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HomeMy WebLinkAboutHuron Expositor, 1999-05-05, Page 44 -THE HURON EXPOSITOR, May S, 1998 X itor sr:►►�c, unlit .,,tr:*�. Your Community Newspaper Since 1860 Terri -Lynn Dole Publisher Scott Hilgendorff Editor Susan Hundertmark - Reporter Lorry Dalrymple Sales Pat Armes - Office Manager Dianne McGrath - Subscriptions/Classifieds Bowes Publtstlets Limited A wh,.diary of Sun rMd.o ornn.OGM o Ouebero' E-mail us at Seaforth @bowenet com Company. SUBSCRIPTION RATE: LOCAL - 32 50 o year: its advance, plus 2.28 G.S.-T, SENIORS: • 30 00 o year. in advance: plus 2 10 G S T . )SA & Foreign 28 44 a year in advance. p1us.378 00 postage, G S.T exempt SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Published weekly by Signe)-Star Publishing at 100 Main St . Seoforth. 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Box 69, Seaforth, Ontario, NOK 1 WO Member of the Canadian Community Newspaper �• Association. Ontario Community Newspapers Association Publication Mail Registration No. 07605 Editorial Spread the word, `tolerance' Tolerance. - The word has come up several times now after a school massacre in the United States and a • school murder/shooting in Alberta While the Alberta school is just about as far - away from us in Seaforth, the incident is much closer to home because it has proven to us that we are just as vulnerable and that it can happen in our own back yards. It has prompted school officials to be extra sure security precautions are in place to help students in an emergency situation. It has also prompted the use of the word tolerance again as a possible means of preventing incidents like those that have shocked and enraged people across North America. Much time has been spent pointing fingers Gt parents, gun control laws and media with psychologists; -psychiatrists and hosts of "experts' discussing the multitude of reasons why something so horrible could happen. All the guns in people's homes and all the violent films and programming outthere don't mean a thing if our young are taught to be tolerant of each—Other er and-accpetin g of their differences. But that doesn't mean jus parents are accountable. We all are, . Every adult has to share the responsibility of demonstrating tolerance for others in order to teach the next generations of its importance. There will always be.senseless acts of violence and its hard to imagine ever being able to protect every life, no matter how precious but it is possible to make a difference: - There's never been a massacre like the one in Denver before and there doesn't ever have to be one again. . But the responsibility rests on each and every one of us to keep that from happening again. - We have to watch and listen for signs of intolerance and show that only that won't be tolerated: STH • Opinion letters We have responsibility to each other To the Editor: In the aftermath of the Colorado and Alberta shootings, we are all looking for answers. someone, to blame, looking for cure. = We can say that it is because of 'poor gun control. or parents irresponsibilty, or the violence in the media.. But the sad truth is that the ones responsible and the ones who hold the key, are the ones who look back at us from the. - mirror each day. • We as human beings • have a- responsibilty. to each other. A responsibility to keep our world alive. It seems sosad that countries will send troops to other countries to stop killing when here in our our backyards. our kids are killing each other. - We ignore the problems by covering them up with statements like "Seaforth doesn't doesn't have the same stereotypes that can be found in other schools." (Froth an article in the April 28 edition -of The Huron Expositor) Do you think that the people of Taber did? Many people were sure that it couldn't happen here in Canada:..guess what? it did. and a young person lost their life because of ignorance. We need to look at the all the factors involved in these tragedies, the gun laws, the violence, parenting, selfesteem, peer pressure. No one can fix it all, but if each one of .us chooses one area to fight for and do something about, :our children will have a better chance of growing up to run this country. . • It's time we quit burying our heads. in the sand, or the next, small town -high school to be in the news could very well be..,Seaforth. Sincerer' Cheryl Taylor Safe, peaceful. schools needed Dear Editor:. The recent outbreaks of violence -in schools has made us all concerned. •Many . of the proposed "answers" to the problem -are reactive such as giving all students guns to protect themselves or making schools much stricter, or penalties heavier. Yet- it is only through prevention that we can make real headway against this problem: . We need to create' peaceful. safe environments • in our schools through prevention programmes: Mr. Harris' I Tory government promises a "get tough" policy.. If we put children in uniforms and get strict. we can cure ; the problem. • He expresses • great concern over the threat of violence in our schools and promises to do something. Se* TORIES, Page 5 Ancestries can be traced to many places It was such a long time agog -The Bank of England had just been established. Queen Mary the Second died and the East India Company was formed. back in•Canada money was made from playing.cards to, finance the French Garrison at Quebec and pegging without the permission -of a priest was illegal. The official census showed the. population of Canada at 15..000. The year was 1695...On Septepiber the' 8th that year. Miss Phillipe Burden married Jonas _Copp.in Little Torrington. in Devon: On August 23:1713 Phillipe and Jonas had a daughter: They called her Salame. Salame Copp never married. Records -show she had a son out of - wedlock" -named John. The date, Of birth is not known. Church documents show only that John Copp was baptized on December 6th. 1745. John married a young lady by the name of Elizabeth Daj'ment-in Little Torrington and on ()ember 1.3M,- f77- --- they had a son. He was also -named . John. atter his -father: - John married- a young lady'.by the name of Elizabeth. However. her .family name .and the marriage date on the gravestone- were too worn to he - read. And they too had a son they called John. - -'This John Copp. son of Elizabeth and John, married Miss Susanna Judd on June 11th. 1823. They had two -sons. William and Jonas. William' was isortr in 183`7 -and appears to have arrived in Huron ,County around 1850. He married a Miss Ann Cudmore and is believed to have first settled in the Hensall area. He ied in 1908. and his wife -Ann. bo in 1832, died in - 1911. They had rte children horn in Huron County etween 1859 and 1874. The second of the nine was named Annie. horn in 1861. Annie married William Westcott. She was my grandmother. The other eight were Susan. the eldest. who became a missionary in India with the Salvation Arniy and John. Alice, William. Mary,. Thomas. ' Samuel and Rebecca.' Annie -and William had six children. two girls. Ella and Lovica.- and tour boys. Nelson and Alvah and identical twins Arnold, and Clarence. Arnold -was my father. His brother Clarence was killed in the first war. I was born six years later, in 1924. and was named Clare Westcott after my uncle Clarence. Dad's older hrother Alvah went west and spent most of his life in Calgary. Twin brother Clarence. was killed in the Battle of Bourlon Wood and dad's two sisters died in the flu epidemic near the end - of the war: Dad apprenticed as a watchmaker with Fred Savauge and John F. Daly before going overseas. After the war he took over - Mr. Daly,'s business. The J.A. Westcott's.Jewellery Store was'on Main Street for almost 50 years.- He received serious head wounds. in. • - Prior to 1600, few if any official France in 1918 that gave him pain, records were kept of ordinary folk, At constant- headaches and loss of hearing least -none have been found. for mostof his life. Dad died of a brain 'Our ancestorscame from many -tumor--- at Sunnybrook---Vet erano --puss. The Romans left in 436 A.D.. Hospital in Toronto in 1961... returning home to. protect Italy:. The My great grandfather's hrother Jonas islands were invaded by Saxons and came to Canada after his wife died in Jules and Angles who established England. Their son Thomas was born kingdoms. For 300 years. from $00 to in November. 1870 in Devon. He came 1 100 A.D. Danish and Norwegian withhis father and settled in the vikings ravaged the country. They London area and started a lumber dominated Ireland and Irish Danes business. raided Wales. And closer to home. • Thomas married Mary Jane Ford in Viking raiders attacked Devon. thought February , 1889. They had a son, to be the original Kase Of the Copp and Stanley, born in London'•in November Westcott forefathers, Later, England. 1899.in 1928, he married a Miss Carol was united under Danish King -Canute Ann Ann` Brayley.-The Only memod-1-have who -divided the -country into-tour— of this side of the family is when Earldoms. maybe establishing the Stanley, who was known to. me as world's first regional government. The Uncle Stan, drove from London in- the last mayor invasion came in 1066 from early 1930s to visit Grandma Westcott -France by the Normans who built large. in, Seaforth, i, believe he was fortresses to deter rebellionand attack Grandma's cousin. - from outside. 1 don't remember much about them. 1 For 10 centuries,: England was recall little other than they seemed populated by a mix.ture of many .rich. Their faces are:lost to me. peoples from many places: So take However, 1 do remember their . your pick. Many of.. us could he• beautiful car, right down to the colour, Norman or Jute or Saxon.: or we could .i1 was a big four door sedan. The front be .Dane or Norwegian:.. -or a bit of and back doors opened from the each. • - centre. It was a Graham Paige, It was a :One thing is certain. it appears that in bright` shiny green and attracted the the:early 1700s, my great. great, great: attention of Grandma's neighbours. • It great. great Grandma fell- for the line. was made in Detroit in 1930 and was "of course I'll respect you in the. the first North American car to have morning and nine months later skirted fenders. produced baby John. Born, as they say The lumber company started by "out of wedlock". • Thomas Copp in 1889 in •London is Don't knock it. Had it not been for still in business and is known as Copp that adventurous tryst in January: 1713. Building Supplies. quite a few of us would not be: here. Going back and .finding Out where it :all began is an intriguing and time consuming exercise. It .could,not-have been done without the help of - others. -Most - of the information about grandma's. lineage. and pedigree came from - the Devon area of England. The family line was gleaned from alist of over 200 Copp families registered in the parishes of Merton.. Seaford, and Little Torrington and from gravestones in -cemeteries in the general Devon area. - Aside from the clergy and a few learned scholars. few people in old England could read or write. Keeping personal records of the history -of families was not done - if even thought of. --ln i89-9 -tdepfione uses were -enjoying service until it p.m. at night - May 5, 1899 • Melvin Graham of Stanley has gone to Rossland to push his • fortune. • Ed Papple of the Mille Road Tuckersmilh, recnelty sold a filly 4 years old, to a genleman from Centralia, for $130,00. Harry ; ' •-ah of Bayfield has been engaged by Mrs. James • Pollock to manage the bar at telt Queen's Hotel. ' George Young, better known as George the Ratter, dropped in on old-time aquuintances. Better days seemed to have dawned ori George. • A quiet marriage took place at teh residence of Mr, and Mrs. John Wright, Seaforth, when their•daughter, Miss Emma, was • united in marriage to Wm Trott. Rev.' A.D. McDonald D.D. preached his farewell sermons in 'First Presbyterian Church on Sabbath last • Wm. Hawkshuw of town left on Monday for St. Marys to take charge of the hotel he errected there. The. telephone users are now enjoying a service until eleven o'clock every night The fire alarm was heard in Varna and it was discovered that Thos. Ward's chickon; kiln was on fire. The frame of Mrs. Dougall's new dwelling is now up and enclosed in. The farmers in the Hillsgreen vicinity have their seeding Winos; completed. They report the ground in excellent. condition. The property owners of Seaforth voted on three different by- laws for the purpose of loaning money in the extensions of three different enterprises. First came one loan TR.F Case for a new port packing establishment; second to loan R. Bell Jr, to -emend rhe Coleman foundry and thrid to enable WD. Van In the Years Agone Egmond to extend the woolen establishment. May 2, 1924 The Seaforth Creamer: owned and operated by C.A. Barber, is one --of the town :s leading. industries. In 1914, Mr,. Barber purrhased the buildings across from the station and converted them into a creamery: Ten carloads of GoderichTownship people, comprising some 60 friends of Mr And Mrs. Albert Harrison. motored to their home in McKillop when they were made the recipients of handsome presents. Harry Hart -of Winthrop has the contract for building the new school at Walton. • W.C. Bennet of Winthrop has purchased a new Ford truck, S. Dietz of Zurich has the excavation heady for the brick business block in Zurich which he is errecting on one of the corners in the village. The auction sale of WL McLarne at Cromarty was one of the most successful ones of the season. Dr. Aubrey Crich, who has been in Caledonia for some months,has accepted a position in Mayo Bros. Hospital, - Minnesota. May 6, 1949 Mr. and Mrs. Fred Miller of Walton celebrated 50 years of •married life at their hone. Mr, Miller was pmprieter and manager of the Walton Hotel for 35 years and conducted a successful business. Ronald Bennett is remodelling his apartments over his hold storage plant. A serious loss was sustained by Mr: and Mrs. Moir of Varna when firedestroyed their colony house and 250 chicks. Mr, Moir received Severe burns fighting the fire which necessitated his removal to hospital. Miss Janei McNeil, formerly of Winthrop, was pleasantly surprised when a few of her McKillop neighbours called of her lwme. They presented her with a Duncan Phyfe- coffee table. Hensall has installed 12 new standards for street lighting. There are 300 watt lamps to each standard with cables all laid underground Chas. Farquhar of Seaforth has purchased the residence of Wm. Dinnin nad gets inunediate possession. Wm. McClure and Sam and Miss Ethel McClure of Winthrop attended the funeral of their cousin, Mrs. John E. -Smith in Burssels. . Emmerson Anderson ofKippen had a very successfulbam raising when some fifty men from the community gathered and raised the structure. May 2, 1974 A Municipal Day Care Centre operating by September in the new Optimist building at the Recreation Grounds is the goal of a group of parents who have formed a.Ddy Care Centre organizing committee for Seaforth and area. Clayton Looby of Dublin was elected president of the board of the Seaforth Community Hospital at the annual meeting Thesday. He succeeds Mrs. Joseph McConnell. In a brief session of Huron Couhty Council April 25, • approval was given by th eExecutive Committee for three members of Huron County Council to be members on the Historical Building Committee.