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Home My WebLink AboutThe Seaforth News, 1934-04-12, Page 7THUR'SD'AY, APRIL 12, 193 THE SEAFORTH NEWS PAGE SEVEN i 1 1 a mamma berger, Petersb}irg, Bull calved in 11933; Lloyd 'Huns- berger, Janes Carter, Seaforth. Sweepstakes, hull, Shorthort, Aber- deen Angus or Hereford, William Oe - stricter, Market Cattle - Senior baby beef bora 'on or af- ter Jan, 1st, 1101.3113, Wnt, O'estricher, W, H. Armstrong, Seaforth. Junior baby beef horn on or after May 11, ;11933, .Lloyd'4iuusberger, .Giet- ereburgp Andrew Peek, Mitchell; 'Lloyd 'Henoberger,'Howard Wright. Livestock judging competition open to Huron county boys 'between the ages of 15 and 20, William Pepper, ,Seaforth, 11144 points; William. Stan - lake, 'Exeter, 11312 points; John Pat- terson, Lucknow, and Norman Pep- per, Seaforth, with 1151' points tied for 3rd and 4th prizes. u�u nen tt�o nim use a..�r a.�.ati�up�pn�u urn f/ m 1 rl4icate nth!y Statements We can save you money on. 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I enclose one dollar (s1). e s (Hams, please print) (Address) (Town) (State) CLINTON SPRING SHOW Clinton Spring Stock 'Show was held on Thursday, and t'he weather ' man handed out the choicest brand of an 'April day. The exhibits in the horse classes were equal to those of any previous year and the cattle were away in advance of any year recently. The judges of the various sections were as follows: Heavy horses, James Brandon, Fo- rest; light and general purpose horses, E. E. Phipps, Burford; cattle, John Brown, 1F orrest, The farm boys' live stock judging competition was con- ducted by S. B. 'Stothers, Arthur, Ont., Wellington County agricultural representative, formerly of 'Baron County. The prize winners are: Heavy Horses - Clydesdale stallion foaled in 193:0 or previous, Jas. (Leiper, Lo'ndesboro. Clydesdale stallion foaled in 1193;1t- 312-33, Allister 'Broacl'foot, Seaforth, Percheron ,stallion foaled in 1931-32, or 33, Fred IH'op'kins, Clinton. ;Heavy draught brood mare ,foaled in ,11930 or previous, Rus'sel'l Scott, Cronerty. Filly or gelding 'foaled in 1930 or previous, Russell Scott; Jas. (Scott, Cromarty; John Vodden, Lon'des'borq (3 and14), -- Tilly' or gelding !foaled in 119311, Wil- liam 'Urquhart, Mitchell, Filly or gelding foaled in 1932,'Stu art McEwen, 'Clinton.. Horse colt or filly .foaled in 119313, Robert Wright, ISeaforth; G. '5. Clinton (e (G and 3). Team in harness, IRusse'll '.Scott, Croint.riy; Ja'm'es (Scott, Cromarty; - John Vodden, IL•ondes'boro, Sweepstakes, William Urquhart, W[itc'helh 'Agricuitnral- IB'roodm.are fnalcd in 111930 or prev- ious, ;Fred 'Roney. 'Mitchell; Rcebt. p:oig, !Seaforth; Frei Honey, Mit- chell; Stuart . AiclEwen C'li•n'ton, 'Filly or gelding foiled ie 'II93;0 or previous,'E. LT. Glen, Clinton; Wm, :i,idEweu, Clinton; R'bert Doig, Sea forth; Cthas, Stewart, !T.,ondesboro. 'Filly or :gelding .foaled in 1931, Fred Toll, 'B•ly'th; Robert_ Wright, Sea - forth ; ea -forth; R. 'Grigg, Clinton. ' Filly or gelding foeled in 1932, !Stu- art 'MdEwen, Clinton; Reuben (Grigg, Clinton. Horse co11t or filly' foaled .!n X19133, C. V, Dale, Clinton; W. S.'Baoaelfoot, ,Ki'ppen; tears in 'harttes's, 'Fred Ron, ey, Mitchell; 'Charles ''Stewart, lLon- icshoro, Sweepstakes, Fred Roney, Mitchell. General 'Pftrpose- Tilly or gelding coaled in 1930 or previous William Decher, 'Zurich '(1 and 2); j, E. French, '\4itchel'I. Team in harness, William Decher. Specials - Township prize for three best heavy draught agricultural or gen- eral purpose horses owned in one township: .Stanley township, 'William Mc- Ewen, Clinton; E. J. (Glenn, Clinton; Stuart .McEwen, 'Clinton. sHib'bert •township, James 'Scott, Russell Scott (2). (Hallett township, John Voctden (2), Chas. Stewart. (free donated by 'Robt. Murdoch, Brucefield, for entries foaled in 11931- 312-313, sired by Favorite Again, Allist- er iBroad'foot, Seaforth; Fred Toll. of lB9yrh; Robert Wright, Seaforth; Stuart \fclEwen, Clinton (4 and 5). .Special ,for hest two draft or agri- cultural 'hors.:; foaled in .1932 or 33. Stuart 'MdEwen, Clinton; E. J. )Glenn, Clinton. ,Light I'Iorses- 'S'tallion standard bred trotter, Wil- liam Berry, 'Brucefielcl, Carriage 'horse in harness, A. ,13, \Veber, Kitchener (1 'and 2). fl oadster in harness, ,A, IB,'Weber, hitchener; C. S. Litt, Mitchell; Car- rie Tervitt, Wingham., Stveepstalces, Wesley 'Nol,t, Lady drivers, Mrs. A. B. \Veber, Kitchener; Mrs; W. (Nott, Clinton, Cattle, 'Shorthorns - 'Tull calved in 119312 or previous, E. P..11. Snell, Clinton. Bull calved in 19313, !William Oes- tricher, Crediton; W. I-1. Armstrong Scaforth; Robert \d. Peck, Zurich, 'Heifer calved in .1932, Eph• Snell, William Oestricher, !Robert M. Peck,- 'Heifer calved in '1993, William Oes-. tricher (1' and 2); Eph, Snell I llerefotds- IBuli :calved In 10312 or previous, Howard Wright,. Cromarty; John \t[dGregor, 1Hensall; Lawrence Hirt- ze1, .Crecli•ton, (Bull calved in '19313, O'Neill Bios,. Detefielcl; Howard Wright, 'Cromarty; john McGregor, Hensel!. 'Heifer calved in 1932, O'Neill Bros , (1' and 2), Howard:'WrigFtt. • llleifer calved in '1933, 'O1N,eil Bros. Lawrence T-Ier'tzel,' Crediton; John MdGregor. 'Aberdeen Angus- (Bull calved. in :119312, Lloyd Huns - ECCENTRIC "OLD BILL STILL REMEMBERED 1(IBy 0, _A, _l'Iac'Tavlsih in.the 'London Free 'Press,) The villages of Carronbrook and Spring 'Hill, "Township of Ilibbert, were important in their day; so im portant indeed .were they that in'1IS78 it 'was 'decided .to change bheir names. 'Dublin was the new name given to Carrosbrook, while (Spring Hill was to be 'known as 'StafPa. 'Dublin .was made a police village the day it as- sumed its present name, 'I't is sup- posed to have been the first village of that rank in-fhe1Province of (On- tario, But while Dublin was import- ant and !pretentious, Staffa was like- wise ambitious, !It could 'boast about being t'he .place near which the ;first Divine services within the township were held; it !also was proud about having a doctor, a couple of 'h'otels, steam grist mill, 'town hall, erected at a cost' of '$1700, a 'blacksmith shop, a carriage shop, two stores, one of them known as the 'Post 'O'ffice, The village was served with a daily mail off Dublin and perhaps n'o name was more familiar to everyone than that :of tete 'mail -carrier, always call- ed the 'mail -man. Every week -day persons about the village might be 'heard saying, "The mail -man is slow in getting in to - clay," or ;"Lt'stime the mail was here"; or, perhaps, , it would be In the 'farm of a question, such as, "Is the inail-man in sight?" or "Will you 'see i'1 the mail is coming?" Once when this question Was asked, two little boys scampered to the post of- fice to get their uncle's new tele- scope. Then they :hurried (home, climbed to the 'house -top, '.leaned the telescope 'against the chimney, and were deligh'te'd to observe the mail- man coming over 'Gallagher's 1Hill. The mail -man made his journey every lawful day .from 'Du'blin to Cro- marty and back; 'then 'later the dis- tance was extended to Farquhar, township of Usbornc. The 'first person ,hovered by the position of !nail -man was Patrick Kelly. He was a tail, angular Irish- man, fond of 'a fit-e-ce,mt cigar, a five - cent swallow of rye or malt whiskey. taken neat, of course; likewise on oc- casions he was fond of a free-for-all fight. It was not in disrespect that everybody called him "Paddy." Paddy 'lived 'between two and three miles south of Dublin, from where he started his official trip. Often- -tithes, especially -'when the roads were batt, be made the journey on horse- back, in time _frames Cantelon suc- ceeded iPaddy to the position, and in. turn was replaced by Wm, 'Patrick. The next person to assume the im- portant task was [John 'Bray. The bug- .ry tracks ;made by him were later followed by !John 'Pollen ,and after him carte 'Robert Gardiner, It is not the in'tentioit:,of this ar- title to deal with the mail -men in general, 'but rather with Wm, 'Pat- rick in particular. The !first time we saw shim, the was leading a lame 'horse from the stab'Io at The hotel to drink, at a spring hard 'by. fft WAS :noticed that he, too, was lame -much lamer than the -horse. 'Curiousity caused us to follow hint to the stable ,where it was learned that he was to be The hostler. He Was •short in stature, gruff. in voice, irritable in disposition; ,but back of it all lurked a kindly spirit,. and he was hon ast. His coming •was` veiled in mystery, perhaps 'because all we learned was that 'he came from snnnewhere (back beyond the 'bound- ary. He.soon became •kn'own to the villagers as "Old 'Bill," The 'first episode of importance in the stable happened one day when Fiddler john in a 4'11 of rage tried to punish his disobedient son, The hid seeing the stable doors. ;ajar, matte a clash for safety t'oteards the open space. ' 'Oka (Bill, what for some reason lis Ill:"d '19411er' Iden, 'seeing ehe two heading'tor -She stable stepped air -m. view.. The' boy whizzed by. A second later came the father, now sure of his prey. No sooner, however, had he entered 'the doorway titan' iObd Bi11 pounced upon him with the 'agility'of a panther, shouting: "Yo pail hu'p, right 'ere, '1i do, 'n yo' stay put till hoi free 'ee:''•'T1he?n forcing hint to the wall, he Fairly roared: "Don't "ee touch 'the boy, dura 'ee; 'cause yo' 'be worse 'n the lad be, yo' 'be, " Strange to relate, Tiddler John, who was ever ready to boast a'bottt wha he would do to any person •tha tramped on what he considered hi rights, tools the tongue-lashing meek ly, and when free, cowed in spirit slowly wended .his way up the til to his (home beyond the post office. The incident caused excitement it the village. Lt even created more re > peet and a greater liking for the hostler than had existed before. Then there carie a time waren 101d became a man of greater i'meort- ,tnce, He even 'knew it himself, 'be- cause he became responsible for the carrying of IHer Majesty's mail, 'One forenoon 'we saw !him come over .the hill to the post !office, We also ob- served that everything about him looked old - horse, buggy, harness, whip. The whole outfit, no, not every- thing, because 'the 'brass padlock that fastened the head of the mail bag and bore the 'Queen's insignia glistened in the sun'ligh't and appeared `.to be brand new. Every lawful day about ten o'clock in the morning he might be seen com- ing over the brow of the village 'hill and on ddwn to the post office. It being an irksome thing .for •him ,to .get in or out 'o'f the buggy, our uncle, the storekeeper, usually came to .the rescue by attend'in'g to the bag with its precious contents. Everything'hav- ing been attended to, he would con- tinue his journey to Dublin. It was his custom while there to snake Con. Prendergast's hotel 'headquarters. Here he could stable and feed the 'horse, .regale himself with a glass of 'beer, get his dinner and a new fi3avana cigar, all at a cost of less than ,50 cents. After dinner he would chat rued smoke for a while; then gather the mail and run the cast bound and wrest bound trains, and start the home'warcd trip. The horse would walk sl'awly along the street till over the .railway tracks, then break into a monotonous 'jog, Which it leept up smile after mile, across the bridges near IStad'ler's 'brickyard. over iGallagher's hill, on past the red, clap -board school -house, and then to the village. 'Having completed his duties at the post office, he would shout "Giddali 'ere; giddapl" to the horse and pro- ceed to Cromarty, where the post office was in the home of 1Alexan'der Parke at the corner. This was con- sidered an important distributing centre, 'because it was (here that the. retail .was .'collected for 'Chiselhurst. It was taken there 'by Allan Hum- merson, who usually put it in a box attached to a sulky. (From Cromarty Old 'Sill would continue his trip straight southward to the boundary, turn eastward and then southward again into Tarquhar to;finish the day, (Betimes the mail man took pas- sengers as well as retail, 11 IOId (Bill were especially lucky he might have four or five of them during the week. Often, no doubt, he considered it un- lucky, 'because, although the fee seem- ed to be 25 cents •for any distance, quite frequently all he got was what he used to call a ".lick and a promise," One summer afternoon the doctor when returning from a sick room north of Dublin came across the mail- man seated on a grass knoll, while the 'horse grazed leisurely close at hand. (Being in his cups and oblivious of the doctor's approach, he continued his talk mean empty black bottle held between his hands. "They do 'be wunderim, what coun- tryman 01d 513111 bees, do they? Well by the Crim a ghosts well try to tell 'em, Sif the label hof this bottle eay it be 1llirish whiskey, then hoi 'be TTirish; but hit the .brand says it bees Scotch, then hoi be Scotch. She baint nether so fur es 'hoi kin see, then hoi be''Scotch. She baint neither so fur as hoi (cin see. Then neither be hoe iTCof be just plain mongrel, that what 'hoi. 'bees." The mail man carte 'late to the vil- lage that day. Our uncle being some- what impatient over the matter, did not notice that he sat more erect thane lisltal'an4 stared straight ahead. When the bag was replaced, Old Bill shout- ed louder and huskier than usual; "Gidclap ere, giciclap1" en a minute he Passed over the hill, no one knowing his real condition, other thaw the doctor. ;Old !Billlead occasionally said enough to indicate that his mind dwelt notch on service in the Crimean War. His real nationality, however, was often a subject of debate without a definite coarclusioi being .i•eactecl 'One afternoon our utrcle hurried to get Phe mail. :TTe lifted the lid at the back of the 'buggy, then asked: "Where the bag, Bill?" The mail man never answered. 'He was silent for a moment, Then reaching for the whip, turned the Norse round ,and 'bellowed, "'Giddalt," Ile had forgotten to 'lift the bag at Dublin, Recently while 'recal'ling' early epi- sodes a 'friend smilingly told that he and his chum when quite young men attempted a prank on the mail man, At .the 'foot of the mountain they stet Odd 'Bill and decided to relieve him' of the 'mail. 'One thole the hag While the other bold the horse. The whip was applied viciously .to the culprit' reaching for,the bag, but in vain. The boys started for the tn'oodswith their prize. Soon they began to realize the seriousness of their act and shouted for Old 'Bill to wait until they got back. Peace was resltored 'by the 're- turn of the bag. The boys were as - oared by him that the prank would remain a secret, because he 'knew* tha boys would "be boys. In summer when meadows were green and skies were blue 013 'Ball jugged along, his thoughts on what one might only guess. In ,winter when blizzards raged and 'blacked the roads, as they often did, he took to the fields, driving ,over zig-zag rail fences completely covered by 'drift, At 'times the cutler would upset, casting 'him into huge drifts of snow, Thenagain he would ,have to walk in spell's, no easy task for him. There were, tines when he :struggled and swore, swore and struggled; but us- ually the got through, There were oc- casions w•inen 'ire made the grade to Dublin, only to tad that while he had succeeded, the ;trains had- failed, Then (here came a forenoon when Old Bill failed to come over the hill to the postof'fice. We heard our uncle say that he had gone to cover new territory away 'beyond the bound- ary. Sometime afterward .a message reached the village one evening to the effect that Old Bill had made his last trip. He had been killed in a runaway accident and had gone ,to the Great Beyond. And so while crickets chirped in the meadows, and while blackbirds chattered .int the marshland, the villagers discussed in awe-inspiring whispers the sad oc- currence. WEST HURON 30 YEARS AGO '(tiy W. .E. Elliott in Woodstock Sentinel Review.-)' 'Robert 'Holmes, a member of the 'customs staff in Toronto from 1909 to 1927, died in that city, the other day, at the age of SO. A brief press report states that he was a former member a£ parliament .far 'the olcl riding of West Huron. That's all, about his political career: It de- serves more, "Bob" Holnnes was publish of the New Era, Liberal weekly in Clinton. When 11, C. Cameron. \I, P. for West :Hurott from 111991, accepted ap- pointment as Lieutenant -Governor of ,Northwest -Territories in May, 11898, in succession, to C. `L Mackin- tosh, and vacated te'h Huron seat, Mr. I-Iolrnes received the party nom- ination and in a by-election in 1899 carried the constituency by 93 votes.. In the general election of 519,00 he held it by a majority of 20. Then came along IE. N. Lewis and captured \'Vest Huron by the same margin as Holmes had won in 1899. ,It was the first time, with one exception, that Centre IIuron or W\'est Huron +had sent a Conservative to parliament since ''Confederation -and t'he excep- tion'ltad only 37 majority, But "Ned" was a great canvasser, and had been brought up on voters' lists, in tare office of his father, Ira Lewis, K.C., clerk of the Peace, at Goderich, N. Lewis, afterward county judge, was re-elected in 1905, and then 'Ms Holmes accepted a post in the cue - toms at Toronto. ' sOn this desk lies a somewhat fad- ed typewritten transcrip of the 'Hn1- tees-1Lewis nomination speeches i:: Mc'Lean's operat house, Goderich, ad years ago. It was never pu'blis'hed: just a bit of short -hand exercise for the writer of this article. It wouldn'i interest anybody, scarcely any of the issues they fought over in 1904 sur- vive today. The Laurier government. Mr. 'Holmes said, would stand or fall by the Grand Trunk Pacific project. Incidenitally, the national debt had been reduced by one million dollars!. (The net debt of -Canada, by the way, was then y5260;867,171li9, and it haat been reduced by nearly a mil- lion during the year. What would Mr. 'Holmes have thought if he could have foreseen a national debt of something over 52,4010,000 in 1933) ? The member took a little credit for getting the Guelph and Gorier-. ic'ho Railway charter through. The proposal, he said, wa,s rejected by the Couser-vatives, but reintroduced by :Mr. ;Guthrie of Guelph, (how times change!) and eventually ap- proved. 1Lr, II-Iobnes .'added that there was another, charier the C. P. R, wanted -from Walkerton to Luca now. "When that came before the railway committee, I represented to Col. McDonald that it would be in the interests of the railway as well as the people of the coun- try if it should be carried down through The townships Of Wa- wanosb or Ashfield and connect- ed with the line from Gndcnich. They said it was o good idea,.. and I am pledged 1,5 'T, ant return- ed to secure for thein a charter •down 'front iliucknow somewhere to join the road that is 'running 'from IGoderic'h." 'The road; fortunately, was never built, and the electric railway pro- ject that succeeded collapsed before service could begin, though rails ,wets Services We Can Render In the time of need PIROTECTION is your best friend. Life Insurance -To protect your LOVED ONES. 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He made quite an elaborate speech again the G.T.P. project, including: "The 'G.T.P, is the corporation 'writh which we enter into the agreement; the Grand Trunk is the one behind. IIf there is anything good coating out of it the Grand Trunk will get it; if there is anything bad the G.TIP. will get it." West Huron chose Edward .Ntr- man .Lewis on November 3rd, 19014, and he 'went to 'Ottawa along with. other new members who included the late "Joe" Armstrong, of East Lambton; 9,W. F. Cock'shutt, Brant- ford; the Tate' !Frank S.alor. of 'Heidi - mend and Edmond Prou'lx (note judge) of Prescott, That was oate election ahead of Artlhur Meighen and E. N. Rhodes and two ahead of 'R, 13. Bennett. T'hey were great elections in West 1LIuron, An election leaflet of the period contains the words: "Co- wardly," "disreputable," "debased," "contemptible," "sophistry and brut- al cunning" Anything over 100 was a big majority. Goderich To'w=ns'hip was safe Tory, Colborne equally sure for the Liberals, Kintail and other palls tip in Aah•field voted straight 'Laurier. Goderich, which usually had to choose between twoof its own citizens mostly 'helped the +Liberal by a very small majority. Clinton and 'Hullett were in the same column. East \Vawanosh yielded a net major- ity for the Liberal candidate and West '\Vawanosh for the Conserva- tive. Two votes decided the result of two provincial contests, if memory serves. Major "Joe" Beck of Saltforcl got a tnajonity without getting as far as the Legislature, upon more occasions than anybody in history, but he got to Queen's Park as House post- master. Mostly a recount was 'held. If that proved abortive, irregularities were charged. "Ned" Lewis himself faced disqualification in 1905, the year after the nomination meeting here recalled, when someone discov- ered that he 'had barked the bond a( a retail carrier, The Grits held that threat over him until after he had voted 'with Laurier on the autonomy bills. Tont McMillan spoke at that nom- ination for Mr, Holmes, and enjoyed himself raking the Tttrict fore and aft. tIn later years he was elected M. ?P. for South Huron -and carried on along similar lines, ,He and Judge (Lewis both passed away w'it'hin the past couple of years, and now, Rob- ert !Holmes has gone, If departed 'Libera'te and Conservatives reach tate same place, these three will have a lot to talk about. There 1s no \Vest Huron any. snore :just North and South, and for next election 'South lfnr.t and past or Perth are merged. ,Attacked by Astltnea, The [first fearful sensation is of suffocation, evhicli hour by 'hour becomes more desperate and 'hopeless. To such a case the relief 'afforded by Dr, J. 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