HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1949-09-22, Page 8Page 8 THE TIMES-ADVOCATE, EXETER, ONTARIO, THURSDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 22, 1949 ' NOTICE WHITEWASHING Arrangements can be made. Bill Watson Dashwood Phone 35rl9.... w...............J Editor: you’d have in another Lawyer: time?” Editoi': Leary's obituary that gone to a happier home, so Mrs. Leary is suing us." “Well, John, I guess to defend the Gazette libel suit." “What is It “We printed in, he this pid hgd now ■ I 1 ra­ A Attention Farmers We Have Cornell and Dawbull Seed Wheat Cleaned and Treated We Also Have White Seed Barley This barley is good grain for those growing grain for stock feed. W. G. THOMSON HENSALL 4 •s H Sherlock-Mannir PI VICTOR MODEL Style Victor is everything the name implies. We com­ mend this style to those wjw desire a small piano of musical excellence in artistic design. $498.00 with bench A reasonable allowance for your present piano. W. Martin - Exeter South IS Usborne Council Usborne Council discussed and deplored the recent action of the Village of Hensail in announcing through the local press that the village fire brigade would not respond to any further calls from residents' of the Township for the reason that the Township Council had refused to pay foi' this service. Council instructed that it be noted in the minutes that they did not refuse to pay Hensall but rather laid the matter over until it could be discussed with representatives from the Hensall Council, and Hensall had been so advised. They felt that the usual practice of the local Mutual Fire Insurance Co, of .paying for such service protected Hensall from any loss in this case. The Council met in regular monthly session last Monday afternoon with Reeve Hugh Berry presiding and Councillors Wellington Brock, Verne Pin- combe and Harold Jeffery pres­ ent, The Township solicitor W. G. Cochrane attended the meeting in connection with advising the Council about re-assessing the Cann-Mitchell, Wurm and Elim- ville drains to raise the addition­ al money required to pay for the completion of the work. Mr. Cochrane advised the Council that under the 'Municipal Drain­ age Act any assessments under amending by-laws should be pro rata with the assessments in the original by-laws over the whole scheme regardless of whether the extra costs were incurred on the open or tiled portions of tires© drains. Council instructed that the Engineer be advised to prepare his supplementary .re­ ports with the re-assessments covering the whole scheme in each case. Council agreed that .the Branch B drain account ow,jng the Town­ ship ($174.59) should be assess­ ed on the area, and collected on the tax roll this year. The Road Superintendent ad­ vised the Council that the Dis­ trict Engineer1 had inspected the Kydd bridge on Con. road 4 & 5 and had approved a work of re­ pair on the abutments and wings estimated to cost $700. Clayton Looby, contractor on the bridges now building on Con. road 6 & 7 at Elimville, reported .good pro­ gress was being made and that he could undertake the repair work on the Kydd bridge at $20 per cubic yard of concrete, Town­ ship to supply cement and steel required. Council agreed to en­ gage C. Looby to make the re­ pairs on the Kydd bridge on that basis. The Assessor advised the Council that on account of the large amount of work involved that an extension of time beyond the .statutory date of September 30 would be needed for the com­ pletion of the assessment roll. Council passed By-law No. 8- 1949, subject to the approval of the Dept, of Municipal Affairs, providing for an extension of sixty days as permitted under the Dept, of Municipal Affairs Act on motion of Councillors Brock and .Pincombe. To provide for the preparation of the tax collector’s roll, By-law No. 9-1949 adopting the revised assessment for 1949 of .$2,616,- 497 was passed on motion of Councillors Jeffrey and Brock, and By-law No. 10-1949 fixing the rates of taxation as set forth in the budget adopted at the August 8 meeting (overall rate exclusive of school section levies of 23 mills) was passed on motion of Councillors Pincombe and Jeffrey. By-law No.11-1949 amending the Dunn drain by-law to provide for the .collection of only forty per cent of the assessments in 1949 instead of the entire amount as provided for in the original by-law for the reason that only the open portion of the drain will be constructed this year, was passed on motion of Councillors Brock and Pincombe. Council instructed that the De­ partment of Highways be re­ quested to erect 30‘mile speed limit signs at the outskirts of Kirkton, Woodham, and Whalen on. Highway No. 23 and at Farquhar on Highway No. 83 in response to complaints regard­ ing the dangerous speed of traf­ fic passing through these places. On motion of Councillors Brock and .Jeffery the Reeve and Glerk were authorized to sign the application for the Interim Road Subsidy from the Dept, of Highways, submitted by the Road Superintendent. The Road Superintendent’s Re­ port was received and vouchers to amount of $2,750.00 and other current accounts to the amount of $2,949.49 including the bal­ ance of the Exeter District High School Requisition for 1949 of $2,416.28 were passed on motion, of Councillors Pincombe and Jeffery. A complaint regarding ob­ structions on the Ausa,ble River drain on his farm was accepted from Archie Etherington, and Council decided to have repairs made. The Auditor’s Report on the i948 Expenditure on Roads from the Department of Highways was tabled and was accepted as .being satisfactory by the Council. On the advice of the Engineer Council decided to pay Dumfries Construction Co. the balance of their tender price less $150 to take care of further work on the headwall and fence repairs, on the Stewart drain. All motions were passed with­ out dissent and Council adjourn4 ed to meet again in regular ' Home Life And Finances As Judge, who presided for many years over divorce courts, said that one major cause for ,so many unhappy marriages, was the failure of one, or both par­ ties, to handle financial affairs. When people are ■ financially em­ barrassed they become irritable ^nd fly into a temper,' say and do things which lead to ,the divorce court. We feel sure he is right, al­ though few realize . how far reaching the consequences of being hard up may become. Many very intelligent people do not know how to live within their . means and some of the world’s greatest geniuses have brought themselves to poverty by im­ provident living. Not so long ago the students of Glasgow University, when asked whom they considered to be the greatest Scotchman of all time, voted for the poet, Robbie Burns, yet he was constantly in financial difficulties, Surely one of the most pathetic letters ever written was sent by the dying Burns to his friend Thomson, when he, sick, weary, alone and terribly worried over financial affairs. "After all my boasted in­ dependence, curst necessity com­ pels me to implore you for five pounds, and that by return of post .... pleas forgive me." It is not a pleasant picture; that of a sick, a dying genius, harassed because he could not pay creditors who were pressing him for mney and all the while worrying lest he be cast into jail. A pleasanter story is told of the writer Joseph Conrad. He finally arrived as an author but not until he had struggled with poverty. One day he received an offer of knighthood. It came in a long blue official enveope, marked:: “On His Majesty’s Service." It lay on his desk for several weeks unopened. At .last the Prime Minister, deeply con­ cerned over the delay, sent a special messeaiger to ask Conrad why he .had not answered the offer of Knighthood. Then he confessed that he had not dared bo open the letter — he thought it was the income tax. It does not seem as if one of the chief causes of financial dis­ tress is that many people .haven’t the courage to admit they can’t afford extravagances and luxur­ ies. This is particularly true of young people. They often feel ashamed to say: “I can’t afford it.” There is too .much effort to keep up with the Joneses. This is an age of Luxury. People seem to have the money fo.r everything: automobiles, radio sets, candies, <all in style and quantity which would have given our grandparents heart failure. Many are ashamed of poverty. A young man in whom I am greatly interested, married recently and has bought a house which I feel is going to be a burden to him. The mortgage interest alone is nearly one third of his income. I have before me an advertise­ ment for a very expensive auto­ mobile and people are urged to buy it because they will be the envy of their friends. Note the motive. Not on account of its being serviceable and a thorough­ ly good ear, but because it looks so flashy that friends will open their eyes wide with 'envy. That’s the way it often goes. People plunge themselves into .debt and then worry. And the step be­ tween a Worried person and an irritable one, isn’t far. There .is an old proverb that: “Economy is a virtue.” It is worth remembering. Any fool can spend money but it takes backbone and purpose to handle finances with good judgement. These lines are not written with the intention of curbing generosity; far from it, Provided it has a sound basis, generosity is one of the noblest of Christian virtues. But if this judge is right in blaming needless extravagance for domestic unhappiness — and much divorce — then we must face the issue. ’Most of us think that if we had more money we would be happier. In some cases that is true but with the vast majority of .people it would make little difference, perhaps none at all. Our deepest needs are spiritual and peace of mind and tranquil­ ity of spirit are more often than not, accompanied ,by frugal liv­ ing, An American journalist gays: “Our population can be divided into two classes —— .millionaires and those who would like to be millionaires. There is too much truth in that statement, but it is not wholly true, When Socrates passed through the market at Athens, he said: “How many things are here which I do not need." t If more people had that at­ titude .there would be fewer broken homes and broken hearts. Twenty-five hundred years ago, more- or less, a devout He­ brew thought over the things we are now considering. He .was a wise man as well as a good man and he summed up his reflections in these words: “Remove me far from vanity and ’lies; give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me,” Our quotation today is from the Sixteenth Psalm: "I have set the Lord always before me; because He is my right hand, I shall not be moved. Wesley Culbert Wesley Culbert, 80, lifelong district farmer, who died Friday, September 16, in St. Joseph’s Hospital, London, was a native of Biddulph Township an d farmed on the Sauble Line. He was a member of St. Pat­ rick’s Church, Saintsbury. Besides his wife, he is sur­ vived by two sons, .Aljoe, Lucan, and Alfred, London; and two daughters,. Willa and Mrs. Ed­ ward Simms, both in Exeter. The remains rested in Mur- die’s funeral home, Lucan, where services were conducted on’Mon­ day at 2 p.m. by Rev. Canon James, assisted by Rev. L. C. Harrison. Interment was made in St. James' Cemetery, Clandeboye. CARS ★ 1947 Chev Coach, a very clean car. ★ 1947 Ford Sedan, good. ★ 1940 Ford Coach, new motor — $790. ★ 1937 Ford Coach, a good one, ★ 1932 Ford Coach; see’ this one! TRUCKS ★ 1947 Ford, 825 x 20 tires — $790. ★ 1940 Ford Three-Ton, 825 x 20 good tires — $390. ★ 1937 Ford Pickup, TRACTORS ★ 1948 Case Tractor, like new, with scuffler and plow — $1,200. ★ 1948 Ferguson Tractor, worth the money. ★ 1943 Ford Tractor, motor overhauled, step-up transmission; a buy! ■ Larry Snider Motors Exeter Phone 64W SAINTSBURY St. Patrick’s church, Saints­ bury, will hold the “Harvest Thanksgiving Service” on Sun­ day, September 25, ,1949. Morn­ ing Service at 11:00 a.m. and Evening Service at 7:00 p.m. Standard Time. ■ Miss Marjorie Isaac spent the ■week-end at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Richards of Centralia. Mr. .and Mrs. Allan Boles spent from Monday to Wednesday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Heber Davis. We are sorry to r’eport that Mrs. Henry Hodgins fell and fractured a bone in her ankle. She is confined to bed at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Harry Carroll. The sympathy of the commun­ ity is extended to Mrs. Wesley Culbert and family at the death of the husband and father. Mrs. Aaron Davis of Lucan <spent the week-end at the home of Mr. and Mrs. R. Dickins. Many from this district at­ tended the Western Fair held in London last week. •Mr. and Mrs. Don Woodward and Gail spent the week-end with Mr. and Mrs. William Dobbs. Mr, and Mrs. Whitney Coates, of Exeter, spent Sunday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Earl At­ kinson. Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Green­ lee spent Sunday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Roy Hodgins of Brinsley. 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