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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1953-10-16, Page 2POSITOR shied j$ao rO luster! a' Seaforth, Ontario, ev- w sday afternoon by McLean A. Y. McLean, Editor Member of Canadian Weekly Newspapers !Association. PHONE 41 (Authorized as Second Class Mail root Office Department, Ottawa SEAFORTH, Friday, October 16th 'WHAT MAKES PEOPLE BUY? This is the $64 question in almost any line of business. A hardware retailer would give a good deal to know the gardening weather we will have next Spring. The person who sells home perman- ent sets or the beauty parlor opera- toreould .make a bigger profit if hair styles were known in advance. So it goes for all of us -what the future holds is unknown. The businessman can only guess about public reaction to his product or service. Even an experienced businessman can only make an ex- perienced guess. The public taste and fancy is an uncertain thing. It Is what makes fortunes and it is also what sometimes destroys'. fortunes, too. This is just as true for the wage earner, the professional man - even the journalist. But the prudent among us have some protection too. Insurance, pen- sion plans, family . allowances and many other safeguards are available to help weather unexpected squalls. That is one of the reasons why the Canada Savings Bond - habit has caught on so well in Canada. It al- ways adds to your peace of mind when you have a few bonds tucked away. More than a million Canadians purchase these bonds each year. They caow they're always instantly cash- able. They know they earn a good rate of interest -this year an attrac- tive 33/4% per year. Those who have - mot yet •discovered the many advant- ages in the Canada Savings Bond habit might do well to give them ser- ious thought. A call at any bank or investment dealer will get you all the facts about this new Eighth Series on sale now. PREPARE FOR GROWTH Discussing the extent to which Western Ontario communities can anticipate growing in the immediate future, the St. Marys Journal -Argus wonders whether the towns will be prepared. "Will we be ready to take it -or will we turn into another Topsy?" it asks. The query was prompted by a sur- vey taken in St. Marys for a new in- dustry. The survey revealed two things, according to the Journal - "First of all, the alert business peo- ple of St. Marys and other citizens of the town who want to see us -pro- gress and prosper are fully aware of ,., the need for one 'or more small indus- tries to become established here. They are ready to welcome any ap- proaches made by interested con - terns or individuals. "Secondly, the need for town plan- Ging is readily apparent. An indus- trial area, or areas, should be desig- nated and a plan made for future growth of the town. Make no mistake about it -Can- ada is going ahead by le tps and bounds and all small towns, particu- larly in Southwestern Ontario, are bound to grow a lot in the next de - "ode or two?' It Was at this point that the ques- °tgi was .asked as to Whether district +o►*ns were planning their affairs communities in such a way as to nix a the ability to handle larger f f a elation loads. Unfortunately, in any eases,; the answer is 'no'. ether Papers Say 0, **Want sric .ig il.St ;r) e calx t%ie un heir` • t1J(ly :1."iso.7.•.Yi•'a'h,.uu.YY.r,;fv�ii'vs ./�'fa{1�%�1 ['. .. onee but gave it up -there seemed no end to them. We have noticed sug- gestions' from some of our contem- poraries that their towns are over - organized -too many meetings; too many interests claiming time and en- ergy. Some people can claim mem- bership in a great number of differ- ent groups; whether membership means any great- degree of usefulness is a question. One suggestion for the beginning of the fall season is quot- ed: "It is a good time for us as in- dividuals to consider how we will spend our strength; to decide whe- ther we are going to belong to every- thing and be too busy to. DO any- thing, or whether we will belong on- ly to the organizations to which we shall be able to give our best." The Galt Colonies (Winnipeg Free Press) The name of Galt is a prominent one in Canadian history. Gaits were the leaders in successful colonization projects in both the East and West and there was a Galt among the Fathers of Confederation. The stories of the Galt colonies are revived with the recent report that the Canada Company founded by John Galt will soon close its doors and go out of business. The company's first office was op- ened in Toronto'in 1824 and the char- ter'was received two years later. The Huron Tract of 1,100,000 acres was purchased, roads were begun and settlers invited to this fertile area. In turn, towns were founded: Guelph, on the banks of the River Speed; Goderich, a picturesque Lake Huron port, with streets coming out like the spokes of a wheel from the court house square; and Galt, named, of course, for its founder. The name is remembered in south- ern Alberta, where Lethbridge has its Galt Gardens and Galt hospital. Elliott T. Galt, a grandson of John, visited the west in 1879 to inspect In- dian agencies. He became interested in the possibilities of Lethbridge, then known as Coal Banks, an obvious name for the hill of coal on which the present city stands. Young Galt interested his father,' Sir Alex- ander, then Canadian High Commis- sioner in London, who, in turn, caught the ear of British investors. There was then founded the North West Coal and Navigation Company with William Lethbridge as presi- dent. This company, like so many early ventures in the West, was born of a grand idea which didn't, work out. Boats and barges were built at Coal Banks, loaded with coal and navigat- ed down the Belly River to Medicine Hat, where there was a ready pur- chaser in the new railway just push- ing across the high plains. There was a catch, however. The boats could only get through when the riv- er was in flood -and it took them nealy all the coal they could carry to force their way back against the stream to Coal Banks. The original .plans were quickly dropped. Land grants were obtain- ed and a railway was built to Medi- cine Hat -to haul the coal -and an- other line from Coal Banks to Great Flails, Montana, the first internation- al railway west of Winnipeg, The rail lines were later taken ov- er by the C.P.R. But the great achievement of the company was the bringing into the district of large parties of industrious settlers, Mor- mons from Utah, who paid for their Iand partly in cash and partly in un- dertakings to build canals to irrigate their land. Here in southern Alberta, where rainfall in most areas averages less than ten inches a year, has grown a garden land. Here, the population has reached about thirty-five persons to the square mile, ten times as many as can live on adjacent dry areas. In the middle of this watered park area are towns with tree -shaded resi- dential streets, with modern • stores busy factories -towns which like Galt, Guelph and Goderieh are evi- dence that the coloni'ers w planned lann e d elf; towns: McGrath, ath Stirling andwere the prosperity o 1*, s t 18 e1teeeded' oil. b... e. WAY y a�rh apea tar the future. SEEN Ilf TNS CQUN?Y RAPERS 'Have Moved To 'Zurich Mr. and Mrs. Thom9s Rawlings and son, Stanley, of » Tillsonburg, have moved their effects into the new home owned and recently built by Mr. 'Morris Weber on Rosalie St. We welcome them to the vil- lage. The former 'has taken a posi- tion with the Pearson Motors, Zur- ich.-1Zurich Herald. Return From Trip Mr. Herbert Mousseau and his daughter and soh -in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Reg. Black, have returned from a motor trip to the Western Provinces, where Mr. Black's par- ents reside, They enjoyed the trip very much, having good weather, -Zurich Herald. Pheasants Plentiful Those lovely and pleasant to look at pheasants are quite plenti- ful this fall, so hunters report. The other day a very nice speci- men found its way in the neigh- borhood of the O'Brien Produce, but as this was not the kind of poultry they handle, it went across the street and landed on the win- dow sill of Mrs. Hey's residence, where admirers took a good look at the bird with its many nice feathers. -Zurich Herald. Charlvari Group Visits Families Mr. and Mrs. Ephriam Snell, Jayne •Mary and Richard moved in- to their new home on Highway 4, on Thursday, October 1. This home is just east of the homestead now occupied by Mr, and Mrs. Jim Snell (nee Marion Jones). The Snells were all settled down for a comfortable night's sleep when out- side a terrific tumult started. Bells rang, horns honked, whistles blew; yes, the charivari gang had arriv- ed. After being so suddenly and unexpectedly awakened, the Snells gathered their belongings (Pph.+had a little trouble) and threw open their doors to the 25 or more well- wisdiers. A bountiful lunch was served by the gang and after a sing -song the friends departed, leaving pleasant memories and a quieter night. - Clinton News -Re- cord. Wins $2,000 Scholarship To Paris Mr. and Mrs. ' Walter O'Brien. spent Sunday in Owen Sound with Mr. and Mrs. Wilfred O'Brien and son, John. It was a family gath- ering as John sails this• week for Paris, France, to study In the Uni- versity of Paris. John graduated from McGill University in .Mont- real with a $2,000 scholarship. His father formerly lived in Staffa,.- Mitchell Advocate. Injured By Tractors Lloyd Sleightholm, three, son' of Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Sleightholm, of R.R, 3, Wingham, was admitted to Wingham General Hospital on Monday afternoon with undeterm- ined injuries. The boy was knock- ed nocked down and run over by a farm tractor in the Janeway of his father's farm. The mother said the tractor passed over the child's mid- section. The 'boy was still con- scious whenehrought to the hospi- tal. Hospital authorities said his condition was not serious. -Wing - ham Advance -Times, Duck Hunters Out ,Sonde of the local duck hunters are trying desperately to snipe a duck for the menu. We say des- perately, because anyone who aris- es.before 5 a.m. and stands ready at daybreak on the bank of the river must be desperate. So far the ducks have been the winners, but we are still ••sharpening the knife and fork, living in hopes. Af- ter all, Davie Slorach kept us in suspense for two years before he came through with a promised speckled trout, Davie was the lad who fattened 'em before he caught 'em, -Blyth Standard. To The Editor 85 Blake St., Stratford, Ont. Editor, The Huron Expositor: Dear Sir:. On October 15, 1953, one million Canadians are celebrat- ing 105 years of self-help! Credit Union members throughout the world will be dancing, dining, hold- ing teas, parades and fiestas on that day. A Credit Union is a thrift and loan plan operated by the members themselves. Groups with a com- mon bond of association such as a Church, Club, Community, Lodge or place of employment, operate their own credit unions to encourage thrift,' and from the pooling of these savings provide each other low cost loans when needed. The credit union movement has come a long way since 1848 when it began in Germany as the answer to a very grave problem -that of a depression and a crop failure, caus- ing starvation and the thriving of lending agencies charging exorbit- ant interest. William Raiffeisen, the mayor of a farming community in Germany, first appealed to the rich to set up a fund to help the poor. This failing,he decided the only way was for the people to help themselves. He worked out the fol- lowing plan, thus beginning the first credit union: (1) Only people belonging to the credit union could borrow from it. (2) Loans would be made only for provident and productive pur- poses, at low interest. (3) A man's character was the most important security for his loan. These are the principles up- on which credit unions still oper- ate. Canada was the first country in the New World to have a credit union. A Montreal reporter, Al- phonse DesJardins, organized, the first credit union in 1900 at Levis, Quebec, and today there are over a million members in more than 3,000 credit unions in Canada. People who formerly lived from hand to mouth learned to save, to plan ahead, and now own homes of their own and have achieved finan- cial security. They have brought peace into homes that were battle- grounds over money. October 15 is their "Thanksgiving Day" and they are helping to keep Canada the free and democratic Dominion that it is. O. J. BONDY CROSSROADS (By James Scott) THE RIGHT TO STRIKE In our pleasant agrarian part of the world where town and country meet iu goodr•humored harmony most of the time, the more ugly facts of industrial life very rarely call attention to themselves. As far as I can remember, for example, there has never been a realstrike in this town. As close as it ever has come to us has been in times of a national strike like the railways. Once in a while this dismal kind of industrial dissent will reach as close as Stratford. Many of us can remember the bit- ter furniture workers' dispute in the thirties. All of us can recall last year when a packing house had to destroy thousands and thou- sands of baby chicks because the workers would not let the owners into their Own plant to feed them. And this sumer trouble seeped a little closer when an Exeter truek- ing firm-evhich was not on strike =had some of its equipment dam- aged by strikers from centres miles away. We are probably as isolated from the mepace and sadness of a strike as any part of the country, but we are plenty close enough to know what a strike can mean. How tem- pera flare, men get out of control, respect for property Is lost, misery is wreaked on women and children, employers and employees alike grow vindictive and vengeful. The strike is the prime weapon of the organized labor union, and I wonder how many folk recall that this part of the country has ,a di- rect link with the first labor move- ment in the British °Empire. It began in a little place in Eng- land called Tolpuddle, where a handful of day laborers who earned their wretched living working on the farms became ,so desperate at the starvation wages they received they decided they would have to band together to force the farmers to pay them more money. It was that or death and disease for their familine. In those days, there were no labor board, eoncilliators, arbitration or .an o Pthe Any oonl 1 x e ma c a . p tl bus f rY ntbdern-de's' ,labor reletlons, Justice euotf , it can b e ,called -milk g.. a 'crfCft n a1i ib , . d >�► tlr1'' the Men Were arkelgibkt, tOttit r,ottty ani' 'woo off to trii Paid tabliiiin ts. tit Australia, After he had served his term there, one of those first trade unionists came to the Huron Tract, settled down and lived to see pros- perity, freedom and plenty bless him in our neighbor town 'of St. Marys. His nephew came out to this land and was one of the most beloved and best known citizens of Harpur- hey. The Brine cottage still stands by the old Kirk cemetery, and ev- ery time I look at it and it recalls to me that it is our link with what has become one of the greatest movements in modern times. But I know very well indeed the traditions of that Brine family which made such a splendid contri- bution to the settling of this part of the country. I know that when that first Brine, who is known as one of the Tolpuddle Martyrs, cour ageously joined with the other workmen to try to get a decen living for his family, he had no drought in the world that he was starting something which, one day would imperil all the processes of law and order which are our heri tage, He never thought that the time would come when •a man Would not be free to travel the King's highway without fear of molesta- tion by strikers. He certainly nev- er would have approved an organ- ization which would encourage its members to acts of "vandalism against the property of others not Involved in the dispute at all,. He would have been against a union so strong that ft could practically ruin whole towns and turn tilem into ghosts. No, the Tolpuddle Martyrs only wanted decent treatment. They were not greedy for Dower; 'they had no dreams• of dominating the whole life of the land. .Above all, they respected the.due processes of law and order and the freedom of the individual. The proof of this Hes in the re• cord of ,the one who came to Can- ad+"a. Here he found the freedom and decent treatment he had fought for. lie becathe a :Solid, and respected citizen. His no he" W. the e p one Who h came iiYYit�rh ar e be, Came the most fattensfattens0f all b the Wilts who ever served in this dig >ri ?iu ct "'t stand tnQch.d1osei 1toi the` ittw hilti°41ldt, ' Dirty furnace pipes and flues Add to heating bills. They also add more CO, - The stuff that quietly kiI Is. Dept. of National Health and Welfare Years Agone interesting Items Pinked From The Huron E'xposltor of Twen- ty-five and Fifty Years Ago From The .Huron Expositor October 19, 1928 Mr, Peter Kilpatrick, who lives south of Kippen, was awakened early in the morning recently to find his house on fire. Neighbors were quickly summoned and it was not long before it was under con- trol, Miss Gladys Saundercock, young daughter of Mr. and Mrs. N. Saun- dercock, Hensall, had the misfor- tune on Friday afternoon while playing with some little playmates, to fall and fracture her collarbone. Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Fleming left Hensall Thursday for Lucan, where Mr. Fleming has been transferred to the management of a bank there. The funeral of Major R. R. Sloan, Bayfield, was held Monday after- noon with full military honors. Mr. -Charles Ross, • Seaforth, left Monday for 'Toronto, where he has, accepted a position on the city police force. Mr. Polly, London, a commercial traveller for blacksmiths' supplies, met with a motor accident he Eg- mondville Wednesday, when he lost control of his car, which went in- to a ditch and hit a telephone pole. He was taken to the hospital for treatment. The new shed of Staffa United Church was formally opened. Mon- day evening. In spite of the heavy rain, the attendance was so large as to necessitate a double-header program, one in the church and the same repeated in the shed. The program consisted of splendid tal- ent from Seaforth. Mr. J. McDon- ald did the cement work on the shed; Mr, A, W. Norris, the truss work, and Mr. Joseph Speare, the carpenter work. The proceeds for Sunday and 1Viond'ay were $604. The ladies of the Seaforth Golf and Country Club held a most suc- cessful bridge in the G.W.V.A. on Monday evening. The prize win- ners were Mrs, R. J. , Sproat and Mrs. T. S. Smith; men, Mr. T. S. Smith and Mr. Wm. Amen•t, Mrs. W. G. Van Egmond, Regina, won the lucky prize. The annual mother -and -daughter banquet of the Marion Keith G.G. I.T. Group, Seaforth, was held Sat- urday evening, Among those .tak- ing part in the program were: Mrs. W. P. Lane, Mrs. W. C. Barber, Mary Barber, Margaret Crich, Mar- garet Rolph, Helen Lane, Elva Wheatley, Eleanor Burrows, Mrs, F. J. Burrows, Elsie Pullen, Dorothy .Rhobinson, Anna Hanna, Mrs. E. H. Close and Grace Scott, • From The Huron Expositor October 16, 1903 Melvin Graham has gone to To- ronto, to study medicine, and, John McEwen, son of Malcolm McEwan, will attend Knox College, Toronto, to study for the Presbyterian min- istry, Both are from Brucefield. Jackson Bros., photographers, bad an interesting group photo in their window recently. It consisted of J, L. Killoran, W. G. Willie,, T. J. Stephens, of town, and Wm. Mc- Donald. The first three are the on- ly members of the "Old Hurons" left in town. Mr. McDonald was also a member of that organiza- tion, which 10 years ago carried everything before them on the foot- balI field. :Crich Bros., local bakers, have placed a fine new delivery wagon on the road. The Sovereign Bank in Zurich has secured a splendid place for their office in the Zeller block, Two Chinamen have conte to town and have opened up a laun- dry •business in Holmsted's block, They are :respectable, industrious looking men, and seem to have a sharp eye for businese. Saturday afternoon as Mr. W. •J. Shortreed, Walton, was engaged in cutting corn on the farm of James' A. Moore, he had his face severely scalded, which accident was caused by a defective valve on the engine. The large :brick sash and door factory and planing mill, owned and' operated by' Phillip ,Ament in Brussels, Was totally destroyed by fire Monday night, The fire spread from the second storey, whore it was first seen. 'the cause of the fire is a mystery, as It start- ed about the centre of the factory. Mr. Ament will be a heavy loser es there was only $4,500 insurance. The induction of Rev. D. Cater- well, ara well late of C arte rry, 'Man:; to the pastorate- of Duff's and +Ca''ran 'du -ironed he's is McKillop, took,„ place i, s ilii• ; , ret '1!u eaday, I'CevJ N. .Shaw, •iugnaokldviiie, presided, Vir. Smell and Bev. p`: IL Larkin, Seafert �, delivered able Softens Mies Ado cattlea e a te' tAtfoil• Width wan grdatl 'eli ,eti, (13y1$ABEL1,E .CAMPBE•L.L) Johnston Wagon Shop William F. Johnston was, the builder of the next frame house. Hie married Hannah Stacey, .a tail oress, in December, 1887. Part was used for their home and the west part he used for a wagon shop till he died in 1890. A few years after Mrs. Johnston was left a widow, her father, Thomas Stacey, who Was blind, came to live with, her. In 1917, shortly after her father died, -Mrs. Johnston. closed the house and went to Wallaceburg to live with her only son, Leslie, who was' a photographer there. William Houghton's mother, then Mrs. Ben Pyle, came next. She had a long illness, and spent the last four years of her life at the Houghton home. Lindsay McKellar, who does carpenter work, has been the own- er since 1926. Occupants - William Johnston, Mrs. William Johnston, Mrs. Ben Pyle, Lindsay •McKellar, Ross Houghton (rear part), Fergus Mc- Kellar, Ross Houghton (R. part), Fergus 'McKellar (R. part). Mrs. Hugh Currie built the next brick house in 1902. Shortly after Mrs. Currie and daughter, Mary, moved' here, Dr. Tufford and his wife, formerly Agnes Currie, came to live with them. Dr. Tufford was an invalid for many years, After the mother's death in 1925, both daughters assisted in a Home for Incurables in Toronto, but return- ed sometime before Mrs, Tufford died in 1942. Since 1945, after breaking her hip, Mary Currie has been a bed patient the greater part of the time, but a patient who has borne her suffering cheerfully and without complaint. She now lives with a niece, Mrs. John Young, near Woodstock, Ont. Andrew Mc- Lachlan moved here when he re- tired in 1948. Occupants -Mrs, Hugh Currie, Mary'Currie, Andrew 'McLachlan. The next brick house was: built in 1904 by Richard Hoggarth, who married Betsy Helson. At this time he worked on cemetery ,con- tracts with his brother, John, and Betsy, his wife, did a good deal of practical nursing, especially among mothers and new babies. This was before hospitals' were operating in small towns. Rev. T. Mclntoeh's widow. has +been the owner since shortly after Richard Hoggarth died in 1932. Some time later her daughter, Elizabeth, married Alex Ramsey, and since that they have lived here too. Occupants - Richard Hoggarth, Mrs. T. McIntosh, Alex Ramsey. Presbyterian Manse In 1879 Cromarty and Roys con- gregations bought a lot from Neil McKellar on the northwest corner of the East 50, Lot 15, Concession 11, and that summer had a brick manse built on it. This has been the home of all the ministers from Rev. Peter Scott till the present minister, Rev. R. Duncanson. Peter Scott served his apprenticeship' with a "joiner" in Scotland, and it was he who fashioned the interior woodwork and pulpit in his home church, the Dumblane Presbyterian Church, near Port Elgin, when it was built in 1859. When nearing middle -life, he studied for the min- istry, and was a faithful minister of the church at Cromarty and at Roys for 29 years. Margaret Hod- gert was his housekeeper till he married Jeanie Wallace. Before Jeanie married she faithfully car- ried out a promise she had made to remain with her mother till the end of life, which proved to• be a very long one: The Scotts had one daughter, Janet, better known as Nettie, who still :lives in Paisley, Ont., where her parents went when they left Cromarty. Mr. Scott was one who was not afraid to express his ideas of approval or disapproval on any subject, and did so in words that stuck through the year. Regarding church tea, -which he did not ap- prove, he had this to say: "The devil laughs when a church builds a kitchen." It was here the four youngest of the Ritchie family were born and nearly all got their first schooling at B.S. No. 6. All six -Jim, Doug- las, Elsie, Gordon, Margaret and Mack -have university education. While Rev. R. E. G. Dennys was the minister, a coal ,oil stove eu- ploded, and started a: fire, which did considerable damage to the manse in the fall of 1926. While here Mrs. R. C. Rogers, wife, of Rev. Rogers, died in April, 1932, and also Rev. James .Reidie, on August 14, 1939, while he was still the minister of this congregation. It was his wife who organized the "Annie Reidie" Mission Band on September 28, 1935. By this time, the Mission Band organized by Mrs. Ritchie on February 13, 1913, had become the "Marion Ritchie" Young Women's Auxiliary. {Honeymoon Cottage In the early 50's Robert Leggatt, from Stratford, built the first frame cottage in the village, just west of Where the manse now stands, but far4ser back from the road. When Leggatt moved to a house on Dun- can Mclaren,'% fagm In the late 60's, OV'illiam Reid; another possibly from Strafford:, owned the proper= ,ty. He lived here till he sold to Peter Grant. William Harris came next. from his farm on ,Conoeflaion 10, early in the '0's. His family spent part time with hits while he Mad. ,oiieeso, two seasons --1878' and; 1'8 '' apa ee, 'Shortly after s they . move! to Nene% where }e cell -010104, to -;do the: same kind of work; m W hfie ,John Whyte was theof iler,-sio' wally newly -married epuliles' flee it for their mat home !that ft..gpt the name of "Honey n'oon Cottage.", 1 Onald Park niov= ed ,ith e , •, e,, a•E�tBige >pieri rtlie,fxoad• and.. ut ;a ou A n�!atio u n ret:. yp n� Ott ::.., .. 1• Pd e lfater.,,Veal'e have .anadtvMt t inti rov@ilt 'nta on. i't. Dr, William ,. ''iN,illi�ln. ;11 .., , e m YY t$ ni �?�! " l � o �' daetor a4fte, ever `l►raeti• ed : t, *he • *Maga, but and diad s o re hoot !but 'not f41 tong: •ire.left f>r 1968: view�9� Oocupents-Robert Leggatt, 'Wil: liam Reid, Peter Grant, John Wlbyte, Whilliam Harris R), Robert Purdon (R), John T. Wren (R),' Donald D, McKellar (R), Oswald! Walker (R.), Mr. Middleton (R),4 Donald, Park, John Hoggarth (R), Donald Park, Dr. William T. Gem- mell emmels (R), George Miller (R), Nor- man Park, Roy McCullough, W'!1 liam A. Hamilton. In 1941 Jim Scott {built a frame bungalow west of Honeymoon Cot- tage. He lived here till 'he died in 1951. His son, Thomas' L. Scott, is now the owner. Jim Scott was Superintendent of Cromarty Pres, byterlan Church ,Sunday School for 27 years, and was shipping agent for the U,F.O. Clubs in the district for. almost 30 years. His wife was the first President et the W,M.S•, _- which Was organized by !Miss Amyx McPherson, Stratford, on July 7, 1.903, at a meeting in the church with five members present. For 37 years Mrs. Scott never aniseed an Auxiliary meeting, and till the time of her death in 1945 she was only absent from five meetings. The third meeting of the Auxiliary was held in September at Mrs. Scott's home on Lot 8, Concession 12. Wanting to do everything up right when two visitors, Mrs. (Rev.) Col- in Fletcher and •Mrs. Tom Camer- on, from Thames Road Auxiliary,. were to be present, the members discussed beforehand whether or not they should wear hats at a meeting. in the home. The deci- sion reached favored the wearing of hats, and all wore them that day, including the hostess and her daughter. After this, hats were never disoussed again. Occupants -James Scott, Thomas L. Scott, Howard Wright (R). Leggett's Tavern Some distance west of Jim 'Scott's modern bungalow, Leggatt laid out a street parallel with the Centre Road in the 50's. On the east side of it he built a log building in which he sold liquor. This: would possibly be in 1853, as•"it was the Morgans who remembered hearing. most about the little log tavern. Their uncle and father that year worked ,on the opening of the road' from Carronbrook to the Boundary. Jimmy 'Miller lived in this log building later and did wea'�ing. After John Whyte bought it in 18.65• he had it moved to the south end of the village. He then closed the• street that had led to it from the concession. Occupants -Robert Leggatt, my .Miller (Re), John Vtthyt It was Jack Hoggarth w• the next frame house in 1899, :and lived here 'tial he and hi moved to Qu'Appelle, Sask., In the late 19'20's, William ton moved Mrs. Arthur lucent'a house from Concession 12 it as • an addition to his, 'ho this time. Mrs. Ben Pyle, h er, was living with the Houghtonsa After Leonard Houghton married" part of the house was hi This was in the 194,0's. It the home of Mrs. William Hough- e.ton's sister, 'Polly Dalrympl Occupants -John Hoggarth, Wil- liam Houghton, Mrs. Houghton. a. ho built s family in 1912,. Hough - and used me. By is moth- s home. isalso Wil - William. "Uncle Donald's" Homer • • " On the next lot Donald Park; known to all as "Uncle Donald," built a small building on the north- east corner, quite near the street.. In the 90's James Miller, from Dal- housie, but no relation 'of the Hib- bert Millers, used it ad a cobbler shop till he went to Winnipeg, Man, John MCIlwraith used it for the same purpose, and "Wee" Don- ald McKellar did weaving here for a. few years after 1902. It was us- ed very little after this. It is now Angus McKaig's garage, On the same lot IYonald Park, built a frame house in 1878. He: and his wife, "Auntie Jean," lived' here and wove blankets, carpets,. • etc., in a room at the east side of the house_ Donald died here in 1912, and in October, 1921, Auntie Jean went to "The Gore" to spend her last days with her own kith. and kin. She died there in 1923. Occupants -Donald Park, Mrs. , Donald Park, John McCullouch, An gus. McKa Frank Lig,Hamilton, known as "Blacksmith Frank," built ,his brick house next in 1877. He was there: till he moved to Galt in 1901, where - he carried on a shoe business, Ho married Mary A. Hunter. They had a .family of six, but only three - George T. Norman and Letitia - lived beyond, teen age. 'When .they left, Hugh McLachlan had this for` his home while he had the shop; His slater, Agnes, kept house .iiir• him here, Donald, McLachlan liv- ed in it when he retired, and Agnes stayed with her parents as long as they lived. She then married' George T. Hamilton and, in Gait, under the supervision of these two, a Mission Sunday,School was or- ganized that grew in later years into a self-sustaining congregation, known as St. Andrew's today. Duncan McKellar, the: next own- er, took his bride here, 'and it was his home till lie di'bd suddenly in Ms car when leaving Andrew Mc- Lellan's, home In BSgmondp'ille ib December, 1949. It was a', familiar sound, on a calm summer night, to hear the strains of "Loch Lomond" floating over the air as Dunk wend • - ed hiis, way home from work -not at &ve o'clock as today, but as day faded into night: He did• niueh og the mason work in the •community ;in. later year Occupants-s,Frank L. Hamilton, Hugh 'MnLadhlan, ,)onakl MCLat,h- Ian, Agnea• McLachn Hmhn, •William Kerslake (R.)la, .Duncaan.iltMd- Kellar, . Mrs, Duncan McKellar, Francis Glossop. (Cont inued� Next Week) 'Tenant "The eo •,u P pie 8ta,'1r . S gar p � ,Very atin i o. Y lig. fit: (tight" they' stolmped .ani!% ,banged:on the odr • after midnight" u Landlord: "Did they wake • you w� 'tenant:.- 'Wet luckily i wito up • . playing any tuba." .51.n ii,iM 4, N. i a • • • t. A