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1913. We u born
Fancily Hexad to get the o
Star and i was and Weekly
reader There was nadver
voracious
tisement in there sarin tha
they needed songwriters saying n
to send g ricers an
which I thinkwasthis New
York City.
"1 had been writing
and 1 can rememberthpoems gh
I wrote it. We didn't have
hydro and when Mother and
Dad went to bed, I used logo
into the parlor and write
sometimes. They had a beau-
tiful, old-fashioned organ and
!remember sitting by an oil
lamp writing Later, I copied
it out in my very best hand-
writing and sent it off."
It was not the only poem
she mailed. There were sev-
Can remember er nl ht T it'
NTINUED from page 41 Wt� g romo18. 1 was boeral othersto
in . incl udin One
1d titled EI Hombre. But the
'lonesome tonight' one was
the best remembered by her.
- It o inspired, she saXs, b
a
young girl's romantic
d notions.
• "I remember I wrote it after
I had a little love affair with
this boy named Richard who
lived down in a little place
I near London. 1 can't even
remember his last name
now."
This is hardly surprising for
a woman who raised five
children, all of them now
married, and who has 10
grandchildren.
Does she have any proof?
Any record to establish
absolutely her authorship?
Unfortunately not.
"I did get an acknowledge -
•
meat letter from that co
ny, but it was lost with
whole lot of other scra photographs and
y sonal things."
Mrs. Lee's late husban
Syd, worked for the CN
the family moved many
times. It was on one of t
moves that the memora
was lost.
She could not fathom h
her poem could carry a I
copyright date.
"That would make me o
13 at the time, and 1 certa
did not write it until I was
least 16," she recalls. Proo
of her poetic talent is still
the old records of the
Goderich Star weekly new
paper, which published so
of her material, but not th
one which became a song.
Could she perhaps have
mpa- heard the song as a young
a girl and somehow, subcon-
ra and
f_ aious1y recalled the words in
poem?
d, Had No Radio
Not likely. Remember, it
R and was 1926.
"We had no radio. 1 remelt].
hose ber a beautiful old Edison
ilia Victrola but all we heard on it
was Dad's records, old Harry
ow Lauder songs. It wasn't until
926 after I was
in the
early '30s, that e had our
inly first real radio."
aty Mrs. Lee is not particularly
upset at being unable to
in prove her claim. Her children
would like to see her win
recognition, yet it is suffi-
cient probably that they
me believe her and are proud to
e
be related to the author of a
now popular song.
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Huron County's Complete E
County doesn't need Ashfi
CONTINUED from page 3
Mistie was wearing a for
est -green nylon jacket with
"SDHS Girls Band" and he
name, '•Mistie," on the righ
sleeve when she went miss-
ing. She also had black L.A.
Gear ankle -high running
shoes and red shorts. Her
fishing pole, also missin
blue with a black handle and
has a black and blue open-
faced reel.
APRiL 17
Industry
Canad
a has given
Bellobilityhe go ahead to
construct a transmission
tower on Sideroad 10 of
McKillop Township near
Beechwood.
Effective April 1 permis-
sion was granted and notice
was sent out to neighbouring
landowners.
Huron doesn't need to deve
op the proposed A3 landfi
site near Ashfield.
r
* * *
t Staffa residents want traffi
to slow down in their villag
because drivers can't se
what is on the other side o
the hill.
Sometimes, there are chil-
dren playing in the area or
seniors crossing the road to
take out their blue boxes.
Some residents are afraid
there may b
Seaforth Council backed
•
away from a motion to copy
Blyth's recent decision to
stop collecting taxes at the
start of next January, in
favour of a motion to simply
"support" the village's cur-
rent campaign at its meeting
Tuesday night.
* * *
Taxpayers in town will
"effectively" pay less for
municipal government this
year than they did in 1991,
Mayor Irwin Johnston said as ,
Seaforth Council passed a
zero budget for 1996 on
Tuesday night.
APRIL 24
A tri -board committee
intended to improve co-oper-
ation among local school
boards was disbanded
Monday night when the
'Huron -Perth Roman Catholic
School Board withdrew.
* * *
Unexpected closures of
government run laboratories
in Ontario means landfills,
water treatment plants and
municipalities that relied on
'free' testing in the past will
now have to pay private labo-
ratories to do the same work.
* * *
Is the Mid -Huron Landfill
Site at Holmesville part of
Huron County's solution to
its landfill problem which has
nm up an estimated $1.2 mil-
lion price -tag so far?
The board heard at its meet-
ing from Jim Yardley of
Conestoga -Rovers and
Associates that the Mid -
Huron site had an estimated
life of 12 to 13 years remain-
ing.
MAY1
For the past eight years
Council Council has listened
to experts tell them a new
landfill site is needed for
Huron County.
Two consultants gave their
findings at Thursday's coun-
cil meeting. Both came up
with the same conclusion -
Correction
In the December 18 Legion
News report in the Huron
Expositor, Sean Fraiscr was
incorrectly identified. He
sang at the Legion's
Christmas Concert.
•
eld landfill
taxable and non-taxable ben
II efits. The Huron Exposit°
reported on April 3 tha
Huron public board director
Paul Carroll earned $107,740
e in 1995.
C * * *
f Kevin MacDonald of
Seaforth needed a bigger car
Saturday evening - but not a
better one.
The 18 -year -ofd raced the
1989 family Topaz to wins in
all half-dozen drags, despite a
four-hour rain delay, to finish
first in a field of 28 at the
High School Nationals at the
Grand Bend Motorplex on
Saturda.•
VEHICLE^
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; if RENTAL In
to
an accident
someday.Although ough the post-
ed speed in Staffa is 60km/h
many cars seem to be travel-
ling much faster.
MAY 8
Huron -
Perth c Director of the Huron -
Roman Catholic
Separate School Board has
disclosed his salary for 1995
Dr. James Brown earned -
$111,714.77 last year which
is "all-inclusive" including CO
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* * *
Seaforth's Boyd Devereaux
was recently named the
Ontario Hockey League's
scholastic player of the year.
"Devereaux best combined
the high standard of play and
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In another incident, some-
time overnight Dec. 4 to Dec.
5 "culprits broke into the
Stephen township office and
stole several items: laser
printer, fax
microwave, machine,
Panasonic
upright vacuum (Model
MC6640) and a small amount
of cash."
if you have information
about these or anyother
crimes call RIME TOP-
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