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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1967-10-05, Page 94 1. 4. . • SECOND DIVISION COURT. After the establishment,' arohnii 1845, of the Sec- Constant VanEgmond had notified the whole settle - was chosen as the meeting place for the court meetings arranged • to send tvvo .sleighs to pick up any women ' . - because this was the largegt' hamlet in its territory. who had no.conveyance of their own. This Division Court territory took in the Township of The morning of the meeting Constant took- the McKillop and all of Tucke*smith,.except a portion of, missionaries to the homes of Robert Scott, John Gwen - the northwest corner next to Chntun., Japes Dickson lock and 'Archibald ,Dickson. After conversing with was the first clerk, and he was fonoiied in ,1851 by •them Mr: Proudfoot was so pleased with their piety. Ludwig Meyer, This office was moved later to Seaforth, that he wrote in his diary : "We felt we had got here as was also the Mechanics Institute, which was original-- amongst the right sort of people," then he added. "What a delight we would have had, had we „met with such 4 people in Goderich." During their conversation John Govenlock informed them that they wished to have one vtrho would be willing to teach their children four • a History by Isabelle Campbell Colonel Anthony W. G. VanEgmond's tavern- where a service was to be held the next day. The day previous and Division Court of the County of Huron, Harpurheyilient of the time u.nd the place of the meeting, and also • • ly organized here. FLAG STATION - -- days -in the week and to preach on the Sabbath. For , .„ When the BuffAlo, Brantford Ind GOderich Rail-, this they were willing to pay £52 currency per annum, way was opened for btsiness on Tunes 28,1858, Harpur- that is for the teaching. The preaching they felt,. for hey was many times the extent of Seaforth and also sometime, would have to be paid by the Synod. exceeded the population of Egmondville, yet the rail- • The next day seventy people gathered at Mr. Van - way company did not consider, any one of the three Egmond's home. Mr. Christie preached and also bap - hamlets important _enough to req(iire. station. How- tized two children —.John, the eleventh child of. Sant - ever, the folk here built a flag station; south of the uel Carnochan and James, the first child of Alex Broad - railway track, on the Chalk farm. Egmoridville folk foot. At the close_ of the service a meeting was held to did likewise, farther east, and these were in use for a make arrangements about organizing a congregation, certain length of time. While there was much bicker- A chairman and twelve committeemen were appointed ing going on about a permanent station, Patton, Ber- to manage the. congregational business. It was decided nard and LeFroy, the Seaforth founders, donated a also to apply to The Canada Company for a lot on site to the company in Seaforth. The company agreed which to build a church, a schoolhouse and a glebe for to accept it, provided they also erect the building, Eg- the minister. After the meeting adjourned Constant mondville joined with Seaforth and the station was VanEgmond took his two sleigh loads of people to their built on its present site. This sidetracked, from direct homes. . rail service, the flourishing Harpurhey village. At, that , - time there were in it nearly 'a 'dozen stores, several . At this time Rev. Alexander McKenzie accepted hotels and a corresponding number of wagon, carriage, the pastorate of the three congregations listed on the blacksmith and other shops. The majority of these were church records as Goderich, Stanley and Tuckersmith, established during- the 1850's. Fire later destroy -ed the preaching every third Sabbath in each congregation. flag station. The cause was said to have been the re- That year the missionary Synod of the United. Secession snit of disappointment. . Church of Scotland showed a membership of 13 in the This railway line in 1853 was 'the cause of the Tuckersmith congregation. By 1839 it had increased death of George Gouinlock, a young Harpurhey mer- to 56, with one prayer meeting and two religious classes Chant. He wets the husband of Dr. Chalk's daughter, being held. The session in 1835 consisted of Rev. A. Mc - Hannah Matilda. A spark from, work. bang done by Kenzie, Robert Scott and John Govenleck. the construction workers started a fire which Gouin- During the early years of this Tdikersmith con - lock helped to extinguish, with the result he contacted gregation, which was officially . organized on August pneumonia and passed away at the age of 33 years. 30, 1835, it had many hardships to encounter. Some Around this time, Dr. T. T. Coleman arrived to set 111) members, who had previously belonged to the Free a practise and shortly after, he wooed and married Kirk of Scotland, left the congregation in the early Gouinloelt's widow. Dr. Coleman became Seaforth's 1840's, being desirous of getting a church of their own. first practising physician.. - Partly because of these setbacks, the Missionary Pres - When the station was lost and a post office was bytery meeting. in July, 1842, received the resignation opened in Seaforth on December 1, 1859, the merchants of Rev. A. McKenzie. The reason 'given was that after began to notice adecline_in their sales. The third and laboring for seven years there was still no prospect of final setback came when the Grey Turnpike improved receiving enough to supply his temporal needs. Because • road, leading from the ' Mill. Road at Egmondville to of this, he had accepted the appointment of schoolmas- Wroxeter, was being built in the early 1860's. Roxbor& ter in the Goderich Grammar School. At this time there and Harpurhey had bargained for its southern terrnin- was a ruling in the Provincial government which pro- al to run through -their hainfets, 'but in this , they were hibited a schoolmaster from holding any other office, outdone, asthey were with.the station. The pleading of therefore, Mr: McKenzie was compelled to resign his' both Harpurhey and Roxboro citizens, with the officials, position as minister and his resignation was accepted 'fell on - deaf ears, One bluntly told them they would oy the Presbytery. have to go back home and fence in their villages. Very From that time Rev. McKenzie preached gratis in soon after this, Harpurhey gave up hope for supremacy. Goderich every Sabbath and did the same in the Tuck - Gradually the places of business became' fewer in ersmith congregation once every six weeks for the. next Harpurhey as the merchants moved to the fast-growing tAro years. In 1844 these two congregations extended ' hamlet to the east. So quickly did it becorhe a ghost vil- to him a call which he accepted. He agreed- to preach . lage that the,.name Harpurhey was not even listed in every other Sabbath in each congregation, if a suf- Currie's County of Huron Directory for 1876-77. - ficient amount of money could be raised. Mrs. Archibald - , The exodus to Seaforth Started in 1863. A few took Dickson made the situation known to her brother, Mr. their buildings' with them. These were John Kidd's :Turnbull, in Jedburgh, Scotland, and the session there stove and tinshop, McBride's Hotel and Edward Cash's unanimously decided to send 10 pounds annually to help general store and home. Others who moved and opened these folk support their minister. In 1846 Rev. A. Mc - new places of business were listed under Harpurhey int Kenzie resigned from the Goderich charge, but contin- the 1863 Gazetteer as follows: Dr. T. T. Coleman, medi- ued to carry on as minister' of the Harpurhey Church cal practitioner ; James Hatt, shoe dealer ; William and till 1853, when his health failed. George Grassie, blacksmith and wagon makers; Thomas At the time of the, organization of the oongrega- Knox, hotelkeeper;• David McCullouch, dealer in boots tion in 1835, Colonel A. VanEgmond promised to build and shoes; William 'Ballantyne, shoe maker ;' Laidlaw 'a brick church with a tin iron roof, but before the wood and McDougall, general store and drugs ; John -Murray, was seasehed and the brick made, VanEgmond became blaCksmith; John H. 'Broadfoot, carpenter and builder; involved in the Rebellion of 1837, and the brick church William Campbell, tailor; Franz A. Meyer, harness shop; never was built. Neither did the original plan to have -William H. Oliver, saddler shop ; John and Walter the minister teach their children materialie. The ser - Smith, carriage and wagon factory ; Robert P. Tait, sad- vices during the first few years were held in other dler ; Jacob Meyer, cabinet factory ; also James Darling private homes, as well as VanEgmond's, and also in and William B. Shaw, masons. , HOTELS ••• w • d I I. • ()lost ers isitialatioto Therapy Tho Algen'TAn!gtiTtlbOrogrt osis Association is .c0,11•4040,0110 the purchase of a notnPressig pomp for inhalation therapy in the treatment of chronic pul- inonary disease, particularly emphysema it was mdicated- at an association meeting in Clin- ton recently. The pump con- sists of a face mask which car- ries medication in a fine mist to the lungs with the air pres- sure being supplied by the pump itself. The equipment, if purchased, will be loaned free of charge, to patients whose physician has prescribed this type of therapy. One to two weeks treatment with a pump will stabilize a patient's condition for a lengthy period of time; two treatments per day of 15 minutes each will me taken by the person. The equipment is simple,.rug- ged witlf-sealed lubrication and no fire danger according to in- formation included in the Eat - cation Committee ,Report given by Miss ,Eileen O'Brien the chairman. Miss O'Brien, said 41 school principals in: the county had received he booklet "The Story of the Christmas Seal" plus a simple Crossword Puz- zle on TB with answers. The principals are now requesting these materials for their teach- ers. INVEST Ina Guaranteed Trust 'Certificate DONALD G. EATON Office in Masonic Block .Main St., SEAFORTH Phone 527-1610 " " • On • Itfr. B. Anne POWs; -Case rind- :W,chaitinnit, saki an AnduArial chest 3.t -ray surva uVIP aft411- ty would begin, on coekiher 1967. Mrs. 'oP..1s reported 1,07 chest clinic x-rays and 14 enl- ployment x-rays bad leen re- ported since, the last Ineetin4. G. A: Watt of Myth, aSsoCm- --Um president, visited patients, in Sanatorium in .Angust and reported that the methreal dir- ector, Dr. J. B. Robinson had commended the Association for their constant interest and help. E. C. Boswell, Seaforth, gave the Christmas Seal Campaign report and E. E. Walker presid- ed. STANLEY UNIT UCW The Stanley Unit UCW met at the home of Mrk, N. Baird. Mrs. T. Rehinson read the devo- tional: As her part of the devo- tional Mrs. A. McBeath read, "Are you a Christian" and. also read a poem. Mrs. L. Wilson gave the study, "Age of Perse- cution" from the study book. There were 21 Members pre- sent. Mrs. L. Eyre read thank - you notes. Choose Your DIAMOND Privately SAVAUGE JRVELLERS (Opposite Post Offias) Evening Appoliihnent By Arrangetnont FRES-17 Jewel Walsh with each Diamond pun. chase $100.00 or mom taverns. It was 1847 before the folk hi- this -congrega- tion worshipped in a church built by themselves. By the time this McKillop and Tuckersmith con- gregation was seriously considering the erection ofj permanent place of worShip, Harpurhey had a post Hotels and inns, in the early days, were very neces- office and was laid out as a village site. Because of this, sary to provide food and shelter for travelers and set- a _decision was made to erect their new church here. tiers, -bringingwith them to their new homes their The building -was frame, 32 by 48 feet, with a seating = 'Much needed and few prized possessions. 'Harpurhey had capacity of 400. There were three windows on each ample accommodation for all of these who desiredit. side, with twelve good-sized panes ,,in each window. It ' had no tower and no bell. The price was $1,200.00. In - Mention is made often of the HarpurheTHotel, of whom Thomas Knox was the proprietor. The Union House Side, at the front, a few steps led up to -the high pulpit. proprietor was Andrew Maulhters, but, -by the early Below, in front of the pulpit, -was the .precentor's desk, 1860's, Mrs. Hannah Trott was in charge. Another was in front of which he stood and wielded his tuning fork. The McBride Hotel run by James McBride. Others he- Three pews were on each side of the pulpit and the other pews extended across from side to side of the building with space for two aisles. The church was built on the southeast corner of the lot where thert is only the graveyard today. _Sometime after the union with First Presbyterian Church, Seaforth, this Mine church was torn down. The pastor in charge after Rev. Alexander McKen- zie was Rev. Matthew Barr. He was a native of Kilbar- chan, Scotland and got his education in Glasgow Uni- versity. He had first studied medicine -but later decid- ed to enter the ministery. His medical training enabled him to prescribe for the ailments of the sick when he - visited them. Rev. Barr was ordained and inducted in 1854 and served in this charge till the union with First Church, Seaforth 6n July 27, 1879, when he retired with an annual allowance of $160.00 for life. The active, elders at the time of the Union were Jame g Grieve, William ' Habkirk, David Campbell and harries Scott. Da.vkl TIM had been earlier removed by certificate. Robert Scott, Sr. bas1 passed away in 1857 and john Govenlock in 1858. ' •- • An item taken from the session minute book shOuld be of interest to these of this age who object to a ser- vice longer than one hour. • In this,church, as in other churches of that period, the service was frequently of a two or three hour dura- tion. I 1872, no doubt by popular request, this matter was dealt with at the sessionzmeeting of July 22. It was agreed that ffom this time the prayer at the morning service was to be not longer than eight minutes, and the service was to commence sharp at eleven and close at a quarter to one. member Billie Fowler's tavern and also John Dill's. PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH 4 Late in 1834, when more settlers started coming into the Scotch Settlement, a few of these became much concerned about having a church and a school in their midst. In a letter, written by Robert Scott, Sr., to his son Joseph, a teacher, in Wark, England, he said : "John .Govenlock and I thought it a very uncomfortable thing to be without ordinance of God amongst us, so we cal- led a meeting to see if we could find a plan to get the ordinance of God amongst us." At this meeting Robert Scott -told of hearing from a cousin's husband, an elder at Galt, that some young men had be'en sent out from Scotland as missionaries to preach where there was a • great flea of olliniinces and that one of these might be available. Immediately a petition was signed and it was Robert Scott and John Govenlock who kere Appointed to present it at a Toronto Presbytery.- meeting in Galt. This they willingly consented to do Ind 'Made the 60 mile' trip on ,foot to deliver it. .However, they felt their efforts were well repaid when the community was visit- ed by Rev. William Proudfoot and Rev. Thomas Christie • on their second missionary journey to the Huron Tract. It was early in January, 1835, these 'missionaries visited Stanley people on the London Road, those In Tuckersniith; Hullett and McKillop who were anxious to secure the services 'of a minister. They "also revisit- ed in Goderich where Mr. McKenzie had preached ear- lier. On January ,27, 1835, they' arrived by sleigh at • Arnold Stitinissen ZROUP - LIFE - ACCIDENT and, SICKNESS MAJOR MEDICAL PENSIONS - ANNUITIES Representing n Life Assurance Company of Canada 17 GODERICH ST. EAST — SEAFORTH TELEPHONE 527-0410 ;•,,f (Continued next week), 14095.2 U914. 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NIGHT CLASSES Each Tuesday and Thursday, commencing 7:30 p.m., 17 Oct. and 19 Oct., in the following subjects providing sufficient enrolment is received in each course and instructors are available. ; Registration will be by coupon below and fee col- lected at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday 17 Oct. and T'hursday, 19 Oct. Fees shall be $5.00 'fOr Business and Recreational Courses, $10.00 for each academic course and $15.00 for Technical Courses. Materials will be ,provided • for Business and Technical subjects. An. addit' ional $1,..00 will be charged 'ettr.h person for insurance coverage while on Board premises in accordanee with Board Policy. ,- Business/Recreational 7:30-9:30 • THURSDAY Bookkeeping Sewing Advanced Millinery Rug Hooking TUESDAY Typewriting Sewing, Basic Oil Painting Bridge Technical 7:30 - 9:30 TUESDAY THURSDAY Weklipg Auto Servicing Drafting, Basic Drafting Advanced General Carpentry Academic 7:30-10:30 TUESDAY Ph „ics 11 E- lish 12 English 13 ' THURSDAY Mathematics 11 History 13 Other courses may be made available should there be sufficient demand• - In order that the Board may have an, indication of interest in the subjects offered, please register now using the coupon. — — CLIP NOW AND MAIL TO: CENTRAL HURON SECONDARY SCHOOL, Evening Classes, CLINTON, Ontario, •I am interested' in attending Evening School nexi October and hope to register in the following sub- ject(s) Subject(s) Name: Addiess: Telephone.: •