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The Huron Expositor, 1959-06-26, Page 9f.• Eighth ilia series AN INVITATION• - Th4 Citizens of Stratford extend a cordial :ihvitation:to ali.vour peopleto'celebrate with ,them the occasion of the visit of Her Majegy Queen Elizabeth and His -Highness The Prince Philip on July.Znd, 1959. I -ler 'Majesty:Queen:. Elizabeth and }Lis Highness "rhe Prince-Phili-P-Wiil travel over a route of 214 iniles long, at a speed of 8 miles , Per hour, "around Queen's Park,". affording an -• excellent opportunity for you and -your gild- - dren to see them.- - Queen's. Park. is beautifully situated, -equip-, •ped - with fine •pienic 'facilities, test rooms, • refreshment booth, children's amusements an.c1 • free parking. The City generally will be gaily decorated. There will be a -band concert at the Band Shell -starting at 9 :00 o'clock and a spectacular dis- play (5f fireworks as the Royal Couple leave the • Festival Theatre. There Will be no parking meter charges from, 12 noon on July 2nd, 1959. • Yours very truly, R. E. MOUNTAIN, Mayor. ou nee or t e No roatter how far you • drive each year ... how fast ... or what roads you travel ... ,B.F.Goodrich offers you dependable, quality tiffs' to match your driving. How do you drive? NORMAL - • DRIVING CONDITIONS Driving like this, on good roads or expressways, buy B. F. G pa dri eh • DELUXE SI LVIERTOWNS. Get great service • at low cost—that's • BIF..Goodrich •SMILEAGE/ •rivin U , MANY MILES - OVERMANY DIFFERENT ROAD SURFACES: You need a puma- tu re -sealing, heavy -service tire. B.F.Goodrich LIFE-SAVER TUB.ELESS.fills • the bill--aSsures • complete safety, long long wear! . . VERY.LIGHT . DRIVING ONLY. ' YolPrepne ofthe ItIcky few whecan.: economize. on -tires! A light- seri/fee tube -type wiIlcarry you in.. -safet y—et- . reaIilti eccinomY. Buy -the B.F, Goodrich, .SAFETY -S.. get . • SMILEAGE ali the. • Wayl . . .Phone 'SUBURBAN ROADS— AVERAGE ., MILEAGE , If this sums up :your driving (or • your wife's) your car Should roll on THE B.F. G 0 ad. rich DELUXE tire. B.F.Goodrich is best in its field • —givesyouchoice • oftubeortubelessl ate .-6.00-16 or 630-15 • flibe.tWe - blackwalf,pltis' --recappOble trade-in.' .G16-2 oo driel 'yellow's tires • MILLER CITIES SERVICE For Frieugly Service •.Seafortli WANT -ADS BRING RESULTS -- Phone CONCESSION II .Lot Eighteen Owners of the East 50 Of Lot 18 were William ;Jordan ., Cornelius Jordan and James Jordan, . James worked it, but lived . in Dublin. William Jordan, Sr., married Ma,r3r Hastings; and, in their family were four sons: :William, jr., .Patrick, Cornelius and James. John Crowewas the -first to own the. -West 50. James Conlogne, his son-in-law, had it next, and from 1900' Conlogne'S son, Joseph, had both 50s, 'Other owners Of the 100 'have been Joseph Dillon, • Who mar- ried JOseph ConlOgne's 'sister 1Vlary; and Roland - Harold Kleinfeldt: rented for a time Cornelius Van Donger, the. iresent -owner,now lives at Fletcher, Ont.., and he has it rented to Joe Warnmes Lot Nineteen Dr. Timothy T. •Coleman, who married. __Mrs. George (Faln-lab. Chalk)' Gouinkick;.-owned the East 50'of Lot 19 by 1861:' Coleman WAS----4'.'iratiye.of.:13allythinri„, Co.. Kerry,. Ire - His wife Was the daughter of 'Dr. Wj1jiun Chalk.,_ a native of .1-larPurhey, England. _Her father founded aticirtiaraz ed AarPlirheY,.' Ont.,. for his birthnlace, in,., England: .The marker .01.1• the Coleman :plot rn HarpirtheY. Cemetery,. at ,the west end of,SeafOrth,' is a huge block of black measur- rng 84 inches Jon*, 23 inches -wide. and 44 inehes. high, Dr Colman WaS. -the 'first reeve., of the village of 'Seaforth, and the firstpraeticing'physidian, there, 'having moved down from Harpurhey Mrs J5hn Torphy-, Martin` Torphy, and JosenhilCidd had this 50 next Joseph 1<kld, in the 70's, Was the oWrier Of Several farrnsin the 'corrimuriity, as Well as, 3,000 acres of vvoodedland- in the Georgian Bay district Miles Cavanagh; one Of the earliest settlers, owned the West 50. Ed.. and..Mary CaYanuthi...his heirs, had it next. James Walsh had the 100 acres by the70's. He and his „wife .both, died here While theywere still 'YoUng. Thomaellrennan, then his .son., john j.13renrian, Carrie after...1Valsh. When John J. Brennan Sold the jot it was, divided into north .and south 50's; instead of -east and west. Pat Jordan, Leo..Murray- and James O'Connor have had the Mirth; and Peter Dill, Margaret Hohlbein; WalterCarpenterand ,.Aaron Steinba.cher,-"!.the South. . - Lot Twenty • ; Lot 20 was YerY, -awath-P-Y land andwai nOt Yaken up..tim yearsafter the other lots ',Part even -today is not good farm land. • Mary Brennan had the .North 50 fitst. Others who have had it were Thomas Brennan, his son John J.. Bren- nan, Pat Jordan; Leo Murrayand James O'Connor. Thomas Kini.g, Whose Wife' Was .an rnvahd for many ' years, and his son Michael' were the first, to live On .the North 25 of the South 50.; Tom- was a great singer, always .singing as he went about his work .' It was 'Ina:ny. Years lgter that Patrick Stapleton bought from the Canada Company this South 50. His Son Joe is the present owner. " Lot Twenty-one Michael Farrell had Lot 21 from 1858 till sometime after • his Wife, the former Mary Callan, died in 1$66. Re then went to NeWbraslca. . Thomas Matthews, a cousin of the Other: Matthews • who married a Miss Walsh lived here in the 1870's. „Peter Bosley,' A.daro, IVIcGiul, Patrick Stapleton; JOe• , Stardeton and Simon DeWitt have been -the owners till the — , present -time., . Lot Twenty-two It was a Thomas Matthews .Who owned Lot 22 by 1856. By . the, next year •William Ja.mes-MatthewS was the owner. He Was a bachelor and died bete ,while still .3roinig, of heart • trouble. :He was a ,good singer.; :411d'died whenthe last note 141 or 142 ' ;Vit-rE§,0.• 'FROM CANADIAN NATIONAL fast rnadern travel, yRAILIN between Guelph, Owen Sound, SouthamptOn, Kincardine, Palmergbn, Stratford,-Goderich; with connections for Toronto an& LOndon. tnjoy the air-conditimed temfort, the pidture windows and foarn.rubber seats in these brand-new self*rOpelled Diesel cars, sheathed in :gleaming stainless steel. 'Forget about traffie, strain,' parking-worries—con- suit your local CNR, agent for the convenient • Aailiner schedules: - S to Or TRAIN DIAN NATIONAL 11-9-43 0 -A: §04:CwA§,ffitili 13.9120xt 21.4.#1w,w§i A bacii.091''' Spi Of William on Concession 5, *a:the-next .owner of the East 50, until he went to •,California.,-..-Fromtheri hisbrother Edmund Was the Owner, . • . , W.illiam Connor, who had land on Concession _LI, had the West 50 'IT& tirne after -William James Matthews, but John TO-tphy. Was the next to Hire on it:, John died. ynung. His Vviclowi*the foriner Margaret MatthewS, 'sister of -Robert and Edmund, with her family, carried on after the death of her husband, 'When„IVIrs. Torphy Moved to,SeafOrth, her son Ed. rented until he left for British:Columbia. Owners' since have been Tarries O'Connor, -Daniel O'Connor Norman O'Connor, , and the present owner;. John Posman. Lot.Twenty-taree By 1854, Edward Pursell Owned tot 23. That year he was° one :of the liquor inspectors Ti the township. Ten Pursell brothel's and sisters carne from -Tipperary, Ireland, and, set- . tied in' Hibbert *and. the surrounding townships, --,They ,Edward, Patrick,-... James, John, Michael-, Matt,: Torn, Ellen (Mrs: John Kennedy)-, Annie (Mrs.' John Permondy) and Mary (Mrs: Jim Lennon). Tern. and Matt had the .East 50 till Thomas IVItirphy, got it in 1867. By 1856 Michael PurselI, another Edward's: brothers, 'had. the West , 50. He 'wag accidentally shot here by an Old' unele: Michael Dorseyhad this -50 foratime. From 1874. John Murphy oWned the 100 acres, and his:son,' John F. liturPhY, who Married' Mildred. Barry,is the:preset-ft owner.. On thislot, near the concession, there is a large barren Stoney hill on which little has ever Lot -Twenty-four John Derniondy, .a brother' of William:on Concession 3 came tO the East 50 6f Lot 24. froin Tipperary, Ireland, with his wife, the former Hanora Gleason -He owned this 50 *Om 1856: John and Hanora had fnn1ilyof' four—William, a - bachelor; Mary (Mrs. Patrick Roach), John and Bridget (Mrs..:Torn Ptirsell); John berthondy, Jr., who- married a neighbor's .daughter, Ann, Pnrsell, had this -farm-for a _time before he went . to- Nebraska. After Sohn, Sr.,,died around 1875, hia wife went -to live with her daughter, Mrs. Patrick Roach, "and the farm waS sold to Thomas Murphy; .. Other owners. -have been -William Mulcahy, John .IVItIrphy, TOM. Murphy, and. the present owner is Tom's brother, John F. ' F'rorn 1854 David Cronin; Who later:went to California, owned the West 50. -Ins son Patrick had it a few years after 1880. Thomas Brennan, who iiiarried David Cronin's daugh- ter, Bridget, was the next on it Three cousins of Mrs. Bren- narreame next: James Cr-Orli/I, Dan Cronin and John Cron- in, sons -of John, Cronin, Sr.. Later owners have been Joseph • Cronin, Albert 'Cronin, Norman O'Connor,. and :the present owner, Joe O'Reilly, - of- Twen 40-e , 'John Boland, whose Wife was Bridget MeCarm„ danghter, of Arthur McCann,. Sr.,. was the first to own Lot 25.. 'I-le:died • ofl this lot at'an early date.. His widow.and three sinalichil- dren--one born after her husband died—later madetheir home with her parents at the Iiiii-bn Concession 1 until 'sh• e married James, Murphy, Arthur IVIcearin; a grandson obk Arthur, Sr., WAS the next to live here after '13oland's widow • left, and he had it till. the rniddle 80's; when he went to • Dakota. The house here was Spoken of as the -haunted house. Dr: Timothy T. Colman, who married Mrs. George Goilin- lock, the former Haimah Matilda Chalk, owned 'it after Me - Cann. John„.1VIcCermelf rented it; and later Edward Costello Coleman, who had charge of the, Coleman Estate at Seaforth, sold to John J. Dalton. Dalton's son, 1V1a.uriee, is the. present Owner. Colenlan, Gouirilock and -Chalk were -all navies prom- ifient in bUsineSS in liarrirhey in the early days. PART TWO By ISABEL/4B. CAIVIPBBLL La Twenty-six James MelYneaux, one of French descent; was the first oWner of -Lot 26. Re.waa-one Of those on the.1839 .assessinent list. By 1875 his son Edward hadthe South 25 and iDenriiS another son,- the North -75. Dennis was a bacbelor and died here, 'Eclward!s WidPw, the foriner Catherine II/Turn-by,- and. fan1yconinud to likre here after EdWarcr,s death_till.1908, 'when she moved to Dublin, -Where he son, Tom, had '4 general store for many years,__From- then, John_ J. Dalton•, and Maurice Dalton have Owned the South 25. Tine owners. of the North ,r/5 .since the death of Dennis ,Mnlyneaux have been Stephen Downey Michael Downey James, Cronin 'Joseph Cronin' and Mrs. Joseph Cronin. . . _ Lo t _Twenty-seVen Lot 27 was'. the Jai -mg Cronin, Sr,, horneetead and has been inthe-Cioninnarne since 1850. This family Was known ae the Vlittle" CrOnins„ while bavey's family were the "big" .CrOninS,'..becauSe f the' difference in size, the 'igiter.' all weighed two hundied-poilfide or.more:, James' spn, John, was -next On this-- lot: .-no 'married Mary -Barr k: john'and Mary Cronin had eten''.-Childrent4.,-janleS,-'Dgniel ,and John''.'married' .three daughters of Bryan Downey, at Beeehwood,'.and.,Lizzie trratried'his Son; 'lack:- 'Font Cronhis married krill' ,PoWneYS, . Otherg, in the family were Dennis, Ellen (Mrs Torn: Feeney), Dick, Hannah ,(111ts;. Jerry Dalton), also Mary :(Mrs. John' I/alton), and -Johanna; who were twin.„ Both John' and his wife-died.in .1886 .Th family, though,. young, continued•-to ,c.Air•r37- oyi. Thr Sorts; James and John, each had the.farin for a time, .• JaMes”. Son; Joseph, was .next,.. and 'noVV, tits: Joseph. ci7onin'and fainily have charge of it: No. one has lived here ,for a, long time: Only a barn ison it now,' and thefarm' is used only for: paStUre. Lot Twenty-eight' ...111atthew. Ward .was the first.Owner .of the,East' 50 of Lot 28, and, ,liept' thirty acres of it till 1875, when he went to McKillopTatinship John.Moote had the. West SO froin 1856 and later .all the lot His son-in-law, ,John -J.4.: Milton, was the next .'owner. -Maurice Dalton, John's -son T Sold -in -"the 1950'C to Louis Doyle and Iames:Ducharnie the East 50 of this lot JameS.-Ducharrne now .OWns...thie 50; ancliMatitice • Dalt-On is still the:Owner of the West 50. ••. Lot TwentYtnine- -:. Edward. Hart, who married a sister Of, Matthew Ward, was the. first Owner- of the East. 50 of Lot 29; and lived here. till both he and his wife; died 1893, 1y afeWiricnths -apart.- His son "Ned", a, bachelor; the next, Owner, had the buildings moved - across the concession to.his 0ther .50 in the early 1900'S, to. save crossing, the .riyer.. His two unmarried sisters, - Annie and 'Catherine,' lived, 'With; him . here.- . Jerry Doyle and Emmett Malone have owned it in later years. • While Owen Hart, brother of Edward, lived on the West' 50; it.was Canada .Company land Ths wife was write .axi accomplished woman from the States. Before, Owen died on the -farni,..helad lost his 'Memory. There were several in his family and. their: Went to the States, arid thernOther also after Owen's . death.. Thomas... IVIelady -,batight.this::land in;1920: Other owners have been Joseph Melady and Maurice MelaciY. • Lot Tharty , Peter Carty, who married a sigter2-, of Mr Edward Hart, lived on Lot 30, andlater. their .son,. Jack 'Carty, .1iyecl:hete also, but like. Lot 29,it was not sO113y the Canada ComPany. till the 1920's. At this time James Carlin :bought :it for ' a pasture farm. The landliere-vvas-Swampy and back the side - road; on this lot, was • the '"haunted -116-1.16*"—a' spot some feared to Pass without a guide, especially if :they had inclifig.- -,ectr-in- -Seafortliker elsemtere,.._ -too-freely „of. -be:Vet:age. stronger than -, sweet cider. , Joe ,Carlin and,.Jim. Devereaux have been the owners of this la in later years.. CONCESSION' IH , Lot One From the 1850s Thomas Pullman Was „the owner of. Let 1. Thomas and 'hi S wife, the fotnret Ann Murch, ,came to 'Canada in 1820 'fl'orri Devonshire, England,',Where their eld- est Cllikl,Sairrniel,..-was horn.. Thor'. settled:for a:short time. at Montreal; then came t Cooksyille, and were later at WOO& stocktrefore they.camelto Hibbert. The nine children -in theft' family. were: Samuel.;:"Jeshila James, 'Ann , (Mts. ..Egeton Morrow):-; Mary .. (Mrs. William Routledge: and: later Mrs. gaMtierHillenTT'VVil"fioseph„.Thofrias Casely, Hannah . (Mrs. Sohn Beifour). and Peter Jglin. :Both parents lived to be over ninety years 'of age, Thomas -died -at his son joseph's hoine at StrathroY, and hiswifeat her daughter; Mrs John Belfour's 'home on, Concession 2. - Other -owners have been John .JefferSoti, Wesley Jefferson; William Harper. and Mrs. William Harper. 1111952 E. J. Hesky, of -Hesky,Flax Lifnited, bought :the farm and made ,extensive alterations on the ;beau- tiful brick house,: which 'earlier had been built by Wesley Jefferson. • For a time after he ,..made these changes, Mr. :HeSkY Used this house for a-sun:liner home, and hi 's heacl:=; iluarterS.while in thiS,distriet- John ,Ritchie, of MitChell, the farm manager:- - • Let: DWO • William Dowling, the fitst of Lot- 2, died .on, the fa' rm in 1863. William's -Wife, Mary 'P011ard, 'irroved ft= here to LOgait with her son; john,' and later died in Mitchell. Others besides • John in the Dowling family Were 11/1,argaret Jane (Mrs. 'Jim , COudii), Ann (Mrs. Thomas .C, William, who was a policeman in 1VIitchell,-FIenry,Torn; Mary • (Mrs. Tom Roney)-- and Eliza: .(Mrs. Fitzgerald and latek tates):. Other owners have been Henry Darling, Aaron Buck; Fred iPond; Franklin MOore; ivriO711Yd- firstmarried, Leslie Moore and Joseph Monte. It is .now used- -by' these three Moore brothers as a pasture farm. . • Lot ,Three 7W0 sons -of Thnas Pullman Sr were the first. to live on Lot, 3, Joseph Pullman ,for a time lived' On the East 50, and Thomas Ca.sely` Pullman had the west and later.' owned it all, John Walker, a cattle dealer, had. the East next .and since that Fred Forester' and Lawrence Hannon have had it for pasture. 'Williarh'Pullman, Son of' ThoMaS C. Puilma,n,•..- followed his father on the West 50, and Jack Kirkham, who, married Hazel Pullinan, , a niece of- William, his brother George's datighter, is the present owner.. . ., • Lot Pont* . •- Jason Bur:Chill, When he cath e to Canada froin near Corky in Ireland,- worked as -a -logger Wear the 'Ottawa River' for three or gur years .' After he had acciiiniilateci a little money there; he thOk.-up firstin 18,52; the.south or.''`bacle.„0" Of Lot 4, and came to 'Hibbert to hve After he had paid for his land..he had Only an aice,, a barrerof flonr, and 80 little cash that today it would not buy a foal' of bread. PUrifig-bthe first winter he lived in a shack on the 25 acres north of ,hiS own land. In 1861 he married Jane Anderson, a native of Woodside, Perthshire, Stottand4 who bad also lived near. Coper-angus before she earne with herparents to Canada. At "the time Of her marriage she was living in LOgan Township.' By this marriage there Were five.children—one daughter died in infancY, and the other' four sons were Samuel, Robert, Andrew and Jason. Samuel and Andre* died in the middle 80's in their late teens'. In 1882 Jason bought: the 25' aeres north of his "bacii"750, making 75 acres hi all, toth parents died in Mitchell. Robert and:his brother; jasoil,'had'thefarrn, THE IRTEON EXPOSITOR, SAO ONT., -TIME 3(1, 11118.-40 Orn ounc Hear ire ProtectiOn Repo - C�wicfflo Hunter re rtedMter-, viewing o leers of Centrslia vil- lage in„regard to fire proteellen servie.e:And recommended that no action be taken, by Tjsborne ,coun- ell at this time. Re was rePortilig. to -the regular -meeting -of the Us. were present and Reeve C. A. Smith, Presided. The eqUipment borne council, -when- all meml3ers available, he felt, -was not suitable for fighting fm -fire. Council' agreed and the village trustees 'are to be advised. • Sims drain petition from Evan Sims, Edgar Cutimore, Rector Ro vv. eliffe and „others for a municipal dram- -with outlet in the Dunn Drain, was accepted by council and referred t� J. A. Howes, OLS, as engineer to make a "report, • Tax. collector William 'Johns re.. ported a total -of $3,208,88, in. out- standing 1958 taxes returned to the comity 'treasurer or eoliection, Trasurer N, Cr,1 Clarkereported receipt of $273.88 in accounts re. cteivendent and-etber receipts amount- able from ,the road suPerin- nag . and a cash 1alance as ,of May 31 of $.7$1.84, Price of :gravel to,ritePiYerP ;Was • set at SO cents per .m13ie yard for'. -• Crushed,. gravel deliVered! Current accounts; "arnounung to a total of $2„133.0,yere passed fey. • . payment'. ,- • - '• - The" elerloassessor,:. gtrang;-7,t'eported., uccesful eon- pielion of 'first 'Ye•ar eipalassessmeni colitSe and 'firat. . year '„Inunicipal elerktreasurees' cOurse,,,'Nvitit.a-.Grade'E standing attained .in both` COUrSes • at -the spring .examitiatiOns by., 'Queen's. University. Thee • 'eourOs were provided.' by the' township.' . , , „ "What did the first rheumatism pain,pay to the seeond rheumatism 'PI don't know. What?" "Let's get out of this 'obit." "I don't agree that hruettes are any Sweeter, • of disposition than .,blondes. and -redheads." - "My wife's been all three, and I don't see any difference." jointly in the 90's. In 1898 Robert:married Hester ,A- Robin- son, and by the .neXt Year he had the 75 alone, and in a -few. mor ears also,purchased the front 25: Thomas C. .Pullinaii ' was t e first to have this, .and George Pullman had it till , Burch' 1 bought it, This Was all swamp in the early-da3rs, . ' . Robe -ft Burchill was: interested and took a great iii14e in ;imported horses. While he Was the owner of several, the One best known and -most outstanding was "Mosstrooper Cha.m- Pion". It was "MosstrOop-er Champion" that paid 'for .the slibstantial-laini buildings that are now .on ,the, farm. After _Robettedeath, his widow and son, Dan, had thelarm a short time ;then Dan had-i-fal., On-et—Another-son-.-john--who--mar- - ried.Edna Eisler, i's. the present owner. - I.E ORI)ERL .Applithtions,for _the above position at the HI.TROl\V COVNTY HOME,' Clinton, will be • . . received by the -undersigned until FRIDAY; JliNE.26th7 1959 - - at500pm ' All applications are to be forwarded in sealed envelopes, % Clearly marked as to con4,, teht,.Itating -age, experience and Other nec-'. . . . esSary-information. SALARY — $1.25.00 monthly' living in . . or $155.00 per month, living_out John G. Berry, Clerk -Treasurer; Huron Conofy, .Goderich, Ont. W. G. THOMPSON • HENSALL ond Sons Limited • 2)1:1,otle 32 4"t• .4t•tmvt • • (Niagara Brand) • 2,4-D AMINE, 80'0Z. M.C.P, AMINE 2,4-1 ESTER WEEDAZOL A SURE KILL FOR QUACIt GRASS AND • - HARP -TO -KILL WEEDS , :CEMENT SEE US TO -1A:17 FOR YOUR REQUIREMENTS At Attractive Prices HOMPS-OH " 194" .•;617". 42 H..'