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The Huron Expositor, 1976-12-02, Page 21SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 2 1976 SECOND SECTION PAGES 1A 12 A 's the doy. Here's where you vot it Avazx "I'M GORGEOUS-That's what one of the ugly step sisters is telling "her" young audience at the Theatre London production of Cinderella at St. James School last week. The'cast had a modern addition, the Fonze, modelled after 'televisions the Fonze and he was more popular with the kids than the step sisters. (Expositor photo) County council open to changing meeting day A recommendation by the Executive Committee of the Huron County Council was referred to the new 1977 council at the regular County meeting last Thursday. The Committee had recommended that the meeting day be changed from the last Friday of the month to the laSt Ttiesday. The recommendation of change was ,introduced following an• article which appeared in the November 4 edition of the Exeter Times Advocate indicating that a member of coucnil was unable to run for reeve or depty reeve since the regular County , Council sessions were held on the last Friday of the month and Friday is • though a few felt that i t did not seem totally logical to make a meeting change for the sake of one candidate who had yet to be `elcted to the body. The recommendation was finally turned back to the new You've • thought about what sort of representation yOu want on your local council, PUC and school board.. You've read the candidates ads and the stories about election meetings. Some of the candidates you've talked to or known all your life and you think you You where they stand. You think Monday's electiofilS' important and, now that you're informed, you've decided who you're going to vote for, For some of us, only one small' problem remains. Where do we vote? The polls, everywhere in, the province, are open from 11 a.m. until 8 p.m. and for those who are unable to drive themselves, many candidates in the Seaforth area are offering transportation to the. voters. Just call one of the numbers listed in the election ads" from your municipality and ask for a ride. Seaforth In Seaforth those who live in poll 1 vote at the Presbyterian Church. Poll I reins west of Sperling St. from Market St. to Jobe St. west of Main St. from John St... to Goderich St, and west of West • William St. from Goderich St. to ispies St. Poll 2 residents vote at Mae Watterworth's residence, 39 West William St. Residences west of Main St. and north of Goderich St, from Main St to, West 'William St. and north of James St. froinsWest William St. to the limits of the town, vote there. Town residents who live in Poll 3 vote at the Harvey Dolmage residence, at 32 Main St. N. Poll 3 is east of Main St. and North of Guinlock St., from Main to •• -Victoria and north of Goderich St. from Victoria St., east to the town's limits. Poll 4, in the Library on south Main St., incltides the area east of Main and south of Gouinlock St., fromMain to Victoria and south of Goderich St., from,Victoria St. east to the town limits. Poll 5 is it the town hall and those who live west of Main St. 'and south of Market St., from Main to Jarvis and south of the railway tracks from Main St. west to the town limits, vote there. Poll 6, at the home of Ella' Munroe, 25 John St., includes the area bounded on the east by Main St. on on the north by John St., and all the area from the westerly town limits bounded by Market St., Jarvis St. and the CNR tracks. In McKillopiYi KTilolowpnship, those who live on lots 1 to 17, in concessions 1 to 7 vote at Poll 1. at 'the residence of Thomas Murray, N'/2 Lot 10, con. 5. Poll 2 is at the McKillop Township office and residents who live on Lots 1 - 18, con. 1 - 8, vote there, Poll 3 in McKillop is at "the, residence of Neil Beuermann, Lot 14, Con. 13S and residents who live on lots 1 - 18, con,8 - 14 vote. there. Those who live on lots 19-35, in concession 9-14 vote at Poll 4, the' residence of Ross Driscoll, W 1/2 lot 25, eon. 12. Hibbert -There are three polls in Hibbert Township. eon- 1, located at the township office in Dublin, is for voters who live in the police Village of Dublin and lots 1 - 30 in concessions 1, 2 and 3. Poll 2, at' the township hall in S6f1'a, is for voters who live in the hamlet of Staffa and on lots 1 30, in concessions 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9. • Hibbert's Poll 3, located in Comarty Church Hall in Cromarty, is the place to vote for those who live in Cromarty, on lots 1 - 30, con. 10, 11 and 12, cone. 13, lots 5 • 30, con. 14, Lots 8 - 30 and NTR lots 22 - 27. iliulleft Poll 1 in Hullett Township is located at the Forester's Hall in Kinburn. Voters who live in Concessions 1 - 8 on lots 1 - IS vote here. , Poll 2, at the residence of V. Fox, Con. 1 c, Lot 5, is , for residents iri concessions 9 - 14, lets 1 - 15. The residence of Tom Flynn, con. 4 , lot 22, is Poll 3. It's for residents of con. 1-8,-lots 16 to the base line. Hullett's Poll 4, at the Londesboro Community Hall, is for voters who live on Con. 9-14, Lots 16 - 30. Poll 5, at the ' Auburn Community Hall, is for Hullett residents who live on Con. 9 - 14, lots 31 to the'base line, lots I - 12 in the •Maitland Block and all of the portion of the police village of Manchester (Auburn) that is in Hullett Township. Tuckersmith Poll 1 in Tuckersmith Township, at the residence of ' Charles Geddes, Egmondville, is where voters who live in Egmondville east of Centre St., and on Lots 1 • 9, Con. 1, HRS, Lots 1 - 13, Con. 3 HRS, Lots 1 - 14 and •19" and 20, Con. 4HRES Lots 1 - 14, Con. 5, 6, and 7 HRS and all of Concessions 5, 6 and 7 "LRS. Poll 2 in Tuckersmith is located at Bethel Bible 'Church in Egmondville. Residents who live west of Centre St. inEgmondville vote here, along with those who live on SW '/4 Lot 12, and Lots 13 • 20, Cqn. 1, HRS, Lots 11 - 20, Con, 2 HRS, and Lots 14-20, Con. 3 HRS. The residence of 'Alex Townsend, Lot 40, Con. 11 HAS is the location of Poll 3 in Tucker- smith. Those who live on all lots on Concessions 1, 2, 3 and 4 HRS, west ofLot 20 and all Lots on Con. 1., 2, 3 and 4 LRS, north of Lot 2 vote there. Poll 4 is at the Renasand Jack .Caldwell residence, Lot 9, Con. 11 HRS. Tuckersmith voters who live on Lots 1 - 25, concessions 1, 2 and 3 LRS, Lots 15 - 25, Con. 4, LRS and all of Can. 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 and 15 HRS vote here. Poll 5 in Tuckersmith is at Huronview and • all elegible residents, of the home vote there. All of Vanastra votes at Poll 6 in Tuckersmith, at the Vanastra Community Church. Morris • Poll 1 in Morris Township votes at Wm. Sondes residence,. S1/2 Lot 11, Con. 8. Those who live on Lots 1 - 15, Concessions 7, 8, 9 and 10 are ire Poll 1. Poll 2 , at J. Cregg's residence in Walton is the/voting place for Morris residents who live on Lots 16 - 30, Concessions 7, 8, 9 and 10 except Lots 16 30 in the N 1/2 Con. - 7. Poll 3, at the Institute Hall in Belgrave, is for voters who live on Lots 1 - 11, COn, 5, 6 and the S1/2 of Con. 4' of Morris. Poll 4, at the Township Hall, is for voters who live on Lots 12 - 30, Concessions 5, 6 and the S1/2 Con. 4, and Lots 16 - 30,•N 1/2 Con. 7, except that p,ertion that's in the village of Brussels. Harvey Edgar's residence, at S1/2 Lot 7, Con. 2 is the location of Poll S. , Those live at Lots 1 30, Con. 1, Lots 1 - '15, Con, 2, 3, and N'/2 Con. 4, vote there. Poll 6 in Morris is at the residence of . Mrs. Viola Catnpbell, S1/2 Lot 26, Con. 2. Residents from. Lots 31 - 60. Con. 1, Lots 16 - 3(1, Con, .2, 3, and N 1/2 Con. 4, vote there. Grey There are seven polls in Grey Township for' the municipal electionsx Poll 1 is at the residence of Kenneth Wilbee, 'Lot 8, Con, 5. Voters on con. 1, Lots 1 - 39, Concessions 2 - 4,,Lots 1- 17, and Con. 5 an d6,, Lots 1 - 13 vote there. At A Poll 2, the residence George Wesenberg, "Pf:-tot 1', Con. 11, all Grey residents who live on Concessions 7 - 14, Lots 1 10, vote. Poll 3, at the Trevor Smith Stem, Walton is where voters who.live on Concessions 15 - 18, Lots'l - 17 vote,. Poll 4 is located at Moncrieff Community Centre. It's for Grey voters who live at Con. 11 and 12, Lots 26 - 35, Con. 13 •and 14, Lots 21-35, Con. 15-18,' Lots 18 to 35. Polls is at the Ethel Community Centre. Those, who live at Con. 5 an d6,, Lots 14 - 22, Con. 7, and •8, Lots 11 - 3S inclusive, Con. 9, Lots 20 - 35 and Con. 10, Lots N 1/2 20, Lots 21-35, vote there.' Grey's Poll 6 is at the Archie Campbell residence, Lot$27; Con. 3, Those who live on Con. 1, Lots 40-70, Con. 2 - 4, Lots 16 - 35, Con. 5 and 6, Lots 23 to 35, vote there. Poll 7 in Grey is at litranbrook Community Centre. Voters on Con. 9, Lots 11 - 19, Con. 10, Lots 11 - S1/2 20, Con. 11,and 12, Lots 11 - 25 and Con. 1-3 and 14, Lots 13 2Q.Note. • • • - All lots and concession descriptions given are inclusive. usually a busy day .for people in council for the 1977-78 terpi, of business. office. During discussion on the ''' In other business arising from recommendation many the Executive Committee report councillors-:- --indicated'-"- Aiteif-"---Council Council agreed to begin willingness to make the change (Continued on Page 3 A ) Rerriembering . . The good old days when we were young /' M. (By W. G. Strong) • -Those, indeed, were the good old. days." • - So called old-timers, women and men seventy • years of age and older, li ke to recall how much better and more romantic life was in their youth than it is now. But was it really? The passage of time casts-illusory glows over the past to give it a sentimental lustre. Despite all this, we have an idea that if the over-age old-timers were compelled now to live again for a month as they did in their childhood, they would kick like a mule and scream like a hyena. When the aging and the ,aged itemieisce, they tend to dwell on a multiplicity of sights, sounds and smells associated with their past experiences and compare them with similar situations today. Most homes were heated by wood Stoves in the kitchen and nickleplated ranges in the, front room or parlour. That kitchen stove was the heart of the farm house but most of them are gone. Now and then, however, one wishes that she or hb could sit before that bleaming unit, listen to the cheerful crackle of -good maple and beech and the contented murmur of the teakettle on the second cover. On its top, stews and chowders bubbled in the iron kettles that sat in the cover holes. In the ovc i• bread and buns, biscuits, cakes and pies, roasts and beans were baked. Bacon or ham frying in the iron frying pan lent a pleasing aroma 'to the nostrils of one' entering the kitchen from the cooler air outside. All year round mothers baked bread for‘tAe hungry mouths. Can't you still see her as she ' mixed the ingredients at then • on a well-floured bake-board on the kitchen table near the stove kneaded it? Later it was put aside to rise in the blue enamel, dishpan and covered 'with a piece of linen. In the morning, at times, the dough had risen too much and overflowed the brim and greyish-white streaks made a moclernistie picture on the outside of the pan. The dough was kneaded again and the pats were placed in the bread pans to rise again until each was about twice its original size. Mothers did not have an oven thermometer or heat gitage on the over door but through long practice they knew just the right heat. Recall if you will the brown-crusted loaves with their nostril-tingling fragrance which pervaded the room when the pans were turned upside down on the cherry table top to allow them to cool. A slice of warm bread with a generous dab of fresh homemade butter and a spoonful Of preserved fruit was considered a treat at any time. ' At spring housecleaning time, the range had to be moved out to the back kitchen or shed and the stove-pipes and sundry elbows cleaned .by. the ashpile out back where the ashes from the kitchen stove were dumped regularly by junior• upon' his return from school just down the concession. The woodbox behind the kitchen stove had to have its stock replenished everpevening with dry wood. from the pile Outside in summer or from the tiers in the woodshed hi winter. Maple. beech, birch afid oak were carried in with monotonous regularity. Did you ever have to beat the rugs and mats thrown over the clothesline with a metal beater or more often with a stout branch? Woollen blankets had to be washed and quilts aired before being Stored in paper-lined trunks upstairs or in the attic. There. were net electric washing machines, Wives had to douse the family's grimy duds in the wash tubs and launder them by hand or with a scrubbing brush on a ridged washboard supplemented with • liberal dosages of soft soap. If the ,wash happened to be unusually large,. in the pioneering days, the water was boiled outside in a large black kettle slung over a blazing fire.This same kettle was used to heat the water for scalding pigS butchering time, to boil down the sweet maple sap in spring or to make soft soap from potash 'and grease saved for the occasion.. Do you recall the sweet far-carrying reuSical notes of cowbells on a warm spring evening when the cows had been turned out into the night pasture? Remember the quaint summer aftcanoons when the same notes floated down from the upper pasture? Remember the rhythmic tolling as, Bossy swung leisurely -along at the head of the herd as it returned to the stable at milking time? In early pioneer days several cows in each h erd wore bells on leather straps around their neck to make their . presence known should they wander afar in • search of grassy areas where the growth was more luscious. There was no question in the countryman's mind as well as in some villager's that among the basic requirements for a down-to-earth society would be a cow or two. At the general share during an afternoon forum while waiting for the Mail to be sorted an argument was easily started as to the advantages of .,the four-legged milk stool, handmade, over the three legged. The majority favoured the solid, strong four-legged implement because of its psychological assurance of safety. Others believed that life should • 'be lived more dangerously. The -timi person did not take-- sides too vociferd'usly. . Live and let live, seemed to be a work ng foundation for a democratic society. How one enjoyed pressing against gossy's silky fl nk and listen to the ping of the streams as hey hit the pail's bottoM and then in the s ft hiss as the pail filled. With • respect to the merits of the three-legged and tour-legged stools there was unanimous agreement that the seat had to be smooth and made of hard wood.. A splintery milking stool surface had elements of danger that could destroy the peatefulness of milking-time. • Talking of bells, many will recall when sleigh-bells made tinkling music in the winter frosty air and steel runners squeaked and crunched on hard-packed snow. FarMers and villagers alike were particular about sleigh bells. Some preferred pole chimes attached to the shaft, some favoured long sets of body 'bells and a few were partial to the neck-strap. Bell- sets had their individual melodies and _ jingled briskly as the mare sped over rural roads. How many of you as you looked out over the countryside last winter could fancy you heard the soft echoes of the sleigh-bells of yesterday'? Maybe you had a matched team of mares or geldings. This is one concern that few Modern farmers need worry about as one tractor is about the same as another. Anyone who loved horseflesh like the Hays, the Patricks, the Sinclairs, the Sparrows and others strove to have a team of the same colour and size. They had to have the same markings and the same conformation. Greys and blacks were the most easily matched as they would be of more, or less the same color with which to start. Bays and browns were more difficult as there would be various shades. Sorrels and chestnuts wceethe most difficult because then were fewri of them. One of the best ways was to raise a couple of foals from the same mare • and sire. They were apt to be • alike but even then one might have a star on its forehead, the other a stripe. Some would have a straight stripe, others tapered. One might have, four white fetlocks, the other two. There were other considerations, too. The temperament had tobtsimilar. A high-spirited, fast-stepping steed would make an awkward partner for a slower, lazy one. Many a farmer scoured the countryside trying to get a match for a favourite colt. He felt the time was well spent if he ended up with a perfectly matched team to cornpete for prizes at the Spring and Fall Show or pehaps at the London Fair or the Canadian National Exhibition. There was a pride in a fine team of horses which n tractor can provide. Country folk well remember the' long, lonesome-sounding but satisfyirrg whistele of the steam locomotive of the freight or passenger train echoing back among the hills or spreading across the fields. in late summer and fall the threshing machine moved along the sideroad, the engine shudderidg and puffing and the separator rumbling along behind as if it were going to shake apart. Two short and one Yong blast of the steam whistle' signalled that the threshers were coming and the neighbouis were alerted to the fact that their services would shortly be required. The sound' of that whistle was a harvest refrain. On a hazy fall day one could hear the song of the wood-sawing gasoline engine as , the farmers worked up a generous supply of winter wood salvaged from the tops of trees felled for timber during the past winter. Lengths of limbs cut into irregular lengths had been piled on end near the woodshed to dry in the summer's heat.-A-s • the saw's blade cut through the stout branches the tempo changed as the texture of the wood altered. From a steady whine to a rising crescendo the sound rose and fell. Some like to remernberthe oaken churn . within whose staves the dasher was pumped up and down motonously. due time the movement became more labourious and one examined the'orifice around the harldle of the dasher to seek some evidence of butter forming. Later testing was carried out to see how firm the contents were by letting the dasher.sVst upon the thickening mass. With the introduction of the rotary churn one listened for the clunking, monotonous sound of freshly made &utter thumping against the top and bottom df the barrel and sought evidence of its consistency through the glass set in the lid. Every fall there was a sa tisfying fragrance in the orchard where apples hung at the bough's tip. There :was the tantalizing seta compounded of ripe fruit, drying leaves and sun-cured blankets of grass, Within the farm kitchen bubbling kettles with their spicy, nostril-tingling smells from pickel-making mingled with the delicate aroma of a pan of hot gingerbread, fresh from the oven. In the good old days there icier ono in-door plumbing facilities, no radio, no-television, no drive-in theatre, no canned dog food. Dad gum it, they didn't even bast roll-on" deodorants or electric razors. Alas the good old-days have been replaced by the good new days - uidaylad tomorrow.' ai to