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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1975-03-20, Page 2• • rt This is ,the time of year that everybody wishes . somebody -would ,do something about, but nobody does. The Ides . of March.- Some people think the Ides are 'little creatures like leprechauns who bore holes in your rubbers and whisper into tots' ears that that 18-inch puddle won't go over the tops of their six-inch rubber boots. Otherl, like my wife, think they are malevolent beings who enjoy scaring the liver out of you. The other night, there was a great rumble, a crash, and all the lights went out. I thought it was maybe the second coming. She leaped a foot. "It's the Ides of March." she screamed. As a matter of fact, it was the ice off the roof, which tore away the main cable into the; house. But it could just- as well have been the Ides. Around the first of March, we decided we'd start cross-country skiing. Bought two sets of Skis, boots, the works. It rained for the next week. That was the Ides. been going on for at least 2.000 years. Its first victim of any import was Julius Caesar. Now, Big Julie was no slouch as an emperor. He had, in his day, a' bigger empire than.Queen Victoria had, althbugh he wasn't as fat. ye had a penchant for over-running and over-hearing. He over ran 'the Spaniards, the French, the Germans, the British and the Belgians, not to mention the Slobs, in the east And he over-heard. It was his custom to prowl among the campfires at night, and listen to his disgruntled veterans. He didn't bother much with the gruntled veterans. (It is tempting for the dedicated historian to digress h ere, but I will make only two concise points. One, the kilt was stripped from a Seat who had strayed- south to found the Bank of England, had been conscripted into the army of ,the Ancient Britons and had died gallantly, shouting "Usquebaugh and Andrew Carnegie!" The helmet had been torn from a dead squarehead and was rather uncomfortable until Julius discovered that the cow's horn on the front unscrewed, was hollow , and contained 13 ounces of schnapps. From that time on; he found it comfortable. Of the Amaxbn breastworks., I • will say ng.: There's enough sex and violence itt history, without dwelling on it. Besides it is, or was, pointless)' At any rat e, strolling anonymously 'C'Olit Ohl, h ere tomes Himself]") tte,„ 'oVeriteard the rumblings of discontent Among his trdops. It was rather :difficult to igathigaish tildtif froth the other rumblings :=ASSiiiiitett with the rude and licentious iodiety, but be had a Veined ,:Bar as well tottati'lleae. Ie ati'd tekitins h adjust alt flown the seventh uprising by some Belgian tribe. One grizzled veteran was heard to say: "Belgians, Belgians! I'm sick of lot ing Belgian towns. All they got is glo.,es and tapestries. My old Trouble St} 'e back 'ome 'as 32 airs of kid gloves an' enough tapestries to make a shawl for the Sphinx." Another veteran. equally grizzled, agreed. "Me too. And them 'Belgian broads; I swear they got fetlocks. In - another 1,500 years. they'll be callin"em Percherons." A third veteran legionary. even more grizzled than .the other two, concurred. "Right. An hoWbout that there Belgian beer. So watery ya gotta drink it in the latrine or yer caught short. I'd c my eye tooth to get a whack at so Limeys or Frogs or Krauts fer a ehnge. Wooden even mine goin' backta Iddaly and wipin' up somma them Wops we're workin' for." Anyway, overhearing his grizzled. grizzling .veterans. Caesar decided to act. He made a speech to his legions that had them in tears. This was after a double rum ration. Then he put down the Belgians for the eighth time, and.to make his intentions clear.• cut off the right hand of each male Belgian. This was the origin of the Phrase "puttihg me down" and also the reason you see so many left-handed Belgians. Perhaps we've strayed a bit. Very well, back to the Ides of March. One day, early in March. back in '16 (or was it '17?) B.C., Julius was On his way to the Collosseum to make sure everything was in order for the Gamesfie had already checked with Zeus andMayor Drapeau, but you never know. do you? He 'was' in his chariot. with his wife, California. She was attended by her maid. Florida. and on the runningboard wfire three old fiends of Caesar: Ca sgius. Nausious and Brutus. This was a bearded, ding-a-ling type stentor. "Beware the Idea of March!" he trilled. Unfortunately, Caesar was deaf in one ear. He thought the sooth-sayer (that's what they called the ding-A-ling in those days), was a soap salesman with a new jingle, something about washing with Tide and starch. Naturally, he waved hini away. muttering something about California using nothing but arctic power. Some days later, right to the day, the Ides of March arrived. Well, you know the rest. Big Julie was assassinated. His friend Cassius crowned him with a cassock, his pal Nausious breathed garlic iii his face, and his beloved Brutus stabbed him in the rotunda. you tnight•tay that Caesar came out of that one a heavy loser, He went in at 154 pounds and came out with 16 daggers in hitt. So all I can suggest is that you keep an eye out for those Ides. • Dear Ms.White: I would like to take advantage of the opportunity provided by the editorial page in The Expositor, to thank everyone who contributed in any way to our efforts to establish a Day Care Centre in Seaforth. Thank you, to the mem hers 'of Town Council who supported the submission, of our proposal and especially to our Mayor. Mrs. Betty Cardno.Without your initiative Betty, we would never have thought it possible to actually approach the Minister of Community and Social Services, to request an explanation for the rejection of our proposal. Thank 'you to each member of the committee who was able to contribute-as -great or aslittle as was possible for him or, her. A special thank you to Bill and Lois Hodgert. Betty Beuttenmiller, Arlene van den Akker and Katie Teall. I was always quick to point' out when I felt someone had not fulfilled his or her duty so i want to be just as eager to praise you for a job well done. • We can be satisfied that we persued the issue to its fullest extent. You cannot go much farther than the provincial government's representative. Thank you to thosewho contributed information or material in preparation for the brief we presented to 'Mr. Brunelle and Mr. Hays. Thank you to those who accompanied our delegation to Toronto. Thank you also to those who gaVe of their time to provide child care so that some members of the delegation could be away from home for an entire day. Thank you to \ Mr. Peter Maloney who was ,so very co-operative throughout this venture. Your interest and C4rinsideratio greatly appreciated. Thank y ou also to the excellent coverage and support we received from the Expositor, This has been a learning experience for me. personally and I shall never regret the opportunity to have contributed to the community. I realize that many were and still are opposed to Dar Care. May I suggest that if you arc of this opinion y ou either visit a Day Care Centre in operation or read some of the resource material which is available on the subject. I do not hope to change your mind but your' opinion will then be more knowledgeable. To those of you who were in favour -of Day Care and had lioped services would soon be made available, I can only say that our committee persued every aspect of the .endeavour to its limit. We must now however, accept -that, the possibility of a 'Day Care Centre for Seaforth is' for the present. beyond our reach. The' interest and need for a Centre still exist arid should the provincial gOvernment initiate another program to provide 100% coverage of .establi shing and renovating costs, I am certain that any citizens who would be interested at that-time -would receive encoutagethent and support should they request our town council to submit a proposal. I regret that our committee was unable to establish a Centre but perhaps, the day when such a service will be a reality in our community 'is in the immediate future. Thank' you for your support and encouragement in our endeavor. Everything • is appreciated,, Sincerely, Sharon J .Rati Chairman 4 4 4' 4 4ir "ok Clinton's Town Council is, according to the News Record, considering havihg two open council meetings per month. It sounds like a good idea, one that our local council might be wise to consider. 'Seaforth's council presently' meets one Monday per month in a full; open . to the public and press, session. But sometimes the important background discussiOn - is missing from this meeting because the issues seem to have been thrashed out in private at committee and committee of the — whole meetings. We have no desire to put council, press or spectators through what same consider two long boring meetings per month instead of just one. But we think perhaps that having tWo 'open meetings per month might just cut dowh on the length and add to the general interest of the proceedings. Exeter's Town Council meets twice per month now and has committee meetings besides. Far from increasing the work load on councillors and incidentally our press reporter, two . meetings per month might help to make council's handling of public business more efficient. We for one, would like to see two, two and a half or three h our meetings instead of one marathon". .that makes everyone too tired out to be really .etticient. In the foll'ow,ingi editbrial the Since 1660, Serving the Community First P01151dIttSgAFORTH, ONTARIO every Thursday morning by McLEAN BROS. PUBLISIIEBS LTD. , ANDREW Y. McLEAN, Publisher ' , SUSAN WHITE, Editor Do we need two meetings? Sugar and Spice Second Class Mail Registration Number 0696 Telephone 527-0240 SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, MARCH ?O, 1975 Member Canadian Community Newspaper Associatiob Ontario Weekly Newspaper Association and Audit Bureau of Circulation Subscription Rates: Canada (in advance) $10.00 a Year Outside Canada (in advance) $12.00 a Year SINGLE COPIES — 25 CENTS EACH by Bill Smiley Clinton paper applauded their council's move towards the two open meetings per month. Change the names and personalities to. Seafarth's and it pretty well expresses our sentiments. "We are wholeheartedly in agreement with a recommendation made by Councillor'. 4ames Hunter and Deputy Reeve Frank' Cook at last Monday night's. council meeting that there be two open council meetings per month in Clinton instead of the usual one open and one closed. Even though one might agree with Mayor Symo'ns who said that they weren't trying to hide anything by meeting behind closed doors once a 'month, we have noticed that many, many times a motion' or a by-law is simply rubber-stamped at open council with little or no debate. 1V1,,ost of the opinicins and controversies were already thrashed out in the back room. it • makes for simple and quiet council meetings, no doulpt, to have already made a decision, but part of our dern.oCratic system involves ''''debate, and no politician is being fair to those,he represents by hiding his or her opinions behind a closed door: The individual smaller committees will still meet in private, and council as a whole can still m eet for a short while before i,ie open rrteeting twice every month. • 1 A To the editor: Day Care head thanks community By Karl Schuessler I think we ought to get a few things straight, Pepper. I'll have to he blunt about it. That's the only way when it comes to a cat. I should know. How many years have we been living together now. Peppy? Four? Yes. That's it. Four year's. And there's no - way being subtle. So here goes. Straight.. Pepper. your manners need .minding. And not only minding, but mending. nd...w hat better place to start than right at , the door. Yes. The door.• ' Now a door. Pepper,. is an opening you go through.iDid you hear that? .YOu go through a door. Not up a door. I never put two outside doors in our house. so you could climb them. Walls, okay. All of us -- on those rare desperate occasions--climb up walls. But' never doors, pepper. No, Pepper. Doors you , pass through. Got it? don't care if youret4-short. And you only want to take a look inside. See if anyone's up. Find out-what your chances arc on coming in. ' You might think 'it's clever trying to get attention that way. Hanging on the wooden slats that run across the storm door. First 44I'm junlp up Mr thefirst rung.Clutch. that for a second. Then leap up to the next one.Then the next. Until you're at the top of the door. Looking just like a monkey. Then you take a leap back down onto the steps below, And then you start all over again. First rung. Second rung. Third rung. Top. 'Then -down the steps again. MeoScratch. Scratch. Me000www. You make plenty of noise. Especially at 7:00 A.M. I want no more of that, Pepper. Down, girl. down. And another thing. It's winter, Pepper. You just don't walk right into'th'e house—dirty wet feet and all. You have to wipe your feet, That's the least you can do. I'vc got to do much more, Don't you see all the clutter ct our door? Boots. Rubbers. Shoes. Shoe bags. Mats. Rugs.Boot trays. Plastic. runners. I have to pay attention to all the signs I see on peoples' doors. "Don't walk in with your Amen boots on!! "Please remove y our boots''. And the-other day I walked into a bookstore and right beside the Charges sign in the door read another sign: "Take off your boots. We provide slippers while you shop." . And every tinie I go to church and step inside the door. 1, see a broom standing in the corner. For a • while there I thought the cleaning lady was getting-forgetful. But no, Pepper. I 'learned. When I saw other men and women come into church. they took the ,broom. Swept the. snow off their boots. I'm doing .that now, pepper. I've learned to say "Good Morning" to the church members and sweep offjny feet--all at the same time. . You must lcarn,Pepper. This is winter etiquette. Winter church door etiquette. I'M learping. And there's no reason why you can't learn a thing or two. And since were still on the'door. one more thing. Mind you. I'm not fussy about which door 'you' use—front, or back. I could make it tough on you. Demand the back door. Designed for kids, delivery men and pets. But no, Pepper. I'm easy. Either one. Take the best. ,Reserved for guest. Go alie'ad,- That 's okay. But just one thing. When we.both stand 'at . the front door ready to go in, would you remember? It's my door. I have the key for it. I have to fumble around in my pocket to. find the-key. I have to locate the keyhole to put it into. hhave • to balance the parcels and books in my arms. I haYe to turn the latch and the key just at the right time. so, the door will open. And all through the struggle, you've inched your way forward. Up front. Cozied your way ,• in at my feet. Stationed. Poised ready to leap the second the crack opens. Would you mind. Pepper? Would you mind giving me the courtesy? Woudl you mind if I got my foot in my' own door? First? Would you mind, Pepper? - -0 the teetrA gore , ,MARVII 26th, 1075 James R. Ross of town has sold his property*, Multi St. to Robert Hays of Brussels for $2,700, Mr. Hays intends continving.3he hotel business in Mr,Ross's stand. We notice with pleasure that Wm. R. Powell, son of 1141%52 Powell of Seaforth, passed a very creditable examination at the Phidalephia College of Pharmacy, Thos. Kelly of Bruss,els'sola Ii is farm in Morris p. to Robert Holes of Tuckersmith for $1,500. The farm of John McNeill of Grey'vvas sold by auction by J.P.Brine, to Wm. M otiteith Of Usborne for the sum of $3,600 cash. - Alexander Ribertson of Tuckersmith has sold his farm, near Kipper), to Peter Moore. The farm contained 50 acres and sold for $2,375. There is a good frame barn and a log house. J. M ason of Hullet,' has bought a fine 3 yr. old heavy draught colt from Wm, Peck, Stanley. 'It is betwten a dark bay and brown in color and stands over 17 hands pigh. Wm. Grieve of McKillop showed as a specimen of wool taken from a Lincoln Shearling ewe which measured 16". He informs us that he has several sheep with wool IS" in length. J. T. Hicks of Mitchell and Alex Innis of Stanley, have purchased from the assignee of the Bailey Bstate, a well and favourably known stallion, Sir Aveky, one of the most h andsom and best bred- horses in the country. formerly the property of W.prailey of Egmondville. The severaVdepartments of the SEaforth Public School were examiend by Mr. Dewar and Mr.MacFaul, the Principal apd 'Dr. Coleman. MARCH 23, 1900 , From an announcement 'in a Toronto daily paper, we learn that Miss Annie SimpAon. the amiable young teacher in the Walton school, and her pupils subscribed nearly ten dollars to the Patriotic Fttnd of the Empire. Munn Bros. of Leadbury are still getting large quantities of logs at their saw James Storey` of Leadbury is hauling material for the purpose of erecting a handsome brick residence during the summer. - Isaac McGAvin of Leadbury intends building a brick residence and John ,Scarlett is building a new house. Henry Talbot of Blake has given up farming and is engaged in running the stage from Bayfield to Grand Bend. A silent party of young people enjoyed a pleasant evening at the residence of Wm. Ross at Winthrop. Music was-, - furnished by Misses Calder and Johnston. Harry McIntosh of Winthrop , while working in the bush. met with a painful accident by a small tree falling on him and breaking some rib.s Miss Mary Hagan . of Hensall has returned from London, where she has been in the interest of her business as dressmaker. A very pleasant evening was spent in the lodge rooms at Court Flower of the Forest Canadian Order of Forresters, Seaforth, when Daniell- Stevenson of •Egmondyille intends leaving for Manitoba. The concert in CArdno's Hall for the benefit of the 23rd batallion and the SEaforth Volunte.er, Company was. well attended. The veterans of '66 received a 'great ovation When they parched on the stage under the command ofLieut. Geo. E. Jackson, Mrs. John Hannah and family of Tuckersmith left here for . _ Portage La Prairie, where they will .join Mr. Hannah. Miss Bertha Crich left here for Hartney, Man. where she has accepted a good position. Dr. J.G.Scott has rented his farm in Harpurhey to Mr. Ayres of Tuckersmith. In the month of February, Miss Harvey of Harpurhey got 28 dozen eggs from 17 hens. On Saturday last, St. patrick's Day, the Irish flag floated over the town hall. James Thompson of Brucefield left with two carloads of horses and supplies for the north wcsts. MARCH 27,1925 While coming to church, Mr. Garrett's horse of Londesboro, slipped on the ice. He took it to the shed'but when coming. out 'to go home he found that the horse had broken its leg. It had to be shot. Miss Amy Love is home at Walton after having contracted scarlet fever. Miss Elizabeth Taylor of Tuckersmith entertained at a quilting here last week. Joe MeLellan's buggy upset while returning home from the play in Chig'elhurst. Herbert Mousseau of Zurich has purchased' part of a lot owned by the Bank of Montreal, and it is reported that he intends erecting a cement garage. Miss Violet Whitesides of Hensall met with an accident and broke a small bone in her ankle. Dr. J.4. Munn. who recently purchased the dental practice of Dr. R.A.Ross is having handsome new offices fitted up over G.A,Sills Hardware. J. WEsley Beattie of town has purchased a new ,delivery truck from J.F.Daly, the local. Ford agent. Mrs. Alex Gordon of Roxboro, brought -into the Expositor two eggs that would take a lot of eating One egg from a Rhode Island hen, measured 8 x 6% inches and the 'other from a Black .Minorca hen, measured 73/4 x 61/2 . . . Mrs. Wm. Manley and Th os. McKay of Manley were at a wood cuttingbee at John Eckarts. MARCH 24th, 1950 The law firm of McConnell and Bays has moved .its offices from the Smith block to its new location in the, building fOrrnerly oc copied by the Province of Ontario Savings Office. The'new office has been completely redecorated and outfitted for the firm's requirements. Elton B. Goodie, held a successful sale. Harold Jackson and A. Brubacker & Son of Kitchener were the auctioneers' and the biddingovas brisk all afternoon..The cattle were all thoroughbred Holsteins. Murray Butt, a carrier boy for a daily paper was presented with his second and third year award pins at. a banquet in Clinton. He was also presented with a flashlight and ,a hunting knife. Mrs.Barbara Holland, a native of McKillop, and a well known resident of Dublin, was the guest, of honor at a family gathering, at the home of her daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. J.V. Flynn of Dublin. Mr. and Mrs. G. K. Holland operated a general store at Beechwood for 38 years. In her 87th year, she remains active and in' good health. Brucefield -and district 'were without . mail when a combination baggace and express car Was totally destroyed by fire. In addition to the large .amount of mail destroyed considerable express was also burned. The citizens- of Seaforth and district' may with justifiable pride take part in the ceremonies in connection with the official opening of the memorial arena„and community centre. A reception was held in the Town Hall, Hensall, in honor of Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Munn. Mrs. Munn was the former Jean Taylor . During the evening they were presented with a bedroom suite, the honors going to Geo. Tinney and Jack Corbett. "Tiny" a pet dog , was credited with saving the liVes of his owners. Mrs. Floyd Adair of Hensall was sleeping downstairs with her children when she was aroused by the barking of the dog. When she opened the door she was met with a bur t of flames. The death of James R. Scott of Harpurhey, marked the passing of one of the oldest and best known citizens in McKillop. He was born in Roxboro, the^ son of Mr. and Mrs.Scott of Jedburgh Roxboroughshire, Scotland' who came here in 1831 3.A.Stevvart will sing in Goderich with St. George's choir when they present Stainers "Crucifgixion". Mr. John Commings of town had the misfortune to fall in her home and break her hip. , Mrs. DAvid Ritchie plans to fly to Scotland on Nov, 20th to visit hertwo sisters and a brother whome she has not seen for 38 years. • 4