HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1957-02-14, Page 1WHOLE •SERIES, VOL. 79
SEAFORTH,, ONTARIO, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1957
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A former sergeant in the Sea -
forth District .High School 'Cadet'
'Corps, 'Robert Peter Spittal, 18,
has been selected to train for an
Army Commission under the Be..
gular Officers Training Plan. He
is now in his first yearat Royal
Roads, Victorian, B.C. Officer
ICadet ISpittal's 'parents reside on
Centre 'Street, Seaforth.
To Observe Their
Golden Wedding
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Beattie
of Winthrop will be at 'home to
their friends and relatives 'on
the occasion of their " Golden
Wedding -Anniversary on Wed.,
Feb. 20, 1957, from 3 to 5 e -
clock in the afternoon and 7 to
9 in the evening.
L1 V 1NGSTON—GODFREY
The marriage took place at
Nile Church on Saturday, Feb.
9th at 2 o'clock, with Rey: Geo.
. Watt of Dungannon officiating,
of Gail Esta Godfrey, daughter
of Mr. and (Mrs. 'Ralph Godfrey,
Auburn R. R, 3, to David Bruce.
Livingston •of Seaforth, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Wm. T. .,iving-
st.celliemete,forth R.R. 2. Given in
an:irriapr. ^iby her father, the
bride wore a floor -length .gown
of cloud white tulle with bodice
and overskirt •of Chantilly lace,
jacket of tulle edged with lace.
Coronet set with sequins, and
lace edged veil; of tulle illusion.
The (bride carried a white Bible
topped with red. roses (the Bible
a gift of the Board of Stewards
of Nile United Church).
Miss Charlotte Linington, of
Goder•ich, was bridesmaid, wear-
ing a waltz -length gown of
light ;blue tulle with lace 'bodice,
oversight and jacket, snatching
flowered headdress, .and carried
a nosegay of pink mums. Ian
McCowan of •Seaforth was the
groomsman. Douglas Squires
played the organ for the proces-
sional, recessional, and ' a num-
ber during the service. Church
decorations were tulips and
deffmlils. Ushers were (Harvey
&otiroAuburn R. R. $, and
rd^TDale, IClintdn R.R. 4.
Following the ceremony a re-
ception was held at the bride's
home for the immediate famil-
ies. The bride's mother wore a
dress of navy crepe trimmed
with silver, matching accessor-
ies and corsage of pink mums.
The groom's mother wore brown
crepe .dress trimmed with white,
pink accessories and corsage of
pink mums.
For a wedding trip to Detroit
the !bride wore a light greY
English wool tweed suit with
dark brown � own aceessor•ie 5
and dark
with topcoat, w th corsa ga of
red rosebuds: On their return
they will reside at Seaforth.
ENGAGEMENT
Mr .and Mrs. (Alvin !Stevens
of R. R. 2, 'Seaforth, wish to an-
nounce the engagement of their
'eldest daughter !Shirley Blanche
to Mr: 'Gordon Ray McLarnon,
only: son of Mr. and. Mrs. Har-
vey Mel.arnon, R.R. 3, Kippen.
,LEGION' AUXILIARY
Te regular meeting of the
Ladies Auxiliary to the : Cana-
. digin Legien was held on 'Wed-
nesday evening in ' the Legion
rooms ,with 26 comrades pre-
sent The* President, Mrs. dive
Little conducted ' the meeting.
The flags were carried ion by
"the standard hearers, Mrs. Dor-
-is Adams - and Mrs. P,e g g y
Cogmba; 10 'Canada was sung.
Plans were made - to have a
birthday party in April with
other Auxiliaries to be invited.
'!Miss Thelma Porkies gave - the -
auditor's report for 1956..The
mystery prize was won by Mrs.
Olive Little and an apron. won
by m'Irs. Charlotte Woad. One
new member was tr'a'nsferred
from Markdale, Mrs. Jean Wil-
son, and was welcomed into the
Auxiliary., A banquet for the
Legion members is being ,plan-
ned for in March. The meeting
closed with the retiring of the
colours and. the 'Queen". Lunch
Was served by the comatlittee.
FRED A. JOHNSTON
Fred A. Johnston died sud-
denly Friday morning at his
home, Main ISt., Seaforth; in his
65th year..11e was (born in Wing-
ham and came to ;Seaforth 27
years ago. He was of the Angli-
can faith. Surviving are four
brothers, Charles, IMorrisburg;
James and 'Harry - of Alberta;
and Ernest of . Hamilton. The
funeral was held from the' G. A.
Whitney, funeral home,, Monday
afternoon with Rev. 3.•;H. James
of St. Thomas' Anglican Church
officiating. !Burial was in Wing -
ham .cemetery.
s
G. W. Montgomery
Takes C N R Post
Huron County Agricultural
Representative, G. W. Mont-
gomery, who has resigned to ac-
sept a new position, has issued
the following statement
"It is with mixed feeling and
regret that I announce that .I
have resigned as Agricultural
Representative for Huron Coun-
ty effective, Feb. 2.8th. I have
accepted the position of 'Agri-
cultural Agent in Ontario with
the Canadian National Rail-
ways with Headquarters in
Toronto.
"a have most certainly en-
joyed serving the farm• people.
of Huron county as. your Agri-
cultural (Representative since
August 1, 1951. During that
time I feel that we have been
able to accomplish some achieve-
ments in agricultural develop-
ment. This has only been pos-
sible because we who repre-
sented the Ontario Department
of Agriculture in the county
have enjoyed •complete co-oper-
ation from rural and ux1banpeo-
pie of the county. When I say
"We", 'I refer to Mr. John But-
ler„'Mr. Harold Baker, former
assistant Agricultural Represen-
tatives and 'Mr. Arthur Bolton,
the present assistant Agricul-
turalRepresentative, who have
all contributed much towards
making our extension program
a success in this county. The
hard 'work of a number of of -
flee stenographers, including
Miss Lois Jones and Miss Mae
Coleman, who are now present-
ly serving at the Agricultural
Office, ;have also contributed
much to the success of our pro-
gram.
"At this time 9 would like to
thank the county councils, all
rural and urban organizations
in the county, daily and weekly
newspapers, radio and T.V. sta-
tion, and the people of Huron
county for their co-operation
and considerations, which I have
always enjoyed while serving as
your 'Agricultural Representa-
tive.
"In my new position I will
still be closely Connected with
agriculture in the Province of
Ontario, eventually I will be
representing the Canadian Na-
tional Railways on many of the
.agricultural organizations in
Ontario. $ will be looking for-
ward to seeing many of my
friends from Huron county from
time to time at the IC.N.E., Roy-
al Winter Fair and at many of
the annual meetings of live
stock, soil and Crop organiza-
tions, which are held annually
in Toronto. My office will ibe
located in the ` union station,
Room C. 31, and I would wel-
come any of the people from
Huron county to drop in at any
time.
"In conclusion I would also
like to thank head office per-
sonnel and the agricultural re-
presentatives, particularly those
in neighboring counties for their
co-operation over the years. I
have also enjoyed working with
and meeting the many people
from other :branches of the ;On-
tario and •Canada Departments
of Agriculture. It is my under-
standing that the honourable
W. A. Goodfellow, (Minister of
Agriculture for the Province of
Ontario will ibe announcing the
appointment of the new Agri-
cultural Representative very
shortly. I would ask the people
of Huron county to., extend to
the newA 'cuRepresent-
ative
�
the 'same co-operation and
courtesy, which I have enjoyed
during the past five years 'and
seven months.”
CHARGED WITH BREAK-INS
Provincial Police on Monday
arrested a :Londesboro young
man and two Blyth young men
on a, charge of break, entry and
theft. They will appear in court
at Goderich Thursday. On the
night of Feb. '5th they are al-
leged to have broken- into the
mill at Londeaboro and taken
about - $6.00, at Walton mill en-
try was made and a knife• and
about 'SOc in coppers taken. At
Constance youths were fright-
ened away while attempting to
open a back door at Borden
Brown's Store. Arrests were
made by 'Constables Snell, of
Seaforth, and Hardy and Park-
inson, ;Goderich.' Charged are
John Fangrad 19, Londesboro;
Lorne Hoggart . 16, and Carl
Whitfield 22, of Blyth.
To Consider Phone
Rate Increase
The annual report of the Mc-
Killop Municipal 'Telephone Sys-
tem shows total number of sub.
scribers 443, Unchanged ' from
the previous year.
Walter ;Scott is clhairman;
Geo. Campbell and Allan ;Camp•
bell, commissioners; J. M. Eck.
ert, sec.-treas.
Total revenue for '1956 was
$13,454.47. Expense' totalled.
$13,051.84, leaving a grog gain
of 1402.63. (Surplus at Dec. 31,
1956, $15,866:93. Cobnstnuction
during 1956 was $184.50.
The annual meeting of the.
company will be held at Sea -
forth onFridayafternoon, when
discussion will take place about
making 'application to the Ont,
ario Telephone Authority for
raising subscribers levies. Also
proposal of installing .a new ca-
ble or selling out to another
company.
16,000 Chicks Die in
Brooder Barn Fire
Fire of unknown origin com-
pletely destroyed 'the 'barn own-
ed by W. L..Whyte on what is
known as the McMichael farm,
third farm ''• west of Huilettboun-
dary, Con. 5, early on Monday
morning.
The building was equipped
wibh four floors and was Teased
to the Bray Hatchery of Hamil-
ton, being used for !brooding
young chicks. Sixteen thousand
chicks not quite three weeks old
belonging to Bray's were. lost.
((lass Kroesen, a 'Dutch immi-
grant from the north - of Hol-
land, was in charge of the been.
He had inspected the premises
at ,midnight and everything ap-
peared in order. About 450 0'-
clock Monday morning Mr. and
'Mrs. Kroesen and their family
were awakened by the burning
barn. They turned in an alarm
to the Seaforth fire brigade who
responded promptly. Nothing
could be done and in half an
hour the building was complete-
ly burned, except for smoulder-
ing feed.
The brick house which stands
a few yards to the east of the
barn was never in danger as a
north wind carried flames and
sparks to the south - -over the
fields. A tree standing beside
the burning structure took afire
and soon fell. ,
A cow and her .calf belonging
to the Xroesen f'amilf were
safely removed to a neighbor's.
The form was bought a few
years ago 'by 'Mr. Whyte from
Thomas McMichael now of God-
erich, and it was fitted for poul-
try, both
oultry,(both propane gas and elec-
tric brooders being used: Last
year the land was not cropped.
A representative of the Bray
firm was on Monday unable to
say what the loss was, but that
there was adequate insurance.
Fire Damages
McKillop Horne
(Seaforth fire 'brigade was
called Friday to the home of
Mr. and Mrs. Walter L. Mc-
Clure, eon. 5, McKillop twp.,
about one and.a half miles west
of Grieves' !bridge, when fire
broke out about 11 a.m.
The fire is believed to have
started from pipes on the furn-
ace and ignited the joists above.
It went up through the parti-
tions of the main house and
reached the attic.
Firemen found it difficult to
extinguish the blaze in the parti-
tions and extensive damage was'
caused to the walls and roof of
the MdClure'-home. Neighbors
and firemen carried all . the
furniture out to safety.
According to fire' chief John
F. Scott damage to the 'home
was about 11,000 covered by
insurance.
Mrs. McClure noticed smoke
and called her husband in from
the barn. Mr. and: Mrs. Mc-
Clure have lived on the farm
since their marriage six years
ago, she being the former Mur-
ieliGanipbell. The farmisjcnown
as the Dickson farm. Damage
was confined to the west side
of the house.
Mr. !Me101ure and his brother
stayed in the house Friday night
on recommendation of the fire-
men. The roof was reshingled
next, day and this week canpent-
era and electricians are repair-
ing and refitting the damaged
marts insid
Mr. and Mrs. McClure speak
highly of the quick response of
the fire brigade in arriving in
time. to save their home from
complete destruction.
The firemen used about 200
gallons of water from the truck.
An attempt was made to draw
water from the farm well but
the water level was' too low.
Considerable rain water came
through the holes chopped in
the roof during the rain storm
next morning.
NORTHSIDE COUPLES. CLUB
The 'Northside Couples Club
held their Feb. meeting in the
church school room on Monday
,Feb. 11th. 'Groups ` from Win-
throe,
inthroe, Anglican and Presbyter-
ian IChurehes were our guests
for the evening. There was a
total of 95 present. James
Stewart led in -a singsong. The
devotional period opened with a
hymn. Mrs. 'Clarence 'Walden
read a poem "The !Shepherd and
His Lambs". The scripture was
read by' Harold 'Connell, follow-
ed by a prayer by C. Walden.
A very warm welcome was ex-
pressed to all present by Presi-
dent, Mrs. Neil 'Bell. Mr. and
Mrs. James ' Stewart favored
with two duets. Stewart 'Gord-
on introduced the 'guest speak-
er for the evening, Leo L. Mul-
len,,
ul-
len MunicipaliInformation Of-
ficr of the Ontario Hydro
Commission. He gave an inter-
esting illustiiated 'tal'k On the
St.. !Lawrence Seaway Develop -
tent. A discussion period fol-
lowed during. which . a great
many questions .were answered.
On behalf of the couples . pre-
sent, (Rev. Bruce Hall expressed
a hearty thanks to the speaker.
Dr. and Mrs. Paul Brady led in
a game, seating everybody
groups to ,get better acquainted.
A delicious lunch was aerved by
the Committee. •
1Bo!bby and 'Billy •Chambers of
filgmondviile found a , live snake
on Sunday, it •having +mistaken
time 11mnild weekend weather for
Spring,
Clinton Wins at
Drama Festival
The third annual • drama festi-
val pregented .by the 'Huron
County Junior farmers was held
in the auditorium of the Sea-
forth district high school on
Tuesday evening when the Clin-
ton Junior Farmers won the de-
cision of the adjudicators for
the "polish and :finish" of their
play •entitled, The First 'Dress
Suit. • '
The Seaforth entey, Rise and
Shine, played by Merton 'Keyes,
Elsie ,Keyes, Joan Campbell and
Ken'Camplaell also received
high praise. They were directed
by. Mr. F. Cosford of the high
school staff. •
Both plays were one.act com-
edies. '
The adjudicators were. L. P.
Plumsteel, principal 'of the local
high" school, and Mrs. !Beecher
Menzies of Clinton who teaches
in Wingham high se'hool. Mr.
Plumsteel in givi-ng'the judges'
award, went over the points.
The plays they considered were
very well chosen, and the Sea -
forth play was different from
anything either of them had
seen before. The scenery of both
presentations was excellent, and
so were the costumes. The char-
acterizations, that is suitability
of the actors for their different.
parts, were well chosen, Mr.
Plumsteel said,• The audibility
of all. the players had been
good. ]He said they both agreed
that in the smoothness and fin-
ish of the play that Clinton was
better, and made the award on
that basis.
In conclusion, Mr. Plumsteel
said that, as in all games or
sports, the winning or losing was
not important in itself, but
what each player learned was
the ,benefit.
The winning Clinton east:
Ivan lelcClymont, Lois Jones.
Ruth Brown, Stan Johns. They
were directed by Mrs. Dr.
Haines. - -
Exeter club supplied musical
numbers during the evening as
they were unable to present
their play. There was an accord-
ion solo by Barmy Jeffrey, mus-
ic by Bill Dougall and Ray
Cann, 'Maurice Love and Bert
Pepper, and Jim 'Nott of Clin-
ton. Local numbers were a step
dance by Lois .Godkin, and a
Scotch song by Sharon Strong.
Miss Catherine Campbell - was
chairlady.
HOME AND SCHOOL
Dr. ,Semple of Egmondville
will be the guest speaker at the
regular meeting of the (Seaforth
Home and School Association on
Tuesday, Feb. 19, at -8.15 pan.
His subject, The Main Cause
of :Delinquency. The public is
invited.
OFFICERS RE-ELECTED
At the annual meeting of the
McKillop Mutual Fire Insur-
ance Co. on Friday afternoon
at
Seaforth all officers and dir-
ectors were re-elected. Wm. S.
Alexander of Walton is presi-
dent; Robt. Archibald of" Sea -
forth, vice president, and M. `A.
Reid, sec.-treas.
ENGAGEMENT
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Cooper,
Seaforbh, wish to announce the
engagement of their youngest
.daughter, Merle Anne, to Ed-
mund Lowell Johnston, eldest
son of Mr. and Mrs. Lowell
Johnston, .Durham, bhe
mar-
riage ar-
nagetotake place early in
March. --
REAL ESTATE CHANGE
Fredericl4 Knetsch has pur-
chased the house of Mrs. Fred
Walsh, 'Market Street and will
get possession this week. The
Walsh family have rented a
house in Egmondville. Mr.
Knetsch, who came here from
Goderieb some months ago, is a
member- of the office staff of
John Boshart & Sons.
C.G.LT.
The Northside C.G.LT. met
in the church at 7.15 on Mon-
day evening. We opened with
the ;C.G.I:T. purpose and hymn.
The worship service was then
led by Phyllis Bryans and Joan
Bach: The roll call was answer-
ed by the word "Love" from the
Bible. Next week it is to Ibe an-
swered by the word "Merry".
Mies Barr then led us in the
study of the care of a baby.
"Boy, can 'Una Talbot ever
Whip those diapers on in a hur-
ry". Next week we are to bring
a 1 -inch or 3 -inch piece of
sheeting to be used in first aid.
The meeting was 'then closed
with "Taps".
Scottish Friend
Comes to Canada
J. M. Robertson,' Market St.,
of . the ' RCAF staff, Clinton,
who came from Scotland to
Canada nine years ago, notice
a reference to Seaforbh, Cana-
da, while looking through
Scottish newspaper the other
day, "It's a small world,, after
all," he said.
The item tells' how •Sandy Ro-
berston,' a noted Scottish golf••
er I(no relation to J. IM.) had
been encouraged to emigrate to
Canada )through friendship with
a !Seaforth boy,'Ken Doig, who
is now living at Ingersoll, plays
hockey with Woodstoek 'Senior
B's and is employed at the
Canada Cement plant,
Council Plans New
Municipal Offices
Definite plans for a ladies'
rest room in the town: hall were
made by the council on Mon-
daynight at their regular °meet-
ing. When completed it will be
the culmination of more than 25
years •of urging by various
groups from time to time.
One councillor remarked that
the rest rooms in Clinton were
hardly ever used after being in
operation for six months, and
Seaforth might find it the same.
Toilets will be located on the
ground floor adjacent to the
new staff toilets. On the second
floor a ladies' lounge will be
created in the room over the
f r o ret entrance, overlooking
Main Street. This would comply
as nearly as possible with the
request made last year by the
Women's Institute.
All members of council were
present and Mayor McMaster
presided.
Frank Kling presented plans
of the proposed layout of new
municipal offices and stairs.
Council decided to leave the
stairs for now and proceed with
the municipal offices immedi-
ately.
Council instructed the corn,
mittee to close in the arch over
the front door with a glass win-
dow. Councillor Wm. Bali fav-
ored bricking it in, others liked
architect Oban MacTavish's
suggestion of an iron railing
and window box for flowers.
Councillor Scott Habkirk, the
chairman of the property com-
mittee in charge of town hall
renovation, reported that to
date $5,700 has been spent on
the new front when Jos. Hug -
ill's contract is completed and
on the garage at rear. This
leaves $4,300 to fix up the in-
side to stay within the budget
of $10,000. The garage had
been built for $3,000 complete.
The 'Mayor inquired what
would have been cost of a ther-
mal glass front window where
the firehall door usdd to be.
Frank Kling said according to
his -information thermal glass
would he four times the cost of
plate glass. The plate glass win-
dow was set in place Monday
and cost $200.00.
The new municipal offices
will be finished with walls of
Teri -test on studs, covered with
birch plywood. Acoustic ceil-
ings -will be used. 'Outside walls
will have a layer of aluthinum
paper.
Council were not sure wheth-
er the firemen were anxious to
be moved downstairs or not. A
room downstairs beside the gar-
age would be convenient for
giving instruction on the use of
equipment,
Reeve Scoins in moving that
the ladies' toilet be downstairs
said it was the most serviceable
and economical location. The la-
dies' rest room in the tower will
be approximately 914 x 12'.
The. front lobby downstairs
will be finished with plaster on
wire on recommendation of
Councillor Thorpe 'Rivers. Tile
flooring was discussed.
It was stated by Councillor
Habicirk that the work on the
town hall was !being divided up•
as fairly as .possible and the
next section was being done ;by.
Frank Lamont.
The Financial Committee re-
port the following accounts and
salaries have been passed:
The Seaforth Public ;School
$:3,000.00; !Mrs. H, Bolton $6;
A.2
Mallen $ 1.00• S. 'H i
alk rk
,
'$381.8.2; W. u
Dthgate $166:
90; Treas. E..Southgate of- Ontario $721.90;
D. H. Wilson $2.50.00; H. Ma-
loney $220.84; A. Price $187.-
50;
187:50; A. Bushie $142.50; J. Cum-
ming -120.00; Receiver General
of Canada $10.00; Amy Horne,
843.20; The Municipal World,
$27.00; Relief $15.00; W. Dun-
das $23.58; County of Huron,
:$55.77; C.N.R. $5.00; W. M.
Hart 111.6.5; Seaforth Motors,
$3.00; !Boyes' Farm Supply 110.-
70;
10.70; 1Supertest 'Petroleum Corp„
$12.55 John Bach $64.51; Geo.
H. Miller $6.50; G. Se W. V.
Smith $11.77; 41. (Maloney '$82:
50; A. Price 115.00; C. Coonbes
$2.74; A. Gilbert Motors $20.;
Mrs. H. Bolton $2.00; A. Miller
134.00; Aikins Leather • Goods
$8:50; J. T. Hugill 11,200.00;
M. E. (Clarke 4164.51; H. Mc-
!Llwain '$55.00; Bell Telephone
Co. 169.56 P.U.C. 8143.191.
Mayor McMaster asked what
council wanted to do about giv-
ing business to new insurance
agents. St was decided that suf-
ficient insurance is now carried
to cover the garage this year
and suitable action could be
taken this fall. Reeve 'Scoins
has a plan for having all insur-
ance fall due in November af-
ter tax money' is in, saving in-
terest charges.
Chairman IB. -Christie reported
for the .streets committee, that
snowplowing had been continu-
ous in January. ;Snow was tak-
en off Main -Street once, streets
had_ been sanded and chloride
applied when needed.
A. Miller had been engaged
to clean cesspools during the
illness of A. Bushie.
(Complaints had beep anade.
'about the bylaw for'bid'ding
trucks to- unload on Main St.,
as it was impractical in certain
cases. It will be taken up with
police to use discretion, also po-
lice will be asked to lie
when snow ' removal is (being
done on Main Street. Many mo-
torists ignore the temporary no-
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Farm Union consider
Seaforth Local
The monthly meeting of the
Farmers' Union at Hugh John-
son's got underway at 9.15 on
Saturday night after minutes
of previous meeting were read
and adopted. One of the liveliest
business meetings of the season
took place. It was felt that the
local should make more use of
the commodities the Farmers'
Union hastooffer, such as fer-
tilizer, rubber tires, feed grain,
bulk groceries, heats, canned
goods etc. It was pointed out by
the President, that the Farm-
ers' Union cannot .purchase or
sell at a profit as there are no
middle men involved. Any mem-
ber with membership acted up-to-
date can obtain merchandise at
cost price. If farmers were get-
ting their share ,of parity they
would not have to shop around
for Bette} prices. Fox bounty
has been increased to $2.00,
Local decided to approach Gor-
don McGavin in leasing pond
and stream and in having it
stocked with fish, also same
controlled by Farmers' Union.
Tractor license came under dis-
cussion and was felt if you lic-
ensed your tractor you would
have to license every implement
or wagon you towed behind -on
highway. We are opposed t6
such an act. Verniers' Union
does not believe it democratic
for municipalities to give grants
to Federation of Agriculture.
There is no objection however,
to a mill rate providing the
ratepayer can inform the asses-
sor of his wishes.
Local thought municipal taxes
should be payable twice a year.
Re hog marketing,
farmers' un-
ion feels hogshowl
5 d be • sold
from your pens, also price stat-
ed at that time. It was proposed
to invite C.F.A. to a joint meet,
ling with Farmers' Union in near
future in Seaforth town hall.
Farmers' Union would like to
congratulate Junior farmers in
their rat campaign.
It is felt Local 134 of Wal-
ton, that its membership has
so increased and spread over so
much territory that it is impos-
sible to keep all members in-
formed on current happenings,
so a local in Seaforth is about
to be organized.
'Next month's meeting will be
in :Seaforth town hall on Wed-
nesday evening, March 13th.
The meeting adjourned and
theladies served lunch. •
Hockey Hapn's
By Bill Teal!
At a group meeting held in
New hamburg the following
schedule was drawn up for our
play off games with St. )Marys
which will 'be a best four out of
seven series.
Mon., Feb. 18—+Seaf, at St. M.
Thurs., Feb, 21—St. M. at •Seaf.
Tues; Feb. 26—St. M. at (Seaf.
Thurs., Feb. 28—'Seaf. at St. M.
Tues., Mar. 5 -1St. M. at Seaf,
Thur., Mar. 7—;Seaf. at St. M.
Sat. Mar. 9 -St. M. at Seaforth
Sarnia and Woodstock will be
playing off - and the winner of
our series 'will meet with the
winner of Woodstock and Sar-
nia series. Burlington and Kit-
chener play off and Owen Sound
meets Waterloo in 'the :Eastern
group playoff series.
Last week I mentioned that
reserved seats are •available at
Seaforth 'Motors. You can re-
serve for all playoff genies
seats in Sections B and F (the
north and south centre sections)
for, $1 per seat. Many have tak-
en -advantage- of this offer, but
there are still plenty of good
seats available' and most, of you
realize play off games bring out
many who have not been out •
before and also visiting teams
bring many fans with then,
making it necessary to arrive
early if you have no seat reserv-
ed. Please take advantage of
our reserved seat plan at Sea -
forth Motors.
We have deeded not to raise
the price of admission for our
first play off series in spite of
the fact we have to raise refer-
ees' fees to $15 each, plus trav-
elling expenses and give a per-
centage of each gate to OHA.
We hope by retaining our 50c
and 25c admission we will get
enough extra customers to take
care of our added •expenses:
Please cone out and support
your team in their play off
games.
The turnout to minor night
was very encouraging and I
hope it will become a yearly
event.
Our financial statement is:
Ticket sales to date $2705.00,
gate receipts $1,150.05, draws,
$483.501 donations 5349.25, fea-
ther parties $695.60, insurance
'benefits $114.15, players release
575.00, minor hockey night $86.
Total receipts 55,658.55.
Expenses to last week 15,-
226.50,
5;226.50, travelling $42,00, lun-
ehes 534.76, equip. ejrs.) $125,
equip. ((minors:) '$13.25, board
$35.00, skate sharpening $25.-
15, .coaching $30, advertising
$5.00. Total expense $5,534.66.
Balance in bank $123.89.
MISS'
BRUCEFIELD
Mrs. Yeoman Aldwinkle while
helping with the work at the
barn suffered a fall fracturing
several ribs and injured her
(back.
'Mr. and Mrs. A. D. Smith, of
,Bluevale and daughter Eleanor
of Stratford spent Sunday with
Mrs. H. Berry.
Mrs. Stackhouse, Mr. and
Mrs. Mac Wilson spent Sunday
with Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Neale
and family, London.
Mr. ;Ronald Paterson London,
spent the week end at his home.
Several relatives attended
the wedding of Hugh Zapfe, in
London on 'Saturday.
T,he February •meeting of the
Woman's Association was 'field
on Thursday, Feb. 7 in place of
the regular day owing to the
funeral of the late Thomas
Wheeler. Meeting opened with
31 in attendance. Mas. Wilmer
Broadfoot and 'Mrs. H. Berry
had charge of devotional per-
iod. Mrs. Berry offered prayer
and Miss E. Bowey gave Scrip-
ture reading. Mrs. 'Broadfoot
gave the topic, Prayer. The
president, Mrs. John Broadfoot,
took Chair for remainder of the
meeting. (Mrs. W. MclBeath gave
the secretary's report and Mrs.
H. Taylor the treas. report.
Mrs. Edgar Allan received the
offering. Mrs. Lorne Wilson
read thank you notes from- Mrs.
T. Baird Sr., Mrs. Douglas, Mrs.
L. Wilson, Margaret MeQueen,
Leola Taylor, Mrs. J. Slender -
son, and !Mrs. Dawson. The
matter of joining the film
board was explained " by Mrs.
Broadfoot and Mrs. Taylor. It
was decided to leave it over for'
another meeting. Mfrs. Triebner
and Mrs. E. Thompson were ap-
pointed to attend the Hospital
Auxiliary at 'Clinton the first
Monday in )March.
RECEIVE CAPS
Members of the class of 1956-
59 at' Stratford General Hospit-
al who received their caps Sat.
urday afternoon included; June
Hackie/ell, Walton; Grace Sieg
mon, Walton R,R. 2; Helen Mc-
Ilwain, Clinton, R.R. 1; and,
Betty Sturdy, Ot.R• 1, Auburn
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