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In the Years Agone
To the people of Seaforth:
Sir:
Within the past few, weeks
the writer had the misfortune
of being incarcerated in a hos-
pital for a period of two weeks,
but at the same time I was most •
fortunate to be expoged- to-Sea--
forth Community Hospital..
• The services of the hospital
and the considerations extend-
ed by the hospital staff, order-
lies, nurses and,• doctors, and
particularly, Dr_ Charles T. B.
MoYe, who was my, personal
physician, were unexcelled. •
My thanks to all of you.
Sincerely, ‘, •
A. O. Roth,
_General Railway Signal Coma
pony, Rocheater,
• r,-;-.Tfamary ,7„1989
Seaforth Community kospital
The ,letter received by the
hospital follows:
This memo is a very meager
show of my' appreciation to the,
people and the community of
Seaforth for. making available
to others the wonderful services
and facilitieb of a Coulmunity
Hospital.
Sinee'1860, Servings the Cernitriai nit?' First
• "SEAFORIII, ONTARIO, every Thay- morning by DOMAN BROS., Publishers
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SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, JANUARY 16, 1969
Opportunity for Seaforth
The \formal approval- that Seaforth and to finish the job begun in 1876 is
Counc. last week gave an agreement available to today's council as it con-
siders a decision to work in concert
with the county and replace existing
Main Street sidewalks. The new side-
walks need not be as wide. This 'would
permit Main Street to be widened hy
- encroaching into the sidewalk on the
east side from Shinen's Store south
It suggests, too, the possibilities that and by a lesser width on the west side.
True there Is a cost involved but
this is relatively small in relation to the
resulting ,benefits. No mater how
carefully the rebuilding of the. street
is carried out, the .relation of •the new
street to the old sidewalks will be an
unhappy one. The sidewalks on both
sides of-the street which were laid over
thirty years ago, are in poor condition
and shortly must be replaced. While
proposed street grades are, substantial-
ly the same there will be major changes
occurring at each intersection as en-
gineers make provision for the inter-
secting paved streets that must follow
as soon as storm and sanitary sewer
worleon these streets is completed.
Regardless of whether there is, grant
assistance, proper sidewalks can never
be provided as economically as when
the overall street renovation program
is being carried out. But what is para-
mount perhaps is that unless the work
is done now in co-operation ,with the
county, the possibility of finishing the
job which the 1876 council began and
providing a wider Main Street, cannot
be carried out in the foreseeable future ,
except at a prohibitive •cost.'
Plow Crews Earn Our Thanks
With Huron County for the creation
,of storm drainage facilities that will
,seive jointly the county and the town
'was recognition of the benefits which
a co-operative approach to common
problems can have for both municipali-
ties.
there are many other areas• in which
Seaforth and the county, or for that
matter adjoining municipalities, could
co-operate and act jointly to the bene-
fit of their taxpayers.
True the discussions and planning,
which made the agreement possible,
Mire been going on for many months
and in approving the agreement coun-
cil not only recognized this fact but
also gave endorsement to the urderly-
frig principle' of looking ahedd inher-
ent in the project.
Seaforth citizens have been fortun-
ate indeed that 'the faculty of "looking
ahead" has been an attribute of Sea-
forth councils for nearly a hundred
years. An example of course• was the
decision, taken folloviiiig the fire of
1876 which wiped out most of the
buildings on Main Street,. to acquire
seleral feet from the frontage of abut-
ting properties on the east side' so that
Main Street could be widened. It is
this decision that' resulted in the dif-
ferent widths of the street' today a
the jog on the, east side opposite ohn
Street.
' ;An equal. opportunity to look ahead
Sometimes it takes something unus-
ual to` draw attention to a service that
goes on week after week, and Soon is
taken for granted.
While the storms of the past two
weeks made their task more difficult
at least we do• recognize the job which
the snow plow crews have been doing.
• When, we consider that a few hours
after the storm eaaed, almost every
road we might wish to use ,was open to
„ us we can understand the magnitude of
the task for which the trewS were res-
'-ponsible.
Typical was the job done in Seaforth
and in neighboring townships. True,
theri were blind corners and, in some
areas from time to time it was heavy
travelling. But once the winds abated
it wasn't long before the roads were
cleared for traffic. In most cases with-
in a day traffic moved. as though it
were summer. Were it not for the eight
and ten foot banks at the roadside, 'it
was hard to believe that a •few hours
before the roads were- a wilderness 'of
snow.
These results of course. are possible
only because of a high sense of dedi-
cation to the public welfare on the Vart
,• of all those involved in winter • road
maintenance and a disregard of person-
al convenience that can take round the
clock work in stride.
We owe them thanks fof a job well
done.
Sugar and Spice
— By Bill Smiley —
community
a•lorAr!Por
contest furnishing the taffy.
One of the busiest men in
KIPPen is Wm. Cudmore, the
well known hay dealer. He has
' four -persons constantly at work
▪ and has shipped over 2,500 tons
since the new crop came in.
Andrew Bell of Kippen had'
the misfortune , to lose one of
his best horses. He has lost sev-
eral good horses during the
past two years.
J. Camerok of the 4th 'con-
cession of Stanley was dehorn-
ing a bull and his nephew, Al-
exander was assisting-him. As
they were going through a nar-
row passage Alexander let go
of the animal and his uncle went
ahead an,d as they were going
out of the passage the animal
made a savage „attack on Mr.
Cameron. He struck , several”
times but Alexander threw him
out of "the way of the bull. Mr.
Cameron was severely bruiied
and' several ribs broken.
4
A New Year's Eve Party
- Hope you got through the
trying holiday season 'as 'well
as we did. All you 'flu victims
have my. sympathy. I tottered
about for ten days, a tot here
and a tot there, not quite des-
perately ill enough to stay in
bed, and therefore getting little
sympathy.
Kim spent the festive season
going to bed at 2 a.m. and
getting up at 2 p.m. Mostly
because of a new boy friend,
who is out on bail. That's right;
he's out on bail.
My wife did her best to set
fire to the house, one Sunday
night when I was at church.
For years, I've been telling her
to burn, junk in the fire-place:
paper and wrappings and box-
es and such.
She finally caught on. So did
the evergreens with which she
annually decks, the mantel,
when she threw into the fire a
carboard box about two feet
by four.
, She stood there, paralyzed,
Watching , the joint go. up in
flames. The only muscle work-
ing was her tongue. When that
stops working, she'll be ready
for the cold, cold ground. She
screamed: "kind kimli" •
And Alm responded nobly to
the crisis. Upstairs, she came
..doWs like a boreb, seized
basin of water frdre the hitch:-.
en . Sink, and hurled it with
• inferring. aim all over the fire,
Mier noot ose tbiartigi and the
Did the trick thOligh.
Speaking 0f On Ott fired,
she had a • New Year's party
which caused more turmoil
than the battle of the Boyne
did in yeland.
It wasn't that she demanded
a big spread or a hired orches-/'
that. She
that we
tra or anything like
had only one request:
get out before the guests ar-
rived and stay until they were
gone.
rase of a The normal respo
father to such a stipulation is
the table to smack his hand on
and roar, "O.K. No parents, no
party!" Which he did, about
eight times.
Finally, by some circuitous
route known only to families,
we arrived at a- comprise .of
be no sorts. There Would
drinking. Undesirables would
Kim and be severely policed by
two of her largest girl friends,
and two boys who would be per-
sonally responsible to' me, by
George, or else.
There would be no gate-
crashers. See policing, above
(Gate-crashing is a norm at a
party in a small town, Where
everybody in the teen world
knows everybody else and af-
ter all, what de you say, pad,
When somebody arrives at the
• door with a big silly grin on
his big, , silly face and asks,
"Can I come to -your party,
Kim?")
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1A • , • ,
It was agreed, after a motion
by me that went something
like, "If you think I'm going to
walk the streets in a blizzard
on New Year's Eve just because
a,stubborn brat like you doesn't
want her parents around just
because she's having a party
for a gang of 'degenerate teen-
agers, then you've 'got another
think coming, young lady!", that,
the party would end at 1:30.
It's a long story, but she
finally kicked us into the snow-
drifts at 9 p.m. It was too
early to go anywhere. We drove
around the block a few times,
my wife peering desperately to-
ward thehbuse on each circuit,
We dropped in 6'* sick friends
to get Warm, or sick, and guess
who ran straight to the phone
and called home. The response
was chilly: "Yes, Mother. No.
Nobody's drunk Will you
please stop bugging me, there's
somebody• at the door?"
The old lady called four
working like dogs for an hair.
No burns, no broken dishes,
no scratches on, the grand piano.
Nothing. Including the 480
sandwiches, abOlit ft Pounds of
fini and all the bread and
nuts in the house.
From The Huron Expositor
Jan. '21,, 1944
At the annual meeting of Sea-
forth Branch 156 of the Cana-
dian Legion, officers. elected
were: President, Alex. Muir;
first, vice, R. H. Harrison; sec-
ond vice; W. A. Wright; .secre-
tary-Treasurer, B. 0. Muir; pen-
sion officer, C. P. Sills; • _chap-
lain, Capt. T. Hussey,, Capt.'
E. W. Edwards and Canon Ap-_
pleyard; sergeant at arms, Wil-
liam Smith; auditors, E.• C. Bos-
well and J. M. McMillan.
A very pleasant event took
place af the home of Mr. Thos.
Hedged, Tuckersmith, when 85
guests were present to welcome
Fusilier Russell Hodgert, who
lately returned from
Reeve Arthur Nicholson' and
Win. Taylor presented him with
a gift.
The sounding of 'the 'Are
alarm enlivened Main St.. much
earlier than usual. It was a.
bonfire in the rear of Boshart
Electric Store.
The entire county . was Ahock-
-ed to learn of the sudden pas-
sing 6f Alex Porterfield, life
long resident of East. Wawanosh
Township. He is survived by
two sisters, Mrs. James Fergu-
son, Hayfield and Mrs. Ernest
Geddes of Seaforth and one
brother, Wm. Porterfield, of
• Calgary.
Mr. and Mrs. John Leeming
of-Walton were honored by the
community when Mr. Wm. Den-
nis read an address. and Wm:
Roe presented them with a "sil-
ver tea service. MrS. Herb Tra-
viss and Miss Isobel Davidson
sang soles and the Kirkby or-
chestra furnished the music for
dancing.
About 150 neighbors and
friends gathered to honor Mr.
and Mrs. Thos. Shortreed of
Walton and they were 'presented
with a chair, large mirror,
clock and magazine stand.
Neighbors and friends of Mr.
and Mrs. Wilfred Tremeer spent
a pleasant evening at the home
of Mr. 'find Mrs. Roy McDopald
of Cromarty, The ciecasion was
a farewell to , Mr. and Mrs.
Tremeer who are moving to ao-
other district.
In the deith of Alexander
Gray, which occurred at his-
home
.,
in Egmondyille, the com-
munity has suffered the loss of
an esteemed citizen -and Huron
County an honored pioneer.
Messrs. W. L. Whyte and J.
M. Scott have returned from a
plane trip to Ottawa where they
attended the national' poultry-
men's convention.
Miss Audrey MeGavin was in
London attending the Bell Tele-
phone conterence.,,
Harry Addicott has engaged
with Win. McSpadden for the
season's We'rk. •
Reeves J. F. Daly, Seaforth,
N. R. Dorrance, MeKillop and
Arthur Nicholion,, Tuckersmith
are in Goderich this. Week at-
tending the January session of
the Huron County Council.
From The Huron Expositor
Jan. 19, 1894 -
A parlour social was held at
the residence of Robert Fergu-
son of Walton for the, benefit
of the Ladies' Aid Society of
Duff's Church. $10.70 was the
amount realized.
John Sparrow of Varna pur-
chaied a handsome Shetland
pony, bringing it home in the
buggy with him and stood it
up , on the diningroom • table,
much to the surprise and de-
light of his estimable lady.
Two sows attempted• to cross
,the railway track near the wat-
er tank in town in front -of the
train and the spectators at 'the
station expected to see a rise
in beef, but the bovines, saved
themselves.
Messrs. James Jackson and 3.
C. Greig have taken the entire
proprietorship of the- businese
of Messrs. Jackson Bros. of this
Own.
A young man named Janies
Hugill of kuliett, was kicked on
the head by his horse. He was
very severely injured, but is on
his way to recovery. -
S. E. Ball of Tuckersmith in-
thuds erecting an implement
shed next year haniven
the contract to Peter Campbell.
Ile is also building a barn for
Cudmore and one -for Ira
Johns.-Boger Pepper will' erect
a new house on his farm next
summer, 'having given the con-
tract to S. S. Cooper. of Clinton.
A taffy Stigial WM enjoyed by
the Boyalr Tempura in Bruce-
field, the Whig side in the late
04:411.00fKil? HABIT
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bt9re
anything' but easy • to
at Stilt, several determined
government and priVate organ-
izations have declared 1969 the
year for outright ..war against
smoking, and they're setting
their sights on freeing as many
puffers as- possible from the
tyranny of tobacco.
It all began in...1059 when
Jean Nicot, the French ambas-
sador to Portugal, presented
the Queen of Fronde with a
pouch of seeds: It • was a rare
gift indeed; from America;- In-
dians used these seeds, he ex-
plained, to grow a plant used
for "swallowing smoke." Its-
dried leaves were -burned and
the smoke. inhaled through two
'pipes in the nostrils. The court
was fascinated, and thus tobac-
co took root in Europe,
Some years later, Sir Walter
-Raleigh introduced tehaceo to
the court Of . Queen Elizabeth.,
The gailant Raleigh became the
.shining • light of Bess's court,
but his flame of power was -ex-
tinguished in England by King
James I; when Elizabeth died.
James beheaded Raleigh for
treason, and. honed, to end the
practice of smoking by writing
a book, "A Uoenterzblaste to
TO Geo." -
t*ji settlers corning*, the
'New 'World found Indian's
growing tobacco on the shores
-of the. St. Lawrence. Not' to be
• outdone, the settlers took to
growing their own, despite ev-
ery effort by the FrenclupoV-
ernment to discourage., them.
Finally, in 1735, the government
saw that -repressive measures
were hopeless, and with a Gal-
lic 'shrug, permitted the settlers
to export Canadian tobacco to
Europe. •
Tobacco became a status 9m--
bol. ,People everywhere chewed
it, sniffed it or 'inhaled it . .
and Matter knows -how many
men since went coughing_and
wheezing to their graves be,'
cause of it.
' It is known how • many Canti7
dians --died of lung cancer in
the past . few years; however:
There was a totalef 4,318 lung
cancer deaths in 1967, compar-
ed to 3;844 deaths, in :1966 .
• and only 207 in -1931.
• And the pussyfooting,. about
linking smoking with cancer
•,,.
Uncle Sam got a lovely Christ=
mas present this• year. Three
young American servicement
hopped in a rocket one day late
in•pecember and brought back
-a `piece' of the moon to add to
America's already soaring world
"prestige:
While this trio of adventurers
was circling the great white
light in the sky at a speed fas-
ter than sounds, I was unable
to travel 50 miles from home
to be with the family for Christ-
mas. And while the same group
of astronouts hammed it up on
television, from hundreds of
thousands of miles away for all
. Chairman of the Board,
Seaforth, Ontario.
Dear Sir:
Recently % was admitted- to:*
your hospital for a period of
c- two Weeks. The two weeks spent
ae your hospital one could say,
were under circumstances moat
enfo-Y-ahtes -considering ;every-
thing.
At 'the end 'of the two weeks
and upon discharge I received
an invoice from your hospital
carrying 'a notation to the effect,
"that any suggestions concern-
ing the •patientts, welfare and
wellbeing while at the hospital
would be welcome".
My only suggestion to the
management of the Seaforth
-Community Hospital is that
they continue the treatment, the
atmosphere arid the considera-
tions eXposed to ine
a patient of your hospital:
This, mein° is, in fact, writ-
ten to extend to you my sincere
thanks and appreciation to you
and all of your staff for all the
courtesies extended to Me while
I was in and under your care
In Seaforth Community Hospital.
Sincerely,
A. G. Both.
and, heart. idiaeaae" ARP ..,Pn(leff.,
The American Cancer-404
liar
Thew
stated AA,
causes 75' percent of all •1114
cancer deaths. Onr Canadian •
counterpart estimate* that
sureldeg redirees life expectan-.
cy by as much as eight years,
and Canadian Health Minister
olui Munro guesses, that every
igarette puffed intO a- smoker's
lung knocks eight minutes from
that smoker's life.
Many a Canadian smoker was
stunned by figures released by
the. Federal Health Department
revealing the tar and nicotine
content of hiS favorite brand.
Health minister Munro ail
pounced that future anti-smok-
ing measures could include• the
banning of all: cigarette adver-
tising, the printing of health
Warnings on' cigarette Ramses.
tax • hikes to slisconrage zips r.
ette ,buyhig„ and maximum lev-
els on nicotine amktar.
Recently 'a Juvenile an*
fly Court Judge Caileef
police crackdown on cig
smokers Oder, 194".- ' g
that nicotint0 was `fri re
deadly than marijuana.' .,He
pointed out that under the Fed-
- eral Tobacco Restraint Act, min-
ors caught smoking and people
caught selling tobacco to ,min-
ors could-be-fined.
Is it all doing any- good? The
Dominion. Bureau of Statistics
charted n downWard trend in
cigarette sales' in the Hist 10
months of the-Past year, cost-
ing the FederaLTreasury $1
million a year in mi./en-ire . .
but that's money well hist.
And a growing number of
personalities are scrambling to
board the anti-cigarette band-
wagon. Judy LalVfarsh started
it when she was Health Minis-
ter, and John Munro followed
her _example. Finance Minister
Edgar Benson,- a 50-cigarette-ai.
day man, also took the pledge.
Oddly enough; ire not affect-
ing the people who really know
' most about the dangers of
smoking. The National Cancer
Inatitute estimates there la
more - heavy smoking' among
doctors than among the "rest of
the population. Institute figures,
suggest that 32.9 percent of all
doctors' puff their way through
more than 20 cigarettes a day,,
compared to , the Canadian av-
erage of 9.9 percent.
Discouraging?
car
Sainuel Robinson of MCKillop
has sold his farm, lot 19, con.
, 14, to Thomas Dennison, his
neighbor, for $4,500. The lot
contains 90 acres and has a
good• bank barn, •
Mention is made of the °depar-
ture to a better land of 'another
resident of McKillop Township
in the person of Michael Mitrdie,
Sr., of the North Road. He was
a quiet unassuming man and
honorable in all his dealings.
The annual' meeting of the
Tuckersmith Agricultural • So-
diety was held in the Commer-
cial Hotel, Seaforth. The fol-
lowing officers were elected:
G. E. Cresswell, president; Thos.
MeMillan,i vice-president; T. E.
Hays, secretary; Robert Logan,
treasurer; D. Johnson and F. G.
Neelins,' auditors; directors;
Joseph Morrison, J. G. Grieve,
Wm. McIntosh, George Dale,
George Stephenson, Simon Hun-
ter, Henry Chesney, John
Grieve, VS, and Thos. Stephens.
•
It was resolved that the food,
would consist of potato . chips
and pop: "tow.I can . you he so
square, Mom,'Itidk oril eat at
partied" 'Liter, Kim gracio us-
ly ageWed her Mother to'make
shunt '400 sandwiches.
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From The Huron Expositor More times from -as many Jan. 17; 1919 ferent places. Responses grew
even chillier. We arrived home' R. andmOre, contractor, and
et 3 a.m., ready to face the de- mason of Henson, has sold his
bade: 6 "wasteland of broken new fine brick dwelling to Mr.
dishes anetrompled grapes. and Mrs. James Taylor.
And sitting there with her George Douglas of Hensall
out-on-bail friend, listening to has sold his flour, feed and coal
records, 'was the Cheshire car business to Robert S. Paterson,
herself. The house *as clean as who intenda taking over the
a funeral parlor. They'd been business very soon.
Fred 'Porreater, -GTE agent,
at Dublin, has the sympathy of
the community in the bereave•
nient of his father at Clinton,
who died suddenly.
The first robin- of the season
had made hii appearance John
•
Gemmell reports having seen
- two-in Eg,monclville.
Bob Reid of the Royal Navy,
*lin has been stationed at H li
fax, spent the weekend at his
home here. ,
S. T. Holmes received a tele -
gram announcing the safe ar-
rival of his son Ray Holmes at
St. Johns from overseas,. He
Vent overseas in the first draft
- 4n 1915 and 'has been in the
hard fighting ever since.
George Eyre, Chiselhurst; in-
tends in the coming summer to
move and raise one of his barns
for which he is now making pre-
parations in the way of drawing
gravel and lumber. .
The 'new bank at Walton is
doing a good business.
Seaforth Junior hockey i team
got away to_ a bad start this
season. They -Were defeated on
the local. ice by Mitchell, the
'score being 7-4 and later by
Stratford by a score of 8-1.
W. E. Broadfont of town has
been confined to' his home dur-
ing the past week with a bad
knee.
Miss C. B. McKinley who re-
- signed her position from the
staff of the Seaforth Collegiate
last summer to accept a similar
position in Edmonton, has since
came east to join the Belleville
Collegiate-at NeW Years.
The annuameeting of First \...,....
Presbyterian Church Sunday
School teachers was held at the
home of James Cowan. The fol-
„ lowing. officers ,and teachers
were elected: James Cowan, sup-
erintendent; Jas. C. Laing, assis-,,
tant; James Robb, librarian;
Mrs. J. A. Stewart, secretary!.
treasurer; Miss Minnie Sorner-
fille,__Tecordieg secretary; tea-
chers, J. 07-Laing, Mrs. J. Archi-
bald; Mrs. J. A. Stewart, •Miss •
S.. I. McLean, Miss Graham,
Miss A. Govenlock, Mrs. 'Geo:
Stogdill, Mrs. Sparks, Mrs.
James Kerr, Misses Annie and
Minnie Somerville, Miss A: Bell,
Miss Steele, Mrs. C. Brodie and
Miss Isabelle Smith.
11) THE EDITOR
Appreciates CAire
lici-spital Provides
II
From my Window
— By Shirley J. 'Kellar. —
the world to see, I couldn't bring
in a "clear picture front Detroit,
only Too miles to the south.
Is 'it any, wonder that one of
the air travel companies is, ac-
cepting bookings from travellers ,
who hope to join the 'first- plea-
sure voyage to the' moon?
I don't know theughNpeems
to me that all this excitement
about going 16 the moon is get-
ting a •little out of hand. '
The other night as my hus- •
band and I "eirjoyed a romantic
and unobstructed view of a full
-moon I couldn't help but won-
der what it will be like when
that that solar beauty is invaded by
humans and their inevitable lit-
ter.
It may not be in my lifetime,
or even yours, hut if the day
ever dawns when man can tray-
el to a moon resort you can bet
he will tote along an' assortment
of clutter that could spoil its
natural appeal for ,the remain-
ing earthbound souls. '4
In fact;• it is this same kind
of pollution that is driving men
off this planet that has ,served
So well doWn through the ages.
Man has progressed so far now,
that he is beings over-run by die,
posable bottles and cans, gum
wrappers, exhmist fumes, in-
stant food shakers, stivike awn.:
sal 'sprays, do-it-yourself repel- - lants, etc., etc.
And there is every indication
he will make the same mesa .of
things when he gets to the
moon. He's just that kind of a
fool, unable, -to cope without -
modern crutches like potato
chips and our cream onion dip.
Courageotis and. irave man is,
but too 'Much affiiientilving has
made him art' addict to, the soft
life. If he pioneers otl the moon
it won't be without such essetl—
tials as a 12-pack every week-
end and pizza 'pie, twice month-
ly.
Don't get the wrong impres-
sion folks. I enjoyliving in this
werld Ind as much as the next
guy, But some things are sacred, ,
like the moon and the stars and
the sun and the rest of God's
marvellous wonders. '
I don't care if man explores
them"t — even claims them for
_himself. Eat pleaserdet's ' not
ruin them too with men's smog . and corruption, •
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