HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1962-08-23, Page 4the family. Getting a feckless
11-year-old ready to go away
for two weeks is 4luite an ex.
perience. And the parting is hor-
rible. When we saw our baby,
who had never been out from
under the wing, taking off in a
boat from the town dock, with
a lot of wild-eyed little girls,
we had a desperate, sinking
feeling.
It v asn t unprot ed much by
her first letter from which
quote "La,,t night I brought
up ail oxer the floor .five times,
hut today I managed to get out
In time. e got the flu and
am having, a terrible time.
nigh! now I'm in my cabin all
alone n- mg. I want to come
home. X X X 0 0 0. Love, Kim.
P.S,—I hope you are both hav-
ing a good time, .but I don't
suppose y ou are. Don't norry
about my pain. him."
* * *
Her old lady nearly lost her
marbles in the next few days.
We couldn't phone or get, in
touch. There was nothmg to do
but sweat it out, with the vision
of the child dymg on that God-
forsaken island. Et Qry time the
telephone or doorbell rang, we
tened hlic spastics, positive it
was the undertaker.
Then came the second letter..
from which quote bus,
can dive I got my first
had today Last night tit had an
Indian ceremony where et cry.
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JOTTINGS BY JMS
Thomas Elliott, The McCallum
home still stands.
On the north bank of the river
WAS the original Presbyterian
Church replaced about 00 years
ago by Caven • Presbyterian
Church on Main Street,
North of the bridge was the
original Verity foundry which
was later moved south to Wel-
lington street and finally to
Brantford where it became an
important branch of the Massey-
rris company of which Mr,
William Verity rose to become
the superintendent
At the north end corner where
the II, L. Gibson gas station
now stands, then known as
Francistown, was the 100 -foot
hotel and store, The hotel was
owned by Towers and later by
Abel Waiper. The store was
riled by Trick R. Currency. A
son of Mr. Currency turned out
to be one of Exeter's famous
sons, He was Charles T. Ctn.,
relley, founder and curator of
the Ontario Museuin in Toronto,
and author of the book, "I
Brought the Ages Home". A
copy of the book is now in the
Exeter Public Library. When I
read this book I marvelled at
the recollections the writer had
of his early life in town,
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Consumer prices, already edging up under
the impact of a discount dollar that makes all im-
ports more expensive, may rise between 2% - 3%
during the closing months of the year as the full
effects of the surcharges on imports work through
the economy.
By contrast: The cost of living held re-
markably steady through 1961 and into spring
1962. Industrial materials at 'wholesale prices,
many of which are imported, may well, as a group,
advance by at least 2% before year-end, sharpen-
ing the pinch on profit margins in a number of
industries.
The rise, which began at the time the Can-
adian dollar started to drop in earnest has brought
industrial material prices up almost 6% in a little,
more than a year and back up -to 1957 levels. Fart
of this reflects broadening business activity associ-
ated with the current expansion, But further and
perhaps substantial increases can be expected as
surcharges add significantly .to. import costs,
,eliateker.*Aff-itie:
dispensed by Bill Smiley
body dressed up as an Indian. looked great, Part way by
Pickles took me under her steamboat, part way '.by rail.
blanket and now I am an Old We could just manage it, if
Camper. I have been worried the banker was in a good mood,
about Piper and the kittens. I Then my wife took the pencil.
hope they don't go away before By the time she had finished,
I get hack, This week is going the cost of the trip had doubled.
much faster than the first, week I'd neglected to include several
and .pretty soon it's going to be days of hotel accommodation,
over.. I hope we can afford a the convention fees, new clothes
month next year but that's too for the gang, and board at the
much to ask, I'd certainly ap- vet's for one eat, one kitten,
predate some eats — a lot, one dog. Right now, it loOks as
Hope you're having • a good though the big deal this sum.
time, because I certainly am," met will he a five-day motor
Not a word a bou t h er ill ness, trip, lurching front one set of
Not a mention of her pain. Her relatives to another, for sleep-
mother could have beaten her. mg quarters.
Even that, as I know per-
fectly well, will fall through,
Kids are a real millstone because one of the kids will get
around the neck when you're sick, or the old eat• will de,
planning a holiday trip. When velop the heaves, or the Old
they're small, you can't leave Battleaxe will get in one of her
them e and it's too much trouble moods. However, it's nice to
to take lion,. When they're have the whole crew — dogs,
medium-sized, it'S too much eatS and kids -- Under °M. roof
trouble to get them ready and again, alter a mixed.up sum-
it almost doubles your costs; mer, and if 1 can manage to
When they're big, they wouldn't sneak away for whole day's
be caught dead on a trUMby fishing without having to take
trip with their parents. anybody, or be home sharp at
Both our kids have had a six for dinner, I'll reckon :I've
had a pretty good suntrrer ye- good holiday this summer. 'rlie
old lady and I. haven't been cation.
anywhere or done anything. The
other day, I got out the folders What hotel! The wads are
and started figuring out a 'trip so thin they have to buy saw-
to the newspaper convention in dust to keep the termites .from
tkInnipeg, for the four of us. It starving.
tr4f4-'' %yr. em ft. :,revfl'e -moat stot
.1'in your heighb44 Stott
As the "Times" go by
HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE T.A. FILES
50 YEARS AGO
At the second annual tourna-
moil of the Exeter Bowling
Club held. Wednesday, Thurs-
day and Friday of last week 14
rinks entered and C, A, Mepon-
Hensall, won the S. G, Raw.
den, trophy,
Reeve Petty and the citizens
of Heiman together with the.
band gave t Skip McDowell a
hearty reception on their return
Mine after winning the Baw-
den. trophy..
Ticketed for the West on Fri-
-day are: Mr. and Mrs, bred
Luxton„ Air, and Mrs. Alex flow,
Miss Lyda Oke, Charles Dew,
Ezra Willert, Percy and Norm-
an Passmore, Mr. and Mrs,
Prank WiclVire, Robert Bilk*.
The rural mail routes for the
Township of ,Ushorne which
have toit under consideration
bye the Deihl:Men Government
officials,
and
now definite
Shape and VIII be eaitted Out.
Oen.
2S YEARS AGO
Ontario stall go to the polls m
the provincial. to be
held October 6. The, above
netuiteitient Made W. Pre-
niter lit. P. Hepburn following
three-bout counsel With his ea-
binet.
At a special meeting of the
municipal. coniteil Tuesday 0, 6-
hittg 40 arrangement with Dr,
W. ,Browhing was confirmed
whereby the municipality would'
purchase a strip of properly
25' ivide hetWeeri..,Dr, Brown,
inn block and Gltdiii411 and
Stanbury's law billet from
Main to Willtani ;Street,
Air Mervin Cuclinere has tilt-
tOsed of his 7l5-acre time
laikeRoad to Tltorria David
trubsels.
„The paving of thit, Blue Water'
Mightily. from St. Joseph to
Grand Lend has been torn.
fileted The highikay from Grand
ten:4,10 GOderich it now in
41611did cOnditteit
15 YEARS AGO
Beginning in September all
schools in the McGillivray area
twill have music instruction un.
der Mr. Rennie, Hensall.
Mr„ and Mrs., J. S, .Fulther
of Brandon, Man.; arrived last
week to take up residence in
Exeter. Alt, Fulch.er is em,
ployed With Jones, MarNaugh-
ten Seed Co. and Airs. Bank
l‘isioitii iiretable, staff of the of
Williaiir Middleton, chairman
of the Exeter Public School
Board, asked council to place
school zone signs .to protect
children using the library base-
ment as a school.
The Ritz Hotel at Baylield
was destroyed by fire Saturday
night, all the guests escaped un-
armed,
10 YEARS AGO
Only landscaping remains to
he done at the new Kirktoti
dam 'built by the Upper Thames
alley Conserx ,atlen Autherity,
Pioneering rn practical nie-
btle is paying off Lot
the Clipper Coach mfg. CO. Ltd.
which opened its plant hi Hen.
sell oil SatUrday, Although it
started only foot years ago in
a double garage at 'Merlon the
firm is already one of ihe lead.
ers of Canada's rolling home in.
dust j*', Air.Norman Martin, a Lon
deli 'optenietrist, has purchased
the Practice of John Orchard
bit Main -Street.
The South Huron hospital As-
sociation it, seeking •applicants
for the positions of hospital
superintendent god Adhunitita-
tor.
Mari. are phi sure
that yert tali tlippert a 14m.
'1 want to ;support yelf,
daughter; the rig of 'yeti will
hate to le shift ..for tilittelVet "
LENIsfax,,,WIVE 11;;;a-rioe
tiaxviNp. anci coo.LING
Grand .Bend sets example for the area
lages In the district put forth. similar .efforts, the
collective accomplishments would, provide 1.n.valti.
able 'benefits to the entire area. •
Exeter Businessmen's Association has been
fairly active in recent years but its efforts have
been somewhat limited, specifically to Christmas
trade campaigns. This yea r it had hoped to provide
stone badly needed parking space in the bUsiness
section but little, if Any, success has Been achieved
to date.
The Lucan Businessmen's Association has
not -eatended itself much beyond soots trade Cam-
paign at Christmas time, nor has the Hensall
Chamber been active recently,
We'd like to SLIgg0,9t, to commercial leaders
in these communities that the successful .Operation
of individual enterprises cannot. alone achieve the
c'csirable developments which make a particular
business area attractive to customers. Nor will it
meet the revolutionary changes taking. place in the
retail field, with emphasis upon the convenience of
a closely-knit variety of stores offering adequate
parking facilities. Neither will individual effort
achieve for the community many of the improve-
ments which are not only possible but also neces-
sary to curtail the urban development trends which
are hurting our rural communities, It takes collect-
ive action and co-operation with municipal councils
and provincial and federal, government agencies to
achieve these things, as the Grand Bend chamber
has demonstrated.
If the Exeter and. Lucan, groups would join
the reputable Chamber of Commerce organization,
and the Hensall group rejuvenate itself, these
bodies along with the. Grand Bend unit could engin-
eer inestimable growth and development for our
entire area. It's an objective that might take pre-
cedence over some of our other activities which
may not now be serving as useful a purpose as
they once did.
It the present planes for the
enlargement and beautification
of Exeter's Riverview Park are
fUlly carried out Exeter will
have something that will be an
everlasting credit to the com-
munity and to the foresight of
the Aux Sauble River Authority,
who along, with the municipal
council are sponsoring its de-
velopment,
The park during the past few
years has been growing in
favor. and, each summer more
and more family gatherings
have been utilizing the privi-
leges provided.
Recently the Frayne property
was taken over and the resi-
dence is now being shared by
the Aux. Satiate River Authority
office and the office of Mr, John
Goman, public school inspector.
Negotiations are under way
to purchase the properties ad-
joining the river bank from
Main Street cast to the present
park and to provide more and
better facilities that should at-
tract the attention and admira-
tion of the many who pass
through the municipality.
A great improvement has been
made to the river flats by the
town council and a mower pro-
vided to keep the grass cut on
the twin streams between the
dam and the bridge.
A pleasant park, flanking the
river, will be in great contrast
to the activity that at one time
abounded along its bank.
The present public utilities
pumping station was the orig-
inal site of the first grist mill
owned and operated by James
Pickard, when the grain was
ground by revolving stones,
Later it was owned by J. N.
Howard and converted to a
saw mill and afterwards be-
came the home of Exeter's first
electric light plant, owned by
Snell and Tremaine,
Also on the south bank of the
river, east of the bridge, was
the Wanless woollen mill, after-
wards owned by John \luir,
whose family operated the card-
ing and spinning machines.
West of the bridge was a road
leading to McCallum's tannery
and to a mill dam and grist
mill operated by a Mr. Mc-
Lennan, father of Prof. John
McLennan, of Toronto Univer-
sity, who, after a brilliant aca-
demic career, retired to Eng-
land, There was also a Kil-
patrick knitting factory on this
road.
The McCallum tannery st as
demolished over forty ..ears
ago and the .property sold In
Site of first grist mill
"Howard doesn't have to worry about being replaced
by a machine. It would be foolish to invent one that
does absolutely nothing."
S: et Ins "..1.!
l'espite +Alia ittliot he .clasised as- a relatively
cool summer, the kirartri Bend resort has had one
of its best—if not the best— seasns in its history.
One of the reasons. fur ;his .SUCceba, ap-
preciate, has been tli der aluation of the Canodtan
dollar The stimulation of tourist business from
the A has been one of the beneficial effects
of the pegging of the dollar, which was a contro-
versial issue during the June election
Howevei. we believe there's another factor
which has niaue a significant contributicu toward
Grand Bend's increasing popularity. This partial-
Jar factor is one %Ouch has nothing at all 10 do
with external conditions or national it's
a factor created and developed by ngressvie
zeris'in the summer resort itself.
We refer, of course, to Grand Bend's. active
Chamber of Commerce. Over .a number of years
this organization has surmounted not a few ob-
stacles to chalk up an outstanding number of
achievements, almost ad of which have benefitted
the community in one way or another.
The chamber has spearheaded many im-
provements at Grand Bend including the operation
of an information booth, establishment of more
docking facilities, purchase of a beach cleaner, ac-
quisition of new government services, dredging of
the ,harbor, further development of the Pinery
Park, among others.
Its officers have always been conscious of
the .need for community promotion and they have
organized a number of campaigns to advertise the
resort's facilities by newspaper, television and
radio. True, some of the promotional efforts might
be termed failures: nevertheless all have contribut-
ed toward the publicizing of the resort and the
enjoyment of those who have patronized it.
The chamber's major achievement this year
has been the establishment of Grand Bend as the
site for the 1966 International Plowing Match, This
success was the result of the promotion of the
Huron county match in the area last September.
and a well-organized campagin which impressed of-
ficials of the international event.
Twice. at least, the Grand Bend group has
been recognized for its efforts by the Ontario
Chamber of Commerce. Three years ago, the area
chamber won the Gavel award for outstanding
achievement in communities under 3,000 popula-
tion. This past year, it won honorable mention in
the same category,
These achievements have not been easy.
They have been major financial obstacles to over-
come with persistent appeals for support. There
have been the frustrating criticisms of skeptics.
There has been the difficulties of keeping a busi-
neF,:s community, which is individually competitive,
collectively aggressive. A few dedicated officials
have surmounted these problems, common to al-
most all organizations but usually more challenging
in dealing with individuals in the business world.
These officers and the staunch members who have
supported their efforts can be proud of their con-
tdbiltions. They can take a great deal of credit for
the summer resort's growing 'popularity.
The success of the Grand. Bend Chamber of
Commerce should serve as an example to other
community organizations in this area which have
similar objectives. If each of the towns and vil-
ugar and Spice
Summer is running past with
the feverish anmety of a horse
pla7'er heading for the wicket
with a hot lip
We've had so man. %isnot.,
`bat P.o spent more time in
Jte supermarket and the liquor
store. than I have in my own
house How c' er. it hasn't been
all one-w a traffic. We've. picked
sip a rues lot of loot from the
quarts Total haul hat been; a
haa-bottle of Pinim.s.' Nn is one
alarm-clock: one pair dark
glasses; one box .11g.saw put-
zees for age six In 113; several
combs', one pair lady s pants.
In addition. we managed to un-
load one kitten from our last
batch
* * *
'Our claugitter has been to
ramp for the First tint in her
de.. and that produced enough
errscs to keep !lungs in
:tie -s been tekirg crimp z•iflee
InUT .kr.d rile day in Ap-
rii. the came home from school
and 77?iared. 'Do yttu 'snow what
I air. 'Mem? i in tact a freak!"
Her in other absentmindedly
-asked why -Brcause I can't
ride a bike and IA c neter been
tc. eairp'''' she snorted. Appar-
erl;it these are tatus mbols
211 pre-tear set. 11.1;,t as frac-
ture.toards in tviri beds arc
for the pre.middicageci set
Well, she s got a bike for her
birthday, and now has been to
temp, so nice to .report that
we've got rid of one freak in
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