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The Canadian Standards Associ-
ation warns against careless use
of Christmas trees and lighting.
Use a fresh tree, keep the butt immersed in
water, and check old tree lights for frayed
wires.'Make sure tree lights you buy have the
CSA mark of approval, your assurance that
they are safe from fire and shock hazard.
HOLIDAY
Mon. to Thurs.,
Open regular hoUrs,
HOURS:
Dec. 21 to 24
9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
CLOS
Friday and Saturday
Monday to Thursday,
Open regular hours,
ED
,December 25-26
December 28-31
9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
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January 1 and2
Monday, January 4th, regular hours
Clinton Community
Credit Union
Phone 482-3467 Clinton
To the Electors of
McKillop Township:
Having served five years on the previous
council and having been nominated again
as reeve, I am seeking the support of the
electors of McKillop at the polls on Dec-
ember 21. If elected I will serve the rate-
payer of the .township to the best of my
ability.
Harold Dodds
To the Electors of McKillop:
My name has again been placed in nomin-
ation for council and in agreeing to stand
I assure you of my continued efforts on
behalf of the township and accordingly
seek your support at the polls on Monday.
Ralph McNichol
To the Electors of McKillop:
Having again been nominated . for
council, I solicit your support at the
polls on Monday to permit me to con-
tinue to serve you.
WISHING ALL THE
COMPLIMENTS OF THE SEASON
Arthur Anderson
To the Electors of
McKillop Township:
Having completed three years as a
member of council, I again respect-
fully solicit your vote for Councillor
on
MONDAY, DECEMBER .21st
William J. Leeming
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SPORTS SCENE
by Ding
A pretty quiet week of sports has come and gone.
Brian Spencer of Toronto Maple Leafs played two
exceptional games over the week end,despite the
tragic news of his father's death. Toronto put
together their longest winning streak of the season
when they won three in a row and are now threaten-
ing Detroit and Vancouver for the last playoff
position. This season in the Eastern division will
turn into a real cliff-hanger as Boston, New York
and Montreal will fight for the top position and
walk away from the rest of the league and Toronto,
Vancouver and Detroit will have a real battle to
see who gets the final playoff position.
Turning to my predictions for league champions,
there seems to be little doubt in Chicago taking
the Western division as so far only the St. Louis
Blues have really given the Hawks any real com-
petition. With the superb goaltending of Tony
Esposito and Jerry Desjardine and the defense
of pat Stapleton and Keith Magunsen the Hawks
are going to be very tough to score against. While
up front Bobby Hull and Stan Mikitap continue to
score goals giving the Hawks one of the best
balanced and most powerful teams in either league.
In the Eastern Division I have given the Boston
Bruins the nod for a first place finish mainly
because they have the highest scoring potential
of any team in either division. Phil Esposito and
Bobby Orr continue to run 1 - 2 in the scoring race
and could break almost all existing scoring records
if they continue their present pace. Exposito
has already tied one NHL record in having four
games in which he has scored a hat trick (3 goals)
so this record should easily fall. He has at present
scored 26 goals in 29 games and at the present
rate will easily break Bobby Hull's record of 58 in
one season. Add Derek Sanderson, John MacKenzie
and John Bucyk to this scoring machine and the
Bruins are going to be pretty hard to beat.
Local hockey has also picked up and a recent
announcement that the Seaforth Beavers have been
accepted into the Northern group of the WOAA In-
termediate "C" league will give the local
fans not only a better brand of hockey but a much
more competitive league. Kincardine will likely
provide the strongest threat to the Beavers' hopes
for a league title. The first Beaver h..me game
will be next Tuesday evening and hopes for a good
crowd are extremely high. This should provide
a good brand of hockey for local fans, so get out
and support our local boys. (More details in
story elsewhere on this page).
Moving to a n outdoor sport, the recent change
in weather conditions has provided an opportunity
for ski enthusiasts to get out the equipment and
try their skill. On the International scene the
French are away out in front in World skiing
competitions and Canada's hopes rest with young
Betsy Clifford who, although she has had a slow
start, is expected to make a real run at the World
title following in Nancy Green's footsteps. With
a tremendously bright future, Betsy, who is only
16 years old, is gaining valuable experience and
could be a real power inInternation competition for
years to come.
Snowmobiles have become almost as popular
as cars as a means of winter travel and fun. So
with the increased number of machines more and
more towns and villages are having Winter
Carnival activities. With Seaforth's carnival
coming up in January, we can look forward to an
exciting winter ahead, so don't be left sitting at
home watching others have all the fun. Get out
,1 and.; join in; ,that's , ,when the fun really begins.
"Did'ja see a little black disc fly by, Mister?"
DON'T be nutty with a Christmas Tree!
In an address to members of
the Catholic Womens League of
St. James Church, Miss Isabelle
Campbell, the author ,of several
area histories, discussed The
early days of Seaforth.
Reproduced here are portions
of her remarks:
I'm going to give you now
just a few items from "Tales
of Seaforth" which I prepared for
our Ladies Aid meeting and a
meeting of the Women's Institute.
You all know how Seaforth
developed from a swamp, a sign-
board, a village to a town. You
als o know of the rivalry there
was among the four hamlets for
supremacy, and how, eventually
three of these were left in the
lurch, after far-sighted business
men began to read the writing
on the wall foretelling that Sea-
forth was destined to be the up-
coming place of business. Grad-
ually from then Seaforth waxed
and the other three waned.
It was on January 1, 1868
that Seaforth was incorporated
as a village with Dr. T.T.Cole-
man elected the first reeve.
Can you picture in your mind
the progress and great change
which must have taken place when
you consider that at the end of
twenty-five years after the first
settler arrived the population had
only reached a few over 1,000,
and yet in the next seven years
another 1,000 people decided to
make this their permanent home,
enabling the officials to have the
village on January 1, 1875 erec-
ted into the Town of Seaforth.
Never again was there such a
population explosion. If you take
notice on town signs today show
only a population of 2230. In
those early days grain, salt and
eggs were the village boosters.
From the earliest days on
Main Street was a problem to
the pioneer road builders. To
obtain a foundation capable of
carrying the heavy grain traffic,
which was hauled to the station
from as far as fifty miles to the
north, large logs up to three
feet in diameter were dumped
lengthwise into the swampiest
spots, with smaller ones laid
crosswise on top of the others.
Even at that, in a wet season,
the wagons sunk almost to the
axle as they traveled down this
corduroy road. Not only was
the mud a hazard to the horse-
drawn vehicles, but at times to
adults, children and various an-
imals. We'll perhaps be having
a similar experience this sum-
mer while Main Street is under-
going construction.
One oldtime picture taken,
when the mud was at its worst,
shows a lone pig wading its way
across at the Dick House corner,
with no other living creature in
sight.
An early citizen, who had
moved to Toronto and was loud
e in his praises of his old home
town, was presented one day
with this picture, which had
fallen into the hands 'of one of
his Toronto friends. This Sea-
forth boodiew was very much dis-
pleased• when his city friends
jokingly taunted him about this
wonderful home town of his which
could produce no more activity
than a lone pig wading its way
across the main drag through the
mud.
When Dr. Coleman married
Widow Govinlock, he also
assumed the care of four little.
Govinlocks who were minor part-
ners in the Coleman and Govin-
lock salt and other business
transactions for many years
later.
It was the discovery of salt
in 1868, which gave great impetus
to the village. During the next
.few years three salt works were
developed. The largest of the
three was Coleman and Govinl,
ocks , known as the Seaforth so
Works.
Shortly after salt was dis-
covered, D. D. Wilson, "the Egg
King" arrived, and his industry
gave the village another boost.
During the first years, Wilson
had only one wagon on the road
and bought 1,100 barrels of eggs
of '10 dozen each, but by 1878 he
had seven teams making re-
gular trips through the County
of Huron and parts of three other
adjoining counties, and was lair-
chasing 9000 barrels per year
or a total of 7,560,000 eggs. One,
at that time, commenting on the
purchase said: "What a quantity
of henfruit". These eggs were
pickled and packed in kiln dried
oat husks for shipment. After
he commenced his pickling, he
was involved in a legal battle
with The Meldrum Company of
Montreal, as to which one had
the patent on the pickling pro-
cess. The Meldrum Company,
it is said, eventually won the
lawsuit.
From the time Seaforth began
to boom, no great misfortune
befell it till the September, 1876,
fire, which on a Wednesday morn-
ing burned twelve acres of the
business section to the ground.
The fire originated in Mrs.Grif-
fiths grocery and Candy Store
which was little more than a
shack. The first one on the
fire scene found Mrs. Griffith,
standing on the street in her
nightgown, with bed clothes and
other personal articles in her
arms. Because of incidents in
which she was involved and
former threats she had made,
t'he finger of suspicion was at
once pointed to her. These
threats soon led to her arrest.
Not long before the fire, she
accused a man, who lived near
her, of circulating a report about
her character which she claimed
was not true. She remarked to
another, she would put a large
insurance on her property and
burn him in his bed. A few
hours after the fire had burned
itself out, it was made known
that Mrs. Griffith had taken out
a six hundred dollar insurance
policy on her shack and stock,
which some estimated was not
worth more than a total of two
hundred dollars. Because of
this and other incidents, on
Thursday following the fire, she
was placed under arrest on sus-
picion of having fired her own
premises and was taken before
Mayor Dr. T. T. Coleman and
Justices Wilson, Beattie and
Sproat for questioning. To the
charge, of course, she pleaded
"not guilty". However, they
ordered that she be taken to
Goderich jail to await further
trial. In court she testified
she believed a coal oil lamp,
left on a stand, had exploded.
But being of such a notorious
character her statement was not
taken too seriously. So there
lay at that time, and ever since,
the mystery of the memorable
1876 fire.
About the time Mrs. Griffith
was expected to arrive in Seaforth
from Goderich, a plot was being
brewed to tar and feather her.
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However, she stealthily disap-
peared out of the town and was
never seen nor heard of again.
While there have been many
fires throughout the town, per-
haps the one which caused the
most inconvenience, outside of
the one in 1876, was when the
Old Market House was burned to
a heap of ashes in August, 1891.
Situated as it was in the middle
of the road, many did not feel
too sorry about the loss of the
building, but theref was regret at
the loss of the contents, such
as the fire-fighting equipment,
also the band instruments and
uniforms and other things of value
to the town.
The next day, Mrs. Peter
Daley, who lived farther down
Market Street, when discussing
the fire with her neighbor, Sam
_Stark, happened to remark she
was rather glad the building
was gone. Said she: "I can at
least see to Main Street now".
"Oh, Mrs. Daley", said Mr.
Stark with much conern, "Don't
say that again. The Council is
offering a reward right now for
the capture of the firebug, and
if they heard you say that they
might think you had something to
do with setting the building on
fire."
Beside winning 'a World
Championship in1888, for running
and coupling a hose - a record
still unchallanged - our brave
Fire Brigade has fought, through
the years, many dangerous fires
in the heat of summer and during
below zero temperatures in
winter. Our present freechief,
Jack Scott, has served as chief
for the longett term, and it was
George A. Sills, grandfather of
Der and Frank, who did the run-
ning and coupling the day our
Brigade won the World
Championship.
BOtQra closing We glaai say a
word about JIMMI 1/1cGinniS.
jimmy and his sister, Maggie,
with their oats had their home
and grocery store on the corner,
just south of the Dick Hotel.
Kiddies sent here regularly for
their one cent bag of candies.
Business was carried on quietly
and peaceably till the town built
a sidewalk which extended a. few
inches over Jimmy's property.
No person, not even the town,
was going to take advantage of
Jimmy. A lawsuit followed and
the town paid damages for intrus-
ion. In the poem "Sale of Old
Bachelors," Jimmy was the first
one, offered up for sale, and it
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To the Electors
Of McKillop:
Having been nomin-
ated for council I so-
licit your support at
the polls on Monday.
WISHING YOU ALL THE
COMPLIMENTS OF THE'
SEASON
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To vote is our priviledge
To win is my aim
If you wish me to represent you
Put an X at my name
SEASON'S GREETINGS
to all the voters of McKillop
VOTE
ARNOLD CAMPBELL
for Council
To the Electors of McKillop:
It has been my priviledge to serve you on
council and I will appreciate your contin-
ued support at the election, December 21.
Harvey Craig
To the People of
McKillop Township:
I am willing to take the time to work
for you.
If you are willing to take the time to
vote for me.
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RYAN, RONALD
On December 21 for Equal Representation
To the Ratepayers of
McKillop:
Having again been nominated for reeve, I
seek your support and assure you that,
elected, I will continue to serve the town-
ship to the best of my ability.
WISHING YOU ALL THE
COMPLIMENTS OF THE SEASON
ALLAN CAMPBELL
NOTICE OF
ELECTION
OF A REEVE AND FOUR COUNCILLORS FOR THE
Township of McKillop
An election for the purpose of electing a reeve and
fur councillors will be held in the Township of Mc-
. illop on
Monday, Dec. 21st
Polls will be open from 10 A.M. to 8 P,M. at the
following places:
No. I - Thomas Murray's house. Lot N 1/2.10,
Con. 5; James McQuaid, DRO; Clarence Maloney PC.
No. 2 - Township Office, Winthrop; James Keys.
DRO. Gordon Papple. PO.
No. 3 - Fred and Christine Leonhardt's house,
Lot 10,S 13th Con.Stephen Murray,ORO; Donald Dennis,PC.
No.. 4 - Ross Driscoll's houSe, Lot W 1/2 25, Con.
12; Rots DrIs oil. DRO: John Rosman, Pc.
MRS. KENNETH McCLURE
Returning Officer
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