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Pn . n, 1958 'roto. a noc,,i sonic-
z's eye and they cauld net
° .moist the temptation of the
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to . have them for thorn-
s(' (' v es. . • o,
T'a�llce, receive4 a report from
6GeGe , Motors ' eatly ,Monday,
morning . that a, §et fit • four discs
was missing Wm ,a#' autom9,
bile . that was. sltttng " their
used car Cott.Iit. 14'4$41,4004 that
these were•ta'kei sometime dur-
nng the wee) -enol
Poltce
are investigating
t
4,'ha, the 19391960 peridd labor
�incgnie in , Candi• increased
from $2,56$'- million to $13,e14
inilliotl:,, while corporation pro-
fits after taxes •inerease4 from
$574 million to , $1,681 mill c ,,, •
'if lou' have had a driving mis-
hap ,duritig: this. winter weathc
or come in and have us put your
-q car -back •-tn.- its -original-
tion. Expert body: work done
by .:our staff.
Davidson Texaco Service "
JA' 4.7231 GODERICH Huron Rd., No. 8 Hwy.
lay L.N.B. .
Huron County never -bas 'lack-
ed.
lacked: in boosters; ' from the first. g-�
its citizens have, been ever :fact •one• of" the benefits the ter t which 'had company .prepared.
for th, Canada CQtnpany at the
ready to laude the .merits of (American Civil War ,.had Goderich elevator -,which Itovti=
• u • t „ brought the .present South• ed tea . fF' m June:.17.,'until 1Oc-
their awn couii y western -' Ontario (balanced as tuber 15- four vessels of one
• Typical, then; was an un- they had to ° be against the un- railway. �flee:t had, brought: 'to.
identified correspohdenl`'of the. . h
1860as whose* •�natne ..was con- .easy...feeling....,.the•-Alerth...mig tGoderich ---from----Chicago. anal:
coaled by the initials W.B.$, become, involved in war with Lake Michigan ports:3,7,000 tons
Britain ,and the ..Panadas be- of. merchandise, 'half of it grain
come. battle grounds) was. rail
and lake' shipments of war mea-
terials for Federal forces.. These
went through at the same time
other schooners and trains were
bringing into this area supplies
and ordnance for British forces
in London and other garrison
centres. .
Phe writer review , at length
eriell shipping _ lgures and
told o.£, heavy consignments of
freight brought to Goderich by
train,, then- "trans -shipped by
water''to the' U.S. He observed
casually, the freight included
large quantities of war mater -
may " have had the ial for the western and north-
,. • western U.S. war. departments.
These had included a large
supply of blankets which had
n,London
spirit of the .Poet. a`b4ntw him} , as to „Port Stanley far , Igo
he.:enned those words, yet his merchants. • .
h ,e � o ino^
. he• writ" se . n f rtn
1 brought
hard
. �' ,. ,. Pas d
articles u h. '
b one .
� .S out
Ile wrote he would wile away
`his ennui for "an evening by
supplying a -w --few statistics of
Uuron commerce, which he felt
sure would interest readers of
1861.
His thought came to him, he
high headland protec
said, "while standi on the
Gode-
rich from the fury ct Lake
Huron tempests and the cold
winds -of the-north,-while-stand--
ing on the headland by the
lighthouse out on the vast) ex-
panse of the lake, noW in wild
commotion from a western
gale."
W.B.S.
bulk, the other general mer-
chandise. Entire shipments re-
presented $1,250,000 in value,
:In the same Period 20,000. tons
'of . general merchandise had
been shipped 'from Goderich
.westward, including the ' war
materials,,.-
"You can see the growth` and
interior resources of.•these-
, u;nties- (Hurond-)Bruce, only.
recently
•aseparated) W.B:S.
wrote, "and the facility the.
ports offer for transit produce:
Consider--wttat••••these counties
were but `$a short time back,
known as they were but as
his
haunts of 'tile Indian hunter ,and
prey."
Yr •
ICS ennui evidently was not
been'delivered in near. record..ended` __.He wrote _.a._second let
time.• ter, this .time based; on a visit
to the -thriving village of Blyth.
At the same time his article Raving lauded Huron's har-
was being written, 14 carloads' box and rail importance; he'
of war material were., passing dealt with its gravel roads, say -
through ,London. They had iiig "There is no county in
been shipped by American line Canada with better facilities for
to the Niagara frontier, routed transportation of merchandise
on the Great Western through than the county of Huron." "I
NowdowitwuBet L othensentu � -haus alt a of he B dy- written—of
th
l
compriged. rifles . and smooth Lake Huron railroad, but, as im-
bore cannon; „g11.11 carriers, etc: portant thoroughfares as either
Apart from this, the corres- are the gravel '±cads which in-
pondent found Messrs. Van tersect the county like -a. net-
Every and Rumball with their work and which are not sur -
fleet of 'five .vessels, the 'Kale passed."
3„dslantle> •� a _ lei st#a �:a _>
scn erS: `1VIaiir ii , , i -Era - - ori1 ,Cls i� ng .
errand-. Wilson, maim- • • y a About midway -on -•thi . ^• .
total crew -of --some. 50 ban. : :lyth, "destine'd, as 'the -Amer-
were the big Goderich shipown- scans say, to be one of the
ers. The past season they`;iind smartest' towns in the....county.
moved east 180,000 bushels of To you the
who de 'nbt
wheat and other •grainer from visit the backwoods • except as
Bruce and Northern Huron. In excursionists occasionally, ::the
addition, the Mai-irYland, launch- rapidity with which these oil-
ed in . the summer of 1861, had lages increase is .almost' in -
since September 1 taken from credible."
Milwaukee to . Goderich or Port In two- years, Blyth had.
Colborne - 75,000. bushels of •grown from a hamlet with a.
••• wheat :getting: ;i ls':.' 4i,ts, •d a. „storey otavern, • blacksmith shop,
bushel for the Goder c ,; ••to, a..village with a population
1 20 cents for the longer one. of .,275, •Much, .of • this progress
The' Maitland also had been was attributed _.to the work of
active in the Saginaw salt trade. Reeve Joseph Whitehead, of
The. Lilly Dencey had brought Clinton, who had erected,' at
5400,0 feat of sawn- lumber Blyth, '.•a steam ' gristand flour
froth Saginaw., ,.:. the.. ....Geo_r_,gi;ln mill and a steam saw mill. The
Bay and St. Cair river areas former had a capacity of; 100
and from Cleveland coal. barrels of flour s day -and ,400
* * *
• bushels" of grist (it • had cost
The • company's Kaloolah, un- $7,000), the latter could, saw.
''der Capt. C. Macintosh, oper- 12;000., feet of lumber in 12
ated a -passenger and freight years (It had, cost 0Q0,)•_.•, .,
service: three times a weed from The • vill(e Was. the centre
Goderich for Kincardine, Inver- of a fine farming and timbered
huron,. `Port Elgin .and, the $alu;, district. JLowevexY, JJ ,,the same.
geen, returning the same day area' he found niuh rich land
and .heading for Sarnia and -Port uncleared, chiefly owned by
Huron. • . Toronto speculators. These uh-
The owners, whose _ fleet, re- , dgvgipped tracts, aroused the
presented .a $60,00Q capital, still correspondent's Fire;"'Iii°"t3ropo5
wished to* expand: In connec- ed a high "rate of- taxation an •
tion with Messrs: Seymour and non-resident landsin order to • 3--b cello bag
Co. they had laid down at Gode- make "these 'gentry close their,
rich , the keel of a new 300 -ton dog -in -manger style of acting.
schooner, with 115 'foot keel, Actually while' » Huron was
able to -.carry 14,000 bushels of•(being lauded for,. its rail,. lake,
grain.. It was intended for .tile road facilities. -and farmlands,
Montreal run and ,-the owned all was not peaceful
intended to enter the "up -lakes" where were at least four sep-
trade: by bringing merchandise arate proposals in circulation
,---as---to--thefitttiirc status of th -
-area. -one was the shift - of the
county seat from Goderich to
Clinton; another annexation . of
two townships -to Middlesex; an-
other would have .taken: Huron
and ° Perth townships and made -
them into a 'separate county
/.with St. Marys the . centre; an
)other was to- take -the southern
section. of Buren and form this
into a county with'•clititon the
capital.
(Goderich as a rlministrativ,e
entre--had been -under ..at
since the separation from Bruce
a's being too far north in Huron,
e, =serversoiithe ....residentS,,)�
:However, all the difficulty
Was solved within) a year •,or
two^ The townships of Bid-
:dulph and' McGillivray were
added to. Middlesex and appar
l t'ttl the separate codilty move-
ments died a natdral.death.
nig' and Billy,' f Toronto% 'visit
e . here a<ee..
n -,
Or.. Terry. ' Dalton - a ettu ned
to the Guelph,after
spending the the Ch
ris
tm
as; Vaca-
tioni atism me here.
Mr. Norman O'Connor
Virg. feta Brown, and ,Mr, and
Mrs. Leo , `"Courtney :visited
friend ' in London.. and Lucan
Tuesday of last- week.
.":,:1�lills. E.: TR ,F.Orry.`
':. Therepassed.. ^ -way; af, hear
.n r a •De-
e• n► ...
d
m �D xx iia e
home- �� . $ �; ,t x
trout, on, December' 23rd, Mrs,
..f 1 Ga. o r . Lue e
.
E. T. re �.
Lhi of this parish.A Mrs. Perry^
leaves to :Mourn.;hey loss,:. hep.
husband,. threaughters, Mrs;
T. Owen* Mrs. 1'. Host, Mrs,. V.
Willette' and, one,son,.Edwardd;
alsg,,;ten grandchi1dr'en Three.
sisters Mrs. T:. J, nnan, 's.
H. Kilian . and Adel, ;`and two;
n n Orif-*
brothers, Albin. -a d Eira ,k G �
also eur�ir:lve. . A brother,
ed, and t ree..:siste I
D. A McIntyre, .Mrs,Mc.
mop;. and'.Mrs. 1<, ,G pre- ..
deceased.: e , The ser. , -
vice',was ekt pp, Deoftbar.,26th
in Stb .rose Church,. -Detroit.
Miss.. Margaret .Foley and Miss.
'rance#.. ;dalton .have ' e
their h fi positions
n
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sin
.
Goderich,
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art Svpp1, ' are duk es . and
eyu .the i oom tteithiret 10111 t' *e sant
4164' tots i^ 0 ' rials iane:ei
Gale-likewinds -over. • the
eek -end sent two ' fishing tugs Y
to the bottom of Goderiek hat-' ._esincy Quality • -
C ICKEN:
'2•to.31b Chiinksw. ,.
bor early Sunday Morning and
set a third one- adrift.
Sunk were. the . "Danel-Mae;"
owned by Norman MacDonald,.:
of Goderich, and -the "Roblin"
owned ' by . Jack Semple and
Robert > Cromwell; of Bayfield:
Operations started.• Monday''
an
moing: to •br gg the* to the
-
rfaee ogain:- ' Y' "
A third tug, tike '`iD. J: Me-
Leod, owned by Donald Mc-
Leod, • of ' BayfieId, *as tern
from --its moorings and: set:
`adrift. It Was anally, taken- in
tow but.not untilithesides were:
'badly banged t „i by dice ' and
waves. n;
of the
Agree- .'aforeirien;
ti . ned, boats w&e . tied
-the .end 4f the •niorth 'Pier:, and
were, therefore, subjected' tin
the fury of then storm.-.• They
*ere cleft , iher'e' for the Var•.
pse-. of getting, .out into' the
lake later on for fishing tier
ations.
The •fishing boats -of Leonard
Fisheries; and,..Sidda , tied)
up ,. n the inner harbor, were:
slot,' hat seat' he' tug
'"�laytfair,' of Ed elear-
..'; Goderieh harbor' 4Alontlate
morning and Went ont'Into the
lake to. lift nett, a
S -Ib "tag $1.19 • Small Link•
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