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MRS, WILLIAM SOTH
t
and Mrs. Glenn
ton, Mr. and Mrs. Jim
Douglas, Greg and Pe* Mr.
and ANtra, 'kelt An** and
family attended the Om -
Inertial 1f9r3emeleS picnk
, held :Sunday at Maple Del,
Park Abelherne.
-SyttiWtInt is exte
mr. WA** J. W. Daunt
the sutke death
• meter,,IJoa
towel. Fawn'.
was held from
AnFtearr %well•
lth kinrlal in
eteU, .
.arliNleltel of
ted seedily with
ta,. Mr., and. Mrs.
Marlin IS
few weak at
rden.
cots with Mr.
Lorne Kelley were
Irs. Roy Stickney
of' 'Guelph, Mrs. Frank
S1 4. 'of Feigns* Oliver
'RCM_ VA • 1V4405, Vera
Stieknny of Elmira. Sunday
evening Mr. and Mrs. Carl
Coulter of Listowel Visited at
the same home.
Mr. and Mrs. Gordon
Nickel, Palmerston, visited
Sunday with Mr. and Mrs.
Russel Nidtel.,,
Mr. and Mrs. Les Halliday.
and Mrs. ,Mary •Graham
attended the Wedding on
Saturday of Ansa Leis
McLeod and Kevin Franks in
51 . Gabriel's ,Churek
Sheppard•AVe4,Taronto.-. •
Mrs, Elmer
*Auld Lori, Mr.
, Mr.
`. George Piercey Of
,iira; Mr. and Mrs. Rick
• Wends, Listowel, Mr. and
Mrs. .Reg Alright andAlm,
Rom Credit, Mr. and. Mrs..
Bill :Miller, Mr.., and -Mrs.
D'Arcey, Jeff and
Jason', Mr. and Mrs- Andy
,
att
viol.
140i.
e.
Wentli4rs, enpMartln
and Brenda- '304 the
wi4ien4at14100,4 Head .
less :Cheryl, Cherry of
Moorefield spent a few days
last week:m.)1th Mr. and Mrs.
Lornelgelley. '
Mrs. Stan Bride of
Palmerston, formerly of
-Fordwich, was entertained
by formernirdwich friends
who gatheredat the home of
Afra. Wray Cooper on Friday
night. A pot luck dinner was
enjoyed and a social time
• held. Mrs. Bride- was
presented ,Avith a remem-,
• brance for which she
, thanked everyone.
Funeraleservice ,was held
Friday for Mrs. Clare
Hutchison of Toronto at. the
Gorrie Chapel of Watts
Funeral Homes.Burial was
in Fordwich Cemetery.
. Best Wishes to Mr., and
Mrs.' Bruce Ii4nnedy who
were married' Saturday in
theFordwich United Church.
Mr, and Mrs. Gerald
Huether • and family of
Cambridge were weekend
visitors with Mrs. Wray
Cooper. Mr._ and Mrs. •
Clayton Brown of Waterloo
- were Sunday visitors at the
sarnehome.
Mrs. Jim Vittle
ne day last week
and Mrs. Carl
EtOsers Listowel.
Sunday visitors with Mr.
fillitMrS.. Ted Klaassen were
Mr. 'and -Mrs. Werner Otten
dt Won and Mr. and Mrs.
Adolf Koenig of Kitchener.
Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Finley
and family of Acton are
spending some time at their
home here.
Mrs. Bill Magill of London
visited with her mother,
IVIrs. Crosby Sotheran, over
the weekend.
Sympathy is extended to
Mr. end Mrs. Rey Hunt in the
death last week of the for-
mer's father, Mr. Hunt, in
Parry Sound,
Mr. and Mrs. Gordon
Goldrickf and family of
Guelph and Mrs. Audrey
Trozer and girls of Redbank,
New Brunswick, were
visitors last week with Mr.
and Mrs. Anson Demerling.
Mr. and Mrs. Lorne
Lambkin and Lisa spent a
few days last week with Mr.
and Mrs. Bob Lambkin at
Elliot Lake.
Mr. and Mrs. Walter
Bender and family of
Montreal are visiting with
relatives in the village.
Mrs. Tom Seip,pf Exeter
visited Friday with her
mother, Mrs. Scott Clerkeon.
•
It WaS her secondvitilt...te
this rural Karon cowl, O.
village of 900 peopla•at ,
symbolically cut the **tat
to open the 016,000 addithth
to the Blyth Metnerial HOW
onion's- Lt.-GOv. PAO*
McGibbon wan hold,* the
golden aeissom.
paw asa d,oubleopeninnt
Her Honor opened the new
building and viewed the
opening performance Of. the
Blyth Summer Festival,
John and The Missus.
Mrs. McGibbon was in-
troduced to the crowd of
theatre -goers outside prier
to the opening performance,.
by Sheila Richards,
president of the board of
directors ef the Blyth Centre
for the Arts. Mrs. Richards
annoimeed that a presen-
teflon was to be made to
Mrs. McGibbon and then the
ribbon cutting ceremony
would take place.
Susan Walsh, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Larry Walsh of
Blyth, where Mr. Walsh is
the village clerk, pregented
Mrs. McGibbon with a
bouquet of cut flowers.
Mrs. McGibbon told her
audience that . she was
pleased to be finally able to
see a performance at the
Blyth Summer Festival: She
she had
ble ar-
rds, then
Gibbon in
bon to the
• The two
flanked on
elen flowing
Ar:,e board and
tan the ad -
*rector of the
v-4
•••
Was W
With '
PlaY
Eliza
wa
„McGibbon
o the theatre
al fanfare
inest and
eMillao of
honor guard
the -First
eek -
Innis of the
Band piped
into the
supper
opening
Women 's
catered to
Innis Played
rrs on his
efore Mrs.
SiajiPearance.
the official
firriseelS
bra
Ptiers,
cere#
Val*
thesUpj
a f fe
band'
MG%
Bee**,
, eeseinanlea;thicurtain time
was held, up from 830 until
allaestS-P*,
Once th tire audience
was Brownie
Plicklinedkqkin the left aisle
f honor guard
as51
party
and,
WOO
guest, .
gge#,W
The
Barr, ,Inso,
me/4W'
detight0.
performa
,
balcony..
Tbe.
dine* 0
mer Festi
and his
introduce
audience.'
their wit
Colon**
taken apOsItton
theatre
Follaviltill the Pie
McGibire: 4004
recePd*
the theatre
with -.kW
memberal.of ti
Summer Festival?
Aeceristtanying *
Mrs. MeGibbeff:wi
Richards and:her
Wendell.and Mis.
bon's aidedecanj
David' Wrilit''"of 1
Hussars. 0! Canada
isTright.
PA*
cQnv
' ottiv4Ou IS .. _
'hrind,fOr the oPeninilO -the e
bon, Lt. Governor of Ontario, thaTtra
Artswhile Gordon Plnsent, Cafladlafl,400017,01
pretniere- Of a :neliv V' ion Of hls-play, 4Johh
-
HAtueso
'Hartmg, ,
. Miss -41anetHartung
turund'Sunday., talielliome.
, ,
Gratiderr e,Alberta.
" liaVnence'
," of
thathain visited on the
Weekend with MT: and *S.\
PernY. Huth - mid family.
Mader Scott Miley •
remained this week with his
mmtaad uncle.
The„Lakelet tanipaniona
held a 'chilly: wet overnight
campout on the island at
- Arnold Gadke's on the
weekend of June 29. 'they
en.10110 building campfires,
biking the woods
and recipes from
their 4-11 books. They
*turned on Monday noon:
%wick pupils'
win (awards'
on grodoohon
II VI: I
6.1 '1
MOWION , The
graduation ceremonies for
Grade Eight students at
HOwick Central School were
--held recently with aWards
presented for academie and k
special achievement. '
Laurie Schneider won the
Brenda Brown Memorial
Trophy for citizenship and
Jini Latronico wen the
Lakelet -Women's Inittibite
Award for best achieveMent
in the Special Edit -Akin
class. The Jean Spa
Scholarship Award -
general proficiency was iron
by Julie Mulvey.
The Howick Lions Club
donated pen sets for the top
four male and ferrate
academie students. They
were Wayne Mann, Greg
Horton, Darleen McGrath
and Julie Mulvey. -••
---BLYTH OPENING—Ontario Lt. Governor Pauline McGibbon was
on hand l° offiCially,Open the new addition SO the Blyth Centre for
the Arts Friday evening: With Mrs. McGibbon is Sheila Richards,
president of the board of directors for the centre. Holding the ribbon
•
are Helen Gowing, Blyth counCillor and member of the board of dir-
ectors, and Keith Rouistortradrninistratlye director of the Ellyth
Summer FestiVal.
Wingham,rly views f
A study analyzing life
styles 1n4North Heron bet-
ween 1900 and 1940 was
startedlpst summer by Alan
llreekek, a history Professor
fro* the University of
Guelph. The project Wiping
cantinuedthie sleemeehY a
. team of students, based in
• Wingham, which is
researching an orrid history
of Hick and Turnberry
Townships. -
Lung assoc.
awards life
memberships
R. R. Knight of Brussels
was among 11 persons
awarded life Memberships
in the Huron -Perth Lung
Assoc ia t ion du ri ng a
meeting at Seaforth. The life
memberships recognized
their ,many years of
volunteer work with the
•association.
Others'. receiving the
'rectignitiOnlireE BOSwell
of Seaforth; Edith Brothers,
May Dodds, Verna Dun -
store, Florinda Johnson
and Ernest and Florence
Davis of Stratford; Ivan
Forsyth of EgmondvWe,
Edith Fisher of Mitchell and
_Eileen O'Brien of Goderich.
Tenders opened
for Martin Bridge
As part Of this study
several students examined
editions of Ille Wingham
Times and The Wingharn
Advance to develop essays
reflecting ' the attitudes of
residents In this area bet -
Ween 1900 and 1920.
The following is a sum-
mary of an essay entitled
'Attitudes of Rural Ontario',
written by Bill McCarthy.
Rapid travel (railways),,
improved cominimication
and urban sprawl increased
interaction between rural
and urban areas between
1900 and 1910. But instead of
bringing the two closer
together, interaction pulled
them apart as rural COM -
Inanities experienced
economic hardships and lost
much population to the
growing cities.
Wingham, a predominant-
ly British community at that
time, felt the pinch as its
population decreased to 2,238
from 2,392 between 1901 and
1911.
As , a result rural news-
papers began expressing
feelings of animosity toward
urban centres. These ex-
pressions were focussed on
three topics: ntorality. living
conditions and inhabitants of
cities.
One of the major moral
issues to which The Wing -
ham Advanee directed most
of its attention was the
alcohol problem. On Nov. 6,
1902, the Advance editor
wrote, "Saloon drinking is
threatening the very life of
the community. It is pro-
ducing a physical and moral
pestilence more deadly than
any other plague which
stalks the infested eities that
Is plunging great masses of
eel working class into self
Imposed bondage, more
complete and degrading
than slavery itself.”
The newspaper depleted
alcoholism to be so wide-
spread within the cities there
were reported epidemics, of
• female suicides as a result of
too much champagne. "
Profanity too Was deemed
Morris Township Council
opened construction tenders
for the Martin Bridge
Monday evening. Council
accepted the tender from
Moffat and White Con-
strnetion, Stratford.
The Stratford company
submitted the lowest of
seven tenders, quoting a
price of 2359,828.80, which
was accepted subject to
approval from the Ministry
of Transportation' and COM
munications.
Nancy Michie, clerk -
treasurer, explained the
completion date for the
bridge is Nov. 15.
She said •the dompany's
quote represents only a
portion of the full cast for the
bridge. Other expenses are
engineering and surveying
fees, the cost to move Hydro
lines and a 53,000 land
purchase for the bridge.
so prevalent that. the Ad- •
vtince.editor found it to be no
surprise that, "two thousand
• people rose in , Massey' Hall,
TOrontce an Sunday. night
and -gave evidence of their
intention to assist in the cru-
sade against profanity".
Other targets for ridicule
Were gambling, political
crimes, the divorce rate and
child rearing, city style.
A storY appeared in The
Wingham Advance on Sept.
18, 1902, stating, "A man
from the country visited his
sister in Brooklyn and was
appalled at the fact that her
children did not address her
as mii'am or their father as
sir. When he asked his sister
about this, she said, "Cer-
tainly we do not require
them to say inal,am or sir to
us or anybody else. Indeed
We should punish them if
they said any such things. It
is not the thing Tor them to
say ma'am or sir to their
parents anymore, You and I
only did so when we were
young because 1,ve were
raised in an old fashioned
hbme." • The man left
Brooklyn the next day and
vowed not to return to the
city because to him, it was
better to. he 'old fashioned'.
Churches within„ the crty
were also seen as losing their
proper values. On Aug. 21,
1902,. the editor wrote,
) "Many can remember when
even the use of an organ in
church services was thought
not to be in keeping with the
sacredness of religious wor-
ship. One of the latest depar-
tures is that of a New York
city church which engaged a
young woman, 19 years of
age, in a pure white dress, to
give variety to the Sabbath
devotions by whistling solos.
How whistling solos can aid
true devotion, it is difficult
for old fashioned church
going people to understand."
The Advanee editor was
often appalled and warned
, against the living conditions
In urban centres. In 1908 and
1008 stories appeared about
• 'Starving in Toronto' and the
•
necessity of Charitable
organizations feeding thou-
sands of city &yellers, who
were entirely *Pendent on
the fund.
A variety of lanai pot.=
traying assault, robberies
and murders hr"the cities.
appeared,ftequently,
together with reports on °The
White Slave Trade'.
On Nov. 9, I909, it: .was
reported. that, "Things
happen at Toronto, Montreal
and other Canadian eitleS
that make the deVilish slave-
dealersef the Cense appear
like gentlemen team-
parison. Men go down to the
country, trap girls arid take
them to the city to be held as
slaves for a life of sin, and
the girls, who were once
beautiful and innocent, end
up in slavery of sin."
Other stor-ies in The
Wingham Advance dealt
with the impersonal
cities
relationships between city
dwellers and the *flux Of
immigrants, who on Aug. 25,
1904, were described as
being 'tyrants and ',bar-
barians, who caused suf-
fering, disaster and want
and were not following God's
The urban rich did not
escape scorn for in 1904 the
editor wrote, "The tendency
to the concentration of
wealth in the hands of a few
and the control of industries,
by combhies and syndicates,
Is one of the noticeable
features of our age, and this
aggregation of whalth in the
hands of a few has always
been '• the prelude to the
downfall of nations."
Another essay, Whigharn
..Responds to the Great War',
written by Cathy Wilson, will
be published in The
Wingham Advance-Timesin
the coming Weeks.
Y 00171.1,n
fficultto cateseitee
=Sure% the
Gordon ;11i:went-
, _open, the,: 'Blyth
gtunjner Festival: last
FrhiaY4g* ;
Frequently funny, thePia)!
more than a nornedY- and
rt not Oita. a tragedy. les
. an epitaph for small towns
and .small town treeige
A
AT BAT—Arlan Giteah, ege 9, takes his turn at bat
:bail
during a Tykegun, Saturday. He hit the ball, but
It was caught *VW he was 64/tcharacters to really put°
vanishing iet,0 the seilh*it,Y
of Cities, but without
becoming sentimental,
And - it . brings • the us-
takeable 'fitivOr offPii*
.sent's
land to theRlithatige.
David Fox as John Munn,
thestrong miner determined -
to hold his village together,
is the pivotal character in
the play. Much rides on his
performance and he did not
•disappoint. . Never quite
convincing as the tough guy, I,
his , performance grows
Stranger as his strength ebbs,
following a mining accident;
it he slips away so too, one
doesthe .
Anne Anglin in the Other -
title role as 'The krestut is
Fox's match.. Her poignant
'performance; as ,a woman
whe. loves her man but sees
the Mendable end of a Way of
•
life he Can't relinquish
complementshisbetintifully.
One. of the most
ratkabie characters in
the Plas‘, and the first on .
Avhoin the audience casts
ern, is Fudge, played by
Eardeel.Lineham. Looking
like the ancient mariner, his
role appears to parallel that
of the ghost in Hamlet,
holstering. JolinN , resolve
and poisoning his mind,
against any thoughts of
change.
It's never quite clear
whether Fudge is flesh or
spirit, and his role always
retains a certain air of un-
reality.
Thomas Mani as. the
_dutiful sop, nevertheless
determined to leave, and
Searia McKenna as his city -
sophisticated bride both are
very good and add to the
color and humor of the play,
but truth of the burden of
providing local color falls
Onto the rest of the cast:
William Dunlop, Michel
Lefebvre and Alan Bridle.
They do a masterful job, but
in many ways the task is too
great for only three actors.
• Dunlop is particularly
good as a typical Pinsent
Newfoundlander, earthy,
ribald and hilarious, and
Lefebvre plays a fascinating
role as the dreamer who
travels to "Mortrayall" and
partakes of thesocial whirl,
all without ever leaving Tilt
Cove. Bridle, who plays four
roles, is most memorable as
Mrs. Crummy who runs a
boadIng house.
'John and The Missus' was
originally %Titles as a novel
and later produced as a play.
Pinse,nt himself revirete the
play to aecommodate
Blyth's small cast and W—
ooly noficeable weaknesses
appear to derive from this
trimming. Oilite simply,
there aren't enough
•th
across., e, flavor ei Tilt
Cove, and consequently the
village 'John is Working so
hard. to preserve remains
largely 'iflusory to the
"audietiee.
froweier this weakness is
minor and .probahlOs
Un-
avoidable under the eirr
• elhlli**eso'•4i.jtid there,,1
quite • ' eneefill that
She* the play t� -.Make it
ivell7worth-ieeh*..it will
continue to,Plity at ill
' ar!eee between
no* and August 2.
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