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Published at SEAFORTH. ONTARIO every Wednesday afternoon October 2l.1881 Mr. and Mn. Wil Carl,
by McLean Bros. Publishers Ltd. An immense number of cattle and sheep .90 Me- n homFof
ped from Seaforth now by In the sits a ,and
visited Over S4 day at the mith.
are being, ship rt Harvey of Tuckers
Andrew Y. McLean, Publisher Messrs. Case. Messrs. Thos Govealock. Mr. and Mrs, Albert d 'Son, popular
Messrs. Fred He��s an
erecting and expect to get it and
Susan White, Editor moved and p4it in
Rotmrt Winters. John Cowa I n. an�d other place andwillf0ft as* monumeritof credit to jewellers of HOMO( have ing
drovers. the -enterprise and liberlklityqMe Methodist place this week. changes; and improvements in the interi6rvf
Charles Woods of Seaforth has purchased people of this pl*ce and vicinity. G. M. Chesney's sale of sheep on Saturday another Week or so
their shop and intend in,
Member Canadian Community Newspaper Association. Ontario the skin of the monster bear which was shot in A privaie bank i's spoken of for Hensall and last was larrly attended and was veru
adding another line of'bosiness
Weekly-Newsparw, Association and Audit Bureau of Circulation the township of Grey a couploof wopks #go by we understand is soon bout 160 head were disposed
a to be started.. It will satisfactory, ooebw%, 1W
ranging $1,2,to $�2 *Wr pith. Mr, Smith. He is having the skin tanjod. by dQubtici' s 'Prove, g, convenience. Whe truck he was driving,
"n a tire on..tbo,
s of animal 0061W 26, 1�" Gordon McD
_great �lze since the 4 imal� prIalopf Walton. ac�comp;q,,, Seafodh escepled
Mr.-Prott., t i! blew QUA, Jack. M44wou,
have bee - s M jurXTuesdAywhq�AthegMVCIt -Crjshqd
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i's" n1m;1 and Wis,"Q)� boars rem, 4ning mill, build
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boy s.;%4d� unty. for the, tioX table,
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monster matigol , s and'carrots 0,ut John. other iijo qnd th ricks Is of $e;(Qrth, no n'e&tly torgied and ing rs
00' trip all competitor i got on the rse-in-training at 'a
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$90ORM ONTARIO, OCTOBER 21, 1,981 Gibson can round in readiness. across hasbeen smoothed.
growing these roots. This yearbe grew over The.au tion sale ofThomas )3roorno.nthe St., Joseph s, Hospital, London, speat the Mr.and- ji. William Befinettarld Mr. and
ents. Mr. and -Bobble and, Wendy
700. of diangels from half an acre of 9th.Foncession on Frida last was a most weekend at the home of her par
. Y 'Mrs. Stewart Humphries,
0 bushels that will exceed 20 pounds i�r. Cows -Went C. Smith of Seaforth has rent and Mrs. John Bennett et an
rtvtnff land and of this number he has. over a successful on Mrs. Frank Sills. of Walton were, guests at the home of Dr.
There Wks a good attendance
Bictn M -hundred b and high prices were & ord' New Mark
1.11�jht d d five weeks' old Closes't It ed E.H.
each its weight, when dressed. He also grew from $3s to s4S an house on Jarvis Street. until recently Sunday.
200 bushels of carrots as the product of; one pigs sold for $4.15 each. The who J& sale occupied by F. W. Darroch.
A community concerned about a rash of car accidents, involving quarter pound of seed. totalled a good sum. qV10k44 An interesting game of football was played Mrs. George Hill of Sesforth and her sister
teenagers as this community is, might be interested In'a suggestion The new Methodist parsonage in Walton is Messrs. Hoegy Brothers have purchased on Wednesday afternoon by St. Patrick's of Edmonton visited Sunday with their
f rom California. Out there an Insurance research group has suggested about finished and is on of the most a new tbrity-horse power steam engine. for Separate School boys and St. Columban boys, cousins, Mr. and Mrs. Emm I Orson Kyle and
that teenagers -be allowed to drive only In daylight hours... handsome and comfortable residences in the use in their new factory which they are—the score being 1-2 in favQrof Dublin. Clayton sons.
Nes. It points to the fact that
,That, the researchers say,' will save' li
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traffic A—Widents. And More than half the accidents occur at night, with
drinking, especially among males, a major cause. . in so-m-.e,'hru1*9'ed,.,
nearly 50 per cent of deaths of Americans 'aged 16 to 19 hre caused by S o o t h,1 0 nerves,
While we realize the idea Is controversial, especially with teenagers
who'll -have visioris of their social lives being seriously curtailed, if it'l I
Before l'begin my homily for this week, I a second'cup of coffee. I could hear her
save lives we sayt-it's worth considering. would like to soothe some bruised nerves. explaining to two of her fellow workers just
"And so Is another point the researchers suggest: raising the legal Last week I criticized one of the tellers at One day, at a, time what had happened. She was attempting to
drinking age to 21 and .driving age to 18. the Bell Canada office in Stratford. I justify her reaction to the teens, who seemed
to feel they, could hold up traffic in the shop
We're not' -so sure about a third recommendation, a suggestion that suggested in my column that the woman by Jim Hagarty
f6rag-loagetthey:liked iRidwere disgruntled
ade. -me feel
driver education programs in high,ap"Ools be abolished, Come on now, purposely, in
yo nal" as bit tense at the delay the teenagers were to discover they couldn't.
-U_sa criminal' I was paying in' person a Allan Fotheringham. was probably on
telephone one i I causing. Well the California researchers reason that driver ed promotes the I have since learned that as as teller, the many proble s..in human relationships and I her side, the woman in the coffeephop looked
ficencing of more 16- and 17-year-olds and as a result increase the woman would not likely even have known my witnessed.a good example of that this week. The woman finally- said, much more loudly . unhappy at the way things had turned out. As
than she probably intended. "Weill What do
chances of a teen --being -involved "in a traffic: accident. credit standing with Bell and therefore would I was sitting in a coffee shopq in the city on she served. me. another ,cup, Lsaid to her,
You people want?" "The business will survive without their
have no reason to judge me as either a good or juesday, reading the paper and relaxing. A
We'd say driver ed als6 puts-betterteenager drivers on the road, but bad customer. Furthermore. I am told that group of about 15 well-dressed high school Visibly angered and hurt, the teens shot money, won't it?"
perhaps even that criticism is Worth considering. What do you think? the three tellers at the Bell office are not students (obvigusly oil a bus trip of some -kind Now. ther could have been a different
back a few caustic remarks, turned on their
unfriendly and do not make it a practice to and strangers to the area) bounced through heels and -left the coffee shop v4t scenario to the whole episode. U the woman
bout could haul taken the time to explain to the
treat customers as I explained, I was treated. the front door of the busy shop. laughing and ordering. As the last one was leaving, she
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Could it be that my own sense of guilt over having a good time. They turned everyone's turned quickly and sarcastically advised the youths why she wanted them to order as
quickly as possible- and if the youths could
TO" the editor'. being late withatypaymentled me to imagine heads with their banter. but took up a great woman behind the counter to "Have a good
that the woman behind the counter ' was deal of space -and time while they shuffled in day!". have explained. to the woman why they
wanted to just take their time that sunny
entertaining ill thoughts about �me? front of the counter trying to decide what
Yost That could be and probably is the kinds of donuts and drinks they would order. The woman whose comment had enraged afternoon, everyone might have been happy.
Let's skate outside
correct explanation and -I take back- the Alrrow There were other -unserved,customers in the the unhappy teens looked upset. She - As it Was, misunderstanding spoiled a
People. Too
I sent aloft last week. It is not the purpose of place as wet and I could see that the young probably had not wanted to lose 15 customers portion of the day for quite a few
We have no arena,this winter, but maybe I am sure many of your readers have skated 'column, t6 hurt people.
ople. I am not another woman behind the coming a in o no, swip r bad.
this e counter was, be e. As I approached the counter fo
outside and enjoyed it long before an arena
next yen? Okay I said it, now let's get down OY
to a possible alternative. What is wrong with was built, and have fond memories of the
ion is local stating .rink..j know I do.
an open air rink???? One possible location
• the Optimist Park (with their petinission). It No, harm in trying this idea. With all the
is alogical place, asthey have thefacilifies for snow we get
our advantage for a change? I know this is no ow outwhy not use Mother Nature to
s, lkn"i a changing area. and a food booth. But theywould need help. The members of this solution' to arltust-community shoul1 approach this Club and might make a lot of young people happy, orvery charitably. not to have children. We
some ce travel,malst, them. lf*ey are wil lof us grownups. Just for now. As we progress into the age of spaof&r ling to go i even', have -that choice today which our grandpar-
nuclear power and computers. the worldflong with the idea. Think of the possibilities. F.R. Teatero Behnd the s'cenes�seems to, be ever more complicated. even ents �didn't. thanks to unprecidentedly
r by Keith R,oqlston dependable birth control measures.
j. some of the things that, have always beenmost basic. whole and therefore the employer and the training of children t�han a neighbour even-ifrStilli"despite these -convenient methods to
Now take my grandmothers for instance.government (which in this case is the same they areonly 21 years old and never hadaOne raised five children. the other four and stop inconvenient pregnancies. many couples
thing) should pay the mother for time off. child of their own while the neighbour hasfor them tht only complicated thing was how face a further grievous decision. Finding
by,Elaine Town-sheild A nother group of workers in Toronto are raised six children who all turned out to be themselves in the family Way they must
to keep food in their stomachs and clothes o%. taking childbearing even, more seriously. 6 •. ne members of society.. decide if it is right to bring an unwanted child
their backs.� Today they would have 'le�s They are demanding not 1-7 weeks but 20 into theworld. Many are deciding that for a
trouble keeping their brood in the basic weeks (nearly 5 months) off at the time of Of course if We had been taken to court over vbildtoc*rrythe burden. of knowledge - thatWs'wanderlust tfiiie� comforts of life but they might get 'ulcers gotten- offhow complex ralsifig childrdn birth. and not just for the. mother but for the the negligence,vie might have his arrival deprived his parents of having a
reafutn fitther too. 'it is important for th early because we had no real alternative. You seehas become, video-tape recorder or that trip1h Fiji theyA s autumn leaves failing one by out•to the matter the time ot yeavand "time-outs" are You see m grandparents. even my deve * lopment of the child. they say. that both that cheapskate government isn't providing had beencounting on would be too -much for
getting harder to find. parents, tho Y parents beon, hand get the child off to a enough money to provide proper day care his little psyche so they are aborting the child
ground- and Canada Geese are calling an their ght; kigeping their children good start. facilities,for people. What's more, protesters'Everyone needs io taike a breather now and materially u to save him from all that.
waysouthward bqqp4, many awingless spirit comfortable,. giving ample a- BACKTOWORK at Queens Park pointed out the othei day, theagain. Everyone needs to relax, and mostlongs totake fliot and soar over,woods, hills mounts. of love. and adequate amounts. ofAnd Ikkeslo sc;We far off sboire. important, everyone needs to take the time to diicipline was all that was required to raise Now once that maternity (or paternity) people who dd work in day care centres are. Yes my grandmothers would'find'it hard to
leavi is o or the parents will have to -go h.aCk, grossly underpaid. Our hopelessly'old-fash-
enjoy the good thinp around them before., children, Today they would know that unless' v understand ill the coimpl, icationsof modern
Most wanderlust souls, though. have out to work I okipand the child, will have to go ioned poli6cians still seem to feel that ofeet firmly anchored in the rich plowed soil of those good things iie gone. you've taken a four-year honours degree in childbliring. Of course they were women of
somewhere. When we werei raising our after a child is the responsibility of theSouthwestern Ontario. And, when we take a it is easy to take pleasantries for granted. early childhood education you are unfit to be family that often 'Meant to a neighbour who parents, not the state. little education. mithout even high school
We assume they will always be there for us to diplomas let alonecollege degrees. Come to
look around, we discoverit's a good place to around young children. babysat the child-uptil the parents got back SERIOUSBURDENbe. enjoy whenever we have the time. Often we Never before has something so natural as from work. How shameful. We should have think of. it they're, the kind of women who
don't realize how wrong we are until it is too raising the n"t generation been taken tol been thrown in jail for negligence., Imagine Many young couples today are taking the --some people Iwould say, shouldn't even be
Many people, who, are busy at all times of late. seriously. Take for instance, the postil leaving an impressionable child in the hands burden 4 -of- -raising children even more allowed to have children todayv. Thank
As the old saying goes. all good things workers recently won the right of 17 -wee -k f sonfe amateur at child care. that child seriously. Noting how frightening the mod - goodness they bad their children half a
the year, and manypeople, whose minds are salways occupied with practical thoughts, must come to an end and autumn is no, paid matter leave because. according to should have been iii -in a proper day care ern world has become they have decided that century and more•agoor I wouldn't be here, at
Itresistslowingthe"Wripaceto take stock of exception. The beautyofthe fall season is an them P all., Of course nifther would a lot of the
can ai ing the next generation is not the centre run byproper graduates of child care' it would beounfair to bring a child into thisthe beauty arotind'thern'. especially fleeting thing. responsib ity of th6 parents but society a's a courses who know far more about the proper chamber of horrors so they have d,ecided. "ejcperts" of today.
In summer, we stoplib''iinell the roses The romance will end. The gorgeous leaves
along the way to remind us of our blessings. will mat the ground and the work of raking
i ;tutu n 0 r eyes d .nk in-lbe spectacular will be es will
n -m -gin in earnest, Stark branchours of 6sture's palette- colours brushed stand against a grey sky when the sun
colon the landscape by an unseen hand. becomes & stranger again.
The sun sbone on us for most of the Rain will probably fall,turriing the fieldThanksgiving weekend., In spite of 'the muddy. Mornings will begin quietly wDandtheone .s mbst of the birds are gone. Nights willproble=thstplaguedusbefore ou eveave. one othose SOwe knew were sure to follow. it was three days become longer and days colder.. Morningthat made us sit back and appreciate the god frost will become a familiar happening.For #while, the panorama will look barrewthings,we had. Some days you can't make a nickel. This afternoon off, because the vultures from the
lt• was a welcome break in an otherwise and bleak. until one day we'll awaken to a ne of them. After fighting off a, universitieswillbehere, lookingfor,anything
sparkling field of white- the beginning�of the was o Suaarund o"icehectic season. For many people. life seems to last-minute ilecision to attend a fighter-pi7 that, breathes and isstill warm.
be getting -busier and more complicated no beauty of another season.lots' reunion last weekend. Ithoughtthe gods By Bill Smiley
might give me a break and,,start me off rightBy great good luck, catch a friend, Ray
o this week. leave coming to me. And believe me I would peanut butter on bread and half of a banana. Holt, who will not only drive me home, but• I secretly wasn't mad about going to the be sick. No paper. Mildly Irritated, The,contract, I has battery cables. Does so. He pushed car
convention. Since I was attached to a R.A.F. Phoned - -the bus station. No afiswer. signed said that the paper %WlI be placed out of garage. He's,too, strong. Car goes
omething to say squadron, with only -about three Canadians Several times., Phohed the buddy who had between the doors before 8 a.m. It is hurled backwards likeAjet, Ileap, open door, scrape
on it, my old fighter pilot friends. are for the called me. No answer. Phoned the other old anywhere within 40 feet of my back door. leg In doing so, dropglAsses and step on them
by Susan White most part dead. or scattered all over the buddy. He was -half -sloshed, introduced. me When it arr-lves. in doing so, hit brakeand wind, up three
world.• to his wife (last time I slaw him he w inches from telephone pole.
Otitheotherhand.Ihadtwooldbuddiesin I ith'Will be� back next week Will .45 -yep., 'old bachelor), had a nice ta k t Got in the car. Turned the key. Zilch.
the big city'. and one of them dropped a tine to her. invited them up for some -cross-country Bless,him. fie gets me going. Run up the
Discovered I'd left the lights on sill night. Not car for five minutes to charge battery ..Put
ask if tweregoing. At the point of no return. I skbing. was invited to t eir place for dinner. time for a booster from friends or ntighb�urs.decided to go. At least I could tell them I was $',nd discovered 'he wasn't going to the car in garage. Restart engine, Just to be surd.
0 still flying, iti the scars from my crash-land- convention. First one he's ever missed Set out on foot, Eight long blocK jail uphill, Ar-ar-argrutit-silence.
ini in the rock garden would prove. Still had That's Wives for you'. and my new arch support killing my �fhot.
Nobody. even glanced my way as I looked
tape on my forehead. abluish-yellow eye. and I decided to give it up. By this time my wifeopitiabl� about every time a car came along Phone, Ray. Not in yet, Rush to typewriter.
denied because ice will be a gashed nose. had four shirts ironed. A real botlus. for bot .bebi,�&. Arrived as the national anthem was Column day. Sit dazed before typewriter.
At its regular October and the use of& siwer sucker My wife, bless her, Whobad been covertly of us. then I started rationaliz(hg. as we d thinking a few nasties aboirt the gods. Ray -
meeting Seafoth councicon. for cleaning catch basins aavailable at the Vafikstra rink hoping .1 would forget., it. fell into my I,Who wants go see all those did guys wi grinding to wdose. comes back, gives me another battery boost.
derthe following 'mat- S45 per. The &patet ah has rented at the enthusiasm. started ironing shirts and- White hair. potbellies and imaginations thai By this time I need either a tranquillizer or
I will remove and store the town's 1990-81 rates. Thirtyrainutes later, the old lady phoned
ng socks. I had insisted to her that I completely distort the fact that theywere some speid.
W-otks superintendent; Terry Fox, Memorial fountain Rec director Bryan Peter P&C" never great fighter pilots. likemyself. And"'. -and said thefurnd�c was on the blink, what
w6uld skip the receptions. a euphemism forJohn Fortestlls not happy at Victoria Park for the was promoted from level 3 1 1 and, get in touch remember In vivid detail thing� that never should she do? I felt like telling her, in no(517,371) to 4 at a salary of drunken cocktail Parties strained myself. it'sRoar car around 10 blocks. charging
with the new pager which winter. I�vlth mydaughter and gradboys. just across happened?" uncertain ternis. but re battery. Wife thinks I've gone',berserk and
workselloutoftownbutnot A public works employee $17.9411 per year, effective difficult, with an entire furnace.the river In Hull. OX Let's get back to the theme. as Ii here in Sesforth add *ill v4s given permission to ap� Od. 19, just headed off to slam Into a tree or go ovdt
With the -lightning decision and immediate' constantly snarl at my senior students. Thisreport to the next 'Public ply,ss a volunteer fireman, $tslf mileage for a trip �of a fbmer officer in His Was supposed to be a good week for me. after an embanktheat.
with tho understanding that dailyA6 and.from the Vans. APPlicAtiOA a.t
works committee Mftting- 0 e phone. No resisting the devices of Old Nick. through Vice-principal wants four pagis of data by- Houle.Stop cAr. Turn ', It star ts. Do60 Norway malplies have he use discretion when an- stra arena wilt be paid at 20 Mill"tYa Forceso I got W th keyL)Toblam, out tothp city, fly with the boys to, sheer purity of spirit. Yesterday. Reapsofessays torntrk, Teachers believe It. Detaill wife to run out every five
and ab6ft,otiletedfortheAusable swering out-of-towncalls. A cents a kilometre arttloid. Coervation Auth- letter ft the poor conditions tractor for use sit, the arenji Ottawa, lImp, with my arthritic foot to the Toda�. I was up, dressed, fed, clean of whining about stupid.*drninistration decis, minutes -and sUtt car. Ruth to den ondst rtority at a cost, 9t $$,,Or tree. of tho CNR crossing wifirhe there will be rented from Cenotaph, plane back. bus home. 11VOU10' taind and pure of spirit. Went out for MY ions. Students all agog_because the sun is writingthis. Tomorrowthebrick man comes.
only take tiiut days, and I have 316 days siolt, °morning paper to read with my habitual shining and, half of thM'will hav,�, ihe Ust job he did was $1,600. Have a nice day.
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