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PERMITS ISSUED FOR
TWO NEW DWELLINGS 'Two of , the permits for
_ ! erection of new dwellings on the
Nine building ,permits totalling ' west side of Warren street between
ing
last
Friday
night.
$18.310 were issued since the first
Britannia road and Cayley- street,
were
and were issued to L. Dixon. The
of the -month, Clerk S. -.H. Blake remainder were .for. alterations to
informed Town Council at its meet= i existing buildings.
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STATUARLON LAITHWAIMFARM
I LIKE THAT OF ITALIAN VILLA
A visit to the Laithwaite farm
on No. 8 highway is vividly por-
trayed by Victor Lauriston in his
column, "Maybe I'm Wrong" in a
recent issue of the Chatham Daily
News. ,It reads as follows:
Driving south froth. Goderich' on
No. 8 Highway, the blase and per-
t haps drowsy motorist is .startled
into wakefulness by a glimpse of
weird gray statuary dotting the
lawns and half hidden in the shrub-
bery surrounding a tall, white -
brick house. '
It's a bit suggestive of the en-
virons of an abandoned Italian
villa. One's thoughts drift back,
too, to buried Herculaneum and
Pompeii, emerging from their
overcoat of Vesuvian lava and
ashes.
1 doubt.. if anywhere else in
Canada is the like to be seen.
For nowhere else in Canada is
there a George Laithwaite with the
urge—and the talent and the prac-
tice—to create such objets d'art.
George, a tall man, slightly
stooped, and eminently friendly, is
proud of his masterpieces. Though
convalescing from a broken ankle,
sustained in a thirty-foot fall, he
hobbled about, helping us to identi-
fy the various exhibits which have
1 made the Laithwaite farm a point
; of interest for many visitors.
The tall house, sturdily built.
has defied the wintry gales off
,, Lake Huron for more than a cen-
1 tury. -The workmen who built it,
and the first, owner, could perhaps
rememberclohn Galt, the great
colonizer who opened the Huron
Tract, and founded Goderich. The
i famous. Tiger Dunlop, who fought
i the battles of the settlers against
the Canada Company, may still
have been living when these bricks
were well and truly laid.
White Brick Homes
To a newcomer from red brick
country, the white brick bomes
and factories predominant in
Huron are instantly arresting. It
may be a difference in burning,
more likely it's a difference in the
basic clay, that made Kent brick
red and_ Huron_ brick white_
It is not clay, though, but cement
which George Laithwaite uses in
his bucolic artistry. His busts and
full-length figures and arresting
groups are not sculpture; they are
shaped by his skilful hands, swift-
ly. while• the fast -hardening cement
is still soft enough to shape.
Stones, by no means scarce in
Huron, also enter into his crea-
tions; and occasionally he uses fur-
nace clinkers. But -it is the cement
which gives the ultimate figure its
human likeness.
The work is necessarily "free
hand," and a rare sense of form
-and quick fingers contribute to the
finished product. Because the final
shaping must be done quickly, the
preliminary mental -picture .must
be carefully and patiently worked
'out:
' Almost free hand likewise—al-
most off-hand—is the placing of
the busts or figures. They are
scattered throughout the *grounds,
and here and there tucked , into
the hedges which divide the lawn.
"That's my father," said George,.
land pointed to the bust of a heav-
I ily bearded man with a high fore-
head. It was a bit reminiscent of
the Athenian Petioles as Phidias
depicted him. "He never shaved,"
George added.
A Clever Financier artist comment-
ed,
on t
"My father," the ime ii
-
ed, "was a clever financier. He ac-
cumulated the money. I spent it."
The commemorative bust peers
from a hedge which partially masks
a cleverly contrived, wall of cement-
ed cobblestones sheltering the
walk which leads to the house door.
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The long beard especially is a work
of art.
Nearby is a tall fireplace, the
stones and cement helped out by
furnace clinkers. Where the man-
tel mirror would' be is cement, with
likenesses of "George" and "Mary"
as they appeared when they were
married in 1895.
They made a good looking
couple. "And your wife?" ventur-
ed Emily Grace, a bit hesitantly.
George reassured her that his bride
Of so many years ago was still with
him.
Beneath the trees and beyond'
the house are "The Three Pals."
George himself, as he was in his
younger days, is the middle figure
of the three. Life size, and quite
realistic.
George's masterpiece — probably
his most ambitious bit of statuary
—is the group bearing the explant
atory intaglio legend, "Plow Brakes
Sword." 'It shows an ox team
pulling a plow. '
Most significant, though, are the
two life-size figures in the group.
The man driving the oxen is
less a personage than Sir Robert
1Borden; the chap gripping the
handles of the plow is Sir John
Macdonald.
Only One "'John A."
Borden is not difficult to identify.
As for Old John A., nobody could.
mistake the likeness. Yet he never
sat for George. All the artist had
to guide his skilful . fingers was a
portrait in one of the many bio-
graphies of the Old Chief—plus,
doubtless, unforgettable recollec-
tion of that striking, expressive
countenance as George saw it in
his youth, when one of the turbul-
ent elections of the 80s brought
Sir John to Huron. q,<
Close by, and just inside, the
wide gate opening to the drive-
way is George's workshop, its lintel
adorned with yet other more or
less recognizable heads. His more
recent " productions include Win-
ston Churchill — beg pardon, Sir
Winston.
Maybe it's not great art, but it's
a lot truer to life than many a
masterpiece---of--modernistic -paint=
ing and sculpture. It's done with
difficult materials, in such odd mo-
ments as George can spare from
running a farm which employs
four men in addition to - a- lot of
machinery.
Among George's possessions are
more than a score of meteors—
or meteorites. With a mind at-
tuned to far things, for George the
lure of these strange visitants from
far space is irresistible. How and
where he collected them would
make a story in itself.
Of ` pioneer Huron stock, George
Laithwaite is still a young man, as
healthful Huron county rates age.
� Last May 24 he 'was only 85. So
, he looks forward to evolving, with
keen mind and deft, quick fingers,
yet more masterpieces.
'Boy Scouts, Cubs
Plan Zurich Rally
At the fall meeting of the Huron
I District Scout Association held in
Wesley -Willis United Church, Clin-
I ton, a Scout and Cub rally was
planned for October 17 at Zurich.
1 James Reid, •Zurich, scoutmaster,
was named to organize . the rally
which will see in all probability
1 around 200 Scouts and Cubs :n
attendance. -
The rally will commence at 1.30
p.m. and will consist of a parade
and program of examinations,
sports and competitions. H. C.
Firth, field commissioner for West-
ern Ontario, will be present.
A bronze arrowhead course is
scheduled to be held in Clinton
later in the fall. Plans were dis-
cussed for Apple Day in early
October.
President of the district, Giem
Lodge, Goderich, • presided, , and
secretary was W. MacLaren, Grand
Bend. Twenty-four scouters and
group committeemen attended the
meeting from Clinton, Zurich, Cen-
tralia, Clinton R.C:A.F., Goderich
Troop No. 3, Grand Bend, Lucan
and Seaforth.
A welcome was extended by L.
G. Winter, Clinton, chairman of the
Scouts and Cubs committee of the
Clinton_ Lions Club.
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FEiAGAN—MUNRO
Sadie Isabel, Munro and Gordon
Black Feagan exchanged wedding
vows in Knox Presbyterian Church,
Fingal, midst a setting of white
candles, palms; ferns and white
gladioli. The bride is the daughter
of Mrs. Munro, Port Stanley, and
the late J. A. Munro, and the groom
is the son of Mr. and Mrs. G. W.
Feagan, Goderich.
Rev. S. Hurtle officiated and J.
Harrison provided- the wedding
music. James Medlyn, St. Thomas,
was soloist.
Given in marriage by her uncle,
Dr. C. D. Munro, Jackson, Mich.,
the bride wore a waltz-Jength dress
of Chantilly lace with a matching
jacket. Her halo headdress held a
pearl trimmed veil of French net
and lace. She carried a cascade
of white and pink roses.
Mig's Mary Wallace, London, was
maid of honor and Mrs. Neil
Munro, St. Thomas, and Miss Lorna
THURSDAY, SEPT. ,24th, 1953
-WHAT IS A.B.C.?
E • ,This symbol is often called "the hallmark
'► of circulation value." It is theinsignia of
''i the Audit Bureau of Circulations. And, since
ABCtt O October is being observed as A.B.C. Month
by Bureau members, we should like to pause
O 2 from our news gathering duties to explain
o the significance of our A.B.C. membership to
C V rr
xis our advertisers and our readers,
Just as manufacturers and merchants.,
buy and sell merchandise on the basis of
known standards of grade, �, weight' and measure, ` so are we
prepared to tell advertisers all about our circulation.
That's why we belong to the Bureau—to give our ad-
vertisers a verified count and description of the circulation
audience that they get when they buy advertising in The.
Signal -Star.
There are definite standards for advertising values as well
as for merchandise. We believe that newspaper advertising
should be bought and sold on the basis of these standards.
The , Bureau is a not! -profit, co-operative association of.
3,450 advertisers, advertising agencies and publishers of news-
papers, business publications, magazines and farm publications
in the United States and Canada. It has a staff of experienced
circulation auditors. At regular intervals these men visit all
publisher members and make a thorough audit of their circula-
tion records. The information from these audits is then issued
in reports which are available to advertisers.
While the major objective of the Bureau's work is to
furnish advertisers with verified information about the circula-
tion of publisher members, it also' has a very real importance
in : our relations with our readers.
Our A.B.C. reports serve us as editorial guides. For
example, by knowing exactly where our circulation audience
is located, as shown in the A.B.C. report, we can arrange our
circulation coverage so that we might best serve the interests
of our readers. There is a host of other factual information
contained in the A.B.C. reports which giildes us in our
planning, helping us to give our, readers the type of news-
paper they want.
Our membership in the Audit Bureau of _Circulations is
a protection to our advertisers and our readers.
For our advertisers, it means verified circulation inform-
ation, based on universally accepted standards and practices.
Since A.B.C. audits only publications with paid circulation,
our membership assures advertisers that The Signal -Star
stays in business byi the .voluntary support of its readers.
To _maintain that voluntary reader support we must de-
monstvdfe our responsiveness and responsibility to our readers.
The A.B.C. audit of circulation tells both the advertiser •and
the editor whether our newspaper is performing a service to
our readers—if the readers don't want it, neither do the
advertisers. ,
The Signal -Star joins with almost 1,900 other newspapers
and some 1,600 advertiser, advertising agency and periodical
members in paying tribute to the Audit Bureau of Circulations
next month. We are proud to be a member of the Bureau
and to display its insignia, which has become synonymous
with the words "factual" and "integrity" in the interests of
both the advertiser and the reader.
Feagan, Goderich, sister of the
groom, were bridesmaids.
The - attendants wore identical
ballerina -length gowns of baby
blue marquisette with matching
stoles and headdresses. They car-
ried colonial nosegays of mixed
flowers. -
Douglas Smith, London, was
groomsman, and Earl.Feagan, bro-
ther of the groom, and Donald
Munro, brother of the bride, ush-
ered.
A reception followed at St.
Thomas, when the bride's mother,
gowned in a heather colored crepe
with amethyst accessories . and cor-
sage of yellow tea roses, received
guests assisted by the groom's
mother, who chose a teal blue
crepe with black accessories and
corsage of pink roses. .
For a wedding trip to Northern
Ontario, the bride donned a clover
colored wool suit with pink and
navy accessories and corsage of
pink and white roses. The couple
will reside in 'London.
The bride is a graduate of the
School of Nursing of.Victoria Hos-
pital, London.
Eastern Canada's highest moun-
tains are the Torngats in Labrador,
just over a mile high; Western
Canada's highest mountain is
Logan, in the Yukon, nearly four
miles high.—Quick Canadian Facts.
In Canada only the federal gov-
ernment may collect indirect taxes.
—Quick Canadian Facts. '
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has the largest families?
2. Canadians spent how much per
capita, in retail stores last year?
3. How many families now receive.
family allowance payments?
I4. What industry has been large!y
,responsible for development of
Canada's hydro -electric re-
sources?
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Port. Albert lost a to+igh one to
Formosa in Lucknow last Thursday,
night when they were defeated
3-1 and knocked out of the WOAA
intermediate softball playoffs.
Formosa won the best -of -five series
three games to one.
of the four Atlantic provinces?
ANSWERS:, 5.. Halifax, N.S.; St.
John's, Nfld.; Saint John, N.B.;
Charlottetown, P.E.I. 3. About two
million families. 1. Newfoundland.
4. The pulp and paper industry.
2: About . $800 for every man,
woman and child-.
(Material supplied by the editors
of Quick Canadian Facts, the hand-
book of facts abopt Canada.) -
In July of this year Canada's
labour force reached the record
high of 5,515,000 persons, of whom
about 1,150,000 were trades union
members.—Quick Canadian Facts.
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