The Goderich Signal-Star, 1957-08-29, Page 9`tt1 2 tlt�5fi, AUGUST 29th, 1957
THE OODERIO I ST[ N. STAR
GoderichScout Joins
Party Exploring Roman
Ruins In Old England
Herewith is the i'nnal article
by Art Peachey*now home in
Goderich, who sent special
articles by airmail to The
Signal -Star from oversea s
while attending the World
Jubilee Jamboree of Boy
Scouts at Sutton Coldfield,
Warwickshire.
Scouting throughout the. world
difenn. .•-fore the Second World
War, 'British and Canadian Scouts
wore the same uniforms that are
now worn exclusively by the &puts
of Canada. That is the wide brim
hat,blue serge shorts, green shirt,
navy stockings With green tops
and black shoes. When the Second
World War broke out, these mater-
ials were hard, to obtain and be-
cause khaki was quite easily ob-
tainable, khaki became the official
boy scout uniform. They had khaki
shorts and shirts, and stockings,
and they wore a 'beret. Later on,
they obtained ties old blue shorts
and shirts which became recogniz-
ed as an official uniform. Still,
they haven't decided on one uni-
form for the whole country.
The British and the Canadian
camps in themselves are quite
alike. Bath 'Cz adian and British
Scouts have morning inspection
which covers personal cleanliness
as well as camp site cleanliness,
The only difference is that the
British SeerCO are allowed to wear
anything flag break while Can,
adieu Scouts must be in full uni-
form. Anyone touring a 'Canadian
arLd British camp would hardly the
able to ,tell the difference unless
he asked for a cup of tea.
En feed is noted for its -many
contributions to histery. Just a
few miles 'from the city of Norwich
there is, an old Romani villa. Have
you ever gone on a "dig"? Well,
if you 'haven't you will probably
wonder what a "dig" is? A "dig"
is unually. an organized group of
students under adult leaders who
goes an&explores these old places.
'Caasttor, which is the name ofthis
old Roman .camp, was discovered
by eecident. The people of the
-clountryside wondered where 'Chis
wall .of stories came from, but no
satisfactory a rianation was ever
given. When a plane was flying
ever this ground one dray taking
pictures of the land below, it was
noticed on the prints that these
walls formed a pattern end streets
showed up in the pictures also.
This summer, the government
was supposed to start excavations
on this site, but due to the lack
of funds they were unable to start.
Last summer, they discovered an
old Raman temple which is sup-
posed. to be in wonderful shape
considering how old this villa is.
The had is under cultivation now
and often during the spring when
the soil is plowed up they find
Roman coins, pottery, jewels,
swords and many .other fine ex-
amples of early British culture.
After the Jamboree, I spent a
day there exploring the .site. I
was lucky enough to find a piece
of Roman pottery dating back be-
fore the year 45 A.D. and an early
chisel made of flint dating back be-
fore the birth of Christ. Surround-
ing the walls which are in some
places 25 to 30 feet in height is a
-moat. At -one-time alis moat was
Flooding Foiled
efforts To Open
Early Salt Mine
Did H. Y. Attrill suceeed In
finding rock -salt on his propea'tyr
on the north side of the liitlarid
River mouth three-quarters of a
century ergo?
"Yea, definitely," says Torn Sillib,
70 -year-old Goderich resident. "1
saw the proof with my own eyes
when a was a lad about 10 years
old."
There has elways been a great
deal of conjecture, according to
Mr. Sitlib, about whether Mr. At -
trill ever found rock salt, and. -•-•i£
traversed by four bridges, one in
each of the four walks.
What will they find when they
excavate? This remains to be
seen.
We left England at 12 o'clock at
night on August 20th (British time)
and arrived home at one o'clock in
the afternoon (ICanadiag time).
Probably the prettiest sight was
when we were flyiig across the
ocean and could see the Canadian
sunset on the horizon. It was too
beautiful and impossible to de-
scribe.
It took us 15 hours of actual
flying time to fly home, but we
spent 21'2 hours going through im-
migrations at Gander is Newfound-
land.
I would like to thank the Signal -
Star for giving me the opportunity
to express my' views of the Jam-
boree and England in their fine
newspaper. All I can say is
"cheerio" until the next time.
In a school essay on "Parents" a
small girl wrote: 'We get our par-
ents when they are so old it is
very hard to change their habits."
he did -- why he did >tio't airy
through idsr piano. to amine it.
Mr. Sillib eau stall mall vividly
a Sortie that he and the WA Iosep
,1allo gh madeinto the Attrill
pxoperty—now k, wu as the Sandy
pray c y -wan both were about
10' year's old.
Venturing ipzit the "no trespas5-
lug" signs on =Attrill'a Point Mr.
Sillib says he entered largebuild-
ing which Was situated. wlwut 10
fads from the water. ins , he,
was amazed (to timl an engiko a td .
a hole, which he estimates w.Ws
14 feet in -diameter.
The, aides of the opening , bad
been 'bricked down as far as the
eye could see, said Mr. Sillibj, He
could see down about 1t feet but
he suspects the bricks went down
closer to 100 feet. It appeared that
the hole had been drilled 10 or
16 years before that.
Sticks Of Salt
an addition to the engine and
the shaft opening, Mr. Sillib says
he found six or seven sticks of
what he believes to have been rock
saitc. %The sticks were grey, about,
seven inche,$ locLg and- 1 2 inches
in diameter.
Beim scared by the somewhat
eerie surroundings, Mr. Sillib and
his companion left the building
quickly, he recalls.
It is understood that Mr. Attrill
did not continue development of
his salt 'find because he could not
overcome the problem of water
flooding the shaft. Techniques
then were not as advanced as now-
adays, naturally.
The opening in the ground was
filled in by bulldozer a few years
ago after Thomas Sandy decided
that it was a menace to the safety
of children.
Mr. Attrill's project was known
as the Manhattan salt project, it
is said.
Mr. Sillib recalls that Mr. Attrill
was a man of short stature. Since
he had sfropenties in Toronto end
California, he did not stay at
Goderich very often. He kept
thoroughbred Durham •cattle Wand
his foreman was Jahn Buchiannn,
says Mr, Sillib.
BIG SHOTS are only
r
LITTLE SHOTS
who keep shooting
Great mercantile houses did not grow by re-
maining idler They grew because they anti-
cipated buyers' needs and continuously informed
prospective purchasers of the merchandise they
offered. The `famous' catalogues of earlier days
were but one form of advertising and .the firms
wh6 issued them are today's greates t newspaper
space buyers.
TODAY, the little merchant who desires to
BUILD his business keeps shooting in the
medium that has not failed in past years . . THE
ATTi`W''UAURR1
in Goderich and district, the -best
dollar value in advertising
IS THE PAGES OF
THE GODERICH SIGNAL -STAR
the 'Signal -Star goers into 3,100 homes every week.
• lach home averages 31/2 persons {conservative estimate) .
C. 'Thin -means the -Signal -Star has a weekly reader audrience of 10,850 people.
• No other media°or reaches so many people in the district at no small a cost.
a No other medium is read so thoroughly as the home -town paper.
• No other media in referrod to on so many repeated occaoioila as is the
home -town new apaper.
Time Threshii
nce Social Events 1n
es VV
Huron
QUICK CANADIAN QUIZ,
1. Boil in Cobourg, Ontario she
was a great stage comedienne.
Later she won an Academy
Award playing vOth GreTh Garbo
in the famous film AnnaChrc-tie.
Her real name was .Leila Koerber.
What was her stage name?
2. Does Canada's population in-
. crease annually by ,10 per cent,
five per cent, two and a half
per cent?
3. What famous annual horse race,
run at various times at London,
Hamilton and Toronto, was in-
augurated before Confederation?
4. The clothing industry ranks fiat
total number of employees. What
branch of manufacturing ranks
second?
5.0f the 65,000 Canadian busine s
firms liable to corporation tax,
how many show a profit and how
many suffer a loss on their year's
ol>erat ions?
ANSWERS: 5. ei the most recent
year of record, 26,000 firrns oper-
ated at a loss, 39,000 at a profit.
3. The Queen' ate, first run in
1859. 1. Mari •': *• ssler. 4° The
textile indust , ' hich employs
82,000 Canadians. 2. In recent
years Canada's population has in-
creased by aibout two and a half
mr.nufacturing in Canada in per cent annually.
BINGO
LEGION HALL
GODERICH
Saturday, August 31
JACKPOT OF $60.00 FOR FULL. HOUSE IN 56 CALLS.
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FIRST GAlivIE STARTS AT 8.30 PIE
Above is seen a. threshing
machine outfit of 1886
Note the steam traction
engine, hauling the water®
tank immediately -behind,
followed by the separator.
The second picture is that
of --teams of horses going
around in a circle and
providing power by which
, a separator was run.
MINIM
The- third picture shows
one of the earliest tractor
threshing machines. • It
was called the upright
type. Note the oxen at
the rear pulling the sep-
arator.
The fourth picture at the
bottiom shows the Water-
loo threshing machine. I•t
was the last type of
steam threshing outfit be-
fore gas came into use.
,R,g NINE
Ten its - It o Vo
V4ty is jut about Al
rvivIn0 ip f of an -other say
son. The eombin now
In operation make the
thre•sleng Beast -today
far eryy'oan the oldr days,.
Some yeas .age .
threshing bee on a lluroil
Countyfarm was r'ea, ll, y
a sec al anent. Neighbor$
for miles 'round eame to
a fain to assist in the
threshing. They did it all,
. for free end, in turn, the
farmer •asaistc,d wouuld .go
to the farms from where
help came to assist in his
threshing. •
The womenfolk;- too,
carne r.ud helped ,an pre-
paring mounds of food for
the hungry. threshers. It
was just one, big, ham
event and marled. a -pic-
turesque era in the agri-
cultural life of Huron
County and, indeed; of the
whole country.
The pictures here will
recall to 'old timers many
happy days at threshing
bees ea the County and of
the tremendous amount of
work done by many men
in a short time. The pic-
tures reproduced are from,
a collection of Harold S.
Turner, Customs Officer,
at Goderich, who has many
interesting pictures o f
e threshing equipment of
bygone days.
Snyder Re -union
Held"- At Stratford
The descendants of Jesse and
Mary Snyder met on Sunday at the
Stratford Park with 12 families re-
presenting four generations, com-
ing from Aylmer, Brantford, Bur-
ford, Clinton, Kitchener, Londes-
boro, Lc, idon, Woodstock and
$imcoe.
Mr. Norman Snyder, of Wood-
stock, the only living direct de-
scendant, said the grace before
the meal. Mr. Ralph Henderson,
president of the reunion, conducted
the election of officers for 1958 as
follows: Honorary president, Nor-
man Snyder; president, Irvine Teb-
butt; vice-president, Mrs. Buster
Kimball; secretary-treasurer,---li r4
Ken Hulley; assistant secretary,
Mrs. Carman Tebbutt; entertain-
ment committee, Mrs. Herb Steph-
ens and Ralph Henderson; food
committee, Mrs. Eric Howes and
Carl Finnigan.
Contests were conducted by Mrs.
Frank Wright and Mrs. Walter
Wallis. Prizes won were: for "old-
est," Norman Snyder; "youngest,"
his twin granddaughters, Brenda
and Barbara Atkinson. The child-
ren enjoyed a peanut scnamble and
guessing games were won by Susan
Pippin and Mrs. Kimball.
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MacLAREN'S STUDIO PHOTOS
ON EXHIBITION AT LONDON
The Waverley Guild of The
Shute Institute, London, is sp-orl-
soring an exhibit of 85 photos 'of
MacLaren's.Studio, Goderich. These
photographs will be c+i display at
The Shute Institute, 10 Grand
Avenue, London, from September
4 to 30, inclusive, every Monday
and Wedne: Way evening from 7.30
to 9 o'clock.
V_ -- - _ n- -
"Why did you assault this police
officer?" the judge asked young
Tom.
"Well, jedge," Torn replied, "I
was in a phone booth innocently
conversing with my girl when this
bohunk opo us the door and heaves
me out of the booth."
"And that incensed you?"
"Yes, sir," Tom replied, "but
what really made me sore was
when he reached in for my girl
and heaved her out, too!"
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