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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1969-09-25, Page 2e Luton xpositor Since 1860, Serving the Community First Published at SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, every Thum* morning: by McLEAN BROS., Publisher. Ltd- ANDREW Y. MCLEAN, Editor Member Canadian Weekly Newepaper Association Ontario Weekly Newspaper Association , and Audit Bureau of Circulation Newipapeas Subscription Rates: Canada (in advance) $6.00 a Year Outside Canada (in advance) $8.00 a Year SINGLE COPIES — 15 cons EACH Sem,E$1,,,t Class Mail Registration Number 0696 SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, September 25, 1969 Waiting for Word from OWRC The recent announcement by Ontario Minister of 'Energy and Resources George Kerr that the Ontario Govern- 'meat will subsidizei construction of sewage plants in small municipalities Idiere pollution is a potential hazard suggests the wisdom of Seaforth press- ing the Ontario Water Resources Com- mission for early action on its ' sewage problemi. The minister has been quoted in the press as saying legislation wouldn't be required. He added already he had diet'. • cussed the proposal with Provincial Tre(asurer. and Huron MPP, Charles MacNaughton. Mr. IgueNaughton, of course, is fam- iliar not only with the sewer require- ments in Seaforth but also with the number of years that have elapsed, dur- ' ing_which_thetown_has sought to- rem- edy the situation. It is more than two years ago since the OWRC was asked to undertake a Study of Seaforth requirements as a preliminary to the possibility of • the town entering into an agreement for the provision of needed facilities. It is more than a year since-the com- mission held hearings to determine on a location for a lagoon to serve the area. was not as though the OWRC has been unaware of the problem here. For several years The commission has con- tinued to warn •the town at regular in- tervals of the condition of the existing disposal plant and to demand that ac- tion be taken to correct the situation. Yet when the town in turn seeks re- lief under one of the OWRC proposals, time appears to stand still. Meanwhile construction • costs con- tinue to climb. At the same time an added penalty is the fact that the OWRC has indicated no further sew- age load may be placed on the present system, thus effectively cutting off area development. In addition to the benefits that may come fPrYtard as __a _result_ _at the__ new proposals by Mr. Kerr, the town will be eligible for assistance under the cen- tral mortgage plan which Ottawa re- cently extended. The plan provides cer- tain financing and a forgiveness fea- ture with respect to main lines and dis- posal plants. But all this assistance is of little value unless OWRC makes the propos- als requested of it. On Men oning Business Names A Banker's Associationin the United States recently handed out some advice to merchants which has equal. validity here. "NO businessman in town should -al- low, the newspaper to be published with- out his name and business being men- tioned somewhere. "A stranger should be able to Pick up the newspaper and be able to tell what birtiness is represented .in the town by looti ng at-tile paper. The man who does not advertise his business does an in- justice to himself and his business town. The life of the town depends on the live, wide-awake advertising man." • From the Old Files ' WE SELECT - - - The latter. will be back in a whack it on. Same with women. . few days, and the former will If it looks OK., I say .so. If' it '-probably be back in a few weeks, doesn't, I have enough sense to but it's wonderful respite. Even keep my mouth shut. the eat looks more relaxed. But During this preparatory per- Maybe that's because she's preg- Rd, I have felt like The Invis- nant She's eating like> one of ible Man. I have had two dinners - -those-dogs-in -the-TV cominef*---000ked_for_me...inJW0 Itte...eIi2s- have done. all the -shopping. I have broken up innIttnerable feminine squabbles: (1Ciirri taste and her, mother's, in clothes, are as far apart as the R.C.'s and the Communist's philosophies), And I have stripped my every bank account to the barest of banes. If that kid drops out, as so many bright youngsters do, I'm going to take all her 'effects, piano, those records that drive me out of my skull, the lot, and burn them in the back yard. Invited to this soiree will be a number of parents i knovi. We have recently formed an organ- ization called PORK. It stands for Parents of Rotten Kids. And it's spreading like wildfire. With, •in a year, it'll be bigger than the Rotary Club. By the way, anyone who wants to. join the organization is wel- come. There are no fees. All From My Window —'By Shirley J. Keller dials, so it looks suspicious. Getting a girl ready for col- lege is something like outfitting an entire expedition to Outer Mongolia, as I've discovered in the last few weeks. First, you have to talk ▪ about it for an average of seven hours a day. Then they spend hours making up lists of "indispens- ables", like a razor and shaving cream. The lists are lost and new ones begun. Then there are hours of talking about cloth- es: turning -up the hems, lower- ./ ing necklines, raising waists, what goes with what, what clash- es with what. That's why I've been hiding in the bathroom and the back yard for a couple of weeks, during these altercations (that's not alterations). This, of course, produces heat. ed accusations that, "You -don't Pictures From the Past . . . , Seaforth people found lots of opportunities to don costumes and take part in parades 50 years ago. The upper picture, • taken in 1916 on Main Street in front of the Commercial Hotel, includes Bill Pinkney, Roy Barnett, Chester Crich, Roy Pinkney and Art Neely. The lower picture is thought to have been tak- en at the Recreation Grounds three years earlier and includes a number of those taking part in the Main Street parade. (Photos loaned by Mrs. Mary Hoggart), In the Years Agone Sugar and Spice Prom The 1itatirt.11xnealttr September 19, 1944 " Impressive services were held in First Preebyterian Church when Rev. R. IL T. Williams was inducted as minister, Mr. and Mrs„ Wm- A.. John- Stan, well known residents of McKillop Towsiahlp marked the 50th anniversary of their wed- ding. Five Holland brothers from St. Oolumban are in the forces. Sons of Mr. and Ms. J. J. Hol- land, they are Kale,Benedict, Stephen, John.and ented. Mfrs, Elizabeth Nagle had the misfortune to fall when a 'rug slipped on the floor and she fractured her hip. Hon. T. L.. Kennedy, Minister of Agriculture for Ontario open-- ed the Seaforth Fair. The result of a five week rat tilling cam- --Aga, Ed Mathews of Seaforth, was declared the winner of the $50 grand prize. He „produced 837 sat tails.- Stanley Johns was second with 114, and Mac Bolt- on of McKrIllop was third with 80. ' Wm: Davidson, well known merchant of Hilbgreen is con- fined to his home suffering from a fractured shoulder. While sitting on a load of wood the stakes gave way, pinning him underneath. The annual Fall Fair of the Sealer% Agricultural Society featuring the largest. list of en- tries in many years, brought out an attendance of 4000 per sons. - Writing in the October 16, 1914 issue of the Expositor, a reporter gives us an account of a visit and interview which he had with a 90 year old pioneer, Mr. Jonathan Wade: His story which commenced in last week's issue is concluded here. "This was the first time that I ever saw a plow, or land that bad been plowed. I was very curious to find out all about it. I at first thought that the lands were oniop beds, but was soon told differently. Up in Tucker- smith, we just harrowed the rich new land over a few times and got luxureiant returns for our labor. Later on I learned to plow and for many years raised splendid crops of wheat, averaging 40 and 60 bushels per acre. And night here I Would like to say L tried hard to save every grain of it I never liked to see a farmer grow a good mop, and afterward; 'be was careless about harvesting it "Nearly all the older settlers were experts at swinging the axes, and I was afield of none. We often had raced with our axes, like the present generation have with their saws. I had one race which I will never forget. We were al a bee, and' oar night a strapping fellow said CO me: "You have a geed tee, if it only had a good man to handle 41," I got quite spunky and dat- ed him tor a trial of atrength. We die* mak and he got the toP one and 1 the butt. We strip- goad and want at it — fusiimer iiuut ten* !ice never whited the stmt Aide a false the big nseple '40, the et So the "There was splendid fishing in the Baidield River. The choicest speckled trout and oth- er fish we used to catch, I-only wish I had some of those sweet beauties nowadays. "I knew a settler who had a number of boys, and like most boys, they were full of vim, and high spirited. The father could hardly manage them, so one day took this plan of cooling them down. He locked all of them in a room and then start- ed to smoke them with sulphur. The ringleader among the boys got • his nose to the keyhole, and with great braggadocio, shouted out, "A little more sul- phur, Daddy". The father re- plied, "Well, boys, you are be- yond redemption, so t, will let you out" nut those boys be- came good, useful men, as time revolved onwards. "From the very earliest times., the Indians used to roam around, trapping, fishing and basket- making for a living. I was always somewhat frightened when they would come to our place. An old Indian freqgently came to our home; he would always squid down on the floor, and was fell 'of talk. Every Christ, matt he was on hand, and after Ming on the floor for a while he would say with a happy smile "Iflismutt, Kliamus, Cake, Cake..' So mother would give him plentiful of the beet that her houiie 0/ceded. The Indians wanted to move. , some distance swot to tr e sit e r trapping grounds, so eau* and coaxed Mr people to reeve them. Father did riot "like the moving as his oxen aid not like the smoky smell of the Witt* sad would run away train them. Atka much persuading they went, and while loading up they chained the ox- en to a tree. When they started for the bush it took two men to keep the otherwise quiet oxen in control, so that they did not run away and upset the big load of squaws, papooses and the miscellaneous assortments. "French traders in the early days did a good business by gathering furs from the trap- pers, both white men and Ind- ians. These traders used to stop at our place, and I have scores of times watched them coming home with a string of dogs drawing several bundles of the choicest furs —' bear, wolf, mink, otter, beaver, martin, coon, etc. All of these animals abounded plentifully along the Maitland River and its breaches. "We were„ perhaps, the first brickmakers of the north. When Goderich first assumed the dig- lay of a lakeside village, we be- gan drawing our Tucb3ramPith bricks to supply their building requirements. It was quite a heavy days work for our oxen to make the round trip of about 28 miles in a day, more especial- ly when the roads were bad. "We used to cut tons of wild'' hay on the great beaver mead- ows that lay along the banks of Silver Creek. This we would scow with our scythes and stack it up for winter's use; some places we would have quite a little patch of hay, then a bunch of willows, etc." ' In looking up the Atlas of 1879, we do not find the name et Mr. Wade in Tuckerensith Township. The land of Mr. Van Egmond is marked as lot 15, COIL 1, Hallett, the north-east corner lot reusblr six miler vest of Se:dart& Fly, don't walk, Kim They got away just in time. My nerves, stretched like a rub- ber band, were about to snap. Tonight, as I sit alone with the cat, in blessed peace, I feel as though I might last for a bit yet. The last of my Rotten Kids has gone off to college, and her mot- her, reluctant as ever to raise her wing and let the chick go, went with her, It was just an , innocent remark but it set me to thinking. My husband and I had gone with friends to' visit friends . . . but the lady of the house +hadn't been home. 'Upon our depart- ure, our host said: "I'm sorry my wife wasn't home. If She had been you could have entertain- ed each other with tales about when your 'Children were born." At &set was highly Indignant. It sounded as though women prattle on at great lengths about really nothing wheii actually their conversation is generally most stimulating. Why, women talk about all sorts of things when they get together. They discuss their children, their hus- bands, their homes, their neigh- bors, their grooming problems, their food budgets Then I suddenly realized wiry I had only a passing interest in things feminine, why I'm bored to death at tea parties, why a mixed panty is always more ap- pealling to me than a soiree with the girls. Girl talk is pretty shal- low when you really sit down and think about it. What a picture we must pre- sent to the male world. To all in- tents and purpoSes, the man earns the dollars, pays the bills, provides the home. All the little woman must do is keep it neat and tidy, give birth to the child- ren and make peanut butter sandwiches for them until they graduate to. French fries and hamburgers. Yet K is an absolute fact that women cannot seem to wept their role graciously. It isn't a mediocre task by any meana. Most men will admit, when pres- sed, that it would cost an arm and leg to hire someone to do the job that the dutiful wife does year in and year out for no charge. Still somehow, women expect their husbands to pamper them, indulge them and most of all spoil them. They feel a special priority, I gues% because mother by Bill Smiley even oare! Why can't you show some interest?" This, in turn, makes me join them for a modelling show, at -which I -Mutter, "That's pretty. Yeah, I like that one. That looks pretty good on you."• Again, jhis brings forth heated accusations. The fact is, I have about as much interest in women's cloth- es as I have in choosing wall- paper. 1.1 the plaster is OK, you have to do is drop me' a line, explaining briefly why you think you qualify. Anonymity is guar, anteed. Charter members are: a cou- ple with a son of 150.plus IQ., who is making toilet seat lids ie a factory; a woman whose 14- year-old daughter ran away; a minister whose daughter smokes pot; and me. There is only one proviso. You have to swear a soleinn oath that if your kid is over .16, you have given, hinter her, no more than two "last chances", and have then- kicked him, or her, out into the world, We will have no truck with parents who want to sit an the egg "until all-that emerges.la hydrogen sulphide, when it fin- ally breaks. But I disgress. My baby, whom I have taught and fought for 18 Years, has left me. We've trotted off to high school together for the past five years, I snarling be- cause she was late, she snarling because I was snarling. I telling her to be in early, she, indig- nantly,-finding me pacing the floor, "What do you mean? It's only one o'clock." I certain she's been killed n an accident, or raped by a motor-cycle gang, She laughing hilariously at my lurid imagination. The only thing worse than missing her is the, thought that she might come home, perman- ently. Young eagles, of either sex, have to fly or they become cripples. I'd rather she flew. ambit,- in General Prefielazi and the seecad Edwa171. MAIM Scholarship in classics and math- ematics. Mr. Edwin Miller won the first P.AvvaltitHlake Scholar- ship in mathematics and science. MM. Samuel Oarnoehan of Ng- menciville has sold her house in Egmondville to Alexander Grey of Tuokersmith. The formal opening of Egenond- wile church Sheds took place under favourable • circumstances. They held a bazaar after which a concert was held. The sum of $700 was realized. Sir Wm. Hearst, Monday night announced the dissolution of the Ontario Legislature and the is- wing of the writs for a general election on October 20th. From The Huron Expositor September 28, 1894 F. A. Clarkson, eldest son of the principal of the Seaforth Collegiate Institute, has been appointed Master of the Prince- ton Public School for 1895, at a salary of $500. Andrew Smith of Egmondwille has sold his premises to A. C. Van Egmond, and intends re- tiring from business. During the past 30 years he has been one one the most worthy citizens. It is seldom that the people of Seaferth are treated to so good an entertainment for fifteen cents as was given by the Pres- byterian Church choir. Miss Grace McFall, the soprano soloist delighted the audience. Dr. Aft D. McDonald occupied the chair and Miss Ewing was the organ- ist. David Donovan of this town has sold his 'farm,' east of Eg- mondville .Win. Eberhardt for $3500. Duncan McCallum has rented his farm on .the 14th concession .from hear Woodstock, at' an annual rental of $300. The Robinson farm on the 13th concession of Hullett, .near Harlock, has been rented to D. Stevenson. He part $240:00 a year. Early one morning rigs could be seen hurrying up and down the Parr Line near Hillsgreen, when the people were having a. picnic. A large crowd gathered in Jewett's Grove,.Bayfield. The afternoon was spent in boating, swiming, gathering stones. A very pleasant'evenitie4as held at the residence of James Beattie, .the 'participants being members of the Methodist. Church choir, when they bid farewell to one of- their mem-, bets, Mrs. R. W: Bruce Smith, Who leaves shortly for Hamil- ton. school at No. 10, Tuckersrnith, is well in hand. Louis A. McKay, a student at Seaforth Collegiate and son of Wm. McKay, principal of Remelt Publid School has won the Prince Blake Scholarship in the junior of Wales, and First Edward matriculation examination: Messrs. Thomas McMichael and son, well known breeders of Hallett Township made a good show record at the recent Ex- hibitions in Tomato and London. Roy Consitt of Hillsgoven has the carpenters at work building a place for a gasoline engine, which he has purchased. At the recent UniVersity of Toronto scholarship examinat- ions, Miss Margaret Edge stood third in the province, winning the second Edward Blake Sehol- nature has endowed them with the ability to give birth. Though half the battle is knowing some- one with the attriblites necessary to become a father, women very often give the impression that giving birth is a purely female function. , That may be part of the reason they delight to swap stories about their delivery room or- deals, but . to the male ear I'd imagine„ it sounds just as fool- ish as . . . a group of men sitt- ing around exchanging remarks about planting the 'seed that started the whole thing in the first place. It just isn't done. Now I began to have sympathy for the poor husbands the world over who must listen time and time again about the 12 agoniz- ing hours in the labor room be- fore the doctor finally called in a specialist. Aside from a few pangs of guilt, hubby must feel like stuffing a handful of breast, pads into his wife's mouth when she cites a blow 'by blow account of the moment of birth. Surely there is a more current topic of greater interest to the female minds, he must think- And I'had to admit I had been guilty as sin, I have been known to give an analytical accout of childbirth following three calls in the maternity ward. I have at- tempted to soothe the disappoint- ment of a childless couple with% wisecracks like, "Oh, you get your babies the easy way tenth!"; to calm the anxious first-time ex- pectant mother with gains like, "I won't tell you it doesn't hurt, but itIS a pain you will soon for- get." I found I was agreeing now with the fellows who scold their wives for rehashing h1 public a rather personal family mat- ter and I began to admire the few wives I know who control their urge to drainatize and sim- ply sit quietly, eyes shining, looking like a women with a precious secret too wonderful to share. From The Huron Expositor September 26, 1919 Robert.. Sillefr of Usborne Township has purchased another farm, being Sandy Grey's 100 acres' in Teckersmitfh, He now owns , 350 acres. The building -d r the new -oft-McKillopte-Mr, Da aj