HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1975-06-26, Page 34SCI IN 1929 — The stock market crash in the fall of that year was to
bring on the depression,, but these kids didn't know anything about
all that when they posed With their teachers in May 1929 fora photo.
of the entire Seaforth Collegiate Institute. Those that could be
identified are,, back, left, Harry McLeod, Lorne Pinkney, George,
Parkes, Doreen Fludson,‘---, Marg Cudmore, Marg Rolph,----, Nora
Stewart, Helen Lane, ----, Marg , Patrick, ----, ---Bolton, Iva Knott,
Marg Crich, Mary Finnigan, Marg Cardno, Elizabeth McLean,
Elinore Burrows,----, Helen Ament, ---Bolton, Norma
Habkirk, Madeline Hotham, Kathleen SteWart, Berna
Stephenson. Second row, Tom Nolan, Clarence Trott, ----, Chas.
Stewart, Kathleen Calder,. Marg Drover, Muriel Beattie or
Mildred Johnston, Marg McKellar, ----, Mrs. Sam Scott, A.
Crich(?), Marg White, Marg Broadfoot, Bernice Dorrance, Mrs Ray
Nott, --Broadfoot, Hazel McLaughlin, Helen Beattie, Elsie
Drover, Alda B,olton, Grace Free; Elva Oke, ---Broadfoot, Helen
-Slater, Rebecca Shinen; Celestine O'Leary, Bessie Edgar, Angela
Eckert, ----, Donelda Adams, Gladys Butson, Evelyn Golding, Jean
• .4g, •
Frost, Mary Thompson,
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Anna Edmunds, -Mary Barber, Eleanoi•
Evans, Mary Kling, Mary Reid, Ona Nichols, Mary Watson, Alice
Siemon, ---Broadfoot, Mary Haugh, Marg' McLennan, Elizabeth
Broadfoot, Vera Nolan, Dorothy. Driscoll, ---Webster, Verna
MacGregor, Elizabeth • Ralph, ---McLaughlin, Hazel Dixon, ----,
Jean Gemmel. Next row, ---Broadfoot, Sarah Shaffer, - Mildred
Shinen, ErnestineWhite, ----, Mr: Bissonette, Principal
.Spencer, Mary Gillespie, Miss Helper, Miss Grieve, Miss Hick;
----, Eileen Chapman, HelenRankin, Orvil. H olmes, John
McKenzie, George Crich, Tom Govenlock, ---MacDonald, Tom
Cluff, ---MacDonald, In the bottom row are, ----,
Nelson Cardno, Eugene Duncan, Stewart Cudmore,
----, Chas. ? MacDonald, ----, --Broadfoot, --Dunlop, Edwin
Hawkins, John Cardno, Russell Allan, Harry Sheffer, Eugene
Duncan, Earl Gillespie, Andy Calder, ----, Francis Devereaux,
D'Orlean Sills, ---MacDonald, Frank Case, ----, Glenn Hays, K. I.
McLean, Frank Kling, ----, ----, Leo Hagan, ----,
--Dickson, ----, Gordon -Rennie.
William N. Watson was the
first to carry on an insurance
Intsiness in Seaforth having come
here fromHarpurhey in 1859. The
business he established
continued for the next 115 years
in the same location.
The frame building in which he
commenced business, located on
the east side of North Main
Street, was destroyed in The fire
of 1876. Mr. Watson erected a
brick-building on the same site in
1888 and this continued to house
an insurance business for the next
86 years.
Following the death of W.N.
Watson his son James carried on
the business which in 1932 was
purchased by M.A.Reid who had
entered into partnership with Mr.
Watson five years previously.
Mr. Reid, a native of
Holstein in Grey County, while
developing the business into one
the largest in the area, found
time for extensive activity in the
community including service on
council and as mayor and as
reeve.
DI F hiss death in. 1958 the
business was purchased by John
A. Carodno who carried on in the
same location until last year when
following an amalgamation with
the Don Eaton Agency tolorm the
Seaforth Insurance AgedCy new
accommodation was'acquired in
Celebrate with Seaforth
for Centennial
12—THE HURON EXPOSITOR, JUNE 26, 1975
FOUNDRY IN ACTION — During the sixty years in peacetime and wartime in
Which the foundry at Robert sell Engine and Thresher Co. Ltd, was in operation,
Many thoutand of Castings were produced in the moulding shop. The picture , • probably was taken in the early 1920's: