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Kippen. The triples are calves born Sunday
night.'
Huron land severance lee is increased to
$50.00 up $10.00:
MARCH 7
„?..40,...,,,Anne Stewart,. daughter of Mrs. Ken
Stewart. placed second in the Queen
Contest at Western. Ontario Parrn 'show.
Need moie support. Riddell tells
area teachers.
Michael Rowland: Dublin. %las a winner
at the Royal Canadian Legion District C
public speaking contest.
' March 14 '
Figure skating clubs hold Achievement
Days.
Mrs. Jas, WI, Scott tells of 3.months in
India.
Town Council dikusses Pay Care
MAY 23 •
Liberals name John Lyndon of Goderich
as candidate.
John IL McCall, D.V.M.. son ofMr. and
Mrs. Stewart McCall. received his degree
as Doctor of Viterinary Medicine.
, Stewart CouplAd is-the new manager of
thr Toronto-Dominion Bank. •
Mrs. Peg Copmbs named President of
the Legion Ladies and ,Geo. Hays named
President pf the Branch 156!
MAY 30
Seaforth native G.C."§am" Rennie was
presented with a set of golf clubs and cart
in Sundridge for he. was honoured for
Community Service.
Stratfgord council authorizes arena
repairs price, up $14,000.
Robert Beuttenmiller has been elected
49th President of the Seaforth Lions Club.
MAY 30
° Shirley Weary is N.D.P.' choike.
Mrs. Marie Melady, St. Columban was
honoured .by pupils. former pupils.
relatives and friends. •
• JUNE 6 •
W.T.Teall of Seaforth sells Seaforth
Motors. •
House price boom hits Seaforth.
Alma lives again.
JUNE 13
Hibbert may join -Perth riding, '
-• Mr.. and Mrs. Ivan Forsyth wed 50 years.
passes away The High School girls Trumpet Band
holds reunion. •
JUNE 20 .
Mrs. John Taylor was honoured at a
party by the Senior Citizens when she was
presented with a plant. •
Hockey team get $5,000 donation
Les Seiler of Seaforth Creamery.
JUNE 27 •
Seaforth woman, Mrs. Roth- marks
years.
Lions
PROPOSED DAY CARE CENTRE John Maloney of Maloney Construction
'shows a house on Brantford and Isabella Sts. to members of the Seaforth Day Care
Committee. The Town of Seaforth has put in an offer to purchase the building for ,
use as a day care centre. Committae mernh'ers Sharon Rau, Arlene van den Akker,
Councillor Betty Cardno and Lois J-lodgert toured the building with Jim-Deneau,
third from left of the Ministry of Social and Gommuhity Services who said the
premises could make "an attractive Day Care Cantie" (Staff Photo)
NEW OPERATION ON MAIN STREET Work has
started this week on converting the .former Boshart.
Furniture Factory on 'Main St-S. into an enlarged
and modernized Canadian Tire Store.. A building
permit in the amount of $150,000' has been issued,
and Fred Tilley of the Canadian Tire Store topes, to
SALVAGING BELONGINGS Mike Doyle, left in
sweater and hat, unidentified man -and some
neighbour children look through the wreckage of Mr.
boyl,e's brother Ted's house trailer Sunday, abobt an
hour after the Hibbert to ado blew the trailer and
it's 11' bccupents fifty feet from a cement foundation
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JANUARY 3
' Rebekah .Lodge holds_family n ight with
Mrs-,-Wilnler 'Cuthill and her committee
convening, '
,;Mr. and Mrs. Wni.' Austin win $1500
front the Kitchener Gyro Club:
Ronald- Scoins received his Mayer of
Mathematics Degree •from University of
Waterloo.
JANUARY. 10th
Mrs. ulia Flanigan has 90th birthday.
Morris Reeve. Wm. Elston is Huron t..o.
Warden.
Mr. and Mrs. -Roy McGeoch mark 50
years of married life,
JANUARY 17th
Dr. Rodger Whitman was re-elected.
president of the Horticultural Society.
JANUARY 24
Hospital will handle fire calls.
Cleave Cdombs of Egmondville was
elected chairman of the Seaforth Fire Area
Board. '
Freezinerain plays havoc with Optimists
Winter Carnival, hydro and trees.
JANUARY 31
Awards were presented,to Mrs. Gordan
Papple and' Mrs. Irene Jamieson as
supporters of Agricultural Society,
FEBRUARY 7
Harpurhey man tears down old 'train
station:
Dr. Toll enjoys Jamaica holiday.
. Thieves enter Stewart Bros. and Bell
IndustrieS.-
FEBRUARY 14
Amber Lodge at Hensall marks 25th
Anniversary.
Mrs. Walter Bewley describes trip to
Australia.
FEBRUARY 21
Twins and triplets played together on the
farm of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Binnendyk,
-MARCJ 21
New building possible for county library.
Planning: st arts now for Seaforth's
Centennt.
Union Gas strike hits closer to home.
' MARCH 28-
Rev. Edwin G. NelSon is named new
minister at First 'C'hurch.
Work starts on new,Optimist Club house. •
Ross Freeman was foUnd dead on the
floor' of his hotel room.
- APRIL 4
Friends honor Flannerys.
28 Canoes finish t8 mile race.
Mr. and Mrs. Harold Ell'iott's h oust was
destroyed by fire.
APRIL 11
William D. Stephenson
suddenly.
Work Work has started on converting former
Boshart factory into enlarged Canadian
Tire Store.
Dr. Edmund Malkus wins $25.00 draw in
Lions Club draw.
APRIL 18
150 men helped clean up debris on Ted
Doyles` farm after the tornado.
Mrs. Clair 'Campbell. Mrs.Alvin Regier
and Gus Eder, Brussels won in the Olympic/
Lottery.
APRIL 25
Lorne Dale:retires after 47 years on ,Main
Street. He had been 54 years in the
barbering business.
Mail strike hits weeklies.
Donna Nolan, Dubliri*; chosen Queen
at S.D.H.S.
MAY 2
, Counts' Council appoints three to
• Historical Committee.
• Eldon Allen, 2. Staffa, was injured while
assisting in cleani9g up damage done by
the tornado which passed ,through St.
Col ba n •
• Clayton Looby, Dublin. contractor was
named president of the*" Seaforth
Community Hospital, David C. Cornish is
the Board's vice president.
• MAY 9 ' ,
Willis Dundas passed,. away at
Kilbarchan Nursing Home.
P.B.Maffatt,paSSed away:after a
long illness.
MAY 16
Brian Flannigan, Seaforth, in 'University
Hospital, L'ondon as a result of injuries
received in a single car accident.
Meals on Wheels delivery starts Jane
10th. '
Lions Park flooded. Waters of Silver
Creek were up to the bath house.
celebrate 50" years.
JULY 3 -
Sunday morning fire gutted home of
Mrs. Patricia Hubert.- -
Car crashes kill Ws, Violet Nemeth and
John—Cole. • , • •
JULY 11
Guy Lombardo on again for Centennial
Year. , •
Lambert DeJong of Mitchell, was killed
while working' on 'a silo at Walter
McOure''s home. ' „.
Year .old Co-Op gets $180,000. addition.
AUGUST 1
Bill Hart shows samples of the.large and
tiny pieces produced by the Egmondville
pottery.
. Sam
'
Shiflett celehtateS .years.
busifiess. ".
Centennial *eel( ettd set, for :hum 27t
" July 1st, 1975.
Cromarty said goodbye to the
`:Mountain" as crews chopped into a steep
slope.
Oyer 500 entries in flower' shdiv.. .
Marg. Elligson _Wins $1,000.00 vocal
contest.
AUGUST 15
Lorne Hay of Hensall passed away at: 5.0
years of •age.
Hullett clerk quits as ditch
commissioner.
Ronald Murray. McKillop Twp..
suffered fractures of both legs.
August 29
Robert Bell employees.. were pictured as.
during World War 1.
Thieves enter service station for third
time. —
Friends say farewell to the Leipers in
Hullett.
Ken Doig fourth in Ontario Amateur
golf.
SEPTEMBER 5
Banner class of 19_14 in First Church.
shOwn.
Fire destroyed a large barn on the farm
of Herbert and Ken Britton in 'Hibbert.
Mr. and Mr. Lorne Wilson math 60
years of wedde life.
Mrs. lsaat
birthday.
SEPTEMBER 12
David papple is long time subscriber to
Huron Expositor.
3-year child ioses life •in the person of
Daniel Hulley. •s,
'Laverne Scott and Mrs. Barbara
Wesenberg win the top prize of the car club
dance and-.take $2800 instead pf cat.
Tractor pull brings 4,000 ,to Seaforth.
Malcolm McKellar served town •for 65
_ •
years.
, SEPTEMBER 26
Robert; Neil McClure, 22, is a patient in
St. Joseph's Hospital following crash.
Hospital here experiences baby ham.
Leonard Jamieson received injuries to his
shoulder and knees in a collision on No.„)8
Highway.
OCTOBER I ,
- Clifford (Pete) 'Cardiff loses life in fall
while fixing roof.
Dr. P.L.Brady speaker to Women's
Hospital Auxiliary.
be. operating in his new location in eight to'twelve
weeks. Men from John H. McLlwain Lt4-are tearing
down an old barn behind the building. Workers from
MuManus Construction which • has the renovation
contract are stripping the inside of the building.
into the tree at left. A few of Ted Doyle's
posse0ions. including a TV set came out of the
torn6db unscathed. Three members of the Doyle
family suffered' back injuries as a result Of the
incident.
Centre.,
DIGGING ON BIRCH ST. — Construction st arted lastoreek on the new street, with
storm Sewers and a bridge which will cross Silver ,Creek and provide access to
Seaforth's , proposed industrial park, east of south. Main St. Above,.John H.
Mcliwain and and Gravel employees dig a trench through the road area. Roger F.
fvf4tcEachern Constructioh of Mount, Forest, the general contractor expect the
grayel.,Mad to be completed by the end of July. Total Cost Is 07,222.30.
AUGUST
Hays family played Major roll tnr Htlefl.
histony. Since 18$0.
Mr. and Mrs.Dan. Coste'llo of,Publin
celebrated their 50th , anniversary,
Mr. and Mrs. Jos. ,Smith enjoy party at
Senior Citizens home.
• AUGUST 22
n marks her 91st
SEPTEMBER 19
JULY 18 . •
Dianne -Stapleton of Dublin, has been
named an Ontario scholar.
A.W.Archibald wins ,O.A.Q. medal.
Thieves rob Staffa store..,
Ken Doig makes VVillingdon team. '
• JULY 25
„ Bad weather cuts CarniYal crowds. Former IVIayorF. Kling dies suddenly.
W.ilmer Cuthill and Clifford Broadfoot, John Seal Cluff died suddenly at his
produce grandnnother clock:"
OCTOBER 10
Mrs. Leonard Strung presented: Mrs.
M.E.Reuber of Northside United Church
with a prize for creating the winning table
centre piece at the "Presbyterials Rally in
'Egmondville United Church.
Vandals do bit to get rid of egg surplus
when they destroyed 50 60 dozen eggs.
Neil McClure of Walton was in
intensive -care a,,,,,,sar truck
collision.
• OCTOBER
Goyenlock's.gather when a reunion was
held at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Sam
Phillips.
Mr. and MrS'.Martin Feeney 'celebrated
their 60th wedding anniversary,
Work has finished on- the Birch St.
Bridge which gives Seaforth's new
industrial park, east of Main St.
OCTOBER 24
W ilson Armstrong, formerly of Seaforth,
passed away in Huronview.
Tape recorders stolen from Seaforth
Public School during Karate Class.
Ed. Daly talks about radios at Huron
County Historical Society meeting.
OCTOBER 31
Fire destroys almost finished house of
Constable Ronald Lauzon on the western
o uWt sakt ier tr t o
s
owietrowpnainted with obscenities.
Winners of prizes, in this week'S' "Spot
the Merchant" were Mrs. Ron Bennett,
Walton; Mrs. Mary Connolly, Kippen and
Karen Laverty, Seaforth.
NOVEMBER 7
Rosina Campbell of town marks her
90th birthday. •
Fire kills, two horses in barn of John D.
Muir Vandals 'frour acid on car. .
NOVEMBER 14
John Cairns,native of Scotland, is new
chief of Police in Seaforth.
Taking the salute at the Legion parade
was Cleve Coombs, Col. S.W.Archibald of
London, Geo. Hays and Allan Nicholson.
Col. Archibald whs the first president when
it was formed in 1929.
Mrs. Betty Cardno acclaimed as Mayor
of Seaforth.
NOVEMBER 21
Misses Ethel and Teenie Dennis showed
their quilts and told of the fiue_art being
revived.
Three Vantygem children and a cousin
win $100.00.
Miss Ursula . and John
Longstaff Win $1.000.00 each.
NOVEMBER 28
Mrs. John K. Cornish of Brucefield
passes away.
VanEgmond Foundation'gels $8.0300
grant,.
Glen Staffen of foNyn .piffeted
received in fire.