The Huron Expositor, 1976-08-05, Page 2-7,:It used to be that Canadians who
Were vacationing overseas would
proudly sport maple leaf lapel pins to
7.5--2'' distinguish them from. American
Sugai.anctSpice
• by Bill Smiley
'Not ,.gone yet!
Wheel upon wheels
In the Years Agone
Search for swamp whiskey on in, 1926
A ,native 'Of SeafOrth, Dr.:'; Donald J. Twiss of
Braetford, has been elected i' vice president of the
Optimist International,
Mrs. Stanley Garnham entertained recently in honor
of Miss Eleanor Murphy, bride elect of 'this .month.
The group presented here with a kitchen shower'. Mrs.
John Stevens read the address aid Ruth Paul and Janet
Beattie presented the gifts. Mrs. David- R. Stewart and
Mrs. Garnham served lunch.
About two hundred neighbors and friends of Mr. and
Mrs. Bruce Walters of Seaforth gathered at the
Cominunity Hall,- Walton, for a reception in honor of
the newlyweds. Ralph Traviss read an address and
Barry Marshall presented them with a-purse of money.
While assisting to move timbers at a bridge near the
O'Brien farm, Tuckersmith, Arthur Nicholson suffered
painful injuries to his foot when a piece of timber fell on
it.
Mrs, Barbara Sykes, Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Sproat,
Mrs. Rowan, Russel Hays, Mrs. Geo. C. Dale and Mrs.
Reg. S. Reid were in Detroit attending the funeral of
the late Jack Schakor of that city.
Over sixty neighbors and friends gathered at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. Jiarvey Taylor te honor Miss Lois
Jamieson whose marriage to Wm. E. Souder of
Stratford. Wm. Jewitt read the address and dennis
and Jane Jewitt presented a well laden basket of gifts.
St. Andrew's United Church, Bayfleld was the scene
of a wedding. when Anne Marie Stirling ofBayfleld end
Frances John Huisser were united in .marriage.
blacksmith shop on Goderich St, There was little
dainrige done.
Miss Mabel Turnbull left for Huntsville, where she
will take .part in the MinStrel .Show et Bigvvin Inn.
hi an eftort to locate the source of the swaimp whiskey
which has been circulated in county of Huron, Inspector
Pellow and' Provincial' Officer Whiteside discovered one
of the largest liquor caches ever. found in the district.
Geo, Stewart and Mr. Grimstead of Cromarty spent
the weekend at the home of Mrs. James Wright.
• Brucefleld Fire ADUepGaUrtSmTet ir9eScleived delivery of its
'new fire truck last Thursday. The new truck' has a
capacity a three lines ofhose and is equipped with fog
nezzles and a 400 gellon tank. -Ross Scott is chief of the
'brigade. . .
JULY 30, 1926
The Seaforth TurfAssociation rates-were held on the
Driving Park, in spite of very unfavourable weather.
The officials for the.day were starter, Walter Burnside;
Judge M. Broderick,' Geo. Muldoon, Frank Taylor;
Times, Wm. Ament, Jas. Dick, Wm. Martyn; clerk of
course, A.D. Sutherland.
Charles McGregor of Constance is having a well
drilled by Mr. Hopper of Seaforth.
Zurich band played at the Ford picnic held at Grand
Bend.
MaSter Harold Shepherd Of Tuckersmith had the
misfortune, when riding his bicycle, to have the wheel
slip drid in falling broke his arm:
- Miss Etoile Sharpe and Miss Charlofte Powell have
returned home after visiting friepds in Sarnia and Port
leasant family gathering at the Huron,.
Hamerii.(5.1-1 this being :the— Fire was„ discovered
Amen
hy Karl Schuessler .
• AUGUST 2, 1901
James T. Morrison, cheese maker at the Spring
Creek cheese factory, pear Woodstock has been raising
laurels for himself and his factory. In the recent'contest
et the Pan Americap Exposition, Buffalo, cheese made
by Mr. Morrison scored 96.5 marks.
John Govenlock of Winthrop had the misfortune to
have his barn and its contents burned recentlY.
D.C. McLean of Kippen disposed of twenty head of
cattle to Geo. Stanbury for shipment to Liverpool.
Ernest McIntosh of McKillop was driving a teaM of'
SPIrited horses and -the animals gliecame frightened
after descending"Turnbull's hill and ran aWay. Young
McIntosh was thrown from the wagon and had his head
re,*
resideeme on' the roof of Mr, Rivers'
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Cattle buying went on in the pews
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SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, AUGUST 5, 1976
Protect our good name
tourists who, it was believed, were
loud, boorish and much less
sophisticated than we.
It seems now, however that the
maple leaf pins are quietly disappear-
ing lest serious travellers find
themselves identified with camera-
laden talkative, .loudly dressed and
insensitive visitors from north of the
49th parallel.
Travel writers in Canad ian
newspapers used to praise the
average Canadian for good taste,
quiet manners and a regard for local
. ' customs that Americans seemed to
ignore in their rush for the hamburger
stan:da ,and tourist traps:
'Sadly we hear reports that
Canadians, especially in the
Caribbean, are the culprits and that in
SOaniSh areas like Cuba and Puerto
Rico, people grit their teeth •as the
latest Canadian' contingent arrives
complete with wash and' wear,
drip-dry manners.
Our image abroad is being
Well, by the time this appears in print,
we'll be nearing Fall, and here I am
groping around in my own backyard, not
even started on my way to Paraguay.
• It's not that iliaven't had a tremendous
response to my appeal to readers to help
out with accommodation in such places as •
Lima and La Paz, and for someone to
volunteer to• fly me down.
r An enterprising travel' 1Vi Ogent in eaferd,
Ont. told me his Dad wanted to go to South'
America too, wished me well, and Offered
to arrange my trip down.
Caroline Ngui of Windosr warned me
that' I had my countries mixed up and
might wind up in the former British Guiana
instead of the former Dutch Guiana, with
no place to stay. Quite right. The former
D.G. is now Surinam, and that's where- I
aim to go. Perhaps-Ms. Ngtii hag' a sister
there, or an ancient aunt, who would-put - • -
ine up for a night or two.
But the clincher came when old Don
McCuaig, the newspaper. baron of Renfrew
County, challenged mejo put up or shut
up. He offered to share expenses, and
presumably he has a plane. I had hoped to
be going along with somebody younger and
better looking.
Another thing. He says he has no ex girl
friends south of the border. No problem,
old buddy. You have have Maria Rosa
Carealho. She's the homely one. And she's
just about your age and speed. She does
dance a mean tango, or did, 30 years ago. I
Can just see you two living it up in the
ballroom of one of those gilt-edged hotels
off the Copacabana beach in Rio. Never
fear. I'd stand behind you. With a couple of
Wheelchairs. '
McCuaig goes on: "The way employ-
ment, is going in the secondary school
businesS, you'd never be missed . —we can
finance the trip with a travel book, Smiley.
In fad, I have a' title: SA After 50. (Not Sex
Appeal, Smiley. Smith America.) You
write, I'll take pictures. It should sell like
hritcakes." Yeah, McCuaig. Or cold bread
ptidding, more like.
And More "One other thing, Bill. Let's
Walt until Noventher. Ho Canadian in his
light Mind would leave this eountry now
that 'Snintrier is here. November. Smiley.
When the leaves are gone, we're gone,
rightr'llo backing out now."
:'Well,.'I have rt few holet to pick in that.
Pint of 14 what summer? Are* hgte,
We harlAtirnOter.I'Mek in May, Sinee their,
we've been `deliiied by kiibii,Vasity rattled
tarnished as more and more people
take advantage of cheap package-
tours to countries desperately anxious
to earn hard currency to boost their
sagging economies. Travel is an
excellent, way to broaden horizons
provided - one does not expect to live
with conditions and people that are
different from "back home".
Tourism earns Canada some five to
six percent of our grOss national
product and employs some 800,000
people with 1975 receipts totalling
some $8.5 billion. It would be a
shame if the behaviour of some
travelling Canadians were to burden
us with a reputation for crass and
unpleasant actions and thereby
distort our image as kind and friendly.
hosts.
Canadian travellers would be well
advised to study the custOrns and
conditions of countries they plan to
visit and travel with the idea of
Learning sgmeth Ong, bay.'
fun and relaxation but " never at We
expense of others or of our own good
name, among other countries of this
planet.
(Contributed)
by thunder and scared' skinny by-ligetnipg.
When it hasn't'Sforined, been.,
as Mozambique or colclee'rea ,witch's tit.
CaMpers are moving into town from
their cottages. Tourists are bundled like
Laplanders. I haven't had a single swim
yet, to the disgust of the bikini brigade,
whose most hilarious ' moment of the
summer is watching yours truly, 'white as a
slug,flieeti, into the water and dog-paddle
off. forliisiifst swim of the year.
the.! strawberries were rained out just
before`ie eget our supply. The raspberries
are "doing poorly." But it's a great year
for grass. The lad who cuts my lawn has
barely finished the front when it's time to
start on the back. Except that he can't
because it's eight inches high and soaking
wet. Pity the man trying to get in all that
wild growth of hay.
About the .enly Tay of::StniShin, '''' ' „ ..... iiiniMei-tiS been thereineen, that serene
and gracious lady in whose presenee even
President Gerald. Ford; for once, didn't
resetithie Karloff playing Pranken-
stein's creation,
,Ah, yes, Pm a monarchist, along with,
apparently, about 90 per ..-cent of the
residents of the U.S., and two or three
hundred other Canadians.
I'm not saying I'd be starry-eyed over
fat, stupid deoite-the Third, or fat, smart
Henry the Eighth. I'm just saying that I
think it's essential to have a symbol that is
above and beyond the petty squabbling Of
politicians, the brillying of big Unions, arid
the arroganee of chel servants.
See how you got me sidetracked,
McCuaig, with your noneense about
summer in Canada.
All right, back to business. Yoe fly;
I'm pretty geed. at it. Only bad
spot might Se flying:across weter, jungles
and mountaini. My. navigation gets a bit
shaky if I don't have a railway line to
By the way, I thought I'd take my two-
grandsons along to see their Uncle Hugh.
So 'when you're fuelling up, lay in a large
stock of diapers, preferably disposable. We
could blaze a new trail right acrees the
Addes.
'One last thing. I can't wait until
November. If I Wasn't there, ealtn and
collected, the day after` Labor , Day, thp
members of my triglish department,
'without their leader, would be as bereft
.and lost as the Children of Israel withoin
Moses. '
Rasta la vista!
' AUGUST 3, 1876
Wm. Arbuckle of. Hay Township, brought to Mr.
Fairley's store in Seaforth, a .basket' of gooseberries,
4,:i4,9,pe of whice .oyas ,geleatiCeelen.den1 and. niee&n"0-
31/4'"`" tete Wirand '3112
At a special meeting of the Huron Presbytery held 'at
Clinton, Rev. Mr. 'Hartley of Dungannot accepted the
call tendered him from Rodgerville and Exeter.
Charles Troyer of Stanley Township, has got his old
machine at work again. He threshed, on the farm of
Joseph Hudson, 445 bushels of grain, 280 of which
were fall wheat, and the remainder in barley.
A young man named Dodds, son of Thos. Dodds of
McKillop was assisting at' a barn raising belonging to
Dr. Coleman, while standing on a girth, lost his balance
elibdowfe. .ll to the ground and dislocated his arm at the
, ..Mrs:Atin Smith of Tuckersmith has rented her farm
in Tuckersmith to Charles Mason, for a term of seven
years at annual of. $300. a" year:
TweniY Yarile- of print sold for $1.00 in A.G.
Mcbdugal & Co. store in Seiforth.
Messrs. David McNiught and John Broadfoot left on
Thursday for Philadelphia where they intend spending
a couple of weeks viewing • the wonders of the
Centennial.
Thos. Coventry of town has a hen which lays eggs
measuring 71/4 inches one way and 6 inches the other
way.
Mr. Davidson p.ethe Commercial was.added a billiard
roan in which he has placed 2 tables.
I'm stuck on pews. And I can't get myself
out of them. .
Of course, it's my own fault,. I started it.
Trying to teat-range people on a Sunday
--mottling. Asking them to come up .froet and
forward .whee Pm. preaching:" '
But' all lieek long I've heard 'some P'ew
history. it's no wonder people want to sit
where they damn well please.
It wain't always that way. Only fifty years
back, Lutheran people knew exactly whae
their plape was in church.
The old- churches all had baleonies, and not
just in back either. They rimmed all' three
sides. Not that they were wide, only three
rows deep in pews.
The west balcony held the married men.
The bachelors staked out in the eaSt loft. The
1,,,,„,..„,„.,,,x,oung male ,confirmands sat there too.
' '"All-lheQiifeii and children safdoWnstaire. .
.... he old Reeslat way up front downstairs.
The older women behind Amur The
preacher'S wife end all his kids reserved down
front center Seats.
` And all the eligible young ladies? They sat
downstairs in back under the east balconyo, All
of the bachelors couldn't ..ove theto: The
family homestead of Frenk Scott. All the members With
„their wives, , hesbands and children took dinner there
With the. aged couple in commemorafien of the 65th
.,.,,,anniversary of their marriage.
lanies Scott, formerly leader of the -choir of First
'Presbyterian Church, treated the members of the choir
to a picnic at Bayfteld. "
The -traction engines built at the Seaforth Enghte
works are in great demand. Mt. Bell turned away four
orders on account of his inability to manufacture them
in time.
John Quinlan has in his possession a very ancient
coin. It bears the date of 1700, making it over 700 years
Frank Habkirk who has been salesman in Andrew
Young's grocery for some time, leaves for Douglas
Man _
The members of the Methodist church at Rifisgreen
assembled at the home Of Charles Troyer andpreselfted
andlis good lady with. a handsome. couChcand end
rocking chair. They expressed their appreciation*
their long and efficient services as caretakers.
About ten o'clock Sunday Morning, a serious
smashup occurred at the electric light statien. While
running a itligh speed, a break occurred in one of the
large engines. Alex McKay, the engineer, endeavored
to shut off the Steam, but it eeas ceming out in Such
volumes-that he had to retreat.
Men have been preparing the new granolithic
sidewalk to be laid on the south die Goderich St.
eiPeelailC 0117 .... „ , .
When the preacher'ascended. to preach, and
I do mean ascend, for he had quite a staireaSe
to elimb,. 'he stood at eye level with all those
balcony stated men,
preached for an hour. At least. Chrirch
lasted two hours in these dayefrom 10:00 a.M.
to noon.
• And if there was ccminunion thet Sunday,
. all the Men walked up to the altar. first,. and
• took-the Wafer and the wine. Only then, did
.the ladies get their turn. •
;-'-"%:::;0,1),ft,,preaeltet .,insisted on pews withoet
'mu& of a bid to them just one low:nail*
. board. He figured that ought .te'flit'een them
awake'. .
• And if that wasn't enough••for one dity,
Sunday Scheel took another tWo hours - in the
• eftertiden. Note.. Ail yon . Sunday School
Stipethifetideide.' Meat 41.I the teachers were
men. Some didn't go hot& after church. The
, riglat belew Petits, reserved Theo back Opt° church fer another two hour
session.
°ogling was left to the married men. Their
West side balcony seats let them see all the
pretty girls.
The church elders stolid-Win' back until the
strimon, Then they marched uP front and sgt
council hired Louisa Ifinz, , who lived right
.down the read, to„Make the men dinner., And
--theyrd.wait on the-verandah until her dinner
NOS ready. She had to go to church too, you
know. „
outWthheinwklinWghaabtoautsaitbath rest. IA. ef ail tired
Those felloWs sure didn't know about thc
communications course I'm teaching. The -
experts say people's Span of attention is short
- only three fifths of a second. Why, CRC radio
programs try to shift voices every three
minutes. They think they'll lose the listener if
they don't.
But neverariind, Those old timers had a way
with them. They must .have grown thicker
Sitzfleieeh sitting flesh, r bet they worked up
seine 'ellionees on them.
And another thing. Those men in the
balconpmiglithave bsen sitting high and lofty
and hearing about things high and Mighty.
iiiut I Mittel/stand softie of the best Cattle
buying and selling went on up there fon.