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The Huron Expositor, 1974-02-07, Page 2,%qu it, &) ul- v als In a Years Agone 011e - Since 1860, Serving the Continunity First r Pubbsbed at SFAFORTIL ONTARIO, every Thursday morning by McLEAN BROS., Publisfiers Lad ANDREW Y. McLEAN, Editor J gEBRUARY 8th, 1924 Member Canadian Weekly Newspaper Association The regular blowing of the whistle of Ontario Weekly Newspaper Association �� rs s late, at Mr. Wilt. Sadler's saw mill, and Audis Buteeof Curulabon "' k, - reminds us that the time of singing of the u Newspapers ` birds is not far distant. -r A number of neighbors and friends of subscription Rates- "v " ('nonan (in advance) 59.04 a Year Mr. and Mrs. Jas. Murray, of McKillop, _. "' gathered to spend a social evening with Outside Canada (in advance) 511.00 a Year them, having recently sold their farm' to F.T.Fowler. They were made the recipients SINGLE COPIES - 20 CENTS EACH ' ,,, of a well filled purse of money. Second Clens !1iai1 Resistttation Number 0696 James Fairservice of Londesboro, has Telephone 527,0240 installed a lighting plant in his residence. SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, February 7, 1974, The travelling salesman Around here people are indoors during the winter more than any other time of year. Farmers can't get out on the land because it's frozen (it wasn't until recently, but it is now). That's probably why at this time of year, every year, a particular type of travelling salesmen come out of the cities (or wherever they headquarter) and head -for the small towns and concessions. They know they'll have a relatively captive audience stuck at home during winter days and nights They move into a rural territory. headquarter in a small town and push like crazy to make sales. A man we knout in Nile Township was visited last week by two insistent life insurance salesmen for an American Company. They used an old con trick - telling,the local man that his neighbours had all taken out insurance with their company. "Yup, we sold Joe Blow down the road a policy and he asked us to call on youand offer you the same goad d� ti The farmer we talked to in Nile asked,to see a copy of the contract. which would obligate him to 518.60 a month in payments for life insurance. No dice. the salesmen refused. He also. said that if he did buy he'd like more coverage than the $10,000 policy they were pushing. Again the, salesme'n' ° weterr'1 interested. They' also refused to let the mart read the insurance policy and wouldn't really discuss the details of coverage. Instead the salesmen spouted terrible warnings about the fat a of those without life insurance and kept bugging the man to sign. Our friend, who spent over -an hour listening, said he'd think about it and asked them to leave a copy of the policy and come back in a few days. "This is your one and only chance" Said the salesmen, aqain Letters to Editor putting on pressure instead of giving the straight facts about their policy. This farmer later asked a dcctor he knew about this insurance company. The Dr. said he'd found them very hard to deal with in his medical practise. "They aLIways wanted much more in the way of proof about an injury than any other insurance company", the doctor 'said. Well. our friend got rid of the life' insurance salesmen, but quite likely some of his neighbours gave in"to their pushy sales pitch. The product these pushy people are insisting you buy from life insurance to encyclopedias. isn't really important. The salesman doesn't even want to talk about it. What these fast -buck artists are selling is a way to improve your image of yourself. — Yo6'11 suddenly be tater and keep up with the neighbours if you buy insurance. You'll be instantly knowledgeable and will stop denying your children if you buy a set of encyclopedia. It just ain't that simple. Beware of the groups of salesmen' that ,parachute to to a small area — fan out over a section of the country. sell all the people they can in a week or so 'then move on to another county and other suckers and are never heard from again. Consult COnSt4Mer Reports - 3. yearly buying guide with unbiased advice based on scientific testing and analysis which is available at any library. before buying insurance or,, anything else. Any salesman who won't let you read a contract or test ,tis goods should be laughted out of your house. Most important buy from local ,people — not only do you know them and the manner to which they serve your community but even more important you'll know where to find them if•anything goes wrong. Van Egmond foundation reports Sir: in meet the challenge: eight of S100.00:.ten Through the medium of %our paper. the Of 550: ftft% of 5_..00: tuent%-ft%e of Van Egmond Foundation could like to : one hundred s_ .t10: and two inform area residents of the progress of the Foundation io Your hundred and one donations of hundred with respect to the restoration roes donation mai be sent to James D131E• of the Van Egmond house in Egmondville. Chairman. The Van Egmond Foundation. Ontario. R.R.=4. Seaforth. Receipts will be sent to Little comment is needed concerning the all donors and the official receipts are grounds. The improvements are yen eligible for income tax purposes under The apparent. The work was done at almost nil .n t has come Tax Act. Ie It ha our attention that SeafOrin cost to the Foundation because of the will celebraa ting its 100th birthday efforts of individuals and groups whose 19';. Many former residents %ill be work has been mentioned in previous returning for the occasion. Would it not be issues of the Expositor. pleasing to the eve and gratifying if the Restoration is underway on the interior Van Egmond projeci could be well of the hone. Because of %en limited underway if not completed by the summer finance§. the Foundation is undertaking of 19"5. You can be assured that once the one room at a time. Expenditures are Foundation.receiyes your financial support increasing because it will be necessary in 53.o which vitt in the amounturn the very near future to engage craftsmen to tentitle us tt receive 5.400.00 from t ensure that the restoration %ill be correct the ernHeritage Foundation. in even• detail. Although the Foundation acrio restoration activities %ill proceed without has not vet received notifcation that the delay. request for Local Initiatives Program Thank sou. Mr. Editor for allowing us assistance in 1974 has been turned down, it space in your %eekly newspaper. must be pretty well assumed at this sate Yours truly.date that such is the case. It is therefore Mrs. Edith Baker imperative that the Foundation appeal to Acting Treasurer the public for support to ensure that work The Van Egmond Foundation continues on the project. it will be recalled that in August 72 when the Ontario Heritage Foundation made the Thanks donation, of Seven thousand Dollars which Sir. enabled the VEF to complete purchase of. The committee in charge of the recent the Property. -there was a stipulation that drive for the March of Dimes Ability Fund the Ontario Heritage Foundation would wish to express appreciation to all who provide an additional $7.000.00 if and worked and contributed to make this the when the community contributed a similar most successful canvass to date. amount. At that time the members of the The final count is expected to be in Foundation felt confident that area excess of SI�M-00. up about S250.00 ever iesidents 'and others would respond to the last year. t chaTleage. To date 53,499.00 have been Special "thank you's" go to the Huron received. Therefore, 53.501.00 are needed Expositor. ilei . many canvassers, the before the Ontario Heritage Foundation general public and the com-mititee in scull forward the additioiral S7.000.00. charge. Donations will be gratefully accepted by Yours in appreciation, the Foundation whose officers are your Mrs. Jack Case. General Chairman; representatives in this community project. Mrs. Charles Reeves. Treasurer; The sutra total of the following suggested Mrs. May Habkirk, Supplies Chairman and donations would raise the monies needed Mrs. L. Orummett. Publicity Chairman. yr 0 Old store at Beechwood Sugar and Spice By Bill smiley Whai's in a name? Quite a bit. if %ou're going to be stuck a ith it for the rest of .our life. When the,..oung people acre tr\ing to think of a name for m\ nen grandson. I started pondering on'•this a hole business of Christian monikers. laming of children seems to go in cycles. And the names in one generation seem etcher ugh or affected to the people of the neat generation. These vas a time uhen girls stere quite . happi to be called Pearl or Rubs. Mabel or Mv-r-6e or Elsie, if a girl mere given a name like that toda\ . she'd run aw as frons home at the aee of fi,,e. The same penod produced boss' names lil-e Eimer' Hora-ce. Marvin. not to mention those too great sets.. one Greek. one Latin: Homer area s ireil. T1t2t was knru-n as The bad to be tamed. BeR47-e dial uas the somatic' period. In m� mother's fart,%: the boys wire dulbbed things like Drayu.m. Emerson. Lionrl. I% an. On m% wife's side. her mother a as Soplp.a. and her mother's sisters here Charh-rte and Esiher. Those ladies wound up as Sophie..Lcmie and Ace.y. but the damage uas done. %1y wife's mother named her Iv% and her sister Ins. but the,, didn't turn Out tc be a couple of clinging >ines..M� wife hates her name so i call he• Suse. uhich seems to suit her. M%. own pother a as on the ebb tide of the romar.nc period. but she did name her daughters Florence and 'norma. Thev Round up as Floss and The Brat . so it wasn't t•.xl bad. . With the boys' names: m% nia wasn't too bad. bc- .m-, brothers are Byron Arnon _ Keith and Donald Allan Blake , and I'm William Bryant Thomson. Not ::xi awful. realh . but m\ brothers emerged as Blake and Amort. I have been called Bil.l,. Bill. Willie and Wffl, arrinng othe17 things. but have neer been known as William. except in legal documents. 1 was the lucky one. I gree up in an age of Jacks and Bobs and Bills and Joes and Toms. A Gordon was suspect. and a Homer was hooted out of the gang. unless he could find a nickname like Stink or Piggy or Greaseball or some such affectionate nomenclature. In ruy group. there uas •a Harold. an Arnold and a Clayton. The\ u ere tolerated because they became Smoke% Oakes. Goon Imeson and Papp\ Warren. After m-, generation. a new wave of snobbery se t in. as women started calling their kids after heroes in the Ladies Home Journal and British novels. There sprouted a whole crop of Peters and Stevens and Michaels and Jeffreys and Christophers and Marks and Matthews and Nicholases and Davids and laps. There wasn't a George or a John in the lot. And the girls got it too. There were Samanthas and Natalies and Sonyas and Patrices and' Lises and Pantelas and Elizabeth Janes and Rhondas and (NI Deborahs. My God. were there Deborahs! I have five of them this year in a class with twelve girls in it. Finding a girl called. Mary these days is just as tough as finding a boy called John. Oh. I'm not blaming the parents all tical much. It's no joke, choosing a name. 'We were going to call our first-born Judy, because it was to be a girl. It' didn't have' the right plumbing. so we named it Hugh, after a Sir Hugh Smiley in Ireland. And°do you know. the old skinflint didn't even put OUT boy in his will`' Second time around, we took no chances. The kid was to be called Kim, which would suit either sex. We thought it was different. The only Kim around was Kim losak. A dozen years latera there was a Kim on even street -corner. Well'. like all grandparents, not wanting to interfere, just trying to be helpful, we med to ram a name down my daughter's throat for her infant.' But most of the good ones, were gone. In .her own family connection, there are already: a Peter and a Paul: a David and a Hugh: a Steffen and a Patrick. a Matthew and a Darcy. All the Flood ones were - gobbled up. We suggested Geoffrey and Mark and Michael and others. and at each, she'd say, "Echhhh. that reminds me of . . ." The kid was a week old. i was .getting desperate. I asked my students to help me. The}really tried., They came up with Charles and Cool -hand Luke and Jim and Oscar. Big help. Well. 1 know the suspense is killing you, so I'll tell. They named the poor little kid Nicol Chen.. Nicov(pronounced Kneecove) is a character in a Dostoievski novel. Chen (pronounced S} en) means in Chinese "first-born". Her mother's face didn't fall more than a foot. My bloodpressure went up only tw•ent}• points. However. he said smilingly, it's kinds cute when you get used to it. Russian, Chinese, and his last name is Sieber, which is German. A real conglomerat e. As soon as he's up to mine, I'm going to call him Kneecap. '! : ri s ov' 'WIN Come I'M THE ONLY ONE 1A1 77i/E 15„ 1FA A f1cY WfTKOUT A C EDIT' CAZO? " With neither sleighing nor wheeling, the roads at Varna were almost impassable the latter part of the week. Glen McLean and Sheldon Eyre of Chiselhurst have secured employment in Detroit and intend staying for the winter. Peter Stewart of Hensall, who acted as caretaker of the Hensall Public School, was surprised and presented with a handsome quarter oak rocking ci(air ar�-afine pipe and case. The presentation was made by S. Burgess and an address was given by Wm. McKay - James Cowan of town moved into his new residence this week. James Archibald of town has purchased the residence of the late Mrs.Taylor on Centre Street. Frank Carlin of town has leased the apartment in the Willis block recently. F.T.Fowler entertained his room at the public school to a toboggan party at his home in McKillop when all had a most enjoyable time. Hydro power, was off this week consequently the Expositor will be late in reaching many of our readers, not only are we dependent on hydro for m otive power. The rink and the picture show suffered while house holders went back to the candle. Miss Florence ]3ennetLof.Winthrop left for London this week C. W.Papst of Georgetown paid his 48th subscription to the Expositor. FEBRUARY 11th,1944 Directors of the Seaforth Agricultural Society appointed Mrs. Roy . Lawson, Huron Road, as secretary Are asurer of the society. Mrs. Lawson succeeds Mrs. Jos. 'Grummett who resigned. The completion of the construction of Seaforth apartments was marked when Dr. E.A.McMaster entertained at his home various contractors responsible for its construction. Verdan Rau displayed a wolf he shot while hunting in the Zurich district. About the size of a large Collie dog, the wolf weighed in excess of 50 pounds. The .lady bowlers of town were entertained at the home of Mrs. Harry Stewart. Mrs. John T. Kaiser donatedthe prize which was won by Mrs. W.M.H-art. The death occurred in Vancouver B.C. of Wm. Smith, son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Robert Smith of Hullett. Ile was born there 70 years ago and was married to Miss Dora Love. J.M.Govenlock of town is in Toronto where he is representing the Seaforth Agricultural Society at the annual fair association. Mrs. Ken Coombs, Railway Street, saw'a robin on a post in the back yard of her residence, as she and three other ladies were quilting. John A. Baldwin was in Toronto attending a hardware convention. Huron County Garage Operators' Association held a dinner meeting when A.W.Dunlop was elected president. The choir and altar boys of St. James Church, Seaforth, were guests at a banquet given in their honor by the C.W.L. Mrs. 'Frank Devereaux was presented with a small token of remembrance of the occasion by Mrs. John .Hotham Jr. The residence on'Sparling Street, owned by F/S Mac Mills, has been sold to Mrs. Geo. Hoegy, McKillop. Believed to have been caused by a leak in the oil burner installation, a fire at the W.J.Duncan factory was extinguished without damage, other than smoke. A second call was received when some heated pipes caught fire at the residence of M. Berger. Subscri ern of the Tuckersmith Municipal Telephone System endorsed a recomm dation of the commissioners to increas the subscribers assessment from 513.00 t$15.00 and the renters from 515.00 to18.00. ,p -N 0411 .. 14 © i 4 •..JK1 BRUARY loth, 1899. W. W. Cooper of Kippen, who is an admirer of horse flesh, has purchased from Messrs. Thompson Bros. of the London Road• a driver, which for quality, style and speed is pretty hard to beat. The Methodists in Kippen have completed all arrangements for the building of a new church in the village which will be of the latest design. Messrs. T. Mellis, and W.W.Cooper of Kippen took in the Farmers Institute meeting at Farquhar , which was largely attended. Thos. Cudmore of Usborne, near " Lumley, has recently disposed of two very fine bulls. N. Deichert and family left here this week for Cavalier, North 15akota, where they will in the future reside. The past week has been the severest at Hensall we have had yet, the thermometer registering as low_as 15 degrees below zero. Thos. Hills of Egmondville, is having brick hauled for the Propose oLven—e ring. his blacksmith shop. � A very Pretty wedding took place in St. Columban Church, Irisbtown, when Miss Lizzie Downey became the bride of Wm. Devereaux. It 4 N 0