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HomeMy WebLinkAboutWingham Advance-Times, 1977-06-01, Page 9—Hugh W. Clugston, John A. Currie and„ pigmy Underwood.were ordained as elders of St. An- drew's Presbyterian Church at the Sunday morning worship service. They join the present elders, John H. Mann and James A. Wilson. VilUNG VAN TOPS EXPAND YOUR VANI Vd.ng Van Tom provide standupheadroom and complete fluor pine Le+,bilny throughout • your van One 0[01.0 del,gn nlunu,alee problems with Wattage and vibration The Tops feature Colan,al White gel coat a.rel,o, 1 fully finished flecked Interiors and are lolly insulaled'l0 ,educe Candensa tion Viking Van Tops are available lo, Dodge, F ode Chevy and GMC vans Quickly , felled and designed to dellyel the best ,n style driving ease 0110 gm 0CI:1, 'Omy Set us today vIKrnG _. VAN TOPS QUAL i r y CRAF rSMANSHIP GUARANTEED J E SCHINBEIN (TED), Propstetor Mfttisell, Ont. - 348E189 ledge 01 lawn Hay %1 North/ elmore Personals Congratulations go to Mr. and AP. - RaIL4. ,Met alfe,..as. well as Mr. and Mrs. Dwight Metcalfe, on the birth of a daughter to each couple. Congratulations also to Mr. and Mrs. Doug Baird who also have a daughter. Sergeant Peter Will of the Royal Canadian Air Force visited recently with the Walter Renwick family. Rev. Wayne Baswick, minister of Knox Presbyterian Church, Belmore, baptized two infants, Kelly Jane McKague, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James McKague, and Robert Joseph, son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Hammell, at a service held recently in the church. Foi,r girls, Marilyn Bal- lagh, Gwen Dickson, Vicki Jef- fray nd Joan Dickson, were receld into full communion. of the church. The sacramentof communion was celebrated at the service. Mr. Baswick was recent- ly ordained at Stoney Creek. Quite a number from Belmore were in attendance at the ordina- tion. The arena sale went very well on Tuesday with almost every- thing being sold. The most excit- ing part of the day was when the arches of the arena, left standing, • toppled over -during -a brief wind-- storm. ind-- storm. Fortunately no one was hurt. Many thanks again to the members of the Belmore com- munity who helped dismantle the arena and make the sale success- ful. A 25th wedding anniversary party was held on Sunday at the home off Mr. and Mrs. Mac Inglis for Mr. and Mrs. Jack Inglis. Also celebrating, with friends and relatives gathered, were Mr. and Mrs. George Pittendreigh of Fordwich, celebrating their 40th wedding anniversary. Guests at- tending were from Shelburne, Orangeville,' Toronto, Stouffville, London and Fordwich. —Mr. and Mrs. Bill McCool have returned home from Florida. Mr. McCool is slowly but steadily recovering from sur- gery. —Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Streich and family of Lively spent the weekend with Mr. and Mrs. Ray- mond Hogg and Kenneth and re - old friendships in the newed town. There's 11101E 10 111 PACER•GREMUN•HORNEIMAIADOR The Sporty Freight, P.D.I. Extra 1977GRE1LIN!.$3425 See Ken Davidson today for the best prices on new AMC Gremlins, Hornets, and. A/tatadars] Psst... 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Missionaries from Liberia visit their family in Wingham Missionary work can involve building material when needed. as such, but there is a respect years of devoted attention to a It is also used to send very sick amongst the men that certain native people. One such couple people to Monrovia. Although fields are the property of some. who has devoted a number of there are nurses at the mission, Once land has been planted, it is years in Liberia, Africa, is Mr. doctors have been there only four considered that man's. and Mrs. Cecil Hodgson. Mr. and times in the past .36 years. Another specialty food is ter - Mrs. Hodgson visited last week at Liberia means lrberty, since mites. They are much like pea the home of Mrs. Hodgson's the country was formed by the nuts. They live in ant hills and the brother, Harper English, American government as a land second morning after the first Wingham. where freed slaves could return. rain the people are ready to catch Mr. Hodgson has been in . The colonists were blacks from them as they come out of these Liberia since 1941 and married America and the official langu- hills. The people light fires on his wife, Margaret, on his first age is English, bamboo poles and the termites furlough. She returned to Liberia The homes of, the natives are are attracted to the light. The with him in 1948. The couple has made of mud and thatched roofs. wings are singed and they fall' three children, Gord, Jeanette Cooking is done inside the° home into prepared pits. and Carol who were born and as the smoke keeps the bugs out A rare treat is palm cabbage , raised at the mission 100 miles of the thatching. which comes from the heart of from Monrovia, the capital of The temperature reaches: 86 to the palm tree. • Since the palm Liberia. 90 degrees and there is a it rainytree is not supposed The family was in Liberia and down, is cut' The the World Wide is season. The rainy season except when ob- is March to November and the solutely necessary, it is not often Evangelization Crusade. Mrs. dry season is December to Feb- that this. treat can be had. Hodgson has taught at the ruary. Africans usually eat only twice mission and is presently trans- The chief product of Liberia is a day,. in the morning and at Iating the Bible into Bassa, the rubber from the Firestone night. Their day starts at 5 a.m. native language. , Mr, Hodgson Rubber Plant. Otherproducts are and work eases off around 2 or 3 has drawn up an indeptheneo g coffee, iron, coconuts, grapefruit; P•m'• because of the heat. Mrs, logy from Adam,to Christ with all bananas, corn, avacados,. Hodgson said it is usually cool relative dates recorded. The new' oranges, pineapple, and the enough at they mission to sleep at testament has been in Bassa cashew apple. The apples of this night because they' are on a hill since 1969. tree are very tart but the women where it is cooler. The mission is located in the boil them, add sugar and make The Hodgsonsay the native territory of Rivercess and there cashew apple juice. people are friendly and would are three other missions in the The chief food is rice. All men welcome a visitor with warm - territory. They are quite isolated are farmers for their rice and mess. The older people are as there is no main road to Mon- many are hunters and tailors. treated with respect and a re- rovia, but a plane must be taken The main meat is deer. Beef is a speciful greeting is, "Hello old in and out of the mission. They special occasion food. They also:, man, (or old woman) are about 18 miles from the east eat fish coast of Africa. There is a school, nan, Mrs. son Gord stayed with the - a dispensary and church at the THE RICE BIRDS Englishes for 'three days During mission as well as their home and The men burn their fields to, _.,their stay Mrs. Hodgson and Mr. a carpenter's shop. There are two fertilize them and since the land English visited the place of their teachers, two nurses and about cannot be used for another seven birth,.Chesley. 140 children attend the school. years, they move- their farms Each term of stay in Africa is The school holds two sessions around quite oftett.'They live• in about five -years so family get to - each day, with the older children the village but , build •a kitchen gethers are a rare occasion. Fur-, attending in the morning and' the nearthe land for the wives to stay loughs are about a year in length. younger. ones attending in ' the in during the day to chase the rice Mr. and Mrs. Hodgson return to afternoon. The age of starting birds away. No property is owned Liberia\June 6. school is usually eight. , Most of the children walk to • . t school, some walking over an hour to reach the. mission. Some BelgraVe Personal students board at the mission,- usually old olderchildren 12 years of age. The larfgest number of stu- Mr. and Mrs. Conrad Smithson Camp, Keith and Kevin. dents are boys as the culture de- of Downsview visited last Thurs- Mrs. Lois Warwick ,of Wing- picts. A single woman is almost day with Mr. and Mrs. Robert ham, Mrs. Laura Johnston spenk unheard off. A woman's job is the Procter. . ` the weekend with Mr. and Mrs. home and children. There is a de- Mrs. Norman Hill of Toronto, George M. Johnston and Tara of finite division of labor between Mrs. Harold Cantelon of Tweed, Ilderton. the sexes. However, some girls Mr. and Mrs. Harry McGuire Weekend visitors with Mr. and do attend the school. ' were dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Scott were Mr. and In the division of labor, the hus- Mrs. Lewis Stonehouse on Fri- Mrs. Kenneth 'Mott and family, of band prepares the fields for day. Dutton, Mr. and Mrs. Donald planting, He burns the lana as a Mrs. Stanley Lennox of Gorrie Saunders and family of Lucknow, method of fertilization, and the spent the weekend with Mr. and Mr. and Mrs. Jerry de Bruyn and wife- clears this and plants the Mrs. Lorne Jamieson and at- Corry -Lynn, of Clifford, Mr. and c main crop, rice. He builds a fence tended a shower for Miss Gail Mrs. Bill Gadke and Debbie of around it and she remains on the Mayberry on Saturday evening in Lakelet. land during the day and keeps the Knox United Church,, a June . Mr. and Mrs: Leslie Bolt visited rice birds away. Both harvest the bride-to-be. on Sunday with. Mr. and Mrs. land. Randy McLean and Miss Judy Selah Breckenridge of Belmore. The wife gets the water in the Cook of London visited on Sunday At St, Mary's Hospital, Kit - morning and carries the bundles with Mr. and Mrs. Lorne Jamie- chener on Friday, May 27 to Mr. when they are travelling. son. and Mrs. Randy White of Kitch- One of the mission's former Mrs. William Coultes, Mrs. ener, a daughter, a sister for Carl schoolboys is now the principal of Leslie. Wightman of Blyth at- Lynn. Mr. and Mrs. Lorne Jamie- - the school. He finished grade tended the UCW Westminster son are the proud grandparents. eight .at the mission and com- weekend, held in London on May .pleted high school by Amierican 27 to 29. correspondence. He taught and Mrs. Cyril Canning of Stratford then went to teachers' college for spent a few days with Mr. and 'two years at the college in Mort- Mrs. Norman Coultes. rovia, His wife assists Mrs., Mrs. Harold Cantelon of Tweed Hodgson in translating the Bible. and Mrs. Norman Hill of Toronto The teacher at the school is a for- returiiie '11re on Saturday after mer student of the mission also. spending a few days with their Mrs. Hodgson said many more parents Mr. and Mrs. Harry Mc- arents now want their children Guire. educated; they are "seeing the Mr. and Mrs. Ross Anderson value of education". Their own and family visited with Mr. and children also studied by the Mrs. Lloyd Anderson and family correspondence course. Their of London on Sunday. They at- one daughter is being married tended the confirmation Service next year and the other is com- in Trinity Lutheran Church, Lon- pleting her high school at a school don, at which their nepkew, Ian near Toronto. Their son is attend- Anderson, was one of ale con. ing Richmond College, Milliken, firmands. near Toronto, working toward his Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Campbell BA in biology. His dream is to re- of Listowel, Mr, and Mrs. Ron turn to Africa to teach. Campbell of London, Mr. and A power plant is located at the Mrs. George Robb, Michael and mission and is turned on at six in Heather of London visited last the evening until nine or 10 p.m. Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Harold The fuel oil is brought to the Jardin, Michael and Darryl. mission by plane. The refrigera- Steven and Geoffrey Campbell tor in their home is run by kero- of London spent last weekend sine. The pilot also brings gas and with Mr. and Mrs. Clare Van The Wingham Advanee-Times, June I, 1977—.Page 9 Congregations say farewell to rector BELGRAVE — A large congre- gation from' Trinity Church, Blyth; St. - Mark's Church, Au- burn; Trinity Church, Belgrave -end St. John's, Brussels, gath- ered at St. John's on May 15 for a farewell service of Holy Com- munion conducted by the rector, Rev. Fred Carson. Following the service everyone enjoyed a buffet lunch in the church basement served by the ladies of the parish. During lunch, Herb Stretton of Brussels called Rev. Carson to the front of the room where he expressed, on behalf of everyone, regret at Rev. Carson's leaving the parish and wished him God's blessing as he continues his ministry in Alberta. George Thornton of Brussels and W. Alex Nethery of Belgrave presented Rev. Carson with a wallet of money. In his remarks,.' Rev. Carson thanked everyone for the gift and for the friendship which he enjoyed in his lour years in the parish. He asked that everyone give the same help and support to the new pastor and to continue to be a witness to Christ. Rev. Carson is moving to El- nora, Alberta, where he will have a parish of five congregations. Buy or , - build your summer cottage now No need to wait! You, can get that,sutn►ner cottage right away and be ,ready to makF the most of sunshine - days all season long. Get a low interest mortgage at Victoria and Grey and get set for summer — now! VG IXJAand GREY TRUST COMPANY SINCE 18e9 Main Street East, Listowel D. N. Lefebvre, Manager Notice of Road Closing The Municipal Act, R.S.O., 1970, for the stopping up and clos- ing of a certain road allowance. Take notice that the Council of The Municipal Corporation of the Township of Howick, proposes to pass a by-law pursuant to The Municipal Act, R.S.O., 1970, as amended for stopping up and closing those portions of the Road Allowance as described in Schedule "A", hereto attached. And further take notice that the Council shall hear in person or by his Counsel, Solicitor or Agent, any person who claims that his land will be prejudicially affected by the by-law and who applied to be heard at the regular meeting of the Council •on the 5th day of July 1977, at 8:00 p.m. And further take notice that the -proposed by-law may' be •,-- examined by all persons interested at the Office of the Clerk, of the Township of Howick, during business hours at any time before the same is finally passed_ Dated at Gorrie, Ontario, this fourth day of May 1977 THE CORPORATION OF THE TOWNSHIP OF HOWICK Crawford, Mill & Davies Barristers & Solicitors Wingham, Ontario PER Harold Robinson, Reeve W. R. Ball, Clerk SCHEDULE "A°' of By-law No. 11, 1977 OF THE CORPORATION OF THE TOWNSHIP OF HOWICK. All and singular that certain parcel or tract of land and pre- mises, situate, lying and being in the Village of Howick, (Gor- rie) in the Township of Howick, in the County of Huron, and being composed of Part of Albert Street, and part of Mait- land Street, more particularly described as follows: Firstly: That part •of Albert Street, lying south of the Toronto - Grey, and Bruce Railway and lying north of the northerly boundary of William Street, as laid down on a registered plan of said Village by William Rath, P.L.S. Secondly: That part of. Maitland Street, lying south of the Toronto, Grey and Bruce Railway, andlying north of the northerly boundary of William Street, as laid down on a regi- stered plan of said Village by William Roth, P.L.S. Shower for Gail Mayberry . BELGRAVE — A community shower was held Saturday eve- ning in the United Church base- ment in honor of Gail Mayberry, a June bride-to-be. After a few words of welcome by Mrs. Cliff Logan. Sheila Anderson enter- tained with two piano numbers. Mrs. Ross Anderson conducted a quiz and a conteqk Mrs. Leslie Bolt soon had evetne laughing with a humorous reading, "Wed- dings Are Funny Things". Mrs. Logan then called on Gail to come and sit in the decorated chair reserved for her. She was accompanied by Mrs. Clarence Hanna and Mrs. Leslie Storer, who assisted her in opening the lovely gifts which she received. After Gail's words of thanks a delicious lunch was served. NOTICE OF ROAD CLOSING The Municipal Act, R.S.O., 1970, for the stopping up and dos- ing of a certain road allowance, . Take notice that the Council of The Municipal Corporation of the Township of Howick, propoises to pass a by-law, pur- suant to The .Municipal Act, R.S.O., 1970, as amended for stopping up and closing those portions of the Road Allowance as described in Schedule "A" attached hereto. And further take notice that the Council shall hear in person or by his Counsel, Solicitor or Agent, any person who claims that -his\ land will be prejudicially affected by the by-law and who applied to be heard at the regular meeting of the Council on the 5th day of July 1977, at 8:00 p.m And further take notice that the proposed by-law may be examined by all persons interested at the Office of the Clerk), of the Township of Howick, during business hours at any time before the same is"finally passed. Doted at Gorrie, Ontario this fourth day of May, 1977. THE CORPORATION OF THE TOWNSHIP OF HOWICK Crawford, Mill & Davies Barristers and Solicitors Wingham, Ontario PER Harold Robinson, Reeve W. R. Ball, Clerk SCHEDULE "A" of By-law No. 12 1977 OF THE CORPORATION OF THE TOWNSHIP OF HOWICK - All and singular that certain parcel or tract of land and pre- mises, situate,, lying and being in the Village of Wroxeter in the Township of Howick, in the County of Huron, and more particu- larly described as follows: All that portion of Nelson Street, lying west of the westerly boundary of Marietta Street, produced in a Southerly direction,