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per cent of the eligible voters cast
ballots, Seaforth electors on Wed-
nesday approved all four types of
licenses covering the sale of alco-
holic beverages in the town. The
questions required at least 60 per
cent to carry.
Loss in excess of $10,000 result-
ed Wednesday when fire threaten-
ed the Smith block on Brussels
Main Street for the second time
in three months.
May 19
James W. Coulter, B.A., M.Ed.,
has been appointed a public school
inspector in Huron County, to fill
the position of G. G. Gardiner.
Mr. Coulter has been on the staff
of.Stratford Teachers' College.
Thieves, with little regard ,for
charity, broke into Hensen Public
School in the early hours of Fri-
day morning and made off with a
glass jar containing pupils' contri-
butions to the Canadian Red Cross
Society.
More than 100 delegates attend-
ed the 45th annual council meeting
of the Presbyterian Women's Mis-
sionary Society (Western Division)
in the Rosedale Presbyterian
Church in Toronto.
May 26
William Mickle, Hensall, was ap-
pointed Governor of District 1 at
a Kinsmen convention at Windsor
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over the weekend,
Nelson Hill, sheriff of Huron
County, died instantly *heti, his
car crashed into a bridge abutment
at Kippen on Highway 4, early
Sunday morning.
William Scott, son of Mr. and
Mrs. James M. Scott, graduated
with honors in Engineering Physics
at the University of Toronto; Ruth
Teall, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Wilfred T. Teall, Seaforth, and
Miss Sally Nott, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Raymond Nott, Egmond-
ville, were graduates of Victoria
Hospital School of Nursing, Lon-
don.
Rev. J. H. Vardy has been call-
ed by the congregation of Eg-
mondville United Church to fol-
low Dr. James Semple.
June 2
A contract for the construction
of a new five -room building for St.
James' Separate School, w a s
awarded this week to F. Kling
Ltd., Seaforth, The tender price of
$108,790 was the lowest of five re-
ceived.
Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Munroe, Sea -
forth, celebrated the 25th anni-
versary of their marriage at their
home on Sunday.
Seaforth Lions Club, in co-opera-
tion, with other Lions Clubs
throughout Canada and the U.S.,
is promoting the Bank of 'Light
project. Discarded glasses are be-
ing gathered by the Lions Club
members to be sent to India.
Brussels voters Wednesday turn-
ed out in record numbers to vote
approval for men's beverage rooms
although they turned down pro-
posals to provide for sales in la-
dies' beverage rooms, dining rooms
and in lounges.
June 9
Members of Britannia Lodge AF
and AM 170, were hosts over the
weekend to Lincoln Lodge AF and
'AM 504, Detroit. A feature of the
joint gathering was a church' par-
ade on Sunday morning to St.
Thomas' Church, when more than
100 members took part.
Miss Anne N. McMillan, daugh-
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Wm, J. Mc-
Millan, exchanged her nurse's cap
for the veil of the Royal Canadian
Air Force Medical Branch, follow-
ing her enrolment in the RCAF.
Damage was• estimated by Fire
Chief John F. Scott at $150 in the
Monday morning fire at the resi-
dence of Amos Corby.
Miss Barbara Boyd, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Boyd, Mc-
Killop, received her Bachelor of
Arts degree from the University
of Western Ontario, and will teach
in Port Colborne High School in
the fall. .
June 16
Delinquent taxpayers in Seaforth
were served notice Monday night
that they could expect to have
their names and the amount of tax-
es they owed published in local
papers, unless arrangements were
made to clear overdue tax ac-
counts,
Doreen Howatt, RR 1, Belgrave,
a 19 -year-old girl, was chosen 1960
Dairy , Princess of Huron at the
Clinton Spring Show Saturday, and
she will represent Huron at the
C.N.E.
The Huron Expositor is now a
qualified member of the Audit
Bureau of Circulations. The official
notification of The Expositor being
elected to ABC membership, was
received this week.
June' 23
Flames destroyed a barn on the
property of Clayton Dennis, on
Welsh Street, Monday afternoon.
A team from Seaforth District
High School, placed 115th out of
676 in a high school mathematics
contest, which was written the
first week of March.
Drivers of Wright & Leyburn,
Seaforth trucking firm, travelled
35,000 miles in 1959 without an ac-
cident. The distance is equivalent
to 14 times around the world.
Hensall voters turned down five
proposals to permit the sale of
beer and liquor in licensed prem-
ises, when they cast ballots in re-
cord numbers on Wednesday. •
June 30
Jack Ritchie, formerly of 1 it-
chell, will manage the mill in
Brussels recently purchased by
Topnotch i Feeds Ltd., from J. C.
Adams. '
Firemen were called to Huron
Street West Saturday afternoon,
when a grass fire threatened to
get odt of control.
A Port Credit woman lost her life
in a car -tractor crash east of
Dublin Tuesday at noon. So great
was the impact of the collision
the tractor was sliced into two
parts.
Joe Ball, 9 -year-old son of Mr.
and Mrs. W. N. Ball, Seaforth, re-
ceived serious injuries shortly af-
ter six o'clock Wednesday when he
was in. collision with a car in. front
of Seaforth Lions Park.
July 7
An employee of the Huron Coun-
ty Highways Department for 42
years, Joseph H. Riley, veteran
county, road foreman, Was honored
on his retirement Iast week.
Committee Chairman Cleave
Coombs. presented a $1,000 -bill to
Mr. and Mrs. Lyle Racho, of Sea -
forth, at the Legion Dominion Day
party Friday evening.
Township treasurer Roy Bur-
chill announced this week that ar-
rears of taxes are less in Hibbert
Township at the present time than
at any time in the pat 20 years.
Barbara Holland, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. John Holland, Sea -
forth, won the award for general
Proficiency at Seaforth Public
School this year.
July 14
Cpl. John McDowell, of the Sea -
forth detachment of the Ontario
Provincial Police, was transferred
this week to commence duties
with the Walkerton detachment on
Monday,
Councillor Edmund Daly was
named Acting -Mayor to act for
the period of Mayor B. F. Chris -
tie's illness, as council met Mon-
day evening.
Building permits, totalling $111,-
530,
111;530, have been issued during the
past month, according to Building
Inspector Harold Maloney,
Robert Fotheringham, RR 3, Sea -
forth, has been selected to repres-
ent Huron County at the Provincial
4-H Leadership Week, 1960.
July 21
Mayor Beverley F. Christie died
suddenly in Scott Memorial Hos-
pital on Monday in his 53rd year.
He was active in town council
since 1946, and was elected Mayor
in 1958.
Accidents cost... Huron ,•-County
farmers $223,291 in property dam-
ages in the past year.' The same
accidents took nine lives, resulted
in 13 other persons being injured
for life and 283 others temporarily
injured.
Construction already under way
in the Seaforth area, together with
several projects contemplated for
later this •summer, totals more
than $600,000, a survey of area
building plans, reveal.
Cadet Major Bruce Miller left
'Wednesday for cadet camp at
Banff, after being at Wolsley Bar-
racks, London, for some time.
July 28
O.P.P. Constable Al Bowering
has been appointed to the Seaforth
detachment of the O.P.P,. He re-
places Cpl. John. McDowell, who
has been moved to Walkerton.
Tenders are being called for con-
struction of a new 300 -bed hospital
in Huron County. The institution,
first assured by Premier Frost in
1957, is to begin this fall and will
be carried on during the winter
months.
Condition of Mrs. John E. Mur-
ray,, RR 1, Dublin, gored in the
face by a cow Thursday morning,
is somewhat improved, according
to information given to The Ex-
positor Wednesday afternoon.
The Ontario Liquor License
Board approved the application of
the Commercial Hotel, Seaforth,
for licenses.
August 4
Former .teachers and former
pupils of SS No. 3, Hibbert, crowd-
ed the school grounds Saturday to
mark the 100th anniversary of the
founding of the school.
The 25th annual summer carni-
val, spgesored by the Seaforth
Lions Club at the Lions Park, got
under way Wednesday with the 8 -
acre park alive with colored lights
and gay streamers.
When the Lowest tender was
found to be substantially higher
than architect's estimates,
Sea-
forth District High School Board,
withheld action to award a con-
tract for construction of a five -
room addition to the school.
Accommodation at Scott Mem-
orial Hospital has been taxed to
capacity during the past week,
according to hospital officials.
August 11
Edmund Daly was named Mayor
of Seaforth by members of Sea -
forth council Monday night. He will
complete, the term of the late
Mayor B. F. Christie.
Seaforth council Monday night
gave approval of the location of a
proposed liquor store on North
Main Street, adjacent to the
Orange Hall.
Brodhagen's new $50,000 Com-
munity Hall was opened Wednes-
day evening with a chicken barbe-
cue, program and prize drawings.
August 18
Wayne Scott, well-known in Sea -
forth and McKillop, who has been
on the staff of Seaforth Motors
and Miller Motors during recent
years, has taken over the operation
of the White. Rose Service Station
in Seaforth.
Percy G. Little, John St., Sea -
forth, has been named bailiff of
the second division court, Sea -
forth. He succeeds Dave Lemon,
who resigned recently.
Seaforth District High School stu-
dents received results of the upper
School examinations on Wednesday
which were slightly below the pro-
vincial average.
Seaforth Fall Fair, sponsored by
the Seaforth Agricultural Society,
offers $8,387.20 in prize money this
year.
August 25
Orville Oke was advised Tues
day in a letter from the Civil Ser-
vice Commission that he was be-
ing offered the position of Post-
master at Seaforth.
Despite the fears of a light crop
which a late, wet spring created
area farmers are harvesting crops
the equal of any harvested a yea•
ago.
A Seaforth merchant for 26
years, Tom Chou Chong, 67, die
in Scott Memorial Hospital Friday
The work of remodelling the in-
terior of Staffen's store, on Mai
St., Seaforth, is now completed.
September 1
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Two massive boilers, totalling
26 tons in weight, were shipped
from Robert Bell Industries this,
week to Montreal. Each low-pres-
sure steam unit was of 350 H.P.
capacity, and measured 10 feet by
22 feet.
James GIasglow, who has been
manager of the Smyth Shoe Store
here for nearly two years, has
been moved to Exeter. Named to
the Seaforth store is Allen Tindall,
who comes from Mitchell.
The nucleus of what is expected
to develop into the Seaforth Dis-
trict Young Liberal Club, was
formed at a meeting Monday eve-
ning.
Attendance in Seaforth schools is
expected to be somewhat higher
when the bells ring Tuesday morn-
ing, but the amount of the in-
crease will not be known until
after the area schools reopen.
September 8
Announcement was made this
week of the sale of Jack Webb's
Billiards. Norm and Johnnie
Greenslade, formerly of Norwich,
have purchased the business in
the Royal Block.
• Testing commenced Tuesday un-
der the Brucellosis Control Area
in Huron County. This program is
under the direction of Dr. J. C.
MacLennan, Sub -District Veterin-
arian of the Health of Animals Di-
vision of the Department of Agri-
culture.
A liquor store and a brewers'
warehouse are imminent for Sea -
'forth. Indications Wednesday were
that not only would a liquor store
be located in town, as already fore-
cast, but also a brewers' ware-
house.
GNR Robert P. Spittal, son of
Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Spittal, Centre
St., Seaforth, last weekend receiv-
ed the Perpetual Challenge trophy
at the annual Sunset Ceremonial
at Old Fort Henry, Kingston, Ont.
September 15
Neil C. Bell on Monday night
was named councillor for the bal-
ance of 1960 to fill the term of
Mayor Edmund Daly, who was
named to council following the
death of Mayor B. F. Christie.
Robert Vardy, 31/2 -year-old son
of Rev. and Mrs. J. H. Vardy,
Egmondville, is slightly improved
in Victoria Hospital, London, fol-
lowing an accident Sunday after-
noon in the village.
Frost -heaving on County Road
21, south of Seaforth, has necessi-
tated changes being made this
year. Huron County road employ-
ees started excavation work at
points along the road Monday •in
an effort to combat the yearly up-
heaval.
The bid of Anglin, Norcross Com-
pany Limited (Canada) was. the
lowest tender of the eight bids
considered for the construction of
the new 300 -bed mental hospital
at Goderich.
September 22
Honors were conferred on the
1960 graduates of Dublin Continua-
tion School on Sunday in an im-
pressive ceremony at St. Patrick's
Roman Catholic Church.
With 114 .successful fairs behind
them, directors of the Seaforth
Agricultural Society are leaving no
stone unturned to make the 115th
fair, being held here Thursday and
Friday of this week, the outstand-
ing Lair in the district.
Mr. Kenneth Coombs an Mfiss
Thelma Forbes, of Egmoiadville,
were injured when their ca stash-
ed head-on into another cad on
No. 4 highway, just north of Lon-
don.
Seaforth's newest sports centre,
Seaforth Bowling Lashes, will be
open to the public for the first
bowling in the building on Friday
evening.
September 29
There were 154 biggigo donors who
took part in the Red Cross blood
donors clinic in Seaforth on Wed-
nesday.
Mr. and Mrs. E. Geddes, Sea-
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forth, marked their 50th wedding
anniversary with a reception at
their home on Saturday, the 24th.
Willia. m Strong, Seaforth, won
newly -awarded Toronto - Dominion
.Bank sweepstake trophy for show-
manship at the Seaforth Fall Fair
Friday.
Seaforth police on Wednesday in-
vestigated a complaint that men,
posing as income tax investigators,
were attempting to obtain the sig-
nature of a Seaforth householder
on documents.
October 6
Flames, roared through a large
barn on the farm of Joseph Ryan,
McKillop, Friday afternoon. The
barn was completely destroyed,
with the loss being estimated at
$16,000.
For the third time in a few
months, a London -sponsored bingo
has been won by persons in the
Seaforth area. Mrs. Angus Mac-
Lean was the sole winner in the
contest and will receive $1,000.
Scenes typical .of the century
were recalled when members of
the Ladies' Aid of First Presby-
terian Church, Seaforth, gathered
on Tuesday to mark the 60th anni-
versary of the founding of the so-
ciety.
During the county -wide tuber-
culosis survey this summer, 24,184
persons were tested, according to
Dr. R. M. Aldis, Medical Officer
of Health for Huron ' County. Of
this number, 23,650 had no report-
able disease or abnormality.
October 13
One teenager was killed and four
others injured when the convertible
they were riding in left Highway 8,
just west of Seaforth, an.d crashed
into a ditch late Monday after-
noon,
Little da page was done in Fire
Prevention Week, except when the
firemen were called to the former
Ontex factory building at Market
and Jarvis Streets, at noon Wed-
nesday when smoke filled the top
floor of the building. No damage
was done,
Wilfred Mclntee opened an of-
fice in Seaforth this week with
Amos Corby in charge. Mr...Mc-
Intee now has 25 salesmen on his
staff.
An impressive ceremony, cele-
brating the diamond jubilee of St.
Patrick's • Church, Dublin, was
held on Thanksgiving Day.
October 20
Elmer D. Bell, former Seaforth
lawyer, now of Exeter, was elect-
ed president of the Ontario Con-
servative Association at a special
general meeting Monday.
Mrs. Robert Govenlock, of Mc-
Killop, celebrated her 90th birth-
day with her son Thomas, and
grandsons Bob and Neil, on Wed-
nesday.
A reception was held in the din-
ing room of the Commercial Hotel
on Sunday afternoon by the fam-
ily of Mrs. F. Dungey, in honor of
her 80th birthday. -.
Mrs. Torrance Dundas was the
winner of the grand prize, at the
HEPC cooking and appliance
show. Her prizes were a range,
water heater, automatic washer,
dryer and combination refrigera-.
tor -freezer.
October 27 -
Robert Fotheringham, RR 3, Sea -
forth, has been selected to attend
the National -4-H Club Week, Nov.
12-17, in Toronto and Ottawa. He
is one of seven members from
Ontario selected to attend.
Seaforth's Santa Claus parade
this year promises to be one of
the largest in the area for a long
time. A number of bands and
floats have already been promised
for the parade.
Mrs. Torrance Dundas, Walton,
won, major appliances, valued at
$1500, recently at the International
Plowing Match. The contest was
sponsored by the H.E.P.
Seaforth Fall Fair enjoyed an-
other good show, one of the best
in its 115 year history. Prize mon-
ey amounting to .$6,371.50 was
awarded this year.
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To old friends, acquaintances
and our many patrons ... we sing out a
most HAPPY NEW YEAR
wish that 1961 will be filled
with peace and success.
JOSEPH T. HUGILL
General Contractor
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