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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1953-05-21, Page 2i Page 2 THE TIMES-ADVOCATE, EXETER, ONTARIO, THURSDAY MORNING, MAY 21, 1953 This journal shall always fight for progress, reform and public welfare, never be afraid to at­ tack wrong, never belong to any political party, never be satisfied with merely printing news. OBJECTIVE: TO COVER THESE PIPES WITH A TRAP ROCK FLOOR The !itz Is Coming! Support The Campaign To Provide A Trap Rock Floor In The Memorial Arena $8z5OO Is Needed ! Your Donation Counts! What Your Donation Will Do Why does the arena need a trap rock floor? A hard surface over the pipes of the artificial ice plant will save hundreds of dollars each year in the making of ice. Without a floor, it is necessary to truck in an enormous quantity of cracked ice to make a foun­ dation from which to build a sheet of ice above the pipes. With a hard surface floor above the pipes, it is only necessary to spray the surface with water and the ice forms evenly and quickly. The floor will be an asset to the building because it will provide a surface which can be used for almost any type of entertainment when the skating or hockey season is over. Without it, the large covered space in the arena cannot be used because of the protruding pipes. The floor will provide a surface which will allow the building to be used for the fall fair in September. It can also be used for roller-skating in the spring and fall. The large floor space will provide accommodation for big crowds at such attractions as monster bingoes, dances, indoor shows—any type of indoor entertainment at which a large crowd is ex­ pected. It can also be used for big political rallies when visiting digni­ taries come here to speak. It will serve as a recreation area for both children and adults alike. Many games that require a large surface can be played when the floor is installed. The arena floor is a good investment. It will bring in considerable revenue to the Community Centres Board and will assist to make the arena a self-sustaining operation. Greet the canvasser who calls at your house next week with a smile and a donation. Remember, he's giving freely of his time and energy to this cause—he’s working in the interests of the town and community. He’s helping to make this district a better place to live in. Your Canvasser Calls Next Week Greet Him At The $ $ Cxeter ©meg^bbocate Timefl Established 1873 Amalgamated 1024 . Advocate Established 1881 Published Each Thursday Morning at Exeter, Ontario An Independent Newspaper Devoted to the Interests of the Town of Exeter and District Authorised as Second Class Mail, Post Office Department, Ottawa Member of the Canadian Weekly Newspaper Association Member of the Ontario-Quebec Division of the QWNA Member of the Audit Bureau of Circulation Paid-in-Advance Circulation as of March, 1952 — 2,534 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Canada, in advance, $3.00 a year — United States, in advance, $4.00 a year Single Copies Each Melvin Southcott • Publishers * Robert Southcott Maclean’s Magazine. “Your bid, Mr. Wingate . . . YOUR BID, MR. WINGATE” 50 YEARS AGO Mias Amy Johns has accepted a position as soloist in the choir of Chalmers Presbyterian Church, Woodstock. The Opera House owned by Mr. S. Gidley, which was offered for sale by public auction last Saturday, was not sold, there not being a high enough bid of­ fered, the sale was withdrawn. A grand half day of sports will be held at the Agricultural grounds on Monday, May 25. The program consists of cali- thumpian procession, football, basketball, running and bicycle races. At night a concert will be held in the Opera House. Mr. James Creech and Mr. C. Sanders were nominated to fill the seat on the council vacated by J. T. Manning. Mr. Sanders declined the nomination and Mr. Creech was duly elected by ac­ clamation. Mr. E. A. Follick has been making great improvements in his ice cream parlor and has added a new soda water foun­ tain. 25 YEARS AGO A by-law to provide for the expenditure of $20,000 for the erection of a new four-room pub­ lic school is to be submitted to the ratepayers on June 18. A band of gypsys were brought to Exeter from Ailsa Craig to answer a complaint by an Us- borne farmer that he had missed a sum of money after having his fortune told by one of the women members of the band. Constables W. J. Bissett and Ed. Willis in charge of the investigation, searched the cars and found the guilty party curled up in one of the cars beneath a pile of bed­ ding and clothing. One of the men in the party made restitu­ tion to .the farmer. The past week has been one of wonderful growth. Warm show­ ers followed the seeding. Cattle have been turned out to grass and fruit trees are in blossom. Tenders for the installation of a new heating system, and re­ modeling of the entrance and basement of James St. United Church, have been let. Estimat­ ed cost is $8,000. the TIMES" Go By 15 YEARS AGO A special meeting of the Board of Education was held in the Library to consider the erection of a new building in connection with the Exeter school to pro­ vide for new courses in domestic science and manual training. It was estimated the proposed building would cost around $25,- 000 of which the government would pay $10, *0'00. Estimated cost of equipment is $3,000 of which $1,500 would be provided by the municipality. R. N. Creech, W. H. Dearing and J. M. Soutli- cott were appointed from the Board to meet with Council with the request for the necessary funds. Thomas Heni-y McCallum, who conducted a tannery business in Exeter for 37 years, during which he served as reeve and councillor, died at his home in London in his eighty-sixtli year. An exchange of pastors and choirs took place Sunday eve­ ning when Rev. W. A. Walden and choir of St. Marys United Church took charge of the ser­ vice at James St. and Rev. Ar­ thur Page and choir went to St. •Marys. 1O YEARS AGO Word was received in Exeter of the tragic death of Herbert Elliot who left Exeter for the West May 8 and who lost his life on May 14 when his home near York, Sask., was burned down. He is survived by one brother, Frederick, of Exeter. The body will be returned here for burial. AC Joseph B. Creech has completed his course as aero­ engine mechanic with the RCAF having headed his class as honor -student. He is being posted to St. Thomas T.T.S. as instructor. The local ration board will this week commence the distribu­ tion of coupons for sugar for canning. The allotment per per­ son is 10 pounds. Ray Frayne, Norm. Hannigan, Ellis Pearce and Clarence Knight all of whom have joined the RCAF., left this week for Man­ ning Pool, Lachine. Que. Neil Jones, who has also joined the RCAF, will take a radio mechan­ ic’s course at Hamilton. News From Our NEIGHBORS Jottings By J,M«S. History Should Be Preserved Every now and then I get evi­ dence that there are some who read this column of mine, par­ ticularly if I happen to make an error, which is all too frequent. Last week I mentioned that the Andrew sisters operated the candy shops in the old post office. I was soon corrected on that. It was the Gould sisters. I knew better. It was just a slip. Several days ago I was delight­ ed to get a lettei’ from Drew Knight, of 1249 Luanne Ave., Fullerton. Calif., giving me some valuable information that I had overlooked. He suggests that I write a book. The same thing has been suggested many times to the effect that the his­ tory of the pioneer days in this community should not be lost. While I have no thought of writing a book I would like to get all the information available of the pioneer families who de­ veloped so faithfully and well the fine agricultural district of Which we are so proud. I have no doubt that much valuaple information is carefully preserved in old scrapbooks or newspaper clippings and.I would be delighted to receive it to be used in these rambling reminis­ cences of mine. From Drew Knight’s interest­ ing letter we quote: Drew Knight’s Letter “This afternoon Mrs. Knight and I were over to the Murrays on Euclid Ave in Anaheim. Mrs. Murray was Florence Harvey. You will remember the family, Charles Harvey, that used to live , about half a mile east on Huron street. We were talking about Exeter and your jottings came up. In the April 13 edition you wrote about the different hotels in Exeter. The article was very interesting, as they all are, but you’ left out a little bit I would like to fill in in regard to the Commerical Hotel. “I have a clipping here taken from The Timees under thte date of July 23, 1914, telling about the passing of the oldest resi­ dent at that time, my grand­ father, William Drew. This article says that for several years he worked at his trade as a carpenter and later built the Commerical Hotel. He ran this hotel for about 12 years and sold out to Mr. John Hawk- shaw. After that he went into the furniture business which he sold to Mr. R. N. Rpwe, who passed away last summer. It also says in this article that my grandfather gave The Times its name when it started under the ownership of Mr. John White. “By way of a suggestion I think it would be nice if you could put these articles together in a book. I think many of the old timers would like to have such a book. I know I would. “Last Tuesday I was near San Diego and drove over to La. ■Messa where I spent about three" wonderful hours with Mr. Jo­ seph Senior and Blanch. They are yery well and very happy in their Hilltop home. My own mother is about the same as when you last heard from me. Success with your writings. Drew Knight Reference to the Charles.Har­ vey home brings to mind what I have heard my mother tell. The home is now occupied by Mr. R. E. Pooley. It was built by my grand­ father, John Southcott. There is a lot of brick in that house. The brick was teamed in from Credi- ton and two of John Southcott’s daughters (m'y aunts) carried all the brick when the house was built. ? Before the Harveys it was owned by the Prior family. Thomas Prior was a farmer and a hog buyer and was well known in the district. I can recall the spanking little bay mare he used to drive. He was an official in the James St. Methodist Church. His wife ‘ was also a grand woman and on various occasions the youn g people were enter­ tained in their home. Those young people’is parties at which we used to have some fun, are a thing of the past. Young people today miss the fun of walking home w’ith their girls on a moon­ light night or maybe the night wasn’t moonlight. The coming of the elective lights turned night into day and the evening stroll with your best girl has passed^ with the coming of the auto. \ By the way, Mr. Herman Prior, | ,a successful merchant in Portage I la Prairie, Man., who’ has been • attending a conference in Que- | bee, visited in town over the § weekend. He reminded me that $ it was fifty years ago last May that he started as a clerk with the late J. A. Stewart. * Dashwood - Then And Now Friedsburg, even in the early days, was a thriving village, half in Hay and half in Stephen Town­ ships, half way between Exeter and Grand Bend. Though many of its people have a German background; some of the younger generation could understand as much if spoken to in Greek or German. A few have changed their names. Snider or Schneider becomes Tay­ lor; Schmidt becomes Smith; Wil­ helm, Williams; Biehn (a bee), Bean; altogether different mean­ ing. It may be when the village got its post office someone suggested the name of an Engisli squire, Sir John Dashwood, a close rela­ tive of the blind poet, John Mil­ ton, who wrote the beautiful son­ net “On His Own Blindness”. Besides a double location it had two saw mills, two flax mills, two general stores with a millin­ ery department, two blacksmith shops, each having a wagon­ maker in connection. In it could be found a cooper making tub3 and wooden barrels; a pump­ maker making tamerack log pumps; a private banker; a liv­ ery man keeping horse ahd bug­ gies for hire, and keeping stage and mail coaches going daily to Parkhill and Exeter as well as hauling coal and other freight from Exeter and taking out flour from the grist mill to the sta­ tion; a cabinet maker also made coffins and kept a nice black team to hitch to his hearse. Cars and machinery have made considerable changes. The livery barn now houses trucks and school buses. The cabinet maker's corner has been transformed into a large planing mill and lumber yard employing close to 30 men. The two garages are kept busy repairing cars and tractors; an up - to - date implement building replaces the old one and the blacksmith shop. The -baker does most of the baking that was at one time done in the homes. The eggs are taken in for cash by the egg-grading station in connection with the general stores. The hotel has been converted into a. storage and seed cleaning plant and an apartment upstairs. One section of the flour mill now takes in beans and the other is room for chopping and feed sales. For some time the Bank of Montreal has done business three days a week in a fine new build­ ing. 'The Lutheran congregation calls its people to worship by the tones of its clear ringing bell, while the Evangelical United Brethren plays its hymns over the air from the Maas chimes. The village needs a place for the kiddies to play, more contin­ uous training of its fire depart­ ment personnel, more adequate signs indicating to the motorist on the busy highway the ap­ proaches from the east and west, a new school and a family physi­ cian. An elderly subscriber, Daniel Weber. Canadiana 1 By JIM GREENBLAT I Knew Daredevil One St. Marys citizen received a real “kick” out of reading of the unusual stunt carried out last week by the so-called Mad Major, the 61-year-old British flying man who flew a light plane under the arches of 15 London, England, bridges. Dr. G. L. Smith, of Robinson Street, re­ Draper, the man who did the fly- Officer of No. 8 R.N.A.S. Squad­ ron in World War I when he joined that unit as a pilot sub­ lieutenant. (St. Marys Journal-Argus) Protest School Location The protest meeting' advertised by bills circulated throughout are area are sponsored by a number of ratepayers in the rur­ al and urban area of the Mitchell District High School, on Thurs­ day night drew a curious and interested audiences that over­ flowed the confines of Mitchell Town Hall, onto the ’fire escape and down the stairs. Those who could not get seating accomoda­ tion stoo’d for over four hours and listened to commmendations or insinuations that in turn drew forth hand-clapping, boos and other indications of many sup­ porters both for and against Lo­ gan township as a site for the proposed new seven-roomed school, (Mitchell Advocate) High School Students Make Trip To Ottawa With Mr. Hern! Yelle In charge, 84 students left by bus early Thursday morning- for a trip to Ottawa that proved both interesting ahd educational.On arrival in Ottawa, the stu­ dents were greeted by Robert •McCubbin, MP for Middlesex West, parliamentary assistant to Agriculture Minister James Gar­ diner. Mr. McCubbin was their host while in the city. All stu­ dents were accommodated at a downtown hotel. The boys and girls were able to observe Parliament in session and had lunch in the Parliament Buildings. They also visited the Mint, the Experimental Farm, the Museum and made a bus trip around the city of Hull. (Parkhill Gazette) Refuse Social Clubs Clinton Councillors lost no time in refusing to grant a build­ ing .permit for the erection of a $10,000 building for use as a “social club”, request for which Was placed before council at the regular meeting held in the town hall oh Monday evening. Request for this building permit had come from A. V. Hall, Kitchener, and Meta O. Schaefer, Dundas. Couh, Knights! “What is the location, your Worship?” Mayor Miller: “Erie Street. What is the opinion of the coun­ cillors concerning this social club?” Coun, Agnew: “That is rather ah ambiguous name. What, is a social club? I understand that Churches Operate social clubs.” A. V. Hall: “A social club is where people get together to play cards. If they Want to drink, they caw order it through the club. I’ve opened three of them, and they’re operating with great success. This Is one town that hasn’t such a club. You must understand that under the CTA. anyone from the age where he is able to walk, until he is an old man, may order drinks, invite people into his car, and drink on the highway, or anywhere. With us it is controlled. We allow no drunkeness, (Clinton News-Record) Discuss Drainage Seaforth’s lack of a satisfact­ ory—and, in the case of Main Street area, a sanitary—sewage disposal system was again aired at Monday night’s Council meet­ ing, attended by William Empey, County Sanitation Inspector, and J. W. McLaren of the Toronto engineering firm which recently made a sewage and drainage sur­ vey here. Early in the Monday meeting, a lengthy session running until 11:3*0' p.m., Mr. Empey pointed out that behind Main Street cess pools are boiling up and, he in­ ferred, the surface drains seem to be unsatisfactory in alleviat­ ing the “unsanitary situation.” Solution suggested -by Mr. Em­ pey was a partial sewage system, started in the Main Street area. Tiling could be laid down the back lanes on either side Of Main Street, directed to two large septic tanks at the south end, he said. (Huron Expositor) Goderich Gets Industry An agreement Was reached Tuesday afternoon for the com­ ing to Goderich of a million dollar industry—W. A. Sheaffer Pen Company of Canada Limited. The Canadian firm has been lo­ cated at Malton, Ontario, for the past five years ahd for 15 years before that was ih Toronto. Con­ struction of a 50,000 square feet one-story ultra modern plant will start in about six weeks time and it is expected to -be complet­ ed early in 1954. Production in the plant will start shortly after that. The site will be the Nelson Crich farm at the outskirts of the town On the Clinton-Gode­ rich highway . The building itself will cost over halt a million dollars while plant equipment, etc., will make up the balance of about a million dollars investment. There will be about 130 em­ ployees to start, including’ key personnel. (Goderich Signal-Star) ★ Canadiana; Tom the Peeper got a body blow at Rouyn (Que­ bec) when council passed a law making it an offence to knock on windows without reason, or to bother or frighten inhabitants by uncalled for knocking at doors, etc. . . . What price freedom, says The Waterloo (Ont.) Chron­ icle reporting that council in­ creased poll tax from $5 to $10, age 21, regardless of sex ... At Oakville, Ont,, Sir Pinnington, six - year - old Labrador retriever, jumped into the creek to pull out and save a large brown dog which had broken through the ice, gets a medal from the Hu­ mane Society; when the brown dog reached shore, he collapsed, but Pinny forced him to his feet and kept him walking until he was dry . . . The Arctic Prowler arrived in St. John’s, Nfld., first sealer to return from the icefield, a successful voyage, too, with 18,000 pelts aboard ... A. F. Swallows at North Battleford had such an historic attachment to the old town bell which was go­ ing to be disposed of that he sent a cheque for $150 to council to have it suitably mounted as a link with the community's earlier life . . . Farmei* H. D. Pengally phoned The Watrous (Sask.) Manitou a stop-press item; he had just heard the CBC Farm Broadcast whereby the commen­ tator told of a female sow . . . At Lachute, Que., a Montreal truck in charge of an 18-year-old driver collided with a utility pole, cutting off all the lights in town. The Watchman reports “the noise of the crash and fireworks from the short-circuit awakened many residents” . . . alcohol-oat burn­ er is a bad mixture heads The Kamloops Sentinel telling of Ray Peters, dn Indian there allegedly under the influence of firewater trying to ride a horse across the CNR trestle bridge, and it took all the king’s men to get dobbin back onto dry land . . . Name your farm and you almost give it a soul, writes The Leamington (Ont.) Post & News , . . “rare­ ly, if ever, do you find a run­ down or bad-appearing farm with the name painted in its -barn or gate” ... . In 1848 more than 13,000 feet of 12-inch cast iron pipe was laid in Halifax; today 104 years after, 80 percent of the original is still in use, reports "Municipal Utilities” ... 13 years ago waterworks inspector Les Francis at Burnaby, B.C., dropped his fountain pen in 18 feet of water at the reservoir; the other day, now works super­ intendent, he recovered it when the reservoir was cleaned and after being dried wrote perfectly again. Chief Chatterly at Ches- ley, Ont., got irritated at speed­ ers, went out himself on north hill, caught 18 in an hour. ★ Tweed (Ont.) News: The farmer, who takes another beat­ ing every time urban pay cheques go higher without increases in man-hour production in the fac­ tories, and the housewife, rural oi’ urban, whose budget suffers, too, would be well advised to study closely the latest trades union excursion into economic absurdity. Farmer would—if auto and steel workers got the Guar­ anteed Annual wage—pay even higher prices for cars and trucks and farm implements and most everything else. Housewives, in­ cluding wives of auto and steel workers, would find their bud­ gets unworkable because, don’t forget for a minute, steel in some form or other goes into the mak­ ing or into the final form of every product we buy. . ★ Prince George Citizen: Ex­ perience has taught us that the closer taxpayers are to the taxing authorities the better they can watch them and the more effect­ ively they can control them.