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SEAFORTH, Friday, July 27, 1956
Deserves Generous Support
Action of a meeting held here
Monday in establishing a fund to
provide money to assist citizens of
McKillop, Tuckersmith and Hibbert,
who lost buildings in" recent storms,
will be approved by the public gen-
erally. This approval should be re-
flected in generous donations.
There is something terrifying
about a wind storm that in a matter
of moments can wipe out the work
of a lifetime. Unlike fire, which can
be equally disastrous in its effect,
windstorms frequently cause the de-
struction of buildings spread over a
wide area. Such storms are capri-
cious, striking one property, missing
several, then striking again.
It is this aspect of a windstorm
that, seems to make the damage it
causes more a matter of chance. It
is somethingthat can't be foreseen,
that can't be prevented.
The public as a result is generally
most sympathetic when some in their
midst suffer damage.. Certainly there
is no doubt as to the extent of the
damage that has been done to the
property of district citizens. It fol-
lows that they deserve the most sym-
pathetic consideration at the hands
of those in the district,, who were
fortunate in not having been victims
of the storm.
Congratulations,
General Coach
In this issue are included several
pages devoted to the operations of
General Coach of Canada Limited
at Hensall.
A relative newcomer to the indus-
trial life of Huron, General Coach
already has. Made a 1h--....
- ne for itself
in the community in which
it operates, but across Canada by
virtue of the quality product which
it manufactures.
Canadians are rapidly accepting
the high standards of living which a
present-day mobile home makes
possible. This fact is reflected in the
demand for General Mobile Homes
which has made necessary the ex-
tensive construction program which
is underway at the Hensall plant.
Mobile homes today are a way of
life to an increasing number of Can-
adians who are employed in tasks
that make necessary a certain de-
gree of mobility. The construction
worker in one town for a year; the
service man on strength at a unit for
a certain time, are but some of those
who are taking advantage of mobile
homes.
The factors, which have contribut-
ed to the growth of General Coach
will continue to operate. With con-
gratulations on the enlarged plant
which are extended to the company,
its officers and employees generally,
are coupled best wishes for continued
expansion and success.
Lightning Strikes
In view of the almost daily storms
to which this part of the country
has been subjected during recent
weeks, some information about light -
/ling which has come to hand, seems
most appropriate.
Nature's host dangerus killer,
lightning 'strikes somewhere on the
IkTorth Ai neriean continent approxi-
mately once every second. We are
1tld the death toll is almost six times
�
he
averagefortido ds and four times
t for hurricanes.
stir bing: as these figures nay
mud' rel fez tber,, however,
ale i lee
366;000
ilii`-r"ligltnin:€
-,,
by lightning can reach staggering
proportions. Beside igniting destruc-
tive fires in forest, city and country,
lightning can completely disrupt
modern electrical living. And with
today's universal dependance on that
form of living, disruption can mean
much more than mere inconvenience.
When electrical appliances and oth-
'er devices were rare, these storms
did not cause the degree of concern
experienced today. But now most of
the comforts of home depend in some
way upon electricity and industry
and hospitals depend entirely upon
it.
"Even with its enormously de-
structive powers, lightning a Is o
brings some compensating benefit,"
our informant says. "The 16 million
thunderstorms that sweep North
America free about 100 million tons
of nitrogen compounds from the air
and spread them over the earth. This
gift to plant life comes down with
raindrops."
On the basis of the rain, thunder
and lightning we have had, there is
.little doubt but that Huron already
has benefitted to the extent of a good
many tons of nitrogen compounds
this summer.
What Other Papers Say :
The Biggest, the Smallest
(Acton Free Press)
The biggest business in the Unit-
ed States is small business, says the
Cincinnati Inquirer. Ninety-eight
per cent of all retail firms in the U.S.
employ less than 20 persons each.
Ninety-three per cent of all whole-
sale firms in the nation employ less
than 20 persons each. Ninety-seven
per cent of all service businesses em-
ploy Less than 20 persons each. In-
deed, the vast majority of the busi-
nesses in all three categories employ
less than four persons. There are
some imorals to be drawn from_" the
statistics. The first one, we think,
is that the health and welfare of the
small business is of , foremost con-
cern to the entire nation's economy
suggests the Inquirer.
Hope Held Out For Canadian
Farmers
(London iee Press)
Canadian farmers, sl;'ruggling with
difficulties in the present ritty look
forward to a bright futUre, accord-
ing to Robert McCubbin, parliamen-
tary assistant to the federal minister
of agriculture and M.P. for West
Middlesex.
Mr. McCubbin surveyed the whole
field of farm production during an
address to Huron Holstein producers
and noted that surpluses are tending
to disappear. He advised producers
to watch their markets and avoid
panic marketing which tends to de-
press prices.
Basically the great hope for Cana-
dian farmers is the growth of the
Canadian population. We are con-
suming an increasing proportion of
our own farm production. It is like-
ly that wheat will soon be the only
farm commodity in which the main
reliance will be the export market.
There is another , factor which
should help Canadian farmers in the
long run. Canadians are eating bet-
ter than ever. The Canadian mar-
ket demands the premium products
once sought by Britain. A recent
letter by the Canadian Bank of Com-
merce points out that Canadians are -
now more worried about eating too
much rather than not having enough
to eat.
Canadian farmers might well 'stu-
dy new trends in eating habits and
try to benefit by them. Could we
substitute Canadian products such as
vitaminized apple juice for the huge
amount of citrus fruit now import-
ed? Or could we fill thiswant• with
tomato juice?
There is no doubt that Canadian
agriculture is passing through a' try.
ing period. Mr. l eCubbii<i, poitits to
a brighter future. Ever ttbing pos.
Ole. should be done by gt verpfu itt
d' by the $411401nsely
iii s :ills a eat ,%t ' t .•
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SEEN IN T"HE.:ACOUNTY PAPER
Bay Bales Make Forts
Several youngsters of Adastral
Park, R.C.A:P'. Station, Clinton,
found that bales of hay on the
farm of Kenneth Rogerson, R.R. 5,
Clinton, would pile up nicely for
the making of forts. However,
rain drenched the hay °while in
this position, damaged about 400
bales, causing considerable loss to
Mr. Rogerson.—Clinton News -Re-
cord.
Rock Salt Mine To Be Built
After five years of exploration
and testing at many locations, a
$6,000,000 project to mine rock salt
at Goderich is being planned, ac-
cording to an official news release
of Dominion Tar and Chemical
Company, Montreal. The plant will
be operated by Sifto Salt Limited;
since 1939 a subsidiary of Domin-
ion Tar and Chemical Company
Limited.—Goderich Signal -Star.
Saves Woman From Harbor
Diving fully clothed into Gode-
rich harbor, Sunday, 21 -year-old
Donald Bert MacAdam rescued
Mrs. Ruth Shwina, 19, of Kitchen-
er, who had sank beneath the sur-
face after an attack of cramps. It
was the second time this year
that a person had been rescued
after getting into trouble in the
200 -foot channel between the piers.
It was also the second rescue for
MacAdam, who saved a 15 -year-old
girl two years ago.—Goderich Sig-
nal -Star.
Deep Fat Fryer Takes Fire
Fire which started by a short
circuit in the deep fryer threaten-
ed Ferndale Grill last Friday eve-
ning. The blaze broke out
around 11 p.m. and Clinton fire
department were quickly on the
scene. The blaze was extinguished
with no damage to the restaurant.
A large crowd of non -directed "fire
fans" created +a minor traffic tie-
up on- the main street and hinder-
ed some of the firemen who were
attemptin.g....t.o...reach 'the scene.—
Clinton News -Record.
New Tank Truck
Guenther Tuekey Transports Ltd.
this week received delivery on a
31 -foot bulkmobile conveyor tank
truck for salt, the second of its
kind in Ontario. The vehicle, part
of which was manufactured in Jer-
seyvflie, Illinois,' will carry up to
20 tans of salt, which the local
transport hauls for firms in Gode-
rich and Sarnia. The tank truck
becomes the forty-fifth unit in the
local fleet and marks a 50 per
cent expansion for the firm since
it was amalgamated in 1952. The
transport has increased its units
from 29 to 45 in less than four
years. The new truck contains a
16 -foot conveyor 'at the back which
enables salt to be delivered with-
out being touched by hand. It has
five compartments enabling the
transport to deliver in smaller
quantities than truck load lots. The
From The Huron Expositor
July 31, 1931
• Kidnapping a provincial police
officer, robbing him of his hand-
cuffs and gun, threatening him
with his own weapon, forcing film
to drive silently through town
streets thick with his own friends,
then conscripting him as their
chauffeur in a stolen car, two
bandits on Saturday night •shot a
Mitchell garage attendant through
the hip in perpetrating one of the
most spectacular holdups in the
history of the province. The gar-
age attendant was Malcolm Gra-
ham, aged 23, son of Mr. and Mrs,
George Graham. of Mitchell.
Mr. James Shea, north of Dublin,
has 100 acres of wheat and all of
uniform height. The grain stands
3 feet 9 inches in height and is a
pretty good sample. One hundred
acre fields of wheat are some-
thing new for Huron County.
Messrs._ Harry and Manuel
Beuermann, of McKillop, have pur-
chased a new threshing outfit.
Mr. John G. Neilans was elec-
trocuted
lecttrocuted while working on the
hydro line in Seaforth. In com-
pany with some other men, he had
been putting in a new pole on
which there was a transformer, in
front of the residence of Mr. I. A.
Weedmark, on Goderich St, East,
when he came in contact with a
live wire.
Mr. John Bolton, of the Boun-
dary, a few miles east of Hensall,
had the misfortune a few days ago
to have his horses get frightened
just as he was about to engage in
doing some plowing, and with the
lines around his waist he was
caught and dragged for some dis-
tance, receiving Ilainful injuries.
From The Huron Expositor
August 3, 1906
The clatter of horses feet on
Main Street pavement makes one
feel as if he were in the city. The
next thing is the clang of the elec-
tric street car. Morris Shea's bus
is a very good imitation, but it is
not the real thing.
Mr. and Mrs. Hugh McIntosh
and daughter, of London, went
through town one day last week
in their automobile. Mr. and Mrs.
McIntosh are spending their boll -
days with Mr. McIntosh's parents
in McKillop.
Mr. Thomas Quigley has moved
his shoe shop into the store ad-
joining the new telephone office.
Mr. Thomas Pinkney, Seaforth,
has sold his fast trotting mare,
"Gertie P," to Mr. Skinner, of Mit-:
(heli receiving for her $500. She
Is a. ,prbrhrsing young 'animal with.,
tot44't sjieer# .
tear .�°u+e preaehed a=
epedlkl,, eennnit 01 = 001dfai• .eves,
rill 'td :the Ideal (Wilt iif tilts tai
local firm, which is headed • by B.
W. Tuckey, trucks salt all over the
province. A few years ago it pur-
chased a special 20 -ton dump trail-
er especially for salt hauling.—Ex-
eter Times -Advocate.
Bull Winds Up in Brazil
A high class shipment of Cana-
dian Holsteins, consisting of a bull
and eight 'heifers, has been sent
to the Recife region of Brazil. This
is the first time that Canadian Hol-
steins have been shipped to that
district of Brazil. Among them is
a bull, "Banella Starfire," who was
first prize junior bull calf at West-
ern Fair, London, last fall and jun-
ior and grand champion at Huron
County Black and White Day held
in connection with Blyth Fall Fair.
Starfire is a son of the three times
all -Canadian Spring Farm Fond
Hope and his dam is the Banella
E. Lochinvar Madge, named grand
champion at the Huron County
Black and White day in 1953 and
1955, also at Blyth.—Blyth Stand-
ard.
Return From Camp
Members of the 99th Battery,
Wingham, returned from summer
training camp at Petawawa. last
weekend, The Battery was head-
ed by Capt. J. A. Jackson. The
officer commanding the regiment
during their week of training was
Major M., R. Oliver, of Listowel.
The headquarters staff were: pay-
master, Lt. J. A. Stephens; Adjut-
ant, Lt. J. J. Lewis, and W.O., Jas.
Cameron. The tottal strength this
year was 92, comprising approxi-
mately thirty from each of the
three batteries. The two other bat-
teries were the 97th, Walkerton,
under Capt. E. McCannel, and the
100th Listowel, under Capt. E. W.
Newton, of Brussels. A strenuous
week's training was completed and
on the final day the regiment en-
tered the field competition for
gunnery. - Wingham Advance -
Times. -
Speed and Car Noise
Speed and noise of cars racing
around town continue to be major
complaints aired at council meet-
ings. Councillors wrestled with
the problem for an hour Monday
night but didn't get anywhere. Two
main protests this week came
from South Huron Hospital author-
ities and from picnickers at River-
view Park. Cars roaring around
the hospital block late at night dis-
turb patients there and council has
received numerous requests to
take action to stop the practice.
Apparently it isn't as easy as it
looks. In June council erected
hospital signs at the four corners
of the block to give police author-
ity 'to prosecute against noisemak-
ers. Hospital officials felt, how-
ever, that these signs aren't suf-
ficient and asked council, in a let-
ter, to change them to read: "Hos-
pital Zone, Quiet." Council agreed.
—Exeter Times -Advocate.
•
YEARS AGONE
Interesting items gleaned from
The Huron Expositor of 25, 50
and 75 years ago.
dian Foresters at Cavan Church,
Winthrop.
From The Linton Expositor
July 29, 1881
Mr. Brown got a finger and
thumb cut off in Mr. A. Goven-
lock's sawmill at Winthrop last
Monday.
Seaforth can boast of the best
cricket and lacrosse clubs in. the
Counties of Huron, Perth and
Bruce.
Mr, Robert Willis, Seaforth, has
leased the 'corner store in Cady's
new block and intends moving in-
to it as soon as it is finished,
Modeland Bros., the well known
threshers of Tuckersniith, have
just go home a splendid new sep-
arator threshing machine to run
with their engine. It was built by
McDonald & McPherson, Stratford,
especially for the Messrs. Mode -
land. It 'is considerably larger
than the ordinary machine.
Mr. William Scott, of the 11th
concession of McKillop, has pur-
1 chased from Mr. John Watson, of
Ayr, one of his grain binders. It
has been thoroughly tested and
works well. It is drawn by one
horse and follows round after the
reaper and picks up the sheaves
and binds them as fast as a ma-
chine can reap. This is the first
machine of the kind in the'vicinity.
1
District.AOblituaries
MRS. WILLIAM O'BRIEN
ZURICH—Mrs. William O'Brien,
81, who died suddenly from a heart
attack at her home in Zurich Tues-
day afternoon, was the former Em-
ily A. Smith, of Hay Township, and
had lived in that district all her
life.
She came to Zurich 30 years ago
and she and her husband cele-
brated their 60th wedding anni-
versary on June 3. She was a
member of the Evangelical U. B.
Church.
Surviving besides her husband,
are two sons, Lloyd and Leroy,
'Zurich; Olive, of the Zurich public
school teaching staff, and two sis-
ters, Mrs. John Vanatter, Port
Huron, and Mrs. Thomas Diller,
Markham:
Resting at the Westlake' Funeral
Home until Friday at 1 p.m., ser-
vices1
wrl be conducted in the
Evangelical V. B. Church at 2:00
p.m. by the Rev. A. M. Amacher.
Intertnent will be made in the
EVengelical U. B. Cemetery, on
the Bronson. Line.
Railroad designers say' the
atotrlio Ibcomdti 'e, already well
jy��d ,ilii +fie Cpl �y., ,y y. et+i Went d
gretitlT' tied fren ``.W+,
Clinton, Out.,, 23 July, 1956.
Editor, The Huron Expositor:
Dear Sir: Inasmuch as I do not
expect to be in a position to play
my respects individually to all my
good friends in Seaforth and the
surrounding community, I wonder
if you would permit me"the oppor-
tunity to say a final farewell
through the columns of The Hur-
on Expositor.
Not only do I wish to express
my personal thanks, but also the
appreciation of my wife and fam-
ily for the many kindnes s re-
ceived from so many pule in
Seaforth and the surrounding ar-
ea. It has been a most pleasant
relationship at all times and we
can lookback on various pleasant
incidents which have oecurred in
the past three years with fond
memories. We have formed a deep
attachment for Huron County and
we hope to return in the future to
renew ur association.
Both my wife and I will be very
pleased at any time to receive a
note or a personal visit from any
of our friends from Seaforth should
they ever find themselves in Ot-
tawa.
Again expressing my heartfelt
aappreciation and best wishes to
Your ai cerely,
H. C. ASHDOWN,
Group Captain,
Commanding Officer,
RCAF Station, Clinton.
A PARSON'S
SKETCH
BOOK
(By J. R. HOLDEN)
"Be still and- know that I am
God." Thus God speaks today
even as He did hundreds of years
ago, to a restless, striving, anxious
clamoring people. But it is hard
for people to be still today. 11
they are at home, the radio is blar-
ing some rancous music, or the
television set is intruding its -var-
ied programs upon the home. If
they sit down in an easy chair to
relax, ten chances to one they
pick up some daily paper, and
large headlines inform them of
the frenzied doings of the nations.
But home entertainment soon fails
and they must rush off to join a
crowd somewhere. There is lit-
tle meditation, and the art of con-
versation is suffering.
God in His wisdom thought that
it was wise for His children to
have a weekly day of rest and
worship. No ordinary nor unnec-
essary work was to be done, and
assuredly the day was not to be
dedicated to pleasure and to
sports
But the children think themselves
wiser than the Father, They re-
fuse to be hushed by the Divine
provision of the Sabbath. They'
most keep going on in the same
way, or more so, on Sunday as on
all other days. They must switch
royal birthdays, and other his-
toric calendar holidays to Monday
for the sake of long weekend
"whoopee." It is "on with the
dance, let joy be unconfined,"
while the atom bombs are being
piled up preparatory to a rain of
death,
People are not still, and so they
do not know that God is He who
called into being our universe.
Their attention is riveted on the
spectacular deeds of man, and
they forget the wonderful works of
God. They have no quiet in their
own hearts. and they can not pro-
vide peace anal quiet for the world.
During many recent Sundays
there have been violent storms.
Bathers at crowded beaches, tru-
ants from their churches. have had
to rush in unseemly haste to 'the
shelter• of their cars. Tobacco
crops in areas where Sunday em-
ployment in the tobacco fields is
commonplace, have been seriously
damaged. But any suggestion that
there may he some connection be-
tween a desecrated Sabbath and
these visitations is likely to be re-
garded as foolishness.
Be that as it may, where do
modern Christians get the idfa
that God is never angry? Cer-
tainly the idea of an indulgent God
who never lifts a finger to correct
His erring children does not come
from the Bible. The wrath of God
can flash forth like terrible light-
ning.
We need to be quiet so that God
can speak to us in quiet ways
without the necessity of recourse
to unusual and severe methods,
Let us not act in such a way that
our Heavenly Father has to raise
His voice in order to gain our at-
tention. As the old hymn puts it:
"Take time to be ,holy."
ST. COLUMBAN
Albert Morris, Kelvington, Sask.,
visited with Mr. and Mrs. Thomas
Morris and Mrs. Agnes Dorsey.
Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Holland
and family, London, visited with
Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Holland.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Saboski and
family, London, were guests of Mr.
and Mrs. Martin Murray.
Mr. and Mrs. George Muse, of
Eureka, Cal., with Mr. and Mrs.
John Delaney and other relatives.
Miss Clara Krauskopf, Detroit,
visited with Mrs. James Nolan
and Mr. and 'Mrs. N. Krauskopf.
Jack Murray and Lou Murray,
of Toronto, visited with Mr. and
Mrs.
Michael Murray.
Mr. and Mrs. Dan Williams, of
Windsor, with Mrs. Mary Wil-
liams.
Jtihn Fortune, Howard and. John
and Miss Agnes Lynch, of Detroit,
visited with John Lynch and sis-
ters.
Mr. and Mrs. Bill Hayden, of
Toronto were (guests of Mr, and
Mra. w#lliattt 1i'Ictver,
Mr, bittl. `Erg, Ian Delaney were
1,1Gtidland.
HEN$; LL WRITER :. RECALLS
WELL-KNOWN FIGURE$ OF EARLY DAYS
(By,Maude Redden.)
There were giants on the eart
in the not -so -long ago in Huron
County.
We had a family here years
back in Huron County by the name
of Bell. The old man was always
called Grandaddy Bell. He carne
from Scotland and ran a grist mill
on the creek near the village of
Kippen. Ile raised family and
ljived there to the day of`tris death.
He could walk from London — 40
miles odd -- and be up to his
home in time for dinner.
His son Paul had a farm and a
saw mill just west of Hensall. One
time when they raised Bill Grand's
barn; Paul was at the raising. The
barn was 82 feet .long—one of the
first raised in this part of the
country.
There was the usual procedure.
They hauled the wall plate and
the purloin plate end on to the
building before they' started the
raising. When the bents were up,
Paul grabbed hold of the wall plate
—it was of rock elm ten inches
square and 82 feet long—climbed
up to the corner of the wall and
laid the .end on the (top beam sin-
gle-handed.
Meets Gas Buggy
Paul never drove a buggy, but
hada light wagon and brown horse.
One day/coming home, he met a
gas buggy and the little horse
thought the limper thing to do was
stand up on his hind legs.
The horse cut quite a caper and
looked like running away, but Paul
reached forward, caught the back -
band of the harness, lifted4 the
-animal back on his knee and held
it there until the last smell of the
gas buggy had disappeared. Then
he set him down on the road and
drove on into Hensall.
That was the first record of an
automobile driving along the Zur.
ich road. Paul Bell lived to be 98
and was never sick two days in•
his life.
In -the old days when you drove
up the London road north and
crossed the Mill road at the vil-
lage of Brucefield, you could see
at the northwest a wooden build-
ing painted white with a sign over
the door saying, "Surgery—James
Stewart, M.D."
"Awful Painful"
Marks and once ran a fellow, out
h of town with a fork handle.
One day a stout man by the
name of McEwan, crippled into
the office. "Doctor," he said,
"what's wrong with me?"
"McEwan," said the doctor,
"you `have a 'contraction of the
sciatic nerve. If I. can get hold
of it and can stretch it half an
inch 1 can cure you. But it will
be awful painful."
Dr. Stewart sent out for the
five strongest men in Brucefield
to hold McEwan. He called across
to the butcher: "Sharpen up your
knives and come over." Then he
went across to Kaiser, the black-
smith, who had his shop in\back
of Rattenbury's hotel, and said,
"Kaiser, fix me up a pair of tongs
drawn out long and fine at the
point."
When the doctor got the tongs
he cleaned and sterilized them.
As the five men held McEwan
with his face on the table, the
doctor took one of the knives and
split his hip open. Then he got
hold of the sciatic nerve with the
point of the tongs and pulled and
stretched it half an inch.
The roars of McEwan could be
heard for half a mile. It took
all the five men's strength to hold
him down. But it must have cur-
ed him, for he never came back,
Went To McGiII
Dr. Stewart afterwards went to
McGill as professor of materia
medica. When Sir John A. Mac-
donald took ill, they sent for Dr,
Stewart, then considered the
greatest authority on nervous dis-
eases- in America.
His operation, first performed
in the village of Brucefield, went
down in medical history as the
'Stewart operation'.
Bob Marks, a big Irishman, who
was one of the men who held Mc -
Ewan down, was so strong that
he couldn't work. If he forgot
himself and squeezed a crowbar,
for instance, it would just fall in
pieces like a woman making curjy
cakes.
Bob Marks was the postmaster.
He was always called Big Bob
Malde Bailiff
There was a chap by the name
of Phillip Sipple, of the same coun-
ty, who was a blacksmith by
trade. To show the respect' he
was held in, the sheriff made him
bailiff.
Shortly after this the Hensall
Observer went into liquidation.
The bailiff, not being too scholar-
ly, thought "to seize" was to car-
ry away. He drove from Zurich
to Hensall, backed his dray up to
the building and picked up the
press.
' It wasn't quite wide enough for
both to go through the door at
once. They stuck in the ,jamb and
the casting broke, making the
press a wreck. A junk dealer had
to come and gather it up. He
took it home and weighed it. He
had little less than five tons.
Strong Men Meet •
There was a man named Pete
Geiger Who had the reputation o£
being a strong man. Tom Sher-
ritt was another strong man. He'cl
heard of Geiger and wanted to try
conclusions.
Sherritt was driving along the
road one winter day when he met
a big man crossing the swamp
with a wagon. He turned out to,,
be Geiger.
Sherritt greeted him with, "I've
often heard tell how strong you
are. Let's see who's the strong-
est."
"All right," Pete said. "Let's
see who's strongest on the lazy
stick." That meant they were
to sit down opposite, ,brace the
soles of i .eir feet against one
another and null on a stick.
Pete w - '.ed into the swamp,,
where the ground was frozen very'
hard and grabbed a little greens
rock elm. He twisted it like a
match and snapped it intwo over
his knee. He brought the piece
over to Tom, who by this time was.
up and away over the top of the
hill!
But later, curiosity made hint
steal back (when Geiger had.
gone) and measure the rock elms.
which Geiger had twisted as if it.
were a match over his knee. It_
was three and one-half inches,
through.
Barrel Lifter
There was a man by theame
of John Gillingham, who fire the
salt block for Dr. Coleman at Sea -
forth. He would take one barrel
and set it on end. Then he would.
take a second and lift it on top..
The third he'd lift on that again..
The gross weight of each barrel:
was 300 pounds, 'He would do that
as easy as one might set a waste
basket on top of the cuspidor.
There was a time he bet he
could throw 42 cubic feet of white
oak a distance of 20 feet. A piece
of lumber that size would weight,
something, over 2,500 pounds:.
That's what he threw thirty feet„_
Of course, he didn't say how'
he would do it. Actually. he set.
it up horizontally about the -
height of his shoulder, then he took
a snap and shot it a heave side-
ways. He was afterward killed by
the explosion of a boiler.
His ordinary day's work was tot
bring in the wood to keep steam
in the boiler. When they got the
boiler repaired they had to get a
horse and cart and two men to do,
his everyday work.
Hay 'Bargain "
In the early days in the County
of Middlesex, near Strathroy,,
there was a man by the name of:
Joe Berryfield. He framed. barns.
One year. hay. being very scarce,
he took his horse and two -wheel --
ed cart and 'went to one of the •
farmers in search of bay.
The farmer told him: `You cars
have as much hay as you want too
carry away on your back for half
a dollar. So Joe got two poles,
laid them crosswise. and loaded
them up with hay. Then he crawl-
ed underneath, making a hole in
the hay through which he stuck
his head.
He straightened up and walked
out of the barn. He looked at the
hay when he got home. "By gee,"
he said, "I've got quite a bun-
dle," He totalled it up and found
he had just 1,800 pounds. "By
gee," he remarked, I could have
carried the other 200 pounds."
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