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Cherrydale farm.....
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I,,,eTouzel described his
property thus: "180 acres of
best farming land, including
• rich alluvial river flats. ex-
tensive orchards, 1,000 fruit
trees, water privileges un-
surpassed, there b.eing several
living springs over the farm
and notably a monster spring
which runs an, overshot wheel,
driving an amber cane crusher
and cider mill.
"The dwelling house is, a
substantial stone building,
three storeys, comfortable and
well built. Barns, stables, fruit
house; dwelling for working
man.' One span black Indian
ponies. . Pr'oprietor's only
reason for selling is that'he has
not the capital to carry out his
views."
LeTouzel had married a
woman from the West Indies. A
daughter, Constance, taught
school in Goderich, and a son
was a doctor in London.
"The proprietor," LeTouz•ei
announced in his sale ad
vertisement,''"is leaving the
country for a southern
climate."
Present owners will not have
found the cider mill, which long
ago was taken from the farm to
Saltford. Verne Gledhill of
Benmiller recalls that "Charles
Fisher ran one in my time, and
it d'riginally came from there".
The Albert Durst farm, as it
has been known for ifny
years, was part of the- great
-estate of Michael Fisher, who
came from Pennsylvania Lia
York county in 1829 and
brought from Canada Company
5,465 acres in Colborne at seven
.shillings. _.saxpen.oe,...Lot_ ...6,
described in` 1832 as of. 119.
.acres, cost Michael about $200.
LeTouzel got $6,500, and • the
latest transaction was said to
be in sif"c figures.
The Dursts came from
Puslinch in 1862, beginning -
appropriately with Adam,
and settling first on Lots 27 and
28 in the Maitland Concession.
Then came William C., John
and now Albert and Norman.
New owners of Cherrydale
Farm. are Mr. and Mrs. Robert
Misner, late of Bruce Mines,
Algoma District. They haye
been school teachers.
Michael Fisher spotted the
Maitland „Jots - soon after his
arrival in Goderich, and was
attracted by the springs, He
built a log • house on Lot 6 in
1832, and a few years later
erected the historic house
described years later by
LeTouzel.
"At my house, in the town-
ship of Colborne, in the year of.
Our Lord one thousand, eight
hundred and thirty-five,"
Michael Fisher, then 49, dic-
tated his will.
In the Belden Atlas of Huron
it is stated that "of course Mr,
Fisher sold the greater part of
This -tract as soon as a demand
was created." Well, not
exactly. He apportioned his
'land to his seven sons and three
daughters -! in -.his will, ap-
pointing as executors his eldest
son, Jacob, and Jacob Clemens
of Waterloo township. Jacob
received 500 ' acres in Con-
cession II. Lot 6 fell to Enoch,
along with Lots 7,_8 and 9 in the
Maitland and part of Lots 3,4
and 5 in Con. I. Next to his lar
was Matilda'.s, Lots 10, 11 and
12.
`Michael had married
Susannah Holly, and in his will
provided that she "should have
the_. _management of the.. _im-.
'prdved land and wood lands
belonging thereto in the legacy
of my youngest son until he
be.corpes of age . , also her
feather bed and bedding."
SUGAR
SPICE
by 0111 SMILEY
One of my recurring
dreams is that all my teeth ,
are crumbling, and breaking.
off like toast. It's a terrible
nightmare and I always wake
up sweating, jam some
fingers into my mouth, and
patch me up somehow.
I should .have known better.
From my air force days, I
know that disasters always
come in threes.
Right in the middle of a
brilliant lesson. on the use of
groan, with relief when I find four-letter words in Victorian
the teeth are still there, and literature (such as "legs"),
with pain because I have somebody, somehow, ram -
bitten my fingers. med a red-hot needle into a
Today I feel that I'rn having tooth in my lower jaw -bone,
a. da mare, rather than a four teeth and two spaces
nightmare. Last night at from the missing ones.
dinner, one of my ,front teeth I almost screamed aloud. I
came away in the midst of a, screamed silently. The needle
glorious dish of curried was removed. Two minutes
chicken. I ' love curried later, that red-hot needle
chicken, and this time my plunged into the tooth directly
wife had excelled herself, , above (I have two teeth on
whatever that means, but I that side, upper and loweil'
am not keen on curried and they are fairly friendly
chicken, with teeth in it, even with each other, because
when they are "my own. there is nobody else around)
However, this incident did This time I couldn't help it.
notalarm rhe, unduly or I ,emitted,
otherwise. It was only my peg `Huh!", as though someone
tooth. Every couple of months were driving a stake through
it comes unscrewed or my heart. I sagged into my
whatever, I carefully comb it chair, white and shaken.
out of the soup or spaghetti, You can always depend on
trot down to the dentist with it students.' They , rally -around
clutched in my hand; he dusts when' things are tough,
it off, pops it back in, cements despite their outward
it in place and I'm back in cynicism. They're all. heart
business, stuf'fin'g my guts. inside that tough exterior.
But this morning, mun- ' "I think the old sod's
Ching my matins (in this case havenna hardatak. Wuddell
a ripe yellow pear that tasted, , we do?"
'as so much. fruit does "Jeez, I hope he. hazzen
nowadays; like wet card- godour tests marked yet, I
board), .I crunched on think I`failed mine."
something hard. Now I know "Maybe he's just godda bad
that pears do -not 'have either hangover. Slap him in the
bones or ,stones: They have face a coupla times and he
pips. And I knew that this might come around." -
particular pear did not even I came out of it, of course,
ave a pip, because my: loving and. pretended 1• was enacting
wife, knowing -I was one tooth Heathcliff's grief in
short from the night before, Wuthering ' Heights.When
had disembowelled it. Right, they , looked as though they
,another front. tooth broken didn't believe me, I curled
off, just beside the missing back my bottom 'lipand
peg. - snarled at them with my, new
There was no pain in either gap-toothed look. They shut
case. Just a sense of -horror up. . •
When J.C. LeTouzel advertised his place for sale in 1883, he listed' `several living springs
over the farm". Here is one of them; temperature of this water is hi the 50s in the hottest
part of summer.
iy
and, self -disgust, :as I have in When everything cooled
the ..nightmare. , It's bad down, I realized that my back
enough to pull a filling, when teeth were merely expressing
eating toffee, or to snap off a Sympathy for my lost front
bit of molar..when you crunch teeth. It made them lonelier
down on an unsuspected beef- than ever. But they.. didn't
'hone, or even to have an have to shriek their sympathy
aching tooth yanked. But to ' at such volume.
have one break off when My whole. jaw, has been
eating an over -ripe pear ... aching for the remainder of
Yeeeccch! ' .
I still wasn't plunged into
the, depths. Sonne -..pe le go,
for years with no hair dn their
heads (and plant -articlest in
magazines suggesting baldies
are more virile). Others go all
• their lives with no brains to
speak of. I reckoned •1 could
get through the day without
two teeth.
And I did.' But by noon, the
tip of my tongue was raw and
shredded, from thrusting it
into that jagged crevice
(crevasse?). `
But: I was coping. And I
knew that if I hustled down to
my friendly dentist, he would
,squeeze me in somehow; and
Your best chance to get that new FALL COAT you have been wanting
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OPEN FRIDAY NIGHT TILL 9
this dark day, but the red-hot
needle has cooled to a blunt
instrument.
As soon as I finish telling
you this" fascinating episode
of a continued story called
"One Mans Fangs," I'm
going"straight to the dentist,
and have him rip every
tattered :remnant of bone, out
of my head.
Then I am going up to the
hospital and have the calcium
chipped off my right foot -
bone, my gall -bladder
removed, just in case it ever
acts up, a heart -pacer put in,
and three or four pints of
blood, in the event of anemia.
, I might even have my ears
pierced, just for the hell of it.
I don't tra'tt.the old carcass
any more. If my teeth start
crumbling when I'm just a
broth of a boy, who knows
what bits and pieces may fall
off when I'm 85, as I fully
intend to be?
County of Huron
Welfare Cheques
Due to the ?nail strike, welfare cheques may be; p eked 4
up Friday October 31 at Municipal Clerks' offices,
except for the Townshjps of Ashfield, Colborne,
Goderich and the Town of Goderich where they may be
picked up at the Social Services office.
ANNOUNCEMENT
BENMILLER GENERAL STORE
is now under new Fnan:agement.
Propietors: Ross & Frankie Hiller
OPEN:
MONDAY THRU'SATURDAY -8 A.M. -9 P.M.
SUNDAY - 9 A.M. - 7 P.M.
"Drop in and lets A get acquainted"
Deceptive business practices
hurt everyone.
This what Ontario is doing
to protect you.
We have a new law in Ontario called
the Business Practices Act. Its purpose
is to prevent unfair business.practices
ractices
in sales to the public. Here„s vhat:the
law does:
• it prohibits false, misleading or
deceptiOe tactics in the sale of
products and services.
• it prohibits too high prices, unfair
contracts and high-pressure sales
methods.
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if a seller has taken unfair advantage
of them.
The Province of Ontario wants you
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buy! Expensive items such as cars and
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to watch out for when you buy, explain-
ing the do's and don'ts about:
"Buying a Car”
"Buying Real Estate"
"Buying a Condominium" '' '
"Getting a:Mortgage"
You can also get a booklet called
"Balance in the Marketplace—The
Consumer's Guide to the Business
Practides Act."
If you would like a copy of any of
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report an unfair business practice,,
write now to:f
Ontario Consumer
Queen's Park
• Toronto, Ontario M4Y 1Y7
Ministry of Consumer and
Commercial Relations
Sidney Handleman, Minister
yr PI .1411
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Province of Ontario
William Davis, Premier
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