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GODERICR SIGNAL -STAR
Time Iluilding o thy' uronRoar Gave
a .uu' Imp to to Settlement of the Tract
(By'W. •11i.' JOImstou, lin The London Yvette built at si'ated 4atervals to house
Free Press) itis workers.
'](toads in modern and mediaeval
times have reenxecog0i ed as of vital
importance to°'the welt -being of peoples
and nations. We find the ,Roman
legions devoting itheir leisure: time in
the building a those wonderful.. roads
some of wbieli are still in existence in
Great Iritain of ar 'ablest 2 {➢0
yea
re
of usefuln gs, •
.,..In the settlement of the FIuron°Tract
the first great task of the Canada Cora-
=° 'pany was to provide roads from the
outside world into and through the
Vast dark forest wilderness,stretching
almost 'from 'Lake Ontario to . Lake
Htirop,. A; tGoderich had been chosen/•
as the capiital.of this great territory the
!luron road was one of the 9rst to be
opened. The contract of eonstrueting
it from Wilmot to Goderieh was let 'to
Col. Van Egmond, one of the
Pioneers
'of the tract and eminently 1t� to
take charge f an large animpertant
work. Be was probablyUthe wealthiest
man in the dis't'rict and his experience
as an officer in the Napoleonic wars in
Europe 'was an aid in managing.' a large
/
forceeeteworkmen.
In. the building ofthose seventy miles
through the forest, his. was an hercul-
ean task. The road was to be only
twelve feeet wide, a mere sleigh track,
but -it .was .ao be, ..as far 'as possible,
straight .along the surveyors' line.
These men went ahead with axeinen• to
Van Egmond's : army, of • roiidmakers,
remove obstacles and blaze a 'trail for
There were countless creeks and rivers
to cross, swales and swamps that if
it were possible to bui[d a road throuele
them had to be crossed- witlh. ,corduroy
bridges, but if idt, then' a detour bad
to 'be opened around .them. Cabins
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The whole ect was enough.to
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daunt the most daring army general,
but the Colonel went at the work 'not
meth'odieaily, engaged a- large number
of !'coteh and Irish :!immigrants and in-
spired thein to do their hest. Mostly
younger men, they were•,
a free
and
rollicking crowd, good natured and law-
abiding, ready for any ennertency.
Sometimes. far from a' sheltering cabin
or a !hospitable inn, they rqughed itin
the Woods by the..roadside. Certain
men went a 'short distance ahead, -
gathered dry cedar or hemlock fuel
and started- a huge fire'beside a great
log. When the men came in they were
fed. well with good plaid strong food,
meat roasted beside the big , fire but
Juicy and appetizing. 'Hungry and
tired, they ate with .a relish and after„
li spell of. khat and story telling they
lay down'on luxurious. couches* of
hemlock. !bceughe torest weary limbs
until morning. One writer `tells. -that
they lay "spoon fashion': and the first
awake in rite alnorniug• called °.spoon,"'
When all as one man turned over on the
other side. •
In anincredibly short time the road
was finiabed and at once- it became
the higghw y for a vast multitude in
search of honies, a -freehold estate.
llome,s__from __which they could net ;be
evicted. A. thomemwhere the little ones
of the family might grow to manhood
and womanhood *Mout fear of being
dispossessed. What a vision for those
early settlers!
Van 'Egmond grasped his opportun-
ity. Along' the road' inns were estab-
lished by Seebach; -Helmer, Fryfogle
and others. His .own home on the
Huroneroad;ee•-few miles east of 'Olin -
ten, was ever open to the weary travel-
ler or the friendly -Visitor. With an
eye to business and foreseeing . the
great rush of immigration, he laid in
a stock of 55O barrels of flour and after
1'8a2 he had twenty four -horse teams on
the road to bring ,settlers and heir
goods -front —Toronto --to-- ' derie-et'
intervening settlements as they wished.
He had 'a good business in supplying
the bins and Settlers•aTong the way.
Not Very. Safe, but Useful
- The road, though built; was- not
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very waf . I •
�e n soft .pot thong wheels
sank treetlie axle in the mud, while
many a step -heavy load swayed danger-
onsly near upsetting. In crossing the
-narrow corduroy bridges, often
•bounded on• each side.;by a •large and.
• deep 'pool of dirty greenish water, many
a timid. yes, and pian a manly heart,
stood still as the W igon. wheels
bounded from log to log and the loa41
appeared about to be deposited in one
of the bottoinless ponds.. Be -,Chau as
it may,- it is a well-known fact that
when 'Major• Strickland's wife,' child
• and nurse -maid .with their 'household
possessions„ were •on••their may from
Guelph ''too Goderieh they got along' all t
right . untiltthe second clay when they
reached- the Hurpn -road, when their
Wagon, drawn by a yoke of oven,• with
the women onothe bedding,on top of.th
load, upset 'twice: Though tlheY' were
stili sixty miles m ls f rom Godericil that •
was enough for Mrs.' Strickland, •Fear-
ing for her child's safety she carried it
in her -arms all the rest of the, way
except for six mites before she reached
Fryfogle's, when a man, i$ravellilag
westward,. carried the torte for. , that
distance. :•.
:About 113 years •hav;e, elapsed since
the IItt.ron road WWWiis completed. Of
course it was no great road as we think
of loads ,now -ala 's, • but who can
▪ ekrmate its influence on the making of
history in this part of Western On-
tario. Today it is part of No. 8 ,of the
King's Iligzllvvays, running; • from 'code-.
°rich to. ,Hamilton, beautifully paved
and serving the- public well, 'but who
will claire to•aver it is more useful than ••
it *as a.•eent11ry ago?
Messa
Labor.
e for
by W. T. 13U VORD
i1eeretaryTreasurer, the Canadian 'Federation of Larbor
' the history y off,
��C➢R DAY x.911. is. tit h bt�oknaark in e sto
these times, hold* the page where a new chapter'
begins on a tragic anniversary. As ,..a festival. it merits
scant iobservanee • only +n •.'_s the -"first
dayof the war's third '•
year and as a reminder of Laltnr's part in •a noteworthy
oecasion.,'•
Y
Qariadian workers have shown that they can wake the,
tools of:war, and make thein well ,and fast, itt the' vital
industries most of them have u. alltheir strength and'
skill into the great task, 'Their output mountS. steadily.
Only', w few? proportionately, .have withheld their help or •
given it grudgingly, while the . marry, imbued with a sense •
of . duty ta' their* kith and kin in the fighting forces, ,,have
made up the loss by redoubled exertion.
It would be folly to. disregard the exceptions to the
general eagerness of Canada's workers to make an all=out
effort, and to shut Our eyes -to the incidents that have made
good news for Hitler. Those exceptions are likely- to iii -
crease in number and. in.frequeney nneutral-minded ndedand
irresponsible elements trey to smash the Government's wage-
ceiling policy—a policy Which' has had generally excellent
results in keeping the, cost of necessities withiri-b.ounds.
ThAre- have -been slow -downs and .hold=ups of production,
there have been attempts to profiteer and to blackmail the °
nation: • Most of them can he, traced to the operations of
remote-controlled labor organizations with no interest in
'Canadian industry except, a rake-off on the payroll. Others
are certainly due to the reluctance of smug and arrtgant'
employers to abandon an attitude towards the workers
whieh •they had no trouble in maintaining during the slack
pre-war years. •
, one may not -agree with .'all that the. Government has
done to counteract, the influences and agencies which
tat-e`_a ,in-st fulfilment of the natiQital; duty on the industrial
front, but it is evident that'the•wage policy adopted early.,
last yeaar, if firmly administered, -will discipline the . hard-
boiled employer on the otie hand and -curb mobster unionism
who the other. When it is clear that those who proclaim
themselves masters of the •. situation cannot deliver the
promised booty to their. followers, ,their followers w'il~I drop •
away. ` What is of most concern to the free` tabor move-
-merit represented by • the Canadian Federation. of Labor is
that the workers who . have been misled into paths which
please the enemy shall realize their responsibilities as eiti-
Rens and learn that this is no time to,even peace -time scores.
.Except that real "'hardship,'nd distress shotild be ..i='e-
lieved what we neglected• to adjust in our `syst'em _of., re-
wards before the war started may well pe left until The war
is won There are many reforms-"ivhich, though desirable,
could not-. be introduced iii earlier years but which - we
now appear better able to afford. No matter hoW .good
they .night be, they are bound to be burdens" on a state en
gaged in total **at —"bound to.detract in some degree from
oin' total , effo.rt. And so -it is with plans' of future recon- .
.
struetion ; they also are distractions which we, call do with-
out until the final victory'makes them praetieable.
cannot itiYpro� e upozi theWe
model the oftlantic Charter,
which sketches the future only in broadest' outline, pending
"the final destruction of the Nazi tyranny." cf° •
Until that goal is reached, our job as workers and as
citizens is to keep on plugging .away, to turn out the most:
and,the best we can, to'arm and reiuforre the bravest of thti
brave who guard the„bastinlls” of freedom across. the w'titers.
On Solid 'Ground
She.; "Darling:, it's just a year today
since our hbnesuaoon, When we spent
.4, • „ . that wonderful day on the sands.
.''IIe: 4''it''e never thought then that
we'd be spending-. our first anniversary
111. SHOWER FOR THE GROOM
Believing that `.showers" for brides-
to-be are too much one-sided and that
t'he groom has ' become very 'much the
forgotten roan" in suc11 eoci.kl events
the tables `were turned -lit a gathering
of the more sex held a t QI. t,. 'trochre r
cottage the. other night. Ilea ring. that
Prihc'ilia, A. M. Thompson is eholtic tri
Jain. the ever increpes ing ranks of the
i►enedicts his friends wished to 'hark
the occasion in the traditional way.
'Se Andy was made the centre 0f(on or
and attrac'tiou when 11111 Flaherty -
called the gotboring , to 'order and
pleaded for .at spell of silence while' he
read an address., The gifts ,includ lt,l
spell al'tic•1('s all a hoe, rake,-1a111nler,.
' crewcl11Ver. r001 shovel. steplitdder,
axe, garbage can and.sau'-Iiovn,aul
v111e StftCSlilau. •F •
• "If you °get up earlier in the -•-
,
111 )111-
Ing than yt►nr ' oeighhor," said the
town plat lophi'r, "eand work ]larder. s'
and sc110111 ' more iniad stick to your
job mote, c•to c*ly -anti • .,oily tip la ter
planning how to make more money
thine your neighbor and -1)11.11 this tttill
alight •nil planning how to get 'ahend
of hint` while= he is snoozing, not only
will' you leave ino1'e,• 111t►ney when you
die t.ha"n 11)' tviJ1, 'but -011'11 leave it 11
darn sight 5001101•."• -
. Keep true., decide-seen-tt1ult_,ie, right
and stick to it.
on . the rocks.
ra.
Tilt',. Signal -S tris+,-se"1Ts fon - i$.: fli.' any`
.addresssin..,("aln'arlesanlj- is worth more.
book at 'your 'label Sit' Will.. show the
elate up to which your subscription is
pater.
Judge not thy friend till , thou
' .Pimples #(ill
MuyTaRomance—i
,Morley Sanders, of O1areuiont, has
Igen engaged o principal of the Mu -
salt Gontinuattion Retool. `
Oto of a\Viag aai n'n oldest residents,
John Corby') 'Currie,"ailed ma Thursday
last in 'his eighty-fourth year.
Proceeds 'of the regent 'Red. eross
frolic at Clinton,' sponsored the
by
Lions. Club, were over $1,300-
10.., V., )Pickard has' been appointed.
-clerk of the Village of Exeter, sue-
eeedfag ,Joseph Senior, who resigned
•
recently after loam servieee
Dr, W. D. Bryce has moved with
his wife and "'sou from Zurich .to'.Sud-
+bury, and the Zurich -Dashwood dire
trict is left without: a dentist. -
It'rederiek Deters and A. W. Kerslake
are candidates for the -post of council-
lor at flensall, to take 'the place of D.
E. MacKinnon, Who has enlisted with
the R.-C,AF.
4,„Ilenry L. McIver, oc Seeforth, .., died
on Saturday, at the Age Of fifty-nine
°years. ' He was a lifelong 'resident a
the district, His wife arid a son, •Ed-
ward, survive,
Albin X. !Fawcett, who for several
years was on the Exeter 'High .School
staff in charge' of Manu'al. _training„
has taken a position as mathematical
teacher at Orangeville.
Miss Margaret la:, Fisher, 'who has ree.
tired after many years' service as u
member of tbe. Wingham postoffice
staff; was •presegted' by the citizens
with an address, accompanied by gifts
of a: travelling case a bouquet of roses
and a sum of money.
'"Tons of encumbers are being graded
at Clinton. for+ aalr Ointario canning and
pickling ` company. Upwards of one
hundred acres were planted to cucum-
be'rg In that vicini this year under con
•tract with the company. •Grouters say
the ,returns are satisfactory.
In order Jo check the Spread of
infantile paralysis in the district,
school. in the town of Kincardine and
in -'Kincardine and Intron townships,
Bruce county, will not re -open for the
present. • Seven eases of the disease
are reported ill .the .d sfrle't,
During the "early 'hours df Monday
morning otie side ' of, tCook's 1hi11 at
Hens all caved i , leaving • the large
stock of grain and beans exposed to the
weather. As quickly as possible the
contents of the mill were transferred -to
railway 'cars.
John C. Ward, who came to Seaforth
from-Zt'oronito a few weeks ago to take
over the Queens Hotel, died; in the
hospital at Seaforth on August 26th,
after an operation fore a ruptured a'p-
1 endix: ' •Mi•, 'Ward was well known in
Canadian racing eirclee, •
Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Wheeler, of
Belgrav=e, 4Ont., announce the engege-
ment of their eldest daughter, Nora
May, to Bernard Orellin., younger son
of 411te and Mrs.. Road ert +Crelline 41
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Rivervieave.; Lon•dr$ia; i nt., the . Mar-
riage to Make, plyace in the United
chureh, "Belgrave, on September 11.
The 'death occurred at eller =home in
r.ondesboro,: of Sarah M. Brundson,"
widow of. John C. Adams, at- the age
of ,seventy -form years. Deceased *as
bora at Loudebboro and. resided there.
all her -life, ' Her husband die L in...1t i3-
Surviving are one son,- _'Harold; of
Londesboro, and two stepsons—,' Ernest
:idolise of'Olinten and k,clvvin d.�ins of
Seattle,, Wash.
Lorne McCracken, sixteen -year-old
Rluevale boy, wad severely -injured on
=Thurday` last.' w hen.•the .hcn:ses he was.
II driving, beeomiai'g frightened' when • -he
„.stepped out on the wagon tongue to
a°djns.t the harness, -ran away and
dfaggec] and trampled him. the cloth-
1, . The lives -sof of many young peoplld
, .•;mare made miserable by. the breaking
out of pimples on the fate.
The trouble is not so ninth phyei- ,
cal pain,, but it is tie mental suffer-
igg eaused:-by-the embarrassing -alis-:.;
figurement of the face which very °
often makes tue sufferer' ashained to
sla,nticst in 111c: place. gout in company!. .
-The c1uiekest itvay to get ,rid of
The hearthstone' is still the 'Loom's pimples -is- to,. improve the general
cornerstitnc. r' - health by a' thordugh cleansing of ....rt
the blood. of its impurities:
'1'o know the..vat111e of money, °tr}' i Burdock .13100d . Bitters cleanses
to borrow some. '- , wand purifies the blood.--- Get rid of
trong .,►f lit111>,. 511(1 '.vvift Uf fot,t 1 y' pimples by taking B.B'B. e,
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ing' was torn:. to shreds and he was,
unconsciouS for several hours. Iry Was
taken to the Wingham hospital.
Drowning at .
i'or-t pranks
li. s . Maiionr•:f. rewkI, aged eighteen,
of IIaanilton, °lane . i:o "11er death-• by.
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dr n aim 3ai, alae �•Iatron pit Petrt
F1 ranks on , Friday afternoon: Al-
,tri ugh -she was a good, swif ter, she
evidently became exhausted white
switnal tug DU yards off shore and sank;
before help could reach her. -
Varrier-Clark
At the 'Ft irst CJnit;d ehaireh, . Galt,
In August '44 nd, the :marriage , was
• solenxnized of Pearl; Irene, daughter
of 11ir ` and Mrs. William John Clark
of tWinglaam, to Robert Mussell Far -
*ter of West 'Wawanosli. The attend -
'ants were Sr. and Mrs, Russell 'Far-
row, brother-in-law and nister•,of -the
bride. • The young couple will reside at
Galt. „ ..•
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Farewell for ,
Dr. Finlayson. 1
At ' a' gathering of business and pry
fessional men_ of _Ripley, prior to the
departure of Dr. D. R. F'iniaysen "to
'take a position on the staff of •Cihristie
Street Hospital, Toronto, tire•,Doctor
waspresented with a gold -headed eanc
and . other gifts, and speeches by` many
of those present eitolled this services I
to the community over a period of more
than twenty years, - 1
Thompson --Trout
At the •home of Mr. and Mrs. John
T. 'Trout, Stratford, on 'Monday after-
noon, ; thir daughter, 'Esther Trout,
R:N., was united in marriage- to, Wil-
liam Joihn Thompson, son of 'Mrs.' Neil
Thompson, .Seaforth, • and the late Mr.
Thompson.. The ceremony was per-
formed by• Rev. H. H. Ohipchase. Mr.
and Mrs. Thompson will reside in Sea --
forth. The bride Was formerly, on the
nursing staff of .tire 'hospital "at Sea
.fontth. •
A, E. Purdon Injured
hen Horses Bolt -
A. - E. `rPurdon, 12th eonces'sion_ of.a
-West Wawanoeh, met wzth n -ba lege,-L
ciden't on his farm while cutting hay
with the mower, He was standing 'be-
hind the Horses• when they became,
frightened'' and moved- an with the
mower in gear. He was thrownback
on • the knife, and then as the team`
Summer
Complaint
', .v people, e:ii'•ar iwllltr Chitdrotl,
i'J,1:2e/ Lill aitta';g of s nu ser wa-
r/cunt cltrriieg the hot weather.
Simmer complaint begins With *
a
Rrefueo disirrlao'very often acrat-
ponied by vomiting o
a purging,
The matter excreted from the
etoniuels has D. bilious a pears4e
and that from tho bowels waiter.,
• whitish, xll-salaellitai;, or even odor1e.
--When the children show any gigot
of .looseness of the bo'kels, the ntotiiear
should administer D. few doses of Dr.
Fowler's h tract of Wild Straw-
berry so wit to bring quick relief.
This medicine has . been' on ter
ltnarlet'forthe 'past 94 yearo. Bo -
fuse . substitutes: r They , may bar
dangerous. : . .
Get "Dr. Tow1er's xt'and feel Ws.
Tho Jr. Milburn Co., 'stet:, kbiWnto, osk,.
ran he was throw forward on the
whiffietree$, :arid then ;baek° and. off''
.receiving bad eats down his left l g •;,
and arm ' and; a. nasty cracks
,head. ` die was able rte get in hisear
and drive bonie, ,where he was toilcen'
from the carp and; be :bas been, bndlr
used rip sinee.. The .power WAS eem'-
,pletely *reeked as the team StaitSkeit
into a gapost and broke: the post oft.
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