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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1967-01-26, Page 2Since 1860, Serving the Cantnattnitv First Published at SEAFORTIL ONTARIO. every Thursday morning by McLEAN BR,OS-, Publishers shers Ltd - ANDREW Y. Ma - -4;v, Editor Member Car a*i:ar- weekly Newspapers Association or tar, Weekly Newspapers Association A ode Bureau of Circulation Sobs:lept:on Rates Canada + in advance) $5.00 a Year Outside Canada Ein advance) $6.50 a Year SLNGLE COPIES — 12 CENTS EACH Authorized as Second Class Mail, Post Office Department. Ottawa IP AP_ % ..,. _vt, to u t. R SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, JANUARY 26, 1967 Don't Send Him, Seaforth is one of those Ontario centres where during the winter months Minor Hockey is a way of life for the kids of the cox rnunity. From the time in mid -autumn when the first ice is in the Arena until early spring the interest of most of the• young ones is centred about the next Saturday morning hockey schedule Which the Legion has sponsored ° so many years. As they grow older and graduate intr., the ranks of the pee woes and midge;; the players look be- yond purely local competition- , and think in terms .of neighboring teams to conquer. The hockey schedules don't just hap- pen: They come about 'because older boys and adults give freely of their time to work out details, to arrange games, to coach and encourage the teams. It Ls particularly fitting that this contribution and the -participation of Strength - Take Him the boys is recognized in Minor Hockey Week. The planning and playing goes on all winter and perhaps to some of us becomes. something that is . taken for granted. The emphasis placed, on Minor Hockey Week, if it does nothing else, prompts us to think of the contribu- tion being made towards a better Can- adian youth, by those who give so free- ly of their time in advancing minor hockey. As 'far as those of us -in the Seaforth area are concerned we are reminded that the highlight of Minor Hockey here 'is the 'series- of games arranged at the Arena Saturday night, 'when teams from •Dearborn,, Michigan are guests. As the minor --.-hockey week people put it, ,"Minor Hockey is a family affair., Pont send — take your boy to the rena and stay to see him play." of Home and School Tice • Seaforth Horne and School 'As- sociation once more has presented 'its most successful Fun Fair, an - oppor- tunity for parents and pupils and tea- chers to share a program and through the Fun Fair provide revenue with which the Home and School can con- tinue, to operate. The Home and School fills an unique place in the relationship of home to school "The common purpose' of Home and School Associations is to –deal intelIi gently with the childhood of the Nation, to discover the cause of inability and -delinquency and to remove outstanding handicaps by creating constructional opportunities' for health and happiness in the . home, in the school, in the church and in the community." So said Ada Courtice, founder of the Home and School movement in Toronto, 50 years ago " - The Fort Erie Time -Review adds, "Parents and teachers working togeth- er to carry out the aims and objectives of Home and School Associations are the most important units of the organ- ization, and . upon the effectiveness of these groups rests the character of the whole movement. "The real strength of Home and School lies not in the equipment that Associations have in the past provided for the use of their schools, nor in the, opportunities for teachers and parents to meet and get to know each other, im- portant as that may be. The real strength lies in the fact that the organ- ization is a form of adultaedudation. about education, providing opportuni- ties for teachers' and parents to study and ivork together to improve child bringing up practices by, up -grading teaching in both' the school . and the home". - The Metric System on Horizon While we on the North American continent count our money in dollars and cents rather than in' pounds and shillings, our continued use of the foot and inch to measure distance causes increasing concern to those involved in the field of controls and instruments tion. With the eleminatidn of tariff bar- riers and resulting increases in trade brought about by the European Com- mon ,Market, countries involved - have leaned increasingly to the metric sys- tem' as a common standard, This could result in North America being left in virtual isolation as the only area not subscribing to the metric system. • Some of the difficulties which will face Canada should this situation arise are emphasized by Canadian Controls and Instrumentation who advocates an early move tovnard:s the new system in these words For Canada, with its increasing de- pendence upon holiness putside the country, the ability to move in the "me- tric world" as well as in the inch Sys- tem. will •undoubtedly assume vital im- portance, especially since both Britain and. the U.S. remain vital customers of ours. If we assume that we are looking for the eventual adoption,of the metric system — and this appears to be the concensus today --- then the major - task ahead for Canada is to make a move soon. In a rapidly moving world it is essential that Canada does more than just: indicate an interest in con- verting to the metric system. A gradual adoption of the metric system should be launched. It could be done in 10 years. t - • EXALTED SUPREME ReitER OF THE PEOPLE'S REFu81-UC OF CHINA seer ,41 oss Y "YES BEAR ...YES DEAR...YES DEAR...VES,.YES.•." In the Years . Agone From The Huron Expositor Jan. 30th, 1941 Rev. W. A. Bremner and Mrs. Bremner celebrated the fortieth anniversary of their wedding which took place at Chatham. During the forty years, Mr; and Mrs. Bremner had five charges: Bracebridge, Ripley, St. Thom- as. Colbourg and Brucefield. They'retired in 1938 and have • since made their home in. Sea forth. Holding its fust annual meet- itng, the Se.aforth Chamber of Commerce 'elected Chas. P. Sills as president He sueceeds E.• A: McMaster. A highly esteemed and pione eer resident of Harpurhey, Mrs.' Daniel Grumniett quietly cele- brated her 92nd birthday at the home of her son, Joseph. Blind for some time, she is however, in full possession of her other faculties and enjoys fairly good health. Seaforth Lions on arriving the hotel for what they though ,would be. an ordinary meetin were surprised to find the co mittee in charge, had witho their . knowledge turned th meeting into a ladies' night. With a• cast of more than 7 "Victory Revue" the smart ne musical success being staged i Cardno's Hall. by. the. Seafort •Branch of the Red Cross Societ is away to a big start. Dr. A. R. Cam'nhell was nam ed president of the South Hu on Agricultural Society.. wit the following officers: vice-pres dents Alex Buchanan, and Owe Geiger; secretary -Treasurer. K M. McLean, • Arthur Scott. of Jeh Scott; Roxboro. goes 'to Ottawa fr'-rm Anthers. tti:ire. where i• has been called to e defer:ce po- rico:. The Wa;tor: un;t f3'f .the Re Cross held their f:re meeting o the year with about 120 ,ache ir. attendance The officer w ere_ ramed 'a-, fel n,w : hon pres Miss Mary Sm:l.lie: pres Mrs. W. C. Bennett; secretary Mrs. Moody Holland: treasure Mrs. Walter Shorlreed• hospita supplies'Mrs. :Nelson. Reid; ref ueee sewing Mrs. Coin Fine lard: kn:tt;t.g Mrs. Herb' Kirk by: quilts Mrs. -Wm. Humphreys pat:hes Mrs Ueerer.ce Cum mine; aud,tors. Mrs. Ed. Bryan, Mr. Art MrCan. Mr Gordan F;r:niean. son of W. J. Finnigan. Egmondville, ehu las been taking a radio technician's course. was called to active service at Manning Pool. Toronto. Soldier's .Aid Cgmnlission and the drawing will take place at the Old Time dance. Mr. Isaiah Witner of Zurich has sold his farm on the Zurich Road• to his neighbor. oar. Geo. Thiel, the consideration being $4.000- • Mr. R. F. Stade of Zurich has taken over the stock and har- ness and findings carried by Mr. C. Hartleib. We believe that Mr. Passmore of Hensall has been appointed to lack after the -new hydro sys- tem here, and to' make monthly Dr., collections. • Mrs. R. Y. MacLean during the past few weeks has been teaching in her old horde sec- tion in the 'neighborhood of ' Clinton owing to the illness of the regular teacher. * * * From The Huron Expositor. •Jan. 29th[, 1892 at Several McKillop farmers are t hauling stone preparing to rail g int.. their barns, and building m- stone stabling under them next ut summer, among the number are e Messrs. Hillen, Morrison and Murray. 5,. 'Mr. W, H. Farquhar. of Hul- w lett had a log bee when twenty n loads of logs were delivered at h Fair's Mills, amounting in ail to y 1.44 logs; some of the teams came from near Varna to take - part. r- At the opening of the County h Council. John. ,Torrance, Reeve e i- of Stanley, wes elected warden, f n Ins opponent was Wm..elilne,- a . Reeve cif Grey.• He was elected b by a majority of two. •- r, The first carnival of the sea- 1 . ,r, was well attended. The t e hand was -in attendance and dis-. o r cursed eweet musics t One pf those' horrible aceie t d pier.+� re-ulteti it •the death of a f ur:g man named John- Mc- e -.• Adame on of Gordon licAdam• sed occurred on the farm of Mrs. o Ire :and. Mill Road, Tucker- . srn:tli. A "Steamer,' was at work J ar.d it began to' leak, thus put- •B ✓ .tine out the fire. 'Young McAd- c am undertook to go into the e - furnace to stop the leak, hut o - 1e° attempts only made matters s • .•S..r•e and the fast escaping % eF.am and water• literally cook- - him. He was nineteen years is of age. h • We have pleasure in •again r.eticing the •advancement of h former Huron boys. Mr. A. W. s McIntosh. son of Mr. George t McIntosh, of McKillop, who ha been teaching a public schoo near Brantford, has gone to Ba ries . where he has accepted of • situation on the staff of the co legiate Institute of that town. A young son of Mr. Arthur Forbes, fell off a sleigh o which he was hanging with number of other boys and go his leg broken.• Between thirty and forts ladies and gentlemen• went from here to Clinton to attend the Military Ball under the auspices of the 33rd Battalion. Mr. Joseph McClinchey has leased the Royal Hotel and will continue the business formerly carried on by the late J. W. Carroll • At the meeting of the County Council, Mr. Charles Clarkson, BA., head master of the Sea - forth Collegiate Institute and Mr. George Baird of . Stanley, were appointed on the County Board of Examiners and Mr. Thomas Kidd was re=appointed trustee of the Seaforth Colleg- iate Institute. Mr. Robert McCartney of Brucefield hada rough exper- ience while driving in the vic- inity of the station. His horse was frightened and upset the cutter, throwing him ' out. He hung on 'to the lines until he was , dragged a distance when he last alis hold and the- horse got free. Mr. George A. Sproat has rent- ed his farm on the 2nd of Tuck- rsi:•riitis to Hugh •J. Grieve for our years. Ie " contains 200 cres and, is one of ,the very est farms in the township. -The other' day, Mr. George hurray of ..Seaforth, drew into own from Sproat's brick yard ver 2,000 bricks with his dray eam. The 'Messrs. Sproat say hey- have sent a�i'ay many mil - ion of bricks, this w•as the larg- st load that ever left the yard. A number of the congregation f Duffs Church. McKillop, as- embied at the residence of 'Mrs. ames Kerr and presented Miss ells Kerr with an address, ac- ompanied by a handsome gold -atch and chain in appreciation f her services as leader of the inging in the church. Rev. P. fusgrove gave a short address. • James Jarrott of Hillsgreen busy drawing material to uiid next summer. 'Afr. John Kaiser of Brucefield' as opened up a new blaek- mith shop here. We now have hree of them in the village. Sugar and Spice --By Sill Smiley -- 'BACKLOG OF NOTES Ing furiously; "Aren't you even Fd lake to tidy up a lot of loose ends` this reek, if you don't mind. First of all. thanks for the warm and personal notes about the column. and the good wishes to the Smileys. They came from all over the continent. Many of you will be getting your Christmas cards at Easter, or possibly in July. My wife lost herelist-of addresses. • * * * • We had a refreshing differ- ent New Year's Eve this year. Went t9 a skating party on the bay. We even took skates. But fortunately, we had ,to make a couple of calls before we got there, and when we did, the skaters werepooped. I ex- pressed great indignation be fore allowing someone to set me down before the fireplace with a small potion' of herb tea. But it was a great party. Just as we arrived, a. pretty young woman hustled in from outside, clutching her pants aid various other things. She'd been out on a Ski-doo on the ice, and they'd gone through. She was quite annoyed. Last time I'd seen her, she 'was eight months preg- nant. This time she was almost in shock. She said she'd like to s meet me under normal circum- stances. Bar Another feature of the party a• appealed to me. Instead of the 1- usual maudlin rendition of Auld Lang Syne, followed by a round of sloppy kisses, we all - n :itood to attention and. sang a a' maudlin version of 0 Canada. t * * * Speaking of centennial year, soiree readers may have -noticed a rather sardonic attitude to- ward this great national occa- sion, in my last couple of col- umns. Please excuse it, I don't really feel that way. It's a sort' of back -lash. For years, rve been trying to tell people how great Canada is and could be. Kini had her firs 'teenage party over the holidays. She in- vited 18 and 27 showed up. That's the way they operate nowadays. She was adamant about her parents staying out of the way. We did, with hid- den horror. But when it came time .for the food, she came to us, hiss - * * * From The Huron Expositor „Feb. 2nd, 1917. Mr. Wesley Harvey of kippen met with rather a bad accident while driving south of Seaforth. While turning off the road to allow another horse to pass his driver slipped and broke a front leg. A meeting of the Sabbath School teachers of the town and adjoining townships was held in the Methodist Church, for the purpose of . organizing a Town- ship association. F. G. Neelin oc- cupied the chair. Mr. R. M. Jones, manager of the Dominion Bank was in Tor- onto attending the annttai meets ing of that institution: The Misses Stella and Marcel- la Horan of Beechwood enter- tained some• of their friends at a card party. The mail carriers of I,eadbury had cold noses on many occa- sions last week and the week before, but they stuck to their jobs and some of them never missed a trip. The hydro workmen were in- stalling new • transformers in town, consequently there was no power available during the day and no lights that evening. The churches had to revert to coal oil lamps while quite a few of the citizens had to be satis- fied' with the old time candle. Miss Jessie Wilson leaves for Owen Sound where she will at- tend business college. Messrs. R. E. Coates, John l+'inlayson and Herbert Box have donated a handsome up- htdIsterod chair In aid of the •4. Z.15 • • • �i• Ogrigrpot stew �a:S "Has that tbuandown been on INSTANT PLAYBACK yet?" going to cook the hambur gers?" And we spent the next two hours feeling much like a couple of short-order cooks brought in for the evening to do ' the catering. , The music was turned up so loud' I was sure the cops would raid us. Kids kept wandering into the kitchen and demanding flatly: "Got any cold pop'?" But it was over finally. We checked the living -room. Not a burn on the piano. Only one hamburger, with all the trimmings, tweet on the rug, So we're going to let her have another party. Twenty-two years from now, for her daughter. ** Son Hugh brought us a- spe- cial Christmas present this year. The announcement that he was quitting school. Ob, well, you can't win them all. But it dosrl't make the goose go down any better, ' even though you assure him that he's cooked his own and has to lie in it, or whatever the saying is. * * * Nephew Paul of Laval U. ap- peared out of nowhere, as col- lege boys do. Father wants him to be a doctor. He wants to be a - beachcomber. And he's Iost his hoots and his feet were soaking. That kid has lost his shoes or hoots, over 18 years, in South America, the West Indies, Hol- land, and. Cape Breton Island. But he never loses his good, spirits, bless -him. * * Gordon Sinclair, columnist and TV personality;` -and I have little in common. He's rich. 'Pm not. He's shrewd and crude, pugnacious and pontifical, "as- tute and asinine:' I was about to. say I'm not, but on second thought won't. But we • are as one on the need for a holiday in February. Did you see him tackle the Prime Minister on that recently? I've been -shout- ingg this theme for years. - Tt's ' the -,greatest centennial gift Mr. Pearson could give this nation. By mid-February, every- one hi this country is so frayed and flogged that it's amazing there aren't suicides and axe - murders galore. I don't care ' what they call it. But Iet's have ' the nearest Monday to Valen- tine's Day as a national holiday. "•... And the people upstairs play .television all night long." .. - �r `:� �.ir-v r.".,r�. �"tii:�w;4 "Y:'.1`,+��n'• :r•: �.—" `'`� `"" 'a �F ;:x:.�=�'";,ra:� ..:.; �;..rr�i::i..:. ;rill?s�;�i •�':'..4: 'I didn't say we were lost I said it's the first time I've ever seen birds flying north for the winter:" Ataptyvisiteegi. ,?•1 tl1IIM!1• 41 trit 60.11i • / \ tarot GAT[ % "The idea of a thanksgivings feast is great hut don't you think we're holding it too near Christmas?" r