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.
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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...
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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
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