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The Huron Expositor, 1975-09-25, Page 2SEPTEMBER 17, 1875 Francis Fowler, of the 'Huron Rd. Hallett, met with a serious accident. His son was engaged in cutting peak , Fowler stepped up and hit one of the horses with a stick. In stepping forward, he placed his foot in front of the guards and the knife caught his leg, inflicting a terrible wound, James Smillie of Tuckersmith met with an accident which might have been serious. His horse was frightened by a pile' of planks and backed up and fell on 'the embankment, buggy • and all. Strange to say the only damage was the breaking of the shafts and springs of the buggy. Peter Munn of Hay Township has grown .tomato this season which wOghs four pounds. The annual picnic of the children attending St. Thomas Anglican Church was held In. Payne's grove. The attendance was lar ge and the weather was all that could be desired. Peter McDonald, of Hallett Twp, states that last week he offered four loads of wheat in the Clinton market and all he could get was 92 cents per bushel. He refused to take this price and took his grain to Seaforth and sold if for $1.05 per bushel. James Kerr of McKillop fed his six milch cows green peas and oats, and they produced 850 pounds of milk per week. David Campbell of Tuckersmith took from his garden a flower known as the "snowball" and he says that it iseady for these flowers to bloom. The promenade concert held in the drill shed was a success. Dr. Coleman occupied the chair. 'Special mention should be made of Miss Mac'Tavish and Miss Bay, of Clinton who delighted the audience. • SEPTEMBER 21, 1900 Alex McLagan, former resident of the Huron Road, Tuckersmith died at his home in Hamilton, aged 77 years. He left an estate valued at $77,000. Samuel Essery of St ephan Township met with a severe accident while unloading apples. The team started off and he made a grab for the lines and one of the horses kicked him in the legs badly dislocating his knee joint. There was a pleasant gatheringa t the Gripp House when a few friends of A.R.Sampson of the Dominion Bank st aff was honoured. The tables were cleared and the evening was spent in song and speeches. John Prendergast of Egmondville has purchased the residence of the late Mrs. Muldrew for the sum of $600.00. Wm. Kerslake has purchased the property of A. Ingram , paying $1200. Adam Hays has added a handsome team of well matched brown horses to his already well equipped livery stable. During the thunderstorms, the barns on the farm of Wm. Plewes of Stanley were struck by lightning and destroyed together with the seasons crop. The farm is rented by John Johnston. Th os. Fraser of Brucefield has had his share of bad luck. - He was laid up, the result of an accident. A few days lat er he was assisting in filling a silo when he fell, the result being a broken rib. Mr. T. Johnson of Walton left this week to learn the blacksmithing business with Neil McNeil of Winthrop. John McArthur of Walton has sold his farm with a large brick h ouse, to his neighbor Geo. McCall. The price paid was $7,000.00. SEPTEMBER 23, 1925 Mr. Gaffney of Logan Township, who was given the contract of the Barrow drain for recleaning has reached Manley and will complete the job next week. An Unfortunate accident happened on M onday last while Trueman Brintnell and Mr:' Fitzgerald were motoring to London. Failing to notice 'that shunting operations were in progress at Lucan, the car was struck by a freight backing up. Mr. Brintnell had his jaw broken in two places. Andrew B. Bell of Tuckersmith has sold the north half of his lot No. 8 on the 3rd concession to Henry Volland. Miss H.I.Graham was recently made the recipient of a Waterman's gold pen and pencil set from the members of the Huron Presbyterial Society in recognition of her services as secretary. - Don O'Connor of Hibbert is having his house enlar ,ged and stuccoed on the outside. The funeral of the late Captain Nevill, a very highly esteemed officer in command of the local Salvation Army took place in the Barracks on Sunday at 3:30 p.m. Dr. F.H.Larkin assisted in the service. Mr. Robt. Porterfield and Ralph Elliot were d riving up Main St. when a tire blew out causing the driver to lose control and the car ran across the street in front of Beattie's store. Both men were injured some. SEPTEMBER 23, 1950 Mrs. Frank Novak, recently of Medicine Hat, Alta., has announced her intention of forming classes in piano, singing and pipe organ. Bingo in Seaforth is becoming popular, the crowd at the Community Centre indicated. Two $25.00 prizes were given and were won by Walker Hart and Mrs. Robt. Strong. Wesley Ham of Brucefield left for Toronto, where he will attend University. Mrs.E. T. Stewart formerly Miss Florence Foss of Hensall,, won 1st prize for her tea biscuits at the C.N.E. at Toronto. Hensall Town Hall was packed to capacity for a reception for Mr. and Mrs. Bruce McGregor of Kippen. During the evening they were presented with a well filledurse of money. Billie Flanigan, of town, found a wallet containing the sum of $24.00. The owner's name was in the wallet, and he gave him $4.00 as a reward for his honesty. Most Rev. J.C.Cody, Bishop of London, announced this week, the appointment of Rev. Pr. E. Weber of Kinkora as parish priest of St. James Church, Seaforth. Raspberry season has been over for most people for some time but not for Mrs. Dalrymple of Egmondville. She brought to the Expositor office a bunch laden with fresh berries and green leaves. 4 0 Huronview The Clinton Horticulture Society arranged a "Family Night" program which included a flower display, a corsage for each of the residents and coloured slides. The President of the Club, Mrs. McCann, introduced the guest for the evening, Mrs. Homuth, who showed pictures taken while on a recent trip to the British Isles and several slides of the Clinton Centennial parade. The members of the society presented twenty-five bouquets to the residents which included the eldest, the yougest, those over 90 and special birthdays. Mrs. . Elsie Henderson played piano instrumentals during the ntermission. Mrs. Bessie Elliott thanked the ladies for the I vely flowers and Mrs. Homuth for the very interesting commentary and pictures. The residents have been very interested in the recent Provincial election with 185 taking advantage of the opportunity to vote. n t he Years ShWC 1860, Serving the Community First **shed at SEAFORTH. ONTARIO, every Thursday morning by McLEAN EROS. PUBLISHERS LTD. ANDREW Y. McLEAN, Publisher SUSAN WHITE, Editor Member Canadian Community Newspaper Association Ontac io 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 -r 25 CENTS EACH Second Class Mail Registration Number 0696 Telephone 527-0240 WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1975 An interesting time Quebec city alley The voters have spoken, but they haven't come down very hard on one side or the other. Ontario gave the Conservative government a pointed warning in Thursday's election but didn't discard the Tories altogether. The Liberals were greeted with a big yawn in Toronto area seats, the same way Western Ontario, which went strongly for the Liberals, greeted the NDP. Much of the vote was clearly a 'protest against the Conservative government. In the cities this vote went to the NDP, who had clear programs to offer city dwellers. In rural Ontario, in London and in this area, it was protest enough to vote Liberal., Because the opposition vote was split in this way,, the Tories squeaked back in to power. What happens now is going to be the real news. Many people deplore minority governments, but we disagree. They are more subject to citizen pressure, but that is often a good thing. Sometimes in Canadian history minority governments have been unwieldy and slow moving, with more obstruction and blocking than constructive policy making going on. But charges of obstruction depend which side of the legislature you'sit on the government benches or the Seaforth isn't the only town where it happens, but Seaforth should be able to do better. There are lots of kids in this town and they give great support to the activities that are organized for them. More than 200 of them played hockey last winter. Yes, the kids support the activities but their parents don't. It's pretty sad when eight people turn out to organize hockey for more than 200 kids, but that happened here this week and' similar things have happened before. Cubs and Scouts folded in town a couple of years ago...not because the kids lost interest, but because the same few people got tired of devoting all their time and energy to kids Just a few more notes on my trip to Saskatchewan. If you are bored, turn to the classified ads. That's not just a wisecrack. A western publisher who runs my column, said: "You're right up there with the classifieds, when it comes to readers." "Thanks a lot," I muttered rather dourly. Turns out it was a compliment. The classified ads are the best-read part of my weeklies. Anyway, perhaps the nicest thing I can say about Saskatchewan is that I'd love to go back, 30 years younger, and with two or three months to spend. After I got home, I discovered I have a horde of cousins in Saskatoon, and they're going to be sore as hell when they learn I was there for a few -days and didn't call them. But that's my problem, and maybe I'll see some of them at the great Thomson family reunion at the `told homestead" on Caltinet Island in the middle of the Ottawa River next month. it's easier to get from here to England than it is to get from here to Calumet Island but Ern going to bust a gut trying to Make it. My grandfather was sli demastet theft in the great days of lumbering on the opposition. Sometimes minorities have been very effective too. Some of Canada's best social welfare legislation was.' passed when opposition parties were able to make deals with minority governments in power. Unbridled power is not good for any party. An arrogance, a righteousness creeps in - we've seen it with the Ottawa Liberals as well as the Queens Park Conservatives. The Conservatives in Ontario have had it all their own way for 32 years. Now they are going to have to be more attentive to the two opposition parties and to compromise with one or the other of them in order to get legislation underway. Stephen Lewis, as leader of the official opposition, has an unprecedented chance to bring the government around to the changes which the people of Ontario voted for. The Liberals too will have more chance for say in what the government of Ontario does than they've had'for 32 years. We are looking forward to seeing some action. A minority government is certainly an experiment in this province, but we're of the opinion that it can't do any harm. It'll be hard on all three parties but interesting for us. We wish them all luck. whose own parents wouldn't take part. Nearly 70 girls play in the SDHS . trumpet band but only a handful of , mothers turned out the other night to _help organize a Ladies Auxiliary to back -up the band. As recreation director Clive Buist said about the hockey situation "If every parent would only take a turn for one year, it would be so easy on everybody." It's so true. The same few who work hard at organizing and supervising programs for everyboOy's children deserve a lot of credit. They also deserve more help. It's too late for Scouts and Cubs but there are more meetings for other programs coming up. Why not try to attend and take your turn? Ottawa and most of my western kinfolk sprang, originally, from his stalwart loins. Speaking of loins, I didn't see any in Saskatchewan. But I did see a bald-headed eagle. as well as a few bald-headed editors. ether it was a bald eagle, or a dirty grt crow who had just had his hair dyed blonde. As far as I'm concerned, it was an eagle, just as that pike I caught not weighs just under 16 pounds. And those western crows! I spotted a vast black bird skimming through the spruce. "What in the name of dear Heaven is that?" I enquired. "Crow," muttered our laconic guide, Ovide, rather contemptuously. Laster I learned that these "crows", • which look about the size of a Canada goose, are really ravens, about three times the size of a common, or eastern crow. I also heard some wolves, but they turned out to be young Indians, and the wolf calls were directed at pretty young Indians of the opposite sex. Ovide, the guide, didn't, I am sure, realize that he was named after a famous Roman poet of erotic verse, but he had some of the characteristics. "Caught a real big Fish last night," he averred, straight- faced, outlining with his hands the shape of the fish, which was more of a bird than a Amen by Karl Schuessler • Pepper, I'm disappointed in you. Really disappointed. I thought we had a great thing going -- our communicating with each other. We could dialogue. Let each other know exactly what's on our, minds. - Then you bungled up the lines. Jammed them real tight, Pepper. And you almost had me in trouble. Great trouble. Not only with my kids--and the law-- but God Himself. What are you trying to do, Pepper, m ake a cat killer out of me? And what's even worse, a kitten killer? Now how would that look in headlines--Kitten Killer Karl? I couldn't live with myself, Pepper. But you almost made me do it. I mean, kill your kittens. Now I could plead ignorance or accidental death. Or extenuating circumstances before the judge. But that wouldn't purge my soul. I do have a conscience, Pepper, believe it or not. How was I to know you were planning to have a family again? You're getting to be such a big fat lazy cat--accentuate the fat. I can't tell if you are or you aren't. And I've got better things to do each day than go around and note your waistline and any increase thereof. But I should have known. You had a few gentlemen callers a while back. They hung ,around our door a couple of days. I coudln't get rid of them. One of them, my girls named ,Karl. I blush when I say it, but they named him after me. He Was a mangy looking kind of cat, but his intentions were clearly amorous. The way he slinked around you--parading his godawful color--a mixture of gray and white and long haired brown that sort of tried to cover up the whole mess. I clearly rejected the name the girls gave him.But they said it had nothing to do with his looks. It was his downright loving mood-his blatant and open advances that evoked my name. They taunted me when I took after Karl with a broom. How could I? How could I dare drive away such a loving young man? But Karl always came back, and started up his slow slinky gait around you, Pepper. He never seemed to give up trying to get your attention -- and attraction. But as I say, Pepper, I've got far better things to do than bother myself with Karl. That's your affair, not mine. I didn't think anymore about it. And I didn't think anymore about it when I put back the square of wood into the opening of the crawl space under our house. We'd taken it out for a month, to let the air circulate under the house. Dry things out down there. It's a very' natural and normal thing to do, Pepper. To put back that piece of wood. I never dreamed I should have consulted you about it. Asked you if it was okay to shut up the crawl space. fish, to my thinking. Let's see, what other great adventures did I have? Oh, yes. I met a prairie farmer, in his seventies, who was up for the fishing. German background, solid type, figured to be a gentle man, and he had the most appalling string of profanity I've heard since I left the air force. Did you ever see a law student try to change a flat tire on a big bus? Nice lad. Had been kti the Mounties, couldn't st and the crap of the upper echelons, who are \ still in the Victorian age, had quit, was going through law school, and then was going back into the Mounties, to try to do something about it. Stout chap and I hope he makes it. But he sure had a battle with that tire, while we stood on the road and watched the perfect Vs of geese starting their long trek, south. Away up there in ,the northern wilds, where the call of loons and the snort of a moose are to be expected, I was startled. Went to a lodge with the rest of the gang and wound up playing shuffleboard and shooting pool with a great fire in the fireplace. I felt sort of disconnected. It ain't cheap up there. Brought a rate card home with me. A modern cabin runs $120 a week: Boat, about $50 a week. Motor, about $60 a week. Plus gas, bait, I know you liked it under the house. Good and dark. Cool. A perfect hideaway for kittens--now that I think of it. And this time you were going to be sure. Doubly sure that your kittens were safe. Last time an old male cat took out after them. He sneaked into your . nest and did away with your litter. But how wasl to know, Pepper? How was I to know youkl been nursing kittens under that crawl space for at least three weeks? You didn't say a word. You never let out one howl. One meow. You never screeched or clawed. Or whined. And that's what hurts, pepper, because I thought we had a good communication system going. You and I. We could always open up. Let each other know what's going on. I'm not unreasonable, Pepper. I'll listen. I'll try to understand. But 'you got to talk. Talk, hear? Keep the signals going. Keep the lines open. Well, at least your kittens did. For two days I heard faint noises. Did I hear something? Or is that just the birds outside? I listened again. And then I didn't hear anything. I'm imagining. As I told you, Pepper, I've got better things to do thin track down faint sounds in my house. - But when 1 went into our storage room, I heard that sound again. Heavens! That sounds like kittens. I scrambled all around Our junky dark storage room. Not a thing. - Pepper, come in 'the house this instant. Do you have kittens in our storage' room? I marched you into the room and let you roam over all the boxes and corners. But you didn't seem interested. None of this, Pepper. I hear kittens and now I want to see kittens. You-refused to lead 'me to kittens. Then it clicked. Those sounds are below. Good heavens! I put the wood on that opening three days ago. Out, Pepper, Out. To the back. First get to Your kittens. Then show them to me. You'll have to bring them out. I'm not crawling on my hands and knees in the dirt to fetch them out. You made me wait three days. Then you finally showed us your rrtwo kittens. You brought them outside. One.wasall fuzzy gray and the other one was blotchy gray and white. Karl, you've had a hand in.this. I could start a 'paternity suit against you and win. But forget it. Only this time I vow. Name sake or no, Karl, you're banished from my back doorstep--forever. fish filleting, fish freezing, and food. A fishing guide is about $20 a day, but worth it. I had all this for zilch money, thanks to the government of Sask. and my good hosts, the Martins. But on the other hand, it's not really expensive, if shared by a group. That cabin held eight people, or could have, and was coropletely furnished and heated. A cruinby cottage in Ontario, on an over- crowded beach, with no fishing, could cost as much or more. Back to Saskatoon after a 10-hour-bus- ride, and everybody exhausted. Some of those crazy, intrepid westerners took off for home. "Oh, it's only 280 miles." Got wangled into a lobster dinner, when all I wantred was bed and a warm glass of milk. Ordering lobster in Saskatoon is like going to Halifax and saying: "Bring me a big western steak." Stupid. Missed my flight home. Called the old Trouble 'n Strife, who was expecting me that night, 1,200 miles away. Cost me $13. , Woke up in the morning with a heavy chest cold and a feverish feeling that I'd been off to another planet for a week. But I wouldn't have missed it for the world. It's not every day you see a bald-headed eagle. Help! Sugar, and Spice by Bill Smiley