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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1954-01-08, Page 3i a, i v • N • Now a creamery, operated by the Hibbert Township Co-operative, this building was originally Pellow's Hotel at Staffa. In the early days of the township, it was a favorite meeting place for the township council. Among the early residents of Hibbert Township were the Coles. Here is Donald Rodger Cole, 18 -months -old son of Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Cole,' R.R. 1, Cromarty, great grandson of Mrs. EliCa- beth Cole, now 91, of Hensall. He is looking over one of the early record books of' the township,. which contains minutes of early meetings of the Council. Dennis Electric All Types of WIRING AND REPAIRS We Also Stock -Electrical Appliances Agents for VISIONAIRE TELEVISION SETS DEEP FREEZE REFRIGERATORS • Dennis. Electric Shop and Sales -- Commercial Hotel PHONE 467 MAIN STREET McKinleys Baby Chicks CANADIAN APPROVED - • PURE-BRED NEW HAMPSHIRE • PURE-BRED LIGHT SUSSEX • PURE-BRED WHITE ROCK • N. H. X L. S. CROSSBREDS - • N. H. X B. R. CROSSBREDS. and our Popular • THREE WAY .CROSS. W. R.'X PIONEERING DAYS I sat and mused the other night Before an open fire; The clock struck twelve, it said to me: ' It's high time to retire. I wish. that clock had ceased to tick And left me in my glory; The muse was on the pioneers— An interesting story. No television could, unfold A picture quite as clearly As came to me through my mind's eye, 'Fhe home I still love dearly. I seethe table, linen spread, The groaning steaming dishes; Our usual fare was ,prime • roast beef— Quite often 'mill pond fishes. And there was Daddy at the head, Beside 'him was my mother; And for good ineasure I could see Each sister and each brother. Our evening meal' by candlelight— And sometimes they would 'sputter'; Always their place was to one side, Lest they defile the 'butter. A rural scene: my youthful days; Brave days of pioneering; They met, they planned night after •nig'ht, Oftimes within may hearing. No day too long, no task too hard, They cleared, they plowed, they planted; Those pioneers were on their own, And knew just what they wanted. Every Sabbath day was sacred, They observed the Golden Rule; Every weekday saw the children Happy on their way to school. What a heritage they left us; _ What a vision they possessed! Ever hoping, ever trusting, Ever giving of -their best. As I stand before their picture, Oft a tear bedima my 'ee; For I see beyond the picture The forebears of you and me. JOBN B'BATTIB They were! talking over the can- didate's eleatlon speech. One said: ' you think, he put' enough' are h ito his sPeetrli f" "Sure," said the other. "The trrou sneoch into' the direr ,j %t U7,aYY av uau A61f Hibbert -Twp. Council Marks 100th Mileston Hibbert Township Council held its inaugural meeting on Monday, when Reeve Edgar Butson a.nil members of coun- cil oupcit were sworn into office. It was the 100th meeting of Hib- bert Council, and Roy Wildgust writing in a recent issue of the London Free Press, tells' the story. - When Hibbert Township's 1954 Council meets at the township hall at Staffa for its inaugural session in January 'the event will mark a milestone in the „township's his- tory. It will lie the 100th council to govern this township, third smallest in Perth County. Met. in Taverns The Township Hall, governing seat for the 42,306 -acre tract of land Which became 'known as Hib- bert in honor of William Hibbert, a Canada Company director, was believed built about 1857 for $700 to give the municipal councils a regular meeting place. Previously the council sessions moved about to various taverns at Carronbrook (now Dublin) on Highway No, 8 at the northerly boundary of the township; or at Pellow's Hotel in Staffs which is now a Hibbert Co- operative creamery across the road from the present township hall. Hibbert became a separate municipality under the terms of the Municipal Act in 1850 and prior to that had been one of the united townships of Hibbert -McKillop and Logan. First Reeve A 100 -year-old council minute book, resting among records in the offices, of Township Clerk Thomas D. Wren, lists Robert Donkin as the first reeve of the township 'with James Black, James Farr, Thomas McGoey and Alex- ander McLaren members of. that first council which held its session in Donkin's tavern at Carronbrook on January 16, 1854. Hibbert was not fully settled when its first council was elected on the ward system. It was not until about 1850 that settlers really began moving in, although records from 1839 show seven settlers, Thomas Fox, Michael Guppin, Daniel Keenan, James Mollineaux (the name is sometimes now spelled Molyneaux), Edward Dow- nie acrd Arthur and Peter McCann. Their total properties were, as- sessed at £314. Many Prp,pblems Because newcomers left Hibbert as one of the last centres to be settled, the early comers found themselves facing difficulties which even in' those days of hardship were°recognized as severe. An early record for instance tells of the experience of one, Martin Feeney, who in 1851 was living in the Spring Hill area ,.(now Staffa). For three years he had no meat because there was none to be pur- chased "and he had no money to buy it if It were available. Feeney once made a three-day journey by ox cart to St. Marys with 16 bushels of wheat and received- in return 75 cents cash and a barrel of salt. • At the October cougpFil session in 1859 councillors decided it was time to cease their meanderings from pub to pub and settled down at a regular meeting place. The council decided at that session to Egg Price Support To Continue The Honourable Walter E. Har- ris, Acting Minister of Agriculture, announced recently that the price support program for eggs will be continued during 1954 on the same terms and conditions as applied in 1958. The support price will again be 88 cents per dozen, basic Grade 'A' Large eggs delivered at storage Paints. Mr. Harris said that the -Board would, as necenar'y, purchase eggs at the established price,, phut ear" riving Charges(' and ° thus ' enable Commercial i'btittera 1 -rile marketing Oligo iatianStdfinlnifl sin .prIbeI r to tiodi era, ,dill'; dteeiifiag_ with .0 m.Stili* point pried. titi ,PoltW,Ikonkftrecently yeco*.Ae4 01t 006 11ub4ic lribrary 160440 the breis-Fiction—The Caine' VOW, Mopk; The Velvet Doublet,: Street; Desired Haven, Richardson; Be* yowl This Place, Cronin; Caravan to Xanader, Marshall; Oaptatn Ad- am, Ohedney; The TJnconguered, Williams; Lost Shepherd, Sanford; Storm Haven, Slaughter ; The Third Angel,, Weidbian; Five Win- dows, indows, Stevenson; A Lady at Bay, Maass; The Laughing Stranger, Delmar; The White Oak"Brothers, Mazo D. La Roohe; Tidefall, Rad, diell; Time is Now, Paradis; The Flight of the ; •,Heron, Brooter; Spring Green, Cadell; The Whis- pering Pine, Bassett; Time. and Time Again, Hilton.; The Lady of Arlington, Kane; The Watersplash, Wentworth;- The Glade Summer, Farnol; The Heart of the Family, Goudge; The Little Yellow H'ouse," McEwan; Mountie on Trial, Olson; The Tudor Rose, Barnes; Jutland Cottage, Thirkell; Lucinda Marries the Doctor, Siefert; Parade Boy, Guthrie; The Levain Tradition, Perrot; The Definite Object, Farn- ol; The Heart Alone, Howe. Fiction—Saturday Night in My Delight, Hood; The Browns of the Yard, Brock; Prentiss of Delight, Howard; A Stranger Here, Huerr- ques; Trails End, Hopkins; Glory Hole, Raine; After the Funeral, Christie; The But and Ben, Camer- on; The Frightened Wife, men- har,t; Wind Rover Range,' Austin; Heather Mixture, Cameron; The Way Back, Napier; A Place to Stand, Bridge; Deaf Wife, Melvin; Blue Skies, Rutherford; The Girl in the Park, Nobih; Gun's Roaring West, Field; Outlaws of Silver Spur, Grant; Case of the Fiery Fin- gers, Gardner. Juvenile Books. Fiction—The Brownie Scouts in the Circus, Wirt; The Brownie Scouts at Snow Valley, Wirt; Mag- ic in Her. Voice, Pauzier; Bright Gold, Lyon; The Twenty -Five and One, Urnison; The New Neighbors on the Hill, Flack; The Day In and Day Out, O'Donnell; Around the Corner, Russell; Cherry Ames, Dale Ranch Nurse, Totham; Spring in the Air, Paschal; The Stewart Girl, Palmer; Black Gold on the Dou- ble, Hammond; The Green Cameo Mystery, Judd; The Riddle of the Double Ring,'Sutton; The Mystery of f Hartwood House, Totham; The Forbidden Chest, Sutton; The Bor- rowers, Norton; Dale of the Mount- build build the township hall at Staffa. The hall, remodelled, still stands on that site, Earlier in that year council had decided to hold all its sessions at Hibbert Village (pre- sumably Staffa), but as late as 1869 council minute books record that the council was 'meeting at Pellow's Hotel at Staffa, although some earlier record's indicate the township hall was built prior to that date. The township had 1,808 acres under cultivation when it became an independent municipality, in 1850, compared to the approximate- ly 789 acres in 1845. Largest Centre The Police Vi4lage of Dublin is the township's largest urban cen- tre. It was formerly known as Irish Town, Carronbrook and then officially became Dublin when it became a police village July 1, 1878. Dublin had one of Canada's first pipelines — a five -mile stretch of iron tubing which cost $1,000 per mile—carrying salt brine from a well to the village salt works. The salt plant, incidentally, had the largest "pan" in Canada 'a/ that time. "Immediate service" IN YOUR LOCALITY FOR Estate Planning and Wills Investment Manage!# ent and Advisory Service' 4% Guaranteed Investments 2% on savings — deposits may be mailed Real Estate Services For prompt attention call RAYE B. PATERSON Trust Officer Hensall, Ontario, Phone 51 or any office of GUARANTY TRUST COMPANY OF CANADA TORONTO • MONTIIt,1L OTTAWA • ♦IROSOR rs VMS* • iRROMMT SAINT ATR.. : ,CALCA*T •. * VA>M©thtlf# i \ A ,Hol•lKAT; 'h a Scarlet l!O CO,, Ilia tit, t$y ' tbitse, 'l?'ordi. The• iGeatented I4txila rueay Ont. Keller; The night Before' st rias; Moore; The .Adventuyee of Dolly Dormouse, Tyrrell; 'Stip: The Story of a I.4ttle Fox, Bir'icli:son; Cattail House, Srickmon; Corky, Manor'. The Little Black Sambo Story, ilannerii an; The Peter Rab- bit Story Bodk. Almond• Mkt Goes' To Camp, -Steiner; The ¶Littlest An- gel, Tazewell; The Little Brown Monkey, Upham; Black Beauty, Sewell. Non -Fiction --A Book ,qt ,Scotland, Maine; Father: God Bless Him, Corbett; S'ky'e and the Inne Heb- rides, MacGregor; Gone With. the Windsors, Brody; •Lessons in Liv- ing, Cliffe,;, . 'Muster, Osgood; The Fundra World, Fletcher Life Among the Savages, Jackson; Mother! Sir, Blain; Forty Odd, Bard; Paradise Prairie, Williams; Cabbagetown Store, McAree; Last Voyage, Davidson; Country Par- son, Morrison; Only Parent, Rieh; So Little For the Mind, Neatley. IIENSALL The Misses Mary and Ruth Fox, of Torqnto, were guests over the Christmas holidays with their brother and sister-in-law, Rev. and Mrs, J. B. Fox and family at the Presbyterian manse, Carmel Church Notes • Rev. J, B. Fox occupied his own pulpit last Sunday morning, deliv- ering an inspiring message. At the evening service Rev, D. R. Sin- clair, completing his final Sunday in Caven Presbyterian Ohurch, Ex- eter, having accepted a new charge in 'Dundalk and Ventry, in the Orangeville Presbytery, was guest minister. At the conclusion of the service Mr. and Mrs. Sinclair and the choir were entertained to a social hour at the manse, and re- reshments were served by Mr. and Mrs. Fox. WALTON Announcement Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Hulley, Walton, announce the engagement of their only daughter, Janice Irene, to Douglas Victor Dalton, youngest son of Mr, and Mrs. Carl Dalton, Walton, the marriage to take place the latter part of Janu- ary. Canada is a large pulp exporter. 1 tY WOO 'messed' cud Well lei' holpe of. Mrs W. J P 7 e11 lderr. A diccussalon was held on the BlIitten ; ..... Record Books- and it way decided i,4ln',s HOD5r, to have blank covers with wli'tei letters. This was Polleffed by tli election of officers. There :are eleven • new meppbegs, making a total of 18 for the club in 1954. I•t was decided .to hold meetings every- second Wednesday from 8 to 10. M'rs. Jarrott, the assistant leader, led the discussion on deodorants. Home assignments, are: Equip a sewing box and be- gin Record Book. Roll call .for the next meeting is, "The type of slip I have chosen to make." Mrs. Bell served Lunch to close the meeting. WINCHELSEA eve Mr. and Mrs. F. V. Horne and family and Miss Joy Whitlock, of St. Thomas, anti Mr. and Mrs. Har- ry Ford spent New Year's Day with Mr, and Mrs. William Dickey, of Zion. Mr. and Mrs. Elwyn Kerslake spent New Year's with Mr. and Mrs. Don Case, Exeter. - Mr. and Mrs: Lou Johns and family and Mr. Leslie Robinson, of Elimville, spent New Year's with Mr. and Mrs, John Batten. Mr. and Mrs. William Walters spent New Year's with Mr. and Mrs. Ray Clarke, of Farquhar. Mr. and Mrs. Jack Wicks, of London, spent New Year's with the latter's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Walters. Mr. and Mrs. Cliff Carty, Lon- don, spent New Year's with Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Prance. 0* gtratig Inter/or and Exterlai Oecorsi. SEE OUR,1954 WALLPAPt, DESIGNS , WALTER 'TRAIT ,' R.R. 1, Walton Phone 835 r 4 Pbon4 qg 1• BEAF.ORTH BRU,1,3 , NOTICE ! ''Salva-q W A•N T E , WE WILL PICK UP Iron and All Kinds of. Metal, Flap' Highest Cash Prices paid LOUIS HILDEB1iAN1 Veteran's +C A B. GEORGE H. MILLER, Prop.. 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