The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1941-11-13, Page 7H?
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50 YEARS AGP j
After qh absence of nearly three
years, Mr.
turned from
and. friends
ing country,.
Main *St,
brated its anniversary services. Rev.
J, W. Holmes, of Stratford, former
ly of Exeter, was the guest speaker.
•The- Presbytery of Huron met at
HenSall on Tuesday last. A large,
number were in atendance,
The Exeter Woollen Mills are
very busy these days.
On Saturday evening the axle of
the milk wagon belonging to
Wm. Dearing broke, allowing
box and contents to fall,
The farmers are all busy in
section getting their turnips
good winter quarters,
is that it is the best yield that
ever been known in this part’of
country.
George Fuke has re-
Iowa to visit relatives
in town and surround-
Methodist church cele-D
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We have had a fine autumn for .catching up on fall work,
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Hitler is squaring himself for a contest with General Winter.
Times have changed since the days of Napoleon.
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W® are not ip Hitler’s confidence in this matter, but we know
that he is making a terrible use of the resources at his disposal.
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We’d jest like ta git our paws on them fellers that told us that
of electric power for oodles and oodleswe had oceans and -oceans
of years.
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*‘111 fares the land to
25 YEARS AGO
The home of Mr. and Mrs, Win.
Routley, London Road south, was ,
very much disturbed when a bafi-s
Jopking character entered and made
C. s. San-
, onx the
scene and the unwelcome visitor
w-as later taken care of, He whs a
deaf chap, looking for something
■to eat.
The best rabbit shoot of the sea
son, by all reports, took place on1.
November 15th. |
The Ontario contribution to the |
British Red Cross fund has now1 passed the second million and a'
half total given last year, being now
$1,53’8,00-0' with cheques still pour
ing in.
We had a real snowfall on Fri
day, several inches on the level, but
R nearly all disappeared on Sun
day when the sun sUone bright
and warm. (
Mr. Harry Bierling last week
bought the store property in the
North End from Mr. Andrew .And
erson. . t
■Jones & May have removed the
verandah in front of their store.
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THE TIMES-ADVOCATE
hastening
box bulks larger in her statesmen’s
commonwealth. The better minds in
the cure for these “hastening ills” in
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ills a prey/’ when the ballot
eyes than the welfare of the
one of the largei' parties have
their own hands.
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A PROGRESSIVE AGE o
THAT SOFTNESS
Every so often we are told that we are becoming a nation of
^softies. When we were attending school we used to hear certain
of our c^ums referred to as pie-faces. The epithet described a
youngster with a pale face that resulted from being fed on pie
rather than on mush and milk and bread and meat and potatoes.
Sometimes the epithet referred to the youth who would neither
fight nor run, but whose only argument in times of stress was .to
whimper. We see an occasional youth, nowadays, who does not
know what his fists are for and who cannot make a shovel or a saw
do a fair day's work. We meet an-occasional adult who does not
overtake the distance of half a "block withou t the aid of a car. There
is, too, the occasional youth who eaijmot thole to be away
from father and mother for a good long month on end, meanwhile
doing a stiff term between the plowhandles or swinging a six-pound
axe -or cuffing a pickaxe into paying submission. Yes, we have our
softies. But that is not the whole, story. This town was not built
by softies, though softies may h^ve got some portions of it into hope
less debt. There have been fortunes made right here in Exeter, but
not by softies, though softies may have lost those fortunes. Farms
have been cleared and furnished and made productive, but not by
softies, although softies may have sunk them into hoplesss debt
through easy living and useless self-indulgence or through a sad
misuse of gray matter. Our schools were not built by softies,
though softness may have;, allowed boys and girls to attend’them
without reasonable advance in useful learning. * “Endure- hardness,”
the apostle -advised his young friend. Hitler is laying the whip
over the back of civilization because the statesmen of the world had
become soft. “I always take the line of least resistance!” smirked a
preacher just the othe'r day. “The easy way for me,” a youth lolled
out, His board has put him on the firing line. When we see an
easy-going youth we always know where lies the fault. It lies with
dad who does not see that the youngster’ is busy every hour’ of the
day, either at lesson or necessary .play or genuine old-fashioned
work. School boards may be real causes of softness in a whole lot
youth.
When Chest
Colds
Strike Give-
r- give the important job of relieving
miseries to the improved Vicks treat
ment that takes only 3 minutes and
makes good old Vicks VapoRub give
BETTER THAN EVER RESULTS!
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^himself at home, Mr.
ders, of town, was soon
IS YEARS AGO
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What Can We
Offer?
(War Savings Campaign, 19 41)
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England, regnant in thy darkened
splendour, #
•Shining more brlgntiy since thy
lights were dimmed,
What can we offer thee, what trib
ute render?
O
Foi* pinnacles o’erthrown and altars
shattered,
For little houses tumbled into
dust,
For homes forlorn and
ren scattered,
pledge to thee
and our trust r
little child-
We our service
amid thine; For new-made graves
I ancient landmarks,
For unknown graves in the sur
rounding deep,
’.For tireless eyes that watch thine
island bulwarks
i And watching have, bereaved, no
> time to weep;
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.For gallant sons who gaily ride the
heaven
To hurl the rude intruder from
the skies;
Or sail courageously, by duty driven,
The -foe-infested sea that round
thee lies;
A number hockey enthusiasts met J
recently to elect the following .of-!
ficers for the coming season: Hon. pres., W. G. Medd; * pres,, T. O.!
Southcott; hon. vice-pres., Chester’
Lee; vice-pres., Dr. Weekes; sec.-;
treas., S. Reid; manager, L. J. Pen-’
hale; coaches, J. G. Cochrane and!
M. R.* Complin.
“Resolved that consolidated
schools would be a benefit to,rural
sections,” was the subject of an'q.u-
tertesting debate between the young
people of Main Street and James
Street churches. The affirmative
was taken by Eugene Howey and
Gordon Fowlei' for Main Street. and
the negative by Miss Mildred Rcwe
and Sylvester Taylor for James
Street. The judges, Miss M. E.
Ross, Rev. Smith, and Mr. J. S.
Howey, decided in favour of the
•affirmative. Miss Amy Shapton,..
president of the James Street League
occupied the chair.
Mr. Wm.. Hearing's car- -upset
when it struck some loose gravel •
near Brinsley. The occupants, Mr. ’
and Mrs. Diearing and Mr. and Mrs.
‘Percy Webber, 'escaped with prac
tically no injury,
Mr. Wm. Hodgert of town suffer
ed a painful accident ’ at a thresh
ing at Mr. Stanley Coward’s farm
when the drive belt of the separa
tor came in contact with his coat
sleeve, drawing his arm into the
machine and tearing the flesh from
the bone and causing a very pain
ful wound.The merchants of Exeter feel that
a- night watchman should be placed
on the streets of the village.
Mr. Frank W. K. Tom has been
elected to the Senate of Ohio, rep
resenting the city of Toledo and
Lucas County.
Messrs. J. Passmore and Robert
Bell, -of Hensail, returned Saturday
from a hunting trip up. north, and
report the deer very scarce. in the
vicinity they visited.
A heavy snow fall visited this
section on Wednesday of last week.
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Imagination was given to a man
to compensate him for what he is
not; and a sense of humor was pro
vided to console him for what he
is.
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For' all the ‘Liberty which we in
herit—
'The Liberty we pray our sons may
share—
We swear that neither failure nor
demerit
o-urs shall a,dd one tittle to
.thy care!
y
we shall give, who have so
much to proffer
gifts, of labor and of enter
prise,
-For those who have not feared to
offer
That we may see the. Dawn
arise!
—Grace Pollard in Montreal Star
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Of
That
Hurondale W. I
As Uncle Remus used to say, “The world do move.” Those
not like Lord Halifax hit what they aimed
they shut
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Detroit women who did
at. We are quite sure
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And now anothei’
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their eyes
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desolating
before they fired.
strikes in the United
war effort, Who runs
Is .the United States to be like a
liner abroad upon the Atlantic without a helmsman?
republic has the blessed privilege of -making her own
___ _ of those desolating
States, resulting in serious hindrance of her
that mighty republic, anyway?
mighty ocean
Of course the
mistakes.
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We were glad to hear that President Roosevelt had ordered his
ships to “shoot at sight.” So far it 'is the Germans who are doing
the shooting. And the people of the United States delight to have
it so. As one of their leaders told the world the other day, “The
Americans soon will get used to having, their ships sunk and their
sailjors and citizens sent to the bottom of the Atlantic. Custom is a
great thing.”
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JUST .AN INCIDENT’
As Lord Halifax was going about his lawful business in an
orderly way, in Detroit, some women assailed him with eggs and
tomatoes. His Lordship- was not greatly perturbed and commented
“Let them have their fun!” The action must be taken for what it
is worth. Lord Halifax was doing what he could to save the liber
ties of the world. He was -putting all that he had into the defence
of an orderly way of living.
THAT POWER SHORTAGE
And now the forecasters are telling us that there is likely to
be a shortage of electric power for civilian purposes. Unless special
license is granted lights will be taken from store windows, from,
signs and from all such places. Household consumption is likely
to be closely curtailed. The war god is a. greedy monster that
swallows all our little >aids to happiness. Sometimes we find our
selves wishing that rulers and such people .would really get down
to this war enterprise, get at it, and get over with it. So 'much
for the slogan,, in Canada and elsewhere, “Our party, right or wrong,”
and the,motto, “Let him get who has the power and let him keep
who can.” We pay a terrible price for the flouting of moral laws. *
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“AWAY FROM THE HUMDRUM”
They’re talking of getting our soldiers and airmen away from
the humdrum of military life and training. Or they are asking
what we are to do With soldiers who are eager to get away from
the airmen’s or the soldiers’ humdrum existence. Tire suggestion is illuminating. It throws a whole lot of light upon tiie way things
are managed, if the suggestion has any truth in it. The young
men referred to are among the. finest this country can produce.
They have before them the greatest task that men ever faced. Why,
then, should their life be humdrum? Are their leaders not seized
of the occasion? Are these leaders deficient in enthusiasm? Is
their ingenuity a minus quantity? Are these leaders loafing or
strutting when they should be building, men in mind and body?
What of the Y.M.C.A.? What of the padres? We pay all those
men handsomely to keep up the morale of the men committed to
their charge. Are they proving themselves slackers? The public
wants to knoW these and a great many other things. There is n)o
occasion for red-blooded young men these tremendous days to find
life humdrum.
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About Ten Days Required to
Secure License
A C.P. despatch from Ottawa
says: G. R. Morphy, director of li
censing for the War-Time Prices
and Trade Board, said today less
than half the’ estimated 300,000
businessmen who must take out li
censes from the board by December
1 have applied for permits so far.
The licensing plan, aimed at pro
viding machinery for price-policing
activities of the board, affects all
dealers in food, feeds, cloth, yarn/
clothing and footwear.
“Every manufacturer and whole
saler of these products has had
ample notice that after the last
day of this month they must not
sell supplies of any of these com
modities to unlicensed retailers,”
Mr. Morphy said.
Commenting on his recent in
spection tour of Western Canada,
the licensing director said some
businessmen do not understand the
licensing regulations.
“Even if you sell only chocolate
bars or soft drinks, you must have
a /license,” he said. “A novelty
store which may sell only six skeins
of yarn a year must still secure a
license.
“Every person or firm which
manufactures or deals in. foods,
flour or feed, cloth, clothing or
footwear, may not continue to
transact sales in these commodi-
ACTS 2 WAVS AT ONCE to
bring relief . , „ PENETRATES to upper
breathing passages with soothing me
dicinal vapors , * f stimulates chest
and back surfaces like a warming poul
tice .. . and WORKS FOR HOURS to ease
coughs, relieve muscular soreness or
tightness, and bring real comfort,
To get this improved treatment—
just massage VapoRub for 3 minutes
ON back as well as
throat and chest, ~ “ *
then spread a thick
layer on </ . ' „
cover with warmed
cloth. Try it!
For Better Results
:adathick n chest and JWlwSW'
h warmed ™ VapoRub
The Improved Way
THE WRECK OF THE AMERICAN
AIRLINES TRANSPORT AT
SHEDDEN -
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ties after the end of November unless they display their window li-'
cense certificate -prominently on]
the front of theii’ place -of busi
ness.”
More than 40,0 00 window trans
fers have already been mailed out to
applicants for licenses.
“Not all farmers, fishermen, gard
eners and livestock and poultry
producers are exqmpt from the li
censing regulations,” Mr. Morphy j
said.- “Any of these persons buy
ing fruit or vegetables, feed, live-;
stock or poultry for resale must be!
licensed. i !
“The obtaining of a license does i
not impose any restriction on the
licensee. A businessman can con-1
tinue his customary business, I
branch into new lines or open new
'businesses. »
"The possession of a license and
the display of the window certifi-i
cate is the businessman’s assurance
to his customers that he is co-oper
ating in the Government’s plan to
prevent unnecessary price increases
and to ensure equitable distribu
tion of supplies.”
He said dealers in coal and hides
and
need
only if they also handle or sell
food, feeds, cloth, clothing or foot
wear.
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The foil?wing lines were com
posed by H. Hoover, an employee at
the Centralia Airport, following
the crash of the big transport liner
neai’ St. Thomas recently.
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leather, licensed previously,
apply for an additional license
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FUR BREEDERS HOLD
SHOW AT ST. MARYS
Experts Say Mink this Year
Wigli Quality
third annual regional
is of
show
Ontario Fur Breeders’ Assoc-
was held on the fairgrounds
Marys with considerable suc-
There she lies, a twisted wreck of
ruin,
noble ship that flew
• American skies,
trustworthy pilot and
a real boon
our defence, a hero
flag of freedom flies.
A
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To
our brave
to aviation
where our
Brave men who care not for sullen
sky,
Brave men, whose wish it is to do
or die,
Met death in that furnace of pipe,
Far from the hearth and home where
children cry.
It is
Backache-Kidneys
Cry
Most people fail to recognize the
seriousness of a bad back.
The stitches, twitches, and twinges
are bad enough and cause great suf*
fering, but back of the backache
and the cause of it all is the dis
ordered kidneys crying out a warn
ing through the back.
A pain in the back is the kidneys ’
cry for help. Go to their assistance.
Get a box of Doan/s Kidney Pills.
A remedy for backache and. sick
kidneys. j“DoanV’’ arc put up in an
oblong grey box with our trade
mark a “Maple Leaf0 on the
wrapper.Refuse subs tit at es. Get*1 Dofth ’
Tho T. JiUburil Co,, 14d., Toronto, Ont.
The regular meeting of the Hur
ondale W-I. was. held at the home of
Mrs. B. Williams. Mrs. E. Mitchell,
first vice-president, occupied the
chair. ’ After the opening exercises
roll, call Was answered by “A pro
duct that Hurdn county is noted for”.
It was decided to donate $10.00 for
blankets and $2.00 for rseeds for
Britain, also to send Christmas
boxes to soldiers overseas and those
in training that have gone from
Hurondale community."
nioh
Girls’ Short Course,
read a paper prepared by Grace
Beckler on the convention for girls,
held in London. Mrs. Kestle read, a
the .Red Cross correspondence.
Mrs. A. Morgan, convener of agri
culture, then took the chair for the
program. The guest speaker was
Mrs. Glen McLean, district presi
dent. She gave a splendid address
in two parts, “This is Your Oppor
tunity, Grasp It” and “Federation
of Agriculture”. Two splendid
readings wore given by Velma Fer-
gusdn , Mrs. Sims read a paper
on “Municipal Doctoring and Den
tal Care”. nMrs, Rundle moved a
vote of thanks to the hostess and
those taking part in the program. ,
Red Cross sowing was displayed and |
the meeting closed with the Nation
al Anthem. Lunch was served by
the committee in charge. *
Mrs. Iter-
then gave a report of the
Mrs. Beckler
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REMEMBRANCE DAY
Remembrance Day of 19 41 found a world in anguish. Blood
and tears and sorrow, the like of which the morning stars never
saw before, characterize Europe. • Hitler’s murdering firing squads
lay blood-red hands upon tens of thousands Of old men and widows
and orphans as well as upon the valiant and hopeful. No hearth is
safe from these hell kites. The fairest cities in Christendom are
in ruins. The international seas are dark with wrath. Every'con
cession line and every hamlet and city alike are .giving of their best
and bravest that this foul thing crawling from Germany, breathing
murder and ruin may forever be exterminated.
But there are' bright spots. There is our imperishable faith
in God. There is the high conviction felt everywhere that the right
must prevail, though sorely at the moment crushed ttf earth.
There are our marching men, who are filled With the crusader
enthusiasm that gives the leaping heart and the hounding pulse.
There is a looking for the coming of the morning ’of the new day ’
when men shall again breathe the air of free men and work with a
free hand and an unoppressed heart. The things we look upon this
Remembrance Day torture the brain''and-fill the Soul with horror.
But faith .'looks with eager hope upon the coining time when the
angels will sing again Over the blood-drenched fields of unhappy
Europe.
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THE WEEKLY NEWSPAPER'S FUNCTION
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When the weekly newspaper lives up to the best traditions of
weekly newspapers, it gives a faithful account of the life of the
community it seeks to serve and deals with What, is going on in the
World in such a way as to relate the life of the community to the
activities of the race. It dares attempt to do no less. That is, it
must give the news just as men and events make the news, rather
than what the editor and his correspondents think the news to be.
Some of his news may, tell of the deeds of scoundrels,'but it never
relates such events in such a way as to make the scoundrel a hero.
The paper does not speak of the “glorious deeds” of So and So, but
it tells what So and So did.
But it does more. The newspaper shows the events of the world
in their true relation. If So andSo makes a barrel of money at
Somebody’s expense and to Somebody’s hurt, the newspaper says
so by relating all the facts. If So and So wins a crown but gets an
uneasy head by doing so, the newspaper relates both facts. If
a school turns out one brilliant pupil but stulifies the intellects of
three -dozen other pupils it states both facts. If the newspaper
is free to praise it must be equally free to blame. Otherwise its
commendation is but “vacant chaff, well meant for grain”. It
proves the flatterer and not a judicious oommender.
But the genuine newspaper does far more than this. It leads,
It must not only relate the * actual, and prove critical of present
activities, but it is in duty bound to show its readers a more Excellent
way. It does not, in so doing, live in cloudy vacuities, but it studies
the past and the present in order that it may discover and reveal
the possibilities of the life of its constituency. It consolidates all
that is fine In the present life in order that the good already
achieved may prove an enduring foundation for future welfare,
The
of the
iation
in St.
cess despite the inclement weather.
Harry Morren, show manager from
Barrie declared that the mink on
display this year were of exception
al quality and equaled any that have
•been -shown on previous occasions.
Nineteen fur breeders from a wide
district were well represented in
all four classes of eastern mi^
which were judged by George Har
ris, of the Hudson Bay Co., Mont
real,
Prize winners were as follows:
Old male, J. Stephen, Woodham;
G. Elliott, Exeter; O. Yemm, Blen
heim; E. Stephen, Woodham; D.
Lammond, R.R. -5, London.
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• Old female, Leitchcroft farms,
Toronto; Richardson Bros., Lon
don;' G. Elliott, W. Braithwaite,
Blenheim.
Male kit, Leitchcroft Farms; -f
St. Marys; D. Lam-
Braith'waite, C. Brown,
E. Bettridge, St. Marys;
these men who build our
mighty States,
Who. help t.o keep the., freedom which
we hold so dOar.
Our prayers arise to Heaven’s pearly
gates,
For men like these that have or
know no fear.CLINTON LAWYER AWARDED ‘
DAMAGES OF $5,200
IN GODERICH COURT
A Supreme Court jury after five
hours’ deliberation at Goderich on
Thursday last awarded Frank Fing-
land, K.C., of Clinton, $5,200 with
costs in his motor damage action
against Lorne Brown, garage owner,
and. Antoine Garon, factory man
ager, both of .Clinton. The claim
Was for $15,000. Of the $5,2.0'0
judgment, 60 per cent was appor
tioned to Brown and 40 per cent
to Garon in accordance with the
jury’s finding "of the degrees of
negligence.
The trial, which had been in pro
gress four days, ^Justice Greene
presiding, arose out of a motor ac
cident on March 23, 1940, on No. 4'
highway, two miles south of Clin
ton. A cavalcade of Clinton auto
mobiles bearing the hockey team,
was on its way to St. Thomas for
an O.H.A. juvenile final game. A
snow blizzard was blowing. Mr.
Finglarid stopped his car because
of an accident ahead -of him, only
to have the Brown car pile into the
rear of his. It bounced off into
a snowbank and completely blocked
G. | the highway. Mr. Fingland got out
Brave widows, wives of airmen
brave,
Weep not: they are in God’s care;
to-day,
Better far to
• than to
A silver lining
way.
be an airman hrave
be a
soon
Nazi slave,
will shine your
mound of steelDestruction great, a
and rubber,
A shining monument to American,
men,
Men of might and men of brains who
look not for trouble,
But men who would like to see
peace once again/
Brave airmen, your mission at end,
But airmen still will carry on your
task.
Your duty done, God’s blessing will
And
attend,
in His heavenly sunshine you
will bask.
H. HOover,
Ex-Pte. P.P. Co. 2
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Success comes only to those who
know how to make friends
keep them.
kit, Pardoe Bros., Bien-
Martin, St. Marys; C.
Martin, K. Epplet, Wind-
A. Smith,
mond, W.
St. Marys;
G. Brown.
Female
helm; C.
Brown, 0.
sor; O. Dowson, and A. E. Welch.
. Entries were - as follows: Old
male, 16; old female, 16; male kit,
30; female kit, 28.
to flag oncoming traffic to avert
further accidents and had just tak
en a few steps when he was Struck
down by the Garon car which piled
into the ‘blockade. He was in hos
pital two months with a compound
fracture of the right leg and other
injuries and was on crutches for
over a year and still limps, The
jury fixed the sum of $.3,500 for
out-of-pocket expense and $1,700
general damages.
We’ll be glad to tellyduhow
easy it is to change to ‘blue coal’.
You’ll be glad, too, t6 escape worry and
uncertainty. Enjoy now and all winter long the
unequalled comfort and heating satisfaction
of the world’s finest anthracite. Phone us today*
Listen to “THE SHADOW”—Radio’s Master Detective.
W. C. ALLISON
Phone 40w, Exeter