The Huron Expositor, 1977-01-06, Page 2n the Years Agone
• rnaYbe fightingAt's'better if he parks
:otit in •front, on the' street."
"you meany•you just take thp.ear? Stea .
Lesson. A finance company only takes
what rightfully, belongs to them.
"And how do you get the car started?". I
asked.
"I've got an extra set of keys. But I can
cross wires if I need to."
„:„See 'that grocery store?" Harry made
'this wish every time we turned the corner.
"I wish he'd go pp g. Then we'd know
-where he is. .
"Better yet," Harry went on•wishing,
"If he'd stop at a taVern, vve'd,grab,the car
before he finished his first beer."
"Or maybe' I could start 'a conversation'
, with him. Distract him while you hopped in.
The car and took off."
"No!" Harry Was emphatic. "He might
have a gun.'.:.
Lesson. Skipstracing can- be dangerous
business.
- "Why don't you ask the pen r' ce for
help?" I asked.
"They'd just laugh and• say 'that s my
job. Just be •patient. We'll wait 'til he.
Comes home from work. And , it's dark:
Maybe we'll have to wait until he turns off
. the lights and goeS to bed."
Wt cruised by his house after dark. No
car. But two 'men did get• out of a pick-up
truckeand entered the house. It was 6 ;14
P.M. in case anyone would ask.
"Now what do we do, Harry?"
Harry didn't answer. He just circled the
block three mere times. Harry was
thinking. So- •I didn't press him.
"I've got to go right up and faCe hint,"
Harry declared, "if he gives me a hard
time, I'll remind him I can -bring charges
against him for those three N.S,,F.
checks." qh‘ • ' "Keep the motor running, Karl, and the'
•
.Yours truly,
- Peter E. Makiney, J,r,
6105 ottth Eucalyptus St
Sebring, Florida 33870
,
Your long awaited Weeklies have finally
caught up with' ine, the envelope was,:„.
extremely damaged by-the Postal System
but thank God the :contents were not, I -
firmly believeVith God's' help there may
be Still a chance for our sick society myself
included, " '
MYSelf nave turned to 'reading the Eible
for the answers and-iny friends they are all
there. 'I find with some concentration '$ eiip
Enjoyed Xtitao . 1g:sue
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The .municipal '.-tigthig4tiog.4.. 'were .as 1.9.1111!vs; •
TtiCk4rIntith, Reeve: i:00 Horton and Wm. Peig;-.7
"Councillors 1Nam, cOptnhh,,..ego. S, Black, Win
Wm McNaughton,h John A 11.tehheg Paterson,
Edward ,Dapple
WOttil*.:Mayor;t4:11Xtro4dfoot by acclamation; • •
4iiriaf,'.!!.A.P:Joyttt; ,R, J,
t'l'Ar.O.McJec4.4;.* 4Nieello, KY, McLean., Stephen
411*, U.1h4,119_ 40itn . A.-Stewart, Alex• WilSon,
*,Uward.,kintriiito igitOroverilgek,..,W,G,WilliS John
• • .4WW/1401C1:!,IPH00eracitt, Sidney Johns, John Weir;
iirod4tkrijiiints,:;Wntson. •
foyer Hillsgteen left on Monday for
• Aylmer Where he as -assistant to. his brodier
George who is G,T,R,ageht,there.
James Callander, n prosperous farmer in thattgistrict.
,,.the tea-meeting: at Winthrop on Monday evening.,
he intends spending the winter. •
' Hartney, Manitoba, ,Wheeeshe is to be 'married to
• Public Schaf arrived in town last' week. •
Miss Bella Betnuftqleft,for 'Regina where Sheinast ,
secured a position estteacher in the public school.
Wm-McCulla of Leadhury. left for Minnesota where
The Methodist church. choir furnished the music 'at .
Regele of Leadbury had a. successful time hauling
Miss. 'Bertha Crieb, left here ' on Saturday: for •
Mr. W.,J.Moffatt,- the new principal Of the-Seaforth•
• • wood. to Cardno Brothers, Seaforth. •• „
' Aletivlurdock of Toronto Medical School is spending
the holiday here.
-7JANUARYI.st, 1927
• A very successful concert was held in No. 11
Steplienf• ter the.`programme Miss Anna •Dale was
presented,with a Club bag. Miss Blanche Morenz gave
the ,,addreSs,. and Miss Anna Detrick made the-
' presentation: -
Miss Verna Adams of Constance who has been
teaching near Fenelon Falls,' has been engaged to teach
at . Newmarket : High „ - • School.
During the absence of Mrs. Goodwin on -StindaDast.•
Miss Dorothy Welsh very acceptably took her place as .
7_organist. in, the .•Unhed Church.
A very enjoyable event took place at their- home in •
_Hensallt when Mr. and Mrs. A. Bolton -.received
Congrattdations on the occasion of their 50th wedding
anniversary', A . purse of gold, WaS presented by the...
family. ' • •
Robert D.:Bell, of Hensall, had the misfortune to cut
hand with a chisel and he 'has suffered a great deal.
`An old resident -of Hullett, in 'the person of W.
Simeon .Rands • , aged: 77""years died, .
' A number of 'the friends, and neighbors of Mr. and
Mrs„'Bert liwin gathered at their home prior to' 'their
depaittire' fcir Toronto. Mr. Irwin has' secured a school.
• there.
Arnold Jeffrey of ,.Staffa has taken a poSition in the
'telegraph office in St. , Marys.
Ed Mole was made the recipient of 'a goose' and candy
for .the children by , the Hydro Cofn Mission.
. Miss. Norma- Isabel Hartry was united in marriage to.
Robert Neil ,Bissonnette.
Last week, W.A.Crich of Seaforth„ . had delivered to -
him, the . first snowmobile to be used 'in. Western
, • Ontario. It was 'purchased throtighl J. F. Daly.'
On. 'Sunday morning the thermometer, registered 18
below zero, • • •
W.R.Reid, `of Kirkland Lake ▪ a:nd :Reg. Reid of
Toronto spent Xmas aethe home of th,eir mother Mrs.
J,F.Reid. , • • ,, • - . • ,
• • • • JANUARY 4,1957
Ruth McLarnon of Tuckersnnith was treated for minor
*injuries after a three,ear, collisiort.on.• ,Highway 8'.• She
. • was, a passenger in a car dri'Veh-by Wm. • Trapnell.-of
'Seaforth. • • • •
.Carl Hemingway of .Brussels has been. hired by the
Huron County Federation of. Agriculture to succeed •
'Gordon Greig, Bluevale,••• as secretary fieldman.
••Hensall's General Coach was gutted by a fire on New •••• •
Years. Day, Wm. C. Smith • stated on . Wednesday
- afternoon. • • .
.. A. Break-in .at the Texaco Service station in 'Hensall,
•• netted-thieves $700 in silver and several , packages of
. cigarettes. This was the second break-in'within a week.:
Reeve Daniel Beuerman of. McKillop: was returned
•fot the 10th tere.'-kcapacity, crowd filled Si. Pairlek"S.
Parish Hall for their ,annual-Christtrias. party!'. The
highlight of the evening was the drawing on -a.1957 car.
John and Stephen Connolly held the lucky, tickets
A largeatowdWas On hand for the-New Year's eve
dance spOnsoted • by, the . Women's :.Institute.• Spot
dances-- won-by Mrs, , Oliver. -Wright . and-Larry
Fisher and Marjorie .Pethick and • Neil McGaVin,•,•
Friends, neighbors 'and relatives. gatheted, • for a .
surprise party at the...home of Mt. and Mfrs Norman
Baird, Baird, Brumfield, to• 'mark the. silver anniversary of
their ,hoSts. The, presentation was' read by 'Stewart
.• Baird. They received .many gifts of silver. ' .
Mr. and Mrs. James Dale of Constance' quietly
,obseivedtheir55th.wedding anniversary. Mrs. Dale is
4wheee,,,,kfosr...nter 'Mary Dodds. '
'Frank „. Kelly . of Walton passed away in Scett
Memorial. Hesptiai following an 'illness of only two
,
On Thursday evening the Burns-Londesboro Y.P.U.
• held„asocial. at the Londesboro Church Sunday School.
• A pot luck supper preeeded the program. • • •
An edecationist for the•,past 43 years Robert Ross
Forbes -died in ..Ottawa hospital.He Was 61. At .the
Seafortb Collegiate he was active an the .Cadet Corps •
withioseph Sills; Murray Fisher, Geo. Stephenson and
17Th
0.
e stork
Stroh
iaid a visit late New Year's Day in Scott`"
Memorial Memorial Hospital. „A son Was born to Mr. and Mrs...
- Peter -Simpson, R.R.2, Seaforth. -
JANUARY 6, 1877 . • •.
Hugh . McCartney, • has purchased the Brucefiehl.,...
cheese factory. •
Chas. Tough of the Bronson Line, Stanley„Waamade•
the recipient of a copy of the Bible with an' address by.
Miss M. A..Maldrueon behalf of the Music conimittee.
An elderly•Man„natined •poitte-t-Ficatmrriorts-who..had
been working as a-,: tailor Emongst the farmers in
Tv,IPICillop, complained of a pain. near his head. He -was
residing, with JAii On:entering his room the .
man was found to be dying,- •
•
$100;000 towards ,the cost of builqing
. a new structure to replete the ancrbnt +
and decaying one torn down just two
short months ago.
Even GOderien and. Exeter, with ;
-For-a-toviin_of_hardly„,,0,000 souls, populations three 'to six times as
the , people of Blyth have more iptirik
large, can't-claim such a feet Their •
per capita-than 'Any town in this area fund raising . schemes can't
• .we are fainiller with. • ,approach. Blyth:s for enthusiasm.
- One' example is their newly
And tOO', how about' Blyth's
restored Memorial Hall, which, now
Threshers' •c reunion; which attgcted
crowds, of near 10,000 fo1 its • not only:rightly serves the community
it •was intended for, but also ,lures
three-day run recently to the •small---
thousands of "tourists from all over village? It takes a great deal of
Ontario, and .the U.S. to see some ,co-operation endt-hard work by a--few
eXcellent performances of Canadian
'people to make such an event as the
$. theatre. : '
4Retinion the success that• it was.
Another example' is Blyth'e arena
Blyth -hasset-anc example that the
fund raising activities, which • in
rest .of us would do well .to, emulate. conjunction with the • neighbouring.,
(The Clinton News ReCord), townships, has gathered more than
•
Sugar.are Spice
by sill Smiley
New Year spirit
•
When a two-yearp-old child, normally good
on The Human Spirit in the new year? • :arid obedient, sticks out his lip and flatly
• No? Well, that's what my senior refuSes to do something reasonable,• and
students tell me, too. But I know they • are defies threats of spankings,,, he is not just
• wrong, andi think you are wrong also. I'll being •stubborn. He is exhibiting,-to the
bet you could write a dandy, especially, if world; his' sense of self, of independence.
you have lived a lot, , That is the human spirit. •
''I gave my students instructions for an . When 'an 80 Year old fl•fan, or woman,
essay, and most 'of them went into a state prefers to pig it alonejn,,,,toverty and
of mild' shock.. They shouldn't haye. They
are dealing with the• human spirit, their
°Wit -and -others; .every.:. minute of' their
young lives. . • •
• However, students—Ince most of us,
prefer things to'be spelled out: But how
Can you spell out , the human spirit?
You can't touch it, taste it, smell it,
weigh or measure it. You can't peer
-through-- someone's navel and shout
"Tally-ho! There it is! Your spirit!"
From-the beginnings of thought, our °
great writers and thinkers have explored • explain just once More," that is the human.:
the human creature in an effort to pin doWn , • -pirit at its best • :;
this, elusive thing.
Some philosophers have believed they
had put •their finger On the slippery little..
deVil only to find, that it has squirted away.
, Clerics are most' apt to call it-the soul.
•PSychologists pin nasty names like id and .
• ego and libido' on various aspects of it. Here are the instructions I gave my Writers give examples of it. A ntists try : students. See how they grab' yoti. A
to depic 'its 'highest aspirations. "This essay is to be an examination at The human spirit exists• in all of us. It, the human spirit (Soul, self)* as it acts and whatalong with the. power to reason, is reacts under stress, in inter play with raises us above the level of the beasts. • other human spirits,• in conflict with Its presence is allieW11 that is good.society.
"The essay •should reveal something of • compassion; honor, • courage, dignity. what the student has learned this yearfrpm' Its absence represents all that is bad in . what the exposure to•theideas. of first-class writers the human racer greed, cruelty, prejudice, - concerning the 'human spirit.
indifference, treachery:
Given the • right fertilizer, the ,human, "Ideas expressed 'should not be merely
spirit reaches Out to other ,hu'man spirits, emotional clap-trap or mystic foofawraw.
and mankind moves arAher inch toward , .. Nor should they be a mere recording of ..
stars. , examples of the human spirit' in, action,
Without proper nourishment, the taken from the books read.They .should-
human spirit shrivels or warps,' turns in on rather represent the student's own human
.—itself -itself; -caTiter. -Spiritreactlitytdiffe-spirit Of-What has.
In certain periods, the'undernburished ' been read anti pondered.
• spirit produces the 'gteat 'psychopaths like'
Attila the Hun; Napoleon,, Hitler, and we
are 'led into darkness.
But after each of these sombre intervals,
the resurgent human spirit roars back,
• fanning the embers into a blaze of glory,
and' once More man is 'on the march. •
This is all.' very itispOing, inn sure, but
it's pretty • abstract, % and 1' • prefer the
' concrete. Let's see if• We can find. some
examples of the human spirit in action.
One of thei,surpriSt,,, 4kages. that
came aldng when I gOtlitafrind Was .my,,.;
brother-in-law. Over the„YeArs AlmOst, 25
now -- Harry's •managed to keep the'
surprises popping. Two weeks ago was .no. -
exception. •
I teamed up with Harry for a few days to
trace and cha:se down car ownerS who, run ,
away without paying off their cars. •
There'S more, ways than..one for me to ,
get doWn to Florida;"yous see. Harry lives
there„and he comes North every now aod
then to,. practice his: delicate art of skip
tracing. And l'm just the one to drive •baCk
one of his repoed-accent the first
syllable--cars. •
Harry's like' a detective. Why I'd say
Harry is a detective: He looks exactly like
one. Like Barney • Miner,, the, ,
clectectiv& People come urPttalarry on the •
street and say,' '`You're`Barney,,Miller."
"No, says' Harry, "I'm not Barney Miller.
I'm Harry,: Raymond."
But the people still go hway shaking
their- heads and saying, "But you're
' -Barney
' Harry Woks like a. skip tracer. Watch the
way' he walks. No. Watch the way he'
half-walks: -Half-runs. Half leaning '
forward: Once, Harry starts tracing y our
.ear, you might as well turn off the motor
and hand over the keys. ••
Harry and I drOve into Logansport, „„,
Indiana in a '73 Pontiac, rerided'in.-New''
Hampshire, Next assignment:* , a ,1972
Chevy , Stationwagon. '
Harry Walked-into a pay phone booth in
Logansport and put a dim& into the slot.
ThiS was' clearly--a local „call, . hut when a
man answered, Harry raised his voice like
be was calling long distance. A very long
distance. •
• "This is Ray More calling. I'm calling
from King's Circus Company, in Sarasota,
Florida I'm trying to reach ,yqur son, Jack •
• to offer him, a job."
Some circus. Some job. Jack had skipped
• with the Chevy and Harry's only lead was'
Jack's father in Logansport.
Mind you, my brother-in-law doesn't' lie
-- any more thaitan actor or, a player plays
. a game. ,
"Jack:s in Monticello" says father,,
"Thaes 17:miles east of here. His address ,
is 67, Henderson st."
That's all :Harry wanted. And we'were
off to this fly speck on, the Indiana Map..
I was - at the wheel driving down
Henderson St. Harry said, "Not .
—"don't WaiteliiiiiTditiot us first. He may get •
suspicious when he sees our out-of•state
license" Skip, again or hide the car.
Lesson. Repo by surprise.
We circled the block three times and
• once through the alley. 'No garage. No '72
Chevy. For two hours we estiiiedtmyn for
the brown stationwagon. "Better just wait.
• 'til he Sets home with it," Harry said.
.,„4 was starting--to worry. "But, Harry,
what do we do when we' see it?"
"That depends. If he parks his car by the
.side_of the house, tie::5 likely to hear us
start the motor,, Then he'll come running
If ever e community in Huron
County exemplified the true spirit of
working together, comradeship and
brotherhood, then Blyth would head
the list.
Could you write a pungent, telling essay
rt discomfo, rather than be shuttled Off to a
cosy senior citizen's home, he, pr she is
doing the same.
When'a man or woman has enough guts
to say "Nol" at a time wheri all about are --
saying "Yes!' that's the human spirit at
work. _
But let's get down to an exaniPle we 'can
all understand.'When a man gets up after
his old 4ady has knocked him doWn
times, and , advances on her,arms
outstretched, and says: "Darling, let me
Don't ,set this human spirit thing all
mixed hp with sentimentality: the cooing of
a baby, which might be just a gaSlaain, the •
radiantismile of a bride, which might be
just'vanity. Or gloating: 'No, let's keep it
on a high plain, .
and great in human kip yalty, integrity,
' "Any reasonable - and even- more
unreasonable- approaches to the topic
will' be encouraged..
"Students 'may choose one of the
following exhortations from their glerious
leader: •
"Good Luck"
"or
"Ea' :Your Heart Out", •
" Aren't you glad you don't take English *
! from me?
Am,en
1(ittrl Schuessler
,;;,;Snowed in
lights on". •
This, was straight out of T,V.! I waited
'three terrible minutes. Karl Schuesiler in a ,
get-away car. Motor running. Lights ,On.•
How would all this leek inthe newspapers?
How do 1 explain all this M my' wife and ,
, kids?
' My hands sweat on the steering wheel; ,
There has to be an easier way to get ,down
to Florida. Plane,'' Toin. Hitchhike.
Anything. But this? •
Harry's face came out, of the . dark.
cars over at a sales lot. Jack'strying to sell
it. He's going to take us over there and let •
. us have
"`And how did yOli.find me, anyway?"
Jack asked -as •we climbed into the Chevy. .
Harry grinned."Oh, that's jsui, part of
the job." That's all Harry would say. He
Wasn't going-to tell' any secrets. that, hight.
BM I was Abe lucky one: I was the only
one' Harry was letting into his murky world
. of skiptracing.
And I was the only one Harry would let
drive down the rest of the way 'to Florida in
• one of his repoed cars.
.a
To the editOr
•
read the old- -fashioned why the english'
language was used when it was translated
freni'greek to English,. Today here in 'the
1.I.S.A: the complete Bible' has been
rewritten, using modem English but it Is
still not to the'pnblie. at large, as
,the first one hundred thousand copies have
,, gone to Cintrclies and ChUrth grenps, at a
cost no;, profit basig, When they be'com'e
"available "aVailable ihe•pUblic will be able to buy
To the Editor:.- * masts of all,was of my nephews and nieces 'thentiti• the sole basis., . ' .
itist 0 rote to tell you hew much l' A Happy 197; ttl, all . of i`94. at the „,,..•„:„ ..rwOlild suggest yett'atid your readers,
enjoyed 'your 'Chiisttnatt 'issue ,. .the EspoSitOr. • . ' 'thitt-btle bf the• greatest' gifts they could
children's letters, and .:those beautiful ' . ,. •140a; (Ellis) Fletcher ' give as well as receive, is read and read to
' 'anti 'tie Christmas cards! 1,, actually - ” 11 6a6rOulf$-Aii.&"rt.#7 111,61r: childrent sth6 Eris" .el aseeetaihg to re e, a repredtietiOn of gne fibirti Florida *: Kitchener Saint IVIattliew4. it tells us the Complete
this year. Of, course the Plattrel 'erijOyed' a•
Story'f the:life Of Se",§ds•Cittist our Saviour.
a:a
.Huron Expositor, Hardly any of Mein give • fatMerSo)brough controls to protect the , Well Madam Editor at least YoUr articles
both sides of th&story, they go to extremes ofthay 'farm operation. Again in my are well done, in my opinion. I phoned'
home Dec,6 to see how my ,patents Were mostly for or against never in the middle. I ' ••,, opihion, that is the only operation the tax.,• ;
and 'get thekelectiony teSUlta andlylom°Wiii found out from experience 'that is a very ' .payers should, subsidize "-"•" ' '
bad habit to get into. , , • To.0.1,14,A ., yi'a.,,,,i their money ,in vod telling me about y `our terrible weather. It
•., •,,w....,:itrii14,6lit.1"*'..,41,i.y •littio..eotent of. Was eighty degrees here 'today and is I
,, , , write thi letter the w do is open and the For example, the artiele 'about retiring thaeiNitn,,,In th ,, toe of• Florida •
night aratind hOtne. I will doge foriiow and
a big business. 'think- a lot of them could if , far, pne'tVgei5 tool alone after dark even in look forward to your ,next
Bible, thewitg*-ors,.reactersay$
1 Woulki aisojike to cautioniciu-ep ntimy • You should know by looking arotind that,
"
It is pay very little a ttention to the victlin.
of the articles *Written by others 'the-, we areinakirig . millionaires out of a . lot of sad don't y Oti think?
•
9.F.A. President (Hill driticiies,bigefulns).
*Most farmers; nearly all could not manaie",
live: 1%wati10•401,ntilie population about
otwhat Ontario ilaso and it is not safe-
ciickejp,,ree: shiging,-juV-like.,n summer ,
they tooks„short Conrad in economics, Sebring whete livo.with' a population of
- icy, 'opinion if they did ,they would sure 7,000 in stormlq,aod, 12,000 In winter, The
change their farming operations .and would State;-has 80 people on death •. not need hand outs oreugh subsidies, floort. ,prisons will do; hold the rest oft the
'prices and rebates.
•
,glorify the and