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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1949-08-25, Page 2Page 2 THE TIMES-ADVOCATE, EXETER, ONTARIO, THURSDAY MORNING, AUGUST 25, 1949 Times Established 1873 Amalgamated November 1924 Advocate Established Published Each Thursday Morning sit Exeter, Ontario An Independent Newspaper Devoted to the Interests of the Village of Exeter and District Authorized as Second Class Mail, Post Office Department, Ottawa Member of the Canadian Weekly Newspaper Association Member of th© Ontario-Quebec Division of the CWNA Member of the Audit Bureau of Circulation lUOIT Bureau “ 0» jncuiAnq Paid-In-Advance Circulation As Of September 30, 1948 — 2,276 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Canada, in advance, $2,50 a year United States, in advance, $3.00 Single Copies 6 Cents Each » PublishersJ. Melvin Southcott Robert Southcott THURSDAY MORNING, AUGUST 25, 1949 “Lest We Forget” The death of Sir Adam Beck for the most part passed unnoticed last week. We should not be surprised if the majority of the people do mot know who he was or what he accomplished for this province. Yet no one of our citizens has done more fox' the welfare of this province, than was accomplished by Sir Adam. Turn where we will and evidences of his foresight and de votion and unusual talents are in evidence. He made the lightning the servant of man. Streams that ran riotously and destructive ly to the sea he made Ontario’s servants. Yet the anniversary of his passing was al most unnoticed, and it must not minute pause should be made of the best friends this province has known. It will do our souls our council give us a This should not have been continue. At least a three- in the day’s occupation to allow' us to think of one good lead ? at so to do. Will ■it Or Use Of Them o£ the bush is badly Wagner spent a few Oke and Jud- have been at- at Saginaw, been extended to Bayfield. place on Main St. Thursday last and. cases and a part ——.—................................. . ii ter, Soin© of the performance was not bad but on the whole it, was a stale class on entertain ment. Of course, the usual col lection was taken up. 50 YEARS AGO (The Exeter Advocate 1899) Mr, Alex Pardon has sold his ■hay fork business to Mr. John Charlton, Exetei' north. The work of putting down the granolithic walk pn the east side of main street has commenced. Seven bus loads with a large number of other carriages went to Grand Bend on ,Civic Holiday last week from Dashwood, where a big day of sports was held. Messrs, H. Gidley, A. ,Coffin, George Eacrett, and C. Heywood took in the Band tournament in Detroit, Thursday, Messrs. Thomas son Davidson, who tending the Fair Mich., returned home Monday. A big fire has been raging in Thomas Case’s bush, London Road, for the past couple of days, much injured. , Mr. Gus days in Chatham on business. ‘Moran, the' so-called juggler, attracted a large crowd in JExe- 25 YEARS AGO (The Exeter Times 1924) , Hydro has the .village of A business was raided on several empty bottle of .booze was found on the premises. Mr. C, B,« Snell has made ex cavation and put in the founda tion foi* a new home on Anne Street. Dr. Moir, of Hensail, has pur chased the farm' of Mr, John Bell, a .mile south of the village of Hensail. Mr. Frank W. Tom has been nominated to the General As sembly of the Ohio State. A $7,0'0101 by-law to provide for an addition to the High School was passed by the council. Members of the London Cham ber of Commerce gave a pep talk to local merchants last week. Mr, Jonathan Cooper, 74, of Usborne, has not .forgotten how. the crops used to be garnered. Recently, he whetted up the old blade and with an old fashioned cradle cut a .half acre field of oats and in addition tied and stooked them. own efforts. Complaining would weaken her. Advertising her adversity would cut her nerve at home and abroad, Borrowings would carry with them a bad omen. Al leged social services would put lead on her wings. To become a dependent • now •would give her thin blood till the crack of doom. She is seeing that her people must be fed an abundant amount of nourishing food. Folk cannot long labour' nor long hold up their heads on imperfectly supplied stomachs. Like an army, a nation marches on its stomach. She must produce and pro duction equal to the demands now made upon her can be brought about only by a well nourished people. Social welfare schemes, all well enough we may suppose under very circumscribed circumstance, must be let in abeyance in order that the task of the day may be well done. Britons are seeing these and a great many other things as well. For this reason we say that Britain is going to do her full share of the world’s work. She is pretty well over her silly sea son and is now down to work. Those who hinder in this purpose may well be regard ed as enemies of the race. Britain is not coming back. She is going forward because she is looking upward.~ * * This Is Our Reprinted from the Ausable Valley Conservation Report, this is the story of the development of the area served by The Times-Advocate. This history is not only authoritive, but it also contains many interest ing features never before published for public consumption. The nar rative will be produced in a series. 15 YEARS AGO (The Times-Advocate 1934) The kidnapping of John S. La- batt, wealthy London brewer, at 9:30 Tuesday morning of last week and who was released at 12:30 Friday morning has caus ed a sensation throughout Can ada and th© United States. Hensall beat Stratford in a two-out-of-three semi-final series and now meet Waterloo for the ■O.B.A. championship. Hay Township council went on record as being in favor of the granting of “authorities’1 for the sale of beer and wine in the Township, providing hotels come up to required regulations. The township voted against local option on January 3, 1910. Mr. and Mrs. R. N. Rowe, Misses Vera and Reta and Bobby Dlnney motored to North Bay last week. They also went to see the Dionne home, and Dafoe Hospital, now under .construction near Callendar. Make had a touch of arth- fashioned rheumatism on the talk about the has old -y War On Weeds Anyone who ritis or of good has been listening in discovery in Africa of a something or other that gives the world “cortisone” or some thing of some such name. This discovery is said to be the very thing for the cure or the control of arthritis in its various manifestations. More than that, the plant producing the alleged remedy is capable of production on this continent. We sincerely hope that this remedy has been found. Does not this suggest that we may have been barking up the wrong tree in our angry destruction of weeds? Is it not just poss ible that every weed may be made to serve some useful purpose? We have seen some of the finest grain flourishing in fields where weeds were plentiful. We have seen the finest flowers in the •whole countryside coming to their outstanding beauty amid a welter of weeds. At any rate/ we under stand that a weed is just a plant out of place oi* a plant that is being* made an im proper use of. Some people who give at tention to flavours and “tastes” tell us that vegetables are all the more acceptable when they are grown among the weeds. Some tell us, too. that there is a good deal in the way in which field anti garden stuffs are, handled so as to have the weeds co operate with the grain or vegetable. It must be remembered that one of our best American scientists. Dr. Carver, lived for a considerable time on sandwiches made • from roadside weeds. He told his fellow country weii that there was enough nourish ment on a short space of roadside to feed all the people whose farms adjoined the roadside. Just now Britain will do well to heed this scientist in one of her hours of grave anxiety regarding the food problem of the southern states. We should like to know what the O.A.C. is going to do about this matter. In our war on weeds have we been destroying our friends? We know the danger of “rushing in'” in the matter of destroying insects. * * * * The Way Forward Britain’s future is the way forward. Where the best things of the future will be found Britons will be the doers there of. Where the finest achievements are ac complished Britons will be found to be the leaders. She has the soul and the mind and the physical stamina that warrant such con fidence. Whoever moans and winces under the load she now carries, Britons will not do the wailing. She sees with clear eyes that she will not make her load any lighter by coddling any murmuring mood. Better than anyone else she realizes that other nations did not give her a square deal as she stood alone against the greatest tyran ny that ever threatened the freedom of the race. For many a weary year and heart breaking month she saw her credits and her gold blown away by the cannon’s breath. Of this treatment she utters no complaint. She lost her dollars and gold with her face to the light. She her external wealth but she did not her soul. She reads again the sign of Roman emperor as he understood nature of Christianity, “There Ought To Be A Law” When we see cars disregarding- the traffic laws by speeding or bv improper parking, we mutter “there ought to be a law”. Well, there is a law for that very thing but John Citizen will not complain about it or its non-enforcement. The traffic officer looks on and smiles or- scowls and that is all there is to it. The newspaper does not care t(> be specific in such mat ters, for obvious reasons. Shop thieving, in plain language, goes the sufferers hesitate to prosecute, such action be started some one offender’s friends interferes with ling or threats and there you are. not steal when it is cheaper than paying cash?” the thief argues. “Be sure to keep me out of it!” a citizen urges when he is aware of a wreckage of the law. Yes, by all means, keep out of law enforcement when it means trouble. Let George take the kicks and bumps while the rest of us fill the ail* with our complaints. “Put a piece in the paper!” some fine people recom mend. “Here’s a pad desk. Write out just the newspaper man written out in terms even though they do “Nov.-, ‘ \. “Not by a considerable sight!” comes answer. We have lots and lots of laws they are not supported! # sfj # & lifting, on and Should * of the, w'heed- “Why and pencil. Here’s a what you wish said.” urges. The story is that redden the skin not -warm the heart, sign it,” the newspaper man urges, the but An Old Trick Of course, British diplomats were 3 I her lost lose the the nature oi v unsuaiiiLtVy Til this sign, COB- , quer”. Britons see as they never saw be fore that the forward is the way upward. Unabashedly and with growing confidence, they hear the cry of the great lawgiver, "Stand still and see the salvation of the Lord”. They know this moment that hea ven helps those who help themselves. Her wisest sons believe that her great resource after faith in the dread supreme is in their not to be outdone by the Russian diplomats in any one shape or form. Not even in the matter of liquor consumption were the children of the lion to be behind the whelps of the bear. Such shortcomings were not to be dreamed of. And when it came, to cour tesy. John Bull’s negotiators were not to come out at the small end of the horn (mark that word "horn”). So the cup that cheers and is very likely to inebriate must be vodka, the national tipple of Russia. Nor were the British to show themselves lacking in powers to consume the drink of the occasion. To the wonderment of the British the Russians consumed their drink in quantities that would have put even George Washington beside his chair in a state of nothing short of being gloriously oblivious to all perplexities of world con ditions. Russian diplomats were steady in their seats. Britons wondered how these things could be till one of inquiring mind made the. discovery that the Russians were drinking harmless, necessary water from bottles carefully labelled vodka. Not much wonder that the Britishers were a bit testy at the trick played on them. Those Rus sians were not so slow. Whom they would outwit they would first make tipsy. We have heard of a Canadian diplomat who was outwitted by a forged map. This is the first occasion of which we are aware that nations have been fooled by water camou flaged as booze.* ** * Ausable is the present official spelling of the river’s name, according to the Con servation Report. However, there ate many variants still in use, such as Aux Sables, Aux Sable, Aux Baubles., Sable, Bauble., and Au Sable. The Chippewas called the river Magansippi. The Beginning Of Settlement 1820-1840 (continued) i the lake, and incidentally a rough southern boundary for the j Huron Tract, It was on this trip that he discovered the lake, al ready found in 1819 by Lieuten ant Willson, which is still called by his name, although drained in IS75. He aslo “scaled” the shore of Lake Huron as far north as the Indian carrying place at the present site of Grand Bend. The while, which included the present townships of Colborne, Hullett, McKillop, Logan, Eilive, Easthope North and South, Goderich, Tucker smith, Hibbert, F u 11 a r t o n, Downie, Stanley, Hay, Usborne, Blanshard, Stephen, McGillvray, Biddulph, Williams East and West and Bosanquet, all of which take their names from directors of the Canada Company, oi' from men in public service at the time. John Galt, after organizing af fairs with respect to the Crown j Reserves in the older townships, I began to assemble a party to ex- I plore the Huron Tract and fix its ! boundaries. Foi' this, he secured ‘ the services ’ of Burwell, who I knew the area, as well as those of John McDonald, who did most of the subsequent surveys for the company. The group set out in June 1827 from the township of Wilmot, and reached the lake near the mouth of the Maitland. Burwell completed his survey of the lakeshore down to Grand Bend, and lie and McDonald lajid ’out the area around the mouth of the Maitland. By December 1828, able to report to the General that a sleigh open from Wilmot to and that taverns erected”, have a road surveyed from the present site of Clinton to connect with the “Proof Line Road” in London Township, along the route of the present No. 4 High way. This survey was largely done on 1829, and the last few lots were laid out in 183(5-31. It was from this road that settle ment spread into the potion of the watershed owned by the Can ada Company. In the meantime, another group was making an ac-J curate survey the Ausable property to Its completed in Williams East surveyed in 1831. The exploring parties amazed at the richness of the country. Dr, William Dunlop, who later became the first M.L.A. for the Huron district, reported on the 1827 expedition’ In 1823, John Galt, who had j visited Upper Canada as a mem ber of the Royal Commission on j War Losses, proposed the forma tion of a company to take ovei' the sale of unassigned land in the colony. The Government saw in Gait’s proposal a means of ridding itself of the political and material nuisance of the Re serves, but shied away from the idea of granting a land monopoly to a commercial group. Gait’s original idea of taking ovei' all land sales had to *be modified, and his company, when formed, was to supplement the Crown organization. After a good deal of negotiation, <it was agreed that 1,3 S 4,413 acres of the Crown Reserves and 829,340 acres of the Clergy Reserves would be sold to the Canada Company foi' subsequent resale; this constitut ed all the remaining serves and one half the Clergy Reserves in those, t___ which had been laid out up March 1824. However, the commissi charged with the valuation the lands set a price of only 6d. pei’ acre, which proved unac ceptable to the Clergy Corpora tion. The problem was eventu ally solved by dropping the Clergy Reserves from the scheme altogether, and substituting a tract of one million acres of wild land to be chosen from the region just purchased from the Chippewas. This was later in creased by l'ut.000 acres to make up for swamps, ponds and other unsaleable areas (principally the Ellice Swamp). For this vast tract, the company was to pay £145,150 5s, the price originally set for the smaller area of Clergy Reserves, and one third of the purchase price was to be remit ted, on the condition that the money be spent on .“canals, bridges, high roads, churches, wharves, schoolhouses and other works undertaken and calculated for the common use and benefit of His Majesty’s subjects resi dent within that part of the Pro vince of Upper Canada” (Agree ment between the Crown and the Canada Company, 1826). Esti mates for work of this nature had to be approved by the Gov- ernor-in-Couhvil before it was begun, and the costs were to be credited to the company by Order—in-Council on completion. The company’s charter was is sued in August 1826 and still re mains in force, as modified by subsequent agreements. The settlement of the Ausable watershed, therefore, was con ducted under two systems. After 1826, Lobo, London, Adelaide and Warwick Townships Were settled under the new drown Lands Regulations, while the re mainder of the watershed was, developed as a commercial enter prise by the company. Real explorations of the tract started in September 1826, when Mahlon Burwell set out to survey the boundaries of the two Indian Reserves specified in the treaty with the Chippewas. He is the first white man to penetrate the area since 1819, who has left full records. After marking the boundaries of the Kettle Point Reserve, Burwell decided to run a line from near Townsend’s ‘location” to the shore of Lake Huron, in continuation of a sur vey made from the northwest corner of Lobo to Townsend’s in| 1824 by Rosewell Mount, thus (“fit for the plough”. Most of’ fixing for the first time the dis-»the region was covered with fialx- ’ tanre between the Thames and ed hardwood forest, but there i Canada Company, mean- had indicated the area it wished to develop.. It Crown Re- townships > to o n of 3x. Galt was Surveyor track was Goderich, were ‘being His next step wa» to of the course of and Townsend’s mouth, this December and West being 1828. were were were large stands of pine, not ably on the sandy land drained by the lower Ausable. With the opening of the region well under way, settlers began to follow the trails blazed by the survey parties. Adelaide Warwick Townships were veyed in 1832, and groups of- settlers came out under the aus pices of the Earl of Egremount, in addition to others who settled on militia grants. A large party arrived in the area around what was to be Adelaide village in the summer of 1832, and since many of them were well-to-do clearing proceeded rapidly. The village itself was laid out in February 1833, and the surveyor noted that there were 2 houses, a general store and a Govern ment store and office already in existence at the time. The group of retired officers, who were the prime movers in the Adelaide scheme had grandiose plans for the village, including a Club House, an Opera House and seve ral other buildings, which never materialized.. Much of the development was ‘supervised by Rose well Mount, Crown Agent a’nd M.L.A. for Middlesex; by 1835, his account for settlement in Adelaide, Warwick and Caradoc included items of £2,915 for tools, £2,630 for supplies: (sold presumably to settlers, through the government store), £948 for housing immigrants, to Adelaide and Warwick and £218 for hos pital expenses in Adelaide and Warwick. Most of completed 1836, and sued for nearly 10,000 acres in the part of Adelaide falling with in the watershed. There were also ten or twelve farms in the small portion of Warwick drain ed by the river. Proportionately, settlement in in the Huron Tract was some what slower, although some areas received as many immi grants as Adelaide and Warwick. The -cholera epidemic of 1833-34 cut down the Influx very con siderably: on the other hand the intensive advertising campaign of the Canada Company tended to attract settlers. .The company’s early policies were calculated to induce speedy settlement; land was sold freely on the instalment plan, and the survey had. marked out 100 acre lots, rather than 200 acre ones of the older town ships, easier cause early in payments for a large propor tion of uncleared land. It is note- and sur- the first group had settlement duties by patents had been is- The smaller farms were to pay for, principally be- the small profits of the years were not eaten up In glowing terms. He says that I W0I^hy that of the 365 land sales “the soil is uniformly of the I “a<|6 ?y the Canada Company loamy character, rich and free to I during tile first ten years of work”. He adds that there are; enough streams for "every farm to be furnished with a shave of one — though it is to be expect ed that in the course of cultiva tion many of these will be great ly impaired or perhaps totally dried up —”, Dunlop describes the black ash swales as "wet in the spring and autumn, but toler ably dry and producing good grass at midsummer” (the tim ber in the sand hills area was noted as being of poor quality, however) he states that they do ) not require drainage the the good time of the 1850’s and clearing and opening to the air interest on being sufficient to make them ments themselves. “the soil is uniformly of the l^ade hy thes Canada Company ' . .... . „ I fttoTilto+a A rlviAr tzivi ’trhahet Af I settlement in the Ausable water shed, only 28 were for cash. Of 72 sales of 150 acres or more, 31.9 per cent were in arrears after their first one or two pay ments, and the land had .to be sold or abandoned. On the small er farms, only 24.2 per eelit of the settlers were so unsuccessful as to be forced to sell or abandon their property. This does hot imply that the majority found it easy to make a living. Many farms settled between 1830 and 1839 remained unpaid for until 1O YEARS AGO (The Times-Advocate 1939) Sixty-six carloads were shipped from the district to Goderich during the past two weeks. Mr. and Mrs. G. S. Howard, Miss Evelyn Howard accompan ied by Miss Mary Howard have just returned from a very enjoy able trip through the Maritimes. Mrs. (Dr.) ,G. S. Anderson has disposed of h e r residence on Andrew Street to Mr. E. E. Dav ies, of London, the new Super test traveller. Mr. Roland Williams had three fingers on his right hand ampu tated w li e n they were badly lacerated in a threshing machine on the farm of Louis John, Elim- ville, Wednesday of last week. Misses Loraine and Catherine Armstrong and Norina Parsons and Mr. Orville Webber escaped with minor bruises when their car turned over on Huron Street east. Goderich Juveniles won the Times-Advocate trophy for -win ning the Huron-Perth champion ship. SMILES . . . . of wheat An author moved on a farm in Nortlirn Ontario because he thought it would be a good place t0( write. When an inquiring neighbor asked, between spurts of tobacco juice, wlmt crops the stranger intended to raise, the author was momentarily stump ed, Then he happened to recall what his wife had said about the city being no place to bring up children. “I’m going to raise children,” ho said brightly. The farmer spat meditatively, and said, “Around here we look on that as a side line.” ‘You’ll go to Bed without your supper if I hear another peep out of you.” arrears of install- To lie Continued Next Week . ...... .. -TV._____________J