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2 -THE HURON EXPOSITOR, January 10, 2001
News
Residents trapped
for days in homes
From Page 1
"I was a pallbearer at that
funeral and I remember that
hearse was the last car down
that road until March," he
says.
Hoegy also remembers
making several trips to both
Brodhagen and Seaforth for
supplies with a team of horses
and sleigh.
"I remember going on
horseback to Brodhagen for
some groceries - we all had
horses then - and the poor
horse's saddle bags were all
loaded down
with chicken
feed and baby
food. The
neighbour had
a baby boy and
I dropped the
baby food off
in the mailbox
on the way by,"
says Hoegy.
"When you
went into
Seaforth, you'd
leave the team
and sleigh at
the old horse
sheds that used
to be at the Queen's Hotel.
You'd leave at 10 a.m., get to
town in about an hour and a
half, get what you needed and
head back home at 4 p.m."
The Expositor's Feb. 7
edition of 1947 said a storm
blocked the district roads
with snowplowing being
abandoned in McKillop and
Tuckersmith Townships.
Its Feb. 14th edition
recorded a four-day storm,
called "the worst in 25 years"
when plows battled huge
drifts on concessions and
sideroads and Seaforth's
Main Street "assumed a
tunnel -like appearance with
drifts along the west side
completely blocking off store
windows" and gangs of men
removed the snow with trucks
and teams of horses.
"For a couple of days this
week, the going was very,
very heavy and what there
was was mostly on foot. Even
Old Dobbin was out of the
running," said that week's
editorial.
Reid says the snow got so
high that winter that horses'
heads were above the
telephone lines when walking
along the road.
"I remember kids going
home from school used.to run
their hands along the
telephone lines," he says.
"And, it used to snow black
for days. It would snow for
days so heavy and steady that
we needed the lights on day
and night."
Frank Doyle, who grew up
near Centralia, remembers the
winter of '47 as the year a
neighbour needed help
getting into Exeter to have
her baby.
"She was in labour when
we put her in the backseat of
an old Model A and dragged
the car out through the bush
on the front bob of a sleigh. A
dozen men went to help.
When we got to Highway 4,
they could drive into Exeter.
Those old Model A's would
go through a lot with chains
on them," says Doyle.
The Expositor's Feb. 28
edition recorded how
highway crews found it
impossible to do more than
keep one "narrow single track
lane" open for more than
three weeks on many roads. It
also said that students were
seeking town accommodation
for the rest of the winter.
Hoegy remembers a crew
of 20 people digging four
and a half miles to Daniel
Beuerman's house on the
10th sideroad of McKillop to
get him out to the hospital so
he could have his appendix
removed.
"The call came out on the
old party line - if it went
ringing long you knew it was
a fire or an emergency of
some kind - and we all went
out to dig. We started at 2 in
the afternoon and didn't stop
until 6 in the morning. My
gloves froze right around the
shovel handle," he says.
By March 7, The Expositor
recorded the "worst blizzard
in 30 years" with no trains
getting through for.four days
and three locomotives
pushing a plow to finally
open the rail line.
Dr. Paul Brady, of Seaforth,
was reported to use his skis to
visit a 17 -month-old child
suffering from pneumonia
and Sky Harbour Air Services
was used to deliver 100 pints
of milk to Bayfield for babies
since the roads to Bayfield
were impassable.
In the March 14 edition, a
story reported of a railway
plow marooned in Hensall for
a week by a 20 -foot drift that
extended for a mile and a
quarter along the track. One
of the 29 railway men digging
out the plow was quoted: "All
we could see were the
smokestacks"
of the train.
An elderly
Hensall
couple was
credited with
feeding nine
of the men at
each meal.
That week's
editorial also
remarked on
there being
more horses,
sleighs and
cutters on
Seaforth's
Main Street
Quoted
'I remember kids
going home
from school
used to run their
hands along the
telephone
lines,' --
Watson Reid
than in a decade, discussing
the problem of a lack of•
stables downtown.
By April, The Expositor
was reporting how the
highways, county roads and
town streets were heaved by
frost, full of holes and in need
of extensive repairs because
of the severe winter.
But, despite the long, hard
winter that year, agreement is
reached around the euchre
table that people of 1947
were in some ways better
equipped to handle a
snowbound winter.
"Oh, it was a long winter
but if you didn't get to town,
you didn't miss it," says
Hoegy.
"Yes, if you got a bit of
cabin fever, you'd just walk
to a neighbour's and play
some cards," says Reid.
"I used to ride my horse to
see my girlfriend," says
Doyle.
"Most everyone had a
woodstove and baked their
own bread. Them times we
were all equipped to do for
ourselves. There were
potatoes in the cellar and
cured hams hanging from the
rafters. All we ever needed
was a bit of flour and coffee,"
says Hoegy.
And, their advice for
coping with this year's winter
Scott Hilgendorff photo
Winter training
Seaforth and District Community Centres was the site of a
hockey skills camp last week where several local Junior B
players came home to help young hockey players sharpen
their skills.
is, "Grin and bear it - you're
not going to change it" and
"Slow down - there are too
many people on the roads in a
hurry to get to heaven the
way they're driving."
Dietz should
be home soon
From Page 1
her go through the long
labour and Caesarean,
knowing there was little
he could do to help her.
While normally
released from hospital
after two days, Dietz was
expecting a five-day stay
at the hospital because of
the surgery but hoped to
be home early this week.
She said she was
already up and taking
care of herself on her
own by Sunday.
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