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The Huron Expositor, 1976-02-19, Page 16Ladies to entertain at Queensway ' PETER 0E00 74 TORONTO STREET MITCHELL Phone - 348-9412 'Long Distance Call Collect] - Home - Life - Auto - - Commercial - - Farm Liability - - Accident & Sicknes's - INSURANCE CO-OPER4TORS INSURANCE ASSOCIATION Brucefield UCW hold silent auction Correspondent Mrs.. Hugh Berry Tuckersmith Group 1 .U.C.W. met in the schoolroom' on Monday afternoon February 9. Mrs. H. McCartney. and Mrs. M. Walter were in charge. Mrs, Walters opened the meeting with a poem. Mrs. McCartney gave a humorous reading on V alentine. "Flow you might catch a •husb'and." Hymn, 'Come let us sing of his Wonderful Love". was sung with Mrs. Scott at the piano, was sung. The Bible scripture was read by Mrs.Walters followed 'by prayer,. and a reading by Mrs. McCartney "Love". The collection was received and dedicated. Hymn. Oh Love that Will not let me Go", closed this part of the meeting. ' The , president, Mrs. Henderson, chaired the business portion and welcomed all present. The roll call was answered by a verse "Love". In the absence of Mts. Sillery, the Secretary's report was. given by Mrs. Berry and the treasurer's report including flowers and cards was given by Mrs. J. BroadfoOt, The World Day of Prayer will be held on March 5 at 2 o'clock with 'Mrs. Marjorie Broadfoot, key woman, ;0.4 4,02ta 11V4 A Valentine meeting will he held 1-11;rtittry ZOth. luckersmith is ,to hrin ,t . sandyiebes - and .Stanly:\ squares or 'tarts: People ar., to come dressed up in old fashioned costume. Group) plans toehold a social evening March 23. Pioneer Sunday will be held MarsHi 7 at 11:30 and includes a pot- kick dinner in the church hall after the morning service. A silent auction. was held at the close of the meeting as a money making project. Personals Mr. and Mrs. Cliff 1-lenders on are on yaca.tion in Cuba. Mrs. Lorne Wilson visited' a few days with , her daughter 'Mrs. R. MeGonigit' and Mr, MeGonigle. Mrs. Stewart Wilson is a patient itt Seaforth Hospital. Mrs: Della ClArke has been a patient in Seaforth Hospital. A very successful EticT4c ,L_prty was held in the 1.0.0,r, Bruce- field hall ion Friday Februaty 13th. The following winners were. Ladies High Mary Grigg. Ladies low Marie Gibbings Lone Hands Jean McEwcn. Mens High Aldic Mtistard. Mens Low Warren Gibbings. Meths Lone Watt Web- ster. Lucky draw, Ladies Ann Broadfoot and Mens Mac'Wilson, National skating tests were held Thursday, February 5 at the Hensall arena. This is a .non- sponSored club supervised by professional Pauline Bell, a past member of "Holiday on Teresa Charette, Starr Jesney ' Show.. Those passing National Sandra Nixon. badges Free Style 1 Beginners' Dennis Bedard. Karen Shield . Debbie Lawrence, Heidi Lori 'Flynn, Vicki Baker. Beck Bonthron, Tamrny Thiel,, Dwayne Baker.' Lawrence, • Amy - Bonthron. Power Boys 1 Ronalyn Bell. Deborah Lefaive, Brian Cooper, Darren Faber Lorie Faber,' • Jerry MeBe.ath.• Jerry Faber„leffrey Lefaive. Patty Jorgensen, Janet McBeath. P —ower Boys 2 Stroking Brian Cooper. Darren fabe Dvy'ayne Lawrence, ' Amy Jerry Faber. Bonthrow -• JerrY •MeBeatin • -Lori Pow&r.Boys4' . • Faber, Ronalyn Bell, Patty Jorgensen. 'Elementary Patty Jorgensen, Kim Ingram, Tammy t.Bell. Danny Reid. Scott Ingram Power Boys 5 Danny Reid • Power Boys-6 'Ian Munroe Hol0 skating tests Basle Colleen Bedtird... Kelly \ oilstone. Darlene Faber, Julie. McBeath„ Viclki Mann. Novice 2 5, r, sk. FEBRUARY ECONOMY PAIR LOW IN PRICE ... HIGH IN VALUE. GENERAL. ELECTRIC FROST FREE REFRIGERATOR F V.! 1 cubicfe:ottuts capacity • • 2.9 cubic .foot freezer capacity • Frost free Twin Crisper Covered meat pan Adjustable Shelves Butter -Keeper .. Cheese Keeper Lift out egg tray Separate. Freezer Door Two Ice Cube Trays Walnut Grain ,Handles Door Stops Flush Fit Door Hinges Magnetic Door Seal, 24" $429. 9 ELECTRIC Ri^kNGE . 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HONE 482-3441 Friday 8 a.m. to 9 p.m.; Saturday 8 a to 4:30 p.m. OPEN: Monday to Thursday, 8'a.m. to 6 p.m.; BAYFIELD RD., CLINTON, MEM H 112(,I ' 0 Shop and MASTER r.tinfiGE. att most W ,Seway Stores VilliteMINNINERNswo Coachrnan Oak Req 57 95 A x 8 Monterrey Oak REG. 57 75 4 x 8 Columbus Pecan R,E G. $7.55 4 x 8 '6 30 Smokey Mountain Elm • RED. S7.25 4 x 8 41.1111111111111.1.11.11 istawt. •—••••-, C'orrespondent Mrs. Bertha McGregor The ladies of the church will entertain at the Queenswav Nursing Home for thy' month of March. Mrs. Mang Cole and Mrs. Mary Britnell volunteered to visit until the next meeting. Mrs.,N•lera Ross played a melody of tunes on the piano. Mrs.' Mary Brintnyll was . in charge of the worship —1 he Gracious Imitation Come and Dine" with all. members seated around a table. Four speakers took part: Mrs, Rosa Harris, Mrs. Phyllis Parsons, Mrs. Marg Upshall tutu Mrs. Marg Cole. 'I he ladies rs'nuiinc'ilwhen Mrs, Doroth y Brintriell led in a Bible Study on oh n apter verses 1-36. 'I he meeting elosi'd with prayer and Mrs. Boyce was hostess for the hi itch. Res\ . W.D.JarVis COndllVta Lovell played the ukulele and sang 'Several songs. Myla Lovell danced Hawaiian dances. Mrs. Coope played piano music. Hensall is a nice, agreeable, law abiding , place, says a man who ought to know. He's Ernie Davis, who stepped down at the beginning of the year as works superintendent after 24 years on thejob in the village. There were more piece's to the job when Ernie started in 1951 than there are now. Many things that he did aS all round village employee, like trench inspection,. and 'weed inspection have been taken over by the province or the county. Mr: bavis also looked after streets, drains and ringing the town hall bell, three times a day, five days a week. He was the village policeman until 1967 when ' the Ontario Provincial Police took over that responsibility. Having to wear so 'many hats caused problems at times. Ernie remembers days when he'd be'"working knee deep in mud". somewhere in Hensall when he'd be called to go to an accident in his capacity as policeman. He'd get some,- strange looks from , am of tort n people, he says. He' had no training as a policemaAut got sonic law hooks and read up on things. He tise'd to .1i live to go to court in'Exeter. or to Goderich for something ' serious( The population of Ilensall hasn't increased all that much in 24 years and there was a lot of hard work involved with keeping. track of everything, including, policing. Some days Ernie say's, with still,. a good trace of his English accent, he'd work all 'day then change to his po lice uniform and go and police' a dance. After the dance he'd stay at the town hall auditorium to lock up and finally get hOme about '2 a.m. Then sorriebody would phone him in the` middle' of the night to eomplain'about scree thing- tires on Main Street and he'd get up out Of bed/and go downtown to have a look. Ernie Davis isn't complaining. mind you, he's just ,explaining how his jobT changed with .,...iprogress and with, the times. He's -'alWays been towii caretaker, and still is. along with ,staying on for awhile to give his 'successor, Gary Maxwell a hand. ,But there've been a lot of changes in that job too. He used to ,have to stoke the' building's old coal furnace every' morning. Now the town hall has a new gash, furnace and he rarely touches :'it. There was no community centre in Hensall in the First years that Ertnie worked f9r the village All the big dances were held in \the town hall ,auditorium and Ernie remembers pitting the room's 250 chairs undei- the stage when 'there was going to be a dance and setting them all out again for a play. it was hard-work for one man and Ernie says he wouldn't want to start at the job all over agaiti. Ernie and his wife Irene didn't plan to settle in Hensall 'when they emigrated from England in 1951. Irene Davis had a brother who was an instructor at the air ' force base in Clinton during the war,' He married a girl from • ERNIE DAVIS Clinton and they settled there after sonic time in England. Irene ov cr to v i sit the-n on a holiday in 1950 and liked v.1-it v,v hat she savv year later the Da \ itieS and their son Bob. 'then 14. came to Canada to stay, 1 he ha\ c tw o other children. Michael, an expert in Yoga. Yyho is now study ing in England and. a daughter K ..ay who Works au Bendix in Hensall. Ernie got his job as Hensall illage employee v. hen he savv adln the paper when visiting his sister•indavv in Clinton. "I conic dovvti applied for the job, and got lhey'. picked me out of 13 appli::ants -, he says proudly. Does he know V\ hich paper the .ad was in'?` I honestly don't, but 1 imagine.it would have been in all . the papers". • he "says diplomatically. Mrs.Davis -runs a restaurtint and pool room on Hensall's main street and people flow in andout of there all day long. haying coffee and talking to their friends. Ernie talks about kids in his poking days and says that even those he had. to chase a:'hit vv hen they were young grew op'to he responsible citizens who '• )on't hold a grudge.'' Mrs. -Minnie I\‘loakes. a former Hensall reeve is sitting behind Ernie in' Irene's. restaurant and •she says there's 'still a curfew law on the books in; the village ..thA says kids over 14 ,have to he off the streets before 9 p.m.' • She remembers when they used to ring the town bell at 9 and escort any kids who were around past that hour home 'to their parents.' hat was before my time:. Ernie says. Harry Horton. comes 'in,, to Irene's for., coffee and ' Ernie introduces him as the man• who used to call square dances in the town hall auditorium. " '1.nd at a lot . of other parties.'' Minnie . Noakes chimes in. It seems like 'Ernie and Irene Davis must know everybody in Hensall -- both their jobs mean meeting the Public all' the tiitit- Not so any more. Ernie says,' "Five years after \\•e• came here. yes. I probably knew everyone in tow n. ' ' • • "I can't say dial now though. a lot ,of new, people have .nacp.ed in.- 1 he big change, in Flensall' over 24 y6ard-, has been the growth of industry : eThecially the trailer indristrv, vv hieh wasn't there in 1951. "Every' company that has owned it has made it :bigger,- Ernie says. He thinks Hensall is in good shape. A couple of n.ov businesses have come Jo King Street anti housing developments are being planned. "1 here shouldn't really be anyone unemployed in t•Insall“, he says. Ernie knows the politics of Hensall very He's served under perhaps) different people as:'Conneillars- and ree.es....the fades 'Lrofate - a bit, he says, as the same People. stay on council for several years anitsome move up to reeve. A complete newcomer in a council race will olfen top the polls. Ernie .notices, He's al so worked under five . Patterson, Pete M,..Naughlon, Earl Campbell, Shapter and present clerk Bob Heil, tic's a life long 1 ory. I 'mit.' says he almost rime, in England after the vvar ,i, hen started to believe tabour's' promises about what they'd do for the troops. He (10.1dc(1 to \mt., Labour but )) hen heAtta5 at the ballot box on oling .lay just eouldn't.do it. \nd glad I didn't,- he says. Queenswa4f Welcome to a neiv resident at he Queensw ay Nursing Home, Mrs, Mabel Johns, 'Exeter: Rev, Harold Snell of Exeter...conducted the, church seryiCe accompanied M_rs, Snell at the piano. Mrs. Vera Laramie was' visited by her 'son Robert and Mr. and Meryti Dunn and Mr. and 'sirs. Chester Dunn. Mr. and 'sirs. ,Iiin McNaughton and Mr. Clarence'Smillie visited with Mrs. Ada Smillie. Mr. and Mrs,Arnold Ford visited with Mrs. May Ford. Ruby Miners was visited by Marjorie Johns. :Mrs. Weiburg, Mr. and Mrs. Ivan • Taylor, Kitchener and Mrs. Dale, Seaforth, visir,r1 with Mrs. Ad*re Taylor. Mrs. Pearl, Passmore visited her' sister Mrs. Bernice Lavery: , • The Kippen United Church LaClie. entertained'-on' 'Monday including Mar. • Consitt, Merle McLellan. Grace . McBride, Mrs.. Dave Cooper with Myral Lovell in charge. Games and music were enjoyed. Melanie You BOW was l';:ad Irani the Children's Aid Society for the donation at Christmas. The World's Day of Prayer sery ice ,N:11 )11::::ki in St. Paul's Anglican Church. Hensall on March 5th at 23( Personals 'Mrs. Margit r(A• Waterloo was, a'rev:(..nt visitor her . parents, Mr. a isLI,Mr.s..- MacLaren. Mr.. and Mrs. William 13rOkyn of Seaforth visited this week w ith Mrs. F. G. Bonthron. Mr. • and Mrs. George Parker and - Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Moliride of Kippen •returned home from a \\ inter holiday at Huntsville. Obituary Surviving is his widow, ,the former ('hristinit Dottgall, sons Orville,' Brock v Robert, R. R.q2, • Ilensall, Jaiiiv.s .of I larrision, daughters, Mrs. ‘Villiarn (Mae) StalTa. Mrs, l'ert•v (Evelyn) Wright, Kippen. , He predeceased by out i.Nok ember 197'2) and one brother and one sist.&. 'Ivy° sisters stirs iyc . Mrs. My rile Dick. Hensall and Mrs. trent.- Hanes. London, also 14 .grandehildren and 2 great grandchildren. lesting at the Bonthron Funeral...Chapel where a secs ice waS held by the Royal ('antialan Branch . Hensall Legion #468 on • Saturday evening with funeral service at 3:30 p.m.- on Sunday conduc'te'd by 1Zey. W.D..lary•is . officiating. emporary entombnient at Mausoleum.. Hensall U.111011 •('Qui,.2tery. 1 he .pallbearers wet.; Lorne' Ch.apinitn. Jack Ciirbytt. Gordon Munn, Gordon 1 royer. Harry l)ougall. flower bearers \\ere, fiv e, .grandcliiltlren , Larr'y Wright, . Eleanor Bittsim.Steven-...7 1)ot-it/Las' and Mtirray 16--,THE HURON.EXPRSITOR, FEBRUARY 19, 1976 / • Ernie Davis remembers VVhen he was policeman as well as town employee • wot'ship in Carmel Presbyterian ( hu nch on Sunday • the *sermon subject ails "A Faith that would not be denied -. the Moy is -Gospel Road" will be shown at First Presbyterian ) Church, SeafOrth on February 29th at ":30 p.m. Cltisellturst Ladies Hold Pot Luck Dinner I ladies of.. ,Chiselhunst Church held a quilting..arwl -Pot Iii k L)inrier -• at the church pri I ric".whiy Fetrrtm. ry 10th. 'I hey Ink Id their meeting in the ,iltmlition \\nil the President Mrs. 'Dorothy Porker 'opening the int et Mg with 0 poem. 1 he roll rail' • v,is ansv, eyed \ members cling the lit'atitti(lcs. A 1 haul,- ORVItt,12,-,LATA1toR I lay 'township Inrntcr passed ityy•ay in South 11111011 Hospital, Exeter, . , I luirsilay. February 12th . 19Th. laylor of R.1(.0 I. 1 1.st ill' in his SKI year. He was a of Cartilv.I Pre.sbyteriati (.hurcli sm.\ l ing On the Board of N1,1o,r,..2,yrs for 1V4 Clit'1.•(111t: Year,. Cal'', as Chairman. Charles Atlas?