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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1975-04-17, Page 35PIPES LIKE TRUMPETS — Leonard Jeffs and helper side of a number of pipes that have been removed from t for cleaning and replacing of felts. There are about ranging in diameter from 12" to a quarter inch. Greg Smith stand on each he First Church pipe Organ 1,050 pipes in the organ, (Staff Photo) Kentucky n Style 11 Chicken : 1•00 1.75 3.75 5.25 7.00 1",/111'11 SPEC1 ,114S MILK SHAKES - SUBMARINES Reddithe SNACK PACK DINNER BOX 9 PIECER REGULAR BARN GIANT BARN HANQCFarii & SOFT ICE CREAM - 2 SUCCULENT, GOLDEN BROWN PIECES WITH WEDGE FRIES 3 DELICIOUS, GOLDEN BROWN PIECES WITH WEDGE FRIES!. COLE SLAW 9 PIECES DELICIOUS GOLDEN BROWN CHICKEN IS PIECES DELICIOUS • GOLDEN BROWN CHICKEN 21) PI ECES DELICIOUS GOLDEN BROWN CHICKEN THE FORGE Ike Main St. S. co SEAFORTH pe 1:106' 527-0443 ties DELIVERY SERVICE AVAILABLE 20—THE HURON EXPOSITOR, APRIL 17, 1975. For eighty-two years we've been saying ';'Happy Birthday Seafo-rth". And nothing makes us` happier. Happy Hundredth. TORONTO-DOMINION The Bank where people make the difference. What are YOU doing for. Centennial? 5 • First Church (Continued from Page 19) assures us. Then perhaps, the leathers in the pipes will have to be replaced. Some organ companies now use a synthetic material to replace the leather across the pipe's mouth. But not Cusavantes. . they have used k very little synthetic material at all in their organs in the more than 100 years that they've been turning them out. ; Work as an organ repairman is not hard to find, Mr. Jeffs says. He is the Cassavante representative for south western Ontario, and "the Casavante name goes before you". Organ repairing and tuning would seem • to be a leisurely. unpressured line of 'work, but Leonard Jeffs 'says riot —alWays. "It's high pressure sometimes " when people are waiting for you to finish up just before a recital." He sometimes gets emergency calls on weekends too. But its satisfying work and it certainly isn't run of the mill. That's what attracted Mr. Jeffs' daugher Christine, who left, an office job just recently to work with her father. Mr. Jeffs himself served seven years apprenticeship in England, beginning when he was 14 years old. He spent time learning each job, including two years as a tuner. He is sorry that there is no apprentice system in Canada, not even at the Casavante factory. Greg Smith has been a sort of apprentice to Mr. Jeffs for four and a half years. H e now tunes most of the organs and likes his job'. "He's a good boss." Although Mr. Jeffs is more ' than a middle aged man, something about his skill and the reliability of the Casavente makes you think that he will Ile around when the organ next gets restored in twenty -five years or so.lf it needs it. Butcher business. different years ago Just to rub in the fact that things, expecially prices, have changed a great deal since Seaforth became a town 100 years ago, here arc some items from a local butcher's account book from the early 1900's. In August, 1915, two pounds of beef steak cost a total of 50c.The day before Christmas. a Miss Grainger bdught her Christmas goose. It cost $2.85, size unspecified. the prices were probably up from 1908 when 8 pounds of roast pork cost a total of $1.00. In 1909 a 10 and a half pound roast cost one man $1.05. The same year a 16 pound turkey cost $2.25 -- it was certainly more of a luxury item than beef. The credit manager of this butcher. shop was flexible. 'Accounts were paid "by work", by cash or with a couple of lambs -- worth perhaps $5. each or a calf. A pig's head was worth $.50 in credit and a calf skin only $.35. • Veal steak, almost out of sight in price for any 1975 buyer sold for $.25, amount 'not specified, in 1913. Beef tongue, which some consider a delicacy was 5.70 for 3 1/2 lbs in 1917 . In' 1917. a customer was charged $1.00 for having his hog killed at the butcher's. A regular customer's monthly meat bill might run to $3.00 or $4,00 according to the old leather-bound ledger. One enterprising lady customer sold the butcher two steers for $95.00, three ducks for $2.25; one hog for $16.50 and a bag' of barley and -one of oats at $1.10 in 1915 and 16. The butcher sold her formaldehyde (what for??) at $.50 and 12-1/2 pounds of lard and a crock for $2.50 making it more expensive than beef.