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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1972-04-20, Page 2APRIL 23, 1897. A goodly number of citizens attended in the Council chamber .to take the initial steps towards. getting up a suitable cele- bration in Seaforth on the' occasion of the queen's Diamond Jubilee. The chair was., occupied by Mayor Scott and John Darwin acted as "secretary. The follow- ing gentlemen, were appointed a citizens 'cotninittee; Messrs. D. D. Wilson, M. Morris, F. 'G. Neelin, E. C. ,Coleman, 1'. Holmested, John Beattie', -John Weir and M. Y. McLean. • • At the annual•meetIng of the Canadian LacrOsSe- Association, held in Toronto, R. 'E. Jackson of Egmondville was this year elected 'a member of the council. John Aitoheson, of the .north gravel road, McKillop,' sold a 5-year-old horse to messis. Winter and Donovan for $130. Thos. G. Soole of Torontci was 'a guest of his brother Charles, He has been -- carrying, on a job printing business In . Toronto. and•has prospered. The tbwn was visited by.quite ablizzard on Monday and by night the ground was white with snow. Thos. J. Stephens -of town leaves shortly for Windsor where he will take a situation as clerk in the Manning Hotel. Alex Cardno has put a handsome new delivery wagon on the road. • Wm. Dixon of brucefield opened his new hotel for the first time. AS is well known, Mr. Dixon's hotel was burned down over a year ago and he has con- structed on the old site, 'a beautiful new edifice. Tames Dorrance of the North Gfavel Road, McKillop, who is knoWn as-a Berk- shire breeder -has sold to James Long- werth a very superior' Berkshire pig. • C. Hartleib of Zurich has begun the mason work on his new store. Miss Moore has arrived In Cromarty and intends starting a dfAbrn'aking shop. JameS Beverly of Hensall, is moving this week into the new brick dwelling he lately purchased from Messrs. Brown . & Clark. ...op c.v.. 'APRIL 21, 1922. -Mrs. Moore of Toronto, is viting her son, William, of Constance, and helping him to get settled on the farm which he purchased from Mr. Coates. ' Owing to the failure of hydro power, which was off Seaforth from Wednesday evening until .I0 olclock Thursday night, the') Expositor will be 'one day late in reaching some of its readers. John Flanigan of Dublin has taken possession of the store he recently pur- chased from M. J. Klinkhammer. ' The West end Beef Ring commenced operation this week with James Rivers again in charge. A public tneetingwas recently held in Aberdeen Hall, Kirkton with the Hydro In the Years Agone %Ilan xpoisitor Since 1860. Serving the Community First Publiished at SZAFORTIL, ONTARIO, eVerY Tiitir5da7 morning tw me-LEAN BROS., Publishers Ltd. ANDREW Y. MCLEAN. Editor Member Canadian WeeIdy' Newspaper Association Ontario Weekly Newspaper Association and Audit Bureau of Circulation Newspapers Subscription Rates: Canada (in advance) $8.00 a Year Outside Canada (in advance) $10.00 a Year SINGLE COPIES — 2() CENTS EACH Second Class Mail Registration Number 0696 ''Pele.Phone 521-0240 SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, April 20, 1972 WI has anniversary In the smaller towns and villageS across On- tarioand in the rural areas that neighbor them, one organization that im= mediately ,suggeSts com- munity interest is the Women's Institute. In Seaforth and Kippen and Dublin and in hun- dreds of other centres.the members of,the Women's Institute for years have enjoyed the respect of their fellow citizens for the contribution they-. make. This year the. Institute is attracting particular attention because it is the 75th anniversary of its founding. During those years the organization has. cgroWn until today it at- tracts a membership of 35,000. The anniversary has attracted cdmment in a number of areassuch as that of the editor of .the Cdbourg Sentinel Star who writes:' "Strong communitieshave strong community voluntary otganizatiOns. If a town is healthy, its churches • thriving, its sports groups healthy and growing, its municipal government prd- gressive, and usually its merchants active and pros-. perous. Volunteer groups in churches, service clubs, lodges and charitable or- ganizations all make up the community. In the small cities of the land, there may be dozens of organizations 'through which people can take part. "But in the tiny cross- roads, there are only a • few such groups. "Throughout all these'. changes, however, fre- quently the last re- maining community,organ- ization is the. Women's Institute: It is the- means of companionship, of. looking outward, of and . of com7 munity action. ."In manY,cases, you have saved:the last -vestiges Of. a community in a world of superhighways, county schoolboards, and' 1,000- member churches as a rap- idly changing world dis- solves the identity of' places, things and people." Snowdrops Sugar and Spice by Bill Smiley ft SEAFORTH MEAT MARKET 0 Lean Butt PORK CHOPS • •• Sliced YoUng BEEF LIVER Store-Sliced Cooked' Meat: Mac. Cheese, Dutch, Minced Ham Chicken Loaf Pickle & Pimento Loaf • For the Freezer: . . Fronts of Beef 551 Commercial Brand: 1 - 0 _ 2 lb. 75g, i Pork 'Lo n 1 Cid and Wrapped. Free lb tractors and EQUIPMENT 12-ft- Packer 10 1/2 -ft, International Cultivator Cockshutt 15-run Drill 100-bu. PTO Spreader 145-bu. New Idea PTO Spreader 200-bu. Star Line-Tank-Type Spreader ON MAY FIRST LEYLAND TRACTORS Are going up in price. BUY NOW and avoid the ' EXTRA COST 10-ft, Crowfoot Packer and some 11-ft. ban- ish Cultivators in stock at last year's prices • USED TRACTORS 35 Massey with Loader 50 Massey with Loader 65 Massey Dieseimatic with or withottt Loader 345 Newfield with Cab 465 Newfield WD Allis Used loaders for Ford and David Brown Trac- tor§. cGAVIN FARM EQUIPMENT "Sening the District Since 1936" 527-0245 WALTON ti a fie • • ,• • • • • FARMERS • : Phone -527-0770 • • AND --SEED CORN • • Before the Rush • • • • ORDER YOUR • • • ATRAZIN • • • AT 'COMPETITIVE PRICES • Seaforth • • • • • • • 0 • • • • • S • • , • • :0 • • • • • • • 4• 4, • • • • • • • es 4. • • • • • .From My Window — By Shirley J. Keller — Their real beef against the system, of course, is that it does. not work. It does not create--erraugh jobs. Therefore, why • get an education, why even bother looking for work, if there isn't any? Another -influence, or lack of it, is that of the church. It used to have two firm allies in the establishment and the work ethic. The church hasn't been able to cope. It is ,tarnished by its association with the other two, and the young people have turned' their back on it, though I don't think they have lost the faith. They've merely last respect for that massive body of rules and dogma and "an honest day's work. for an h'onest day's pay'', and the insistence that while life is -pretty rotten, everything will be groovy in heaven. They ire young, impatient, and simply will not buy that. - ' As you may have expected, or hoped, or given up• on, I am trying to' make a • point. I'm not against the attitude, If I didn't like work, I'd quit tomorrow. But the 're is nothing ennobling in work itself. It's an utter drag, unless you like what you are doing. The other morning, I was driving one of my. students to school. He's a big;v husky -lad . who has shovelled out my drive at times of stress.. Asked him what , he was going to do when he finished school.- ' "Well„ I'm going to work for a year, then maybe go to college." Asked him whether he couldn't get a student loan. "I don't want one. don't wanna owe anybody anything." He continued, "My parents would give me. the money to go to university, but 'I won't take it. They've worked hard all their lives for it. Why not let them , enjdy what's left?" At this point, I ran off 'the road,. and killed two girls from middle-class •• parents, who were confident that, des- pite the fact that they have no brains., their parents would send them to college 'and tha4 they would there find a,htisband, and ohe boy who had told me he was going to extort every penny he could from the . government in loans and grants, and never pay them back.' #999•041se,000 0 0000mOieleleaelsoomr 000104 • • • SEED GRAD)! GRASS SEED ORDER YOUR Engineers and discussed the possibility of securing hydro energy for 'the neigh- borhood in Usborne Twp. John' Butt of Kippen, who has- been with his brother Edgar, during the winter, has gone to Goderich where he 'has taken a position. R. Higgins and family-of Hensall, intend shortly moving into the dwelling recently occupied 17y Owen•Gelget. At- the request of the-citizens of Sea- forth, Mayor Golding has proclainied every -Wednesday afternoon a half holiday during the months of May, June, July,, August and September. For a number of years past the business of hotel keeping has been disrupted to such an extent that the ,travelling public 'was forced to accept anything with a semblance of so-called accommodation. In this respect -it is pleasing to note that the Commercial Hotel has recently been purchased .by Chas. Dungey of Mit- chell. ,The constant endeavor on the part of many of the citizens to establish and equip a hospital has not succeeded to the extent that the well-merited -project deserved. This situation has been bridged by A. A. McLennan opening his home for this purpose. Miss Margaret Cleary is the nurse in charge. The Easter entertainment by the Methodist Sunday School on Good Friday proved to be an unqualified success. Harry Livens in a piano duet with Ross Savauge was heartily received and -warmly encored. APRIL 25, 1947. Herman Oestricher of Stephen Twp. celebrated his ,90th birthday in -Windsor when members of his family tendered him a turkey dinner. He developed and operated Cloverdale Stock Farm, north of Crediton. e. The Blyth 'Construction Company has recommenced work on the Bayfield bridge and are starting cutting down the hill for the approaches•a- Keith Hrandon, Bayfield, 1 eft for Stratford, • where , he joined the staff of the Ontario Department of Highways. • - Mr. and Mrs. A. O'Leary received Operational Wings presented post- humously to their son W.0.1.L. F.,0',Leary who lost his life in action 'against' the enemy while serving with the R.C.A.F. in Belgium in 1944. D. H. Wilson was- in Kitchener attend- ing the annual meeting of the Ontario Baseball Association. Ralph Davidson, recently discharged from the Army has rented .the lower portion of - the Orange Hall at Winthrop and intends establishing a business. . , Daily papers carried stories in which details of decisions believed to have been arrived at by the House &Commons Com- mittee on Redistribution were given. The Stories suggested the present Huron-Perth Riding, represented , by W. H. Golding would be enlarged to include the Town of Mitchell, and the Township of Logan.1 There is a growing philosophy among young people that goes something like this: -"Work? Who, needs it."' The theory has a number. of foster parents. One of them is the exceeding ease with which one can get on the welfare rolls these days.• Why work when one can draw enough welfare for a pad, however humble, grub and smokes? , Then there' is unemployment insur- ance. This is even better than welfare to fall back on, though it does reqbire the occasional stint of that. four-letter word 'we're talking about. Work for a few month's, get yotirself fired on some pre- text, loll back on the mattress of un. ins. until it rees_out, work again for a little while, and repeat the process. This is a way 'of Life for some young people, and they make no bones about it. ,•It doesn't occur to them that. it's merely a' refined form Of stealing, and in most 'cases, I dorf't think they'd care .11 it did. • As an aside, I think you'd be apalled' by their attitude toward stealing. conduct regular surveys in my classes on such subjects - what used to be knoWn as. simple honesty. I n most 'cases, the majority. befieves firmly that, it's 'bad to steal from a friend, but it's perfectly all. right to steal, or "rip-off" from .any large institutions; chain stores, insurance companies, the'' eoyernment. I wonder where they got that idea? It couldn't possibly be from hearing their dads talking_ about beating the tax col- lector, or their moms 'exaggerating an insurance. claim. Could it? Back to the subject. 'What else in- fluences this comparatively new non- attitude toward work? One is perely econo- mic. They are completely frtistfated by the free enterprise system under which they have been raised. It still offers great opportunities for., the few who have enterprise and luck. Well, how many of us have both?. You can bade all the enterprise that's lying around, but if you haven't luck, you're a perpetual bankrupt... You can be a real lucker, but if you don't have any enter- prise, all you do is win a-few...bucks at bingo or on the horses. Everybody should write a column like this. Everybody should know what a self- help program column-writing can be. I get things off my chest and 'before I know it, ,my mailbox is filled with letters from you .showing me were,I'm wrong and telling me what -an absolute idiot I really am to feel the way I do. It is wonderful. It is almOst as though each of my readers was a psychiatrist and the column was my couch. If you are- thinking about becoming a columnist, there, are a few pointers I should like to pass along. Before I begin, however, I should remind you of that olc saying: Anything`-worth having is worth suffering far. (Or at least, that's the way the adage should be .worded to meet a columnist's headaches.) First of all; a columnist needs broad shoulders. I"m not talking about an actual blocky physical stance, although this columnist happens to fit- that descrip-, tion,• I fear. What I mean to imply is that a colqmnist must have the ability to state an opinion, defend it and take the backlash which is sure to develop becauie of it. There is no room in the column- writing. field for the squeamish of the clan. It is one thing to think something- to believe something - and it is quite 'aepther to put the feeling into black, and white print bearing your mew to be read by hundreds and hundreds - yes, thou- sands - of people. That's why a columnist needs a secopd attribute - self-assurance. It is vital for a columnist to be sure of his or her sanity, and believe me,'that is a quality which is increasingly dif- , ficult for me to muster. When you are shut away In a quiet little work-a-day -World where •your inner thought are not suPressed, but, certainly not pulled out into the foreground of your life, you have no idea of the beating your mind can take. Column writers, unlike so many other people, hare their souls each time they sit down to their type- writers - and it takes a mighty stable person to have his or her views con- stantly badgered and berated and not lose confidence in himself or herself. • A sense of humor is a must. You must be able to smile when you are taken to task In a ,public place - on your evening. off - for something you've writ- ten months previously._ And you must be able to grin and bear it when you suddenly realize. youlre feelihgs 'are in the minority where the general masses are concerned. Even temper is another attribute a columnist must attain. It serves no purpose at all .to become angry when a reader attacks you for something you've written in a column . . and sooner or later yqu are bound to tread on some- one's tees, no matter how lightly. If your column is to involve your ,, , family and your friends (as my column often does) you must have an understand- ing family and sympathetic friends. Not too many evenings ago, my husband took , a gentle ribbing from a reader because of my reference to "hubby'S expanding waistline" In, a-column a few weeks ear- lier. being the husband of a columnist isn't easy - and if you have aspirations to enter the field, make certain your spouse is able to roll with the punches as well as you do. And finally, a 'columnist must be pre- pared to go thiough life friendles - . . . because only the very rarest people will make fast'fri'ends with anyone Who writes a column for a newspaper. It is con- sidered too risky, for one thing. A columnist's friend is one who has plenty of give and take - a person who will not become easily offended if some refer- ence is made through the column to him or to her. And here, I can exercise the privil- ege of a columnist. I can pay public tribute to the people who are my friends. They are a wonderful group of people to say the very least. They are folks with the kind of genuine warmth that makes them special - the type of friends anyone . would' be proud to claim as their own. There you have it, the list, of neces- sary qualifications to becoming a colum- nist. .As you can see, writing talent is not mentioned. If it was, this writer weuld have to hang up her typewriter im- mediately.