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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1936-02-12, Page 3THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1OS0THE EXETER TIMES-ADVOCATE RE1N>RT OF THE COUNTY ENGINEER * The fol.owing is the report of the County Engineer to Huron County Council: Out returns to the Department of Highways for 1935 show expenditure as folows: Maintenance ........ Construction ........... Machinery & repairs Superintendence .... 83,067.73 9,297.99 7,437.43 4,477.32 on Of on on $1Q4,280.47 The Government sub-------------*—* sidy should be ...^....$ 50,291.58 The Maintenance amounts are made up as follows: Weeds ................. ....$ 2,931.38 Ditching.................... 255.66 Grading .................... 1,795.39 ■Culverts .................... 1,237.94 Bridges ................. 636.22 Resurfacing .... 41,153.83 . Tarring ..................... 6,990.02 Snow Roads ............. 5,421.04 Guard Fence,......... 1,252.64 Drains ....j?. ............. 3,400.08 Calcium chloride ..... 6,579,,78 Signs ................. 25.47 W&....... ••*•..... County Bridges ......, 207.92 $83,067.73 Construction Rd. No., 1^. ^©qjerly from Elma Township ..............I Rd. No. 19, Northerly from Cox;. 6„ Grey Twp.......... Rd. No. 25—Opposite Lot 4, Con. 18, Grey and Mc Killop ....'....... ............... Rd. No, 27, Northerly fijnm Con. 4, Ashfield and W. Wawanosh .,.................... Rd. No. 2'7, Opposite Lot 11, Ashfield* culvert .... Rd. 35, Opposite Lot 38, Goderich Township signs $1,184.65 581.10 1,102.46 4,558.32 684.93 103.47 $9,297.99, *■ The receipts and expenditure? on a ccoqnt of the year’s work follow: Receipt from municipal! tiqs for material, etc. •$ Sundry refunds and sales Traffic fine? ................... Relief subsidy ..................' County boundaries ........ Outstanding accounts .... Levy ................................. Gas Tax refund estimated Government subsidy, esti mated Deficit I grade improvements on Kippen and Mill roads ; Egmondville bridge; improvement to surface on Mill road McKillop Twp.—-Improved main tenance on new road; drainage iKeaforth-Walton road; extension bituminous road to Walton. Hullett Twp.—Improvement new road; grading bridges etc. Base Line. East Wawanosh Twp.— Widening swamp roads on Division line; low cost bituminous, or other surface, on south boundary; improvements to new road, West Wawanosh Twp.—New roads to be maintained in improved con dition; boundary work mentioned above. Morris Twp,—Draining and grade improvements on, Grey Boundary, low cost bituminous road surface throughout; grade improvements and draining 011, Blyth-Mfal,ton, road,.Grey Twp,—grading and draining on road east from Brussels; also on McNaught road. Turnberry Twp.—Grade improve ments on Road No. 31 (2nd conces sion) ; also on Ho^ick Bopnary; 9th concession needs a lot of work. HpwiCk Twin — Regrading and draining n road,- wuth p,f GPWte and, north of Fordwicih; narrow bridges ’require widening. ' In additipn there are a number of ibridges that; ipqy fail at any time, and require reconstruction, and no account is, taken of the construction requirements of the new road?;. These are but samples of the, work that must, be undertaken county rqqd?,. and much of it. must be done before the traffic can SPt tihe dustles? all year road that is demanded today, not economical to try to any type of road on a badly drain ed subgrade. Dust palliative or low cost bitum inous surfaces’, are needed on about 250 miles of main county roads. ■Stabilization of roads is the. pro cess of constructing a road of well op, the surface But *it is maintain 11 ............................................. J graded particles containing, sqitqblp 4,748.86 binder tq produce q dense mass, and 1,85,3.46 846.4,5 41,-69 9 g0.9:4 53435^ l.TOQ.OO $117,963.73 Expenditure on county roads ...........................$■ Traffic patrol ................... Insurance premium ....... Lights ............................... Legal fees ......................... Work and material for municipalities .... Damage claim ........ Interest charges .... Committee pay lists County boundaries . 4,748.86 150.0Q 3,227.23 541.95 2,466.77 /$1.1,7,96.3.73 I may say that special- effort was made to keep the. expenditures with in the limit, and this would have been accomplished, but for a bound ary account that was submitted near the close of the year, and had to be paid. . \It Will be seen that unless more funds are provided, somewhat less ■work can be done during the cur- ent year,'as there wil be’ no relief grant and as credit for the refund of 1935 gas tax was given to that year. It must be kept in mind, too, that a large part of our expendi- ures go to pay for materials, such as cement, tar, gas, snow fence, cal cium chloride, etc., which have not been reduced in price materially •during the depression. Moreover, ths demands for many materials is increasing, and other matters have to be neglected to provide for them. Ashfield. Township’—Completion of Kintail sideroad, several small bridges, needed; stabilization Dun- gannoiirLucknow road; improved, maintenance of sbutlT .boundary. CoWdfne Twp.—'Regarding ' Nile- Benmiller road; draining Dunlop E. surface improvement on '8th conces sion rpad, ’, ’ ' Goderich Tip?—’Improved mainten ance on 'Cut Line; .Trick’s bridge, widening Or rebuilding; ’Base Line reconstruction. • Stanley Tp.i—Improved gradq and surface on Dayfield-Brucefiold road culvert widening. Hay Tp.—improved surface ahd grade on. Zurich road; new bridges on same rqad; grade improvement- and surface improvement, Hayi-Step- hen townline. . 'Stephen Tp.—Draining and .sur face improvement on Crediton road. Usborne Tp.—New. bridges on St* Marys road; improved drainage and surface on the same road; improved surface on the maintenance on en. . Tuckersmith the controlling of. the mqisture con tent within limits, by haying enough to, prevent dust, and nqt so much that the volume of th$ aggregate particleg, will be disturbed. This con tinues to be the most active topic among road builders, and a vast amount of study and. investigation is being done in many parts of the United States, and the studies are being extended to be bases of many types of road. A tendency at pres ent is to built a stabilized founda tion and surface- with % thin bitum inous mat an inch dr' thereabouts in thickness, as it is found that such ‘ surfaces will not last on an unstable base. In the absence of any definite in structions regarding snow removal, our work in this connection has been uncertain. We have, however, three plows- operating and keeping open such roads, as they ai‘e able. It would appear that, in. normal times about, five plows could keep, open nearly all of our county roads. On th’e basis of sixty days- plowing each, per.year, and at a cost of$3Q‘ per day each; the total would be $9,000 per annum, or not much, more than we have spent removing, snetw when sleigh traffic alone was considered. The extra cost would represent about ,30 cents in taxes on the average 10.0 acres, and would, I believe, be re-1 paid many times over. Undue con cern should not be given to .unusuaL ■ storms such as we have just exper ienced. It •will not be long before a lot of such work is done on town ship roads. During the present winter, ne crusher has been operating until re cently, and two of our trucks have been engaged in hauling fill to widen the grade in the swamp at (Conces sion 13 on the division line between East and West 'v^awanqsh. This work has provided employment and as^tihe cost is about 25 cents per yard in addition tq the depreciation on the trucks, it is not much greater, if any, than the summer cost'.—Boy Patterson, County Engineer and Rd. Superintendent.* Thames road, and new* road to Whal- FRED SIMPSON, SUCCUMBS . " Fred Simipqon, prominet farmer o£ McGillivray1 Township, died after six dayq of illness. 4t the home of his daughter, Mfrs. AVesley Rqvjqgton, Lqcan. 'Mr.' and Mrs. Sipipsori ha;l come nearly three weeks ago to tqire charge of the home and family of them daughter, who, with her hus band, left for West Palm Beach, Florida, to take a month’s vacation. Deceased was born in Biddxilph, a son of the late James and jane Carter Simpson. He had spent most of his life in McGillivray Township Surviving are his yrfe, formerly Ro- sella Keown, two daughters, Mrs. W. Bevington and Miss Edna Simpson, of Detroit and a number of other, relatives. Mr. and Mrs. Bevington left Florida on Wednesday for home.Drainage and T HAT OLD IM A HURRY WITH You can’t be carol can quickly < much more s 1 Colds. They into something At the fitst sign eve’s Bromo Quinine, toi stop that y and effectively. At all Ask for Grove’s. They’re ’ T 4 ........................ ............................................................................ EDITORIAL. M”-------------_---------------—------------------w -----&,-------4 Stoves are still fashionable in Ontario. Those old remedies for frost bites came in just right. Those snowstorms are not only disagreeable but costly. * i* * * * ♦ » Where’s that man who said that this is the temperate zone. That extra cord of wood came in quite handy during the cold spell. * « * * * * * All those qualities we are looking for in King' Edward may be exemplified in his subjects. ' ' " * * * * The old time bed warmeres have been replaced by hot water bottles during the- past week. *$* **$£* We. have had a great time for stock-taking. ‘ Our .merchants are now offering, soma fine bargains. #****#. * * The Eligible Maidens at their last meeting put on record that they have no intention of taking a man to keep. Gradually, but inevitably, the jazz age is going the way of the auk and the dodo,. Work and fun-combined with a serious attitude to conduct are now seen to be the race’s best way to progress. WORTH OF MENTION Two classes of men command our unbounded respect—the milkman delivering his goods with the temperature 15 below and the mail courier on his rounds-in a 30-mile, snow-laden gale with the thermometer 20 below. «***•*■«' YOU MAY NOT HAVE HEARD ■Last week a .couple of dozen young ladies earning their own living gave, .a banquet at a dollar a covering, Not one of these young ladies is ip the high-salaried class. Nearly all o£ them are boarding and most of them, are away from home. The total pro ceeds of this supper were given to ‘help g'lrls over 40 on relief whose total income per week is $2.50 or less. We draw attention to this bit of real ser^ce. TI19. persons who were thus helped face a dif ficult future, but they do so with the Ipiowledge that their sisters care and sacrifice in, their hehglf. ###**«!** WHERE SOMI<] OF THE MONEY GOES In grandfather’s time folk used to turn out and break the roads. Dobbin and Dexter and Buck and Berry and Jack and Bill were all the better of the fun and no one wq? one cent the poorer. The work was done and no raise was required on the tax bill. But now! We have the costly snowplow and the highly paid gang and a tax bill sufficient to keep the roads of the old days go ing satisfactorily for a whole county for six months of the year. We are keen on conveniences but they come high. The music is very nice but it takes cash to pay‘the fiddler. In those old day? people* paid for their farms. They put up with few inconveniences but’thqy had a competency in old age. Nowadays a great’many'peoW’S"five'on the'old age pension or get onto the.' relief lists, the powers that bp meanwhile borrowing money that becomes1 a tax on the future and buy.den for the present. I-Iard times? What are to be looked for when people* insist on having everything easy and nice. DOBBIN AGGRIEVED Dobbin is depressed these days. He has been obliged to ap pear in pubjic places without his ber.s. This is an offence to a noble animal. In the days.when we were young there were sources of joy unalloyed as the nsow deepened, a good horse, plenty of out er robes, the' jolliest girl in the township and bells, real bells at tached to the cutter shaft or to the harness. A young fellow was known by his bells, in those heroic days. Indeed, a young fellow was assured that he heed not call for Katy Bell unless there were chimes on ihis'cutter shaft 01* a string of bells on the harness that went at least once round his high-stepping thoroughbreed. And how those hells chimed and rang and filled the frosty air with music and gladness! On. the occasion of a sleighing party or of a Sunday when everybody and his wife turned out to church, the air was full of .music, a music that once heard haunts one’s memory like an old world melody. But now! Scat my! Dobbin plods along his unmusical, un heralded w^y, while 'his driver sits behind half apologetic for being on the road and eager to huddle away into gloomy silence, and ob scurity. Where’s that air “Jingle Bells?” Dobbin is aggrieved. O, the times! O, the customs! A sleigh ride without bells is more insipid than an egg without salt, and duller than a barnyard without a gobbler. * * # * * * * “ON THE TRAIL” It is high time that the police and crown officers of this coun try learned from the British Navy the golden lesson of silence. As matters now stand it is not unusual for radio announcers and a certain type of newspaper to tell the world more than is good for certain portions of the world to know. “The police say they have giyen up spai-ching i’oi* the criminal in------. They are now hunt ing .for him,.in —*7----”, runs the news items. Why,, such an an nouncement? Whose business but the crown’s what the police are doing,? The duty of the police is to get the offender, when an of fence is committed. If they fail in so doing their dismissal is due for consideration. The leaking crown officer or police officer is duo for dismissal with the. punishment due a public enemy. , We were talking with a man on tliis point whq knew an qutstandingi Mounty very well. I asked him on one occasion regarding a cer tain police matter. He clicked his heels, saluted and replied, “Good - morning, sir,” and has hot spoken to me since! ” A police officer and a certain -crdwhi officer should know that his moutk is to eat with, mostly. #***»*»* A HEALTHY SIGN Sanity and genuine statesmanlike qualities marked the address given in Toronto last Thursday by Mr. John Im-rie, of The Ed monton Journal. We have been accustomed to hearing so many expansive things from speakers from “the windy West” that Mr. Imrie’s sober words were a retreshei’ to folk who like to think seriously about social and national and economic problems, Lately events have been driving this sort of thing into the heads of Canadians whether they were disposed to look facts in the face or not. Mr. Imrie pointed out that Canada has blundered in her management of many of the interests of the West, The West was settled in a helterskelter fashioft, regardless of many of the fundamentals of good national life. System was sadly lacking in the opening up of new territory with the result* that provincial and national burdens were imposed that make carrying on difficult to say the least, Soil was broken up that should have been left for grazing purposes. Highly specialized farming was allowed to be carried on whereas diversified farming is the agricultural practice that has ifi it the clement of permpnancy, The future was hope- lessly discounted by mone^-borrbwing that bordered on the finan cially-insane, A, shortsighted method of wheal selling was adopted that disrupted the channels through which wheat should have gone to world markets. Greed, in this case, grossly nvor-reacihed itself. The machinery of government was allowed to become absurdly ex pensive apd eumhersomPr The result Is that the West is stagger ing when she should bo leaping, and running, very wisely Mr. Imrie drew his hearers’ attention tn the fa-ct that better thinking, apd more intelligent action on the part of the Be particular-buy your Hour by name. Purity flour has en|oyed your conSidence for thirty years. Always quality-milled from the world’s best jpKeat—ensures complete satisfaction j^every kind of baking. West and of Canada will help the West. The West and Canada must not tinkex* with the situation. Fundamental and thorough changes simply must be made if the blunders and the business atrocities of fifty years arq to be corrected and tbP West put in the way of common sense development. .First of all, The West must find her way. Only after she haB so done may she reasonably hope to make progress. MIGHTY DANGEROUS The following is a quotation from the Alberta correspondent to The New Outlook: “Without the final figures pofpre us it looks as if Alberta will be down considerably in its givings, notwithstanding that the year has been equally prosperous with the years immediately preceding, The reason is not far'to seek- The shifting of the .centre of relig ious interest to the field of politics with it? consequent building up of groups at pyery point, ronsistlnf largely of cpurch people, who were required to finance a political campaign by m^tho^q which, though questionable, were qften used by the churches. . A- definite attempt to alienate a 1 social-credit, sympathizers with the organized Church is included in the program of the Premier, who has sent throughout the province in the„role of an evangelist, a tylr. Neigh bor, who attracts ’arye crowds wherever be eoes by his scath’ng de nunciations of Churches and ministers, and openly claiming that all other religion js false except the Aberhart-Neighbor brand. Any depression in Alberta Church affairs, which ths may be causing will be, of course, short lived.” (The Now Outlook,/Feb. 5, 1936, page 123.) So you see, Canada <has her dangers. If the correpondent has correctly estimated and informed us of what is going on in Alberta we have a nice mess out there. The government mixing things uP with the churches in the way the correspondent reports! Such, mixing has been done before always with disastrous results. We are not for thought repression of any kind. We always have held' to the beHef that the higher an ass ho ds his head the plqiner you., can see his ears. For that reason we think that the man with “a new religion” or anything else on his chest should be allowed, tp sqy his say, provided, always, he does not make a nuisance of himself. The people of A berta will in the rrain think right. Meanwhile a lot of them will get their fingers burnt, but that is> the way a cer tain class learn to keep away from the fire. Some theorists in Old Ontario will do *ve 1 to take notice in such matters. Fqr Ontario, too, has her chatterers. HAY TOWNSHIP FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY At the annua, meeting of the Hay Township Fire Insurance Company held .n the Town Flail, Zurich, on Monnday, January 2 7th, tihe three retiring, directors, Albert Hendrick, Oscar Klopp and George Armstrong vere rejected for three years as well as the Auditors, Kenneth Rout edge and Jacob Haber.er who were elected for one year. After the an nual meeting tihe Board of Directors elected George Armstrong, President and Fred J. Haberer, Vice-President for the present year. The following was taken in part from the President’s address: Your Directors bought this past year $5,000 of Ontario Hydro Elec tric Bonds and $1,000 of Canadian National Railway bonds which are guaranteed unconditionally by the Province of Ontario and the Domin ion of Canada. $3,000 of the Pro vince of Ontario 6 per cent, bonds became due on the 1st of December and were cashed. The interest re ceived from our investments amount ed to $2,303.46 which is almost suf ficient to pay the expense of man agement of the company. On exam ining our schedule of losses you will notice we had one heavy loss of $3,- S50 on the 25th of November when two large bank barns and their con tents were destroyed by a lantern exploding. Several small losses oc curred which were caused by sparks from chimneys and stovepipes. Our Board of Directors have asked the Secretary to send out literature on “Fire Prevention” with the policies and his correspondence therebey try ing to educate the public as to ways and means of preventing fires. The year closed with 2028 policies in force, covering a total risk of $7,- 859,170. an increase of 40 policies and $115,050, There is a small balance of $129.30 in instalments lev ied during tike past year, still unpaid which speakis very well for the type of policy-holders we have in our company. Our annual rate of 15c per $100 is still being maintained and we are pleased to know that we are hold ing our own nicely. ARM FRACTURED Mrs. Herbert Mous?eau, Zurich, fell while skating on the rink and fractured her right arm near the wrist. UNDERWENT OPERATION Mrs. O. Walker, Of Cromarty re cently underwent an operation in Scott Memorial Hospital, Seaforth, for appendicitis. She is progress ing favorably. YOUR BANK AND HOW YOU MAY USE IT There is much about bank methods and practices that is a mystery to the ordinary man and woman. They know about savings accounts and cheques, but they know little about numerous other services that the banks are prepared to give them. To enlighten tihe public on the sub ject, the Bank of Montreal has is sued a new edition of its booklet en titled “Your Bank and How You May Use it.” Prepared “for the pur pose of setting forth the many ways in which the bank can serve the individual,” this booklet is really a most valuable manual on Canadian banking. One of tihe surprises it provides for the reader is the extraordinary range of services which the bank of fers to the public. Something like a score of these services is listed, and not only is each service explain ed in language that is easily under stood, but the correct methods of procedure are also described. In the lattei’ conectioq, the book let is illustrated by. reproductions of various bank forms correctly filled out, and such points as tke differ ence between “Order” and “Bearer” cheques are explained and ilustrat- ed. Among the subjects dealt with is that of borrowing money from the bank—a subject of timely interest and of particular importance. The booklet .may be had for the asking at any branch of the Bnak of Mont real. This department is indebted to Miss L. IS., who reports seeing the following sign in a hospital out West last winter: “During this intense cold weather and owing to scarcity of coal, no unnecessary operations will be per formed.” “One hears a lot about the ‘rigors’ of the weather we’ve had for a week or iso. Canada will never became the great nation it is destined to be until it’s citizens can take such a season of weather as something to be expected—just take it in their stride, as it were. Climate is some thing which we cannot change, so we just must reckon with it and "got on with our job.” — Clinton News Record. If Sickly and Run Down Build Up Your Health t is roqui^ff for a run down condition of —.vj one containing iron preferred, to shattered system and restore it to full 0 reconstructive powers of Milburn’s H, & K. ills, containing as they do throe preparations of iron in un easilv tiss-milated form, arc such that t,bo\ whose hej.’th is under par will soon H’l upernte and get bm u tkeir mental and bodily vigor. Try a few boxes and sea how they' will help you back to heAltiu