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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1976-04-22, Page 2Siiice.1860, Serving the Community First •1 et.1‘14110, at. WAFORTH. ONTARIO, every Thursday morning by McLEAN BROS. it . .. See dog owners also ,takinq qA Tpe 0477* 5.". attitude towards' e'ra,„ :'Either they'd feel -the animal was • worth the care, or they'd decide they didn't really need that puppy for three-year-old Johnny after all. We're at the season of the year" when the perennial contest of dogs vs. gardens becomes a warm topic. It's a problem that has plagued councils here and elsewhere for years and one which neither strict controls, high fees or even dog catchers, when they are available, has aided in solving. It's a problem in Listowel which prompts the Banner of that town to wonder whether the council is really concerned that dogs are running at large. The Banner goes on in these words: True, the fine for someone caught letting their pooch act like an alley cat has been more than doubled from $10 to $25 for a first offenbe and up to a maximum of $50 for a second offence. But the fact remains, you still have to catch the dog and identify the owner. While neighboring municipalities —have increased dog taxes subttan,., tially , over. the., pastAew years, 'the Town of Listowel lags• along with the tax unchanged from what it was 15 years ago. It still only costs pet owners two dollars per year for harboring a male or spayed female, dog and four dollars per Year for a female dog. To keep two male or spayed', female dogs costs only six dgq,t,jatrs two female dogspply,$19.,. :oreliitts be serious The rate for a tingle dog, male. or female, SI-kitilr . not be under $10 per year' with, the additional rates increasing accordingly. Any pet owner • who really cares for his animal would not ' ' HaVe you 'had the feeling in the last couple of years that everybody and his brother, and sister, is trying to rip you off? I have. And I don't like it. Perhaps it's because of inflation, but don't recall any period in my life in this ' country in !which so, many people were pursuing the, buck so avidly, with an almost complete disregard' for what they produce in return for that buck. Result is a steady deterioration in service, courtesy and integrity in the business world. Perhaps its just a reflection, but the same disintegration seems to be taking .place e social world. , Insolence and indifference are becoming the trademarks of the business world. Bad manners and worse language have become almost obligatory in the social world. . • _ I haven't the space to deal with both aspects in one column, so I'll just 'catalogue a few typical examples of the kind of rip-off and shabby, treatment that are merely the PUBLISHERS LTD. object to paying such an amount. If he can't afford it', then he sure can't afford to feed the animal properly either. It may also pay, the town to hire a student for the. summer to canvass homes to make sure dog owners have purchased their tags for the year,. The only people likely to• start wailing are the very ones who make no effort to contain their animals on their ownproperty. These people' should be made aware that some places in the world, like the capital city of Iceland, Reykjavik, completely ban dogs within city limits. Far from being cruel to dogs, such a law actually shows. a more humane attitude than does our 'own marshmallow approach. It proves there is at least one society which realizes a dog really does live a' dog's ,life in the confines of an urban area. dog requires exercise and he's going to get-it, whether his owner's at the:other end of his leash or n owhere if4 fight. And if the owner allows the : dog to run ort his own, then he's taking file chance of losing him altogether. On the other hand, if the town increased the price 'cif its dog tags, and made a conscious effort to see all dogs were tagged, we belieVe we'd, •tip of the iceberg. My wife ordered two pairs of infant ' pyjamas from one of our huge, n ational department stores. The catalogue priced them at $2.25 a .pair. Now •the catalogue did state that prices quoted were only guaranteed until a certain date. The parcel arrived a few days after that • date.The goodsk-xere satisfactory. Each pair was encased in.the manufacturer's plastic package clear ly labeled $2.25. But the bill from the department store was for $2.50 a pair. • These had,obviously been bought to sell • at a good profit for $2.25. Probably 100 per cent mark-up. Suddenly they cost $2.50. Chickenfeed, you say? More like, chicanery, if you add up all thtise quarters on 'a national basis, and multiply it by all the other items boosted in price for no reason, at all except that the department store can probably get away with it. • My wife • ordered a caftan , from some outfit, which advertised satisfaction guaranteed or your money refunded.. She A good egg is hard to find. But for the last three years I've known right where to go and find mine. I walk over to my neighbor, :Ed. Meyer. He's a good egg--that one. But as everyone• knows, one good egg deserves another. Ed. Meyer's seen.o that. For his hens have turned the best eggs' in the country. I get my fill of .city eggs in Toronto restaurants, whenever 'I order up for breakfast my daily two. Their weak yellow yolks-sWini -- around in be whites.- They're not' even - trying to be fresh, only pale and tasteless. • But when I get back home in the country, then I know I'm in egg country, inEd. Meyer's Egg Country. So , you c'an see why I almost cracked up when Ed tole me he was giving up his chicken farming.His hens.weien't flying the coop.' He was. He's decided to try living in town. He had to make the choice. Town or the hens. Ed. chose Mitche114, any qa,„ckleberries. tried to talk E. out of it. Let him know how my breakfasts were never going to be the same without •his eggs. Didn't he, realize his hens lay the greatest? I always thought he was Ontario's answer to • Col. Sanders. The colonel can serve his 'ordered one down to .her calves and received one down to her navel. She Sent it back and asked for her money back. Two . weeks later, a forin letter said the company ',N t would be happy to fill her order for the ' • right size. Sometime., Only $14, but they have the money and she doesn't have the dress,. and I know what the outcome will be. They will stiff-arm her with form letters, in -response to, her angry, passionate,, or pleading inquiries, until. she gives up. Some day, the shoddy thing will arriye, designed for a lady midget or a profession-' al basket-ball player. Went to the city for winter break. Stayed - at a hotel we'd frequented for years. Didn't , bother to get a reservation, after reading articles about city hotels operating at a little over 50 per cent capacity. "What?" You want a -room without a reservation&" nre.s," , by Karl Schuessler Good eggs! chickens any way he wants to cut, quartered, _spiced and fried. But take Ed's kind of chicken- any day -- alive, squawking and putting down all that hen fruit. I figured Ed's .;guarding his own secret kind of recipe. It must 'be that mash , mix that smashes out all sorts of flavour. I even considered buying Ed out. Well, maybe not completely. How about ten percent of those birds--to get me•started and keep me going in eggs? ' I told him I've got the old run-down colony house in back. If I'd haul out all the junk, I could bring back the house to its original purpose. "Soda hot in there in the summertime? ,..he said, ;'with no trees around the place." • Chickens don't like it too hot -= or cold for that matter. Why, he's seen fheitrin the bar n with, their tongues hanging out on • a het . Summer day. Then he rehearsed for me the life style of a chicken. Am I prepared to feed them? Water "Well! How do you intend to pay?" Getting a little browned off, I ticked the item marked "by cheque." That's how I've paid for years. "Oh, we don't accept cheques.!" "Well, what the hell's it on the registration card for?" "Oh, we have a, new policy. That'll .be cash. Iri Advance." By now , steam was coming out my ears. Here I was, an old customer. Obviously not a dead-beat. The hotel was about one-third full. If I'd been alone, I'd have told them what to do with the entire operation, sideways. But my wife Was sitting there on the luggage. I paid, muttering. Plus $2 key deposit, another item in the new policy. Went to our room, ordered some ice. I , went out for a paper. My wife signed for the ice, standard procedure. A few moments after I got" back, a flustered waiter was at the door, waving a bill. I was an "Advance" and had to pay cash. The sum was $1. He was embarrassed, I was furious. them. Coop them.. Fence them. Shovel out underneath.them. In other words, am I able to support them in the manner to which they've been accustomed to u nder his care? Then he threw in the cli ncher. What abodt the great reckoning day? The day that comes to every chicken when she has to me et her final chopping block. Do I want to knew I co ;; inevet bring ,myself to such an basket. At a time too, when a good egg is hard tbtoeBfiunte cdt.hheorpep,ser? And not just the chopper but hens. Sell them to someone else. breakfasts. I was letting slip right on by me the best eggs ever. world with not a single egg of his in my thevvehllt water plunger? The plucker? The inside Doocceupatt'• :le pu shment man? ' stiest. But I was losing my appetite. I told Ed okay. Forget about my buying his I knew I was Waving away my best-ever And now Ed. is sending me Out into the 01r;•-•- • , h.vii could you? ere's no doubt. Ed's eggs are the - , - er? The knife carver? realize • I'm, not a capital you could', .but I couldn't. 'I one consolation, Ed. .Chickens or no chickens, you're still a good egg. Things weren't good.. The room was rather shabby. Bjeakfastarrived, borne by a surly waiter, half' an hour late. The handle on the coffee pot was broken, the wheat cakes Were cold. Nothing improved. To top the whole performance, they tried to over-charge me when 'I checked out. It was only $1.15 , but by this time I'd have taken it to the Supreme Court. I hollered, and I got my pittance. It's no wonder city hotels are less than half filled. . I know what you're saying. "Smiley had hi's dignity hurt, because he was treated like a transient." Not at all., My dignity, what's left of it, can't be hurt by such trivia. There's nothing wrong with cash on the barrel-head. But there is sbmething wrong when customers are treated withjinsolence, indifference and bad manners. And ripped off into the bargain, unless they fight like tigers. ANDREW Y. McLEAN, Publisher SUSAN WHITE, Editor DAVE ROBB, Advertising Manager Member Canadian Community Newspaper Association ••••• • Ontario Weekly Nespaper Association • and Audit Bureau of Circulation Subscription Rates: Canada in advance) $10.0011 Year • • A Outside Canada (in advance) $20.00 a Year SINGLE COPIES — 25 CENTS EACti Second Class Mail Registration Number 0696 Telephone 527.0240 SEAFORTH ONTARIO , APRIL 22, 1976 The dog days are here Amen Sugar and Spice by Bill Smiley . .It's a rip -off In the Years Agone 15 APRIL 19, 1901 Hensall: Mr. John Mero. agent for the Massey Harris Company had a large deliVery of machines here last !veek. Mr. Wm. Cook and family have moved out to Ch'iselhurst. Brucefield: Miss Lily Taylor is this week visiting friends in London. The annual meeting of the Rovers Football Club will be held Saturday night to organize for the coming season. `Brussels: Mrs. Nathaniel Austin, daughter of Win. Benton was burning rubbish when her skirt caught fire.She was so badly burned she died about eleyen hours Afterwards. She leaves a • husband, a on and two daughters. `Landesboro: Mr. Snell who of late returned from the .Klondike, his"wije and family residin brother here during his absence; have moved to ham make their home. Miss Edith Mills of Harlock spe Monda st with, friends here. Bowlers: The annual meeting of the Seaforth Lawn Bo lin Club was held fiat the Commercial Hotel to organize-for "e writing season,, The new executive consists of James W.D.Briglit, L. C. Jackson, J. Weir, W. K. Pearce:It. S. Hay's, C. 'Greig, F. Hohnsted arid J. S. Roberts. Purious Driving: On Saturday night Mr,,,arid Mrs. Chas. Dciddt, Mrs.RObt, MeElroY and Miss Annio Somerville of IvlaCillop were returning from a neighbours along the 4th coticeSsion west of the schoolhouie, when they heard a'wagon • eoniing toward them at a rapid rate. They stepped aside to let .i> pass, A horse and buggy were also coming ,at'a rapid rate itinekink Mr, Dodds and Miss Somerville down and pas ling cleat over them, The other two jadies were not ihjuietl.The drivers• paid no attention to tf* injury they had done,. The men were racing with their vehicles. The guilty parties in this instance are known and the injured ones owe it to themselves and the public that an example be made of them that others may be deterred from like offences. , APRIL 21,1876 Aged Trio: Several days ago a. friend was passing by 'a field and spied a neighbour plowing with a team of horses. The friend stopped and enquired of the gentleman at work what the united ages of himself and hi's team Would amount to, He was answered 114 years. The gentleman referred to is Robert Carnochan, a resident of Tuckersmith for over 40 years. He is 63 years of age, one horse is 26 years old, the other'is 25. Mr. 'Carnochan has had this team since they were colts and has worked them steadily on his farm. • Br esels: At the Easter vestry meeting of St. Johns Church, es Knox and Thomas Kelly were elected wardens. The- contract to complete the new church was awarded to Peter Thompson of Brussels. The church will likely be opened about the 1st of Jnly. Miss Smith, for some time teacher in the junior department of the Brussels school has retired, Spring Shows: As we look through this issue of the Huron Expositor we can see that SciringShowp were the order of the ' 'day. Accounts were written of spring shows at Crediton, Exeter , WestIliding at Smith's Hill, South Huron, Hibbert, Clinton and Seafprth. Sabbath School Anniversary: The anniversary services in connection with the Methodist Sabbath school took place last . Friday and Sunday. The children were examined, by their teachers and stowed apt proficiency and thorough knowledge of the ground they have coveted. They sang under the leadership of Mr., Brownell. The Sabbath School numbers 230 scholars. The service on Sunday was conducted by Rev. Mr. Stephenson of Hamilton. Married: McGregor - MCDougall.-At.the manse Kippen on March 30 by Rev. H. Cameron, Mr Archd. McGregor-to Miss , Catherine McDougal , both of ,Tuckersmith. Stanley: A. Campbell •of the second of Stanley had a ewe which last week gave birth, to twin lambs one of which weighed 12 1/2 lbs. APRIL 23, 1926 Wednesday Half "Holiday. The annual Wednesday afternoon half holiday will be observed again in Seaforth this year commencing Wednesday afternoon, May 5th, the business places in town will be closed each Wednesday afternoon until -the end of September. The McKillop brancli of the W.M.S. held their April . meeting, at the home' of Mrs. Thos. Grieve with about 'thirty people pretent. Tuxis Entertainment.Mr. Charles A. Cooke, famous Indian bassO and entertainer, gave a concert in Northside United Church on Monday evening last under the auspices of the Tuxis Square.. On Tuesday of this• week there was curling in the Seaforth ,rink and on Wednesday-the golfing season was opened at the • golf dourse by Messrs/ R. M. Jones,, J. G. Mullen and ben , Reid who played a round at the club, 'Ind say the Course is in tair tOndition. Mr. rt:H. Sproat has taken the agency for the Chevrolet car ' for this district. ' Mr. Congekert is spending the weekend intiefinit. A Most sureessfujold time dance was held in Cardno's Opera Hall on Pair night. The Male Quartette of First Presbyterian Church composed of Messrs. D. Reid, M. Rennie, J. Scott, and J. Beattie gave an excellent number at the evening service on Sunday Mr. J. J. Merner has leased the residence of Mrs. Walter Cole on. High Street, and has moved his family there. APRIL 20, 1951 The silver anniversary of Seaforth Otaiige Lodge was • observed Monday evening by its members with a banquet in St. Thomas Anglican Church, Parish' Ball. Parents night' was held in St. ,JamalChool Friday evening' when there was .a good attendance of pupils and parents. Maydr D r'-E, A. 'McMaster, Reeve F.S.Sills, and councillors AM.Sillery and Edmund Daly attended a special meeting in Clinton •Monday.,,,night to. hear J.J.Richardson, Civil Defense fird,neh Toronto, diseuss civil defence . Seaforth • Publi61 '''School captured the Seaforth • Public School Board Shield for unison chorus, Grades 5, 6, 7 and 8 with 86 marks, "Out Canada From Sea To Sea" at the tenth annual Huron County MuSic Festival at Goderich. . Mrs. John McGregor of Egmondville has sold her property to Mr. Everatt Smith, Mit. A. Stiles Jr. has returned after spending two weeks in , Toronto and Sarnia. Jack MacLean is nicely . recuperating after being badly burned on the hands and arm while employed at Rbbt. Bell Industries on Saturday morning. Carol, Brown, 6, daughter of Mr. and Mrs,Wm. Brown, • Hensall, was first in her class for piano Of Six and under, with 90 marks; and'aiso Won the special award of $10' donated by Minton Pees Club to the oustanding .performer in piano clasSes 1 8t:'4 'at Gnderkit MU* Festival Monday.