HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1973-10-18, Page 2The bushels
SiejlOm fallen
are -all"Araund
crunch .under,a
We welk reMind
lazy, qUfet da
mer 'are over.
has its own pl
at least, equal
of summer... Th
geous colour
an4 on the Aro
in the, dark•bl
plou.ghed'field
with green .gra
• „The' air in
Clean and cool
like a bite.of
apple or a dri
dry wine. The
evenycarrk the
burning leaVes
frbm carefully
piles •- sadly
sidered to be
Just when t
scape all arou
worthy of some
templatian•eve
to get a'ck to
the sum dol
Clubs d '0
have had ir
meetings and. community'
activities of all types
are picking up. The
Huron Expositor would like
trldrE 6=60e i6f e t h
Seaforth's,organizations
and provide coverage of
their aotivities.
However, newspaper
people want 'time off to
enjoy the lovely days of
fall too. ,Contrary to
what May be a popular mis-
conception, the people who '
work here are not avaii-
able 7 days a week or, 24-,
hours a day.
A lot goes on in, Sea,'
'forth and it is our job
to have as much informat-
Of red and
leaires that
us And'
ur feet as..-
Lis'that the
y's bf sum-
But October
easures -
to those
erie is gor-
n the trees
and and even
atki.freshl,y.
s r'1MMd •
ss. •
October is
and'crisp,-
an 'eutUmn
nk Of-a —thin
air may
scent of
s
raked
maO
up
now con-_
air polTui-
he land-
nd us is
quiet con-'
ryane has ,
work after
drums.
rganizations
first fall
Erom My Window
By Shirley J. Keller
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shirt.
"That shirt is dirty, too. See .the
front of it?"
"That's not dirt. That's chocolate.
It is okay." •
By now the shirt is slipping over his
blonde little head.
"You can't wear that shirt to school.
Get another one that is cleah."
There's a look to kill, more silence
and then his return with his grey and blue
shirt.,
"Tat shirt has a hole in it. You
wear that only for play. Get a shirt
which is clean and has no holes."
This time big tears begin to well up
" in his blue eyes, He leaves the room
in hurt, silence and comes back with
a clean navy shirt with no holes.
"You know you can't wear that shirt
to school. It has paint ill over the _one
sleeve. You have lots. of good, clean
shirts that you can weaf.tdschool.Please
• find one right now., You'll be late for
chool."
BY this time he's in full blown sadness.
He's sobbing and crying. •He's baffled
and frustrated. •
"I can't_find a shirt to wear," he
moans.
"Come with me," I commanded,
taking hi m to his room, and\ promptly
showing 'him two, three or maybe four
shirts which would be acceptable in polite • society.
"Have, you got your underwear on?"
I ask. He nods, much, to my relief. I go'
back to my work in the kitchen. He comes
,in sheepishly. •
can't find my shoes," he announces.
"Tike, one step to' the side and' you'll
standing on them
'
" I scream, getting
ne r hysteria: "Get them on quickly and
go the bathroom and wash your fdce."
ears form again, washed last'
nigh ," he explains. "I can't be dirty
again. Why do I have to wash?" • '
At this Point I give up. I scrub his
e for him, I slick his hair down fOr
hi , I push him out the door. "Kids!" •
I Sigh.
"4.
Wind`-swept
My wife and . I went through the whole
bit, put I can't help feeling more pity
for today's young couples than I ever
felt for us.
First of all, we were products of
the depression , and didn't, expect much.
When we did get a little. windfall, 'we
counted our. blessings and promptly went
out and spent them.
',remember the time one of my uncles,
died intestate. By the" time the estate
had been cut up among the . numerous
nieces and nephews, we got something,
' like $102.50,. It was manna from heaven.
.,&,,11, We^ went straight out and bought a
• ;,radio, , a cAse of beer, a bunch of stuff. •
at" the deacatessen,Old
To heck with tomorrow or next week.
•But I must admit that life was a lot
simpler then, and a great deal cheaper.
We had a child, and we got more plea-
sure out of him than we would have
from' colour TV, •a penthouse apartment,
and a Cadillac.
We, had a furnished fiat in on e of
the grimmer sections of the city.Shared
the bathroom., Furniture was Salvation
' Army specials. But my wife redecorated
the -place, and it had two entrances and
a backyard with real trees arid grass..
It cost $15 a week. Furnished.
Today you can • scarcely rent one
room for that, We had a total income '
of about $130 a month.' That covered rent,
food, clothes, transportatfon..About once
a month we'd have a real blowout. Baby-
sitter (750); movies (750 each); half a
dozen cokes" (360) and a bag of peanuts •
(l50). Wow! That's living.
we weren't bored, or desperate. we
talked, read, studied, listened to the
radio, gloated over our child.. •
,Holidays, I worked in the' post office
or 'in a factory, to pick up a few extra
bucks, Smokes , were roll-your-owns.
It wasn't bad, but I used to get mighty
sick of` neVer having a ,dollar that didn't
haVe a slot waiting to gulp it.
'I've never been sorry that my plans '
for post-graduate work and .three or four
mor e years of poverty wept up in nettles
and I was tossed by, accident into the
hurly-burly of the newspaper business.
Today's students work hard at dull
summer jobs, save every nickel,'
get grants, and. have to scrape on the
edge of poverty and . shabbiness. I pity
them.
OCTOBER 26, 1923.
The farmers growing sugar beets are
busy ' hauling them to town at Chisel-
hurst. Potatoes ;are' all' lifted and the
mangolds will be housed by the week
end. ,
John Sholdice di' Walton had an auc-
tion sale this week.
Miss Greta Laramie, Hensall, and her--
-friends, the Misses Slay and Sells
al 1 graduates of the Brantford Institute
eon for the Blind took p.
MUdmay,"
in c„,erts at
Walkerto .4d CulroSs and m-
inor t splendid and • t • s at all places.
4,, • Thos. Dickson o Hensall t although . "
advanced in' 3r4ari'ig 'supplying ' r :'•
store of '
O. Goof in and Miss Ole Co*. Of
Hensall took part in the choral concert
in Brucefield and delighted their aud-
ience with their selections.
Local hunterS are meeting with fair=
success in shooting wild du'cks along the
lake shore: As many as 15 were shot by
man:
d rvi
e A Boa has left Hensel]. to spend
one
ee years in the furthering of his studies
in connection with his divinity course.
• W.R.Smillie, North Main St., dug up a
turnip in one of his fields that measured
3 feet around.
Ross Savauge, who has been attending
the floyal College of Science in Toronto,
passed his final examinations, coming
first in the class.
Onef day last week N.T.Cluff met with
a serious accident . While unloading junk
at, J. McMann's farm he was accidently
thrown from 'his wagon and 'in the fall
fractured two ribs and injured himself
internally.
Mr. a Mrs. Millie R. Rennie, of
London, have en engaged as choir
leader and organ of Fi t Presby-
, terian Church, Seafor They have
leased the residence of Mrs. Frank Dev,-,
ereaux, John St.
A Montreal firm ,is installing a
sprinkler systeM in the Canada Furni-
ture Company here.
T. C. GrieVe left with a car of settlers
effects for hiS new home in Monetville,
New Ontario.
OCTOBER 28, 19 8.*
• ill, cKillop Mr. and Mrs.
their 2nd. wedding anniver-
sary last week. The year they were
married 1896, Mr. Cuthill recalls, was
very cold with snow flurries and hard
frozen ground.
Fire of undetermined origin com-
pletely destroyed an Egmondville land-
mark which recently had housed the ma-
chine and welding shop of James Racho.
The fire was first noticed by Miss Belle
Jackson who called Norman McLean at
4 A.M.
William M. Hart of Seaforth, has
purchased the coal business and pro-
perty of J. H. Scott, located on the
Canadian National Railway yards here.
One of the oldest busihess places in
Seaforth, it wa s established over 70
year's a o by wm. Sclater, one of the
pioneer ps ss men of the town. •
L ge crowds of worshippers thronged
the U ited Church at.Londesborovon the
,
fas t two Sundays when the congregation
celebrated the Golden •Jubilee of their
church. The speaker on the first Sunday
was Rev. Harold Snell of Exeter and Rev.
A. W. Gardiner of - Egmondville on the
second Sunday. The church was built
in 1896 at a total cost of $5,500.
• Neil 'Beattie 'of Seaforth was named
president of the Badminton Club with
the following ,officers: Vice pres.
Southgate; sedretarry-treasurer, Magd
Mueller; pop. Corn. J.C.MCKenze;
Tournament com. R.S.Box; Member-
ship J. 'It. Kelley; Social Dorothy Parke.
Last Friday evening, Over a hundred
friends, and neighbors gathered at the
-Stanley School to 'spend a social evening
with Mr., and. Mrs. Lyle Hill and faintly
• who are leaving for Bayfield. Mr. and
Mrs: "Lyle Hill and family who are leairing
ft,r 13a.yfields They were presented with
a &bar •IaMp, the address being read by
Allan Johnston.
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To the Editor
La'st week I attended the Stratford
' Fall Fair. 'One exhibit in particular
caught my eye. This exhibit was titled . ."The Right to Life":
There were actual pho▪ tographs and
colored ,,,s4des of aborted fetus. • Each
Method of abortion was well illustrated.
It _is about time someone dared to
show 'the public exactly what or who
is being aborted and how,
People have, for too long preferred
to consider unborn children simply luMps
of tissue to be removed if unwanted.
Before any decision can be reached, all
facts must be known.
Experts in the field of embryology
( the science dealing with, the development
of organism) have esiatblished that a
new individual human life starts at con-
ception.
Yet the 19,,ws of Canada do not keep.
pace with modern scientific knowledge
and reflect the respect for human life
that is our heritage. '
For these reasons, and in view of
the great increase in the number of
abortions in Canada in the- last three
years, r feel that the abortion.legisla-
UM/ should be amended in- order that
full and equal recognition and protection
be given to all human 'life, before » ill
as well as after birth.
Abortion should not be reMove from
the Criminal Code. if this happens, the
number of babies., tortured, slaughtdred
and- finally killed will increase greatly.
Approximately 600 babies are killed
each week in. Canada through abortions and
this cost is Coining from taxpayers limey:,
This is a.,,terrific cost and crimp to our
country.
The cost of an abortion is▪ covered
under our so called 'health plan' O.H.I.P.
Why shduld our tax money be used to
contribute to killing a human life?
I . think it is time we write td our
members of parliament and tell them
what we think 'about the inhumane proti-
torn of'abortion. r •-`
I am sure the majority of Canadians
favor finding a solution to social problems
likich are truly humane and, without
violence,
Pleak. write now and help stop the
brutal and alarming situation whieh'exists
in Canada at this moment.
Yours truly,
Mts. Charles Price'
101 EaSson Street,
• Stratford, Ontario.
'My daughter 'Kim and her husband are.
having a tough time these days. He's .
starting a postl-graduate course at, uni-
versity, and she's well into, an under-
graduate course in advanced pregnancy.,
But that's not what's tough. Those
things are normal, exciting, and .even
joyful. •
It's the eternal problem for students, ,
and for most of the rest of us, of money,
scarcity of. • . .
At first, I was inclined to scoff.
"Air! You kids! You don't know what it's
like to pe hard up. You get all those
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do get just enough to get by. But when
you're young and impatient and have been
spoiled in a middle-class home with most ,
of the amenities, you get a little sick of ,
I i getting by."
• You'd like to buy an occasional roast,
instead, of trying to think of another method
of making a delicious hamburg dish. In
fact, at today's prices, ypu can't even
afford-hamburg too often.
You'd like to go to a show once in a
while, or halve a party, or have the clothes
to go 'to someone else's party. But there
just isn't anything in the budget for these'
fairly simple pleasures.
You'd ;like t o have a car, like most
„ normal people, and be able to,drive into
the country or' visit friends, or go home '‘
for a w ekend and have some decent food
from t e old folks' groaning board. Can't
afford t. 0.
You' ' like to have colour TV, or
even black and white, but there are no
funds. You'd like some new, warm
winter clothes, but you have to make do
with last year's five-year-old shabby
dufflecoat, and last year's leaky boots.
If you're pregnant, you'd like to start
making a nest, fixing up a home.. But on
the rent you can afford, you wind up in
a crumby flat where you share the bath-
room and the stove does* work and the
decorating is in puke colour and the
thermometer never goes higher than 65.
It can all be pretty depressing unless
you have plenty of physical and mental
fortitude.
There's love, of course, to fall back
on. But from what I've seen in, my day,
love floUrishes a lot better when there's
some bread on the table and some bread
in your wallet.
"a'
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SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, October 18, 1973
Oitober -- the yellow month
,of or write up some set •
event, stop and consider'
several alternatiVes.- •
.In, the case of'specj41 •
events was the Expositor,
tified a couple of weeks
in advance?: Special occas-
ions are pl'anned in, ad,
vaWCe- .let. the paper,
know in the.planning.s,tage:
As for roUtjne meetings,
'did you send in an account
to the paper - not just
the minutes, but a destrlp-
tion-of what the guest
speaker said or what de-
ci.sions,Were made?aAlthough
We like to' print news of
all area clubS we''cannot
possibly coVer.every meet-
ing in the area' weserve
and must rely. on accurate,
up-to-date reports from '
club. secreteries or other
correspondents.
If•you'think a picture
of your group's activities
would be valuable to, our
coverage and the Expositor
can't send a photographer
-- get one of your members
to take pictureS. they
are blaak-And•whi-te and
good and clear perhaps we
can use them-- either in
negative or print form. -.
Help u's to make our
`:oep'er.Prefleot 5ettifixTttl?
whaVs 49oing on in the
coMMunity. Give us lots,
of notice. when yo'u want -
coverage and pictures and
all:yaur club news as soon
as possible. '•
We'll try Our best if
you will too. Then we can
all enjoy the fall-- both •
the weather And the upsurge
in activitps.
*ion-for-our readers as
possible. ' But before you
get angry at us because,
we did not take pictures
Seven-year-old boys all have the same
failing, I suppose. They are unable to keep
clean. Hands and faces are constantly
dirty. Washing, is shunned as would be
poison.' And through it all, seven -year-
, old boys never feel dirty. `Thiltey can't
even tell the difference between dirty
and clean.
k The episode at our house this morn-
ing was typical of almost every ,other
school day. ' Our youngest climbed out •
of the sack all bright-eyed and busy-
tailed. He went straight to the' living-
TOOM where he turned on the television
and reclined luxuribusly on the couch.
And there he remained - practically un-
noticed and all but forgotten until about
30 minutes before he was to leave for
school.
Then the barrage of questionS began.
"Are you dressed?" I asked. "Have
you, 'Wasted? Do you want something for
brakfast? Have you brushed yOur teeth?
Is your hair combed? Are your things
ready for school?" '
A quick look in the livingroom re-
veals that none of these chores have,
been accomplished and besides that, my
son Is reluctant to be dragged away from
clown ally to perforni them..
- The next step, fs to turn off the tele-
vision to.get 11s attention. With this
attraction removed, he ambles without
besitation toward the breakfast table
• where he dawdles over his cereal and
toast until about five 'minutes before
he is to leave for school.
Then comes the hi g .rush. Then it
is my son Who .poses the' bairage of
questions. "Where's my clothes ? What
shirt do I wear? Have you, Seen my
-shoes? why •uo I have to wash again,
Who took my ,toothbi•uSt?"
ThiS morning the conversation w nt
like this:
• altrhere°s my football shirt, Mom?
Is in the wash basket - dirty.
"It Isn't dirty."
"Ye5 it is. Get another shirt."
Therelt " silence for a moment • or
two. then he nopears Wearing his red
OCTOBER is, 1898.
Alex Mitchell of Brucefield shipped
two carloads of apples from here and
Mr. Cantelon also shipped a large'quantity.
mrs. John Ross of Brucefield has ;hold
her farm on the London Road to, Isaac
Jarrett. The price Was $6,000. .
'Thos. Fraser 'of Brucefield made quite
a large kale of thoroughbred sheep re-
cently, a gentleman from Iowa getting
16. . He also shipped a pair of five lambs
to Dakota. •
Miss• Kate Purcell, Seaforth, his been
engage" to teach the Separate School,
Hihbert.
Wm. McLachlan, formerly employed
in the, foundry in town, has secured a,good
situation with the Anderson Furniture'
Company in Woodstdck. '
The wood season has commenced and
large quantities are coming into town.
The -prevailing , price is from $4.50 to
$2.00 per cord for short wood.
D. D. Wilson has a large-staff of men '
busily employed removing ti pickled eggs
from ,the vats' and Is sapping awaL
immense quantities. Most of them going\
to the Old Country.
Messrs. Murray, anci.Ament shipped a • ,„
carload of geese and ducks to Rhode
Island.'
Miss Clara McKinley of town ' has
received word that she had received
' honors in the classical Work - of the
fourth form. . •
Potatoes are likely to be scarce -this
season., Some farmers in this vicinity,
have a good crop. They are' a much
better crop in the *intern thin in the
northern townships. • ,
Nearly every i team which comes into
town these days is loaded with -apples
for shipment. The crop is turning Out
much better than was expected.
Mrs. D. D. Wilson met with a.pain-
ful accident. She was standing on a
chair and in stepping off, she fell. She
was Confined to her room for several
days 'but is now recovering.
Alex Davidson has moved to his own
house near the Collegiate Institute, lately
vacatedtby Pearce..
Cavan Church, Winthrop, which
been clo9hd for repairs „will be
opened on Sunday7-'_
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