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Home My WebLink AboutHuron Expositor, 2016-03-23, Page 44 Huron Expositor • Wednesday, March 23, 2016 1 www.seaforthhuronexpositor.com lion Expositor PUBLISHED WEEKLY — EST. 1860 P.O. Box 69, 8 Main Street Seaforth Ontario NOK 1 WO phone: 519-527-0240 fax: 519-527-2858 www.seaforthhuronexpositor �p] POSTMEDIA NEIL CLIFFORD Advertising Director neil.clifford@sunmedia.ca SHAUN GREGORY Multimedia Journalist shaun.gregory@sunmedia.ca DIANNE MCGRATH Front Office seaforth.classifieds@sunmedia.ca NANCY DEGANS Media Sales Consultant ndegans@postmedia.com SUBSCRIPTION RATES 1 YEAR $50.00 (47.62+2.38 GST) 2 YEAR $95.00 (90.48+4.52 GST) SENIORS 60 WEEKS $50.00 (47.62+2.38 GST) 120 WEEKS $95.00 (90.48+4.52 GST) Publications Mail Agreement No. 40064683 RETURN UNDELIVERABLE CANADIAN ADDRESSES TO CIRCULATION DEPARTMENT P.O. 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We acknowledge the financial support of the Government of Canada through the Canadian Periodical Fund (CPF) for our publishing activities. IN THE YEARS AGONE Good Friday, 1913, remembered as the Big Blow as barns unroofed, windmills and silos blown over, hose tower crashes down and furniture factory has wall blown down March 30, 1888 • It is now nearly a month since the Public School Board sent in a request to the town council for funds with which to erect a new school. As yet the council has not seen fi t to take any action in the matter. • The Beaver lacrosse club held its annual meeting on Wednesday evening last. The officers were elected for the current year and other arrangements were made for the prosecution of a vigorous season's play. Th e club won golden laurels last year and we have no doubt they will furnish as good a record this season. • Saturday morning was the coldest day of the season, the thermometer being 25 degrees below zero at seven o'clock in the morning. • The North American Banking Company opened for business in Seaforth on Th ursday. • Mr. John McMi 11 a n , M P, returned from Ottawa on Thursday to spend the Easter holidays with his family. • Th ere will be a meeting of electors of McKillop who are opposed to the repeal of the Scott Act in the Temper- ance Hall, Winthrop, on Monday evening for the pur- pose of electing local chair- men to organize in each poll- ing subdivision in view of the coming repeal contest, and to decide on other important matters that will be brought before the meeting. March 28, 1913 • Good Friday 1913 will linger long in the memories of a great many people. It will be remembered as the day of the Big Blow. Dam- ages that will total many thousands of dollars occurred in this village and vicinity, the result of the Good Friday hurricane. In town, the 60 -foot hose tower at the town hall, in which the larger town bell hung, came down with a crash, but the bell was not damaged. The steeple of the Presbyte- rian Church took a great lurch to the north but did not come down. Smoke- stacks at Pryne's Mill and the electric light power house fell, and a stable at the Revere house and another on the Stretton property were carried off their cement basements. Barns were unroofed, wind- mills and silos blown over, while trees, fences, chim- neys without number, paid toll to the storm king. Th e wind caught the cornice on the southeast corner of the Royal Hotel building and ripped it off with a portion of the roof, scattering debris on Main and Goderich Streets. Th e building now occupied by Mssrs. Sparling and Wright as a machine shop had the roof on the south end raised up and blown in a mass to the street. It was the furniture factory where the greatest damage was done. Here the walls on the upper storey were swept clean on the west and south sides and the roof blown over onto the north part of the building. Several hundred feet of wall on this three-storey building have been blown down. • For the information of exhibitors and spectators at the horse and cattle show to be held in Seaforth next Tuesday we have been requested to state that the cattle will be judged on Main Street at the corner of Byrne's livery stable near the new library building. • Th e heavy draught and agricultural horses will be judged at the Royal Hotel corner, and the light horses opposite the town hall. April 1, 1938 • Robert E. Jackson, who starred for Seaforth lacrosse and football teams before the turn of the century, can remember the time when athletes who held out their hands for money were ostra- cized and were looked upon as virtual outcasts. • The highlight of the Dun- can Cup season was reached Tuesday evening when Mr. W.J. Duncan, who 16 years ago donated the cup, which bears his name, was host to the two winning teams and the members of the executive of the Seaforth Amateur Ath- letic Association at an enjoy- able dinner at the Commer- cial Hotel. Th e banquet marked the end of the Dun- can Cup games in which some 80 boys took part. • What is at least a most unusual occurrence, if not a record for the district, was established this week, with the death of a 30 -year-old pony owned by Dr. J.G. Grieve, well known Seaforth veterinary surgeon. March 28, 1963 • A combination of winter snow, sudden warm weather and sewerage excavations were blamed Monday even- ing when 25 north -end homes found that water and gas services had been cut off. About half were without heat f o r v a r ying periods. • A Seaforth man was one of more than 350 Canadians to draw a ticket in the Irish Hospital sweepstakes, based on this Saturday's Grand National steeplechase at Aint ree, England. • Among the hardest hit by fl ood waters is Scott Memo- rial Hospital, where employ- ees have been battling water in the basements since Sun- day to keep level down so that boilers can keep operat- ing. March 30, 1988 • The Seaforth Optimists celebrated their 20th Anni- versary Homecoming on Sat- urday evening and looked back on 20 years of service in this community. Of the 38 men who make up the club's members, three are charter members including Seaforth Mayor Alf Ross, Keith MacLean, who is a charter life member and Robert Din- smore, who is the club's 1988 president and was the club's president during its charter year. • The Tuckersmith Town- ship shed was officially opened on Saturday. The building was constr ucted at a c o s t o f $250,000 and is expected to fulfi 11 the town- ship's needs for the next 40 years March 30, 1988 • The Seaforth Optimists celebrated their 20th Anni- versary Homecoming on Sat- urday evening and looked back on 20 years of service in this community. Of the 38 men who make up the club's members, three are charter members including Seaforth Mayor Alf Ross, Keith MacLean, who is a charter life member and Robert Din- smore, who is the club's 1988 president and was the club's president during its charter year. • The Tuckersmith Town- ship shed was officially opened on Saturday. 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