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�'.� x s;;t^� bfick hotel, on the site of the one recently .
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does a good and we are always other readers that all our papers are� H ; rz k � � �
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treated helpfully and politely there: rr�ailed at the same time and that the, a �; ' �!
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contract of cu tting wood with John
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Wm. We$tcott of Seaforth was
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advertisers and copy from our It seems to us that the Expositors x &
a , w' in the way of Selling his high grade silver ,
correspondents. But most important, sometimes take rather roundabout
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the Royal Mail (or Caneda Post it's. routes in reaching our • subscribert, � §
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- called now) transmits our papers to The normal . way. • fbr Expositors to. v�'
x: �" ,£ . preparations to raise his barn in the spring.
our subscribers. In the absence, of the reach Brussels readers is to go from ~.
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our weekly efforts. Kitchener and back to Brussels. See° ?
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MrsrG.F.Arnold, -Hensall, is in Toronto
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attending the millinery' openings.
the post office lies- From the time our We don't know what the answer to
p4er is mailed at Stratford the problems between the weeklies
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Wednesday nights (we•take.it that far and the post office is. The post office's
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The weather at Winthrop is very cold
ourselves) it takesgreatly- varying is ver co-operative in helping to run
and stormy at time of writing. GrVat credit
amounts' of time to reach our down the problem with issues which -
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is due to the mailman John McMillan,'as
subscribers. are re received late. But then • � >�. ;�
, ,;�• �; � he came many days that we didn't expect
Every week we g'et letters ,:they someone else's -paper arrives late'and•
to see him.
Messrs. A. Cuthill, Simpson, J.
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that the Expositor takes ten days to subscriber.
wood from the pine swamp of the Canada
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get to Kitchener or two weeks to a ca o y s gg y
reach someone in a suburb of. notify us by mail when your paper is
'Toronto. The Expositor, along with habitually 1•ate and we'll check with -
probably every other weekly in the post office and try to,,.,.,•get your
Canada, has lostsubscrjrbers over this Expositor to.you in good time.
problem of late arriving papers. "It's In the meantime, don't blame us o
just no good getting your paper ten and ,,please don't accuse us of
days late. I like to attend auction sales preferential treatment. We repeat
and they are over by the time I can that we do mail all copies of the paper
Bruce Walker of Hillsgreen sbot a large%
eagle, which' measured seven feet from
between the tips of its wings.
The snow storm which st arted on
Tuesday and which is still raging as we go
to press on Thursday has completely tied ,
up the railraods. The country roads, while
passab in most places, are very heavy
and business in town has been at a (M M
read about them in the Expositor", at .the ,same time. standstill.
Wm. Black, M.P. leaves for Ottawa to
one reader wrote ,us. Just ask our editor. He's in µ attend the o enifi of Par]iament.
I've just been reading a book, about the all ' know, are .somewhat less than P g
The fact that their• copy of the hospital in London and he was mailed Battle of Britai)d1 writte` ,�,by Pdter remarkable. Mrs. W.A:Wiight, prbsided at the
' `' "' organ in First Presbyterian Church on -
Exposi#or takes. a week to get from. a copy: of la$# weeks Expositor from Townsend. He was a Wofl'd r iI fighter Back home again, there's the Battle of Yt
say Seaforth to Chatham upsets Stratford on Wednesday. night. The pilot and,was in the battle himself. Queenston Heights, which nobody knows Sunday owing to the absence of Mrs.
He's also, the, chap the royal family much about except the residents of M.R.Rennie.
people and rightly so. It also leads paper reached him on Monday wouldn't allow to marry the then Princess Queenston, and few of them. But this Melvin McPhee and T.G.Scott were in
them to suspect that we, not the afternoon. We think i•t walked to Margaret, because he'd been divorced. He produced a great, pure, ,Canadian image, Condon to hear from the Brown Bros.
mails, are the culprits. "Would yoiA London. s was probably lucky. Later she married that Laura Secord..chocolates, without which Saxaphone Sextette, the leader of which is `
pipsqueak • photographer called Jones or' Canada could probably not have Thos. Brown, well known here as a former
Smith orsomething. He is now Lord maintained its integrity, nationality,. and leader of the Seaforth Band.
Something or -other. His wife is Princess a rotten teeth. °' Bert Gibbings of Alma shipped three
Northing -or -other,,. ,;.,..,.. The Yanks have theirs. The Alamo; for registered Yorkshire hogs to distant
points. He raises the real bacon type.
• Anyway, it an excellent book,. for example. One of the most stupid affairs in � P•
Sten number one anyone interested in battles that have history. (If anyone ,ever tells you that you Campbell Sutherland of Alma sold a
changed the course of history. Townsend are going to fight to the last man, throw driving mare, to Leo Stephenson,, one day
A few we ks ago we had has consulted'a mass of material from both away your gun and begin running in all . recently.'
l'- g an Everybody knows that foodstuffs b German and British records, and 'gives a -directions, preferably at once.) Mr. and Mrs: Herb Fowler, Mr. and
interesting - conversation With a are scarce and expensive — much too balanced picture of the B. of B., looking at There was, of course, the Charage of the Mrs. Bert Irwin, Mrs. Joe Hugill and Frank
district - farmer who is a bit more expensive to waste on a pack of it from both sides of.the English Channel, Ir---Wht Brigade, which didn't change the A Fowler supplied music for the "At Home"
By the way, is anyone interested in the course of anything.. But it did serve as a at Constance.
inventive than average. Seems he did hungry rats. If the rodents could be battles that changed history; besides me lasting memorial 'to the utter stupidity of James Hugill of. Alma was busy
some thinking about how much of- his • starved out of all. the farms in Canada and a few history buffs? There are quite a the. British ruIing•-classes. And from that harvesting icq last week.
time and money was being chewed up there would be enough food saved to few of them, and one must wonder what war we did get -the Cardigan sweater and
by the rats in his barn. He said .that nourish several thousand families. would •have happened to. history if the the Raglan coat:, Not to be sneezed at. Or R
the rat situation was no better and no 'It's not a silly idea. it's the first battles had been lost, not won. on. FEBRUARY 25, 1949. •
At least one of them has probably Perhaps• you have sensed my purpose in Edmund Dal successfully brought in a
Worse than it ever was on his farm — practical step toward sound farm, Y, Y g
affected you, personally. � this little essay. Or, perhaps, like me, you on a set he had
but he decided it was time to take economy. If the Persians hadn't been slowed down haven't. television program
action. The problems provided by nature at Thermopylae and trounced at Marathon, Well, like, it's been a bad day, y'know, constructed during recent months. Nearly
they'd have wiped -out the Greeks. Think and 'take an' put our average Canadian 30 years ago he pioneered radio in .
. Like most farmers he had simply such as drought and disease are Y P Y P Y g Seaforth.
what that . would have done to the up against something, and he'll come tip
taken the rats for granted. They had enough for the average farmer, and A most successful euchre and dance
restaurant business -in Canada. Not to with something,eh?
always been there, but he decided to sometimes they will beat him despite was held in Cardno's Hall when 43 tables
mention Jackie Onassis' $20,000 a week in Oh, yeah. I remember. I was wondering were in play. The funds were used to send
go to war. So, he cleaned out one of every effort to protect a crop but spending money. what would have happened if we'd lost the i
-fie bins in his •granary. and bought a the rats are something else again and If Drake-aad his fleet had not beaten the Battle of Britain. It would have been a Jolly food parcels to the old country. Those
4 winning prizes were ladies first, Mrs:
few sheets of galvanized iron and a the can be beaten. Armada, half the people in Canada would Good Show. w
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be talking Spanish, eating garlic and going Hijler was prepared to make generous
couple of pounds of shingle nails and If you want some inexpensive One of two Seaforth rinks in London to
to bullfights. terms, and divide the known world with
rat -proofed his bin. He added good metal sheetingHow would you like you might contact one to be out at a Britain.Pretty good deal, 1'd say. take part in the London bonspiel was
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tight doors and refilled the storage of the local printing plants to bullfight this .afternoon (it's 15 bblow But the obstinate, stupid British successful in winning third prize. Members
z space. In the course of a couple of -purchase used offset press plates. outside), sitting in the shady side of the decided to fight. And even worse, they of the rink were W.A.Wright,
arena, and shouting Die", at a bullfighter won. The Luftwaffe did not destroythe i W.J+'Duncan, Mayor J.C.Keating and
winters he completed the job on all Sorry, we don't have any ourselves, and a bull frozen,�1iterall ,into the, classic R.A.F.,vol,ich had the C.A.Barber.
his storage space and now estimates but we can tell you who has. Y privilege of being
stance of the bull -ring? a• attached to me (or was it the other way Recaliin days of 50 ea
that he is saving. an astonishing (Wingham Advance Times) And what about the battle of the Plains around?) durin the war. g Y years ago, when
;amount of grain. of Abraham? If the Limeys hadn't won that g the accepted means of getting jobs done,
Y Result, Britain is sliding down the sluice men of the Egmondville United Church
one; I'd be happily back in. Ireland right into economic anonymity. Germany is gathered for i wood bee,
w now, cutting peat in a bog, instead of master of Europe, financially. Donated by David McLean, 'the wood
sitting here wondering how in the name of It pays to lose wars. Germany and was cut in the McLean bush in
energy. I'm going to meet my fuel bill. Japan,'the big losers in W.W.II, are riding Tuckersmith. James Finlayson, in his 79th
Letters t0 the, editor Go -father back. If Joan D'Arc (Dater St. an ihcredible winning'streak in peacetime. year, recalls taking part in a similar bee 60
I Joan), hadn't lifted the siege at Orleans, Italy won a short war iii,, Abyssinia, years ago.
I D@ar •Sirs: there'd be no French, no Separatiste Party, bombs againstd arrows; machine-guns Avery pleasant evening was spent at
a child in a 35 mile or under zone. no Canadian problem. °�
As a Journalist, your support isineeded P againWspears, he's in her usual mess, No. 12 school when euchre was played; the
dandy was the Battle of
'I to 'correct what strikes me as an Being hit by a car at any speed could Another Francewon" two wars and is in chaos., 'prize winners being, .Mrs. Roy Patrick
Culloden, where Bbnny (retarded) Prince +
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extraordinarily dangerous situation in the indeed cost the precious life of a youngster. lfritain + "won" two wars and couldn't. Mrs.Glanville • and Jimmie Axtmann.
Highway Traffic Act: Charlie was beaten by the English. Instead
g Y This week 1 have written all member of � bot row a quarter for a pint of bitter. James Neilans auctioned the boxes and
Like many citizens I have,-fvr years, our Provincial Parliameni asking for of the Scottish, invading England In kilts, America "won" two wars and the dollar Mrs. McDonald, Roy Patrick and Mr.
been under the impression that the they were forced to- invade, with their
P introduction of a bill amending these is,about as healthy as a wet tissue: Neilans played for dancing.
regulations required that: Highway brains, and they took over the financial Maybe we should have lost the Battle of
g q inconsistencies in es hwa Traffic Act. affairs of the British Empire. Which, as we T,N,Forsyth of Ki en, had a gang
(a) School buses must have flashing lights I implore your investigation and public P Britain. PP
operating when children are being loaded support as a Journalist. large elm tree
cutting up an unusually lar
or unloaded. Respectfully, f which fell during the recent windstorm. It _
(b) School buses must have .a sign or Hugh A. Crothers is reported that there would be 10 cords of
lettering, indicating "DO NOT PASS _ DRUGS illi �� �, wood.
WHEN SIGNALS FLASHING". �� The work on the new telephone lines at
Motorists - approaching from either ' "�'1 g Bayfield is proceeding p
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direction must come to a full stop until the I -1 ! ���sr schedule. The office will be in what used to
Have you heard train whistles much
flashing lights stop. I t`ir• (l^Fly , ��'� be the post office and Mrs. M. Toms is to be
more frequently on the Goderich railway?it
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Did,you realize that in areas where , , , ,•, C... the manager. -
speed limits are not more than 35 miles per might be interesting to determine what has �r I I Ql I`
caused the increase in le gthy and more The death took place of Kathleen
hour atone of these. regulations are �+ , Lennan, -widow of the late James
requirements? Indeed, the Act allows the frequent trains.lt also might just save a �I p
Devereaux. They spent many years one if the public were advised to expect a li ''
council -of any city to exempt highways lifHillcrest farm P
train at any hour oche day or night on this ^�` ,east of town, now'occu occupied
ifn�er its jurisdiction where speed limits •. /// `'`•�� b Harold Jackson.
may be more than 35 miles per hour. track, especially vyith the possibility of tq j j y
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As a Whet and citizen, I submit to you Nowlin winds and blizzards which could
Y reduce the sound of a whistle• or view of a Jackson, Roy Bell and Clerk Edwin P.
that the tlttof o provided a child in 36 � Chesney of Tuckersmith are in Totonto
' � light from the train. He says we should not be hllowed to sell that coffee
utile per fidttt of over zone, is just as vital to Edith Baker + attending the Good Roads Convention.
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