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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1970-10-15, Page 9October 1$, 1974 Time-AdYocate, Noe Build your own home on your own lot, easy as 1, 2. 3. You'll love the modern, colonial touches. Large bay picture window and wide overhanging eaves, Living room and kitchen-dining room, mahogany panelled. 15-YEAR, LIFE-INSURED MORTGAGES AVAILABLE NOW Save I Copp will build it too, right on your foundation for just $1,200 for main structure, or $1,440 complete. Contract your own wiring, heating and plumbing, The mortgage covers everything in the kit and any extras you wish frorn . • • PLYING HIS CRAFT OF NEEDLEPOINT — L. V. Hogarth is preparing to show some of his intricate work at the Carlow Christmas Fair next Wednesday and Saturday. Mrs. Hogarth holds one of the many chair seat covers he will display and sell. There will be a large range of arts and crafts at the Fair which is held to encourage craftsmen of the area. 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So greedy are we for money, and so concerned that business be conducted for our pleasure and convenience that Thanksgiving has become a day for store owners in the large centres to 'thankfully' listen to the nice jingle of their cash registers and customers are `grateful' they have the opportunity to shop on their day off. Not even for one day could they stay off the roads and not add more pollution to the already poison saturated air. Will we ever learn? Dr. Arthur Porter, a scientist and authority on pollution, speaking at Centralia College last week, warned his listeners if society is going to stop the murder of our environment it is going to have to pay a price. We are going to have to start asking ourselves how much profit a venture will make us, and consider instead, how much bad effect it will have on our environment. He pointed out one of the major problems of pollution is the generation of electricity. About 100 horse power is used per day per person, and by the end of this century, with increased population, four times more will be generated than now. As it is now 100,000,000 tons of sulphur dioxide are the great economy; there was not waste. Food was cheap .... beef sold for 10 cents per pound; chickens, five cents; turkeys, seven cents; a loaf of bread, five cents, and milk was five cents a quart. "Shoes were made by shoemakers from hides stripped from the farmer's beasts and tanned by the local tanner. Wool, purchased from the farmers was woven into blankets and yard goods at the woollen factory The social life centred around the churches." Well, you've got to admit we've changed, but not to the extent of the big cities. In 100 years we haven't even doubled our population, and we are certainly still greatly dependent upon our agricultural cohorts of the district. Perhaps this lack of phenomenal growth or change is our saving grace. For may years our city cousins have laughed at us for living 'in the sticks,' but we have the laugh on them at present with no smog, little air pollution and beautiful, clear Lake Huron to swim in during the summer. Recently, I heard of a man in Huron County who was offered ten dollars a week more to take a job in Toronto. "No way," he replied emphatically. Yes, we are the lucky ones now but the cataclysm of pollution sweeps ever closer. Now is the time to join forces in our community and fight against this predator which seeks breath and blood of future generations. poured into the hemisphere and by the year 2000 one billion tons of the deadly gas will be dispensed each day. Dr. Porter stressed our standard of living will have to drop and we will have to be prepared to give up some of the luxuries we think so necessary to our survival. The use of many of these conveniences are simply spelling out a death warrant for our grandchildren. Scientists have been saying this for years but who really listens? I wonder if we will ever be shrewd enough to plan a Thanksgiving Day when no business or industry will be conducted and be smart enough to be thankful that for just one day the pollution index might drop to almost nil. * * * There's a book in the Exeter library called, 'I Brought the Ages Home.' written by the first curator of the Royal Ontario Museum, Charles Trick Currelly, who was raised in Exeter until his early teens. It's an interesting book which deals mainly with Mr. Currelly's adventures and problems of equipping Toronto's world renowned museum. However, I was especially fascinated by the first chapter in which he speaks of the Exeter of almost 100 years ago. Here is how he describes it, in part, "Exeter at that time was a village of about 2000, a mile and quarter long with two or three streets on each side of its Main Street .. . . The comfort of the population was largely due to 7/e t.asuss NEW HOME? W .-0)1 BUILDING A WHAT A FAMILY TREA1,1 CALL US NOW WELL) INSTALL A PERFECT HEAT' brought their best produce and their wives vied each other with their handwork. These fairs continued until 1894 when an Agricultural Society was formed in Goderich. In 1966 the fair was revived by a group of craftsmen who put on a sale of local crafts for people looking for Christmas gifts. It was a success and this year is the fifth sale to be held which now attracts interested people from as far away as Toronto and Michigan. The object of the Fair is to promote the work of the local craftsmen who make an important contribution to our culture. This year Dried Apply Artistry will be one of the main features at the Fair, along with the animal wood carvings of Stuart Taylor of Nile. L. V. Hogarth, Senior Street, will be showing his craft of needlepoint at The Christmas County Fair at Carlow next Wednesday and Saturday from 2:00 to 9:00 p.m. Mr. Hogarth learned to do this intricate work while lying on his back in the old Christy Street Hospital in Toronto after the First World War. Recovering from a back injury which kept him in a cast for five years he learned how to manipulate his needle by looking in a mirror. Since then, and especially in the last fewyears, he has turned out myriads of beautiful work and will have many seat covers in floral pattern in several shades on display at the Carlow Fair. The first Country Fair held at Carlow was in 1871. Farmers Jerry Arnold & Sons ESSO HOME HEAT SERVICE RR 2 DASHWOOD 238.2649 Exeter man to exhibit at Carlow Christmas fair re Mothers Bros. Limited Exeter-, Ontario. 136 Main Street N. Telephone 235-1525 iimmemenumemommummamminimm ommuom miummummineft