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The Seaforth News, 1934-02-22, Page 2PAGE TWO, HURON NEWS Costs of Educations"— the secret- ary of the Clinton Collegiate institute iBoard opened a stew minute book: with the inaugural meeting. last week, the last meting, that of January, till- ing up the o4a1 one. Che hist entry in the ehl book dated Aug.20th, 11883. The meribe'r: of tit.. hoard :1t that time were: lame, Sowt, rl was eliairna:rn: tl r,rc Po -ter, wh., wa. secrct:uv; iDr. Shaw \V. N. .Liming, H. I'ht t 'tee!, \\ I e k,eot :11111 1), A. Forrcster,I`:, Shan is a -neuter of the hoard ti :In pr ret time, al- th u0't n !its not 'ern, 1 oalanuoas mein r. he, Mr SC011 gild\lr, llan- nin--, bei' 0 tli, only ones nu•riving of the ',,,:u-.1 of that thy. The personnel of the ..:1rd was char -tel slightly the fdlh,yyin iter, 1"M, made up as 100,, Jaime. lice,,,, chairman; IM. 1'.::er, sea•rtary: 11. I'lam,tcel, W. talc -.n. 0410 Cooper, l), A. For - re -ter :tint ;J hn Ransford. Just by war ol :„nirast as to the ro-t of edtt- ca:ir-n syr might ennipare the expend- itures of thirty-six pears ago with those of today. 1 1.848 the whole stain of receipt w a So333 and the year finished Wittl :t hal::anee of $372. In 10. the total ,ne ate amounted to ti :4 `351 11, Pills Moluded 0 balance front the previous )ear .f 82,408.32. ')'he Ind .ince left a: the turd of 1n33 was 141,505.62. Everything. bought or hired e t -t t ute't ;1 r1' in 1413d than in oxam. costs, r retak ng, insurance ay.'.then, there are sinking fund tet,en,es, ete, One of the expen- diturc• which does not seem to have Mere e,ed i'lt salary of the secret- ary. -\s far 'owl: a: the record,: go the s, erettry scemca to get a salary of Sion, list year ltw.ts cut to *ort). The miat,t ice'. this official made lyes 1n not hat into his .:dart ntereascd during the bosun year, then 0 eat would. nett harp 11 i ter') 50 mirth, 1 X1enaitures were eu to quite an extent last year and the '+Mutt at the end of the yeal't nden ell Star) was much ,nt:t: cr around $1.f410 Bu•' :\lt isnotyet quiet on the Bayfield. front. Mrs. 'fern Bailey, lone woman councillor, and John Pease, rejected applicant for the position of village constable, were 0 wash with the Star this week and explained their posi- tions with reference to the exciting meeting of the village fathers and mothers on Fobrtaary 5th. Mr. Pease states that wbeu the meeting opened up at 7,30 p. m, the first business taken up was that of opening the sealed tenders of himself and Geo. Little for the position of vil- lage constable. There was silence for a moment \•',ten Mrs, Bailey rose and nominat- ed iohn Pease for the position. Mur- doch Doss countered by nominating Geo Little. This was seconded by C,unciilor Huston, Mr, Pease explants that the origin- al story „as astray in that he could not be discharge from a position which he didnot hold, An alter:a:ion then arose between \luri.:0 0e >.1f -elected chairman of t'ie , ut: .. an 1 Mr. John Cant- er.,n. chairman of the school board Mr. Cameron Was petitioning the \\ tr a c. -,r rt heirt k ,,u l for the use of the old cattle ..- 1L :,c.tt'.ie store,' •,aa '1 behind the school as a play- aa.1 : r the children. This has been used before. Mlr. Cameron became so nett oat heated in his remarks when 'te was r i e' out of order by the chairman. THE SEAFORTH NEWS. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1934 Outstanding Quality 707 Fresh from N L ae Gardens !light they go to bed, the small ones 'at time to slip ,out and attend to several ""' ! 8 p.m., and rise, in winter, not later small 'chores that were waiting. The than six o'clock. In summer nolbody way they stood, the way they spoke can sleep after five, with all the noise to their 43 -year-old father, was old - of twenty'one people getting ready for the day's work, "How about family, tights?" I ask- ed anxiou's'ly, surveying this great •oontful of children and thinking of the riot my two entail sons can and do ntalce, The Masse rattily 4'1'1 looked puz zled. Thcy did riot know what family li hrs inc. As the interviewed; the sublime odor of bread baking told of an oven fu11 of fat sound loaves, and Marie, 1116, kept getting up •quietly and go- ing to the stove to tend it. "You bake every clay?" I inquired. "Oh, some days," confessed Mrs. ietaoae, "when I know ,I won't have aux qpportunity the following day I bake a double lot. I did not bake yes- terday, for example. Instead I tnatle those dresses for the twins." .Antoinette and Juliette stood forth in all the glory of beautifully made little dresses of material bought in Zurich. Just it couple of dresses tossed off in a few spare hours while Marie minded four-month Peter and Yvonne' watched over baby Priscillc, toddling happily around the floor with a small baking powder tin for a toy. They have a car. A twenty-one pas- senger sedan. Of course the tn'oct it will .hold is eleven. "I vou'ld not have the car," said James Masse, 'except to go to church. It is three and a half miles up to church, and where there are two masses on a Sunday we can all go. Il3ut usually there is only on'e. So ele- ven of us get in." The •older boys do not drive the car et all What motoring they want they can get on the tractor, When we ar- rived at the lfasse farm the two sen- ior sons at home, Anthony and .Rich- ard, were just home on the tractor from sawing woad with it for a neigh- bor, "If they want to go out for the ev-, ening, they drive one of the buggies," I said the father. "But you cart see it i would take a lot of buggies to take i ns to church, That is why we have the car." 'Are you chaps going ,to the city sooner or later?" I asked. The cities are—London, ?7 miles away, and De- troit, down the Lake Huron shore, a hundred miles. "Not likely," said Richard, "I would like to see a pro hockey game. But as for the city, I don't care for it. Von take a city job: now here, on the farm, we work, we are happy, we can go to bed when we like, if we are not feeling up to n uch, we can lay off. Can you do that in the city?" There was no argument there. Oar leading questions about life and its ,plans and meanings fell with a dull thud when we talked to Anthony and Richard, because like an implac- able "rock is implanted in the minds and hearts of these grown Wren an old-fashioned faith 0 something, the Family, the land, the church's teach - Ingo in this French Settlement along the Huron shore, Anthony and Rich- ard came uneasily from the great barn where they had been doing an engine job on the tractor. Even while the chatted in the farm hoose, they had phut, they renewed their marriage vietred stated that he mainly wanted of relief. ,Brit not so the Masse fani- ow• of flit). years ago, and 01igh' to have the matter settled and for - \lass was sung by Rev. Father Pa- gotten, Ile had voted for Ross' as ,tuette, :lite choir rendered beautiful- chairman and for Mrs, Bailey as sec - :y La Hacttc's Mass for the occasion, ( retary but afterward, discovered that Mr. and Mrs. Morrison were star- a police village of leas than 500 popu- ricd in 'feeslvater to 1884 by Rev, Fa -1 kation has to right to a secretary, He. titer Corcoran. They Settled first on admitted that Mrs. Bailey's story was the farm then owned by 11re. lohn-1 pretty nearly right except that a lot sou, the next farm east of tehere they Was loft out. ntnv reside. Living there two years Chairman Ross over the phone stat - they moved to \\'awanosdt, residing, ed that there was a great deal to say there till they moved to the 6th of about the matter. lie thought that T trnher•y in 1'A311J. 'Po them were) Mrs Haile • was encouraged by i 1, I � being _ horn eight children, font daughters someone else to snake trouble. \\`hen and four sorts, The eldest girl, .Marg- he arrived at the meeting on the night ares, died fifteen years ago; (liae) of February 5th, there was a crowd Mrs. John 11ac1 illan, 1 :1(n,w; of people present where ususally there (Anne) Mrs, 1. P. Lyons, Chicago; I Otis practically no one, . (Catharine) 31rs. Cletus Rettinger. The chairman of the School Board \\'ins*tam; \loysius, Grand Valley: Atarted to speak and could not Angus, John and Eraet, at home. be controlled. The chairman asked 31re, Morrison i still in good health, the two constables, Pease and the new and doing her own work, despite the appointee, Little, to make the Aced - Fact that she suffered a stroke some iug gentleman maintain order but five year. ago. lir. Morrison, although they would not do it for hint. in failing health for the past year, is Ole utauaged to get through most still quite active, of the business in spite of the inter- ruptions and was reading motions when he came to one by Mrs. Bailey BAYFIELD MATTERS nominating herself as secretary. He announced that he would not read it 'letter ,,, '0 drawing interest a. even two an 1 a half per cent than Pay- ing it at seven or eight.—Clinton :Ness -Record. Late Thomas McGillicuddy.— Tho- mas Xlciiiliicnddy died in Toronto ia:t week 1,410V\ a brief illness. I'•.+rtt i, Ire'attd, ire tante to Halifax with his parents as an Infant. His father etas in the imperial army and the family later roved to Kingston. atvi .,n t'lt f.ttacr'- discharge. settled 111 tiu:'p'.t, 1•h ones learned the print- ing trade, and with his brother. the late Dan, 11,Gi11=cuddy, was editor of the l 111: to Post and t tteriih Stg- ra:. 1.1tor 1.1the was engaged in the de- •tir:: em of .agriculture at Toronto a, .a c k, a'd for some time has been 'ting retired. He w is one+• the beat ke..0 lecturers and church speakers in r r::•nto. The funeral was held. on 1':,:.". , 1i afternoon from his Lie re - i icier, Bartlett avenu:, Toronto. 11 n t. 1-... •I'ororto, and Rev. leo. G. McGillicuddy of Beacheille, are sorts and lire G. Holmes of Lind- say. is it daughter. A Narrow Escape for Truckers.— \kr. .\ 1 ;Ind n kid- w.it t i hal n narrow- escape r ver, Ned. turned the truck , Cu-., •1tJ le 11 to avoid the 'e'ar, 'rite ::el bumper the truck wrapped a ..r ' t large e the ra i s:o and 1 De:lin,ng. to he silenced. c Constable suging bglag driven back andthe • I'e e was a.' e' to speak to h n and 1't The o '•:spans es a,ed1 7tave hito t y the rung of the 01t:tont eri: s injury.. Eight of set- chair. - . Mrs. Bailey decided: it seems. to become secretary of the Council. and nominated herself accordingly .t. the e llts,tion. In this case she was 0ec- ied -0e Sam ilust.m. She passed 'ter motion form over t+ the chair- man asking hint to read it to the meet- ing. This he refused to do so she read it herself. She then appealed to tine interested audience to back her t:? 0 her action, This, Mrs. Bailey ,3Y5, they did with enthusiasm 0o she proceeded to read the minutes as secretary. Chairman Ross, however, w•as no: t:cepting the riding of spectators and entande,l that she surrender the Boiler Repaired.— The large steamI minutes to him, This was met with a let refusal so ire proceeded- to at - 'erupt t' wrest the• papers from her Y:,-•0•7. :\ brisk' 'eene then ensued, of cchairman chasing, :he doughty • ,' y around the room, accotn- !s11e'1 1,y shout: of encouragement 'r,,in her sap"evrters, She managed to 'cc , the ,1ocn:nt':te and the chairman t. r s sly incensed, left the meeting Mr,. Bailey to bring,to a close as bet sloe might. So she. went through 'he three stages of councillor, secret- try tela chairman all in one evening: \steed what ,he trouble was all n'p tt basically, the fighting lady ex- ola,ned briefly that there was a cligue in charge- o, things in •Bayfield and 'hey had been running things to suit •-hentselves for a long time. She in - ...ends to see to it that their reign ends right noiv. • "I'n the first person who ever •stood tip to them." she said. "They have. got away with. a :lot but they won't from now nn." Councillor ••Huston ' when 0:10:t t..s uvere thrown out on the a; ground and SOIlleWilat Stunneki. They were dr,t... i.'.tet 1 nearby barn and later taken by another creek to Stratford. Former Exeter Resident Passes.—.\n- ciretr Lake, : ntittea: in the insur- ance sines_ \\,... ;peg for nt;try years. ?tied in \•earser, B. C. He was 80 year? of age and !Ltd boon in tae accident insurance b4'i1i0,, In Winiiii,eg for 50 -years before moving •o \•an:.,aver, on itis retirement five years ago. The late Mr. Lake was a resident of Exeter in -the early days. h.tiler of J:. Boniface R. C. Church 10 L:tri:h had to be taken out and taken to the :ity for repairs, and the na "'tans , the parish ex 'erienced '111, -.t,,. CI; church for nor - :e Lt., ta-o Sundays. _\ rather man—al t ..::•t: .stirred, as . when 1 ': tire is . ,,. e.1 out and no heat re- tl:urt.! for t. : day,, the water in the -.ea•n hyiler is let back into a re-. try, r we::: to prevent freezing in the ;p. 'iie• On this particular time the v that:ets this. water hack into the te!! had some ice formed -i" it. which ,,:d 't allow 11 to close properly, and when the furnace was heated tip this ice :.cawed out and let the water back into the well, and with a big fire on it did considerable damage to the b.iler, Ptl ich Herald. . Celebrate Golden Wedding at Wing ham - .\ very unusual event took lace when Mfi•. and Mrs. John Mor- rison celebrated in a quiet way their (;olden Wedding Anniversary. On Monday. February lath, at nine a.m., in the. Sacred Heart Church, Wing - inter - that one hecause it was illegal to ap- point a secretary in a police - tillage of leas than 500 population, lire. 'Bliley •refused to accept his ruling and made a jump for the .motion paper. A scuffle ensued in which he struggled to guard the official docu- mcnts of the municipality, but Mrs.. Bailey, encouraged by the onlookers, - fought hard and with the help of Constable Pease, who seized and held the chairman, site was able to get some of them, .She then read the nomination her- self and put the question, •Councillor Huston voting for her. He, tried again t, get the papers back but could not capture thein AO left the Meeting in _disgust. lie further explained that Mfrs. Bailey still has some documents and orders in spite of the fact that he :ante to Goderich and got the firm of Hay and Hays to write to Mrs. Bail- ey stating that she could not ant as ily. They regard those blank spaces in their remarkable score street with regret. dlecause they love their chil- dren, they are proud of their extra- ordinary family, full of 'health . and happiness And in their kindly and serene Catholic faith they are grate- ful to 'God for having blessed them with such bounty, "How do you like having so great a family?" I asked liars, Masse, who held her newest infant in her arms, while her sixth child, Marie, a strong, big girt of lib years, tended the oven tilled with browning bread, "It is not a question of liking," ,said Mrs. Masse, "l ant thankful to be strong enough to give life to all these little ones," 'And there, in the farmhouse living and dining roost, which seemed to inc like a schoolroom at recess, fill- ed with more than a dozen tittle chil- dren. leaning' on the tables with chins cupped in .hands, and gtdetly .regard- iug the curiosity, of two newspaper- men in their ]tomes with notebooks. and cameras, I was halted in m3' mind by .0 most curious sense of staving met ail this before. And after a mo- ment I remembered: only a couple kof nights precious I had seen the mo- tion picture, "Little Women," and the old-ft'sltioned, long departed, tender atmosphere of home that pervaded that intensely- sentimental .drama was here, in the hone of James lfasse, a living fact. Mrs. Masse bakes tread every day. Usually six or nine loaves. She does a family washing twice a week. She churns once a week, 25 pounds of butter. • A .100 -pound bag of flour is bought each Saturday. Of the herd of 11 cows owned by the Masses, six are reserved to pro- tide milk and cream for the fancily. They have. at the moment, i18 pigs, They kill a 200 -pound pig every two weeks entirely for home use. As you can see, 018 pigs on hand is not enough, "But," saidJamesMasse, "more are expected 1" They have twelve horses and a tractor to work the 380 acres of rent- ed farm which is required to support the family of 211 souls. Maurice, the oldest son, and Flor- ence. the oldest girl, 22 and 21 years of age, were both married last No- ve:nher. They 'live within shouting distance of the modest frame farm- house, on the fiat level fields along Lake Heron, which la the headquar- ters of this numerous family, "You own ne land?" I asked. -How can I afford land asked it t:es Masse. "My children have tante al t ,a igSt it has kept 1110 on .e run to provide food and clothing for them. I find it better t, rent land. I started with nothing.Now t net c I am with nineteen children, all blessed with health. I would rather have stns and daughters than land." They do alt their shopping in Zur- ich. and the boot and shoe trade of Zurich is kept busy. Dr. Archie llc- Kinuon of Zurich has officiated at all but one of the births in the Masse family. They do not have the doctor secretary under the law, She was ad- vised to return tttent as site had oh- :crned tient by ,force, Mr. Ross explained further that Ceenciltt tr Bailey is heddittg up the business of the rfiiatte as she has ord- er forms for the payment of accounts which are overdue, The Chairman has had a lot of ex- perience in the municipal field. He states that the chairman of a police tillage is, correctly speaking, all in- specting, ting, trustee. 'whose duty it is tr act as secretary and who may he paid a salary or eompensation of $10.00 per year. Asked when tite next meeting was likely to be he stated that he did not know, and would not know- until the papers had been returned by Mrs. Bailey, in the meantime the village of Bay field has not had sn much excitement in a long. long time. The Population s keyed up awaiting the next m.occ, \\'ha will stake it is not known b';t 'very'one will be at the next meeting. o sec the outcome. I for much else. Three years ago they Outsiders, too. state that none of had the scarlet fever. he council have told the whole story But nobody_ suffered," said Mrs. tf the last meeting but enough has 'teen given to indicate that it was a" .Hoch entking event in the history ,v -he community. FAMILY OF 21. (The foliowinv, are excerpts from, in article in the Toronto Sia \F'eekly,)t Two cradles and two hi;oa chair= are an essential part of the hoose fur- nishirgs of the ':o:ne . Tante. Mass,. "1 a farm two utile. south it St. Jos phwhich is on the -Lake Her,," pore, a short run down from God erich, In the family of Jantes and Mabel Charette :Meese. who Ire 43 and 4' cars of age, here are nineteen ta,1• '.ea, alt alive, from 22 years of age 1. 4 months. They are as follows: Maurice, 22: Florence, 20 Anthony. 20; Richard 19; Teres 17; "Marie, 4161 Yvonne; 15; Alphonse '13; Joan, if2; Cecile. :10; Louis, 9; ;Ivan, 8; Antoinette and Juliette, 7 Archie, 6; Leo, 5; Mich- ael, 3; ,Pristine, 2, and Peter, 4 months. In reading the above table,: dear reader, there are three or four spots where you involuntarily heaved a sigh Masse. "In fact, we moved into this 'resent farm -house during the scarlet ever. 'Four of them had it. \\'e car- -fed them nn a mattress into the sleigh and brought them here. They fashioned. They stood ,straight, like men. They spoke politely. Like sons, A strange, arresting thing, the bear - mg of these two young nten, I had got, used, In recent years, to a certain. ,slinking grace, a sort of sve'ltness or limpness, in y''ou-ug sten. I' had for- gotten about fhis thtog that Anthony anti Richard Masse were disp'laying. "How did you French -.Canadians conte here?" I asked, "We have been here almost' a hun- dred years,' explained James Masse, "This is called the French .Settle- ment, Lt is six utiles long, on the 'Huron shore. In 18116 the Canadian government opened up what they 'call ed the Huron tract, and a settlement of us c'aute from Quebec. I'1 was my great-grandfather who carte here. It was a great time of hardship, by the accounts -they have left. Of great suf- fering. Boats brought them to Hata- i'lton, and they walked through the ,bush from Hamilton to Lake ;Huron, They had only what they could carry. .Mostly they were extremely poor, and to add a little horror to ale thing, the goverennent, so busy •with an over- flow of immigrants in answer to their call for settler's, 'forgot about them, down here on the shore, One winter our fathers and mothers ate roots and wild vegetables. For the first couple of years they lived on wild game and in poor little shacks: But here we are,' 'Here they are, for truth, twenty-one of them, J<an?es lMasse's fancily had eleven, and .Mabel Charette Masse's fatni•ly had fourteen children. "We are accustomed to large families," said they, James Masse was left an orphan at eleven, and lie• has been working ever since. The name Masse is pronounced in the French .Settlement as Boss. They are descendants of Pierre Masse, who carne from France and was married in Quebec City in the year d)344 (Charles the First was reigning in England Jor with nary a thought of losing his cur-( ly head!) Pierre Masse was married in the little city of ,Quebec to Marie 'Pine! de la Chenaie, And Mrs. Masse comes down front the •line of Etienne Charette, born in Poictiers, France, and married in the city of Quebec in 41670 to Catherine Bisset their little son became Sier de Lauzon; otte of the seigneurs of that new world that was old Quebec, "\Vho owns the lance you rent?" I asked James Masse. "An English syndicate," he replied, "Some sort of land holding company in England." 'Little did Pierre -Masse or the Sieur de Lauzon ever dream, as they stood before the altar in old 'Quebec, t once on a day their children, centuries later, would be renting land from an English syndicate, and rearing famil- ies of nineteen souls on the shores of the then unknown, unexplored inland sea of Huronia, where the very land they nota work was sanctified by the feet of Jean de Breboeuf,, the Jesuit, who trod the trail iron the Georgian Bay to the French community at De- troit, across the acres James Masse tills, They sneak French in the Masse were none the worse." And they look it. Seven of them :arae trooping home from school, .chile we were there to join the circle If interested youngsters around the living room. "If 0 is a picture you wanted," said Mr. Mase, "you should have come/ here its the summer when we are hoeing the beans. It would snake n fine picture to see the whole lot of its in a field hoeing beans!" 'From the toddlers up, they all help, joyfully. The big girls help with the babies, They- "mind" the house. They. prepare the meals, tt'atch the baking, 1 "The little 'boys go for the cows," said James Masse, "pile the turnip,, fetch and carry. As we have no radio or any other entertainment :here might even be a little jealousy over. who shall, do the chores. There are not really enough chores to go around, so chores are a prize," Only two of the the nineteen Have ever seen a movie. There is ro electrie tight in the Masse home. By iatnp{ WHEN you suddenly realize it's her birthday a .. and you can't tell her you forgot it and you're Hes apart • Get to a t'p4r�3i'4: "dl�.1)C fL ty r w y.7 LongiI%fi`rWWi:511d Ycliffqwill make both you happy. Por forgetful h tttbandn, and anybody else, the telephone to always ready. A Long Distance call now is as simple and easy as talking across the street. Look in the front of your directory and see how low the rates are -100 miles or so for as little as 30 cents.