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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1955-02-17, Page 7• • • .0 I • • •-s.'"ut . ctiiqr 1111.411 !Nieto'. ot Chiropractic. Offiee Hoare.; • Mon., Thum a.m. to 5 p.m. Tues., Fri -9 a..nt, to 5 p.m. , 7 peia. to 8 paw. Wed. & _Sat. 9 to 11.30 a.m. Vitamin Therapy 011ieee-Corige of South St sad Britannia Road. Phone 34. VOW 10110111111 A Wm. M. Prest BARRISTER and SOLICITOR 31 'HAMILTON ST. , PHONE 1570 'GODERICH • A. L. COLE Optometrist—Optician Eyes Examined. Glasses Fitted Phone 33 Goderich. Ont. • HAROLD JAPHSON LICENSED AUCTIONEER HURON AND .PERTH Seated,' Phone 11-661 or Harry Edwards, Goderich Phone 144 7 'FRANK REID LIFE UNDERWRITER, Life, annuities, business in- surance. Mutual Life Of Canada Phone 346 Church St. A. M. HARPER Chartered Accountant 65 Soitth St. Goderich Telephone 343 C. 1'General PMA ra?HAInsurancNe Fire, Automobile, .Casualty Real, Estate 30 Colborne St., Goderich Phone 18w ' EDWARD W. ELLIOTT e, LICENSED AUCTiONEER Correspondence promptly an- '‘sweredrimmediate arraeigemente ern be made for Sales Dale by calling Phone 466J, Clinton. Charge moderate and satisfae: lion Guarantee& F. T. Armstrong OPTOMETRIST, Thane 1100 for appointment SQUARE • .GODERICH WHEN Y,OU• THINK OF INSURANCE SEE Got' Insured—Stay Insured Rest Assured Bank of Com. Bldg. • TELEPHONE 268W - H. M. FORD Geo, G. MacEwan _GENERAL INSURANCE, MASONIC TEMPLE • WEST STREET Peter S. MacEwan General, 'Life, 'Real Estate, Phone 230, boderich 3 ridges an� MIPS 1' Ot Early pi pro Toprodnees :lterevdth _a -cantinuationirom last week of the chapter "The Colborne Clique" Which appears in the book, "In The Days of the Canada •Company." Contents of the- eNpter, will appear each week fn Serial form, ' (Continued from -last week) The matter of bridges was the primly difficulty, because without them no grist could be got to the mill. But the road provided -for travel when the river was crossed, and the mill itseif, were equally unsatisfactory; the roadway was often an impassable series of mud - holes. "Their little tuppenny mill down on the flats was worked by a spring, not by the,. river, so it couldn't always run. 'Twas just a little two -stone mill." Naturally, it did not supply the demand for flour—which one fam- ily plat, as their own estimate „for use, at onebarrel per week, as sometimes there was little else for "Pyper's mil wa* a humbug of a mill. We did the best we could, and ground our own wheat in Q. coffee -mill fixed on the wall, or pounded it with a stone in the hallowed top of a stump." I 27 ..m• " • Old Mills Others crushed it between two stones,vend made a kind of por- ridge, aral baked in kettles a mix- ture whieh resembled bread inas- much as it was made from wheat; and some hungry ones dug up potatoes already a •month in the ground. Mr. Mounteastle, on the Huron road, once tried the experi- ment of sending his little girl with the grist.. He- maintained that it was fairness and not disagreeable- ,ness which caused delay. The mill was Certainly inadequate for the custom, but the rule adopted was, first come first served. At this time the family was entirely out, of flour, and ,he sent his daughter with . the sadk. of -wheat -balanted- before her on the horse. He knew they would not keep a child wait- ing; and the small horse -woman ac- cordingly returned the same everi- ing, at a foot ,pace all the way, witir her quantity of flour. The father would probably have been kept two or three days. Aleeander Young made as many as seven or eight trips after ten bushels of wheat. Sometimes he wouldre turn with a bushel, sometimes with none at all, the excuse generally being the rush of work and oc- casionally lack of water, for the spring which fed it sometimes gave, THE SUPERIOR 14TEX-BAISE WALL P,4/MT 'marieetnicratutnewimem Stiles Ambulance .(formerirCrariston'i) Anywhere — • Anytime PHONE 399 77 Montreal St, Goderich •mommossimmennoneden ' Ronald G. McCann PUBLIC ACCOUNTANT Phones: 561-455 Office: Royal Bank Building Res: Rattenbury St. CLINTON ONTARIO .`e --DON'T WORRY ABOUT TV SERVICE THS IS OUR BUSINESS RADIO, TV &' SOUND SERVICE. Phone 598 127 Widder St. 49tf B. R. Munday • Get $50 . TO $1200 at = Need money for down payment bringing proof of gwnership. On E or repairs on an auto...-. repairs approval, get caSti. Of course, = or down payment on a home..•. you 'kepis youe car. 0 or other worthy purposesP : Phone or come in -today for Now you can get tbatfcash On a Assonot loan on your auto. a roar auto emptily and Simtilx. Loans, .alsc4 on signature or = at . Drive it to Office—. •, furniture, .... . Leon's S'tO to $1200 on,ignittOro;fornitore OrAufto . tv, „ t SA rFS' FINANCE Co. a . 2nd moor ohnolntif, opoi. 01e. Phone: -Stratioediti olio tan Mb, • Open thwity 9 to Widnote0;940 It* SaturclikY to 171! own saw tsresidesh sil noniOndiSfigask hrionsi fins's*. tosipanyif,0001, • out. •A site was staked ofI for new mill, and hungry people, were. shown the stakeS,- 'and Pron'ised there would .be lack delay once was ' up. That . new mil s never grew beyond the stakes, a letter written to the British Col- onist, Henry, Hyn4m,an ag1zes the Honourable Adam Ferglisson and his managementof his Fermis settlement. The mills th,e0, had been burnt 4�wn; but as soon as the rubbish was cleared-aWay, new mills, .phoenix -like; appeared . "Would that such a man were a Commissioner of the Canadretora- pony, to,urge the repair of some Slight dtage of the Goderich which has been closed for two months, d Lord knows when it will be ien again." Pyper, wife of the, miller, was a -sister ef "Stout Mac," Mac- Donald cvf the first surveys. Be- cause Pyper was a Kentishman,. and had married •a Hieland woinan,, Dunlop nick -named him Bally Pibroch. Mrs. •Pyper was as in- genious as her brother, but knew less English. Although her larder would often be laden with venison, pigeons and other meats, it too had its barren times; and a fresh - killed beast was soon cut up and a part exchanged, for something which would furnish variety. In one neighbourly .exchange after the killing of her husband's pigs, Mrs. Pyper offered the other "eome of my sow's mutton for a quarter of your sheep's beef." At the Mountcastle 'homestead on the Huron Road, a groundhog was caught and shared with .a hungry neighbour, "arid never a more tasty morsel." That some of the emigrants did not know how to make the best of what they had did not cross their minds; the Canada Company was the root of all evil. -- • 1.1 „,,,, • Chippewa Indians paid visit here with carcases of bears, I • oost lflaxinium Teachers Salary Ap, increase of $300 nV1ierpax e aurum figure in their, Wm.:sche- dule was granted to; teachers at, Goderieh PuWie Schikol-4oar4 at the monthly meeting held 94 Wed- nesday night of last. Week at the school. • - This deeiSion and'other decisions affecting SalarieS restated fro11. three meetings,. between: theleteh- ers' relations4"Coroniittee of the board and the teaeher-beard rela- tion committee et the teachers. The teachers had 404 foe an increase in the minimum salary from -$2,2Q0 to $2,400 and Am in- crease in the maximum salary, to $3,800 without a degree. In addi- tion they requebted an annual:in- crease Of $200 effective January 1 of bltis year , and an additional 'in- creage of $200 beginning in Sep- tember. The teachers' request pointed„ out that the $2,400 figure is the approved minimum of the Teach- ers' federation. It was suggested by teachers that teachers now receiving the maxi- mum salary should receive the an- nual increments until they reached the ,requested new maximum. • Other decisions besides increas- ing the maximum salary by $300 from $2,900 to ,$.1,200 were that there, would be no change in the mind/win salary, the allowance of $100 per year for experience up to $300 would be Changed to $100 per year up to $400 and that teachers at present receiving the maximum salary would receive anneal in- creases of $100 until the new maximum is reached. It was decided' also that no in- creases would be, retroactive to the first of this year and that the, changes in the salary schedule would be effective on September 1, 1955. Last increase granted by the board, was in September, 1953, when all figures in the salary sche- dule were increased by $100. . r. The board meeting also received •the resignation of one teacher, Mrs. Norma Dixon, effective at the end of June. It was decided also to have the board's property committee Meet with Town Council's Police com- mittee to determine what could • be done regarding a traffic problem on Gibbons street during •school hours. Indians le Before the days of the Colborne Clique; the populace was one day brought out by the arrival of a party of Chippewa Indians - with the carcases of five bears. For a month salt pork had been thConly meat, so the Indians were 'beset on every side. The chief was a fine looking warrior, wearing a large silver medal with a figure of George the Third which had been given him for gallant conduct in 1812. Wearied by much asking, he stepped upon the heaviest car- case, and gracefully ',waving his hand to command attention, began an oration.' He was very animat- ed, and pointed often to the cows and oxen belonging to the settlers, grazing near. John Got, a French- Canadian, interpreted that he said, "Indian very great limiter, • kill plenty bear and deer; white man kill beef. Sometimes Indian very hungry, see his white brother kill an ox. 1e asks for piece, but white man say, 'No, • TIO, go iaWay.' iey-and-bye • give hint paunch and sag- 'Plenty good for blackguard Indian.' 11 Indian kill bear, white man" say, 'You my friend, give me a piece.' Indialf gret hunter,, he n,0 tell his white bro pier to Wait for paunch, but give him leg or some good piece." The Company's stores furnished another ground for complaint. The settlers could find no commodity there but fish. _MeadoWlands, the Lizars homestead, and Lunderston, the - Hyndman place, became centres of discontent and protest. The British Colonist of Toronto, the paper of the day, was called' upon to issue articles setting forth grievances, and the muse at home wrote pamphlets, , squibs, and parodies. "Sweet Goderich city, So sweet 'and pretty, • I'm sure no ditty Its •praise can declare. The stores where the fish are; And the great Commissioner—." Stories went the rotieds of how the Company did not keep faith, in doing work and in distributing money, which faith, if kept, would destroy these causes of complaint. Not so, said the Colborne Clique; they were • "Standing still •• And doing nothing with a deal of skill." • (Continued next week) • • FAST RELIEF FOR ' • . _ A man wanted a divorce. "That woman never stopstalking," he told the judge. "She' kept going steady morning, noon and night— day in and day out. A person gets so that he just can't stand any inore, Judge.' "What does she talk about?" asked the judge. "That's just the trouble, your Hon dr, she doesn't say." Lfl -0 • a A ;notion to reeonstruct the County Road frem.Bayfield to Chit- , . ton straight through from concea- sion aix,Cyoderich Township, to Highway No. 21 was pissed at a specialmeeting on Huron County Conilcil's road conimittee at a special meeting here iast week. The decision was made over the protest of a deputation of taxpay- ers from, the township, headed by Ross Middleton and Beheld Welsh. Another delegation, however, head- ed by James Stirling, ex -reeve of the township, and Jalte ftedder, favored the more direct route. The committee, presided over by the chairman, Reeve ,,Arthur Gibson, of Ikowick TOwnship, de- cided on the straighter route from Highway No. 21; 1 y,4 miles north of the new Bayfieht bridge through to Clinton. The present -road from concession six west to,No. 21 High- way is a series of curves and turns. The committee's decision follows a recent suggestionby Goderich Township Reeve Johri-Deeves, who claimed ,that by-passing of the olcl road and construction of a more direct route would prove more efficient. The new road would be one- half mile shorter than the present one, but would run three-quarters of a mile farther north than the original one. Goderich Township, under the "One For the Road" The origin of this veiled ref- erence to drinking and driving is obscure. Probably it came down from Old Dobbin days in lngland. If this last one for the road tog - ped off several previous drinks, it didn't matter much in those days. Horse sense would very prob- bly carry tho naaudlie driver safe- ly home. How different today The "one for the road" might so easily be one for the ditch, the hospital or the morgue --per- haps all three. Conclusive sci- entific proof has shown that a driver having 1y, pints of 6% beer will be affected as follows: L. Selective reactions' e.g. mak- ing decisions, slow down 10%. 2. Muscular reactions. e.g. mov- ing hands and feet, slow down. 3. Mental concentration e.g. watching It's „ driving; loss up ,to 35%. Thee•problem fact is that the "one for the road"eis fraught with tragedy. This advertisement sponsored by Huron County Teitiperance Federation - . - • CEMETERY MEMORIALS T.PRYDE&SON EXETER LOCAL REPRESENTATIVE— ALEX SMITH GODERICH 146 ELGIN AVE. PHONE 158 • • v.frunkl nihta1n, mile' of road W1C U4b Pasisftd Yet)ve9P, et.41.COPiIM .41,1VAXItir - Highway No, 211. • - • Mr. Stirling said he felt it 'wouW be $25,000: cheaper tii'conatruet tlie grEpight road: ,He.noted that 23 miles of Bell.TelePhene equipment could remain intact with the direct route. grip of land from Highway No. 21, to lakefront troperty OW,13, elf by the. township, which' leads into the proposed entrance of the new road, was suggested for use as a township park by Mr. Stirling. .4, Olt 404w HAS BZGTJL* GROU The regular meetiug of Georges s lreld Tu tut oter...:sori,, weekd041 president, Mrs. Afirs;: R. Needbam, t re was read MI& T. E. Prit1dZ&Td, the by ,lefir.4. a$ the Litany :vow*, their membership. covered the ..14! of her lite 'Uranium..‘ Wit190111;4:-Septte'40. tharge arts ProSTera by 704-0-44-4 ed by Mrs. Riley and of appreciation waeread. from. ULM A. 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