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SEAF<ORTH, Friday, May 22, 1942
Early Closing
Early closing on Saturday nights'
bas become ' a problem with every
village and town in Western. Ontario
in recent years. Seemingly the hour
of closing- has been extended :year by
year until it has invaded the Sunday
morning hours in - • a great many
places.
In speaking of • this problem, the
Listowel Bannerlast week said:
"The Business Men's Association
started out nicely early in the year
by arranging for Wednesday half -
holidays and for closing at 10.30 Sat-
urday nights during the winter
months. But it looks as if the eleven
o'clock closing hour on Saturday
during the 'summer is not going as
well. .The past two Saturdays clerks
have been kept busy close to twelve
o'clock, and some past that hour. It
is not- fair to the business man and
his helpers to be kept after the mid-
night hour, in fact it is illegal, and
punishable by law."
Of course it is illegal, and likewise
it is unnecessary. But competition,
or fear of competition in recent
years, has so extended the so called
shopping service to the point where
one merchant feels compelled to bid
against another in extending, it,
whether he makes or loses money,
Or whether both he and his help suf-
fer in consequence, and quite regard-
lessof the law„and its consequences.
Under the -circumstances, it is na-
turrat that the country people who do -
their business in these villages and
towns, will take every advantage of
it. To. them Saturday night is the
big night of the week. Just as much
a night of pleasure as a night of bus-
iness, and human nature being what
it is, pleasure naturally . comes first,.,
leaving business to be attended to in
.the closing hour of the night, or the
early hours of Sunday morning.
And it will continue that way .un-
til some town or village takes the
initiative, or until: all the towns and
villages in the ' county or in some
large trading area, get together and
set an hour for Saturday night—and
then stick to it.
It can be done because the cities
and the big towns, which are the
small town's greatest competitors,
have had early closing for years, and
we have an idea that if it did not pay,
those 'places would have found it out
and have discarded the early closing
long ago.
However, . there is every prospect
of a solution being reached in the
very immediate future, quite regard
less of the opinions or beliefs ol',
either the town merchant or the peo-
ple in the country. By the middle of
this summer people who have cars
with good tires are going to find out
that they can not purchase gas to -
run them to any extent, at least, 'and
people whose permits allow them a
larger amount of gasoline, will be
afraid of wearing out their tires,
which means putting the car up .for
the duration.
Horse- and buggy days may riot be
back :.. again, but they are on their
way, and 'approaching fairly rapidly
loo. There was nil early Saturday
night problem when that era ruled
.before, and there will be• no such
problem when it rules again.
There will be cars, of course, but
there,= will not be a pleasure car
amongst them: They will be business
gar
'and the' Problem of the People
e will be to. -see how,soon they
�hhlie` aid i_et
busness done �
n°d: net haw` manyattire 'Wo
of daiiithem:
All Over Nara
The kitchen stove has "ion
graduate.from an ugly utili y toa
streamlined thin ° of beauty In -
steal af'.spoiling to looks of:; a: well
appointed kitchen, the modern' stoves
with their . bright colored,. casings,
enamelled sides • and nickle plated fit-
tings, make even the poorest and
barest kitchen look like something.
And they were improving in looks
every day until a month ago, when
the Munitions and Supply- Depart-
ment stepped in and said: "No new
stoves other than approved models
may be -niufactured after April
15th"
So it's all —oVer-Krfow, because the
approved models are going to re-
semble, very "largely, the old Quebec
heater—a very efficient heater, but
an eyesore in appearance, because it
is just an enlarged iron stove pipe
about three feet high, lined with fire-
brick and about two feet across.
The old heater, and possibly the
new will resemble it—because of the
shortage of iron and steel—had no
grates; just a small hole at the bot-
tom for cleaning out ashes, and the
fuel was fed from the top. But it
burned anything and everything to
a cinder, and kept thousands of
homes warm in zero weather. •
If you• don't like that kind of a
stove; be mighty gentle and good to
the one you have, because very, very
soon you won't be able to replace it,
or even anything like it.
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Fast Work
We had been led to. believe that
Canada's war production effort was
one of the most encouraging features
of the war from the United Nation's
standpoint of view.
At least, we have repeatedly been
told so by no less personages than
the President of the United, States,
the Prime Minister of Great Britain,
and our own General McNaughton..
But if we are to believe what we
read last week, we are far, far be-
low the production of the United
States Pacific coast, as far as ship-
building is concerned.
So far behind, in .fact, that we
despair of ever even approaching
that coast. For this is what we read
in the Los Angeles Examiner:
"The $6,000,000 submarine Amber -
jack, latest Of such craft built for
the United States Navy, slipped from
the ways at the Electric Boat Com-
pany Shipyard into the fog -shrouded
waters of the Thames- River 'to -day,
less than ten minutes after her keel
had been . laid.” •
If ten-minute submarines can be
built, why not fifteen minute battle-
ships., • and five-minute freighters?
These are the things that would solve
the war shipping problem, and, iri-
cidently, the gasoline and rubber sit-
uation as well.
API gad
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From The, lft ron Expositor
May 2,. 1917 . - ...
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One of the lg6rst storms in the his-
tory of the Village of Blyth struck
there on Satatrdday, It .wrecked' the
telephone system when 17 lines were
put out of C0th mission : The roof of
the fair grounds grandstand was_'lp1
ped off and carried quit a distance.
Murray umillae, on of Mr. and,. Mrs.
A. G: Small e, Toronto, who is attend-
ing Seaforth Collegiate, is suffering
an attack of _ipflamatory rheumatism.
Mist; Effie McKay; Tuckersmith, had
the ntsfortune to fall and fracture
some ribs.
The following are among the recent
sales of „Ford cars made by J. F. Daly,
the local agent; . Hackwell Bros. and
Alf. Brown, MldoKillop James Love,
Andrew Archibald, J. D. Gemmell and
J. Dale, S't;, Tuckersmith; Herb. Box,
Dr. C. Mackay, W. E. Southgate, Jr.,
George A. Sills & Son and Sam Walk-
er, Seaforth; Peter / Dill, Dublin;
Chris. Ward, Varna, and Frank Hall,
Constance. Mr. Daly has disposed of
35 Ford cars so far this summer.
Mr.,' J. T. Fell, who has been con-
ducting the photo gallery here for
some years, has disposed of his busi-
ness to Mr. Buck, of Mitchell.
Mr. John Elgie, of Tuckersmith, has
purchased a new car from Mr. J. F.
Daly, Seaforth. -
Mr. Samuel: Hicks, of Centralia, a
well-known farmer of Usborne, who
resides about a mile east of that place
was struck by lightning and instant-
ly killed during the storm on Satur-
day evening. He was 57 years of age.
John Seale,- a young farmer living
on the 1st .concession of Biddulph
Township, while driving a load of hay
on -the highway near his 'home on Sat-
urday afternoon, was instantly killed
by lightning.
Mrs. Robert Hawthorne, of , Eg-
mondville, now holds the record for
large eggs. She received. one this
week from one of her flock of hens
that measured 7i/a x 8 inches.
Mr. Thomas Richardson, of Kippen,
received a,. telegram from Ottawa tell-
ing him that his son, Pte. Frederick
Richardson, had ,been -killed in action
on May 3. ,
A bad accident occurred at the saw
mill at, ,Blyth on Saturdaywhen a
piece of lumber from a saw struck
Mr. W. Mowbray, an employee of the
mill, in the leg. No bones were brok-
en, but he- was considerably bruised.
Another high -record in the price of
hogs was established in Clinton on
Friday when the local buyers, Can-
telon and Wallis, paid $16.54 live
weight, to the- farmers for a load of
140 hogs. .
Lieut. Leonard McFaul, son of Dr
J. H. McFaul, Toronto, spent Sunday
at •the 'home of his grandfather, Mr.
L. L. McFaul. Lieut. McFaul is at-
tached to the aviators and leavis for
overseas 'siertly.
[Mrs. David Stewart and . Miss Hazel
are in Goderich this week visiting
friends and relatives.
Right -or -Wrong ?
In time of war more changes are
made in man's life, his mode of liv-
ing and his, definitions of right and
wrong, than have occurred, perhaps,
in • several preceding generations.
It was that way in the last war
and is bec ing so,in this. Twenty-
five or tl rity years ago, many things .
'that for decades had been looked up-
on as wrong, went by the board, and
to -day are looked upon as right and
good.
But these changes did not come
about without argument pro and con.
There are mooted changes in our
world of to -day which are meeting
with fierce argument pro and con.
Often, however, both sides of the
argument are right, and neither side
is wrong in its contentions.
It is like the anecdote of the old
American Quaker: When the build-
ing of the Erie Canal was being dis-
cussed, the subject ' of favoring it
was being discussed in a Quaker
business meeting of men. It -was op-
posed. ; by an . influential member—no
less than Elias Hicks, celebrated
American preacher—on the grounds
of its being a, speculation. Among
other objections he went on to say,
"When "'the world was created, if any
canals were intended they would
have been . made."
Thereupon a member rose up and
in the` --i nig voice usually -.:heard
s . ; ..And
nieet
. >u said :
in the Quaker
,cob' diggocli`a yei1r and sat ,down.'
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."They say spring manouvres are coming!"
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totr'ere.
'. Jap Labour Camp
Last week mention was .made that
a Japanese labour camp wag to be
located, near Centralia to. help' with.
the sugtar beet crop.. We understand
that arrangements -are 'being made, fpr-..
the erection of a •building 24 x 90 on -r .
the farm- of Mr. Fred Ellerangtou at
Eden, Tecenily owned :by ;Mr. John
Linton. :The building is sup.posed toc
be up the latter part,•,of this -month.
—Exeter.; Times -Advocate,
Transferred To Vancouver
Mr. James Yuili, engineer with the
Department of Transport, who .has
been supervising the runways for
the Centralia airport, has been trans-
ferred to Vancouver, where he wilt
be engaged in building airports. Ac
companied by Mrs. Yuill, he left Exe-
ter the latter part of the week.—Exe-
ler Times -Advocate.
The seeding is over, There is' still sure of getting shaved at a barber
plenty of work to be done around shop. I dropped in at Tonic's place.
Lazy Meadows,. and it looks this sea- The funny thing about it is that when.
son as if I'lh have to do the major- he started barbering in the village so
ity of it myself. Down 'on .our Con:. many years ago he had a perfect head
cession the hired men have vanished. of hair. It was black and curly and
Some are in the army. Others are 'wavy in the way that womenlike
working in war plants and the, ones hair to be. He fooled around with
who are left take their pick of the 'so many different kinds of lotions and
jobs going. tonics on his hair that it finally all
dropped .out. somebody started call-
ing him Tonic and the name has
stuck with him ever since.
Tonic would never get a job in a'
city barber -shop. He is too abrupt.
Just climb into the chair and he flips
it back so quickly that you have to
fall into it. Then he slaps a towel
up under Your „chin and grabs a lather
brush and proceeds to douse you with
the soap. Then comes the part' that
I always enjoy. A scalding hot towel
drops on your face and is patted into
place -and you can feel it sort of soak-
ing the tiredness out of you, \ You
close your•eyes and then presto
. off comes the towel and on goes
the lather again..
The razor starts to dive-bomb for'
your face.. . . it banks and turns
and 'skims down along your neck.' Yoii
can't help but be alert. The razor
flips in around your nose, stalking
out vagrant whiskers .. skims down
over your chin and drags just a lit-
tle along the tough neck-line/ Just
at the tinid when your nose is held
firmly ,between his thumb and ,fore-
finger, Tonic asks you a question and
you dare not answer because the
razer is skimming along your .lip.
not water and soap and a stinging
lotion and. then a quick hair comb
and you have your shave, all the gos'
sip of the village about tw` enty ques=
tions unanswered - but you feel
great. - There's nothing like "a -'barber -
.shop shave to pep you up.
You•can•'t altogether blame the hir-
ed men for not wanting to jump at
any job offered to them. It seems
like only Yesterday that young fel-,
lows were coming to the door and
asking for a meal and any job we.
Wanted to give them. The usual pro-
cedure was to work for your board
during the winter months doing
chores for a farmer and then hiring
out for the summer months at just
enough` money for a fair amount of
fun and enough clothes to carry them
through another bard winter.
I lazied this whole day through.
There are days like that in any man's
life I suppose. The excuse for gling
into the village was to get some re-
pairs for the mower. 'Actually, I
Could have picked them up on Satur-
day night. I•t was a warm, dampish
sort of day when a fellow feels like
smoking his pipe and talking to peo-
ple.
I guess everybody on the Concession
thought the same way. The platform
in front -of Murphy's store was crowd-
ed. with men, all smoking their pipes_
and discussing war strategy and many
other subjects about which they knew
very little. That's the one pleasant
thing about talking. Just get' off on a
subject about which you don't know
anything and you can let your imag-
ination run riot.
When a man is . in a lazy mood
there's nothing that equals the plea -
From The Huron Expositor
May 27, 1892'.
The twenty-fourth passed over very
_quietly in town. Nearly every person
who couldget away left for some of
the neighboring towns and some of
the town athletes distinguished them
selves abroad. Messrs, A. O. Winter
and J. O. Rose' toed everything in
Exeter;, Messrs. Jas. Reid, -R.- Beat
tie and William 'Reid Cline' won -rent
els and numerous prizes in the ath
letic' sports at Mitchell, while R.
Roach took a 'good position in -the
Brussels races with "Gussie Pickard."
On Thursday night last Mr. W. G.
Glenn, of the Seaforth Restaurant,
was extinguishing -a large hanging
latgp in his shop When the chain by
which it was hanging broke, and it
fell in behind the counter, the oil
taking fire and the whole place was
afire in no time. So rapidly did the
fire spread that Mrs. Glenn and the
other members of . the family had
scarcely time to escape with the cloth-
ing they were wearing. -
The Beaver LaCrosse Club went to
Stratford -on Tuesday to play •a friend-
ly game with - the club of that town.
The Stratford club came out victor-
ious by four to one.
On. Friday evening of last week Mr.
C. Stelck, °leader of the Methodist
church choir at Hillsgreen, was tak-
en by surprise. Miss L. Foster and
Miss M. Coleman presented hint with
a beautiful • album.
Mr. R. B. Jeffrey, station agent at
Londesboro, has purchased the house
Owned and latelyoccupied by William
Brunsden, Sr., and will move an short-
ly.
The stores of Messrs. Jackson Bros.
and C. W. Papst, which were being
reconstructed after the fire, are now
nearly ready for occupancy.
About 11 o'clock Monday. forenoon
the people ofthis town were chocked
to learn of the death of Wm. Sproat.
He had been[ breaking in, a young
horse and started to 'the country.
Nearly opposite the residence of Wm.
McMichael it is supposed that the
horse got frightened • and bolted,
throwing him from' the [buggy and Bill-
ing him instantly.
Rev. Bert Casson, of Fullerton, son
of Rev. Mr. Casson, of this town,
preached two • excellent sermons in
the Methodist Church here on Sunday'
last to large congregations.
The hotel at Staffa has been paint-
ed and papered and otherwise equip-
ped.
Mr. E. Livingstone, of Belgrave,
shipped a quantity of lumber from
that station last ;Week. -
The gymnastic"s exhibition given on
Friday evening sof last week by Mr,
E. . E. Hallett Was': a very pleasantaf-
fair. The following is a list of the
competitors Swinging clubs, Minnie
Haxby, Radiraei.'Lkn , %trat'h; IndianH
wrestling, Geo, anby, Ed. Daley;
Cncy,mareiing;u: e1Wright, Agnien
ash horizouE: baGHit*, L
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-0aley; dumb1 1 e, wp : 0.0 William
ilawkshaw; e1111)•,ra a MVO & t.
snsatt gale.
On Headquarters Staff
AOl. Warren May, who has been
on the pay• staff of the R.C.A.F., St.
Thomas, has been transferred to,
headquarters of the 'R.C.A.F. at Ot-
tawa. He was home the latter part
of the week, leaving Sunday for his -
new position. — Exeter ,Times -Advo-
cate.
Ribs Fractured
Mr. Edward Anderson, while shing-
ling on Mr. G. Hay's house, had the -
misfortune to -fall from the top of the
roof to the ground,_ fracturing some
of his 'ribs. He was attended by Dr.
Fletcher.—Exeter Times -Advocate.
Graduates As Nurse
It will be of interest to many of
our readers to learn that among those
who graduated, . this week froin - the
Mack Training School for Nurses in
connection with St. Catharines Gen-
eral Hospital, is 'Miss Elaine Stan -
bury, formerly of Exeter. The "best'
wishes of a host of friends go with.
her into her chosen profession.
Exeter Times -Advocate.
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Received His Wings Saturday
Everybody on Refuge -
Ship Seemed To Have
Real Thrilling History
This is the eighteenth and final
story of a trip to Britain,- and
back again in wartime. The writ-
er, Hugh Templin, editor of The
Fergus News-Record,went at the
invitation of the British Council
and represented Canada's weekly
newspapers.
Before the United States entered
the war, two of the most popular
places in the City of Lisbon, capital
of Portugal, were ratherdingy ship-
ping offices. One of them had a cer-
tain air of romance -about It, for tt
belonged to Pan American Airways,
whose big Clipper planes were sup-
posed to• fly from. Lisbon to New York
three 'limes a week. It was on one
of the main streets in downtown Lis-,.
bon-, in the district occupied by the
banks, the money changers and the
pawn shops. All of these places were
well known to thousands of refugees
from Nazi -dominated Europe, who
had escaped to the freedom of Lisbon
and who hoped to go on to the Unit-
ed States or somewhere else in the
New World, out of Hitler's reach. It
was easy to imagine these refugees
making their hopeless rounds. And
no -place would be more hopeless than
the ticket offices of Pan American
Airways, for only the greatly privi-
leged, with "pull" at Washington or
London, or Ottawa, ever set foot In
these ships with wings.
In October, 1941, there was another
place visited by thousands of these
persons Who still hoped• to escape.
That w.as the office of American E'xf
port Lines. ':Phis 'wag a steamship
company, with einbitions to take to
t11.e. air Os well and breakthe mon-
opoly .enjoyed -by ' ''a `Aiierican. "But
the War With _Aai)an intervened be-
fore the first .Tcport Lines plane took
t4 the alt•. the coh`Ilanjr WAS �n:
three 'ski Ips a, tioiith to Lisbon.. And
the,
Vest famottd of the*. ill *id
7d
cainbioi't.
Congratulations that John L. Camp-
bell,son of Mr. W. J. Campbell, of
Turnberry, who on Saturday graduat-
ed as an observer at the Royal Can-
adian Air Force No. 7 Bombing and
Gunnery School at Paulson, Manitqba.
—Wingham Advance -Times.
Twins To Graduate From Hospital'
Rita M. King and Loretta R. King, �-•
twin daughters of Mr. and Mrs:' Mich-
ael, of Culross, will on June 3 gradu-
ate from Guelph St. Joseph's Hospi-
tal. It is the first time that twins
have graduated from that institution.
The graduation exercises will be held
in War Memorial Hall at the Ontario,
Agricultural College, Guelph.—Wing-
ham Advance -Times.
Out of Europe By' Refugee Ship
The eight Canadian editors, tem-
porarily stranded in Lisbon, had re-
turn tickets for the Clipper, but the
weather was interfering with plane
schedules and danger was drawing
closer all the time. There would not
even be a boat out for -two weeks if
we did not go by the Excambion, se,
-orae, or two at a time, we gave in to
the inevitable, ; turned • our Clipper
tickets over to the British Embasdy
and received boat tickets in exchange.
The Atlantic is wide between Lis-
bon and New York, about twice as
wide as froin Newfoundland • to Ire-
land. The water is blue and warm,
.with occasional dolphins jumping out
of the waves and playing around the
ship.
There was some delay in leaving
Lisbon. I had come on board early,
after paying out my last few escudos
to the Portugese- police guard at the
wharf entrance—their last chance to
get graft out of the departing travel-
lers. I had intended to keep that
money :For souvenirs and was a bit
sore about it.
The harbor was interesting, as all
harbors are. From the land side,
big cranes were lifting casks of Vine,
crates of raisins and figs, and boxes
of unmarked goods; 'On the river side,
odd little sailitlg"'Vess'els; -unclra-uged
from Phoenician days, bad cargoes.
of cork brought from the interior.
They were family affairs, evidently,
and inhabited not only by people but
by dogs, hens and fighting cocks.
It was dark When the Excambion
pulled out and sailed down the broad
Tagus river.. Now that 1 was leaving
it, Lisbon looked lovely, set on• its
nevem Milts, orae • of 'the -few brilliantly
lighted et id's left in hurope. Tice last
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bit o u
f i �b e.lc
p fluid see was the red
neon sign Weir the gambling et ship
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Brussels Boy Wins Commission
Pilot Officer J. D. Cunningham
(Omar), son of Mrs. R. Cunningham,
Toronto, won his wings and -commis-
sion at Summerside, P.B.I. • He is ar
graduate of Runnymede Collegiate,
Toronto.—Hrdasels Post.
Invents Car Alarm Device
Bruce Beaumont, of Logan, has
been using his . spare time profitably,
having invented a device for his
father's car to wardoff any would-
be tire thieves. It is,understood
when the car is moved an alarm is
sounded, with the natural result that
the would-be perpetrator makes him-
self suddenly scarce.—Mitchell Advo-
cate. •
Fractures Wrist in Fall From Stool
Mrs. Bert Kempston sustained a.
fracture to the big bone -•1n her right
wrist while assisting Mrs. G. A."
Whitney with the housecleaning at
her home. It seems she was .up on a
stool and in some manner slipped
and fell. In the fall, cuts -in her left
hand, sustained earlier in the week,
were [broken open, and clamps were
required to close this wound.—Mit-
chell Advocate.
Fractures Ankle Unloading Loge
William Walsh, of Stratford, who
operates the sawing mill on 'Trafal-
gar St., •with 'Arnold Gloor, had his
right ankle broken and the ligaments
torn on Saturday morning. Walsh
had returned from Fullerton township
with a load of logs arid was engaged
in unloading theta when the cant -
hook slipped and'one of the logs roll-
ed down wth the resultant injuries.
Following medical aid he was taken
to Stratford General hospital where
the foot was placed in a Cast and he
was later removed to his home.—Mit-
c'hell Advocate,
William J. Tough Dies -At Clinton
William J. Tough died at his home,
iRattenbury Street, Clinton, on Sun-
day, May 10, in his 79th year, .follow-
ing an illness of two years' duration.
Of Scottish descent, he was a son of -
the late John Tough and Isabella
(Hay( Tough, and- was born in Stan-
ley township January 2$, 1864. He,
received his educaton at No, 4 school
section, Stanley, Seaforth Collegiate
and Toronto Normal School, and af-
terwards 'taught school for eight
years, after which he returned to his
father's Win in Stanley. In 1901 be
'married 'litany La#slaw of Blyth, and
th0-fartned iii' Stanley for 3,5 years.
Might ear o tli .`; ir'etire d their
y o ago d an
There was u feeling off' to kst011 do
t;p z~etidenoe M'r. Tough,
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