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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1966-07-07, Page 8UMW tXxiOSITOR; , EAb'ORTII, ONT., JULY 7, 1966 (Continued from, laSt week) NURSING HOMES When, a need arose for a Nursing Home in the 'town not only one but two opened in the same year. In 1954 Bert Muir purchased the old J. H. Broadfoot home on Jarvis St. and equipped it for a nursing home. •It was opened later in the year. His wife, Mrs. Orma Muir' was the nurse in charge. Patients were cared for here till a few months after Bert Muir's death in the spring of 1964. In October, 1954, Miss Pearl Thamer, R.N. bought the home of the late Mrs. Charles Stewart on Centre St. and soon it was opened under the name of Thamer- Rowland Nursing Home, but from the next year it was known as The Thamer Nursing Home till sold to Wil- liam and Lois Hodgert in 1963. Miss Thamer made ad- ditions and other changes in the late 1950's and many more improvements were made by the Hodgerts in 1964. Mrs. Lois Hodgert is the Registered Nurse in charge. The name from 1963 has been Kilbarchan Nur- sing Home. Shortly after the new Seaforth Community Hos- pital opened on September 14, 1965, Mrs. Jean Hen- derson of Kincardine,. Ontario, got possession of the Scott Memorial Hospital building. Seaforth Manor, as it is now known, opened to receive patients in Novem- ber, 1965. Mrs. Henderson is the Registered Nurse in the home, and associated with her in this project is her husband Bernard Henderson. FUNERAL HOMES Funerals have undergone changes with the chang- ing times. With the coming of the automobile into gen- , eral use, came motor hearses. It was W. J. Walker who purchased the first one in town in June, 1919, but by 1920 the other two undertakers, H. C. Box and S. T. Holmes each had purchased and was using a motor hearse also. Funeral Homes till the 1940's were almost un- heard of in the town. The earliest funerals, conducted out of the private homes, were held in W. J. Walker's residence on High St., or in part of the Box and Whit- ney furniture stores. After G. A. Whitney bought his home on Goderich St. in November, 1949, he built an addition to the west of it. His Funeral Home here was used for the first time in November, 1950. In April, ,1951, R. S. Box purchased the former Samuel Dickson property on High St. and built a chapel adjoining the home on the north side. Funerals have been held here from September, 1951. For his Funeral Home W. J. Cleary uses his private residence on Side St. INSURANCE William N. Watson was the first to sell insur- ance in Seaforth. He had an office on North Main St. by February, 1859. Daniel L. Sills came to the town in 1867 and had his home and office on the southeast come of Temperance and Side Streets, now the home of Havey Leslie. Sills was the Canadian general man- ager of` the Conn Mutual Life Insurance Co., Hartford, Connecticut. He was the first agent this company ap- pointed in Canada. G. T. Jarvis, John Seattor, A. G. McDougall and John S. Porter were other insurance agents in the 1860's. The McKillop 1VMutual Fire Insurance Company originated at a meetings of interested persons held in the Commercial Hotel. on Wednesday, March 1; 1876. The purpose of the meeting was to consider the form- ing pf a farmers' fire insurance company. After much discussion, it was resolved that the 'company be form- ed and the above name was the one chosen. Another meeting was held on March 18, with a .fair attendance of prospective members and more than the amount of insurance required for organization was secured. At a meeting oh April 3, 1876, the directors were el- ected, five from each of the townships of McKillop, Tuckersmith and Hullett. The new directors met in Carmichael's Hotel on April 8, 1876, and the officers elected were as follows : President, G. E. Cresswell; .vice-president, W. J. Shannon ; and secretary -treasur- er, M. Y. McLean. The agents appointed were David Sproat, Robert McMillan and Thomas Neilands. The committee to examine applications: and grant policies' Was the president, vice-president and. John McMillan. From July, 1876 till 1878, the membership in- creased .from 275 to 857 and the insurance from $260,000.00 to $783,504.00. The total amount of losses for the first two years was $515.00: The company is still in a prosperous condition to- day. Only seven secretary -treasurers have served since the founding in 1876. These were M. Y. McLean, W. J. Shannon, Thomas E. Hays, D. F. McGregor, M. A. Reid, W. E. Southgate and Mrs. Keith Sharp. Since 1961 meetings have been held in the company board room at the back, of W. E, Southgate's Insurance Of- fice.' SPORTS AND CHAMPIONSHIPS Sports such as hockey, Lacrosse, baseball, football and curling were all popular from an early date. Some teams were fortunate enough to become champions. In later years bowling, badminton, golf and tennis were added to the list. Football• originated with the High School pupils in 188Q, but it was not till 1888 the Seaforth Collegiate Institute Football team was organized. By 1890 it had assumed the title of the Hurons and had gone forth conquering and to conquer under their Captain, George A. Dewar. In its heyday this team won Western On- Itario Championships. During the 1890's and early 1900's it held the Haugh Cup for nine years, then after an absence of 33 years another collegiate team again won it in 1934. The Stars of Seaforth in 1876 won the baseball • championship of the Counties of Wellington, Grey, Perth, Bruce and Huron. Mention has already been, made of the World Championship won by the .fire bri- gade in 1888. In 1891 the Hurons of Seaforth 'defeated the Scots of Toronto, five goals to one and won for them that -year the Football Championship of Canada. The finalgame was played on the Recreation, Grounds in Seaforth, July 1, 1891. The Beaver Laerosse team journeyed to New York on invitation of the Cresent Athletic Club -of Brooklyn and before a crowd of more than four thousand persons, defeated this 'champion - team of the United States. This game was played June 3, 1905. Seaforth Beavers Intermediate Hockey team brought to eaforth in 1941, the first Ontario Hockey Association Intermediate Championship that ever came' to Huron County. Again in 1965 and 1966, ,the • Seaforth Beavers tvon the aa#'t a trophy and champion. 0140, 8Cl ' ' ,1"-'OtILTRY FARMS she s1 tan. f di.ei eilf in aforth ii1 X19$6' i e 31 0tedl t ? th Xnt01itt'tioziai• `te ri"ng Mathtvhich` is a a History by Isabelle .Campbell to be held from October 11 to 14 'on the Scott Poultry- Farms oultryFarms adjoining the town at the northwest corner. James M. Scott, an ambitious young• lad, was the founder of the Scott Poultry Farms, which is today one of the larger poultry establishments in the Prov- ince of Ontario. It was in the fall of 1920 that James took over the farm flock of 40 Barred Rock hens. At this time early winter eggs had been unthought of but through the use of fresh meat scraps, careful feeding and good management his small flock gave exception- ally high production right through the year. This en- couraged him to continue. • The next year, 1921, his poultry plant was com- prised of 50 pullets, housed in the basement of the barn, a 60 egg incubator, a second hand brooder house, purchased for $5.00, and a small coal burning brooder stove. Year by year, his business grew by leaps and bounds till his poultry plant today occupies 412 acres in one block, and includes four sets of farm buildings, equipped with the most modern poultry equipment available. Incubators with a capacity for hatching be- tween twenty-five and thirty thousand chicks each week are in use, a far cry from his 60 egg incubator in 1921. Since 1965 William Scott, a Toronto University graduate in engineering, has been assisting his father in the management of the Scott Poultry Farms Ltd., now associated with Kimber Chick, Inc., Niles Cali- fornia. AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY From 1845 there has been an Agricultural Society in this community. At that . time it was listed as Har- purhey and had around one hundred members from part of Tuckersmith, Hullett and McKillop Townships. The first known site for the fair was in Harpurhey in Knox's Hall, just east of the cemetery and acros9 the road a mud stree was used as a. half mile straight race track.• By 1861, the Tuck rsmith Branch of the Agricul- tural Society held its. fall fair on Thursday aid Friday, September 15 and 16,' in Seaforth on land where the public school and Neil Bell's gas •station and garage are situated. Here there was an oval race track, grand stand, crystal palace and ticket office all enclosed by a high board fence. In the late 1890's the crystal palace, which was. near the road, was burned under mysterious circumstances. • • The society in 1875 leased their grounds for five years to the Seaforth Cricket and Baseball Clubs, but reserved the use of it,;,,for show and other necessary purposes. In February, 1880, the lease between this society and the Seaforth Driving Park Association was -cancelled. The grounds from then were under control of the Agricultural Society. Fairs were held here till the early 1900's. In March, 1907, ' Joseph Goldthorpe and. Mr. MacEwan, of Goderich, bought the land and buildings for $1,200.00. The buildings were torn dower by the new owners. In• 1890 contractors William and John Copp had the old Burns' Presbyterian Church, in . Hullett, moved to their property. directly across the 'street from these agricultural buildings, to be used as a stable. The Copps received it in part payment for work done on the new brick church. For the past ten years David Schenk has used this building for a car body repair shop. On June 5, 1900, Ed Coleman sold one acre in the n.ortheas) corner of the town to the Agricultural So- ciety. On this land was built a unique two-storey eight - sided crystal palace and other buildings. The first fair was held ,here in September, 1902. The admission was as follows: non-members, 25 cents; ladies and children, 10 cents; and carriages, 25 cents. Implement agents were granted free space for their exhibits. In the har- ness classes, Michael Broderick and James Gillespie, both local harness makers for more' than half a century, were keen competitors. Their well made brass mounted harness was always a special attraction. Fall fairs of the Seaforth Agricultural Society, now in. Class B, are still held here. As has been mentioned there was a race course in Harpurhey in the, early days. Dr. T. T. Coleman also • had one on his farm south and east of the fair ground site, which he closed in 1875 and had the land` laid out into town lots. For one year the town was without a race course. In June, 1876, a joint , stock company was formed, intending to purchase ground for driving park, but they leased instead. The price of each share was fifty dollars. In December, 1880, when the Seaforth Driving Park Association dissolved,. the dividend received was only $3.00 per member. Part time that the quarter mile oval track was being used on Goderich St., the Turf Club was operat- e ing a half mile•track on the second field from the north road on Thomas Lapslie's farm, now owned by Gordon Elliott. This was known as Fairview Driving Park. In 1899, this Seaforth Turf Association •bought land from Ed Coleman where the race track is today. After the half mile track was constructed the area was put up for auction and it was purchased by the Agricultural Society with the Town of Seaforth, also the townships of Tuckersmith and McKillop each contributing' $100. Thomas Scott made up the $700.00 balance to pay off George McCartney's $1,000.00 mortgage. In 1949 more land was 'acquired and the new arena and ,comrltunity centre was built March 23, 1950, was the first of• the three night opening of this mem- orial arena. It is used for skating, curling and hock- ey. In it is also a banquet hall and the Legion quarters were here till 1960. Father • Stephen Eckert Council of the Knights of Columbus, organized in October, 1961, hold their meetings here. Also from January, 1959, the Seaforth Teen Town group, organized through the'efforts of Chief Elmer Hutchinson, have held their dances here; and after ,the Badminton Club left the town hall, the gatherings ' of this group were held also in the arena. 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It is very, neces- sary for a man to feel he is bet- ter educated than his wife, and I am always careful to show my reliance on him about everyday problems. I don't want a degree. Just enough education to be able to help the mentally retarded, or. some other .field where I would be working with people. Learning 70 Live DEAR LEARNING Your comments show insight. But ie hasn't occurred to you that your salesman - husband doubtless konks out with brain fag when his work day is over. The occu- pation of sales representative ranks with the most difficult and demanding — of both phys- ical and mental energy. Your 10 -year plan is a good one,, and. I'd guess your forte is in working with people. Why not think about a hobby your husband would enjoy while you are attending classes? A study course takes tough discipline; but he too will be happier if he is engaging his leisure hours in a creative er sociable pursuit. We all need something relaxing and different to think • about in our off hours. 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YEAR 3 months $(1 `I a months $12 Hama stunt •tate ZIPCede,6.:_-_:. Pnr6A But. ?' You have reason to •think she is beingensitive about something -= and an un- married Another aright have be- come eittra sensitive to fancied slights — write her a friendly note saying yoa''d like . a date, That you are wondering wheth- er something you have said has inadvertently hurt her. DEAR DORIS — How would you go about, accepting a group invitation' to a wedding? This; was the usual formal engraved invitation, addressed on the out- side to "The Executive and Staff of Blank & Company". Do we use a • company letter. head? About 20 of us plan to. go. ' Secretary DEAR SECRETARY — A blanket invitation to the entire staff of an organization is un- usual, to say the least. A wed- ding is an important occasion, and each guest, should be given the prestige of a personal in- vitation. But this was not done. I'd say the responders would have to use a little of their own judg- ment in accepting. Perhaps the best way would be to write it on the finest per- sonal . or., executive stationery (not a letterhead of the compa- ny); handwrite the words of ac- ceptance with a pen, using the form of the invitation: In place of the specific names the first lines might read: "Twenty members of the executive and staff of Blank and Company Accept with pleasure etc." Confidential to Old Land Daughter — You h two strikes against you: (1) boy friend is a grown man ei ht years your senior; and (2) while you were born here, your par- ents were raised where there just wasn't the casual, early dat- ing we do in Canada. Give yourself, and your par- ents, the break of taking no one — let alone a man 25 — seriously for at least four years. 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