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SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, APRIL 12, 1957
Mennber of
Canadiazt Weekly
Newspaper
per
444001.0 04
C. of C. Can Play Vital Community Role
After a year during which the velt is quoted as having said, "Ev-
organization was dormant, the Sea -
.forth Chamber of Commerce got off
'to a good start last week when a
well -attended meeting recognized the
fact that in the main Seaforth stores
provide a service to the community,
and that it is not unreasonable that
the community have a voice in de-
termining the extent to which, and
the manner in which, that service is
provided.
It was an appreciation of this prin-
cipal that prompted a reference to
district citizens who regard Sea -
forth as their shopping centre for
direction as to whether Seaforth
stores would remain open on Friday
or Saturday nights.
While it is understood a goodly
number of ballots have been cast in
the matter, there are many who have
not taken advantage of the oppor-
tunity given them to have a voice in
the decision that is to be taken. Cer-
tainly it is desirable that whatever
decision is arrived at it will be re-
presentative of the opinion of as
many- as possible of those who are
interested. To this end, therefore,
it is hoped there will be a large num-
ber of ballots cast.
While a discussion concerning store
hours predominated the initial meet-
ing of the Chamber of Commerce,
that is by no means all that the
Chamber is concerned with. On the
:contrary, the work of a chamber of
commerce encompasses every aspect
of the community. An active C. of
C. cannot concern itself only with
:matters affecting retail busine§s, but
must be involved in a program that
its of interest to every citizen.
Such a program, if properly con-
ceived and carried out, should invite
the active support of citizens gener-
ally. It can be an opportunity for a
citizen to take a responsible part in
his community. Theodore Roose-
ery man is, first, a citizen of some
community."
How better can we carry out our
obligations as "first, citizens" than
by being a party to the fulfilment of
the objectives of an 'active commun-
ity organization?
Discussing the Chamber of Com-
merce and the community, Dr. Edgar
L. Dessen, of Hazelton, Pa., in the
Journal of the American Associa-
tion, considers the objects of the or-
ganization to be " ... to co-ordinate
and integrate the talents a n d
resources of businessmen and pro-
fessional men trying to 'make their
community a better place in which
to live and earn a living. Its pro-
grammes are dedicated to the im-
provement of living standards and
improvement of the economic condi-
tions of all residents. The Chamber
epitomizes the free enterprise sys-
tem of progress and growth."
He analyzes the composition of the
average community when he says:
... there are three classes of resi-
dent in every community; those who
- live off it, those who live in it, and
those who live for it. The first class
are parasites, reaping where they do
not sow . . . they beggar descrip-
tion. The second class lives in the
community but has little or nothing
to do with its activities. If enough
of the population are in this group,
there is community hari-kari. The
third class -recognize their political,
social and economic duties as citi-
zens .
While such a breakdown may be
representative of some communities,
an active, widely -supported Cham-
ber of Commerce in Seaforth can
prove it doesn't apply here, and that
in Seaforth there does predominate
the man who recognizes his "politi-
cal, social and economic duties ..."
EUCHRE & DANCE
Winthrop Hall
Friday, April 12th
at 8:30 p.m.
Music by Nelson Howe and his
Orchestra •
Ladies please bring Lunch.
auspices Winthrop Football Club
Come out and help the boys!
ADMISSION 50 CENTS
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NORTHSIDE W.A. MEETS
Group III of the WA, of North-
side United Church was held Tues-
day evening at the home of Mrs.
H. Travis. Mrs. B. F. Christie op-
' ened the meeting with a Nem,
entitled. "A Friend or Two." Hymn
485 was sung and the Lord's Pray-
er repeated in unison. The roll
call was answered with an Easter
thought, showing a good attend-
ance. '
Mrs. C. Cochrane presided 'over
the business period and reminded
the ladies of a general W.A. meet-
ing.to be held April 17, at 2:30 p.m.
Mrs. C. Pinder presided over the
devotional period and read a poem,
"A Moment of Silent Prayer."
Hymn 504 was sung, and the scrip-
ture. taken from Mark 16:1-15, was
read by Mrs. A. Matherson, fol-
lowed with prayer by Mrs. Pin -
der. A very impressive talk on
"Housecleaning Our Minds and
Souls," was given by the guest
speaker, Mrs. W. L. Whyte.
Hyrfin 115 was sung and the Miz-
pah benediction repeated in unison.
A social half-hour was spent and
lunch served by the lunch com-
mittee.
MISS K. KILLORAN
Miss Katharine Killoran, a na-
tive of Downie Township. and for
many years a resident of Seaforth,
died Sunday at St. Mary's Hospi-
tal, London:
Before moving to London in 1937
to live with her sister, Mrs. Wm.
Prendergast, who died several
weeks ago, Miss Killoran had for-
merly resided in Toronto. She was
a daughter of the late John and
Agnes Killoran and died in her
92nd year.
Surviving are two nieces, Miss
Winnifred Prendergast, London,
and Miss Kathleen Killoran, To-
ronto; and seven nephews. Camer-
on J. L. Killoran, London, who for-
merly practised law in Stratford,
and Dr. D'Arcy Prendergast, Dr.
W. K. Prendergast, Ralph Pren-
dergast, John Killoran, Ralph Kil-
loran and Donald .Killoran, all of
Toronto.
The body rested at the E. C. Kil-
lingsworth funeral home, 389 Bur-
well St., London. until Tuesday
morning. Requiem High Mass was
celebrated, in St. Martin's Church,
London, at 10 a.m. Interment was
in St. James' cemetery, Seaforth.
qq•
Dramatist
Eunice Ward, South lbgan Pis
trict High School student, Exeter,
is one of six winners front, West-
ern Ontario who will poznpete in
provincial finals of dramatic verse
speaking competitions on Easter
Monday -in Toronto. -Exeter Times -
Advocate.
To Receive D.D. pegree
It was announced last week that
Rev. Alexander Nimmo, who has
served as minister of St. An-
drew's Presbyterian Church in
Wingham for the past 12 years,
will receive an honorary degree of
doctor of divinity. The • degree
will be conferred at the Presby-
terian College in Montreal on April
30.-Wingham Advance -Times.
Moved To New Job
Morley Taylor, son of Mr, and
Mrs. Victor Taylor, Brucefield,
who is working with Imperial Oil
in Sarnia, has been transferred
from the Operation Analysis De-
partment to the Refinery Training
Course for six months. Morley
will be teaching the new process
workers, a petroleum process
course. -Clinton News -Record.
Chief Issues Warning
If you're in the habit of sneak-
ing slowly through stop signs, or
around corners where you should
really stop, it might be just as
well to change your ways. Ac-
cording to Chief Thompson, the
law is becoming .stricter, and the
day of the $2 fine is in the past.
From now on the fine will be $5
for a violation, plus costs, which
generally runs about $2.80. Un-
less you're rich -or just don't care
whether you become poorer-youki
better stop at those stop signs. -
Clinton News -Record.
Offer Teachers Positioons Here
Exeter Public' School Board of-
fered staff positions to two appli-
cants at its meeting Monday night.
Miss Elizabeth Campbell, Brant-
ford, and Miss Betty Goudie, Sea -
forth, will be asked to accept posi,
tions on the 1957-58 staff. Salary
increases of $400 each were ap-
proved for Principal A. B. Idle
and Supervisor Mrs. R. D. Jermyn.
Maximum salary in each case
has been set at $6,000 and $4,100.
Miss Virginia Deichert has resign-
ed from the staff. -Exeter Times
Advocate.
Build Ice Cream Plant
An application for the purchase
of two town lots on which an ice
cream plant would be built, was
made by R. B. Cousins, of Brus-
sels, at the town council meeting
on Monday night. he lots are lo-
cated south of the Kerr.. Construc-
tion property on Josephine Street,
at the south entrance to the town,
The property is owned by the town
at the present time. The building,
it was stated, in a letter to the
council from MF: Gousu►s,. WO.1410 be
of concrete and cement' .hliiel , the
front to be of colored stele wit)i
plate glass windows. �. WXnhagt
Advance -Times.
First Boat Sails
The population at Codericb har-
bor is shooting upwards every day
as more and more sailors arrive
to get their boats in shapefor
the coming navigation season. The
after crews of about a dozen boats
have already arrived to bring the
number of men already on, the
boats ,up to about 175. Most of
the forward crews will be here by
the weekend. The Saskadoc',is all
ready to go and, in fact, is sche-
duled to leave for the head of
the lakes Friday. By the weekend,
several more are expected to leave
the harbor. Because they were not
union men, some. 17 sailers were
ordered off boats, it is stated, and
have been replaced by 17 sailors
who belong to the union -Goderich
Signal -Star.
Mayor Serves At Florida Inquest
Mayor R. E. 114Kinney, who re-
turned on Saturday after spending
a month in Florida, had a rather
unusual experience while he was
in the south. On a Sunday morn-
ing two weeks ago he witnessed a
drowning which took the life of
Adolph Yocis, of Orange City Hills.
The elderly man was swimming
several hundred yards out from
the beach when spectators and the
life guard saw that he was in dif-
ficulty. By the time the beach
guards reached him, the man had
gone under and though he was
quickly brought to the beach and
artificial respiration was applied
for 45 minutes, the victim failed
to revive. The fact that an attempt
was made to reach no less than
eight doctors without success made
it necessary to tali together a cor-
oner's jury on which Mr. McKin-
ney was asked to act, since he
had been an eyewitness to the ac-
cident.-Wingham Advance -Times.'
Huron Farm News
The unseasonably cold and wet
weather. which we experienced
during the past week, has delayed
seeding operations for at least an-
other week. A warm rain could do
a lot of good,to bring the soil into
proper condition for seeding and
also help the growth of pasture
and hay fields and fall sown crops.
The monthly climatological re-
port for this district shows that
2.04 inches of precipitationoccur-
red for this district, which is slight-
ly below average for March. The
monthly mean temperature for this
district was 33.5 degrees F., which
is five degrees higher than normal
for this area. This ispossiblyone
explanation for the anticipation of
an early seeding this spring.
YEARS AGONE
Interesting items gleaned from
= The Huron Expositor of 25, 50
and 75 years ago.
From The Huron Expositor
April 15, 1932
McTaggart Bros.' Bank. of Clin-
ton ,which is well known through-
out Western Ontario, on Monday
disposed of its entire business to
the Bank of Montreal.
Dr. W. A. Crich, Toronto, son
of Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Crich, Sea -
forth, addressed one of the largest
attended meetings of the Lions
Club. Dr. Crich, dental expert of
the Lackwood Clinic, Toronto,
spoke on "The Relation of Dental
Infection To Health."
Mr. John Broderick has been ap-
pointed caretaker of Seaforth
Lawn Bowling Club.
A vest-pocket circus played in
town Tuesday, when Jackson's In-
door Circus presented a program
in Cardno's Hall. The chief stock
and trade of the company appear-
ed to be two bears andtwo mon-
keys and a man that could free
himself from any manner of man-
acles.
A person or persons unknown
entered the home of Miss Anne
G. Govenlock, on North Main St.
on Friday evening and proceeded
to ravage the house. Drawers were
turned out; pictures thrown from'
the walls and furniture upset. Miss
Goverdock' left home about eight
o'clock and returned at 10:30. Con-
stable H. Snell investigated.
Mr. Owen Geiger & Sons, Hen-
sel have their flax mill running,
and Mr. Thomas Welsh, his saw-
mill, giving needed employment to
a number of men.
The snowstorm on Tuesday and:
Wednesday was very unwelcome,
as it has blocked roads, and motor
traffic is at a standstill,
The fine brick residence on the
farm of D. F. McGregor, two
miles south of Egmondville, on the.
Kippen Road, was completely de-
stroyed by fire Monday morning.
Besides all the ordinary contents,
Mr. McGregor who is Clerk of
Tuckersmith Township and secre-
tary -treasurer of the McKillop
Mutual Fire Insurance Co., lost be-
tween two and three hundred dol`
lars in cash, all the books and
papers of the company, and prac-
tically all those of the township.
From The Huron, Expositor
April 12, 1907
Mr. Cameron, Tuckersmith, pur-
chased a working horse from Jas.
McQueen for $165.
W. Mailens, Brucefield, who had
his leg broken some time ago at
the home of Mrs. Gibson„ is now
able to get around again.
The sum of $81 was given last
Sabbath by the Presbyterian Con-
gregation at Brucefield for the
starving Chinese
Mr. Thomas Kyle ,IKippen, has
rented 110 neres of his r to
Miele en •& (Teigel~; for perp s -
es,. and $urge at' 01 pl6ws
busy getting the land in shape for
the crop.
Mr. Hill, of Summerhill, recently
sold a fine gelding to Arichbald &
Cudmore, of Seaforth, for $325. He
weighed over 1700 pounds.
Mr. and Mrs. John Wilson and
family. McKillop. have now got
settled in their residence in town.
Mr. Thomas Habkirk has pur-
chased the team of general pur-
pose horses that took first prize
at Clinton Fair last week, and now
has them at work on his dray.
$ $
From The Huron Expositor
April 14, 1882
Good Friday was commemorat-
ed at Winthrop by Moses Hannah
fining John Morrison for walking
across his land to see him about
making fences. Moses is a meek
man.
A young man fired a revolver at
another young man, but missed
him, in a sugar bush between the
9th and 10 concession of McKillop,
last Saturday evening. It is clan-
gerous for boys and fools to carry
revolvers.
James Kerr, Finlay Ross and
Francis Morrison are the directors
this year for the cheese factory at
Winthrop,
Mr. Jacob Weber, of the Egmond-
ville pottery, shipped a carload of
pottery to Manitoba. •
A somewhat unusual sight was
witnessed by Zurich people on
Good Friday. A large deer pass-
ed northward within a few rods of
the woollen mills.
Local markets were: fall wheat,
$1.23 to $126; spring wheat, $125
to $1.27; peas, 65c to 75c; oats,
35c to 37c; barley, 75c to 80c; pota-
toes, 65c to 70e;" butter, 18c; eggs,
13c; salt, clean, course, $3.50 per
ton, 3,50; lands. $2.75 per ton; per
barrel, wholesale 80c, retail $1.00.
Mr. Blair, having retired from
the management of Bell's Mill,
Kippers, the mill has been leased to
Mr. John McNevin for a term of
years.
Mc, Charles Davis and family,
of Leadbury, have left for Mani'
toba. He has leased his farm and
hotel to Mn. Smith, the present
landlord, for a period of five years,
at $500 per annum.
The average capacity of Cana-
dian railway freight cars rose to
45.961 tons in 1951 from 45.564 in
1950 and 43.905 -hi 1945.
A young lady in the waiting room
of an airport was crying steadily.
Seeing her tears, a young man
came over and tried to soothe her.
the put a comforting arm around
her and talked to her.' She con-
tinued to weep. "Isn't there any,
thing I can do," he asked, "to
make you -- sto crying?"
'Vitt .4 40 •'not, Ate girl vso' J
elf, "It'�5 hay Lever.L )Bu's keep)
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Ends Sitason
Parr ,i+ii
Parr 'arni, .Oorl1;r ,brought;
to a cleee another interegtin aid;
informative yea'r _of work for the..
improvement of the fanning
dustry en Wednesday evening. With
one hundred per cent attendance-.
26 adults' and 1Q children.. -at the
spacious home of Mr, and Mrs.
John Soldan at 7. p,m., all sat down
to a surhptuous turkey banquet
prepared by the good cooks of the
forum.
Following. .the dinner, Mrs, John
Holden read an address to Mr.
and Mrs. Gordon Lave, who recent-
ly moved to their new home in
Hensel. Gordon Coleman,
president, presented them with
television lamp and cup and saucer
on behalf of the forum. Mr, Love
made a suitable and feeling reply,
and assured the forum that they:
would continue to be members of
the Parr Line Forum. Parr Line
Forum has merited recognition
among the forums of Canada. Out
of some twenty-one broadcasts on
the C.B.C. across Canada farm pro-
grams on Monday night, Parr Line'
Forum was recognized on five oc-
casions for their finding by expert
authorities on the topic under dis-
cussion.
Following the banquet the gen-
tlemen retired to the living room
for television and to games -room
until the ladies despatched with
the dishes. Progressive euchre'
completed the entertainment. Mrs.
Gordon Coleman was high lady and
Ross Love, high gent; Miss Marie
Jarrott and John Soldan scored
low. A luncheon, cafeteria style,
brought the evening to a close. To
all who have read forum findings
to their benefit, agreeing or dis-
agreeing, the group promised to be
back again in the fall. Parr Line
Forum now having completed, its
fourth successful year feel they
have much to offer and a job to
be. done. Some day it "vas hoped
that John Lewis will organize the
"majority" and put us all in the
"golden carriage" in which labor
so comfortably rides.
Following is the address: "Mr.
and Mrs. Gordon Love, Hensall:
Dear Gordon and Maude: In the
midst of the happiness of this eve-
ning among your friends, we ask
you to pause for a few brief mom-
ents that we may convey to you
our thoughts at this particular time
in your lives. We have realized
with a feeling of regret that you
are leaving our neighborhood.
"Recalling the great spirit of
friendliness and good -will that has.
been extended for many years to.
us, your friends, and all who have
come your way, your sympathies
and loyalty to the •community in
which you have lived and your.
demands for the highest of ideals
and fairest of judgments, have ear-
marked you as a family of the
highest merit and worthy of our
greatest respect. It would be sup-
erfluous words to say your are
going to be missed. We are glad to
know that you are still going to
be close to us, and that your re-
tirement has come at a time when
you still have the health and vigor
to enjoy it to the fullest.
"With our best wishes for your
health and happiness, we ask you
to accept our gift, small in value
but mighty in its love and' good
wishes. -Signed on behalf of Parr
Line Farm Forum: Gordon Cole=
man, President."
We like this one, about a man
who absolutely refused to pay the
bus conductor the new rate of 15
cents for his usual 10 cent ride.
The"bus had just reached the cen-
tre of a bridge, when the infuriat-
ed conductor grabbed the man's
suitcase and hurled it into the wa-
ter.
"Ah, hah! You scoundrel!"
shouted the man. "First you try
to rob me and now you drown my
little boy!" ,
T. Pryde & Son
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LOW FARES EVERY SATURDAY (TO AND INCL. APRIL 13)
Tickets good going and returning same Saturday onbr.
EXCURSION FARES FROM:
Allenford $4.75 Guelph $1.90 Palmerston ....$3.40
Brampton .85 Hanover ....,,.... 430 Paisley 52u
Brussels 4.30 Harriston 3.75 ,uuwampton .. 590
Chesley 4.75 Ingersoll 3,70 Sarnia 6,55
Clinton 4.75 Kincardine .... 5.85 Stratford 3.4a
Elora
Fergus 2.45 Kitchener 2.45 Strathroy 520
2.45 Listowel 3.60 Walkerton 4.t0
Georgetown .... 1.20 Mitchell .. 4.00 Watford 5,75
Goderich 5.05 Owen Sound .. 4 75 Wingham 4.75
Wyoming 620""
Corresponding Fares h+n Intermediate Points
FULL'INFORMATION FROM AGENTS
FARMERS!
Be Prepared For Spring
Seed and Fertilizer prices are at their
LOWEST Now.
Order your SEED OATS while supplies are
good and prices reasonable
Garry, Rodney, Simcoe, Ajax and
Beaver Seed Oats in Stock
s
BARLEY CONTRACTS
Are Now Available
with FEFTILIZER SUPPLIED
We also have a limited amount of
No. 1 Commercial Brant Barley for sale
COOK BROS.
MILLING CO.
Phone 24
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