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50 YEARS AGO
February 23, 1888
Geov Eacrett and Jos.
challenging any two in
three-legged race on
on the night of
the
the
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who
lumber
brought
The Life History of
J. M, Roberts
ITihe following article was taken
from the .Stratford, Beaco-n-lHerald
entitled, “People you should know.”
It is a biography of the County
■Clerk, Mr. J. M. Roberts, of God
erich,
Messrs.
Davis are
town for a
roller rink
Carnival.
Mr. Thomas Camm, son of
late John Camm, of Usborne,
has been working in the
woods, in Michigan, was
home seriously injured, a tree hav
ing fallen uon hlim.
Mr, Thos. Dunsford and family,
who have for many years, resided on
of Hay, left for
Michigan a few
Dr. Fox, Native of
Lucan, Dies in British
Guiana Wilds
|FVom British Guiana’s inland
jungles came word of the death jot
Dr. Fred J. Fox, Boston and New
York scientist, and the safety of
other members of an expedition
searching for Paul . Redfern, long-
missing United States aviator.
A terse message to the ’colonial
secretary’s office said Dr. Fox had
died on Devil’s Hole Island while
other members of the Redfern search
party under J. T. Waldeck, hard-
pressed for food, were making their
way to Warwah, their destination.
No details of the death of Dr. Fox
were given. It said he had been
buried on Devil’s Hole Island.
|The message came by way of a
rescue boat which reached Warwah .
with provisions three days before
Waldeck and his .party got there.
The Waldack group left George
town several weeks ago on the
search for Redfern, who vanished
in 1927 while i’lying from the Unit
ed .States to .Soyth America.
Ill-Luck also hit the Waldeck ex
pedition. It was marooned on De-'
vi’s Hole Island December 28, when
the native porters deserted with the
boats after a dispute over supplies.
Since then, a rescue party has been
trying to reach this rescue party.
Mrs. Gertrude E. Fox, wife of Dr.
Frederick J. Fox, said her husband
told her he would like to join the
expedition when it was being or
ganized under Theodore J. Waldeck,
American explorer, to search for the
missing flyer, Paul Redfern.
He wanted to go, Mrs. Fox related
partly for tile* adventure' and .partly
because he wanted to study tribal
medicine in the jungle.
“Why don’t you?” Mrs. Fox said
she asked .him, but he demurred on
the ground hie had too many respon
sibilities. Mrs. Fox said she over
came these scruples and he joined
the party.
Mi's. F'O-x maintains a publicity
office in New York.
(Surviving are his widow; a son, .
John F. Fox, who is a senior at Har
vard University and four sister.
Frederick John Fox was a son of :
the late John Fox, former manager
of the cld .Standard Bank in Lucan. .
He grew up in that village and after 3
schooling there briefly, attended the ■
University of Western Ontario. '
’Later., he attended Toronto Uni- (
versity where he graduated in med-
, icine. He was a specialist in der- -
matology and practised in Boston (
and then in New York City for the ■
past several years^ j
Misses Agnes and Roberta Fox of ’
(Lucan; Mrs. William El'liott, >
tralia and Mrs. Emery .Smith,
Windsor, are sisters of the late
Fox.
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Dr.
mitohedd woman burned
- Bad burns on her right forearm
were suffered by Mrs. Alvin Jordan
when she was in the act of deep fry
ing some food. She had been talking-
on the telephone and returned to
the kitchen to remove the hot grease
when it caught
spreading to the
dan, who was at
extinguished the
fire, the flames
curtains. Mr. Jor-
home at the time,
blaze.
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their new home in
days ago.
Mr, P. Bawden,
the corner stqre opposite the Central
Hotel to engage in the drug business
here has abandoned thte thought of
commencing and returned to his sit
uation in Sarnia.
Mr. and Mrs. Worry with two of
their children are visiting theii’ rel
atives at the old homestead, Elim-
ville. Mr. Werry went to Manitoba
during the boon and has been carry
ing on extensive and successful
farming operations in the vicinity of
Crystal- .City.
(Two weddings in Crediton Tues
day, one at the residence of Mr. F,
Gebaner, where Miss Annie Dryer
was joined in bonds of matrimony
to Mr. John Krien, of Dakota. The
oth'er at the residence of Mr. Aug.
Haist where the nuptial knot was
tied between Miss Ldyia Haist and
Mr. Wm. Morlock.
Barkley-iStacey - On Wednesday.
January 18th, at the residence
the bride’s father
Charlton, Mr. Wm.
Hanna, daughter of
all
who had rented
of Bl an shard.
of
by the Rev. J.
Barkley to Miss
Mr. Wm. Stacey
25 YEARS AGO
February 27, 1913
afterMr. and Mrs. Milton Clark,
visit with relatives here, returned
to their home in {Salvador, (Sask.,
this week.
Reeve Heaman and Councillor
Hind went to Toronto on Tuesday tc
attend a meeting in the interests ot
Good Roads.
Mr. J. A. Gregory, of Winnipeg,
who .lias been spending several
months in Europe, visited his mother
here for a few days during the week.
Mr. Chas. Dunsford, who has been
engaged at iSudlbury, returned home
last week accompanied by his cousin
Mr. Reginald Kitchen, who will visit
here for some .time.
Mr. George Bagshaw, who has
been visiting here and in other parts
of Huron, for several weeks left Fri
day for .his home in Tullesville, -Sask.
Mrs. Bagshaw, who recently under
went an operation will be unable to
return to the West 'until summer.
Mr. Alex Dow has sold his farm
near the river to Mr. T. Hewatt, of
near Kirkton. 'The' latter
duct a milk business.
Mr. 'T. Har.ton and Mrs.
returned Tuesday from
where they 'attended the funeral ot
their brother James Harton.
Mr. 'Fred Cornish received an in
jury to his leg while loading logs
last week.. •' .
'The Grand Carnival Tuesday night
was a, hfuge success. The prize win
ners were: Representing a nation,
Miss Annie Bissett, Miss Mary Ach
eson, Leon Treble, Geo. Hepburn;
character dress, Miss Lulu Martin,
Jessie Bowey and Mildred Marchand
Wallace iFuke, Willie Manson; comic
costume, Gerald Hudron, Trueman
Elliott. ' Obstacle race, Maurice
Senior, Harry Parsons. A short
hockey game added to the evenings
enjoyment.
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Ker wood
15 YEARS AGO
February 22, 1923
Pol"Messrs. D. Davis and D. A.
lock, of the Canadian Bank of Com
merce, enjoyed a long snowshoe
tramp to the latter’s home on Sat
urday. iThe sixteen miles were cov
ered in a little over four ho-urs.
■Rev, F. E. 'Clysdale, of Atwood,
has accepted a call 'to the Methodist
Church, Mitchell.
Mr. Gordon Davis has received a
good position with a Toronto roofing
firm. He left on Monday to assume
his duties there.
Mr. P. J. Sparling, of the Thames
Road intends starting a milk route
in 'Exeter aibout the first of March.
,'Citizens who have been accustom
ed to rising and eating with the toll
ing of the town bell miss it now
when it does not ring.
Mr. and Mrs. Sid Sanders and Al-
joe had a close call from being as
phyxiated when the furnace pipes
came apart during the night and the
house was filled 'with gas.
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Whether is is the warden of the
county, a typewriter ribbon salesman
or a ferreting newspaperman, he is
certain of a cordial and pleasant re
ception when he steps into the office
of J. IM. Roberts, County 'Clerk of
Huron. Mr. Roberts is like that.
Genial, courteous and obliging, he
makes one feel instantly at .home,
■He may be up ao .fails ears, or beyond
in work but he is never too busy to
give you his complete and undivided
attention.
Mr. Roberts has been Clerk of
Huron since the beginning of 1934
and the county’s records today are
in better shape and things are run
more systematically than they have
been in Huron’s history. At the time
he took office Mr, Roberts was con
fronted with the unenviable task of
creating order out of what closely
resembled chaos, but he is not given
himself to telling what he has ac
complished. Of necessity, therefore,
the following tribute comes from
Mayor George H. Eliott, of Clinton,
warden of the county when Mr. Ro
berts became clerk in 1934: “Mr.
Roberts' worth to Huron is recog
nized by every reeve in the county.
He had proved a brilliant clerk and
a man of much ..more than 'ordinary
intelligence and executive ability.
He has done a remarkable job in
these last four years and Huron
County was fortunate when it select
ed him as clerk.”
land.
Mr. Roberts was just six days in
England when he applied on the
first call and went to Prance with-
the 1st Canadian Seige Battery. At
the front for less than a week he
was wounded in the hip at Delyille
Wood on the Somme. Back at the
front before long he was seriously
wounded the next time in September
1917, at .Theins, a little Village over
looking Lens near Vinry Ridge, A
German shell exploded near one of
the Battery’s huge 9.2 howitzerss
and not a piece of the massive gun
was.ever found. Thirty members of
the Battery were killed and 70
wounded. Mr. Roberts was buried by
the explosion and suffered badly
from shell shock. He was sent to
England to recover.
Fully recuperated within a month
he joined the Royal Flying Corps,
and when a call was issued for 20
men to speed up their training to
.go to France, Mr. Roberts was one
of the 20 chosen. A crash, however
■on the east coast of England in Feb
ruary 1918, ended his war service.
Seriously injured, he was five days
unconscious and for almost a month
was in a coma. He spent a year in
hospital, and it was July, 1919, be
fore he got home,
Native iof' Dungannon
Mr. Roberts, christened John Mc
Donald was born in Dungannon, a
son of the late Mr. and Mrs. J. M.
Roberts. His father was a private
banker there for many years.'-Mr. Ro
berts went through the usual grades
in public school and then entered
'Goderich Collegiate at the time the
late H. I. Strang was principal. In
1908, with school days behind him,
he entered the old Sterling Bank at
'Goderich as a junior under the late
A. G. Gamble,
several towns ;
Sterling Bank
erich in 1914 i
Union Bank.
By this time Canada was into
war, and Mr. Roberts and J. L.
(Jim) Sinclair, a C.P.R. engineer
running into Goderich had agreed
that when they enlisted they would
enlist together, Majoi’ Charles Sales,
a popular 'Goderich dentist, came
home one day early in 19.15 to say
goodbye to family and friends be
fore starting for Overseas with the
18th Battalion, and Mr. Roberts
met him at his home and begged
for the chance to go over with the
18th It was arranged that he was
to catch on the train when it left for
London and Major Sale was going
to try and find
the unit, leaving
England.
While crowds
waving goodibye
Roberts hoarded
was off to London. When he stepped
off the train in London
standing on the platform
for him but Jim Sinclair.
“If you’re going with
then I’m going too,” Mr.
said.
But Major Sale could not promise
that he could work both men into
the battalion. Thte .unit was already
filled up, The best he could do was
to send; them both up for medical
examinations. If they .passed he
would see then what lie could do.
Mr. Roberts got by the examinations
without trouble, but Sinclair’ did not
fare so well. He had to undergo
an operation,' he was told (before he
■could be accepted. He submitted im
mediately to the operation and while
he was recuperating Mr. Roberts re
turned to the bank. He was mov
ed shortly to Belleville and into the
office one day marched none other
than the same Jim Sinclair. He had
applied for a place in the Royal Air
iForce and had been accepted. He
was on his way to England and had
come around by Belleville to let Mr.
Roberts know he was going.
Returned to Bank
Returning to the Union Bank as
accountant at Brampton, M. Roiberts
came home in .October 1919, to
marry Miss Grace iSeager, a niece of
Charles Seager, for many years the
Crown Attorney of Huron County,
who died recently in London. In
1922, Mr. Roberts became mana
ger of th|e bank’s branch at Stittsville
near 'Ottawa, and a year later was
given the managership in Sussex,
N. B. In 1925 he became the repre
sentative in Nova Scotia for the
Burroughs Adding Machine Com
pany and in 1929 was transferred to
Montreal. For two successive years
he was one of th|e company’s rank*
ing salesman in the Dominion. Lat-
er Mr. Roberts was moved to London
where he remained with .the Bur
roughs company until shortly before
his appointment as county clerk .of
Huron.
Mr. Roberts belongs ,to many or
ganizations in Goderich and many
of his free hours are devoted ,to pub
lic service. Not many people in
Goderich know the many little kind
nesses Mr. Roberts performs in a
year’s time. Helping people who
need help affords him the greatest
thlrill in his life. Mr. Roberts is a
member of St. George’s Anglican
Clhurch ,and he belongs to the Ma
sonic Order* and to the Canadian
Legion. He .is a member of the God
erich! Public School Board and re
cently was appointed by the County
Council to the iSenate of the Uni
versity of Western Ontario. IHe is
treasurer of the Goderich Musical
Society and acts as (auditor for many
organizations, including the Alexan
dra Marine and General Hospital
the .Goderich (Agricultural Society
and the Goderich branch of the Can
adian Legion and the Criminal Au
dit poard.
Mr. Roberts makes his work his
hobby and what he has aeco-mplishted
in his .four years at the iCounty
Buildings is proof indeed that he has
made a success of his (hobby, His ev
enings—what free evenings he has,
are devoted to .his wife and his five-
year-old son, Jimmy.
Mr. Roberts’ long banking exper
ience eminently fitted him for his
post as county clerk, but he lays
stress on the fact that anything that
has been accomplished in his office
has been due largely to the whole
hearted support he "has , received
from tihe wardens and councillors
who
Crediton W, 1.
The February meeting of the
Crediton W. I. was held at the home
of Mrs, Gerald Zwicker with a
splendid attendance. (The meeting
opened by singing the “'Ode” and
repeating the Lord's Prayer. The
motto, “True politeness is to say
the 'kindest things in the kindest
way.” 'Song “Juinita” was sung;
roll call was responded to by giving
an incident of .pioneer days which
proved very interesting, Mrs. J.
Woodall and Mrs. F. W. Morlock
were appointed for a term of two
years to act on community field
committee. It was decided to di
vide the members into three groups
the captains were Mrs, R, Finkbein-
er, Mrs. L. England, Mrs. C. Sims,
Mrs. W. Oestricher presided over
the following program: song, “Long
Long Ago'V Mrs. F. King then gave
th'e current events, piano duett by
Mrs. F. W. Morlock and Miss Ruby
Finkbeiner, song, “Believe Me, If
l<A.ll ‘Those Endearing Young Charms
The topic on Historical Research
was given by Mrs. E. Lawson, her
subject being the origin of the steel
plow and also of the first automo
bile, these were accompanied by
pictures and were very interesting;
vocal so-lo by Mrs. G. Morlock. A
humorous reading- entitled “Motor
Romana” was given by Mrs. T. Ma-
whinney. This was followed by a
contest after which a dainty lunch
was servtd by the hostess assisted
by Mrs. H. K. Eilber and Mrs. .W.
Oestricher, Mrs. W. Wein tendered
a hearty vote of thanks to the host
ess and her commttee and to
who took part in the program.
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days. 'He and Sinclair reached Eng
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Sinclair, who still is with the C.
P.iR. served with distinction on the
Turkish front during the war and
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GronweH Aerodrome, the largest
training depot in England. Towards
the close of the war the Handley-
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Atlantic, but the Air Force would
not permit him to make the flight.
Sinclair recommended Jack Alcock
for the job and he ultimately made
the flight with Jack Brown, Both
were knighted. Sir John Alcock was
hater killed in France. Sir John
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