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HomeMy WebLinkAboutTimes-Advocate, 1981-09-30, Page 15SWISS DANCERS A group from the Swiss club of Mitchell entertained residents and guests of the Blue Water Rest Home Sunday. The home's administrator Joe Risi got into the act of dancing with Mrs. Trudy Munz. The group sang in German, French and Italian, while playing bells and accordion. • CtitlZaPt" UnIZ Mrs. Cann.) Sweeny Phone: 236-4702 Students win awards Several students from the Varna area received special awards at the com- mencement programme at Varna . Misery Clhesee sU CHSS in Clinton on evening. Jill- Armstrong received the Cyanamid -of Canada Award in science, and Michael Coleman the K.S. Award In science, also the Technical Teachers Award. Janice Webster received a Ruby Haddy Bursary for students entering the nur- sing profession from the Women's Auxiliary of Clinton Hospital. Scholar's Awards went to David Consitt and Dale Stephen- son. W.D. Fair Scholarships for general proficiency were presented to Sandra Coleman (grade 11), Michael • Coleman (grade 12) and Friday Janice Webster (grade 13). Janice also received an Ontario Scholarship award. There were 267 tickets sold at the door for the Varna church anniversary smorgasbord. The compares with 277 last year (all children under 8 were ad- mitted free this year) a successful evening for the U. C.W. and the many projects they help with financial support, Emmanuel United Church Sunday, October 4 REV. LAING B.A. Organist Mrs. E. Grace Martin 11:15 a.m - Communion ser- vice 11:15 a.m. - Sunday School Thurs. Oct. 1 - 7:00 p.m. Choir Practice Thurs. Oct. 1 - 8:00 p.m. United church women Come & Join us We Welcome You St. Peter's Lutheran Church REV. JACK DRESSLER Organist Mrs. Christine Eagleson B.M.A. Sunday, October 4 10:0o - Worship Service 10:45 - Sunday School There Is a nursery tor small children which Is supervised during the worship service Everyone Welcome Zurich Mennonite Church Pastor CLAYTON KUEPFER Sunday, October 4 8:45 a.m. Worship Service 9:45 a.m. Sunday Church School 11:00 a.m. Worship Service Wed. 8:00 - Bible Study & Prayer Service Everybody Welcome Meditation How I praise Thee precious Saviour, That Thy love laid hold of me, Thous hest saved and cleans- ed and filled me that I might Thy channel be, Emptied that you should fill us, Setting free from self and stn, Thou who boughtest to possess us, In Thy fullness, Lord, come In. Mary E. Maxwell Golden Glimpses I doubt if many of us are happy about the weather being doled out to us, but so far, nobody has been able to control it to any extent. The sympathy of residents and staff is extended to the family of the late Mr. William Decker. We welcome Mrs. Florence Gould back from the hospital much im- proved and regret that Mr. Gordon Bloch is a patient in Victoria Hospital, London and Mr. Todd is still a patient in St. Joseph's Hospital. Residents who have been out visiting during the week were Mrs. Margaret Pfaff, Mrs. Ella Drysdale, Mrs. Mae Rowcliffe, Mrs. Inez McEwen, Mrs. Jessie Brock and Mrs. Eva Thiel. Quite a number of people took advantage of the Geri Fashions of London on Thursday afternoon who specialize in fashions for seniors and the disabled. On Thursday evening, October 6 at 7 p.m., the Ladies Auxiliary will be holding their regular monthly meeting com- mencing with a program and refreshments in the dining room. This is a reminder to all of the members of the auxiliary and an invitation to all the ladles of the com- munity who would be moat welcome. We were pleased to have such a large audience for the singers of the Swiss club and the accordionist from the' Mitchell area as well as some who were visiting from Switzerland. On Sunday, October 4 at 7 p.m., some of these same people will be here to show slides of Switzerland. Because of the daylight hours, it was not possible to show these this past Sunday afternoon. Everyone is welcome. The Sunday evening chapel service was con- ducted by Mr, Merlin Bender ai the Conservative Men- nonite church. A special thanks offering meeting is being held this Thursday evening in Varna church. The guest speaker is Wendy Hines of ARC Industries. All ladies of the area are invited to attend. World-wide communion will be observed next Sunday and on Tuesday the first- year students from Emmanuel College will arrive. There will be a meeting at 8 p,m. at the Varna Hall, and 'a panel presentation begins at 8:30. Everyone is welcome. Zurich hosts historical meet Society advised al to start workon register a will had to travel archives for an old land to the town of Simcoe. division map, which filled in When documents were the gaps in modern records. moved to London, the family To research the past in in charge of the registry Huron, Phelps said, there office refused to give up the are about sixty sources in a wills. "rather peculiar mishmash" Later the London records to consult. office was burned, but since There are 26 municipal Huron's early wills were not governments plus the in the office, they have county; archives in Ottawa, survived. Toronto, London and the Often too, in the past if a county; board of education municipal clerk's office was records in Clinton; local overloaded with older papers archives and museums; many of the records were area newspapers, which deliberately burned. Phelps added are well In one instance Phelps documented; the university said, a court house attic was of Guelph, which records stacked three feet deep in old agricultural data; local documents. Sometime women's institutes and earlier, someone had rifled church archives. through the papers and torn Also to be consulted is the off all the postage stamps, Mormon Church archive in Many of the stamps wEre Salt Lake City. The Mor - torn and the papers were mons travelled through jumbled into a hash. Thus Ontario in the past few years the vandal destroyed the microfilming data to add to order of the papers and the their genealogical collection. value of the stamps too. Many of the records have To top it off the papers been split up to various were covered in a thick layer collections, and some was of soft coal dust. stolen or walked off with. Huron though, has one of It is illegal to sell or own The Huron County tau maps are held by the Historical Society was ad- university and some are held vised to form a steering by the province• committee to investigate But he warned there was establishing an archive in no way the docurnents would Huron County, at their be returned unless the meeting in Zurich, Wed- various agencies were nesday. assured of their safety. Any The group's guest speaker archive in Huron would have was Ed Phelps, curator of to be fire -proof and would the regional library need the proper space and collection of the University full time staff to operate. of Western Ontario. Though Phelps said he was Phelps outlined the dissappointed that nowhere problems he had en- in his studies could he find a countered in a 20 year career relative or ancestor who of recovering and preserving ever set foot in Huron old documents. • County, he began his studies There is no more capacity of old documents, and Huron at the university to store county, by sorting about 200 documents Phelps said, boxes full of old papers. adding it was time to join These were "liberated" forces - to form a Huron from the old county cow,. County archive - to preserve thouse in Goderich before it Huron related documents. burned down. This would allow many of Because of these little the documents currently in quirks, he said of the chance storage in various archives removal of the documents to be consolidated in the "some things are preserved county. and others lost." Some of the documents, Phelps explained that old wills, land titles, early on in Huron's history it municipal government was necessary for those minute books, bylaws and wishing to probate or Times -Advocate, September 30, 1981 Past 15 an archive the best surviving collections of old documents. One of the important types of documents is chattle mortgages. These list "everything you could imagine" and Phelps recalled a mortgage which even listed a five shilling pocket knife. "As far as I'm aware," Phelps said, "Huron is the only county in which these still exist." Tied in with the land ownership records the documents give a feeling of the life of the times at a grass-roots level, Phelps added. Huron is unique in this richness of data, the curator said. As well as enriching our knowledge of the past and assisting those doing studies of personal families, the documents can be of im- portance to current legal matters. Phelps said a land ownership dispute in Bayfield was settled by consulting the university Can still join Guides and Brownies Brownie registration was held last Tuesday at the Lutheran Church with Brown Owl, Sister Loretta and Eileen Dressler. There were only 9 signed up but I am sure there are a lot more to join who may have missed it!! So its not too late, any girl from the age of 6-9 can still register Tuesday. Meetings are from 6-7:30 p.m. every week at St. Peters Lutheran Church. Also any girl from the age of 9-12 can join the Girl Guides this year. There meetings are on Wednesday nights beginning at 7 also at the Lutheran Church Any one interested in being a leader or helper please phone Sue Hartman at 262-2449. (Juilior leaders from age 17-21, seniors over 21 years of age.) CWL Deanery All members of the Catholic Womens League from the surrounding areas are invited to a Deanery meeting being held in Zurich at the arena on Wednesday October 7 from 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. Lunch will be served at $3 a plate. Be looking for- ward to seeing you! Registration for the Zurich and area figure skating club will be on Too many places Mr. Ed Phelps spoke to the Huron County Historical Society in Zurich, Thursday, about the preservation of old documents. He spoke about the difficulties of obtaining and preserving the old papers. They are mostly public documents, filed with various municipal Miscellaneous Rumblings By ROB CHESTER governments in the past. Included are old wills, land documents, maps and old municipal records. They are without question of interest and impor- tance. He said though, the University of Western Ontario archives have about as much material as they can store. Even microfilming the old papers is not the solution, as Phelps pointed out the cost of storage is Tess than the cost to microfilm the papers. Huron County, he advised, will have to start to build its own archives. We are a relatively young society and are burden- ed with not much over 150 years of paper work. Just think of the space required to house several hundred years of documents! You would think society would reach a point where we need to do a triage of sorts on the moun- tains of outdated laws and documented red tape. Sooner or later we'll have to toss some of it out, or learn how to burn it instead of oil based fuels. Last week I was looking for a specific magazine article. I looked through the magazine stack on the book shelf, which was the first logical place for the arti- cle to be. It was not there. Magazines I am currently reading, before they are filed by date on the magazine shelf, are usually in a stack by the chair. It was not there. Magazines which I have been reading and will refer to again, could•also be in a stack by the bed, or Zurich and Area Figure Skating Club Registration October 3, 1-4 p.m. Saturday October 3 from 1-4 p.m. Principal gots new student Congratulations to Mr. and Mrs. Gaetan Blanchette of Clinton on the arrival of a baby boy on Tuesday Sep- tember 22. Mr. Blanchette is the principal of St. Boniface school in Zurich and in his honour the grade 7 pupils put on a little French play about his .new son Thursday. Jean Hay was a patient in South Huron Hospital, Exeter from Tuesday to Friday of last week. A well know long-time Zurich resident, Mr. Billy Decker who was 88 years old passed away last Tuesday, after being a resident at the rest home for quite some time now. The staff at the Bank of Montreal had a going away dinner for co-worker Roger Love at the Dominion Tavern on Wednesday as he was transferred to Frankfurt on Friday. And we would like to welcome his replacement at the bank being, Doug Grant formerly from Mark - dale. Best wishes for a speedy recovery are extended to Matthew Denomme who is a patient in St. Joseph's Hospital, London. visited with Cathy's sister Mr. and Mrs. Jerome for a few days. Mary Ellen Sweeney, Mr. and Mrs. and Neil Skinner in Mozart Gelinas Jr. and sister Edmonton. Gord and Dot Florian were delegates for Hess were also at the St. Boniface along with Mr. telephone convention and and Mrs.JohnDenomme and are presently spending some Mr. and Mrs. Dennis time in Vancouver. Corriveau of St. Peter's Best wishes for -a speedy Catholic Church at Parish recovery are extended to Life Conference over the Bob Fisher who is con - weekend held at the Cleary valescing at home due to auditorium in Windsor. We being in the hospital last were among 950 represen- week. tatives from all over the Recent visitors with Mrs. London Diocese with ex- Gerald Sreenan (Adena) RR 2 cellent speaker coming from Zurich were her daughters as far as; Tuczon, Arizona Patsy Jobe of Florida and and Bishop John Michael Rose -Marie Forque of Santo Sherlock of London and Domingo in Dominican auxiliary Bishop Michael Republic both staying for Gervais Windsor. The over a month and also Theme was The Parish today visiting with r elatives in and Tomorrow. Windsorand and Detroit. Bob and Linda Hendrick Congratulations to bride spent from Thursday to and groom , Rose -Mary Sunday with her sister Janet Meidinger and Gerard and Richard Regier and two Ducharme who were children in Calgary then married on Saturday at St. spent from Sunday to Boniface Church by Father Thursday in Edmonton Paul Mooney followed by attending a Canadian in- dinner and reception at the dependent telephone _Hensel) Community Centre. association convention held The groom is the son of Mr. at the Edmonton Plaza. and Mrs. Matthew Also attending from Zurich Denomme and Rose -Mary is were Tony and Marlene the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Bedard and Gerald and Steve Meidinger, both of Cathy Schantz who also Zurich. w living onThe Walnut Streetcouple ill in the former home of Bob Farquhar. Gertie Fleischauer was hostess Tuesday evening for euchre party celebrating Margaret Hess's 80th bir- thday. After opening her gifts a birthday cake with ice cream was served. Mr. and Mrs. John Smith of Union Ville were Saturday night guest with Mrs. Seleda Steckle. Earl and Anne Flaxbard were Sunday dinner guest with son, Gary and Bette Flaxbard and family in Kitchener, celebrating Earl's birthday. Also present were Ruth Ann Flaxbard, Paul and Cathy Flaxbard and family all of London, along with Ross and Shirley and Lori Cooper, Ingersoll. Earl was delighted to receive a lovely fish aquarium from every one. for everything under the left hand coffee table. Neither of those places... Since it dealt with my hobby, it could be in with the other hobby items. Not there. ( Meanwhile my temper is growing shorter and I am repeatedly searching through magazines and books already searched.) Now. since the article dealt with a specific sub- ject II could almost taste the thing, I remembered it so well i I looked in the lower drawer of my filing cabinet where similar material is stored. I knew I had seen the article fairly recently, but I could not find anything resembling the magazine it was in. I found a photocopy of the article. (Perhaps I an- ticipated both the need and the loss.) Why I had photocopied the article I am not sure. Where the original and the magazine is, heaven only knows. When I moved, many of my old papers and books were disposed of. The books and old magazines were sold and the papers (old school notes and the like) were trashed. Not only do 1 have to remember where things are, I have to recall if I even have them any more. A place for everything and everything in its place. Words to live by - but in my own circumstances the place for everything happens to be my apart- ment and everything is crammed in it. The second maxim, by which I encourage myself to clean-up the mess resulting from the first truism is. Things expand to fill the space allotted. It is of course a problem Ed Phelps is intimately aware of - too much stuff and not enough space. The only answer is a detailed inventory with all items correctly filed and stored. I'll have to do it some day when I decide to insure all my goodies, but the prospect is depressing for two reasons: First is the simple fact it will he a long and rather boring job. Second is the depression of realizing how much money is tied up in all my stuff. When I see the symoblic hits and pieces of a new car stacked up as old magazines on my bookshelves... iiiiIiiiiiiimilIIIIIIiIIIIIIIII mimmonnp11ttlt imilimitlllllllllllllllllllllmiiilllllllilllll m d Zurich 236-4912 , Seaforth 527-1803 li IIHII aaim1111111iIIIIIIIIIIII11aanHIII111111111111111inie11111111111111111111111111111iiIIIIIIIIIIIII1f�Fi TASTY NU BAKERY & CNEESE NOUSE Freshest bread * rolls * pastries * cookies * donuts and over 60 varieties of Canadian and Imported Cheese PERCY BEDARD Carpenter *Custom Built Homes *Renovations *Additions *Repairs *Free Estimates Phone 236-4873 After 6 Zurich public documents. Phelps stated, but he said he had often been able to buy books from private collections or at auction sales. The talk was sponsored by the Zurich Women's Institute. Phelps said the library university often microfilms institute's history books both to record the data and as a sign of public relations and good will. Many Huron documents micro filmed by the university are duplicated and sent to the Huron County library. Phelps said that microfilming documents was not a solution to the problems of not enough storage space, as the costs of microfilm at 12 cents a page, make it more expensive than storing the papers. Any piece of ,paper gauranteeing persoal or property rights has to be preserved forever, Phelps noted. "Some little scrap of paper can solve all kinds of things - and they look like trash," he said. "I'll donate my expertise, and the University's time," Phelps said, to help the society establish and organize an archive. He said he would be willing to help the society collect old documents (by offering to go and liberate them) if the. group had a place to keep them. Phelps suggested a steering committee be formed with members of the county council and the board's of education in- volved. Fred Haberer, the reeve of Zurich and Huron County's warden said he thought the county would probably be interested in discussing an archive. Haberer said he was having an interesting year as warden in visiting all the 125th anniversaries in the county. The warden said he began to "realize more and more do have in - that we teresting past," an t, Doug Geoffrey Construction Homes, Renovations, Additions Farm Buildings 8 Repairs Aluminum S,dmg 8 Awnings Zurich 236-4432 Darin,* Eae,er, 235-2961 Evenings Farm Fresh Eggs Now available at Denomme's Poultry Farm RR 2, Zurich Phone 236-4148 Antenna B& T Soles & Service Installation and Repairs Delhi Towers T.V. and C.B. Antennas VARNA. 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