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The Huron Expositor, 1975-08-14, Page 2Since 1860. Serving the Community First 4,1 PubliShed at SEABORTH. ONTARIO. every Thursday morning,by `McLEAN BROS. PUBLISHERS LTD. ANDREW Y. McLEAN, Publisher SUSAN WHITE, Editor Seaforth's council deserves credit for taking a step that might see our town hall once again really being used by the whole 'community. They may apply for a LIP grant to get -work don‘ on cleaning up hazards in the building's basement. This will hopefully lead to developing art overall plan to maintain, where necessary repair, and to use our town hall. , Many other communities in our area have ignored their town halls until they are in such bad repair that restoration would cost huge sums of The battle of the back billed water rates between town council and the PUC is shaping up to be a pretty big fight, and we think both sides are wasting their time. The battle manoeuvres, shape up like this: Council says they agreed to double water rates on water used after Jul 1. The PUCbilled users for water us before that date on, the July billing. Council asked them to credit their customers. The PUC decided, on a lawyer's advice, to take no action on council's request. Council will consult their lawyer .on whether the backbilling is legal. 'We don't think ratepayers' in Seaforth much care that' they might get $5 or $10 back that council says PUC overbilled in July. 'But they probably don't like to see their council and 'their utilities commission spending so much time arguing the issue. Seaforth's water rate increase was llif n town halls like Seaforth's were one hundred rs ago, they wer designed to be co pity centres. There was room for local groups to meet, as well as council and police courts, and even in later years, room for badminton playing. Good news for town Enough grandstanding SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, AUGUST 14, 1975 Member Canadian Community Newspaper Association Ontat to Weekly Newspaper Association and Audit Bureau of Circulation Outside Canada (in advance) 512.00 a Year SINGLE COPIES — 25 CENTS EACH Second Class Mae Registiation Number 0696 Telephone 527-0240 SUbscription Rates: Canada (in advance) 510.00 a Year long overdue. Even with the doubled charge, the cost of water to Seaforth residents is not out of line with what people in neighbouring towns pay. We think that it's time to stop the power plays and grandstanding and look ahead to Seaforth's future water needs. When to start billing the new rates would seem to be an adminis-r trative decision and the PUC made it. Nobody's going to scream about an extra few dollars but they re going to scream, and rightly so, • if in. a few years it turns out that there has been inadequate planning for this town's water needs. It is in the best interests of the people of Seaforth that, rather_ than squabbling over details, the PUC and council get' together and. talk abdut p each other's long termslans. If they don't do that soon they'll have spent a lot more money on legalfeesand in wasted time than the taxpayers would ever hope to get if the back billing was credited to them. money. Some on councils in these towns favour tearing,down the old relic/and starting over again with :a new /town hall. Others usually value, the old buildings for their architecture and their history. That's usually where a bitter battle starts on whether to save orwreck the municipal building. But Seaforth's council is trying not to let things get to that point. Led by Mayor Cardno who believes that the longer council does ' no looking into the condition of the town hall, the worse its condition is going to get, they've taken the first step towards making sure our town hall is good for years to come., That's foresight and good leader- ship. txpos littor hall two fake flowers inside. One was yellow and `scrawny and droopy. The other was red and tall and beautiful. The sign on the red one said, "I'm okay, but y ou're not so hot."-, You knew he was messy. He left as many things on the floor as off. • He didn't hang up hiS clothes. He preferred door knobs, and window sills and radiator shelves. He liked the outdoors. The light; He didn't keep the draperies closed/ he let the sun shine in. He had a family. You pointed to the piece of paper on the bulletin board by the door. "I love you, Daddy, Sarah." 17, You've got this room afal.nier alkfigured out," I laughed, "And you're about right." "But how about me? Did I look like you expected?" "Q, I thought you'd be older," you said. Tlen you admitted you saw a couple of amen columns on the desk. "I saw a picture of you with a beard on one of them -- and another .one without your beard. "You look much younger than I thought. You look so boyish. I'd say you're 33. I should have given you a kiss right there, Petra. But 33 startled me. It was my time to turn numb. She's right in all those other things, I thought. But 33? IVe got her fooled there. Maybe she's playing games with me. Putting me on. She's just saying those things to keep a 46 year old happy. Stifle the thought, I told myself. This girl says I look 33 and I'll believe her. , I checked the mirror. 33, eh? Maybeeee. So I could be 33. I am 33 years old--starting today. I announced to myself. Thanks Petra. As I said, you Made my day. I know you're going back to study music at the university this fall.. But I'm going to give you a few extra -credits myself for your summer work. You played a mighty fine tune this summer My symphony number 33. ..fin. the YOti.s Ag.kmif AUOUST113, 1975 The new saw mill of Messrs, Armitage, Carter & Gray in Seaforth is now running:full blast and an immense amount of ' lumber is being turned out. ?Messrs. Morrison and Co., of town have added to their extensive livery stock, a very handsome new' covered carriage. It was purchased in Brantford and is said to be one_ of the handsomest ever brought into the county. J. S. Porter of town has purchased Wm. Ault's cottage and lot for $800.00. Property in Seaforth is advancing in price. The promenade concert, given under the auspices of tA0 Seaforth Mechanics Institute in the drill shed, was ,a grand success. The music was furnished by Messrs. Johnson, Campbell, Downey,Scott, Fisher, O'Donehue, H. Carmichael and. Messrs. Routledge & Cline. Wm. Robb; Con. 2, Tuckersmith, showed the Exposjtor a specimen of spring wheat which was quite ripe and ready for cutting. James Landsborough, Con. , 2, Tuckersmith, left the Expositor a fine sample of fall wheat in the ear. The seed was imported'&oft) New York State. One day last week as some men were repairing a well, on the farm of Wm. Chapman,Con. 3, Tuckersmith, an accident occurred. Mrs. Chapman was leaning on it when it suddenly went down and she went head foremost into the well. She was taken up as speedily as possible, and although badly injured is still living. The sawmill of Wm. McDougall of Stephen Twp. was burned. The fire was supposed to be the work of an incendiary. AUGUST 10th, 1900 Threshing has again commenced, Geo. Turner being one of the first T. McConnell threshed 600 bushels for him in a little over 5 hours. An old and respected resident of Egmondville was removed by the hand of death in the person of Robert Henry Bristow. He was 66 years of age. as bookkeeper with a large wholesale hous n Joseph Collie of Egmondville has secured a d situation i ndon. aras_, The teaching staff at the Collegiate Institute has been completed by the selection of G.F.Rogers, B.A. of n science master. He will receive $900 per year. Fifty-eight tickets were sold at Seaforth for Goderich on the excursion from Stratford. John McNabb had an accident when the wheel came off his hwiamgon and he was thrown off and a couple of egg boxes fell on The Oddfellows are having their hall redecorated. Artist .erreIrrs‘doing the work. The Messrs. 'Stewart Bros., Seaforth flour Mills, have received so far over 1000 bushels orthis season's wheat. Mr. T. Fowler's wheat averaged 34 bushels to 'the acre.' Wm'. Sclater of town is in Hamilton attending the Grand Lodge of the Independent Order of Oddfellows. Wm. Cudmore left for the Old Country, taking a shipment of horses with him. Master Thos. Hackwell of Leadbury, who had a severe attack of inflamation of the lungs, is arounda gain as usual. Alex Stewart lost a valuable 2 year old steer owing to sun stroke. The beavers went td' Mitchell to play their final game of Lacrosse and won by a score of 7 - 3. They now play the Alerts from St.' Marys. Messrs. John McMillan, M.P and sons, Hullett, shipped over $7,000 worth of fat cattle from Seaforth Station. AUGUST 14th, 1925 A large barn was raised on the farm of Robert McLean, near Chiselhurst. There were over 100 persons present and the work was in the hands of Wm. Doig. A slight accident occurred when the head of a sledge came off striking Arch. Hodgert on the foot. ' During the storm the house of Wm. Dinnen was struck by lightning, coming down the chimney and killing the deg: Mrs. W.T.Bright and Miss Doble of town left this week On a trip to the western provinces and the coast. Messrs. Ed, Daly,' Jack Crich, Karl Ament, Arthur Edmund, Robert Willis and Andrew McLean are camping at Bruce Beach. Fred Jackson has secured the teaching position at the Continuation School at Bobcaygen and will teach there next year. The home of•Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Pethick was the scene of n pretty wedding when Thelma was united in marriage to Francis Herman Brugger of Toronto. A very pretty wedding took place at the home of Mr. Sam Harp,' Aylmer, when ,Eva Biaron was united in marriage to Chas. Clark, son of Mr. and Mrs. R. K. dark, of Seaforth.Mr Geo. Israel of Seaforth supported the groom and sang during the . igning of the register. AUGUST 16th, 1950 4 4 that this "dive" they were about to make was the "real thing". There were about 20 in the group. We stood around and watched as they struggled and wiggled and squirmed into their skin-tight suits and heavy tanks, and sprayed their goggles and checked their air-lines and adjusted their flippers. This was the real thing, no question about it, and the tension mounted steadily as they, spent half an hour getting fitted' out for the dangers of the depths: octopi, sunken wrecks, sharks. There was only one female in the group, an extremely chubby one, and she had so much trouble squeezing into her suit and getting it zipped over the bulges that I was mighty glad I wasn't out there, trapped in a wreck, waiting for her to rescue me. Finally, purple in the face, she was ready. Then- their leader appeared. He had been out there, fearlessly probing the possible dangers of the sunken wreck. He stood there, barking orders. niaking themireeheck their gear, dividing them into teams, ensuring that their boot-knives were available for a swift slash of a tangled life-line. Finally, the big dive was on. They tradt'd for 10 feet. since it was too shallow to lie down. Then they flopped and snorkeled out, in about two feet of water, to the wreck, every nerve keyed, every sense alerted to the perils ahead. The assistant instructor, who wasn't making the dive, sighed with relief, pulled a beer out of his van, and chatted It wasn't quite the ridiculous and the sublime, but near enough. A good, contrasting picture of Canada on a Sunday in summer. We'd gone back to the village to join Grandad in the celebration of the 100th anniversary of the tittle white church by the bay. Sunday morning, breakfast over, off for a drive with the city-lawyer brother-in-law, while the wives were doing the dishes. Poked around the " neighborhood, shaking our heads over the property developments, where entrepreneurs were geting as much for a single lot as their grandfathers had for a 150-acre farm with house and barn. Commiserated with each other over the fact that we'll both be millionaires if we'd bought some of this shore property 20 years ago, when it was dirt cheap. Conveniently forgot that neither of us had enough money to buy one lot 20 years ago, let along a mile of shoreline. Driving along the shore road, spotted a lot of activity. Naturally, stopped for a look, as one always does in the country. It was a scuba diving expedition, complete with vans, tanks, goggles, snorkels, and man-from-Mars suits. Hung around to watch, and asked some casual questions from one of the "divers." itisisci reticent your.d helve thought he was just about to climb into a Moon-bound capsule, instead of into about 12 inches of Water. He finally admitted grimly that the group had just finished its training, , and n.0.1•1, Amen by Karl Schuessler Petra ter Haar Romeney, you've made my day. And not just my day, but my bed too. That's yOur job. Making beds. Cleaning rooms, You're tIW young woman the university hired to clean up the-dorms as fast as wc_roomers and boarders messed them up. . Now y ou knew when you started, it wasn't the most exciting job. But at least it was a job. For all you university students didn't' have much choice this summer. You took what you could get. I surprised''you that morning, when tC walked in on you. I came back to my't room. forgotten something. You looked startled. You stared at me for a few seconds. You couldn't believe your' eyes. "So you're the man who stays in this room," you said. • "Yes," I Said, "And I've spoken to ybu 'few times in the hall". "I know", you said, "But I didn't think you belonged to this room. I hadn't placed you here." Then you went •on to explain. You had the man in this room figured out. That's the kind of game`you're playing with yourself. Trying to identify people by the kind of the room they keep. The man who stays in this room must be athletic. •look at the tennis racquets. The tennis shorts. The shirts hanging on the radiator to dry of. He's probably fairly thin. He's musical too. He has a ukulele lying on the chair. And you noticed a Grade 2 piano book. He must be adventurous. Willing to start something new. To study a child's music. You noticed all the books on the shelves. The leadership books. Group dynamics. How-to-get-along-with-people books. . You saw the tape recorder. The microphones. The desk piled high in papers and stacks of mimeographed Material. He must study. He must be interested in people. He must broadcast. Or at least you wondered about it. Some CBC tape boxes convinced you. His tastes run rather odd you thought. To kooky things like that red clay flower pot with cheerfully with us, - "What do they do out there?" he was asked. "'Not a helluva lot," he replied. "When you've swum over the thing about three times, that's about it." We silently concurred. We knew the "sunken wreck" was an old barge, towed there years before to serve as a dock for a boat-owner. Three years ago, when the water was lower, it sat three feet out of the water, The only sunken 'treasure would have to be the old car motor which anchored it. I know that diving must be fun, and is dangerous, but this operation made me giggle. It was like watching a lot of six-year-old boys get fitted out in their space uniforms, do a ritual countdown, and then run around the backyard yelling :" Zoom ! Zoom!" Couldn't help pondering ott why 20-odd people would drive a round trip of 300 miles from the city and get dressed in Hallowe'en costumes to paddle around in three feet of water "exploring" an old barage. Three hours later, we were sitting in the church, for the anniversary service, just 100 yards down the road from the big dive. There was a simple dignity here which underlined the silliness of the other operation. I guess we were as inappropriately dressed for a hot summer day ,is the divers — shirts and ties and suits and summer dresses. Most of the people were middle- aged to old, with a sprinkling of children. But there was a sense ot drawing together, of closeness, of continuity. Reading the brief history of this little, frame, 100-year-old building, one was aware, however dimly, of the fierce determination of the first families, when they erected it, on a donated lot, at a cost of $500, that their children would be God-fearing , God-loving christians. And there was a little sadness in the knowledge that the sunday School had lieen forced to close. and that the church is now open only in summer, and that many of the children, and the children's children and so on, are neither God-fearing nor God-loving. And there was some price when grandad, sitting next to me, was singled out as having been associated with that church for 75 years. But the children and the children's children had rallied around for the occasion. And after the service, there was the get-together in the community hall for the coffee and sandwiches, and the hundreds of handshakes, and the sometimes desperate trying to put together of names and faces not seen for years, and the presentation of grandchildren, and the hard realization that everyone is.growing older. The new and the old. The silliness and the simplicity, the plump young city men struggling into their skinsuits, and the weather-beaten farmers in their strangling collars and ties. A surnmer Sunday in Canada. I just heard a very interesting radio program on London about breast cancer. Any woman of any age is urgently requested to join a nation-wide research into breast cancer and help eliminate the number one killer of women. Write to P.O.Box 5555 , Vancouver, B.C. for particulars. " They need MILLIONS of women to help with the research. This would be a good club project for any women's group. Let's try hard to get rid of breast cancer, if n ot for ourselves, then for our daughters and granddaughters. Grace Hussey. Sugar and Spice by Bill Smiley ,tl ° ames J. Hugilh, of Hullett, marked' his 85th birthday at home of his son Joseph T. • Hugill in McKillop. enmanship was Mr. l4ugill's hobby and he still writes a good hand. Signs hive been erected recently at the corner of Main and Govinlock Sts. pointing out to the motoring public that free parking space is available at Victoria Park, one block east. Loss estimated at $12,000 when fire destroyed a larage barn on the far of Ed. Boyes, south 'of Brucefleld. The Shell Seri been reopened a Walsh. Authorized by council some time ago, the decoration of the court room of the Town Hall has now been completed. The work was done by John F. Scott. The draw was made for a corner cabinet at the Seaforth Lawn Bowling tournament the lucky winner being Mrs. Helen K. Scott. Andrew McLellan, Egmondville, Mrs. J. McElroy, Seaforth and Mrs. W. Klein, Mitchell, all were victims of boating accidents at Springbank. • Miss Josephine Sterling of Hayfield, suffered a bad fracture of her left *rist, when she fell off a lawn seat while picking therries Anunusually large shipment of cattle left Dublin stockyards for Toronto. 150 cattle were shipped by the U.F.O. and by Gardiner Bros. of Cromarty. 4y were valued at $400 each. James McKinlisey of town has accepted a position with the Imperial Bank of Canada, London Branch. Following the illness of only three days, Wm. S. Hogg, well known and highly respected resident, passed away at his home in McKillop. He was an elder of First Presbyterian Church. Mrs. F. Novak of Medicine Hat, Alta, presided at the organ in First Presbyterian Church on Sunday morning. ice Station on Goderich Street West, has d is now under the management of Fred To the editor Help with research. 4