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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Bayfield Bulletin, 1967-02-16, Page 2WORK FOR YOU 0. MR. WATCHMAKER NM JEWELLER MS The Sows Goiletich FINE CHINA — GIFTS REPAIRS Norman Martin Old Folks At Home W. E. Elliott OLD FOLKS AT HOME- A "fine large house of cedar logs," erected in 1850, had been the home of this God. erich couple for more than 60 years when this picture was taken by R. R. Sallows, Goderich photographer. Thomas Elliott, "Tom of the Gully," evidently is having his beard trimmed by his wife, the former Jane Currie, whom he brought to the log house when they were married in 1850. Mr. Elliott born in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland, came to Huron with his parents, four brothers and a sister in 1837, and experienced the hardships of pioneer days. tie died Oct. 19, 1918, in his 96th year. There were 10 children, of whom the youngest died only a few weeks ago "We threshed grain with a poverty stick," Mr. Elliott recalled in his later years. "I took a load of oats to Goderich and the best offer I got was ten cents a bushel, half cash. My taxes were $1.50. Pork is a good price now, but I remember a neighbor tak. ing a load to Goderich and all he got was $2.50 a cwt. Much of the pork in those days was beechnut pork; the hogs fattened on nuts in the woods." The Hanging Gardens of Babylon were as much a labor of love as the Taj Mahal. Nebuchadnezzar is said to has' built the gardens for his wife about 600 B.C. because she RK FOR YOU YOUR ESSO FARM AGENT IMPERIAL • GASOLINE • FUEL OIL Ask AbOut Our FREE HOME HEAT SERVICE HAROLD BLACK 296 James St.—Clinton Phone 482-3873 EDIVIELS —FURNACE OIL —STOVE OIL —FARM GASOLINE —DIESEL Fast Delivery Dependable Service Phone 52443116 EDWARD FUELS orroisnasT Office Hour= 5-12 A Y. — 1:30-S P.Y. Cloyed dl day Wednesday Phone 145-3433 Orates Roy N. Bentley PUBLIC ACCOUNTANT 4 Britannia Road, East Dial 524.9521 GODERICH — ONTARIO v. B. CLANCY, O.D. — OPTOMETRIST — For Appointment Phan* 124-72111 CODER ICH STILES FUNERAL HOME Goderich 524-8142 524-8504 R. W. BELL OPTOMETRIST Goderich The Square 524-7661 J. E. LONGSTAFF OPTOMETRIST Mondays and Wednesdays 20 Isaac Street 482-7010 Seaforth Office 527-1240 Income Tax Specialists C. E. M. M. CONSULTANTS Sex 64 — Ilderton, Ont. Phone 646-1244 Despite bad weather, Bayfield's "Marching Mothers" were able to collect $100.34 for the March of Dimes Fund here, thanks to the loyal efforts of Mrs. R. Snell, Mrs. George Bel!chamber, Mrs. Roy Scotchmer, Mrs. N. Martin, Mrs. J. B. Hovey, Mrs. J. Mayman and Miss Ellen Lindsay. missed her homeland of hills 202 Aagiessos, Goillesich and trees. THE McKILLOP MUTUAL FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY Office — Main Street SEAFORTH Insures: • Town Dwellings • All Class of Farm Property • Summer Cottages • Churches, Schools, Halls Extended coverage (wind, smoke, water damage, falling objects etc.) is also available. Agents: James Keys, RR 1, Seaforth; V. J. Lane, R.R. 5, Sea- forth; Wm. Leiper, Jr., Londesboro: Selwyn Baker, Brussels; Seaforth. 149‘10.0P UAt FIRE MINUET .COMPANY Page 2, The Bayfield Bulletin, February 16, 1967 Staid Coma- Food for thought We had the privilege of attending the annual meeting of The Maitland River Authority in Brissels at the beginning of the month, and were pleased to see the progress made since the time of that body's inception some Years ago. As it happened, we were witness to the early beginning of The Maitland River Authority, and saw the birth pains at first hand from the editorial chair of The Listowel Banner, published not so far from one of he headwaters of the Maitland, where it arises in one of the back fields on the farm of my old friend Carl Hemsworth, in Wallace Township. On Carl's farm there is a woodlot of generous size, complete with flying squirrels, Hungarian partridge, swamp and "bambigalia" trees, as well as a sugar shanty and lots of maple trees that get tapped each year (or used to, at any rate) and made some of the finest maple syrup in Perth. The Hemsworth farm has these things, in add- ition to a smart and up-to-date operation in all other respects, because common sense conservation has been practised. The old saw of "waste not- want not" has been paid some heed. and the natur- al assets of the Hemsworth farm are not wasted. There are even some Wallace Township farmers who go so far as to try and preserve apple juice without the use of chemicals which might inhibit the processes of Nature. Invariably, their efforts fail, afid cask after cask of the stuff goes "bad" or "hard" as some have a way of calling it.Here again, the advice of their forefathers does not go unheeded. Rather than see the stuff go entirely to waste. Charley Treitz and his neighbors fall to manfully and do their best to conserve every drop, rather than confuse the chickens or dizzy up'the hogs. These gallant farmers, getting together in what used to be called a "bee" and is now known as poker game, will sometimes even conserve an oth- erwise useless crop of pullets' eggs by drinking them with the spoiled or "hard" cider. Like, ah, conservation can be fun. Aside from the foregoing sacrifices, it's nice to have an annual harvest of muskrats for the boys to trap. It's nice to have a farm pond with fish in it, that also helps to keep the water table up where it comes in handy. Fresh speckled trout are a good thing to have too, but they don't live in tepid, murky mudheles such as many of our streams are becoming. There are many important wnys that a river authority, duly constituted under existing laws, can conserve the priceless resources which we have inherited on the farmlands of Huron, Recreational resources are popular and much sought after, and these, in a sense, are a show window, and often a lucrative one, for the more subtle and serious forms of conservation, such as prevention of soil erosion by strip cropping and proper treatment of gullies and ravines. The far-sighted plan which The Maitland Rivee Authority has unveiled for the Falls Reserve area near Goderich, to be implemented over the next two decades, gives an inkling of the kind of planning it will take to safeguard our dwindling natural resources. It is to be earnestly hoped that Bayfield and Stanley Township and other municipalities in The Bayfield River watershed will take a serious look at what is being accomplished by the Ausable and., Maitland areas, and govern themselves accord- ingly.