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Nominations & Elections
Township of Usborne
nomination AND election
Public Notice is hereby given that
a meeting of the Electors of the
Township of Usborne will be held
in the
Township Hall, Elimville
at the hour of 1 o’clock p.m.
MONDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1937
For the purpose of making and re
ceiving nominations for the offices
of Reeve and four Councillors. And
further take notice that in the event
of more candidates being proposed
than required to be elected, 'pro
ceedings will be adjourned until
Monday, January 3rd, -1938, when
polls shall be open from 9 o’clock
a.m*. until 5 o’clock p.m., at the fol
lowing places with the
tioned officers in charge
Township by-law, viz:
Polling Sub-Div. No.
under men-
fixed byas
School
Hunter,
No. 2,
1,
House, No. 4, Eden, J. J,
D.R.O., Jno. Luxton P.C.;
House of Lloyd Stewart, C. B. Alli
son; D.R.O. C. Jeffery P.C.; No. 3,
House of H. Rowcliffe, S. W. Dou-
Gall D.R.O., Wm. Jeffery P.C.; No.
4. Public Hall, Farquhar, John Hod-
gert, D.R.O., Leonard Harris P.C.;
No. 5, Township Hall, Elimville, L.
Johns D.R.O., Weston Horne P.C.;
No. 6, House of Earl Johnston, Ross
Hern D.R.O., Wellington Brock P.C.;
No. 7, House of Russell Morrison,
Oliver McCurdy, D.R.O., Wm. Mills
P.C.
All Electors are hereby requested
to take notice and govern themselves
accordingly.
A. W. MORGAN, Clerk
R.R. 1, Hensail, December 14,1937
Village of Exeter
NOMINATION AND ELECTION
Public Notice is hereby given that
a meeting of the Electors of the Vil-
large of Exeter will be held in the
Town Hall, Exeter
at the hour of 12 o’clock noon on
MONDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1937
For the purpose of making and
receiving nominations for the offices
of Reeve and Coiuncillors; and one
member of the Public Utilities Com
mission; and three members for the
Board of Education. And further
notice is hereby given that in the
event of more candidates being pro
posed for any particular office than
required to be elected, the proceed
ings will be adjourned until Monday
January 3rd, 1938, wihen the polls
will be opened from 9 o’clock a.m.
to 5 o’clock p.m. at the following
places, as fixed by Village by-law
viz:
Polling Sub-Div. No. 1, Miss A.
Handford’s residence, Main St., E.
Treble D.R.O., W. J. Carling P.C.;
No. 2, Town Hall, Main St., R.N.
•Creech D.R.O., Frank Coates P.C.;
No. 3, Metropolitan Bldg., Main and
Wellington Sts., G. Anderson D.R.O.,
Geo. Jaques, P.O.; No. 4, Thos. Web
ster’s residence, William St., Rd.
Welsh D.R.O., John Kydd P.C.
All Electors are hereby requested
to take notice and govern them
selves accordingly.
JOS. SENIOR, Clerk
Exeter, December 13th, 1937.
MT. CARMEL
Miss Elizabeth Ryan, ot Chicago,
is visiting with her brother’ Mr.
and Mrs. Michael Ryan and family.
Miss Marion McCarthy accompan
ied by her cousin Mr. Austin O’Neil,
of Toronto, are spending the Christ
mas holidays with the former’s par
ents Mr, and Mrs. Joseph McCarthy.
i Mr. Thomas Gavigan,
ford, called on friends
i Christmas day.
Mr. Austin McKeever is
a few days with friends in Detroit.
Mr. James Dalton, of Goderich, is
visiting with his son J. H. Dalton
and family.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Racliffe, of
Detroit, spent Christmas with the
latter’s brother, Mr. and Mrs, John
Hall.
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Masse and
family, of Zurich, spent Christmas
with Mrs. Masse’s parents, Mr. and
Mrs. David Geromette.
Mr. George Clark purchased a
Ford V-8 coach from Sandy Elliot,
of Exeter, last week.
Miss Madeline Glavin, of Colgan,
is spending the holidays with her
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Glavin.
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Carey spent
Christmas at the home of the lat
ter’s parents Mr. and Mrs. James
Glavin, Centralia.
Miss Madeline O’Leary, of Lond
on, is spending the holidays with
her parents Mr. and Mrs. T. O’Leary,
1-2th Con., McGillivray.
Messrs. Hubert McKeever, Geo.
Clark and Hubert Disjardine were
at Windsor on Friday.
Mr. Hugh Fleming, of St. Peter's
Seminary, London, is spending his
Christmas holidays at the home of
his parents Mr. and Mrs. P. Fleming.
Mr. Joseph Regan, of Strafford-
ville spent Christmas at his home.
Misses Winnie Madden, of Toron
to, Marie and Marjorie Regan, of
London, are spending the Christmas
holidays at their homes here.
Mr. and Mrs. Ducharme and babe
of Windsor, are visiting at the home
of Mrs. Ducharme’s brother, Mr. Ed.
Hogan.
Miss Mary McCann and Sister
Jean McCann in training at St.
Mary’s Hospital, Kitchener, spent
Christmas day (with their parents
Mr, and Mrs. Alonzo McCann.
and family spent Christmas with
Mr. and Mrs. George Godbolt, of
Centralia.
Mr
and :
Mrs.
and
Bruce
Fred
Mrs. Horace Delbridge
spent Christmas with
Delbridge of Exeter.
Farm News
WOODHAM
of Wat-
here on
spending
The Stratford Normal Students
the Misses Marjory Laing, Olive
Thacker, Marion Johnson and Wen
dell Camm are spending their
Christmas holidays at their homes
here.
The Misses Dorothy Camm and
Gertrude, of Toronto, are holidaying
at the home of their -parents.
Louth and little son, of London with
Christmas Visitors—Mr. and Mrs.
Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Dykeman and
son Paul, of Galt with Mr. and Mrs.
F. McNaughton; Mr. and Mrs. H. R.
Anderson and daughter Shirley of
Washington and Mr. and Mrs. La
verne Stone and little daughter
Donna with Mr. and Mrs. James
Squire; Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Rodd
and Mr. and Mrs. Albert Scott and
family with Mr. and Mrs. A. Bakei’
of Granton; The Misses Sarah and
Amanda Shier, Miss Beatrice Doupe
of Kirkton and Mr. and Mrs. Ira
McCurdy and family with Mr. and
Mrs. Fred Doupe; Mr. and Mrs. J.
Selves with Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Jac
ques; Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Thompson
and family with Mr. and Mrs. John
Thompson and friends from London
with Mr. and Mrs. Frank Rodd.
Prize Winning Essay
Among the many agricultural
! students in the United States and
‘Nobodyi grows old by merely liv- j .Canada, the medal essay competi-
pro-
ana
ex-
as
KEEPING YOUNG
ing a number of years; people grow tion of the Saddle and Sirloin Club
old only by deserting their ideals, J Of Chicago at the International Live
Years wrinkle the skin, but to give (stock Exposition is regarded as a
up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. i very important event, and to be one
“Worry, doubt, self-distrust, fear j 0£ the winners is considered a very
and despair—these are the long,: high honour, The contest is held
long years that bow the head and every year by the .Saddle and Sirloin + n -turn4 1aCl 4-a ' /Ml. n _ a z-ni • _ . n , -i . _ a-turn the growing spirit back to the club of Chicago for the purpose of
dust.
there is in every being’s heart the
love of wonder, the’ sweet amaze
ment at the stars and the starlike
things and thoughts, the undaunted
challenge of events, the unfailing
childlike appetitie for what next,
and the jo;y| and the game of life,
“You are as young as your faith,
as old as your doubt; as young as
►Whether seventy or sixteen encouraging writing on live
4i-» li nn A’4 fit Ci i. _ — ■» ■.
I stock
topics and is open to all undergra
duates of agricultural colleges in the
United States and Canada. As in
former years, there were many con
testants in the 1937 competition. ►
The subject selected for the year’s
contest was “The Character Contri
butions for the Live Stock Club.’'
„ In the best twenty essays selectedyour self-confidence, as old as your I by the judges, Robert S. Procunier,
fear; as young as your hope, as old |
as your despair. In the central
places of your heart there is a wire
less station; so long as it receives
messages of heauty, hope, cheer,
courage, .grandeur and power from
the earth, from men, and from the
Infinite, so long are you young.”—
Exchange.
Ontario Agricultural College, rank
ed third, and thereby gained the
bronze medal. L. T. Sonley, also of
Ontario Agricultural College,
placed ninth.
the average of prices obtained for
the 1'936 field crops. The revenue
obtained from livestock, dairy
ducts, tobacco, poultry, fruits
■other agricultural products is
pected to reach $215,00'0,000
compared with $192,000,000 in 1936
As the bulk of field crop production,
in Ontario is fed to livestock and
marketed in this form, the improve
ment in total farm purchasing pow
er for 1937 probably approximated
$20,00'0,000.
ture of the
this season is
tion in prices,
price of oats
cents to 43 cents per bushel; barley
from 83 cents to 59 cents; buck
wheat from 90 to 59 cents, and' fall
Wheat from $1.24 to $1.01, Hog
prices have dropped from $10.52 per
cwt. in September to $8.0’0' at the
present time, and good steers, over
10i50 pounds from. $8.5'5 to $7.35
per cwt. Unless prices of farm pro
ducts shows some advance from the
present level, agricultural income
during the first half of 193 8 will be
considerably lower than during
same period of 1937.
The outstanding tea-
agricultural situation
the recent sharp reac"
;Since June, the farm
has declined from 61
the
was
FORMER TUCKERSMITH
COUNCILLOR SUCCUMBS
STORY OF THE DROUGHT
IS CIVIL SERVICE EPIC
Relief for 70,000 Families and Their
Cattle Provided hi Emegency
Witlic ut a Hitch
THE FRIGHTENED NEW' YEAR
The New Year mused with thought
ful face
And small chin sunken in his hand
And as the moments fled apace,
He watched the swiftly running
sand
In Time’s old hour-glass. At his side
The door to Earth .stood open wide.
WINCHELSEA
“The Old Year takes so long to die,”
He murmured, with a sigh, at last;
“Oh, when will come my turn to fly
Down on the midnight’s rushing
blast
And .hear the daughter and the mirth
That always igreet the Year on
Earth?”
At last, at last, the sand is run,
The New Year’s reign has now begun
But ah, upon his startled ears
What clamor breaks. What sounds
he hears
From every factory and mill,
Fr.om tugs and steamboats whistling
shrill,
From pealing bells and cannon’s
blare,
From rocets whizzing through the
air.
The Baby Year half turned to fly
And almost felt inclined to cry.
“Oh, oh,” he wailed amid the din,
“I wish—I wish,—H’d not come in.”
Stubborn Cases
Of Constipation
Constipation May Become
Serious If Allowed To Continue
Keep Your Bowels Regular With
They Do Not Gripe, Weaken or Sicken
The first skating of the season
the local rink was enjoyed
Christmas day. Quite a lively game
of broom ball was played in the ev
ening between Elimville and Win-
■chelsea, the score being 3-2 in favor
of Elimville.
Visitors in the community, on
Christmas day were Mr. and Mrs.
Roy Brock and Shirley, Kirkton,
Mr. and Mrs. Garnet Johns with Mr.
and Mrs. Frank Brock; Mr. and Mrs.
George Bailey with Mr. and Mrs. H.
Bailey; Mr. and Mrs. Luther Row-
cliffe, of near Exeter with Mr. and
Mrs. John Brock and family of El
imville, Mr. Leslie ;Robinson |and
Miss Ella Robinson of Thames Road
with Mr. and Mrs. Sherwood Brock;
Mr.
iiy,
Mr.
iiy,
of Leamington with Mr.
W. F. Batten.
Miss Jean Hocking, of Monroe is
spending this week with Mr. and
Mrs. R. E. Pooley.
Miss Joy Wlhitlock and
Allison, of St. Thomas,
week-end with Mr. and
man Horne.
Mr. and Mrs. Herman
Verna spent Christmas
latter’s parents Mr. and Mrs. George
Parkinson, of Blanshard.
Mr. and Mrs. Newton Clarke and
family spent the holiday with. Mr.
and Mrs. Fi’ed Dobbs, of Saintsbury.
Misses Dorothy and Gertrude
Camm, of Toronto are spending the
holidays with their parents Mr. and
Mrs. Cecil Camm.
Mr. and Mrs. Trueman Fletcher,
Mr, and Mrs. W. E. Fletcher and
Majorie spent Christmas with Mr,
and Mrs, Ed. Stone, of Exeter.
Mr. and Mrs. Walker Kefslako
and Genevieve spent the holiday with
Mr. and Mrs. M. Fletcher; of Exeter,
Mr, and Mrs. Clarence Fletcher
on
on
and Mrs. Ray Fletcher and fam-
Mrs. Chas. Godbolt, Blanshard,
and Mrs. Ezra Willard and fam-
of Hensail; Mr. Harold Denham
and Mrs.
Muriel
spent the
Mrs. Free-
Foster and
with the
OTTAWA—Un amazing story ot
how one branch of the Civil Service,
geared to emergency action, averted
a ndltional crisis and provided food
and clothing for 70,000 families in
the drought-stricken areas of West
ern Canada, was revealed by various
Government departments.
In midsummer the drought first
appeared as something of a routine
relief situation, but within a few
weeks the number of destitute jump
ed alarmingly from a few thousand
to forty and fifty thousand and
rapidly mounting.
Millions Expended.
The Federal Treasury poured
lions upon millions of dollars
iSaskatchewan and Alberta to
lieve the farmers whose land
turned to dust and whose
were dying of thirst. -
Finally the Department of
culture, aided by private charity in
Eastern Canada, stepped into the
situation. Civil servants literally
became food merchants'—on a tre
mendous scale. Nearly 2/0 00 car
loads of food and clothing were
routed into Western Canada, but the
problem presented itself of how to
distribute the food to families scat
tered across thousands of square
miles of land.
The situation was near the dan
ger point when the department set
up a central bureau in Regina, and
trainload after trainload of food
relied into the West, to be broken
up and rerouted across the prairies
to outlying districts. Private char
ity, churches and social service clubs
•of the East sent 900 carloads of
food and clothing and the Federal
'Government matched the number
with 9 00 carloads of food.
•Civil servants .became purchasing
■agents on a grand scale. They went
to the Maritimes and' bought 10'0
•cars of fish, to Ontario and Quebec
and bought 1<43 cars of turnips, 34
of beans, 51 of cheese, 229 of carrots
(beets, cabbage and parsnips;
went to British Columbia
bought 200 cars of apples.
Railway Co-Operation
The railways co-operated by
ing fast schedules at half of the us
ual freight rates.
As one jo.b became controlable,
however another problem arose—
the thousands of cattle dying ot
thirst.
Again the service functioned.
At Carberry, Manitoba ninety-eight
sections of land were fenced in and
an assembly and distribution plant
set up. Organized shipping • days
were appbinted in 25 0 municipalities
in the drought areas, and farmers
shipped their cattle to Carberry,
whence 100,000 head were eventual
ly sent to Ontario and Quebec for
feeding. The farmers were paid
cash on the spot. A Treasury offi
cial stood beside the auctioneer and
as each sale was made the deal was
completed with cash.
It was a triumph of organization.
But so far as official Ottawa is
concerned, the only story told is told
in statistics. Huge columns of fig-
ues—dollars and cents, freight rates
purchases and sales.
Value of Ontario Crops
The gross value of agriculture
production in Ontario
19'33 is expected to be
0 00,-000 as compared
000,000 last year and
in 193'2, the low point of the de
pression. The value of field crop
production shows a reduction of
$116,000,0'00, as the 11 per cent,
gain in volume of production was
not sufficient to offset the sharp de
cline in prices. Average prices since
harvest this season are 19% Ibelow
for the yeai’
about $3 65,-
with $3'5'8,-
$248,000,00'0
James Walker died at his home,
Clinton, in his 83rd year, after an
illness of one week, porn in Tuck
ersmith Township near Brucefield,
he lived .his entire life in that com
munity, except for a few weeks spent
in Clinton. Surviving are his wife
also one sister; two sons, James A.,
at home; Norman, of Brucefield;
one daughter, Mrs. Mary Brown, at
home and one grandson. Mr. Walk
er served his township as councilor
for several years, was a member ot
Brucefield United church and was a
Liberal in politics.
THE NATIONAL DEBT
IThe National Debt of Canada has
assumed large proportions during
the last two decades. In 1913, the
year before the Great War broke
out, the net debt amounted $314,-
•000,000. Last yeai’ it was over 3
billions, it was almost ten times
greater.
In 1913 the per capita net debt
was $41 but in 1936 it was $272,
The interest paid per capita in 1913‘
was $1,654 last year it was $12,20.
For many years preceding the War,
cutsoms and excise duties, together
with the head tax on Chinese immi
grants were the only revenue class
ified as taxes, and as customs and
excise was indirect, the average
■Canadian felt but little the pressure
of taxation for Dominion purposes.
The War enormously increased the. Nationalists came in power in 1928
expenditure, and this increase had to | and Chiang Kai-shek became presi-
be met in the main by loans.
In 1913 the national debt had
been incurred almost altogether ei
ther for public works of general util
ity and was represented by corres
ponding assets or had been expended
as subsidies to enterprises of a na
tional character. Broadly speaking
it was a debt incurred for produc
tive purposes. Also it 'was held
mainly outside of Canada, chiefly in
the United Kingdom, The debt
which was incurred for war purposes
is -not represented by any tangible
balance -sheet assets and it is now
held mainly in Canada. However,
nearly two and a half billion of it,
five-sixths of the total net debt of
■Canada, is now payable in this coun
try, according to the Dominion Bur
eau of 'Statistics, Department of
Trade and Commerce.
Harold: “There is nothing that
can surpass the warmth of a wom
an’s love.”
William: “Oh, yes, there is •—
the heat of lier temper.”
CANADA’S TRADE WITH CHINA
Chinese civilization is the oldest
in the world and its government,
based upon that of the family, re
mained unchanged in its root idea
until the revolution of 1912 when a
republic was proclaimed with a
president, vice-president, executive
ministry and a legislature of a Sen
ate and House of Representatives.
IThe area of China with dependen
cies is almost four and a half, mil
lion square miles and is consider
ably larger than that of Canada. The
population is close to 500 million
which is approximately the popula
tion of the British Empire, so that
China and the British Empire to
gether own half the population of
the whole world. Nanking, the, capi
tal of the Chinese Republ ic’ sin ce the
dent, is a city of 1,300,000.
China is open to the countries with
which Canada does a fairly large
business, running last year up to
over $9,000,000. The great bulk of
our imports are peanuts and peanut
oil, for China is the home of that
favourite nut. But we get a great
variety of other things
hemp, rice, soya bean oil, bone and
ivory, cured fish, animal
eggs, cotton, lace and net, silk, wool
carpets, brass, chinaware, fireworks
and preserved ginger.
Paper was Canada’s largest export
to China last.year followed by'wood,
■aluminum, wheat flour, rubber tires
lead zinc, ammonium, sulphate and
fish, according to the External Trade
Branch of the Dominion Bureau of
■Statistics, Department of Trade and
Commerce.
such as
bristles,
Dobson: “My wife doesn’t like
moist sugar.”
Jobson: “My wife doesn’t either,
but I tell her to lump it.”
then
niil-
into
re-
had
cattle
was nno.uncma
'v «
Girl: . “Why didn’t you tell me I
had a dab of rouge on the tip of
my nose?”
Escort: “How should a man know
how you girls want to wear your
complection?”
PICOBAC
PIPE HMM TOBACCOjHH
I FOR A MILD. COOL SMOKE]
1
Ford offers two new cars for 1938 — the
Standard Ford V-8 and the De Luxe
Ford V-8. They are different in appear
ance— but built to the same Standard of
mechanical excellence — on the same 112-
inch wheelbase.
Because people liked our 1937 car so
well, they bought more than of any other
make. They liked its looks, its smooth
performance, and the way it handled. We
have improved oil that car in the newly
styled Standard Ford V-8.
But some folks wanted still more size
and style, with the same fundamental Ford
advantages. For them, we have designed
a hew De Luxe line.
The De Luxe Ford V- 8 Sedans ale longer
with more room, larger luggage space,
and finer appointments. De Luxe, cars
ate equipped with the 85>-horsepower
Ford V-8 engine. They provide more
motoring satisfaction at low Ford prices.
The Standard is even lower priced than
the De Luxe. It is a brilliant, modern cah
It has graceful new lines and well-tailored
interiors. It gives you the same basic ad
vantages of the 85-horsepower Ford V-8
engine.
Before Ford made V-type 8-cylinder en
gines available to every one, they were
used ohly in expensive cars. Since then,
four million Ford owners havd learned the
genuine enjoyment of driving an 8-cylin
der car with all-round economy. The low
prices of the De Luxe and Standard cars
make it easy for you to step into the
V-8 class. ,
FIT YOUR CAR TO YOUR NEEDS
With two' distinct designs, two body sizes
and two price ranges, you’ll find a 1938
Ford car to1 fit your personal needs exactly.
Whatever one you choose, you get time-
proved Ford V-8 performance. Whatever
price you pay, you get a car built soundly
to serve you well.... That’s the Ford way.
FOR LOW DELIVER^ PRICES SEE YOtilR
LOCAL FORD DEALER
De Luxe Ford V-8 models are Coupe, Tudor
Sedan, Fordor Sedan* Convertible Coupe, Club
Coupe, Convertible Club Coupe, Phaeton and
Convertible Sedan.
Standard Ford V-8 is available in three mod-
els: Coupe, Tudot Sedan and Fotdor Sedan.
Ford sells a fully equipped car at the lowest
possible price. The prides on De Luxe models
include twin tail lights, two windshield wipers,
two sun visors* twin electric horns, cigar
lighter, de luxe steering wheel, glove compart
ment clock and lock, chrome wheel bands, in
addition to front and rear bumpers and guards*
spare wheel and tire and tube, tire lock, and
headlight beam indicator.
Trices On Standard models include front and
rear bumpers and guards, spare wheel and tire
and tube, tire lock, one tail light, one wind
shield .wiper, one sun visor, cigat lighter,
headlight beam ihdicator, and two horns.