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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1948-10-14, Page 2Page 2 THS TIMES-ADVOCATE, EXETEK, ONTARIO, THURSDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 14, 1948 Cxeter ®itae£=$fob£icate Times Established 1873 Amalgamated November 1921 Advocate Established 1881 Published Each Thursday Morning at Exeter, Ontario An Independent Newspaper Devoted to the Interests of the Village of Exeter and District Authorized as Second Class Mail, Post Office Department, Ottawa Member of the Canadian Weekly Newspaper Association Member of the Ontario-Quebec Division of the CWNA Member of the Audit Bureau of Circulation Paid-in-Advance Circulation as of September 30th, 1947 - 2,214 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Canada, in advance, $2.50 a year United States, in advance, $3.00 Single Copies 6 Cents Each J. Melvin Southcott *. Publishers Robert Southcott 4 THURSDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 14 ‘DID VoU GENFLEMEN ASK FOR ME?” Let Us Try It During the summer months the mer­ chants were accustomed to closing' their stores at 10 p.ni. of a Saturday evening' particularly. It was considered very bad business form not to do so, This was done on daylight saving time. Judging by stan­ dard time this closing took place at 9 o’clock. Folk are wondering if it would not be well for the stores to close by 9 o’clock standard time. No one suffered by closing at this time in the twenty-four hours as citizens conform to daylight sav­ ing time. All are aware of the delights of street visiting of a Saturday evening. It must be remembered that those pleasures were enjoyed to the full under the rule of daylight saving regulations. This mat­ ter must be considered now that the con­ servation of electric power is to the fore. Why not give the 9 o’clock closing a fair trial at least till the Christmas trade makes business unusually lively? Let Us Buy as We Need There is a rumour abroad that prices are to come down in the tantalizing fu­ ture. It is well to heed the rumour. It is better still to remember that rumours at their best are but rumours. There is an­ other rumour there is a world war in the offing. This may be but another rumour and no warrant for buying and boarding goods. In any case there is need for care­ ful buying, on the part of citizens and merchants alike. But that necessity is a feature of all wise living. For most of us the only way is to plod along taking one step at a time. If governments suffer from jitters, citizens are in the same state of mind. We simply do not know ‘what a day may bring forth. ❖ ❖ # ❖ T4he Mess at Berlin This mess in Berlin is all. the. more distressing because the western powers were dull of eye during the closing period of the war. The United States army was in a position to enter Berlin before the Russian army. A shortsighted effort to do liberally with Russia prevented their doing so. 'Phe consequence is that Berlin looks to be in what Russia claims to be hei* ter­ ritory. Now Russia acts as if she were the ruler of Berlin and insists on the western powers getting out of Berlin, bag and bag­ gage. The war over the western nations ignored history and decided that they could carry on with Russia and that an arrangement could be made whereby al! the world cooks could unite in making the national broth. 'Phe result is the witch’s cauldron that threatens to destroy the world. If two families find it hard to oc­ cupy tthe same house, how in the name of sense can fifty-eight nations carry on un­ der one roof or around one council table? Why not have those well meaning people now wasting so much lime pacl*>their bags, go back home, and carry on till some na­ tion proves itself a nuisance? When this occurs the rest of the nations will know what to do. At present it looks as if Russia has made up her mind not to agree with, or to work with, any nation that will not give her her own wav. We may count on this determination on the part of Russia. Why deceive ourselves ? Sfc £« * '!» A Welcome Rain "A long waiting comes at last” our mothers taught us. And the trite saying came to fulfillment last Friday evening, followed by additional showers. After two months of waiting, the rain received a welcome from this whole, community. Pas­ tures are taking on new life, fall wheat fields art’ turning green, meadows are re­ viving. Everything that lives is the better for those fine showers. Faith was tried but it Was justified. Thanksgiving took an add­ ed cheer with the opening of the. heavens to our need. •<!< # & # Let Us Not Despair As we listen in for word from Beilin a great many are saying, “What’s the use? There'll be a shooting war within three months,” There, are times when we agree that war is perilously near. As far as most of us are able to see Russia has resorted to every irritating device to break us down. Our reply has been patient endurance. John Bull has a fashion of giving as good as he gets. Uncle Sam does not long delay when foreman bids him draw his blade. France is not slow in taking up pistol or rapier when challenged. Yet forbearance has prevailed. Meanwhile our statesmen are holding the dogs of war in leash, Meanwhile., too, devout men and women are earnestly seeking the merciful inter­ vention of the Prince of Peace in a moment so critical, for the hours are critical. And we believe that more things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of. So let us amend our ways and trust in God. After all we are likely to see once more that the genuinely religious are the salt of the earth. Toning Up 'Phe court was due to open at 2 o’clock. On the minutes the judge took the bench he proceeded with the business of the day without comment. Three cases were called in succession and in each case the parties were not present. The lawyers pleaded for leniency and delay. The judge replied that he was familiar with all the tricks of-the bar and left the unpunctual to take their losses and their inconvenience. One lawyer hastened to ld.s place and in the presence of the jmlge proceeded to adjust his court dress. “'Phis is not a dressing room. Mr. Brown, von are not in proper form!” and the presumptuous one retired. And that was a good move the other day when an Ontario judge rebuked some lawyers and others who came straggling into court. We heard a judge reprimand a court officer very severely for allowing a spectator to leave, court while* a witness was in the box. There is need of a decided improve­ ment in our public proceedure. Anyone villi eves in his head knows the signifi­ cance of this remark. Church courts are sadly lacking in observing the rules of good form and regular procedure. Manners make the man. The person lacking in good manners and who flouts propel’ procedure is sadly lacking in an essential to good living and good citizenship. We Are Dependents Sometimes proud man makes consi­ derable boasting about his advances and improvemen Is only to be severely remind­ ed that at his best he occupies but a minor place in the scheme of things. Jlist now. for instance, there is a decided shortage of electricity. We had a good deal to say about our electric resources. We announced that we were going to turn this and that by electricity. “All we need to do it to turn a switch and everything will go on.” We have been snubbed in this respect. 'Phe government is powerless. And all this be- sause there has been decided lack in rain­ fall. Some of our crops failed us at the point at which we were counting our chic­ kens. Men are obliged to retire from their farms at the moment they were becoming prosperous. Just at the meridian of his usefulness the leader must retire. Some­ thing has given way in his bddy or his mind and, willy nilly, he must leave his post or be carried away. Proud man often cuts queer capers. He has his little day and then the world goes merrily on with­ out him. We Just Don’t Know Will Rusia rest content with waging a war of nerves ? She has been waging that war for years. In our honesty of heart and in our innocence of soul we thought that Russia was willing to march with us in re­ building a world so badly shattered after tthe last war. In this there, was a great­ deal of the dove and little of the serpent, as far as we were concerned. Russia simp­ ly flouted us and sidestepped at (‘Very turn. Will she continue this policy? We be­ lieve she will. Will she keep on ip. this way meanwhile building up her forces so as tw be ready to pounce on us when she is pre­ pared and the western powers are unpre­ pared? We believe that this is her policy though we do not know what her policy is. In any case we must be prepared, Above all else we must learn to keep state sec­ rets. Along with this goes the overwhelm­ ing necessity for our having men who, while saying little, are seeing to it that we are soundly prepared. Before the Franco- Prussian war the rulers of France asked the military if it was prepared. “Are you prepared for war?” Back came the answer “W<* are prepared down to the last shoe latehet.” The truth was that France was utterly unprepared and the. Prussian troops ■wiped out the unprepared French armies and marched into Paris. After this the German chancellor uttered his famous dic­ tum, “I’ll bleed France white”, a dictum he proceeded to carry out. Preparation in our part comes high but if we fail in this I important matter eyes of Russian spies will i detect the seams in our raiment. I Une Semaine Dans le Monde, Paris. B8 Would your business need to be wound up ... IF? Many businesses are wound up because when the owner or owners die there isn’t enough ready cash for the family or partners to carry on. I i i l i i I i SO YEARS AGO Mr. W. T. Acheson is having several new sets of furniture placed in liis hotel this week, About two o'clock Tuesday morning the citizens of the vil­ lage of Winehelslea were awa­ kened by the' cry of fire. It was discovered that the building used by Messrs. Jones & Hall for drying apples, and owned by Mr. H. Brown, was on fire. The fire soon spread to the black­ smith shop conducted by Messrs. R i c h a r d s o n ( buildings being a short space of of Messrs Couch nited several tim with considerable the building was Mr. J. A. McF: lia, hag dispose! smith shop to M: son. Mr. McFall? Granton where he ing the hotel hi Mr. George I* for Thorndale pack apples for The Blanslimu Society held its annual fair at Kirkton on Friday afternoon last ami it was in every way a grand success. The weather was delightful and the immense crowd enjoyed themselves. The attendance was one of the lar­ gest in the history of the society never & Easson, both destroyed in is. The store Roy was ig- and it was ifficulty that ive.d, s. of Centra- f his blaek- Jantes John- h as iiit< 2SS. . li tim & cl lli ■mie n ox win Mr. 5 gone to mds enter- ft Monday > he will S. Lang, agricultural J and the exhibits were known to better. l i t 25 YEARS AGO Mr. Clayton Prouty is suffer- i ing with u .•(impound fracture of the riit;lit It-g. Mr. Prou.ty was worlcin i the gravel pit owned byi Du nsl'<>r I Bros., Hay Town- ship, v'her e without warning the pit cat■ed in and he was partly buried benici tli the falling earth. The fim ■ double bank barn of Mr. Willi am Darling, of the third <■fusion of McGillivray, near Clani bOoye, was completely destroy ed by fire together with the sei iF crop, a pure bred Horefoird 'h ill and several pigs. Mr. Dtirlii u just completed his threslii that afternoon. The thii month annual conven- tion (if ih- Stephen Sunday School As.-iiwiation was held at Shipka Me th odist Church on. Fri­ day las ll was a splendid suc- cess. R ev.M. Y. Drier, of credi- toil, and llev. W. E. Donnelly, of Exeter., gave two excellent addresses in the afternoon. In the evening A. M. Grant, of Grand Bend, gave an able ad- dress. The Plymouth Brethren have rented the old Y.P.C.A. building for the purpose of holding gos­ pel meetings. The thirteenth annual conven­ tion of the Exeter and Usborne Sunday School Association met Tuesday in Thames Road Pres­ byterian Church with the presi­ dent. J. W. Skinner, in the chair. In the afternoon Rev. J. C. Livingstone and Rev. A. A. Truniper delivered addresses. In the evening J. G. Stanbury and Rev. 'F. E. Clydsdale spoke. 15 YEARS AGO The first program in the Do­ minion “Festival series to be put on in Exeter was put on in the Opera House on Thursday of last week, The program opened with several musical numbers KI ....u................................................................................................. B Whai When Where WHAT Kind of Gravel (Fine, coarse, cement or road) WHEN You Are Ready WHERE as close to your work as possible. WE DELIVER Cudmore Gravel Phone Exeter 171r3 I -------------------------------------—------S3 but the main feature was the impersonation by Miss Jessie Rae Taylor, who did some very clever work to the great delight of the audience. In the evening a play was given entitled “Back Number”. Mr. Gordon Stonehouse has returned from Belle River where he has been working for the Canadian Banners. The merchants of Exeter are launching a Big Business Booster Sale for Thursday, Friday and Saturday of this week to be fol­ lowed by a most unique auction sale Wednesday afternoon of next week, In order to stimulate the fall business and to give the people of this community an opportunity of making their hard-earned dollars go a long­ way, big reductions have been made in all lines of merchan­ dise. The South Huron section of the Huron Presbyterial met in its annual conference on Thurs­ day of last week at St. And­ rew’s Church, Kippen. Mrs. H. Taylor, of Thames Road, was convention speaker. 1O YEARS AGO Gerald Skinner, of town, won the major prize, a cheque for $200, at the first frolic of the Exeter Lions Club held in the Arena Thursday and Friday eve­ nings of last week. Over twelve hundred people attended the fro­ lic the first night and this was increased to over fifteen hund­ red people the second night. W. Smith, of London, entertained the crowd both evenings and the Exeter Band paraded to the Arena and played a few selec­ tions. On Friday night the Brunswick Trio Concert Com­ pany ell tertai n e d the large gathering with a program of music, dan c ing and novelty numbers. When some person with a truck tried to gain entrance to the Exeter Arena about /three o’clock on Friday morning they were frightened away when Tho­ mas Collingwood, who was act­ ing as night-watchman threaten­ ed to shoot. The would-be rob­ bers tried to gain entrance to the building in which were many valuable prizes in connection with the Lions Club Frolic. Miss Ann Turnbull, R.N., of New York, is visiting her mo­ ther, Mrs. Elizabeth Turnbull. Miss Turnbull has just returned from six months’ extensive tra­ velling in England, Scotland and Europe. The members of the Exeter Shuffleboard Club met at the Arena on Tuesday for re-organi­ zation for the coming season. Mr. H. T. Rowe was elected president, Mrs. A. Ryckman, vice-president, Miss M. Follick, secretary-treasurer with J. H. Jones and Mrs. C. V. Pickard as the members of the executive. Hibbert Council Hibbert Township Council met in regular session on Monday, ■ October 4, in the Township Hall, Staffa, with all members pre- j sent, the reeve, Mr. Frank Al- ’ len, presiding. The clerk read the minutes of the ‘previous meetings which were adopted as read. The as­ sessment roll for 194g on which the 1949 taxes will be levied was presented to the Council at this meeting and it was decided to hold the Court, of Revision on November 1, 19 4S, in the Staffa Township Hall. The clerk presented the tax roll at this meeting. Mr. James Howe was present and presented a certificate pass­ ing the open portion on the Darling and Lannin drains. The following accounts were paid; Huron Tile Co., Blyth tile on the Lannin drain, $250.00; Doherty Bros., Blyth, trucking tile (Lannin drain), $50.00; Geo. Ruston, Sebringville* R.R; 1, tile, Lannin drain, $345.71; Mrs. Grace Kerslake, piano for the Hall from the Ladies’ In­ stitute, $100.00; Geo. Radford, Blyth, contract on open portion Lannin drain, $1,015.00. Thos, D, Wren, Clerk This calamity is caused by. lack of adequate Business Insurance. Had the owner or owners purchased Business Insurance the premiums could easily have been paid without financial strain. If you own a business and don’t want to see it sacrificed after you are gone, why not ask us to send a specially trained Confederation Life Represen­ tative to discuss the matter with you. BEFORE YOU INSURE, CONSULT— Confederation Life Association HEAD OFFICE TORONTO A. W. MORGAN, Representative, Hensatl will When the day comes for you to ease up, will you be de­ pendent on others — or you enjoy freedom from worry on a CANADIAN GOVERNMENT ANNUITY? 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