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Just 51 years after the signing
of the 1918 Armistice, those
who died, in two World Wars
were remembered at a quiet
ceremony before the cairn in
Clan Gregor Park on Sunday.
A highflying plane cut the
two-minute silence with the
steady roar of its engines
reminding us that even today
there is constant vigilance over
North America, and a full scale
war on the _other side of the
world.
The Rev. Donald Beck,
conducted the service assisted by
Rev. E. J. B. Harrison and Pastor
L. M. Clemens.
Wreaths were placed at the
cenotaph for the Province of
Ontario by Mrs. George Hopson;
Village of Bayfield, Councillor
E. W, Oddleifson; St. Andrew's
United Church, Mr. Bert Dunn;
Baptist Church, J. Nicholls;
Trinity Anglican Church, Harry
Baker; Bayfield Lions Club,
Lloyd Scotchmer; L.O.L. No.
24, by Emerson Heard; Royal
Canadian Legion 140, Ernest
Hovey,
COMMUNITY CENTRE
Robert Snell, chairman of the
Bayfield Community Centre
board, has received many
inquiries about artificial ice in
the arena and this week issued a
statement in which he said a
$5,000 government grant has
been delayed and it is too late
this year to get ice in the rink.
Mr. Snell thanked everyone
who has worked for and
supported the centre's
fundraising activities—the
walkers and sponsors, the men
and women of the roller skating
group, the banquet committee,
the canteen committee, local
businessmen and service clubs.
"With the money raised from
these activities," he said, "we
had very high hopes that with
the $5,000 grant we would have
our artificial ice in this winter.
We have been delayed getting
this grant and until we do get it
our hands are tied.
"If, this,, had come, in a few
„years, ago, and with a very large
err: :the • part of our
volunteer help and work parties
we could have made it, but it is
too late now.
"Until this last week, there
has been a steady decrease in the
work parties but not in the
amount of the work to be done.
It was very encourgaging last
week to see a large group of
hard-working young people and
adults digging the drains and
hope we can continue this
effort."
COUNCIL. PLANS
The nomination meeting for
reeve and feur councillors for
the village will be held in the
Municipal Building on. Monday,
Nov. 17 at 7 p.m,
Of the present copped, Reeve
Frank. McFadden has stated that
he will not stand for reeve but
may consider a nomination of
council.
Councillor Merton Merner
says that he is undecided.
Councillor Robert Snell said ,
he will not seek re-el
because in January he will be
attending trade school and will
be unable to give council his
undivided attention.
Councillor B. W. Oddleifson
will run again, and stand for
reeve.
Councillor Harry Baker, says
that although he has enjoyed
working with his fellow
members he will not stand again.
Elections if necessary, will be
on December 1.
40th ANNIVERSARY
Mr. and Mrs. Ronald J. Poth
of Don Mills arranged a
delightful surprise last Saturday
evening for Mr. Poth's parents,
Mr, and Mrs. Leroy Poth of
Bayfield, to mark their 40th
wedding anniversary.
Other guests present at the
Bedford Hotel, Goderich, were:
Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Kendall and
son John of Elmira, Mr. and Mrs.
Albert White of Dorchester, Mr.
and Mrs. Harold Poth of New
Dundee, Mr. and Mrs. Richard
Poth of Woodstock, Mr. and
Mrs, Glenn Poth of Waterloo and
Mr. and Mrs. J. 0. Hughes of
Bayfield,
After the dinner, Mr. E.
Kendall and Mr, R. Poth spoke
and made the presentation of
two beautiful floral, fruit and
candle arrangements for table
and buffet.
PERSONALS
Mr. 'and Mrs. J. W. Taylor„of
trat ford , spent e'SattirtillY1,1With
Mr..and•Mrs.
Mr. and Mrs. Fletcher
McLaughlin, Megan and Alfie,
Toronto, were weekend visitors
with Mrs. Fred LeBeau.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Parker,
Toronto, spent Saturday and
Sunday with his mother, Mrs.
Myrtle Parker.
Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Larson
and Karen, London, spent the
weekend with his parents, Mr.
and Mrs. R. J, Larson, -
Weekend guests at the Albion
Hotel were;: Mr. and Mrs. Dan.
Webb, Lisa and Andrew of
Birmingham, Mich; and Mrs.
William Smale of ,Grosse Pointe
Farms.
Norman Brown of London,
spent the weekend at his
Bayfield home,
Mr, and Mrs, Fred Hulls spent
Sunday in Guelph with their
daughter and family, Mr. and
Mrs, J. 13, Grime, Derek and
Barry.
WED 50 YEARS
A gala party Nov. 1 at the
Roseville home of their son,
Harold, marked the 50th
wedding anniversary of Mr. and
Mrs. Alfred McGregor of Warren,
Michigan,
Mr. McGregor is the son of
the late Charles and Mary
McGregor of Porters Hill. Mrs.
McGregor, nee Della Walters, is
the daughter of the late Charles
and Emily Walters of Goderich.
Married in Clinton, the
celebrants have made their home
in Macomb County, Mich. for
more than 30 years. Their family
includes four other children,
Charles and John of Warren,
Mich; Ernest of East Detroit;
Mrs. Raymond Weeks of
Rochester, N.Y., 13
grandchildren and eight great
grandchildren.
ANNUAL
MEETING
Goderich Township
Federation of Agriculture
in
Holmesville Hall
November 14, 8:30 p.m.
Speaker: GERRY CAREY
Federation Fieldman
Entertainment
Ladies please bring lunch
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Couple wed
SO years
Mr,..arid Mrs, Tom Leppington
of Clinton celebrated their
golden wedding anniversary last
Friday.
Mr. Leppington .and his wife,
the former Luella Tompkins of
Mora, were married in wingham.
United I Church by the Rev.
Armstrong and lived at 25 Erie
St, North before moving in 1925
to their present home on
Spencer Street,
The Leppingtons have four
vf;1..01dTep: Rey, 13ropefield; Mrs,
Al (Ione) Liebold of Clinton,
Mrs. L. (Edith) Johnston,
London and John of Clinton.
Another son, Tom Zr,, died in
1942. The couple has 13
grandchildren and three
great-grandchildren.
Mr. y and Mrs. Leppington
received congratulatory cards
and gifts from many friends and
messages from Robert Stanfield,
leader of the opposition; Huron
MP Robert McKinley and
Ontario Premier Robarts. Huron
MPP Charles MacNaughton sent
a plaque on behalf of the
Government of Ontario.
Friends and relatives called on
the Leppingtons Friday
afternoon and evening. The
family gathered at the Legion
Hall lopnge Sunday for dinner.
A granddaughter, Esther Baster
of Komoka, presented the
couple with a money tree on
behalf of the family. Helen
Bisback, Doris Burke and Dot
MacLean served the dinner.
News of
MIS$ MARY Malt.,WA
Mrs Irene Grimoldby is
visiting fora few days with Mr.
and Mrs. Russell Fleming of
Seaferth.
Mr. and Mrs. Reg Lawson,
John and Elizabeth visited on
Satprday with Mr, and Mrs. E, V,
Warren, Helen and Lynda of
London.
Miss Margie Whyte of Guelph
spent the weekend with her
mother, Mrs, W, L. Whyte, Tom
and Dill..
Mrs. Bob. Storey and baby
Alvin returned home on
Saturday from Seaforth
Community NoSPital,
Mrs. Thelma Bromley of
Kitchener visited over the
weekend with Mrs. Margaret
Taylor of Seaforth and with Mr.
and Mrs. Bill Dale and Cheryl
and attended the funeral on
Monday of the late T. J. Flynn
of Seaforth.
Mrs. Paul Dedrick of Simcoe,
Miss Betty Hoggart of London,
visited over the weekend with
Mr. and Mrs. George Hoggart
and Harvey. Jeffery and 'Jim
Dedrick returned home to
Simcoe after spending the past
few days with their
grandparents. Mrs. Dedrick also
visited with her husband, Paul in
London Hospital where he
underwent surgery.
Mrs. Ella Jewitt and boys
spent Sunday with Mr, and Mrs.
Bill Dowson, Brenda, Bonnie
and John of Varna.
Mr. and Mrs. Terrence Hunter
of Colborne Township, Mrs.
Hazel Bennett of Detroit were
Sunday visitors with Mr. and
onstance
Mrs, John Thompson and
family,.
Mr, and MA, Fred Buchanan
and family visited on $onday
with Mr, And. Mrs, Alfred
Buchanan of iOlinton,
Mr, and Mrs. Gary Preszcator
and Steven of Goderich, visited
on Sunday with Mr. and Mrs,
„Jim Preszcator, Billy .and
Debbie.
Miss Doreen Riley of
,Stratford spent the weekend
with her parents, Mr .4d Mrs.
Ben Riley and family.
Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Riehl and
family of Huron Park. visited on
Sunday with Mr. and Mn. Ben
Riley and farnilY.
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1.0cY R. WOODS
When Lucy and Jean were children it was a great treat to be
invited to "Woods Villa," $tanley Township, the home of their
father's cousin William H, Woods.
Cousin Will regaled them with stories of Pioneer days, One day he
told them about the flocks of Passenger Pigeons which used to pass
ever in migration — so many that they darkened the sun and the
whirr of their wings caused a great noise as they went south in the
Fall or returned to their nesting grounds in the snring•
They were easy marks for shotguns or even sticks. Sometimes
they roosted in this area for the night, And landed on trees in such
numbers that they, broke the branches.
Then people went with sticks and knocked them ofrit night,
Pigeon pie was a change of menu on the pioneer table and a cheap
meal. The birds which could not be eaten soon after killing were
salted and stored for future use.
Then one spring they looked in vain for the flocks to return. They
were never seen again here.
"What happened then?" asked Lucy.
"There was a very bad storm in the Gulf of Mexico and it was
thought they'd been caught on the wing by fierce winds and swept
to their death." replied Cousin Will,
In his book "The Old Log House" Gavin Hamilton Green wrote in
1947, "How many people that are alive today remember the last
migration or flight of the wild pigeons that left the banks of Lake
Huron never to return? Their last flight was in the fall 1877, They
passed over the boundary line of Sheppardton about 7 o'clock in the
evening. It began to get dark, and we rushed outside to see what
caused the sudden darkness and the humming noise made by the
wings of the pigeons. We could not see the sky for the pigeons. They
flew so low we could hit them'with sticks.
"Father rushed out with the old Indian Chief shotgun, but for
some reason the Old Chief's hammer refused to crack the percussion
cap, Father sent me in the house for the hammer, he hit the cap with
the hammer but the old chief back fired and Father got a piece of
the cap and some of the powder in his cheek, where he carried it for
the rest of his life as a reminder of the last flight of the wild pigeons.
But the Chief brought down a number of pigeons with part of the
charge that went out of the muzzle."
"Father, David and I knocked down with sticks pigeons enough to
fill a bushel basket after the old Chief refused to crack the caps. As
nearly as I can remember they were about an hour passing over our
home. Some of the natives said there must have been millions of
pigeons in that last migration."
"After this flight there were just a few straggling pigeons to be
seen but we expected them back the next spring to their old
rookeries or hatching grounds but they never came. These hatching
rookeries were in cedar groves. There was a rookery on the 12th
Concession of Ashfield, where the natives from Goderich, Port
Albert, Dungannon, Lucknow and surrounding villages came to hunt
them and slaughtered them by the hundreds when they were nesting.
There were no game laws to protect the wild pigeons or the
fledglings.
There were other rookeries or hatching grounds in the counties of
Huron and Bruce, but the real genuine rookery or hatching ground
was in the Greenock swamp,"
I remember when a boy in the seventeens when Father went out
hunting wild pigeons, David and I went along and carried the bag;
when the bag got too heavy for David and me, Father stopped
shooting them. The pigeons were quite tame and easy to hunt and
shoot, as they always flew to trees and fences and were easily seen;
very seldom did they light upon green trees in the bush. I have often
seen the wild pigeons on a hike in flocks that would darken the skies
like a thunder cloud, but the wild pigeons made their last passenger
flight from the banks of Lake Huron and left the pioneer to eat crow
instead of pigeon pie — a fate which he richly deserved' for the
slaughtering of the wild pigeons in their rookeries when they were
hatching their young."
et-,,„;„Lticy recalls reading somewhere that in other spots, especially ,
Michigan, the wild pigeon fell prey to commercialism. There was a !
Iivel market In the cities for pigeotiS, laige
centres as New York. And so hunters grew rich at the expense of the
wild pigeon.
W. Earl Godfrey points out that probably no other medium-sized
North American bird existed in such vast numbers as did the
Passenger Pigeon. Its habit of concentrating in immense flocks
facilitated its mass slaughter. Trainloads were shipped from favoured
areas. It laid only one or two eggs to a clutch, incubated in 14 days,
by both male and female, once or twice a year. Its reproduction
potential was therefore inadequate to cope with the vast drain on its
numbers. It was gunned, trapped and clubbed off the face of the
earth.
The Passenger Pigeon resembled the Mourning Dove except that it
was brighter in colour, had not the black marks under the ears and
was larger. It measured 15.18 inches while the Mourning Dove, is
only 11-13.5 inches in length.
They bred from central Montana, North Dakota, southern
Manitoba and south eastern Canada, south to eastern Kansas,
Oklahoma, Mississippi and Georgia. They wintered in the south
eastern states.
The last known specimen in Ontario was taken at Sherkton, near
Niagara, mid-September 1891. The last reliable sight record was at
Penetanguishene May 18, 1902. The last known specimen taken in
the wild was at Sargento, Ohio, March 24, 1900. The last individual
pigeon died in captivity at Cincinnati, Ohio, September 1, 1914.
Through man's stupidity in failing to halt the ruthless slaughter
and provide conservation measures for the species, the Passenger
pigeon whose myriads, not so long ago, were one of the wonders of
the North American continent is gone forever.
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