Loading...
The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1952-08-14, Page 9THE TIME5-ADYQCATE, EXETER, ONTARIO, THURSDAY MORNING, AUGUST 14, 19S2 Pare 9 Church At Staffa Marks 75th Year The Staffa United Church celebrated its seventy-fifth an­ niversary and reopening service Sunday. Many parishoners, for­ mer parishoners and visitors had to sit in the aisles and many were seated outside the doors during the service, which drew persons from Mitchell, Bruee- field, Crediton, Granton, Zion, Cromarty, Exeter, W i n g h a m, Galt, Staffa and district. Rev. B. Pavnard onened the service with a hymn and a read­ ing from the Scripture. He also read portions of minutes taken down at meetings held in con­ nection with the building of the church in 1877. Mrs. Henry Har- burn was organist. Lois and Audrey Jordon, Mitchell, sang two duets. Rev. Cummings, a formei’ pastor, now of Bristow, and president of the London Con­ ference of the United Church of Canada, delivered the sermon. In this, Mr. Cummings appealed to the congregation to ’'build as well as our forefathers the Churches and the spirit.” EDGEWOOD Miss Betty Lou Garrett has been holidaying with her parents Mr. and Mrs, K. Garrett, for two weeks. Mr. Don Middleton spent Wednesday in Toronto. Gordon and Wilfred Beiber, of Clandeboye, spent a week holi­ daying with their grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Roy Moore and family, Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Nichols and daughter, Marjorie, and Mr. and Mrs. Gates, of Buffalo, N.Y., and Mr. and Mrs. Don Johnston and sons, of Galt, were weekend visitors with Mr. and Mrs. Hysel Perrins. Joyce and Marion Moore, and Barbara Zubal spent Wednesday afternoon with their teacher, Mrs. Cecil Bowman, and Verla. Mr. Allen Westman is recover­ ing from his operation. ' Mr. Joseph Zubal, of the sec­ ond concession, Biddulph, visit­ ed Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Zubal Jr. Sunday. Mrs. Rowland Carty and babe returned home from the hospital this week. Mr. Kenneth Garrett has started the cement work on the foundation of his new barn. Township Requests Road Improvements A deputizatioiF representing a group of citizens of Goderich Township were favorably re­ ceived by the Good Roads com­ mittee of tlie Huron County Council at the court house in Goderich. The deputation re­ quested a portion of the Clinton- Bayfield road be improved. The Roads Committee stated that it had made reasonable offers in the area concerned for land necessary to straighten the curves of the road, but that one property owner was not willing to sell. Would Begin In 1953 The delegates were assured that if they could reach some agreement with the opposed land owner the committee would be willing to commence work on the road early next year. The area concerned is a dis­ tance of four miles from Middle­ ton’s Church to Highway No. 21 at Bayfield. ■Councilor Arnold Rathwell and Ross Middleton, Goderich Township residents, Nelson Tre­ wartha, of Clinton, appeared be­fore. the committee, which was presided over -by Harry Gowdy, of Wroxeter. PROOF OF LEARNING’S VALUE — It needs no univers­ ity training’ for India’s farmers to see the advantage of edu­ cation when it means a cure for cattle disease and therefore an escape from hunger. To make schooling a thing of mean­ ing to the poverty-stricken villagers, the principal of Janata college, India, shows where his knowledge can benefit them; he inspects a bullock’s mouth for signs of disease, tells the farmers how to diagnose and cure the disease. This is purl of the education program carried on by the United Nations, which is trying to promote an appreciation of learning by relating it to the everyday work of illiterate peoples, —CPC Statisticians, reporting that sport fishing is big business in Canada, estimate it is worth an $80,000,000 annually. ZION Mr. and Mrs. Angus Earl spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs, Spencer Jeffrey, of Staffa. They attended the opening of the Staffa church, just newly decor­ ated. Miss Gertrude Hunter and Miss Phylis Hern of London spent the weekend with Mr. and Mrs. Ward Hern. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Penwarden and Mr. and Mrs. Garnet Johns, of Sarnia, spent the weekend with Mr. and Mrs. Wellington Brock. Jimmy, Dorothy and Marion Kerslake are spending a few days with their grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. James Earl. Mr. and Mrs. Harold Hern and boys and Mr. George Earl, of Exeter, spent Sunday at Springbank. Mr. and Mrs. Elder, of Sea­ forth, spent Tuesday afternoon with Mr. and Mrs. Warren Brock. Miss Frances Hern spent the past week at Grand Bend. Larry and Ruth Dickinson of London Township spent a few days with Mr. and Mrs. Warren Brock. My Son By THOMAS USK in “ iiimfiiiiiiiiHMiiiiimainiiiihMiiiiimiiiiifiiifinmimiiimiifiimjniniMiiimiimiinmiiiitiiiiiiiiniiiiihiHmiiiir* H. J. CORNISH & CO. I CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS | 29 DUNDAS ST. LONDON, ONT. | a Business Directory W. G. COCHRANE, B.A. BARRISTER & SOLICITOR EXETER, ONTARIO At Hensall, Friday, 2 to 5 PM. DR. J. W. CORBETT L.D.S., D.D.S. DENTAL SURGEON Bell Building Phone 273 • Exeter BELL & LAUGHTON BARRISTERS, SOLICITORS & NOTARIES PUBLIC ELMER D. BELL, Q.C. C. V. LAUGHTON, LL.B. Zurich office Wednesday afternoon EXETER PHONE 4 ARTHUR FRASER INCOME TAX REPORTS, BOOKKEEPING SERVICE, ETC. Ann St., Exeter Phone 504 DR. H. H. COWEN L.D.S., D.D.S. DENTAL SURGEON Main Street, Exeter Closed Wednesday Afternoon Bus. 36-W - Phone - Res. 36-J JOHN W. ORCHARD OPTOMETRIST Main Street, Exeter Open Every Week Day Except Wednesday For Appointments Phone 355-J ALVIN WALPER LICENCED AUCTIONEER For Huron, Lambton, Perth ®and Middlesex For your sale, large. or small, courteous and efficient service at all times “Service that Satisfies” PHONE 57-r-2 DASHWOOD PERCY C. WRIGHT LICENCED AUCTIONEER Cromarty, Ontario Purebred, Farm, and Household Sales a Specialty For a Better Auction Sale Call the “Wright” Auctioneer Phone Hensall 690-r-22 Collect WM, H. SMITH LICENCED AUCTIONEER For Huron and Middlesex (Special training assures you of your property’s true value on sale day) Graduate of American Auction College Terms Reasonable and Satisfaction Guaranteed CREDITON P.O. or PHONE 43-2 USBORNE & HIBBERT MUTUAL FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY E* F. CORBETT LICENCED AUCTIONEER Terms Reasonable Satisfaction Guaranteed EXETER, R.R. 1 Telephone Zurich 92-r-7 Head Office, Exeter, Ontario President » Milton McCurdy R.R. 1 Kirkton s Vice-President Wm? A. Hamilton Directors Harry Coates E. Clayton Colquhoun Science Hill R.R, 2 Dublin 1 Mitchell Cromarty Centralia R.R. 1 Martin Feeney Angus Sinclair FRANK TAYLOR LICENCED AUCTIONEER For Huron aiul Middlesex FARM SALES A SPECIALTY Prices Reasonable and Satisfaction Guaranteed Exeter P.O. or Phonb 138 R.R. Agents ThOS. G. Ballantyne Alvin L. Harris EJ. Ross Houghton Solicitor W. G. Cochrane R.R. 1 Woodham Mitehell Cromarty Exeter Secretary-Treasurer Arthur Fraser Exeter Every man wants a son, and the longer I live with mine, the more I know why. It’s fun. Life is never dull. As a matter of fact, dullness would be a relief occassionally Buth the very air around my son seems charged with coming events. Go on a picnic with him, and he gets lost. However vigilant the eye I keep on him, I blink once and the boy is gone. He is gone so completely, it is as if he had never been there. “Now, don’t get panicky,” I tell his mother, swallowing hard. “He’ll turn up in a minute.” Of course, he doesn’t The steaks get cold and the drinks get warm while everyone turns out to look for him. By the end of the afternoon, when all hope has vanished he comes riding up in a police car with a motorcycle escort. He has had a fine time. We’re so relieved, we couldn’t dream of whaling the tar out of him. One harrowing picnic a year is all we can take. Twelve months later, memory has healed the scar and we make the same mistake all over again. I considered business trips tedious until I had the happy inspiration of taking Son along. Our evening alone together on the train was far from tedious. I pursued my indefatigable lad from one end of the train to the other. He traveled faster than the engineer drinking in all the new sights and practically the train’s entire supply of water. I could hardly wait to get him into his upper berth for the night. For the night, indeed! I laugh a hollow laugh! Half the night, he dangled out of it. Every 20 minutes, he announced in carrying whispers that he had to go to the bathroom. Optimistically, I had installed myself in the lower, with a book. I didn’t get much reading done. It was the one occasion when my wife forgot to pack my robe. The first time, I took off my pajamas, put on my shirt, trousers and shoes and convoyed him to the men’s room. He climbed back into his berth, I got back into my lower and my pajamas, punched my pillow and opened my book. “Hey, Dad, I can see you!” My son’s head was hanging upside down into my berth. The rail­ roads assure one of privacy in a berth. But even they can’t cope with an ingenious, irrepressible small boy. “Go to sleep, Son,” I mur­ mured, in good-humored tones that put my acting on a par with the late John Barrymore’s “But I have to go to the bathroom!” “Let’s go,” I said grimly. This time, I pulled my pants on over my pajamas. The next time, I didn't bother with the pants. I forget how many times we pa­ raded back and forth. Finally, in desperation, I announced, “You go to sleep, Son. I’m going to the club car to work on some business papers.” “But you aren’t dressed,” “I’m getting dressed!” 1 snarled. "Go to sleep, dear,” I added gently. When I returned an hour later, I was afraid to peer into his berth. But he must have gone right to sleep to be so re­ freshed by six in the morning, when he rang for the porter. Thon he spent the next hour climbing up and down tho lad­ der, the porter hovering near. From a business point of view, this was not one of my most successful trips. It was half­ successful trips. I was half­ firm’s money away. My boss would have done better to hire my son. He was wide-awake, all right. Since then, no train trip is tedious. As long as I’m hot pursuing my son up and down the aisles from New York to Detroit, I have no complaint. Of course, iny son is older now. Conceivably, he might not repeat tho performance. But The Lions” he’ll be tripping over his long white beard before I chance it again. I can be dizzy enough with him at home. His mother likes me to enjoy my children, so off she goes on a Saturday after­ noon, leaving me in charge of one household, one dog, one baby and one unpredictable boy. Homes are supposed to be peaceful places; but not on a Saturday afternoon when I’m pinch-hitting for Mamma. The baby prefers yelling to nap­ ping. The dog barks his fool head off to go out, But I’m the baby sitter, not the dog walker. Where is my son, whose inces­ sant demands brought this can­ ine noisemaker into our midst? As though by telepathy, the phone rings. Icily, the voice of a neighbour requests,. “Will you tell that boy of yours I don’t want him sliding down the roof of my garage?” “I’ll tell him,” I promise meekly. “Is he there now?” “He is!” Click. I tuck my squalling daughter undei* my arm and go after my trespassing son. No point _ in leaving the dog alone—he might as well come too. “You stay away from that garage,” I menaced my son. My daughter sets up a frightened howl. “There, there,” I soothe her. “I didn’t mean you. You can climb the roof of the garage any time you want to.” “Gee, thanks, Dad,” my son says. “Not you!” I shout. The baby bawls again. “Here, walk the dog,” I tell my son, handing him the baby. He looks at me as though I’m a little mixed up. I always am, by this hour on Saturday. If my son isn’t tightrope-walking some neighbor’s fence, he’s in a fight with a neighbor’s kid, or break­ ing a neighbor’s window, or his dog is trampling a neighbor’s tulips. I certainly got to know my neighbors through my son. And the telephone is always ringing, the dog is always bark­ ing and the baby saves all her crying for Daddy. I’ll never forget the first Sat­ urday afternoon I magnanimous­ ly offered to take charge. “You run along,” I told my enchanted wife. “I’ll do a little clerical work in my spare time.” Wnat an optimist I was! And how did these Saturday afternoons get to be a tradition? But let this not degenerate into a tirade. It began aS a^tes- timonial to my son, and I’ll pro­ mise to keep it that way—if only for the sake of consistency. Thanks to my son, the per­ petual boy in every man came out in me without my looking silly. His interests must be mine, if I am to keep his esteem. Whatever captivates him, I study too. Sometimes its air­ craft design, sometimes it’s the pattern of the stars. In the winter it’s hockey scores, in the summer baseball. I keep abreast of world events, then bring them down to his level of discussion. He is so alert that I dare not be otherwise. We go to the circus and I enjoy it triple, strength; once because it’s fascinating, once be­ cause I’m watching my son’s breathless delight, once again because, in his enthusiasm, I re­ capture my own boyhood. It's the same with the zoo, at a ball game, anywhere, in fact, excepi at a picnic, But the greatest of all debts I owe my son is the argument- ive range X have acquired. For everything he is told to do, my son demands reasons. For every­ thing he is forbidden to do, my son demands reasons. These he counters with reasons of his own, so that further paternal reasons, are required. Thanks to my son, I have developed foren­ sic ability of such magnitude, brilliance, eloquence and endur­ ance that I dazzle mself. Even so, I’m only tho “disciple. My son is the master! Former Exeter Girl Weds In Forest The Forest United Church was the scene of a pretty wedding on Saturday afternoon, August 9, when Frances Elizabeth, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Gar­ net 8. I'assmore, of Forest, formerly of Exeter, became the bride of Mr. W. Stanley Ulrich, son of Mr. and Mrs. Walter L Ulrich, also of Forest. ■Cream gladioli and candelabra banked the altar while bows and flowers marked the guest pews. Four attendants preceded the bride to the altar wearing identical floor-length dresses of frosted organdy with matching headdresses in pastel colours. Matron-of-honour, Mrs. Richard Brown, wore yellow; the senior bridesmaid, Mrs. Leonard Bent­ ley, wore green; Miss Jewel Ulrich, sister of the groom, as junior bridesmaid, wore blue; and Bonnie Passmore, niece of the bride, the flower girl, wore pink. They all carried cascade bouquets of gladioli buds in. con­ trasting colours. Mr. Barry Passmore, brother of the bride, acted as best man and her nephews, Terry and Lonny Passmore, carried the rings for the double-ring cere­ mony1 which was performed by the Rev. A. D. Boa, of London. The ushers were Mr. Keith Trowbridge and Mr. William MacArthur, cousins of the groom. Given in marriage by her father, Frances wore the tra­ ditional gown of ivory satin and Chantilly lace. The sheer neck­ line of flesh coloured net blend­ ed into a finely moulded bodice of lace applique on satin trim­ med with seed pearls. The long fitted lace sleeves formed points over the hands. The full swing­ ing skirt was pannelled with lace and ended in a full cathe­ dral train. Her veil of appliqued net was held by a bandeau of rhinestones and pearls. She car­ ried a cascade of gardenias. The bride’s aunt, Mrs. F. W. Manning, of London, played the wedding music and Mr. W. H. Manning sang, “The Wedding Hymn”, “The Lord’s Prayer” and “Through the Years”. A reception was held in the church parlours. Mrs. Passmore received her guests wearing a gown of teale blue tricotine with beaded neckline and picture hat with pink feather trim. Mrs. Ulrich wore a fushia and gray ensemble with gray accessories. Mr. and Mrs. Ulrich left on a wedding trip to the Bruce Penin­ sula, the bride travelling in a navy suit with pink accessories. On their return they will reside in Forest. WOODHAM (Intended for last week) Mr. and Mrs. Henry Cornwell, of Airdrie, Alta; Mr. and Mrs Jack Cornwell, of Calgary, Alta, spent a few days with Mr. and Mrs. E. Vodden. Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Brine and family visited on Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Phil Brine, of St. Marys. Nancy Brine, of St. Marys,, spent a few days with her cousins, Don and Marilyn Brine. Mr. A. W. Vodden, of Blyth, and Mrs. Robert Scott, of Clin­ ton, spent the holiday with Mr and Mrs. E. Vodden. Mr. and Mrs, Charles Webber and family, of Rochester, Mich., Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Knight and Linda, of Winchelsea; Mr. and Mrs. George Webber and Bobby, of St. Marys, vsited during <he weekend with Mr. and Mrs. Harry Webber. Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Down and MiSs Ella Mills, of ‘Toronto, spent the weekend with Mr. and Mrs. Ira McCurdy and Mr. and Mrs. Fred Doupe, Mrs. S. W. Henry, of Toronto, spent the weekend with Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Hazlewood. Mrs. J. Butters, Thames Road, visited Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. George Wheeler. Rev. John Wheeler, of Coe Hill, visited on Thursday with Mr. and Mrs. George Wheeler, Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Swit­ zer and family, of Aylmer: Mr. Marvin Zinn and friend, Sud­ bury, spent the weekend with Mr. and Mrs. W7. L. Switzer. Mrs. W. L. Switzer and Miss Judy Switzer are spending a few days with Mr. and Mrs. L. Zinn, of Sudbury. Mr. and Mrs. Jim Robb and family, of London, and Mr. and Mrs. Bryce Skinner and Shirley, of Munro, visited on Sunday with Mrs. R. Kirk. Mr. and Mrs. Norris Webb and family visited on Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Wilbert Small, of Brownsville. Mr. John Camm, of London, and Mr. Graydon Camm. of Brantford, spent the past week at their home in the village. Rev. A. J. Elson, of Stafford- Ville, was guest speaker at the church service on Sunday morn­ ing. All kinds of lettuce are on the market now and will be coming t ex the market in the next few weeks. You'll find it with curly leaves or smooth leaves, firm heads or loose ones, dark green in colour or light green. Leaf lettuce is a light green loose head with delicate leaves. Iceberg lettuce or head lettuce is the best known kind of Can­ adian lettuce, The heads are firm and compact, with the outer leaves greener than the inside ones. Boston lettuce has a looser head than Iceberg and is not so crisp. The leaves are rather flat and almost round in shape. Tomlinson’s Hairdressing PERMANENTS Machine., Machineless and Cold Wave1 Personalized, Shaping md Styling | MRS.. DILKES PHONE W ■----------,---------,-----------------.------------------------------------------,------------------- -_--------- B ............................................................. .... ...... — Highest Prices Paid FOR POULTRY ALL TYPES — ANY AMOUNT Weighed on Your Scales at Your Door Riverside Poultry Co. 1236 TRAFALGAR ST., LONDON London 7-1230 Phone Collect 680-r-2 Hensall ———,—,—........... .... Mathers Bros. MAIN ST., EXETER PHONE 821-W Graham Arthur EXETER PHONE 210 «■ Larry Snider Motors EXETER. PHONE 624 OR 64-W Record your Wedding Day with fine Bridal Portraits or Candid Coverage of your entire Wedding Make your appointment as easiy as possible. Studio Closed For Holidays SATURDAY, AUGUST 16, 12 A.M. ’OPEN MONDAY, AUGUST 25, 9 P.M. PHOTOGRAPHER Phone 343-W ■<- Mtmotn Exeter