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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1943-03-04, Page 3THE EXETER TIMES-ADVOCATE, THURSDAY MORNING, MARCH 4th, 1943 MR. ISAAC P- BOOTH can now walk around like a boy. Fie had severe rheumatic; pain and constipation caused by an inactive liver. “Fruit-a-tives” made him completely well. Buck up your liver with “Fruit-a-tives”, Canada’s Largest Selling Liver Tablets. LETTERS TO THE WAR TIME BOARD FROM THE BOYS OVERSEAS * * * England, Jan, 3,1943 Exeter War Time Committee; I wish to inform you that I have received the parcel which you people Of Exeter District have sent me, for which I acknowledge my sincere thanks and appreciation. I was very nice and thoughtful of you people. I received the parcel January 1st. It arrived in perfect condition and that fruit cake was really wonder ful and tasty. We had a jolly Christmas and New Year and every body enjoyed himself. I spent any first Christmas here and hope to be back by the next. I met a few friends here from Exeter. The weather is fine with no .snow or frost. Once again I thank ybu all for the parcel. Yours sincerely, Paul Gregus A58788 Pte. Paul Gregus, 1C.0.R.U., 6 C.M.L., * • Canadian Army Overseas * * * England, Dec. 2, 1942 Dear Friends: A few lines in answer to the love ly parcel I received a week ago. Thanks very much to all. I am get ting along fine but I will be so very happy when the final day of vic tory comes. In a few days I will have been over here a year and eight months and it has been unpleasant at times. I work in a garage as a motor vehicle fitter. There is al ways plenty of work and so the days pass by very swiftly. I sure en joy receiving the Exeter paper. It keeps me in contact with all the lo cal events and so I won’t feel so much a stranger after my absence of a few years. Thaifks again for the parcel and my best regards to every body. Yours truly, L. J. Wein A28409 Gnr. L. J. Wein, A Wing M.T. Section, No. 1 C.IA.R.U., Canadian Army Overseas* * * England, Dec. 22, 1942 Exeter Dist. War Time Comm.:' I wish to thank the members of the Committee for the very nice par cel which I received a few days ago. It must be a great deal of work packing and sorting so many par cels as you, must send over here now. However the mail service is really wonderful a n d we generally receive parcels in about four weeks from the day they were mailed in Canada and they are usually in good condition when they arrive. December has been a very wet month here but also a very mild month. We haven’t had any cold weather yet. We haven’t had any snow either so far, so it is quite different to what it is in Exeter and district in December. I want yon all to know that I appreciate very much that you have remember ed me for three successive Christ mases. Sincerely, Olive Hackney O. Hackney, N.S., 15 General Hospital, R.C.AtM.C., Canadian Army Overseas,* * * England, Dec. 2, 1942 Dear Friends: I received your parcel a few days ago. It is hardly necessary to tell THE RED GROSS Have you noticed recently how often there is a story in our news paper in which a soldier tells what the -Red Cross meant to him when he was a prisoner of war. The suc cess of the allies in North Africa has freed many who.1 had been cap tured by Rommel and his .gang and invariably the first word they speak in their new found freedom is a ; a word of praise and thanks to the Red Cross, And in the long run that is just a word of praise and thanks to you for what yon gave the Red Cross last year and the year before. You have helped the society to ship 2,‘O00,0'00 (yes TWO MIL LION) parcels to the men who have been taken prisoner. Each parcel was worth i$2.50 when it left Can ada, but their is no way of estimat ing what, it was worth in the way of -health, happiness, comfort and ■morale when it landed in the out stretched hands of one of our lad3 in Germany, Beginning the first week in March"you and your neigh bors around Hensall are to be given the privilege of giving parcels to some boy in prison camp— $2,300.00 worth of parcels. When we tell you that in a space of two weeks recent ly the Canadian Red Cross Society sent 743/000 food parcels for prison ers of war in Europe—a total of 5,000 tons—you will see how great is the need. Wje are counting on you to do your share and a bit more, > ....................... you how much it was appreciated. It is swell of the Exeter War Time Committee to send gifts to the boys on active service. I have transferred from the Roy al Canadian Regiment to the Can adian Prov'ost Corps, At present we are undergoing training which is a necessity, to recruits as they call us in the Provost. We have lots of work, which keeps us hopping around from morning to night. We are here on three weeks’ probation. If we wish to remain we may do so —if not we may go back to our un its, which in my case would be the R.C.R. I am afraid there isn’t much more news I can tell you this time except I wish to thank everyone concerned very much for the splendid gift. Yours respectfully, J. C. Brintnell A4099 Pte. J. C. Brintnell, Cdn. Provost Corps Depot, Canadian Army Overseas. * * * Dear Friends: I received the lovely parcel you sent me for Christmas and it sure was appreciate^ to get a parcel from the home district. We usually know a few days ahead when the Can adian mail is coming in and every one feels a lot better when the par cels and letters from home arrive. The Christmas season was a real treat, thanks to the many organiza tions which are doing their utmost to make our time in the service as comfortable as possible. Again I want to thank everyone •who so generously contributed to the parcel I have received. Sincerely yours, Stan Gil! Can. R68060 L.A.C. Gill, S. E., 415 Sqdn., B. Flight, R.C.A.F. Overseas i TORONTO \ 1 1 1 11 i 7 Hotel Woverley \ I flbPJUMNA Ayl. AT COIXBO* St. I1 RATES / \ SINGLE - 91.50 to $3.00 / \rtOUBLK - to 95.00/ Special Weekly d Monthly Rates j [ i A MODERN . . . QUIET . « . Wttl CONDUCTED . . . CONVENIENTLY LOCATED HOTEL .. . Cloie to Parliament Buildings, University of Toronto,;Maple Leaf, Gardens,, Fashionable Shopping District, Wholesale Monses, Theatres, Churches of Every Denomination. A. M. PowBtt, President W. C. T. U. Contest Winners Winners in the province of the national temperance study course sponsored by the Ontario Provin cial W.C.T.U. have been announced. Miss Gwenneth Jones, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Jones, of Exe ter, is winner of the second, prize in the senior division. Billy Mickle, of Hensall, is winner of first prize in the junior division, 10 to 11 years. At the James St. Sunday School on Sunday afternoon Miss Jones was. presented with a leather-b'ound New Testament, as winner of first prize for th.e county of Huron. Lorna Taylor, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. S. B. Taylor, was awarded a prize as one of the winners in the junior division, RESIDENT OF KIRKTON, JOHN C. O’BRIEN, BURIED The funeral of John C. O’Brien, of Kirkton, whose death occurred Monday, February 22, was held from his home in Kirkton on Wed nesday afternoon of last week. Rev. Canon W. James officiated at a private service and the body was laid to rest in Kirkton Anglican cemetery. The pallbearers Were Roy Francis, Mac Malloy, John Wil liams, William Elliott, Wellington Harding and Charles Paul, all of Kirk ton. Mr. O’Brien, who had been a mail carrier in TJsborne Township for 15 years, was well-known throughout the district. The departed man, Wlib was In his 'ZTtlt year, had been ailing all Winter. He was a mem ber of the Anglican Church and in bolitics a staunch supborter 6f the Conservative party. Forty-three years ago he was married to Mar garet Shipley, who survives as well as a son, Harold, and daughter, Kathleen. He is also survived by* a brother, Smyth O’Brien, Bowman- ville and a sister, Mrs. Isabella O’Hrien, BrucefielcL “Home Town’’ day at the army Training camp across Canada is Fri- day-—-when the hulk of the -weekly papers are passed out at noon mail parades to eager-eyed lads in uni form. A quick glance over the front page and then at the local* column is merely a foretaste of pleasure to be had that evening. Then it will re main the unswerving object of in terest for an hour or two on bunk, in barracks or in a comfortable spot in some Auxiliary Service hut, It is then that the weary editor, short of sleep because of hjs strug gle to Reep community happenings as fully recorded as of old in spite of labor shortages should have some magic means of looking over the shoulder of just one of. his Army readers. His fatigue would melt and vanish in the happy revelation of the full warmth of appreciation shown toward his endeavoi’ which service men agree is a top-ranker among vital morale building agents. It also would foe nice to have there Mrs, Jones who dropped the washing ’long enough Monday to telephone the village newspaper that her youngest son, Johnny, had just attained the rank of corporal in his new field of duty abroad. She would see how mention of his name and military advancement still fur ther inspired the will-to-be-there of widely separated comrades in arms. Favorite week-end congregating spots in cities are reading corners of Y.M.C.A., Legion, Knights of Columbus, or 'Salvation Army estab lishments where weekly papers from everyone’s home town are found. In them every word dispells shadows of loneliness, and forms an intimate and friendly link stretching back from the new phase of duty to things close to the heart. And prominence in thought of these things so frequently do much to keep fellows on wholesome paths during idle moments in strange en vironments. Regular appearance of home-town sheets come as the greatest boon to the fellows whose folks and friends have been a bit on the careless side in writing. ■Or, perhaps, the last letter from home neglected to mention that Aunt Jenny was able to pull through the pneumonia attack again this winter. But someone had been kind enough to remind the editor, and he didn’t forget. “She isn’t a real aunt of mine, you see, but rather one of those souls who make themselves an aunt to everyone,’’ this reader explained to a newly-found pal in the adjoin ing bunk. “You should see the swell socks she knits for lads from home. It’s surely nice to know’ she’s back on her feet again.” * “It kind of makes you realize all the things we have to fight foy when you think' about what these .ladies are doing,” the other added by way of agreement. “Our paper just men tioned today about a woman next door drumming up a new group to send razor blades to army chaps. She’s doing so much Red Cross and Sunday School work now, you’d wonder how she would find time to do anything else.” “Take a look at' this while I stoke up the stove,” invited a third lad on the upper ’bunk as he extended that week’s copy of what he con sidered Ontario’s brightest journal. “We’ve got a hum-dinger of a mini ster in our church at home who really stirs up a guy’s ambition,” he explained. “Each week our paper prints something like-this about his sermon the Sunday before. It’s al most like being at church back home for a few minutes reading it.” “This is my nine-year-old lad her,” still another announced proud ly, pointing to a name at the top of a school report list. “Last week he had his name on the front page for being first in a Saturday morning salvage drive,” he boasted. “And . here in this Scout column is the name of a next-door youngster whose dad just reached England last month. I’ll stick this clipping in a letter I’m sending him today. Here are some letters printed from other soldiers all over that I’m going to stick in the same envelope. Just be fore he left we were saying we’d never seem too far froin the home folks as long aS we see OUr paper or things clipped from it?’ Weekly references to recreation al, entertainment, and athletic events in district military camps achieve Surprisingly broad interest. Very often those from far-removed centres now have pals Of former days in training at the town whose newspaper they just have been shown for the first time. Thus, cap- able training: camp contributors to columns In neighborhood weeklies may have their items scanned at in- credible distances by eyes seeking a familiar name. Lively discussion groups, which thrive on the luxury of the scores of new friends which army life brings together, find fuel for new though! in weekly, colmns, Reference in nn editorial to the noble work being done foy a cfub of northern ten-year-old lads helping with the chores own sons are quickly became conversation- ft hour talk around a hut stove in which ideas were exchanged about what could be done to develop more wholesome citizenship. Reports of municipal discussion and of how home utilities are main tained in the face of restricted bud gets and help shortages are followed closely. Reference to transportation prob lems and consequent introduction of ingenious ideas to conserve mater ial desperately needed in production of war munitions also become the themes of interesting bunk-side con ferences. Difficulties in obtaining fuel, one of the unpleasant sides of home life which many personal let ters omit, make many a soldier a bit more careful in easing the consump tion of coal in banking up the hut stove for the night. So the weekly editor, who never forgets, is one of the most faithful correspondents from back home— the ever-active liaison between sol diers of freedom in the field and on the home front. SHQWm IN HONOR * OF newlyweds of mothers whose in active service A topic of general precipitated a two- received a when a car, skidded into ichmond and INJURED IN CAR ACCIDENT IN LONDON Thirteen-year-old Donald Gamble, of Exeter, son of Dr. Gamble, of No. 9 S.F.T.S., Centralia, severe cut on his head driven by his mother, the rear of a bus at It Oxford streets in London on Friday. The accident happened during a heavy snowstorm which reduced vis ibility to practically zero and made the city streets extremely hazar dous. Mrs. Gamble and Don were on their way to Woodstock -when the accident happened. A pleasant miscellaneous shower which was postponed on account of bad roads last wq4k was held this week at the home of Mr. and Mrs. William Wright on» Thursday eve ning, February 25, when about 65 friends and neighbors gathered in honor of Mr, and Mrs. Tom Ellering- ton (nee Doris Wright), A pro gram consisting of several approp riate contests was conducted by Mrs. Clayton Sims and Mrs. Alvin Baker, A reading was given by Miss Doreen Baker after which Mrs. Roy Hodgins asked the bride and groom to occupy two chairs in in the centre of the living room. A gaily decorated wagon laden with gifts was drawn in by Winnifred Tilley and Barbara Wright, daintily dressed ip pink and white crepe paper dresses. The address was given by Mrs. Alvin Baker. After opening the gifts and reading the cards of congratulations" the bride and groom each expressed their ap preciation for the lovely gifts in a Very pleasant manner, All joined in singing “For They Are Jolly Good Fellows”, after which a lunch of coffee, sandwiches, cake, cookies and wedding cake was served. The remaining part of the evening was spent in games, music which was enjoyed by lowing is the address: •and dancing, all. The fol- meet DorisGood evening friends and Tom, happy bride and .groom, are here to wish them happi ness all prosperity. The We And Around their home may peace abide, And love, earth’s greatest pleasure. Some pans, some pyrex, a few what- . nots, Aluminum or graniteware, A stove, a bed, a table and chairs, And a good big flour bin. But not alone, those make a home, So rule your home by love, And we feel sure, you will secure Rich blessings from above. The kindest and the happiest pair, Will find occasions to forebear, And something every day they live To pity, and perhaps forgive. SALA1KIM ■IHli ■Hi VMI iBm But it’s oft been said, so we have read, In peace prepare for strife, So a rolling pin near Might some day save the flour bin, your life. we wish youWith all our hearts well In starting a new home, Make it happy for your husband Then he'll never want to roam And when you use the little gifts We bring you here tonight, Remember they’re from people Who wish your future bright. Las month, a friend invited to his office to see a chair that said cost ^SjOOO.’1 kidding,” I said. “That chair worth $5,000.’ “Maybe it isn’t that money,” he agreed, “but what it cost me last year, just sitt ing in it,when I should have been up and after business!” me he be“You must is not worth that’s CROMARTY The Young People’s Societies of Cromarty and Staffa held a joint meeting in Cromarty Presbyterian church on Sunday evening. The president, Robert Hamilton, was in, the chair. The scripture lesson was read by IMarion Allen.. The topic wap read by Mrs. Roy McCulloch, Several items of business were the principal one being a young people’s work. Private Wilfred Scott Borden with his parents, Mrs. John Scott. A social evening which included progressive euchre, was enjoyed at the home of Mr, and Mrs, Duncan McKellar when a generous collection was taken for the Canadian Aid to Russia Fund. A light lunch was ser ved by the hostess and friends. discussed, course in of Klamp Mr. and ’Grandfather used to play the man dolin, father strummed the ukielele and now sonny boy toots a saxophone. Isn’t evolution wonderful? Troublesome Night Goughs fire Hard on the System It’s the cough that sticks; the cough that is hard to get rid of: the cough accompanied by a tickling in the throat that causes the nerve and throat wracking trouble that keeps you awake at night. Dr. Wood’s Norway Pine Syrup helps to relieve this coughing condition by soothing the irritated parts, loosening the phlegm and stimulating the bronchial organs, and when this is done the troublesome irritating cough may be relieved. .•Dr. Wood’s Norway Pine Syrup has been on the market for the past 48 years. The Trade Mark “3 Pine Trees”. Price 35c a bottle; large family size, about 3 times as much, 60c at all drug counters. The T. Milburn Co.. Limited, Toronto, Ont. for R. N. Ci’eech, Chairmart of Local Committee. Phone 84 Exeter Only the REDCROSS Our Prisoners ofHfirf CANADIAN Barbed WIRE and enemy guards "do not a prison make” for Canadian soldiers captured by the enemy. Their thoughts, wing ing across the sea, meet Red Cross parcels on their way to them. Last year, the enemy said “pass” to 2,000,000 such parcels. They were packed with 22,000,000 pounds of food and comforts welcomed by men to whom the barest necessities have become luxuries. But, most of all, to each prisoner every Red Cross parcel is a message from home — a definite assurance that he is not for gotten, a reminder that no captured Canadian soldier is ever marked “off strength” by the Red Cross. Thirty percent of the money you gave to the Red Cross last year was used to proviA parcels for prisoners of war. The money you give now will help to keep up and increase this flow of good cheer and hope to these lonely men. Consult your heart» , . Obey its dictates . . . Give liberally S GWE-/uiman id q/tedtei 'than euek, MNVf