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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1941-12-12, Page 2uronExpositor Established 1860 Keith McPhail McLean, Editor. Published at Seaforth, Ontario, ev- ery Thursday afternoon by McLean Bros, Advertising rates on application. Subscription rates, $1.50 a year in advance; foreign, $2.00 a year. Single copies, 4 cents each. SEAFORTH, Friday, December 12 It Can Be Done A few weeks,- ago The Expositor received an anonymous Letter from an out-of-town writer, which con- tained a one hundred dollar bill and a few remarks on an editorial ap- pearing in this paper on "Accommo- dation For Farmers.". The money en- closed to be used to that end, if the local Chamber of Commerce would act and bring to a successful conclu- sion the problems mentioned in the editorial. These problems were the provid: ing of suitable stable accommodation for farmers' horses during the win- ter months, and providing and fur- nishing a suitably located rest room for farmers' wives and children when they came into Seaforth to do - their shopping. In his anonymous letter, the writer who described himself as a Seaforth Old Boy, made the following pertin- ent and timely reference to the sit-, nation in Seaforth: - "It is as plain as the noseon one'S Dace that the existence of the small town is the patronage it receives from the farm trade, and everything should be done to attract and keep that trade in its own territory. "Look what your Lions Club has- done to the -old "Quarry." If the same push was -behind the problems 'at hand, the farmers in your locality would soon be "all out" for Seaforth. "The "smaller towns have been -.pushed around for a long time by the larger places, and it is about time the small ' towns were doing , some pushing around themselves." No truer words were ever written, and Se forth is one of the smaller towns_f t believes° in their truth. , Through he Chamber of Commerce .. committees were formed to invest; gate ° the possibilities of securing both stabling and rest roam accom- modation. • _ The committee on the stabling ac= colnmodation has not yet been able to secure such accommodation, nor get a suitable central: location on - which to build stabling, but the mat- ter is still under advisement,' and we believe this committee will yet suc- ceed. It can be , done.• _ The committee on the, rest room was more successful, or lucky. Through the generosity. of a large oil company, ,a new, commodious and modern building,' centrally located, and containing every facility except urniture and furnishings, was plac- \ed at the free disposal of the Cham- er of Commerce for a rest room. In addition, 'the town councirand the municipal councilsof Tucker - smith and McKillop, have all agreed to make provision for its upkeep, and the Women's Institute has agreed to furnish the room, and for this pur- pose will have available all or part of the anonymous Old Boy's dona- tion of one hundred dollars. Under these circumstances, Seaforth should have the most up-to-date and com- fortably furnished rest room in Western' Ontario. That also, can be done. ' Another instance 'of what a little, well -organized push can do is illus- trated by the organization of a boys' and girls' band in Seaforth, also un- der the wing of the Chamber of Commerce. The committee in charge of this work has already -collected eno'+ugh: money to' purchase instru- ments for twenty-five boys and girls, anidthe band is a going organization which has for its aim a band of thirty-five or forty members. All of which proves, and we would shy, proves conclusively, that if a %t s ]l'as'h will collect five hundred doll ars froth-. the Main Street of Sea- foii d a hundred and , ore, in Nin still interesttoper dor ao. s 'b d • r1s ]hits more of that, sant Ji THE IllUitON E "QS:ITOR.. • P; DECEfW31 R 1.2, 1941 kind of gush would make Seaforth so outstanding in accommodation, facilities and comfort, that it could not help but attract the farm trade, upon which it .depends in large mea- sure for its existence, to such a de- gree that the people of the surround- ing country for many 'miles in every direction would indeed be "all out" for it. It can be done—if we want to do it. • Whp Not? In the House of Representatives in Washington a few days ago, a member made a very worth While suggestion, in these words: "There are in this country 90,000 statues and memorials to men, on horseback, soldiers, sailors, politi- cians and occasions. Some of these are very terrible. Here are nearly one million tons of metal. Why not use some of it for national defence?" Why not? And that goes for Can- ada too, although the result here, of course, would run far short of a mil- lion tons. But we add another ques- tion along the same line. Why not use all the bill boards in Canada for national defence purposes? The wood would save coal, and we have heard more than a little about a coal shortage this winter. In fact, we might almost be able to get along without coal, and we certainly could get along without the -billboards that clutter up' the coun- tryside and spoil the scenery. • After Next Week We must confess that we are not much of a radio fan — football, hockey and prize fights excepted. In fact, one of our nightly duties —and pleasures—is shutting the thing off. While' so engaged, 'recently we heard one announcer close his broad- cast in these words: "And so, ladies and gentlemen, until next- week at this time, this is 'John Doe." - Of course that was not his real name, blit ever since we have been wondering who that 'broadcaster thinks he will be—after—next week at this time. • ' .Reallp ! Last week during a session, of the British Association 'for the Advance- ment of Science, held in the historic lecture hall of the Royal Institution, London, the large audience was ex- pectantly awaiting the next speaker, a man of great scholarship and orig- inal thought. And the audience did not await in vain, for when the learned man got up before the microphone, this is what it heard: , 'The present state. of affairs shows that there is soine- thing wrong, with the world." • Really! That was a great discov- ery for science to make. • Slow .Pap Mr. L. R. Williams, of Adrian, Michigan, is a very patient man. It seems that forty-two years ago the Federal United States Government granted him a four' hundred dollar travelling allowance for ' being, a me 'ber of the 13th Minnesota In - fa try that served- in the.Spanish- Ame 'can. War, and later went to, the Philippines during the insurrec- tion in those Islands. Last week Mr. Williams got his cheque from the Government. But after all, perhaps, foul° hundred dol- lars would mean much more to an old dog 'io-day than it would have meant to a boy ,sioldie forty-two years ago. Governments, at best, re slow, slow p,ay. Any farmer wh applies for -a rebate on his gas tax will tell you that much. • And, so etimes more. • Stupid Taxation • . (Aivinston Fiee Press) Why not -tent the man who lets Ms property go to wreck, rather than the man who keeps his property in good condition? As it is at present, the man who employs tbe painter and the car- penter to make his place more atiiractive and who thtis improves the appearance of the vdhole neighborhood is penalized by paying taxation, while h le the man' who allows ;his property to be- come an eyesore, and thus decrease the , value of his neighbor's property, 1 sen dura ged in his neg- lect n -lect by feduieed taxation. It is hoped some day tie people will wake up and demand a radical change in the as'eeaaixt6ttt law. Years : .gone Interesting Items Picked -From The Huron Expositor of Fifty and Twenty-fve Years Ago. . From The Huron Expositor December 22, 1916 In a letter (rem Fred Taylor, for- mer Seaforth boy, he mentions the names of Arthur Neely, Riley B, Brown, Ruffles, Porterfield, Troyer, Dilling, Robert Smith, George Steph- enson, the two Westcotts and George Eaton, as having left for Shorncliffe, -where they are to be in came. Mr. James Dorrance, of McKillop, has shown us an interesting souvenir in the form of a German soldier's ;helmet. Mr. John L. Brown of McKillop, has disposed of his farm nn the 5th con- cession to Mr, Samuel Storey, who gets immediate possession. Mr. r. W. Beattie, the local butcher, has this year one et the. finest dis- plays of Christmas beef, hogs and poultry which has ever been, seen in Seaforth. Among the beef were two ,heifers raised by Mr.. Robt. Devereaux. of Tuckersmith, which weighed 2,2411 pounds and for. which Mr. Beattie paid 91/2c a lb.; a heifer and steer fed b'y Broadfoot Bros., of Tuckersrnittf: and a heifer raised by Finlay McKsr•- cher of McKillop. Mr. lVVtiine R. Rennie's, Hensall, slaughter sale of boots and shoes and ready-made clothing during the past ,week, made quite a stir, large crowds corning in for bargains, and gave em- ployment to a large number of the vil- lage girls in the sales line. Messrs. Moses' Erb, of the Bronson Line, and C. Sohrag, of Stanley, have had Iitter carrier outfits installed m their barns. Mr. Robert McGonigle, of Tucker - smith, held an auction sale ,on Wed- nesday last and rt broke all former records of the season. The following is a list of some of the 'prices paid for cattle: Mr. John Hay, one cow, $132; Henry Labeau, 2 cows, $215; George Strong, one cow, $100; W. J. Dev- ereaux, pair 2 -year-old steers, $205; John Devereaux, pair .2 -year-old steers $200; Albert Fortune, heifer, $70. The total sale amounted to $4,000, and Mr. Thomas Brown wielded the hammer. The bazaar, given by the.,, ladies of St. Patrick's Church, Dublin, was a grand success; .both socially and fin- ancially. A bride's doll, donated by Mrs, E. Murphy, was, won by Leo Ev- ans, of McKillop; a doll donated by Mrs. May, went to Miss Stella Horan, of Beechwood, and a football was. won by Joseph McGrath of the village. While returning from making a call at Hensall on Thursday evening, ,Dr. B. A, Campbell -it cl a narrow es- cape front serious injury when' an auto driven by Mr. Lawson, of Exe- ter, caused his horse •to jump into the ditch .and collide with a telephone pole. The seat and.,,top were torn off the rig and, the horse ran away. Fo tunately the doctor was wearing a heavy fur coat which broke th sev- erity of the imgact. From The Huron Expositor December 11, 1891 , The steam barge "Africa," from Georgian Bay, bound for Tonawanda, lumber -laden with Consort. Severn in tow, had a rough time on Lake Hur- on on Friday night last. The Severn broke away,wheu abqut 12 miles from Goderich. .-The crew succeeded in get- ting anchorage and she is anchored about eight -mires from shore. The Africa reached Goderich Saturday mo.tning •and both vessels got off oa Saturday afternoon. • Mr. Neil Gillespie, of Cromarty, is spending a few well-earned holidays in Bruce County. Mr. James Hallen, of the 11th con- cession, McKillop, has recently made a couple of important purchases in the pig line. He has purchased from Mr. Johnson, of Ohio, a very hand- some 6 -months -old China pig, and from Mr. Anderson, Tyneside, near Hamil- ton,' a sow of the same breed. On Tuesday evening, Dec. 1st, a meeting was held in the S.S. No. 14, Hay, better known as Thompson's schoolhouse, for the purpose of • con- siderin'g the advisability of organiz- ing a farmers' club, Dr. Buchanan occupied the chair and after some dis- cussion on tbe subject the following off!--were--elected: President, B, P illips; vice -Pres., D. Buchanan; sec- r• .tary, Wm. a Thompson; doorkeeper, r. J. Leith. While Mr. Robert Jarrott, of Hills. green, was watering his horses at Mr. Reid's on Friday, they escaped to the road and after a diligent search they were found at Mr. McDermid's; 2nd concession, Stanley. Mr. Alexander McDonald, an old- time resident of Seaforth, is a candi- date for the mayoralty of Winnipeg, with a good chance of election. On Tuesday forenoon last Mr. Geo. Murray's. team having evidently come to the conclusion that it was a. long tithe between meals, Left their driver and started for the stable 'at top speed. They ,were captured before serious damage was done. Mr, and Mrs, Robert Grieve, of Shel- don, N.D., are at present visiting rel- atives and friends in this vicinity. It is eight years since they left for Da- kota and like the place very much. Mr. James 'Cumming, ,tax collector for Tuc1tersmith, took in over $1,200 one da last week while on a visit In Seaforth. He also took in over $600 at Hensall on Saturdy. It looks as if there was corn in Egypt yet. Mrs. Hoggarth, Cromarty, had a bee hauling stone for her house on Wed- nesday afternoon last. Miss Annie Jarrott, of Kippen, left on Monday for Manitoba on a visit, to her sister, Mrs. Wm. Sherrltt. She intends staying six months or a year. Mr. Donald Smith, of .the 2fid con-• cession of9Stanley, met with a runa- way ' accident while in Brucefield on Wednesday last. His. horse got loose in the shed, backed out' and ran away, smashing the cutter, but for- tunately nb one waa hurt. The Patrons of Inndustry, of Crom- arty, intends having debates and dis- cussions during 'the winter months. The first occntred On Tuesday even• ing on the stock feeding question, "Resolved that stall feeding Is more profitable thaii ;grass feeding." The captains on .this oeoasfo ,, ~were Jatiieg Scott and Peter ajarbail "This ;idea of saving electricity is swell with me . . . ! • • Phil Osifer o •• Lazy Meadows (tsy Harry J. Boyle) iimommais "ELECTIONS". Having elections for the , council held early i ur• township may be a convenience. ertainly it is handier to go to an el etion poll on a fine -day than it en the snow is blowing waist -d ep en all the concessions and sideroads. Yet, I am not in favor of early e ection•s. I prefer the stormy odes. ' `Election day used to be- an occ sion to look' forward to. Our e ec- tions were always held on a Monday, and Sunday while we toasted our stockinged feet beside the ofd glov- ing, parlor stove . . . the thought of the coming election was an incen- tive for argument. • Neighbor Higgius used to come plowing through the snow on that first Sunday in January . full of fight! The tax rate . . . the drain on the east sideroad . . . the way Jim• Clud- ,dy pushed through that by-law about dogs worrying sheep after his flog: had been riddled . , . the township clerk's expense account when he went to a convention in Toronto . . aad so on. When the argument was ,'ly- ing down all they bad to do was look up the financial statement. The flames of argument- would flare again. About five o'clock Neighbor Higgins would start talking about •going home, He would ponderously knock the ash- es out of his pipe arid get up from the chair. You could plainly see that with each movement of .his4,,eety. )re was racking his brain for so ex- cuse to stay- and argue a little longer. The repairs to the township hall ! Father would rise to the bait and the argument would start all over agai::, Mother would get up from the easy chair in the corner where she'was iit- tii g and go to the kitchen. When the sounds of the kitchen fire being:stir- red started to come back to the'par- ler, Higgins would start talking loud- er as if to cover up the culinary nota - es. The argument .would wax hotter and hotter until finally mother would announce that slipper was -• ready. With a great show of starting for home . . . our argumentative neigh- bor would finally be persuaded to stay for the- evening meal. The dis- cussion on municipal politics was con- tinued right through until the dessert was finished and the chairs pushed • ax► out from the table.' Finally ft• would be closed as we started to chore . . and Neighbor Higgins went home. Mother Nature seemed to always manage to muster up - a blustering snowstorm for election day. The drifts would be slanted from fence to fence . . . a smooth, white barrier. Early in' the morning the candidate trout our concession would have his team out plowing the .road. I-Iow. careful he was on election day not to plug up the laneway of any or his friends! It was said that he carried a broom `nn Olaf day and he world stop and sweep out the laneways. - Our voting place was at the town- ship hall: The women of the town- ship didn't spend , much time in poli- tics in those days.. The township hall 'vas usually so filled with smoke of strong, smelly pipes that one of the fair ,,lex would have a hard job ;.o survive in the blanket of smoke fog. Many of the older men will recall the scene in a toting place on elec- tion day. A box stove was kept at a red hot heat all day long. The poll officials usually smoked like demon~. The thought of a whole day's pay sil- ting at tables influenced the most •-,f them to buy several cigars and it was considered more 01" Less of a duty with them to smoke the whole lot. The candidate's workers were kept busy all day hauling in the older men to vote. We often • wondered how many of the -candidates w-hb were drawn to .the polling places , . ever voted for the candidates who brouget them in. Distant cousins of the would- be councillors would totter in to the .polling booth. The hour of tension came When the ballots were being counted. Men With snowy fur coats would sit around on the seats at the back of the 'hall and listen to the droning of the voic- es as the votes were tabulated. So matly for so and so . . . and so many for this man . . . and finally they were counted. The hours of quiet was broken. The clerk would tele- phone to the other polling places and the election results figured up within a space of about two hours , and then we faced the trip back home to the teeth of a January gale, 'it was fun, however ... and 'Served to break the monotony of a long winter. • London in the Blackout Amazingly Black, Q,u.et This is the fourth of a series of articles about conditions in 'Great Brit'ld.in and other countries vis- ited by a group of Canadian news- paper editors. It was written for the weekly newspapers of Canada by their own representative on the tour, Hugh Templin, of the Fergus News -Record. First impressions may not be ac- curate, but they are always interest= ing. The first thing that any visitpr to England wants to see is the damage done by the bombs. I was no excep- tion. The airportwhere our plane lid dropped us down on British soil was interesting in its way, but mhch like a dozen others I had visited in Canada. There were only two appar- ent differences: the planes were of different types, though there were .a f .w familiar Avro Ansons, and the buildings were protected against the blasts from bombs dropping nearby. The customs examination was brief, though the examiner did "show some interest in the things I had thought it necessary to take to England with me. I had a short brush with ,the ady censor. She took away g11 the etters I had carried from Canada and appeared to be horrified that I had taken along a map of the British Isles, Apparently, I had unwittingly committed a grave 'rimae and she said she must confiscate it. Evidently, a ' few girls get that way when given some brief authority: I Met e censors sg ve 4t Imes during the tient six weeks, Jbut none like that young lady. She even went d'o tat AS to takeaway two picture posteat°ds I had 'bouight. in the ',acme on the !tight across the Atlantic. After a brisk argument, in which the customs man took my part, I .got the map back. The letters and post cards arrived by mail at my hotel in London ,week later, after being censored. First Impression of Bombing It was Only a few miles to the near- est city, a seaport on the west coast of England. I had never been across .the Atlantic before, so I watched with interest for the things I had been told about so often—the small fields enclosed by hedges, the slated or tiled roofs, the -little locomotives pulling long trains of tiny wagons. Nothing really seemed strange, for photogra- phy had mai-le them all familiar. On, ly the barrage ballbons floating over the nearby hilts showed that•England hard changed. As our car entered the city, we all looked around curibusly for signs of damage, Rumors in Cari,ada said that this ancient port was practicallye- stroyed. German versions said th t the dock area was rendered useless. As we crossed a bridge over the river, I looked at the shipping and saw no sign of damage to the docks, 'Phe first blitzed house stood on a corner. Or it had stood on the cor- nier, for not, a thing was left except a pile of bricks in the basement, The c houses on either side seemed undue- e aged, except for a few boarded -tip ra windows, but the cornet' one was ro gone as cleanly as, though it had been dr carved out with a big knife. de I thought to myself: "This is -ex- a ac 'what , actly ,I expected to see;• It looks- no jut •like the ptctu,res." ah In the next block another hoose of had been hit. It waan't, as thoroitghly (Coit titif Oil Seen' in . the County Papers Fawn Crashes Car 'Clayton Elliott, of Varna, operator of a Huron County grader, got the shoe]' of his life early on Monday morning last when a fawn crashed, feet first, through the right front win- dow of his automobile as he drove to work. The • deer appeared to come from nowhere, for it was still dark, The animal was injured so badly that it had to be destroyed'. Mr. Elliott was cut by flying glass and had to be given first aid. The deer dressed fifty-six pounds. — Goderich Signal - Star. r'load Improvement utproyements are being made h ',e county on the hill the west side of the river at Auburn. In order to get the Auburn -Carlow road ready for paving, this hill is be- ing widened and straightened. The county has bought twenty-six feet of land at the front of Amos Andrew's pace and the widened road. is run- ning on this newly purchased section of land. The huge embankment and the trees along tile south side of the road are being cut down, as are all the beautiful trees on,the north side of the ditch across from Peter Pat- terson's home. This ditch is being filled with earth to give the road :ad- ditional width. The operations w'll take considerable time.—Goderch Sig nal -Star. Airmen To Arrive At Centralia' Spring-like weather prevails, So Zar there has been little.:frost and little snow. Cattle are still pasturing in the fields. The work at the Centralia. Airport is going ahead rapidly. 'It is expected that about twenty members of the air force will be stationed at the air port the latter part of the week for guard duty.—Exeter Times - Advocate, Opening Law Practice An addition to the legal fraternit of Goderich is William A. Sutherland B.AA who is beginning pra't'e n th offices on North Street, for man years occupied by the late Judg Charles Garrow. He is a sou of J Arthur Sutherland and the late M s Sutherland, and a grandson of th. late Huron County Registrar, W'illia Coats. He completed his law cotirs at Os.goode Hall in 1840 and was cal ed to the bar in September last.- I Zurich Herald. Gift Presented to Miss Burgess' Miss Irene Burgess was honore guest at a party -on Monday evenin in the I.O.Q.F. Hall, planned by he friends,-i'Lrs, Da' -on Davidson, Mei Earl Brown, Mrs. Harold Stoneman and Miss Florence Paulen. Miss Burgess lost all het• photographic equipment and personal effects when fire broke out in her Clinton studio - last week, which swept an entire business block and affected seven places of business. It is understood that she carried no insurance. On be- half of the assembled guests Rev. Fred ,Williamson presented a purse of money to Miss Burgess and 'expressed their sympathy with her in the loss she had sustained. Personal gifts were also given. The recipient ex- pressed .her grateful appreciation. Cards were played and Dalton David - e son was On hand to' put—on a fey skits. Mrs. A. Whitley was at the piano for community songs. A bounti- ful lunch followed the ;'evening's en- tertainment. ---:Mitchell Advocate. Five Reeves To Seek Wardenship' It has been reported from a reliable source that five reeves will seek the Wardenship ,of Huron County for 19.12. Two reeves from this end of the County are in the race, Roland Grain, of Turnberry, and W, J. Gam- ble, of iIow'ick. The other 'three are Fred Watson, of Stanley; Geo. Arm The Hay, and R. E. Shaddick, Hensall,—Wipgham Advance -Times,, Hockey,ouping is Announced: g t• The lora; hockey club will play ;n a five-te • rr-group this season. Th;'„ teams/ae Wingharn,,tDurham, Han- over, Owen Sound; 'Walkerton. The convener of this group is C. Schmalz, of Walkerton, and group meetings. will be held at Walkerton. This grouping is very satisfactory, except the -long travel to play in Owen Sound, All the clubs in this group claim they - will have outstanding teams, but the' fans here are counting on' the Indians to come through with a group win at least. Owen Sound may drop out or be given a bye in which case the four teams left would play a double sche- dule. Goderich this year plays with Seaforth, Clinton, Waterloo Siskins, Elmira and Milverton. Soldier re- placements in the O.i1.A. this season will not have to take up residence in the town with which they play, ac- cording to a new ruling.—Wingham Advance -Times. Injured in Car Accident About seven o'clock Saturday even- ing a local party returning from the ,McKinnon-Wickware wedding in, To- ronto had an accident on the Queen' Elizabeth highway.near the Milton num The ear was driven` by Mr - Prank Howson and with him were Col. and Mrs. Geo. Howson, Mrs, D. O. McKinnon, of Toronto, and Mrs. 1?. Wellwood, of Edmonton: It appears,. that Mr. Howson wad proceeding to Hamilton and ,about the junction of the Milton turn and the highway a truck dragging a car cut across the road., The crash occurred between the • car being toweid and Mr. How - son's car. No one was badly hurst, but Mrs. George Howson, and' Mrs. McKinnon were bruised, the latter re- ceiving a cut on the cheek bone. Tire Howson car was badly damaged on one side,—Wingham Advance -Time.. Flowers In December The beautiful basket of flowers do - orating our front office were pros- nted by Miss P. Cuningbame, This re bouquet consisting of mums, sds, pansies, carnations and anap- agons, were picked out of her gar - n on Tuesday afternoon, and form v' er y col a rf d 1 • basket. Flowers aro t •picked every becoinb'er in Clinton, d just a Year ago there wag a Soot tatiOW. tAyki}as),, C;gyh9hag lla me ealio piyck- k l --Y Tl'dtoriYa lS WiIi.i •ecord. ( 0:! • • 7