The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1936-12-31, Page 7’for New Year’s Day.* * * *
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THE EXETER TIMES-ADVOCATE THURSDAY, DECEMBER 131, 1938
!rs appreciate mail delivery on holidays.
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And didn’t we enjoy those.fine days for shopping.
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It’s not what wo sipend at Christmas that makes us poor.
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■Two joys of Christmas—ireraembering and not being forgotten.■ ********
Now tl$at there’s more sunshine in the day, what are you doing
•out it? ’
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Those good roads came just
place.
at the right time and to the right
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Already our merchants’ windows are full of New Year’s bar
gains.
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We’re well supplied with slippers and braces and suspenders
and neckties.
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Let’s do a little better in 1937 the things that we already do
fairly well.
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Old Probs was good enough to keep the roads open for the
Christmas festivities.
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The meddler never did any good,
mans have messed things up in Spain.
Witness the way the Ger-
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There never
.mwmt 'day who
was a finer lot
have found the
of young people than those of the
right track.
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Boxing Day
takes his second
is the occasion
wind for
when the up-and-coming merchant
the end-of-the-year rush,
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and village boy should have a pair ofOf course every town
skates. He should moreover, have a snow shovel wherewith to pay
for them.
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The farmers had no holiday on Boxing Day. Come what will, Itho $attle must be fed and the hoigs attended to and the chores done
hvery day in the year. The farmer has a steady job.
javio during the last six weeks, by the
six years ago', some regrettable
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r pen
ut it hadn’t orter been’ ”.
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We’d like to get figures re the financial success of Boxing Day.
Sone merchants think it bad enough to ibe tired, but when money Is
................................................... We may seem cranky and crot-
several
goods.
IcySt in addition it’s just too, bad.
caety, but we don’t foirget that for
begged for the privilege of selling
bring leisure.
years merchants almost
January and February
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Most commendatory is that way the paper wrote up the plow
ing match that we noticed in our last issue. We refer to* the men
tion made in the report of the plow used by the successful competi
tor. By the way, would it not be a good thing in such contests to
mention the characteristics of the plowing that secured the victory?
If you wish to know the interest farmers took
years ago, have a ichat with Mr. Robert Kydd
debted for the account of the match referred
work drives dull care away.
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in their work 50
to whom we are in
to. Piride in one’s
MUSING
On Christmas night we spent some time going over the presents
hiWnd friends forwarded to us. Each card, each .gift brought up the
fa.ee; of a friend who had helped us over many a stile, Our little
oface soon was full of the folk thus called up by the mystic voice
of memory. There they .stood about us with laugh and song and
handshake and kind word. How glad we were to associate with
them in the quiet of that evening! But nearer still were those
who wrote us no greetings, who came straight to the heart, as they
arrived .from the land of spirits. How they bade us to hope on and
to strive on, and never be downcast. As
the words of Burns:
The bridegroom may forget
Who made his wedded
The monainch may forget the crown
That on his head an hour has been,
The mother may forget the child
That smiles so sweetly on her knee
■But I’ll remember you my friends,
A'tfid
they left us we recalled
the bride
life yestreen,
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all that you have been to me.”
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the Foldy of it
Germany thought she did not get a square deal after the Great
War. But what of the deal she gave Belgium?. "You see, you’ve lost
everything!” the Kaiser said to King Albert. There was nothing
destructive Germany could do* to Belgium and her allies that she
didn’t do. In the opinion of the best statesmen of that day Ger
many got precisely what she had earned. Indeed many serious men
said that the Allies should .have gone into Berlin. Instead of learn
ing her lesson and winning hex* place in the sun by industry and observance " ' ... .................
mankind
back whs
a „ Tliej
of the nyoiral law, she resolved to cultivate hatred to all
and to teach her youth that the sword could and must win
ft the 'sword had lost.
|?qn sequence? A starving Germany! For months her Ive been rationed. Every hour of the day her rulers hope
e false step on the part of other nations will precipl-
■HP^war. .Her false guides lie in wait to replenish her wasted
Fames by plundering some peaceful nation. What folly! What a
[pity! Meanwhile the rest of Europe would be friends with her were
'they sure she would be trustworthy. Revenge, hatred, the war
spirit fill a land with desolation.
" y , | The Danger of Cough
Dr.Woods Concerning Children
bp disregarded, as it is often a grave matter,
Jr^'and unless attended to at once may cause serious
In young children a cough or cold is not a thing
Highlights of 1936
January 2nd
Hydro rates reduced making a
saving of $1,250 a year to the hydro
users. To the rural district a sav
ing of $2,200 has become effective.
Thermometer registered 19 and
20 degrees below zero Saturday
night.
January 9 th
Mr. Guenther and his men Elmer
Zimmer and Ervine Guenther cap
ture a burglar that had been at
tempting to rob Edighoffer’s store
in Mitchell.
Mr. Henry Strang tendered his re
signation as clerk of the Township
of Usborne aftei* eighteen years of
faithful service.
January 16tli
Miss
her leg
Miss
home and fractured a bone in
left arm.
Lorraine Atkinson fractured
while skiing near the river.
Marjorie Hunter fell at
January 23rd
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Therink and recreational centre,
majority in favor was 86.
Mr. Ed. Coward had his left leg
broken when he was thrown from a
load of hay.
April 16th
Dr. Jackson, who tpok over the
practice of Dr, J. H. Browning, is
moving back to his former home of
Embro,
.Stephen Township, out of a total
levy of $45,09.5.00 taxes, have been
all paid with the exception .of $387.-
32.
July 16th
The intense heat of the past week
surpassed all records. Several days
the thermometer hitting the one
hundred mark.
Ferdinand iStelck, 74 years of age
victim of heat wave,
James blgnan observed his 91st
birthday and Mrs, Wm. Whiteford,
also of town, celebrated her 92nd
birthday,
tion fox* appendicitis.
'October 20tli
J, G. Stanbury and Mrs. Stanbury
receives presentations previous - to
their departure for St. Catharines.
Ontario Municipal Board, Toron
to, grants permission for erection of
the new community building.
Relief car loaded at the station
foir Western relief.
July 23rd November 5th
April 23rd
The Dashwood Creamery was de
stroyed by fire Tuesday morning
with estimated loss of $5,000.
Dr. J, W. Browning, aged 93
years, dean of telegraphy, partici
pated in a nation-wide hook-up of
veteran telegraph operators in their
centenary program.
Paul Hess, of Zurich, seriously in
jured in a motor- accident near Zu
rich.
Mir. and Mrs. George Ferguson, of
Hurondale, celebrate their golden
wedding anniversary.
Work started on new building.
November 12th
her
her
and
the
some
King George the Fifth dies
Edward the Eighth comes to
throne.
Miss M. A. Horton .fell on
ice near her home and fractured her
wrist.
Over 200 licenses were issued on
January 115th by G. M. Grant.
January 30th
of
late
Exeter1 observed the Day
.Mourning on Tuesday for our
•Sovereign. Memorial service held in
Trivitt Memorial Church
February 6th
New building at the Fair Grounds
agitated. The roof of the cattle
sheds collapsed with the weight of
snow on it.
The Race Committee have set
June 23rd for the Big Race Day in
Exeter.
February 12th
Roads are again blocked and traf
fic tied up on the highway. Men and
teams worked until nearly four
o’clock Sunday morning
cars through the drifts
town.
Messrs. Sandy Elliot
Southcott returned home
weeks’ motor trip to Florida.
to 'bring
south of
and H. 0.
aftei’ a five
February 19 th
Traffic on the highway north and
south of Exeter tied up for nearly a
week as the roads are blocked with
snowdrifts.
Douglas Harness had his .right eye
injured when struck with a snow
ball.
A well attended public meeting in
the Town Hall strongly in favor of
new Municipal Building.
February 26th
Mr. and Mrs. Michael Elford cele
brate their fiftieth wedding anniver
sary.
Mrs. Glenn Disjardine brought
from her home at Grand Bend on a
sleigh suffering from appendicitis.
She was 'then put on the train and
taken to the hospital in London.
March Sth
The entombed men in the mine at
■Moose River, N. S., Dr. Robertson
and Alfred Stcadding, released.
Mrs. Bertha Mundy, of Wingham,
•killed in an auto accident at Elgin-
field.
A by-law is to be submitted to the
ratepayers of Exeter regarding the
.new skating rink.
Mr. C. W. Kestle burned by gaso
line when a pipe was broken off one
of .the large storage tanks and he'
endeavored to stop the flow (of gas.
Mrs. F. Gill fell and broke her
hip on the icy pavement while on iher
way to the home of Mrs. S. Par
sons.
March 12th
'Mr. and .Mrs. Peter Whitlock', of
Usborne, celebrated the '50th anni
versary of their wedding.
Mr. and (Mrs. Archie Morgan nar
rowly escaped serious injury when
the cutter in which .they were riding
was struck /by an auto driven by
Harold Broderick.
March 19th
July 30th
London,
a tunnel
London,
IFirst rain to break the drought of
over four wee&s.
Band Tattoo with the Waterloo
Band was a great success.
Wong’s Cafe sold to Messrs. Lum
and Young Wong, of London. Jim
Wong and George Wong intend re
turning to China.
Remembrance Day fittingly ob
served with service in Trivitt Mem
orial Church.
Mr. Sandy Elliot attended large
Ford Dealers convention in Detroit.
Presentation for Mr. and Mrs.
Andrew Hamilton on Wednesday
evening.April 30th
Mr. Walter Dearing, of
injured, while working on
at the G. N. R. depot in
when a gravel bucket weighing two
tons crashed into the tunnel where
the men were working.
Mrs. James Frayne suffered a se
vere sicald when the handle on the
teakettle broke which she was carry
ing and the boiling water spilled over
her foot.
August 6tli
Wesley Culbert seriously injured
when he met with an accident when
taking a binder out of his barn.
The tent and all clothing and
equipment belonging to Mr. and Mrs.
Eric Campbell were burned while
tenting at Grand Bend over Civic
Holiday.
November 19 th
Municipal Debentures for the pur
chase of $34,000 for Water Works
and $10,000 for the new community
hall sold for $4(6,16'0.00.
Thre persons seriously injured
when their car took to the ditch and
struck a tree just north of Exeter.
May 7th August 13th
roof was blown off the barn
Noble iScott’s farm in Stephen
a severe wind storm on Sat-
The
on Mr.
during
urday.
Mr. Jos. Northcutt, of Hay, frac-
turned a bone in his right knee and
tore the muscles of his right arm
when an animal they were loading in
a truck knocked him down and fell
on him.
Jones & May install a new- mill
for their seed
Mr. William
80 th birthday <
20th.
Hon. James i
Agriculture at
Thames Road church -on Sunday.
He was visiting his mother on his
return from a trip to Vimy.
department.
Fisher celebrated his
on Thursday, August
Gardiner, minister of
; Ottawa, spoke at
November 26th
Dr J. W. Browning celebrated his
93 rd birthday on Saturday.
Pumps arrive for the new water
works system.
Father Sullivan, of Clinton,
into the Dashwood bus when it
making a turn onto one of the
streets.
run
was
side
December 3rd
The oldest resident of this
trict, James Handford, dies in
98 th year.
Miss I. Glanville slipped on
icy pavements and fractured her left
arm.
Mirs. G. Baynham. Centralia,
and fractured her left arm.
dis-
his
the
May 14th
The Exeter Council purchased five
acres of land from Mr. Garnet
Frayne containing several springs
of water.
Plans for the proposed gymnasium
and skating rink are now
committee.
Allan Murray, son of
Mrs. Garnet Murray, .of
was knocked from a bicycle and suf
fered a broken shoulder bone.
August 20th
barn on the farm of
Centralia, destroyed
Thursday morning,
fell
before the
Mr. and
Usborne,
A grain elevator in Clandeboye,
the property of William iStevenson
burned down Monday morning.
Mrs. Mary Gould honored on her
83rd birthday, relatives
at her home.
May 28th
gathering
aged 96
his hip.
Large bank
Willert Bros.,
by fire on
August 27th.
Cement work for the new reser
voir at the dam is completed.
August 27th
Mr. James Francis has purchased
undertaking business at Tavistock.
■Harold Bnintnell fractured his
left hip while scuffling with some
other boys.
December 10 th
The new reservoir’ on the bank of
the river has been filled with water
from the springs.
Mr. E. R. Hopper moving to his
new store in the Oddfellow’s block. \
The Dashwood Road taken
as a provincial highway.
over’
September 3rd
Mr. James Handford,
years, fell and fractured
Work commenced on the new wa
ter system, meni being at work at
the springs.
iCaven Presbyterian Church pre
sent call to Rev. Douglas C. Hill.
Mrs. Wm. White, 2nd Con. of
Stephen, suffered a’ badly lacerated
hand when it became caught in a
clothes wringer.
Messrs. Jim and Geo. Wonig left
this week ‘for China.
The machine shop on station
street is 'being torn down.
September 10th
December 17th
Central Ontario Bus Lines, Limit
ed purchased the London-Exeter
bus-line from Mr. J. C. Howard.
•Charles Johns purchased property
cf Mr. John Dilling and moved to
town.
Donald Jory fell from a bean
stack striking his face receiving a
nasty gash.
June 4th
Mr. Gordon Greb successful in
passing with first class honors, the
honor course in Mathematics and
Physics at the University of Western
Ontario and has been awarded the
gold medal.
Hon. W. Earl Rowe, chosen leader
of the Conservative Party in Ontario.
June 11th
Mrs. Fred Huxtable
prize of $300 in the
Campaign.
M;r. Silas
85, had his
knee.
wins first
•Community
Johns, of Usborne, aged
leg amputated
June 18th
at the
called to
Norman,
Mrs. Amelia Dale injured in
auto accident in St. Thomas.
(Mir. Evedyn Broderick badly
and bruised when the wagon
which he was riding was struck by a
truck.
Mrs. James (Willis, Sr., injured
when knocked down by a horse.
an
cut
on
December 24th
J. J. and Mrs. Miller celebrate
their diamond wedding anniversary.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Coates hon-
oired on their 35 th wedding anniver
sary.
Mr. Edwin Walker appointed as
manager of Exeter’s new community
building.
September 17th
Straw stack burns on farm of
Harold Walper, near’ Dashwood,
during threshing operations but the
barn wag saved.
Mr. J. Zuber, of Kitchener,
chased Fashion Ladies’ Wear
Mr. Edlestein.
FOREST “CONSERVATION
PROGRAM STARED
IN WESTERN ONTARIO
September 24th
pur
fir om
Rev. Harry L. Jennings
the Mission Field at Fort
N. W. T.
Rev. Arthur Going, of Peterboro,
a former minister of James Street
Church died at hig home.
June 25th
I
storn?
down.
During a blinding snow
Herbert Little was knocked
by a truck driven, by Angelo Phillips
and suffered a fractured hip.
George Doerr, of Mitchell, rescued
a little lad from the river after he
had broken through the ice.
March 26th
The Thirteenth Power Bill for the
year 1935 shows the
Utilities 'Commission
of $903.00.
Mr. John F. Clark
trated lecture under the auspices of
the Horticultural Society.
Exeter Public
have a credit
gave an illus-
Work of excavating for the new
reservoir south of the pump house
almost completed.
Rev. i,S. Moore Gordon, B.D., clos
ed his ministry in Caven Church and
was honored by the congregation
prior to leaving for Chatsworth.
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July 2nd
William Johns painfully injured
when he was thrown from the mow
er while cutting hay in a field near
the school, the mower running Over
him and stopping with the
over him where he laid for
hours.
John J. Haggard, Seaforth
up in Los Angeles,
Gordon preached fare
in 'Caveni Church on
knives
several
April 2nd
Mr. Chris. Luker*
caretaker of the Efceter
Mr. Hubert Hunter
his toes fractured when a log fell
on them,
gives himself
Rev. S. M.
well services
Sunday.
A
lawyer
It* was decided to issue an early ih*
vitation to the remaining five eoup>
ties of Western Ontario to join In
the movement.
The Executive will meet in the
neai* future to formulate a program
of action and submit it to the Cen
tral Committee shortly after tho
/New Yea'ii’. O(ne of the principal
objectives will be to stimulate new
interest in reforestation throughout
this area of Ontario, It was point
ed out that there are large tracts
of submarginal and waste land that
should be planted to young trees.
One owner in undertaking to reforest
his land faces the prospect of in
creasing taxation. In this connec
tion the Norfolk Chamber of Com
merce has already asked for an am
endment to the Assessment Act
which would provide that land under
tree growth be taxed on am assess
ment valuation on a basis compar
able with that imposed on neighbor
ing non-planted land of similar soil
and site conditions. They ask that
this amendment be made optional
with the counity and that it come
into force only in such counties s
would pass a by-law validating it.
The question of the farm wood
lot received close consideration at
the Londorn meeting and a cam
paign of education among the far
mers for scientific management of
woodlots is in prospect. It was felt
that every farmer should aim to
maintain at least 10 per cent, or
his farm as a woodlot. The Gov
ernment has already {realized the,
importance of such a practice by
granting exemption from municipal
taxation for fenced woodlots up to
that amount. It was pointed out
that a farm with a good wood lot is
easier to sell and brings more money
than when minus such a woodlot.
It provides fuel for the home and
lumbei’ for buildings and
It gives work in the winter,
to relieve unemployment,
the scientifically managed
area may be as profitable
praise of farm operations.
The indiscriminate cutting
young trees in farm woodlots
heartily deplored. This practice
grown to considerable proportions
especially in the tobacco-growing
districts where fuel for kilns is re
quired. The land is being denuded,
streams shrivelling uip and water
wells going dry. The proposal of
the Norfolk Ghamber of Commerce
that legislation be passed to prohibit
the cutting of any tree under 10' in.
twb%vfeet from the ground, i
permission of a county fore)
likely to'1 receive serious c^|
tion by the new- Central C
Drought conditfqns^ throui
tern Ontario ini th
years have made
officials attentive
continuous remo
without the pf<H
young trees is imp
of agriculture.
•County Council wil
lend theii* active suippor
program, particularly in t
undertaking to reforest lanm^^^^^S
own account, as county coui^^^^H
Elgin, Norfolk and Middlesex^^^^B
alreadj* done. Norfolk has
acres of land owned and .reforesHU
by the county. It is felt that each)
county hsould purchase and reforest
each year as much as 100 acres of
land, until all available cheap land
is taken up.
The Central Committee will also
undertake to disseminate literature
in the schools of Western Ontario
in order to acquaint children with
the necessity of forest conservation
and planting of trees. Demonstra
tion woodlots in connection with!
each rural school will be urged and
essay contests on forest culture en
couraged. It is also suggested that
e textbook on reforestation and con
servation be issued by the Govern
ment and added to the curriculum
in the rural schools of Ontario.
Emphasis was also laid by speak
ers on the importance of not drain
ing land that is not suited to culti
vation. These tracts often form
moisture reservoirs intended as in
surance against times of drought
and it is important that they be left
in itheir natural states.
Recommendations adopted at the
London meeting included:
1. That existing county-owned
farms not suitable for farming be re
forested.
2. That a survey of river banks,
swamps, hillsides and ravines be
made to determine which lands
are to be reforested.
3. That an educational program
on conservation be circulated,
4. That an amendment be made
to the Assessment Act whereby land
under tree growth be taxed assess
ment valuation rather than on the
basis of tho crop growing om it.
Frank Newman of the iSt. Wil
liams Reforestry Station declared
that approximately 12 million trees
were planted in Ontario last year.
"We are on the eve of a tremendous
■boom in reforestation” he predicted.
"Naturally it will cost money
maintain all tho plantations, but
you will visualize the profit and
work created fox* countless me
a comparatively small expend!
you will see the necessity of
work,” E. J. Kavitz, provincial
ester, declared that so-tcalled
land can produce a revenue of
acre annually if tree-planting I
vied on.
part of
to start
and. re
stop to
Exeter Fair attended by large
.crowds and good exhibits.
Mr. Robt. H. Sayers, transferred
as manager' of the Canadian Bank
of Commerce here to Dresden.
October 1st
>J. G. Stanbury, K.G., receives ap
pointment as County Judge of Lin
coln with headquarters'at iSt. Cath
erines.
Presentation at the home of Mr.
and Mrs. R. N. Creech for Mr. and
Mrs. Sayeirs
October 8tli
Reduction in Hydro- rates from
$39 to $36.50 per h.p. for Exeter,
Dashwood, and Hensall also being
reduced.
Mr. G. J. Dow figured in an acci
dent south of town when his car
and Mr.
swiped.
ed.
Ross Desjardine’s car side-
No person seriously injur-
]A united effort on the
Western Ontario counties
a program of conservation
'forestration and to1 put a
indiscriminate cutting of woodlands
will be commenced at once as a re
sult of a largely-attended gathering
in the city of London on Thursday,
Decembei* 17th.
This meeting was sponsored by
Mr. W. H. Porter, editor and Mr.
Ernest Weld, publisher, of the
Farmers’ Advocate, and it was at
tended by Wardens, Agricultural
Representatives, municipal officers
and newspapermen from the f- Bow
ing nine 'Counties of Western Ont.,
Essex, Kent, Lambton, Huron, Perth
Middlesex, Oxford, Elgin and Nor
folk Counties. Messrs. E. J. Zavitz,
R. S. Duncan, F. S. Newman and J.
A. Garroll, representing the Ontario1
Departments of Forestry and Agri
culture, were also present.
The meeting was a sequel to a
previous gathering held under the
auspices of the Norfolk Ghamber of
Commerce in Simcoe, when the seri
ousness of the situation
discussed
of other
selves as
nudation
moisture and shortage of water sup
ply. The London meeting crystalliz
ed the opinions of men from all parts
of Western Ontario who have given
serious thought to the subject. It
resulted in the formation of a Cen
tral Consdrvation Committee com
prising three representatives from
each of the nine counties, with a
Provincial Executive comprising W.
H. Porter, of Middlesex, as chair
man; Monroe Landon, of Norfolk, as
vice-chairman and F. S. Thomas,
Elgin representative as secretary^-
together with sex directors, repres
enting the other counties are follows
Angus McKenney, Essex; G. H. Wil
son, Kent; Roy Dowhie, Lambton;
------------------ - ................r, White, Perth; lam MicLeod,
Hilton Ford, underwent an opera-Huron; William Lampman, Oxford.
locally was
and when representatives
counties expressed thems-
deeply concerned over de-
of the land, the lack of
repairs,
tending
In facL
woodlqjj
as ai
of
was
has
About R, is.
October 15 th
,S. Hutchinson, of British
who has been visiting
Mrs.
Columbia,
her sister, Mrs. F. Gill, fell on the
sidewalk and fractured her hip.
The by-law for Exeter’s now
building before the Municipal Board
at Toronto,re-appointed
Post Office,
had two of
Exeter voted
new municipal
a skating
W.
St.
October 22nd
vious tO'vliis leaving for Fort Nor-i
man
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NORWAY
PINE
SYRUP
trouble.
On the first Sign of a Cough or cold tlio mother
will find in Or, Wood’s Norway Piho Syrup just
the remedy required.
Its promptness and effectiveness in loosening tho
phlegm is such that tho trouble may be checked be
fore anything of a serious nature sots in.
Cliildren like it) take it without any fuss. '
April 9th
The ratepayers of
for the erection of a
building to /be used
July 9th
Dr. Margaret Strang-Savage spoke
in Cavei} Church Sunday morning to
a packed church.
Rev. (Harry Jennings honored by
Trivitt Memorial congregation pte-
Messrs, Fred Simmons and
Wilson while driving on the
Marys road struck some loose gravel
and the car overturned in the ditch.
The boys were not injured,
Mrytle Ford, daughter of Mr. and