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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1928-11-29, Page 2THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 2», 1028 THE EXETER TIMES-ADVOCATE WRTTW Suffered for Years With Her Stomach Could Hardly Eat Mrs. H. J. Jardine, Quarryville, N.B., writes:—“For years I suffered with my stomach; could hardly eat, and felt as if life were not worth living. “A friend advised me to take Ou Saturday evening last the barn of Mr. James Armstrong, concession 4, Usborne, about two and a half miles east of Exeter, was destroyed by fire together with a great portion of the contents. A very agreeable surprise was given Mr. and Mrs. W. Hayden on Saturday last when the members of the Masonic them with a silver service (purch­ ased from Mr. S. E. Jones) accom­ panied by a very neat and suitable address. Messrs. R. Seldon, G. A. K. M’rLeod, and Jones, McLaughlin and Thorne waited on them the presentation. Markets:—-Fall wheat, spring 'wheat, 60 to 80; to 68; peas. 27; poultry, 5c. per lb.; geese, 40 to 50c. chickens, 20 to 40c. per pr $3.oo to $3.75; hides, 5 to 7c per lb; cordwood, $2.50 to $3.50. Mr. Richard Young, con. 5. hen. has sold his farm to C. I JI’’. Young intends retiring tanning. Three deer wi re shot in the seven miles west of Crediton eek. A good many p<>oi)le in Stepii- n are bav’ng shortly for the W* -r. •limitin';: and the States. Late Edward C. Fowell (Woodstock Sentinel Review) 50 YEA'RS AGO Mr. Knight,' late of St. Thomas, has been appointed station agent in Exeter in the room of Mr. William Hayden, promoted to Woodstock. Rev. E. J. Robinson, the present incumbent of Chrst Church, who ar­ rived in Exeter last week entered upon his duties last Sunday by pre­ aching two excellent sermons. Mr. J. R. Miller. Public School Inspector, has been in town for ’the past few days inspecting the school. Mr. * ’ a ear which On of Crediton. was driving his horse became frightened of a wagon which had been left standing on the side of the road. The buggy was smashed not injured. A scald the Provid Walsh, of sail; Far addressed James Pickard has purchased loud of turk“ys. about 60o, he shipped to England. Monday last, as Air. Parsons, ’ ’ g to Exeter, became frightened of fraternity presented and made 82 to St»: barley, 4 0 7; turkeys, per pr: : lmgs, the telephone A three or four bottles b well woman; can eat any- tl.hg. and am strong a ;u’n. I wish to thank you for your w> mlvrful medi- cir.e. “ Manufactured only by The T. Mil­ burn Co., Ltd, Toronto, Ont.bush lu-t 25 YEARS AGO Wm. Fislnr received a • i.ri up on Wednesday. He ' ; * enter Airs. Harness’ r< sm- Main St. when he slipp. d sustaining such injur' s his Edward Corbett Fowell died in Detroit, Mich., on Friday, November 16th, in his 68th year. I-Ie was born on the 4th concession of Blansliard and came to WoodMovk as a boy to take tip tin' study of pharmacy, a profession in which he. was to be­ come highly proficient and success­ ful. Eventually Mr. Fowell joined the firm of William H. iSchiefflen & Sons, New York, and became super­ intendent of travelling salesmen, after an experience which took him to every State in the American Union and frequently to the European markets. About 15 years ago he re­ tired from business and took up his lesidence in Windsor. He was a ■member of the Rice. Bay Fishing and Hunting Club. It was during a world tour some years ago that Mr. Fow­ ell was stricken at Cairo, Egypt with an illness from which he never fully recovered. E. C. Fowell was the youngest son of .John and Sarah Fowell, who moved from Blansliard to Beachville about 60 years ago. Deceased formerly Windsor, from the where interment was made in family plot. Relatives and friends attended the funeral from Detroit, Windsor. Exeter, Toronto and whore. The- pall-bearers were fellow members of the Rice (Tub and two m-pht ws. about 60 years is survived by his wife, Miss Rose St. Louis, of The funeral took place N. II. .station, Woodstock the (dse- four Bay HTS YOUNG LADY'S JOB is to “clock” the telephone service. She sits there with her decimeter stop watch and measures to tenths of a second the time taken to complete a call. Other “dockers” record the errors made, the speed with which “trouble” is re­ paired, ail the items of telephone efficiency. If speed and efficiency are not constantly on the climb these are the people who- know it first and then there is a grand hunt to find out what’s gone wrong. It is a good game. It gets results. That is why your telephone serves you better this year than it did last year, and next year will serve you better than now. That is -why it has contribut­ ed its share to Canadian progress. FOR EXAMPLE, seven years ago the aver­ age interval from the time you lifted your telephone receiver until the operator answered was 5.1 seconds. Today the docker finds the interval cut to 3.7 seconds. Tomorrow it will be still less. Seven years ago there were 95 slow calls in every 1,000—a slow call being one the operator takes ten seconds or answer. Today there are only 33 thousand. in which more to in every has beenThe number of errors of all kinds reduced frutn 40 in every 1,000 calls to 16, which is over ninety-eight per cent perfect. IVE YEARS AGO you ran 27 chances in every 1,000 calls of getting the wrong num­ ber. That is down now to 13 chances in 1,000, or nearly 99 times out of the 100 right. There are only two chances in a thousand now that you will be cut off. There were five chances in a thousand, five years ago. There used to be eight times in a thousand calls when you would break in on somebody else’s conversation. Now there arc only two such double connections per thousand. There are “clockers” at work in other directions too and here are some of the things they have recorded. The time taken to repair “trouble” on a line now has been cut to one-third of the time taken five years ago. The time taken to install a new telephone used to be three hours and forty-five minutes. It has been cut now to one hour and forty-five min­ utes. That means something in hours saved, with 139,000 telephones installed in Ontario and Quebec this year. PRETTY GOOD results. But the docker isn’t satisfied. Nobody in business is ever satisfied with today’s mark. The system to­ morrow must always be better to keep pace with the Canada of tomorrow. Published by The Bell Telephone Company of Canada to tell you, Something about the telephone business and the people in it. .Mr. •baking about to ence on and fell, that .lie had to be removed to home. The frame dwelling and lot Mr. John .Moore. Ann St. sold public auction on Saturday last purchased by Mr. Jo: epli Davis the sum of $305.00. Ou Friday of lust week Handi'ord ci Elliott sold and shipped eiglit< n excellent horses to the. West. A couple of chinamen struck town on Monday, no doubt with a view of establishing a laundry here. Mr. Meakins, manager of the Laundry Co. here, has purchased a laundry plant in St. Marys. Tlio c.pon meeting of the Royal Templars was held in Main St., chu­ rch on Wednesday last. The address by Rev. Dr. Hannon was excellent, also short addresses by Rev. W. M. Martin and brother Frayne, who was chairman of the meeting. Solos by Miss Lewis and Miss Edna Fol­ lick; duett by Mrs. Cobbledick and Mr. Walsh; readings by Mrs. Man- son and Miss Elsie McCallum. Death last week removed the be­ loved wife of Thos. Harton, at the age of 5 6 years. Mrs. Harton was the daughter of the late of Usborne. Mr. Norman Sweitzer, has sold his farm to Mr. of Farciuhar, for a handsome figure. Mr. Alfred Bowey, who has been engaged at. his trade in Winnipeg for several on Friday. Mr. R. S. ing apples Brighton, spent Sunday at his home here. Mrs. Creery. of London, received telegram that her brother, Mr. W. Gourley, of Calgary, Alta., had msed away, lie ate his dinner and his garage. When he did not turn his eldest daughter went and found aim lying under the Dr Gourlv; .John a borne yea: me h had been instantaneous. 'y was tlie only son of the and Margaret Gourley, of Township. Hi was 1’ift of age. He leaves his - son aim three daughters. J. J < i V V :i c ii 11 !" (IT)) The Wes 1.3 ’ ■ . , ,cn in Banff whit place next decided up- wi' Nelson of Revelstoke. Vancouver. repr gam. n I'anada rki cham- blued skiing ( vents in Banff again this injunction with the carnival, due to take February, it has been n. Such famous skiers 11 probably be in attendance as Telfson of —last year’s western iv-‘ at the Olympic •and Nordmoe of Camrose. Wm. Oke, of Eden, Thompson, months, returned home Lang, who has been buy- in the neighborhood of "Omv upon a time there were sixty foxes who didn’t wear pantses and didn't wear r-oxes, but they all went travelling in nice, big boxes.” A parody on A. A. Milne’s famous nurfxwy rhyme is inspired by a shipmnnt of sixty black and silver foxes who passed through the Wind­ sor Street Station recently en route to Switzerland from Calgary. They were “under the wing” of the Can­ adian Pacific Express, who saw that the animals got their diet of raw moat regularly. byAn interesting debate was held James St. Epworth League on Mon­ day evening the subject was “Res­ olved that the savage is happier than the civilized man.’’ The affirm­ ative was taken by Mefwrs. Hubert Jones and Leon Treble and the neg­ ative by Chester Harvey and Joe Davis. ’The case of a motorist being stricken with “buck fever” and put­ ting his car into the ditch in his excitement has been reported from the Nipigon district. While driv­ ings along the highway between Nipigon River Bungalow Camp and Port Arthur the motorist was start­ led when a deer appeared on the road before him. Whether he tried to chase the animal or forgot he was at the wheel, he does not state, but when he recovered his senses he and his car were in the ditch. Little damage was done. Kicking a Tire is no way to test it! ONLY a pressure gm.ge cun ever give you a true indication of inflation. There is a correct pressure for your tires. It de­ pends on the size of the tire and the wheel load. At tnat pressure your tires will give you maxi­ mum mileage. If your tire inflation goes three pounds below that correct pressure you cut mile­ age from the life of your tires. Use a gauge. Better still, drop in at a Dominion Tire Depot once a week and have every tire inspected, and the pressure checked. Let an expert search for cuts and bruises. Often a slight repair will prevent a blow-out. Yott are never far away from a JOHN TAYLOR SOME OTHER PEOPLE On Monday evening the congre­ gation of Main St. Methodist. Church gave a farewell banquet, to Mr. and Mrs. T. H. McCallum, who leave on Thursday for London where they will make their future home. Ad­ dresses were given by Messrs. H. E. Huston, Rd. Gidley and the Rev. E. G. Powell, and during the course of the evening they were presented with two handsome Rattan rockers and an address read by Mr. B. W. F. Beavers. Mrs. O. Cobbledick, who has been conducting a store at Exeter North, and who recently sold out, has pur­ chased the home of Prof. Ruse. The Jackson Manfg. Co. has been changed from a partnership to a joint stock company. Mrs. Thos. Harton met with an unfortunate accident on Friday last when she fell through a trap door inflicting a deep gash in her head and suffering other bruises. Mr. John Miners ,of Usborne, has purchased from Mr. Wm. Taylor his brick residence on Albert Sit.. Mr. Thos. Cameron, of Farquhar, has purchased the building site north of the Presbyterian manse from Mr, Frank W. Weekes, of Vir­ den, Mail. 'Mr. Roland Squire, of Usborne, has purchased the brick residence of Mr. T. Kay. Mr. Wm. O’Brien, of Sexsmith, mot with a .serious accident on Sat­ urday when he had the misfortune to fall off a wagon, seriously injur­ ing his knee. Mrs. John Morlock, of Crediton, had the misfortune to fall on Mon­ day, breaking her shoulder bone, The building of more than 400 miles of new branch lines, with 71 new stations and shipping points sums up in brief the construction programme of the Canadian Pacific Railway in Western Canada during the past summer, according to D. C. Coleman, Vice-President, West­ ern Lines. By this means hun­ dreds of farmers had been brought much closer to transportation faci­ lities, and thousands of acres of rich agricultural land had been made much more attractive from the settlers’ viewpoint. “I can say, without any hesita­ tion. that Canada is the best coun­ try in the world for farming at the present time. It. has greater pos­ sibilities, and there are indications that there is greater stability i*id prosperity than can be found in any other country,’* said Dr. E. S. Archibald, director in charge of the Dominion Experimental Farm at Ottawa, addressing the Young Men’s Canadian Chib in Montreal. Dr. Archibald said the crops in Can­ ada are worth $1,167,000,000, which alone was equal to the fisheries, mines and forests all put together. The province of Alberta generally Will receive more gailte fish than ever before, was the opinion of J. A. Robb, superintendent of fish cul­ ture of the Department of Marine and Fisheries, who was a recent visitor to Calgary. The whitefish hatchery just opened by the Domin­ ion Government in Lesser Slave Lake, will help t.he commercial fish­ eries, he said, while sport in the neighbourhood of Banff, the Rocky Mountain resort, will bo greatly improved by the advanced fry and fingerling game fish that have been placed in the streams. The hatch­ ery at Banff, he added, will be ex­ tended slightly. GT he turn of the Chinese policeman’s lip seems to indicate that he x could snarl out a very nasty “Where’d you think you’re going?” if he thought you would understand him, but passengers on the Canadian Pacific World Cruise last year found him very courteous. , Some time before the globe-trotters met the man with the pudding­ basin head-gear they were greeted at the entrance of the famous Stadium at Athens by the fiery-mustachiv’d guard who looks like Harry Lauder m a combination of the worst features of the Highland, the Dutch and the hosiery advertisement national costumes. But the Japanese practising on the saxophone’s ancestor takes the cake when it comes to strange head-gear. A pun could be made here about “wicker” and “wicked-looking,” but let that pass. The dark representative of the fair sex evidently believes in simplicity of cos­ tume—and economy! She has made her “robe de style” serve for her young son, too, and her head dross! Permanent waves have probably been amongst the old family secrets handed down from mother to daughter for centuries in her country. Taking them altogether they are a fair sample of strange sights to be viewed on a trip round the world. The Canadian Pacific has organized six winter cruises this year. Round the World by the “Empress of Australia”, South America-Africa by the new 20,000 ton “Duchess of Atholl", Mediterranean by the “Enr- press of Scotland” and three cruises to the once happy hunting grounds of the buccaneer—the West Indies, Frederick Thomas Hewitt, son of Carson Hewitt, of Mitchell, died in j Victoria Hospital, London in his 55 I year. Mr, Hewitt was on his way I home from California when he be­ came so ill on arriving in London that he had to be taken to the hos- pital. The funeral took place from the home of his brother conducted by Rev. A. Murray Stuart. A quiet wedding took place at (he Knox Presbyterian Manse, St. Marys, when1 Nellie Grace, 'daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Weston, of East Nissouri, was united in marriage to Mr, Gordon M. Kellum, son of Mr. and Mrs. Jas. Kellum, of St. Marys. Rev. T. J. Robinson, officiating. The young couple, will reside in St- Marys,