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Tramps & high j inks
Eastern Star hosts
DDG in official visit
The February 7th dance,
cancelled due to weather con-
ditions, has been re-scheduled for
June 18,
Many visitors from district
chapters were present and en-
joyed a social hour with the local
members.
•
Conservancy meet
at Bayfield Inn
Mrs. Dorothy Duncan, well-
known museum advisor will be
the speaker at the March meeting
of The Architectural Con-
servancy of Ontario.
Mrs. Duncan has been involved
in many restoration projects in
the province.
The meeting is being held at the
Little Inn, Bayfield, March 25, at
7 p.m,
The March Meeting of Exeter
Chapter No. 222 order of the
Eastern Star was held in Exeter
PUblic School. The special guest
of the evening was Mrs. Clara
Watson. District Deputy Grand
Matron of District No. 5 on her
Official visit. •
In the business of the meeting
plans were made for the chap-
ter's annual church service to be
held in Calvary United Church,
Dashwood, April 11 at 7:30 p,m.
A donation was made to the
Worthy Grand Matron's
benevolent project toward the
purchase of a piece of equipment
for a Shriners "Burns" Hospital
and the crippled children's
hospital in Toronto.
Following the meeting, the
Ways and Mean's Committee
held a St. Patrick's "Take Your
Choice" draw.
MOUNT CARMEL SCHOOL
REGISTRATION FOR
KINDERGARTEN
Monday, April 5
9 - 3:30
Sister Viola - Principal
Please bring Birth Certificate and
Health Records.
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By GORDON HEYVVOOD
I remember as a boy seeing
many hobos who tramped the
roads with packs on their backs,
Some of them were pedlars with
things to sell, while other were
just on the tramp. There were
Some pretty rough characters.
My mother used to tell me of a
time when I was a small boy, sick
with tonsillitis . She had sent my
father into town for some
medicine for me after he'd got
home from work. It was dark and
she answered a knock at the door
to find a tough looking fellow
there wanting something to eat.
His looks frightened her so she
told him, "I don't know whether I
should ask you in or not . I've
got a very sick boy here, maybe
he's got diphtheria," With that,
the tramp turned on his heel,
hightailed up the road as fast as
his legs could carry him!
There were a lot of travelling
salesmen in those days, too.
They'd come out from London,
Monday, on the train, hire horses
and a rig from the livery stables
and travel all over the country
covering little places like
Elimville, Crediton, Dashwood
and Farquhar etc. At the end of
the week they'd come back to
town and take the train to Lon-
don, Saturday.
While they were in Exeter
many of them stayed at the
Commercial Hotel, owned by Mr.
& Mrs, Hawkshaw (where
Ersman's bakery is now). It was
Mr. Hawkshaw's practise to wait
until everyone else had gone to
bed before locking up, He carried
all his money in the pocket of his
trousers which he hung on the
door knob of his bedroom. Then
he locked the door and went to
bed. One night he remembered
after he got into bed that he
hadn't locked the door.
"Oh, don't bother getting up,"
his wife told him, "I'll hear if
anyone comes snooping around."
She further assured him by
saying, "I can hear a mouse
running across the floor,"
When the proprietor awoke the
next morning and went to put on
his trousers, he found to his
dismay he had been robbed ,
his pockets had been rifled of all
his money. Turning angrily to his
wife he shouted, "Where in h. , is
your mouse now?"
Another time, one of these
hobos I was telling you about
came to Mr. Hawkshaw's Hotel
and asked for a night's lodging
and a little to eat. Next morning,
he told Mr. Hawkshaw, "Sorry,
no money". "That's alright," the
hotelman repliedrthere's a cord
of wood and a bucksaw out back,
you can go and saw some."
Later, when he went out to see
how the fellow was making out,
he found he had disappeared and
there was no wood sawed either,
What he did find was a note
written on the white end of one of
the logs, "Tell him that you saw
me, hut you never saw me saw!"
There were lots of high jinks
and fun back then, too. The old
codgers in town used to gather at
Len Hardy's every day to gossip
and swap stories. One winter's
night had been particularly cold
and the next day these old chaps
were discussing the temperature.
"It was so cold at our house,"
said one, "that even though I kept
shoving wood into the stove all
night, the water in the stove
reservoir had a crust of ice on it,"
"Well; now," replied 'another,
"that's pretty cold, but at our
house we left a lamp burning all
night and when we got up this
morning the blaze was froze!"
One time when a group of us
young lads were walking back
one of the roads leading out of
Exeter, we just happened to see
some large bunches of delicious
grapes growing in a certain
man's garden, We went in and
helped ourselves.
Next week, in The Advocate,
there appeared a notice angrily
declaring that the owner knew
who had stolen his grapes and
unless they came forward he was
going to have them up in front of
the law,
You can imagine how scared
we were, especially the eldest of
us who was the leader of the
Epsworth Society, a group of
good young men at the Methodist
Church. "What will I do", he
lamented to us, "I'll really be in
the soup if it gets out I was one of
those who stole Mr . , , 's
grapes!"
Well, we agreed we'd all just
keep mum and see what hap-
pened. Of course, the irate man
didn't really know who the
culprits were so nothing hap-
pened, except in the next week's
Advocate there was another
notice saying if the persons who
took the grapes would pay the bill
for the notices in the paper, the
matter would be closed.
AT A SUPPER MEETING with the Exeter Explorers at the Exeter United Church last Sunday, Jean Keller-
man, missionary from ,Japan was guest of honour. Above, Miss Kellerman, standing, chats with Explorers
from left, Rasma Zemitis, Teresa Morrison and Brenda Bell. After dinner, Miss Kellerman spoke to the group
and showed slides of Japan. T-A photo by Sharon Specht
UCW discuss prison reform
urged to write letters
Units I and II of Exeter United
Church UCW met on March 11
with Mrs. M. Dearing in charge
of the program. She was assisted
by Mrs. L. Adams and Mrs, E.
McRoberts.
The topic was, "Our Prisons,"
Mrs. Dearing said that if we had
two failures with a cake recipe,
we would throw the recipe out.
Our prison system is a complete
failure and it is time we changed
the recipe.
She said some changes are
being introduced but many
prisoners are without hope, They
must have support from family
and the church.
Mrs. Dearing spoke of
Craigwood Home for boys in
Ailsa Craig; Nairn group, which
places deliquents in community
homes and the Parkhill Girls'
Home. These are working to keep
done. And word would get back to
the prisoners that someone does
care,
Mrs, R. Dinney and Mrs, G.
Sereda sang a duel, "Choose
Life," accompanied by Mrs. A.
Willard, A social hour followed
the meeting.
the young out of prison. We have
to stop crime before it starts, she
stated.
The members were urged to do
something to improve conditions
by writing letters to members of
parliament. If enough wrote in all
Canada, something would be
SALE
A SOCIAL HOUR WAS ENJOYED after the World Day of Prayer ser-
vice held at the Christian Reformed Church, Friday. Mrs. S. Boordinga
pours Mrs. Ella Middleton a cup of tea. About 65 ladies attended the
event with seven churches taking part. T-A photo.
Churches united for
day of prayer service
"Thou shalt love the Lord, thy
God with all thy heart, soul and
mind and thy neighbour as
thyself," was the scripture taken
by Mrs. Beth Batten when she
addressed (the World Day of
Prayer meeting, held at the
Christian Reformed Church,
Friday.
The theme for the service was
Education For All Life and in this
regard Mrs. Batten stressed five
points; Integrity, Understanding
Attitudes, Concern and Love,
She said all these qualities
must be taught in the home. A
mother cannot expect her child to
take her seriously if she scolds
him for stealing a 20 cent
chocolate bar when she just
smiles when the teller makes a
mistake to her advantage
checking out her groceries,
Everyone in the home should
be given the right to express their
opinions, she said, and we should
teach our children to try to un-
derstand other cultures and
nationalities,
Attitudes toward other people
is also taught in the home. "As we
learn from each other we are also
teaching each other," the
speaker stated.
Mrs. Batten went en to say
Christians must show more
concern for others especially
these in the third world and this
will be shown in how much we are
willing to share our assets and
money with them.
She ended her talk by using the
Good Samaritan story as an
illustration of love which she said
showed humility, became per-
sonal, and was ongoing.
Those taking part from the
churches involved were Mrs, A.
Dellaan and Mrs, C. Baarda,
Mrs. G. Zanclbergen , Christian
Reformed, Mrs, H. De Vries,
Bethel Reformed; Mrs, T.
Dalrymple, Mrs, J. Dougall and
Mrs. Harry Strange
Presbyterian; Mrs. A Carter
Mrs, E. Middleton, Trivitt
Memorial Anglican; Mrs, E.
Millar, Pentecostal; Mrs. H.
Van Gerwen and Mrs. W. Adams,
Roman Catholic,
United Churchwomen, Mrs, R.
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There was another prank that
occurred in-town that created a
lot of fuss for a while,OneSunday
night, a couple of young bucks
took an old scarecrow out of
somebody's garden pulled it up
with a rope into a big tree on
Main Street, and waited until a
certain respected and very
dignified business man and his
wife were returning from church
in their horse drawn buagie.
Just as they drove under the
tree, these two rascals let the
rope go and the scarecrow came
swinging down landing right on
top of the couple in the buggy.
Well, sir, what a commotion! The
horse almost ran off and the lady
fainted dead away. Meanwhile,
the two pranksters had scam-
pered off into the night to return a
few minutes later as innocent
bystanders.
Nobody ever knew who pulled
that one until years later when
one of them confessed it to a few
of us.
Dinney, Mrs. E. Russell, Mrs.
R.E. Pooley, Mrs. E. McRoberts
and Mrs, G. !Fisher presented
three short skits.
Soloist was Mrs, Alex Meikle of
Caven Presbyterian Church.
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