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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1950-04-27, Page 10THE TIMES-ADVOCATE, EXETER, ONTARIO, THURSDAY MORNING, APRIL 27, 1Q5Q NT POP’S Taxi Service and and were and baby visl- Mr. Bee- on of Exeter visit- Mrs. Jinx Miller 'MOORE’S Service Station In ada’s eent in 1948 than in 193 8. Phone; Crediton lSrlt Exeter 357 Grant Ratcliffe Anderson with Mr. days Mrs. Mrs. Open this Sunday, Wednes­ day afternoon and during the evenings throughout the week: Page IQ Per lb. $1.25 NIGHT «AND-DAY jg* Exeter District Co-Operative Phone 287-W J. A. Petrie, Mgr. last more than ten or minutes. As a rule the is over in half an hour, feel sure it is less of aSpring is in the air and you’ll soon be getting the itch to be getting into tile garden. The proper tools make this an easy task. See our line of sturdy, prac­ tical gardening aids. Through The Valley •I have just come back from I turned from his judges to death, f o n rH t> o- » nrHIcjcrA fimnval TAnli'ZA Hnw iiHai’Iv hnnftlASS' SUNSHINE Mr. and Mrs. A. Anderson of Toronto visited for a few last week with Mr. Hugh Berry and Mr. Allen Berry. Mrs. William Jeffrey Helen, of Sebringville, tors last Wednesday One garage will be open In Exeter on Sundays, Wed­ nesday afternoons and dur­ ing the evenings through­ out the week, and wei’e _____ _ with and Mrs. William Stephen. Mr. and Mrs. Jim Patterson of Hensail, Mr. John. Miller and Miss Lily Miller ed with Mr. and on Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. and children of Sunday visitors Mrs. Laverne Rodd. Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence kett and Jaqueline visited (Sunday with the latter’s sister, : Mrs. John Kenny, at Lucan, Mr. and Mrs. Ken Simpson and Garry of Farquhar and Mr. ■and Mrs. Carman Gregory and i familv of Ilderton visited on j Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. John 1 Simpson. i - Canada in 1948 exported full fashioned hosiery to 34 foreign markets, and due to the shortage of dollars in many countries has not yet recaptured completely ® pre-war overseas trade. GOOD HUNTING FROM THE AIRFOUND light plane enabled O, M, Runner of Treherne, Man., to bag twenty-one 'timbei* wolves and eight bush wolves in nortjierri Manitoba and Ontario this season, The four wolves shown here ill shot in one trip. Central Press Canadian Changes Are Urged In Pensions Aet The Ontario government Mon­ day urged that a higher level of private earnings be allowed old-age pensioners and that the practice of suing estates of de­ ceased pensioners be dropped. Welfare Minister Goodfellow, announcing that the two posals would be made t Dominion government, sai< when the maximum pension increased in 1949 from $30 to $40 a month there was a de­ crease in the amount of earnings permitted. Under the old $30 rate, a pensioner could have private earnings |ip to $240 a year ano still get the maximum pension. Under the $40 persion, earnings are limited to $120. Mr. Good­ fellow contends the $240 figure should be restored to encourage pensioners to dp all possible for themselves, The announcement said cost of collecting pension payments from estates of deceased pen­ sioners exceeded the revenue, Last year, $329,000, were re­ covered, Ontario’s share was, $80,000 and’ costs amounted to about $100,000. relation to population 'Can­ export trade was 50 per greater in physical volume Head This Way For Garden Tools REGT) LAURENTIAN SWEET attending a village funeral. It was a simple impressive occa­ sion with practically everybody in the countryside represented. The church wasn’t big enough to hold all the people and I, along with fifty or sixty others, waited outside until the service was over. I could not .help thinking how different funerals are today to those of, say forty years ago. Services are much shorter. The local clergyman invariably says what he has to say, in well chosen, sympathetic words, which seldom twelve service and I strain on the .mourners than the long drawn-out services of for­ mer years. The Sceptic, Ernest Renan, tells of a visit he once paid to a cemetery. The recurrence of the two words “born” and “died” affected him profoundly. There was no room to write of .what had been achieved in between those two events—'and perhaps, he thought, it was of little mo­ ment. But the fact of birth and the sheer inevitabliness of death deeply moved him—and evident­ ly depressed him. Yet some thirty centuries ago the writer Of the Twenty-third Psalm talked of the shadow of death, sombre and disturbing, but nevertheless only a shadow, and millions have used the meta­ phor he employed because it ex­ pressed their own view of death. Furthermore the Psalmist talked of passing not into the valley, but through it. /There was a way out, dark and gloomy though it might be, Probably the writer had led frightened sheep into some valley where daylight was shut out, and he pitied the terrified creatures as they hud­ dled together. But soon he had emerged with them into the green 'pastures on the other side of the valley. And it suggested to him that life, not death, .was triumphant. He would have agreed with Whittier who wrote: That life is ever Lord of Death, And love can never lose its own, This is a clear and emphatic note of Christ’s teaching, and here there is m charp contrast between Christianity and the prevailing religious Ideas of His time. One has only to remember the sad words of farewell utter­ ed by the noble Socrates as he to realize how utterly hopeless was the acquiesence with which men met death in those days. Sometimes there was a bitter protest against fate—and agoniz­ ing’ cry of despair—hut men felt it was in vain that they strug­ gled. Excavations in the catacombes at Rome, as well as in the bury­ ing places in the neighbourhood of Athens, show in a striking” way the Roman and Grecian at­ titude to death. Concerning them all it might be written, “These all died in fear, not having re­ ceived the promises, and with at ■best a faint—very faint-—tremu­ lous hope that out ®f the dark­ ness of the night of death some good per chance might come to them.” In the catacombs of Rome one can see today the in­ scriptions .written in preJChrist- ian times with the recurrence of such phrases as ‘Farewell, fare­ well, forever farewell!” But from the time that the first .Christians were buried one reads the con­ fident hope of resurrection, with such promises as: “He that be- lieveth in me, though he die, yet shall he live.” The lonliness of the valley im­ pressed this Psalmist. There is a sense in which all distress finds men lonely, A French ob­ server, after a visit to England, speaking of English reserve, said, “Every Englishman is an Island,” There is a sense in which that is true of all men. In nearly every life there are times of unutterable loneliness. There are experiences that cannot be shared with others. -Our sorrows isolate us from othei* people. That has always been accepted as true of great men and wo­ men; it is equally .true of all. There are secrets hidden even from those nearest and dearest. It is especially true of the last valley of all, It is an experience which must be faced alone. That explains much of the gloomy foreboding that men have had regarding death. And it was Jiere that the writer used with telling effect his idea or the shepherd’s presence. There would be ,no ' loneliness because the Divine Shepherd would comfort '■ lead. “I shall fear no evil: I thou art with me.” ; Our quotation today is a » ing by Jesus: “Whosoever’ liveth ■ and believeth lu me shall never », die.” and for say- CNR'S DUPLEX ROOMETTE BRINGS YOU or cool.. iWarm temperature to your liking. adjust the Wake up smiling! 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Here’s all the privacy and convenience of a bedroom — at only 10 per cent more than lower berth fare/, When you’re ready for sleep, pull out the deep- cushioned, foam rubber bed — already made up. Sleep; soundly in air-conditioned comfort, In the morning, fold away the bed and enjoy a leisurely wash in your own roomette. You have your own toilet and washing facilities ... well-lighted mirrors for putting Ort your makeup ... your own temperature control. EL1MVILLE and Mrs. Norman Jaques and family of Eion visited Sun­ day with Mr. and Mrs. Dehner Skinner. Mr. and Mrs. Eric Carscadden and family of Exeter, Mr. and Mrs. Howard Johns visited Sun­ day with Mi\ and Mrs. Garnet Miners. Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Foster of St. Marys visited Sunday with: Mr. and Mrs. James Heywood. - Mr. and Mrs. Charles Stephen and family visited on Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. E, Robinson of Kirkton. Mr. and Mrs, Harold Bell, Mr. and Mrs. Philip Mur ch, Mr. and Mrs. Ross Skinner and Larry visited on Sunday evening with Mr. and Mrs. Harry March, Sr., of London.Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Ridley of Crediton visited Sunday with Mr, and Mrs. Orville Bird. Mr. and Mrs. Allen Hastings and family .visited with friends in Woodstock on Sunday. Miss Hazel Dilling -and Mr. Ross Dilling of London spent the week-end with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Austin Dilling. Mr. and Mrs, Jack Pym and Billy, Mrs. Harold Victor Pym, of Wingham, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Morley Jr., of Whalen, visited on Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Pym. The community wishes Mrs.1 Charles Stephen a .speedy re­ covery while in Victoria Hos­ pital, Mr. and Mrs. Russell King and Wayne of Crediton .visited Sun­ day evening with Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Cooper. Mr. and Mrs. Karl Ooultis of Guelph spent the week-end with Mr. and Mrs. Nelson Coultis. 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