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HomeMy WebLinkAboutWingham Advance-Times, 1977-06-29, Page 12E• Advance -Times, June , 1977 y of village: This is the third part of a history of the Village of Wroxeter, compiled by Mrs. George Gibson. roxeter Telephone Company provides service for 67 yrs. In the year 1909, the Wroxeter Telephone Company first began to get organized. A committee was called together and the various members of the com- mittee were asked to canvas's dif- ferent reads to see how many subscribers could be obtained. A few months later •1Q tele- phones were purchased and only a short while afterward, Jim Fox was instructed to furnish compe- tent men to work and oversee the installing of the village system at the rate of $2.50 a day, railway expenses and board. Five hundred dollars was bor- rowed from a local resident, Mrs. W. E. Van Velsorfor one year at rate of five per cent interest, and an account was opened for , MAIN STREET—This'scene shows Wroxeter's ma in street'during a'July this century. • The photo Is courtesy of Mrs. Mac Allem • a he Howick Grapevine • SPORTS ASSEMBLY On June 22, the Sports •Assemblr:was° held at Howick Central. At this assembly, arm bars were given to students who had been on track teams, winning house teams, etc. Trophies were also awarded to deserving stu- dents. Mr. Livermore, the physi- , cal education teacher of Howick, awarded these arm bars, trophies`'ai'd certificates. He was , assisted by members of the Sports Club. - • The assembly opened with the singing 'of " 0 Canada" and the .scripture reading. Then the boys and , girls soccer • teams were awarded with their arm bars. Those who had participated in cross country running and volley ball received their arm bars next. Next on the agenda was the Sportsathon winners. The win- ning team received arm bars. The individual winners got arm bars and first place winners got trophies. For the boys, Doug Kreller and Kevin Pfeffer plated first. Andy Hones placed second. Warren Tishler and David Burns rated third. For the girls, Nancy Versteeg, 1st, Barb Noble and Gail Kreller, 2nd, and Gloria Kreller and Cathy Gibson, 3rd. As you may know, at Howick we have four house league teams, Red, Orange, Green and Blue. During the year, many sports games are played and points given to the winning team. The Red Team was the winner this year and all members on that team received arm bars. Next, the people in each room who were in sports, most im- proved and hardest workers re- ceived arm bars. On June 4, the relay teams from Howick attended a meet at Stratford. Howick finished second overall, and the senior boys established a record at running the relay. Arm bars were given to relay team members. At our own track meet the in- dividual winners were Midget, Jackie Dettman and Jim Hamill. Junior, Judith McMichael and Billy Tishler. Intermediate, Anith Renwick and Tom Toner. Senior, Cindy Sturgeon and War- ren Tishler. Armbars and Trophies were awarded for 1st place. Arm bars were awarded for second and third place fini suers Each year, we have the Canada Fitness Program at our school. This Fitness Program consists of six events. Students who finish all events with a perfect score re- ceive a certificate and a gold badge. This year 28 students got an Excellence Award This is an improvement since last year. The students who were a part of the '`sports club" received arm bars. These students referee games and raise money far cer- tain needed things such as play- ground equipment, sports equip- ment, etc. Their help throughout the year was really appreciated. The top athlete awards went to the following boys and girls: David Burns, Warren Tishler, Troy • Pocaluyko, Doug Kreller, Tom Toner and Paul Douglas. Nancy Versteeg, Anita Renwick; Gail Kreller, Gloria Kreller, Barb Noble, Gwen Dickson, Cindy Sturgeon and Mary Siefert. Each year the staff and the stu- dents compete in various acti- vities. Points are ativarded to the winning team. This year the teachers were victorious,. (the, score was 11 for the teachers and 9 for the students). The staff re- ceived a trophy for their efforts and victory. Each year, a trophy is marded to the student who has improved the most in sports during the year. This year, i;t was awarded to Troy Pocaluyko. We feel that Troy is a very deserving student. His name will be engraved on the large trophy dept at the school and he will receive- a keepers trophy and arm bar as well. We feel that this has been a very successful year. Much enthusiasm and effort was shown by many students and teachers. A special thank you goes to Mr. Livermore and the sports club who made the year a success. We hope that next year is as success- ful as this one! SENIOR ELECTIVES On Friday, June 17, the Senior Electives ended. To wind up the electives the sports elective went fishing at .Goderich. The Shake- speare elective journeyedo Stratford and saw the play ' `Amis Well That. Ends Well". The cera- mics and macrame elective went to Collingwood to see the Blue Mountain Pottery plant and to Rainbow Ceramics. The re- medial and stitchery electives also went on this trip. The golf elective went to the Listowel Golf Club and played golf for the day. These trips were both edu- cational and enjoyable as well as a nice way to complete the elec- ti ves . Tammy Brown THANK YOU I'd like to take this opportunity to thank you, the readers, who have faithfully read the Howick Grapevine this year. Debbie Shore, Susan Mann, Tammy Brown and I have enjoyed our duty of bringing you the 'news from our school -during the 1976-77 school year. It's always nice to keep in touch with the activities of your children or grandchil- dren. As the four of us are grade eight students, this will be our last newspaper article from HOwiek.Ouse one hope is that next year's writers enjoy the job as much as we have and that they succeed where we have failed. Lynne Chambers parade early in Corrie Mrs,. Fullart'on Gibson and Miss Marion Black of Brighton visited Friday with Mrs. Harry Gowdy. Mr. and Mrs. Harold Robinson and Harvey ,Sparling attended the Speiran reunion at Mitchell on Sunday. Miss Jana Gowdy spent the weekend with Miss Debbie Merk- ley of Wingham. • Miss Lois Ferguson of Toronto, Jim 'Arnold of Guelph and Blake Ferguson of London spent the weekend with Mr. and Mrs. Jack Ferguson. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Blackwell of• Mitchell visited last Monday with Mr. and Mrs. Irving Toner. • Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Grainger, Mr, and Mrs. Alvin Grainger and family -attended the Grainger re- union held at the home of Mr. and Mrs. David Fenton in Orillia. Mr. and Mrs.. Gordon Vines and Blaine of Listowel, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Holmes, Listowel, Mr. and Mrs. Bev Strachan and Scott, Waterloo, Mr. and Mrs. Michael Knipe, Sheila and Jill of Milver- ton spent Sunday with Mrs. Albert Dustow. Woodrow Dustow, Toronto, spent the week- end at the same home. Mrs. Sheldon Mann accom- panied Mr. and Mrs. Clarence McCallurn of Wingham to Brace - bridge and spent last weekend visiting relatives. Mr. and Mrs. Lorne Gregory, Ken, Michael and Carrie Lynn of Listowel visited Saturday with Mr. and Mrs. Wilfred Gregory. Mr. and Mrs. George Brown at- tended the Brown reunion in Listowel Park on Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Mirman McKee - man of Summerland, B.C., are visiting Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Edgar and accompanied them to the Edgar reunion held at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Brown, near Galt on Sunday. Mrs. John Strong, Mrs. Glad. Edgar, Wellesley Strong, Mrs. Addie Hutchison and Stanley Edgar, Molesworth, and Mrs. Watson Brown of Listowel were among those attending. _r_ Wroxeter Rural Telephone Com- pany with Bank off Hamilton in Wroxeter. Phone rentals were $12 for three years. Alex Munro was appointed president of the company, T. R. Bennett vice-president, W. E.. Van Velsor secretary -treasurer, at a salary of $30 for the year. Directors were Peter MacEwen, W. S. McKercher and Mathew Sanderson. These men Went into the country and canvassed for funds to build' the line. At this time the Bell Telephone rates were so high that only a few business • people could have a phone. A telephone office was set up in the premises of R. J. Rann, and he was to be manager off the com- pany. His salary was to be $150 a month; this included rent, light, heat and management. Mathew Sanderson was the first lineman and it is interesting to note he received $2.25 a day and provided his own transportation � a horse acid buggy. By February 1911 the company had 179 phones; by February 1912, 260 phones. In 1912 the main ' street of the village saw cabling., A motion was passed to have the central office open on holidays. A motion to have continuous night and day, service was defeated as this would add 11too much expense. In the year 1917, an extra. hour was added to central time — now. it would be from 7 a.m: to 10 p.m. For a • good many, years tele- phone rent•was $10 per. year. -W. S. 'Hazelwood was secretary - treasurer from 1914'to 1919, when he retired and his daughter Elda Hazelwood took over. She re-. tained this office until her death, in 1938. . Arland 1920 .messages could"be exchanged with South Bruce Telephone Company for 10 cents and with Molesworth on a five cents basis. The first telephone operator - was Miss Jean Davidson.' In 1923, a motion was passed to refund Mathew Sanderson's tele- phone rent for the year 1922 and, as a -mark of appreciation, he' was to have .• free service. In 1925, a second-hand typewriter was,pur- chased,' In 1936, a new switch- board was bought 'at a .cost of $1,200. In 1937's report it was shown Mere were 348 phones 'in use. During the. following year severe electrical storms did consider- able damage to the telephone linese Only two of the men re- sponsible for building and main- taining the lines of early years were now alive -- Albert Gal- laher and Richard Rann. In 1947, a telephone truck was bought for $1,507.70. Expenses were soaring, so rates ' were raised. Private line $18, •a two- party line $18, three and four - party line $16 and five or more $14. Operator's pay raised from 30 cents an hour to 35 cents an hour. . In 1950, the central office was moved to a building purchased from Robert G. Gibson, who modernized the quarters and decorated them as well as drill- ing a well. March, 1954, saw a severe ice storm severely damaging the lines and the subscribers backed rebuilding these lines. By 1965, there were 460 sub- scribers. In June, 1966, the Wroxeter Telephone Company Limited voted at the annual meeting to sell to the Wightman Telephone system of Clifford, for the sum of $40,000, the change over to take place October 1, 1966, With the completion of a new dial exchange at Gorrie, tele- phone subscribers of the Wight - man Telephone System in the ' Gerrie, Wroxeter and Fordwich areas of Howick Township were cut over to dial at 2:01 Sunday morning December 7, 1969. Newton and Elford reunion GORRIE — The third annual Newton -Elford reunion was held Sunday afternoon at the farm of Mr. and Mrs. Bradley Galbraith, near Wingham, with over 70 present. They enjoyed an after- noon of games, contests and family recollections. Mrs. Margaret Abell of Listo- wel is the only living member of the original George Newton family, and Willi Boelke, infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Boelke of Harriston is the first child of the sieth generation. Family members were present from Toronto, London, Clinton, Drayton, Moorefield, Harriston, Listowel, Wingham, Wroxeter and Gbi-rie. A delicious smorgasbord supper was enjoyed by all, to end a most happy family gathering. It was arranged to meet again next year at the farm of Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Pyke, near Wroxeter. BROWN REUNION GORRIE — The Brown reunion was held in Listowel Park on Sun- day with 30 attending. Those present were from Molesworth, Ethel, Wingham, Stratford, Clin- ton, Gorfie and Li -stow -4. A smorgasbord supper was en- joyed by all. The new system provided free calling to its 1,050 subscribers from this area to Clifford and Brussels and later to Wingham. Local Enterprises Behind the place where Harvey Bradshaw's buildings now stand, W ° McKercher kept bees on the riverbank as a hobby. Later Lloyd Hupfer bought the bees and made it into a thriving business. He purchased the old building, once the King Edward Hotel and made of it a combined living quarters and honey extracting rooms. Beeyards were estab- lished at locations in the vicinity of Wroxeter. Mr. Hupfer employed Stuart Higgins to assist him at his work. Nineteen years later, Stewart and Marie, his wife, purchased the complete business — a total of eight yards. By 1965 there Were 23 yards. Early in 1975, Mr. Higgins sold the business to Otto Shuldt of Burlington. They spend the sum- mer here and until honey season ends. On top of the hill on Highway 87 there was a large broiler set up and it was run by 'Phomas and Agnes Burke. It began with the purchase of 30 pullets and housed in a small colony house 12' x 10'. In 1940 a building 12' x 40' was built housing approximately 100 laying hens. In 1945, a building was erected to house 500, laying hens, three stories high. Then in 1947 they went into the broiler business, with 2;000 broilers expanding to 4,000 birds. Adding two floors to one end of the three-storey building in 1951 brought the capacity to 6,000 birds. ', Still another building was"' reared, capable of housing 20,000 birds. A, still larger broiler house took shape in 1958 to house 35,000 - birds.. It, took several employers to keep these plants operating and, at the time of loading chickens, as many as 24 people would be hired. The business was sold to Fischer Poultry in 1968. One building was destroyed by fire one year later. A beautiful new building stands on our main street housing the head office of Howick Mutual In- surance Company, built in 1969. Their original building was on the same block but their company outgrew it. It was sold to Harvey Coupland and renovated to be used as a residence. At present Mrs. Harvey Coupland resides here. The first annual meeting of this company was held in Gorrie, February 14, 1874, with no losses; reported. W. S. McKercher was secretary -treasurer of the com- pany for 43 years. He was fol- lowed in 1932 by Howard Wylie, who was a tower of strength to our village and community. The smallest claim ever pre- sented to this company was 50 cents and the largest paid amounted to $26,000. Next week: Incorporation and the growth of community or- ganizations. ` TOWN OF WINGHAM RENTAL HOUSING - IF YOUoARE SIXTY YEARS OF AGE OR OVER - IF YOUR PRESENT ACCOMMODATION IS INADEQUATE - IF YOUR INCOME 15 M'a'DEST THIS 15 OF INTEREST TO YOU The Ministry of Housing, at the request of your municipal coun- cil, is considering the development of additional housing to be rented on a geared to income basis in Town of Wingham. To determine the local need for this type of accommodation inter- ested families and senior citizens now living In Town of Wing - ham are asked to complete an application form and return It to the Huron County Housing Authority at the address indicated below. 1F YOU ARg} A WINGHAM RESIDENT AND ARE INTERESTED IN -RENTING A SENIOR CITIZEN UNIT IN WINGHAM PLEASE COMPLETE AN APPLICATION FORM. For senior citizens interested in renting an Ontario Housing unit additional information and application forms are available ot: CLERK'S OFFICE WINGHAM Or HURON COUNTY HOUSING AUTHORITY 53 Stanley Street Goderieh, Ontario 1 PARTICIPATE IN WINGHAM'S FIRST ANNUAL "FUN -FEST" Get your bed warmed up for Saturday, July 23rd's Bed Race. Send your entry form to Wingham J.C.'s, Box 993, Wingham. 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