HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1959-12-03, Page 13Mrs, W. A, McAllister
Mrs Ada Corla Step, wife of
Alvin McAllister, Goderich, died
suddenly at the Alexandra Marine
and General Hospital, Goderiela
Tuesday, November 24, in her
47th year,
She was barn in Goderich, town-
ship, daughter of the late Mr, and
Mrs. James Steep. She lived in
Varna until she was 15 years old
and then moved to Clinton, where
she worked at the Wearwell Hoa-
iery until 1949, and then moved
to Goderich, her home ever since.
Mrs, McAllister was an adher-
ent of Victoria Street United
Church.
Surviving are her husband; one
son, Kenneth , London; three
daughters, Mrs. A. (Marlene)
O'Connell, Guelph; Joyce and Pat-
ricia at home; three sisters, Mrs.
Gordon (Hazel) Hoy, Mrs. Clar-
ence (Bernice) Hugill, both of
Clinton; Mrs, Alvin (Vera) Wil-
helm, Shakespeare.
She w'as predeceased by one
daughter, Mrs. Elaine Dickinson,
Goderich,
Service was from the Stiles fu-
neral home, Goderieh, Friday af-
ternoon, November 27, by the Rev.
S. A. Moote, Burial was in Mait-
land cemetery.
Pall-bearers were Earl and Mer-
vin McAllister, Doc Hamilton,
Carl Sorbey, Benson Fegean and
Cecil Polack.
Friends attended the funeral
from Guelph, London, Galt, Bay-
field, Brucefleld, Zurich, Beninil-
ler, Clinton and Goderich.
Fearlessness is the mother of
confidence.
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If you keep your ear to the
ground you can pick up a lot of
dirt.
VARNA
Services in the United Church
beginning Sunday, December 6,
will be held in the 'afternoon at
2 o'clock, Sunday 'school at 3 p.m.
The executive of the Bible Soc-
iety thanks all who contributed
to the ,canvass made this fall. A-
bout $120 ,was collected.
Mrs. H. Broeze is improving in
Clinton Public Hospital after her
recent accidental. fall.
being carried dewnstream, they
jumped to safety,
The designers of the new steel
bridge erected the same year,
showed better judgment in plan-
ning as they built a long span
on the east side and a ahort one
on the west side. This meant
that the supporting pier was well
across the deep side of the river
and would be easier to replace in
ease of trouble.
These two fine buttments and
supporting piers were built by
JosephNaegele and William Web-
her, of stone on piles driven about
eight feet below the bottom of
deeply excavated pits. The smal-
ler span was replaced by a. longer
one in 1898.
The• stone quarried froin the
rock found' at Ball's bridge was
Worked by men who had learned
their trade in Germany. During
the construction a ferry service
was provided by George Dawson
and Gerry McBrien and` many folk
are recalling the foot bridge which
was also built across the Mait-
land, Except for a few minor re-
pairs after the spring floods, this
bridge lasted for 70 years.
The -modern structure we have
now, was opened on December 30,
1955, and is a great credit to the
residents of the county. It is
called the T. Roy Patterson
Bridge to honour a former county
engineer. Although built to ac-
commodate the heavy traffic of
this age it has lbsl-many of the
happy memories of childhood
when with awe, young folk look-
ed over the railing and peered
meditatively into the waters of
the beautiful Maitland. yery few
fishermen try their Tuck from the
new 'bridge but it was a frequent
sight to see seven or eight men
in former years, trying' to catch
bass or trout._
Time marches on, a!fi5 `so -does
the his-total/0.7,0f the" community.
Interesting niaterialaeomes from
the study of outapirmeer families
and we could all.learn consider-
able hen =our fatefathers • met
these hardships and won- their
battles with a, smile and' left us
all a goodly hritageaa
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Stanley Council
Aw4ds Grants
Totalling-25
Meeting.on Tuesday morning, in
order to attend aa special cerem-
ony in Goderich that afternoon,
Stanley Township Council, headed
by Reeve Harvey Coleman approv-
ed grants: to Brueefield library,
$10; to Varna library,- $20; to
Baird's Cemetery Board, $15; to
Bayfield Cemetery Board, $40.
The Tile Drainage by-law re-
ceived .its third reading, and is
now in effect. Upon application,
residents in the township may
now arrange to borrow up to 75
pereent"of the cost of tray drains,
from the township, #
The council received application
for approval of a sub-division on
the Westdell Beach, 'belonging to
Thomas Westlake and Dewar Tal-
bot. This application has been sent
to the Department of Planning and
Development for approval,
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Tuckersniith are requested, by the council, to not
park cars on township roads and streets during the
winter months in order to facilitate snowplowing
operations.
Council will not be responsible for damages
to any vehicles parked on roads or streets.
CORA CHESNEY, Acting Clark,
Township of Tqckersmith.
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-(By our Auburn Correspondent)
Elder citizens in this district
are reminiscing about the pioneer
days reealled, by their Parenta
'when the mighty. Maitland River
`ryas first bridged at Manchester,
now' called Auburn, When this
area was first taken up, the set-
tlers had to ,find their own, way
of crossing but Eneas Elkin estab-
lished a ferry, service which was
operated by his wife during the
daytime when the men were busy
'elearing the land.
Where Mrs, Elkin ran her ferry
is unknown but it is thought it
might have been a little north of
the old darn site. The east bank
Of the river is not so high and it
would be convenient to the Elkin
home on top of the hill,
The map of George Fulton's
survey, the north-east part of
Manchester, made in. 185$ shows
the site of the first government
bridge as at the , foot of Elgin
Street (or the big hill), but this
Would have required a very high
'bridge or a very steep approach
trona the east side.
The engineer in charge, solved
this problem as had been done on
a number of bridges on the main
Maitland by having the roads ap-
proaching assume part of the
grade. To this end in 1858 about
a half acre of land west of the
Maitland Terrace was purchased
from Mr. Elkin and the eastern
approach to a new bridge was
built about 100 yards south of
Elgin Street. There is no photo-
graph of the bridge built in 1859
entirely of wood, It was too low
and the first spring flood washed
it away.
Twenty years later a fine wood
trusts bridge was built on sub-
stantial stone piers which consist-
ed of crib work filled with stones
on a stone foundation. The cribs
were made of heavy oak plank
placed flat side, one on top of the
other, and help together by mas-
sive spikes or heavy drift pins of
iron. The spring flood of 1884
carried this bridge to its doom
with two young Auburn men, Jo-
seph Lawson and William Sturdy
who were standing watching the
ice break-up, Realizing they were
Prices Are Higher
Than last Year
A# Heteford Sale
Top Price at the eighth annual
fall sale here last Thursday, by
the Huron Hereford Association
was $680, pEtid by Gordon Carter,
RE, 3, Blyth, fora bull consigned
by Stan Jackson, Kippen. Average
price for 14 hulls was $457.14,
average for eight bred heifers was
$276.88; for six open. heifers $205.
Total sales amounted -to $9,985,
an average of $356.60. At last
year's sale •the total for 25 head
and three calves was. $7,940; av-
erage $317.60. Last year balls
averaged $408; bred heifers $302.-
50 and open heifers $187,50. The
top price then was $600.
Other prices for males included
$655 paid by William A, Purdon,
RR 3, Wingham; $610 by Earl
Lewis, RA 2, Ailsa Craig; $5$0 by
C. E. Rowland, RR, 1, Ethel; $525
by McCall Brothers, RR 3, Wel-
ton; $460 by Lawrence Dietrich,
RR 2, Dashwood; $455 by Gus
Trent:A/Sky, BR 5, Mitchell, and
$455 by Earnest Whitehouse, Kip-
pen; $435 by Helm Brothers, RR
3, Lucknow; $400 by Bert Alton
and Sons, RR 7, Lucknow; $300 by
Gordon Pengelly, Belgrave; $275
by Nelson Dow, RR 3, Wingham;
$210 by Wilatad"Broughton, RR 1,
Monkton,
For females, prices were: $375,
paid by Findlay wis, Masa
Craig; $324 by Bert
Le
Alton and
Sons; $265 by W. Earl Brand and
Son, RR 3, Mt. Forest; $250 by
George C, Martin, RR 4, Brussels,
N. Machel, Kitchener, Gordon
v, Belgrave; $235 by C. E
Rowland, Ethel; $220 by W. Earl
Brand,and Son; $200 by Arthur F.
Boltoh, RR 1, Dublin; $195 by C.
E. Rowland.
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LONDESBORO
Mrs. Bert Allan-Correspondent
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Tamblyn
spent lastalariday with the Rev.
and. Mrs. T„ a White at Spring-
field. •
Gordon aEmbury,' Brussels, sp-
ent a fewaaewa on Monday with
Bert Allan.
Mr. and; Mrs, Beat Allen spent
a pleasant evening with a few
friends on Monday evening, Nov-
ember 30, 'the occasion of their
eighth wedding anniversary.
T. B. =Allen left on Thursday
morning for his annual moose
hunt.
Mrs. Edwin- Woods is spending
a week with their daughter, Mrs,
Bill Andrews and family, Toronto.
The .Grandmothers Club met at
the borne of Mrs. Walter McGill
for the November meeting, with
17 present, An enjoyable after-
noon Wag followed by a pot luck
supper.
Mr. and Mrs. William Hamil-
ton, Moorefield, spent Sunday
with the Robert Thompsons.
Congratulations to Miss Linda
Thompson who Observed a birth-
day anniversary on November 30.
The Rev. T. J. White, Spring-
field, formerly of Loniciesboro, suf-
fered a slight stroke early in No-
vember. We are glad that he has
recovered sufficiently to be on
duty at the Aylmer United Ch-,
urch.
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Jack Henderson is
New Master of LOL
Jack Henderson was installed
as worshipful master of Murphy
Loyal Orange Lodge No, 710 at
their meeting November 26. Alex
McMichael is Deputy Master of the
Lodge.
Other officials include: chaplain,
Clayton Hodgins; recording secre-
tary, Harold Crittenden; financial
secretary, Thomas Deeves; treas-
urer, Henry Sloman; marshall,
John Wise; first lecturer, Ross Mil-
lar; second lecturer, Wilfred Glaz.
ier; committee men, Frank And-
rews, Mervin Hanly, Mervin Fal-
coner, Charles Stewart and Geo-
rge Falconer.
Mrs, 4, A. Thomson
Vuneral aerviee was ilead in St.
Mary's Catholic Church,
$41$1C., on November 5, for Mrs,
John. A. Thomsen, Macklin.. Mr,
Thompson is a brother of Mrs. T.,
"Diek" Ellwood, Clinton.
Mrs. Thompson's death on NOV,
ember 2, followed a iengthly. ill-
ness. She was born at Belgenne,
Sask., on February 24; 1.908, and
operated -a. hair-dressing establish-
ment in Macklin prior to her mar-
riage on .Augast 25, 1943. She
was active in church affairs and
at one time was organist in St.
Mary's church,
The Rev. Father Sluga, condue-
ted Joie service, assisted by the
Rev. Father Kroeth and the resi-
dent priest of the Rosenheirn
parish, Pallbearers were four
nephews and two grandsons, Don-
ald and Grant Ellwood, Interment
was in Lakeview Cemetery at
Mrs. Sanford Lawlor
(By our Auburn correspondent)
Funeral services were held at
the j, Keith Arthur funeral home,
on Tuesday, December 1, for Mrs.
Sanford Lawlor. She was the for-
mer Nellie K Wetheral, daughter
of the late Sohn Wetheral and
Eliza Stitt, and was born in the
United States, Mrs. Lawlor died
on Sunday. She was in her 78th
year.
She was married 53 years ago
and lived in this district since
then on their farm in West Wa-
Wanosh. She was a member of
Knox United Church, where she
attended regularly while health
permitted,
Besides -her husband she is sur-
vived by one son, Thomas, Col-
borne township; five daughters,
Mrs. C. G. (Thelma) McIntyre,
Wingham; Mrs. B. Smith (Lottie)
Toronto; Mrs. Gordon (Pearl) An-
derson, Mrs. Gordon Smith (Haz-
el) Dungannon, -and Mrs. William
(Florence) Reed, Colborne town-
ship; also 21 grandchildren and 23
great-grandchildren. One daugh-
ter, Mrs. Elsie Jones passed away
many years ago.
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