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T" e Times -Advocate, April 10, 1950
E1iitQr4aS
Tis newspaper. believes the
right to express an opinion in.
public contrilutesto thaa pro•
press of the nation and that it
must be :exercised, freely to •pre-
serve and improve democratic
overnmp.nt.
. ire Comes Anothe r
Having just come through one inlerestin q
election campaign. Huron voters will be treated to
another --•-a provincial by-election to fill the seat left
'vacant by the late Tom Pryde,
This new contest will have several side lea -
.'
tures which should make. it just a, exciting as the
one just completed.
Both Conservatives and Liberals will pick new
Candidates and the nominations themselves will prob-
ably provide keen races. It's rumoured that there
are at least six igen after the Conservative nomina-
tion and it may develop that the Grits will have
several serious contenders. .
In addition. the new leader of the Ontario
Liberal party will be elected this 111011th and he will
be expected to join the fray in this by-eleetion. Who-
ever it may be, a new face at the helm of the pro-
vincial Grit organization will attract interest.
Since this by-election, and the other three
which will be held at the same time, are undoubtedly
public opinion testers for the Frost government. it's
expected that the Premier himself, along with other
big guns in the provincial cabinet, will be available
for major rallies during the campaign.
We look forward to the contest with anticipa-
tion.
Wasn'I Fooled
With one election over and another in the of-
fing, the following tale seems appropriate, We re-
ceived it on good authority.
Apparently a local couple were at odds over
the election. The wife, who was much more vocal
in her political enthusiasm, tried for weeks to con-
vert her quiet -spoken spouse to her side without
success. Finally on the day before the voting, she
attemtped her final stratagem on behalf of her party.
It would be silly, she told her husband, for
them to cancel each other's vote. Why not agree not
to go to the polls and let the platter drop? After
some persuasion, she extracted a promise from him
after she herself had indicated she didn't intend to
vote.
Slyly, on voting day about an hour before the
polls closed, she slipped clown to the station to give
her candidate the advantage she had worked so
hard to gain.
Her •husband was just coining out.
Moral: Always cast your ballot.
Encouragement
In case the cry over t.nenlployment and re-
cession during the federal election has given you a
pessimistic outlook on the coming year, figures pub-
lished in the current Bank of Montreal's Business
Review should be encouraging.
"The over-all reduction in capital investment
this year is expected to be 2.3 per cent compared
with 1957, a higher level had been expected," the
review says.
"This forecast expects capital expenditures in
primary industry to be down 17.6 per cent ove" 1957
end those in manufacturing to be down 20 per cent,
But to offset these major reductions in business in-
vestment, it is expected that expenditures on hous-
ing. religious, educational and hospital facilities and
.public works will increase considerably."
Summarizing, the B of • M review says: "the
indications are that expenditures on new plant,
.equipment and housing will provide a strong sup-
port to the Canadian economy in the year ahead."
No reason to panic.
* * •* * * - *
Clothing manufacturers are reported to be
seeking a term to use instead of "stout" or "portly".
How about "fat"?. -Hamilton Spectator.
In Ahoskie, N.C., the town firemen were : is-
sued new plastic rain pants, inside which was a tag
reading: "Do not use near heat.. ---Chatham News.
Toronto has been having a record crime wave.
And just at a time when transit officials are dis-
cussing an extension to the city's underground
System—Woodstock Sentinel -Review.
In the days of our youth we are presumed to
Sow our wild oats, but as age creeps oil we .feel the
corns more than the oats.—St. Catharines Standard.
The glory is not in never failing, but in rising
every time you fall. ---Chinese Proverb.
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MERRY MENAOER
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"Drat: That doggone kid beat us to them again!"
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by December 1823 there was a
t y'r*. t sleigh track open from London
to Clinton,
Jottings. BY LMS,
Sleigh Track, Tc,vern;s
Ope. ed Up This Area
In one of the issues of the
Centralia Coronet, published by
RCAF Station Cenralia, Mrs.
Wilfrc't Macy. of Crediton, tells
the early history of this Coiti-
munity:
The first settlers coming to
this eomoaunity had a choice .of
two routes. One was by the
Huron, Road. now No. 8 High-
way, first traversed in the
spring of 1827 from the town-
ship of Wilmot on the easterly
boundary of the Huron District
to Lake 'Ruron by Tiger Dunlop
and his axemen. By December
of the next year a sleigh track
had been opened and taverns
were being erected along this
road. The other route was by
London and north on the Proof
Line Road, now No. 4 Highway.
In 1829 a survey was started
to connect the Huron Road with
the Proof Line Road, The result
was a road running south from
the present site of Clinton and
Sugar
AND
Spice
Dispensed By RILL, SMILEY
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i11y daughter asked me a ques-
tion that had me stumped, the
other evening. I'd just finished
telling her a bed -time story
about Munkle•Ltnkle-lanky, the
great-grandfather of all the mon-
keys in the jungle, and one of
her favorite characters.
a * * • * *
The old ape had just put a
herd of wild elephants to rout,
by spitting thumbtacks among
the.rit, from his perch in the Big-
gest Tree in the Jungle. Kim
thought the story was about aver-
age, and condescended to utter a
couple of amused snorts when I
reeled around the room, holding
one foot in the air and howling
With pain, as 1 made like a wild
elephant which had stepped on
a thumb -tack.
* 5, * ,
Then she poppet) her question,
which, as usual, had, no connec-
tion whatever with anything that
was going on. 1 was just tuck-
ing her in, when she turned the
big orbs 'on me, and asked:
"Daddy, if there's a Mother's
Day and a Father's Day, why
isn't there a Children's Day?"
,, *
* *
I tried to laugh it off, and told
her every day was Children's
Day, around our house. After
she was asleep, though, when I
was sitting downstairs .trying to
pick out the choice parts in Pey-
ton Place without reading the
whole, lousy novel, I got think-
ing about it.
• * * • *
The more I pondered, the more
I was convinced there should be
a Children's Day, After all,
children are pretty important.
If there were no children, there
wouldn't be any mothers or
fathers. If there were no mothers
and fathers, there'd be no
Mother's Day and Father's Day.
t4 t
If those two n reg annual farces
were abolished, our retail mer-
chants would be teetering on the
brink of ruin. See where logic
can lead you?
* * *
Gradually, as I considered it,
the cruelty and thoughtlessness
of the whole thing ate into my
soul like iron. The pore little
kids. We give up all our peace
on earth for them, work our
heads to the hone, sacrifice and
slave for them, but we're too
selfish to give the most im-
portant people in the world—
Our Children—one single, crura,
by little day of their. own.
* * * *
"By George" I said to myself
was getting pretty worked
up) -'.'it's inhuman! Abominable!
What kind .of callous brutes are
we, anyway?" Right there and
then, I resolved that I'd be the
founder, of international, non -de-
nominational Children's Day. I'd
be famous, like the old skirt
who invented Mother's Day. I'M
not a child, but she wasn't a
mother, and look what a rat -
race slie started,
. * . ,,, ..*, *
Since then, I've given it a lot
of thought, acid I' think I have
the details pretty well: ironed
out. I'm anticipating a little
trouble with a few old-fashioned
mothers and fathers, hut I think
the vast majority of modern,
progressive doves -- uh, I mean
parents -- will be with me.
* * * *
We want 1.o make it a red-
letter day. Something the chil-
dren will to
e 1 k forward to with
n
fiendish delight. And the parents
with tindistinguished fear and
trembling,
First thing to do, of course,
is to get up herore then in the
morning. This may renuire .stay-
ing up all night, but it'll be
worth it, because you see, we'll
he giving them breakfast in bed.
They're to have- anything they
want for breakfast, even if dt'
a bag of jellybeans.
t= * * *
And that sort of sets tet: pat-
tern for the day. The kids are
to have, and do, absolutely any-
thing they want. They've been
saying for weeks that it's far
too hot to wear a jacket and hat,.
O.K. Let them go out in their
bare heads and feet, even if
you have to nurse them for a
week, afterwards. School is out.
as are lessons and practice of
all kinds. If they want to go
picking pussy -willows in the
swamp, let them. If they come
home mud to the eye -balls, greet.
then, cheerily.
* * * *
•
Answer all their questions
immediately and exhaustively.
None of this grunting: "Ask
your father." Keep thinking up
new things for them to•do and
eat. Let them watch TV as long
as they like, acid in the evening,
send thein off to the movies.
When they get home, give then,
a little henzedrine and keep
them up all night, reading stories
to them.
* * * a
The more I think of it, the
more wonderful the. idea seems.
It would be sheer hell for the
parents, but I think one treat-
ment would be enough. I have-
n't had the nerve to set the date
for the first one, However, I
think we can set it tentatively,
for some time in the year the
Social Credit party takes over
the government of Canada. Pair
enough?
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News Of Your
LIBRARY
By MRS. J. M. S.
•
Some of our readers • heard
Mrs. Margaret Blair Johnstone
epeak at. the Canadian Club in
London about three weeks ago.
She has writtcnatin only
of her life not only as a, Con-
gregational minister but as a
wife and mother. Tliis book in
your library is entitled
When God Says "No"
or
Faith's Starting Point
Here is a vital and warm story
of a young girl who, from her
early years with her parents,
picked up three talismans:
Hold On!, Don't. Run!, and One
Step More! She planned to '•e -
come a school teacher but for
very human reasons she became
an ordained Congregational min-
ister although her father and
brothers were Methodist preach-
ers, •
She first started with a strug-
gling parish in a metropolitan
city, moving to an experimental
post in a rural community and
then to a typical New England
charge.
Each new experience and
problem, domestic as well as
ecclesiastical,. has helped Mrs.
Johnstone understand herself
and others in ways that have
brought ger closer to being able
to serve her parishioners with
faith and courage.. Through hu-
--Please Turn to Page 5
London Road
Rev. Proudfoot in hie
diary, written in February 134
year•: ago, describes his journey
over this road. Leaving London
in the morning with a .sleigh and
two horses, he and a companion
and a driver had their noon
meal at William McConnell's
Tavern near Elginficld and be-
tween seven and eight o'clock
that evening they reached Mc-
Connell's Tavern (owned by a
son of William McConnell) where
they had supper and spent the
night. This tavern was ordered
built by the Canada Company to
accommodate travellers and was
located on the Osborne side
near where the London Road
crosses the Ausable River (Ex-
eter North). Rev. P r o u d f o o t
says of the inn: "It is the most
wretched place I have ever put
a night in. The lugs are not well.
built, the interstices are very
carelessly .filled in and the wind
finds its way between the logs
and the door did not fit by at
least three or four inches,"
Describing the country, he
says: "There is a general in-
dication of excellent soil, trees
being chiefly maple, elm, some
oak, ironwood • and black ash.
From the black settlement (be-
tween Lucan and the Little Au -
sable) there is no dwelling with
the exception of one about a
erected by James Willis who is
reputed to have arrived its 1832
anile distant: front cConnell's."
This no doubt was the shanty
and taken up land an the Os-
borne side.
lie also states that tea! Canada
Convene. had driven in anile
posts which were a great com-
fort to. travellers in this .dre,ary
region, The road is :out stralght
as a line for many nines. In
despribing the clwpllings al; ar•
London and Goderich, he says;
"They are simple shanties art
rvlaielt may Live those who are
tired with hard labour. but
houses having fewer conven-
iences 1 have never seen,"
First Settlers
The 'first comers took up land
along the London Road in 1833
where the original surveys were
laid out with ranges of 1.00 acres
on either side, In 1839 a main
read was constructed along the
b o u n d a r y between Hay and
Stephen including a bridge over
the Ausable River costing 505
pounds. In the 1840's the present
Blue Water Highway, was opnn-
ed up and. London Road was
partly planked. Thus the town-
ship was gradually being open-
ed up for settlers.
In the 1840's the Canada Com-
pany began a system of leases
whereby the. Immigrants could
lease the land for 10 years with
the option of buying, and by
1854 much of the land, with the
exception of the 'swamp areas,
had been taken up.
The first "post village" in the
township of Stephen. was opened
at Devon on September 6, 1852,
at the junction of the Crediton
Road and No. 4 :Highway. Most
of the settlers were from .Devon-
shire, England, , .and the little
settlement was .gained after their
home county, Here also was lo-
cated a store, hotel and church,
One report states that there
were two churches built, about
1847, one Anglican and the other
Methodist, One church was on:
the corner where Chaffe's Seri
vice Station is now located;
across the road to the east was
the hotel and stables and on the
southwest corner was the Post
Office and store, Joseph Quick
was the first postmaster, The
mail was first carried by John
Rattenbury of Clinton. His bro-
ther Isaac had a government
contract to take the mail from.
London to Goderich. When the
weather and roads were good he
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50 YEARS AGO
The population of T•luron in
1897 was 61,228; in 1905 it was
56,381; in 1906, 56,401 and in
1907, 54,872. A decrease during
the decade o.( 6,356 is shown; no
doubt the exodus to the west is
largely.respensible.
Miss Mary Mack has received
her .diploma from the Business
College, London.,
Mr.. Laurie Hagan who has
been learning the drug business
for some Months . with. W. S.
13owey, left for Williston, North
Dakota to live with his brother,
F, Wickwire was elected presi-
dent of Main Street Epworth
League on Tuesday evening; Le-
roy Coultis, secretary, W. W,
Taman, treasurer and Miss E.
Foliick . and Miss W. Howard,
pianists, ' - •
Maple syrup is so plentiful
this year that the price has drop-,
ped front $1.25 a gallon to 804.
• 25 YEARS AGO
Gerald Skinner was the lucky
winner of a thair given away
'at G. A. Hawkins' hardware
store. The coupon was drawn by
William Wareing, night watch-
man.
A debate "R.esolved that capi-
tal punishment should be abol-
ished” will be held by the Y.P.S.
of James St. united Church.
Debaters are Dr. Weekes and J.
A. Christie vs. Dr. 'Rouiston and
S. M. Southcott.
:Che Swift Canadian Packing
Co. have opened up for business
in the old post office building,
making this a station for eel -
lection of eggs, cream and poul-
try.
The Exeter Opera House was
filled to capaeity on Saturday
afternoon last to heair Miss Ag-
nes McPhail. and William Irvine
who spoke in the interests of the
C.C.F. tinder the auspiees of the
!'names Road Farmer's flub.
There will he air exhibit of
fancy guilts at the town hall on
April 22,
15 YEARS AGO
The congregations of Brinsley,
Shipka and Crediton met on.
Sunday morning in the latter
church to unveil the honor' rolls
of ,each church,
C. V. Pickard, local secretary
of the Ration Board, is having
a busy time, with the requests
for sugar for canning,
Sixty-one nurses, the largest
number in the history, of the
school, will graduate from. Vic-
toria Hospital School of Nursing
on Friday; among them were
Betty Hogarth and Dorothy Tra-
quair of Exeter.
The Exeter C,G.I.'T, girls have
gathered 250 pounds of fats for
explosives.
The Ration Administration 0.r
the Wartime Prices and Trade
Board has declared a sugar
"dividend" for use with garden
rhubarb.
Colonel George Drew will pay
a visit to South Huron Monday
and Tuesday and will be the
guest of Dr. H. Taylor, Dash-
wood.
10 YEARS AGO
Mr. B. W. F. Beavers, has re-
tired as secretary of the Os-
borne and Hibbert Mutual 'Fire
Insurance Com p a n y after 19
years in that position.
Mr. Norman Walper has just
completed a dealer traini ng
course in a four-day Conference
sponsored by McColl-Frontenac
Oil Co,
Mr. Warren May of Seaforth
has joined the firm of Jones &
May. •
Ross Houghton has taken over
his new duties as postmaster at
Crom a rty.
Pupils of Winchelsea school
were taken on a tour of Loddon
by their teacher, Mr, }Terve)/
Sparling, and six of the district
ladies on Monday.
Only two marks separated the
Huronia Male choir from Strat-
ford
choir for first prize at the
Stratford Musical Festival,
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THIS
WEEK -ENS
Your church, in co-operation with
local safety officials, will urge each
motorist to observe the rules of safe
driving.
It will be pointed out that every
driver is morally responsible for the
safety of everyone with whom he.
shares our streets and highways.
Remember—this week andevery week
—it is the duty of everyone to
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•
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EXETER PHONE 4
USBORNE & HIBBERT
MUTUAL FIRE
INSURANCE COMPANY
Head Office Exeter, Ontario
President
E. Clayton Colquhoun r,.tl, 1
Science Bill
Vico-President 0
Alex J. Tio1ide 11,11. 3
I1litchell.
Directors
Martin. Feeney 11,11, 2 Dublin
Robert G. Gardiner R.R. 1
Croat arty
Iliiltoii McCurdy R„R.. 1 Kirkton
Timothy B. 'Toohey R.R. 3 Lucan
Agents
Harry Coates R.R. 1 Centralia
Clayton Ilderis Mitchell
Stanley Hocking Mitchell
Solicitor
W. 6, Cechr rine Exeter'
SecretaryTreasturer
Arthur Fraser Exeter
G, A. WEBB, D.C,*
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432 MAIN tTREET, 'EXETER
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BOOKKEEPING SERVICE
ETC,
Aim 5t., Exeter
Phone 504
W. G, COCHRANE, B.A.
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EXETER PHONE 14
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