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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1947-09-25, Page 1Single Copy $ sientitfSeventy-Fourth Year loses I of for til 9 and the the first Autos were parked the streets leading to was a grand exhibit Canning Factory A nasty accident occurred at the Exeter Branch of ’Canadian Dan­ ners Friday morning of last week when Etta Mae Brintnell, aged 1?C, daughter of Mr, and Mrs. A. Brint­ nell, lost her right hand in a corn husking machine, Miss Brintnell was feeding corn cobs into the machine when one of them was going in crooked and she attempted to straighten it and her hand was drawn into the machine and the hand severed at the wrist, She was taken to the first aid room which is under the supervision of Mrs. Harold Fletcher wounded of blood Brintnell Hospital Throughout acted McDonald and Dr. was called. Dressing the arm and stopping the flow as best they could Miss was taken to Victoria in London. the trying ordeal she acted very heroically and walked to the doctor’s car and also walked into the hospital. When a nurse at the hospital suggested a wheel chair Miss Brintnell stated she could walk alright. Latest reports from the hospital state she is getting along as well as can be expected. There are about ten corn husking machines at the factory mostly operated by women. Miss Brintnell had been operating the machine since the opening of the corn pack. It was a pretty sad morning around the factory follow­ ing the accident as Etta Mae was one of the popular employees. in Exeter Sunday at cities and Time Changes Sunday Daylight Saving Time will come to an end this midnight. Some of the towns will end D.S.T, Saturday eve­ ning but Exeter will continue up until Sunday evening.^ Anyone Sets ning eter they the clock back Saturday and arrives at church in at 11 a,m. old time will have missed the service. who eve­ n­ find EXETER, ONTARIO, THURSDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 25th, 1947 Lions Challenge Firemen The battle of the season is shap­ ing up for this Thursday night with the field of action under the lights in the Exeter Arena at 8 p.m. The Exeter Lions have challenged the local Firemen to a softball duel and it promises to be a tilt worth seeing. Lion Andy Snelgrove is getting the roaring members of the Club rounded up while Fire Chief Rill Chambers will be directing his boys in double time in an attempt to snuff out the Lions challenge as quickly as they do the local fires. The admission is only one Lions Club ticket, at two bits, bought at the Arena. The proceeds are all going to the Exeter District Hos­ pital Fund. You don't want to miss this one! 1 he Exeter Fall Fair Thursday of last week surpassed any .similar event held in this fair town and the aim of the directors to make this one. of the outstanding events in Western Ontario is well on the way. Favored with excellent weather, the large crowd, estimated at about 6,000, milled about the grounds, watch­ ed the races and sports, looked over the many fine exhibits or Miss' Lois Swartz, of the Telephone staff, is enjoying week’s vacation. Bell two Make that bank account bigger— use The Times-Advocate“ classified EXETER’S FALL FAIR this year was the best yet and here are a few scenes taken during the big event last Thursday afternoon. (1) is Marillyn Maxwell of R.R. 1, Kirkton, who won the W*. C. Pearce Special; (2) is the first round of the tug-of-war. At the right is the Exeter team -with Jack Stire the end man. Others on the team were Benson Tuckey, Roy Webber, Jack Elliott, Fred Sim­ mons, Graham Arthur. Judge Steadman is referee ing the pull against the champion Usborne team. (3) is the Dorset Horned ram of Preston Dearing and Son who took top honors in its class. It is being shown by Gerald Dearing. (4) is Beth Tay lor and her saddle horse “Darkie” who took fourth prize. (5) is the Jensen and Co. float that carried off top honors in the comic class, —staff Photos * i I 15 Firsts Out of 17 Entries Mr. Robert Sanders, of town, was awarded 15 firsts and one second out of 17 entries in vegetables at the Exeter Fair last Thursday. Hensall Time Change Reeve Kerslake has announced that the Village of Hensall will go on Standard Time Saturday mid­ night. Rally Service at James Street Severe District Storm Sunday Afternoon One of the most severe storms the seasons swept across this district Sunday afternoon. Black­ ened skies and high winds were followed by deluges of rain. For­ tunately this district escaped some of the more severe damage report­ ed in other parts. Early in the af­ ternoon the storm began to gather and high winds ripped the branches off a number of trees. On James street two large limbs were torn from a maple tree and in falling broke one of the hydro wires. Hy­ dro was off for a time while the repairs were being made. The heavy rains flooded fields and fill­ ed the ditches with water. The bean crop has suffered from the wet weather and some growers re­ port the beans as sprouting. Fall wheat planting has been delayed, although many farmers have wheat well under way. There was a slight interruption in some of the local telephone lines. .Some of the lines were down in the Hensall district. ed the races and sports, looked took in the midway. Monster Parade j The afternoon started off with a monster procession starting at the south end of the town and par­ ading to the Community Park head­ ed by the Exeter Band. Following the band were boys and girls on decorated bicycles and youngsters on gaily decked tricycles. Six rural schools from Usborne in colorful costumes were followed by the pu­ pils from five rooms of the Exeter public school, the High School and the Cadets. Bringing up the rear were the decorated cars and busi­ ness floats, beautiful and ingeni­ ous, Crowds lined the sidewalks to see. the parade and followed it to the park, blocks on grounds. There ladies’ work, baking, art work and school children’s work in the gym­ nasium and in the arena were ex­ cellent showings of flowers, fruits, vegetables, grain, seeds, etc. The exhibits by local firms were more numerous than ever and mighty attractive. The local canning fac­ tory had the most extensive display with almost 2,500 cans, most of them filled, hut all of the others were a credit to the owners and added greatly to the showing. I -very scarce2 webs fine merchandise. while they last $3.95 each Factory Cotton Special quality factory cotton, 86” wide- Men’s Raincoats and Topcoats SIZES 34 TO 44 Make your selection while we have all sizes. High SchooLGirls* Loafers New styles in both Brown and Black, width B and C $4.95 pair ‘ * tMen’s, women’s, girls’, and boys’ styles. Also many styles in Rubber Overshoes f^the wet weather. Boy’s Suits - Sizes 24 to 33 Tweed suits that any bov will be proud to wear—all made with two pairs of trousers. $12.50 to $20.00 Lad ies’ an d M isses’ Nylon Slips' Good quality, straight or bias cut, white only, sizes 32 to 38. Regulai’ price $4.75 — On sale Men’s Farm Boots - Special Sale Price $3»95 Leather or Panco Soles — Sizes 6 to 11.A X Rubbers and Rubber Boots Rally Sunday was observed in James Street United Church Sun­ day morning w< n the members of the Sunday School occupied the centre pews of the church. Promo­ tion exercises were held by tho Primary department and a baptis­ mal rite was performed. The children baptised were Susan Clare daughter’ of Mr. and Mrs. Jack Kestle and David Leslie, son of Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Robertson. The superintendent of the school, J. H. Jones, conducted the promotion ex­ ercises, the scholars by classes passing through little white gates as they were promoted to their new teachers. Scholars from the Cradle Roll were received into the Begin­ ners Dept, and were presented with scrolls by the Cradle Roll Supt., Mrs. Leslie Thomson. The scholars were Teddy Sanders, Kathryn Hicks, John Oke, Billy Harvey, Barbara ^McDonald, Arlene Love, Jones, Delbridge and Carol Alderson. The Primary consists of nine classes in the different grades. Two classes were promoted from the Primary to the main school room and were presented with Bibles by Misses Alice Hand ford michael. Tomlinson, Patricia Sillery, da Hale, Jeanette Beaver and Ruth Jones; boys, Billy Pincombe, Keith Coates, " ’ Taylor, Crocker, Fisher and Michael Farrow. Miss Carol Mabie Westcott, Jimmy Westcott, Dianne and They were: Nellie Car­ girls, Iris ■, Donal- Beverley Sturgis, Wallace Fisher, Chas. Kernick, Special at 35c yard © Ladies, .Misses’ and Girls’ Fall and Winter Coats—new styles and materials—make your selections early. Lions Frolic Thursday & Friday Nights OCTOBER 3ND and 3RD Entire net proceeds to be used for a hospital fund for Exeter district—-Ixit us all help! Jack Jimmy Donald Dur­ ing the ceremony Miss Helen Shapton sang “Open the Gates.” A solo was sung by Harry Dougall. Two beautiful bouquets of Glads adorned the pulpit in memory of two who paid the supreme sacrifice during the last war. They were L.Cpl. Hilton Sanders and L.Sgt. Jack Sweet. At the evening service the speaker was Rev. C. W. Down, the minister, Rev. H. J. Snell con­ ducting anniversary services at. Hillsgreen. Special Values for Thursday, Friday & Saturday Maxwell House Coffee Special value, I lb. bag .. Clark’s Soup Sale Mushroom, or Asparagus Catelli’s Cooked Spaghetti In tomato sauce ... .......... Nabob Green Tea. Top qualityj, 1/q lb. pkgs. Snyder’s Tomato Ketchup In good supply, 12 oz. Bulk Soap Chips Good quality, white ...... New Pack Mincemeat Mother’s Brand, in bulk per tin 7c 2 tins 25c each 50c Phone 32 per lb. 49c per bottle per lb. ... per lb. 25c 25e 22c Kel Crushed Apple Juice With the real apple flavor ... 2 tins 25c Your Superior Store i i i Scouts and Cubs Attend Wingham Church Service The Boy Scouts and Cubs held their first meeting for the fall rally in their new rooms Friday evening of last week. Scoutmaster Ted .Buswell is to be assisted" by Ken Cowell, a former King's Scout and Ivan Hunter-Duvar. The newly formed Group Committee sponsored by the Lions Club, com­ prising, Reg. Beavers. Ken Hockey and Jack Pryde were introduced to the groups, .along with W. G. Seldon of the Lions club. Giving up their duties after serving for many years on the Group Commit­ tee were Dr. Cowen, J. H. Jones and J. M. Southcott. i Arrangements were made at the meeting Scout day. On and Town the Guenther motored to Wingham for a public service in the Wingham United Church. Scouts and Cubs paraded to the church and listened to an inspiring message delivered by Rev. W .A. Beecroft. The Wing­ ham Lions served lunch to visitors, whieh from Goderich, Hensall, Exeter Students Have Holiday While Repairs Being Made Students at the Exeter public school enjoyed a two-day holiday this week while repairs were be­ ing made to the heating system. Several new flues had placed rooms pupils, given pupils in spite carried wore their coats or sweaters, pairs were made Tuesday school was functioning again Wednesday. to be re­ in the boiler and as the. were without heat the P.S. much to their delight were a holiday. The high school were not so fortunate and of the cold classrooms on. Some of the students Re- and on Wins H uron County Agricultural Scholarship The Huron County Federation Agriculture Scholarship, which ug to attend the County ’ Rally at Wingham on Sun-1 Sunday morning 26 Cubs 17 Scouts gathered at the Hall and piled into one of school busses and the groupsIncluded Clinton, Seaforth and Wingham, Exeter had the largest group pres­ ent. Accompanying the groups from Exeter were Miss Jean Brock and Ivan Hunter-Duvar. Needless to say that with a bunch of live wires the leaders had their hands full. of is awarded each year to a student from Huron County, entering the Ontario Agricultural College, has been awarded, this year, to George Underwood, only son of Mr. and Mrs. G. N. Underwood, of R.R. 1, Wingham. George attended S.S. No. 5, Turn­ berry Township, and graduated from Wingham Collegiate last June. He played on th® basketball team at Collegiate, and participated in rugby and softball, as well. For the past four years, George has taken farm leave so as to as­ sist his father in the operation of his three hundred acre farm, and so goes to College with the prac­ tical knowledge of farming, having lived and worked upon his farm while growing up. The best wishes of his go with George. father’s County Kirkton Fair This Week Officers and directors of Injured in Barn Norman Long, Kippen mail cour­ ier, while tripping a hay fork load­ ed with beans lost his balance and fell 25 feet to the mow. X-rays at Clinton Hospital revealed a frac­ tured bone in his ankle. the Kirkton Fall Fair have their fing­ ers crossed hoping for fine weather for their annual showing which is being held to-day (Thursday). A grand list of prizes is being offered exhibitors and a full list of sports for the entertainment of visitors is being provided. Kirkton provides one of the better class of rural fairs usually draws crowd. I , In all classes of livestock there were some outstanding entries in­ cluding blue ribbon winners at the Toronto Exhibition. The judges had difficulty in placing some of the classes. Sporting Events The sporting events included three racing events, hurdle jump­ ing, Tug-of-war, bicycle and foot races. In the tug-of-war, Usborne with Victor Jeffery as captain de­ feated Exeter captained by Reeve B. W. Tuckey. Usborne won from Stephen, under Art Amy, Exeter and Stephen divided second and third prizes. In hurdle jumping competition prize went to Junior Merner, of Zurich, closely followed by Jack Parsons, of Exeter, and Bill Mer­ ner, of Zurich. Jack, aged 12, a little fellow atop a big horse, car­ ried the wild applaudits of the crowd as his horse outjumped the others, hut was awarded second prize when horse and performance were considered. Three Horse Races Three harness horse races were a feature of the afternoon’s pro­ gram. In the first race, a classified division, Turvey drove Miss Corp­ oral Gratton to three straight wins with Jack Morrissey’s Super Volo, running in second spot for all three heats and Campbell's Mary Volo in third each race. The Lee owned by A.. Balcombe of Tillsonburg and driven by Miller won three heats of the 2.17 class. Elverso driven by Fawn was second in the first two trials and third in the final. In the green race Miss Marva Grattan, a Parkhill horse, captured both heats with Tom Yearley’s Amber Grattan following in second place each race. Prize winners in the parade were as follows: Best school in parade, No. -1 Usborne, Mrs. McIntyre, teacher; Room 2 Exeter, Jean Cann, teacher; best school drill,, No. 6 Usborne, Harvey Sparling, teacher; No. 5 Usborne, Anita Hildebrand, teacher; No. 4 Usborne, Elizabeth Young, teacher; best decorated car, J. L. McKnight, Frozen Foods Locker; second, Newton Motor Sales; third, Bailey’s Florists; best decorated business float, Tomlin­ son’s Beauty Parlor; Chambers and Darling, butchers; Snell Bros. South End Garage; freak outfit, Jensen’s; best decorated bicycle, Beverley Sturgis, Michael Farrow, Patricia Hopper. The boys’ half mile bicycle race was won by Hank Ellis, Neil Stan- lake and Kevin Delbridge; girls or boys 9 years and under, James Carey, David Morrissey, Wm. Pin- combe; hoys’ half mile, Murray May, Don Ducharme, Don Easton and Bill Gossman; boys 14 and under, Grant Cudmore, Ivan Hod­ gins, Bob Coates; girls 14 and un­ der, Dorothy Pooley, Elaine Becker, Reta Houlahan. Jr. Farmer’s Grain Exhibit In the Exeter Junior Farmers’ grain exhibit there were 13 entries of one bushel of Montcalm barley from seed purchased in the spring. The final standing of the club mem­ bers is based on proficiency, which includes the award in the exhibit at the fair, field score, field notes, judging competition, questionnaire, attendance and interest at meetings* Following are the awards in order of merit on the exhibits: Jack Hern, Woodham; Bruce Shapton, Exeter; Don Easton, Exeter; Lome Johns, Centralia; Ray Jaques, Granton; Jim Harris, Kirkton; Raymond Mc­ Carter, Hay; Gerald Dearing, **Ex­ eter; Hamaday DeBlock, Granton; Frank Gregus, Exeter; Harry Hern, Granton; Tom Brock, Granton; Glen Jeffery, Exeter; G. E. Nelson, assistant agricultural representative for Huron, was judge. Dougall, of Hensall. arranged to occupy on the second floor portion of the house was re- Real Estate Transfer Mr. Thos. Pryde has sold fine brick residence on William to Mr. W. R. Mr. Pryde has the apartment while the main will be occupied by Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Hueston, son-in-law and daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Dougall. Mr. Hneston is a plumber at the Centralia airport. Mr. Pryde is hold­ ing an auction sale of household effects. An advertisement appears on another page. Artery Severed Roy Raynham, an employee at the Ford garage, had the misfor­ tune to inflict a gash hi his right hand on Monday. Ail artery severed and three sutures were quired to close the wound, Mr, Loo H.E P.C., has the past two Tlcnnossoyy of bpon vacationing weeks. tho for I I AIR VICE-MARSHALL MIDDLETON during his recent visit to No, 1 F.T.S., Centralia, is seen inspecting the guard of honour with Group Captain Lister, Commanding Officer of the station. On the right the Air Vice-Marshall is investing Flight Sergeant Shaw with the long service od good conduct medal. R.C.A.F, Photo