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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1962-05-25, Page 44 The TitTleS'AdY0C4tel, May 25, 1962 -Acivflicii ALL-AGREE COlvE ELECTION TIME IN 115 couNTRY PROMISE THE ELECTORATE SomETIIINQ FOR FREE 1M \N\v\IIAAW \.\ISO\\1;\(.)14;1\1EY BR\5, cci ct comment on the campaign S. • war an dispensed by Bill Smiley B-12, 606 OPFJOlt, it Kir; reoh.n.• $1,4rtairAte§ Ins 1562. World r,ell "'ow would you like to get me ,out of your hair' for eight weeks this summer?" More on Dashwood JOTTINGS BY JMS 5-2. 5 restarts ayarlIests, Ise, LW.' World rithts rsurrest r \\,ft 1 / 441, r-s MOTEL .% ,t 1 "He says, We make camp here., " "You're inviting the Iradbuens over for dinner? What do We have against them?" Did you know? Investors Mutual •is Canada's largest mutual fund with assets at over ! $300,000,000,00 dollars. ye sto r ncitiontm f AK4A.4, 11 ,t4 iiko TEA) Hot,mps, 145 -Peer Park Circle, London pr 4.9502 or Enquire at The Ti 111E4- Advocate tti. Know Ontario better..4 it's ail yours! ONTARIO TRAVEL LITERATURE Mgirto: Ontarliqravd, AM ()anneal Piags,,ThronlO,OniltiO etttlr11-64 Ontario bkailleli of Travel-mid flobilcity Hon, Bryan L, Cathcart, Minialet tr, Vie exact Zinicabbocate Times Established 1873 Advocate Established 1881 Amalgamated 1924 Published Each Thursday Morning At Stratford, Ont. 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All about what a grand celebration the Twenty.fourth used to he; what a pity they've changed the date to the nearest, or farthest, nr something Monday and lost the significance of the original holiday: how the kids nowadays don't have the fun we used, to have on the Twenty-fourth. And all that sort of thing. Fortunately, seeking a little extra background. I asked my wife what she did, when she was a kid, on the glorious Twenty-fourth. "Nothing," she replied. Sadly but sensibly, I realized that what I'd been about to write was pure piffle. There wasn't any great cele- bration on the Twenty-fourth when I was a child. It was just a welcome holiday when everybody in town went fish- ing. Nobody gave two pins for the fact it was Queen Vic• toria's birthday, What's more, kids nowadays have just as much fun as we ever did, except that they're a little more sophisticated ahnut it, Looking hack, all I can remember ahout the Twenty-fourth is my old man hollering, in great excitement: "Get hack there, you kids, dammit, ,..;ef back." as he lighted all the best of the fire- works. Nowarial.s, the kids holler: Get hack there, dad, we know what we're doing." as I dither around the circle. of bodies . heat over a rocket, terrified hut impotent. In the third place. I think it's an excellent idea to move the Twenty-fo irth to the pre- ceding Monday. When a holi- day has no significance in the history or tradition of a nation, at least let's have it fail on a Monday, and make a long weekend of it. Long weekends, if they do nothing else, help reduce the surplus population, as Scrooge put it. The whole conception of holi• days in this country is sorely in need of an overhaul. I'm a great believer in holidays, but ours are as hap-hazard and unreliable as the Canadian weather. 'Under our present setup, they are not only poorly distributed but sadly scanty. Some of our months are fine. In July, for example, we have that great national holi- day that stirs the blood of every Canadian—the First of July. August has that deeply significant day of rest known as Civic Holiday. In Septem- ber, we all quit working on Labor Day. And October con- tains the day in which we all beef heartily about how far we have to drive to see our relatives and guzzle turkey — Thanksgiving. But how about that crumby November? Thirty of the most dismal. depressing days of the year. and not a single holiday to lighten the gloom. Why can't we have a holiday on the second Monday in November and call it Last Call for Storm Windows Day? In December, the picture is brighter, with Christmas, Box- ing Day, and only a week later, New Year's Day.. We need them all, but long, dark and cold loom January and February. without a break in either of them, We should ram a couple of Monday holidays in there. In January, for in- stance, we could celebrate Boy Am I Sick of This Lousy Winter Day. February could be breken up nicely by moving Valen- tine's Day to the nearest Mon. day and calling it Love Day. Last week we printed. the first part of an article on Dashwood written by J. W, Gabriel, This week we reprint, in part, the remainder of the article: in the early years a great many of the farms around Dash- wood were only 25 and 50 acres, with the largest 100 Lcres. To- day they run from NO to 300 acres. A few of the pioneer farmers who settled within a radius of a mile or so of the village are: To the east, Pt, Sweitzer, R. Whiting, Rothfus, Birke, Balk- will, Snell, Kraft, Snider, Heist, Beaver, Rader, Browns; to the west: Grigg, Baker, Pfaff, Sal.- dan, Willert, Wolfe, Domm, Howden, S e Ir rade r, Smith, Brown; to the south: Beirnes, Liedeman, Ferguson, Cunning- ham, McCann, Daw, Filers, Burke; to the north: Gabriel, Bean, Grill, Schoelig, Schroeder, Voelker, Deidrick, Weber, Eck- stein, Thons, Kleinstiver, Reist, Becker, Walpers. The village has been visited by some disastrous fires in the past although the main places were all rebuilt. The Hartleib block, Dashwood Planing Mill, Elsie and Tiedeman butter tub and factory, Elsie's taxidermy and cooper shop, John ,-fall's store, Orth Hotel. and Barn's flax mill at_ the north. end; also flax barn at the south end. Dashwood is noted for its clean and tidy appearance, houses well painted, with fine lawns and flower gardens. Special mention is made of the beautiful flower garden at the west end of the village own- ed by Adolph Morena. This garden is visited by hundreds of tourists passing through here during the summer and is a beauty spot for all flower lovers. The village, of late, is with- out banking facilities. The Sove- reign Bank, located here, failed without loss to the depositors. Then came the famous Farmers Bank which failed and took $85,000 out of this section alone. This went to show the thriftiness of the people. Shortly after the Molsons Bank opened up a branch here hut withdrew and then the Canadian Bank of Com- merce opened :for a few years and withdrew also. 50 YEARS AGO Luther Penhale was elected Noble Grand of Exeter IOOF Lodge No. 67. Secretary is R. N. Creech and .reasurer, E. M. Dignan, Matthew Finkbeiner, Con, 7 Stephen Township, has disposed of his 200-acre farm to Edward Fahner of the same town-ship. The price paid was $11,900, Mr. arid Mrs. Mansell Hod- gins moved into their new resi- dence "Sunnyside" at Harpley last week. Harry F. Either, cow-tan. in- spector at Creditor, has cow-tag quite busy of late enforcing the bylaw. As a result a number were obliged to pay good prices to get their cattle but of potted, Miss Martha Carling, graduate nurse of New York hospital, has ben appointed nurse at Barnard College, New York, at a salary of $90 a month Dashwood celebrated Vittoria Day in a big way. In the morn- ing was a dalithumpian pro- cession headed by Exeter Band in the afternoon were baseball matches and horse races with a conceit, in the. evening: Pro- ceeds amtunted to $310, 25 YEARS AGO Thirty-four places of business in Exeter decided to close Wed- nesday afterPoOnS during June, July and August, Mrs. Frank Gill, 11 tt r o Street, narrowly escaped death by asphyxiation, Harry Cole took her the trail at noon and be- lieving that, something, was wrong, assisted by Dr, Dunlop entered the horn° And found Mrs. Gill in an unconscious con- dition. She aeon revived with fresh it and treatment, Miss Pea rl Wood accompa- nied by her sister, Miss Olive Wood, RN, Toronto, have re- turned from a (rip to Berthtida, l'hey sailed from Montreal And were nine days on the water. Fifty percent at the Bell Tel- ephone poles between Exeter, Creditor and Dasliwood, are being replaced, i arty floffinatt, of b shAveryd was in England attendng the, coronation` of Xing George VI and Queen Elizabeth. He Was a member of the coronation &heir. Witham booker, Zurich, sold expresS Learn or horses to an 'eastern flint for $600.06 Hair cuts 10 cents Looking backward i am re- minded of a good shave for five cents and a hair cut for 10 with a fair cigar thrown in. Times have changed since then and today we have two fine shops and a beauty parlor for the ladies, This village at one time had four tailor shops, but today there are none. "I wonder how many remem• bey the 24th of May celebra- tions, also the 1.2th of July cele-, brations; the cattle sales held once a month at Orth's Hotel yards; the shooting matches for turkeys with rifles and shot-. guns (at targets only) to de- cide the winners; the toboggan slide on the sawdust hill. Those were a few of the pastimes in the early days, Your library By MRS. JMS ..... . The -Guns of August The shock of the opening clash of war in August 1914, and the 30 days of battle which fol- lowed, determined the future course of the First World War and the shape of nations in our time; the tense drama of this August. Barbara the subject of this mag- nificent history "The Guns of Barbara W, Tuchrran is the author of this book and is also the author of Bible and Sword (1956) and The Zimmerman Tel- egram. (1958). After her basic research for this book hut, be- fore beginning to write it, Mrs. Tuchman spent August 1959 tracking 'the German armies front Leige through Belgium and France and travelling over the battle areas of the Arden- nes, Lorraine and Alsace, The German, French, English and Russian General staffs had had their plans for war com- pleted as early as ten years be- fore hostilities began. None. of these plans allowed for the con- tingencies of the others, Yet for perhaps five years before — Please turn to page 5 15 YEARS AGO Clark Fisher was e 1 e et e d DDGM at a district meeting of the Oddfellows. Eight new homes in Exeter are in course of construction. Exeter has joined a baseball league with Centralia, Dash- wood, Lucan and St. Marys, They also joined a softball league with Centralia RCAF, Clinton, Goderich, Seaforth and. Wing]) am . Close to 1,000 fans attended the opening o: the Huron-Perth base-ball season at Dashwood on May 24. Dashwoodi bowed to the Lucan Irish Nine 18 to 3.5. It was the first team fielded by Dashwood in 20 years. Graduation diplomas were presented to the following at the Exeter District High School Commencement in the Exeter arena: honor graduation diplo- mas: June Bierling, Jean Cann,. Phyllis Dougall, Bruce Eick- meier, Peter Fraser, Irene Fink- beiner, Andre s Heinitich, Mar- jory Klopp, Nola Krueger, Wan- da Turkey; graduation diplo- mas, Elsie Bray, Norma Fatly- her, Bruce Glenn, Pat Hay, Etioleen Kuntz, Helen Leslie, Betty MousSeau, Elaine Mitch- ell, Marguerite Pickard, Mar- garet Donald SoUtheott, Ruth Swartz, Alice Taylor 10 YEARS AGO Flames raging through the dense tiinor and bush land at the Pinery S'tnday, threatened dozens of cottages in the beach 0' Pines area, South of Grand Bend, before being brought under control, MAT than 40 Grand Bend firemen and neigh- boring volunteers battled the flames for seven hours. The fire was confined Mostly to grass and leaves and covered about 50 acres, The Lions Club cottage at. Grand Bend is nearing coMple- (ion, A glee club of 125 voices peo,, vided music for the EONS COM- mencement, Principal it, to Sturgis; was the coildtidtor, Jim Patterson, of Hen:MIL was eluded president of the tftirtie County Municipal Ofti,, Association. The ladies t the Grand Bend United Church scrvdd a supper in honor of the 2tyt1i sary of the laying th(5, corner StOrld of the new rellielledieleINSIWESIEWABSI „ Neu, issue rill f.-? C,,1 ',billed JR 0.11100 Cn 0101 1.V Separ4t e Selloots of 13.414 001 51/2% Sexini PehentureS (Non-Callable) Maturities available ;June 1, 1973 to 19$2 Price; 100 and accrued interest to yield 5,50% Coupon debentures in the denomination of $1,000 may be registered as to principal, We, as principals, offer these debentures if, as and when issued and accepted by us, Wood, Go Yid y 4,* CompOny Limited ii. at. P. 11055, RESIDENT mANAGmt 916 irollingon .`.;treet, London Then it's good business to make a orae!BANK loan Those heifers you have your eye on—perhaps the price is a little beyond you. just now. But you don't have to pass up the opportunity. A Sco tiabank Farm Improve- ment Loan could help you buy them right away. Same goes for any other improvements you'd like to make in livestock, buildings or equipment. You're invited -to talk over your problem,with the manager of your nearest branch of The Bank of Nova Scotia. He'll show you how a Scotiabank Farm Improvement Loan can work for you. %Y/f 'e-eaE3FINK THE B19NK OF NOVA SCOTIR A NETWORK OF OFFICES ACROSS CANADA AND ABROAD HEAD FORTHESIGHTS.THELAKES.„THE FUN At present, there isn't a single day set aside for love, which is surely more import. ant than civics, or labor, We could love our neighbors, our wives, our children, our neigh- bors' wives, and anybody else who was in the mood. March and April are rather tricky, because nobody ever seems to know when Easter is going to be. But if Easter came in April, we could have a Monday holiday in March called March Hare Day, We could all go mad with delight at getting through the winter, fling off our outer habiliments, and dance in the streets. In our overshoes and long under- wear, Sort of a carnival ef- fect. t o If Easter came in March, we'd need a special Monday holiday about the middle of April, which is the cruelest month, according to T. S. Smith. We might designate it as April Fuel Day, It would be a suitably joyous occasion, and I have no compunction about bringing it up with an election in the offing, if the government marked it by do. nating a load of fuel, free, to every local citizen, Just enough to carry him through to the First of July, when he can let his furnace out. That takes care of every month but June. Do you real- ize there isn't a single long weekend in June, our most de• lightful month? And one of our busiest months on the highways. Think of the triumph with which our daily papers could trumpet: FIRST JUNE LONG WEEKEND KILLS 108. Yes, we must have a Mon- day holiday in June. What shall we call it? Let's see, June is the month of mar- riages. We could have a na- tional holiday on the second Monday and call it Armistice Day, As the "Times" go by HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE T-A FILES