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Progress, reform etel p elo welfare,
never Oa afraid. to .at act wreng,
never esione to ani political parte
'never ee *peeled with mallet prizie,
ina news'.
*ADVOCATE, EXETgl, ONTARIO, THRUWAY MOKNfl4G4 4WX 21t 1
Or/tWi.S.
THURSDAY MORNING, JULY 21, 195S
pened Wednesday
Wading Pool
Aids Program
The Dump
What about the dump?
It seems strange this garbage clisPnattl
area should exist for so long without com
ment and then suddenly become the object
of an 'agitate complaint by residents in that
section. Yet this type of Inunicipal revolt
often happens. •
People take the dump hit granted for
many years and then someone recognizes
that the place is unsanitary, unsightly and
smelly. They realize that such conditions
do not have to be tolerate& Then the com-
plaints inushroom into a heated dispute with
authorities,
it would appear some of the agitators
are unreasonable in their criticism. They
charge council with ignoring the situation
yet they should admit the condition of the
dump is better now that it has been for a
number of years.
The people who recently purchased land,
in that area surely must have been aware ef
the conditions which existed and they must
not have expected the Idump to be improved,
into a beauty spot overnight.
On the other hand, the complaints serve
•to point up a situation which the town has
not faced squarely.
• Nobody in Exeter is proud of that
dump., It's a disgrace -to the town that all
can see from a busy provincial highway that
carries hundreds of tourists. Nobody likes
ti) see families affected by the smell and.
rot of a municipal dump.
We've known the problems there, but
we've hedged about finding a solution.
Freshman Councillor Ross Taylor, who
is• in charge of the dump this,. year, has
brought about a number of improvements
but despite bulldorthe. and, piling it has not
been possible to cover the garbage because
there's not enough earth left in the area.
Council now plans to interview health
officials to find. the best solution to the
problem. All factors -- cost, sanitation,
unsightliness and provision for the future —
will have to be considered. When the method
is decided upon, it should be carried out as
quickly as possible.
Save Lives
Proper precautions on the part of
drivers could avoid nine oat of ten of the
traffic deaths on Canadian roads and, high-
ways, according to the All Canada Insurance
Federation.
Officials of the Vederation, which rep-
tesents more than 200 fire,, automobile ancl
casualty insurance companies in Canada,
said the majority of traffic accidents are
due to carelessness, rather than poor driving
conditions or mechanieal failures.
Safety officials stressed the importance
•of obeying the well-known traffje rules, and
zecommencled some lesser known ones.
1. If hydraulic brakes give out suddenly
on the highway, use the hand brake to slow
down so you can shift to a lower speed,
then proceed slowly along the edge of the
toad until you. can get help.
2. "A.Void arguments or violent excitement
over the manners of other drivers. Addition-
al adrenalin in the blood makes good driv-
ing difficult. •
8. Check tire pressUres before starting on
a trip. Underinflated. tires make steering
difficult, ause driver fatigue and cuts down
life of tires. •
4. When crossing street 'ear tracks on a
wet day, cut across diagonally to avoid skid-
ding, Ct 4
5. If a bee or hornet flies into the ear,
stop at once and get rid. of.theinaect.
If you want to get even with, your wife
for using your razor blades to sharpen pen -
se her powder puff to hrne our
shoes.
The official openiiig of the Beta Sigma
.Pilo Sorority Watling Pool in Victoria. Park
on Wednesday highlights an important Addi-
tion to Rioter's recreation facilities,
The wading pool will provide plenty of
fon for young children, particularly those
in the wartime housing area where there is
a. concentration of young families. The pool
will serve as an important part of the swim-
ming instruction program being conducted
by the XineMen.
The method by which, the pool was built
deserves recognitiOn. To keep coats down,
husbands •of sorority members and men in
the area contributed time and equipment
towards construction. The actual financial
outlay was infinitesimal corapared to the
amount of pleasure the pool will give.
The Sorority and others who helped
in the pool project deserve congratulations.
Bingo!'
Corporal Neil Chamberlain, of the On-
tario Provincial Police detachment at Grand
Bend, has shown that sometimes it just takes
a little push to . start an important ball
The summer resort should have had
resuscitation equipment some years ago but
no one had ever tackled the project. It
wasn't that Grand Bend didn't have lots of
community -spirited people — it's just that
nobody championed the need. of a, resuSci-
tator.
Then along comes the corporal wile
realized the value of the equipment. He
started the campaign and . . , bingo ! . .
in ithout a. week, he had raised enough money
to buy the life -saying machine.,
.The summer resort now pro:vides an-
other service for the thousands who enjoy
its beaches.
Protect Business
(Clinton News -Record) •2
Good weather brings out door -to -doer',.
peddlers in great abundance. Some of them
are doing their job in a Perfectly legal way.
That is, they pay their license fee to the
town clerk, and receive a license which en-
ables them to peddle their Merchendise to
houses in town.
However, there is always a group a
peddlers who do not bother. They come
into a town; work from door-te-door in a
couple of days; take away their orders for
merchandise which . can quite possibly be
purchased from merchants who pay business
tax in. town; the housewives co-operate in
sending payments as required, and money
flows out of town. It is definitely unfair
competition and it is up to the housewives
to help .put a stop to it.
When a salesman comes to your door,
ask to see his license. Read it carefully,
and. make sure all is in qeder. If in doubt,
phone the police station at on0e. If the
salesman does not possess a license, then
refuse to do business with him, and phone
the police tepartment so they can check up
on him.
It is to the whole community's advan-
tage that this be done. Do not feel that
you are being hard-hearted. Remember the
one-armed salesman who came to totem last
year who took away money from housewives
who thought they were buying magazine
subscriptions, and that their purchase was.
to help the mein buy himself an artificial
limb. That man was brought into court and
convicted of false -pretenses,
If a saleanan is in a legitimate business
lie will not. object to calling at the 'town
hall and getting the proper credentials. if
• he has n6t got the .then he shoeld-. be
brought to ,a halt right away.
It's up t to the women of town to help
protect the businesses of ,their husbands and
other businessmen in town,
•
• A long face is plagny apt to cover a
long tonseience. T. C. Haliburton, 1886
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Published. by The Exeter TittattioAdytteitta Limited*
Likes Cooking, Hockey At 94
' least week I paid visit to
Ihreter.sgrand old lady. Mrs.
Ann ar1ing, Carling Street, who
a, few days before had celebritted
her 94th birthday. She was sit-
ting ou the back verandah over-
looking the garden where her
daughter, Mrs. Louisa Craig, was
Admiring seine of the flowers.
I was strict with elee appear,,
guee of It, Rarely have I seen a
garden. so well planned and SO
well advanced. There was the
usual line of small vegetable,
New potatoes have beell enjoyed
from a well -kept patch and ripe
tomatoes had been niched from
the vines. Hardly a weed was to
be seen.
But the production of early
gardea vegetables which appeal
to the appetite wizen picked fresh
from •one's ,own, garden, WAS
equally rivaled by the profusion
of flowers that were everywhere
In evidence.
When I rapped At the trout
door a neighbor told me that
the occupants of the house were
out at the back. Ali I rounded
the house the flowers first struck
my eye aid then the garden.
"Mother -helps me in the gar-
den," said Mrs. Craig. She SOS
all ehe meals and I just love It
in the golden" was the next start-
ling statement. 1 could hardly
imagine a woman of 94 still ad-
ept at the ,elliitterY art And, de,
lighted, to do it.
"In the winter we follow the
heekey oe the radio. I was
Reg for Toronto and was sorry
to see them lose," Said the wom-
an of 94, with. All her facultlea,
Intact and a keen Interest in
everything that's ping on. Her
hearing is good and she still
reads although she said her .sight
wein't as good es. it used to be.
Mrs, Carling, whose meieee,
name was Ann Pietrin, was born
in England and came to -Canada.
with her parents at the age of
two years. The trip was madeIn
MERRY MEWERA
a sailing ,vessel, but 1 imagine
Mrs. •Carling will are little rec-
ollection of that trip. The family
lived. fez! /Our years in London
and then Melted to Keeter* Mrs.
Gerling then bei e six Years old,
That was 'before the days of tho
London, linron and Bruce Tail -
Way. The stage eeech provided
Passenger travel. Oxen end hors,
es were used to till the soil,.
Exeter was a straggling young
hamlet. Jame* Pickard did a
thriving business that in his day
would rival the *biggest depart*
mental stores of the preaent, com-
paring the times.
Mrs. Carling's father, Thomas
Fitton, was' a Watchmaker and
jeweller and coeducted his first
• business In a part of the 24 -tore
now by Thos. McMillan and known
by our elder subscribers as the
Grigg Stationery store. He was
the first telegraph operator in
Exeter but as his eusiness grew
he turned the telegra,Pe over to
Wm. Seeders, Mr. Thomas Fitton
was suceeeded by his soa,Saxon,
and conducted the business in
the store now occupied by
Taylor.
W. e. Carling and his brother
Thomas conducted a general store
in the building now occupied by
Beavers Hardware, McKnight's
Ladies'. Wear and %Jack Sznith
Jeweller, It was the proverbial
ei•acker barrel geueral sitars
where customers were delighted
to congregate •and discuss the
topics of the day, the .groeery de-
partment being on ,one side and
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refrigerator!"
the dry goods on the other side
of a double store, withae arch-
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News Of Your
I LIBRARY I
hese hot days one likes to
relax ileni read aa entertaining
book that does not tax the men-
tal capacities too greatly. We
might suggest "The ninny lejlee
11041Y Wanted" by Helen .Doss.
This is Mrs. Does's own story
of .the "one tamely Uted Na-
tions" and how it grew. A doe,
en years ago •Carl Doss, a Mete,
otlist minister and his wife Helen M
adopted a baby boy and loved hien
AO much they couldn't stop with.
a 'lonely one." Now they liar a
dozen Children—all adopted al-
though eonsidered eunadeptahle"
because of tilted racial -parent-
age. Mrs. Doss tells how each of
their children came to them, and
fi7f -they all fitted Into One hap- oq
Py
nett story is full of laughter
and delight. The 1phsees have
been called radical ter •thole sol-
ution to the problem of helping.
"the ones needing love to find
people who have it."
"The family 'Nobody Wanted"
is an inspiring testament to the
power of love and- to the princi-
ples of our 'heritage.
'Onions In The. •stew"
Another suggestion Is Betty
MacDonald's new look "'Onions
in the Stew." Many of you read
and chuckled over "The Egg and
I" which was her first book and
also a later one "T.he Plague and
I." Another book she has written
"Anybody can do anything" is
described by New- York 'Times
Rook Review as "screamingly fun,
nY." She has also written several
popular books for boys and girls,
"Onions in the Stew" is the
story of the life of t'he MacDon-
ald family (Mr. and Mrs, Mac-
Donald Betty and Don) -and their
two -teen-age daughters) ma era -
aeon. Island.ln Puget Sound off
• Seattle,
It was here amid theeentamed
• grandeur of fog, -raccoons and
4th century beating that the fam-
ily found shelter during the days
when real estate salesmen thought
they were winning the war by
having nothing to rent.
'Betty tells eof the rigors of
child raising amid the episodes
of island life. Snowed in for two
weeks the first winter they dine
on eat food and noodles.
Through all the chaos Mrs.
MacDonald manages to keep a
, level bead to paint a beaut-
iful picture of the virant Norte -
'west and • its healthy, different
• life. Her pen is as quick to re-
cord the beauty as her eye is
to zet It lft detail.
At.the
!'TIMES"
By
50 YEARS AGO
A gang of .menare putting up
a large quantity of wire fence.
It is the intention to make a deer
park and several of the animals
will be placed therein, (Grand
Beed);
These pupils in Exeter succes-
sful in passing their entrance
examinations are Lillian Amos,
Minnie Amy, Lois Birney, Minnie
Cann, ileetie Collins, Anna Dow,
Eileen Farmer, Douglas Godwin,
Ethel Harvey, Norman Hodgert,
Lily Hodgert, Beatrice Ilowey,
Winnifred Huston, Lillian Zones,
Bertha Mak, 'Lizzie Mack, Clar-
ence Miners, Earl ISpackmazi,
Kathleen Stewart and Douglas
Stewart.Zrs
e'0111e (teepee who has
been engaged as milliner at
Dashwood is home for the sum-
mer inon-th.
leshomme
asl.(w
'
• Mr, Herb Viciterd, Stecient at
Moetesisil;' Is holidaying at home.
40. YEARS. AGO,
The conereeations, of Centralia
fto
eattiiifie.t beite1WeilMihilitrtfi'eeP3haeldez°e • thIs
Mies Pearl 'Weed Is in Toronto
taking a five VISI3VS course in
l*tteleia.
t Salvation Array who have
been holding their meetings in
the half ever 11. R. 1.kooPer's
.Furniture •Stbre have rented the
brick blinding -Of Mrs. OidleY
foreierly occupied at laundry.
The holidays of Mr. M. It. Cone -
pen, manager of the Canedlart
Bank of Commerce wete cut short
owing to an .accidents" to once
the staff.
Miss Irene Beirling
training in Sarnia 1General Hos--
Intel Is holidaying with her par-
ents' Mr. and Mrs.. It Belding.
On Saturday afternoon at a
tractor was passing through town
,drawing three loads of peas to
the Canning Factory one IV the
wagons broke' loose in front of
the Huron Garage and crashed
into a coupe damaging two fend-
ers and denting the body.
15 YEARS AGO ,
Seven ,Operations for the rem-
oval of tonsils. were perternied
at Mrs. Godbolt'e Hospital on
Wednesday, elle operations are
being sponsored be ,the Exeter
Lions Club.
.1)r. 11. Cowen spent his boli -
days with his sail boat "The
Swallow" in the Bruee peninsula
and the Manitoulin islands.
Tee largest -crowd of. the sea-
son sought relief from the heat
at the lakeside oe ,Sunday,
Messrs, Walter feetbuse and F.
Taylor Sang a duet at the outdoor
service at Grand I3end oh Sun -
clay •MornItzg, lase.
Mr, 'Gordon May the Can-
adian Battle of Commerce is re-
lieving for two weekse et the
AlIen Craig branch. • .
Miss Dorothy 'Coe Rht. who
has been in Woodstock, returned
to Exeter last!Wenit atter a motor
trip throfiell northern .01itatie
and gilebizc,"'She leavesthii week
to take a position In the hOlspitel
at. Petierlie. "
Liberty Praises
Weekly Papers
Canada's 988 weekly •news,
papers, with a combined circula-
tion of 2,475,140, are the back-
bone of Canadian country life
according to the current July
issue of Liberty magazine.
Appearing under the title,
"Canada's Crack ee -Barrel
Oracles", this Liberty study by
former Brampton Peel Gazette
Reporter Robert Webb finds that
"editors of weekly newspapers
have, naturally, advaneed from,
the troutier-days pistol -in -one -
hand, pen -in -the -other crusader
whose hand -operated press turned
' out stinging editorials. But that
.editorial spirit • of poking gentle
fun at local celebrities, getting
public support for community
endeavors, and whipping civic of-
ficials into action, hasn't yet been
tossed in the hell -box".
A survey made among weekly
newspaper editors disclosed some
interesting facts. According to
Liberty, 95% have -served as
president of their lodal Chamber
of Ctimmerce or Board of Trade;
45% have been mayor or reeve
or held other high public office
in their community; 91% work an
average of 55 hours 'Weekly; 28%
reported personal incomes of over
Mime anriuhlly) and many of
them are university gfacluates.
What is the Weekly news-
paper's most Widely.reed teeters&
dee Hacker, edittnepliblishee of
the AlebotSford,.Stimite and Mats-
on II:O. News, says it's the live-
stock sao cohthin of the classified
page, wflule George Murray,- °we-
er nI the 8,100circuletiOti Pictou
Adeocate, says his . Women's
column, "Ann Advocate Saw* is
hisreaperel most widely -read page.
It's written by his wife, who was
-.voted "Mrs. Weekly Editor" at
the 'Canadian Weekly Neleenaners
Atuleeletiee's annual convention
It.'2411u3ritf' the editors of Canada's
!reale -newspapers disagree ori
What constitutes their ;hest
hiaturei they are all In
attofd With Mrs. H4len 00100
fdeOcirattandale, editor Of Alber-
ta's High River Terme, 'Who
defines the aim of the weekly
neWspaper, In MIS Whim;
'Ike 'principle by which most
PaPers;' small or great, seem to be
guided, is to make the •dehliteilifty
a happy, eongehial,
place.; to einPlistelee the good
rather than the bad; and to be
as accurate as buil:elite Pteetible
in Matters Of reotheht especial-
ly the Middle initial of a faithful
ettrfeSPetetent".
*Mete are feW mililonaires
among the Weekly newspaper edi-
tors auct publishers", Bill Crams -
ton,‘ of Midland, has stated. "Out
there are tele AVM And Women
*he so Well deserve the label
tree enterprisers' With a elteeia
emphasis eit leutererise'."
iq yEARs, AGO
Tice 001010 foundation hi in
for •ttIo new grandI.and at the
Exotor 407 grounds and a flew
oval leo ,boen graded for a .race
track.
Packing day for the.,1104 Creel);
will be VridaY, July 13. All Unite
ate, a,dviSed that there will be
no el/eking Idly in August.
Wednesday. Anglia 8, Is 'the
date set ter Exeter's. 19th Blood
The teentletli annual reunion
of the Chalincr's elan was held
in Queen's Perk, Stretford Wed-
nesday of last Week, it Marked
the eeliteriefy Of the OM In Can-
ada. .
Lac .Teck Pryde has purchased
front Miss Andre** the fine new
brick residence, on 'Huron at.
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viell•Itnci‘Vi trust company ro qininistet your
estate, You see, you ektate is far rotentiPagtiitte4q.
put away in the background.. " e
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