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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1947-10-09, Page 7II14..DA Fg OCBER Oth, l9 E �� e ri eratiou a""'."^ leo l e ,� pia e r 00,.. Ate. 114. Elliott McVittie43 PQt a. F 0 41 n 22tf} A New York dgetor•,' says that 10010 are to some extent 'conditioned by diet. Thin seems odd, for certainly the pret- tiest girls are those who eat the plainest food.—Peterborough Examiner. ROY N. BENTLEY INCOME TAX—(Business. Pri- • vats or Farm Reports) Bookkeeping Services—(Weekly or Monthly) Typing-- (Private or Cowmercial work) . 36 REGENT ST • BOX 58 PHONE 231,1 Goderich, Ont. 20tf GODERICH MEMORIAL - SHOP NEWEST DESIGNS BEST OF MATERIALS Guaranteed workmanship at' prices that will please you. SAVE ALL AGENTS FEES* Call at our oMce: or drop us a. line to Box 161, Goderich. We 'will be pleased to call and help • choose a suitable ,memorial for your family plot: ' R. A. SPOTTON St. 'Andrew's St. 1 • WHEELER'S FUNERAL SERVICE No extra charge for the use of our Funeral Horne, Toron- to Street Prompt Ambulance Service Phone :135 "'la:. 255 Or.7 Lighiain Tbre: E11jQttEIrni1iesfrom Iritan ;Lwrngin ,, Godeilat By N jrll a AOehoi' Meinne7S. inLoAdon Et*, PrOlike The descendanta oke three different Elliott faaniliea; today 15,0 14 t,orie>rich. towpship, Harron county. A11. cone front 1''emwaua h eounnty, Northern Ire - 144144 bnit. (r(a)in no relationship. of 'the earliest to come to Gode- rich towusb.1 Wilt. a John Elliott, who was born In %E iiakijle11n, Fernitanagh, Ireland, in November, 1819. In April, 1836, lie, with his wife, two sons and mother and lather, boarded ship, but off the coast of Newfoundland they were shipwrecked and' the; father was drowned and all their property lost. * * Ou 'arrival In Canada John Elliott, with his family and mother, came at gtice to Huron county. Near, Clinton, at "Gravel House," cin the Huron road, Mr. Elliott changed his last pound to pay for a uveal for the party. . They then proceeded to Goderich and, after paying for a barrel of -flour, had two shillings left. * * * Ato the Canada Company's office he MOV1NG WEST M. Rawlinson Limited _ regularly mala .up and ship Household Furniture. Con Solidated Pool Cars to Manitoba, Saskatch- ewan, Alberta, British Columbia and to California. Wrlt4(s, Wire or phone for reduced freight rates. Established 1885., you Yong. St., Toronto, Kingsdale5125 goVIMII, PACKUIG, SHIPPf(iIQ all STOIIAQE' IF You worry about your present or future security, Phone Carlow 1706 or write B. R. ROBINSON. Monarch Life Assurance repre- sentative, R.R. -1, •Goderich. 3ftf Elimination Of Waste First Rule •For. Health, IIeg lar elimination of wastes - from the' body is one of the para. mount rules for good health. Mil - burn's Laxa-Liver Pills are of help to faulty elimination. The pombina- • tion of laxative and , tonic drugs contained in these pills make them one of the most useful, and best - -remedies fon disord.red condition-of— Installs -;ion and 2,epair • Service. ,Pumps and Pressure Systems of all types. Engines, "Plotor-. :a -ad Wind- mills. Goodyear Belts all starid- arc. lengths. All fair- quipmelit . and machinery „NEWS' IDEA 1TiSTRIM-TOi{S 6Oi➢ERIC1I, ONT. Phone- Carlow ;:S21 the eliminatory orges. Milburn's Laxa-Liver Pills help to stimulate the liver, clean the coated tongue, sweeten the breath' and eliminate waste from the; isys- rented a place, ltnownas the a`oa o+, farm', ()n the atlr coneessioh,'Goderich township; After ,re rain there Roar yeas 'he bought a fa rt a ."the 5th concession, one Zile nertl'i of Porter's Hill. This flute is occupiedtoday by his grandson, 'A ctor Elliott. ' John Elliott was- a Methodist and retired to Goderich toward the end o$ his life and he. died "there at the age of seventy-five. * * * A favorite story of the family is that John Elliott once walked to London to,,. buy a scythe and • carried it all the` way Koine with him, John Elliott had a fancily of six. sons And four daughters, Robert, Gabriel, William, Jain, James, Thomas, Mar- garet, Elizabeth, Mary , Ann and Frances. , In two instances- two, sisters married two brothers: Mrs. 'Robert McLean and Mrs. John McLean, Mrs. John Cox. and Mrs. James Cox, Gode- rich township. * * William ,Elliott, the third son, stayed on the homestead and his, family eoit-' sisted of; Thomas, Ben, Victor, Volni, William .and two girls, now Mrs. Harri- son and Mrs. Robert Thompson, all oo Goderich, township, except Ben, John and Willialii,, . Thomas. Elliott, who until reeently lived on a farm near Porter's Hill, is now retired in Brucetleid. His four girls: Mrs. E. Brown, Mrs. Charles Wilson, Mrs. Stewart Sc1loe,uhals, -cud Mrs. Hay Cox,, live in Clinton and Goderich township.. Mrs. °Robert 'l'hompsou has three children :.Jtobin, ixi Godericli'township ; Elizabeth, in Lydon. and Mary, an honor graduate if Western University of a 'few years ago. Last year she spent` in Oxford Cniversity with' her husband, Robert Aldw ilikle, a Rhodes scholar, l irn in Huron county. 'There'st wi : ;woe allipol Q , ' But "that i€ au• old story,' and t- romaace 'Lao gone out of the sea' 'itMt lmt the Pag:Ang of the sailiing ship and the adve>ilt of the. inner►1 i 40, , age, -Kipling. tiled ',to r•II aire poetry out of a ateam- ehip, but lois attempt wat3 forced and mechanical, and in desperation yecried, }Loral tend ¢ins a Robbie Burne to sing t. song of (*canal" There els no poetry in etea.,a,---at least not the kind; that Burns wrote, or that of Allan Cunningham. with its free, lyrical sweep that transports ins hon nediately out into the open spaces and salt air of the ocean: with. his sander lot as tlae Jo117' ('. A wet sheet and to flowing sea, shellback " was with his rough a A wind that follow fast, dleriloit one. Perhaps the explana And fills the white az�d rustling inti(„ 1 that the sailor has beepme pbset, . And b'encl>s the gallant Eft; with the' ecoalo le aspects .of h18 jub. And bends the gallant mast, any boys, and no poet- has yet arisen who eWUlli While, like an eagle free, make a song about economics. .. Away the good chip 'flies,, and leaves Old England on the lee. No poet • that I know of has yet ,RIC 1 ric Wiring. and Repairs - 67 West St., Phone 574=—or Above Agnew -Surpass Store, Phone 1199. • •324 * * * Gabriel Elliott, the second son, had. a family of two sons,a Juhn and Thomas, and six dro.lghters : Margaret (Mrs. J. W. Read), `,Elizabeth ,(Mrs. George Clark), Prances (Mrs. John Barnwell), Maud '( `Irl;. Read), Ida (Mrs. 'Fee ).- and 'Susan (Mrs. - Tod Sllttter). ' John Elliott had t\vo Sons Gabriel and Moe. Gabriel. had elle 'sole• who was killed in \Wol'Id Wax 11. Moa* Ellioft..of Clinton, has two young sous, Jerry ;iuil Richard. 1.111 July 9, 1930,_the Elliott family ,land,. to Goderich township, settled on the Bayfield road (Clinton to Bay- field). John O. Elliott came in the early, •1880's and took up "the plot of land between the B.aytield road -and the second concession of Stanley township. His son, Alex. Elliott, and his grand- son, Roy, live on this farce at the present time. *** John '0. Elliott had -two sons, Alex. and Henry, and t\''o daughters, now Mrs, Frank Powell and Mrs. John Perdue. All have died except Alex. now on the homestead. His children are Mrs. John Gibson, Mrs. Raymond Whitmore, ,of lloderich -township, Mel- vin (Mack), -of Clinton, and Roy, ou the homestead. Like so many people who came to Canada John O. Elliott finally per- suaded his brother, Wiliam O. Elliott, to come to Huron c(itlaty in 1599. He. too, settled on the hayfield road, tak- ing up the farm known as the Herbert - 5011 place. Later he bought a farm near Clinton but still on the linyfield road, know(( as the Wiggington place. This farm was owned by the fl•€ulily' until recently. * * >* �\ illiuiii O. Elliott's eldest son, Alex- ander, went to Philadelphia before the - rest of 'the family left Ireland. and be- came associated with. the •\\•anainuker ('•o., whoni W1w',1 a1s.uriated fur thirty-five years. Atter llis.Jather set- -tied in Goderich township, he often visited. then.,. •t Held a centennial p.i.wric at • Jowett's \Williatu O. Elliott's family were all. Gi'ove. liaylield. -\11 of the first Mr. born in Ireland' and 1luillded Alex- Elliott's children wore ' dead by this antler, AVillin.( J1lt(1es, David. George. tide,' but e\euty-ti\e (4escent(;alts• at- Wilson, .\uuie, Sarah, Thomas John tended. and I:(l\w;urd. 1)111\ three. \Vill'tlnt. ,1:x n '-11avid and (;((0 0. remained in Iltirtut Another' 'Elliott (alntly settlo.d ne;lr' county. \Viilianl Jame- \\;1s -:ix1( 11 thy.' "l;ally" ole flu` 11110 \V;iter 11igll- ve:11's of age \\:hen to 1':1101' to Canada. way about tithenlile's --milluulh of 111 1Ie spent two.‘ears.‘ears Ill 1)1111:1111`11)11.101)1111:1111`11)11.1)1111:1111`11)11.10to\411 1,1 (i(,(Ter1('ll�. 1 - wi-th-hiz-f-rnil-r.(10! 11.4 1t 11 1111'11'(1 :11111 1110 111'1 of 11119 family 1 (-lien(• 1.11, V\ CHF 111t14 1110 (•1uitra,1 mt..; 1,!Isl n•.s i!1 CI uileri1•11 t,1\wtl:'lli1)..tient 10100iiatdi.,.('linton, where he and (lis f:,l!lilk lit,• Ireland. was George Elliott, nicknamed today. I►:1vid -Elliott at..l Ili- f,,l,,il,, -lilackliu„1..” Itis sous wore- ,f:nuos• 111,'0 1'r`sid0 111 ('lint,,.. \1•i111;,1111 111111 Archie. A .;•r:i : 1"o1, ' ' " AA ., I t 1 it rpill •1 he tlll0 „;; tem„ As an after-dinner',' 1{��1,1�rt I:liil,tt. \\:1� t l (�eur�(' 1':;lit,tt 1 i . - they relieve that bloated feeling and. ' „f ('(141i41; tl,\\il'i(li(. \, Il'. 1al'1!I111 1:1 I 1', 1 1 r\\ 'al!iii,. help indigestion. 1,,,,,,....1,1„......3,,,,,,, (ieol 1` 1'.111„11 111* l:(tile\(•:41's \C. r ..1,, 111 111 (4111'4111'. Sold at drug..e.o>'�nter'Qef32ytV ®Y e. ( 1 ,, 11 1 ., .. , .1;f'l,l- -I t It ihr, 11,E 1 1,,1 i11.1, lit' IIiF ,I'Ilt;' t rr'"., r4--.... 11111'1 :1 - The T. Miibn Oa.. Ltd.. ThTomato ®r. ra@fiftEs lt'1• ow. 1011(1 e\pel'i041('(' h lilt- 11ug.c011erii(►n. that makes pus - Slide the splendid 1•esult5 We e1- feet role 011e (licll(s. 11Iat is _why so . ntai1V bu,iness and pro- . fessioilal„ (nen send their lists year After year. KELLY & AIKEN The (Collectors 'Orangeville, Ontario 1':11111.1' ;Il1,1 1,:',•111«','• 1"%:.1 Io :1- :111 :1111 ai,l 1 (1 of LI ! .!:,I� A.11, he :(Is 11. t'.ji.1,i:1 :11111 1,1 •1..,•• • , „ : 111'1•rl111,' pt'1lhlltll'It1 111 " ,1' 111' :i III'„ilu•l'. 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'1'11cre \\,1,• :r 111:51.\ (slit::(' 104'1 111e. \1:1i11:11111 liit't.`r hut„ ('ollnlrnt• 1,1y�'1t-!1j1( and the road 1o".:11(1s ll:ly- 11101(1-' 111.111>i/1'1'11 1 e1'11 V1111111)1'11„lit only lite pre\ loll, stiiuii er. - Alt the laini in the vicinity of the "Gully” ,;n the 1laytiel(1 road. (•\(•1pt 1(5) acres. had beeti t:llceu 111 1,- this time. 'I'li.illas - Elliul"t • tool: u1 ,:1lit► . acres' of this but later .old it to Mr:' Naftel and moved to foil orpl' 10\\'ti•- shi1:' near '1 nll g'k schoolhouse o11 the 1111 concession. ills sons. George' an(1 \Gillian), located near here too and \\•illia1115-son...Ibhui Elliott, of London. a well-known writer an(1 teacher. r('-' cently died at the age of ninety-orr(', . One of the sons, Tholmas. instead. of going to Colborne township with his father and brothers, took np the land south of the Gully on the Hayfield road and he became known as "Willy El- liott" --to (1tstingtrish hila from the other Eiliotts in Goderich toWn5hip. I11 1850 Thomas Elliott built ;1 tine. cedar log house Which is standing to- day. -.This rustic dwelling. surrounded by willows, has been ,11 favorite subject for photographers and pictures of it have appeared in many papers and magazines. In 1i1 SO, Thomlls Elliott mlarried Miss ,Tillie ('nrrie and one 5011 and bine daughters were born to there. The soil, William .T.. and s('\'ell of the daught-ers 144(bly live 'Int the old home- stead, but in a fin(' 110W houses, •0 * -?, * " Thomas Elliott war'` au •Oral►gelnan for over seventy years and the old('st member of linylield ('lurch of h:ngland at his death in 1918.' In 1111 interview with The Goderich Signal. December 11. 191(;. in • his ninety-fourth year. Thomas Elliott reviewed his past life. Among other things he said that at one time he tool: a 1o:1(1 of oats to Ylodcirich to sell Piir raish ,to pay° his taxes. After trying„ nearly :111° the stores in town, h0 finally soli it to a tavernkeeper for a ,work-s)lilling a bushel. The amount Of the tante:' wasthe equivalent of 11.50 today. He also said that in the early days Rayfield was a better market than Goderich and they took grails out In scows to boasts at anchor 111 the lake and fifty cents a dos was good wages at' the tittle. ¢ * * lir. Elliott, in an interview. said that when he came fo the neighbor- hood, besides his uncle George. there - were Mr: Wallis' and his' sons John and .lames. Mr, Wallis had the -first conveyance in the district. -consisting () ` a two -wheeled eart. .(Wallis' deli- eendanta° still live on the ('aide Papua). One either had to whelk to Goderich, or go by, the 1fih% in h cant(. which was merely ' a hollowed-ont log. * 0 The third Elliott •'fatnild to eosrle from EnniAl2iilen. reculanarfit Co., ire- rb FREE ANIMAL -SE-'VIC OLD.DISABLED OR DEAD CATTLE • HORSES • HOGS • SHEEP • CALVES Promptly and Efficidntly Removed '-+ Simply Phone Collect • 910r16 Clinton 21 Ingersoll 215 Stratford 'WE DO THE REST I, WILLIAM STORE SONS. LTD • ' • INGE RSOLL, ONTARIO a4.' MacLAREN 'S Photographs o dor all occasions INFORMAL WEDDING, PICTURES ANNIVERSARIES O ULDR1N TROUSSEAU TEAS • DINNER GROUPS ' FAMILY GROUPS DE1 ELOP1111 "GI' ---PRINTING and ENLARGING, . (24 Hour Re' rviee St. David St", Goderioh Telephone 4014. "'There's something about a sailor— welig yQra know what sailers are. That was written and sunnig in the day e the " wludja ees',> when a life on, tine ocean wave seas much harder and more J rtious than it is today. There was adventure and, ro- mance in the sea in those days which Aired. youth with visions of far-off lands and held them in its 'spell of wanderlust to the end of their liven. This "sea -fever" found .eXpression frr the lines of John Masefleld : I must go down to the seas again, . To . the lonely sea and the sky; And all I ask is a tall ship, And a star to steer her by. Masefield. knew whereof he sang, for he sailed out of the port of Liver- pool before -the -mast in those old sail- ing ships ou long voyages to Africa, India . and the- Orient. - There was scarcely a family i* Liverpool that did not have one or more members who early "took to the sea." 'Some of them "swallowed the anchor" in the first voyage and were dubbed "long- shoremen" by their former sea -mates. An elder brother of mine ran away, to sea as a lad, and finally became boatswain of a schooner which sailed out of. Liverpool on eleven -months trips to India, (arrf'ing coolies from Cal- cutta to the sugar plantations ' of Demerara. Although he married and tried to settle down ashore, he always I`num *' £ N asci:fACI'S OR`' . A� ALSO f O *Immo1��'�uSJR ► Ea [UNNINLY , edged Rio Terhulelaii X'HO E OR CALL 7 Wklder St,,. Goderich. Phone !ft The Signal -Star Job department ifs equipped , for all kinds of pri'nting, vvritten , anything like that about a Telephone. 71 when you need office steamship. The reason is that the stationery or other printing. steamer has within itself the means i of propulsion and makes straight for Advertising in The Signal -Star OW its goal, while the sailing'ship spreads ' dividends. its ' wings like a bird to the varying winds and has to wrestle with. the elemen,ts to make headway. The modern ocean liner is a majestic and purposeful thi,/Ig., but it is not to be compared for'beauty and romance with a full-rigged ship slantingly tacking had a hankering to be "off to sea against a head -wind. again," and when the fif•st• Great War With the disappearance (If the 'old -- broke out he joined the Marines and time sailing ship has gone the old-time was wounded in ,the landing at sailor, and we no 'longer sing the old Memorials songs of the sea, such as Tom Bowling, The anchor's Weighed: The Bay of and reeve of Clinton Pur five years and Biscay, Larboard Watch and Rocked in then Mayor for two years (1938-39). Ile was Conservative in, polities and 'contested the riding of South Huron in- 1932, losing by only, a few votes. Ile died in 1940. ()tie of George I?iliott's sons. E(iWard. followed in his father's footsteps; and is also ;l prominent auctioneer in the district. While ouersetts with the Canadian forc•es,"Eddie, as he is known to 1iis friends, spent some tine in. En- _uiskilleu, Ireland, where_ his 011cest10s were bo►'i1. ;and ,althongli he found 11 number of cottsims he could locate no one by flue 10111(' of Elliott. II'e visited the 1;1 'his grandf:lt110r 01100• u'.V1i d 0(1(1'f1/1111d till' sauie 111:111 to whu111 lie had sold 11 ,,St in 111 ,;(1111):11 1.1/11. 1I( 11 ISO \'i iic(l the•sch(41 11i» father and uncles 'attended when •.mall boys, be- fore they left Ireland. falilily of 1•:1liotts \\t're-origit4al- 1;y ("lllu'ell of England. Cemetery the Cradle of the Deep, which were so popular on concert platforms up to forty years ago. From the sailor's point of view, we need not regret the passing of the old windjammers, for it was a bard and often a wretched life on the roiling deep in those days But life in general was harder than it is today, and the modern sailor does not seem to be, aspy and contented T. PRYDE ' & ‘,ON (formerly, Cennirigaam & Pryde) s: Clinton, Exeter, Seaforth Write Box 150, or phone 41,T, Exeter and we shall be pleased to call. DICK- 'THE, ,UPHOLSTERER Phone NO.567W Estimates Free' PhoNo Obligations! FOR SERVICE AND GUARANTEED WORE Wake Up And •Sigig chis e' d li �(7 ': F tl'd J EM -T),, veli ,'.vol up in the rnllrnin°„'Pull of pep and -',lace. 1,1 ''e : 4vci Or lire VW]. 11 tired as 4V•her you ..400 t 1'c, 1,,--,H 1' '.:o .ffe fr-im io::1t l:'r'ts restless t'1 ,1,!111•, 1,r 11 Oeie 1 rim •151\\'1) ( '(`1,.i t! 'i :..1.ce t- r: tr,i1111 for Ii,o L,' t.'I:YU .r l ye! , . '1 "'v. (',,1,tta115 t !te 11urt'..“ 1,r in h;•7','�l5'-:, l,- 1"t:1t1 are made ,1:1 l . :: , .,l =: i' st i ruulat- • -- r ',•, 1 r 're sold tl"'� i•\ t �1 \ '•t 154'10 141 1(,«)11 • .,1: 1-11,,, 1 ra11e 0:0! 11 ;he '' l.4:d (heart." Co„ I snit. -d Toronto. Ont. >o .1 400 that never push a clutch! 4. 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