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ANDREW Y. MCLEAN, Publisher
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SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, MARCH 8, 1979
Hurray f�r the
Public speaking might be a dying art in some city schools,. but
speech making is obviously alive and, well in Huron County schools.
From the elementary to secondary level, students in area schools have
been furiously researching and memorizing speeches in the past few
weeks.
Although students may not appreciate the fact at the time, when
they're waiting their turn to speak with sweaty palms and a frog in
their throat, the ability to express oneself is a valuable asset. At one
time, it was mainly the -politicians and ministers who were the nation's
peech makers, but now most people belong to at least one
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organization where they're called upon to_get up and speak in public.
All of us know there's nothing more annoying than sitting through a
long speech when the speaker talks in a montone, hums and hahs or
constantly clears his throat and forgets that a little humour always
keeps the audience more attentive.
The students who have worked so hard at preparing their speeches,
whether for their class or the zone Legion speaking competitions,
deserve a pat on the back. Also, they've picked up a number of
valuable skills in the process. First, the students had to research their
topic, which means a few worthwhile hours spent in the library,
investigating their topic, from spiders to the sad tale of Jumbo the
elephant.
Public speaking also develops some Very valuable self-confidence,
It's not an easy thing to get up in -front of your classmates since our
peers are always our most demanding judges. •
Today, we are becoming more and more of an oral 'society with
people depending on what they hear on radio or television for their
perception of the world
Let's keep those public speaking competitions going -it will be easier
on our ears in the future if students can be encouraged to learn how to
express themselves now.
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Editor's Note: Some names were omitted Adeline Regele, Agnes Eckert, Elizabeth
last week whenthepicture of the 1915 class Murray, Toleda Miller, Dora Rapien,
of S.S. No. 8 McKillop Township school Amanda Koehler, Clotilda Eckert, Kenny
was published. Mrs. Marie Melady has Kistner, Tony Siemon, Manuel Beuermann
provided us with a complete list of the (Third Row) Amanda Hoegy, Esther
names of the 57 pupils in the picture. The Rvan, Lena Dietz; Hazel Rapien, Adline
pupils are, (back row, left to right) Messerschmidt, Mary Dempsey, Vera
Lawrence Messerschmiclt, Mike Mc- Kistner, Hilda Bennewies, Della VVieter-
Laughlin, Leslie Wietersen, Gordon Bell, son, Irene Pitz, Mary Eckert.
Joe Eckert, Mike Murray, Matt Murray, (Front Row) Billie Koehler, Clarence
Bob Kistner, Daisy Naylor, Minnie Siemon Drager, Lawrence Rapien. John Driscoll, ehind t • e scenes
Ida Regele. Leslie Rapien, Ernie Drager, Norman Hemme, George Regele. Edwin • -
Joe McLaughlin. Clarence Regele. , Drager, Wilmer Drager, Hillie Bennewies, •
(Second Row) Stephen Eckert. Albert Dalton Pitz, Marie Murray, Teresa Eckert, by Keith Roulston
In the years agone
19 cords of wood split one day in 1879
Stone house near Cromarty
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IVIARCH 7, 1879
John M. Gibson has exchanged his house
and lot of John Street with Samuel
Kennedy for his house and 5 acres of land on
North Main St Mr. Gibson gave Mr.
Kennedy $675.00 difference between the
properties.
R. McDonald of Hullett and John Henry
this season cut nineteen and a quarter
cords of hardwood in eight and a half hours
on the farm of Chas. McDonald in Hullett
A ewebelonging to Geo. Sproat of the 2nd
of Tuckersmith gave birth to four lambs this
week all of which are alive and doing well.
Win. Wallace of McKillop has sold his
farm to John Leckie of Brussels.
Isaac Bolton living on the eighth conces-
sion met witha painfulaccident. when he
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was splitting firewood when the axe by some
means glanced inflicting a dangerous gash •
on his right foot
Chas. Tough of the Bronson Line has sold ,
his two year old gelding to Mr. Hopple of
Zurich for the sum of $120.00.
The skating tournament held in the new
Dominion skating rink was• very successful.
About eight contestants entered for gentle-
men's class and two for the ladies.
MARCH 11, 1904 -
A large plate glass window in the front of
R Willis and Sons store was blown in by the
wind on Saturday night. During the high
wind Monday afternoon one of the tall
chimneys on the Town hall blew down
breaking off close to the roof.
Mrs. J.R. Brine has disposed of her
residence and property in Harpurhey to a
gentleman in Wingharn. Mrs. Brine intends
purthasing a residence in Seaforth.
An interesting carpet roll match was held
in the sons of Scotland hall.
Messrs. Calder and Scarlett have pur-
chased the cheese and butter factory. The
.output of the factory in butter last year was
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' Fred Millson of Constance purchased a
new buggy from Wm. Hugill.
Wm. Sinclair of Tuckersmith has rented
his farm on the 1 1 th concession of Tucker-
smith to his nephew Robt.- Lavander
Whitley.
MARCH 8,1929
Mr,. and Mrs. Wilber Keyes of Stanley
moved this week to the farm they purchased
on the Mill Road in Turkersinith.
Miss Rose _McQuaid of Beechwood is
recuperating from an attack of flu received
while in training at St. Michael's Hospital,
Toronto,
It %vas suggested by Dr. C.E. Toll the idea
of re -organizing a band in Blyth.
Chas. Dolmage of Winthrop treated his
friends to a euchre party and dance on
Wednesday evening.
Wm. M. Doig of Kipper' marked his 70th
birthday. Mr. Doig is a well known lawyer.
One of ttoe worst blizzards of the winter
visited Manley, Tuesday morning, damag-
ing windmills, doors and roofs of buildings.
Miss Mabel Livingstone of Constance who
was employed by the Palmer Publishing Co.
won a trip to the coast.
Miss Mona Sills left on Monday to train
for a nurse in St. Josephs Hospital, London.
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Death removed a widely known and
.., deservedly esteemed resident in the person
of Chas. WrightRaiatthe127195e04f 84 years
MARCH.
M.R. Savage was elected president of the
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Seaforth Chamber of Commerce when •
members held their annual dinner meeting
in St. Thomas Church Hall. Other officers
are vice president - Bruce Gehan; Secretary -
Eric Melner; Treasurer - Mervyn Nott. The
program included an address by former
Warden Harvey Jonson. He was introduced
by E.C. Boswell.
Firemen were called to the home of Mrs.
Jean Fortune of Tuckersmith early Saturday
morning when a stove pipe taught on fire.
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John J. McGavin of McKillop celebrated
his 89th birthday. Quite active he spends
several days each week at the office of
Gordon McGavin in Walton where his old
friends often call.
Geo. Goettler's grocery store in Dublin
was broken into early Saturday morning.
Siemon, Roy Hemme, Sidney Hoegy, Edna Hoegy. Edna Bennewies, Jinunie
Rueben Rapien, Freda Messerschmidt. O'Loughlin.
If cheaper
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is always better, we're in trouble
In recent years there has been a new less than the cost of production. problenis. Free trade might be helpful if it have cheaper clothing?
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mkind of program turning up on television, But aside from these factors there are so were fair trade btit just what is fair about The answer, for Canadian manufactur
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T ttor:.. ,the kind of show that asks the retorical many internal facts 'eft out of the trading in today's world? Take for instance ers, ii' they follow the lead (-if the "beros.,
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On behalf df the members of the Van
Egmond Foundation. may I express our
appreciation for the ongoing support of the
Huron Expositor. Through its news stotie
and periodic editorial comment, our local
paper is helping •us place this important
restoration story before the public. One of
the most valuable assets we have is a
community newspaper which seems to
group says thanks
recognize the significance ot our heritage.
Much of the credit for getting the •
reconstruction of the Van Egmond House
off to a good start is due to growing public
support -- generated to a large degree by
thenews columns of the Huron Expositor.
Sincerely
Paul Carroll
Chariman
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Dear Parents and Coach
me be myself
PROM THE STAYNER SUN
This poernWas written by 11 year old Donny Chabot, a handicapped student at Alex
Muir School in Sal Ste. Marie, Ont. Donny is the grandson of late and great NHL
goaltender, Lorne ,:Chabot and his words undoubtedly express the feelings of
thousands of children.
Well, here it is another hockey season.
So 1 am writing you for just one reason,
Please don't scream or curse or yell.
Remember, I'M not in the NHL.
I am only 11 years old
And can't be bought or traded or sold,
I just want to have fun and play the game
And am not looking for.hoekey fame,
Please, don't make inc feel I've committed a sin
Just because my 0Am–didn't win
I dont want to be that great, you see,
I'd rather play and just be me.
. And so in closings, I'd like to give you one tip
Remember, the name of the game is SPORTSMANSHIP,
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• question Can we afford to. . . .. , eqeation. If, for instance, the Canadianc.B.c s look atthe garment industry., of the program, the Canadian manufactur
You can substitute many different things ' government adopted the policy t a we While it hel up a coup e of heros, the ers w o are successful and c mpetitive is
•in that blank spot. Often that blank has ---Wdiii-d2produce nothing • in Canada that we • program made out • that most .of the to farm out to the poor countries the
beerifilledwith this or that farm product ;,truld import cheaper, from somewhere else in Canadian garment manufacturers were labour-intensive aspects ,such as shirts
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• which the television people wondered if we . the v‘,.ielo, what would be left toprodUce small and inefficient and too lazy to do while we produce the less labour-intensive
could really afford to produce here in here? For one thing.conditions;either from anything about it. They are able to stay this clothing such as slacks, in highly-
. Canada. Last week there as a program on • the point of view of climate or labour costs way because the Canadian government automized, large facilities. The success
the garment industry in which the question are more favourable somewhere else in the limits the number of cheaper imported figure in this story was building huge
was asked. By asking the question the -world than here in Canada. For another, if . garments that come into the country, the factories that looked like aircraft hangers
television people like to pretend they're • . it ever became known that we were willing program said'. The Canadian consumer, the all ..throughout North America. It may
' being very objective about the whole thing • to let our own industry die in favour of program stated, is paying for the inef- produce Cheaper clothing. but what will it •
even though they stadt the odds in such a .cheaper imports, foreign nianufacturets ficiency of the Canadian manufacturer. If 'mead for workers working row on row on
way that the only answer for most and foreign governments would do their the border was opened wide, the cost of acres of floor. It may be more efficient in
- television viewers is no, we can't afford to. ' best to undercut Canadian industry. Just clothing would drop drastically. .. terms of the price of the clothing than a
----The d dry industry is one of the areas as a new supermarket in town may Yet if the government in Canada is small factory involving a couple of dozen
workers, but is it efficient in terms of
Supposedly objective writers take a look at Smaller competitors, foreign producers a cause of their problem. The program providing a humane working experience
the fact that the Canadian government would drop their prices, only to raise them pointed out that the average wage in for the people who make the clothing.
subsidized the Canadian dairy industry, again once they had wiped, out the Canadian garment industry is $5.00 per If cost is our only measure of judging
then look at the fact that imports are often Canadian capacity to produce. hour. The average wage in places like ' we're in trouble. For the sake of cheaper
cheaper then the Canadian produced dairy ,
preducts and come to the easy assumption - That in fact is what has been happening Hong Kong and other far eastern places is prices we've already reduced our air to
in Canada in recent years Many people a few cents an hour. We wouldn't allow smog, our rivers to cesspools, crowded
awl say we'd be better to import rather - ''' - Canadian employers to pay- the kind of, people into apartment buildings like
than produce ourselves. . believe that Canada is moving from being
one of themostindustrialized nations if; the
. • wages or provide the kind of working chickens in cages; in short ` taken the
conditions the workers must endure in hemanity out of many aspects of life. If
What these experts ignore are many, world following the Secend World War to
many other side effects. Why: for instance, being a reich third world country. We are
• are the prices of imports • so cheap? returning to being suppliers of raw
Sometimes it's because governments in materials for the rest of the world to
other -parts ,of„the world. are -subsidizing manufacture and sell back to us at higher
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a is often dealt with in this way. undercut its prices in order to drive out its propping the garment industry up, it is also
those far eastern factories but somehow we Canada gets to the point that we care more
expect our people to produce as "ef- about cheap prices than we do about
ficiently". There's a moral question here providing a decent way of life for workers,
in providing jobs for farmers and textile
their industry more than ours:There is als, prices. too. If it's horrible to provide such workers and other "inefficient" workers,
.41.A. ' conditions and wages here, how can we in keeping clean air and water and other
a prate called "dumping" in which a There are many today who ,claim that morally take advantage of those people aspects of our environment, then 1 don't
•:',;;,e otfillry may sell its surplusses• al re 1 at free trade ,Is the answer to the world's halfway around the world just so we can want to live here anymore.
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Aiiiiiirttilde is to:opted tat the 'Ciortrifkit that in the event Of 1 10Ographicat error the* advartialng sake'
larnopied by the **mei itaM, iossnar WIIIIOsitottiablii atfloviento foreignature, het be Chernid for but
• Nat Winos o4 the *amassment *ft be .pold fir at the topptioable rate,
While every effort will be Made *Insure they are Waited with cart, the ntibt tatters cannot be rearionstble for
the return of unleficheet ntertufteripts or photos.
Please bill me a years subscription to
Huron Expositor which I have been reading
eVery cek since I was old enough to
:Lad.
it. and Parmers Advocate were weekly
papers that 1 first remember corning to our
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3201 Lawrence Ave, E, Apt 604
SCARBORO. Ontario
rrOten pipes
On Feb 1 I th 1eraild get no water from
my kitchen tat )ecatise of frozenpipes
so -1 phoned Jim dills. He eame at my call of
distress, bringing witn nim his little bey
"Teddy". They went to the basement to.
thaw the pipe while I stayed in the kitchen.
to watch for the water. When it came; just
as 1 was about to go to let Jim know,
Teddy appcared 1 said The water is
Coming" -He looked up and said "Both?'
and I said yes, tell Daddy the water is
coming from both taps. He looked so sweet
and it touched me for he was so cute. Then
Jim came and 1 said "you have a good
neiper in )uui uusiiiess ' Now, aS I turn
my taps 1 will often think of that dear little
ladaying "Both ?"
child abuse I think How can anyone be
stueehl a 0 4
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Lot us hot be cold and icazen Up Sta were
Today, when we hear so much about I realize I'm late sending My renewal for
the Expositor and 1 am sorry, because I
find 1 have missed receiving it each week.
do look forward to reading your paper, I've
my taps. but I t Christian love flow
through our' nearts so that we can be
channels of blessing to those around us. 1
offer this story as a tribute to 1979 the Year
of the Child Teddy Silis Both?
Mabel Crouch
Lorne Villa apartnients`
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She's missed us
been away from. Seaforth for a long time
now, but I still enjoy reading about the
happenings in town and, as 1 said, I find I
really have missed it. 1 particularly like the
column "In years agone" because it often
mentions my family or parents and many
other things that 1 fondly remember. Also
M. Turribulls viritings as she was one of my
teachers, and any of the historical writings.
Belle Campbells and Jim Scott's are always'
so good, The pictures of houses and
buildingsand the articles on that archi-•
teeutre, over the past year, were all so
good, and did bring back lots a happy
memories for me,
So I Will leek forward, again, to receiving
the good "old home town" news.
Sincerely
Helen Smith
Calgary* Alberti
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