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IN THE YEARS AGONE
May 3,1889
• We understand that Dr.
Coleman has been selected as
one of three to value all the Salt
works in the United States for an
English syndicate that is about
to purchase them.
• The contract for supplying
the stones for the paving of
Mai n St re e t has been
awarded to Mr. R. Common, at
$4.50 per cord.
• Mr. Hugh Grieve has sold
his hundred -acre farmnear Sea -
forth to Mr. R. Common, for
$8,500. Mr. Grieve is preparing
to erect a handsome brick resi-
dence on North Main Street. He
still keeps 20 acres of the old
homestead farm.
• Messrs. McMann and Dick-
son shipped a carload of horses
from Seaforth station for Detroit
last Tuesday.
• The Signor Giavonni Nov-
elty Company has been giving
entertainments in Cardno's
Hall every evening this week
to good houses. The trained
canaries are a real curiosity
and worth seeing, while the
distribution of the presents
each evening gives the enter-
tainment increased interest.
• Cows are now free com-
moners from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Cow owners should not forget
this and garden owners, ditto.
• Mr. John Robb, of Brussels,
a retired farmer and one of the
pioneer settlers of Morris
Township, one day last week
dug 26 post holes in two hours,
and they were all three feet
deep. Unless they were all in a
sand pit, there are not many
men nowadays who could
accomplish a similar feat.
May 8,1914
• The liquor license ques-
tion, which has been the
cause of considerable uneasi-
ness for several weeks, seems
at last to have been solved.
The License Commissioners
of North Huron decided not to
issue any licenses for this
year, nor to extend the exist-
ing licenses. As a result, all
the licenses in that riding
ceased on the first of May and
consequently that part of the
county is dry. Some of the
hotels have closed, but we
believe most of them are to
continue as temperance
houses. In Centre Huron the
Commissioners decided to
issue licenses for three
months, as did commission-
ers in South Huron. At the end
of three months the legal sale
of spirituous liquors in the
entire County of Huron will
cease for at least three years
and nine months.
■ Mr. R.B. Scott, of Harpur-
hey, has left with The Exposi-
tor an egg laid by a hen in this
vicinity, which beats the
record. This egg weighs half a
pound and measures six and a
half inches one way and eight
inches the other. It is the
product of a hen of the Anda-
lusian breed. If eggs were sold
by weight, as they should be,
Mr. Scott would have a small
gold mine in this hen.
■ The old mail route between
Seaforth and Brussels that has
been in existence for over 60
years has been discontinued,
being replaced by rural deliv-
ery. The stage has also ceased
running.
May 5,1939
■ The first step in a larger and
more fully equipped Lions Park
was taken Tuesday night when
the park committee was author-
ized to purchase additional land
adjoining the park from E.B.
Goudie.
• A number of rabbits, the
property of John Regier, were
destroyed by dogs Tuesday
night. The rabbits were in
boxes at the rear of the prop-
erty, but the dogs managed to
break through the fence
which surrounded them.
Chief of Police Helmer Snell
is investigating.
• While working at the Wal-
ton Flax Mill on Tuesday after-
noon, Frank Kirby had his arm -
caught in a belt and suffered
injuries. Two ribs were broken
and he was badly shaken up.
He is confined to his home.
• Pupils of the Seaforth Pub-
lic School presented their first
music festival to Northside
United Church on Friday even-
ing with nearly 100 students
taking part. The festival was
largely attended.
April 30, 1964
• Seaforth District High
School Board agreed Monday it
was prepared to retain Grade 9
pupils of the hour and five year
technical and commercial
classes at SDHS and make avail-
able necessary shop facilities,
providing the arrangement was
of a continuing nature. Such a
permanent agreement, the
board felt, would be the practi-
cal solution.
• Seaforth Legion Branch 156
was host Sunday to Legion
branches across western
Ontario, when District C con-
vention met here. More than
300 delegates, representing
branches, were in attendance.
• An early start on con-
struction of the Seaforth
Community Hospital was
forecast when the annual
meeting of Scott Memorial
Hospital was held Tuesday
evening. Tenders for the new
hospital close May 19.
• Plans to repeat the Victoria
Day fireworks display, which
was such a popular feature last
year, are well advanced, accord-
ing to John F. Scott, Fire Chief.
May 3, 1989
• TheSeaforth Home and
Garden Show has another
strong season, and next year
may be expanded to include a
trade show. Not only was the
public traffic up from 2,000
people last year to 2,600 this
year, but the number of exhibi-
tors rose as well.
• Barry Comeau, charged
with careless use of a firear-
mand possession of a prohib-
ited weapon in connection
with a four-hour standoff at a
Walton house last June,
received a two-year sus-
pended sentence in Provincial
Court in Wingham April 19.
• The last full day of the 41st
annual Kitchener -Waterloo
Kiwanis Festival brought forth
a wave of outstanding perform-
ers, including one Seaforth vio-
linist. Carol Ann McQuaid was
awarded a score of 93 Friday in
the open concerto, 16 years
and under class - the highest
reported score for stringed
instrumental soloists.
• Pour weather made for
lousy fishing at the annual
trout derby at Seaforth Lions
Park on Saturday morning.
Only 40 fish were taken from
Lions Park Pond by the young
fishermen. Larry Dolmage, a
member of the Seaforth Fish-
ermen's Club and an organ-
izer of this event, says the fish
just weren't biting on the
cold, cloudy Saturday and the
40 caught was the lowest
number ever.
seaforthhuronexpositor.com
April 20, 2016 shuffleboard scores
Men's high: Red Vantyghem and Cor
Vanden Hoven 4 wins, Arnold
Ramsey and Ken Preszcator 3
wins.
Women's high: Joyce Matzold and
Charlotte Norton 2 wins.
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