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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1951-08-17, Page 2�N1 NE HURON Establis ie A. Y. McLe" - Eclat, w11, Publi�'� .led at Seaforth, Ontario, ev- y Thursday afternoon by McLean 13r -os. Member of Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association. Subscription rates, $2.50 a year in advance; foreign $3.00 a year. Single copies, 5 cents each. Advertising rates on application. PHONE 41 Authorized as Second Class Mail Post Office Department, Ottawa SEAFORTH, Friday, August 17th The Old Age Pension Application forms for old age pen- sions have been available at post offices . since the first of the month. The pension—payable to all citizens who will be seventy years of age or over on January 1, 1952, is made pos- sible by the Old Age Security Act, passed by the Federal Parliament in June of this year. In some quarters there appears to be a hesitancy to make application. Some people fear that by applying for and accepting a pension they are in some manner committing them- selves, or their property, and that at some future time the Government will recover the amount paid in pen- sion from them. This is not the case. The pension is payable as a matter of right to all citizens who qualify as to age. There is no means test. The acceptance of a pension, does not affect property or other assets. There should thus be no hesitation on the part of citizens 70 years of age in making application, since all, regardless of personal circumstance, are equally entitled. Persons who are now in receipt of an old age pension need not make application, since the federal officials will "obtain the names of such indi- viduals from present lists and the federal pension will go forward at the end of Januar", Those who are receiving a $40 -a -month pl;naion will have it continued at, that level; those t..i�. partial pension `1�7�© are gel.t,[u� a partial .-. will find it increased to $.40, One requirement in ;making. appli- cation is that the applicant prove his or her age, and in many cases diffi- culty is being experienced in obtain- ing birth certificates. While birth or • baptismal certificates are best evi- dence, other documents that will be considered include records in family Bibles, church rolls or registers, mar- riage records, communion certifi- cates, passports and acknowledge- ments of age by insurance compan- ies. • The Census in 1871 The difference in farmi.ig methods of eighty years ago and now is em- phasized by a copy of a sheet used in the census of 1871, which was found recently by Mr. John Broad - foot, of Tuckersmith. Thirteen inch- es by twenty inches, the sheet was completed by Mr. Broadfoot's grand- father, the late James Broadfoot. The few questions required to be an- swered then is in contrast to the re- quirements of the 1951 census form. Farming was not mechanized in those days and on the Broadfoot farm the work was done with the aid of four horses. There were three sleighs and carriages and the same number of wagons. Other machin- ery included four plows and culti- vators, one horse rake and one fan- ning mill. The 196 -acre farm, of which 120 acres were improved, produced 120 bushels of wheat, 200 bushels of bar- ley, 300 bushels of oats, 50 bushels of peas, 50 bushels of potatoes, and 600 bushels of roots. Thirty tons of hay were taken from 20 acres, while the orchard yielded 20 bushels of apples. From the maple forest came 160 pounds of maple sugar. Stock included 18 cattle, 11 sheep and seven hogs. During the year 130 pfntnds of butter and 200 pounds of cheese Fere churned. While in the main the products of the farm in 1871 were not unlike those produced in 1951, the big dif- litertee lies in the labor that went its their production. Farming is THE HURON =SAVOR, • .,Ill hard work, but it is not as hard now as it was eighty years ago, when there were no tractors nor electric lights. - Tirnes Have Changed We are heartily behind any move that will result in an improved standard of living for Canadians. At the same time we realize that in the long run, only by the individual efforts of each of us can improve- ment be obtained. There is no short- cut or easy method. Perhaps in working a little more it may not be desirable to go to the lengths which an employer of sev- enty odd years ago found necessary. In any event, the instructions to his employees of that day, as laid down in a recently discovered sheet head- ed, "Notice To Employees," were as follows: 1. Store must be open from 6.00 a.m. to 9.00 p.m. the year round. 2_ Store must be swept, counters, shelves and showcases dusted; the lamps trimmed and filled and chim- neys cleaned; pens made; doors and windows opened; a pail of water and a bucket of coal brought in before breakfast. (If there is time to do so, attend to customers who call). 3. The store must not be opened on the Sabbath unless necessary, and then only for a few minutes. 4. The employee who is in the hab- it of smoking Spanish cigars, being shaved at the barber's, going to danc- es and other places • of amusement, will assuredly give his employer rea- son to be suspicious of his integrity and honesty. 5. Each employee must pay not less than $5 per year to the Church, and must attend Sunday School reg- ularly. 6. Men employees are given one evening a week for courting, two if they go to prayer meeting. 7. After 14 hours in the store, the leisure hours should be spent for the most part in reading. CROSSROADS (By James Scott) WHY DON'T THEY PAINT THEIR BARNS? Not so long ago I was passing the time of day with one of our American cousins—a visitor from the Middle West. Naturally I ask- ed the usual question. "What do you think of our part of the country here?" Well, he tried to be kind, to let me down easily, but he had a gripe, or at least he thought he had. He said there are quite a few things around here he had noticed. He said the crops looked pretty good; the fields were, for the most part, clean; the farm houses look- ed' substantial and a lot of thein had a nice planting of trees around them. "But." he said, "why don't they paint their barns?" What Other Papers Say: He followed this up with the old saw about how you can tell a good ;tell the same story to me as the farm not by looking at the house • beautifully mellowed and aged' but at the barn. "It seems to me," barn the American didn't like. was his conclusion, "that the 1 The story I like to remember, farms around here can't be yip to I and the story that staunch old much judging from those old un- ; bairn tells, is of the hardy pioneer painted wrecks I see everywhere." who came into this land and cut Now this is the kind of talk down the first trees and by sheer 'strength and faith cleared, the land that's likely to make a native mad. I was pretty hot under the collar for this first crop. By the time he myself, so I took this visitor to got around to building the fine big see for himself one of these un- 'barns, which can be seen all over stated "wrecks" he had been talk- the countryside today, he had fine ing about. (rolling acres, some good stock and. of course, a courageous helpmate I showed him the foundation and an old-fashioned large family. 'wide of native field stone, and still The trees were cut down, but be -tanding plumb and foursquare af- I wasn't out of the woods. Every er over sixty years. Then I tools (cent had to do a lot of work, and him up to the haymow and let him Ipaint cost money. He needed a ;ool: at the beams— not a two -by- big barn, but he could do without 'our in sight, but big rough-hewn the frills, so his labor and energy ratters that looked as if they'd last went into building with the best •oiever—and maybe will. In fact, materials and the best workman - we made a complete tour of the i ship. He built this barn for the 'old wreck" and by the time we future; he built it to last. 'iad completed it my friend was I And old Father Time will heal willing to admit that this was a almost anything if he's given right good barn, a fit place to something to go on. He's gone to shelter all the up-to-date equipment. work on those sturdy barns and he saw housed there, and a good with the help of the wind and the place to store the lush crops he rain and the mellow summer sun, ew growing in the fields. they have become beautiful. But these Middle West Ameri- I My friend couldn't see this, but cans are a stubborn lot—and I like then he didn't know the story them for it. ' which that "old unpainted wreck" "All right," he admitted, "that's a tells to everybody who was sired .00d barn, but I still don't see why i in this part of the country. they never painted anything but bhe doors. It looks ugly." That, of course, is a matter of taste. For me there isn't a nicer sight anywhere than an old, beautifully - proportioned silver grey barn gleaming in the morning sun. Ev- erything about it proves what is the truth—that it is almost as much a part of the countryside as the elms in the pasture or the wil- lows by the brook. It belongs there and it looks as if it were going to stay right where it belonged for a long, long time. I don't mind steel barns or barns painted bright red or dazzling white with a green trim. No, they're all right. But they don't `S 11110111011111, To The Editor When on vacation i nnthe pink Be sure to have plenty of milk to drink. But raw milk is known to spread disease, So pasteurize yours ere you drink it, please. Dept. of National Health and Welfare Years Agone Interesting Items Picked From The Huron Expositor of Twen- ty-five and Fifty Years Ago. ,A,i,JOUST 17, 1951' Seen in the County Papers Is in Hospital Mrs. John Albrecht is a patient in Clinton Public Hospital. Her many friends wish her a speedy recovery.—Zurich Herald. Big Brown Trout Wally Haselgrove hit the jack- pot when he caught a four and a half pound brown trout. The fish measured 22 inches. He isn't talk- ing about the location of the hole, of course, but it was caught in a stream not far from town.—Wing- ham Advance -Times. on Friday last. The evening form- ed a surprise party for the Andrew Stewarts and family who leaver soon for their new home in Brig -- den. After a social time and dainty iunch• the Stewarts were presented with parting gifts as a tangible gesture of the affection and es- teem in which they were held by those assembled, who wished them every success in their new home — Mitchell Advocate. Property Sold Mr. Moses Gerber, who resides opposite the fair grounds, has sold his fine dwelling property to Mr. Wilfred Weido of the Parr Line, who gets possession in about a month. Mr. Gerber has purchased his son-in-law's property, Mr. Har- vey Clausius, in the westerly part of town, and will move there shortly.—Zurich Herald. From The Huron Expositor August 13, 1926 The community of Chiselhur t was startled on Thursday nocn of last week when an alarm of fire was raised, and it became known that he barn of Archie Hodgert was on fire. A large crowd of will- ing helpers gathered, but nothing could be done. Miss Thelma Hudson, Hensall, has taken a position with Mr. E. F. Knipe. 140 Albany Ave., because quite frequently I have Toronto, August 2, 1951. seen men of the cloth having a quiet glass of ale in the lounge The Editor, room of one of these pubs. The Huron Expositor: To Catch Horse Thieves (Port Williaifl Times -Journal) There has not been a horse theft in -or near Debham, 1Vlass., for fifteen years, but the Society for the Appre- hension of Horse Thieves, dating back to colonial times, now has 1,711 members, the most in its history. Geared to the modern tempo, most people read the sentence and immedi- ately say to themselves—if there is no horse stealing going on, why keep organized against it. Only a few will stumble on the thought that the existence of the society may be the answer to the absence of thefts. In the world today a large group of Communists are engaged in steal- ing the freedom of the human indi- vidual. It might be an excellent idea to form a Society for the Apprehen- sion of Freedom Thieves in coun- tries where the Communists are at work trying to undermine free insti- tutions. Vigilance is required to stop any kind of thievery. • The Rural Post Office (Tillsonburg News) Many rural post offices are going the way of the penny post, ending still another era of the romance of the mail system. Since pioneer days the post office in hamlets sprinkled across the country have been insti- tutions. Located in a corner of a general store they served almost all the needs of the residents, supply ev- erything from a one -cent stamp to a keg of nails. They acted as forerun- ners to community centres, where oldtimers could sit around a pot-bel- lied stove, when the weather forced them in from the front stoop, and swap yarns of the olden days while the young fry sat quietly and listen- ed with open-mouthed attention. Through the wickets passed the mails bringing the news of the outside world, while the local news was spread from mouth to mouth in the informal gatherings of the folk of the hamlet as they waited for the postmaster to sort the mail into the glass -fronted pigeon holes. r.W4}A.I:t Dear Sir: Having just returned :roar England after a month's va-1 cation, f was very much interested in an article in your valuable paper by D. W. Williams. minister. rinit_ ed Church in Goderich. on the The Editor, Liquor Control Act and the Can- The Huron Expositor: at:a Temperance Act, and I felt it, Dear Sir: In that fine story, would be of some interest to your "Earthen Dam Keys Alberta Irriga readers as to how this whole busi- tion Plans" (July 27, Huron Exposi ness is handled in England, as any tor), I was attracted especially to Canadian soldier could tell you if the following point in the thought - e v as in England for any time. 1 stream: "The very factor which D. C. SMITH • Toronto, August 6, 1951. What's the Yolk? When Mrs. Sheldon Wein broke - a rather large egg for breakfast the other morning, she had no pre- monition that a hen in these tinfes of high prices could possibly be so benevolent. The egg had three yolks and proved adequate for the breakfasts of her husband, their son and herself. It seems that more hens of the district have, caught on to the spirit of aiding the over -burdened budgets of housewives. Mrs. W. (Kay) Stew- art reports having a whole dozen.. double yolked eggs• in one batch. Moved Back To Blyth They were all good yolks.—Exeter Mr. and Mrs. Emerson Wright Times -Advocate. have returned to Blyth after an Releases 1,500 Pheasants absence of six years, during which I The Exeter Game Conservations. time they resided in Meaford. Mr. and Mrs. Wright have taken up Club have released 1,500 pheas- residence in the property they pur- ants in Stephen Township since chased last April, formerly oc'cu- the first day of July and 100 more pied by the late B. Herrington. will soon be released on the farm) Friends are happy to have the of Dalton Finkbeiner outside of Wrights back in town as residents Exeter. Hay and Stanley Town- again.—Blyth Standard. , ships have adopted similar plans and all told some 5,0010 birds have. Boy Falls Under Rake I, been brought into the area enclos Master Marvin Cutting, Guelph, ing the three townsthips. The offic:- w-hile visiting his grandfather, Mr. sal date for the hunting season has• Sylvanus Cann on his farm at not as yet been definitely decided,. Bayfield, narrowly escaped serious but as in the past three years, injury while driving the horses since the plan has been, in opera - raking hay. They drove into a tion, hunters should be given a'. bee's nest causing the horses to free hand in early November.. run and throwing the lad forward Hatched by the Department of under the rake. Luckily he was Lands and Forests at Cardington: only badly scratched about the � and Nor:mandale, the birds were head and body. He was brought to brought in when they were one Dr. Dunlop's office at'Exeter for day old on June 7. Their care has treatment. — Exeter -Times Advo- been in the• hands of James Gros - sick on the Finkbeiner farm and:: he has reported a surprisingly low.- loss ow; loss of three per cent in raising" the birds. When released the birds must be eight weeks old to with- stand the more rugged life on their own and by November a goodil healthy bunch of pheasants will' await the sportsmen of the district.. —Exeter Times -Advocate. Mr. Scott. Hawthorne, Hullett, while fishing near Lucknow last week, caught a rainbow trout that measured 24 inches in length and weighed. three pounds and eleven ounces. Murray Savauge, Ed. Daly, Ar- thur Edmunds and Robert Willis are camping at Bruce Beach. Mr. C. Hohlbein, Seaforth's not- ed gardener, has a tomato plant that has 41 tomatoes on it, and all of them the size of hen's eggs. A most enjoyable time was spent at Jowett's Grove, Bayfield, Thurs- day afternoon when the Sunday School classes and members of the Anglican Church, Varna, held their annual picnic. Members of the Seaforth High- landers Band and the Lions Club are working hard, paving the way for a band tattoo on Thursday next. The Guelph Regimental Band. under the lead'erahip of Mr. Thos. Miler, is to play and he Is 1oneeded to be one QC the pest bdiid leaders an Ontario. Travellers on the highway east of Seaforth, are loud in praise of the work being done by the Lions Club, under the chairmanship of Lion Wesley J. Beattie. the old, un- sightly dump on the McMann farm is now nearly obliterated', and with tate. The family pub is to be found has conserved the fertility of this the grassing over of the place it .cverywhere and are very numer-i (seluiarid) land 15o i6 the one will remove an eyesore to the ous, in Aldershot, for example, I: Whieli has demanded irrigation, to counted five of these pubs in a lis banish the gfilil spectre of recur - an, e of five hundred yards These ring tlielights and total crop fail- • • pubs are small, catering on the, tires: Receiving only 12. to 16 inch- tverlge to not more than thirty es of precipitation annually, this o forty people; hours, 12 noon toaland- has not had its .fertility re - 2 p.m., and 6 to 10:30 in the even- duced by excessive moisture." ag. They are called 'family pubs' I The above is an interesting- ex- lue to the fact that so many are ample of the sublime law of 'com- run by a husband and wife, and pensation'; but, to this grassroots quite often their grownup daugh- reader, I confess that, had I been ;ers and sons pitch in and help. writing that final few words, i These public houses are, on the would have been tempted to say: ,,hole. owned by different brewer- "This land has not had its fertility les and must sell the particular reduced by excessing cropping." Ile and beer made by the brewery I And while I've my pets in band, iwning the hotel. i may I have the privilege of coma - The patrons are respected men meeting briefly on that letter in nd women. mostly husbands and your correspondence columns by vives, who pick a pub of their an "Ottawa Resident," who, ob- hoice, which becomes more of a viously, "likes margarine"; even if tub than anything else. and it is it is a case of 'making a virtue of • rare case indeed to see a man' necessity' which, as the proverb •r woman the worse of liquor. 1 reminds us 'does everything well.' nay add that these pubs, or hotels, The point about which I would ire open on Sunday the same time is week days. Beer and ale are the chief bev- -"rage; gins and liquors can be turd -lased, but are very expensive, here being a scarcity due to the act that they are exported, chief- 'y- to the United States and Can - Ida. There is one thing quite certain. should any British Government at- empt to close down these family pubs, they would have a revolution )n their hands. Ask any Canadian soldier who has been in England for any time. Apparently the Church does not worry too much, re this system, Iike to say my say is as follows: "Here's a city housewife to defend margarine. I like margarine and buy it (a certain brand) all the time, and save about fifteen dol- Iars a year thereby. I buy ham- burger instead of round steak; sausages instead of sirloin; lard instead of shortening, and mar- garine instead of butter." That is your privilege, lady, in this free land. May I just say, however, that if the rest of the Canadian people did all this, we could ruin countless farmers. They are our best customers! • From The Huron Expositor August 9, 1901 Among those whom we have learned who went to the Manitoba's harvesters' excursion on Tuesday from Hensall, were: Hugh Aitche• son, W. C. Kyle, George Alair, Jo`@, Hood, Alex McMurtrie, Henry Ivi- son, Joseph Butt and Gilbert Sin- clair. Mr. Jas. G. Martin, who resides on the old Hannah farm, Tucker - smith, had a very fine crop of wheat. He threshed 600 bushels as the product of 15 acres. Mr. George Christopher, Walton, had the frame of his barn raised on Thursday of last week. Thos. Newsome, of Brussels, had the con- tract. The barn is now nearing completion and, is quite modern. Mr. Aaron Hulley, of Leadbury, met with a painful accident re- cently. While steadying the binder on a hillside, his hand came in the way of one of the packers of the machine, which penetrated his hand,. The following were ticketed to distant pointe this week by Wm. Somerville, G.T.A. agent of town: Mr. and Mrs. Thos. Lockhart, Mc- Killop, to Sarnia; Mr. Brownlee, Tuckersmith, to Sault Ste. Marie; Beverley Kemp to Toronto; Keith Fear, to Aylmer; Helen Fear, to Paris; R. S. Hays to Hamilton; A. F. McLean, Tucic,ersmith, to Shel- den, N.D.; Willie Deem to Hope, N.D.; the Misses Helen and Bessie Young, Geo. McL. Chesney, Fred Perkins, J. M. Best, Wm. Pickard, Rev. F. H. Larkin, Mr. and Mrs. J. K. Richardson, Mrs. C. Bethune andtwo daughters, all to the Pan- American, Buffalo. Mr. Jas. Hyslop, of Cromarty, who has conducted a very success- ful business for several years, has disposed of his business to Ira Andrew, Exeter. He intends mov- ing to Toronto to go into the dry goods business. Scott Bros., musical instrument dealers, of town, have shipped church organs to Cranbrook Pres- byterian Church and St. Norbert Catholic Church, Manitoba, this week. The barn and outbuildings on the form of Mrs. Jno. McLean, Mill Rd. together with contents, were com- pletely destroyed by fire on Fri- day. Mrs. McLean's sons were drawing in oats when the pulley beams got overheated and ignited the straw around them. Mr. R. N. Anderson, Constance, has been engaged to teach in S.S. No. 3, Stephen, the school taught by Mr. 13. Hooper. Mr. J. A. Me - Naughton, of Farquhar, has been engaged to teach in S.S. No. 1, Fairfield, the vacancy being caus- ed by Wm. Bagshaw's death. Tops Beaver Oats Growers Beaver oats' crop entered in the Exeter Field Crop competition ,here judged by Ed. Hansuld, of Tavistock. Of the crops inspected the following were announced as winners: R. E. Pooley, Exeter, 93 points; Harold Hern, Granton, 91; Clark Fisher, Exeter, 90; Harry Beaver, Hay P.O., 89; Harry Strang, Hensall, 88%; Chas, Prout, Centralia, 87; Archie Etherington, Hensall, 86%; Lorne Passmore, Exeter, 86. The contest was spon- sored by the. Exeter Agricultural Society.—Exeter Times -Advocate. Hold Social Evening A. very pleasant social evening was spent when the neighbors and a few friends gathered at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Kingsley Salton CERES. Crop Report For Huron County Most of the fall wheat crop has now been threshed with a few fields yielding up to 50 bushels per acre, and most of the crop averag- ing between 25 to 30 bushels per acre. Approximately three-quar- ters of the spring grain crop is cut and threshing of this crop bas commenced in some areas. A few fields of timothy left for seed were cut this week. Corn and root crops made excel- lent growth this past week. New seedings of grasses and clovers are showing up well on harvested areas. Quite a number of tree ap- plications were dlertibuted this week to those wishing to order trees before the August 15 dead- line. Ontario Crop Acreages Ontario farmers in 1951 growing more feed for their stock, and at the same time are growing increased acreages of such crops as soybeans, flax, husk- ing corn and buckwheat. On the other handl they have reduced their output of potatoes, rye, spring wheat, corn for fodder, dry peas and beans and field roots. This was revealed by the June survey of crops and livestock, the compil- ation of which has just been com- pleted by the Statistics Branch of the Ontario Department of Agri- culture. With hay and pasture crops ac- counting for about half of the cul- tivated acreage of the Province, they might well be considered our most important crops, and the ac- reage of these crops totalling some 6,850,000 acres is substantially e area of higher than in 1950 Th hay and clover Is up 12 per cent, are alfalfa three per cent and seeded live- (Continued on Page 7) A Smile Or Two, Bob: "The touch of the nurse's; hand cooledmy fever instantly." Warren: "Yeah, we heard the; slap all over the ward." • Mrs. Dick (sighing) : "Do you remember our honeymoon, dear?" Dick: "Yeah. I wish we hail. the money I spent on it." Callabkm aton al. A meal in one of Canadian National's attractive. modern dining cars is among the relaxing, pleasant: interludes you'll experience when you travel our line. 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