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The Exeter Advocate, 1924-11-27, Page 4`h'o Teter Advocate Sanders •x . Creech, Praprietars $1,50 per year in Canada when paid in advance, $2,00 per year may be charged when, not paid in advance., THURSDAY, NOV, 27th, 1924 Crediton Mr. W. H. Brown, whoa has beer. :quite i.li wadi b,tcou poisoning, is beinS nursed back to health again. Mr. Homer Guenther, formerly of the bank here, visited in the village the past week., Mr. Harry Trick, who, is confined. to St, Joseph's Hospital, London, uuder- wen;t an oneratl!oen for the re-setaing of his arm this week, and as now im- proving nicely. • They Bell Telephone construction gang were in, the, village this 'week re- pairing lines and trimming trees before the cold weather seta in. i\3r. Chas. Zw,icker is in Toronto this week on business. Mrs. Wm, Watson and family have returned to their home, atter s'isi,tina her parents, Mr. and 1I fs, Jos, Heist, for a week, Rev. W. E, Donnelly, B,A,, of Exeter will occttpy the pulpit is the Metho- dist Church next Sunday evening, The regular December sneering of the Crediton. Women's Institute has been. 'postponed until Tuesday, Dec, 9th, owing to the oyster supper which they are holding on; the evening of Dec, 3rd in their hall, The proposed banquet has also been postponed in- defilnit•ely. ir1on There passed'•away its 'tine Village of Kirk—ton, on Friday, Near, 14th Mrs. John Cornish, an, her '84th year. Dur- ing the last two years she ryas• continzd to the. hoose;: being tunable t,o walk, and in this weakened condition ahe ton tracSerl bronchitis during the latae` week, which soon brought about the end, She had been a resident of luis t,: ton for 40 years, and was predeceased by her husband, the late John Cornish, 16 years,and by her daughter, :ora. >VI, .mane years, The surviving mem- bers of the family are -one son,1+,rank, oa Fact i Tayante, Indiana, and two daughters, Effie, at home, and . Mrs, Nathan. Doupe of tCirktod, Frank and lass son, Clarence, motored from bort Wayne, 300 miles, to attend the fun- eral, which as held on holiday, in- termeat being made in Ki;rkton Ifni= aeme tery Hensail Mr Wm Stone,.• Charles Shaddock and Hugh MCDonald left NIo,nday morning for Detroit where they have sei:urec?, positions. Mrs A, Case visited in, London on Friday. Mr. and .Mrs. •Robt. Bengough of Aliichigaaitae.evisiting relatives in town. ,1\Ir, R, E:, Cook was in Wnadatock Saturday on Business, \Iu.. Robt Higgins made a business ttrio 'to Detroit on Thursday. Mrs. John Rowciffe and daughter Miss Helen went to Detroit .onn 'Thurs- day and on Saturday evening Miss Rowcliff•e was united, in marriage to a Detroit gentleman and will, make her home there. Mrs. Rowcliffe will visit with them fora couple of weeks. Dasnwooa Congratulations to Mr. and Mr.5, Rev. and Mrs. Yager attended the funeral of a relative at New Ham- burg am-burg last week. Mrs• Miller left Saturday fox Wood- bridge where she will spend the winter with her daughter. '1r. and firs, Moonand .ass Rosa Zimmer. of Detroit visited with \lr. and Mrs Wm. Zimmer a few. days last week Mr. T. Johns moved his household effects to Kippen on Monday, \--ere they will make their new home. Ir, and Mrs, Ezra! Tiernan, visited in! :Strattord on Sunday, AIr. G, Nadiger is visiting in Pres- ton: at present, Centralia 111r. and Mrs. E. Abbott of Windsor spent the week ,end with Myi and \Ira. Faiahall. • , • Mr. W. R. Elliott attended the Liberal -Conservative Convention in T oraarteo last week. Mr. Andrew Hicks was in Toronto on business last week. Mr, Thos. Willlia attended the Dairy- men'a Convention in Tioroato last. week Ltican The death 'of Mrs.. W. J. Hodgins Viking, Alta., took place; there on October 29th. The deceased was a former resident of Lucan, but went west in 1906, when she was the first woman settler between Lake. Thomas and Wainwright in that Province. She. was 45 years of age, and, was a dai gh- tier of the late Thomas Abblatt of Lu - can. The deceased was very highly esteemed in the commui nifty in which she lived, being a Sunday School teacher and took a deep interest in all church work; and was also the, Sec Treas. of the Lakeview Farmers Tele- phone. Co, Besides, her husband she leaves three children, four brothers and three sisters, alt living in Alberta. Kinch—Sovereign--A quiet wedding took place at the home of the bride's father, tat. editor of the Lucan Sun, oa Nov llth, at 330 p.m., when, his eldest daughter, iVl3ldred Margaret Aline, was muited in marriage by the Rev. G. C. Gifford, pastor of Lucan Methodist Church, to Earl Geto!rge Kirsch of Hepworth, asow with the C. N. R. here.. After the ceremony Mr. and Mrs .kinch left on a short wed- ding trip. They will res,de rat Lucan. Zurich The. ldoisoens Bank has moved into their new block which they erected this summer. Mr. Peter Papiuueau left on Wednes- day for Windsor, where he intends to remain for the winter. hIr, and Mrs. Louis Weber and daughter, Miss Clara, were recent vis- irtoi s with friends .in Detroit. '4r Wm. Siebert, Jn, of Niagara Falls is spending a week with his parents here. Miss Laura Daters is spending a couple of weeks visiting friends in Kitcbeeaner. VIr. Jessie Horner, who was born, in York county. on November 26th '1856, lived in.this community years ago. He farmed in, Bad Axe, Mich.,. for about 17 years, afterr which lie mowed to ,Detroit, where he lived •los 15 years, Last August he moved to Zurich, and died on, Nov, 17th, at -the age of 67 years, 11 months and 21 days. He was twice married. Carl McClinciney of Stanley Tp,, a thresher. had a narrow •escape £rosn. serious injury ost the farm 0f Simon Deatr ch,. He was on top 04 the steam ees gane, gilding some of the, parts when his pant leg became caught, and before he, could free, himself, the low- er part of his clothing was all torn off. Fortunately he was little injur- ed, ii4r, Fred Haberer of the Blind line had an ueatortunate experience. While fail eng the manure spreader the. ivisin blew a metal wash tab toward s the. horses. They took fright and started. to run. • Fac tried to catch the 'team ?its ' they were 'passing through' a gate, and wasipinned betwe,ers the gate and spreader, and thiel hordes tearim.g loons tdr .Haberetr was 'llefte fast Will, : asa>tst=;, an,ce came; Huls now confined to bed' with bruised legs. Raba Camerae !on the arrival of a young son on Saturday. lir John Fluker is this week tidsitin;; at his home is Dungannon. The dance in the Town Hall last Friday evening put on by the Junior Hockey Team was largely attended and all report a good time, " ' I ay Pfatf and James Tapp visited ail Seaforth on Saturday, , :SIr. Lorne Ballentyne who has been visiting his mother for spine time left Tuesday. •morn ng for Detroit. Mrs, Thompson who has been ser- nously all! with ph,enosnia ie slowly int - proving and'also Mr. George Case. Time many friends of Mr. George Busman whalia lying at his home ser- iously ill with blond poison will be sorry to hear that he has not much hope for recovery. Mr. Thos. John; whin was trying to secure a home here is Henaall has rented a place in Kippen for the winter. Our fine new school building is about complete and will soon be oc- cupied. On. Monday night llr. J, M. South - con of Euetler gave ^an illustrated ad- dress ,in the Methorlist church on bis trip overseas, showing many interest- ing pictures of the battlefields, France Belgium and 'he. British Isles. The lecture was n ell. attended and much enjoyed. Next Sunday Rev. H. E. Livingston) of Jalimville will preach in the Islsthradist church in the morning and Rev. G. C. Griffin at night, The sale of work winch was held on. Saturday last under the auspices of the St Paul's Women's Guild, was a decided sucoess. The. decorations of each booth were very beautiful, being in green and white, representing Christ mas" The fancy work booth was in charge of iKlrs, E. .Drummond, art, Mrs. Robinson, Miss Reynolds and Mrs. Thos. Simpson! were. in charge of the Children's garments, Mrs.. Aldrich and Mrs. Clark were in charge of the aprons Mrs, Geo. Case and Mrs,. E'. Johnston took chargee of the fish pond, ,each. booth was well patronized, especially the fish pond. The amount realized at this sale was about $225. Mr. Wm. Moore of Landon was in town Tuesday on business. • • Among the biggest muscalunges caught this year was one Ianded at the Canadian Pacific Railway's French River (Ont.) Bungalow Camp, by Samuel Franklin, South- ern Sales Manager of Claflins, Inc., New York City. Mr. Franklin had a light tackle and had never hooked a lunge before. He had a hard fight to secure the fish, which tipped the scale at 381/2 pounds. A total of 13,743 Canadians, most of them native-born, has been repatriated from the United States during the months of April, May and June, according a to figures announced by the Department of Immigration, During these three. months 53,425 persons immigrated to Canada, which represented an in- crease. of 12,292 over the same pe- riod of last year. a`She. Was Too Sick To Try Entrance Exams.' Jeanne was one of the many chil- dren in New Ontario who travel miles each day to school. Fair, weather or. foul, they trudge along the rough roads eager for the little, bit of edu- cation possible for >them. Fifteen years had passed since Jeanne's birth and she had never enjoyed the best of health during that time: Six of these years she hadspent in going to school, helping around the house; and at odd times ,working here and there to earn a little money. One day she Was caught in a sleet, „storm on her way home from school `. Before long a terrible cough, set in which finally ended in Consumption. Of course, it was impossible for her to ,trY.the entrance examinations. "An- other year, perhaps, but certainly not now," said the doctor: ,Now she is resting at the Muskoka', ,EIosn1ta1 for Consumptives. Her pleas- ing shyness Mill remains, her curly, fair hair refuses to behave, .while her blue .eyes with the ,aid" of her lips,-. radiate cheer and hope. '"Sure," says Jeanne, "I'm to High; School.. 'Wily not?" and we echo,. 'why not?4', and, the doctor, says ''Why not?" be -w. eatlee Jeanne; is ,on the road to, • Weilville. • 7714 you .•help her and others to reach the goal, by contributing to the l o Pifale funds? '• Gifts may be 'sent to_,Hon ?W., A. •Cher1riton,.• President,' .223 College Street, 'Tordnto, Ontario. WITH THE CANADIAN PRESS PARTY At Chester A five hour railway journey brought the party from Swansea to Chester one of the old walled cities of England (York being the other.) Arriving there at noon on July 16th we had lunch with the newspaper association and in •the afternoon toured the city, and had afternoon tea with the Mayor. The wall which only surrounds the inner city was originally built by the Romans in 47 A. D„ but was partially de- stroyed, and later rebuilt on the old foundation. We walked around on the top of the greater portion of the wall, from which one gets a view of the 'city. Chester, is on the River Dee about which . Chan;les Kingsley wrote his familiar poem: "Oh, Mary go and call the cattle home, across the sands o' Deer" and as the poem tragically, runs the tide came up and Mary never returned home. At Chester we had the priv- ilege of, bowling on a crown green (high in the centre and sloping to all sides). At Liverpool Our stay in Liverpool extended over just one day, but during that time we saw much of the great port and also took a trip over to Port Sunlight, a model town, where Sun- light and many other kinds 'of soap are- manufactured by the well known Lever firm. Liverpool is on the. Mersey River which is about half a mile wide at this point. The tide has consider- able ebb and flow here and for the accommodation of the passenger; traffic across the river there is a large floating landing stage nearly half a mile in length. It is really a floating dock, The docks extend for 61/2 miles along the river and there are 27 miles of quays. About 25,000 ships enter the port annual- ly land if our geographical inform- ation is not wrong it is the fourth greatest seaport in the world being surpassed only by London, New York and Antwerp. The volume of passenger and freight traffic is on the increase and the. huge develop- ments known as the Gladstone Dock Scheme are under way, the cost of ing securely held on the bridge by which will be 35 millions more and water tight gates at both ends. The it will add three miles more of docks Channel averages 28 feet in depth The population of Liverpool is and is from 200 to 250 feet wide at about 1,200,000 and it ranks, next the top. Over 1,60 industrial works to London as the largest city in a of many and various descriptions Great Britain. • The cotton imports easily come first in importance but I sprung into existence on their erect - Liverpool is also famous for its cold , ion and equipment being estimated ! at 175 million dollars. Products are storage facilities, its shipbuilding landed there from all over the world and ship -repairing plants, its grain'of j elevators, immense tobacco ware -1 The annual tonnage in and out houses, leather and timber trade I this port is five millions. There are When we were there the city was no fewer than nine docks and one of ablaze with flags and bunting in 'them is half a mile long. preparation for the coming of the 1 In the afternoon we visited a cot - King and Queen who were to unveil ton spinning plant where 500 hands Liverpool's War Memorial and ded are employed. It was a revelation in icate the Liverpool Cathedral which up-to-date machinery. The raw has been in course of construction material came from the United for 20 years and will require many States and Egypt. The amount of more years to complete. Much has dirt taken out cof e the cotton in been read in the papers recently of the spinning process is surprising. this great Cathedral so we will not A big nigger had been caught in the dwell on it here. We were a day hydraulic press that presses the cot - early to see the official opening. , ton into bales and the thread -mak - The trip to Port Sunlight was very ,pro company did not consider it a interesting. Our old friend J. J. profitable investment to pay freight Hurley, of Brantford describes it as on a black man to be spun into follows,— white thread. Those who went to A swamp consisting of 422 acres !white hat factories tell us the has been lturned into a beautifu a finest felt hats are made out of rab- town site of about ten thousand bits' hair and the coarser, variety !from the short clippings of wool. people. The working portion of the Stockport, which is only six miles from. Manchester has a population of 126,000 and in the City Council we were quite surprised to find the' mace brought in when the Council was in session, just as in our Legis - of differentt periods,' A great for- tune must have been invested in this alone, A charming lunch ended,.the visit to Port Sunlight: On the re- turn to Liverpool a magnificent din- ner was tendered the visitors at the Adeiphi Hotel at which the Lord. Mayor presided. At Manchester. July 18th and 19th were spent at Manchester, the "third largest city in England, and within 100 miles of its centre live half the population of Great Britain. It is the centre of Industrial, England, On Friday morning we were shown through the Royal Exchange where 10,000 people can congregate for market buying of cotton fronn all over the earth without 'being even crowded. The noise and clamour of an .ex change' is something deafening, and to the casual observer the wonder. is that business can be carried on at all. Around the huge dome above the room is the Inscription: "A. Good Name is More to be Desired Than Great Riches." Deals invol- ving millions of pounds are put thro here without the stroke of a pen. Manchester is immense, with its smoking mills ,and like the indust- rial centres of the north, dirty, The same term describes its weather. For the first time since leaving Can- ada we had rain at Manchester. Its moist climate is no doubt one of its best assets. When the French wea- vers came over in the 16th century; they found the air just moist enough in this district to keep their product right, and they located there. Then the visit to the Manchester Ship Ca- nal was well worth while. This marvelous project, put through 40 years ago, meant, bringing the ocean 351/2 miles inland and mak- ing an ocean port out of an inland city. In doing this the water was raised up over 60 feet. It cost some ninety millions and for some years was a "white elephant" financially, but to -day has splendidly made good The need for the canal is seen from the fact that it cost as much to freight cotton in a few miles from the seaboard as it did to carry it all the way from the Southern States. On board the harbor tug we had the pleasure of meeting a number of Manchester people, President of the Board of Trade, Canadian Commis- sioner Ray and others. A few miles up we came to a point where a smaller canal was oarried across a swing bridge which swung as the tug approached the canal, water be - population is employed altogether in the making of soap—Sunlight and various scented soaps—Soaps for all purposes. The factory is a. monument to the organizing genius of Lord Leverhulme and thOse as- sociated ,with him. It is a colossal latures and Federal Parliament. The affair. In passing through the fac- cotton spinners averages about two tory we were conducted by a guide pounds sterling per week when they through a series of overhead walks. These walks are especially built for visitors. They permitted a bird's- eye view of the factory and al: its operations, without our, in any way, interfering with the employees. We saw great vats—steam heated—boil- ing the soap. " Then thevarious ma- chines through which it passed, cut- Derbyshire residence of the Duke of ting it..to.size, boxing, packing, etc. Devonshire.' Never again will we say that a 'wo- man; .cannotdrive ;a nail.- In ,most cases the coverserr of boxes, were nai - ed on by machinery. In this part- icular department, however; a girl was nailing on covers by hand. As an exhibition of nail driving it was perfect. She kept the hanimer in constant motion—never was it at rest. The Company makes all its own boxes—both wooden and paper. It buys nothing but raw materials, and these it draws from all parts of the earth. It was a strange eo-inci- dence, and one that excited no little comment, that in this establishment we, were to find one of the largest (if not the largest) printing plants in the -country. ' The town itself was beautifully laid out, Churches., Schools, Parks " and Playgrounds were conspicious. One of the most beautiful war memorials we saw was there, erected to, those of'theworks who hadr" fallen in r the war., In the midst of .•a beautiful park -like' sur- rounding was an art gallery, "The Lady Leverhulme Art ,Gallery."` It contained ,many most beautiful' sta-, tues,' cut from solid white marble. work full time. While the men were at Stockport the ladies had a delightful motor ride to Buxton where so many of thee. Canadian soldiers were in Hospital during the. "war. They passed Had- don Hall, the home of Dorothy` Ver- non, and. were shown through the — NOTES By the way we see more .of pub- lic holidays in England than usuall in our country. The shops seem to be closed every _ Saturday afternoon and evening. You can hardly find a news stand open on a Saturday night. Then many cities have a weekly holiday. In the great man- ufacturing districts many were dos- ed down for a whole week just for a holiday. In Glasgow and Edin- burgh we ran against the same thing. Long hour working :'days are not known in England now as in the old days. Wages are propor- tionately higher than before the war though still very much lower than in Canada. Printers for instance in the cities get about half the wages paid In Toronto. Rents are much: lower here than in Canada. In the, Lancashire district we.visited an im 3nense cotton works.. pg the { three' plants one was, shut •down owing to dull, trade. One may judge stan dards of living here in Canada ,by the remark made to me by a Bri- tish ,publisher who :said''he: had never: h!eatrd 'bi' "a single factory worker in Several rooms container`'"furniture England owning an automobile VICTORY LOAN COUPONS We will cash your Victory Loan Coupons or place them to your credit in our Savings Bank where they will draw interest at 3% per annum. eu THE CANADIAN BANK OF COMMERCE Capital ' Paid Up $20,000,000 ' Reserve Fund $20,000,000 Exeter Branch - - - M. R. Complin, Manager Crediton Branch - - - G. G. Maynard, Manager INCORPORATED 1855 CAPITAL - $4,001,000 RESERVE ' - $3,000,000 OVER .120 BRANCHES IN CANADA THE MOLSONS BANK Money should not be deft lying around the ehouse, even locked up or 'Jlidden away, Deposited in a Savings Account with The. afolsonls Bank it as safe, 'earns interest and is readily available,, EXETER BRANCH T. S. 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We on solicit 'a c .tmuance , ! of your patronage. • :e. iii DQYLE