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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1969-03-20, Page 3u o. io= Antoinette bought it for 150 pounds 4 By W. E. Elliott Baron van Tuyll, long ago the owner of The Ridge, or :Ridgewood Park, bought and • sold a. number of properties in town and in Colborne Township in his time, and turns kip as a vendor in 1841 •of property on which a building is now being taken down. This frame building, just 'east of Leonard Sheardown's big store and •-owned by him,- embodies „no romantic or ancient history itself - its site will provide extra. parking, for the present - but the area is rich in meniories of individuals and businesses long gone. Hamilton Str develop is soon settled, and fa t -began to Colborne was ers came in for supplies or bro' ght grain, hay or cordwood. There were more oxen than horses on Huron • farms up to the. 1850s, and an ox team was seen on Hamilton • 0 I% Old buildin Street around, the turn of the century. The block on the north side, from the Bradley store to the Union Hotel, comprises four lots. In -the earliest recorded transaction in the area, Lot 878 was sold in 1834by the Canada Company to James Hamilton, • who resold to 'Sarah Ashbourne and she to E. C. Taylor and Charles Prior. Taylor was Baron van Tuyll's factor, or manager, and also •conducted a store on West Street in which • Edwin Griffin kept the first official post office. Prior, or Pryor, had been secretary to Canada Company Commissioner John Galt, and - the succeeding • commissioner, Thomas ' Mercer Jones, •‘ made Prior superintendent of marks. He embezzled company funds and was discharged in 1836. It would appear that he and Taylor lost the land on Hamilton Street, for the sheriff of • London district conveyed it to James W. Ritchie, and in 1,840 the baron got it on ST. NIARY'S SCOOP R 001V1 1 When the men started to build our new addjtion, our hall had to be closed off. The statue of Our Blessed Lady had to be moved. Our room was picked out and the Blessed Lady was put in our roo e are very happy about this. Anne Marie Murphy, Grade 3. A TRIP TO EUROPE' On Friday we went to Europe in such an unusual way. WeVent- by movie. Mr. MacKenzie gave our school a mOvie. First we went to Paris where we saw beautiful fountains surrounded by flowers, -Arch of •Triumph, sidewalk cafes, and also the Eiffel Tower. Next we went to • Germany. I liked it best. You probably- know why. My last name is Eichholz. That .ought to give you an idea. In Germany we saws a :statue, of - Strauss; Columbus Steeple, Danube River, castles on the mountain sides, and people dancing. the Vienese Waltz. ,Last of , all we went to Switierland. We saw the iklps Mountains and many others. Linda Eiehholz, ,Grade 4. A TRIP TO EUROPE • On Friday we had a nice trip to Europe. Mr. MacKenzie gave our school a colored' film of Europe. We -saw beautiful fountains- with flowers all around them and castles on the mountain skies that are • hundreds of years old. We saw the Danube River with boats all around it. Then we took a ride in a boat and went horne. Sheila O'Brien --Grade 3. . • .. • A TRIP TO EUROPE • bn Friday we had a lovely trip to Europe. Mr. MacKen'zie, • David's father, gave St. Mary's c loredfi utiink \k\\\\ fountains, h and flower gardens with sidewalk cafes. In another place we saw castles on the -mou n sides, and the.Danube River. In Switzerland we saw cable cars, mountains, and very big, glasses to drink -out of. Patricia Pitre, Grade 4. A TRIP TO EUROPE On Friday we had a nice trip to Europe. Mr. MacKenzie, David's father, gave our school a colored film on Europe. We saw beautiful fountains, the Eiffel Tower, Arch of„Triumph, flower gardens and sidewalk cafes,' castles on the mountain sides, Columbus Steeple, Danube River. That -was my story about Europe. " Jamie Hawes,., Grade 3. • - • -BOWLING • By Dianne Meriam BANTAM GIRLS High single - Dianna Oke with a game gf 188. High double - Dianna Oke with a total of 354. BANTAM BOYS . • High single - Randy .Little with a good game of 210: High double - Randy Little with a, total of 354. JUNIOR GIRLS High single - Judy Beattie with an excellent game of 330. High double - Judy Beattie with, a good total of 491. JUNIOR BOYS High single - John Fisher with a game of 190. High dolible - Garry Fisher with a total of 352. - SENIOR GIRLS • High single - Janice Glen with a game of 203. High double 333.\ \ \ \\ JZce ‘with a totalof SEN '11". YS ci High si :le AT Lee ya *th a game of 221. High double - Jim Daer with a total of 372. 2 GODERICH COMMUNITY. CREDIT UNION AVERAGE MONTHLY PAYMENTS 'Cash. You Receive 7121.1o. 18 Mo. 24 Mo. 30 hie. • 36 Mo. fl 300.26.65 400, 500 600 70U 800 900- 1,000 1,500 2,000 2,500 3,00u 3,500 -6.87 35.52 . 44.40 53.29 ' 62.17 71.05 79.9E 18.b3 133.25 177.65 222.08 266.5C 210.90 - -6.09* 48.28 24.37 30 47 36:57 42.66 48.76 54.86 60.95 91.45 121.94 152.42 182.90 213.37 1 .--,....s.--1-- 14.11 18.81 23.51 28.72 32.93 37.63 42.35 47.05 70.60 94.12 117.65 141.19. 164.70 ---0, f 11.61 15.48 19.35 23.23 27.10 _ 30.97 34.85 38.72 58.11 77.47 96.85 116.22 135.58 - - , ,• 13.26 16.59 19.91 23.23 26.5.5 29.87 33.19 ' 49.80 66.40 ' 83.00 99.61 116.20 EXAMPLE: $1,000.00 repaid in twelve monthly instalments of $68.83 would - cost $65.96 cal- culated at our true annual .interest rate. of 12.1 percent per annum. - LONGER TERMS AVAILABLE IF NECESSARY When you are offered credit somewhere, add, up ah the charges you ad -asked- to pay. Then compare with this teble. Almost always Credit Union chargas are lower. 'GODERICH COMMUNITY 39 St. Diwicl St. • 5247931 a quitclaim. Inthe following year " he ,‘ sold to Antoinette Taylor, by now widow of E. C., and she paid 150 pounds. Taylor must. have left a considerable estate. -Antoinette held the property for 15 years, and when she sold to John A. Callander in 1856 she -had become Mrs. Grant. When the land was conveyed to Antoinette Taylor, Hamilton Street had not been so named, and was designated on the original plan of the town as""n.e. makes street." The only permanent street names on the plan were North, South, East, West and Light House. Hamilton Street may have beeb named later for the first - owner of Lot 878, James Hamilton. . Many more , buildings were erected on Lot 878 than the frame one which initillgtely was occupied by Willie Den, laundryman, and a shoe repair shop. Many years ago, Hamilton Street boasted several harness shops, probably • the earliest h ' way for being conducted by William Acheson, but the two last in business were those of A. J. Paltridge and Horace Fisher. Paltridge occupied the building now takedown. It was long a thriving business, and he had several employees, notably john Mclvor and- Harry KneeshaW.- Horace- Fisher, now in a tursing. hozne,was the last harness maker to surrender to the tutor- age. His shop was farther A'st, toward the St. Andrew's Street Corner. - , - * • , 60DERIOU $10NAL-STAR;11-i PIPPAt MAIt0ii 20, 1009 $ , progress James Reid, Bruce Street, who had a barber shop on the._ south side of Hamilton Street for many years, retiring a couple of years ago, recalls an incident outside the Paltridge shop when a farmer named Holmes left his team to go in to see about some harness When- he carne -.out -and - picked up the lines, he startled one of the horses, which kicked and killed him. It had never been known to kick before. „ • Thomas Warrener,, who died in 196§ at the age of 99,, was long connected with this area. 'He first had a blacksmith shop back on Nelson Street before removing, , at the time he married, to the little red .brick' house on Hamilton Street, with the blacksmith shop adjoining, which now houses the Gower shop. For many years, horseshoing was a prosperous business. Mrs. Mamie Sutcliffe, 73 Hamilton Street, who was born in the brick house, recalls that one of the blacksmith's patrons was Miss Elizabeth Attrill, of Ridgewood Park, who often drove into town with her team of bays and a coachman. "One day," Mrs. Sutcliffe remembers, "Sam Sheardown came into the shop to enquire about a job, and fathersaid, 'Put on your apron.' " He had been thinklng, of giving up the work for reasons of health, and eventually did sell to Sam Sheardown, who with •his brother Wren carried on for ,many years. Mr. Warrener then operated a bakery where the Sheardown store (Goderich Frosted Foods) is today.- A brother,' Nate Wanner, about 87, lives in Pontiac, Michigan Most picturesque Hamilton -Street - --.charactek was - Gavin Green, of the Old, Curiosity Shop, whieb was an attraction to tourists as well as townsfolk for many years, He • first occupied the former Warrener Premises, but 'a fire destroyed much of his, stock, and -he removed across the • \ d dil StW0b1 lf94:49fr u9it n. a tnotidi it II shop.t611en61a 1h Ile191)64 s ls 01 aasi tridett n thoxt t e athe oi An agent of lienry-Ford made many purchases • of antiques at the Old Ottrioalty 4Shop,- Sutcliffe--says-,--the - - Huron articles enriching the Dearborn museum in Michigan. Hereabouts,. too, ' Carroll, had a restaurant, and used to make ice eream in a big firkin Qut in the back yard. Time rparebes on. 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