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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1931-08-06, Page 14 I." ♦ *1 Bfc'TABLISHED 1873 f L<.A ' 1- lA i « * »( A •e i A 11 l EXETER, ONT., THURSDAY MORNING, AUGUST 6th, 1031 Silk Celanese Dresses at $3.95 On sale this week about 30 beautiful quality silk celanese dresses in a popular range of plain colors including whites for quick clearing at $3.95 / ' T--- All Girls’ Dresses at 98c. Any dress in our store for girls up to 14 years of age, prices up to' $2.50 to clear this week at only 98c. each. > “Lucky Seven” Silk Hosiery at $1.00 We are particularly fortunate in being local selling agents for Lucky Seven hosiery. This is made in pure thread silk, full-fashioned and will equal any stocking at twice it’s price for wear,. .All popular shades at $1.00 a pair, also Super-Silk chiffon hosiery now $1.00 per pair. SPECIAL MEN’S GREY, SLATE, FAWN COLORED SUITS, VALUES TO ' $30.00; FINEST WORSTEDS AT $20.00 A SUIT; SUITS $10.00 AND $15.00; SERVICEABLE TWEEDS $10.00 TO $15.00. . Dr. Scholl’s Foot Remedies DON’T FORGET WE KEEP A FULL RANGE OF DR. SCHOLL’S 0 ' . PRODUCTS Zino Pads for Corns, Callouses and Bunions, Com Salve, Foot-balm, Dr. Scholl’s liquid1 “2 drop” to remove coms, also a full- range of Foot- Eazers and Arch Supports. 8^' 11 " - ' ■ " ■ —“ i t FIFTY'FIFTH YEAR, NO. 2693 TRY US FOR THESE Women’s Bathing Shoes all colors; White Kid Slippers, Sport Oxfords, Running Shoes of all . kinds. New pumps—Ties and Strap Slippers. <?• MEN’S ODD PANTS 50 P^ir Men’s Tweed? trousers sizes 32 to 44. Don’t miss these. Any alter­ ations charged extra on these. At per pair ......................"..............$2.75 SUPERIOR CHAIN STORE GROCERIES The 4 items inside the small borders are for Thursday, Friday & Saturday I CANNED’PEAS I Sieve No. 4.............................3 tins for 25c. LIFEBUOY SOAP 3 cakes .............................................. for 21c. 1 KELLOGG’S CORN FLAKES 13 packages for ....................................... 25c, TODDY, “The Health Drink 1 lb. tin 53c...................... 1-2 lb. tin 33c. per dozen 19c<Fresh Dad’s Cookies per dozen.........20c. New Clover Honey, '5 lb.' 45c.; 10 lb. 80c. Glass Tops for Sealers per doz McCormick Sodas, 1 lb. pkg. .. 15c. Zinc Rings for Sealers / Sun-era “The Vitamin Cereal” per pk. 25c> Super Suds “Beads of Soap” ........... . Sc. Carnation Milk...........small 6c. large 13c. £ Full' line of fresh spices, XXX Vinegar and all pickling requisites. We’ can procure fresh pickled cucumbers, picked any size to your order. U >-< Special Graniteware Sale Preserving Kettles GREY GRANITE Regular 70c. reduced to 59c. Regular 75c. deduced to 63c. Regular $1.15 reduced to 98c Reg. $1.45, reduced to $1.34 Reg. $2.10 reduced to $1.89 BLUE AND WHITE . $1.10 ■. $1.75 . $2.25 . $3.00 reduced to 99c. reduced to $1.57 reduced to $1.99 reduced to $2.49 SPECIAL SERVICES AT BAYFIELD Knox Presbyterian Church", Bay- field' will hold special services on Sunday, August 9th to be conducted by the Rev. H. S. Bennie, M.A., of Acton, Ontario. The morning ser­ vice at 11 -o’clock will take the form of a dedication of the new -bell and a memorial service for those in whose honor the bell has been pres­ ented. The evening service at 7.30 p.m. will be a service of thanksgiv­ ing. Special music at both services. Potato Pots Blue & White reg. $2—$1.57Scotch Grey reg. 70c.—50c. Imperial Grey reg. $1.45, 9'Sc | Cream and Green $1.65-$1.29 Dish Pans Scotch gKey regular 65c.—49c I White,, regular $1.25 —98c. Imperial Grey reg. 95c.--79c. I Cream & Green $1.25—98c. Scotch Grey Sauce Fans, regular* value to 35c. for . . 15c. ea. Scotch Grey Pudding Dishes, reg. values up to 25c. 15c. ea. Scotch Grey Chambers, 2* sizes .........37c. and 44c. Scotch Grey Pie Plates...................................................2 for 25c. Scotch Grey Wash Basins................................................ 23c. White Enamelled Wash Basins..............................................37c. I i SPECIAL FOR SATURDAY ONLY REGULAR $1.00 MOPS ONLY 58c. EACH • TRAQUAIR & LINDENFIELD Phone your hardware necessities to 27 BIRTHS 7VIARDLIN—In 'London Twp.,- On July 28th to Mr. and Mrs. George I Mardlin a daughter (still -born.) 'SJTECKLE—At Bronson Line, Stan­ ley Township, Ott July 27th, to [ Mr. and Mrs. Mfenno Steckle, a daughter* .■SCHULTZ—-At Blake,Un July 28 th to Mr. and Mrs. Schultz, a daugh­ ter, i WEIN—At Grand Bend on Tuesday, July 28tli, to Mr. -and Mrs, Herb Wein, a son. DEATHS ATKINSON—At Victoria Hospital, London, on Wednesday, July 29th Richard Atkinson, in his year, 81St Fort 1st, Miller1—‘At I4th concession, Kay Tw.p., On July 25th, to, Mi*, And l Mrs; Walter MHler, X4th ©Oil. Hay , a daughter. a The marriage took place in Colborne on Saturday, August of Anno Charlotte, daughter of Dr, William Cecil Gardiner, of Niagara -Falls N, Y,, son of Mr. and Mrs. Peter Gardiner, of London, former­ ly of Biyth. 41**. RECUPERATING . ' Mr. Ed. Taylor, of the Bank of Mon­ treal staff, at Dutt°n, is visiting with his mother, Mrs. Jas Taylor, recuperating from a recent opera’- tion for .apendi/citis. CIVIC HOLIDAY Monday was Civic; Holiday and- the weather being ideal a great many of our citizens spent the day out of town. Some went to Grand Bend others- were at Goderich, -at­ tending the races while a number Were at Mitchell attending the base­ ball tournament. SUPPLYING PULPIT I Mr. Mervin Elston, of Centralia, whp has been taking an extra-mural course as a divinity student of Hur­ on College conducted the services in the Anglician church at Kirkton and Sainstbury on Sunday and will have charge of the services for the remainder of the month. LAID TO REST The funeral of the late Newton Baker was held- from his late resi­ dence on Thursday afternoon • of last week. The service, private, was conducted by Rev, D. McTavish, who motored from’Whitby in order to be present on this occasion, latives attended- the funeral .from London, Stratford, Presto© Wingham. D. SISTER INJURED 'Mr. Edward -Stone, of town, i Re- and uvir. hmward- 'Stone, of town, was called to Toronto on Sunday where his sister, Mrs. John Purvis is con­ fined to the General Hospital with b-oth legs broken. Mrs. Purvis, who was a resident of Exeter about six­ ty years ago, was on a motor trip to Owen Sound in a car driven by-, ■her son when.recent rains and loose gravel caused the car to- get out o,f control. Oib the four occupants in ,ithe car Mrs. Purvis was the only seriously injured. one REPRESENTED CANADA AT UNVEILING OF MEMORIAL . and Mrs. Case R. Howard-, of New York, ar© visiting in Exeter, at th© home of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Gidley. Mr. Howard who is connect­ ed with the foreign department of the Canadian Bank of Commerce, at the- request of Premier R. B. Ben,- nett, was the Canadian representa­ tive at the unveiling of the Perry Victory Memorial 'and Peace Tablet at Put-In-Bay, - Ohio on Friday last. A 'synopsis- of Mr. .Howard’s address which was broadcasted by . radio, is given on another 'page. STRUCK BY SPLINTERS WHEN LIGHTNING STRIKES Mr. F. Beuerlin, of Wingham, has been transferred to Exeter as freight agent taking the place, of Mr. Kirk Hutton, who is -at; present relieving at Waterloo. Mr. W. E. Gillespie, of Seaforth, was relieving for a short time. Mr. Stanley Walters, of the local staff of the Bank of Montreal, has been transferred to Hensall 'branch taking up his -new duties Tuesday. CARD OF THANKS Mrs.' Newton Baker and daughter Mrs. Milo Snell desire- to- express their sincere appreciation to the friends and’ neighbours for tiheir ex­ pressions of sympathy, for the- beau­ tiful floral tributes and to who so kindly loaned cars, tih those CARD OF THANKS Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Sweetlove Jr. wish. to extend their thanks to th© staffs of the local banks, for the lovely gift with which -they presented them. The presentation took place at a staff picnic held at Grand Bead on Wednesday last. card of Thanks J* W. TAYLOR ILL , * Mrs. Jos, McTavish and daughter Miss Isabelle, of Shakespeare*, were in Exeter on Sunday to visit the former’s father, Mr. John W. Tay­ lor, who is confined to his bed, condition being far front well, his SUGAR BEET 2i FEET LONG The Times-Advocate had on hibition a sugar beet grown by Mr, Jonathan Kydd, the root of which measures 2 ft, 6 inches long, Mr. Kydd pulled the beet and the roots, which consisted of three tiny shreds over 2 feet long, came up showing the depth to which the root entered the ground. The to© and roots measured about 4 ft. 4 ins. in length. We have also ta. sugar beet grown by MT. Kydd that weighs two pounds 15 ozs, a pretty fair beet for this time of year. ex- VISITING RELATIVES Mr, and Mrs. Will Forrest, of New Jersey; Mr: -and Mrs. Samuel Web­ ber, of Houston, Texas .and Mr. Rich­ ard Eacrett, of Pt, Angeles, Wash., are visiting among the Eacrett rela­ tives in this community. Mrs. Web­ ber is a sister of Mr, Robert Eacrett, of Hay. Mr. -and Mrs. Webber en­ joyed a four-day boat trip through the Gulf of Mexico to New Y'ork, a distance of 2700' miles. Mr; Eacrett, of Port Angeles, Wash., made the trip by auto taking; seventeen days on the way. Three days were spent at Yellowstone Park, fcomlng up through Dakota he ran , into the grasshopper, plague which has played havoc with the crops. Mr. Eacrett is a brother of Mrs. Peter Munn, of Hensall, -and it is 35 years since he was here before. STAFFA WINS CUP There was a big crowd at Mitchell on Civic Holiday for the annual tournament of the South Perth baseball league and Staffa emerged the winners carrying off the covet­ ed cup which last year was held by St. Marys. The fans were treated to three fast games of ball." In the first game Staff a on from Mother- well by the score' of 7-4. The bat­ tery for Motherwell was K.. Roger, Brintnell andBerry, Morrison,. .and for Staffa C. Kersl-ake and Hpr'tori. In the second game St. Mhrys won ■from Woodham by th© score of 4-2 in a hard fought game. St. Marys battery, McIntyre and T. McRobb; Woodham, Carrick and Horton. The last game was a battle to the finish and- required ten innings to decide. The score- was three all at the end of the ninth and in the final Staffa scored two runs and carried off the honors. N. Howe and G. Kerslake were on the moundt for Staffa while McIntyre pitched both games for St. Marys. H. Berry was umpire at the plate, Blowes at first and Clarke at third. ■Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Ford, Mrs. W. ; Walker, of this community and Mr. Thompson, of Carnduff, Sask., were visiting at the Exeter cemetery Sun­ day afternoon when a heavy thunder storm blew up from the- west. They were making their way to their car at the approach of the storm and had just, arrived at the big gate when a bolt of lightning accompan­ ied -by a heavy peal struck the spot. One posts was splintered, splinters striking Mrs. other dented the hat Mr? Ford wearing while Mr. Thompson stunned for the second. It was narrow escape. ACCIDENT f of thunder of the gate the an- was was a one of Walker, Master Caul Genttner, young of Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Genttner the with it belonging Long was 'burned lights in Mr.Long’s out of., commission son met with an unfortunate accident Mon­ day which might have been -attend­ ed- with more- serious results. His father is driver -of the Express truck for Mr. Wm. Gillespie and the little lad was riding on the truck with his legs Out over the side. While at the Creamery the truck ran close to the building scraping the lad’s legs. Owing to the fact that there are several iron pieces on the side for holding uprights of the rack the lad’s legs were not as badly, crush­ ed as been.' home they otherwise might have The lad is confined to his in consequence. Harry Lewis, of Dele-Ware,Mr. has been engaged as lineman for the Public Utilities taking the place of the late Wm. Lutman. iMr. Lewis was at oh© time employed iby the Rural Hydro in Exeter. He will move, his wife and daughter to Ex­ eter as soon -as a suitable residence can be secured. H, C, Sweetlove wishes to ©xjh'ess his gratitude to the Exeter Softball CIttb for the golfing set which they gave him at the ©hd. of his final ; gam© with the Exeter team. He al*‘ so desites extend his best wishes'; for success In the remainder of theln games, . •. t J The Staffs of the two hi>cal banks held a pleasant picnic at Grand Bend Wednesday afternoon of last ?<toek and took advantage of the oc­ casion to present Mr. and Mrs. H. C. -SweetlOve With a silver flatter prior to his departure for his homo in- Hamilton. THUNDER STORMS This -community was again visit­ ed with thunderstorms’ and copious showers on Sunday. About four o’clock Sunday morning many citi­ zens were awakened from their slumbers by a severe flash of light­ ning followed immediately by a heavy crash of thunder. An aerial wire at the rear of t>he Times-Advo- cate was knocked down and radio connected ■ to Mr. Maurice out. The hydro house were put with the exception of one and it was turned on. Quite a number of hydro fuses were blown throughout town and a number of telephones were put out of order. The electric wir­ ing at the post office, was damaged. The storm was followed- by another about the middle of th© af­ ternoon. A large thunder-cloud came uip in the West and passed over. Ex­ eter Was visited with lightning and thunder accompanied by rain but the fence of the storm was east of here and seemed to center in the Russeldale district, where what seemed like a cloudburst filled the fields with water which ran over ‘the roads like a river. In some fields the stocks were almost ©overfed in water, and other fields looked like small lakes. A barn belonging to Richard Selves on the .east boundary of Usborne was destroyed together with considerable hay and wheat. The loss was partly covered by in­ surance/ Three young cattle be­ longing to Wm. Clark© near Rus­ seldale, were .killed in a pasture field. The rural hydro line .running from .th© Thames Road to Winchel- sea wan struck. One transformer Was burned out. Another had the top blown off and ten transformer fuses were blown out. at Mr. but of A radio tube Les Robinson’s was blown its socket and destroyed. Thos. Dlniifey has a magnifi-Mr cent display of zinnias (Exeter’s civ­ ic flower) on the ’property of the late Mr. Floydj south iboundary. MOTOR TRIP * Mr. Wm, Kuntz, of town, Harold, of wimhw, Mr. 'Austin Bickell, 0$ London, Miss Ella Kuntz, of wind-* sor, and Miss Lillign Rose, of Zu­ rich, returned Saturday fr$m a mot-' or trip to Montreal and' the Thou-- sand islands, They spent four day# sight-seeing in Montreal. Mr. Kuntar recenty constructed a camp- trailer* on ah auto. chassis the same- beinjg' fixed up very conveniently for trav- elling affording splendid accommo- dation. This they used to splendid advantage,, stopping at various- tourist camps, jMiss Kuntz fe? spending a l’ew day with her parents; and expects to leave for Windsor Friday following) which she intends taking a motor trip to Chicago. BURIED IN EXETER Th remains of the late Richards Atkinson were brought to Exeter from London on Friday afternoon off last week for interment in the Ex- eter cemetery. Mr. Atkinson was az­ former esteemed resident of thi# community and was in liis 81st year. He is survived by two brothers and. two sisters, William, of. London, John D., of Clinton, Mrs. Albert Hooper, of London, Mrs. John May, Of Toronto. Among these who at­ tended the funeral were Wm. Atkin­ son, Mrs. A. Hooper, and Mr. and. Mrs. Olan Hooper, of London; Mr. J. D. Atkinson, of Clinton; and- Mr. and Mrs. Owen Atkinson, of Grand Bend. The deceased was never mar­ ried. TO BOOST BUSINESS Mr. E. H Wilford, of Toronto, visited in town on Thursday last and met a few business-men of Exeter in the Library outlin­ ing a plan to set up an organization in every municipality in Ontario for the boosting o.f Canadian 'business and products t-he proposed name for which is the Ontario Business Dy­ namo. Mr. Wilford- recently organ­ ized the Canadian Onion Week at a time when the onion growers -’of Essex were stocked up with 400 car loads of onions. As -a result of that campaign the growers were able to-’ dispose of their surplus stock. He* is now engaged in planning a four week's cam-paign for th© milk pro­ ducers o£ Ontario, one week, of Which, will .be devoted ' io ‘buttery on© to cheese; one to miflFand' -an­ other to ice cream. The plan is to have a -central organization, with? branches in every municipality with, the idea o,f putting over this- and any further campaign on a very suc­ cessful scale. It was decided to leave the matter to select the com­ mittee to the local Chamber of Com­ merce. A FINE COLT “Mr. John Powell, Jr., of McKil- lop, lias disposed of his fine colt, Jim E. Gratton. This colt was sir­ ed by Calumet Gratton 2.11% and is a half brother of the Pacing- Queen of 19 30, Mae E. Gratton,. 1.5 91/^, and is -a beautiful bay, ris­ ing two years ago. His new owner is Mr. Bierling, of Exeter, who paid* a handsome price for him.”—Huron. Expositor.’ KIRKTON OAT CROP WINNERS J. R. Clarke, of Cromarty, lias- finished the judging of the fields of oats entered in the field crop com­ petition conducted by the Kirktou Agricultural Society. Following are the names of the prize- winners ac­ cording to merit: Ira Marshall, Nor­ man Harris, Switzer Bros., Roy Nethercott, Hugh Kirk, Joseph. White and Sons, J. M. Harding:. CLINTON VS. EXETER Thursday, August 6tl at 6.30 p.m. EL •M CARNIVAL NIGHT August 10 Confetti, Homs,; Streamer# Fmt Galore Gents 50c.Ladies 25c. ■ Dancing Ffe© DANCING NIGHTLY Music by | TED BURT’S ROYAL - COLLEGIANS SUNDAY BRASS BAND CONCERT ON THE BEACtt '■ .................. r'.rilT....I**'"'-'..Mi|B