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The following letter by Dr- Mar
garet savage was received by Caven
Sunday School recently.
and I brought them home
Post Office on our hand
consulted with Mr. Han-
new missionary at Dixon-
decided
'School
remem-
So on
Dixonville, Alta.,
January 18, 1940
Dear Caven Sunday School and
Church;
This is a grey January day in the
Peace River —- threatening snow
The wind is northeast and the sun
hasn’t had a peek out all day. But
we can’t complain. Up to date,
we have had one of those rare pleas
ures of the sub-Arctic — a fine,
mild winter. Oh, the mercury has
hit thirty or forty below once or
twice, but only for a few hours at
ia time. There is only four or five
inches of snow, so the roads are
good for both wheels and sleighs.
It always seems like a great mile
stone to pass the dark days at the
end of December. Then we all look
forward to the long days of June
when it scarcely gets dark at all.
The Exeter boxes arrived on the
mail truck about ten days before
Christmas
from the
sleigh. I
cock, our
ville, how should we use them to
spread the Christmas cheer as far
as we could.
Already the school children at
Dixonville had their concert prepar
ed and there was to be a tree with
treats for all the little folks of the
district — but no gifts. We
that the faithful Sunday
scholars should be the first
bered with the White Gifts.
Christmas Sunday, after the church
service was over each scholar re
ceived his gift from the shining
tree.
When the last one was given out
there was quite a commotion in a
corner. One little chap had been
unintentially
found a gift
time to feel
The next
at the home
School scholars. She looked wist
fully at the children’s collection of
playthings. She was a Ukranian
Catholic and they have neither
church nor school here. Her chil
dren do not come to the Protestant
Sunday-School.
She said sadly: “My Harry - he
cry because he want a teddy bear -
and we can no get. And Mary wants
a doll so bad.”
The children looked enquiringly t
their mother. She nodded and ex
plained who Harry and Mary were
and why they could not have the
toys, they wanted. When the visitor
left an hour later she carried a
parcel under arm and her face was
wreathed in smiles. In the parcel
w>as a doll and a teddy bear which
the, children contributed of their
own accord. You can imagine the
delight of ‘my
Mary that night.
All the books
Gifts we placed
rary at the manse where they will be
free for everyone in the district to
read.
We made the clothing up into
several parcels. One went to a poor
home where they are six children,
all under seven years of age -
I know, some of them never
outdoors in the winter simply
cause they have no clothes. A
ond bundle went many miles north
ward to another family of six. I
know .quite well the mother there,
after her little ones were remem
bered with a gift & piece would pass
the rest on to other children in the
neighborhood.
So your White Gifts went near and
far, multiplying a hundred times,
the joy with which you bestowed
them. We send you our grateful
thanks ,and are sure that in some
way or other the pleasure you gave
will come back to you.
1939 was a good year in the
Peace River. The early part of it
did not promise well. The winter
was cold and stormy and the spring
was too dry. But in June the rains
came and all summer long there
was enough moisture to make the
whole valley blossom and bring
forth its fruits. Gardens flourished
amazingly. Crops were good. And
never before have we seen such a
lavish supply of Wild fruit. If people
did not face the winter with bins
and cellars full, it was no fault of
overlooked. But we
for him before he had
badly. 1
day, a mother visited
of two of the Sunday
Harry’ and little
among the White
in the lending lib-
and
get
be-
sec-
Many women have to do their own
housework, and the constant bend
ing over, lifting, making beds,
sweeping, ironing, sewing, so neces
sary to perform their household
duties puts a heavy strain On the
back and kidneys, and if there were
no kidney weakness the back would
be strong and well.
Doan’s Kidney Pills help to give
relief to weak, backache, kidney suf
fering women.
Doan’s Kidney Pills are put up
in an oblong grey box with our trade
mark a “ Maple Leaf” On
wrapper.
Don’t accept a substitute,
sure and got "Doan’s.”
Tho T. Milburn Co., Ltd., Toronto,
the
Be
Ont.
THE EXETER TIMES-ADVOCATE THURSDAY, FEBRUARY ga, 1940
the season,
(September ■ and early October
brought dirty weather - frequent
rains and snow squalls. Many a
field of stooks sat for two months
before being threshed.
October the weather
the threshers finished
her. Prices of grain
poor - always there is
the ointment,
are a lot better for everyone
winter.
When war broke out at the
of August nearly every man in
country was busy at the harvest
there were not many volunteers for
the first contingent. But here, there
and everywhere now the men are
quietly signing up for service.
Our new missionary, Rev. A. R.
Hancock, came late in October and
Mrs. Hancock and their little boy
joined him later. We managed to
renovate the little log .manse for
them and make it comfortable during
the long winter. It is pleasant to
see the Manse windows lit up again
at nights.
Mr. Hancock is doing good work.
He prepared a junior choir from
among the Sunday School scholars
and their singing was a special fea
ture of the service on Christmas
Sunday. Our busy and loyal Ladies’
Aid, so long disbanded, has gath
ered again under
Mrs. Hancock.
I am still going
the people of the
as their doctor,
intervals when patients are rather
scarce and again a siege of
croup and pneumonia keeps
busy.
Late one Saturday night in
tober I was out on a call, so
John Stanley Chop arrived safely in
this old world. On the long dark
drive John Stanley’s
me of his struggle to
this new country.
Then he remarked
“But I am lucky to
Poland my people — I do not know
they live or die. Warsaw all shot
to pieces now —• I have been
many times.”
Some time later there was
ter from relatives in Poland,
letter told little of actual conditions
of course it was censored. A little
girl begged for the stamp on the
letter. Under the stamp they found
the words written: “We are starv
ing to death!”
How gladly we would share with
them,' the plenty of this good land,
if we only could.
And now we wish you one and
all, a good and great year in 1940.
And again our grateful thanks for
the White Gifts.
Yours Sincerely
MARGARET S. SAVAGE
But in late
cleared and
in Novem-
have been
some fly in
But even so, things
this
poisonous
end
the
and
the leadership of
in and out among
Whitemud Valley,
There are long
flu’
me
Oc-
that
father told
get along in
thoughtfully:
be here. In
there
a let-
The
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Another interesting letter by Ger
ald (Torchy) Hurdon from Phoenix,
Arizona.
2 2 IF W. Van Buren St.
Phoenix, Arizona
My Dear Bill,—
From what I’ve already told you,
you've probably arrived at some
what of a hazy idea.” of what this
state of ours is like. But like most
of the people who've never had the
opportunity to visit it, you’ve prob
ably formed the opinion that Ariz
ona is in sumifier a little less than
an inferno; so in order in put you
right on this. I’d like to offer
these pertinent facts.
There are plenty of towns in Ari
zona as cool as the average town
in Ontario. Flagstaff, for instance,
has an average summer temperature
of 65 degrees and the Kaibab For
est, south of Grand Canyon, has a
mean temperature comparable to
Leningrad Russia.
The State of Arizona is about 42
per cent, desert, 25 per cent, grass
land and 33 per cent, forest and is
larger in area than the combined
areas of Rhode Island, Vermont,
New Jersey, New Hampshire, Mas-
sachussetts, Maryland, Maine, Con
necticut and West Virginia — It
has more National monuments
(points of interest where the Gov
ernment has set aside the area as a
place of unusual interest) than any
other state in the union ■— these
are as follows: Pipe Springs, Navajo
Grand Canyon, Canyon de Chelly,
Wupatki, Sunset Crater, Tuzigoot
Ruins, Walnut Canyon, Petrified
Forest, Montezuma Castle, Touto
Cliff Dwellings, Casa Grande Ruins,
Organ Pipe, Tumacacori Ruins,
guaro Cactus and Chiricahua
Wonderland of Rocks.
The state has a vast Indian
Mexican population, >the Navajo
Hopi probably the most prevalent of
the Indian tribes — the name
“Hopi” meaning ‘Peaceful people’
and like the Zuni they are rather
better educated and much more
likeable than the average south
western Red skin •— .their customs
are odd and, to me, intensely in
teresting. For instance, when a
Hopi squaw wants a divorce she
merely places her husband’s saddle
outside »the front door — They are
monogamous ■—• they are the only
tribe in which the weaving is done
by the men —- Hopi Katchinas
(dolls) ‘have a serious tribal signi
ficance and play an important part
in their ritual. Each doll is made
,to represent certain features such
as “Corn Katchina” “Cow Katchina’
“Humming - bird Katchina”, etc.
They are carved from Cottonwood
Sa-
tlie
and
and
Mary Jane Sanders,
Mr. John Sanders.
Grant and family of
moving to Exeter. Mr.
idea Bill, of
are the
here we
— any
any vista imaginable,
most
have
clim-
just
on top of distant hills!
over 60 varieties of pre-
semi-precious stones are
abundance here in this
by hand and are not toys -— their
village of Qraibi is the oldest con
tinually inhabitated abode in the
United States — In their annual
Snake Dance they use
rattle-snakes, the bites of which
seem to have no ill effects on them
A Hopi never speaks to his mother-
in-law! Over a hundred years ago
they planted peach orchards in the
Canyon de Chelly and have never
known a crop failure.
But don’t get the
thinking that Indians
important sights, for
just about everything
ate
consider this for now. The Grand
Canyon is considered the greatest
and most impressive scenic wonder
in the whole world! — then this,
the Dry Lake, about six miles west
of Wilcox, provides one of the
world’s few permanent mirages, on
a clear day a vast body of “dry
water” may be seen from the high
way, extending far back into, and
sometimes
npw this,
cious and
found in
state and many such as moonstones
and smocky topaz fairly litter the
ground in some places — here’s an
other. Mooney Falls in Havasu
Canyon is higher than Niagara Falls
and is one of a series of live in this
canyon.
. It would be quite possible to add
to these to the extent of several
books but it’s not my intention to
bore you to distraction in one Iet-
er — that’ll come later as time
goes on buit for now I’ve this much
to say —■ wherever you may come
from you’ll find in Arizona sights
and scenes that will hold you spell
bound with amazement and an in
terest that will grip you and make
your departure something to put
off time after time.
For now I must say the usual,
Hasta la vista,
TORCHY
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An interesting letter from
scriber in Manitoba.
a sub-
Man.,
19 40'
renew-
MacGregor,
February -Sth,
The Exeter Times-Advocate,
Exeter, Ontario.
Dear Sir,—
Enclosed find two dollars
al to the paper.
This is rather a small world. I
was out to visit the principal of our
school the other day and he told me
he was from Hensall and had gone
to Exeter High School.- His name
was Wesley McGill. The company
for which I work is full of Exeter
men. One day a year ago now the
manager of the Flour department
was going through to the 'Coast and
dropped off here to meet an assoc
iate and while talking was telling
what a nice trip he ITad through
Huron County and when I asked
where he was he said Exeter and
that he had married an Exeter girl.
She is Mrs. G. Booth now. And I
see the Prior boys every week or
so. When Booth was talking about
Miss Lang whom he had married I
could not recall the name, only I
knew the father, Robert Lang, as
the apple king and hay market. •
The names in the paper are not
familiar, but I see some that may
be the children of the ones that I
went to school with. It is a long
time since I left, a little over forty
years, and in those days we never
got out of town, only about once a
year, unless you walked, but today
distance doesn’t mean a thing. One
of our citizens went to Ontario and
got a car and drove over Ontario
and from there to Miami via New
York and Philadephia and home by
the other route. And the Chevro
let dealer, Mr. McNeely, left here
by train to Kingston where his
people live add had a chat with Mrs.
Lockhart,
from the
another.
while home. So we hear
old people one way ana
Yours sincerely,
H. I. Collins
PARKHILL TAXRATE SET
AT 40 MILLS
Parkhill town council, at regular
February meeting struck the tax
rate for this year at 40 mills. Div
ision of the levy is arranged as fol
lows: County, 7.5 mills; relief, 1
mill; municipal 13.9; public and
separate schools, 8.4; high schools
3.8; debenture and interest 4.4; pub
lic library, 1 mill. This represents
an increase of a half mill from 19.39
when the rate was 39.5. It re
quired considerable paring of the
estimates by
the rate at
The county
three-tenths;
schools up a
ing a total
three-tenths mills,
the tax down the municipal rate was
pared eight-tenths of a mill.
the councillors to keep
40 mill for this year,
rate has been raised
public and separate
half-mill higher, mak-
increase of. one and
In order to hold
cMother (on train):
not a good boy I’ll slap
Junior:
conductor
‘“You do and I’ll tell
how old I really am,”
0—0—0
outspoken at the meeting“I was
of the Women’s Club to-day,” re
marked Mrs. Sayit.
“Hm-m!” said her husband,
“Who out Speke you?”
50 YEARS AGO
Thursday, February 27, 1890
Hicks—-Sanders-- In Stephen, on
the 20th inst, at the residence of the
bride’s parents, by Rev, S. II. Rob
inson, Mr. Samuel Hicks of Central
ia, to Miss
daughter of
Mr. John
Crediton, are
Grant will assume the leadership of
the hand, Mr. Gidley having re
signed.
The farm of the estate of the late
Ann Cottle was sold by public auc
tion on Saturday to Mr. Robt. Cow
ard Mr. E. Christie has purchased
the Pickard property on the corner
of James and Main Streets and will
convert the same into a livery stable.
Mr. Thomas Cave has opened up
a blacksmithing business in his old
stand opposite the post office.
A checker match was played last
night in the club rooms. M. Eacrett
and H. Mills were captains—M. Eac
rett 3, J. Hyndman 6, R. Lang 3, G,
McLeod 2, H. Mills 3, F. W. Collins
0, Thos. Oke 1, S. Penhale 2.
25 YEARS AGO
February 25, 1915
the-Mr. W. Kuntz is moving into
south half of the Pickard residence
on Main street.
Miss M. Wood, last week disposed
of the old mill property on Huron
street to Mr. A. Ford.
Mr. Michael Eacrett, of Brantford
has purchased the property of Mr.
Wm. Miners, on William street.
' Mr. and Mrs. Earnest Hodgson
leave this week for Islay, Alberta,
after a month’s visit here with rel
atives.
There is to be considerable building
in Exeter this coming summer. The
school is to be remodelled; A. E-
Fuke is preparing to build a house
on Andrew street; W. J. Beer will’
erect two houses on William street; _
Mrs. J. N- Howard and Dr. Roulston'
we understand will erect residences.
Mr. Geo. Trott has returned to
Hensall after spending several years
in the West. Mr. Trott intends to
reopen a photo studio in
block.
Mr. W. Buchanan has
from Dr. Moir, his fine
and two lots on the corner of King-
street and the London Road.
the Petty
purchased
residence
15 YEARS AGO
February 26, 1925
by Mr. Jas. Shap-
Raymond Thomp-
Sask,, who have
have returned to
The farm on the 2nd concession of
Stephen at one time the property
of Reeve Sanders of town and later
the Exeter Canning & Preserving
Co., has been purchased from the
Canadian Canners
ton.
Messrs. Fred and
son, of Carnduff,
been visiting here
their home.
Dr. A. J. McKinnon, Zurich, has
moved his office into his fine new
rooms in the block that he erected
last summer.
Mr. C. Anderson has purchased
Wm. Rothermeal’s property at the
west end of Dashwood.
Mr. John Broderick, who has
been in the harness business in Mit
chell for the past 55 years has re
tired for a well-earned rest.
Mr. Wm. Tapson, of near Wales,
N. Dakota, is here visiting among
old friends. Mr. Tapson was a form
er resident of .Stephen,
FULLARTON COUNCIL
DECIDES QUESTION
OF OPENING ROADS
Fullarton Township Council held
its regular meeting in the township
hall on Monday, February 12 th, with
all members present. The minutes of
the last meeting were read and
adopted. The communications were
read and disposed of.
The request by the council of
Logan for permission to make appli
cation to. the drainage Referee to
vary the assessment on the Cook
Drain was granted.
The auditors’ report shoeing the
total receipts to be $41,'5'31.9 4 and
the total expenditure $3 6,'585.74 With
a balance on hand of $4,94'6.20 was
presented and adopted.
'Resolved that a grant of $10 be
giv'en to the .Salvation Army.
The question of opening the roads
with the snow plow was considered
and it was resolved that the Reeve
and Road Superintendent be ap
pointed to take charge of that work.
Accounts amounting to $499.25
Were passed,
The meeting was adjourned to
meet again on Monday, March 11th
at 1 o’clock in the afternoon.
R. H. Pomeroy, Clerk
HURON PRESSES CHAIM FOR
1042 PLOWING MATCH
Warden George Feagan, Reeves^
Turner, of Goderich and Gamble, of
Howick, returned February 15th
from Toronto where they represent
ed Huron County at the annual
convention of the Plowmen’s Assoc
iation. They came back as aired
that they had been successful hl
convincing the association to hold
the international plowing match in
Huron in 1942 and of the couhty’s
capability of handling the big event.
25th Anniversary
A very happy event was celebrat
ed at* the hoihe of Mr. -and Mrs.
Ervin Willert, near Hensall on Sat
urday afternoon, February 10th,
when about forty guests gathered in
honor of Mr. and Mrs. Willert’s
twenty-fifth wedding anniversary.
The dining room was beautifully de
corated in silver, and the large table
was decorated with the large cake,
as supper was served at 5 o’clock to
the many guests present who enjoy
ed the sumptuous dinner. The ev
ening was spent in progressive
euchre, and later in the evening re
freshments were served, all return
ing to their homes aftei’ the twelve
o’clock hour. Mention should be
made especially of one guest, Mrs.
Catherine Rader, of Dashwood, who
is 86 years of age, and who enjoy
ed herself to the full, being grand
mother of Mr. WUlert. The roads
were very heavy at times, the auto
becoming stuck in the banks, and
Mrs. Rader enjoyed everything.
Some lovely silver gifts were given
and a few admirable cheques were
among the presents. Guest from
town'were: Mrs. Clara Decker, Mrs.
Susan Haberer, Mr. Wm. Rader, Mr.
and Mrs. George Hess and June;
Mr. and Mrs. Herb Mousseau,— ’
Zurick Herald.
R. A. BUGG DIES
Robert Alfred Bugg, of Concession
13, Downie Twp., died Wednesday
in Stratford General Hospital fol
lowing a short
year. He Was
son of the late
Surviving is a
Downie, and three sisters, Mrs. F,
Krantz, of Acton; Miss Hannah, of
Granton, and Mrs. W. Crandon, of
St. Marys, The funeral was held
Saturday afternoon, conducted by
Rev. DeLoss Scott, of the St. Marys
Gospel Mission with interment
St. Marys Cemetery.
For a winter of greater heating
comfort, burn ‘blue coal’'—-the
world’s finest anthracite —
ORDER YOUR SUPPLY NOW,
W. C. ALLISON
Phone 4(hv
Listen to “The Shadow” every Wednesday
over CFRB, 9-00 to 0.30 pan.
illness, in his 67 th
born in Blanshard,
Mr. and Mrs. Bugg,
brother, Steven, of
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MRS. P. M. HORD
There died at her late residence,
East Williams, Ellenor Jane
Hughes, widow of Peter M. Hord.
Mrs. Hord, who was in her 84th
year, had been an invalid for eight
years. She had resided in East
Williams for more than 50 years, a
member of the United church. Sur
viving are a daughter, Mabel J.,
two sons, John A., of Parkhill, and
Thomas P., of Toronto; a sister
Mrs. Mary Jones, of Sarnia. Fun
eral services were conducted by Rev.
D. M. Kitely, with interment in the
Parkhill Cemetery.
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