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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1944-02-03, Page 3I t- A THE TIMES-ADVOCATE, EXETER ONTARIO, THURSDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 3, 1944 WII/OB MAHAFFY OF HIBBERT PIES Page 3 Gleanings from No, 9 Service Flying Training School, Centralia, Ontario Betty Biair, *‘Y” Office, MougBig Editor been seriously ill for weeks and death was a heart attack. Born 1886, he was a son of and Mrs. Thomas Ma- iCT.IWIWWif Station Activities The Wings Parade for Course S9 was held last week and it was a very ijnpressive ceremony. The Pipe Band with the Drum Majorette aud the Brass Band were both in atten­ dance and they certainly were a credit to No. 9 S.F.T.S,. The Grad­ uating Class all had wide smiles as Group Captain Fullerton pinned on their wings. LAC. Weston of the R.A.F. won the cup awarded to the Graduating Course 99 leading his St. Cathar- best student in the Class, and L’AC. Griffin, was awarded a prize for course at the E.F.T.S. at ixies, After the parade, there was a reception in the Rec Hall fox* the graduates and their guests and the messing Officer per usual provided a lovely tea. There were two dances last week, one on Tuesday and one on Thurs­ day and they were both mighty suc­ cessful. Especially the Thursday night one; it was rather a good-bye celebration for Course 89 and there’s no doubt about it, the girl’s really gave them preference over the other aircrew boys. Don’t worry though boys they have gone, it’s your turn now. Musicale and was Mon­ A very pleasant evening spent at the Hostess House on day evening when an impromptu musical recital was given. It was strictly an informal affair as the soloist rendered numbers that were requested by the audience. The programme opened with a group of five piano solos by Sgt. J. C. Potter of the G.I.S. staff. They consisted of Prelude on C Major by Bach, On Wings of Song by Mendel­ ssohn, Etude-Opus 45 No. 10 by Heller, Nocturne IF. Minor Chopin, Waltz by Brahms. Following the piano recital, Cpl. Mary Cooper favored the audience with three popular vocal solos; B.less this House,.The Lost Chord, and You’re Irish and You’re Beauti­ ful. It was indeed a treat to hear Mary sing this group. LAC. Bob Magor, a graduate of Course No. 89, artistically played by held Will Jan- THAMES ROAD (Intended for last week) The' Red Cross meeting was at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Cann on Wednesday afternoon, uary 19th with 24 members present. The meeting opened with the presi­ dent, Mrs. Cann presiding. Hymn 270 was sung followed by National Anthem and the Lord’s Prayer in unison. Minutes of the last meeting were read and adopted. The presi­ dent read a letter from Miss Jeckell The canvassers for the Red Cross convas fin March were appointed and are as follows Victor Jeffery, Nelson Squires, Will Stone and Alex Duncan. The February meeting will be held at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Thos. Ballantyne with a 10c tea. The program consisted of a reading by Mrs. Stanley Coward, reading by Mrs. Mair, instrumental by Mrs. A. Stewart, reading by Mrs. Lee Web­ ber. It was moved and seconded that the same committee for pack­ ing overseas boxes for our boys re­ main as before for 1944 adjourned and group 10c tea. Sewing and then distributed. The annual church held in the church basement Thurs­ day night. A Pot Luck Supper which was enjoyed by all preceded the meeting. IA.11 departments reported ■a very successful year. Special words of appreciation were given to the Y.P.U. for the effort they put forth in their play which netted them over $200.00, also to Mr. Arthur Gardiner for his work and interest in beautifying the church grounds. Meetxng 4 served a knitting was meeting was Farmers..* We have a good stock of Cedar Fence Posts all peeled ANY SIZE YOU NEED ALSO BARB WIRE AND STEEL FENCE POSTS A. L CLATWORTHY We Deliver Phone 12 Granton three piano solos; To Spring by Grieg; Rigaudon by MacDowell; Valse by Chopin, After the second piano recital the group gathered around the piano for an old fashioned singsong. LAC. Jainx Lowe, Course No. 91, acted as pianist. After an hour of popular songs tea and sandwiches were serv­ ed to the group. To bring the musi­ cale to a close, LAC. Maiden Course No. 89 sang the Irish “Danny Boy”. This was much predated by the audience. Movie Notices ’ of air ap- Friday, February 4tli: “Top Man", starring Donald O’Connor, Susanna Foster, Peggy Ryan, Lillian Gish. Shorts: Stranger than Fiction. Saturday, February 5 th: “My Heart Belongs to Daddy’’, starring Richard Carlson, Claire Trevor. Shorts: Speaking of Animals in Cur­ rent Events. Popeye to Work”. Monday, February Dangerous”, starring Robert Young. Short: Wednesday, Feb. Man in the World”, Benny, Priscilla Lane. Shorts: When Winter Calls, Happy Hunting Grounds. in “Too Weak 7th: “Slightly Lana Turner, Seeing Hands. 9 th: “Meanest starring Jack i Who’s Who AW2. Joyce Oliffe-Sixiith One of the MT drivers, Joyce Oliffe-Smith, is a much travelled young lady and it seems natural that she should choose the MT sec­ tion of the Air Force so that she can see a little more of the world. Joyce was born in Southampton, England, and lived in various cities of England until she was six— Bournemouth, London, Watford^ Kensington, Hampstead. At six years of age, she went to Italy with her family where she attended a convent in Milan for three years. She wasn’t overly fond of training but she thoroughly the ballet lessons that she the Scala. .From Italy Joyce family went ’to France and convent enjoyed took at and her the Work on repairing the ceiling of the church auditorium is to begin as soon as possible. The Thames Road Miss Band met at the manse Sunday morning dur­ ing 'Church service with an atten­ dance of thirty. Mrs. Lee Webber was in charge and Margaret Cann taking the chair for the first part of the meeting. Meeting opened with hymn 3 84 followed with the Lord’s prayer in unison. Scripture lesson was read by Dalores Allison. In absence of the secretary no report oi’ roll call was taken. < Collection was taken and hymn 404 sung. Mabel Selves favored with a read­ ing, Betty Mair an instrumental, Betty Allison a reading and Mar­ garet Cann a reading. Mrs. Mair then gave a short talk on “Why We Come to Mission Band”. Election of officers then took place fox’ 1944 which are as follows: Leaders, Mrs. Lee Webber, Miss June Coward; president, Dalores Allison; secretary, June Borland; treasurer, Floyd •Stewart; pianist, June Coward; as­ sistant, Shirley Thompson. Hymn 432 was sung and meeting closed with prayer by Mrs. Mair. FRANK FEENEY DIES IN L iTBBERT The death occurred on Wednes­ day, January 26, of Frank Feeney,' a highly respected resident of Hib-I bert Township, who passed away at, liis home lot 12, concession 3, Hib-1 bert. Mr. Feeney had seemingly beexl ixx lxis usual good health until < axx hour before lxis death. He was in his 51st year, son of the late; William Feeney and Briget Roaclx | Feeney, tied to Killop, Was a church, Holy Name Society, He leaves his wife; three soils, William, age 11,| Leohard 9, Kenneth age 3; three daughters, Louise, S, Rosemary, 5 and Catherine, 2 months; five bro­ thers, Rev. Joseph Feeixey, Loildon; Martin and Wilfred, Hibbert; Wil­ liam, Dublin; and Flight Lieut. Jas. B., of Vaiioouver; four sisters, Mrs, John Meaglxei- and Mrs. David Cos- tello, Dublin; Mrs. Roy Murphy, of Pontiac, Mich., and Mrs. Eugene Giroux, Thdrdld, The funeral was held Friday morning from the resi­ dence to St, Patrick's Church, Dub­ lin. In June, 1931, he was mar-’ Catharine Flanigan, of Me-I Who survives. Mr. 1___ member of St. Patrick’s Dublin and a member of the ,.,1 II ' tp school there and to the list of lan- can speak, to England to live age of twelve she could read several children went added French guages they Joyce returned at the neither read nor speak English. But several years at boarding school soon remedied this, and when she was sixteen she enrolled at Domestic Economy College, Joyce found this very interesting but ap­ parently not fascinating enough to want to be a cook for the R.C.A.F. Think maybe the Air Force is miss­ ing a good thing here; but after all you can only do one job at a time and she’s a good driver so it’s a case of “what is the MT’S gain is the Mess’ loss.” The Christmas last Christmas spent in England the wanderlust hit the family again and they left England for Vancou­ ver. They made a real holiday out of the trip through the Seattle, Washington, barked here and drove from Seattle to Vancouver. Although they only planned to stay in Canada for a year, war broke out and they de­ cided to remain on the West Coast. The wonderful climate played a big part in helping them reach this de­ cision. Even Joyce’s Scotty dog which she had brought out from England with her wanted to stay; that settled the matter. Joyce was a Cross Corps fox- fore she joined of the R.C.A.F., When of 1938 was the the Oliffe-Smith’s and early in 1939 and sailed around Panama Canal to They diseixx- he Red and be- section membex- of three years the W.D.’s she was a Sergeant in the clerical section of the Corps. In September of 19 43 the nomad instinct got the .better of her ana Joyce enlisted. She came east to Rockcliffe for her basic training and from there was posted to 'No. 9 S.F.T.S., for her contact training. She has just finished her trade training at Trenton and says she is glad to be back here and we’re glad she’s back too. Her interests are many__tennis, swimming, skating, dancing and classical music. After the war she hopes to return to Europe but meanwhile there is a job to be done and Joyce is proud to be a part of the Royal Canadian Air Force. BRINSLEY profound sympathy of the community is extended this to Mrs. Beatrice Dixon, of Craig, in the loss of her son, Hawkey. Mrs. Diixon heard official headquarters on Janu- The entire week Ailsa 1 Jack from ary 25th of his death by injury sus­ tained on active service in England. Though *words are grosly inadequate as messengers of comfort, her many friends would like her to know their love and respect are with her in this difficult hour of severance. Those who spent Wednesday eve­ ning last at the home of Mrs. Beat­ rice Dixon from No. 9 S.F.T.S. Cent­ ralia were: Cpl. Mary Cooper, Cpl. Dorothy Taylor, AW. Phyllis Hicks, AW. Ruth Windus. Cpl- Evelyn Cook was also .present and spent a few days. The sympathy of the community is extended to Mrs, Fred J. Neil on the passing of her brother,- the late Thornton Sherritt. ■ Miss Mary Fee spent Tuesday afternoon with Mrs. Joe Amos. We are glad to report* that Mr. Thos. Lee, who was confined to his bed with the flu, is around again. Mrs, James Trevithick spent Fri­ day last with her sister-in-law, Mrs. Howard Dorman. We are sorry to hear that Mrs. Jack Hodgson was taken to St. Joseph’s Hospital on Wednesday evening last. Miss Gladys Neil has returned home from the hospital after having her tonsils removed. Mrs. Arthur Hodgson, of London, j spent the week-end with Mr. and • Mrs.-Eldon Hodgson.j The neighborhood regrets to I know that Mrs. William Hamilton, f>iV1<v I 01' Victoria Hospital, is not showing ■ e ■ ney t mitc)x improvement. 1 Mr. Earl Hamilton has been sick J ‘with pneumonia for the past week I and is showing some improvement. Mrs. Wesley Dixon has gone to Sarnia to spend a week with her daughter, Mrs. George. Mr. and Mrs. Wesley Watson and Eddie spent Saturday last in Lon­ don. A report of the congregational meeting will be found lit page 6. First Spook: “What's that bump on your head?” Second Spook: “X was coming through the keyhole as usual when some ass put the key in,” A native gjjd lifelong resident of Hibbert township, Wilber Mahaffy died at his home, lot 9, concession 6, Hibbert, on the farm where he had resided for the past 23 years. Mr. Mahaffy had the past six attributed to on April 21, the late Mr. huffy. All his life he had farmed In Hibhert township and in addition had done considerable gravel con­ tracting. On January 25, 1911, he married rymple was a church Lodge < clxell, sons, Private Bert, at the trade school, Barriefield Camp, Kingston; Sergeant Wesley, serving overseas with the Royal Canadian Ordnance Corps; three daughters, Mrs. Alvin Barbour (Jean), Staffa; Mrs. Nelson Howe (Anna), Cromarty; Mrs. Har­ per Kraemer (Ruby), Munro; three brothers, Herbert, Cromarty; Fred Sceptre, Sask,; Dr. A. F, Mahaffy, Entebbe, East Africa, with the re­ search department of the Rocke­ feller Institute; one sister, Mrs. R, S. Hoggarth, Cromarty; also four grandchildren. the former Mary a. Dal- who survives, Mr. * Mahaffy member of Staff a United and a member of Tudor of the Masonic Order, Mit- Surviving are his wife, two Private Bert, Annual Meeting The annual meeting pf the Hay Townshii) Federation of Agriculture which was held in the Town Hall Zurich, was well attended, Mr, Bert’ ram lilopp, the president, presided. The feature attraction of the meet­ ing was Motion 'Pictures sponsored by the Huron Federation of Agri­ culture under the direction of w. J. Nicholson, of North Bruce, also giving* an address on Federation membership, Mr, Watts, of Strat­ ford, also spoke on Selective Service policies. The officers for the follow­ ing year are; President, Mr, Bert­ ram Klopp, Zurich• Vice-Pres„ Mr. W. R. Dougall, Hensall; Secretary- Treasurer, Mr. Theo, Steinbach, Zurich; Directors; George Ingram, Garnet Jacobe, Delbert Geiger, Arn­ old Merner, Wm. Davidson, Rein­ hold Miller, Karl Haberer, Mervyn Stelck, Wes, Coleman, Sam Hend­ rick, Hilton Truemner, Horace Pfaff, Sid McArthur, Adolph Kellar, Arthur* Haugh, The meeting with the National Anthem. MOTHER OF COD. I), ROSS BURIED AT PARKHILL closed The funeral took place Saturday afternoon at 2 o’clock from the Evans funeral home, London, of Mrs. Susan Catherine Ross, a resi­ dent of Lucan, who died on Thurs­ day. She was the mother of Col. Duncan Ross, Liberal M.P. fox* Middlesex East, and was in her 81st year, The service was conducted by Rev. W. Moores, of Lucan United Church, with burial afterwards in Parkhill Cemetery. The pallbearers were Reeve Harold Corbett, Jo­ seph Benn, Harry Lankin, Donald Chown, Earl Haskett and Joseph Murray. MITCHELL COUPLE WEI) FIFTY-NINE YEARS AGO OfMr. and Mrs. Robert Roney, Mitchell, quietly celebrated (their 59th wedding anniversary at their home, On January 27th. Mr. Roney is 86 years of age and Mrs. Ropey 88, and they are both in good health and enjoying life to the utmost, He was born on the Roney homestead, lot 2, concession 11, Hibbert town­ ship, where his son, Alex, now re­ sides. Mrs. Roney was the former Ida Vipond of Hibbert township. SEERS EXTENSION OF RURAL HYDRO Hon, G. H. Chailies, deputy chair­ man of the Ontario Hydro Commis­ sion, has announced that the com­ mission is asking the federal metals controller to relax present restric­ tions to permit constfuction of a rural extension program. The program includes construc­ tion of 300 miles of line to new rural users on the farm, Mr,. Chal- lies said it would cost $600,000, not $6,000,000, as had been reported earlier in Ottawa, SEVERAL THOUSAND DOLLAR1 damage JN HESICY P1LAX FW AT SEAFORTH Damage estimated at thousand dollars, chiefly water, resulted when fire broke put on the third floor of the Husky Flax Co. plant in Seaforth early Friday evening. Cause of the blaze is unknown. The firm, one of the town’s est industries, |s engaged on orders, The plant sprinkler system into operation while the Beafprth fire brigade responded promptly, Damage from water to flax and other stored materials is believed to be heavy. The only actual fire damage was a small hole in the roof. several frpin Jarg- war went TRY A WANT AD-------THEY PAY! Nagging, Dragging Pains In the Back REPORTED MISSING 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 th© 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 the wrapper. Don’t accept a substitute. Be sure and get “Doan’s.” The T. Milburn Co- Ltd- Toronto, Ont. J. McMelien, is re­ in air operations the time he enlist- years ago he was xfiesawaBoncnzBziaxsEaoKW LUCAN—Mr. and Mrs. R. J. Mc- Meh.en have received word that their son, FO, Robert ported missing over Europe, At ed nearly three employed as auditor in the Bank of Commerce, Toronto. His home was in Goderich, where his parents lived until recently when they came to spend the winter with Mrs. Mc- Mehen’s mother, Mrs. James Stan­ ley, here. I I I t«* SOUN ANKING THE COMMUNITY The Bank of Montreal works constructively and conservative- ly for the protection of its depositors and the community as a whole. Because the Bank has, for more than a century, endeavoured to do this, it has come to be regarded throughout the length and breadth of the Dominion as a sound, safe and friendly institution. ( Make the nearest branch your banking headquarters a place to which you can go regularly to transact your banking affairs, to obtain information, and to discuss with the Manager your plans and problems. * “a bank where small accoun is are welcome’ ’ * In Exeter, the local office of the Bank of Montreal has, 70 years, aided and shaved in the growth of the community, confidently look to the future for further development and opportunities to be of continued assistance. for We for I Established 1817 Exeter Branch: W. J. FLOYD, Manager MODERN, EXPERIENCED BANKING S E R VIC E . * *