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HomeMy WebLinkAboutHuron Expositor, 2014-11-26, Page 5Wednesday, November 26, 2014 • Huron Expositor 5 1 www.seaforthhuronexpositor.com Whitney South, Huron Expositor Seaforth Optimists select new executive During the meeting on Nov. 17, the Seaforth Optimist Club put in place their new executive. (From left to right) Brenda Wilkinson will serve as president, Sandy McGlynn as treasurer, Shirley Dinsmore as secretary and Bob Dinsmore as vice president. Have 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 1W0 seaforth.news@ sunmedia.ca IN THE YEARS AGONE Christmas postage a whopping three cents in 1964 Dec. 6,1889 • Three Brussels young ladies had a competition one even- ing recently in eating pancakes. The victor demolished 13 and is yet alive and in good health. The other two weak- ened and 10 and 11 respectively, so it is said. ■ Hiram Lester, now an inmate of the poor house at McDon- ough, Georgia, is thought to be the oldest man int he world. His age is 120 years. Colonel Stone, of McDonough, who is over 80 years old, said when he was a boy, Lester was an old man Lester's teeth are perfectly sound, and his eyesight and hearing are good. His skin is wrinkled and as hard as parchment. He eats and sleeps well and says he has given up all idea of ever dying. He remembers all about the revolutionary war and knew George Washington. • Somebody who wanted a cheap suit broke into George Howard's tailor shop at Dublin on Saturday night, and abstracted an overcoat and a pair of paints. No clue to the thief. • It is said that a new law is to be asked for this session, making it a punishable offence to use offensive or insult- ing language to any person through the telephone. • A mass of rock, weighing about 500 tons, recently fell from the high cliffs on the Canadian side of the Niagara River to the banks below, within a few yards of one of the supports of the old Lewiston Bridge. Had the immense rock struck one of the stone pillars, the bridge would undoubtedly have given way. Dec. 11, 1914 ■ War Notes: A dispatch from Salisbury Plain, dated Dec. 7, says: The tents are again flooded by heavy rains and many were blown down. The post office marquee collapsed and a thousand dollars in money orders were blown away. ■ Huron County Council, at its session last week, decided to look after the wives and families of those who have gone to the front, by way of supplying clothing and food and any other necessity. Each reeve of every municipality will look after those in the municipality in which they reside. • The Brussels Post of last week says: W.W. Harris adver- tised in The Post for oats and before 3 p.m. the day the paper was issued, he had his grain bought. This is very good by The Expositor can go it one better. Last week, a merchant in Seaforth handed in an advertisement of a horse for sale and he sold the horse before the advertise- ment was printed. • Hotelkeepers F. McCaughey and Mr. W. Mason of Blyth received summonses to appear before the Police Magis- trate in Wingham on the charge of selling beer over the standard temperance beer of two per cent. Mr. Mason did not defend the charge and was fined $100. Mr. McCaughey hired Lawyer Davey to defend him and had Mr. Watson of Berlin, a chemist, as a witness, and after hearing the evidence of the expert and also the spies, the magistrate threw the case out. Dec. 8,1939 • With improvements almost completed at the Seaforth rink, all that is needed to swing the intermediate hockey machine into action is cold weather and ice. Workmen at the rink this week are putting on the finishing touches. The new players room is completed and the ice surfaced lengthened 11 ft. Corners of the ice surface have been rounded and the bleachers erected across the entire south end. Lighting is being improved and a large portion of the interior has been repainted white. • Flowers blooming in an outdoor garden in December are not a common sight in Seaforth or any other place in West- ern Ontario, as far as that is concerned. But this year must be an exception. Mr. Sol Williams brought into the Exposi- tor office on Friday, a number of cornflowers picked from his garden that morning, and they were still as blue and fresh as they would have been in the summer months. • A county court jury in Goderich returned a verdict find- ing William Addison, of Hullett Township, had on occa- sions during the past two years slandered his neighbour and life-long friend, James Medd, by referring to him as a "cattle thief" and "robber." The verdict awarded Mr. Medd $100 of the $500 damages asked. • A new feature for this Christmas is the decoration on top of the town hall tower. Strings of coloured lights run from the top of the flag pole to the deck of the tower and are readily visible for miles. Harry Bolton and Andrew Calder, who erected the lights, did the job before an audience that comprised about everybody as they clambered up the flagpole 125 ft. above the street. Dec. 10,1964 • Plans to lay a date stone at the new Seaforth Community Hos- pital were advanced at a meeting of the Board. The ceremony will take place at the hospital site on Sunday, Dec. 20. • Voters showed little interest in area elections on Monday, when not more than 50 per cent of those eligible went to the polls. • A 20 -year-old Kippen youth, Ken Gemmell, was awarded the Elston Cardiff Citizenship Trophy at the 17th annual Huron County 4-H Achievement Night at the District High School in Wingham. A total of $3,428 in cash prizes, the highest in the county history in 4-H clubs, was distributed during the evening to members, along with pen and pencil sets, halters, T-shirts and even engraved hickory canes. • This year, Ontario residents are asked to note the change in postage rates for the holidays: three cents for all unsealed Christmas cards. • The first 1965 license to be sold in Seaforth was pur- chased Monday by Joseph McConnel, Seaforth. The first station wagon license was to Walter Pratt, and the first doctor's plates went to Dr. E. Mallcus. • Transistor radios were awarded to three SDHS students who were top salesmen in the school's recent subsription campaign. Patsy McGrath came first for the second year in a row, Larry Lane was second and Larry Walters, third. Dec. 6,1989 • A new study of tourism in Huron County is encouraging cooperation rather than competition among businesses and communities providing tourist services. The three- phase study, which began in September, expects to sur- vey 80 per cent or more of the 1,000 Huron County busi- nesses, which cater to tourists here. • The Monkeys broke the tie for first place in the St. James bowling league this past week by one point. Top scorer for the Monkeys was Murray Bennewies 257-727. Seaforth's annual Santa Claus parade went off without a hitch again this year, attracting 72 entries and drawing a larger crowd than ever to town, despite the nippy north wind. Organizers were impressed with the quality of all entries and indicated it was a shame that certain ones had to be centred out for the prizes.