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The Huron Expositor, 1949-03-11, Page 2�al�lia ed 1860 McLean, Editor;, ed at Seaforth, Ontario, ev- stay afternoon by McLean 110 doubtsatisfactory arrangements cold be arrived art to make possible the operation of • rest rooms here. 1Viembers of Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association. Subscription rates, $2.00 a year in vane,; foreign $2.50 a year. Single opies, 5 cents each. Advertising rates on application. Authorized as Second Class Mail Post Office Department, Ottawa SEAFORTH, Friday, March 11, 1949 Mr. Garson's Visit Hon. Stuart S. Garson, Minister of justice in the Dominion Cabinet, will visit the riding of Huron -Perth on Saturday, when he addresses the annual meeting of the riding Liberal Association in Hensall. , The visit will give the citizens of Huron -Perth an opportunity of hear- ing one of the more recently appoint- ed cabinet ministers, and one, who before going to Ottawa, proved so, successful in his office as Premier of Manitoba. It was with reference to Mr. 'Garson's appointment that the Winnipeg Free Press said: "Mr. Garson's gifts for public service, ex- ercised with such distinction in the provincial field . . . clearly destin- ed him for a career in national af- fairs. . He has displayed his ca- pacity for taking an enlightened view of national problems." • A Good Move . The announcement last week that the Hydro -Electric Power Commis- sion had approved construction of a half million dollar transformer sta- tion on the outskirts of Seaforth was good news for the district. Seaforth can be particularly happy, for while a large proportion of the total cost will be spent elsewhere in equipment, the installation and construction nec- essary to a project of this size can not help but have a beneficial effect on the economy of the town. Looking at the announcement from the long term standpoint, it is encouraging that the growing de- mands for eleptrical energy west of Stratford have been recognized. The new station and trans mission line, construction of which is also auth- orized, will make possible a greatly increased supply of energy. No longer, once the. new construction is completed, will it be necessary for municipalities west of Stratford to contend with the low voltage condi- tions that have obtained for a good many years. • Rest Rooms Again It may be a coincidence, but during recent weeks several residents of neighboring townships, while in this office, have asked what is being done to provide rest rooms in Seaforth. Several years ago there was a strong movement in the town to make some provision for rest' rooms, but nothing came of . the proposal, since it was considered to be the re- sponsibility of not only Seaforth but of the adjoining municipalities as well. Early in 1947 Seaforth council took action when it named a committee to investigate the proposal. The com- mittee at the June meeting in. that year informed council that a suitable rest room could be constructed for $900, that a site had been selected, and that Tuckersmith and McKillop - each had agreed to pay one-third of the cost. There the matter has rest- ed for nearly two years. While it is agreed the successful operation of rest rooms can present roan, problems, as evidenced by the 'experiences of other towns in which then are in use, it would seem reas- onable to suggest that the benefits to derived by visitors to Seaforth would More than offset the expendi- tnte of thne'necessary to the proper rlition of the facilities. Whether hoar' of the thaintenance prob- etu, or doubt as to what the cost of pera%ion. - night be that led council abandon the seheme, we don't t if the demand from rep- s opp and visitors Seaforth efts. xt.'wears to be, then - • Time Of Its Own At this time of year when villages, towns and cities argue the pros and cons of daylight saving, it is inter- esting ' to learn that for the past forty-seven years a little Welsh vil- lage has had a time all its own. For forty-seven years the seaport town of Kidwelly, Wales, has boast- ed that it is ahead of the rest of Bri- tain—five minutes ahead, that is. But now the local council has turn- ed back the clock. From now on Kid - welly will be on Greenwich mean time, just as every other place in the British Isles. Nobody knows for sure just why the town. clock was set five minutes fast in 1902. But it stayed that way until the council abolished "Kidwelly local time." • Objective $.x,500 In these columns last week refer- ence was made to the annual cam- paign for funds on behalf of the Red Cross Society, which is now in pro- gress. It was stated that the objec- tive for the Seaforth area was $7,500. This was in error, the local objective being but $1,500.. • A Long Historp There are probably no animals more common or more apt to be tak- en for granted than cats. Yet the ordinary domestic or barnyard cat has a history that extends over sev- eral thousand years—since at least 2200 B.C. According to a current exhibition in New York, the cat has qualified for almost everything from an Egyp- tian object of veneration to a figure of fear and hate in early Britain. The visitor to the exhibition will find ceramic images of the Egyptian , cat -headed goddess Bast, dating from the seventh century, B.C. The exhi- bition also includes a cat mummy, one of hundreds of thousands found in cat burial grounds throughout Egypt. Egyptian law required whole families to shave their brows in mourning for deceased household cats. In Rome the cat was symbol of liberty. As a Roman colony, Britain provided heavy _penalties for cat killers. Later, in Germany, a cat craze revived the earlier cult of Freya, the Norse feline goddess. Wo- men and their cats met in so-called sacred groves. Then the women were labelled witches. They and their cats were burned. The cat became a persecut- ed object of fear and hate instead of veneration and respect. In a display- ed volume Sir Walter Scott wrote about a Scot who turned the color of his plaid every time a cat entered the room, whether he saw it or not. During the eighteenth and nine- ' teenth centuries. Kitty was back in favor again and tied with a pink bow in prints by Currier and Ives. • Now It's the Crooked Furrow! (Stratford Beacon -Herald) From time immemorial, the emphasis in plow- ing contests has been on plowing a straight fur- row; he who drove the straightest has always been judged the winner. At Brantford, Ontario, next Fall, however, something new will be add- ed to the International Plowing Match. For the first time in its history, there wll be a demon- stration of contour plowing, put on by students at the Ontario College of Agriculture. In later years, competitions may be arranged in this form of plowing. The old-fashioned straight furrow may be all right on absolutely level land, but bitter experi- ence in many parts of North America has shown that it is unsuitable for land which has any de- gree of slope, and which is subject to heavy rain or snow. Such a furrow provides a sort of arti- ficial water -course down which the water from the Spring run-off or from heavy rainstorms can pour, washing away the precious topsoil as it goes. In some places, this process has ]ed to the formation of tremendous gullies, and every- where it results in a great leas of Irreplaceable minerals and organic matter from the soil. In Alberta, notes The Edmonton Journal, wind erosion has been as ..serious a problems• as water erosion, but it seems established that . straight plowing also promotes the loss of topsoil in deist storms. For some years agricultural scientists have advocated contour plowing as a remedy. This involves plowing a curving furrow, arov.nd rather than across a slope. These furrows act as dams, checking the movement of coil and water II(btVii- dill, and aliovting the moisture to sink in. Thia method hae already* worked wonders in slid.,' badly eroded district* in Alberta. GGho klloWd perhaps the 'di;+ ! q'1U come whiles puree are awarlted for the d reekedeat '1'.1 x'r6W'f HERE'S 11 You may never need to worry About loss of time, or pay, But you gamble when you squander Health that you may need some day. Depa lmem of Nit onal Heath. WO Welfare, Years Agone Interesting Items Picked From The Huron Expositor of Twen- ty-five and Fifty Yeara Ago. "THE STORMte' For some time mow Per- haps longer that. it is possible for any of my readers to retail, a pleasant Sunday evening pastime has been that of "courting." Of course, the courting of 'today'• is not nearly as serious • a 'business that it was back thirty years agrj, but nevertheless romances emerge as a result of the present Sunday evening "sitting -up exercises," jest as they did back in the days when Father and Mother sat in the next room and strained their ears to hear the conversation that filtered through the glass -beaded red drapes which separated the parlor from the "sittin'-room." Other changes have taken place, as well. For instance, the favorite torture seat was a horsehair sofa. At first it did not bother ,you, but gradually as the evening wore on, you became aware that you were sitting on something not so far un- like the famous spikes that- Indian prayersien choose as a form of mortification. Today it's a com- fortable chesterfield or a so-called studio couch, and Father and Mother have become tactful ,en- ough to retire to another part 'of the house. The competition between the country boy and the town boy still remains. It has grown, due to the fact that the majority of country roads are plowed out during 'the winter months. The country boy usually sticks to his horse and cut- ter, while the dashing young blade from town, comes out arrayed in his toggery and driving an •auto- mobile. Cars travel faster and far- ther than horses, and so, many a young. lady tilts her freckled nose at the country suitor and is lured away by the car. They say all things are equal in From The Huron Expositor March 14, 1924 Mr. Peter B. Moffat, principal of the public school in Dashwood, has returned to his home .in Kipper as his school had to be closed for two weeks on account of an outbreak of smallpox. 1VIr. Win. Charters, Mill Road, last week disposed' of a superior young Shorthorn bull to Henry Taylor, of Kinburn, the considera- tion being well over the three -fig- ure mark. Mr. Finlay McKercher, 1VIcKillop, has treated himself to a Fordson tractor which will help to lighten the spring work. Mr. Matthew J. Lynch, Beech- wood, had his ankle sprained last week while playing 'hockey. Mr. A. A. Cuthill, Winthrop, had the Delco lights installed last week by Mr, W. T. Grieve. Mrs. Henry McGavin, Tucker - smith, met with a serious accident at her home last week. She fell when coming downstairs, fractur- ing her arm at the wrist. Mr. W. A. Crich is making ex- tensive improvements, to the inter- ior of his bakery and confection- ery store. He put in a beamed ceil- ing and moved back the partition a number of feet. Lightning on Tuesday night of last week played havoc at the home of John Elliott, East Wawanosh. Mr. Elliott and his son, Will, were absent from home at the time and Mrs. Elliott and. Miss Elliott had retired when lightning struck the chimney and shattered it. Enter- ing the house, it bored. through _three walls, knocking plaster off and set fire to clothing in"a trunk, and burned a number of books to a crisp. Rev. Father Norman O'Connor, a noted Paulist Missionary, paid a short visit to his aged parents, St. Columban, and to his brother, Dan O'Connor, and sister, Mrs, Walter Carpenter, Hibbert. Ha ]eft Thurs- day for New York, where he will open a mission Sunday morning. On Thursday of last week, what miglA easily have proven a serious conflagration was fortunately dis- covered in time. Early in the fore- noon Mr. John Fraser, of d3ayfieltl, found that there was fire in the furnace chimney and worked all forenoon on the roof in an endeav- our to extinguish it. In the after- noon it was found that the lire was eating its way through the joists. Had this happened in the night, no doubt there would have been a more serious fire. • From The Huron Expositor March 17, 1899 Mr. John McGregor, one of Hul- lett's most prosperous and enter- prising farmers, has a ne herd of thoroughbred Holstein cattle. He has now 15 head in his stable. An explosion of a somewhat ser- ious nature occurred in Zurich on Wednesday. The side of Merner Bros.' store and the front windows were blown out and the building badly wrecked. The cause is not absolutely known, but it is suppos- ed to be the result of the bursting of the aceytlene lighting machine. Major Anderson's second carni- val was held in Seaforth rink on Friday evening last and there was a good crowd. The following were prize -winners: Ladies' character costume, Lizzie Sclater, Gladys Henderson; ladies' comic costume, Annie Roberts; gents' character costume. H. Humber, W. E. Papst; gents' comic costume, Frank Willis. Hugh McDermid, son of Angus McDermid, of the Huron Road, and E. McIntosh, son of James McIn- tosh, cIntosh, of the 2n'd concession, McKil- lop, left on Wednesday for Colo- rado. Mr. John McMillan, •M.P., left on Wednesday for Ottawa to be pres- ent at the opening of the Domin- ion Parliament on Thursday. Mr. James Rivers, of Cromarty, held a successful wood bee Tues- day afternoon, and treated the young people to a dance at night. Mr, Wm. Moore, .Tr., of Henson, who has been in the employ of Mr. E. Rennie, general merchant, for a number of years, and who was al excellent clerk, left this week for Goderich, where he has been offer- ed a. good situation. Mr. T. A. Russell, son or ThoiS. Russell, of Riverside Parra, Vs - borne, is developing rare qualities as a public debater. He is in lila final years at Toronto Uni'versity, Mr. Andrew Dougall has pnrchat'3l- ed from Mr. Jas. McArthur, m; b`ttild- lixg lot' for his mother, Mrs, tri, Bengali, of ltodgervllle, Who ing tends having a dwelling erected thereon dUring the coming seamier lint Miviitg into RengaI1. By Harry J,, Boy e t!tisl world and' that sooner Or la - er the advantage are retrieved On a recent Sunday evening : t started to snow down in a barrage, that defies description. The coup; try boys with their hearts akin to Nature immediately harnessed Dob- bin to the cutter and; proddedhome through the now. The town boys, not being so familiar with the stormy ways of wind and! weather, dallied. When it came time to go home, there was simply no way in which a car could 'be made to trav- el a road- by itself. A car has none of the instincts of a horse, to go back to its warm stable. The car drivers couldn't see. And so, for three or four days, young men from all 'parts, of, the countryside were quartered in• our township. You could, see the tops of the ears in different laneways a' you went down the concessions. Perhaps some of the fascination of the town boy will have waned by now. Imagine what it must seem' like to see the young man who al- ways appeared Rreshly shaven at your home, with a clean shirt and well-marcelled hair . . appear with whiskers of two diaya, stand- ing . . . hist shirt crumpled . . his hair lotion but a. vague mem- ory on a snarl of unruly hair! Sometimes when people are, close- ly confined, tempers flare up and we have just a trifle of a susrpicion that tempers flared on many occa- sions during those two or three days. On the other hand, the town boys must have been surprised to see their pretty friends without make- up. How sthoeked they must have been to find --that a wind-blown country ,blush comes from a box! A 'horse and cutter may not be as swift ... but it's certainly more dependable in the wintertime. Farm Forestry - (W. A. G. Thurston, Zone Forester) An improvement cutting is made to improve the growing conditions, the object being to make the wood - lot a more valuable property in fu- ture years. The management at the present time determines the com- position and value many years hence, -There are many types of trees that should be removed in an im- provement cutting in a woodlot. In order to secure substantial finan- cial returns, trees should be utiliz- ed or cut before they may become defective. If a farmer considers a woodlot as a paying crop, he will preserve it. There may be dead or fallen trees in the woods that are still relatively sound. These should be taken out as. part of an improve- ment cutting, as in a few years, through action of decay, they may be useless. Trees that are diseased or in- fested with insects are rapidly de- creasing in value, and in a short time may be valueless even for fuel. They should he removed, from an economic standpoint, as well as for the reason that they may serve as a source of infection for healthy trees. It is impossible to improve a wooddot if disease and insects are present to reduce its value. In many woodlots, trees with broken branches or damaged tops are plentiful. These should •be re- moved in an improvement cutting, The damage may have been caused by wind, ice, or previous logging operations. It is easily understood that damaged trees are more sus- ceptible to attacks by disease and insects. In the case of trees with broken or partially dead tops, growth is reduced due to the small crown, making it not worthwhile to retain the tree. Broken or dead branches in the top part of the crown are a sign that the tree is not very healthy. ^ If crooked .trees are interfering with healthy specimens they should be removed. If the principal pro- duct of a woodlot is fuelwood, a crooked tree is as good as a straight tree. ,However, if sawlogs are desired, crooked trees ,which may interfere with good trees, are undesirable. Weed trees are speciesof low economic value, such as pin and choke cherry, ironwood, blue beech, hawthorn and apple. These ala)oudd be cut to leave room for valuable species. In some cases, it may be neces- sary to leave defective or unhealthy trees as a seed supply, to aid in starting new reproduction in the woodlot. Examples of improvement cut- ting may be found in the woodlot owned by Wilfred Shortreed, of Morris Township, Con. 10, Lot 24. This woodlot is being well manag- ed, and proper forestry principles are being followed, • Send all inquiries to Department cif Lands and Forests, Stratford, Ontario. Safe and Cash Register Rifled Sometime Monday evening the safe and- cash register of Linden - field's Hardware was rifled and: the cash receipts for the day, amount- ing to over $300, were missing. How entrance was made to the 'store is a mystery. The police are investi- gating.—Exeter Times Advocate. Honored Before Departure Mr, and Mrs. Clifford Allen were guests of honor at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Hunkin Monday evening, where the Southeast Farm Forum met and presented them with a lovely wall lamp and a china cup and saucer. Clifford expressed their thanks and all joined in sing- inf "For They Are .lolly Good Fel- lows." Mr. and Mrs. Allen and family are moving to Fullarton, where ;they have purchased a farm from John R. Brown. Glenn Allen was honored recently when Mrs. Chas. Allison and a class of nine boys presented him with a zipper Bible.—Exeter Times -Advocate. Lions Have High Attendance With an attendance of 99 per cent, BaySeld Lions ,Olub held a successful dinner meeting in The Little Inn, Bayfield, Wednesday evening. President $rant R. Turner was in the chair.'Miss A. Taite, of Ann's Studio, Baydeld, was present and took several pictures of the club members. A musical highlight Of the meeting was novelty singing by a quartette consisting of `White' Weston, Robt. Welsh, Wm. Parker and Grant Turner, accompanied by Mrs. Jas. F. Ferguson. Guests were Thos. Arkell and Grant Stirling.— Clinton News -Record. Freak Chicken Mr. Ernest Snell, proprietor of the Snell Poultry Farm, discover- ed a freak chicken among a large hatch which he was removing from the incubators this week. He inject- ed a breath of spring into the air in The Standard office when he ar- "You can never talk to Mrs. Jones without hearing a long story about her ailments." "Yes, you• might almost call it an organ recital." • Groom: "How did you make this cake, dear?" Bride: "Here's the recipe. I clipped it out of a magazine." Groom: "Are you sure yon read the right side? (3n the other side it tells how to make a rock gar- den." rived on Tuesday morning,with the chicken peeping merrily from the enclosure of a paper bag. Examina- tion disclosed that the chicken, bad three legs. Two were in the *ironer part of the body, but the third, the foot on which was perfectly form- ed, was attached directly at the point of the tail. The chick could work the enra leg, but it was as little use, exeepi, to Beep, it off bal- ance. Freaks 'aren't very common: at the Snell Pdultry Farm This is the first one Mr, Snell can remem- ber, "Wee try to raise goody sound chicks of ,excellent breed, not freaks," said Mr, Snell, Blyth Standard. Lions Perform Acrobatic' Stunt Goderich Lions let loose with, a. lot of levity as they launched their ladies' night at the British Ex- change Hotel on Friday. After the ladies had graciously entered the dining room, the Lions were oblig- ed bliged to enter Ina less formal man- ner or else pay twenty-five Gents each. So far as is known, only one Lion paid the .fine. _ While the ladt- ies laughed, their Lion husbands - were obliged to enter the room by climbing atop a children's play- ground slide and slide down to the floor. This they did with varying degrees of gracefulness, depending chieflly upon their weight or child- hood practice in the art of sliding, -Goderich Signal -Star. Legion Holds Artillery Night The local Branch No. 180 of the Canadian Legion held Artillery Night at the Legion Home, John St., Wingham. Following the initia- tion of W. A. Hogg into' the local branch, . 'Comrade George Williams presented Dr. A. W. Irwin with the past president's badge _for service during 1948. Lieut. Col. Hethering- ton of the 21st Field Regiment gave a most interesting address inter- spersed, with many amusing in- stances. He pointed, out that young boys joining the local militia would find it very interesting and helpful as well as an educational posture.. By joining the local militia, he said, a most desirable recreational cen- tre would be created for our young men. Following the meeting a so- cial evening was enjoyed.—Wing- ham Advance -Times,. i Buys Former Ross Residence Dr. J. G. Dunlop has purchased the fine brick residence of Mr, Samuel Ross, on Main Se, He in- tends having it fixed up for a new office. The household effects of Mr. Ross were disposed of by public auction on Tuesday afternoon.— Exeter Times -Advocate. Recollections of Englandj (Miss M. Grinyer, Superintend -1 ent of Scott Memorial Hospital, Seaforth, recently addressed the members of the Ladies' Aid of First Presbyterian Church on her recol- lections of England and the Contin- ent during the war. Her remarks follow). One wakens everywhere in rural England on Sunday to the sound of bells, which, whether or not one goes churchward early, are pleas. ing to •the ear. At six o'clock one can hardly find oneself out of the sound of a peal of bells ringing for Evensong. Not the slow, sonorous, reveberating tones of French bells, but peal upon peal ringing out across the meadows and over the slow .rivers. Evensong in the coun- try has a social, as well as a re- ligious aspect and village churches are far more crowded for that ser- vice than in the morning, One sel- dom finds untoward zeal in Eng- lish country churches. There are instead a certain homeliness, and all pervading sense that it is the proper thing to come to church, anti a general atmosphere of dec- ency and seemliness. The churches Themselves need no eloquence from their pulpits, for their is quite suf- ficient in their Norman towers and fonts, their 14th century porches, their leper's squints and old brass- es, the beautiful tracery of their windows. Eating on Sunday, except in ho- tels or boarding houses, entails a weary search. In Paris on Sunday one can eat and drink in the sun- light of a pavement cafe. Not so in London; to them the sole pr{rpose of a city is to house those who must live and work in it; the sole function of a city street, to con- tain the traffic, not to afford a place for a walk. They walk in the country. .A street is no place of amusement or of entertainment. Nor is it even a place of possible beauty. It is rather a necessity, which hastens them to their work in the morning and allows them to get away quickly, from it at night. The idea of them spending leisure in the streets is unthinkable. .An English Sunday .should be spent whenever possible far from the town, and since distances are so short, even between the farthest points, you can reach the Surrey Downs in an hour, and the York- shire dales in a little more than three. There is no country in the world which for its size offers such a variety of choice for the weeit- ender. You can wander through the bracken of the Cornish cliffs with the Atlantic pounding before you, follow the swift Devonshire through woodlands of ferns, fox- gloces and holly, traverse the innunmerable public foothpaths through the comfortable flat fields of Essex, climb the small Cotswolds or the high felds of the lakes, watch the sunset from the Sussex marshes, lie in the heather of Dart- moor or Exmoor or the North, drink tea under the oaks of half a dozen forests, sail on the Norfolk (Continued on Page 61 When considering your donation, remember chat this year the Canadian Red Cress needs 6 Mil - Roe Heltau-4t1% mem Man the previous appeal. In a far, northern settlement, a man meets with a serious accident. Were it not for the Red Cross, this, and scores of other sick and injured people, would be without medical or hospital care. But the 75 Red Cross Outpost Hospitals are ever ready to serve isolated settlers. Last year Over 70,000 patients received treatment through these hospitals. This is part of the work YOUR Red Cross is carrying on. You are asked to help save lives on these lonely frontiers, to provide assistance to crippled veterans, to send relief wherever disaster strikes, to support the Red Cross Free Blood Transfusion Service, to extend help to suffering humanity everywhere. The Red Cross work being carried on in a thousand ways is made possible by you and thousands of other Canadians. Give willingly, generously. Give now! Red Cross services also include: Treatment. for Crippled Children, Nutrition Services, Home Nursing Courses, Swimming and Water Safety, Women's Work Activities, etc.