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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1930-07-31, Page 7THE EXETER TIMES-ADVOCATE TUCItSIlAT. WI4'31st, 1030 . J».■ IJ' J • — ■ 11 yiAHLX GAYS IN THE .PINERY w T IBefUrc (jittiulj Bend Wusa Village The following on pioneer days appeared on the the London Advertiser and will be xaad with interest by •readers.: interesting letter near Grand Bend Women’s Page in many of pur **¥onr grandmother’s l\lay 16th, puts mine xiiul reminds me of a in my own life when I was seven, We •were not long from Scotland, father y,'&s a farmer, and for a few years a»,efore coming west hq worked for a Sfarmer in Scarborough, We lived in a small house on the farm. It contained only a living-room and a bedroom, On the 16th of May a Ibaby brother came to us. A doc tor attended, her on the occasion; no wtrse; no .maid afterwards. Friend ly neighbors looked after us and did sail that was necessary. The ubiquit- ®ps whiskey bottle was on the table ^jAnd glasses, ready to treat all and ^Wndry. One afternoon we were ©lone. Mother was still in sped. She thought she heard a tinkling among tlie glasses, then all was quiet for a long time. Finally I “showed up. •‘Where have, you been?” she asked. ““Sitting on the fence,” I said. Well they made quite a jqke of it; made «uit, of course, that I was tippling, sand what a queer place it was for a body to sit on the fence. I don't re call whether. I really took a sip of the whiskey'or not, thought- I think that if I was able to balance myself ©a the top of a rail fence I couldn’t Jhave been very tipsy. Not long ago someone writing to the Housewife mentioned the Pin- whiskey story in the shade little incident MILBURN’S ’l AXA-LIV EFT •PILLS r Price 25c a vial ery, I know it well, have ridden through it in a lumber wa gon, in a buggy, on horse-back, and I have walked it, and of late years many times by auto. Any old-timer reading this will recall Brewster’s sawmill, which must have been one’ of the first iu the province. It was ’ situated on the Sauble River a mile* below what is now Grand Bend. Be-|UUl,uv „ side the Pinery, which is all sand,; walking the Brewsters had a farm of clay i walked bare-footed from Pine Hill to our home. her sister soon, and me to go Maggie to stay in my place and help with the housework. When she had a good wash in the rivdr, a rest and something to eat, we went to the field where father and mother were at work and presented our petition, which was granted freely. I was sup posed to walk as Maggie had done, but father had a better plan. This was Saturday and he had engaged two Pine Hill young men to come _ _ m _......... Monday and help in the harvest. We her small portion of desert to literal- an °ld horse, Jim, quiet as a \ ....„ ~~ ___ ___ a large lamb and easy to ride. A man on bed of portuiaaca was very beauti-itlie next *arm owned a military sad- ful—it see'med to like its standy b.'d. I d.le which served very nicely as a Those could hardly be called pioneer; s’de saddle and father barorwed it. I days, yet everything was very primi- had just lately learned to ride pld tive. A log schoolhouse, also us’-i barebacked, had never been on as a church and a small private a saddle. So it was a new exper- house, was all of Grand Bend at1ienee t0 me- As J”11 was needed on x’--' " • the farm, father's plan was to have the young men bring him back on ‘Monday. All .being settled, we had supper about seven pan, I was mounted on old Jim and started for Pine Hill. By the time we entered the Pinery proper it was getting dusk. We hadn’t gone far when we met a man. After passing, I looked back; he was standing gazing after me, I suppose wondering where that girl could be -going at that hour- only one house in the next 10 miles. I don’t recall having the least fear. Jim ambled along, never went off the walk, no doubt ho knew he had a greenhorn on his back. When we emerged from the sand on to the clay road there was a small culvert. Jim tested it. It was shaky and he wouldn’t venture, I coaxed and pleaded in vain. I could fall off but was afraid I might not be able to mount again. We had still about six miles to go, “Well. Jim,” said I, “we can’t stay here all night.” So off I slid and led him over the bogie. Leading him alongside a stump, I managed to climb aboard once more the Brewsters had a farm of clay land which lies along the river. above the Bend worked lumber, —not a to work moved there in 1866 and th' had been abandoned some years be fore. The old boating house on the bank of the river was still intact.* We lived in that. AH around it was pure sand and covered with debris which was soon cleared away and a space inclosed foi’ mother’s flower ( garden. By carrying water from the river she soon succeeded in making1 years before this a young woman who had a rather abnormal shaped foot gnd could not wear .store shoes, earned a little money peeling t an bank then walked from two miles north of the bend to Arkona, going through the Pinery, waited until her shoes were made to -order, and walk ed back. The distance must be about 25 miles. Here is another feat: a Id-year-old girl ■s When they left, having up all the available pine the farm was.taken by a man farmer—-who engaged father it for him on shares. We mill She brought a note from , who was to be married the note was a request for and help her to get ready, ly “blossom as the rose.’’ that time—no bridge across t'fie river to reach the school or church or post office. We crossed in a can oe. The post office was a mile north of the Bend and was called Brew ster’s. Our only near neighbors were a fisherman and his young wife. One' day she walked to Exeter, about 15 miles, to buy a new bat and walked back again ’the same day. Several Bowels Didn’t Move For Two or Three Days Mrs. H. A. Gill, Tory Hill, Ont., writes:—“I was suffering terribly from constipation. My bowels did not rnovo for two* or three days at a time, and I could hardly do my work. Ono day a friend told me about Milburn’s Laxa- Liver Pills, so I at once got a vial, and I now suffer no more from constipa- , tion.” On sale at all druggists and dealers, or mailed direct on receipt of price by The T. Milburn Co., Ltd., Toronto, Ont. - r--r,r- .............................................................................................. L-.... . ........ i.... ..... Ford Executive Solves Problem of Travel Time With Airplane & i- > -J' X $ ■\f V &Sa; | ” g^M***^ ’JSi A ? J'* .itOlOte. is® 41; Sf . Crowd Examining Ford Tri-Motor- •ed Plane, the First Air Transport • Seen in .Many of the Western Prov- 4 inces. Mr. Wajlace R. Campbell, Presi tdent, Ford Motor Company of Can- 'ada, Limited. WHEN the modern executive plans a ’ hurried inspection ' trip to his branch factories and Healers he turns to the airplane for (.rapid. transportation and quick ’jumps over iong distances. : When Mr, Wallace ,R. Campbell, ^president of the Ford Motor Com- ’gphny of Canada, Limited, found itwo weeks which ha could devote to j.» long?deforred survey of his west ’s ern Canada branches he chose a IFord tri-motor club plane as the sirehicle best able to cover the ter- ‘iltory in the time available. Tra velling >in the- great luxurious? air ‘ yacht was as comfortable as riding / “an the best Pullman train and * thrice as fast. During the 12-day , -tour which carried the Canadian .industrialist as far north as Ed- omemton and as far west as Calgary the plane travelled 3,700 miles in a total flying time Of 36 hours, 10 i>minutes. The tour enabled Mr.'Campbell 1 'to inspect branch factories, confer with dealers, study economic con ditions ifi the Frairie Provinces and shape the plans of his company for 'future activities in those areas. jHte fx' 1 EDMONTON / / battle ford iCAtCARY ^SASKATOON .MEDICINE HAT MOOSEJAW REGINA /^\NIRDEN ■X BRANDON WINNIPEG MINOT FARGO ST. PAUL iiNbso«C,"~ found economic conditions improv ing’, favorable prospects for a fair wheat crop and business men gen erally fighting vigorously to re store prosperity. During the tour, Mr. Campbell had as his guests on plane flights Hon. J D. McGregor, lieutenant- governor qf Manitoba, and Hon. W. G. Egbert, lieutenant-governor of Alberta, the latter flying with the party from Edmonton to Calgary. Miss Edena Newlands, daughter* of the lieutenant-governor of Sas katchewan, flew with the party from Regina to North Battleford, piloting the big plane herself part of the way. • The first day’s flight from; East Windsor, Ontario, carried Mr. Campbell and his party via St. Paul to Winnipeg, a distance of 929 miles, in 8 hours, 45 minutes, much of the time against head winds. The same jump by train would have required 36 hours, or the total time consumed on the 3.7Q0 mile flying survey trip. The route of the tour from Win nipeg was-via Brandon and Virden to Regina; Moose Jaw, Saskatoon and North Battleford to Edmon ton; thence to Calgary and through Medicine Hat, Moose Jaw, Minot, North Dakota, and St. Paul, back to East Windsor. Only Once did weather* conditions delay the party and that was when a violent dust storm raged over the prairies, forc ing the plane back to Regina after it had fought its way against the storm and a 35-mile wind to a point 25»miles north of Moose Jaw, When all other planes, including the mail planes, were grounded. Mr. Campbell found the people of Western Canada Very air-mind ed. and actively supporting the de velopment of some of the. finest airports to be< found in tha Domin ion, Crowds of 10,000 to 15,000 persons turned out in sorhe of the larger cities to greet the party and view the Ford plane, the first tri motor transport to be seen in those provinces outside of Winnipeg, reaching Maggie’s bomb about 11 p.m, I was expected, and a group of young people were waiting to wel come me, and Jim. was also tqken care of. For the next week I was another “Miss MuffetJ’ only I sat <m a pillow and sewed. I was now in my twentieth year, had worked in Toronto for a couple of years as a child’s nurse, apd at plain sewing, and I guess J was supposed to have' the latest ¥styles, for the bride’s trousseau. We did not even have a patern of any kind foi* her dress. We manage'd as best we could to cut a pattern by my Sunday dress. The bridegroom was a railroad man. Per haps that is why they were married on Sunday. Having seen the knot tied and the happy couple started on their great adventure, Monday morn ing it was my turn to take the long trek through the Pinery on foot. I wonder if any of the housewives have ever gone cranberry picking in that wierd-lpoking section called the “flowed lands”? If you haven’t, then you have missed something. We used to make quite a lark of it. One neighbor would take his team and take a wagonload of us—girls and women—drive about eight miles from the Bend through the Pinery; then, turn to the left a short dis tance and we were at the flowed lands. Of course, we were dressed for the occasion. The accepted rig was short skirts, long-legged cow hide boots and old straw hats. Two be elected to stay on shore and at tend to the lunch while the rest of us plunged into- the dismal swamp. It was indeed awied-looking place, a tree standing here and there. Bare of bark or foliage, they looked like ghostly sentinals. The ground cov ered densely with a rank growth of tall grasses, barberry bushes, etc. Tlie ground is so spungy one could shake it for yards. And it was only that the roots were so interlaced we did not iget bogged. Once I got one leg into the knee—like having one foot in the grave, eh? Now let's get at the berry picking. After the plunge, we scattered, and when looking for or picking, berries we were “out of sight,” so very little while one would straighten up and “Hoo lioo,” and the whole gang would respond with a chorus of “Hoo hoo.” That was to let it be known “the gang’s all here,” and that nobody had' taken a through trip to China. Cranberries grew close to the ground on slender vines and the sterns are so fragile that on striking a good patch, one can scoop them up by the handfuls. I gathered 24 quarts off a small patch, but that was an exception. The Indians us ed to come up from Kettle Point and gather the “cream of the crop” before they were quite mature. Aside from the berries it was a jolly party. We enjoyed the rides to and fro and went home singing all the way. Tell ing of walking feats, here is one that is worthy of insertion. My father-in- law, who had lost his right arm, walked to Exeter, a distance of 12 miles and returned with a bag of flour on his back. There was 'only one place on the way where he could reload without help. That was very early in pioneer days, when the road was little more than a path through the bush. Signed 83 years young ZURICH Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Gallman, of Chicago, are visiting with the form er's parents Mr. and Mr.s. John Gall man. Mrs. L. Haist, of Detroit, is spend ing a few week’s holidays with her parents Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Klopp. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. S. Johnston, Mr. and Mrs. Wellington J. Johnson motored to Detroit over the week end. Master Ross Johnston, who has been visiting in Detroit for a few weeks returned with them. IMr. Jas. Humphreys, of Preston, was a Sunday visitor in town. He was accompanied home by Mrs. Humphreys, who has been in Zurich for a week caring for her aunt Miss Ida Brill, who was on the sick list. Mr. ail'd Mrs. J. Hey Jr., attended the Hey-Taylor wedding at Mombe on Thursday of last week. Mr. Mil- ,ton Hey, second son of Mr. and M'rs. Hey was united in marriage to Miss Taylor of that place. A reunion of the Oesch family was held at the home of Mr. and Mrs. John M. Oesch of the Goshen Line with approximately 230 rela tives present. After tlie afternoon program was over the 'party repair ed to the lakeside at Drysdale where the evening lunch was partaken of. Mr. W. D. Siebert was away on an extended fishing trip to New Ontar io being North of the big iAlgonqhin Park. Mr. Siebert was met at Otta wa by his son,, Albert and some other friends from Mputvedl. Mr. and Mrs. W. Hy. Pfile, of Clif ford were week-end visitors at the home of Mrs. Lydia'Pfile and oilier relatives. • , Miss Alice Decker fs visiting with her .sister, Mrs. Witmer in Detroit, HYDRO ELECTRIC: Wiring and installLftg, guaranteed workmanshij At rejlson^ble prices. Repairing st »v¥e$ motors a spec- Esth lat’fes /gladly furnished i rn/daV!s laity. Cree. I^ALL FAIR DATI5B Ailsa Craig .............. Sept.. 18-19 Atwood .......................... Sept.19-20 Bayfield............... Sept.24-25, Blytb ................................ Sept.2’5-26. Brussels ........................ Get. 2-3 Dungannon ........................... Oct. 7-8 Embro ...............Oct. 2 Exeter .......................... Slept.16-17 Fordwich ............................. Oct. 3-4 Goderich .................. 'Sept.17-18 Harriston ....................... Sept.25-26 Kincardine ............ Sept.17-18 Kirkton .................. Sept, 30,Oct. 1 Listowel ....................... Sept.16-17 London (Western Fair) ....Sept. 8-13 Lucknow ........................ Sept.25-26 Mildmay ........ Sept.23-24 Milverton ...... ...... Sept.2(5-26 Mitchell ...................... . Sept.23-24 New Hamburg ............... Sept.12-13 Ottawa (Central Canada) Aug,18-23 Palmerston .................... Sept.23-24 Parkhill .............................. Oct, 2-3 jRipley ..................... Sept. 23-24 St. Marys ..... ................... Oct. 7-8 Seaforth ........... Sept. 18-19 Stratford ....... Sept. 15-17 Tavistock ............... Sept. 26-27 Teeswater ................. Sept. 30, Oct. 1 Toronto (O.N.E.) ....Aug. 22-Sept. 6 Wingham ............................. Oct. 7-8 Zurich ............ Sept. 22-23 DDD-a sluggish pimply skin s>Ceds its tpssie An active ffind 'that Simses the tis sues of unsightly i urities. Skin sufferer ‘ ’ * reatment a test. Soothing, JEooling^Tiealing—-a remark able age AV. J WEY, DRUGGIST en and. woijpn interested in a or ir and h&py life kng(^ that the first essential is & universit en,d a University standing, wlere students work for theirWegre® and where each student receives personal attention? MoreTth uates _______ _______ ___ ness r^ards ability, thorough train ing an For information wfiti?— half the university grad- nto business, because busi* "high character. UNIVERSITY WESTERN ONTARIO LONDON CANADA Here and There I (570> WbUq' the Canadlw Chamber ol Commerce is completing plans for jts official tour of China and Japan* leaving Vancouver October on Empress of Russia, an important group, of Japanese manufapturers and merchants is due to arrive at the same port July 25 on board the Empress of Canada for a tour of Canada and the United States, To remove the prejudices of men, women want to be regarded as their partners and to be rewarded Ob merit regardless of sex, is the view of Miss Helen Cleveland, of Tor onto, holder of a. “man's” job with an internationally known bond house and recently elected presi dent of Zonta International at the 10th annual meeting qf this world wide women’s organization. With forty members of that body she is taking the Alaska trip aboard S.S* Princess Louise. \ ——*— The greatest living golfer is Bobby Jones and the most enthu siastic golfer in the world is prob ably the Emperor of Japan, accord ing to Walter Hagen, colorful U« S. golfer, just back aboard S.S, Em press of Russia after a tour of Australia, Japan and China. Both Hagdn and Kirkwood who accom panied him, voiced high apprecia tion of Japanese golf courses. Major Ian Hay Beith, noted author of “The First Hundred. Thousand” and many other plays and novels, arrived recently at Que bec aboard S.S. Empress of Franco for a four week sojourn in the Dominion where he hopes “to fish and do nothing, although I may pick up an idea for a play or some thing, for one.is always on the look out for likely material." “Land of Heart’s Return” is thei description of New Brunswick by Samuel Hecht in his Tourist Topics column in the New York American, because it “always turned out to be nicer in reality than anybody said* it was on paper,” A million dollar contract has been offered the Torbanite Products Co., Ltd., of New Glasgow, for Tor banite residue as it comes from the Ginet retort. This order comprises 250,009 tons at $4 a ton and be comes effective sixty days from July 5. Nova Scotia fisheries in 1929 had a product valued at $11,455,491 ac cording to a report issued by the Dominion Bureau of Statistics. Value of the preceding year’s catch was placed at $3,504,583. Prospects are that Canada will this year advance into second place among the gold-producing coun tries of the world- South Africa holds first place and United States, second. Last year the value of gold produced in Canada was ap proximately $40,000,000. This year it is expected to be about $60,000,- 000. A short course for departmental judges was held recently at the Ontario Agricultural College, Guelph. Over 125 were present, including judges of ploughing matches, standing field crops, h^avy and light horses, beef and dairy entile, and sheep and swine. Classes were started some 1.5 years ago, and are primarily to get judges to gether for purposes of demonstra tion so that a uniform Standard may bo maintained for judging at shows and competitions. J ATTEN The Highway Traffic Amendment Act 1930. The Safety Responsibility Law of Ontario comes into effect on September 1st. nej^L ITALL Y LAW EVERY MOTORIST ISA AFFECTED BY THIS • ' --------------- It is intended to encoura/e safe and care ful driving. Reckless and careless clivers will be penal- i Tli^ person who does H pay for damage done the person or property of others or who has __ nify others on his behalf have his licens^suspcnded. ALL Wlofor Accident^involving injury to any per- somor doing mo$e than $50 damage must he forthwith reported to the Police and by them to tie Registrar JW Motor Vehicles and recorded by |iim with responsibility nbi insurance to in motor I h estimate of the share of each of those involved. t is iprepareU' to pay for the y do to the person or property . hould not drive a car Without the insurance. tuning the conditions of the new Unless dama of others? he proteef^on o Pamphlet^ex law can procured without charge'from the I agent of any Company a member of THE CANADIAN AUTOMOBILE UNDERWRITERS ASSOCIATION. ............................................■ . , .■