The Huron Expositor, 1973-07-12, Page 2In Goderich last week
the town council refused
a building permit to a
developer who planned to
erect what was desOribed
as a "brick box" style
apartment building in an
old residential area of
the tot4n. 'The action
emphasized that while there
was a need for apartment
accomodation in Goderich,
any new structure should
be in harmony with existing
houses. The Goderich
Signal Star notes correct-
signed the Goderich apart-
ment building had never
seen either the proposed
site or the town of Goder-
ich.
Sometimes it takes an
out-of-town visitor to
nudge as into realizing
that even small towns such
as Seaforth may be in dan-
ger of losing their char-
acter and their old build-
ings, in imitation of the
"progressive" cities,if
we are not alert to the
threat.
Require your Blood
'A Red Cross Blood Donors
Clinic is being held next
Monday, July 16, from 6 to
9 at Northside United Chur-
ch. The Canadian Red Cross
Society says that there is
always a shortage of blood
for traasfusions in the
summers, when regular don-
ors are away .on vacation.
In an item entitled "Be
a Big Help, Give a Little"
the Red Cross says: "This '
summer-the Canadian Red
Cross Blood Transfusion
Service will ask you to
give. What will you do?
Whether you theorize about
the need.for blood or wheth-
er you actually give is
strictly up to you because
blood and life are gifts
that can be given freely."
On Monday, we all have a
chance to donate blood'- a
simple and harmless process.
As the Red Cross says: "It
only takes 30 minutes to
help save a life".
•
married, he was absolutely appalled by
my habit of tossing my clothes where-
ver they landed when I was disrobing.
But dear man that he is, he never said
anyttting: _to me about it. He aimply
and quietly set about to Hang up my
dresses 'and skirts, dispose of the dirty
—laundry, fold sweaters neatly for the
drawers
'
line the shoes like soldiers
on the closet floor.
Being naturally well organized and
orderly, my husband. *Mild just not go
to bed at night until the robin Wfaildy
and 'the' bed made. !i felt so teitibly
0110 about it all that I soon began to
try to beat him to the tank. MA it Wasn't
too long before I learned to appreciate
the joys of sleeping in a tidy bedrooM.
Now, It is only occasionally that I slip
and leave 'things looking messy . . and
when I do, the pattern is alwa.Y4 the tante.
My husband straightens up ,' the clutter
and I feel utterly crushed 7aedanSe of it.
So I rarely have a scene with riV
daughter abeiit her bedrootri. I Pesti
understand her weakness and I hope that
someday she will change her wayis before;
she has to be trained by her, husband
as I Was.
haire discovered an approach whldh
works whenever the thrown in her bed,'
room becomes too much to bear. I*eik"
carefully drop the hint 'that one ,day •
I will have a tomPlate. tleamip in
bgardithe •
ddingto Tate iijAiose,bietaio
your -ileriromi soonvi begin rather
riOntheittritly. "Thete thus fie a
giddy thing* 'yeti.-Tcliiser -04- yen
drawers that yon have outgrown. When
You get too much. in your room to be
stored away easily, it sometimes gets
messy. So maybe I'd better do some dis-
carding before it gets to that point." My daughter has lived through my
campaigns before. I converge
th two or three large green garbage
s and start pitching. I throw out
/thingthat is. remotely useless and 4,elattilt is an almost sterile, vacant
edreell'4
within do. Or so after bast-
ing, my intentions 60,, the WInd#tie hot- 'tie/4,A marked ,filiprOzentent, the bed- . '~o„m%:of my danthtK lik,order`10 avoid
Agilg,.*fikof;.•:061*,;toiih an all ,
';.7effdiV;Iii be ',A:10i, at'' least until the
eat;' is • off. :.414,py and so 'And; SO' 4oeitt4t 'WOW
fat ,lies, ahead When she, 'has a teen.. ed,:,:04fightet of ther own,,
Fro_ni _My Window
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SEAFORTH,, ONTARIO, July 12, 1973
The visit of Mr. Harry
Hinchley, a former. Seaforth
resident and enthusiastic
historian,.to the Expositor,
office last week reminds us
that we have a great deal
-of. architecture in our town
which is unusual. We have
good examples of brick Vic-
toriana and many earlier,
circa 1860-70 cottages. Mr.
Hinchley was quite poetic
In his descriptions of Sea-
forth's main and other
streets, and of our older -*
buildings, which most of
us, who see them every day,
take for granted.
Of course, we aren't say-
ing that all new develop-
ment is bad. Seaforth's
new O.H.C. Senior Citizen
Apartments on Market.St.
are an example of good,
modern construction which
has improved the corner
and which blends in well
with existing buildings in
its area.
We should remember though,
that tearing down the old
and starting all over again,
is not necessarily progress.a
Careful restoration and
renovation of nineteenth
century buildings can make
our town much more pleas-
ing to the eye than a hap-
hazard jumble of good old
buildings and assorted new
mounted if any of our ones, built'without con-
other valuable old strut- sidering their surround-
ttmes..wete to fiaceivdemalimringsvtPtHa=m1.p*anaer7pr*,-
-'14-1$100014rt.44* v4ifrAila
Ma ace At4' it&O`
tio ' "
Seaforth hasn't yet faced
a battle over tearing down
some of her oldest build-
ings and replacing them
with modern, sterile blocks
but we shouldn't relax and
neglect our unique archi-
tectural heritage. The
planned restoration of the
Van Egmond house and the
fund-raising attempts of
the Van Egmond Foundation
deserve the community's
support and hopefully an
even more, intensive effort
of this type would be
ly that this was a historic
decision. It marks a
break with the all too
common philosophy_that..any
'",new development is good,
even if it means ignoring
and indeed butchering the
careful work of the pion- •
eers who planned and built
our towns.
Sugar and Spice
By Bill Smiley
hind's. s'Nt
in ",t.ke..Ss t
If a colUmnist does not have any read-
ers, he "very quickly ceases t&sbe a
columnist. That's why I'm sia grateful to
readers who drop a lipe and have a chat,
tell me their troubles, or merely wish me
good health. •
Just before my birthday in June, I had
a long letter from my Grade 1 teacher
reminding me that we share the same
natal day, June 2nd. She was the kind, of
pretty, young, sweat and kind teacher
who can make that first vital year in
public school a joy rather than the horror
that it can be.
Going through sonei 'old clippings, she
:mewl across one which she sent along to
me. The heading on the news story was
FO Wm. Smiley Victim Brutal Hun Treat-
ment. The rest was an extremley garbled'
account that makes me wince with em-
baxassment even today. •
Apparently after being beaten half to
death after an escape attempt, I was-so
weak I could ait move ;dr twenty days.
This is pure exaggeration. Ir was only
five days. And when the Russians over-
ran-our camp, I walked 156 miles across
Germany and stumbled onto an advanced
air base.
Poppycock! It was only 90-some.
I rode a good part of the way in wagons,
Russian staff cars, German wood-burnlaz
trucks, and a two-horse carriage. And
I didn't 'Stumble onto anything. I arrived
at the advance air base in a jeep. But
that's a long story.
Anyway, my teacher, whom I still
think of as Laura Walker, says of the
clipping: "I admit I shed some tears
over it, for all I could see was a shy
little boy in gray trensers and a navy
blue blazer coming to my desk and an-
nouncing his name and birthday, to which
I replied, 'Why, Billie, we are twins.'
There Were so many of you In the sam e
class who vere in the war and my heart
went out to you all for you were still
my 'little' bays and had no business
with aeroplanes."
Layna Bateman of Stavely, Alta., who
reads Me in the Brooks Bulletin, wants
advice on how to sell a syndicated Can-
adian crossword puzzle. She sent may
samples and they're excellent. ,AnYleely
any ideas? Her letter ends, "How soon
do you become a grampa? Congratula-
tionst" Every letter has a nile personal
touch like that.
Bill Shaker of Shifnal, Salops, England,
reads me in the Canadian Chamelon,
Milton. He likes my "cheery notes" and
writes a very cheer one himself, at the
"..e. 9f 84. He worked at the Milton
'Brick,. Co. in 1914, ' joined the army,
ly.41-0to Franee the' ,deardsj
Div, and was at Ypres, the Somme, Arras
and Cambrai, names that ring a bell
with old-timers. Lucky guy. But he wishes
m e best of luck and good health.
A Montreal publisher wants me to
write a book. He doesn't even seem io
realize, or care, that I haven;t got the
clothesline fixed and my wife is rais-
ing he',1, day after day. Write a book
indeed!
Mary Johnson of. Winnipeg wonders
if I'm he same Bill Smiley who wrote
a series of articles on education for the
Salt Lake City Tribune. `Sorry, Mary.
'Twas another Bill. But Mrs. Johnson
has written a book called "Programmed
Illiteracy in our Schools" and wonders
• if I'd like to review it. Sure would.
Send it along, Mary.
On House of Commons stationery comes
a letter from old friend, Ross Whicher,
M,P., urging Me to make that triee.to
England, and telling me that you can
.stay at the Strand Palace in London for
less that $30.00 a day. He ends, "Have
a good time, old man." I will, , Ross.
Last time ' was at the Strand Palace,
• they -qearly threw me out because I was
sharing my room with the bearded lady
from the circus. The maid had entered our
room before my old buddy Singh Thandi,
a Sikh froth India, had got his hair up
and his turban on. His hair hung to his
tailbone and he had a beautiful, curly beard.
The maid gave one scream and ran. Singh
was killed In Burma.
Tnea there are the poets who write.
Ge H. Drabble of Speers, Sask., sent me
a dandy about the beverage room end the
poverty and misery it leads to.. His poem
Is both funny and true but it's a bit long
to print, and .t can't be condensed. Mr.
Drabble gets me in North Battieford
News.
Same goes for a long, lively poem
by Vic Smith, of RoCkwoode who insit
When you are driving out this Way
Stop in and pass the, time of day.
You'll find mq in my "bed of Weeds".
My wife and I are JUst "hayseeds".
Thanks, Vic, I will if I do. And thanks,'
all you other chaps and chickens.' Your
letters make me realize I am not writing
in a void, a heartwarming feeling.
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JULY 15. 1898
Herbert ()rights :barn In l'uOcerroMith
was struck fo
rtuna
tely SjUring a recent
storm„ but no damage was
done. :
W. Hackney of Haborbe has papaed bin
final examination before the collegCot
physicians and Surgeons and is now a •-
$0114edged doctor,
Miss Reta Siallbttry 'of Hayfield has •
returned home Win, the presbyterian
:College, at Toronto, where she; was
awarded a certificate of honOr,
*PA Mc GeeCh 31!. latelY, spent several
days in Toronto; this is her first , visit,
to the city since when line and
the late Samuel McGeoch, were on their
way to Scotland. It is not often that we, in this highly
favored part of the world have a visit
from -Jack Frost during the month of
July. There was ,a very severe frost on
Sunday and on Monday morning the boards
were white.
John E. Wright, son of Richard Wright,
now of Hensall, has secured the vary *
important position of assistant super.
intendent of the , Detroit, Ypsilanti ,:and
Ann Arbour electric railway.
Harry Edge of town has the contract for
erecting for Marshall Smith on his prop-
erty on Spading St. a nice ,',new rest-
deuce of Gutteridge's pressed brick.
The Broadfoot and Box factory was
shut down to permit of improvements
being made in the kiln.
Arthur Forbes has added a fine new
pleasUre wagon to his livery. It is a
Most comfortable and commodious vehicle
and just the proper thing for picnic
parties. It was made' by Mr. Miller of
Hensel'.
John McKenzie of Brucefield had quite
an unpleasant surprise on going out to
the pasture to secure his horse, found ,
the gate open and...the-animal gone. He
began an immediate search for it and
found it .doWn hear Chiselhurst none
the worse.
James Swan of Brucefield had four
sheep killed by lightning during the
thunderstorm.
JULY 20, 1923
Misses Dorothy and Erma Broad:par
and Eleanor Snider passed their music
examinations recently, held at Hensall.
Miss Margaret Regier has accepted
the position of teacher of the Manley
school to fill the vacancy resulting from
the resignation of Miss Rose Dorsey.
Three gatherers of cream go the rounds
in McKillop weekly.
Miss Margaret Elgie a pupil of SS
No. 2 Tuckersmith, obtained 633 marks
out of a possible 750 at the entrance
examination and taking the highest at
Seaforth, Ontario.
Frank Cudmore of town has joined
the staff of the Canadian Batik of Com-
Dr. R. R. Ross, Mrs. Ross and Miss
Gratta Ross , andl,„Mrs. Jtisnes Ross re- "
turned from a Weeks motor trip in the °
Niagara district.
Messrs. Robert McMillan, G. T. Turn-
bull, John Laing, W. Hartry, W. H. Troth-
awey and w. Morrison were in Exeter
attending a temperance convention.
Mrs. James Morris of Hibbert was,
seriously injured on being thrown from
a buggy in a runaway. The horse be-
came frightened and bolted. Mrs. Morris
suffered a fracture of the skull.
JULY 17, 1948
Mr. and Mrs. W. R. J ow ett Of Bay-
field celebrated their golden wedding
at their home in the village. Mrs.
,Jow ett was the former Hilda Ethel
Moorhouse.
A. J. Styles, ho in 1887, was a teach-
er at Dashwook and also served as cor-
respondent for the Huron Expositor re-
turned to this district after an absence
of 54 years. He is' now in his 80th year
and is a guest of Samuel Hannah.
James Wilson Morley, 44, Magistrate
for Hnron Co. since 1946, died suddenly
at his home in Exeter. He had practiced
law in the district for 20 years before
he _was appointed to the Magistrate's
bench.
Stan Jackson of Tuckersmith was named
a member of the Tuckersmith school
board and succeeds the late Alex. Lil-
lico.
The tender of the Looby and Looby
Construction Company, Dublin, was ac-
.cepted for the construction of a bridge
on the boundary of Downie and Fuller-
ton Townships.
A trailer load of hay upset at the
corner of Main and Goderich Streets
recently. Dale Nixon was drawing- hay
to his farm east of Seaforth, when the
load became unbalanced as he turned
the corner and toppled over onto the
street.
Messrs. Lorne Dale , Alvin Dale,
B. F. Christie, M. McKellar, George Charters and George 'Johnston were in
Goderich attending a bowling tournament,
Mr. McKellar and Mr . Christie won
second prize.
The Crich bridge in TuckerSmith is completed. It has been raised three feet -and the abutment widened.
Old buildings are worthwhile
Did you know that yours truly was
once a shy little boy? Do you know how
a lady can sell all-Canadian crossword
puzzles to newspapers? Do you know
anyone who worked at the Milton brick
works in 1914, before going off to war?
Da you feel like writing a book? Do
you feel like reviewing a book someone
ten?•$ • ..- T e ,some df*.
a I opened m „.., ew weeks.
Today is July 12 or the Day of the
Prange Walk. This day always reminds
me of my mother, bless her. She loved
to attend the twelfth of July celebrations
wherever they were held. To her, July
12 was as big as Christmas .. and twice
as Mitch fun.
But like my mother, the July 12 holi-
day isn't a great deal more than a mem-
'dry lioWi Last year t saw „the July 12
parade in the town *here I 110.0and it
WAS a far cry from the ones I used to
Watch as a Child.
"tilt July 12 always makes me think of
tdiy iliaher,. and When I think of my
Mother, i thInk Of a good many things
she - told me . and wished for me.
AS a youngster at home. I wastet very
neat Abed fly .thedittolitk I suppose there
e, *Ore girl* who 'den't keep their
.0ear6eitier tidy thin'do* but My hedrooni ht #foie. Wag altihtyii a shaniblea.
inOther *at neat as a pin, and it
bothered her imm nsely, I suspect, to
have such a slovenly daughter. And In
her most angry of moods, my mother
used to shout at me, hope when you
have a daughter, she will throw every
thing in her room far, Wide and hand-
some so you will know what it is like
to live withP
Of coursei when you are 14, being a
mother seems lightyeaps away so T. was
as unconcerned as anyone could be. But
the day has finally arrived when I have
a 15 year old daughter of my own, and
everytime I walk into her topsy-turvey
bedrooM I think I Can see thy mother
smiling from wherever she is.
One good thing has, come of it, though.
I remember back to when I was a teen-
ager with a messy bedroom and I retail
that the disease isn't a permanent eifflid-
tiett . especialy you Marry an .
Orderly Man.
When my husband and I Were first