The Huron Expositor, 1977-02-17, Page 13CCQQT1IsnieerVitttilaiely7On: and the clerk will
apply for about $10,000 in subsidy
due 'to the town for last year's
work under ,the Highway_
Improvement Act; •
Qary•-• Montgomery was
appointed to the Seaforth •
_Recreation •Committee to fill a
vacaney cattaett by the, resipat ion
of AMC Williams.
'Jim Clinningii!!!n! Lloyd
grnie' council rep
councillor Johnston 'were
appointed' to SegOrth's develop-
went Of4ninittee, The,Chamber•of
Conahlerce is to also, appoint a
member.
Five minor changes
passed to Seaforth's new bylaw •
regulating traffic, '• ' • •
Payment to council members
for $40040-ther-atteAd-
:jawing was. passed tP, follows;
Mayor- $100, reeve -deputy
reeve $55, .and gills
$OS,: Johnston $70, Roth $70,.
Groptituls '$45, Sills_ $60 and
Bennett $60, •
••
were
McLaren Ltd,, engineers for last
summer's sewer'_project The
sewer lateralio his house is eight
feetsitort of Mr. Woods' property
line because _ the firm said his
septic:lank was in -the way; Mr.
Woods said its not k and
for .any Seaforth children who • wanted to know who Woul pay to
attend the. Vatiastra • tray' Care take the , sewer line to his • 1 Centre.' property. Council, dectdOd to
Clerk Jim Crocker Will be leave the matter with the -
reimbursed the $79:ttlitien fee for;'engineekS, "This should have
completing the Association of
Municipal Clerk Treasurers., of
Ontario course, year one.
Council will haVe inzlepend-
ent appraiser put a value on the
town, owned land in the Brantford
St. area which has been proposed
as 'a site for a mobile home Park:
"We should have a price to quote
to interested developers," Mayor'
--Betty eardno said. One developer
hia indicated, interest already.
Councillor Wayne . _Ellis _was
re-appointed as SeafOrth's
representative to the e .board of
Seaforth Community Hospital. said 'that OHC had looked
Councillor Ellis said the board -into 'expanding the site by buying
receives grants based• on patient an •adjacent property but it was
'use from surrounding municipali- 'too'expensive.
ties for capital-equipment-costs-, ---Coithciltors expreswd concern
not covered,by the Ministry of about the dangerous eondition of.
Health. - a vacant small, barn at the corner
McKilloP add" Tuckersmith OfGeorge and COleman Sts.
townships notified Seaforth that . Mayor Cardnp said she had been
they are willing to co-operate in a told that the Municipality of
needs study for a third senior Cochrane has a derelict building
citizen apartment building in bylaw which, allows it to tear down
town, such :structures, Clerk Crocker
Council, decided to join the will investigate,
AssociatiOn of Municipalities ' of Winn McLean, Fred Cosford,
Ontario at a cost of $82.44, "They Vivienne Newnham, Grace
do :leg work and 1pok out for Cornish, Walter Armes, and 'the
municipalities' interest," elerk mayor were appointed to.
Crocker explained'. ' SeafOrth's Local Architectural
:On the advice'of Frank Cowan ,
come up at (last summer's)
liaison meetings or they ;should
have talked to Mr, Woods at the
commented.
tRoe.eve John Flannery
Non smoking area guidelines
from the Ministry of Health were
filed. councillor Ellis commented
that there are only two" non
smoking members of Council. _
A tetter from An ex councillor,.:.
Walter Murray of Sombra, saying
that the John St. site for the new
seniors apartments was too small ,
was considered. Councillor jim
. At their February 'meeting on
Mday night, Seaforth council
cone,idered the-following matters;,
C uncit agreed- to continue,
their agreement with the
Township of Tu.ckersittith to pay
the municipai'share of .any• clench
Whiter blues
SO-
Ah, the little ironies of life. Had a letter
' from, son Hugh the.other day, complaining
'gently about the heat Paraguay. Said it
was-between 90 and 100 in the shade every
day and only decently livable -at, night.
Last night' it was 30 'beloW around. this
bUrg. And that's real 'temperature;
Fahrenheit, Today it was about 20 below all
day, and. Is heading for another 30-plus
below as. I write.
As of today,..„we've had 142 inches of
stigyv. Migawd, that's jnst'short of 12 feet,
midwinter just beguh, Who sayS we aretet
a hardy race? Or are we just stupid?
At the Moment, -I'm a little short Of
breath and temper. I've just come in .from
wresting two cars te life,shovelling enough,.,,
driveway.#9 get them off the street, and
hitting the side of the garage another belt
When I slipped tsideways. '
'My garage is„ one of those ancient
wooden structures in which those realistic
car owners, of 'the '20's and 30.'s.used to
jack, up their FOrds and Essexes and
---- McLaughlin-Buicks . and leave _them
sensibly suspended for the winter:
A , modern. car--, even an old
battle-wagon. like 'my .1967 Dodge, hag
about an inch and a half 'clearance on each,
Side, •if y on want to, put it in the garage.
And I do.,Idthe Ammer, the birds poop all
over the windshield if I leave her out. In the
winter; Winter poops all over the whole
• ..thing with ice and snow if I leave her out..
So:I-pnt her in.
But that clearance is pretty skinny. The
two-by-four that supports • the joists or
whatever that stpports the _roof of my
garage is no longer ,a two-by-four. My wife
and daughter have no idea whether the car
is four Jeet-mide or six. Accordingly, that .
tow-by:four is noWlibolifithe thickness of
six toothpicks, and any day die whele,
structure will cave in. •
I have,. for the moment, 'two cars. They
ate located in one garage, and. directly
behind it, one driveway just as long as a
garage.. .This morning, the car in the
garage, the 10-year-old,-.Started like a
, rocket heading for Mars. Theliew one., the
five-Year-old, groaned twice, grunted once,"
and died. There I am , With one, perky car'
humming merrily in the garage, and one
great lu nip of cold,- dead :metal sitting
right behind it. It's enough to make a saint
swear. And I ain't no ;saint.
But then I think of how-ldcky I
compared to our ancestors: have an Cif
ritace thins Practically sppppriog the
entire province of AllSerta; -but at least I
. don't have to cut wood all summer to stay
warm all^ vviiitet. "T' have i''Wife" who '
to drive-the car that is working, the one in
I'm a school teacher,,in my ware tithe,.
But I don't Welt:, trudge tivo miles to the
school, with snow to my navel-, light the fire.
• in the old box-stove, and -sit there
Shuddering with cold until the students
• arrive, I just gef to school-as best I can; and,.,,
the students 'don't arrive at all. Half of
them come by bus and the tones Can't get
through the-storm. Half of the remaining
half look out the window, gay to hell With it,
tell their mothers they have the 'flu, and • ' ,, „• roll over and go back to sleep. .
.• Oh, She was rugged, in those old days, in •
a winter: like this, with , homemade
insulation and red-hot stove pipes. No
Wonder many of the oldtimers never got
out of their long johns from October- to
May. That's why we•moderns feel the cold
so , much. We don't have- a half-inch of
personal insulation, made up of sweat and
skin and dirt, under, the underwear . .
What really baffles me is why the very
:first settlers of Canada stayed here, after
experiencing one winter. Things must have
• been „pretty rotten, back in France and
England and Ireland, to make them tough
it put in this "few, arpents of snow", as
VOitaiTe dismissed it so casually.
And what completely stymies me is that - -
1‘, the first white s tlers found anybody alive
in this country, en they first arrived. I
simply cannot _understand_ how the, Indians
survived a winter Ake; thisy: ,s
You think yOtir arthritisjp had,,, Aunt
Mabel. How would you like to• live on corn
and sex, in a tepee or a longhotige, for five
months, with.a little, smoky fire burning on
the floor and 12 feet of snow outside. And
no television! • '
DO you'-realize your- great-grandfather„
When grub got low, probably had to walk
eight or 10 miles to the nearest store, and
home With a Sack of flour on his shoulder
and a package of tea in his. pocket?
ijn the worst of days, l'can battle my way-
four blocks to, the supermarket and come
home-fa-den with grapes d oranges and
fresh meat, and if I've had a big day on the
stock'market, even a "pound of coffee,
Oh, we have it soft, soft, .compared -with
them. Tomorrow 'horning,• I may be' -as
..rsurly-as ,my granclfatherrwas, if the car
won't start. Bit tonight, I'm going to eat a
gourmet dinner (stew, I looked, in the pot), '
and sit in my warm house watching:.
--in-liyint -color,' a movie about the South
geas.What a rotten spoiled lot we a:tel
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the garage, when the'one behind It won't
start, but at• least I don't have toh ang her
. washing out in this weather, and have it
turn into instant white boards, as 1 used4to
have to do for my mother back around
about, '34.
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ROSE MARY STAPLETON
Mrs. Joseph P. Stapleton, 77,
of Dublin, died Wednesday 'at St.
Mary's Hospital, London. '
She was the former Rose Mary
Downey; a daughter of the late
Peter Downey and Sarah
(McLeod) Downey of Parkhill.
She was a graduate of St.
Joseph's Hospital School of
Nursing, London.
•In London in 1928 she married
Joseph ' Stapibton ' Who
predeceased' her in 1959. • -
,She was active in Catholic
.Women's League in Dublin after
moving there in 1957.
Suiviving are a daughter Mrs.
.Daniel (Mary) Williams, Florida;
a sister, Mts, Charleg'.4Sarah)
Allen, London and three
grandchildren.
The body rested at the R.S.Box
Funeral -Hotne. Funeral Mass was
held' at St. Patrick's Church,
Hnbl Saturday at' 10:36 A.M.
with Rev. C.F.Sullivaii, C.S's. R.
,• officiating. '
Temporary entombment was at
Pioneer Memorial ,Mausoleum,
Seaforth with interment to follow
in-the spring. at-.•--St. lraffick'g"
• Cemetery. •
. Pallbearers• were ..l'eseph,
Themes, Donald, Patrick; Charles
and Peter• Alien. • Flowerbearers
were:Jarties O'Connor, Joseph
Dorsey, -William O'Rourke nd
and- Harold Pethick.
Rhinold Kahle of 'Mitchell. There home to pay their resPects:. ..,.... „.,
are seven grandchildren: He was Expressions of sympathy were
predeceased:by-five brothers.' ' shown through floral tributes;
The late Mr. Benermann rested and memorials to the Ritz
at the Lockhart Funeral Home. p . Lutheran Villas St. Peter's Church
Mitchell until noon, on_ Saturday . impiOVement fund. Mitchell
when removal vas made to St. Health Centre; Missions,'
Peter's Lutheran Church in , Lutheran Hour, Heart Foundation
Brodhagen'for the funeral service - and Cancer Society. '
the,' Lockhart Funeral Home in , at 2:30, With the Rev. Arthur . ,
Mitchell until . Monday afternoon Horst Officiating. The church MRS. MELISSA SNOWDEN
when removal was •made ,to St. choir was in attendance and sang Mrs. M elissa Snowden died
Peter's Lutheran ChM-chin Bred- The Old.Rugied Crois with Mrs. ' - -suddenly 'January 14, 1977. at
Lapeer, Michigan- in ,„her 74th hagen for the funeral service at Al Horst at the organ.. ,
3:00 p.m, with the Rev. 'Arthur Pallbearers were: . Harvey, „ Year; She was•the former. Melissa
Horst officiating. - ,- '''' Ahrens, Ross Kahle, -William, Holmes of. Walton. She is
survivedby her husband, Aaron, The Church Choir was in Robert, Harvey„ and Alfred
attendance and sang Safe 'in the Beuermann. • 'Friends -and four children • , 13 grandchildren,
arm's of JesUs accompanied , by . relativea'aitended from .Toronto, two brothers, Joe Holmes, Bly th
Mrs. • A. Horst at the organ. , Milton, . - Stratford, Seaforth, and Wilbert, Flint , Mich. Three
sisters"; Mrs. Edith Mean, Troy Pallbearers were:' Ken.Stahlker Dublin, Godericli,- ' Kilchener,
'Peter WelienBerger, -Rodney , Wateiloo-.. Listowel, Mitchell, Mich, Mrs. Martha Laird. Swift
-Current, Sa sk. and Mrs. Susan Hinz, Barry Baillie, HarlWurdell Brussels, St. Marys', London, •
and Eric Ludditigtort..FriendS and Cambridge, Hamilton, Burling-. Laid, Duncan, B.C, also surVive,
relatives:attended frolifStfatford, ten, Brodhagen and district. • . taSlieeervri,chcahri;d- burial, were 4 in" : =
Seaforth., Alotikton, Mitchell,- Temporary entombment Was
Brbdhagen and district. - made in. 'the' Elizabeth Rita ii
Temporary entombment was- IvIbmorial chapel,: Mitchell -with • • . .
• made in the - Elizabeth Ritz burial later in St. Peters Cuthereri ...:-EvVrY. Week- more and more
Memorial Chapel in Mitchell with Cemetery, Brodhagen. „ people discover what mighty jobs •
hurial later in St. Peter's On Thursday evening, the are accoMpliShed by lei/ cost
tiitheran- Cemetery Brodhagen. Brodhagen Chapher -of Huron Expositor..., want Ads. Dial
Expressions of -sympathy were Commerce called at' the funeral 527-040. - ' ' .,
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Ltd., the town's insurer, conned
'agreed to delete insurance
coverage of the brine`pipts under
the, arena floor as the CoinpanY,
said any claim would probably be •
denied. 'A Portion of the premiund
will be iefunded to the town.'
Brian Garrett, architect for, the
arena renovations informed
council that $2100 spent - on -
facilities.that will make the
building• more- accessible to the
physically handicapped will be'
covered: by a 100 per cent grant
from the province. •
' A letter was read Prances
and Bill Ball of Seaforth, request-
ing that every effort be made to
preserve the rare Gin,* tree on
the site of the new senidtcitizens -
apartments on, John St. It
shouldn't interfere-With•the build-
ing :Plans, clerk Crocker
commented arid said he would
send a copy of the Ball's letter to
OHC.
'
Council reviewed correspond-
'Pnce between property owner
Rick Woods and James F.
John W. Siemon, both of
Mitchell; 'one sister Martha, Mrs.
Herman Hinz of Login Township.
Also surviving are 10 grandchild-
ren and eight great-grandchild-
ren. Besides„oher husband, she
was predeceased by one son in
infancy.
The late Mrs. Wurdell rested at
MRS. LOUISA WURDELL. EMANUEL BEUERMANN
Mrs, Louisa Wurdell of II.R, 1, Emanuel Beuertnann of Brod-
Bornholm, died at the Seaforth hagen died- on Thursday at
Conoriiihity--"—Hospital on .Seiforth Cominunity,.. 49spitat.
Thursday, Febi 10, 1977 following following a, :'period ,of failing
a period'of failing healthe-h ••-% • health. He waS-born. in Mhkillop
She was .the, former Thuisa Township -on May 24, 1904 and
Siemon and was 'sbotn'Ta Logan was the son' ,of the- late Henry
Township on January 13, 1893, Beuermann and the .former •
, daughter of the late Wm: Siemon Katherine Koehler.
and the &liner , On November 26,1931; he was
Fischer. On June 26, 1911, . She married to • the former Alice
Was Married to Edward Wurdell Mueller who -survives. They'
who predeeeaSed her-ant July 13,,„ resided in Brodhagen since their
1965. Following their marriage Marriage where ,Mr, lletiermanit
they farMed in Logan Township had been engaged in custom farm
until their nretirement' in 1960. work, - •
She , was a ,merithet: of St. was a member• • of the ,
Peter's • Lutheran' Church, Brodhagen , Chamber
Br(ItlhaRaiL' Sarvivt0R are threa Commerce and. St. Peter's ,
Song, }facet& Gordon,and Ltitherah - Chttreh, Su viving
Mervin', all of Logan TotOlfshiPi he4feifils wifp",tiretWci sort's; lay'
three hiathett, George silOintitii of Toronto andWaYiteof Lohdon
Logan Township, Win, L.' sititi'"-Atitt one Sister" Martha, Mri •
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