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They Enjoy Their Cards
Two of the most frequented
places in ENO* during the
winter' season are the Town HO
and the .0ddfollIew5 Hall. One is,
exclusive to the members of the
1..(1,0,F, but the other is open.
10 anyone who has the time and
the inclination for playing euchreor just meeting together in a,
friendly atmosphere.
"The euchre club, helps' me to
put in '01. few' pleasant hours
whenever I feel so inclined amt
PericS ins up whenever I 'feel
the tine hanging heavy on • my
hands," said one retired gentle-
man who. WWI a congenial
mosphere and friends after he
bad 'retired from the farm,
"I like it in Exeter," said an-
other retired farmer, "`because
-there is a 'pla0 where we ..can
meet each 'day and enjoy our-
selves in a friendly game of
..euchre and it helps to pass away
the time that would otherwise
hang heavy on my hands, after
living an. active life for so long
and then to find -myself with
little to do,"
The euchre club have a warm
and •comfortable room in the
Town Hall and every afternoon
except Sunday you can find• a
number •of retired gentlemen en-
joying their favorite game of
euchre, Some take the game
seriously and play to win at all
times. Others get as much fun
out of setting their opponents
as they do in winning a game.
Better Than Medicine
I stepped in -one afternoon to
see the old boys at play and .was
greeted with the sound of hearty
laughter from some of the play-
ers and spectators who were
watching the game, I thought
to myself: "That hearty laugh
is as good to those individuals
as taking a dose of medicine or
swallowing some pills. If worry
causes ulcers of the stomach
then. those gentlemen had the
best kind of antidote available,
for they were forgetting their
worries for the moment and pro-
longing their' lives."
One little incident will show•
that it is not all serious busi-
ness and that there is many a
lark among the players. The
players use two jokers and two
bowers which are the four high
cards. A hand was dealt and
an act turned up: A player
ordered his partner as he held
what be thought was a good
hand and by ordering his part-
ner he had to play it alone, It
turned. out that his partner held,
three of the highest,cards in the
suit and with a twinkle in his
eye and a nudge to his opponent
he slipped the high cards to the
Player on the left, and inueli to
the amusement • of all but the one playing, the hand, the ,latter
wept down, It might be consider,
ed a dirty trick, but it was all
in good humor,
Five Hundred
At the ,Ocklfellows tali each
afternoon a different kind of
game is played, galled five hand-
red, Often there are as many
as four tables going at ,a time,
The players are mostly younger
men than those of the euchre
viol). A number are retired but
usually among them will bd
found some of the adjoining
farmers who have come to town
to shop or are waiting for sup-
plies from the mill or waiting
- while their wives' do the shop-
Sugar
AND
Spice
ping. Any excuse to get there
is sufficient and usually you,
have to be on hand early or else
wait your turn at one of the
tables. The games peter out
about four in the afternoon,
The Oddfellows are A Strong
organization in Exeter , with
many of the young farmers as
members. "I am glad to have
some place to go while the wife
does the shopping," said one of
the farmers, "I hate to have
to stand around one of the
stores."
Times are different than when
I was a lad. Cards were con-
sidered of the devil and were
not allowed in • our home. Lost
Heir, a. similar game was al-
right, ut not euchre. I have
yet to see where any moneyThas
changed bands at the above
places.
The days of putting in time
discussing the problems of the
world around the old cracker
barrel have passed.
DISPENSED BY BILL. SMILEY
"What is so exhilarating as a
Canadian winter's day, when the •
snow crunches underfoot, the
trees crack like• pistol shots, and
the very air is like vintage cham-
pagne? On such an occasion,
Gloom vanishes, Care is banish-
ed, and man becomes an animal,
exulting as the blood courses
like fire through the veins."
*
That's the kind of stuff the
poetic nature lover is wont to
churn 'out, sitting snugly 'in his
city • apartment. Having dashed
off these sentiments, he glances
out the window, shudders at the
sight of a few falling snowflakes,
takes a strong pull at the hot
rum toddy beside him, and 're-
sumes his article, which will be
sold to a magazine in some tro-
pical country where they (bill
know any better,
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50 YEARS' AGO
' The Town Hall •was filled to
over flowing On Thursday after-
noon when .the, Firmer'S Insti-
tute Meeting was held, The Wo-
men's Institute met in the Opera
House at the same- time.
Mr. Curry, reeve of East Wa-
wanesh, wes elected Warden of
Huron by, ecclamatiotr it County
Council on Tuesday.
The • School Board held it's
first regular meeting on Wednes-
day evening.y P,Frayne Was e-
lected chairman; and J. Grigg
secretary. i
The Exeter Fair this year will
be held Monday end Tuesday
following the Western Fair.
The high wind Of Sunday blew
down the smoke stacks at the
foundry and it the Ross Taylor
Company's planing mill.
15 YEARS AGO
George Armstrong reeve of
Hay township, is the • 1942 war-
den of Huron County.
The Exeter Ilensall branch of
the Canadiatn Legion paid honor
to E/t) Thos. Pryde, home on
leave from Toronto where he is
interviewing of f i c b r at the
R.C,A,F'. recruiting depot
Miss Lenore Notrninton win.
. her of Huron County prize in
oratory, and second prize in the
interprovincial contest spoke to
the Lions Club Friday evening.
Vernon Heywood, het been a
qualified corporal since Decent.
ber 16. He is an iitificer in the
Ordentrice Corp* 6f the Royal
Canadian Artillery,
,Hazel Elliot And Irene Van
Camp 'have been sueeessful in re-
,teivieg their registered, noses
certificates.
The public Library his joined
with, the ,County Aisociation
-which provides the library With
a circulating number of books,
25 YEARS AGO
Mr. Harold Taylor has pur-
chased the one ,hundred acre
farni. of Mr. Albert. Penwarden,
Lot 11 Con, 4 Usborne. • .
Messrs. J. A, Traquair, A. 0.
Elliott, T. 0. Southcott and, Jas.
Bowey were in Detroit atten-
ding the motor show.
The popular science .master of
Exeter High SchOol, Mr. G. C.
Kock, addressed the Y.P.S. of
Main St. church on "What can
Beading Concerning Science• do
for me?"
Miss Mary Grant ILN, reeve
an, address to the Exeter Wo-
men's Institute on Tuesday on
Sanitation, It . was reprinted in
the Times Advocate.
Francis Abbott of Exeter gave
readings over the air from
C,J.G.C. London on Monday.
His Honor Judge.. Costello held
Division Court here last, Wednes-
day and disposed of a long Jist
of CAM.-
10 YEARS. AGO•
B. W, Tuokey of 'town; 'Hugh
Berry, Usborne; RoY Rats and
Arthur Amy, Stephen; and qeo.
Arnistrorig, Hay, are attending
Huron County Courteil at Gode,
rich this week, .
Miss Dorothy Green bag just'
received her degree as 'a Regis-
tered nurse, having trained at
St, Iosepit's Hospital, London,
Two organized drives by Gun
Clubs of the district have • been
successful in bagging 236 rabbits
and five foxes.
' W. E Middleton was named
chairmen at the inaugural meet-
ing of Exeter Public 'School
Board.
A group of five' /Mtn Exeter
Motored to. Wingham Th'utsday
evening' to take pert in a 'round
table forum over C.K,N,X. ra-
diti 'Station on Exeter's recrea-
tioaal Ilogratri. Art, Campbell,
Helen Leslie,' to, 'Bell, At, M.
Sotithcett and Bett Weston, High
school 1060, took .pkr.t.
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Prepayment of Taxes in Exeter:
FIRST INSTALMENT • SECOND, INSTALMENT
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or before: a or before:
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11% March 1 31%
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I'd love to get hold of one of
those birds, handcuff him to my
wrist; and make him accompany
me through one of those "exhil-
arating" days we've been having
during the recent cold snap.' One
day and he'd be ready for the
psychiatric ward.
* * *
First and worst of the horrors
is .the alarm clock. For a coup-
le of seconds you think some-
body is pushing a large icicle
through one ear and out the
other. Then you realize what it
is, kick the cold hot, water bott-
le out of 'bed, throw, off the four
blankets, the comforter, the old
army greatcoat and the various
drapes and table cloths with
which you've been, trying to keep
warm, and grab the dirty demon
of a clock, punching it off with
unutterable venom,
* * * *
From experience, you know
that he who hesitates is sound
asleep again, so you jump out
onto the icy floor, stagger around
in the clark until you find the
door„ then trot down and open
the furnace 'draughts. You check
the thermometer in the ,kitchen.
It reads 39 above. You trot right
back up, set the alarm for, an
„hour later, and hurtle back into
the womb-like luxury of tthe
sack,
. * 1, *
When ybu hit the deck at eight,
it's for good, and. your soul
groans, within -.you...You get.
down to' the kitchen and find
your little daughter lying on the
floor, in bare feet and pyjamas,
drawing pictures. The thermo-
meter now reads 44. You give
her a hell of a blast and she
scuttles back .to bed, • bawling
"I'm not cold. Why do you have
to be so mean? I'M gonna tell
Mummy on you."
* * * *
You rush down cellar, fight a
pitched battle with the furnace,
and hold a torch of blazing news-
papers under that spot in,the wa-
ter pipes that always freezes.
When you get back to the kit-
chen there's one shivering school-
boy crouched over the register.
He'd get more heat from a cand-
le. He has obviously washed
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LIBRARY
By MRS. J. M. S.
The Empire of the St, Lawrence
Donald Creighton, 'a native of
Toronto, and chairman of the
Department of History of To-
ronto University, wrote a book,
as one of a series 'on Canadian-
American relations entitled "The
Commercial Empire of the St.
Lawrence 1760--1850."
This book was out of print for
a number of years in fact copies
have been selling in the rare
book mar k e t at substantial
prices. It has now been re-issued
with a new title which more ac-
curately describes a work that
is much more than commercial
history.
The St. Lawrence River
spired and supported a trading
system which .was both trans-
atlantic and transcontinental in
extent and political as well as
economic in significance. The
main purpose of this hook is to
set forth, as a related whole,
the ambitions, programs and
struggles which had their c
i
en-
tral tspiration in the St, Lawr-
ence River.
Donald Creighton was of course
not as well known 20 years ago
when this bolt first appeared
as he now is after the publica-
tion of his great two-volume bi-
ography of John A. Macdonald,
But there is apparentin this
earlier book the distinction of
style which has been so praised
in the later books.
This is a timely hook to read
When the St. Lawrence seaway
is under construction and so
widely discussed,
We' 'Lived On' Wheels
In a very different and much
lighter vein is the story 'by Syl-
via Duricari of her experiences
with her husband, Peter, and
Children. Andrew and Tessa and
their AlSatiati dog living in a
caravan for two years to save
enough money to buy their dream
home,
The writer learned to tow
caravan and in this may took
her children touring on the Col,
tiheilt from the South of Eraride
to Naples and White.
YOU will find this book both
amusing and hiformative.
Both these books are on this
shelves of tent Library.
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Huron MPP Tom. Pryde should be
given strong, and enthusiastic support
in his eaMpaign to bring a $20 million.
provincial school for retarded, children
to this area.
We hope all municipal councils, as
well as county and township organiza-
tions, will join with county council in
Strengthening Mr. Pryde's case,
The hard-working MPP kept his
year-long campaign 'under wraps"
until last iveek when he appealed to
county council to swing their weight
behind him.
- Mr. Pryde has been successful t6
the point where Huron is being given
strong consideration as a site for the
- school. Now that the campaign has
progressed this far, it's up to municipal
leaders throughout the county to help
him, bring it to a successful conclusion.
As Mr. Pryde suggests, Huron
can offer an ideal location for such a
school and this should spur the efforts
of the promotors. •
Sites along the Bluewater High-
way have been suggested and this
strikes' us as being a perfect spot for
,such an institution.
The area has the obvious thera-
peutic advantages of quiet countryside
and the proximity of the lake.
It'is close enough to urban centres
to be convenient for members' of the '
staff.
Tells Story
Our opinions on the MicGillivray
school issue have been stated clearly
here before. We cannot, however, let
pass' without comment an advertise-
ment'which' appeared recently in a
neighboring newspaper.
If ratepayers •of the township
would read that ad objectively and
realize. the ..condition it represents,
they would appreciate the situation.
• ,the school board faces.
. • ti1'i1e ad calls for .tenders /or the'
carrying 'of fresh .water for one of
the area schools.
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Editorials
This nowsoinsor .loollovoa the right to express an. opinion
.public sentributos t. the ,prearels of tilt nation and.
that it moat be .oxorclood freely to preserve one. improvo
sanlacratIo. govornmont#
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Huron Offers ideal ...Location .
.For Goverment Institution..
Access can be gained_to it by ,good
roads and it is centrally located in the.
area it is intended to. serve; It is al-
most equidistant from the three major
centres :of Owen Sound; Toronto and
Windsor.
It's near a summer holiday area
Where parents can enjoy themselves
when they come to visit their children.
There's plenty of labor available
to provide the necessary staff,
Problems of drainage* and water
supply, important to an institution of
this size, can be easily solved,
Fresh vegetables for. the school
can be supplied from the marsh gar-
dens to the south and meat products
couldn't be more readily, available.
The fact that Huron has no pro-
vincial institutions inside its borders
and needs development of this type
should provide • the clinching argu,
ments to the case.
Cross 'Em
After what's happened before, no
one's going out on a limb to predict
the Morrison Pam project will go
through.
Even though the new tender of
$167,691 is heartening and authorities
are moving quickly to get the neces-
sary approvals, there's too much red
tape to plow through to start rejoicing
yet.
Nevertheless the situation looks
hopeful.
Lowest of the new tenders brings.
the cost down to approximately where,
it was list fall. It justifies local of-
ficials' rejection of the over-$200,000
price which was set by a Toronto con-
tractor ,after he had withdrawn his
original bid when its time limit elaps-
ed. .
The new price indicates., too, the
wisdom of calling for tender's rather
than accepting one man's estimate.
Now, .. responsibility rests With
Thi town Of ,eter and Authority officials
to get approval through in time to get
a contract sigried. • ' •
The pessimists, of course, are say-
ing the, dam will never be built. They
say the troubles already experienced
by the project's promotors are bad
What happens to flesh and blood, omens. •
to glass and steel in those last split We hope they're wrong.
seconds when a human being is hurled Keep your fingers crossed.
Into eternity ,as his automobile strikes `
a tree?
Physicians, safety engineers, and Avoid Parity
.
The Canadian GoVernment has no
intention of imitating ' United States
farm price parity policy, Agriculture
Minister Gardiner told the -annual
federal-provincial agricultural confer-
ence in 'Ottawa, says The Financial
Post.
To .both the farmer and the tax-
payer th at will 'be good news.
The farm price policy of the
United 'States with its .absurdly high
domestic prices, its unwieldy surpluses
and its world %dumping, has beerya
disastrous failure. It has cost the
American taxpayer billions..• It has
-undermined the AMeriean •farmer's in-
dependence and, his markets. It has
upset world trade and antagonized
other countries.
Fo r a major' agricultural producer,
like Canada, even to consider adopting
this headache, would be a ststupendous
blunder.
Let's Work Towards'
• An expanded industrial promo-
tion program in Exeter arid in Huron
County.
• Completion of the Riverview
Park development.
• A business prornOtion organiza-
tion among Exeter merchants.
• A parking lot close to Main
Street. -
• t A town plan for EXeter.
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Accident
h ex erts wh have cr craspo ash-tested
hundreds of, cars and minutely examin-
ed bodies of scores' of accident victims
tell the vividly, horrifying story in an
article, "Slow Motion Picture of High
' Speed Death," in the February Read-
er's Digest.,
At 1/10th second, the front bump-
er and grillwork collapse as the car,
going 55 miles an hour, hits a t solid
immovable tree. At 2/10ths of a sec-
ond, heavy structural members of the
carbegin to act as a brake but the
driver's body, ramrod straight, , still
hurtles forward at 55. His knee joints
shatter. •
At 4/10ths, the rear of the car
rises like a bucking horse and scrapes
bark off lower limbs of the tree. The
car is slowed to 35 miles an hour but
the driver's body is still catapulted
forward at 55.
At 5/10ths, the driver is impaled
on 'the steering wheel shaft with the
steering wheel twisted into an almost
vertical position by his fear frozen
hands*
The .horrifying climax comes at
15/1,0ths of a Second when the driver's
feet are ripped from his tightly laced
shoes, his head smashes into the wind-
shield. The brake pedal shears off at
the tleOrboard, and the chassis bends
In
the,tloorboard,
middle shearing body bolts.
Jutt one tenth Of a second later,
the. car body is twisted out of shape,
doors spring open, and the seat rams
ft/Ward jamming: the driver hard
:Against the steering shaft. Blood leaps
front his mouth. .He dies. •