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BEST WISHES
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We take this opportunity to
congratulate 'the Town of Seaforth
on 100 years of Progress
and Service.
We are proud of our long and
successful association with the com-
munity.
HURON
WHOLESALE
"Serving Seawall for Over 27 Wart"
Phone 527-1280
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Centennial flower
This year's Horticultural Society pivject
(By Isabel Scott)
A meeting was held in January
1972 due to the initiative of Dr.
Rodger Whitman. As a result of
this and subsequent meetings a
charter was granted to Seaforth to
form a Horticultural Society.This
was presented by Mrs. Wm. Klie
of Hanover, president of District
Eight when Dr. Whitman was
elected president, Mrs. John
McGowan, secretary and Irwin
Trewartha, treasurer with a board
of ten directors. The second
Wednesday evening of each
month meetings are held with
interesting speakers or slides.
A highlight of the first years
was a flower show held in the
High School under the capable
leadership of Mrs. R. Newnham
when over two hundred exhibits
were shown with Mrs,E. Durst
the overall winner. Baskets were
placed on the poles on Main
Street cared for by Edgar Allan.
Planting of flowers in front of the
town hall by Mrs. Durst and her
committee brightened up the
street.
Mrs. Wm.Strong was secretary
in 1973 and assisted Mrs.
Newnham with the flower •show
whenthere was an excellent
display of flowers by the 123
members with Mrs. R.B.Aitken
as top exhibitor. This past year
there were over 500 exhibits with
Miss Jean McEwan as the grand
champion.
Last year a programme of
beautification at the Pioneer
Mausoleum in Harpurhey was
started and is continuing as a
Centennial project this year. The
ten flowering crab apple trees and
some of the twenty-five
evergreens for the fouinlation
planting have been donated by
persons of the area who have
been grateful for' the building,
A few hundred daffodilS were
planted last fall at the Va.n
Egmond home in Egiriondirille
where the society is challenBed
re-create a pioneer landscape., A
copper beech tree has been
planted on the bowling Breen
lawn as our Centennial tree also a
tree planting programme ls.,being
carried out with the help of the
Chamber of Commerce. A
committee picked the- yellow
calendula or pot marigold with its
dark centre as the flower for
Centennial year and it is hoped it
will brighten around many homes
in Seaforthe
Bus trips are an interesting
event each year and the O'Keefe
flower show in Toronto, the
botonical gardens at Hamilton
and the parkway and gardens at
Niagara Falls have been visited.A
garden tour in our district to show
what an effort by some
enthusiastic gardeners can
accomplish was followed by a
picnic supper at the home of Mr.
and Mrs. John McCowan.
Delegates have attended
district meetings and brought
back reports from Hanover,
Blyth, Owen Sound and
Teeswater and two members
attended the provincial
convention in Niagara Falls' last
year.
There was a Horticultural
Society formed in 1907 and
continued to 1939 according to
some former members. The late
Mr. Wm. Hartry' was one of its
faithful members being elected as
provincial president in 1928. This
years officers: Past President, Dr.
R. Whitman ; Mrs. W. Scott,
PreSident; Mrs. D. Adams, vice
president; Mrs. L. Stephenson,
secretary and Lloyd Hoggarth,
treasurer. The over a hundred
Members are again looking
forward to the flower show on the
16th of August and a continuing
interest in the beautification of
the town and district.
Flowers preach to us if we will
hear; .
The rose saith in the dewy
morn
"I am most fair;
Yet all my loveliness is born
upon a thorn."
The lilies say Behold how we
Preach without words of purety
But not alone the fairest
flowers;
The merest grass
Along the roadside where we
pass
Lichen and moss and sturdy
weed,
Tell of His love who sends the
dew,
The rain and sunshine too,
To nourish one small seed.
Christina Georgina Rossetti
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The Reunion clowns,- from the 1924
Old Boys.
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Many-Seaforth "boys" served overseas in World War I, in the
161st Battallion, which sailed November 1916, with 28 officers
and 770 men. Twins Arnold and Clarence Westcott, centre rants •
Cecil Delling and Sid Deem have a look at some European
publications, in their barracks.
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CONGRATULATION SEAFORTH
ON YOUR FIRST 100 YEARS
WE ARE PROUD TO BE A PART OF IT
WE FEATURE IMPORTED GOODS SUCH AS . . . -SLIPPERS
-BLANKETS -TAPESTRIES- -TABLECLOTHES
-GREAT CHOICE. OF UNDERWEAR
-COMPLETE SELECTION OF'SCHEEPJES' WOOL &
SPINRITE YARNS -
-IMPORTED TOBACCO .AND -MANY MORE ITEMS
FULL SELECTION OF DELICATESSEN FOODS'
SEAFORTH IMPORTS :"trliE LARGEST SELeCTION IMPORTED ADS" ON NURCO/4 COUNTY"
SEAFORTH OisiTAMO
30—THE HURON EXPOSITOR JUNE 264 1915