HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News Record, 1981-01-29, Page 11Rev. Pius recalls the past
The presided of Bayfield
Historical Society, Miss Kay
Rein, weld 51 members
at the 15th annual general
meeting on Monday,
January 26. Annual reports
' were submitted by the
secretary, Mrs. H. Owen;
the treasurer, Dr. J.
Garrett; membership
secretary, Mrs. Mary
Shepherd; program con-
venor; Mrs. Peg Willock and
Archivist, Miss Dorothy Cox.
Concluding this first part
of the meeting, the president
expressed her thanks to all
mega d the esiniejve
and the committeee
The meeting was then
taken over by the past
president, Dr. Grove
Shepherd, who had chaired
the nominating committee
together with Mrs. Gwen
Pemberton and Mrs. Elva
• Metcalf. The slate of officers
for 1981 was presented to the
meeting and there being no
further nominations, it was
moved by George
Youmatoff, seconded by
Jack Willock and
unanimously agreed that the
proposed slate should be
accepted.
Miss Reid was asked to
serve as president for a
further year . with Mr. N.
McHolm as first vice-
president and Mr. E.
Odleifson. as second vice-
president. Lorne Bamford
replaced Dr. Garrett as
treasurer, and Miss D. Cox,
Mrs. M. Shepherd and Mrs.
H. Owen continued in their
present roles as archivist,
membership secretary and
secretary respectively.
Mr. and Mrs. Keillor
agreed to continue as the
LA.C.A.C. representatives,
and Mrs. Doris Reddoch
accepted the office of social.
convenor for one more year.
Mrs. Peg Willock also
agreed to be responsible for
programmes for 1981. Mrs.
Dorothy Hovey would be in
charge of publicity and the
responsibility for tape
recordings remained with
Me Rev. George Youmatoff.
Frank Burch and Ernie
Hovey were appointed as
auditors.
The business part .of the
meeting concluded. Miss
Reid there asked Canon F.H.
Paull to introduce the
speaker fpr the afternoon,
the Rev. Douglas Pitts, who
with his wife Elizabeth had
been living in the village for
the past two years. However,
as Canon ,Paull went on to
point out, the Rev. Pitts first
came to Bayfield as a boy
when his father was the
Anglkan Reser, and the
rectory of those days which
had been their home, was in
fact, the house in which
Canon . Paull now lived
himself. Although over the
years the Rev. Pitts had
lived in Western Canada and
the United States he had
constantly returned to
Bayfield and now lived on
the lake.
The Rev. Pitts memories
of Bayfield extended back to
his childhood days, when he
recalled travelling to
Bayfield from Brucefield by
stage coach. His early school
days (when he wasn't at -
tenting to run away) were
spent at the old school house
where Jessie Blair and her
tether were his fellow
pupils. Describing life in the
rectory of these times it had
little of the comfort of
present day living, although
was considered to be ex-
clusive in that it was the only
household that could boast a
`three -hole?!
The stipend of an Anglican
rector in those days was
X25- per annum. 'Thus
nothing was ever wasted.
The grounds around the
rectory were put to good use
providing grazing ground for
a horseof rather a
troublesome temperament,
appropriately called Satan.
Other livestock included
chickens, and in the spring
suckling pigs arrived to be
fattened up for fall but-
chering. The latter occasion,
according to the Rev. Pitts
was a lively event and
although somewhat noisy
and gory, it had its com-
pensations.
One of the delights et
childhood had been the
collection of milk in a honey
pail, not always satisfactory,
since experiments of a
scientific nature to "swing
the pail without losing the
contents were not always
successful. The cannon
which at that time was
mounted in the old square
had, perhaps, been the
equivalent of the furnishings
of today's adventure
playground.
Other highlights of those
days described by the Rev.
Pitts were a ride in'a motor
car which attained the
amazing speed of 45 miles
per hour; and a somewhat
unsatisfactory financial
transaction involving the
outlay of 29 cents to purchase
a lamb. Although this deal
was concluded, the lamb was
never able to leave its
mother a fact the purchaser
had not taken into account
before parting with his
money.
On a more serious note,
Rev. Pitts remembered his
little sister Mary, a diabetic
in the days when no effective
treatment had evolved. A
young doctor at the hospital
offered to undertake her
care, but her parents felt
that their own doctor should
be retained. It was ironical
that in later years, after
Mary's death, the young
doctor became well-known -
Dr. Frederick Banting, one
of the pioneers in the.
treatment of diabetes. '
Thanking the speaker foe
his recollections of childhood
days, the Rev. George
Youmatoff emphasized how
fortunate the village was in
the people' who remembered
the village as it had been,
Before the meeting ad-
journed a presentation was
made to Archivist, Miss
Dorothy Cox.
Bayfield archivist Dorothy Cox, deft; receive a special presentation from Kay Reid at
this week's Bayfield Historical Society meeting. (Bud Sturgeon photo)
Broomball tourney
By Bud Sturgeon
The three-day broomball
tournament wound to a close
at the Bayfield Arena on
Sunday afternoon, with
Belmore being crowned the
men's champs and Parr Line
being crowned ladies'
champs. Twenty-two teams
entered the event and played
through 30 games to decide
the winners.
In the 'A' Division final,
Belmore defeated the
Seaforth Jr. Farmers by a
narrow 3-2 margin. The
noisy and near capacity
crowd watched Delmore
open up a 2-0 lead in the first
period on goals by Robin
Wille and Dennis Sheaus.
Seaforth opened the scoring
in the second and final
period on a goal by Dick
Robinson,. Belmore con-
tinued to press and carry the
play with Peter Douglas fin-
ding the range. Seaforth
scored late in the period with
Robinson picking up his se-
cond of the game.
With a minute to play, the
Jr. Farmers lifted their
goalie_ in favour of an extra
attacker but couldn't get the
tying marker. Belmore
received $250 in trophies and
prize money. As runners-up
Seaforth received $150 in
cash.
In the ladies' division 'A'
final, the oriy local team
entered, Parr Line. took a 1-0
win over the Chiselhurst
squad. The only scoring play
of the game came in the first
Turn topage 13
Curling
• from page 10
the standings after ten
weeks of play show Morris
Sauve in first with 159 points
followed by Matty Francis
with 1461/4 and Jerry Uniac
with 1081/4 in third.
Ladies curling
In the Monday morning
matchups in the BayfI'
Ladies Curling League, Ba
ousted Alice 11'14 to 114, an
Ede outlasted Betty, 111/2 to
314. Edit- still leads the
standingsiktlr43'14 followed
by Betty with 33/4.
CLINTON NEWS-RECORD,THURSDAY, :JANUARY x,1 61.—PAGE 1l
Dorothy Cox gets award
There was a surprise for special cake for the cc-
archivist
e-archivist Dorothy Cox, at the nasion.
oonehision of the annual Nor was this alL Mrs. Elva
general meeting of the Metcalf explained that she
1ayheM Historical Society had recently acquired sortie
on Monday afternoon, when beautiful items from the
president, Kay Reid made a home of the late Mrs. Jessie
presentation on behalf of the Metcalf, who in the past, had
membership. spent many hours in the
This token of appreciation literary, sorting, repairing
- a little envelope containing and maintaining records.
the wherewithal to indulge in For this reason, Elva felt
a personal extravagance - that it would be appropriate
Miss . Reid said, was an ex- for Dorothy to have a piece
pression of the Society's of the hand decorated china
awareness of Dorothy's as a personal memento, and
unsparing efforts over the
past five years. During that
time she had worked con-
stantly - sorting and
classifying material - and it
was hoped she wouki con-
tinue to do se for long years
to come!
The social convenor, Mrs.
Doris Reddoch -and her
helpers Mrs. Doris
McDougall and Mrs. Betty
Burch added to the refresh-
ment table, having baked a
OF
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(Formerly Designer's Phase II)
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(Nest to Shaw's Dairy Store)
Appointment not
always necessary
asked her to accept a dish as
corning front the original
owner whose woat Dorothy
was continuing so of
fedkvel_v.
Summing up the
presentation% Dr. Grove
Shepherd, thanked Dorothy
for the tremendous amount
of work she had already
achieved, and for ceeatiig a
collection of archival
material of which everyone
in the village could be proud
and for which posterity
would be most grateful. -
Trump players
The Bayfield Euchre Club
met on Wednesday, JOr lary
21 with eight tables of play.
Ladies' high was .1= Blair,
ladies' low was Grace
Duggan, men's high was Bob
Turner and men's low was
Frank McClinchey. Most
lone hands went to Susie
Pollock.
The Eudue Aub wishes to
:hank . aftnovn be -Age
club for the &mafiosi of -
several packs of new playing
cards. The neat meeting is
on February 4, and everyone
is welcome.
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