HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1980-12-11, Page 25•
Huron County, and
particularly the Seaforth
area, has produced .more
than its fair share Of
newspapermen. One
Settforth native who headed
west to pursue a ,career as
editor -publisher was Charles
Willis, who purchased The
Stet -tier Independent in the
early 1900's.
Mr. Willis, raised in
Seaforth wit b five brothers
and a sister, often returned
to Huron County for summer
. visits, his niece Beth Becfiely
recalls. She said she
remembers her uncle sitting spur line from Lacombe. The
under a willow tree at the first building in the settle -
family's cottage in Bayfield, ment was a frame shack
typewriter in front of him, which could be seen for miles
-writing-columns- -o-n-life-- itt---ort the prairie -landscape. But -
Huron County to mail back to s withiri a few months, a
the Stettler Independent.
She said her uncle had a
"great sense of humour"
and Mrs. Bechely still has
some of the columns he
wrote about visits home. "
This summer, in honour of
Stelae's 75th. anniirersary,
which coincided with
Alberta's 75th. birthday, the
Stettler Independent
published , a special
homecoming edition of the
paper. The Independent is
now owned by three of Mr.
Willis' sons - Roy, Bob and
Alan.
The homecoming edition
was brought into the
Expositor by Doris Mien of
Seaforth, who was raised in
Stettler.
The town grew up in the
early 1900's around the end
of a newly -constructed CPR
community sprang up of
false -fronted • wooden
buildings which lined a mud
street. The town meeting
place was an old pump at the
main intersection, where
residents garthered to
nohow the latest "news"
and the bucket brigtide met
when they fought early fires.
One of the most active
settlers in the town was Carl
Stettler, • a native of
Switzerland and the
community!* first
postmaster. In 1906, when
"gbthe 'Village was named,
residents decided to honour
the postmaster's
contribution to the
community.
The newspaper, , The
Stettler Independent, also
started publication in 1906,
with . editor -proprietor Will
Godson of • Strathcona.
Eventually Carl Stettler
opened one of four hotels in
town, a Methodist -church
s bilk and Sy, o practising_
doctors and a dentist opened
offices. The town fathers,
obviously with an eye for
business, formed their Board
of Trade in 1905, before the
settlement even had an
official name.
An item in the November
28, 1906 Independent notes,
"At last, Stettlew is a town;
the news was received by
wire on the afterdoon of
Friday the 23, and our towns-
people- started to
commemorate the event at
once. The different hotels did
a roaring trade for the rest of
the day, and no dogbt, would
not object to an incorporation
every week."
Special events at Stettler's
homecoming weekend in
August included The
Diamond Jubilee; „a variety
sh& of local and former
local talent,
the County Fair,
and Oldtime Threshing Bee
and reunions of many high
school classes!
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THE COMMISSION -The ,Seaforth ,Public Utilities Commission for
1981-82 consists of mayor John Sinnamon who is flanked by
commissioners James Sills (left) and Gord Pullman. (Photo by Shoveller)
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Pie HURON( EXPOSITO
DECEMBER 11, 1980 5A
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by ElaIno Townshend
Where ou.r. Chrlitoms:..•
music •comes from.
Christmas music is already in the air,
and as the day. approaches we will hear it
wherever wp go. The carols we sing at
church. the songs we sing at parties and
the tunes we hear' on radios, in stores and
on street corners are second nature to us.
They har)e been around so long we know
theni by heart and seldom think about their
origins. Two books. Christmas Songs and
Their Stories by Herbert H. Wernecke and
Merry Christmas: A History of The Holiday
Jiy Patricia Bunning Stevens, tell us the
stories behind the songs.
Carols vvere suppressed in England in
the seventeenth century by the puritans
-----who--abotished-Chri-stmas.- However, -s-ome -
carols survived in Western England and
Wales. In 1822, Davies Gilbert revived
some of the Christmas songs, and William
Sandy s orought attention to more in 1833.
The two men saved such favourties as The
First ,,Nowel1.1 Saw Three Ships and God
Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen.
Confusion exists about the true authors
of many popular' seasonal songs. John
Francis Wade, an Englishman, was proved
to the author of 0 Come All Ye Faithful,
dated 1751. He was a copyist and -music
teacher at the Catholic seminary in Douay.
France.
Joy To The World based on Psalm 98
was written by Isaac Watts, a Congreoa-
tionalist minister in England. The author
was in his teens when he wrote the hymn in
1719. - •
Watts and Charles Wesley were the
most prolific hymn -writers in English
history. The latter wrote more than 6.500
hymns; the best know is Hark! The Herald
Angels Sing penned aroung 1739. His
brother. John Wesley, was the founder of
Methodism.
Several well-known hy mns 'come from
the United States. including We Tfiree
Kings of Orient Are written by John Henry
Hopkins Jr., rector of .Christ Church in
Williamsport, Pennsylvania, in 1857
Phillips Brooks. rector of Trinity Church,
Boston, and later Episcopalian 'Bishop of
Massachusetts, visited the Holy Land in
December, 1865, and rode on horseback -
from Jerusalem to Bethlehem on the day.
before Christinas. He passed through the -
fields where the shepherds had watched
their flocks. Three years later he wrote the
words to 0 Little Town Of Bethlehem for
his Sunday School class in -Philadelphia.
The world's most -loved Christmas sting,
Silent Night, was written on impulse on
Christmas Eve in 1818 in a little village in
Austria. The organ in the village church
had broken down, and.the young assistant
pastor. Joseph Mohr, decided to write a
-played on_goitar At__Ithe
midnight mass. The organist, Franz
Gruber, arranged a melody for two solo
voices: chorus and guitar accompaniment.
The song has since been translated into
more than ninety languages.
Christmas has inspired great composers
and musicians. Johann Sebastian Bach
wrote his Christmas Oratorio in 1733.
George Frederick Handel wrote the
Messiah in 1741, and Peter Rich Tchaikov-
Sky's The Nutcracker was presented to the
public in 1892.
Some songs that are identified With
Christmas have little to do with the
season. For, example, an early French
version of The Twelve Days of'Christmas
listed the gifts this way: a good stuffing
without bones, two breasts of veal, three
joints of beef, four pigs' trotters,
five legs of mutton. six partridges with
cabbage, seven spitted rabbits, eight
plates of salad, nine dishes from the
chapterhouse. ten full casks. eleven
beautiful maidens and twelve musketeers
with their swords.
Jingle Bills, written by James Pierpont
of the U.S. in 1857, will be heard a hundred
times 'before Christmas 1980 is over.
Although it never mentions the day, Jingle
Bells is accepted as part of the music of
Christmas as much as Away In A M'anger
and White Christmas.
Mali order deals are
not always miraculous
Get you sluggish winter
body into shape for the
festive season! Reduce with-
out exercising. Sweat away
extra fat. Build the, world's
most desirable muscles in
just 15 days. Increase your
bust by three sizes. Cream
aw a!, facial wrinkles and
unwanted hair.
Impress your family at
Christmas and your friends
at the New Year's Eve party
with your new doctorate
degree m divinity which ?foil
got with little study but lot=
of doll -Ars (usually. the less
siudsi. -The more dollars).
Betonrte a millmname without
rm,esting a penro, of your
n rnoner
With all these tempting
mail order offers. it is
'important to remember one
basic rule: If it sounds too
good to be true. u probably
is. Although most mail order
firms are honest. ti is the
small minority which gives
the rest an undesirable repu-
tation.
Deal only %kith established.
reputable firms Ask reur
friends . and neighbours for
recommendations When in
doubt. check the company's
reputation through the local
Chamber of Commerce. the
Better Business Bureau. or
the Canadian Direct Mail
Marketing Association
Order merchandise( 0 D
whenever possible. n
never u.se n par in advante
4.
• for any mail order. Although
there may be an extra charge .
involved. it is well worth the
protection it offers.
When dealing with.. mail
order firms in other count hes
ainsider import duties. high•
er shipping charges and
currency exchange rates. Be•
sides risking mail delays. you
mav also -have trouble get'
ring votir money back. if
necessary. because of differ -
mg consumer legislation.
For further information.
ask for Mail order business
-
protecting your dollars. and
Dream Merchants. at the
Consumer Informatton Cen-
tre 555 Vonge Street. Toron-
to. or write to Consumer
Ontario. Box 10. Queen's
Park. Toronto. NrA IN3
VAttirgraglgikqoArr
The perfect
Christmas gift is
staring you right
in the face!
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