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EAFORTH, Friday, October 21st -
Fire Prevention Week
Last week was Fire Prevention
Week in Ontario. How many of our
readers realized it, or read, orpaid
any attention, when they did read
the special newspaper attention that
was paid it?
Well, it is well worth paying atten-
tion to. There are fires, of course,
that have their origin beyond the
control of man. Some very serious
ones too. But they are few in num-
ber and do comparatively small dam-
age in comparison to other fires,
which were almost in every case pre-
ventable.
From the Industrial Accident Pre-
vention Association we learn that
there were more than 40,000 fires in
Canada, last year and these fires
caused a total property loss of over
$22,000,000.
From a money point of view that
was a tremendous loss. But there is
another and • much more appalling
side to it. These fires were respons-
ible for the death of 246 men, women
and children. And of 'these 105 were
children and 73 were women.
We are accustomed to looking up-
on the cities and larger centres ,as
suffering the greatest fire losses,
both in lives and material. But that
is not the case. The fact is that the
greatest loss of life through fire is
suffered in the country, and much of
the property damage as well.
Cities and most towns are provid-
ed with efficient and ample fire fight-
ing facilities. The country is not.
For that very reason people in the
country should have the fire possi-
bility ever before their eyes and
should train their children up in that
manner too.
Flow often we see the cause of fires
reported as -children playing with
r matches. Where did they get the
matches, and what carelessness was
responsible for them having access
to them? How often we read about
owners being absent from home
when their barns and houses went up
in smoke.
As a matter of fact the country is
a very dangerous place as far as fires
are concerned. Distances are great
and fires do not wait for a crowd to
gather before they break out. Keep
that fact in mind. Be careful of the
matches, the lamps and the lanterns,
and above all, be careful of the chil-
dren, and there are some pretty big
children sometimes. ' You never can
tell who will be the next victim.
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The Provincial Plowing Match
When a four-day plowing match
will draw one hundred and thirty
thousands spectators, there must be
more farm blood in the people of On-
tario than appears on the surface.
And,when one hundred and thirty
thousand people will travel, in many •
cases, hundreds of miles to reach a
point away out in the country, not
even adjacent to a town, as they
travelled last week to Minesing, some
sixteen miles from Barrie, there
Jinn* be a far greater interest in
agriculture than the average pro-
gtoter of entertainment has been led
to believe..
Of course, in addition to the plow-
eveni s, there was a three-quarter
'million: dollar exhibit of farm ma-
thinery; but the whole thing, from
Irt to finish, was a purely agricul-
tural, event, and, to all reports, an
lehtre hely interesting and education-
eeit• too. ;
truck so that fall fair boards of
all fairs, and larger ones as
ght learn some profitable les-
t' is quite evident that riurely
rat invents, hold an 'immense
or the people of this Prov -
be .well for. Fall Fair
t,t ,•� f��1 '
capitalize on
t)n
+tt�
a,.
and spending heir money to build
up a midway ,of sideshows and other
doubtful and expensive features, it
'might be well- to invest' a consider-
able part of their capital in the form
of a prize List for horse and tractor
plowing events, team drawing and
other farm work that make up the
every day life on the farm.,
The people of the district would
understand and appreciate those
things, and no doubt would partici-
pate in them, while to the people of
the adjoining towns and cities, they
would 'be something new and, conse-
quently, something of much greater
interest than a second' rate midway
or other show features that do not
compare in merit to those they can
see any day at home.
It is really astonishing the propor-
tions to which the Provincial Plow-
ing Match has grown in recent years.
Last year it was thought that when
the attendance reached the hundred
thousand mark that was about the
limit. But this year there is an in-
crease of nearly one-third, and next
year it undoubtedly will go up again.
The location or the accessibility of
the place chosen seems to make no
difference whatever. It is the Pro-
vincial Plowing Match and all roads
lead to that centre. As a matter of
fact, it has been held in every county
in the Province but two—Huron and
Bruce.
Why these two counties have been
overlooked, is, in itself, something to
wonder at. No two counties in On-
tario are more purely agriculture
than they. No two other counties
possess the variety or excellence of
the agricultural land of Huron and
Bruce, nor is any two other counties
has the profession of farming been
more highly developed or more suc-
cessfully carried on from pioneer
days to the present time.
It was from Huron and Bruce
Counties that the three Western
Provinces drew the first and the best
of their pioneer farmers and, far
more of them. And it is the descend-
ants of these two counties that are
their best and most successful farm-
ers to -day. But Huron and Bruce
have never had a Provincial Plowing
Match.
Perhaps the reason is not too hard
to find. Perhaps neither Huron nor
-Bruce has ever gone after one.
- And, let it be said, it takes some go-
• ing after to secure such a notable
event. We can not speak for Bruce,
but it is time • that Huron 'Was awak-
ening to this fact.
It is time that every township, vil-
lage and town council in the county
gave some special consideration to
the possibilities of securing the Pro-
vincial Plowing Match for this coun-
ty. As for the County Council, we do
not know how it could further the
best interests of the county to great-
er advantage than by spending a
good deal of its time and energies in
the same direction. And the Decem-
ber session would be a very good •
time to make a start.
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Weather Prophets
This is the open season for ama-
teur weather prophets, and the pa-
pers are full of them. We notice that
a minister in Northern Ontario has
predicted an unusually severe win-
ter, but he did not give -the reason.
An Indian Chief is a little- more
charitable and a little more commun-
icative. He says we are going to have
a very mild winter because there are
so few nuts on the trees.
And there are a lot of amateur
predictions in between these two ex-
tremes. Personally, we don't know
anything about the weather except
that right now we are having the
finest weather and more of it than
-we have ever had at this time of year
in this part of the country.
And after that we know we are
going to have just the kind of winter
that the weather man sends us. Na.
doubt it will be good in spots and
bad in others.
We will have some snow; quite a
bit of it in fact. And we will have,
some ice, and some cold, and some
wind. We always do.
In the meantime we are enjoying.
the present weather all the more be-
cause we know what is ahead of us.
And we know because tere never
was ani:' amateur weath r prophet
that We ever heard or read of, that
haS stir eeded in raking a charge in
%1'L
Years Acne
Interesting items Picked From
The Huron Expositor of Fifty and
Twenty-five Years Ago.
From The Huron Expositor
October 24, 1913
Messrs- Collins and Ketchen, of
Brucefield, who have bought out the
chopping interests of the saw and
chopping mill there are now busy re-
modelling their machinery.
At the last meeting of the McKil-
lop council ,Mr. Adam Dickson was
appointed collector of 'taxes for 1913.
The first appearance of winter came
on Monday last, when there was a
light fall o4 snow.
Mr. Chambers, formerly of the Do-
minion. Bank here, but now of Ham-
ilton, assisted the choir of First Pres-
byterian Church on Sunday evening.
Mr. Haigh, Mr. Ault's successor in
the grocery business. here, has moved
his family to town and will occupy
the roomy over the store.
Mr. J. Fe -Daly is to install the clock
in the tower of the new public build-
ing.
Mr. D. j. McGuire was here from
London this week and shipped his
f irniture to that city, where he is en-
eaged in the grocery business.
Mr. H, Edge is erecting an addition
to his handsome residence on Gode-
rich St.
The new school at Hannahas corner,
wr st of Fgmondviile, will open on
Monday itith'Mr. Andrew Scott as
teacher.
On IVio•nriay afternoon of last week
Mr. Ed. Restemeyer's barn and driv-
ina shed were destroyed by fire. The
reason's crop of grain and hay, a
team of horses and all this implements
were also destroyed.
The new school, 1aa miles south of
Londesboro, was opened last week.
The Hydro -Electric wiring outfitare Hul-
lett,
on the second line of near the river. They have a.
large boarding car and several tents.
Mr. George Strong, of Tuckersmith,
is remodelling his residence on the
Kippen road and will.. have a comfort-
able•.•home when finished.
Mr. Benjamin Smillie, of Hensel',
who is a student of Knox College,
preached in' Carmel Church; Hensall,
en Sunday morning last. He gives
great promise of making a good
preacher. •
Mr. A. Murdock, of Hensall, bas
mot -ed into Mrs. R. Beek's dwelling,
recently occupied by Mr. G. Douglass.
On Wednesday of last week as the
Bird threshing machine was being
taken out of the barn on the farm of
Thomas Bernard, 6th concession of
Morris, the separator upset on the
gangway and somewhat damaged, Syl-
vester Fox was struck by the tongue
and injured considerably about the
chest.
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From The Huron Expositor
October 26, 1888
Mr. John N. Brown, of Ethel, hav-
ing bought out a general store in
Brownsville, Oxford County, removd
there this week.
Mr. E. Floody, of Clinton, the other
day received a couple of articles sent
lent as mementoes, that are dear to
the theart of every Orangeman. One
is a battle of water from the River
Boyne, and the other a piece of the
base of King William's monument.
Mr. John Jarrott, of Hillsgreen, has
sold his farm containing 100 acres to
his son, William J., for the sum of
$7,000, and Mr. Jarrott has purchased
Mr. Anson's farm.
Mrs. George Nott, of the London
Road, Tuckersmith, won over one
hundred dollars in prizes ,at.- the var-
ious fall shows.
Mrs. Atkinson from near Toronto,
has purchrii d the residence of Mr.
Hunt, which, is situated west of the
alarket for $850.
Miss Hart, who has been visiting
Mr- D. D. Wilson for the past two
months, left for her home in Montreal.
air- John Leonhardt, the well known
pig breeder of McKillop, won prizes
at the several shows this season,
amounting to abbot $175.
Some unusually rapid threshing
took place on the farm of Mr. Alex-
ander Forsythe, near here, on Monday
last. The Messrs. Alikemhead, with
their steam ,machine, threshed• 240
bushels of oats in bhirty minutes. The
feeding was done by Mr. A. Aiken -
head end Mr. William Aikenhead at-
tended the engine, and Mr. Ed. Pap -
pie iboked after the machine.
Mr. A. Lawrence, of Londesboro, is
organizing a stinging class in Ktnburn.
The iotato crop in this section is
a rrotific one this season, but we have
not seen nor heard of a:uything to
equal ttbe ones grown by Mr. John
Little on the 8th concession of Mc-
Killop. He recenrtiy left in this office
four potatoes which weighed 7%
pounds.
Mr. James Constable has purchased
the residence recently occupied by
Mr. C. M. Dunlop, for $700 and• is now
living in it.
Mr. David,,Dorrance was in town
this week. He came to Canada to
attend the meeting of the East Huron
YTeaehers' Association, of which he is•
presiderrb.
Mrs. John Young, of the London
Road, has sold' her farm to Mr. Robt.
Watson, of Varna, for $6,000.
Quite a number of the citizen of
Dashw. y attended the opening of the
new abtrob, of the Evangelical Assoc-
iation on the 146b. concession of Hay
last Sunday.
•
"Whatever her fauns, my wife is a
very generous and open banded wo-
man."
"So is mine, old ratan. She can deny
herself nothing."
•
"coni: "I never loved ayone bz}t
you." -
Jane:"Nonsense►"
Toni: "Yon are t' the light of my
life."
Jane: "Foollsly talks"
Toni: "If I could only tell you bow
mu 1t I Iove you!!"
Jane: "Think of something' new."
Toni "Will yeti p trryt tae?"
Jane: "Nowa. *ate tzillcingl"
: Phil Osifer of Lazy Meadows
(By Harry J. Boyle) •
"JUST RAMBLING"
These are the mornings _when the
rime of ,frost makes the grass Icoe
like jewels, and the apples in the box-
es on tale verandah are absorbing all
that Nature can give them. 71hey'll
be mighty fine eating when the snow
is in a fair way to bury the orchard
and the wind is whistling in the
eaves.
These Are the mornings when it's
bard to get up. The floor is cold on
Laic feet, and your overalls are hard
and stiff and goose -pimples come out
on your skin - . . and you can think
cf a thousand things to prevent you 1
from getting up. The fire seems to
be a long while coming to life, and
you begin to get doubts about whe-
ther you will like the country in the
winter or not.
I'm stabling my cows over night
now, and there's a cloud of steam
that meets you when you open the
stable door. Me cows are mundhing
quite contentedly on their cuds and
not worrying a great deal about whe-
ther winter is ooming or Bot. They
feel reasonably sure they will be tak--.
en care of.
There's something about the coun-
try this time of year that's quite fas-
cinating. Every would-be writer, for
as long as! can remember, went in-
to ecstacies over the line of smoky
'hills or the color of the trees. The
would-be humorists all raved about
having to put up stove pipes. They
may be right . . , I can't quite label
the feeling far Autumn that I have,
It's also the open hunting season
for all the cats around the farm. With
the grain in the granary now, all the
field tniee and rats are moving in by
storm to take up residence where the
provisions have all been thoughtfully
stored for them.
Tabby, our tiger -colored one -eyed
pugilist, has had one of her best sea-
sons in my memory. She has gloried
in bawling them over, and ellen after
bandying them to death, tossed their
dead bodies over in a rather con-
temptuous way to the young fry. She
also feels that she is privileged be-
cause of cher prowess as a mouse -
killer to come in and have a daily
snooze on the rug in front of the kit-
chen stove. Mrs. Phil has other ideas
and I get really told off for letting
"that eat" in now and again.
This is also the season for little
known relatives to call in and see
you. They come in cars with baskets
scarcely covered in the back seats,
They are very solicitous about how
your cror has been, and they hint so
broadly about your. apple crop.
Common , decency, of which they
have none, makes you ask if they
euld like a few apples to eat or for
taking. That is the sigrnal for them
to grab up the baskets, pick out the
best apples you have picked, fill up
the back of their car - . . head for
the barn and skedaddle with a bag
cf turnips and three or four bags of
rotate -es. For all of which you are
invited to come and help eat them
some time. • They depart without your
ever knowing where they live. You
scarcely get rid of your great aunts'
first cousin before your grandfather's.,
second cousin's grandson calls in for
his share of the spoils of war.
Itstrikes me that the majority of
city cousins have the idea that living
in the country is a lark. Nature each
Fall, upand dunips in your lap about
twine as much as you will need for
the next year. They never even Con-
sider that you have to work for' it.
No, you just sit around and Nature
provides for you . . and why
shouldn't you provide for all your rel-
atives! Well, I don't mind giving iu
the full flow of the milk of human
kindness, but I sure do hate to have
the well pumped dry.
And so this is the season of Aut-
umn . . and I hope that my readers
will forgive this letter, because I have
a basket of apples and a nice grassy
spotpicked. out itr the sun to while
away the afternoon with.
JUST A SMILE OR TWO
Culprit: "It may 'ave been five or
it may 'ave been six o'clock. I've got
no. idea of time,"
Magistrate: "H'm! I may be able
to give you some."
•
Aunt Kate: "When I was younger
I could have married anybody I
pleased."
Little Bobby: "Didn't you please
anybody, Aunt Kate?"
•
Tourist: "Is it far to the next
town?"
Native: "Well; it seem further
than it is, but you'll find out it ain't,"
•
"Anything the matter with the car?"
"Well, there's only one part of it
that doesn't make a noise and that's
the horn."
"Lady-- has been in Biarritz. She
i5 a very practical mother, and may
often be seen with her children in
their pram in Hyde Park,."
•
Helen: "What do they mean by
'Etiquette'?"
Bobby: "I think Mother said it was
the noise you mustn't drink soup
with!"
•
"And why didn't you like the job I
got for you?"
"When I said I'd take care of your
friend's pets while he was away, you
didn't tell me he ran a circus."
"Pa, what is an optimist?"
"A man who figures that when his
shoes wear out he will be back on his
feet again!"
AgriculturalChanges, Larger
`` Farms and Higher Standards;
(By R. J. Dea chlnan, M.P.) 0
The causes which lie back of the
present trouble of the farmer are not
cj fEtouit, to explain Since pre-war
days labor has fought for and rightly
won a higher standard of living. That
it might conceivably have won more
by a different method of procedure is
not now a subject of discussion.
Nothing short of e. revolution will al-
ter that situation, and that type of
revolution is the least of all possibili-
ties. Prices of farm implements and
the cost of living have risen sharp-
ly. The cost of living starting from
the 1913 base is now (July, 1938) 32
per Dent above the level of the base
year. An eight -foot binder is approxi-
mately 85 per cent •higher. Mean-
while the price level of farm products
has risen as follows:
1913 1937 July.1938
Field. products .- 100 156,6 116.9
Animal products 100 110.3 104.9
All farm products 100 139.3 112,4
A comparable Canadian table of
wages is not available, but the U, 5,
Bureau of Labor puts the figure at
223 in 1936, against 100 in 1913, Note
also the marked instability of farm
prices. The changes since 1937 are
paralyzing to the farmer.
That brief paragraph constitutes
the basis of the whole problem. But
the price of ma.ntufactured products
:has not risen as much as labor costs
have ,increased. The reason is that
mechanization of industry, improved
methods of production, the develop-
ment of larger industrial organiza-
tions, have held down costs and thus
permitted the development of labor's
higher standards.
Two difficoilties faced • agricuiture.
The war and the growth of an in-
tense nationalistic- spirit tended to de-
stroy markets, That question is with-
in the domain of statesmanship—we
may leave it there. The situation
may have some rays of hope from
the long teen ,point of view—the im-
mediate position is far from bright,'
The farmer 'cannot control it, l3i&
the pendulum always swings. It is
7rdghly imiprobeble that over the per-
iod of years tlhe human race will pre-
fer machine guns and gas bombs to
a higher standard of living,
The otiher difficulty of the farmer
--that of rising costar ---can be meet at
least in part. What industry has'
tried' to do in the way of holding
down costs b'elo'w the increased wage
coots, can in some treasure be achiev-
ed tin; bite farm, While industrial
niechsrnilatioii, 'increased capital costs
and loweitetli wage costsL-mechandtra-
t3on oti the Darin may lower both cap-
ita costs and wage costs. It is pos-
eibie, at, least • in nai eectione', to
lower th0 coat of farm Bradt ettdri
et:4
and thus increase the standard of liv-
ing on the farm,
A Business Problem
Here we face a business problem:
Let us look at it in a business way.
There are two types of cost on a
farm, capital Costs involving the to-
tal expenditure necessary to establish
a farm and operating costs or the cost
involved in production. Both•cost• it-
ems can in a great many Cases in
the Province of Ontario, be substan-
tially reduced by the acceptance of a
larger farm unit, highly mechanized,
I emphasize these factors, 'IThis does
not necessarily apply to every county
in Ontario. It does not, perhaps, ap-
ply to the areas near the cities, nor
to certain other specialized areas, but
in the mixed farming and live stock
sections there could be decided sav-
ings effected by this means. Besides,
it is a present trend; 11 is inherent
in the nature of ,things. Where wage
costs are high and capital costs are
• high, economic man will attempt to
cut costs, increase efficiency and
world towards the betterment of his
economic position. Let us look at-, a
section of country in the mixed farm -
district where there are three
100 -acre farms which lie side by side.
There are three houses with barns'
and outbuildings. Three sets of im=
plemeirts'three or more wells, three
families to maintain. Business looks
at this and asks what could be achiev-
ed by jointing these three farms and
operating theta as one. Now do not
join them unless you want t'o do so.
Remember, I. •noseoom
you by legislativdoe entactmentekto, to rupe1n
these three farms as one. My only
claim is that it is worth eonsttiering•
Do not debate it; that is, do not take
an attitude which you want to defend
wiily-ni.ily. It is a question only for
examination and consideration,
I asked two implement companies
to give me the cost of equipment of
a 100 -acre farm and one 300 -acre farts.
The 100 -acre farm, with horses, cost
approximately $1,600; three 100 -acre
farms running separately would cost
$4,800, but one 300 -acre- farm could
be provided with the; meceersary ma
chtneuy' for $2,700. You, therefore,
shave a- saving of $2,100 itn, capital
costs on the 300 -acre unit in compari-
son with the three 100 -acre units. The
saving is in equipment alone.
'Certainly two ihbuees Would be suf-
ficient in the 800 -acre farm against
'one in each hundred acres. There
could 'be home for the hired man or
for ,tile other partner in the enteri
prise if there was one. House main-
tenance is a factor in costs Con-
ceivably three barns might at first be
(Continued on page 3),
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Seen in the
County Papers
Injured in Moving Barn
Lawrence and George Falconer, cf
the London Road, are in Clinton
Hospital with serious injurioa and a
neighbor, Howard Snell, is cen'flned
to his home following a narrow es-
cape from death on Saturday. The
men were assisting William Falconer
move a barn the had purchased in Col-
borne township to his London Road
farm, when in some maorner one of
the heavy beams fell scattering men
in all directions and injuring the-
three.—Clinton
hethree.Clinton News -Record.
Fireof Badle wy orst •$rDamages Home
One tives fa Clinton
occurred on Sunday .afternoon when
the frame residence of Mr. and Mrs.
Stewart Taylor was badly damaged
in a fire that haat gained considerable
headway before being noticed. The
family were away from home at the
time and it is thought •Vhs fire start-
ed from either an overheated stove-
pipe or a spark from the •kitclran
,stove.—Clinton News -Record. •
Dies From Electric Shock
Shock and burns from' contact with
a high tension wire at the total power
station on Thursday afternoon Last re-
sulted in the death on 'Monday night
f James Stilleben, Hydtro•sub-station
operator, and a well known citizen of
Under iclr.—Goderich Signal -Star,
To Receive LL.D. Degree
At a special convocation of the Uni-
versity of Toronto on Friday of this
e eek the degree of Doctor of Laws is
to be conferred upon Lady Tweeds-
muir, wife of the Governor-General of
Canada; Rt, Hou, Ernest Lapointe,
Minister of Justice of Canada; Dr. W.
Sherwood Fox, president of the Uni-
versity of Western Ontario; J. C. Rob-
ertson, professor emeritus of Greek
language and literature, Victoria Col-
lege, Toronto; J. J. Gibson, a gover-
nor of the University of Toronto and
vice-president and general Manager.
of the Chartered Trust and Executor
Company, and Jean Gunn, superintend-
ent of nurses, Toronto General Hos-
1:'.tai, Prof. Robertson is a Goderich
URI boy, a brother of bhe Misses Mary
aril Margaret Robertson and /of
Messrs. A. M. and W. H. Robertson:
of town,—Goderich Signal -Star,
Worker Kilted At Cemetery
Norman Forbes, aged 60, an itin-
erant laborer, was almost instantly
killed Thursday afternoon when
thrown from a wagon: Mr. Forbes
was n-orking in the Brussels ceme-
tery, drawing clay, when the team
of horses he was driving suddenly
bolted and ran away. Percy Mitchell,
caretaker of the cemetery, saw the
horses run away and went to investi-
gate. He found Mr. Forbes lying on
the ground, but the man was, dead
before medical aid arrived, He sue
fere-tile fracture of the skull. The body
was removed to William Love's fu::-
e:ai hone at Ethel,—Brussels Post.
Foundation Walls Up
With the fine weather that ,hie;
prevailed during trhe past week.
splendid progress has been made \vibe
the new school building now in
course of construction- The cement,
foundation is in and the brickwork
will start shortly., The brick to he
used is a color combination of tinte,3
buff. -- Exeter Times -Advocate.
Has Sold - Farm
Mr, Gordon C. Turnbull has sold
tris larm on the Blue Water Highway
be ing ewer of Lots 21 and 22, leak,
Road East Concession, Hay, to Mrs.
Err -est Geiser, who has had the farm
leased for a number of years. Po, -
session will be given November 1-r
next,—Zurich Herald.
WawanoshMan injured
ilugh Blair, of Wawanosh, who is
employed on a threshing outfit
Wawanosh, met with an Unfortunate
accident when he was caught betwe,'n
the separator and door of the Ben-
nett barn during the work of movins
the separator. He suffered a severe
shaking up and several cuts and an
'Wined ankle. He was removed to
W1i'mglaam Hospital where be will be
for a week or two as it was necessary
to put the injured leg in, a cast. We
wish him a speedy and complete re-
covery.—Wimgtham Advance -Times,
Came Fourth at Goderich •
,Four local rinks took part in a
blanket trebles held at God:erica on
the •holiday. One rink H. McKay,
Bert Porter and W. A. Miller, art
into •ttho prize list, coming fourth with
2 wirers flute 22. Three games wr P
Pl'ay'ed with a, plus of 12.—Wingham
Aal sauce-'pj mesa
Newly-Wells. Honored
On Friday evening quite a number
of friends and, neighbors met in Menl-
o/141 Hall to honor two bridal couples
of the past` week, Mr. and Mrs. Ben-
son A. Gowan and Mr. and Mrs. Lioyi
Miller. Musi.0 for dramcing was Sup-
plied by local talent and an enjoyable
time was spent. Lunch was served
at midnight,—Blyth, Standard.
Lions Frolic Draws Big Crowd
Gerald Skinner, of town, won the
major prize, a cheque for $200.00,
equivalent to a trip to Florida, at
the first frolic¢ of the Exeter Lions
Club held In the Mena Thursday
and Friday evenings of last week.
Over twelve hundred people: attended
the frolic the first 'night and this was
increased to'over fifteen hundred peo-
ple the 'second night. The Shetland
pony and outfit went to Bobbie Pryde.
SOD of Mr. and MTS. Thomas Pryde
Bobble had the choice of the poetry, a
Jersey cow or $75.00 worth of mer-
c'handis'e. His theart was set on the
Pony even before the draw was made
and he was a surprised and happy
lad when his name was readtout. The
Hest ticket drawn turned cult to be n•
blank, -The ticket for Bobbie's Prize
was donated, by T. Ff. Eillott. Mr. IC
Wermer, of London, was the winner
of a radio given away by W. J. Beer
im a guessing contest on the world
des ,between the New York and
Ohicago teattife E. Applettm viae the
next closest and. Mts. L. Battersby,
t rd.4._ her Tlnuesr-Advocate.
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