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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1959-08-27, Page 7R i O Be.lian tobaccc.. . an .started Girsl.gardenf'Th v t r X Grand (This article e red recentlytl in the Toronto Globe and Mall) I:f Your salads taste different a e y, it cou ct be, iecauso the „ vegetables are coming from a 4elatively, new farming .district. And if your like these cage - tables in your salad, youhave a Belgian tobacco grower to thank. The district is the Grand ,Bend• Theclford mucklands — about 35 x.niles northwest .of London and near Lake Huron. The tobacco ,grower is Gerard Vandebushe. An increasing amount of fresh vegetables is eoniuig in:o the Toronto markets from the area, and some produce men think the district some day may rival .the Bradford region. Although the 'Thedford ,area has been known since the late 1800's, Grand Bend's vegetable growing potentialwasn't tapped Until late ntil the l•1940's In: 1997, Gerard, who .had been growing tobacco In the Delhi region, recognized •its pos- sibilities, Ile saw a broad ex- panse of more than 3,200 acres of deep muck which had been Ex MRS. E. 'produced by centuries of rotting vegetation. Part of it was lake, and all of it was marshy. , Gerard had a drain dug to clear ,� 1. the water f rt f a f it land i. 1048Qp o n over two ianmigrant :families front Holland to clear the land and plant crops. , Mare Dutch and Belgian immr- grants were brought in until, in ,1956, most of the original 1,000- facre block had been drained and cleared and brought into pro - i duction. In. 1955,.Lake Smith,. which covered .more of the mtaek land, was drained_ andthis made avail- able another 2,200 acres of or- ganic soil. Part of this .has been brought into production and more is being .cleared and ditched ,every year, The Thedford Marsh, mean- while, had its origins in the ,C 1870 . `h was when � That tthe Can- ada Cut, .a waterway in the area, was made as a .new exit for the I Aux Sable River.1 e dredging of the cut made for i crop production a large section of land north of the village of McGillivray Township Proposed Bus Routes Busses willbe designated by ner and turn east to Lisle Wood - the routes they serve, i.e. the burn, east to corner turning north to ; Woodburn, J. Eagleson, re- trace to corner and turn east to B. Eagleson, C. Smithers, E, Eg- gert, LittIes, .Gordon. Woodburns, Don MacGregor, turn north to Sheppards, retrace to Mellin, Greenlee, on to corner Fred Hicks turn left to Gordon Young, Lyle 'Steeper•, J. Hodgins, east too corner and turn south to J. Eag- leson, G. Hodgins, T. Scott, S. Eagleson, H. Eagleson, W. Eag- Meson, 0. Steeper, to corner turn east to C. Thompson, on to school, - ROUTE NO. 6 • ' School. bus will be at Gordon McNairs at 7;45 proceeding north to Ed. Ovens, Joe Varmesta, north to corner and east to Har- vey Ovens, retrace to corner and north to Miller's, retrace to cor.• ner and turn south to Lloyd Lynn, Jirn Cunningham, Art Cunning- ham, Harold Hardy, Bill Arm- strong, south to corner and. turn west to Ted llotson, Jack Donald- son, turn north at corner to Jack Dorman, retrace to Cameron Dorman, turn west on. 7 con. to Erle :Rees, Erwin McAlpine, west to corner and turn north to Lau- rence Heaman, W. Windsor, Lloyd Windsor, north to corner and turn east to Coward's re- trace and west to Cecil Hartle, retrace to corner and turn north to Grant. Amos, J. Morley, north Lo Kelly Robinson, retrace to E. Morley on to corner and turn west to R. Rowe and to the school, bus on Route No, 1 will be desig- E anted. Bus No, 1, TAKE NOTE Owing to the fact that new busses are being used and new drivers; these busses will run 14 minutes ahead of schedule stated on proposed routes for the first week 1.0 give the drivers an op portunity to get aquainted with the routes, ROUTE NO. 1 School bus will be at Gordon Eaton's• gate at 7:45 o'clock pro- ceeding south Roy Williams; Clandeboye village; south to W Scott; Jack Whitmore Sr. at 8 o'clock proceeding south to James Riddell; Alex' McIntosh; Jack Whitmore Jr.; Francis Lar'ocque; Rae Hodgins; turn west on No. 7 to Orval Dixon; Milt Tweddle; Chas Pedlar; Pete McLean; Don Rock, retrace to corner and turn north 11/4 miles and turn right to W. Loomis; Jack Tweddle; George McEwen; Donald Robin- son, B. Smith; retrace to corner and turn north to C. Neil; R. Ro• hinson. on to corner and turn east to Denno; retrace and west to 14 Con. and turn north to M. Allison and proceedto school.. ROUTE NO. 2 School Bus will be at Clarence Cunningham's gate at 8 o'clock then ,proceed north to corner and turn north to Maurice Morgan's en to Joe Morgan's proceeds north to black' top and turn left to the lith con. and turn north to Otto Darling's F.lorent Bishop, Harold Lee, Ancell Lee, Les Mor- ley, Ken Sholdice, A. Faulder, retrace to cornet turn west to Doug Lewis, Marwood. Prest, re trace to corner turn south to Murray Hamilton, Dort Scott, T. 0. Leary, W. Hamilton to corner ani turn west to Laverne Allison retrace to corner turn south to Harvey Tweddle, A. Wasnidge, Ken Tweddle, James Wright and to the school. ROUTE NO. 3 Schoolbus will. be at George Mercer's gate at 8 o'clock pro- ceeding north to Don Sutherland, Pete Voison, A Hodgson, J. Hodg- son, N. Hodgson, Wes Watson, W. Fenton, H. Fenton, T. Koey, re- trace to corner and turn east to 8, Peterson, D. DeVaies, retrace to corner and turn north to J. Conlin, retrace and sough to'Mur- ray Carter, Andy Thompson, Murray Thompson, C..Cunning- ham, retrace to corner and turn east to Joe Carter, east to No. 4 highway, turn north. to Aitkin's Bros.' retrace and south to Ash- ley's, Beiber's and, south to cor- ner and turn west to George Lee, J, 'Trevi•thick, G. Glenn, L. Da- ley, Joe Amos, and west to school., ROUTE NO. 4 School bus will be at. Wes Mit- ehe11's gate at 8 o'clock proceed- ing south turning west; on. 7 con. to Stan Mollard, Stanley Scott, Ellison Whiting, A 'Hutchison, W. Dixon, west–to SS No.. 12 and turn south. 114 miles andturn west. to Ross MacGregor, retrace to corner and turns north 11/4 to 3. MacGregor, Shie, and east miles turning west on 7 corn. to T. Seoffield's, retrace to Bryden Taylor, Fred Heaman, east to SS No, 12 turning north to Don Allen, Maischoven, north to cor- ner turning east to first corner and turns north to B. Lager - wed and turns west to B. But. lock, retrace to corner turning north to N, Rock, Jan Lager- tverf, northfo corner L, Thomp- son turning east: on 81 highway and south. to Earl Steeper, Bruce Steeper, John Steeper, Milt Wood- burn, Graham Eagleson, follow 81. to Tom Bowman and Moray and east; to McLeods, Filfz, pro- eeed east to (toy Mawson and Lieury" students and on to school, ROUTE NO, I 5chdoi bus will be af G. W. Warrols at 5 minutes to 8 o'clock proceeding. west to J. Rock on to cornet and turn north to B. M. McLinchey, Hutchison, north to No. 18 school and turn West to first corner and turn north to Harvey Eagleson, retrace to cor,- • Phone 102 foe HARVEY'S TAXI AND AMBULANCE ULANC 24,HIO'UR SERVICE gititagigtakiigtOggrttaggitiggiAgiggigitiga e ROUTE NO. 7 School bus will be at W. Laye gate at 8 o'clock, retrace proceed- ing west to Ken McGregor, turn north on 81 highway to Ford Mac- Gregor north to corner and turn east on 7 con. to Norman Mol - lard, Carters, Peppers, W. Rit- chie, east to corner and turn north to John Lay, retrace to cor- ner and turn east to Earl Shad - dick, retrace to cor'ne'r. and turn south to ,Jim Lockhart, retrace to corner and north to black tap turning west to David Reid, Lloyd Durr, west to 18 con. and north to Harold Young, :B. Hod• gins, A. Mawson, north to town line and turn east to Careys and east to 16 con, and turn south to Roy. Thompson, Guthrie 'Reid, Giles Thompson, Art. Thompson, W. Thompson, Glenn, Per r y Thompson to Lieury and east to school. A-1 Used Car Buys at South End Service '59 METEOR. "COUNTRY" SEDAN — 9 -passenger, auto- matic transmission, radio, just like new! '56 FORD FAIRLANE :HARDTOP— continental kit, whitewall tires, black and red, 23,000 miles. '55 CHEVROLET SEDAN — tutone, green. '55 CHEVROLET SEDAN tutone, white and blue. '53 METEOR, SEDAN '533 CHEVROLET* :13EL AIR SEDAN * automatic trans- missib.n, radio, blue and white. A Real Special! '59 AUSTIN HEALY SPRITE Red in eolou.r, ifs a beauty! Retailed for $1.,925 NOW ONLY 51,675 SouIh En Service Noss & Chuck Snell PHONE SSS' EXETER. Fete ,coupts. Bend at Centralia .KE. M E LA _, ff B P Q .N R k FR WRIT Ay News from V.halen Y MRS, FRANKANC SQUIRE E A pleasant evening was spent' Mr. Fr a nk parkins" .and, of the WA. The theme was items Mat the home of Mr. andrs.. Gfenn were in London :Sunday understand the Way , She was arsono t Roy Pask n Mrs. o M a. i ]t i a• bad as ki � a Sunday visitors Mr. and Mrs.' Welland of Cincinnati, Mr. and Mrs. Victor Welland. of Detroit,' Mr. .and Mrs. John ` •W .tt of Clawson, Mich., Miss Tillie Te-, treats of Dashwood, Mr. end Mrs. (toy McAdams and Mr. and Airs. Milton McAdams, all of Zurich. Mr, and Mrs, William. Rendle, accompanied by Mr. and Mrs. John Beaaunont .of London, their sister and brother-in-law, mo- tored to ''Kingston and Ottawa for a few days last week. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Haw- thorne of Willowdate and Air. and Mrs. John Fletcher of Newton-' brook visited with Mr. and Mrs. E. .Keown last week. Thedfor'd. However, farmers apparently didn't appreciate the rich,. block loam. Legends say that farmers, unused to black loam, burned it off to get at the more common• Place earth beneath it, 1t was not until the turn of the century that enterprising farm- ers in the area discovered that they could. grow good celery in the organic soil. - Production of this crop in- creased rapidly. It was a com• mon sight in 'the 20's and 30's to see seven or eight railway cars of celery a day loaded at Medford for shipment to Toron- to and Montreal. Muchof the celei•y grown in the area is now coming from the Grand. Bend marsh.' Almost 70 acres of celery are growing there now. ' Four acres of radishes, 195 acres of lettuce, 13 acres of cab- bage will make a lot of salads for Toronto housewives this sum- Hier. The marshes produce 67 acres of table carrots, and 322 acres for processing into frozen and canned carrots, vegetable soup, etc. They have 322 acres of cook- ing onions in production as well as small acreages of green onions. P'otatoes are the major crop of the marshes, 77 acres being plantedto early spuds and 778 acres to late. In addition, there are great fields of cauliflowers, beets, cu- cumbers, tomatoes and turnips. Both the 'Medford and. Grand Bend marshes have immense cold storage warehouses where the vegetables are inspected, prepared for the market, and in the case of vegetables such as potatoes, held for winter sale. . All told,there are over 2,000 acres in the '1'he•dford-Grand Bend muckland, devoted to the production of vegetables this summer. This is small compared. to the Bradford area which has 8,000 acres in vegetables and which provides most of the vegetables for the Toronto market — for your salads. A little boy, caught in mis- chief, was asked by his mother. "How do you expect to get into heaven?" He thought for a minute the said; "Well, I'll just run in and out and in and out and keep slamming the door till they say, For goodness sake, come in or I stay out! Then I'll go in." * r ,► Sal—"Cantcha ever say any- thing romantic, Slim." Slim—"Shore, g a 1. You're more like a rose than anything I ever smelt." Lloyd Morgan nn SaturdaY when members of the family arranged a surprise dinner party for their. Parents in celebration of their thirty-fifth wedding. anniversary., Those present were Mr. and i Mrs. Robert Wilson and family; of Highgate, Mr. and Mrs. Bur- ton Morgan, St, 'Marys, Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Rundle, Exeter, Mr. i and. Mrs. Norman Morgan and. family, Crediton and Marilyn • I Mrs. Morgan was presented wa h a .floor polisher and Mr. Morgan' with a Masonic ring. and visited with Mr, and :Viral HarrWhite. Harry e Mr. and;Mrs. Ronald quire visited Sunday with Mr. and I i Mrs. Laverne Scott, London Township. Miss Jean Arksey, London,1 spent Sunday with her fathpr,I Mr. George Arksey. Mr. Bussell Parkinson has se-, cepted a position at Walsley Barracks, London. Church news Rev. M, IS, Elston returned. WI theu chi. pulpit in the United Ch r. on Sunday morning to conduct{ the service for thesecond timee' during the minister's vacation. Using as .his text "Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out; of the mouth of God" he deli- vered an interesting sermon, He pointed out that since God created man in his own image, I we must be deeply concerned' about the spiritual side of life as, well as the physical. When God permitted Jesus to be crusified . he made a tremendous sacrifice,! People in the world today should' • riling to enter wnolenearea- ly into the• work of the church, Personal items Mr, and Mrs. Harold Boyle of; Toronto and Mrs, W. Thompson of London were visitors with' Mr. and Mrs, Elmer Wilson and , Mrs, T. :Boyer on Thursday of; last week. Mrs. Lorne Hicks was a dele-; gate to the annual meeting'of the. Federation Women. Tea c h e r s Association of Ontario in Toronto last week. Larry Johnson of London was a weekend visitor with his cou- sin, Richard Shoebottom. Mr, and Mrs. Nelson Bell, Mr, and Mrs, Mac Fraser and Da- vid of Forrester's Falls were weekend guests with Mr. and Mrs, George Hicks. The Bev. Duncan Guest was in St. Thomas over the weekend where he attended the annual 'United Church laymen's confer- ence. Officers elected to the exe-t cutive of which Mr. Guest is hon-' orary president were installed by him at the Saturday evening ses- sion. Mr, and Mrs. Ray Shoebottom and family attended the funeral of the late Harold Armitage in' Arva on Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Grant Martin and family of London were week- end. visitors with Mr. and Mrs. Frank flicks. Judith Martin re -1 m ained with Joanne Hicks for some holidays. Mr. and Mrs. Doug Wilson, Donna May and Jimmy of Strath- .roy were Sunday visitors with Mr. and Mrs. Elmer "Wilson. Mr. and Mrs. I. Macaulay and! daughters have returned to Mon-' treat following a ten-day vaca- tion at the home of Mrs. Macau- lya's parents, Mr. and Mrs. An- drew Hicks, Rev, D. M. Guest will resume his duties in. the United Church on Sunday morning :following his vacation. His sermon subject will. be "A Word From The Cross." Samuel F. B. Morse, who was an eminent painter before he in- vented telegraphy, once asked a physician friend to look at his painting of a man in. death agony. "Well," Morse inquired after the doctor had scrutinized it carefully, "what is ,your opin- ion?" "Malaria," said the. doctor, The Bell Rings in 11 Days! For head -of -the - class -values in Rack to School Clothes, see Walper's, The right boys' apparel priced right that's the .important part about our selection! Every. thing right for every boy. See our choice now , . it's never been better, N ip er s MEN'S WEAR • Mr. .Freeman. Arksey has re- turned home from St. Mary.'s; Memorial Hospitalwhere he was' a patient for a week, His con- dition is improved. Mr. and Mrs. , R a Parkinson are on vacation at P Bala this week. Marshall and Billy Squire re- turned, to .their home at War- ren, Mich,, having spent the' past week with Mr, and Mrs., Norman 1-lodgins and family. Mr, Walter Gunning, Exeter, spent a few days last week with Mr. and Mrs, Laverne Morley. Mrs. Ola Davis and grandson : of Toronto spent a few days with' Mr. and Mrs, William Morley Sr. last week. Mr. and. I.;rs. William French, Laura, Earl and Joe were Sun- day guests of Mr. and. Mrs. Russell Brock, Chiselhurst, Mrs. Ola Davis, Toronto, Mrs. Harvey Squire, Kirkton, and Mr, and Mrs. William Morley Sr. visited at Milverton on Wednes-j day with Mr. and Mrs. Richard' Orr and family. Mr. and Mrs. James Gardiner and family, St, Marys, visited. recently with Mr. and Mrs. Alex Baillie, Mrs, William French, Laura, ,Toe and Kathleen Morley attend- ed a Foresters picnic at Spring- bank Park on. Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Melville Gun- ning and Muriel, also Mr. Wil- fred Herbert and. Mr. Russell Parkinson, were at Belmont Sun- day and spent the day with Mr, and Mrs. William Smith, Mr. and Mrs. Stewart Atkins of Moose Jaw, Sask., were re- cent visitors with Mr. and Mrs. Alton Neil. Carol Johnson holidayedlast• week with her. grandmother,' Mrs, Earl Johnson, of London. Allen Johnson, London, is spend- ing this week with Carol and' Mary Johnson. , Mr. and Mrs. Milne Pullen were on a vacation this last: weekend, taking the boat from Toberrnory to the Manitoulin I Islands. They came home by way of Sudbury and Muskoka, WMS and WA The WMS and WA held their. August meeting on. Thursday evening at Mrs. Gordon John son's home. Mrs. Alton. Neil pre- sided over the WMS. Mrs. Gord- on Johnson led the Scripture; reading, Mrs. William French gave a reading. Each member is asked to do- nate old cotton sheets in Sep- tember for bandages and dress- ings for Korea. Mrs. Duffield was in charge assisted i n the devotionalnti onal b Y Mrs. William Morley Jr. and Mrs. Cecil Squire. Mrs. Ronald Squire Savoured with a flute solo. During the business part of, the meeting, Mrs. William Mor- ley Jr. was in .charge of the sale of articles brought in at thistiisbe mee.tng,Agiftlopur- chased from the Bobby fair for Tommy Simpson who is a patient in. the hospital. A discussion about parsonage affairs and a committee to look after such was Mrs. Finkbeiner, Mrs. A. Neill Mrs. William Marley Jr. and Mrs. C. Squire. t t e. The date for the annual bazaar was set for Friday, November 6.i Each member is asked to hand in a household o seho1d article for the, bazaar at the September meet- ing, Th. 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