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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1974-11-07, Page 2F P � f'1 {i Shtce 1!8.,64, Serving tyle Community First fk "*eo:: at SE URTI I.,: ONTARR, gvery Thursday morning by McLEAN BROS., Publishers Ltd. ANDREW Y. MgLEAN, Editor Kpiober Canadian Community -Newspaper As.sociatiorr N> ' Ontario Weekly Newspaper Association and Audit Bureau of Circulation Subscription- Rates: Canada (in advance) $10.00 a Year <' Outside Canada tin advance) $12.00 a Year , truck. ::.... ., SINGLE COPIES -- 25 CENTS EACH Second Class Mail Registration Number 0696' The first snow of the season hit McKillop Telephone 527;02'40 of the coop. SKAfO.RTH, ONTARIO, NOVEMBER 7, 1974 who is not one, than an "Old Sweat"; Frombola was an irrepressible character. . _ .. unless it is a collection of Old Sweats, Fires and r� , meetings If you don't count the relatives of expressed by onlookers, but they also formerly 'owned by A.TScott and 'are those . who are on council, elected enjoyed the excitement... compatriots switched to the U.S. air force representatives, town and PUC The Ratepayer's Meeting was not year.' employees, town appointees and the very exciting, far from it. But It could press, a grand'total of three or four have been if interested citizens had Geo. Hill's comfortable residence in people attended Tuesday nig`ht's been there to ask questions of their of anything, except 'enjoying life. Ratepayers' meeting. elected representatives, to help take i' • Relatives, employees and stock of the. last .two years and plan appointees are citizens too and have the next two. Cochrane of Stanley Township, is every right to participate in municipal We are lucky that our fire calls are terror with the ladies. he was strong and 'and government, but they have a special answered so quickly. Without a Just the other day, (came across a photo Interest in attending this sort of strong municipal government apd the meeting. 1. ' dedicated group of volunteers it quantity of apples in the vicinity of Cromarty. it was the general public, the 1575 supports, we might 'not be so showed what he was ,made of. people in Seaforth who are registered fortunate. and looking over his shoulder, with a crop to vote in the December municipal Town Councillors who spoke to the election who were conspicuous" by meeting expressed disappointment at and are, ready to do chopping. fhe'tr absence. Three or four people the small -turnout of electors. "Maybe., beach in Normandy. There was nothing of attending out of 'that number of we should do something wrong.Then yours truly. electors is a pretty sad statement on we would have .a .--crowd here," haw highly we value our democratic Councillor Betty Cardno said. apples will be shipped out of Huron County this freedom to' HAVE -an election. .it's a pretty sad situation when the supply in the. mess. The right to'.vote is not a gift. Good people of Seaforth are more didn't actually escape. We just got sick and government does not mean that ' interested in a disaster than in citizens can sit back and take, take, making sure, 'that their Town is Woodyard and will reside in Clinton, ' take all the handouts they can get properly governed. parked on the sand, guarded by two British without putting any personal effort There are two openings on council/ seven days, and there we were, stuck into the community or taking any' this year. The mayor is stepping. responsibiity for it.. down, as is Deputy Reeve Wilmer barrels of apples this season. An hour after. `the Ratepayers' Cuthill. We can only hope there will jeep, buddy?" i nearly fell over. meeting was over,,dbout one hundred be more interest shown in the " before was that the guards up in the,sentry."Five people left their houses to stand in the electoral contest than there was in the yr pouring rain and watch fire destroy a ratepayers' meeting. Nominations leased from A. Cardno. James Purcell has man's barn. Sure, there was concern close on Tuesday, November 12. flush, as he was a gambler and a dealer. he z,- TY Phone b00tfllSn with the Yanks or the British roiling into ease. p position' 's Store•.town Suppose that you live in Dublin -d local phone book but promised to give rounded up some paint, and painted RCAF "Canada" Your child groes swimming in' Seaforth all Seaforth ' and Dublin phone and chc colate bars to the joyful prisoners. fa in the summer, and.,you want to call customers both books, their own and r, 'the'Lions Pool'th'We'to'give him an,,!'.-••--. the one'listing their neighbour. Miss May _Kemp who left here a few important messag4 `#�Ithough you can But for at least two years none of us m :make the call toll free from Dublin to has gotten two books. This imposes a They didn't have any cigaretts to throw Seaforth and visa versa it isn't easy to real hardship on . businesses with do so •because you can't look up the customers in both areas, families With James Thomson's grist mill >At Bayfield Pool's phone number. members in both areas and even the sick and wounded, but to date nurses. All because BelfTelephonp in it's neighbours who are in different to be kissed. They threw a guard around`busily infinite wisdom declared some years phone exchanges. We can call Bell ago that ,Seaforth and, Dublin, less Canada's Stratford office and ask th t John and Wm. Shannon have rented Lot than five miles apart by road and part we be sent copies of the Dublin phone picked u five hundred dollars n the p p ,,� of the same natural trading area, book and` hopefully° Bell will oblige: want us wandering -around the countr •side } were to be listed in two different But why should we have to? - - - •- • phone books. For some odd reason, It seems that Bell is always looking McGregor has bought Lot 16, Cont 5 from Brussels, also with close ties -to for rate increases, and getting them, since we landed, but wherever he is today, I'll bet he's rich. Seaforth, is marooned in the Stratford at the same time that the services the enough of that dump, So, about four phone book with Dublin. We don't utility offers are declining. know . who decided what Just wait 'till Bell tries to impose morning there was thick ice on the water municipalities to group together in that 25c service charge for calls to course. of •us shared a tent in Normandy. We were all shot down within phone books or why but the decisions information that started Nov. 1 in grass (very wet). and headed for home. don't make much .sense. Toronto. Information calls for ail What's the use of having toll free numbers listed in thedirectoryw It be -in Manitoba have returiled home. They calls if we can't look up the numbers charged for...but what if you on't from the Department of National Defense. that we want to call'? Those.of us with have a directory? Surely they can't thump a bit, but it wasn't either of those. It the Seaforth book can look up phone charge us 25c. Good old B might numbers in Strathroy and West consider that it could say itself some ' Edward Reid, Alexander Brown and Lorne. But who needs them? What we money by not Navin to answer mine, and lost an eye. The second was need, several times a day, is Dublin information calls if it ave us all two However, we made it to the Canadian and_;Brussels. books. The chance t save money in � There was a hue dnd ory about the times of increased osts that Bell is survey boat "Bayfield"' arrived home. re -aligned phone books when Bell always mng.about. should be working of fate, we're all alive. Canada introduced them several the swaying argument. caught a lane ? tb Brussels f9etg p years ago. Ma Bell wouldn't Flow about - it Bell? We want the reconsider a . '-fna.re sensible Dublin area bok sent out to Seaforth bruised by a fall 'from an apple tree. arrangement of rr>op'Iclpalities in our residents annhe Seaforth books them. going to Dublin phone numbers. Closed to. wheel. chairs Have you ever Wondered what it legislation in time for December's ' would be like to ,tthe whole world municipal elections which would of public buildinpo theatres, stores allow a Deputy Returning Officer, and 'churche's � 019sed to you? accompanied .by other officials to Physically handiedoped people who move the ballot box outside the poll, have, to use a wheelchair to get about perhaps to the bottom of the steps for don't wondor, their 'know. long enough to allow the handicapped it is not general'ty realized that person to vote. people in wheelcil are also often Mrs. Edgar Elligson, R.R.4, deprived '' of tlt right. to Walton, who is chairman of the - vote.,"bedatlse pulling places are March of Dimes Ability Fund for often .rla'Ccessible by wheelchair. McKillop Township, passed the news `fhb o ty of Toronto has adopted a of the decision in Toronto along to the r"esolutlori' calling oil,. the government Expositor. of Ot t>ario ' to rrlake changes which Now, there _may not . even 'be iNbufd Allbw ji060le In, wheelchairs to elections in Seaforth, McKillop and 'Vote`ereri at. polls vlrhlth are held In other municipalities in this area but ' Moog: ithere afire# alalia, narrow that shouldn't stop our councils who, y I.. y ddorWattr>r other wheelchair have the interests' of the handicapped exlst: , r at heart from secondi'n'g Toronto's LL.�ol�3iApies` ..,. 'r►edntn bltkt th# pi'ovihce tdi pbsg restlitltian to the provinde. ',:-,, ..s .,n,. ,... ,. ._-'..V...J{. A ..:: I: ,u r•._ .. 1..' ., ..., [.. n 'e 'x nl•'..4 ,•:... Signs and ice Sugar and Spice J . By Bill Smiley NOVEMBER 4,1949 The final touches have been put to a three year old combined bridge and road construction program, thus completing the new 20Woot bridge over the FlAdyfleld river at Bayfield. Most visitors to the, I/re yterian mansg have already met err two 'kittens McKillop" and Tuckersmith". Last week,McKill . ' fined the pay roll of a local, plumb'in'g and heating contractor. The men were confronted with the problem of a thermostat wire through a small, underground trench.' The problem was solved by tying a long Aring'ot McKiltop's tail, placing him at one end to the trench and Calling to him from the other. McKillop went through. Wilmer McGregor, son of Mr. and Mrs. William McGregor, Kippen, made his first solo. flight at Sky Harbour, air port, Goderich• He has been taking a course in pilot training at that school. n Announcement was made this week that Hugh Berry, of Brueefteld has sold his general store to Ron McKay -4 Kintail. Mr. ' Berry has• owned and operated this store for -26 years. He originally purchased it from Mr. Hornby. One of the most highly and well known residents. of Tuckersmith, Wm. R. Archibald died at his home. He was in his 81 st year and prior to a few days before his death was in good health. A successful farmer, Mr. Archibald had operated the land which has been settled by his father, the late Andrew' Archibald, nearly a ' hundred years ago. Messrs, Campbell Eyre, Lloyd McLean, W.J.F.Bell. Harry Caldwell, Emmerson Kyle and Stan Jackson made up a deer hunting party and left'"to spend a week in , the woods near Blind River. M Leo Hagan and W.E.Southgate of the Huron Expositor attended the convention held in Harrison of the Western Ontario Weekly Newspaper Association. Miss'Janie Moffatt, left for Kitchener where she has accepted a position, with the Mutual Life Assurance Co. Prior to her leaving she was presented with a three piece pen and pencil set from the Seaforth Creamery. Messrs. Robert Patrick•and Lloyd Haney of Tuckersmith left on a motor trip to Melville, Sask. Lloyd Backer of Dublin has sold his 50 acre farm in Hibbert to Martin Feeney., NOVEMBER 7th, 1924 Fire laid bare about 2000 acres of land at the north end of" the famous Pinery and threatened for a time to destroy all the cottages owned by London people in the summer •resort near Grand Bend. The choir of Turner's Tuckersmith, met at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Sam Whitmore and made a presentation of Miss Mildred Young, a member of the choir, prior to her marriage to Kenneth McLean of Auburn. Miss Gladys Crich presented her with a set of silver teaspoons. A few of the sportsmen of Winthrop left on a hunting trip to Parry Sound district: Those that went were: Clarence Bennett, Joseph Bennett, John, Bennett, Walter Eaton, Fergus Bullard and Wm. Kinney, Ciarence Bennett took them in his motor Of 1(1 truck. ::.... ., " The first snow of the season hit McKillop There is nothing drearier, for anybody of the coop. Township and then only a light flurry. y who is not one, than an "Old Sweat"; Frombola was an irrepressible character. Messrs. Harry Dalrymple and J. Cornish unless it is a collection of Old Sweats, He was a Yank, from Oakland, California, of Brucefield have purchased the building exchanging cheerful lies and trying to who had joined the RCAF." Most of his formerly 'owned by A.TScott and 'are drink Canada dry, about• this time every compatriots switched to the U.S. air force remodellingxit and filling it up to be used as year.' when the latter got into the war, but Tony a chopping mill. Although I'm not much for l old " •,' didn't bother. He didn't bother about much Geo. Hill's comfortable residence in . ..the of anything, except 'enjoying life. Brucefield is nearing completion and will soldier bit. I find myself, each year, doing a add much to the appearance of the village. lot of remembering when Remembrance He had a big, homely mug, but was aCleve Cochrane of Stanley Township, is Day rolls around. terror with the ladies. he was strong and 'and this week in Gooerich acting on the jury. Just the other day, (came across a photo tou cynical and witty. "'"" " his lay be hard to believe, but this R. Laing of Toronto has purchased a that brought , back a lot of memories. There incl nt. which i personally witnessed,, quantity of apples in the vicinity of Cromarty. we were, the two.of us. Tony Frombola, grinning as though he owned the world, showed what he was ,made of. Ashton & Radford of the Walton and looking over his shoulder, with a crop it was August, 1944. One evening; after chopping mill have their mill completed of dark hair, a huge, sweeping. handle -bar flying,, eve decided ' to walk down to the and are, ready to do chopping. moustache, and a devilish glint in his eye, beach in Normandy. There was nothing of NOVEMBER 3, 1899 yours truly. interest to do back - at the wing, and the It is estimated that 40,000 barrels of I think it was taken an Brussels, shortly padres had cleaned up the tiny whiskey apples will be shipped out of Huron County this w after we "escaped " from prison camp. We supply in the. mess. year. Mrs.Thornton Wallace has rented her didn't actually escape. We just got sick and At the beach, a Liberty ship was farm in Hullett to her son-in-law, Mr. tired of hanging around, and left, unloading jeeps.There was a line of them, ' Woodyard and will reside in Clinton, ' The blasted war had been over for about parked on the sand, guarded by two British James M. Martin, Hullett's apple king ' seven days, and there we were, stuck soldiers. Tony walked up to one of them purchased, packed and shipped 2500 behind barbed w•ire.The only difference and said: "How much do you want for a barrels of apples this season. ' between that and the situation a month jeep, buddy?" i nearly fell over. Edward McFaul of town is having a new before was that the guards up in the,sentry."Five -.quid," 'responded the Limey. plate glass front placed in the store he has yr boxes were Russians• instead of Germans. Torn}• peeled off five notes. He was always leased from A. Cardno. James Purcell has At our'caiirp. our incarceration didnt end flush, as he was a gambler and a dealer. he z,- returned to town and has resumed his Former ' in with the Yanks or the British roiling into drove the jeep away to a place of privacy, position' 's Store•.town the camp in jeeps, and throwing cigarettes rounded up some paint, and painted RCAF "Canada" Wm. A ment of left for Muskoka to and chc colate bars to the joyful prisoners. fa roundels and the legend on it. look at some timber limits. who wept and kissed their liberators. He was the only rowly Flying Officer to ° Miss May _Kemp who left here a few We were "liberated" by the Russians. ,have his own jeep during the Normandy weeks ago for Leipsic, 'Germany has They didn't have any cigaretts to throw campaign, and he made good use of it, arrived at her destination safely. around. they didn't know what a cholcate such as visiting field hospitals. Not to visit James Thomson's grist mill >At Bayfield bar zvas, and they didn't particularly want the sick and wounded, but to date nurses. is again in good running order and he is to be kissed. They threw a guard around`busily engaged chopping grain. . the camp, and load us to stay put. Our, We cams hr,•me on the same ship. He John and Wm. Shannon have rented Lot senior officers told us the saMe.Theydidn't picked u five hundred dollars n the p p ,,� 17, Concession 5, from Duncan McGregor want us wandering -around the countr •side } twenty-four hour crap game, lost most of it, for 5 ears at $255,00 +a y year. Alex being shot by some drunken R6oshian. builtit back up to $2,000. Haven't seen him McGregor has bought Lot 16, Cont 5 from , Boredsilly. Tony and I decided we'd had since we landed, but wherever he is today, I'll bet he's rich. Mrs. Donald McUregor for $500 .Off• 4*+ enough of that dump, So, about four The most se"vera frost of thi season occurred on Wednesday. On Th ursday o'clock one morning, we nipped the wires Not all the memories are so pleasant, of 'Three morning there was thick ice on the water with a pair of borrowed wire clippers, crawled several hundred feet through course. of •us shared a tent in Normandy. We were all shot down within and the earth wad frozen hard.' grass (very wet). and headed for home. 10 days, and I'm the only one alive. Messrs. Hugh Aitch and Samuel Townsend of Kippers whoo spent to months It sounds incredibly daring dnd My parents received three telegrams -in Manitoba have returiled home. They fool -hardy, and it did make the •-heart from the Department of National Defense. r6port a foot of stioyy there when they left thump a bit, but it wasn't either of those. It Each of them began, "We regret to 'inform ' for home. was just stupid. you ...... One son was blown up by a land ' Edward Reid, Alexander Brown and mine, and lost an eye. The second was Harry -Falconer, who have spent the However, we made it to the Canadian missing in anion. The third was shot down summer in Government employ on the ' � threehiking, lines in three days, hitching and hiking, days,g, over the Channel. By some strange survey boat "Bayfield"' arrived home. • and a very time viVg had of n and very working of fate, we're all alive. Mrs. C. Borrows ojr Leadbury is caught a lane ? tb Brussels f9etg p imp't'oving nicely after having been badly another to England, and were -there about '$tit•thotisands of lads aren't. Remember bruised by a fall 'from an apple tree. four days before the otheir chicketis got out them. .:�. . ,. , M a .-.. , ., , ., ,r ..: -.,: ., ,:.. "' ,,.., r., .:, ..• ,.., .,.•.. .. .. n. ..i... ,' .., 'r,... to ,. v, ,.-r.,-,. _e,. ,.. .....:. ,., '.. ...... . .... .... ..