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This newspaper believee the
riilit to :express en opinion in
public contributes to the
tiros of the. nation. end that it
nwet• •be .exercised freely to pre,
serve nd improve: democratic
government.
Pot Pourri
Increasing popularity of B.ivsniew 'Park as a
Pienio and, recreation centre is taxing the amount of
land available there for such activities. It is evident
that more area will be necessary to meet future need.
Now that the north side of the park is under
development as a private subdivision, town authori-
ties would be well advised to insure that the south
Aide of the river does not get out of its grasp. Should
this property become built-up. the town will lose an
opportunity to develop its most impressive natural
asset.
Future generations will praise the imagination
and foresight of today's civic officials if this scenic
area is developed, even though there will be many
among the present generation who do not envision its
possibilities. If the opportunity is lost, future genera-
tions for all time to come will bemoan "what might
have been done" to make the spot a picturesque
highlight along NO. 4 highway,
* * *
•Our congratulations to 'SIIMIS students who
passed their upper school examinations and particu-
larly to Jane Farrow, who led the class. Their teach-
ers, too, deserve commendation.
*, * *
It is not difficult to understand why the West-
ern Ontario Athletic Association, the governing kody
for amateur sports in this area, is an unpopular
organization.
At Hensel last week, a team of old timers
had to be formed hastily to play that village's title -
seeking midget baseball club when a Mildmay team
failed to appear for the first game of a championship
playoff series after a large crowd had gathered.
This isn't the first slip-up the Hensall club has
been victim of in this season alone. The team had
been told that its .earlier series with Atwood was the
championship round but during the third game of
this series it was informed that Mildmay was still
a contender.
Such blunders—and there seem to have been
many in recent years—are detrimental to minor
sports. Perhaps the first step in the revival of
amateur athletics in, Western Ontario should be an
overhaul 'of the W.O.A.A. itself.
* *
Recent fires have indicated that Exeter Fire
Department lacks proper water storage capacity on
its truck to assist effectively at term fires. If the
township areas are expected to pay fees and service •
costs to the town for fire protection, such equipment
should be provided.
* * . •*
Excellent bit of public relations on the part
of Exeter P.U.C. was the installation of several'
benches and a drinking,fountain on Maim street be-
side the offices. It will be appreciated by a great
number of shoppers and elderly folk.
* *
Action. of the -Exeter Community Centres
Board to improve facilities at the, local arena is good
business. Essentially, thearena is a centre of enter-
: tainment and, as such, it must 'provide attractive
premises where people will enjoy themselves. It
should be noted, in. the board's favor, that expense
of alterations to the building have been kept to a
minimum through the use of materials already on
hand and by the work of the arena manager.
Although some efforts in the past have not
proven successful, the board might continue its at-
tempts to alleviate its financial problems by planning
- a series of special promotions throughout the year.
Local service clubs could assist considerably in this
program. The co-operation of all citizens is essential;
the arena cannot be kept on its feet solely by a
board of seven persons,
* *
• , We are pleased to note that the township of
: Stephen no longer assesses fire victims within its
borders with the cost of brigade services. Now such
expenses are shared by all of the ratepayers. It's the
. neighborly thing to do—and let it not be claimed
that such spirit does not exist in the rural areas.
• * * * *
The town of St. Marys is experimenting with
something akin to the town manager system of m,uni-
, Opal government and this test should be watched
with interest by other municipalities in'this area.
While it may not prove to be the answer, this
system does have some advantages which are appeal-
ing. It puts control of the public works staff under
one man; relieves elected officials of considerable
leg work for which they are not paid.
In Exeter, for example, there are times when,
the public works crew must be sorely tried attempt-
' ing to carry out the wishes of numerous committees
• Which requests its Assistance. Councillors, aoting as
chairmen of roads, drains, sidewalks, parks, garbage
collection, etc., all deal individually with the crew,
a complicated system which mutt lead to confusion
at times.
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Next week we take our holt- The day before I was to go
days. Big Deal, A whole week. both brats developed runny nose
Personally. my idea of a real and slight fevers, That was in
holiday would be to come down the days before Salk vaccine,,
and hang around the office all and it was made quite clear to
week, hugging the beautifule inner me that if 1 went, I wouldn't even
knowledge that there was no be home for the funeral, when
paper to publish on Thursday. they both died of polio.
But my solicitous family will So the trip was cancelled. The
have no part of anything as sim, little devils were in bed for one
ple as that. The best is none. too day and up the next, fully re
good for dear old Dad. My wife covered. To make up for the
is determined that I'm going to hardships they'd been through,
get away from it all and get rid Dad was delegated to take them
of all any tension and junk like to the; Ex. Have you ever spent
that. I'm going to have a real your holidays trudging around
holiday. the CNE ground in the heat,
* 0 4, I being pulled simultaneously in
"You've been working hard in opposite directions by a kid on
that heat all summer," she says. each arm? •
"Now don't you. worry about the Where was Mom? Well, it just
kids and me. We've been on. hole happened that an old friend of
days since school stopped- You hers was spending that week at
never get a break. This year, a swanky resort, and wanted
you plan to do just whatever you company,so Momwas sitting
want to." around in a brand new $1$
* bathing suit beside the pool at a
* * *
"Yes, poor old Daddy," says posh summer hotel, thinking how
nics it was for Dad to have a
Kim. "We go swimming nearly chance to really "get to kaow
every day, and he has to work."
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And Hugh chimes in with his the children" on. his holidays,
sympathetic: "Yeah, Dad, you
sure work a lot, don't you? You wummmummunmum""mn""m" iiiiiiiii we
hardly ever have time for any. •
Why don't you have a really News Of Your
good holiday?"
* * * * a
This used to 'touch nee deeplY. i LIBRARY
"How thoughtful they are," 'I 3 , •
-would think, "how sweet."••The • By MRS. J. A. S.
tears would swell up in my eyes
and I'd get a big Jump in my Heading the list of most read
throat as I realized how lucky 1 fiction books in the Toronto le
was to have this unselfish, loving braries for July iss
trio for a family.. ; ' . ••
e * *-•• ea Centenary At Jalna
That was the first couple of
times they went into this song -
and -dance. Now I just emit a
loud, resonant snort and snarl:
"Sure! Sure! Poor old Dad. I
hope you've got your lists drawn
up for all the places you want
me to take you on MY hole
days." ish army, Renny is the dominant
le * * * member of the family,
I burn with shame when I re- The book is largely centred
collect what a. wide-eyed inno- around his efforts to mark the
cent I was the first time my wife centenary by the marriage of
pulled that "you do whatever You his daughter; Adeline, to Philip,
want after all it's YOUR has son of his half brother.:
day" routine. I took her lite- Thus the Whiteoaks of Jalna
rally. I made plans to fish, golf, move on against the background
lie around and read a little, and of their old home still holding the
do a lot of eating and drinking I interest of the readers with their
normally haen.'t time to enjoy. bickerings, sorrows, excitements
* * * * and sub -plots. At the end they
are united despite their differ-
ences at the celebrations for the
centenary of Jalna and the wed-
ding of the namesakes of its
founders.
This is the 1.5th book in the
celebrated Jalna series written
by Mazo de la Roche. As the
time comes to celebrate the cen-
tenary of the building of the fam-
ily home, named after a station
in India where the original Phi-
lip was posted while in the Brit -
"Well," she' began with 'oral -
nous calm, as I revealed these
crazy ideas, "if you want to be
an absolute selfish' pig and run
around enjoying yourself and
leave me stuck here with the
kids who haven't given me a
minute's peace all summer, why
go right aheal. Go right ahead.
4. * *
That year, I recall, I had a
dandy holiday, taking the kids on
jolly outing, .getting their meals
and looking all over town for
them to get them to bed, while
their mother spent a few days
in the city, roughing it at the
Royal York.
Aku-Aku by Thor kleyerdahl
which we mentioned in this col-
umn last week is the second
highest in general hooks read
in the Toronto libraries last
month and Inside Russia by
John Gunther reviewed some
weeks ago is tha most read book
that is not fiction,
* •
John Black Of Old Kildonan
John Black was born Scot-
* * * * land in 1818 and emigrated to
Next year, when I got the America with his parents' and
"Poor old Dad working so hard" completed his studies for the
waltz, before holidays, I was a Ministry at Knox College, Tor -
little cagier. 1 asked the Old onto. He went at once to the Red
Girl where she wanted to go this River Settlement and was in
Year. "Nowhere et all," she said. charge or the church at Koirlan
"MI 1 want is for you to have r until his death in 1882,
good rest and enjoy yourself." KnOwn as "The Apostle of the
So I planeed a week's fishing Red River" he knew intimately
trip, with some friends, about all those who helped build the
180 miles from home and loved West during that generation,
ones. , Many of their stories are told in
ald Time ke Houses
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Gra ual y
Disappear
had 1114C1l to do with the success
of the, ice harvest. During a mild
winter there would be specula -
ton as to whether the ice would
be thick enough to be worth liar -
vesting,
When the time of harvest was
reached the men would go to the
river and with a crosscut saw
with one handle, cut the ice into
blocks, haul them from the river
to he packed away one layer
after another iii the ice house.
When the required supply was
carefully packed away it was
surrounded with a fairly heavy
layer of sawdust and this usually
kept the ice in good condition
right up until the last. The ice
was paid for at so much a -cord.
In getting out the ice from the
ice house it was sometimes diffis
cult to locate just where the last
chunk had been removed as it
had to be taken out layer after
layer. Then there was the water
trough or bucket, in 'which the
ice was washed and cleaned and
ready for use.
In the making of ice cream
which was all done locally the
ice was cracked up,, salt was
added to hasten the freezing and
the ice packed around the can
containing the cream. Inside was
a dash that as the cream froze
on the side of the can it was
eeraped off until all was proper -
y frozen. Then the dash was re.
moved and the ice cream scraped
from the stasis and it was ready
for serving. At, first the freezer
was turned by hand, then. in"
gasoline motor and with electre
.city supplyingthe power larger
unitsi
wereinstalled and the
making of ice cream became a •
commercial enterprise.
One of the things that is rapid.
ly disappearing with the march
of civilisation is the old time ice
aouee, 1 was reminded of this
when recalling the fire of 1020
when two ice hooses were dam-
aged by the fire.
Artificial refrigeration 4s .one
of the more modern inventions.
and is practically a must in ell
up-to-date homes. When we first
put a refrigerator in our home
we considered it a boom for, the
housewife and as rnora and more
improvements were made and
a freezer compartment was
added it seems as though the ulo
timate has been achieved for
this kind of household appliance.
1 have known people who have
traded in their old refrigerators
for the one reason that they could
not keep ire cream satisfactorily
in the old.
What would grandmother have
thought of such an excuse?
But spea'king of ice houses.
Nearly every establishment
where produce was kept in the
old days had their own ice
house. This was true of hotels,
butcher shops, restaurants where
they made their own ice cream,
creameries and private indivi-
duals who stored the ice for atm-
mercial sale and made regular
deliveries to the old-fashioned ice
boxes.
The ice house, was a small
building well insulated witkt saw -
duet. The ice harvest came in
,winter when it was -considered
that the ice had formed on river
or creek at the most desirable
spot and to ,a thickness of from.
nine to twelve inches. Just like
every other crop the weather
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50 YEARS AGO ' ' has . accepted a position fn 'the.
Office of the Times•Advocate,
council the cemetery board was word that her son, Cpl., Douglas
At the meeting of Exeter Mrs. Florence Gould received
authorized to build a new iron Gould is in hospital in England
fence with posts set in cement suffering with a broken leg,
around the cemetery, Rev. M. A: Hunt invited the
The flax mill at Shipka corn- town council to attend a service
ntenced running last week. of intercession and thanksgiving
Rev. S. Swan of Fullerton and in Trivitt Memorial church on
Rev, A. E. Fear of Main Street Sunday, September 5. The invi-
church will exchange pulpits Cation was accepted.
next Sabbath. The second blood donars clinic
In order to cover the course held in Exeter will be held early
for Senior Leaving or First-class in September — the first clinic
certificate the Exeter Public was held Juno 26.
School Board have secured the 10 YEAR t' AGO
services of a B.A. graduate of .
Toronto University as principal— R.us Snell slid Ken Hockey
for the corning year. - were winners of the new trophy
One of Middlesex's earliest set- donated by the Jones MacNaugh-
tiers in the person of William ton Seeds Coe also a suit. of
Ryan 'died on Saturday at the clothes or • topcoat in a scotch
age of 90 years, For 40 years
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he kept hotel .at Elginfield, then greensoublev\troeudrinleasmdaeyn.1 on. the local
known as Ryan's Corners, - The hay and straw haler owned
25 YEARS AGO by the Jarrott. brothers, Klippen,
was partly destroyed by fire on
It is the intention of the Exe- Monday.
ter High School Board to add a Murray May, representing
course in Bookkeeping in Form Exeter High School left Wecines-
1 to be taught by Miss A Brown. day for. Longford Mills on Lake
Miss Adeline Stone and Miss Couchicling to attend an athle-
Gladys Ryckman left last week tic leaders' camp.
to take a business course at Wes- The interior of • Shipka Public
tervelt Business College, Lon- School is being remodelled, ,
don. . . At a .meeting, of the, Chamber
The Exeter library . will re-, of Commerce in the Town Hall
open on Monday, . August 28; the the raising of the status of Exe-
librarian Mrs. Gidley, Is at pre- ter .from a village to a town was
sent on vacation. stiiscussed.
Miss Ina Harding of Middle- ' Crown Attorney D. E. Holmes,
ton's Bakery is on vacation. X.C., of Goderich has received
The Exeter tennis team visited word of his ,appointnient as mag -
the Clinton team on Wednesday. istrate of Huron County succeed -
Mr. James O'Brien has a gla- ing the late James Morley. .
diolus of the Leon Douglas var-•
iety that is 65 inches tall and is
bearing 19 blooms,
15 YEARS AGO
Murray Moore and Alvin Lin-
denfield graduated frone No, 4
Air Observers School at Crum-
lin this week.
Captain D. S. Gladman, for-
merly of Exeter, now with the
Canadian Fusiliers. was one of
the military officers with the
five Canadian regiments which
landed on Kiska in the Mentian
Islands. The occupation of Kiska
was announced from Ottawa on
Saturday.
Mrs, Robert Elliott of Exeter
this book.
The book was written by Mrs.:
Olive Moe %Nilo graduated froin
the University of Manitoba end
married a teecher in Winnipeg.
She has been writing for the
past 15 years andhas dont con-
siderable research for this book.
Gond Readirig Froin Your
Library,
Former Teacher
Returns Horne
Miss Virginia Deithert, daugh-
ter of Mr. and Mre.-Peter Deich-
ert, Zurich, and a former teacher
at Exeter Public School, returned
to her home after spending..one
year in Rocky Mount, North
Carolina, as all asseciate. in
deaconess service.
Her primary work was teach-
ing in the parish kindeegarten,
She also participated in many
other parish activities.
Miss Ddichert IA now planning
to teach grade two in Waterloo,
Ontario,. She is vititing at her
home at present,
Canadian Women first voted in
Ontario in 1884, but is was in
ntunioipal elections only and only
eiddows and spinsters got the
ballet,
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