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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1934-08-30, Page 3THURSDAY, AUGUST 30, 1934 1' THE SEAFORTH NEWS PAGE THREE. HURON NEWS Near Drowning- •Mon[lay afternoon Mr, Floyd ,Prrttt, one of our yoa'ig athlete's, dove into the still pond, clo'th'es and all; . to: rescue Mis's Reta iS'tepan, 1115 years of age, who hied: lost her nerve a'n'd was in great •danger of drowning, the water at tihs point being about;e•ight feet deep. iA'fter some difficulity the young lady was safe on terra -firma once more, and no doubt has the best of good wishes tor her rescuer. Mr.. ;Pratt had the pleasune of walking 'home several blocks in his wet clothes to warrant, a change to cotnfort.— Teestva'ter News, Run Over by Wagon— William Nagel, who is employed by Charles Rickert of 'Ho'wick Met with a serious accident. He was helping to stack thresh at the 'farts of Victor 1Sockton. When driving up the gang- way to the barn with a load of grain, the horses 'became frightened and bolted, throwing Mr. Nagel 'to the ground. Two .of ire wlagon wheels passed 'over both legs, lengthwise, and over' his stomach, The muscles, ,of his right leg 'were so badly torn that 22 stitches were required. No bones were broken, but at is feared there may be internal injuries,. .Ask That Paving Be Fu11 Width— Waikerto'n--_k communication from ;Hon. Mr. Mc'Questen read ' at Dile council meeting stated that the de- partment was send'ipg out its engin- eers to investigate points raised by •a recent letter from the town clerk in 'regard to the dangerous condition of the !road with only a '110 foot strip. Word was Tater received by the Dufferin Paving Co. to complete .paving the other ,10 -foot strip and work will commence 'at once. -Petitions have also been forward- ed to the •government concerning the TQ foot strip on the pavement on No. 4 highway north of Clinton. i.\c tine may be taken by the govern - stent when paring is resumed. Entertained— ICELAND T'h'ere is an intense nationalist spirit, "lt evil] be' lar too cold 1" Such was and it was strange to see parties of my reply whew 11 was first asked to 'girls In the streets, some wearing the demnure long -'skirted, 'black, national costume 'with 't'heir hair in pleats, while others •were dressed in the latest European 'fashions with, shingl- ed hair. Fen» people. walk in I'celatnd, 'Everyone seemed to be riding in too - tor cars, on bicycles, or on ponies. Though there are 'few good motor The very n'am'e Iceland must keep road's, lIceland boasts of her hundreds away hundreds .of travellers; it would ,E We _spent two days buying pro- visiou's for our inland trip, and re- ceived tnc•clt help an'cl advice from ;Stefan ISt'efansson, the 'famous guide, who probably knows the interior df fLeeland better than any living man. Our equipment, apart from clothing and individual items, consisted of two tents, ground sheets, and sleeping bags, two • prism's stove (midget pat- tern, paraffin oil and meta fuel, cook- ing Utensils' and enamel dishes, four cameras with film packs and spools. tripod, maps and compasses, ropes and field glasses. We had two sacks of provisions, comprising a variegat- ed assortment of tinned stun, together with White bread, oats, potatoes, tea, and sugar. When within reach of farms we were able to buy milk, eggs and batter,.. We motored sixty utiles inland to the end of the road, then hired ponies from a farm nearby, 'The farmer again had no 'English, so conversation was rather restricted. We had an Icelandic ahra'se-'book, but it was of little use to es. It contained 5t1c4v .phrases as, 'The 'bottom of the river is very rough," "'Waiter, can 'I have some- thing cold to eat ?" "Can you recom- mend a washerwoman," and so on. Our ideas were more practical, and Stefan had given us a note of the Icelandic for such phrases as "Have you white bread?" "Can we fish here?" "Can we hire ponies ?" With make tip a pasty Of 'foes on a riding •andi 'c'anvpiia.g ,trip in •t•h•e interior Of freelance Strange, I 'cannot remember ever '.learning anything of the geo- graphy - of 'Iceland at school 1 _Actual- ly when' I got to know the island, I Wes surprised that its rulers 'had- not charged its nine long 'before now, he more flitting were IGreen]'and and Iceland to exchange names, ,\Vs sail- ed front Leith ,on• a ,D4anish ship, and the ,first •part of our voyage could not be described as pleasant. The rolling of • that boat Was quite enough to' up- set any wall ordered appetite, and tho'se of us who attempted to eat the black 'bread paid the i'n'evitable pen- alty. The bright spot was the be- havior of a 'lady, a native df the Faroe eelands, who was returning .h,onee. She had 'paid, foe her food and was determined to' 'belie it. ,•Phe chief memory of 'the (Faroe Is- lands where we had an afternoon ashore, is of, the national headgear Which all the menfolk .wear. (A'ft'er leaving the 'Farms we emerg- ed front that '"depression travelling down front 'I'celand," 'which the wea- ther forecasters are always talking about, into calm and brilliant sun- shine, Twenty'=four .hours out from Reykjavik we first glimpsed Iceland. We 'could make out no lamb rising front the sea, but just ice -capped ',peaks' in the sky and hardly dieting - Meltable from the fleecy clouds. Later, the satith'eru coastline carte into view, with, here and there, glaciers running eight dowel 'front the SS'OW ,field; to the sea. Our first Arctic sunset kept us on delck till late; it is teat easy to describe the brilliant col- ouring, . the beetling 'purple of the cliffs, the glowing orb of bronze sink- elrs. Roht. 'Bays of Lucknow, who is in her 99th year, was guest of boner at a tea given for her by Mrs. ' _lobi E, Smith, Brussels, whose guest she is. 'The totalled 'age of those pre- sent was eleven hundred, the guests being :Mrs, Wm Moses, Mrs, .Neil Mc'hauchlin, Mrs W. F. Stewart, Mrs. Geo. 'Baeker, erre, D Ewan, Mrs. D. C. Ross etre. J. Rose, Mrs. A. 'Youmans, Dctr ,it; Mise Bessie 1Lt..es, Mrs, H. Champion, Mee. R: J. 1lcLauchlin and lire. Gen. Ross of t\\-inham. Mrs. ilIays, the oldest ynnng lady present, was the life - of the party. C./Died from Heart Attack— Charles W. Stuhert, a former pro- prietor of the Queen's hotel at Brus- sels, died suddenly on August Met, as a result of a heart attack. !He passed away before medical attention could he given him, efr. Stubert was about 15.0 3 -ears 'oi age and went from 11rus- sees approximately Ileo years ago to 'Walkerton, where he purchased an hotel. Want and For Sale Ad's, 1 tiers, 25c garmentwhenwalking, a sad'cdle rug quarter ,of a mile long' by two hundred When riding, and a blanket at night,'yard's broad are over 'fifty hot springs 'My •pcocedtre at first what gallop of all sizes. S:otn'e are calm with trans- ing, if not elegant, tat least kept me )arent blue-green 'waters, some are on the •pony s .back, 1 would grab the simmering, w'h'ile others aro con- front of the saddle •tvtih ane hand, the ,cantly bubbling over, Great Geysir,. rear of the _saddle with the other, let the largest of the springs„ gives its the beast have its head .and pray that 'nattt'e to the area and to other. hot the saddle wouldn't slip off, We weresprings in all .parts of the world, very seldom on roads and head good 'During last century it spouted nearly reason to bless the ''ponies surefoted- every day, sometimes to a height of nese. On then we crossed deep bould- 100 feet, but, since the terrible earth- er-strewn gullies and forded surging quake itt 11896, it has• been q•u'iescent glacial rivers where the force of the Phe pool, ,IIS yards in diameter, is on current carried the ponies down- top of a mound of silica which has stream. been built up by its countless years My the time we reached the glacier of activity. we counted ourselves full-blooded The only one which now spouts is horsemen. We pitched camp near a small geyser called 'Stniout, which take Hagavatn, which is a glacial wi11 erupt to a height of 20 feet if lake at the southern end of the Lang taitecl with soap. We were il'1-inform- Jokul, one of rhe three great central led as to the an-otent of soap emcee - glacier of Iceland. Many years ago sary. On arrival we threw in all the the normal outlet of the lake was soap in camp. Nothing happened 1 blocked by a wall of ice. For a long later we .learned that it was neces- titne the waters of the lake gradually sary to throw in two large calces of rose till, a year or two ago, the pres- soap cut up into flakes. IInciden•tally sure of water became so great that it tete farmer does a good' business in burst the ice clam completely away, selling soap to feed the geyser. Soma made a channel for itself in the under- enterprising soap first might make a lying, rock, sur through the cliffs and good advertisement ft.om the fact. Af- poured itself into the valley, so forts- ter throwing in the soap we hard a ing a new waterfall three hundred rumbling below the ground, and then •The la'lce 1Smiour spoutecl gloriously for about explored the springs first evening, but dur- stay at Geysir they fascina'te us. springs overflow so streams of hot water large concrete pond feet high and a new rivet. T e was deadly white with floating ice- a minute. We bergs and bordered by a wall of green thoroughly that ice forty feet high, We visited the ing our w+h'ole spot where the dam buret and, where never ceased to huge blocks of ice were falling into 'Most of the the lake. that there are After a day at the falls, we felt everywhere, lA ourselves free to explore the glacier. waa built recently and one of the lit is at a height of 71500 feetandhoed- . Weems directed into it,, so forming a erect by foothills. Betwen then long hot water swimming pond. The farm tongues of lee cattle down to the lava workers from the district around desert, and at their foot there came come along .for a swine every night, into 'being, instantaneously, front nut and, in winter, the pond and adjoin - the melting ice surging, seething rive itt:g gyunnasiuni form a training era. After toiling through the more ground for athletes. wine we climbed the glacier slope IWe dallied bong at Geysir. It was ing slowly, and the immensity of the these we managed perfectly well slowly—for we had secs nothing like indeed the perfect camping pond A snow 'fells. Our piny cattsisted of the conk, the it before, and the, fantastic eights burn of hot water ran by the tents; 'S -I - 1115 who had were tnumerous. The ice .of the slope there we washed our dishes—and \\ c clacked at,P.eykjavi'k on a ,_ nn youngest member, aged who •clay at neon and created quite a e'en- some very queer ideas, the pony wan dirty and black, but up on the our elves. Pen yards away was the eatioa as we marched off- laden like packer, who got that name because great Lane Jokul plateau, of virgin hot water _wintming pond; there we pack horses..We had to walk two he was the biggest and strongest,vv'hiteness. bathed. Half a mile away was a river; stiles round the bay before 'finding a end so got all the hard work to ,do in Then we wandered among the ice there we caught trout for breakfast suitable camping spot. The farmer connection with loading the pack hillocks and watched burns of run- Nearby was the whole group of hot had no iEnglish and only understood pony; the snout, a disciple of the kilt ning water ?isap pear into deep clefts, prings;- there we did much of oar what we Wanted when We made signs and keen photographer, end my self, which had the appearance of green cooking. Perridge could be trade by with our amts anti —er "cooried we took with.its, a guide and potty- spiral stafrca es going down as far as nixing the sate with water and leav- eyc meal eve. There were immense ing the pan at the edge of a hot feagre He seemed to regard it all eablue the farmer's sin, ea fair-haired, whocht»ine end crevaeees whose depth spring; for half an hour, Eggs and a great joke and gave ready permis- bine-eyed imp of inurteeu who al- siou, 110 also wanted to know what nwst lived i tt horseback. n , mem know-, though it has been po atone could be 'boiled quickly, country our Lion Standard' flag rep- •The ponies were sturdy beast, estimated that the ice it this glacier while, for dinner, it wile only neces- resented I Then we pitched camp. aboout thirteen hands high, black, i' over 300 feet thick. Though the eery to eeseend a tin of pork and had our first cam meal and the novel re brawn ar dap tla.l, an,i suit, a circle of fiery red hone beans in a airing for ten minutes, p white, g y 1 lrt reinter the farm and gyninasiunl experience of going to bed at mid- all with long tails. and shaggy manes. brightly all tee time, it waselways night in broad daylight, for there is A certain guide -book states that the bate by co:d on the glacier, and we are heated by water laid nu from the no darkness in Iceland in sunnier. Icelandic pony is the • most easy- are convinced naw- that there is nn eprings. This, then. would seem to he Reykjavik, the capital, has a p.opnl- seated of animals. Willing and sure- odder wind in the world than the the ideal type of central heating— atior of '35,.115'0 and is a torsi hill in i, t north wind in Iceland. Froin a ;mimeo lr ue i costs: not}ung footed, ye,; silt stitch (nits certain - staking, The outskirts are drab ly no! The gtlleping wee fine, for We wot,lb have stayed longer 51 and never reqeirce refuelling, with many ramshackle wooden and then we went up and down in rhythm Hagavatn but we had under -estimated 'While at t eesir we visited Gullfoo, corrugated iron buildings, but in the with the pony-, but at the quidk jig- ser appetitee. Supplies ran ,ftnrt. We Iceland'; Niagara, and one of the centre of the city these have been trot (which the pony preferred) we ht.i ne. milk er suger. the better went greater waterfalls of the world, The displaced by spacious streets and well always seemed to come dpwn as the had, , lir .mte bread wee fiaiehed glacial river Ilvita is very wide above designed stone buildings, The shops pony was coming np, and the repeat- and we were sick of the sight of that the falls, then pours over a series of are. -modern, with good 'window die- ed impacts at the rate of two brut- hard and sour black bread. From cataracts, and finally empties itself plays, though imported articles are red per minute were—to say the least there the region of everlasting ice to into a deep, narrow abyss, throwing very dear. The harbour is well of it --disconcerting! We adopted war- the region of everlasting boiling wat- the clouds of steam. Below the .falls equipterd and Presented a cos- ions expedients to deal with titin er weebit d y's i.nnney. But it the cliffs rte right front the water's I 1" quitet nl„politalt appearance, as ships of all problem..I had a small rug on top of eas que-tien cf a train or a quick edge and continue in an unbroken nationalities could be seen- the .addle, the cook anti the pony motor car. The Icelandic pony and gorge for about a mule. The falls face Iceland is unique among Herat) eat] Pecker. perched on the top of water- ''nly the Ice'andic pony could take due wcst, and there are wonderful proof sheets. while the scout draped you ever that wild cc nntry. effees in the afternoon when the Lott_ before we reached Geysir we waters glisten and sparkle in snnshitte. could see the spray tieing front the On one last morning the farmer in - many hot eeringe. Within an area a listed on our having a- farewell breakfast with hint, Ae I said before. water from the springs ie. laid on t„ the faruthonse. This water is sulph- :tretted. haft through course of time the folks have become quite used to it and stake tea with it. We found that tea horrible, yet had to drink it out of courtesy. From Geysir we rode hale towards civilisation, and, as we had the ponies well disciplined by this time, •travel- led quickly. At last WV topped the ultimate hill and the whole nighty lake and green, fertile plain of Thing- vellir lay before us, shimmering in the ;sun. Coining, as we ,did, from whiteness of the 'glacier, we noted the contrast more, There was a curi- ous yellow haze to the north, and this we were told was a sign• of a sandstorm in the central desert. We were thankful we 'erect experienced nothing of that nature an our ride to Hagavatn. Then we explored that great chasm the Almatntagja, which Icelanders claim as the eighth wonder of the world. For two miles the cliffs have been split open (they say this hap- peit'ecl at the time of the Flood.) In the rift se formed lie in turn the (River Oaara, the road 'ttee best bit of road building, on tae is and) and then, for a mike, a wilderness of rock: in grn- tesgtte masse: It is a weird place and, utist be in wild weather, a very It tali of tete devil. - • 1re111 fhin-v :liir we motored bac:( to Reykjavik in tittle to join tie' uth ward 'h uml ship; 9 t •Cold? Noi though there Was 'te 6e .k v rr: at,aat Yi' r, 1� M� 1 ,. t e -y cold wind in the eve:ulna. We trended the temperature every night h ut et p.m., which was the c;ldestl time of the day, ".floc tirerag iris 47 degrees, the 1uivest 24 degrees, Fahr- enheit. The average noon temperature would be much above this virile the thermometer recorded 90 degrees one hot forenoon. Of eighteen days on the island there were 'four; dry days, one - wet clay, once wet afternoon, and two wet afternoons. For the last week-.' the sten shone gloriously "in a cloudless sky front• four o'clock in the morning: till eleven at nighlt, and, of course,, there was never any dar'kn'ess, HAY 'F'EVER Hay fever, er autumnal cattaerh as• it is esometimes oaile'd, occurs in th the .pollen season. The tendency to this di'sordeee, wihich is due to irritation set up by grass pollen, is largely hereditary. The eyes and .nose are hot and itchy. There is a clear mucous dis- charge, sneezing, and in some cases a rise in temperature and asthmatic seizure. (l'he tendency tohay fever usually establishes itself 111 childhood and .re curs each summer until the patient is - middle -aged, when the susceptibilitg' to the disorder dies clown, countries in that it has no unemploy- ment problem and do national debt. his kilt on his mount (his was the :During OUT whole stay we Saw 00 first Icelandic pony to wear the kilt.) beggars or poorly -dressed people. Teat kilt ilea a threefold purpose, .. (First Motorist—IB:other stunt witty hitchhikers 'on the road? Second Motarist--filb. I here a taxi., sign 'I display ,when I leave the city. limits. "Do Englishmen understand Amer- ican slang?" "Some of them, Why do you ask "" seely daughter :is to be married to an earl, and 'he has just cabbed to ane. to come across." F • oks We Are Selling Quality Books Books are • Well Made, Carbon is Clean and Copies Readily. styles, Carbon Leaf and Black Back. Prices as Low as You Can Anywhere, Get our Quotation on Your Next Order. All' Get "'I think I'll take ,my fus's to the.. Ferrier Ito be •cleaned,""said the uppity, girl "Perhaps," suggested the low -brow friend, "thou ought to take them to a e tare dresser.'„ 'Coigtters Asthma, To be 'relieved from the terrible suf'focatin'g doe 'in asthma is a great thing, but to be safe -guarded for the 'future is even, greater. Not only does Dr, 3. D. KeT- logg's Asthma 'Remedy .bring prompt relief, but it introduces a new era o€ life for the afflicted Systematic inhal- ing of smoke or tutees 'from the rem- edy prevents re -attacks and often ef- fects' a permanent relief. sA'a� tat( 1°41 'I`afpt :N SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, ' WS tsP9tr7f. i' ,1) '10'0 . , rts/� -, ,Ye ,D1;alt1f tl• :. , Send us the names of your visitors. Reduced fares to cover the Labor Day week -end from Aug. 31 to 12 noon Monday, Sept, 3, have been authorized on the Ca- nadian Pacific Railway between all stations 1n Canada, Round trip tickets will be at the rate of fare and a quarter and will be good until midnight, Tuesday, September 4. Returning • from White City, , London, Eng., aboard Canadian Pacific liner Montealm, the ath- letes who represented, Canada at the British Empire games came back practically in a body to the number of around 100. They sailed for England aboard the Duchess of York Jttly 20. Australia is showing very sub- stantial evidence of recovery with continued betterment in sight. is the view of John P. Brophy, Com- monwealth Trade Representative at New York, stated when inter- viewed aboard S.S. Niagara on arrival recently at Victoria. Piety per cent. ahead of last year at mid-August with pros- pects for balance of season ex- ceptionally good for the Canadian Pacific hotels and resorts in the Rockies is reported by A. 10. Rob- ertson, assistant general manager, in charge of the Company's west- - ern hotels. Prominent British pails ra' ii•- arians are visiting the 'Mai 'ulna Provinces this year, including Prime Minister J. Ramsay Mac- Donald. The Canadian Pacific liner Montcalm recently carried. as a passenger. Dr. E. Leslie. Burgin, M.P., parliamentary sec- - retary of the British Board of Trade, who will stay at St. An- drews -by -the -Sea, Saint John. and Digby, N.S. Canadian Pacific flagship Em- press of Britain claimed a new record recently for, the Quebec- CherbourgAtlantic crossing, mak- ing the trip in font days, six hours and fifty -Dight minutes, being thirty-four minutes under hor own previous record set in August, 1533. eiontagu (Gorman, governor of the bink of England, whose evasive tac•tiee have given news- paper ntt•n some strenuous :times in the past few ycata, actually pissed fiir a reetoerime aboerel Cnnadil'l Pactle limit• Berths: of Beacon 1 On hi, r c:rn to 1•.u;.; lurid ere knee). i 1!11 T niy hal r. 1 sit•:; ' tit., his co n- nt^nt to 1'ie ase ':+had , td „rati- 01.,:d lutocographrr. Railway builds i t - no nt• at an end in Can. ? I:. . ide elle h•man tael rrf id01 the Canadian 1 e is 1 .oiled r e eontly 1. i,oe i,:.. n1 ve- le tided e-feuded in::peetiott trip :e ranee dd'estet a Ontario. "C'•' . tlet.io of our gine olonrht nil? "rt til t clean conetrurt!, way miles • to , 15 4113 dov ctopnueut«. warrant,' he said.