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The Huron Expositor, 1948-05-14, Page 2THE few RIT Established 18.60 eith' McPhail McLean, Editor. Published at Seaforth, Ontario, ev- ery Thursday afternoon by McLean Bros. Members of Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association. Subscription rates, $2.00 a year in advance; foreign $2.50 a year. Single copies, 5 cents each. Advertising rates on application. Authorized as 'eco d Class Mail Post Of13ic = t spar , ent, Ottawa SEAFOR , Friday, May 14, 1948 The Old Names Are Best Down in Southwestern Ontario there is a rabid controversy under way at, the present time over a move to change the name of •a .thorough- fare that for well over a century was known as the Old Gravel Road, to the high-sounding title of Sunset Drive. In fact the champions of the old name have put ;their case before a county judge, who will be called up- on to give a decision in order to set- tle the question. We don't blame the old-timers either. People, particu- larly young •people, are too fond of changes. Prone to look upon old names as .old-fashioned, and behind these modern times which change so rapidly, and, too often, without cause or reason. The country is full, of such names as Sunset Drive, Care Free ,Downs and Blue Sky Valleys, which have no meaning in fact, and often it is an insult to the intelligence of either the local people or tourists to have such names pinned on the country- side.' Huron, in common with many -oth- er counties in Ontario, has many old names that have come down from pioneer days, but like too many coun- ties, the authorities do not take the trouble to even put up signs to point the way to visitors of many interest- ing historical sites and landmarks of the community's interesting past. Many of the old names in this lo- cality have come down from the days when the country was first opened to settlement, and even at the ex- pense of being called sentimental, we think the good old names are far the best. What better name could you have than the Mill Road, a name that has come down from generation to generation. There is no mill connect- ed with it now, nor has there been in our day, but the name means more than the name of a road. Generations of Huronites from this part of the county, when they hear of the Mill Road, have a clear map of the road and the farms along it, instantly before their eyes. It is the same with the Kippen Road. We hope no effort will ever be made to change these names, because no oth- ers will ever do as well. And to us down the Sauble Line sounds much better than down the Bluewater Highway. Particularly so when there isn't much more than a dipper- ful of blue water to be seen. along a large part of the route. And we like the sound of the Lon- ' don Road far better than No. 4 High- way. All these are old, old names, but they have come to mean some- thing. Like the people in South- western Ontario, we too, have a grav- el road, a name that has come down from earliest days, the North Gravel Road. In the language of pioneer days a gravel road was one of dis- tinction. •. It was safe to travel on all the -year round, and although it is paved now, we doubt very much if present travellers appreciate it half as much as our forefathers did, when it became known as the Noyth Gravel Road. We have many old .names across Canada, many of them Indian, and as such, real Canadian. Let's keep them because they are a part of the country's history, and unlike the modern names that are being adopt- ed, they really belong to the country. • Not In Any Harry Spring; carne early this year. Be. fere April, in, fact. But whether the , eftort ,was too much for it or not, efhaing happened; • -_. Axid( its arrival it hasn't made ;of a Move. There ' haV6 been sunny days, of course, but very few, and . there have been many cold nights, with snow and frost ' thrown in. As a result, there has not been a great deal of growth. Cattle are out on the pastures, but grass is not much of a crop as yet. Other growth is slow too, but fall wheat is pretty fair, and garden stuff is beginning to show above ground. It can not be called an' early spring, but so far, while a trifle slow, has really not been too bad. All we need is a few really warm, bright days and we will be well on our way to- wards another harvest. May it be a bumper one. • Too Many Signs The Amherstburg Echo in a recent issue said: "The Amherstburg Coun- cil is to be commended on the action taken on Monday night when they refused to consider the application of the C. E. Marley Company, of Windsor, to erect advertising signs on the vacant lot at the corner of Park and Dalhousie Streets. Town Foreman. H. Lester Hamilton, in a memo to the council, stated the resi- dents in that area were opposed to the erection of the signs. Some years ago town fathers had quite a job get- ting rid of the advertising signs at the northern entrance of the town. The lesson learned at that time has been a good one and should stop signs being erected within .the mun- icipal limits." Certainly the Amherstburg coun- cil is to be commen ' 'for the action it took. It is rather a pity, however, that a few more Ontario towns are not following that example. The eastern entrance to our own town is one of the finest in appearance of any in Western Ontario, made so by the Lions Pool, pavilion, and land- scaped playgrounds extending over some acres. Countless summer tourists have commented• favorably on the eastern approach to Seaforth, and, better still, have carried its fame right across Ontario. It is a great pity that so fine an approach should be marred by an advertising sign'that; takes up half a field, just a hundred yards or so within the town and right- ' on ight-'on the highway. Why should the residents of the east end of Goderich Street, which is one of the main residential streets of the town, be subjected to such an eye sore and one that there is no escape from? It spoils the view of house- holders and likewise affects property values. Why not have it removed? If there is no town by-law covering the matter, why not pass one? • • 'Taxi ! Taxi ! A Reuthr's press despatch from Melbourne, Australia, says that two elderly women from the Melbourne suburb of Toorak, packed their bags recently,. called a taxi and told the driver, "Alice Springs, please." Alice Springs is in central Austra- lia, 1500 miles away—as far as from London to Moscow. When convinced that it was not a joke, the driver took ten minutes to pack his bag and tell his wife. Then they set off, with the meter ticking merrily, on a trip which at the standard rate, will cost $225 each way. • Years Agoxte Interesting items picked from The Expositor of fifty and twenty-five years ago. • • 1' 'Agrrcit,ro.."'rNe From The Huron Expositor May 18, 1928 ' Mr. Wm. Bristow, of Egmondville, has taken the contract for the erec- tion of a fine red brick dwelling for Mr. James Cowan. Mr. Alex Monteith, of Kippen, was in Kingston last week attending the graduation of Queen's University of his nephew, A. C. Monteith, B -Sc., of Powasson, son of H. C. Monteith, for- merly of Tuckersmith. He ranked ifirst in a class of 21 in the science class, carrying off the Governor -Gen- eral's gold medal. Mr. Howe, of Peterboro, is the new teller in the Bank of Commerce, Sea - forth. Misses Beth Barton, Evelyn Adams and EIizabeth Keating, of the London Normal School, spent the week -end at their homes here. Messrs, Everett Rivers, Arch Hays and Ted Merner, of the Toronto Den; tal College, are home for the holidays. The Seaforth Highlanders Hand has been engaged for the Brussels celebration on June 4. Mr. D. Fotheringham, of Tucker - smith,' recently purchased from Mr. Robert Norris, pf Hibbert, a three- year-old filly for which he paid $225. The filly, which was sired by Mak- wine, the well-known Clyde horse owned by Mr. John Livingstone, of Staffs, won't go back any in Doug's hands. Mr. Duncan Johnston, of Walton, has purchased the Sparling farm west of the village and intends putting in a crop. Armor Dundas, of Walton, is run- ning a truck for Neal Bros., and gath- ers eggs and cream. Mr. Robert Elgie, north of Chisel- hurst, has had his fine large barn pro- tected from lightning ' by having it rodded in, an up-to-date manner. Mr. AIden McGavin, Walton, has been appointed to act as returning officer in Huron for the forthcoming Provincial election. At the eleventh anniversary of Ed- elweiss Rebekah Lodge a pleasant fea- ture was enjoyed when Sister Aber - hart, the First Noble Grand, was pre- sented.w•itlr a set of Burins' poems, the address being read by D.D. Sister Rankin. Seaforth, and the- pre'senta- tion mace by N.G. Sister Annie Stew - • Wants A Real Army Testifying before the House Arm- ed Services Committee of Congress last month, General Omar N. Brad- ley, Army Chief of Staff, warned Congress that no air • force alone, however powerful, can protect the United States from attack. Nor, he said, could an unsupported air force carry an offensive to an enemy. For that reason, he asked Con- gress to give him a regular army of 822,000 men. - The army now has on- ly 542,000 men, which is far below its authorized strength of 669,000. Maintaining an army of that size is an expensive business in peace as well as in war, but the States had a pretty severe lesson when it prac- tically abandoned the maintenance of a standing army between the two wars, and is ' not likely to fall into the same error again, particularly when that error cost the country ' billions of dollars during 'the fait war. A Place For Sheep on Farms In an article in the March issue of the Agricultural -Institute "Review," Dr. E. S. Archibald, Director, Central Experimental' Farm, Dominion Depart, ment of Agriculture, Ottawa, discuss' es the sheep indust>Ly.j,,Canada, and s':ggests Some possible reasons for the decline in sheep' numbers on farms by about one million since 1944.' From 1945 to 1947 sheep declined by 26 per cent, while during the same period dairy cattle decreased by only eight per cent, other cattle by 11 per cent and hogs by 10 per cent. Not since 1925 has the sheep population been so low despite an increase in price for handyweight lambs at To- ronto at the end of 1947 of nearly double the average price of 1933-39. Meat :consumption in Canada has in- creased from the average of 188 pounds per capita in the five years 1933-39 to 146 pounds in 1941—it was even higher in 1944, at 154 pounds. .But the =increased per capita consump- tion has been' in other kinds of meat —pork, beef, veal—while lamb and mutton consumption has dropped in ,the period under review from 5.6 pqunds to 9.8 pounds, • It seems obvious, says Dr. Archi- bald, that the Canadian public is not lamb and• mutton minded from taste; or possibly from lack of proper retail marketing display. On the other hand, the fact that in pre-war years Canada irnported more lamb than was exported, is evidence that the con- suming _public can be encouraged by proper education to consume consid- erably more lamb and well finished mutton. The Canadian -consumption of ap- parel wool in 19.46 was approximately 107 million pounds, a tremendous in- crease over 1944 and 1945, while the Canadian production for the same year was 16.5 million pounds. In nor- mal times, Cahada produces' about one quarter of its wool, requirements. Since 1939, the price of wool on the farm has more than doubled. The do- mestic demand for apparel wool, the reduction of the world stockpile and the downward trend of production in wool -producing 'countries seem to sug- gest that the price of wool in 1948 will remain about at its present level. "If the sheep population is in pro- cess of reduction," says Dr. Archibald, "it is due more to abnormal circum- omically, 'meat and wool of choice quality. There is a place for sheep in; Canada." What's In That Fertilizer Bag? -When a• dealer .quotes a fertilizer, designated as 4-8-10, what does it mean? The 4-8-10 is the guaranteed' percentage of thethree wain, plant foods present, namely, nitrogen, phos- phoric acid and potash. It means four per cent nitrogen, eight per cent available phosphoric acid, and 10 per cent potash by weight represented by the symbols: N, P205 and K20, re- spectively, and always in the same se- quence. The same explanation ap- plies to mixed fertilizers of any other analyses, says G. W. Michael, Associ- ate Chief, Plant Products Division, Dominion Department of Agriculture. A 4-8-10 fertilizer contains, only 22 per cent of plant food. What is the balance or the other 78 per cent of the fertilizer? The other 78 per cent consists of tire elements which are combined chemically with the 22 per cent of •Plant food in the materials us- ed in the mixture. Mixed fertilizers are made up from a number of ma- terials that vary in amount of plant food which they contain. For in- stance, the amount of plant food con- tained ontained in the following materials is: Nitrate of soda, 16 per cent -N. Sul= phate of ammonia, 20 per cent N; Ammonium nitrate, 33.5 per cent N; Stiper'phosphate, 20 per cent P205; Ammonium phosphate, 11 per cent Nitrogen and 48 per cent phosphoric acid; and Muriate of potash, 50 per cent to 60 per cent K20. Manufacturers use several fertiliz- er materials in making their mix- tures. The nitrogen is usually pro- vided in the form of sulphate of am- monia, ammonium nitrate, and cyano mid blended together; the phosphoric acid as superphosphate or ammon- ium phosphate, and the potash as muriate or sulphate, or a combination of both. A manufacturer could use a simple fdrmula as follows for making a 4-8-10 fertilizer: a„ stances than to essential weaakaess in Mr. and Mrs. John McKinley, cf the industry itself. The sheep indus- Prince Rupert, are visiting at the par- try is better organized today than ev- ental homes -of Mr. Robert McKinsey I er before. With its research, promo - and Mr. A. D. Scott, _in Tuckersmith and McKillop. Miss Thelma Pethick attended the grLduation exercises at Victoria Hos- pital, London, on Wednesday. Miss Mary Habkirk, of the Wood- stock Gollegiate staff, spent the week end at her home here. Mr. Thomas Smith, of the Domin- ion Bank, Kitchener, spent Sunday with his father, Mr. John Smith. Miss Vera Dorrance, of the Exeter Collegiate staff, spent the week -end at t r home in McKillop. tion, selling and professional agen- cies, it has the means of solving most of its problems; the most important being, perhaps, reorganization in the field on a .sounder economic basis, so as to produce efficiently and econ- Suffers Nasty Injury Carnian,godgins, ,manager .of B1ytbl Farmers Co-operative obese arid but- ter factory, la angering palatal eye injuries received, in an accident at the. factory when a blast of steam, bollen compouidd and lime struck WM, direct, ly in the eyes. Medical aid was sum - Moiled atonce and Mr; Hodgins wast • rushed to Stratford General Hospital for treatment. It was found the in- jury to the eyes, while very •painfula is rot of a permanent nature.—Clin- ton News -Record. Tricycle Causes Fractured Leg Master Dwight Gibson, son of Mr„ and Mrs. Glenn Gibs•bn, is laid. up witbl a fractured leg, the -result of a tri- cycle accident which occurred at his: home last Friday. In some manner the boy overbalanced while riding on the back step ofthe tricycle, catching, his..... foot, and in so. doing fell and broke his right leg. It was not be- lieved at first that the injury was soo serious, but X-rays taken later at Clinton hospital disclosed - the frac- ture.—Blyth Standard„ Morris Fend Sold Mr. P. J. Kelly has disposed of his, farm, comprising 1,00 acres, on the 8thl Line, Morris, to Mr. Charlie Souch, of the 2nd Line of Morris. Mr. Souchi Will get po§session on May 20.--Blythl Standard. Ball Officials Appointed At a softball meeting held in G. R. Harris' store on.Friday night, the fol- lowing officials were appointed for the Intermediate 'A' softballlearn : Man- ager, G. R. Augustine; coach, Rev. W. J. Rogers; grounds committee, Grant Sparling, convener; H. McCallum, V. Soeiran, Armand Kernick. The opin- ion seemed to be that Blyth pro- spects for a good softball team this year was quite bright.—Blyth Stand- - ard. Bayfield Brigade Helps Put Out Blazer Bayfield Fire Company answered a. call to Bill Sterling's property on the• lake front opposiiite•,•the Cut Line of Sunday night, where a bush fire hadl flared hp. The alarm had been sound- ed on the Goderich Township Tele- phone System when it was first dis- covered but First Lieut. Grant Turn - 5 Per Cent 20 Sulphate of ammonia 20 Superphosphate 50 Muriate of potash Dolomite limestone or other filler Lb. er did not receive a call until 10.1 0 p.m. At that time the otff-•available 40 members, besides himself. were Chief 20 Walter Westlake and assistants Mer- ton Merner, Reg. Francis, Arnold: 20 Makins' and Hugh Gilmour. They were at the scene of the fire inside of 30 minutes' and found that those. there ahead of theinl had it undercon- trol. However, they turned the hose on the fire and put out the last spark. It is thought sparks from smoulder- ing stumps, which had been burningi ever, and then re -ground, there as lit- two •days previously, had spread to- tledanger that the fertilizer will go nearby brush and undergrowth. Tho hard again. 1 , (Continued on Page 6) Total • ., 1dOb Mixed fertilizers have to be proper- ly cured before delivery to the farm- er or they will be hard before the farmer uses them or become hard in storage. When properly cured, how - 0 From The Huron Expositor May 20, 1898 In the first-year examinations at the School of Practical Science in To- ronto, J. A. Morrison, son of Mr. Frank Morrison, of McKillop, passed honorably in the department of min- ing engineering, Mr. Arch Scott, of the firm of Scott Bros., has purchased the handsome residence of the late Mayor Scott, on Goderich St., paying therefor the sum of $1500. Mr, 'Thos E. Hays has "rented the Baechler farin. of, 1,000 acres in Col- borne Township, and is stocking it with 300 head of light stockers, which he expects to have ready for the Old Country market in August. Little Oliver Robb, son of Mr. Wm. Robb, met with a particularly painful accident on Friday last, when he was playing with a lawn mower, and in some manner had the tips of two of his fingers taken off. Mr. Jacob Weber, of Egmondville, has purchased the hotel property of Mr. Prendergast in Dublin and moves to that village on Monday. On Friday last the little son of Mr. James McConnell, Tuckersmith, had a most miraculous escape from death by drowning. The child fell into a postl3ole and went in head first, where the water was too feet deep. He was pulled out by the man who was dig- ging igging the holes. Special services in connection with the laying of the cornerstone of the new Methodist Church at Londesboro will be held on Sunday. • A meeting of the Huron intermedi- ate district of the Canadian Lacrosse AsEociation was held in Seaforth on Friday. The following delegates were present: R. E. Jackson, Seaforth.; W. Cole, Mitchell; D. J. Cameron, Strat- ford; W. E. A. Best, and J. A. Jack- son, secretary, Seaforth. Mrs. Lightowler, daughter of Mr. Wm. Copp, who has been visiting friends, left on• Wednesday for Chi- cago to join her husband, who is in the service of the Salvation Army tnere. Mr,• Lightowler has served in England, Canada; India and the Unit- ed States. Mr, John Walker, of Roxboro, has several beds of the most beautiful pansies we have ever seen. Mr. John Ketchen and Mr. Alex Mustard shipped two carloads of fine cattle to the Old Country from Bruce. field on Thursday. They were all fed by Ketchen and Mustard and were a fine lot. Mr. George Coleman, of Blake, has sold to Mr. Thos. McMichael, Hallett, an Entire colt, about 11 months old. old. Mr. Coleman is noted for his good stock. Business is +Commencing to boom again in St. Joseph. Mr. Contin is making preparations to do a large season's buildiing. Mr. Geo. Campbell. has just rettirtted from the (4eorgiatt Bay district and brought with "him a vessel laden. with lumber, shingles and posts, St. roseph is bound to boom as it is • noW attracting the -at- tention of capitalists. from abroad, several of whorii'liave been there late - With the vie*'of Malang purdbases add starting & bttitiesti, . M is a matter Your bank is there to serve you in a personal, private way. ' When you make a deposit your passbook - is closed to anyone but you and your bank. When you arrange a loan, that is strictly between you and your bank. When you discuss private financial matters with your bank manager, you know they will stay private. Such privacy is the very essence o Canadian banking. It permits you to dear with your bank and to use its many services on a basis of complete confidence and trutst. sronrsotritrirrW * a,r