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MRS. JEAN MelcINLEY
Celebrates 95th
On August 23, 1970, friends
and relatives of Mrs. Jean °
McKinley called at the home of
Mr. and Mrs. Jack Scotchmer to
wish her a happy 95th birthday.
Mrs. McKinley was born in
McKillop Township north of
Seaforth, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. John Campbell. She
received her elementary
schooling at No. 4 McKillop,
attended High in Seaforth and
Model School in Mitchell.
Her teaching career started
August 1, 1896 at S.S. No. 3
Stanley, Front Road School and
birthday
she taught in many Huron
County Schools including
Goshen and Babylon.
In 1911 she married Robert
McKinley and they lived on their
farin on the Goshen Line for a
number of years. Her family
includes: Campbell who resides
on the home farm and Margaret,
Mrs. Jack' Scotchmer, R.R. 3
Bayfield, four grandchildren and
seven great-grandchildren.
Mrs. McKinley enjoys good
health and enjoyed meeting all
who came to call.
065-,M0 or Mrs. Murray
Garrett at 00,2600 befPre that
date.
quests at the Albiop Hotel
during the past week were. Mr.
and Mrs, Jay Cline, Windsor; Mr.
and Mrs, D, Smith, Windsor; Mr.
and Mrs. John A, Petrie, New
York City; Mrs. Keith C.
Sallantyne, London; Mrs. W. M.
l3rintnell, London; Mr. and Mrs.
Joseph C. !l'ee, Arnherstburg;
Mr. and Mrs. F. M. Fraser,
daughter Wendy, Windsor; Mrs.
W. Grierson, Waterloo; Miss Jean
Fisher, Kitchener; Mr. and Mrs.
R. Patterson, Kitchener; Mr, and.
Mrs. Mark Needham, son Corry,
Whitehorse, Yukon; Mr, David
Yorston, Toronto; Mr. and Mrs.
Toms Hatisely9ns Phillip, Paul
and Chris, Weston.
Mr. and Mrs. Spencer Ervine
of Bayfield and Miss May Ervine
Of Goderich were in Windsor
over the weekend attending the
wedding of Miss Susan
Shuttleworth.
Mr. and Mrs. Joe Britt,sons
Joe and Jim are holidaying at
the River Colony Cottages this
week.
News of Constance
BY MARY MCILWAIN
The annual Meting Of the
Bayfield Ratepayers, ASnPeintion
WAS held o.n Saturday, August
29, with .02 members present.
The auditor, Mn.
Elmer Parker, expressed pleasure
At the sound state of the
finaticeS. Cotined has adopted
poliey of not having any debts,
and the result is a healthy
.surplus. In the past three years
the new .intiniciple building was
payed for, and the special levy
dropped from the taxes.
Taxation for Village and county
purposes is reduced, but there is
an overall increase due to, the
uncontrolled spending of the
County School Hoard. This
increase may not have been
noticed by some, since the
telephone bills no longer appear
on the tax notices.
Reeve Oddlierson gave a very
clear exposition of the
difficulties and accomplishments
of Council.
It was of interest to hear that
the recent take-over of the street
lights will result in a
considerable annual saving. We
were brought up to date on the
status of by4aws, which occupy
so much time of Council. Traffic
and policing were of interest to
Many members and these
subjects have been actively
purSued by Council. The Reeve
made the very excellent point
that the police and the village
need citizen support, and quoted
the responsibilty of everyone
here to be on the alert for such
vandalism as the theft of our
delightful and unique street
signs.
The condition of the beach
this summer has been disgraceful
and was of major concern in the
meeting. We humans are an
untidy group, but there is also
deliberate breakage of bottles.
This has • resulted in many
lacerations, specially to children.
This organization considered
that leadership might come from
members during the summer
months, when the problem, of
course, is at its worst. The Lions
Club has done an excellent job
in the off season, but is unable
to cope with the problem in the
summer:
Jt is therefore proPOsed
that some financial support will
be available for next summer,
and that the executive will
endeavour to organize the older
children into bench patrols. Nq
doubt the money end of this
project will be the easier part to
accomplish. We do need
volunteer help from a small
number of • adults during July
and August and would
appreciate hearing from such in
order to launch a successful
Progranime next year,
There is a vacancy for the
secretary of the Ratepayers'
Association , and to balance
members on the executive, it
should be a permanent villager.
Other officers are: President,
Morgan Smith; Vice-president,
Warren Cook; Treasurer, Mrs.
Don Warner; Committee, Ernest
Harvey, Philip Duboulay, Adam
Flowers, Orton Logan, Miss
Jessie Metcalf, Harvey
MacDougall.
Mr. and Mrs. Garfield
Anthony of Weston visited
recently with Mr. and Mrs.
Delbert Haw and Mr. and Mrs.
Don Haw and family.
New arrivals at the Jowett
area cottages are; Mr. and Mrs.
R. Yeckley and daughter,
Detroit, Mich.; Mr. and Mrs. J.
Quick, son Andrew, London;
Mr, and Mrs. R. Boyer,
Kitchener; Mr, and Mrs. G.
Riordan, Elmira; Mr. and Mrs. A.
Allen and family, Toronto.
Recently Mrs. Frank Hill flew
to St. Johns, Newfoundland to
be with her parents, Rev. and
Mrs. T. J. Pitt,on the occasion of
their golden wedding
anniversary.
Terry Fitzsimons is attending
mechanics training school in
Toronto for the next seven
weeks. Poor old Jack Merner
now has to work for a change —
hurry back Terry.
Registration for the 4-H
homemaking club for girls 12 to
26 years of age closes September
the 12. Girls interested in joining
contact Mrs. Jack Merner at
SANDBLASTING
Will give your home that fresh new
appearance. Brighten brick or stone. Phone
for estimate.
DEMOLITION
WORK
We can demolish anything .in concrete or
stone with our latest air harniner faqiiities,
SPRAY PAINTING
Modern equipment to quickly handle houses
or farm buildings.
ARNOLRATTHERS
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Varna news
BY FRED McCLYMONT
Mr. Charles Keys and Mr. Pat
Keys of Nashville, Tennessee,
called on friends and relatives
here last week.
Miss Edith Beatty has
returned home after a short stay
' 'in Exeter Public Hospital.
Regular. Services :.will; start-
next Sunday in the United
Church with the pastor Rev.
Murdock Morrison in charge.
Final plans were made by the
directors of the Bayfield
Agriculture Society last
Thursday evening for the Annual
Fall Fair on September 1142,
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Mr. and Mrs. John Baird and
Weston Waymouth of Windsor
visited with Mrs. Laura
Saundercock on Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs. David
Fairservice and baby daughter of
Montreal arrived on Saturday for
a few days visit with his mother,
Mrs. Myrtle Fairservice and Ann.
Mrs. Martha Jasling of Detroit
spent Monday with Mrs. Morgan
Jones.
Miss Edith' Beacom, Mrs.
Laura Lyon and Mrs. Albert
Cardiff of BrUssels enjoyed a few
days vacation -recently, spending
Sunday in North Bay with
cousins, then taking the train
from Cochrane to Moosonee.
During- their travels, they saw
the ravages of the Sudbury
hurricane.
Mr. and Mrs. Bert Shobbrook
spent Thursday in Woodstock
with the Millson family. Master
Darren Millson returned home
having spent the past two weeks
with his grandparents.
Congratulations go out to Mr,
and Mrs. Norman. Alexander on
the arrival of a new grandson
Jim, a brother for Donald and a
son for Mr. and Mrs. Don
Cousineau (nee Elaine
Alexander) of Webbwood, Mrs.
Alexander left on Friday for a
few days with her daughter.
Mr. and Mrs. Bill Cowan and
Greg are spending a few days
with his mother, Mrs. George
Cowan. Bill who ' has taught in
Barrie for a number of years will
be on Guelph teaching staff in
future.
.WPOPS.
September $, 1939, the Cunard White Star liner Athenia
hial had sailed that .day from .Liverpool, was sunk by a 0011114o
Warble in the NOrth Atlantic, 200 Miles off the Hebrides, that
Her pawnor list was full, Amongst thPSe. lost were (4, W,
g P., Gederieh and Thronton W. Mustard, Principal -th
School, Toronto, a prominent educator who. maintained a summer
home in Ilayfield Ile was a native of 13rueefield,
When the lifeboats were being launched, Mr. Mustard made his
way in the dark (the ship's lighting system had been 'knocked out)
and confusion to their cabin to get a travel rug for his wife. Her last
the deck
as one of
ski motor
sight of him was standing with the rug beside Mr. Weir on
of the stricken ship,
Mrs. Weir was amongst those saved and Mrs. Mustard w
the passengers in a lifeboat who were rescued by a 8wedi
ship and landed at Halifax.
Only these who went through it knew of the horror of that night
— the cold and incessant rowing in the dark, also the lack of space,
commodities and comforts on the merchant rescue ships only
sick and designed for the crew, without medipal attention for the
injured.
This dastardly .attack on an unarmed passenger ship, 1290 aboard,
in World just at the height of the dinner hour, was the first incident
War II. It reverberated with hatred of the German tactics all over the
d been a
that year,
tie vessel
world.
The horror of it aji. was very real to Lucy for she ha
passenger on the Athenia in her first trip out from Canada
There were very few passengers and since the gallant lit
couldn't get through the ice to Montreal, she sailed without cargo
from Quebec and bounced around like a cork in the .storms at sea.
to know
days she
The officers and staff were very kind' o Lucy and she came
them well as they helped her about the ship. or two
was confined to her berth with a board on the side to prevent her
rolling out when the ship was windtossed. And as the 'reports came
have been in, she realized that but for the Grace of God, she would
down in Davy Jones' Locker with the stewardess, Miss Johnstone
raised that who had been so good to her. The Chief Steward had pro
if she returned to Canada in the off-season, Miss Johnstone could
ne, what
again care for her.
When lifeboat drill sounded, Lucy .asked Miss Johnsto
would happen to her if the boat were sinking. Her reply was, -"Vou
are my first charge and after that I look out for myself."
Miss Johnstone was in the lifeboat which crashed on the propellor
of the Norwegian vessel when it started up in the dark.
And had Lucy been on that sailing, she could have been a cabin
which was staved in by the torpedo, or down in the dining salon in
the dark, unable to reach the stairs with the rising water.
Normal
zt
Lucy always liked an outside cabin but after two ladies from
within 50 miles of Bayfield came into the four-berth cabin and saw
her they immediately told her that this was their booking and they
didn't wish anyone ill, even with arthritis in the cabin. "Cheerful
people" thought Lucy to herself. But she was more than ever glad
that she'd been moved and was the sole occupant of a two-berth
cabin when she heard that the ladies were most frightfully seasick
almost all the time and another seasick person across from them was
trying to console them.
On July 1, Lucy's sister, Jean had been injured in a head-on crash
on a bridge near Wingham. Shortly before she had taken over the
wheel from her husband, Robert H. Middleton. They were on a
bridge so it was unavoidable even though Jean had braked their car,
She suffered fractured bones in her foot and ankle. She wrote to
Lucy and told her to get home and look after the Post Office as their
mother wasn't well.
Lucy was staying with her aunt, Miss Lucy K. Woods at
Burnham, -onlea in
t
betweenlratrileaultathareptaratinriAln,,ease,.,
w of war ere broadcas e,very,,,,evening iviertpla2y4ele?Si" People
4.4 were4 advised to4aY'liPat 'imiiO'Oefrnned rood'''fO‘r a 'week ahead. ;„,j
There were trial blackouts in Somersetshire. Lucy didn't pay much
attention to these but she felt that Jean was perhaps using her
accident to get her home in case of war.
So she wrote a letter telling how she was in the midst of
treatments, having special shoes made etc. and if possible, she'd wait
until September 3 sailing and asked her to reply by cable. She
marked it for the first Northern Trans-Atlantic airmail and asked the
District nurse to put a shilling and thru'pence stamp on it. She wept
when the nurse came back three days later and gave her the change.
She'd taken it to the little sub-post office on Berrow Road and
they'd shown her in the book that air mail to Canada was only five
pence (that was over ocean by ship, over Canada by Airplane and
Lucy knew the North Trans-Atlantic route from Post Office
bulletins before she left in April. She actually saw the airship pass
over her aunt's home on its first trip.)
So the main post office was telephoned and they reported still
time to catch that mail, so Lucy wrote a duplicate and the nurse
took it down and put the proper stamps on it. And still no cable
came from Jean. Lucy wrote to Mrs. Art Charles (formerly Jean
Middleton, Clinton). She and Dr. Charles of Connaught
Laboratories, Toronto, were at Birmingham where he had been
engaged in scientific research at the University. Mrs. Charles replied
that they were booked for the Scythia sailing on September 2 and
she'd be glad to assist her in any way if she took passage on her. But
Lucy didn't think so much of the Scythia, Actually, Mrs. Charles
made a mistake, as their booking was for the Athenia on September
and they were reported missing in the lists. But Canadian
a torities must have had some inkling that war was imminent. His
kn wledge was important, especially if war developed. The Charles
went to Switzerland for a little holiday and were only there an hour
when they were advised by cable to return immediately.
Reservations had been made for them on the Aquitania sailing from
Southampton to New York. They were on the high seas when war
was declared. But if Lucy had known they were booked on the
Athenia, September 3 sailing she certainly would have done the
same.
Not receiving any news from home, she decided that she had
better book passage on the August 5 sailing of the Athenia if
possible. She was fortunate. Her excess luggage had been forwarded
to Liverpool and she was within two hours of Ieaving'for Bath to
pick up shoes, etc. when the cable came. "Suit yourself. Mother
better." Immediately her aunt pressed her to stay. "No," replied
Lucy, "I don't wish to lose my luggage. Father lost luggage in
Liverpool station when he came out in 1893 and never could trace it
until he returned in 1911 and found it in Liverpool station."
At lunch she was thinking out loud to herself, saying: "Oh, the
poor, dear soul. She is lonely and bedridden. Perhaps I'd better stay
longer," The Irish housekeeper heard and said, "Miss Lucy! You
know I wish you to stay but it isn't lucky to change plans." And
that speech determined her to go.
After treatments and picking up her shoes (which, incidentally,
she never could wear) Lucy left Bath on Bank Holiday. There was
standing room only but an obliging porter jumped aboard the train
and held a back seat with part of their luggage for another arthritic
patient and herself. That night a Social Service worker with whom
Lucy had made friends upon her arrival from Canada met the train
and took her to a hotel. Next day she and her assistant took her to
the dock and aboard ship. Lucy often chuckles to herself. They met
the ships to fake charge of any runaway Or delinquent girls. There
being none off the Athenia, ode offered her assistance to LucY who
had been told to wait for the CPR agent who never did turn up. This
lady, a volunteer Worker, stayed With hot and put her aboard the
train.
When she arrived home, she saw` that the first air inail letter for
North Trans-Atlantis: route had been tent to the Dead Letter office
to be taxed for extra postage and the second had missed the air mail
for that week so both were held over for the next trip.- They Would
have gone more quickly by boat!
All her life Lucy has been conscious of Our Heavenly Father's
Care but never so vividly as when news of the sinking of the Athenia
was flashed around the *Cad end she saw how 'all the apparent
frustrations she suffered had been in reality working together for her
good,
Thirty.one years later, She reline/them with gratitude, her safe
trip home and all the kindly care extended to her by the friendly
Staff of the Athenia and mourns the loss of all who Went to a Watery
Mr. and Mrs. Bert Dekker and
family Miss Janny Dekker of
Galt visited recently with Mr.
and Mrs, Bert Haverkamp and
family.
Mrs. Ella Jewitt and Mrs.
Elmo Jewitt returned home on
the weekend from travelling in
the Western Provinces and
visiting with relatives there.
Mr. and Mrs. Doug Baker and
family returned home from their
holidays in the Windsor, Detroit,
and Hamilton area.
Mrs. Frank Barkley of
Manchester England; Mrs. Andy
Barry of Thorold; Mrs. Grace
Hunter of Barrie and Mrs.
Terrence Hunter of Colborne
Township spent Thursday with
Mr. and Mrs. John Thompson
and family.
Mr. and Mrs. Wilfred Scott
and family attended the family
reunion held on Sunday at Mrs.
Grace Patterson's of Brampton.
Judy and Edith Haverkamp
spent the past week holidaying
with their grandparents, Mr. and
Mrs. Simon Dyk of Galt.
Mrs. Ken Thompson and Joan
and Mrs, Collins of Harpurhey
are spending this week at the
Thompson cottage at Birch
Beach.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Van der
Molan, Paul, Mark and Margie of
Oakville are spending this week
with Mrs. W, L. Whyte, Torn,
Bill and Margie.
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Buchanan
and family visited on Sunday
with Mrs. Alymer Hart and girls
of Brussels.
4 Bob and Sharon Thompson
ig spent. 'the past week with their •
grandparents Mr. and Mrs.
Terrence Hunter ,of Colborne
Township.
Mrs. Dave Catcher and family
of Markdale visited this week
with Mrs. Elma Jewitt and Brian,
Mrs. Annie Leitch and Mrs. Ella
Jewitt and boys.
A number of friends, relatives
arid neighbours gathered on
Friday evening at No. 2,
McKillop School to celebrate the
25th wedding anniversary of Mr,
and Mrs. Robert MacMillan. The
evening was spent playing
euchre, after which the couple
was presented with a gift.
Mrs. Ella Jewitt and boys
visited on Sunday with Mr. and
Mrs. Stan Ball and family of
Auburn. -
Mr. and Mrs. Ivan Hill of
Exeter visited over the weekend
with Mrs. Luther Sanders.
Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Riehl,
Jackie, Kim, and Shelley of
Huron Park spent the weekend
with Mr. and Mrs. Ben Riley and
family.
Mrs, Ken Reid and Jane of
London visited on Tuesday with
Mrs. Luther Sanders.
SHOW ER
A community shower was
held on Tuesday evening August
25 in the Foresters Hall for Miss
Brenda Hazelwood.
Mrs. Hugh Flynn conducted
the program for the evening.
Brenda was seated in a decorated
chair, with her mother, and
sister Verna where she received
many useful gifts.
A social time was enjoyed by
everyone.
Mr. and Mrs. Bill Butler of
London were weekend visitors
with Mr. and Mrs. George
Hoggart and Harvey,
Mr. and Mrs. John Hoggart,
Connie and Larry, Miss Yvonne
Pryce of Winthrop were Sunday
visitors wAtri ivtr. and Mrs.
George Hoggart and Harvey.
ews of Londesboro
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BY MRS, BERT ALLEN