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SEMI:MTH, ONTARIO,. APRiL..la, 1979
good. rtta
County council deserves a lot of credit.. .
It's not often thaTany body votes at least part of itself out of a job but
that's excatly what happened last week when -county council, putting
the good of all of Huron• above individual interests, decided to
eliminate deputy reeves:.
Sya vote of 36 to. 16 county councillors agreed to reduce their ranks
from 45 to 29, beginning in 1981: It's a long overdue move that will
streamline county council's deliberations and could save Huron
Taxpayers a 'fair bit in expense semoney•`Neighbouring Perth county
county
council ..ids gotten alongwithout deputy reeve rePre-
septation for some time now• and from all reports., the quality of
representation there hasn't suffered,
The deputy reeves, aren't disappearingaltogether, We'II stili have
them in our towns and Jownships to serve on local council executive but
they'll no longer go to Goderich: The number of votes each
municipality has, and the urban rural balance on county council won.'t
change dramatically.
But county council will be reduced to a more manageable size and;
Huron will benefit from that • •
We don't meanto disparage the very real contribution many deputy
reeves have made to the running of the County. That's indisputable.
But there's nothing to. prevent the active, committed,• deputy reeve
who wants 'to stay on countycouncit next term from ,seeking the
reeve's spot. That ought to inject new life and stiffer competition into
the 1981.elections in all our m un`ci pali ies and that would certainly
,a good thing.
Now, if Huran would think about reapy pioneering, our co
ant
council could look at a way to get the mayors of our towns, heads of
areof ownsh'governments,ons to
tical government just as the. reeves t ip .
county council ,
A shorter campaign
We're a full week into :the federal election campaigng an d
they
overwhelming reaction:. in
Seaforth and area has been a restrained
•
who Cares?",. .
Part of the
reason could 0
ui e;
that a two
, .
month cam a
i9n....an'orgY o
••leader bashing and votr• haraeg'n : .is aboutamonth foo long.
its hard enough to drum up much
enthusiasm forthe present prune:.
minister, Many.don't trust him after his turn: around •.
,und on:wage and price
controls, to saynothing• of what' cnsid
9y
man _ oer his arrogance:.
Then there's e the Conservative leader who stirs doubtabout his
ability 'to.govern Canada, let alone his ability to organize a world tour
or get across the: road without: getting hit bya car.' Besid s e.
9 9 _ Besides, th man.
admitted in a recent Weekend Magaiine story, ;he doesn't read:
The NDP's leader presentsquiet. yet sensible profile but many
voters are too scared by the socialist bogeymanto' a
t ice the NDP
seriously.
Listening to all three and the speculation they generate for ?the next
two 1 monthsis not a prospect we relish.
- Locally we have strongiy entrenched Tory 'MP's and other
candidateswho've been nominated so long they must have had a heck of
a time keeping. their spirits and interest from lagging:
We voters can sympathize We've 'been hearing.' election date
predictions for more than a, year. Parties and leaders •tiavebeen on
almost war alert footing for the same length of time. ••politically active
Canadians• have; postponed vacations, and passed up jobs while they
waited forr''
this election: to be called,
At longa t
last it has been but we have to go through two months of
pronouncements 'and latitudes before so a down ..
Pm one will settle to
trying to run the.country. again, We'II ' .
Y 9 have to spend mill#ons on travel,
rallies and voter persuasion: We'll wear out put leaders and their staffs
until they'll begin to wonder wh ',the 're even tri
Y Y trying to win. A two
month campaign. is bad: enough. A two month'cam i g n piled on to
P.g h PP
of ai year of election speculation is too much for long suffering
CanCanadians i
a s to put up with...
TheB ;lr`
ush system, with an election scneduled four weeks after the
government there was -suddenly defeated, looks a lot more sensible.
It's too late for this time,
_ .._.. _.. ... ,_ .... s s he Crosse a stree#
the next campaign just four weeks_lgrtgarfd'put us al�i out of our misery I don't know about you, butJtd�
y r t irate to have.
my ability to do a job judged by the number
but let's press whoever is elected to make .
Joe -Clark stumblitt a d
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THE KIDS OF #i1 SCHOOL S.S. No. 1, 'McKillop (Huron Road), about.
1909 1910 had 20 pupils, andtheir_ photo; has been loaned to .the
.
Expositor .by•Mrs. Marie Melody. Pupils are: Back, (leftto right), 9 )h Dennis. ".
Nigh, James -Murphy, Vincent Murphy, Thomas Downey, Miss Neil
Devereaux' (Mrs, William Dorsey, teacher), Second, 'Sylvester Flannery,
In the years u
Brot]
• APRIL 4, 1879
John Earles: has disposed of his barbering business to
'Jantes Constable who: win conduct it inthe old stand.
Four brothers of the Hobbs family' have fallen heir to a.
large sum of money through the death of a relative in
England: The amountleft to each ntember is S52,000 in
cashsdids equal e an amount in real 'estate In London:.
be
and Vicinity. One of the lucky persons in Thos: Hobbs; the
• celebrated cabinet maker who used to work in Seaforth:
On. Tuesday evening last, the members of"theilook and.
Ladder Co: met in the Mansion Hotel for the purposes of •
having a social time and saying good-bye to Geo; Madden
`James A: Clinewas called :to::the;cliait_and nn.,Thuraday a.
large crowd assembled at the station to see Mr: Madden
off,on the train. He left for Manitoba.
-Robert Logan of 'town. was - entertained at a
complimentary supper at Sharp's Hotel by a number of his
friends: The chair. was taken. by M. Y. McLean.'
APRIL I, 1904
. The Centreo`
Road, south of.Dahl`...tri.
, wasrendered: very,
bad and dangerous: for travel. On
Friday.; the creek,
overflowed di -al -road `and :'the Farquhar qu r mail: carrier, was
to
unable n •, get into town with his rig.
Theodore re o
fland.
o Walton os ha
s.sold•hi
his firm, west of
Walton to George Jackson' of Morris:
The Messrs: McCall of Morris Townshi lost a valuable p a e,.
horse: While driving up , a team the lane; one of the horses`"
crowded the other off.the• road and it fell into the water.
One of them was'drowned in three feet of water:
Thea first wheeled -
vehicle for this season appeared on
PP
the streets: '
On, Friday night, stables of Mr. Edward so h
g Casent e
Huron Road became so flooded that before he could get his
s_
stock removed a number of fine young' pigs were drowned:
Mrs: A. S. McLean has purchased the Prendergast
:residence in the North Ward.
ors:
•
•
behind the scenes
by Keith Rouistorf
Jane Dietrich„ JosieK le Mary Purcell,Phyllis Dietrich, Mary Nigh,
rcell Williarn Nigh ( Father Nigh), Louis
Agnes Murphy„ Esther Pu � _
Purcell: Front, Cecilia, Purcell, Vincent Lane, John Murphy,' John Lane,
Florence,Flannery. Lawrence Dietrich:
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There is almost a coal; famine in;town and many have got
perilously near the last scuttle full
The mild sunny weather of Tuesday, Wednesday and
Thursdayfollowed'by a heavy rain on Frid.'y'and ;Saturday
softened up. the 'snow and caused ae1fresh. tt.
James Johnson of McKillop has purchased the west half
of Lot 12, and the east half of Lot 13..
G. Hudson of Hensall• held a very successful wood bee:.
-Syrup is now beginning. Robert Elgie who is never
found napping, is the°first in the',vicinity, of Kippen, to
commence operations.
APk[L,5,1929
The -annual- spring_ show' of the Seaforth Agricultural..
Society was held on' the Main Street on Thursday afternoon
of. last week. A new feature of the fair and one of the best.
was the parade of stock before the judging; commenced. It
was a sight worth seeing.
One day last week seven wild geese alighted on a pond
on the farm of James Love and remained there all day:.
Friends and 'neighbours numbering125 gathered at the
g
Mune of Mr: and Mrs. John Sta pies, near Walton to spend
P,.: P
a social'evening with them and bid thein farewell: before
their departure to their new ;home in Moose Jaw;
Saskatchewan. '.Mr. and Mrs. Staples wereP resented with'.
.
an: address,. travelling suitcases and a purse.Of money:
Mr. Kuno Hartman of Zurich hasp p urehased the fine hundred acrefarm -which he had leased for a number of
• years from his father in Seaforth. Mr: Cla once Data's of
Zurich• has taken a position with E Haist, the baker. .
Mr. Harold Maloney of Detroit •is visiting his mother
Mrs. Margaret Maloney.Iyiiss Dorothy `Robins. of
Brucefield has taken a l? osition in. Iensall:
.. .
W.A. Writ of town has purchased the Devereaux
•
blacksmith and
carriage shopfrom, Robert Devereaux on
Goderieh Street. Part of the buildinghas been leased by
George C: Bell .asa showroom for cars:
The Directors for'the•new canning factory, Dublin, held
. e
a successful meeting on Tuesday night, A building 65 x 75
feet of cement will be erected at, an early date. Wm, ..Smith•
was appointed field_ manager. The directors of the factory
are Messrs.' E.ers;B. T Wm. Byrne, Norman".Malcolm,.
Y
michaelMcCarthy:
A Pretty Easter marriage was solemnized in St, atick s
Church Dublin, by s' Rev. Fr: F. Bricklin. when Gilbert
Murray,, R:R,4, McKillop was married to: Miss Rose
Flannigan:
APRIL 2, 1954
While playing hockey with the Squirts at the Seaforth
area , Saturday morning, Kerry Campbell, son of Mr. and
Mrs W-.--G,-Campbell;•, fractured' a bone in his leg •
The egg grading station operated for many yearsby the
late Isaac Hudson • has been sold' to Orville Dale of
Seaforth.
A Doug Riley Fund has been Started by 'hockey fans and.:.
sympathizers in the • Londesboro-Blyth district to assist;.
'Douglas Riley who may lose an eye as a result of a hockey,
match in the Wingham Are:14.'
tarry ryPerd
Perdue,
2, B s els�s�u
ff
ered
a fractured femur
when he was thrown from a tractor as the clutch slipped.
One of the pioneer buildings in Tuckersmith, the old
Stapleton 'house; has fallen victim to highway improve
• merit between Seaforth; and Clinton, 'Bert Gibbings: who
owns the property was forced to tear down the familiar
land mark when the government undertook the' Widening
of the highway in that area. In the early days, a salt well
Y
sprung up' there known as theIStaP le ton salt works in:
1868..A saw mill also had its birth there.. Early records
reveal that when the saw, mill, salt works -and farm were in
full gear some 120 men, were employed;
Old man winter took what everyone hoes' will
rY Pthe ,
final fling; for this season when a freakish storm dampened
with
soggy: know. throughout the district on Monday.
M. Christensen; from Denmark has purchased the farm
of W.J. pickey;"Blyth, +•
Questions, but no _.answers
Some questions, this week, without. of times I'd.slipped on an icy street' or
answers.
In this, perhaps the most important
election in Canada since confederation; is
the outcome to be decided by who drops
the fewest footballs; or sturtiibles over curbs
least?
In the 1.9/4 election a geed deal of
damage was done to Robert ,Stanfield
8bya
newspaper' picture that showed him very
clumsily catching and dropping a football,
Down in the 11,5,, it was Gerald' Ford
bumping his head on his helico ter. In the
P
first week of the election campaign, it was
that much sooner,
Amen
•
by Karl Schuest$er
To a woman out there in Methodist land
in Seaforth, I want to say "thank -you".
The other night
compliment. At the time she didn't think
that much about it, but once she got home
and started to retail the .evening, she
f=igured you gave her the finest complim ° '•
She could hope for.
Now,, you could have told my wife you
ns
y twhat
111,edher talk on hymns s hat's she
Spoke about that evening In your church
basement. You could
have said you learned
yrned
something Yot apP�ted hymns
more. or yoti were Inspired
To a Seaforth methodist
Who knows? Maybe you honestly
couldn't have said anything like that. But
Yt 8
instead,you carne up to her and my wife
says you were somewhat older than
she-•andou shook her hand and said,
"I
Y ,,
like your face
You really turned my wife's head With
that one:
It's not easy for all us fifty year olds to
look in 'the rilircbr and like our faces. We
see everything we don't want to see;, The
s rY g _
wrinkles dug deeper, the hair line moving
back, the eyes Without that young sparkle,
the skin that crinkles :more and sags more.
The brown' spots. '
I won't go on. This tan get tlespresstng.
But there you were. Sayingyou '..r,
y B liked her
face,
i thought of a 'remark of President
Abraham Lincoln -that man with sun and,
shadows lined in his engaging face.He said
that after 40, you're responsible for your
own face,
In the beginning when you were` oun�'•
8 8 Y g+
you had to thank Someone else fc.., your
face::God may have been kind to you when
he passed out the ttosesw He didn't get
(Gohtinued' on Page i• .,tc+r,
caught my' fingers in a drawer when h was
closing it,
l hate to think that it Mild have any part
in the decision who is til lead the country in
these timed when the entire future of the •
nation rests on us making a good choice but
with some of the smart•alec people we have
in the media these days, it just could.
•****
•
if, as people like Harold Ballard and.
some of the other National,
Hockey League
owners have been saying for years, theyes
ody onobn 1a ver there
in
th
'World Hooke Association, how come the ..
-NHL -NHL teams were so adamant that they had
;to get back any players they felt they
owned playing in the WHA? •
I guess we should just be thankful for the
fact the long hockey war is over and we can
get back to playing on the ice instead of the
courts, but a few of 'the . details of the
expansion, merger or whatever you want to
call it, seem' ridiculous,.,
I can understand to some extent the NHL
assessment that they want the opportunity
to get back players who quit their teams to
join the other league but what I find really
JY ,
hard to take is that , "st. because they
drafted a player and the player instead
chose to play in the other league, they feel
they should now have the player, handed tri
thein. The other point is that most of the
players playing in the WHA it, there
because the NHL teams. refused to pay
them the Sala rytheY felt they deserved. if'
they didn't deserve that much money then,
'then how are the NHL clubs .willing to pick
up theft expensive contracts crow?
Anyway, all this may be a tempest in' a
teapot. Wirth the way things are set up; tFie
WHA teams may be able to'retain most of
their players anyway and by picking '
P 8 up
players from the Birmingham and Cinein-
nati franchises, may endu being stronge
r
than manyof the NHL
franchises.;.
*a****
we're on
And vrfile
• � the subject of
sports, why haven't we heard an outcry .•
about Canada's loss of supremacy in the
sport" of curling like we did a few months.
ago about hockeywhen the Russians
iasis
whomped' s? When our team at the world
cur S-.. ..ing
curling ---c eta
m ions
Is 1
h am
8' P p (P. Y 8. for a
trophy given byAir Canada no less),lost to
P � _
y it the semi-finals last week it
Norway ' .f
meantCanada 'hadn't won a world
Championship since 1972. In addition our
ladies champions and juniors also got
beaten out in the world championships this
year, Maybe the government should
investigate.
How come everybody.who gives a news
cast these.
days and every newspaper in the
country. tut -tuts about the conflating fuss
over Maggie Trudeau's revelations, but
only after', they give the latest details?
If everybody is really as tired as they say
they are of hearing all the idiotit. things
uth (
issue from the lady'smo(or the mouth'
•
of her publicist), why do they keep dishing
it out to us? It's like the man who says he
can't stand the gossiping hat his wife and
her friends do, but B
he
passes on all they
juicy details to his buddies down at the
factory. •
As for Maggie's family, well Pierre's a
bigboy and can look after, himself as he's
well proven over the years but what about
the kids? I mean lots of kids have grown up
with the stigma
g of a wayward parent but.
few have had a parent with such a high
profile: How is it going, to affect those kids
." through; their :formative years ahead, -to; -
always have their mother thrown up to
them by other kids and adults?
Then too, what effect is Maggie's book'
going to have on the election Campaign?
On the one hand, some people are likely to
favour' Trudeau through sympathy and
through admiration of the way he's acted'
through all this while others • may figure
that if he married that dingbat in the first
place there must be some mental instab-
ility there someWhcre in his past, just like
gats
ThomasbackEagleton down in the U.S. a few
.
A h Maggie, why don't ' otr `list wander
off to stun, quiet .little commune some-
where .and booRie the rest of your life away
leaving
us in peace?'
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