HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance-Times, 1966-05-05, Page 8NEARLY 80 CHILDREN took part in a
variety concert at Sacred Heart School
here on Monday evening. In the Grade I
group are, back row, from the left: Nancy
Majka, Jane Vath, Mary Jean Wilhelm, Cor-
inne Nesbitt, Joan Anger; front: Cathy
Skinn, Carol Brophy, Kimberley Gray, Deb-
bie Ortlieb and Gordon Kinahan.—Photo
by Ducharme.
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By Malcolm Lamont
Excerpts from "Bush Days"
BE Sart-
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mists at Macdonald Institute,
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with just the right amount of
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Dr. D. T. Sybersma
wish to announce the
opening of a practice of
general dentistry at the
former location of Dr. E.
F. Shaunessy at 25 Patrick
St. East, Wingham, Ont.,
commencing April 20th,
1966.
Office Phone 357.1871.
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In Perry Cottle' s last show of
the season he introduced a new
comedy team, Avery Schreiber
and Jack Bums, Despite the
fact that the other two per-
formers on the show were Wt)
of the greatest female enter-
raini.rs of our rime, ilia Fitz-
gerald and Caterina Valente, it
was this new comedy team who
so greatly impressed me. These
performers are young satirists
who began their careers with
the Second City Review Com-
pany, with whom they spasm
three years in Chicago and New
York. They hare played the
night club circuit throaghaut
the United States and have ap-
peared at the Purple Onion in
Toronto. They have also been
on the Ed Sullivan and Jack
Parr shows, although as far as I
am concerned, this was their
debut.
Their humor is fresh and
stimulating, but most impres-
sive was their timing, Their
own act could have been well
rehearsed; but their charting
with Perry displayed the same
precise anJ ilawlets team ef-
fort, Miss Valente's versatility
never ceases to amaze me; she
is a spirited dancer, can sing in
many languages, and plays a
fine flamenco guitar.
The fuss and furor over" This
Hour I las seven Days' is an un-
fortunate thing for the CBC and
for the principals in the cast of
the show. The show was be-
gun a few seasons ago, and
meant to be the Canadian
equivalent of the British satiri-
cal show "That Was the Week
that Was". It was a satirical
look at the week's news, and
the material used by the British
was often in very poor taste.
Canada never went as far as the
British and although there was
a fair amount of trash present-
ed on our show, there were a
great many marvellous mom-
ents of entertainment and they
dealt with many timely topics,
The guests they presented on
the show were outspoken and
honest; they could say anything
they liked, even to the point of
being crude and tasteless. But
the hosts, Pat Watson and Laur-
ier LaPierre were apparently to
sit in one place like bumps on
a log and not say anything mor
than was writ% n m :Win ,,l'
Their :liat'e:Iraet.1 little eyes.
They wore tine hosts, hosr who
were involved in every aspect
a?' the ShON, perhaps too !P-
VoiVt.d. i.:11.',IN 0I as ky..1,,..r;:
scho caa tam; their places as
well. .‘nd tlioagit they wore
nor peateet, 'Seven Days' will
trot he the settle wirhoar them.
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An interesting prodaetiou
will by •ecal on CBI' T, I L.v!ion
.,t0tior'.. On !'uncla% , May 'a,
World ied Cross Dar. it will be
a part o: the -Camera Canada"
series, and will be entitled "A
View front Geneva". It will be
a one-hour film portrait of the
International Red Cross, survey-
ing the ,ar-flung humanitarian
activities at the international
organization and coining from
its headquarters in Geneva. Al-
so included in the production
will by some Canadians con-
nected with the organization.
The activities dealt with in-
clude world relief in disaster
areas, nursing services, the Jun-
ior Red Cross, tracing of per-
sons missing as a result of war,
involvement in international
crises, and movement of tech-
nical experts and supplies.
The hostess and commen-
tator for the show will be Prin-
cess Grace of Monaco, the for-
mer actress Grace Kelly. She
has long been known for her
work with charitable organiza-
tions, and her being included in
this show is no doubt due to the
fact that she is president of the
Monegasque Red Cross.
of the lean-to.
The great logs Were taken
into the house b: tilt: door in
the end of the lean-to. The
fireplace was 1)::!r of rough
field stone and clay, and the
chimney was built of short
sticks and plastered on either
side with clay.
There were candles, but can-
dles were not in it with the
bright glow of that great blaz-
ing fire, whose sparks, when
poked up by someone, were
showers many hundred in num-
ber and spat and streamed up
amid the flame into the big
chimney.
We had pots at all sizes and
bales for each pot, and no bale
was attached to a pot but a
bunch of bales hung nearby and
you could take any sized bale
you wanted. The bales were
hinged in the middle, with
hooks on either end ro catch the
ear on the side of the pot.
The big crane usually hung
above the fire whether in use or
not, as it was high and out of
the way and made of heavy iron.
Up to that time we had no
matches and depended entirely
on our ability to keep coals
alive all night in the fireplace.
Burning hardwood it was easy,
but with soft woods it was hard
to do.
Just before retiring, no fresh
wood was put on the fire, and
then the last thing the fire was
banked up all around and on top
with coals and ashes; for there
was a great pile of coals after a
day's burning. Then in the
morning this mound would be
levelled down, some kindling
thrown on and in a few minutes
the fire would be blazing.
Then again, from early
spring and until winter would set
in there was lots of fire to be
had outside on any farm, for
logs would be burning some-
where all the time.
There was no cellar under
our log house, but we had a
milk-house nearby. The maple
sugar cakes were kept on a lung
shelf at the ceiling of the main
house.
A ladder took us up to the
loft -- no stairs. Beds were all
around the walls.
OUR LOG BARN
AND STABLES
I can recall seeing this barn
being raised. It was built of
round logs, a mixture of cedar,
elm and ash logs, but mostly
cedar. It was 24 x 36 with
lean-to stables at each end mak-
ing a building GO x 24 and
about 14-foot walls.
I can recall a heavy fall of
snow just alter the barn was
completed and the roof was
likely to collapse with the
weight; but the rafters were
made of green straight poles
and did nor break, but bent
down considerable. The rafters
never regained their former
straight position again but were
always somewhat bent,.
sC1100I. IlOUSli
The first school house was
desk, so we used desks by turn.,
simy scholars were on the
roll for there was no school at
Wingham, and very little Wing-
ham. We had about a dozen
winghamites at one time tor a
couple of years.
Our teacher wasJames Young,
the heaviest man by far for an
miles around, lie was a Pres-
byterian minister in Scotland
and got so fat he was advised to
come to the Canadian woods
and take up land, which he did
right at the east side of Zetland
Bridge.
He was sensitive regarding
his weight and no one could pcx
suade him to get weighed, A
scheme was put in motion at
the grist mill in Lower Wingham
to get his weight, which was
whispered around the section as
360 pounds.
Years later, when I had
charge of things, we built a
stone school.
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"Bush Days" by Malcolm La-
mont was loaned to us by John
A. Currie. It is a book of Mr.
Lamont's recollections of pio-
neer days in Turnberry Town-
chip and was written at the re-
quest of friends and relatives
when he was 15, as a means of
authentically recording condi-
tions faced by the pioneers. The
hook was printed in 1033,
Mr. Lamont was born in
Turnberry, near Zetland, June
1, 1857.
No doubt a number of peo-
ple are familiar with "Bush
Days" but for the majority of
our readers who have not had
the opportunity to read it we
will pass on some excerpts from
his accounts.
OUR NEW LOG HOUSE
And now to tell of the new
log house Lunt entirely of hewn
cedar logs, pitched roof, and
that had a large lean-to at-
tached to it, No windows were
in the east end or north end,
where the large fireplace chim
ney stood. All windows were
in the south or front side and in
the west end. And until we got
our first stove, the whole house
depended on the heat from the
large fireplace on the north sid
built on a back street in Zet-
land. A low shack merely,
round logs, small windows,
banked high with earth to keep
out the cold. A lady teacher,
a Miss Bell; and a big flat ruler
to do the licking. Just benches
narrow ones without a back.
Just a few scholars. No one was
compelled to go to school.
1 could not talk English,
neither could Shearer's child-
ren. 1 talked Gaelic and they,
Dutch, but we all had English
in a year or so.
This school house was not in
use long, just a couple of years
then a larger one was built on
John McLeod's farm farther
west.
NEW LOG SCHOOL
This was built of hewn hem-
lock logs, large logs, hence
fewer cracks to plaster. There
were just benches in this school
too. Stationary desks were
built along the walls except
where there was a window. Any
bench could be drawn up to a
desk when copy books were writ-
ten on and when not writing you
sat on a bench away from a
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Wingham Man
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for his long connection with
State Farm Mutual Insurance
Companies and he was present-
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a diamond tie clip ar a recent
meeting at the Holiday Inn,
London.
The meeting of Western On-
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to point out some new under-
writing rules arid expension of
the company to the Maritime
Provinces.
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