HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1969-03-27, Page 2SPRING IS PURE FEMALE
A couple of weeks ago,
sang a song of hate in this
space. Since ,Spring, theoretical-
ly, is just around that corner
which recedes steadily as you
approach it, the least li.can do
is sing a song of love, .and ask
you to join me. Everybody loves
something, even if it's only his,
car.
Looking into the' backyard,
it's pretty hard to get all goofy
about Spring. The pile of snow
.pushed up beside the garage is
now down to •six feet.: My cedar
lawn chairs look like a couple
of matrons, buried to the waist
in blanc mange, their arms ex-
tended. pleadingly. The picnic
table still looks like a freshly
risen loaf of bread.
But the sun shines, day after
day,, and eventually these. arti-
cles. must reveal themselves in •
all their scabby, ShalibY ugli?
ness.
Spring in Canada-4s- pure- fe-
male; unpredictable,,, perverse,
passionate, hot-or-Cold,'"cruel,or-
kind. And completely 'undepeii-`-)
dable, as far as mood goes.
In this crazy climate, I have
_lain on fresh grass in March
and in love and in sun that
suggested the following' month
would be July. And I have gone
fishing on the first of May and,
had my line freeze to the rod.
There 'having expressed my
_mistrust of Canada's Spring, I
shall return to our theme: love,
This is a favorite -topic ,for
poets who can't think of any-
thing else to write about. Not
being, a poet,. I will avoid try-_
ing to .be poetic and 'thereby
save both of us a lot of embar-
rassment.„
Some people think that love
is a potion, especially in the .
Far East. You know: rhinocer-
os' horn ground up in a mixture
of oysters, and celery. Actual-
ly, I wouldn't mind taking a
swig at it. SOunds jolly invigor-
ating, or something.
Love is not a potion; it's a
lotion. It warms the cold, heart,
as analgesic' balm warms the
sore shoulder. It lubricates the
grinding nerves. It soothes the
tortured soul as olive oil does
the baby's bum. „i
It is an 'ointment (by the wafy,'-
Mecca ointment is good for
Rractically ' anything. Unpaid
commercial), And it is 'a Mecca
toward which you,” travel, and •
from which you return, rather
wondering whether the whole
trip was worth it. Sand and flies
and heat. And nobody a else
there but a mob of exhausted,
hot, tired and disgruntled pil-
grims like yourself. That's love.
However, one mustn't wax
philosophical about love, even
on a highly elevated plane' like
this, Not in this country, in
this climate. Lees get down to
specifics. What do we' love?
I love my country. Not' the
government, or the people, par-
ticularly. The physical Canada.
A black spring stream racing
between the snowbanks in
March, The. ghostly mist- • of
green that slips into the trees
in May. The Rockies, in- mid-
summer, aloof, sneering St the
ants that crawl about their
lmees.' The sculptured blue-
white seaseapea of January.
I love peace and loneliness,
and they're dam' hard to come
by, new-a-days. It's beautiful to
'be alone, Sometimes, without
the yelp and clamor, the stink
and garbage Of everyday.
Abed the Only 'place yap can
'find it is in., an hiacagible bog,
with • a fishhig- ield, The . out-
board motor and _skidoo 'have
'seen to that. '
AM I 164 alt kr4iiint,thifigt
' gr'a'ss, IfaerS,
when they he've to be relayed,
From My Window
By Shirley J. Kellar
•
AN ODE FOR SPRING
TO A TWO-YEAR49LD -
I'm glad it is spring and- yet in a way .
I wish •that Spring would go far away
- Until the ground is dry and mudless -
And streets are clean and pudlesi.
My littlest son, just two years old
Thinks spring's arrival is like, pure gold.
The snow is gone and in its stead—
Are holes, filled with water right over your head.
Well, not really as deep as what I just said
But it isn't too hard to get wet on your head.
Just stand' in the puddle and jump up and down.
Very soon you are sopping and your face is all brown.
Your hair gets all gritty, your eyes aren't too' clear
If you try really hard you get stones in,-your ear.
Your pants fit much closer, your coats fits the same
To "match" head to toe is the, name of the game.
The strangest things happen when-boys get all soaked,
They're happy as kings; it's mom who's provoked.
And faster than Hercules can swing his big club.
You're out of the puddle and into a tub.
That's filled to the brim with water and soap,
To escape from this place there is little hope,
'So sonny's, confused for sure as can be
Water is water to a small iad, you see.
TO 'MY TEN-YEAR-OLD
My daughter is ten 'and she's glad that it's' spring
That iricans to her a glad shopping fling.
For all through 'the winter .she's grown like a weed
When spring has arrived, it's new clothes she .will need.
With the very first sunbeam that shines in her way
My daughter complains her, jackets won't stay
Down on her wrists or over her waist.
To appear alMost naked is very Peer taste.
Her shoes are too-tight, her seaters too small.
A whole,pairs of slacks? She, has none at all.
*She'll need shorts and a swimsuit, a hat and a bag,
Surely I 'do not expect her to go round like a rag.
The catalogue's open, by chance, at the spot
Where. the sweatshirts are shown in the pink that is hot.
And even more wonderful; Mom, what do you think?-
These skirts are sewn in' a brown that is nib*.
How Much is the baby bonus? Six dollars you say!
My toedness7.-Hovr lucky!- Just "ten bucks away
From having enough to purchase that coat •
With the braid on the pocket and. the Chain at the throat.
Spring cleaning to 'daughters means cleaning me out
Of the loot that I've saved While the snowbanks were stout
I like when 'the weather gets balmy and sunny
But,I wish that thiS season didn't cost so much money!
To my THIRTEEN-YEAR-OLD
They ,say that a young man's more romantic in spring.
Good heavens! I hope not, What a, horrible thing!
To have My poor. bay in. more 'of .a state ...
Over finding a woman and picking a mate.
It is great to be young and to live every minute
But to torture one's self is to go to far in it.
My son, at 13, thinks time's running out.
Thinks love's paSsing him by, the Silly young lout.
He's watching the girls withihe eye 'of a Man
Who's thinking real, deep and'oottirig a plan. c,
Then without anrwarniilg., het 'deign bah hit (Nett
Mid tell etteryone„ it desDtge.
Those off andon love-inare :Want taitlead
I'd hate to think-Spring Wit far`te led.
I wottidn''t*ut April to htsnYl werse . Than beteMber, when. fenitdet tend earth's-greatest Curse.
The course of true hive is'ileVer like'
There nail' he said etirdles1,1Wheatten'filttireinilk.
hottld sprig tibileivoinkifee )fin '1S' Oritti
I'd vote for the swig& to he itatitiedlai .itf hid..
J.
or cultivated, or raked. And"
nearly all children: Except when
they grow up.
- And I love a good poker
game, especially when the
cards are -"coming right. And a
good arguement, especially
when I'm right, which seems to
be nearly every time.
• And I love my wife, but oh,
you kid. And I love my kids,
but OH, YOU KIDS!,
Arid I love to do a good job,
whether it's writing a column
or teaching a dumbbell some-
thing, or finding a new gim-
mick. in my' tax return. It" sel-
dom happens, but it makes me
happy.
Sometimes I can even love
my neighbor as myself: It's
lot easier these days. He hasn't
an ox or an ass or a maid-ser-
vant to covet.
See? I've just begun. I hey-
' en't even mentioned hot bon=
firee or.-cold beer, or a thou-
sand other things. Put down a
list for yourself, and you'll de-
cide you're not such an old
Miserable after all.
In the• Years Agone
•
with Mr. Mercer Of Seaforth. '
`.. John Henderson of North
Main St., who is .85 years of
• age, this, season sawed 12 cords
of. long wood„ cut through
twice.
JameS Graves' is preparing to-
From The Huron Expositor
March 31, 1944
With the year ending March
31st, Messrs. -H. R. Spence and
Son have shipped 25 car loads
of eggs from their grading sta-
tion in Seaforth. Bach car. con-
vicinity to a quilting bee. prior to his removal to Atwood
Isaac Hudson has on display where he will have charge of
in• the window . of his egg grad- the cheese factory.
ing store a goose egg that mea- Robert Garrow of McKillop,
tuns WA by 12 inches. It was has sold his fine two hundred
produced by one of a flock of acre farm to Malcolm Beaton
geese owned, by Edwin Butson of near /nano* the price, be-
of Staffa. ing $17,000.
Robert T. Dodds of McKillop
has disposed of , the old home-
stead to Joseph . McFarlane of
Seaforth, the consideration be-
ing $5,000.
The following were ticketed
to distant points this week by
Wm. Somerville; W. R. Kinsman,
Hensall to Saskatoon.; Everett,
Rivers to Brock, Sask.; Alex
Sparks to Dinsmore, Sask.; John
Jamieson to Edmonton; Mr. and
Mrs. 'Lawrence Cummings to
Deloraine, Man.
Ptes. Harry Eyre, - 'George
Eaton, Joe Haycock and J. .Mc-
Kenzie have returned from ov-
erseas.
The Seaforth Golf andCoun-
try Club held its first am2ual
meeting -and 'elected officers.
Fifty, neighbors and friends
met at the home of Mr. and
Mrs. G. D. C. Harri•-of McKillop
and presented them with a
beautiful oak table.
' A social evening was spent
at the home of Mr. and Mrs.
Ken McKellar of Cromarty in
honor of their silver wedding.
They were presented with 411.
pair of silver candle holders, a
pair of silver salt and pepper
shakers and a silver cake plate.
The address was read by Mrs.
Jahn Wallace and the presenta-
tions made by Roy McCullough.
ginendrille Church ;was fil-
led to napacity when the Young
Pittple's Union presented the
PtaY "Yimmie Yohnson's Job";
directed by Mrs. A. W.. Gardin-
er. Mrs. High Chesney delight-
ed the audience with her vocal
numbers. The, fol/owing persons:
were in the test: Robert Wal-
lace, Clarence Trott, Warden
Haney, Douglas Love, Ivan For;
syth, Graee Wallace, Mrs. Ken
Cornish, Mildred Finnigan, An-
n -Watspri and Shirley Love.
FolloWin'g the regular choir
practice, the choir of Northside
Church held: a social hour at
the home of Miss' Sean McLean
When Miss Irene Workman,
bride-elect was presented with
Several pieces of flame ware.
MM. E. II, tlose and Mrti W.
A. Moore are in. Toronto Attend-
bit the Red brbag• Minna Meet•
ing being held. there,
• the sudden snow Storm
brought 'the taping of the
gees atidden.,,etid in the
Cranially district.
DeSPitethe bad Wiiitiii;t4re
. ' * ,good .crowd at,the' box
.0146 '411.1
Mae. it .'atf- *en. Minket '
• 110-thi'1611iiterlist Mit; Aft.
rile Watson. •
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Frain The Huron Expositor
March 30, 1894
Trade has bean quite lively
in 'Remit as is evidenced by
the fact" there were over 100
teams at the Mitring mill: •,,
The member's of Cannel Pres-
byterian Church were celled
upon to Mark their ballots for
or against the use of an organ .
jp the amok,
In consequence of contitmed
health. C. R-VanEgmend of
iiiiiertdVille tins redid 'his
farm at thetenth end of the
village to me. itivse for a term
of three Year&
Master *Mile Vantgmond of
EgMendeille ties started to
learn the fewellery business
From The Huron Expositor
March 28, 1919
Mrs. Henry Francis of the
Thames Road has a flock of
hens that-gave her most satis-
factory results for the year
1918. From the eggs, she re-
tained 600 cases. This is a lot , delved $171.84 and from chick- -.erect a new paint shop on the
of eggs to handle in a xsar but ens sold, $26:18: The 'feed cost old Baptist Church lot in the
next year's output .is expected $83.75, leaving a profit of $2.85 rear of D. D. Wilson's Egg- Em-
to be, larger. and a fraction per hen. .porium.
Mrs: Wm Koehler of McKillop A farewell dance was given John Grieve, V.S. of . town,
entertained the ladies of this 'for • Oliver Elliott, McKillop, captured a live grass hopper in
the hay in. hts stable loft. It
was very young but quite lively.
Thos. -Grieve, while attemp-
ting to' pick a stick out of a
grain crusher while in motion,
got his 'finger§ caught in the
rollers and had the tops taken
"off two.'
F. Ashton has, opened up a
tailor shop in Walton and is
meeting with good Success.
Quite a number of the friends
and neighbors of Samuel Robin-
son of McKillop metat his resi-
dence and gave him and his
good lady quite a surprise. Mr.
M. Morrison was called to ' the
.chair. Miss M. E. Mowbray read
an address and Mrs. David Craw-
ford made . them- the presenta-
tion of two handsome chairs. ,
A new canning factory has
been started in Kippen and will
be a boon to the burg: ,
A special meeting of the town
council was held in regard to
selling the electric light plant.
An offer of $5,000 *as received
froin Messrs. Scott Brothers.
Thos.--Daly has purchased the
Fulton 'property in Egmondville
and. it is said he intends to go
there to live.
The Beaver Lacroa-se Chub met
at the Queen's Hotel when offi-
cers were. elected,
Dr. Campbell has had a let-
ter from' an: old townsman, W.
G. Duff; from it we learn that
Mr. Duff is 'teaching a school
in southern Mariltoba and gets .
a good salary and likes the
country.
3. W. Livingstene visited Ber-
lin as Seaferth's representative
at the annual' meeting of the
'Western Football Asiociation,
Mr. II. J. Crawford, formerly of
Seaforth .was elected president
of the association.
Mr. Scott. of Itriteefield has
moved his otitis into. MS new
and coMmodients. store "which is
a etedit to RS "Oilier' and an
ornament to the village.
&nee 1860? Serving the Ce'etroMitt, F iret
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SEAFORTII, ONTARIO, MARCH 27, 1969
These Costly Changes
..The ilewilly,increasing costa to tax-
pqati which are flowing from the
-elik4ges, h theOntario govertnent
• has introduced in the municipal struc-
ture we have known for so many years
aria becoming apparent in a most posi-
tive way,
10f .1eVels of authority, new areas of
responaibility, the enlargement Of' ad-
Ministrative units each has been ac-'
eotapanied by more employees doing
what seems to many to be the
Same task that fewer employeei did'
before:
' As the, Wingham Advance-tinies
copplains• we haven't been told enough
to realize the benefits we are supposed
to; receive\ from what it describes as
"the costly • changes".
The Wingham paper goes on in these
words:
"The budget- introduced to the, Ontar-
io Legislature by Provincial Treasurer
Charles MacNaughton certainly em-
phasized the fact that we are living in
a costly age. In fact, it is startling to
discover that government is in such
dire need of funds at a time when the
general prosperity of the province is
at its highest peak in history.
'"Of course,- All of .tis, .who use our.
heads at all must realiie that the price
of everything we purchase has gone up
Very sharply during the past two'years
and we can therefore expect to be ask-
ed for more taxes than we hive paid in
years gone by. Somehow or other,
though, we all carry the hope that gov-
ernment revenues will increase through
a larger volume of basiness rather than
by a higher rate of taxation.
"It is quite pOssible that,:we are now
suffering the pains of growth which
sometimes accompany the cholee frOm
adolescence to' adult yeari. With a full
century of developMent .behind us, dur-
ing which governments had to concern"
themselves chiefly with the imMediate
responsibilities of their diy, the \em-
phasis has always been upon providing
those services which were required by
a pioneer society working its way up
from the log cabin era to the comfort of
modern civilization.
"Government people have deCided
That the end has come for the present
-units of local administration. Already
education has been moved to the county
level and it is expected that within five
years -many more of our local adminis-
trative bodies will either disappear or
fall -into the category of local sub-com-
mittees. Town councils, public utilities
commissions, sewage and water ser-
vices — all are likely to be taken over
by regional bodies.
"From the evidence' now provided by
the switch' in education control there is
good reason to believe that these new
forms of government will cost the tax-
payers a great deal more than the ad
ministrations we now support.
"All levels of government have; of
course, a perfect right 'to impose taxes.
We have asked for, or at least 'agreed to
a myriad of services'and.each of them
costs money. We do believe, hoWever;
that governments haveJailed to some,
degree in their obligation to explain the
benefits which are supposed to accrue
from the costly changes they are_mak-
ing."
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