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6th annual quilt show
opens today at Museum
The Huron County Museum and
Friends present their Sixth Annual
Quilt Show from Saturday, August
4 through Sunday, September 16.
The Museum at 110 North Street in
Goderich will be open Monday
through Saturday from 10 a.m.
through 4 p.m. and from one
through 4 p.m. Sunday for quilt
viewing and self-guided tours of
the Museum.
Many unusual and artistic quilts
of various vintage will be on display
from throughout Huron County.
Some are for sale and will be
clearly marked so that vendor and
potential buyer may communicate.
Smaller quilted articles will also be
on display.
Two films will be shown during
the show and visitors may view
either “Quilts in Women’s Lives -
Six Portraits’’, or “Patterns of
Love”, depending on the date.
There are to be two quilt-related
demonstrations during the quilt
show. The first, to be held Friday,
August 17 between 10 and 12
o’clock and also between 2 and 4
p.m. will be “Pillow Quilt”. The
second, the “Folded Star Quilt
Pattern” will take place Wednes
day, September 5 from 10 a.m.
until 2 p.m. There will be hand
outs giving instructions for these
patterns as well as hand-outs on
the care of quilts and Patchwork
Dining.
As this is the sixth of quilt shows
sponsored by the Museum it attests
to the quality of excellence esta
blished. The participation of quil
ters in the County through their
loan of quilts, presenting demon
strations and actual quilting during
the show make this a memorable
event.
GREAT RESULTS!
CLASSIFIED ADS WORK
Lisa Brandt, (left), and Katherine Shannon present Blyth
Festival board member Doug Whitmore with a cheque to the
Young Company from CKNX Broadcasting Limited. The
members of the Young Company have been workshopping
since the beginning of the month and will present the final
product at the Dinsley Street Garage in August.
History of telephones
shown in Festival display
WRITE IT
The Huron County Museum has
assembled an historical telephone
exhibit for display in the basement
of Blyth Memorial Hall until Sep
tember 15. “Based in Goderich,
the Museum is a treasure house of
historical gems” says Jane Gard
ner, Director of Communications
for the Blyth Festival.
“Curator Raymond Scotchmer
who has spent over 20 years at the
Museum has brought to Blyth,
some of the switchboards and
telephone equipment that was used
by Huron County residents. In fact,
the Museum was most helpful to
our designers and writer, Carol
Sinclair when the play, Firefly was
being developed.”
Did you know:
•Clinton’s first telephone was
leased in July, 1879 to James
Youill. One telephone was placed
at each end of the line which ran
from the American Express and
Dominion Telegraph office to Mes
sers Glasgow, McPherson and
Company Works. Rental was $10
per year and one instrument served
as both transmitter and receiver,
being moved from mouth to ear as
the user spoke and listened. *
•Goderich and Stratford via Clin
ton, Seaforth and Mitchell, were
connected by Bell Telephone Can
ada Co. in 1884 with 15 subscribers
in Clinton.
•Seaforth and other area sub
scribers, up until 1894, were as
signed no numbers. You simply
asked to speak to a certain person
and the operator made the connec
tion.
•Varna residents were linked to
the outside world in 1905 when
Tuckersmith Telephone System ex
tended its lines to include them.
•Goderich Telephone Co. report
ed over 300 phones on its sytem in
1912.
•Brussels, Morris and Grey Tele
phone System boasted over 700
telephones on the system by 1912.
•Huron County residents were
being served by 23 telephone
systems and companies by 1916.
“Firefly” by Carol Sinclair and
John Alcorn is the story of a young
woman who together with her
childhood sweetheart, struggle to
build a new independent telephone
company in rural Ontario. Young
Emmy McFadden soon becomes
the first telephone switchboard
operator and only working woman
in town. Telephones were a new
invention in the early part of this
century and as such, subscribers
took time and practice to get used
to them. It was common for
many people to listen to others’
conversations, regardless of the
rules as described by Tuckersmith
Telephone System: “Do not feel
embarrassed if the operator cuts
you off abruptly at the five minute
mark, when others have asked for
that line. Do not listen to others’
conversations as this practice im
pairs your batteries more than does
their proper use. If more than one
pair of batteries per year are used
in your phone, the extra batteries
are to be charged to the subscriber.
Do not permit papers, scissors, or
metal of any kind to be piled on top
of your instrument, as this has
caused many extra expensive trips.
It is also dangerous in case of
lightning.”
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