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This newspaper belieYea the
right to express' an opinion :In
public contributes tp the pros
eroas of the netball and that it
.must be exercised freely to pre,
serve and Imprevs democratic
govern sent.
Co ngratui atior►s
The Tine -Advocate joins the district ine.-.
'tending congratulations to Zurich Lumber Kings wino
-Won the Ontario Intermediate "C" championship on
Saturday,
The crown 1s a well-deserved honor fora com-
munity which has competed lustily in isporta for many
years. Zurich should bear the title proudly.
It's significant that Zurich's toughest opposi-
• tion this year cane from within the Huroni�Perth
league in a battle against Mitchell for the right to
_Enter provincial competition. Many believe amateur
,sports in,. this area have deteriorated considerably
during recent years but this Should disprove the
notion. d
We trust Zurich's success will encourage all
Comniiznities in the area to continue participation and
to improve their baseball and hockey programs.
The Bali Bounces
Last seek {when Braves were leading the
Yankees three games to one), we wrote an editorial
expressing our sympathy to our sports editor over
.his unfortunate choice of New York in the world
series. We also gloated, just a bit, about the payment
of $2.00 he was going to make to us.
The editorial didn't appear for obvious reasons
rand painful ones for us Yankee -haters.
Now -that we've paid our $2.00 our lesson is
learned. We'll leave the predictions to our sports
editor and try 'to remember that you don't count out
the Yanks until the last putout is Made.
Besides, we should be thinking of weightier
things for this column.
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Now's The Time
Now's the time to start thinking about Candi-
dates for municipal offices -- elections aren't much
more than a month away.
There is little indication yet about changes
' being contemplated by members of district councils
but we expect there will be some. There's always
room for new blood anyway.
What kind of people are needed to run for
office? Suggests The St. Marys Journal -Argus: "Citi-
zens with business experience and possessing the
qualities of leaders are the most wanted. Men and
women are needed who can make decisions without
fear and favor, and who can take criticism, and let
petty jibes pass over their heads:'.'
"Local organizations, merchants and service
clubs," continues the St. Marys editor, "should de•
vote .time to a discussion of the leadership needs of
the c'oinrrfunity, If only one-third of the citizens and
organizations took an active part in seeing that the
list was well filled at nomination time, the difficul-
ties and problems to be faced in 1959 would be on.
the way to being licked before the next year even
approached."
We echo the sentiment. Let's prepare for our
nominations.
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Years ago. a number of busies
ness booster 'campaigns were
conducted with prizes being a-
warded to the lucky conteStants.
I have just run across one that
was held h 1939 and ran for five
weeks from :Septentber :3o to
November 4. It was called the
fall. harvest campaign, and an
outside promoter organized it
with headquarters in a store
op-
posite the post office.
The idea was to secure as
Many votts as possible and the
winner received $300; second
$350 and various prizes fro.ui
$75 dawn to $5.00. For children
under 16, a bicycle and a wrist
watch were given as prizes.
The contest started by giving
et Mar .,Features S;adicee Inc.. wood melts Thr `�+- one vote for each 0 pur"
your. , Xt , chase and 5 votes for every cent
- "What's oil
d Mac.'. ' paid on account, The votes in,
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s test progressed. During the sec -
Sugar
and week 4,000 to 5,000 votes
were given for each mile travel-
led up to 25 miles. By buying
trade cards. which could be used
AND as cash in the participating
stores, the contestant received
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I've been following the recent gether? Think of the welfare
move toward some kind of and missionary work that could
church union with bated breath, be done. Wouldn.'t the tongues
Now that it appecea to be peter- and fingers fly and the tea flow
ing out, as it always does, I'll in gallons? The church would, be
unbate my breath and give you alive with activity and prayer
my opinion of the whole thing. all through the week, not lust
a gloomy sepulchre of a place,
Protestant Clu:istendom Inver- haunted on Sundays by a smat-
iabiy reminds me of the char- tering of bored faithfuls.
20,000 votes for selling a $200
card and 100,000 votes for a $5.00
card.
Votes were given for the col-
lection of junk and this was one
of the biggest rackets of the
whole campaign although the
proceeds from the sale of the
junk were divided between the
Exeter Lions Club and the Can-
adian Legion. Another good point
was that it cleaned up the junk
around town and on -many of the
surrounding farms. The junk vote
schedule was as . follows: one
pound of paper tied or one pound
of magazines.,. 1,000 votes; one
pound of iron or steel or one
atter in aStephen. Leacock * automobile tire, 5,000 votes:
story, who leaped onto his Horse Think of the great thing it pound of household rags, pound
and rode off in all directions. A would be to have all the mini- of lead or zinc or one automo-
Jew knows what he is. He's a sters working together, each do- bile tube, 10,000 votes; pound of
Jew A Puddhist knows he's a ing what he did best, The good copper or brass 15,000 votes;
Buddhist A Catholic knows he's organizer who is no preacher
R.C.would be put to organizing. The
* , * * types with an unlimited toler-
But ask a Protestant Christ- an.ce for tea and sympathy would
ian to what religious faith he be put to visiting parishioners.
subscribes and he'll not say The good speakers could deliver
either "Christian” or, "Protest- good sermons prepared by' the
ant". He'll tell you he's Church good thinkers. The hearty par -
of England. Or Jehovah's Wit- sons could be steered gently into
ness. Or a good Presbyterian leading youth groups and such.
(all Presbyterians are "good" * *
Presbyterians). Or a Latter Day Materially and spiritually, .the
Saint. Or a Hornerite. Or any town would be miles ahead if
one of a myriad of other ,de- all the protestant denominations
nominations and sects. set fire to their present edifices,
threw away all their prejudices.
I know one small town that b nit ane church and set 'out as
boasts of its godliness because Christians to work and worship
it has 10 or 12 churches, all of together.
different denominations, for a • *
population of 2,000. Now this At this juncture, some smart-
night be fine in a 'community of ales is going to ask: "Hoon
2,000 made up entirely of ec• Beller. . yootabee tokken?" With
centric millionaires. Surely it is all clue modesty, I submit my
tiie height of folly in a town of qualifications. I once had perfect
ordinary working people. attendance at Sunday School,
* „ * Before the drink and wild wo-
It is like a- man telling you he men got me, I was president,
has 10 houses, can't afford fur- for four years, of a 3'oung men's
niture for any of them; can't' Bible Class. Since I got married,
heat them, has a devil of a time I have been dragged to church
paying the taxes on them, but on cftlite a 'few occasions when
won't let anybody else liee in the weather was unsuitable for
them because he likes to live In outdoor activities,
any one he has a mind to, and
it's a free country and why
shouldn't he and if he can raise
the money, he's going to build
some more.
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Nowhere has the diversifica-
tion of gospel interpretation run
so rampant as on this continent.
To the countryman there is something of
pathos in the fact many Ontario farms have nary a
horse. To farm boys it is more than pathetic; it is
tragic. Imagine being reared in the country without
having a horse to ride`
Since pioneer days on . the Ontario farm one
of the earliest thrills for a child, ;'as when his father
hoisted him onto the back of a horse. Usually it
would be a large, placid plow -horse. The short little
legs of the child would stick 'out almost at right
angles across the broad back of the steed.
As the boy grew a bit older he would run
out to the field, come dinner or supper time, to be
allowed to ride one of the workhorses in to the barn.
Still later, of course, he would mount a horse at his
own free will, to go get the cows, or just go for a
ride.
A great majority. of the farms didn't boast of
a saddle, so the riding was done bare -back. This was
all right if the horse was .plessantly plump. But the
posteriorpparts soon became sore if a lad had to ride
nag with a high backbone.
To make up for the lack of workhorses on
farms, more than a few farmers keep a pony for
their children. This may all be well -and -good. But
sitting astride a little pony lacks something of the
vantage of being atop a large Pereheron or Clydes•
dale, even if the pony be more nlpible.
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The county wide fund -.raising
pound of aluminum 20,000 votes;
auto wet. .battery 70,000 votes;
auto radiator L'00,000 votes;
pint beer bottles 1:.000 votes;
quarts 2,000 votes. The largest
article brought in was the steam
engine that for years had been
operated by Henry and Arthur
Kestle,
The junk -was ilecl near the
station Yards and amounted to
from 125 to 150 tons and was
sold to harry Joseph for from
$5 to $6 ,a ton.
The Times -Advocate offered
400,000 votes for a new subscriber
and 200,000 votes for a renewal
and many new subscribers were
added to the subscription list.
During the last few days the
votes were going at 500 to the
cent. The Exeter Locker offered -
10 millions votes, the largest in
the campaign, to the contestant
securing the most lockers. Cook's
Grocery offered 157,500 votes for
a 98 -pound" sack of flour.
The total votes for the con-
testants were posted each day.
The final vote was tabulated by
several business men but the
total was never published.
Three days after the contest
closed an amateur contest aiid
dance were held in the Exeter
Arena and the winners were an•
nounced. They were as follows;
Mrs. L. Bender, Dashwood; Wal.
ter Penrose, Exeter; Isaiah Teta
reau, Dashwood;. Mrs. Bert
Selves, Hensall; Mrs. Jim Me.
Keller, Usborne; Silas Reed,
Exeter; Alice Lawson, Exeter;
Karen Pederson, Dashwood; An.
• nie Cox, Exeter; . Mrs. Alvin
Cooper, Usborne; Mrs. Vyrne
Smith, Exeter; Ted Johns, Us-
borne. Elmer Willis won the bi-
cycle and Donald Grant a watch.
In a beauty contest at the
dance the winners were Miss
Regan, of aspen; Miss Ada
Gamer, of Crediton and Miss
Annie Cox, �of Exeter.
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50 YEARS AGO ed president of the Exeter Bad-
,
The nominations for South minion Club for 1943-44,
Huron riding were held in the The Navy League. Committee
Methodist church shed, Hensall, packed 50 ditty bags which have
on Monday. John Slterritt of the been forwarded to Toronto to be
township of Stephen was the delivered to the men of the navy
nominee of the Conservative fpr. Christmas.
party and M. Y. MeLean, Sea- Pte. IV, H. 'Dickey of Elim•
forth, thtat of the Reformers, ville arrived home Monday after
Mr. and. •Mrs, Jacob Haberer, spending two years in England#'
Zurich, lett this week for De Pte. Stewart Cann has been
troit, inhere 14Tr, . Haberer will transferred from England to_
attend the beekeepers' conven- British North Africa.
tion, Tlie third blood, donors clinic .
The canning factory, having is being held in the basement of
finished the pumpkins, has dos- James Street church on Thtus
ed for the season, day. This time both men and
women will be included.
Andrew Carnegie is giving Pte. Gerald Cornish of Camp
Mitchell 56,000 fora public lib -
visite
rary, Several Exeter citizens over whshuleekend• at his home
think this town should mote to-
ward securing • a similar gift. 10 YEARS AGO
Mr. Janes Petty, the founder
of the village of Hensall, died Gerald Regier, 11 -year-old 5o11
on Thursday. He owned the farm ' of Mr, and Mrs. Joseph Regier,
on which• the greater part of Mt. Carmel, died from injuries
Protestantism in North America .campaign hi Huron for the Cana- Hensall is built and, at the time received when he jumped. from a
has become so confuse
d with
democracy that it has developed
more denominations than the
French have political parties.
Now, this is all very well, up
to a point. Freedom to worship
as you please is fine with me,
and if my. next-door neighbour
wants to get up at dawn, go out
in the backyard and hammer
his head an the ground in the
general direction of Mecca, more
power to him.
AWA*DS *rink Nowa Seattle $h1ild, tosf tnrirtt 'Oat
(Cinada), 1951: A. V. hi*lari' Trsphy, AI$eral oafeoller C: fdr
tiewspepers published in. Ontario tewl'a between 1;500 and
4300 poptiietion', 195k '2931, .1456; J.. Oaitlio Jand100.,n Trophy,
Itypographicel ex#eltente (Ontario), 1451'; E. 't, Stephenson
'trdphyr best front pa$e. '(Ontario),. 1956, 1955t„ .All•Gane�r
Insurance. Federetieh net)enel seinetg **era, 1053.
bildettly itstat� te' Clttewutattoti, MtAth S1, 195 31240
SLittatitiTION MATES: Canada $441 Per Peer; USA $5.00
* * * *
But Protestantism was once a
strong mid heady brew, Men
sacrif=iced for it, died for it,
seeking that very freedom. to
worship as' their minds and
hearts directed them, To see it
watered down, ingredients added
or thrown away, watered • and
divided and. diluted until no two
cups taste the same, is like
watching a, vigorous giant of a
youth turn into a quavering, for-
getful old man.
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Think what a fine thing it
would be for a small town to
have one grand, new protestant
church, with a great auditorium
below for community banquets,
drama, presentations and other
gatherings, in place of half a
dozen churches with leaky roofs,
outmoded heating systems and
dingy basements.
Wouldn't it be grand if all the
women's organizations of all the
churches were banded into one
large one, everyone working to-
din National Institute for the London, Huron and Bruce truck on his way to school,
a short of its the Lo ,
Blind has fallen railway was being built, he do- Mr. and Mrs. Mei King were
$6,000 objective but campaign of- nated the land for the station. feted • on the occasion of their
fiolals are hopeful that addition- . Fall ploughing is all but im- silver wedding anniversary.
al donations will help meet the possible owing to the •long -eon -
goal, tinned drought, the R.C,N.A.S. at Esquimalt, Jim Wilson, who has been with
At the 'end of = the campaign 13.C., has been posted to Hali-
period, volunteer workers lead 25 YEARS AGO fax.
collected' $2,071.83 in Huron ,In load of
A refrigeratorcar
Exeter and district, witan-ob- foodstuffs left the Exeter sea- The new pellet mill for pro-
jective of $1,000, campaign chair- clueing pellet feeds now hei,ug
man S. B. Taylor reported done- tion Wednesday for Flaxoombe, erected at Cann's mill is near -
tions totalling $356.30, and Sask„ as the .result of a. recent in.gs completion.
Hensel]. 'and district with an calraugl t !areas oft theoWest the Mrs, Hugh "Tayylor, :of 'Toxon,
objective of 5300, campaign The .Iluronia Male Concert Go. to, formerly of attThames Road,
chairman, William Smith report- with their wives and friends was guest speakeis at the alia01,
ed donations totalling $74. tarere entertained at the home of sectional meeting at Centralia oil
The tri -county objective is their leader, )♦ir, and Mrs. W, Tuesday.
$15,750, but contributions so far R. Goulding. Re -modelling the fronts of the
have only totalled $6,624. Rev. Ay, A. i}oung, pastor, of Jones az ,May store is progress -
Those conducting the campaign Carmel. church, Hensall, was rig'
said that many prospective coli taken to Scott Memorial Hvspit
tributors have yet to send in their al afoll, Saturday,
donations; They were hopeful Tlie5eAnti-Can't
n Branch 'ef the 5..HDH5 Teacher
the contributions would be made U F Y.P.O. met in Dashwood
soon .and the objective reached. Public School on Iitonclay night. r
t till a Win
Exeter community is still . e r
$500 short of its objective, accord Kenneth Wein is president,The Anglican players under Joseph . L. Wooden, SHDIis
ing to the report this week from the direction of Mrs. N, 1J, Wore teacher, has been named a prize
5, B, Taylor, campaign chair- are rehearsing a play, Creepy Winner, of this year's stimliier
man. Crest' school at the University of
Total to date 15 $441,50, and the The large bank barns of Mrs. Western Ontario.
objective is $1,000, J, G. Gardiner. kirkton, were He won the Wilhelmina and J,
The donations by areas are: . destroyed by lightning during Gordon McIntosh prize for first
l;xeter ` ........ 5365,00 the thundersterin early tints- mese In geography 35, valued
Crediton ..„ 19,00 daY niornin . as $20,
Centralia 7,00 The Exeter Tennis Club are
Dashwood .. ,........, 14.00 holding an Arihaiatiee Bance in Did you heat of a numerous
Granton .. , 4.00 the Exeter Opera HottSe en Fri- incident in ,your neighborhood
Woodham31.00 day evening, this week? Other folks like to
Kirkton , .... 1.50
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T. B, B 111), Secretary4'reasurer,
Brucefield, Ontario.
15 YEARS AGO read about it, Phone 770, The
Total 441.50 Miss-Marga.ret Tape was elect• pondent ht your area,
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