The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1936-02-27, Page 3THE EXETER TIMES-ADVOCATE THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 37, 1936
County Railroads
Borne time .agio an in teresting let
ter, written, by Mrs. B. W. F. Beav
ers, appeared in your columns, in
which she wrote of the -churches of-
the town and remarked that it was
difficult to secure dates. That is
true and only one hundred years)
have passed by. What will it be
after another century of progress?
Would it not be a wise measure to
organize an historical ’ club in our
village to gather information. . If
printed in your valuable paper, clip
pings could be preserved.
Here are a few items- in reference;
to our railroads. They are not com
plete and in some cases not exact
but possibly someone can correct in-'
accuracies,
, The first road to enter our county
was t’he Buffalo' and Lake Huron,
running from Biuffalo to Goderich.
It c.ame about 1858 or very soon af
ter. It was a great boon to the-
farmers and others- of the opynty^r
Before its arrival vast quantities of
grain were shipped from Goderich
by water. Much of this grain was
drawn to Goderich by ox teams from
a wide area.
The second road was the Toron
to, Grey and Bruce, a narrow gauge
road running from Toronto to Owen
Sound with a branch from Orange
ville to Teeswater and a short spur,
running into Wingiham from Glen-
annan. The company was organiz
ed in 1867 and in a year or two
opened the rodd for traffic. The
narrow gauge did not work, well in
the deep snows of this northern dis
trict and in 1881 and 1882 they
changed to a standard gauge road.
The promoters -of this road, profit
ed very well in the building. At
least it is told of William Gooder-
ham who left $200,000 at his death
to Victoria University upon condi
tion that the Methodist Church move
it to Toronto from Cobourgi. This
man belonged to the Gooderham
family but he refused to accept any
of the riioney made by his people in.
the distillery business. Part of his
fortune came from the Toronto,
Grey and Bruce railroad promotion.
He ventured and won.
The third railroad was the Wel
lington, Grey and Bruce, running
frojn Harrisburg to 'Southampton, ;
with a banch running from Palmer- |
ston to Kincardine. This southern
branch was opened in the spring of
1875 although it was not completed
foi’ some months afterwards. It
opened up a pioneer district through
North Perth, North Huron and S.
Bruce that today is a very prosper
ous tract.
b'Our fourth railroad is our -own
Lond'm fi’iron and Bruce funning
from London to Wingham through
one of the finest and most fertile-
areas ui ud Ontario. To the build
ing of this road Exetei* gave a bonus
of $10,000* The contractor, Hen-
drie, t Hamilton, had an unpaid
claim of $229,000 against the road
when he finished’ it and would not
hand it over to the company until
it was paid.
In 1876 it was running very pro
fitably."
It served a splendid stretch of
country and incidentally contribut
ed ver; niiuch to the building up of .
small towns along the route. Hen
sail owes its origin to the road. Jas.
Petty gave the site for the station
and switching requirements. He
owned fifty acres: there, had a vil
lage plot surveyed and held an auc
tion sale of town lots. The first
house was erected in April 1877 and
by 1879 the village- had ,a popula
tion of 35 0 people. This late start
for the village is largely accountable
for the fact that there is not an old
house there and it is -one of the
cleanest, best-built and most beau
tiful of the small towns of the pro
vince.
The last railroad to enter our
county js the- Goderich and Guelph
and Guelph Junction road'. The last
few miles of this road were very
expensive to build. It is Said that
part of it cost a $1,000,000 a mile. .
However, the owners-, the city of
Guelph have found it a profitable
asset some years. It was opened
sometime in the early part of this
century, possibly about 1905. It en
ters the courity near Motikton and
passes through Bylth and AUbUVh
on its way to- Goderich.
ONLOOKER
COST OF HABATT CASE
OVER $200,000
TORONTO—-‘Total ‘ cost’ to the
ratepayers of Ontario of the Labatt
kidnapping already amounts over
$200,000 it has been estimated. Be
sides expenses involved in continent
wide police investigation, there Were
the costs of three Supreme Court
trials and seven hearings in magis
trates' courts. Two men—- “Piccolo1
Pete” Murray, of Covington, Ky.,
and. Herman Kierdorff, Detroit-—
wore kept in Middlesex County jail
at the state’s expense for long per
iods before being -discharged as
having nothing whatever to do with
the case.
After Misener’s new trial in March
three Supreme Court judges Will
have presided over Labatt kdnapp-
ing trials*
High ranking officers of the On
tario mnv’nMa! police and the R.<J.-
M.P., have spent practically their
entire time on this noted case since
that fateful day in August, 1934.
t)BI AL
Are you ready for spring?
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Ever hear of frozen sunshine?
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Those railroads came* in handy.
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There are no permanent deceptions.
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Few of us have many dignified moments,
It is the little more that malkles the difference,
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3 Old King Winter knows a good deal about surprise attacks,
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The cisterns and a great many wells, are crying out for rain,
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The “flannens” are wearing a hit thin; the woodpile and the
coal bin have taken to reducing. We wish the warm weather would
come.A • • • . * * • *
More than thirty national broadcasts relayed the ceremony
connected with the burial of King George V. King George, it was
realized, had done honour to universal human nature.
We have known all along that society is cluttered up with a
lot of loafers. It has remained for the last few years for the be
lief to .grow that it is society’s duty to feed, clothe and shelter those
who refuse to toil and spin in their’ own behalf,* * * * * * * sp
’ UNPRECEDENTED
IF-or persistence and extent of the area affected by the severe
winter conditions, 1936 beats all records hitherto, recorded by the
weather bureau. What gives 1936 its bad pre-eminence? Sunspots
at their mightiest? Planets that have been getting in or Out of
their usual conjunction? The fact that Canadian hockey players
over there in the Olympics were off colour, or something? Then
what’s to follow? A blazing hot summer? A big harvest or fare
well to the Depression? It all remains to be seen.
A contrast
This winter distinct classes of airmen have been in operation—
the airmen who are. droppng bombs on defenceless men,’women
and -ohjldren-—the other airmen who. are risking their lives to res
cue marooned fishermen and coastguardmen, or who are daring the
terrors'.of winter at its yjorst to bring food and medicine to. trap
pers. and settlers in the appalling loneliness and isolation of north
ern or winter-bound regions. The one class is in league with death.
The other works wih Him whose will it is that there, shall be no
life destroyed.
TWO HURT IN LONDON
DURING FIRE
Two men were injured when a
fire occurred at Carrother’s service
station early Sunday. Russell How-
lett, 20-year-old attendant, was sev
erely burned about the upper pari
of his body, when trapped in the
blazing cellar, while ylreman Wm.
Fountain fell into an open grease pit
and suffered a leg injury.
The fire was caused when gaso
line being 'used to clean oil from the
cellar floor became ignited and turn
ed the room into a mass of flame.
His clothing enveloped in flames
Howlett managed to stagger into
the open, where Lionel Pettigrew, a
fellow-worker, extinguished the
flames before taking him to hospital.
His condition was reported as fav
orable and the burns, although ex
tensive, are largely superficial.
When Pettigrew was unable to
smother the flames with his coat, he
grabbed a hose from the wash rack
and succeeded in extinguishing them
by water. The clothing was burned
off above Howlett's waist.
Fountain, running through the
smoke-filled washroom carrying an
axe, fell headlong into the six-fpot
concrete grease pit. A fellow fire
man stopped short of the pit edge,
and aided him outside, where he
was removed to hospital.
The fire was confined to the section
of the station adjoining the furnace
cellar, but the damage to the build
ing and stock was considerable. j
RETURNS FROM COOL SOUTH
T. R. Paterson, -county engineer,
Goderich, mp.de a lengthy and speedy
trip to Florida, from which he has
just returned, which is believed to
be a record of some sort. The cold
and snow were disagreeable to Mr.
Paterson, so he hied himself to the
Sunny South. There he shivered
in the sunshine and exercised among
the palms in an attempt to keep
warm, for the temperature was be
low the freezing point. Three days
was enough and nine days from the
start of his trip Mr. Paterson was
back) in his home town where, at
least, one expects to be cold.
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HURON AND BRUCE LODGE
HOLDS LADIES’ NIGHT
Huron and Bruce Lodge, A.F. &
A.M., annual Ladies Night was held
at the Granite Club, in St. Clair,
Avenue West. W. E. Coulter, the
Master of the lodge, and R. I. Fer-
| guson, the Junior Warden, were re-
l sponsible for the program that was
enjoyed by more than 200 members
and guests.
ANNOUNCEMENT
The engagement is announced of
■ Margaret Edna, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Jas. A. Hay, Tuckersmith, to
Mr. James Clayton Horton, son of
i Mrs. Horton and the late Noah Hor-
to
NORMAN NEWTON TARES
$5,000 FOR 38 DAYS
TORONTO—-Cost of the Toronto
police probe now is $16,907, Board
of C-ontdol was informed by City
Clerk J. W. Somers,
The board, while approving funds
there being $18,0.00 in estimates for
the probe, directed a detailed report
on expenditures for the city clerk.
The figures of $16,9 07 does not
include post of court reporters and
transcriptons- of evidence, which will
probably be about $2,500.
Judges Coughlin and Ross have
each received $3,300 and Norman
Newton K.C., probe counsel, $5,000
although the latter submitted a bill
ton, of Usborne, the marriage
take place early in March.
Neighbor—Your husband
like a brilliant man. I suppose
knows everything?
Friend—Don’t fool yourself,
doesn’t even suspect anything.
looks
he
He
nrobe, received $750.
‘’or 86,516, but agreed to accept
$5,000.
“Not a bad pay for 38-days’
work,”Controller Day observed,
“but I believe he deserved every
•nt of it.”
Cecil Carrick,registrar of the
AND NO ONE SEEMS TO CARE
Dispatches from Berlin report that the Rev. George Althaus,
former Prostest’ant pastor in Timmerlach, has been imprisoned for
six months by the summary court of Brunswick on the charge of
having prayed for the Jews. The court held that since God had
“himself-made the Jews "homeless because of their transgressions,
prayer ii| behalf of the “poor, persecuted Jews” constituted “unpre
cedented^ impudence.” Pastor Atlhaus was also charged with hav
ing told;Sunday School pupils not to join “in the hue and cry
against the Jews.” .Such a prison sentence as this represents the
ultimate extension o’f Caesarism. •—.The Christian Century******* 1|C
AN INCIDENT
A young friend of ours runs a store in the country. Last sum- . -
mer he gave a farmer’s hired man credit in the way of groceries and
household supplies. During the autumn this man’s child became
quite ill .pud the store account mounted rapidly. At last the cus
tomer asked for two pounds of tobacco and was flatly refused.
Shortly after the refusal a neighbor whose credit is very .good chided
the grocqr for his non-continuance of credit. “I have carried that
man for 'three months. Now that you have interested yourself in
him, hoy; would it do If ybu were to put $3.0,00 to his credit, you1
taking the chances of Collection!” the store-keeper suggested.“Ohj that’s different!’* The shoe was on his own foot.
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WHAT HAVE THEY TO SAY ABOUT IT?
When an occasional Ontario, city believes that some of its
affairs have' 'been messed -up, it has a way of calling for an in
vestigation on the part* of the government. When all the fuss is
over, the,' bill is sent to the government treasurer foi* payment.
The Ife'sults? Things in the city where the investigation took
place continue very mu’ch as they were. The investigators- have
made off with a .whole lot of money for the time :and labor ex
pended. .’’yhe taxpayer, sweats to pay the bilk And there you are.
But what, have the rOptesehtatives Outside the city immediately in-
teredted’.'tjO, say dbout’this Way of doing things,? Would they not be
doing a good turn by insisting that the municipality calling for an
investigation should {pay ■for washing its own dirty linen?********
'NOBLE WORDS
After giving a graphic but powerful description of the uni
versal mourning on the occasion of the funeral of his late Majesty
King George V, The London Times has this to say1: “These things
pass, but they are not lost nor forgotten. They show that the
things that unite men and nations, though less .often visible, are more fundamental and more universal than the tilings that divide.
A life nob'ly lived according to the code of one people is noble
also by the standards of people far away, though formal creeds
may differ and material interests crash. In our moments of loss
we alii ce.ase in one another’s eyes to be strangers, political oppon
ents, economic competitors, heretics, -or infidels, and are seen
as fellow-men. Something of that understanding, of feality must
,remain when the pang Of which it was born has been softened
by tile hadd of time. Meanwhile the British people are grateful
for the sympathy of all the world, and both the sympathy and
gratitude are stones to be built into the arch of peace.********
RUSSIA—WHITHER
Within the- memory of men still living, to think of Russia
was to think of a tremendous territory in which there lived a
few people immensely wealthy, given to corrupt living, proud,
ignorant, arrogant, oppressive, regardless of all rights- save their
own self^chosen privileges. Along with this dominant class there-
existed tens' of millions- of folks' with an, uncanny skill in turning
their physical sfurroundings to good account,t but topjplressed,.
living on the level of serfs, eating miserable food, poorly clad
and worse housed, from whom all hope and enterprise had been
ground by the iron libel of tyranny. In the midst -of this awful
mass of humanity there was $ church, ritualistic, formal goi’g-
eous in arcliiture, but religiously dead, uninspired and uninspiring.
What the majority of people did not see was a body of stud
ents, earnest, clear-eyed, disciplined, bent on liberty, ready to
-risk ail for freedom*
Then followed the revolution. The -oppressors were slaught
ered. The at-ease-in-Zion clergy were kicked out. The costly, but
istrangers-to genuine-religion churches were plundered, despised,
disregarded, spat upon, deeply cursed.
Russia had attained her freedom. But freedom was the very
thing she did not know how to use. Her population required food
and manufacturers. To securing these she addressed herself sac-
rificially in a mass but under tyrants. Naturally she made mis
takes at one egrotesque and awful. But she was making her own
mistakes. She was learning in the school of experience-, a school
where tuition comes .high Ibiut where the lessons- are well taught.
’ The result! In many phases of her national life Russia com
mands hot only the attention but the admiration of the world.
She sees to it that tools are getting into the hands of those who
use them, Further, she insists that the .greatest rewards are given
to those who earn most, she discards, methods giving promise of
proving Impracticable. So far so good. What next in this land
of mystery, ot unmeasured natural resources and limitless energy.
This mighty nation has awakened. She is finding her strength, sue
is having the joy of achievement. Even her ancient enemies are
admitting her progress, -in her better homes, in her ’industry, in
her Social life, in her trade, in her influence as a world power,
Russia is still a mystery but a mystery that must bo- reckoned
with. .
Why Cannot I Get
A Good Night’s Rest?
Sleep is essential to our very existence as while
we repose we are collecting energy to go forth to
another day’s work.
Los3 of sleep is a seriousjj tter, and pnleas vra
the nervous system
other in London, says It was really
48 inches of snow have fallen
since the first of the year according
to the Stratford weather bureau.
The total fall since last October has
reached 77 1-2 inches. The total
snowfall last winter was 81 1-2 in.
get proper rest, sooner or
is bound to collapse.
Tone up your nervous
N. Pills. Then there st
no more disturbing dj
more getting up inj?
when you went to Jped
tem with
be no
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A recent news item in a
Montreal paper read “Desmond
Saunders (23 months old) of 1102 Seventh
Avenue^ ^ferdun, talked by telephone oniirta.^ecent Snu-
. **^or and Mrs. J.
rLee, London, Eng. Des-
* Saunders, who also spoke to
day naming, to his grandparg
c iders, 17 Parkcroft
ond’s father,
F liis father a
wonde IF’"’I never believed it could be so clear*/’
fit rates on trans-Atlantic calls are now effective
from 5 p.m. to 5 a*m. They mean a saving of about
30 per cent.
Geo. W* Lawson
Manager