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SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, OCTOBER, 17, 1963
Problem Rests With People
There has been much discussion of
late concerning the so-called decline of
Parliament. The press and assorted
speakers refer to splinter groups and
the way they attempt by fillibuster to
thwart the intentions of the majority ;
to the official opposition playing poli-
tics at every opportunity, seemingly in-
terested only in petty political gains
and unconcerned with the country's
problems.
Among those most critical are those
who assume no responsibility. For af-
ter all Parliament is people and the
selection of those people begins in the
towns and townships and cities across
Canada, and the degree of interest
which the average citizen takes in the
democratic process determines the kind
of parliament we have.
Senator Grattan O'Leary stressed
this fact when ,he addressed the Cana-
dian Club in Ottawa recently, and urg-
ed business and professional leaders to
"get down into the dusty arena of party
politics."
He askedhis audience how many of
them attended nominating conventions
and tried to make themselves. personal-
ly responsible for the choice of party
candidates.
"Why is it that in Canada so few of
our business and professional leaders
will permit themselves to stand for Par-
liament?" he asked.
The Conservative senator, president
of the Ottawa Journal, 'referred to a list
of the club's founding members.
"These men, highly successful in
their own affairs, weren't content to sit
at home and in their clubs and -.criti-
cize ... They got down into the dusty
arena of politics to do the menial chores
of party politics.
It was not enough for today's busi-
ness and professional leaders to pass
resolutions in chambers of commerce
and boards of trade. Their high ideals
and aspirations would mean nothing un-
til somebody wrote a law, Senator
O'Leary said.
"That law will be written by a poli-
tician. And that law will be no better
and no wiser than the men who write
it," he said.
Sir Wilfrid Laurier's prediction that
the twentieth century would belong to
Canada would not be fulfilled "if we
allow popular government to pass into -
popular indifference."
"Democracy is the task of all of us.
If that task be refused, rejected and
denied, we shall deserve that saddest
of all epitaphs in the human story—
the epitaph of a vanished freedom," he
said.
Little Less Talk . .
The following is an address
given by Rev. D. 0. Fry of First
Presbyterian Church, before
members of Seaforth Lions
Club:
Now, if this title doesn't
mean much to you, don't let it
worry you. It doesn't mean
much to me either. But it does
sound rather intriguing, doesn't
it? Shaping tomorrow today. I
don't think every speech needs
a title. But, you know, I'm the
kind that learns fast. I've had
many occasions when I 'have
been invited to speak to an
audience. And each time my
U wife will ask me before the fin-
al hour arrives, what I'm going
to talk about? I found that if
I entered into a long oration
about my chosen subject; the
point :I was going to make; the
sub -headings, . and so on, she'd
look at me as if to say: "Are
you going to say all that?" So
I found when I chose a simple
little title and quoted that when
asked about my speech, she was
perfectly content to let it go
at that. Perhaps, like most wo-
men, she felt if I was going to
say all that it wouldn't leave
much room for her to say any-
thing.
Shaping tomorrow today! It
is true, isn't it? That is exact-
ly what we are doing. Every
day we live is a building block
for tomorrow. Every day, in
what we do and in what we
say, we lay the foundation up-
on which tomorrow is being
built. Let me be lazy and care-
less#, today, and, my tomorrow
will be hectic, to say the least.
But, let ma be diligent„ determ-
ined; creative today, andwy to,
morrow will bring me. reward:
This is life ---and, them is no
escaping it—so. long as we are
alive today we are fashioning
or shaping, our tomorrow,
ow
I would like. you, to think,.
about this, in; two. wayss In
terms of the, things that we are.
doing todait, and ins tams of
the things we are not doing.
And to avoid being critical and
pessimistic, and for reasons of
clarity and being positive, let
us think of our shaping of our
tomorrow under these, headings:
A Little Less Talk; A Loving
Heart, and A Little More Ac-
tion.
You will agree with me that
our tomorrow seems to be head-
ed for outer -space. The truth
of this is , evident in a state-
ment by Robert Cross, chair-
man of Lockheed Aircraft Cor-
poration, who said: "Ninety
per cent of all scientists in
world history are alive and
working today, and more of
them are engaged in space pro-
jects than in any other field."
These men are devoting their
lives in the world today to live
on other planets tomorrow. The
big problem for many big
brains today is how to get a
waft In space. 1 wish them the
best .of Irick in this venture.
But.1' Winitd also remind them.
that there are other probleuta•
to bd^ faded, today; and 1 would
•i
only plead for a little more de-
termined effort in solving some
of these. If my grandchildren
want to live on Mars, I say,
"Well and good," but before
they go I want them to learn
how to live peaceably with all
men on this planet—earth. Let
me bring order and peace and
love to my fellowmen round
about me today, and then I can
live in harmony with all the
stars of heaven tomorrow.
The story is told of a lead-
ing scientist in Cape Canaveral.
The hour for the big blast-off
was approaching; if all went
well it would be at dawn the
next day. The Professor was
surrounded by complicated in-
struments to read every sign
of weather change—telescopes,
radar equipment, pressure in-
struments, barometers, radio—
and he looked determined and
anxious at the readings he was
recording, then he turned to his
assistant and announced: "It's
going to rain." The assistant
rushed to the Professor's side,
and peering intently at the lat-
est report, he said: "Sir, what
makes you think so?" `Be-
cause," said the scientist, "my
corns hurt."
A Little Less Talk
I wonder, if to some degree,
this is the mistake we often
make. All our energies and in-
tellect concentrated on an il-
lusive problem, and all the
while we do nothing about our
aching corns upon which we
have to stand. All this is just
to lead into my first, plea;. A
Little Less Talk..
All of us are prone to enjoy
hearing ourselves., talk. We like
to be given: the opportunity to.
tell all we. know, on, a, subject,
and, often • we• continue to, talls4
long atter we, have exhausted,
our, knowledge', You can ask
any man on the street. what
ought to be done about divided.
Berlin. or. how. President IKKn,
nedy should deal. with Premier
Hruschev, or how South Africa,
can, solve its racial tensions„
and you will hear answers that
will astound you. The average
man on the street is a walking
encyclopedia.
Now, mind you, I am not sug-
gesting that these and other
great problems should not be
talked over 'carefully and in-
telligently. If we do no less,
we ought to give such prob-
lems the attention of our dis-
cussion. To say that we can
solve the great issues and com-
plex difficulties facing our gen-
eration without talking them
over, is to be absurd. There
are no simple solutions to the
great questions facing our day
and age, and only a fool would
claim that life is easy to un-
derstand. To grapple verbally
with questions of human rela-
tionships—nuclear warfare, the
growing menace of communism,
crime and delinquency --this is
good and proper, and we should
devote much time to search out
honest answers. Sontetitnea it
cafe be trtdy said that ;more
things are wrought by talk than
this world dreams of."
But let us here be warned
that talk, as an end in • itself,
can be fruitless and fatal. Men
can become mere talkers about
life and yet never really come
to grips with its issues and re-
sponsibilities. They become, not
doers of the word, but talkers
only. Too often too many of
us talk in generalities. We meet
great questions of life and
mighty problems of world im-
portance with a verbal blast
from our vocabulary, but we
prefer to keep these matters in
the general and discuss them
without coming to any decisions,
or demanding any. action.
Have you ever noticed in your
organization, in your club, in
your group—and I am not here
alone talking about the Church
—but have you ever noticed
that there might be a perfectly
obvious reason for doing some-
thing in the community, and
then someone stands up and
suggests we take a survey.
"Wait a minute! Wait a min-
ute!" they shout. `Let's talk it
over." That cry has sent many
a good intention to the scrap
heap. I am tired of hearing
about long conferences- and
roundtable discussions and top-
level meetings, that spend long
hours, or 'even days, in arriv-
ing at nothing more than a
definition. Then they adjourn
to meet again at some date in
the future. In this connection,
the. Rev. William Ralph Inge,
Dean of St. Paul's, commented:
"It is useless for the sheep to
pass resolutions infavor of veg-
etarianism while the wolf re-
mains, of a, different. opinion,"
A little less, taut . . . and a
little mare action.
A. Loving, Heart
Christianity's. approa , to life
is. nottalk.or philoso,
concrete decisionan perform-
ance. It is not a, theory but an
encounter. Read, the. Cixristianis
Bible and you are impressed
with the ringing notea of prac-
tical, specific deeds that are de-
mantled of the disciples of the
Master. The Gospel is a sharp
command to test your belief—
by
eliefby acting upon it. When I obey
that command, then I know it
works. I don't have to talk
about it—I have done it. If I
ean't solve even one great prob-
lem in the world, I can still
offer a helping hand to some-
one.
But in shaping our tomorrow
by our deeds of today, I would
also plead for a Little More
Heart.
We, in our world, don't need
to hear nearly so much intelli-
gent talk as we need to see
love in action. We don't need
the glib tongue nearly so much
as the good spirit. Not so much
the brainy head is needed, as
the big heart.
Now, here again, I am not
advocating that we do away
with education. Christianity
brings enlightenment and truth
to the mind. The heritage of
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6
What did you do, old friend,
on Thanksgiving week - end?
Whatever it was, it could not
have been anything but pleas-
ant on this odd, pagan holiday,
so peculiarly Canadian.
I know. We imported it from
the States. But we have made.
it very much our own, and it
has a flavor that is purely Can-
adian, much different from the
Thanksgiving observed across
the line.
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Pagan? Yes, indeed. It should
be a religious time, with the
entire population on its knees,
giving thanks with full hearts.
The percentage of the popu-
lace that is on its knees on
Thanksgiving Day could. prob-
ably be accommodated in, a
couple of trolley cars, The
restare on their wheels, their
feet, or their tails.
Thanksgiving weekend marks
the last gay, mad fling of the
Canadian people before they
get down to the serious busi-
ness of trying to stay sane
through another winter.
_ It's the weekend to charge
about the country, visiting rel-
atives or friends, pointing wild-
ly to the last furious . fling of
color in the trees, making the
last nostalgic trip to the cot-
tage, getting . out in the boat
for one, final buzz.
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It's the weekend to tramp
the lush, fall fairways for that
last, blasphemous game of golf,
to stroll the muted woods with
a gun, to wade the navel -deep
ice -water for that last rainbow
trout.
It's the weekend to sit in
your favorite chair, cold beer
to hand,and watch _all the foot-
ball games on television, your
peace broken only by the mad-
dening aroma of roasting tur-
key.
Or, if you're the domestic
type, it's the weekend fa% quiet
pleasures, deeper satisfactions:
putting on the storm windows,
raking and burning leaves,
bringing in your bulbs.
Not exactly a religious holi-
day, is it? I think there's a
great dumb feeling of thankful-
ness in Canadians at this time
of year, but it doesn't manage
to break through the pagan
rituals with which we have sur-
rounded the occasion.
I'm not complaining; merely
observing. But every year, at
Thanksgiving, I make personal
and lonely effort to take an
hour off from the fun, compose
my features into a suitable sol-
emn expression, and think
about the things for which I
should be thankful. I don't
have to search, Sometimes I
can do it in 10 minutes.
The firstthing for which I
am thankful is being alive. Hun-
dreds of ' millions aren't, and.
look at what they're missing!
The second is food, I have been
hungry, and it's the moat de-
grading, demoralizing, soul-de-
stroying illness in this world.
es
Another reason es be thank-
ful is for freedom. In this
country, we have a personal
freedom to speak, work and
worship that is. beyond the wild-
est dreams of the majority of
our fellow humans.
Health is a reason for rais-
ing thanks. I can no longer out-
strip a gazelle, but I can out-
run a 60 -year-old lady with arth-
ritis. I can't swim. five miles
any more, but I can swim far-
ther than my wife. That's good
enough.
Work you like is reason for
thankfulness. I like mine. It's
too hard, and I don't make en-
ough money, and I'm always
behind in it, but I like it. En-
vironment is another source of
thankfulness. I wouldn't trade
my oak tree and my black squir-
rels, my, favorite trout. stream
and my partridge -haunted woods
for the Taj Mahal with Liz Tay-
lor in residence.
There you are. Out of space,
and I've barely started. Try it.
You don't know how rich you
are until you begin to count.
More Action
the Church and the Christian
is steeped in scholarship and
schooling. The Christian peas-
ant, poet or king, have minds
attuned to God, and knowledge
of things unseen and eternal.
But the failing of our world
is that we claim for education,
for brains, those things that ed-
ucation is not able to fulfill. As
a cure-all, education is far from
adequate. To educate the world
is not to save the world We
have seen vast evidence in our
own generation what skill and
technical knowledge can do
when used by clever minds bent
on the enslavement of the
world. Our greatest threat to-
day is not from the uneducat-
ed tribesmen of Africa,- but
from educated men in Russia,
Germany, England, Un i t e d
States, and here at home. If
you separate the educated mind
from the conscience of the
heart, you produce a dagger
that threatens civilization. Whe-
ther we will admit it or not,
the Western world is secretly
hoping that the brains in Cape
Canaveral are a little brighter
than those in the Kremlin. We
are trusting foolishly that God
has given more gifts of intel-
lect to us than to our enemy.
We are turning our backs on
the undeniable truth that the
enemy has his share of bril-
liant minds too. And I would
suggest to you that if our only
dependence — our only safe-
guard, our only security—is in
the fact that we hope we have
superior mental power in the
West—then, my friend, we are
leaning on a weak reed indeed.
Some time. ago Bertrand Rus-
sell, whose view of religion is
dim, to say the least, confessed
that it now appears as if the
old-fashioned Christian virtue
of love may be necessary for
survival, Love! Love, mind
you! Surely modern progress
has led us beyond such simple
stuff as that! No, I'm afraid it
hasn't, for if you analyze the
progress of the world you will
soon discover that the only vic-
tories we have won in the face
of world difficulties are those
based on the simple matters of
sympathy with the suffering
and help for the weak. In
other words, we have won our
victories over difficulties and
differences, when our motive
came from a loving heart—not
from a brainy head.
A little story is told of Presi-
dent Tubman of Liberia. He
has wielded power and influ-
ence for a long time in his lit-
tle country. A native was once
asked the secret of the Presi-
dent's success, and he said:
"They have a saying here in
Liberia, that if a little boy out
in the bush stubs his toe, Presi-
dent Tillman says 'Ouch!'."
This is the quality the world
needs today in shaping the
world for tomorrow.
More Action
And now, briefly, this final
plea: A Little. More Action.
This, of course, is the .oldest
plea in recorded history of
mankind. It isthe plea that
runs through the Old Testa-
ment and continues in the New.
Amos speaks from the pages of
his prophecy, "I hate, I despise
your feasts, and I take no de-
light in your solemn assem-
blies." You gather together;
you put on a big show; you
talk incessantly — but it's all
share, and empty, and meaning-
less.
And in the next breath Amos
calls for action and describes
what ought to be: "Let. justice
roll down like waters, and
righteousness like an ever -flow-
ing stream." And it is echoed
in the New Testament and on
the lips of Christ: "Let your
light so shine before men, that
they may see your good works
and glorify your Father in
Heaven."
Mind you, the world today
owes much to talk and to in-
telligence. But the world to-
morrow will owe all it enjoys
to our actions of today. Care-
lessness and indifference in this
time of need; lethargy in ,this
desperate age of conflicts; com-
placency in an hour of prob-
lems and peril—could lead the
world towards an abyss into
which tomorrow could plunge
to darkness.
I think today we are hiding
behind a false assumption. that
one man can do nothing in the
mass of mankind; that an indi-
vidual today is helpless against
the odds created by crowds.
Yet, I think it is true, there
never was a time when the wit-
ness of an individual was so
influential and widespread as it
can be today. This factis evi-
denced in the remarks of lead-
ers of newcountries which are
growing up to independence,
and those leader& will gladly
confess their debt to a mission-
ary or; two who took Christ to
their country not many years
ago. If Asia and - Afriaa choose
democracy over communism, it
will be due primarily to the
men and women who have serv-
ed in lonely posts in the name
of Jesus Christ, The influence
of these scattered few is im-
measurable today, and may well
be the means of peace tomor-
row.
And so it can be in our own
small corner. It has been point-
ed out by a wise man that even
a slight increase in good deeds
on .the part of each of Xis
could change the world. Let
me remind you here that your
deeds are important to God,
and that even such small af-
fairs can be used by Hint to
redeem the world.
Will you allow me to relate
this whole matter to something
with which you are familiar
, to the story of the Good
Samaritan.
A 'lawyer came to Jesus and
asked Him a question, 'Chis
lawyer wanted to taik it over
ite wanted
to
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neigh -
holiness; he wad,
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THE, LONG DARK SHADOW OF AUTUMN
A. MACDUFF OTTAWA REPORT
SHARP SELJUN.G-
OrTAW.Au Canada,United
States relations were strained
over the recent, massive wheat
deals made by this. country..
The Americans were annoyed
at the price of wheat establish-
ed by the Canadian Wheat
Board in its sales.
With short crops in Europe
and the Russians and Chinese
obviously anxious to buy as
much wheat as they can get
their hands on, the United
States authorities were eager to
capitalize on the world situa-
tion and boost the price of
wheat. They hoped that by a
big jump in the world wheat
price they would be able to
realize some good returns on
sales of the surpluses of wheat
they have accumulated in Am-
erican bins.
But Canada faced with orders
from Japan and the British in
recent weeks has been anxious
not to appear to be gouging its
regular customers. Canada sells
wheat regularly to Britain, Ja-
pan and Germany. It did not
want to boost theprice to those
customers and accordingly held
down the price.
While the Wheat Board never
discloses the price at which it
makes deals it is known that
Canada recently agreed to sell
about 800,000 tons of wheat.to
Japan at a price that was about
five cents higher than the price
paid by the Soviet Union in its
$500,000,000 deal with Canada.
The British too are reported to
have made a deal to buy at
about the same price as the
Japanese paid.
The Americans were angry
because they would have liked
to see the price charged by the
Wheat Board raised by 15 cents
more than was charged the Rus-
sians, informed sources said
here. The United States officials
took the position that with the
world demand for wheat the
world price should go up and
the increase should be a sub-
stantial one.
The U.S. officials charged
Canada with seeking to peg
the world price of wheat and
with damaging U.S. world wheat
marketing efforts.
However, the Canadian auth-
orities resisted pressure. Po-
litely but firmlythey said "no"
to the U.S. suggestion that the
price be allowed to soar. The
quarrel had repercussions in
the Canadian House of Com-
mons.
Trade and Commerce !Minister
Sharp explained that the Wheat
Board was responsible for the
pricing and sale of Canadian
wimat in foreign markets. He
reported. that suggestions em-
anating from Washington that
the. Wheat. Board; had altered
its methods of selling wheat for
forward delivery and the pric-
ing of. such sales were inaccur-
ate.
He told the House that the
Wheat Board has continued to
follow its usual marketing pol-
icy this season as in the past.
The Board's quoted price for
wheat has advanced approxi-
mately eight cents per bushel
since the sale to the U.S.S.R.
and contracts with traditional
customers have been completed
recently at the Board's quoted
prices then current for ship-
ment during the crop year
which ends next July 31. There
is nothing new or unusual in
that procedure. The Canadian
Wheat Board has always been
prepared to sell . - to buyers
wheat. for forward delivery at
its current daily quoted prices.
One of the factors that arms.
ed the anger of the United
States was that it had hoped
to make substantial sales of
wheat to Japan. The Canadians
moved in and completed a subs
stantial sale to that country,
thereby doing the Americans
out of a large sale.
Japan has been the third
largest regular customer for
Canadian ,wheat and Canada.
was determined to make its
sale to. Japan at a reasonable
price, above the Russian price,
but not at the high price level
the Americans wanted to see
established.
The controversy between the
two countries arose because the
Americans said that Canada in
effect had sold a large amount
of wheat to the Soviet Union
at five cents a bushel less than
the world price and then sold
wheat to the Japanese at the
world price level. But the Can-
adian officials denied that the
Russian deal was made under
the world wheat price. Mr.
Sharp told the House of Com-
mons that the deal was made
with Russia at the going world
rates,
Canada contends that the late
er sale to Japan was made at
prices set by the Wheat Board,
which was determined to re-
strict price increases despite
pressure from the U.S. The
Canadians acknowledge that
they are trying to peg the world
wheat level.
But in pleading guilty to that
charge, they point out that the
Wheat Board, when prices sag-
ged to a low level, sought to
hold prices at a fairly reason-
able level. It carried outthat
price stabilization successfully
Now that the pressures are on
to let the prices skyrocket. the
Canadian Wheat Board again is
operating to maintain a stable
world price and hopes to be
equally successful.
Meantime there was concern
in Ottawa circles that the long-
shoremen's strike on the St.
Lawrence might interfere with
Canadian deliveries of wheat.
The Federal Government was
determined to act, if it became
necessary, to ensure that wheat
continued to move abroad
through the St. Lawrence and
other eastern ports.
Hon. Alvin Hamiltpn, former
Minister of Agriculture, voiced
concern in the Commons about
the danger of the strikes stop-
ping Canada's deliveries of
wheat. He called on Mr. Sharp
not to depend just on the Wheat
Board officials and other public
servants to get the wheat: mov-
ing, but suggested he call a
conference of all interested or-
ganizations. Mr. Hamilton said
such a procedure had • worked
for him in 1961 when he had
to get large quantities of wheat
moving through the Paeific
ports to Red China. Ile was
confident it would work for Mr.
Sharp.
Capital Hill Capsules..
A national power policy that
provides for the establishment
of a. national power grid and
exports of large blocks of pow-
er to the United States on long-
term agreements was announc-
ed in the Commons recently by rs"'
Mr. Sharp.
-'In the past there has been a
strong body of public opinion
opposed to the export of power.
But the minister said that large
exports of power are now fea-
sible and desirable because of
improved technology and chang-
ing economic factors.
The policy announcel. by Mr.
Sharp is believed to be a pre-
lude to final ratification of dile
Columbia River Treaty.
Discussions are underway at
official levels between the Bri-
tish and Canadian Governments
over the adverse effects of Can-
ada's anti. -dumping regulations
on British exports to this. coun-
try. It worries the. British that
there is such a large balance
of trade in Canada's favor. The
deficit had been widening in-
stead of narrowing over the
past 12 months. But Britain's
export trade with other coun-
tries, especially European na-
tions, had been booming.
IN THE YEARS AGONE
Interesting items gleaned from
The Expositor of 25, 50
and 75 years ago.
From The Huron Expositor
October 21, 1938
Members of the Seaforth Bad-
minton Club elected Miss Mar-
garet Grieve, president at the
club's annual meeting Wednes-
day evening.
Mr, A..' -Zimmerman, Seaforth,
has recently purchased a mod-
ern skate. sharpening machine.
Embodying the most modern•.
principles, the machine sharp-
ens the skate lengthwise, which,
ideas on the subject; he want-
ed to Show off his intelligence
by speaking in generalities. He
wanted to reach a definition of
a neighbor, . a lot of talk.
But before he• had an oppor
tunity to dust off his vocabulary,
Jesus brought the matter down
to a specific case: "A man was
going down from, Jerusalem to
Jericho and fell among. thieves;
he was beaten and robbed and
left for dead. A Samaritan,
with his heart, saw his plight
and took compassion on him
and bound up his wounds and
took hien to an inn and made
arrangements for his care."
This, my friend, is neighborii-
nes-s. It is not a theory; it
doesn't demand a conference;
it takes no great intelligence
to see it. Go, and act according.
Isn't this just to say: A hitt
tle less talk ...A loving heart
- and a little more action.
It seetbs to me that it is
somewhere down this road -that
we wilt find. the . toraorrb``.:?thtt.
Christ .would have: us , had,
And I suggest to - youthat w,.
begin to sbajm it with Ott
actions try,
it is claimed, results in a much
superior job.
Hydro service is being ex-
tended southerly through the
village of Drysdale, on the Blue
Water Highway, as far as the
farm of Mr. Wm. Ducharme,
near St. Joseph.
DDGM M. • McKellar recently
installed the following officers
of Fidelity Lodge No. 55: NG,
John Quail; VG, E. la. Goudie;
recording see., Arnold Westcott;
financial sec., R. Smith; treasur-
er, W. J. Williams; warden, Ed,
Mole; conductor, Dr. P. Har-
burn; RSNG, J. Doherty; LSNG,
M. McKellar; RSVG, David Mc-
Lean; LSNG, Alex Boyce; IG,
Thomas Carter.
Mr. William Hopper has pur-
chased the property and hand-
some residence of the late
August Wankel, in Harpurhey,
and will occupy it as soon as
he has disposed of his resi-
dence on North Main Street.
From The Huron- Expositor
October 17, 1913
The engineer of the Hydro -
Electric Commission are now
busily at work making a pre-
liminary survey for a radial
electrical railway throughout
this county, with the view of
making a report as to the feas-
ibility and cost of such a
scheme. The engineers were in
the vicinity of Bayfield last
week and working their way
southward.
Mr, John Dodds has dispos-
ed of his pop business, plant
and• property in this town to
Mir. Arnold of Guelph, who
takes, poaseasiop, at once.
On. Tuesday 1st. S. %Imo of-:
the Newss _ stnfl got his,
caught in the cogs of a press
and' was severely cut and bruis-
ed. He will be laid up for sev-
eral days.
On Wednesday morning En.
mett Kelly,. of The Expositor
office, got his right arm caught
in the flywheel of a press and,
had his wrist badly cut arid.
bruised, but no bones were
broken.
Mr. James R. Scott has pur-
chased the farm of Mr. Thomas
Jarman, almost adjoining the
town. The farm contains 38
acres of excellent land. M.
Scott intends building a com-
fortable house on the place and.
will occupy it.
From The- Huron Expositor
October 19, 1888
Mr. William Logan has pur.
chased the well-known driving
horse owned by the late Mr.
George Case, paying for hint
the sum of $200. He intends
sending him to his brother,
Robert, in Manitoba.
Mr. William J. Tough of Stan-
ley, a graduate of Seaforth Col-
legiate Institute, has been en-
gaged to teach the school in
Section No. 1, Morris, for next.
year at a salary of $400. The
trustees of this school will find
Mr. Tough a good and, pains-
taking teacher.
The wet weather of the past
few days has made the roads
very soft and slushy, and Main
Street is rapidly assuming its
normal fall Condition.
The Messrs, Thompson are
having a lot of new machinery
placed in their oatmeal mill in
this. town. This was: rendered
necessary by their rapidly iter
creasing hubinesa.