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IN THE YEARS AGONE
January 11, 1889
• Mr. George Nott, of Tucker -
smith, recently sold a thorough-
bred cow and calf to Mr. John
Jefferson, of Hullett, and a thor-
oughbred bull to Mr. John H.
White, of Tuckersmith, all at
good prices.
• Mr. John Sundercock, of Hul-
lett, intends building a new
bard 45x60 next spring, and Mr.
J. Medd, of the same township,
is going to have his barn split
and an addition put to the end
of it, with stone stabling under
the whole. The election for a
councillor in Ward No. 2 on
Monday last, results in the elec-
tion of Mr. James Evans by a
majority of 33, the vote stand-
ing. Evans, 104 and Dynes, 71.
• We learned from Toronto Mail
that Mr. Jacob McGee has been
elected Mayor of Egmondville.
Deputy -sheriff Reynolds and
county high constable Mackay
left on Tuesday of last week for
Kingston penitentiary, in
charge of Hawse, the barn
burner, who has been sen-
tenced to 14 years in that
institution.
• The heavy rain of Wednesday
wound up with a sever wind and
snowstorm at night, and on
Thursday morning the snow was
in all manner of fantastic heaps.
In some places there are pies of
snow several feet deep, and in
other places the ground is bare.
This last storm will make the
roads worse than ever.
January 23, 1914
• After hearing evidence all day
and part of the evening,
Magistrate Saunders dismissed
five charges of selling liquor to
minors laid against T. Newell,
proprietor of the Commercial
Hotel in Exeter, laid by Provin-
cial Inspector Magladery. Seven
charges had been laid but two
were withdrawn.
• The sleighing is excellent and
is being greatly enjoyed. Strat-
ford and Seaforth Juniors met
in the Palace rink here on Tues-
day night last and put up a
splendid exhibition of hockey
for the large attendance of
spectators.
• Despite the soft ice that game
was fast and clean and the
excitement, especially in the
second half, never hot below
fever heat. Seaforth held the
match against Stratford and
won with score of five to four.
• Mr. Daly, the jeweler, has
moved into the store formerly
occupied by Chesney and
Archibald, opposite The Expos-
itor office.
January 13, 1939
• The newly completed Sea -
forth Collegiate Institute will be
open for the inspection of the
public on the afternoons of
Monday and Tuesday, Jan. 23
and 24, from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m.,
according to Board Chairman
J.F. Daly. Meeting in Clinton
Saturday to discuss
the advisability of seeking the
Provincial Plowing Match for
Huron in 1940, delegates from
the North and South Huron
Plowing Association and others
interested, decided unani-
mously in favor of an invitation
being issued.
• The body of a Clinton man
was discovered Tuesday after-
noon lying on the C.N.R. right-
of-way 1.5 miles west of Sea -
forth. The man had been
missing since the blizzard of
two weeks ago. He was last seen
alive Tuesday afternoon, Dec.
27.
• Seaforth citizens should have
an opportunity of viewing the
King and Queen when they visit
Stratford next June, the town
council decided at its meeting
Monday when it instructed the
Clerk to enquire from Stratford
as to arrangements for accom-
modating citizens of the town
on the occasion of the visit.
• Members of the Seaforth Bad-
minton Club were guest of the
Goderich club Wednesday
evening when 13 members
made the trip.
• Commencing Jan. 1, 1939,
operating room and maternity
case charges will be adjusted to
make the charges uni-
formthroughout all Huron
County hospitals.
January 9, 1964
• Appointment of council rep-
resentatives to board and
commissions highlighted the
first business meeting of Sea-
forth's 1964 council Monday
evening. Establishing a record
for concered, council com-
pleted everything on the
agenda and adjourned before
10 o'clock.
• Tuckersmith council met in
the Town Hall, Seaforth, on
Monday, when members minis-
tered by Clerk J.I. McIntosh.
This was followed by a brief
inspirational talk by Rev. How-
ard Plant, of Brucefield.
• Seaforth Firemen re-elect
John F. Scott as Chief at the
annual meeting of the Brigade
Thursday evening.
• The 1963 chairman of the Sea -
forth District High School
Board, Ed Dearing of RR 1
Staffa, Monday night, was
elected chairman of the Advi-
sory Vocational Committee of
the Central Huron Secondary
School at Clinton.
• Huron County Council of 1964
will have seven new members
and 29 who served previously.
Seaforth's deputy- reeve bring
the total to 36, instead of 35.
January 11, 1989
• No serious damage resulted
from an unseasonal electrical
stormSaturday night, but a
number of Seaforth and area
residents have reported dam-
age to a variety of electrical
appliances. One household
even reported damage to the
roof of their Chalk Street home.
• A fire causing thousands of
dollars in smoke damage broke
out at Seaforth District High
School at 6:45 p.m. Wednesday.
The fire starts in the school
shop in a room used for storage
and as the instructor's office.
The cause of the fire is not yet
certain. Some rages were
burned in the fire, and it is
speculated spontaneous com-
bustion may have ignited them.
• The issue of the Lord's Prayer
in schools was once again
before trustee on the Huron
County Board of Education
when they met for their first
board meeting of the New Year.
Trustees were confronted by a
petition listing the names of 30
Goderich area people from the
Port Albert Anglican Church
who "are in favor if the Board
of Education allowing the
Lord's Pray to be said in our
schools."
• A Brussels man has been
elected chairman of the Board
of Gay Lea Foods Cooperative
Limited. Fred Meier of RR 4
Brussels replaces John Camp-
bell of RR 3 Bayfield, who had
held the office for three years.
HAVE AN
OPINION?
"etter to the editor
Alleged false statements
Letter to the editor,
It has recently come to the
attention of the Perth County
Federation of Agriculture
(PCFA) and the Huron County
Federation of Agriculture
(HCFA) that Goderich to
Guelph Rail Trail Inc. (G2G
Inc.) made a false statement
about our position on the pro-
posed trail development on the
abandoned rail right of way
between Millbank and Auburn.
The false statement was
made to a media outlet in June
2015, and was subsequently
part of a media story about the
proposed trail, in July 2015.
We wish to be clear that nei-
ther the PCFA or the HCFA
have developed a position in
regard to our level of satisfac-
tion with the possible solu-
tions to the challenges identi-
fied by adjacent farmland
property owners to the pro-
posed trail.
The PCFA and HCFA had
representation on a Working
Committee along with repre-
sentatives from G2G Inc, adja-
cent farmland property own-
ers, OFA and County Planning
staff. The committee did
develop a document outlining
possible solutions to the chal-
lenges this trail proposal pre-
sents. The final document was
completed in September 2015,
and was presented at Public
Open Houses in Milverton and
Blyth the last week of Novem-
ber 2015.Those who attended
these Open Houses were able
to submit further questions,
concerns and comments,
which are to be addressed by
appropriate members of the
Working Committee.
We are aware that a number
of questions were submitted at
the Open Houses that have yet
to be answered. Until these
questions are answered, and
the PCFA and HCFA can con-
sult with the adjacent farmland
property owners about the
answers, we will not be able to
consider a position on this trail
proposal.
It concerns us greatly that a
registered charitable organiza-
tion would release a false
statement on our behalf.
—Joanne Foster, PCFA President
Erica Murray, HCFA Vice President
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