HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance-Times, 1957-03-27, Page 7WINOHAM, ONTARIO, WERINTORAY MOM
Bernard Lillow; of '1.,orld911, vis
ited,his mother, Mn,a Nellie LillOw,
;a fe darys. s, //r• andM Donald Street, Lin-
da, julie and, Stephen, sp,ent• SUP-
day with Mrs. M. L. Aitken,
Mr, and Mrs, Floyd, Moffatt sind,
children visited their parents, Mr.,
and •Mrs. Burns Moffatt, last week.
They will he moving to Southamp-
ton, where Iihyd has a positiori
With the C.N.R. •
Mr. and Mrs, Neil Ma0Eachren,
and sons, Gilbert and, Neil, were
week-end visitors with,Mrs. R. r,
Garniss.
Mr, and Mrs. Alan White. and,
children. spent Sunday 'With
'arid :Mrs. Joseph 'Horton.
Mr. and ,Mrs. Ira Ilertfelder, of
Toronto, and Mr.' and' Ma. • Allan
White and children,' of Lakelet,
were week-end visitor's 'With *r.,
and Mrs. Jos. Horton. ;
Mrs, Nellie Lillow 'is spending'
a week in Stratford with her son,
Mr. Jack Lillow.
Mr. and Mrs,' Arnold'UlloW and
children spent Sunray at Toronto;
The Woriren's Missionary Society
of the Presbyterian Church, Is
planning an Easter thankOffering
service td be held on Wednesday:
April 17th. • ' •
Miss Frances Beatrice Taylor and
Miss. Ellis, of London, visited aGor-
rie:ang Bluevale friends.
Mrs. M. L ,Aitken spent Mona
day in London with Mr. and Mrs,
Colin•Fingland of Wingham. •
DISTRICT GROUPS
MEE-
'GORRIE:WROXETER MIDGETS AND INTERMEDIATES GORRIE-WROXETER PEEWEES AND BANTAMS
he 'Corrle.Wroxoter inidget and Intermediate hockey teams pictured
tte the Wrexetec einnitimity hall on Thursday evening, The minor ,
hockey tatting Were guoitm of honor at, a banquet befit 'hi the hail at
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whichthe ticop~ie; 'or Hotfrick publicly•congrattilated the :boys on their
inteeess.—AdVanei1414fliteS photo. The PedWees and ',MAMA hoeliey teams platurect with the 13antain
Trophibefore a, special 'banquet held hi their Ilb,ner at the Wrtoreter
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cot/inutility hall, on Thursday evening, tb `bantams are seen in the •
first two rows of the group. The pedeieea phOtO
Listowel Sportsman Is Guest
pea er at ockey Banquet
fer the boys.
Others who Opcijsp, briefly: were
Mrs, •Gordon Mundell for the
mothers, Harold HYnciMan for thd
fathers,, Jerry MaclAtul fOr' thd
hoelthy players, The banquet tend...
ered by the district was arranged
by the W.A. and Starlight OrOuPi
United Church, St..James' :Guild
'and The Worriell'a Listittite,
days at 7,311 a.rn John Messer was
tile postmaster,
.Bluevale Residents
A list of 'the residents and their
occupations aepeared in the alrec,
tory as follows: 'Robert Armstrong,
shoe shop; James Aftcheson; John
Bighrun, 1VED,, coroner, etc.; Win.
H, and Joseph Leach, proprietors
;15luevale Mills; Alex Bruce, shoe
shop; Peter Brown, Balky/or; James
Buchanan, shoe •shop; Rev. Mr.
Day, Congregational minister;' Alex
Duncan; George Duncan, black-
smith shop; William. Duncan; Web-
ster Ennis, laborer; Thomas Far-
row, school teacher.
John 4. .Gardner, ' Merchant;
John Garrmar; ' Thomas Garnnar,
plasterer; Ephriant Hill, • black-
smith shop; Rev, Peter • Hicks,
Episcopal Methodist ,m i n Its t e r ;'
John. Kay and Thomas McCosh;
general merchants; Duncan King;
James McGee; John Messer, mer-
chant; 'Charles Neubert, miller; ,
Richard Paul, Methodist minister;.
,Zanies piper. tailor,
Henry Pugh, tavern . k'eeper;
David' Quay, earpenter' and 'joiner;
Robert Reid;• John Singleton; Elias
Smith, chair maker ;.'Charles Stew-
talatqatilina ar-TiattertieStOwart-tetirc
firm Duncan Stewart and 'Bros.;
Wm. H. Stewart, pearla,sh maker;
Robert Tibbald, shoe shop; Edward
Tindal,• carpenter and joiner; John
Waddell, fire insurance, and gener-
al agent; Henry Wilson, commis-
sioner of Queen's Bench; Thos.
Wilson; Charles Walmsley Sr.;
and Richard Wilson, laborer.
Mrs, Rae Marks
tiolth Birthday
WRQN1r,T413.---Wc kngratulate
Mrs, D. W, Rae, Wile ell Wed nes-
day, March goth, celebrated' her
8411 birthday. Gifts, fleWerfl .and
eardd were pleasaatireminders re,
eeiVed, Mrs. Rae has three sons,
'It'll and ,laussel, Brantford, Will
of Hanover, One daughter, Mrs.
Wightmart, of Belgrave and
eight grandchildren;
Mr;s, Rae:is in fairly good health.
She takeS it keen hitere'st in local
anO world events, is a life mem-
al. of The' Woman's Missionary.
Society and a member of the Wo-
men's Institute and attends meet-
. lags; regularly. Her many friends
in and around the village extend
best Wishes for geed/health, happl=
ness and many happy returns.
DEPUTY•VISRS
:11.011ICK LIONS CLUB
WROXTEB.—Dis6ict DePuty
Governor Carmichael of
Wingliana paid his official visit to
Howicic I.,Ions Club at their regular
Supper meeting on Monday night,
With him was G, W. 'riffle, also
of Wingham, who officiated .at,
induction of a new member, Loriie
Heise, HoWick Township ,Boun•-•••
dart',
Vice preirient Gordon Edgar
presided and Mrs. Harry Rharne
was pianist,
Twenty-five }her bers and six
visitors from the newlY organized
Lueknow Lions Club attended.
Members 'of the Starlight Group
Catered in • United 'Cherch school
room,
United Church WA.
Meeting on Tuesday
"WROXETER The Warnan's
Asseciation, United Church, held
theit ,March meeting ,Tuesclay af-
ternoon in the church hall. Mrs.
George :Gibson and 1VIrs;, W,
MacLean arranged the meeting,
the former preslding for the veer-
ship service, "Lead ,••oe. -0, King,
Eternal" was the opening hymn.
.'The Se riptu rea -;Epliesians chapter
6, Was read by Mrs. MacLean, Mrs.:
Gibson giving' the - eomfnentary and
Prayer,
Mrs. 'MacLean gave a paper on
the subject "Two Modes of Pray-
. er". The hymn "Stand up for
jest's" and prayer by Mrs: Buchan-
an brought the worship; service to
a close,
• President- Mrs. Wm, Hart took
charge of the Iniainess. The neiv
. catering committee: Mrs. W. J. V.
Buchanan, Mrs, Witt, Hart and
Mrs. Lloyd Magee.. The WA.
agreed to serve, refreshments 'to
the Y.P.11; and their; 'gue,sts Sun-
day evening 'next, The • emblem
wished for the WA. Window to be
donated to the duvet,. was chosen
The remainder of the afternoon
• was spent quilting, pot luck, supper
Was Served by the committee 'in.
charge.
11110XETER
Miss ;Joan Chaplin, Toronto, Was
week-end YiSiter With Art AO
Mrs. •Gibson,
H,, Wylie and 4incnnY Wylie
Were in Toronto last week attend,
lug the underwriters' convention.
Mrs. WYlic•accOrnimitied them and
visited her daughter, Mr a, George
Bradley,
Mrs. 'Robert WWII Is a Patient
in Whigharn General Hospital. Her.
many,friends wish for her a 'Speedy
recovery.
•" Mrs, D, S. MaeNaughton and Mr,
John lVfaaNaagliton ,spent S'unday.
with Mr. amd Mrs. J, W. Leeson
at Blair,
Miss, Marguerite Ford, Stduffl
vine, spent the week-end with
Glenn and Mrs. McMichael. *
Mrs, Here Martin 'of Hamilton is
spending some' time 'at her home
here.
Mr, and 'Mrs, Jim Rae and,
daughter Susan, Brantford, visited
the foririer's mother, Mrs. D. W.
Rae, OniSunday.
Mr. and Mrs: William Westlake,
Goderich, spent the Week-end with
Mr. and. Mrs, Win. Maxwell and
other relatives.
Mr. Charlie Maxwell, who has
Spent the winter season in Lon-
don, has` returned to town,
Mrs.aJOhn Gibson, who'has spent
Several weeks with Mr, and 1.10s.
Wilfred Mellis at Kippen, has re-
turned home,' ,
Mr. • and Mrs. Ross Sanderson
and daughter Elaine spent Friday
in Londen.
Mr, and Mrs. H. McMichael, Mrs.
D, Griffith, Mrs. 9, McCutcheon
and Miss Evelyn. Hupfer left on
Sunday for Detroit, where they
attended, funeral' services for their
aunt, Mrs, Hart. Mrs, Hart, who
was known here, was a sister of
the late „Mrs. Robert' Hupfer.
Mt. ancUMra. William. Hart Jr.,
St. Catharines, sperit the week-
end with irr. 'and Mrs. William
Hart,
Mrs. Gibson and son. Billy
and Mrs. Reg, NeWton returned
from .an enjoyable holiday in Flor-
ida am.,
Mrs. ;Harry Refell-and.daugorer,
Susan, Byron, spent the past week,
with arid lairs. Gordon :Gibson.
Miss' Bonny Gibson, London Was
a week-end ,visitor at her parents'
home.
Rev, W. J.V. Buchanan baptiz-
ed Arthur Everard, son of Elea-
nore and Arthur Gibson, at their
home on Friday evening, March
22nd. Guests present were the
grandparents, Mrs. Rachael Gib-
son and Mrs. Beta Carson, also
Miss roan Chaplin, , Taranto, Bevy
and Mrs., aVV: 3". V. BUchanan and
Miss Maureen l3uclianan.
Mr. ' and Mrs, C. McCuteheon,
accompanied by their daughter,
Mrs: Oliver Riley, of 13russels,
attended funeral services for Mrs.
Darby of Listowel last Monday.
%Mrs. Darby was an old neighbor,
having lived some years ago on the
Brussels road.
WW9NAIMP07-Johnny of
.1480,1Wni, in'OmineJA in sporting
circles '" in • that tnwn, was'. peat
speaker the' community hall,
When the citizens ',cif this'district
tendered a banquet in honoi of the,
boys of the hockey club, their
coaches, managers and parents,
The Banta* Midgets and Pee-
Wees form 'an Inter-Rural club
whi`th comprises 17 teams in the
district, " ' '
Last week the loCal Bantams
captured the . F, W.. Fearman
Trophy, which was presented dur-
ing the evening by Min McKee of
'
Mr. Bell, in a fine address, point-,
ed out three, "Don'ts'', for hockey
Players: 1. Play for the team (not
self). ' on arc' the.bench; 2, Be
punctual, cannot accomp-
lish 'anything "With` players, always
late for :practice.; 3, Be a good
loser — we can't ally win the game
and the player who can lose with
•a static will get more out of the
game. •
The speaker Was, thanked by
Ewart, Whitfield, who entrusted
Mt Bell with ,gift for Mrs. Bell,
who was unable to be present.
Ken Edgar wag chairman,
TOM Ocrafkk" coach, of the
winning cloh• received a gift pre-
sented by Wayne Kulg. John
Brown of the Midgets' presented
Dave Neilson With, a gift, , Bruce
Montgomery was presented with a
gift from Clarke ShfirPin.
Special reference was made to
the fine contribution made, to the
hockey cluba.; in the district by
president Lorne Madill, who was
presented with, a smoking set by
David Sanderson on behalf of 'the
boys. The chairman spoke of Mr.
Madill continuous effort' during
the past two, years l and asked for
the co-operation of the, parents.
Mr. Madill spoke of the fine spirit
and, the bright • future in hockey
‘VVROXETER—On :.Sunday even-
ing next, Mardi 31st, the.ljnited
Church 8 o'clock, the Young Peo-
ple's Union, oft Gorrie and Wrox-
eter• United 'church ,will' hold a
apeciall service, They .liave/invited
Young people fedin Bluevale; Wing-
ham and Belgrave to be their
guests. Jim 8hynkar• of Emmanuel
College, TorOntri;` be guest
speaker, Jim ;Waa;.Principal of
Wroxeter school: and later taught
at Wingham, *ere going to Co,
lege. •
A young peoplets chair will lead
the, singing. Riith Tarter'. Will be
Organist, Ian Howes soloiat and
the 'Choir will Sing an' anthein.
Following.- the aervice a social
hour Ilea for the visiting
-groups, A'eordial•invitation is ex-
tended to everyone, to attend this
special TA3,0. service,
TURNBERRY SPOOL
BUILT 80 .YRS:A00
13y Mrs. Thonuis Metcalfe
Holmes' School has always stood
in thin part of the section. The
original building' Was of logs aad
stood a little to the Weak of the
present sites
``Tie structure now' u. use was
greeted almost 89 years ago by X.11.,
gram Orothers. Henry Diamond
did the Plastering and Richard
Wrigley the painting, The Oat
price' waS apprONiMately $409. At
that time Richard Porter and Wil-
liam Mitchell were the trustees.
Bennett Holmes Sr, was the AMP,-
tary-treasurer, '
The Moe teacher, A. H. 1‘1148-
grove, was engaged in 1870, He was
later principal of Wingham.
School, from which position he
retired to enter political life. Fol-
lowing his' political, career he was
Postmaater at Wingham,
Malcolm- Ishister, William Me
Kay and Peter MacDonald, were
some of the teachers of the early
days.
In 1945 this schopl became apart
of the Turnberry Scheel Area,
Euchre Held for
Centennial Fund
GLEI\TAN&AN * Fifteen tables
played euchre In Glenannan school
on Friday evening, with high priz-
es going to Mrs. Gershom Johns-
ton and Mr. Harry Mulvey, Miss
Jean Wilton won' the door prize.
Mrs. Melvin Martin, of London,
held the lucky ticket on the fancy
quilt the ladies had made. Little
Doris'Stokes, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs, Thomas Stokes, drew the tick-
et. The Turnberry schools are ga-
thering funds to help with' the com-
ing centennial,
BLUEVALE 1863 9
The earliest description of the
village of Bluevale that we hOve
been, able to find is one taken'
from a directory published in 1863.
It was stated that the village
had excellent hydraulic power for
mill purposes. There was a saw
and grist mill, driven by the
Middle Maitland with a lathe and
cabinet factory in connection with
it.
' There, were three stores, two
backsmith shops, a wagon shop,
a carriage factory, four shoe shops,
and two tailor shops. -
There were no' less than. five
religiou's denominations. The Pres-
byterian and Primitive Methodists
each had 'their own church while
the Wesleyan 'Methodists, Congre-
gationalists and. Bible Christians
-
The Bluevale. Canada 'Presbyter-
ian Church was built in 1857. The
dimensions were 24 x 36, seating
capacity 150 and the cost was WO.
ReV. 'Hastie 'was the minister in
1863. The 'Primitive Methodist
Church 24 x 32 had been erected
but was not finished. Rev. R.
Paul wag the minister.
Besides the Orange Lodge, there
was a Lodge of Good Templars.
The schoOl had 63 pupils with an
average attendance of 45. Thomas
Farrow was the teacher,
The Morris and Turnberry
Branch Agricultural Society was
Organized in 1862. The exhibitions
were held in Bluevale in October
Of coach year. The president of this
Sobiety. was Win. Thompson; vice
prey., John Messer; secretary,
Thomas 'Farrow; directors, James
Buchanan, Wm. Turvey, Henry
Robb's, H. C. Pugh, John Fowler
and James Mitchell.
Malls arrived,were despatched on
Tuesdays, Thursdays and Satur-
By Robert Black
The boy of the farm rushes to
the ..liouse, ,Nith, • the important
pews, "The machine is coming"!
Then, the women begin.do
things.
It is an early • start on threshing
morning. The horsepower is un-
loaded, the separator placed in the
barn, the rods with their v- Sous
"priests" and blpcks lined up to
the power and stakes driven deep
around it CO hold at .in place; Straw
carriers are hoisted on long poles,
Everything seems to be ready
when some. .eagle-eyed chap dis-
covers there is no stand 'for the
hand cutters, so a • box 'or, the
fanning mill is placed in position.
Then, "Horses on, boys!". is the
cry. Ten wild,, see-sawing steeds
are' hitched to the arms. The dray
er mounts the platferm on top of
the power, armed with, an eight-
foot blue beech stock to which is
ilieAtTga• -a' Iieee,"Icaig lash Arida
Then, o.p e r at' 0 11 s continue
thibugh the 'afternoon, The feed-
ers change places, and the, idea is .
to "bung up" the man at the head
of the carriers, He '' forks straw
ten fc,4 high until his back is
nearly broken, and praying and
swearing,longs that death or night
may conic to relieve .
At last the long day's; work
done, At supper 'the usual thresh-
ing yarns are 'told and then amid
much;good-natured ,bantering, ail
leave for home ,bringing the toil
and jolity of the old-time threshing
to a-close,
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The above article was writ'teit
in 1913 by • Robert Black, who.
pasSed away some ,years ago:
Mrr.131iihk;'•Wira .the-:Yotingeat
Surprise Party
Held for Daughter
BELGRAVE—Mr. ` and Mrs.
Thomas Smith entertained a feW
friends at a, ,,surprise patty on
Thursday evening, in 'honor of
their daughter; Mrs. Ralph. Mc-
Crea, who Was celebrating a birth-
day on, that day.
An enjoyahle time. Was spent
playing progressive court Whist.
High prizes were won • by Mrs.
Floyd Campbell and Lorne Camp-
bell. Consolation prizes were 'won
by Mrs.,Elizabeth. CamPbell and
Martin. Grasby. A lunch was serv-
ed.
family and Mr. and Mrs. Bill Hall
and familyspent Sunday in Water-
loo; Kitchener and 'Guelph, —
Mrs. It C. Owens and Mrs. A.
Hooper had as their guests Mr.
and. Mrs. IC Fleury and 'daughter
and Mrs. Fleury's father, Mr.
Gyles of Port Credit, formerly of
Welwyn, 'Sash., on Saturday at
the home of Mr. Henry IVIdthers of
Bluevale,
, .
Mission Bang'
onTuesay
BLUE:VALE—The Mission• Band
met in thelJnited Church, on' Tues-
day, with the president, -Nancy.
Taylor, presiding.. The roll call
was answered by "Something I
Saw on My Way to Mission Band".
a Birthday greetings were sung for.
Joe Nicholson, Kathleen Craig,
Douglas Garniss, Patsy. Taylor and
Margaret Craig, Anne Peacbck gave,
the prayer for missionaries and
Keith Johnston read a vers,e .011
"Peace", Mrs: W. J. :Johnston had
charge of the devotional period
arid gave the story of the "Win-
doW Baby". •
Garniss received the offer-
ing and Kathleen Craig gave the
offertory prayer. Keith' Johnston
summarized :the third chapter of
the study bOolt.
e.Mrs. M, L. Aitken told the story
of the chapter of "Ke Sooni", about'
growing flowers.
• mounts the feed hoard and yells,
"Roll her out, boys!" The hands
take various places assigned to
them, the hired man having an MI- MI-. and Mrs, Jack Orvis and portant position at the head of the
carriers, and settle down to work
'mild the• dust, keeping time in
their forking to' the monotonous
hum of the machine.
And so the forenoon wears away
with numerous stops to oil up and
send "the boy" to the house for
tallow to grease the "bull-pinion".
At length, dinner is armounced.
The horses are raced off to stalls
4 0 Old Time ,Threshing
In the root house. or cow stable acid
fed liberal quantities of oats and
liar, as the 'farmers pays for all.
On the same 'plane of reasoning
the inert rush to the house and
gohble down food enough for two.,
cuss-words, shrill whistles and; the ofSamuel Black, the first reeve of
vigorous application of the lash to nurnocrry in .1857, and one of the very early settlers,of the township, the thresher's own ,horscs, the ma-
chine gets into- motion, The chief
feeder buttons his smock snugly
around his throat, puts an enorm-
ous, quid of tobacco in his left
cheek, pulls on a pair of mitts,
this•group picture of pupils of S.S, No, .6, TurnbLua., Manes' School) was taken in 1917: Back row: Har-
old Showers, Herb Foxton, Irlma 'Chandler, RUby Dickson, Mary McGregor, Edith Jenkins, Etta Pains,
Kilda McCormick, Mary Johnston, Second row: Genevieve Roth, Agnes MaKague, Ceqrgina Goy, Alta,
Johnston, Annie Homuth, Mary Chandler, Reifa Jenkins, Mary Roth, Frank Roth, Third row; Harold Fox-
Inn, Marian Coll, Margaret Coll, Grace Ploinuth, Nettie Hornuth, Wilma Johnston, Irene Wheeler, Gerite
Wheeler, Jeni2a, Homuth, Clifford Jenkins, Front row: »Donald .McCormick, Chester ShoWers, •Harold
rn Caseore, Maitland Porter, Arnold Kelly, Joe Austin, Milford Foxton, Freddie Gall, Cart Horautli, John
Roth, Clifford Showers, Oscar Holmes, Teacher Ruby GarbUt of Lueknow. •