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SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, AUGUST 17, 196?
ould:. Town Meetings Jrtw interest?
"Although numbers attending local
nominations are pitifully small 'com
pared to the number of taxpayers," com-
ments the editor of the Rodney Mer-
cury, ."every one of whom should be
keenly interested in learning how their
tax dollars are spent and how their
municipality is being operated, it is
surprising the few attending show keen
interest and ask questions."
Sometimes questions and answer
periods almost rival time spent hearing
candidates. Some times questions and
answer periods are more informative
than candidates' reports, because it is
questions people want answered that
are important, 'not .necessarily the in-
formation candidates think ratepayers
should know..
Because: there seems tobe a general
disenchantment with dry nomination
meetings, the Rodney editor suggests
that on, one or two other occasions dur-
ing the year there could be "town meet-
ings,". where
eet-ings,"•where people can take their dues=
tions and problems 'to council, present
them in the witness of other ratepayers,
and have them answered.
Town meetings. are common in some
areas of United States, so we are told..
They have been held for many years
and their popularity is easily assessable
by the number of people attending,
questions asked, and interest .show i.
- • Every . ratepayer has a perfect right
to attend council meetings of his muni-
cipality, but few, if any go and at
in as a matter of interest. The odd
time when someone,,,, or some ' group,
'have complaints they attend, but as
soon as their presentations are heard
they leave. While the Mayor's "thanks"
. is courteous,: we recall but few occa-
' sions when individuals or delegations
were asked if they would like to remain
and hear council in action,
"Since this is the case, and since
there definitely is a yen for more • in-
formation about council and municipal
business, maybe a town meeting — a,
township }meeting, if you will — is
what . is needed, where council will be
on the defensive such as on TV pro-
grams, Meet the Press or Face the
Nation." the Mercury concludes. Cer-
tainly nominations are not meeting this
obvious need."
In the Years Agone
From The Huron Expositor iza Thompson are enjoying a town and then to the grounds.
Aug. 14, 1942 --.. holiday trip down the St. Law- Mr. George Watt of Harlock
, The old'stone church at Crom- .rence among the Thousand Is- in Hullett, delivered .40 head
arty was the scene of an im- lands. of very superior., fat ,cattle to
pressive service when a roll of Misses M. Sproat, Janet Hays, town. They were sold to a Tor -
honor was unveiled in honor Mary Edmunds and Ruth Sproat onto firm and were intended for
of the men and ,womeu,who had are spending the holidays at shipment Ville. old country.
- gone out from that congrega- Bayfield. " A firm from New York state
tion to take part in the present 'A cordial and enthusiastic re- have leased the skating and.
•conflict. As the congregation, ception awaited Pte. •Alex Muir, 'curling rink forthree months,
stood the list of names was read eldest son of G. T. R. section in which to carry on ,the apple
forman here as he Stepped• off evaporating • business. -
the late train Monday night. It Mr. John Capp has' several
was • not known until a few min- men at woirk • repairing the
utes before train time that he outside waIis . of the Methodist
was coining and the ringing of Church.
bells brought out a large crowd. In a football match between
He was wounded in the battle
of the Somme, a year ago and
was invalided halite..
Mr. R. F. Jones has received
from a soldier ' at W . camp,
England, one of the medals ,lett has returned home from the,*
struck in Germany to commen- old country' where he had been
orate the sinking of .the Lusit- with cattle. He had a very plea-
ania. sant passage both ways.
Wednesday last was the initia- As Mr.. George McIntosh of
tions of Walton's civic holiday the 4th concession of McKillop
and its success 'was so com- was engaged in cutting grain,
plete and satisfactory that it a sudden clap of thunder frigh-
should be an annual event. It tened his team of horses and
was held in the grove of James' they ran away going through
Kidd and made an ideal place, Mr. Mc'Leod's farm. The binder
In the nail driving' contest, Mrs. was considerably broken and Mr
Wm. McGavin, Mrs. P. Gardner McIntosh is congratulating him -
and Mrs. Hugh Fulton were Sue=
cessful. The tug of war teams
were captained by James
Smith and James Rea, the form-
er being declared winner. In
the obstacle race, Miss Mabel
Brucecame off victor. In the
moss cut sa-wing match, Aldin
Mcaavin and James Rinn car-
ried off the palm.
A • •
From The. Huron Expositor
Aug. 12, 1592
. • Mr. James Reynolds of• Hut-
lett had a bad accident. One of
his sons was driving , a binder
with a spirited • team, when they
were frightened and ran away.
The. boy' was thrown off and -
fortunately was caught in the
apron. The binder was "smashed
as to be useless hut the boy was
not seriously hart.
and a daughter of Rev. Peter
Scott, a former paster,. Miss Net-
' tie Scott unveiled the roll. Dur-
ing the, service, Mrs. Clifton
Miller and Mr. Ernest Temple-
man sang "I need thee every
hour".
Word has been received from
Ottawa that Lieut. B. J. Duncan,
son of Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Dun-
can, has been promoted to the
rank of captain. He has been
an officer of the Elgin Regiment
since • its formation but has been
in England for some time.
A highly . respected resident
of Hibbert Township, Mrs. Jane
Burns, celebrated her 83rd bar-
.thday at her home.
' The wheat field of Archie and
Neil McKellar of Hibbert Town-
shirewas a sorry spectacle when
a recent storm flattened- it so
a binder could not' operate, no-
thing daunted, they decided to
resort to old fashioned methods
and cart the entire crop with a'
reaper salvaged from bygone
days.
Complimenting Miss Pearl
Harpole, popular" bride -elect of
ilensall, Mrs. Eric Kennedy was,
hostess at herhome when some
forty friends and relatives hon-
ored her with a miscellaneous
shower.
Help is so scarce on the.farm
this 'year that when Rev. W. J.
Patton, minister of Duff's and
Cavan Church, Winthrop, offer-
ed his services to help on the
farm of Mr. G. B. Dorrance in
McKillop it is needless to say
that Mr. ' Dorrance was delight-
ed, if a little doubtful. But all
doubt soon vanished as Mr. Pat•
ton proved he knew all about
farming and • was an excellent
'----*orkman. He worked all through
• • the haying and made a good
job of it.
•
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From The Huron Expositor
Aug. 17, 1917
A sad drowning accident of
furred near Auburn when Mrs.
To THE r 'o
t . Was a:._ GOod Hockey Celebration
Sir:
it was my intention to write
this letter as soon as 1 reached
horse oh my return frong at-
tending the banquet given Sea-
forth's amazing Intermediate
Champions, but misfortune hi
the shape of an accident which
broke a number of ribs, farted
this delay. I am fine again, and`
beg your indulgence to print
this, thefirst chance you have
a bit of space.
My being at the,.banquet was
the result of the reception of a
wire from Mayor Kling invit-
ing• myself and other Old time
hockey players to be guests of
our home town at this affair.
And I know I speak for the
three of us from out of town
who made it, as well as the
fourth from town who also re-
eeived this invitation, it is' true
Vis asked ,br the other three
to, express our gratltuc4e for
this invitation, y leu: we were
presented to the some four
}hundred people in attendance
immediately following the 'pre-
sentation of the town's beauti-
ful awards to the team mem-
bers, plus -the OKA presenta-
tion,
resentertion, but shall I say that the
misfortune of a faulty Micro
phone, assisted in making" -toy...
words in may opinion, made-
quate, plus The fact that all
four of us wanted all your read-
ers not only to see the picture
of our being there, -but alsoto
know our gratihiidei for having
been invited, bet. more impor-
tantly tq know their and our
home town still 'retains that
quality of spertsuranship and
general. thoughtfullness which
marked it when it was ours and
their privilege to have grown
Sugar and Spice
--- By Bill Smiley --
A BEACH SOLILOQUY powers.
With summer on the wane
— and boy, how it waned
°'around here — I've ,nada• a dis-
covery. With the minimum of
encouragement, I could spend
the rest of my Iife as a beach
bum.
Never was much of a hailed
Here comes an elderly Ger-
man gentleman who muss have
drunk half the beer west Of the
Berlin Wall to pr9duce that
magnificent pot. There's- a
young Jewish father, spoiling
his kids rotten, There's a- Hun-
garian couple, tanned the col -
for the beach life before. As a. our of tar, with two beautiful
boy, I swam in rivers and lakes, •blonde urchir}s,
hut not at beaches. Anyway, And speaking of urchins,
kids are too busy horsing this is the real fun of the' beach.
around to .be bothered lying an They' are through, over and
a beach. around the prone bodies. They
As I grew older, beaches still
build castles. arid' dams and
in -
had II att older, I juas did- forts. They hurl themselves n't like sitting in tile sun. 1 don't to the water, shrieking with de- ..
light. And they're all �so brown
tan. I just sort of turn a burnt
orange. Beaches were for wo- and firm and smooth you could
men, little kids and oldeat thein.
leo- Why do all those darlings,
pie.• 1 preferred golf or fishing. chubby five-year-old girls have
Well, Pm not a woman or ;:a to turn into bored, neurotic,
little kid, so I must be turning harassed women? Why do all
into an old people. Someone those careless sturdy, happy
will tthink unkindly, no doubt, little devils 'of boys have to
that it's the' advent of the biki turn, into • hard, suspicious, ul-
na that' has prematurely aged -
me. This is merely a half t uth." tested men?
I'm not .particularly addicted good question.. But I Still
to the sight Of navels, though
some of the other stuff display-
ed is mildly interesti ig.
No, it's the other sights and
sounds that fascinate' me. Now,
I, don't like the.huge; crowded,
commercialized beach It in-
spires in me, with its noice and
clutter and bawling transistors
and screaming humanity, 'noth-
ing but nausea.
But the beach we go to., al-
most every day the sun shines,
Van Egmond's Greasers and the ' is riot like that: It is clean sand
Broadfoet and Box stars, the and cool, blue water and friend -
former came out victorious 2 ly, relaxed people. -There are
to 1. no laud -speakers bellowing the
- Ms. Robert McMillan of Hul- latest beat. There isn't a -hot-
dog stand or a motorcycle or .a
beer can in sight.
That doesn't mean it's a's
quiet as a church. The gulls
wail, the mamas holler at their
children, the kids scream and
fight and cry. But when you
stretch out on the sand after a
dip, and the sun bores into
you, taking away -the aches and
the tensions, .it's as though you
were hearing it all through cot-
ton wool;
self on -his providential escape. For some reason; 'bur" beach
Mr,. George K. Holland, the has 'become a mecca for new -
popular storekeeper 'at Beech- comers to Canada. Foreigners,
wood has been adding to the as we used to call them in the
neatness of his premises' by put old, unenlightened days. You
ting new shutters on his store can lie there all day and scarce
and dwelling and painting the ly hear a weird of English. And
buildings. what a pleasant change that is.
As Mr. T. F. Case, cattle deal- You could bis at Odessa, on the
er was driving across Gernm- Mack Sea. My Hungarian and
ell's bridge in Tuckersmith, his Polish and. German have impsov-
horse got its hind foot in 0 ed treniendouily.
hole in the bridge and badly But they're great. people.
scraped the leg from the knee They love the sun, mind their
down to the foot. Mr. Case's own ,business, and pick up their
best driver is now laid up and junk when they leave, which is
the veterinary surgeon says its more than can be said of a good
a miracle it was not broken. - many tenth generation Cana -
Many of • our readers will re- dials.
aret to learn' that owing to 11! It's fun to watch and listen.
health, Rev. Fr. Cook, pastor of Over here are couple of -ztai-
St. James' Catholic Church has fan grandmothers, in black
been compelled to relinquish dresses, both built about 'five
A select patty of young tteo-. his charge for' a thee eine he by five, .yattering away .eighty
,nTe met of the residence of Mil: left, here fora three month's miles an hour, - Just over there
Schoales in Constance and pre- trip to the old country where is a njiajestIe young woman with
Rented Miss 13elle Schoales With his parents reside. Slavic featuresy a baby, a hike
an address and purse of $20.00 A gehtlgmanwho has kept al so sparse you couldn't blow
,as a slight mark of -their appre- count, says that over $6,000 your nose in it, and a bust that
elation of her services al _or- worth of bleyeles have been able ..w.ould knock your eye out. May-
danist in the Presbyterian choir. fn this town during the past be both ofthem.,
iI Govier, aged 31, and the 10. Mtaa Jessie Mi(recor read the two' seasons and stili people Back up on the sand a bit Is
-year-old daughter of David Lock- address and the •purses was pre- talk about hard times. the teenage crowd.' They too
hart lost heir lives. - soiled ria Annie Melntosh. �A number of plctileers from have discovered our beach this
M - Mr Milton, 'i dm, nierch Mr. McCaa's house in Egmond, Sealtotth. and Tuekersmith had summer, About sixteen of them'
ant of RIensall, has received the title is beine noshed to cample- an unnoleasant experience on: sprawled " in • a loose circle,
.,g O. e3'' heads together, . indulging in
contract this year from men • bort, IVl'r: ;irtttter'Id a Ole ewtrtratc� Dake-11iit'on at $ayfielil. 'T'h
mlgerr, plat Ingtetfadttret for for Ift a• liar of great enez`g'y- Went writ irk a sail beat and then harrniess gen play, laughing,
gei6t% lir the tette__The' `bicycle tournament was about two mi%s from shore n puhalnItrgi srrnokitng and making
feta oil Indian Angier* which a very prteceaStttl, nffalii', et+en sttddeni and severe squall aping ,heir intricate plains for the eve -
Medi ; 9 great tertkeVer}aeon .t?hoilth it rained et t e"cMoek,. tzp causing the craft tOr ning. Taut t1 y�tedecent young-
llitcsclttc .. sibout 'a ias,athsi t'drniud in pro" arab .doter, 1116 geinernl obi. stets, wit& apologize When they
e ,t . tit c fregofr May o t tot i it � v e d tlrc d 1 'at they had a oar- hit YotI: Qin the 'tied whip their
Elft oa
kt1! llii'Yfrit '• le% « 1�T4 jtl Shay thank' the
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haven't told you why I like the
beach so much. I've discovered
that It's the only place in the
world where my wife will shut
ter mouth for two or three
hours at' a stretch. -
up there. If' any further goof
is seeded to. confirm W1141it tZ
have; already written is the 'fact
that none of we old tiime hock
eY. players ever Played on a
team to bring 'a championship
to the to*h yet -•our contribution
to the life of the town in our
day has never 'been forgotten.•
Our .-congratulations • go out
to this amazing teach for the
-precident it. has set by winning
this championship three suc-
cessive years. This is a "first"
that can never be taken away
from them, and ,those of us
"Old Timers" who were privil-
eged to share in tbei lriumpli
are living proof 'that the indiv-
iduals who made up those teams=...
will never, be forgotten by the
sportiest town in Canada, my
hometohn, Seaforth.
joe Sills
ur 29th
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