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Home My WebLink AboutThe Wingham Advance-Times, 1957-05-22, Page 7•41,•""*... _ WINGBIA,M, DN'ICABIO, WEDNE45114MAT 33, 1#907 „ , • 'PPPlis of S.S. No, 6# kibilneS' School taken in 1902 with Miss Elizabeth Wilson As teacher, pack row, Miss :Wilson, teacher, Edith Hornuth, May McKague, Ella Wade, Vera Stapleton, Edna ;Qbandler, Minnie Linklater, Kate '1VIcKinnon, Hazel Little, Edna Dickson, Velma Chandler, Nettle Showers, 'Williarri Lth- later, Next •ow: Nettie :Dawson, Lanra, Elliott, Ross King, Fred Honsuth, JohnMCKinnon, Mag4ie'Crewe, Effie MeOprinielc,.,Roy Goy, Next rear: GenevieveMcpormick, Norma 14cKngne, Sarah:Goy`, 'Annie CrOtve, Xsanejla Millis, Violet :Showers, Hazel Mitchell, Stella) King,.Sadie King. Seated: Vinlet MiJlei Mabel Goy, :Della, Miller, Margaret Ohanaler, Bertha Chandler, Vine, King, ,Ruby McKague,` Ella F"allis; pearl Pains, Susan Elliott, Peter' King, Last row: Earl Dickson, Robert rains, Wilfred McKague, Bert Little, Stanley Dickson, William Jambs, Burly Elliott. .• .••• • •• • Back ow left to rightf Hilda, McCormick, Georgina Goy, Grace 'Hornuth, Nettie Ilonnuth,`Mary,, cGregor, Relfa Jenkins Agile -S. McKague, Alva' Johnson, Chester Showers, Arnold Kelly, IvlilfOrd Foxtent. Seeond row : 1VIatgare't Gall, 'Janet Lewis,' Oli've 1-lornuth,," Marion Goll, Nettie Casemore, GertadeiKelly, Harold Caseinore, Maitland Poi''ter, John Skinn. Front row : Agnes, McCoy; Borden ,Jenkins, Albert Porter, Mary Skinn, Alex Skinn, Rennie GOY. ..• • , , This picture was taken in 1035, when Misi.Verna McLaughlin was teacherd. Back row left.,to :right: Joe moir, Edwin Chentilex", Jack Tiffin, Mary King, MIs g Verna McLaughlin, Jean Breen,' WillieMcC6rmiok • • Russell Holmes, SIM *h., George, Breen, 2nd row: Perrie• Holmes, Engene Roth,: Peter Mckague, Jean MdKagite, Mary Tdivite, Lois Holmes,' Billie King, Donald Porter, 1-loward Breen, l'hird rovv:••Grace Roth, Eileen McCormick, mary johnsbn. .## • , brioof the Suilday SchdO) 'classes at Holinea" Sehool., The it clataes were organied • by Mrs, August Horritith th 1886 and likVa'beort contintied With the oiception of 'it 27,year lapse, frOrn 19114944. Beek rowRey 15Orter, Viitlfte'd Mckague, Albert Paxton, Centre kbW Jhn neflStanley Dickson, MrS, Linklater, Bert Little,. ,a'nek-Ititeltagtiel FrOnt r�wr fle.t HolineS, Evart Linklater, fieorge tingle:18hr, tart ,OloksOlti • , . • . Pup 1:$ 91 1890 'Vh0 Picture to the rgbt WAS taken in MO When the ;kacher** wen J J. W# $11IPP.41M# 710h40 the photo arei: Back *WWI' Elia Mitchell. OHIO Vorter, Awaes Mitnheit, •Esther, Cowden, Mar,y Bryce, •Sarah Mehilmen, Sarnh .19114000# Sarah INitnheli, Pelitia Catvden, Kate Hardy, ;EISA, , Wheelans, Laura :Blackwell, Wilt MteheII Charles • Agar, Ames Agar, %fill Campbell. . Second row; 41100 NOVIIns IrSteeknr..014, *In 110Meltb, • • Agnes Cowden, Lucy McBttime, Lizzie Bryce, Mary, -Cowden, Emm*• Hawke, Foster P. Yfe# R.sas, Amlerion, James, Belly, *tack Mitchell, Front row, Ethel Wade; ,Jeasic • Fyfe, %ore, Wade, Annie' MO Kinnon, Winnle Porter,, t'en* Kelly,' George' 'Littler,".•11Itigh Johnston, Andy Miteliell;Bert Porter, Ed Johnston: chool Ben, climes; School, located on the crown (date 'uncertain.). On the 50 'employed at this time was paid eleventh concession of Turnberry, acres west of this farm was a $4.00 per month. .Present i -:StetiCtor'e_ Yeats '0144 has always stood in this part of the small cemetery where the pioneer section. It -received its name be- znenibers of the Mitchell family cause the original site was •pdr- were -buried. In later years tho chased from Ben Holrnes. The caskets were moved to Kelly's farm • is now (*led by the Moir cemetery,' , brothers who are direct descen- (3) The farm now occupied by dards. The first sCh001 was of logs Bertram Holmes, Lots 27 and 28, and stood a' littlewest of the pre- on. it' was taken from the crown sent building. William Mundell Was in 1874. Bertram (Bert) Holmes the first teacher. ' At that time became owner in 1921. there was no school in WIngham About 64 Years ago William and Some of the childr.en from Johnson, with his sons Adam and there attended this school. Mr.' Robert, planted maple saplings on Mundell was an uncle of William: both sides Of the lanes on farms Mundell of Wingham: and john now occupied by Elgin Johnson Mundell of Bluevale. Ile later Went, and Thomas Metcalfe, Today these to Wingham where he was the first teacher of the public 'school. 'trees are beauty spots on both farms,. a living monument to ,the The frame structure novr in pse 'industry and foresight of these was erected over 80 years ago by ,ineli_. AdamJahnson was the father the Ingram brothers, Henry ,Dia- of Mrs. 'Joe Kerr and Mrs. Richard -, .LloYcl of -Wingharn, and 'Robert an mond doing • the plastering o •Riehard Wrigley the painting. Th J°thrisant tw,j4?, '°!, !ITY , ,'F,e8Y11,4., , in 04 "n7'is apin.nxiririaieiy On Av W, indhainr 19 PO Xdfhft'-c'f:':Elgin. that time Richard POrter and Wil- NatAoinb)a.. pIrs,...Harv.ey Tanner of ' liam Mitchell were trustees arid --,7:- -• ", • "• Bennett Holme Sr., was the secre-• :,'•:-.i tary-treasurer. • roneer 'Fainilies. .A.` H. 'Musgrove?, who was the •firat teacher in the new school, was hired in 1873. He was dater principal of the Wing/nun Public School, from which Position be re- tired to enter pblitical like.`Follow- ing his political career , he was postmaster M *Ingham. , In. 1945 this School became part of the Turnberfy School Area. When George Blackwell taught here he hid the yard levelled:by the neighboring ' fanners. •• Amos Agar. was paid $5.00 year for lighting fires, the .children having to take turns weeping the floors and piling the wood. Teachers paid roughly five cents per meal. We believe lodging was included at this price. Minnie Orvis taught about 60 years ago for a salary of $275.00 a year and boarded at August Ilo- niuth's. For many year Dr. Robb was inspector. Ile was followed by Dr. Field, and at the present time Mr. Kinkead holds this position. In 1885 a non -denominational Sunday SchOol was organized by Mrs. August Homuth, mother of Mrs. JOhn Kelly Of WIngham, Laurence Pyfe, who was precenter in the Wingham Preabyterian C(turch, Ied the singing. In the eally years laymen from Wingham and vicinity gave valuable help. The Sunday Sehool continued dur- ing the simmer months until 1917. In 1944 the Sunday School Was started again and has oontinued to flonriah, Thred:of the, former mein - bets, john Mekague, Wilfred Mc- Kague end Bert }felines are Still active, During these latter years Clergymen trona Wingharri have been helpful and frequent .Visitors.. This Sunday Seh00.1 haS had a wonderftd tiltrialian influence in �Ir COntrntinity, Section Crown :Deedel TO the best of niir knowledge there are only three crown deeds In this section that are Still in the original thirdly nanteat (1) Bithard Niter, s, native Of Ireland, 'plitehaSed the trOwn deed for the heath half of .Lbt 21, Cori., 10 in 1884,,4tanicti Porter, his son, received the deed in 1919. His SIMS Albert Arict • Fred Porter became joint 6Wriera lit 1986 and n 1942 PM& 'Perter , t�carne the VOSseSsor, (2). Andrew Mitchell, who now doildbets k bilteher bilsitieSS In the tritVn of Winghttrit, Still dWiis SO adres o land, east 'halfbt Lot A 16, %vhiCh WS 'ancestor ftam Mitchell Obtained front the • • Int-,tha. pioneer .days men were me.4.%itl,14 :Womenwere w.omen. To- day. yonlig, people don't know what a ge64 walk, is. .• 'O'Ver` :90..years ago Mrs. George BrYde, as 'a bride, got off the late nighttra/rndnOyingham and walk- ed to her, riew hdrne where Leslie Brg,e'e` neiy, lives on tlie boundary. Th road was just a trail past the cemetery' to 'John 1VieCormtck's corner and thence ,down, the boun- darY. per only guides were the blazes .on the ' trees and the tele- grapii.vires. Her seven children, Janey,• Bobena, Hannah, • Mary El- len, Lizzie, Nettie and Leslie all attended Holmes' School. Mrs.. Albert , Louttit was the former. Jessie' Fyfe and was raised on the farm now owned by Jim Moir On the cemetery *road. Her mother Was, Agnes Kelly. About 100 years `ago, Agnes Kelly, then fourteen years of age, wOrked iri a bakery at Goderich. She walked all alone from' there to her father's shanty wherethe cemetery is to • These „Kays. had` sheep which Were being attacked by bear.,'San- dy:..(4lex) Kelly, then a youth, borrowed a bear trap from, Dr. Garner Lncknow and caught the bear. Having no *ay to kill the animal he rode to Lueknow on horseback to get Dr, Garner to shoot' It • On arrival. they found the bear's PaW almost chewed off. MrS. Robert Jenkins lived On the botindarY where Alex Calnp- bell now lives, and Was the inothet of wilihnn Jenkins and the late Edward, Jenkins. 811e had learned tangling As a girl in Goderich Abotit 90 years age she setured Position With a talior in Tetswitter, When Ed was a baby. His Mother Would tarry hint adr688 the road to Mrs. John ‘Cairmbeit's and then walk 0. Work, At night she wbule Walk bank, piek tip her baby arid 'return to her home, There Wt8 MerelY a trail, Mrs. '...fenkins had Cataracts and about ihe year 1890. went t St. JOSePh'ii Hospital In tendon Where Wiihart 'pertained an .opera - don tor their renteVal With only IOW anesthetic, Ilet ).*Oft wtis reatored Ina she Wore glasses for the tett., 'Of her life, A lilted girl .1ohn.son, Linde, Stapleton, Evelyn Metcalfe, Erten Douglas and Mack RoSs. Mrs, Louttit's father: Mr, Fyfe, who carte to Ttirnbez.ry in 1865, was a weaver who had his OWn looni, He woe material for other settlers. With money thus ea'rned he bought 100 acre a from the 1e113 faMily, who had a drown deed fro the farrn, IAnother Pioneer family, the sons, lived on the farm now owned pry John ',Sproal on the lith of 'Turnberry. Of the nine children, 'George, Jim, Jack, Murray, Charlie Stuart, Richard, Agnes and Bill, none are 'now living. Only Charlie had children. He went to the west coast and became quite wealthy. The 'John McKinnon farnily came into this commtinity about 80 years ago and settled on Lot 29, Con, 12. Mr. IVfcKizinon Came from Scotland. His wife, the former Mary, Kennedy lived' in Seaforth. She was born �n the 0-cean coming from Scotland and wag baptized - in Montreal. • Big first wife, Sarah McMillan, hacT four children, Katherine„Mary, Angus and. Bugh.- In the, second family there were;.,Sarahy.,,Maggie, .Mary 41_4ft'al:etritAliZ43,1,?*i. AZ and John. In the early days Mr. IVIcKinnon would carry a bag a few miles, set it down and' return: for another. He vvoulct$repeat this until he Ar- rived home With his two bags of flour, Like Many other pioneers he was a strong, rugged man. At that 'Utile roads were rough and little better than cow tracks. The trees were blazed to guide the traVellers,•LoW, marshy spots were built up by. placing logs Everest' them, which became known as do- durtiy roma, In winter the bumps in the roads Mei:eased in size and were called pitch holes. Often un# wary groups would be upset from sleighs on thee rough spots, Rpbert Jenkins and George Bryce, ;to& the first two loads of Wheat to Clinton over # the new gravel roacb now the Turnberry- Ctdroas boundary. They had topity toll three' times "en route. This toll was used to defray the cost of the new road, One toll gate was set up south of the present MINX radii). tower. Around. the School Do you Mr/limber when there was no pump at the school? Across the road Was a spring and frorn here the children wit their water supply. Little Mary Covv- den, who was raised on the farm now owned by Leonard I3ok fell Int ) the spring' ono cold day and had a chilly Walk horde from school. She was back the next, rnerning none the Worse for hei experienee. Llntil the year 189i eSamipations Were held yearly in,' the school, Classes were taught, by visiting teaehers and trustees and visitors were welcome. About 1890, while Miss Addie -Porter was teaching, a spelling match was1/41reld. Ena Wheelans, now Mrs. Sack Currie, Was a successful speller and was presented with a Bible by August. gamut& Iv -1m. Currie is still quite active and interested in the Turn - berry Centennial. We heard ef a mock wedding held in 3,914 while Miss Acle;Haipes, the teaoher, was sick at her board- ing bowie. Oscar Holmes was the minister, Edith Jenkins and Rai - old Showers the bride and groom. Irlma Chandler and 06111 Jenkins acted as the attendants. The other ' (Please turn to "age Twelve)' Holmes School Today Holmes' School was built over 80 years ago for an approximate:0st of $400 and has served Since that time as public school and Sunday' School. ' School Activities Grade 8 pupils busy in the workshop. are Jim Ring, Ron Douglas, Godfrey Strocdcr, Glen Stapleton and lvfourirc St, Marie. Listening to the -radio art .childreri of grades and a; Joseph Stmeder, Wayne ' idgt, ev oke Oat