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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1972-06-22, Page 2From Aly Window By Shirley J. Keller urou fxrpositor , Since 1860, Serving the Community Pint PizblIded q SZAFORTH, ONTARIO, every Thursday morning by MCLEAN BROS., PUblishens Ltd. ANDREW Y. MCLEAN, Editor Member Canadian Weekly 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 — 20 CENTS EACH Second Class Mall Registration, Number 0696 Telephone 527-0240 SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, June 22, 1972 An opportunity to help Nursing Home Week, which.is being observed across Ontario at this time, provides an oppor- . tunity, to visit nursing homes in our area and to inform ourselves of the service which the homes provide. At the •same time by our visits we perhaps can contribute something to the lives of thaSe who are the guests in the homes.' It is inevitable that despite the great concern which most home operators exhibit on their behalf and the extent to which they go to provide variety,there is a re.- 4 petitivepness in the r o u - tine,which these elder citizens experience. The presence of a stranger and the contribution cif visitors to the conver- sation.is excellent ther- aPy to them. While the nursing home presence is emphasized during Nursing Home Week, the need for concern and co-operation on the part of those of us more for- tunate is something that shtuld continue through- out fifty-two' weeks of the year. I,t is' not ' enough that we show our- concern during only one week each year. -The Canadian West 4 ,Sugar and Spice by Bill Smiley In the Years Agone JUNE 25, 1897 It was the Queen's weather, a perfect day for the celebration of Queen Victoria jubilee. From , early morning people streamed into town. At the corner of Main and Goderich Streets was a large evergreen arch resplendent with flags. The 33rd Battalion, band was .in atten- - dance. In a chariot was seated Her Gracious Majesty and represented by Mrs. Edward McFaul. The prize ,for the largest number .oepupils was won, by No. 2 Tuckersmith• with T. Forsythe as teacher. Wm. Westcott, Usborne, met with a painful accident. He 'was engaged in drawing gravel and in some manner fell ,from the wagon, breaking two ribs. Henry Gibb, of this town, carriage -maker at Lewis Macdonald's establish- ment has just completed a novelty in the shape of a chair, the, frame work of which is compoSed entirely of bovine horns. It is solid and durable. - ,D. Johnson of Seaforth has the con- tract of-'putting new glass in the windows of Egmondville Church. The side lights will be of Cathedral glass and the centre -plain glass. A very nice matrimonial event took place at the residence of James C. Reid, of .this town when third daughter,Miss Elizabeth, w,as united in marriage, to Wm. G. %Edmonds. Rev. A. D. McDonald performed the ceremony. There was quite a heavy frost on Sunday night, but no damage was heard of. A young man who is employed at the eledtric light station narnedJohn Darling, fell from the arch in front of the Royal Hotel and was pretty badly shaken up. Geo. McGonigle of Tuckersmith° is working on the new city of St. Joseph. A total of 74 inmates are in 'the . House of Refuge at present. ' Geo. Stewart of Seaforth, has been busily engaged for some days baling and shipping hay. He has already loaded a number of cars for the 'Old Country. JUNE 23, 1922. The Ontario Government, through the Ontario Savings Office, hes announced the opening of several offices, among them one in Seaforth. The Seaforth branch, which is situated in the Sills block and is one of the finest banking offices in the country. The local manager is J, M.- McMillan, a Seaforth boy, who needs no introduction to the public. What might have been-a seridus acci- dent occurred at the home of Hugh Aiken- head, Brucefield. Earl Collins was put- ting his new' depirefor in the barn. and a storm was, coming up. They were run- ning it on planks and the separator slipped off and it went through the floor, taking Mr. Aikenhead with it. Austin Wheeler of Brucefield, who graduated from Clinton Business Cellege, has secured a position in Detroit. - Two large trucks have been employed by the O.D. H. to haul gravel and are marking east of W.J.Cleary's, St. Colum- ban. Michael Downey of St. Columban reports one of his valuable hens to be very ill, owing to the shock when a four legged duck was• hatched from the eggs she had been sitting on. A great number of persons, mostly ladies, are seen driving to the Canada Company lands, east of Walton, where wild strawberries are plentiful. Road work has commenced in Tacker- smith froth a new gravel pit which was opened on the farm of F'red Petsper. Wm. Strong of Kippen, the popular teacher et No. 2. Tuckersmith is at Blyth presiding over Departmental exams. The motor for the pipe organ of Carrel Presbyterian Church at Hensall, was installed which will prove a great convenience. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Bennett of Walton, • have moved to Winthrop and intend living with their son, who has bought the Cuthill store. A concert of an unusual standard of excellericN was given in First Presby- terian Church. Mrs. J. G. Mullen opened the concert introducing the choir and by a medley of Scotch airs delightfully played, gave a, welcome to the Seaforth Highlanders Band in their new Kiltie uniforms. Wm. Freeman is leader of this band. Messrs. Harold Coates and 0. Elliott assisted in the Anvil chorus. , Those taking solos in the aethems, Mrs. Mullen, Harriet 'Murray, J. G. Mullen and Dalton Reid. The Seaforth male quartette also sang and Mr. Livens gave an organ solo. Miss Florence Welsh and James Scott also sang solos. wm. Edmonds of town is in Quebec attending the Grand Lodge, Canadian Order of Foresters. . JUNE 27, 1947. • A three-legged gosling was hatched• at the farm of wni, Koehler in'McKillop. A short time after tching the gosling it picked off the extra 1 g. Two ladies fro Chitago were in Seaforth seeking to locate the birthplace ,of their mother. Some one, directed them to Robert Scarlett, Church St. who was able to give them. all the necessary information- and he remembered their grandfather, the late “Chas. Davis •, of L eadbury. Nelson. Govenlock, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Govenlock, Seaforth, was elected President of the Waterford Lions Club at the chib's election. A Ross Rennie, son of Mr. and Mrs. M. R. Rennie, Seaforth, won a lasting place in the golfer's Hall , of Fame when playing recently at the Seigniory Club, he made a hole-in-one. ' Enroute . to Seafort from Clinton, J. J. Byron, 32, Ottawa , d Handirer sales- „man, was instantly kil ed early Tuesday morning when his car left the highway at the corner 1 1/2 niiles west 'of Sea- forth and crashed through a fence. About sixty neighbors and friends gathered' at the home of Mrs. Thos. Hodgert, Tuckersmith, to present her daughter, Miss Janet, with a shower of kitchen graniteware and aluminum ,pribr to her marriage. Misses Betty Ann Lane and Marjorie Papple brought in the gifts while Mrs. Roy' Alien read an address. W” V. Jefferson'_ has sold his farm "Fairview Lodge" in TuCkersmith to Mr. Hilmer of SeXsmith, Alberta. During Assenibly at the Seaforth Public School presentatiOn of music certificates and shields was carried out and at the same time the pupils of room 1, 2 and 3 presented Miss M. Hartry with a lapel pin. Kenneth Willis read the address and the presentation was made by Sheila McFadden. Damage which may run into several hundred dollars, resulted when - a gang, believed to be 1136.1 youths, afterbreaking into the Palace Rink, ran amuck and smashed quantities of building material stored there pending construction of an addition to Scott Memotial HOspital. Members of the Seaforth Lions Club, meeting in the Commercial Hotel, elected James M. Scott, president for. the coming year, Large congregations were present at First Presbyterian Church marking the re-opening of the church, follCwing the installation of a new organ. About one more birthday party and they can include me out. Last Friday -.;:as my birthday, and I arrived home exhausted to discover that friends of ours had invited the whole gang to dinner, td celebrate. My birthday. I was overwhelmed. I didn't think anybody cared anymore. Even though Kim gave me a kiss and a big hug and two golf balls when I got home. Yes,' the whole gang included Kim and her husband, Don, the artist. But maybe I'll get around to them later. My accounts of their wedding have tripled my fan mail to three letters a week. The party was a roaring success. A roaring success is when everybody is roaring at everybody else over some idea that, examined the next morning, seems about as exciting as a biography • of Mackenzie King. A good time was had by all and Rap, their •massiver Labrador retriever who, when.he is happy, can knock you right off your feet with one wag of 'his tail. I was wined and dined and punched in the ribs into the small hours, I didn't mind the wining,and dining, but got a little sick of the pokes in the ribs. My wife kept smashing me with her elbow and hissing, "Get up and make a speech. Express your appreciation.", Every time she did it, I, like one of Pavlov's dogs, got' up and made a speech. They were all one-sentence shots, such as, "I hafta go to the bath- room", or "I'd...like to make 'a toast to me." • My speeches seemedto go over pretty well, though drawing no thunderous ova- tions, but my wife was hitting me so hard toward the end that she dislocated her elbow. It was just as well, because by this time I wasn't even getting up to make My spee'Clies. A mother is like a rose . . . plenty of sweetness but with a few thorns here and there. And there are times - like in a rose garden . - when mothers lose their "frag- rance" and give off only sharp barbs. We've just gone through one of those days at our house . . . one of those horrible days ( or was it weeks) when mother comes out feeling like a dishrag and the kids are left on the sidelines, .bent but hardly broken. I'm not going to bore you with the details of our problems. It'is enough for you to know that some of. our troubles were small, some were large, some were easily solved, others were more dif- ficult to resolve. All I want to do is to talk to mothers (and fathers) who are having similar difficulties . , and want reassurance that they are not alone with their head- aches. „. If there is anything I've learned about motherhood since becoming a mother, It has to be that children will test your endurance to the outer limits of your Mind. That's true. And the only defence you have against your children is a deter- mination to withstand their barrage until they are at the age of reason. In the last few weeks I've talked with parents who believe it is their duty to spy on their children. That may sound unethical but when you have kids who • Three nights later, last night, to be exact, a, friend and his wife asked us to come down and celebrate his birthday. should have known better. At least, after the first birthday party, I was. able to sleep in a bit on Saturday morning: But this one was on a Monday night. we got i'Iome at 3:15 ..and the alarm went off at '7:15. My ,tali lady, who is down on the :voters' list, as ',housewife", didn't stir. I stirred, and stirred, and stirred one more magnificent. time, and made it. It was not one of my most inspiring dayson the job . I'm afraid I didn;i make many young minds flower. But I pulled through on sheer dedication. However, it was a dandy party. Our host was a captain in the German army. His wife is a Scottish Belgian. Another couple dropped in, 'in fact, it was the, perfidious couple who had held the first birthday party. His, Wife is S.n.English war bride. And us. My wife is a nut, And Of:Course, Courvoisier was there. In large quantities. No„ he's not a French- man with a' big famityl He's a liqueur that looks like water and tastes like burning coals. But we had a great time, and sang songs in German, French, Scottish, and a few old English music-hall numbers "My Old Man Says Follow the Van, and D'On't Dilly-Daily on the way." .rer- We put a terrible dent in that French- man and ate about four pounds of highly aromatic cheese, and would probably still be there belting out "Lili Marlene" and '"I Belong Tae Glasgie", had not our host, with that German dash that makes them win battles but lose wars, sprung to his feet and announced that he was going to bed. , That's what he thought. My wife couldn't spend every waking moment trying to devise ways and means by which' to confound their parents, it becomes the only sensible thing to do. I've had parents tell me that the only safeguard the y liave is to run a check-in service with the mothers and fathers of their children's associates. If daughter says she's going to, Mary's house for a sleep-out, mother picks up the telephone and checks with Mary's mom. If son says he's off to the city for a gala night out with the family car, .,lather checks to make certain that the name of the band and the ovation of the hop correspond with mation in the newspaper. He e en go so far as to run a ' check on the speed- ometer before' and after the ()ding' or conveniently arrange a few checkpoints enroute with a few clued-in friends who will keep you posted of the trip's pro- gress. Sneaky. parents have to be just' as sneaky as kids. There's no other way. And when things ge wrong? What do you do? Do •you listen to the experto who claim you risk hostility in your children .1f you punish them by such an obvious means as a sound spanking or the loss of privileges? Do you really take to heart the philosophy of so many people these days who insist that parents, must keep the communication lines open, even if the communication you're getting :find our car keys. He had to drive us • home, after which she found them. So, enough of birthdays, for a few • days. I wound up with two golfballs and two headaches. My German friend was luckier. His invitation was rather a spur of the moment thing, so we had no chance ' to buy him a gift, not even a ball for golf, which he thinks is a silly game,- which it is when you play as I do. My wife bought him a:three-quart " jug of milk and a tie she bought at 'the milk shep, (it WA"' a real' beauty, '41'ee‘e • as you can image), and a hamburger, which she ate herself. ,I was rather nonplused, but dived into my tool box (he's a great carpenter, for a doctor of philosophy)" and came up with a beautiful, rusty key-hole saw Which I had inherited from my father. As I hadn't sawed any key-holes rec- ently, I didn't figure I'd miss it. And it really is a beautiful little thing. A fam- ily heirloom, you might say, It has the blade which retracts and suddenly pops out. A sort of 19th century switchblade. I can tell you there were tears in Karl's eyes as he ran his finger over • the teeth of that little rusty, dull beauty and murmured something- like "Lieber Gott urn Himmel." - I think' that, tri English, means sonle- thing like,, "Dear God, it's heavenly." Never did I think that I'd see a captain from RommeN desert troops break, •down like that over a simple little senti. mental thing. In fact, he was so touched that he ' offered to come up and 'fix my picnic • table. And I suppose we'll' have to have a birthday party for the blasted picnic table, which is three years old this week. Oh, well, maybe I can hack it' for one ,more birthday party. from your kids is something less than an honest appraisal of the situation? I admit that mutual trust is great .. but it has been my experience that mutual trust for many kids means hav- ing mom and dad believing just what the yOunger set would have them be- lieve. And you may think that I'm talking only about teenagers. Not so, Little children are_becorning• more ,and more adept at the art of parent triC'kery. In fact, many of them, are 'able to twist mom and dad into knots of 'discord at a very early age. . It seems to be in- born in modern children. No parent's. You are not alone in your misery. Raising children was always a hassle, but' the trouble now is that parents are having such a rough time with the everyday business of home building and moneymaking, that they have few hours left 4n -which to build a strong fortress against the wiles of a better infortned, healthier, more afflu- ent high-risk and eager generation, their children. I urge you to remain strong. I have a feeling that if we prevail throughout the next few years we'll reap dividends in the future of our children. And what's more, I'll wager the very children who fight you today will rise up and call you blessed . , sometime, somewhere.