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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1975-04-10, Page 22 (2)Page 22 Times -Advocate; April 10, 1975 Districi obituaries THOMAS MITCHELL JR. Thomas Mitchell, Jr. passed away at hie home in Biddulph Township on Wednesday April 2 in his 5th year. He was the youngest son of Thomas and Audrey Mitchell. He is survived by four brothers and three sisters. He was the grand- son of Mrs. Veronica Mitchell of FISHERMAN'S COVE GRAND BEND 63 RIVER ROAD UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT CHICKEN & CHIPS * FISH & CHIPS SHRIMP & CHIPS etc. TAKE OUT ORDERS Phone: 238-2025 linielulph 'Township and Mrs. Lewis Becker of Greenock. Funeral lervices were .con- ducted by the C. Haskett and Son Funeral Home on Saturday, April 5, from St. Patrick's Church. Interment was in St. Patrick's Cemetery. GORDON DELBRIDGE GordoH Delbridge, of Sebringville, passed away on Thursday. April 3, in Stratford in his 74th year. He was the husband of Erma Raper. Ile was the father of John Delbridge. SI. Nlarys. (Betty► Mrs. Raymond Sutherland, Woodstock brother of Reginald Delbridge and Jack Delbridge. both oI Exeter and Nil's. Dorothy Thompson of Loudon. Ile is also survived by two grandchildren. Funeral services were -held Irons the Ileinbuck Funeral Home. Stratford. on -Saturday April n. Temporary entombment was made in Avondale Cemetery Chapel. Stratford. ISABELLA WESTLAKE Isabella %Vestlake Delgah') payee[ awa. in the 13Iue Water Rest Honey. Zurich on Thursday April 3. in tier 86th.year. She was the kite oi'1'ho nas Westlake. She was the mother of Keith Robert 1Vestlake. • Zurich and LAK MUSKOKA ONTARIO ROUSSEAU SIDE Friendly Informal lodge • Excellent meals ' Family Specials. • Child -Supervisor ' Safe Beach ' Cottages -Fireplaces • Honeymoon Spec.' Canoes ' Sail Boat ' Fishing Boats ' Clay Tennis Court ' Playground Rec. Room ' Entertainment Nights * 100 Miles of Scenic Shoreline - Free Docking • Three Golf Courses & Horse Back Riding Nearby ' Free Brochure • Write Minett, Ont., POB 1 G0 or Phone 705-765-3380 r A Y.R.O. — M.T.A. Owners & Host Bob & Caroline Burns EXETER 21 THAMES ROAD 235-2311 GRAND BEND Phone 238-2161 DOMINION HOTEL Saturday, April 5 Appearing For Your Entertainment Lykelly Lads Come And Enioy This Fine Entertainment • Gordon Thomas Westlake, RR 3, Bayfield. She is also survived by seven grandchildren and 12 great-grandchildren. Funeral services were held from the Westlake Funeral Home on Sunday April 6. Interment was made in Bayfield Cemetery. ARCHIBALD O. FLETCHER Archibald D. Fletcher of 1038 York St., London, passed away on Wednesday April 2, in Victoria Hospital, London in his 88th year. tie was the husband of Mrs. Gertrude L. (Gerry) Fletcher. Surviving are three children. three step -children, one sister, Mrs. Angus (Elizabeth) Oke. -SSlrat hroy, and one brother Dr. M. ('.Fletcher of Exeter. Funeral services were held on Friday April 4 from the Needham Memorial Chapel, London. Interment was in Forest . w Memorial Gardens, Lone GERRARD VAND RWIEL Gerrard Vanderwiel of Hen- sall, died suddenly in Tucker - smith Township on Sunday April 6 in his 32nd year. He was the husband of the former Gayle 1aloney. He was the father of Raili and Heather, both home. Also surviving are his parents, Bill and Anne Vanderwiel, Exeter: four brothers, Art, Maderia Park, B.C.; Henry, Prince Rupert. B.C.; Morris, Aurora, Ont.; Rocky of Exeter; tour sisters (Alice) Mrs. Joe Telkwa. B.C.: (Pam). Mrs. Ron 1Valper, Exeter; (Pauline) Mrs. Bev Ilarris and (Anne) Mrs. Kai Jorgensen, both of Hensall. • Funeral services were held from the Bonthron Funeral Horne on Wednesday. April 9 with Rev. D. Beck officiating. Interment was made in Hensall Union Cemetery. Pallbearers were Bob Rowcliffe. Wayne Smith, Keith Ramsey.. Gary Lake, Kai Jorgensen and Joe Hidber. Flower bearers were John and Patti Roweliffe. SYDNEY'LEWIS OERTON • Sydney Lewis Oerton, of Guelph- passed away at St. Joseph's Hospital; Guelph on Friday, April 4 in his 59th year. He was the husband of Catherine B. Bennett. . Ile was the brother of William of Innerkip. Clarence of Wood- stock, and Donald of Bramalea and (Winnifred) Mrs. Harold Gunn of Exeter. He was predeceased by an infant son. Timothy James. Funeral services were held from the Gilbert Maclntyre and son Funeral. •Home, Guelph on Monday April 7. Interment was made in Marymount Cemetery. Icebreaker platform Bell Aerospace Canada Ltd. has .been awarded a $73,000 contract to design an air - cushioned platform which could be added to an icebreaker to increase its effectiveness, a transport department official said in Ottawa. The success of the Voyageur, :t rt air cushioned vehicle developed by Bell Aerospace at Grand Bend. has been used to supply isolated communities in Quebec this winter. prompted the contract. The Voyageur is useful in confined areas. such as harbors. although it cannot be used ex- tensively in the Arctic because of a small fuel tank. the official said. Scouts to plant trees c Over 30,000 Boy Scouts will; plant a million and a half trees in the 1975 "Trees for Canada" project. The project will help beautify Canada and provide a future resource for all Canadians. Nearly a•million trees will be planted on one thousand acres -in Ontario, according to Judge C. 0. Bick, president of the Provin('ial Council for Ontario. "This project is ,designed to give all members of Scouting the op- portunity to actively demonstrate their interest and concern for the Canadian environment," Judge Bick said. 'l'o ensure that the trees will be planted with a maximum chance of survival, local Councils have arranged for •all participants to receive practical training in conservation and reforestation from local foresters. Judge Bick pointed out that "Trees for Canada" is also a fund raising project for local Councils. MAMA BIRD AND THE LITTLE ONES - Characters of the forest were feotured in Wednesday's carnival sponsored by the Huron Park figure skating club. From the left are little birds Jean Klemke, Shelly Bouw- man, Angelo McIntyre, Rosemary Morrissey, Pauline Jackson and Mama Bird Melinda Mclsooc. T -A photo • Five shillings a letter Pioneer postal service costly At a time when we are suf- fering interruptions in the postal service, of various soots, the Strathroy MiddlesexMuseumsays it is interesting to look at the situation in pioneer days. - Before 1800, postal service was very sketchy in this part of the country. During the shipping seasons. letters were carried by the Great Lake boats; there was one "express" each winter, when a man on snowshoes carried mail -from Niagara to Detroit, along the north shore of Lake Erie. Sometimes the military sent messengers with special dispatches. and occasionally a private firm would undertake to deliver messages or parcels. The first post office in the province was established at Kingston in 1789. with one at York (Toronto) 10 years later. Delaware was the first post office in Middlesex, and was still the only one in 1818, when there were a total of nine in Upper Canada. Mail was very irregular, and came about every three months. and the early settlers had many a long trip to the post office in vain. I 1825. as a result of agitation. the -number of post offices was increased. and service became more frequent. That was the year London got a post office. In 1828, Joseph Elson and Hiram Wiltse of London Twp. got a ntract to carry mail. twice a w•c . from London to Raleigh. near Chatham, picking up mail at Delaware, en route. They got OUR GOAL THIS YEAR $8500 10117 ANCER with a check-up and a cheque CANCER RESEARCH CANC<R r ` EDUCATION fd, (.. CANCER WELFARE SERVICSS CANADIAN CANCER SOCIETY EXETER BRANCH SOUTH HURON AREA Door -To -Door Canvass STARTS MON., APRIL 14 Continues Through The Week Watch for the canvassers in Exeter, Zurich, Hensall, Crediton, Centralia, Dashwood, Grand Bend, Huron Park and the Townships of Stephen, Hay and and Usborne 87.50 a trip. and felt it paid well. Since there was no bridge at Delaware. they swam the river kith their horses. In the spring and fall break-up, they sometimes made the trip on foot. You could prepay mail in the early days. but the usual practice wgts for the recipient to pay. and the rates were high. - The newspapers regularly printed long lists of letters that had not been called for. in most cases because the addressee could not pay the postage. Mrs. Jameson, who was an early traveller in the Talbot settlement, told of staying Presbyterians help with relief The Committee on Inter Church Aid, Refugee and World Service of The Presbyterian Church of Canada is sending $10.000 from its Emergency Relief funds to Indochina Aid. This will be channelled through the World Council of Churches' Commission on Inter -Church Aid, which has made an initial appeal for one million dollars. The situation is changing hourly but undoubtedly there is an ifnmense human tragedy with displaced population and refugees in numbers estimated now as many as three million. The World Council has three locally based agencies that have been in operation for several years. withrelationships with all the governments and political groups, to clear the way for both relief and rehabilitation. Asian Christian Service is already moving into South Vietnam supplies of rice. dried fish, plastic sheeting. medical supplies and clothing. Aid will soon be needed for reconstruction and as soon as possible further grants will he made. overnight with a postmistress. Poor imigrants would turn away in despair when they would have to pay 3 to 5 shillings for a letter. One story told is that a poor man who couldn't afford a letter asked the postmaster to read it aloud. to see if it was really his, then said it wasn't, and went awa'v haying saved seven shillings. In 1851, the provinces ofBritish North America took over responsibility for postal service from the British government. Stamps appeared, the rates were reduced by one third, and the number of post offices greatly increased. Naturally this led to a greater volume of mail. As time went on, and the population increased. local post offices were established in every neighbourhood, and there people went to collect their mail. The memory of these post office' names lingers on in some neigh- bourhoods, but there is no visible sign now of most of them. There were 92 post offices in Middlesex alone closed when rural mail delivery was instituted about 1911. Some of the closed post offices were Cashmere (near Newbury), Cherry Grove (near Belton), Duncrief (near Denfield), Fallon (near Lucan), Fort Rose (near Parkhill), Littlewood (near Southwold). Mullifary (near Strathroy), Pratt Siding (near Glencoe), and Wanderland (near Kerwood) . Ganger c beat"' CANADIAN CANCER SOCIETY Let's Travel In '75 Bluewater Travel Advisors LTD. Invite YOU to a special Information Night ZURICH TOWN HALL Fri., April 11 - 8:00 p.m. Come And Visit With Your Old Friends From Previous Trips SPECIAL FALL TOURS PLANNED TO * The Mediterranean * Rome * Exeter, England * Switzerland * The Canadian West Box 160 Zurich 236-4376 Box 219 Exeter 235-0511 Box 36 Crediton 234-6336 ' The funds raised will be used to help further Scouting in the community, to develop the Provincial Leaders' Training Centre at Acton, Ontario, promote outdoor Scouting and meet local needs. Some of the money raised will be used to support Operation Amigo, an international program of Canadian Scouting designed to help five South American countries adapt Scouting to meet their needs. Each boy participating in the project will be expected to plant, 50-100 trees. The majority of trees being planted are spruce, white pine, red pine, black poplar and silver maple. Before tree plan- ting day, each Scout will seek financial pledges from the community. "Each householder will be contacted by only one Cub or Scout," said Judge Bick. "We hope that people will remember this when they make their pledges." -. Ad D uffertn Hotel CENTRALIA DAILY BUSINESSMAN'S SPECIAL DINING LOUNGE OPEN MON. TO SAT. 11:30 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. AND 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. Take Out Orders — Phone 228-6648 Learn the Art of KUNG -FU and KARATE The Ultimate in Mental & Physical • Conditioning Classes all year round in Exeter Tues 7:30 to 9:30 Thurs 7:30 to 9:30 Sun. 2:00 to 4:00 Can join anytime Everyone Welcome — Female & Male Participate in regular classes as well as summer camps, demonstrations, seminars, tournaments, etc. Coming this summer, daytime classes for children and parents. For further information phone ;Hs d instructor R2n Day 235-1479 (daytime) ScarAf.vWwlet Dragon Society EXETER, LISTOWEL, KINCARDINE LONDON •o• To benefit the Crippled Children Fund the Seaforth (.ions Club Invites you loan ORGAN CONCERT Monday, April 14"' at 8 P.M. SEAFORTH DISTRICT HIGH SC11001, AUDITORIUM featuring LEWIS MacLEOD of Toronto LEWIS MacLEOD An evening of organ music with Lewis MacLeod of WU R LITZ E R Canada, performing on the 3 keyboard Wurlitzer Model 555. Demonstrating the range and versatility of this popular home organ, Mr. MacLeod will feature popular tunes of today and yesterday. Mr. MacLeod has been a professional pianist, organist, teacher, arranger and composer in Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver. PLAN NOW TO ATTEND Adults are invited to register at the door for many valuable Door Prizes Given away at Intermission time will be 10 organ LP's, 2 5500.00 credit vouchers on purchase of Model 555, 3 - S200.00 credit vouchers on purchase of Model 370 and 10 credit vouchers of SI00.00 each on the purchase of any organ. Sponsored By PULSIFER MUSIC SEAFORTH & GODERICH authorized pianos and dealer for WURIMER organs in area See us for all your musical needs. Phone 527-0053 Donations accepted at the door by Seaforth Lions Crippled Children Fund