HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1967-10-19, Page 74.
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a History by Isabelle Campbell
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The WoIn'en.'s hospital Auxtl
iary- meet at tile. Hospital, Oct
loth, with their president, NA
Orvi}le
Oke in the stair, The
treastlfer's report showed a batik
*nee of $9,147.3. The via, -
nor of the- rug, drawn for at
the;Seaforth Fall Fair, was Miss
ethabeth - Smale. , The proceedsd
ori the rug were $85.21. • -
The ways and mean com-
f'3eside the graveyard stood' the brick cottage of one and ahaltstorey fray Boas bu lttuta West
t of with
Joseph T. Brine from as early as 1855. In part of it R. B. Scott's
Joseph made shoes. In addition he was the first bailiff unburned bricks-, which' melted when they became mois-
for the Second Division; Court and°auctioneer for Huron tuTe"soaked. err ed go"nrliis business hinder
lairs home trade
a d,
County. Keith Sharp is the present occupant. Jimyrom $went to Winnipeg with William Luxton, a former
The Isaac Miller home was wen
st of Urines This owner of. The Seaforth Expositor, and they founded
was known to the school children• as the haunted house. the Winnipeg. Free Press A portion of land here on Lot
On the day it was moved to one of the Scott farms, the 15 was •the home . of James Mulholland. A brother
kiddies followed nearby in hopes of° getting a glimpse George and sister Jane, also lived with him. In 1904
of the mysterious ghost of which . they had heard many James = til1t the large two-storey white brick house
tales.which was also the home of the Robert B. Scott family
Journeying on to the curve in the road and the end' after they left the McGregor house where they had lived.
of the. sidewalk, with Hannah's sideroad at the left, one from 1900.
passed the home of William Brewer. In a group -of cot- Franz1IVteyer, saddler and pop man, came next;
takes ahead, on Lot 16, Chalk Plan, were the homes of As well as making' pop,. Meyer was a manufacturer and
William McCarron; John Wheeler, who had the bakery;; dealer in •sad'dles, harness, valises, etc. His shop was
Mr. Baird,father of Jack and.Bob; and.Andrew Cur- Hotel. st est of the Union Hotel To others near Note • ane deros s s.from
I nox'
s
rie, Sr., te old Scotch butcher•
other pop man, and Dr. O'Remus, whcrwas well known
- Not a vestige of these is. to be seen today, nor of for the worm candies he made. These he peddled
the school around the corneri opposite Thornton Hall. throughout the country with a one-horse wagon.
The Hurst garage, opposite the ,Cairn, also °closed its' Matthew Grummett lived in the corner house. His
doors shortly after the highway bypassed, it in 1954. son Dan Grummett owned the house and Dan's brother -
° In the early 1830's four Meyer .brothers arrived
in-law William Nash who dug wells, lived in it after
who proved to be ambitious and thrifty citizens. These the death of Mrs. Grummett in the 1880's. Next came
were Adolph, postmaser ; Ludwig, Division Court Clerk ; William Clement, the stage proprietor. He died suddenly
harness maker and pqp man; .and Jacob who when cutting wood in McKillop. This is now Ed An -
Franz, drew:' home:
hairs' cabinet shop. Ludwig returned to his homeland in
1842 and married Adolphina, a daughter of. John Thorn- On a street back of here was the home of Ephraim
ton. At this time her father was British Consul in the Walker, who married a daughter of Adolph Meyer. Just
city of Hamburg, Germany. On 'her mother's side she south of Walker, Rev. P. Schneider owned a lot from an
was descended, from _ Philip Melancthon,,, a friend of early date. The Roman Catholic Episcopal Corporation
Martin Luther. After the bride and groom returned to sold this, lot to Ludwig and H. W.- C. Meyer in'1878.
• their bush farm they built their spacious home and Another house on the street back of the James
named it 'Thornton Hall. This name has been retained Mulholland 'home was occupied by Robert B. Scott Sr.
through' the years. TM large field stone, near the road- Joseph Scott, Robert's father, was the only Scott of the
side, upon which Adolphina frequently sat to watch for older generation who remained in the old land. Robert
her husband's homecoming from his office in Seaforth, spent several years in Palestine before he set foot on
marks her.graveif Harpurhey Cemetery. .. Canadian soil. At Roxboro he married Janet Grieve.
For five years he owned a store in Carlow, Ontario,
Dr. James G. Scott, in 1886, boughtthe land across then mod to this home in Harpurhey. After the death
from the Ludwig Meyer property from, the Chalk Es- of his e, he lived in his son Robert's home, but con -
tate. It was here Dr. Ch"alk had,. built the first brick tinued to make daily visits to his former home. One day
house in Tuckersmith Township. Another nineteen when he returned, he mentioned that he had just finish -
acres soon was purchased from Malcolm McDermid, but ed burning sixty dollars, worth of photographs. When
Dr. Scott did not live here. He had on this property a his daughter-in-law heard this, she made a hurried trip
deer park and also kept thoroughbred cattle and poul- to the old house to salvage, before -they met the same
try. He was also a breeder, of Shetland ponies: These fate,' the old letters that told so well the story of the
were cared for by Bill Curtis: In 1891 Dr. Scott en- early days in the Roxboro settlement. These letters now
'larged the deer park, giving the passersby an opportun- have been microfilmed and are a prized' possession of
ity to get a glimpse of . the animals as they frolicked hid granddaughter; Miss Jean Scott. Jean, like many
about in the park. Formerly the park had been enclos- , others, admires what her ancestors and the other early
,ed by a high board fence: Andrew Crozier is the pre- settlers accomplished through .perseverance and sacri-
sent owner of this old historic farm property. fisc Like them she Tias used and still is using her tat -
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mittee' subi i..tted their teport
,and 'the. imeeting'deeic'1 on the
following projects for the year`
ruinnlage • sale:: October 28thi
turl4ey draw in De her andr..a
penny sate in M'ay, It was also
decided to have the annual
banquet in. May instead of June.
Lunelt was served by' Mie,,
Tod Cosford and Mrs. Brad:
Snaith. _
CNIB;Campagi�n
.�lnderv�ray In Huron
T11* H.
1,47
George Cox of Clinton is a do this part of the job by
•
chipper. In fact, he is a partial- touch," George said. "The sys-
ly bland chipper. tem has worked out very well
You might think that a chip- and allowed ane to keep
rs."
per is someone who works with
pace
a eswit 'the
ersi pried, hhted asebwo
lumber, but no, he works with sons, and leads a normal fard-
p
strings — piano strings. Chip,fly, life: Beyond -the library f,
ing is something like piano CPMit
tuning: It is the rough tuning vice, George doesn't 'need
of., the colds before they are in., .very much' these days. `But .1
st 11ed in the piano, ease. kiiow �e CN1sB is there if need
orge learned' how to chip ed. This gives "me a real sense
as • a, student at the Ontario of Security,"
School for the Blind -.in Brant -
You can make sure that the
ford. He has been employed by CNB "is there if neecled�r b y..
the Sherlock Manning Piano glyi'g•, generously to the JNTh
Coriipany in Clinton for the last campaign which is now under
eighteen years. D. M. Pegg, way under the auspices of the
plant director says, "most of Seaforth Lions Club.
the. problems that George had
at the beginning were much the
4
same as any other employee.
He receives equal pay for equal
quality of work."
There was one problem that
George had, but it was `solved
by an employment officer' with
The Canadian National Inttitute
for the Blind. Some°,;parts. of
the string case have a number
system which George could not
see: "The CNIS sent in a -man
to give me training' on how to.
wn
,The Eliza M. McKenzie and George Worsley Plan ents, in her own quiet way, for the betterment of this
were on Lot 16 in the post office -and flag station area, same community. Wherever .there is.'a worthy need,
but now this is part of the farm land. Among those Jean is' willing and ready to lend a helping hand.
who lived here were John Twins, John Ballantyne, An- East of the Clement home were two houses. One
gus McDermid, Patrick Halpin, Andrew Currie, Jr., housed the. elderly Misses' Ann and Belle Torrance, and
Alex Neilan, Neil Montgomery, Francis Booth, Donald the other theLauchie Gordon family. The Torrances had
McIntosh and Robert Handcock. The Handcock home no labor worries in securing winter fodder for their
was later moved opposite the post office. William cow. Ann, who wasthe. short and stout one of the two,
Campbell, the well. digger; whose_ wife.. was shot, lived solved this problem by the do-it-yourself system. Every
in one of the homes south of the tracktill1898. There summer evening Ann appeared attired with several
was also BenjarMrsEden who did weaving in his home. skirts, topped with a gunny apron, with a sickle in her
Mr. Foster and his daughter Sarah Jane also did a thriv- hand. On her knees ,along the roadside she hacked at
' ing weaving business when Harpurhey was at the the grass with the sickle, then garnered it in for winter
height of its popularity, and for some years later. use. For the children; who followed not far off, this was
Sarah Jane became the wife of James Lawrence, of free amusement, but an annoyance to Ann... _
McKillop, in 1869. With the post office in the McDermid • Back of the Andrews property lived..William Cur -
store in the 1850's and the flag" station in this same tis, well known as "Nigger Bill". One cold winter night.
block, it is quite possible that other blacksmith, cabin- in ...1886, his. home caught fire and burned, possibly
et, wagon shops, etc., were '4lso near here., The loca- f re overfiring
tle to
n ekeot pt en as fly warm.
y fen. During
ri g thee
tion of a number of these is not known.
out: "Daddy, come on up; it is nice and, warm up here."
• The brick houseon the .hill. on 'Hannah's sideroad, One day, as the story was told by Bill Powell, Bill Cur -
near the railroad track, was the home of • the Powell tis was leading a heifer to the slaughter house to be
family. A son, William, was born here in the early killed by Andrew Currie, Sr., who did the butchering
1860's. He was a printer by trade, and 'was serving his at this time for George Ewing's butcher shop. When
apprenticeship in the old Huron Expositor office on near the .farm of Ludwig Meyer, 'the animal suddenly
„ John St., 'as early as 1876. In March, 1911, he published became unmanageable and Bill, in some way, got en-
• the first copy of his own 'paper; The Aylmer Sun. Ar- tangled in the rope. The heifer and Bill came bellering
thur Nicholson is the, present occupant of the Powell and hollering down the old Huron Road through an
home.a inch of aclust at a mile a minute. Bill raised a much
David McCullouch built 'his home and shoe shop denser cloud than ever a Grand Trunk engine did when
half way down the hill. Davey built well and for time. ascending Bill Fowler's hill.
The timbers and sheeting, *llen it was torn down by Traveling east again beyond the Gordon home one
his son-in-law, Alexander Stewart, in July, 1891, were came to the home of Mrs. Alex Robison and her daugh-
as solid as when the building, was built in the eaJ'ly- ters, Jane and Margaret. 'Mrs. Robison lived- here till
1850's. It was Robert B. Scott, Jr., who, many years she 'died on September .12„ 1912, 'at the ripe old age
later, filled in this cellar. That day the last vestige of of 106 years and• five months.
another of the old .Huron Tract landmarks disap- John Dodds, by 1901, had built on the next lot a
peared. Davey was one of'sterling character, had high beautiful frame home and back of it a bottling works.
principles and stood by. them firm as a rock. He was a Here he made pop till 1913 when Frank Arnold took.
staunch Presbyterian and a red hot opposer of the "Kist it over. Arnold. was followed by George Hill for a time.
0' Whistles" in the church. It is; told that when the or- August Wankel then bought the property and retired
gan was introduced into Pirst, itttr,��rrch, Seaforth, he here. From 1938 it has been the home and storage
walked to the' church in Fgmclndville every Sabbath building for the drilling equipment of William D. Hop -
morning to worship where°the pea'ple still sang The per, the well known well driller. Through the years he
Psalms, led by the precentor with hiS,'tuning ,fork. Dav- has beenassisted in this work by his sons Neil, James
• ey's son John went to Winnipeg and became the circa- and Durl°
lating manager of the Winnipeg Free Press. , James Scott, Sr.; the Roxboro, mill owner, built
The Handcock home was moved north of McCul- the next frame house around 1898. He and his direct
louch's across from -the post' office,,. from its first loca- descendants lived in it for .many years. It was his- son
tion on Pig Point Alley. Mrs. Henrietta Handcock was James R. Scott who had it stuccoed. Wes Coombs bought
still living•here in the early 1900's. Her husband, Rob- it from the Estate of Mrs. J. B. (Edith Scott) Russell
ert Handcock, was a veteran of the 63rd Regiment, in 1964. Just as the burial of Mr. John (Margaret
which came .to Canada to quell the Chambly riots in, Scott) Govenloek . was a touching scene in the forest,
Quebec. These 'riots culminatedin the Tories burning` so
i-twit th— e baptism
r of Edith
mes RScot ttt. Whenstooonly
ythe sida
dy
the .Parliament buildings in Montreal. -
e
The first place of business around the,corner was of his young .wife's bier and promised tb bring the
the Laidlaw and McDougall "House of All Nations • child
pRn tlhe nurture
and ay young inn tionyearof s bttet Lord.
They were dealers .in dry goodsgroceries, hardware,
in -
liquor, clothing, ladies cloaks, millinery and. drugs. Pope fluence of her sterling character and of her works for
Francis was in charge of the prescriptions. This store the benefit of humanity -still remain in and beyond the
was near Keith "Sharp's present day work and repair limits of her own community.
shop. Keith doctors ailing power mowers and judging (Continued next week)
from the number that surround his shop, he does a thrix-
ing business. He is also distributor and installer of
equipment Tor "'the Dean Williamson Poultry Equip-
ment, London, Ont.. °
Robert Govenlock's general store came next. When
the foundation for the Interdenominational; -Pioneer
Mausoleum was being bulldozed in 1965 part of the •
store's foundation was unearthed. It 'still was standing
as straight and, firin as when the wall was built. The
land° for the mausoleum was donated by- Mrs. Robert
B. Scott Jr. The mausoleum, a red brick structure, was
dedicated to the memory of 'Robert Scott i Sr: and his
wife, Margaret Elliott, and all other pioneers. The ded-
ication took place -on . Decei tber 5, 1965.
The William Dynes. fsinily had .• their home:- near
the Govenieek store, and Daniel McGregor dived in .a
Seaforth
W.I. 'balks
About PR
Public relations was the
theme at the October meeting of
the Seaforth WI• in the Odd -
'fellow's Hall, entertaining
guests from other S. Huron dis.
trict branches and local friends
at' a-- dessert euchre. Guests
were welcomed by the presi-
dent, Mrs. R. M. Scott, with Mrs.
W. Coleman, PRO, as co -hostess.
Lunch was convened by Mrs. G.
Papple, Mrd' E. Storey, Mrs.' J.
Keys and Mrs. J. • Henderson.
Tasteful table decorations and
favors were iri charge of social
conveners Mrs. B. Coleman and
Mrs: J. Henderson,, who also
took charge of a penny sale.
Euchre was in charge of public
relations conveners Mrs. E.
Cameron and Mrs. E. Papple,
with prizesas follows: ladies
first, Mrs. Harvey Hodgins,
Crediton; second, Mrs. Stewart
Wolfe, Dashwood; low, _ Mrs.
Mary Hugh, Seaforth; travelling
lone hand, Mrs. R. M. Scott.
Roll call was to give your
definition of public relations.
A short business ,periost was
chaired by Mrs. /R. M. Scott.
The' Londonarea eonventiocl
will be held Nov. 7, 8, at the
Carousel Motel, London, when
it is hoped several members •
will attend. Correspondence, in-
cluded a letter from the adopt-
ed teenage girl in Hong Kong.
Courtesy re/narks were made by
the several guest branch presi-
dents.
Members .. planning to go to
Walton on Oct. 2'a, are remind-
ed it is a Hallowe'en party and
those not ih costume or at 'least
a mask, are subject to a 25c
fine.
41,
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