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Old"phoio was taken
in Airtleyville
Does this face look familiar to you? The
person who brOught the photo into the Post
didn't know who it was, but there's
something very interesting about it.'
The most interesting thing is not who is
in the picture but where the picture was
taken. On the back of the photo imprinted
in purple are the words Daniel Stewart,
Photographer, Ainleyville, Ont.
Just think, if things had been different,
at this very moment you might have been
reading the Ainleyville Post.
in 1916
REMEMBRANCE DAY WREATHS:—These wreaths were displayed in
the Thompson and Stephenson store window waiting for use in the
Remembrance Day services on Tuesday. (Photo by Ranney)
QUEENS OF THE FAIR -- The four fair queens
who attended the annual meeting of District 8,
Ontario Association of Agricultural Societies
held in Brussels recently were (left to right).
Kathy Ward, Mitchell Fair Queen; Cathy Van .
Roestel, Exeter Fair Queen; Linda Machan,
Brussels Fair Queen and Carolyn Wilson,
Queen of Seaforth Fall Fair,
BY DEBBIE RANNEY
History is always a
fascinating topic and people
from, around the Brussels
area keep bringing old news-
papers and photographs to
the attention of the Brussels
Post,
Recently Mel Jacklin
brought in some Listowel
Standards from the years
1916 and 1918 which
belonged to his father-in-law.
In one of the papers dated
June 9, 1916 a headline above
a picture states: The Empire
Mourns Its Great Soldier and
the cutline underneath
reads:. The Late Earl
Kitchener. Born June 26,
1850. Died June 6, 1916.
Inside the paper is an
account of his death which
reads as follows:
Earl' Kitchener, Secretary
of State for War in the British
Cabinet, with his entire staff
was lost on Monday, June 6
when the cruiser Hampshire
was sunk north of Scotland.
The first announcment wa
conveyed to the world in an
official statement issued by
the British Admiralty in
London on Tuesday morning.
The statement follows: I
have to report with deep
regret that his Majesty's ship
Hampshire, Capt. Herbert J.
Savill, R.N. with Lord
Kitchener and his staff on
board was sunk last night at
about 8 p.m. to the west of
the Orkneys, either by a
mine or a torpedo. Four
boats were seen by observers
on shore to leave the ship.
The wind was north-north-
west and heavy seas were
running. Patrol vessels and
destroyers at once proceeded
to the spot and a party was
'sent along the coast to search
but only some bodies and a
capsized boat have been
found up to the present. As"
the whole shore has been
searched for the seaward, I
greatly fear that,there is little
hope of there being any
survivors. No report has yet
been received from the
search party on shore.
H.M.S. Hampshire was on
her way to Russia."
An the same paper is a
story about Berlin, Ontario
re-opening a mitre contest to
all of Canada. That story
says: That the contest for the
selection of names for the
city of Berlin be opened to
the citizens of Canada from
the 6th to the 12th of June
and that the new names
submitted and the names
previously submitted be
considered by the committee
of 99, it being deired that
contestants limit their replies
to fifty words."
(I don't know who won the
contest, but the city was
renamed Kitchener.)
An advertisement by A.J
Vandrick includes Bargains
This Week: 300 lbs. Figs per
lb 5c; Mangold Seed
per lb 15c; 2 lbs
Choice Cakes at 25c;
2 lbs. large raisins at .
.35c; Smoking Tobacco at .
. .35c; Good Top Buggy For
sale.
A news item reports that:
Mr. Hugh Richmond of Elma
sold part of the May make of
cheese of the Silver Corners
cheese factory at the
exceptionally high price of
19'/•c. This is the highest
price ever paid for cheese in
this community. Another
item reports that Hon. W.T.
White has written to the
Gowanstown Pleasure Club
acknowledging their gift of
$90 toward the Canadian
,Patriotic Fund. This amount
is the proceeds of the
Patriotic Boa Social recently
held by the Gowanstown
Pleasure Club
Perhaps some of the more
interesting items are for
cars. Hardie and Smith car
dealers in Listowel advertise
the Maxwell touring car at
$850 and the Roadster at
$830. Then there's • an
advertisement from another
car dealer for a Gray Dort at
$850.
In a December 8, 1916
issue of the Standard is an •
advertisment for Female
Help Wanted 'to work, in a"
munitions plant at Toronto,
with no experience necessary
and good wages paid.
With movies costing $3.00
today, the admission prices
of 10 cents and 15 cents to
the Princess Theatre in
Listowel certainly look
attractive. But, of course,
those were also the times of
food rationing and, one item
in the paper presents new
sugar and flour regulations.
Some of these regulations .
included that no person
living within two miles of a
licenced dealer excepting
flour millers, bakers,
confectioners and licenced
wholesale dealers may have
more than an ordinary supply •
for 15 days.
Persons living from two to
five miles from supply /
centres, from five to ten
miles and from ten miles
upward were limited, as in
the case of sugar to 30,
60 and 120 days stocks
respectively.
One rule stated: "From
and after May 1, it will be
illegal to feed, or permit to
be fed, milling wheat or any
product thereof, excepting
bran or shorts to livestock or
poultry or knowingly to sell
same for such prohibited
use.
In the May 3, 1918 issue'of
the Listoyvel Standard is a
report of the death of the first
reeve of Brussels. Under the
heading of Ex-Reeve of
Brussels Dead, it says: "Mr.
John Leckie died at his home
in Brussels on Tuesday
afternoon. Mr. Leckie was
one of the best known and
most highly esteemed re-
sidents of Huron County. He
had for .,a number of years
been reeve of Brussels and is
a former Warden1 of the
County.
An advertisment from a
store in the same paper
indicates that their terms are
cash or produce.
The final paper was one of
the Listowel Standard dated
August 30, 1918 and one of
the most interesting items in
it is an advertisement from
Walter's Shoe Store. Some of
the things advertised are:
$4.50 Ladies Shoes Saturday
on sale at $2.98; Men's $5.50
High Shoes, Saturday at
$3.48; Men's Low Shoes to
clear at $1.98 and Men's
Heavy Plow Shoes on sale at
$3.85.
GUESTS AT ANNUAL MEETING — Three of
the guests attending the annual meeting of
District 8, Ontario Association of Agricultural
Societies are (from left to right) Don Young of
Auburn, secretary-treasurer; Mrs. Joan Ber-
nard, president, Ladies Division, Brussels
Agricultural Society and Jack Cardiff, president
of the Men's Division of the Society.
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letter to the editor
Fire guts half of Moles-
worth stone house .
Fire gutted one half of an old stone house gutted One side of the house. It took the
in Molesworth on Monday night ceiling and floor out between the two floors
The Listowel Fire Department answered and the windows were all out on one side.
the call to fire at the home of Gordon Furniture Was also destroyed. The other side
MacEwen, an 85 year old man whO lives of the house suffered smoke and water
aIonei about 6:40 p.tn. and remained on the damage.
scene till about 10 p.m. There was a fire at the same hoarse two
years ago Which also started in the same
Rhyt Williams, the captaintsaid as far as kitchen and the fire captain thought it the
they could see last night the fire started from Wood stove that time. too.
the wood stove in the house and pretty well No one was injured.