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SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, JULY 15, 19'71
Homework Makes The Difference
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li4e a nelpful 5rother,
'tney move to aid.
M4hicipal associations
produce resolutions by tie
bookft:11 and rost.of tnem
are airted a: righer govern--
ments.
a t e need are local
politicians s 4 resolution
who .can 5 ter effic-
iently; .s-.it t e recJrting
frustrati ons are al ready
tnere from higher levels
and T t may take a strong
cran o-r wo7ar face the
ignoble rubber star:'
realri ties .
Perhaps it's al ready too
late to rescue local gov-
ernment. :f regional
s -.7:-:ro" os g rn nt provides a n el•ri
bureaucrats. When we call oopoFity, -
for nelp they diplomatic- .ftoped electors and electe d
ally await the crescendo . may edJal .to the task.
of the clamor and then, (Milton. r.anadian Champion,
We are tired of nearing
local politicians com-
plain of a province strip-,
ping them of power, wrer
we see now incompetently
those same politfmcians
govern, no careessly
they do their nomewore.,
how suddenly trey snoJt
for provincial 'grants and
legislative assistance.
We abhor the growing
inter/ention in 1061
,lovermoent as we do the
increasing invo'ivement in
business decisions, but'
both came about because
we didn't care mourn to
do the job ourselves.
• Big'arother oovernent
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JULY 22, 1921
Six of the thirteen pupils at Dublin,
who wrote the entrance ezam whad honors.
They are John McConnell, ,Teresa Car-
penter, Marta Benninger, Angela Healy,
,Antela Shea ind Joseph K. liagle.
On Monday evening the Villagers of
Hensali were startled by the fire alarm.
It was else-we-red that the stable of G.
C. Petty was-on _
4se •
W. D. Hopper of town has just
the contract of boring an artesian well
or. the farm of Gee. Dale in Tuckersrrilth.
He struck water at 292 feet.
F. S. Savatige of town was elected Pres-
ident at the Ontario Jewellers' Associa-
tion meeting in Niagara Falle.
While Alex Walker of town was ewifts-
ming in the river 'between the two piers
at Hayfield, he became exhausted and
sank. Luckily his predicament was noticed
by Stanley Nicholl, who jumped off the
pier • and kept him up. until some men
secured a boat and rescued them.
The results of the Entrance examina-
tions show that Seaforth Public School
under the principalship of F. T. Fowler
has maintained the high standard it has
set for some years. Of the 31 pupils
who wrote, 28 were successful.' The
town scholarship was captured by Robert
Willis, who obtained 626 marks and the
country one was won by Gibson White e who
obtained 634 marks. This candidate came
, from No. 4 school. Mcleillop, taught by
Miss Gertrude Cricti, Seaforth.
Miss Rose Dorsey, has accepted the
position as teacher in the Manley school.
Two cars collided at Snell's corner eV,
Brucefield, a grey Dort and a Ford. The
tin kizzle came out with little injury.
The big car was'taken to London and re-
paired.
The well driller s who have been
operating at the rear of the town hall
for some time struck a big flow of _water
at a depth of 146 feet. The pump had a
capacity of 40 gallons Per minute,
The soldiers memorial monument was
placed In position in Victoria Park by the
Toronto company who had the contract.
JULY 19, 1946
His Excellency Field Marshall Lord
Alexander, Governor-General of Canada,
officiates at the opening ceremonies in
connection with the Ititernational Plowing
Match at Port Albert, near Goderich.,
A very successful gathering of the
Hoggert family was held at the home of
Wm, Martin, Kipper', with about 90 pre-
sent. Ken Hodgert, Foster Bray, and
Milton • Hodgert were in charge of the
sports. Mr. and' Mrs. Foster Bray of
Toronto Were presented With a wool blan-
ket, it being their 20th wedding anniver-
sary.
Miss Mary Denning will commence
her duties as superintendent of Scott
Memorial Hospital, ileaforthe
A passenger in .a car involved in a .
011ision near Orangeville, Lloyd Mor-
rison, a member of the. staff of the Sea-
forth High School, suffered a compound
fracture of his arin 'and broken ribs.
The many friends of Wes Hannah Craig
of Hensel Win be sorry • that she fell In
her hoMe, breaking her hro.
The glorious Twelfth was marked in
Blyth we lodges. from four counties
congregated in the villege.
A $55,000 contract for rebuilding the
north pier at Grand Bend has been awarded
to the Detroit River Construction Co. of
Blenheim.
At the annual meeting uf Grand Lodge,
A. F. and A. M.. held, in Toronto, Ross
McGregor, of Hullett, was unanimously
elected D.D.Q.M. for South liurbn district.
The fifers of Vai-na entertained the
eillensers before setting out for eiyui to
celebrate. the 12th cif Jury. _
bliss Zetta Dunlop, stewardess on the
T.C.A. run from Montreal to Moncton,
New Brunswick, is spending her holidays
with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. W.
Dunlop.
JULY 17, 1896
About 9 o'clock on Tuesday morning
the people of Zurich were-startled by the
cry of fire, which proved to be in Messrs.
Johresoh Bros., Woolen Mill. Before
any of them were aware of it, the picker
was in flames. The mill was totally
destroyed.
The re-opening of the Lutheran Church
at Zurich was a great success. The
eongregation has a nice church now and
it is a credit to them.
Master Joe Collie of Egmondville was
so unfortunate as to have the prong of a
pitch fork driven right through his foot.
What might have 'been a very serious
accident betel F. Holmsted, „barrister,
as he was driving home to Harpurhey.
West of the residence of Joseph Brown
his horse made a sudden Molt to the side
of the toad and he lost his balance and
he fell between the box and the wheels.
He was considerably bruised but was not
seriously hurt.
What remained of the old Pinkney hotel
in town has been cleared away.
Gets E. MeTaggart of the Rodgerville
cheese factory has received the orange
medal and diploma awarded to him for
cheese et the World's Fair, Chicago, 1893.
Five hundred and forty-five tickets
were sold at Seaforth station for the
Twelfth of ;July excursion to GoderIch.
F, didteridge of town has shipped a
quantity of his pressed bricks to Crediton
where a new church Is being built.
Joseph Dorrence, 4th Concession of
.1t4c1(illop, is erecting a neat new frame
residence with a stone foundation. WM.
Sleeth has the contract for the carpenter
work and F. Gutteridge the mason work.
Large quantities of grain are being
chopped at the Kippen mill,
John McLean of the 2nd Concession
of Tuckersmlth left for a trip to Scotland.
Wm. Ross of Brucefield has purchased
a new threshing engine from the White
Manufacturing Company. He has also
placed a dust ,collector on, his separator
and a pump on the, water tank.
Prior" to her /departure from Blake,
Miss Mary F. Melte- who has acted as
assistant and telegraph operator in
Leslie's store' was visited upon by tr.em-
here of her Sunday, school class and
presented with a toilet case.
The fall wheat at Kippen is about
all cut and all say that it is a good
yield.
Wm. Cudmore of Kippen, the largest
hay dealer In Huron Is this week shipping
several tons of hay to' London.'
By doing a little imatinematics, I've
come to the conclusion that I must be
related to bait the population of Canada.
just received a small tookdet com-
piled 'by my uncle, Ivan C: Thomson of
Ottawa. It sets forth the genealogy of
my maternal ancestors'in Canada.
' • Some people find their ancestors a huge
tore. Others are afraid of skeletons in
;the closet. I find ancestors fascinating,.
as I try to picture them, think of the
incredibly difficult lives they led, and
wonder ,what characteristics i and my
children have received from them.
My uncle's booklet :s cx:, high-coloured
romance. It deals in facts: births, deaths,
names, property titles. But among the
,pages isthe occasional laconic' comment
whdiaii makes me wish 1".c.c7u.-Id 'testi-1)2.a
into the 19th century t and explore further;
My maternal great-grandparents were
certainly not of the aristocracy; He was
• a ship's carpenter, and that's one reason
• he, Walter Thomson and she, 'Margaret
Farrell, his new bride, set out from
Donegal, Ireland, for St. John, New Bruns-
wick, where there was a ship-building
industry. He was.20, she 19. It was 1834.
- Within a few years, with three child-
ren, they moved to 1:pper Canada, because
Walter had heard of work to be obtained
An the building of slides on the Upper-
Ottawa River.
These slides we're built for the lumbe-
ring business which was skimming the
cream •from the stands of wonderful pine
in the area. The purpoSe of the slides was
to allow the' cribs and rafts of square tim-
ber to by-pass rapids, The timber was
floated down 'the river, eventually to
reach Quebec. Some of the great rafts
were half a mile long..
In 1847, great-grandfather Thomson
was appointed Slide Master of Grand
Calumet Island In the Ottawa River. He
held the position for more than 30 years,
to be succeeded by his •son. William; my
grandfather, who was to reign until the
last raft of square timber came down the
river in 1910.
That's the background. My mother's
family attended a one-room school,
boardeirthe teacher for $45 a year. My
uncle Ivan had a ,good job. He went to
the school early In fall and winter, and
lit the fire. He got $3.00 a year. My
grandfather got $1.00 a day for, his govern- •
ment position as Slide Master. , Pay
ceased when the navigation season ended,
so the Master had to farm as well. There
were ten in the family, and from what I've
heard, they had a happly life on the island.
As a child, I saw the,91d homestead
high on a hill 'overlooking the mighty
Ottawa, and was thrilled.
But as I , said, while the facts in the
book are interesting, it's the little asides
that inflame, the curiosity.
The original family of Walter Thomson
• was eight children. Theyproduced, among
them, exactly 60 more Thomsons. Today,
eight might produce 16.
Anna, married' James Paul. They had
four children. 'She also raised Johnnie
Robertson." NO' there's a story in
itself. Who was Johnnie? Why did she
raise him? What became of him?
John (Mountain „Tank) was a timber
cruiser and a real bruiser in the lumber-
jack
,
clashes of the times. "He hada ter-
rible tempdr,„and was known up and down
the Ottawa River as a scrapper." fiddled
at 91, a pretty ripe age for a brawler
who also sired 15 children in two mar-
riages.
Catherine.' married George Kemp who
was very fond of liquor". No other
comment, except naming their children,
with the last thus: Jason was drowned
at Temiskaming".
Another son, Wafter, had nine children..
My grandfather William had ten, A son
James had eleven. The youngest daughter,
Jane, must have realized that' even such a
good thing as Thomsons could go toolar,
produced only two.
Anyone who can multiply can see why
I have so many relations. The original
two had grown to ,60 in two generations.
Heaven knows how many the 60 produced.
But I'd really like to go back and talk
to some of the old-timers. They were
virile people in more ways than one.
Today is my husband's , birthday . .
and It isn't any ordinary birthday,
either, I may add. Today's event marks
the beginning of an era which has been
as disgustingly hateful to my husband
as anything could be . . . and I'm really
concerned how he will take it.
You see, my husband is going to be one
year older than Jack Benny today,' That's
right. He's an entire decade past what
he was ten years ago ,when he was just a
lad of thirty and he's not at all happy
about it.
Fact is, he had a, father who used to
puff away on his cigarette and dravd,
'•' When a man gets to be forty, he's on
the downgrade."
I guess when a kid hears that often
enough he begins to get a complex about
such things; I-don't know.
AnyWay, ft is a gloOniy day at our
house today. .There is none of the usual
merriment which accompanies a birth-,
day. Everything is wrapped in black,
shrouds and perfect quiet dominates the
place. It is a solemn occasion akin to
a funeral . . . and just how long this
mood will prevail' is anyone's guess.
I married this fellow when he was
22. and I was a child of just barely 18.
Those ,,were the days of our yotith, my .
husband reminds me, when I trld.a bit of
a figure and he had a full head of hair.
When the day arrived that my bus-,
band reache,d 30 yeas s, you would
thought he'd been sentenced to a firing
squad; He planned a large celebration
the night before his birthday, certain that
on his 30th marker, a great deal of his
strength would be suddenly sapped and
he would be left without a memory of .
the 20's.
Every birthday since' then has been
approached with an increasing amount of,-.
reluctance. He behaves .something similar '
to the folks who believe that the position
of the mode directs our lives - he draws
back like' a stubborn child when his
birthday comes near.
His 35th birthday was a horrible time,
I recall. That day he realized he was
half-way to the age which the. Bible
ptedicts is the end - and no amount of
cheerfulness on my-part could bring him
out of the doldrums.
The man is even spoiling my birth-
day by preaching gloom and disaster at
me. The day I reached 30 you would have
thought a great plague had descended on
the land. Just a few months ago when I
became 35 his eyes took on the woeful
lof4k of a Cocker •Spaniel crossed by a
Basset .Hound and he followed me around
for a week lamenting the passing of time.
Is It any wonder •then,_ that this 40th
birthday of my husbands will bring certain
glooni to our otherwise happy home?
Even the children have sensed the tense
air about the place and I am a nervous.
wreck t wzi moi to ndceoriug wheny
spot
the u e, o rttshltag
realization
4t
his birthday is-upon us. , 4.4
To this very moment, be hasn't men-
tioned his birthday. I sometimes wonder
if he, doesn't purposely erect a mental
blockage to shut out the horrible'remem-
brance until the very last second. Maybe -
just Maybe - this' year's birthday will be
so absolutely devastating to him that
he'll forget entirely that frilly 15 is a
special day for him . . . and like Jack
Benny will go on 'living in the blissful
pretence that he is still only 39.
I really don't know what to expect.
only know that no one at ourhouse will
breathe a word about birthdays Or cakes
or candles or 'gifts until the head of our
household acknowledges his birthday this
'year.
In that event, we must come on quickly
with a bang-up birthday celebration which
will be as lively as New Year's, as merry
as Christmas and as promising as Easter.
That's the only way we can survive the
day; I fear.
• And the day after? And the day after
that? Well, I just keep my fingers
crossed and my eyes on that silver lining
. . and I keep the chatter young and
very, very much alive.
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