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summer time is accident time. At least that's the way it must. seem to
readers of this newspaper. Aimost every week local people are injured in
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Thisweek we've got bad news again of a car-bike accident, the sort
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to dwell on the horror of what might have happened. Like all our readers
we're glad the young rider escaped with'his life. ..........1
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rules with their children? This time of year a bike safety talk might ,,,,,,, -� R_� , . 1�
Include a prohibition.against riding on the highway, Period. Main roads -� r* _ _• _. -, ,f
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this summer are crowded with travellers, many of th@fir in a hurry. r
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Can we make a plea too to drivers to slaw down and be extra cautious :: kC, _ �"# r , �►� . #
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he rest Of the summer? About other drivers and pedestrians as well
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We don't like reporting veh�ccidents and injuries every week. And
we're darn sure no ane enjoys reading about them. But unfortunately
•Tiley happen. They don't have to though. If every day one of us on. the
road was more safety conscious Seaforth and area pould be -accident free. ,
We'te dreaming, You say?
Can we at least give it a try?
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congratialations.
r Walton' ns who visited out of town
4Z7AUGUST 19, 18811 included: Mr. and,Mrs. Clarence Bennett in
Seaforth `gained national recognition last . weekend, thanks to the Messrs. Jackson Bros. of Egmondville St. Thomas; Mrs. Jahn Watt with relatives. in
overwhelming success of local athelete Johnny Nielsen at- the Canada i have their brick"cider mill completed and are In theyears a one Blyth. un man set a Canada Games record, and won a w in full runnin o eration. � Action 3 s vol
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gold medal in shat ,put and a Silver in discus. W.J. Dickson of Walton intends shipping Strong objection was voiced to any
The credit of course goes to Johnny, a dedicated athlete who's put in from Goderich on Saturday sixteen horses, curtailment v existing C.N.R. service when
• destined -for Dakota. They will be taken to representatives of municipalities affected
g g y yea y Duluth -boat, thence a Fargo by rail. AUGUST24,1906 P Y met in Seaforth Thursday,.evening. Arranged .
hours of trainin and learning overman years. But it's shared b his d expert at this business and always makes a
pat@rite and family who've encouraged' him, his coaches ineludirtg his John Beattie of the firm of Beattie Bros. of good job. by Mayor E. A. McMaster of Seaforth and
Owing to his largely increasing business Seaforth has sold his brick block on Main Amon a number of fine residences now tri'
high-school coach Terry Johnston and just a little bit by the Seaforth Neil Hill of Egmondville has found it g Mayor J. E. Harkins of Goderich, the
Ole p{B Wh0'V@ long admired and supported him. necessary to enlarge and otherwise improve Street, consisting of the store occupied by course of erection in Hensall we have meeting was attended by Mayor A. E.
hi If and ,that occupied by Kennedy pleasure in reporting that of George Brawn of Robinson of •Mitchell; Mayor W.J. Miller of
Seaforth will gain.na►tianai recognition again,rrext summer when our his tannery. '" /A ers with the residence on the second the- firm of Brown and Clark, carriage Clinton and representatives of industry in
vvel{ respected SQHS Girls: Trumpet Band plays at the Calgary Stampede. The Red Mill of Seaforth has undergone a' storey makers : their town. Also present were members :of
The band, under director Charlie Kalbfieisch and a group of parents and general course of repairs and the new Beatrice Robinson of Egmondviiie has
Messrs. Sclater and Dolphin Mr: James Dick is the�purchaser,the parliament, J. W. Monteith of Stratford; L. E:
supporters, has launched an ambitious campaign to raise' funds ($40 000)
proprietors P been visltin her friends in Stratford and
► announce themselves ready for work of all • price being $4000. g ' Cardiff Brussels and. M. Howe of Arthur.
for the Calgary trip: W@ wish thr3irl well,and are sure Seaforth people will kinds in their tine, a Frank Marshall of Seaforth who has been Belgrave for the past week. A heavydownpour. accompanied b any
Michael Doyle of Dublin has added uite killing for thebeef rings east of here and-who � elec�iical storm hilt this district' 'about 8:30
give the. support. y 9 AUGUST 21,1931
h ' best in. Canada in his field. An unusual girls' band an addition to his blacksmith shop.. He is has been giving good satisfaction, intendsaC.fhe tromeoflv[r-. antivtr: Geo"- a ,Monday morning. During the height of tNe
An athelete w o s b s Hills in Egmondville last week were Mr. and storm a barn on the farm of Jake Reder,' R. R.
that's well on its way to g alning a national reputation. Who says gond working up a very, large business hire owing engaging again for next season. g Mrs. Clemence. Mildred Clemence. Mr. and
to his mechanical abilities and "very steady 'Thomas.Carr of -Brucefield is -buildin the 2 Bayfield was struck by lightning and burned
things don't t ons fio 'Seandrthood luck to the band: habits. cement sidewalk to the station. Tommv is an Mrs. Niclvor of Oshawa and Miss Cokbledick to the ground despite .efforts'of the Bayfield
_ of Orong. fire department who con fined the blaze to
- g Y g k William Sholdice of Tuckersmitb and Mrs. the barn.
Orval Holmes of Seaforth motored to •Detroit Robert Bell Industries employees 'held a
•' • last week. Mr. Sholdice.hastreated himself to successful picnic in Jowett's Groye, Bayfield,
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anew Dashcar. Saturday afternoon. Neatly ail the employt is t j Lloyd Davis recently of London and ees, wives and children were present to enjoy
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formerly ''of Toronto and who spent his the racesi, supper and wiener roast:
• .;The editorial cartoon pictured what a lot ^^ - • • heights.. The companies could literally buy boyhood n Hensall has returned to our Egmondville School where hundreds •of
III Canadians feel. Three surgeons worked ' ` '' up all. of Canada with_ their windfall gains village together with his wife and are making ,'district children learned their. three . R's
over a "parieto" libelled' "the economy." - h t n d . t e s ens on oil. H they chose not to keep their money their. home for the present with Mrs. 'Davis's shortly will be enlarged. A contract for an
The tht�ee surgeons looked lice Frame in Canada the dollar would plunge anyway mother cornet of Nelson and Richmond addition has been awarded to John Lansink,
Keith R o u l s til n _ g Seaforth and work will et underway. shortly'.
M,nister, Ttudesu, Finance Minister Allan �?y iiom the erc�t of profits: Street. south. Since comm here he has been g
MacEaehen and Energy, Minister Marc The govema meat most do something to, suddenly realized, he claimed, that with Thli'guy in the oil filter ad says, "you can making great improvements in the home and Visiting •last .week with Mrs. Stackhouse
Lalonde but it was hard to.tell fdr Bare: pay me now or around the premises, and Mc. and-Mrs. Mac Wilson of Brueefield .
give confidence back to. 'the country the rise in.oil`prices since the OPEC cartel pay me later". That`seems Mrs. Foster Bennett., Huron Road spent "were: Mr. and Mrs. Ellwood Statkhouse,
Their snrglcal masks weren't over their because' if "it doesn't, the panic 'will see got going in the early 1970's, the--value of m be the situation Canadians 'are :in in the weekend with herMr. and Mrs. arents Wilton Grove;
mouths but over their eyes. some of necessary policies washed away the oil owned by foreign companies but still f Dreigti, ownership. We might as well Payr Mr. and,Mrs. Stapleyale,
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' There is'-aittle-•faitli "in the government ��8wi
th its stupid ones. in the ground, had risen to alarming now and hope to get it over with. George Eaton of Winthrop. Pat and Ron of Glencoe.
days. The dollar has been fairing, 'It is frightening to set the t-anawan -
inflation and :interest rates have been dollar'in such horrible shape and already"-
soaring and the Rpvernmtnt put us through .,exppem" ate coinnng up with solutions. •
a lengthy postal strike only to .give in in the The dollar is weak, they say, because of the Tru
king run and give the postal union ,nearly
wanted. while It 8 �` going FO � . once, -eau i� _hu a nu her of dallatsout of the i
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everything it anted people country to pay for.indtigdes_beitig_taken.
home mr .sick- worry-'the-prime over- here in tatuuli by Canadians. Their
Minister is in Africa vacationin and Mr. ..
g solation" is to slow, of even -stop stop the , HE'S RIG14T...for once. appliances, automobile, `holidays in the ,
MacEseben ff vacationing back. home in take-over of our industry by Canadians, Prime Minister Trudeau suggested a while Sugar and �'h ice south, and a short work week, right after they
Naysi'Scotii,'both apparently uncencerned. Whether they be government agencies or back that Canadians had never had it so good. are married.
Baric home Jot 'Click has been ion- private business acting on incentives from As usual, his rather abrasive bluntness raised They feel deprived if they don't have a
derned alright: worry spread all over his B y Bill i$ m 1 I e y
h fie iexcep!'maybe at the'cotners of government. Instead they would make the a good many hackles, but by gofiy, he was patio, an expensive barbecue outfit, a power
incentives ,good for foreigners to invest in right. At least in one sense-materialistically. mower, a freezer., a boat, a van. you name It.
his mouth 'which he tries to keep from Canada and buy, , up. even, more of our . Despite our increasing panic about infla- security. (try that sometime), and my half-frozen infant in with his mother until the And because your friendly bank manager
Winning_ at the tress'the Liberals ate in), country tion and pollution'and the shrinking dollar take-home income was about $35 a week. It . lace was not unbearabl cold. We thought j practically
It's hard to take Mr. Clark too seriously " was like purchasing our own personal P Y g or ovist finance companyeept atr force
These same experts from the financ- and the .increasing taxes, we're so much.. P g Y P we wens in diver: ! loans on them, they get,in so deep that when a
however because While he. complains about W community, pile up praise on the actions better off in the sense of worldly goods than albatross and tying `it about your, own neck. And theta another place with another young bit ul•a crunch or recession comes along, they
high rntemst'rates' he defended them only'a of Ronald Iteigan down in-the states withmost other people in the world, that our Certainly, it's a pity that; young couples couple and then another with another young' weep , and will and demand that the
year or so ago when he was in power. He policy of short term pain for long term gloom and doom attitude would be laughable, have little Hope today of buying a house. even couple. By this time. there four uf',.a and government do something about it.
' got in to power of, course because he was 8 • h seems from_here• that�if-Canadians were it not a bit pitiable.. with both of them working. When 1 was their four of them, You could heat their kids 'I worked my ass tdthe bone, about60 hours
tinft it_ie,;govel i>tg Liberals for their
want to gain•control of their' ecopomy they Certainly interest rate's are horrific. but our age. my. chances of buying a house were'just screaming and they could hear yours. You a week, and so did my wife, before *e could
°high interest rate the I;iberals got bflrk have to be willing to pay the price in the ability to pay them is probably better than it as remote, or moreso. could hear the other coir le fi htin and the y
P. B g Y afford an of these thinks. In thoseays your
is PQM by b111iFNng' the 'Caths for theirshort tetra for the long term gain. During was 35 years ago. 'whey standard interest And in those days, very few couples had could heat you. smiting bank manager worean habitual
high interest rates. Perhaps the thing th'af' the 1950 s we lead the pleasure of seeing rates"weir about five per cent. two incomes, because we could not plan our Finally', we had a -house all to ourselves, expression of dour disapproval. You'd swear
has Mr. Clark so concerned Is that there's family, as you can today, Oh, we tried, but coin` fete with mortgage.As 1 recall, the
our dollar stranger than the Americans Whenlwentintobusinessaboutthattime. Piheioanwascomingoutofhisownpocket.He
not an glection in sight so he .can once ever so often another i•'rttle strap gr would
igaiagetaebangeingmernmen#without -but what did it get us? The dollar was i had to borrow alma,t 530,000. with no Y g, mortgage payments were S35 �a month, might loan you 500 if you had 10,000 in
pop into the family. and there was -no such practically for life. And believe it or not. we security.
even having to tOWrIte his pitches from stronger money
in t buy up he were bringing - ty'•
thing as the motfier dropping the infant otr,"a, fell behind' in our payments. But we loved,it. Vt
two elections ago (Qerha�he cared also their money is to bop up the majorityioarof our y_ y This lace had. a • real furnace and a fair How many kids today get out and make
businesses. We vette foaling ourselves baby-sitter. or into a day-care centre, and Ptheir own money? Tknow many teenagers do,
beep'the coat of the election. down by TD the edif oe: rushing back to her job. amount ofproperty. The furnace was of the
selling copies of his speeches from the last with. our smugness and we've been paying 4- but most youngFr kids ,get, an allowance to
Our first home Was sone-room fiat, with a coal•variet and from trying to keep it ora
efecfion to the Prune -lutinister who could �' it ever since. if, wit some experts say; it Y• Y B P • 8 • g• blow on pop, :junk foods, records, And those
folding couch, a two-burner gas stove, and a i finally realized why father, a cnile, a
dttn•nat bother with a slieechwriter•) doesn't matter who owns your industry as •_ Y Y ,mY g �� star war electronic games which have
longi as they provide jobs, whys. akO the `�LL ,�„� bathroom up the stairs and along a hall in. uiet-s oken man, used to o to the
A IC1ff Olt FEAR �OI'.. 1.[!� 1'r�tD�. 4 P g replaced the old pinball machines.
A cycle of fear is starting in the country, Americans so concerned when Canadians which people were frying things• mostly basement and 'send up a volcano of profanity How many kids today in this country ever
tliekindotthivatttatliukearibad situation stilt buying up their businesses? Contrary to the somewhat biased account onions. It cost $50 a month. and our total„ accompanied by shovel-banging of the old
the ki Evtr bane a paries bad situ has WEAK DOLLAR by the half-wit-tresses on the Bad Bad New income was $80 a month, furnace. go hungry? How many farmers, despite their
Our next abode was a ate u f X70 a outcries, are Forced off the land because they,
tile` 'outelde. the bouni�a,,�ries Of the If the Masan the dollar is so weak is the
Beavers team, we know we are the envy of the P P• My point is that it took it,. nearly 1 O years to
'ccitt>it ' iii the Iasi, decade have said gtnadiatilzation of Otte own industry then it town with out chic designel shirts and month, we had a heal bedroom, a real kitchen acgitjre a real house of our own. and we were can't meet'their mortgages, compared to the
•� `• `°" People $k ct to ,Uwe are undying spirits. The Van Egmand Phantoms and a real dining-living room, All furnished' still up to the navel in debt. Along about the Dirty Thirties?
he sliattirl be '—staying home looking seems i reasonable Qtr pay. y P eighth hth ear, we bought out first car. Y P
tests Instead.. Most tunes seem -a reverse past tnistalce . If can't will haunt those bad Beavers an dam lace from second•h&rid dealers• but with a g Y g How ratan billions of dollars do we spend
.=may we find them:- precious private entrance, a bit of backyard second•hattd, naturally.- on booze, cigarettes and other poisons. when
thio is silly nbnisettsetrut now Is'probably an t ff to be easy". But we must eoMtal
ohvn colla tRre _ y rritl`be Our , reputation precedes us- we have and a loopy old landlady. y y B p P y eo le another countries are literally starving
tet a st. The 'tot►eriYndetlt iuiWt given the our. 1� . Pa Then we took a real lea T' wonder• how than" our eo le lode people
Hurd the Edttiotiton bTish• already been challenged by Topnotch (who p, stearin a house p •eat, to death. Think it over, friends, and give
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Nckry svaak Vie; a and fit Madet..a the com►miittee, Eric child. Two bedrooms. living room, kitchen, p g y y his lemic. l had to
ri hteousness ,prevail. g a attnrents, ricin without so the could bar At the beginning of polemic.
yio i�: can see t sigma o$ panic in the an. Independent Ics"di � out g Grudginglyottrs. .share the bath. 1 get up every motning in admitTrudeau*asri ht It hurt to do so. But
tdcently that federal erntuent its Van modaritoitis uvintet, light the stove in the living-room, a t►o4nede� groan wan couples do l did add t c ward materialistically. r t N1ttMCizs The a lr Iwon rialistically. Ithink we
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'�°rind y hitt 1tl'•lottgait illi! 1>►- - h " he watts• s, and et a real blaze never had it so bad in the other diteCtii►n:
' ��� �.'�� atltttictes ltd oU' indttstxy Writ so niuch firoxn This is being sir p l' g rat have at least oat car. to seems that•they •.. .
deslti~e rift necessity. 'Clic goverittitetrt taken in the right spirit. V,E:E: l'hantomsl going in the kttchc stove. tocsin the • - s u>itually.
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