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'Mary's "..Church ' 'Dublin for ally decided to follow 'forth, Shore town.
James Disney Of Kill County, Keppel Disney, . the second, • Elias, who was to beCome
Carlow, to marry Anne -Moore came to visit James J.. Pearson's father of Walt., attended schOol
of Dublin,• spinster, July 31, grandmother, Catherine a n d' at Bluevale and Goderich and
1818. 'Also .we find a case \of a thereupon met her, sister. After was 19 when he bid goodbye to
Thomas Disney Jr.; acting , for the necessary interval of serious canada to continue and end'his
Lady Longford, securing• lands wooing, he wed .the lady and life in the United States. Elias,
immediately decided to move unfortunately "was not blessed
-inland" to cut his own niche in with his father's aggressiveness
'-Disneys TO 'Churchill Family
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The , Genealogical Office . in in Ireland.. This' statement is.
Dublin, Ireland, provided in- born • out in the Dublin letter,A.
formation about the Disney fain- Quotes the Genealogical record-.
ily, some .of whom lived in :the e,r: "Our tiles show that a Kep-
Goderich,.Holinesville, and Blue- pel'Disney, -son of Robert, was.:
-vale areas at one time. - This in- married to a Frances Best in the
formation - was obtaihed by .town of Leighlinbridge on the •
James, J. Pearson, of Ethel, On--B-arrow in 1795." ft was , from
tariCwho sought to•trace a veil- the ..13est familY that the name
„Aegling_link witn the, Pearson Elias '.waS derived. .‘
,and Disrieffarifire'rrn"1" that or It tinPortant-to-terriember
the Churchill family. 9.,f Which, this name "Elias" because the
, Sir, Winston Churchill is a dis- father of the famons cartoonist-
... 'Anguished member. producer was known by that
Writing in the 'Listowel Ban-: name—but he was Elias Disney
ner on the subject„ Editor ,Cy the.second. 'Starting back in the
Bamford says: year 1740, the chronicler notes
WheeJames ,L. was in this thiS succession: Keppel, Elias,
office a week a.,zo, .be recalled Koppel, Elias and then the
. that the PearSons and' the Dis- world famous Walt.
neyS knew one another well, liv- Genealogical official Eustage
ing in towns only 12 miles apart adds: "License directed ' to St.
for Richarda Georgina Pearson,
acting for her hugband, Richayd
Pearson (deceased). The money ,this Queen's Bush. The site he, and led more or less of a shift -
involved about 5,000 poynds., chose to farm was located about! less existence, sojourning for a
William Disney' was acting a -three miles west by south,of! spell in Chicago—where Walt
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ministrator and Robert Anthon .I.Bluevale. !Was born — and then on to
Disney was witness." [. Keppel developed into a Kansas. , -
Anyhow, it appears the' Pear-. strong personality ' and an ag- - And according to James J.
!sons decided td forego their!gressive promoter, He found Pearson, Walt wasn't much bet-
' holdings or:i .the Emerald Isle; that prosperity through farming ter than' his father and for a
,New World,. Consequently on'e tedious affair so after siring recognized for his artistic tal-
! day in ,the year 1850, a .brarrchl seven children, he gathered up ents, was labelled a squanderer
of the 'famil'y arrived in Gode-rhis brood and returned to a ard a n'er-do-well. It was his
,rich—then being advocated as place ailed Saltford, ne.ar, brother, Ray -- a. man blessed
a promising mecca by John GaltrGoderich. There ICippel.b'ecame with knowing the value .of a
:They kept up correspondence,one of the ifirst—if not the first shekel, — who turned fortune
with their Disney -friends back!,—to begin salt .mining opera- Walt's way. He is now and al -
in Ireland and apparently made., tions in that area. This indus- ways' has been the man behind
!those letters sound so adventur- :try continues to be perhaps the the scene who really directs the
.ous that the Disney's eventu-i best -known one in that lake- Disney enterprises.
James J. Pearson has never
spoken or written to Walt,, but
has carried on correspondence
with Roy who provIded
c.)r,iderable of the information
he is -compiling. Walt, of course,
never saw Bluevale until about
10 years ago when. he toured
the land settled by his 'grand-
father. James J. Pearson's ar-
rival from Owessd on that oc-
casion just missed meeting his
famous kin -folk by about two
weeks.
of Kelstern, Sask., are spending
-tho_mon.ths_ September and
October in Goderielf iligiting -the
latter's ' brother, Mr. Ernest
Hickingbottom, and sister, Miss
Mabel Hickirigbottom and other
friends and relatives in the 's-
trict.
Mr. and Mrs. Scott Me;I•lally,
of Detroit, visited last week at
the home.of the former's sister,
Mrs,. A. L. Cole, Britannivroad.
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CTA Discussed
At Presbytery
-taken to have the act imended.
Home Nlissions for southwestern,
Ontario, urged the Huron Pres-
bytery to accept their respon-
sibility toward ;he,•.$.8,000,000
whieh the United Church is
raising for missionary efforts.
The Huron Presbytery of the
United Chureh .of Canada' met
at Vietbria Street United
Church, Goderich, last week.
president 'Of the London Con-
ference, addressed the meeting
on the subject of "The Church,"
H9 stressed the need for t e
intereSt and support of laymen
in the work of the church. •
In tle-report-from-the-Lay-
men's Association 'a resolution
proval of ihe Presbytery. This
1 t' was that the Presby-
tery concur in the request that
is before the Federal Govern-
ment to allow ,no vote to be
taken on the - repeal of the
G.T.A., until action has been
orl
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STUDENTS TO ATTEND
'MEDICAL EXIIIBITION
Miss Frnces Curry and Paul
Wilson will be delegates from
G.D.C.I. at Mediseope '59 at Tor-
onto on October 1247. • They
will be, guests of the Ontario
representatives. of other Correi:
iates throughout the Province
at 'Canada's first public medical
exhibition. Students with high
grades and an interest in medi-
cine as a -.career are selected
as delegates.
Delegates from Lucknow will
Ashton. '
The gathering will see a life-
size "talking woman" of .trans-
parent plastic show how lhe
human body works.
About 50,000 students are ex-
pected to attend the exhibition.
(Thursday) for his home at
North Hollywood, C,alifornia.
Dr and Mrs: G. T. Foster-
Smith,,.9f Westcliff -on -Sea, Eng-
land, have been visiting with
the latter's brother Mr -S. C.
Aliderson, and Mrs. Anderson,
St, Patrick ,street. They ' will
Visit with other relatives too
in l3ritish Columbia and
Mr. and Mrs. Wilfred Ahrens
of Hamilton, visited on Satur-
day with the latter's mother,
Mrs. Osmond..
street, had as her guests, Mr.
and Mrs. George Askin, Regina,
be William Buckton and Fraser,,Sask.
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4 New times for arrival and daparture of mails at the
Goderich , Post Office, following the change back to
Standard Time this week, are announced by Postmaster
A. M. Homuth.
Fr...,4orsday to Friday, 'the closing times for out -
Closing' time for outgOing mall on Saturdays is 1.30
4 ally eicOept 5 Ira 7.15 a. .,
iiic ti'l\s iii4 ba sorted
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new 'telephone number.
have returned to their hope at,
Winnipeg after visiting Mrs. Mc-
Cartenls sk,ster, Mrs. W. G. Mac -
Ewan, Albert street, and other
Mrs. Mary Hollyman and Will
Carter and son, Jim, of BLyth,
spent la$t Sunday witii their
cnitsin, Mit, Ella McClure. and
ask,, visited last week with
tothe';' Milton, and rs.
of Torontoi or; Pa
son, B
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