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To the Editor
Home Is A Valuable Heritage
Sir:
I ,was pleased to read a recent article
in your paper re the Van Egmond home.
It looks as though the project is yet
alive and I hope that some of the active
organizations in town or country will
take up the torch.
Col. Van Egmond brought many of our
early settlers to this part of the county
via the Huron road - which I belive he
had constructed. It extended from Guelph
to _Godetieh. lie also---ha&-supplies fui -
their immediate needs.
The Huron Tract was a Grade VII
project in Social Studies, thus it was
necessary for me to make an exten-
sive study of the historical facts. These
I gleaned from the Atlas of Huron County.
Col. Van Egmond kept thirty-four horse
teams. on the Huron. Road bringing in
settlers. He also built four road houses
for their use. I also studied "In the
Days of the Canada Company". Both of
these books are available at our local ▪ library but only to use while at 4:he
library. They are very valuable books.
The library board had one of the old
Huron County Atlases rebound and it is
now in very good condition.
I must not forget our own James R.
Scott's book, the "Settlement of Huron
County". There is also a copy of this
book in the ldcal . library which mem-
bers may take out. It makes good read-
ing and is filled with interesting facts
of_pioneer days,
Some of the boys in my class (they
will recall) were so interested in this
study that they went to the Van Egmond
house and the late Earl Van Egmond,
the Colonel's great grandson., took them
in ,and showed them the jail in the cellar.
Be also told them many interesting stories
about his great grandfather.
If the, youth of this country are to
treasure their heritage they must have
something concrete to look upon., Other=
wise a historic site will just become
another old house. I hope those con-
. cerned will speak out.
Mabel Turnbull
Sugar an and- Spree
by Bill Smiley
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Well, it looks as though any more
travelling I do before summer bids us
farewell will be on foot. Kim pasSed
her driving test today.
It was a pretty tense morning for
both of us. She was afraid she might
fail her test. I. was afraid she might
pass
,Just to complicate matters, she turned
up for her test at 9.30 a.m., only' to
discover that she was slated for 3.30
p.m. She claims it was their mistake,
but knowing my daughter I have a good
idea who made the error.
However, the chaps giving the tests
managed to work her in at 10 a.m.,
when someone else failed to show up.
So that meant I had' time for only about
ten cigarettes as I 'waited, pretending
to read the morning paper.
But it gave me a' chance to look at
the people preparing for their tests.
Quite a cross-section. They ranged
from a skinny 16-year-old boy who wanted
a driver's license for his motor-cycle,
to an old chap with a hearing aid and
almost blind in his left eye. Both passed,
but I hope I never meet either on the
highway.
Then a Couple of former students
--of- mine walred--in. They are the—type
who have probablybeen driving for several
years without a license and have finally
been nailed. They are pleasant lads,
but while neither is dumber than an ox,
neither is smarter.
Their ,procedure was typical. They
filled out the application cards wrong,
and had to do them over again. When
Mike was asked by the officer where he
lived, he jerked his thumb at Peter
-and said, "Two houses down from him",
while the officer rolled his eyes. He
wanted an address.
Then the pair sat down at the long
table to fill out the written test. Ten
minutes later they were sitting, brows
furrowed, with about three out of forty
squares ticked off. I tossed them a word
of encouragement, E'It Might be easier
if you could read and write, eh?"
Unfazed,, they just grinned. Peter
retorted, "Yeah, we shouldn'ta gonna
sleep in all them there English classes".
Fine physical specimens both, they'll
probably make •excellent but, dangerous
drivers.
I'm not implying that the driving tests
are easy. They're quite tough. When I
got my license, the job of testing aspirants
was a political sinecure. The tester
told me to arrive at his place of business
at 6.00 p.m . He locked up the store,
told me to drive him home, about eight
blocks, .I gave him two bucks, and that
was it.
When my wife- got hers, some ten,
years later, it was the same procedure.
The police chief had her pick him up at
the office, they drove around three or four
blocks and she took him home to lurich.
(At his place, not ours.)
Today there's a whole battery of
physical tests, a written test on the rules
of the road, and the actual driving test.
A good-many-people_are-flunIced,and-Vra —„-
all for that. What I'd really' like to see
is a comisulsory test for every driver
about every two years, and a good stiff
one.
Could you pass, Jack, with your colour-
blindness? Could you pass, lady, with'
your total Inability to parallel park? Could
you pass, Grandad, with your arthritis?
I think a great many of us would be put
. out to pasture.
Anyway, Kim returned, I expected,
to see her with a fact as long as a foot.
"'She Was beaming. My heart sank.
There's going to be a fight here every
day until she gets back to school.
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on record.
'The following stockmen and breeders
shipped' stock from Brucefield for the
Western Fair: Jy G. McMichael of Seaforth,
will take a Hackney stallion and a Clyde
stallion for Mr. 'Colquhoun of Mitchell;
D. Fotheringham, Brucefield, his agri-
cultural team; A. Sinclair, Kippen, team
of heavy draughts; A. and J,:''Broadfoot,
Tuckersmith, heavy draught brood mare
and foal and gear old stallion; Joseph
Reynolds, Hullett, Agro. team, and
Geo. Dale, Hullett, hackney mare and
general purpose team.
SEPTEMBER 4, 1896-
D. Urquhart, proprietor of the Henson
Oatmeal and Saw Mills, is erecting a
cider mill and steam evaporator.
The dry goods firm of Wm. Pickard
& Co. of Seaforth are among the heaviest
importing firm in this part of the province.
A number of lacrosse enthusiasts and
friends of R, E. Jackson assembled at the
Commercial Hotel, and made him the
recipient of a gold chain and charm. For
a number of years he has been leader in
the club.
Miss C. A. Porter and Miss Marion
Muldrew of Egmondville went to Goderich
as delegates to the Endeavor CririVention.
A barn belonging to Mr. Shipley on the
farm east of 'Mr. Van Egmond, Huron
Road, Hullett, was burned together with the
contents. The blaze was distinctly visible
in town.
Out of 105 pupils from the Seaforth
Collegiate InStitute who wrote at the
different departmental examinations, 81
were successful.
Charlie Stewart, son of James Stewart,
left on Thursday for Brooklyn. Should
be decide to remain in the States he will
be greatly missed here.
Messrs. Broadfoot, Box and Co. of
town have sold and delivered to John F.
Dale, of Hullett, a very handSome suite
of parlour and bedroom furnituire for the
fine new brick house which he has just
completed.
Geo. Donaldson, who has been carrying
on a harness making business in town has
purchased the business of Mr. Dennis in
Brussels.
Messrs. Broadfoot & Box, of town,
have leased a store in. Clinton, with the
view of starting a retail furniture business
in that town.
James Cumming of Egmondville, has
been appointed tax collector for the Town-
ship of Tuckersmith.
Mr. Cudmore of Kippen has now three
presses in full swing in Lambton County
pressing large quantities of hay.
R. McM ordie of Kippen has been making
a thinning out of his horses, having dis-
posed of three at one sale.
John Hinchley, of Constance, who• is
quite an apiarist, started in the spring
with thirty colonies of bees and with these
colonies he has taken, up over 4,000
pounds of honey. These bees were attended
entirely by Mr. Hinchley who is a gentle-
man of 73 years of age.
Geo. Stephenson of Constance met with
a painful accident when two horses got
into the same stall, In trying to separate
them one of the animals kicked twice,
striking him on the thighs and also on the
breast. His legs were severely bruised
and he had several r,ibs broken.
Christopher Dale of ConStance has had
a new Brantford Mill erected at his barns
for pumping water and crushing grain.; The
mill was purchased from and erected by
S. Hinchley.
Wrn. Gray, the popular tailor atStaffa,
has severed his connection in Mr.
Hutchison's store and has returned to
Bluevale.
Mr. Chas. Mason of Brucefield, the
veteran horse buyer shipped another, car
load of horses to the Old Country.
SkAFORTH, ONTARIO, SEPTEMBER 2, 1971
Being editor of a
Afeekly new'spaper is a re-
warding experience and one
which We would not wish to
abandon, even if on most
occasions, it involves
longer hours and a variety
of probleMs not common to
many other occupations.
Perhaps what makes it .
so, the Greenfield (Ind.)
Reporter reminds us, is
the fact we never lack for
interesting observations
and questions, typical of
which, the Reporter, sug-
gests,. are the follbwing:
"Please put it on the
_f_r gra. p a ge_ "
"Use the story just as ,
I have written it. The
club wants it that way
for the scrap book."
"You're invited , to our
annual dinner tonight(this
was the third i-nvitati on
that week and we wanted a
night home). There.wi 11 be
plenty free to eat and
drink. Oh, yes, please
bring, your camera."
"How come it wasn't in
the paper? It was - Well,
SEPTEMBER 13, 1946.
The Huron County Council has
established a Huron Co. Scholarship to be
awarded to a boy who enters the Ontario
Agricultural College and this year the
Committee has awarded. the scholarship to
J. Allison Morgan, son of A. W. Morgan,
USjsorne Township.
Kenry Addicott, who made his home
in' Winthrop for a number of years, has
moved to Seaforth.
Some 35 Ohio State farmers, agri-
cultural representatives and members of
the extension service of the University
of Ohio, paid a visit to Seaforth. While
here they inspected the poultry and stock
farm of James M. Scott. From there
they drove to W. L. Whyte's farm for an
inspection of his immense broiler plant,
laying pens and hogs and cattle.
A motion was passed at a meeting of
the Town Council requesting the Depart-
ment of Highways to install a blinker light
at the intersection of Main Street on
No. 8 Highway, as several accidents have
already occurred on this busy intersection.
A special Meeting of Hensall Village
council was held to consider the matter
of drilling test wells to secure water.
Jack" Holland's tender was accepted
for the Egmondville sidewalks at a meet-
ing of the Tuckersmith Council.
Robert Smith of town had the mis-
fortune while working at the Bell Engine
& Thresher Co. to have one of his fingers
badly cut and bruised.
Messrs. E. C. Boswell, W. T. Teall,
M. A. Reid, W. J. DUnCari, Chas. Barber,
R. E. McKenzie, Jas. A. Stewart and H.
C. Meir attended the Lions. Giilf and
Bowling Tournament in Stratfoid.
&USW' Town Hall was .pieked - to
capacity for a reception in honor of
Mr. and Mrs. Wilmer McGregor Of it !Open.'
The address was read by Keith McLean and
the presentation was Made by Ken McLean.
I didn't see it. Will you
please go through the back
copies and tear it out for
me."
"I just stopped by 'to
talk a few minutes, but
if you're busy."
"We voted to make you
our club publicity chair-
man."
"I know you have a dead-
line, but couldn't you just
squeeze .this little item
in?" •
"My husband has never
been in trouble before so
I don't think his name
should appear in the paper".
" I
day , but it's our annual
reunion and someone ought
to cover it."
"My uncle's brother is
one, of your biggest adver-
tisers and I was wondering
if ., . . "
"I'll try to get my ad
in to you before the dead ;
line next time.",
"If there wasn't room
for the picture, why
couldn't they run it on-
another page?"
In the Years Agone
Cromarty Presbyterian Church was the
scene of a pretty wedding when Wilma
Jean, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. A.
Hamilton became the bride of John Carlyle
Cornish, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. K. Cornish
of Brucefield.
SEPTEMBER 9, 1923.
Mr. Heard of London has the contract
to rebuild Mrs. S tott's house in Hayfield.
It will be remembered that two years
ago Mrs. Stott's house 'was about com-
pleted when it was destroyed by fire.
Benjamin Riley of Constance has just
completed a fine new barn for Mr. Wiltse
of Clinton.
A happy event was solemnized at
maple Villa, the home of Mr. and Mrs.
G. B. Dorrance in McKillop, when their
only daughter, Mabelle, became the bride
of Gordon Webster, of McKillop.
The auction Sale of John Hay at his
farm in Tuckersmith was a great success.
Seaforth was the
of to brought us in a
beautiful rip aspberries,
om his garden.
and Mrs. T. S. Smith and Mr.
s. J. G. Mullen,„. have returned
e week's trip down the St.Law-
nd Saguenay Rivers.
sses Ella and Mabel Turnbull of
to tes have left to resume their duties,"
the ormer on the High School at New-
ca e and Miss Mabel on the_ staff of
II ntsville School.
Miss Minnie Merrier left to resume
h= studies at the Toronto Conservatory
of usic.
he Sunshine Mission Band and Girl
Gu .es held 'a successful tea on the
church lawn.
There are 220 pupils registered at
the Seaforth Collegiate Institute for the
fall term. This is the largest number
This Makes It Interesting
Thos. Brawn
auctioneer.
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FROM
MY
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By Shirley Keller
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I'm not a very influential member of
the press in any man's language but I
will be even less important once news of
this column hits the streets.
I have just this moment put down the
rimming newspaper and I am sickened and
appalled by the story which I read there -
about Mr. and Mrs. F. D. Roosevelt and
Mrs. Roos"evelt's social secretary.
Of course I didn't know the Roosevelts
but now that they are both deceased, I
see absolutely no reason for dredging up
the past the way certain reporters seem
to do. I know these little intimacies
come to the fore when some well-meaning
but money-grabbing soul get a hold on a
personal diary of some famous person
but I believe it is one thing to publish
them in a book and something entirely
different to print them in every daily
newspaper across the nation, the con-
tinent and maybe even the globe.
And that's where the reporter comes
in. Very likely, some itchy reporter
thought this smear about poor Eleanor
and F.D. would make good copy. It
did. I read it with fervor, didn't I?
But I don't call that responsible re-
a.--space-with
the dead's past mistakes - charges which
can never be admitted or denied by the
persons involved - and I think that is
dastardly dumb. The height of ignor-
ance.
What is it with dead presidents in
the USA anyway? Take John F. Ken-
nedy, for instance, the man reputed to be
the finest statesman this side Of the
world has known in many long years. He
is tragically shoat down in the streets-
of an American city and all the press
can do now Is to dig up all the filth_ and
scandal ,they can find about JFK, his
family, his lovely widow and yes, even
the dead man's innocent children.
Not long ago, I picked up a movie
magazine which 'promised "intimate
photos" of Jackie and Arie Onassis in-
side. Okay, so I'm interested, right
away. Come on, folks. Tell me you
would be different if you had , the same
magazine on your lap and all the time
in the world to read it.
How in the wide world the widow of
Jack Kennedy and the widow of Robert
Kennedy, for that matter, become sub-
jects for movieland's greasy, grimy goon-
ledgers, I wouldn't have a clue but they
have. And Inside the magazine I held
were snapshOts of Jackie and Arie on
their private beach at their private island-
in their own private part of the World.
Some fool with a telephoto lens on his
camera had spied on the pair from a boat
anchored off Scorpio or whatever that
island izcalled, and had, photographed the
Onassis' as they swam together, salon the
beach together and horsed around together
the way most normal married people
would.
Now tell-me that's responsible report-
ing .. . any more than it was responsible
reporting to publicize the fact, after all
these years, that F.D.Roosevelt was having
• an affair with another woman. Just what
purpose does that knowledge serve now,,,
except to discredit the memory of a man
who died a couple of decades or so ago.
It really doesn't matter. to me that
F.D.Reosevelt kissed lovely Lucy Mercer
on the 'Sly in the Roosevelt pantry and that
Eleanor behaved like the average woman
scorned when she discovered the hanky-
panky by asking for abstinence or divorce.
So what? The same thing goes on every
day in all parts 0? the universe and every-
body chalks)it up to human nature.
I like' to remember F.D.Roosevelt for
the contribution he made during his years
as president of the United States of
America . . . I think of his wife as a fine
gentle lady who was the epitome of First
Ladies in that country. I'd never even
heard of the lovely Lucy who caught
Frank's eye, had you?
Let the dead rest in peace, I say. Put
a tighter rein on the wonder writers who
ihipk that to be appealing, a -story has to
be full of lust and incest . . • and to be
,safe, it has to concern men and women
whose contributiond to society will never
be forgotten, though they' are deceased.
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