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NORAH ECKERT'S TEAM — (back) Loretta Savauge, Adeline Mc!flatly, Atlene
Van DenAkker,'Rose Bisback, Marg Sills, Jane*McNaughton, Beth Broome, (front)
Patty Watson, Nancy Scott, Coach Bill Brown, Marie Little, and Frances Kling.
(Staff Photo)
It was fun and games as the Walter Tkaczuk team played
Seaforth Centenaires on Saturday evening.
Williamson and Smith
reunions held here
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The 1976 Williamson family
reunion was held Sunday, August
8 at the home of Michael and Ina.
McGrath with fifty-seven in
attendance. Silver dollars were
presented to three, new babies,
Adie Carter, daughter of Mr: and-
Mrs. Dpn Carter, Jeff William-
son, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ken
Williamson and Kathy Laverty,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ken
Laverty. .
Sports wer9 conducted by
Florence Nesbitt and Brenda
Kitching, with the following
winners:
Guessing the waistline - Larry
McGrath; man with most pennies
in pocket Jim Kitching; Lucky
Chair :Marianne McGrath; Lucky
Plate - Mary Mine Smith; Jelly
Bean Gues - Michael -McGrath;
White Bean Guess - Dave Jervis;
Lady with most things in her
purse - Marianne McGrath. -
Races were held for the
younger .children with 'prizes for
each followed by a candy
scramble.
Murray . Nesbitt, president.
presided over a short business
meeting, electing the officers for
1977. They are: Past president -
Murray Nesbitt; president - Olda
Jervis; vice:president - Mark
Smith; treasurer - Carol Carter;
Secretary - DIatine,, McGrath,
SpOris Htiffon andIviinnie
Clarke.
The 1977 reunion will be held at
the home of Murray and Connie
Nesbitt, Auburn, with a barbeque
at 2 p.M. on the second Sunday in
Approximately 70 members of
the family. of the late Robert ancl
Dorothea Smith (Hullett •Tdwn-
ship) met at Seaforth Lions Park
on Sunday, AuguSt 8. The picnic
was scheduled to meet Jean
Smith. Wanless (formerly of Sea-
forth) and her -daughters, their
husbands and families. ~ A
luncheon was served smorgas-
bord style at 1:30 p.m. ,An
afternooueball game was enjoyed
by all, even the youngest
taking part. •
The sports events were run off
by Mr. and Mrs. Eldon Smith and
Mr. and, Mrs Peter Haswell,
representing the Broadfoots. A
special "Guess the. number of
raisins in the pie': was won by
Donald Walker of Warren,
Michigan, . Those attending from out of
town were: Mr. and Mrs., Garnet
Wanless-, Viroqua, Wiseonsin;
Mr.' and Mis. Trygoe °verb°,
Todd, Heidi and Trygoe. Jr. from
HazelCrest, Illinois; Mr. and Mrs.
Orrin Midtlien and Bradley,
Altoona, Wisconsin, who came to
meet •at least a few of. their
relatives. It was nice to have MrS.
Lea McKay of Guelph,. formerly of
Elmvale, present.
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What has happened to the Garden Pariy or,„[41.WA,—
Social? This was the big, annual summer eyftnt of the
country or village church which drew people om miles • around to a good., old-fashioned home-baked supper to
be followed by a concert including much local talent.
The drive-in theatre provides accessible outdoor
entertainment so that few want a garden party any
' more. People sit in their cars as isolated as ifkthey were
islands and eat whateveris available. The hotdog stand
is no more like the old garden party than 4 frozen 'TV
dinner is like a wedding feast.
Garden parties were held at some farm or village
home with beautiful grounds and ample space . for
tables set up on the lawn. The home in the midst gave it
an air of hospitality. Sometimes a special concert
' platform had to be set up using lumber borrowed from
the near-by mill but, more often, the houge veranda
well-lighted with Japanese lanterns served 'as a stage.
The piano had only to he brought out the front door
from the parlour and, with a few easy chairs, gave the
area that certain stage setting.
The committee members made their plans early in
the year so that they could recruit the local talent which
they wanted for the occasion. A garden party was not
quite as dignified,as the more sophisticated midwinter
concert held in the church basement. A barbershop
quartette was always popular and occasionally 'a family
group participated but to have the brass band from ;4
town playiii throughout the supper ' hour was
something to b ng patrons from as far as a good horse
and rig could travel after an early milking time.
Everyone Came
How the women fed those hordes who came was 4,
mystery and such variety as well as quantify! Relating
the event to a neighbour who could not attend a
common comment was, 'I wish you ..ould have seen the
pies. The cakes' were absolutP:y out of 'this world for
deliciousness. Everyone seemed to enjoy the 'second
serving as much as the first.' Whole 'families came to
the party, even babes in arms for sitters were unheard
of at that 'time.
- Children running about never seemed, to make any
trouble but the waitreses had to exercise agility, Of
course many of these urchins should have been home in
bed but the occasional night out was a welcome break in
'the routine of country living.
One could 'always be sure of meeting all the church
membe'rs socially as well as strangers from neighbour-
ing churches. B.ut they, were not strangers for very long
as ,usually someone took them in charge and introduced
them. This was one way of meeting new friends t :fore
the advent of the automobile to wipe out many of these
community boundaries.
'Always you'll find them at church affairs
Bringihg in water and extra chairs', '
Giving_ a hand at the carving, too;
. Just anything...they are glad to do, •
Washing the dishes with tucked up sleeve,
The first to come...the last to leave." ,
(Jaques)
No. The drive-in theatre does not take the place of
the old church garden party. Church suppers, ham and
strawberry socials and out-door' barbecues -have
displaced the lawn social but, somewhere, progressive
coingiunity units, stilt Teel that there are old ways in
country living worth saving.. ,
Recitations , At titnid4 elocutioniit4rom outsidethe
area was engaged to supplement the musical portion of
the programme. Of course there 'were some local
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amateurs who took lessons and were in great dennitid
but, too often, they sounded rather artificial as if theY
were doing just as the teacher told them to do, Ralik
amateurs lacking personality, concentrated on ,coinic
recitations or those with an emotional appeal like
"Curfew shall not ring tonight." Few recitation bogiFs
were available and new numbers were hard to come by
with the result that the old favourites like the
,"Highway Man" were repeated over and over.
Scottish Dante
Who can recall the Scottish dances executed by Cora
Dodds to the accompaniment of the bag-pipes wielded,
by Jock MacDonald. the genial hostler at the
Commercial Hotel who maintained he had to wet hii
whistle prior to such an undertaking?
Old time fiddlers always drew crowds from miles
around. When the fiddlers really got warmed up,they
could make that little, old fragile box move the
audience and men and women with years of living
behind them responded to the rhythm by tapping with
their feet. Fiddle playing seemed to have a knack to it
whether they played by note or by ear, '7
Here and there a genius among them had his own
way of putting harmony into such old tunes as "The
Girl I Left Behind Me", "Money Musk", "The
Soldier's Joy" and what a creative fiddler could do with -
"Pop Goes the Weasel." Some could play such tricks
with "Listen to the Mocking Bird" that you imagine
there was a whole meadowful of twittering birds at
even-tide. Such names as Chesney, Collins, Forsyth,
Norris, Spiers and others conjure up memories.
The old time fiddlers had a place in our Canadian way
of life. Often they offered the only social outlet for
scattered settler's gathered for dances, a sort of
dissipation. It was not unusual for young people to
dance until well past midnight, sometimes until the
early hours of the morning. 'Some delighted to relate
with pride that they got gome just in time to change
their, clothes and start the morning chores.
Dances provided courting ground and were about the
only social diversions in winter. Many will recall the
dance halls; Cardno's Hall, Case' s Hall, The G.W.V.A.
Hall in Seaforth, Watson's Hall in Kippen,' thc. Town
Halls in Brucefield, Hensall and Staffa. And what was a
dance without such callers-off as Will, McDonald and
Billie' Workman?
• "Swing your partners-up and down the middle!
Sashay now-oh listen to that fiddle.
Go down Moses, set my people free; r.
Pop goes the weasel thru' the old Red Sea."
(Benet)
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