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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1996-03-06, Page 44 -THS HURON EXPOSITOR, Marsh S, 11196 Your Community Newspaper Since 1860 TERRI-LYNN DALE - General Manager & Advertising Manager MARY MEILOR - Soles PAT ARMES - Office Manager DIANNE McGRATH - Subscriptions & Classifieds DAVE SCOTT - Editor ORE -GOR CAMPBELL • Reporter JOAN MELLEN • typesetter, proofreader BARB STOREY - distribution A Bowes Publishers Community Newspaper ,SUBSCRIPiiON RATES: LOCAL - 28.00 a year, in advance, plus 1.96 G.S.T: SENIORS- • 25.00 o year, in advance, plus 1.75 G.S.T. Goderich. Stratford addresser: 28.00 o year, in advance, plus -7.28 postage, plus 2.47 G.S.T Out -of Of•Area: 28.00 o year, in advance, plus 11.44 postage, plus 2.76 G.S.T USA A & f orreigNn:(2288.0 o year in advance, plus 576.00 postage, G.S.T. exempt SPublished weekly by Signal=Star Publishing at 100 Min St., Seaforth. Publication moil registration No. 0696 held at Sbafo,Ns, Ontario. Advertising is accepted on condition that in the event of a typographical error, the advertising space occupied by the erroneous item, together with o reasonable allowance for signature, will not be charged, but the balance of the advertisement will be paid for at the applicable rote. In the event of a ypogrophicolerror, advertising goods or services of o wrong price, goods or services nay not be sold. Advertising is merely on offer to sell and may be withdrawn at any time. The Huron Expositor is not responsible for the loss or damage of unsolicited manuscripts, photos or other materials used for reproduction purposes. Changes of address, orders for subscriptions and undeliv- erable copies are to be sent to The Huron Expositor. Wednesday, Mach 8, 1998 Editorial and Business Offices - 100 Main Street.,Seaforth Telephone (519) 527-0240 Fax (519) 527-2858 Mailing Address • P.O. Box 69, Seaforth, Ontario, NOK !WO Member of the Canadian Community Newspaper Association, Ontario Community Newspapers Association and the Ontario Press Council - Union not in reality Here's _a message for the .Ontario Public Service Employees' Union: Get real. Join the rest of us in.reality, the reality of living with little or no job security. Big union big deais are becoming- a thing of the past. Take' a look at how the rest of us work and. live. - Here's some advice: take whatever -you can get and soon before there's an uprising and revolt in -this province. Right now you've, got zero sympa-' thy from most people. It's absolutely disgusting that people have been injured and killed- in accidents on roads that w.eren't_.c1eare,d.o[snow because of a strike. Where is the sense in that? Where -are our priori- ties as a society? Money and jobs have become more important than people's safety and lives. No one has job security. Why don't we take it a step further then and guarantee that everyone who graduates from high school, college and university is guaranteed a secure job too? In fact, why not guarantee job security to people who quit school at 1.6 to join the workforce? Get real. - DWS - Originally appeared March 8, 1946 Aging farmers look to next. generation to take over (How much has changed?) Ontario farmers. all through the war, performed one of the most stupendous efforts in the Allied cause. They pro- duced. And they did it under conditions that hampered no other war effort to anything like the same degree. They are still doing it. but the Ontario farmer is getting old. We need a new generation -on the land. We noticed recently statistics that gave .the average age of farmers in Saskatchewan .53 years. And there is every reason to believe that the average of Ontario farmers is that, or more. Saskatchewan reports 4.000 over 70 years of age. and 1.00( over 68. Would not Ontario's record be very similar? • . These men May he said to.have reached the retiring' age, but many of them are not retiring because they can not. afford to. And many more were unable to retire because of the war and the demands it made upon agriculture. But in a very few years age will force all these men off the active list. The question is: Who will replace them? Farming is a job requiring long hours and hard physical work. and mostly through the war years, farming in Ontario had been done by old Wren and women. That situation serves warn- ing that we must bring hack to the land younger men who are both practical and competent. Many farmers' sons who have served in the different ser- vices, both at home and overseas. are back, or soon will he hack to replace their fathers on the farm. -But too many are - looking for easier jobs that will pay much better wages. The world has learned the hard way that there never can he too much' food produced. andthe present world situa- tion which has reached the starvation point in many coun- tries of the world. is proof enough, if any is needed, of what happens when men leave or are forced off the land. Canada is one of the greatest producing nations in the world, and Ontario one of its greatest producing provinces, with thousands of acres of good rich soil. - Consequently it has a duty and responsibility to all the world to see that these acres do produce. Ontario and Canada need a lot of young new farmers, and they need them now. As a business, we re Editor's Note: The follow- ing column originally appeared in The Mitchell Advocated Feb. 21 and speaks volumes about the present state of community newspapers. ick up any newspaper these daysond the first thing one notices has nothing to do with what's written in it. it's thinner. Not as heavy. Not as many pages. But that doesn't mean not much was put into producing it. Your copy of The Mitchell.Advocate is no exception. - One doesn't have to read the ncws on those newspaper pages—including The Advocate= -to realize that business is tough for every- body. Joh security, economic - downturn and consumer con- fidence are three phrases which immediately come to mind which aptly describe what we're all going through these days. It may seem like we've.heen going through this for years, but those who ran a business—any busi- ness --in what were described as the glory years remember the good old day's and won - struggling Guest - Column by Andy Bader (Mitchell Advocate editor) der if they'll ever return. As we head into March and what we all hope will be a - spring fever of good news economically. allow mc to use this week's column to further illustrate just how • things work here at your community newspaper—not in a newspaper sense, but in a - business sense. The Mitchell Advocate, besides being your voice to the community ncws and events for the past 135 years, is a business just like - any other. We have budgets. targets and goals, and we're. suffering right alongside everybody else. It's perhaps easy to forget that we arca business and out to cam a reasonable profit since we've been so entrenched in your daily and weekly lives for so long. - I'vc heard a few comments the past few weeks from faithful readers curious as to why we're "so thin." Besides informing them that e'd love to he "thitke'r"., Iso point (rut that t er of page.. «c are ca and every week is a direct result of; the number of paid advertise-. ments dvertisc- mcnts we have scheduled that - particular week. Plain ,Ind simple. -11' there are fcw.,ids, there arc fewer pages: and vice versa. Have you ever - wondered wh) issues pub- - fished in the spring and tali, argl especially Chrikunas. are so much Nigger thanihose published in the winter and summer' ft's due to the num- her of ads: Retailers. as a general rule: have nothing hig to sell in January and - February in.conrparison14) ' Christmas. and the same holds true in the lean summer months of July and Aligitst . when nobody feels like skein-• ping but instead head on a well-deserved holiday. So they don't advertise as heavi- ly :is they might during. • - _busier, more attractive-occa-_ siOfS. Advertising revenue is our greatest source of income— almost 85 per cent. Contrary 16 popular belief. the sub - like others scriptions we sell to you. your father-in-law down the street and your neighbor are not the biggest money-maker for The Mitchell Advocate. Those prices only basically foot the hill kir us to mail " your copy every week. and not much else.' It's not as if the news -or the newsmakers everstop. We . realise that. and we're work- ing just as hard to -till the • ' pages we get. -it just doesn't seem that way when your paper arrives and some sto- ries and photographs have been scaled down to -the hare • necessities. Believe me. as an editor my toughest job is pri- oritizing-and.deciding what to putt rt the paper this week. and holding this story or that. photo until next week and invariably run the risk of upsetting someone who felt it . should have been published e.trlier. I'd•hc one happy man if everything we received • from contributors and every story we wrote and every photograph we took was able to.he published the week.it - was intended. • " But times are tough for everyone, and all we can do is -keep plugging away. ❖ Local gossipers not `little old ladies' Dear Editor, I loved living in thc Scaforth arca. It's a great place to raise kids; but don't be a little different you could be a victim of -the rumor mill. - L.Icft Seaforth _last -summer and for the last few months 'have -been trying. to get a Place. hack in this arca,. My children wi'sh to return here. i finally found a place for my children and my horses. The deal was done. I was ecstatic. Then -the gossip • • Letters to the Editor started. I have always ignored gossip. I don't care what peo- 'ple say about me. I know who, and what I am, but now it has affected my life. 1 4,1n livid! • Before I came to Seatirrth I .. have -always had excellent references and pepplc always - spoke highly of;, me. I can't -believe that a few Busybodies can ruin a person's reputa- tion. The man now rcfuscs•tu rent lei me hecausle of these tongue-waggcrs.. s -I-used to think that gos-. '.sipers were ;mean, little old ladies behind net curtains with nothing better to do than talk about people—I now know that gender and age has nothing to do with this. i have done nothing to any of these people. I have spent -my. life working hard and doing - the hest i can to raise my children. How dare. you few judge me: -I will not let a few had apples ruin my image of 'Seaforth. It is stili a great.. place and I will he back. ' Rosemary'Latham • ' R.R. 1 Glanwortjt ,Emu congress being held at Monkton arena. Those congress wondering w at wondering w ,Emu tastes like can try the low 'fat, low eholcstcrol red meat later this month in Monkton. - - --Free admission .to an Emu congress on Sunday. Mar. 2f is. being offered by Perth County producers, who say it will hc ideal for anybody • interested in raising -the laege. ing or eggs.; bird -handling. swift flightless bird related to facilities. nutrition : health the Ostrich, once almost care ,aid•. whatever. extinct. • Representatives of Encu co-' A press -release from ,thc operative's will field quc-s- organization notes producers _ tions on markt} dc%:clopment.• and professionals. will ,he at and Elm' end products such the -Monkton arena_ from .1 to ._as leather. pleat and oil will 4 p.m. to answer questions .he displayed and -available about incubation and hatch- for purchase.• . • - .Per,th County Emu Prodpccrs hold their meet= ings the first Wednesday of each month at the Rostock Hall. The life and times of a chick is this month's topic.' All are welcome. The busi- ness meeting begins at 7:30" p:in. and.thc program at 8:15. Disappearance of Harpurhey in 1896 FROM HE PAGES OF THE HURON EXPOSITOR MARCH 13, 1896 AFTER THE COWS - Dear. Expositor - I see by your paper that the McKillop council have passed a bylaw prohibiting live, stock from running on the roads. and i think that the Morriscouncil would dowel! to follow their example, and not only prohibit livestock (horses in particular) from pasturing on the roads. hul also prohibit (and enforce it•also) the piling of Wood. which so many arc in the habit of doing. causing the snow to lodge al that place -and making the roads impassable. While attending Mr. Dalton's sale in Hibbert. the other day. Mr. John - A. Murray, of Tuckcrsmith. received a kickon the leg which might have proved serious. Hc had put his horse in Mr. Nolan's stahlc, and while going past another horse to his own. the animal -kicked. striking mr. Murray on the side of the leg. below the knee. Although no hones were bro- ken. the injury has caused con- siderable pain. * * * WHERE iS HARPURHEY? - in connection with some of the affairs of the estate of the late Mr.. B. F.den. of Harpurhey. Mr. T.W. Anglin. Surrogate court clerk, Osgoodc hall. Toronto. addressed thc following note to Mr.. D. McDonald. clerk of the Surrogate court. Goderich. "i hope there is no mistake in the name of the residence of the deceased. We could not find such a name as Harpurhey in any directory or almanac." To this Mr. McDonald replied: "There is no mistake about this once important vil- lage of Harpurhey. If Goldsmith had not an original in his dear Sissy for 'Sweet Auburn,' Harpurhey could have supplied In the Years Agone thc material. Forty years ago it was the second place in'.hlfsi- ncss activity in this couniy. but railroads. gravel roads and other modern inventions ruptured its arteries; most of the sturdy and successful farmers of the north eastern part of this county rest— ed their last night within the civilization of this burgh before undertaking the vicissitudes and hardships of hush life." MARCH 11, 1921 POWER FARMING - On Friday afternoon next. March 18th, a lecture with moving pictures will he given in the Strand Theatre. Cardno's Hall. The subject lecture will be on Power Farming and , will he delivered by Mr. George Clark. a. graduate of thc OAC. Guelph, Ont. Mr. Clarke has made special study of power farming and the information hc will give should not only prove of interest hut he of great bene- fit to every farmer in thc sur- rounding country. LOCAL BRIEFS - Mrs. Jos. Dayman. who has hecn spending several months with het daughter in New Orleans. has returned to her home in McKillop. Mr. G.F. Rogers. of Toronto. Collegiate Institute Inspector, and a former prin- cipal of Scaforth Collegiate, was a weekend guest at the Queen's. Mr. D. McDonald has sold his property in McKillop and intends removing to Saskatchewan. Mr. Thos. Broom has pur- chased the farm of the late • R.H. Govcnlock consisting of 225 acres. This. together with his present farm two miles west of Winthrop. makes Mr. 'Broo`rn the possessor -.of 375 .acres ofexccllent farm land. • .MAJM'jl 15;19,15. The Seaforth high School Board has entered upi;n•a .plan of great expansion of cdu•_iitional taacilittes. Which will he made available to" high school students of the Seaforth .arc.t.. Pupils now in ' attendance corse from the Townships of 'Mullett. McKillop. }lihhcrt. Tuckersn►ith and .(;rcy. in addition to the Town of Seatirrth. . To accommodate the increased attendance. a large addition was erected in 1938 at a cost of $58.000. of which only 523.000 is mato out- standing in debentures, Thus the ratepayers ol• the Seaforth High School -Area have but a small debt to liquidate. * * * The March session of the Seaforth town council was held in the council chamber. Town Hall. on "i'uesday evening. \layor J.J. Clan - presided. and others in nacre- dance were Reeve J.F. Daly and Councillors Keating. Sills. Hudson. Parke and Hubert. Keith Sharpe. representing the Highlanders Band. asked for a grant of 5350. and also that the small storeroom under the stairs used by the hand as a uniform room. he cleaned out and put in proper condition. • Council asked kir a written request for the Band grant and an inventory of all equip-. mcnt. and the matter of the storeroom was left in the • hands of the`prtticrty tom rnittce with pow to act. . . • MARCH 18, 1971 Seaforth Firemen were called to the 10th Concession ,of McKillop Wednesday • niyrning to hose down gaso- line and fuel oil which spilled • from an overturned tanker. The truck. driven by Ron Williamson, overturned when it hit the hank trying.to get by •an oncoming car driven by Mrs. Marital Murray. Route -I. Walton. No one was injured in the mishap:which was investigated by Constable Bill Kreps of, the. Godcrich Detachment. OPP. The mishap blocked the road from 9:30.a.m. until after -noon while the gas and fuel oil remaining in the tanks was transferred to another truck. Dr. James Alexander Munn. 71. long time Seaforth den- tist. died Friday in Stratford General Hospital. He had suf- fered a heart attack ten days earlier at his home on Church Street. Dr. Munn was horn in Hay Township of a pioneer family on the faun near Ncnsall now occupied by Donald Munn. He was the son of thc late Alex Munn and Margaret Mahon. • In 1917 shortly after he began his dental studies hc enlisted at the age of 17. Dr. Munn went overseas with the dental corps and later trans- ferred to the Royal Naval Air Service. Ile ticw twin engine F3 flying boats and Shorts sea planes from Malta while escorting convoys and on anti-submarine patrol. For a time he. was in Lyhia with a detached flight of tour air- craft. He was awarded the Croix de Guerre and was -mentioned in dispatches.