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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1933-06-08, Page 7THE EXFTF.R IIMES-ADVOCATE LUCAN WOMAN LEAVES 822,693 CARRY ON AS BEFORE . A number of Canadian buffaloes were shipped to Australia and are doing well but shed their coats just, as they did here, and as the seasons' differ they get rid of their coats just | as winter approaches and put on heavy coats just as summer advances BIG PASSENGER BOAT CAULS AT GODERICH A 2,000-ton passenger boat the *‘Farnorth” will call at Goderich on the same schedule as did the Manl- toulin. The Farnorth is 4 times as large as the "Manitoulin” being 270 feet long. It will arrive in Goder­ ich Sunday morning at 7 a.m. and will conduct trips to Beech o’ Pines. HURON COUNTY PRESS ASSOC. Under the terms of the will of the late Charlotte M. (Stanley, Lucan, being entered for probate recently assets of $22,69I3',42 are distributed to six nieces: Mrs. Sarah E. Jeffer­ ies, Louisville, Ky: Miss Bertha L Cooper, Canton, Ont.; Mrs. Margaret E. Watson, Cleveland, N. Y.; Miss Edith A. R§ad, Brockville; Mrs. G Ziegler, Waterloo; and Mrs. Marion Spicer, Algonquin, Ont. Mrs, Stanley, whose death occurred on May 3rd last, was the widow of Bernard Stanley of Lucan where she had resided until last autumn when she went to Waterloo, Ontario, to spend the winter with her niece Mrs. Gertrude B. Ziegler. The estate consists of $10,000 in Huron & Erie 'debentures, $8,509 in stocks, $4,000 Dominion of Canada bonds, and personal effects $184. The Canada Trust Company is named sole executor, and Carling & Morley, Lucan are entering the will for probate as solicitors for the es­ tate. " The annual meeting of the Huron County Press Association will be held in Goderich on Friday, June 23rd with sessions at 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. at the Park House. The meeting Will take the form of an open for­ um on topics of interest to the news­ paper men. 'The speaker for the af­ ternoon will be Mr. J. A. McLaren, of the Barrie Examiner, the past president of the Canadian Weekly Newspaper Association together with Mr. D. Williams of the Collingwood Enterprise-Bulletin. FARMER’S CHEQUES EXEMPT Hon. E. N. Rhodes, Federal Minis­ ter of Finance, has made provision in legislation to exempt farmers’ cheques, money orders and postal notes of less than $'5 from the pro­ visions of the 3 cent stamp tax,'the Ontario Marketing Board announced recently. This means that farmers’ cheques for eggs and poultry as well as for milk and cream are now free? of the stamp tax.—'Milverton Sun ANNUAL RE-UNION The descendants of the late Dub­ lin Tom Hodgins and Anne Shoe­ bottom of Biddulph Township, held their annual reunion on the evening of Victoria Day, Mooresville Orange hall, with over 100 present. Guests of honor were Mr. and Mrs. William Hodgins of London, who celebrated their golden wedding on the same day. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Hodgins were married at St. James’ Church, Clan- deboye. Mrs. Hodgins was Mary Anne Hodgins, daughter of the late John Hodgins and Esther Atkinson of Concession 4, Biddulph, but later of Killarney, Man. Mr. Hodgins celebrated his 80 th birthday last February. He is the son of the late Dublin Tom Hodgins and Anne Shoebottom. Out of a family of 16 he and a brother, Mark Hodgins of Huntingdon Beach, Calif., are the only surviving members. On'the same day the late Mr. and Mrs. William Atkinson, who passed #away three years ago, were also mar­ ried. Mrs. Atkinson was formerly Ellen Jane Hodgins, sister of Wil­ liam Hodgins. Mr. and Mrs. Atkin­ son were the parents of Mrs. C. C. Powers, London, and Wesley Atkin­ son, Lucan. ’Supper was served at long tables prettily decorated and centred with the three-storey bride’s cake, made by Mrs. Hodgins. Officers Elected After supper a program was en­ joyed, with Sidney Hodgins, of Lu­ can as chairman. 'The following of­ ficers were elected: President, Alex Hodgins, of Lucan; vice-president Mark Hodgins, London; secretary­ treasurer, Will Dignan, of Lucan; committee, Mr. and • Mrs. Harvey Hodgins, Russel Hodgins and Mrs A. Guilfoyle, of Lucan and Mr. and Mrs. George Gilmore of London. Delightful songs were contributed by S. Dempsey, of London, who is 83 years of age, and celebrated his golden wedding anniversary last year. .Songs were also given by W. McCullough of London Twp., Gor­ don Carrol, of Biddulph and Billy M’cCujllough, eight-year-old .soln of Mr. and Mrs. W. 'McCullough. Little Miss Leone Hodgins, daugh­ ter of .Mr. and Mrs. Fred Hodgins drew the lucky ticket bearing the. name of .Mr. and Mrs. Hodgins. The family and relatives presented them with a handsome electric radio, H. HOdgins and C. C, Powers made the presentation on behalf of the family The recipients replied graciously. The evening concluded with danc­ ing with music furnished by the Shamrock Orchestra, of Lucan. In the afternoon, a family gatlv ering was held at the old homestead the home of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Hodgins, Where Mr. Wm. Hodgins took his bride '50 years ago. The family, Mr. and Mrs. Harry McFalls Biddulph; Mr. and Mrs. Jas. Baxter of London, as well as eight grand* children and two great grandchild­ ren attended the gathering. Dinner Was served at tables done in gold and a sinUliaf color scheme was USed thfobgliout the house. Mr. and Mrs. Hodgins are enjoy­ ing the best of health. SUDDEN DEATH (John B. Lonning, aged 78, passed away suddenly at his home in St. Marys. For several years he con­ ducted a jewellery store in St. Marys. In 190i5i he sold out and moved to Toronto where he accepted a position with T. Eaton Co. About two years ago he retired and moved back to St. Marys Besides (his wife he is survived by two sisters. MRS. GEORGE EDM(UNDS 'The death occurred recently at her 'home in St. Marys of Cora Francis, beloved wife of George Edmonds. Mrs. Edmonds had been in poor health about two years and was con­ fined to her bed the last two weeks. Mrs. Edmonds was the eldest daughter of the late Capt. Richard Francis, and his wife Selina Han­ son, of Fullarton. .She was born in Oshawa, where her father who had been a lake captain and a partner in the ownership of freight vessels and a ship’s supply establishment, had been located for a number of years. When she was quite small the fam­ ily moved to Fullarton, her father having bought a farm on the west­ ern edge of the village. Her girl­ hood days were spent in Fullarton. Following her marriage to Mr. G. Edmonds, merchant, of Fingal, Ont., she went to reside in that village. Twenty years ago or more Mr. Ed­ monds retired from busmss and they went to live in London. Seven years ago they went to St. Marys where they have since resided. Besides her bereaved busband she leaves three brothers and four sis­ ters, REMEMBERS CALITHUMPIAN PARADES The Editor of the Times-Advocate is in receipt of an interesting letter from Mr. Elmore Laing, of San Ped­ ro, Calif., son of Mr, R. Si. Laing, of Toronto and formerly of Exeter. Mr. Laing spent his boyhood, days in Exe­ ter being educated in the Exeter school. It was over 23 years ago sin'ce he last visited in this commun­ ity and he states that there has been a lot of water flow 'under the bridge since then. It impresses one that life is mighty short. Mr. Laing wonders if we still have the same oid 24th of May celebrations which used to be such a big attraction and which the youngsters used to look forward to with keen anticipation. He states that one thing that remains vividly in his memory is the calithumpian parades. He wishes to be remem­ bered to his old schoolmates. Mr. Laing sent along a booklet contain­ ing 24 pictures of the r'ecent earth­ quake in Southern Calif, which de­ picts some of the havoc created when many of the buildings collapsed. He states however that he would sooner have an earthquake in preference to the frequent tornadoes they have been having in some of the Southern states tvhefe more than 250 people have been killed in the past two or throe Weeks, W — ............. '■ — — : --- - . ■■ ■ EDITORIAL .. .......................................... -... —............. And here are the strawberries. Oh me, Oh my! *.*•««•*■ Summer’s passing on the white wings of the dandelion. ******** And now’we read that May put 45,000 Canadians to work. Come on, June! • •»•♦*** And now for the fuss and fun and good times and good eats of the Church Anniversaries. ******** These are the days when dad and his son are toughening their muscles and whetting their appetites on the garden plot, ******** One hour at the business end of a garden hoe is worth ten hours of grumbling about conditions that one is not trying to cor­ rect. ******* « Our friend, Gandhi, having concluded his three-week fast, will find himself in fine fettle to start a contest with the editor of a weekly paper. • «•**•*• When a man’s or a firm’s honour is sacrified, the best part of him is dead. The famous banking house of Morgan will find this out, if it has not already made this discovery. ******** “Speakin’ aboot the hard job it is to borrow a bit of siller,” «>.says Cautious Sandy, “I tell ye the borrowin’ is easy compared to payin’ back. Gettin’ back the bawbees ye’ve loaned is worse still.’ ******* * Zion’s City, that colossal humbug that made such a fuss over there near Chicago, has gone into bankruptcy, hook, line and sink­ er. And yet we recall the day when this project was the most-talk- ed-of thing in the religious world. ******** Oh happy is the man who hears Sound wisdom’s warning voice; And who a growing garden makes His early, summer, choice. ******* ♦ SAFE Well, those big wigs have been carving away at this Canada of ours but they have not spoiled Elimbill or Far Q. Har or Russlin- dale of Exeater or the rest of us. The local groundhog is sleeping soundly again. ******** Let no one‘be deceived. Gold still is the standard of exchange The man who has the gold can buy the material thing he wants. The man who has any'thing to .sell unconsciously gauges it value by a certain equivalent in gold. In the last shift, buyers and sell­ ers value their possessions in terms of gold. That is, gold is the standard of exchange. *•' ******** This year the’ famous Mounties of the West celebrate their Diamond Jubilee. And what a record these men have behind them! They point to no big industries. They tell of no great inventions. They show no cities as the fruit of their labors. But this they can say that wherever their jurisdiction held sway that order and decency and fairplay were abounded. Ruffians feared them. Out­ laws fled their presence. The lonely and broken found in them a friend. Law and order and peace and justice flourished wherever the Red Coated Mountie appeared. Thanks to missionaries and to these daring riders, plain and foot hill and mountain and Arctic ice and snowdrift were peaceful and where possible, prosperous. ******* * WHAT ABOUT IT? ‘Sheriff Carr, of ‘Hamilton, is reported as urging that a tax be imposed on cats. Now what will the cat do with a tax even if it is .imposed on him or her, for the wideawake sheriff does not go so far as to s'ay that what is tax for tom shall not be tax for tab. To what purpose is this tax to be devoted? Is it to be spent for fish or cream or is to be set aside for research work whereby a new and juicleir species of mouse or rat shall be evolved? Further, who is to represent the cats as this tax is imposed for taxation without re­ presentation will never do. Is this tax to be devoted to vocal les­ sons for the felines? This affair is causing us a good deal of wor- riment. The great city hard by the escarpment has a problem on its hands. • ••*••«• HERE’S LUCK Prime Minister Bennett sailed Friday for London to attend the World Economic Conference. Several matters will come for discussion prominent among which will be monetary problems af­ fecting the entire world. What is to be the recognized standard of exchange? Till that is settled men who know tell us that the busi­ ness world is running into deeper confusion and steering away from business reality as fast as ever it can. Folk who tinker with the gold standard of exchange may fool the rest of the world a good deal of the time and fool themselves the greater proportion of the time, but events are bound to bump them and to bump them hard. Folk who know their business realize this. Meanwhile they see little harm in a few innocent people playing the game of financial pretence, provided the financial children keep themselves out of mischief'by so doing, sensible people meanwhile being busy .getting affairs onto a just and lasting basis. Tariffs, after all, are the ghostly joke of the world. They are but temporary expedients to help out a few people who know how to use them. With these tem­ porary and oftimes annoying expedients it is not to be even hoped that the Conference will have anything to do. ******** JUST TOO BAD Word has come to us that a market gardener living near Mark­ ham was in Tororito the other day attending to his little stall. Night overtook him before the business of the day was done, so he and his faithful friend, the horse, were plodding home in the darkness. ,Th© day'had been long and the old toiler was tired. Moreover, the horse was faithful and could take her owner safely home. So What was there for the gardener but to sit and muse and, perchance to nod. He would soon be home and tomorrow he would be gather­ ing his load for the next day’s trip. Had he not passed sixty good years of life doing this very thing. Soon all would be over for him and he would be laid away out there in the home cemetery to wait ,the decrees of the final judgment. But the end was nearer than he thought for a truck was upon him and ihe was hurled to his deatn. “Just .ode more accident,” We say and turn to the next news item. Jut so. The next accident may bo one’s wife, or sister or sWeetheart. Just one life the less! And Who Will care? Just those who have been immediately the losers. You see, we’re in a desper­ ate hurry. We must keep going ahd who cares what the tesult may be? THURSDAY, JUNE Stli, 1933 | EMBRO—At a largely attended i meeting of the congregation of Knox United church, a unanimous call was extended to Rev. R. R. Connor of Kippen, to become pastor of the church. Mr. Connor has presided over the congregation at Kippen for the last six years and comes highly recommended as an efficient worker in the church at that charge. S. CORNELIUS WALSH Following an illness of four years and two weeks’ severe illness death claimed Mrs. Mary Ann Walsh, be­ loved wife of Mr. Cornelius Walsh, on the North Boundary of Blanshard Deceased was born in West Nissourij sixty-six years ago. She is survived! by her husband, one son and two daughters. AND THAT’S THAT Gazing out of his sanctum win­ dow toward the eternal hills, over which the sun dips in its travel to a new day, the gentle editor of The Edmonton Journal smooths his sil­ vering cow-lick and muses after this fashion: “It is truism that today’s newspaper is tomorrow’s kindling. But people who have anything to do with newspapers feel that they help to kindle something more than the kitchen fire. They like to think that the presentation of facts helps to kindle intelligence and interest; that the exposition of opinions stim­ ulates readers into thinking out for themselves ,and that while the physical paper may be destroyed, the effect on the reader remains.—“Es- tevan, Sask., Mercury.’’ FEWER MOTOR VEHICLES BY THIRTY THOUSAND Ontario Has More Than Other Provinces in Proportion To Population MTLSON—-POWELL A quiet wedding was solemnized at Knox Presbyterian Church Manse in Goderich, when Emma, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Powell, of Goderich Twp., was united in mar­ riage to Joseph Henry Wilson, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. Bernard Wilson, of Goderich. Rev. D. J. Lane of­ ficiated. WIDE SPREAD IN PRICE OF STRAWBERRIES A quart box of strawberries, for which the grower in Alabama receiv­ ed three cents, sold in Goderich for 29 cents. A housewife discovered a note in the bottom of t/he box. It read: “Please write me a letter. Who bought this box and the price you paid for it. We receive 75 cents a crate for 24 boxes. Picked by Ruth Williams, Cullman, Alabama, Route 9.” The Goderich lady replied to the Alabama lady.—Goderich Star MRS. W. F. TUER Ann McDougal, wife of William F. 'Tuer, died at her home. Mrs. T'uer was born in Port Ellen, Isley Scot­ land, 7(5 years ago and came to Can­ ada with her parents, who settlea Ontario still has more motor ve­ hicles proportionately to its popula­ tion than any other province of the1 Dominion, but the number showed a J decrease of 30,623 in 1932. In 1911' there were seven persons per pas-(in Blanshard Township, later mov- senger car; in 1932, 7.5. ing all motor vehicles, in persons per vehicle; in British Columbia is second or, count-, ing to Fullarton. Mrs. Tuer suffered 19131, 6.1ja stroke 132 years ago and had been 1932, 6.5 an invalid ever since. Besides her in Canada j husband, five sons and two daugh- with 9.6 persons per passenger car ters survive. The funeral was held in 1932 or 7.7 per motor vehicle. In the States there is one motor vehicle to every 5.1 inhabitants, compared with 9.4 in Canada as a whole. There are now undei’ "a million passenger cars in the Dominion— 945,3:5'5—and of these nearly half are, in Ontario, though this province has only one-third of the total popu­ lation. In Quebec where cars are even scarcer, proportionately, than in the Western Provinces, there is only .one passenger car to every 21.4 ( people. That is, the motor car is only about one-third as common there as it is in Ontario. One of the things which an Old Countryman would find remarkable is that there are only 9,419 motor­ cycles in the Dominion compared | with 94‘5,355 passenger automobiles There are 240,641 chauffeurs, which seems an undue proportion until ac­ count is taken of the fact that in some of the provinces a minor driv­ ing a car has to take out a chauf­ fer’s license. That explains it. While Canadian registrations of motor vehicles fell off '7.2 per cent, in 193 2, the decrease was as high as 16.6 per cent, in New Brunswick passenger cars alone, 17.8 per cent, and as low as 4.8 per cent in Mani­ toba, while in Ontario it was 5.6 per cent. New cars by themselves show much larger decreases, varying from thir­ ty-five per cent, in Nova Scotia and( thirty-seven per cent, in Ontario up to forty-seven pdr cent, in British Columbia and forty-six per cent, in1 New Brunswick. from the home of her son, W. A. Tuer, Mitchell road, with interment in the Presbyterian Cemetery, Mit­ chell. ZURICH Mr. and Mrs. Conrad Thiel, of Kitchener, were Sunday visitors with Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Thiel. Mr. and Mrs. John E. Gascho and Miss Geraldine Surerus were recent visitors with relatives in Tavistock. Prof, and Mrs. Kalbfleisch, of Lon­ don, are visiting with the former’s parents Mr. and Mrs. Louis Kalb­ fleisch. Mr. Chas. Greb, Mr. and Mrs. F. Cook and Miss Carrie Brenner, all of Kitchener, were week-end visitors at the home of Mr. and Mrs. John Bren­ ner. Mrs. Demuth, of Port Arthur, is visiting with her brothers, Messrs. L. and C. Weber and other relatives. Mr. and Mrs. May, Mrs. Schroeder and Mrs. Stahl, of Kitchener, were visitors with Mr. and Mrs. J. K. Eh­ lers one day recently. Mr. Daniel Si. Steckle has purchas­ ed the 100-acre farm on the Bronson Line, Stanley from his father, Mr. M, D. Steckle. Mr. Henry Steckle, of the Bronson Line lost a valuable horse recently through an unusual accident. His son was unloading a. joad of stone on the side of a hill when the wa­ gon sliped down an incline of six feet pulling the horses with it. The .horses landed on top of the upturned wa­ gon and one was so seriously injured that it had to be killed. Could Not Lie Down to Sleep She Was So Short of Breath Mrs, P, J. Chemoff, Shoreacres, B.C., writes:—• “I had been so troubled with shortness of breath I could not lie down to sleep. I couldn’t do any hard Work, or climb the stairs, and had nervous and smothering feelings, and became very weak. I tried all kinds of medicine, but could not get any relief, until after I had taken three boxes of Milburn's Heart and Nerve Pills, and since theti I have felt better in every way.” For sale at all drug arid general stores; pili up only by The T. Milburn Cd., Limited, Toronto, Ont.