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SEAFORTH.- ONTARIO, AUGUST 29, 1974
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Vandalism''
A couple of plate glass windows are correct the situation if they are aimed
broken at the liquor store.'.Ownprs of at the source, because most of the
cars parked on Main Street one night perp6trators are not the type usually
return io find the air has-been. let out 1pterpsted In gleaning through
of all their tires. editorial pages to consider comment
Beer bottles are thrown on on to�lc"i- =0/rest. d
someone's lawn. Someone else'gets They're dull people who have
tire marks across the lawn. Small little interest in their communities
children. throw stones at and rip and an apparent lack of
"accessories off ca'rs parkedin the comprehension of the problerfis'-they
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alley behind Main Street. create for their victims
'However, some 6f their antics can
Small -children in another part of be curtailed 4 those who are
town pull vegetables out of other interested in their communities
people's gardens, apparently just for
the fun of it. become more diligent and determined
to aid law enforcement officers in
These are just some of the reports nabbing vandals.
of vandalism in Seaforth that have Private citizens need not I -fear
reached our office lately. They are repercussions from' tipping off the
pretty alarming but even more police if they see- or hear of any
alarming to us is the fact that most of vandalism. Police do not divulge the
these incidents'are never reported to. "`names of these interested and
the police. • concerned citizens to anyone.,
"You think 1,v4pt to get a beer While many people have the
• bottle through' MIIiIt`w' indow?" is the .6nf rtunate attitude of not wanting to Almost ' dinnertime
answer det,wiheneve'r we ask the
w e r we 'ret ihvo*lved.", it is rather obvious
victims or witnesses of these that their own 'interests are being
incidents if the-spolice have been served when they do become)
ormeu. involved.
As -long as these "crimes" go In the long run, they are the ones
unreported they will only increase. By who are bei:ng'victimized by vandals
not going to the police we' are -as much as those directly involved.
encouraging vandalism.- Public property that is damaged is a
The Exeter Times Advocate loss of tax monies and when privat e
commented on -the vandal problem in individuals are the victims, their
Exeter recently and emphasized that losses. have to be turned over to
AUGUST 26,1949
When the brakes' on a largo truck float
carrying a ditching machine allowed the
truck parked in front of the Seaforth
Welding Machine Shop to roll forward a
light standard was struck and broken off.
Seaforth fire brigade responded to
Egmondville to extinguish a blaze in a
large t ree on the property of Ear]
V-17,tv -A
MASherwood, well kno#n Tuckersmith
.Ane nerves of thosk who complain to
consumers in higher prices. Even
busy sawing wood' at his home tin the
the police will not be, revealed 10
Anyone.
When insurance companies have to r.Ldon't
know about you I ut, Mr've had a
Vt
real ust a",mad,
you.
Well, to "to, our, swinging
Seaforth express and postal people are
The Editor of the Exeter
foot the bills for damage- thattost is
gay,
get''b'ilef ging
paper goes on to explain 'how
shared by others in the form of higher
The Great Gatsby sort of thing,
summer social life, it's been something.
James Thomson of Bayfioto h4 been
'`division
I
vandalism hurts all of us,
Insurance rates.
You know what I mean. You've been
We've been to a funeral and a wedding.
Morgan. I
through it. Loitering by the pool with an
I've never.had so much kissing in my life.
went to Manitoulin Island, returned home.
In short, acts of vandalism affect
extra -dry martini and the gold girls
While the funeral was sad, in a sense, it
"The amount of vandalism in the
us all and it therefore behooves all Of
undulating past. with so little on that your
was .also a family reunion",,, in- another.
engine" and machine works, Hensall, has
area in recent, weeks has hit an
us to take whatever staps we can to
eyeballs pop out and splinter your sun
Nephews and nieces I have seen in
alarming rate and indicates that some
alleviate the problems and the
glasses.
,'t
fi
years. And four of the ve Smileys all
was a great favorite with the family and
idiotic characters are loose in , the'.
associated costt involved.
Enchanting evenings on ' the beach,
waves lapping, the fire glowing embers,
together at once, for the first time in a
couple of decades. The wee Colonel was -in
community.
Bea good citizen and let's work
A, and just the twenty-four of you. Night; and
Germany., And the wake had a'good touch
.'pur6ases of apples in the,County fof Kent
Obviously, editorials decrying
together to rid our community Of
myster, and romance. (By the way, did you
of Irish in it, if you follow Me.
Af
such acts of vandalism do little to.
these pests."
ever try to glow an ember?) It's quite a
And the wedding'Was a pretty good shot,
the Oddfollows block to. more.pleasant and
y
feat.
too, even though we discov ered the happy
where she has secured a good position.
And. s
,peaking of feat, the only lapping
couple had been married several' hours
serious happened.when'a special train was
-going through Londesboro•' The men; not
I've heard this summer is our ab small'
before, due to some stupid, ridiculous
it in time to escape, but the handcar was
stupid cat lapping the sweat off my feet.
statute. I got to kiss not only -the bride, but
The Kiowa Indian Medicine Company
•deficiency
He seems to like it — probably he bis a salt
her four'older sisters, all of them former -
juveniles.
problem — and, I must admit it
students of mine. And their mother.
successful barn -raising and when finished
Th. ughts
on gossip
gives me a strange, perverse thrill.
Also, as it was a Bahai wedding, quite a
completed extensive improvements to his
Perhaps by now you realize'that in my
few of the guests, ranging,from suckling
the building and has lined'it inside with
matched lumber' '
own far from subtle way, I am suggesting
babis to grandmothers, were former
Bowling Club has been selected to play at
that we've had a bummer of a summer.
students.
John Weir, R.S.Hays.and E.C..Coleman.
Most 'of us take delight in
personalize our unrecognized
And you are absolutely, with
I like to see them and talk to them. John
discovering the follies and sins and
failings, and hate in others the very
qualification, one hundred and twenty-four
H. is an artist who gave mepl think, a lucid
Seaf*th, lost one -of its oldest continu6us,
shortcomings of others , and in
faults to which we are secretly
per cent right.
explanation'of how he is trying to combine
chatting knowingly about them
addicted..Like the lark fluttering with
Oh, don't think its been a complete
waste of time. We've aged two in two
the purely visual, the abstract, and his own
consciousness. John M., on the other
'Josephine
Constance was ticketed to the west on
Gossip does bring us some cheap
agitation over her nest, we exhibit
years
months, which is quite a feat. There's that
hand, was about to head for the west coast,
comfort, giving us nice feelings of
most flagrantly the very thing we
word agaitr Feet?
but someone was tr'y4ng'to talk him into
Win. X-adden of Winthrop has his
superiority. Our weaknesses and
would hide."
We haven't just been lying around,
going to Germany instead.
failures do not seem so serious whenThink
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about 'that the next time you.
watching the grass grow.This would, in
any case, be difficult, since it does not
Margaret sang some songs that make
the ripples go up and down your spine. She -
we can compare them with the
monstrous ones of some people we
are tempted to assis't in the dis-
grow after about the 20th of June.But the
has granny glasses and a great grin.
tribution. of malicious rumors about
dandelions are pretty, though short-lived,
Len is a grave -digger. Gets twenty-five
k)now. We like to gossip because it
someone you know.
and the wild clover has a certain charm.
bucks a day whether he his to dig a grave
generally makes us feel much better
No, we've been quite active socially. It
or not. He offered me a special deal, ori
about ourselves.
Censorious gossip generally,tells
all started after Commencement, last June.
some wasteland behind -the 'cem6tery. In
Beh.nd Much of our gossipping is
more about the person who does the
One of the teachers had a party.
September he's off to England io study
the mechanism the psychologists call.
gossipping. than about the victim. In
Teachers, after Commencement, are
how to teach in. a special school whose
"projection". There is the -tendencyAibert
Camus' novel, "The Fall" , the
somewhat similar to Magellan's sailors,
who, after battling six months to round
theme is Awakeness.We should call our
schools Assleepness.
to attribute to others our own
narrator gives this warning to his
Cape Horn, find themselves a Pacific
Ahl Great to,be young.
reprehensible attitudes and feelings.
companlon: "People hasten to judge
Ocean and a tropical island.
Nonetheless, somebody- must carry the
A London psychiatrist, Dr..
in order, not to be udgpp themselves
It was- a good party, as parties go, and
blasted torch. I've been swimming twice. I
J.A.Hadfield, has commented on this�
The judgment you are passsing co
they go too long. However, as we say in the
have driven past the golf club once. I've
tendency:,
others eventually snaps back in your
game when we don't quite know what else
to say, we accepted a ride home with our
been fishing once and caught three
crappies. My wife just brokei three ribs.
"In Judging "others we-1rumpet
face, causing* some damage."
resident artist, who came in for some hot
We've been waiting for the roofer for three
abroad aur faults. We
(Contributed)
chocolate and burned a hole in one of the
week.s
,,...secret
end-tables'as,,big as your eye, when no one.
And tomorrow, we have our third big
was looking, in the process of plutting out a
social occasion of the summer. My
cigarette. K
daughter and her husband are arriving
I think that started the summer on the
with twenty retarded adults whom. they've
Editor's
note
wrong foot'. I seem to have a fetish about
been retraining, for. a picnic in the back
p
foots and feet today and don't tet it bother
yard.
To the Editor -
Last week in discussing the
ar
covers Tuckersmith meeting for ea
responsibility of a' newspaper in
papers and who, at the time of his
keeping Its readers and the public
informed concerning -decisions taken
calls, was on'holidays. We dppreciate
the fact.Reeve Thompson has taken
Con s t i en ce -prompts tax payment
by municipal councils we used as an
the trouble to tell us of his efforts and
example A special meeting which had
our only regret is that this had not
badrit held bytuckeramith council and
been indicated to us as we persued
Sir:
Canada by mentioning this item in �e
,of Which no notide had been given the
the story so that we could have
We have received money in the amount
Editors column of your, newspaper.
:press or th0r public,
adknowled.de d his efforts.' CortainIV
of $25.00 cash from an unknown person
We appreciate y9ur cooperation in this
.,.throug4 the many years IK which he
whose conscience suggests he or sho .is
matter.
.61 then TQdK1"e'LrsMIth AddVe
`IhAS has
;rued the township. he
indebted -to the Federal Govertitpent. The
funds were received Xtigugi. 0, OUTni Art
(Signed)E.Carrieres
Elg n oM , psonfidsi pointed out that
in4dated his -awareness of the
envelope postinarked SeAfotth. Ontario.
for DJDPWPeot
he mtdthot64 on three' oddaws to
problem of keeping the Public
'Would youVindly ackdo4lbilge.receipt
Head Appropriation Accou/ting
Iffid ?eodrtbe Who., -0fd1fildelly
InforWd.on
behalf of tfFe-federal 46VeMMebt of
6mpttoller's Branch
AUGUST 26,1949
When the brakes' on a largo truck float
carrying a ditching machine allowed the
truck parked in front of the Seaforth
Welding Machine Shop to roll forward a
light standard was struck and broken off.
Seaforth fire brigade responded to
Egmondville to extinguish a blaze in a
large t ree on the property of Ear]
V-17,tv -A
MASherwood, well kno#n Tuckersmith
In .g' ' 1.•one A 6
fa&rner had tfie'misfortune when he was
busy sawing wood' at his home tin the
Kippen road, to have his hand caught and
injured his thumb very badly.
Seaforth express and postal people are
AUGUST 25,1899
Duncan McEwM of Stanley; 'recently
delivered to E.R. Watson, a car load of fine
export cattle. Amongst them was one that
turned thi scales at 1,810 pounds,
James Thomson of Bayfioto h4 been
'`division
tfi
appointed clerk of the; seventh
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court tendered vacant by the death of John
Morgan. I
The party ofSeaforth fishermen who
went to Manitoulin Island, returned home.
They had lots of fish and FrI6d Crich carried
oft thd honors, he havf6g caught tie
laigest fish.
Robert Bell, Jr. proprietor of the Hensall
engine" and machine works, Hensall, has
completed a large machine/ for making
bricks composed of" sand and cement.
Some evil disposed person shot a
valuable dog belonging to Thos, Hills. It
was a great favorite with the family and
will be much missed.
Howard Powler has entered the dental,
office of Dr. RRip in this town.
Goo. Tfitnbull' is. making extengive
.'pur6ases of apples in the,County fof Kent
and along Lake' Erie, for shipment to the
Old Cduntry.
Af
MissBrine of town has removed her
dressmaking establishment .I from
the Oddfollows block to. more.pleasant and
commodious premises overthe.post office.
Miss May Soole,left for Cir.men, Man.
where she has secured a good position.
An acci&nt which' might have been
serious happened.when'a special train was
-going through Londesboro•' The men; not
mjidcar, but saw
expecting it, were on the b
it in time to escape, but the handcar was
dtstroyed.
The Kiowa Indian Medicine Company
are holding • forth in Cromarty and are
causing quite an excitement among the
juveniles.
James Broadfoof of, Lumley had 'a
successful barn -raising and when finished
will be a fine barn.
. Thos- Hills, . . Egmondville, has just
completed extensive improvements to his
blacksmith shop. He has brick veneered
the building and has lined'it inside with
matched lumber' '
The following rink from the SEaforth
Bowling Club has been selected to play at
the Walkerville tournament: W. K. Pearce,
John Weir, R.S.Hays.and E.C..Coleman.
AUGUST 26,1949
When the brakes' on a largo truck float
carrying a ditching machine allowed the
truck parked in front of the Seaforth
Welding Machine Shop to roll forward a
light standard was struck and broken off.
Seaforth fire brigade responded to
Egmondville to extinguish a blaze in a
large t ree on the property of Ear]
V-17,tv -A
MASherwood, well kno#n Tuckersmith
fa&rner had tfie'misfortune when he was
busy sawing wood' at his home tin the
Kippen road, to have his hand caught and
injured his thumb very badly.
Seaforth express and postal people are
nursing aching arms after handling more
than six tons of catalogues of a Toronto
Mail order firm.
Another of Seaforth"s landmarks
disappeared this week, when the balcony
which extended across the front of Daly
#
Motors, was removed. The late J.F.Daly,
purched the block in 1914 and the Wilding
has been in the family since that time.:
Good attendance featured the annual
picnic of the Seaforth branch' of the
Canadian Legion held at the Lions Park.
The great event was a ball game between
the President's team, captained by Dr.
P.L.Brady and the past pi esident's team
captained by A.Y. McLean. The 'u o ' " tcome of
the game was in doubt, but it is thought
that the President's t earn was the winner.
The death occurred in Toronto of George
Milton Chesney, aged 52 years. He
attended SEaforth Public School and
Seaforth Collegiate Institute and joined the
Dominion Bank here, Surviving are his
wife, the former Mary Bell Habkirk, his
mother. and sine bXathvLJEarJ- Chesney.
Mr. an ' d Mrs. James T. Scott and family
of Roxboro have moved into the residence
they purchased from Harry Hart.
AUGUST 22,1924
A. W. E- Hemphill of Hensall, druggistand
book seller, hai recently added several
plate glass show cases.
R.E.Cook of the Hensall bakery was
unfortunate in losing the end of his finger
in the bread mixer.
Judge J.A.Jackson of the Superior Court
of Alberta, Lethbridge, is a guest of his
sister Miss Jackson of EgniondAile. Judge
Jack has just returned from Paris where he
was one of the Canadian officials at the
Olympic games.
Clayton Martin has accepted a position
as principal -of a school near Englehart.
Ralph W61and of Egmondville has gone
to Minneapolis where he will play hockey_
this. winter.
Robert Reid has returned from Detroit to
take over the fin shop department in the
G.D.Ferguson Hardware store here.
- Con Eckart of town met with a painful
accident.He�was' driving doivn main street •
!,,be- hic horse took fright upsetting the
buggy throwing him out, trActuring a rib
and causing bruises to his head and arms.
Richard Reid, north Main St., brought
into this office the biggest hen's egg we
have seen this year. It measured 63/4 by 8
inches and was perfectly formed.
In the death of Mrs Fred Gale-.
Seaf*th, lost one -of its oldest continu6us,
residents. She spent her Aife on some
portion of the homestead. Shewas 74 years
of age.
Miss Livingstone Of
'Josephine
Constance was ticketed to the west on
Thursday.
Melvin Blanchard of Wintprop has
returned' after taking a in ouili's course 'at a
'training sch I at Kingston.
Win. X-adden of Winthrop has his
thieshing machine in operation and has
added'a new grain elevator.