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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1945-07-27, Page 2t.j fr 11 'Who L.at , 0 Sea'foTth, QutaLo, ev-; ternoon y •McLea.n Rbscription Tates, $1.50 a year in vance; foreign $2.00 a year. Single pies, 4 cents each. m•pm•ww••••••••••••••••••• Advertising rates on ?pplication. EAFORTH, Friday, July- 27, 1945. Getting Serious These wet week -ends in a rather wet season are playing havoc with the farmers 'harvest. There are hundreds of acres of hay still out, and other hundreds not even cut yet. And the wheat is crowding for at- tention, and the spring crops are right behind it. Quite a few farmers are fortunate. Their hay is in, but they are not yet amajority. Altogether the haying season has been discouraging. Time after time the hay has been ready to haul in, when- the rains descended, and it had to be turned and handled again, sometimes several 'times. It is all the more discouraging be- cause the hay was such a good crop, ' and hay is the back log of winter feeding. But rain does not improve cut hay, and rain has been falling at least three days a week all season. The ram, too, has lodged the wheat • and other grains and that doubles • the harvest work. Perhaps it is not really serious yet, but we have had just a little too tnuch ram, and any more for quite a while will spoil what gave every promise of being a bumper harvest -on every farm. • The Day Is Coming • The day is fast approaching when the man or woman, with money to spend, will once again become a much sought-after factor in every business. During recent war years, he or she has just been a customer, a status rather looked down upon by , wartime business. But this 'wartime attitude will have to be discarded soon, or the man in business, who retains it too long, will find' himself sidetracked by other competitors with further seeing eyes. In other words, the day when a customer has to take anything of and quality, at any price, is nearly over, and business will have to go back, to that other day when the wishes of a customer had to be met. To the day when the products of ev- fery kind will not be un!ler the handi- cap of wartime restrictions and the customer with money will have a wide choice as to where he spends it. Same Need Here The Boston Globe says that what that country needs is a non-skid coin, guaranteed not to slip through the fingers. We have pretty much the same need in this country. For the past four or five years, war industry has provided an abundance of work for all at top wages. In the retail busi- ness, price is not a feature. Their shelves are pretty bare and the re- tailer can sell anything he can buy. Farm prices are high and the market is unlimited and prices are rising. Everyone seems to have money, and everyone seems to be hunting for ways to. spend it. It is only a few short year since we were trying to get enough to live on during the great depression, but memory seems to be a fickle thing. Most people have forgotten the depression. There are some, of course, who • have not forgotten, and some who will never be able to forget those •daYs. These are saving their money today, but by and large the average Canadian Will never profit from hewn limes Until he gets a species •of nOU-skid coins that can't slip •h his fingers, and that goes female of the species too. 4s acr�s Teachers WArCe ettramodity these day, but in Witain the s,itua4on appears to be eVfX WetrSe. 0100 i Britain today there are 1,000,000 less children in the ele- inentary schools than there were thirty years ago, The Secretary to the Minister of Education ib that country say S that Britain will need an addition of 80,000 teachers to its normal pre-war number of 200,000 when the 1944 Educatitm Act comes into full effect. The increase in numbers would be spread over a number of years, but the minimum figure of 13,000 was needed as a result of raising the school leaving age. The Secretary also disclosed that on a basis of 280,- 000 teachers it would cost the coun- try 14,500,000 per year for equal pay alone. • Working Under Difficulties As most people are ,jap. e, Mr. Churchill is not only a P .ime Minis -e ter, but an author, a brickla er and a painter, or should we say an art- ist. At any rate, during his recent short holiday between the British elections and the meeting of the Big Three at Berlin, which he spent at the little French village of St. Jean de Luz, he could be seen daily with canvas and brushes, painting the lit- tle French seaport. And he is pahat- • ing the scene because he said: "I wanted to paint this scene 'ever since I first saw it twenty years ago." But Mr. Churchill must have had wonderful powers of concentration if he succeeded, because every day as he sat at his easel, with a soft gray felt hat on his head, he was closely guarded by six husky plain- clothesmen from Scotland Yard, while 500 or more curious French- men watched him from a distance of fifty feet. • For Outstanding Bravery A small boy of only four years of .age went to Buckingham Palace not long ago to receive the Albert Medal. He was Anthony Everitt, and the medal had been awarded to his mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Everitt, who tried to rescue the crew of a crashed and burning American plane, and gave her own life in the attempt. As the King 'a England handed the medal to Tony, he said: "Now you will keep this in memory of your very brave mother," and Anthony Everitt will remember those words. The boy's education is being cared for by a fund created by the United States Air Force in memory of Mrs. Everitt. • For A' That Scotland's leaders have asked Hugh Dalton, President of the 'Board of Trade, if he is aware that nearly all tartan material in stock in that country, is being .reserved for ex- port. . These leaders plan a stiff protest because they claim Scotsmen stand in peril of 'losing their kilts. Thus Scotsmen who love to parade in' kilts, are being compelled to wear pants. Equally .hard hit too, they claim, are Scottish children who for ages have worn plaid kilts as a form of national dress. And all because the demand from abroad, and particularly by women in the United States, for the colorful plaid cloth, has caused a great short- age. But the Scot has one consolation. Even if he has to wear pants instead of a kilt, he is still i"tuan for a' that. • Tops in Any Garb • (The Christian Science Monitor) When Johnny comes marching home at last, we are going to be glad to see him. But when he puts on civvies we shall tifiquestionably ihiss the trim cut of his uniform, the smoothly tailor- ed shoulders of his jacket, the expert lines of his Army abirts. Johnny, especially if he has been an officer, is going SO give us a big let -down sartorially. No matter howssterlirig a heart beats beneath that Manly breast Johnny will not look half so handeonse in a:Pitt-strip bankers' gtay worsted as be did it hie .Mr Force pitikS, fer instatine. And women May 'Snell weep when they Centel* plate the. differenee betaiden, the eonn110114taY Meta $4titi the "Arily: Natty peaked. 10PerliaPe the nieS't Ileantifying headgear eVet tmUlne r tli • ittitUY .d the iti00.0.,t1,4 .0Veti°. flie'.'neelier 1itOttlee4 heineithei 4l4t$OtOtid 404teVer 1lwenre ,get o Weleoine, tnit beY n4 we, 014,40Stallhnets • • itemi rickvn. nExPositer « MY OK 4)isve years agra 4 • From The Huron. Expositor August 6, 1920 Mesers. P. B. Gardiner and Fred Miller, of Walton, have both invest- ed in new Ford ears. A severe electrical etoem passed ov- er Chieelhurst on Thursday after- noonslast and the lightning struck Mr. Prank Fitzgerald's barn. Mr. James Hill, Exeter, is suffering from a fractured .shoulder, sustained whilst working at the canning fac- tory. Mr. Archibald Rowcliffe, of near Hensall, had the misfortune recently to have his span of working horses kilted by lightning. On Wednesday of last week Hen - salt 'bowlers gave a good account of themselves in the Goderich tourna- ment, winning the fine silver trophy given by the Purity Flour Mills of that town. The rink was composed of W. 0. Goodwin, W. A. MacLaren, Milne R. Rennie and Albert White - sides as skip. They competed against twenty odd rinks: The Firemen and Citizens' Band, of •Seaforth, were in Welland on Tuesday and. Wednesday attending the Firemen'a Tournament being held in that place. Mr. W. Freeman met with a nasty accident on Monday morning when he had the tops of his thumb and first 'finger severed while operating a machine at the Canada Furniture fac- tory. Mr. G. D. Haigh and Mr. George Cardno have each purchased an Ov- erland car from Mr. G. 0. Bell. Mrs. John Finlayson has returned from the West. J.- E. Willis and R. E. Bright won the trophy event at Elmwood bowling tournament in London on Wednesday. Mr. Joseph Atkinson has purchased Miss MtQuade's house in Egmond- Mrs. D. H. Stewart was called to Goderich owing to the death of her brother-in-law, Mr. James Young, a former well-known resident of Eg- mondville. A rink of bowlers, composed of D. Fell, Harry Stewart, C. A. Barber and Dr. H. H. Ross, •skip, won the first event at the Listowel tourna- ment on Wednesday of last week. Mr. and Mrs. Moore and Mr. and Mrs. Lane were visitors at Mr. John Prendergar's in. Egmondville. They motored all the way from San Fran- cisco. • r * lif**FrPi•• 11909. There has been teo Munn XiD 1VIOther -Nature. is giving of her WM- . That much is established: in the minds of most farmers. It's too bad from the standpoint of the crops and too bad from the 'standpoint of farmers whose existence is •at stake. It's al- so too bad from the standpoint of the many people in this battered old world who need food SO badly, From a rather whimsical stand- point I am also sorry that the rain is wearing out its welcome. Rain can be rather pleasant around a farm. Somebody once wrote about the soli- tude of rain. That just about hits the nail on the head. There can be a pleasant solitude to rain, and since most of us at one time or another desire a little solitude it works into the scheme of things very well: Spring rains are aboat the most pleasant of all. The old snow hangs around, getting dirtier and dirtier looking and the frost clings to the ground. Then one day a warm spring rain comes pattering along on splash- ing feet. The snow starts to vanish . . the rain is warm . . . the frost starts coming out of hiding . . . and everybody has the feel of spring. You imagine the green has started to come into the baring patches of grasp. I find myself puddling around the place enjoying •the splatter of the rain on face and hands. Summer rains usually are ushered in with a great to-do of sound and tiful neodnees , . . Make way . • make way, First ql all Slretre'l; the stilty'huraic/ spell. •Ever-ything Is quiet and hanging on, the silence in breathless santieipation. The heav- ens are being silently petitioned •for "rain ,• or something to break the oppressive chains of heat that have everything bonna up in parched tun prisonmeat. A rumble starts away off. The ' marching drums of approaching rain are heard. The flash and, 'glitter of the heavens starts up in the distance. dancing like golden sprites along the horizon. Then the skies darkeu • in an almost menacing way. Some- thing is bound. to happen. A whip - snake of golden Wickedness plays across the dark canopy. The thunder booms out . . at first cracking like a million 'blacksnake whips . . . then rumbling away off like dull cannon. The skies open up in a million tiny crack, broken by tthe thunder and lightning and the rain sluices down, and the earth drinks it up greedily. What a wonderful, blessed relief. Rain comes coldly and quietly in the fall. It beats 'against your slick- er and taps on the window -sills. It churns up the dry earth between the stubble and fills up the gap between the furrows in the field you're plow- ing. It makes the comfort of a fire in the range feel so good. • From. The -Huron Expositor August 2, 1895 Mr. John Rowe, of Stephen Town- ship; is the possessor of quite an in- dustrious turkey. She laid 30 eggs and brought out a flock of chicks about six weeks ago. Later she be- gan laying again; and is now laying two eggs per day andsbas laid over 20 eggs for another hatching. One of the best known, as well as one of the most highly trespected residents of the County of Huron, in the person of Mr. James Dickson, passed away at his residence at Gode- rich. on Sunday last. The staff of Seaforth Collegiate is again complete and now consists of the following teachers: C. Clarkson, Otte L. Schmidt, principal, H. S. Rob- ertson, R. C. •Chessright and Mrs. B. Kirkman. Mr. Chas. Wilson, Seaforth, ship- ped two carloads of fat- 'cattle to the Old Country markets last week. Mr. Ted Dawson is looking after them. Mr. Mr, John Forbes, son of Mr. A. Forbes, of town, who has been ern- ployed in Mr; R. Logan's bank for a few years, leaves on Saturday for Glenboro, Manitoba, where he will enter the Bank of Logan & Co. , Mr. Robt. Brotherston 'has sold his farm on the 12th , concession of Mc- Killop to Mr. John Crozier for $3,500. In the absence of Rev. Peter Mus- grave, Elder John Kerr occupied the pulpit of Bethel Church last Sunday. Mr. Robert Ross, of the London Road, near Brucefield, is erecting one tof the largest bank barns in this county. it has a etone foundanion and is 110 feet long. Mr. Thos. Walk- er, Clinton, was the contractor for the stone work and Mr. P. Keating, Seaforth, the wood' work. Mr. W. J. Stinson, of the Sauble Line, drove -through Varna the larg- est drove of cattle that has been seen this -year. having upwards' of 60 head, and all his own feeding. -- Mr. Alex Monteith, Sr., and his son, Alex, of Kippers went to the Old Country with a load "OS 40 head Of steers from Seaforth station. It is 40 years since 'Mr. Monteith has crossed the high seen and no doubt he will see *any changes in that ttme.• ' a teinther froin Stata tot& the eireut Strat1n131 last Week. and th. &Stein Of tiktdnin are spending,,,thefr'hoiAttY6 with L,Ightninq SUMS Four,• - While '11arirestiag peas at tha Mal- lard Line tarn', half e, Mlle eintth or Grand Bend, four men, Gs Latta, $., Latta., Farrell and IVIr. mot, were: 0 stunned by AO:ailing! '1314 /acme tivfgel''' ed seriously.—Exeter Titneadigirate,-. Has Ribs :Fractured Mr. Hector Taylor, who had a coU- . Pie of ribs fractured and was some. wlsat bruised when knocked down by, a team of horses the forepart of last week, is recuperating very nicely at bis home.—Exeter Times-Advoeate. flurry. The combined operations of These are some of the moods of rain, thunder 'and lightning are no doubt but this summer even a dreamer like used to impress all and sundry with myself begins to wonder if a good the importance of the occasion. thing can't be Overdone. . JUST A SMILE OR TWO., - Presentation To Soldier '4 • On Friday evening neighbors and friends gathered at 'Currie's School to honor one of the boys of that com- munity, Pte. Alvin Currie, who Is leaving this week on the first step in his training for duty in the Paci- fic. After reporting to Petawawa he will go to Kentucky where the Cana- dian Pacific force will undergo train- ing. Alvin was presented with a pen and pencil set.—Wingham Advance - Times. "I want to know what I'm best fit -I An aged Senator was being mar - ted for. Should I go to a palmist or ried for the third time. The instant a mind reader?" the clergyman had completed the "Better choose a palmist — you ceremony at the church, the Sena - know you've got a palm." tor's 15 -year-old son exclaimed, "The • service will be concluded at the Joe: "So you had good luck on grave." your fishing trip, eh?" • Moe; "Good luck? Why the fish bit so fast I had to get behind a tree to bait my hook!" • A man who had lived inland all his life and who had never seen a fish larger than a mountain trout, took a trip to Florida. Looking into the win- dow of a sporting goods shop, he saw a tarpon nearly six feet long. As he gazed in wonder, he was heard to say with a great deal of feeling, "The man who caught that fish is a dern liar." Railway Car Off Track Thursday there was some excite- ment at the C.N.R. station. A num- ber of cars were on the siding next to the coal sheds and some of. these were coal cars. The cars were be- ing moved, without locomotive power, s.o that the coal cars would be pro- perly placed for unloading, but they got away and came to a stop. when they hit the planks at the street crossing. The car was partly on the street and off the tracks. Friday noon the cars were pulled clear of thestreet and later was put back on, the rails.—Wingham Advance -Times. • "Dull party, isn't it?" "Let's go home." 'I am home. I' the host." • A three-year-old girl was sitting be- side the road crying. A man came by and asked what was the matter. The girl answered, "My mother has killed the cat." "Well," said the man, "I will buy you another cat." "No, thank . you," she said, "I just wanted to kill it,myself.' Huron FecleratiOn Of Agriculture--Fa.rmNews-: • The Presbyterian Church camp fo-r Honor Campers boys at Kintail concluded on Wed- nesday of last week and an intereat- ing closing event was the selection. of four boys as "honor campers." The boys were elected for their qualities of leadership, co-operation, . sports- manship and for their contribution to- isprofit en -hogs when the selling price the camp's life. The boys so holier - well above the cost of feed eaten ed are Jim McKindseY, Seaforth; Lorne West, Listowel; Bill Thomas, Niagara Falls, and Don Vye, Fort Er- ie.—Goderich Another Pest Makes Its Appearance Myriads of small grey insects were blown by a west wind off the lake inland along the shore on Wednes- day afternoon, Theyswarmed over the highways, causing motorists tee stop their cars to clean them off the windshields. Masses of them carne down just outside the outer breakwa- ter at the harbor and formed what looked like an island. In the vicinity of Bayfield, the insects riddled' the leaves of the maple trees with holes - as they feasted. Gardefiers viewed their patches of potatoes with some' alarm as the bugs came to rest on them, and stayed there. Some people defined the bugsas the spittle insect,. or frog -hopper, and Webster's dic- tionary describes the adult as wan- dering about on herbage and trees, which is a characteristic of the swarm of grey flies which swept over Gode- rich.—Goderich Signal -Star, Electric isences Control Live Stock ada. * * * Live stock as a rule need little training to keep away from' electric 'Vow More Profit in Raising Hogs fences. Observations at the Domin- When does it pay to raise hogs? ion Experimental Station at Swift Most farmers figure they can make a Current, Sask.; show that the animals learn very quickly and do not approach a fence even when it is not charged. At Swift Current a 13 -plate wet battery was used on an electric fence that was used throughout the summer months last year for pastur- ing cattle. The cattle were well con- trolled, no harm was -done to the cattle or the attendant, an dthe bat- tery was still charged at the end of the season. The use of electric fences is gradte ally becoming more widely adopted for pastures. These fences have many advantages but care is necessary in establishing ,the equipment. Among the ,advanta:ges are reduCtion of cost in erecting temporary fences, reduc- tion of expenditure for wire, posts and gates, reduction of injury to live stock; the adaptation in the welt to winding coulees or temporary pasture areas otherwise impractical to fence, and the enclosure in the fields of untillable lands that otherwise might be wasted. As a rule, one or two wires are snfficielit to carry the elec- tric -current. One wire is sufficient for horses and cattle. Two wires are considered preferable for pigs and sheep. The wire can be supported by porcelain insulators on 2 -inch by 2 -inch stakes set in the ground 30 to 40 feet apart. * * * Canadian Horses For B.W.I. Polite Eighteen police horses are on their Way from- Canada to do constabulary mium on uality hogs, duty in the British West Indies is- This calcul ion shows that for ev- lands of Trinidad and Barbados. All ery hundredweight of pork a farmer half-breeds, they were selected by the produces • be has a margin of $8.32 Dominion Department b Agriculture above the cost of the barley it took from Breeding Stations at Brampton to produce that hundredweight of anOdf CsrhitipiteOnnt,t. the siic horses clear profit. - Allowance must be Ailso pork. Of course, that $8.32 is not all going Ito Ilathados average 15 hands, made for labour and other eXpenses 1% Incline ltt height and range in slit* as housing, But the point is 411.41erstftirolti4 .for" tt6t1hidlar8; daVerage 15 -AVhieh Is the present lignte Witt - the twelve •t4et the margin $8.32 a hundred n to A: 'Since 1083, htith ' aninehees With an age renge uiieg4i th jt 0;41..tk;110„aitsithi:tre miito Anntf.15iig64. osit tuft sitili6f4i$,4a.r bean iir,k460 hoe SoNfr, 014, tai0tg1it of .$tit inti net 8na,tewalitited • (COntinnea on kap 4ritti tkoti, Ditootp, '11V41011.14,0: . . • by the hog. In this calculation they are right: feed is the biggest part.of the cost of raising hogs. But as neither the cost of feed nor the price of hogs stays steady for long, there are times when hog raising is more profitable than others, and now is that time. Economists say that this is proved by the present hog -barley ratio, which is explained by Keith,Leckie, a Dominion Department' of Agricul- ture economist- who was born and brought up on a Western Ohtario farm which has always kept hags, and has had more brood sows dtiring the war than' ever before, and sev- eral more this year than last. In the "Economic Annalist," he de- scribes the way he finds out' when hog raising is profitable, under what he calls the Hog Feed Margin. He figures that it takes about 14 bushels of 'barley to produce one hun- dred poufids of pork. So he multi- plies by 14 the price of barley and subtradts this from the price paid per hundredweight for a B1 hog. The difference between these figures is the margin a farmer makes on sell- ing barley as pork rather than as grain. And in his figuring, he takes into account the advance equalization payment made by the Dominion Gov- ernment to Western Canada barley growers and also the Dominion pre - Signal -Star. Council Appoints Assessor At a special meeting of council. which was held on Wednesday even- ing, July llth, the resignation of Hugh Cameron as assessor and tax collector, on acdount of illness, was accepted with regret. Mr. Wesley Vanderburgh was appointed to the. position.—Clinton NeWs-Record Home From Overseas PO. Carlyle Cornisla, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. K. -CoSnish, of Brucefield, arrived on the noon train on ViTednes- day. He was recently released from, a German prisoner of war camp. He was greeted by a large group of friends. and the Collegiate Bugle Band.—Clinton News -Record. Fractures Arm in Two Places Ronnie Taylor, six-year-old son of Mrs. Andy Taylor, who resides at the Hicks House, was playing at the Salisbury home on Water St. Tues- day noon when he fell off a car, frac- turing his left arm near the wrist in two places. He had to be taken to Stratford hospital for treatment. His. daddy, Pte. Andy Taylor, is in Hol- land.—Mitchell Advocate. Four -Year -Old Gets Severe Shock Four-year-old Chester IVIaeDonald, son of Mr. and Mrs. Norman Mac- Donald, Warren St, bas had an ex- perience which might easily have cost him his life. As it is, he has a pair of very sere hands and it is feared he may lose some &igen. The lad Climbed a tree on the street in front of his home, and to suppart hittnielf took held 6f an inno&iiit-lOoldtig wire that passed through the tree=top. It Proett to bea litxy Wire attached to.'