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Home My WebLink AboutClinton News-Record, 1975-07-10, Page 131 1 CT me in thele ton, but the Health Inspector keep ld, n� " television and radio 1� W�w tuts Zdeb; told literal didn't have to go.' . , with world events and he •�•er£ Mpg Mar- �+�acnes ,ilio t+�wtt at. least once a day. f Marshall 'S�Qun� is a loner, has.net I was: ,bora en the town o ,This spring Jennie died a g 'I'venothing . dressed lif a:a fas lion plate; �tndi y his own shall totally alone: He pl. ` remain at I ' e got against n t th nto not Ina day is landlord Clinton, ved admission is a poor housekeeper. his present. ' ha�arie as le on a Barin all my iil'�• Ii just never wanted and age, that stresses the imptartance a insulates it before Ile cold sets in. to leve in mown: ''ire said. social mingling, scented deoderan ,,In -..the winter it's the coldest place I've Now in his 86th year. Marshall said that . paste with sex appeal,., andhospital-like- ever seen," he said. is he hadn't been tough and strong all l cleanlhcleSS in the home„ 85► year-old When he does. decide to move though. the- is life "I'd have never made it.'' ' Marshall is regarded as something of an last place he will go to is the County`Horne. e '1 hoal reason that I'm still alive. is "Jennie was there for three and a half because Godygave me a g heart and it years 'and She hated it,. he said. If I was still works." ping to go some place or wanted to go He's. survived three operations and .has some place it would be when I wanted to been advised to have�a kidney operation by go. That way, `I can't blame anyone else his doctor. though, and I think !I live just as on • eeccntric, whose lifestyle many people ean'tleven begin to imagine. " Forth+' lastthreeyears,, a wooden shanty OP • the- Bayfield Road has toserved asshis f the oc►me. He has no gardenspeak weeds and wild grasses grew unchecked - around the building, to crake me do what I don t Although, it has recently been wired for'44 nobody's going without an operation as I would .it 1 had .electricity and running water, Marshalls want to do, aria nobody. can cue Rue, �„� on ,. hesaid: "castle" is not your ars of the d arshaN has also, for the decision.'' ••M . kt4Ctey's never bothered me ••Maybe it's a feeling of my old age but y 1 g run•of-the-mill M hall as the sole survivor outlived a fire that _ � nrnls-the dwelling, Two-eiatbelly a family of 11 ehddreh born toHenry • damaged his hoinetwo winters ago. His • rsel furnished lane Young. . He saw his first dam -M iddl.e of-an.-otheirwise-spa Y __ Ala, eyes gin s scad a_srnlie codes to,his.lips as parlour. The coal and wood stove heats Ids from the House that his father Milt t he remembers that cold day whey► ilxe f ' home in file warmer summer months of the bush a few mites north of Bennio.11er. When department, potli.chief and Clinton Neus- iear: while the oil stave operates during his father died he came to manage the the winter. Everything in the three-room general term On the Maitland Concession shack . is stained with the sooty grime from 19''J to 1932. Iwo years later he emitted from the old heaters. The.cellar married the former Jennie Brown. se ve,s as a refrigerator and an old •`A bunch of us used to drive around outhouse graces the back of the building the County and 1 met Jennie ane day at reminders of a way of life long since gone. Mua•cia's Dom► Store." If the house could be said to have He was l4 when he married. "None of us haven't seer- chickens," he,said. "I met a let Character, you obviously was .sprang Marshall yet. of - good girls before Jennie but what A small, wiry individual, he still moves. stopped me from marrying one was I didn't quickly for all his years. A few whisps of want them to marry poor. By1934, I was hair axe all that remain of his ready to support a wife." His allow, unshavefl face • Longbefore women s Lib, Jennie refused distinguished tin glory.. is stinguished wi a receeding jaw• to stay home and dean the house for her what makes Marshal "My wife `wouldn't housekeep. She sold attitude of social defiance carte —distinct by his lack o teeth Rut is 1 husband. Record answered the fire call. •'1 was sitting 1.ipstairs with my fe just smoking my pipe when a lady d - by into town came to the door and there was smoke coming out of th '`wivMbW. •`Your house is on fire a going to burn to death. she said.' That'll be the day. I told her!, 1 didn't even know the cellar was burning." Besides the day that he briefly came into the public eye, Marshall is ; os for the pretty proud of the time he tended/ g fo__.. Clinton Colts hockey team. •'Wc pretty well were the best team in the County," he said. e unty in -the -wool Co nservative who hparance isn't utltque: its his a* and self relian t up iving Id me. cellar . you're Ilett andStratford and never was born in `pretty -old �•�*� hard times'," • Marshall feels that its baker to live today. self-reliance, cleaned house •'• though, , and "Irk fate what a lo Priortohis move to Clinton, Marshall She was good company. g of buttera � casts and his wife, Jennie lived on a farm at;ie Marshall admits to feeling lonely at timespoundarengoing to get tx 0secon concession of Hullett Township. without her. gets out of office." gangrene in her leg, aToday in 1c .' M. • Je ie developed gangs••I used to visit her at Huraravierw and two few,y+ears ag�►.,and though Marshall could weeks before she died I toils her out on the days are numbered and that he hasn't got stop'. it from spreading with liniment, h town too much longer to layc. A Eery f: -tends step by to visit him, but � it~ � he Lf and when he didecide that he can no of bread and a today : and things tter until Trudeau rshall feels that '4his A man's Name is `his. castle, so the saying gam, and for 850year- oldalarshall Young this shanty on the Bayfield Road is home. sjudets, awarde "The County ca .and put -her --inter the **all my friends are pretty well in t couldn t ou County Homes' he said. "They tried to put. cemetery. . ario Scholarships longer Tend' for hi turn to the Salvatf being, - however. Goderich • Tow personalities --an elf. he will probably re Army. For the time he remains one of -hip's more colourful a breed of individual who is fast fadin 4 into the past. Nine grade 13 students at Central Huron Secondary School excelled themselves this year, and all nine have been recommended for Ontario Scholarships, principal R .J . Homuth announced last week. .Cheryl Ann Webster, daughter of Mr. and Mrs, Grant Webster of RR 1, Varna was the top of the grade .1 3 graduating class with an outstanding 94.3 per cent avers e in -her—sub- jects. Next came Alex Wilfred Wester.hout, 'son of Mr. and Mrs. Pieter Westerhout of Londesboro. Alex achieved an• average of 86.8 percent in his subjects. Audrey Jane Gingerich, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Keith Gingerieh of RR12, Zurich, received an average of 86.2 per cent. Carole Louise Weber, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Weber of RR 2, Clinton achieved an average of 84-2 percent. Richard William Sneli; son of Mr. and Mrs; R.J. Snell of RR 1 Londesboro was next with fan average of 82.0 percent. Jay Paul Thomas tJ niac, son of Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Uniac :af RR2, Bayfield gathered an average of 81.0 per cent. Wanda 'Mar''ie Malcolm, daughter of Mr. and. Mrs. Phillip Matcelrin • of Victoria Street in Seaforth, and Richard Sebastian Mommersteeg, son of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Morn• mersteeg. of RR2 Zurich tied 4vith an average of 80.0 each. Cheryl Ann Webster Alex Wildred Wester%out Wanda i.1ar-ww'!flat'ot,ir Carole Louise Wi.btr . Willia Martin Roest o I man +t ` a. rste'."g' AA ud reyy Jane Gingerieh Jay Pau ThomasI rpt i(I( Rieha Miura 4.1