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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1940-07-12, Page 5• 'JULY 12, 1940r - Mx..' James Scott. has purchased a !third' of pan acre of land frown Mr. William Houghton, of Ci'ornart)' ands intends. erecting : a now house this Yammer. HAY The regular monthly meeting'' of the council of the Township of Hay %vas held in the Town Hall, Zurich, fon Monday 'eveniiig, July 8th, with all members present. Minutes . of the June meeting were adopted: as read. !After disposing of the communica- tions the following resolutiens were passed: That accounte` covering pay- ' mrents of Township Roads, Hay Tele- phone, Relief and General. Accounts be passed as per vouchers'. Township Roads—Economical •Fire l[nsurance Co., liability insurance, 0105.400; F. C. Kallbfleasich,, lumber, etc., $33,79; M. G. Deitz, time, gaso- line,• oil, repairs $77.03; M. G. Deitz, lexara labor, 531.23; Roffers Supply Co., road'signs, $24.77; H. Steinbach, Road Supt., ,$34.65; Pay List Not! 4, $64.73. • ,! Hay Telephone—E. R. Guenther, cartage, 50c; H. G. Hess, 1 month's talary, $175.00; T. H. Hoffman, 1 month's salary, $191.66; Northern El- ectric Co,., material, $175.56; A. F. Hess, quarterly salary, $87.50; post- age, excise, cartage, $18,07. Relief Accounts—L. Hen.drick rent, $5,00, . ' General Accounts — Witness fees, ,county court, $23.70; Dr. J. A. Addi- aton, M.O.H„ expenses to oonvention, $18.00; postage, excise, etc., $11.18; Municipal World, collector's roll, etc, $10.44; A. F. Hess, quarterly .salary, $20.00; Treasurer of Huron, hospital- ization, $25.80. The council adjourned! to meet again on Monday evening, August 12, at 1.30 o'clock p.m. MANLEY i The weather man is making up for May ands June and a lot of good hay has been saved for •those who waited. while the early cut.was badly damag- 'ed- This. week many will, have • fin- ished, the crop having been above` the average. • Mr. ,Fred Zeigler, a former resident of this place, who has, been sojourn-` ing in our burg since spring, is now engaged with Mr. Mike McLaughlin near Dublin. Mr. Fred Eekart, who has been ' rushing the work on his 'farm, took advantage ,of the fine weather by run- ning three mowers during the • fine weather and made short work of sav- ing the hay crop. CONSTANCE Mrs. Lea, Stephenson and sons;' n Mrs. Logan, Donald and Billie and Donna 1 off BIM., spent a few days $rnendsi at Guelph. Mr. and Mrs. Larne Lawson, Mrs. J. Busby and daughter, Shirley, and Mrs. Jack Davidsbn and Andrew,, (,f •Brvicefi•eld, were. in London on Tues- day an picnicked. at Springbank: Mr. Salford, of Stratford •and Mr. Frank \re dden, of Clinton, visited Mr: Harry Fitzsimons on Thursday of last week. FREE SERVICE OLD, DISABLED OR DEAD HORSES OR. CATTLE :temoved promptly and efficiently. Simply phone "COLLECT" to 'WILLIAM STONE SONS LIMITED ;PHONE 21 INGERSOLL PHONE 219 - MITCHELL JULY 11 - 13 TOMATOES, 26 oz. 2 Tins 25c... APPLE SAUCE, 15 oz, 2 Tins -KETA SALMON 'I ,ns OGILVIE FLAKES 2 Pkgs. 19c MUFFETS\--2 Pkgs. 19c 19c 14c, AYLMER Irish Stew 15 ounces 2 Tins 29c Lynn Valley SweetPickles 27 Ounces 20c CANNI'NG NEEDS RUBBER JAR RINGS 12c 2' Dozen G HEAVY ZINC JAR RINGS c 1 Dozen 2'3 X77 JAR GLASS TOPS 1 Dozen 23c — Crown Fruit ,Jars — SmaI1 Dozen... ��C Medium ,Op Q1 Dozen.. v PITTED DATES 2 lbs. s L L9 ■ -/c RAISINS 2�C 2 lbs. 37 ECONOMY SOAP FLAKES 5(i 3 lbs. 2 L LUX TOILET SOAP 17c 3 Cakes CAMAY TOILET SOAP `, 3 Cakes 1 BEAUTY BATH SOAP' 5c Per •Cake AEROXON FLY COILS 5 for 1Oc NEW Colored Cheese 19c Dick's Casio. Grocery PHONE 91 ,, PROMPT DELIVERY mo, i ,,,,Mrs. James Medd:. went to Toronto • on Friday and is visiting her brotihlers, Messrs. Anthony and Fred Lawson,• of Toronto. • The ladies of Constance United Church were entertained by the lad- ies of Turner'.s• Church on Wednesday afternoon. Miss E. Lavin, -of Clinton, and her sister, Mrs. Percy Town, of Toronto, visited with Mrs. Fitzsimons on Tuesday,, Mrs. J: James is visiting at the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. Ferguson. Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Ferguson, of Toronto, and Mrs. J. Ferguson, Clin- ton, visited at the !borne of Mr. and Mrs. J. Ferguson on Tuesday. The compulsion of fate is bitter. Most powerful is he who has him- self in his power,—Seneca. Rent is the fitting of self to its sphere.—Jlohn Dwight. Rashness is the fruitful but un- happy. parent of miefortune. Regrets over the, past sihiould chas- ten the future. d We cannot do evil to others "with- out doing it to ourselves. Difficulties are the parents of all progress. ONE CENT a word (minimum 25c) is all that it costs you for a classified ad. in The Huron Expositor. An Ad. that each week will reach and be react by more than 2,000 families. If you want to buy or sell anything, there is no chewer or more effective way than using an Exposi- tor classified ad. Phone 41, Seaforth. The Huron Expositor • (BY Jo 0banLberli4 aai1 cOntlleiwsed I from `1> Riwanis Magazine 4n Read- er's Digest.,) Early one morning in; May, 1896;1 glad ands .rested, '"struggled and rest- ed. The pace wasthat of the weak- est You could not hurry. Neither could you •'resit except when others" did, without losing `your place in line, friends; Skdokuzn Jim and Tagiah Arctic winds and rains wihipped Charley. Broke again after eleven through thin tenderfoot clothes, chill- years' seeking gold, he would have to ing and killing. do what he had •dione' before in suck straits ---catch ,salmon to dry and sell. Heflipped his last silver dollar to decide whether be should, set this .nets up the Yukon River or downstream,. The coin fell tails and Carmack went downstream to a tributary, the Klondike,. The salmon were few and Carmack, dis:gos!ted, decided to try prospecting again. Bob Henderson, a miner, suggested he try a certain valley and let him know what luck. On August 17, the party stopped be- side Rabbit Creek. While Carmack dozed, Skookum Jim, to pass the time filled his •pant with gravel and wash- ed it out. As the muddy water clear- ed, Jim's eyes popped wide. In the coarse gravel, pinhead nodules, black and heavy. Gold! and- plenty of it! Skookum Jim•yelled; Ca.rmack and Charley came rurtning. They 'panned. other spots: They had struck it rich! The excited men staked out claims and hurried off to record them. Henderson was forgotten. Carmack blew into the saloon at Forty Mile, drank and babbled of his luck. When his listeners were skeptical, he thrust a fistful of gold under their noses. They stampeded. Sourdoughs struck out for the new diggings without waiting to get proper clothes or equipment. Drunken men were thrown into boats . and hauled along by their friends. • , Claims were stak- ed out far above and below Car - /neck's.. Within: a few weeks, the. Yukon was afire with excitement. For a year, the outside world had no inkling of the news. June 16th, 1897, a steamer from Alaska docked at San Francisco. Down the gang- plank clumped bearded men in worn and dirty `clothes. But they stagger- ed under burdens of gold, stuffed in old coffee pots, jam jars, paper bun- dles and mose'hide pokes—$750,000 Worth, Next day another ship brought miners with $800,000 to Seat- tle. Newspapers screamed the story of the .richest strike in !history; un- told wealth in the Klondike, millions still to be had. 'Times were hard in '97, jobs few. A hundred thousand people started for the . strike. The farmer left his plow, the bankrupt fled -his creditors, the factory hand laid down his tools. Alaskan steamers were jammed with college :professors bankers, lawyers, doctors, gamblers, "con' men and loose women. Warmedto wait till the following spring lest they arrive too late to prepare for the deadly paidheed'. 1 seekers no h d 'winter, the gold g The Klondike River is in Canada, just east of our Alaskan border. The, favored route was by steamer to Skagway, or paves in southernmost Alaska, on foot over the Chilkoot mountain pass into Canada; by scow through a series of lakes and streams to the Yukon and down it 500 miles to the gold fields. Chilkoot Pass, 3600 feet high, ,of- ten hidden in fog or blizzard, was hard work even for toughened In- dians; to office -bred gold rushers it became 'a, trail of terror. It was lin- ed with the sick and beaten — also with thieves and sharks, • male and female. It was treacherous. At Sheep Camp, just below timber line, seventy men were buried alive in one April avalanche. ' Each man's equipment ran • from 800 to 1.500 pounds, so that he had to .toil up the steps hewn in the ice of the steep, bouldef'strewn canyon trail again a 1d again. Unless he hir- ed Indians ti) help, it usually tdok a man four weeks to get his goods to the top.. The long string of toiling men, thousands of them, looked from be- low like, ants at work. _They strug- "Siwash" George Carmack' sat gloom- ily in front of a trading post in the flat Canadian Northwest with his In- dian squaw,, Yate, and two Indian Tested Recipes • JAM MAKING SPECIALS The following recipes have been prepared by the Home Economist of the Consumer Service, Marketing Ser- vice, Dominion Departmentartment of Agri- culture, ri- culture, with the view of helping the women who are' making jam for ov- erseas as part of their Red Cross activities. Strawberry Jam 10 pounds !hu'lled strawberries. 12 porindls sugar. Use firm, ripe •strawberries. Hull and. wtash. Weigh the fruit and sug- ar. Place the fruit in a glazed crock, enamelled pan or chinira, dish and cov- er with the sugar. Let stand over- night. Boil gently to 221 degrees F. or to 10 pounds. Raspberry Jam 5 pounds cleaned raspberries 61/2 pounds sugar,, Use firm, ripe raspberries and wash if 'necessary. Weigh the fruit 'and sugar. Mix *ell'and -boil to -221 de- grees F. or to 10 pounds. Raspberry and Red Currant Jam , 9 pounds fruit• 13 piotinds sugar. Use equal amounts or raspberries and stemmed red currants. Mix the fruit, water and sugar and boil, to. 221 degrees' F. or to 20 pounds. Plum Jam 4% pounds pluans 61/2..pounds sugar. Use Burbank, Lombard, Green Gage or Damson plums. Remove stems and 'Wash well. Mash with' potato 'masher to extract juice. Sim- mer the fruit in covered pan ten min- utes. Add the sugar and boil to 221 dlegr-ices F. or to 9 pounds. At the end of the boil some or all of the pits may be removed, by skimming. , Gooseberry Jam 4% pounds snibbed •gooseberries 6y2,, pounds sugar pound water (2"cups), Wash and! sndb (top and tail) the gooseberries. Simmer ten minutes. Add the sugar and boil to 221 de- grees F. or to 10 pounds!. Black -Currant Jam 9 pounds atemm'ed currants 13 pounds sugar ' 1 quart water (4 cope). Stem and wash the fruit thorough- ly. Simmer with the water 15 min- -There was confusion, squalor, death. Men quarreled with their partners, dividing their goods bitter- ly—even to sawing boards in half. Money was'wtorth Less than resource- fulness and courage. Sharing a , few 'beams, lending a .blanket, or a pipeful of tobaccol—these things made men brothers. To conquer Chilkoot was something to be proud of—but it was not the end of the ordeal. Down .on the other side of the 'pass, men felled trees and sawed them into planks for crude scows—several weeks" work. They pushed the scows on log rollers from lake to lake, eventually reaohing the swift -running, terrifying upper • Yu- kon. In Miles Canyon, a narrow chute of racing water between high rock walls many were drowned,• "More died • amid the flying mane of spray in White Horse Rapids. ,Rude cross- es, tin cans, blazed, trees marked the graves of broken bodies and broken hopes. Of those who started only one in four got, through to Dawson City. Sixteen weeks on the trail was accounted pretty good time. There never was a boom town like Dawson. Where once had been the lone @'hack of trader Joe Ladue, a town of ak000 sprang up in two years. •IS ows -and flatboats packed the waterfronts; tents, log cabins and shanties lined muddy streets throng- ed with howling Malemute dogs and bearded men. Saloons and dance halls ran 24 hours a day. It was wild, mad, wide open. Fresh food was unobtainable and many a newcomer's teeth fell, out from winter scurvy,. Milk from the one cow was $30 'a gallon. Butter was $3 a pound Flour went up to as high as $120 for a 50 -pound seek. Eggs were $1, each, if you could.. get them, -A restaurant featured oyster stew, at $18 when it had the oys- ters. A meal of bread, bacon and beans was $5 to $10. Doughnuts' and coffee cost $1.25; .a piece of pie, 75 Cents. Life centered in the saloons. Con- spicuous on the bar were seales for Weighing gold dust. One porter gath- ered. enough gold from spittoons and. floor sawdust to buy a good mining claim. What gold, roulette and faro in the back room didn't get, the dance -hall _girls' did.' Champagne cost $60; the bottles were refilled with soda water and sugar and sold to drunks who wouldn't know tbe difference. The• girls, modrah1 y go wned danced with. sourdoughs in moccasins or heavy boots at $1 for three minutes, to the "professor's" banging on the piano. As most of the miner's hadn't -.bath- ed in months and couldn't really danee, • the girls earned their. -money. Tex Rickard ran one joint. Chief competitor was.; "Swiftwater Bill" Gates, who had struck it rich on Claim No. 13. Swiftwater, a former dishwasher, strutted Dawson. in, • a Prince Albert, a stiff hat and lots of diamonds. He offered a girl her weight in gold, to marry him. She took the $30,0001 --but didn't marry him. To win this same girl who was fond of eggs but not 'of hirer, Swift- water cornered the egg supply at a cost of $2300. He talked of import- ing 200 schoolmarms from Boston to be offered to lonely miners as wives at $5,000 each. In the . fall ' of '98 a crowd actually waited at the dock when the .prospective wives were supposed to arrive on the Yukon steamer "May West!" Two English- men arrived in Dawson with expen- sive bicycles, though there was' no place to ride Another Britisher ar- rived flat broke, but sold his supply of marmalade for enough to stake him six months, ' A restaurant pro- prietor announced that "a perfectly preserved mastodon had been" found in the Arctic ice." He would serve mastodon steaks at $10 each. He really served beef. It was a town joke. As more wives came in, a demand for • reform arose. Eventually 'the better el•em.ent won and the redlight district was moved to the city limits ---Ya. few blocks away.. Names now familiar. dotted the ros- ter at Dawson City. Young Key Pitt- man from Nevada was there and, Rob- ert W. Service; a clerk in the Cana- dian Bank of Commerce who wrote verse, Jack .Bolt, just out of short trousers, was looking for any honest job. Rex Beach lived in a cabin be- low Dawson, prospecting and cutting wood for river steamers. A fellow named Jack London came too late to make his fortune and spent a win- ter arguing socialism!. eerie Sales Books tiles. Add the sugar 'and boil" to 21 degrees F. or to 1 pounds: • • • Peach Jam 9 pounds pitted peaches 13 poundts sugar. 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See _Your Home Printer First THE HURON EXPOSITOR Seaforth,- Ontario Spending the night in an Amaril- lo, Texas, hotel, a young woman tour- ist who,, it wk's learned later, had two eastern, college degrees, engaged the desk clerk in conversation, "What ,have you that is of unusual interest in your city?" she asked. "Well," he replied, "we have the only helium plant in the world, for one thing." Really," she remarked, interest- edly, "and is it in bloom now?" • The Negro preacher's term had! ex- pired and the was anxious to stay on. "Brethren,"" he said, "the time has come fo' youall to elect a pastah fo' anolthah yeah. Alta those favorin' me will please say 'Aye.'" He' waited a moment. and then he said; "Silence gives consent. I'se yo' pastah fo' anothah year." • Mrs, Flynn had been to the talking pictures for the first time. "How did you like it, Nell?" asked her- friend. All right enbugh, but to tell you the truth, I'd rather have been at one 'Of the old u'ns'peakable ones." STYLIS PORCHrom$8E, Cool VolieB, crisp r: Printed 1004. ,Cloths, Rayon Spans and• .,Atnerienn- Batisttes, . make:. tip . this wonderful group. Polka Dot and Floral Pt - tern. Sizes 14 to" 52. $1.95 SALE SHEER DRESSES • Come in Rose, New Blue and'.Navy;''ri, Floral Printed and dots on both light and dark grounds.' All are complete with _Slip. Values to $6.95. Sizes 14 to 48. TO. ¢LEAR • $4.95 GREAT Clearing Sale SUMMER MILLINERY All our New Straws in the pop- ular WJhite(g In this season's,,,_ best . shapes; also smart Blacks, Navys and Browns. All go at this one big discount. 33 1-3% off Millinery STEWART BROS. To Clear Special table of assorted Hats in all colors shapes. andshe 95C Values to $2:95 SEAFORTH r finds on the beach at Cape Nome, 800 Miles west, drew thousands, away from Dawson. Almost as swiftly as it had grown, it collapsed to a town of 2,000. What became, of the Klondike'sour- doughs. Siwash George Carmack, who for 15 years had fought blizzards and gone hungry without being illfibs a 'single day, died of pneumonia in a Vancouver hospital, Bob Henderson, whose tip to Cannock started it all, never struck. It rich: He Was given a government job, died poor. Swift- water Bill Gates „had matrimonial troubles 'and, dodging the law for years, Was killed not so long ago in a miners' camp lin Peru. Another rnan who also gave a girl her weight in gold to marry hi'rn is. a section hand today, his loyal wife still with him. Some who never really panned gold did best. Rex Beach• made a fortune wit4s "The Spoilers" and other novels. .Robert W. Service lives in France, prosperous from such ballads ea "Tits Shooting oY Dan `McGrew." Jame London bad to work his way back. tb San Francisco, broke, and suffer- ing from 'scurvy, but he brought back. a .priceless pokeful of literary mater- ial Tore,, Klondike gold rush had per- manent effects. It gave decisive im- petus to Vancouver, Portland and Seattle. It led to' tbe opening of Al- aska. Many defeated prospectors, caught by the spell of the north, stay- ed on, to fish, trap, trade. "Seward';s Folly" began to pay rich dividends in other things as well as golds, The great stampede was more than greed , and folly; it was a great . ad- venture of the human .spirit: Some claims sold for fabulous sums, but proved to be no good. Oth- ers that yielded fortunes went for a drink of whisky, or a live , pig. Gold worth $400,000 was taken from one claim 90 by 300 feet. A "forgotten fraction" 13 feet wide yielded $20,- 000. There were claims where gold ran $1,000 to the pan. At best, it wasn't all profit. It took a lot of labor at $15 a day to cut wood for fires to thaw the thick layer of froz- en muck above the gravel that might or might not yield gold. Any claim vacant 60 days was op- en for new filing., A Mountie would be on hand at midnight to see that new claimants staked it out proper- ly. Then it would go to the man who got' to a recorder first. Two dog - team drivers led the field in a race from abandoned claim No. 40. Both tumbled inside the recorder's office and fell on the floor, unable to gasp a word. The 'recorder, Solomon -like, divided the •claim between them. It proved worthless. 13iy September, '98, '17,000 claims had been recorded and precious few yielded fortunes, Disheartened Man took jobs shovelling of cutting wood" Latecomers hung around Dawson for a while, then sold their goods and started home. The high prices eel - lapsed. In 1899, news of rich gold Dead and Disabled Animals REMOVED PROMPTLY PHONE COLLECT: SEAFORTH 15 - EXETER 235 DARLING AND CO. OF CANADA, LTD. Regarding Car Parking TOWN OF SEAFORTH Victoria Park will be lighted and available for parking on Saturday nights for the balance of the. Summer. Shoppers and visitors are welcome to use these parking facilities and avoid congestion on Main Street. Police will supervise as far as possible, but motorists are requested to lock their cars, as, the municipality will not be responsible for any missing articles. PROPERTY COMMITTEE F. S. Sills, Chairman. li 5S