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HINTON the MOVER' THURDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1964
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Clinton 482-9779 VOL. 1 —No.25
Tri-Service Officers Tour Station Clinton
A party of four officers from the Canadian
Navy, Air Force and Army toured RCAF Station
Clinton Wednesday, Nov. 25. The officers, shown
above, are from the left: Lt. Cdr. D. A. Chandler,
Wing Commander F. R. Harris, Col. S. C. Waters,
Group Capt. K R. Greenaway, Group Capt. E. J.
McLeod and Lt. Col. J. Gauthier. (RCAF Photo)
Ti Vallfirth Butirtitt
HISTORICAL SOCIETY MEETS HERE
Bayfield Lions Club Members
Attend District Meeting At Wingham
The Huron County Historical
Society met in Trinity Anglic-
an Church Hall on Monday,
Nov. 23. Mrs. W. D. Mack of
Creditor, president, opened the
meeting and welcomed memb-
ers and guests.
After the minutes of the pre-
vious meeting, held at Carlow,
had been read by the secre-
tary, Mrs. W. E. Oddliefson
gave an account of early Bay-
field history gleaned from con-
versations with Mr. Tom Bail-
ey, a life-long resident of the
village and now 80 years old.
She told how the grain busi-
ness had been one of Bayfield's
main sources of revenue about
a century ago. Three local men
built a grain elevator on the
south bank of the river. Horse-
drawn wagons piled high with
bags of grain would form a line
half-a-mile long through the
main street of the village which
at. that time extended down
Signal bank to the elevator.
Early Electricity
Bayfield also had electricity
long before the days of the
HEPC.
It was supplied by a dynamo
at Jim Donaldson's sawmill,
situated on the east sale of Clan
Gregor Square. Customers paid
two cents per night from dusk
till midnight for lighting.
Brig. F. A. Clif t welcomed
the guest speaker, Dr. J. J.
Tolman, librarian and historian
of UWO, London.
Dr. Tolman gave a humorous
talk on the value of local hist-
ory. He emphasized the true
history of a nation can only be
garnered from an intimate
knowledge of everyday life and
is not shown by reference only
to official records.
Must Be Authentic
At the same time he pointed
out the need to ensure that all
items recorded are factual and
that all recounted episodes are
substantiated by authentic re-
cords, such as minutes of meet-
ings, church, guild, court, and
labour organization records all
of which tend to disappear un-
less diligently sought and pre-
served by local historians.
Dr. Tolman pointed out a
vast fund of information is held
at the University of WO in the
form of an almost complete set
of records of Huron County
which were removed from the
old Goderich courthouse before
the disastrous fire gutted it.
Brig. G. L. Morgan Smith
thanked Dr. Tolman on behalf
of the capacity crowd present.
A social hour followed in which
all present took the opportun-
ity to view the many antique
exhibits, mostly loaned by vil-lage residents.
The evening was arranged by
Mrs. LeRoy Poth, Brig. F. A.
Clifht, Bayfield; Magistrate G.
Hays and Mr. W. Elliott, Gode-
rich. Among those attending
were Judge G. Coulter and
Judge MacRae, both of London.
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Mrs. J. Cameron; secretary,
Mrs. F. Weston; treasurer, Mrs.
F. McFadden; badge secretary,
Mrs. B. Eckert; card secretary,
Mrs. S. Ervine; lunch commit-
tee, Mrs. B. McLeod and Mrs.
W. Erickson.
A vote of thanks was extend-
ed to Mrs. W. Castle for her
services over the past two years
asst.
On Wednesday evening, No-
vember 18, a district meeting
of Zone 3 North and South
was held at Denny's Restaur-
ant, Wingham, for presidents,
secretaries and treasurers.
Thirty members were present
representing the Lions clubs of
Exeter, Zurich, Grand Bend,
Clinton, Lucknow, Wingham,
Brussels, Howick and Bayfield.
Bayfield Lions were represent-
ed by Adam Flowers, Leslie El-
liott, Charles Scobchmer and
Wilbert Fralick.
The dinner meeting was
chaired by George McCutcheon,
Chairman of Zone 3 North. At
the head table with him were
Governor; Thomas MacMillan,
Ray Cooper. Deputy District
Exeter, Zone 3 South Chair-
COMING EVENTS
Coming to Bayfield Baptist
Church, Rev. James Murray of
Prairie Bible Institute staff.
Bible Evangelism campaign,
Sundays, 11 a.m. and 7:30 p.m.;
weekdays, 8 p.m. Everyone wel-
come.
man; Mel Gattie, chairman of
public speaking for A9, and
Lloyd Casemore, president of
the Wingham club.
After Dinner, Mel Gattie
spoke on public speaking, spon-
sored by clubs for pupils of
grade 9 and up to age 20. A
workshop was led by George
McCutcheon on ways to stim-
ulate interest in clubs. The
meeting closed with the singing
of "The Queen".
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Huron County
Crop Report
Recent snow has curtailed
the completion of fall work in
most areas of the county, ac-
cording to the weekly report
issued by D. H. Miles, Agricul-
tural Representative for Huron
County.
Mrs. Ethel Mossop
Buried Monday
At Bayfield
Mrs. Ethel Mossop of Varna
died Friday, November 20 ,at
the home of her daughter, Mrs.
Harold (Jean) Elliott of Varna.
She was 80.
She was the widow of the
late Joseph Mossop.
The funeral service was on
Monday, November 23 at the
Ball and Mutch funeral home
in Clinton. The interment was
in Bayfield Cemetery.
She is survived by her dau-
ters: Mrs. Harold (Jean) El-
liott of Varna and Mrs. William
(Frances) Ball of Seaforth; her
brothers, Frsd Watson of Bay-
field; Jack Watson of Gode-
rich Township and Robert Wat-
son of Sintabuta, Sask.; and
her sisters: Mrs. David (Ada)
Dewar and Mrs. Paul (Nell)
Cleave, both of Bayfield; Mrs.
Elmer (Sadie) Sheardown of
Goderich, and Mrs. Rertie (Bes-
sie) Glllard of St. Thomas.
Community Club Meets
The Stanley Community Club
will hold its regular meeting on
Wednesday, Dec. 2 at the home
of Mrs. Mel Graham. Roll call
to be a gift of new or used
toys for the Children's Aid for
Christmas.
Elect Officers
To Association
At Bayfield
Notices on the front page
under this heading are avail-
able at five cents per word,
minimum charge 75 cents paid
in advance, or $1.00 charged.
Even with the favorable wea-
ther conditions of the last few
weeks, there is some fall work
to be completed.
The sudden change of wea-
ther caught a lot of livestock
men not prepared to house their
cattle, but most cattle now are
satisfactorily housed.
Kansas City in 1899 had an
unsurpassable automobile ac-
cident record, pereentagewise.
There were only two cars in
the city, and they collided in
the main street
The Local Association to
Guides and Brownies held their
annual meeting on Tuesday,
Nov. 17 at the home of Mrs.
James Cameron.
The president, Mrs. W. Castle,
opened the meeting with the
guide prayer, followed by the
treasurer's report given by Mrs.
F. McFadden, showing a bal-
ance of $36,04. Mrs. McFad-
den then gave the secretary's
report.
T h e District Commissioner.
Miss Mary McMillen, in her
talk to the group, mentioned
there is a possibility of a
change in the Ranger age group
to include 14-18 year old girls,
and also asked the ladies to
appoint a camp representative
to attend a yearly meeting to
propose and discuss camp sites,
etc.
Mrs. W. Pierson was elected
to this office for the coming
year. Other officers elected
for 1965 are: President, Mrs.
W. Mcllwain; vice-president,