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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1946-07-11, Page 2THE SEAFORTH NEWS THURSDAY, JULY 11, 1946 Former Varna Couple. Mark Golden Wedding Mr. and Mrs. John E. Harnwell celebrated their fiftieth wedding an, niversary with a quiet family cele- bration at their Keays street home, 'Goderich. John Harnwell and Fran- ces Jane Elliott were married at her home, Bayfield dine,' Stanley town- ship, on June 24, 1896, the bride- , groom being the son of James Harnwell and Martha A. Young of the township of Colborne, and the bride the daughter of Gabriel Elliott and Elizabeth McCullough, of God- erich township. Mr, Harnwell was at the time principal of Varna public school and continued teaching there until 1900. The young couple then went to Kirkton, where Mr. Hain- well taught school' for one year. In 1901 he purchased the property and business of J. T. Cairns, Varna, and conducted a general store until 1912, when ill -health forced him to quit the business and sell his prop arty.' The couple went to British 'Columbia to regain their health and after a period of rest settled near Leader, .Sask, where far five years they, operated a successful farm. In 191'7 they returned east and secured a fame near Varna, until 1929. Mr. Hammel', was township clerk of Stanley township during this time. Mr. Harnwell then traded his farm for the old hospital property on ,South street, Goderich, which is still in his possession as a five -apart- ment house. They have resided in Goderich since that time. The happy couple received many lovely gifts and cards of congratula- tion from friends and relatives on attaining their golden wedding an- niversary. Among the guests attend- ing the celebration were Rev. and Mrs. H. J. Harnwell, Walkerton; Mrs. John W. Reid, YIr. and Mrs. Ed, Chuter and George Clark, Mrs, Wilmer Reid and daughter Mona, all of Varna: ?Ir, and Mrs. John L. Reid and on Eric, London:airs. Ida Fee and Miss Eerily Osmond. both of Se::forth; Mrs. Mary Ander- ton, Gnderi,•h; Mr. and Mr,, Will F.h •red and daughter Mary J„ God- erich. It elm.- be mentioned that Mrs. Harnwell hiked her own anniversary cake, Mr. Harnwell has kept a daily diary foa• over fifty-five years up to the present and it contains many in- teresting accounts of events in their lives. Mr. Harnwell presented his wife with a beautiful ;old necklace. Rev, H. J. Harnwell, as toastmaster, paid fitting tribute to tho happy couple and the groom replied suita- bly to the toast. KIPPEN EAST Continued from last week She spoke of working on Sunday, she thought 'we were more apt to make Sunday a day of pleasure than a day of work. She was an officer in a polling booth and a young man came in who did not know how to vote or who the candidate was. Mottos and roll.. callswere offered. Miss Margaret Dougall gave a piano instrument. Mrs. W. Caldwell, Provincial Direct- or, irector, then addressed the meeting. She said we should be very thankful we are members of the Women's Insti- tute, $169,000 was raised for the Red Cross. 26,000 lbs of honey this past year. There were 46,000 blood donors. She told of a foundation fund being organized and of a small home the Institutes were buying at Stoney Creek, where they will keep records and a history of its work. More beautification of school grounds, dental and medical inspec- tion at schools, mothers on the school boards. Give to the cancer fund. It has three points, Education, treatment and research. Keep peg- ging away at the liquor law. Fill your own shoes. don't rest on your laurels, build castles, but rest then` on the ground. If it wasn't for the W.I. we wouldn't have a Health Department at the present time. Have discussion groups. Raising the Institute fees was open to a vote and lost. Be interested in hot lunches at schools, urge that health problems be looked into. Have Home Econo- mist in each district, like an Agri- cultural .Representative, encourage traveling libraries, review by-laws and make recommendations for new v ones. Give life membership pins value $5,00 to good members mov- ing ,away. bliss H. Abell, of the Department of Agriculture, Toronto, ,pre4ented a new co-operative program to the. si.: branches present. The new pro- gram deals with the many projects interesting and helpful to Canadian women. Miss Abell stated that in the survey of fond habits of Canadian families, the father is the best fed member, the mother the poorest, he. cause of the spirit of nn. mLrshness in women. sirs. Glenn McLean, Kip - pen was elected hen, teres., district pres., Mrs. Gordon Papple, Seaforth, let vice, Mrs. R. Elgie, nipnen, 2nd vice, Mrs. J. Kirkland, ILti-o.'tdale,. sec -ties., Mrs. Alvin Moir, Exeter, Conveners of standing committees: Ani. and Canadian Industries, Mrs. Raymond Nott, Seaforth; Home Economics, Mrs. John :Sinclair, 'Kip pen; Historical Research Mas. Paul Doig, Seaforth; Citizenship, Mrs. E. Munn, Hensall; Publicity Mrs. N. Geiger, Zurich; Convener of resolu- tions, Mrs A. Rundle, Hurondale; Federation representative, Mrs. E. Gill, Grand Bend, A 'pleasant evening was spent on Tuesday evening June 25th at S.S. No. 9, Tuckersmith, when the sect,- tion ecttion gathered to spend a social time with Miss Lorna Walters, who is leaving the section. During the evening there was a short program, at• the conclusion, Miss Walters was presented with a `beautiful occasion- al chair, "Miss Walters responded in her usual able manner and thanked the section for 'making her, this gift. Fire Damages Brussels Stores Fire which at one time threatened to wipe out, an entire business block as it raged unchecked when the local fire brigade's equipment proved in- adequate, was brought under control near midnight last night after fire- men from Winghanr had joined vol- unteers here in a five-hour battle. No estimate on the total, loss was available this morning but in one shop, which bore the brunt of the flames—the Gregg Brothers hard- ware shop which was completely gutted—the loss was estimated at over $20,000. The Gregg - brothers—Alvin and Borden—had recently received a new stock of supplies not covered by insurance. Everything in the' store was lost including all records and accounts and today only four cracked walls of the 00 -year-old brick building are left standing. The fire was discovered at 7:1`5 Thursday evening by William Stev- enson who was passing the (Gregg hardware shop. Cause, of the blaze has not yet been determined. Local firemen were on the scene and had streams of water pouring into the building within 10 minutes, but the flames had gained such headway that the fire was already spreading to adjoining buildings in- cluding the William Martin barber shop and R. F. Downing's shoe store, on the Turnberry St., business. block. Fire Chief Robert Gemmell early in the battle realized that his equip - anent was. not sufficient to curb the fire and sent an emergency call to Win,gham. The Wingham pumper truck arrived shortly before eight o'clock. Damage by smoke and water in several buildings was heavy. The flames spread to the Martin barber shop setting the roof afire but firemen were able to quench the second building blaze after only the greater portion of the roof had been burned off. Several families living in apart- ments over adjoining shops, were forced out onto the street but no one was in danger at any time. Vol- unteers managed to remove furni- ture from most of the places before smoke or water had created too much damage. William Martin, owner of the ad,, joining barber shop, his wife and two children, William and Susan, were in Goderich for the day. ,Considerable damage was done to stock in the R. iF. Downing shoe store which was saturated by water and smoke. Two doors away, in the William Gillespie hardware shop, more water damage was .reported, The grocery store of L. W. Eick- mier, three shops away from the blaze, was badly smoked out and damage to stock is expected to be extremely heavy. William McWhinter who used a second -storey room in the Gregg Brothers hardware shop as a storage place for his electrical equipment, lost everything he possessed. It was his second heavy loss within a few months. Earlier this year 'he lost a considerate] amount of equipment' when the Dublin creamery was de- stroyed by fire. Furniture was carried from the apartment hones of the Martin fam- ily. Miss Doris McDonald, Mrs. E. Plum and IMr, and Mrs. Ewart Lowe volunteering when the fire appeared to be out of control and threatened to spread to nearby buildings. Will Celebrate July 12th in Blyth The 12th of July annual "Orange 'Walk", which is to be held in Blyth this year, will cover the following route: The parade will leave the Agricul- tural grounds, headed by the Luck - now Pipe Band, at 1:30 p.m. It will go directly from the gates of the grounds east to No.' 4 Highway, turninng south two blocks and again turning east to Morris Street, then north to Dinsley Street, and west to the Unnited Church, turning north to the Flour Mill corner, then west to No. 4 Highway, and south along main street to Dr. Hodd's corner, and finally turning east to the school grounds. The parade is expected to include from 40 to 50 lodges, and several fife and drum ,bands, outstanding among them being the Woodham band, ' Announcement Mr. and Mrs. Lorne Walter, Ful- lerton, announce .the ,engagement of their daughter, Lorna Elizabeth, to Mr. Russell Alvin McCallum, son of Mr, and Mrs, Nobel. McCallum, Wal- ton, the wedding to take place at the bride's home July 16, STAFFA With. Raymond Miller, Irish', girl who married a Staffa man while he was on overseas' army service, arriv- ed in Canada, docking at Halifax on the Lady Nelson, Mrs.: Miller, for- merly Nora Marie Downey, was born in Ireland, ,but moved as a child to England, and was a Londoner at the time of her marriage to Mr. Miller. Her husband, the son of Mrs. James Miller of Staffa, served overseas with tile Royal . Canadian' Electrical and Mechanical ` Engineers. Tkey Will live on .the farm which Mr• Miller has been operating 'since his army discharge. Former Resident Pays Seaforth A Visit When a Seafotth old boy, Wil- liam Brownell, returned to Seaforth after 30 years absence, friends and relatives gathered at the Commer- cial Hotel for a dinner under the auspices of the ladies of the North- side United Church.• Mr. Brownell, who spends the winter season in Florida, organized a church group there which sent more than 35 tons of canned fruit to Poland. After visiting numerous old friends, Mr. Brownell returned to his summer home in Willow Grove, Ont. Fisher Family Reunion The Fisher family reunion, which was an annual event before the war but' had not been held since 1941, n as revived this year and about two hundred persons were present at the gathering.+at Lions Park, Seaforth, Besides those from Goderich, Clin- ton, Seaforth, Exeter, Blyth, Luck - now, Fullerton, Walton and inter- vening •points;there were represent- atives fron epresentatives:fron Durand, Mich., Montreal, Hamilton, Kitchener, Preston, Wind- sor and 'Stratford. A baseball,:., game was played, during the arfternoon and was followed by a program of races in which the winners were as follows: 'Children 6 Years and under, Gordon Tebbutt; girls 10 and under, Dawn Snyder, Jean Wilson; boys 10 ad. under, Wayne McMichael, Gerald :Tebbutt; girls 14 and under, Lorna Feagan, Dawn Snyder; boys 14 and under; Jack Tebbutt, Kenneth Oke; young ladies' race, Maxine Oke, June Walters; young men's race, Leonard Fisher, Jack Tebbutt; mar- ried ladies' race, Mrs. June Walters; Mrs. B. 'McMichael marriedmen's race, Carman Herr, Irvine Tebbutt; three-legged race, Grant Fisher and Herman Fisher, 2nd . Frank McMich- ael and Leonard Fisher; wheelbar- row race, Leonard Fisher and Frank McMichael, 2nd Grant Fisher and Herman Fisher. Mrs, Frank KirpkbY was adjudged best in "galling the. hired man." The oldest lady present was Mrs.' Martha 'Cunningham- of Blyth and the oldest gentleman was Peter Fisher, R.R. 2, 'Clinton. A bountiful lunch was enjoyed, after which there was short program. A sinesong was conducted by Mrs. Hazel' McMichael and Reg. McMich- ael and other numbers were a solo, by Jeanne Snyder and Ross Fisher and inouthorgan and ` gaiter Belk - tions by Reg, McMichael. The presi- dent, Mr, Milton Wiltse, acted as chairman: Officers as follows were elected for 1947: Bon. president,. Milton Wiltse; president, Peter Fish- er, Jr.; vice-president, Ross Fisher; secretary -treasurer, 'Will Snyder. Tebbutt Reunion -, With 125 present, the Tebbutt '•eunion' was held Saturr'day.at the Seaforth Lions Park. Committees in ^barge included: honorary president, T.. Tebbutt: president, 'C. Tebbutt; ice -president, W. Tebbutt; secre- tary -treasurer, Mrs. Lillian Tebbutt; sports committee, Mrs. I. Tebbutt, \Its. M. Jervis.,, Races resulted as follows. -chil- dren under 3, Ronald McAtlister, Elizabeth McFarlane, Diana Mur- phy; boys 4 to 6, ;Barry Taylor, Gordon Tebbr tt girls 4 to 6, Linda Jervis, Nancy McFarlane; gulls 14 and under, Fern Potter, Huth Me Tarlirne; boys 14 and under, Jack Tebbutt, Gerald Tebbutt, Lewis Teb- butt; young ladies' race, ,Madelon Cox, Isabel Oakes, Betty '.Potter;,. young men's race, Starry Oakes, Jack Tebbutt, Jack Merril married ladies' race, Mrs. G..:Colciough,, Mrs, R. Jervis, Mrs, J. Murphy; married men's race, I. TAM*, G. 1Colclotig+ti, R. Jervis; three-legged .race, G.';Ool- etough and MT. i3. Tebbutt, • C. Teb- butt and Mrs. • R. Jervis; coat race, Miss Isabel Oakes, Harry. Oakes; grandmother's race, Mrs. W. Shep. pard, Mrs. C. Jervis; - thread the needle race, Miss Aileen McCartney, J..Merrill. Mr. and Mrs. Barry Tebbutt, Redland, California, were present at the reunion after 33 years' 'tibia/ice. 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