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AI WWI At'SEAFORM, ONTARIO, every Thursday morning by McLEAN BROS. PUBLISHERS LTD.
The near tragedy near /
Exeter when a school bus crashed Off
a road and injured 30 students does a
lot to make, one think.
it will undoubtedly bring more
concern *for the lack of safety "
equipment in school buses and rightly
so. But let's look instead at the
positive side.• A school bus in a
relatively minor accident still is big - '
news (Torqnto radio stations even
carried the story)`, which proves
school bus accidents don't happen
very often. Considering the number
of miles driven by children in' school
buses every year„ the safety record is
truly', impressive.
I\ web of the credit must go to the •
---schoOl bus drivers, • those fearless
people who risk life, limb and sanity
five—morning and. afternoons each,,,.
Week to pilot pur monsters (err
students) to their, schools so they can
then terrorize , their teachers fork s
What' woui&nyou.do,w4th,,a million-
bucks? Or even. $100,000? Drearn a
little;'-brek-oUt of the 'humdrurri,r the —
treadmill of paying bills. If you win a
million, give half - or • most - to
charity?
Probably all of us have indulged in
the seductive day-dreaming that 9oes'
with an Olympic lottery ticket or a
Wintario. And, the government
information flacks tell u, it enriches
our• coffers by some half billion
dollars-a-year for Slich good things as
sport and culture.
Something for nothing. The age-old
stuff of which dreams are made. But
also the age-old 'stuff of which greed
and avarice are made. And yet to
knock these government-run lotteries
-- which is what we're about to do -- is
a little bit like -knocking fun and
human nature. What's wrong with
dreaming? ..„
.What's wrong is that lotteries are
immoral, wasteful and degrading to
the society sponsoring theni. Having
said that, we stand back while we are
called' stuffy, square and a killjoy.
Lotteries are immoral in that they
legally tell people that their hopes for
material wealth are based on chance.
hey exploit the dreaps of the poor to
pay for the pleasures of the rich. .
Far some Unknown reason
Winnip ,__of all places, had—more —
thari,its share of crazies during Vie 36
degree Celsius weather.. City police
there--reported the weirdos were
running them. ragged. •
Pot example, a chubby-looking
,man gr.ebbed a purse from a 27
year-old wOrtian at, a downtown
the :,'purse-snatcher
was wearing, only a Set of 61/1111(111110
thirntorie better was' the
•n(idd jegger wIio passe' another
logger; 16166n-bid girl, on the
bahkd thekedAlver, thkwbrds
Of Policed Keel Petrie,, "The
in the heat - wave 'that hit the
proVince durthg the last two weeks' of
August we suddenly got a rash of
th6se mad kitiel Of .stories we usually
get everY`summer — and some not so ,
much mad as downright inspirational.
During a summer that's been
inundated with tragic stories of
earthquakes,' volcanic eruptions and
world ,hot spots,' not t.d mention ills
Such as the swine flu, Lassa fever and
the Legionnaires disease, these ,mad
bits and pieces are a welcome relief.
So if you've been among the lucky to
have spent the past couple of weeks at
the cottage, here's a bit of what you'
missed,
SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, SEPTEMBER 9, 106 -
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Lotteries
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Lotteries are wasteful in that more
than half the proceeds are, used for
prei'Motion .. arid administration. To •
vositor
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$gi*spipt ,••••11 $76
Qn Tr? essay, Dovglap Smithson asp -,Michael Markey
were brought bpixike fudge Tom on a charge of
assaulting and rob ng Luk e' Kelly of Harpurher,
was seated in front Of Markey's hotel and he met
Markey and Smithson. Kelly bought a pint of whisky
And treated all. hands, He was7 then forced into the
stables where the.men rifled pockets; They only got
f.5 cents and the et him go. , • •
A test in Walton ofgapg plc took place oliFilday
on the fartn`of John Sellers, Walton.Tli,e.,,Tirst 'prize
went to-the Seaforth cast-ironiramest the second toVie
$rnssels,east•iron frame and the third to the Brussels
wrou ht iron frame,
annual picnic of the Sabbath' School' in
connection with the Presbyterian Congregation of
Bayfleld under the charge Of Rev. Russell was held on
Friday. The place selected was Middleton's Point. The
school is in a hearty condition and there is an average
attendance of 50 scholars, with a staff of 10 teachers.
The Troue Blues of Walton played a friendly game of.
baseball with the Haymakers" of Irishtown. At the end
of the seventh inning the score stood at 65 to 25, in favor
of the True Blues,
SEPTEMBER 6, 1901 ;
Dr. Hugh Ross, formerly pf'Auburn, who has been
visiting the cities and hospita)s of Europe spent some
time visi tang his brother-in-law, Wm. Berry of the
Carioca Road and in 13rucefield.•
• Hugh McGregor of ByucOield has been busy putting
in cement floors in,:his pew stable. Mr, Thomas, Carr is
doing- the, work. '
Thomis Johnston of Walton has purchased the faun
of James Moon, the price being $2,600.00.
Geo. McEwan -M.P. of Hensall, recently purchased.a"
fine driver .from Wm. McLaren of Tuckersmith.
Miss ,Margaret Wilson met with a very painful
accident . She had gone into doom without a lamp and •,
in rising struck her head against a ladder and a wit
penetrated her eye.
One • of the early settlers of Huron County, died
recently in Prince Albert, Sask. in the person of John -
Patterson. He was a native of Sutherlandshire, Scotland
and came to Huron in the early fifties with his wife,and
family. H e waf 90 years of age.
The Labor Day picnic, under the auspices of St.
James' Church, Seaforth, was in every respect a
success. Short addresses were given , by Mayor . Wilson •
of Seaforth, John Govenlock of McKillop, and ,Rev.
P.Corcoran and Rev. G, R. Northgraves.
The Cuthill homestead in McKillop was,purdhased by
John Cuthill for $4,795. The farm is situated near
-Winthrop.
' The furniture factory is now busy on a large shipment
of bedroom suites for export 'to Australia: ,
Some sneak thief entered the garden of Dr. Scott and
dug up and carried off several flowering plants.
„The contract for furnishing gravel for the town
streets hakbeen awarded to Geo. Murray for $2.57 per
cord for unscrened. .
' SEPTEMBER 3, 1926
Miss Hattie Turner of Tuckersmith left for Allenbury
where she has heen engated to teach as principal of the
school there. , •
Ed. Miller and Lou Rowland of Walton have engaged
with J. Carter for the threshing season.
Mr. F.S.Savauge of Seafortfi preached
United Church' on Sunday last.
Erastus Rennie, general merchant, is doing a large
business in the way of 'supplying the IndianS who in
large • numbers are pulling' flax for Mes• rs. Owen
Geiger and Son.
Wm. Duggan of East William Si. brought to the
Expositor Office 'a potato vine whia measured seven
feet 3 inches. The plant wa:S not yet in flower.
First Presbyterian Church was the .scene of a
wedding when Beatrice Jean , daughter of Rev. F. H.
and Mrs. Larkin was united in marriage to Howard
Hillen Kerr of Galt. James Stewart w as the soloist and
Mrs. M.R.Rennie played the wedding music. During
the signing of the register, Miss Florence' Beattie and
James Stewart sang "Until":
MeSsrs. J. F. Daly, W. A. Crich, W. I. Beattie, W.
Neal and Joshua Dennison are in ,Timmins this °week.
The Misses Ella and Mabel Turnbull left this week to
resume their school duties at Toronto and Huntsville,
M. McKellar is moving, into the residence on
Goderich $t• which he recently purchased 'from H.
Edge.
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give an example, the Presbyterian
Record notes that Wintario, provides
only 42 percent of its proceeds for
grants to sports, recreation and
cultural associations, .after spending
58 percent ,in prizes, promotion and
administration. A straight canvass or
taxation would go further and not be
an unfair burden on the poor.
Lotteries are degrading because"
they pander ft the greatest social evil ,
our society faces today -- its idolatry
of material things. Win mote money
to buy more things and you'll achieve
everlasting happiness. ,
But what is most disturbing about
this phenomena is the almost tacit
approval ol-the great majority of those
who ought to be most opPosed. Those
who call themselves Christians may
very well belong :to chutches which
officially oppose gambling on the very,
biblical grounds that gambling fosters
greed and greed, along with avarice
"and covetousness, is a sin. Lotteries
are legalized gambling. The churches
must oppose them because' is
wrong. It's that simple.
(The United Church)
further five or six_ hours •before
returning horrie to ferrorize parents.
Perhaps most of today's adult's who
have never ridden on a• school bus
slOn't know what it's like. Well,' can,
you imagine loOking after 40' kids at
once? Cars you imagine having tp turn
your back on 40 kids at once? Can you
then imagine having to do something
as complicated as maneuver several
tons Of schoOl bus while ducking
insult's and spit balls "aimed 'at the'
'back of your head and trying to keep
the little monste from oli inbing put
the windows?
Considering
considering how
Our 'school bus
deserve as high or higher
than teachers and janitor
medal for bravery and a free
• out-patients treatment at the
mental institution.
(The.Blyth Standard)
Last week I Mentioned neighbors, and
after I'd, finished the column, I thought'
more about mine.
If you live in va• city apartment, you'll
probably never know your neighbor two .
doors down the hall, and will take two
years before you are on nodding acquain-
tance with those next door. ,•
That's 'fine for Some people. ...1.hey
actually like to retreat'into, their cells; arid
resent any encroachment on their so-called
privacy.
But if you live in a small town; -.in - a•
house, you have neighbors, for re
lax worse, and you might as well, relax and
enj6eyigh it, N b ors are not an unmixed blessing.
They can be a terrible pain in the arm.
When I was a kid, we spent'our summers
at a cottage. Next door was an' old bat who
was the quintessence'of a bad neighbor.
Everybody else at the lake was part of a
big,. happy family. Not so this one. She
sneered' and snarked and caused endless
trouble., Finally.. she put up a fence
between her property and ours. so we
• couldn't walk on her lawn. 'which was
nothing .but pine, ne...0,ttles,We solved this.
by jumping the fence .and walking across
'her pine needles, while she peered from
behind the curtains, calling down curses on
the brown, bare-footed vandals. That was
a nasty one, and caused my mother, I'm
sure , some anguish. ,
-But there • aren't many like that. Most
neighbors,' like Ourself, are pretty fine
people,, if you' tret them as you wish to be
treated by others,
There is one 'thing about neighbors.
They are like relatives. You can't pick and,
choose. You takes What you gets: You don't
buy a hbuse hecause of the neighbors,
though it might be a good idea to think
about 4:
I've.been lucky all my life, and I've been
lucky in my neighbors. In the last town we
lived in, they were the, salt of the earth .
One of them, was even decent enough to'
have his house burn down one .night, in a
spectacular fire, which I go' my kids out of
bed to watch. Something they'll never
forget.'
,l don't expect that kind of service from
all my neighbors, mind yoti; That was
beirieneighborly to the point of no return.
But we've been in this house going on 20
years. and I couldn't have done better for
neighbors if I'd hand-picked them.
•On one side lives a' carpenter and
contractor. For a guy like me.' who can't
hammer two boards together without
Making a hand sandWieh, it's better than
having a fairy gotmother. He'is th,e soul of
generosity when it comes to lending advice
and nails. Anti when l'm standing looking,
I v;ant.you to know', kurt Liedike:1 went out
and• bought a new ear.
And don't think I went behind your back
while you were off on holiday in Germany and
did my deali ng,
I warned you. Kurt. plenty. of time. Yod
fkanlei.w .,sl w as. flirting around ...with other cr as,
And all know when you flirt, you're apt td
I fell--for a Gremlin, one of those natty and
chio,sort of cars. A swinger ear—hardly the car
for a solid itid stable middle aged citizen like
myself,
-But you've got to understand. Kiirt,' I'm an
heir to cars, I inherit them because I'm sold on
the owners. 1 .b.o, someone else's choices—
'never) my own firs t pick.
'Why. if I had ni,I•way, I'd drive' a new
Mercedes:Benz or a Cadillac. That's really my
style.
But new cars don't come in my horoscope..
When Charlie Skinner, the Mitchell ear lot
dealer, asked me if I'd ever owned' a new ear
in my life, I said, "Yes, Two VOlkswagena."
He 'just laughed at.. it1e. and ,Said, "My
qttestion'g still the same, 'Have, you ever
-owned a new car in your life,?" "
SU you See. ktirt, bus, people chore than
stupidly at same project that would take me
a week, he conies over, does it in 'eight
minutes, and, when offered pay, says;
"Forget it." ,0
He also has a warm and pleasant wife
and a son ,who has grown into a dandy
snow-Shoveller and lawn-cutter.
On another side, my neighbor is a 'sailor.
:Don't see much of him in the summer, °but
in the spring, he whistles over the fence
and holds out a big newspaperful of fresh
smelt or perch.fillets. had 'to cut down one
of my oaks the other day that was
threatening to fall on his house. It cost me
$300. But who in his right mind wouldn't
trade mere money for .a panful of fried
smell, and the spirit behind them? • •
Up the street a' couple of houses lives
Gabe. He is alormerplumber, and still has
the tools 'and theskills of.his craft. When
you have guests arriving, Ad the sink is
plugged. and the regular plumbers ate
having their four-day weekend, Gabe
comes to the rescue. In 10 minutes the sink
is spItirphing water again. .And Gabe
doesn't. want an arm, a leg; and Your liver.
Across the way lives John, a teacher,. a
mathematical whiz, and a delighte.r in the,
solving of problems. For example. 'My Wife • .
is away for a week. I want to do a washing.
I can't get the washing machine going. Call
John. ,He whips across the street„ through
the,snow, and in five minutes the washing
. is thunking away. And when my wife is
away, his wife nips across and puts a jar of
home-made soup inside my back door.
'When we go away for a few days, the
neighbors keep an eye on the- place, as
though it were their own: pick up• the
flewspapers, 'feed the cat, make' sure the
doors are locked, cut the grass if it needs It.
• ' • Perhaps best of all is the knowledge that
' they ate there, if you need theM. A sudden
emergency.; a minor calamity, and' they'll
be there to drive you, phone a doctor, bring
food, whatever,
This closeness Might seem appalling to''
city folk, with their preoccupation with
privacy, But good.. neighbors don't live in • .,
each other's laps. They have their
famililes; we ' have ours.
We don't encroach on their lives; they,
don't on ours: They have their friends; we
have ours: and they're hot necessarily the
same.
Poet Robcr..t Frost, summed it up, as
poets so Often do, when he intoned: "Good,.
fences:.make good neighbors:" And, he ,
wasn't just', talking about fences. ,
So,there you are chaps. Let's see you
come utfwith a fisherman, a carpenter, a
plumber. an d...1 trouble-shooter,, and , I'd
say you're as lucky as I am, when it comes
to neighbors.
their cars. And the latest people 'I 'just bought
was my soh
That made my new car choice easy,'Because
who doesn't have a natural preference• for a
' son?
,Can IItelpqrlf he. eliese'a Gremlin? Can I
fedlrefre-'. l'a ng"'Off and getting married?
Can I help ita young man can't support' a car
and a wife at the same time? He had to switch
companis, so his new job supplied a company
car. TIMt was the Only way to hold-his finances
° in order and a wedding,in line. ,
I want you to know Kurt, I now' own a
Gremlin, A Gremlin. And you have anew car
to :IUD:ILL: alto tunic atter:
But don't worry about tbilt old turquoise one-
of yours, I'm not giving up that one, That first
choice of yours is forever.naine. I'm sticking
with the old girl. She's still going. strong at,
100.000 miles. She's still thy companion on the
401, I'll just let that filly of a gremlin sport
around town*. She's a lightweight, •
•, And ,another thing I want to clear up.. This
matter pi` .yettifgord . car. You lechtie, knit,
making me think you had'a gold ear. What was
I to believe? Letting me see you drive off
several times from the garage in that gold car?
i'ott tempted me, Made. rue think this, was
going to be my next car. And• here all alorg
you were driving 'the boss's car.
What a fine one you 'are! etting me work
myself up for two years in Id—and all along
you actually owned p b and White car..
sWitch• is' that
bat kind of bait and That's tricky, Ku
I was' the most surprised person last week
when the garage people' told me' you never
owned ,a.gold car.
Don't you see what this Is doing to ni y
reputation? If a writer can be, anythirg, he
can' at least be 'accurate.. That's why I'm
setting this story straight.
Retnembett\ Kurt, my `tear buying- days
aren't over. I'l?e still got my eye on your car.
Blue and white will do, .1 think I can adjust to
that.. As I told you,, the car's net all that
itiiortint. learn to loA)er my gold
standard.Butfor . -
heaven's sake,' say something to me:
Talk to me. Communicate, Can't you let me
know what yotir right hand is doing? And your
left?, Art0 in, what eq?
I think I'm 411011 thp talking. . •
My jab's all at out for me when' Su get
back from Germany. You and I are goittg td
have a nice long talk. And not going t6 be
about the old country,, either.' r
Sugar .and Spice
by Bill Smiley
The' folks:next/aoor
Medals for bus drivers
he
well t
k, and
form it,
only
scale
, but a,
ass for
earest
Summer madness
thing she saw was his rear end go-ing
by. Now you don't see that sort of
- thing in December., I attribute that
incident to the heat."
Now that's what we can a sensible
aPproach•by the police.
In the inspirational category is the
episode where six men from the
petrait area drove the 50' miles of US
'Mei-State 94 between Ann Arbor aril
Detroit Strictly observing the speed
limit. Moreover, they Made sure
everybOdy behind them observed It
too. They drove the; dislance, at 55
Miles per hour, traveling three cars
abreast. When they reached Detroit
it was estimated adzit, 600 cars were
backed up behind them. The purpose
'• of the trip was,.-to protest the way
motorists ignore speed limits,
vvesting, gasoline in the process.
Before the drive was' over, some
obnoxious _motorists began passing
the pace-setters on the -shoulders of
the road. •
The best thing , about the speed
limit protest drive is that it was '
absolutely legal. So if you've got guts •
galore' and a couple of friends, and
Sortie spare.timeAty, 401 at 60 'mph
from Kitchener to Torento. Just make
sure_ your life insurance premiums are
paid to site. The, L16tini61 Banner)
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I bought-a new car
by, Karl Schuessler
t Bethel
SEPTEMBER 7, 1951
Announcement was made that M y Lou Sills;
daughter of Mr. and Mrs, C., P. Sill Seaforth, had -
been awarded a DoMinion - Provincial b rsary valued
'at $400-per annum. Bursaries valued at $100 have been
awarded three grade 13 students. They are Shirley
Frieday, Marilyn..Hillis and Shirley McPhee.
Mrs. Delphine Doltnage of R.R.1, Seaforth, was the
winner of a new Westinghouse radio, in a co,ntest held
at Klings store. • .
Lightning demolished a chimney on the south east
$ , orner of the Regier-buildin,g about 3.'0 a.nr: during a
. thunder
Grant McGregor of Kippen had his leg in4oken in a•
recent accident when the tractor upset.
Miss Evelyn Cardno and Mrs.' A.W,Dunlop have
returned froM a two weeks visit with Mr. and 'Mrs. W.
F. Orren of Roswell, New Mexico.
Mrs. Joseph Grummett, accepted an invitation to
attend ,a private luncheon in Toronto which was
arranged by the itirectors of the . C.N.E. Mrs. Kate
Aitken was the hostess.
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