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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1996-07-31, Page 44 -THE HURON IIXPOSITOR, Jody 31, 1011S Your Community Newspaper Since 1860 TERRI-LYNN DAtf - General Manager & Advertising Monger MARY MELLOR - Sales PAT ARMES - Office Manager DIANNE McGRATH - Subscriptions & Classifieds DAVE SCOTT • Editor GREGOR CAMPBELL - Reporter BARB STOREY - distribution A Bowes Publishers Community Newspaper SUBSCRIPTION RATE LOCAL 32 50 a year, in advance, plus 2 28 G S T SENIORS 30 00 a year, in advance, plus 2.10 0.51 USA ¢, foreign. 32 50 a year in advance, plus $7.8 00 postage, G 5 1. exempt SUBSCRIPTION RATES. Published weekly by Signal -Star Publishing at 100 Main St, Seaforth. Publication moil registration No 0696 held at Seaforth, Ontario Advertising is accepted on condition that in the event of a typographical error, the odvectising space occupied by the erroneous item, together with a reasonable allowance for signature, will not be chorged, but the balance of the advertisement will be paid for at the applicable rote In the event of a typographical error, advertising goods or services of a wrong price, goods or services may not be sold. Advertising is merely an offer to sell and may be withdrawn at any time- The Huron Expositor is not responsible for the loss or damage of unsolicited manuscripts, photos or other materials used for reproduction purposes Changes of address, orders for subscriptions and undeliv- eroble copies are to be sent to The Huron Expositor. Wednesday, July 31, 1996 Editorial and Business Offices - 100 Main Street.,Seaforth Telephone (519) 527-0240 fax 1519) 527-2858 Moiling Address • P.O. Box 69, Seaforth, Ontario, NOK TWO Member of the Canadian Community Newspaper Association, Ontario Community Newspapers Association and the Ontario Press Council r Letters to the Editor `Wonderful and true letter' by Mero Dear Editor: To Mark Mcro - "thank you" fora wonderful and true letter to the public in the Huron Expositor, July 24, 1996. 1 certainly hope every- one who receives the. Huron Expositor will read your Ict- tcr,and heed it. if Mark has seen any of the things we• have witnessed (last year at Optimist Park) every parent in and around Seaforth, has cause to read Mark's Ictter and then keep an eye on their children. Teach them safe sex, before it's too late. All these young people who roam the streets till the wee hours of the mornings are "an accident waiting to happen", and it can happen. "Thanks Mark" for a well written letter, it is true. • C.B. Brown Former editor asks assistance for seriously ill man Dear Editor: The people of Scaforth and arca have an excellent reputa- lion as givers. Forgive me if I abuse that giving nature by once again asking' for your assistance. In Mexico City a 33 -year-old karate instructor has been struck by a serious infection of the brain which is called, in Spanish anyway, criptococosis. This man, Enrique . Beau jean Santacruz, needs more than $60 daily to cover his medicine (amfostap or equivalent) which he needs to prolong his life. His family does not have this money. If you have it in your heart to make even a small donation i think it would say a lot about the people of Canada and Huron County. To help the family with their mounting medical bills you can send an international money order in U.S. dollars directly to the family at this address: Sra. Esperanza Beaujeaun Santacruz Valle del Riero 106 Colonia Valle de Aragon Segunda seccion Estado de Mexico There is no universal access to medical care, hospitals, etc. here. Any help you can give would be appreciated. I have been to the hospital and can vouch for the validity of this family's request. Yours truly, Tim Cumming Mexico City PHOTO BY DAVID SCOTT NO STRINGS ATTACHED - Volunteer Tammy Lynn Russell seems to be suspended in mid-air as Princess Karma uses a hoota-hoop to demonstrate there are no strings attached in this illusion. Possessed by madness of moon Although the moon wasn't officially full until last night, I was struck by Moonlight Madness on Friday with a lot of other people who had the opportunity to legally walk down the middle of Main Street, Seaforth and do strange things with balloons. There were plenty of oppor- tunities to try things out of the ordinary like attaching yourself to a bungee cord and running as far as you could before being flung backwards through the air. Some people actually paid to do this more than once! The Princess Karma - sings -all -the -Disney -songs - from -best -selling -videos- without-payi ng -any -royalties - Magic show was free. Somebody please tell me how they do that divide your body into three parts and move your internal organs r:, Scott's Thoughts by Dave Scott around in a separate box while you're smiling trick. The Giant Balloon Drop for kids seven to 12 was I dropping raw meat ing lions. Some you.. walked away with five ut .,i., meaty balloons while others • clawed the ground looking for scraps. Parents safely watched from behind yellow "Do Not Cross" police tape. (Maybe that's where the OPP should have been stationed before the Street Dance). There were some amazing deals to be had downtown for those who still have some disposable income. For people (like me) who have more money in their pocket with a picture of that laughing Scottish guy on it than the stuff with the Queen still on it, there were free kit- tens which were hard to resist when you had a camera hag on one arm, a two-year-old on the other and a spouse with a good sales pitch. (It's %h•thly good they weren't it y Miniature t'd end up with a .;rd of them or flock or gaggle or stable full any- way ). Somehow Tater I wound up at the Street Dance as part of the Murray brother reunion and was dwarfed by Murrays, Akeys and McNichols who must have all eaten more vegetables than me as a child. it was a good place to he when a couple of unhappy fellows decided to do their interpretive dance of the his- tory of Northern Ireland with each other, complete with the bare -knuckle hop. After that horizontal tango another interpretive dance of the his- tory of Middle East peace negotiations broke out on the West Bank of Gouinlock St. But for the most part the crowd remained in a festive mood. Shortly after that everyone wobbled out of the dance in a semi -disorderly fashion. (Luckily there were no balloon drops for us older kids then). • • • Do You Remember • Anything about the early history of Seaforth? Thomas Daly, Thomas Stephens and Sidney Jacobs will, but few other than these now living in town can recall Seaforth as it was, or in reality, as it wasn't, in 1850. Seaforth was but a name at that time with the log cabin _of Mrs. Steen, monarch of all it surveyed. In 1857, howev- er, the tracks of the Buffalo, Goderich and Lake Huron railroad were laid and Seaforth began to take shape as.a village.Within' a year.or so its population was estimat- ed at 300 and by 1866 had grown to 700 at which time the first public school was established. The same year the railroad came, Andrew McKearnan built and opened a tavern here as did also Thomas Downey. His hostelry was the old British Hotel which stood where the Queen's now is and which was destroyed in Seaforth's big fire in 1876. At that time Harpurhcy was the outstanding town Editor's Note: In an effort to help the Seaforth and Area Heritage Preservation Committee raise awareness and rekindle interest in our local heritage The , Huron Expositor has decided to start reprint- ing columns of historical interest which originally appeared in our paper. We start off with one of the first in a series pf "Do You Remrmber" columns which ran regu- larly from March 1934 until December 1938 written by Expositor edi- tor Keith. McPhail kfcLean . between Stratford and Clinton and its people doubt- less looked upon the efforts of its puny rival with feelings of scorn and contempt. However, certain causes were silently at work on behalf of Seaforth and against Harpurhey. The Canada Company in building a gravel road from Belmore to Bayfield decided on a route which turned out to he the main street of Scaforth. in 1858 Scaforth built a station house at its own expense. Harpurhey it appeared was doomed and one by one the residents removed to Seaforth bringing not only household goods, but houses and build- ings also. The building on Goderich Street, now occu- pied as a blacksmith shop by Mr. J. McKenzie, was one of these.,Until 1862, it served as a shoe store in Harpurhey. Egmondville though con- siderably older than Seaforth was pot a rival in the same sense that Harpurhey was. It unfortunately was a mile from a railway and despite a flour mill, a saw mill, a dis- tillery: Mr. Van Egmond's carding frill, and a store kept by James Dickson, later reg- istrar of Huron County, it failed to attract residents as did Scaforth. The real development of Scaforth dated from 1869 when the fact that a salt' • • deposit underlaid the town was first made known by the experimental work of Coleman and Gouinlock. Within a year Seaforth was the greatest salt producing point in Canada and a capital of $150,000 was invested in the works. Fortunately, too, for Seaforth, it was surrounded by an agricultural country which was among the richest in Canada. In 1872 a local firm export- ed in the neighbourhood of $1,000,000 worth of grain and anotherlocal firm over 9,000 barrels.4f eggs. The Expositor welcomes submissions of old stories, anecdotes and reminiscrGs from readers, past and e - sent. Like all submissions to the paper.stories will he sub- ject to editing, if necessary and shouldn't exceed 700 words. Old photos are wel- come, too. We will try to print -them on a regular basis and return them to the owners as soon as possible after publi- cation. Legion hall proposed in 1946 FROM THE PAGES OF THE HURON EXPOSITOR AUGUST 7, 1896 INTERESTING RELIC - In these days when so much is being said of ancient relics of one kind and another, it is worth while noticing one which has been many years in the possession of Mrs. Alex Wilson, sr., of Silver Creek, and which would be very interesting to an anti- quarian. It is a bound volume of the Edinburgh Journal, published in 1820. The paper is a small sized quarto sheet, containing eight pages, and published weekly. Some of the early numbers are banded with black, in mourning for the recently deceased king, George the Third. From its pages we learn that political factions and rivalries were fully as bitter in those days as at the present time. EGMONDVILLE NOTES - MIsS Annie Danby, of Hamilton, has been visiting friends in the village for a week or two. - Miss C.A. Porter arrived home from a visit of six weeks among friends in Goderich on Saturday last. Her health seems much improved. - Mr. George H. Jackson left on Monday morning on a tour through eastern Canada. He went by rail to Toronto and thence by boat down the lake and St. Lawrence river. Mr. George Anderson accompa- nied him part of the way. AUGUST 5, 1921 BRUCEFiELD NOTES: A smooth-tongued agent has recently been going around our neighbourhood among the farmers taking orders for pictures of farm buildings, supposed to he for an atlas that is being put out. The first act was 530 but he is very considerately giving the pic- tures for $15.50 The atlas will not be for sale but will be put in conspicuous places such as the Parliament Buildings, Guelph College, etc. He nearly always gets his orders from the women on the farms as his time is too valuable to go out in the fields to the farmer. He also gets the photo of the farm owners, then gets the signa- ture of the farmer's wife. It would be a good deal better and cheaper to shop these men the gate at once as it is generally an expensive expe- rience. THE BAND GARDEN PARTY - The garden party given in Victoria Park on Thursday evening last under the auspices of the Citizens' Band, was an entire success from every point of view. There was an immense crowd in attendance, the park crowded, and every street in the neighbourhood Tined with cars, and the programme fur- nished delighted everyone. The programme consisted of an address by Mayor Golding, solo by Miss Minnie Merner, Scotch and Irish songs by Mr. McGee, of • Auburn, four solos by Mr. Handmore, of Wingham, whose first appearance delighted his Seaforth audi- ence, solo by Mr. Dalton Reid, with band accompani- ment, euphonium duet by Messrs. Dawson Reid and Melvin McPhee, a drill given by 24 young ladies and arranged by Mr. James Robb, and the various selections by the Band, every one of which was appreciated and enjoyed by the large audience. AUGUST 9, 1946 PROPOSED LEGION HALL - Designed to serve in a dual capacity - that of a memorial to those Seaforth and district men who paid the supreme sacrifice, and at the same time provide a club room for the hundreds of returned men of the district, the proposed Legion hall will fill a long -felt want in the community, it is pointed out by officials of the Seaforth branch of the Canadian Legion. The Legion has announced a canvass of Seaforth, McKillop and Tuckersmith. commencing Monday, Aug. 19. The objective of the can- vass - $6,000, together with grants received and anticipat- ed - will be employed for the provision and equipping of a suitable building. Legion President B.J. Duncan, general chairman. and District. Chairmen R.Box, Seaforth, W.C. Bennett, Walton and McKillop, and Harold Finnigan, Egmondville and Tuckersmith, are arranging canvassing areas and appoint- ing canvassers. e++ Walton and St. Columban played a 1-1 tie in the first of the finals for the Huron Football League Stephenson trophy in Walton Wednesday night. P. O'Sullivan did the scor- ing for St. Columban and R. Bennett took the honors for Walton, both goals being scored in the first half. Both teams missed several chances to score in the sec- ond half, with Walton having the better of play. The last,few minutes were played in darkness due to the game being late in starting. Line-ups: WALTON - Goal, Coutts; full backs, Humphrey. R. Dolmage; half backs, Bryans, McCall, W. Reid; centre, Marks; wings, Love, L. Dolmage, Travis. Bennett; subs., Coutts, Marshall. ST. COLUMBAN - Goal. V. Murray; full backs. F. Murray; T. Murray; half backs, L. Ryan, C. Ryan. R. O'Connor; centre, J. Roach: wings, J. Delaney, W. McQuaid, T. Mciver, F. O'Rourke; subs., O'Sullivan. L. Nolan. Referee - W. Montgomery, Winthrop. AUGUST 12, 1971 The fate of the house in Egmondville, built by Col. Anthony Van Egmond may well rest in the hands of the Seaforth and Tuckersmith councils, it was revealed Monday night. Reeve John Flannery reported to the regular meet- ing of Seaforth Town Council that the Ontario Heritage Foundation has 10 to 12 thousand dollars available for the purchase and restoration of the home. However, this money may be used else- where if no area interest is shown in preserving the property. e e Rev. Mervyn E. Reubcr took up his duties as Minister of Northside United Church last week. He preached his first ser- mon to a joint congregation from Northside and First Presbyterian Churches on Sunday. p