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Editorial
1953
This newspaper believes the
right to **press en opinion in
pehlie contributes. to ,the ,pros
press, of the nation. e.nd .thee it,
•►nust 1st exercised freely :to pre.
nerve •and improlte i ernocr*tic
government..
- New. Approach
' A new attack in the campaign (against traffic
' accidents is introduced in the Rural Safe Driving
Week program outlined by the Ontario Federation of
Agriculture.
Recognizing that drivers are still the major ,
' cause of highway tragedy the Federation neverthe-
less points out that the design of cars can have an
• . instrumental affect on the extent of injuries and
. —fatalities resulting from crashes. The Federation
quotes statistics to prove that proper car design
•could have been the life-saver in 84 percent of fatal
accidents.
This is a startling revelation and it emphasizes
the importance of the Federation's campaign to in*
fluence car -buyers to be Imre safety -conscious in
the selection of their vehicles. •
A heavy public demand for safer cars would en.
Able auto niaufacturers to incorporate more protect-,
ive features in their designs and thereby contribute
immensely to reducing the toll, .
The Federation's campaign should receive full
support from everyone.
Civk D
Discussion of civic matters by members of
Exeter council and Exeter Kinsmen Club at a recent
meeting brought benefits to both groups. The service
club members now have a better understanding of
' municipal problems and council learned solne of the
4 t i
ri 5 which Kinsmen consider deser
ve more atten-
tion.
The program was held in the form of a panel
discussion, Council members acted as the panel and
Kinsmen fired the questions.
We'd like to see more of this type of com-
munity discussion because it creates much-needed
interest in government.
Other organizations, rural and urban. might
welt plan to include a similar program in their year's
Activities. Men's and women's groups, Institutes,
- service clubs, even church groupswould find it
profitable and interesting,
And the community would benefit from the
better understanding and keener interest which would
develop.
-All-Out Campaign
• The party leaders have lit the fires and the
political pot begins to simmer across the country.
Another Canadian election is under way.
What do you think of the issues?
What do you • think of the platforms??
What do you think of the leaders?
We'd like to hear your views on this import-
ant election. We invite you to write your opinions
in a letter to this newspaper.
Whether you're a Conservative or. Liberal,
,'CCF'er or independent, your letter will be welcome.
All we ask is that you try to keep it short and to the
point.
Your ideas and opinions will start someone else
• thinking about the election. The more discussion we
have, the more intelligently we'll be able to vote in
the election. ,
Let's hear from you.
Talk's Dangerous
• The St. Marys Journal -Argus says there's "no
room for gloom" and suggests that the present talk
of depression can cause damage.
. "A lot of talk has been heard these past few
months about `tight money'," the Journal -Argus says.
"We never heard the term used before this past
year 'and frankly think it is much overdone with a
few gloomy souls using it as a greeting to their neigh-
bors much as they would express themselves about
the weather.
"Maybe we haven't been talking to the people
who really know what they are talking about, but
it seems to us that most people in this part of
Western Ontario have very little to complain about.
On the serious side, it might be suggested that too
much talk of this nature is not good.
"At any rate the Financial Post in a recent
issue. agrees that `present signs in Canada give no
grounds for this kind of .. , recession. talk, The Post
says that talk like this can itself help to create hard
times and compares last Julyy with the same month
0. showp
! 1956to that the national labor force is up,
unemployment is down, retail trade is up, savings
*re up, repayment of instalment debts is up, and so
On."
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Watching television is all right,
1 daresay; a first-rate movie
makes an enjoyable night out;
and for real pleasure, it's hard
to beat a good book, But for
sheer emotional wallop, of an
evening, there's nothing to touch
cleaning out a bureau drawer.
* * * *
About every two years we have
one of these orgies at our house,
it usually start's when my wife
is looking for something import-
ant. Like' the pattern for the
dress she began snaking one
winter, Or thee cherished clip-
ping in which it states that she
came first in Grade 6, once upon
a time,
*
She starts rooting around and
cussing mildly in our documents
drawer —a big dresser drawer
crammed with old love -letters,
receipts, lapsed insurance poli-
cies, recipes, and dill pickles,
membership cards for the year
1953, single earrings of, every
design, newspaper clippings, odd
shoelaces, and photographs —
hundreds of them.
* * * *
Pretty soon I hear yelps of
dismay, snorts of outrage, and
chortles of amusement. Grumb-
lingly, I join her, ostensibly to
make sure she doesn't' throw out
some of my important keepsakes
like my Germancompass that
doesn't work, but in reality to
find out what all the fun is
about.
* * *
For approximately 80 sec-
onds, we work systematically,
sorting the junk into piles, to be
discarded or saved.Then I catch
her trying i.o throw out a per-
fectly good picture of a girl
called Wendy, a corporal in the
WAAF, whom I used to know.
She retaliates by pointing' out
the fellow in the class picture
who was crazy about her. A most
undistinguished -looking adoles-
cent, in my impartial point of
view.
* • * 1x
From then one, it's every man
for himself, and within a few
minutes, we 'have about twelve
different piles of stuff around
us. "You don't want this old
junk, do you?" she sniffs, holding
up a dance program, year 1939,
with the name of- a girl called
Sylvia, written in every second
space. "Oh, don't I, though!" I
retort, snatching it and putting
it carefully on a special pile,
though. I can't even remember
Sylvia's - last name, let alone
what she looks like,
* * * e
"Why don't you throw those
mouldy old letters out?" I sug-
gest, as she sits there, a big
bundle of them in her hand, gaz-
ing dreamily at the wall.
"Wouldn't you just love me tot"
she taunts, opening one, and read-
ing me a nauseating passage
from some love-sick jerk who
signs - himself, with unbeliev-
able cbrn: " , • your lonesome,
loving George,"
* * . .
Then we get looking at pic-
tures of the kids, when they
were little, and are torn be-
tween tears and laughter. We
linger over one of them, in
their bare bottoms, fat, dimpled
infants, andour thoughts go
with awe to the two great, row-
dy school children in bed at the
moment, exhausted from chasing
and pummeling each other, ups
stains and down, kr a solid hour
before bedtime.
* * *
And we found a snap of our-
selves, on our honeymoon. \\'e
look at it, look at each other,
and shake our heads in disbelief,
and •sorrow, "Never mind dear,"
she reassures, "you look much
more intellectual with a higher;
forehead." And gallantly I re-
ply: . tS„ ou certainly have a lot
more character in your face
now,"
* * * *
Sometime this doesn't bit quite
the right note, and there is.
little frost in the air as We go on
sorting. Soon we're absorbed
again. She is reading with in-
tense admiration -an old English
essay for which she received a
mark of. A -plus, I ant eontene-
plating wistfully a ten -year-old
snap of myself in which I had
a vast fighter -pilot's handlebar
moustache, and art evil glint in
my eye.
Two hours later, we are still
at it. It would go on all night,
hut invariably she hoots with
glee: "Oh, brother! Listen to
this!" and' reads,• with influria-
ting elocution, a purple passage
from one of my old love -letters
to her. 1 get a cold chill down my
spine, a red face, and brusquely
mutter something about getting
"this blasted mess cleaned up,
I've got work to do."
* * * *
We fill a large carton with dis-
cardabte stuff, We look at all the
little piles we've sorted so care-
fully. We look for string to tie
them into separate bundles. No
string, We look for paper bags,
to bag them separately. No bags.
So we throw everything back in
the drawer, And invariably,
there's more than we started
with. and we can scarcely get,
it shut.
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Grand Bend Lions
Active In Service
There have been a few rum-
ors that the Grand Bend Lions
Club has not been doing a great
deal for our vicinity, despite the
fact they are finding so many
uses for the monies collected.
Perhaps our publicity depart-
ment should "blow . our horn
more."
The following is a very con-
densed review of our activities,
money -wise from 1150 to .1957:
Construction and maintenance
of rink -- $2,679,
Equipping and maintaining
junior hockey -- $750.
.Road signs and maintenance
$1,719.
Soy Scouts $165.
Easter Seals — $1,005.
Information booth $2,313,
Children's Hallowe'en partiees
anddonation to Legion Christ-
mas party — $812.
Donations to Crippled Chit-
dren, South Huron Hospital,
Christmas baskets and other
charities —• $4,779,
Total expenditure in service
work from 1950 to i357—$17,896.
Over and above this, we have
—Please Turn to Page 3
Second Fire In Hensall
Razed Seven Mares
.here is the account of the
,Second big fire in Hensall taken
.from the Exeter Times, Feb. J.6,
1911:
Seven stores m 'elen.sall .and
the •('ommer•cial hotel were co-irt-
pletely destroyed with an .esti-
ntated loss of $55,0110, Among
them:
W. Perkins, Cominercial 1lfa-
tel, loss $10,000, little insur-
ance.
J, Be McArthur, hardware,
and furniture. loss $20,000, insur-
ance $10,500.,
.E. Ronnie, dry goods and gro-
series, loss $10.000, well covered,
Ji. ,1. Drysdale, shoe ,rner-
ehant, loss .$3,000, insurance
$1,000.
T. W. Palmer, restaurant,
loss $3,000, insurance $1,000,
F. Mann, barber, loss $500,
well covered..
Damage to outer stores from
heat and explosions' of powder
$1.000.
For the second time within a
few years llensall has been
threatened with destruction by
fine, At five o'clock Tuesday
morning the ncrtlr side of Main
street was a mass of flames,
and had the wind been any other
way the village would have been
wiped out,
As It WAS the real business
section of the town is now in
ashes and the loss to the leading
storekeepers and merchants will
run up to nearly $75,000,
The fire which had evidently
been burning for some time in
the hardware store of J. B. Mc-
Arthur was discovered shortly
before five o'clock and by the
time the village had been aroused
the whole block was burning and
the fire department rout co
d l
nothing but stand by to keep the
flames from reaching the ad-
joining buildings. The water
pressure was poor, but no sys-
tem could have saved the block,
owing to (he big -start the -fire
had.
.As soon as the alarm had been
given by a workman on his way
to the station the smoke issu-
ing from the McArthur store
was wrapped in flames and im-
mediately the blaze, fanned by
the high wind, spread rapidly to
the edjoining buildings. The roof
of Palmer's restaurant was about
the first to catch and burning
between Drysdale and Ronnie
stores it licked up the frame
buildings with a fierceness which
drove the large crowd of on-
lookers to the far .end of the
street.
Fanned by the strong wind. ,the
blaze spread rapidly towards the
Conantereial lintel and complete-,
ler destroyed the :places men-
tioned above. • 1.
The main street of the town
now presents a scene of desols.-
tion .and business is praetieally
at a standstill.
The stores on the south side
of the street were alt more or
Jess damaged by explosion of car•,
tridges and powder in .the hard-
ware stores and nearly all the
plate glass windows are blown
in.
Starting from the end of the
block, the monster .ate its way
steadily toward the Commercial
Hotel, and it was seen from .the
very first that this well-known
hostelry was doomed. •
In the meantime alt the board-
ers and guests of the hotel got
out safely with their goods and
beioneings, and with the help.
of willing hands some of the fur-
niture on the lower floor of the
hotel was rescued.The prbpr.ie-
tor, W. Perkins, was in London.
making arrangements for 'onie
improvements for the. conven-
ience of his patrons. The helpers
were not given emelt time to
get mueh of the upstair furniture
out, however, before the- roof
caught and then the structure
went like timber.
A large number of the villa-
gers stood across the street when
a quantity of' powder and car-
tridges piled rip in the back of
McArthur's store exploders with
a tremendous noise, shaking the
whole town.
There was a rush on the part
of the people to get away from
the scene and out of harm's
way,and during
the rush
sever-
al ere well doused with a
stream from a nearby hose. No
one was hurt.
The loss of the Commercial
leaves the village without a ho-
tel for the present, The Queen's
Hotel is being rebuilt and work
on it will now be .rushed, but
it will he several weeks before
it will he finiebed.
All the business men declare
that there will he a boom. in.
building in the village this year.
At noon the fire had completely
died out,
The reflections from the fire
lit tin the country for miles
around and were plainly visible
in Exeter.
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50 YEARS' AGO
On Friday evening the C,O.-
O.E. gave a program in the hall
after tli,e regular lodge meeting.
Mr, Wm. Balkwilt occupied the
chair. Those taking part were:
Wm. Berry, cornet solo, Misses
Anna Martin, Alice' Howard and
M. Vincent, ,,solos; Miss Olive
Hern, reading; Misses Gladys
Bissett, Eileen Farmer and 141-
lian Amos, instrumentals,
Rev. J. T. Sutcliffe pastor of
Grand Bend ' circuit for four
years h'as accepted an invita-
tion to Talbotville. •
The family of Matthew Mor -
lock, Crediton gathered to cele-
brate his 80th birthday on Friday
evening.
Miss Miriam Elston and Miss
May Armstrong -are attending the
millinery openings ,in Toronto.
A by-law to grant the Gibbs
Evaporator Company a free site
is to be again submitted to the
people.
25 YEARS AGO
The president, Mr. D, Row-
cliff*, the past president, Mr.
William Ward, Messrs. Jesse El-
ston 'and W. H. Dearing are
making a canvas of the town for
members for the Exeter Horti-
cultural. Society.
Sandy Elliott local Ford dealer
is in Windsor to get his first
new V-8 Ford. c
Tee ice harvest has been in
full swing this week, The .ice is
from nine to twelve inches thick
and• clear as crystal,
hlr. Hatry Strang, of Guelph
Agricultural College was home
on. Monday for the funeral of his
grandmother, Mrs, Caldwell of
Hensall.
As this is an anxious time we
have. made arrangements with
Mr. Arthur Ashbrook, clairvoy-
ant, crystal reader to he at our
store for one month ever,v Sat-
urday afternoon. -- Wilson' Gro-
cery.
15 YEARS AGO
Air, Wilson Morley, Whalen,
has purchased front Mrs,J, S.
Harvey her home on Andrew
Street. He gets possession April
1.
Two twin -engined Anson bom-
bers from the Centralia airport
collided in•mid air over the farm
of Henry Rohde on the Thames
Road,
Alas Helen Anthony was elec-
ted president of the Hamilton
Teachers' Council for' the ensuing
year.
The Bank of Montreal with, an
augmented staff is now func-
tioning in (he former. Canadian
Bank. of Commerce building.
From the extreme coli] and
blizzard of the week previous the
weather turned mild on Sunday
and creeks_ and rivers are run-
ning high,
10 YEARS AGO
After a hectic political cam-
paign that lasted for a month
Exeter has again settleddown
to regular routine. Thomas
Pryde, Progressive Conservative
was elected with a majority of:
684 votes.
For the first time .in the his-
tory of Exeter, photos were sent
by wire .from this village to ap-
pear in a Toronto newspaper. A
Globe and , Mail photographer
was in the riding Monday taking
pictures in connection with the
election. '."he pictures were de-
veloped in Jack Doerr's studio
and wired to Toronto.
Early Sunday morning • fire
broke out in the recently erected
Pentecostal Tabernacle and prac-
tically the whole of the interioit
was destroyed.
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