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SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, MAY, 17, 1957
da- PipeLine Great Development
Trans-�a�ta
(By J. A. Hume, in the Cana-
dian Liberal. Mr. Hunte is
Parliamentary writer for the
Ottawa Evening Citizen.)
St. Laurent Liberal government
candidates in the forthcoming fed-
eral election may take pardonable
pride in the spectacular trans -Can-
ada pipe line project.
Prime Minister St. Laurent, in
Parliament on February 21, said
there are certain matters concern-
ed with the pipe line he would be
glad to discuss at any time it may
be appropriate to do so. "I can
assure the House." Mr. St. Laurent
added, "that I am very happy
with what discussion of the pipe
line has brought about as a de-
velopment in Canada."
As a press correspondent in
Ottawa for 28 years past, I have
not the slightest hesitation in mak-
ing the confident prediction that. company officials had been given
in the years to come, the pipe line options to purchase about 50,000
to bring Alberta gas eastward shares each of company stock at
through Saskatchewan and Mam- $8 per share compared with the
toba to Ontario and Quebec—the price of $10 a share to the pub -
longest gas pipe line in the world sic.
—will be recognized as a great
"Go Forward, Canada!" develop-
ment.
Events which have taken place
since the emotional, political de-
bate in the House of Commons last
May -June have only served to con-
firm
the forward-looking progres-
sive
res -
sive stand taken by the St. Laur-
ent government at that time in
sponsoring the measure.
Tories and Socialists on Defensive
In the coming election campaign
it will be the Socialist and Con-
servative parties who will likely
be kept busy explaining and just-
ifying to the electorate their stub-
born, shortsighted opposition in
battling the government legisla-
tion every step of the way.
The smaller Social Credit group
in the Commons backed the pipe
line bill as an urgent, construc-
tive, contribution to Canada's
booming economy.
Company Has Required Capital
6. The company's financing ear-
ly this year has provided the com-
pany with all the capital it re-
quires to complete construction of
all sections of the pipe line for
which it is responsible to carry
gas east to Montreal by the end
of the construction season in 1958.
This Montreal completion date is
the one originally planned and
there is every expectation it will
be met successfully.
7. Pipe line construction thus
far completed has demonstrated
that the company has the best
available, qualified engineers, con-
tractors, et al, to carry through
construction on 'a successful, eco-
nomical basis.
Late in February, Stanley
Knowles (C.C.F., Winnipeg North
Centre) sought to make political
capital out of the fact that two
Rt. Hon. C. D. Howe explained
that the giving of such stock op-
tions to ranking company officials
is a recognized practice in the
financing of private companies.
That such options were outstand-
ing was shown, Mr. Howe pointed
tabled in
Par-
liament
, in documents
as early as May 9, last.
The stock options were given to
the two company officials two
years before the government
reached its financing agreement
with the company last May. The
two officials had relinquished per-
manent positions and large finan-
cial interests with two well estab-
lished oil companies to link their
fortunes with Trans Canada Pipe
Lines Ltd. at a time when its fu-
ture was highly problematical.
Due to the flurry of buying of
Company stock when it was first
offered to the public in February,
the company's stock rose to around
Considerable progress has been $24 a share.
made since June 7, 1956, when
Royal Assent was given the gov-
ernment bill launching the trans -
Canada pipe line project as fol-
lows:
1. Much of the actual construc-
tion of the pipe line from Alberta
to Winnipeg has been completed.
A regrettable United States steel
strike for several weeks last sum-
mer prevented the scheduled de-
livery of necessary 34 -inch pipe
from Pittsburg for this western
section. Construction resumed this
spring and will be completed in a
few months.
2. The company—Trans Canada
Pipe Lines Ltd.—was so successful
in securing signed contracts for the
delivery and consumption of Al-
berta gas along the route east to
Montreal that earlier planned ex-
port of 200.000.000 cubic feet of
gas daily to the United States from
Emerson. Manitoba. no longer be-
A Lot of Hypocrisy Talked
At that, however, it is still only
a case of "paper profits" for the
two company officials because they
would have to sell their stock to
cash in on the profit and ranking
company officials are supposed to
retain their stock interest in the
company employing them in high
executive posts.
When John Diefenbaker, leader
of the Conservative free enterprise
party, supported Mr. Knowles' crit-
icisms of the stock options, Social
Credit Leader Solon Low pointedly
quipped—"There has been a lot of
hypocrisy talked about these stock
options."
Mr. Diefenbaker and Conserva-
tive candidates are not likely to
discuss the pipe line project on its
merits in the coming campaign.
Instead, they are likely to prate
and prattle. as they did in the
Commons debate last spring, in
came essential to the economics bitter, extravagant teems, that
of the project. If this bloc of gas Prime Minister St. Laurent and the
is not exported to the States. that
much more gas will be available
for sale to service rapidly expand
ing industrial and domestic mar-
' kets in Central Canada.
Obligations Paid Before Due
centrated their fire on repetitious
points of order, interminable dis-
cussions thereon, formal appeals
from rulings of the chair, fictitious
questions of privilege, motions to
adjourn the house, and time -wast-
ing recorded divisions. In all, dur-
ing the month the pipe line mea-
sure was before the Commons,
there were 70 recorded divisions,
each division consuming about a
half hour of valuable time.
The C.C.F., policy -wise stood for
public ownership and control of
the gas pipe line. But they failed
to press their views with any vig-
or or convincing argument because
they knew they were alone in the
minority in this connection.
Closure was invoked, four times,
by the government in the pipe line
debate. Closure is a frequently
used instrument in the United
Kingdom Parliament, known as
"the Mother of Parliaments", as
a bulwark of democracy. Closure
has been used much less frequent-
ly in the Canadian Parliament, but
that fact does not prevent its use
on limited, emergency occasions.
Closure did operate to limit de-
bate somewhat, but Hansard and
the press showed clearly that, for
days and days on end, discussion
went on. It was wholly the choice
of the Conservative and C.C.F.
members that they concentrated
on procedural matters rather than
on the merits
or the
demerits its of
the government's pipe line policy.
Accepts Call
Rev. George D. Watt, B.A.,
minister of the United Church
charges of Dungannon and Nile,
has accepted a call to $t. Pa>yll's
United Church in a new 'subdi'' -
sion west of Oakville, Ont. The
change becomes effective on July
1—Goderich Signal -Star,
Attended Son's Graduation
Mr. and Mrs. Dan McKenzie,
Rev. A. W. Watson and Mr. Ray
Madill were in Toronto on Wednes-
day where they attended the grad-
uation exercises at •Emmauel Col-
lege at which time D. A. McKen-
zie received his diploma in Theo1-
_ogy-and his_ Bachelor of .Div_inity.
Degree. M. McKenzie is to be or-
dained to the ministry of the Unit-
ed Church at the meeting of the
London Conference in St. Thomas
on June 6.—Blyth Standard,
Escapes Death in Accident
Jaynes Hardie, R.R. 1, Wingham,
escaped death on Thursday when
he fell from a tractor and was run
over by the cutivator the tractor
was pulling. The teeth of the
machine cut into his head, the
back of his shoulder was injured,
and he sustained severe chest in-
juries. Mr. Hardie's condition was
said by hospital officials at the
Wingham General Hospital to be
satisfactory. — Wingham Advance -
Times.
No Lack of Frankness
Prime Minister St. Laurent, who
moved two of the four closure mo-
tions, frankly stated that the gov-
ernment decided to take the re-
sponsibility for making use of this
infrequent employed instrument
because it considered such action
was fully justified on the grounds
of the urgency of the pipe line bill„
in the national interest. The gov-
ernment, Mr.. St. Laurent empha-
sized, was completely willing that
the Canadian people. in the next
election, should pass judgment on
the government's pipe line policy
and its actions in securing expedi-
tious approval by Parliament
therefore.
Never, at any time, from May 8
(1956) onward when the St. Lau-
rent government f ormulated its
pipe line policy, was there any lack
of frankness or candor on the gov-
ernment's part, either with Par-
liament or the public, as to the
considered urgency of the mea-
sure. This applied to the parlia-
mentary dead line of June 7, 1956.
It was explained that construc-
tion of the Alberta -Winnipeg sec-
tion had to be commenced by July
1 at the latest, and be pressed
with all despatch, to be completed
by the end of the construction sea-
sons on December 31. 1956. (Sub-
sequently, the United States steel
strike prevented construction be-
ing so completed. In legal terms,
that was "an act of God", or
"force majeure" something over
which the Canadian government
and the company had no control).
The company needed about two
weeks in advance of July 1 to let
contracts to six construction firms
to lay the western section concur-
rently in six sub -sections. These
contractor firms had to have some
little time to bring in the neces-
sary trench -digging equipment of
a size and type available only in
the United States. And the com-
pany had to have the 34 -inch pipe
shipped in from Pittsburgh, since
pipe of that size has never been
made in Canada.
Mr. Drew's Absurd Charges
government debased Parliament
and trampled on democracy by
use of closure, etc.
Had the public been able to see
for themselves, they would have
realized that a power-hungry Con-
servative opposition last year
sought by obstruction to have the
will of the vocal minority over-
ride the democratic right and re-
sponsibility of the Liberal major-
ity to govern.
Mr. Low called the Conservative
and C.C.F. groups "obdurate and
ornery." Carl O. Nickle (P.C., Cal-
gary South), recognized opposition
oil and gas expert in earlier times,
was completely repudiated and
gagged by his own party as far, as
they could apply closure to him
personally. Mr. Nickle deeply of-
fended his colleagues by his flat
assertion—"The Conservative ob-
struction tactics are based on
political experiency."
The Conservatives, under Hon.
George Drew as leader last spring,
simply could not debate the pipe
line project on its merits because
of the positive, co-operative stand
of the Frost Conservative govern-
ment of Ontario. Premier Frost
declared that Ontario urgently
would need Alberta gas by 1960.
He was in the federal government
corner in favoring continued Unit-
ed States capital investment in
Canada. And the Frost govern-
ment agreed to put up $35,000,000
toward Crown -corporation financ-
ing for construction of the vital
Northern Ontario section of the
pipe line. "Ontario cannot lose a
five -cent piece on that invest-
ment," Mr. Frost asserted, By the
same token. the federal govern-
ment cannot lose on its $95,000.000
investment in the corporation.
Wanting, needing Premier
Frost's active support in the next
federal election, Mr. Drew (he lat-
er had to resign for health reas-
ons) just could not contradict or
antagonize Mr, Frost on the pipe
line project.
3. The company was able to
carry out its private and public
financing of about $270,000,000 cap-
ital required at this stage. Thus,
on February 26. well in advance
of the stipulated April 2 date. the
company was able to discharge
all its financial obligations to the
federal government. The com-
pany's cheques to the government
were for $50.716.603.03, covering a
loan of $49,750,000 on construction
of the western section., $880,071.40
interest on that loan at five per
cent, and $86,531.63 on certain op-
erational expenses paid by the
government on the company's be-
half.
The government stipulated that
at Least 51 per cent of the com-
pany's common voting stock
should be offered for sale to Can-
adians. In the actual financing,
over 60 per cent of such stock
was so sold.
4. Construction of the pipe line
from the Manitoba border east to
Kapuskasing has been commenc-
ed. This section is the responsi-
bility of the Northern Ontario
Pipe Line Crown Corporation
which was established through
$95,000,000 capital put up by the
federal government and $35,000,000
capital put up by the Ontario gov-
ernment. When completed this
year, this middle section will be
rented to the company on a 21 -
year least on terms covering con-
struction cost and depreciation,
yielding the two governments 3.5
,per cent interest on their respec-
eive.investments in the corpora-
tion.
Provision also was made for the
-company to purchase this North-
ern Ontario section of the pipe line
on mutually acceptable terms. To
complete sueh later purchase, tile`
eon pan3' will live , l+li rale . abouts
$1.30;600,000 additional caplta'l.
A pew Canadian industry has
en successfully launched at Wel.
and, Othterio, to manufacture
lboti $30,000,000 ,of 20-iiieh pipe to
sed for part'of the Winnipeg.
sectiells., Pipe of that
never been. rnhntrfaetur-
i ltd t tlher hedessary
ich' 1pa are berilt
tea?
;ttto U'tfa.Iftng
Might Import Dog Catcher
Town council Monday threaten-
ed to import a dogcatcher from
London to impound unlicensed dogs
running at large. Members sug-
gested the city officials might be
able to round up a truck load to
take back to the pound. Owners
eliminate the winding tfiait, down
to Saltford. An authoritative gov-
ernment source has stated that'
the aforementioned project "le on
the agenda for next year" for the
Ontario Department of Highways.
In the meantime, plans are still
being made for a delegation to in-
terview
nterview the Ontario Minister • of
Highways on the matter,--Gode-
rich Signal -Star.
Charge Two Stole Truck .
Two Goderich youths have been
charged with theft of a Depart-
ment of Highways three -ton dump
truck following their arrest by
police Thursday. Police say Robt.
G. Laws, 20, and Daniel H. MacAd-
ams, -21, abandoned the -truck in a
gravel yard at Drysdale after driv-
ing it there from near St. Joseph.
Donald Brenner, Grand Bend, fore-
man of the highways crew, said
two men drove off -with the truck
after chatting with his men. Bren-
ner gave chase in his private car.
Cpl. Harry Sayeau, Goderich, and
Constable Helmer Snell, Seaforth,
arrested Laws and MacAdams.
P.C. John Forde, Exeter, laid the
charges,—Exeter Times -Advocate.
Raise Salaries
South Huron District High School
Board raised its maximum salary
for teachers from $5.600 to $7,000
Tuesday night. The $1,400 increase
was approved to allow senior mem-
bers of the staf, who were ap-
proaching the old maximum, to
share in the across-the-board hikes
in minimum salary granted by the
board earlier this year. The maxi-
mum figure in the salary schedule
has not been raised for two years,
although the minimum has increas-
ed twice. Before setting the maxi -
would be given 72 hours to claim mum, the board secured figures
their animals. Mayor R. E. Pooley from six other schools in the area
appealed for co-operation on the and found their limits ranged from
part of dog owners to make the $6.500 to $7.200. — Exeter Times -
by -law work.—Exeter Times -Advo- Advocate.
cate.
Crack Down On Speeding
A special radar speed -trap is to
be installed in the town. When and
where it
will is to be fitted
re-
main a guarded police and council
secret. Meantime, plans are go-
ing ahead to prepare a by-law aim-
ed at reducing the speed Iimit
within the town to 25 miles per
hour. Mayor R. E. McKinney,
speaking at the council meeting
on Monday evening, said that he
had had a great many phone calls
from townspeople during the week,
complaining about the excessive
speed of cars through the town.—
Wingham Advance -Times.
"R";�BkCss re:
gozakni TO Obstruction
Thus the Conservative and CCP.
groups, rather than use! the avail-
able time of 16 days or more to
discuss the pipe line project on
its merits, chose to resort to di-
versionary, obstructionist tactics
from the .procedural angle. They
fought like tigers along •that line,
making reckless, red-herringat-
thplO, not d Y on the' governrii�id
bf t. o the : Calnrfl,, hsa ,pre , ,
3'1.0
A "Go" In 1958
When the spring of 1958 rolls
around, it is expected that work
will commence on the construc-
tion of a new bridge over the
Maitland River to replace the pre-
sent antiquated one at Saltford,
This will also be the start of a re-
routing of the present highway to
The government considered it
desirable, as a matter of courtesy,
for the Senate to have a minimum
of a week for consideration of 'the
government bill in that chamber.
(In the end. the Senate had only
about two days' time).
The government, willing at all
times to give all possible informa-
tion on its pipe line policy felt that
the most fruitful time for such
discussion was in `committee of
the whole' examining the operative
sections of the bill. Closure was
invoked to this end.
Further, Prime Minister St. Lau-
rent offered to have the Commons'
hours of sitting lengthened to per-
mit of more `committee of the
whole' discussion, but the Con-
servatives and C.C.F. heedlessly
rejected this latter overture.
Bathos is the only word accur-
ately to describe opposition charg-
es in the pipe line debate that "the
government was tearing down
Freedom, Democracy and Parlia-
ment", much like George Wash-
ington is reported to have chopped
down a cherry tree.
"Guy Fawkes was just a piker
compared with Prime Minister St.
Laurent," Mr. Drew affirmed at
one point. "Guy Fawkes at least
had the decency to go down in the
cellar after dark, to blow up the
British Parliament; the Prime
Minister has sought, in the full
Plant 600 Trees On Arbor Day
A lesson in conservation and
tree planting last week served a
triple purpose in Goderich Town-
ship. Some 85 youngsters receiv--
ed practical experience in the art
of tree planting and the impor-
tance of conservation in farm life,
and Edward Jenkins received the
benefit of having a reforestation
plot replanted. The teachers and
pupils of Grades 6, 7 and 8 in the
township, held Arbor Day to coin-
cide with the proper time for tree -
planting. For decades "arbor day"
has been a day in May when
school children had a day off from
books to plant a tree and learn
about nature. Goderich Township
pupils did the job up well by plant-
ing 6,000 trees. The event was in
charge of Zone Forester H. H.
deVries, Stratford. Inspector G. G.
Gardiner, Goderich, was on hand
and assisted with the shovel. Reeve
John Deeves and the teachers of
the schools also took part in the
afternoon.—Clinton News -Record.
From The Huron Expositor
May 20, 1932
A large number of men were
busy the latter part of last week
laying a drain from Goderich to
James Street on Helen Street. It
is hoped that the new drain which
connects with a main sewer on
James Street. will do much to al-
leviate the watery condition which
has prevailed for some time at the
corner of Goderich and Helen Sts.
Mrs. R. Strong, who guessed
1.323 at Stewart Bros.; Mrs. Cock-
erline, who guessed 1.337 at Mac-
Tavish's, and Mr. J. M. Robertson,
who guessed 1.558 at Walker's, were
the winners in a contest conduct-
ed by a linoleum firm in these lo-
cal stores the past week, and as a
result will each receive a linoleum
rug free.
Mr. George Daly, son of Mayor
J. F. Daly and Mrs. Daly, who has
been a student at the Ontario Col-
lege of Art. Toronto, has been
awarded the Mrs. D. A, Dunlop
scholarship in design and applied
art. In addition, he received hon-
orable mention in commercial art,
and honors in five other subjects.
fc,3k 64.,'_�1.
YEARS AGONE
Interesting items gleaned from
The Huron Expositor of 25, 50
and 75 years ago.
SKETCH
BOOK
(By J. R. HOLDEN)
By the time this weekly paper
has been received into the homes
of the readers it will be the day
after the opening of the great
evangelistic campaign in New
York City. During the next three
months the world's largest and
richest city will be confronted
with the evangel as it never has
been before. Heading this gospel
invasion is Billy Graham, that un-
usually gifted and consecrated
servant of Christ, who preaches
with much certainty. The public
meetings willelectentered in iVtadt=
son Square Gardens,, but there will
be other meetings throughout the
Metropolitan area. The witness
and efforts of many Christian
workers will be involved, as num-
bers of volunteers assist the mem-
bers of the Billy Graham team.
It is encouraging to learn that
for two years, fifteen hundred
Protestant churches of various
denominations have been prepar-
ing for this great spiritual cam-
paign. Yet it is strongly realiz-
ed that ultimate success depends
upon the working of the Holy Spir-
it, and so great emphasis has been
placed on prayer. As the campaign
swings into action, some groups
are meeting for night -long prayer
sessions. -
There are, of course, many sin-
cere Christians in New York, but
in this great. city there are to be
found many evils, and the spiritual
need of multitudes of her people
is a burden on the .hearts of those
who are directing and assisting in.
this crusade. Christians every-
where might well pray for a spiri-
tual awakening in this world capi-
tal which will bring thousands up-
on thousands to Christ, and exert
an influence for good which will
be felt throughout the world.
land, has been sold to Mr. George
Graham, of Mitchell, for $1,900.
Mrs. John Anderson and daugh-
ter, Miss Clara, have moved to
Kippen and reside in the residence
of Mr. Gilbert Dick.
The most disastrous fire in the
history of Clinton, was started on
Monday afternoon in the works of
the Clinton Thresher Company.
The Rattenbury Hotel was also a
total loss, and many other build-
ings were damaged. The total
loss will amount to over $70,000.
Mr. James Dale, of Constance,
sold and delivered a fine team of
horses Saturday, for which he re-
ceived the handsome sum of $500.
Miss Mary Finlayson, of Eg-
mondville, is at present taking a
stenographic course in the Busi-
ness College at Clinton.
Mr Lloyd, Hudson, of H.ensall
Lodge No. 223, at a recent district
meeting, held at Clinton, was vot-
ed and appointed District Deputy
Grand Master for South Huron for
the incoming term, following Mr.
Ed. Dignan as Past D.D.G.M.
Mr. Fraser Oliver, of Staffa, was
one of the graduates at McMas-
the University, Hamilton, t his
week. He is a former student of
Seaforth Collegiate Institute and at
University .took his degree in,
mathematics and physics.
Mr. Jack C Crich and Miss .Mar-
garet Crich attended the Camp
Franklin reunion at London on Sat-
urday night,
Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Hillis and son
of Toronto, are guests at the home
of Mrs. George Turnbull.
From The Huron Expositor
May 17, 1907
Mr. William A. Crich, of Crich
Bros., is having the material laid
down for the erection of a hand-
some new red brick residence on
his lot, north of Mr. Watson's of -
light of day, to tear down the Can= fiee oil Neetb Iain Street, Ile ex-,
adian Parliament!" a pacts to have it completed and
Mr, Defenbaker, last year the
N*, 2 Conservative debater, fol-
lowed a sort of mixed active and
detached course during the pipe
line debate. Occasionally, he spoke
in his customary fulsome, actorial
style, He held himself aloof from
the procedural tangles, as did How-
ard Green (P.C,, Vancouver -Qua.
dra). Mr, Diefenbaker was the
only ,Conservative not to boycotts.
the' Rovat Ascent ceremony foir
t rpipe illri
�tl
ready for occupancy this fall.
Mr. Robert Willis has purchased
a handsome driving mare from
Dickson Bros., of McKillop, to re-
place the one which died last win-
ter.
Mr. Ed. Barnett has been award-
ed the contract for watering Sea -
forth streets, the price being 34V
cents per hour,
'ire pro�'arty bel ngiii to the
%"e usort
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State tile; late g
Postal Information
Monday, May 20, being a statu-
tory holiday, the Post Office main
doors will be- open from 7 a.m.
(EDST) to 6 p.m. (EDST). The
wickets will be open for all phases
of business from 12 noon until 1
p.m. (EDST). All incoming and
outgoing mail will be handled as
usual. Rural deliveries will be
made.
Patrons are again advised that
mails for despatch close at noon,
2:45 p.m., 7.15 p.m. and 8 p.m. To
ensure proper delivery, address
your mail fully, clearly and with-
out misleading abbreviations, and
place your return address in the
upper left hand corner of the art-
icle being mailed. Please have
your mail addressed to your post
office box number, to general de-
livery, or to the proper rural route
number.
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It Should Be Fun
For the average person, garden-
ing' is a healthy recreation or fun
and it should remain so. It should
not mean' a lot of hard work, fa-
tigue and frustration. And with a
little discretion, planning and the
proper use- of reasonably priced
and available labour savers, gar-
dening will be an interesting re-
creation and not a chore.
To keep it so the beginner is ad-
vised --'to keep - -operations • -within_
reason and simple, or in plainer
words, not to bite off more than
he can chew with pleasure.
It is far better to have a small
garden which one can keep clean
and healthy, than a great big one
where the weeding, thinning and
cultivating never gets done or at
least finished. The beginner is al-
so advised to introduce brand new
varieties a few at a time, not to
experiment with a dozen complete-
ly' new varieties in a single season.
Like a good book or record collec-
tion, the garden is best built up
gradually with a few new things
added each year.
And one should always remem-
ber that in this day and age with
gardening as with almost anything
else, there are all sorts of devices
to make things easier. There -are
chemicals that kill weeds and
bugs. There are special fertilizers
that build up the soil. There is a
wide range of hand tools that make
weeding, cultivation quick and ef-
fective. And there are garden
tractors, power lawn mowers,
sweepers, garden carts that get the
tough jobs done in a twinkling.
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Little Jennie said to her neigh-
bor, "You don't keep roomers at
your house, do you?"
The neighbor answered, "Why,
of course not, Jennie. Why did
you ask that?"
Jennie said, "Oh, I just over-
heard Mama telling Papa that
you're always running around with
your rumors."
A man and two children enter-
ed a restaurant and ordered three
plates and three glasses of water.
Then they produced sandwiches
and began to eat.
"Here," roared the
"what are you doing?"
"And who are you?"
man._
"I'm the manager."
"Good,"said the man. "I was
just going to send for you. Why
isn't the orchestra playing?"
manager,
least two or three times. In vege-
tables for instance, they w11 only
use up a third or quarter of their
seed and garden space Lie first.
week -end, then 10 days or two,
weeks later make another plant-
ing and 10 days later again an-
other. With such quick growing.
things as beans, carrots, lettuce
and beets, they make regular'
planting right up to mid-July and
they also use with standard vege-
tables like corn, beans and peas
ea- r1y, medium and 7a`te varieties.
In this way the harvest is spread
over months instead of days.
Quick Bloomers
While no gardener would want
all of his garden to bloom early,.
leaving nothing for late summer
and fall, still it is nice to know
what will rush to bloom fast from
spring planted seeds. Here are the
quickest annuals to flower: Alys-
sum, Candytuft, Clarkia, Linaria,
Nemophila and Dwarf French Mar-
igolds.
Split -Levels
Instead of grumbling about an
uneven location for the lawn and
grounds about the home, the smart
gardener will turn any differences
in level into an intriguing asset.
This is especially true where the
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size.
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Instead of trying to make the lawn
dead level or on an exact slope,
he will build it in two or more dis-
tinct levels. Then these are con-
nected with a bit of stone wall or
a clump'of shrubbery or trees, or
a flower garden, trellis or hedge
and perhaps a path and a set of
a few steps. These breaks here
and there, provided there is a real
reason for them like a change in
slope, add great interest. On fair-
sized grounds one should not be
able to see everything from one
position. It is far more exciting
to have to move about so that the
full beauty and interest of the
grounds unfold.
Spread Them Out
Canadians are supposed to be a
pretty cautious sort of people but
when it comes to gardening they
have a tendency to rush things.
It is all very well to get some
flowers and vegetables planted ex-
tra early and of course the sooner
nursery stock and grass seed are
in the better. But with a great
many flowers and vegetables and
in all but the farthest north parts
of the country, one should. plant
gradually.
Experienced gardeners w h o
want to get the most of their
vegetables and the longest display
of bloom from their flowers make
a regular practice of sowing at
asked the
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From 'The Huron Expositor
May 19, 1882
Mr. Andrew Govenlock's store at
Winthrop was entered by burglars
on Tuesday night of last week.
The safe being unlocked, the draw-
ers were ramsacked, but nothing
is missing, either from the safe or
the store. Entrance was effected
through a back window.
One of the barns of Mr. Young,
London Road, near Brucefield, was
unroofed during the severe wind-
storm of Wednesday night of last
week.
Mr. James McCluskey, of the 4th
concession of McKillop, who last
summer built a fine' brick resi-
dence, has raised his barn and is
building a stone foundation under
it.
The contract for the erection of
the new fence at the schoolhouse
has been awarded to Sperling &
Tyerman for $75, their tender be-
ing the lowest. The work of paint-
ing and sanding the fence along
the front of the school grounds has
been awarded to Mr. James
Graves for the sum of $49.50. It
is to receive three coats of paint
and a coat of sand.
A new book and fancy goods
store has been opened in Camp-
bell's block by Mr. A. Weir.
Mr. William Logan has disposed
of his boot and shoe business to
Mr. Good, formerly of Brussels.
Mr. William McFarlane, of the
Bayfield Road, Stanley, has sold
since the first of February, 185
dozen eggs for which he has re-
ceived the sum of over $27. This'
is the product of 40 hens, besides
what was used by a family of
eight persons. The highest price
receive was 18 cents• per dozen,
and the lowest price 13, cents.
Mr. James McLean, f Was
Lon-
don
on
don Road, near itippen, was offer-
ed and; teased the .very handsome
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Plumber arriving three hours
after the call: "How's things, Mr.
Brown?"
The happy Mr. Brown: `'Not so
bad. While we were waiting I
taught the maid .how to swim."
Huron Farm News
Most of the spring grain seeding
has been completed and the farm-
ers welcomed the recent rain. A
few farmers have started planting
corn. Some of the alfalfa fields
were touched' with the recent frost.
Pastures have made excellent
growth and farmers are turning
their cattle out. Adequate pasture
will be available now that the rain
has aided pasture conditions.
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