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More pollution talk
Perha,$ " Goderich'.s newest .tow,
" LIO-01'11ot "is quite correct whecLshe says w
That we. should talk more about pollution '
' 4**.trtpatd'°btr t r Mtv'E lsa - Ha dor as-perc
`t er•finger on' the solution for much of the
which can be
everyday brand of pollution
f ound il'r' Goderich as well as most other
towns' of itssize. •
- We agree that the place for women to
start the fight agairi,st pollution is right at
Monne. Lengthy articles have been written
about pollution, most of them containing '
long,, technical term. • which mean
practically nothing to"rnost women.
:-It's the simple things that count -like
experimenting with pure soaps and other
non-polluting washing agents to find out
if we can indeed get clothes clean without
these super -special detergents about which
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we read and hear so much; like buying
products packaged in-sirnple bags and not
dressed •up in fancy wrapping over layers
t- ~cardbv 87CF TISS-t e"''en ....4448/6 -.1-"leather, In the°-Sigr;Ra1 ri,^"dt ;2„- „N-
multiply our -garbage disposal problems 1867, W,M, Savage advertised.
beyond all reason; like determining to for 1,000 cords of •hemlock
order our - lives) and the lives of our bark, to be delivered to his yard
families, so that wewill not interfere -with' at the dock.
the way of life chosen by another. . Traces of tanbark frbm the
Seg rniIIrs'
Continued from Page 1.
yet venerable can remember
racing to and from the
"tanbark" at Central- school
'recess. The tanbark at the end of
North Street was in evidence, of
course, for many years after the
tannery burned.. Ailtanneries
used bark—mostly hepnl,Qck--in
' curing hides. The bark immersed
in boiling waterforms,a solution.
in the , �► s forthe finishing of
Seegmiller tannery., were
The larger pollution headaches are excavated recently when an
Slowly being solved by' thoughtful men addition was built on, Dr. KM.'
rand- women who recognize a need and are, Cauchi's house ' on Caledonia
striving for an answer, terrace. Loose fill necessitated.
The small - maybe we should call them deep supports. `Iib original
house was built in 1913 for Mrs.
the more personal kinds of pollution' Magdeline Clark, daughterof
,require the day to day attention of Registrar 'John Galt and wdow
horneoy'vners and the gentle influence of of Galt Clark, after the death.of
wom ,n concerned ' about our her husband at Moncton, N.B.
er'ivironment.
ST. PATRICK RESIDENCE
A year after he bought the
"Spring" lots on the bank,
Seegmiller purchased from the
Canada Company the lots --on the
south side of St. Patrick Street,
next -- Waterloo, and 'built,
probably in the .same Yea",
, r. and Mrs. Alfred Hebei grew an extremely tall delphinium "
(1 58) the large red brick house this year at their home`at 165 Piston West. Here Mr. Hebei has
- which • waste, -home . of the to -climb uP on a step ladder to' reach 'the top of the spike . _,. .
Seegmillers until 1882, and since
1963 has belonged to Lorne which' grew higher than the .Habel home. (photo by Don •
, Dotterer: " "tt is a •house of McGee)
120, tam
won to Woman
considerable architectural
interest, -'with : some traces • of
' Seegmilierocevupation �•rprv: ; sl -A
When it is stated that Jacob
Seegmiller "built" something, it
. means his contractor, and . the
only''' one of his contractors who
can be identified at present is
,Adam MacVicar, a noted builder
here from about 1853..41iss
Lillias MacVicar, • I-tincks Street,.
a granddaughter, has noticed
Did you enjoy -Art Mart? If
you didn't find something there
_ to your liking then you couldn't
have taken. time . to see
everything. This year more than
the last two years (and this is as
far back as I go in Goderich) 1
thought the Art. Mart offered a
--little bit of everything. -
I learned a new word last.,,;..
week. It, was 'macrame,the kind
of vyeaving or knot -tieing „that
one, does only withone's fingers
and teeth I learned,, the word
.Izom Stie `$el)<
who "presently fills
'it:Cher spare hours with proof•
reading at the Signal -Star. Sue
tells me that macrame is one of
among his papers the name of
flowers arranged by Edna . and to make it stick: . Seegmiller:
may have noted that Sifto Salts get the lesson across to thepupil
0 v e molt and Eleanor "' And" I , gather from .the'.. "" 'rhe Signal (187 5) states that
Hetherington were yellow and conversations I've had with some while Seegmiller occupied the
white, in .keeping with . the , teachers that there are plenty of. building which was _to become
yellow and white of the salt hard feelings about the fact that the British' ,ExchaRge,; ,"a,large
boxes. - •' some board of education staff brick .tannery which he ,owned,
Mrs. McKee told the floweret 66 2 3 of:their• .benefits>�paid• ° ` and rented to W.G.. Smith,
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arrangers that in h_e opinion;, the ,_.a d ;lie teachers do n ot. corner , of" Waterloo -St Patrick
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accessories -should. o it . give -the ,As usual, there are. two, sides : -••••••49w
'burned"=LLSeegm7�er . at no time
impression of -.the -industry being to every.. story but this 11
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pq"rtrayed The fl< wet's were -tile: ' looks• as :though;; much ` of the Smith Tannery, but
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im ort t th aftei.-MI it was.�- a trouble lies in • extremely poor Smith after five years of
Tower Festival, she said - yet -relationships, between teachers,operation borrowed on mortgage
thecolor scheme of
the the board of education, the from Seegmiller, and the fire
'mentioned ,may have made it
arrangement should blend or if administration..and yes; even the necessary to, find new capital.
at all possible, correspond to the people of Huron County.
colors Smith's sons, 'Wm. F. and
1 predominant' ant' ' to the -
Maybe just maybe if parents
the oldest art form .known^to
man.
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Sue's'' privacy screen of
macrame seemed to be attracting
someattention, at ' Art Mart.
—Several,—people went over to the
tall masterpiece and viewed it
with a variety of expres-
siorns...some puzzled some
impressed, some distasteful. But
- the interest was there and that
must have pleased Sue.
And 1 noticed another booth
of macrame'. items - more
bouttrine:l"rke� artro a Tc c
• belts.- but at the. time iting
this column (Friday morning
before breakfast) I still have not
interviewed the young lady in
ckkarge. But I (loved the
colors ... and to look and look
and look ...
Arthur, took over°the-business in
industry.• took the bine to delve more emolished to
You can- ' understand . that_ deeply into the programs offered 1905. It was d
4after sittingin on the planningmake way for ,the Breckenridge
at the schools their children.apartments. walls��•
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session I Base of the wawas thoroughly attend and if they spent more was found to , three. bricks in the types of flower time learning just _how.. the
arrangments which would ensue. teachers function in their jobs,
Some, I thought,- followed Mrs. there would be greater
McKee's basic instructions to the undetstinding -all round. . ,
letter. Others, I supposed, would Parents say teachers are aloof,
have seemed a little cluttered to not wanting to be bothered
t disappointed in their own sons ,and daughters. Mrs. McKee. about trivial matters involving
But I wash' paughters.
the • display this year. The Teachers say that parents display
,ilowwers--wee ,' lovely and the a complete lack of interest in
arrangers , worked hard' to make their children proven by the
the -exhibit a real treat for the poor attendance at • most
eye and the soul. parent -teacher nights at school.-.
* * * " There's a communications
I've been talking whenever breakdown for 'sure, `and we are
the opportunity, presents itself, all involved. •
with some of 'the ' secondary * * *
school teachers of the county, , ' I took some time last week to
The Flower Festival was Incidentally, the salary dispute indulge in a pleasure which
--attracting a large number of still is not settled and the comes all too infrequently for
people this year again. When _I majority of the secondary school me. I visited Squire's Gift Shop
spoke to Mrs. G. Finlayson on teachers in the County of Huron on Highway 21 south and had a
Thursday evening, she told ,me have. resigned from the board's chat with the folks who operate
that 300 people had signed the employ_ . that place of business.,
guest book of which she was in , To put it bluntly, Huron has 1 stood apd drooled at the
charge and more persons had only a skeleton staff •'actually lovely peices of this and that are
simplyiviewed the exhibit and hired to teach secondary school available but I, was particularly
walked on out of the building this fall. It still isn't known, just interested in the Eskimo artwork
without registering. what' will happen in September. for sale there. -..:.
1 had a special, interest in the Most folks are guessing , that I was told that Americans•are
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• Flower Festival this year. I had school won't open for a week or more interested in Canadian I
thick. ,
"Although he never held a,
public position," the Signal said
' in Jacob's obituary, "yet he 'has
done much for Goderich, and
from among it"s citizens the town
will miss an • energetic and
enterprising business man and a
much -esteemed friend."
Bridge scores �1
There were four tables in play'
atthe Goderich Duplicate Bridge
Club on Tuesday, July 13.
Winners and their scores, were
as" follows: Mrs. J. Cook and
Mrs. R. McDonald, 54; Mrs. J
Johnson and Mrs. J. McGarrity,
471/2; Mrs, D.D. Worthy and Mrs.
W. Duncan, 46.
A. Denomrne
the pleasure to . sit in on ten days after the regular school culture than are Canadians.... and 1
workshop meeting being held by opening date - at least. But that really didn't surprise me: •
the Horticultural Society last.. nobody's really sure of that. We seem to" take for granted
week and I 'heard Mrs- Jean In fact; nobody is really sure those things which are Canadian
McKee, the convener, going over of anything - the board, the and u n f o r t u n e l y , they
the rules to follow to obtain the a d m i n i st r a t i o n or the sometimes seer" a little too
maximum from the flowers and , staff and believe it or net, the ordinary for us; It is sotr1ething
the accessories. students are getting a little edgy. like the feeling one gets when
As you probably noted if you And • as one teacher told me, one puts a - hand -painted
visited the Flower Festival, the it is the guy in the middle - the hand -thrown jug up against a
whole idea was to depict poor student - who will suffer Ming vase. There is just no
through flowers . and a few the most over this hassle. comparison.
well-ch601 "'-'-'accessories the One teacher said he'd been . Americans are in Canada for a
- products ' of the various reading this column , and my holiday right now, and most of
•industries throughout the town views ecreerning• Warren, them have a budget forr souvenirs
of Goderich. Brown's statement . that the from our country which are
Dearborn • Stell' Tubing,' for board of' education in Huron coveted on the return trip home.
instance, was Mrs. Wendy wasn't interested in educational
I would imagine that '
Hoernig's challenge. At the matters, (Brown is a negotiator Canadians are not half so
meetingwhieh
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p Secondary School ,generous with their `souvenir •
Plower Festival,Wendy Teachers' Federation.) —" money' when they travel abroad
described how she called at I was reminded that while the in the USA, because it seems to
Dearborn Steel Tubing to tell teachers were pleased, to note me that Canadians are a little
them what She was planning and the board's increasing interestin more careful about their
to ask far some `props' for her such ` matters as special • finances for some • reason or
exhibit at the Plower Festival. e d u c a t i' o n , better another.
�, According to Wendy,, the communications, improved Also at Squire's was the most
to`lks at Dearborn were "lost curricula etc. there were still unusual pair of ' mucklucks I've
obliging, and those, silvery several areas where thie board ever seen -with handbag to
cylinder -like things which fall's rt short of the teachers' match. The fur lifas long, black
flamed 'the background,..for expectations. One problem goat hair and Very definitely
Wendy's exhibitwere were. actual seems to be the budget cutback efferent.
Dearborn steel tubes; TheY even for items like teachers,' seminars And I noticed that tucked
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