The Huron Expositor, 1977-03-10, Page 2Published at SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, evert, Thursday morning by MCLEAN BROS.
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TREASURES AT THE VAN EGMOND HOUSE — This photo of a clOthes Press; which was donated to
the Van 'Egmond 1-louse by Miss Ethel McClure is the first of, an occasional series that will show
readers some of the historical items on display at the house-in Egmondville. The series is run by the
Huron Expositor as a public service and in co-operation with the Van Egrnond Foundation ,in an
attempt to promote appreciation of our heritage. The story of this item of furniture, written and
researched by Mabel Turnbull, follows. (Expo$itor Photo).
In ,the Years Agone
MARCH 9,1877
At the auction Sale , of ; Man „ Cumming, in
Tuckersmith, the stock sOld,:retgized the large sum of
$1,777.07. Mr; Gatztneyers salein McKillop, the stock
realized $1,200.00. "roe" Brine was the auctioneer.
The' skating carnival held on the Victoria rink,
Seaforth, was highly sualtssful. The Firemen's band
was in attendance.-
Bulldin$ gperations promise to-be brisk in Seafaorth
during the coming season. Alexander Ault and- Mr.
Murphy each intend erecting a store on lidain Street.
We also learn that Mr. Carmichael has plans fOr a new
hotel.
Robert Jamieson returned home after an absence of 5
weeks. He has been on a visit to the European Markets,
purchasing goods for his firm.
(By Mabel Turnbull) ,
An old clothes press• or
wardrobe has recently been given
to the Van Egmond Foundation to
help them"- complete the
furnishings in the Van Egmond
McRoberts of . Teekersmith was be left' for ,a few interested
sixteen at that time. She was the. :persons but the whole community -
only person small enough to climb should- stand behind 'thenni. •
to the attic and get the lumber to l'm sure more gestures like
make it. • that of Miss Ethel McClure would
When'the press was completed be welcomed bythe Van Egmond
'it was given to Dolly Murray who Foundation Committee.
later married Robert Stiiith - of When I taught Grade VII at
Hullett. g'.13 .S. the 'topic the- ITRuron
After the press left the Tract" was on the course of ' At this time Van Egmond had
grandparents- home it stood for study. I read several books on the thirty-four horse teams bringing
_years in the ,corner of the kitchen subject and found Col. Anthony in- settlers. Not only did he bring
in the home of Mr. and Mrs, John Van Egmond involved in this them in but he brought supplies
McClure, parents of Miss. Ethel project. such as barrels of flour for their
McClure. When Miss McClure When I taught it to my class welfare. How far - seeing he wasl
moved to town she,didn't have, a and told them about Van Egmond
place large enough for it and gave and about the house in
it to her niece Mrs. Garnet 'Egniondville li nked with his
McClinchey. Agnes, who at that` -rraine:-the boys were so excited
time had moved into the Weiland that they went to the Van Egmond
house in Egmondville. , house and knocked on the door.
From h ere workmen from the 'Earl, Van Egmondt a grandson of
Van Egmond house carried it Anthony .opetied the door and
ac toss the road on a stormy day asked the boys in and took them
in January 1977. There it will be down cellar.
placed for all visitors to see. The It was a bubbling, excited
Van Egmond Foundation , are group of boys who greeted me the
deepy grateful to Miss Ethel next morning at school. Earl had.
McClure for donating it to the also told them some interesting
Foundation. stories of his grandfather. If. any
It's • interesting background is of these boys read about this I
well worth studying. We are would- be pleased if they would
The "Importance of Liberty"
written by Fred Van Egmond
gives a splendid account of the
Van Egmond family. I was so•
interested in the, importance of
this site that I went along one day
and sketched the house and made
an oil painting of it. Sometime
later I made a copy'df R by special
request. The Van Egmond
Foundation committee have the
house currently under
• .restoration. It will show the life of
a family in Halton County prior to
Conferation. They hope to have it
completed by 1978.
Amin
by Karl Schuessler. is not available this week
companies are. talsing:ine to the cleaners:
fire, life, term, health, automobile. And
the only way I can get even is to set fire to
the house, smash ,up the car, contract
disabling diseases, or die. It doesn't seem
fair. ,
I paida chunk into the Canada Pension-,
Plan. • The only way I can get it back is to
get old. Unemployment Insurance cost me
$172 and fire never been out -of a job in my
life. The union cost me $325, which is
probably, used for a fund for a strike, in
which I will not. Participate.
in addition, , they levied me $1,750
toward a pension plan. By. the-time. I get
around to collecting from it, one of two
things will have happened. Either I'll be
dead (and heafthere are no pensions- in
heaven), or. my annual pension will be.
worth tilted %mires of bread .and a can of
beans,' With'
' And the whole thing expands. downward.
The provincial mafia nails me for hard-top
roads into cottage country when I don't
have a cottage: ,weed cutters,*geoldgists,
fishing inspectors; health care for every
.hypOshondriac in the province.; homes for
the aged and homes for the insane and
hafts:for feSiet childrent' and a hundred
other -things I do not need.
'thor the .county takes its tut. I help pay
for reeves-to go and .gM drunk at the Good,
.., •
Roads Convention, for County. Health
Units, County Assessors, County
educational empires.
And finally, the municipal mafia puts the
gears to me, for arenas,1 don't skate in-,
swimming pools !don't swim ire healthy
salaries for firemen and cops and every
other bird who can get on the payroll.
'But when I say-I'Don't but down my
trees, please," they tell me I am standing
in the way Of progress. •
Nor does it end there, unfortunately. It
comes' right down beside you at your_own
hearth. The •old lady wants a gourmet
cookbook,$20; •the daughter wants $250 for
fees for a university course; th&soti should
have a little donation in Paraguay to keep
him frOrst st arving; the grandboys need
new shoe,s at 12 becks a rattle, I don't need
a single one of these things, yet I ath the
one who has. the tambotireen ,constantly
shaking under my hose. •
free enterprise 'be hanged. There's
nothing free about it, and the Only
enterprise involved in the eonsiderably
a,moure u,sed,by various' parties to separate
me from every nickel I earn.
On the other hand„maybe I'm lucky that
I don't need a single item froth the endless
list of garbage for which I ant being
clipped. You have to get old' or slat or
stupid or' poor to collect most of there.
Ponate.cuplioatil to -Van, _4mond - house
indebted to Miss Ethel McClure , come' and . make themselVes
of Seaforth Manor andMiss Mae known. rd. file to talk to them.
Smith a relatiVe for •the statistics They will remember.,
on this treasured antique. This 'experience triggered my
Preserving our heritage seems interest' and at that time I wrote a
to be the "in thing" in these letter to the-Expositor suggesting'
• Home in,Egmondville . This press modern times. We are indeed that that old home be preserved: I
' The frame ,of'the press is pine ., character in the person -of Col. ,
..,. ferlitottle-Ap have an 'historical continued my reading on 'the
. subject. .•
is 123 years old, built in 1854.
with panels of butternut, known, -Antheny Van Egmond on which I studied the old:Huron County •
as white walnut. we can build our heritage., - .: Atlas. Anyone interested will find
.
it was made oh the farm where . • In our own Huron County„ this book at the Library which has
Earl Papple now lives on the Goderich and Exeter are catching been rebound in dark green. The
Kippen Road in Tuckersmith. The on and are attempting to preserve ' original was black. This book is
, , lumber for this press was put in the old for example. the jail in not to be. taken out but may be
. the altieto dry. Dolly, daughter of Code_rich and 'the town hall in taken to a table and read.
John • Murray '• and Jane . Exeter_ These projects should not. I also found J.R.Scett's book on
The -"Settlement of Huron
County" most interesting. In 'my
reading i have thought' that
perhaps my grandparents, the
Robt. Turnbull's, may have been
brought to this area by Col.
Anthony ' Van Egmond. They
came 1851-52'. - ' - - •
Taxes- who needs them?
Freedom of information was-a:big
topic at the . Ontario Weekly
Newspaper Association convention in
Toronto over the weekend. And •it
seems that the press, trying ;to get
news put to'llie public; have problems
at• all levels.
Weekly neWspaper people outlined
their problems in getting information
from the federal 'government, the
Ontario government and from their
own local councils and school boards.
------.--The-depth-of- the difficulty ranged
from one reporter, who said a reeve
threatened to ban' him from council
meeting permanently because he
made a quiet comment to a spectator
_at a meeting, to a news editor who got
put on held five times and shuffled
around to several different
departments when he tried to get
infortnation from a ministry at
Queen's Park over -the-phone.
Other ". representatives of
newspapers across the province told
,..etceuncils who do practically all their
business in committee, excluding the
presS, and then convene once a month
or se for-a formal .hour long meeting
When something like a press release
is issued.
It's one area where our American
neighbours have us beat bya country
mile. Besides "a federal Freedom of
-Information Act -thatrriakes almost all
US federal documents . and reports
available to the public, se* venal states
have sunshine laws, opening up state
and municipal meetings and
documents to the public, and.. the.
press.
Some federal politicians, most
notably Gerard- Baldwin and Eliner
McKay, are clamouring for a
Canadian freedom of information law.
Donald McDonald of the NDP hai
been campaigning for the SaMe law at
the provincial leVel. And, according to
information at the convention, weekly
newspapers all over Ontario are
campaigning for more openess in
doing public businesi at the local
level -
But ,newspapers, and a few
dedicated politicians can't break the
secrecy barriers alone. They need
your help.
The press doeSn't want open
meetings and access to reports out of
a desire to "get" someone or 'to •
sensationalize the news. The press
doesn't want special privileges, it
only wants information that should be
public, and available to the voters.
who Could attend council and school
board meeting but rarely do. The
by Bill Smiley
'There's something wrong ' with • the
economic set-up of our society. This
conclusion was the one I came to after
checking over my T4 form the other day. I •
turned white and then red,When I saw what'
everybody' is clipping out of my' -pay
cheque.
The first, and worst deduction is for
income tax. The feds got me for more in
taxes than my hard-working father ever
made in the two best years of his life put
together. ' •
Then I started wondering what I get from
Ottawa for my thumping contribution. I
wasn't exactly impressed:when I totted it
up. 4, don't get welfare or un.ethployment
insurance or the .old 'age pension or the °
aby bonus:.
I get the Trees Canada highway, which I
use every 1,2 years, if tan'find a spot in .
the never-ending line of Americans hauling -
trailers of canape Is,. I get the t,t1C, which
IS one of the - ebutttry'a great losers,.
financially and etiltereilly. 'I get the
MoteitieS. Who needs then* I „get
protection from our' gallaittarnied'for ces,
who could probably wrestle Iceland to a
draitt, although I wouldn't bet, on if; t get
the priVilege of contributing to ,those
handsome pensions' of Mps and civil
savants, with their cosy, Sitift,th ettealit
host, t have the ,prIvitege of kicking in so
press attends all meetings as a
representative cif the public, in order
,To report • the news; fairly and
accurately to that--public . —
The whole question is not one of
more power for the press, but of _more
information to the people:
If you are-an elected member Of a
council or a school beard; consider
how many closed •meetings you
attend. As well as denying the public
background information on decisions
you make, you may be contravening
the generally accepted • practise that
committee of the whole in camera
should be used • for discussion ittf—'
persenel and property matters.
Nb oneypublic or press, wants to sit
in on .discusslons of either of those
two ,topics, but there is resentment
when any . and.- all even slightly
controversial matters are discuSsed in
a closed meeting.
Everyone loses when there's too
much secrecy. The pUblic gets little
idea of the hard viork and hammering
out of decisions" that its selected
- representatives do. The presi feela
used beCause the, .elected bodies
expect it to pasS on a quick digest of
what facts they.• want released , as
being the whole story from 'a
particular meeting.
Ultimately the T. elected
representatives . lose because the
people have no understanding Of the'
. work they've been doing and vote
thern'out„ electing replacements who
prOMise _a- _more__ _open council
board.
All of us need a lot .of information
to work effectively as citizens.
Today's world is so small ;.and so
complicated that • the federal
government's actions towards
Quebec, say, could change our lives
in Seaforth. fi
• We need to know a lot more than
we do now about how and why
decisioriS are - made . right here in
Huron and Perth, in. Toronto and in
Ottawa. Not to know means to risk
being ruled by those who thinti they
know what's' best for us at all three
levels.
The few fighters for freedom of
information for Canadians need help.
Write your MP, your .MPP and your
local councillors and' school trustees
and ask that they 'insist on more
public informatienL-atall levels. We
need a little sunshine around here,
and not just : because we're coming
out of one of the worst -winters on
record, -
'that Otto Lang can fly around like 11 eery
Kissinger.
I- help pick up the tab for those '
federal-provincial meetings, at the last of
which so many of the provincial premiers- --
were hard into the sauce that it wound up
in a verbal donnybrook,
I also receive the privilege of helping pay
for Skyshop bribes in Quebec, and nuclear
bribes in Argentina and Switzerland and
Israel and lord knows where else.
I have the additional pleasure of helping
to pay for a wildly proliferating civil service
that offers me such • inessentials as
Manpowers, ads telling Me not to smoke or
drink too much, and vast -quantities of
propaganda ehurned out by the hacks of
Bytown on the •Rideau.
I am perinitted to help pay for the annual
deficits of, the Post Office, the efl,R, the
CBC, and practically any other "business"
run by 'the feds.'In addition, they'll let me
Kick in to help pay Our native•"Canadiana
Millions of dollars for a lot of moose •..
pasture and ttundra that wasn't worth a4
plugged nickel until sonteone decided to
run- a pipeline through
As sontebOdy has got things
backWard,The government offers nee: all
wit, of things I don't want or need, and
fails to offer me any &the things tdar need,
And that's ottrtheSegittning. Insurittee
• ,
The congregation nf United Church,' Brucefield,
presented their newly inducted. pastor • Rev. • Thos.
Thompson with a handsome pulpit gown, ,cassock and
bands.
J.Reith of Hensel!, has-boeght a large amount of land
from J. Dalziel in the, neighborhood of Grand Bend.
• MARCH 7,1902'
Peter Lamont has purchased the Isle farm east of
Zurich, paying $3,300.•
Henry McBrien of Hulled has sold his farm of lib
acres to Geo. Youngbiut for the sum of $3,000. ,
John Cameron Of Stanley passed away, in the-58th
year of . his age. He was a native of --Fortingal,
Perthshire, Scotland.
Robert McCartney of Brucefield, has leased the
building next , the post office and intends-using it as a
Show room for the McCormick Manufacturing Co.
Geo. Munroe of Brucefield was fortunate in getting
*his large ice house filled before the soft weather came.
F.. Reese, -precentor in Carmel Presbyterian Church,e.,
Hensall, has, organized a singing class. •
John G. Sproat and R. Frost contemplate doing a big
business in cement htiilding during the coming season.
They have already contracted for the erection of five
brick silos and five barn-foundations.
Messrs. Scott Brothers, whp---havebeen in' business
here for thirty Years, have disposed of their musical
instrument' busineSrlo• • deo.• Baldwin. , ' .
J.W.Beattie of town has purchased the -interest of
Robert Winter in the meat' business of Winter and
Stewart.
Robert IvIcDole, near Walton, sold to Messrs. Scott
Brothers, near Londesboro, a 2 year old colt, for the
snug sum of S170.00. ,
• Mrsit. Snell rif COnstance has rented het farm for .a
term of 5 years to Thos.-McMichael for $250.00 a year.
She leaves shortly to jail her husband in the west, •
Dr. Little of the Varna Hotel has purchased
Mrs.Farb's hetet at Brucefield paying $3,000 cash.
Messrs. Sam MeSpadden and W. Reeves of Winthrop
left for Boisseview, Manitoba. As, these boys are quite_
popular they will be greatly Missed; . • ,
Andrew fled Sr. and Th os.-Elder, were, at Crediton
buying brick for the new schoolroom in connection with
St. Andrews Church at . Kippen. , .;
The hum of the saw is again buzzing in the Kippen
mill yards 'with R.P.Bell at -the head -of the saw.
MARCH 11,1927
Messrs. Scott, Seaforth are at present decorating the. —
manse in Cromarty. • -•
John Scott of McKillop..,,shipped a carload of export-
steers from Walton. The average weight of these cattle
were 1328 pounds each.
Murray Gibson and Alton Johnson of Brucefield, who
have been suffering :from blood poisoning in their
hands have sufficiently recovered to be able to attend
to their farm duties. ,
The Brighton Ensign makes- a lengthy reference to
the presentations made to Dr. and Mrs. McKee. They-
are moving to Kirkland [Ake. He.hae-managed the
practice Of dentistry-for Dr.F.J.Beechly 'while he was.-
overseas.
Wh ile Chad Glew was cranking his car he had the
misfortune to slip on the ice and fracture his leg.
' Mr. and Mrs...Dan Shanahan who spent the winter in
North Carolina returned to their home. Th ey gret v
enjoyed .the winter.
A play entitled "Wanted a Husband" was performed
,in first Presbyterian Church schoolroom. Miss . Dorothy
Kerslake and Carl Ament took the leading parts. All did
good work including Master Jack Rankin.
MARCH 7, 1952
Prior to the• Wingham-Seaforth Bantam hockey game
Ron Mason presented to the Seaforth Memorial Arena,
a large Union Jack, on behalf of his team. Leo.
Stephenson. Manager of the arena, received the gift.
The brief ceremony took place at centre ice. ,
Students and teachers of the Seaforth-District High
School held their annual "At Horne". There were 400
present. Lorraihe Smith and Ruth Key.eswere the lunch
committee. The decorating was done by JOhn
Laudenbach, Eleanor McCartney, Marie Hunt, Shirley
Frieday, Gordon Rowland, Patsy Brugger and Michael
Bechley,•
Mr. andlvirs. Harold Barry. Elizabeth Barry, Don
Hilton, Bill Crawford of Toronto and Doug Lang of
Stratford spent the weekend with Miss Mabel Turnbull.
Three new members received their third degree into
Fidelity Lodge, Seaforth, namely F. E.Willis, Norinan
Riehl and Hugh Len McPherson. '8•,•
John F. Scott. Seaforth, was recently appointed tot
his second term as chief ,of the Seaforth fife Briaat14.
McKillop Council awarded several contracts. They
include a gravel contract for 20,000 yards at 69c a yard
to ferrish Bros., Listowet; warble fly spraying' to
Wilbur Hoegy, Brodhagen and two bridge contracts to
Looby and Looby, Dublin.
To the editor
The: dogs talk back
ft; response to the recent criticism of our canine friends I
decided to interview three dogs that came roving, through the
tide yard one day list Week.
The 'first, a personable 'if somewhat perplexed beagle:
explained he had just flushed a cottontail rabbit from a Seaforth
residents' bushes and was met with a blast from a pellet gun.
Had he been wrong all these years? Oh well; he was giving up
his natural instincts because his owner didn't take hint hunting
or train him anyway!
Tho second, a•seemingly bright, but somewhat confused police
dog told of going uptown for dinner. The people, he related, put
all kinds of delicious ,dinners out at their curbs in neat green
bags, but no sooner would you get one open than someone would'
chase you' down the street shouting a barrage of obscenities -
very strange indeed?
The third, a scruffy, ill-kept mongrel said he lived just outside
town and upon reading the sign 'Which promised Seaforth to--be a
friendly 'Place, had decided to move In. His owners it seems,
would go away for days leasFing him without food or shelter.
After one week of snowball peltings, brooch handles, stones and
near misses with several irate motorists, he had decided to leave
the area for good.
Wh ile interviewing these furry felloWs I got ,the Repression
all they required was a little love, shelter and discipline, but they
couldn't relate this to their masters. ,
think Good Old-Fashioned Doggie-Pride is what stands in the
way. What' do you think?
George Kruse Jr.
Seaforth
Sugar and Spice