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GOOD OLD GOLDEN RULE DAYS Irene Gritholdby of Seaforth
loaned this old school photo -to,-.the-Htfiron- Expositor recently. Those
shown at SS#3 Hullett in 1905 were, back, left, William Lowry, trustee,
Stella Clarkr.Maucle Dunlop, HazeLLIndsay, Jenny- Henderson, Maude
Lowry, Mabel Armstrong, Helen Taylor, Margaret, Riley, Vera
Colclough, Ruth Millson, Hazel Campbell, Florence Lowry, Elliot
Somerville, teacher. Centre: George Pollard, Fred Armstrong, John
Armstrong, Leslie Lawson, Elmer Pollard, Bill McMillan, Clarence
Anderson, Charlie Lowry, Andrew Lhwson, Harvey Taylor, Tom Riley,
Lawrence Taylor, , Arnold Colciough, George Clark. In the front
row are George Riley, Clarence Clark, Wilfred Lindsay, Janet Lindsay,
unidentified, Vera Dunlop, Leslie:Riley; Margaret Riley, Annie Taylor,
Florence Taylor, Irene Riley, Myrtle Lawson and Charlie Riley,.
NOVEMBER 4,1881
The Curling Club of Seaforth has leased.the
skating and curling rinkifriim the proprietor.
L. Murphy, for a term of three years for $1260
perannuni. Hereafter these rinks will be run
under the Management of the Curling Club
and we believe it is the intention to
considerably reduce the price of membership
--stickets.
Wm. Logan of Seaforth has purchased the
residence in which he now lives from Mrs.-
Adam Gray for the sum of $1200: He has got a
very cheap property. This looks as if he
intended remaining with us.
O.C. Willson of the Seaforth Agricultural
Implement Emporium is bound to make
farming easy if possible. He is now
I.Vite_clucing.a_sulky.plow...which-he imports-
front the South Bend Works, Indiana. The
plow it self is of tote 'same make and material
as the celebrant chilled plows, manufactured
at- the same establishment. It is a likely
looking implement and is said to work as light
on a team as a common plow and is a' deal
easier on the man,
Robert Govenlock of McKillop, near
Seaforth has had' six valuable young sheep
-worried by dogs. Four of them were killed
outright and two others were so badly
damaged that they had to be killed.
It. is reported that Mr. Cribbons. the late
landlord of the Winthrop Hotel has "lit out."
He• has been living in a private house in
Winthrop since retiring from the . hotel
business. He is said to hiiie left between dark
on Sunday night and daylight Monday
morning. He leaves several unpaid bills in
Seaforth and elsewhere.
NOVEMBER 9,1906
M.G. Cameron M.P.P. for West Huron and
Mr.. Roberts. engineer for the C. P.R. at
Goderich, representing the Maitland R iver
Power Co. had an informal interview with the'
members of the town council and several of
the business men of the town in the council
room on Friday evening last. The object of the
-• gentlemen-from- Goderichwas-tolay -before- -
the council and businessmen of the town a
proposition for the furnishing of Seaforth
wjth electrical power .for mapufacturiog, and •
other purposes.. This company proposes to
develop electical power on the Maitland River
near Goderich and to erect works for that
purpose. . .
Messrs. Jackson Bros. of Seaforth have
just completed a beautiful and lifelike group
photograph of the team of the Huron
football club that. played with the Corinth
ians.
.few equals and' no superiors as a mover of
buildings. One of his latest achievements in
this line was the removal of the old Broadfoot
* NOVEMBER 6,1931
Thomas Shaddock, section foreman of the
C.N.R. has moved into the dwelling on the
corner of Nelson and Richmond Street.
North. Hensel which he has had greatly
improved particulaify so in the interior and
has now very comfortable premises.
Mrs. Andrew Dantzer of Dublin returned
horne on Sunday evening after spending
some time with her son Joseph in Logan.
Minnie' Wheatley of Winthrop spent the
Curling Chili-leases links
weekend in Kitchener at the home of Mr. and
Mrse'Robert Thompson.
Mr. and Mrs. Sol Williams. Goderich
Street. East.- Seaforth entertained in honor of
their daughter Madeline, whose birthday it
Was last Saturday evening. Friends were
present from Seaforth, Zurich, Mitchell,
Hillsgreen and Clinton. • •
Dawson Reid of Guelph spent the weekend
with his mother. Mrs. J.F. Reid of Seaforth.
' NOVEMBER 9,1956
Construction of substantial additions' to '
buildings owned by E. Durst of Seaforth
Machine Shop and Smith Bros. of Canadian
Tire here, are well advanced. ' .
• Pupils in Grade 2 of the Seaforth
School accompanied by their -teacher Ella
Elder visited Topnotch Flour Mills on .
Tuesday 'and 'wereshown flour being
manufactured. The trip was a'reward for the
manner in which the pupils had marched in
the Fall Fair parade.
Maja Roobol, nurse-in-training at Victoria
Hospital. London. visited with her parents.
Mr. and Mrs. Sim Roobol of Hensall over the
weekend.
Brucefield Library 'has moved to a new
location. Mrs. Wm. Scott'is the new librarian
and members will be accomodated at her
home:
Robert Thomson. of Kippers Mated a half
box of ripe' raspberries from his garden
during the last week of October.
In, they ears agorte
planning mill building to Make room for
the new brick add*n_to theme furniture
factory.
Wm. Chesney of Tuckersmith his earned a
wide reputaticin as a grower of good apples.
Last week he received on order from a
gentlemen in Montreal for his winter supply
and shortly after was favoured with an order
from Winnipeg for 20 barrels. Unfortunately
for Mr. Chesney as well as for the would-be
purchasers, he was linable to fill either order.
having previously disposed of his whole
stock. _
• Mr-CoxwortlyhaS-fitadlip for his-ten-ant-
- Mr. Jarroit, a fine office and-harness room in
the livery stable in Mensal,
•
Farmer talks back to columnist. Smiley
Lest we forget'
November 11
For those who bow their heads to pay.
Their silence and respect.
And cherish memories of a by gone day,
For those who did protect.
For those who gave their lives so sweet,
That peace might be restored.
The sound in thousands, marching feet,
On distant turmoiled shores.
The Thought of buddies left behind
Of land and tit and deck.
And hear the distant raging roar,
•
No silence could protect.
We thank our God and those who heat.
No silence here today.
Their Legion rings out loud and clear,
The-soule who dearly paid.
And wear your poppy. proudly friend,
What a small wee price to. pay.
That your total silence you may lend,
In respect to them this day.
—Bob Hulley
To the editor:,
Huron needs a
chronic care service
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SEAFOATH, ONTARIO, NOVEMBER 4, 1981
Is it chid abuse?
There has been a great deal of concern in Seaforth and area about
teenage driving accidents. Recent research supporting a private
member's' bill in the Ontario legislature 'indicates that our. concern should
start a great deal earlier. . . with infants who are passengers infants who
should be in car seats.
MPP Alan Robinson (PC Scarborough-Ellesmere) has support from
both Opposition parties for his bill, which could become law next year,
requiring children to be restrained in automobiles. (Kids under five or
weighing less than 50 pOunds are exempt from Ontario's compulsory seat
belt law.)
Some terrifying statistics back up the MPP's concern. Passenger
deaths In carsare now the single largest killer of children over one. For
every child In North Ain-erica who dies of infectious disease, 50 die as
passengers in car accidents. . - • •
Some parents feel -they are doing a child a favour by putting her on
their lap and the seat belt around the two of them. Not so. Your own
weight in any collision could force the belt into the child's body, causing
serious, even fatal injury. The MPP'S research shows a 20 pound child
will exert .a force of 600 pounds in head-on collision at only 30 miles per
hour. . •
"If the parent is not buckled up", Mr. Robinson says, the child on his
or her lap "will be virtually crushed between the parent and the
dashboard. In a 30-miles,per-hour crash, a 150 pound adult Will exert a
force of 4,500 pound's." . . .
Tennessee (since 1978) and Saskatchewan (since last ,year) both have
laws making child restraints compulsory in automobiles. In both areas.
voluntary compliance with the law has been high. And in Tennessee of 54
children killed in crashes since the law was passed, only one was buckled.
up and that crash 'was ruled non-survivable.
The MPP says correctly used child restraints can prevent 90 per cent of
deaths and 70 per cent of injuries currently sustained •by kids in cars.
RIghtdoW, only 15 to 20-per cent-of -Ontarld's-600300 children underfive—
are -.using any- type of ,seat belt or car seat. Last year ,10
children were killed in car ,crashes here and .1,697 were injured.
Most peopleki this- prO4ince have accepted the fact that 'seat befits save
adult lives: For the sake of•oesr 600,000 young people, we'd like to see the
same. protection' afforded our -Children.
In some communities service clubs have organized_ programs. to
provide the best, safest children's car seats at low rental rates, the same
way some of our local groups make crutches and wheelchairs available to,
these who need them.
A small child standing up on the seat of a moving carlives us the
shudders. A Ton:into consumer columnist has suggested that drivers who
refuse tosecure children safely in-their cars should be charged with child
abuse.
With statistics like MPP Robinson's in front of us, we're inclined lot-
agree. Bus even before the laws making it compulsory' (and we're in
favour) let's .save some lives and buckle up our kids.
Sugar and spice
By Bill Smiley
Inflation and interest rates arc killing us.
along with ever-higher taxes. But that's
only paper. and-can't kill our spirit.
We have bumbling governments that
talk like lions and act like mice. A heck of a
kit of people are living below the so-called
poverty. line.
Farmers and small businessmen and
people with mortgages' to renew are
hurting. But who,is dying of starvation or for
lack of medicine. as in much of the rest of
the world?
We may be cold. but we aren't freezing to
death. They don't pick corpses off the street
every morning. Our children have an
excellent chance of surviving. Some of us. at
some time. may have had it better. But for '
the Canadian people, a's 'a mass. I still say
we never had it so good.
-The,, Visiting Homemakers Course in'
Conestoga College, Clinton is providing a
very intensive course attaining for achilts to
provide a Chronic Care Service for Huron
County residents. Mittitieople do not know
about these services or realize they are
entitled to use them.
.When chronic care Comes more residents
will be able to stay in their own homes and be
taken care of instead of being admitted to
hunting 'homes or kospitslc 'The main
We can learn from
each othet ...
At first glance, it's a wild idea.
Close down all the schools in the country for a year. Give the kids and
their teachers a chance to cope with reality, that real world that education
is supposed to be all about.
The wild idea comes from Walter Pitman,Iformer president of Ryerson
Polytechnical Institute and now president of the'Canadian Association for
Adult. Education. He .had some -harsh words..to delegates, mostly
teachers, to a recent Toronto conference on learning and technology.
Closing all the schools for a year, Mr. Pitman says, would 'force
teachers out into "the real world" which he defines as "the factories, the ,
businesseS and the. streets."
"We want our kids to make it in the real world," the educator says:
"Well, ,we should make the teachers go out with them into business and
industry. Unless they, do that there's no hope at all."
Mr. Pitman told his audience that our schools are irrelevant, full of
teachers who don't know enough about the world outside teaching and
full of equipment that is out of date.
• We agree up to a point but we've got a better solution than closing
down the schools for a year. It seems to'us that schools and the so-called
real world could dd With a healthy dose of each other. .
• Instead of forcing teachers and students out of the cloistered
classrooms, we propose an exchange program. Business people, farmers
and factory workers, could go into, the schools for a year, teach the kids
about their "real world" fobs and at the same tirrie apply educational
'solutions to their business problems. What small business owner
wouldn't like the chance to learn more about dealing with people or the
latest in marketing or bookkeeping practises? In the schools he or she
would 'learn, as well as teach,
At the same time,14chiors could get a healthy look at the hassles an
ordinary Main Street business or 'rigal route farmer faces and a -terrific
understanding of what his or her student's present and future needs are.
Teachers would have a chance to put educational theory into practice,
while the rest of us would have a bit of time and the educational resources
to analyse the whys and wherefores of how we make a living.
'We'd all benefit. The students who, lest we forget, 'are the reasons our
schtkils exist, would benefit most.
The answer to the resentment and often complete lack O
r f
•coMpreheriSion which exists between the educational establishment and
the se‘called real world is not teacher bathing or any other' one-way
street:
The two camps (and it's too bad there are two camps, for after alt
learning, is life and life is for learning) have a great deal to teach each ‘,
other..
Let's, get started.
Hope you had a good Thanksgiving. even
though my message is. a bit belated. Ours
wasn't so hot.
Under the burden of a heavy cold. rotten
weather (what ever happened to Indian
summer?). and plain procrastination. I'm
going to let some of my readers write this
column.
Apparently I wrote a column a few 'months
ago about Canadians. despite all the gloom
and doom. never having had it so good. I
meant it. as far as material'things go; Here
are a couple of responses.
Mrs. Koleen Garland (nice name' that.
Koleenl of Ft.R. 2. Cargill. Ont.. says she
,.usually agrees with °me. hut not on that
occasion. quote bits: "This week's
column had my dander up before I-got to the
third line.
"So we never had it so good. huh,? Maybe
the consumers never had it so good...but
some of us are producers as well...we have
nearly. $90.000 worth of debt. It's called a
small farm. I call it the great Canadian
freebee. We cannot get firm mortgage
loans...to small to merit help. So we stuck
With paying $20,500 per year in interest.'
"Last year I cut our living expenses down
to 57,000.-a bit-below the poverty level.
husband has artlexcellent jab. yet we still
manageio take a $5,000 loss on the year."
Yes. mam. but how much income tax did
you pay. with a loks like that? Were you
hungry. cold. hopeless? I know all about
mit* interest. Ne been. doing it all ni b
life.
Mrs. d'arland ends with the emphasis I
wish I could instill in my students' writing:
"Maybe we never had it so good? Listen.
Sonny (thank( you. Mom). I'm a farmer! I've
worked my bk. kside off providing , those
never-had.it-se-good. so don't include me
in them." Well said. lady. But maybe you
should haVe taken a course in plumbing or
electricity. Wish I had. YoU wouldn't be in
debt. •• -
At the other end of the knotted rope. Bill
Francis of Moncton. N.B., agrees with me.
"It is a relief to know that there is still
someone around who realizes that in the
bulk we are a greedy lot: even. alas, senior ,
citizens who never had it so good. As for the
young. they now ,expect to celebrate
Christmas in June,
."-In our early years, hardnosed bank
managers may have slowed us down. but
nothing ever dimmed "our hope. 1 sdon,
learned to pay cash or do without.
Started out in 1014 working It 11 'hour
week. six days a week...earning $60 a
month and paying-$15 for board. consisting
mainly: dead and moose meat ..so many had
It a lot worse during those depression
years." Amen to that. Bill.
I'm about half way between these two
writers, in age, and in opinion. But I still
think, even with our sick dolor. inflation.
and, nemployment we still have something
to have a happy Thanksgiving about.
Now, about censorship. Hilda Sibihorpc.
of Wyebridge. Ont.. supports my stand
against the majority who would like to ban
certain books in our schools:
"I express my concern to trustees.
friends and neighbours that this is a
situation they should speak out about. But
it's frustrating to meet indifference..."
Mrs. Sibthorpe is an occasional corres-
pondent. a successful politician, and the
mother of two girls I taught back in what
seems like the 1880s:-. She is also deeply
concerned'about the subject of abortion:" I
still believe there should be a choice for
women...". but that's another topic. not for
this column. Though I agree with her.
Somebody else, from Vancouver (can't
find the danged letter). agrees with m'y
opinions on censorship, but berates me for
mentioning the Bible as an example of-some
pretty straight talk that would probably be
banned by some rural school boards in this
country. if it had been piiblished last year.
This writerelaims that the Bible contains(J•
these lurid passages only to display-God's
anger with' man's folly and to warn him
about it. Well. that may be. hut in my
opinion, a lot of it is straight history. and
some of it pretty lurid.
Thank goodness. our local school board
has some guts-. A, f6s zealots on the board;
had drawn up a list, of seven books
considered . questionable for teaching.
There'was a big flap. but in the end. only
one book was left on the banned list.
ironically. it was a play. stame.play tt be
presented in the country 'oon by a dr mai'
group.
A final touch of , unintentional irony
occurred when a local radio announcer said
the book had been banned because, one of
the characters was a religious bigot. I
wonder what kind of people begart,the list in
the first place.
I have lots 'more interesting correspond•
thee, 'but not much more room. Let's go
back to our reason for giving thanks. '
problem is, when does the Government
sanction Chronic Care for our county? It is
already in many other counties. Huron .
Cotinty was promised it in 1981 but *didn't
happen. They have now promised it will be
Welder* the cod of 1982. If you are as
concerl)ed with,this problem as I am please
drop a line to your local M.P.P. and maybe We
can help them keep their ,promise to us. -
Marilyn Reidy.
Brucefield