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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1951-08-30, Page 1weather a crowd first inning, and four in hits and RCAF Sixty-Seventh Year Dashwood Nine Reverse Agaisnt Mitchell In the second game of the in­ termediate baseball play-offs at Dashwood Wednesday, Dashwood reversed the score of the Mon­ day game by defeating Mitchell 9-1. G. Robinson was on the mound for Dashwood and went the complete round allowing only five hits. L. Corriveau was on the receiving end. Mitchell scored their only run in the 6th inning. The visitors used three pitch­ ers, starting with Gatenby and followed by Aitcheson and I-Iul- ley, with Powell and Costello behind the bat. Dashwood scor­ ed one run in the four in the second the fourth. Mitchell had five error. Dashwood had ten and two errors. Umpires were Boussey, Lean and Dale, iSeaforth. The third game will be played at Mitchell, Friday at 5:30 aiid the fourth at Dashwood Monday afternoon at 2:30. Xk <. J \U one Dashwood Holds Band Tatto Despite cold Thursday night, more than 50 0 people attended the band tatto sponsored by Dashwood Citizens' Band. Six bands took part in the too which was held at the park. Special features were Sarnia Citizens’ Band, Sarnia Regimental Band and St. Marys' Citizens Band. Other bands participating were Forest Dash-Thedford Silver Band, Excelsior Band and the wood Band. Cenfcralia Planes Search Lake Erie Three aircraft from Centralia went on a fruitless search, Monday for two brothers who were believed missing in a boat on Lake Erie. The two Showed up Monday night a t their Port Burwell home after spending the week­ end in Crystal in Cleveland, Meanwhile, and a score Lake Erie for one's wife became worried and phoned the provincial police. The RCAF Planes were Dakotas and one Expiditer. Beach, rather than as they planned, the three planes of boats seached the pair after two Accident Victim Satisfactory Mr. Lorne Haugh, who has ibeen a patient in a London hos­ pital, is now at the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Milton Haugh, Dashwood. His condition is reported as satisfactory. EXETER, ONTARIO, THURSDAY MORNING, AUGUST 30, 1951 T-A Reporter Covers Search For Missing Pair x’ ■. i 'Jgb? IB DANGEROUS DAN — Mugging the notorious comedy song “Dangerous Dan McGrew’ Paul boys show what makes their act a success. Lee, right, writes the words, Gerry writes the harmony and Shirley, besides looking pretty, accompanies and makes the costumes. The Times-Advocate featured an article on the trio last week. —Jack Doeri* Judge Lauds Kirkton Flowers, Abundance Of Green Thumbs Second Nomination Meeting Fails To Fill Grand Bend Board Aspiration public school ently lacking ed village of nomination meetings have been held to elect six members and so fax- only three representatives have been elected. The nomination meeting was August 2, when two names placed in nomination and Lawrence Mason was the one to qualify. At a second nomination meet­ ing Tuesday of last week Mrs. for a trustee is appar- in the newly-form- Grand Bend. Two > An RCAF Dakota left Cen­ tralia airport at seven o’clock j Tuesday evening for North Bay : to join the search for a Timmins ! dentist and a Toronto Maple I Leaf hockey player, overdue on an aerial fishing expedition to position as . Irene Myers and Mrs. Esther Seal River near the southern tip i Gill were added to the board, of James Bay. This still leaves a three members and meeting is scheduled. According to Reeve Herman Gill he believes the council have the perogative to appoint the new members but he would pre­ fer to see them elected by the ratepayers. Hensail Lad first held were Mrs. only Regains Wallet One of the most elated lads in Hensall is Donald MacLaren who received a pleasant surprise when he received a letter from Toronto in which contained a wallet he had lost several days before and which contained his earnings from picking beans About a week previous Donald had been riding on a combine on the farm of Allen Crerar and the barley that was threshed was taken to a Hensall mill for ship­ ment to Toronto. When he miss­ ed his wallet Donald felt bad to think that his hard-earned cash had disappeared. In the wallet were some odds and ends usu­ ally carried by a boy, a photo or two and tickets to the Tor­ onto fair. It seems that the wallet was found in the barley in one of the big elevators in Toronto and was returned to Donald by mail. To a 12-year-old boy the wallet came as a most pleasant surprise. Moves To Kitchener Mrs. Coxworth, who has been employed in the office of the Times-Advocate, left Exeter on Tuesday with her husband, Pro­ vincial Police Officer William Coxworth, for their new home in Kitchener. Mr. Coxworth has been stationed at Kitchener for several weeks and has just now secured a home. ||||||| vacancy of 1 Dr. Henry Hudson, of Tim- a further | mins, and Bill Barilko, of Tor- - onto, were last reported from {Rupert’s House on James Bay at 4 p.m. Sunday. They left Friday morning anti j were supposed to be home on • Sunday. A severe electrical storm i Monday night interrupted the ]search. i The Centralia aircraft, with a. {rescue crew of seven men, includ- . ing Don Southcott, who will j cover the search for the Times-- ■ Advocate joined the search on. Wednesday morning. Another RCAF Dakota with a 12-man res­ cue crew was also scheduled to take part in the hunt. i A report from Timmins Wed­ nesday stated that a railway sectionhand had spotted a crash­ plane in a bush 15 miles south of Chochrane, and it is being in- | vestigated. The search was delayed sev­ eral hours Wednesday morning by a ground fog and the fliers idled impatiently at their South Porcupine base. The area in which the plane is down, in jungle-like bush and muskeg country. Lakes too plentiful. Dr. Hudson has been week-end trips to James fishing expeditions and occasion took along with him Bill Barilko who was visiting Timmins. Barilko is the Maple Leafs de­ fenceman who broke up last spring’s Stanley Cup final by scoring the winning goal in the fifth of five overtime play-off games with Montreal Canadiens. are not making Bay on on this Repair Sidewalks Quite a bit of sidewalk repair and construction is in progress in the town. The work is being done by Joe Smith and Dave help from A record entry of 1,756 ani­ mals will tax facilities of the $400<000 Western Fair livestock building to the limit this year. Officials state. It will be^the. biggest livestock show in West­ ern Ontario history. The entries include 205 light horses, 164 heavy horses, 633 dairy cattle, 153 beef cattle, 447 sheep and 154 swine. Preston Dearing and son have 15 sheep entered and Ephraim j Snell of 'Clinton has 17 entered. MISS WILMA COATES A graduate of Exeter District High School, who has been a student in the Cleritype Course of Westervelt School during the past year. Miss Coates is em­ ployed in the office of Wester­ velt School. She is the daughter of Mr: and Mrs. Whitney Coates, R.R. No. 1, Centralia. Millar with some town employees. Among the work a stretch on main the theatre south Simmons & Sons, south si$ie of Zanders street west, west side of Senior street, several spots on William street, the public school sidewalk on Victoria street and several points near the Presby­ terian church- completed is street from to W. G.the winners were; Dr. C. A. Campbell, Mrs. C. A. Campbell, Mrs. George Hall, Mr. B. Gal­ lop, and Mrs. C. Routly all of Kirkton; Mrs. Arthur Cole. Science Hill; Mrs. James Robin­ son, Mrs. Fred Mrs. Mrs. Mrs. green and 120 in the Society’s held at on There are plenty of thumbs around Kirkton of them were evident Kirkton annual Roy’s Wednesday. Judge James Burston, head of the district society embracing Elgin, Middlesex, Perth and Ox­ ford counties remarked, “I’ve Horticultural Flower Show Church, Fullarton tlie freshness, length of and above all freedom Fame Of Lucan Irish Nine Lions Club Raises $400 To Buy Bobby Jackson The chilly weather somewhat dampened the enthusiasm at the Lions Club frolic, Thursday evening last at the outdoor roll­ er rink. Despite the weather there was a good crowd. Danc­ ing, bingo and games of chance as well as several draws realiz­ ed a gross proceeds of aibout $800 and this will be cut near­ ly in half when all expenses are taken care of. The CKNX Barn Dance or­ chestra provided the music for the dance and the Legion boys conducted the bingo. Several draws for lucky numbers were made during the evening, the Artificial Limbs draws being made by Bobby Jackson, of Crediton. It was “Bobby Jackson” night Bobby, aged 13, is the oldest of a family of five children. He has been handicapped since ibirth and is at present in need of artificial limbs. It is for this purpose frolic was held seen many flowers this year but the petunias, pansies and sweet peas in this show are the finest yet.” Mr. Burton went on to say that the entries were not judg­ ed for the size of bloom rather from sterfi from disease and insect blem­ ish. He made mention particu­ larly to a special exhibit of Af­ rican violets grown by Mrs. Dr. Campbell of Kirkton. Suggestions mr improvement came when Mv. Burston men­ tioned the lack of uniformity in this year’s exhibits. Dr. Campbell, Kirkton, was instrumental in bringing excel­ lent exhibits of gladioli grown by Murray Tindall of Brucefield and L. W. Wilson of St. Marys. Mr. Tindall won top honors for the best spike in the carnation gladioli Wilson ling in From show in 1951 and Mr. exhibited the best seed- the 19 50 show. the 18 classes exhibited Mrs. Emmerson Patton, Duncan McNaughton, Mrs. Switzer all of St. Marys; Victor Grinney, Mitchell; Fanson, Mr. and Fanson, all of Munroe, Mrs. H. Hern, Granton Exhibits by two young agers, Patsy Marshall and gina Hall showed much and artistic displayed gardens standing. In the the Society served a fine tea to some 50 visitors and during the evening, special movies in color were shown. The Kirkton Horticultural ciety began in 1936, was banded during the war Agnes Howard arrangement, the produce of and both were teen- Geor- work They their out- afternon the ladies of Stranded! Thames Road is a good place to be stranded—if any place is good. When a T-A news hound found the engine in the car get­ ting to the boiling point on the way back to town from the Kirk­ ton flower show and stopped at the home of Mr. and Mrs. John Bray Thames Road, she wa greeted with unbelievable friend liness. In fact, Don Bray pitched in to patch up the leak in the wat­ er line while Mrs. Bray heated water on her heated rad. And that’s T-A rep. drove away she found a dozen ripe harvest apples on the seat of the bar placed there by Mrs. Bray. It’s hard to thank people like that or to let them know what a igood feeling they leave, we can say is the matter with if they measure ‘ ity of the Bray’s. stove for the over not all-—when the So- dis- and Skunk Scooped A little animal with black and white stripes chose a pre­ carious spot to conceal itself and in consequence lost its life but before passing on left an obnoxi­ ous odor to polute the other­ wise sweet and wholesome at­ mosphere. A new water main is being laid on Wellington street and a ditch digging machine is employed excavating the earth. When the machine was started up Monday morning it brought up along with the dirt a skunk that had hidden in one of the fur started up again in 1947 by Dr. J buckets during the night. Several tvhn its haw n diron- lnzlc* THIlo/i th a iiiFriiHpr hvCampbell who is now a direc­ tor. The membership has creased from 60 in 1947 at the present time. Officers of this year’s are: Mrs. Arthur Cole, ary president; Mrs. Fred president; Mrs. R. W. James and Mrs. James Willis, vice-pres. Mrs. C. A. Campbell, secretary­ treasurer and numerous direc- I tors. Premium Convener for the I show i On i were: ! Mrs. ' committee 1 Campbell, ----- -------- ----- 1 man and Mrs. Jack Roundell. Mrs. Fred Johns and Mrs. Wallace Selves looked after the lunch. in­ to 205 society honor- Switzer was Mrs. Emerson Paton, the display committee Mrs. Jackson Woods and Gerald Paul. The consisted of Mrs. Arnold Boyle’s Bantams Beat Bruce’s Best entry Mrs. Wise- All there’s nothing 'Canadians—-not up to the qual- i, Thames Road, ROUNDUP It was a hard, efforts of police ‘and slaughter- with success after one hour in 39 others who escaped from a The porky who balked at go- HEADED FOR THE LAST long tussle, but the combined house workers were crowned the roundup of this pig and Philadelphia slaughterhouse. ing to market is being shown the way by two determined guides. —-Central Press Canadian Derry Boyle's Bantams won the first game of the semi-finals at Walkerton Wednesday eve­ ning when they came out on top of a 16-3 score. The return game will be played in Exeter late Friday afternoon. C. Parsons and Jim Russell did the twirling with R. McFalls behind the plate. The line-up: Irvine Ford lb, I). Taylor 2b. Don Wells 3b, Terry Wade ss, Bill Pollen, Rob Pooley and Bob Taylor fielders. Goes Back Half A Century ’ way home played Clinton, the next day. In the 1895 season, the Irish Nine won 18 games out of a possible 19—only de­ feated one game by St. Thomas. One of the players in that early team was the late Alex McFalls, whose son Heber McFalls has followed Lucan's baseball ,__ tory for the past 50 years, 'and who played outfielder for the Irish Nine« from 1900 to 1905. Mr. McFalls still refers to those years as “the peak of Lucan’s baseball achievement”. The “star” team of the Irish Nine came up in 19102 when “top” teams in Canada and some from the United States challeng­ ed the local players to games, many of which were played on Lucan’s baseball diamond. At that time there were no leagues or scheduled games. The mana- I gers of competing teams made arrangements, by letter telephone or telegraph. I Several games of 1902 were I played with London, in which • Mooney Gibson, who later be- j came star catcher for Pittsburgh I in the National League, was cat- l clier. In the same year two teams ! from Detroit were defeated and ; on June 2, 1902, a game was played’in Lucan which will long be remembered by basebafl fans. Toronto tea had Nine and ings the game continued until the 15th inning to break the tie in fav­ our of Lucan. The Varsity mana­ ger was so impressed by the Lu­ can players, that two of them, Jesse Tripp and Walter Gibson were induced to play in the Tor­ onto team, Jesse Tripp entered Toronto University, the next year and became the catcher for the Toronto group years. By Jennie Raycraft Lewis Whatever Lucan may aspire to in sport circles in the future it was first noted as a base­ ball town. The fame of the “Irish Nine” went far and wide at the beginning of this century. According to town folk lore a baseball team was organized in the 18 60’s. The team was aptly called the “Irish Nine”—pro­ claiming the nationality of the majority of Lucan citizens. In 1895 the Irish Nine toured Western Ontario, playing in var­ ious centres. They travelled mostly by train but occasionally by horse-drawn stage coach. On one occasion the team played a game in Exeter in the forenoon, drove to Goderich and played in the late afternoon and on the I his- lads killed the intruder by j throwing stones. WILLING MARTYR TO CIVIC CAUSE Ernest Simard, 225-pound mayor of eastern township city of Magog, Que., abandoned conventional political babv-kissing activities and took to the air recently. The 43-year-old mayor, a non- '•wimmer, plummeted 2,500 feet into Lake Memphremagog from a swiftly moving plane before 12,000 horrified specta­ tors, including Simard’s wife and six children. Claiming to be first North American mayor to attempt such a stunt, the civic leader hopes publicity from his daring deed will bring more industry to his city. —Central Press Canadian University, “Varsity”, challenged the Irish at the end of nine inn­ score was 2-2. The for several this famous George, Jes- The players of team were: Angus ____ , se Tripp, Dick Hodgins, Cliff Murdy, Bob Fox. Billie Tripp, Dr, Oscar Lang, Walter Gibson, Art Hawkshaw, Heber McUalls, Fred Smith and Jimmie Anderson. So famous did this team be­ come that Brenner Bros. Cigar Co. of London paid $50 to use ’"Famous Irish Nine” as a trade, — Continued on Page t