HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1940-01-18, Page 2THVHSPAY, JANVABY 18, 1910 THE EXETER TIMES-ADVOCATE
HAY COUNCIL
The Xirst meeting of the members
of the 19 4Q Council of the Township
of Hay was held at the Town Hall,
Zurich, at 11 o’clock a.m. on Mon
day January Sth, in accordance with
the provisions of The Municipal Act,
The declaration of office was signed
by the following: Reeve, George
Armstrong; Councillors, Alex. Crear-
ar, Roland Geiger, Fred J. Haberer
and William Haugh. The Reeve
and Councillors gave short addresses,
Numerous communications were
read over and the minutes of the
December 15th meeting were adopt
ed. as read, after which the follow
ing motions were passed.
That the following officials be re
appointed for 1940: Weed Inspector
John McBride; Member of Board of
Health, Josiah Geiger; Sanitary In
spectors, B. C. Edwards, J. P. Rau
and C. F. Pfile; School Attendance
Officers, W. R. Dougall and E. B.
Horner; Caretaker of Hall, Henry
Thiel.
That salaries to be paid to Town
ship officials for 1940 be fixed as
follows: Clerk and Treasurer, for
Twp. $360,00; for telephone $350;
for Twp roads $76, payable quarter
ly; Road Supt. 35c per hour includ
ing transportation; Weed Inspector
35c per hour including transporta
tion; Caretaker of hall $45; Select
ing of Jurors, Reeve $2; Assessor
$2, Clerk $5; Board of Health $1.00
per meeting; Sanitary inspectors,
same rates as fixed in 1939 and that
a by-law be prepared for passing at
next meeting confirming above.
That following be re-appointed as
Pound Keepers for 1940: J. F. In
gram, W. Alexander, S. Schroeder,
O. Greb, W. J. Johnston, S, Hoff
man, A. Weber, D. Swartzentruber,
R. Merner, F. Turnbull and Filbert
Denomme, . and as stock valuator,
Bert Klopp, and as fence viewers, C.
H. Blackwell, A. Pfaff,. J. Eckstein
and A. Hendrick and that appoint
ments be confirmed by by-law to be
passed at next meeting of Council.
That the same be re-appointed as
Patrolmen of the various Township
Road Divisions for the year 1940 as
in 1939.
That the Reeve and Clerk be auth
orized to sign and submit to the
Minister of Highways the petition of
the Council of the Township of Hay
showing that there has been expend
ed on Township Roads the sum of
$7846.48 during the year 1939 and
requesting the statutory grant on
that amount according to the pro
visions of the Highway Improve
ment Act and'1 amendments thereto.
That by-law No. 1-19 40 providing
for an estimated expenditure on
Township Roads in 19 40 not exceed
ing $S,500 be read three times and
finally passed and that Copy of by
law be forwarded to Department of
Highways for approval.
That the clerk advertise for ap
plications for the position of As
sessor for the Township of Hay. Ap
plications to be received up to Feb
ruary 12th, 1940. Also that appli
cations for assessor be asked for an
nually hereafter.
That Monteith & Monteith, chart
ered accountants, Stratford, be ap
pointed to audit the Township, Tel
ephone and other accounts covering
the period January 1st, 19 39 to De
cember 31st, 1939.
That tax collector be authorized to
continue the collection of 19 39 un
paid taxes and that he be instructed
to return his roll on March 4 th,
1940.
That 1200 feet of snow fence and
necessary posts to erect same be
purchased from Roofers Supply Co.,
Toronto, for immediate delivery.
That Clerk subscribe for nine cop
ies of Municipal World for ™°mbers
of council and officials.
That the annual meeting of the
subscribers of the Hay Municipal
Telephone System be held at the
Town Hall, Zurich, on Monday, Feb
ruary 12th at two o’clock in the af
ternoon.
That the fidelity bond for $10,000
re township treasurer De renewed
for one year.
That accounts covering payments
on relief and general accounts be
passed as per vouchers:
Relief: L. Hendrick rent $5, W,
Hay allowance $10, Treas., London,
re Thompson $1.40.
General Accounts: Election expen
ditures $122.0-5; Emp. Lia. Co,
bond $40; Hospital Sick Children,
grant $5; Twp, Clerk, registering
B„ M„ and D„ and O. A. P. $28;
Municipal World, supplies $5.31.
That the counci.l adjourn to meet
again on Monday, February 12th at
three o’clock in the afternoon.
A. F. Hess, Clerk
BLANSHARD TWP. COUNCIL
Blanshard Township Council held
its inaugural meeting in Rhnnoch
Townshp Hall. Officers for 1940
are: Clerk, Charles Barnett; treas
urer, W. L. Switzer; collector, Chas.
Atkinson; assessor; Edgar Stacey;
road superintendent, Albert Biekell
truant officer, Howard Epplett;
medical health officer; Dr. Camp
bell; livestock valuator, George
Hookeway.
A new township school area has
been organized in Blanshard Town
ship. The trustees appointed are
elected at the municipal election.
Trustees of school area are Bob
Marriott, Fred jameison, Nelson
Haker, John Stevens and James
Sparling.
Query and Reply
By Page Turner
(All Radio and Reprint Rights
Reserved)
Query: What was the nationality
of the early settlers of Carolina and
when was the State divided into
North and South Carolina?
Reply: First settlers of Carolina
were English in 1670. Later colon
ists from France, Ireland, Scotland,
Switzerland and Germany. After the
second generation, the young people
began to inter-marry so that the na
tionality of the early settlers who
developed the two states are real
’melting pot’ Americans. The two
separate states were created in
17-29.
Query: What part of the United
States was developed by people from
the Scandinavian countries?
Reply: Pioneers from Sweden and
Finland settled along the Delaware
coast; in 1655 Holland claimed this
region and captured the forts of
the Swedes and Finns — the terri
tory was then known as New Neth
erlands. It was later claimed by
England.
Query: How old was Daniel Boone
when he established the settlement
now known as Booneville, Ken
tucky?
Reply: Daniel Boone was born in
western Pennsylvania in 1735 and
established the pioneer settlement
of Booneville in 1775 — so he was
40 years old.
Query: What- is the name of the
oldest city?
Reply: It is said that Cain - the
son of Adam and Eve - who became
a wanderer after he killed Abel, la
ter established the first city — call
ed Enoch and named after his son.
Query: How many hairs has the
average normal person on their
scalp?
Reply: Blonde people have more
than dark-haired people — the av
erage is about one hundred and
fifty- thousand hairs per person.
Dark-haired people classed as brun
ettes average less than one hundred
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and twenty thousand; red heads av
erage less than sixty thousand hairs.
The coarseness and fineness of the
hair usually determines the number
of hairs in the scalp — coarse hail’
takes up more room than fine hair
so less hair in some individuals is
hardly noticeable.
Query: Whaf is the proposed num
ber of ships to be built under th°
three > billion dollar budget for hif
creasing the Navy of the United
States.
Reply; It is proposed (subject to
decision by Congress) that they
build 12 large battleships, 6 aircraft
carriers, 17 heavy cruisers, 18 light
cruisers, 77 destroyers, 36 submar
ines and 56 auxiliary vessels.
CHISELHURST
(Intended for last week)
Miss Betty Wright, of Detroit, is
spending a few weeks with Mr. and
Mrs. Herb Kercher and family nea1’
Chiselhurst.
• Mr, Mervyn Ryckman, of ThoroVl
is at the home of his parents Mr.
and Mrs. Gfant Ryckman with
scarlet fever. At time of writing
he is much improved.
The Young Peoples Society held
their first meeting of 1940 on Tues
day evening of last week. The meet
ing opened by singing a hymn after
which the Lord’s prayer was repeat
ed in unison.. Miss Ruby Dal
rymple took a chaptei’ from the
Study Book “Girls Who Made Well''
on Marie Curie, the discoverer of
radium. Mr. Ben Stoneman then
favored with a piano solo which
was much enjoyed by all. A hymn
was sung followed by Scripture read
ing. In place of a topic Miss Jean
Venner had prepared & number of
questions. The closing hymn was
sung and the Mizpah benediction
pronounced. The Hensall Society
have invited the Chiselhurst Society
to a skating party, weather ■ permit
ting next Monday evening, January
15th at Hensall. All members of
the iChiselhurst Society welcome.
BLYTH REEVE IS BADLY
HURT PLAYING HOCKEY
While playing' goal for a Blyth
team in the village league at Blyth
last Thursday night, Reeve George
MeNall had the misfortune to re
ceive a fast shot which struck him
in the face and broke both cartil
ages in his nose. In spite of the
injury, the team he was supporting
won by a score of 5-3. MeNall is
a strong contestant for the warden
ship of Huron County.
In talking yourself up, don’t talk
others down.
“It All Depends”
I suppose that the most necessary
place for some such phrase as “it all
depends” is when a discussion on
farming takes place. It all depends
whether the parties to the discus
sion live in the city or the country
what turn the conversation will take.
Have you ever heard a farmer
tell a city fellow how to run his
business or, outside of the House
of Commons, after a solution to
the railway problem?
But just bring up the subject of
farming amongst a group of city
people and every last one can tell
you what is the matter with the
farms, farming and farmers. Each
one knows just what should be done
to put the farmer into the income-
tax paying class. Each one of them
can - and will tell you just what he
would do if he had a farm.
You will hear long lectures on the
failure of our farmers to make use
of science and invention. They will
be taken to task for not adapting
modern production methods to the
farm. In fact, to hear the city fel
low talk, the only thing wrong with
farming is that farms are not run
by business men.
.Some day, perhaps, the urban ex
pert on farming will realize that
there is more to Canada’s greatest
industry than even an “efficiency
expert” realizes. No one has yet
produced a text book that can tell
a man how to understand animals,
how to smell tomorrow’s weather or
how to decide when to plant a crop.
I, and I have no excuse for I spent
eight months as a ‘hired man’ on an
Ontario farm in my younger days,
and today spend seven months of
the year surrounded by farms, have
found myself frequently asking, why
don’t they do this? Why don’t they
do that?
Well, it all depends!
Just two weeks ago I sat, on two
succeeding days, in the kitchens of
two Ontario farm houses. In one I
asked why farmers did not operate
large sections of land co-operatively
and thus make use of the produc
tion methods of big business. The
farmer to whom I addressed the
question answered that he didn’t
think it wpuld work. Farming, he
maintained, is an individual business
at which some succeed because they
have the good sense and the ability
to turn low value grains and roots
into higher value flesh and blood
before they sell their products and
that you couldn’t apply mass pro
duction methods.
j To my suggestion that the trac-
• tor, intelligently used, will gD a long
way tp maXifl.g.jSome form of mass
production possible he pointed out
that there are two vital functions
pn the farm that a tractor cannot
form. “It cannot” he said, “hand
grain ana hay into the barn, or man-
ive out of the barnyard!”
Even J saw what he meant, You
can tram a team to go slowly along
between the stocks of grain - but
i tractor needs a drive-'. And at the
time when your manure is hauled
the tractor in a barnyard is an en
gineering obstacle.
The same two questions brought
quite different answers in the next
farmhouse, According to Farmer
number two in some parts of On
tario at least many steps in this di
rection have already been made. He
took me out to a 15 acre field at
the back of the farm where a big
tractor - he has a small one of his
own - was “one-way” discing. The
machine and operator came from a
neighboring farm on a per diem
basis and were available for other
neighbors.
And, on the mass production ba
sis, it is becoming quite the thing
to rig lights on the tractor and, by
using three crews in shifts, to work
the heavy machine 24 hours a day.
Still on the mass production
theme, Farmer number two, demon
strated another “factory” stunt. We
walked over to a fence-corner for a
drink but instead of it being luke
warm water and oat-meal as it was
when I worked on a farm, I was of
fered iced tea from a gallon-sized
vacuum jug. In answer to my rais
ed eyebrows I was told the tea
would be piping hot for the autumn
work.
BIDDULPH TOWNSHIP COUNCIL
. Biddulph Township Council held
their inaugural . meeting in the
Township Hall at Lucan. Officers
for 1940 are: Clerk, Frank Hudson
treasurer, Elijah Harlton; assessor,
James Kelly; tax collector,' Hilson
Stanley; medical health officer, Dr.
F. S. Kipp; road superintendent,
Wm. Isaacs; livestock valuators,
Frank Hardie, Wm. Bryan and W.
Culbert; fence viewers, H. A. Stan
ley, Jim Dewan, Mel Westman, Joe
McGlanchlin is weed inspector.
GRANTON CHURCH
ELECTS' NEW OFFICERS
The Wesley United Church at
Granton W. M. S. 19 40 officers are:
President, Mrs. M. Dann; vice-presi
dent, Miss D. Stewart; secretary,
Mrs. F. Walden; treasurer, Mrs. A.
Whalen. The W. A. officers elect
ed are: President, Mrs. W. Eedy;
secretary, Mrs. V. Westman; treas
urer, Mrs. C. Walden.
GRAND BEND
Mrs. Bud Broderick has returned
from the hospital with her little
baby son. Both are doing fine.
Miss Maud Bolton, of London,
visited with Mr. and Mrs. Rufus
Turnbull on Sunday.
Mrs, Henry Eagleson, Dashwood,
is visiting Mrs. Ted Stanjake for a
week.
Mr. T. Wilkie, of Forest, visited
several of his friends last week,
Snow came on Friday last but did
not amount to much but the cold
spell has made it sufficient to enable
the ice men to start putting up their
supply for next summer. It is of
good thickness and a very clear
quality.
Mr. Mickey Webb was operated
on for appendicitis in St. Joseph’s
Hospital, London, last Saturday and
is getting along fine,
Mr. and • Mrs. Norman Turnbull,
Mr. and Mrs. Rufus Turnbull and
Mr. and Mrs. A. gharrow attended
their sister’s funeral, Mrs, McPhee,
in Detroit on Saturday.
Mr. D. Kent, who lost “The Hub”
by fire last week expects to build
as soon as possible.
Mr. Mansel Mason has completed
putting up his supply of ice for next
summer,
Mr. Arthur Baker is sporting a
new V8.
Mr. and Mrs. Jim Hanna left this
week for Florida where they will
spend a couple of months before
their return to their home in Al
berta.
Don’t fail to attend the prayer
services each Wednesday evening at
the different homes. Room will be
made for you.
PARKHILL CARS IN CRASH
Two Parkhill cars were badly
damaged in an accident which oc
curred on Mill street, Parkhill. The
car of William Mathers, turning on
to Mill street, was struck by one
driven by Wilson Pascoe. Mr. Ma
ther’s car is almost a . complete
wreck, while the front end of Mr.
Pascoe’s machine was badly smash
ed. No one was seriously hurt.
The good times we bump into
are usually better than the ones
we plan.
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The husband looked up from the
newspaper he was reading to say:
“I see Thompson’s shirt store has
been burned ou,t.”
“Whose?” asked his wife, who
was slightly deaf.
“Thompson’s short store,” re
peated the husband.
“‘Deal’ me,”' said the wife sym-
’ pathetically, “who tore it?”
Lake Huron U.F.W.O.
The Lake Huron U. F. W. O. held
their regular meeting on January
4th at the new president’s home,
Mrs. Don Hendricks. Meeting open
ed with poem entitled New Year’s
Resolutions. The Creed was read.
A song, _‘The More we get Together’
was sung. A poem was then read
by Mrs. Garnet Patterson entitled
“Wishing.” The roll call was “Ques
tions and Answers”. The bulletin
was discussed by Mrs. Lloyd Taylor.
A sing song was enjoyed by all.
After minutes of last meeting was
read a health talk was discussed
by a group. A social evening was
held at Mrs. Eddie Gill’s on Thurs
day evening January 11th. Mrs. H.
Walper invited the club members
to her house for the next meetihg.
Meeting closed with “God Save the
King.” Lunch was served.
Another Bad Night
Could Get No Rest
To the thousands who toss, night
after night, on sleepless beds and to
whose eyes slumber will not come.
To those who sleep in a kind of
way, but whose rest is broken by
bad dreams and nightmares.
To those who wake up in the
morning as tired as on going to bed,
we offer in Milburn’s Health and
Nerve Pills a remedy to help soothe
and calm the nerves and bring them
back to a perfect condition, and
when this is done there should be no
more sleepless nights due to shat
tered nerves.
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