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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1939-01-13, Page 2r4 1�1�'i� IPS i t: tr Vd o-. fixed 1860 ail- McLean, Editor. at Seaforth, Ontario, ev- ay afternoon by McLean Q,TI3,' Friday, January 13th. e Tour of the King and Queen the programme far the Canadian fur of King George VI and Queens lialz,pbeth has been announced from Ottawa, and like every other Ottawa prograthme, regardless of which po- litical party promotes it, it has not been greeted with unanimous coni- nt and approval by some parts of Canada, particularly that part known as Ontario. Toronto will only have the King and Queen for eight and a half , hours, the dame length of time they 'Will be in Montreal. Ottawa will have the King and Queen for three . days. The quintuplets' part of On- tario will not have thecal at all. No personal invitations Will be ac- cepted by the Royal party. The King ° and Queen will not visit institutions and industries, and Universities will not be allowed to confer degrees. 'During their tour of Canada. in Ilay and June next, the King and Queen will not listen to any address- es of welcome, or anything else, ex- cept in Ottawa or in provincial capi- tals. .There will be no more than one ficial meal -time gathering, whether it be a luncheon or dinner, in any • one day. There are a lot of other restric- tions covering the Royal tour, but these seem to have been singled out as the main objections, and of these the three-day stay in Ottawa and the ban on civic speeches and addresses, seem to stand out. . Perhaps there are reasons why they should. For one thing, Ottawa is not only the Capital of Canada and the seat of government, but it is a very beautiful and historic city, and in it is located'...Government House, the Royal residence. It is just possible that white in Ot- tawa the King and his`'British advis- ers may have some, in fact a good many, subjects to discuss with his Canadian advisers. And where would there be a more logical place for these discussions than in the Can- adian capital, or in the Government House in that city? Regarding the public speeches and municipal addresses, no doubt it is a great and lasting honor for a Mayor or any other civic dignatory or pub- lic man to address the King and Queen in •public, and a very interest- ing experience for the speaker, or ad- dressor. But what about the King and Queen? For after all it is the King and Queen who should be considered. This tour is planned to be a rest, a relaxation and a holiday for them. They are coming to see the people and the places across Canada, from ocean to ocean, and, no doubt, they will want to find their pleasure where they will, and not where any place or Province or any people therein think they should find it, or be compelled to seek it. To an outsider, the itinerary of die Royal tour would appear to be as comprehensive, and at the same time, as reasonable and enlightening as it is possible to make it, Cana- dians should do their utmost to abide by it in every way, because it is the pleasure of the King and Queen that is to be considered, and not our own. • The Provincial Plowing Match For Huron Some time ago we mentioned that a considered effort was being made to secure the next -Provincial Plow- ing Match for Huron County. Mat- ters have now gone beyond the pre- liminary stages andmea well organiz- ed rganiz +ed. and enthusiastic drive is be- ing made with that end in view. On Saturday last a meeting was held in Clinton, sponsored by the est.'s Associations of the Conn - municipal officials ;.and members the county tneii, which was at- by Tl. Carroll, Ontario .Sup- t of hdrs, and other of- ,ntia_l.A odation. oThise or even ar- tif course, that h1Ibeheld i t, ,.s 9.1 al this 'county, but the oficialsP alid others who are in a position, to know are free to admit :that the possibili- ' ties_ of Huron as a desirable centre for this internationally known ev- ent, are not overshadowed by any other county in Ontario, nor are they equalled by many. But there is a lot of work still to do, and that work could be much more easily and swiftly accomplish- ed if the County Council, at its ses- sion this month would .take the mat- ter atter in hand, as being one, if not its chief, item of important business. International plowing matches are not run on air. It takes a good deal of money to finance them and there is no source of revenue more easily available than that of the county. It would not only be money well spent in the best interests of the county, but it, would prove a paying invest- ment. The county, it is true, would have to advance a substantial sum of money as a grant, but this grant would not exceed in amount the to- tal which has been and will be grant- ed the different Plowmen's Associa- tions in, the county over a term of years. It is an opportunity to put Huron on the ma • that we hope not only the county council, but the councils of the different municipalities, will be quick to take advantage of. • Christmas Cards Christmas is over of course, but no doubt there are still some pleasant memories of it lingering , about in the air, or, perhaps, more properly speaking, about the house. One of these pleasant memories is the Christmas cards. Or don't you, view it that way? No doubt you re- ceived a lot, and sent out a lot too. And those you received have all been read. The indifferent ones you have destroyed; the pretty ones are still being admired, perhaps, but the real good ones have been put carefully away so you can send them out again yourself next year if the first senderhas had brains enough not to write too much upon them. To you the practise of sending and receiving Christmas cards may be either looked upon as charming or tiresome, but any 'way you view the subject you must admit that the cus- tom is so universal to -day that you believe it must 'have come down through the ages. But it hasn't. Why your grand- fathers and your grandmothers nev- - er sent out Christmas cards or re- ceived them either. For the very good reason there were none to send or receive. In fact the custom is one of moderately recent date. It is really astonishing how man-, kind managed to get along without them for such a long time, but aston- ishing or not, it is nevertheless true that the Christmas card did not make its appearance until the mid- dle of the last century, and did not become a social custom until the late seventies and early eighties. The real old Christmas customs are the Yule' logs and mistletoe which go 'back to pagan times. And they must be very good old customs—par- ticularly the mistletoe—or they would have outlived themselves cen- turies ago. The singing of Christ- mas carols is old too. It goes back to the mediaeval church, but even that custom fell off for a time,' at least in Canada. They are back again .stronger than ever. But the Christmas card had to await the coming of penny postage in England, and the Christmas tree, it is said, came over in the baggage of Queen Victoria's husband, the Prince Consort, when he - came to England. In fact the Christmas card owes much to penny postage. Before its advent, letters and cards were not stamped by the sender. They were paid for on delivery. No doubt lots of us would like to have it that way now. But don't harbor the wish. Think how easy it would be for some one to send us a few hundred cards and letters—and let us pay the post- age. Even the Valentine Is much older than the Christmas card. But the Valentine habit is fading out. It has been pushed aside by the Christ- mas card, and the reason is easy to find. People, that is nice people, only sent one ;Valentine, so the • nsi tr Ir r_l,,15 011101" Y /3,, 1939 Yew Agone Phil Osifer of Lazy Meadows interesth*g Items Picked From 0 The Huron Expositor of Fifty' and Twenty-five Yearn Apo. • �I From The Huron Expositor January 16, 1914 Mr: J. B. Henry, of Orangeville, isl the new principal of the Dashwood school While walking across the floor at her home in Zurich a few days ago, Mrs. Martin; Worm slipped and broke a bone in .her leg. The first meeting of the newly -el- ected council of Hay Township for 1914, was held in the Town Hall in Zurich, on Monday, After organize, ton the following officers were 0,13 - pointed: Clerk, F. Hess, Sr.; treas- urer. T. Johnson; collector, 0. Sloop. Mr. S. Cann, of Usborne, had the middle fcnger of hits left hand badly gnashed while cutting wood- A rink of curlers composed of Messrs. George and Witham. Bethune, W. E. Kerslake and John Beattie; skip, were attending the bonspiel in Lindsay this week. The Lonidon Advertiser of a recent crate contained an excellent likeness of a Seaforth boy, in the- person of Mr.h,Ralph (Davy) Reid, of this town. It also bad the following to say con- cerning his .hockey career in London when they . defeated Brantford 9-1: "The fol ewang two goals went to Davy Reids "'who counted them both on clever shots within a minute. The ninth and iast goal was also credited to Davy on a pass from Gillies. Early in the contest Davy Reid received a gash over the eye and bad to retire for a few minutes." At a Meeting of Edelweiss Rebekah Lodge of Oddffeilows on Friday even- ing the office for' the ensuing year were duly installed by Mrs. Charles Layton and staff as follows: J.P.G., Mrs. C. Layton; N -G„ Mrs. Robert Smiths; V:G., Miss Cassie Everitt; R. S„ Miss L. '1wiss; F -S., Miss K. Kerr; treasurer, Mass L. Freeman; warden, Mrs. Ben Duffy; con., Miss Maud Dickson; R-S.N.G., Miss Emma Dick- son; Li;-N.G-, Miss M. Stewart; B.S. V.G., Mrs. T. G. Scott; L.S.V.G., Mrs. W. A. Crich; chaplain, Mrs. J. B. Thompson; I -G., Miss Mary Mode - land; o -G-, Miss W. McIntosh_ The concert given, by Harold Jar- vis and Miss Mary E. Lyon, of De- troit, in Cardno's -Opera Hall on Monday evemiing last, under the aus- pices of the Epworth League of the Methodist • Cbureh, was one of the fin- est musical and literary entertain- ments that the people of Seaforth have listened to for a long time. There was considerable excitement on Monday among the station staff in Wingham when a thead-on collision oc- curred between the London passen- ger train and a freight from Palmer- tston. The engine and baggage car of the London train were thrown from the track and badly damaged. ter !Serer 'RoirlN • e JANI ARV LULL This is the month of lulls in the activity of the i -s -z • Meadows-estab- lishrm,ent- The Missus is working on a quilt for the ladies to raffle off at ifa sea hawks were draining their the St Patrick's party. The ladies overflow onto my deck, rd be up and have been in several times for a. con- a to see about it Some of you sultatAoh and .some of these days fella" who spilled words around ttheyn are going to have a quilting bee, Our' fowl terror. Biddy, the little red hen, started• hatching yesterday when- the forst sign of a thaw came along. She bad a nest started under the steps in the stable and for the next few weeks there will be a regu- lar battle on. When the time doe come for law-abiding h to set she'll be tired' of it and pmbably will refuse. ' The smoke of municipal elections has all quieted down. We had a right l veely community seselon of arguing this year. It seems that a new drain has been called on the second conces- sones thmobbty seed, made a perfect shot into the Cuspidor beside the clerk's desk and spoke: 'Being a sea -going Landlubber, 1 don't, -know much about drainage, but here today in protest, would be the first to lay siege to High Heaven Sf'n somebody stepped on your own toes. I allus said, if you 'see five blokes apounding at one seaman, you can lay to it that there's something amiss between here and Sharig)nai, and it ain't always the one who's at fault. "Aa far as me going to bee coun- cillor, well there just don',t seem to be much probability. I , never was much of a politician. To me politics was always something like this: If you want to be a politician you stave to get money from the riot• man by eion from a farmer who is being sort promising to keep the poor man of drowned by water from his neigh- quiet. I box my compass on a dif bors' farms. The neighbors are up ferent course than that, and I'm net in arms because it's going to cost going to try easing off." them some money to drain, whereas Old Smokey ,hasn't much polish. the water previously was drained His language by times would make a from their farms without cost to Sunday school teacher shrivel, up in them, and at the expense of their mortal horror. His farm is net what neighbor. • you would) call a beauty spot.' His One of the wisest remarks that I've front lawn is a jumble of tin cans' heard so far froi&h any of the people who get nominated at nominations was Loin Old Smoky Salters. He's a rough -talking individual who runs a hundred acres over on the Tenth Concession. He is • a bachelor, and e ileo on the Lakes for a number of Seen ie CounPapers Thirteen Mentha in iron Luna Mfr. tuui Mas. Ernest Blake and three children, Phyllis, Howard and Keittn, spent a pleasant hour or more with Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Johnston. hast Friday. They were on their. ways to London to visit witir. vhe daughter, Muriel, who has been in an iron lung for the .past thirteen monttlh& Sola,, who was a sufferer from the dread disease of inutile paralyein of 1937, is all right and as active as ev- err-Exeter Ti Advocate. Business Transfer • and pickle bottles and the backyard a bramble of small trees which he drags up from the bush and saws up as be needs• for firewood. But Old Stookey' knows more about life and people than anyone in the county. He's wandered ail over the years. He's outspoken as they come, world, got a part of his leg shot off Someone in the audience nominated in the war and wuldn't think a whit him for councillor, and when his turn about going back if he was called. to speak came along he got up and There isn't a poor family in town shifting out of his old coat walked that Smokey doesn't help out from up to the platform. His overalls were time to time with a bag of potatoes torn where they weren't solidly rein- forced with a mixture of chap and milk, and his old black and red check- ered shirt looked to be pure greyish- black- He gave his cowlick a couple or.a side of •bacon. The more I thought about what Smokey said the better I liked it , , . "A politician is a, man who makes money from the rich man by pro•m- of swipes with his bend to brush out 'ising to keep tthe poor man quiet." ® JUST A SIMILE OR TWO "More than three hundred tons of sugar are wasted every year in the bottom of tea cups," says a statisti- cian. This announcement is expect- ed to cause a great stir in Aberdeen. • Orator: "Who has done most rouse the working classes?" Heckler: "The inventor of c -locks-" " Hubby: home-" Friends: "Yeah, but right supper 1 notice you wear an over them." From The Huron Expositor • January 18, 1890 Mr: 3:C.'Seager, ex -mayor of Gode rich, has been appointed Division Court Clerk in place of the late John S. McDougall. Hugill & Sutherland, of Kinburn, held a sale of cutters and sleighs on Wednesday and although the day was wet. there was a fair attendance. Thenoted schoolmaster, Mr. King, of Kinburn, is at ,his post again with a class of 70. Mr. William Sproat. of Tuckeremith bas sold his farm on the Kippen Road to Mr. H. M. Chesney for the sum of $7-F.E.O. Mr. John Thorp has also sold his farm on the 2nd concession to Mr. Tl•omas Carter, of the Huron Road„ for $3,700. A grind party Was held at the resi- dence of Mr. A. Fairbairn, Tucker - smith, near Hensall, on January 7th. Dee r g was engaged in during the. evertinc. M r. Samuel -Horton acted as "master of the bow." At a wood bee bell on the farm of Mr. W',son Aiimstror, Goshen Line, Stnnlc•v, on Wednesday, W. H. Steph- enswn and Sam Johnson cut a . log 1st/4 irthes in diameter inside the bark in 39 seconds- The same wore was • also done ie .the same time by Robert Nicholson and Wilson Arm- strong. Mr. John Rei•tii. of Blake, has 're- turned from the Old Country where he took over 1,100 barrels of apples. Mr. Lewis McDonald, of the saw- mill in Walton, has sold a hundred - acre w'bodlot in the Township of Grey to Mr. Querengueseer of McKillop, for the sunt of $7,000- Me rs. James and Thomas Ballan- tyne and Mr, Thomas Jones, of Wrox- eter, leave this week for Prince Al- bert, Northwest Territory. The following officers and direc- tors of the South Huron Agricultural Society were appointed at a meeting at Dixon's Hotel, Brucefield, on Wed- nesday last: President, Wm. Cooper; 1st vice-president, John Ketch -en, Stan- ley; gr,d vice-president., Leonard Hun- ter, Usborne: Directors, A. Thompson, Stanley; Roberts McAllister, Hay; Jno. Willis, Stanley; James Pickard, Exe- ter; Thomas Russell, Ushorne; Hugh McCartney, Tuckersmith; H. Bea- com; Goderieh Twee Dr. Coleman, Seaforth, and John Murdoch, Bruce- field- Mesers. G. E. Jackson, Egmond- ville, and William Charters, Heneall, were re-elected auditors'. Mr. John Hannah attended a very sueceseful and interesting meeting of the Ontario) Creamery Association held at Pietism last week. He was appointed vice-president of the assoc- iation: Mr. 'H. Puddiedmbe, of London, has been engaged as organist for the Tri - vitt Memorial Church in Exeter. , The following figmrte shows the amount of business done le the Sea - forth post office: $4,680.64. manufacturers of these trifles naturally preferred something . which could be sent to a hundred or so friends,to something that could only be sent- to one. Atilt so vire have t h e Christmas card. I+ 11 � `idY • to alarm "I wear the pants in my I 1, after apron • "Rufus, did you go to the lodge meeting Last night?" ':to, sub, we don had to pos'pone it." "How was that?" "De Grand Aid -Powerful Invincible Most Supreme Unconquerable Poten- tate dun got beat up by his wife." • Mr. H. T. Rowe, who for the past 24 years, has been in, business in Ex- eter, is retiring and has . disposed of this business to his sonain.law, Mr, W. C. Allison. During the ',past few yeere, Mr. Rowe has been handling Scranton coal and British Americans gasoline and oil products. Twenty - hen years ago Mr. Rowe entered a partnership to take over the produce 'business of Mr. W. 11. Levet..—Exe- ter Times, -Advocate. Two New !Members in Council M. J. Agnew and K. G. Waters will alt with four members of last year's council as they conduct the town's business this year. •. Although the vote was not heavy on Monday', it was representative, ami with the ex- ception of J. W. Nediger, all mem- bers of ,last year's body were re-elect- ed. Nediger was nosed out by the small margin of four votes cast in favor of K. G. Waters, a newcomer tri mindcipal affairs. M. J. Agnevv, who ranked eighth in last year's elece tion, dreaded the polls this year. D. Churchill who was ninllh lash year, moved up a place in this year's con- tese—Clinton News -Record, First Woman To Hold Office - A tourist from. Texas, speeding a- long a Kansas Highway, somewhere between 100 and 110 miles per hour, was stopped by a highway patrol- man. "Was I driving too fast?" askedthe Texan, apologetically. "Heck, no, you were flying too low," the patrolman retorted. • "So Sandy forgets his nationality when he takes you to diviner?" "Yes, then he goes Dutoh!" • "Just put that back where you took it from," as the young lady said to the daring young man who had stolen a kiss. • Californian: "Now in my State we can grow a tree that size in about a year. How lorlg did it take you to grow that one?" Floridian: "Can't say for sure but it wasn't there yesterday." • History of the Posto•f five • Stone age Agnes plucked a wilts rose, strolled musing to her cave, and offered a stone cupful of honey to a voracious younger brother if he would deliver the flower to her sweetheart. Arrivingat a distant cave, the boy banded the rose to the lover, who re- ceived it with the smile of masculine triumph. For since the morning of mankind, a rose has always been the symbol for "I love you." As centuries passed, men still clung to symbols as a means of sending messages to distant people. But they learned to draw the symbols on stone, wood, or bone, and later to {Taint them on hide, bark or leaves'. Thus evolved the ideograph: a series of symbols to represent actions, emo- tions, periods of time, states of being. All alphabets, it is believed, derive from various forms of the- ideograph. Although methods of writing were improved early, and by the sixth cen- tury, B.C., written communication was not unusual. delivery of letters bad to be made by individual messengers travelling on foot. But toward tthe end of the sixth century the Persians organized a postal system using re- lays of men on horseback to carry letters written on caly, stone and meta.. Within a few years, mules, comets and dromedaries were press- ed into - service, and mail delivery by tlti': method continued for many cen- tures thereafter. 11istorians record a similar, courier service in Babylon about 580 B.C. Bath this post and that of the Per- sians were for use of the government only. The passing decades saw minor im- provements, but not until the days of the Roman Empire was the official go'rernment postal service brought to a high point of perfection Letters written . on parchment or papyrus were delivered all over the large . em- pire by foot, pigeon, horse and strip. Private citizens, 'however, still Chad to depend on their own slaves or chance travellers for carrying main The Ro- man poistal system fell with. the Western Empire. Through the Dark:'Ages only one attempt—by Charlemagne—was made to:e .ploy couriers for public purpose, es. - During the Muddle Ages, govern- ment posts were established in var- ious countries, ,but, except in France, 'heir use for private communication was not permitted, Ina France, the mail was opened - W' the public in 1451. However, for most people maiI- i'nng costs+ were prohibitive. The century up to 1600 saw the in- trodu'btiau of the Hanseatic League, the Tenter:de Knights, and similar ag enleieet for the handling of privets and Vf fr. u5n :ilk, To Mr.. L. McKinnon, Huron Street, goes the distinction of being the first woman ever to hold a public office in the Lown of Clinton. Mrs. Mc- Kinnon received an acclamation to the Clinton Public School Board last week and her experience in educa- tional work will be of great benefit in the performance of the duties con- nected with that office. — Clinton News -Record. government mail. Service was avail- able to the public in almost every country of Europe. In England, for example, mail routes were laid out between the principal cities, and by 1637 many branch offices shad been established. France had introduced a form of registered mail in 1627, and 26 years later an intra -city mall ser- vice was set up in Paris. Boxes were erected at convenient locations, and even a form of postage stamp (a w rapper with a receipt printed on it) was used - A notable development of the pos- tal system occurred in 1680 when the penny post was started in London. So eager were people to send letters by this cheap mettrad that the London postal staff employed more persons than all the other post offices of the United Kingdom, together, Naturally, in was not long before the govern- ment took over this business. But the average progress of a let- ter at the end of the Seventeenth century was little better than, four miles an hour. As a result, special messengers on horses were finally authorized to meet the public's de- mand for greater speed -the fleet real special delivery. The Eighteenth century saw the in- troduction of the stage coach with a consequent acceleration of mail trans- mission'. When regular stage coach services were first established, the post office obstinately clung to its tradition of dispatching its mails by the post boys of the earlier period. As a result, the public defied the raw and sent their mail by coaches. In 1784 England adopted a regular coach service for mail. Other European countries followed suit the same year. The growing popularity of newspa- pers and books during the Eighteenth century gradually increased the liter- acy of the people and, consequently, their desire and ability to write. When the steamboat and railroad• came into use in the Nineteenth cen- tury, use of mail service was increas- ed greatly. While mail service was winning popular' endorsement in England and on the Continent, it also was talking strong root in America. The first -attempts to establish a postal sys- tem here took place In the Seven- teenth century. For several.- decades after the first settlers arrived, med- ieval methods were used. Some spe- cial, messengers were sent between villages car 'the same colony, but oth- erwise letters were entrusted tn' mer- chants and travellers. ;Mall bound for the mother country was given in' charge of sea captains. Governor Lovelace of New. York (O0nit1nn d on Page 6). Future M. P.'s Alvin Corless and Jack West have returned' from the 1938 session of Boys' Parliament which assembled, in Toronto. This is Jack's first oppor- tunity of representing the riding anti no doubt the electors will lend their support for coming sessions. Alvin, is serving es a member of the Cab- inet, being Minister of Finance for the present year, and has been elect- ed to take over duties as Leader of the Opposition for next year.—Clinton News -Record. Popular Bride Honored Although the weather was stormy and snow drifts piled high, all was warm and cosy within, as a goodly number of the members of the Angli- can ohoi•r and of the Presbyterian choir and congregation, met together in the Sumdtay School room of the Presbyterian Ohuroh on Saturday ev- ening to enjoy a social time together and to say- farewell to Miss Louie Herrington, and incidentally to the Old Year, 1938.—Blyth Standard. Mr. and Mrs. Collison III Friends will be sorry to learn that bath Mr. and Mrs. James Collinson are ill at their home, trying to ward off .pneumonia. We hope that Mr. and Mrs. Collinson, will both make complete recovery from this serious sickness which is all too prevalent this winter.—Blyth Standard, Honored Retiring Choir Leader On Friday night the members of St. Andrew's Church choir entertained Mr. F. J. Hill who has been choir leader for 18 years, "and who thas re- tired from this position. A sumptur ons banquet was servers in the Sun- day school room of the church in his honor. Mr. Hill was prated with a purse of money.—Wingham Ad- vance -limes, Attending Course at O.A.C. Mr. Clarence Golley and Mr. John Walters are attending a short course in the Ontario Agricultural College at Guelph,—Wingham Advance -Times_ Accepts Gall to Atwood Rev. J. R. Greig, Bluevale, has an- nounced to the congregation of Knox Presbyterian Church his acceptance of a call to Atwood Presbyterian Chum-h.—Weigh= Advance -Times. Purchase Fullerton Creamery • With the acquisition during the past week of the Fullerton Creamery, Stacey Eroa, proprietors of the Wil- low Grove Creamery, have further ex- tended' their businetsm activities in this csomnnunity. It will be recalled, that they purchased the Mitchell Creamery and Produce a short time ago. Business is being carried' on acs usual from the two newly -ac- quired! creameries, — 112itatbell Advo- cate. dvo- caat e. Plum Pudding Froth Devonshire Manny of us enjoyed plum pudding during the festive sensors, the hind one makes herself or boys, at the stores here, but Mrs. S. Nethercott and Airs. H. Greenwood had the prtir-- ikge of partaking of a real English plum prodding from the OM Land, the gift of Mrs. Nethereott's cousin, in Devonshire, Englandi- Needless to say, it oras an extra special treat, and likely the only one of its kind irr bawil this year,—Mitchell Advocate. • Instructor: "Yon say in, this paper that you ktiow the a nneeting mink be- tween the animal and vegetable king- done ingdons. What -sty Student: "Stew.' �.ur r : ly:y ,r� _, Al :...n• 5 Y�r