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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1971-07-15, Page 6Attention All Farmers The time for action is here! We must have a better policy and prices for olur milk and pork. HEAR WALTER MILLER and BILL LANGDON GUEST SPEAKERS AT CLINTON HIGH' SCHOOL ,Thursday, July 15th at 8 p.m. This meeting tt-iiime-ht—drill-must be liffendicrbji all fanners. CENTRAL HURON LOCAL 300 FARMER'S UNION „ TONY DE JONG, PRESIDENT' C ANDLELITE RESTAURANT and TAVERN — FORMERLY PIZZA PATIO TAVERN — NIGHTLY ENTERTAINMENT — DOUG ROY and THE FOOTPRINTS COMING NEXT WEEK — THE CHEERIOS CANDLELITE RESTAURANT and- TAVERN BAYFIELO ROAD IN GODERICH „ PHONE 524-7711 —LOCAL BRIEFS Mr. and Mrs. Dan Burns spent the week end in Niagara Falls and Hamilton. Mr. David'Kem1, of Frobisher Bay was a guest at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Dan Burns. Mrs. Pat Troutbeck left by air Friday for Yarmouth, Nova Scotia where she will join Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Gehan and two children in a visit to Rustico, P.E.I. where they will spend two weeks at a cottage. Mr. and Mrs. James G. Taman, Lynn, Allan, Deborah, Darlene and Dawn spent a few days with Mrs. E. H. Close on their way "Wine to Florida after a trio to Nanaimo, B.C. STAG in honor of Steve Murray at the Seaforth Arena July 17, 1971 Sgt. Taman leaves in October for a year in Thailand. Mrs. Pearl McFarlane 18 a patient in Seaforth Community Hospital, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Taylor of Alexandria, Kentucky visited her sister, Mrs. Cora Barrows. Mr.and Mrs.Thad Musselman and son Garry of Wilkie, Sask. and Billy Pretty, son of Mr. and Mrs. James Pretty, Regina, visited with Mr. and Mrs. James McClure, Walton andother relat- ives in this area for the first time. Miss Marilyn Hillis of Til- lsonburg left last week for Italy where she will spend three weeks on tour. Mr. D. J. Hillis left for Ottawa where he will spend the summer at Ottawa -University studying for his M.A. in education. Doctors advise that slouch- ing position in a car prevents full extension of the lungs; and this leads to early fatigue. Sit immediately behind the wheel, with both shoulder blades touch- ing the seat back, the Ontario Safety League recommends.' . ••••••••••••••••••• OFFITAMME111 The Deadliest Man Alive Wet 14 Thu.1 .5 Fri.1 6 Sat.1 7 -I ...Takes on a Whole Army! FITIORTANIN6 ADVENTURE Al SO DESPERATE SUIVIVORSI Et' "DTH E IWPWW4EXPOSITOFt, .SEAFORTH, ONT., JULY 15, 1971 ROLLER SKATING Wednesday and Saturday Nights Only • 8 —10:30 SEAFORTH COMMUNITY CENTRE Attention -- Veterans Ex-Service Men and Women and Dependents. The Royal Canadian Legion SetVice Bureau Officer, MR. H. W. MOYER, Provincial Serv- ice Officer, London, Ontario will be visiting .SEAFORTH on July 20,1971 at 1 p.m. ANYONE WISHING AN INTERVIEW PLEASE CONTACT: T. F. Wilbee, Service Officer Phone 527-1852, Seaforth ondon- and District Soccer FAG STRATFORD VS. ST. COLUMBAN on Sat., July 17th —Starting at 4 p.m. Seaforth District. High School Field ADMISSION 75c immiummimmimimmumummiollumullime TUES. 20th, JULY — 8:45 p.m. Gorgeous George Jr. John L. Sullivan LADY WRESTLERS ° -- TAG TEAM BOUT Chief Little Meat.' vs. The Assassin den:. $1.50'Ringside $2.00 ids , $1.00 ..,2i FaratiaDvft ill1111111811111111111111111111111111111111111111111110111111111111111111111181111111111111111111111111111I11111111111111111111111111g LARGE NEW READABLE TOTE BOARD CLINTON • ONTARIO * QUALITY * SERVICE EQUAL OR 'ETTER * PRICES • • • COMPETITIVE let:. Personal and prompt attention - we're as close as the phone! . Promotes local interests by helping to provide jobs and increase buying power .1usiness Forms Made by Canadians for Canadians • No extra oil to yes • REGISTER FOAMS , STANDARD BODY AND CUSTOM CARBON PAPER IN ROLLS OR SH'EET'S PORTABLE AND COUNTER MODEL REGISTERS • OA RtioN "SNAP•our•FoRMS ”PAKSET S" • FORMS WITH CONTINUOUS CARBON FOR TYPEWRITERS ' AND ACCOUNTING MACHINES • • 'COUNTER CHECK BOOKS AND RESTAURANT PADS* • MAGNETIC INK CHEQUES ("m I c.0.-) • SINGLES AND MULTIPLE COPY StTS Etc Etc at Aura xpositrot 1 RECEPTION AND DANCE 10 00 • .1) V P By Geo. L. Ellis, former Publisher of the Goderich Signal Star Who has written a history of every newspaper ever published in Huron County. OUINELLA „- Harness Raies'Every Sunday J posy IDAUNE 6 to OCT. 31 , vanaliprogra'm's will be available Saturday's at Pullman's Barber Shop, Seaforth,, They stood tooether to C1111.1 a dream , 114ALRIDtt.111111p. lurr*EY.aes • s_tfl 00;gth ELAN HOWARD A.,.,. Wario=00 ..V611AMILES,,MATE C.O./ ENENiS $4.4. • Z1.7 There mum a crooked man... . SHOW TIMES Friday and Saturdays at 7:30 and 9:15. All- other dayt, one show at 8:00, except where noted on the program. • HARNESS RACING 1101111COLOK WALT DISNEY theft/tan a. nnent of Harpurhey, neighboring. Seaforth, was a flourilhing v11- . N1111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111.111 aTar SHIRLEY MACLAINE EASTWOOD zeirr cuNT "TWO MULES FOR SISTER SAR/k. &SKOV DRIVEN THEATRE 27th Annual GARDEN PARTY FAIR GROUNDS KIRKTON, ONTARIO HIGHWAY 23 WEDNESDAY', JULY 21st, 1971 Adults '$1.50 — Children 25c Softball. 6 i00 p.m.—Juvenile Contest 7:30p.m. PROFESSIONAL PROGRAMME: 9:00 p.m. (CBC Artists and Other National Performers) lage with at least a dozenstores, several hotels and numerous me- chancis' establishments. It was for a: time larger and more Kirkton Community Association important than Seaforth. With the passing of time, Seaforth out- distanced it and today Harpurhey is but a ghost of the village it once was. As Seaforth grew it became incorporated as a .village on Jan. 1,1968 with a population of 1,056 By 1875 it had 'been incorporated as a town. A disastrous fire on Sept. 4, 1877, laid in ashAS about 12 acres of the business section of the town. But this was soon replaced with modern brick buildings. In its, heydey, Seaforth flour- - ished with Salt wells, flour mills, foundries, cabinet factories, planing mills, ten blact(smith shops, etc. On the death of Murdo Mc- Lean in 1916, Keith M. Mc- Lean, who had been associated' with his father in the business for many years, became editor. , Mr. Keith McLean continued as AL...,. U.. RSM . , . ,E(....l0.10 1,10,510.• ..v... 1, "'Bird 'Witchrnaket Lean in publishing The Expositor Associated with Murdo Mc- The E. was his brother, Alan. In 1872, TONY MUSANIE starring stai plus Anthony Sisley, ThordiS Brandt, Ali), Moore — -- - Mc-Leairre vied as a part- umage "F: ner publisher due to ill health and John Lodger as Luther the Berserk and Murdo McLean carried on as SUZY KENDALi Free Press, noW a member news- klIllmnprouienf 1 9 r...20 1 paper of the great Sifton chain Sun.18 Mon. MO stator of newspapers in Canada. .110.11 LOTS OF FUN IN '71 ' E.- editor. Launching several gener- ations of the McLean family as BOX OFFICE OPENS AT 8 p.m. E- politicians, 'Murdo McLean re- FIRST SHOW AT DUSK presented Huron in the Provin- cial Legislature and also in the Children Under 12 in Cars Free = House of Commons for several terms. • At one time the little settle-. IvZteAg2" • 1.10Y8'BRIDGESANE FRANCIS gi A rsmosat P.C.1 • C01.04, Once only a dense forest where the only sounds to be heard were the screams of wild fowl and the croaking of reptiles, Seaforth eventually made itself heard on the farming, industrial, political, business and journal- istic forefronts of the early days of Upper Canada. Because of its location in comparatively low lying land it was at one time known as "Guide Board Swamp." At its four corners''' was a noted post and fingerboard pointing the way and the mileage to better known mun- icipalities in the general area. Seaforth was so named after the birth place in Scotland of• one of its first settlers. One of a trio who surveyed the Seaforth area and contributed largely to its founding was James Patton who later became a law partner of Sir John A. Macdonald. One of its earliest claims to fame Was that of a centre which handled more wheat grown by pioneer farmers than any other point in Ontario, including even Toronto. "Seaforth merchants purchased this--wheat from far- mers who came from distances as far as 50 miles away and more. Often scores of teams drawing loads of wheat lined the streets of the village waiting to be unloaded. Ass -Seaforth -grewso ad-the' need for a local newspaper. Con- sequently, its first journal, The Huron Express made its appear- . ance in 1860 With C. H. Cullas publisher. By 1862, Alexander Campbell was recorded as pub- lishing The Huron Express - - but thiswas ..only for a few months. M. r. Campbell died sud- denly and C. H. Cull again be- came its publisher. The paper carried on “some- what irregularly" until 186'7. In November, 1867, Messrs. Penton and Colbourne reorgan- ized The Express and renamed it The Expositor. Soon after this, George W. Ross and W., F. Luxton purchased The Expositor and they installed as its manager Miirdo Young McLean who came to Seaforth from Cornwall and Ayr. The former manager, Murdo McLean purchased the business .in December, 1870' after its pre- v,ious proprietors went afield to other interests. One ;,cif the partners became Sir George W. Ross, Premier of Ontario. Mr. Luxton answered the then popular, call of "Go West, Young Man, Go West." He went to Manitoba where he founded The Winnipeg trar Ponir ournP OUR- GRR8/96( Yo u R PRoPERTY„.. " editor until his ci6ath in 1948 when the management was assumed in turn by his son, Andrew Y. McLean, the third generation of the McLean family to publish the paper. A former member of the Hone of Commons as a representative for Hurcm- Perth, he is also a past presi- dent of the Ontario' Weekly News- -papers Association, During its history, The Expositor has occupied three different locations in Seaforth, including the present one on Main Street. Only other newspaper in Seaforth was' The Seaforth Sun founded in 1876 but the name of the paper was changed to The Seaforth News, in 1904. Last issue of The News was miblished on Nov. 15, 1962, when the proprietors, Snowden Brothers, decided to confine their work to a commercial printing plant. ' When The Seaforth Sun was founded in 1876, Mr. S. Clark and a partner were owners be- fore F. Neelin took it over in 1879. Mr. Neelin decided to devote all his time from 1902 on to custom work with the result that the following men, from time to time, were the editors: W. J. Wescott, 'L.M. Appleford, J.W. Duncan. • In February, 1906, Duncan sold his interest 'to Appleford, who carried on alone. • 1 Next,, followed another group of editors as follows: William R. Veale, Mr. Willoughby and Root. D. Croft. From 1917 • , ffie Seaforth News was puhlished by , Rev. James F. Snowden and his three sons, Cyril, Oswald and Gerald: It ceased publication in 1962. 'The Seaforth News' and its forbearer, The Sun, were located in three different spots over the years, including the last one on Main Street. • Between the two Seaforth news- papers there have been a total of 22 either full or part owners. HENSALL Hensali was laid .out in 1877 by George and James Petty who came put from England in 1854. It was , not until the early 1900's, howev-e-t, that the village had its first newspaper. This was the Hensall Observer estab- lished by T. Neilands.I When Mr.,Neilan,ds died, Frank Wick- wire carried on the paper for a few years. In 1960, Don Spearman of Dresden felt Hensall should again be able to support a newspaper of its own and started the publish- ing of the Hensall Observer again. But by 1962 Spearman decided to sell the paper to Herb Turkheim, who managed to keep it going for another six months before it folded. CREDITON F. .J. Wickwire started The Crediton News and also The Dashwood Pioneer. Both of these papers were liter amalgamated into the Exeter Times. ZURICH First settlers at Zurich were mostly German although the very first one was a Swiss, Fred Knell. A Post Office was opened at Zurich in 1857. 'In 1900, Edmund Zeller estab- lished the village's first news- paper, The Zurich Herald. Four years later, Mr. Zeller sold his newspaper to Andrew Hess and Chester L. Smith. When Mr. Hess retired some years later, Mr. Smith carried on. In 1958, The Exeter Times Advocate bought the Zurich Herald mailing list and the latter became a part of the Exeter paper. Zurich merchants wanted a -paper-of-their-own -and'persha-detr A. L. Colquhonn of The Clinton News Record to start a paper at Zurich- This Mr. Colquhoun dist on January 15, 1958 and Herb Turkheim was its manager. On January 1, 1960, Mr. Turk- heim purchased the Zifrt'ch Citizens!, News from Mr. Col- qulioun. DASH WOOD The Dashwood Pioneer was that village's only newspaper but operated for only a few months haqk in 1912. It was published by Chester L. Smith who at that time also published The Zurich Herald. Mr. F. J. Wickwire started The DashWood Pioneer. for Mack and Janet Webster (nee Janet Shortreed) —Zurich Community Centre— July 24, from 9 to 1 p.m. Music by thii Bluewater Playboys Lunch Provided. ss9 Everyone Welcome An Expositor Classified will pay you dividends. Have you tried one? Dial 527-0240. RECEPTION and DANCE for Mr. and Mrs. Ron Crich (nee Donna Bromley Clinton Legion Hall JULY 16th, 1971 9:30 till 12:30 Bluewater Playboys Ladies please bring lunch EVERYONE WELCOME CASH BINGO Legion Hall, Seaforth Friday, July 16 8:15 p.m. 15 Regular Games for $10 THREE $25 GAMES $75.00 Jackpot To Go ADMISSION $1.00 Extra Cards 25c or 7 for $1.00 (CHILDREN UNDER 16 NOT PERMITTED) —Proceeds for Welfare Work— Auspices Seaforth Branch 156 Royal Canadian Legion *********** THIS WEEK AT THE ROYAL HOTEL MITCHELL Thursday, Friday and Saturday "THE BAILAIDS' In the Crown Room Dining room open on Sundays from 12 noon - 2 p.m. and 5 p.m. to 8 p:m. in the evening. * * ****** * ** BROWNIE'S DRIVE-IN CLINTON - ONTARIO Beech Street Next to Community Park BOX OFFICE OPENS AT 0:00 P.M. FIRST SHOW AT DUSK SUN. - MON. - TUES. JULY 18 - 19 - 20 — DOUBLE FEATURE — "COLD TURKEY" (ADULT ENTERTAINMENT) Dick Van Dyke - Bob Newham In Color An Iowa town decides to give up smoking. "THEY 'CALL ME MR. TIBBS" (ADULT ENTERTAINMENT) Sidney Peltier Color Cartoon settee4S4P4/4141ye.~.........eNgsmo l WED. - THURS. - FRI. JULY 21 -22-23 — DOUBLE FEATURE — "LITTLE FAUSS AND BIG HALSEY" • MIITANCi Robert Redford Il%TMC 10 0 N ..IOM Michael J. Pollard ,WI Of rell On Or. In Color Two young daredevils and a girl fight for love and recognition against a background of professional " Motorcycle Racing. 117W. U. S. A ADMIT IAN TO smart MY/ O. &II di Joann* Woodward Paul Newmin In Color Cartoon Bring, this coupon 'for Free Admission (value $1.50) for One Adult with thelpurchase of one adult ticket at regular price. Valid only Monday Tim? Thursday. Expires August 26,1971. Writer Recalls History Of Huron County Weeklies sof.18 man.19 r...20 KIKKIKAGUIS.MENIZIONDfl —Comfortable Grandstand —Go4:1 Concession Booth —Good' Parking Facilities —NEW ELECTRONIC TOTE BOARD " —NEW ELECTRONIC MAXI TOTE MACHINES —SHELTERED BETTING • AREA Thu. I S Fri.1 6 Sat. 1 7 Featuring . 10 ' RACES - - PARA MIRE( WAGERING DAILY DOURLE EXACTOR -79?fiVoR 77/0\j ,_ .RP e/if flc SR y‘S's (..) ft) .11 t o