HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Citizens News, 1970-01-15, Page 9THURSDAY, JANUARY 15, 1970
ZURICH CITIZENS NEWS
PAGE NINE
AUDREY BELLCRAMBER TELLS YOU - - - -
ALL ABOUT BAYFIELD
INTERESTING HAPPENINGS IN ONTARIO'S PRETTIEST VILLAGE
(intended for last week)
Mr. and Mrs. Adam Flowers.
spent the Christmas weekend in
Streetsville with their son and
family, Mr. and Mrs. Russell
Flowers.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Huntley
and daughter, Janet, spent the
Christmas weekend with Mr. and
Mrs. Gordon Graham. Janet re-
mained with her grandparents
until January 2 for the vacation
period.
Mr. and Mrs. Howard Scotch -
mer and Robert of Chatham were
with his parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Lloyd Scotchmer on Christmas
Day. They all were guests of
Mrs. Howard Scotchmer's par-
ents, Mr. and Mrs. O. Ovens in
Mitchell on Boxing Day. Mr.
and Mrs. Lloyd Scotchmer visit-
ed in Chatham with their family
for the New Year's holiday.
Mr. and Mrs. Don Turner of
Hamilton spent the New Year
holiday with Mr. and Mrs.
Russel Heard.
Mr. and Mrs. Delbert Haw ac-
companied Mr. and Mrs. Don
Haw, Anne and Bradley to Oran-
geville on Sunday for a New Year
dinner at the home of Mr. and
Mrs, Doug Deller..
The executive of the Senior
Citizens Club were re-elected
for 1970 at the clubs regular
meeting last week. The officers
are; Mrs. George Hopson, pres-
ident; Mrs. Carrie Heard, vice-
president; Mrs, R. J, Larson, sec-
retary and Mrs. W. E , Parker,
treasurer.
Mr. and Mrs. George H. Dur-
ham, Jim and Ron of Clarkson
were guests of his uncle, Carl
and Mrs. Diehl from Monday
until Friday and also visited in
Clinton; his mother, Mrs. Mor-
ris D. Durham and Jeffery Hearn
of Clinton joined them for the
family Christmas celebration
on December 31. Mrs. Dur-
ham was also a guest at " The
Hut" on New Year's Day.
Mr. and Mrs. Glen Sturgeon
visited Mr. and Mrs. Joe Lostell
Kippen, on Saturday and Sun-
daGuests at the Albion Hotel for
the New Year's holiday were:
Mr. and Mrs. E.C. Campbell
and family, of London; Mr. and
Mrs. G , M , Pence of Rochester,
ST. JOSEPH and DRYSDALE
(ALFRED DUCHARME, Correspondent)
By the time this goes on print
half of the snowy month will be
passed, even though we have
had some chilly days, there was
not too much snow t) get around.
The roads have been in good
shape for the travelling public,
especially those who have a
long distance to go. When the
month of January has passed on
it gives hope for spring even
though the passing of time as
we all wish for means that our
lives have shortened, but regard-
less of that we are wishing for
the winter to pass quickly and
looking for another season.
Many of our sick people in
this surrounding, we believe,
are on the mend, so that they
too will be looking for a bright
future,
Mr. and Mrs. Morris Durand
of the 14th concession were
Sunday last visitors with Mr.
and Mrs. Dolph Sopha.
No more of those early set •
-
tiers remain in this parish to
tell the story of their coming
and their hardships. To thein
each decade brought hope and
each one had its changes.
Twelve decades in all and you
can well imagine all that took
place to those early pioneers
and their descendents. The
last half of the°decade of their
arrival was perhaps the hardest
part before they enjoyed life.
As the decades passed on meant
new expectations and by that
time the organized council of
the Township of Hay had survey-
ed in the year of 1850 or there
about, known as the Sauble Line
and known as the Blue Water
Highway.
The Canada Company had by
then a large tract of land from
the government and were sel-
ling their land to those new set-
tlers for three dollars an acre.
Those early settlers when
entering a new decade the year
1850 had decided to leave their
squattered land and shack they
hacl built along the lake on
their arrival in 1846 to buy land
from the Canada Company at
the aforesaid price of three dol-
lars per acre.
The years from 1846 to 1850
were hard years for them. They
lived mostly on fish and wild
game which was plentiful at
that time. As time passed on
those early settlers had formed
new ideas to better their stand-
ard of living. The first invent-
ion was to invent something to
keep their fish in the hot summer
and they carne up with the idea
of smoking them, but how ever
each one lad his suggestion and
finally decided to di a trench
two feet wide, two feet deep
and about ten feet long. This
had to be done in nice dry wea-
ther. They then cut wild rasp-
berry bushes placing them nea-
tly in layers, one of them and
and then a layer of fish to the
near top. They then picked
fallen leaves and dry limbs to
start a fire in the bottom of
different sections. This was to
be kept up for three days and by
then the fish were well smoked
and with the flavour of the rasp-
berry bush, it was according
to their story quite tasty. It was
then pulled out and hung out in
the open between two trees,
high enough to be in safety of
the wild animals roaming the
forest. They peeled bark from
birch trees to make their string
between the trees. They also
did something similar in the
winter with their wild meat, by
putting together snow houses to
store away their wild game
which kept until late spring.
Sometimes we wonder if they
were not the real inventors of
the smoking process and as
well the good freezing process
of today.
Mich; Mr. and Mrs. J.W. Eger-
ton and daughter, Diane of Lon-
don; Mr. and Mrs. A, F. Mc-
Laughlin of Port Credit; Mr.
and Mrs. Peter Tillman and
eight children, London; Mr. and
Mrs. W. Gineiner, Grosse Pointe
Mich; Mr. and Mrs. A. S, Lin-
zell and family of Grosse Pointe
Woods, and Mr. and Mrs. N.P.
Cooper of Mount Clemens, Mich.
Robert and Stephen Pence,
Rochester, Mich., stayed with
their grandparents, Mr. and Mrs.
Jack Atkinson for the holidays.
Stuart Atkinson and family
returned to their home in St,
Clair Shores, Mich, on Sunday
after spending last week at their
Bayfield home.
The officers for 1970 of the
croquet club of Bayfield are:
Dr. J. W, Walters, president; Dr.
W. Tillman, past president;
Mrs. Hugh Gregory, secretary;
G. Cantirck, International sec-
retary and Joe Beechie, treasurer,
The members held their sec-
ond annual dinner meeting at
the Albion Hotel on New Year's
Eve.
Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Butler of
Madison, Wisconsin, also Mrs,
M. J. Butler, Clinton were Sat-
urday visitors with Mr. and Mrs,
Delbert Haw. New Year guests
at the same home were Mr. and
Mrs.. F.G. Heard of Stratford,
who also attended the funeral of
their aunt, the late Mrs. William
Scotchmer.
Mr. and Mrs. Don Warner and
children returned on Saturday
from a two week vacation in
Lakeland, Florida.
Mr. and Mrs. John Lindsay
were joined by their family for
the festive season. At home
were Mr. and Mrs. Jim Butcher,
Don, and George, who has re-
turned this week to the Univer-
sity of Waterloo, where he is
in his final year.
Miss Pat York and Mike Scot-
chmer have resumed their stud-
ies at the University of Guelph,
Gordon Merrill has returned to
Brock University and Neil Bell -
chamber to U, W.O.
Mr. and Mrs. Ken Knights
and Kelly were New Year visitor,
with Mrs. Knight's parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Charles Scotchmer.
Miss Barbara Clift has returned
to Ottawa after spending the
past ten days with her parents,
Brigadier and Mrs. F.A. Clift.
Ivlr, and Mrs. Ed Weston who
have been visiting in London for
two weeks have returned and are
spending the winter with Mr. and
Mrs. Lloyd Westlake. Visitors at
the Westlake home over the
holiday season were: Randy Mac-
Pherson, Kitchener; Miss Janet
Taylor, Varna and Mr. and Mrs.
Jack Brown of Oshawa.
Miss Maria Hohner visited
with her brothers in Zurich and
Exeter last week.'
Mr. and Mrs, Cliff Utter re-
cently spent several days in
Simcoe and Port Dover visiting
relatives.
Mr. and Mrs. Joe Britt, Joey
'and Jimmy, Royal Oke, Mich,
were weekend visitors at the
'home of Mr. and Mrs. Robert
Snell.
Mr. and Mrs. John MacKen-
zie,
acKenzie, Margo and John Jr. of St.
Catharines were recent visitors
with his mother, Mrs. J. Mac-
Kenzie.
Kelvin Merner and John Gra-
ham played with the Clinton All
Star Pee Wee hockey team in
Clinton, New York, during the
weekend.
Mr. and Mrs. J.R.R. Willock
'of Toronto, called on friends in
the village and Clinton on Sat-
urd ay.
Mr. and Mrs. G.N. Rivers
visited Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Tay-
Ilor, Stratford, on Saturday.
Miss Marguerite Kahnt will never
be more than four feet tall and she
Ihas a curved spine as well. But she
!has a full-time job as a switchboard
operator in a large Toronto insur-
ance company, thanks to training
given to her by The Ability Fund
(March of Dimes). A contribution
to The Ability Fund will make pos-
sible the rehabilitation of many
more handicapped adults like Mar-
guerite.
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