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The Huron Expositor, 1945-01-19, Page 2'7"s's•S",ISS'S'ss,r ,R;•7:77,77.77.7,77:47:771,77 • SisissTs'? • ,•••• 4• SS'''SsSS:SS 91) a eT" elaean FORM, Friday January 19th A Long Suffering Public We resume that the person or mpany that rim's- the bus line be- een—StratIord and Goclerich is operating on a fran.ehise with. the overnment, otherwise they would 'not be permitted to charge bus fares fr transpbrting the general public. It is likewise reasonable to pre- sume that the franchite, under which this line operates, contains some clauses intended to. protect the rights of the people who use this means of transportation. However, it would appear that this franchise is just a one-way affair in which the public has no rights whatsoever, and the consideration given, to it is eve -11 less than that. The fares this company charge are comparable to- those charged by the ' C.N.R; which 'paralells its run, but, the accommodation with which the bus' line provides its passengers is lacking in every respect. As far as Seaforth is concerned, there is no bus depot where people can'get informa- tion as to the bus schedules. And what is still more important, no place where prospective. passengers: can waitlor-bus- arrivals: With train travel limited and even discouraged, the busses on this Strat- • ford-Goderich line have been crowd- ed for months. And during those months it has been a common sight, particularly on a Sunday, to see fif- • teen or twenty people, including.chil- •„dren, standing on the corner of Main • Street in zero weather, or in' the • doorwaysof stores, waiting for a bus that may; or may not, appear within an hour. , The same thing happens every day of the week. And while storekeep- • ers in the vicinity of the bus stop • have been hosp4able and patient, the operators of this bus line have a colossal nerve to expect them to pro- -. .vide free light, heat and information • while the regular customers of these stores are crowded out and business is disrupted by a would-be travelling public. • There is another angle too, to the • question of accommodation. Truck drivers are prohibited from carrying • passengers, but the accommodation • which a truck cab would provide, would be readily. acceptable compar- ed to that provided on some of the busses on this line. Recently a bus that had broken down or become stranded, was left for several day • standing well out from the .curb on the highway at the Main Street in- tersection. So far out, and so near the corner in fact, that it was a dis- ' "Una menace to traffiic. That is • not an unusual occurrence either, Stranded or relay busses are fre- • gently left in the same or similar ' positions, and the Company seems to think that the highways were built and maintained for their sole accom- inodation. But that is not true, and it is time the bus company was given to under- •'• stand this. The town and the public • have been long suffering, but it is time that some authority brought the Mit company down to earth. • Township Snow Plowing A Tuckersmith ratepayer has written a letter to The Expositor, which - appears elsewhere in this is- - sue of the paper. In it the ratepayer has some caustic things to say about • the way work of clearing the township roads of snow is being car- • ried out. Or, speaking more accur- ately, perhaps we should say, the Manner in which many of the roads are left unplowed. His contention, is, of courie, that if all the ratepayers are taxed to pay for snowplowing, then all the roads the township, and not just a few, hould 4 kept open. Arid, we think, ef0 Y1PW is reasonable. - e said hit eek, to ao. UI necessitate' purchasing or '-sufficient,, giZe. .........41•Fgrol PQM*. ‘ e Other authoritieshave. pur- chased snowplowstrucks them.to operate ,The,plow part ls all.right and the money spent on it a good qapital investment, But the mothre.Power to drive it is something else again, truck, even the larger ones,o have t They are few, if any, private trucks in any township of sufficient weight. and power to drive , a plow through the snow on township roads, particularly during a winter like the present. Po provide sufficient weight to holcl it down, the average be loaded down to or above their capacity, consequently ' there is not enough power to haul the• truck and push the plow at the same time. With a light or medium snow fall, this equipment 'wilt, work, but when it encounters deep ,snow, or heavily drifted roads, it has to be forced to capacity for long stretches, and as there is always: a limit beyond which a machine can not be forced, the re- sult is something gives. And that something is not the snowbank, but some part of the mechanism of the truck. This necessitates a delay for re- pairs, during which the weather man whose power is unlimited, works his on sweet will, with the result that before the truck is in operation again, all roads are more or lest com- pletely blocked. Consequently the townships will have to make one of two decisions— either to go back to the horse -and - cutter clay and leave the roads alone in winter, or spend .enough money to purchase equipment with sufficient weight and power, not only to keep the roads open, but to keep the snow pushed back well beyond the shoul- ders of the roads. Each method has a strong body of supporters, but it does not take a • great deal of foresight to see which side will win the decision.- The pro- vincial highways and county roads will always be kept, open for motor traffic the year round. The people on or adjacent to these roads will, con- sequently, have an advantage over others less advantageously situated, while the latter will be taxed- just as much, as the former to provide this • acemmnodation:• Under these circumstances there willrise a very insistent demand that all be treated alike, and town- • ships will have to provide snowplow- ing equipment of their own that will serve all the people. The initial ex- pense will be heavy, but it is equip- ment that can be used all the year round on the roads, and .not just serve the purpose of providing a winter convenience. IP , Not Improving Apparently Miss Agnes Macphail's disposition; not always one of the sweetest,. is not improving with the years. • Recently at North Bay, where she • was billed to speak in an auditorium with a seating capacity of nearly a thousand, and only a handful turned out to greet her, she wa,.s so provok- • ed that she made use of some caustic remarks, among them this,: "I ani getting to a point where I am not very much interested in using my time and talents to talk to empty • seats." • Quite some years ago Miss Mac- phail lost her temper on a platform in Seaforth, and because The Expos- • itor commented on the fact at the time, We were favored with a.per- sonal letter of hot rebuke. This al- so drew comment in this paper, and was followed by a second and even • hotter letter. But after a second comment the feud died out, and we haven't heard from,Miss Macphail since. It is evident, however, that the • years have not done much to improve the lady's temper, or to reduce in any way the estimate she holds of her . own importance. Respect For Mr. King (Troia the Montrea,1 Star) It is characteristic of our political, life, as it Is of Britaillia, front whose traditions 'we derive SO 'Mani 01 our own, -that mon OSA differ sharply • fatlakitieS yet rental:* the heat. of friends in?' life oirtaitle that spliert'. So it !SAO Mr. 'king Ands, 'duteidolfile parfy as well as itt it, a heat denten and *004 who hold liim in the Whitt tifiAti itt3111,times agrecingwlth gita.,1,eat this , ntY4Ye. yeara.ago, , •••1„ • 1J4 Bork „.. 1 • Jack Baker Is 1;intee, lie wafi.4Y3' prettyrnuch:",‘,•:,10asiP,'"theiti1O,.caiPe ' ' • be charged'01/1 fore `Chriatosaa, and Ihs spent the 11'0144 come home . iMi... 444: the: WifS. have SOsin,;040qgc OA* • .., ,Pr°147.48#41F , ' force , just .04,4.,)** #4ivgv,4.:?.pily ,(0.40,":,:vire: .:, e sitor - S ' Mr, W. B,S.O From ThHuron Expo.OliSaiNt., iS,. who bas : AanuarY,A3. ipzo daysiith his folks. 94 the 41,r4 ' Tbs3. Paliia the only two people who treat N Baker place is 011, OM Sideroad. We've ed-Sne aiS, , it"'11,4Mjtifit theawe aa, residing in Mir. :Ed.• yo,litim.w0:roOertyt....•. MI. the '0 wigee. jolly §lei0 loads and a aum- . known -the Halters a.g.:. and ' 04, for When -1 -went 0-o74." '''. '' ,i., ': . . a„, i;), Letava.,:;'.0.70910.11g OU ,Yinder ,114)447,4 :, has Pl4r4413_'4 Mr . *tr, of 'cater loads, ,in all at,out 70 Years, blat, nearer, neighliosed. very' , :,,x14014,trpotomp.:01,,w,i,..43911,e, went,' ':treet: StOd ,las** JA,:,P9,5000,04.-4 lsoOle, of the 5th line of Morris; as- much with 1:theinsjeer ,worked at rights 0044 and 'OAffain'ed. The ' Ipekt Blyth ASandard: , sienahled at the home, of ,Mr, and Ma. Lazy Meadows for a couple of months 4e,:, Am.$. Ioff ,,the;40.4 , they spe sbim, L. E. Cardiff on Friday evelling, One, Year and Ohne then he OP* ug": 4141 t/'0 t,deigh, and the, whole faMil' IS 0,044.loOls'Arrivel Back -•. ssisiatversary servicein-conn(.ction ed to drop ifti for a Sunday, afterneon as in it. He wanted OW; , ,,,, , .. s: • ik ' d tos " and us., proms sesisssisss s ..t.wIt,14,shSetid TohnoMsuaian!:0•7:raltrticth liv)iS97,f);(it.,.1 ,chati. . He's a nice, • boy a1- after he, .in, 'Abe straw in the toic under. the "4' l'''' ''-'477.7•77' °I'll'''' , . ., „ , ,.. , „ , , . went overseas we sent 'tins 4-.'lew `bliffalOrOba''The-f(Milly"insistedi-that fanillY spent si;Ilailds4r/Vag-ant4twit4 '. - - , relatives in. 'Stapler., Mr.. Tyreman London, preached. On McindaY *gin used to get very interestingletters in ed atones. at his feet.a erable Archdeacon Richardson. of s letters and an occasional packagesWe. he sit UP "ou the' seat with the heat- eabrought back to Blyth witla him .,., clock which had been 'purchased las a excellent dinner was served" fol- reply. • . When they got home they wouldn't Year's and suggested that he drop in the team away. They had the good Blyth 56 years ago. It , was larehAtis. ees', Ipssed by a recital. The program in - I sawlina in town just nefore New' let hills go to 'the barn to help put d at thbacal pewelerY she") of that eluded organ solos by Mrs. 3, ix 9"Connell and miss • Kerner; vocal for a chat. He looked, kind of tired spring mattress off the sPare bed on time. ' Mr. Tyreman wound the clock, solos by Mrs. J. R. Atchibald; Mrs. J.: and drawn, and Mrs. Phil thought he his bed. They had roast chicken .the, and it started right 4;ff'-'0,041 is IF,OPPInk, G. ,Mullen, Miss Merner, and Messrs. seelned lustsa, "Fres bit ,nervouss Last next day - and his Plate vras loade g000 time. Inekientally Mr. - and- Mrso, and two duets by Mr. and 111ra. .1, G. ing arouod,thekitchen-:and I was oz- they :hasl aswhite tablecloth. on, when tims ofsthe storm and were unnble to' Tyrepaan and family weir) also vic- inities Stewart and 'Walter 'Bateman, Suladay "afternoon Mrs. Phll tvai,wOrk- with white meat. Whet 'was More, Mullen. Mr. Ruisell Best has 'passed his knock on the 'back door. Sure. enough ways ate off a table covered with oil- return home until the weeksiert has- • ing on the Simla when we heard a he knew perfectly well' that they al - third -year Christmas' statanas s at , o.!4.- ,ic 0. ;,,e ing to come by way of Tormato, a dia.* eat • . „arily stbe trip by direct route is co* s tance of nearly 260 miles,When ordits awes syoudg Baker. cloth, except when company was ores. were treating him like comPany, The ered in about 90 miles. They had tbe Misfortune to run into a trailer oli ' Jack was worried because they 'rest 'of the •folka tiptoed around , hi ;,the road; but. ma one wa,s hurt, ail, the morning' so as to not wake lalm not much damage resulted. --s- BlYth. , ki up, when he wanted to get •back into Standard. goode Hall; Toronto, taking first class Ho. didn't say very much and we honors.• didn't press him to talk. It seemed Taro rinks of curlers composed of to me as if he wanted some Place to -1% S. Smith, Ross Sproat, T. Broderick rt ,of hide. He stayed. for supper G. Bethupe "(akin), and 0;, • D.' iaiia afterwards he came down and *igh, Jake Sproat, Keith McLean helped me with the chores. I could , Sand R. E. Bright (skip) were in Strat- tell he wanted to talk, so after put - ford on Tuesday. ting down the hay for tbe morning I Mr. Charles Clark, of town, has ac - sat down on a half bag of chop in eented a position in Stratford. the passageway and he jumped up on •The creamery at Dashwood is un- the oat bin. • dergoing alterations” and will be ready He didn't lose any time at all, but for operation by Feb. lst. • said right. off, "Do you think I've Messrs. Gottleib, Oestricher and T. Klumpp, of Dashwood, have their houses about ready to move into. Mr. Harry Mnchley, of the Guelph Agricultural College, spent a few days at his home here. The many friends of Mr. G. M. Chesney, Goderich $t, who has been seriously ill, will be pleased to learn that be is showing slight signs of im- provement. • A very interesting game of hockey was played here on Tuesday evening between Mitchell and the Seaforth Nays when they defeated the "visitors 5-0; The Seaforth lie -up was as fol- lows: :Goal, McGeoeh; defence, D. -Reid anti O. Dick; right wing, 3. Sills; left wing, Reg. Reid; centre, Dave Reid; referee, "Toad" Ed- munds..Stratford. Dr. Cat, a veterinary, is locating in Dashwood. He is a returned sol dier and comes highly recommended • From The Hinson Expositor Sanuary 25, 1895 ViTilliam Willis, of Dimirwood, drew •a load of logs, amounting up to 2300 feet, to the sawmill a few days ago. ' The 33rd Battalion Band held meeting in its room on Thursday eve ning when the following officers were elected: President, W. McLeod; vice- president, W. Freeman; secretary, T Murray; treasurer, J. A. Anderson; managing eommittee; $. Watson, F Franks and T. CampbelL :..1 On Friday last an immense stock of timber was seen passing down Main St. It was taken from one of the farms of Mr. S. Dickson, postmaster It was 32 feet' long and measured 2 feet 8 inches square. It was soft elm and grown in McKillop. A Chinese laundry has been start ed in town where the 0:P.R. telegraph office was formerly located. The boys say that this Chinese wears•highbeel ed shoes and smokes cigarettes. Ross Baker and company, of Blake were again successful in capturing an other "wild cat last Saturday. It mea sured• four feet ,two inches in length and weighs 22 pounds. Edgar Pim, of Centralia' has ac • cepted a position on the Grand:Trunk Railway as night operator at Belle liiver, `.• A grain separator belonging to Mr. Henry Weisenberg, of the town line, • McKillop township, was burned on Friday morning about 4 o'clock. At a meeting of the town fathers on Monday night, Mr. Elliott was re- appointed towo clerk and J. 0. Rose and W. Somerville; auditors. , „ The Brussels • stage and Neilan's Harlock express were unable to reach Seaforth on Wednesday, but the Hay- field mail made close connections as usual. „ Mr. Robert White, Tuckersmith, 18 •suffering frdm blood poisoning which he contracted from poison ivy while Cutting wood. G. Lusby, W. N. Watson: and W. O. Reid ars now. the three oldest con- tinuous business residents of'Seaforth, taking precedence M the order 'ea -M- ed. Hudson, Andersoti, Logan and Hill, Hillsgreen, were in town on Satur- day pnrchaSing Obeys, lamps and Other articles • for the new church there. Rev. A. D. McDonald, of Sees forth, will preach the dedicatory ser- mon in flab new Presbyterian, church: Mrohn O'Keefe, tattle dealer, or„, Dublin; Was in town Tuesday - 481a de. livering a lot ef stockers to Mc. C. Wilson, 'Which. he had bought thrOugh the counts • • "Why didn't tly dg ttlit a prii0V "Ie. 441,1Od olt logsettot loiaglyeith;: 440,4. ,• , his overalls and go out and help with Chirter Granted on Tuesday - the chores. , There was 'a whole string of eom,pany and Jack slipped away The Provisional Directors' of this last Sunday just to miss .an uncle who Blyth Farmers' Coliperative Associas -Would keep plying him with questions tion met in Blyth on Wednesday about his war experience. • morning. Present were the -chairman„, There wasn't much I could tell ,Simon Hallahan, William Dow, Wallet. McGill, George Powell, Robert Henrys Lewis Whitfield, W. M. Henry, Was- ter Mason and , the secretary, J. Matheson, agricultural representative, Clinton. It was made public that the. charter, the last obstacle to be clear- ed Up, had been granted, and was ort display at the meeting. The provisions al directors were most enthusiastic. over the progress made, and the was . is now clear to call a public meeting and appoint permanent directors, and proceed with further planning.—Blyth -changed, Phil?" I couldn't see a Sack. He didn't want toobject be - great deal of change M the lad. He cause his folks would be hurt and had lost his boyish giggling and he yet he wanted more than anything looked older, and be had more sense else to be treated just like one of in what he said, but he seemed to be the family -• . .and not like a visitor. • . • ' • JUST, A SMILE ORT -WO • Mrs. Newrich (patronizingly) : A young candidate for the navy "Were any of your ancestors men of was being examined by a hoard of note, Mr. Nobody?" admirals. One of the questions fired Nohody: "Yes, madam; I should at himwas: "What kind of animals say so. One of them was the most eat grass?" famous admiral of his day ':aad com- No reply. manded the allied fe-ces of the whole "Surely you, can answer a simple world." • question like that!! .snapped one: of "Is it possible! What was his the admirals. "Now then, what kind name?" of animals eat grass?" "Noah, madam!" "Oh, animals," said thecandidate, in obVious relief, "I thought you said ‘admirals'." • "In your sermon last Sunday," said the stout 'woman to the minister, "you said that • constant dripping would wear away a stone." "Quite right," said the minister.' 1"Well, I've eaten it with every meal since and I've put on more weight than ever." The passenger leaned out of the taxi window. "What on earth are yell doing?" he •shouted to the driver. "I asked you to drive me from Vietoria to LeceisterSquare and this is the fourth tune we've passed St. Pears." "I'mssorry, str,,7 refilled the • driver. "I thought you were an American." Huron Federation Of :Agriculture-FartnNews Grateful To Canada another million hogs disappeared .aad the hog population reached a new low Speaking at "a ltmeheon in , Ottawa of 1,100,000. This Malting of Den - on January 5th, Rt. Hon. R. S. Hud-, Mark's hog population by two-thirds son, Minister of Agriculture and Fish- within two years from the thne the eries for the 'United Kingdom, said kingdom was invaded, was not $rina. that. there is a ,real appreciation arily due to pillage. APparently the among the, British people for what Germans did not'do anything, so fools Canada has done for Britain since the ish as ' to slaughter willy-nilly such outbreak of war. The efforts of Can- fine bacon breeding stock. They did, ada have been helped.by the members however, help themselves to the hogs of the Canadiani'armed -forces and al- which were obliged to be killed off for together has left an impressive mein- lack of feed. Denmark has always ory on the hearts and minds of the been dependent on imported feed for people of Britain, he said. its bacon hog industry and with the The interchange of visits of farm- invader's namy unable to give protec- tion to convoys, bog production had ingbetween Britain and Canada dur- ing the war years has been of in- to be curtailed. • Eventually, the Germans succeeded mense advantage to both. Mr. Hud - in preventing too great a decline in son said he will return to Britain Danish hog production by obtaining slightly jealous of the progress that new sources of feed. They brought in has been made in' agriculture in Can - feed from the Danube basin' which ada, but he has been encouraged by what he has seen and learned of the together with a better domestic feed crop produced the result that by 1943 contribution to British needs on the part of Canadian farmers. the Danish hog production was, again The luncheon to Mr. Hildson was moving upward. In, 1944, it made an- givenother gain with latest estimates in behalf of the Government of ing the number of hogs on Danish plac- Canada by Hon. James G. Gardiner, farms at nearly two million head. Thi Dominion Minister of Agriculture, and represents nearly three hogs for err was attended by Rt. Hon. Maleoltii, cry four on Danish: farms in the years MacDonald, High Commisaioner for just before the war. By contrast, the the United Kingdom, members of the end of the First Great War found Den Canadian Cabinet, and officials of the mark with only one,bog on band fo Dominion Department of Agriculture. • every four .Wilett that war began. A * * * the end' of this war, Denmark Wil Denmark Increase Hog Production • presumably be in better shape than Canada's greateat competitor for the ever to compete with Canada British bacon market—Dem:lurk-As The Canadian. farmer is now" proagain building up its supply of hogs. clueing a better bacon hog .than ever Ahording to: information received by tne.Dominion Department of Agrieul- Only by continuing to deliver auttlity tare,' Denmark had .a larger popuIar. bacon regtilarly, and maintaining eon - tion of slipply, will Canada be able stijohneeof19h4olgs in 1944 than in any year to lessen the threat of foreign oompeBefore the 'war, in the years 1937 'MIMI. and 1938, the number of hogs On • • * ' ** Danish farms : was .about. 2,700,000. • .• Thfs rose to 3,100,000 in 1939, arid in- Analysis of Profile soils along the creased ,still further. to, 3,200,000 in Alattka. Righway and in the Yukon: are the year Deriblark was invaded -1940. in Prngre04.3 to ascertain, agricultural The reason fOr this ihorease was Ibis Possibilities there, *-: , . tarin's eagerness to obuy every Onarialus , , ' •,.4 * Pnland Of baniSda. bacon. •. : , Patipte. stleids ;CO, 'GO Increased , With the denials in nentrik Sieber .Plci6OSIVe:•PkattitW:"OXI/Oriblelits OVet intrallS4territorY, DelinSark was Obliged 'a Period. -'ear*, '' conducted hy ,6e to ent Atiti4i:her 40k,ProOthiltilkWohi 01:4110.01.'Zi", 1il«1*;*thieo tioijoidit AO to l94t,,it:40iotetti'l*:‘,4*;$4.iitioiolsitto;*iiiii*4'460106:004tta Mated't piW:****Ti4if#0e*000, • :itt,,telitgii*:-•y1Odg" ' ' i*,?4,1i-tr#400 • :- 04 10 Z200,000 -Pr Ii14o' *1.04Z,';:' .ry.w,‘,004604 ' Page ''llP'''''P' "- Standard. s -e Wad "Needle.‘'Removed From Hand. Saturday Mrs. Dave Hutcheson waOr putting a bridge table away when needle which had been left M the cov- er entered her hand. It was remove ed at Wingham General 'Hospital af- ter which she returned home.—Wings ham Advance -Times. House Coat Goes Up in, Flanges -We.ba4,eseen several accounts of articleof brushed rayon going up lib smoke. Iona Henderson hasLashouse ,t coat of this Material that did just , that. It was hanging In a clothes cups board and in searching for something near it Mrs. Henderson •lighted a. , match and almost before she , could' call for help the flames had envelopt- ed the coat. They died quickly andi no further damage was done.—Wing.- ham Advance -Times. • Fractures Bone • On Friday evening while Mrs. , bert Clausis was preparing some warm milk for her little daughter. she slipped on the floor and fell, to the extent that she fractured the: smaller bone in her right ankle. Medi -4 cal aid was given and the patient is getting along as well as can be ex-; pectect—Zurich Herald. Returning From Overseas Leading Fireman Wm. Chambers; who has 'been in England for the past, couple of years, has retUrned to' Can-- ada and is expected home shortly. He4 arrived. in Canada on Saturday last and has reported to Ottawa. Mrs,t, Chambers left Monday for Ottawa tO4 meet him. As a fireman and a mem- ber of thel rescue squad, no doubt Mr, Chambers has. seen much .,of the suf- fering and damage caused by war - Exeter Times -Advocate. . Transport Damaged in Slide Off Road; Early Monday • morning a largis transport owned by the Tuckey:Transs port, of Exeter, and driven by E. So Miller, slid off the road while travel -- ling east on No. 7 highway at -Moro Cully's Hill, two miles' east of St. MaryS. The big vehiCle struck the': guard rail, broke off several posts andi, :finally came, to rest half way down the embankment.* The cab of the.; truck suffered some damage, but rio' one was hurt. The accident Was at-' tended by Highway Traffic Offieer.P. • N, Anderson.—Eketer Times-AdVoosee.' , Township Roads Still Blocked Main County and Provincial- ways In Huron ire rentirted in good o condition, bist township roads are still,: blocked and psiactically impassable tO('' motor trfiffic as the resift At last week's storna and subsequent- snow., falls. Old Dobbin is having his ihm irings and -sleighs and, .sleighhells are the order of the day on tbe ceuntrY roads. The clearing of the snOW en the roads Is 'being held up by break -4 ages to trunks, is delay is experienc-: ed In.ebtaitittg limns owing to "war -4 ' time priorities and scarcity of nitt,ter-i 'ftinda1tiliA4 Oen 006' sorm, and, as one polies offlcey �sif '•',' , .• 1