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Industrial Slo-pitch standings
By Chris Courtney
Blyth Peewee girls lost to Goderich II by a
Score oO 19 - 14. Their next game will be
played in Blyth at 7 p.m. on Wednesday,
August 8.
Blyth Peewee Boys Township League took
a 22 s 17 win over Goderich Township II on
Aygust 1 in Holmesville. Their next two
games are August 7 and 15 in Blyth at 7 p.m.
Blyth Squirt boys took a 21 - (13 win over
Goderich on August 1. Their next game will
be played on Thursday, August 9 at 7 p.m. in
Londesboro.
Blyth Peewee boys defeated Bluevale in
the Wingham Peewee tournament to take
the consolation trophy.
Chris Royal was named most valuable
player. The boys will start their playoffs
next week against Atwood.
Blyth Baintoneers Ladies Fastball
defeated Goderich Sailorettes in Blyth on
August 1 by a score of 13.2. Their next game
will be played m Lucknow at 8:30 p.m.
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11 10 1 20
12 10 2 20
10 8 2, 16
11 8 3 16
11 7 4 14
10 6 4 12
10 5 5 10
12 5 7 10
10 4 6 8
11 4 7 8
12 4 8 8
10 3 7 6
12 3 9 6
12 0 12 0
M.arnock
Knights
Blyth Inn
Howsons
Belgrave
Burkholders
Bootleggers
Chamneys
Warriors
Pirates
Nesbits
Blazers
Metal Benders
Radfords
Beginning on Wednesday, August 8 the
Blyth Industrial Slo-Pitch League hosts its
Third Annual Tournament. There will be 32
teams present from surrounding areas.
Walkerburn celebrating
65th anniversary
By Eleanor Bradnock
Walkerburn Club
Walkerburn, a small `village located in
Hullett Township on the 13th concession
south of Auburn, is to have a special
celebration on August 18 when the
Walkerburn Club is celebrating the 65th
anniversary of its founding at Ball's Grove
in the Maitland Block at 1:30 p.m.
All that is left to tell the traveller that it is
Walkerburn are small signs - made by
Stewart Ball and placed at what was one
time a flourishing corm -nullity.
This small " village was named after
Walkerburn in Scotland by an early settler,
Robert Morrison, in 1859. A little later, Alex
Monteith settled here and put a darn across
the Blyth creek to have water power to
operate a sawmill. A few years later, his
brother arrived from Scotland and built a
woollen mill across the creek from the
sawmill. A post office was built across from
the .mills and operated until 1915 when rural
delivery of mail came to the Auburn
District.
Business was thriving at both mills until
the winter of 1911 when heavy snow storms
hit the community and spring came
suddenly; causing the snow to melt rapidly
and the creek flooded and washed out the
dam. This was the end of business in the
Walkerburn area.
The Walkerburn Club was formed at the
home of Mrs. Colin Fingland and the first
meeting was held on July 9, 1919 at the home
of Mrs. Foster Wright. The officers elected
were: president - Mrs. Walter Cunningham;
vice-president - Miss Mary Patterson;
secretary - Dora Scott and treasurer - Mrs.
Bert Hunking. Convener of the social com-
mittee was Mrs. Colin Fingland. Some of the
members were: - Bessie Cunningham, Mrs.
. B. flunking, Mrs. Rundle flunking, Mrs.
Walter'Cunningham, Mrs. James Webster,
Mrs. Jim Robertson, Mrs. William Patter-
son, Mary Patterson, Mrs. Foster Wright,
Mrs. Jackson, Margaret Jackson, Mrs,
Melrose, Mrs. Raithby, Mrs. Robertson,
Mrs. Colin Fingland, Mrs. Clarence Cox,
`Mrs. John Govier, Mrs: Archie Robinson,
Luella Robinson and Dora Scott.
When the Cluborganized, it was to help
the Red Cross in Auburn as they needed
supplies and money. Their motto was
"Safety First". When the need for help was
over, they re -made clothes and sent .them o
the Neighbourhood Workers Association in
Toronto. At this time, many quilts were also
made and social events held to keep the
ladies interested.
In 1963, the Club members adopted a
Korean orphan. They have been supporting
orphans ever since and have always been
ready to help someone in a community in
need of help.
These Walkerburn presidents served their
community: Mrs. Walter Cunningham, Mrs.
C. Cox, Mrs. Mary Robertson, Mrs. Archie
Robinson, Mrs. Ernest Patterson, Mrs.
George Schneider, Mrs. Elliott Lapp, Mrs..
Harold Stanbury, Mrs, Stewart Ament, Mrs.
Jim McDougall, Mrs. Henry flunking, Mrs.
Leonard Archambault, Mrs. Lorne
Flunking, Mrs. Ed Honking, Mrs. Lloyd
McClinchey, Mrs. Joseph Hunking, Mrs.
Carmen Gross, Mrs. Tom Cunningham,
Mrs. Ronald Gross, Mrs. Garth McClinchey,
Mrs. Keith Lapp and Mrs. Lloyd Penfound.
Two families have members of the third
generation as members at present: -
Cunningham - Mrs. Walter, Mrs. Guy and
Mrs. Tom; also the Hunking family - Mrs.
Rundle, Mrs. Bert and Mrs. William and
Mrs. Henry and Mrs. Ed and Mrs. Bernice
Norman.
The club is very active, having regular
meetings every fourth Thursday in the
month with the officers being: co -presidents
Mrs. Keith Lapp. and Mrs. Lloyd Penfound;
secretary - Mrs. Elliott Lapp, assistant
secretary - Mrs. Leonard Archambault;
treasurer - Mrs. Garth McClinchey; and
assistant Mrs. Edward Flunking.
The members have made an autographed
quilt to celebrate their 65th birthday and are
selling tickets on this to help support their
foster child and other projects.
Invitations have been -sent ° to former
members and their families, so if you were
missed come along. Everyone is asked to
• bring a dish for the first course, cutlery,
• dishes and lawn chairs. Dessert and
beverages ° will be . supplied by club
members. In case of rain, the event will be
held in the Hullett Central School.
Social News .
Miss Betty Lutz of Huronview spent last
weekend with her brother, Ted Lutz, Mrs.
Lutz and daughter.
Neighbours and friends are planning a
miscellaneous bridal shower for bride -elect
of the month, Vickie Powell, on August 16 at
8 p.m. to be held in the Sunday school room
of Knox United Church. Ladies are asked to
bring lunch. •
Stewart Toll of . London visited last, week
with his sister, Mrs. Marjorie McDougall.
Mrs. Ernest Durnin was able to return
home last -weekend after several weeks a
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A large crowd enjoyed watching women's base ' : teams battle for the championship in
Blyth. The winner in the A division were Harmony Lunch from Kitchener, who defeated
The Greensville Ladies from Burlington, 9-2. (Wendy Somerville photo)
Couple honored on
wedding anniversary
Mr. and Mrs. Ed Brooks, Blyth citizens for
thirteen years or more, have sold their
property to Mr. and Mrs. Frank Sanders of
Morris township.
For the time being, Ed and Marg have
• taken an apartment in Goderich. At present,
they are summering at their home at
Ipperwash Beach. •
Both active in the community ,and social
life of Blyth, they will be greatly missed.
We welcome Mr. and Mrs. Sanders to .•
town. They•know many people here, for they
attend Blyth St. Michael's Church.
We hope the Sanders will find this village
a friendly place to live.
Fred and Mary Howson have returned
home from a meaningful tour of the Holy
. Land and Oberammergau.
Harold and Adeline Campbell and John
and Dorothy Campbell are back from an
European tour, which included -ten
countries.
One unique experience they enjoyed was a
boat trip through the Blue Grotto, a cave
under the Isle of Capri.
• Said Adeline, "The opening to the cave
was so small that, in order to get through it,
we had to lie downas flat aspossible in,our
boat just large enough for four passengers."
Mrs. Luella Hall, Ruby Philp, Melda
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McElroy and Norman Garret were guests at
the 55th wedding anniversary celebration of
Dr. Charles and Laura Toll, at the summer
home of their daughter, Jill Farrugia and
son-in-law John, south of Bayfield.
Dr. Toll practised dentistry in Blyth in the
1930's, and was the main push in organizing
the Blyth band. He is still active in band
work. • • •
. Ushering 'at Blyth United Church,last
Sunday were Stewart and Mildred Aent
and Alma Madill. Grace Poore rendered a
solo in fine soprano voice, with Margaret Kai
accompanist. Rev. Ken Bauman, in his
discourse on the parable of the sower, gave
his listeners much food for thought.
When people, Rev. Ken said, live totally
on the human level, they have a difficult
time fully comprehending the meaning of
"seeing they might not see, and hearing
they might not understand."
Jack Whytock occupies the pulpit next
Sunday. The Baumans are now on the
remainder of their vacation.
Oops! A big mistake in the account about
Blyth's main street in last week's issue! I
had Mary Holland tending theflowers
around Memorial Hall for 10 years all by
herself. Her solo performance, minus 1 or 2
timeswas for 4 years only. My apologies
Mary. -Volunteer reporter, Melda McE. • .
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Ladies fastball tourney a success
By Chris Courtney
The Third Annual Ladies k'astball
Tournament was held in Blyth this past
weekend.
Teams participating is the "A" division
were Blyth, Guelph, Waterloo, Wopdstock,
Kitchener, St. Thomas, Edgewood,
Burlington, St. Clements, Bramalea, St.
Marys, Dundas, Brampton, Cambridge,
Thamesford and Conestoga teams.
Participating in the "B" division were West
Wawanosh, Kincardine, Palmerston,
Londesboro, Auburn, Brussels, Benmiller
and Brodhagen.
Thanks to the co-operation of the weather,
teams and town members, the tournament
was a great success enjoyed by all.
The grand champions of the "A" division
were Kitchener Harmony Lunch defeating
Greensville ladies from Burlington by a
score of 9 - 2. The consolation champions
were, Waterloo Insurance. They defeated
Goderich Elevators by a score of 9 -1.
The "B" division champions were
Benmiller defeating Kincardine Bruce Inn 6
- 3. Auburn lost to West Wawanosh by a
score of 6 - 3, allowing West Wawanosh to
capture the consolation championship.
The Blyth Baintoneers won their first
game against Conestoga by a score of 16 -1.
They played their second game Saturday
night defeating Guelph 7 - 3. However, they
were put out of the tournament by Kitchener
Harmony Lunch losing 4 -1.
The Blyth Baintoneers would like to thank
the following people for all their help; Frank
and Cenetta Bainton, Larry Walsh, Allan
Thompson, Blyth Peewee Girls, Murray
Nesbit, Triple K Restaurant, Youngbluts
Take Out, Ian Cronin, Gary Courtney,
Murray Black, Dale Black and all the others
who helped the team out.
Summer program ending
By Chris Courtney
The six-week summer recreation
program, sponsored by Blyth Recreation
Committee, comes to an end this week.
The program, under the direction of
Catherine Battye, assisted by Kim Babcock,
has encompassed a variety of activities.
The 65 children from ages three to 13 were
split into two groups for activities. These
activities included arts and crafts, sports,
trips and special event days.
Visitors .to Blyth looked rather strangely
sometimes at the youngsters dressed up for
"dress -up" •day parades, particularly the
"punkers". The punk day brought out by far
the most imaginative costumes.
Stacey Elliott and Steve Souch won prizes
for the most imaginative costumes. Punk
day activities included a cherry pit spitting
contest. Dean Bell managed to win by over
10 feet.
The youngest group were entertained last
week by a puppet. play, The Frog Prince,
presented by the senior group. All puppets,
and scenery were made at craft sessions.
Many children are enjoying wearing their'
new tie-dyed outfits.
The last event will be a two-day campout
at Benmiller. Plans have also been made to
attend the Clinton Sports Day to be held on
August 16.
Pork producers to receive
stabilization payments
Both the Federal and Provincial
governments have recently announced that
they will be making payments from their
stabilization programs to pork producers.
'Under the Federal Agricultural
Stabilization Act (ASA) for hogs marketed
between April 1, 1983 to March 31, 1984, a
market hog producer will• receive $6.54 per
hog marketed. Each producer is limited to
the federal maximum of 12,000 hogs.•;
Claim forms will be mailed to all
producers who are registered with the
Ontario Pork Producers Marketing Board.
Payments under the Ontario Sow -Wearer
Plan will be made to producer's who were.
enrolled in period eight that covered the
, period of October 1, 1983 to March 31, 1984.
The Ontario Sow-Weaner Plan, which is
based on Federal ASA slaughter hog data to
ensure compatability with the federal
program, makes payments to enrolled
producers when'the price of slaughter hogs
in asix-month period, plus any federal
payments, falls below the 95 per cent ASA
level.
Under the'Ontario plan, payments for
period eight to enrolled producers will be as
follows: •
1. Weaner producers (those not marketing
slaughter hogs) will receive $57.72 per sow
enrolled.
2. Farrow -to -finish producers will be able to
receive the full federal payment of $6.54 per
hog marketed.
A lesser payment than the $57.72 per sow
will be made from the Sow-Weaner Plan to
account for the payment received under the
federal program. The amount of $4.36 times
the number of hogs (maximum of 9.6 per
sow enrolled) marketed during period 8 will
.be deducted from the Provincial payment.
The $4.36 is the difference between the 90%
and 95% support levels. For example, a
hog producer who registered 50 sows during
period '8 of the Sow-Weaner Program and
shipped 900 market hogs from April 1, 1983
to March 31, 1984 of which 450 were shipped
during period 8, would receive $924.00.
Twilight Tour for Soybean Growers
Soybean growers are invited to attend .a
tour of soybean fields in Morris and Grey
townships to discuss production and
marketing practices.
The tour is to begin at 7:30 p.m. on
Wednesday, August 15th. It will be hosted by
Gerrit Van Keulen, President of,the Huron
Soil & Crop Improvement Association, Don
Martin of Ethel and Neil Hemingway of
Brussels.
The tour will begin at the soybean field of
Gerrit Van Keulen on _Highway 4, 11/4 miles
south of Wingham at 7:30 p.m. Please watch
for signs.
The tour will be an opportunity . for
growers to share working ideas -for
successful soybean management.
. For further information, contact OMAF,
Clinton.
Brian Hall
Farm Management Specialist
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evenly, holding can 15 centimetres to. 25
centimetres away.
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