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THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 2001. PAGE A-13.
40th Huron Pioneer Thresher Reunion
Piece of Blyth history to be on display at 40th Reunion
Some Blyth history
Harm Thalen, left, stands with the unloading scoop once used in Archie
Montgomery's coal business. With him are Montgomery's niece and her husband
Angus.
By David Blaney
Citizen staff
An almost forgotten piece of Blyth's busi-
ness history will be on display at this year's
Thresher Reunion. The large steel scoop on
wheels with its two wheelbarrow-like handles
ment suggested that he take it home for safe-
keeping.
Now after being cleaned and sandblasted by
Thalen, painted by Bill Burkholder and deco-
rated by Bob Simmons, this relic from a sim-
pler age will go on display.
In an era when bulk rail- cars are unloaded
automatically it requires some imagination to
call up the picture of Montgomery and his
employees unloading a boxcar full of coal one
scoop at a time, but that's how it was done.
The weight of a scoopful of coal was known so
if you were picking up your fuel at the station
it would be put in your wagon or truck by the
scoopful until you had the correct weight.
If the coal was to be put into storage the box-
car would be unloaded into a coal auger which
would pile it in' the coal, sheds by the train
tracks.
Montgomery started his coal supply busi-
ness during the second world war after origi-
nally wholesaling hay between the local area
and the west. In 1953 he leased coal storage
sheds on CPR property. Overall he supplied
area homes with coal for two decades and is
still fondly remembered by many older resi-
dents of Blyth.
The original blueprints showing the location
of the coal sheds have been framed and are on
display with the scoop and several photos of
Montgomery's trucks.
Stop by Thalen's display at the fairgrounds.
In addition to the scoop he has a tractor or six
that he would love to tell you about.
definitely has a story to tell. It is the story of S.
Archie Montgomery and two decades of heat-
ing Blyth and area homes with coal.
Several years ago Harm Thalen discovered
the scoop in the old coal sheds across from the
CPR station. Former town clerk, Helen Grubb,
knowing his interest in restoring old equip-