HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1954-06-03, Page 2Page 2 THE TIMES-ADVOCATE, EXETER, ONTARIO, THURSDAY MORNING, JUNE 3, 1954
This Journal shall always fight for
progress, reform and public welfare,
never be afraid to attack wrong,
never belong to any political party,
never be satisfied with merely print
ing news.
HUBERT
THURSDAY MORNING, JUNE 3, 1954
Practical Projects
Big Feeder Calf Club
Builds Better Farmers
Shut-Ins Day
A welfare-minded group in Goderich is •
promoting the observance of a special day
when people who enjoy good health visit
and cheer folks who are confined indoors
with illness.
The “Shut-Ins Day Association of Gode
rich” reminds us that this Sunday, June 6,
is the day set aside for this fundamental
display of neighborliness. The Association’s
thoughts are expressed in these two para
graphs :
“In every community there are many
individuals confined to homes and hospitals
because of ill health or physical disability.
Many have no friends and they spend long
days waiting for the step of a friends that
seldom comes. The postman passes their
door, and flowers are always for others. In
every community there are fine Christian
people who are most willing to serve, who
have the time to do it, but who do not know
where they can go to serve.
“In your own neighborhood, in hos
pitals, rest homes and other such institutions
opportunity to be of service to others pre
sents itself. If you would know a new adven
ture in neighborliness search out these peo
ple, not on Shut-Ins Day but on many days
through the year. You will find that joy
comes not to him who seeks it for himself,
but to him who seeks it for other people.
Let us remember the shut-ins, and render
what service we can to them, whenever the
opportunity affords.”
A person must see the Hensall Feeder
Calf Club in action at the annual spring fair
to realize what a remarkable and profitable
education this practical project is providing
for the young farmers of the area.
The sight of nearly 90 good-looking
steers being proudly shown around the ring
by boys and girls up to 21 years of age is
one that strengthens the belief that this area
will continue to be a leader in agriculture
production for years to come.
All of these youngsters have fed and
cared for their own calf through the winter.
They’ve learned valuable lessons on the
raising of cattle.
It’s projects such as the feeder calf
club that promote an interest and a pride
and an improvement in farming. Such practi
cal competitions should be fostered and en
couraged as much as possible.
The directors of the South Huron Agri
cultural Society, the officers of the club and
all those ' who assisted with the project
should be heartily congratulated. Organizing
and looking after a 90-member club is no
easy task but the effort expended is many
times worthwhile.
“Mother sends you the back of her hand.”
'iiiiiiiiiiiiimniiitiHimiiiitiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiuiiiHiimBiiimtiHimitHit
As the
"TIMES"
Go By
Jottings By J.M.S.
Trains Kept Busses Busy
As I look out of The Times-
Advocate window at the re
served parking space for the
Western Ontario Motorways
busses across the street in front
of the Central Hotel and think
ing of the days when the Lon
don, Huron and Bruce railway
was a going concern, I am re
minded of the busses that used
to make four trips daily from
the hotel to the railway station.
The iron-tired bus driven by
John Gillespie was without com
petition for many years. With
the introduction of rubber tires
for buggies a new bus with rub
ber tires was introduced by a
gentleman from Kincardine and
later was taken over by Thomas
G. Creech. Both of them lined
up in front of the hotel for pas
sengers.
The first train1 arrived in Ex
eter from the north at 8.30 a.m,
and there were the usual pas
sengers bound for London and
other points. About 9.30 there
was the train from London with
the morning mail and chiefly
commercial travellers whose only
means of travel was by rail.
Busses Jjoadlecl
The train going north in the
morning returned about five
o'clock in the evening and the
train from London arriving
about six o’clock brought the
passengers home from a day in
the city. Few travellers walked
the long distance to the station
so there was rarely a trip that
the busses did not have a quota
of passengers at 20 cents a trip.
Charlie Acheson recalls one
occasion when some lads for a
lark wired the front and back
wheels together on the Gillespie
bus and reversed the lines so
that the horses turned in the op
posite direction than the driver
intended.
In. addition to the busses for
passengers was the draying busi
ness and the one who stands out
most in my memory was Wil
liam Gillespie, son of John. He
was a tireless worker and seem
ed *to have unlimited strength
when it came to handling heavy
obstacles.
Sample Booms
Monday morning, particularly,
brought a number of commercial
travellers to town and in those
days they brought with them
numerous trunks with samples.
The Central Hotel boasted of
two sample rooms, one now oc
cupied by Simpson-iSears and the
other with a south-side entrance.
Here the samples were spread
out in an attractive array and
usually the boss and perhaps a
buyer from one or other of the
stores would drop in to make
their selections. A treat or two
at the bar frequently preceeded
business transactions..
Along with the hotels went
the livery barns and after show
ing their merchandise in Exeter
the next trip for the travellers
was around “the horn’’, which
[included Centralia, Crediton,
Grand Bend, Dashwood and Zur
ich on the west side and Elim-
ville, Woodham, Kirkton and
Farquhar on the east.
Battle Drifts
It was business, not pleasure,
that took them around “the
horn’’ in the wintertime. Wrap
ped in fur coats and tucked in
with fur robes, the drivers for
the liveries and the travellers
had to battle the drifts of snow
or the pitchholes along the road.
Unless you have driven over
a road with pitchholes, the men
tion of them will mean nothing
to you. I have driven over the
snow-covered roads with virtu
ally one pitchhole after another.
They were hollow spots two or
three feet deep and the vehicle
would slide down on side and
bounce up the other and the oc
cupants would be pitched for
ward and then backward.
But coming back to the Gilles
pies. In the days when most
entertainment was held in the
Gidley Opera House, a piario had
to be moved in for the evening
and taken out the next day.
William became adept at negoti
ating the flight of stairs with
the heavy instrument and prac
tically handled most of the in
struments when S. Martin & Son
were doing a flourishing trade
in the piano business.
Hitching posts that used to be
prevalent along Main street have
all disappeared.
Decoration Day?
Decoration Day at the Exeter Cemetery
may be abandoned this year because of lack
cf interest. Officials of the I.O.O.F. and
Legion, who organize the day, have become
discouraged with the small attendance at
the service in recent years.
As good an idea and worthy of observ
ance as Decoration Day is, it cannot be con
tinued if the public shows apathy towards
it.
The decoration of the graves, attend
ance at the service and the touring of the
cemetery was once a very popular event
every year. Besides honoring the dead of
the community, the service helped to make
the public more aware of the beauty of the
local cemetery and thereby assisted in pro
moting co-operation and assistance.
It may be that if the service was held
earlier in the spring, rather than on the last
Sunday in June, or in the morning or eve
ning, rather than in the afternoon, the at
tendance might be larger. But there is no
way of telling. Unless there is a sincere and
expressed desire from the people requesting
the continuation of the observance, it will
be abandoned soon.
Sensible
Current and sensible appeal to Can
adian tourist centres and restaurants is to
stop imitating the United States.
The logical argument is that the Amer
ican tourist who comes to Canada for a holi
day wants to see and eat something differ
ent than he does in his own country.
Many tourist operators, however, try to
appeal to the American by offering the same
things he gets at home. Rather than em
phasize some Canadian characteristic to ad
vantage, the operators drown out their nat
ural attraction with the Americanisms.
This new appeal to stick to Canadian
features should be heeded. Restaurants in
the area and at Grand Bend can advertise
locally-produced fruits and vegetables and
our own top-quality meat and poultry. In
stead of “Southern Fried” chicken, we should
be promoting “Canadian Roast” chicken and
other Canadian meals.
Stores, too, should feature Canadian-
made products during the tourist season. All
businesses which cater to tourists will find
it profitable to promote the Canadian, ra
ther than the American, article to our friends
from the south.
SO YEARS AGO
It is rumored that the ladies
of the Methodist congregation at
Ciande'boye are having a bee
thjs week to clean up the
grounds surrounding their
church. They claim that the men
are too slow for anything and
that no one wearing men’s cloth
ing will be allowed to attend
their bee. Be it so!'
The Stephen and Usborne Ag
ricultural Society have decided
to enlarge their main show
building by 40 feet, which will
permit all the indoor exhibits to
be under one roof. The build
ing which has been used for
roots and vegetables, will be
converted into stables for horses
and cattle on exhibition.
At the annual meeting of West
Huron Teachers’ Association held
in Goderich, G. A. Howard, of
Blake, was elected president;
Miss Consitt, Hills Green, vice-
president; W. H. Johnston, of
Kippen, secretary-treasurer, and
C. Bluett, Crediton, T. H. Brown
lee, Hensall and F. Ross Loch-
alsh, Miss Parlee and Miss W.
Ball, of Goderich, were elected
councillors.
J 5 YEARS AGO
Mrs. John Pedlar died at her
home in her eighty-seventh year.
An old boys’ and old girls’
reunion marked the monthly
meeting of Shipka Home and
School Club. Miss Ratz, the pre
sent teacher, gave a history of
the school from the log building
days to the present. Many for
mer teachers and pupils attend
ed.
Space has been reserved for
325 Exeter school children to
see the King and Queen when
they visit London on June 7.
Joan Stanley, four - year - old
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Rev-
ington Stanley, of Lucan, was
critically injured when hit by a
rifle bullet aimed at a bottle
in a neighbor’s yard.
Hot Summer
(Montreal Daily Star)
Being credulous in these matters, we
are none too happy about some auguries by
a sybil in Ohio who has been consulting the
omens and says that this summer is going
to be a scorcher; that we are to jump right
into July and stay there.
She arrives at these conclusions by con
sulting such diverse clues as the condition
of water lying in hollow stumps; the appear
ance of skunk cabbage as harbinger of
spring; the holdup in toad music and—of all
things—the tendency of hens to mistake
strings for worms which, a hen's mentality
being what it is, would not seem conclusive
evidence of anything but that.
The repertoire of this soothsayer is far
in advance of those of a generation, depend
ent on messages from their corns or the
twitch of a toe, or one which got advance
information from the pricking of her thumbs.
Stump water and the tilt of the big dip
per are new to us weather breeders but we
can believe almost anything, and are a little
disquieted. You can have too much July.
Hang Up, Please!
BUT WILL THEY?
(Edmonton Journal)
One of the boldest pieces of social legis
lation ever brought down in Canada is a
recent amendment to the Ontario Telephone
Act. It provides a fine of $50 for anyone
who refuses to surrender a party line in an
emergency.
This law is sound enough in theory. It
was doubtless inspired by reported cases
where individuals refused to cut short their
conversations and hang up even though fran
tic neighbors were trying to call the fire bri
gade or the doctor. But enforcing it is go
ing to be quite a problem.
Most of the offenders in these cases are
women, and it is a well-known fact—well-
known to men anyway—that the fair sex
regards interminable telephone conversations
as one of its constitutional rights. They will
certainly^resist vigorously any effort to rule
them off the wire.
Then there is the question of just what
constitutes an emergency. Fire, police and
ambulance calls obviously qualify. But what
about an urgent call to a heedless husband
or offspring to take the roast out of the
oven before it is too late? Is this serious
enough to justify breaking up a conversation
about Mrs. Binks’ new hat?
Ontario rural magistrates, we suspect, are
going to need an extra supply of the Wis
dom of Solomon.
25 YEARS AGO
Four former Exeter High
School students have graduated
from University this week as
doctors; Dr. J. M. Harvey, B.A.,
M.A., M.D., graduated from the
University of Toronto faculty of
Medicine, passing second in a
class of over 100; Dr. Harry
Seldon has graduated from
Queen’s University, Kingston,
with the degrees M.D., C.M.; Dr.
Margaret Strang, B.A., M.D., has
passed her final year in medi
cine at Western University and
Dr. George C. Hind graduated
from Toronto Dental College
with the degree L.D.S.
At the Chesley celebration,
Jimmie D., driven by James Tay
lor, won third money in the 2.19
class.
IO YEARS AGO
At a recent Y.P.U. convention
in Clinton, Miss Margaret Henry
o* the public school staff was ap-
poited president of the Presby
tery. Other appointments from
the district were: Miss Vera
Decker as vice-president and
Miss Lillie Miller as assistant
secretary.
■Dr. C. Borden Sanders Has
successfully passed the examina
tions of the Medical Council of
Canada and is now eligible to
practice medicine in any pro
vince of Canada.
A farm house owned by Mur
ray Elliott, of Centralia, and oc
cupied by Mr. Fred Howe, civil
ian employee at the airport and
his family, took fire and was
destroyed. The fire department
from- the air school and a bucket
brigade by scores of neighbors,
saved the fire from spreading
to other buildings.
Miss Kathleen Jordon, of To
ronto, has been secured to teach
the commerical course which will
be introduced in the high school
at the beginning of the fall
term.
Are the days of flag flying over? Only
one Exeter business—the Bank of Montreal
•—flew the Union Jack on Victoria Day,
May 24*.
Are you wondering if there’ll be a re
cession in Canada ? Look at the faith two
of our largest manufacturing, firms have
shown in our future — General Motors and
Ford have spent hundreds of millions of
dollars each in plant expansion.
Exeter
Times Established 1873 Amalgamated 1024 Advocate Established 1881
Published Each Thursday Morning at Exeter, Ontario
An Independent Newspaper Devoted to the Interests of the Town of Exeter and District
Authorized as Second Class Mail, Tost Office Department, Ottawa
Member of the Canadian Weekly Newspaper Association
Member of the Ontario-Quebec Division of the CWNzl
Member of the Audit Bureau of Circulation
Paid-in-Advance Circulation as of September 30, 1953 — 2,474
SUBSCRIPTION BATES
Canada (in advance) $3.00 per year U.S.A, (in advance) $4.00 per year
Published by The Exeter Times-Advocate Limited x
"No, Marie, she didn’t. But I always sweep up whenever
I’ve finished a job, just like you help your Mummy by
keeping your room tidy and always putting away your
toys when you’re through with them ..
Making just that little extra effort is part of the tele*
phone job. Bell people everywhere go out of their way
to be orderly, courteous, obliging. You can see in the
way they work they’re “glad to be of service!”
It all adds up to better telephone service—service that
keeps on giving more and more value to'the user.
THE BEU TELEPHONE COMPANY OF CANADA
------------------------------ ---------------........... - ■■ ■ - ■■ . ............. r - .-.H.i I in-L-L Jiiuri
/a million dollars ~
please
Imperial's shopping bill is morethan^l million a week
...that's what we spend
in Canada just -for everyday
needs.lt doesn't include
crude oil, which alone runs to million a week/
Nor does it include wages,salaries or taxes.
•What do we buy? Everything .. • trom soup jgs,
... (to feed geological parties)
1— to nuts (to fit a few
^-2^^ million bolts)
derricks S dynamite* and diesels
and even catalytic cracking units
(cat crackers’the/re called)
to make those better gasolines. -
We buy things from
6,ooo Canadian -firms
from coast to coast. Chopping
on this scale creates a lot’
jib,- , of work tor a lot of people
Hght across Canada.
SSSO ) IMPERIAL OIL LIMITED
1
• * •
4