Happy Labour Day Weekend

[Photo:  Lake Erie lbw]

"When I was a boy, and for quite some time after that,  all work on Township roads was done by the farmers living on that road.  When the tax slip came around, besides the taxes in dollars and cents it had so many day's road work.  I suppose that would be for a man and a team [heavy horses] because about all that was done on them was team work ~ levelling or putting earth in low places with a scraper. 

Every once in a while, depending on the road boss who was one of the farmers, the big grader was brought on. I don't know who appointed him. That required one or two furrows to be plowed in the ditch and three teams were put on the grader and the road was graded.  Needless to say, for some time after that, it wasn't any more than fit to drive on but there were no cars and roads were all alike.  It wasn't noticed, only when a low spot was raised with scrapers and not levelled off was there fault found and some bosses were noted for that.  Needless to say, they weren't popular and their term was short.

Most road work was done after seeding and before haying.  That was always a big day for the kids.  They lived on the road that day while the men went back and forth on the road.

That system probably was the best for the time but times have changed and the Township got road machinery and lately steady-paid workers and the roads are kept up to a much higher standard than they were.  Change is always going on.  For the better?  Sometimes that might be debatable but we will have to give the ones that are responsible at the particular time of doing the best they think.  If it doesn't work that way, the next council will change it.  The country has been brought to the present state by the trial and error method and probably that is the best method to follow."

~ J. A. Turnbull (1890 - 1975)  East Seneca, Haldimand County.

Looking West Over the Unfinished Bridge

CAYUGA FINALLY HAS LINES

Smile for Today ~

"I am enclosing two tickets to my new play; bring a friend...if you have one." ~ Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw to Winston Churchill.

"Cannot possibly attend first night, will attend second night...if there is one."  ~ Churchill's reply to George Bernard Shaw.

~ Classic Put-downs, Insults with style, ARCTURUS Publishing Limited, 2013.

Final Layer of Asphalt 

Visit us in The Neat L'l Bookshop ~ We now have a sidewalk, curbs and a street.  [Lines to follow !]  Good used books ~ new books by local authors.  Stay a while.

Wed. to Fri. 10:30 to 5:00

Sat. 10:30 to 3:00

or by appointment

A sidewalk, a curb & a street!

The Eye Opener ~ Blackheath Feb. 24, 1933  [Paper found in family files.]

In presenting this copy of the eye-opener, the editor wishes to extend the greetings and good wishes from the Blackheath Literary Society to the Society at this place.  We are engaged in a common task not only furnishing clean amusement but education as well.

What better way is there to find out the latest talent hidden away in the country places than by taking part in a program of this kind - in practising plays - debates - recitations - songs, etc.?  Who know but what the future premiers are getting their start right now on some Literary Society platform in some small country place.  But we can't all be premiers, yet each one of us that takes part feels some advancement in the education that is necessary to make a life.

It has been said that the present generation is loosing the power and ability to amuse itself choosing rather to go to places of professional amusement.  But the crowds that are drawn to these literary meetings and the excellency of the programmes give the lie to both statements and long may it continue.  And in this work we hope you will continue to help make out of the rising generation men and women that will be better fitted for the journey of life than they otherwise would be -- and they looking back -- will bless the efforts of those who are carrying the burden of what I must confess sometimes seems a thankless task.  But it is not so.  We shall reap if we faint not.

~

Jack - Speaking about dreams, I dreamt last night that - er - I proposed to you.  What's that a sign of?
Nelly - That's a sign that you have more sense when you are asleep than when you are awake.

~

Teacher - And you don't know what letter comes after H?
John - No, Miss.
Teacher - What have I on each side of my nose?
John - It looks like powder from here, Miss.

J.A. Turnbull

Looking East

New Lampposts ~

Looking West

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New Man on The Street

Looking West

Lampposts Coming ~

Looking West

Underground Cables ~