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Clinton News Record, 1954-07-08, Page 5THURSDAY, JULY 8, 1954' iituaries fames A. •Chowen In Toronto, on Thursday, July 1, 1954; James Alexander Chowen, beloved son of the late tvlr. and t Mrs,, James G, . Chowen,:. passed away, in his 43rd year. Deceased wasthe father of Wil- liam Chowen, Clinton, and Mrs. 3. Gibson (Isobel),R.R. 3, Seaforth; dear brother of Mrs.,' Robert Bruce, Chatham,: England; ..Mrs.' Frank Fingland and Mrs. Fred 0. Ford, both of Clinton; Mrs. H. Gourlie, Selby, Roy ariil Mowat Chowen, Toronto, and Ken Chowen, Hamilton, Funeral service was conducted in the Ball and Mutch funeral home, High Street, Clinton, on Saturday, July 3, with Rev. D. J. Lane officiating. Interment 'was' made irt'the family plot, Clinton - Cemetery. Pallbearers' were L. Ball, E.. Dale, E. Bartliff, T. Deeves, - Wil- liam Managhan, L.• Moore and K. Streets. Mrs,. C, `Freeman Muriel A. G. 1VIcBratney, belov- ed wife of.Clarence Freeman, pas- sed away in Clinton Public Hospi- tal, on • Wednesday, July 7, in her 29th year.. She was the daughter s - of Mrs. Grace McBratney, Cal- gary, and the late, Charles Mc ° Bratney. Born at Three Hills, Alberta, on February 20, 1926, she grew up in Calgary, and then lived for three years in Brantford. She married Clarence Freeman in 1944 and came to live in Clinton, Until recently she was employed with Ball -Macaulay, Limited, here. Mrs. Freeman was a member of the Ontario Street, United Church and a member; of the Ladies' Or- ange Benevolent: Association. Surviving- besides her husband is and daughter, Ddhelda; four sist- ers, and her, mother. Funeral service will be held in the Ball and Mutch funeral home, High Street, Clinton,' on Saturday afternoon, July 10, commencing at two o'clock, with Rev. A. G. Eagle conducting. Interiiient will be made in Clinton Cemetery: Mrs. Mary Dewar •Mrs. Mary Dewar', well' known Stanley Township and Hensall res- ident, died on Sunday, July 4,. at the home of her son, Roy E, Dew- ar, 332 Tecumseh Avenue, London. Funeral service was held oh Tuesday ` from the. A. -.Millard George funeral home, London, conductedby the. Rev. Angus J. MacQueen, of Eirst St. Andrew's United ;Church; London. Burial was in Bayfield cemetery, with. the Rev. R, A. Brook, Bluevale; officiating: She was born in Dundas County, was a member of Hensall United Church, and went to London to reside in -November, 1952. Two ons, Roy E., London, and Archie Dewar, St. Marys survive, with ne sister Miss .Agnes Stirling, Lucknow, and four grandchildren: Her husband Robert W.' Dewar died in March, 1945, at Hensall. She and her husband had farm- ed for many years on the Blue Water Highway, before selling their farm in 1937 to Bert Greer, and retiring to Hensall 1 A Treat from Grand Bend Merchants! 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Of course, there is per- haps not too- much to brag of since we have missed the deadline for several weeks, lately, but we just couldn't miss the chance to mention the hollyhocks. r, * * Already they are blooming! Al- ready their cheery little, pink and red faces are making themselves seen on our own favourite vacant Iot. Sure, they are not at the peak and prime of condition yet, but somehow, when they first be gin to bloom, this mouse is jus so very sure of the fact that su mer is really and truly here,"tha we must get on top of the type writer and talk about it. Things have gotten so- bad, in- deed, that people are surprised to see a mouse in broad daylight. Just not very long ago, one of our 64th cousins,. one removed— Jazbo by name—decided to take a stroll down Victoria via the ov- erland route, rather than through the underground. Upon my word, the poor fellow was actually em- barrassed by the scene he caused. So much so, that even though he is far from being a reticent chap, having baited many a cat in his time, Jazbo was forced to make a quick departure from the people's - highway, and vanish again from t the sight of men and women, by m- way of a catch basin. Terrible, t isn't it? * Say, do you know something? We haven't seen a dog running about loose for more than a week and a half! And the last one we did see was a little bit of a smooth haired black piece of dog, who stepped lightly about on his tippy toes, and seemed to be looking for whoever owned him. Surely this little dog was the closest thing to a chilhuaha Clinton has seen since Mrs. Quaife visited here last, and the wee animal was going up and down on main street, visiting all the business places, looking for someone, Pretty little fellow, he was, too, even through the eyes of a mouse, n. * a The reason w e took the trouble to mention this is the fact that humans have a habit of calling -the hot summer days the "dog days," Abso- lute historical basis for the term is not at hand, but we wonder if it is -not because during the summer the dogs in gardens and on lawns are apt to have a rugged time, and really don't have the life of a "dog," so to speak. So by means of quick thinking man automatically honoured his friend, dog, by naming the summer days for him. What do you think? m Anyhow -It will probably be many a day before a set of days, or a day will be named after our family in the animal kingdom. We must needs band together, we mice, and raise up a new national hero and patron saint of the like of dear old Bobbie Burns himself. Then, perhaps, we'll rate recogni- tion in the world of men. * S t However, and nevertheless, the hollyhocks are blooming, this'col- umn is just about two years old, give or take a week, and we feel just wonderful about the whole business of being alive and' able to talk to all of you. Good luck, and why not go smell a hollyhock? ontinuing'History of Hundred year Finds Early Mans Made By Council' (By Charles E. Asquith, ,Auburn) thedeep interest taken by Jose - Our last article on •'the 'early history of IVIancheSter dealt with the north western portion of the village known as the McDonald Survey. • In this article we ' shall dwell on the north eastern part known as the Fulton Suryey. To write the 'history of any . corn- munity is a -task of first - mag- nitude as quite often only meag- er records are available. This can be overcome to\some extent' by having the• history , of individual families written without trying to connect the whole trend of events. One family which played a prominent- part in the early his- tory *of Manchester and• other areas to . the south of here, was the McBrien family, One of the, oldest structures,.- in the village is the front part of the residence now occupied bye Miss Margaret Jackson. It was built, by Jerry McBrien, a shoemaker. His sister ° • Mary, married George I'ultgn, dTane married. John Stur- dy, grandfather of H. 'Loftus - Sturdy, President of our Cell, tenary Association, and Fanny married Stewart PIummer, a building contractor. Their son, Albert, was for many years -prin- cipal of the Blyth Public School, ?The farm now owned by Fred Toll originally consisted of 150 acres, being the west 'half of lot. 28, and the east quarter of lot 27, concession 1, Wawanosh (all lots in Wawanosh are .200 acres), was bought from the Crown by John Hudson for 90 pounds or 6 shillings per acre in 1844. After passing through several hands, it was purchased in 1854 by George Fulton for 637 pounds, 10 shillings, or about 84 shillings or $21 per acre, , This good in- crease in price in ten years may be attributed to considerable of the land having been cleared,. the boom in land values as the result of the high price of wheat fostered by the Crimean war then in progress, and the pros- pect that Manchester might develop into an important cen- tre. Mr. Fulton's deed describes him as an innkeeper of Clinton. We believe •that Mr. Fulton con- tinued to live in Clinton for some time after he made his purchase because we findthat when Clinton was incorporated as a village in 1857, and the first election held in January of, the next year, the council elected included, Joseph White h e a d, George Fulton, Samuel Rance, William Rowell and Jonas Gib- bings. At the opening of the first council meeting it was moved by -Samuel Rance, seconded by George Fulton that, "owing to News of Hensall Miss Minnie Reid is visiting with relatives in London. Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Gon- you, Detroit, Mich., visited Sun- day afternoon last with Mr. and Mrs. William Pepper, Mr. and Mrs. Owen -Price and little son Clifford, Hamilton, were weekend guests with Mr. and' Mrs, H. W. Horton. Mrs. Vera Thompson, Calgary, spent a week visiting with her aunt Mrs• F. Manns whom she had not seen for over 20 years. Members of the Canadian Leg- ion and Auxiliary are reminded of the picnic to be held this Sunday, July 11 at 2.30 in Jow- ett's Grove, Bayfield. Mr. and Mrs. Harold Bonthron and family are getting nicely settled in the home they recently Purchased from G. M. Drysdale, on Main Street. It will also be used as a funeral home. William A. Kerr, Sturgeon Falls, visited over the weekend with his wife and family in Exeter, and also with his moth- er Mrs J. L. Kerr, and brother and sister-in-law Mr. and Mrs. Graham Kerr, Seaforth. Lloyd Hedden, Mr. and Mrs. Ted Kaye and -.Steven; William Rothaermel and Herb Plumb; St, Catharines; Russell Rothaer- mei, Mr. and Mrs. George Kenn- edy and family, Port Huron, Mich.; Mr. and Mrs, Russell Hedden, Exeter, were weekend visitors with Mrs. Catherine Hedden and Herb. News of Londesboro Mr, and Mrs. William Govier are holidaying at Bayfield. 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Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Pearson, Ethel, were Sunday visitors with the Beacoms. Mr. and Mrs• Louis Govier, God- erich, were with Mrs. Archie Web- ster, on Sunday. Mrs. Stewart Bryans, Mitchell, was with her friend, Edith, Bea- com, last Friday. Mrs. Howard„Tait, Gordon and Bette are holidaying at Mussel - man Lake near Torontofor a week or two. Fred Shobbrook is back at his home after spending the past three months with his son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs, E. Knox. Robert Riley has put up a new outside stairway to his upstairs apartment which will be occupied by Mr. and Mrs, Hugh Flynn, newlyweds. Mr. and Mrs. William Baegent .and two children, Ingersoll, were weekend visitors with Mrs. Baeg- ent's parents, Mr. and ,Mrs, 1'. Fairservice. WA and WMS The joint meeting of the Lon- desboro United Church Woman's Association and Woman's Mission- ary Society will be held in the basement of the church on July 15 at two o'clock. Roll call is to be answered by "My favourite author and a few lines by, him." Program committee is Mrs. 'Lorne Flunking and Mrs. F. Tamblyn. Hostesses are Mrs. Joe Rapson, Mrs. Wes Vodden, Mrs. W. Lovett and Mrs. H, Snell. There is a quilt to be quilted. WI Picnic The Londesboro Women's Insti- tute held their July meeting in the form of a picnic on the Com- munity Hall grounds on Thursday, July 1. Races and contests were run. The winners were: Pre-school age, Billie Vincent; boys six to ten, Arthur Hunking; girls 11 to 14, Bonnie Thomason; girls, any age, Bonnie Thomason;. boys; any age, Arthur Flunking; minute race, Mrs. Stanley Lyon; clothespin race, . Mrs. Jack Mc - Ewing's team; bean :, race, M'rs. Jack McEwing's team; measuring waistline, Mrs, C. Vincent; kicking the slipper, Marjorie Hunking; sewing buttons, Mrs. Arthur Clark and Mrs. Stanley Lyon; shoe scramble, Bonnie Thomason, Mrs. James Howatt; closest birthday to that day, Mrs,' Arthur 'Clark; two lucky chairs, 1Virs Milton Little, Mrs. Jack McEwing; contest,,IVIrs. Jacit j Armstrong, Mrs. Watson Reid. Lunch was served ph Whitehead in the welfare' and prosperity of Clinton, this neet- ing, •is of the- opinion that he is the most fit and proper person to advocate its interests, there- fore Resolved, that he, be Reeve for, r the current year," Thus Joseph Whitehead; who had been one of the leading contractors in the• building of the then recently coils t r u cted Buffalo-Goderich Railway, became the first Reeve of Clinton. The same Year as he was 'elect- ed !p to 'the first Clinton Council Mr,` Fulton had his survey of Manchester,` made. The survey reads:, We the undersigned 'pro- prietor. ` and -surveyor, certify this is the- original map.of, part' of the Village of Manchester, that the references, courses and distances marked there are cor- rect and that the same is -requir- ed to be registered, by me,/ GEO. FULTON, Prop. WM. RATH, P.L. Surveyor. Dated this 19th July, 4858, Recorded Oct. 14, 1858. The survey itself is a very -in- teresting document. The boundary between it and the McDonald Survey was nam- ed Loftus St. (the street,running north from Goderich St. between the Bank of Commerce Building and R,• J. Phillip's store) in hon- our of Mr. Fulton's brother-in- law, John Sturdy, whose- father Hugh Sturdy, settled in Goder- ich Township in ' 1831. Hugh Sturdy, before coming to Can- ada the previous year, had lived on the estate of Lord Loftus, in Ireland. From some of the details on the survey map, George Fulton indicated that he had high hopes Old Auburn or of Clutton for the development of ' Man- chester, He had marked as, a site ' for a steam mill (he didn't state whether' grist: or saw mill, perhaps both, powered by the same steam plant), the area where the Toll residence now stands ,,The present location' of R. D, Munro's store is marked as a store site and the western front-. age ;of Keith Arthur's- property as a site for a store and tavern stand. At the foot of the big hill; Goderich St., is marked Proposed Government Bridge. ' On the Hallett side, about opposite- Mrs. J. Arthur's resid-. enee, is •-a red square marked "store." We suppose the red marking indicated the store was m operation, and a going con ri On Queen St., about opposite where S, Series, house stood, a spring is marked. Mrs. C. Stra-. ughan informs us that the well still on the Series property never goes dry. •Perhaps it has the same source of supply as the spring indicated on the map. Mr. Fulton was a man of much ability, a distinguished looking man with a very pleasant per- sonality. When . Manchester didn t develop as he had antic- ipated, he sold his farm for $3,000 in 1872 to William Wilson, Nobleton, grandfather of Mrs, George Hamilton, made a new venture and became a success- fuli ' c trzen of Uncle Sam, at Mt. Clemens, Mich;, Mr. Fulton gave one of his choice lots as a site for St. Mark's Anglican Church, but we do not believe the construction of the church was started before he left here in 1873. 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