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AUGUST 9, 1946
Modern housing Contractors might
profitably take a leaf from the book of
pioneer builders in The area of Hillsgreen.
Repairs •have not been necessary for
the past 80 years to the pine shingle
roof of a brick house built by John
_Troyer, father of Mrs. S. Coleman of
Seaforth in 1886, when he made the
shingles by hand.
The property of Miss Levina Leich,
Egmondville has been sold to. John Mc-
Lachlan of Tuckersmith.
George Love of the south Gravel
Road, McKillop, has purchased a new
threshing machine.
Russel Marks 'of Walton is building a
new service station and garage on the
Walton hotel property which he bought
recently.
Misses Shirley Bennett, Marjorie
Hackwell, Edith Hackwell and Leola
Watson 'spent the, week camping at
Goderich.
Much sympathy. is extended to Mr.
and Mrs. Wm. Taylor who lives north of
Zurich, who lost their' barn and contents
by fire.
Provincial and county police are pres-
sing their search for thieves responsible
for week end robberies at Brucefield and
Goderich. Mustard Coal Co., Brucefield
had $15.00 stolen when thieves pried the
door of a safe open.
Garnet Allen of Hensall had a narrow
escape from injury when his large
gravel truck went 'out of contrain loose
gravel and landed upside down in the ditch.
Tuckersmith council has instructed
clerk Edwin P. Chesney, to advertise for
tenders for the construction of sidewalks
in, Egmondville and Harpurhey.
AUGUST 12, 1921 •-•
Leslie Lawson and Leo Stephenson of
Constance Were ticketed for the west.'
A. A. Welfier of the Bronson Line,
Stanley, has finished, harvesting and
threshing his season's crop last week.
Mr. Erb, the veteran thresher, threshed
the crop very successfully.
Mr. and WS. John Swan of Usborne,
met With an unfortunate accident which
might have proven serious. While re-
turning from Grand Bend in a Ford car
.and turning out for another car, they
met on a culvert. They were both thrown
out into the water.
Campbell off' Mitchell has
purchased the old. Campbell homestead
from his brother Harold for the sum of
$4,700.
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Among those who left on the harvest
excursion to the west were Edward Boyce
and wife, James Collins, Hugh and Frank
McGregor and Walter McBeath:
Five loads of,. new fall wheat were
standing at the grain house at Kippen at
one time, waiting to be unloaddd.
Mr. Moffatt, who has had charge of
the grain house for some thirtyfive
years reports that this season's spring
crop is the lightest he ever remembers.
Seaforth Citizens Band and Fire Bri-
gade held a picnic to Bayfield.
.An old landmark will soon disappear
from Main Street. The McGinnis Block,
opposite the Dick house, has been pur-
chased by Messrs. James Kerr and John
McIntosh, and is being torn down by them.
The large barn on a cement foundation
has been purchased by Malcolm McKellar.
Miss Dorothy Hutchison, has accepted
the position -of -teacher-for-the-Roxboro--
school for the coming• year.
wm. Wright of town has -purchased the-
residence on James Street recently vaca-
ted by Ben Johnson.
Miss Margaret Edge is' acting as
organist in First Presbyterian Church.
'AUGUST 7, 1896.
Geo. McEwen of Hensall has shipped
10,000 bushel of oats to Liverpool.
The 200 acre farm on the 2nd con-
' cession of Hullett, owned by D., Shanahan,
Clinton and for several years rented by
Tyndall Bros. has been purchased by
them, the price being $9,500. The farnn is
an excellent one with good .buildings.
Fred Davis left on a trip to England,
Ireland and France.
A bank barn belonging to John Kairhs
of Hibbert, was struck, by lightning arid
burned, together with the entire contents.
James Broadfoot, Mill Road, Tucker-
smith had ,3 mare and foal killed.
,Fred Waldron and Wm. Roff left Bruce-
field for the old country, taking
4 \With them three car loads of fat cattle.
Goldwin Graham and George Turner go
in charge of Messrs. Graham, Turner and
'Monteith eight car loads.
The writer had the pleasure of a visit
to the plum orchard of T. Mellis of Kippen
where every tree is laden with delicious
fruit,
Wm. Kyle of Kippen has had placed
on his. farm a fine windm-111.
Fourteen tickets were sold at Kippen
station on the excursion to Niagara Falls.
McEwan Bros. of Bayfield,
Well, here ,we are half-way through
the summer, and I've been haVing a whale
of a time on my holidays.
The farthest I've been away, from home,
with friends scooting to Europe; the west
coast, the east coast, is out to the hotel
to deliver or pick up my daughter the
waitress, ten miles. I've played five holes
of golf, been in swimming once, and
haven't even got my fibbing rod out of the
trunk of the car, where it's been since
last summer.
If that makes you Oink I must be a
pretty useless tool, you're dead, on.
Somehow, the days fly by. They re-
mind me of tracer bullets, which come
screaming straight at you and for some
reason, miss and disappear. Good old
tracer bullets; may I never see one again.
But ' that reminds me there is one
bright spot ahead. The Canadian Fighter
Pilots Association is having its biennial
gathering at the end of the summer and
I'm invited to go and poison myself for
three days in the company of other
• : balding, paunrh ine
chaps, .99 per cent of whom I have never
met.
It might be fun, but I think III pass it
up. These re-unions are more sadden-
ing than joyful. I'd get more fun out of
.taking out the old album and looking at
what I was in those days: sloppy hat,
top button undone, handlebar moustache
and a devilish twinkle in my eye.
My daughter says the twinkle is still
there, though my' wife-lifts her eyebrows.
I just snort. That's the best answer when
you're not sure of your ground.
Perhaps the real reason I won't go
is that for one of the dinners, there is a
note saying "Black tie optional". Actually,
I look pretty danged distinguished in a
black tie, but I detest everything the
phrase, ,stands ,for; pseudo-sophisticated,
middle-class snobbery.
I'm not knocking the old fighter pilots.
- Most of them came from 'pretty humble
surroundings, as I did, 4,d have done well
in life. After all, we were the pick of
the crop (and no snorting, please, from
'the army and navy, who gave us a hand
occasionally and got in our way frequently).
• But black tie optional" is a bit
rich for my brood. And I can hear all
the dead ones hooting with laughter at
this innocent bit of pomposity. And I
wonder how many of the alcoholics and
the failures will be there, black tie Or
none.
And there's another reunion.
'prisoners-of-war (air force) deal. This,
too, I'd enjoy if I knew anybody. But I
tried One or two ,of these and wound up
as lonely as a lobster at a clambake.
All these fat, 'red-faced Canadians
pounding each other on the back and re-
telling ancient lies, while I looked for one
familiar face. All my friends in prison
camp ' were Czechs and Poles and Nor-
wegians and Rhodesians and South Africans
and Irish and Welsh and Scots.' Mpsthave
been in the wrong camp.
And of course there's the annual con-
vention of the Canadian Weekly
Newspapers Association coming up. I still
have a special relationship' with the
weeklies, and many good old friends
among their ,editors.
feel like at; outsider at their corurti?us. ood
BUJ probably Iho would ,4,1^ •••
drive Kim, to work? Who would settle
the fights between her and her mother?
Who would continue to fail to 'put up the
new clothes-line and repair the handle
on the bathroom door? No, I'm essential
right here, at home.
It's not that I'm anti-social. I'd
thoroughly enjoy mixing it up with old
fighter pilots, old 'p.o.w.'s and old editors.
And I could probably arrange a ride for
Kim. And the clothes-line can lie
there and rot, for all I -care. And, the
bathroom door-knob can wait, as it has
crone f or six iironths:
It's just that my wife takes two hours
t6' get ready for a swim, three day's to
get ready to go away for a weekend, three
weeks to get ready for a. convention. It
ain't worth it.
Maybe I'll take a day off and go down
to the dock and catch some perch.
pump—deale-have put in mach
and intend operating a cider mill near
the front road school.
From My Window
By Shirley J. Keller
OiRMORMENMONOMNAMMIM
One thing leads to another In this
business. Today I had a 'telephone con-
versation with a lady who told me she
was shocked to learn via last week's
column that members of our family trun-
dled around in the Keller household without
any clothes on and she asked,' quite
bluntly, why we did it.
Frankly,' I was stumped for words. I
couldn't tell her why We don't get excited
abOut family nudity in our household any
more than I could tell her, why we always
eat three ,meals a day or wash our hair
in the downstairs bathroom rather than
upstairs. 'It is just a habit, I guess,
I hope rdidn't leave the impression
in last week's effort that we disrobe
immediately upon entering the doorway
at home after a day at work and af "sdhool.
That's hardly the way it is at all. However
there is no mad dash for something with
whichrto cover up when you are acciden-
tally confronted by another family member
while you are undressed.
Why did we begin this life-style? I
honestly don't know. It just happened that
way, I guess.
It doesn't make a whole lot of sense
to me, though, that mothers -and fathers
will be' quite open and 'above board with
their children While the y are small - say
Iwo and three years old - and then suddenly,
when the kids begin to play in the street
and hear a feW startling facts of life,
,they are pushed from their parents' bed-
room like unwanted hard-sell •salesmen
are elated from the Verandah.
And I don't know whether our method
of living is right or wrong. 'All I can
tell you it that our children are not ,
oty diffekthlt titan other children. They
are not PerVerted seat maniacs. sex
dedifPf even enter Into the picture‘Nudity
IS not 'atilt ; it is Just being without
dlothest
If Wailitling at .01 pia happening' to our
children is that/they are quite Mature
about things %Oita qually Set kids to
1itte.ting, arid te&heding. There just
tint'anylkunt to it when you hale been
raised With the idea that the body it a
natural thing ntii iti to ettrY man and
woman regardless of your station in life.
From a very early age our children
. learned that all female's were basically
alike and so are the males of the species.
If • there is no secret about the body,
there is less need for that driving kind
of inquisitiveness which tells young minds
that surely the body differs from individual
to individual.
-Our children have learned anatomy the
most beautiful way, I think. They have
discovered that the human bOdy is more
than face, figure and reproductive organs.
I hope that our children have found .out
that the human body is God's masterpiece -
a machine so perfect that man could never
duplicate it.
The body, my kids know, is nothing
smutty and dirty which needs tO be.covered
-nd hidden from the view of others in the
'tamily. We are alike In varying degrees
of size and there Is nothing more to be
said.< ..
I don't know whether I could feel'
comfortable in a "nudist colony such as
the ones you read about from time to
time. I wouldn't like 'the idea of parad-
ing •around nude with everyone else. Some-
'how it just doesn't seem sanitary tome.
That's right. Sanitary.
I was discussing our seemingly queer
habit of nudity in our home with my
husband who is a Very straight-forward,
type of guy.
"What do you honestly Think about it?"
I asked him. I was actually beginning to
question the wisdom of it after talking
with one reader on the subject.
",Veil, I look at it like this," said
my 'husband. "It is out'-house. I think
that what we do there is our business. If
We can't live the way we are most com-
fortable then we might just about as well
move into a blOpdy hotel."
That's it, I thought. At home we do
things naturally. In public, you have con-
sideration for the feelings of others around
you who May not approve of-your way of
life. And that's the difference between
not running•for cover in your own hom e .
and shocking your friends by appearing
naked at a patio party.
I hope thy readers understand, too.
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