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sell and may be withdrawn at any time- The Huron Expositor is not responsible for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