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SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, June 29, 1972
It was back in the
twenties - more than forty
years ago when Seaforth
district people began
using the Lions Park here.
And each summer since
then increasing numbers
have come to regard.the
eight acre recreation
centre as an oasis in even
the hottest weather.
They come for a picnic
or to watch the kids swim-
ming or just to sit and
enjoy the cool breezes.,"
Much of the attraction, .•._R
of course, is the pleasant
setting, the neat tidy
green, lawns.
All this means•main-
tenance and it is here
'that the Lions Park com-
mittee runs into trouble.
Maintenance costs continue
to rise and while use of
the park also rises, re-
venue. doesn't 'keep pace.
There is no cost to the .
people that u_se the park
apart, from an ice cream
cone or a bottle of pop.
or in the case of'a large
picnic, two or three dol-
lars to rent special
tables. This is the way
OpPortunity
t 3juron Cquisitor
to Aid Lions Park'
\s,
the Lions Club likes it -
tt is part of its service
to the community.
At the same time there
is the problem of main-
tenance, costs and to
assist in meeting these
the club relies on revenue
from three soUrces. jhese
are the car ,stickers which
many motorists obtain when.,
they enter the park; the
gift which area residents
make when they receive the
annual appeal letter and
finally there is the sum-
mer carnival.
Once more it is.summer
carnival time. This week
will see the park crowded
as area people take ad-
vantage of the many enter-
talnment features provided
during the• three night pro-
gram and at the same, time
assist. the park program.
It is an opportunity
that comes to each of us
once a year. It is an
opportunity. to ,help that
We Should not neglect if
we .expect to take advan-
tage of the facilities
which the LiQns Park offers
the community.
A
In the Years Agonle
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Occasionally, in the desert of Wars
and deaths and fires and strike's in the
newspapers, • one comes across some-
thing that is like a cool drink of water.
• -I had that. experience this very morn-
ing. The story concerned Gene Mac-
Lellan, The name won't be familiar
to most of my square old readers,
but will be to my younger ones, "if
I have any.
MacLellan Is • a Canadian song-writer
who has made it big_in the music world.
One of his songs, Snowbird, became a
million-record seller for singer Anne
Murray., That led to a wave of scng
successes, 'which ' in turn led to an
avalanche of royalty cheques.
Well, dear reader, and you'd better
take a 'deep breath at this point, Mac-
Lellan -is quitting. No, he• hasn't broken
his guitar warm. He hasn't had a heart
attack. He hasn't had a shattering em-
otional experience. He is dropping out
because he is making too much money.
and does not• want the pressure of res-
ponsibilities. it caused. •
He is giving up his interest in a
company set up to handle his affair s,
and has asked 'that the royalties be used
An part to help young performers.
fie has abandoned the farm he bought
P.E.I.,and given away most of his
possessions. He and his wife left with
no definite plans, "probably".to hitch-
hike through 'Europe.
Canadian Press quotes MacLellan: "I
don't know what I'll do. I don't know
when or if come baCk."
Isn't that a refreshing, little story?
I envy him, and many others caught in
the material tread-mill will ,too, I'm
sure.
• Of course, I'm not naive enough to
compare him to Dibgenes, who lived in
a barrel and owned nothing but a drink-
ing' bowl. Some of those royalties will
still find their way into MacLellan's
pocket, and he won't be begging in the
streets.
But I admire a man, dr woman, who
cap turn his or her back on the whole •
thing and walk away.
More and more of our young people
are doing it, some for the worst of reasons, '
some for the best.
Some opt out because they've decid-
ed to let George do it. They deliver-
ately become bums, have no scruples
whatever about begging, stealing, accept-
ing Welfare. They are dirty, promis-
cuous, malodorous and'blailphemous. But
Often highly intelligent.
.On the other Nide of the coin are
the youhg people who get off the boat
for _different reatonS. At some point they
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take a clear-eyed look at their parent s
at-the lives they themselves are living,
and decide, ".This 4s not for me." •
This second grotip tends to be ideal-
istic. They want to create: They want
to make a life-style that doesn't depend
on status and 'the buck., They will work'
extremely hard for something they think
is worth doing. _ They're almost invar-
iably gentle, tolerant and reasonably clean;
They are not bums, but seekers after
"something they „don't see in our society.
They. use the same four-letter words the
other group uses, but unselfconsciously.
They are not blasphemouS,, bid in a
strange way, religious.
Friends of ours have a son, Mike.
His parents despaired of him. He had
a fantastic I.Q., but kept flunking--
high school because he was bored silly.
Never did finish school. Bummed around,
Worked aINA, quit. Then he became a-'
Bahai. TS at present pioneering the
faith, as they call , it, at Baker Lake
in the Northwest Territories, among the
E skim oes.
He's happy, working hard , and wants
to get sortie more schooling so that he
can go back and teach- Eskimo children.
'His--parents are proud of him. '
Here was a lad, charming, witty, hand:—
some, He had every opportunity to go
-to ifilversity, and would have made a mark
in society. He chose otherwise,. but may
,be making a bigger mark, in the long
.run.
• Our own son has done pretty Much
the same sort of thing. He too, if
you'll pardon it, is charming, witty and
handsome. He has a great musical talent.
He is highly intelligent. After a couple
of goes at university, he quit. He had-
his wild -times. and bad times. Now he
too is a Bahai. He doesn't have a
degree, but he can talk rings- around
most university professors, in French
or English..
He works at a tough job, second chef
in a restaurant, to support himself. He
had a chance to be"a bar-tender for more
money, but serving liquor is against
his principles. He planned to go to
Frobisher pioneer the faith. Then
he thOught there were enough "mission-
aries" there and made a deliberate (re-
cision to attempt to spread the faith in
the east end .of Montreal.
I can't see much future in trying to
convert to Bahal any substantial number
of French-Canadian Catholics. But Hugh
has a peace and sere,nity and a simplicity
of life that one can only envy. ,He doesn't
want any ',things", just enough to' keep
alive and keep covered. I wish I were
twenty years younger.
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After all the fuss I made about my
birthday being forgotten in March, it
was little wonder that nip family went
all °Zit' on Mother's Day in 1‘0.y, -
Mother's Day isn't considered
very important by a 'great many ,people
who hate commercialism . . . and it is
absolutely true that in a great many
instances, mothers are only remembered
to keep peace in the family.
Normally, my family isn't too hung
up on Mother's• Day either. It is most
often just a card and a simple little
remembrance for me on Mother's bay
. . but that doesn't really matter. It
is the thought that counts after all.
This Mother's Day, however, I was
Queen for, a day. .. and the nicest, most
thoughtful gift in the whole world waited
for me in my kitchen. You guessed it.
A fully automatic, totally dependable dish-
washer.
I guess I've wanted a dishwasher-for
as long as. I've been washing dishes'. But
like every dutiful wife who knows her
husband can't afford all the luxuries of
life, I've put, the idea of a dish-Washer in
the very back of my mind.
I used to make (those cute little -re-
marks you usually hear connected with
dishwashers . like . . ':My children
do the dishes now. It is good for them
to have something to do . . . and ...
",It is almost as much: work to get the
dishes ready tq put into the dishwasher
as it is to wash them.. I can't really
see the sense in a dishwasher" . . .
and . . . "I like to get right up from'-the
table and get the dishes done. I wouldn't
like to' see •them sitting around in a
dishwasher until I had a full load".
well, I am now the proud owner
of a dishwasher,' and I can tell you
ladies, . a dishwasher• is absolutely
wonderful. Don't let anyone tell you'
, otherwise.
I fooled myself for a long time into,
thinking my children did most of the
dishes at our house. Have ymi,teenaged
children-in your household) Then you'll
know how reallyJudicrous it is to expect
them to be in charge of dishwashing. If
your children are anything like my child-
ren, they aretoo busy for dishwashing ..
and it is usually mom and dad who -get
roped into that little chore.
Somehow, activities for teenagers'all
commence about 7 p.m. in the evening.
That's dishwashing hour at the Keller
house . . . and, there's not a chance.,
that dishwashing ,will win Out over track
and field practice or band rehearsal.
Experts in child psychology will tell
you that children need to have dish-
washing experience. . They say that most
of the conversation in the modern family
takes place (iring the dishwashing„ hour
and with the advent ,of the dishwasher,
the last remaining bond between children
and parents has been removed. .
That'S hogwash. I find that while
the dishwasher . is working •-happily away
in the kitchen, I can sit down with the
- children' for a last few„ minutes before
they dash madly out of the house and
have a relaxed conversation that isn't
punctuated by the scraping of burned-
on spaghetti.
And that's the hangup with the dish-
washer. Believe it or not, I find it
difficult to select an ; hour to wash my
dishes when somebody is. In the house
to guard the dishwasher.
That may sound strange to you. if
• you reside, in a houSehold where mother
and father work from 8-to 5 . or from
9 to 4° or whatever. But at our
abode, my husband and I are often on
tike go from sunrise to sunset. . . and
longer. with- the kids busy too, who's
' to mind the dishwasher.'
My family think I'm unduly alarmed'
about. leaving- the dishwasher alone to
wash, rinse and dry on its own. They
say I should trust this mechanical wonder
to perform that work without a hitch ..'.
but 'I say a machine is only a machine
and , needs to have someone hovering
around just in case semething goes wrong.
So it is age. The -technological age
brings new problems. It must be a sign
of the 'times. Not long ago, i had time
to wash my dishes in the tried and proven
• time honored way. Now I haven't time
once - a day to, attend my dishwasher. And
you think you are 'busy;
JULY 2nd, 1897
James Snell Hullett , who has
been asked to ju sheep at New Jersey
State Fair, has been invited to perform
a similar service at Hornellville, N.Y.
One of the most successful garden
parties ever held at Varna, took place,
under the auspices of the Methodist
Church. The Seaforth 33rd band rendered
many choice selections.
The villagers of Hensell got quite a
start when an alarm of fire was sounded.
Mr. Welch's planing mill had caught
fire on the second floor, presumably
through friction or a spark from the
engine. •
About 11 o'clock Monday evening the
mhrieks of the fire° whistle called out
he brigade and -everybody ,excited,
but it was qpiy another false alarm.
While bringing one of the hose carts out
of the hall,the axle broke. ••
Alex McLean of Oshawa and W. A.
McLean of Guelph, brother and nephew
of M. Y. McLean were here this Week
attending the funeral of the late Miss
McLean. •
F. Gutteridge of town is turning out
a lot of sewer pipes at his concrete
works here. He turns out a better and
neater brick than is made either at
Sarnia or port Huron.
Philip Murray ,,of Tuckersmith, who
-is well and favourably known here, has
leased the Blake Hotel for a term of
years.
After an illness of nine weeks, Miss
Margaret E. McLean, only surviving sister
-of M. Y. McLean of the Expositor, passed
peacefully away. at the residence of her
brother. Miss McLean was 61 years of
age and was born in(Duinfries, in,Waterloo
County. She became a teacher in the
Ayr public school. For the past 21 years
she has been principal assistant in the
business and editorial management of the
Expositor..
-Rueben Graham of Brucefield, whohas
conducted the corner. hotel in this village- 7's
for the past two years, has sold out
here and has purchased the' lease and
fixtures of Hodgins Hotel at Hensall.
wm. Scott bf Brucefield shipped a
load of wool and is still buying all that
comes along.
The Seaforth company of volunteers
left Seaforth station for London, where
they will remain for, week or ten days.
"The Man with the Book.", is the title
of a neat little volume which has just been
issued. , It is the memoirs Of the life and.
work of the late John Ross of Brucefield•
and written by his widow,Mrs.Aitna Ross
Of Clinton.
JUNE 1922
Two grocery outfits visit, McKillop
weekly, with -a nice stock of groceries;
one 'of theSe is from Crazibrook and
another from Moncrief.
Henry Hood of Victoria, B.C. sayS
he has been a subscriber of the Expositor
for 52 years and he could not do without
the weekly news from hiS old home in
Huron County. A
" H. W. Horton and Fred Beer left
Hensall for New Ontario, where we be-
lieve
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they intencilikihg up 'land..' r
St. Paul's ,Episcorial Church at
Hensall was' 'raised this, week.. for, the
purpose 'of putting a basenient under it.
-F. Lorne Hutchison, son of Mr. and
Mrs. F: D. Hutchison of. Seaforth was
' informed that he had ;been awarded an
$800 Fellowship. -
The Toronto Board of. Education has
appointed Miss Janette Pethick to the,
position of Principal's assistant in Mc-
Murrick, one of .Toronto's-thirty-roomed
public schools.
T. Stephens this week -started 'the
erection of a large addition to the Queen's
Hotel. The building Will be 40 X 18,
Of brick, and one storey high.
The. local ' branch of. the Province
of Ontario Savings Office was opened
by . T. M. govenloek M.P.P. for South
Huron. He turned the key in the door
and made the first deposit . which .was
taken by the Manager,J. M. McMillan.
There are 94 students writing on
the Entrance examinations at the Col-
legiateInstitute this week..
Mrs. 'T. Grieve 'oL Eginondville had
the misfortune to fall and break her wrist.
Mr. and. Mrs. oeo. Seip have moved
into their new home on Market Street
recently purchased- from MiS. Wm.
Sleeth.
. E. Dinnen has purchased the resi-
dence of Mrs. E. McMurray in Eg-
m,ondville'.
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The billowing .officers of the Sea-
forth Highlanders Band 'were. elected:
President, M. McPhee; 1st. Vice E. L.
Box; Secretary -and Treasurer, Dalton
L. Reid.
Mr. and Mrs. .Andrew Love of the
Par Line have retired to Hensall.
JU.Y, 4, 1947.
-When fire of unknown origin broke out
in an upstairs room in the residence of
Alex Boyes, Mill Road, the building suf-
fered considerable damage from fire and
water. A bucket "brigade wail assisted,_".„•
by members of the Seaforth Fire Brigade.
B. 'P. Christie, chairman of the brigade
received a painful cut while fighting the
fire when a pail fell, striking hitn on the
lip.
When a team ran away throwing him
to the ground, when he was at work on
his farm near Cromarty, Alvin Crawford '
received a fractured shoulder and a frac-
tured jaw. , He was attended by Dr.
Walker Of Dr: M. W. Stapleton's office
and later removed. to Scott Memorial
HOSOital.
Ralph Davidson Winthrop machine
shop owner•, was injured when a piece
of emery wheel struck him as he was
fixing a belt.
The resignation of Gerald Holland
as secretary-treasurer of the McKillop,"
Logan and Hibbert Telephone Co. became
effective. He is succeeded by James
T. Malcolm of Ilibbert Twp.
wth.,Hproat of Kippen, a fourth year
student in medicine at Western Univer-
sity left for Stratford to interne in
Stratford General Hospital.
' Among those' attending Kintail Camp
near Kincardine are: MisseS Mary Cop-
land, Connie Wright, Ruth Teal, Sheila
McFadden and Masters Bruce McFadden,
James oriel!, Terry Crieh, Ronald Mason,
Charlie pungey, Hugh Gorwill and Jackie
Carter.
DOnald Dale, Gordon and James Mc-
Kindsey and Calvin Hulley, are spend-
ing ten dayi at Camp Ipperwash on Lake . Huron. -
From A My Window
By Shirley J. Keller
Sugar and Spice
by Bill Smiley