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CURRENT JANUARY 2022 THE WOODBRIDGE ADVERTISER PAGE SEVEN
Old Time News
Originally Published in the January 17, 1946 Issue of The Woodbridge Advertiser
EARLY DUCK EGGS, Malton — A duck owned by Mrs. William Brander, Malton,
is getting down to work early this season. The duck produced her first egg on
Saturday and followed this up with a second one on Sunday. Such and early
start is considered quite unusual by poultry-men.
MURDER VICTIM MRS. E. PILLSWORTH WIDELY
MOURNED — Mrs. Elbert C.
Pillsworth, 30,
fatally assaulted
in her home at
Brampton on
Saturday evening.
Jan. 12, is widely
mourned by a host
of friends not only
in Brampton but
also in Woodbridge,
Orangeville and
other Peel County
communities.
Collapsing near the
telephone in their
home after the operator
at Brampton
exchange heard only a
few words of her plaintiff
call for help, she
later was found unconscious
by her husband.
He had rushed home from
his Brampton radio store
after advised by the telephone
operator that something
was wrong. She died
in a Toronto hospital the following
morning without
regaining consciousness.
Brampton town council has
offered a reward of $1,000
for information leading to
apprehension and conviction
of there murderer.
Until two and a half years ago,
Mr. and Mrs. Pillsworth had
resided in Woodbridge where the
former had operated a radio
store. Leaving Woodbridge, Mr.
Pillsworth became associated with
Trans-Canada Air Lines at Malton
and later opened his radio store in
Brampton. Their two children,
Linda, four years, and Donald,
seven months, are with relatives in
Toronto and still unaware of their
tragic loss.
Mrs. Pillsworth was the former Mary
Ellen Rutledge, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. S. H. Rutledge, Orangeville. Her mother,
Mrs. Rutledge, was former Nellie Husband, daughter of the late Rev. William
Husband and Mrs. Husband. Mr. Husband, daughter of the late Rev. William
Husband and Mrs. Husband. Mr. Husband has at one time been pastor of the
Palgrave, Shiloh, King, and Black Horse Methodist Church circuit. Mr.
Rutledge, retiring from his monument business in Orangeville recently on
account of ill health, was in Florida with Mrs. Rutledge on a holiday hoping to
regain some of his former vigor. They returned by plane for the funeral which
was held on Wednesday.
COMPULSORY MOTOR INSURANCE — Compulsory insurance for
Saskatchewan motorists is regarded as virtually certain, reports The Financial
Post. Main Point remaining undecided is whether drivers shall be allowed to
choose any insurance company they prefer, or whether they will be required
to deal with the Government Insurance Office.
CERSWELL COW HAS MONTH'S RECORD OF 1,037 LBS. BUTTERFAT —
Princess Abbekerk Texal Fayne, a member of the Holstein herd of C. J.
Cerswell, of Beeton, has just completed a yearly Record of
Performance test of 1,037 lbs. fat from 25,701 lbs milk, average
test 4,.03% butterfat. Made on three-times-a-day milking as a
five-year-old, this is the largest record reported from any part
of the Dominion during the past month. Last year she stood
third for fat in the honor list with her twice-a-day milking fouryear-old
record of 754 lbs. milk.
Her production was expected to be larger but unfortunately
she suffered an injury that crippled her for a month of two
and cut down her productions. She received no special care,
running regularly with the rest of the herd.
A granddaughter of the noted Lonelm Texal Fayne, she was
bred by W. Witherspoon, Woodbridge, and was Grand
Champion at the 1944 Simcoe County Black and White
Show held at Beeton.
HAVE CROKINOLE PARTY, Macville — The first of a
series of community crokinole parties is begin held this
evening at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Strong.
BANQUET FOR SERVICEMEN, Maple — Mr. and Mrs.
Howard Knight of Maple Villa were host and hostess to
a complimentary banquet given in honor of the boys of
Maple who served in the armed forces, their ladies and
Maple Knit-Wit club, on Friday evening. December 28.
The toast to the guests was proposed by Mr. Knight
and responded to by Miss Marion Wason, president of
the Knit-Wit club, and Lorne Wells on behalf of the
boys. Mr. Evans of Toronto led an enjoyable sing song
and Jack Holland, magician, mystified the audience
with his performance. As the Knit-Wit club has
ceased activities, they presented the boys with initialed
wallets as a small tribute to them for the
services they have enjoyed during the remainder of
the evening.
HOW FAR CAN A DOG TRAVEL ON HIS OWN?
Several years ago T. A. Fec, a Vancouver architect,
shipped his dog, a Canadian Airdale, by express
from his British Columbia home to his brother-inlaw,
This. Paton, at Ardrossan, a station on the
Canadian National Railways, 16 miles east of
Edmonton, Alta. The charges were prepaid and
money given for food and care for Buster all
the way to his destination.
Time passed, however, and Buster failed to
show up. The railroad company produced a
receipt showing that Airedale had been delivered
to Edmonton. But after that the trail ran
out. Buster was given up fro lost.
Imagine Mr. Fee's surprise and joy six weeks later
when his Airedale came walking into the yard! Buster was thin and tired
and foot-sore, as if he had been traveling without any rest.
When his master came to check distances, he found the dog had covered 770
miles. From Edmonton to Vancouver there was no travelled road except the
railroad track, and this passes through and over three chains of mountains.
Add to that the fact that two-thirds of the way hadn't any homes along the
way except the railroad section houses, and it became clear what a feat Buster
had achieved.
How this Airdale had been able to pick the right one of 12 railroads converging
on Edmonton; how he had managed to find food through all those long
weeks and how, strangest of all, he had known those steel tracks would surely
lead him home will always remain one of the great mysteries of superhuman
animal intelligence!
SUFFERS SKATE CUT, Malton — Margaret Coulson 8-year-old daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Norman Coulson, is in the Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, as a
result of complications arising from a skate cut received while playing near
her house a week ago. She is now getting along very nicely.