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read'the •rexnaininn portion of -Miss
Lewis's. address, given at the fon-
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The president, Mrs. D. Beth',
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p r esidd `'for the meeting and :Mrs.
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Tribute is 'paid to .the .cnerntbry
of the late Miss Isabel Sharman
by one of her former Rupiis, Vieter'
Lauriston of Chethaiio ilnder the
'heading Indomitable Figama io.
Lauriston wrote the following iri
his column 3n the Chatham Daily.
News:
Our last brief Goderich visit was
in 1053, the Coronation Year., It
was fall, the Huron sunsets came
early, and darkness was' eldsing
in when, fumbling through an al-
ways unfamiliar area south of East
street where it approaches the
Maitland, we dubiously identified a
tall, white brick house where we
talked a little while with 1Vfiss
Isabel Sharman.
To Chatham, the news that on
February 15 Miss Isabel Sharman
had passed on in her '92nd year
doubtless signified little. Yet I
feel this indomitable woman merits
a memorial outside the 'picturesque
town where she was born on April
12, 1863 and to which she devoted
her life.
A very small boy in the Second
Book at the .Goderich Central
School, in 1689, I'd first seen her,
an awesome figure in the upper
heli nonsense-AO-dealewith.
:' 'At -Sixteen, apparently certified l
by the board of -examiners withoutl
formal teacher .training, she took!
-charge- of S.S. 3` Colborne. I'm!
.betting from the first, moment*
-Isabel Sharman entered that rural
school, she was -in full ieontrol•.
When Model School's came along,
she attended,,. at Goderich, and,
graduating when I was a few
weeks old, took charge • of the
senior second in the Goderich Cen-
tral School in January, 1882. As
time went' on, she taught through
the higher classes, night up to the
entrance.
For 53 Years
She became assistant principal,
"and then principal holding that
position till her retirement in 1.935.
Her 53 years service covered more
than 'half the long life of the old
Central a a school. Even after
her retirement, she continued
teaching as a tutor.
"Onward and upward" was her
educational motto. To improve
her qualrficatfons, she had -attend-
ed the Stratford Normal School.
Studying extra-murally, in' 19217,
when past sixty, she secured her
B.A .from Queen's with first-class
classes. She herself taught me in honors in English.
the Junior Fourth 'in 1891. That Two years later, at an age when
wass 1ty-two years before my last most teachers are drawing pen -
vis t:The fact is something to sions, she received her high school
nk on, assistant's certificate from the On -
Even in those days the Goderich tario College of Education. She
Central School seemed venerable. never ,used it, but she had the
Today, still sturdily defying the keen satisfaction of getting it.
Huron gales, it houses the County Devoted to her profession, Miss
Museum. Behind it stretched a Sharman had interests beyond it.
gravelled playground, with a wood- She held certificates awarded by
en fence and play,sMeds safely sep-e Ontario School of Art; she
arating the boys from the girls. , studied and taught rnusic, and or-
Locust'Trees •ganized concerts for school and
In front, tall locust trees, long church. She was a fluent speaker,
since vanished, 'bloomed in spring. with a keen sense of-l*tmor.
Even today the scent of • locust Held Many Offices
blossoms at 'the Fairfield Church In her time, she Was president
transports me instantly to Gode- of the Huron Teachers' +lderation,
rich, and that school of my boy- and the public school, section of
hood. the Ontario Teachers' 'federation.
Maybe my "neighborhood With. Mrs. George Ross she organ -
school" idea was subconsciously lied the first Parent -Teachers As -
derived from the Goderich set up sociation in Ontario, two years 'be -
of those distant days. Three fore the Home and School rmove-
wards, 'St. Andrew's, St. Patrick's ment, of which she • was a life
and St. David's, each had a two- member.
room frame school for pupils in She might ha
'p
the Junior and Senior First. The yet through the ye:
Central took care of the juniors first and foremost
from the St. George's ward, 'and native community
the advanced 'pupils from the en- •with which her life
tire town. integrated. The lives
Our first home was on Britannia ed and helped to sh
road, pear the south town limits. than half a century
ravelled far,
she gave, her
ally to her
f Goderich,
was closely
she infiuenc-
re in snore
s teaching,
At 8.45 a.m. the "quarter bell" and in many other ways, are
warned of another school day. En- legion. r•
trancing though Kirkbride's black- Pain -wracked in her latter years,
smith shop was, a glance at the she was, .to the end, indomitably
distant clock face on the town hall cheerful, serenely conscious that
warned lagging school boys not to her.. long life had been useful in
linger. the sight of God, and of the town
I was often late. I was just as she loved.
often late coming from our newer Perhaps,„ the high point came
Bruce street house, within a block when, a few years ago, Isabel Sher -
of the school. My father, who man was called from retirement to
played no favorites,' did his best to lay the cornerstone of the modern
throw the fear of God into me. Goderich public school, which- re -
School 'Sullies placed the ;Central. Oddly, it
Except for tardiness, .school pre- stands just across a narrow street
sented no serious problems, save from my old home cin Britannia
in arithmetic; and oil the play- road. So close than even 'I, if a
ground, where the inevitable -bul- 'boy again and living there, would
lies found a timid small boy allot- have no excuse for being elate.
i'ng prey. There were •4u,nior and- _ _ .... -
senior classes in each "Book"; and Crop Loss Is' Toed •
a good pupil Was promoted after'
six months.
So, in • 1891, Isabel Sharman By Duron Member
taught me in the Junior Fourth.
Her tall, spare figure, the uncom-
promising certitude of her look,•
compelled obedienee. She was a
disciplinarian of the old school,
who, standing no nonsense, had
During the past 20 years, autonaobiiiel accidents have taken the Jives of
37,000 Canadians —the entimre,,,ppputlatiola of a `fair-sized city. A half -million more
have been Witted.
To meet the staggering cost of traffic accidents, the automobile insurance
business this year will, pay due more 'flan sackboO,000. Beyond this, insurance
companies will do everything possible to stem the rising toll of automobile
accidents * by in ,,ti a {, dzivir�g fncentive o �,lowe ini, ranee prtimiums
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at making driversomore aware of the perils of modern-day motottriing.
Enormity of crop losses suffered
in 1954 by Huron County farmers
was described in the Ontario 'Legis-
lature on Wednesday afternoon of
last week by Tom Pryde, MLA
for Huron. -
Farmers in Western Ontario, he
said, were facing crop losses estim-
ated at several millions' of dollars
in the wake of one of the wettest
fall and winter seasons in- years.
Mr. Pryde said. crop losses to
bean growers in Huron alone will
total about $1,000;000. Another
$10,000 loss is estimated on the
sugar •beet crop in the- county. .
Said Mr. Pryde: "Let me tell
you what the wet fall of 1954 did
to the •farmers in my riding, when
twice, as .much rain fell in two
weeks as in the preceding four
• • months."
► -He said the rains carne at a
time when the white bean crap
was about .,to yield a 'bumper har-
vest. As a result only 50 per cent
was harvested and
only aboutt 20
per cent of that taken in was any
good. The rest was a 'total loss.
"In 1953 statistics revealed that
18,100 acres of beans were grown
in. Huron County, ,with a total
value of $1,193,200.
Million -Dollar Lots
"It ' will be seen that. on this
basis the loss to bean growers in
Huron this year was about one
million dollars," 'he said.
Most of the sugar beets were
harvested with difficulty ,but 125
acres were lost, Mr. Pryde said,
representing a monetary loss of
over $10,000..
He felt farm labor costs have a
much more direct relation to other
labor costs in the province than
formerly, since ,farms .were becom-
----ins-his 3y -mach r•,a'
"Nil longer does the.faraner plod
along with the team 'and have all
the family employed, just ti get
a living, In -the old days if crop
prices were poor, so much more
was taken out of the hides of the
family."
He said pe'bple in cities wanted
to -get food as cheaply as possible
but "it's' to nobody's benefit to
get it at such •ir price that the one
who ,produced ,it did so at a ,lossY'
Part of, the -remedy, :Mr. Pryde
felt, was in increasing overseas
,markets for Canadian farm pro-
ducts and int easing :home' con-
surri"pltion.
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ht eee Mein Groups
Very conveniently most growing
:things in Canada divide themselves
.into three main groups. • There
are the hardy types that cannot be
planted too early, provided of
course,, the soil is ready and fit to
work. These are not afraid of
frost. Next come the biggest
'group of all,, the semi -hardy. They
will stand a little frost, but they
do not like it and it is best not to
sow or set out until we 'are almost
certain that spring has really • ar-
rived. In 'the til rd category are
the softies, plants,;bseedsa, roots or
bulbs that will not %tend frost, at
all. Nothing is gained by putting
these 'things in .the ground ,until
the soil is really warm and summer
is just around the corner. -
The Hardy Ones
At this time of year, -of course
we need concern ourselves only
with the first and extremely hardy
group of plantings. In the warmer
parts of Canada we can usually
"plant these at once or at least
well before the end of March. Of
course we must wait until the frost
is out and the mud has dried up
reasonably. It never does' to start
working soil in any case while it
is still soggy and liable to pack
down tight.
In this first group of plantings
will be ariost nursery 'stock, things
like fruit and ornamental trees,
shrubbery" and''°woody vines, and
herbaceous' perennials. The soon-
er -
oon-er.. these are, safely in •-theft.-:per-
manent quarters alter leaving the
nursery the better they will grow.
They should: be watered 'well and
fora few days if possible protected
from the wind and sun.
Among the ' seeds that can be'
sown 'outside just as soon as the
soil is 'tit to work will be sweet
peas, zinnias, cosmos and any other
flowers that will normally seed
themselves. In the vegetable lines
will be garden peas, the 'first let-
tuce and carrots, the firselbppinaeh
,n,
and perhaps ave can risk a - very
short„aaow of e$ tra early' potatoes.
lawns
1 awn grass seed is another early
tbird. *tiler er in now lawns or re -
,pa iring` . we ear.. Grass
thrives when 1t w thher is', cool
s fd usually
o; es in �clk it tilx'es. The
'hrlyreason �'as s' ,` le:. rW�e want same.'
rseend% ;ha will, ge inate and
q 4 tidy to provide. some
.enans 'will” also provide some
hAide 'fi'drr s ere slower m stung,
Iffier •aid ', {,� ore o yip zit -.��
15o it
,� is a
e •l kno
sigtieultUral
fact, that ,a talkhireof°-grasses- or
clovers Will give a thicker stand
Woolly ' than a single -variety sown
alone. Of 'coursefor very special
rz,!d,^°p!.rs`s"urutlt.l' p .
ppurtlri `yr greeonsr ` �
pw1
n.
mature.fre.co*tse., f_h,ouw aid:be-as.level
and ;the soil, as One as pos-
sible before any seed is sawn. and
that job is .best done .on..,a, n
Aday. (Directions regard, the
alnouwlt of eould hA ' me
carefully. sTooed mashny Pee fople seemsed
to. or et that grass is a crop and it
wilI appreciate fertilizer and
watering just like any other
A well fed - .lawn off good soil, will
soon crowd out most weeds.
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