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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1975-05-29, Page 3009 to y, by Ssail White so Won er why your paper's late, (By Susan White) It was really something and it was a Seaforth original. That was the reaction of most of the 600 or so people who saw "Salute to Seaforth" the SPS contribution to Centennial year, at the school last week. The students and staff of the school did many things well. They got both feeling and information about important things in Seaforth's history across to their audience. Two school choirs sang special music to go along with every one of the revue's nine scenes. A cute group of primary kids, introduced the show. • , Students danced and sang and acted thdir way through Seaforth from its beginning's as a swamp to its 1975 Main -Street.' • Especially well done was a scene showing the fire of 1876, which destroyed much of Seaforth's ,Main Street. • Moving red lights were trained on the action and flames shot across in front of the stage. A log cabin was built on stage • and you got a bit of the feeling of how it must have been when first settler Andrew Steene built here on the old Guideboard Swamp. Speculators persuade the railroad company to build their line through Seaforth and the citizens of Egmondville and. Harpurhey meet to protest the decision that would make them 4 suburbs and Seaforth a thriving town, Old Seaforth Free Presbyterians sing Psalm 121 accompanied by a tuning fork while a group from the Salvation Army sing livelier music ---" Onward Christian Soldiers". Then both groups get together and they sing Give Me that Old Time Religion": 41 A librarian comes on stage to tell us that on the site of the -present library, there once stood a house of ill repute, the Dominion Hotel. We cut to a' charmer who persuades a nice wee Scotchman to take her to the Dominion and then we get a room scene, complete with the "Beer Barrel Polka" played by student musicians. In the final scene of the evening, the spirits of Tiger Dunlop, Anthony Van Egmond and James Dickson return to Something like the spirit of 1875 was alive and well north east of here on Saturday night when a • Clinton area couple hosted a barn dance, with proceeds going to the Van Egmond Foundation. arb and Bob Batty , who live on the base line between Clinton and Auburn built a brand new barn this spring, "and when they .had the new floor in and before they put stalls in they decided to have a barn dance," according to Dorothy Williams, a member of 6 the Van Egmond group. "It was fun, a real old fashioned evening", said Mrs. Williams. The Holland Orchestra played for dancing oka wagon set up just outside the big barn doors, and people could dance "inside or out", she said. A bar was set up on the other end of the wagon and another wagon was filled up with food at the kitchen and pulled out to the barn by some male volunteers. There was a good crowd at the' We've had complaints again about late deliver), of the Exposi- 111 tor to subscribers, this time in Kipper* area. Now, with Kippen only 10 miles or so from'Seaforth, there would not logically seem to be any reason in the world why Expositors wouldn't be there first thing in Thursday morning's mail. But a subscriber from that area says that her paper often doesn't arrive until the next week. We are sorry this 'happens but1/4 the main reason for it is the mail routing that the papers bound for Kippen- go through when they leave our office. First, we should emphasize that ALL Huron Expositors leave our office for the mail on Wednesday night. The trouble is that they don't go directly to • Kippen or Brussels or Hensel' or Clinton. The papers all go to Stratford and from there they are sent out orr-theiz...starious routes. Because Seaforth is not really at a central mailing point we have to mail our pipers froin the nearest such office. That's in Stratford. In the case of Kippen, the papers have to go from Stratford to London and then from London along Highway 4, back up to Kippen. The Expositors are in and out of two different trucks and two different post offices, with lets of oppOrtimity for a whole bag of Expositors bound for Kippen or Clinton or anywhere to get left behind, lost or ignored.. So our behind, travel a round about route of almost 100 miles in order to get the paper from Seaforth to Kippen, a distance of ten miles. But that's the way the post office routes mail these days. We appreciate the frustration of our subscribers when they get their paper several days late -- especially when they live only a few miles away from here. But when a bag containing Expositors is missed on the Stratford- London-Highway 4 mail run, that's what happens. People in local post offices know that mail customers rely on their weekly papers and look forward to getting them every week. People who work in post offices in the larger cities probab- ly don't know the difference betwen The Huron Expositor and Time magazine. We don't know what to do about this problem of late post office delivery of our newspapers. , Every weekly in Canada faces the same problems and we know a bit of the frustration that our sub- scribers feel when their paper comes late in the mail. We feel frustrated ourselves when we get judge the Seaforth of 1975 and conclude that the old town has done pretty well over more than 100 years. This scene includes audience participation, with a few play watchers being escorted on to the stage to hear the old men's 'verdict on the town. One of the remarkable things about the play ,was the huge number of students involved, Probably about 50 were actors and not a line was muffed in Thursday night's performance. About•55 students sang in the senior choir, directed by Firmer Santos, Edna Bell and Gib Willis, and their music was outstanding. There were about 35 students in the primary choir and they sang filefeheadg tiff Omer the'direction of Marie Webster. More 'than' 20 '5PS 'students worked on make up and costumes (many actors wore authentic old. clothes) supervised by fl a Mathers and. Gladys Doig. Teachers Keith Snell, Sheila Morton and June Boussey supervised a stage and auditorium decorating crew of 17 students. 15 other pupils looked after lighting and sound effects, helped by teachers Ross Carter and Jim Bishop. A publicity and tickets committee which had letters to the editor telling about the show in every weekly newspaper in the county, involved hard work from 22 students, advised by Gwen Patterson and Jill Johnston. SPS vice principal Paul Carroll wrote and directed the entire show and had his actors perfectly rehearsed and timing down pat. prof. James Scott, Isabelle Campbell and Helen Brady provided historical material on which. Mr. Carroll's script was based. Pearl Henderson and Florence Stewart were musical accompanists for the show's three performances. One of the musical highlights was the (so far as we know) 1975 premier of the "Seaforth Schottische", published in the late 1800's by Mrs._C. M. Dunlop, a music teacher in town in 1874. Alice Stiles of Seaforth, longtime organist at St..] ames' Church, had the music. reprinted in a limited edition as her personal Seaforth Centennial project. SPS phys ed teacher Georgina barn dance and Van Egmond Foundation treasurer David Ring said about $150 was raised, which will help restore the Van Egmond House in Egmondville. Mrs. Williams said the B.attys were "community people" who got interested in the Van Egmond house when they attended the recent Foundation dance and a card party held at the home of Gladys Van Egmond. SEArORTH, JEWELLERS for DIAMONDS WATCHES JEWEL' FRY, FINE'CHINA GIVI'S FOR EVERY OCCASION MI Types of Repairs Urlit~ 527-0270 complaint after complaint from mail subscribers. Or when we get new out-of-town supscriptions, only to see them cancelled a few months "later when tiie subscri- bers find that their paper arrives too late to be of much interest. It hurts a bit too, to lose old longtime subscribers who feel that they just can't put up with late delivery any more. All we can do is check our records here to make sure that the papers we get complaints about are addressed correctly and go in the correct mail bag. Then we pass the complaints on to the post office. Seaforth post master Orville Oke always does every- thing he can to help track down these subscriber complaints, but the problem lies with bigger post offices and probably with the attitude of postal employees in these centres who give weekly newspaper delivery anything but priority treatment. We may have to start deliver- ing the Expositor direct to post offices in areas close to Seaforth, like Kippen, where •there have been repeated problems with late paper's. It's annoying to have to 'do that because postal service can't be relied on. But if we want to keep subscriber here may be no choice. • ********** Reynolds looked after choreography for 'the show. Olga Nichols was assistant director and prompter. Hand props were the responsibility of Susan Thompson. It's too bad that the names of every single performer, on stage and behind the scenes, can't be mentioned in print. But that was one of the strengths of "Salute to Seaforth".. It got almost everyone in the school involved. Ever"yone who loves theatre or is' interested in Seaforth's story, in fact everyone who saw one of the "Salute to Seaforth" performances, has 'to hand it to the students and staff of SPS. It was a really good show. $AVE! $AVE! $AVE! 250s , 30c Coupon 1.5 oz. KLEENEX FACIAL TISSUE 49` BUFFERIN 100 + 25 BONUS 125's $1:29 We hope everyone has Pc14 on to their copies of our cellteiln$A1 Issue. Information about pictures and stories from the issue ,keeps coming into our office and we'd like to think that you can look up and see what we're talking about when we pass this information along to you. Now if you have your issue handy, as bedside or TV side or whatever reading, please turn to page 45. Merle Keating Hoover, who is in this photo, did a little research on this one and was able to come up with an approximate date and most of the names, even though the photo was taken over 30 years ago. Huron County Health Unit invites you to visit us at our booth, in the Clinton Spring Fair, June 6 and 7, 1975. Information' and• pamphlets on the various services will be offered free of charge to all interested citizens, Other related health services such as family planning, Home Care, Public Health Inspection, Provincial Health Laboratory, Tuberculosis and Respiratory Disease Association, and Cancer Society will also have displays and information at our booth. There are still a few seats available' on the Seaforth Women's Institute bus to Elmira Progressive Conservatives from Huron County joined their neighbours in part of Middlesex in Dashweod Tuesday night to form a new organization for 'the new provincial riding of Huron-Middlesex. Party members thrashed out a constitution for the new riding, which incorporates much of the Huron riding held by Liberal Jack Riddell and portions of northern Middlesex County. In attendance were Bob Eaton, AS tar as Mrs. Hoover can determine, the year was 1930 or 31, the teacher of the class was either Maude Hartrey or Mabel Turnbull. Students are back, left, Carl Knight, Hughie Oke, unknown, "Doe" Cameron, Otis Rollie Stewart, Jim Elliott, Alice Hudson, Mary Howes, Ruth Cluff, Mary Dol- mage, Donna Mole, Muriel Hudson, Nellie Reeves, Janet Baker, Front, Jack Drover, Barry Spencer, Mac Southgate, Howard Carroll, Roy Oke, unknown, .Mary Holmes, Jean Dale, unknown, Leone Hotham, Merle Keating and Ferne Dunlop. Thanks Mrs. Hoover for the information. on Thursday, June 5. Anyone interested call Mrs. Gordon Elliott, 527-0187 or Mrs. J. MacLean, 527.1608 for further information. ******** The Happy Citizens will meet in the Legion rooms for euchre, June 5th at 2 p.m. And to vote on a President and Secretary- Treasurer for the coming ,term': All members are requested to be present. Ladies please bring lunch. ******** Register for Snoopy Summer School at the lower library, June 3 and 4 from 3 to 5. MPP (PC - Middlesex South) and provincial Agriculture Minister William Stewart, who is losing his Middlesex North riding under province-wide redistribution of ridings. Glenn Webb of Dashwood, president of the former Huron riding party association urged the Conservatives to work together to produce a party victory in the next provincial election expected this fall. Police News During the week from the 20th ofMay to the 27th of May 1975the Seaforth Police Department investigated 20 occurrences. They are as follows: Assist to Public 6 Insecure Property 2 Traffic Compldints Disturbances 2 Police Information 2 Lost and Found Property 1 Animal Complaints 1 Missing Persons 1 Theft (Recovered) 1 Assist other Police Dep'ts. 1 Narcotic Seizures 1 Two persons were charged under the Highway Traffic Act. Two persons were charged under the Liquor Control Act. A woman's bicycle is being held at the Police Office and may be claimed by the owner at any time. 99c 69` TUMBLER OFFER! DUZ Laundry Detergent 31 oz. box S'.41 Barn dance held "Salute to Seaforth" SIP original and well done SOFF PUFFS ABSORBENT BALLS 99` 2-Ply 200s SECRET ROLL-ON DEODORANT $11.23 30 Oz. Apricot, Green Apple, Avocado 16 ox. 125 ML JOHNSON'S Baby Oil .... 15.5 oz. — 50 Per Cent More 8 or. Daytime 30s $2.37 You're invited PC's form new ridinga”ociation ,.BRECK Shampoo . . Dry, Oily, Normal $ 1.99 5's GILLETTE TRAC II Cartridge Blades . $411 EARTHBORN PH SHAMPOO . 2.25 ML a • in ff 8 oz. 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