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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance-Times, 1966-02-24, Page 8FOUR CONTESTANTS from Wingham in the ner, Joanne Cameron and centre front, indoor Highland dancing competition in Cathy Miller. Though they were not win- Goderich were Rhonda Bell, Nancy Gard- ners, they did very well—A-T Photo. Gorrie ersonai Notes Walker Some Furnishings Presents.. . 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Currie, who supplied us with these and other recol- lections which will appear lat- er. John L. Currie of East Waw- anosh is a son of the author. REMINISCENCE I was born on January 6th, 1862. I have heard my Mother say that when I was six weeks old, father took she and I to Clinton on top of a load of dress- ed pork, making the trip in one day, a distance of forty-six miles round trip, starring at four o'clock in the morning. An A-one pork was a pig fif- teen months old, and dressed two hundred and fifty pounds, fed on peas, and was fat. A load consisted of twelve hogs of that description. Also, I have heard her say (and she was not one to exag- gerate) that during the follow- ing Summer, she carried me in her one arm, and a basket of butter and eggs with the other to Bluth to do her shopping, and returned, a trip of twenty-four miles. Some animals have a great instinct for home, My brother Andrew and my father were visiting in the Winter time at the home of my aunt at Alma, fifty miles from our place. An- drew was given a cat which he brought home, and before Spring the cat was back at my aunt's at Alma. Wm. Netterfield, a neigh- bour of ours, about half a mile north from our place, across the river, got a little pig from my father and took it home in a sack. The next morning the little pig was back in the pen with its mother, brothers and sisters. Another pig story -- Mr. Mc- Call got a little pig from my father, and was taking it home across the fields when he drop- ped dead. The next morning To Open Wing at Tweedsmuir Hall Early in June The Honorable John P. Ro- berts will officially open the new wing of Tweedsmuir Hall, CNIB residence and service centre for the blind of Elgin, Huron, Middlesex and Perth. The ceremony will take place on Friday, June 3rd. The new wing has been un- der construction since late last year. When completed next month, it will provide an ad- ditional thirteen bedrooms, bringing the residence capacity to 51. The additional bed- rooms and an enlarged workshop area are being built at a cost of $144,000. A provincial gov- ernment grant of $32, 500, equalled by municipal and county grants, will provide al- most half of the cost. The re- maining $79, 000 will come from accumulated bequests and an appeal to organizations, business firms and special names. Ray A. Dennis, chairman of the Board of Governors, stated that the addition has been need- ed for some time. Now as it nears completion, plans are be- ing made to expand an already vigorous program in this area. The new shop will enable 25 blind persons to earn additional income through sub-contract activity. The residence accom- modation will take care of a waiting list which has been in existence for some time, Others participating in the opening ceremony will be Arth- ur N. Magill, Managing Direc- tor of CNIB, and representa- tives of district county and mu- nicipal councils, CNIB Advis- ory Boards and the Canadian Council of the Blind. we were threshing at a neigh- bours when a wagg from Lower Wingham by the name of John Mellon came to the threshing, and approaching my uncle said "Wasn't that a mean trick of Currie yesterday, killing that poor man and taking the pig from him after he had bought and paid for it?" My uncle, be- ing very sober minded and not given to levity said, "Oh, John, John, you shouldn't talk like that." A USEFUL OX In the fall of 188'7, an uncle of mine and myself took on a contract to cut and skid the timber on seventy acres of tam- arac swamp. I bought a pair of four-year-old steers partly broken to yolk. We hired my brother, Andrew Currie to drive them. They were quick and so was he. During the first week, the smaller steer got his hind legs badly scraped with the roots of the trees, so we had to lay him off work. Andrew got a harness and whippletree for the other and he had to go it alone. We had a good horse as well for the skidding. The logs were nine feet long and from five inches to eighteen inches in diameter. For the next two weeks Andrew and the ox would take out three trips for every two the horse would take out. There was an odd pine tree and the logs would be bigger and heavier. On such occasions we would put the horse and ox together, but the ox was smarter and heavier than the horse and would crowd him off the track. We used the ox on the farm, as he was good to pull the scuffler, rake hay with the sulky rake, draw off the loads of hay and grain with the fork or slings, and other odd jobs. We would drive him with bit and lines like a horse. The merchants of Wingham had a Trades procession one day, and some of them had large floats drawn by two teams of horses on each. George Shaw was a butcher, and he got a large hogshead or barrel — four feet in diameter at ends and five feet in the middle -- with two poles for shafts, and a miniature butcher shop mounted on it. There was a lamb tied in one corner. He himself wore a white apron and there were long knives, saws, etc. on the float. Andrew Currie and his ox provided the propelling pow- er. Needless to say, they stole the show. Everything went well until they were turning the cor- ner at the Baptist church, when the big barrel turned over on end, and the ox got excited and started talking loud in his own language, which caused quite a commotion for a time. All the boys living in Wingham at that time were there in a few min- utes. After it was all over, An- drew hitched the ox in the top buggy and drove down Josephine Street like a modern race horse with the hobbles off. That ox weighed twenty-two hundred pounds when he went to market. He was a miniature of the Stewart big steer in colour and conformation, only about twelve hundred pounds lighter. Couple Celebrate 55th Anniversary Mr. and Mrs. Chester Pugh, of Dorchester, celebrated their 55th anniversary on Monday. Mr. Pugh was born in Bluevale, a son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Pugh, and Mrs. Pugh, the for- mer Hazel Walsh, was born in Palmerston. Married in Toronto, they lived in Wingham for several years and moved to London in 1918. They have lived in Dor- chester since 1949. Mr. Pugh is a past master of the Corinthian Masonic Lodge, London. For 220 million people, Rus- sia produces only 185,000 cars a year, one-third of Canada's output. Mr. Harold Robinson, Mr. Robt. Gibson and Mr. Harvey McMichael, Wroxeter, are at- tending the Good Roads conven- tion in Toronto. Mrs. Kenneth Hastie is a pa- tient in Wingham and District Hospital, with pneumonia. Mr. and Mrs. Irving Toner visited Mr. and Mrs. Thos. Mc- Pherson of Teeswater on Tues- day evening. Mr. and Mrs. Rudolph Mogk, Stratford, spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Koch. Mr. and Mrs. Earl Toner were dinner guests Saturday of Mr. and Mrs. Roy Gowdy. Mrs. Ewart Whitfield spent a few days with friends in Toron- to. Miss Rosalind Evans of Em- bro, Miss Donna Rossbottom, Ingersoll, Mr. Wm. Koster, Lakeside and Mr. Roy Koster, Ridgetown, visited Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Fred Koster. Mr. Harry Templeman is a patient in Wingham and District TORONTO—Informational pamphlets explaining details of the scope and benefits of the Ontario Medical Services In- surance Plan, together with ap- plication forms, are now avail- able at the local branches of the chartered banks and through- out Ontario. Under the Plan, approved by the Ontario Legislature a few days ago, a standard medical insurance contract will be avail- able to residents of the Province regardless of their age, present state of health or financial means. The Ontario Medical Semi- ces Insurance Plan -- known as OMSIP for short -- is a volun- tary, Government-administered scheme that will pay for practi- cally all doctors' services wherever they are provided, in the office, the home or the hospital. The Medical Services In- surance Division of the Ontario Department of Health is geared and ready for the initial rush expected when OMSIP enrol- ment opens to the public on March 1. Applications covering up- wards of 2,000,000 Ontario residents could be processed during the two-month enrol- ment period which ends May 1. OMSIP premiums for un- assisted persons will be $60 a year for a single person, $120 a year for a family of two, and $150 a year for the family of three or more. The introduction of the Plan will be in two stages. Auto- matic coverage will commence on April 1 for those persons in receipt of assistance under cer- tain social assistance Acts and for Old Age Security pensioners who are declared eligible for benefits by the Ontario Depart- Hospital. Misses Nadine Cooke and Carol Robinson of Kitchener spent the week-end at their re- spective homes. Mr. and Mrs. Robt. Hastie and Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Strong spent the week-end with Mr. and Mrs. Robt. Black, Oakville. Mrs. Anson Thornton, John Cathers, Mr. and Mrs. Thos. Stokes of Belmore, Mr. and Mrs Chas, Lake, Ethel, Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Cathers, Hanover, attended the funeral of Mrs. Wesley Gathers in Hamilton last Friday. Mr. and Mrs. Jack Blythe and family of Milton visited Mr. and Mrs. Robt. Strong and Mr. Kenneth Hastie on Sunday. Miss Mary Thornton, Kitch- ener, spent the week-end with Mrs. A. Thornton. Brian Lennox was able to re- turn home Friday from Listowel Hospital. Mr. and Mrs. Barry Mc- Knight, Terry and Darrell of Simcoe, and Mr. George Mc- ment of Public Welfare. The full cost of OMSIP premiums for these people will be borne by the Ontario Government. Coverage for other residents will begin on July 1. In order to be insured against doctors' bills from this date, subscribers must fill in an application form and enrol by May 1. The Government will pay the full premiums for those citizens who have been resident for the past 12 months in On- tario and who paid no income tax in 1965. And assistance amounting to half or more of the cost of pre- miums will be provided by the Government to those persons on low incomes who have been resident in the Province for the past 12 months. Full details are included in the informational pamphlets now available at the local banks. 45th Wedding Anniversary Mr. and Mrs. G. Mac Smith and Mr. and Mrs. Ken Mc- Kague and families, honored their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Gilmour of Centre St. at a family dinner in Manor Hotel Listowel. It was their 45th wedding anniversary and Mr. Gilmour's 80th birthday, on February 20th, Mother; "What? you just knocked over the ladder that was standing outside the house? Go tell your father right away." Junior; "Oh, he knows. He's hanging from the bedroom win- 40w sill." Page 8 — Wingham Advance-Times, Tbarsdiry, Feb. 94, 1966 Ox Was King in Days of Pioneers Taxmen May Save You Money This is the year the income tax department hopes there'll be a major reduction in the number of mistakes made by taxpayers, Clive Baxter says in The Financial Post. The depart- ment also hopes taxpayers will HIT the tax collectors more. That is the double-pronged ob- jective of a $250, 000 advertis- ing and public relations tam. paign that will move into high gear this week-end. Two-page advertisemetnS in every Canadian newspaper will show the T-1 short form and point out where most mistakes occur. If the campaign re- duces mistakes, it will be a good investment, The Financial Post points out. Last year, 3., - 032,422 forms were completed incorrectly. National Revenue officials say it costs an average of $4 to $5 per form to pull them from the computer sys- tem, find the mistake and cor- rect it. Note; deadline for tax re- turn is April 30. ANTLER SET STYMIES JET Kapuskasing- -A couple of squatters brought the jet age to a temporary halt in its own slip. stream here recently. On checking facilities for landing a jet plane at the Northern Ontario lumber town, an airline representative was told: "Sure, you can land one here alright, but not today. Two moose have taken over the runway and they won't budge." OMSIP Enrolment Opens on M rch 1 Knight, Gowanstown, visited Mr. and Mrs. John Boyd on Sun- day. Mr. and Mrs. Cloyne Michel, London, moved to the former Woods residence on Tuesday. Mr. Michel has purchased Mr. Harry Hastie's school buses. Mr. and Mrs. Richard Car- son and family, Miss Pearl Hamilton and Mrs. E. Carson attended the Ice Capades in Kitchener. Miss Donna Ferguson, Lon- don, spent the week-end at her home. Mrs. Jas. McKenzie Sr. of Wallaceburg spent two weeks with Mr. and Mrs. Alex. Gra- ham. The Loyal Orange Lodge held its progressive euchre party in the L.O.L. hall on Wednesday evening. High lady was Mrs. Bruce Hays; high man, Burns Stewart. Door prize was won by Mr. T. L. McInnis. Mrs. George Tatham, Lis- towel, will be the speaker at the World Day of Prayer held this year in St. Stephen's Angli- can Church, Gorrie, on Friday, February 25 at 3 p.m. All wom- en of the community are invit- ed to attend. LOOKING FOR A GIFT FOR SOME SPECIAL OCCASION? Possibly a Shower or Wedding Gift, a Birthday or Anniversary? 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