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Nurses in training visit Walton
Weekend guests at the twine of for several weeks.
Mr. and Mts. Stewart Humphries
were Miss. Kim Humphries with Mr. and Mrs. Herb Travis
Mr. and Mrs. Ron Bennett her friend Ester Heshka of Camp attended a surprise party recently Borden; both nurse'sin training at for Clayton Sellers at Wellesley Victoria Hospital; London and Mr. •
and Mrs. Robett -flumpria- and on_the occasion of his _brithday..
- - Mission Band members are
reminded that their meeting is
this coming Suinday, one week
earlier owing to Easter Sunday
falling on the regular Sunday.
family of London.
It is good to hear that Mr.
Ernest Uhler, R.R.3, Walton has
arrived home after being a patient
in Seaforth Community Hospital
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meets in Walton
could drive to the lake at Bayfield
in a couple of hours, they say,
with a buggy and team.
Hiram tells a story about Zach
driving a colt in a two wheel -cart
and 'rigging it so that no matter
what the frisky colt did it couldn't
upset the cart. Zach-remembers
being pinned under a horse in his
own barnyard for an hour. "She
couldn't get up and I couldn't get
out." -Finally someone, saw his
predicament and both he and the
horse got up, not much the worse
for wear. "
Both men say Winthrop in the
first part of this century was a
pretty good place to live. "I'd live
it over again if I could," Hiram
says "there's nuke in my head
now and I could improve on it."
Zach too says he'd be happy to go
back and start all over again.-
Lacy Ladies study
darts and seams
Achievement Day is scheduled for
June 11. Books and garments are
to be into' leaders by June 3.
In the discussion the main
topics were gathering darts and
seams. For hoine assignement we
are to work on our Record Books
and garments.
The next meeting to be held at
Karen Middegaal's home. We
closed with the 4-H pledge,
"Learn to do by doing,"
The hamlet of Winthrop could
be unkindly described as a blur on
the ; north road that impatient
drivers pasS on their way north
from Seaforth to Walton. It has a
church, Cavan United, a store,
Doug and Gail's, the McKillop
Town4hip office and shed, and a
small number of houses.
The people who live in the area
know, but not too many others do,
that Winthrop was a thriving busy
village in the 1870's when it was
the flour, and saw mill centre of
McKillop Township.
There's a sketch in the. 1879
Belden's Atlas of Huron County
that tells the story better than
words can. The sketch says
"Winthrop Mills, A. Govenlock,
Prop." and the story of Winthrop
is closely intertwined with the
story of Andrew Govenlock, who
came to the area about 1834 and
built a saw mill and grist mill and
a general store in Winthrop in the
1870's.
There's almost no trace of the
Winthrop of the 1879 sketch in' -
the'Winthrop of today and the
nestion that sticks in your mind
as you look at the atlas sketch is
"where did it -all go?"
Hiram. Blanchard, 'whd's lived
near Winthrop in McKillop for all,
of his 83 years, remembers
something of that old Winthrop
and he and his friend and old
schoolmate, Zach McSpadden,
87, talked to the Expositor about
what Winthrop was like when
they were boys around the turn of
the century.—
Along with the steam run saw
and grist mills, Winthrop in the
1870's ,had a cheese and butter
factory, • Alex -Murchie's post
office and "wee store", 'a
Dominion' Telegraph office,
number 10 school, a blacksmith
' shop and stable, run by R.Pethick
and a hotel, according of Mrs.
. Joseph Grummett's "A History of
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Zach McSpadden remembers'
the , butter . makers -and—that
Andrew Calder's cheese, in 90 lb.
rounds, was the freshest around.
"He's a' lot older than me",
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Mr. McSpadden joshes Mr.
-Blanchard as the two talk about
their school ._days at number 10.
There were as many as 60
students in the one Nom school
but the usual attendance was 30
or 40.
Skippedist_book _ -
Mr. Blanchard liked school; his
mother was a teacher and she
taught him-so- much at home that
he was able to-skip-the first book
when ..he started ,his formal
education :,
Mr: McSpadden isn't so
enthusiastic. Still a great lover of
horses, he says "I'd sooner have
been driving a team some place"
than sitting in the classroom.
A lot of the learning was done
in geography bees, spelling bees
and oral questions to the students
who were divided into teams. The
men, like every one else, walked
to school. "That's why I'm
walking now," Hiram says.
The govenlock Flour Mill was
"done" or at least on its last legs
- when the two were going to
school at the turn of the century.
Mr.McSpadden remembers
being in the nearly empty mill "I
bet it was about five stories or 60
feet high", killing pigeons on the
way home from school. What did
they , do with the pigeons?
"Pigeon pie", he says.
Hfram Blanchard had a more
direct connection with the -
Govenlock' Mills. . His•
grandfather, 'who died in 1893,
was a millwright and,
carpenter who framed the
Winthrop mills.
Hiram's father,' Melvin
Blanchard, wrote in the
Expositor in 1933 that he
remeMbered spending ' his
Saturdays in Govenlock's Victoria
grist mill. He talks about the "ox
driver, calling to the oxen drawin
in big logs" that. were used to
produce the steam power, Melvin
would ,go tor aride_with. the_ ox
driver who'd sometimes let him
drive the big "boat" when it was
empty. •
Molasses
The mill workers ate supper in
a log shanty neat the mill, Melvin
Blanchard said in 1933, "meat
and potatoes, bread and butter
and blackstrap • Molasses for
dessert."
The men say that the mills were
torn down and the wood used for
other buildings, about .1908 or
1910-.-Winthrop and area people
then took their grain into Seaforth
for grinding' at the big Ogilvy
Mill, The flour wasn't any better
than --what -Winthrop had'
produced but the machinery was
more modern, the men say.
Probably it was a combination of
centralization, expansion and
modern technology that killed the
Winthrop Mill.
Zach and Hiram say that wool
frdm freshly sheared sheep was
also bronght into Seaforth, for
spinning at" the Egmondville
Woollen Mill. Zach says his step
mother had her own spinning
wheel and 'Hiram remembers his
own children being puzzled at
how hiS 'mother, "takes wool,
then her hands go so fast and she
makes a sock".
Whether it's in Winthrop or
larger communities the men
don't think people arOs sociable
n ow as they were 75 years ago. If
you wanted to h ave a house
dance, you "went to the back
door and whistled", Hiram says
with a grin, and everybody who
heard you would come.
Football
Football teams, one from the
east and west line and another
from the 10th concession would
play every reliance they could get
"anyplace they could get a pigce
of ground",-after the hard work of
haying wasfinished.
Cavan Church was also a centre
of : community life. Hiram still
walks the 11/4 miles from his
McKillop home most Sundays in
1977. Zach lives at Seaforth
'Manor Nursing Home, as does his
- sister, Mrs. Minnie Hawley.
-Zach, especially , misses the
horses that were part of life when
he was growing up. "I wish I
could get hold of good horses
right now," he 'said at the Manor
on a sunny,• late winter day. -You
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Winthrop of the 1879 sketch, or
parts of it anyway, live on in the
memories of these two
gentlemen. Think about that
' when you drive through the
modern Winthrop next time.
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Mrs. Martin Baan was hostess
when the 17th Boundary unit met
in her home for their March
meeting, on Wednesday
afternoon. •
The devotional period was
opened by . Mrs. Harold
McCallum reading a poem, •
"March is here". Hymn "All
Beautiful theMarch of Day," was
sung. Scripture reading was
taken from.. Matthew 25:31-46
followed by repeating the Lord's
Prayer in unison.
Mrs. Barry Hoegy took the'
Topic on • "The Power of.
Possibility Thinking". „Mrs.
McCallum gave a rending, "My
Prayer". Hymn, "All things.
bright 'and'- beautiful - was -sung.
Collection was received and
dedicated. Mrs. McCallum closed
this part of the meeting with
prayer.
Mrs. M. Baan presided for the
business. Minutes were read by
Mrs. H. McCallum. Roll call was
answered by 12 members.
Invitations were read from
Seaforth and Blyth to attend their
Thankoffering meeting. WaltOn
U.C.W. thankoffering is to be
held Sunday evening April 17th.
Meeting closed with prayer.
Lunch was served by Mrs. B.
lioegy and Mrs. H. McCallum
and the hostess.
Personals
Mr. and Mrs. Warren Brown
and daughter, Joanne of Guelph
spent Sunday with Mr. and 'Mrs.
Allan McCall. Mr. and Mrs.. Tom
Stevenson, Ronald and
Christoper also visited at the
same home.
Miss Debbie Achilles of fergUs
spent the •hblklay • week with 'her
gcandparetns Mr. and Mrs. Roily
Achilles. Christine Achilles also
s)1(1)t Illit . several days at the same tie
MrWilliam Murray is a patient.
in Seaforth Community Hospital..
But you couldn't just start
farming nowadays,. the men
agree, because it takes too much
money. They farmed all their
lives and in the early days,
produced just about everything
they ate on their own farms. Food
tasted-better then too. Zach spent
one year, 1903-04, when he was
18,' working on the CP railroad
,which was , going through at_
Walton. The' railroad crews were
.mostly Italian and they lived
boarding houes and hotels in the
area.
Winthrop was once called
Bailey Bay .or Ballabay the men
say, but it was always, called
Winthrop in ,their
"It's just a picture to you",
Hiram Blanchard tells a reporterr
about the sketch 'of Winthrop in
the Hull* Atlas. But the old
Walton 1 Lacy Ladies 4-H Club
held their third meeting, on
Monday evening, March 21st at
the ,home of Nanci Bennett.
Meeting was opened with the
4-H pledge. Minutes were read
•by Peggy Humphries. All
members answered the roll
call, "Give one point to
remember when" cutting and
...niatking the fabric". A letter was
read from Mrs. Marshall,
presiding Home Economist.
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