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HomeMy WebLinkAboutWingham Advance-Times, 1977-05-25, Page 15Ex ► ect a used car from us! `'®AS IS SPECIALS: 1'972 METEOR 4 door, Green, Licence FKH 985 1972 FORD 2 -DOOR Hardtop, Green, Licence FTW 073 1971 FORD WAGON Green, Licence FJZ 254 1971 METEOR 2 DOOR Hardtop, Green, licence FJW 437 1970 FORD 2 DOOR Hardtop, Brown, Licence DNT 564 1964 FORD FAIRLANE 2 door, Black, Licence FJW 431 1971 DODGE MAXI VAN. Brown„ Licence T73 063 1969 CHEV PICK UP Green. Licencte T73 236 1968 DODGE PICKUP With Cap, Green, Licence D46 368 1966 FORD ECONOLINE VAN Bbue, In perfect condition. Must be seen! $599 '699 $499 x699 $599 5199 x1399 $499 $599 x899 All these units will be sold as is on a first come first serve basis. You are urged to hurry for the best selection! Harvey Kr�tz Ltd. Wallace Avenue North Listowel, Ontario Telephone 291-3520 A SURVEY TEAM from the Rural Development Outreach Project will be conducting a community survey in Turnberry Township and Wingham this summer. Team members are: Connie Van Weerden, Mary Ferguson, field supervisor Bea Abbott, Peter Stoddart, Kate Whale, ,Jane Campbell, project director Tony Fuller and Mrs. Isabel MacDonald of Goderich. Community survey planned by rural outreach project The Rural Development Out- reach Project (RDOP) is plan- ning to conduct a community sur- vey in Turnberry Township and Wingham this summer. "'‘....The project, sponsored by the University of Guelph, is looking for ways rural communities can take advantage of the univer- sity's resources to • maintain the quality of rural life. ThiS area has been chosen as a pilot area for the project. • The purpose of the community survey,.,project members say, is to gain an understanding of the area by, meeting and talking in ' some depth with a number of local people. The RDOP-hopes to have close contact with individuals . and groups in the area for the next three to six years at a minimum, and the survey will provide pro- ject staff with sufficient informa- tion to be able to measure the de- gree of success of the project. \ Information• in the survey will also indicate possible levels of linkage between the departments A FARM VOICE FOR YOU... IN QUEEN'S PARK BECAUSE -Only 1 in 20 people of Ontario live on a farm. -Over ' e of (Mr economy is related to agriculture. -400,000 jobs are dependent on agrichltural industry. YOU DESERVE -An 'understanding and respect of your importance to 'the Province. A fair return - equal to your costs and your labour. Better than third party representation. MY RES®LVE To give this agricultural riding of Huron - Bruce, a voice that will be heard to enact legislation to give you: -a fair return on your investment -a fair return for your work. SAM MacGREGOR PC CANDIDATE HURON -BRUCE SEE AND HEAR YOUR PC CANDIDATES CKNX TV MONDAY, MAY 30 - 4 PM THURSDAY, JUNE 2 - 11:45 PM CAMPAIGN OFFICES; KINCARDINE 396-3370, 396-3379, 396-3416; PORT ELGIN 832-6247; WINGHAM 357-1414, 357-1733. Pd. Po 1 . Ad and colleges of the university and local individuals and groups. One part of it, called the struc- tural survey, is designed to pro- vide basic information on what now exists in the area in the way of buildings, organizations, clubs and so on. This part is similar to an inventory. The other part, called the household survey, is designed to provide basic information on the home and on attitudes to the quality of life and community concerns. ' Approximately 225 households, selected 'on a random basis, are being contacted by RDOP inter- viewers for the household survey. T1wo visits will be made to each home. The first visit will take 20-30 minutes and will be' used to ex- plain the survey and to leave a section to be filled in be an adult member of the household. The .second visit, which will take more time, will be used to complete another section with all members of the household over 16 years of age. All responses will be confidential. The interviewing team has been hired for 'May, June and July to collect the information for the survey and to establish con- tact with a number of individuals and groups for the RDOP. Members of the team include Connie van Weerden, Kate Whale, Ed de Grosbois, Jane Campbell and Mary Ferguson. These individuals have all stu- died at the University of Guelph and have a keen interest in the project and rural life. In addition, ' Mrs. Isabel MacDonald of Goderich has agreed to assist with the inter- views. To provide the team with a base in the vicinity of Wingham, the Rural Development Outreach • Project has rented a farmhouse in `the area. Mrs. Bea Abbott of Palmerston has been appointed field supervisor for the summer months. Old ledger recalls early village life FORDWICH-Hamburger five cents per pound; pork chops 10 cents; lamb chops 10 cents; fish seven cents; beef heart 15 cents each; veal 10 cents per pound. The list goes on and it sounds like something from the pro- mised land. But it isn't. It's a record of facts and figures from a ledger kept by a village butcher around 1894: The butcher was•the late John -'1'. Winter of Fordwich and the ledger was rediscovered recently by his son John Winter who also resides in the village. After noting a, long list of rock - bottom prices however, Mr. Win- ter said the picture wasn't as rosy as it first appears. • "Back in those days a Man would work a six -clay week, 10 hours a day for about 10 cents an hour. A dollar a day was con- sidered the going wage. I re- member if you went to work for some farmers you didn't even"get that - you might get 50 cents for the day.", • • Calculating that an average wage today is -around $5 per hour, Mr. Winter noted that itdoesn't take a worker an hour to buy a pound of steak, the way it did back in 1894. "You hear so much today about the high Price ,of food, but actu- ally meat is.cheaper today than it was back then when steak was only 10 cents per pound." Just leafing through the ledger, Mr. Winter who is now 85 years old and blessed with a remark- able memory, can tell you more about village life back in 1894 than the price of meat. His know- ledge of who his father's cus- tomers were, for example, re- veals the Village of Fordwich was LOOKS AT OLD LEDGER—John Winter of Fordwich looks at an old ledger kept by his late father, John T. Winter, who was a butcher in the tillage. Mr. Winter says the ledger dates from 1894. (Staff Photo) then a thriving community. The butcher's biggest customer was undoubtedly Alex Orr, the -owner--of- a- hotel located =imthe village. Going through the names also revealed a number of other services which Fordwich no longer has. "Adam Hutchinson — he owned a blacksmith shop ... Armstrong Spence — he was a doctor ... Acil Edwards — he was the• under- taker, he and his sons moved out to Saskatchewan and made a success of it ... Lewis Becker — he had a shoe repair shop . . . John Barnett — he was another blacksmith and he lived in the house where Bob Clarkson lives now . . . Cole ,, he was a tailor and lived in the house where. Pep Martin is now ... Andy Wilson — he was in the mill with his father Other names recalled people with important positions in the community. "Robert Mahood — he was the postmaster; B. S. Cook — he was a conveyancer, a man of some importance and quite wealthy as I recall ; ' but they say he died poor. He built the big house up by Martin's garage and in its day it was a place to behold . . . Mr. Crisp — he'was the CPR agent .. . John C. Bell he owned a store here, so did Alexander Wyrtess." "But there aren't rfiany of the old names left now," Mr. Winter said, "or many of their descen- dants. Names like Donaghy, Moseur, Cook, Willis — they're gone now. About the only ones left are Armstrong — Maggie Arm- strong here in the ledger, now shew was a widow woman, the mother - of the late John and Dick Arm- strong; and there's Cattanachs here yet who are direct descen- dants of James Cattanah and also Johnstons. And the Beswetherick girls; Lenora and Violet, while the name isn't the same, they are direct descendants of Andy Mc- Grath." Mr. ,Winter noted that his father's butcher shop was located on a site next to where the bank is now which later housed Richard's poolroom which burned down. The slaughter house was at the north' ,end of town which then was mostly bush area. • "He used the old slaughter house for.about 15. years — he also butchered for a beef ring. It was an old frame building and after. it had stood idle for some years, one spring -- 1912 I'think, anyway it was right around .the time the Titanic sank, the same year, a big wind came along and blew •it over." • Other prices • than those for .meats were also noted in the old ledger. A barrel of salt (which Mr. Winter thought would contain 3(10 pounds) sold for $1.00 and a hundred pounds of flour for $2.00. • The monarch butterfly stores poisons in its body tissues whi&h can make certain bird predators ill or can seven kill them. The Wingham Advance -Times, May 25, 1977—Page 5 like vale Rev. Wayne Baswick con- ducted communion service in the Presbyterian Church, Sunday, when, four new members joined by profession of faith. They were Kathy Snell, Mary -Anne Nichol- son, Melody Brewer and Sherry - Ann Robertson. A social time will be held after the service next week with everyone bringing enough lunch for their family. Mrs. Jack Glousher left Tues- day to spend three weeks with her daughter, Mrs. Jim Smart, Mr. Smart, Crystal and their new baby, at Saskatoon. Whitechurch Holiday visitors with Mr. and Mrs. Dan Tiffin were Joyce Tiffin of Toronto and Barry Tiffin of Kitchener. 'Mr. and Mrs. Leroy Rintoul, Carol, Kimberley and Debbie of Tottenham spent the weekend with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Rintoul, and her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Black of Belgrave. Mr. and Mrs. Jack Gillespie of Sarnia spent the weekend with Mrs. Garnet Farrier and at- tended the Tiffin 'anniversary celebration. Re -invest .,__ .: �:._ your tax rebate in R. R & . now That tax rebate you got ... re -invest it in your Registered Retirement Savings Plan, This will give you high interest return on your money right now and reduce the tax you'll pay next year. Do it .today! 42CTORIA and GREY VG TRUST COMVANV 5,NCE 1899 Main Street East, Listowel D. N. Lefebvre, Manager The Town of Seaforth CaII for Proposals from Mobile Home Subdivision Developers Proposals are invited for the development of a 10 acre site as a planned mobile home subdivision to improve the 'availability of suitable low cost housing ownership alternatives in the town 'of Seaforth. Development will be by registered plan of subdivision with the land and dwelling sold as q unit rather than provided on a rental or leased basis. The selected developer will be responsible for planning site design, landscaping, engineering, serving construction . and marketing of the mobile home development.. An 'important consideration will be a demonstrated experience in this form of development. • . • Letters of intent to submit a proposal for review will beaccept- ed until June 24, 1977 with the final selection) f a specific proposal 'determined by August 30, 1977. \\\ For further information, please contact: James Crocker, Clerk -Treasurer Box 610 Seaforth, Ontario NOK 1 WO Telephone 527-0160 GAUNT is GOOD FOR HURONBRUCE Murray Gives Assurance Of EXPERIENCE 15 years in Queen's Park As A Member DEDICA TION Murray has worked hard for many Legislative Reforms In Town and Country SERVICE Murray has been of personal service to hundreds In the riding HE WORKS FOR YOU Re-elect Murray GAUNT 1.! On June 9th in HuronBruce Wingham Committee Rooms - 357-2211