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SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, SEPTEMBER 12, 1974'
It's fall
fair time
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to us, is looking better than it has in a
mo r into letting them exhibit the
long while.
family dog in the "leas,t'resemblance
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tp any breed" class of the pet show.
are the Fall- Fairaexhibits. Along with
Hard working housewives, who
the usual, farm machinery ' and
have time, are looking over their stock
commercial displays, the ,Women's
of homemade preserves and
institute will be there, selling
needlework to see if anything. looks
cookbooks and a group of local women
good enough to meet- the stiff
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a., $ince 10,60, Serving the Community First
tljltsh 4 at. SEAFO TO,. ONTARIO, every Thursday morning by MAEAN BROS., P41ishers Ltd.
' ANDREW Y. McLEAN, Editor
" Member Canadian Community Newspaper Association
Ontario Weekly Newspaper Association
a and Audit Bureau of Circulation
Subscription Rates: C+CNA
'Canada (in advance) $10.00 a Year
Outside Canada (in advance) $12.00 a Year
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Telephone 527-0240
SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, SEPTEMBER 12, 1974'
It's fall
fair time
it's fall fair time again and the
their facades, highlighting the unique
hole town .is humming.
Victorian brick trim on Their --upper
Sqhool kids are . already talking.
stories. Downtown Seaforth, it seems
a, out their parade and trying to talk
to us, is looking better than it has in a
mo r into letting them exhibit the
long while.
family dog in the "leas,t'resemblance
If Seaforth seems to be reviving, so.
tp any breed" class of the pet show.
are the Fall- Fairaexhibits. Along with
Hard working housewives, who
the usual, farm machinery ' and
have time, are looking over their stock
commercial displays, the ,Women's
of homemade preserves and
institute will be there, selling
needlework to see if anything. looks
cookbooks and a group of local women
good enough to meet- the stiff
will be donating time and homemade
competition in the 'homemakers
goodies to make money for the Van
section of the fair.
Egmond'hotlse. ,
4-H club members have been
The Expositor hopes to have a .
grooming their calves for awhile and
booth selling, for' a-- dime each
are practising the fine art of judging
mountains of photos that have
and showing.
appeared in the paper the past few
Farmers have already entered the
years.
field crop competitions, perhaps in
Seaforth has Huron County 's only
nostalgia for the old days when a high
Class B Fair,That means that .our
place in the Fall Fair judging meant
local Agricultural Society gives out
more than the latest quote on the corn
more prize money, has a wider
futures market,
selection of classes and higher
Those who still have dairy cattle are
standards for competition than 'any
preparing to enter them in the Black
other in the county.
' and'White Show, a feature unique to
We should be,proud of our Class B
the Seaforth Fall Fair.
Fair. Even those in town can join the
In town merchants are cleaning up
Agricultural Society work for the fair
their premises, getting ready for the
and help keep it up-to-date, a show
steady stream of customers that fair
:place for all the community.
day always brings.--- -,C .. .....•
°4 Al -though- it's 1974 and the rat. race
It's probably not just in honour of
has us all running around in circles,
the Fair but several Seaforth
take a half a day off next week. Relax.
businesses have recently painted
Come to the Fair.
An. end
to hoeing,
Farmers, of every era have some
cause for complaint. If it isn't the
weather it may be the prices; or it
may be some immediate reason such
as the breakdown of a machine in the
midst of a busy season.
Modern farmers, for all their
troubles, don't know how lucky they
are, that is, compared to their Ontario
ancestors. Many back -breaking jobs
of the past are gone forever. Gone too
are many of the pesky tasks of the
yesteryears.
The reminder, comes with 'the
information that sugar beets now can
be grown from 'mono -germ' seeds.
That is, there is just one plant per
seed, which eliminates the need for
pulling ,most of them out.
No sugar beets now are grown in
Ontario., the last plant producing
sugar from beets having been closed
down in Kent County some years
back. And there are very few, if any of
their kindred marigolds. Time was
when most' Ontario farmers had an
acre or two of these to provide tasty,
juicy food for milch cows or brood
sows. They also offered a treat for
horses, -,or for the hens.
Those were the days of 'hoe crops'.
and the hoeing of marigolds was the
wast of all., First they had to be
thinned out, almost impossible to do
with the hoe, ' as the stems were
intertwined. The hoer would have to
stoop, up one row and down.the next,
pulling them apart with his fingers.
That was a tedious pernickety job, as
hard on the nerves as on the back.
Our grandfathers would have
shouted with joy at news that 'there
were marigolds which needed no such
thinning. But then there are many
modern practices in agriculture which
would have been beyond the fondest
dreams of our rural ancestors.
, (St. Marys Journal -Argus)
The rumour
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"Getting it in the paper" means a But sometimes these people do not
Log cclfbih coming down
Sugar and Spice
By Bill Smiley
End of summer notes: back to work;
babies; the speer? limit; and anything else
"that crops up.
It's good to get back to work. For a
month. At first there's a general feeling of
excitement as the fall term begins at school
Bonhomie among the staff as summer
experiences are. exchanged art¢ tans are
compared. The challenge df facing a
hundred and some new faces in, the
classroom. The fine September weather.
Even the students are happy to get back.
For a month. They, too, exchange summer
anecdotes, greet old friends, and begin
making new ones. There is a feeling of
liveliness in the air.. ,
One of the favourite pastimes for the
students as school re -opens is sizing up the
teachers.
"Yeah, he's not a bad guy, but you pan
walk ,all over him. His classes are a mob
scene."
"She's a good teacher, knows her stuff,
but she's so duly no sensa humour, it
makes your teeth ache."
"He's a teal mean (deleted). Makes ya
work like a dog."
And . so on, l hey're usually pretty
shrewd in their assessments. What they
don't realize is that their teachers are
doing the same, "There's a bad little devil;
have to keep an eye on him. Oh, no, not Joe
repeating his year. Why did they put him
in my class again? There's a bright girl;
good -looking too." And so on.
Utterly bewildered for a month' are .the
new kids in Grade 9. They come in all sizes,
from tiny shrimps to hulking giants. Some
of them come from small country schools.
T64be,dumped in a huge, complex building
housing daily about 1700 people, including
staff is rather frightening for them.
They get lost. That's reasonable; even
some of the teachers get lost. But the kids
lose their books, forget where their lockers
are or if they fnd them, have forgotten the
combination for the lock. They have to
unravel all the do's and don'ts of a huge
and baffling new system.
But they get sorted out and after a
month, they're old_ hands, just as cocky as
all the other' -s.
Now for babies.Thank goodness I'm not
a young mother. We've been having a visit
from our grandbabby, and when- it was
wer. I felt ten years older.
He's a beautiful child and a healthy one.
lut he's as active and agile and slippery as
n eel.
Unfortunately. his gran had cracked
1s, was in considerable pain and could
3rcely hold him or lift him. As a result,
she wasn't much good, as an oversized
toy. That's all grandparents are, when
you're eight months old. They're far better
than a rattle. They're softer (in more ways
than one), they, make the appropriate
noises, they pick you up and kiss you when
you fall down, they sing to you and joggle
you on their knees , and so on.
Well, Nicov Chen ' took a shine", as
they say, to me as his new toy, "Ah, look.
He loves his grandad", the women would
coo, when he'd crawl- straight to me, look
up imploringly and begin to ascend me as
though I were Mount Everest.
His technique was impressive. I was
wearing nothing but shorts most of the
time. He would reach up from the floor,
grab, -me by the hair on my legs with a grip
.like an orangutan, poli himself to his feet,
grinning with triumph and swaying
around, ready to fall, bump his head and
start yelling.
Another beseeching -look, and I'd hoise
him onto my knee. Then he'd turn around,
grab me by the hair on my chest, and pull
himself up for a little jump, jump; jump,
facing me.When he got tired of that, he'd
start grabbing my nose and trying to pull it
out, or poking at my eyeys, or tearing at an
ear.
Suddenly, he'd squirm around'and want
down. On the floor, he'd head, at startling
speed and with a demonic grin, straight for
a st anding floor lamp. He loved it because
when you shook it, from ground level, it
made a nice jingling sound, It is also heavy
enough to brain a baby.
So grandad ieaps'across the room and
grabs the lamp in the nick of time, points
the kid in another direction 'and sinks
wearily into his chair. Sixty seconds later,
he feels a painful twisting of the hair on his
legs, and off we go again. One of us never
got tired of this little routine.
He's a happy babby, bu , on the
occasions when he isn't you could hear him
two blocks away. Whenever his Mum went
shopping, I baby-sat and enjoyed it
thoroughly, but did my sitting in a constant
state of fear that he'd get unhappy. I'm
glad, once again, that I'm not a young
mother, but an old grandad.
Finally, the speed limit. There is -a
proposal that -it be reduced from 70 on the
big highways to 55 m.p.h. This was done in
the U.S. and Germany, among others,
during the oil crisis. There is quite a lot of
opposition here. I'm all for it. It's been
proved that it cuts the carnage on the
highways, Saves lives, saves money, saves
energy. How can anyone be against it?
And %Rat's the big rush, anyway9 it's
time we slowed down.
In the Years Agone
SEPTEMBER 8,1899
Geo. gall of McKillop has sold the east
half of t 33, to James Smith. Th is" lot
contains 50 acres and'lias on it a bush of
good wood, and was sold for $1300:00.
The saw mill of Kelly Brothers, on the
12th 'concession of McKillop, had a close
call from destruction by fire. Fire had been
burning in the bush around the mill, for
several„ days and on that afternoon the
wind drove it to' the trill. Dennison's
threshing 'outfit was at work at Mr.
Simpson's close by, ano came to the
assistance of the Messrs. Kelly. 1
Mrs. J. Dorsey, of Seaforth, has sold her
farm on the centre road, Hibbert, to James
Maloney.
Mrs. and Miss Barrows, of McKillop,
were at the railway station here intending
to go to Sheldon, No. Dak. and while.
waiting for the train she became ill. The
journey had to be postponed.
Miss Maud Hartry, Cassie Gillespie and
Annie .B. Murray. are attending the Mit
chell Model Schbol, and Miss Sadie
Phillips is attending the Stratford Model
School.
Wm. Dale of Huron Road, Tuckersmith,
is, sending a pair of heavy mares and foals,
and a neat driving team to the London
Exhibition. Messrs. Geo. and Christopher
Dale, are also sending a string,of heavy
horses.
Jacob McGee 'of Egmondville•, • is,
improving his,premises by having a neat
stable erected. He is over 80 years of age,
and intends fitting himself out with.a horse
and buggy.
Miss Ella Laidlaw left on Wednesday for' '
California where she'int ends to make her
home for some time.
Messrs. McGregor Bros. of Kippen
recenity sold a pair of heavy draft geldings
Jo Mr. McLeod of Brussels: .
The grain rttarket at Kippen opened up
for the season. Mr. John Moffatt is at his
post as in former years.
Thos.. Ward of Varna was in town on his
way home from Toronto, where he had
purchased a lot,of stock steers which he
intends to fatten at his barn at Varna.
SEPTEMBER Sth, 1924
-The Annual Labor Day Scotch doubles of
the Seaforth Lawn Bowling Club was held
with 32 rinks in competition. W. Th
ompson and Dr. Bechely, took possession of
the Say. auge Trophy, the runners 'up.being
Musty Sproat and J. M. McMillan . In the
consolation Dr. F.J.Burrows nosed out
Harry Stewart and ;lack Beattie.
Ross McGregor of Constance attended
the Toronto Exhibition this week.
Miss 'Blanche. Wheatley, Miss Verna
Adams, Miss Beulah Scott, and Miss
Mabel Livingstone haveall . returned to
their school duties.
Mitchell ' Bros. of Manley have
purchased a new, gasoline tractor to run
their threshing outfit.
One of the few remaining old settlers of
McKillop in the person of Wm. McGavin
Sr., passed away on Saturday.
W. C. Callfas, thresher at Zurich, had
the.misfortune to injure his knee cap while
at work and will be laid up #for some
Wm. R. Dougall, Hay Township,
captured, a live eagle. it swooped down and
caught a chicken, and landed in a clover
field, it had a broken leg and was unable to
fly away.
Miss Scariett of McKillop has been
engaged as' assistant teacher in the
continuation school at Hensall.
Thos. Sherritt of Hensall, in jumping
down from one of the timbers in his barn to
the granary, had the misfortune to br eak
one of the bones in hi's foot.
Miss Fergus Campbell, who has been
the guest of Miss Bethune Leaves for her
home in Nashville Tenn.
Miss Mabel Turnbull and Miss Ella
Turnbull have returned to -their schools in
Huntsville and Toronto.
Miss Evelyn McGrath of St., Columban
has secured a school . in Tilbury and will
teach for the coming term.
The oat harvest ih Tuckersmith is almost
completed and considerable threshing has '
been done.
SEPTEMBER 9th, 1949
Mr. -and Mrs, Norman Chas. Eggert are
shown after their marriage at the home of
Miss Grace Tremeer, Kippen.
Blyth Fall Fair was opened by Premier
Leslie Frost. Bannochburn Pipe Band and
the Blyth Lions Club boys at4 girls bands
were in attendance.
Kathleen Glew, Edna Bailey and Nancy
Ford left for Victoria Hospital, London
where'they will train for nurses.
Very Rev. Thos. McQuaid, S. F. M. a
native `of McKillop, has been elected
Superior -General of the Scarboro Mission
Society. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs.
Joseph McQuaid of McKillop.
Somgthing unusual in raspberries was
brought to the Expositor office by Merle
Cooper, Main St., Seaforth. Picked in the
garden of John L. Smith , the brafiah was
laden with large ripe berries.
Miss Margaret Patrick has resumed her
duties in Toronto as teacher.
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