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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1990-10-31, Page 24xHuronopsitor SINCE 11160, SERVING THE COMMUNiTY FIRST isserperetiag The tliruasels Post Published la Ilanierth. Ontario Ewer Wednesday MereMe C• ND MOM Onwd aass+.t w■taawtr era. Aal..1 Itimp. rover *MINIM y...ta.aDepasesailies 1111AIIED MEM ser. ter SIAM tier Oird A000Urttstat OW Amor elm. Mara* Mods Mime M.nb.r Canadian Cotttntnwrty Newspaper A..oc Onsets* Corwwwwt+lv N.r.spap.r Association Ontario Prose Comma Comnionw.ahh hese Union International Press MMlf ,ts Subscription Iter.. Cantle '?7 00 o year. in ethane Stonier Onions s '1100 o raw ., advance Outsds Canada '6.00 o yew in odvorncH Swill. Cowes 60 cants *acts Second cane moil registration Number OWO WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 31. 1990 arllorl& ons au.lw..s O111... - 10 Male street. s..+vr t n Tolephow. Is 11) 327-0240 h: $27-isse; AWN.. Ades - P.O. Ilea M. fo.1.rIA. Ow6.rl., NW I WO Be careful Ghosts and goblins will be coming to your door tonight for Trick or Treating and bringing a bit of delight to your doorway. It's important to remember that the spooks are just little children and in their excitement they easily forget road safety rules. Please don't be out driving when the little ones are out trick or treating. If you must, then drive slowly and carefully and be on the look out for them. If you see some witches and warlocks running or walking across the road wait until they're up on the curb as they could trip on their costumes. Parents should take some measures to ensure their children's safety on Halloween night. For very small children parents or a responsible teenager should walk with them and help them up and down all stairs. It's a good idea not to let the children stop and eat candy unless it's from a house you know to be good and caring. Costumes shouldn't be too long and cause the children to trip. It's usually chilly on Halloween and children should be dressed warmly undemeath their costume, even if they're out for only a short while. Masks should fit properly so as not to impair the child's vision. Face make-up is better to use than masks, and can be exceedingly more creative and individual. Dont let children carry pumpkins with lit candles in them. Instead of candy there are so many other treats to hand out for Halloween. Packages of crayons are popular. Also new for Halloween are stickers, pencils and even tooth brushes. Apples and oranges are still a good idea. If the children turn up their noses to good fruit, you can rest assured they will probably eat them anyways, especially if mom puts the fruit into a pie or cobbler. Halloween trick or treating lasts only a couple of hours. For that short time the streets are opened to the children and adults have to be smart and careful to ensure the children enjoy themselves. Once home parents have the responsibility to check through the candy to make certain it is fit to eat. Some children have allergies and all offending candy should be discarded. Fruit should be checked for freshness. And of course, only candy that hasn't been tampered with should be kept. Unfortunately some people dislike children so much they want to cause harm. This behaviour is rare, but must be taken into consideration. /S.E.O. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Animal activists in town Dear Editor: I am enclosing a copy of a note left on my door October 14, 1990. I would like a chance to reply through the paper and to defend myself. Since these people prefer to remain anonymous it is very dif- ficult to deal with and I hope your paper will publish my views. If possible I would prefer that you did not publish my address. Yours truly P.M. Reid TAKE YOUR CAT TO THE VET. IT IS MALNOURISHED, HAS WORMS, AND HAS BAD INJURIES. ANIMAL ACTIVISTS IN SEAFORTH Oh for shame, you nameless, faceless people, So bold you are with notes upon my door, Mistreating my cat you say with alligation's in great detail, My goodness, where did I fail! Where you looking in my windows, Did you look right through my doors, How did you see my cat when he was hurting and so sore. Where you wearing 3 D glasses or maybe even more. For I was working don't you see And my cat, he was confined, for indiscretions done previously, Your assumption leave me cold and mistrusting of all I see Unsigned letters are so ominous and they do this to me. This town has many cats who are homeless, I personally know of Turn to page 1$A • RURAL ROOTS by Jeanne Kirkby a - ..-t' Crosbie, get with it Three big items of news for the farm community this week! Ontario's largest agricultural group is being led by a grandmother during October and November. John Crosbie, our illustrious Minister of Trade has both feet in his mouth again, and we have the last word in what the Ontario farmer receives for his produce. Just when you think that you've heard everything... last week our esteemed Trade Minister, John Crosbie, said we farmers should be ashamed to complain because we were receiving S8.8 billion in annual subsidy. Whoa! Were this true. we'd be better just to divide it amongst our dwindling farm population and all hang up our socks. if Mr. Crosbie is our main defender in the international trade minefield, maybe it's time to get out the helmets and shields and assume protective positions) Where did he dream up this figure? Well, partly because one of the calculations done for the GATT talks tried to pinpoint an actual value for a prciduct insernationally. For example. a bushel of apples has a specific food value wherever it is grown, and therefore has an es- timatihle value worldwide as human sustenance. The value given was :ompared to actual values of the product in each country, and our man Tura to page IIA • Sweats, not jeans, the "' I watt *OW by two Maid at lay Woo Waft Oat Mee imas art MD 'mip- appaprume ami: for alit • aaptimmy married malas wadi &lii1a. 1 flunk they was tb=et ere cificauy to males(and 1 use tie term bracket very liberally) the; we of 30, and the must asue of 36, (a- lthough maybe that's a standard for married males with children). Aayways, the coaunent can un the hods of a compltme t I paid to one of their friends. He just hap- pened to be attired in said "kaa s - than -trendy" denims. They trete Aims, 1 learned, what 1 questioned their fashion sense. Soaps it was motivated amore by their swing rotound ess, than a know a of the newest trends. A continent that their wives keep " thing SWEATSOCKS by Heather Robinet inflating thou leans, making theme a wasted purchase, just didn't wash. It's funny isn't it. Women strug- gle day in and day out to maintain some salable= of a figure - louung exercise clauses, avoiding sweets and nionno Ung calories in order to forever stay a size 5, or 7, or whatever. Al oholn consumption is kept to the bare mrwnum, wa- ndered as it is, the chief contributor to unwanted fauy tissue. And sit ups are the norm rather than the eWbypvoadowed0it. MC11 un the other hand - and husbands scan to be the worse o footers, gat to the opposite extreme. They might ogle so at mnuun a figure, but it scan to bother them if that figure as a size bigger than u was last month or two sizes bigger than lust yeast. How many men do you know who are the scent size they were in high school? Men exercise, sure. And they exercise hard, often playing hockey three, maybe four hours a week, basketball for a couple hours, and whatever other spurt they atii.st be able to jam ui on tor a couple more yet. But what they don't nil you is that tial Sporting *;atony grancritns a thirst that cars only be quenched by a half dozen ui so boors. And jeans - trendy or not, it doesn't seen to mania nowadays whether one wean than or not. The mean that hang around tny house maintain that sweaty alto is vogue nght now, and so they should be, suns they're probably the cal things that wtll stretch cnuugb around the middle. Now I may be exaggcraung, of course. But my husband's growing girth is a running joke around our house. He maintains it's because he's just had a baby. I ' m not so sure abou NOT MOcN ORIG►►JAL1TY TNS YEAR--TMEYRE ALL DRE5ED AS LIBERAL4! .ti•.•; /"' Archive microfilm is bette I'm the one responsible for 'In the Years Agone'. It should take, me one hour to put each week's offerings together, but I can get so lost in the microfilm I can't stop. I start with microfilm of the Huron Expositor 100 years ago. This week I worked one evening until past 6 p.m. just reading old editions of the paper. I don't watch television very much and so I'm totally lost when people talk about 'Who killed Laura?' I don't know and I don't care. What I do want to know is 'What did Birchall do?' Our archives have a story of a man up on murder charges and, even before a trial, the hanging date has been set. But no where can I find out what he did other than murder someone. There's no details. There's no evidence and such reported from the trial. In some stories he's described as an animal; in others he's a hero. It's starting to kill me, this unsatiable curiosity to know 'What did Birchall do?' If any historians out there know what Birchall did, I'd love to know. JUST THINKING by Susan Oxford an TV After gleaning a story from these 100 year old papers that are wriuen with fiery judgements and scathing opinions, it's time to move on to papers 75 years old. A war was going on and there are letters from young soldiers to their mothers describing their experiences as soldiers in Europe. The writing is high quality and almost perfect in their composing. Horses were in big trouble 75 years ago. Seems wealthier people had cars and were ripping up the main streets and countryside and scaring the daylights out of horses. I've run into so many stories about horses being killed, families injured, and buggies destroyed because a horse was spooked by a car. I get the feeling that rarely did the oc- cupants of the car stop and help Spooked horses turn OCTOBER 31, 1890 As guard McGee was leaving the death cell Wednesday evening of last week, Birchall pinned a card to his coat tail. On the card was inscribed a ribald suggestion as to the price of rotten eggs. McGee did not catch on to the joke until he was home, having walked about the streets of Woodstock�dagwith the un- dignified ae hthe attached to his en coat tail. trick was dis- covered by his wife, the death- watch was so mad that he concluded he had enough of Bir- chall, and resigned his position as guardian of the murderer. George Parry, son of the Deputy -Sheriff, was appointed in his place. Birchall has had three handsome rings made and suitable inscribed, one of which he presented to his ex -guard, another to Mr. McKay, his lawyer, and the third to Mrs. West Jones. He is also having two lockets made. One will contain his likeness and a kick of hair for his wife. The other will contain a lock of Mrs. Birchall's hair, and this will be buried with him, should he be executed November 14. There was a sensational and almost fatal occurrence at Orono, in the county of Durham, the other day. During the noon hour three school boys conceived the idea that it would be the proper thing to go through the form of hanging Bir- chall, with a real live boy in the title role. Accordingly. an unwilling ease the damage and pain it caused. Despite it all, from further readings, horses were around a few years longer before being completely replaced by cars and trucks. Children were in big °trouble in the past. Every issue I look at has at least three stories of local families loosing a child to such untimely deaths as falling into boiling water, drowning in water jugs in the house, having boiling water drop from high places onto them. Not too many of the deaths reported are farm accidents, al- though there are a few, but most of them are accidents within the home and most of them are deaths by boiling water. Falling onto wood stoves was a common way of death for children in those days. And none of the deaths seem to be fol- lowed by an investigation. You've come a long way, baby. Fifty years ago, reel number three, there was another war going on. Many groups were busy trying to make the effects of war easier on the soldiers in Europe. Horses were still around, but in lesser numbers. The paper is loaded with news about the Temperance Movement and its progress and failures. The last microfilm reels I get to look through are from 25 years ago, during the mid sixties. The hairdos! Cat eye glasses! Photographs were starting to become important then and there were lots of them. There were big changes happening then in the county and town. County school boards were being formed and county government was becoming stronger. Investigations into crimes involving thefts from government agencies were going on. Our archives are an interesting reflection of their times, and I recommend readers to stay tuned. Seaforth into rodeo IN THE YEARS AGONE from the Expositor Archives ma/My.� citement for mid-day crowds on Main Street. A team owned by Wilson 1 Campbell, McKillop, left standing -jin charge of a boy at the Pioneer Broom Corn factory on Market Street., became frightened when the 12 o'clock whistle blew and ran towards Main Street. The rack was jolted off as the wagon went over the lawn of the residence of Mr. Thomas Phillips, the team con- tinuing across Main Street straight for the Town Hall. Here Constable Currie managed to change their course into the lane between the hall and the Commercial Hotel, but in making the turn the wagon struck the drinking fountain at the corner of the hall and tore it from its foun- dation. Water from the broken pipes drenched the horses, but they con- tinued on around the building to Gouinlock Street, where the team came free when the wagon struck a hydro pole in front of dr. Gorwill's office. The team proceeded down the lane to the highway whzre they were stopped by 1.H. Weedmark, of the Collegiate staff. Early in the afternoon of the same day a bakery delivery horse became frightened in F.gmo ndville and ran up Main Street to John Street. Here the horse slipped in making the turn and Was captured. victim was secured, his hands and feet tied, a black cap put on, and his neck made fast in a noose of the bell rope. The deputy criminal was forthright swung off his feet, and there would have been a very tragic tale to tell, had not one of the aiders and abettors of the hanging come to his right mind and cut the rope in the nick of time. Principal Brown has reserved his decision as to the amount and kind of punish- ment to be meted out to the of- fenders. OCTOBER 30, 1914 Dr. C.C. Flower, formerly of New York, and wanted for the past four- teen years on a charge of grand larceny of one million dollars, having sold stock in wild cat mines in New York, was arrested one night last week as he was entering his home. in 1909 Flower, who passed under the aliases of Oxford and Montgomery, was president of the Arizona and Lone Bine Mining companies, with offices at 35 Wall Street, New York. it was shown that there was not even a pmspe�c t on the , and Flower was indicted for grand larceny of a million dollars. He was released on $50,000 bail, which he jumped, and for seven years police lieutenant McConville, who was detailed on the case, pursued his man all over North America, and through several of the smaller South American republics. In 1907 Flower was located in Philadelphia, as president of a brick company, with a side scheme in which he was trying to interest Philadelphians for making jewels. He was arrested and released. He then turned up in Reading, P.A., again engaged in the brick making business and was again arrested, but secured his liberty after paying his creditors. Lieut. McConville then lost sight of his man until he was notified by the local Pinkerton agency that he was in Toronto. it is expected he will waive extradition. Flower is about 70 years of age, and was living here with a woman he claims as his wife. He is said to be a confirmed drug fiend, and the police found it necessary to allow him the use of his accustomed drug on the advice of his lawyer. NOVEMBER 1, 1940 Friday was rodeo day in Seaforth when two nanways provided ex - OCTOBER 29, 1964 The teaching of English in the Tari to page 14A •