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The worldbeauty contest, in which 68
lovelies from around the globe will vie
for the title of Miss World, has had
some pretty anxious moments this
week.
Preliminary events for the contest
are going on this week in London
England and the world's most buxom
beauties have co-operated with
generous showings of skin and a bit of
controversy on the side.
Early in the week thecontest was hit
with a controversy on the dance floor,
in a ball attended by the c-ontestants.
Two of the ladies had to flee the dance
floor in tears claiming their dance
partners put their hands on a little
more than was offered.
The over zealous dancer, whose
hands moved as adroitly as his feet,
was labelled a beast, and yet lurid
descriptions of his dancing technique
At the top is shown one of many Carey houses in the Island of Guernsey. Of
simple Victorian design, it stands at Frogmore, the town from which Lucius
Carey came. Next, Jack Ladd's house in the Black's Point area, built of
sweet\ chestnut logs from the Lucius Carey, house in Con. VI, Colborne.
Stones from its foundation were used in his fireplace. The third house shown
is the Oswald Carey cottage on Cambridge street, Goderich, residence now
of Mrs. Ivadell Schram. The housenn St. George's Crescent, shown at the
bottom, was built by Edward Sharman for Joseph Williams, a ship owner,
and was sold by his widow to Oswald Carey In 1899. Since 1961 it has been
owned and occupied by John K. Sully.
filled alt the papers. It is rumored he
soon will be opening a dance school.
But the gentleman who moved the
beauties to tears with deft hand
movements identified himself and
couldn't understand what the fuss was
about. Seems he does that all the time
on the dance floor and even his wife
backed up the story.
Then the beauty organizers banned
the bookmakers from the press review
of the ladies, claiming the oddsmakers
reduced the contest to a meat market_
But the bookies have their,own discreet
manner of assessing flesh on the hoof
and revealed that Miss United
Kingdom was a 7-1 shot while Miss
Belgium came in at 12-1.
Such statistics are vital to any
contest, be it football or beauty, and the
public is entitled to these valuable
informative bits_
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But,: the big story of the beauty
contest was. Miss Tunisia, who refused
to drop her veil that covers her face
and her tent -like body garment to
appear in short shorts and a top with
the other contestants.
Miss. Tunisia countered that she was
not at the contest for sex, only beauty,
and would not expose her attributes
until, the final night, and then only
reluctantly_
But after the press unveiled a photo
of Miss Tunisia exposing a few cur-
.vaeious attributes in a swimsuit
competition in Tunisia, the young lady
agreed to shed a few . garments at the
dress rehearsal.
But the controversy has organizers
puzzled. What is Miss Tunisia trying to
hide?
Does Miss Tunisia sport a flaming
tattoo on her left nostril, proclaiming
her undying love for a former suitor?
Is Miss Tunisia a goalie for her
national hockey team, whose mask
covers several stitek marks embedded
in her face by errant pucks?
Could Miss Tunisia be a fullock for
the Toronto Argonautswho f r her
life is in great danger if recognized by
Argonauts season ticket holders?
Or does Miss Tunisia sport an
unusual growth of nasal hair that at a
quick glance could be mistaken for a
moustache?
Would it be .that Miss Tunisia is
forced to wear a mask because her
breath consistently wilts her corsage?
Perhaps Miss Tunisia has a severe
overbite or overdeveloped bicuspids
that provoke rude remarks by the press
and other contestants?
Oh well, you will have to watch the
Miss World finals to find out but surely
I've touched on one of the reasons?
131 YEAR -46
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 16,1978
SECOND SECTION
Assessor tagged Lucius "swell gent"
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BY W. E.
ELLIOTT
Lucius Carey, from
Guernsey, Channel
Islands, became a settler
in the Huron county bush
in the middle of last
century. He came of an
ancient and distinguished
family, tra'cing its
generations for six
hundred years. The
e 1 -ba -Y n.e.- __to-w�xs iii p
assessor' recognized in
'this young farmer a
"swell gent," and so
entered it on the roll.
On July 10,-1849, Carey
bought from the Canada
Company Lot 13 in
Concession VI. On the
deed are the signatures of
Commissioner Thomas
Mercer Jones, Charles
Widder and Donald
McDonald, company
officials in Goderich.
They sold Carey, 29 and
two years married, a
bush lot surrounded by
other properties and the
Maitland River, with no
public road. For this lot,
truncated by the river to
79 acres, Carey paid 4.9
pounds, seven shillings
and fivepence. The deed
was not registered until
1857.
This lot and the one
next east were probably
the only ones available. It
was late for settlement in
that part of Colborne. The
Fishers had been there
for 20 years, the Youngs
for 17. Even tlq Irish
Elliotts, in Con. VII in
front of Carey, had come
from Goderich township
four years earlier.
Had Carey bothered to
vote in the election of 1858,
— his name is not found in
the poll book = his name
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•would have been
i recorded among those of
earlier settlers such as
Horton, Bissett, Million,
Jewell, Morris,
Goldthorpe and others.
It is unlikely that Carey
knew anything about
farming, and we do not
know how much he
learned after others
made a clearing and built
a log house for him.
(Paintings of that house
survived the years in 'a
Vancouverhome and are
. now in . Chester,
_ England :lam
When Carey ' died in
1884, there appeared in
the Huron Signal a formal
notice, mentioning his
father in Guernsey and
obviously inserted by the
family, stating that his
death occurred "at his
farm in Colborne.
This is puzzling,
because Colborne
assessment rolls show
that Carey left the farm
soon after he brought
Goderich -property in
1869, and thereafter
rented the farm.
Successive • tenants
between 1870 and 1878
were John Hamilton,
William and West
Anderson, William and
George Anderson,
George and William
Howitt. Each of these is
listed on the assessment
roll as "farmer," except
John Hamilton, whom the
assessor described as a
"guerilla," whatever that
meant.
From 1888 the farm
was owned by Oswald
Carey, son of Julius, and
he evidently lived there
for some years; some of
• his children were born
there.
Before Lucius left the
farm, 50 acres of the 79 in'
Lot 13 had been cleared,
and 30 of the 80 in Lot 14.
Although he owned the
property until his death,
Carey's chief connection
with it was a series of
mortgages for amounts
from 8250 to 84,500.
These mortgages
covered not only Lot 13,
the original purchase, but
Lot 14, Colborne, and in
some instances Lot 11 in
the Maitland Block of
Hullett, both acquired in
December, 1852.
The Hullett lot,
originally taken up by
George Fluker, is across
the river from Carey's
Colborne Lot 14, and must
have been very unhandy
for cultivation or grazing.
Its use through the years
is not clearly indicated,
but there are traces of a
house, suggesting suggesting that
Carey rented,it, as he did
the Colborne Lots. This
lot, owned since 1975 by
Ralptie Neville,
Goderich, has been left
idle for reforesting.
Carey's Colborne lots
are now part of . Bill
Robertson's farm. The
log and clapboard house
was still on the original
site when Mr. Robertson
took over. The Colborne
assessor described it in
1866 asa frame house,
which .means' that it had
been clapboarded by that.
time. His valuation was
$200_
It is possible that Carey
had in mind setting up a
country estate, such as he
could see in that area:
Lizars' Meadowlands and
Hyndman's Lunderston,
in Colborne, or a little
later, George Brown's
Stirlings in the Maitland
Concession of Goderich
township.
Indeed, when he signed
papers in the Canada
Company office, he could
see across the river the
Ridge cottage built in the
1830s for Carel LodewijI ,
-Baron- van Fuylk..-,Any- •
dream of a country estate
faded out when Carey
moved to Goderich soon
after buying four lots on
Cambridge street.
SHOP1ING IN 1852
Carey and his young
wife, Isabel Dobree
EXTRACT from the Register of fl ,fl4
of St. Peter Port, i,z the Island of Guernsey.
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tow
ca ifr
oif,j€40 Clef-
Sausmarez, probably
remained in Goderich for
some time after their
arrival; date of their
removal to the township
cannot be determined,
but in 1852 Carey was
buying supplies in-
dicative of housekeeping.
In a • general store
account book kept from
1852 to 1854 his name
appears -on numerous
dates. It was recorded
because everyone bought
on credit and paid up
periodically. Inciden-
tally, the purchasers'
names are uniformly of
male persons.
Apart from the matter
Turn to page 6A e
of the Parish
Ems!' us -de
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6Si , C"eV4—Cr
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I hereby certify the above to
of this Parish.
St. Peter Port, Guernsey.
Date ....13- 0 g...
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Here is atopy, from the Register of Baptisms in the
Town Church,St. Peter Port, Guernsey, of the
entry for Lucius Carey, who founded in Huron the
Canadian branch of the family. Following the
names of the parents, those of the sponsors are
given. The Rev. Peter Simpson, Deanery
Missioner, writes that "many other names of the
be a faithful copy from the Register of
family appear in the registers." He adds that a
Carey from whom copies of the family tree may be
obtained, for three pounds, is de V.G. Carey, Esq.,
Les Padius, St. Saviour, Guernsey. Mr. Carey is
Her Majesty's Comptroller in the Island govern-
ment.
Pass me my whip and chair, I've got
to do some dog training.
I've got a problem dog,. Actually, I've
got several problem dogs but one in
particular has got to have some
wisdom imparted his way by his
master. The dog in particular is my
indoor model. I've got two outdoor
models and one indoor and if the little
fellow doesn't mend his errant ways in
a big hurry he may have to do some
quick adjusting to the temperature.
The other night, the cute little devil
challenged my authority all night
Check that challenge on my authority
and change it to sat at the back door of
the house being a cuteilittle son of a
What he did was a perfec im-
personation of a wolf. I swear t e little
rat was trying to convince me a was a
throwback to the days when dogs
roamed the earth in wild packs and
that his ancestory was taking over his
personality.
This dog is no killer. The only thing
he scares it' keds and iliat s only
because he never gets a chance to
prove his ability to rule. He runs across
the lawn chasing low flying birds and
growls with such authority he con-
vinces everyone that if the birds ever
landed he'd show them who's boss,
The call of the wild took over his pea
brain the other night and he sat at the
back door of the house doing a low
pitched howl that if amplified could
pass for the soundtrack of a Grade B
western where the coyotes howl in the
background. I refused to pay any at-
tention to him• knowing he was only
tryingto get me mad. It was a lousy
night out and I knew if I let him out he'd
run around till he got cold and wet and
then want back in to soil the carpets.,
He increased the volume of the
whine -growl combination and every
once in a while threw in a short bark
that sounded more like an elderly;
overweight politician clearing , his
throat. Real..rzing he had no intention of
keeping quiet I suggested in a calm
tone of voice that he rest his head_and
stay silent.
No way. He just gave up on the whine
and started the short yap with more
consistency. I started getting angry
and my'suggestion to him was given in
a louder voice and with a few ad-
jectives that I felt may get the point
across a little clearer.
That eruption did nothing more than
wake up my daughter. For reasons that
neither science nor her parents can
determine every time my daughter
wakes up the only place she can go to
getback to sleep pis mom and dad's bed.
1 honestly thought she was asleep
when I got back to the dog. I lifted my
head off the pillow about a foot after
another ten minutes of throat clearing
by the mutt and put it all on the line for
him. In a few short, clear concise
sentences I told the dog exactly what I
was thinking of doing to him if he didn't
stop his protesting. •,,
My daughter then got in the act
advising me that I had said a couple of
bad words - she told me what they
were. I explained that every once in a
while a bad word is needed to em-
phasize something adding that it
wasn't necessary for her to tell her
grandmothers what I told the dog I was
going to do to him.
Giving up on the battle of wits with
the dog I decided to let him out. He took
off running and 1 figured he may really
have peen answering the call of the
wild and may dash off to the bush to
hunt or something. Forget it. He stood
at the back door, right under the
bedroom window, and started yapping,
As leaves fell off trees he barked wildly
to warn everyone in the house of the
danger that lurked outside.
As my feet hit the bedroom floor my
&lighter woke up again and asked me
X t -e I was going. When I told her she
led me why I was going to work
when it was still' dark'. When I an-
swered she just shrugged and told me
not to use bad words.
jerr
seddon'