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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1945-03-09, Page 2.rP1777.\, e „scription rates!, LW a Year in nee; foreign $2.,u0 a year. Single ies, 4 cents each. Advertising rates on application. EAFORTH, Friday, March 9, 1945 Signs of Spring We are having a few signs of - Spring. And after a steady winter extending from the fist of Decem- ber until the present, even the most feeble signs are welcome. Of course, there -is still more sleighing than wheeling, but there is real warmth in the sun. And with bright days and cool nights, the snow is getting away without .any threat offlods "That i$ something to be thankful, for too. Jh dayi are getting longer, par- ticularly in the evening, and al- though daylight saving has quite a bit to do with it, it, at least, makes one feel as if the long dark days were over, and the warm, bright, days of spring'were already march- ing round the. corner. 4, It can't come too soon. We are quite ready for it, and we know the great majority' of the people feel that way too. • Courtesy, Please ! Pedestrians in Seaforth are com- pelled to walk on the roads and high- way until the sidewalks are again clear. At this time of year, and, possibly,. for a week or two to coine, the melt- ing snow will, form puddles and even rivers of water on each side of .the roadrand highway. Motorists have no right to force people- walking, men, women or chil- dren, into this water by fast or care- less driving. They have still less right to drive through any water on the roads or, highway when meeting pedestrians. But it is being done every day with disastrous results to pedestrians' clothes and tempers. Pedestrians have just as much right on the highway as cars or trucks, and should never be allowed• by the authorities to suffer any loss or indignity at the hands of motor- ists. But, as we say, it is being done, and it will continue Until the taw steps in and makes an example or .two of the inconsiderate motorists, not -to mention the truck drivers. Courtesy 'is much cheaper than police court fines, and it leaves a far nicer taste in the mouth, too. • Plowing Helps Spring Roads There has been a keervcontroversy carried out all winter over the ques- tion of plowing winter roads. The pros have been just as vehement as the cons, and no final decision has yet been reached. But one can see The trend the de- ° cision- is taking., In a -winter such- as we have just passed through—or haVe we, yet?—every township road has at some -time or other, been com- pletely blocked to traffic. And, pos- sibly, some still are. But unlike the winters of Old, some.- attempt has been made to keep them open with plows. And the result in a majority of cases has been eminently satisfac- tory to the farmers living on the concessions. , Others, on county roads and high- . ways,-, have in recent years been pro- vided with den roads, and would not go back to the days of old, regardless of the expense. Such a discrimination given on account of location alone, while it has always ' been unfair, was not so particularly resented in recent years, because the wintershave.been partially open and the snowfall Hatt. Is; however, has been another kind of winter altogether, and the r0 on the back concessions are awar of it, vho'do-lIcit like to .fOr wee,kg.at a tittle neighborsir tki$. y to bip atitherities have heen seek' far and wide for snowplowing equip- ment that at least would do a partial jobin keeping the concession roads 'open. And why the same authori- ties are pretty well convinced that spending money on such 'complete equipment is no longer an extravoz gant expenditure of money, but a necessity, backed by public, demand. There is another point too. Roads that have been winter plowed come through the spring break-up much faster and in better Condition than those that have been left to Nature's methods. There is little snow left on them:to melt, and What there is has open drainage. The sun and wind get at them more readily, and they dry crut more quickly and more uni- formly. • Fine ---But Not The End Since the great Allied .offensive opened on the West Front, the re- sults have been extremely gratify- ing. But gratifying as. they\have been, the end. is not yet. Sometimes we wonder if the Al- lied war correspondents were at a loss for words and phrases to ex- press the; real situation. We have heard so !Ruch of "racing forward," "break-thrOugh" and "German lines collapsing," that we are already en- visioning the Allied armies at the gates of 'Berlin. We believe the hoped-for objective • of the Allies is to crush el -laugh of , the German army power west of the • Rhine river to render that great German barrier far less formidable than it is at present. If that is really the objective, the goal is not yet in sight. It is quite true that there have been -break-throughs," but have they been made through German lii3es largely manned by home guards . and second or third class troops? It is known that the Ger- mans have brought up well over 100,000 first line troops to halt the Canadian and British, and also two full divisions 'against the American Ninth Army. These are being push- ed back, but Can they be pushed back fast enough to be pressed back against the Rhine, or will they be pulled out •across it, in time to op- pose an Allied crossing? Until 'we have theanswers to some such questions as these, we think it would be well to forget for the time being, at least, such' expressions as "break -through" and "collapses," • or to give them far more relative mean- ings, Holy Rage The Germans have become so alarmed at the advances made by the Allied armies on ,the Western front, that a Berlin radio commen- tator, Wilfred Oven, last -Friday called upon the German people to carry out a scorched -earth policy and to "fight with holy rage town by town, hOuse by house, ruin by ruin." -- "What does it matter now?" said the commentator: "In view of such ruins as those at Cologne, we know that everything still left gets smash- ed to pieces. "We have come to realize that our enemies in the west are fighting with the same fanaticism and same de- termination to wipe us out as do the Russians.' We must meet them filled • with holy rage." - There are quite a 'feW"things that the German nation will'- come to re- alize before this war, of their mak- ing, ,is over. • Bathmobiles Premier Pieter S. Gerbrandy, of the Netherlands, is authority for the Statement that sixteen bathing ve- hicles, ten mobile laundries and two repair trucks, will be used for six months of relief -work in the liber2 • ated areas of Holland, where Soap, hot water, and other laundry facili- ties are needed. Since 1940 these btokines.ebeamitarehitirrishes4ohwavne• s ;‘'- priyvided more than 1 000 - '°°6 people.. -a—shed---8$250$-OOP gar1011°;' From The i'lLir•tx Expositor Marbh 1, 19Q V. J. A. Ferguson, B.A., of Nor- indected into the • pastoral ,'•char:ges of Duffs and-,11011Xt1rop at the 4.41' Place .on Thursday afternoon - •'11.04',. F. H. Larkin Preached an elo- onex# soul-stirrinnion, Rev. J. :Eti!',Ifogg, of Clinton, addresaed the eo4reegTat. i°E11Laton Co of Toronto last Week shipped Ite Mr, M. MCKellar; the local eapress agent, 247 sacks, containing seven tons of their spring catalogues, the express charges on thenhipment being $155,00.: Miss Eleanor Thornton left on Tuesday for (Palmerston to aceept a Position in a millinery stare." Mr. G. C. Bell has taken the-ag- enCy for the Overland car and will now push both the McLaughlin and Overland agencies at his garage on Main Street ' Mr. C. A. Barber is moving into the, residence on Goderich St. which he. recently purchased from Mr. Wm. Somerville. Mr. Peter Lindsay, of Constance, has moved onto his' farm which .he 'purchased from Mr. Robert McClure. Mr. James Simpson, of Walton, has sold his 125 -acre farm 'on the 11.th concession of McKillop to Mr. John Boyd, the price being $9,000. , • • Master Willie Scott, of Brucefield, whohasbneiecnelyi1.1 with pleurisy, is, re- c'Mr. Jack Bess,. who has been og the staff of the Melsons Bank at Brocefield for some time, has been transferred to the Merlin branch, and left this week for that place. Mr. T. Kalbfleisch, of Zurich, re- cently sold hie black Percheron team which he purchased from Wm. Deck- er 10 years ago, to Mr. W. Gormley, undertaker, of Dublin, for the same sum that he paid, for' them. Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Hays, Seaforth- left last week tor Kitchener, where Mr. Hays has secured a good posi- thin. Mr. Ben Johnson has :been appoint- ed caretaker of the G.W.V.A. 'Messrs. J. C. Laing' and •Jas. G. Mullen were ordained as Elders in First Presbyterian Church on Sunday morning , Mr. Garnet Chapman left on Satur- day for Fort William. • From The Huron Expositor • MarCh 15, 1895. Mr. Hector Reid 3rd concession of Stanley, has purchased from Mr. Jas. Snell, of Mullett, a thoroughbred Berkshire boar, 17 months old. • Quite a number left Seaforth sta- tion this week for Dakota and other western points. Miss O'Reilly left ter Willow City, Dakota; Miss McFadzean for Del Norte, Colorado; Mr. Patter- son and Mr. O'Connell, of Tucker - smith, for Sheldon, N.D., ,• and '"Mrs. Mustard for Manitoba. „ There was a total eclipse of the moon on Sunday night last As the night was clear, it was plainly vis- ible. Mr. John M. McLean, who • has been visiting • at his home ID Seaforth for the past couple of weeks, has left for Manitoba. Miss ' Fannie Fotheringham will take charge of a millinery show room tii Wyoming this season. Messrs. Reinhart, Ross and David- son, of McKillop, Are busily engag- ed in drawing tim-ber from Drager's Island in- the big pine swamp. Mr. J. Hunter, of the London Road, left last Saturday with a carload of horses for the English market. Messrs. McKenzie and Patterson purchased horses in this vicinity last week. They are also shipping a load to the Old Country. Mr. Smillie, the worthy Clerk of Tuckersmith Township, entertained a large number of his young friends and neighbors on Thursday evening of last week. ' Messrs.: James Horton and A. Innis of Kippen, have purchased that well-known stallion, "Joe. Anderson," which was picked as one of the hors- es ..for the World's Fair. Mr. G. Dick; cattle buyer of Sea - forth; has rented a house on the Lon- don Read, near Mensal', and,Will take possession on. April 1st. Willie William Mooney was re- turning to Brussels from Seaforth the other day, With a heavy load of ,head Ing ParAlte Brussels salt works, he met two men in •a cutter. Mooney turned . as well as he could with his lead, but not far enough to avoid a collialon. With the cutter. He was brought before the magistrate and fined $15.00. . There tire 'at present 608 pupilsAn the roll cif the Goderich pliblic School. • College boy on a budget, vicallOia- Ing With his brother and his father's prize *Until, Alice, sett, home the fol- lowing elegraln: 6• , litlft &aged• afford ereeted eix 0, • ' • •:::410etLrea:i: • , • • oo .,.'".:.•;.::'''.'::::.'-'''''',,,,;;:;:',,,",:•.••"•',:,—,•''' „:„ '' c4.t0*:' •". ,i . „.. ''.,''''''''':::.'.:,,;:',,.._::::-4.,,,:';':!',1,''''''.•.. .• •'1-0/10!!'14. 6 ..,''•• • .. .41. $ol114'.000kftY0..*ka 'te0k,.11Art. in. •• :, Wednesday*,jaCkra,IXttit 411.0t:00:44ji fair suceesa., the greundeeteted...;,:fer this hunt as 'itt11,,,ilte. Pri:106.44'..er4 tbh::4,37:4tYf ahrena j34 10141, .17 vrt: f.:1'. It° 0l,4 ‘,,,,Aentx; ., .pedition . was marred .y an:, Oeldent4.. • at Port Albert on. the Yi"AYell. ettli, early.. . in •the afternoon. - J. W. Maerear'Sk car, driven by .potqe Yenag„.40et entic, ' • . Albert and went.over the side 'ef thej, of, control on the 'tricky hilt 'at Port road, crashing into the tree..Vortn- A MESSENGER vEQvi SUFFERING lium4.NiTy _. :natel y. nobedy yvas bsaedri7uslwyr. elicluc,rde__.d,1111 but the car was • Goderich Signal -Star, Clothing For Russia Yesterday was warm and I noticed the first signs. of Spring amongst the • stock here at Lazy Meadows. Mrs. Phil thinks I'm a 'bit daft on that score, but, I have always • maintained that once you turn January and the sun gets warmer . . 'everything startslookingto Spring. That's bit of a hard theory to accept when we have a sudden blizzard blow up about,. the beginning of March, but having' made the statement I'm will- ing to bide by it. A thaw in February is an event. After the cold, zero weather /when .the sun, gets a little warmth in it, your blood seems 'to run: just' a little faster. You get up some morning and lookoutside and it's hazy. On the way to the barn you notice that the air has a soft 'feel to it. The cows are bawling just a' little harder than usual and the pigs are shuffling around and squealing for their feed. When the milking is over and you've' 1Tad breakfast, you notice that the sun is out and the eaves are stett- ing to drip up a little. Dirty patches, are showing through the snow in the laneway. The temperatiare in. the, stable -has gone up' and •the Wails are.sweating in the horse stable. On the sunny side of the barn it's.reasonably warm. Standing beside the gangway you no- tice that your old rubbers are start- ing to leak a little and from now on the rubber boots will be getting more work 16 do. Some people wear them all winter, but my toes are pretty sensitive to frost ever since I got them, frozen cutting wood in the bush about four winters, ago. The cats Ihid• themselits sunny' ledge; and dose contentedly with twitching whiskers. The Collie is romping around the side' of the big hill, and I'm sure he must be think- ing of groundhog season. The mood gets me too, and I start pulling sap /Jackets dowsi from over the granary . . . just in case the soft clay might develop into a spring' thaw. A fellow notices a lot of other things. • The sparrows have a bright- er "chip" to them. The UAW rum- bles- loud and long as it whips along the far side of the river and then rumbles over the bridge Big Ed. Higgins is yelling from the stable to the house and every word comes drifting across the line fence to our place. There's A black blob away down the road bn the side of Jen kin's hill, and you know that a hardy motorist is stuck in a pitch -hole. The snow plow is breaking through the drifts on the county road and you can hear the motor roaring. They want to get down' to the road as quickly as possible before the snow melts too _much. You go in the house with just a hopeful suspicion that maybe Spring has come. Everything looks pretty good and when you wake up next Morning and look out, as sure as fate it's snowing again and the tempera- ture has dropped back to normal winter places. Huron Federation Of :Agriculture-FarmNews • Save the Young Pigs •• -Losses of young pigs at the far- rowing, nursing and weanling stages can be greatly reduced if some thought and foresight are given to the small. details. These when over- looked frequently mean the difference between life and death •to the young pigs and greater or reduced profits to the owner, says W. W. Ciain, Domin- ion .Experimental„Farm, Indian Head, Sask. In addition to the, usual feeds and supplements, it is advisable to pro- vide the sow with extra iodine dur- ing pregnancy as a safeguard against hairlessness or goitre ID her new- born litter. This is easily- mad cheap- ly done by dissolving one ounce . of potassium iodide in .a gallon of water and giving each sow one tablespoon- ful of the solution infeed, twice weekly during gestation.- • Regular daily exercise and a heal- thy .bowel- condition of the pregnant Or nursing sow and litter is import- ant. Supplkaentary feeds of a laxa- tive, cooling nature, such. as, .green Pasture, alfalfa hay 'or alfalfa _meal; bran and roots, are valuable aids to health, and thrift. • • , - •Being on the job at farrowing time will generally repay the owner mai* times over for time so spent If the farrowing pen is .equipped with heat- ing -facilities, guard rail's and a creep, many deaths from chilling, ereshirig and under •notrishment may be a:Veld- ed. Removal of -the needle • teeth from pigs at birth by the use of sinall.side- Cutting pliers will prevent Injury to the sow's udder as well as to litter- . , • Mates, resulting in fewer losses and greater thrift •In young Anambia in young pigs and resillt7 ant losses, Can be aVoided by provid- ing fresh rods and antra Iran 10 .11t- ters. As soon as littere are otit 'or fire drays old, each pig Ship -61d reeeiVe on the tongue, as muehiren"Stilyihete aS can be held on a 19,cent ixidee, Oz reduced iron etpIal to an gipitio:„0,11,., let. Either treatexent Isreteated aide 'Weekly Until 'the Piga are eating 'Welt turo or,thee d:Osea ;general* ihei4-g,. • Plgs Oat 6;1'0 *1411, no r&sltSit:Midi; 4jitiOtted during musing and weanling stages , are the kind that grow most quickly and profitably into market pigs of top quality. Good Pasture For Growing Chicks The true worth of good pasture. for poultry should never be overlooked, in fact it, has been rightly said that a good range .is the Poultry man's safest assurance of adequate nutri- tion, says W. T. Scott, Head Poultry= man, Dominion Experimental Station, Harrow, Oet. The benefit that the 'flock will de- rive from free range will depend to a great extent on the kind of the pas- ture and the amount of care that it recerves. • Some grasses than others and greater quantity on this accauntbut probably due to their higher nutri- tional value, as well as their attrac- tive succulence clovers and :alfalfa ,are more readily sought and enjoyed. To some extent the nature of the pasture provided will be goveved by local conditions but as ' tar as the poultry are concerned the care and management of the range should be abet the Permanent range should not be us- ed for „poultry .more than once in: three years or it may become infest- ed 'With' parasites or polluted._ It should not be overgrown or the birds wilL be deprived of the young tender, shoots •that form a valuable and es- Sefitial-part of their dlet. Frequent moving will promote the groWth, of the pasture ,and eneourage wider ranging from the much :used and per - hap i iefested areas around the' ebel: terS, reducing the ' risk ,q Infection and :Wilding up a teslatanee to dilx ease, . Mowing may be' considered steneWhat, of a teak but the .heOefita derived far out -Weigh the Coat. For the best aSeitallatiOn of their grain ration the birds require this `ainindant ' "er-, eneeulent•, age, rich in. Vitainille, proteins and Minerals, and dee attentienta the, VP,, keeti of the 'range 'W-111--prove„te be- soilhd eionottly 14,"..alitlag feed and by",•44ereatiet8tt ot tbe. tatige' 41A°' tetW;� 664, • • : • - , agi4 3) are more palatable may be consumed in Mr. R. C. Whateley, who undertook' to look after, the shipping of the% goods •contributed in aid of Russia. reports that five cartons of clothing!: about 200 pounds, were Packed at the' Town, Hall and shipped on Friday- Goderich Signal -Star. • ',Observe 50th Wedding Anniversary) Mr. and Mrs. Francis 4,Jeffrey, Goderich, on February 12th, quiet, observed' the .fiftieth anniversary of their marriage. They were 'married ' on -Feb. 12, 1895, in St. Peter's R. C. Church at Drysdale in which parisit- both were born and !'raised. For thrR• past 39 years they have beeg valued. residents of Goderich where Mr.' Jef), frey was _employed by theC.N.R. for 36 years, .the last number of years , • which he held the position Of sectiol foreMan. He has been. retired for six' ' • Years. He is the son of the late Mr. and .MrsSuellen Jeffrey, of near Drysdale. Mrs: Jeffrey is a-..daughte* of the late 'Mr. and Mrs. Simon Bedeur, of Drysdale. Mr. and Mr., Jeffrey are devoted members .of Stt. Peter's Church at • • Goderich. They have three daughters: Gladys (Mtg.. Will 'McGuire), R.R. 2, Bayileid; Val- erie (Mrs, John Clifford), Detroit, and Laura (Mrs. Walter 'Johnston), Wind:. sor, and five grandchildren. Another daugher, Mrs. Alife.Dodge, of Detroit,, died 18 years ago. ---Zurich Herald_ Pass EXam natio ne In examinations held recently at the, Toronto 'Conservatery of. Mesie pupils of Arnold Earl, A.W,C.M., ceved, the following standing: Agnes: Wearring,' Grade VIII Piano, Itenersc'f' Margaret Wearring, Grade VII • Honors; Helen 'eawtell, Grade VO Piano, Honefs.-Brussels Post.. ' Salvage Work• At Sky Harbor ;,• Systematic destruction of a number of stripped , unair,worthy aircraft ID under way at Sky Harbor, thedivOriz'' being done by R.C.A.F. personnel un -- der the supervision of an official df the War Assets Corporation, Mow- treal.Only planes without any pci- slide further military or civilian ur • are condemned to destruction, mostly by burning Prior to destruction they' are stripped of all salvable compon- ents, ' including .engities, leaving on/y- fu,selage.-Goderich • the bare Star. ,.. No Deserters Frem Huron.% • The provincial police here •ha,Se, been furnished with a list of m absent Without leave from the array, in a widespread effort to gather 'i1 - the draft dodgers. There is not a single name from this- county in the - list, however; Huron has a Olean sheet in this: respect-Goderich Sig, - nal -Star. Sleet Damages Telephone Wires: The BLyth Municipal Telephoee, System suffered extensively as a re- sult of last Wednesday night's sle6t storm, Seventeen lines are Still out of order, but it is expected that ra-A'y of these will be back in repair this week. Nine poles were down near the, farni of Robt. , Patterson, and - tween Blyth and 'Londeaboro; many dt the ,wires were 'broken and hang- ing down. There was other damage, accordingl,y, all over .the system., will be remembered that last year a similar storm cost the system a ca- • siderable Sum of money, hilt this., break will not be tio extensive as far, as cost is concerned, it is stated. Mee, have been busy all week repairing the br0k4 Circuits. The two lines.- 'Connecting'Blyth and Brussels are• 4111 out of order; but all other ion diatanbe lines have been. repaired. ----Bisrtb, Standard. , Annual Banquet of Canadian Legion", The alined, banquet -by the mem- here Of the Excetet-Henitall Branch of the Canadian Legion wee held in the Legion Halt Tuesday eVening with. _about 451116mbers and their wiVes• taleSent. The n:11116Wareatered --- 'by the Senior WiaMents 'Auxiliary cf Trivitt dirarch; thrOUgh the courtesy Of W, 2,, 4iddletou. Guts at the hariqUet ro Slereral 'returned_ men. fr8fl.-‘oVereeas, lintliniing S t GthlhOf . tift.; •