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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1937-01-15, Page 2i5 rY 1�411,Id{fr,Ft,!T9Gkr ass• r�__ — _--_- 11 JANUARY 15,4 Al i I+ e r ah 1)4 vf• r11 l'1 tfi fr,,?tSs;if C t:49� li Established 1860 McPhail McLean, Editor. Walled at Seaforth;" Ontario, ev- Thursday afternoon by McLean Bros. - Subscription rates, $1.50 a year in advance ; foreign,. $2.00 a year, Single copies, 4 cents'. each. Advertising rates on application. Members of the Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association, Class "A" Weekliesof Canada, and The Huron County Press Association. e• SEAFORTH, Friday, January 15th. Premier Hepburn Indisposed The fact that Premier Hepburn is again indisposed will be a matter of regret to the people of Ontario, ir- respective of politics. Over: the week -end he was suffer- ing from a ''• severe cold a n d bronchical trouble. To- a man in ro- bust health that might be a small matter, but Premier Hepburn, in spite of his general appearance, is anything but robust. He is not a man either, who spares himself in any way. His duties and responsibilities are arduous and ex- aeting, and it seems to be against his nature to take things easy. Coming at this time, Mr. Hep - burn's indisposition is particularly unfortunate. In a week's time the Legislature will meet, which means added work and worries", long hours and ceaseless activity. -' It is hoped that the° Premier's trouble will respond rapidly to treat- ment and care, so that before the Legislaturealarge meets he may, in a measure, be Not even his worst enemy, know- ing the disabilities under which he is forced to carry on,, could wish him worse than that. • Shifting the Tikes* The recent announcement " made from. Toronto, by the Minister of Welfare, that hereafter the ProvinY- .cial Government would assume all „payments for Old Age Pensions and Mothers' . Allowance and • in turn would collect and retain all munici- pal income taxes, will be received with a good deal of gratification by the municipalities concerned, who will look upon it as a move in the right direction. Both Old Age Pensions a n d Mothers' Allowance taxes, while comparatively new, have already as- slimed large proportions in the coun- ty, and have steadily mounted since their beginning. It is true that the municipalities' share of the former isonly twenty per cent. of the whole, the Dominion assuming fif y per cent. and the Province the other twenty per cent.,, but- that twenty per cent. in this county last year amounted to some .$19,000, while the Mothers' Allow- ance cost the county some $16,000_.. With the proposed shifting‘° 'of these taxes, the county, therefore, will make a saving in the neighbor- hood of $35,000. On the other hand, the income which the municipalities will lose through the Province taking over the income taxes, will be very small indeed,,in comparison. The to- tal, perhaps, being not much more than $1,000. The big losers by the change will_ bethe cities of Toronto, London, - Windsor, Ottawa and Brockville. These constitute, however, only five municipalities out of -a total of 940 in the whole Province. To the great- er number, therefore, will accrue the ,greatest good. -That does not mean, however, that these centres, particularly Toronto, are going he c hange without protest. In fact Toront6, which stands to It se close to' half a million dollars by, the shift in taxes, has already protested, "and that some- what violently. Toronto and other large centres, Where (losses will be sustained; should remember that a large proportion of the` income tax revenue from which *they have been benefitting, is deriv- ed from large corporations which .ave their • headquarters in those t!4.1 441 41 ?i �t r.. t+l• 4 1 f 44 oo.if t � •fir. 5Ir 14 tIS cities, but which obtii them' incomes largely through the business they do with every other municipality in the Provia Under these circumstances, it should nod be too much too ask, nor should they object over much, that this income be shared by the poorer municipalities which contribute largely to it. 0 Strike In Automobile Industry The strike in the automobile indus- try between the labor unions and the General Motors Corporation. goes merrily on. To date something ov- er one hundred thousand men are out of employment because of it, and the motor industry in the United States has been thrown into confusion. What might be .looked upon as ev- en worse, is the fact that if the strike is to be enlarged or even con- tinued, it will very shortly have very serious effects on the same industry and employment in Canada. What it is- all about the Labor lead- ers may know, but the- head of Gen- eral Motors says he does . not. He claims the wages in the industry are above the standard. That the work- ing conditions are ideal, and that the men, if not their labor leaders, ap- pear to be generally satisfied with conditions. Still, there is a strike and a very serious one. To the average mind the situation seems to be a strange one. For some years the automobile industry, like every other industry, has been up against very adverse conditions. Now, when there ap- pears to be a genuine revival in trade,; when factories are opening' again, and others beginning to run to capacity, which means giving -em- ployment to thousands upon thou- sands .of men who have had little or "•xio,•,employment for years, someone throws a wrench into the machinery, and the wheels.stop turning. " It may be the fault of the .corpora- tion. It may be the fault of the La- bor Unions. Whatever the cause, there should be an immediate get- together of the two: Otherwise; -the Government should take a strong hand.' A revival in trade and a re turn to prosperity should not be throttled at birth'. The welfare ' of the world depends too much upon it. O One Hundred Years of - Macadam Roads The people of „Ontario have 'be- come so accustomed to travelling om cement highways that there will soon become a danger of their for- getting that there `fever existed any other kind of road. surface. Just in case of that, we might mention that the centenary; of John Louden McAdam was celebrated last fall in Ayr, Scotland. • John McAd- am who went to America in 1770, re- turned to his native Scotland in 1783, after having made a consider- able fortune. On his return he purchased an es- tate at Sauchrie, Ayrshire, and be= came a road trustee for his district. As the roads at that time were in a deplorable- condition, Mr. McAdam interested himself in road construc- tion and at his own expense experi- mented with roads round Sauchrie. Later he went to Bristol, England, and it was there that he put his theory, that roads should be built of broken stone, into extensive practise. And from Bristol the Macadamized road spread to 'this country, as well as every other in the civilized world. Perhaps no other kind, of road has stood the test of time better. In its day it was the "aristocrat of roads, and the sun has not set on that day yet. All over the country we still fol- low his principal of road building, and probably always will, because for smoothness and durability, except where heavy automobile and truck travel isconcerned, it has as yet no equal. WHAT OTHER PAPERS SAY. Irt the OId Days (Brockville Recorder and Times) One has only to recall the Christmas home- oomings of other days `t!" the old wooden coaches with their coal oil lamps, pulled by chugging loeonhetives and with the sleighs, hacks and hotel buses drawn up at the different stations to re- alize chow greatly rail trav'e1 has clanged and ins - proved. 1 1,rt • Years Agone Interesting items picked from The Expoi Iter of lif ty and twerrt3?!aive yea* ago. • From The Huron Expositor January 19, 1912 Night and Budded service is to be started on! the Hay Telephone Sys- tem by February lst. The rule of a five-minute s'erviee.for each user at a time is beim 'brought into Force. A Rebecca Lodge in connection with the Independent Order of Odd- feilowe hue been established in Hells sail. The new lodge starts with a membersthip of 53. Mise Consitt is the presiding,' officer. TheG.T.R.I station at Brumfield was badly damaged by, fire one morg last week. The fire started in the Waiting room from the stove, and when discovered had a good start. Mr. T'h'omas Coleman, of :the 2nd concession of Tuckersmith, has sold to Mr. John Devereaux, of the Huron Road, McKillop, a 2-year•+oild draft filly for the handsome sum of $225. The Bell Telephone men have been working in Seaforth during the week repairing •the line and straightening up poles. Mr. and Mrs. James Cowan,' Sea= firth. entertained the °dicers and teachers of the P'r'esbyters n Church Sabba't'h School at their home near town on Tuesday evening. Mr. N. H. Sutherby has purchased the blacksmi,thing business in Sea - forth of Mr. E. A. Sparring. Another'ol'd and worthy resilient of Stest'hen has passed to his reward in the person .of Angus McKinnon, wh'o died on Tuesday of last week, W. Stewart Lane,, son of , County Clerk Lane, elle) has been practising law at Fernie, B. C.,. has removed to Vancouver, where be is connected with the firm of Bodwell & Lawson. While'returhing to Hensall from the funeral of the late Mr. Davis at Staf- fa on Tuesday of last week, the hearse upset three times before reaching Cthiselhurs.t. The fdllowing are the municipal of- ficers for the Township of Stanley for the current year:' Clerk, J. E. Hann. well; Treasurer, George Beatty; 'As- sessor, W. Stogdill; Collector, .Thos. Wiley; Auditors, George Baird and \V. H. Johnson. A horse belonging to Samuel. Reid, of Lucknow, :and valued et $250, met a horrible death the other day. It lied been tied to a post in front of Tate's Grocery and became restless and jumped ep ands fell across the posit and the end of the post inflicted such terrible injuries that .the animal had, to be killed, • • Did you: ever know about the land trou'b'les of U'p'per Canada, Which play- ed et) large, a part lin the discontent that preceded the outbreak in 1837 Patrick Shirreff, an East London far- mer, who was in Upper Canada in 61833, devoted. a 'dhapter of the book which he wrote On his return to this particular subject, says Fred Landon, writing in the London Free Press re- cently, and 'made the prediction that if the land monopolies were oont'inued tbere would be a tendency towards separation from England. Shirreff quickly gained the im'pr'es- sion that the province was being-'hrds- governed hi the interests -;of ,a small •grou'p. of people. "The properties of a great portion of the indusrtrious farmers are either mortgaged to store keepers or.capitalists, and almost the whole ,of 'the influential inhabitants are interested in land," he wrote. Crown lands were at this time (1833) disposed) of by public sales, which were held on the first and third dares- days of each month at Bytown, Belle- }'ille, 'Peterboro, York, Hamilton, Lan- don and Chatham. In all cases there was an upset price, Which, in case there was no offer sufficiently high, resulted in the withdrawal of the lands in question. Buyers were required) to lay down one-fourth of the purchase unoney at the time of the sale and the remainder in three equal 'annual instalments, with interest at six per cent. Shirreff met with frequent com- plaints, by newly -arrived immigrant's of the workings, of the land; system and his. cou,clus'ion was that the w bele system merited censure. He met individuals who had travelled more than 100' miles from York to examine lands to the west and had then been forced to return to York to get the authorities to put un these particular band's for salve. If they succeeded) in thus; they then had to wait until the next sale and travel again all the way* to London or Chat- ham. "Sometimes," said Shirreff, "applications to have lands put up for sale are frustrated, and rather than suffer delay and 'dance attend- ance on men of influence, many peo- ple have passed into the United S't'ates, where a person can go to the land office of the district and fix on any lot that pleases him. There cash From The Huron Expositor January 8, 1887 Mr. George Baird, Jr., has opened a general store in the stand formerly [occupied by J. W. Hill, Brucefield, {where he will keep a stock o! . dry geode. Andrew Gov'enlock, of Winthrop, has his barn so weil'arr•anged for feeding that Emersion Taskey, his man, at- tends to 4$ head of cattle, 13 horses and 28 sheep. 1 -Ie also has a large grist and 'saw mill and is running, a large general 'store. The municipal elections in Zurich passed off very quietly on Monday Last, although hard work was done on all sides. 'The lucky ones were -S.' Rennie, Reeve; J. C. Inalbfleisch, Dep- uty Reeve; and Henry Heyrock, Dav- id Surerus quid Alex. McEw;au,.,0oun- cillors. The clothing store of Messrs, Camp- bell and Bright, in, Seaforth, was broken into by burglars on Wednes- day night and 'a considerable quan- tity of clothing carried' off. 'He must have squeezed in through iron bars which were placed in the windrow. Mr. John Dorsey was awakened about one o'clock by the violent barking of dogs but couldn't see a thing. A • large quantity of clothing was taken. - Mr. Hugh) Grieve hes purchased the house recently occupied by Mr. Geo Patterson and has moved into it. There were about 29 lady voters at the recent municipal elections in Sea- ford)]. • Mr. W. Copp, of Seaforth, has been awarded, the contract for the . brick work and plastering oil tihe new Pres- byterian' Church' to be erected in Hensel' next' summer. J. E. Tom, son of James Tom, of Exeter, is said to be an applicant for the Public School Inspectorship of South Huron. Mr. Turnbull, head- master of Clinton High School, is al- so spoken of as a probable applicant. The premises of Mr. Andrew Mc- Lean at Kippers', were burglarized on Tuesday evening, the i'drentity"of whom nothing has yet ;been ascertained. They carried off a gold, watch, silver watch, $50 in cash and sundry other articles. - The following directors were elect- ed at the meeting of the' McKillop Insurance Co., held in Seafonth on Friday last: Henry Ford, •Goderich Twp.; John McMillan .and George Watt, Hullebt; Thos. E. Hays, John Beattie and Richard McKee, McKil- lop; John Hannah and James Broad - foot, Tuckersmith, and Donald Rose, Stanley. One of the most successful anud well -attended oysters suppers ever held in the: Great American Oontin- ent came off at the mammoth man- sion of Jamest' Hagan on the Parr Line. A football match was played at Milburn on Christmas Day ,between the Grits and Tonnes of the district and resulted its a, victory foie the Grits by one goal. The post office at Bandon, in' the Township of Hui.lett, which was ex- pected would be closed up, may pos- sibly be continued es usual, Mr. Stewart 'haying made application for the position of postmaster. . Mr. George' Knight, who has for several years occupied the position of telegraph! operator at the railway depot at Exeter', has been proniotte'd to. the position of station agent at Ethel. %t. Y ie the .o only interest that eau be em- ployed and rte nen-payment. the only delay to settlement." Price Too High The fact that so many of the pion- eer settlers were usually without suf. ficient 'capital led many of than into debt, either for the land which they purchased or for supplies from the storekeeper, or both. ' Tble price ask- ed for the land was often' too high. Thus at. a time! when the United States was disposing of its lands in, the Mid-Weeter+n • States as 6s 3d, Halifax currency, the price of the wooded lands in Upper Canada which had been surrendered: by the Six Na- tions Indians was fixed at. 15s pet" ac- re, more than double the price of Government land in the United States, equally good in quality, in an equally good climate, clothed with luxuriant grass and without en obstacle to im- mediate cultivation•. Shirreff found people in almost ev- ery district anxious to sail„ their lands and move on, preferably to the Unit- ed, States. He found that small farms could be bought on cheaper terns than land belonginlg to the crown, the Canada Company or large proprietors, more es'p'ecially if cash was paid. An individual with cash in his pocket could drive a hard bargain. James F. W. Johnston, a British scientific agriculturist who visited the province in 1849, found conditions still bad at that date. As soon as he entered the province he remarked an the "symptoms of discontent lurking at the corners of the mquth," and was told by the president of the Upper C'anad'a Agr'icul'tural Society that Gov- er•n•m•ent policy 'had placed, too large areas le the hands of individual. pro- p.rietore. Instead of 50 -acre farms the Government had disposed of lands in 200 -acre blocks, far' more than the capital of the ;average settler could manage. Johnston was also told that the Fater grants made to the children of United Empire Loyalists had done considerable 'harm, to the province, since the grantees seldom occupied them, but instead disposed 'of their rights to land speculators,, who were holding these lands for higher prices. (Continued on Page 3) JUST A SMILE OR TWO ®.. Male Straphanger: "Madam, you are standing on my foot." Fetnale Ditto: "I beg you pardon., I thought it belonged to the man sit- ting .down." • Eddie had fallen on the gravel and cut his knees and at once began to cry. "If I were you," said the nurse, "I wouldn't cry like that; you are much too old." "Well," said Eddie, "what am I to do? Am I old enough to swear?" • "Darling, you know I'm just crazy when I'm away from you." "I know — out of sight, out • of mind." "There's sornethi'ng in what that fellow says—that the cleverness of the -father "Often proves a stumbling block to the son." "Well, thank goodness our Tommy won't have anything to fall over." • • Husband (arriving home late)-- "Can't you guess , where I've been, dear?" Wife—"I can—but go on with your story." • Clarence (the professional sheik): "I made a bet with Harold that I'd kiss the first girl I came to." Betty (grimly): "Hmf! If you try it on me iOil be a long time before you come to!" Opportunity A radio address by W. J. Cameron of the Ford Motor Company. • There is a good -old wood that has been badly 'abused by our muddled thinking, but a word that manages to survive, and is certain' to recover its for'me'r standing. The ward is "op- portunity." It means the port or the opening or the door that. stands op- posite you, and of course • anything to be opposite you must be directly before you. rhe best observers and interpreters of life have added the sense that always 'there is such a door, and that it is accessible. In this matter sense opportunity has met much recent •'challenge. There are many who say it no longer exists. Mostly they mean, we may suppose, that the door that now stands op- posite them, the door at present ac- cessible tol them, is not the door they want. They thought opportunity meant a big door, or at least 'an in- viting door; and this' present one may be email and• plain., a side door or even a back 'do'or; and because they do not understand that this is their door, they say there are no doors, no opportunities. That is' one mistake arse make. A thousand doors may be closed, our door is the one that stands open, provided nothing dishonorable is ori its threshold, That it is. a plain and humble door makes no difference whatever; every door, big or little, opens._ upon the 'same wide world, of p'ossibil,ities, and every career will stretch or shrink to the 'size •of the person who -makes it. We mistake once more when we, think that given the opportunity, that is all we need. But opportunity has been the ruin of many. Opportunity is a day of judgment. It is to be re- garded with respectful deference, for every opportunity is a teat. Far sterner than what a man may require in his opportunity is what the oppor- tunity may require in the man, There are three kinds of opportunity, There .is first fihe opportunity that makes you. Everyone has; that. In youth it is the •oppotrtunity to learn. The boy or giro) asks: "What good is all this stuff going to.idlo me?" Notre can answer that but you. We can only say that it took mankind a thps"'h years to learn this thing, and if yo Orn it now you are rich- er by a theme,ears; it. took man-. kind 100 years to am that, and if you learn it now you can start abreast of your tiin'es. If not, how and when do you 'expect to catch up? There's not a single fact you learn: or a tiny discovery you make today that may not stand 'forth—even a quarter of a century hence—as' the very thing you• neer' in some orucial hour. The days and all their duties are full of the sort of opportunity that makes) you. Then there is the 'oppotrtunity that takes you. Wheneyou talk with great 4.G (�' yl 'fhdens Jackrabbit Hunt A party of about twenty mens from town organized a jackrabbit hunt on, New Year's Day and traversed' sev- eral concessions of Ashfield township in the Port Albert kind I{inlgs'bridge• vicinity. They shotabout forty jacks. —Goderi'cfhr Signal. --Large Advance Oyer 1035 In a letter acoompancyd,nlg dividend payments to shareholders of the -Godes rich Elevator and Transit' Go., Pmesi- ,dent G. L. Parsons .nays: "Our total grain receipts this year were 7,000,- 000 bushels against 6,000,000 bushels!. in 1935, an increase of 44% per cent. The movement to foreign importing countries. has, 'however, deprived us . of the usual 'sttar'age revenue. Of the 52,000;000 bushels elevator Monde ca- , paodty between Lake Huron, Georgian „ Bay and Lake O'nterles there was stored 23,000,000 bushels, an average of 48.12 per cent. filled. We were 100' per cent. filled. Of the'aggregates storage capacity at the head of the lakes •(96,000;000 budhels) only X41/n pen cent. was occupied at the close of navigation." Efforts to restore the ,handling charge of elevators to a uni-• form rate, "consistent with the rates in effect during recent years, were made during the year. It is believed that this will be satisfactorily ar- ranged befone the next crop year.— Godericlh Signal. . ' Thresh 576 Bushels of Beans and useful men to learn how they becaine what they are, you will. dis- cover that it is just as much a .mys- tery and surprise 'to. them as to any- one e•1•se. They thought they knew what they wanted to be, but a petty incident, identifiable only .in the af- teriook, Suddenly turned them into another path., And, there they are! Few p'erhons choose their jobs; the job reaches out and chooses them. But it chooses them at the level of their preparation. Some young peo- ple Have not the remotest ideahxat they are going to be, and there deed be no anxiety about that. Neither did the present leaders of the auto- mobile world know what they were going to be—there were no autom'o- biles when they were growing up. They thought they were going to be this or that, but along came the other thing. Neither did the leaders "in the electrical, or chemical, or aviation or radio worlds know what their life work would be—these things could not be chosen because. they did not exist; a man• could not prepare for thein, he c'ould.only prepare to do whatever life might ask him to do And most of you, my young friends are going to engage in work that has not appeared yet. But get ready Look ahead twenty years. Try to see what ought to come in the world Of •'housing, transportation, heating banking, literature, .£arnning, educe. tion, merchandising, 'jou'rnalism, dra Ma—anything, end prepare for any- thing! Acquire all pos'snble equip mfnt, none• of it will come amiss, and you will be ready when opportunity take's you. It you do this you need have no fear of the third kind of opportunity —the opportunity that breaks you The worst thing that can 'happen' to some men' is to get a promotion.— they are net ready for it. Many a young fellow can sell himself, and 'slier, he has done that he is through --he has nothing more to deliver. His opportunity is his defeat --'re was not ready. He did not invest in hims'e'lf. Serious thinking was too hard on his head, Good books 'requir'ed too much of his time. He wants to be a pas- senger in the boat of life, but pulling his own weight blister's his hands. FIe knows (how to arrange his' hair but n'ot how to mlkna'ge his mined. Op- portunity conics and finds hi.m out, But because he has the right stuff in him, he will learn from t'hrat experi- ence, and when 'opportunity returns', as it always will, it will find him road.y. Look again at that opportunity which le dise'etly before 'you—it may not be what you dreanved, but once in it, it. Will take you anywhere you want. to go—if''y'6u are ready. If you are not ready, beware of ,opportunity, idii+ id5a+sr caatk,i t Jtti. On Mo'n'day of thus week Mr. Hil- ton Ford of the Labe Road threshed' 576 bushels' of beans. • Tlie beans were grown this summer on 22 acres of land and they were harvested ire good condition; the beane being ars excellent stample when threshed. The thres'hin'g was done by Mr. Ben El- der. in six hours'. With beans selling around $2.00 a bushel the returns to Mr. Ford should be. very.- gratifying_ With. the wet weather during the• harvesting season all bean growers were' not as fortunate as Mr. Ford'_ Some of the growers report that their beans are rotting.—Exeter Times -Ad- vocate, A Presentation On Thur'sdtay afternoon at the of- fice of the Western Foundry Co., G.. Wilbur Tiffin Was presented with a beautiful wrist watch on behalf of the employees of the Foundry. Wilbur, who 'has been a valued employee of the Foundry for the past eight years,. resigned •his position to accept the pos'i'tion as 'acccu'ntant with the J. W.. Hama Automobile Sales. The pres- entation was made by Miss H. Irwin and Mr. T. A. Currie read tide ad- dress,.—Wingham Advance -Times. Played Golf NeW Years' Day Believe it ar not, on New Year's Day some 'of our local golf enthus— iasts had a game of golf at the Alps course. Dr. George Ross and John P. McKibbon were die first on deck far, a game and shortly after two or three from Teeswater tried their luck. Later in the day Dr. and Mrs - Reg. Duval played' a garne. The course was in good shape and goad scores were made. .The .,ground was sl'iglrtly frozen but a tee could easily' be put in place for driving golf.— Wingiram Advance -Times. Death of Mrs. 'A. Pickard The death occurred at the 'home of .Mr.' and Mrs. Ezra Pickard ort Tuesday of Mrs. Albert Pickard, o£ Holmesvi,lle. She had been brought in from her own home the day be- fore, having been taken very ill, *mils as there was no room for her in the hospital had been cared for at the home of her huaban'd's father. She ie survived by three children. The fun- eral took/dace from the residence of Mr. and -Mrs. E. Pickard Thursday , aflernocn, the service commencing at two o'clock.—Clinton, News -Record. Death of Jahn Biggin The funeral 'of the late Jclhdt Big - gin was held from the home of his daughter and 's'onfn-1•aw, Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Pinning, Isaac Street, ono New Year's Day. Mr. Riggin passed away at St. Joseph's Hospital, Chat- ham, on Dec, 30th, after a 'short ill- ness, in his 74th year. He. had not been in the .best of health far some years, being a sufferer from asthma, so much so that he could net live here, being much freer of the trouble at Chatham, but finds last illness wase not of long duration. He had been in the hospital only a few drays.— Clinton News -Record. Narrowly Escaped Losing An Eye Albert Brind{lley, local youth em- ployed' by the Goderioh Manufactur- ing Company, narrowly, escaped los- ing 'an eye, on Tuesday afternoon while he was sweeping in• one, of the buildings of the plant. In order to make hie work easier he moved the lever th'an opens a valve of the "trig- ger" engine, u'se'd in .turning logs, and the heavy iron balancing ball 'truck him just above the right eye, causun'g a gash which necessitated two stitches to close the wound. Ile Wes away from work for tlhe remaind-' er of the day and Wednesday with the injury.—Goderich Star. - I. O. 0. F. Reopen Hall The members of the Exeter lodge of Odd'fellows celebrated the re -op- ening of their new lodge rooms Tuesday evening by holding a public installation' of the newly elected of- ficers to whioh the wives 'and lady' friends of the ..members, were invited - Fc ]l'owi'ng the installation a social hour, was' enjoyed at c'ard's, foilowed by refreshments. The lodge was op= enedt by N.G., Bra. A. G. Hicks,, who bn. a short, aa'pp'ropriate !address, wel- c'om,ed the irairge number of brethren present, together with the visitors, the hall being filled for the occasion. T).D,G,M, Bro.' C. G. Salter' and his installing team paid their official vis- it and in a very efficient man'n'er in- stalled the officers. Bro, A. G, Hicks was installed in the pastmaster's chair. Owing to the absence of the •newly' -elected Noble Grand, Bro, C. W. Kestle, , through bereavement; Bro. H. O. Southcott subs'titute'd its hie place.—Exeter Times -Advocate, (Cpntinued'on ,Page 3). 4 i e, • IS Si