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The Huron Expositor, 1971-07-29, Page 2SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, JULY 29, 1971 SUGAR and SPICE by Bill Smiley "••••"*. "I 'guess flipping the bat on the manager's head isn't a good Way to start the seoril" Since 1860, Serving the Cpmmunity Pint PUbI SW0'011111, ONTARlo, every Thursday morning by iv(oLEAN BROS., Publishers Ltd. AND.Iiir 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 Telephone 527.0240 A. Newspaper Is, A Businss • Every newspaper - par- ticularly weekly news, papers because they are closer to the readers and are more concerned with 'the personal and community implication's of the ser- vice they render - is faced from time to time with a cry about an item omitted, a picture delayed or a story shortened. The answer is easy.It's a matter of dollars and cents.. No matter how much 'a paper may wish to serve its community it may only do so fo the extent that it is possible to continue as an economically sound- enterprise. It must •be assured of sufficient rev- enue to meet production costs and a return on the . invesehent as the St.Marys Journal -Argus points out in a recent issue. "Weekly newspapera are not immune to. the effects of fluctuating economies. Canada's weeklies are bils- inesses.that must operate under the same rules as any other free enterprise venture. "One of the questtons we are most frequent4y. asked is:, "Why does your paper vary in size from week to' week?" The ques- tion arises particularly when we have to leave news reports or pictures out, for a week or more because we do not have enough space. "To begin with, we should explain that this probleth of size is not peculiar to-our paper. Every newspaper faces the -same problem and for the same reason - advertising. The money secured from the sale of subscriptions is a relatively small part af a newsvaixer's—revenue. I have been surpressing the urge every week now for some time to write this column.,. Finally this week, I cleared the matter with my dear spouse and he haa„ agreed to allow the story to appear in print. It isn't my custom to get permission from my husband to write about him, but this particular matter is so special that I felt it was absolutely imperative - for the sake of our marriage - to forewarn my guy what I was up to. The whole thing began quietly, without the least amount of fuss. My eldest son and I were •watching television late at night, after the rest of the household was asleep, when we noticed something large and swoopy in the front hall where the light was blazing'brightly. My son took a closer look and found the intruder was a bat one of these squeaky, lousey creatures which are supposed to get caught in your hair and ail those creepy things. 'ell call dad," offered my brave son who dislikes vermin as much as I do. The night was hot, horribly hot, and the hour was late. Keep these two facts foremost in your mind. I heard a muffled grumbling Whibh took on O shape of cursing and watched as my 'husband descended the stairs. The fact that he was stark naked did not Worry me or our son who crept cant- lotisly behind his father. we're quite accustomed to seeing one another in the e0 there was not 'one -shred Of panic. The' attention Was . focused clearly on the bat. Rubby, was obViettsly half asleep. He Peered in arid around things in search bf the bit but saw' nothing. He decided the only sensible approach was to flush tho beast out. me ' the broom," he ordered in a tone Which intlidated thiS was no tilite tot 1014." " Our, soil Obediently bretight the broOnt and banded' it to hiS tether My husband then beggiiit ftiribiS poking and prodding, here and thete and everywhere' where it '; terrified flight linger* . "To that extent news- papers are private busin- esses. They have a com- modity to sell - advertis- ing - but they also hive a service to perform.• TPf 't service is providing the community it serves with news of its own affairs, accurate up-to-date re- ports of what is taking place in the-comtunity. The subscription fee pays.' for the service. The ad- vertising space provides the columns of type, the newprint, the press time and the. staff which con- veys the service. "The. problem for news- papers becomes" acute when. there .is a week with a lot- af newa_and pictures which cry out to be published and very little -advertis- ing. .On such weeks we run what'we call an'open paper, but .we must be mindful of the m fact that a series of open paperscan put us out of business. . "There As nothing we would like better than to be'able to publish, papers three or four times as big as We do each week and if could .get enough adver- tising to do this, you can ,be sure'we would maintain an even larger perdentage of news and current, top- ,i-,O4 1.1 5,,,AttlAM we do now. "So' 1".flnYiine asks you Why ,we occasionally leave a story out, the answer probably is that it has been a poor Week for ad- vertising and. we had to cut down the size of the paper. After all if we cannot-continue to publish, we'cannot print any news at all,"the Journal Argks_____ C He must have touched a raw nerve because in no time at an, the bat was swooping again, round and round above my husband's head. I was watching the whole thing from ^ the safe side of a French door and our son was barricaded behind the kitchen "door ,where no bat had ever trespassed. It was my husband against the bat. Then came the frantic shouts from my husband. "Open the door," he hollered with furor. "Somebody open the front door." We obeyed his command without ques- tion. And there, framed In . a circle of light was my bare, husband, broom raised on high and chasing to and fro like a madman, for the world to observe, while the bat darted thither and yon at the front entrance. Blessedly, the bat finally went out into the night, the doors were closed, the broom was stored away in the cupboard, the light was shut, off and my husband - still mumbling and half asleep - climbed the stairs.to bed. The next morning, I covered my fide In shame as I emerged onto the front verandah to, retrieve the milk and the newspaper:" What if that woman - that neighbor across the street whom hire never even met - was watching as my husband did his version of Lady Godiva's ride. What would she think? I wore my dark eye glasses to work, too. Hopefully no one who possibly had been out strolling or, driving late last evening would recognize me as the 'wife of the queer fellow who.does the strange deriding in the funny suit. Halfway through the morning, my hus- band appeared Itt,the office where I work. He looked Otte normal. He got into quiet conversation with some of the fellows with whom I work but before long, I' Could hear loud guffaws from their direction. While half asleep the night before - it seems nay husband had finally rea- lised what he'd done and with a dis- mayed face qUiekly left the premises to reflect on it. , JULY 26,., 1946. A torrential downpour of rain brought to an abrupt stop all farming operations. Accompanied by a high' wLid AV ." at times seemed,„„to reach' tAnado-ddice; the , rain fell steadily for more than an hour. The' joint tender of G. M.' Ritchie and F. Kling in an amount of $7,260 covering the construction of a garage to house township Machinery was accepted at a special meeting of the Tuckersmith Town- ship council. The garage will be of cement block construction and is to be erected in Egmondville on property re- cently purchased from Q. Simpson. Measuring 9 1/4' and 10 1/2 inches and weighing 10 ounces, an Irish petato.,„ grown—by BasirF,„ PtirCell at his home on Market Street; establishes something of a record at which , other Seaforth gardeners may aim. A reception honoring Mr. and Mrs, Russel Hodgert, who were recently mar- ried, was held in the. pavilion at Bayfield. Music was furnished by Murdock's Orchestra. 'They were presented with a Chesterfield and chair, the address being read by Art Wright and the presentation by Wm. Leyburn, Robert Tyndall, Art Wallace and Robert Archibald. Joan, the little daughter of Mr. and ' Mrs. John Bach, 'met with an unfortunate 'accident on Main Street. While playing in the back of her 'father's truck, which was parked' at the curb, she fell to the pavement, alighting on her head and was rendered unconscious for some time. Mrs. Robert Baker of Blake is con- fined to her home after receiving injur- ies in a motor accident near Hillsgreen. John Essery, prominent in Liberal circles, passed away at his home. in Centralia. ' He was associated with the Usborne and Hibbert Mutual Fire Insur- ance Company for fifty years. ' The Seaforth High School Board awar- ded tenders for the qperation of busses to Scott' Habkirk and Frank Grieve. Work commenced this week on alterations to portions 'of the roof on the east• side of • the school. The work is being done by Harry Hatt. • JULY 29, 1921. Thousands of Ford owners from all over Western Ontario swooped dowrr on Grand Bend and took posseSsion of it by force for their annual outing. Estimates placed the numbers at 10,000. A deer was seen in the neighborhood-- of Crgnbrook. It crossed the farms of Milton Rands and Alex Perrie. It was an unusual sight. Members of the church choir at. Brucefield gathered' at the home of Miss Margaret Aikenhead to entertain Mr. and Mrs. J. A. McEwan and Mr. and Mrs. wm. Wright. During the evening they were each presented with a cut glaSs. bowl. The threshers have started on their rounds for another season. Owen Gieger of liensall IS having his 'fine new dwelling wired, the Ores all being tubed which makes thein Very safe. Miss Ella Turnbull has' resigned her school at Burk's Falls and' accepted a school at 'Newcastle and a large in- create in salary. MiSs Gertrude Crich and brother John left on a month's visit' with relatives at Hartney and Carberry, Manitoba. Misq Ethel Beattie, Mist; Sadie Me- Cloy and Miss A. McKinnon of Tuelteri. smith, felt on a trip doWn the 8t. Law. 'rondo. • Melvin Blanchard has purchased the fifty acre farm belonging to the estate of the--late Robert Hanna for the sum of $2500.00. Mr . Blanchard has now 200 °;,11 •tx, .34 s si r_41 y fatalACcideabccArroll • on the farm of Wm. Hart, a couple of miles south of Bannockburn when his seven-year-old adopted daughter, received a fall Which resulted in her death. • The annual Sunday School picnic of St. Thomas' Church was held in Bayfield. In the -boys sports, winners included: Mickey Archibald, Ronald Wilson, Borden Merner, Leonard Brown, Jack Archibald, J. C. Archibald, Bob Archibald, ,Walter Bateman, Bert North. -2 4--i-- 18 9 6 . Bush fires have been doing consider- able damage in Stephen Township. It is supposed the fire was first started 'by berry pickers. Wm. Kyle' Of" Kippen has disposed" of his carriage and wagon shop to H. Ricker. Eighty tickets were sold at Kippen station for the farmer's excursion to Guelph. A dispatch from Toronto says " a .party.of engineers left the city to com- mence the survey of the route to be taken by the Hurontario Electric Rail- way. . They will go over the ground between Port Perry, Walkerton, Kin- cardine, Meaford and Goderich. Their work will be completed in about '60 days and track laying will then be proceeded with immediately. . As Robert Habkirk was at his brother Mathew's, on the north road, helping to draw in hay, he hitched one of his horses, to the .hay fork. When the animal saw the , hay coming up off the, load, it got frightened and got down the side Of the approach, taking Mr. Habkirk with it. . The excursion to the Agricultural College and Experimental Farm atGuelpti was a grand success. The special train started at Centralia and was made up of, ten coaches and when it reached Clinton' every car was packed and there were large crowds at Seaforth, Dublin and Mitchell. Mr. Bethune, the agent at Seaforth, telegraphed for another train. ^ A cow belonging to Mr. Hoag, an employee of the Broadfoot. and Box Fur- niture Co. strayed out of 'the' pasture field and got on the railway track and was struck by one, of the excursion trains. Its legs were broken and, it had to be killed. While John Hays of McKillop and two ladies who were returning from John ' Sproat's in Tuckersmith, the horse got frightened and jumped into the ditch. The buggy was upset and the occupants thrown out. ' John McMillan, M.P. shipped three loads of tat cattle from Seaforth for the Old Country. Robert McMillan and Robert geott went in charge of them. ' Mr. Wm. Brine left for Toronto where he secured a good position: John McDonald of the 2nd concession ILLS. of Tuckersmith, is erecting a fine hew bank barn. the foundation is brick and was built,by Geo. Kidd of Hen- sail, while the wood work is being done by Geo. IVIcGenigle. Wm. Sproat the same neighborhood, has also raised and enlarged his barns and placed stabling underneath. Mr. Shoemaker of Hay did the 'radon work and Mr. McGonigle the carpenter work. Win: Scott, of Brucefield has let the contract for the erection of a nice rest. donee to' be built On the site of the 'old presbyteriatv Church. Frank Gutteridge of Seaforth has tho contract. « . Ab,this is a grand time of the year, entirely. Once the heat wave is over, you couldn't find a more wonderful place in the world to live. The sun is like a bronie hammer. But at night you need a blanket. The swimmers are swimming, the sailors are sallingithe golfers are golfing, and the drinker are drinking. True, the workers are working, but they're just back from their two-weeki- with-pay, 'peeling gloriously and brag- ging about the sensational place they' found, with hot and cold running rats, or they're looking forward to their two weeks at Camp Missevathing. So everybody is happy. The children are delightful, graceful, brown little things, with ice cream smeared around their mouths. • The mothers are strutting around in garments for which they'd have been thrown in the penitentiary, twenty years ago. And loving it. (I personally think some of them should still be incarcerated, but personal opinions have no place in an objective column.) The dads, the lucky ones who are able to be on holidays with their families, are bubbling with joy. You can tell by the way they affectionately cuff their kids, roll their eyes until the whites shoW (sheer ecstasy), when their wives hand' them a 'one-foot shopping list, and stroll trance- like through the supermarket, knocking down little old ladies. • The other dads, the unlucky ones who have to stay in the city and work while the family is at the cottage, are pretty sad. 'You can tell by the way they act after work. Some of them, just the odd one -or two, haven't even the- heart to go home to that silent, lonely house. They know they'd burst into tears. So they just head, with a miserable, bereft gleam in their eye, to, the nearest air-conditioned bar. Poor devils. ,No one to talk to except go-go girls. Some of the better-adjusted unlicky dads, of ,course, don't do that. They go • straight home from work and straight to the refrigerator. Then they tear off their shirts and' shoes... Then they look 4 at' the' kitchen sink, almost throw up, shrug manfully, and turn-on the television. Waking with a start at 10 p.m., they phone and order some Chinese food. Then they turn on the lawn .Sprinkler. This is the only known positive method to make sure it rains all night. Then there are the happy, irrepressible teenagers. You can spot them,"regard- less of sex, by their hump. They have all- been told,. all through their lives, to keep their shoulders back and heads up. As a result, they walk with their heads on their chests and shoulders humped. That, not -clotUs or hair, is the main reason you can't differentiate between the ,sexesi',:iioW can "you telloitirs,,a girl t if she isn't sticking her chest out? And of course, in summer in Canada, and everywhere I guess, we 'have the summer animals. Racoon are cute, but a pain in the arm to campers. Bears are sweet, too, but a menace in the provincial parks. TiP to campers: if you want to stroke a bear, make sure you do it with yOur artificial arm. But vie Can cope with these animals. What .concerns me is the ones that walk --upright. --T-hey--come--'in allisizes and 'in- tensities. 'There is the mild little man' who power-mows his lawn every night, whether • it needs it or not. He's probably just trying to get away from his wife's in- cessant babble. Then there's the power-boat baby. He can be any age from eight to eighty. But with fifty horges behind him, he's Kirk-Douglas, or Burt Lancaster or John "something. or Somebody. He's trying to prove ' And, naturally, summer spawns the motor-cycle gang. This is the wolverine of . the two-legged animal. It destroys for pleasUre and leaves its stink everywhere. But it's a pretty , good world. Have a happy summer." . Correction Unfortunately the wrong initials inad- vertently appeared in the mit lines accom- panying %a. picture of the Beaver Lacrosse Team which was reproduced on this page last week. The brother of D. C. MacKay, shown in the picture, is John R. MacKay., of Tuckersmith„ not John. C. as it appeared and it was Mr. MacKay Who made the picture available to us. Smoke Tree on Godei-ich Street In the Years Agoile ^kr From My Window • — By Shirley J. Keller a 0