss Anna Daters,
convener; inspection committee, Mrs.
Prang, convener; shipping commit
tee, Mr. A. Kalbfleisch, convener;
hospital committee, Mrs.. O'Dwyer,
convener.
! HUGE APPLE SUPPLY IN
I STORAGE AT FOREST
Forest
Forest
in the
The Lambton Fruit Growers’ Cold
Storage Company have completed
the season’s pack of apples and now
have more than 20,000 bushels of
fruit packet and stored at
ready for shipment.
.Few of the apples in the
plant will move until later
winter. The large surplus is now
being canned or processed by the
vinegar works or evatorators. The
war has caused much concern among
fruit growers and just what amount
of Canadian apples will go overseas
is yet to be determined by trade
ministers.
Only a week after he had started
to work at a local warehouse the
youth announced he was quitting.
“’Taint the wages," he explained to
the manager. “It’s just that I can’t
help having a guilty conscience all
the time I’m working." “What for?”
asked the amazed manager. “I’m all
the time worrying about how I’m
cheating a big strong mule out of
a job.”
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