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Home My WebLink AboutHuron Expositor, 2015-08-12, Page 44 Huron Expositor • Wednesday, August 12, 2015 www.seaforthhuronexpositor.com Nuron 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 i ffP NEIL CLIFFORD Advertising Director neil.clifford@sunmedia.ca SHAUN GREGORY Multimedia Journalist shaun.garrity@sunmedia.ca DIANNE MCGRATH Front Office seaforth.classifieds@sunmedia.ca NANCY DEGANS Advertising Rep. nancy.degans@sunmedia.ca MARIE DAVID Group Advertising Director Grey Bruce Huron Division 519 376-2250 ext. 514301 or 510 364-2001 ext. 531024 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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Canada Years Agone Shaun Gregory Huron Expositor Aug. 9, 1889 ■ Tuesday last being Sea- forth's Civic Holiday most of the business places in town were closed and many of the inhabitants took advantage of the occasion to go elsewhere. • Only a few were left as a home guard, and had the town been invaded by out- side forces an ignominious capitulation would almost certainly have been the result. While 460 left by train, all who could pro- cure vehicles went to Bay- field and other points of interest. ■ A baseball match was played on the Recreation grounds in this town on Wednesday last between the clubs of Brussels and Exeter. The match was for the championship of Huron and a money stake of $100. It elicited a great deal of interest in the towns from which the respective clubs came. • Mr. Thomas Dobbs of McKil- • lop, delivered the first new wheat at Ogilvies mill on Thursday of last week. It was of fair sample and went a tri- fle over sixty pounds to the bushel. Since then there have been several small lots brought in. IN Harvesting operations are now well advanced. The weather has been most favorable and the crops are being housed in excellent condition. The fall wheat, on account of the rust, is small and of inferior sam- ple, but the yield will be • fully equal to last year. Aug. 14, 1914 • Mr. T.W. Sloan of Hullett, near Blyth, had the frame- work of a large new barn raised last week. The frame went together in good shape under the supervi- sion of Mr. Lorne Scimgeour, who has the work in charge. After the frame was up, a tug -of war was pulled off by teams captained by N.A. Taylor and Jason Watson, fifteen men a side, the former winning. A very distressing and fatal accident occurred at No. 6 warehouse here on Tues day evening last, when Clara Jane, the 10 -year-old daughter of Mr. JohnMuir, G.T.R. Section Foreman, was smothered to death in a bin of wheat. It appears the little girl with some companions had been playing about a car of wheat being unloaded, and had been ordered away by the men in charge for fear they might meet with some accident. Instead of going away, however, they unno- ticed by anyone, slipped into the warehouse and were playing in one of the large wheat bins when a spout was opened below to draw off some wheat. Now that the excitement inci- dental to the great gathering held in Seaforth last week, known as the Seaforth Old Boys' Reunion and Provincial Firemen's Tournament, has subsided, a more accurate view of the great undertaking can be had. It was a great undertaking for a town the size of Seaforth and that it has proved successful financially and every other way shows all the more clearly the care and skill that must have been exercised by those having the enterprise in charge. A severe hailstorm passed over the northern part of McKillop, Sunday forenoon last, doing considerable damage to the crops. On Sunday afternoon a very severe windstorm passed over the country about Cromarty, in Hibbert. ■ Mrs. James Lawrence of McKillop, has shown us three eggs which for size and weight break the egg record. These eggs weighed eleven and three quarter ounces and one measured five and three quarter inches the one way and six and three quarter inches the other. Aug. 11, 1939 • Police are checking the story told by 9 -year-old Harold Knight of Seaforth, that he was attacked by a transient and stabbed in the arm while in play in a corn field at the read of his home Thursday. Young Knight was playing hide-and-seek in the field with a number of other boys, including his cousin, Bobby Knight, aged 8. His story is that a man with scissors in his hand and his face cov- ered, rose from the corn and stabbed at him, inflicting a wound on his arm with necessitated medical atten- tion. The man then disap- peared in the corn. • One of the finest examples of fall wheat ever grown in this district was brought into the Expositor office on Thursday evening of last week. It was grown on the farm of Mr. Foster Ingram, first concession of Hay Township, and the grains were not only uniformly large and plump, but were of excellent colour. It was of the Dawson variety and tested 62.5 lbs to the bushel. Aug. 13, 1964 • Tenders will close Monday for the construction of a new office and egg grading plant for United Dairy and Poultry Co-operative. The new plant, with equip- ment, will cost $75,000 and will be located on South Main Street, south of Oke Street, on property pur- chased from Wright and Leyburn. • Thirty-five Staffa Institute members and friends traveled by bus to Stratford Thursday evening to attend the Shakespearean play, "King Lear," and the oper- etta, "The Yeoman of the Guard." • Provision for auxiliary police to be available in time of emergency and as a relief pool or trained per- sonnel for the local force was made Monday night. • Despite reservations by Councillors Flannery and Turnbull, council adopted a by-law creating an emer- gency measures organiza- tion for the town. Aug. 9, 1989 The Seaforth Junior Farm- ers Blood Donor Clinic, held Thursday night at the Seaforth and District Com- munity Centre, once again brought in more units of blood than anticipated. Organizers say there was a steady stream of donors from the time the clinic opened until it closed, and added that in the last two hours it was extremely busy. It may not be thanksgiving, but three farming families in McKillop Township are thankful these days for compassionate and helpful neighbours. Les Lorne and Ken Glanville, and their respective families, were shown a great gift of friendship last week, when their neighbours joined forces to harvest their wheat, while they grieved over the death of their father/grandfather. Ladies of the Seaforth Lawn Bowling Club held a tournament among mem- bers of their club on Mon- day afternoon while bowling. SEAFORTH HURON EXPOSITOR — HOURS OF OPERATION MONDAY: 9:00 - 5:00 • TUESDAY: - CLOSED • WEDNESDAY: - 9:00 - 5:00 • THURSDAY: - 9:00 - 5:00 • FRIDAY: - 9:00 - 5:00 • SATURDAY & SUNDAY: - CLOSED ADVERTISING DEADLINE: FRIDAY AT 2:00 • PHONE 519-527-0240 • FAX: 519-527-2858 www.seaforthhuronexpositor.com