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lEighty-Socend Year
Supreme . ourt Ruling
Drive Spurring Huron Ho
REACH BEE FINALS—Two Usborne sold etas from the same school won the right
to compete in the inspectorate finals of the. Ontario Spelling Bee in a contest at Hen-
sall last week. They are from Hurondale School, the only rural School which placed
two in the finals, Above, their teacher, •Mrs. Mervin Carter, an expert speller herself,
shows a tricky word to her pupils, John Etherington and Margaret Oke. —T-A Photo
have been helping at home, too,
To indicate how seriously some
of the pupils are taking the ,con-
test, John Etherington has typed
and re-typed the entire list of
several hundred words-which are
provided by the Department of
Education.
Teacher of the two Hensall
winners is Principal Robert Rae-
burn, and the two Exeter con-
testants are pupils of Principal
A. B. Idle.
Other teachers •)who have -pu-
pils in the finals are Mrs. Mar-
garet Rogerson and Mrs. Flor-
ence Kay, of Tuckersrnith; Miss
Flora Turnbull and Mrs, Ethel
Toth, of Stanley; Mrs. Art Ab-
bott and Mrs. Alice 'Mills of Us-
borhe.
am Hearing '11 hursdaY,
ay Pay Over Six Percent
Ontario .hog producers are ,es- President of HUMP: hog IN*
peeted to forge ahead. in their ducers, Bert' Lobb of Clinton,,.
open market campaign with said Wednesday the county came
more confidence and enthusiasm paign "'will go on ,sa. 'it has ill
than ever as. A result of the the peat." He thought the fever.
Supreme Court decision, reveal - able•ruling would remove doubts.
ed. Tuesday. e' from the minds of some :hest-,
Jake Koehler, manager of the tent producers and spur the opelt.
provincial co-operative, told The market drive.
Times-Advocate WednesdaY. "we Last of the township meeting* are very happy about it."
Although full iniplieations of night, as returns from. _ the des
' in Huron was held Wednesday
bthye rthuleingbaoarerciqill 1 abeing r
lawyers,
studiediir,
to roll, in from various Parts el
livery directive .canvass -.started
Koehler said the ruling had def- the county.' initely approved the marketing "So. far the. reports are. quits, service fee of 24 cents charged satisfactory," said Mr.- - LOW, bynot thhaevecot- :pee rIalotwi veer.
The court agreed boards did i--..
to levy li- to. 90 percent."
.`u..`Theditirettbive:s ofraporgoodsucefrroem' sign- The
fees on all 'producers for
the specific purpose pf equaliz- ricultural representative, for the.
Arthur Bolton, assistant eg•
mg returns to growers but this county, said th0 . court • ruling.
"is . certainly! .encouraging• for
those organizations -MASS In
marketing schemes,"
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final winners who will compete Sharp, S.S.' 7, and, Janet Bender,
ship dominate the list of semi- From Tuckersniith:. Robert
Students from Usborne Town!' Bayfield.
tip in the district insctorate spell- son, S.S. 3.
' ' ' ing bee in Exeter on February 12. Girls topped the three semi-
Four of the 12 spellers in the final contests which were held at
4 finals are from Usborne. Four Hensall, Tuckersmith and Cell-
other municipalities, have two tralia last week,
students each in the running — Margaret Elgie, 11-year-old
Exeter, Hensall, Tuckersmith and grade seven student and daughter Stanley. , of one of Hensall, school's teach-
The inspectorate contest em- ers, placed first in the Hensall braces grade seven and eight bee; Janet ,Aenderson, 12, a students from eight municipali- grade eight Tuckeismith pupil,
ties in South Huron. • led contestants in the north sec-
Feature of Usborne's excellent tion of the inspectorate, and Judy showing was the victory of two ..,,04,o Tennant, also 12, of Exeter, won
, 1 students from Hurondale School the Centralia bee, 'held last
1 1 in the second semi-final at Hen- ,the three semi-finals. salt Wednesday night, Under the Tuesday night and the first of
guidance of teacher, Mrs. Mer- At Hensall, Margaret Elgie,
vin Carter, herself a spellin daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert
specialist, both boy and girlElgie, spelled 27 of the 30 words champions of the one-room school right. Margaret Oke placed sec-
reached the finals, one for the and in the girls' division with 25. second year In a row. . ' John Etherington, HUrondale, The Hurondale winners, both and Leo Tiberio, 13-year-old 12 years old And in grade eight, grade eight student and son of
are .John Etherington, son of Mr. Mr. and MrS. Leo Tiberio, Hen-
and Mrs. Archie Etherington, sail, tied in the boys' division
who competed ill- last year's with 25 right. John wort the tie-finals, and Margaret Oke, daugh- breaking match.
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Lorne Oke. L Janet Henderson spelled 27 of
Others who will nen in the the 30 words correctly in the championship bee in Exeter are: Tuckersmith contest„ to Match
From Usborne: Helen Evans, Margaret Elgie's record at Hen- S:S 2, and Glen Towle, S.S. 7. salt, Tied with 23 right were her
From Exeter: Judy Tennant. runner-up, Margaret Wallis, Bay- . . .,
field, and the boy winners, Ted . From Hensall: Margaret , Elgie ',maker, 12, a grade-seven stu- and Leo Tiberio, . dent, and Robert Sharp, 11, 'and'
Dobbs Heads
Cancer `Body
Zion United. Cluirel Usborne,
completely renovated during the
past sit months, will, be reded-
icated during special services
Sueday.
Speaker in the Morning will
be Rev. A. E. Duffield, Lati-
beth, president, ,of tendon con-
ference, who will also perforM
the act of dedication.
Rev. E. Wright, chairman
of Perth Presbytery,,, will give
the address at the evening see-
vice,
Rev, Slade, minister of
the thtleth o will ,preside,
Town council may have to pay
6,33 percent interest on the de-
benture loan to finance Exeter's
share of the Morrison dam cost,
it was learned Monday tight.
Clerk C. V. Pickard said the
money could be borrowed from
the Ontario Mnuicipal Loan Im-
provement Corporation but in-
terest of the 20-year debenture
issue would average out to' 6.33
percent.
Cmincil discussed, briefly, the
possibility of trying to sell the
debentures on the open market
but didn't come to any decision.
SHDHS debentures were sold
last year by the town at four
and three-quarters perceht but
interest 'rates have jumped since
then.
Approval to iss',1e debentures
rests on the outcome of a public
hearing scheduled by the Ontario
Municipal Board for Thursday,
January 31.• The meeting will be
ove Couple
o Stratford
Two of the four Hungarian
refugees in this area will, likely
be moved to Stratford this week'
because of lack of employment
here, Immigration Officer D. R.
Mitchinson said Tuesday.
Unless a job offer crops up im
the meantime, Janos Molnar, 21,
and his fiance, Eva Elizabeth
Solyom, 23, will be taken to the
classic city Thursday.
Miss Solyomhas been under the
doctor's care recently suffering
from nerves. It's believed -the'
cold. weather here, coupled with
the murder of her father in the
Hungarian revolts, have upset
,her. •
Margaret Cook, who is looking
atfer the four at the Centralia
' Miss Cook said the four' refu-
gees are well looked-after now
hs far as clothes are concerned.
Donations have come from Ex-
eter, Centralia and air force
,personnel.
The married couple will need
bedding and some kitchen equip-
ment when they move to the
apartment, site said, but believed
this would come from Centralia
neighbours, "who've been very
helpful."
Meanwhile, Exeter made its
contribution to the refugees in a
clothing drive sponsored by the
Ladies Auxiliary to South' Huron
Hospital.
The laides packed 30 cartons
of clothing which were taken by
Guenther Tuckey transport to the
Salvation Army in. London.
Sparks from a faulty motor,
igniting inflammable gas escap-
ing from an old refrigerator, may
have been responsible for the fire
which destroyed Cowan's Lunch
and Service Station, Sarepta, late
Friday night. .
The blaze .in near-zero
weather,, levelled the combined
station and restaurant in less
than an hour. Damage was esti,
mated at $10,000 by Owner Nor-
man Cowan, who said there was
no insurance on the building.
Only contents saved were book-
keepitg records, an adding ma-
chine and a typewriter.
Fireman Jim Hayter used a
gas mask to get into the office
and save•the records, It was the
first time the department has
used the inhalator,
The brigade poured its, truck's
400-gallon supply of water on the
building but discontinued their
efforts because water was not
readily available, and the flames
were out of control,
The restaurant occupied over
half of the 58 x 26 building. The
rest liaised the service station
and an 'office where Mr. Cowan
did bookkeeping work. All of his
clients' records were saved, he
said,
Gas pumps were seared badly
by the blaze, rear of explosion
of underground gas tanks kept
spectators away from the build-
ing as the fire progressed,
Mr. Cowan said• he believed the
gas from the old refrigerator
caught fire because the blaze
started so suddenly and violently.
The unit had a faulty motor
which threw sparks and Gould' not
be run while the radio was oh.
Recalling the events Weed- _
ing the blaze, Mr. Cowan said:
`10 Wife had turned off the
refrigerator to hear the it
O'clodk news and weather report,
When it was eVet, the Shut off the
radii) and tutted on the fefriget-
At the annual meeting" of the
Exeter and District Cancer
Society Monday night, Fred
,* • Dobbs was reeleeted president,
Others elected` • were: Vice-
Fresidents, Don Southcott, Lloyd
ord and Mrs. Allan Fraser;
secretary, Mrs. Fred Dobbs;
treasurer, Kenheth McLaughlin,
T.ownship representatives are
Mrs. R. H. Strang, Usborne;
Mrs. Earl, Campbell, Hay; Mrs.
Jacob Ratz, Stephen, Mts. M.
Soiithcott was named to represent
Exeter, '
President Fred Dobbs , was
chairman of the Meeting, and
John Stratton, .president of the
Perth-Huron' Unit, conducted the
election,
The report bt Treasurer Ken.
A meth McLaughlin,showed
$3,432.70 raised in the 1956 cam-
p, for funds. Memerial card
debating were $160,75.„The presi-
dett announce that local= and
district fundal directors haVe
supplies of memorial cards,
Convener Of the Social Service
Cornmittet, Mee. 3. G. Dunlop,
repotted a total of 2450 dressings
made by the local unit, Teatispor‘
Wien, board and apparatus were
eupplied for a district resident •
Who required treatment Lon-
From Stanley: Ted Leaker, S.S.
'5, and Margaret Wallis,, U,S.S. 8, in grade eight, -
After students found words in
the first semifinal at Centralia
too tough, Inspector John Goman
made the remaining contests
shorter and simpler, Twenty-five
word's had to, be written and five
spelled Orally. The five oral 'ones
were short but tricky: Mileage,
inoculate, dessert, abscess and
geographic.
Mrs. Carter, the Hurondale
teacher whose ' two students
reached the finals, said enthusi-
asm from the parents and pupils
helped her' bring laurels to the
schooL
Strict on spelling herself, MM.
Carter has lielpekher two cham-
pion seellere frequently at recess
and atter four. Parents of the two
To Dedicate
Zion Church
being provided at low cost. by a ,,
landlord in Centralia, she said,
painting contractor, Art Hall, at
Air Zollie Molnar, 24, and his
wife, Veronica, 18.
Centralia.
Zane is, still - working with
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In..Finalt Of Spelling Bee . 0 ,
• HENSALL SPELLERS—Two pupils of Principal Robert Raeburn, Hens all Pub.lic
School, are among the 12 district children who will compete for The Times-Advocate'-
trophy at the inspectorate finals in pxeter on February 12. Margaret Elgie, daughter
of:one a the teachers, at Hensail, topped 24 contestants at the semi-finals there Hotel, reports arrangements are,
last Weelei^Leo 'Tibetio reprPsents'the, bOys'. e • —TA Photo being tinade for the other e01119.e" to rent an apartment.7,in the
pollee Village ,So they can start
•. Fo •urs Pupils From. s come. off On their own. Accomodation is
Blame Old Refrigerator
In $10,000 Fire Loss
ator, then came to ,nty office to
tell me the forecast., .
"We chatted for no more than
three minutes and then she went
back to the 'kitchen to feed the
cat and dog. When she opened
the door she found the entire
room in, a mass of flames."
Mrs. Cowan ran to their house
across the Why to call the fire
department, and her husband
cleared clients' records out of his
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Plans for extensive improve-
ment and renovation to Caven
Presbyterian Church and manse
yere made at the congregational
meeting Tuesday night. -
Proposed redecoration includes
painting, carpeting and general
repair work.
Both membership and givings
to the church are up. Financial
statement shows a small sur-
plus. Organizational reports in-
dicated an active and success-
ful year.'
W. G. Cochrane was chairman
for the Meeting, which followed
a dinner served by the ladies
Of the' church. About 60 were
present.
Appointed to the board of
agers for a three-year term
were William Parker, Kenneth
McLaughlin and J. B. pryde.
Other members include Mr.
Cochrane, Hilton Laing, F. G.
Simmons, Cliff Ersman, W. Sil-
lery and Arthur Whilsmith. •
Fire Chief Milton Deitz and his
crew of eight, volunteers tore
down a partition to snuff out the
blaze.
Damage was -estimated in the
hundreds of dollars.
Fire started in the chimney
before the Bells retired, They
attemtped to extinguish it and
stayed up until three o'clobk
when they thought the danger
was over.
Crackling woke them. •up at
6,30 a.m. and they found= the
blaze in a closet. When the fire
brigade arrived, flames . were
pining through the roof..
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Exeter council approved salary pad the expense, sheet,"
increases for 14 municipal offi- *"I don't think it's fair that a.
cials Monday night. Total Luke; man. should stay away from his
amounts to $750. job or his business and not get-
In. a split vote, councillors paid for it." He thought it was,
raised their owp salaries by $50 particularly unfair to the young
to bring their annual payment up businessmen on council.
to the maximum of $300 allowed "We get more money now than
-by the Department of Municipal they did 10 years-ago, but we do
- more work, too. It's an entirely
.
Affairs. , '
They upped the mayor's salary different institution now."
from $350, to $400. Reeve McKenzie: "I'm. not in
Public utilities., commissioners favor of raising council's salary
will receive $1$0 a year instead to $300. The guys who don't go on
of $100. delegations get paid the same as
Erie Carscadden, assessor and those who do."
the'l arin home .of. Mr. and. Mrs. fax collector; will get,41,300 in Deputy-Reeve Mawhinney: "A
1957, compared. to $1,150 in 1956. fellow would get the same
'Weld Bell, two miles south= Controversy^ • Arose, Over, • court, ,alnoing, Orem ,if he , didn't .attend.
N'esl.' Of Hensall W e d n e s d a Y ell's own increase, Five council, ariv.,.cenventions:" , „ . Morning, when -al:daze broke out lots supported the raise but the, Councillor 'Musser: "Our only hi, a closet. : two reeves — Bill McKenzie and alternative is to raise the rate if
To'Renovate
Caven Kirk
when other councillors 'stated t ,
the boards operation was made Over Reeves Protes
the board should finance itself
and not seek assistance from
council.
The issue cropped up during
a discussion of insurance on
town employees. Councillors
agreed the staff at the cemetery
should be insured but some' of
them didn't think the town should
have to pay the premiums.
Reeve McKenzie's defence of eeete.
a -dozen building lots in the
middle of •the block bordered
by Sanders, Gidley, Andrew and
Senior streets.
said Goderiph taxpayers must The large Ellerington barn on
subsidize their cemtery to the Senior` street is being torn down
tune of $10,000 a year while Clin- to make way for an entrance to
ton levies up to two mills for the the area.
upkeep of its burial 'grounds.
The Exeter board has been
$1,000 grant from council.
-
able
year,t ounc- illors Up Wages pay itsown received
w a37 unt
until
Zurich Brigade
Stops Hay Fire
'Zurich fire department saved
cemetery, it was revealed in
council meeting Monday night.
Reeve William -McKenzie,
chairman of the cemetery board,
I n Argunient been approached by William In Winnipeg Tuesday night,
Ellerington and Wilson Morley Charles McInnis, Hog Produc-
Exeter ratepayers are getting. to get council's sanction for a ers' president, was, jubilant,
off easy in the operation of their plan which would create about "This puts us right on top of
the pile,"
As the ruling is being inter-
preted by Federation and co-
operative officials, it gives the
green light to the hog and other
schemes, although in some in-
stances there may be minor
changes in methods
held in the town hall and will , Both. Deputy-Reeve Chester
start at 11:30 a,m. . Mao/hinny and Councillor Ross
Council has applied for a loan 'Taylor said the board should fi-
of $80,000. Estimated total of the nance the insurance, Council
town's share of the. dam 'cost is *finally agreed, however, to ab- P8,800. 1 sorb it,
Times-Advocate this week, the
In an advertisement in The i Insurance on firemen was in-
creased from $3,000 to $5,000, municipal board invites argu- Investigate, Subdivision-
for and against the issue. Council • Council will investigate a pro-
Backs .Board a. large town block to provide
posal to open -up the mid* of
a number of building 'lots, would not affect the hog pro-
Reeve McKenzie said he had gram, Mr. Koehler said.
'Inc department wouldn't , ap-
prcve council's proposal to set
maximum salary at $300.
Five councillors voted for the $50 increase to fake care of the -.... In recent revivals of the story,
out-of-town meetings. In favor the Donnelly's have been pie-
were Councillors Musser, Pym, lured as ruthless vandals and
,Bailey, Fisher and Taylor. barbarous fighters who terrorized
Reeve William McKenzie op. the entire neighborhood. But Mr;
posed the across-the-board hike Essery doesn't remember them
because members 'of council who as such.
didn't attend conferences and "More obliging people never
conventions would get the same li..ved," h e repeated several
pay as those who did". ' times as he recalled the family
He also objected on the giounds on .his birthday. "They used to
that the - reeve, himself, should run the stage between Exeter
receive more than councillors be- and London. My mother would take berries to sell to the Devon cause his duties were- heavier.
Hospitalization cases alone took
up a tremendous amount of time,
he pointed :out. (The reeve. is
res onsible for accepting munie-
store and she always took the
Donnelly carriage. They'd help
her carry the 'berries into the t 11
ipa _responsibility for indigent "I lived just seven miles from
patients.). the Donnelly farm," he remcm-
Criticizing the deeartment's bets. •
refusal to allow the $10 'a day Mr. Essery, claims the mem-
remuneration, Mayor P oqley hers, of the vigilant committee—
said: "This means that if you the band who massacred five of
want more money, you'll have to the family during a raid the
Application was made by the
provincial government for per-
mission to pay councillors $10 a
day, in addition to meal, accom-
modation and travelling ex-
penses, while they were away on
municipal bisiness. This, they George Essery, who celebrated
felt, would compensate for the his ninety-seventh, birthday in
loss sustained by businessmen or London on Simday, tells:a differ-
wage-earners who had to leave
their jobs to attend meetings on has built up around the infamous
ent story to the legend which
behalf of the town. Donnellys of Biddulph, victims
of what has been described as
one of the bloodiest massacres
in history.
Chester Mawhinney -- opposed it.
New councillor, Murray Greene,
declined to vote.
Council didn't want to raise
their take-home pay by increas-
ing ,their salaries but they found
themselves with no alternative.
Their hands were tied by a ruling
of the department.
Apply For --Payment
we want to get paid for. out-of-
town trim."
Councillor Taylor: "I don't
care about who goes away and
who doesn't. .You can't tell who.
may have to go. My chairman-
ship last year kept me away five
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Donnellys 'Obliging'
Recalls 97-Year-Old
Damage totalled $2,000 in three
accidents in the district this•
week; One driver has ^ beet'
charged.
Police say Bill Lochner, Grand
.Bend, failed to signal when he
made a left hand turn off the
Blue Water Highway, nine iniles
north of Grand Bend On Sunday.
Travelling north, Lochner was
struck by a southbound' car
driven by Richard. L. Harris,
Detroit.
Total damage was estimated at
$1,150 by OPP Constable George
Mitchell.
In another accident near Grand
Bend on Thursday, cars driven
by Ronald Edwards,. Oakwood,
and Ernest L. Horton, Chatham,'
collided at an intersection.
OPP Constable Cecil Gibbons
said the Edwards'car, coining out
of Oakwood Park, faile.d to stop
and struck Horton, who was
travelling north. The Chatham
vehicle narrowly missed , a ee.
ment culvert and careened into
the ditch, suffering $500 damage.
Wet snow,,, which covered the
windshield. of, an• Exeter car, Vas
responsible for 'a.'-sideswipe call!
sion at Hensall on Monday.
William Marshall, town, who
was proceeding south, said be
was blinded'by slush thrown by
a northbound car and his vehicle
sideswiped another northbound
car driven 'by Charles Hiemstra,
Toronto.
OPP Constable GeOrge Mitchell
estimated damages at $350.
Loss $2,000
In Accidents
Loss was estimated -at $10,000. Three
loft her kitchen, Mrs. Cowan returned
of flames,' Only bookkeeping records
equipment were saved,
minutes -after she
to find it a Msg.
.atitt. some. office
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FIRE DESTROYS SAREPTA RESTAURANT--Believed to
have started, from leaking gas in an old refrigerator, a
wind,whinped blaze rated the restaurant and garage
owned 14...Normait.Cowan, Sateptao late Viday evening.
night of November 4, 1880.—
"were worse than the Donnelly
crowd." The . bloody raid oc-
curred after the Donnellys had
allegedly terrorized the area by
burning barns and beating up
district farmers.
Proof of the guilt of the mur-
derers, in Mr. EsserY's mindi
was the fact they later died vio-
lent deaths. "All of them died
with their boots on," he recalls.
The vigilants were tried.' by a
Supreme Court in London-,and
were found not guilty.
Still able to walk and read
his newspaper every , day, Mr.
Essery celebrated his birthday
at the home of his daughter,
Mrs. Winifred Dobbs, of Lon-
don, with members of his fam-
ily. He lives at the John Dear-
ness home for the aged in the
city.
Mr. Essery was born on the
farm now owned by Joseph Pau.
jite, near Centralia, lie is the
only survivor of five ine the fain-
tly of the late Mr. and Mrs.
Thomas, Essery
He was raised at Centralia,
attended Fairfield „school and
then became a carriage maker.
He soon discovered there was II
demand for transportation be-
tween Centralia and Mount Car-
mel, so at the age of 18, he
started a livery with his two
horses, "Tipsy" and "Topsy".
It grew into the largest in the
district.-
Essery operated the liv-
ery until 27 yeers ago when he
moved to. London, and resulted
his carriage-making .trade with
Hudson and Essex, car mane,
facturers,
He was married in 1889 to
Mary Ann Parsons, of Creditont
who died 16 years *go. They had
sit children—Fred of Philadeph-
ia; Gladys, Mrs. .T. Carling':
Winnifred, Mrs. W. Dobbs; and
Iva, Mrs. Turner, all of Let-
don; and Hazel, Mrs. W. Ander-
son, of Toronto, Me. Essery now
has nine grandchildren and 16
great-grandchildren,
The celebration ne Sunday wet
a doable one. Mr. Resery't
great - granddaughter, Weedy
Lee Dobbs of Centralia, marked
her first birthday on the same
day,
Among these present were
Mr, and Mrs. TOM Carling. and
MrS. Titter of London; ,Mr. and
Mrs, Wilfred .Anderson, Tetolte
to; Mr. end ts. Tont tiohba,
R.R. t Centralia, and Sarah
Ann Ctilee, Cerittalia.
Mr. Essery attributes hit long life to having IotS to eat," WI
believed he's the oldest Ming
native of this area,
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