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SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, OCTOBER 16, 1975
In the Years Agone
OCTOBER 8,1875
John McCandless has sold Ms farm oh Cpmp.
Tuckerstnith to Robert Ogle for $5,000. The farni contains
90 acres.
The trustees of schbol section No. 4 Stanley have engaged
as a teacher fOr next year, J. Smiley, who now teaches on the
Parr line.
T. Dinsdale of Stanley Township has purchased the west
half of 'Lot 5, Con. 2, STanley containing 50 acres to Wm.
Phillips for $2,800.
On Friday evening last a new Grange was organized in
S.S.No. 1 Usborne.
The auction sale of village lots, at the prospective village of
Hensall came off and was largely attended and very
successful. The lots sold at enormous prices. Most sold for
speculation purposes.
An examination of a number of the scholars of the
Prebyterian Sabbath school was held. Six prizes were given as
follovis: 1st prize John Ballantyne, 2nd. J. Duncan; 3rd. Chas.
McKay; 4th. A. Dewar;. 5th Mary Crawford and 6th Maggie
Brine,
The first locomotive entered Exeter on'Monday last and the
event was a source of great rejoicing on the part of the
citizens.
A
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Watch the study
A study on rural land use that is
supposed to be a milestone in the
planning process got mixed reactions
from county councillors last week. •
Some councillors said the $100,000
study had come up with little that
isn't already in Huron County's plan.
Others said the study seemed to focus
more on the county's towns than on
agriculture.
It's called Countryside Planning
and was to be the first example in
Ontario of land use planning from an
agricultural perspective.
But whether the study is new or not
it contains some proposals that are
startling and although county council
is only reviewing the study, we should
be aware of what is being suggested.
Keep an eye on it. That's our future
the study financed 80% by the
province and 20% by Huron is talking
about.
One of the things suggested is that
future urban development be directed
towards thejive towns in Huron. To
accommodate such development 1
during the next 30 years 'the towns
would be allowed to expand their
boundaries to a two mile radius
around each town.
This makes sense. One of the
purposes of the report was to consider
ways and means of preserving prime
agricultural land and at the same time
accommodate an increasing urban
population. What better way to do
this than to make use of existing
services that are available in cach•of
the towns. and ,permit an orderly but
limited growth of the town? ,
At the same time those of us in the
towns and neighbouring farms
' effected should look- at what
expansion could mean.
In the case of Seaforth we'd take in
Egmondville and Harourhey and
pieces of McKillop and Tuckersmith
to the east and north. Wh ile certainly
some prime agricultural land would
Harvest bow
In the entertainment industry--
and in politics, too -- careers are
made and broken by applause and
by lack of applause. We are often
manipulated into offering applause
and sometimes our applause is
measured by machines. Persons in
groups can be led to applaud things
at which very few of them as
indKfiduals ,would even clap one
hand. We readily applaud things
which do not deserve our applause
— -probably because we feel that
willingness to applaud indiscrimin-
ately is a sign of tolerance and
broadmindedness.
Canned applause, along with
canned laughter, is often dubbed
onto the sound-tracks of filmed
television programs and' used as
background support on radio shows
We sit in our easy chairs and let
ourselves be beguiled by artificial
applause into accepting what we
really know to be utter tripe as the
fine flower of human creativity.
How else can you account for the
phenomenal success of some tele-
vision shows?
To the editor
Dear Editor:
Just a short note, on how small the world
is getting. A few weeks ago I was telling
my neighbors in Livonia about going to a
Centenntial Reunion in Canada.
A little later he had a letter from a friend
of His from Florida, by the name of Spain
who also visited Seaforth. I told him I knew
a couple of Spains, plus the Nixons and the
Smiths, also Essex's who I knew are all
related.
Last Saturday night we went to the
neatest Legion Hall to a ,lance here in
British Columbia when a couple sitting at
the tietitible heard us talk abbut Seaforth.
The lady asked Me if I knexv the
be effected much of the area would
consist of already built up sections,
river basins and hilly areas.
Exisiting farming operations within
the proposed enlarged boundaries
would be given guarantees that they
could continue to operate for specified
periods without pressure from the
towns.
Enlargement of our town's
boundaries could mean that land
within the proposed limits would
increase in value as potential sites for
housing, commerce and industry.
Seaforth -as Well as other Huron
towns certainly need building lots and
room for future expansion. Wh ile it's
too bad that in the process of
expanding some farm land will be
lost, the amount involved will be
much less than if similar expansion
occurred elsewhere in the county. The
founders of Huron towns usually
selected sites that involved rivers or
hills or as in the case of Seaforth, a
swamp. It's just too bad the swamp
wasn't bigger.
Watch what the county's doing in
planning. If more citizens say their
piece now, while the land use model
is being developed, a Int of heartache
and appeals to planning boards later
on may be • avoided.
Huron's great strength is
agriculture and we've got to have
orderly planning that encourages it.
At the same-time there.isno point in
ignoring thVact that provision
be -made Sir an inbrbars'ed. &ban'
population.
But do we expand the five exisiting
towns, even if it means taking some
land out of production? Should we
ignore cost and encourage residential
development on pockets of marginal
land wherever they are within the ,
county?
The report may not be the answer
but it can be the basis of informed
discussion.
We often show amusement,and
offer applause because we do not
wish to be judged odd and
puritanical and narrowminded: But
broadmindedness can have its own
subversively built-in narrowmind-
edness. Artistic integrity is not
necessarily authenticated by four-
letter words, bared female bosoms
and explicit sex.
Today we are being subtly forced
into conformities of response and
attitude without our being fully
aware of the extent to which we are
being manipulated. Applause can
be contagious -- and therein is its
peril.
Human nature, fortuna ly, has
in it a strain of sheer cussedness,
and this keeps society from becom-
ing thoroughly ' homogenized in
taste and judgement. But how
many of us, really, bring individual
judgement to bear on entertain-
ment , on politics -- on anything
which a group, for its own selfish
purposes, tries to manipulate us
into applauding?
(Contribbted)
Bannons. She happened' to be their aunt.•
So, of course, we had quite a chat. Her
husband was from Kincora.
At present we are on h trip from Detroit a
to B.C. through the States.We saw
Yellowstone Park. Been Ii ere in Vancouver
for 3 days. Tomorrow• we are h eading
down towards California then through
Atrizona toward the Gulf Coast for the
winter.
. Hope everyone in Seaforth is well as we
are,
Clayton and Donna Dennis.
3056 Hoy,
Livonia, Mich., 48154 U.S.A.
Amen
by Karl Schuessler
One look at the man at my front door and I
knew it--He was one of those people who
wanted me to hear all about the Lord God
Jehovah. Those magazines in his hand
clinched it.
But then I looked, again. He sure wasn't all
that dressed up--the way those other house
callers were. This man looked just like any one
of my neighbors. A farmer. With overalls,
rubber boots and beat-up hat. He looked as if
he .came straight from the barn. I smelled.
Must have., been a pig barn at that.
"I'm a Christian," he said, "The Spirit led
me here-to your house-while'' was driving
past in the car."
Now how can I deny the Spirit? And turn
my back--and door--on him. It's quite an art,
you know. Saying no to all those religious door
knockers. Being polite enough. But firm
enough. Saying no to them and yet not getting
the feeling I'm saying no to God.
But this man seemed a bit different from my
usual other house callers.
I let him in.
"I'd like to let you know how diffdtennt my
life's been since I give it over to Jesus
Christ."
He was different alright from my other
callers. But not that different after all. I'd
heard it--you've heard it-- 6.4 before. A same
theme with variations.
"It was at 9:15 on September 24, 1967 that I
found Jesus. My whole life's changed now.
I'm a new man. I don't drink anymore. I live .
right. I'm living for Him. Jesus is my whole
life now."
"Did you want me to buy one of those
magazines," I asked.
No. He wasn't interested in the magazines
in his hand. He only wanted to tell me about
his ,life in the Lord. The Lord in his life. I
listened to his words. I listened between the
words. I saw the conviction in his face. He
looked at me with steady eye--never flinching,
never flickering. I saw a man whose faith
grasped him whole. It made a sure and postive
man out of him. I felt I was looking at a man
who knows--one who's experienced. Who
knows what he's talking about. A man
deteremined that 1 .should feel exactly the
same was he doest
True. The man has something I don't.
Something I slightly admire--that I wished I
might have. But I know better. I'm past that.
I've put away simplicities. I'm into anaylizing,
defining, labeling. I know life's far more
complicated. I know that faith isn't absolute
conviction. Faith doesn't mean saying over -
and over again, I believe. I believe. I believe.
You don't make faith necessarily sure by
saying that it is sure. .You don't necessarily
0ound your fist to make it sure. Pounding
, Moving has delayed keeping up with
your paper, and therefore it is only now
that I have come across a few items in July.
"OFY crew busy at Van Egmond house"
of July 24th makes, reference to the Van
Egmond papers in the Public Archives.- It
was not necessary for the researchers to
,"wade through a tremendous amount of
material;" and to counteract what sounds
like a slur but was probably not intended as
such, I need to say that the archivists in
Ottawa are extremely knowledgeable and
helpful, and I continue to remember with
pleasure the years I did my research there.
Furthermore, the existence of the papers
in the ,Upper Canada Sundries is catalo-
gued and, firm*, the very man who wrote
article after article in your paper, the late
Professor W.B. Kerr discovered and used
them already in the 1920's, and the late
Professor G.H. Needier used some of them
in his book Colonel Anthony Van Egmond.
All the basic sources for This latter-day
'discovery' were recorded in James Scott's
book The Settlement of Huron Qounty and
therefore it is odd to find that in "Founding
of Clinton marked" (July 31) an unidenti-
fied quotation, which turns out to be froth
page 254 of his book, is referred to as
originating from a "present-day writer."
Period. Perhaps the pressure of the
newspaper deadlines is responsbile for this
double oversight.
Incidentally, the Ontario Archives keep a
few Van ,amond papers as well.
Being interested in the development of
the area, I read both items eagerly. The
doesn't reinforce faith. Or confirm it. Ot
assure it.
Not that the man pounded his fist or
stomped his rubber boots. He just went on in
forceful conviction, "I can't explain things
very well. Some people'call me a fool. But at
least I'm a fool for Christ."
I knew all the' names to write him off. His
zeal. His witness. Fundamentalist. Literalist.
Obscurantist. Moralist. I could argue. Tell
him he's over responding to his conversion
experience. He spends too much time on that
and not the source of it. He becomes the
emphasis. He overshadows the God that finds
him.
I didn't say anything. "Often it's the
religious person --the obvious religious
person—that the hardest one to reach," the
man said.
What could I say? How can I argue with a
man's experience? His great change? Would
it help if I told him that religious experience
comes in many varieties? Not just his variety?
That he doesn't have to try to bring everyone
to the same dramatic convers ion he had?
That he doesn't have to flatten out religion to
one single mold. That he doesn't have- to
steam roll everything our to same-ness and
similarity?
And what about his public worship? He
confessed he didn't go to church that often?
Then what about that? Why doesn't he return
to the place where 'God continues to find us.
To come to us through his Word and through
baptism and the Lord's Supper?
And what 'about going beyond' individual
conversion? Where not only people, but
systems and laws needing changing too?
What can I say to the man? Not to offend.
Not-make to defend. To amend. Nothing. Only
I reassure myself after he's gone. I .want to
call myself Christian. With a little less
sureness. A little less braVado. I like to think
I've always been a Christian--within a
community of believers. At times believing.
At other times, doubting. Despairing, but
always upheld by the Everlasting Arms. I
don't have to reply on my unsteady arms—my
faith--to make God's goodness real to me.
Call me timid. Call me one of little faith.
Call me one who's struggling to be a
Christian. Who:s taking a lifetime to work out
his salvation in fear and trembling.
I just can't do it in one grand spiritual high.
following very minor additions may be
welcomed by a few readers.
Some activity had already been seen in
the Huron Tract when in 1831, on January
25th, Peter Vanderburg h bought two lots
on the Maitland in Goderich Tp. (nos 28 &
91), with a total acreage of 153, both of
which were transferred to Robert Shaw in
1838.
At the Huron Road on the eastside of the
London Road, the first purchases were
made by Andrew Helmer in February and
July of 1830. This made him the fourth
purchaser in Tuckersmith and the third one
in Hullett.
Jonas Gibbings Obtained Lot 23, Con. 1
in Hullett on the last day of 1831 by making
a downpayment of 17.3.5 pounds which
also secured for him the record of being the
Xifth purchaser of land in that township. In
that same year he bought a 98-acre lot in
Goderich Twp from Thomas Townsend, but
after a mere seven months the deed was
handed to lithn Blake. No other purchases
by Jonas Gibbings along the Huron Road
seem to have been recorded between 1831
and 1835.
Peter Vanderburgh was more successful.
In 1834 he acquired Lot 24, Conc. 1, Hullett
(137 acres), which originally had been sold
to Helmet, along-with Lot. 25, Goderich on
the Huron Road (144 acres) and Lot 43,
Cone 1, Tuckersmith (38 acres), as well as
Lot 1, Goderich on the Huron Road (88
acres), for which he received the deeds in
that same year,
Wm. J. Van Veen
OCTOBER 13, 1900
An old and beloved resident of Hullett Twp. passed
away in the person of Mrs. Thos Quigley aged 70 years. In
religion he was a staunch member of the Roman' Catholic
Church.
St. James' Church was the scene of an interesting event
when Robert Devereaux and Josephine McGrath were
married. Miss Lena Getsmeyer was the bridesrriaid while
Louis Devereaux supported the groom.
Judge Mason held a court in Seaforth for the revision of the
Seaforth voters list. 24 Liberals were added and 11
Conservatives struck off. R.S.Hays appeared on behalf of the
Liberals and Mr. Holmsted for the Conservatives.
A gentleman in the Township of Usborne, who is building a
large barn, purchased 3 carloads of lumber from Keating and *
Lamb.
Ed. Latimer of town was working with a pair of clippers in
Mullett's tin shop and had the misfortune to have the ends of
two fingers- cut off.
Miss Bessie Young, daughter of Mr. A. Y oung, leaves for
Boston where she will become a student of the Emerson
College of Oratory.
Mr. and Mrs. D.D.Wilson and Thos. Wilson left for the Old
Country. Thos . Wilson will practice dentistry in India.
We learn that Mr. James McCully, brother of Joseph
McCully of. Stanley Twp. has lost his crop in Manitoba by hail.
His buildings were also' destroyed by wind.
Henry Reichert of Hillsgreen held a paring bee and
succeeded in getting a large quanitty of apples pared.
A. Cane of Hillsgreen has taken the contract of splitting
wood for Mrs. J. Jarrott.
Robert Dalrymple who has been threshing with
Mr. Thompson of Kippen goes to Hensall to learn the
engineering in Mr. Urquhart's Mill,
Mr. Paterson of Brucefield, who has been boring for water,
succeeded in striking a good spring. He was working for Geo.
Baird.
OCTOBER 9, 1925
The fiftieth anniversary of Cavan Church , Winthrop was
celebrated by special services, when Dr. Gandier occupied
the pulpit. On the Monday night a fowl supper was held and
A.A.Cuthill read a history of the church at the program which
followed the supper.
A. Dundas of Walton bought the Clark property which was
sold by auction.. F. Miller bought one-quarter acre lot for
$900.00.
There is some talk of getting street lights in the village of
Walton.
Benjamin Riley of Constance was injured whi,le excavating
for a bridge when the earth caved in.
Two beautiful vases were presented at St.Thomas Church
by Mrs. Peters and - Miss Punchard, both of, Toronto.
The presentation was made by John H.Best.'
Wm., Rinn, well known stock man of 'Hullett paid his 52nd
subscription to the Expositor.
Harold Stark of town has been transferred to the Welland y.
branch of the -Dominion Bank ,
. Harry Edge of Seaforth is busy building the retaining walls
of tho,Welsh bridge and putting on the extension of the road
at Manley.
Word was received in Manley of the death of Mrs. M.
Johnston in London Hospital in her 75th year.
OCTOBER 13,1950
Norman Hubert was installed as Noble Grand of the
I.O.O.F. 'at an interesting ceremony carried out by D.D.G.M.
Alex Boyce and his staff. Other officers installed included
Wm. Forrest, V.G.;) John Stevens, secretary; -Dr.
F.S.Harburn, treasurer;.'and J.A.Westcott, Financial
Secretary.
The Winthrop area were sorry to hear of Austin Dolmage
falling while painting his garage and breaking his left arm.
Miss Wilma McLean was presented with a chenille
bedspread, pillow cases and towels at the hpme of Mr. and
Mrs. Arthur Nicholson; Karen-Nicholson drew in the gifts in a
decorated wagon and Mrs.Howard Nicholson read the
address'''.
Mr. and Mrs. John Carnochan also entertained for Miss
McLean when she was presented with a miscellaneous
shower. Mrs.Harry McLeod read the address. Misses Phyllis
Boyes and Margaret Moore also entertained.
Miss Helen McDougall, formerly of Egmondville, now of
Detroit, celebrated her 80th birthday at the home of her niece
Mrs. Mary treminbardt of Hayfield left for Toronto, where
she will spend the winter months.
Officers elected for the Hospital Aid were: Han. Pres. Mrs.
Charles Holmes; President, Dorothy Parke; Mrs.
A.W.Sillery; Vice Pres.; Treas. Mrs. Bruce McLean; Press
Sec. Mrs. F.Kling; buying com. Miss V. Drope, Mrs,
D.H.Wilson, Mrs. J.A.McDonald.
To the editor
Van Egmond story corrected
The perils of applause
It's a small world
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