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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. 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