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"' e. • � ...,�� til �� �- When the Ontario hail depot, with gats of geraniums on We had 2 pa senger trains each A badman out in the`w.0t engine aired Fhugs pff, rrisitrd xegttlarly b :•fbe clergy Association, a group. of railwaX the window sills. way everyd-ay, eacept Sunday,' carxyjrtg a six-gu.n in each hand' the i:nsuing dialogue wentlepse:find aut, lf.t%ny.husltarld.t.. enthusiasts tnet in Owen Sound it will, -so 4oubt, :have more Many g{a.{,n freights from menaced his way into a railraad sometbinig like this: dead for eer'tatti, The malt% am recently they invited ' Clair asphalt than grass -, jots of neon Goderich .and the beautiful long coach and shAuted: "'1"m golnfg toy Al: Did ;you see tbat� Ilvmg Wlth lren'.t t t ol~ do:tttfihtnS r { Westcott, a Seaforth native and signs -�Y a Col, Sanders Chicken way freights that dawdled and rob every man on this here trajrt- Ernie: What? till be finds put"u F, exeuctive assistant to Premier Mac's Milk •-- an Esso station, tooted for an hour or so each day all I'm going to rape every Al: The ongineer •-- he stopped "I am very,an toyedthat you have Wm. Davis to address them. likely a reasonabl"e facsimile of before leaving town. warrtan," „. the whole: train in the middle of branded my son as illiterate as E• � k o < Mr. Westcoft drew on his the Odeon Roxy Movie House and Picture a group of kids hanging A determined looking Texan nowhere :so he could buy liquor. this is a lie, 1 was marled to his recollection of his boyhood in just around the corner --- you around main street and `one got up and said, "Look here,, Ernie: (pryly) Oh that's just father a week before he was Seaforth .and- the importance of gubssed it saying, "Let's go down and watch pardner, you can rob us ;nen, but Billy McPhee picking up his born." the railway 'to small towns as he Re-created, in all its blazing the .train come in". I'll be damned if you're going to weekend xum: "In answer to your letter I have remembered them, to provide glorya massage parlour. That was all that was needed to rape our women." Al: Does he always do that ? given birth to a boy weighing 10 material for his talk. I wonder if after seeing this get 'then); `all racing to get there With that a little old spinster Ernie: (Looking at his watch) - He pounds. I hope this; is Mr. Wesfcott, . in his remarksYour great grandchildren will long before the big steaming giant stood up and said --- "You leave has to --- Ii:'ll be six fiftedn by the satisfac. tory." e n said: for `those good aid days' came in (at 11:40 every morning that man alone - whQ's robbin this time h e gets to Whitney Pier an¢ "I haven't had any children yet as A school chum, Ken Reid, and . Although we may find it hard to from Toronto), train anyway - him or you?" their store will be . clo sed. r my husband is a bus drivet-and 1, aft er some minor believe that away back our Before it ,came in sight, with 1 found a st, ory about the Mr., We:stcott concluded by works day and night." 4.• .. . disagreements at home, decided ancestors used fancy shells, ears to the track, the older fellows railway, depot restaurant --- I reading friam letters that had "I want money as quick as I can .' to run away and head for Owen beads and ,coloured stones for in the -crowd convinced the others don't know how many of you been received by the go„ernment get it. I have been in bed with the 4p Sound with the exciting prospect money.. they could hear it and with a remember them, but they were and which lie had been requested doctor for two weeks and he of getting a job on the boats. We Imagine the puzzled archaeolo- serious look on their faces saidit one of the early disasters to befall to do by the , committoe that doesnt seem toxo me any germ,; If St arted out hitch -hiking and gbt gists, of the future digging us up sounded like it was about 3 miles the travelling public. invited him to speak. Hoe went things don't im��r"ove I will have to as far as the town of Wingham, the and finding no beads or shells - or out. Or the thrill of looking Two businessmen stopped at on! " send for another doctor." first night. even coins - just pockets full of around for a washer or.penny that this station diner for a cup of "1 am forwarding my marriage "In accordance with your As I recall,' we spent all our funny little plastic cards. was sneaked onto the track to -get coffee, when the waitress certificate and six children..) have instructions. I have given birkh to money on supper and a bed at the .1 suppose I could honestly say flattened by the giant wheels. appeared one of the men placed seven, but one died and was twins in the enclosed envelope." Brunswick Hotel. my interest -through the years Lias ' "I would be remiss if I did not at his order - the other man baptized on half a sheet of And la. dy, The next morning we stopped not been simply in trains as such. least give; passing mention to a hesitated, then said, "I'll have paper." "'•9y,husband had his project cut in at Radio Station CKNX which It has been the influence of the few memories that although now coffee too, but make sure the cup "Mrs. Jones has not had a ny, off ,wo weeks ago, and I havent was in those days kind of a railroad on my community and dimmed a bit by time still stir my is clean." clothes for a year and has been had any relief since." sto)e-front operation on the main me. bones *hen I bring them to mind. A short time later the waitress She -had unfortunately, in her 0 street and a part of the hotel. In looking back on Seaforth of I recall the thrill and appeared with -two cups of coffee, For example, more than 300 We watched in awe through a the 1930's I feel now that the 'adventurous feeling that came "I'm sorry she said, but I forgot I had less than enough time to plateglass window while a man Whole town was just one big railway station. You can see 1 am over us when in -the middle of one • bad winter, word flashed up and which one of you guys wanted the clean cup." TODA-Y'S spoke into a microphone, do the kind of research needed to . They boarded the train and Ontario in 1973- a similar number 19716lU iCK The year was 1938 and I truly a happy captive of the down main street that the 11:40 This next story is true and one 1 went to bed all the time he is remember that we felt we had railway mystique. from Toronto was snowbound in a heard from none other than Leslie 1. .. really made the big time. I lived there until I was about cut about 3 miles east of town. Frost. HEALTH. A loudspeaker overhead told us 18 and I think one fact says One y ear it was out there for 4 A friend of his. a prominent' On my luckier days at the it was the news and as we listened something for the influence its days. contractor who had worked his (Today's Health is provided to we heard an announcer say that trains, its station, its tracks and I recall that the travelling way up from labourer to tycoon weekly newspapers by the the Provincial Police were looking its freight sheds - not to mention public of Seaforth were afforded a had a terrible temper and a rather Ontario Ministry of Health) t4 for two boys from Seaforth. its smelly old stock yards had on comfort few towns its size could blunt way of using the. English by,David Woods Needless to say, we decided to me. boast. A real live stagecoach with language. First commandment of office discontinue our adventure to When sifting around a few days g a spirited team driven b Alex P Y His wife having lived with him g up the steps to the platform of the Owen Sound and hitch -hiked ago trying to put together my few McNab brought folks from the through all -bis ups and down's had Donatin ans after death In 1967 Dr. Christian Barnard g or $ home where all was forgiven. remarks • for this evening I train ,up town not unlike in a an equally direct and forceful use revolutionized medicine may be something you'd prefer 1 naturally assume those discovered that although I could western movie --- complete with of the language. by performing the first successful not -to, think about. But if you can gathered here for this dinner like not remember the name of any of mail bags thrown on the roof. He apparently had an ailment heart transplant. Since then, save someone else's life or trains ---.or more accurately --- the Mayors the town had in all my Not many years ago I saw that with pains that were eased only several further such transplants dramatically improve it, just by they like trains asthey used to be. years there, I found I could same old stage rotting in a field with 'the application of an old have been performed, but the signing a card, it's well worth it. .There is a ' reverence for the remember the names of all of the near Alec's barn on the edge of fashioned mustard plaster. procedure has continued to past sweeping North America Station AGeh1s from 1924 to when town. It was necessary for him to go encounter severe rejection toda - a Ion in for the s mbols I left town - and I knew them all, I recall probably the biggest by train from Toronto to Montreal problems and is rarely done .c �' 1 „Ci k41: all z,:. •�T r a+ ' „ r <. ..rF'w u..,..i.sr• m°..«nari OLD TOMBSTONE FOUND Wi.#.'RWe%i, awd;d.y,rrna`M=,•v la; m foundation behind Leni's Restauraflt In $rtjssel6", found this section of an old tornbstoAe he(, Leni Stangen. The inscription reads "Sleep on sweet.., babes and take your rest, God called thea home, He thought best. July 8, 1874 , AD 10 DS, c(litdren':of• J.S.Savage." (Photp by Pat: Longlols) Fresh Killed available. SEAF.0 R.TH MEAT MRKET Y g g Y and trappings yesterday. They were, Mr. Sy Lee, Mr. thrill of all - something,that has to a meeting called unexpectedly 'not today. , our new cars have a., This is a healthy phenomenon It Will Plant, Mr. John Forester and faded into the past with the steam P and his secreta could et secretary g Transplants of other organs -- P. g w ' and although I haven't collected Mr. Jack Kaiser and one engine --- the circus. him a bedroom or even, a notably the eye and kidney -- have fr I could find. very few jokes or - anything much beyond a few additional important fact - the all P Y About 1929 or 30 the circus compartment. She could one et P Y g been performed for a to ner P g k (Maximum Mileage System stock certificates in the Canada wore green eye shades. g Y came to town --- natural) b train Y Y an upper and a lower berth for PP period o£ time with considerable blurred visia°n caused by scarred Southern Railway Company and I also remember a boy with his --- and half the town crowded him and his wife who always success. They re stili saving the � used cars have a the St. Lawrence and Adirondack fox terrier on Saturdays sitting on around the sidings to watch them travelled with him. sight and lives of many people, matehin g trin'i• This car has been our . , . Railway to hang on my recreation the" whitewashed fence counting g •'the cows as they scrambled up the unload - unloadin was so g spectacular and left such a mark He was in a fou; mood and his stomach him continually although the attract much less Y fanfare and publicity than the pointing to the other Z places a Maximum Savings Systema room wall. "What the hell are you doing the most dramatic gift they could pained mile or so away in opposite - . I do cherish the memories I ramp to the cattle car. in my mind I don't remember a so his wife took along the heart operations. standard reference books of jokes She -had unfortunately, in her have of growing u where 1 did g g P That boy was me and 30 years thing else about the circus. ingredients needed for a mustard For example, more than 300 haste, got the wrong berth and _ either wayjA ... . about 2 blocks from the Railway earlier it was my father who likely I had less than enough time to plaster. corneal transplants took place in Division has received 7,749 �— Depot in Seaforth: sat on exactly the same spot. do the kind of research needed to . They boarded the train and Ontario in 1973- a similar number 19716lU iCK come Out ahead with. Wt.th Huron Ro d was ut My father, now dead, was a do justice to something as went to bed all the time he is will have been done in 1.974. Indians for 3 shillings an acre. y OU . en e a P through in John Galt and great guy, gigantic and romantic as railroads loudly complaining about his Mrs.Anne Wolf, executive us Tiger the .notorious Tiger Dunlop and He owned a eweller store in a 1 Y have been but 1 did find out one pains and the upper berth. As the secreta of the Eye Bank of secretary Y 1Q�oy.WEVR4LET .77! others of the Canada. Company .it small town in the 30's and had to a ti had it been for. thing that surprised, me. 'evening wore on and bis rpoaning Canada's OntaXip,Division, says that the recipients these Jock Ra •,bertson ran from Guelph to Goderich. raise rriily, not I could find. very few jokes or and foul language contxhued --- of "new" tomatic transmission, The site that was to become the fact that he was a funny things about railroads. I she got out of her lower berth and eyes are people with Sales M anger . Seaforth was considered an Watchmaker and kept the tried so many places only to find made up a hot mustard plaster. blurred visia°n caused by scarred ower steE'rin p g, P 11 1STEN,D GARAGE* ,.r _ , .I„' undesirable swamp worth railwaymen's giant pocket there are millions of facts, st She then went back to his corneas, or victims of industrial' nothing. About '10 years earlier Walthams in good working order .atistics, rules and laws. berth --- opened,up the curtains home or auto accidents. 1Q�oy.WEVR4LET .77! two small clumps of buildings my sisters,and I might have gone For instance: A huijdred years pulled up hisih pyjamas and, The donors, she says, come from Impala, tv�+o door hardtop, V-8 known as Harpurhay and hungry. ago, rule 12 of the Virginia and slapped the mustard plaster on among more than 100,000Egm tomatic transmission, (named after Col. i had heard from him of his trip Tennessee Railroad provided that his stomach with words Ontarians who have signed engine, ati ower brakes, Van Egmond) had started as Van E m6 west many years before on a conductors and other trainmen something like. special cards rantin permission P granting P ower steE'rin p g, P settlements. Harvest Excursion - $15.00 to must not attempt to . influence "Now shut up and go to sleep for their eyes or other organs to radio fi nisho?d in dark blue, with , • All one could find of present Winnipeg from anywhere in the passengers in favour of certain you noisy old fool'.'. be used after death. They realize, matehin g trin'i• This car has been day Seaforth was a sign post east and then 2 months work at saloons but must act impartially With that he sat up and said, says Mrs. Wolf, that it's about kept in excellent condition by the pointing to the other Z places a from $3.00 to $5.00 dollars a day in this respect." "What the hell are you doing the most dramatic gift they could previous; owner• tic. DJB269. mile or so away in opposite in the fields. A thousand miles in In our legislative library the � • lady.' ever offer. directions. Old Colonist Cars with wooden standard reference books of jokes She -had unfortunately, in her Since 1956, when it was ��1895. The corner was commonly slat seats that folded back to and humorous anecdotes showed haste, got the wrong berth and started, the Eye Bank's Ontario PRICE • ^known as . "Guide Post Swamp". make very hard beds. A p late of nothing. It would appear that slapped the plaster on the wrong Division has received 7,749 �— This area swamp and bush beans, 3 slices of bread and butter and a cup of coffee cost a railway travel is singularly unfunny or passengers are man. As long as trains have donated eyes. Transplants, ideally. have to be done within 48 19716lU iCK --- about a million acres -- was purchased from the Chippawa quarter. obliged to sign an affidavit schedules to meet, conductors hours of _ the donor's death. Indians for 3 shillings an acre. it doesn't really sound like the swearing' never to reveal any and engineers will be taking pride Nearly 4,000 have been Four door estate w. agon. This fine When railroad went good old days. humorous occurrences or face the in meeting them. performed in Ontario with a high automok�ite is equips ,ed with all the ,the through. in 1858 one could On my luckier days at the "Perils of Pauline". Although maybe not with the ucees3 -rate � Wolf, optional equipment you would truthfully say that Seaforth was a tracks a man simply known as Perhaps the tone was set by a flair and the drama of earlier The probie , says Mis. expect on this type k )f ear. These mere corner between the villages g Louis (and i never did get to.know last name) was the conductor sign that. hung for all, employees �'to see in a long U.S, railway days. Trains have been delayed for is to get enough donors. If'you'd like to help, write too p, your nearest are just a few of the extras: auto - to its east and west. However, the seed from which However. on the way freight. station, in the late 1800's. the oddest reasons.. branch of the Canadian National. uratic climate control ower win - p today's town sprung and grew He would beckon me to climb First commandment of office Would you believe that I found Y Institute for the Blind. dows, power seats, AM. /FM stereo, was '"planted" between the two up the steps to the platform of the decorum - "Employees shall not that trains were delayed because: The shortage of donor or g gars an more cruise Control and m Y villages. caboose for a thrilling ride a few read racy stories during office Beavers felled a tree across the also slows up the successful work extras. Lic. XB923. That seed, of course, was the yards back and forth while he hooked•up or detached a few dirty hours". If finding jokes from the past is tracks of a main line in Illinois. On a line in Pennsylvania in the being done- with kidney trans. plants, of which more than loo $3195 railway depot. I often think about the luck of coal cars or a tank car at the tough --- imagine how hard it early part of this century an are performed each, year in PRICE r our generation. Supertest Oil Company siding. must be for ahyone at the Penn accommodating engineer would Ontario. It is our good fortune that our He was a man of few words. I an, sure he could tell by the Central to laugh or even smile --- from June 1970 until this stop off his train to let oanglers at a favourite fishing � spot and Dr.George deVeber, director of Toronto Western Hospital's 1967 FIREBIR D t!'' ' forefathers decided to build past , beautiful steam engines' --- expression on my face that I'd August it lost $1;252,796,627.00. sometimes.wait around to see if kidney transplant program, beautiful assen coaches and P g er give all my worldly possessions for that ride. All that I remember 1 did find that Robert Benchley once said, "There are only two they had any luck. In 1955 a train.order read "All describes the shortage as "critical". Only about one-third Two door hardtop finishr:d ir;a sharp truly magnificent depots which we now ipherit and cherish with a he ever said to me was, "Okay, kinds of train travel - first class trains slow down for Buffalo herd of kidney failure patients -- who canary yellow with contr asting reverence' bordering sometimes but not ,your goddamn do g g' Not many people have ever and with kids." You may have heard the one on right of way, first crossingare g y' n west of Grayling" - (which is in kept alive on dialysis machines -- can et transplants. g p black vinyl interior. F :eoturk es in - Y on religious fanaticism. g Have you ever thought of the seen a real old wooden water about the little old lady travelling Montana) ---This is probably the Even though the success 'rate for clude 326'cu. in. V-8 i Bn irie , con - g legacies we will be passing on to g P g tower --- and watched an engine puff up to it and line up the intake by train who went into the dining car and looked around for a table. first such warning sounded in 75 the operation is high, the donor P g organs just aren't available. This, sole mounted automc•;tic tnwnsmis- our descendants? Our dieselized plastic and to the big spout like we were able The rte, art ftpally found her one years. Seventeen trains were tied u P says deVeber, is because most Sion, power steering, radio, recon - 44& plywood generation will ass little g P todo today in Cheltenham. About 100 yards east of the at which were seated 3 long-haired boys and one vacant in Kansas for ove r 2 h ours on 107 miles of track a man people ust don't thin); about bequeathing their natural a ditioned and refinish a -d. Prict .d for in the way of romance and esthetics on to the collectors in depot in Seaforth was just such a P 1 Face which she took. The bo° s P Y when who was fishing got his line resources. quick sale. Lic. CNZ67 1 the years beyond 2000. wooden tank. It wasn't very high decided to put her on so the first tangled in the wires of the railwav The solution, he says, is a . However, railroads are not the off the ground and it always boy said, "Crazy man, my automatic signal system. Y universal donor card such as the .�.�.,..�.—■— one area where "The Good Old Y leaked in the'sun,n,er and was parents didn't get married until I r There are hundreds and one recent) proposed for Ontario Y P P " Days" seem to be gone forever. covered with icicles in the winter. was a month old." At this the "Gee probably .thousands other drivers' licences. The card would 1973 POIN'TIAC ' There be another For some reason it lacked a roof second boy said, that's wild reasons for train delays, but a allow licence holders to be donors will never „ Model A' Ford car or Tiger and provided a great place for a man. my . parents didn't get amongthe best I have ever heard under the Human Tissue Gift Act Catalina two door h43rcit0 finishetd Moth airplane or De Forest few of us to cool off on hot days. married until I was 6 months was told to me lir Ray McNeil of if they sign a part of the licence to in Honduras maroon with white` Crosley radio. )lather than be caught one hot g, old," And the third bo followed Y "Way my office ��'ho comes from Cape be designed for that purpose. P P vinyl to and matching maroon Y P g We are able to hold and Saturday when an engine up with. out man, my Breton island. As transplants of other organs vinyl interior, V-8 engine, auto - preserve the beautiful past of our unexpectedly came alongside for Albert Venus, parents never did get married." The story is about Al, a yours g such as the heart, lungs and liver become as successful as those for motic transmission, radio, body Y grandfathers hi places like Upper p water, a chum, who lived nearby and 1 decided to The little of�i lady who was methodically eating her meal and an vision Glace Ba}' from Toronto who was sitting' fr a the e_,es and kidneys there will be side molding, delux e wheel covers, Canada Village and Black Creek stay in the tank. occasionally glancing out the train bench with his father and old a an in demand for donors, whitewall tires ve ry ' (t)w mileage Pioneer Village. The fit a time slot in history Y The only way I can e)rpren now window finally looked up and "Would Ernie Crocker. says ys Dr. deVeber. You can and in excellent condition. Lic. i ' to the What i remember of the smiled and said - one of A coal train belonging to the S Perform a vital service in HCS71 1. 1972 PONTIAC Le Mans. This very clean intermed- iate size car is equipped with V-8. engine automatic transmission, radio, sport mirrors, whitewall tires, etc. Finished in bright orange with contrasting white vinyl interior. PRICE $2795. 1972 CHEVROLET Impala, four door hardtop, V-8 engine, automatic transmission, radio, wheel discs, whitewall tires, etc. A locally .owned one owner well cared for car. Lic. DHP963. PRICE $2895. 1972 BUICK Le Sabre, four door hardtop,. only 33,000 original miles, an excep- tionally good_ one owner car fin- ished in dark blue with black vinyl top and snatching blue ' interior. Equipped with V-8 engine, auto- matic transmission, radio, ' four just like new Michelin steel belted radial tires and many other fea- tures. Lic. DHU579. PRICE $3495. 1973 CHEVROLET Impala Custom, two door hardtop, dark green vinyl top, equipment includes automatic aicconciitioner, power windows, convenience light package, AM radio, rear window defogger deluxe wheel covers and steel belted radial times. Lic. EAM057. that permits us a apse in sensation, is simply this --- just you little bastards mind passing & L ---(The Sydney and bequeathing your kidneys by past for a few hours and satisfies Y think of being flushed down a the salt?" Louisbur or bet ter known local) contacting the Kidney Foundation ' a nostalgic craving for those g Y PRICE $3199.x• PRICE43 50 giant toilet. Then there was the man who as the Slow and Laz Railwa ); of Canada, Ontario Branch, 1430 earlier days. Y Y Y Without boring you further was explaining tood effect stops on the nearby tracks. Yonge St., Toronto. Just imagine your great with too much more of my past, train travel had on his life - `:My The engineer climbs down grandchildren visiting the Upper I'll simply add that to a boy in a wife and I have been happily crosses McKeen Street and Canada Village or Lowei Ontario Ever week more and more town of 2,000 people in the 30's married for thirty years, ' he said, enters the local branch of the Y WES1F IEN D' CiARAGE Village of their day. people discover what mighty � the traifi that puffed in and out `the reason is that we go on a Nova Scotia Liquor Commission. P P jobs OF MI'fCHEIt LTD. There is no grist mill "- no q are accomplished b every day was not simply an long train ride to the sea twice a A few minutes later he emerges P y low cost [� 1 weekly newspaper office, „ g Expositor 3d8=$32 blacksmith rho count exciting event - it was the only year - 'she goes in June ands go with a brown paper bag under his P for Want Ads. Dial 82 Huron 5t. P country event. in September. ' Seaforth 527-0240, Doctors' residence or railway P arm crosses the street mounts the 4 y. . 1 I i . 11 oo M■ 4 y. . 1 I i . 11 oo M■