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gtaalished 1860
Phail McLean, Editor.
ed at Seaforth, Ontario, ev-
rsday afternoon by McLean
farmer and business man until short-
ly before his .death.
What a drama that man's life
must have been. His memory would
go back at least one hundred years.,
and what pictures of memory-h
must have had_
If that man had lived in this dis-
trict he would remember when Mc-
Kiliop and some of the other town-
ship of this county were virgin
bush; and when small clearings only
distinguished others from a similar
state. When there was no Seaforth
and no thought of it. When there
were no towns al4'few villages.
And he would- remember when
there were no railways, no telegraph,
no telephone, no radio; when 'the for-
tunate ones had oxen as a means of
transportation, and when the others
travelled on their feet and packed
their living supplies on their backs.
He would" have witnessed the cut-
ting down of the forests and the
slow and laborious clearing of the
land, acre by acre. He would remem-
ber when trails gave place to sur-
veyed roads; when oxen gave place_to
horses, and wagons gave place to
buggies as a means of transporta-
tion.
He would have seen post offices es-
tablished and mail coaches bring in
letters and papers at long intervals.
Then he would have witnessed the
coming of the railways, the tele-
' graph, the telephone, and finally the
rural mail; the automobile, the pav-
ed highways which followed it, the
airplane, and then the radio.
In fact, that man would have wit-
nessed •more„changes in life and the
mode of living than any other man
:n any other century of the world's
history.
We wonder what he thought of it
all. He was a business man too, and
until his hundredth birthday, a di-
rector of a large bank and trust com-
pany. We wonder if he preferred do-
ing business as it is done to -day, or
preferred the methods of fifty or one
hundred years ago.
The days when business was a
man's own kingdom, to do with as
he pleased. To pocket the profits or
pay for the losses without help or
hindrance from any outside interfer-_
ence. Or did that man prefer the
system that makes the man . just the
overseer and the Government the
dictator of the policy and the large
beneficiary in the distributing of the
profits?
No doubt that man would admit
that the world has progressed in
leaps and bounds during 'the past
fifty years, but we can .riot help but
wonder if he would' not gladly have
dispensed with some of that progress
if he could have been assured of some
of the independence, peace and trust
that surrounded him during the first
fifty years of his life:
ears Agone
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". SFAF'ORTH, Friday, March 7th
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Show A Little Courtesy
Seaforth, in company with a great
dumber of other towns, abandoned
the system of ploughing out the side-
walks this winter and substituted the
ploughing out the street with a
power plow instead.
'`!'here have been complaints from
the pedestrians of course. That is
quite natural, because there have al-
wayS been many more conservatives
in life than in politics. Change of
established customs is sure to be op-
posed no matter how beneficial it
nnay later prove.
On the whole, however, the new
system has proved a great advant-
age in that it provides car transpor-
tation on any street in the town
without fear of being stalled by deep
or soft snow. The car is ' the only
means of transportation we have to-
day, and consequently must be given
consideration;
That. does :not mean at all, howev-
er, that the pedestrian has no rights
on the street. He has. In fact he
shares an equal right to the street
with the car, the truck or ,.anything
else. That is something the car driv-
er should remember.
The streets are plenty wide enough
for both, providing the pedesti ian
keeps his place and the driver shows
a little common sense and courtesy.
The first of the week was soft with
rain, and, ' 'as :a consequence, the
streets, particularly Goderich Street,
on the Provincial Highway, were
covered with pools of water. Under -
those conditions, we are on the side
of the pedestrian, unless a large per-
tentage of the car drivers show a
great deal more consideration and
courtesy in their driving than they
did on Monday _last.
There is no reason why a pedes-
trian should be drenched with water
by a passing car. None whatever.
The speed limit on the streets of a
town , is twenty miles an hour. For
the careful driver that is fast en-
ough,. while the courteous driver
does not.at all mind slowingdown t'o
five or even coining to a stop, if it
will save some one walking along the
same street a ducking
During the first of the week, how-
ever, we noticed that both the care-
ful and the courteous drivers appear-
ed to be a sad -minority. For this
there should be a remedy. And
there is. A feww stiff fines scattered
among these reckless car . drivers
would go a long way in establishing
a rule of courtesy in street driving.
And they should be imposed now.
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Still The Best Seller
The latest Census Bureau book
publishing figures . show -that the
Bible continues unchallenged as
America's best seller, and that its
popularity is increasing.
In 1939 the census shows the an-
nual" output: of Bibles, Testaments,
and parts of the Bible published in
separate covers, to have been 7,927,-
868 volumes, compared with 5,579,317
published in 1937. .
The number of complete Bibles
published in 1939 was 2,348,069, while
Testaments published separately
numbered 1,268,614. In addition,
parts of the Bible numbered 3,361,-
234 volumes, while 969,931 Biblical
'voluines were not classified.
It is also shown that While the pro-
duction of Bibles, showed such-an-nn-
rn use increase, the publication of
fiction recorded -even a greater de -
Cline, 13,511,181 volumes fn 1939,
compared with 25,4 4,135 volumes in
1037.
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Hot Monep
American money is all right when
Americans bring it over here and
spend it.
And American money is all right
too, when Americans send . it over
here to pay for things they wish to
buy.
In fact, American money is 'the
prize money of the world to -day,
and Canadians would like to see the
color of it,often without any bar to
the amount of it. .
But American money is hot money.
Too hot for any Canadian to hold
more than twenty-four hours.
That is what a resident of Wind-
sor found out last week when he
came.up in court and was fined two
hundred and twenty-five dollars and
costs, or three months in jail for hav-
ing five hundred in American cur-
rency in his possession for more than
a day.
There are a good many Canadian
citizens who do not know how hot
American money has been made by
the -ruling -of the -Canadian Exchange
ppard. '
This ruling is that Canadians may
accent American money in payment
for anything to any amount. But
after receiving- it, they must within
twenty-four hours, turn it over to a
licensed dealer in American funds.
And licensed dealers are the banks
and post offices. ' Don't try to keep
an American .bill for a souvenir, or
try ° to hoard them for a trip across
,
the linea or for ah American.
pnr-
easeOr like this WYidfar man,
you will fid; it d+es,'t. pay.
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From The Huron Expositor
March 10, 1916
A very successful wood bee was
held on the farm of Mr. Wm. Kins-
man, C+fidselhurst, on Friday last. It
,was organized .. by the ladies of the
'Reel Cross and it netted the sum of
$19:00. towards the funds of that so-
ciety-
4on Thursday, Feb. 24th, a number
of the soldiers of the 161st Huron Bat-
talion from Hensall marched to the
home of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Dina -
dale in Stanley, where they were
treated to a grand oyster supper and
other refreshments.
The heavy sleet storm of Monday
night raised havoc with the McKillop
Municipal Telephone System on the
line running out. the North Road.
From the town limits to Mr. Robert
Grieve's, every pole was down, some
of them snapping off six feet from the
ground.
The prize winners at the second
carnival held in Seaforth were as
follows: Ladies' fancy costume, Miss
Bessie Hays; ladies' national cos-
tume, Miss L. Freeman; gents' char-
acter, Oliver Elliott; gents' comic, C.
Crich; boys' comic, Fred Jackson;
boys' character, Ken Ament; three-
quarter mile race, Frank Coates, Reg.
Kerslake; half -mile race, Edison
Wright, Emerson Wright; quarter -
mile, Vincent Patterson and Stan
NicholLs. The judges were Mrs. Jas.
F. Reid and Mr. L. T. DeLacey.
On Sunday afternoon last the mem-
bers of Fidelity Lodge, Independent
Order of Oddfellows, assembled in
the lodge rooms to pay a tribute • of
appreciation and recognition to Mr.
Charles Clark, who has enlisted, and
is now attending the military school
at London. H. R. Scott presented
him with a beautiful radium dial wrist
watch, while Dr. Harburn read an ad-
dress. .
Mr. John Cartwright and hisbro-
ther of Londesboro, who purchased
12 tons of hay from Mr. W. Brigham,
are busy drawing . it to ' Mr. Cart-
wright's barn.
Quite, a number of people gathered
at the home of Mr. J. Murray on. Mon-
day evening to give their best wishes
to his son, Joseph, on the eve of his
departure for the West.
Mr. John Beattie has sold his resi-
dence on Goderich St., at present oc-
cupied by Mr. Keith McLean, to Mr.
John MacTavish.
Mr., T. Harold Nixon, a former or-
ganist in First Presbyterian Church
here, has enlisted. at St. Thomlas.
Miss E. Sparks and Miss Levis
have resumed their duties en the mil-
linery staff of Stewart Bros.
Burns' Church, Hullett, and Londes-
boro Presbyterian congregation have
presented a call in favor of Rev. Mr.
Abrey, of Granton, promising 'a stip-
end of 81,000, 'free manse and four
weeks' holidays,
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From The Huron Expositor
March 6, 1891
One day last week while• slicing
turnips, Mr. George Addison, of Hul-
lett, was unfortunate enough to cut
.off his finger.
A fancy dress and racing carnival
was held at the skating here here' on
Friday night. The three-mile open
race was won by George Baldwin;
the snowshoe race by Wm. Kidd with
George Good, second; Miss . Campbell,
of Goderich, won the ladies' costume
Prize and Mr. Shosenburg, Seaforth,
-second: The spectators' prizes were
won by C. Kruse,. Egmondville, and
Mr. John 'Weir.
Mr. Ed. Hinchley has purchased the
feed and seed store from Mr. Hugh
Grieve. • -
Miss Janet Simpson, of Walton, Who
recently had the misfortune to break
her leg, is doing as well as can be
expected.
Mr. Thomas Robinson has sold his
farm on the Babylon Line, Stanley, to
Mr. Amos Keys for 13.500..
Mr. Amos Overholt and Mr. George
Goble, of Zurich, sawed, split and pie-
ed five and three-quarters cords of
maple wood in., the short space of 3
hours and 8 minutes.,
Mr. A. °E. Faust, of Zurich, left on
Wednesday last for Hamilton, where
he will attend business college.
On Monday afternoon a little daugh-
ter of Mr. Kenneth McLeod, Seaforth,
,aiet with a very serious accident She
was riding on a load of saw logs
when in front of the Methodist
Church she slipped end the hind bob
passed over her leg. On the sarin
day Mee Henry Allan, of Hariock, in
Hullett, was loading some cars at the
railway station in town when lie got
two of his fingers crushed so badly
that they had to be amputated.
A horse driven by Miss Hewitt of
Walton, shied on coming into Brus-
sels Monday morning and upset the
'cutter and. then ran away. The occu-
pants so unceremoniously ejected
were not hurt.
A large drain which runs from the
Woollen Mill down to the river near
Messrs. Hutton & Carr's mill, in the
town of Wingham, got stopped up on
Wednesday morning last week at the
cattle guard where it passes under
the railway tradk, which caused the
water to overflow about the mill. The
engine house floor was flooded with
several inches of water and Mr. John.
Tale's house wasp flooded.
Another attempt to burglarize
Messrs. MacA.rthur's & Company's
Bank- at Hen'sall was made on Tues-
day of last week. An entrance was
effe'hted by a rear window. They
failed to get anything of value.
' On Monday evening of last week a
goodly number of the ,pupils of School
No. 9, •'MoKillopf assembled at the
home of Mr. ihlsert Robertson for
the purpose of showing their respects
to Miss Maggie Drotherston, a. school-
mate, who Is Oboist to remove t'o' Man,
itoba.. Miss Maggie Davidson read ale
address and, Haile plllea 13artewe pres-
ented . her with . d ,pretty gold broach,
a handsome tfebOtde and a purse, ,
Dr birlfdt eyf Isrucof+eld, has bean
absent, nttending ,.:a funeral and Dr.
1► acTaltiah,;; cOoatii1ly+ -tared for his
Draotice :Dulls lid *no One.
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"He was at Army camp for a month—he's done this ever since!"
e Phil Osifer of
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Lazy. Meadows :.
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"TRAIN RIDE"•
For a lesson in endurance, you
should try riding in a day coach on a
_transcontinental train. On our way
last week to meet a friend in Sud-
bury, we had the experience of rid-
ing all night long on what the rail-
road was pleased to call its transcon-
tinental train. It was an experience
worth many dollars . . . although
in the actual process,. the experience
didn't seem to be compensation for
the aches and creaks that seemed to
develop with each lurch of the train.
Evidently in an effort to drum up
business for the sleepers, the train
officials placed us in a' coach that
would have made Noah's -Ark look
like a palace. Each seat was indi-
viduai, and no matter how much you
tried there was no chance of making
a double seat for yourself and so en-
joying some measure •of ,.comfort.
It appeared also -that the track had
been sprung into strange curves, for
which the lumbering old cae was not
prepared. When the remainder of
the train was swinging be one direc-
tion, this particular car, like the last
lamb in a band of sheep, wanted des-
perately hard to get off by itself.
• Purchasing a pillow for the 'night•
feem the porter,' we tried curling up
on a seat. Placing the pillow beside
the window, and gradually •easing
Clown into the seat, the unpleasant ex-
perience of having frigid cold ,blow-
ing down your. neck was discovered -
The windows were far from• being air-
tight in their frames. '
The next step was to turn complete-
ly 'around and try placing the pillow
next'to the aisle. Then with a hand
firmly grasping the back of the seat,
the feet were drawn up t ghtly and
the body was eased dowr1 into what
we fondly believed to be a comfortable
position. Everything was fine until
the train 1ur°rhed and in company
with about thirty other people a sud-
den descent was; made from the seats
to the 'floor.
Growing almost desperate, another
hour was spent in punching the pil-
low into various shapes and draping
the feet in' all possible positions.
Twice the feet slipped and came dan-
gerously close to going 'out the win-
dow. Disgusted, a trip was neede back
to the smoker for a smoke, and there
we discovered about twenty men
crowded into a small compartment
smoking everything from foul pipes
to hand -rolled stogies made out of
something resembling rotted burdock
leaves.
Back to the seat again. The train-
man padded in and -looked over the
tiny. tickets punched over each win-
dow and . roused a couple of parties
who were getting Of at a small sta-
tion. How we, envied them!' Soon
they would be able to climb into a
bed and sleep. Even the" prospect of
stretching out on a hard station wait-
ing -room bench seemed like heaven
compared to trying`. to sleep on a
space roughly estimated at being
3 feet by. 1.
An Air Force member slept with
bis mouth open, his feet draped up
ever the seat in front of him. His
buddy half slumped into the seat a -
bead had'to duck the feet each time
we went around a curve. A ,girl in
the seat across the aisle solved the
problem by piling all her baggage up
111 the space in front of her seat and
making slightly • more space on which
to stretch out. Up aheetlethere slept
a man in a red mackinaw, snoring
soundly and .rasping like acrosscut
saw on a spike every time We round-
ed. -a curve.
But came the dawax and- as the por-
ter went around gathering up hi spil-
lows, the genial trainman came in
and said, "Sudbury Junction, next
stop." As an afterthought he mumb-
led: "Sleep pretty. good?" There
was• no answer to that question -
only an assorted medley of groans
and moans as the party limbered up.
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Invasion Appears
1 (By Major James Ross, in Boston
T1'ripQSSlble Monitor)
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Tense but supple, Britain waits the
threatened unleashing of German in-
vasion. When, where, and how? 'Un-
til his main effort is disclosed, the at-
tacker has the advantage of initiative.
The defender dare not mass in force
to repel individual attacks lest he be
deceived; which in main effort, which
feint? On the other hand, ' when the
attacker has placed considerable
quantities of troops ashore, which he
must then reinforce and supplys to
gain his objective, the initiative pass-
es to the defender.
Britain's coast line of 2,350 miles,
varying from sandy beach < to rocky
cliffs, deeply' indented, with many es-
tuaries, offers a thousand potential
lending places. Her moorlands, Fen
country, and the Downe present num-
erous spots for emergency air land-
ings_ -_.Harbors and airdromes . are -
fortified. North of the old Roman
wall lies the one great transverse'
physical barrier in the land, the Scot-
tish 'boundary funning from Solway
Firth and Liddel Water over the
Cheviot Hills and aleng the Tw*'eed
River to the North Sea. Canalizing
the,;island into two compartments, it
offers for -the- defenders a natural last
ditch 'defense area, for the attackers
a strategic command of sufficient
troops cmbe 'gathered 'there. Who
knows if Solway Moor, Chevy* Chase;
and Flodden ,l:'ield may. not again
know' the fury Of fighting Ellen?
The cou'ntr3 is well; mapped andthe
Weeders will be 'thoroughly' faiiiiiiar
•i 'ith It, tinePit$ the alitniiiictioii bt di-.
reotional tittar!iti go, , ointlnito 1'a aeo;
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ial observation, which we know has
been going on, supplements this in-
formation. Doubtless for months past
German officer's have . been studying
large-scale ,maps, completein most
minute topographical., dej;ail. Thou-
sands of them know the country by
personal experience. -
Possession of every Continental
port from the North Cape to the
Pyrenees, and of every airdrome in
Norway, the Low Countries, Germany,
and occupied France, assures to
Germany a wealth of points of depar-
ture by sea and by air.
Assuming for the moment (which
this writer doubts) that Herr Hitler's
hordes have swept,,the ekies to obtain
air superiority, have dri'Ven Britain's
might from the seas, the tide of in-
vasion will sweep in. That le -'when
wind and weather permit. ` -
Sky -darkening squadrons of trans-
port planes, escorted by fighters, will
make for a half hundred landing plat-
es; thousands of beetle -boats, barges
and heavier vessels Will issue • along
the Channel, the North Sea, and the
Norwegian coast, to converge simul-
taneously on Britain. The •'efficient
aircraft Warning net of the defenders
will ann'ounee the drive, .:will not dis-
close the "where," Hitler's ,surprise
factor,
Road barriers, landing obstacles on
hying fields, tank traps, high-tension,
than
sand. defense schemes—
w'ires-<-a
will be ;!manned as t i:tish soldiers
and eIi iliarin answer the cid], in, a tee
bell; is'tis'tiIne with erne. ,.Lot' no oee'
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No Hollywood in Canada
Orillia, Ont., Feb. 2$, 1941..
The Editor, The Huron Expositor:
Dear Sir: I am not a subscriber to
your paper, but my wife's father, who
lives with us, is, and I •sometimes
glance over it.
In your issue of February 21,1941,
I notice an article about the moving
picture, industry in Canada., in which
you speak of the studio where Cana-
dian films are produc % as "Holly-
wood in Canada."
May God forbid thdt there shall ev-
er be a "Hollywood. in Canada," or
anything even approaching it! The
very name of Hollywood is syn-
onymous of everything that is devil-
ish, filthy, unclean, licentious, immor-
al and—well, words fail. Surely we
don't want an ilniquitous institution
of that sort in Canada.
Another thing to which many of
Canada's best citizens object is the•'
idea of our soldiers being "inspected"
by and "presenting arms'; to any ac-
tors or actresses from Hollywood, or
elsewhere.
Stil'1 another idea, to which I am .
sure many Christian citizens of, Can-
ada must take exception, is the using
of Hollywood,. or anyother actors and
actresses to give entertainments, or
assist in such entertainments, for the
purpose ,of raising war funds. True,.
large sums of money have been rais-
ed in that way, but I dont if it has
really' done us any good. We set
National Days of Prayer in which we
petition Almighty God to bless us in.
our fight for a righteous cause, and
then we send down to Hollywood'and
import these profligates 'to help us
raise funds for the tight.
There is an instances of a similar
nature told of in the Old Testament:
II Chronicles, 25th chapter: A•maziah;•.
a godly king, was • reigning in Judah.
The nation of Israel, *the north of
Judah, had forsaken God. Amaziah.
wanted to attack Edom, Judah's• en-
emies; but, fearing bis - army' was not
strong enough alone, he hired one•
hundred thousand men of Israel, and
paid them in advance one hundred tal-
ents of silver—about $194,000.00'--a.
large sum of money. "But there
came a man of God (a prophet) to
him, saying: "0 King, let not the.
army of Israel go with thee; for the,
Lord is not with Israel!—but if thou
wilt go, do it, be strong for the bat-
tle. God shall make thee fall before -
the enemy; for God"hath power to -
help, and to cast down." And Amaziah. -
said to the man of God: "But what
shall we do for the . hundred talents
which • I have given to..the army of
Israel?" And the man of God answer-
ed (and it seems to the writer the
followings words, spoken by the pro-
phet to Anraziah, apply in Canada's -
case now) : And the man of, God an-
swered, "The Lord is able to give
thee much more than this."
yours for victory,
P. E. DINGMAN
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Seen in the
CountyPapers
Family Gassed
What might have `been a fatal acci-
dent occurred at the home of Mr. and.
Mrs. G. H. urgin, of Kirkton, early
Sunday morning. Their youngest son,
Harold., awakenedand asked for wa-
ter. While his mother lifted him
from his cot he became unconscious,
overcome by -gas fumes. •°The doctor
was immediately called, .The oldest
boy, George, also fell to the floor, ov-
ercome by the fumes. With the as-
sistance of Mr. Gordon Burgin the
children were rushed to the porch for
freshair and artificial respiration was.
given. The -boys soon revived. Mr.
and Mrs. Burgin were not affected as
badly as the 'boys.—Exeter-Times Ad,
vocate.
Position At Arva
Mr. E. A. Howald, who for years
has been employed' at the Exeter
mill, resigned bis position last week
and has accepted a position with.
the Arva Milling Company, near Lon-
don. Mr. Howald has 'been promin-
ent in both the A.F. & A.M., and the
I.O.O.F. lodges and will be much miss,
ed in Exeter. He will spend the week
ends at his home here. — Exeter-.
Times -Advocate. -
Skating Party
The Ontario Street United 'Young
People's Union held a skating party
at the local arena on Monday evert-
ing in lieu of their regular worship
service. The young people met at
the church and. •eroceeded to, the arena
in a body, some, however, coming in
later. Instead of serving hot ,dogs
and coffee en their own the young
'people patronizetl the arena 'booth
which is in ,operation this winter.
They report saving had a splendid
time.—Clinton News -Record,
Nothing Saved As Home Burns
Driven from their hOnie When it
was engulfed in . flames at air ehrly
lora 'Thursday a te1'ni on O$ 1a14 week
111e. Arid ,11,11ira,1 V0v,i» 1lair1lis,' at the
4th obha�stlnill oft i1rbar,'t ~'X'o,ftirilip•
t reburied• toe Paige '8)
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