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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1976-08-19, Page 2G ho o'dam C MMu Advertising Is addepte an t e con men that. n t e event a typographical trial.. the adveriishig smiee. eeetipied birihe errandoits !tern, ,ttigetfier With Aiatonable allowance far signature. will net be eltarged far bat the balanced the advirtikement Wilf be paid for al the applicable rate. In the event cif ' typogiaphfthl advcilising gaisdatir tetVieda at a Wrong pried. goods ar service may nOt be sold. Adtiertis rig IS triereIy artaffer to saliv atici rita'y be withdrawn At any Woe, the Huron tspositot is not reapanaible for fess br tianiage of ,UntaIldired thatittstripta or phatol. Egg dealer loses $189 in 1876 AUGUST 16,,1876, A traveller for D.D.Wilson, egg aealer of Seaforth had a pocketbook containing $189.00 stolen from him while he wasIn or near Thompkon's hotel, Bluevale. Some evitdisposed persons broke the front window of a small grocery store on Main St., Seaforth, kept by Mrs Griffith. A lad, about 18 years of age, named John Cooper, in Seaforth, while working in a stave-factory inWingharri, met with a painful accident. His hand came in contact with a cutter, which cut off three of the fingers in his right hatid. We were shown a very ancient relic in the shape of a piece of tapestry which is over 500 years old. It is made of silk and wool and was stolen from a palace in London, England. it is now the property'. of Mrs. Fulton of .Egmondville. • Mr. fames Houstorobf Tuckersmith, was lading a . cow along the road with a rope when the animal made a ',Mind causing him to fall h eavily to the ground. he' fractured his shoulder in two places. Ahdrew Govenlock of Winthrop mills has engaged Alfred Brewer "as manager and hand Miller of' his flouring mill. . AUGUST 16th, 1901 When Mr. Edward Howson of town was away from his liquor store, at dinner, the store was entered' and $4.50 taken from the till . Constable Gillespie was called and aS he had his suspicions as to who it might be; cornered a boy who awned UP and returned the .1.6°Wlietird hiti been received that Hobert Pringle of Chtl,ago had cleaned, up over $100,000 in corn during .the past few weeks. He was a fettner resident of $ettforth. We also learn with much pleasure of the good fortune of Nelson Hays, son of T.E.Hays toWn who has been appointed thief manager of a large book establishment In 'Chicago, Jas. G. Martin, who resides on the Hannah farni in a handsome two storey biick residence erected on his' fall' wheat he threshed 600 bushels from 15 acres. David M. Ross, treasurer of McKillop Twp: is having a handsome two storey brick residetkce erected on his fine farni 'east of Winthrop. Mr. Wm. Copp has the contract for the brick work and Henry •Edge the woodwork. • Messrs. Scott Bros. have shipped church organs to Cianbrook . Presbyterian Church and St. Norbut , Catholid Chtirch, Manitoba. The barn and out buildings on the farm of Mrs. John McLean, Mill Road, Tuckeismith, were completely destroyed by fire. her sons were draWing in oats and it is supposed that the pulley became bverlieated and - ignited the straw. The man on the wagon tried to back the horses out but he had to leaVe theth end they were burned. Word was received by friends of the death of Mrs.'. James Broadfoot, Sr. of Brigend, Tuckersinith. She was . 84 years old. • James Hislop,-who has conducted a very successful btisiness at Cromarty, has disposed of his business to ' Ira Andrew of- Exeter, At a meeting of the Perth Presbytery, held at Russeldale, the Presbyterian Congregation presented a very hearty call to Rev. R.D.Cranston of Caledod. They offer a salary of $800:00, free matise, 'and three weeks holidays. The Oecond harvesters' excursion to Manitoba left -Seaforth station with 50,passengers. 'Among them Were IT.NicholOonoWinthrorn Mrs, Thos. McDenald,'Mrs. James ChestleY, David Chesney, Tuckerstnith; Erne:it eAdarna, Colin McNeil, Peter Taylor, Albert Rapson, Hullettt E. Mr. and' MM. John Berry, Jones Munio, Chas, Dolmage, Wm, Stitt, Stephen thidltin, Herbert Cameron, Andrew Contes, IvIeltiltopo Patrick,. Savid bavis, Thos . Burns, Hibbert; Sacob Worddtt, Seaforth; Robert and Irwin Douglas and,Miss Agnes Douglas, Hlake, AUGUST 13th, 1926 Dr. Sam Murray V.S.. with hig wife and family have moved to New Ontario. He desired to leave when the hunting and fishing were good and the timberland has many attractions. , , The highway between Mitchell and Dublin is now completed and will be opend to the public in less than three weeks. Dennis J. O'Reilly and Thos, O'Reilly; are" daily improving in health..from runaway accidents. . . Alvin Dodds of Constance has secured a school at the Red Tavern section in Tuckersmith. • . Archie Hodgert of Chiselhurst lost his barn on the 18th Concession of Tuckersmith. The Misses Olive Cooper, Margaret Finlayson, Dora Dalrymple and Margaret Sinclair camped last week at Port Albert. A very sad accident took place on the 10th concession of Tuckersmith when the 5 year Old son of Mr. and Mrs. WM. Martin was killed by being struck with a motor car'' A large numb er"of Indians and their families are in Hensall pregent busily .engaged in flax pulling. MiSs Mary, Stewart of Seaforth has been engaged to teach in the -High School at Hensall. Seott 'Hawthorne, while fishing near Lucknow, caught • a rainbow trout that mellowed. 24 inches in length and weighed 3 pounds 1,1 ounces. Death came to one of Seaforth's most known Citizens when James Davidson Hinchiey passed away at his home here. He was 66 years old. - . Messrs. Otto and Joe Dick and Scott Hawthorne were on a flitting trip to Muskoka. Messrs Murray Savauge, Ed. Daley, A. Edmonds and kohert Willis are camping at Bruce Beach. The villagers of Hayfield Were startled when a team —of horses belonging to A, Keyes took fright at a dog which had been decorated with a tin can, They went on the Hayfield road and were sthpped 'at Mr. McCottnel's ' xpo,Mtor Since 1860, Serving theCommunity First • . ' • • ►61iShed at SEAFORTH,"ONTARIO, every Thursday morning by MCLEAN BROS. PUBLISHERS LTA: ANDREW Y. McLEAN,holier 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 110 Outside,Canada (in advance) $20.00 a Year SINGLE COPIES — 25 CENTS EACH Second Class Mail Registration Number 0696 Telephone 527-0240 • SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, AUGUST 19, 1976 Be careful, Joe. Clark When Joe Clark, spoke at the Canadian . Community Newspapers Association convention in Halifax, . he said essentially the same thing that he said here in Vanastra last month. And we understand from those who were there, he was speaking in much the , same vein when he won the federal Progretsive Conservative party leadership in Ottawa in ' February. ,`Basically he's calling for-a-return to community and he says that Canadians. are disillusioned with the ability of government to do things for them. Canadians would rather take the initiative and do things for themselves, he says. .In . some ways, he's absolutely right. But when , you folloW Joe Clark's theme to' it's logical Conclusion., it suggests• some things that , are disturbing. Perhaps it's' the repetition of this "we can do it .best for ourselves" theme that bothered us. Of course there should be• plenty of room for Canadians to 'do things , for themselves. Of , course local people are the ones who are best 'able to solve local problems. • But Canadians never had it so good. These are prosperous times and -a lot of that prosperity is due to, not in spite, of, government policy., , We have some of the best social welfare programs in' the world. Old people haye at least a minimum income inf. Canada,. Unli ke7. our wealthier neighbour' to the south, 'we .don't consider that how healthy Harry Gerofsky should know what, he's doing. He's been in the clothing store business for fifty years. So why ,shotild he come to me for advice? Why should he consult me before 'he goes ahead and makes all sorts of renovations to his storefront windows in Mitchell? Now, .I don't mind, a man fixing up his place -- and I midst say taht new bold aqua store front piece isdazzling. But it's what he did to , his store sign on top that bothers me. For years Pve been used to the black letters that said "Gerofsky Brothers", Hut now there's a new name: Gerrard's: What's, going on here? What's Harry doing giving up that name Gerofsky and trading it in for some watered down version like Gerrard. "Harry," I said, "I've come to do some bone-picking with you." "Okay", he said, "Start picking." , • I told him how guys like us have • to stick together. Here we are saddled with syllables of tongue twisting sounds-names that throw people into muttering confusion, ,They're the kind of last names you have to repeat two and' three times, before (anybody • ,gets them straight. Why, automatically I starting spelling out mine, instead of prononneiiirit. But they!re names we •should be proud of, Harry.DistinctiVe names. With a long history behind themr They ,say something about us. Tell where/ we're from. What religion we might be. They say right off we're not strictly English. Harry assured me he likes his name. He's not changing it. Gerrard's is only a Store name. It's a matter of simplifying the business. When a family "hes five clothing stores in southwestern Ontario,. it's easier to do business; advertising, handbills, Sales invoices, bOxed and paper , bags - everything-- all ander the same name. "Batt What's Wrong with Gerofsky?" I said, "I•like that name"., "Hemeinber," Harry „said, "I'm' not giving, people are should depend on how much money they have. We have health insurance for everyone and those who.can't afford to pay fo,r it get premium assistance. We can't 'dismantle all governritent assistance programs and go back to private charity. Private charity', in spite of all Joe Clark's praise of it, was not all that great in the days when the poor had to ,depend on a basket of goodies from. some -Idcat lady bountiful. ' The evening out of incomes that income tax. which • supports government programs. is designed to produce is not all bad. It helped Canada change from a society where the rich got richer, , the poor got 'poorer and both were locked into their respective classes. . Enough to eat, a decent place to. I ive,,the chance at a good education, the opportunity to , work hard for a, better life' :...these are' all rights in Canada. They're not dependent 'on' the whims and likes and dislikes of some private charity. The responsibility to work' and support one's family as well as contribute to those who' are less fortunate is also a right and a privilege, can't g9 back to the lady bountifuldayS and Joe Clark is Wrong to let people think we can. We can and should make our modal welfare policies, work better at helping those who really are in need: Then jhey can work towards becoming independent and making greater contributions 'to . our country themselves. dwindled yourniame down into bland English. "A name's important, Harry. You don't give it up lightly. In the Bible names carry weight. They're not just tags or labels. With the Hebrews, a person is really never a person until he's named.And that name has power. Eff ect. It not only describes you. It is you. You are' the name." "So you know that too," he smiled. I had to tell him something else he already knew. • "Another thing, Harry, whenever a big change took place in a man's life, God changed his name. Abram becairib Abraham, Jacob became Israel. Saul became Paul. A name change means a new man, ,a changed man." • "Well, said Harry, "I'm the same man. With the same name. No change." I shack my,head, "I don't care, Harry. I still life Gerofsky. I'm still calling your place Gerofsky'aw. He nodded. "Oh, Harry,' I said, "1 need a tie." "They're upstairs„" he said, "Twenty percent off this week." 'But Im buying it from Gerofsky's not Gerrard's." Most readers of "this column are quite aware of my attitudq toward the Montreal Olympic Games. And I am sure that many of them have put me down as a spoil-sport, a wet blanket, a niggThig critic of a glorious event. • .Not so, please,If you have read with care my ferocious attacks. on the Games, you'll have noticed that I wasn't knocking them, or the athjeteO. I am as red-blooded a Canadian as the next guy, and I groaned when the Canadians calve last in the boat race, and I cheered when a Canadian scrambled to a. second or third or fourth. A-nd I almoot wept when one of our beautiful little gymnasts tottered and fell of the bar.. What I was smiting was the chauvinism, the hunger for power, the utter immorality that lay behind the acquisition of the Gazes by Montreal. Nfontreal needed those Games about as much as I need an amputation of my right leg. And the result§ will be somewhat the same. The city will be crippled for half ,a century becattse • it wanted to hold a two-week party for the whole world. Chauvinism. Hunger for power? Maybe that's the wrong phrase. More like a h unger for the limelight, or a yearning for some sort ,of immortality (maybe lasting 30 years?) on the part of the arch-promoter, M. Drapeau. In the years agone During the Games, many criticsisoftened up quite a bit on Drapeau. Through no virtne of h is, the Games, wallowing in problems, had been scotch-taped together at the last minute by the government of Quebec, and the official opening was magnificent, veiling the fantastic debt His Worship had built up. - Even .haLd-boiled reporters were stiggesting,,,Ne'd been a bit rough on Drapeau, that after all, he had had the vision, the tenacity, to pursue his dream, and that we were all cashing in on it. Afraid I don't go for that jazz. That's like saying, that Napoleon, who wa France dry, physically and financially, was, after all, not a bad little chap, that he meant well, that he didn't really mean to lose half a million men in the retreat from Moscow, that his wife, Josephine, didn't understand him, and that his family was greedy. Nuts. He did it for La GlOire. And so did Drapeau. The major difference between them is that Napoleon aid to face only, the English, the Prnssians, the Poles and the Russians. Drapeau had to face the trade unions: Beaucoup formidable! . Well, let's get back to the Games themselves, before•-I turn puce, •which is what I do every time I think of 72,000 'people cheering athletes while the raw sewage flows out of Montreal into the St. Lawrence. • All hail to the athletes! We may be greedy,when it comes to making a buck - as witness the federal goverANent' s knee-jerk to China, with visions of big wheat •sales dancing in its puny head.-, But when it comes to winning Olympic medals, Canadians are certainly among the least greedy nations in the world. We are - so hospitable' about letting other countries' grab the medals . that it is almost embarrassing. • And that's the way it Should be. The important thing aboat international games is - or should be - doing your absolute best. And that's what Canada's young reprel sentatives did.My. heart, and I'm sure yours, was right in there thumping away with them, whether they were ,finishing fourth or 14th., One of the things that really bugged me before and during the Olympics was the crassness of sports writers. Now, admitted- ly, this is a species.„ not known for its sensitivity, but the crudeness this time was simply too much. Canadian sports writers, on the whole, are pale imitations of their. U.S.counter- parts. Most of them are not, as they should be, extremely knowledgeable about the sport they are writing on. They are far more interested in times, statistics and medals than they are in tbe human drama of the Games. It's . no wonder that Canadian athletes rapidly become disenchanted with the . press. When an athlete is "up", even exceeding what he or she has ever done before, jock writers are dreaming about medals. When an athlete has a bad day or a bad race, the jocks sithtly suggest that he or she has, "let Canada down." Every single and solitary athlete in the Games, Canadian or otherwise, did the very best he or she could do at the given. moment. And that's what it'o, all about. After saying all „that, I .tintst:adiiiit the ‘CBC,' did a splendid job of-Covering the Games. Their commentators were no more partisan than human nature would excuse, and they kept the focus on the athletes, where it should be'. How strange to read a TV columnist, who was almost white:lipped with anger because the television Commentators were . not excoriating Canadian athletes who "did pot live up to promise.' What a jerk! Oh, well, it was a' great party while it lasted. Now the caterers must be paid. If you are driving along beside the St. Lawrence River next summer, and notice that the water is a -rusty brown, rather than blue; don't be , alarmed.and don't think it is merely the usual human excrement from Montreal. It is, but added to 'it is a healthy infusion of the blood of Montreal and Quebec taxpayers. So41. ! Sugar and Spice by Bill Smiley Montreal is too power hungry Amen by Karl Schuessler Keep your name, Harry "Okay," 'he said, "But I didn't get a chance to tell you something. When my father came over on the boat from Russia, he landed at St. Helen's in Toronto: He couldn't spell his name in English to the booking agent'of the Canada Steamship Lines. So the agent -- in a friendly- S-04 of way suggested he take on his name, Gerofsky. "You mean to tell me Gerofsky isn't y our family name after all?" "No, it's Margusutsch." "You mean I'm buying Margusutsch?" "1 suppo§iti yeti could.,oay that." I paid for the tie. Today Gerrard's. Yesterday . Gerofsky's. 'And before that Margusutsch's. it up. It's 'Still mine." . . I said, "Call your store by any "But Gerrard doesn't. say a thing," I said, name you want to. I'm still buying from 'Only, of Ceuta, that you've dribbled and Gerofsky's. my tie from „.„