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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Citizens News, 1959-08-26, Page 2PAGE TWO ZURICH CITIZENS NEWS ZURICH 2 Liz€n . NEWS PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY MORNING at ZURICH, ONT., for the Police Village of Zurich, Hay Township, and the Southern Part of Stanley Township, in Huron County.. A, L. COLQUHOUN HERB. TURKHEIM 1 Publisher Business Manager I PRINTED BY CLINTON NEWS -RECORD, CLINTON, ONT, Authorized as Second Class Mail, Post Office Department, Ottawa 1 Member: CANADIAN WEEKLY NEWSPAPERS ASSOCIATION ONTARIO WEEKLY 1 NEWSPAPERS i ASSOCIATION Subscription d per advance, Canada; 50 in United States Foeign;s1glecopi , 5 cents. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 26, 1959 SHOP AT HOME WE HAD A visitor in our office this past week. He was a camper who has been receiving the Citizens News at the lake each week, and he dropped in to tell us that they think the stores here in Zurich are top notch. He went on to say that the prices locally compare favourably with those of city stores, where he comes from. And still we have a big problem in our local stores. Much business which should be coming to them is going out of town. As one local merchant told us, "If we had the business of the local people who are going out of town to shop, we would be all set." We can't figure out why people want to shop out of town. Every dollar they spend away froili Zurich is taking something away from this community, in the way of betterment. Some of the worst offenders to this practice are our own business and professional people. If they think they are saving money by running all over the country to buy they are badly mistaken. There is nothing that can't be had as reasonable right here as at any other place. So. the next time you have to buy something, think it over, and then, "Shop at Home." WE NEED MORE PARKS (Wingham Advance -Times) T -4 E N EE D FOR parks all over the province was borne home very strongly during a motor trip we took last week. Equipped with a portable refrigerator and the other trapping needed for outdoor eating, we loaded up the family and headed for the north. Of course it was the worst weekend of the year for travelling, because of the Civic Holiday, but our ex- perience certainly proved that public parks have not even begun to keep up with the demand for them. On one occasion we drove 75 miles in search of a vacant picnic table. Provincial camping parks in the entire circuit from Wingham, via Bracebridge, Algonquin Park, Ottawa and Mattawa valleys, Sudbury, French River, Parry Sound and down through Muskoka, were so packed with tents that the latecomers simply couldn't get in. The taxpayer who never goes very far from home may think that the provincial government has no right to spend public money to provide camp sites and parks—but that, of course, is a fallacy. In the first place a small charge is made, sufficient to cover maintenance costs; and in the second place, the revenue in gasoline tax alone would far outreach the expenditure, as Ontario residents and .American visitors travel our highways to reach the holiday areas of the Northland. No doubt the Department of Lands and Forests will catch up with the need for more and bigger parks, but they will have to hustle. There must have been a great many disappointed tourists on Civic Holiday weekend, NEW OCCUPATION (Nanton (Alberta) News) WE ARE ALWAYS finding people these days who are streaking off in search of training for odd jobs and by that we mean exotic or peculiar jobs, Latest is a chap who says he is going into music research. On the surface this doesn't seem very strange until you understand that his research is to be solely on the subject of what kind of music makes people buy things. It seems that, influenced by one kind of music or another piped into a store. some customers are apt to buy more of some things when "My Bonnie" is played than when "Ring Around a Rosy" is played. Also. that, in factories, production can be speeded up when certain kinds of music are played. Naturally this excited our risibilities which are always close to the surface along with our crochets, and we began to speculate what would happen in a tobacco store if "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" were played on a pipe organ and then again if it were played in a cigar rolling factory. And to carry it further, would the song do anything for handkerchief sales? How would "I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby" do in a jewellery store or a diamond cutting factory? We began to speculate what kind of effect waltztime would have on a beans and bacon packing plant. Would there be the remotest chance that the bacon might be put in the cans more often? At present it seems that the bacon more often misses being packed, than getting in. We wonder what kind of music stirs up the workers who pack those four soup crackers in their impenetrable cellophane pack. Certainly those packs are sealed with vigor and precision. And the way many cups and saucers are made these days, someone influenced by rock-and-roll must have been doing the pottery work. However more power to the young man in his career. He may be able to persuade people to buy those ghastly souvenir cushions with a choice blending of "Mother Machree"' and "Come Back to Sorrento." Remember, Zurich's Most Disastrous Fire Twenty-six years ago this past Friday, on August. 21.. 1933, a fire which caused over $50,000 dam- age raged in the business section of the Village of Zurich. Three large business establishments burned, and a large number of homes and other business places suffered damages. For the benefit of many young- er people who were not living at that time we are reprinting the story of the fire as it appeared in the Toronto Daily Star, on August 22, 1933. The fire spread through a fifty - foot line of frame structure: in the rear of the principal business block and in three hours, despite the ef- forts of firemen from Dashwood and Clinton, the following build- ings were destroyed: Everet Heist's two-story brick 1 bakery shop, with apartments I above, on the Goshen line road, !loss $10,000, mostly insured. 1 Harry Yungblut's storey and a half building and shop, loss $5,000, lightly covered. Louis Schilbe's flour and feed warehouse and his apartment above, a block from the Heist pro- { perty, loss $6,000 lightly insured. The fire also damaged Oscar Klopp's implement warehouse, three blocks away, and fired the roofs of a dozen stores and busi- ness places throughout the menac- ed west side of the town and drove three families from their imperil- led homes, including Dr. Harvey Cowen, dentist. APPLICATIONS Applications Wanted For anager of the Zurich Branch of the Hensall District Co-operative Must have knowledge of feed mixing and general feed mill operation Duties to commence on September 14, 1959. Please apply, stating qualifications and ea ry expected, to: BERTRAM KLOPP, Secretory, R.R. 3, Zurich. by September 1, 1959 at 6 p.m. 33-4-b The fire was directly or indir- ectly responsible for six accidents that compelled Dr. P. J. O'Dwyer with his wife's assistance, to oper- ate a sort of war -time clearing station as smoke ancl burning em- bers reached their home through- out the conflagration. Set Own Broken Leg Mervin Stelck, 21, of the 14th concession of Hay township, fell from the Zurich fire truck and broke his leg as a frantic attempt was being made to abandon the main conflagration at the Haist store in order to check a fire at Klapp's implement warehouse, on the west side of the town. As the truck dashed away leav- ing young Stelck writhing in agony among the panic-stricken people, he sat livid in the centre of the road, and by his own unassisted efforts set the compound fracture of the main and secondary parts of his right leg so skillfully that when he reached Dr. O'Dwyer's office, nothing could be done to improve upon his work and the physician merely placed the limb in a plaster cast. Dr. O'Dwyer's replica of a war- time casualty clearing station swung into operation just as the fire broke out. He was performing a tonsil operation on Denis Bedard, and did not have the boy out of the anaesthetic until Stelck was carried in with his broken leg. Youth Fell From Roof Next in the emergency series came Gordon Wowald, 17, with a broken left arm sustained while he (Continued on Page Three) WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 26, 1959 off ...1311MMOMIS• 40 YEARS AGO AUGUST 1959 Private Herbert C. Kraft re- turned home from overseas on Monday. His many friends are pleased to see him looking so well. Misses Pearl Johnston. and Frieda Kalbfleisch are spending a few days at the Toronto Exhibi- tion this week. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Dumart and children, Kitchener, visited at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Yungblut over the week- end, Zurich baseball -team was in Clinton last Thursday and defeat- ed the Doherty Organ Company team of that town by a score of 13-7. On Wednesday evening last Mr. and Mrs. E. Appel were given a pleasant surprise when the mem- bers of the Ladies' Aid and the Sunday School teachers of the Lutheran Church met at their hone and presented them with two useful gifts. Addison Tiernan and sister Pearl, Dashwood, spent a few days in Stratford last week. Barbara Haugh, wife of George Kellerman, Dashwood, died sud- denly at her home in Dashwood, on Wednesday evening, August 20. Misses Ida and Ruby Manson returned home after a pleasant visit with friends on the Goshen Line. Miss Dorothy Fritz returned hone from a visit with relatives at Hamilton. 25 YEARS AGO AUGUST 1934 Mr. and Mrs. T. L. Williams and Calvin Williams motored to Bright on Sunday. Their sister, Mrs, Ehnes, returned home with them.. Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Hoffman and baby, Galt, are holidaying with their parents here, Clarence says he is having a real good holiday helping his father to re- build the interior of his tailor shop. How many of us remember the big 'fire in Zurich last year, Aug- ust 21. It was a hot time on that memorable evening, but we are pleased to report that all the places of business have been re- built with much better looking buildings. and the town now looks good again, Friday, August 24, was the first day in 20 years that a person could legally buy a glass of beer in Zurich, for immediate con- sumption, It was in 1914 that the bars were closed by the Canada Temperance Act. Walter Burn, Cornwall, was a weekend visitor with Rev. E. Burn here. Little Romain Geiger under- went an operation on Tuesday for the removal of tonsils and aden- oids. Mr, T, L. Wurm, who has been a traveller through here for a Toronto firm has received a pro- motion for a more responsible ter- ritory, and a substantial increase in salary, Congratulations, Tally! g ..OF� YEARS G eeBYe NE 15 YEARS AGO AUGUST 1944 SUG R and SPICE (13y W, (Bill) B. T. Smiley) This week I'm going to do something I have long meant to do. I'm going to say thanks, form- ally and sincerely, to all those people who have dropped in at the office, or written notes, to tell me they appreciate Sugar and Spice. * I'm doing it thus. publicly, be- cause I do it so badly in private. Some old gal from Kalamazoo, Mich., on the way to her summer cottage, will stop in to pay her subscription. She'll peer around, spot me and holler: "You the fella writes that Sugar and. Salt (or Salt and Pepper, or Sand and Gravel) ?" Uneasily, I mutter "yup". She slaps her leg and says: "I sure get a kick outa that. I laughed fit to cry over that one you wrote about the cat. back there in April, or was it Novemb- er?" * a= * Now, I know perfectly well that I have never written a column a- bout a cat. We've never had a cat, and I don't like cats. She prob- ably means the one I wrote about the dog, back in January. But what's the use of going into all that. I just say heartily "glad you liked it, nice to see you again", and rush into the back shop, pre- tending I'm sorely needed there. Quimby and Paul Hess, Toron- to, joined their brother Fred in camping at their cottage in Grand Bend. Mr. and Mrs. A. F. Hess have returned to Zurich where Mr. Hess is attending his office duties. The ladies of the Zurich Red Cross work room presented Mr. and Mrs. E. M. Dagg with a cosy blue woollen blanket, as a token of the faithful and splendid ser- vice which they have rendered to the society. Bobby Hayter, Dashwood, has returned home after spending his holidays in Brantford. Miss Gloria Kraft has returned to her home in Dashwood after spending her holidays in London. Miss Bernice Tyler, Dashwood, is holidaying at the home of her aunt and uncle, Mr. and Mrs. Carl Thiel, in Zurich, Mr. and Mrs. Wes Hugill have leased the property of Mr. and Mrs. Chris Gingerich, formerly owned by Harold Johnston, and intend moving therein in the very near future. Word was received that Mrs. Harold Thiel and baby have ar- rived safely at their destination in the West. and were greeted by their husband and daddy. Mrs. Lawrence Bedard and son Lary have left to join their hus- band and father, who is in the armed forces in the West. 10 YEARS AGO it, we weren't on speaking terms She was sulking in the bedroom like Achilles in his tent, and I was cussing in the bathroom like no- thing you ever heard. The blasted pipes were all stuck together from the heat or something. * * ,k Finally, I got two of the reluct- ant joints moving. I got a four - foot length onto my shoulder and was easing down off the chair 1 was standing on, when one end of the pipe bumped the top of a cup- board, tipping the other end to- ward the floor. Into the sink, bathtub and toilet, onto the tow- els, washcloths and bathmat, cas- caded about four pounds of fine black soot. * * Then there's the fellow who comes in, a perfect stranger, looks leaving, as I learned later, a track at me coyly and says: "If I wrote of coal -black footprints across the things like that about my wife, kitchen floor. she'd kill me." With a fixed smile, k I quip, just as coyly: "Sometimes she'd like to", and hate myself for saying it. It's not true. She might like to change my profile a bit, or smash me a couple of times right over the head, but she doesn't want to kill me. :k * Swearing fearfully, I dashed down the back stairs, strewing soot behind me like a smoke screen, and outside. I fell over the dog, so help me. By this time I was in a tearing rage. I went back up, grabbed another hunk of pipe, gave it a wrench, and a ten -foot length collapsed in the middle of the back hall, the soot landing everywhere but on the newspapers I had spread. Throwing everything to the wind, I tore down the rest of the pipes, threw them into the back yard, swept up . two .large cartons full of soot, and stomped out, AUGUST 1949 Henry Steinbach is improving nicely and able to sit out on the verandah after being confined to his bed for a fractured leg receiv- ed by a fall in cherry picking time. The people of Zurich and dist- rict were treated to a band con- cert here on Saturday evening, given by the well-known Brod- hagen Band. Gordon Hess and sister Pauline, and Shirley Fairbairn, were holi- daying at the Hess cottage in the Pinery. Mr. and Mrs. Morley Witmer. Detroit, were weekend visitors at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Earl Thiel and other relatives in the district. The new homes of Mrs. Rose Brown, Morris Weber and Ivan Kalbfleisch are going up by leaps and bounds, as workmen are hammering away all day at these buildings. Daniel Gascho has sold his small house in town to the Desjardine family of the Babylon Line. Dan- iel. felt lost without a home of his own, so with the help of good friends and carpenters he is build- ing a new one on the same loca- tionas the old • one was on. The fifth annual Lions Frolic was held as advertised last Wed- nesday, but the threatening rain kept many people away. Cleve, Stanley, Kenneth and Keith Gingerich and Roy Erb had a pleasant time over the weekend at Chesley Lake, a: * 4' At least not very often. I think perhaps to -day was an exception. She'd been at me ever since June to get the furnace pipes down. When they're not taken down, they leak a peculiar gummy brown substance. Well, I've been trying to plan around to it, but we have miles of furnace pipes, and it takes a lot of planning around to it. * This week, she and the weath- er -man turned on the heat simul- taneously. So on the hottest day of the summer, X'm bullied into taking down the bleeding furn. ace pipes in my noonhour. * * 4. By the time I'd got well into k * By six o'clock, I had cooled down enough to be scared, and when I got home I found that my instinct had been infallible. To cut a long story short, I scrubbed floors and woodwork until mid- night, most of it hands -and -knees stuff. Then I had to start writing my column, which has to be done by tomorrow morning. :k It is now 3.30 of that tomorrow morning. Do you know what I've been doing for the last 30 min- utes? Well, it was like this. I went to the refrigerator to get a slug of orange juice. It was in one (Continued on Page Three) NETE'S FLOWERS Phone 130 — Zurich Flowers beautifully arranged for Weddings, Funerals, Etc. At Prices Everyone can afford "Flowers Wired Anywhere" Business and Professional Directory AUCTIONEERS DENTISTS ALVIN WALPER PROVINCIAL LICENSED AUCTIONEER For your sale, large or small, courteous and efficient service at all times. "Service that Satisfies" Phone 119 Dashwood INSURANCE For Safety EVERY FARMER NEEDS Liability Insurance For Information About All Insurances—Call BERT KLOPP Phone 93r1 or 220 Zurich Representing CO-OPERATORS INSURANCE ASSOCIATION HURON and ERIE DEBENTURES CANADA TRUST CERTIFICATES 5%2% --- 1 to 5 Years J. W. HABERER Authorized Representative Phone 161 — Zurich LEGAL W. G. Cochrane, B.A. BARRISTER and SOLICITOR NOTARY PUBLIC H ensel) Office Open Wednesday • and Friday Afternoons EXETER PHONE 14 BELL & LAUGHTON BARRISTERS. SOLICITORS NOTARIES PUBLIC ELMER D. BELL, Q,C, C, V. LA.tYG1 TON, Zurich Office Tuesday Afternoon EXETER Phone 4 DR. H. H. COWEN DENTAL SURGEON L.D.S., D.D.S. Main Street Exeter Closed Wednesday Afternoon Phone Exeter 36 DR. J. W. CORBETT L.D.S., D.D.S. DENTAL SURGEON 814 Main Street South Phone 273 — Exeter Closed Wednesday Afternoons DOCTORS Dr. A. W. KLAHSEN Physician and Surgeon OFFICE HOURS: 2 p.m. -5 p.m. Monday -Saturday Except Wednesday 7 p.m: 9 p.m. Monday and Friday Evenings ZURICI:I Phone 51 G. A. WEBB, D.C.* *Doctor of Chiropractic 438 MAIN STREET, EXETER X -Ray and Laboratory Facilities Open Each Weekday Except Wednesday Tues. and Thurs. Evenings, 7-9 For Appointment -- Phone 606 FUNERAL DIRECTORS WESTLAKE Funeral Horne AMBULANCE and PORTABLE OXYGEN SERVICE Phone 89J or 89W ZURICH HOFFMAN'S Funeral & Ambulance Service OXYGEN EQUIPPED Ambulances located at Dashwood Phone 70w Grand Bend—Phone 20w Attendants Holders of St. John, Ambulance Certificates