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HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1977-09-15, Page 3ANNOUNCEMENT TO FARMERS On September 15, Mr. Hank Broeze retires from the feed business in Varna where he has served the farming community well fair the past 20 years. Mr. Frank Roth, a local farmer in the Var- na area has purchased the mill and will be • offering the same service as well as bulk delivery and pick up. We have been privileged to be associated with Mr. Broeze for these many years and look forward to similar good relations with the -new owner, Mr. Frank Roth. We wish Mr. Broeze many happy years of , retirement and Mr. Roth many years' of success ., in serving the Varna farm com- munity: SHURuiGAIN DIVISION CANADA®PACKERS Peopie tn roe:'Huron raws native ome .., By Shelley McPhee future of the Ontario Street church enthusiasm, was ordained in 1936. addition which was then being con- Harold was born in Londesboro in With a brand new career and sidered. , January 1906 to Humphrey Snell and the profession, Harold took the train west to George Lavis, in introducing Harold to former Elilabeth Hawthorne. . Saskatchewan to start his ministry in the congregation, reminded them that a He said he grew up as al mongrel since Sonningdale. He stayed on loan for' a group of people from the church went to he had four grandparents from four yearand then returned to Ontario, to speak with Rev. Snell about the new different great nationalities. Ethel, where he preached for six years. addition since he had gone through a He also said he was a mixed up kid, similar building experience in Exeter. "My father was a Methodist and my According to George, Harold told the mother was a . good Scotch From Ethel Harold went on to Auburn group that the Exeter addition was only Presbyterian," he laughed. where he was the minister for four made two-thirds original its oriin size and • Harold considered ,farming when he years. Then he was called to the St. they thought that someday it would be was trying to find something that would James Church, now,' E'xetera, United, made bigger, but Harold warned the make the most of his life but he said, "I where he surprisingly rooted himself for group, "We should never cut the Lord's didn't think farming was. going to allow l2 years. s • work doivn." me to help people." , , . By this time Harold had spent 22 years It is obvious that Harold lives by his In 1926, Harold left Londesboro for the , in the Huron Presbytery. • statements for he has tackled . the city of Toronto to attend university • <'1 was a fixture," he explained. • "Lord's work" with full force over the there, He graduated in 1930 with a' BA "n .as fixturarold moved again, this time past�four decades. and taught in a boys' schgol for three to Riverside Church in London until 19.73 "I had a wack at farming, and a wack years. when he -went back to Exeter.as a retired at teaching and a wack at preaching. However, in 1933 he returned to assistant and he has been there since. I've stayed with preaching for 41 years Queen's University in Kingston and so I guess it was right," he noted with graduated from theological college and Despite the fact ' that Harold has remained relatively stationary for .the last few years, he still travels around the area teaching and preaching the word of God. He often speaks to groups. such as historical societies and women's groups along with various guest, spots and churches. Public relations has always been an important concern of Harold, "I've struggled with my abilities to know people. Not some people, but all people." Remembering people is one of Harold's attributes. During Sunday's service he easily named off the number of people he attended school with. He had not forgotten that the organist, Mrs. Harry Lear was his old neighbour and even talking to this writer, Harold noted that he knew my parents, grandparents and neighbours and recounted the days he spent hunting and fishing on the creek that ran through the Jim McPhee and Phillip Clark property at R.R. 5, Goderich. The years of travelling and preaching have not taken their toll on Harold. He still ably fills the church with his voice and holds the congregation's attention with little difficulty. ' , His eyes are still filled with mischief and his face which has hundreds of expressions to prove a point, is usually set in a wide grin. For some people there seems to be some unseen magnetic force that draws them back to their home territories. It is perhaps this force that has taken Rev. Harold Snell across Canada and in turn j rrought him back to his home territory pf Huron County. - Although Harold now lives in. Exeter, pt,he returned to Ontario Street United Church last Sunday as a guest speaker. The church 'is not unfamiliar to him; along with preaching there in the past, Harold also took his. bride, the former Jean Plumsteel there and remembered attending the church in 1919 when he was a student at the Clinton high school. In his sermon, Harold recalled the days when Sam. Anderson was the preache • . "When Mr. Anderson was uck foe a word he would look down and lit, `Mother what word do I want.' arold also had some thoughts and opinions back in the 1950's that told the Judge Hays dies suddenly...... continued rrom page 1 on March 30, 1914. His great- grandfather, Robert Hays, a native of Londonderry, Ireland, migrated to the United States, then to Waterloo county, 9, wherehe founded Haysville, and in 1844 arrived in Huron, purchasing 200 acres in Concession III of McKillop. James and Sarah (Archibald) Hays, Glenn's parents; lived .at Egmondville, a Seaforth suburb, and Glenn, youngest of four sons, attended Egmondville school and Seaforth Collegiate. • He took a year's course at Stratford Normal School in public school teaching. Later he read law with the firms of Hays and Meir, Seaforth, and Arnoldi, Parry A Campbell, Toronto, for two years, after three years at Osgoode Hall,' Toronto, graduated , as barrister and solicitor. He was called of the Bar in 1938. He was partner with Patrick D. McConnell, Q.C., in Seaforth, from 1938 to 1951. In the former years, when 24, he Cad become active in South Huron Conservative Association, but ter- minated all political activity upon his first appointment to public office:. He was solicitor for Seaforth and several townships, a member of Seaforth Lions Club and the Royal Canadian Legion branch there. From 1940 to 1946 he served in the Royal Canadian Naval Volunteer Reserve. Commissioned lieutenant in 1942, he was appointed to the semi -regal Obst of naval representative of the Dependents Allowance Board in Western former Scott Memorial Hospital Judge Hays' qualities as Crown Attorney building. His marriage took place in 1950 and on the Bench are published and in July, 1952, he acquired the former elsewhere in this newspaper. residence of Judge E.N. Lewis, 85 -Essex The swearing-in as magistrate in 1959 Street, with spacious grounds which took place in the chambers of Judge Judge and Mrs. Hays continued to Frank Fingland in the courthouse, beautify. witnessed by quite a large gathering of Judge Hays was a member, of lawyers, members of the county staff, Goderich Horticultural Society, provincial and Goderich police and president in 1953-54. He was a founding representatives of the Children's Aid member of Huron Historical Society, Society. In his first public statement as and for some years had been chairman magistrate, Glenn Hays stressed the of the constitution and bylaws com- importance of matters affecting child mittee. He was secretary for some years and youth welfare. of the Huron Bar Association, and was a He said: "Anythirig touching the former president of Huron Tuberculosis welfare of children and the youth of our Association. He was made a Queen's district, and indeed the whole country, is Counsel in 1950. of paramount importance... When you Judge Hays was greatly interested in get down to real values, the question of county history, and took pleasure in care and guidance of children probably driving about Huron, especially the transcends the allotting of dollars in pleasant byways of Tuckersmith. He other types of cases in court." often dropped in at the homes of old In his second year on the Bench, he residents or their descendants, received said his aim was to mete out sentences invariably with great pleasure. designed to reform individuals, not to When he was appointed magistrate, have them return to society embittered, the Huron Expositor recalled his but rather to be equipped with gainful Tuckersmith nativity, adding: "Interest employment in a competitive society. is by no means confined to the Seaforth He greatly increased the number of area, and there will be, general ex- probations where such seemed ap- pressions of good will toward Magistrate propriate. Judge Hays sometimes Hays, and inherent in these will be the visited reform institutions and training wish for a long and successful career on schools and in 1961 attended the the Bench." _ Canadian Congress of Corrections at the ' At the opening of court in Goderich on University of Toronto. Monday, members of the - legal The duties of magistrate.'.`for Huron" profession spoke of Judge Hays as a man involved presiding over court sessions at of great understanding and of com- Clinton, Seaforth, Exeter and Wingham • Canada. A brother, Dr. Archibald Hays passion, who took great care to look into throughout the year, whatever the served in the Royal Flying Corps. all matters before him, giving as much weather. As Provincial Judge, he took When he left Seaforth. to reside in time as. necessary ton ensure that these courts only when there were Goderich, 'Glenn Hays was living in a defendants or accused.- persons un; , criminal charges. house on James Street, adjacent to the derstood the case. Tributes relating to ,, .. ... 0 0 Despite the fact that Harold is of- ficially "called a retired assistant, his abilities as a minister, his lively per- sonality and his mobility are far from retired. After 41 years of preaching and travelling, Rev. Harold Snell still wears a broad smile and a bright twinkle in his eye. (News -Record photo) Fund raising., . continued from page ,1 funds)," McKay said. Of the $100,000 estimated cost to fix the arena, `$30,000 would come from Com- munity Centres Act grant, the next $30,000 would come from a fund raising campaign, then the town would be eligible for a $30,000 Wintario Lottery grant, while the balance would come from a debenture. The steering committee, composed of Marie Jefferson, Ray Garon, Clarence Neilans, Cleo Couquhoun, and Dennis Jewitt will meet at a later date. The rec committee will also approach the Clinton Lions Club to discuss relocation the tractor room, which the Cions had indicated they might fund. Two years ago the rec hoard obta'ned an estimate of $10,000 to relocate the tractor room at the north end of the arena, away from the spectators and hockey player; who must go by it to get to the lobby. 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