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The Huron Expositor, 1960-04-08, Page 11TO THE EDITOR . roma Toronto, March 31,•1960. Editor, The Huron Expositor: Dear Sir: In my capacity as campaign chairman and as a di- rector of the Rehabilitation Foun- dation, I wish -to express the grati- tude and appreciation of the Foun- dation for your splendid co-opera- tion in the 1960 March of Dimes. The combined effort of all concern- ed has raised contributions well over last year's figure. Already- the total amount from the Mother's March is $579,000. Donations are still coming in from commercial and industrial firms, from employee associations, from trade unions, women's auxiliaries and individuals. We estimate that the final result will reach $600,000. Last year's final, figure at De- cember 31, 1959, was $533,000, so the increase is substantial—$67,000. This success is largely due to your co-operation and we thank you sin- cerely for your generous public- spirited support. MT -field of service offers more useful results than the rehabilita- tion of adult men and women who have become disabled through ac- cident, disease or inherited cause. Yet the significance of this work is still barely comprehended. For this reason, I feel sure that you, as a channel of public informa- tion, would want us to keep you posted on what we areomg. I assure you that your Comments or questions would be most wel- come; nothing would please me or my fellow directors more than to have you comment or ask us for a fuller explanation of any part or all of the work our Organization is doing, our objectives., and• our prob- lems.. Yours sincerely, ALEX G. FISHERY ". Campaign Chairman. Editor, The Huron Expositor: Dear- Editor: Having had occa- sion to pass through Seaforth re- cently I could not resist... the temp- tation to stop for a few hour and visit many well -remembered scenes of my childhood days. Need - hone Sur less to say, a sad and void feeling came over me, as I noticed so ?nany of - the old landmarks gone in order to make way for progress, Also the host of missing faces of the many who had passed away. I was delighted to meet and talk with fo.ueout of the very few who are left out of the many hundreds whom ,1 remember. We have all come a long way since those days when -B. B. Gunn operated a large grocery and cloth- ing store, and Aggie Ault kept a well -stocked Rand nicely laid out grocery store just a few doors away; then a short distance . away was a liquor store, operated by a man with very long whiskers, whose name, if I remember cor- rectly, was Dawson. Across the road was a grocery store, operat- ed by J. Livens, which deserves a short description. This store had one large show window which was used as part of a warehouse and was always piled almost. to the ceiling with bhgs of ,sugar. The counter and shelves Were -covered with open boxes of merchandise from which you selected what gro- ceries you wanted, and just in case you did not find all you wanted there, all you need do was look around the floor. In the middle of the store stood a real old wood stove, arodhd which you would al- ways find many farmers sitting on upturned boxes while they did their visiting. Farther down the street we find Cardno's Bakery and Grocery, with the opera house above. Then down on the corner, opposite the Town Hall, stood Pickard's dry goods store, and Walter Willis' shoe store, with a livery stable directly behind; then Scott's barber shop, Broderick's harness shop and the old Post Office. Then as we wan- der down farther we see an old landmark, and I remember when Tom Levy purchased the livery stable on the corner, and what a man he was;�•If •any personliroughV a livery horse back which showed any signs of having been driven hard,, Tom would blow®up and use more profane Language than.. I ev- er heard anyone use -in all my life. Yes; if time and space permit- ted, I could go clear to the end of Egmondville and tell enough tales to fill a book, but unfortunately I have to stop, and in order to get other matters mentioned in con- densed form I will have to leave out a great - many interesting mem- ories. In the old' days when we did not have the many liversified attrac- tions we have today, we always looked •forward to Friday night when our very wonderful Band -en- tertained us •in the park behind, the Town Hall, and believe me, we really knew how to appreciate good music, and there was always h large crowd present. Later, when the silent pictures were first intro- duced in Seaforth, the attendance at the band concerts was never the same again. GET READY FOR SPRING No Dry Cleaning - Problem Too Big1 Whatever your problem—spots on delicate fabrics,- knit cloth- shrunk—or just preparing for Spring—just bring your clothes to us. We give perfect results every time. FLANNERY CLEANERS PHONE 87 • SEAFORTH SEE US FOR BETTER DRY CLEANING ALWAYS connect up three wires on each side of the mach• r e,. On ; the and of each of these wires was attach= ed what looked to us to be tie part of a doctor's stethescope which the doctor put in his ears. This done, he announced that he had some of the finest music and singing this side of Heaven, and any six customers wire paid the small amount of five cents would have the privilege of hearing a famous band playing one of the latest selections.By this time there was quite a crowd around, and then came a grand scramble to try and be among the first to hear the music. As soon as the six spaces were taken, he put his hand down into a box and carefully re- moved a waxed tube, which he placed on the cylinder of the ma- chine, being very careful not to let his fingers touch the outside of the tube. The machine was wound up and started to run, with the first six customers being able to hear the music, while the others waited their turn impatiently. That was my first introduction to a talking machine of.,any kind. Every steet in the town had plank sidewalks, but the one that attracted me most was that on Main Street, which was built up high enough so that farmers could step out of their buggies right on- to the sidewalk, and tie their horse to one of the large rings fastened on the outer edge 'ofthe, walk. Those who were triable to get room on the Main Street would al- ways go around the corner and tie up to one of the hitching posts. If you came quite a distance and wished to have . your horse fed, you went 1e .hotel stable .where it usually. cost 10 cents for a feed of hay, and from 10 to 15 cents for a gallon of oats. This, of course, included—having the hostler un- hitching your horse 'and put it away for you. - Settled in McKillop If you were to drive two conces- sions north of Seaforth, then turn- ed right to the next corner, you would find a little church. Keep on going past the corner and on the left you would see what used to be 'the old Beattie homestead. Next came what was the Lawrence farm, which occupied- the land which . a grandfather of mine set- tled on and cleared, His name was James Sparling, and having ac- quired the land he became one of the very old settlers in the. Town- ship of McKillop. In the Old Land he was known as a local preacher, and as soon as he had bixilt a lit- tle log house and cleared a bit of land, he went the rounds among the other settlers and announced that he would start holding church services in his home. According to an article published some time ago in a United. -..Church publica- tion, the first service ever held in that part of the country was conducted by him .arid held in that old log house. I will not deal with the many hardglii:ps' suffered, any more than to say that few of us in this fast-moving age stop to' Think of how much we owe to those early pioneers, who suffered pov- erty,. loneliness, sickness,' and. -of- ten death, without even the aid of a doctor. They often had td' beat a trail through the bush, carrying what little grain they had raised, all the way to Goderich, to have it ground into meal. Now we are 'enjoying the fruits of their never- ending toil. Early Customs • Yes, I remember the old tin forms which my dear old Grand - Mother, and also my mother us- ed so often in which to mould tal- Before the silent pictures came, L_remember being on the station platform one day as the morning train came in, and noticed a very short 'slim man, with a long, black, heavily -waxed moustache„ carry- ing two contraptions under his arms. As he started to walk up town, boy like I became curious, and followed. On his arrival at the corner opposite the Town Hall he inimediately set up a folding table, after which he opened an- other parcel from which he remov- ed what we thought was a funny looking machine, with -a tube on the end. This was placed -on the table, after which he proceeded to low candles, with a loco of yarn. or string running through each One. And the old ash barrel which used to sit en a platform out in the backyard, with a piece of tin placed under the barrel which formed a funnel at the front, to enable the liquid corning out through the bottom of the .barrel to run into a pail which was plac- ed beneath. It became our duty, as boys, to take turns at emptying ashes from the wood cook stove into the bar- rel. To this was" added fat •and pork rinds, along with some pow- der. • Water was poured on top of all this and allowed to seep through to the bottom of the bar- rel and out into the pail. The liq- uid was emptied into a large boiler and put on the stove, where it was boiled until the contents became fairly thick, and as a result Mother seemed to perform miracles by ending up with lots of soap. Many happy days -were spent on the banks of Silver Creek which wended' its way through the Case farm, for there we were always allowed to go, as long as ,we did not do any damage. Behind the cemetery, where the Maitland river still flows, the old swimming hole was always another source of pleasure. The old pond among the–trees on the Coleman property, close to the High School, always lost a lot of its population of frogs to. the many boys who went there to play in the summer. In the winter there was always a well-worn,path •leading to it through the field. There we used to clear the ice of snow,, put on . our spring skates, and after using •lots_of straps to hold them on, enjoy a nice skate. We would turn to shinny, for which we used a good stiff branch of a tree having a crook on the end after the fashion of a hockey stick, and with that and a hard rubber ball we would have our game, with no periods and no quarter asked, until we were tee. tired to even walk. mom HURON COUNTY OEREf A 'ION •NEWS By CARL IlEXINOWAY in Denmark farmers completely control the marketing of their pro- duct even to everting to retail leve, and to a large extent to consumer level (Prof, Campbell, 04.C.). These :facts were well known by the farmers of the delegation and, as a result, their faith in Govern- ment was largely destroyed. 1111111111111111111111111111111111111 11111111111 The L,gion. Corner (By JACK HOLLAND) 1111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 Well, Comrades and friends, our Pee Wee Champions "C"'. group lost out to Walkerton in the "B" playdowns, but like in all things there. is a winner and a loser, and their loss by only one goal was, certainly no disgrace. This is a fine -hockey -team, and if we can keep. these boys together I am sure that they will bring many trophies to Seaforth. * * * Our new district service officer, Mr. Scott, was in town this week, and "Jake" 'Cornish, 'our pension and welfare officer, arranged in- terviews with some of the veter ans. I had a painful experience, last week, when I saw goad men, strong and true and in high nubile office, .appear as nodding- puppets in the hands of Sir Oracle as he dripped honeyed words an the poor serfs .below, Many Changes , Today there are no Jack McDon- alds who go just outside the town limits to practice on the bagpipes; no John Wrights, with a white horse, to plow our gardens. Also gone long ago, the old drill hall which, before being torn down, was later used in the winter as 'a 'skat- ing rink, and .the skating rink on Main. Street, near the railway, with the bowling green behind; the Noble Cluff & Sons planing mill and the John Welsh & Son wooden pump factory on the North Road, along with the cooper shop; the old Sparling salt block; Broadfoot & Box furniture factory; the old Seaforth electric power station; Tyreman and Sparling, contrac- tors; the old woollen mill. I must now call a halt, with only the half or. less just being skim- med over. AN OLD TIMER' The occasion was the interview granted by Prime Minister Frost to the $race -Grey -Huron hog pro- ducers delegation. The very wordy discourse that greeted us was an insult, to the intelligence of the fanners that met with him. Yet, the members present, who repre- sented rural riding, apparently agreed, without question, with the Prime Minister. The Honourable Prime Minister of Ontario, in supporting the argu- ment for strict government con- trol of marketing of farm products, particularly hogs, referred to Eng- land as an example. Does the Prime Minister fail to realize that the people of England A lot of. batteries are in pretty weak shape towards the end of a winter. And corroded terminals and posts certainly- don't help the situation. Wash the top of the bat- tery and connections with a solu- tion of baking soda, then rinse with water, suggests Hal Wright, Ontario Department of Agriculture Extension specialist. Keep, the sol- ution away from the vent holes. Remove. terminals and clean them inside and out with a soft rag (don't scrape or sandpaper ,them, because acid might fly in your eyes). Finally, clean battery posts, re -install terminals, and coat all exposed metal surfaces with a light grease. HereTs the HMV's di -time Recoid: , -Nee the three- and five-year awards! *H & N won 5 "Five -Year" Awards! * H &N won 7 "Three -Year" Awards! 'll&N FirSt 5th Missouri . 1959 H&N First 2nd California 5 -year 1955 H&N First 3rd Arizona 1958 H&N First- 3rd New York 3 -year 1955 II&N First 5th California 5 -year 1958 H&N . First 5th California . 1954 H&N First 9th California Cage *1958 H&N First 2nd New York 3 -year 1954 , H&N First 2nd Tennessee 1958 H&N First 3rd California 3 -year 1954 H&N First 4th California 5 -year 19§7 It&N First 1st California 5 -year 1954 •H&N First 2nd WiSconsin 1957 H&N First 3rd NeW York 1953 H&N First 3rd California 5 -year 1956 H&N First 1st New York 3 -year 1953 H&N First' 2nd Missouri "D" 1956 H&N First 2nd California 3 -year 1953 - H&N First 1st Wisconsin 1956 H&N First 3rd California 1952 H&N First 5th New York , 1955 H&N First 1st California 3 -year 1952 H&N First 4th California 3 -year 1955 *No income award given. Based on eggs per hen housed. ONLY H & N HAS THIS TREMENDOUS RECORD — NO OTHER BREEDER OR INDIVIDUAL BIRD CAN COMPARE! BUY NOW How Is Your Equipment holding up? Need more WATERERS ? NESTS ? BROODERS ?? SAVE! ! 20% plus 5% on All Big Dutchman Poultry Equipment LOGSDON 'HU' HATCHERIES SEAFORTH LIMITED ." Phone 642 € ONTARIO GARTH HOLTOM - General Manager 'MAKi t :N1.P.4ksxwou, Sk,Av4» TUr * * * Attention, all Legionnaires! Our Branch is playing host to the rest of the zone for the spring rally and meeting this coming Sunday. Regi- stration starts at 1:30 p.m. There will be a parade to the Cenotaph. As our turn only comes once in every ten years or so, let's have every member who can make it, turn out. It will give us a chance to see some old friends from the other branches. * s We are hoping for a big Crowd at our first public dance. this Fri- day night. The Legion intends to run the finest dances in the coun- tryside., •and we have the facilities to do just that. This is not a for-, mal affair, but no windbreakers, jeans or slacks will be allowed. We'll close with a thought fOr our Comrades: "At the going down of the sun and in the morning we shall remember them:" * * * See you on parade Sunday. A man had been plagued for weeks with' a bothersome rash which confused his doctor. The doc after a time-consuming examina- tion hemmed and hawed and flnal- asked: "Have you ever had this' kind of itch before?" -The answer was a vigorous 'yes.' "Well," said the doctor, "looks like you've. got it again." NOW AVAILABLE IN SEAFORT *Single °Duplicate °Triplicate To Fit All Types of Billing Machines HIVRON 'EXPOSITOR. The Annual Meeting of Scott Memorial Hospital to be held on TUESDAY, APRIL 19th In the Nurses' Residence The meeting will provide an __opportunity for a discussion of hospital problems and plans, so that the needs of the district may be provided for. Refreshments will be served following the meeting. A. Y. McLEAN LLOYD HOGGARTH Chairman. Secretary. 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