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The Huron Expositor • June 14, 2006 Pcrgs 5
Photo of MacDonald's Shoe Store on Main Street, taken by Seaforth's Frank Phillips
around the late 1940s, early `50s.
Wong's Grill, which stands in the same location today.
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Worst storm in recollection shakes
neighborhood around Kippen in 1906
JUNE 10, 1881
The Mayor and Reeve each had a
cow impounded on Sunday last.
Thomas Denny has sold his farm
op the Huron Road, McKillop to
Ralph Thompson, his neighbor for
the sum of $3,100.
W.S. Mundell has purchased the
farm of Wm. X. Grieve paying
therefore the sum of $5,800. This
includes the crops in the ground. It
is a cheap farm at this price and
we congratulate Mr. Mundell upon
his purchase.
Messrs. Biwden and Rawlings of
Exeter, have opened a butcher
shop in the building lately occupied
by James Coxworth of Hensall.
JUNE 15, 1906
Frank Gutteridge has been
awarded the contract for the brick
work on the Law building for the
Canada Furniture Company to be
erected this summer and the foun-
dations is well underway. The
woodwork will be done by the fac-
tory hands.
Many in the Kippen neighbor-
hood received a severe shaking up
during the storms of Thursday and
Friday last. The oldest inhabitant
says they were the worst in his rec-
ollection. It swept fences, orchards,
brush, timber and other stationar-
ies and moveable articles before it,
but fortunately no lives were lost
in this vicinity.
Thos. Welsh of Hensall had the
dwelling he purchased recently
from Frank Graham removed from
the lot east of Mr. Arnold's hand-
some brick dwelling and Geo.
Joynt had what has been used as a
' laundry moved away also to make
room for a fine new dwelling.
JUNE 12, 1931
Mrs. Maude Hedden, as assistant
in the Hensall post office, is enjoy-
ing a couple of weeks holidays with
her sister, Mrs. W. Kerr in
Northern Ontario. Ethel Murdock
is taking her place at the local post
office.
Nurse Mustard of Gypsumville
who is now home on furlough, vis-
ited her parents in Brucefield last
week and returned to Thronto with
her brother Thornton.
Russel Wallace has rented James
Cameron's house on the Mill Road,
Tuckersmith, formerly occupied by
John Holliday.
Mrs. Robert Bonthron of Hensall
was visited by a number of rela-
tives during the weekend among
whom were Mr. and Mrs. James
McMartin and daughter of Barrie.
JUNE 15, 1956
Faced with a demand for
increased capacity Topnotch Feed
Mills Limited announced this week
an expansion program that will
provide storage for an additional
60,000 bushels of grain.
As a first stage in the program
work commenced this week on the
construction of light reinforced
concrete tanks, each 65 feet in
height. These are being located
adjacent to the C.N.R. siding,
between the flour mill and east of
the feed mill.
Ed Fink, Hensall businessman
was the lucky winner of $1000 in a
draw Monday night at a special
$50 a plate dinner at Hotel London
sponsored by the Shriners of
London, and attended by 300
Shriners.
A large number of St. Patrick's
parishioners, Dublin attended the
Family Rosary Rally at Seaforth on
Friday which was conducted by
Rev. Father Peyton.
JUNE 10, 1981
Rumours about the future of
Walton Public School were put to
rest this week with the Huron
County Board of Education's deci-
sion to "twin" the school with
Seaforth Public next year.
Hensall's proposal to annex 200
acres of land in Hay lbwnship was
carried another step this week
'with an Ontario Municipal Board
hearing in the town hall Monday.
Don Melady, of .St. Columban
could be starting law school at
University of Toronto in the fall.
But instead, September will find
him teaching English at a high
school in Nigeria, the wealthy
African country that has one-quar-
ter of Africa's population and a lot
of its oil.