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„EA.F'QRTH, Friday, June 19, 1942 .
The Result
Ten months or more ago, a boys'
and girls' band was organized in
Seaforth under the auspices of the
Chamber of Commerce. The object
was to give. our teen-age girls and
boys an incentive to make useof
their spare time in gaining a musical
education and at the same time -pro-
vide useful and pleasant recreation
during the nights of the long winter
inonths-
It was not the easiest thing in the
world to. organize, and at the time
inet With, perhaps, as much skep-
ticism
as approval at the hands of
some townspeople, but the commit-
tee appointed by' the Chamber of
Commerce was enthusiastic, he
members canvassed Main Street for
funds to provide band instru ents,
and the response they receiv d was
immediate and gratifying.
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In addition, an appeal was made
to old Seaforth boys and girls now
living across -Canada and the United
States. That appeal met with an
astonishing anct-♦ liberal response. In
tact it was the money contributed by
these old boys and girls that finally
put .the organization on its feet.
Practise was 'started in the early
fall under the leadership of Mr. E.
H. Close, wh'o gave .hisitime,free and
unsparingly. Commencing , with a
membership of some twenty,it now
numbers fifty-one girl's and `boys,
ranging in age from ten to twenty
years, who have practised with dili-
gence
and enthusiasm all through
the winter.
The result of. that organization,
that practise, that enthusiasm and
that leadership was demonstrated in
Victoria Park during the past two
Sunday evenings, when 'the Boys'
and Girls' Band, to -the number of_
forty-four, occupied' the bandstand
and gave a program that astonished '
and delighted a large, and most ..ap-
preciative audience. So appreciative,
infact, that the number who ' turned
out to hear them -last Sunday even-
ing was•„cori.siderably larger than the
week before, .and each week will see
an• increase.
The band and its leader are cer-
tainly to be congratulated and en-
couraged.. They have given Seaforth
an asset that no other • town in the
county possesses ,and one which will
largely increase in value as their
training broadens. The Boys' and.
Girls' Band has already done more
than advertise Seaforth; it has put
Seaforth on the musical map. It has
shown, .too, what a little enthusiasm.,
a little organization and a little co-
operation can do ,to make a town's.
name a household word wherever
and whenever •business and enter-
tainment are under discussion in this
part of the world.
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Much Rain, But No Frost
The rain on Friday of last, week
was possibly the nearest to a cloud-
burst that this immediate district
has ever experienced. Water ran ov-
er • the streets' and highways. Gar-
dens were washed out and very few
cellarsin'town escaped some .flood-
ing, which ranged from an inch•. to a
foot or two.
It was at first feared that immense
damage would be done to farm crops
which are unusually heavy this year.
When wheat is chin high and heav-
ily headed and hay and spring, grains
-equally advanced, it does not take
uiueli imagining to figure a , loss for
1th farmer when rain falls as it did
Friday evening last.
ortunately, : however, while the
,altfell in a steady downpour,: there
wind, and the ix,.darn... a is' re -
e' •. light.. thr' , pout the
in h,as.he re
Mine
f•; fields,
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:been
Jevelin g that was feared and that
1:{ad been occasioned•by (other storms
when less rain;. fe11,
By Sunday the weather had clear-
ed hid turned cool and by Sunday
night it was so clear and -cold there
waa every indication of a heavy
frost. But in this, too, the country
was most agreeably disappointed, as
there was no frost, nor as far as we
have been able to learn, no sign of
frost. For all of which. we ought to
be duly thankful. And we are. The
prospects for a bumper harvest are
still with us, and as the weather has
been about as mean as it can be,
those prospects are now likely to
reach fulfilinent. Here's hoping, as
the farmer needs the money and the
Empire and her Allies badly need the
crops.
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TARGET PRACTIcE
--' bid Not Escape
St. Paul's Cathedral, London, Eng-
land, or perhaps, one might better
say the dome of St. Paul's, is almost
as familiar a pie'ture to the average
Canadian as is the actual building to
the people of London, as well as to
those who have travelled in the old
land.' -
Consequently " when London was
under the German air raids of two
years ago, Canadians eagerly follow-
ed the news after every raid, to learn
if St. Paul's was still standing.
And St. Paul's stood, and is still
standing. And in nearly .,every pic-
ture of the desolation wrought on
the city by the Hun, no matter from
what location that picture is taken,
one sees the lordly dome of St. Paul
standing up out of the ruins of other
blocks and streets, a more clear and
distinguishable landmark than it
had ever been.
But St. Paul's Cathedral did not
entirely escape ;the Hun. E. N.
Sharpe, Archdeacon of London, an-
nounced last week that the Cath-
edral had suffered damage amount-
ing to over seven hundred thousand
dollars during the German raids in
1940.
In spite of that, however, St. Paul's
with its mighty -dome above it, is still
standing and to thecasual _ observer
there has been no change in it, in-
side or out.
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It's A Hard Life
Bathtubs and bird cages, door-
knobs and cash registers, waste bas-
kets and electric razors, common.
pins and lipstick holders and hun-
dreds of other things ' in 'common
daily use have been banned for the
duration by the War Production
Board in the United States.
No longer can iron and steel, cop-
per, brass and bronze be spared to
make them, and no substitute metals
maybe used.
It's going to be a hard life for
many American 'mennd women
from now on, but if dere is any
truth in the old saying that" -"Misery
likes company," Americans can take
heart, because very, very soon their
Canadian cousins are going to be in
the very same boat.
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Making ,The Most Of
Opportunities
Here is a 'little anecdote that
might be - pushed along until it is
known in all public places, even in the
douses of Parliament:
The mother of William Jennings
Bryan came to hear her son deliver
one of his first important speeches.
Mr. Bryan outdid himself.
After the meeting he sought her
out and 'inquired, "Well,' mother;
what did you think of it?"
"Why, William," she replied, "it
seemed to me you didn't improve all
your opportunities."
"How do yotl rneaii, Mother?" ask-
ed the boy orator. •
"Why," said the frank old lady,
"it seemed to me that you had sev-
eral opportunities to sit down before
you did." •
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Royal Revision
(Manchester Guardian)
Oh the subject of .the right Dames for are,
now apparently perplexing Mr. Roosevelt and his
advisers, there may be recalled the classical ease
Hatch (�or III -was tiii+se• rem
of{ ari� i�eh fno e e
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'alsnted with 4'raft:.for a n peec}i frbirrir t e ?ane
in which he tiaas.'irtade to refer to the present ,.
jiiiat arty.isedeSSai war.,, :rte' rirtoiled .t'tho'ati
*arida, ' and bbstittited '„Morrell and ei—Ome V'e
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izlterestt s. items picked from
The • N>xpor7lior of fifty and
twenty;five years ago.
From The Huron Expositor
June 22, 1917
Mr. T. Murdo k, of Henslall, has
been awarded tla contract for Hen-
sall Rural Route No. 2, which he has
had for - two. years..
Fred, the, young son of Mr. -and
Mrs. J. E. Willis, who has had a ser-
ious attack of pneumonia, is recover-
ing.
Twcrinks. of bowlers were in Mit-
chell on Wednesday playing in the
Faill trophy competition against the
rinks of Goderich, Clinton, Mitchell,
Stratford and St. Marys. The trophy
was won by Mitchell with: 133 points,
Seaforth coming second 'with 131.
Those taking part froth Seaforth were
J. A. Williams, O. Neil, Joe Taman
.and W. G. Willis (skip), and W. Mc-
Lennan, J. McMillan, J. E. Willis and
R. E. Bright. (skip):
'Miss Mabel Dorrance, of McKillop,
who for the past year has taught in
S: S. No: 12, has been re-engaged
for the coming term.
Mr. Andrew Wright, of Tucker -
smith, intends building a silo this
summer.
Reeves Stewart of Seaforth, Gov
enlock of McKillop and Crich of
Tuckersmith were in Goderich this
week attending a special meeting of
the county council.
Mr. Charles Aberhart, of town, has
purchased a handsome McLaughlin
car from the local agent, Mr. George
Bell.
Mr. J. R. Archibald, Silver. Creek
Farm,, met with a nasty accident on
Monday. He was repairing some ma-
chinery at the farm when a bolt flew
up,strikingbreaking and his glasses.
Several fragments were driven into
the left eyeball, but were success-
fully removed from the eye.
Mr. Gordon Stewart, formerly of
Seaforth; and now of Orangeville, has
been- offered and has accepted a posi-
tion as mail clerk on the C.P.R. run-
ning from Toronto. •
A little child 8f Mr. Mero, , of the
Huron Road, .had a narrow escape
from serious injury ou Monday when
it ran in front of a car on Main St.
The car passed over the child, but
the wheels missed it.
On Thursday afternoon of last week
Mr, Paul Coates and Mr. R. D, Hun-
ter were severely injured at a barn
raising on -toe farm of Mr.- William
Pincombe in Usborli'e Twp„ both be-
ing injured internally. Coates and
Hunter were standing on a centre
beam drawing up the plate when the
pike pole beneath slipped they could
not hold the plate and in letting go
they overbalanced and fell a distance
of 24 feet, lighting on their backs.
• "That's Private Hogan, sir , He seems to be taking Army Week
pretty seriously."
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From The Huron Expositor
June 24, 1892
The Seaforth Band has been en-
gaged -.to furnish the musie for the
lst of July celebration at Goderich:
1Mr. Alexander Wilson left here on
Thursday to take part in the' exercis-
es qL; the Wimbleton Club competi-
tion.., - '
' Mr. W. Prendergast, of Seaforth;
rode from Dublin to Berlin on his
bicycle on Saturday forenoon last.
'Phe distance is about 44 miles. He
left early in the morning and reach-
ed there about noon.
Mr. and Mrs. Lightowler, son-in-law
and daughter of Mr. William Copp,
who have been engaged in missionary
work in India, are now on their way
home.
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Mr, ` Andrew Swan, of Brucefield,
has recently had extensive improve-
ments made to his barn, He has had
it raised up, greatly increased in size
and stone stabling erected under-
neath. Mr. Alexander McBeath, of
Stanley, had the contract for the
woodworkand the stone work was -
done by Mr. Charles Shoemaker, of
Zurich.
One of the largest barns in Heiman
vicinity was • •raised, on the Burns'
farm on Monday. The framing was
done by Mr. Alexander 2VIcBeath, of
Stanley. It is a new one entirely and
stands on.a nine -foot wall.
•Mr. Gutteridge, of ';Seaforth, has
now a large staff of men at work
building the . stone foundation for
Beatty &. Co.'s new store.
On Saturday the Royal Templars of
Winthrop' Council went on a picnic
excursion to Bayfield. At' an early
hour the livery stables in town were
pleased- to see a numlber of young
men looking for vehicles to convey
them to the village. About 11 a.m.
Bayfield was reached and a most de-
lightful dinner was "enjoyed at the
large table at the grove. A row in
the lake was enjoyred and then an-
other meal under the trees; after
which the party started homeward, a
jourrrey, which took several hours',
The trustees of the school house at
Harlock have decided to erect a new
fence around the school grounds.
The severe electrical storm of last
week had a demoralizing effect on
the. electric lamps and as a result
the lights on the commercial circuit
were not very satisfactory on Satur-
day night.
Mr. Sohn Beattie, of Seaforth,
Met with a painful accident last week.
i#e was burning some ibrusii
_heaps
in
a netfallow,arid' fearing itwould
:,set on fire some aoird'cgtiod, he had.
1ted kefiity, hp • 'w lift -out Sri; the
dark tiff `fisid- .gout tt'ippcil anver a g t71Ck
' filling . fibril, ififoltiii :tifs ,baet
and: ankle.
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® Phil Osifer of
Lazy Meadows
(Cly Harry J. Boyle)
"BEES"
• man who coined that
phrase
The a
about people having bees in their
bonnets should come around and see
me sometime. It all started in a
rather peculiar way.
Mrs. Phil had been worrying about
the sugar ration, During the first
hectic days of the rationing she had
taken the sugar bowl from the table
and we were forced to go to the cup-
board and get sugar whenever we
wanted it. That of course meant that
sugar consumption went down to a
new. low at Lazy Meadows.
Then one day a swarm of bees set-
tled in an old plum tree at the end
of the orchard. Remembering an old
hive that grandfather used to have,
and which was stored' up over the
granary, I -decided to try my hand at
the keeping of .bees. 'As I got the
old bee veil out of the 'storeroom
over the kitchen and the old smoker
which grandfather used to use, there
were all kinds of rosy visions appear-
ing to me of how nice it would be
to have a plentiful supply of honey.
By the time I had mustered up the
necessary equipment I had imagined
an' enormous store of honey ,
enough to take the place of all the
sugar we would require for .years to
come:
Fate lured me on. It was easy to
get the bees .into the hive. I was
covered with equipment from head
to foot and simply brushed the bees
into the hive. They were very quiet
and docile. In fact 'it was too easy
to be, true. At supper -time Mrs. Phil
grew quite, bored with my tall tales
of the way the war' effort was being
aided .by the swarm of bees which
FRIENDS OF FARMERS
Hamilton, June 9, 1941
The Editor, The Huron Expositor:
Dear Sir: The writer read with in-
terest the editorial in your June ' 5th.
issue entitled "The Small Town's Op-
portunity." It is indeed most timely,
As tie who was born in a town in
Bruce Co{rnty---anti: by the way, ;my
nrot'her was born in Seaforth I have
always taken a keen interest in small
:towns, and as, you -state there is aV
very definite opportunity, for them to
cash in on extra: business now, es-
pecially the business from their own
town, and ,the surrounding oommuni-
ties.
A friend of mine once said to me,
"Remember you get your business
from your friends, not your enemies—
therefore have as few enemies and
as many friends as you can,"
If the business men of Seaforth
make' real friends of the , farmers,
there is no reason why they should
not secure a very large percentage of
their business.
I do hope your editorial will bring
definite results.
had been -captured.
I made my- first mistake about two
days latter. Somebody told me •that
the first thing the bees would do
would be to `-start building up the
combs. On the way to the' stable
after dinner I wandered over to, the
hive. The bees were - quite busy,
zipping and zooming out 'to the near-
by clover field and, then back into the
hive. I 'figured. they • must have at
least 'ten pounds of honey gathered
by that time.
I edged the hive cover up about an
inch .• . . and then up some more
and finally cleared the frames. Then
the bees rewarded me with stinging
for their home. They seemed to
come from all directions and the
first thing 1 knew they were swarm-
ing around my head. Russian dive -
bombers couldn't have made a Ger-
man soldier feel worse , . , or more
-uncomfortable I should say.
Have you -ever been pursued by
thousands of bees. I,tore around the
barn -yard swatting at the buzzing,
little beggars for all I was worth. The
more I swatted the worse they seem-
ed to get. I . jumped the pasture
fence and sent the cows tearing down
the field with their tails high up in
the air as if they were being pursued
by a dragon. Neighbor Higgins and
the boys stopped working in their field
and stared at me in openmouthed
astonishment. The mailman- stopped
his horse and 1 am sure he had no-
tions of calling up the village police-
man.
Finally I jumped into the water
trough in `the pasture and shook' off
my pursuers.' No more bees for me
from now toil
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-- Frozen Freshness -
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Joseph Winchell, of Centralia,
Washington, was puzzled. Friends
,had left some pheasants" with him
and he was wondering how to pre-
serve them. He threw them into a
can of water, froze it solid and held
them in cold storage for three
months. At the end of' that time he
found them as good as when put in.
That was in 1917.
By 1927, with the aid of some en-
gineers, he developed the idea into a
practical storage method. And today,
when the average housewife prepares
her Christmas dinner, she can 'serve
strawberries and cream along with
her turkey and cranberry sauce. Her
guests can enjoy corn -on -the -cob with
almost cornfield -freshness. All of
these prodncFs will be just as fresh
as when harvested the summer be-
fore, but not as young. In other
words, the frozen -locker industry has
been born. -
This new development is an off-
spring of the rural electrification pro-
gram started about seven years ago.
Private families can rent. year-round
refrigeration by the cubic foot and
store summer periShables for winter
consumption. ..Its rapid progress fa
due to the "quick-freeze" process
which was discovered by Joseph, Win-
chell when he solved the problem of
preserving the .lpheasants and. revelu-.
tionized. the cold storage -technique,
Tinder the methods known for so
long, it takes .considerable'ktime for
a food product to freeze through. By
slow freezing ice crystalsform slow-
ly and expand so much 'that they
break down the cell tissues of the pro-
ducts being frozen. Under quick
freezing the job is done so' rapidly
that the ice crystals remain' small
and fhb cell stiudthtre is not damtag-
ed.
*heness a strauaber fsL•
you p�roe rji' ,
u ' a 0 it With a blast tcf
th�s *ay, you kl � wi
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u 'zero 'term etrature that 1 s
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of -10-fresh-ontaities, int d dtate' of tixu family xr ea i
Yours very truly,
RUSSELL T. KELLEY
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to serve it. •
This method of cold storage enables
a family to store 'a number of foods
in their original form, texture and
flavor. Under the usual methods of
kitchen processing, many vegetables
and fruits could heretofore be .pre-
served only by canning, preserving
or pickling, etc. In other words they
had to be processed in a 'way that
gave theta a different taste and turn-
ed them into something" else. Such
foods as peaches, spinach,• .beans, corn
on the cob and all kinds of berries
are adaptable. to the sharp -freeze op-
eration, and can be held in their or-
iginal fo d just -off -the -vine fresh-
ness. Also there is no less of vita-
mins as in other methods, of process -
g.
in
While there has never been any dif-
ficnity in keeping meat in cold stor-
age,•quick-freezing has vastly! Improv{
e'ci its qualities. When you sit down
to a dish of six -months -old locker
steak, you don't have to eat some-
thing that tastes like boiled harness
leather. -
Hundreds of farm women have quit
canning their cull hens. I know one
woman who used to ',thin her laying
Bock in July, jest as the birds slow-
ed up in egg production. In -order
not to sacrifice these retired layers
on a glutted market, she picked them
one at a time, /melted. them in tin,
and sweated them Wier a red-hot
stove, supplemented by a blistering
July temperature, until she had steam,
pressured those birds into atfi'rYnspoil-
able condition. When she now gets
ready to 'process cull hens, she dress-
es them, puts them In her $10 -a -year
locker and Writs on the" sub -zero
freeze.
Reams il"leiningktvho has a 2ii'0'Eacre
Win ,Aar. Prattnitlifi, z��'n, lzeps tivo'
rented ttfclters for itis' fa'itjr'of inti.
Besides ca'nn iir•nnd iter ifi 'fiat,
twitter of fruits aintl'vegetabie te.
fins; =sptlliratth,;
vended animation until reii get aiea,t `�t!1a '
l-.
Seen in . the
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County '' apers
This Horse Had a Single -Track Mined
Caught
the
p,lit in glare of the locomo-
tive's, headlight, tour miles east of
Goderich, on Saturday night, a horse
refused to leave the tracks and paced
the evening train, travelling about 10
to 12 miles an hour, right to the sta-
tion, much to' the amazement of peo-
ple gathered on the platform. The
train was forty-five- minutes late.
There were four horses on the tracks.
when the. engineer first sighte,l the
animals. One was struck by the pilot
of :the engine and later. died of its
injuries. Two more took to the 'ditch-
es as the train moved slowly, but the
fourth insisted "on showing its heels
to the iron monster, sparks dying
from the steel rails when the horse's
shoes struck them. On roaching God-
erich the animal was caught, puffing
just as hard as the locomotive, but•
otherwise none the worse for its
strange ordeal.--Goderich Signal -Star.
Away To the Niagara District
Three G. C. 1. girls, Mary Gallow,
Marjorie Gillespie and Helen Robert- '
son Thursday morning ,for Queen-
ston to take part in the fruit harvest.
-They will be joined next week by
Doris Williams. They are part of the
army of food conservationists which.
is being organized`by the k'rovincial
Department of Agriculture, .Godericlt.
Signal -Star. -
Bishop Seager At Goderich
On Sunday evening Rt. Rev. C. A.
Seager, , M.A., D.D., LLD.,. conducted
confirmation service at St. George's
Anglican Church and addressed the
congregation, briefly. Members of
the confirmation class were: Wilfrid
Charles S,c,.aaldwell, David ' Richard'
Hain, Albert, Walter Blaxall, Ken-
neth William L. Wilmot, Peter Pat-
terson,' John'rdward Needham, Edna
M. Fenton, Margaret .Jean Bowra,
Marion June Fritzley, Mary Irma Gra-
ham, Dorothy Barbara Holmes, Maria
Beadle.—Goderich Signal -Star.
Won Gold Medal
The following refers to a daughter -
of Mr,- and Mrs. S- B. Stothers, of
Arthur, who many in Clinton will re-
meiiiber, Mr. Stothers being agricul-
tural representative .here some time
ago:. "Miss Agnes Stothers, a gradu-
ate of the A.H.S. is to be heartily
congratulated on halting won the gold
medal in: French in, her final year in
Arts in Western University, London.
Miss Stothers -'eras taken" a brilliant
"areer thriughout, and llecoming al
old medalist is a very fitting climarta
Mr. and Mrs. 'Stothers, Miss Kathleen,
Miss Ella Mitchell and Mrs. C•rispon,.
of (Moorefield, motored ,to London tt►
attend the graduation exercises.—
Clinton News -Record.
Purchases Farm •
Mr. Fred Hudie, of Clinton, has pur-
chased Lot 24, Concession 14, Flullett,
from the William Austin Estate, and.
will take possession immediately.
Mrs. 'Austin will occup her dwelling,
on the corner of,Queen and McCon-•
nel Streets. --Blyth Standard.
To Be Opened Next Month
Exeter- will soon know what it'
Iheans to have a million and a half:
industry going fullswing for that 'is
what it will mean when the hew Ser-
vice Flying Training School is open-
ed up nett month. There are those
whose opinions wehave 'every'reasbn. •
to r,Ospect rho tall us that it is the
largest school of its kinds in the Do-
minion-6'f
o-
minionbfCanada. In addition; to be-
ing the largest airport, it 1s' ai'§o one
of the finest,' i8 not the finest. . Mr.
W. F, 'Evans, of the Department of
National Trdns'port, who is the..en-
gine? in 6a.rge; and who had the
v iii ' tYf se. r`' 1 fi r
o erseg g, ve ,a i pofl~rt,• elairiid,
that the bilkt'fedtures of the •previou -
ai <ir!t vc ,.been iincor' b'ratetl airy
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