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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1961-03-02, Page 3• Grondpois Records, Caused Trouble When the linos were being drawn for the Battle of Gettys- bUrg, the 10th lVfaine Volunteers . Were the first,Union soldiers to engage the South, Company I be- ing composed mostly of boys from our neighborhood, and my grandfather, a sergeant thereof at the time. He had been doing the work of company clerk, but' as of that critical moment in history his job fel! to pieces around him and was never the same again, The history book describes the engagement, one in which the eventual outcome of the Gettys- burg contact hinged, and tells how the gallant 16th Maine held back the tide long enough for •a more orderly arrangement of the larger forces, In the evening the book says the regiment was with- • drawn, ", . if 36 officers and men may be called a regiment." Grandfather, facing the book- work after the excitement was. over, was himself a boy of 19, schooled as far as the second book, and had no occult method of foreseeing what was going to bannerin later times. He there- fore called the shots as he saw them, and sst up a couple of situations which caused him keen embarrassment in years to come, Inasmuch as the volunteers came from around here every- body knew each other, and in some instances were 'close friends. One such was Frank Farrar, officially listed as Benj. if., but nobody except Uncle Sam ever called him Benjamin. Prank and Grandfather were tentmates, and my own father was named after Frank when he was born in "78. This should show that the two were close, and in the general posthaste of approaching the great Gettys- burg 'engagement Frank had drawn special duty. It was one of those spur-of-the-moment things, Frank was assigned to some passing officer, not of his own regiment, as an orderly. Immediately after, the officer clapped himself on his horse, applied the rowels, and dis- appeared out of Frank's life forever, leaving him an orderly without an officer and nothing to do but go back to his com- pany and pick up where he left off. Grandfather, laboriously enter - LICENSED MOONSHINE — The bootlegger's "white lightning" goes respectable in Albany, • Ga., where Viking Distillery markets 00 -proof corn whisky in glass fruit jars, the same type container favored by the moonshiners. Only this •!lasso government tax stamp. /14 each item meticulously ii his company records, duly noted that Beni, F. Farrar had been assign- ed as orderly to Major X, but • M the press of the ensuing af- fairs neglected to note that the • job didn't come off as advertised, Frank was indifferent About it then, but 50 years leiter he got mad. ' On the 50th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg Vnele, Sam assembled the veterans of the . fray for an expense -paid bivouac on the scene, Surrounded by the honors that had accrued, these Grand Army comrades waved farewell and entrained for a re- union. All except Prank Farrar, who was one of the 30 officers and men retrieved that day at nightfall, but Who persisted all 50 years as a historical orderly off on some major's errand. Such is the attitude of things like a Pentagon that no amount of rea- son; explanation, and persuasion could now change the recorded word, Gramp's moving finger . had, writ, and that ' wasthat. Frank went to the reunion be- cause he was a bona fide vete- ran of the first engagement at Gettysburg — but he paid his own fare, For this he never truly forgave Grandfather, and when- ever he unbraided his tentrnate Grandfather would feel bad and apologize. The other situation concerned Harry Anderson, As the first Confederate. onslaught struck the Union line, precisely where the . 16th Maine was scarcelyready, the pressure • caused a falling back in such a way that a smal- lish knoll cense about the middle of the fracas, Later on in the day many prisoners were taken by the South, and this knoll be- came a deciding factor in their fate. Those on one side went to• the Libby Prison; those on the other were exchanged or paroled a few days later. Harry Ander- son was one of those unlucky enough to be on the prison side. Again, the confusion and ex- citement of the .moment left Grandfather to complete his company records as best he could. Those who were later paroled were checked back, and concern- ing them his minutes proved. to be proper. But those who had been sent back to prison disap- peared and there was no im- mediate. way • to know about them, There had also been consider- able deserting- about this time and this was one matter every clerk was expected to record. properly. Somehow, the way the thing went, Gramp included Harry Anderson amongst those• officially listed under "deser- tions." Harry, meantime, was in a case where real desertion would have been wonderful, and didn't know that he was enjoy- ing this distinction willy-nilly, thanks to Gramp. So the war went along, and one day after many campaigns Harry Anderson showed up. He'd had a hard time, but he was all right, and he rejoined hiscons- pany with much good feeling all around. The "boys" liked Harry, and were not only glad to see him back, but glad to learn he had never been a deserter. The war moved along. Harry with it, 'and Grandfather never thought twice about the entry he had made the day, ,Harry returned. Since Harry had fizst been listed as a "deserter," Gransp had cloti- fully entered that, be had "re- turned from • desertion." This made sense, hoOkkeePing-wise, and peace returned. • Then came the pension, and Harry , Anderson was denied a pension because he had been a deserter! He approached Gramp with fire in his eye, and Gramp had to lay down his farm work, dress up, and take the steam - cars to go and swear that his own faithfully kept records were • wrong! By John Gould in The Christian Science Monitor. CROSSW(*) RD • PUZZLE ACROSS 1. Peruke 4. Arceey 0. Shtp'si company At. American author 12. Sac '4. Part played 5, Jap, coin 1 0. Sewed edge 7. Tantalize 8. Expedite 0. Painted or drawn 61. Come forth 28, Priest's vestment 411, Silkworm 47. Unsorted wheaten meal 80. Snolten 'at. stuff 32. Site 93 Tibetan (ix $4. River island 45, Largo piece of paper 56, Art lover I48, Small tower 41, Browne bread 415. Oat gentle. 46, bowel . •;47. 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Moreover, it is esti- snated'that during the next fiscal year loans will total $75,000,000. This underlines the popularity .of the new Farm Credit Act which was introduced to October, 1959, to bridge a widening gap in the agricultural industry. Re- sponse to this Act is even more significant when it is relaized that M 1955-56, loans. extended by the . former •Canadian Farm Loan Board were only about $8,000,000. •0 4, .* Why this sudden upsurge in farm credit? 1 .A new outlook has been brought to bear on this whole ' spatter. When farm credit was under the Department • of Fi- nance, there was a natural tend- ency to resist releasing large amounts of money in this man- ner. On the other hand, present thinking is to use credit to 'help competent farmers to re -organize their units and to put them on a profitable basis — thereby con- tributing to the economic well- being of the agricultural industry as a whole. They are not dealing carelessly with the taxpayers' money in ad- ministering the new Act. Just the contrary. With every loan, the FCC counsels the farmer on how to work out a program that will not only assure repayment of the debt, but will raise the income from the farm, 0 0 0In this connection, some farm- ers consulting, the FCC receive larger loans than they originally sought. • That's because the corpora- tion's highly • trained staff can often outline ways of boosting the overall income by a bolder investmeent than the borrower had foreseen. . This, of course, works in re - 'verse and an application is turned down if it appears unreasonable according to 'circumstances. In the first nine months of this fis- cal year, 7,224 applications were dealt with. One-quarter of them were rejected or withdrawn be- fore or after appraisal. Loans vary in size up to the maximum of $27,500. The aver- age loan from April -1, 1960, un- til the end of the year was $10,583, 4, 0 1' Farm credit works hand -in - glove with other legislation that has been introduced in the past three years — particularly the Agricultural , Stabilization Act and the Crop Insurance Act — and it was not by accident that the Farm Credit Act was passed after the other two,. It is the solution to the problem faced by Canadian farmers who were un- able to modernize their units be- cause of lack of capital on suit- able terms. That it is meeting this need is evidenced by • the figures produced to date, * 0 0 High quality hogs give Cana- dian hog producers a decided ad- vantage in competing on this con- tinent, according to Ralph K. Bennett, chief of merchandising in the Livestock Division, Canada Department of Agriculture. • Mr, Bennett recently told the annual meeting of the Nova Sco- • tia Federation of Agriculture that Maritime and Ontario hog producers were "011 reasonably equal terms" competitively, with producers in the American corn belt. The corn belt is the cradle of the U.S. hog producing indus- try. The price support policy, man- datory under the Agricultural Stabilization Act, is one of a number of advantages Canadian hog producers enjoy. Others are the premium paid on grade A hogs; higher average price per . cwt.; lower. cost Of production due to the higher number of pigs per litter (weaned and raised) in Canada compared with the United States. 0' 4, 9 • Because it takes more feed to put on a pound of fat than a pound of lean'meat,-high quality Canadian hogs have an addition- al advantage, Mr. Bennett point- ed out. 'United States demand for top quality cuts from Canada, par- ticularly hains and backs, Mr. Bennett said; works to the- ad- vantage of the Canadian hog pro- ducer. "Apparently U.S. consum- ers associate "leanness" with hams and backs and, therefore, these cuts bring a substantial premium in price over the re- mainder of the hog." Because of U.S. demand for lean pork products, some Cana- dian cuts go to the U.S. even when the Toronto price is Con- siderably higher than the price at Chicago. Exports of pork cuts to the U.S. in 1960 averaged about % - million pounds per week. * s . Canadian hogsabe said, are of better quality on the average than U.S. hogs. This is reflected in average lard production. Pack - 01 Eastern Canada obtain a yield of about 18 pounds of lard pc hog. This is rendered from about 24 pounds of fat trimmings, including the leaf lard. Ameri- can packers' average yield of lard per hog is about 29 pounds, • rendered from about 39 pounds of trimmings, the leaf lard in- cluded. The difference is reflect- ed. in the average prices of top grade hogs at Chicago and To- ronto during, 1960 where Cana- dian dressed carcasses brought almost $3 more than the Ameri- can price. Blacksmithing in Early Times The skills and tools needed to do at least the rudiments of blacksmithing were not peculiar to the pioneer farmer. The iron of the day, labouriously cut and wrought by charcoal fire and water -driven hammers, was sold in long bars of a thickness suit- able to bhe making of tenpenny nails. The farmer, who wished to save a blacksmith bill, would, using the fireplace as a forge and a block of wood covered with a thick piece of iron as an anvil, cut his own nails in the evening with chisel and hammer. Most Tanners, save those in san- 'dy Tidewater, had to have at least enough iron for horse and ox -shoe nails, and the thrifty New Englander could earn a bit .uf money by buying iron and selling or exchanging nails. The well-to-do farmer on the Piedmont or in the Great Valley was more inclined to have his own blacksmith shop with anvil and small forge. Here, he could make nails, sharpen ploiw-points, mend wagon tires and remedy the many accidents common to the ironware of that day, for much of it was badly made, im- pure, and more brittle than our own. Seldom did the average farmer have the skill and tools to shape a horseshoe and put it on, or make a grubbing hoe, and as a result the blacksmith was one of the most important men in any community. Any frontier community would have been .helpless with- out blacksmith tools and a mais able to use them. Still, we can- not say the blacksmith was bhe foundation of all pioneer life. So complex and interlocking was the world about the stock- ade walls that each skill or tool -depended upon another. The blacksmith, ±01' example, in order to function had to have cooling tubs; too heavy and unhandy to bring by pack horse. So were usually made by a neighbor with a set of cooper's tools. The blacksmith also needed a hot fire; he could use seasoned hickory, or even oak bark, but the pioneer blacksmith like gen- erations before hian worked best with charcoal. One of the first things made around any forted station would have been some form of charcoal kiln, usually nothing more than a carefully arranged stack 01 split wood, cunningly laid so that it would burn slowly, — From "Seedthne on the Cumberland," by Harri- ette Simpson Arnow. UNDAY SCIIC _LESSON By Rev, R. earelay Warren 8.&, 8.6). The Lord of Life and Death Men3loohrYn • 1S1e;lele7ti-o2171; 338-27; the resurreetidn, and the life: he that believeth in Me, though he were dead, yet shall he live; and whosoever lentil and believeth in Me shall never die. John 11: 25-26. The Old Testament tells of three people who were restored to life: the widow's son, (1 Kings 17:22); the son of the Shunam- mite, (2 Kings 4:35); and the man whose body touched the bones of Elisha, (2 Kings 13:21). In the New Testament we real of Jesus raising the daughter of Jairus, (Mt, 9:35); the son of the widow of Nain, (Lu, 7:15); and Lazarus of Bethany. Also, many Saints arose at the time ' ,of Jesus' resurrection, At the prayer of Peter, Dorcas was re- stored to life (Acts 9:40). Euty- ehus was taken up dead but came to life, as Paul ministeted to him. (Acts 20:10). 'When Je- sus arose from the dead, He con- quered life forever and brought the keys of death and hell with bins. There are three incidents re- corded of Jesus and the family of Bethany, In the first, Mary was commended for choosing the good part as she sat at Je- sus' feet and listened to His word while Martha was cum- bered about much serving. That second incident forms our lesson. When Lazarus was sick they sent for Jesus. Too many have little or no thought for Jesus till trouble comes. It is well to have a previous acquaintance with Him. In the third incident we see Mary's great expression of gratitude as the re -united family ate together. Jesus is Lord of lite and death. Recently I heard an evangelist before a large audience, offer $5.00 to anyone who could guar- antee that he would be alive tomorrow. No one moved. If he •had asked, "Will those who hope to be alive tomorrow, stand," doubtless all would have stood. • If he had asked, "Will those. r. who expect to be alive tomor- row, stand," most, if not all, would have stood, But not a.solis tary person could guarantee that he would be alive. Our lives, are in God's hands. But Jesus is also Lord of death, In conqueting death, He has opened the way for us all to rise from the grave. Even now He can give to us eternal life which indeed is hea- venly. A farmer in South Australia 'has found a nest, containing three baby starlings, built on the back of one of his • sheep, The birds, comfortably bedded down in thick wool, were herna fed by 'their parents when he •spoked them. ISSUE 8 — 1961 Upsidedown to Prevent Peeking E1lIigs rum 0110 'ElE301:151,1ACIVEll GIME!' MHO 131111210E2 p11912012121 1€11911111110Eilillost, Ouggla:, EvuilLgitig.1 111:7061,21:101t11111Elrlit 91121E3 1111E711,MIIICIPID €11NE211101121111,7•. 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