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SDAY, MAY 17, 1951
CLINTON NEWS -RECORD •
PAGE SEVEN
arlyflj�jTst''Told;
Beautiful ayfiel
out Hayfield correspondent)
fascinating story of early
Bayfi.el'cl was related by
LeRoy Path at last week's
ing of the Trinity Club, Bay-
•Canad'a Company
i's. Path told of the advertising
d - ign put on by the Canada
pony in the Old Country titr-
e 1820's and 1830's, and es
example of the vicissitudes of
1' encountered by the many
sands who came to this part
made West, she quoted from
diary of her great -grand-
, William Jowett, who with
e end six children emigrait-
from. London, England, in
. A few of the items were:
II 23/33 left Gravesend; May
oke with ship going to Lon-
May 17, bad gale; May 20—
again; May 25 bought his -
from Simpson; May 28, gale
10 a.m, on 27th to 2 a.m.
28th. June 1, cold. Ther-
eter 42° in cabin. Icebergs
-'ght; June 5, spoke in a.m.
fishing boat going up to
d 'Bank; June 7 at daybreak
k in sight, proved to be The
e. June 9, went on shore
five casks of water; June 11,
t 70 passengers came on
d from the wrecks oe 4 ves-
June 13. Sailed in fair wind
about 24 hours. June 14,
Isle St. Pierre; June 17,
t came on board; June 23 on
washing all day; June 25,
uebec; June 27, at Montreal;
4, Prescott -Brockville; July
ingston; July 6, York — 'got
'ngs at The Antelope, and
goods on shore; July 8, left
in schooner 'for Hamilton;
11, left Hamilton (horses);
13, Helmer's Inn; July 18,
erich, by boat to Bayfield,
ed goods at Point, at • Tay -
for 'night; to Simpson's."
began their pioneer life on.
lot 68 in Goderich Township
(Bayfield Line). They and their
descendants saw Hayfield grew -in-
to an important and :busy ship-
ping port and witnessed its de-
cline to a small summer resort
following the advent of the rail-
ways which went to 'Goderich.
The First Bridge.
When William Jowett and fam-
ily journeyed from Bayfield to
the farm which they had purchas-
ed from the Canada Company,
they would have to cross over
on the dam or ford the 'river.
The first bridge was in the vicin-
ity of the flour and saw mills
which were built for Baron de
Tuyll and owned, before their
demolition, by James Thomson,
There was a wooden bridge' where
the old steel one how stands and
two wooden bridges below that,
This new one is at least the sixth
bridge to span the ` river here.
Aitcheson Brown (Settled 'on Lake
Huron shore near Goderich) states
that the Bayfield Dam was wash-
ed away in 1841 and Goderich
bridge damaged. He• speaks of
campaigning to try to get the
road from Goderich to "The Bay-
field" made into a turnpike, Old
Bayfield deeds bear the signature
of agent for Baroness Van Tuyll
of The Hague. The excavation
on the river bank where Aber -
hart's cottage now stands was to
have been his home.
Three Elevators
Three elevators were erected
on the river bank in the course
of time. A narrow gauge rail-
way took the grain to the docks
to the waiting schooners. When
they were partly loaded, the
schooners put out to deeper water
and barges conveyed the re-
mainder of their loads to them.
Mr. J. Stonehouse in his diary
often mentioned bringing grain to
Bayfield. And after threshing
began there would often be a line
C�ntract Barley
We are again taking contracts for
Molting Barley, In order to be sure of get-
ting your requirements for seed 'would ask
all farmers to sign their contracts soon as
possible. For cash grain, Malting Barley has
been the best and looks like high prices for
another year.
Fred O. Ford
Grain and Seed
Phone 123W
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Clinton Girl Crowned 'Queen of the Ball"
The thrill of a lifetime Cause Friday evening, May 4, to 21 -year-old Catherine "Kit" Fingland,
Clinton, who was crowned "Queen of the Ball" by students of London Normal School. Receiving
the crown from Bob McIntosh, right, president of student government, Kit smiles at her new sub-
jects. Her escort at the "Normal Nocturne" where the crowning took place, is Harry Knapper,
left, of Windsor. Both "king" and "queen" received gifts from London merchants.
—Engraving courtesy The London Free Press
of ox -carts and waggons from half
to a mile in length which moved
ahead the length of a vehicle at
a time to the elevators.
Early Hotels
Amongst the early hotels recal-
led by the speaker were: Riley's
Boarding house (first building
erected on northeast corner of
Pioneer Park), Ahrens' (where
"Sihengri-la" now stands), River
House (Mrs. W. R. Jowett's resi-
dence), Looby's (where . Mrs.
Irene Bassett's home now stands),
The Commercial (now The Little
Inn), The Queens (the first hotel
on this site was a log building,
The Royal Exchange, The New
Ritz hotel is the third on the
same site), The Albion Hotel.
Mrs. Albert Catling's house on
Louisa Street was once part of
a hotel run for a few years by
Ed Elliott, The Red Lion (the
late Richard Elliott's home be-
fore it was 'burned), The White
Horse and Pollock's Tavern (S.
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SI 1 I a c ,.::t,,..
Of All the Failures in, Busi-
•
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3% of those that fail,
are advertisers.
•
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to gross sales. Then they use their
advertising on a program basis, so as
to follow a systematic plan.
The following percentages of gross
sales are followed, According to a
survey made by competent author-
ities:
Department Stores 2.5
Men's Stores 3.3
Women's Wear Shops
Furniture Stores 6.3
Drug Stores ................... 2.9
Jewellery Stores 3.1
Grocery Stores 2.0
Meat Markets 1.5
Dry Cleaners 3.8
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Other Business 2.0
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and J. McEwen's residence) on
either corner of the Blue Water
Highway and Bayfield Conces-
sion Road, and Ching's Tavern
on Arthur Peck's farm. There
were two breweries — Roth's is
now William Leitch's residence
and Beck's was situated on the
Metcalf property. Gkme Baai't's
undertaking parlor end furniture
on the present site of R. Turner's
residence. A carding mill in
Mack's Hardware, woollen mill on
the northwest corner (Jack Park-
er's property). John Whiddon,
who operated a general store, also
built an apple evaporator. Two
distilleries were in operation —
one below the road to the old ,
bridge where D. A. Atkinson's i
summer cottage now stands end
the other somewhere along Bay-
field Terrace; two brickyards,
one where the golf course was
situated and one in the vicinity
of the late Mrs. 'Curdle's rest
deuce; a sawmill in the old drill
shed 'which in the 1890's gen-
erated electricity for the first
electric lights in Hayfield. • (The
drill. shed had been built for the
training of the militia in the
Fenian Raid days. It was here
that the first inside exhibits of
the Agricultural Society were
held while the stock and fair
was held on Clan Gregor Square).
After this mill was burned, W.
A. Mustard erected a saw mill an
what is now the River Rockery
Cabins site. A sash and door
factory which stood where the
Roman Catholic Church is sit-
uated was burned about 7.878.
First Summer Cottages
Following this there was con-
siderable discussion and then
Mrs. Path told of the first sum-
mer cottages (now owned by Dr.
Tillman, D. G.. McLean and W.
H. Dunn), being- built by Tom.
Biggert for Tudor J. Marks. The
one on the northwest corner of
Main and Bayfield Terrace was
Marks' Dance Pavilion, T. J.
Marks built "Llandudno", now
owned. by Mrs. V. C. Quarries
The speaker took her hearers
up the east side of Main Street
to the Square and down the west
side telling of buildings long'.
since disappeared and some more
recently, and who had built some
of the older places of business
still standing. The present Wool-
len Shoppe was once a•log build-
ing
uilding parallel with the street and
had contained a number of busi-
nesses, even to a recreation room
for 'boys in it or else in the for-
mer photographer's shop which
stood on the west corner of Jack
Cameron's lot. On title east cor-
ner had stood Thomas Cameron's
harness shop. Fowlie's blacksmith
shop, Ferguson's log haus e,
Pierre Ferguson's barber shop,
Lottie Martin's store (which hous-
ed the first Bell Telephone ser-
vice to Bayfield, and was burned
when it was owned and operated
as a bakery by W. J. Johnston),
a store house next to it, a build-
ing between Kingsbury's and
Malcom Toms which was used in
its latter years es a butcher shop;
Dre'hmamn's tailor and jewellery
shop, Greensiedes grocery store
and Thos. King's bakeshop all
burned at the, same time, ,complet-
ed the list of those places which
had disappeared off the east side.
On the west side the building
pant which John 'Tippett bought
and moved from the Royal Ex-
change Hotel and built onto, it
still stands as the Brinson apart-
ments. The site formerly was
that of a bakery which was burn-
ed. On' the next corner, (now
Corrie's. Market), stood J. T.
Marks'=Ggents furnishing and gen-
eral store. There. Were several
other ',little shoos between that
and Mrs. Lloyd Makins' house,
the site of which was a black-
smith shop which burned when
owned by E. Ward. The vacarst
store now owned by Charles
Toms, was once Erwin's Furniture
and Undertaking establishment'.
'John Whiddon's warehouse was
burned and rebuilt. Both it and
the apple evaporator were later
removed when owned by Ed.
Merner. Other early places of
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TUBERCULOSIS'
COUNTY -WIDE
SURVEY PLANNED
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A vast X-ray survey of Huron
County is planned by Huron
County Tuberculosis Assooi'ation.
The association made the an-
nouncement at the annual meet-
ing held in Clinton.
*Present population of Huron is
approximately 42,000. The last
survey was conducted in the
county in 1946-47.
The meeting, addressed by pro-
vincial and Federal officers, re-
elected Prank Fingland, KC, Clin-
ton, to a second term as president.
W. H. Robinson, Clinton, was
named vice-president and H. C.
Lawson, Clinton, was chosen sec-
re'ary itreasurer.
The executive named Includes
the following representatives:
Blyth, • Gordon Augustine; Brus-
sels, Roy Cousins; Exeter, Elmer
Bell, KC: Goderich, J. H. Kin-
caid; Seaforth, M. A. Reid; Wing -
ham, J. H. Crawford; Clinton, W.
H. Robinson; and Bayfield, John
Howard.
Addressing the meeting were
Dr. S. A. Honing, Toronto, of the
T.B. division of the Ontario De-
partment of Health for Ontario;
E'. 1J. O'Brien, Toronto, secre-
tary of the Ontario T.B. Associa-
tion; and Hazel S. Hart, Ottawa,
director of the Christmas Seal
sales for the Canadian T.B. As-
sociation.
Dr. Holing outlined the pro-
posal of the Departments of
Health and Education that all On-
tario teachers be required to take
an X-ray check next year. The
proposal had previously been
announced from Toronto.
Mr. O'Brien spoke on the On-
tario organization and Miss Hart
told the meeting of new supplies
and advertising being introduced
in regard to seals.
Mr. Fingland presided for the
meeting at which representatives
wnaaviiele dfromresent gh Blythand
Clinton.
business have been converted in-
to residences.
Diaries
Mrs. Path showed diaries of
persons connected with her fam-
ily and a large map of Huron
County, 1862, on which were the
names of the owners of farm
lkI.s, also pictures of Bayf'ieILd
scenes in the latter half of the
nineteenth and early part of the
twentieth century.
After hearing of all the places
in that short distance which had
been burned, the members decid-
ed that there had been a reel
need in Bayfield for a fire
brigade.
Wool
Wanted
All Wool shipped to
JACKSON'S
is Graded 'in Seaforth
and full settlement
made by them.
H. M. JACKSON
NEWS OF 'AUBURN
.* ••e'4w.a.O N4—•-4.
(Intended for last week)
Miss' Amelia Mollwain visited
Mr. and Mrs. Willows Mountain
unelay.
Rev. and Mrs. C. C. Washing-
ton spent a few days in Toronto
last week.
Miss Stella Rutledge, Goderich,
is visiting her sister, Mrs. Jere-
miah Taylor..
Miss Mildred Scott, Mitchell,
and Grace Scott, Kitchener, spent
the weekend at their home here,
Dr. B. C. Weir, who has been
visiting friends in New York and
Virginia the past two weeks, re-
turned home Monday.
Mr. and Mns. F. O. Mcllveen,
who have been visiting their
family at Niagara Fails, Oshawa
and Bowmanville, for the past
six weeks; have returned home.
son, gave their reports. It° was
derided to have the birthday
meeting in June at the home of
:Mrs. Toll, . The meeting closed
with hymn and prayer by Mrs.
Toll.
Ladies' Guild Meets
The Ladies' Guild of St. Mark's
Anglican Church was held in the
church on Thursday. The meet-
ing, in charge of Mrs. Thomas
Mc:Nall, opened by singing "Jesus
coils us o'er the tumult"; prayers
were offered by Mrs. McNeil. The
Scripture was read by Miss Min-
nie Collinson. A duet was. sung
'by Mrs. McNeil end Mrs. William
Heggitt. Mrs. Gordon Taylor gave
a very interesting talk on her
trip to New York. A reading,
"Something good about you" was
given by Mrs. T. S. Johnston. The
meeting closed by singing a hymn.
The president Mrs. Thomas Hag-
gitt, took charge for the business
period. The roll call was answer-
ed by a verse of Scripture men-
tioning a flower. The treasurer's
report was reed and adopted, as
were the minutes of the previous
meeting, It was decided to hold
a bazaar about the middle of May.
The meeting closed with prayer.
At Library Meeting
Miss Margaret King attended a
meeting of the Librarians of Hu-
ron: County at McKay Hall, God-
erich, Monday afternoon and also
a banquet in the Bedford Hotel.
A number of the Library Board
attended the meeting in the even-
ing.
United WMS Meets
The WMS of Knox United
Church was held in the Sunday
School room with Mns. W. iJ.
Craig in charge and Mrs. C. C.
Washington presiding at the
piano. The theme of the meet-
ing was "How we can work for
peace to feed the hungry." The
program in the Missionary Month-
ly was carried out. The Scripture,
Romans 5:1-11 was read by Miss
M. King followed by prayer by
Mrs. Fred Toll. A piano solo was
given by lVirs. C. C. Washington.
The third chapter of the study
book on Japan was taken by
Mns. Morris Bean. A report of
the Presbyterial held in Exeter
was given by Mrs. Gordon Mc-
Clinchey and Mrs. Ernest Pat-
terson. The offering was receiv-
ed by Mrs. Earl Wightman and
Mrs. Craig offered the dedicatory
prayer.
The president, Mrs. F. Toll,
took charge for the business per-
iod. The secretary, Miss M. King,
and the treasurer, Mrs. E. Patter -
Phones: Days 684-W; Nights 3-3
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REFRESH ! DRINK
Cortjria
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NOTICE
As Corn Borer Inspector for
the Noe&h part of Huron County,
I urgently request ell grower
of corn, which includes garden
plots as well as field corn, to
have all refuse of porn either
burned or buried before May
20. Penalties are provided for
the non-compliance in the
Plant Disease Act.
Thos. Dougherty
P.O. Box 927,
GODEILICH, ONT.
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