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SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, MAY 14, 1934
Seaforth Acts In Clean Up Campaign
Nothing in a town can spoil an other-
wise favorable impression more quick-
ly than a delapidated building, a clut-
ter of abandoned machines, or a yard
full of rusting car wz'lecks. For this
reason, the action which Council took
Monday night to clean --up_ such
tions in Seaforth will be welcomed by
citizens who take a pride in their own
premises and in the town generally.
• While promising every co-operation,
Council -has made it plain it intends,
if necessary, to apply_ the provisions
of covering bylaws to achieve results.
It is true that in some cases there
• may be a very good reason for such
a condition existing. Unfortunately,
however, the visitor to town cannot be
expected to know this. He forms an
impression ''61 .the community as a
whole; and in doing so he balances the
good things—the neat streets, the parks
and lawns—against the cluttered yaiAds
,and unsightly wrecks.
Council's 'action coincides with the
annual Chamber of Commerce Clean -
Up Week and should do much to pro -
du ce a tidier and neater,Seaforth - to
produce a cominunity •which will be a
inbre pleasant place in which to live
and visit. Both Council and the Cham-
ber of Commerce deserve the whole-
hearted support of every citizen. After
all, it is the citizens that will benefit.
CIean-Up Week has contributed
much in years past to a tidier, cleaner
Seaforth. Emphasis on clean-up at
this time of year has resulted in ac-
cumulations of winter being removed,
which otherwise may have lingered in
gardens and around homes throughout
the summer.
This year Seaforth Council again is
providing assistance so that trash,
which is gathered at' residences across
town, will be removed without charge.
There can be no excuse now for untidy
yards or lawns.
Only he who handles his adeas light-
ly is master of his ideas—and onlyy he
who is master of his adeas is not en-
slaved by: them. Seriousness is only a
sign of imperfect mastery. — Lin
Yutang.
The common characteristic of peo-
ple make a community possible, but it
is their uncommon qualities that make
it better. ---John H. Fischer.
I am only an average, man but, by
George, I .work harder at it than the
average man.—Theodore Roosevelt.
By the time a man gets to greener
pastures, he can't climb the fence.—
Red Morley.
TO THE EDITOR
Congratulations to.
Editor, Huron Expos tor : May 5th.
Dear Sir: May I, please,
through your paper, publicly
express a sincere and -very ap-
preciative `thank you' to the
students and, staff of our High
School, who were such perfect
hosts and hostesses to all those
who were able to accept their
invitations to the "At Home"
last Friday evening?,
The students had gone to a
great deal of effort and worked
hard and conscientiously (with
lots of fun, too, I'm sure) to
decorate the auditorium, •-halls,
cafeteria' and classrooms, and
they did a magnificient job. One
could virtually feel the atmos-
phere and romance of the
Orient!'
Some of the students must
the
have had the 'foresight to visu-
alize the beauty of 'the finished
results .of their suggestions;
others were able toexecute.
those ideas through their artis-
tic . talents; still others contri-
buted their 'constructive, abili-
ties,;' whilst others again helped
to bring about the complete co-'
ordination of all these sugges-
tions and. practical abilities by
filling in' the essential details
of good organizing, .etc., etc.
It is most gratifying to 'see
the great variety of talents of
our young people being dis-
played in such a wide field and
on such an exceptionally high
standard.
The . Students' Council, andindeed all the students and staff
who helped in any way at all--
decorating, organizing, making
SDHS
and serving the delicious lunch,
sending out the invitations, and
I'm sure, may -more jobs of
which your guests know noth-
ing --all deserve a great deal
of praise. It was a wonderful,
evening, with congenial ` and
happy people in delightful sur-
roundings, and with beautiful
music to suit all ages.
We commend.you all on a
job well done, and hope that
next year many more will he
able to accept your invitations
to enjoy one of the highlights
of the`Ifigh School year. Stu-
dent: I know ypur principal,
staff and parents are proud of
you—so is your community,
Thank you again!. Best wish-
es to you all.
Yours sincerely,
AN APPRECIATIVE GUEST
In the Years Agone
From The Huron Expositor
May. 19, 1934
The softball season opens 'in
aforth on Friday evening,
when Seaforth will play an ex-
hibition 'game with Tavistock.
The Seaforth Turf Club meet
on Victoria Day ,.is assured a
large entry of outstanding hors-
es, all anxious to share in the
$600 in prize money being of-
fered, according to R. B.
Holmes, secretary.
When Their Majesties King
George and Queen Elizabeth 1
stop in Stratford on June 6th, a
,one of the police on duty will
be Chief Constable Helmar e
Snell of Seaforth.
PUC workmen. commenced
this week the first step in the
removal of Goderich Street hy,
adro and telephone poles from
• Goderich Street,""When a start r
was made in erecting a new
Iii at •the rear of Goderich a
St eet properties. Meanwhile, b
Be 1 Telephone workmen are e
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proceeding with the rebuild
of their distribution ' syst
throughout the town in re
ing sow from 10 to 30 acres.
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ness for the installation of
common battery system, whi
is expected to be cut in duri
September.
Mr. and Mrs. Wallace Ro
have moved into their n
home on North Main Stre
which Mr. Ross recently pu
chased from Mr. Chas. Holm
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Mr. Richard Box, son of 111
and Mrs. E. L. Box, who recen
y underwent an operation
cute appendicitis in Sc
Memorial Hospital, has suffi
ntly recovered to be able
e removed to his home,
From The Huron Expositor
May 17, 1889. '
Mr. Henry Colbert has corn
menced the work of repairing
and reconstruction of the Eg
mondville brewery, , which' wa
damaged by fire some time
ago.
A Macduff Ottawa Report
RALLY ROUND THE FLAG
OTTAWA—A flag, says' the -age, considering. that the Cana
.• statement was not. without cour
dictionary;') is "a light cloth - dran • Legion, or its leaders a
bearing a device or devices to least, is foursquare in favor o
indicate nationality, p a r t y, the Red Ensign as the nation
etc. . . flag. •
It does seem a simple enough In his quest for a nationa
thine to define a flag, at least gag, Mr: E.caisoii can -not edm-
for doctionary-makers. It's not plain of lack. of help. Cana -
so easy for Prime Ministers. dians have been busy designing
• During the last two election .flags and sending them.to the
-campaigns, the Liberals pledg. Government for years. Mr.
ed themselves to produce a dis- Pearson now has at least 2,500
tinctive national flag within two to choose from.
Tower, and we'll salute it.”
With the final decision will
comea kind of relief and un -
al questionably a new sense of
pride in nation. Admittedly it
1 may be a. bit like getting mar-
ried . for the first time at the
- age of 97. Nations usually
choose their flags at the time
they are born. We didn't, "arida
it therefore becomes more dif- -
ficult with each passing day.
The longer Mr. Pearson waits,
the lower. ;flies the flag of na- h
ways e p u . One design tional unity
years of taking office. They are The suggestions have not al -
in office now, and have been beenhelpful
or more than a year. calls for a plain '.white cloth
Prime Minister Pearson there- with the world "flag" on one
fore has less than a year to side and "drapeau" on -the oth=
run something up the' flagpole er. Another, obviously com-
'which all Canadians Will salute. menting rather bitterly on the
If his time in office has seem relatiens of Canada's two cul --
ed• long to him until now, Mr. tures,/has a . beaver sitting on
Pearson may well find the next a frog' on -a white field.
year all too short., • Those who value the 'Tied En -
As his self-imposed deadline sign highly, of course, tend to.
approaches, Mr. Pearson may consider any move for a new
find that the flag—symbol of flag as insulting and disloyal..
unity , in most lands --will be- It is not that. There is a deep
come •a symbol of disunity in- yearning among many Cana --
Canada. dians right across the land for
His dilemma is that to do a distinctive flag of their own,
nothing about a new flag would Most of them, even those who
very' likely endanger national resent the Union Jack flying
unity .to an even greater ex- over Ontario schools, do - not
tent. resent the Red Ensign. But
Sugar and . Spite
By -Bill Smiley ,
WISE .WORDS FROM WILL'
Everybody is writing abou
Shakespeare these days. Th
only sour note' in the fanfar
of acclaim marking his 400th
anniversary is a deep, rumbling
sound that has many people
baffled.
A few romantics claim it is
the ghostly applause of nearly
four centuries of playgoers,
echoing down the years: A few
realists assert that- it is the
multinous mumbling of twenty
generations of students who
had to memorize chunks from
his works.
Personally, I think t h e
cordant note is caused by. the
rapid rotation in his grave of
the. bones ,pf• The Bard, a
shrewd businessman, as he ag-
onizes over all those royalties
he is not collecting.
Otherwise, things are going
swimmingly as the critics and
professors of English peer and
peek and poke among the mag-
nificent debris, and the inane
argument about who really
wrote his plays waxes once
more with futile fury.
But I'm not concerned with,
that. There -are enough people
plodding about through his
works, trampling poetry under-
foot as they search for clues to
prove that he was really Bacon
or Marlowe or the . Earl of
Something.
Let's look for a moment at
the real Will Shakespeare.
We find him in the hundreds
of brief passages that have '
come ringing down the years
with their universal truths. He
had to put them in the mouths
of others, of course, but the
man himself is there, warm,
live, grinning, scowling, scold -
hg, exulting. •
What could be more human,
for example, than his pride in
is .own success? When the op- 5
ening night performance of t
Hamlet showed that the play
t was a smash, he deftly insert-
ed in the last scene, and en
e the spur of the moment, the
joyful••line, "A hit, -a very plap-
able hit!"
We can see his amused tol-
erance of his wife's lack of
muscle in another famens line,
She'd been spring cleaning and
had slipped a disc while try-
ing to move an old trunk full
of sonnets. "Fraility, thy name
is woman," quipped Will.
We can sympathize with his
honest rage (this was before
dry-clp,.aning) as he scrubbed
the gravy -stain on his new silk
breeches and bellowed, "Out,
damned; spot! Out, I say!"
What man's heart does not
warm to The Bard's forthright
suggestion, in Henry VI, Part
2, "The first "thing we do, is
kill all the lawyers." '"
Is there a housewife living
who has not echoed, at some
time, Shakespeare's immortal
comment when his wife came
home from the butcher with a
stringy roast, "This is the most
unkindest cut of all"?
Many a man has, wished he
had the gift, and the nerve,
that Will displayed- the- night
he got home from the pub, tid-
dly and. -.tardy, and when con-
fronted by his wife, her mister,
and his mother-in-law. Did he
say he was sorryy and would
never do it again? Not he. Re
roared, "Iow now, you secret, '
black and midnight hags!"
fie knew men, as witness:
"'Tis ever common that men
are merriest when they are
from home." He knew women,
too. "There was never yet a
fair woman but she made
mouths in a glass." • "
As this piece of research
ends, I can hear amultitude of
English teachers saying, in linin
on, "For this reliefmuch.
hanks."
Any man must cringe when they dog not consider it as the
caught in a vise like that, and kind of national ftag ' under
Mr
. Pearson hasn't exactly been which Canada sh Id
rushing into, a decision. A soft ou grow and
prosper in the years to come.
trend is essential in a matter The Red Ensign, true enough,
which on the 'surface at Least%has a semi-official status. It was
touches the' varied forms of designated„ in an order-in-coun-
Canadian patriotism at several til passed in 1946 as the ap-
tender points. propriate flag to fly over Gov -
But Mr. Pearson has pledged ernment establishments on ap-
himself to` make a decision, a propriate occasions. '
decision he plainly regards as But it is not the official flag
momentous. In a sense his oth- of Canada and probably never
er problems pale by compari• will be. It may be retained,
son. Cyprus, separatism,`unem- however, for special occasions
ployment; balance of payments when the Queen, the Governor-
-all are comlilex and difficult General, 'or Lieutenant-Gover-
problems which can only be nors are present.
solved by the action of -'a great The distinctive nationals flag
many people and; a great many of Canada will be something
different•levels of authority. quite different. Prince Minister.
But the flag problem is agon- Pearson is known to favor the
izingly simple. The Govern- Maple Leaf.
ment must decide. It must pro- It may be he has -alreadyr de-
duce a flag. It must stand 'on cided on the design. A, new
the razor's ed u a of bl'
g i n s amp bears three
ion when it.does, maple Ieaves on a single stem.
Mr. Pearson has been mov- There has been a great deal of
ing towards a decision, slowly, speculation that this. is the de -
reluctantly, like a man advanc- sign the Government fa f
ing into the lion's den
ing into the shadows for a first It is probably• no. accident
sight of the beast. that the design is part of the,
At Espanola, Ontario, in his armorial bearings of Canada al -
own' riding recently, Mr. Pear- ready, and has been for more
son 'told a Royal Canadian Le- than 40 years;,
gion meeting that he hoped ` This flag -stamp has already
- soon to be able to introduce excited considerable enthusi-
symbols of national unity. ' am and approval. There is a
He, wasn't all that brave, of strong feeling- that if it were
s course. He didn't come right chosen, it would quickly be ac -
out and say that symbols of cepted by most Canadians. As
national unity meant a••"distinc- Creditiste •Gi11es Gregoire said
tive Canar#
and peer- a flag.
vors or
• -'As an evidence of the exten-
r. sive business being done at the
t- Broadfoot & Box Furniture Fac -
for tory in this town, we may state
ort that they have now on - their
ci- books orders ahead for over 10
to carloads of furniture.
A meeting of the ratepayers
will be held in the Town Hall
this evening to consider the
° electric light question. There
e- should be a large turnout, as
t- this question is of vital impor-
I- tante to. the town.
0 Mr. Thomas Campbell,.of the
h- '7th concession of McKillop, has
fi- the best fall wheat in the, coun-
ri- ty. It is -18 inches in height.
i- A Clinton man, who is about
d- to build a house, recei tly ask=
d ed for tenders for its erection,
1- and received the following of-
fers: $750, $745, $730, $725,
- $710. and $705.
- Mrs. Alex McKinnon, of the
. 10th concession, has purchased
e the farm of John Dunibp. There
are about 30 acres cleared, and
it was purchased for the sum
e of $900.
f A new school section has
been formed in McKillop, with.
Roxboro ,as its centre. A meet-
, ing was held las week for the
purpose of organa g and the
officers are as follow trustees,
Messrs. Thomas E. Hays, Jas. .
McDowell, .and John McMillan.
The new school will be built on
Mr. Jamie,, Scott's farm and will
likely be opposite John' Aitche-
son's.
From The Huron Expositor
May 15, 1914
The trustee board of God
ich Public School have adop
e the following scales of sa
ries for teachers: That $45
e the initial salary for teac
rs With second 'class certi
ates and two . years' expe
nee; that $70.0 be the max
um salary for teachers hol
g a first class certificate an
ore than two years' ekper
nee.
Last week, fishermen at Bay
eld sold eight tons of fish va
ed at $800 to Buffalo dealers
ices averaged about fiv
nth a pound.
Grain boats have moved in
Goderieh harbor and 'hay
loaded as0,tmo bushels o
rain.
The old stage line between
russels and Seaforth, started
er 50 years ago, had to ' be
scontinued last week on ac-
unt of the mail route being
perceded by rural delivery.
Seedirfg in the surrounding
trier is mostly done and the
fax
.have • been greatly de.
ted. with t'lie frequent rains.
e workers are now on the
d busily' making ready for
and beam, The bean in-
t has become
see on very
some
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Around most
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Newspapers are the only
medi`utti offering the magnetic
appear of classified ads,
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an flag. But his "Select it, hoist it on the Peace
THE HOME TEAM by Wirth
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"I hatesprin i All the boys just' stand • arou d day•
dreaming about fishing, swirnining, boating '� -
HABKIRK TRANSIT SERVICE.
NOW Offers Daily
BUS SER -VICE
SEAFORTH TO RCAF STATION CLINTON
via Egmondville and Brucefield
Bus will pick up and discharge passengers at any corner or fann
lane and along route, in town
Express Parcel Services Available
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4:35 7:30 SEAFORTH - ' 8:25 5:20
4:37 7:32 - EGMONDVILLE 8:23 5:18
4:45 7.:40 BRUCEFIELD 8:15 5:10
4`:50 7:45 - RCAF CLINTON 8;10 5:05
SAMPLE FARES:
Cash Tickets
Seaforth to Egmondville .15 5 for .50
- Seaforth to RCAF Clinton .30 5 for 1.00
IST SEAFORTH, THE. BUSES WILL FOLLOW THE ROUTE
INDICATED BELOW
at the commencement and completion of each trip
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