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Sask..
Just imagine
people pro
billions
and yet
your
some
which
did not
was how
tickets of
call money)
allowed his
against that
the
Tuxford,
Times-Advoeate.
Exeter, Ont
Gentlemen:
I have again reviewed
editorial page and find
interesting things in same
reach all the way from the Am
erican Eagle to John Bull and
Russian Bear exhibition of stu
pidity. It also reaches to
high cost of living and the awful
price of meat. etc. But it seems
the hardest thing for people to
day to realize that the Bulk of
Our trouble to-day is finance,
Dollar shortage in Canada of
American Dollars, etc., currency
trouble in Germany etc.. Berlin
blocked out. We have unrest in I
Highest
Prices Paid
for Poultry
PRODUCE
Phone Seaforth 167
MITCHELL
HARDWOOD & TILE
FLOORS LAID
Old Floors Re-Finished
Re-modelling
General Contracting
Canada and everywhere for that]
matter and the trouble is lack of
purchasing power. Mr. Abbott
let the cat out of the bag some
time ago when he said Canada
was on the verge of a great
boom. He told us that the people
of Canada had produced up-
words of thirteen billion dollars
; of wealth in 1947.
I twelve million odd
I ducing thirteen
I wealth in one year
j rest on every hand,
i What Mr. Abbott
; the people however
much or how many
(Exchange (what we
; his money bosses
i government to issue
| mass of wealth.
i But a little bird
' the iron curtain has whispered
i around six billions tickets of ex-
i change to purchase thirteen bil-
| lions of wealth produced.
I As long as people are stupid
enough to believe that digging
gold out of one hole in Canada
and burying it In another hole
in Kentucky is backing against
our created wealth, all who be
lieve such nonsense should be
made to live on the yellow metal
for a season until they came to
their senses and realize that the
only credit that any country has
is the wealth that the people of
that country produce,
millions of people
thirteen, billions of wealth
one year, it is only a little mat
ter to figure how much buying
power each person in Canada
should have if we had honest
men administering the affairs of
our land. And those tickets of
exchange should be issued debt
free and quit paying toll to the
’money changers in the form of
interest etc., and that wealth
could be distributed either by
subsidies or a dividend to every
man, woman and child in Cana
da. That would give everyone
the benefit of machine-created
wealth. Everyone would have
sufficient buying power. There
would be no need of strikes and
Communism would disappear as
it thrives on poverty. Everyone
would be encouraged to create
more wealth for the more they
created the more they would
have.
And this is no idle dream. It
is simply making what is physi
cally possible, (financially pos
sible) .
And this seems to me the sol
ution of present day trouble.
Until the Lord comes back again
and takes the governments of
the world under His control and
the word tells He will rule with
a rod of iron on all who disobey
His commands. The Sabbath Day
question will not defy His laws
in that day as it is in Port Stan
ley and Grand Bend to-day. And
the financiers will meet their
Waterloo as well. Read James
5:1 to 8.
from behind
NO YE TO AT THE OPERA
—Central Press Canadino
In no veto-ing mood is smiling Soviet U.N. delegate Andrei Vish
insky pictured with his party at the special performance of the opera
given for U.N. delegates in Paris. Left to right in the box are: An
unidentified feminine member of the party, M. Alexandre Parodi, French
U.N. delegate; Bogomolov, U.S.S.R. ambassador in France (partly hidden
by Vishinsky), Andrei Vishinsky, U.S.S.R. U.N. delegate, and Mme.
Vishinsky.
If twelve
can create
in Solitary House Remains of
Once Thriving Community
S. Garrett, in the London
Press, recalls the early
of Khiva in Stephen Town-
con-
the
is a
who
subject of this sketch, is said to
have been built and occupied by
Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Ratz, when
they first came to Huron Coun
ty, before a more pretentious
home had been erected. After
wards, this ‘house and another
frame dwelling, close at hand,
were occupied by the families of
men employed in the mill.
HENSALL
Mr, and Mrs. John Henderson
and family visited recently with
Mr. and Mrs. James Morris and
family in Goderich.
Miss Margaret McNaughton
and Miss Lois Hey, of London,
■spent the week-end at the home
of the former’s parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Lome McNaughton.
Mrs. Hannah Jones and Mrs.
Milton McCarter, of Walkerton,
spent the week-end with Mrs.
D. Walks and Mr. and Mrs. A.
W. Kerslake.
Mr. and Mrs. H, G. Neeb, Mrs.
Woelfle and son, gf Tavistock,
visited this week at the home of
■the former’s son - in - law and
daughter, Mr. and Mrs. William
Brown.
Mr. and Mrs. Earl Kerslake
and Linda and Mr. W. Kerslake
of St. Marys visited recently
with the latter’s son and daugh
ter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. A. W.
Kerslake.
Rev. R. H. Sanderson and
Mrs. Sanderson, Lumsden, Sask.,
arrived at the Presbyterian
Manse on Saturday where they
intend spending the winter
months with their son-in-law
and daughter, Rev. P. A. (Fergu
son and Mrs. Ferguson.
Mrs. Andrew 'Christie, of Rus-
seldale, visited recently at the
■home of Mr. and Mrs. Lome
McNaughton.
Evening Auxiliary
Mrs, Wes Jones acted as hos
tess for the regular monthly
meeting of the Evening Auxi
liary on Mon. night November
8. Mrs, J. Corbett assisted Mrs.
Jones. Mrs. J. Corbett presided
for the meeting, which opened
with i * ‘
and ‘
diers”,
lection
Prayer
taken.
devotional period which was in
terestingly presented by Mrs.
Dave Kyle. The hymn “Nearer
My God to Thee” was sung. Fi
nal arrangements were made re
garding the annual bazaar, sche
duled to be held in the United
Church school room on Satur
day afternoon, November 20, at
3 o'clock. The following commit
tees were appointed. Home
baking: Edna Walsh, Mrs. W.
Jones, Mrs. R. Drysdale, Mrs.
A. Hyde, Mrs. L. Chapman;
Produce: Mrs. M. Sanders, Mav
is Spencer, Mrs,
Mrs. W. Smale,
Mrs. Blackwell, Mrs.
Sewing and Knitting:
lis, Mary Goodwin,
Shaddick, Mrs. B. Kyle, Mrs. D
Kyle, Mrs. Lillian Hyde; Candy
Mrs. J. Corbett, Mrs. C, Pass-
more, Mrs. M. Hedden, Mrs.
Mary Buchanan, Mrs. P. McNau
ghton. The December meeting
will be held at the home of
G. Broderick,
Mrs. Flynn,
Dennison;
Miss El-
Mrs. E.
recently
singing the theme song,
“Onward Christian Sol-
Minutes were read, col-
taken and the Lord’s
repeated and roll call
The next item was the
weather - worn dwelling,
with its board roof, re-
as a last link with the
forgotten hamlet of Khi-
Elimville Farm Forum
The Elimville North Farm
Forum met at the home of Mr.
and Mrs. Lewis Johns with thir
teen adults and two children
present. “Let’s Go Farming”
was the subject and there was
a good discussion, i
lunch was served,
meeting is collection
will be at the home
Mrs. Philip Johns.
after which
The next
i night, and
of Mr. and
Mrs. B. Kyle. Miss Ellis then
reviewed the Study Book Chap
ters, Hymn “Take Time to be
Holy” and prayer followed. The
hostess and her assistants ser
ved dainty refreshments at the
close of the enjoyable evening.
given you a hint about a new vacuum cleaner
Christmas, you’ll soon solve that gift prob-
General Electric or
or upright
Drop in
If she’s
for this
lem when you see either our
Hoover machines. We have either tank
models by both of these manufacturers,
early. We lay it away if you wish.
!
. or a
you, all
Yours truly
J. T. Bagshaw
M/allace Bowden
WOODHAM
Phone Kirkton 53rl0
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ship:
An old house, silent and de
serted, standing a short distance
west of the intersection of
cession 1'2, Stephen, and
Crediton-Grand Bend road,
familiar object to motorists
visit Lake Huron yia the latter
thoroughfare and Highway No.
4.
This
unique
mains
almost
va, once the locale of an expan
sive lumbering business and a
well-known stopping place in the
era when farm produce was
marketed with horse-drawn ve
hicles.
In 187 6, Mr. and Mrs. Jacob
Ratz and family moved to Ste
phen Township from Waterloo
County and purchased a tract of
bush land, in the Khiva vicini
ty, and built the noted Ratz
sawmill wherein was carried on
the community’s major industry.
I John and Valentine Ratz, sons
of Jacob, became prominent citi-
■affairs
climax
career
to the
1909. He
zens. Entering municipal
in 1879, Valentine Ratz
ed a creditable public
when he was appointed
Canadian Senate in
had been reeve of Stephen for a
long term and member 'of the
Dominion Parliament for North
Middlesex.
Senator Ratz, who spent his
late? years in Parkhill, was also
engaged in various business ac
tivities.
John Ratz died several years
ago at an advanced age. When
the writer talked with him at
his farm home near Khiva short
ly before his
still recall the
Ratz mill and
hood activities.
Will Holt is
kept a log tavern at Khiva cor
ners, at an early date. In the
late 1870’s, it is said, a portion
of the old frame hotel was built
by Joseph Lawrence, who black-
smithed at Khiva, and used by
him as a dwelling. Later, Wil
liam Holt added another 'frame
section to it and used the whole
section as a hostelry.
The Khiva hotel seems to have
had quite a patronage, with
much farm produce passing to
and fro every day, district mills
turning out great quantities of
lumber, and the Crediton tile
and brick yards operating at full
capacity.
Around 1880, semi-weekly
mail was brought in from Cen
tralia. Both post office and ho
tel were kept at one time by
Valentine Ratz. More recently,
Barney Cunningham, now of II-
derton, was the proprietor. The
post office was closed upon the
coming of imral mail delivery.
The hotel business also came
to an end and for years the
long, old frame building was
abandoned until it was finally
demolished for salvage. The re
mains of the old wooden pump
where teamsters once
their horses, were still
dence not long ago.
The old Ratz sawmill,
Khiva, was a combination of se
veral barn-like wooden buildings
with frame-works -of heavy tim
bers. the whole surmounted by
a tall metal smoke-stack which
could be seen for miles around.
Several years ago, the smoke
stack was blown over and the
buildings were removed
having collapsed with the weight
of time.
The old house, which
death, he could
'building of the
other neighbour-
claimed to have
watered
in evi-
west of
after
is the
A little
■first time,
“What’s
asked the
“I don't like school and I have
to stay here until I’m fourteen”
wailed the lad. j
“Don't let that worry you,” i
said the teacher, “I have to stayi here until I’m sixty-five,” I
boy, at school for the
was sobbing bitterly,
the matter, Willy?”
teacher.
yQl/f
Phone 109
CHEVROtET PONT.AC OL —Bl
Exeter, Ont.
£•:: ?.
"Be sure the cooling
system of your car or
truck is protected
against frost. Is your
radiator clean? Fan
belt O.K.? Antifreeze
"If the timing, battery
and electrical units
are properly adjusted
now, your car will
run smoothly, effort
lessly throughout the
Winter."
Don t let a sudden
cold snap catch your
car with its Summer
oil and lubricants.
Change now
Winter-weight
and grease.
"Foryour own safety,
have your brakes
; adjusted now. Icy
Winter roads are
dangerous. With
good brakes you
; have perfect control
; of your car