HomeMy WebLinkAboutHuron Expositor, 2014-10-15, Page 5Grey Coun. Alvin McLellan with Mayor Bernie MacLellan'
Councillors recognized for years of service
Wednesday, October 15, 2014 • Huron Expositor 5
Whitney South, Huron Expositor
Two Huron East councillors have been presented with awards of recognition for over 20 years of service to the municipality, courtesy of MP Huron -Bruce, Ben Lobb. The awards were presented to Coun.
Larry McGrath and Coun. Alvin McLellan by mayor Bernie MacLellan in council chambers on behalf of the MP's office.
IN THE YEARS ALONE
Newly appointed Goderich clerk earns $400 a year in 1889
Oct. 18,1889
■ Mr. Wm. Mitchell has be appointed
town clerk of Goderich in place of Mr. Wm.
Campbell, resigned, at a salary of $400 a
year.
• A number of young lads in St. Thomas
recently rented a room over Pocock's
store with the intention of using it as a
rendezvous for the winter to smoke and
read dime novels. The urchins were short
of furniture and raided the barn of the
Methodist church parsonage and carried
off twelve yards of carpet, some stove
pipes and a lot of other articles. The
police arrested six of the boys, and the
magistrate after severely lecturing them,
allowed them to go on suspended
sentence.
• Duncan and Duncan clothiers of Sea -
forth announced their Third Special Sale.
Items of note: 15 cent dress goods at 10
1/2 cents; fine Cashmere jerseys at 75
cents each; heavy all -wool grey flannel at
19 cents per yard, and 'another big lot of
fine neckties going this time at 25 cents
each (these are worth from 50 to 75
cents):
Oct. 23,1914
• There are still people who figure on the
war being short, among them officials con-
nected the foreign embassies in London,
but those who seem to know most about it
are not among these numbers. No doubt
the more men that Britain and her allies
can put in the field, the sooner it will come
to a termination, but the War Office in
London does not seem to expect that it will
be finished before the end of next year.
• It is expected that work on the Toronto -
Hamilton concrete paved road will be
commenced shortly. The object of this is to
establish a 28 -mile stretch of road between
the cities upon which automobiles can be
driven at the greatest possible speed and
with the least possible danger.
• The Misses Barker of Goderich have a
squash grown in their garden which
weighs 120 pounds.
Oct. 20,1939
• From the Seaforth Collegiate Institute news:
The Girls' Athletic Society is holding a huge
party while this column is going to press.
Although the boys were not allowed inside, a
large audience of boys fought for positions on
the fire escape to witness this spectacle.
• Toronto's Waverly Hotel, at Spadina and
College, was advertising single room rates
of $1.50 and up.
• Northside United Church, Seaforth, cel-
ebrated its 62nd Anniversary with a service
and a guest appearance by Rev. R.B.
Cochrane, Home Mission Secretary of the
United Church of Canada.
• Stewart Bros. Was advertising their new
fall fashions, including dresses for $6.95.
Angora gloves for $1 and winter under-
wear ranging from 39 cents to $1.75.
Oct. 225 1964
• Mrs. Donna Boyes, former secretary -
treasurer of Seaforth PUC, will be tried by
judge and jury at the Huron County court
on an amended charge that she stole
$4,910.09 from the connission from 1962 to
1964.
• Mrs. J.I. McIntosh of Tuckersmith was
crowned runner-up in the Huron County
Plowmen's Queen of the Furrow contest.
• Two Seaforth women, Mrs. Nora Larone
and Mrs. Velma Talbot, were killed as a
result of a two -car crash south of Exeter.
• Plans are underway in Walton in prepa-
ration for the 100th Anniversary of the Duff
United Church.
Oct. 18,1989
• The town of Seaforth has accepted with
regret the resignation of Constable John
Cairns from the Seaforth Police Depart-
ment effective Sept. 30, 1989. Constable
Cairns has been on a disability leave from
the department since February of 1987,
and resigned due to his ongoing disability.
• This week, Bethel Bible Church in
Egmondville will be celebrating its 25th
anniversary. A banquet supper on Sunday
will mark this milestone in the Associated
Gospel Churches' congregation.
• A groundbreaking ceremony for the ren-
ovations to the Egmondville United
Church was held Monday morning by rep-
resentatives of that church.
• The October meeting of the Seaforth Hos-
pital Auxiliary was held in the Board Room
with 18 members in attendance. The roll call
was to bring an item for the White Elephant
Table for the Bazaar. The reported amount of
$276 was realized from the pie sale held at
the hospital for the staff.