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PEOPLE AROUND
ETHEL
I have often heard tell that Grey
Twp. fire department’s emergency
response calls come in groups of
three and this weekend was no
exception. The firefighters respond
ed to a grassfire at the landfill site in
Walton Saturday as well as a canoe
ing accident later that afternoon. In
the wee hours of Sunday morning,
the third call came in for a truck on
fire on McNabb Line. While
responding to the call some of the
firefighters found a dead horse lying
in the middle of Cardiff Road.
This Thursday evening from 7
p.m. to 9 p.m. is the free women’s
self-defence techniques workshop in
the gym of Grey Central Public
School. Anyone interested can call
me to register.
Some readers may remember mj
call for any information regarding
The Comer Store of the R.C. Davies
Collision in Grey Twp.
On March 21 at approximately
5:45 p.m. a collision occurred on
Brandon Road near the intersection
of McNabb Line in Grey Twp. part
of Huron East. An officer learned
that due to dangerous conditions
(extremely foggy at twilight hours)
the driver of a truck lost control and
struck a hydro pole bringing it par
tially to the ground. Another
motorist stopped to assist the victim
of this crash.
While this was occurring another
vehicle westbound on the roadway
struck the sagging cable wire snap
and Co.in Ethel a while back. Here is
the story.
Last summer one of the boys in
town gave me a coin that he said he
found around the mill in Ethel. In
my hand he placed a thin, blackened
token good for 25 cents in merchan
dise.
I was very intrigued and set out to
see what local history this token
would reveal. I showed the token to
George Pearson and Cecil Raynard
but neither one could recall someone
by the name of Davies owning a
mercantile in town. (The store is
shown in a photo, dated approx.
1905, on the pages between 150 and
151 of the Grey Twp. and Its People
book.) Because the coin was black
ened and found in or near the mill,
Mr. Raynard thought it must have
been through a fire he remembered
at the mill in the summer of 1932
or’33.
Mr. Raynard explained that the
mill had a gas motor ( this was
before diesel) that was started with a
lit rag. According to memory, when
Alec Dunbar was finished lighting
the motor that time, he tossed the rag
behind him as was always done. The
rag ignited something and, as Mr.
Raynard explained before Alec knew
it, the fire was chasing him up the
stairs.
ping it off and sending it along with
a piece of hydro pole towards the
victim’s truck. The piece of the pole
bounced off the truck into the stom
ach of the assisting motorist.
Another motorist took the 25-
year-old male from Central Huron to
Listowel Hospital where he was
treated for serious injuries. Officers
are looking for the driver of the vehi
cle believed to be a large red cab
truck with a silver box, possibly a
feed truck.
Call the Huron OPP or Crime
Stoppers with information.
The fire swept through the mill so
quickly that there was no time to
retrieve logbooks from the office
and most of the records were
destroyed. The owner of the mill had
to rely on honesty to see that
accounts were paid.
I asked Mr. Raynard how long
before the fire department arrived
and he laughed and explained that a
fire department didn’t arrive until
1958 or 1959! Until then, fires were
fought with the supply of buckets
someone ran to get that were usually
kept at the clerk’s office in the vil
lage.
Back to the coin, I asked Mr. and
Mrs. Raynard what 25 cents would
have gotten someone years back.
Mr. Raynard disappeared into the
basement and came back with a
receipt book from George Dunbar’s
General Store, dated September,
1926. Some of the receipts listed
things like sodas at 18 cents, writing
pad at 25 cents and ink for 15 cents.
Most of the receipts listed bread,
coal oil, tea and vinegar and not
many added up to more than a dollar
and a half.
Having this token for twenty five
cents would have seemed like a
small fortune, I suspect.
The Huron County Roads
Department expects to have the
street sweeper through Ethel some
time the week of April 28. Residents
should have the sand raked off lawns
by then to allow the sweeper to clean
it up.
Have a great week.
MCF dinner auction a success
The Maitland Conservation
Foundation held its 15th annual din
ner and auction on Friday evening
in Brussels. The event raised nearly
$16,000. Proceeds will be used to
support conservation education pro
gram in the Maitland water
shed.
Going, going...
The bidders were generous as this year’s Maitland
Conservation Foundation dinner and auction at the
Brussels, Morris and Grey Community Centre on Friday
night brought in $16,000 for education programs. (vtcky
Bremner photo)
The event featured auctioneer
Dave Johnston from Listowel. He
was able to coax bids on a wide
range of donations including a
sight-seeing flight over the Maitland
valley, a week-long stay at a log
cabin along the shores of Lake
Huron and a fly fishing work
shop.
The success of the dinner and auc
tion enables the Foundation to
financially support the Wawanosh
Nature Centre, the River Safety
Program for young students and a
new Groundwater Education initia
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