HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1976-01-22, Page 2Many local people were-involved
with discussions with Ontario Hydro
on where to' put their transmission
lines from Douglas Point: And many
learned that the planning ,for the
future use of -electricity in the
province "tan effect their day to. day
lives:
Ontario Hyd ra's, energy plans can
Mean transmission towers on your
farm land. They can mean a nuclear
generating station in your county.
Is the .province planning for ever
increasing use of energy by r the
people of Ontario or do they 'recognize
that people are starting' to get
interested in conserving en, t)g:gx?,0
Ontario Hydro going to continue a.
pricing precedure that rewards big
The Editor:
' I noted with interest the caption under a
picture in your paper of the 15th of this'
month, which indicated the CKNX Try-
'Hards had been defeated in a weekend
contest against a team from the Seaforth
Industrial League. •
Just off the 'tbp of my head .„ I would
have to think someone jumped the gun.
The Try-Hards will be playing 'in Seaforth
....but not until Sunday, February 15th. At
that time, we'll be playing a squad made
up of minor !ickey executives and local
officials. - •
The team which played against the
Seaforth Industrial League squad last
weekend was an entry in the Wingham
Industrial League, a team on which
electricity users . and charges the
scrimpers prbbOrtionately more?
These are some of the questions
that have,to be answered about the
future of electricity in, the province.
The Porter Commission is listening to
Ontario citizens' views on the subject
and it'll be in Listowel ko night.•
The Commission was in Wingham
in December and people from our
area had so much to say , that the
group came back. The meeting was to
have been held last week but was
postponed because of stormy
weather.
It's an important subject. What. do •
you think? That's Thursday, January
,22 at 7:30 p.m. in Listowel Public
School.
several of Four Try-Hards' do play. Rut ...
We Must Stress ... it canl be the
Try-Harris without such notables 'as "Tiny
Perfect" Tim Baker „. Rasslin' Ric
' Rathburn Steve "Stomper" Stapleton
.,. or Wayne "The Gun" Brown.
Mind you ...„,some of the notables who
did play last weekend „: lire Jerry "The
Chop-Ter" Chomyn Ross "The Juise"
Poll .... and Brian "Dutch" Elmslie ... are
integral parts of our team as well but we.
do function much better as a team than as
merely part of an alien squad.
Thanking you- for your advance publicity
, although we hope the outcome of our
actual contest in Seaforth will be different.
Yours sincerely,
Ray Baynton,
CKNX Try-Hards Manager
Amen
by -Karl Schuessler
No place like home
I know that sounds trite. Corny. Common
and not profound in the least. But I don't care.
I still insist. There's no plate like home.
I am convinced. The best part of 'a vacation
is coming home,. lf'a .vacation does anything, it
makes you appreciate what you haVe It lets you
know you belong some place. That you. don't
have to uproot yourself about every other day
and move on.
You don't have to "keep asking who am I ?
And what am 1 doing here where I don't
belong? I don't know anybody in these strange
parts —only. good time Charlies who smile
when they take my tourist dollar. And if I
didn't have the dollar, I think they wouldn't
smile..
My vacation has made me take a new look at
snow. Be'autifitl stuff. Drifting into banks and'
shifting into all sorts of patterns. Driven by
insisting, and persisting winds.
I didn't even grumble once when I had to
shovel out my driveway three times last week.
Good exercise. Just breathe in that fresh air.
Now that's exhilera4ion for you.
And it never occurred to me to swear when I
got stuck' two times in that same driveway.
Such creak, squeaky snow. Piles and piles of
it.
,What's a January for? But, to enjoy all this
manna from heaven,
Why I even pulled out an old broken down
pair of snow shoes I bought last summer at an
auction. If the Indians could track snow, why
can't I?. A man can't huddle in his house.
He's got to go out in the storm -- and walk.
And I'm even beginning to warm up to
Celsius. Fahrenheit was always my man. For
a while there when the weatherman talked'
about 6 ° minus celsius, I shivered and thought
1 Shbuld run for my fur lined underwear. And
Dear Editor: -
We wish to extend an invitation to your
readers tvho are interested in attending the
annual meeting of the Corporation of the
Huron ,Historic Gael which has been set for
7:30 p.m.. January 28. at the 'Governor's
HotiSe' in the. Gaol.
For a nominal membership fee you will
have the opportunity of taking part in the
To the editor
Try Hards not here yet!
A.
when we talked about 8' eentimeters,of-snow
on the way, I didn't know whether I should get ,
out my shove, call in the snow blower or just
ignore him.
I always felt sympathy for, the old lady who
complained if God had meant for us td go on
Celsius, Jesus would have had ten disciples,
not twelve.
Another woman insisted that Celsius was
the work of the devil--a big plot since the •
French Revolution to undermine Christianity.
Wasn't the great pyramid of Cheops -- one of
the seven wondets of the world—built on the
.. inch measurement? The Almighty himself
laid down the great inch principle. It's a
universal and sacred precept. Go look up
Isaiah 19: 19-30, she said.
And I heard once again the temperatures in
good old Fahrenheit and the rain in inches in
Florida, I started to think those .two women
might be right after all.
But I'm converted now. I'm changed. Who
cares if the weather is in fahrenheit? That
weather inFlorida--measure it by any name--is
still cold. it just wasn't behaving itself-:not
even, for Fahrenheit.
That's what 1 like about Ontario weather it
- acts up like it should. It's at least honest
weather. Good and cold. Believable.
Ontario weather is gobs and gobs of vanilla
,ice piled high with whipping cream -- and all
winter sundae. 1 like it. I like it.
I'll ;keep • eating away at it. Licking it.
Shoveling it out. Shoveling my way through it
until' come to the!end - until I find the crocus
peeking and the maple sap weeping.
That's what I like aboutan Ontario winter. I
can always come back home -- to spring.
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activities of the Board whose aim is to
restore and"develop this important historic
site.
With your support and encouragement',
we look forward to even greater success in
1976, "
6' Yours truly,
J.Van den Broeck
Corresponding Secretary
Huron Historic Gaol Board
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To the editor
Invited to Gaol meeting-,j
Recently, 1 listed some of the things I
dislike. ahout our society. When , I'd
finished. I thought to myself: 'Boy, you
are a nasty old piece of work,' Do you
realize you've barely scratched the
surface?"
For a week or two, I went around
thinking, in 10 or 20 second spurts, every
three or four ..days, that I was a
curmudgeon
Some of my younger readers will, not
know what a curmudgeon is, Well, it comes '
from the root word :'mud."
'We all know what mud' is, It is dirty. It is
cool under the toes, unless it is in the form
of a mud pack, which is good for the
wrinkles. If you name is Mudd, you are
either in the doghouse, or you are a loser. I
hope that is clear.
To the root word "mud" (unless we want
to root around in the mud a bit longer), we
attach the prefix "cur."
A cm., as everyone ktitiWs, is a cad with
teeth, and Sometimes a moustache, who
plays the villain in old-fashioned melo-
dramas.
In a new-fashioned melodrama, he also
has teeth and a big belly or a bald head,
` and he has become the hero.
Still with Me? We now have ."curritud",
eigtiifying a mean guy who is cool under
the • toeS, has wrinkles, or is a loser.
Sometimes all three.
Now we come to the suffix, "geon, which
is of more obscure vintage.
It is of Hungarian antecedent, and it
seems to have meant, originally,
something we might call colloquially "a
dummy who makes a lot of silly and
unnecessary noise without getting
anywhere",.,which is rathera contradition
in terms, come to think of it.
There are many perversions of the
original), of course. We find the suffix in
such words , as "Injtm","engine," and
"john".
But 'the original meaning is in there
somewhere, An Injun, for example, 'is one
of the origthal "In"neople, who rides.
around ' in 'ever-diminishing circles,
emitting war-whoops, until he is shot off
his horse.
Think of your car, The engine makes a
lot of silly and unnecessary noise — at least
Mine does — and gets nowhere..
Occasionally the car gets somewhere, but
the engine remains exactly wliere it started
... in, the car. * ,
And, of course, there is the colloquial
word "john". meaning toilet. Or water
closet or backhduse, if toilet offends you.:
This item of hardware indulges in a great
deal of unnecessary 'noise, whether
receiving or transmitting, and is usually
going nowhere, except on trains, buses or
airplanes, when it is so-active it has to put
up a "busy" sign most of the time.
Oil ships, of course, with their innate
sense of superiority, the "john" is called a
"head",
This came ,about when one ,of the head
men 'in' the British Navy, Admiral Sir
Dudley Pciund, affectionately known to his
jay tars as "dud", once went looking for
the "john." and discovered a lot of
Common Seamen (and a very common lot
they were) lined up with one of the
symptoms of scurvy-known as "dire rear."
In the interests of clarity, this has nothing
to do with the term " ear admiral".
Understandably, Sir ucl flew into a high
rage, the only type allowed to senior
officers, and uttered a good deal of silly
and unneecksary noise, or "geon", when
he had to wait his turn for the "John".
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• As naval tradition Zs it, this led to the
wedding of "dud" a "geon''', meaning a
john that isn't working, or a senior officer
with a red face, or. a. towering rage,
whichever you choose.
That's one of the beauties of the English
language. You can take your' pick. And you
know what you can do with it.
If you have followed me carefully.
through this brief but enlightening,
exploration into sematics, I am sure you
have come-to the conclusion, as I have, that
am pot a Curmudgeon at all.
am not a mean guy. I haven't hit a little
kid since mine grew up.
I am not cool under the toes. My feet h
heat something terrible in this weather.
I am not a loser, How can yowl know
, you're a loser when you don't know what it
is to be a ,winner?
I do not go around making silly and
unnecessary noises,' except when it is .,
absolutely necessary,
And finally, I feel that I am definitely
getting somewhere.
Sugar and Spice .
• by Bill Smiley'
what's a curmudgeon ?
a-1w expositor
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SEAFOI%TH, ONTARIO, JANUARY 22, 1976
One of the best thin, about this
weekend's Optimist. Winter Carnival
was the, chance to skate on the big
outdoor arena at the rec grounds. It
was healthy, fun and free.
Many people are wondering if it
would be possible to keep thezutdoor
rink open all winter long'. Seaforth's
arena is-so fully used by hockey and
other sports that there really isn't
much time available, for plain old free
skating.
We've heard lots of complaints
from parents that there just isn't
enough time at the arena 'for ska
with their small children. There 'are
two hours Wednesday afternoons, but
that's out for parents who have jobs.
The only other regular public
skating time available is an hour and
a half on Saturday afternoon. It' of
too suitable for the little kids, ough
it's the older kids day. And busy
adults who like to skate may have to
do their shopping and other chores on.
Saturday afternoon.
We hear about lots of families who
go to the •Dlitchell,Bayfield or Clinton
arenas for public skating.
And, we're pretty sure that there's
room for more than five and a 'half
hourS . of - free skating space in
Seaforth. Now that we've gq1t winter
- weather that -will support an outside
ice rink, maybe it would be a good
idea to keep the one at the Optimist
Park going. By keeping their food
booth open at busy times the local
club might even make enough money
to pay their expenses.
They've given us a Winter Carnival
where a good time was had by.all. On
top of that, one of the best ways the
service club could serve this
community would be to keep their
outdoor rink cleaned off and ready for
use.
An open air rink?
Hydro commission affects you
Desolate
In the Years Agone
JANUARY 28, 1876
Messrs. Wilson and Scott of the Seaforth Music, Emporium •
advertfse in this issue a new organ.
The new fire engine arrived in town and was thoroughly
tested. At first owing to the suction hose being choked virsith
ice, the engine refused to work, after it was thawed out it
worked splendidly.
The teachers of the Sunday School at St. James
Roman Ca tholic Church presented Miss Carroll with a book
entitled "The Life and Works of Oliver Goldsmith".
Richard Carter of Tuckersmith has sold his farm to Samuel
Wise of the same township,'
Messrs. Ward and Tate of Seaforth have leased.the shop of
Messrs. Baeker Bros. in Brussels.
The contract fora large 2 storey pork packing house in
Rensall for the Messrs. Petty has been let to John Sanders of
Exeter. T.J.Wilson is going to build a large green store
house.
Mr. Chas,`Doan of Cranbrook has sold his farm to Mr.
Carnochan of Tuckersmith.
. JANUARY 25; 1901
Rev. C.C.Kaine of Pine River, son-in-law .of•John Mills,
near Harlock, was agreably surprised when a nuniber of loads
of oats were brought to the parsonage by his people,.
"Her Majesty the Queen breathed her last, at 6:30
surrounded by her children and grandchildren".
A very sad and fatal accident occurred on the farm of Ed-.
Papple , Mill Road. Robert McKay and another man were
splitting wood in Papple:s bush. A tree fell on young Mackay
rendering him unconscious. He was 22 years of age. He later
passed away.
The Broadfoot and Box Furniture factory started work
under the new proprietorship and all the e e are at
` work again.
The Queen's death was announced by the tolling of the
town bells, while the flag on the town building hung at half
mast. •
JANUARY 29, 1926
Dorothy Robinson; piano solo, Eileen Chapman.
nino'veto-Ottaea and his place here by Mr. Kress of Forest.
froM D: Fotheringham of Tuckersmith.
....an13(1.Bvv.S.TDeopdticeisn,son of Alma purchased a fine team of horses
r .ge 'hog pen.
Rennie was the accompanist.
in a bonspiel. • '
'attendance at Sunday School. Two members of the school had •
a very enviable record. The following program wasleatured:
from Seaforth 'to Mr. Shea's farm. Mr. Shea proposes
building a ta
•confectionary store. ,
the ice and received a painful injury to his shoulder.
friends in honour of Mr. and Mrs. W.J.Beattie before their
departure for the west. Euchre *as played' and prizes were .
won by Miss G. McClure and C. Dolmage, Mrs. G. Habkirk
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violin solo, Art Golding; piano solo, Anna Hannah;_yocal solo
Sunday School when diplomas for each year perfect
concrete pavetnent on the Godprich highway for a distance of
4 miles.
Beattie,' J. Scott, M.R.Rennie and . D.L. Reid provided the
programme for the United Church concert in Brussels. Mrs.
Sutherlan
moved to W odstock and his place will be taken by W.
was held when the following took part in the program: Mrs.
• Wm. Hoggarth of Chiselhurst had the misfortune to fall on
friends in honor of their 20th wedding anniversary. They were
the recipients of a 98 piece china dinner set. The music was
furnished by the Hogg Orchestra accompanied by Earl
Ben Johnston, Geo. Israel, "Vera Hudson, Mr. and Mrs. Wm.
Govenlock, Earl Van Egmond, Henderson and Holgate.
VanEgmond. Chas. Dolmage was the floor manager.
oss Sproat and W.E.Southgate are in 0 n ound .platting
Wm. Racho of St. Columban is engaged in hauling brick
Mr. and Mrs. John A. Beattie entertained 60 of their
The snow falls of the past week have 'renewed the
sleighing, which is now very good.
A very pleasant time' was spent for the Northside United .
The .Provincial Government have called for tenders for ,a
The Paramount male quartette composed of Messrs. J. -
Mr. Richardson of the Bank of Commerce staff has been
W.A.Patrick . has been in the same bank has been
W.A.Crich of town isntalled an electric reirigerat
The annual congregational meeting of Emgondville Chureh
Mr. and Mrs. Lorne Webster entertained *5 of his, their
"nk of curlers composed, of D.L. eid,, Rufus Winter,
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JANUARY 26, 1951
The social club of St. Thomas Church held a successful
euchre. There'were 19 tables in play, The prize winners were
games, Mrs. Geo. McGAvin; Lone Hands - Mrs. Fred
Huisser:' consolation Mrs. Wm. Austin; Men, Games .: Barney
Hildebrand; lone hands, JameS Turnbull; consolation,
Raymond Nett; a draw was made for a quilt which was won
Mr. Grant Finnegan. ' : ' —
One of the leading industries, the W.J.Duncan has been
sold to J.A.johnson of Brockville. The general manager will
be Fred '1, who comes from Galt. Basil Duncan continues as
superinteXent.
Members of Seaf,orth Lions Club marked the birthday of
Robert Burns in their customary manner. W.P.Roberts of
Tuckersmith outlined the part that Burns poetry has had on
the people. He was introduced by A.Y.McLean,
Geo. Parker of Chiselhurst passed away on Jan, '17th. He
was well known and lived alone.
NelsonHood of Hensel] was the winner of five gallons of oil
at the John Deere - show in Exeter. ,
John Wallace of Cromarty has purchased the 100 acre farm
from Hay brothers;
The death took place at her home on Goderich St. of Emma.
Allen, wife Of E.J.Box.
Word of the death of Kenneth MacLean was received with
deep regret by many friends in EgmontiVille. He .was born at
Lewis Island, Scotland. he came to Canada in 1924.
There passed away, aAtietxhaenhde e
,Alexander S t °e1w Ma r tr . hainsd87Mthrs y, year.
Frank
Craig , near si
Sills,
s W, l
Reeve
ton,
of Seaforth,. was elected chairman Of the
Huron Co. Health Unit.He succeeds Roy Cousins of Brussels.
Mr, and Mrs., James. Rivers marked their 65th wedding
anniversary. Mr. Rivers was' born in England 'came out to
Canada as a young man and -settled in Usborne Twp.
J.M.GoVenlock passed away in .„ his' 89th year.
The SeafortheFire Brigade responded to a call' to No. 2
FArm of J'as. M. Scott. The prompt action of the brigade
restated in the saving of 6,000 chicks which were housed in a
3 storey barn.
Neighbors and Triends of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur
Nicholson, Warden of Huron Co. and -Reeve of Tuckersmith,
gathered at the Community Centre to honor Mr. Nicholson on
his birthday, During the evening they were presented with a
tri-light and a bouquet of roses.
';,rvir. andMrs. Henry Weiland of Eg' mondville celebrated
their 61st wedding anniversary,
Mr. and Mrs. M.ECIarke and Mr. and Mrs. Harold
Jackson returned from a motor trip to Phoenix, Arizona.
Geo. Turner of Tuckersmith has put, down an artesian well
and secured a good' flow of water at 300 ft.
C. Hartbeig of Zurich, well known hardware man, intends
removing from Zurich.
The annual meeting of First Presbyterian Church was held
with• a good attendance.The following members of the
managing board were re-elected: R.Lumsden, James Watson,
A. Young, Geo. DOrrance, James Cowen, S. Barton,
R.S.Hays, J.A.Wilson and Thos. Grieve.
The annual meeting of the members of the McKillop, Fire
Insurance Company had a fair attendance. The' losses have
been exceedingly light, amounting to only $1,248,
- Messrs. Scott Bros. delivered a handsome piano to Mrs.
McArthur of Hay Township,
at