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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1975-10-16, Page 24 Let's hear from, you THE HURON EXPOSITOR welcomes letters to the editor. We want to h ear your opinions about anything at all, be it lar ge or small. The only stipulation required is that the letters be slgndd personally by the author. A pseudonym, though not encouraged, is allowed providing we can authenticate the authorship of the letter. Unsigned or anonyntous letters will be thrown in the garbage where they belong. So, if you have a beef or a suggestion feel free to pick up yonr pen or typewriter and let us hear about it. 1 0$11101t olne4X860,'Sendn's the Community First Pabliahed at SEAFORTIL ONTARIO; (Ivory liursday .morning by &KEAN BROS. PUBLISHERS LTD. ANDREW Y. &KEAN, Publisher . SUSAN WHITE, Editor Member Canadian Community Newspaper Association Outm to Weekly Newspaper Association `c% - 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 Second Class Mail Registration Number 0696 Telephone 527-0240 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 it 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 4 , .e.m”. • fr.,. • • lt•