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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1939-05-18, Page 3lsmw> MAY 18th, 1089THE EXETER TIMES-ADVOCATE « • Dress your car up with the new 1939 Goodyear G-100 ♦ . . the tire with the “com­ pressed” tread t . • enjoy the thrill of riding on these safe, long-wearing Goodyears * • » the greatest tire value your money can buy! We have it! Snell Bros. & Co. W. J. Beer Exeter, Ont Quidnunc The five 'Great Lakes - located Canada and the United States - co­ ver an area of over ninety thousand square miles and form the largest collective mass of fresh water in the World. During the past 2,500 years of history, there have been 902 major wars — and 1,615 international ’dis­ turbances’. Tiny Tim who claimed to be the smallest man in the world and who had appeared in side shows thru’- oiit the world, died at his home at Hemel, Hemstead, England, Sept. 2.2, 1937. He was 50 years old, 23 inches tall and weighed 24 pounds. His parents were normal in height and weight. 1935 figures show there were 4,- 415 (Fishing Vessels and 71,030 smaller 'boats engaged in the Fish­ ing Industry in the U.S.A, and Alas­ ka - giving employment to 125,3/37 fishermen. Total catch was 4,152 Million Pounds and valued at more than 80 Million Dollars. 'Canada fish production for 1936 was estimated at 1,109 million lb. and valued at 38 million dollars plus. Total value of all fish caught (commercially) by all countries ap­ proximated 717 Million Dollars. Fastest time around the world using regular commercial planes (on most of the trip) from Times Square New York City to Times Square, was made by Leo Kierman of the New York Times and the N-A.N.A. It took 24 days 14 hours and 20 minutes. Mrs. Amelia Earhart Putnam flew from Harbor Grace to Ireland (Eire) in 14 hours and 56 minutes, May 20 1932 - a distance of 2,027 miles. Col. Chas. Lindbergh flew from Mineola, Long Island to Paris, in France,'in 3 3 hours and 30 minutes a distance of 3,600 miles, May 20- 21, 1927. The birth to have been the birth of China, was born about 551 B. C. and Mohammed was born at Mecca in 570 A.D. The Portuguese began the Slave Trade in Africa in 1481 and by 1777 more than nine million negro slaves had been transported and sold to other continents, The Magna 'Carta (granting trial by jury) was granted by King John of England, 1215 A.D. The approximate cost of taking the. population census in 19 40 will be Fifty Million Dollars. It will be the sixteenth official government census and will show the popula­ tion of the United States to he ap- of Budda is estimated about 562 years before Christ. Confucius, in ROBERT W. DAGG, DUGAN NATIVE, DIES IN BRUCE Native of Lucan and resident Kincardine the ipast half Robert W. Dagg died in his year. of century, 80th SEE MANY CHANGES IN HIBBERT TOWNSHIP The Township, of Hibbert, which derived its name from William Hib­ bert, director of the Canada Co., has 1 .proximately One Hundred and Thir- undergone various changes through- ty Million people —- more than 30,- out the years. •’ 000,000 of whom will be over 50 In 184'2, its assessment was $1,- years of age. 256; in 1844, population was 321; ' in 1850, 695 and in 1902 had in­ creased to 2,000. The present popu- ’ from .France‘to the United 'States - lation for 1939 according to the as- | erected on Bedloe’s Island in New sessor’s’roll is 1,664, and the assess­ ment stands at $2,096,506. Hi ’k The Statute of * Liberty - a gift FOR THE BLIND Baseball Schedule Last week we printed the list of the schedule games for the Exeter team in the Huron-Perth Baseball League, affiliated with the O.B.A., comprising the towns of Blyth, Clin­ ton, Crediton, Exeter, Goderich, Hensail, Lucan Mitchell and Zurich, The following is the complete sche­ dule as drawn up at the meeting held in the Town Hall Hensail, re­ cently: May 24—Kensal! at Clinton; Cre­ diton at Exeter; Goderich at Zurich. May 26—'Mitchell at Goderich May 29—Exeter at Mitchell; Clin­ ton at Crediton; Zurich at Lucan; Goderich at Blyth. June 1—Zurich at Mitchell; Blytn at Exeter; Lucan at Clinton. June 5—Exeter at Crediton; Zu­ rich at Goderich; Hensall at Lucan; Mitchell at Blyth. June 8—Blyth at Zurich June 9—-Clinton at Mitchell; Lu­ can at Crediton; Goderich at Hen­ sall. June 12—Zurich at Blyth. June 13—Exeter at Lucan; Go­ derich at Clinton; Mitchell at Cred­ ton. June 15’—Crediton at Zurich. June 16—Clinton at Goderich; Lucan at Hensall. June 19—Blyth at Mitchell; Zu­ rich at Clinton; Hensall at Crediton. June 20—'Goderich at Lucan June 22—.Exeter at Zurich; Cred­ iton at Hensall. June 23—Mitchell at Hensall; Clinton at Blyth. June 26—Zurich at Crediton June 27—Hensall at Exeter June 28—Lucan at Blyth; Credi­ ton at Goderich. June 29—Exetei’ at Goderich; Mitchell at Zurich. June 30 — Crediton at Lucan; Clinton at Hensall. July 3—Blyth at Clinton; Hensall at Mitchell. July 5—Lucan at Goderich July 6—Clinton at Exeter; Zu­ rich at Hensall. July 7—Blyth at Crediton; Mit­ chell at Zurich. . July 10—'Crediton at Mitchell; Hensall at Zurich. July 11-—Exeter at Clinton. July 13—Goderich at Crediton; Lucan at Zurich. July 14—Blyth at Hensall; Mit­ chell at Exeter. July 17—Clinton at Lucan; Zu­ rich at Exeter. July 18—'Blyth at Goderich July 20—Clinton at Zurich; Cred­ iton at Blyth; Lucan at Exeter. July 21—Exeter at Hensall; Go­ derich at Mitchell. July 24—Mitchell at Clinton July 26—Blyth at Lucan July 2 8—Lucan at Mitchell; Ex­ eter at Blyth; Hensall at Goderich; Crediton at Clinton. .Four leaders at end of the season’s schedule to enter the play-offs. HAY COUNCIL The regular monthly meeting of the council of the Township of Hay was held at the Town Hall, Zurich, on Monday, May 1st, with all mem­ bers present. The minutes of the [April meeting were adopted as.read. I After disposing of the communica­ tions the following resolutions were passed: That the report, plans, etc., pertaining to the petition of R. Munn and others for improvement of the drain as presented by S. W. Archi­ bald, O.LjS., be received and that a meeting of the assessed persons un­ der the scheme to hear the reading of the report and to consider same be held at the Town Hall, Zurich, on Monday evening, May 22nd, at 8 o’clock in the evening. That ac­ counts covering payments on town­ ship roads, Hay telephone, relief and general accounts be passed as per vouchers: Township roads — Times-Advocate, adv. tenders, $4.05; E. Erb, road 9, $3.25; S. Hoffman, road 13, $4.57; Z. P. Village, streets $15.81; iH. Steinbach, road supt., $18.55; Twip.. Stephen, cement tile, $.2.5 0; C. L. Smith, adv. tenders, $3.90; H. Brown, road 15, $4; M. G. Deitz, operating grader, gas, $54.- 64; A. Reichert, road 4, $3.20. Hay Telephone —'Bell Telephone Co., tolls, February to March, $110.00; C. N. 'R. freight on directories, $4.7>2; Northern Electric Co., material $390.77; Bell Telephone Co,, 750 directories, $112.; National Revenue tax on tolls, $30.57; H. G. Hess, one month’s salary, $165.00. Relief Ac'- counfs— W. Bender, allowance, $10 L. Hendrich, rent $5; W. Hay, al­ lowance, $15; Mrs. C. Gaiser, milk, $7.20;. J. Wein, wood $24; G. iMout- ton, rent $3; H, Thiel, transients, $2.7i5; E. Tieman & Son, groceries, $12. 'General Accounts—Zurich Hy­ dro, hall lights $4.54; Queen Alex­ andria Sanatorium, refills, $12.; W. .H. Edighoffer, assessor, postage, $5; G. L. Smith, printing acct. $73.- 65; W. E. Edighoffer, equalizing S. S. $6; Hensall .Spring Fair, grant $15; Whiller & Co., collector’s roll, $10. The council adjourned to meet again on Monday, June 5th, for re­ gular business and as a .court of ap­ peal to consider appeals against the 1939 assessment roll, if any.-—A. F. Hess, Clerk. LETTER BOX they finally lose their balance and fall back into the water again. Sail­ ing time is near at hand and we shall have to miss the feeding of the seals for this time. Interesting African Port Durban is the next port, the most interesting and enterprising of all the African ports. There are a num­ ber of interesting things to choose from; a drive to the Valley of the Thousand Hills; a picnic up the river in a motor launch; a bus tour of the cliffs and drives across on the other side of the river; or a quiet jaunt around the city in a rickshaw. These rickshaws are not drawn by 'Chinese or Japanese, hut by tall Zulu war­ riors dressed in feathers and war paint. The rickshaw ride combines ’all but the motor launch journey. I From the higher part of the city you obtain a magnifeent view of the har­ bor and the cliffs on the other side. Turning around, the Valley of the Thousand Hills dwindles into a blue haze in the distance. Leaving Durban behind us, we come to Lourenco Marques the first Port in Portuguese East Africa, Six hours of coal dust, hundreds of ne­ groes making an indescribable din as they work coaling the ship, a glimpse of a beautiful Dutch liner coming into the harbour as your ship is going out, are all packed into your brief stay. One more port and the ship will be at the end of her outward voy­ age. A damp dreary morning, wav­ ing palm trees, the roaring engines of a flying boat arriving with mails from England, compose your wel­ come to Beira, the outpost of the jungle, the pulsing heart of the dark continent. Those who are lucky enough to have acquantances here may be invited to go big-game hunt­ ing into the interior. Such, an ex­ perience should give you enough thrills to last for the rest of your life. The majority of the passengers will of course attend the Fancy Dress Ball, given on board for all the ships in the harbour. A week of lying in the sup op bathing in the river passes and your stay in Beira is ended, On the return journey you may renew /acquant­ ances made during the voyage, or view historic spots you have missed, In other words have a very enjoy­ able time. I hope you have. Yours sincerely, A. D. STRANG Mk1 Murphy Painto NARVO will ypyr horn* KING! NARVO BRUSHES PERFECTLY The many friends of Mr. Alex Strang, radio operator, with the British navy, son of Mr. and Mrs. He iry Strang, of Exeter, will read with, interest the following splendid account of the recent trip to South Africa, S.S. “City of Exeter” April 1939 Dear Editor,'— In response to your kind request, for the account of my travels, I shall try to give you and your readers an interesting description of a voyage to South Africa. Come with me to the nearest Travel Bureau ami purchase a ticket covering a voyage, on the liner ‘City of Exeter’ from London, England, via Capetown to Beira on the East­ ern coast of 'South Africa. It is a cool, crisp, English after­ noon when you come to embark on that stately white ship lying in the dock, a long grey plume of smoke rising from the funnel, impatient to be gone. Flying from the peak ot the foremast is the Blue Peter, com­ monly called the stowaways invita­ tion; and from the flag staff aft, that symbol of British shipping the world over, the Red Ensign. White-coated stewards, officers in blue uniforms and white caps, pas­ sengers, visitors, telegraph messen­ gers, reporters, push and jostle each othei* from one end of the ship to the other. Three long blasts of the ship's siren warns all visitors to leave at once; the moorings are cast off, and the ship slowly passes out of the dock into the Thames under the guidance of the tugs. Decrepit tramp streamers, huge barges, fussy little tugs and in in­ describable jumble of smaller craft, make up the traffic of London’s river. Here and there may be seen giant passenger vessels creep in and out of their berths, dwarfing the smaller craft to the size of hundreds of busy bees, moving in as many directions. Between tall factories and alternate stretches of green banks, the river winds like a huge serpent, down to the sea. At the mouth of the river, nearly out of sight of land altogether, a small boat comes bobbing ovei’ the waves to take the pilot ashore, Next morning: you wake to the gray fog of the English Channel, the busiest shipping lane in the whole world. Ships of every size and des­ cription more like sinister creatures through the fog bound for unknown destinations. Tomorrow we will be in the Bay of Biscay, and its a fairly safe bet that perhaps the major num­ ber of passengers will not feel very well. Several days later the sunny shores of Madeira appear on the horizon. All of your troubles are forgotten in a rush of shopping for souvenirs oi’ driving up the slopes of the green-covered mountains, that tower into the clouds. Before you realize that so much time has passed, fantastic stories , are being circulated about crossing the “Line”, one tremendous bump and it is all over. Of course the bump is purely imagination. An­ other week of sunny days, when the flying fish play over the long roll­ ers, and occasional shoals of por­ poises, once even a whale, has pass­ ed and mingled with thousands of others. Time seems, to stop alto­ gether, nothing seems real any more. The night before reaching Capetown a vague excitement seems to grip the ship. All the young bachelors are dreaming of the blonde lady who, rumor being correct, haunts the top of Table Mountain. Tomor­ row the mountain certainly material­ izes out of the dim distance, but does the blonde lady? That is some­ thing which I had no chance to prove ■ for myself, perhaps you will. Thousands of gleaming lights cluster around the base of this rocky giant, smaller strings run up the sides like so many creepers; green and red ones mark the har- boui’ entrance. This is Capetown. Leaving Capetown for Port Eliza­ beth the ship is overflowing with cruise passengers taking the place of those who disembarked at this ■port. A huge brass band plays a salute, and the mass of streamers from the ship’s deck to the quay, break one by one as the vessel slow­ ly begins to move. During the twelve hours passage to Port Eliza­ beth you will be as far south as you may ever be. Port Elizabeth For some of you, Port Elizabeth, is the end of the journey, the others scatter over the city and surround­ ing beaches in search of amusement. The chief attraction is the Snake garden, and last but not least the snake charmer himself. Big snakes, littIO shakes, all -colours of the rain­ bow; remember to give them a Wide berth they are all poisonous. Mon­ ster turtles and many-colored fish claim the admiration of those people who do not care for the company of shakes. Thank you, ■Oh to East London the following day, a small But commercially im­ portant city which boasts of a beau­ tiful promenade and a small zoo. The seals are the feature of this es- tablishmeht. For ah hour before feeding time they leap Ont of the water, dive, climb on top of the tank walls and Sit begging for food, until BIOLOGIA A lady had heard an authority state The male among fishes has less bones than its mate; And that, she could see, was a choice bit of lore To have when she went to the groc­ ery store; And later, when buying some bacon and beans; She decided to purchase a can of sardines; “But how,” she inquired of a gro­ ceryman, “Can you verify sex of sardines in a can?” Said he, “I am sorry, I really can’t say, But darned if I see who would care, anyway, About a sardine and its private ef­ fects, Except a sardine of the opposite sex? GODERICH—While on an inspec­ tion visit to his summer home at the lake front Councilor J. W. Craigie, one of Goderich’s best known public men, slipped and fell on a freshly polished floor, fracturing his right ankle. “And when you eloped with the girl did her father follow you?” “Did he?” said the young man. “He’s still living with us!” * * * Doctor (to patient): “It’s nothing to worry about, just a little boil on the. back of your neck. But you must keep your eye on it.” GmacU i Smartest Finish COVERS IN ONE COAT DRIES IN NO TIME I WI RETD• <1 • Dll iV Main Strpet Phone 109 EXETER, ONT. FORMER SCHOOL TEACHER IS DEAD AT CLINTON Walter H. Baker, a well-known former teacher, died at the Huron County Home where he had resided for the past few years. He was in his 75th year and was born in 1864. He attended the public school at Summer Hill, the .collegiate and mo­ del schools of Clinton, and Toronto Normal School. He held a first class permanent certificate and taught school for many years in Colborne and Usborne township, at Bayfield, Egmondville and at Galt. HYMN OF HATE The chore which makes me very sore And is no .cause for laughter, Is madly scrubbing out the tub Before my bath and after. IN SALES THROUGHOUT CANADA York harbor has just been renovated by W. P. A. workers at a cost of Two Hundred and Fifty Thousand Dol­ lars. During the World War the need of ships for the American Merchant Marine caused 'the development of one'of the busiest ship yards in this country, near Philadelphia, on waste land known as ‘hog island’, government established this huge undertaking — it took just five months to have the complete plant in working order and turning out ships. During tion, this plant the turned out 122 ships, ships were manufactured in many parts of the United States and ship­ ped to ‘Hog Island’ for assembly, A tribute to the organizing genius of American Industry and a fine ex­ ample of what the United States are,' could do in a hundred sections of the I country if the need arose.I Near Dorchester, ----. has been unearthed ■N ■ ed Roman Road said 2,000 years olpL 6939 A. D. - five thousand years from now - scientists may open a large metal cylinder which contains much information about present day civilization. This ‘time capsule’ will ■be deposited in the ground at a depth of 50 feet — and contains an assortment of articles of common use today. The tube is made of copper alloy, known as ‘cupaloy’ and has a pyrex glass crypt. The ‘time capsule’ is seven and one-half feet long and about eight inches in diameter. Among the things included that may .puzzle fu­ ture scientists are: a can opener, a woman's hat, a Bible, tooth brush, safety pin, camera, pipe, fountain pen and pencil set, bits of wood, silk, cotton, rayon, coal, asbestos, cement , materials, alloys, rubber and a. var- J iety of seed, There will also be a, newsreel de- ----' ’picting an address on the 75th anni­ versary of the battle of Gettysburg, the return of Howard Hughes to New YOrk from his round-the-world flight, Jesse Owens’ victory in the 100 meter dash, a Harvard and Yale football game, a review of the Unit­ ed States fleet and May Day in Mos­ cow. Because it’s FIRST in store,The proprietor of a small to the surprise of his neighbors, suddenly decorated his window with a fashionable new blind. “Nice blind,” said a friend. “How’d you get it?” “Easily enough,” re­ plied the storekeeper. “My custom­ ers very kindly paid for it.” induced them to do that?” just put a little box on er with a placard ‘For and they paid for it,” The my the "What “Oh, I count- Blind’ i i Backwoodsman (returning after intermission): our toes as we went its three years of opera- ’busiest shipply assembly world has ever known' Parts of the It’s faster on the get­ away . . . it’s stronger on hills ... it’s a much better all-round performer than other cars in its field .. . and it saves you money every day on gas, oil and upkeep. to his (grimly): “Yon did Because it’s FIRST in VALUE! theatre seat “Did I step on out”? Seated man sir”. Backwoodsman: “Here we Matilda. This is our place”. A QUIET, WELL. 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