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HomeMy WebLinkAboutHuron Expositor, 2014-12-10, Page 5Have an opinion? The Huron Expositor welcomes letters to the editor. They must be signed and accompanied by a phone number for information clarification. It is important to note, letters will not be able to be printed without the author's name attached. All letters are subject to editing due to possible space restriction. Letters can be dropped off at the office, mailed or emailed: The Huron Expositor 8 Main St. P.O. Box 69, Seaforth, Ont. NOK 1 WO seaforth.news@sunmedia.ca Wednesday, December 10, 2014 • Huron Expositor 5 '„ ti i7ro_,i Til, yap L. - i PAY in .I �: r r � 4 the ordui nl VlL±-I x..41 pb.'i Whitney South, Huron Expositor Seaforth Optimist Club gives to Christmas Bureau Seaforth Optimist members Sandra McGlynn and Brenda Wilkinson present a cheque for $5,000 to Christmas Bureau volunteer Wendy Hutton (centre) at the Agriplex on Dec. 3. IN THE YEARS AGONE Two hundred wagons deliver Christmas parcels in 1914 Dec. 20, 1889 • Mr. T. Berry, our enterprising horse buyer, has again shipped from this place another car load of good, blocky horses to Boston market. This is the fourth load Mr. Berry has shipped from Hensall in the past few months. Hensall is the place to go if you want to dispose of your horses. • During the past summer Mr. Andrew Archibald Dr., son of Mr. Andrew Archibald of the 5th Concession erected a handsome residence on his farm in Hibbert. this gave rise to the considerable conjecture among the young people of the neighbourhood as to who the mistress of the new home would be, as Andrew is not the boy to pro- vide a cage unless he has a bird to put into it. All doubts on this point were cleared up on Wednesday last when he led to the altar Margaret, second daughter of Mr. Samuel Wallace. • There died in Fayette County, Georgia, last week Ubobirs Slaton, who had lived in the same house for 61 years. He was 81 years old. By his first wife he had 17 chil- dren, and by his second 15. Around his bedside when he died were 17 of his 19 liv- ing children. He had grandchildren too numerous to mention. • Mr. George Patterson, who kept a butcher shop in Dublin, has removed to Egmondville. Dec. 25, 1914 IN It is not often that the Lucknow-Goder- ich stagecoach fails to make its daily trip, but on Tuesday morning the road condi- tions were too much for Mr. Robinson. Starting out with a wheeled rig, when a few miles out he encountered snow drifts which he found impossible to negotiate and had to turn back. • At the Guelph Winter Show, the Huron County Council offered a prize for the best steer or heifer two years or under from Huron County and it was won by Mr. Wil- liam Snell of Hullett. ■ It will require more than two hundred wagons to deliver the Christmas parcels passing through the Toronto Post Office. • Mr. D.H. Ross of Goderich has received from his son-in-law, George Gregory of Petrolia, who was engaged in drilling for oil in Persia for about three years, a couple of very ancient coins which he dug up during some excavating. It would require an expe- rienced archeologist to decipher them suf- ficiently to fix a date for them, but it seems safe enough to assert that they go back quite a while before the Christian era. Dec. 22, 1939 • Winter arrived exactly on time this year when the season's first snow fall on Wednesday night, Dec. 20. By Thursday the ground was completely covered and roads at several points were heady for wheeled traffic. ■ Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Archibald well- known Seaforth residents, on Monday qui- etly celebrated their 50th wedding anni- versary. Mr. and Mrs. Archibald were married at the home of her parents, the late Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Wallace, on Dec. 18, 1889 (after Andrew Archibald had built his home in Hibbert, the "cage in which to house his bird':..see notes for 1889) • Hidden in some shrubbery in a field off the county boundary road between McKil- lop and Grey Townships, three and a half miles east of Walton, a trapper found the battered safe of Dougherty Bros., stolen from their garage in Blyth on the morning of Dec. 2. The door of the safe had been hammered and pried off with two sledges and a crowbar stolen from the CPR tool - house at Walton the same night. Valuable books and records were found intact. Dec. 24,1964 • Winners in the best decorated homes competition were announced this week by Chamber of Commerce President George Mcllwain. The winners were: Zone 1 - Lloyd Rowat; Zone 2 - Joseph DeGroot; Zone 3 - Garnet Stockwell. • Three -hundred spectators attended a date -stone laying ceremony at the new Seaforth Hospital on Sunday, marking the closing in of the $875,000 building. The stone was laid by Ontario Highways Minis- ter and HUron MPP, Charles S. McNaughton. He was assisted by Miss Valerie Drope, hospital administrator at Scott Memorial which the new hospital will replace. • A Stratford man died when his car left the road at Grieve's bridge north of Sea - forth on County Road 12. Dead is Norman J. Malloy, 51, a traveller for the Cockshutt Farm Implement Co. over 20 years. Mr. Robert Smith, a former Reeve of Sea - forth, celebrated his 93rd birthday. Mr. Smith is a patient at Kilbarchan Nursing Home. • Seaforth Lions were in Clinton Sunday afternoon when members sponsored their annual entertainment at Huronview. The visit, an annual affair since 1930, was arranged by a committe of L.P. Plumsteel, George Hildebrand and L.F. Ford. Dec. 20,1989 • Most rural customers of the Seaforth Post Office will wee their mail delivered by a new contractor, effective Jan. 1, 1990. Don Roberts of RR 1 Seaforth has been awarded the tender for all five of the rural routes currently served by the Seaforth Post Office. ■ The Seaforth Community Hospital has been awarded a three-year accreditation from the Canadian Council of Health Facil- ities. The Council is the national investigat- ing body that ensures the standard of care at hospitals across Canada is uniform and of the highest quality. A three-year accred- itation is the highest award given. • Santa Claus was in town last Thursday evening. His helpers were inspecting Trus- tee Jerry Murray, Hydro Chairman Don MacRae and Secretary Graham Leslie. The elves were Mary Anne Saunders and Lynn Feeney. Santa was 'Guess who?' They dis- tributed treats to the children and seniors of the village, compliments of the Police Village.