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Unhappy Halloween
To the Editor;
For many years, I have been putting up a Hal-
loween display on my front lawn for everyone to
enjoy.
I have seen a bus pull up and people get out to
look at it, and I have had grandparents ask if they
may take their grandchildren around it. I have
had people come to my door and thank me for
doing this for the community and the best part of
the whole thing is when I get close to 200 chil-
dren coming to my door Halloween night and
most thank me for their treats, as well as the
yard. In their words, "it's awesome."
Now for my reason to write a letter to the
editor:
Sometime after 12:30 a.m. on Saturday night,
Oct. 18, someone decided that they needed my
giant skull that lights up and talks more than me.
I had to have it repaired last year, which cost
me $40 and I just got him back on Friday night.
I put new batteries in him and set him out on
the park bench Friday and he was stolen
Saturday.
I hope whoever -you -are enjoy him, but just
think of all the other people that may have also
enjoyed him if you had left him where he was.
If you decide to bring him back, I will leave the
space on the bench open for him, no questions
asked.
Let others have the same pleasure that you
seem to think you have to have by stealing him.
Carol McLachlan
Egmondville
2014 Poppy Drive
launches in Seaforth
To the Editor;
For many years, the people of Seaforth and
area have been most generous in contributing to
the annual poppy campaign of Branch 156 of the
Royal Canadian Legion.
Funds which the public contribute are held in
trust in a separate account and do not form any
part of branch finances. The amount collected in
the 2013 campaign was $7,358.13 with expendi-
tures during the year totalling $5002.22.
The poppy trust is a reserve fund with which
assistance can be given to needy veterans and
their dependents, as well as the widows and
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children of deceased personnel.
We trust local citizens will continue to lend
their usual strong support to the 2014 poppy
campaign by wearing a poppy and being recep-
tive to the legion members knocking at their
door.
The poppy drive will be held on Sunday, Nov. 2,
at 1 p.m at the legion.
Your donations will be appreciated.
Rick Fortune
Poppy Chairman
Legion Branch 156
IN THE YEARS AGONE
Wonder medicine for women cures all in 1889
Nov. 1,1889
• An advertisement appearing in the Huron Exposi-
tor for the latest wonder medicine: Women and
Mice - The reason why a woman is afraid of a
mouse is a profound mystery - indeed it has never
been clearly proven that she is. But some women
are constantly in such a nervous, irritable condi-
tion that the slightest thing annoys and startles
them. The cause of this unfortunate state of affairs
is usually some functional derangement: some dis-
tressing irregularity; some derangement or pecu-
liar weakness incident to her gender. From which-
ever cause it may arise, Dr. Pierce's Favourite
Prescription is a Positive Remedy. As a soothing
and strengthening nervine, Favourite Perscription
subdues nervous excitability, irritability, exhaus-
tion, prostration, hysteria, spasms and other nerv-
ous symptoms attendant upon disease of the
womb. It induces refreshing sleep and relieves anx-
iety and despondency. Dr. Pierce's Pellets - By
Druggists, 25 cents a vial.
• The Mitchell electric lights are expected to be in
full working operation within two weeks.
Nov. 6, 1914
• Several victims of intemperance have been fined
the regulation twenty dollars and costs recently by
the Goderich Magistrate. The Signal says that
habitual drinks will soon be as scarce as hen's
teeth in Goderich, if the magistrate continues to
keep his end up.
• Latest War News: There is no material change in
the situation. Fighting still continues along the bat-
tle lines in Northern Grand and Belgium and
neither side seems to be making marked progress.
There are reported gains and losses at several
points, but on the whole the allies are pressing
back their opponents and in no stance have the lat-
ter reported to have gained ground. The Germans
are concentrating their forces to make another
effort to reach the coast ports. The Russians are
still making good progress.
Nov. 3, 1939
• A blinding snowstorm on Tuesday evening, Nov. 2,
failed to dampen the enthusiasm of the thousands
who took part in the Seaforth Lions Club annual
Halloween Frolic.
• The head and hide of a deer that had recently been
shot were found in the ditch on the second conces-
sion of Tuckersmith. Someone had apparently shot
the deer and thrown the head and hide away after
appropriating the carcass. The person or persons
concerned in this instance will find it a very expen-
sive bill of fare if they are implicated by the author-
ities, who have the matter in hand, and are making
every effort to trace the guilty parties.
• Miss Irene Workman, daughter of Rev. H.V. and
Mrs. Workman of Seaforth, as awarded the silver
medal in the contralto class under 21 years at the
fourth annual Canadian Music Festival in London,
Ont.
• At the meeting of the Huron County Temperance
Federation, the Government's action of permitting
the continued sale of beer throughout the county
was met with harsh criticism.
Nov. 5, 1964
• Seaforth's Centennial project will be the improve-
ment and development of Victoria Park.
Canadian National rail fare from Seaforth to Toronto:
$2.70 one-way. One-way fare to Winnipeg: $21.50;
One-way fare to Halifax: $24.10.
• Hensall police reported several incidents of mis-
chief on Halloween night. Several fire threats were
looked into, when runs of gasoline were poured on,
set fire to and had tires and straw thrown onto them.
A man who had gone into the hotel and left a truck
load of pumpkins outside and not covered discov-
ered, upon coming out of the hotel, that the tailgate
had been let down and the pumpkins had rolled out
and smashed all over Wellington Street.
• Tuckersmith Council has awarded contracts for the
construction of the Rogerson and Rehorst drains to
Ross Hanna of Listowel. The cost for construction
will be $567 and $2,271.
Nov. 1,1989
• Renovation work on the Seaforth Community Hos-
pital is 97 per cent completed according to the hos-
pital's chief administrator.
IN The daughter of a former Seaforth native is now a
national celebrity. Robin Ouzonoff, a 19 -year-old
McMaster University student and Miss Niagara 1989,
captured the crown of Miss Canada on Monday night.
• The Seaforth Novice hockey club opened its regular
season schedule by hosting the Listowel Cyclones
on Saturday. Seaforth has played three exhibition
games and has two losses and a tie, but wasted no
time putting one in the win column when it counted
with a 3-2 victory.
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