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The Huron Expositor, 1973-07-19, Page 2We have some good news, or at least the possibili- ty of good news, in a daily paper The Science Monitor•concerning two scientists. at Rutgers Uni- versity in New Jersey who are hard at work on the development of a variety of grass which never needs mowing. They are collect- ing grass seeds and hope to-deve op a type that will ne er grow long enough t be mowed-. Jersey Highway Department, which spends about tone million dollars a-t,year on mowing grass; is sponsoring the research. The best wishes 'and fond- est hopes for success of those of US who only.,spend two .or- three hours a week. mowing grass, or an in- greasing number of dollars which we pay our children or neighbouring-kidsto ,mow the grass, go out to these enterprising scien- tists. - Our enthusiasm for grass which doesn't need mowing is exceededionly by our . • wish for snow that never has to be shovelled. • 4 • "Caieftg, grind) smile of these places have guard dogs.-. • 22.-1098 $inOO 1860, !teving Community First SVAXORTIL, ONTARIO, every I12stay waking by MeLEAN BftOS., Publishenv Ltd. ANDREW Y. MeLEAN, Editor ' Member Canadian Weal* Newspaper Association Ontario Weekly Newspaper Association and Audit jureau of Circulation Newspapers Subscription Rates: Canada (in advance) $8.00 a Year Ontside-C4nac44 tin -adviceY $1.0.00 Year • SINGLE COPIES — 20 CENTS EACH Second Class Mall Registration Number 0606 Telephone 527-0240 SEAFORT11, ONTARIO,' July 19, 1973' becoming more efficient. A recently disdovered clipping from the London Free' Press says that whiA\e in 190Q the average Can- adian farmer produced enough food for 5 people, in 1969 he fed 31. Today . efficiency has increased even , more. It is possible though, that our increased farm" -productivity involves ' sacrificing some of- the clad fashioned rural eel- ings of'communit nd neighbourliness. We are_ seeing a gradual end to the-hundred acre farms, each owned and occupied by one family, as these 100 acre parce],s are bought up by idrge farm operators. This results in a house being vacated oil each • 100 dcres and often being sought by commuters who have little or no cohnec- ' - ''' tion with the farming com- munity. These new rural residents form one or two acre islands in the mid- dle of the productive farm lands. They leave their homes for jobs in nearby cities or towns eac vm9rnim,..gnd return at '1,3„ga"itabTered to '" Pali" a k nd ,0r4 ably with little interest: in ,established' rural, institutions like the". Women's'Institutes or 4-H clubs. The rural commuters often keep the friendships that they make in the' cities and towns and have more connections with the communities where they work than with their farthing neighbours. The new occupants of. farm Commuters in the country . Our 'farms certainly are ouses are thus quite . different from the, Pie-, vious family farmers.on their own 100 acres and tprobably contribute less to the farming community. The increasing influx_of city people'to the country means that people whose livelihood inlay be pretty well divorced from the' farm economy and whose commitment to farming is not very intense are sur, rounded by productive a.gricultural land. Con-.. flicts of interest are bound to arise.. One'duch conflict sur- faces when city people who live in the country want -all the good featured of country living -.glean air and peace, and quiet - and abject to the drawbacks, like the occasional unpre- Ventable farm odours. The need to 'feed the growing Canadian population as' well as economic of' scale, make larger and . larger,Tarm4kanits inevit-, able,- And the' pollution and hectic' pace in our. 'cities means that there will be more commuters seeking a fatmhoUse and-a• few acres as a permanenX Sugar and Spice By Bill Smiley _/ husky assistants. Instead of taking the trees down in 'pieces, he was going to fell them in the back yard,, toward the h"Ist'e. s • a- pleasure to see an expert at work. He sized up the 'trees by eye and reckoned they , wouldn't hit the house. I had to take his word for it. If he'd misjudged, one tree would have slammed through the French doors and right into . our living-room. He went up the tree like a monkey and fastened ropes around it. The other ends of the ropes were snubbed around trees near the,house and the Boys stood by, ready to pull. snarl went the chain saw. Heave went the boys., WHAM! Down came number one, right where he'd lined 'er up, A few minutes later, down came number two, almost missing the peony bed. Then they went, to' work like so many beavers some wielding chain saws, the others ()Ring brush. In three hours from go, the trees 'were down, sawed' into fireplace length, and everything cleaned • up. I have ceased worrying about the energy crisis in this- country. I have enough elm ed i i wood piles all.over-the••• • us t rough until at leaet,itinereel, year and ter that somebody else ,fly,4,-i cta1 i ,lb k16r11t ,! can worry abo t • There's something snug and homely about a wood pile.-Now, instead of look- ing out and-seeing flower beds that need weeding, can 'sit ,and look at "my wood piles. I didn't lift a' finger myself, but I ' feel as smug and satisfied when I look at all that wood As any pioneer ever did when he'd just finished cutting and stack- ing his wood for the winter. There's only one cloud' on the horizon, 'It's too good to be true. I'll bet that right now, some, beady-eyed bureaucrat in the Department of Nationallievenue is trying to figure out some way of collecting tax on that wood. Hed better not succeed or therell • • be trotible. He can sales tax me', income tax me, property tax me, but if he tries to tax my wood pile it will be the final . straw and there'll be murder done. The weapon will be a two-foot elm block; dropped from the, bathroom window. --•••• • Mowing grass Pi This is going to be a tough column to Write. 'i'm on my holidays, it's a • beautiful summer day,' hot but not muggy, and I'm as laXy as the cat, who•ts curled up in ither" chair, dreathing. , • In winter, she eats like a hog and becomes repulsively fate In summer, she .subsists principally on bees, ants and butterflies, and Slims out into aftigress, "stalking her domain, the back yard. Her domain underwent a big thange this week. Two old friends died. You might say they were cut Own, in their prime. They were,twin elms, lofty apd' graceful. I've spent, many an hour slumped in a layrn chair watching the birds and the squirrels in the elms, listening to the whispering of the two, lovers as :they leaned toward each, 'other and ,caressed each ether •with their limbs. Hey, this getting pretty sexy. • Last spring they came out, in leaf; but by mid-summer they Were •dead of the Dutch elm plague which has blighted rap part of the country. I was going 'to have them taken down this summer, anyway, but my plans were spurred a bit when a small limb fell off and conked my neighbour on the head, and Large limb Ca nd ell 'wig-04W s clutv Mt'' '04 about the fantastic prices people charged to remove trees. I was •assured that It would cost Mae couple of hundred.dollars per tree. • • This was nonsense, as horror stories so often are. I located a tree surgeon who works for• the hydro. His estimate was $65. ',Each 7", my wife queried, and I kicked her sharply on the ankle. She is always worried about any deals I make. She thinks I have no business , sense and will be' diddled at every turn. She is right about the first .premise, but I have never yet been diddled, because I trust people. She doesn't and has been •""dfddled several times. Anyway, that was a firm • price for both trees, and I didn't shop around The last few weeks .have been days for remembering ,.,. remembering back to when I. was a very little girl growing up in a' small town and in a very special neighhorhood. It all began with 'a letter from a column reader who advised me that she was my babysitter' when' I was a child. I remember the gal who wrote the letter- I remember her family and the home in which she lived-but I can't recall any timed when she was my babysitter. Guess I haven't got total recall in that area. And then came an invitation in the mail from a couple who used to live up the .street from our home in that neighbor- hdod. The note asked me to attend their fiftieth wedding anniversary and I must say I was really pleased to go. And finally, while walking to keep an appointment in my town, I met some more people from that neighborhood. we stopped and had a pleasant chat picking Alp bits and pieces from the past and bringing them up to present day. I can't begin to tell you the warm, warm feelings I've had in the last few weeks because of these people. There's something about going hack in 'memory to your childhood when things were solid and secure and without the responsibility and frustrations of adulthood that instills 'peace in the soul. My parents were very ordinary ,folk. OVr neighbors were too. r guess the whole neighborhood was ordinary in lots of respects,• but to me, these days., it seems very special. At the wedding anniversary celebration,, for' instance, I met the little boy - now six foot' tal and a high school English teacher - with whom i used to play. Somehow didn't remember'. ally 'of the bad times we must have come through as all children do. Instead, 1, recalled only the fun times .... and ern still refrienibering them even though our visit Wait Sheri. As I entered the family liOine, I looked at the We 'giant pees in trtitit of the Mete., When we were kidt4 theke were just Saplinka, and I telterreAt hoar often we heard from 'my friend's father, "Get away from those trees. You'll break them ' off." I mentioned that to my old neighbor as • I noted the trees were tall and straight,, providing welcome shade on ahcit summer day.. "Looks like they survived in spite of us," I told him. 'He smiled .... and .confided that they have often wished we would have killed them because their roots sometimes cause a Problem for them now. As I sat in the .same livingroom I remembered as a child, I looked around me and remembered many, many things ... like the smell of wax as my friend's mother shone the hardwood floor until it glistened and the repeated warnings to "use the •back door" because the living- room floor as to be kept in apple pie order at lea for the day. I looked around at the faces which came and went. Many of them I remem- bered. Some I did not. But of those I remembered, I thought how little they have changed and how wonderful they look. I really felt "at home" somehow though I'd been away for nearly 30 years. Since that gre'at experience, I've been thinking over and over thoughts of the old, neighborhood where I grew up..My thoughts are good and they make me happy. For the last few days my big- gest pleasure has been just sitting and remembering and feeling instantly happy . and content. For someone like me, memory is a precious thing. Through memory, I can have the parents I lost in death and regain the security ,of childhood which• was snatched from me at such an early age. I can 'sleep once more in my cont. fortable pink bedrocerWI can play again in the hay mow; I can climb again the the orchard; I can roller skate again on the sidewalk; I can laugh again with my friends'; I Can SWIM again in the river; I can &teeth again under the bridge; I can liVe . again with thoSe ordinary folks Who knew Me and liked me and zternember me, now that old, POrinl O past week, there has been added te" the "glipoottor Jobbing depoi44 meat, two new tact greases, and a large lOt. of new type of the latest and most lfienalks:Rhfi tyn:th:olDlueidl.satlyk4r D. MacDonabi town where he intends spend- A. Young of, town has put a handsome new delivery wagon on the' roads, It scwasmnanded alts thae versetacullathorntehnet ,emf aJkoehre. John his fall -Whe harvest. W. D. Bright leaves here for Germany, where she will further her musical &la- amuiothlu Miss Alberta Dobie, sister of Mrs. ScOttAd ItOabOrsa finished at • W. WI Ogilvie, proprietor of the flour mille- here has substribed the sum of $25.00_ to aid in purchasing a town clock; in the event of a clock with a wooden dial being purchased he will give $50. It is almost enough to make one shiv- ery, even these hot days, to look at teams delivering.' coal. Geo. Murdie's heifers were shipped from here; There were 40 head and they averaged 1,303 pounds each; and were sold for 4 1 /2 -cents. While out bicycling, W. R. Counter met with an unpleasant accident.. dog ran out and as Making• a kick at the brute, he lost •his balance and fell, spraining his left arm. Dr, Burrows of town' has purchased the property' of James Beattie •on-GOthr erich St. and intends removing the pres- ent building and erecting a residence and office on the site. R. B. McLean of Kippen has returned home from the old country and had a good passage, stitick a fair market and feels his health much improved by his trip. JULY 27, 1923 JULY 30, 1948 Latest in a series of McKillop cows to give birth' to twin calves is an 18 year old number owned by Finlay Mc- Kercher. It is the second ,time this cOw has had twin calves, the first ones having been born several years ago, When he fell down 'a hay chute while assisting his father in the mow, '7 year old Beverley , Taylor, son of Mr. and Mrs. Garnet Taylor, Staffa, suffered a broken jaw, lost four teeth, and received injuries to his chin. He is a grandson of Mr. and Mrs. John McLure of Win- throp. The Carol Lynn Shop, specializing in dresses and lingeries, pRened temporarily in the Red Star building. The shop is owned by Mrs. Hugh- Chesney. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Beuermann of Brodhagen observed their 35th wedding anniversary and entertained 50' friends and neighbors at dinner. They were pre- sented with a chest of drawers, by their family and a bed spread and table cloth by friends.. Cook Bros. Milling Co. of Hensall, have installed an electrically controlled hoist for unloading bulk grain and beans, also two pits, one for dumping in grain, and the other for beans. • James W. Bonthron, one of Hensall's roost prominent businessmen was found dead in the bathroom of his home. He was bo'rn at Rodgervilie, south of Hen- • sail; where he had lived most of his life. Congratulations are due Miss Rose Byermann of McKillop, who was success- ful in the Toronto Conservatory Music exam VII, which was held at Blyth rec- ently. Mr. and Mrs. John Nielson and son John moved to New Hamburg on Wed- nesday. . Rey. H'ugh Jack, a former minister of First Church here, and Mrs. Hugh Jack and family, arrived - from Sydney, N.S. Sandy McMillan and Geo. Sills of town bicycled to Bayfield. Dr. John Drover of town leaves for Thorndale where he will open a practice. hi out of ,sharing common int-' I'd .heard all sorts of horroiystOrtes erests and' experiences per-: 'haps -- may be lost in our rural areas, • Perhdps'though:i a new kind af community, with commuters and farmers each bringing something quite different and equally valu- able to it, will grow-up— in place of the old, closer knit farm relationships.' ' What do you think?' wg. — invite your comments. V because I thought it was reasonable, and there's nothing I detest more than trying to beat somebody down on a price. Well, it 'was pretty exciting. George arrived with ropes,' chain. saws• and four From. My Window By Shi'lley J. Keller , • 4. • Joseph Carter 'of Walton, happen with a'. very painful accident while haul- ing a load of gravel. He slipped and fell, the wagon wheel passing over both feet and bruising him badly. The cement areirbridges at Manley had to be blown up on account of the abutments giving away. Joseph Weisenberg, of Mitchell has the brick work oo the new. school at St.- Columba'''. He is an expert workman. The village of Brucefield was the scene of unusual activity. Load of spec- .. tators came from all direction to wit- ness the -football game between th overs and Kitchener. The Rovers were efeated. . J. R, McDonald of 'the Lond n Road has the-foundation ready for the erection of a fine new bank, barn on what 'was known as the James White farm. - W. 0. Goodwin and W. McLaren, Hensall won the Free Press Trophy at the Scotch Doubles Tournament in Sea- , forth. Miss Margaret C uthill of Winthrop has returned home from Lake Couchi•- - finisit 4 4tArots,eat•Orrigri.x . 4-69107ittglja, flo 'Arty:416:1114 tr, school the]; . ' • At the 'mid-sun{ ner exairlialtiAs*S141 boa 1-"9°9 D the -Canadian Academy of Music, Miss Jennie Hogg, McKillop was a success- ful candidate, obtaining first class honors in Primary' theory; and honors in. pre- paratory piano, Miss Hogg is a pupil of Miss Anne Govenlock., - • Miss Lucy Sillery of town was • the recipient of a handSome set of knives apd • forks and a kitchen shower from the staff of .,Stewart Bros. where she was member of the staff before her approaching marriage. Mrs. Sam Johnson of the abyloti Line had the misfortune to fal and fracture her, hip. Clifford Britton of, Constance in at- tending the 'summer ' school at Goderich this week_ as a delegate from the, Sunday School. .• The cutting of wheat in the Chiselhurst section promised a good yield, but pres- ent indications point to a low price for the farmer., , Miss Grace McLean, Chiselhurst has secured a p salon as teacher for Zion School. •