HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1951-03-08, Page 13Page 11THE TIMES-ADVOCATE, EXETER, ONTARIO, THURSDAY MORNING, MARCH 8, 1951
Here’s Fairy-Tale Reading
$16.00 PER CORD
Malting Barley Contracts a pound of sausage
If Mrs.
spent
cents,
same
have
$8.32
meat budget today
cost Mrs. South
according to local
were 20
Delivered in 3-Cord Loads — Subject to Distance
See Us Now for 1951 Barley Contracts
(Barley paid, large dividends in 1950)
LUCAN PHONE 63
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When it comes to paying for
the weekly food bill, the lowly
dollar makes about as much im
pression as a falling cabbage leaf
on a steer’s back.
A comparison of Exeter mer
chant’s advertising between 1939
and today makes fairy-tale read
ing for the economical housewife.
From the prices in those ad
vertisements, a local family of
four in 1939 was able to live
well on a food budget of $12 a
week, The same menus today
will run $22 if the housewife is
to feed her family as well as
she did in 1939.
And a few months from now
that $22 figure will probably be
obsolete if prices rise like they
have in January and February.
The official cost-of-living index
increased by 2.7 points in Jan
uary to reach a record 172-5 and
wholesale prices showed even
higher trends for February.
Meat is the food • which has
sharply in price,
prime rib
cents a pound,
were
shops
cents
risen most
Twelve years ago, a
roast was 25
Monday, prime rib roasts
featured in local butcher
at .89 cents a pound, 64
more than in 1939.
If Mrs. South Huron
$2.65 on her weekly meat bud
get in 1939 she could treat her
family to a five-pound rib roast
for $1; half a pound of side
bacon at 20 cents; a 'boiling fowl
weighing five pounds for $1; a
pound of fillet of haddock for
49 cents and
for 21
This
would
Huron
prices.
Canned goods are another item
to hack a substantial slice out
of milady’s take-home change.
Food ads in The Times-Advocate
(in 1939 show pork and beans
selling for three for 25 cents.
Now, it’s two for the quarter.
Foi’ a 17-punce tin of canned
peas, Mrs. Huron paid 12 cents.
Today it’s 18 cents for a 15-
ounce can.
Want some more? Canned soup
two for 15, now two for 25;
half-pound pink salmon 16, now
25; etc., etc.
California oranges
and 25 cents a dozen for med
ium and large sizes.
South Huron wants to put some
on the table for the family
(breakfast, she’ll pay 45 and 52
for the same sizes. Lemons were
about two and a half cents
apiece, now there’re over four.
The 1939 housewife could have
hubby carry home a 24-pound
bag of flour for 45 cents but
the modern woman will have to
settle for $1.34. Dates (fruit
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Business Directory
DR. H. H. COWEN
L.D.S., D.D.S.
DENTAL SURGEON
Main Street, Exeter
Closed Wednesday Afternoon
Bus. 80-W - Phone - Res. 30-J
ALVIN WALPER
LICENCED AUCTIONEER
for
HURON AND LAMBTON
For your sale, large or small,
courteous and efficient service at
all times
“Service that Satisfies”
PHONE 57-r-2 DASHWOOD
DR. J. W. CORBETT
L.D.S., D.D.S.
DENTAL SURGEON
Bell Building
Phone 273
ELMER D. BELL, K.C.
BARRISTER & SOLICITOR
Exeter
Successor to J. W. Morley
EXETER, ONTARIO
ARTHUR FRASER
INCOME TAX REPORTS
BOOKKEEPING SERVICE, ETC.
Ann St., Exeter Phone 504
W. G. COCHRANE, B.A.
BARRISTER & SOLICITOR
EXETER, ONTARIO
At Hensall, Friday, 2 to 5 p.m.
FRANK TAYLOR
LICENCED AUCTIONEER
For Huron and Middlesex
FARM SALES A SPECIALTY
Prices Reasonable and
Satisfaction Guaranteed
Exeter P.O. or Ring 138
JOHN W. ORCHARD
OPTOMETRIST
Main Street, Exeter
Open Every Week Day
Except Wednesday
For Appointments Phone 355-J
WM. H. SMITH
Licenced auctioneer
For Huron and Middlesex
Special Training Assures You
Your Property’s True Value
Sale Day
Graduate of
American Auction College
Terms Reasonable and
Satisfaction Guaranteed
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MUTUAL FIRE
INSURANCE COMPANY
Head Office, Exeter, Ontario
President
Milton McCurdy R.R. 1 Kirkton
Vice-President
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LICENCED AUCTIONEER
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Satisfaction Guaranteed
EXETER, R.R. 1
Phone Zurich 02-r-7
Wm. A. Hamilton Cromarty
Directors
Harry Coates Centralia
E. Clayton Colquhoun R.R. 1
Science Hill
Martin Feeney R.R 2 Dublin
Angus Sinclair R.R.1 Mitchell
Agents
Thos. G. Ballantyne R.R. 1
Woodham
Alvin L. Harris Mitchell
E, Ross Houghton Cromarty
Solicitor
W. G. Cochrane Exeter
Secretary-Treasurer
Arthur Fraser Exeter
Huron County
Annual Seed Fair
“Plans are completed for the
4th Annual Huron County Seed
Fair, which is to be held in the
Clinton District Collegiate In
stitute in Clinton, on March 9
and 10, 1951,” it was announc
ed today by Mr. R. G. Bennett,
Secretary-Treasurer of the Crop
Improvement Association.
Mr. Bennett pointed out that
this year’s show promises to be
one of the outstanding Agricul
tural events
Huron Crop
sociation has
in trying to
of this show,
farmers in the county will inter
est themselves in it.
Farmers in the county should
remember that all are members
of this association and if they
have grain or seed which they
feel is suitable for the Seed
Fair, it would be good business
to get some exhibits well pre
pared to enter in the show.
Entries close on Tuesday,
March 6 but it is expected that
a few post-entries will be accept
ed. The Association is offering a
total of more than $500.00 in
prizes including some very mag
nificent specials, along with some
handsome trophies, which have
been donated by various organi
zations.
In addition to the actual
showing of exhibits, there will
be many other highlights. The
Huron County Junior Seed Judg
ing Competition will be held in
conjunction with this show and
will be carried out commencing
at 9.30 a.m., March 10. All
juniors in Huron County under
the age
to take
There
for the
The juniors
under 20' years of age while the
seniors will include boys between
20 and 30 years of age. Hand
some trophies will be awarded
in each section in addition to
some special prizes.
This year the show is being
thrown open to the public on
Friday evening and it is especi
ally hoped that a number of
town people will take advantage
of viewing the exhibits and also
there will be a short programme
of motion pictures and the like
highlighted by the presentation
of special prizes and also the
judges’s comments.
A very fine programme lias
been worked out for Saturday
afternoon, March 10, at which
time the main feature will be a
Panel Discussion led by Mr. Jack
Mc'Pherson, Director of Publicity,
Ontario Department of Agricul
ture. On this Panel we have in
cluded such well-known experts
as Professor R. Keegan of the
Field Husbandry Department of
the Ontario Agricultural college,
Mr. J. A. Garner, B.S.A., Direc
tor of Extension, Ontario Departs
meat of Agriculture, Mr
M. Scott, Prominent
Seaforth and Mr. K. S. Murphy,
Fieldman, Crops, Seeds and
Weeds Branch. At the conclusion
of the Panel Discussion there
will be an auction sale of the
ten-bushel lots of grain.
A varied number of education
al exhibits by various extension
services throughout the county
will be on display depicting var
ious phases of Agriculture. A
big feature of the show this
will be a competition of
exhibits depicting
of the year. The
Improvement As-
spared no efforts
insure the success
It is hoped that all
of 30 years are welcome
part in this competition,
will be separate sections
juniors and the seniors,
will include boys
Direc-
. James
Farmer,
year
educational
different phases of Soil Conserva
tion which will be carried out by
the District High Schools in the
County of Huron, We feel that
this will be a really educational
feature of the show this year
and should focus on one of our
main agricultural problems of
the present time.
Fire Destroys
Tuckersmith Home
Fire of unknown origin des
troyed the large brick home of
Andrew Petrie, third concession
of Tuckersmith, two and a half
miles southeast of Brucefield.
Mr. Petrie, who lives alone,
had been at a neighbour’s, and
when he returned home he dis
covered his home almost level
ed. It was too late to call fire
brigades.
The brick
Mr, Petrie’s
Mustard, 81 .
tents were lost including a
grandfather clock which had
been in the family for three
generations.
Loss
$7,000. Mr. Petrie was partially
covered
variety) have jumped from six
cents per -pound to 18; cooking
beans from three to 14,
And it’s expensive for Mrs.
South Huron to serve tea to her
neighbours this afternoon, com
pared to 1939. She paid 39 cents
a pound then. Now she’s got to
hand the clerk a dollar bill and
four brown coppers, Coffee is
worse. It’s jumped from 25 cents
to $1.02 a pound,
But our husband, Mr. South
Huron, isn’t getting along any
easier, either. His flannel work
shirt sold for 99 cents in one of
the focal stores in 1939. Now
he’s paying $2.95,
For his Sunday shirt, he
might have splurged $2.00 for
one of the best in 1939. Today
he can pick one out of a wide
variety from $4.00 to $6.00. The
stores offered ties for 39 cents
before World War II. Their
"extra-specials” were one dollar.
The splashiest cravats today are
$2.50 but you can get one for
a dollar if you don’t mind wear
ing one that’s been in stock for
a few years.
Meanwhile, the lady shopped
for a house dress in..1939 and
paid a dollar for a “pretty” one.
But the "pretty” ones today cost
$3.00 more.
Her silk hosiery has jumped
from 69 cents to $1.50; prints
and broadcloths from 20 to 55
cents; flannelette blankets from
$2.19 to $6.95.
We could talk talk about coal
and furniture, cars and rents,
but we think you’ve had enough
by now.
Here’s
newspaper had
1939 and sold
Now,there are
news and the
risen one penny
gain!
a consolation: Your
eight pages in
for five cents,
twelve pages of
price has only
. There’s a bar-
house was built by
grandfather, James
years ago. All con-
estimated upwards of
by insurance.
E. F. Wuerth Dies
In California
Mr. E. F. Wuerth, 66, a native
of Crediton, died Thursday,
March 1, in Van Nuys, Cali
fornia, aftei* an illness of five
months.
Born in Crediton in 1885, he
the son of the late Gottliegwas
and Mary Wuerth. He moved to
the
ago
ated a shoe store in Van Nuys
for a number of years.
His brother, Alf, of Exeter
visited him two years ago and
he was in perfect health.
He leaves to mourn his
Frances; one sister, Mrs.
Gian ville (Tena) of New
minister B.C., two brothers, Alf
of Exeter and Edgar of Zurich.
The funeral was held Sunday
and interment was in San Fern
ando cemetery.
west ’Coast over 40 years
and prior to his death oper-
SHIPKA
Mrs. J. H. Robinson and son
returned to their home in Mis
sion City, B.C., after spending
five months With Mr. and Mrs.
William Wein and other rela
tives.
Mr. and Mrs. Wilfred Desjar-
dine are at present on a trip to
Gravenhurst to visit with
and Mrs. David Lippert.
The March meeting of the
Women’s Association was
poned until April on account of
Influenza.
-Quite a number in our com
munity have been confined to
their homes suffering from In
fluenza.
Mr. Ernest Keys is still a
patient in St. Joseph's Hospital
London, but is getting along as
well as can be expected.
Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Gale
attended the funeral of Mr.
Gales sister. Mrs. Brown Stew
art, of London, Burial was in
Brucefield Cemetery.
Specialist: “This eccentricity
you speak of in your daughter
—isn’t it, after all, a matter of
heredity?”
Mothei* (severely): “No, sir!
I’d have you know there was
never any heredity in our fami
ly!”
The Officers and Directors of
the Huron Crop Improvement
Asociation cordially invite all
farmers ih Huron County to
come to this show. We hope that
many Will sue fit to exhibit at
the fair. Remember, all entries
closed on March 6 and exhibits
should be in place in the Clinton
Collegiate by 12 o’clock noon,
Friday March 9, as judging will
get underway at that time.
We trust that everyone will
try to attend, this important
Agricultural Event.
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