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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1976-06-03, Page 2rest in the sun r urou fxpositor Since 1860, Serving the Community First aI SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, every Thursday morning by MCLEAN 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) $10.00 a Year Outside Canada (in advance) $20.00 a Year SINGLE COPIES — 25 CENTS EACH Second Class Mail Registration Number 0696 Telephone 527-0240 BROS. PUBLISHERS LTD. A SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, JUNE 3, 1976 One trustee, one area . the Years Alone Ala JUNE 2,1870 Winthrop: The re-opening of Caven Church was a gratifying success. Rev. Thompson, pastor of the church conducted the morning service and Rev. Stafford the evening service. Walton: The 24th of May was well celebrated at Walton in a manner well becoming of such an auspicious occasion. At an early hour many people from Walton — Brussels assembled to witness the different sports which were announced to take place. Hensall: Mr. Moore of Chiselhurst has 'just completed a fine new store which is to be occupied by Messrs. Stanley and German of Exeter as 'a general store, Messrs. Fairbairn & Reynolds have opened a carpenter shop and are now prepared to do a good business. Hullett: The Hullett champion Ayrshire bull belonging to Mr. R.N.Adams of Kinburn weighed on May 2nd, 920 pounds, being one year old on that day. Who can beat it? TuckersFlith : Mr. James, Smillie, Mr. John B. Sinclair and Mr. Murdock have had sheep and lambs killed by dogs. Last• Wednesdy night, the barns of Mr. Wm. Tuckerstnith, on the Huron, Road, were discovered to be on fire. The fire when first noticed was too far advanced to be checked. The entire out-builokngs consisting of barns, sheds, 'stables, pins etc. w veiled to the ground. JUNE 4, 1926 Notes: Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Bennett left on Monday where they are going to loot after M. McQuarry's farm, east of Brussels, for the summer months. Frank O'Brien of Staffa, was last week elected president of the Layman's Association of the London Conference of the United.Church at a meeting of that body in Parkview United Church, London., - Mrs. Wm. Scott has sold her house to Mr.Roderick McKenzie, of London. The many friends of M. C. Haugh, who was operated on in the Seaforth Memorial Hospital two weeps ago, will be, glad to hear that he is .so far recovered to be removed to his home thiS week. John Munti is away helping to cut wood for Mrs. Ross on the 10th line. • - A cream collector from Dublin, as well as the Walton collectors are on ihe rounds. Mr. Wilker who recently had a very severe accident by being caught in the wheel of an engine, is now sloivly recovering. The children of the Separate School were treated to ice cream and cake and Monday afternoon and enjoyed the feast very much. Bell Engine Co. ship to West - The Robert Bell Engine Co. Ltd., shipped last week a 20-35 Imperial Tractor to the City of Prince Albert, Sask., for municipal work . Motor Accident: A car accident occurred on the Bayfield road, one half mile east of Brucefield on Sunday afternoon when a large coach car, owned and driven by Harold Anderson from Detroit, struck a loose stone, causing the driver to lose control of the machine, which plunged into the ditch and overturned. JUNE 1,1951 Police Constable Ken Shearadown, Ottawa, has been posted to Seaforth Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police. Mr. Bill Munn, son of Dr. and Mrs. Munn. of town haS obtained his private pilot's license from the,, Department of Transport, Ottawa on the completion of a course of training at Sky Harbour, Airport, Goderich. - H. E. Smith was elected president of the Seaforth Lions Club, Monday night. Lawrence P. Plumsteel, principal of Seaforth District High School, was'advised Wednesday that Mr. Robert Bruce Scott, ToTorith, who died May 21, had established scholarships for students graduating from the Seaforth District High School. The Flying Saucers Club, sponsored by the Women's Institute, composed of Girl Guides from Mitchell and Dublin, who are working for their hostess badge through this club entertained at tea recently at' the home of Mrs. W.J.Stewart, Dublin. Miss Ethel M cClure, of Winthrop,spent a few days with her aunts, Misses Belle and Rebecca McClure. Achievement Day last Saturday was the culmination of the work and efforts of 141 girls of the Huron County Junior' Institutes. Captain D. C. Irwin, Cadet Inspector for an Area Headquarters, London, carried out the annual inspection of the Seafaorth District High School Cadet Corps on Wednesday afternoon. Miss Mary Ryan, daughter of Mrs. C, 'Ryan of town, received first class honours in The Honor History Course which she was taking at the University of Western Ontario. The first band concert of the season will be Sunday night at 8:30 p.m. as announced by Bandmaster E. H. Close. 010 4 JUNE 7,19071 _ _ Huron Notes: John Brown of Ethel the other day shot a crane which measured 6 feet two inches from tip to tip. Brussels: Ned Wilson who was so badly injured by falling out of a wagon and being run over on ThursdaY of last week was removed to the House of Refuge Friday. Ned has no relatives and is penniless. The bowling club have their new grounds on the flats just north of the river nearly, completed. Miss Jennie Warwick of the second line of Morris and Miss Gertrude Farnham of Kinburn left on Tuesday for Ednionton, North West Territory where they will spend the. summer, Constance: The Sunday school anniversary services in connection with Kinburn church will be held on June 16th. Rev. Mr. Denver of Walton is expected to preach at half past two and at seven o'clock. Local Brief: Mr: Wm. Hill fias, sold his handsome driving mare to Mr. James A rchibald for $145.00. Mr. Wm. Carnoehan of Tuckersmith went- to Ottawa, on Thursday to attend the annual meeting of the Presbyterian, General Assembly as a representative from Huron Presbytery. Egmondville Notes: Kruse Bros. have got nicely' started at their new brick and tile yard and are said to be turning out a fine article in both lines. Jacob McGee spent a few days wtih his son and daugahters •up around Ashfield last week. 171— -r rR 4 A Tx r Aro "Paintings greatly increase in value When_ the artist dies . and have a. very bad cold." • • Sugar and Spice s by. Bill Smiley My wife the wizard Some women's hearts are-won by French perfume, mink coats, and diamonds.l've' managed to steer clear of this type. All it takes to in ake my wife happy is a new machine. After years of comparative poverty, during which everything we had was second'41and, falling apart, or .broken, I am occasionally able to gratify her lust for • something that hums, purrs, growls or roars. None of those verbs applies to 'Me, by the way. It doesn't matter what it is, anything from a kitchen gadget to a grand piano; it pleases her pink , for a while. Not for her the big bouquet on Mother's Day, the fancy, ear-rings on her birthday, the coluptuous dressing-gown for Christmas. She wants no part of such frivolities, Just give her something that beats or churns or sews or polishes, and she's in ecstacy. I didn't know this when we were first married. I thought she was a normal, greedy woman, and kept trying to please her, by buying blouses that didn't fit, sweaters the wrong color, earrings she wouldn't befound dead in. My first knowledge of her true cravings, • in material possessions, came after we'd been married a year. I was a student veteran. Our total income was $88 a month, believe it or n ot. Our rent wpet75 a Month. We ate only' because I took part- time and vacation jobs, One day I came home and was stunned to discover she'd bought a sewing machine, for $149.95. She had also signed up for a sewing course, at $15 and had bought material to make a suit, for $20. I had never been stingy, but I was a trifle aghast. She had bought it on the instalment plan, naturally. The story has a re.asonably happy ending. She quit the sewing course after a few lessons, finally threw out the suit material, about 10 years later. But she traded in that sewing machine ofi a new one the other day, and got $75 for the old one. Soper sewing has cost her about three dollars a year, over the years. Even a „skinflint couldn't quarrel with that. , Another day' I came home and steam started' coming out of My navel when she "coolly,informed Me she'd bought a grand piano, for about $4,000, also on the instalment plan. Our income by this time was just abaft $4,000 a year, I thought. "Hate to do it, but I'm going to have to have her totritriitted,*O'Ve gotta educate the kids, pay the Mortgage. Shell ruin us," ' Once again, her extravagance turned out to be shrewd • dealing.She gave piano lessons, the kids were educated, the mortgage is paid. And the other day, an expert told her the grand piano , as it stands, is worth about '85,50Q. I compare these gambits with my own investments, in which a couple of thousand dollars worth of stocks inevitably wind up as 50 shares of moose pasture, and I can't be anything but humble. This has gone on through the years between, and I've never' ceased to be amazed at this woman's thing about. a new machine. There's only one flaw in her aberration. Get her a piano and you never get a meal. She's too busy• playing the thing. Get - her a record player, and everybody who comes in range must be interviewed, 'F6rget about reading a book or relaxing. Right now, it's the new sewing machine. It 's a' beauty, according to her, a Bernina, the Cadillac of sewing machines. It will do anything. In a flash, your garment will have seven new buttonholes or a monogram stitched onto the pocket in purple thread. We're probably the only peo'ple in town who can read in bed without taking a book. We just turn down the sheets and spell out what she has stitched all over them. Things like: "Cold feet' make cool bed-fellows" and "Some limousine is my sewing machine," and "How now, brown cow.'' It's a kit of fun, but it's hard to get to sleep with all that Braille stitching tapping out messages on your anatomy. I'll admit • the new machine will do everything but button up your fly. But it's ' playing havoc with our domestic life. She can't drag herself away' from it. The Old Lady is up at five o'clock in the morning, sewing. She sneaks down after ' the, news at 11 p.m. to 'whip off a few stitches. I have to get most of the meals. She has time to iron only one shirt and wash one pair of socks at a time, which rather keeps me on edge, sartorially. I am barraged with totally incomprehensible terms such as tucks, darts, pleats, basting, gathering. I know it will end, once she is on'more • familiar terms with her new toy. But until then, it is rather like living with a child who has discovered what fun it is to pound on a drum. Maybe t should have got her one of those garden tractors, with a tiller and cultivator.. At least she'd be getting some fresh air, and I'd be getting some peas. t • probably wouldn't." • Sitting trustees may very well have to fight the next school board election, but that'should 'just serve to give us a better school board, with representatives who've worked harder to win' their seats. Making one member definitely responsible for one area should make a better school board too. Seaforth, for example Would join Hallett and McKillop in electing One trustee, a more -logical arrangement than what we have n ow with two trustees representing all of Seaforth, Bayfield, Tuckersmith and Stanley. ' • Some of " the board of education's trustees are as responsive to their area's voters as they could possibly be. Tnese trustees have nothing to fear from a realigned school district. Only the trustees who take the voters for 'granted and have perhaps been a little lax in representing their area's interests on the board of education have anything to worry about. The one trustee, one district proposal, can only give us a stronger and more responsive school board. County council 'shouldn't hesitate to follow their 'executive committee's suggestion. ' All good things roust come to an end. That may be the' way some Huron County school board trustees feel as they face the prospect of representing' .new areas and of fighting for their school board seats in unfamiliar territory come the December elections if county council realigns the ' 'school electoral boundaries. • An increase in the Separate School assessment in the county means that sepatate supporters will gain one more member on, the 16 member board of education. Public school supporters will be giving up one seat on the board and just where that seat Is to come from is the controversial question at county council. County • council has the power to realign the school election boundaries and their • executive committee recommended getting that seat by changing school boundaries so that .most areas would be represented by just one trustee. Many larger groupings &towns and townships are now represented by two trustees. A vote on these proposed changes was postponed 'till next month at county • council. it's a touchy question as one deputy reeve , said, some. trustees "will have to fight for their seat and under the old way they Amen by Karl Schuessler Here's what to leave out Dear Editor. Sue, I understand each week your.paper is tight.: Novv, 'don't mean you're off on some lost weekend or that you and your staff regularly tie one on. And I don't mean you're all, a bunch of Cheapskates. - But I do meanyou have more news than. you can 'fit into your' columns.'' So naturally you have to give a little and leave out something. That'S the problem -- a problem every weekly paper faces, ,especially the rural weeklies. For the rural. ones run all the homey happenings on every concession and side road and in. every village h amlet, With,all kinds of thanks due to 'those busy ladies who are knoWn in the trade as correspondents. You asked yourself: Is this news really important to the reader? What kind of news can he live without? 'What kind of news doesn't make his day? ' You came up with your own answers. You made the decision, Cut all those bowling team pictures. They just weren't down your alley.: A few might be alright. But with every local league featuring three 'winning teams, that drowned the newspaper in group bowling pictures. And then night mare of all nightmares! What if the curling clubs wanted their pictures in ... ',and the skating group. and the snowmobiling clubs and the baseball teams? Why, this could ,go on and on until the whole newspaper was a sea of team pictures. I can understand' how all those bowling pictures were piling up more strikes than spares. If only there were more spares. Oh, for a few more sparce spares -- in team pictures. And• then you made another cut. Your readers would have to live without a few details of the Ideal wedding. No longer can they read what the bride wore what the mother of the bride wore, what the mother of the groom wore. No longer can they know what flowers the bride carried. You sighed with relief, Editor Sue, that you To the editor The Editor: On behalf of the Huron County Unit of the Canadian Cancer Society I would like to express appreciation and gratitude to all reidents, business firms and Associations of Seaforth and surrounding rural area who contributed so generously to. the 1976 cancer campaign. You truly exemplified the theme of this year's campaign, "You are making the difference." The Seaforth Branch under the competent chairmanship of Bob Spittal and his excellent team of canvassers are to be congratulated on .attaining a total of $3,731.15 as reported by the United office on May 21st, 1976. The Seaforth Branch' have exceeded their. objective by 7% which in turn has enabled the Huron County Unit to go over the top ,of its objective of $30,700.00. As you may know the Canadian Cancer Society's only sources of income are voluntary contributions and legacies. I think it is important to emphasize that about five cents only of each dollar donated is.required for administration 'costs due to the vast amount of volunteer work. This leaves the major portion of each dollar for research, services for . patients and education. The education program is aimed at giving all Canadians a better understanding of Cancer + and its preventative measures. Canada through cancer research Centres wouldn't have to' look up in the dictionary anymore the correct spelling of peau de sole. Then you invited your readers to let you know what news item they could do without. I have only two, der Editor Sue. Maybe it's because.' don't relish meetings anyway. But I really don't need to know that the Ladies Aid opened their, monthly meeting in the church basement by, singing "Jesus, , Lover of My Soul." I don't need to-know that the roll was called=-not sup yonder, of course, but down here 'beloW.- And I really don't have to be reminded that the minutes were' read and approved.And the good ladies decided after a lengthy debate to send ten dollars to the overseas reli of fund, And you can leave out that a delicious lunch was served afterwards. Lunches are always delicious after a meeting at 10:30 at night. Number two. I. really don't need, to know who visited whom last Sunday afternoon. Now I must admit. I do wonder at times whose car that is in so and. so's driveway. That can occupy part of my Sunday' Wondering. 'Guessing, Suirnising; Relatives? Friends? , Out of towners? Then it's always convenient to check the newspaper' the following' week to see if I was right. It does my heart good to know I guessed right. 'It was 'cousin Clarence who visited Granny Miller. ' But really, dear Editor Sue, I don't need to know. Maybe it's the business of your,/ newspaper to not let me know. Maybe you should tell me it's none of my business. And dear Editor, Sue, never; never, never would I suggest the paper drop your column, even if you did offer a two week's free subscription to anyone who dared to make such a suggestion. I like free offers. But the price of that one -- like all free offers -- comes at too high a figure. Your-Obedient servant, Karl and its dedicated doctors and scientists have made outstanding contributions to the world fight against cancer. As Canadians, we can' be very proud of our accomplish- ments. Your contributions have made this possible. Sincerely, Ross McDann I, Campaign Chairman, Huron County Unit, Canadian Cancer Society Thanks for help On behalf of Pricgard I would personally like to thank _tbe Firemen, Policemen and the citizens who h elped us the night we had our store damaged. Thanks to all on that cold winters night who stayed for so many hours to make sure no fire started and helped us begin to clean ufLour terrible mess. • Many thanks tb Jim Parkinson who sent so many hot cups of coffee across to us, my staff who have spent so many hours washing and cleaning and to all the pe,ople who have helped us in so many ways. In a Small town these things really stand out and make a town much closer. Many thanks again, Ann Wood Seaford] tops Cancer fund