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1?ub#§be4 ,at SEAFORTH, ONTARIO,. every Thursday morning by McLEAN BROS. PUBLISHERS LTD. soiree in their hall. The ohairman was Rev. Mr. Thompson of
ANDREW Y. McLEAN, Publisher McKillop who addressed the meeting.
An accidentof•a•most painful and fatal nature occurred on
SUS., N,WHITE, Editor
' DAVE ROB$, Advertising Manager the farm of Robert TVicholson, Hay Twp. He was threshing lit
Member Canadian Commdility Newspaper Association the barn. ;Rudolph Oeschi was assisting.
In gathering up the grain and in so doing the sleeve of his
Ontario Weekly Nespaper Association „ smock was caught by the coupling, drawing his right arm into
and Audit Bureau of Circulation the shaft smashing and mangling it,in a fearful manner. His
°d injuries were such as to cause his death..
s Subscription Rates: The -engine with cars has been up. as far as Mr, Murdock's
Canada (in advance) $10.00 a Year
O -C farm which is close to the village of Loudesborough.•
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Chas. Whitney of town was engaged in placing eavetr
Outside Canada (in 512.00 a Year qughs
on the new oatmeal mill. He was so engaged'in his work that '�
' SINGLE COPIES — 25 CENTS EACH he didn't notice. that a train was coming along the track on
which the ladder rested. It struck the ladder and threw him in
4; front of one of the car wheels. He was struck on the back and .
Second Class Mail Registration Number 0696' ' > slightly, but not seriously injured. .
Telephone 527-.0240 Alex Murchie has the post office and a general store at
Winthrop; A, Govenlock & Son have a store and the Dominion
SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, NOVEMBER 20, 1975 Telegraph office, also two saw mills and a grist mill; a new
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PrestiMnan Church is being erected, a new wagon ma ens
. shop. There are also thre blacksmith shops; a cheese -factory
�% r ■ j • / r owned by' Morrison and Hill;. a school house; a lodge of good
f.� a 1� l L f t h Templars; and an Orange Lodge whose worthy master is John
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Scarlett. Ales Shaw is the new school teacher.
The farm of Thos. Nichol on the Mill Road, Tuckersmith,
lately occuped by Chas. Mason, has been purchased y
Do we have the right to decide to relatives and friends. Alexander Forsyth for $7,000.00. The farm contains 100
about the quality of our own death? One caller suggested that dying acres. NOVEMBER 1,6,1900
That's part of the question that was patients be kept alive as long as they Miss Annie Weekes, of the Parr Line, Stanley Township
being debated in the Karen Anne showed any brain activity. Brain has graduated as a trained nurse from Grace Hospital,
Quinlan case in New Jersey recently. death, not heart death is now usually Detroit, M ich.
The judge there decided no. accepted as final death because the Thos: Russell of Riverside stock farm in' Usborne, havinghad. his barn and feed destroyed by fire, has decided to
brain, unlike the heart or lungs, can't dispose of his high rade cattle.'
The question of prolonging life with be re -activated: G eo. Thoth son of Hensall has sold his fine steam
respirators and other complicat
machine has not come u in But as a nurse pointed out brain threshing machine and belting' James Mustard of Stanley.
machinery P , P , Mr. M. Y. McLean, of the Seaforth Expositor, spent a .
Canadian courts, because -in Canad waves have to be interpreted by couple of days in the Mitchell riding for Mr. Erb. He is a
the decision has been seen as doctors. forceful speaker and always commands a splendid hearing.
medical one. Canadian doctors Now we leave a huge burden On Our Major Anderson left for the north country in a fox hunting
decide now, with a minimum of expedition.,,'',,''
They of course have the Oscar hjdat of 'town .has 'pu.;chased the restaurant and.
fanfare, when not to keep a dying octors
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patient hooked up t0 life giving medical qualifications for the. confectionery business of the late James Stewart.
decision, but does this arrangement A. R. Sampson, former teller in the Dominion Bank, has A
machines.. leave room for abuse'j been promoted to the position of accountant in the Montreal
branch. W. G. McLellan has been made accountant at
A cross Canada phone-in show The costs of keeping people alive � Guelph. ,
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discussed the issue on Sunday. Most on machines . is enormous. Already The first sleigh g for this season appeared.on the street on
callers said they did not want to be some -doctors are asking the public Wednesday.
ke t alive on machines after all"h0 a Witlin to a
Amen James Gillespie, town, has removed his harness shop to his
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of their recovery was past. Most said -.the, price? Isaac McGAvin of Leadbury has purchased from Robb
They wanted to be left to die, left in by Karl Schuessler Bros. a fine thoroughbred bul 1.
peace. Some favoured a living , will, We think a huge expenditure of W. M. Doig, and his nephew Alex Doig, have gone to
where these sentiments could be money which allows people to live " Detroit where they purpose taking a course in the legal
recorded and even to n ext of kin or a useful, seminormal lives is worth- Mail strikers, that's alright. You don't have profession.
9 The dedication"tif''Dublin's new church takes place next
doctor. while. We'd be willing to do without a to se ttle. You don't have to give in and start'
hoisting your heavy mail bags over your week.
' colour TV and a whole lot of other Wh .ire John Thomson of Bayfield was Loading a gun in
The healthy, aware person could shoulders and carying� all those letters to my
Y P luxuries and make contributions door. some way it was discharged, seriously injuring Miss Olive
use the riving will to suggest (it's not toward kidney machines, for I don't mind. Keep away. Keep my mail boxThompson in ,the face.
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legally binding) that they wanted no example. empty.. Bill free. Clutter free. Who needs all Bernard O'Connell, returning officer for South Huron, and
Is there any reason why a government has his election clerk, John Rankin, attended of Cardno's Hall, to
extraordinary measures to keep, them those sales ads? These free offers? Those
Y P to write back td an army • veteran and say, sum up the note cast in the South Huron election.
aliveA they become •'terminally 'ill. But machines which [ealJy _only promises of a thrill of a lifetime if 1 tear out "The non -compensable evaluation heretofore Walter Thomson of Mitchell has taken into partnership, hisprolong death -.are another., matter. th' -'ulcer and return immediately? assigned you fc�z your service connected son, W. Th o;n on, former maria er of the.oatmeal. mill
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ark fb(tY'° rriaChlnes l acrd 2: s °�Y� G�,dS.s rer�kex a a I. A,a may disabili fill "cid " g s
Doctors on the program §'tressed disability .iso coos' m and•continue» t here. They oondQct mills at Seaforth, Mitchell>±and:;Ign.
another thing I don t miss is a i lose usiness
that they were not talking about doctors working around the clock tc letters that make`s my- vorld� o around. The man wrote back in plain English, Mr. Strong of Leadbury had a bee hauli ng pressed hay to
keep 89 year old General Francisco n g "What the hell does all that mean?" The Seaforth last week.
euthanasia ... about actively giving p Y i know. 1 should be impressed with one of reply came, "There is no change in your NOVEMBER 20,1925
the patient something to cause death Franco alive in. Spain. those letters. Embossed paper. Well blacked
• P g ink. Catchy letterheads. And all the words physical condition and so you still will not get On the Staffa circuit a men's banquet was held in the
more quickly. They were talking a any money.' Township Hall. Rev. E. James"'to'ok-the, chair and Rev. Mr.
In a country where many people come straight out of an electric typewriter. All wO'Brienabout a passive thing, about' not That's what I" like about the .mail strike. It Moyer gave a very interesting address. F. O and Robert
still live in tin shacks and in caves and signatured and secretary initialed. ,
prolonging the lives of the incurably I should covet one of those letters. The connects people directly. There's no piece of Norris also gave short addresses.
mothers with babies 'beg on the Following an illness of a ear or more, Charles passed
ill through 'artificial. machines. government or business firms pay out $10.00 paper to link them. To tie them up into verbal' g Y RileyY
street, We dont think Such an to send one to me. That's what they figure it kinks. I away at h is house in. Tuckersmith. He was in his 58th year.
All churches agree, one caller said, enormous expense- is justified. costs to reply. It's just not the stationery and. If people really want to do business, they Mr. T. A. Beattie -and Mrs. J. Beattie ofMcKillopq
that Unusual means shouldn't be used - stamp of course. It's the secretary's and have to come and see me or telephone. Then entertained about 40 ladies in honor of'Miss Agnes Beattie at
the home of Mrs. J. G. Grieve in anticipation of her marriage
to, keepincurable people aIIV@ .boss's time it took. � we can talk sensibly. We can talk so we'll � p g
P P Let General Franco, and others like understand each other.Then we can put aside to STanley Garnham.
indefinitely.The late Po le John But their expensive looking it's letters don't do
P him, die In peace. all those words that can only erode and pomp One of the honoured residents of McKillop passed
anything for me. Maybe it's because I don't Y P P P
objected to this trend, While in no;Way , around in print. The never could make it in peacefully away at the home of his daughter• , Mrs. Allan
understand them. Those. business letter P Y Ross. He was 88 ears of age and was born in Londonbe ,
agreeing with active euthanasia. But unless we want our Society run writers talk in a strange language. They shift the talk world. y >,g �'
entirely by the experts, and by the into foreign gears. They put down in print Then we can put aside all the secretary's Ireland.
It's perhaps an issue that we all what they would never dream of saying out cliches and lay MissBrown---and her boss --to W. L. Siebertof Zurich has returned from his hunting trip
P P inventors Of medical technology, each rest. to southern Ontario and was successful in bagging a fine'
have to decide for ourselves. lona.
one of us should be making our deer. I
.. One man wrote ,that "each year a certain "Take a Poem, Miss Brown". Alfred Taylor, C. A. McDonell and Sam. Dougall of
personal decisions on this and other
Rationaily'it is easy to say "i don't amount of preventative maintenance should We beg to advise you, and wish to state Hensall, enjoyed a fine shooting expedition in Dunnville and
medical matters. The 'medical and be performed on asphalt driveways to prevent That yours has arrived of recent date We have HeLake Erie capturingosIi fine peasants.
want to be kept alive after all hope is the outward migration of localized failure it before us, its contents noted; 'Here with . along P
legal professions and our g � Donald Bums, W. R. Dougall, and Dr. A. R. Campbell
gone." But a high School teacher told governments have a duty t0 consult areas." enclosed are, the prices quoted. Attached you motored to Seaforth to catch the early train for Toronto to take
about her class, ,unanimous that the And when asked what that meant, he said, will find, as per our re uest, The sam le you Y us as technology changes what were P Y q P Y �� in the Western Fair.
would n'ot want to be kept alive by once fixed moral points. "Fix the' cracks". wanted; and we would suggest, Regarding the The weatherman really did the Lions a favour, for if it had
P See?. Whycan't he say in print what he matter and due to the fact That u to this
machine indefinitely, who• found it y P P
says in mouth? Why can't letter writers talk to moment your order we've lacked We hope been good weather, the G.W.V.A.,would never have held thecrowd. Fifty tables of euchre were played. The winners were,
hard and in some cases impossible, to r And we have to know what they are me instead of battering me with words? Why you will not delay it unduly, And beg to Mrs. E.G.Harple, Miss Marg. Chittenden, Mrs. John Rankin,
put their instructions down on paper talking about. do they build word fortresses so I can't get in,? remain yours very truly. T. Smith and Robert Devereaux. 4
first Numersou cutters and sleighs were seen on the streets the
st three days of this week.
The roof of the Commercial Hotel barn collapsed from the
Wweight of snow.
eosin roads in• an old fashioned fa]] Cam Dalton St. Columban has gone to Chicago where he
expects to secure a sitaution. j
About 35 teams assembled on the farm of Frank O'Reilly of
By W. G. Strong from which droop wild grape creeping rust has st ained its At this season, nature takes one is suddenly startled by the landscape. They define fields and McKillop to give him a days plowing.
vines and vagrant bittersweet. circli ng band of steel. In very over the entire .countryside and fiddle -playing of the ebony field pastures, separate orchards and INOVEMBER 17,1950
"Season of mists and mellow Trees line the road and shrubs truth, out under the'blue vault of paints it ablaze with fall colours, a cricket, by the seemingly endless, meadows, encompass garden Robert J7. MacLennan of town received word that he had
fruitfulness, and brush push close to the won the' first Huron County Carter Scholarship valued at
P heaven there is a freshness, a veritable pageantry of colour. The monotonous rasping of the cicada , patches, encircle an old cemetery $100.00.
Close bosom -friend of the tracks. sense of "emancipation from the• air is full of foliage flakes gaily or by the lonesome, eerie hooting or•finaliy disappear into the edge The C.W.L. of St. James' Church sponsored a euchre when
there were 30 tables la
maturing sun; Along this road boys and girls cares and responsibilities of daily fluttering and dancing tranquilly of the barn owl. of the Woods. These fences follow e winners were Ladies most
Conspiring with him how to tramped to school; whole families living, or eddying tumultously in a Autumn abounds in things that the contour of the land, rising and play. The
load and bless drove to town on. Saturday Mellow Sweet sudden gale. They are a shower in delight the sense of sight when falling with the u ndulations of games, on, Sills; lone hands, Mrs. Clayton Horton
With fruit the vines that round evenings and to chprch on '.'Could this little old road be a breeze, a deluge in a .storm. abd trees flaunt a lavishness of colour, the terrain, hugging the slopes as Consolation, Mrs. Ray Townsend; Men's games, Mr.
the thatched -eaves run." Sunday. No more does the 'sound enticing me now a flood underfoot at day's end. when fruits ripen and mellow. At steadfastly as if there were roots Le9nhardt, Lone hands - Mt. Murphy, Consolation, W.
(Keats) of buggy wheels, or the clop -clop Through the Indian Summer roadside market -stands we holding them there. They have Devereaux; lucky door, Frank Maloney.
of horse's hooves break the heat Mrs. H arry Pretty entertained at her home ip honor of her,.
The woods are alive and gladden to share the beauty and stood for generations when men
Some folk like city pavements silence. Here and there are small Where the meadows are vibrant. Those who walk their richness of a generous and cleared their fields by their own daughter Miss Phyllis Pretty at a troussea tea and Mrs.Geo.
but others prefer country farmsteads where cattle graze in sprawling with flowers and leafy lanes see squirrels from bountiful harvest - newly dug labour and, in the process, Cameron and Mrs. Y. Aldwinkle poured tea in the afternoon,
waysides, rural lanes or forest pastures tush and green or stoop grass their lofty lookouts fling potatoes, field turnips,-ri¢ening bequeathed to us a tradition for while Miss Dorothy Theobald, and Mrs, N Orman McLean +
trails. In early fall there comes an to quench their thirst -knee-deep And they orchards are mellow themselves from bough to bough' squash, plump tomatoes, jars of honest toil.. Here woodchucks, served. Mrs.Donald Keys and Mrs. Gordon Wright served at
urging to getout into the country in a gurgling brook of clear, cool sweet?" (Burgess) in bursts of -activity . golden honey, bottled amber skunks, foxes and other small night.
Woodchucks, grown fat and lazy, cider, pot-bellied
where back -roads twist and turn water that mirrors the blue pumpkins animals make their homes but Mrs. Chas. ' Eyre and Mrs. Elmer Rivers, planned a
surprise party in honor of -Miss Dorothy Drover, at the home
and seem to stretch to that inverted sky or where a solitary These are balmy, lazy, hazy sit erect by their earthy burrows. grown fat on the vines, delicious when the farmer's collie hunts at of Mis and Mrs. Wim. o Drover. Mrs. ' Glenn Pryce and
so-called
fields and ev*er land wooded hills; thein earl d rubs nk r f ck an
insist edaa's', Daws are oist butand
One may flush out a flock of wild apples, luscious pears, plums and will he rarely catches anything ' bf Mr. re made her the recipient of a number n
greeng Aging Y, mistycanaries that circle round before grapes, Here one can find all the save burrs and bootiacks. Yes, it
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roads that skirt corn fields, shade tree. the sun rises the fo clouds lift. miscellaneous gifts, Mrs. Elmer Rivers read an address.
g flying off, Gathering swallows ingredients for homemade jams is good to walk across such a field John McClure of Winthro received,word of the death of
desolate and bare, stubble fields, Behind an old frame house, Soon the sunshine, warm and twitter on wire 'fences or from and jellies, preserves and pickles. bounded by these ancient P
t.1 -1- d d d h 11 ' mellowed h the ears -lie e b ' b th ' 1 John Broadfoot at Silverton Man.
eac a an ry, w ere mu em
stalks, sun-dried and brittle ,
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potted plants in tin cans bloom on
right, breaks overhead but by
mid-afternoon shadows begin to
power lines near the highways.
Migrant birds leave according
In several counties in Eastern
Ontario many pasture lands show
landmarks and reflect on our
heritage.
his ro er-tri- aw
Death came into startling suddeness to Minnie Jane Sclater
stand to .nti'nel.
He who will can Ieavd the hard
the window silts, patchwork
quilts, sheets and the weekly
lengthen as the days grow shorter
and soon dusk will bivouac in the
to their mysterious schedule. The.
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trumpet call of wild geese flying
original stone Iles weathered
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through long winters, the mellow
"Across a waste and solitary
rise
wife of John Finlayson 3n her 96th year. 1}
Miss Pearl McPherson , a former teacher at the SEaforth
a'rte'ries 'of. asphalt and cement
wash flap in gentle breezes.
hollows. The coolness of the
high, far above the crowded
sun of summer and autumn. All
A (iloughman urges his dull
Collegiate Institute of Clinton .was a guest of Miss Verna
And seek a winding country road
' that meanders through peaceful
Beside an open barn door stands
an;empty hayrack. Within one has
evening air is inviting. Soon light
fades and darkness settles down
haunts of men, can be heard as
they southward trek. Here ind-
are quite similar in colour, that
acquired by time and expdstire to
Graves.
Mrs. J. B. Daffy and Miss Evelyn CArdno were in Toronto
Valleys and wanders around the
visions of swallows swooping and
as, if night dropped her curtain
there st ark branches re etched
the blasts and the iilessiii sof the
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team,
A stooped figure, with
attending the Ice Capades.
We ektand
sTtOtttde"rs of law Bilis. It is
dartitrg, pigeons nesting oii
raftier abruptly. One does not
a' aririst a cloudless sky. . Empty .
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elements. • Over -run with poison '
grey
brow,
a welcome to Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Riley who are
4dothet' world when one travels a
dirt Wifit6, f6ad 'where
Weathered'beams and where nn
-tinny summer days childryti
need a weather report to survey
the time hoarfrost
summer nest's, once the above f
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"in '.
ivy and Virginia creeper vines
form.
prone
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That plunges bending to the
now se ttled in their .new home
tt 1 in Constance.
The > ireside Vann potuth of Hullett met at the home of
grasses
rely fietYve ii' ' rallel lines of
g pa
played kiieee�dee in fragrant
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or on the grass
and the amage done to garden
sin fled in s, . swing and
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sway at the boughs edge.
they colourful backgt�ounds
for wild asters, fringed gentians,
dough
With Wo uneven steps, T he
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Mt. and Mr's. Geo. Hogglart.,Ptogressive euchre was•played,
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harilyli ct ed wit el flack's, where
clover hay. . ; .
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vines and flowers. As' th'e 'day
0lankei of Silence
golden rod and the sumac's
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the winners being x,adies most games and lotie hands, Mrs.
ferns-. loll+ dati :add oYd m the
spa s • of hf' 'that
In a near -by fence corner rests
wfieel.:w. shows
ro nesse- sfs of` *arm air
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denude the`trees •
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At eventide tseneath a metlovV
maroon • can tes:
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air
1;in'gs and echoes" with his
Riley, C`onsolAtioid Marto Hhtilby- Men Salmes holt► bel ter,
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lone Itandds ■Geo. Hoggart, Consolation, Wm..fewift�'I`ht:
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p a hilltop, stone
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seems to bcr about to Settle doiv fence tr�ska tjattil iYs rivet °fhb °�
furious cries.
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