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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1970-06-18, Page 2,77 urn 'visitor Since 1860, Serving the Community First Publist!ed $EAFORTH; ONTARIO, every Thursday morning by McLEAN BROS., Publishers Ltd. ANDREW Y. McLEAN,, Editor Member Canadian Weekly Newspaper Association Ontario Weekly Newspaper Association and Audit Bureau of Circulation Newspapers Subscription Rates: Canada (in advance) $6.00 a Year Outside Canada (in advance) $8.00 a Year SINGLE COPIES — 15 CENTS EACH Second Class .Mail Registration Number 0696 SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, June 18, 1970 em" Conservation Is .It is fitting that as a preliminary to Conservation Week, which this year is being observed June 13-21, the Mait- land Valley Conservation Authority should open a new recreational area along the Maitland and near Benmiller. The new facility is an indication of the role which conservation authorities can play in ensuring that lands adapt- ed to recreational purposes continue to be made available to all the people. As cities continue to grow and more and more acres which once contributed to pleasant farm land are taken up in providing for houses and roads and shoppirig plazas and airports, it be- comes increasingly important that suf- ficient land be set aside for public use and protected for all time against the encroachment of modern civilization and groWth. This is whee the conservation auth- orities, working in close liason with en- lightened municipalities, make a major contribution. Continuing the work of the people responsible for the provision for All Areas of provincial and federal parks, the authorities reflect to a greater degree the specific and local needs of the dis., tricts they serve. In this part of Ontario two authori- ties — the Maitland to the north and the AuxSable to the south — do out- standing jobs in terms of conservation, pollution control, reforestation, recrea- tion and land use. Unfortunately there is a substantial area along the Bayfield River valley, south and west. of Seaforth, which is not identified with either of the auth- orities. Conservation Week is a good time for the municipalities involved to review their positions and make the necessary decisions so that these areas, too, may become allied with one or oth-, er of the authorities as soon as possible. The people in this conservation no man's land are entitled to the benefits, the protections, and the long term ad- vantages which incorporation within a conservation authority offers. • In the Years Agone JUNE 22, 1945. Dr. Foster Harburn, who has been conducting, a veterinary practise in Sea- forth for the past 42 years, has disposed Of Ms practise to Dr. John 0. Turnbull, a native of Grey Township and recently of tie City of Toronto. Dr. Turnbull has also purchased the Harburn resid- ence. The frame residence on John Street owned by Mrs. F. G. Livingstone has been sold to Mrs. Bertha Box. The congregation of Carmel Pres- byterian Church, Hensall, extended a unanimous invitation to Rev. Percy Ferg- uson of Wiarton 'to become their Minis- ter. That there are still plenty of game fish in this district was demonstrated by Scott Hawthorne when he brought into town a 'brown trout measuring 25 1/4" long and weighing 6 lbs,14 ounces. Successful and happy services were held on Sunday at St. Thomas Church, Seaforth and St. Mary's Church, Dublin, marking the , 90th Anniversary of the commencement in 1885 of Anglican work here by R6v. Wm. Cresswell and the 82nd year of the present building and the 77th anniversary ,:of the present build- ing at St. Mary's, Dublin. Mrs. Lillian McClUre of McKillop was the guest of. honor at the home of tier aunt, Mrs. Lorne Wilson, at Bruce- field, when 30 relatives gathered to honor her on her approaching: marriage. Mrs. Wilson read a short address and Mrs. C. Merrill and Mrs. Robert McGregor presented the bride elect with a shower of red and white enamelware. Miss Wilma Hay of town has succes- sfully passed her second year examinat- ions in ,household economics at the Univ- -- ersity of Western Ontario, London and Misses Fergus Bell, Dorothy Stnith,Joan McMaster and Teresa McIver have successfully passed their first year'arts examinations at the same university. In Duff's United Church, Walton, banquet was held to welcome home F/O Stewart Bryan% and F/S Jack Bennett, who returned a week ago from prison camps in , Germany. Corporal Kenneth Murray -returned from India, Harvey Bryans from Italy. -Mrs. John T. Kaiser of town has a Christmas cactus plant at her home at the C.N.R.Station which is very beautiful. It has 50 or 60 double blooms and it is unusual to have it blooming at this time of the year. 'JUNE 18, 1920: When the executors 'of .the estate of the late Dr. McDermid of Bengali, were going through some of his papers they came •across a twenty-five cent piece Wrapped in paper. The paper was dated 30th of November 18'76 arid' stated that it was the first -money he had received in Hensel'. It was paid by Mrs.Burns for the' extraction of a tooth for her son Donald Burns. Rain interfered somewhat with the attendance at the monster picnic of South Huron farmers at Tyndall's grove on the London' Road. However, there were 4100•persons present. The men of Brucefield have latslY been , overhauling the churbh grounds. They •built a fence, levelled the grounds. and laid a cement walk and have things now in good shape. • The trustees of R.R.No. 2 Tuckers- mith have. been fortunate in securing the pretntees of W. 0: Strong as teacher for another year. Mr. Strong is a son of /lir. and litre. Geo. Strong of Tucker- smith. "Otte day recently while Mrs. Wm. Hoskin of Itensall was Axing the belt of the Machine In the factory, where she is engaged, met with a very painful ac- cident in which she had the tep"of her otinger~talfen off. w Mrs. D. Sutherland of Constance has sold her house and lot to Joseph Riley. Messrs. Geo. A. Sills & Sons, hard- ware merchants, Seaforth, have secured the contract for a hot water heating system and the plumbing for the new school at Kinkora, the contract price being something over $3,000. This firm has also completed the installation of an exhaust system in the new mill of the Canada Flax Mills Co. for collect- ing and carrying off the dust from the interipr of the mill. Mr. and Mrs. Thos. McKay, Mr. and Mrs. Jog:, Murray and Pete McLaughlin of Manley took in the moonlight excur- sion at Goderich on Monday. A, W. Norris of Staffa, had the mis- fortune to have a horse killed with lightning and three others blinded by the shocle, They were under a tree. Mrs. F. L. Hutchings, formerly Miss Susie McSpadden of Barons, Alta. and little son, . George, arrived home last week and are visiting under the parental roof of W. G. McSpadden of McKillop. JUNE 21, 1895. Louis Crich of Tuckersmith 'has pur- chased from James Crich his fifty acre farm in Hullett, paying the handsome price of $2,500. During the rain storm E. Bail of Tuckersmith lost ten sheep by light- ning. Fred Fowler, who has taught sue- .' cessfully at S.S.No. 2 Grey has accep- igd his home school at S.S.1. Hullett, at an increased salary. A peculiar occurrence happened on the farm of John Cochrane, near Hills- green. A steer disappeared and one day it's head was noticed protruding out of an upstairs window in an empty house. How the animal got there is a mystery. Th4t Bayfield brass band has re- organized and 'it is hoped that under Mr.' McLeod's supervision and instruct- ion they will soon give some music. John Thompson has shown the Ex- positor a document which is a curiosity in its way. It seems to be a will or deed and it is dated, Perth, February . 1st, 1369,,or over 500 hundred years ago, it is a piece of parchment six inches Jong and four inches Wide. The face of the document is written in some foreign language. Principal Baker, is sparing no pains in drilling a large class of entrance pupils,'-who will no doubt give a good account of theinselvet. James Grieve of the 2nd. of Tucker- smith has had a stone wall and stabling placed under his barns. Mr. Shoemaker of Hay near Zurich did the work very satisfactorily. Sixty tickets were sold at Seaforth station for the excursion to the model fa& at Guelph. Messrs. T. F. Coleman, Japes Scott and .1. S. Roberts are having electric light placed in their residences. A large number of bicyclists have passed through town during the past week, all taking advantage of the excellent roads in this district. John Forbes, who has been in Logan and Co's. bank here will shortly go to Glettera, Manitoba, where he will mare; age a branch` for Logan and Co. His place in the bank gre will be filled by W, Soole. B. Gunn, of toWn is moving into his handsome new brick residence. James Archibald of Seaforth has leased the farm knowti as the Carter farm on the Huron Road. He intends using it- for grazing purposes, The home of A. Monteith, Elwell, was the scene of a very pleasant gathering when his daughter, Miss Annie Braid was united in marriage to John A. Dallas of Tuckeretnith. The masons are now busy at the house of R. MeMardiei' Kippen, and. in a feW months he will be the proud possessor of one of the finest farm buildings in the neighborhood. • • • • • ee • • • I LSMFT a pact Saie We're Over-Stocked With Compacts Let's Trade Now! 1'970 Hornet K39462 2495 1967 Cougar J22049 $S 11829955 H2718 1969 Sunbeam 1967 Beaumont K40120 5 1695 1199 1967 Mustang Fastback . 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Ontario Hydro • ELECTROHOIVIE AIR CONDITIONERS The Cool Ones FEATURING Smooth quiet operation Maximum performance testing Automatic comfort control Minit mount Decorator styled 4 Dehumidifies 115 volt plug in operation Size's to 8800 B.T.U. NOW AVAILABLE AT CROWN HARDWARE Seaforth Photie 5274420 There's something,. basically Piggish about man. He wants to get his snout into that trough, and devil take the runt who can't wiggle his bum in there, because the landscape in front of him is one 'of solid bums, harder to break through than a cement wall. When you look at the size of Canada, and then at the population figures, it's difficult to believe that Canadians feel they can't get at the trough, that many of them feel like the runt of the Utter. yet thousands do. Many of them feel, as the old rural expression has it, that "they're sucking the hind tit." Tit is a short, but per- fectly decent, synonym for teat. The hind one is the one the runt gets, if he gets any. This is rather a long-winded ' pre- lude to my major proposition: That thousands of citydwellers are desperate to get away from it all, out of the smog and the concrete canyons, into' the wild green yonder. For practical reasons, they must, in most cases) live in the city, or exist there. That's where they make a living, where their children will have the best schools, where their friends are: But they don't like it. 1z Obvious solution Buy a summer cot tage. Many do. But even there, one does not escape from the throngs, the cramped feeling. Cottages are, mainly, stuck cheek by jowl. Boats and motorcycles in sum- mer, snowmobiles in winter, pollute the air with stink and noise. Added hazards in winter are the roof breaking in under snow, and local hoodlums breaking in under booze. Also, for many, the cost of a water- front lot and cottage are simply out of reach. Have you tried to pick up a nice- ly-treed, sand-beach water lot lately? Figure on $50 a foot for anything de- cent. Add a cottage, drill a well, pay taxes and upkeep, and you have to be pretty well-heeled even to consider it. Accordingly, many city deni-zens of modest means are buying a chunk of • land right in the country, anything from 10 to 50 acres. In some areas within a couple of hours drive, one can-still buy -"land" for $50 an acre. Thus, in- Today is my daughter's birthday. Yes, 12 years ago today I wasn't in any mgod to write a Column . I was very busy in the production of something other than words. I'll never forget that day as long as I have my faculty to remember. My daughter weighed in at aline and a half pOunds about 12 noon and by the 2 p.m. visiting hours, 1 had a caller. I suppose this' visitor meant well but she upset me thoroughly. She brought me some choice gossip about a chap who had become involved with another woman while his dear sweet little wifey stayed home with a new baby. She suggested, perhaps in a jocular fashion, that my husband might very well be indulging :in a similar hanky-pantry at this very in- stant. Normally I would have, pooh-poohed the whole idea, but I wasn't normal that day: I had been- to the depths and back that day and I was weary and weak and weepy. I began to cry. I moaned thatI wouldn't know what to do if my up-to-now faith- ful' spouge .would ever leave me for some other sweet young thing. Fortunately my room-mate (who didn't know me from a hill of beans) came to my rescue. She told my friend to either change the conversation. topic or get out. She chose 'to leave and I was re- lieved beyond measure. I've never approved of gossip Nit after that day, I hated it even more. Gossip can ruin a perfectly innocent soul and though I admit it is tempting to share in the nasty pastime of repeating rumors,. it isn't a wise hobby to pursue. I rediscovered this fact just a" few days ago. My daughter, like all girls of that age I suppose was having a hey- day exchanging stories with her friends. I tried to warn her about gossip but she assured me that everything that- she heard and ultimately spread around some more, was "gospel truth", "Truth or ;let," I' told her, "you would be better off , not to repeat it." But the gossiping continued. Then much,to my surprise, my daugh- ter came down with a mysterions malady. She wasn't eating or drfpking. She was snarly and short, crying at the drop- of the familiar hat. Nothing seemed to pull her out of the'doldrums. • A visit to the doctor revealed what seemed to be the tail end of a rather bothersome disease but blood tests didn't Sir: A few weeks ago I wrote a letter asking if the., people in Seaforth were interested in the youth of the town or not - since then the Venturers have asked for help again and I am more than pleased to say the response was astounding - "The people otr-Seaforth Are Interested in Helping Their Young People". These boys - there are only three , of them have received calls for odd Jobe so consistently that they are busy just about every night after school plus week ends and in the first 18 days earned $76.00 - well on the way to their ob- jective of $120.00 to get them to Thunder Bay, to represent Seaforth at the 1st. , International Boy Scold Olympic 'Camp. As of our departure date June 16th we will have reached our objective, and we • have the people of Seaforth to think.. Again - thank you. to the many people who found 'odd jobs fdr the boys to do and 'who Were most generous when "payday" came.° We wouldn't be going if it weren't for you. w4 fl think of stead of socking $5,000 into a 100-foot water lot, you can have your-own ten- acre empire for $500. European immigrants are particul- arly interested in such land, because they didn't have a hope of buying an acre at home, unless wealthy. This land is usually sub-marginal, or worse. But there seems to be a basic instinct to own some land, even though it won't grow anything but rocks and Christmas trees. Just to be able to pace around and say: "This is mine. Nobody can take it away from me." And the sheer delight of posting "No Trespassing" signs around your do- main! A man's home used to be his castle. .Now it's his prison. But he can have an estate in the country. It's an ideal set-up for a man with a young family. Preferably he should be handy with tools. He can buy his chunk of junk and spend a couple of years just going up on week-ends and vacations, tenting and clearing a hole in 'the scrub brush for his shack. And if he's smart, 'it will be, at first, just that - a shack. Never mind the' three bedrooms. Bang In some bunks. Never mind the big stone fire- place. Get a good wood stove. Over the years, he can add to the place,until, eventually, he will have a snug' retirement home. No traffic problems. No pollution. No punks. No people. Small tax bills. A place to putter, to meditate. Sound silly? Maybe. But with the new leisure age creeping upon us, it makes more sense than taking on a huge mortgage at 10 Per cent, which will be • paid- off sight years after you die. Ideally, the property would have a small stream loaded with fat trout, a deer run, huge patches of wild berries. Realistically, it will be impossible to get water whee you drill your well, the land will be infested by rattle-, snakes or rodents, and smothered in nettles and poison oak. But we can't have everything. I'm tempted myself. Any chuckling, gleaming-eyed farmer want to get rid of 50 acres of rock and swamp for $10 an acre. • prove it .. or disprove it. But quite ob- viously, something was wrong with my daughter. I began to watch her like a hawk., Finally one morning, I noticed her peer- ing out the window about 8:45. a.m. I saw a group of her friends approaching our house. I saw them walk right by, chatting happily together but never glanc- ing,in or stopping to see how our daughter was feeling. Great tears welled up in my daughter's eyes. I khew immediately this was at least part of the problem. That afternoon I called her,,pals to- gether. I laid the whole thing out before them and asked them to fill me in as • to why my daughter had been blacklisted by the clan. There was an avalanche of answers all of them based entirely on hearsay. It was evident that' my daughter was ' being chastised for something' that she was supposed to have said and done. None of the girls really knew if the charge was true. None really Seemed .to care a great deal. They heard the story, they accepted the story and my daughter was suffering because of it. Sure it was a childish affair - but was it? How many adults are miserable for a similar reason? How many people ate caught in their own traps? I explained to the girls that if my daughter was guilty of spreading false information, so was each, of them. ...I reminded them that I had overheard each one of them, in turn, raking the absent members of the group over those ugly, stinging coals of gossip. It was a way of life in that circle and it wasn't fair to oust one member just, becauSe she had happened 'to stretch the rules somehow or other. Then I went home and had a heart- to:heart with my daughter. I told her she had been given the cold shoulder treatment because she had become the "hate object" of the week. That never would have happened, I told her, if she had kept a bridle on her tongue. On doctor's orders, I shipped my daughter off for a holiday to another part of the county. I'm hoping that when she returns, she will have had time to think about the errors of her ways and come to the same conclusion that I reached a long time ago - gossip creates problems where none existed previously so, down with gossip, forever and ever, amen. you in Thunder Bay. Dale Maidens Venturer Advisor. • N.Main Street, Seaforth, Ontario. Likes Booklets Sir: I have received the two booklets and newspapers from your office, for which I thank you, they are indeed interesting to an old timer, and are welliet up, newsy. I am enclosing money order for the booklets $8.0b. I would subscribe for the paper but, I have been away since 1903 and have lost touch with the present situation, been In the West ever sines, a great country. I am now 88 years and feeling fine. Geo. A. Soole #4-611-Victor Street, Winnipeg 3, Man. Sugar and Spice by Bill Smiley From My.- Window , —. By Shirley J. Keller To the Editor 'Seaforth People Aid Scouts • • 4 •