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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1980-10-09, Page 8HAIR POSIT MOB ....merkftwoormr. WHAT'S A PROCESSOR?—Angle Jervis and Kelly Rau seem a little hesitant In believipg the explanation that the machine they're standing beside develops film. Expositor staff member Judy Rose explains the process of developing the compugraphic film inside the processor when • students from the Seaforth Co -Op Nursery visited the Expositor office lat last week. (Photo by Gibb) What's happening? What's happening is a weekly column, space donated by The Huron EXpositor. To Ilst your event, call the Recreation Office" at R27-0882. DATE Sat. Oct. 11 Sat–Oct. 11 Sun. Oct. 12 Sun. Oct. 12 Wed. Oct. 15 Wed. Oct. 15 EVENT Story Hour Public Skating Public Skating I . H. L. Games Moms & Tots Skating Women's Broom - ball games PLACE Library Arena Arena Arena Arena TIME 1:30-2:30 ' 1:15-3:00 2:00-3:45 7-11 p.m. 1-3 p.m.. Arena 815-12:1 WEDDING INVITATIONS THE HURON EXPOSITOR P HON E 527-0240 — SEA FORTH Remember: We are open Thanksgiving Sunday & Monday Eat in or Take out Hours Open Sun. thru Thurs. — 11 a.m. to Midnight Fri. & Sat. — 11 a.m. to 2 a.m. 111 •114 Oblgr.a.114 11 I 140144 1 111 i a r Help Optimists support minor sports by buying our bags of • Hallowe'en Candy OPTIMIST CLUB OF SEAFOBTH SUSAN ANN LANGLOIS dau2hter of Mr. and Mrs.. tteorge langlois oi BTUSSOIS has m entl% graduated from the mo year legal Office Administration program at Fanshawe Colleoe. I ondon. She has also reueived her doploma in General Arta and Scsence Susan is the grand- daughter of Mrs Winnifred McPhail In 1809rArnhin Getty harvcstod 199 buShels of wheat off 200 acres of Saskatchewan prairie ,,although it wouldn't have eased the farmer's disaPPOintrnent even if he'd 'inalizeci it, this would be the latsti.geriotia crop faliure he'd face. Archie Getty WO one o three. lOcal brothers who headed west from the Seaford) area to find a homestead in 1882. It was the Gettys who met Archie Dalrymple at the end of the railreadm drandon,Vanitoba and joined foieei to look for farmland. The four Men, along with another group frorn Brussels, Ontario, headed north to find some land where they could put down stakes. Their search was in vain. But the trip wasn't withaat adventure. At one point their provisions almost eihauited, and hunger pains getting mere persistent, one of the men spotted a bear: The animal was soon treed, and Archie Dalyrrnple, With the men's only weapon, a musket shotgun loaded With shot mere suited for hunting ducks, took ai m. -The Test-ofthemerrwisely--armed -themselves with -heavy- • sticks, just in case Archie's aim fell short of target. But one shot did the trick - the men butchered thee imal and tried cooking the roeat en sticks os}er an open f4re. The result, according to family history, wasn't quite t e treat they'd hoped for. • When the trip north didn't providc them with homesteads, the men returned to Btandi and worked lifting and laying track on the new railroad for the princely slim of $2 a day. Then, as mentioned in an earlier column on Mr. Dalrymple, they joined a harvest excursion, where the pay was better - 52 a day plus room and board. ' When the excursion ended, the menlearnecl the place to look for homesteads was in the Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan area where there was still arable, unclaimed land. Sam and George Getty were sent ahead to scout out the territory. When they liked the look of the land, they wrote back for the two Archies to join them. The men spent part of the first winter in a tent..with an ' iron stove and tin plates and cutlery as the main furnishings. The day they arrived on the site, where Sam and George had already squatted, it was a warm, Summerlike day, and they coald still see wisps of smoke from the prairie fires that cut across the land. By the end of the day, temperatures dropped drastically, and a blizzard swept in effectively dousing the fires, but also making life by Alice Gibb • in the tent pretty uncomfortable. The four men hadialed, together for warmth, tried tb stretch their few blankets to cover the coldest spots and woke cold and stiff in the morning. SHANTY GOES UP The next day, two of the men startedoff for Boharm, to get some water from railroad crew aid the others started building a shanty with lumber brought from Regina. No doubt the thought of a fear" more cold riights in the tent speeded up their carpentry. _ _By _the. time„the . two _men. re.timied-from-Boharni r -the - walls of the shanty were up. 'Supper turned out to be pancakes made from snow water, an unappetizing -looking :Inner Rae the- PinaKes were Week from the 'fiiiirif prairie blowing lip on the snow. In 1883, Archie Getty filed his claim for a homestead, later trading that chunk of land to a Ben Smith, who in turn sold it to Archie's older brother, George. Archie Getty's second homestead was the northeast quarter of a section, and in 1891, he added another quarter section, bought from a neighbor for 5500. Eventually, he owned a complete square of farmland. In 1884, 24 -year old Getty planted his first crop - which was mostly oats. The harvest looked promising, so the next spring he planted oats and wheat: The oats survived, the wheat froze. Then in 1886, the crops were dried out so in the spring of 1887 Getty decided to replenish hislortuneS, by returning to Winnipeg to look for wore ' The job he found was working on a piledriver east of Kenora. The family still 'owns a photograph of Archie Getty.,,Tom and George standing on the bridge they were building,. axe in hand, staring into the camera. The men kept on working for the railroad - the pay was more dependable than the harvest, and they ended up in British Columbia in 1887, still building bridges. , Tom and -Archie Getty eventually worked their way down to California, and didn't decide to challenge the Saskatchewan prairie again until 1888, ' MOTHER VISITS • The boys' mother, likely concerned about her sons' Ift.tpt arrived at Moose Jaw in 180. She headed back east after she vvas certain all was, well, but returned with hcr 7 -husband and daughters for another visit in 18904„This time, the family stayed. Catherine Getty soon married her brother's Mend., Archie Dalrymple, and seftle'd mv, a nearby hoii4estead. „ e Archie Getty eventually returned the favour. He married the Dalrymple girl who had headed wept from. Hensall to keep hous-e-Tor her brother.TheGivi 1idt1iee aildren. in their shanty on the homestead and coped With, their', fluctuating fortunes - in 1895, for example, the wheat was good, but the -price dropped to 34 cents a bushel. In the-yeara-avherverops-werepoorer, prices rose to over SI per bushel. This was a problem that was to plague prairie grain farrners for years. , • In 1900, their fortunes flew More attar', Archie -Crary" built a proper farmhouse, adding a new kitchen in 1910: The home's first kitchen was the original homestead, but it blew, down, a victim of one of the prairie's fierce whit's. After years of strhggle, the Gettys carved out a new life, in the West. Archie Getty sold his farm to his son in 1920 ' and moved into Moose Jaw where life was easier. He died in 1940, at 81 years of age. The stories of Archie Dalrymple and the Getty family are typttaI of stories of inany hoesteaders.\These settlers were as much pioneers in settling the west as their Irish; Scottish and English ancestors had been whsp they first came to Huron County. Instead of drought and prairie fires, and empty spaces, those settlers were confronted with swamPs, woodland' that had to be cleared and a climate unlike anything they were accustomed to. Today, we have fewer frontiers to conquer, and adventures, which were once taken for granted,' are Mord challenging to find. (I would like to thank the Philip James family of R.R. 2, Staffa for sharing their family history and adding another chapter to the story of the Dalrymple -Getty settlement in the West.) Seaforth vets - get tulips from Holland BY JACK ELSLER P.R.O. BRANCH 156 Veterans from across Canada will be busy this week planting tulip bub S sent to them from the people -of Holland. It is 135 years after the - Liberation of Holland and the citizens of that country still remember the task under- taken by the Canadian Troops, in gaining their freedom. Boxes of 50 tulip Iplbs have been sent to a number .of veterans in our Legion, cach masked with the slogan "The folloiring poem is dedicated to R.Q . M.S. Fred E. Willis, who is with the infantry in Holland., Fred received in his Christmas box a booklet, "He Does Care". and when he read "The ladies in the Air," he wrote requesting a word for the Infantry. THE INFANTRY He marched away. I Waved good-bye, A tell-tale tear welled in my ,eye; Right dan it seemed quite plain to me 1 was part of the Infantry. THE LEGION NEWS "Thank you Canada" and the donors name. It is hoped those receiving them will answer by card or letter and thank their host for this lovely gift. It is a very fitting present for this Thanksgiving week- end. Going through some old newspapers one of our fraternal members, Merle Glanville:came across a poem written by the late John Beattie of Seaforth and sent to Fred Willis. who hap- pened to be in Rolland at the time, probably written some- time in 1944. The poem. with an explanatory note as it appeared in the Expositor at that time. reads: Gymnastics on Seaforth's recreation department will once again operate a gymnastics pro- gram for both boys and girls from Kindergarten tiorGrade eight at Seaforth Public Sehool Two sessions wjll be run, one from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m„ and the other from 7:30 to 8:10. Participants should wear shorts. t -shirts, and TTITIning shoes; Registration fee i0.10.0.0 per child. Register at The Seaforth. Recreation Office prior to Oct. 16. Sessions run SEAFORTH JEWELLERS for DIAMONDS 'WA .1( 111 s JEWEITER1r Hrs. GIFTS FOR EVERY OC ANION All Type,. of Ft! PhOfle • for ten Thursdays beginning - Oct. 23. He always said he'd never fly. Not sail the seas. 1 don't know why. And then we'd chat and both agree That he would join The infantry The children didn't seem to know *lust why their Daddy had to go; And now the‘ often say to me.* Is Dad still in The Infantry. And so it was he marched away. 1 know the date. 1 know the day: ken week more and more peopte discover what msghty tolls are accom- plished IhN, tow cost Huron bpostaar Want Ads Dial 52' 0240 Blyth Lions Club DANCE Sat., Oct. 25 Blyth District Community Centre Dancing 9-100 Prizes for best costumes 54.00 per person Oktoberfest food •••,.„ We'll wait, we'll pray, we'll one day see Their coming home, The Infantry. Come home, you the sky, Oh God forbid, should diel heroes of Come home, you men who -rule the sea, that you Come home, back home, The Infantry! eople , Mae Habkirk of Seaforth was the lucky winner of a picnic table set. The draw for the winning ticket was held at Merv's Patio, Dublin on' October 1. The Music and Program for the recent Threshers Reunion at Blyth was supplied by the Community Band. They also played at Exeter Fall fair and the March past at Woodstock International -Plowing Match in the rain and .mud much to the -enjoyment of thc huge crowd of spectators. Other events for the band are Christmas parades at St. Marys and Exeter later this season. Weekend guests with Ed aod Velma Fischer. Seaforth, were Wilber, Rose and daughter Shqley Chambers of Cambridge -Galt. All attended the 25t?i wedding anniver- sary of John and Marjorie Moore. R.R. 2. Dublin, at the Seaforth Legion:hall, Sat. Oct. 4th. Mr. and, Mrs. William MeMillan and Mr. and -Mrs. Eric Campbell of Exeter spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Dan McMillan,' London. Mr. and Mrs. Jaseph Hugill spent the weekend in Toronto where they attencred graduation cerempnies at the Convocation Hall University of Toronto where the latter's granddaughter. Karen Shearing, of Morrisbusg was an honour graduate in the medical laboratories technician program. Mr. and Mrs. George Townsend and family and Mr. and Mrs. Alex Townsend of Tuckersmith and Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Townsend of Harphurey were in St. Mary s on Sunday attending the Golden Wedding celebration for Mr. and Mrs. Warren Hanes of Duntroon. Mr. and Mrs. Cameron Ross. Basswood. Man., • and their daughter. Mrs. George Robinson of ?dontresil spent the past few days with Ethel and Elmer Dennis and other - cousins. COLBORNE TOWNSHIP'S 15th Annual CHRISTMAS gpfik COUNTRY FAIR Sale af arts, crafts & country baking 144 Saltford Valley Hall [north of Goderiehl • WED. DM. 157,10 A.M. -9 P.M. AND SAT. OCT. 18: 10 A.M. - 6 P.M. Special Featares: iVihilatures }Wine* & accessories, pewter Tea Door Prizes Over 50 crafts Admission: 25c , Seaforth's second... OLD TYME FIDDLE JAMBOREE . SUNDAY OCTOBER 26 1 pm 8pm Seaforth District MO School A forge number of champion novelty. anti open class fiddlers wirl be performing EVERYONE WELCOME! , Supper 8 Refreshments ovoilobfe to on spectators BRING THE WHOLE EAMILY! PROCEEDS TO THE VAS EDMOND ,HER1TAGE REStORATION PROJECT Sponsored by ih• Von Egmond Foundation JOHN RF.ATTIE" ° COMING EVENTS Executive Meeting, Thursday, Oct. 9, 8 p.m. District Meeting, Kincardine, October 19. COMMERCIAL 119traL THJS waws ENTERTAINMENT Wednesday to.Saturclay and Saturday ?datinee 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. Midnight Blues NEXT WEEK'S ENTERTAINMENT Wednesday to Saturday and Saturday Magnet 4 p.m to 6 pan. Midnight Riders BOX OFFICE OPENS AT 11:04 P.M. FIRST SHOW AT 8:20 P.M. FRIDAY AND SATURDAY ONLY. OCTOBER II L 11 PLUS SECoivo FEATURE For three hunCtTed year a terhiyxig secret has been kept from the JUST WHAT wi'd"c'dd WE ALL NEED— emu A really good bit! 3 BIG SHOWS SUNDAY ONLY,. - OCTOBER 12 1. "Goodbye Eprnanuelleue.. 2, "17 and Anxious" Camlu 3. "Hell on Wheels" camin Our season ends with this show October 12. The inanagernent and staff would :Ike to thank You for your patronage - and we look forward to seeing you again in the spring, for a bigger and better season.