The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1930-08-07, Page 1U
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EXETER, ONT., THURSDAY MORNING, AUGUST 7th, 1930
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FIFTY-FIFTH ‘YEAR, NO. 21H£
This store will close each Wednesday at noon from May 28th until September 10th
'^ESTABLISHED 1£73
WHIZ FLY FUP
WINDOW SCRE
SCREEN DOORS
KILLER jf or potatoes, gooseberry, cur
rant bushes, etc su^P death ^fr any insect that feeds on the
leaf; also Sprayl
of Soda in any quantity dejlred.
so far away
we laid dear sister and
|new GRENADA SUPER-SILK HOSIERY TN ' VERY LAST
TWISTED YAjtN, DULL FINISH AND FULI
A PAIR.
Mrs.
ding,
Mrs.
son Chester, of Toronto, spent
week-end here.
of Lead, Paris Green, Nitrate
Mi«s France Irwin, of Putnam
Is holidaying with h.:r grandparei
Mr, and Mrs. DSn Davl
A
pices o$ the Kirkt
Society lyill be hei
IN ALL 3IZES./DOUBLE STRENGTH
) and 60c- sizes
$2 45 to $3.50 in all sizes.
SILK
BARGAIN
PRICES
EXETER COUNCIL
Tuesday, August 5th
A. regular meeting of the Muni
cipal Council was held in the town
hall; absent Councillors Bierling and
Rivers.
The minutes of the meeting held
July 21st were read and approved.
Letters read as follows; From the
office of the Hydro Electric Power
Commission regarding the request to
remove an anchor post to clear the
side walk. Estimated cost $25, the
municipality to share one half of the
costs. Instructed to have the post
removed.
From the office of the Secretary
of the Dominion Association, of Fire
■chiefs regarding 22nd annual con
vention Sept. 2 to 5 at Port Arthur.
Filed.
From the office of the Secretary
.Fire Underwriters Association with'
report of the inspection as made
May 22nd, calling attention to sev
eral unfavorable conditions. Report
/handed to members of the council
to consider,
■ The following accounts were read
and ordered paid: County Treasur
er Calcium Chloride $106’0,90; the
Municipal World supplies $23.; L.
Day & Son, flowers and. labor $10.-
90; P. Coleman, team labor $44.00;
Jno. Parsons labor $18.30; William
Winer labor $1.80; Thos. Flynn, la
bor $8.25; Fred ‘Wells, labor $3.00;
Norman McDonald, labor $3.50; E.
Cornish, bell ringing $8.'5O; Ceme
tery accounts, R. D. iMbusseau,
sharpening mowers $6.3 0; William
■Smith, labor $3 6.00; Jno, Kydd, la-
Passed on motion of
Rowcliffe. Adjourned
GERALD FITTON IS DISOWNED
AFTER J.A.NDING ON LAKH
Goeg Down While Attempting A
Mile Hwini to furore in, Rough Water
His Partner is Saved by Flinging' to
Floating* Plane
Mr. and Mrs. Saxon Fitton receiv
ed the hean-breaking news about 2
o’clock Wednesday morning that
their only son, Pilot Gerald Fitton,
of Toronto, had gone down to a
watery grave- when he
swim a mik* to shore
made a forced landing
Mr. and Mrs. Fitton
attempted to
after having
in the water,
left an hour
later for Toronto where Mrs. Fitton
will remain while Mr, Fitton will
continue to the scene of the tragedy.
Gerald was horn in Exeter and was
about 32 years of a.ge. He served
overseas in the late war and learned
to fly in Detroit, Mich, He has been
flying three or four years, and was
known as e? fearless but careful pil
ot. Besides his parents he is sur
vived by his wife and two children
Gerald, and Joyce.
The following* account appeared
in the Toronto Mail & Empire: ’ ‘ ’
The NewiGrenadine/Silk Hosiery
WE HAVE THE
STOCK. THIS IS THi
SILK BEING EXTRA
.FASHIONED, AT $1.9
A. Bath T|)wel bargain, 39c. each
ON-’SALE-THIS/’y
TOWELS, PLAIN WHI^E AL
GAIN THIS WEEK ATfe9c.,o/75c. A PAIR
lOZEN LARGE SIZE- TURKISH .BATH
' COLORED CHECKS. A REAL BAR-
GREAT CLEARING SAL OF SUMMER DRESS FABRICS; AND ALL
SUMMER READY-TO-WEAR DRESSES
NECESS
FOR THE STOCK
USE STOCKAID ANIMAL SPRAY I s Ries, lice and
mosquitoes, doog not stain, blister or burr^md does not taint
milk. Bring yoV own container and g^'all you want.
CLIMAX BU
FOR THE WARDEN
NS- .
bt5r $31.50.
Grieve and
by Rowcliffe,
Jos. Senior, Clerk
JI. 25. LANDOX DIES SUDDENLY
Mr, Ernest. Landon, a popular
.traveller for the London Shoe, Co.,
who has been coming to Exeter for
years and who has many friends here
died suddenly on Monday while on
a vacation trip to Mackinac, Mich.,
THE LATE GARNET HEYWOOD
Dr. C.
Wednesd
'Mr. John
speak,
gram of
den will
freshment
sion Adul
A. Camp
der the aus-
I-Iorticultural
on the lawn of
11,’ Kirkton, on
August 13 th.
will
pro-
gar-
Re-
y* evenjfhg,
F. Cla/ke, of Toronto,
•ill also be a
The lawn and
O^en at 7.3 0 p.m.
the grounds. Adniis-
5c. children 15c.
•’Mr. Garnet Heywood passed away
Oil Monday in the prime of life fol
lowing a lengthy illness from, per
nicious anaemia. The deceased who
Avas born in Exeter Where he spent*
ail his life, was aged 45 years, 4
months and 21 days. He was the el
dest son of the late Caleb and Mrs.
Heywood. His father predeceased
him by just 8 weeks. The deceased
was a painter by trade but for the
past few years he has conducted a
small farm just west of the village
on Huron Street and has been par
ticularly interested in poultry and
gladoli and carried off numerous
prizes at the various exhibitions at
which he was an exhibitor. Fifteen
years, ago he was united in marriage
to Miss Ella Witzel, of Crediton,
who1 survives him together with 3
children, Clifford, Marjory, and Eric
He is also survivied by his mother,
two sisters and four brothers, Mrs.
A. E. Moore, Hector, Clarence, Clyde
and Mildred, all of Exeter and Alon
zo, principal of schools at Drumhell
er, Alta. The funeral, private, is be
ing held this (Wednesday) afternoon
with interment in the Exeter cem-
etry.
COOPER- €REECH
Olive Marjorie, daughter
Creech and the late ‘N. • W.
was wed at Brant ■ Avenue
church, r . .
to Archibald Elliston Cooper,
ronto, son of Mr. and Mrs. A.
Cooper, Brantford. Rev. H.
Urea, pastor, performed the cere
mony. Henri. K. Jordan officiated
at the organ, and the bride was giv-
' en away by her uncle, Major W. G.
Oxtaby. After a honeymoon in
Northern Ontario the young couple
will reside in Toronto. Mr. and
i. R. N. Cteech attended the wed-
the bride being a neice. Later
Creech, of Brantford and her
the
CANNING FACTORY WINDS VP
RECORD PACK WITH PICNIC
of Mrs.
Creech,
United
Brantford,- on August 2nd
To-
E.
J.
“Gerry Fitton, Toronto flyer, was
drowned this, afternoon when he at
tempted to swim ashore from his
plane after making a forced landing
in the lake.
A heavy off-shore gale which had
been blowing is thought responsible
for his failure to reach
Was just a mile away,
a fair swimmer.
He had been flying
McGovern, parachute
passenger; and, after
Govern clung to the floating plane,
Where ho remained for an hour un
til help arrived. He was taken off
completely exhausted. His head
barely above water when his
oners came upon him.
The accident occurred about
p.m. Fitton was just completing a
trip to Toronto and back, on which
he started on Tuesday morning. He
had been barnstorming at Belleville
for the past week, with McGovern
doing stunt flying, parachute jump
ing and taking up passengers. On
Monday evening they were unusually
busy with Civic Holiday crowds, '
On the . trip ..back from. Toronto
the' plane had not been * functioning
well for some time before their land
in the lake, Fitton having made sev
eral attempts to land along the
beach before lie finally dropped in
the lake.
shore, which
Fitton was
with Terry
jumper, as
landing, M'c-
was
res-
five
the
the wing of the plane, Having
been, tossed about in the rough wa
ter for an hour, he was in a statd
of complete exhaustion, ready to
slide down into the lake, when ho
was pulled out by Quick and Mun*
grave.
After another strenuous struggle
against the wind, they reached .shore
and took McGovern directly to the
hotel at Brighton, where Dr. Dxw
wai called to treat him.
The plane remained afloat after-
McGovern was taken off, as, Mc
Govern said, the engine had drop
ped out after hitting the water.
Fitton was well-known in Toron
to, where he had flown for several
years past with a couple of trans
port companies. 'Trained originally
in Detroit, he flew for the London.
Air Transport fdr a couple of years
end later was with the Latcham Air
Transport.
He was considered a daring butt
careful pilot and George Bennett,
Hamilton parachute jumper, with
whom he often worked, preferred
Fitton to any other pilot in the dis
trict.
Last winter he flew the air mail
across to Pelee Island, when he
crashed into the lake on one ■occa
sion and narrowly missed drowning.
About a year ago he broke up a
Swallow and had a crash with a
Walace cabin plane, but his daring
and good judgment made him a.* fit
ting- pilot for parachute jumpers.
Fitton piloted the plane that drop
ped George Bennett landing on the
pavement one evening and nearly
broke his back.
PETER
DIES
AT
MacEA ('HEN, THEDFOHD*
FOLLOWING ACCIDENT
GRAND BEND
Thought to have dropped, off to
sleep while driving along the Blue
Water Highway jnsf north of Grand.
Bend at three a.m. Wednesday morn
ing, Peter MacEachen, aged 22, of
Thedford, was killed when his.' car
turned over in the ditch, and
companion,
injured.
'The two
their homes
of the accident,
of a culvert and. upset into the eight-
foot ditch beside the road. Mac—
Eachen died about twenty minutes'-
after the car he was driving went
over the embankment. His skull was
fractured.
his-
Roy Millraar., 18, was
men were returning to*
at Thedford at the time
The car hit the side*
impact
off one
plane as
The many friends of Mrs. W. H.
Dearing will he pleased to* know
that she is improving nicely from
her recent accident. She returned
from London hospital over ten days,
daughter Miss Madeline,
who has been taking care
returned to her duties in.
office of General Sleol
ago. Her
of London,
of her has
the head
Wares, London
Losses Wing*
He dropped, and the
against the water broke
wing.
Fitton hung on to the
best lie could while taking off his
flying togs, in order to lessen his
weight for the swim to shore. The
wind was taking on the proportions
of a real storm with the water lash
ed into white caps.
But he set out, -confident that he
could make the distance without
trouble, while McGovern his com
panion remained on the floating
plane. McGovern watched him for_
a. distance, when he could occasion
ally glimpse Fitton fighting his way
slowly landwards through the big
breakers.
Be saw him start out and he saw
him swim 5. a considerable disance,
but no one knows just when Fitton
went' under. He.was evidently over
powered by the storm. Meanwhile,
Mrs. George Huff, a farmer’s wife,
spotted the plane floating out on the
lake and telephoned
manager of the hotel
Pointe,
Tale Skiff to
Quick, with Eddie
Toronto, who is playin,
chestra at the hotel*
got hold of
top of Quick’s car and drove west
seven miles, ;
direction, to
They sei i
out to the i
ter a rough
Govern, v,i..;
Grant' Quick,
.at Presqu’IJe
Shove
Musgrave, of
g in the or-
immediately
skiff, fastened, it on
GRAND BEND
MONDAY, AUGUST 11th.
CARNIVAL NIGHT
Serpentine, Confetti, Hats^worn&
All kin*ds of fun and no, “ itles
Sunday Band Concert on#he Beach,
at 3 p.m. by the Lond^ Salvation.
Army Silver "
Tta SENSATION ! DAY
udy /zallee
ugust 29 th
I
CVT YANKEES
The G|eatest®ladio and Stage Stw?*
* Ameidea
wording to Mrs. Huff’s
the shore.
at in the skiff and got
ane with difficulty af-
p.;?sage, to reach Mc-
wtts still, clinging to
Wckets. now on sale
Price phis* 20c, tax total $2.20
each
MAIL ORDERS NOW RECEIVED*
The Exeter branch of the Cana
dian Canners after finishing up a
record pea pack held a successful
picnic at Grand Bend on Saturday
last. 'The canning factory has been
an exceptionally busy spot this sea
son and with the large acreage and
splendid crop it was necessary to
run long hours and- on a few occa
sions the plant was running until
the early hours of the ■ morning.
The factory has employed as many
as 175 hands and these in turn
would handle as many as 200 loads
of peas in one day. There are
eight viners at Exeter for threshing
the peas and two at Kirkton,
peas from the latter place being
trucked to Exeter by Mr. William
Gillespie who gave very satisfactory
service. There are. two machines
which fill the cans at a capacity of
100 and 104 each per minute. The
j record pack for a single day was
15008 cases of 24 cans each,
At a picnic on Saturday about 300
persons were present and in spite of
the very warm weather a'most en
joyable 'outing was. held at Grand
Bend. Sports and races were held
[ in the afternoon. A softball team
from the head office at Hamilton
was present and defeated a team of
the Exeter players. Dinner
supper were served and the
were bountifully Jaden with
tilings. Committees in chan
I
1Phone your hardware necessities to 27
BIRTHS
IN MBMORlAM
his grave
sleeps be?
.way,
and OM1-d by Wetwo
Vher
decay,
him who
home
Asli field
on Saturday, August 2nd,
Hay
to Mr.
son.
Ever roincmbert?
dren,
Miss Celia Christie, of the Times-
Advbcato staff, is leaving to-day
(Thursday) to visit with relatives
at Ottawa. •
Mrs. Murdock McKenzie
Bernard Rhodes M.A.,
of Caven Presbyterian
Exeter.
DEATHS
HEYWOOD—In Exeter on Monday,
August 4th, 1930, Garnet Ray
mud Hoy wood, aged 45 years mid
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IN MEMORIAL#
; memory o dear sister
■and. brother, Mrs. Ha(|fe Terry, of
London, and Mr. ,Wx
Hamilton,. Ont., wl
•ever!
J Whe:
( 3ng»
.. Ad
To m
• If
A. Davis, of
entered into
stlhg re? use 4th, 1929
- the shades^ f heaven arc fall-
1 I sif
y heart , ere comes a longing
;,h.ey JW/d only come home,(Oft Ind oftjmy heart does wonder
one year ago to-day.
t’y slsiteiv
v. Gardiner, Meufovd, Ont.
. ELECTORS
OF SOUTH HURON
I STADE—In loving memory of our
dear fatnef, Christian Stade, who
passed awa ugust’^th,' 1929.
suffering
s Shard to climb;
weary eyelids
Pence, be Thine,
we place upon
knd
God knew
And the 1
So He closed
And wh’iftue:The flowoX
Way withoN
But the love for
nealh,
Will never fade
HODGINS—In Stephen Township on
Sunday, August 3rd to Mr. and
Mrs. Roy Hodgins a daughter.
HARTMAN—At. Goshen. Line
'Township on July 23rd,
and ^Mrs.4 Kuno Hartman, a
^MARRIAGES-
RHODES—McKENZIE—At the
of the bi'Idb's mother
Twji.
jVliss Elizabeth McKenzie, dangh
ior of
to Rev.
pastor
Church,
and
tables
good
re of
the picnic were .selected from the)
office staff &nd employees* the
sports committee being as follows:
Miss Wood, Mr. fttonehomW to
man Gower, Geo, Stokes, Hill,
Ray Pryde, Jean Penlialc and/ Mar
garet Russel. (Mr. B. R. 'Bartow is
the popular manager of the Exeter
branch and is to be congratulated
on the manner in which the large
acreage and record crop wore so
ifully handled
IN VIEW OF PRESENT UNF
WIDE. CONDITIONS, FOR WHI
OF CANADA IS IN NO WISE
MY WARM APPRECIATIO
PRIME MINISTER UPON
CORD AS YOUR SE
DORSATION pF TH
GOVERNMENT UN
RIGHT HO
GRABLE WORLD.
THE GOVERNMENT
SPONSIBLE, ACCEPT
WITH THAT OF THE
R APPROVAL OF MY RE-
, AND YOUR HEARTY EN-
CORD AND VOLICIE& OF THE
THE- LEADERSHIP OF THE
Mackenzie king:
OUR OBEDIENT SERVANT,
thos. McMillan