HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1940-08-29, Page 3Fall Fair Dates MUCH RAGWEED IN
WESTERN ONTARIO
August
Lambeth ................. Aug. 28
Tillsonbnrg .... Aug. 27-29
Toronto (Can. Nat. Ex.) Aug. 23.
[Sept. 7
Department of Agl’icwluie Would
Eradicate Rest
THE EXETER TIMES-ADVOCATE
SOLDIER’S LETTERS
Soldiers on Active Service Apprecia tv Efforts of War Time Committee
Fergus ..
Tavistock
Sept. 2-7
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Sept, 9-14
New Hamburg ........... Sept. 13,
Wiarton ........................Sept. 12,
Sept. 10-21
Acton ...................... Sept. 17,
Ailsa Craig ............... Sept. 19,
Alliston ................ Sept, 19,
Barrie ........................ Sept. 16
Blyth .......................... Sept. 17,
Burford ...................... Sept. 17,
Clifford ......................Sept. 20,
Comber ...................... Sept. 20,
Dresden ....................... Sept. 17-
EXETER ..................... Sept. IS,
Galt ................................Sept. 19'
Hanover ................... Sept. 19,
Hepworth ................... Sept. 19,
Kincardine ,...,.......... Sept. 19,
Lindsay ....................... Sept. L8'
Listowel ........,......Sept. 18,
Mount Forest ............ Sept. 19,
Norwich ........ ..... ..... Sept. 17,
Seaforth .......................Sept. 19,
Shelburne ................... Sept. 17,
Shedden ........................... Sept.
Stratford .................... Sept, 16-
Thorndale ................... Sept. 17,
September 23*28
Atwood ....................... Sept. 23,
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Sept. 27,
■Sept. 26-28
Belmont .....
Brussels ......
Collingwood
Cancellations
Georgetown .............. Sept. 25, 26
Harriston .................. Sept. 26-27
Harrow ........................Sept. -26-2'8
Ilderton ............................Sept. 25
Jarvis ...................... Sept. 26, 27
Kirkton ...................... Sept. 26, 27
Lakefield .................. Sept. 25, 26
Lucknow ................. Sept. 26, 27
Mitchell .................... Sept. 24, 25
Owen Sound .............Sept. 28-Oct. 1
Port Elgin ............. Sept. 26, 27
Ridge town .................. Sept. 26-2S
Ripley ..................... Sept. 24, 25
Sarnia.......................... Sept. 24, 25
Stratliroy .................. Sept. 26-28
Wingham ................. Sept. 25, 26
Wyoming .................. Sept. 25, 26
Zurich ..................... Sept. 23, 24
September 30—October 5
Alvinston .......................... Oct. 2,3
Atwood .............. Sept, 30-Oct. 1
Dungannon ................... Oct. 3, 4
Fordwich ....................... Oct. 4, 5
Leamington ........... Sept. 30-Oct. 5
St. Marys ...................... Oct. 3, 4
Teeswater ...................... Oct. 1, 2
Thedford ........................... Oct. 2
Highgate ................... Oct. 11, 12
London—(Jr. IFair only) Oct. 9, 10
Aly m er
Chesley
Forest
Goderich
Ingersoll
Milverton
Mount Brydges
Palmerston
Parkhill
Sarnia Indian Reserve
MAY IVIN $1,000
A photograph showing marvellous
cloud effects over Lake I-Iuron, taken
by D. E. Wilson, 15 Manning street,
Stratford, at the beach at Camp
Kitchigami, is in line for a $1,00 0
prize in a national newspaper snap
shot contest in Washington D.C. The
photo took first prize of $5.00 in a
still life class contest conducted by
a Toronto newspaper and will now
be entered in the Washington con
test. First prize is $1,000 in this
latter contest. The photographer
caught a section of the beach with a
few breakers showing white crests.
Above the water fluffy white clouds
break the monotony of a dark sky.
The picture was taken from the
steps which lead from the beach to
the top of the lake-side cliffs at
Kitchigami.—Goderich Signal-Star
ENGAGEMENT
The engagement is announced of
Wilma Fern, only daughter of Lloyd
Baker and the late Esther Ann Bak
er, of parkhill, to Robert Grant,
youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. El
mer Oit, of Stratliroy, the marriage
to take place quietly in September.
Another Bad Night
Could Get No Rest
To the thousands who toss, night
after nigjit, 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 Milbum’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 id done there should be nd
more sleepless nights due to shat
tered nerves.
The Milburn Oo., 144, Toronto,
POISON IVY IS NUISANCE
Circulars Giving Detailed iDjtomja-
tion Are Issued
County and other parts of
Ontario have produced a
The following letters and portions
of letters (as received by Mrs. R. N.
Ci etch for the former Women's
Committee and now the .Soldiers’
Committee for the War Time Board)
from the boys of this district who
have, enlisted in the Canadian Per
manent Forces are very interesting
and show how the boys appreciate
the parcels that have been sent to
them from time to time. Some of
the boys are in England, but many
are still training in Canada.
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suspense at
I for one say the women
bear
We
hur-
only
TIUliSMY, AWST SO, 1W0
1
The Third Annual
informa-
been is-
and are
Huron
Western
bumper crop of ragweed and poison
ivy this year due largely to the con-
bination of heat and moisture dur
ing the past summer according to
the local branch of the Ontario de
partment of agriculture
Circulars giving detailed
tion about both pests have
sued by the department
available at the Clinton office. Both
pamphlets deal with extensive era
dication methods, and in the ease
of poison ivy, a considerable amount
of information on the treatment of
the poisoning is included.
Ragweed has become especially
troublesome and is rapidly establish
ing itself even in the northern dis
tricts of the province. It is an im
portant factor in decreasing crop
yields, and is objectionable in pas
ture fields and fodder, because it
gives a peculiar odor to the milk
of cows which eat it. The weed is
found to be especially prevalent
among clover.
HENSALL
The following list of books have
been purchased and are now avail
able at the Hensail Public Library:
Fiction
“How Green Was My Valley”
[Llewellyn
Hobart
Gaspell
Brigtow
Norris
Strange
Tuttle
Birney
Gardner
Loring
Banning
Butler
Brand
Raine
Grey
Seltzer
Queen
Bailey
Hill
“Their Own Country”
“The Morning Is With Us”
“This Side of Glory”
“The World Is Like This”
“Sudden - Gold .Seeker”
“Wandering Dogies”
“Dead Men’s Trial”
“The D.A. Holds a Candle”
‘There Is Always Love”
“Too Young To Marry”
“Pups And Pies”
“Dead Or Alive”
“Sons of the Saddle”
“Knights of the Range”
“Kingdom of the Cactus”
“The Four of Hearts”
“Tomorrow’s Promise”
“Marigold”
“The Millionaire Tramp”
[St. John-Cooper
“The Bird in the Tree” Gondge
“Once Beyond the Reef” I-Iolton
“Death Wears a White Coat” Dubois
“Hotel Hostess”
“Other Gods”
“Mystery House”
“The Red Lamp”
“The Man in Lower Ten”
“Storm Over Eden”
“Mysterious Rancho”
“Freedom of the Range”
“The Murder of Miss Betty Sloane”
[Williams
Baldwin
Buck
Norris
Rinehart
Rinehart
Miller
Gregory
Crane
Non Fiction
“The Old Log School House — Hur
on Old Boys in Pioneer Days”
[Greene
“Ballads of Chuckaka” Service
“Failure of a Mission” Henderson
“Book of Marvels — The Occident”
[Haliburton
“His Story of Life Adventures”
[Haliburton
“Canada, Europe and Hitler”
[Kirk Connel
“Thinking Aloud in War Time”
[Weatherhead
“Forty Years a Country Preacher”
[Gilbert
Juvenile Fiction
“The Sleeping Beauty” Ansor
“Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp”
[Ansor
'All Baba and the Forty Thieves”
[Ansor
Baum
Baum
of Oz”
[Baum
Gervaise
Plunket
Irwin
Irwin
.Spy re
Snyder
Strach
Danton
Bailey
“The Land of Oz”
“The Road of Oz”
“Little Dorothy and Toto
“Mysterious Sally”
“The Dare Club”
“Maida’s Little House”
“Maida’s Little School”
"Heidis Children”
“Girls of the Bible”
“Crossing Canada”
“Story of Baby Sandy”
“Little Laitri of Finland”
“First Term - Worst Term”
[De Foubert
Darch
Gull”
[Fisher
Dixon
Bound
Keene
“Elinor in the (Fifth”
“Joan Betty and the Sea
“The Sinister Sign Post”
“The Mystery of the Brass
Trunk”
LIGHTNING HITS CATTLE HERDS
NEAR BRINSLEY
PARKKILL—There is an old say
ing that lightning never strikes
twice in the same place but the
farmers of Brinsley disagree. For
the third time in two weeks lightn
ing struck with disastrous results.
It killed six cattle, owned«by Ernest
Har.ris, four owned by George Hod
gson and one cow owned by Donald
Sutherland.
Writing from Queen’s Park, Lon
don, Ontario, Pte, Ewart L. Cornish
on behalf of himself and his brother
Ralph says — “My brother and 1
thank you for the gifts we received.
We are sure they will be of value
to us not only for the material bene
fit, but also for the spiritual help
we will derive as we realize that
the folks at home have not forgotten
us.” Their brother, C. L. Cornish,
writing from Ottawa says,— “It is
with deep appreciation that I thank
you people of the War Service Com
mittee for your splendid gift of
socks and sweater. You women are
certainly doing your bit by helping
the boys who stand for what we all
hold most dear, May your organiza
tion prosper as you give of your time
and services in such a worthy cause.’
Pte. Norman H. Sanders on behalf
of himself, Private John C. Brint-
nell and Pte, Harvey C. Pfaff, writ
ing from Camp Borden says— “We
wish to thank you very kindly for
the parcels we have received from
your organization. They will be of
great value to us.”
Pte. W. E. Bentley says—“I thank
you for the lovely socks and sweater
and wish you every success in your
work.”
Cpl.
Camp
kindly
When
Exeter.’
Lieut, C. B. Gladman, Camp Bor
den says—“In all my life I never ap
preciated the value of warm sweaters
and socks as I have since I arrived
here. The weather has not been kind
to us and thus the formerly simple
problem of keeping warm and dry
has become one of great impor-
To be able to come in from
ground and put on dry
home more than Um ones who ac
tually get, in the army. It is the
parents wives and children who to
my notion are the ones that have
the hardest task. With us chaps
there is always a great number of
us together at all time. That is a
great aid in keeping our minds Oc
cupied. Whereas at home the folks
are in more or less
all times.
folks are the ones that really
the hardest part of the war.
had a very interesting though
ried trip to France. There were
in the neighborhood of twenty-six
hundred men who actually set foot
on French soil. They consisted of
transport drivers, lorries, armoured
cars, motorcycles ami staff car driv
ers. There were also a number of
cooks, butchers, office clerks, etc.
Merely the necessary men to set up
our position. It was just an ad
vance party. We were there only
about three days when we had or
ders to evacuate. It certainly was a
hitter pill to swallow after months
of preparing for a chance to do our
bit.
Of course there was nothing else
for it.
Visit To Exeter, England
With the B.E.F. evacuating on
count of the French quitting,
would have been very foolish to
anything else but follow orders. We
had a wonderful trip when we went
to France. When we received our
orders to leave we were away up in
the Midlands. We moved from there
to an exit camp where we stayed
over night. I
something like
fifty miles the
on the road the
for
Tickets at 25c each are now being sold, and a drawing will be made FRIDAY EVENING,
OCTOBER 4th when the following prizes will be distributed;
1—A $250.00 War Savings Certificate
Ten Prizes Each of a $10.00 War Savings Certificate
Five Prizes Each of a $5.00 War Savings Certificate
ac-
It
do
You do not have to be present to claim your prize.
Red Cross and War Time Units are Co-operating in selling these tickets.
from
very
sweater.
W. H. Dickey writes
Borden'—“Thank you
for the socks and
in action I will remember •i
tance.
the parade
socks and sweater is one of the
looked for
With all sincerity I can assure you
that your efforts are definitely
worth while. A good pair of socks
means good feet and good feet on
a 15 mile walk makes a happy boy,
and a warm sweater keeps them out
of the hospital.”
Gunner R. J. Desrosiers writes
from Petawawa— “I appreciate your
wonderful gift. It was certainly a
surprise to me as I am not too well
known in Exeter, nevertheless, we
are all working for the same cause.
May I thank you and your fellow
workers and I assure you I will
my part for King and Country.”
Somewhere ii.) England
From Somewhere in England Pte
Stewart C. Wright referring to par
cel of various useful articles says—
“I thank you for what you are do
ing for the boys over here. The par
cels we receive are enjoyed very
much for we share them with each
other and
all as far
parcel is
memories
which we
the victory is reached which I hope
will not be long then we can be
back with our parents and friends
again in peace.”
“In the Bush”
pleasures of the day.
do
so they are enjoyed by
as they will
received it
of dear old
are standing
go. When a
brings fond
Canada for
guard until
Dated “In the Bush, England, July
30th” Private W. J. Servent writes:
“I received the parcel and it was
very handy as I was out of shaving
soap and short of socks, as I lost my
spare socks in France. It is very
kind of the Exeter folks to remem
ber me in this way and I sure do ap
preciate it. We have been living in
tents in the woods for the last month
and it has rained nearly every day.
Our meals are quite good and we
get along fine. Jake Lindenfield and
“Red” Hunter are both fine. We
all thank you for the parcels and
the kind thoughts that go with
them.”
Many of the boys have thanked
the Committee personally, and many
of the early letters have been read
at the Red Cross meetings.
Women Bear Hardest Burden
Verne Harness writesPrivate
from England under date of July
29—“I received your parcel yester
day and am taking this opportunity
in dropping a few lines to tell you
folks how much we chaps appreciate
your kindness. As T receive the
Exeter paper I have been following
the movements of the Exeter Dis
trict War Time Committee and it,
certainly deserves a great amount
of credit. We all can see that the
people, at home are taking a real in
terest in the boys who are in the
army as well as the ones who will
join up in the future. Personally I
admire the ones who are left at
think we travelled
two hundred and
first day. We were
next morning at six
a.m. for another three hundred
miles. That sounds like an ordinary
tour but when one considers our con
voy was somewhere about seven or
eight miles long it isn’t quite so
simple. We were spaced at inter
vals of one hundred yards apart and
that means around one hundred and
twenty five trucks just in our one
convoy. There were several other
besides ours. The British people
really marvel at the way our boy*
drive. Up hill and down dale at
forty and fifty miles per hour. The
roads are very crooked and narrow
too. It is really remarkable how
few accidents we have had since be
ginning to drive in this country. Of
course a great many of our chaps
drove big transport trucks in civil
life .and it is really natural for them
to be first class drivers. We made
our next stop at Exeter in Devon.
Little did I expect when I left Exe
ter Ontario, that I would be fortun
ate enough to get to the Old Exeter.
There is certainly a vast difference
between our town and the Exeter
over here. This city has a popula
tion of over seventy thousand people
I had a quite a nice walk around the
main
very
their
main
place
mouth the next day and “were there
until the next night. Another chap
and I were again fortunate in mak
ing the acquaintance of an elderly
gentleman who took us in his car
and showed us around. We saw
the Sound, the Pavilion which is
built right out over the ocean and
we also saw the spot from which
the Mayflower sailed years ago. I
guess I had better close for this
time Mrs. ‘Creech again thanking
your organization for the parcel and
wishing you
very best of
ing.
I remain,
parts of the city and met a
nice couple who took us in
car and showed us around the
spots. It is a very quaint old
indeed. We then went inro Ply-
and all concerned the
luck in your undertak-
Yours truly,
VERNE HARNESS
LADIES AT RIFLE I’RACTICE
Fourteen members of the Goder
ich Ladies’ Rifle Club had their first
target shooting practice on Wednes
day afternoon at the range on Con
stable A. E. Jennings’ farm north
of town. For the past week the
young ladies have been receiving
instructions in the use of the rifle
and on Wednesday they had a taste
of the real thing. Many of the girls
registered scores in the high nine
ties on a beginner’s target of a bull
eye three inches in diameter. The
range is sixty feet in length. Peris
copic sights were used to enable the
girls to see the target clearly. Con
stable Jennings and Mr. Elwood
Epps of Clinton instructed the girls
in the proper firing position. The
site for an indoor firing range has
not yet been established, but two
tentative locations are under con
sideration by the club. —- Goderich
Signal-Star.
RECEIVES B. A* DEGREE
Mr. Leslie Hogg, son of Mr. and
Mrs. William Hogg, of Seaforth, lias
received notification from McMaster
University that he had passed with
honors the last subjects required fol*
his Bachelor of Arts degree. The de
gree will be conferred at the Spring
convocation. —Seaforth News.
$50.00 in Merchandise or a $50.00 War
Savings Certificate to be Given Away Free
The following merchants co-operating with the Exeter Lions Club are handing out tickets
from their store from now until October 3rd and 4th on a free draw on the above prizes.
All you have to do is to write plainly your name and address on these tickets, deposit
them in the boxes in any of the stores or at the Times-Advocate and then be at the Big
Frolic on October 3rd and 4th,
EXETER
IVm. J. Smith & Son
W. C. Allison
Canada Packers, Limited
E. L. Gibson
W. S, Cole
S. B. Taylor
Cook’s Rock Bottom Store
B. AV. F. Beavers
Jones & May
Times-Advocate
H. C. Rivers
Sonthcott Bros.
W. E. Middleton
E. Lindenfield
C. L. Robertson
W. Martin
J. P. Bowey
Graham Arthur
White’s Bakery *
R. N. Rowe
Frank Coates
.Stewart Bros.
Tuckey Transport
Snell Bros & Co.
E. R. Hopper
Sandy Elliot
N. Stanlake & Son
F. W. Huxtable
Huron Lumber Co.
Wm. Hatter
W. J. Beer
Garnet Flynn
G. A. Hawkins
Exeter Ladies’ Wear
Swift
R. L.
R. G.
J. A.
Chainway Stores, Limited
HENSALL
G. M. Case
Bonthron & Drysdale
J. Henderson
R. Weber
W. O. Goodwin
DASHWOOD
C. F. Pfile
Harry Zimmer
Alex. Zimmer
Joe. Merrier
Ed. Nadiger
V. L. Becker
Harry Hoffman
Earl Guenther
Wesley Wolfe
Addison Tieman
D. Tiernan
Thos. Klumpp
Canadian Company
Metz
Seldon & Son
Traquair
i
The Problem of
the West
large
o—o—o
J
Western
carry-over
years. In
Canada has a
of wheat from previous
addition she has a large
crop of wheat this year. But these
provinces have no
product. Britain
wheat. The rest
not take it. The
Western
MODERN
FIREPROOF
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’• .ID^COHVEMKJLY
LOCATED
♦ HA SV
BifiKHCtMUTES
i
market for their
cannot take the
of Europe will
result is that the
farmer cannot trade. He
can neither barter nor sell for cash.
What is to be done about it? Hold
the wheat for next year in the hope
ot sales? But what of immediate
needs? The western man has had
a series of bad years that have ex
hausted or very severely strained
his credit to say the least. Then
what prospect is there that the sit
uation will be one whit better next
year? Outstanding statesmen tell
us that we had better prepare for
a long war, a period when money
and all that it represents will be
worse than burned and credit will
vanish into thin air. Eastern Can
ada through her government must
come to aid of the west, we are told.
Anyone can see what this means. It
means that eastern Canada must
exhaust her already depleted re
sources, only to find herself poorer
and the west no better off. Mean
while discontent in the. west is
steadily growing. The paid agitator
is abroad misleading the westerners
into believing that the eastern prov
inces are responsible for her
troubles. Along with this goes the
work of the wily politician bent on
making political capital out ot
westerners’ agony. We heartily
wish that the politicians who mis
lead the west and the business
men who deceive her were obliged to
bear her burdens. All now realize
the cruel folly of the teaching “One
good crop and the west will be on
her foot?”
Some measure of relief must be
got to the west. For her to fall
financially at this juncture would
be. an availing calamity. Our sug
gestion in that the relief come in
the way of assisting the westerner
to gradually adopt mixed farming
and to build up industries. The
west no longer can subsist on wheat
alone.
The folly of following the one
crop method has been pointed out
again and again, but the dominion
has lacked statesmanship and un
selfish business acumen to heed the
warning. The western financial
hurt is too deep to he healed by
superficial treatment. Leaders in
Canadian church and state have
been content to muddle along, al
lowing things western to grow from
bad to worse till now stern necessity
is about to stay the hands of those
who know not where nor how to
steer. Before the difficulty in the
west can be removed there will need
to be a reconstruction of the whole
way
The
fact
ean
our
own
ed money credit should be advanced
to the western farmer with his
wheat as collateral but severe and
thoroughgoing measures must be
taken to get the money into the
farmers’ hands under the most rig
id regulations that it be spent only
to meet his present necessities and
not allowed to get into the hands of
his financial exploit.
of regarding things western, j
sooner this grim and terrible ;
is faced the better. The Europ- ;
war clouds must not obscure !
vision to the problem on our I
door step. Meanwhile a limit-
KING REQUESTS DAY
BRAYER
OF
Majesty the
rest of the
At the request of His
King, Canada and the
United Kingdom will observe a day
of national prayer on Sunday. Sep
tember 8, anniversary of the out
break of the war, it was announced
by Prime Minister King.
Text of the Prime Minister’s state
ment follows:
“His Majesty the King has ex
pressed the desire that Sunday, Sep
tember 8, being the first Sunday of
(lie anniversary of the outbreak of
war. should be observed in the Unit
ed Kingdom ns a day of national
prayer. His Majesty's Government
in Canada believes that Canadians
generally will desire to associate
themselves wlflt the people of the
Jtnited Kingdom in this observance.
The Government therefore, requests
tile clergy of all churches in Canada
to arrange, in preparing for services
on Sunday, September 8th, that fhe
day shall be observed by their con
gregations as a day of national
prayer and intercession.
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4 LU I! VI u UA I UIAJHT1VW
■ ■>oc t-* r *.,t e R? an
After an illness of three days, the
death occurred at his home in Sea
forth, of William Deem. He was
born in Hinton, Somersetshire, Eng,,
in 1856, and came to Canada about
40 years ago. For many years he
■was a sailor but in recent years was
employed at the Bank of Commerce,
Seaforth. Mr. Deem was a member
of St. Thomas Anglican church. Be
sides his wife, he leaves three
sons and and two daughters. The
funeral took place on Thursday from
St. Thomas Anglican church, inter
ment being in the Maitlandbank
cemetery.
FACE LIFTED
Cardno’s clock, which for nearly
seventy years has kept time for the
people of Seaforth, last week un
derwent a face lifting operation
which leaves it lookin’g like new.
The four faces, hands and numbers,
have all been repainted and a num
ber of necessary repairs completed.
The work was done by Harold
O’Dell. -—-Huron Expositor
RETURNED FROM MANITOBA
Mr. T. M. MeLeish arrived home
from Manitoba recently. He reports
that when he journeyed across
Southern Manitoba that about 95 pet
cent of the grain was cut. One farm
er near Harney had already thresh
ed 4.000 bushels and had His quota
of five bus. per acre in he elevator;
for the rest he had to provide stor
age as best ho could. — iSt. Marys
Journal-Argus,