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HomeMy WebLinkAboutHuron Expositor, 2014-09-17, Page 6Wednesday, September 17, 2014 • Huron Expositor 5 Whitney south, Huron Expositor Homecraft highlights Quilts created by Marg Ungarian were just some of the many examples of the beautiful homecrafts featured in the round house during the 169th Seaforth Fall Fair. 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. RO. Box 69, Seaforth, Ont. NOK seaforth.news@sunmedia. ca IN THE YEARS AGONE Hicknell child first one born in Seaforth Community Hospital Sept. 20,1889 • The students of the Collegiate Institute are getting back to their places again by twos and threes, most of them well browned by their holiday experiences. There are now over 120011 the roll, a larger attendance than usual at this sea- son of the year, the junior classes being well filled. The uni- versity class will apparently be rather thin. But the school will have a heavy representation of nine students at Toronto University. • Mr. A. Cardno is now buying and packing apples on the lake shore, where the fruit is more plentiful than it is in this vicinity, but instead of buying from farmers here this year, the tables are tumed and he is prepared to sell to them. IM Mr. James Cunningham, of Tuckersmith, had an exhibi- tion at the show this week a sample of as fine spring wheat as we have ever seen. Even Mr. Wm. Murray was forced to admit its superiority over that grown in Algoma. MI Mr. Frank Gutteridge is now busily engaged building the new wing walls to the abutments of the Egmondville Bridge. The stone for this work is being brought from a quarry near Brussels by Mr. George Murray. • The dry spell was broken on Sunday last by a refreshing shower and since then we have had several nice rains, and the farmers who were waiting so impatiently for rain before sowing their fall wheat are now busily at work. Sept. 25, 1914 • A new departure in farming in bean growing districts in this country, which is expected not only to aid in supply- ing England with wheat, but also to yield big returns, is the sowing of wheat in fields formerly given over to the grow- ing of beans. Scores of farmers are sowing wheat in this way and the production of wheat next season is expected to break all records. • Mr. John Archibald is having a hydroelectric motor and milking machine installed in his dairy so that hereafter his cows will be milked by electrical power. • As an evidence of the severity of the wind storm Monday afternoon we may state that Mr. John Daley's heavy team wagon which was standing in his year was caught by the wing and driven nearly across the street. • A Choral Society has been organized in Seaforth, under the leadership of Mr. Nixon, organist and choir leader in the Presbyterian Church. There is ample material in this town for a choral society of a high order. • Foot by foot, literally by old-fashioned frontal charges, the allies are outflanking the German right wing, while at the centre, in the Rheims-Craonne line, the deadlock is unbroken. The eleventh day of the Battle of the Aisne dis- closes the Germans maintaining their desperate grip on French soil, but with a line so bent on their right that Von Kluk's army must retreat unless Von Buelow can crush the affies' centre. The fate of the German army depends upon the operations at the centre within the next day or two, since the allies are hammering back the right wing, losing thousands as they take a trench at a time advancing no more than five-eighths of a mile daily. Three German war- ships have been sunk in the Baltic by Russian cruisers. Sept. 22,1939 • There is a worldwide demand for Seaforth Lions Hallow- een tickets this year, the Frolic Committee finds. During the past week, tickets were sold to Dr. Stewart McGregor, Acccra, Gold Coast, West Africa; J.D. Neville, Talara, Peru and H. Jones Pickhill, Old Mill, Waxham, England. Local and district citizens too in increasing numbers, are pur- chasing tickets for the new radio -equipped Ford Sedan and the other prizes which will be drawn for at the Lions Halloween Frolic on Oct. 31. • The following local men have enlisted in the Cnadian Active Service Corps during the past week: Frank Grieve, Seaforth's John McLean, mechanic, Egmondville; Arthur VVilliam Prior, Seaforth; Charles Senior Messenger, Monk - ton; Thomas Smith, Kippen. • News of Tuckersmith - Silo filling is the order of the day in this vicinity. Mr. Elmer Townsend wears a broad smile this week. A brand new boy arrived at his home on Tuesday. The schools in the district are preparing for the school fair on Friday of this week • An enthusiastic meeting with nearly 200 in attendance in Tuesday evening unanimously decided to reorganize the Seaforth branch of the Red Cross. The local branch has been inactive since the last year. • Seaforth's telephone system was changed in a matter of minutes Wednesday afternoon from magneto to common battery. The changeover marked a step forward in the local telephone history. From two o'clock when the change was made, Seaforth telephone users do not have to turn a crank to place a call. Sept. 24,1964 • The first baby to be born in the new Seaforth Community Hospital arrived Thursday, two days after the hospital opened. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Francis Hick- nell, RR5 Seaforth. • There is every indication that entries at the Seaforth Fall Fair will set new records this year according to fair offi- cials. "In every department there is keen competition with increased entries," President Harold Pryce said. "All we need now to make it the best ever is weather." • It was a long -to -be -remembered occasion when Duff s church, Walton, marked the 100th anniver- sary of the founding of the members and friends of the church returned to Walton from points across Ontario. Minister of the church is Reverend Arthur Higginbotham. • Construction of an addition to the Huronview home is expected to commence early in the near year, when costs, as the architecture pointed out to county council, are less than in the latter of the year. Sept. 20,1989 • Seaforth Town Council overturned a request from its Streetscape Committee, to take additional funding needed for a bronze statue of D.D. Wilson, from the 1990 PRIDE allocation. • The recently completed Town Hall Civic Court was the topic of some discussion at the September meeting of Sea - forth Town Council. Reeve Bill Bennett said he personally finds the court too cluttered, and the trees too large for the area. • Leanne Whitmore, was crowned the 1989 Seaforth Fall Fair Queen Saturday night at a dinner and dance spon- sored by the Seaforth Agricultural Society. She takes over duties from Andrew Muir. • Members of the Seaforth Recreation and Parks Committee were commended by council on their recent completion of the Master Plan Update. Committee members, with the direction from a representative from the Ministry of Tour- ism and Recreation, have been working nearly two years to update the Master Plan previously prepared for the town by a professional consulting firm, and were at last week's council meeting to present a draft copt of that update.