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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance-Times, 1972-04-13, Page 2, , PUBLIC ��A��/�� • The Maitland Valley Conservation Authority. and 0 0 the Corporation of the Town of Wingham intend to i undertake chemical treatment of the aquatic weeds in , a porion of the Wingham nand between May 31st I i and June 9th, .1972. • The area to be treated is 3.2. acres adjacent to the camping area on the south 'bank of the. pond. 0 Ail persons who may be affected by, or request- 0 o ing information"' on this treatment, please immediately r contact the undersigned. ', • - Mrs. M. R. Sh +�iei %%, • •= + - Secretary -Treasurer• •0 i " Maitland Valley 'Conservation Authority $ Box, 5,Wroxeter, Ont. , ' ; Phrblhe 83 ' so... i o S Page 2—The Wingham Advance -Times, Thursday, April 1.3, 1972 MrsHaflnian it named lakelet WI president LAKELET—The roll call for the annual meeting of the' No - men's Institute, held at the home of Mrs. H. Wallace, was "The meeting I enjoyed most last year" and payment of fees. Ans- wers recalledsome very interest- ing programs. Mrs. Ja,eques and Mrs. Wallace' were named a committee to or- ganize the Cancer Society canvas and Mrs„. Murray is to look after the order forms for plants. Mrs. Wallace and Mrs. Jacques are also in charge of the table deco- ration for the district annual meeting. The feature, "Church Music", was read by Mrs. Gadke :and in- stitute pins were presented to club leaders. Convener reports brought back highlights of events during the past year. Mrs. Wallace acted as chair- man for the election of officers: Past president, Mrs. P. Huth; president, Mrs. D. Hallman; sec- retary -treasurer, Mrs. E. Fergu- son; assistant, Mrs. L. Murray; district director, Mrs. Huth; al- ternate, Mrs. Jacques; PRO, Mrs. L. Murray; branch direc- tors, Mrs. R. Wood, E. David, H. Hohnstein; auditors, Mrs. G. Wright, Mrs. K. Crowe. Nominating committee, Mrs. A. Gadke, R. Allan, E. David; pianists, Mrs. Versteeg, Mrs. Murray; .good cheer, Mrs. Green - ley, Mrs. Wright; press reporter, Tape recording used topic BRUSSELS - " The afternoon unit of the UCW 'was held at the home of Miss Laura Lucas. on Tuesday of last . week with .21 ladies in attendance. Mrs.. C. Hemingway was in charge of . the devotions , which centred on the Easter theme. The. scripture was read by Mrs. W. Miller, while Mrs. C. Parker led in prayer. Mrs. Hemingway read a poem, `An Easter Hill". The ladies joined in singing songs from an African Sudan hymn sheet: Mrs. 'IL Thomas convened the business. Plans were made to attend the Thankoffering service in Blyth on April 9. Miss Lucas.presented the Afri- can 'study' topic: It° took the form of a tape recording and told the story of the first Bibles on the Is land of Madagascar. The mis- sionaries were banished by the Queen, but they managed sec- retly to leave some hidden°Sibles. Birdling, an intelligent slave girl, learned to read and study. Due to her unceasing efforts she • won the admiration of her mistress and , finally she and many other slaves were. con- verted. "No longer can I buy and sell your bodies nor can I whip you to satisfy my demands. . You are free," decreed the slave owner. Following the Queen's 'death, the people of Madagascar were ..allowed .to own, read and study God's Word as printed in the Bible. The next meeting will be May 2nd at the 'home of Mrs. White. Bridal veils should be saved. Later on they make wonderful mosquito netting for junior's crib. Mrs. Wallace; ways and means, Mrs. David, Mrs. Gadke; cura- tor, Mrs. Allan. Standing committees, agricul- ture and Canadian Industries, Mrs. Allan, Mrs. Judge; citizen- ship and world affairs, Mrs. L. Forler, Mrs. 0. Howitt; educa- tion ducation and cultural activities, Mrs. R. Wood, Mrs. P. Huth; family and consumer affairs, Mrs. K. Crowe, Mrs. H. Hohnstein; reso- lutions, Mrs. Jacques. A meeting to plan programs will be Monday, April 17, at the home of Mrs. Allan. Arrange- ments for the trip to the florist's will be made by Mrs. D, Hallman. The regular May meeting will be at the home of Mrs. Allan and will be an evening meeting. Mrs. Wallace .moved a vote of thanks to Mrs. Huth for her lead- ership during her term as presi- dent. Lunch was served , by Mrs. Jacques and Mrs. Versteeg: BRUCE DICKERT was selected most valuable player of the Belmore Bantam team. He' is seen with Jim McKague, the team's coach. —Staff Photo. News Items from Old Files APRIL 1937 Members of the Wingham branch of the Canadian Legion elected officers at their meeting last week. President is Kenneth Weaver; vice presidents George Williams, J. H. Currie and P. Harris; »H. Browne is secretary and treasurer is H. E. Isard. Joe Kerr has been awarded the contract for trucking gravel for the Township of East Wawanosh. The Selrite Store will in the near future change the location of their store. They have leased a portion of the Mills Block, for- merly the Peacock Cafe. One of the county's best-known doctors, James Benson Whitely, M.D. of Goderich, ' died Monday evening after a four-day illness with peumonia. He was in his 82nd year. Named directors of the Wing - ham Hospital Company Limited were Dr. A. W. Irwin, J. Walton McKibbon, J: A. Wilson, R. S. Hetherington, Richard H. Lloyd and Herbert Campbell. The hos- pital is located in the house of the late A. W. 'Webster on Carling Terrace. Local entries owned -by- Currie - and Tervit and Clayton Fryfogle were successful in winning prizes at the Perth County, Horse Show in Stratford last week. Kenneth R. McKenzie of Kin- loss Township has presented the Lueknow Agricultural Society with a . house and an acre of ground in the village. The Society is considering_ the building of a 'race track on the property. Mr. and Mrs. B. 0. MacDonald and son, Brussels, are moving to Cromarty where Mr. MacDonald has purchased .a general store. Bud Wakeford has accepted a position with the ' R. A. Spotton Memorial Shop: " •Mrs. J. Wickstead is president of the Bluevale .Women's Insti- tute. Other officers include Mrs. Alex Mowbray, Mrs. Alice Aitken. and Miss M. Olive Scott. APRIL 1947 . R. ' R. . Hobden was elected president of the Wingham Lawn Bowling Club at its annual meet- ing Monday evening(Vice presi- HEARING TESTS VANCE'S DRUGS-WINGHAM Friday, Apr. 14 - 1 to 3p .m. NO OBLIGATION Batteries, accessories, repairs to most makes DON BRIGHTRALL, District' 'Manager HEARING AIDS E. R. THEDE Hearing Aid Service Ltd., 88 Queen St., Kitchener , dents are A. R. DuVal and C. H. McAvoy and H. L. Sherbondy 'is secretary -treasurer. Mr. and Mrs. John Fitch of Wroxeter wish to announce the engagement of their youngest daughter, Ethel Rose, to Alvin Lloyd Montgomery of Wingham. The marriage will take- place in April. Miss Muriel Redmond of To- ronto, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. R. C. Redmond of Wingham, has been appointed home economics consultant of the Community Service Society in New York. Miss Yvonne Douglas of Walker °' Stores Ltd. is attending the School of Corsetry which is being held in Toronto this week by the Dominion Company. J. P. McKibbon is president of ' the Retail Merchants' Associa- tion. ' Vice president , is Robin Campbell and C. Cantelon is sec- retary -treasurer. ' News editor arid announcer at CKNX, Hugh Gage, will' com- mence duties ' as program direc- tor of CKVC in Niagara Falls on May 15th. The new station at the,. falls, which, opens June 1st,' is owned, and :operated by Howard St. Paul's Church (ANGLICAN) WINGHAM REV. T. K. HAWTHORN, Rector MRS. HARRY BRYDGES, Organist . and Choir Leader Sunday, April 16 Easter 11 8.30 a.m.--Holy Communion. Corporate Communion and Breakfast for the men of the Parish 11.00. a.m.--,Morning Prayer and Sermon Meetings Mon., April 17—Sunday School staff meets at the home of Mrs. Wm. Connell Bedford until recently -a-eco- owner of CKNX. " Alton Adams was named presi- dent of the Wingham Recreation Council last week, 'succeeding D. Nasmith. Vice . presidents are Emery L. Stuckey and ' Percy ,Stainton; secretary is Miss Aud- rey Boe and treasurer is R. R." Hobden. W. J. Hallahan hasbeen busy over the weekend plowing out the 'East .Wawanosh roads with the County caterpillar plow but' he was unable to .plow4 it through.. the deep snow around the river banks at Charlie Leaver's to open the Wingham Mail Route No. 3. School re -opened . Monday - morning in Gorrie with Mrs: Allan Hyndman in charge of .the junior room in place of Miss June Brown who has resigned. Attend- ance was increased by eleven be- ginners. Harold, V. Kerney of Brussels, ,veteran of two World Wars, was appointed this week as Post- master at the Brussels Post Of- fice. APRIL 1958 Meeting last week the Wing - ham Public School Board set a new salary schedulefor teachers on the staff. Minimum salary has been set at $2,400'Qith the maxi - murk at $4,200. Presently salaries at the. school range from $2,600 to $3,400. Knox Presbyterian Church, Bluevale, will celebrate the 100th anniversary of the founding of the congregation on June 15th when the speaker will be a former min- ister, Rev. John Greig of Toronto. Thieves 'operating in the com- munity removed . a newspaper stand from the entrance to Vance's Drug Store. They then pried open the coin box which was filled with nickels and cop- ,pers, deposited by newspaper buyers. Total loot is estimated. between seven and eight dollars. Mrs. Jim Currie. is the new president of the Kinette Club with vice president, Mrs,.. John Currie. Mrs. Bruce MacDonald is secre- tary; Mrs. Harvey . Fisher treas- urer, with other officers Mrs. Cy Robinson, Mrs. . Lloyd Ellacott and Mrs. Len Crawford. Several members of the Girl Guides received proficiency badges last week. They. are Karen Elliott, Judith McKibbon, Sue Nasmith, Ruth Hodgins, and Jean Jones. Four girls became new members of ,the , Guides, Mary Ellen McPhail, Susap.Spry, Coralie Hammerton and Jacque- line Saint. Cecil Merkley of Wingham has received an award for 30 years' association with Shell Oil Com- pany of Canada. Frances Newman, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Chris Newman of 'Wingham became the bride of Bruce Edgar of Hamilton on Saturday, April 2nd. They will make their home in Hamilton. Two new families in the village of Bluevale are Mr. and Mrs. An- drew Jacklin and daughter formerly of Kitchener and Mr. and Mrs. William Guppy and two children of Richmond Hill. Mrs. David Eadie is president Of the Belmore Women's Institute with other officers named being Mrs. Walter Woods, Mrs. John Rutherford, Mrs. Appleby ,and Mrs. Cin -le. ' Bluevale Recent visitors with Mr. and Mrs. Bert Garniss were Mr. and Mrs. N. S. Calvert of Paris. . Mr. and ° Mrs. A. ' D. Smith visited at Breslau on Sunday. A leader, we are told, has two distinctive »'rharartpristics. He knows where he is going : And he knows how to persuade other peo- ple to go along with him. Missiol PRESCRIPTION DRUGS & SURGICAL SUPPLIES WINGHAM • — ONTARIO life 'explained to. members of Kiiox"WMS BLUEVALE—The spring Thankoffering • meeting of the WMS of Knox Presbyterian Church was held in the church school room last Tuesday • eve- ning. Guests were present from Bluevale, Molesworth, and Gor- rie. The president, Mrs. Tenn Gol- ley, gave the call to worship and the hymn "The Day of , Resurrec- missionaries who are home on furlough from. the Madaoua Nig- er ' Mission bordering Nigeria. Mrs. Harbottle gave a very inter- esting and educational commen- tary: on the film shown by' Mr. Harbottle. She spoke of the' ways of life and the hardships of the people there,: the work that is be- ing done and the work which is still to be done. The language tion>' wras sung.. hors. ° l eith: Mof- '''spoken, by, these natives is .called fatt; presided at the piano. Scrip- • the Hausa language. 'An average family is twelve and quite often only three survive. Mr. and Mrs. Harbottle also displayed many interesting exhibits they brought home from the mission field. Mrs. Bernard Thomas thanked the guest speakers for their inter- esting commentaries and film and presented therm with 'a gift. Another hymn was sung with Mrs, William Robertson . at the piano and the meeting was closed with the Lord's prayer in unison. Refreshments were served and , a :social 'time was enjoyed. ' ture was read by Mrs. William Robertson who also read .a poem, "Easter Joy". Mrs. Ross Mann offered prayer. • . The guests were welcomed by the president and Paul Moffatt and Larry Elliott • sang a duet, "Each Step I Take". Roll call was answered by the members. and visits to the sick were record- ed. . . The offering was received by Mrs. Harry Elliott, Mrs. Alvin Smith, Mrs. Burns Moffatt and Mrs. Gordon Mundell and dedi- cated by the president. Mrs. Golleythen introduced the guest speaker and her husband, Mr. ‘and Mrs. Elvin Harbottle, Lakelet Mr. and Mrs. Irvin Dickert and Mr. and Mrs. Ron Dickert visited Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Gor- ,odon Kline at Baden. • Mr. and Mrs. Warren Zurbrigg were Sunday visitors with 'Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Butt at Palm'ers- ton. Mr. and Mrs. Laverne Green - ley and family and Mrs. Shirley Heimbecker and family spent the weekend with Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Noble in London. They called on Mr. and Mrs. Brian Clark in Mit- chell enroute. Bluevale Llojtd Clifton, student' minister, Toronto, preached in Knox Pres- byterian Church on Sunday. Harvey Messer of Toronto visited Mrs. Raymond Elliott at the weekend. _ - Mr. and Mrs. Ross Mann visited Mr. and Mrs. John Mann at Clinton on. Sunday. • Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Elliott and Mrs. Albert Porter of Lucknow were recent visitors with Mr. and Mrs. Alex Verbeek at Gorrie. Guests of Mr. and Mrs. George Lowis this week are Mrs. Ed. Halliday of Listowel and Mrs. Fulton of Erin, BELMORE BANTAMS defeated Kurtzville 3-2 in the Tri - County league in a series that went five full games. Front, Jim Mawhinney, Garth Dickert, Glen Hayes, Peter Inglis, Brian Dailey, Kevin ' Haskins. Back row, Ivan Mawhinney (manager), Graham Rutherford; Paul Inglis, Allen Willits, David Mawhinney, Kevin Fischer, Bruce Dickert, and Jim McKague. —Staff Photo. GUARANTEED TRUST CERTIFICATES Here's a great way to put your money to work: 71/2% interest, guaranteed on 5 -year term deposits. Other terms available. Minimum deposit, $500. Call or drop in and see us today. TORONTO -372 Bay Street (416) 364-7495 BAR RIE — 35 Dunlop Street (705) 726-6495 ORILLIA — 73 Mississaga St. E., (705) 325-2226 WINGHAM E. 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