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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1920-08-27, Page 1:UST 2 1920. )ou during A aRk Mail or Tele- phone us your Orders for Quick Service. 1' )N PARCELS. vusil FIFTY-FOURTH YEAR ) WHOLE NUMBER 2750 f NISH I Great Opportunities to Buy Clothing: either for immediate use or later. We are showing a large assortment of Suits and Coats at prices that should interest everyone who will require . an outfit for the coming Fall Season. Every indication points to still higher prices for all kinds of wearing apparel in the future, and those who continue to wait for a fall in price will be not only disappointed but shall also be minus, many, dollars which they might have saved. OUR $25000, $30.00 and $35.00 SUITS ARE WONDERFUL VALUE OUR $10.00, $15.00 and $20.00 RAIN COATS means a - Saving of $5.00 to every purchaser , Boys' Suits at $7.50 to $14.00; could not be made to -day for this figure. New Fall Coats. For Women Shipments of the New Fall and Winter , Coats have arrived and are placed in stock ready for selec•- tion, and they are beautiful, and ithe prices surpris- ingly low, ranging from $25.00 to $50.00. The Greig Clothing C i i Special Notic We are in a position to accept orders for Hot Air and. Hot Water Heating and Piping Pumps p g Eave Troughing Metal Work Ready Roofing Bathroom Plumbing, including Pressure Systems. Of Leave your orders at `once, Estimates cheerfully given. ` I have had over 30 years' experience in all- kinds of building which enables me to plan your proposed -bath- room and furnace work, etc. The Big Hardware H. 'EDGE SEAFORTH; AUGUST 27, 1920. Mclean Bros., Publishers $1.50 a Year in Advance THE HARPURREY THAT WAS Mark Twain was employed on the Carson City, Nevada, "Enterprise," as printer and reporter. One night he was assigned to a'lecture given by, a professor. The next "morning` in the Enterprise, Mark wrote of the gentleman as "Professor Personal Pronoun," He used the capital "I" too much to suit Mark Twain's news- paper ideas of what a professor should .be. If the writer uses the capital "I", it is for the purpose of saving space in The Expositor, for newsprint comes high these days. Paper makers have the goods and publishers must 'pay for paper, hence the capital "I." Harpurhey as I knew it in school days contained several more inhabit- ants than it did a few weeks ago. It had a side walk on the Huron Road from the Seaforth corporation line to Hannah's sideroad. So I" trust to. memory to recall people and events of 1876�and after, when I hoofed part of the way and walked the rest on my way to work in The Expositor office on John: street, then in the frame building now used as a store house by George Sills. To make things real to me, I `walk- ed to Harpurhey a few weeks ago, when or. my visit to the old town that "I stubbed my, toe in long ago." The - old agricultural grounds are not the sante. Time, that leveller of man and fences has been on the job. Yet u.emor.y ieca7ied the fine horses, the good cattle, the fatted hogs and the sheep of the. McEwens, the Hortons, the Masons, the Russells, the Cress wells and the $nells. The ball is gone . somewhere, like the- ,boys and girls of yesterday who filled it with laughter and mirth on show days. When one's locks "turn to the sil- ver, he is likely to compare things and- events of to -day with those of the yesterday. So I recall the twenty-fourth of May, with its races and sports on the old agricultural grounds and its race track. A fifteen mile foot race stands out. The num- ber of entrants I forget. But I can _see Johnnie Baird collapse .oftr a gruelling contest, and a Goderich boy stagger to the end. I think now, but I'm not sure, that Billy Cline was Johnnie Baird's trainer. Another event I recall on the old' track was a running race. Billy Rattenbury's sorel rrtare and a black horse were the hicontestants. The race chiefwas in heats and -the black horse bolted at the judge's stand and knocked James Boland, now of Egmondville, down, and jarred him up some. Jim, in those day, was a fine type of man- hood, as hard as nails, and ,he recover- ed his balance quickly, and said a few words totho black 'horse.JohnnieJo Kidd, son of John Kidd, the hard- ware man, was the big drummer in the Seaforth band. He dropped the drum stick and rode the black horse in the' next heat, and' that black nag did not bolt that time. . Jahn Ransford, of Clinton, tells this story of Bill Rattenbury, Sr., who kept the hotel in Clinton, now gone like its owner. Mr. Ransford, an Englishman, arrived in Clinton in 1868, and like his countrymen, had to have a bath every morning, Now baths in Huron County in 1865e -were mostly confined to the rivers and creeks and the washtubs, particularly the latter in the winter. John Rans- ford rapped' on his room door and Bill Rattenbury, a broad Yorkshire man, answered the summons. "We can fix you up a bit with the woman's wash tub," replied Bill. So he departed for the tub and the pump. To his aid he summoned his Devonshire hostler. They filled the tub nearly full and endeavored to g^t it up the stairs in the hotel. Bill Rattenbury wore top boots, with the trousers stuck down inside them, as was the fashion of the day, leaving the top' part open •for water or snow and other things to -get inside. The Devonshire hostler backed up the stairs, lifting the tub, with Bill Rattenbury's assistance, a step at a time. Water will always seek the lowest level, and 'upon this occasion the lowest level was the in- side of Bill Rattenbury's top boots. At every step Bill's boots grew fuller of water, till it ran over the tops. Bill blamed the Devonshire hostler and the latter defended himself in the dialect of the "Downs," and Bill Rat- tenbury talked just as pointedly in "north country" accents. The result was that when the tub got to the head of the stairs, it contained not so much water as was in ..Bill's boots. It is but just to William Rattenbury to say that he kept a fine hotel. To get. a meal to -day like they used to put up in that old house for a quer.- ter, a five dollar bill ,wouldn't supply it. But I must get on, Or I'll never get to Harpurhey, The Adams farm was not broken up back in "76. A hedge row ran beside the side walk to J. Beattie's then new brick house. The next house west of the latter, still stand- ing, was occupied by Tom James, a butcher, who ' sold meat from a stall in the old market. The other stall was occupied by George Ewing. On the opposite, or south side of the road, stood the old Scott homestead, oc- cupied by Dr. Scott's father. We are now in what was then known as Mid- dletown, the connecting link between Seaforth and- Harpurhey. Next to Toni Janes lived "Jock" Winters, Bob's father, a Cumberland man, and hewas. a fine, good'old gentleman g Mrs. Lamb lived next to Mr. Winters on the west, She was the mother of Johnnie Lamb, in his day a member of Seaforth's famous baseball team, the old Stars, champions of the five counties. The cup, I believe, is still in Seaforth. This ball team took the measure of the famous Maple Leafs of Guelph, who secured their crack MM.MM-M.t ` i moment of the day. They usually Notice We have moved into our new store, lately vacated 'by H. E. Scott, opposite the U.F.O. store, and would ask our many customers to give us &call. A full line of Flour, Feed and Seed always on band. We have seven or :eight tons of F 'tilizer-for your Fall Wheat 'land that we will sell at cost price. W. M. STEWART — SEAFORTI a - - ONTARIO. first basema'ni,, Hughie Cameron, blacksmith, of Brucefield, -faom the Stars. John Shaw, brick layer and plaster- er, .lived in the white frame`, cottage next to Mrs. Lamb. One of his daugh- ters, Lottie, is the wife of Sam Deem, the bather, and now lives in. Toronto. West of the Shaw house lived Joseph Brown, a sturdy, hard-working Eng- lishman, who came to Huron County when. the Buffalo and Goderich road was built. One son, James,'now de- ceased, was one of the old Harpurhey boys who gathered around the old Robb store, the last "store, for the others pulled up and, moved'.` to`Sea- forth when salt was discovered. On the Brown property ' is now a fine jsrick house. The Browns I have lost they of, although t ey wer e school 'girls in my day. Across the . road liv- ed Frank Meyers, the pop man. He had a family of boys and girls. Hugh Robb, Sr., lived next door to the store. There was a cottage between R-obb's house and' Brown's. Granny some- body lived there; I have forgotten her name. Wm. Clement lived on the Huron Road, south side, right opposite the -Roxboro Road. Young Billie and the girls also went to Harpurhey school. Opposite lived Mrs. Towns- end, het son, Jimmy, was -a school pupil. . Frank Holinestead's house stands just' as it did forty' -old years well It must have been extra v elI constructed. On a street south of the Huron Road at this point lived James Brydon, a pop man, with a family of girls and Billy, his son. I have lost track of them all. Also Dr. O'Zennus, whom many will remem- ber. I was lost about here. Something was gone. My brother, fob, said it was the old Dill hotel.. Nothing remains but the cellar bricks. Dan McGregor, the bookbinder, a real art- ist, deaf and a good stauch Presby- terian and uncomprising Grit of the old schogl, lived opposite. His' son, Jimmy McGregor, went to Winnipeg with Wm. Luxton, a former owner of The Expositor. They founded the Winnipeg Free Press. Joe Brine's, .the' auctioneer, brick ' cottage still stands west of the Harpurhey bury- ing ground. Billy Brine, his son, went overseas with a Highland regi- ment. I met Bill on Yonge street, Toronto, dressed in the Kilts. Bill's military age was 45 when he enlisted, but I'd hate to give his real years. He is , older than I am, and I Was con- siderably past military age on Aug. 4, 1914. The Brine .cottage was al- ways lively. The young folks made it 'that way. Around .the corner on the Hannah side road, lived David McCulloch, 'grandfather of John Stewart, the Seaforth blacksmith. He was a sterling character, firm in his principles. The Harpurhey congre- gation merged with Seaforth Presby- terian church. "The kist o' whistles" ame,to the• latter,. David McCulloch would have none of them, so he walk- ed from Harpurhey to Egmondville church every Sabbath morning, where the whistles had not arrived at that time. His son, John, moved to Win- nipeg, and was circulation 'manager of the Free Press. Jack McCulloch, the world's champion skater, is a son. Malcolm McDiarmid, Harpurhey's post master, lived- in the big house where the Huron road turns. lie is gone- to his fathers these many years. Robert Handcock, a veteran of the 63rd regi- ment, which came to Canada to quell the Chambly riots in Quebec, and which culminated in the Tories burn- ing down the Parliament buildings in Montreal, lived opposite. Johnnie Handcock lives in Michigan. Ben- jamin Eden, the weaver, lived in the next house. On that side of the road my brother, John, lives, on the Dr. Chalk place. Across the road lived Andrew Curry, the butcher. Two boys in my time went to Harpurhey school, William and George. There were two other sons, Andrew and John. An amusing incident happened on this part of the Huron Road one summer's evening. Most of the older people will ill rem embez Wm.Curtis, e "Nigger. Bill" we used to call him. Andrew Curry, Sr.: butchered for George Ewing. He _ bought two beeves from a farmer up the road, one a beautiful red Durham heifer. Bill was leading the animal by it rope, tied to the base of her horns. When at Louis Meyer's farm, opposite to which was Harpurhey school, Bill sat down somehow or another on the long rope which had a big knot on the end. The heifer was mad, so Bill had to sit there, and he came down the old Huron Road asliding through the dust an inch thick, at 'a mile a minute, the heifer and Bill both hollering as loud as they could. Bill raised a much denser cloud than ever a Grand Trunk engine did on Bill Fowler's hill. The road dust changed Bill's complexion from ebony to a white, wool and all, till he looked as white as Santa Claus. Henry Fowler, Frank's boy, I do not know where he is. Bill Fowler's Billy is in Barrie. "Tall" is the wife of Walt. Gracie -and lives in Vancouver. Fannie and Tena also went to that school. The Barr girls, daughters of Rev. Matthew Barr, the last minister of old Harpur- hey church, good scholars both, these complete the boys. and .girls that mem- ory recalls of old. Harpurhey school, where I spent one term. I climbed the, fence into Harpurhey cemetery. A tall shaft of granite stands sentinel over one of the squar- est and whitest boys that I ever knew. .He and I learned the printer's calling together. We worked afterwards on the Toronto World' and the London Advertiser. Out in the world where men are tested, every person respect- ed espected George Watson. My own children will always remember him witiiwthe greatest kindness. He was- a frequent visitor at our. home. One evening, when I was publishing the Aylmer Reformer, down in. Elgin County, on Lake Erie, Mrs. Powell read from the Toronto Globe that George Watson has passed away to the great major- ity. So I could not pass Geordie Watson's last resting _ place, beside his parents, without a close-up .look— perhaps with moistened eye.—Bill Powell. FROM AN OLD McKILLIP CORRESPONDENT • ' Toronto, August 23, 1920, Dear Expositor: There are some things always to please; for instance, the Poles are shamming the Reds, and - better still, it is said that there is a very good crop of grain, potatoes and fruit in Canada and the United States. That the people of these countries will have enough and to spare which is very gratifying indeed'. The new Premier of the Dominion was here part of a day inspecting the harbor and meeting prominent per- sons of both political parties. He looked thin and fagged and tired, and does not appear to carry the burden of state affairs lightly. pull up alongside the House of Par- liament and go in and inspect the building, and hundreds of 'kodaks are to ,.be seen in use among the flower beds in front of Parliament House. Our cousines from across the line ap- pear to be orderly and good natured i when on their visit and a majority of them are women. I have heard that it is the rate of- discount between our money and theirs which causes so many of them to some here this season, but we have no room for com- plaint. I recollect as ,,a boy just after the American Civil War that $300 in Yankee greenbacks was worth only 100 of Canadian money, but after three or four years things returned to normal conditions,—J. J. I. The leader of the Liberals, accom- panied by Dr. Beland, M.P., a prom- inent man from Quebec, held a meet- ing over at the island a few days ago, but it threatened rain all that day and as a result the attendance was small. Mr. King is a more handsome man' than his grandfather was. The latter's portrait is hanging up in the corridor of the City Hall, and it appears to be the picture of a- cross and homely looking little runt. But in justice to Lyon 'McKenzie we will say that in after life he painfully regrttted the course which he pur- sped in 1837, at least so I have been informed. The portraits of those who have been chief magistrates of the city have a place in the City Hall, and Mr. McKenzie was Toronto's first Mayor when it was incorporated as a city in the year 1834. It had then a population of something over nine thousand. ' The grandson, although over forty years of age, looks quite boyish. ' He is said to be a great dancer and when he attends these assemblys he dances with every lady in sight. As a dancer he has our Prince of Wales trimmed to a finish, but I suppose this does not signify. The historians tells us that at a ball on the night before the great Battle of Waterloo, the Duke of Wellington danced and engaged' in naughty flirtations with ' the beautiful ladies of Brussels, and yet, before the week was out, he accomplished a good deal, No one knows what -is ahead of Mc- Kenzie King; he may be Prime Min- ister of Canada some day and again he may never reach that eminence. A multitude of American tourists and excursionists have visited Toronto i during the past summer, more especially this present month. Motor busses carrying each about twenty persons are in evidence nearly every THE CASH VALUE OF A PEDIGREE All animals have pedigrees of some sort whether pure bred or scrub. Only the pure bred animals have their pedi- gree registered and have pedigree certificates issued. A pedigree is valuable only when it proves some fact that is worth while about an animal, either favorably or otherwise. We frequently hear comments -of some such nature as "I do not care about the papers it is the cow I want." Speaking broadly that may be good business for a butcher but the real stock breeder is paying more attention to pedigree than ever be- fore and we often hear him say "that is a beautiful individual but I do not like her breeding." The man who attaches the' most value to a pedigree, is the one 'who knows the most about its true value. The pedigree student ntay learn of a cow that has had a brilliant show -ring career. • She may •• be particularly pleasing to the eye in type, form and conformation. He- studies her pedi- gree and finds that she has sprung from ancestors that were of little value and immediately decides to let her alone, regardizig her as a freak. On the other hand he may find a 'cow that is not a particularly fine individual in type but he studies her pedigree and' finds that she has for ancestors some of the very best an- imals of the breed. He decides to buy the cow doing so on what he knows about her ancestors. He has made use of the pedigree to select a cow that he has not, as so many are inclined to state, paid a big figure for papers. Pedigree does not make value, it decides value by establishing the his- tory of ancestry. Aline cow backed by several generations of good producers is much more liable to be the dam of producers than the cow whose dam only, of all ancestors is a. producer. This does not, of course, always hold true. Just as we frequently find' a good individual with a poor line of ancestors so do we find poor individ- uals with 'strong ancestors. Like, as a general rule, produces like, but the law of variation is also felt. The• pedigree student studies these laws and draws his conclusion, When a 'cow is purchased for a breeding herd two things are kept in mind, first the value of the cow for what milk she will produce and sec- ondly, the effect she will have upon the futu e of the herd. A good judge of dairy cattle can estimate closely her value as a milk producer but her worth as a herd improver must be de- termined chiefly by pedigree. Individual merit is very important and should not .be overlooked yet it must not be the main deciding Point. History shows us some excellent in- divic'Urls who have apparently sprung from inferior stock and later have become wonderful foundation cows. Such animal's are valuable if proper- ly developed, but the owner must have skill and patience to handle a problem of this kind as often„ after a few generations, there may be a reversion back to the old ancestral type, Some herds have been built almost to perfection with the exception that possibly a single defect may be notic- ed through the entire herd. The owner is a true stock breeder and wishes to have as perfect a herd as possible. He decides to secure a new sire and Cor- rect this fault. He selects an animal not only strong itself where the defect is shown in the herd, but the breeder finds that the animal is from families perfect in this respect., This sire is more certain to correct the fault than an animal who is strong individually but part, or all, of his ancestors are weak. This is where the real value of a pedigree is recognized. It is not so important to know simply 'that an animal is pure bred as it is to know that the strain in the herd is of the very best. PREPARING GRAINS FOR FALL FAIRS It pays to advertise. There is no better advertisement than to be a prize winner at the Fall Fairs and no crop on the farm can- be exhibited to better advantage than the cereal crop. To attain the best results, a special plot should be maintained and kept thoroughly clean, free from weeds and all impurities. Harvest- ing should be done by hand, keeping the sheaves as neat and straight as possible. First and foremost the grainin the sheaf must not be weathered, it must be perfectly dry and of good color. The beat results are obtained by the use of slightly immature straw, as it will be found to be less brittle apd easier to handle. The straw should be spread in thin layers in the sun to dry; the sun will bleach the straw as well as dry it, Use only straight, uniform straws to ' make the sheaf; two or three sheaves should be col- lected in the field to allow for waste. The majority of persons have the idea that all the straw should be the - same length and the heads all placed on the same level. This would give us the square head in which, when tied, the majority of the straws would' break off below the head, The ideal slieaf has a rounded head with a gradual curve. ; This rounded head is, procured by allowing the central straws to stand a little higher than the surrounding straws and each layer of heads that are added, to gradually slope away from the centre. The large sheaf may be conveniently formed by first making a number of small sheaves and then placing them together as though they were indi- vidual heads, gradually sloping them off in the same manner. To finish the sheaf a layer of individual heads should be placed around the whole producing a finished exhibition sheaf. All the loose leaves should be plucked' off the outside of the sheaf with a jack-knife, leaving only the white shining 'straws, and all heads that do not conform to the symmetry of the head may be cut off, leaving a Per- fect sheaf. Colored ribbon about one- half to three-quarter inches wide may be used with good effect to cover the: binding strings. The remainder of the plot should be threshed by hand. This will form the bulk sample for the Fair, If the plot was kept pure in the Meld there will be very little that will need to, be done to the threshed sample. A. good fanning mill. • will' remove all shrunken and small kernels, all chaff and dirt. The fanning mill must be clean, many an excellent sample has been ruined by a dirty fanning mill.. Thoroughness is the secret of a good sample, the fanning mill should not be spared even if it means fanning - away fifty per cent. of the original. sample. The bulk sample may be double bagged for shipping to the Fair, The sheaf 'should be shipped in it bti. three-quarter inches longer and one- half inches broader and deeper than should sheaf. Th be, the e sheaf s 'wrapped in paper and tied, fitted into the box and kept in position by sup- ports. With our present day standards al- ways improving, great care must be taken in preparing the exhibits for our Fall Fears. No prize will be won out;g h by the farmer who puts up a r sheaf or a poor sample. The secret of success is thoroughness. ZURICH Notes.—Mr. Abe Bender left for. the West last week, Mr. Frank Sie- bert left for Detroit last week,Little Adelaide Pilcher, of Detroit, is visit- ing her relatives here.—Rev. M. W.. Ehnes, of New York, he visiting at the home of his mother here. --Mr. Herb Kraft, of Kitchener, is spend- ing his vacation at his home here,— Mrs. F. M. Hess and daughter, Ethel, spent the past week- with. friends in Detroit.—Messrs. Joseph leidinger, Ed, Snell and Joseph Etue, left for' the West to help harvest the big crop.—Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Johnston, of Toronto, spent a few days with the former's uncle, Mr. Thomas Johnston. —Mr: J. F. Moritz, left last Thursday morning for his home in Cavalier, N. D., where he will remain until after 'the harvest. Mrs. William Denomy. of the Sauble Line, who has been at London. Hospital where she underwent an operation, has returned to her home. DUBLIN Notes.—Mr. M. O'Loughlin, of Borden ave., south, has had a bounti- ful crop of strawberries. This year he supplied all Dublin and surround- ing country and as they were of a superior quality than those shipped in they commanded a high price. Mr.. O'Loughlin says if every farmer Would plant a patch of strawberries on their farms it would avert the trend of the yoi :ng ntople eityward.: A nice com- modious additional structure has been addeo to the telephone office. The carpenter work was done by John Dehil, of Brodhagen, who . needs no , comment as a builder. -• Mr, M. O'Loughlin, of Dublin, gave it a nice' neat decoration of illuminous pazb-. ing,—Our new Standard Bank when completed will be a nice decoration to - the village and also to Tecumseh. street.—Our storekeepers are looking forward to a rushing business this. fall as the crops are immense which means prosperity to the farmers. It seems when prosperity favors the farmer, everybody seems to be pros- perous and yet city people don't want to see the farmer emerge beyond the plow.—Mr. Joseph Evans has decided to join the host of matrimonials.. Congratulations Joe.—L. J. Looby, our genial creamery man, is turning out a large quantity of pastuerized butter monthly.—D, Crawford and H. Nelems motored to Bayfield last week. --W. Redmond, J. Ryan and W. - Manley have taken advantage of the excursion fare to the West,—Their is going to be a three -cornered fight staged in Elgin, It is suggested that the U. F. O. element and Liberals join forces in voting,—Mr. Michael Deumger, of Kingsbridge, has moved on to the farm of Mr. Dill's. -•Our Road Commissioners who oversea that section of roadway between Dublin and Stella, should take a motor drive through ' Dublin, and if they saw de - 1 ficiences;' on said road they should fir up the ruts as they are getting quite deep.—Our -village officials purpose installing weigh scales in the village=. It would be a step in. the right direc- tion,—Mr, and Mrs. James Grcinin and Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Givltn visited at the home of William Curtin last Sunday.