The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1938-11-24, Page 39K
GUELPH WINTER FAIR
Clinton Woman
THE EXETER TIMES-ADVOCATE THURSDAY, WMBER 24, 1938
THE FARMERS’ SHOW FOR 56 YEARS
Next Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday
November 29th, 30th and December 1st
SIX BIG SHOWS IN ONE
Horses — Cattle — Sheep — Swine — Seeds —- Poultry
JUDGING PROGRAMME
Tuesday, November 29th—Cattle (Shorthorn, Hereford,
Angus and Market Classes), Sheep, Swine, Poultry
and Seeds
Wednesday, November 30th—'Ponies, Thoroughbreds, Half-
Breds, Standard Breds, Hackneys, Clydesdales,
Percherons, Sheep and Swine
Thursday, December 1st—Heavy Draught Horses, Mares
Geldings and Teams in Harness
AUCTION SALE OF MARKET CATTLE
—- LIGHT HORSE SHOW —
Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday Evenings, beginning, 7.30 p.m.
Hunters, Jumpers, Performance Classes, Inter-City Hunt Teams,
High Steppers, Carriage and Roadsters
Cheap rates on all Railways
DR. W. J. R. FOWLER, L. O’NEIL, Sec’y.,
■ president Parliament Bldgs., Toronto
FARM SOLD IN HAY TOWNSHIP
0
Mr. John Eckstein has sold his
farm on the Bronson Line west of
Zurich, containing 140 acres to Mr.
Delbert Geiger, who will take poses-
sion on April 1st, next. The 25
acres on the west side of the Bron
son, also owned by Mr. Eckstein, has
been purchased by Mr. Roland Geig
er, who will also get possession next
April, This 25 acres adjoins Mr.
Geiger’s farm. Mr. and Mrs. Eck
stein intend to retire from the hard
work on the farm and will
move into Zurich next spring.
likely
BRUCEFIELD TRUCK
OVERTURNED AT LUCAN
When Lawrence Forest, Bruce-
field trucker, tried to avoid a crash
with a car that came from a side
street in Lucan Saturday he over
turned his truck and seven head of
c.attle on the main street here and
tied up traffic for some time.
The truck was south bound into
Lucan when a car came from a side
street. The trucker swung sharply
the cattle were thrown to one side
of the truck and it promptly over-
x turned. The driver was uninjured
but the cattle did not fare so well
and when they were rounded up
several were injured.
The driver of the car that caused
the accident did not stop, police
were told. Later, Frank ILangford,
R. R. 1, Lucan, was located by Traf
fic Officer Harry Gilchrist, of Lucan
and ordered to appear in court on
a charge of leaving the scene’ of an
accident.
BRIDE-ELECT HONORED
The Friendly Class of Main Street
Sunday School, Mitchell, met at the
home of Mrs. J. A. Meyers on Mon
day night and presented Miss Nor
ene Gibson, bride-elect, with an end
table, table lamp, reflector and two
pictures. Little Patricia Hinget,
dressed as a bride, and Pauline
Gatenby as the bridegroom entered
the room to the strains of the wed
ding march played by Mrs. W. C.
Thorne, drawing a decorated wagon
which bore the gifts. At the con
clusion of a sing-song, contests and
piano duet by Mrs. E. J. Hinget and
Mrs. W. C. Thorne, dainty refresh
ments were served.
HONOR STAFFA COUPLE
Members of the United Church
Choir, Blyth, motored to 'Staffa
where a pleasant evening was spent
at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Russell
Worden. During the evening an end
table was presented to Mr. and Mrs.
Worden by the choir members.
You aren’t being charitable if you
expect gratitude as a reward—you
are merely cultivating your vanity.
PICOBAC
PIPE
TOBACCO
FOR A MILD, COOL SMOKE
I
Stubborn Cases of Constipation
Those who keep a mass of im
purity pent up in their bodies, day
after day, instead of having it re
moved as nature intended, at least
once in every twenty-four hours, in
variably suffer from constipation.
The Use of cheap, harsh purgatives
only aggravate the trouble and
injure the delicate mucous lining of
the bowels.
If constipated take Milburn’s
Laxa-Liver Pills and have a natural
movement of the bowels. They do
not gripe, weaken or sicken as' many
laxatives do.
Tho T. Milburn (Jo., Ltd., Toronto, Ont.
with
WELL-KNOWN RESIDENT
OF BYTH SUCCUMBS
Residents of Blyth learned
regret of the death of Mrs. Alex El
der, a resident for many years, who
passed away at the home of her dau
ghter, Mrs. Walter McLean, Hamil
ton, in her 81st year. The funeral
was held Saturday to Union ceme
tery following the arrival of the body
from Hamilton.
on a
has his own ideas
sent in the follow-
which covers the
well. He doesn’t
is called a
manufacture
cow’s tail is
a universal
The
has
to disturb mar-
the tassel on
and
used
and
a uniqe educational
A friend who
about cows, has
ing description
ground pretty
claim that it is original:
The cow is a female quadruped
with an alto voice and a counten
ance in which there is no guile.
She collaborates with the pump in
the production of a fluid called
milk, provides the filling for hash
and at last is skinned by those she
has benefited, as mortals commonly
are. The young cow
calf, and is used in the
of chicken salad,
mounted aft
joint. It is
auding flies
the end has
value. Persons who milk cows and
come in contact with the tassel,
have vocabularies of peculiar and
impressive force.
The cow has two stomachs. The
one on the ground floor is used as
a warehouse and has no other
function. When this is filled, the
cow retires to a quiet place where
her ill manners will occasion no
comment and devotes herself to
belching. The raw material is thus
conveyed for a second time to the
interior of her face, pulverized and
delivered to the auxiliary stomach,
where it is converted into milk.
The cow has
of her teeth
lower part of
rangement was
ficiency expert
gumming thinks tip.
she bites up and gums down.
A slice of cow is worth 5 c in the
cow, 14 cents in the hand of the
packer and $2.40 in a restaurant
that specializes in atmosphere. The
man cow is called a bull and is las
soed out West, fought in Mexico,
and shot in Ottawa when parliament
sits.
no upper plate,
are paired in
her face,
perfected
to keep
As
All
the
ar-
ef-
This
by an
her from
a result,
SCHOOLS CLOSED
Nairn and Carlysle schools in E.
Williams Township have been order
ed closed as a result of a district out
break of scarlet fever. About 30
children are affected by the ruling.
The Mitchell. Creamery and Mit
chell produce Co. have been sold by
W. Hugh Pugh to Stacey Brothers,
of Willow Grove.
CHESMIOAL COINCIDENCE
Although “’Cellophane” is
years old this month, it was only last
year that J. E. Brandenbeiiger, the
inventor of the process for making it,
saw his original goal achieved. Spill
ing some wine on the table cloth of a
Paris restaurant started the Swiss
chemist searching for some form of
protection that would make table
cloths and other textile products
stain-proof. His experiments which
resulted in the discovery for making
cellulose film, solved many problems
but not the one of rendering textiles
stain-proof, The inventor’s dream of
a world of stain-prof stableclotlis and
dresses was made possible last year,
however, with the discovery in Eng
land of a finishing agent that rend
ers fabrics durably stain-proof and
'Water*roi»enant.
thirty
The ladder of life is full of splin-
ters—but we never realized it until
wo begin to slide down.
Fatally Injured
Suffering internal injuries in a
car-truck crash at the westerly out
skirts of Sebringville, Wednesday
night of last week, Mrs. Alex Haddy,
Clinton, died early Thursday in the
Stratford ^General Hospital. She
was a passenger in a car driven by
Mrs. Louis Oakes, wife of
ter Oakes, of Clinton.
The car was believed
skidded into the path of
gasoline truck after the right-hand
wheels evidently slipped off the pave
ment and on to the shoulder of the
road. The car skidded when the
driver manoeuvred it back on the
pavement, covered with hard, slip
pery snow and ice.
The car was travelling west and
the truck, driven hy E. Carter, To
ronto, east. The truck driver escap
ed injury but Vie Pinder, of Toronto
a passenger in the truck, suffered a
bad gash over the eye when cut by
flying glass.
Mrs. Oakes, driver of the car was
taken to Stratford General Hospital
with a fractured pelvis. Her four-
and-a-half-year-old son, Harris,, es
caped with minor injuries. Mrs.
Haddy was a native of Kingsville
and had been a resident of Clinton
for four years.
USES BOTH HANDS
TO WRITE
50 YEARS AGO
Dr. Wai-
to have
a heavy
Fun With Work Eased
Burdens of Settlers
Peter MacGregor, Now 85, Knew
Land Clearing Labors in
Middlesex County
rheu-
liave
and
But
Letter from a Man of 90
He asks us to excuse his writing.
We do more than that —- we con
gratulate him oil being able to write
at all at his age, especially as he has
been suffering from rheumatism.
This is what he says in his letter:—
“Three years ago I was in bed for
six weeks with inflammatory
matism. Since that time I
been taking Kruschen Salts,
have not had another attack,
the complaint left me with inflamed
feet, and it hurt me to walk. My
hands were also somewhat stiff. I
took Kruschen every morning before
breakfast, and shall continue to do
so, because I am sure they have kept
me in good shape for three years.
Excuse this writing, as I am ninety
years old, and use both hands to
write/’ — J.R.iG.
The pain and stiffness of rheu
matism are often caused by uric acid
in the muscles and joints. Kruschen
helps to dissolve and remove excess
uric acid in a gentle way through
the natural channels. Renewed
health and vigour is the result.
November 22,
. Mr, Kerslake waited
cil and requested that 'the sidewalks
crossing ditches at the various street
corners be removed and that sub
stantial culverts be placed Instead,
the crossings being dangerous to pe
destrians during dark nights; and
very often when hoards are broken
are equally unsafe.
Brandon, Manitoba, is to have
electric lights. The prairie city seems
to be imbued wth considerable en
terprise.
Mr. John Popplestone, of Exeter,
a man 60 years’of age, one day last
week walked five miles in less than
fifty minutes. This is considered
good walking for a younger person.
During the season Mr, Robert
Lang has shipped from Exeter sta
tion no less than 35 ears loads of
apples to different parts of the con
tinent.
Messrs. Verity & Sons have let the
contract for the erection of the foun
dry; the brickwork to Messrs Ho
ward & Bawden
work to Messrs.
without tender,
While digging
Browning the other day,
Crocher was almost suffocated by its
caving in. He was speedily extri
cated by his associate workmen.
Mr. John Bawden, who has been
laid up with an attack of typhoid
malaria is able to be around again.
Mrs. J. Smith, who has been vis
iting her parents Mr. and Mrs. Geo.
Muttart, of Exeter North, has re
turned to her home in Dakota.
Haist-Brown-On the 13th inst, at
the residence of the bride’s father,
by Rev. Mr. Staebler, Mr. Ferderick
Haist, to Miss Lena, youngest dau
ghter of John Brown, deceased of
Crediton.
Vyse-Pugsley-At the residence of
the bride’s father, Exeter, on the
21st inst., by the Rev. W. M. Mar
tin, B.D., Mr. J. W. Vyse, of Detroit,
to Mary, daughter of Wm. Pugsley.
Hodgins-Hodgins - On Wednesday
14th inst., at the residence of James
Hodgins Esq., 2nd con. of Biddulph,
by Rev. J. Downie, B.D., assisted.by
Rev. B. W. Magahy, Adam Eli Hod
gins
1888
on. the conn
and the carpenter
Ross and Taylor
a drain for Dr:
Mr. R.
Temperance Federation
Meets at Clinton
More Than 80 Years Spent in the
District
Most of Fine Muncey Road Property
Covered With Bush When Taken
by Family
By Myrtle E. Home in London
Free Press
Peter MacGregor was the first
business man to settle in London in
its early days. This venerable citi
zen has long since gone to his re
ward, but your correspondent re
cently had an interview with an
other Peter MacGregor, who readily
admitted the possibly of kinship
with his earlier namesake. The
second Mr. MacGregor is spending
bis declining years in a cosy modern
house which he built on a pleasant
such purpose
275-acre farm
his retirement
23 years ago.
6 th
his
age
bride Miss
away last
died two
son now
The only
It is now one
in Middlesex
of clearing the
site -reserved for
when he turned his
over to his son upon
from active farming
He now spends his time largely in
looking after his fine garden, his
cow and a number of chicken, and
in keeping his lawn trim and,neat.
Mr. MacGregor was born in Banff
shire, Scotland, 85 years ago, and
came to this country when he,, was
three years of age. One brother
had come to Canada two years pre
viously and had rented a farm on
the 5th concession of Westminster.
Here in 185 6 his parents and five
brothers and one sister joined him.
Later the family moved to the
concession, and Peter obtained
education at White Oak School.
When Peter was 12 years of
his parents bought a Gore farm of
275 acres, on the Muncey road and
cornering the Indian Reserve, from
Benjamin Carey, whose father had
received the deed from the Crown.
At that time the place of habita
tion was a log house, but when
Peter in1 turn took over the farm
from his father he built a fine
white brick residence, and to this
he brought as his
Sarah Aikens, who passed
October. His elder son
years ago, and the other
lives on the homestead,
daughter, Mrs. MacDougald, resides
in Rosetown, Sask.
When the MacGregors purchased
this land only about 100 acres of
it had been cleared,
of the finest farms
County.
The arduous work
land did not exclude all pleasure.
There were the neighborhood dances
when old and young joined in the
opera reel and the more sprightly
polka to the strains of a fiddle. But
the high ligli^t of the year was the
annual “ball” in the cheese factory.
Here those specially gifted in the ter-
psichorean art demonstrated to an
admiring audience the intricacies of
the Highland Fling.
For many years the roads were in
a deplorable condition. They were
of clay and not well graded and in
the spring were almost impassable.
The sound of horses
feet from the mud was
pistols discharged.
Mr. MacGregor has
deal, and he now enjoys the gift of
second
carded
pulling
like so
read a
convention assembled in
Govern-
author-
in this
against
has
and was listed
on November 8th,
been again further
copies of the abovethat
be sent to the Premier
The Huron County Temperance
Federation met in Clinton on Tues
day of last week. Over fifty dele
gates were present. The following
resolutions were passed:
Resolved that we, of the Hurpn
County Temperance Association, in
annual
Clinton, Ont., this <15th day of No
vember, 193 8, do' emphatically pro
test against the issuance of author
ities for the sale of liquor in bever
age room within the bounds of the
County in violation of the Temper
ance Act, which has been declared to
be in force in Huron 'County by the
Supreme Court of ’Canada, and the
validity of which has been affirmed
by the Privy Council. And that we
again demand of the Ontario
ment the cancellation of the
ities that have been issued
County.
Resolved that we protest
the repeated and unwarranted delay,
which delay is profitable to the liq
uor interests, in the appeal of the
Supreme Court promised by Premier
Hepburn at Kincardine in 1937.
Resolved that because of its vital
importance, we urge the immediate
hearing of and judgment of the Solo
mon case of Manitoulin Island. This
case was presented to Supreme Court
of Ontario in June last, and was de
ferred to the -fall,
later to appear
and which
postponed.
Resolved
resolutions
of the Province, the Attorney-Gen
eral of the Province, the local Mem
bers of the Provincial House and to
the press.
Resolved that we further authorize
the executive of our county federa
tion to institute any test case, on the
matter of the beverage rooms, that
they may deem advisable.
* Resolved that we recommend the
advance of a temperance educational
program through local rallies and
picnics to be held semi-annually.
Resolved that we commend the
findings of the Older Boys’ Parlia
ment of Ontario in favor of the tem
perance issue, and that we instruct
the executive to advance the interests
of the Youth Temperance Federation
PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE
Past
Klippity-klopp, klippity-klopp,
Old horse and buggy with fancy top;
Grandma and grandpa are starting
away;
Hope to
the
make twenty-five miles in
day.
Present
s-swish, s-swish, s-swish,—S-swish,
Swishing of cars on the crowded
highway,
Blind man, poor man, rich man,
thief,
Doctor, lawyer, merchant and chief;
of the world on wheels today,
world full
folk say.
All
“A of madness,” the old
Future
whirr, whirr,—
their
many
great
sight and has long since dis-
glasses.
we are told that excessiveNow
laughter can cause heart trouble.
So many of us will have to stop
(laughing at cur own jokes.
Whirr, whirr,
The aeroplane now is making a stir.
To yesterday’s youth anxiety brings
This new-fangled danger of flying
wings.
The youth of yesterday, grandpa to
day,
Gravely shakes his head, as they
fly away.
Young folk go winging about in the
sky,
They scorn the old Car as they learn
to fly;
Laugh at the slowness of eldfash-
ioned days,
While grandma looks on in indig
nant amaze:
Swears at the reckless young fools
soaring high !
And hopes they will get more sense
by and by.
[day evening at the -congregational
[ tea in connection with the Main St.
Methodist Church. Mr. and Mrs. Mc
Callum leave this week fox- London
where they will reside. Mr. B. W. IF-
Beavers read an address and the
presentations were piade by Mr. W.
Huston and Mrs. Fowell, Other items
on the program were solos by L. Wat
son and Marion Blatchford; mouth
organ selection by Ethel Brickwood,
recitation by Blossom Powell.
Mr. Henry Squire, of Usborne, has;
purchased from the executors of the
estate of the late Mrs. Kay the brick • dwelling situated on the south side 1
of town. I
Mr. John Miners, of Elimville, has
purchased the Wm. Taylor residence I
on Albert street and will move in *
during the winter. :
Mr. Wm. Atkinson returned last week from Fillmore, Sask., where he I
spent the summer.
Mr. -Frank Ruse has sold his resi
dence on Victoria street to Mrs.
Cobbledick, of Exeter North.
ONLYJHE BEST
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ns GOOD ENOUGH "7
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D.
This outstanding triumph is
proof of quality. Twelve first
prizes in twelve classes, in this
year’s Baby Shows at the Toronto
and Ottawa Exhibitions, were
won by babies fed on ‘Grown
Brand’ Corn Syrup.
What better evidence can
there be of the confidence which
Canadian mothers and their
physicians have in the purity
ana quality of ‘Crown Brand.’
A delicious table syrup,
‘Crown Brand’ is a treat
for the whole family.
15 YEARS AGO
November 29, 1923
Mr. J. T, Miners is visiting in Tor
onto attending the Royal Winter Fair
at which his son Garnet Miners, has
on exhibition 42 of his famous York
shire hogs.
Mr. Thomas Johns, who for a
number of years has been working
for Mr. H. T. Rowe has resigned his
position and is going into business
at Dashwood.
Mr. Wm. Kuntz is this week mov
ing into his new residence next to
the blacksmith shop. -
Mr. C. Prouty, who had
fractured a few weeks ago
able to be out with the use
crutches.
Tell the boys that pictures of
famous hockey stars can still
be obtained for‘Crown Brand’
Corn Syrup labels.
[ROWN BRAND
CROWN BRAND
CORN SYRIIP
THE FAMOUS ENERGY FOOD
The CANADA STARCH COMPANY Limited
to Eliza Matilda Hodgins.
25 YEARS AGO
Mr. and Mrs. T. H. McCallum
were made the recipients of an ad
dress and two rattan chairs on Mon-
his leg
is now
■of two
MEIDINGER—MANTEY
Thursday, November 10th,
Lutheran parsonage, Zurich, Rev. E.
Tuerkheim performed the ceremony
which united in marriage Beatrice
Margaret, only daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Michael Meidinger, of Zurich
and Julian Mantey, of Stanley Twp.
Mr. and Mrs. Mantey left after the
ceremony on a short wedding trip.
They returned home on Saturday and
that evening a reception was held.
They will live on the farm on the
Goshen Line, Stanley, owned by the
Peter A. Manson Estate, which Mr.
Mantey has rented.
at the
A young boy, undergoing an ex
amination for position came across
the question:
of the earth from the sun?
wrote answer
able to state accurately, but I don’t
believe the sun is near enough to in
terfere with a proper performance of
my duties if I get this clerkship.”
He got it.
“What is the distance
” He
as follows: “I am un-
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