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The Huron Expositor, 1973-09-20, Page 2Mai It IsiJ fxpavitor ...„...., Since 1.860 ? Serving the Community First PiMAW 4 SEAVORTII4 ONTARIO, every ThorSday morning by MCLEAN BROS., Pubbkishers LK ANDREW Y. MCLEAN, Editor Idember Canadian Weekly Newspaper Association Ontario Weekly Newspaper 'Association and Audit Bureau of Circulation• 4 Newspapers Subscription Rates: Canada (in advance) $8.00 a Year Outside -Canada (in advance) $10.00 a Year "SINGLE COPIES — 20 CENTS EACH Second Class Mail Registration Number 0696 Telephone 527:000.' ' . SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, September 20, 1973 Fall Fairs •• from working hard with your friends and neigh- bours,winning prizes when you deserve them and tak- ing time off to en j'o'y an afternoon at the fair. For farmers the harvest is pretty well over. Towns- people with the excuse of *keeping up with this year's agricultural advances and of 415,ing a last break befofe'settling down to the fall routine can also legitimately attend the fair. Every year there are scoffers and sceptic's who say .. that the Fall Fair is dying,. that few people' are interested anymore-in the small agricultural cpm- munity, its competitions and exhibitors. But the , continued, success of the Seaforth Fall. Fair dis- proves this theory. If anything, interest in " things agricultur& and things homemade is increas- ing as people reject plas- tic, expensive material things and overly qpmer- cial professional types of entertainment. • • • •▪ 5.•• We predict, in fact, that small' community -4 n Fall Fairs will thive as people reject central- ized government and in- stitutions and hang on to the local, personalized ones which are valuable to them. Whether you are a kid who looks forward to the midway, a farmer who wants to' see what' other people are exhibiting, someone who Tikes to relive the good old b y seeing the hors es- and the homemade handiwork or a city slicker who wants to enjoy old fashioned friend- liness and fun . . you'll like the Fall fair. Come to Seaforth's ... this Thursday and Friday. Irk- the Years Agone i• The best time of the year /for many of us'is .ynow at hand . . . Fall Fair time. Nothing quite matches the allure of an agricultural society fair ,in the small towns of Ontario. ,' \\> School' children are , excited about parading to the fair class, by class with a teacher at their head on Friday afternoon. The more_ mercenary little dears are hoping to be about 75t richer when they collect their prize money for things grown or cooked with 'only a , very little help, from mother or father Exhibitors of -'grain and livestock show off their best and.pick 'up tips from each other. Fresh baked bread, banana .layer*cake and cherry pie on display in the round house makes spectators drool.Interest in who is the best cook and who does the most careful and/or creative needlework is high. Those who exhibit and participate in all phases of the fair are proud,and heiterfigift tro be-L.' Those' who arellierely spectators learn a lot from just view- ing other people's hard work. Merchants who put up commercial exhibits,,far- mers, women and children who exhibit and platn ordinary fair goers, who only-attend, all gain from , 'the sense of community evident at every,year's fall fair. It has taken a lot of work ,on the part of many people, to keep the Sea- forth Fall Fair functioning well, for 128 years. This year's directors deserve a.thank you for their un- paid labours. There is a happy, re- laxed atmosphere at the Fall Fair which comes, If there is a magic age in Ontario, it ha s to be 18. At 18 , a young man or a young woman instantly becomes an adult with all the rights and privilegeg of an adul t. What Sometimes is forgotten I'm afraid, is that adulthood brings its shares of responsibilities . .. and it sometimes appears that youth is eager to accept the privileges of adulthood but is reluctant to take on' the resulting responsibility. And that, my friends, is where.trouble begins for all concerned. And that is also why folks of my vintage are con- stantly so. frustrated they becotne bi and cynical. P Having teenagers of my own,.1. 116 eager kid'eafe16:reach the ateb`h. Overnight they can' transact their own financial deals, sign their own legatdocu- ments, languish in a pub, get into restricted movies and generally live life to its fullest. There's nothing wrong in that either, providing the kids are prepared to make all the decisions that come with adulthood ... and live withlhose dediSions and their possible repercussions. I remember back to the dark ages when I was 18. How very, very young I was although I thought I was wise and mature, fully in command of my own life and sure as shooting I was right about everything. I remember I wanted to get married even though I'd vowed to become a school teacher and travel the world around before I settled &un at the age of 25 or 30. My father advised me to forget it. He said I was too youg to know my own mind. He said I could veky well be in love today, but he doubted that love would last through a full' year. But I kne w better. I'd never felt quite like this before' and I was certain this was the real thing. So at the magic age of 181 signed on the dotted line and got married 'despite my father's protests. And my father, bless his heart, knew when he was beaten and , waltzed me down the church aisle as though it was all his idea. But what my father didn't tell me • . and what I soon found out would fill a book. If it hadn't been for a wonderful„ wonderful, very mature husband and his unwavering belief in God and a Christian marriage, our union would have been doomed. At 18 I was a child compared to the woman who has emerged from 20 years of marriage.. And there are days even now when I wonder. whether I'm less sure of myself now than I was when I was 18f - ' • By the time I was 20, I had a' baby and a husband who was in hospital and off work because of a back ailment. By the time I was 22 I had another child and a share in a pile of debts By the tim81` "rffralf,20 I -Wilfivgairt,"39Fr.e., housewife „ttgigir,,,,A wat-,epaptin in luring and ak160te neQ0lithibt . I longed for the experiences I'd missed and I wanted to be 'free of the house, - not necessarily the children and my hus- band - but most certainly' the house. Once more my wonde7lui husband charged into the breach. He urged me to do whatever would make me happy and fill my life. He eyen,affered.to.help with the kids and the housework. I gues s what I'm trying to say is that without my husband, I might not- have faced up to my responsibilities as a young housewife and mother. I might very well have given up on marriage had it not been t.. that my husband worked at our relationship together and taught me how to work at it too. I pity, therefore, the 18-year olds today who believe they have all the answers and don't need the advice and the guidance of anyone else. They may not be married or even consideringit. Their problems may ' be as different from those I' had 'as east is - from west, but I know that by the .time today's 18-year olds are 25 and then 35, they are going fb have a different outlook and a whole new set of rules to live by. And I icnow they are going to have "egrets which can get all-consuming, ufilgSs they learn to face up to their choices from the past and combine their efforts to make things work no matter what. That's what it means to take respon- sibility. "Well, how did you find England after all those years?" 'Ris is the favourite question for people asking about our jaunt. I have a stock of stock answers. "No trouble at all. We just went where the pilot took us." That sometimes shutS them up. Another retort. "Just kept going until We heard a lot of Limeys chirping." I save that pne for the Britons out here who haven't loot their accent. Well; I found it greatly changed and much the same. Despite the levelling off economically, the old class system is Still there, and causes. even more ani- /inosity than It used to. • That is, the poor are better off, and the rich are taxed iniquitionsly, so there's less of a gap financially. But 'you are still labeled by your accent, your occu- pation, and your background, The standard of living has risen a good deal, but so have costs. The papers • are headlined with rising food costa and their real estate took an upward surge a few years ago. A house there coats about the' same as a similar one here. Food is a little cheaper than ours. Drinks a little cheaper and a little weaker. Transport is a ,bit cheaper and twice as good as ours. That's because of the • short distances, the heavy population, and the high cost, for the working man, of owning 'a car. Through trains rocket along at speeds up to a hundred m.p.h. Employment? Almost complete, if you want a job. There are supposed to'be half a million unemployed, but a businessman told me this represents only the unemploy- ables, and those who don't want to work. Everywhere, newspapers, store windows, there are "Help Wanted" ads.. Admittedly, a lot of the jobs are. menial, but, not all, by any means. The Brits don't want the more lowly ,. occupations, And that's ' why .the blacks have moved in, mostly from the West Indies. They are the bus conductors, labourers. And waiters and unskilled And whenever things . tighten Am a bit, there is resentment and racial vn oi owl Be, snotcf e. both htehreskii skilled a great shortage, right ed and unskilled workers. The Post Office is desperately under- staffed, ppstal workers are working over- I I time, and some of them, bleats a news- paper, are 'falling asleep at their jobs. That has a familiar ring, somehow. In London, the bus service is away below par, because it is short 4,500 bus. drivers., A chartered accountant told me that It's almost impossible to hire girls who can operate .busines machines. 0 In des- ,peration, he cajoled a former employee, a good operator, into coming back for a month. She was seven months pregnant. Slight catch.' She lasted one hour. Couldn't get close enough to the machine to punch the keys. A publisher in Londan advertised ex- tensively for a secretary. He offered about $88• a week.,,a month's vacation and a bottle of champagne upon engage- “He !-g0 zegq answers. In frus- tration, he printed 1,000 handbills ,anditrid ' his staff pass them 'Out on the streets to likely-looking candidates. Result., four phone calls. Two of them were not interested. The other two made appoint- ments for interviews. Neither turned up. Another aspect Of England that has changed, sadly, is the increase in vio- lence. I met two young fellows in a pub. They were both employed and making about $100 a week. Yet they boasted of being Borstal boys (reform school). The elder, who seemed seething with rage at the world' in general, and ready to start "a row with anybody, had also been in prison. - They, were working class, but • hated everybody above them in the system. There' have been racial riots. involving whites, blacks and Indians. London busstop signs warn that "Owing to hooliganism and attacks on our %tan” such and such buses will' not run 'after a certain hour. - This summer ,there was an outbreak of sheer viciousness and vandalism among some groups of football fans. Drunken fights at the games. Ripping up railway cars and kicking in compartment doors sing passengers on:the way home e match. Motorcycle gangs ter- villages. It sickens to hear of this sort of thing in dear old England, for years one of the safest and most peaceful countries inle world. But it's there. From My Window By Shirley J. Keller and al from rorizi r ot a Ap p- SEPTEMBER 23, 1898. Diptheria is epidemic in the vicinity of Crediton and the schools have been closed in consequence. During the week, W. R. Somerville, uptown G.T.R. agent has ticketed the following parties, F. Sills to Sandwich. Mr. Ryan and son to Sandwich; Harry Edge, Detroit, John J. Cluff to Detroit„ J. C. Laidlaw to Minnesota, W. A. Grey to St. Ignace, Mich, Ralph Cresswell to' Pqeblo, Colorado. J. S. Crozier of Egmondville moved his family to Seaforth so as to be nearer to his work. Rev. John 'Muidrew formally of town, has accepted a call from the Presby- terian congregation at Morris, Manitoba. , Mrs. Kirkman has been compelled on account of illness to give up her duties at the Collegiate Institute and the Board has secured the services of Miss P. Dundan of Richmond Hill. Mr. and Mrs.. W. W.-Hoffman and son Norman left this week for Manitou, Manitoba, where they will reside in the , future. A gravel crossing is -being laid down in front of the Royal Hotel stables. This, will be a big improVement on the old` plank walk. The work -is being .done by F. Gutterldge. - S. A. Mattson and lees Ida took a driving excursion to Sarnia going by way of Grand Bend and Forest. Mrs. C. J. Baladen, of Melbourne, Middlesex Co. visited her father, Mr. E. Dawson. Geo. Turnbull shipped a car load of heavy horses to Liverpool and W. Cudmore Jr. went with them. While lifting a box, W. J. Beattie got the palm of his hand torn by 'a nail, making a severe and painful wound. John McMillan, M.P. will address a mass meeting in Cardno's Hall on the b of Prohibition. James Baird Jr, of Brucefield, left for Montreal where he intends to • re- sume his studies 'at w•c0i1.1. Miss Mary J. McCully of Brucefield took advantage of the Cheap rates and went out west to visit her brother in Dakota. ' Wm. Fortune of the Huron Rd . has sold his farm to James Cronin. SEPTEMBER 26, 1923. H., Arnold, Manager of the Molson's Bank in Hensall was struck by a car driven by C. Campbell. 'His face was badly cut, and the front wheel passed over his ankles, breaking a small bone. It was discovered that the dwelling of T. Drummond of Hensall, had caught fire. Miss Cassie Dougall of Hensall has returned from a pleasant, visit to friends in Huron and Perth Counties. One of the happiest events which occurred in the Hibbert vicinity for along time took place at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Mahaffy when they celebrated their golden wedding. One of the prettiest weddings of the season was held in St. James Catholic Church when Mary Florence, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Roland Kennedy of Tuckersmith was united in marriage to- August Ducharme. Miss Emily Kennedy was bridesmaid and Maurice Melady was groom srnan. Miss Jean Murchiek of Brucefield has purchasdd a fine new Mason & Risch piano from a Stratford Drill. The following students left to attend Normal School at London Gladys Mc- Phee, Anne Haugh, Mary Bell, Mary Laing, Edna Campbell, Garnet Sillery and Claytoh Martin. J. W. Beattie of this town has a sow on his farm, near Seaforth, that has a record all Its own in the breeding line'. On Sept. 10th she gave birth to '7 pigs and twnve days later gave birth to, six more. Seaforth's Old Boys Reunion, Fire- • man's Tournament and golden anniversary of Seaforth is assured- for August 1924. T. E. Hays returned from a two months trip to the Western provinces. He greatly enjoyed it and looks much improved in health. Harry pierce, of town, who was on the staff of Stewart Bros., left on Monday for Saginaw, where he will be in charge of the linen department in -a large retail store there. Miss Leila Best left this week to- accept a position• on the staff of Coiling- lot wood Collegiate Institute. During the violent thunderstorms the fine bank barn of L. Fulton of Crornarty was struck by light ning and completely destroyed with the season's crop and "a number of pigs. Messrs. James and John Ballantyne of Cromarty leftr on a trip to Scofield. OCTOBER 2, 1948. Mrs. Russell Coleman was hostess to about 100 guests when she entertained at a trousseau tea for her daughter Hazel prior to her marriage. Extensive alterations to the large frame building on John Street, owned by Dr. J. A. Munn and until recently used by John Bach for implement storage, are underway, Gordon Wright will occupy it for his cabinet making and furniture . repair business. Mrs. John Carter, of Hullett, cele- brated her 87th birthday. Her daughters, Mrs. John Ferguson and Mrs. M. Mc- Kellar arranged a party In her honor. Howard Kerr, , son of Mrs. James Kerr, Seaforth, recently opened Ryer- son nstitute of Technology. He is also Director of Technical Institutes in Ontario. Under new arrangement Seaforth stores will ' close each week day Monday through Friday except Wednesday at 5 p.m. On Wednesday closing time is 12.5a and on Saturday evenings it will be 9 p.m. The -residence of the estate of Letitia M. McPhee on Louisa Street has been sold to'Clarence S. Walden, through the office of E.C.Chamberlain. Glenn Nixon, 16 year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Dale Nixon, slipped as he was climbing the silo and fell to the ground. He was treated for laceratiOns and shock by Dr. E. A. McMaster. The funeral of the late Ralph 'CresS- well, was"held from St. Thomas Anglican Church. The remains were brought from Pasadena, Calif. Harold Storey of Winthrop-has moved onto the farm recently purchased from Win. How. Rev. D. Glenn Campbell was inducted into the pastorate of First Presbyterian Church.