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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1976-02-26, Page 6SALE • Swags • Table Lamps , • Pole Lamps • Fixtures of all kinds Ainsley, Royal Albert China Waterford Crystal HOTSON LIGHTING 1 Mile North Grand Bend Hwy. 21 238-8240 * Dresses * Pant Suits * Blouses * Sweaters * All Weather Coats by Irving Posluns * Men's Leisure Suits * Men's Polyester Shirts See our latest shipment of New Spring Styles Let us show you our newest range of up- to-the minute spring fashions — Choose from exciting selections of — LIQUID ilie DERGENT 32 oz 99 4 Sliced or Piece ,.95( 1 lb. Vac Pack ,b.85' Schneiders Blue Ribbon Bologna Maple Leaf Wieners GIVES YOU. OLD-FASHIONED SERVICE . . . AT THE LOWEST POSSIBLE PRICES. .Look At These Values I Blue Bonnet 3 lb. Carton sN MARGARINE $1 .44 INST NAsilei oiliFFEE 1 .73 Bee Hive Gold— CORN SYRUP 2 lb. Tin 594 ox SUNLIGHT5'lbliETERGENT X1 .95 235-0212 Picnic Shoulders Devon Brand Sliced Side Bacon lb. 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Vac Pack $ a Oft Sausage lb. 1.09 LAY All Beef Maple Leaf S.-P. Cottage 1,389c Rolls 3 lb Average lb . 1 039 Del Monte FANCY PEAS looz. Leavers Pieces & Stems 20 oz. 79' 89' Product of U.S.A. Tasty Crisp RADISH mommoraft Frying Chickens Maple Leaf Ready To Eat Smoked Fresh Gracle "A" 3 lb. Average lb. 79' Page 6 Times-Advocate, February 26, 1976 By ELAINE TOWNSHEND Real life in the catalogue Readers write grades 4-6, Teresa Morrison, 2nd, grades 4.6, presenting awards, Mr, C. Murray, member of Exeter Legion Executive Donna Voerman, 2nd, Junior Essay and Kelly Tiedemafi, 1st, Junior Essay. photo by Y. Rornaniuk Great evangelists, barrooms of the past The demise of the Eaton Catalogue brought a flood of reminisence from Canadians. On a cross-country radio talk show, author W. 0. Mitchell pointed out a facet of the catalogue that we'll all miss. The pictures portray scenes from real life; each book contains drama and comedy. Browse through your Eaton's spring and summer catalogue. How many stories can you find? A page near the front cover features a lady dressed for a party. She's wearing an elegant long black gown. Some of the following pages reveal the effort she exerted to be able to wear the dress. In the exercise department, she knelt on a tummy trimmer, which simulated push ups. Then she rode a stationary bike; a mental image of the dress kept her pedalling. Next she wondered which girdle to try. She was tempted to ignore them, but her conscience reminded her, "If you want to gel into that dress, you have to get into one of these first." If you study her original picture more closely, you may imagine she's gritting her teeth and groaning, "My girdle is killing me," Many jokes have been cracked about women's girdles. Therefore, it is refreshing to find in the men's section of the catalogue an up-to-date display of their Fruit of the Loom. The styles range from the combination with a cool athletic cross-over to the low-rise arnel brief, that may be worn as un- derwear or as swimwear. Basic white as well as the plain shades of blue, green, gold, red and brown are being invaded by patterns. For the fourth year pupils of Huron Hope School joined with competitors from other South- western Ontario schools to participate in the annual Winter 'Olympics held at the University of Western Ontario. '1111.14Xii; • • • • •••••• Thirty-two students from the Hullett Central School visited the Home Friday afternoon and presented a program arranged by the grade six teacher Mrs. Ingarato and the music teacher Mrs. Bosman. The program consisted of skits, gymnastics, songs and two changes of square dancing. The residents were presented with a valentine which had been made by the students as one of their projects. Mr. Nelson Lear thanked the students and teachers on behalf of the residents. Four new residents were :welcomed to the Home at Mon- day's program; Mrs. Darroch, Mrs. Bell, Mrs. Black, Mrs. Lawson. The Goderich Townshif Women's Institute volunteer$. assisted with activities with music for the afternoon provided by Molly Cox, Mrs. Driver and Norman Speir. The Bluebells from the Clinton area and Albert Craig of Hayfield provided an hour of musical entertainment for "Family Night". The Bluebell singers are Elizabeth Gibson, Barbara and Judy Carter and they provide their own guitar accompaniment. The girls and Albert shared the program ti me and joined together for a sing-a-long. Mrs. Black thanked the entertainers. The Clinton Women's Institute were hosts for the February birthday party and presented gifts to the 21 celebrants. Mrs. Connie Colclough was Emcee for the program which included mouth organ solos and trio numbers by Art Groves, Wat Webster and Tom Deeves, whistling solos by Dora Heard, vocal solos by George Turner, piano accompaniment by Mrs, Radford, and a sing song. Lunch was served to 150 residents and guests and Mrs. Vanderburgh thanked all those responsible for the party. The residents enjoyed the treat of apples on Valentine's Day donated by the Huronview Auxiliary, A design is available to match each man's personality. For example, a patriotic male chooses the maple leaf design. An outdoors' type prefers the autumn leaf number or one of the bold checks or prints. Most ap- propriate for a seaman is the sailboat design. Grandfather's Stanfields never looked like this! Now flip back to the exercise bikes. Do you notice the man in the corner? He's racing over simulated grades and levels on a sporty stationary cycle. He glances at the speedometer. His gleaming eyes warn you he's a champion, leaving his com- petition in a cloud of dust. Can't you hear him roar, "V-room, V-room"? Another fellow, meanwhile, drinks a glass of weight-gaining formula, Then he heaves barbells up to his chin. As he teeters and strains, he mutters, "Steve Austin, eat your heart out!" Even dogs get into the act in the catalogue. A little boy urges his dog, Rex, to beg. But Rex just ignores him and stretches out on the floor. Meanwhile, amid a display of shoes, a hush puppy advises: "You'd look sad too, if you had to sit with these shoes under your nose." Do the sporting and camping sections help you anticipate the fun you'll have this summer? One fiSherman wears hip waders; his companion, who expects more of a challenge from. the fish, chooses chest waders. Women's lib is asserted by the lady, who's hauling a canoe out of a shed. She appears to be enjoying her job, but is she? A camping scene shows a woman and a little girl standing in front of a tent. A man pokes his head through the flaps and seems to assure them, "You can come in now.It won't fall down again." Mr. Mitchell was right. The catalogue is filled with real life stories. Five students got up early Saturday morning in order to meet the bus carrying their friends from Golden , Circle School, Wingham and Queen Elizabeth School',' Goderich. Opening ceremonies were held in Thames Hall. Here the children were greeted by their chaperones for the day. These chaperones accompanied their students to the various events, which in- cluded skating and tobogganing. Competitions were also held in cross country skiing, and snowshoeing. Members of the London Snowmobilers' Association were present to take the students for rides, Each child received a ribbon for competing in an event, Eloise Klungel and Eileen Dekort won medals for skating. A noon meal of hamburgs and french fries wasprovided as well as a drink and do-nuts prior to departure of the buses at 3:30 o'clock. The chaperones from U.W.O. were very enthusiastic and the children spent an enjoyable day with these new friends. Editor's note: Mr. Heywood is a walking history book about Exeter and the area. This week he shares with us just a few of his memories. by Gordon Heywood The great evangelistic services held in James Street Methodist church stand out in my memory. Perhaps because they had a lasting effect on my life. The first one I remember was in November 1907 when that wonderful team of Crosley and Hunter came and preached for 5 weeks. During that time 600 were converted- and went forward and I was one of them, a boy of 16, and I have never been away from church since. They travelled all over the country and 1000's were con- verted by their preaching. Both were great preachers but lots said that Crosley won a lot of people with his beautiful singing voice. He had two or three pieces that he was requested to sing time and time again. Hunter was quite sharp and people used to say that Hunter wielded the knife and Crosley came along after with the soothing balm. Though very different in their get-up they were a great team. During the first week not too many attended; there were more the second, by the third the church was filling up and by the fourth week people were coming in droves by horse and cutter or teams and sleighs from a radius of 12 to 14 miles in cold, cold weather. By the last week the church was packed to the doors and many had to turn around and go back home without ever having got a look inside. I remember during the fifth week, Rev. Hunter asked how many over 60 had been con- verted. Five stood up, my grandfather Heywood was one. Then he asked how many over 50, and a few more stood. Over 40? still more. Over 30? more yet. Finally, how many in their teens and 20's? and biggest crowd of all rose to their feet. Crosley returned alone in 1914, Rev. Hunter having been laid aside with palsy. He stayed for three or four weeks this time and again, 400 more went forward during the services. The last big evangelistic ser- vice took place in 1917 when Johnston and family conducted it for three weeks. They were a very talented family having been on the stage but after coming to the Lord they became evangelists. Three hundred went forward during their services and one of then was a young lad named Andy Boa who became a great preacher for 40 years, He used to come back sometimes for anniversary services at James Street and he always started out by saying, "This is my mother church." He had a photographic mind, never used a note and just stepped out at the side of the pulpit and preached in the wonderful way he had. Those old evangelists really convicted people. They- talked against dancing, card playing, drink and the like. Crosley and Hunter were the means of almost closing up the barrooms. There were about four or five barrooms in Exeter then and there was ,a lot of drinking. Many men spent a lot of time in'them. I remember one old fellow who used to sit around in one all day, When he'd see some new corner entering the bar he'd shuffle up to him and say,'"Say, don't I know Gordon Heywood, xeter historian you?" The fellow would tell him his name and then he'd exclaim, "I knew I knowed you!" and next thing the unsuspecting man would be buying him a drink. He used to sit around the barroom all day drinking like that and never spending a nickle! The barrooms were controlled by politics. Usually during an election one side would go wet and the other would go dry, But I remember one year when both Liberals and Conservatives were wet. I was always a strong Conservative and was ap- proached by the candidate to add my name to the list of 100 signatures he had to get to run. I said, "I'm sorry, Mr , I can't sign that," "Why not?" "Because you've gone wet and I can't go for that. I'm no drinker." Well," he said, "you know you've got to look at the business side of it." I replied, "Well, as I see it, Dear Editor: A few days ago, I read with great interest the account written by Mrs. Ida Dinney. of her memories of how funerals were conducted by her under- taker father at the turn of the century. I was particularly in- terested in her description of how the name plates were in- scribed by hand, because I have in my possession one such name plate, that I beh we many of your Advocate readers would be in- terested in. It is inscribed: "Mary Ryan, died Jany, 15th, 1880, Aged 101 years and 23 days." The inscrip- tion is beautifully written. On the reverse side, one can see where they practised the• capital letters. This name plate came into my possession by an odd chance, just a few months ago. My son saw it in a local mechanic's repair shop, and inquired about it, The man said he found it in a drawer of a dresser he bought at an auc- tion sale, but that he had no knowledge of who this Ryan woman was, My son said he was sure I would know who she was, as that was my maiden name and that I was "always tracing down family history." This Mary Ryan was born at Nenagh, Tipperary, Ireland in 1779. She was Mary Hodgins, a sister of Col. James Hodgins who in 1832 became the first settler in Biddulph Twp. She and her hus- band, Francis Ryan, emigrated in 1835 with their four teenage sons, and settled south of Lucan on the Coursey Line. To-day, her descendants are scattered across Canada. Some still live in this community; many are readers of your newspaper. It is interesting to note that a you've got to look at the right side of it." That was one of the very few times in my life I didn't cast my vote. great-granddaughter, lizabeth Ryan, who is now Mrs. Moore Jones, celebrated her one hun- dredth birthday in Nov. 1975 at Bulyea, Sask. This Elizabeth went to Manitoba by wagon, with her parents as a seven year old child in 1882. Why this name plate was removed from her coffin, I can only surmise. I would guess that one of her sons asked for it as a keepsake. I am not a descendant of this woman myself. (Her husband was my grandfather's uncle). There is an old saying that one is never dead as long as they are remembered, so I hope this little story helps to keep this fine lady's memory alive. Perhaps one of her descendants can ac- count for this name plate not be- ing left on her coffin. Meanwhile, I shall keep it polished, and may it never get mis-placed again. Mrs. Eleanor (Ryan) Erickson Denfield WINNERS — of the 1975-76 Public Speaking Contests were presented with awards at S.H.D.H.S. last Wednesday. Above are the winners in the Public School division. From left to right: Debbie Josephson, 1st, remember Huron Hope competes at London winter Olympics Main St., Exeter F. A. May & Son 11111111111111 (.1 EX 11011.111111 Phone 235-0852