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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1941-07-25, Page 2• 0 THE MYR ux OBIT O R. 4q !JY 25, 1941: r.. U; 18.Q McLean, Editor. edt Seaforth, Ontario, ev- "sday afternoon by McLean E for Sixbscription rates, $1.50 a year in advance; foreign, $2.00 a year. Single copies, 4 cents each. Advertising rates on application. %SEAFORTH, Friday, July 25, 1941 Conserving The Gasoline Because Canada only produces ten million of the sixty-five million bar- rels of crude oil which she now con- sumes yearly, and because the other fifty-five million barrels have to be imported in tank cams and oil tank- ers which are at the present time most urgently needed to keep up Britain's war supplies, the people of Canada are being asked to cut down their consumption of gasoline for pleasure and other unnecessary pur- poses, to the minimum. The Government request is a rea- sonable one, and we believe Cana- dians on the whole will view it in that light, and comply with it. The first restriction Canada has ever ex- perienced in the use of gasoline is a mild one, and only prohibits the sale between the hours of, seven p.m and seven a.m. on week days and all day • Sunday. In fact it can scarcely be called a restriction becausethere is no limit set as to the amount that may be purchased during the hours of sale, and which may be used in prohibited hours. For thatreason it can be looked upon more as a measure of inconvenience than one of prohibi- tion. At the same time the Government has very clearly intimated that if Canadians do not feel disposed to practise a little self sacrifice in the use of gasoline, the next step will be to ration the amount each car driver may.. obtain per Week or per month. And • that will be quite some- thing else. As we say, however, we believe Canadians will readily understand the urgent need of saving gasoline for war purposes and readily co-op- erate with the government to bring about the desired end. As Cana- dians, however, have always . been free to purchase as much gasoline as they could pay or receive credit for, the saving instinct will have to be cultivated •a great deal more zealous- ly in thea future than it has been in the past. Old usages of the car, which have become habits, will haye ` to be drop- ped and that, perhap, will not be easy for many people. Take, for in- stance, the matter of Sunday plea- sure driving. Thousands of people in Ontario and no • doubt in other Provinces, particularly in the sum- mer months, have formed the habit of taking a motor trip on Sunday. and thousands of miles are travelled and thousands of gallons of gasoline 4.-4,re consumed on these pleasure trips. It may be, and generally, is, a very harmless pastime, but the point is,. these pleasure jaunts are, almost wholly, uncalled for, and if dispens- ed with, would conserve almost en- ough gasoline to meet the shortage in supplies. Then there 'is the matter of every day driving. We, in Ontario, do not walk; we drive, even if the business we have in hand is only half•fa block away. That is anotherhabit that will:: have, tobe curbed. It will be in- convenient of course, but on the whole the benefit to . health, caused by going back again to the lost` art Ad walking, will far outweigh the in- onvenience. At least that is a good way to look at it, because if we do not, the pow- ers-that-be ow- ers-that be are going to do it for Sas, and that would cause much more un- pleasantness than doing it for our- selves. We might, in fact, find our - Selves on foot for the duration. The 'inconvenience new restriclicfns will cause Safe and, -in some e aneial loss to •some. as 'sta- ..nes.;,,, �•. °tots _' :.v ;paiularly xn the eta vwr ere+ Snn4ayy e *ee+ �y is x t d y, n Vtiivi 1a• 11 overhead, and express the belief that shortening .the hours will not reduce the sales, but will only confine them to reasonable business hours. There is a possibility that placing. restructions on the hours of sale' of gasoline may affect the tourist trade, a very important matter from the financial point of view. But ev- en there, there should be no cause for alarm. Canadian tourists will know the rules and govern themselves ac- cordingly, but with American tour- ists the situation may be different. It would, however, be a very easy matter to supply every American tourist entering Canada with print- ed cards giving the hours of sale and the price of gasoline. That would be a service that every tourist would appreciate and soon become as familiar with as we are ourselves. As for ourselves, we might just as well make up our minds right 'now that we are not going to win this war without some personal sacrifice 'and as all that we have been asked to do so far is go easy on the gaso- line—let us do it! • In Case Of Invasion Neither the people of Canada, nor the world' at large, hold the slightest fear that the people of Britain will not be able to "take it" in this war. In fact, the 'whole world knows that the people of Britain have tak- en it; are taking it, and will continue to take' it, and marvels at the simple matter-of-fact way in which these pimple do it, and at the many differ- eYit' ways they have of expressing, if not contempt Of the enemy, at least an titter lack of fear of that enemy and all his works. Here is one sent over by the As- sociated Press last week: The pro- prietor of a 'store in an Essex town at the mouth of the Thames River, has a sign on his window saying: "This shop is open. "In case of invasion it will be dos- ed for half an hour." No Waste Of Wordl Diplomatic agreements between countries. are apt to be, and general- ly are, so profuse in words as to hide their meaning, but in the recent agreement between Britain and Rus- sia there is no waste of words, and yet the meaning . of the ` compact stands out like the sun on a cloudless summer day. Here are two paragraphs: 1—The two Governments mutual- ly undertake to render each other assistance and support of all kinds and in all times in the present war against Hitlerite .Germany. 2—They further undertake that `during this war they will neither negotiate, ' nor conclude an armistice or treaty of peace except by mutual agreement. • Where It Is Dry Before the recent rains, and even yet, long and bitter complaints have been heard in these parts about the lack of water and what that lack was doing to crops and stock. In truth, it ' wasn't very pleasant, but in spite of all our complaints we never yet have suffered from thirst, or any approach to it. But other places in the Empire have, and among them is Bermuda. Now Bermuda, to most of us, is a place where the lucky rich go in the winter to have a good time, and where thirst is entirely excluded. This year, however, it see s to be different. Bermuda derives its 'drink- ing water almost entirely from roof top and hillside run-off supplies. But for months there has • been no rain and water supplies are almost ex- hausted, and the people are suffer- ing from thirst, although surround- ed by water. To quench this thirst the S. S. American Seaman arrived in Ber- muda this .week from Moorhead, North Carolina and on board it had three thousand tons of drinking wa- ter, and :'While there the,boat will dis- till another three thousand tons. of - drhrikir water with its sea water conversion plantand then return to the States for stil more w"ate . Nice -plate, Berititida, but a itttte too dry for usrp.r, Ye A► one Ieat}4pt;ildi Mama Picked From The Huron Expositor of Fifty and Twenty-five Years Ago. From The Huron Expositor 'July 28, 1916 Mr. James Smillie, of the London Road, near Hensali, has soil his en- tire colt, "King's Own," to Vanstone & Rogers, of North Battleford, for $400.00. Miss Florence Welsh, of Hensall, has successfully passed both examina- tions in second' grade Conservatory of Music, under her teadher, Miss Foss. A special train from Camp Borden arrived here on Saturday last, bring- ing a large number of the Huron. Bat- talion, who intend working at the harvest for a few weeks. The following from the Seaforth Collegiate Institute were successful. at the recent Departmental Examine tions: Garnet Chapman, Margaret Cuthill, Florence Deem, Helen Dick- son, Mary Edmunds, Ella Elder, Hes- ter Godkin, Jean R. Hays, Leona Hol- land, Beta Kerslake, Agnes Murphy, Mae McClinchee, William F. Nigh, Marjorie Nolan, G. G. Ross, Marian Scarlett, Gladys Shillinglaw, Dorothy Wilton, Bessie Argo and Marion Sil- lery. Those who were granted their certificates by going to the farm to work are: • John Argo, Willie Bell, Douglas Beattie, Earl Chesney, How- ard Kerr, Reginald Reid, Clifford Trott, David Wilson, Earl Webste.•, Gordon Waghorn, Ivan Hill, Murray Smillie, Thomas Gillesfpie and Cecil Johnson. J. Aidirner Troyer was granted his lower school certificate under the r6gulation for enlistment. Miss Ida Hogg, daughter of Mr. and Mrs: W. S. Hogg,' of McKillop, who captured' the country scholarship at the recent Entrance examinations, is a student of excellent promise. A distressing accident befel Mrs. Herman Bucholz at the 'home of her son-in-law, Mr. E. Leath.erlan1, in Tuckersmith, on Sunday morning last. Mr. Leatherland 'had gone downstairs to get some water and Mrs. Leather - land also rose and stepped into the wrong doorway, falling to the floor below and fracturing her hip. The brick work has been started on William Ruby's new house in Zur- ich. • The following pupils of Miss Hazel Winter, Seaforth, were successful in thein music examinations: Nina Wool- crmbe, Goderieb; Ruby Bristow, Beth Barton, Carl Aberhart, Gray Parker, Lunn Docherty and Gladys Cousens. Mr. S. H. Kauffman, of Winnipeg; Miss Kauffman, of Washington, and 'Miss Mary Tweddie, of Fergus. were guests at the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Wilson. The following Brucefield pupils of Miss Anna Bell Foster, of Varna, have sucoessfelly passed the London, England, College of Music examina- tions: Senior piano, Mary T. M. Wal- ker and Miss Elizabeth A. Scott. Messrs. Alvin Surerus and Alvin Geiger, of Hayfield, have left for To- ronto, where they intend enlisting in the signalling corps. • From The Huron Expositor July 24, 1891 Below is a list of those who pass- ed et the recent Entrance examina- tions in Seaforth and vicinity: Agnes Crosby, L. Davis, M. Douglas, M. •Fowler. M, Gillespie, J-, Grieve, B. Gemmell, L. Ireland, M. Kemp, N. Keating, E. Morley, T. McDougall, Maud McLean,. N. McMillan, .-M. Mc- Michael, M. Ross, A. Sullivan, Flos- sie Weir. Three hundred and twenty boxes of cheese have been sold by Walton and Winthrop factories to Mr., Hodson, The.price received was 8 11/16 cents per pound. The cheese was shipped from Brussels station last week. On Tuesday evening last Mr. Sam- ueI Wallace, of Tuckersmith, met with a very se,ious accident. He had come to town in the afternoon with a young horse hitched in tihe 'buggy. When he was leading the animal out of Mr - Bride's stable, it was• frightened and started to run. He hung an until the horse threw him down and trampled on him, breaking his eight arm in two places. The Egmondville church had a nar- row escape from destruction on Tues., day morning last. During the thun- derstorm around 7 o'clock, lightning struck the tower, the fluid getting in- side and cauding considerable demor- alization. Rev. Mr. Needham was the minister at that time. Rev. Mr. Graham, / of Egmondville, accompanied by Mrs. and Miss' Gra- ham, left on Monday last for a trip down the St. Lawrence. Mr. Jas. Somerville, of Roxboro, re- turned home •from a trip to the Old Country on llhureday night. He was accompan by his aunt, Miss Gor- maeh, 'from Perth, Scotland. Mr. 4eorge Turnbull, of McKillop, returned home from the Old Country last week. Mr. Wm, Kerslake, of the Loth con- cession of Hibbert, commenced cut- ting fall wheat on Saturday last. On Friday evening last an associa- tion of the Patrons of Industry was organized at Hantiah's• schoolhouse to be called "Flower of Tuckersmith." The following are the officers: Presi- dent, Robert Ohartere; vice-president, James McIntosh; r secretary, 'oha Campbell; treasurer, John Walker; Minerva, Bella Hannah; Demeter, R. Charters; Guide, George Sproat; Sen, tinel, J. McAdam, R. Common, presi- dent of "Beehive' Association," I pre- , sided at the meeting. Mr. J. H. Broadfoot recently shin - ped two carloads; flf doors, door and • window frames, and other building material, to Manitoba. . Mr. W. Morties; of the Seaforth ,Greenhouse, has half an sere Of splen., did celery, which Is novo ready for use. The Seaforth Hose, Conipamy go to Brockville next 'Tues yr,.to take ,part in a lireideh's tour Mont In that town.. • Mrs. Sager o ' 'i�tton , ltag':sin . in eattige o 1lYl[Y ,.. C i11C1>171h1X81ts grorl*tr fit her _ . epi `lois *fetus. ton. xd ne d'u'" d 'fait *US and eight .•Sall k tluarter-inches the othet Mayr . "Alt the motorman saidwas—'see you later, boys—in the army'!" • Lazy . Meadows .• GBy Harry J- 8oyl.) Phil Os f er of • BERRY PICKING We were cutting wheat in the back field . . , that's the one next to the bvsh lot. Our third hired man of the season had taken the patriotic urge, and he was off trying to per- suade the recruiting officer that his fiat feet would not tire under the pressure of marching. Mrs. Phil was helping me w,itah the wheat, hamper- ed by Patricia Ann, who was finding the freedom of the field too great and so the Wheat -cutting was not progressing as rapidly as it should. The team lagged and stop- ped in the shade of the bush. Every- thing was quiet with that summer sil- ence, so filled with murmuring nois- es that you hear in the country. The river roared and gushed a little as it pattered ,over the stony rapids , , bees zoomed across on their way . to a new source of nectar . . , crows cawed monotonously •as they were disturbed' down the river . . , and from the cool shade it seemed al- most as if the shimmering heat waves out on the wheat field made a noise as they danced. We had been sitting ther saying nothing. I was lolling on the seat of the binder with the honey -pail o/ wa- ter in my hands . - . Mrs. Phil was looking over the rail fence into the bush`§:°- . and Patricia Ann was try- ing rying to play peek with Suchansuch, oar boisterous pup. "Phil," exclaim- ed Mrs. Phil, in that tone of voice she uses when she has: made a real find, "the 'berries 'are ripe!" Yes, the berries were ripe. The esheat was. forgotten - , everything in fact was forgotten except the berries. I grtim-r bled at having to leave the wheat, but actually I was pleased at the pro- spect of berries for supper. Berries . , and berry picking! It's a miglitY important time to 'every country wo- man. Breakfast is served very early in berry picking time .. , dinner,,_eon- sists of sandwiches and pie and the tea pot is left ready for the hot wa- ter, . . . while the lady of the house is away picking berries . . . and you can depend on it that berries will be served for dessert at supper. 1 5 Grandad' wasalways a great hand for berries. It was his proud record that he could pick more berries than anyone on the concession, and] for that matter he herd' the township re- cord. In fact, Grandmother used to complain that when he was cutting grain in the fields hidden from the house by that ridge of land through the centre of the farm, he used to spend half his time over in the berry patch. You could always depend on it ,that the pail he used to take water back -in the morning would be filled with berries by noon. In the same way he would fill the pail he used for water during the afternoon. It was always a great privilege to go Picking berries. with Granddad. He insisted that we get an ealy start and take our dinners. How well I can recall being lured by small patch- es of berries along the way, but Granddad wouldn't stop. He knew where he' was going for berries and he wasn't interested in any patch that pickers from all parts of the'township knew about. Finally we would ford creeks, crawl along logs over marshy spots and penetrate thick tree growth until we finally arrived at a 'spot where, as .Granddad used to say, "the big berries grow?' As a boy it was always fun picking that first honey - pailful and eating as many ad you picked. The novelty would wear off and finally you would start sitting Sown and picking what you could reach. Weariness . - and the full- ness of your stomach with the fresh, ripe berries would begin to creep ov- ei you and with only a sprinkling of berries on the bottom' of the second pail `you would find a shady tree and with a halfhearted gesture of warn- ing to the mosquitoes drift off to sleep: • * * * The afternoon sun would be start- ing the dewn.ward trek towards the -horizon when Granddad woke you up, and, wonder of wonders, both your honey -pails would be filled' with ber- ries. How good a lunch tasted then . • , washed down with cold, spark- ling water' from a bubbling brook. The berries would be heaping up in the ,pails and you bated the thoughts or starting home:. . , and Granddad would. lean back 'with his head on a log ,and with his . pipe well filled and lit he would tell yarns about the days when they first settled ,in the township. He was always a great story teller, and when he talked about twisting lumberjacks, on a great raft of logs going through a section of frothing rapids you could picture the scene quite vividly. The long way home; Somehow Granddad always knew 'when to sit down and relight his pipe. Ile did it just when Your legs seemed worn out. OiitTo;y the roadway, there was always the chance of a ride and many times, a bouncing wagon seemed like the height of comfort, How the legs and arms used to ache after a berry pick- ing session - and hard it was :to find a spot on the sheets where they would be comfortable. Just the same, however, when Granddad went pick- ing next time you Were always rehdy. Learning How to FlyA Plane Without t out Leaving The Ground • • • Fifth of a series of articles on the Royal Canadian Air Force, written specially for' the Weekly Papers of 'Ontario. By HUGH TEMPLiN During the .last war, it was the. pleasatlt custom to give a pilot some fifty .hours or so in the air, and then sent him to the front, ready to fight, This Is a different kid of 'war (as has been .pointed out by thousands of other writers already) atfil;..Planes are va9tiy different, The period of train- ing now :takes et blast six months and nothing is left to chance, There is no actual; flying at the Initial Trainin. School at Toronto. The buildings are Situated .ice the. nay, with no room for a flying field qr •hang&rs; abaft the fhttnre Tii]hte gat their Mir lds'eoftn illi the ' ttitoer, a plane With . miniature 'w'ing, firmly atucboredf to the mroua,it., K".; I saw the Link trainers wherever went to the various training schools. Even the most exlperieneed 'fliers go back to them occasionally to check up any faults which may have de- veloped or to learn more about flying at night or by instruments, Learning To Fly On the Ground The Link Trainer, in its simpler forms, looks like a email training plane, but with the body and wings, shortened, so that .it ._takes up lese space th,4n a full-size plane. The coca,- pit and ontrois are of normal, si. e The "stick," which regulates th ele- vators and the movable portion of the wings, and the .pedals to op rate the tail, are like those in: a O either small plane. The inetrtifil _ur board; has the .five lnetrtltrtdht needed. St; ,ordin � ar1'' -- �. Acorn. pass, pass, eltittkle teeter, engin speed( In- dicator and no on. Out ttaai front le a (continued ,Oal Pale $) Presented With Clock On Tuesday evening of bast week about thirty friends of Mott Jack Herd met at the home of Mr. `John P. Me- Kibbon, and at the conclusion of an evening's entertainment Mr. Harold Wild read an address and Mr, Wilbur Tiffin presented him with a clock,. Mt•. Herd left last week for Ohatham• where he has secured, a ,position with Boyes, & Linnear, a gents' furnishing store.—Wingham; Advance -Times. Former Bandmaster Moves to Town Mr. George E. Wright, of Chesley, moved to town last week. Mr. Wright was a former bandmaster in Wing - ham, leaving here about twenty years ago.—Wingham Advance -Times. Deer Is Strangled Deputy Game Warden Ross Orvia was called to the Lucknow district last week' to dispose of a deer. The auirnal had become caught in a wire fence where it strangled itself. The deer which 'was about two years old. war faunal on the farm of James Ly- ons, in, a badly mangled condition. The carcass was buried—Wing/lam Advance -Times. InJured While Picking Berries While picking berries on Monday Mrs. N. W. Trewartha had the mis- fortune to step into a groundhog hole •obscured by shrubbery, and fractured the heel bone of her right foot and strained the ankle muscles. The ae- nident, which occurred on their sum- mer farm on the Maitland concession at Holmesville, was quite painful and she had to be taken to the Clintor: hospital for treatment. — Clinton News -Record, Given Parting Gift The congregation of St. Paul's An- glican Church presented Rev. 'A. H. O'Neil and Mrs. O'Neil with a beauti- ful clock, featuring Westminster chimes, last Thursday evening. Af- ter the regular intercession services all present gathered in the school room where the presentation took place- Mr. John. Hartley gave an in- troductory address and the presenta- tion was made by Mr. Wines Johnson: while the address was read by Mrs. L. M. McKinnon. Mr, a.nd Mrs. O'Neil moved to London where Mr. O'Neil has been appointed principal of Huron College. Last Sunday Mr. O'Neil, preached his farewell sermon. He prefaced his address with a few remarks concerning the happy assooc- iation he and Mrs-, O'Neil had had du,iug their stay in Clinton. — Clin- ton News -Record. Dr. C. E. Toll Taking Artily Post General regret is expressed at the departure from town of Dr. C. E. Toll, who has signed up as a dentist in I3ie Majesty's forces.. Dr. Toll has been in London this week and expects to leave 'for No. 3 District very shortly. Just where be will be stationed is not yet definitely knowtn, but it will prob•ably be in the Kingston( district. Dr, Toll has practised ,dentistry hs Blyth for the past 14 years, also op- erating offices in Monkton and Dun- gannon. Prior to that time he taught . school in this district. Mrs. Toll and baby will remain here until Dr. Toll is definitely stationed,—Blyth Stand- ard. - Property Change Rev. C. W. Down, of Sparta has purchased the residence of Mr. E. M. Quanc'e, North St. Mr.'Dbwtti will get possession in June next year. Mr. Quante has time • to make nis future plans and expects to either buy or build;—Exeter Times -Advocate. Underwent Operation Mrs, N. J, Dore underwent an oper- ation in Victoria Hospital, London, and her many friends will be pieaaed to know that she is •getting along -fine. Mrs. Willard, on Sunday last, presili- ed at the organ for the union servic- es in James St. and Main St.. church- es in the absence of Mrs. Dore,—Ex.- Iter Times -Advocate. Nine Boys Attend Camp At Goderich Nine boys from Exeter are attend- ing Camp Hiawatha, Huron( County camp for boys situated three miles not tb of God'erich. The director of the camp is Rev. Harold Snell and the administrator is Rev. Gordon Haz- elwood. The lads attending camp are Den Brintnell, Don (cavies, Dawpon 3oulding, Neil Johnston, Ross Knight, Don Southcott, George Teuton, ROY Willard, all from Exeter, and Bill Moise, of, Blenheim.- .Exeter Times- Advoeete, Arm Fractured Mr. T. Albert Mitchell, of Centralia, is camryfing .his heft arm in a sling. On Friday last, while attemptfing to' close the barn door's( a gust of wind caught one of the doors and knocked Mr. Mitchell to the ground with the result that a bone in the arm was fractured.--Eyteter Times-&dvocate. Miss Tom Leaves 1 Beloved Peking Back from a five-year stay in Peking, China, wheite She has spent twenty yes and td-Othitilit piece she is wont to refer as her "beloved ' gad*, eitt," Cee. i bei.Tern is in aeerteh fain the isaidlittonedeonthe visiting with het aged •atepinotber. (floiltinlled lest l'og'e 0)•• 4 e e