HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1959-07-24, Page 11arketing
Co-operatives in Canada did a
record -smashing business last year
with the total volume amounting to
$1,244,557r000 -an increase of $92
million over the previous
.
year,4This was revealed in a, report
by
the Economics Division of the :Can-
ada Department - of "Agriculture,
whose officials tabulated figures
.submitted by
ubmitted 2,882, co-operatives
-ops
across the nation.
Co-operatives marketed about 33
per cent of all agricultural , pro-
ducts entering commercial trade in
Canada last year -,--the highest pro-
portion since 1953, An overall in-
crease in the sales volume of co-
operative- merchandise,: farm: sup-
plies and commodities was report-
ed in 1958."
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STRATFORD: MACHINE ; & TOOL COMPANY •
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• STRATFORD,&TORONTO, ONT,•'
Business.
A. significant development Is, the
fact that marketing co-operatives
did a $895 million business, the
highest on record and . $77.7 mil-
lion more ;than 'in 1957, All, prov-
inces'shared• in this increase. The
previous, high was iii 1953,, when a
carry-over from ;the 1952 wheat
crop' was marketed,-
to-
Reporting the Economics;- Dai
vision were marketing,':purchas>
king;: fishermen's and service co-
operatives; ;Estimated total mem-
bership is ,1,592,000.
with
WtLSON •-' S
1n a .Wiiconsin,,Alumni Research
Foundation Report it was stated
that each rat ,is'rcostmgyou_far-
''niers approximately, 520.00 a..year
o of ort in food eaten. and
a � one: -� On. a rats killed
dam , e..d
9
... -d Wilson W .fa in
' er Un o W at
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p4 f r
basis; it 'costs to k'
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ch
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rat. Wilson's "rpadyto.use'?Wan
farin'baitscontein.,Warfarin,mixed
with :the °sweet
"hearts""of yellow
corn and len attractant They are
pocked in ee3ylo-use self,feeder"
boxes yet. cost yol no more then..
ordAnary}Wartarinm.
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your farmquickly',of verm
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lnfestedrgnd co:slly" rodente,
buyino.�Wilson's Warfarin ,product•
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SEAFORTR
FAZ1VmERSy
o=OPER'
C A T IVE
,Service eo-operatives.. include::
housing, rural electrification, med-
ical- insurance, transportation, re-
creation facilities, telephone, cus-
tom grinding, seed cleaning, .res-
taurants, bgarding houses and mis
cellaneous.
er are.fishermen's
Th afis n
h• a s.
co-Opera-
tives in all; provinces. except Al-
berta and Manitoba. `
Saskatchewan which boasts of
its wheat growing, has anactive.
fishermen's co-op, whose members
-carry_. on_a.thrivmg business .in the
Reindeer Lake district,
Wholesalers. Gain *`
-.-,The • ten co-operative wholesales
operating in 'Canada last year re-
ported a gain of $31 mullion to
reach , a total of $250 million- in,
Aales of supplies and farm pro-
ducts. • Of this' amount; supplies
accounted, for .$138 million. Flour,
=feed "and fertilizer made rip 37 Per
cent of the sales, with gas, oil arid
automobile supplies in; second'
place in importance.
Marketing :of farm products as
reportedby wholesale eo-ops reach-
'01112
each-
1121
'e , '. m hit
d $ on=' an'.increase. af. $18
million' over, the 1957 figure. The.
largest items handled werelive-
Stock and, 've
livestock, stock. products (54.
per cent) and, dairy' products (30'
per eeiit) •
The beginnings of tie' co-opera-
tive movement in Canada canbe,
traced back. to 1789. In that' year,•
agricultural societies:' with some
co -o : ativ eat re
e f u s.w re 'r an.
per e o g
inedinwhtae tr
a r now Nova Sco a
and Quebec.
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TheEconomies s DiVision has"
-been' compiling • .annualstatistics
singe 1932.
Credit ,Unions, ypeanother o£'
thisP
co -o erativereport: ,`of which there are
,
about 4,500, are ',got'`'included`:in
'
A woman stepped off -the penny.
scale.-
°"Well, what's the verdit?". asked
her---_hus d. Fo
b
weigh,aiit?"•
• `.`NO " replied" the wife._ u ac-.
cording to the height table I should
be six inches taller."
to the
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Sea orth Farm r•
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operative
(Produce Division)"
We are pleased to have ibeen responsible for painting
and decorating the new Egg Grading Station:,:: - -
HILDEBRAND PAINT &. PAPE
Seaforth Ontario
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pleased ::t
On the Opening lof their
iPATIVE
NEW EGG GRADING STATION
Twelfth.. in a Series
TOE IIURON.EXI O$ITOft, SEM'ORTH, ONT., JULY 24, 1 .
CONCESSION IV
Lot One e
Allan -Watson and ary O'Neil were married inn 'I
reland,
sailed for Canada landed first in; Montreal'.then journeyed
onto Hibbert :where they. took up Lot 1 in 1854:'. They had
six children': ' Jane (Mrs. Tom 'ShaW) Mary ..Ann' (Mrs:
Alex' Hillen,. later Mrs. John Layton), 'John James, Henry
arlci Dave .,who::worked
----,.. in Keeler s tore in Ho He filed
or' was buried- on the day -set for is marriage,. o IV any Jane
Keeler. `Allan died en the :farm in 1,812';'Later, his wife
livid in a,'hotise on Lot 1, Concession 5, then moved to Mit-
shell,, where she' passed away in, 1892, Both Allan and his
wife ..were'natives of County, Wexford, Ireland: The first;
church service in <the comiiiunity'was held„ in• -Allan s WatSon's
Alex Linton, who bought: and 'sold -farms on, spectulation,
but. lived -Most .0fthe time in Mitchell, ;owned`the West 50.
from 1859. Allan's. soni James,, who. first:married Elizabeth.
Parr and later Teresa Howland„ --also "-get' the East • 50 thatj
same year.,_and. later::::
Owned the 100' acres. Ja e
Dave atson! "w oate greserysfor n'Cli'ntno
en
ph"heawd
it for a time, thenJaimes owned itagain..,'Otherowners
have.
been
.TOM' Heal, Charles; Beer, Sana Harris, Edwin Harris; .
•Harold Harris, :Mrs. Edwin Harris, Cecil':Brownlee (It), and
the,present owner,'J"oseph E •Harris:
From 1856 Rob rt Ward was the owner'. f Lot
f�. - � oWard•
May , d' . . , . , .:
or ma
iioiha 1iv
v ed on th -fa -b t-it-� - o he-
•Y. ,;Y. e � e rm,.. u, . kn wn
did live in Fully
rton.
By 1873this
lot a�listed, as
the
.Robert Ward Estate,"with George.'Thomas and
William,John
Ward .in' cliar
-.. _ _ .. e. Mr. 'Rainton aboutthis time had it rented.
B
ainton
Was: connected s in some
way'
with the Bai t
nWo
Wool-
len 1V1111 at I thas-in later-years
of his went through
this comm-ity s. -:e
ling woollen gods from the Blyth
John Wood, a ou .English an :died here in1891..'
Others _thneirlls
who have h -were
ad --the ,lot `Mrs Joh
, .:. _.. .._ : n � T
ood; B11= and Tozn.,
,Kellington_ (it),JosiahWatson, '- Will Cairns and ;George
-= ?andowned jointly,. then Geor e Vivian` .
The presenf`own-
er as Frank Baird-, Watson vas_burried_cut:while ka"e,owned-.
it, and 'since; then it has been used'as a pasture farm.
Lot Three
The same Robert.- Ward who. had Lot :2 also W o d, Lot 3
by 1855. John Linton, 'who lived in 'Fullarton, bought.:from
he Robert Ward Estate an -1888.. Tn the family;,of John and
li'za. Bell Linton were Thomas, Robert Henry, Joseph,- Sarah
(Mrs, -George-Balfour), .Gibson, Alex, 'George,"Jane Eliza,
Thomas. and William . No one had lived on this lot till
Linton's son, Joe, built the -.present brick houseand, married
Edith, daughter of ,J'ohn-Maliaff y, in the' fall- of :1903.. ;They
are still; living .onthis farm 'Whenthe:; house Was almost
completed; Joe's cousin, John Thompson; strode briskly across
the road:,, from his home . One Monday Morning :and asked
"What are you 'going to'do Wednesday, Joe;?" "Get married,"
Joe promptly. repliedwith :a,''grin, `.then ,inquired,' "And what
are you going to-do?" "Get married," said' John "and? was
Vanning to have you do my chores:" ',With the vows to be
taken;. only half an hour apart, John had to find another chore
boy. Till that "minute, John's` marriage 'OSUnki own .to Joe,
_andJoe'S to:John
Lot :Four•
Williatri:Hibbert,, a shareholder`' in' the -Canada Company; •
and the one for' whom the township was 'name d, -,was the first
to Own Lot ,4: He cleared the ,farm 'while he 'lived on' it.
Ribbert ::came from Bradford-on-Avon, lin Wiltshire, En.,:
land, near the Stonehenge area He married Sane Loughee�,.
a na1tive of Ireland .They had an adopted son;' George; ,who'
was a,' minor at the time of Willia'm's death in'`Mitcl'ell. in
1874. 'William had a: brother, George, a Mitchell merchant,
and a'. sister, Sai:ah (Mrs. ,Joseph W. 'Walker),- who .lived in
Wingliam district.: William's widow after -his.' death:=con-
tinued . to lave in Mitchell, and his niece;' Martha' Hibbert,
George's; daughter, ,lived with Mrs.' -Hibbert till she passed
away in 1893. Both she and her husband are buried in Wood=',;
land Cemetery in Mitchell;
John Hodgson was• the next owner. He was beim at,
Keighley; Yorkshire,,LEngland, and bis wife; Mary Anii:High-
field, in Limerick; Ireland: They calne to Canada in. 1869 and.
soon' after came to this lot After, his wife died here in 1877,
he;married an English'womau whoreturned to England after
his death. When ,John's son,; George, died 'at school age, Mal:
death believed "toe caused'from::eating frozen apples,' John'i
had himr:buried at the east side,of' the farm in .,a field: half..
way back the lot The following winter, When his wife :pass
ed;.away,:-:the,-sons had to shovel a track. through snowbanks -
from:. six';to eight feet deep in places, to get to the -plot where
George was buried: Later; 'Albert, another. son, was laid to
rest here:.too..John expressed a wish to be buried in the same however, -Ws son Robert had him buried in Woodland
Cemetery, and: later the,other`.bodies were.lifted'' and interred;
there tooThe other children in the family were Awi, David,
Jonathan, Joseph, Christoplier and Hiram.- These last two
were railroad>men, and lived at`', Fort William and' Port
Arthur.' Robert was killed by lightning, in his own bush, in>
1919. :.His wife and family later moved to London Enos
Docking -and . his son,:; Clifford, have. been the owners since
the Hodgsons left the:farm;
John:' Hodgson was interested in farm . improvement:, Ile
was a director -of the Hibbert, branch of the Agricultural
Society. by 1873:- His aand was always well 'cultivated,: kept
free from weedsand.grew grain of :a high quality, well suited_
for seed .grain. His was considered . a model farm:
From 1859 Henry Balfour, a native of Scotland, owned
the East.60,acres of Lot 5. It was the home of his son,.. John,
froni the time lie rna'rxied Annie Buck till hedied in '1943:
John's son, Dalton, .is: the present owner: ,John Balfour had;
charge of the,Mahaffy:post office in his home from the;time.
it was established in .the spring of 1905 until the start of
rural mail delivery, ` .
•
From 1857. James Shaw owned the West 4Q. '-Henry
Watson''owned it next and lived here from the time, he :mar-
ried Isaac Shaw's daughter, Anna;, until .they moved o' Sea -
forth iii 1873, ,When he sold to Henry Gray. Gray, in 1876,
sold. John White the South , 20, acres. Henry' Gray's ' sons,
David,and,John, each got 10 acres' of the .other; 20. Dayid's
,son, William, and John's son, 'William J. Gray,''have been the
owners since.. The owners of, John.• White's 20 acres have
'been the same as those of Lot 6 until:Dalton Balfour, who is
the present owner. ' .
While
John, White owned the land the second Eethel
Methodist Church, a, white brick -structure,. Was'built-01i the
southeast -corner -in- 1878, and, was. dedicated on October 20:>
Rev. John S. Fisher was the minister in charge at this time.
A number of years later it was veneeredwith red brick. In
June, 1927, the church was closed and thatfall it was bought
by the Orange Lodge,: and used as an Orange Hall until it
was sold and torn downby wreclfers from London in' -the
1930's. Harry Jones, a son-in-law of Henry_ -,Gray, who came.
from and returned. 'again .:to Ireland, for one.season ,in the
early 1880's, made brick backthe sideroad on Henry Gray's
Iand, This brick `was. used in at least two buildings in: Mit-
chell—the old ;Opera Itouse and, the store across from it,
which is'now the Cosy;Grill Restaurant. '
;Lot' Six a. a
By 1857. William Wilson 'owned .Lot 6 and that same year
'Sold to John White. John's .wife was the former: Mary .Ann:
PART TWO
By . ISABELLE CAMPBELL
.:Graham: In 1865 the Whites were living in Brussels When
their son, John, was born. While there John White had a
dray bu es
s. .4-s :there, was still .no railroad :very' close,,his
two teams -were kept busy drawing goods back and forth
from- one town to another, Later he returned to the -farm,
and Henry Sawyer, who' had beeliving on this lot,' then
moved to Mitchell and bought grain on.the market for Walter"
Thpmso .,.Mrs. John White owned the frnr after her'.hu
.n farms ..
band died in 1883 from ,-cholera`inorbus: Her son:'.Wiliiazn
White` came: next For dive Years';'' to"1 fi5 'WilliAm
White , .as one,of the -,Commissioners of'Division' Three of
which Hibbert h „, bbert formed a:.part, while Perth ` CountY 'business
Was conducted by ° twelve commissioners from six districts,
rather than by reeves and 'deputy- deputy -reeves of municipalities,'P*
had: been the custom till the end of '1898.; William Wlite 'was
also ` interested .and -took an active- part in other: community
affairs, especially. Farmer's Institute work. He .Was presi-
dent at the: ;tine .of his death inn 19Q7- His brother,
followed him. on the farm:'Jo -n' was;first a railroad man
.l? !
and later nianoger of a, Stratford hotel. Enon Jades came':•
next and while here was ored to death by an enraged bull
Other: Owners
C xil
have been Dalton'',B
',Balfour, L .Drown - (3-
. Y'Ca n in ..and:Geofiga Srale
`Te fir
st 'Bethel
thel eti dzst "Cur&h!which was
a o
od-
size frameb iIding,
was .built in -1863 1863 on the corner of this,'
lot. This was known .as "White's Corners". Services before
this had, been, held in the homes, and also in .John ;White's
barn: `
R.
ev::Asaha
el Hurburst:'w-a. s • the or _-an, izo
r
'.an
d
its s
ronoters wereAlex Linton John LintonTarries Watson
WilliamFawcet'an d John White -, By FsbruarY,"1869!qhe
--
trustees were James Watson Jein Bell,eor:Devens Alex
B ll, Archibald Levy, HenryWatson and Robert Roney. The
—church—here
.Was used till= a new, s U' one wa • b `'iTt on -Lot 5 in
18 8.
7
The first Orange Lodge meetings s were held in theWhite,
home:makin it necessaryfor, Mrs. White. to vacate when,
rGf
degree de r'w� work, which was secret,' wa i '"
g - ,.. , s be ng put..on. The frame �r
Orange Lodge ha11,w-kiich': was first on the.corner;.of this..lot, s,
-was Moved over to Lot 5, across the sid'eroad;';in later years:,
T,,tsizen
W illiariz'Wilson„of 'whom riothin s 'knowin- -also Awned _
Lot 7 from 1857. James Mahaffy, a native ,of:;. Ireland, " who.
had first settled in DarlingtonT
'Township,: nearBowrnanville �,
-Ont.;, came to'` this farm. in 1862,' His Wife" w,as ,Sarah Me- '
Laughlin. James and Sarah had a f amily of nine—Elizabeth
(Mrs, ;':Robert McLaughlin),; , John; ' Jams, 'TOM, .Wil-
Liam, .Mary Jane_ (Mrs. John G. Miller.), Gibson, and his twin,
sister, Sara, . who died in 1869, .aged 14' years: The parents
lived here' till they-wentto' live:with their son;. Sam, in
•larton. Township. ; Two,
other sons=James,.;.w.ho married,
lIelen ; Millers and William, who Married. Annie Kane—had-
the Easti,
andWest: 50 ` of the; homestead Jaynes, in the fall "
Of 18.87; went to Brandy Point, on the. Mitchell, Road, for a
year .or so before he 'Moved into Mitchell., :William, after
James left had his 'East :50.. William's son, Freeman, after
the death of his; father: here; was the owner "until he 'died in
1955 ,.;:His widow, the former Nellie Dalrymple, and her son,
Ross, still live' on 'this farm
Seaforth Branch 156
anadian Legion
`Jowett's Grove, Bayfield "
SUNDAY AFTERNOON,, JULY 26th
'ALL VETERANS:` AND 'THEIR.
FAMILIES ARE. INVITED:.
Those requiring transportation are request-
ed to be at 'a the Legion Rooms : at 1:15 p.m.
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