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Wednesday, August 17, 2016 • Huron Expositor 5
IN THE YEARS AGONE
Aug. 23, 1889
• The Wingham Fire Brigade
obtained 2nd prize at the tour-
nament in Listowel last week
and the Seaforth company 3rd
prize.
• Edward Garvin, a mile and a
quarter south of Brussels, has a
sunflower 8 feet 9 inches long
upon which are 34 heads. He
also has Vosseg carrots of a
splendid growth. One of these
produced 309 seed heads from
one root. Thebase of the carrot
was four inches in diameter.
• We learn that Miss Janet
Barr, daughter of Rev. Barr,
whose name appears in this list
of successful candidates for first-
class certificates, has broken the
record of the province bypassing
the examination with only five
months' training at the Colle-
giate Institute. Miss Barr began
the student of Trigonometry,
Philosophy, etc. in January last
and finished in July.
• The several departments of
the Seaforth Public School and
of the Collegiate Institute open
on Monday next after the sum-
mer holidays. The new wing of
the Public School will likely be
completed and ready for occu-
pancy. It contains two small
rooms and they will be light, airy
and pleasant apartments.
• At the Goderich races on
Wednesday evening, Florence G.
again took the open trot in three
straight heats. On Wednesday
evening Mr. Whitely was offered
$2,000 for her, cash in hand, by
an American, but refused it. She
trots at Clinton today.
Aug. 28,1914
• Valcartier, Quebec, Aug. 24,
1914 - The volunteers from the
133rd Huron Regiment arrived
here safe and sound on Satur-
day. They had a pleasant trip.
They are now comfortably domi-
ciled and with their comrades
are busily drilling and preparing
for active service at whatsoever
point they may be called to. They
are a fine body of men and will
be sure to give a good account of
themselves and do credit to the
old country.
• In response to an emer-
gency call to the women of Sea -
forth, a meeting was held in the
Town Hall Tuesday evening last,
at which a Red Cross Society was
formed.
• Motoring from Clinton to
Hensall last Monday night, two
Clinton men met with an excit-
ing experience when the car
cashed through a bridge railing
and down an embankment into
the river, south of Kippen. The
men received a severe shock but
were not seriously injured. The -
car was badly wrecked.
• We are sorry to say that at
time of writing things to not look
very bright from the outlook of
the allied forces of Belgium,
France and Britain. Despite the
stiff opposition give byt he Bel-
gians to the advance of the Ger-
mans through their territory on
their way to France and which
looked at one time as if it would
be effective in checking their
progress if not in turning them
from their purpose, the
Germans, evidently by main
force of numbers, have suc-
ceeded step after step in forging
their way through Belgium until
they are now on the very borders
of France.
Aug. 25, 1939
• Something new in the way
of holidays was the trip, which
Allistair Wigg and Keith
Sharpe,members of the Sea -
forth Scout Troop, took last
week. In the week in which they
were away from the town, the
boys travelled nearly 1,800
miles. One of their chief impres-
sions of the trip was the never
failing courtesy of motorists and
others throughout the entire
distance.
• Seaforth defeated Brussels
in the first game in the final
series of the Huron Football
League by a score of 1-0 on Fri-
day night. The game was wit-
nessed by the largest crowd of
the season, who also sawthe
fastest game of the year. John
Flannery scored the winning
goal when Frank Sills kicked the
ball in front of the goal.
• Work is progressing rapidly
in preparation for changing Sea-
forth's telephone system from
the magneto to the common
battery method of operation,
and is now in the final stage. It is
expected that the cutover, which
will eliminate the necessity of
using the crank attachment to
signal the operator, will take
place in about a month,
probably on Sept. 20.
• J.G. Anderson and Son Flax
Mill have this year placed in
operation in their Seaforth Mill,
three machines including a flax
puller, flax thresher and flax
scutcher. The machines are the
first of their kind to be used in
Canada and were imported
directly from Belgium. Some 35
men are employed by the firm,
20 at work in the mill. Some 350
acres were planted in flax this
year.
Aug. 27,1964
• Fire destroyed a barn owned
by Andrew Crozier, on No. 8
Highway, three miles west of
Seaforth, late Thursday night.
The fire was noticed about 11:30
p.m. by Mr. and Mrs. Lorne
Carter, who called the Seaforth
fire department. When neigh-
bours arrived at the scene they
found the roof of the house
ablaze and the occupants, Mr.
and Mrs. Doug Smith, asleep
and quite unaware of the fire.
• A few boards are all that
remained of the 40 -year-old
grandstand at Seaforth Agricul-
tural Park after society directors
tore down the structure at a
series of bees. Earlier plans to
repair the grandstand were
abandoned when it was found
the structure was no longer safe.
Portable steel bleachers are
being assembled to replace the
grandstand.
• Gerald K. Holland of Dublin
ended a hobby of 24 years when
he sold his entire herd of chin-
chillas last week. Almost 250
were sold in one of Canada's
largest sales of the valuable little
fur bearing animals.
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