HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1981-05-27, Page 2ess
MAY 27,1$81
Henry Colbert of Egmondville has pur-
chased front' Mr. Brett the 25 acre farm on
the top of the hill. formerly belonging to the -
Van Egmond estate for the sum of $1,600. It
is handsomely
and
and with swot
trimming up and good tillage will make a
fine place.
James Greaves is doing quite a trade in
Seaforth in_tins awning business He has
erecteil.severaivenf handsome nand-solastan,
Oat Awnings, -.the .1aSt being fop 'Moms,
'i5ragg ',Brotht- of work
**,r1OPe lay fOrei.$0r$. *O.we .are :g;l4d:ttiO‘
a local mart,. has ttQx taken it iii hand..
Mr 1).01.9# .MAkpi. a splendid. ).6bof
watttin Z,siaihOre$,OVery Morning and the.
soaking' he gives keeps, " toot and7free
from' dti4.`fOr the whale' day.
Our respected :f P, Wm.' ,McMillan .
,•uck.ersinith,intends leaving ' on Monday
next for a, three months tour in the Lower
Provinces and he' will likely cross the
Atlantic before his return.
Messrs. McEwen Brothers, salt contrac-
tors. Hensall have completed the work of
erecting the salt derrick and have also placed
the necessary machinery therein for prose-
cuting the work of sinking the well.. While
speaking of the derrick we would say it
affords oar villagers and others..an excellent
opportunity of obtaining a splendid view 'of
the village and surrounding country, and in
this our thanks are due to George McEwen,
who very kindly and at some expense
and trouble,"erected nice stairway- to. the
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Scott,Of c*forpf.'11,44 sold'. bilk` Farb
4001,11040-, to. A. 'NkPo.9414-• 4t00*
tataking part -.pa a : 4
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alai
pneumatic libe`&_..bVSgYo
'Oettrge.-P..'1VcaY di,SVogo it4this,ffiew
cement machine -40.tlt...t14
cement for the basement ew
residence.It works very- nicely and seems to
,be. a labour saver.
As Harry Tyndall and his assistants were
working with the township stone crusher in
Mr. fotheringham's quarry in Tuckersmtih
on Friday last they unearthed a human
skeleton. The remains were about two feet
and a half below the surface, as soon as the
skeleton was exposed to the air it fell into
pieces so" that. it was impossible to tell
whether it was the, skeleton-of s-man or-of a
white person or an Indian.
J. R. Govenlock now has two steam hay
presses at work, ciao to the north and the
other to 4ihe south of SeafOrth, baling the
teMent of hay the farmers hoe to'spare for
sale.
Win. AileOC-of Seaforth 1!1,litylt/g
Jogge,Arfw.octo,1s Ow0,40047.. saw Mill
trucka; 'There was 'SO little
a+ iunter flutf Ike was 94441.
tix'40$1erod', is 411011.
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Marilyn fiobel daughror tof
Mr. and Mrs. 'Hugh M. Chesney, of
l'iickerartilth, the• one hundredth baby bon)
in the Scott Memorial. Hospital was the
recipient of as amethyst ring presented by
the Hospital Board.
John Zuefle, proprietor of the Hensall
greenhouse, is having a good run of
business, this being what may be termed
part of his harvest time.
Messrs. Charles Sherwood, R. Reinke and
„Cora Sherwood spent the weekend with
relatives here.
John Bullard of Winthrop spent 'the
holiday with his daughter Mrs. Harold
,..,t' of Walton-
Mr, and Mrs. Harry Hart of Seaforth
spent Sunday afternoon with Mr. and Mrs.
Wu Spading of Winthrop.
JUNE 1,1956
- Mrs. A. W. Shirray taught grades 3 and 4
Ifensall Public School last week in, the
absence of • teacher Marion Lillie° who was
away writing examinations-
Reeve„ Norman_Jones a tionsq
JffiCt
" Cal#Y,
,camp ell
and M. VS*
end+ no anal 47sete s lloa. many othr,
'The residence nfMrs. .1011bCu'rriet_30hn
Seaforth has.been sold to Joseph Keeny
possession Judy 1.
Sgt. and MrS, K.T. Adams and son Gerald
who have been guests at the forrner's
parents and sister, Mr. and Mrs. E. Adams
and Donelda of Seaforth returned to
Winnipeg on Thursday.
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Feeney, Louis
Feeney, Anne Roach, Mr.. and Mrs. Dan
O'Rourke, Mrs. Mary O'Rourke and son
Frank, Mr. and Mrs. Michael Murray
attended the first Solemn High Mass and
reception of Rev. Harvey E. Roach at
Hamilton on Sunday.
Awning
In the years agone
TINY 'GUEST - Wee Stephanie Broer, with a windmill design on her
dress, enjoys the parade at Clinton's Klompen Feest Saturday from the
safety of the lap of her mother, Etty Broer of Kincardine. (Photo by Oke)
Sugar and spice
• By Bill Smiley
will be back next week
Three weeks in Toronto recently recon-
firmed to this country boy that the decision
to return the Huron county from the big city;
made some 12 years, ago, was indeed the
proper one.
Many of the things that drove me out of
the city more than a decade ago have
improved in Toronto. The city has a much
more human face today than in the 1960's.
People have seemed to realize that a city is
more than a collection of tall buildings and
parking lots. The „ downtown streets have
been livened with park' benches, trees and
paving-stone sidewalks. Old slum..s have
been refurbished. The once shabby water-
front area is becoming the newest centre of
growth as people and businesses discover
the pleasure of being by the water and
generally planners seem to be taking into
account that people have to live in a city
viten they're sitting at their drawingboards.
Still many things remain. When you want
to be alone you aren't because the city noises
and people noises permeate through walls,
doors and windows• into your - home and
apartment and you can't escape. Yet in a
crowd of thousands of people you are still
alone because these are total strangers
thrusts together for a few moments On a
subway or in an elevator who will soon
spread out in their own lives again as if they
had never met in the first place, Why be
friendly? Why. bridge the gap when you
know you will never see the person again? SO
people• ride in silence in their worlds of
solitude.
person, someone who belongs to the
community, is identifiable. You don't work
in one small pool of acquaintances and then
hurry home to another small pool of
aequaintances as city people do. you live, in a
community in which you're likely to know a
majority of the people you meet.
The other thing that used to bother me in
the city and still did on this-trip' was the
absence of nature. Living in a. twelfth story
apartment you can't tell it's raining unless
the rain is splashing on the window or it's
such a duluge that visibility drops to
nothing. You don't hear the rain on the roof,
see it splashing in puddles or dampening a
sidewalk. You don't know the wind is
bit:owing unless it , is blowing in an open
window or howlitig around a balcony railing.
The trees, you see, are far below you. You,
-live hi a orifierete-waidrsolitted-Trom the
vagaries of weather.
The city is a man-made place. Man has
made the buildings. Man, has made the
sidewalks, build the roads, constructed, the
hisses and cars, dug-out-the subway.. Even in'
the places ,where man is supposed to get
back to nature in the city, man has planted-
,the grass, cut the grass, trimmed the
planted the trees in ways planned
by man to get the most benefit to man and
put up signs to tell you what to do.' Nature
has, in short, been banished from' the cities.
IGNORE NATURE
Indeed in Toronto people have done as
much as possible to ignore nature all
together. You can walk for miles now in,
underground shopping complexes so, you can
pretend you're in southern California even in
the middle of winter while you eat in
restaurants copied after those of southern
California and wear clothes Californians
would wear. Thousands of people get
up, travel to work, work, -eat and shop
without ever going outside in. Toronto.
The seasons, in such circumstances mean
tittle other ,than a 'chance for the clothing
stores to ring up new sales. The sense of
Behind the scenes
by Keith Rouiston
The country looks good
THE OPPOSITE spiing, of the rebirth of the world that one
Life in Huron county is pretty much the gets in the country is totally absent in the
opposite of course. When you want to be city where people think of it mainly as, a
alone you can retreat into your own home, chance to get rid of their winter wardrobes,
dose the' door and usually leave the rest of don lighter outfits and start recapturing the
the world behind, especially, if you live in the tau they lost over the winter. Summer is a
country as a big part of our population does. time of long hot days when you hurry
between air conditioned office and aircondi- On the other hand when you go shopping
you aren't just another in a sea of faces the boned home with a stop at an airconditioned
weary salesgirl must look at in a day, you-a• bar or shopping centre along the way. • Fall is not a time of harvest and beauty in,
the city but a period of relief between the
heat of summer and the cold of winter.
Winter is not a time of clueless and purity or
even a time of survival against the elements
but simply a time of nuisance when the black
sooty mow means you can't get along with
your ordinary shoes and you have-to worry
about not forgetting your rubbers.
There are pleasures in the'-city too but just
the same, I'll take the country.
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3. Dad
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6. Thanks, (British).
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13. City 85 miles N. east of Toronto
151. Domestic horned animal
16. Seaforth juCtioneer.
It 'town 25Miles N. of Mitchell
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22. Robert Burns was one
23. Family Paradise
26. Penny
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30. Harvest
32. Circulate, run
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37. High craggy hill
40. , Van Egmond (military rank)
41.' Beirut capital- of
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Township north of McKillop
Pin bowling
Queen of the
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Central Intelligence Agency (abbr.)
Near.
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Senior (abbr.)
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Aglow, Blazing
by Norman Hubley
of Main
(abbr.)
15 6
1? Main St. 527-Caol0
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SEAFORTH, WARM, MAY 27, 1881
Like t good old days
Member Canadian Community Newspaper Association, Ontario Weekly
Newspaper Association and Audit Bureau of girculation
The streets were busy with people having a good time. Stores were full
of browsers and buyers. Some merchants were run off their feet.
The Lions and Optimists sold hundreds of hot dogs and beef burgers. A
whole lot of people were introduced to Seaforth stores and a Seaforth
good time and they'll no doubt be back.
it was Friday night and SeaferO'a Midnight Madness, the _most:
successful promotion downtown merchants have organized in a long
time.
After months of meetings, discussions and a great deal of hard work by
a number of merchants-who -volunteered their time to organize events
that will benefit the whole town, a good time was had by all.
Friday, • Seaforth merchants proved that working together brings
results, that shoppers are interested in what our town has to offer- once
we tell them about it - and that even a special occasion, like Kiompen
Feast in a neighbouring town will not bite into crowds here if we offer an
interesting evening.
Midnight Madness proves Seaforth merchants can promote the town
effectively but one big event does not a lifetime make. There's still a big
lob to be done in organizing a whole year of special events here;
budgeting, planning and other committee work are. necessary. If
merchants want it, there will , be BIA money available next year;
budge ting and planning should'. be done now.
Hopefully the, success of Midnight Madness will encourage more
people on Main St. to get involved; organizer have scheduled a meeting
Monday night at the town hall to talk about all of the above.
We were impressid by fun, the crowds and the action at Midnight
Madness. And reading Jim Stewart's excellent story of the history of
Stewart Bros., on the history page thiS week, (also, because of the firm's
long record here, sort of a Main St. history too), we were„struck by his
description of the old days when Stewarts and neighbouring stores were
open 8 to 6 daily and ill midnight. on Saturdays.
We imagine Seaforth was • busy on those Saturday nights' then. If
everyone works together Seaforth can be busy again. Midnight Madness
proved it.
Another death
It's not even the first Item on the national news 'any more. Somewhere
along, third or.fourth item perhaps, the announcer tells us another Irish
prisoner on a hunger strike has. died.
' A slow,1 agonizing, totally unnecessary death, in an attempt to get
political status for .prisoners the British government calls terrorists.
Starving to death.
The roots of the Irish conflict are painful and deep. On a visit to the
north some , years ago we' were saddened -by the utter ignorance of
Catholics and Protestants in 'Ulster of each other. .‘
" "-There was no working together, living together, socializing. Each side
seemed to have managed to de-humanize the people on the other side. To
a fifth generation Ulster Protestant, the Catholics he happened to share a
country with were as frightening, strange and unknowable as Martians.
And vice- versa.
Such de-humanizing is necessary, of course, if you are to- kill each
other, teach your children to hate each other and encourage strife
between two groups. In Ireland, it's worked very well.
Strife there is rooted in economic causes too, and there's no doubt that
Northern Ireland's Roman Catholics were discriminated against,
oppressed sin fact, 'until recent years.
But we don't see deaths piling -upon deaths in the North's prisons as
solving a thing.
British prime minister 'Margaret Thatcher will not be moved. Neither
will the IRA hunger strikers.' One, preferably both, is going to have to
give 'a little.
But as the rest Of the world, and those in Ireland who want peace, 1pok,
on in horror, the history of the place and what we know of its psychology
don't leave room for a whole lot of hope.
Quietly out of business
Canada's small arid medium-sized businesses are being clobbered
by high interest rate's.
The evidence: bankruptcies and receiverships are at the, highest
level in, years and that's only the tip of the iceberg. Most sniall firms
that fail never .show up in the statistics.
Many entrepeneurs simply pay off the bills,and quietly go out of the
business. ,
In addition, the smaller firms that have been creating a majority of,
the country's new jobs, have, in most cases, simply pi gpon-holed
expansion plans while interest rates are iii the 20 percent range.
While the impact of high interest rates is felt by businesses big and
small,..thaindependPnts tend-to be- hit harder because- most of them
borrow on a short-term basis.
It's true,.c,onsurners are also paying the high fates, but at least they
can negotiate deals with lenders that fix interest rates for a two, three
of four year term.
For indipendent businesses, though the situation is somewhat
different.
Most entrepeneurs have what are called demand loans, and the rate
increases Immediately-with every rise in the bank's prime rate. That's
the rate the banks charge their most credit worthy customers.
Because of the horrendous rate increases during the. last few
months, smaller retailers have been. placed in a real bind.
With inventories at the highest level of the year during the holiday
season, -their high cost loans are aido at a peak. of .
if the retailers don't sell the merchandise and pay off the loans, they
are forced to continue paying the high interest in the new year.
In many eases, this may be good news for consumers.
&taller retailers are Slashing prices to sell their goods, perhaps
even losing Money on some items.
Gdderich Signal 6tar,
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Jurou fxpositor
Since 1860, Serving the Community first