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li'vidual to decide what
he will do with or on his
own Property.- the land ..
Jar which he has paid good--
'money. That may .well have
been the case . in an earlier
. 'time, when 'our land .was
wide open and untrowded.,-
In,those "good" aTd.days ,
there 'was no' lawito -pre-
vent a man with a house
and small barn town
keeping a horse-, two—cows„
25. hens and a litter of
.pigs-:,:Today we have joint-
1, ,come,'to the cancl_us_i_on _
hat .livestock in a. closely,- •
built community is unde -
sirable" the paper Con-
cludes; ,
'ning and what it means
than ever before.
Whilecpost municipalit-
ies hare( accepted thee
will suggest guide lines
for' the county, actual
iMplementation'wtll de-
pend oh"the action taken
by individual municipal
ties in adopting zoning
bylaws. For 'some reason'
in some areas there seems
a hesitancy to act.
Referring to the .situal
ti on Wingham the Ad-
van ce Times sayS-there is
room for .doUbt
'about re desirability, of
a zoni by-law.
municipalities across
Huron have ecome more
doubt occasions will arise closely ingolved in plan- when some property owners
will be foced to bow to
the regulations in the by-
law and temperS will be
plan a few have yet to edgy.
d6% act. While the plan when "It O seem theein-
it finaAly is approved, herent right of the in-
With an official county but citizens.must pay a:
plan almose-1 realfti certaia price in the losxs
of some freedom of per-
sonal choice. Without
' "Legal, zoning, of ou
ciaInvies with itAat only
the benefits .of systematic
and 'orderly development",
WeliettglibittiM2MMUIXIMMORWAUMPRENt.iiMik,i•ZWT '
In the Years
Agone
SEAFORTH, ONTARIO,. January 6, 1972
Merits of Zoning
....... •
period has been chairman of the finance
Committee.
Sam Jeffrey, of -town, celebrated his
92nd birthday. Mr. Jeffrey injoya the
best of health and is able to be around /
as usual,
H. H. Leslie, won sever-al awards at
the district Dairymen's Convocation in
session in London.
Wm. Church.:; of Winthrop, left for
New York from where he will leave on
the 'S. S, Washington .for , his borne in
Bedford, England.
Mr. and Mrs. Joe McQuaid of. Beech-
wood, received word from their son Rev.
-Father Thos. McQuaid who has been in .•
China since 1940, that "he is leaving for
Canada.. After many - years spent in .
internment camp in war torn China,Canada
will look good to him.
Mrs. Sol. Williams of town while,
walking on Elouinlock Street suffered' a
badly "sprained ankle when she 1611 on
the ice.
JANUARY 13, 1922
The-annual meeting of the South Huron
Liberal Association as corattuted for both
Federal and-Provincial purposes was held
in the Town Hall, Hensall. There was a
largequrnout.
Melsts. Eckert 'and Scott, the cl.F.O.
Shippers, shipped from Dublin a choice
load Of cattle. Among the lot was one
steer, fed by Wm. Feeney, ,Dublin,. that •
sold for 9 cents per pound.
/ C. H. Ham who for •the past three
years has been Manager of the Molsons
Bank in Bruceffeld, left to take charge
of a Wench ih Hamilton.'
While there, is no sleighing in the
liensall ,section, the road's are spendid
for wheeling and grain and produce of all
kinds is coming into market freely.
Mrs. Wm. Henry, nee Miss J.Lammte
of Hensall, had the -misfortune to fall on
the icy sidewalk and broke her arm near
_The elbow.
The home of Mr. and Mrs. wm.
Elliott on the 6th concession,..McKillop,
was the scene of a very happy family
gathering when their five sons presented.
them with a handsome couch. The
addresg- wag read by Oliver Elliott 'and
the presentation made by Wilfred Elliott
• rend WM. Kerr. •
Wm. Wright, machine expert at Carlin
Bros. Garage met with a fierious and
painful accident.' He • was working on a
car suspended by chains when the chains
slipped and the car fell on him. He lost
One. tooth, his arm was badly bruised
and his -nose broken. . •
Robert Charters of town is taking
a course- in the Business College at
Stratford.
A pleasant family reunion was held at
the home of Robert Scarlett, McKillop
when Mr. and Mrs. Scarlett gave a dinner.
"-to sixteen relatives of the family in
honor of„„,his brother „lames Scarlett of.
litniafail; 'Alberta.
The "Log House" a reminiscence of
pioneer days, which appeared inthe Huron
Expositor was 'written by Newton Mac
'ravish, editor of the Canadian Magadine.
Mr.,MacTOish is a brother of John Mac-
'Tavish of this town. t. .
Here it very • first issue of a
brand new year and wager .tharttieSt
of .your good resolutiens • are already
brokOii. '1 know mine are. Of course,
my resolution this year was the sam ,t as
it was last year . . -and for years and
years before that. I resolved to lose
some, excess,. weight and that'S-alweys a
pointless resditifittn.-But.itt -does give me.•
sense ;of satisfactlori. while
in 'Elie' process •o: making it. I
think thin for a brief 'span of •tim,S at
any rate.
And 'cliTjn't the Prime Minister' wind
up the yeal.- in spectdcular faShion.: It
just prOves that our PM 'is one .,of the
•
most unusual public figures thiacon-
tineriC has 'seen in many' decades. A
Secret marriage in. March at age 52 or
so to-...arr• attractive gal 'much younger
than hintSelf . . .. and a Christmas Day
baby' - a son, no, less to' el-own the yea
That's•pe•rformance! • •
It mast be 'because I'm growing old' •
that been getting so much Preasure
• bill 'Of looking back over the. year just
ended.' There are a good many unpleasant
happenings to recall, but for the most.
• part it was a good year. 1'would be
perfectly satisfied' if thiS present year
was am better and' not worse the
last one.
Looking back on, 19714 find it con-
tains the year's usual melange of -the good
and evil, the sweet and bitter, the laily
worm within the luscious apple.
- An old friend,Don McCualg of Renfrew,
won the Best 'Newspaper award among,
Canada's weeklies.I've thought for several
years that he had the best weekly in the
country, (sorry about that, all you Other
chaps who turn out first-class weeklies),
but never got around to telling him.
On the other side of the fence,I read
an- editorial in the Bewmanville stesin an,
an old, established, many times winner of
prizes, written from' his. hospital bed by
andher old friend, John James. Th i s
shook me a bit;
• Haven't seen Don McCualg for some
years, but 'we have an old pact. He was
in the army and one day. asbeing slightly
harassed by Hun :66's, a fearsothe; gun,
if ever there was, A flight of Typhoons
canoe over, and silenced the Jerifliiiis.
We met at-a newspaper convention and
he promised me he'd buy me the biggest
and beg dinner 44411•11d--,-,e4,tir•OY-ettAtTe.- we•• got together, because''I'd been a
Typhoon pilot. And he still sends an
annual invitation to come trout fishing
In the Ottawa Valley, the natal place
of many great men, like us.
Last time I saw jOhn James, he
and two gigantic sons were whaling golf
' balls at a weeklies' tournament, while I
paddled along with my usual sliced, hooks
and various blunders of the links. diet
well, John, and hit them a mile.'
>• Here's a clipping and note from Tom-
mY Lee, foriner weekly editOX and 'now •
PH man •with Royal Trust. He, too, was
a pilot. Alm clipping is about the big •
aircrew reunion in Winnippg V)d
There have been some 'eitangeS at
our house during the past year. One
of the most notable differences is that
our two, eldest children have-grown taller
than either of their parent's . . and
twice as cleVer.
It is a fact. I'm more than twice
the-age of my teenage son and daughter,
but I'm onl,' about one-half as smart.
It is utterlY''-ailiazihr how much my •
children have learned, this year .
-and hoW much I 'ye forgotten.
That's why it -was with such deep "
concern that I sat dowa• with my teen-
agers to Warn ' them about the future -
not just 'this year but all the years to
come.
'"Take care," I cautioned them.
"Watch and learn. Store away • as much
knowledge as you can - in the next two
or^ three years. It is a proven fact that
the height of intelligence is' reached by
human life-at about age 1,5 or 16:
They ,gave me that mother7 have-you-
lest-yeur-mind-Idok..- • .
"Don't laugh," I
, insisted. "I- didn't
believe it either when I wa.s,,your age.
But now I know that what Fir-peor dumb
mother told - me was ,You are
only blessed- with such superior intel-
lect for a few short years. And then
it begiiii to dwindle and to, drajn - by
Sugar and Spice
l'IMAMOMMOZWIMpallIKOMMI*kt
note chides me. for not hobnobbing
the mob.warded to 'go, Tommy, with
my wife wouldntt let , me. She didn't
want me shipped home in a casket.
An'-here's• a note from. waiter Koy-
anagr of the Taber, Alfa., Tinies, giv-
ing me hell for using the term "Japs"
- in a column, He claims that the word
‘,Jap,"--ig..•derogatory and objectianable.
TO me, ,1,t4„,,,,,lust-an-abb.reviation. He
also doubts if I would call a German or
Itallan„sither than such in public print.
—see" above, waiter, I wouldn't give a
diddle if -somebody called Canadians
"Cans". In fact, it might be suitable.
Many of us have the' figure and the
mental resilience of a can.
Here's a huge newspaper 'from oro-
mocto, NB., in. which I „learn that a
dear old friend, George Cadogan, who
actually got this column going, can't
resist the smell of printers' Ink and
has got back into the sdramble -of run-
`rang, a weekly, after a letter swearing
-that he was going to-take it easy anti-:::
speed the winter in Spain. Take it
Motte. oromocto is a long way ,
from Majorca. •-But good luck, Lord
Thomson of the Maritimes.
And the bitter. , News that a. illose
friend of my wires , a dedicated'
Catholic nun, and one of the 'most vi-
brant, cheery personalities, one could
"WM, is seriously ill. Young in age and
spirit, she restate 'my firm conviction
that God does -not "see thb little spar-
row fall." Bless her. •
Here's a buoyant letter- 'from my-
-1Incle Ivan, who has suffered the tragic;
loss of a. brilliant son,. and the death of ;.
his -wife in a Iltupid...q4r...ScOrstif, is 19,
and is off CO Ploride, 'Ind- thinks he'll
some mysterious process until' by age
35 you are not nearly so wise as your
teenage children."
The children looked at ma blankly,
not knowing whether to 'believe or dis-
elieve. • '
"Alas," I cried, shaking my head
in misery, "I'm, entering a new year
broken woman. I'M rapidly becoming 4
senile and forgetful, enable to, make a
sensible judgement or /a-plauslble ap-
praisal of any situation. lost
any wisdom I've ever possessed. All
I can do' now is cook and clean and help
to earn 'the living_wh_ich •provictes bread
and butter fOr yOur dear mouths. 'Not •
much, ,'to be sure, but something for which
to be grateful."'
The children winced uncomfortably.
Live now," I said' earnestly. "Live,
now because you have only a few shOrt-7
years - maybe 10 if you, are lucky -
before even your own great wisdom will
begin to slip away irom you, Isn't it
a horrible prospect to think of yourselves
as near idiots in perhaps 15 years or ,o?
But mark my words it will happen. There •
will be another generation and you will 1-46 4•
ittit down and laughed at and dismissed oi
stupid. 'That's _when you will know that
what 1 priaphe'SY'is truth, terrible truth.i'' :
Happy New Year to: all from YoUr.„,
. declining columnist, Shirley.
drive this time.
And just before Christmas, friends
of ours lost a little 'Six-year-old angel
of a, girl, who was pitilessly 'smashed
• to rags in a stupid, unnecessary car
accident, on her way home from school.
And so it •goes; the bitter and the
sweet, the goodtAnd• bad, the joyous
and the tragic, Lite; and it's the only
orieWe have. --
" I don't want to spoil a mood, or
appear frivolous,, but we had the whole
-thing distilled in our Christmas vacia.-•
tion with two cats.
We have a fat, neutered lady called
Pip, bequeathed to us by Kim _when 1:ie
left home.
Well, pip has eStablish;d7the fad
that she is cpieen of her own domain..
She chaSes everything from squirrels
Home
eating andsleeping.'comesiorn,
to butterflies to spiders out of her
backyard In summer, and deigns to spend
the
neak-
ing,- iii n box 'OW air-holes, the rauchiest,
randiest young tomcat ,you've ever laid eyes on. "For the first few days, Pip
tried to lay down the law as to- Whom the
house belonged . The pre-Christ :•
Mas air was rent with "howls and screams
as they clashed. I'd 'put one in the _cellar, the other in the back Johnnie.
Finally, fat too pooped JO. participate. After a few days, they
,decided.to co-exist, and. new spend their
-;time chasing each other up the drapes
'and over the Lipholstery. .
Maybe there's a message here, some-
, :whore. 'The good and the bad, the bitter
And- the sweet, are Bart of life, and We
caulk either accept it or run away froth it.
JANUARY. 8,. 1897
Benjamin Higgins of Varna, the en-
. /- j)erprtsing harnessmaker, has enlarged
this premiSe'S and owing to the' rush 'of
trade has had to take on an extra man.,
The Old Evangelical Church at Dash-
wood has been rented. for six'.• months
and in it school will 'be held until the
.new school house is built. ,
This Is, what the London Advertiser,
has to say about a man in Seaforth: -
"Charles Willis left here for Midland,
where, he has accepted a position as
teacher in the public school. • ThIS is
his first school and if he displays the"
same ability in teaching as he did when
a student, his-friends will -he entirely
satisfied."
Messrs.- Broadfoot & 'Box, the : fur-
niture manufacturers of town are run-
ning their factory full time, employing
some 60 men. . '
7 " The Lacrosse boYs had a big house •
at their concert on New year's night when
Candno'S Hall was Packed:
Janles D. O'Connell who for 'several
Years has filled the 'position as book-:
keeper for Messrs. Reid and,. Wilson,
hardware' merchants, left for -Goderia,
to take the position of Deputy Registrar,
to which he has been appointed.
It was so .mild on Monday that Peter
Hawthorne, Hullett, did some of his spring:,
ploughing.
Two of the Egmilndville young men,
Wm. Aberhart, and Robert Hawthorne
left recently to take n. 'course of study
in Chatham Commercial College.
Within the past two.weeks all kinds
of weather has been expertviced. We
have passed from good sleighing to mud,
from •frozen. roads to sleighing again.
Miss Annie Gray, of town left for
Blyth to take' the position of teacher 'in
the elegant new school building there.
Robert.111CCartn4,. forthefir of the
Mill' Road, rTtickersmith, but whO has
'• • been residing . in the Moose Jaw
.-'district for seven years, is visiting old
friends in this district.'
Messrs. Robert and Geo. Brownlee
of Tuckersmith left for Belleville College,
where they will Study for the ministry;
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JANUARY ,14, 1947,
bn.1)Iew tear's day, Mrs, Margaret
Wright quietly celebrated her 88th birtif-
day at the home of her niece, Mrs. Mar-
garet ,White. She is in quite.good.health
and diming the day received numerous
gifts together with cards and .telephone
calls of congratulations.
ancHvira. Jiime0.1111, well known
Hibbert ToWliShip refiidents, on December,
gd. marked the 50th anniversary of their
Marriage. • -
.1bilring a New Year's rabbit drive in
Which 19 iletisall district residents took
part, 100 rabbits Arid two Mies were
bagged... The Bunters CO,Vered about 5'
miles ift the 33rucefieltL. area and were
tiatilated by a light fall of .snow which
COVered the greutid.,
Mai*
Of Settfortii, in ai'tvilo-•titan oddest. Mayor
•• Held Wit :Bret elected to the Mitten. in:
1936 daring Most Of the intervening; P•',
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