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gainvaluable information
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pertaining to "Focus,•on Living"
your 'young people will gain -
confidence in .their abilities to •
make -presentations before an •
interested audienee:Your.support
is a valuable contribution to the
continuation of a strong 4-H•
program in Huron Cgl(l>ty Plan to
atmul the 'Achievement Day in •
your area, the 'home economist
says.. :
Brucefield has contest
eTtibitS presented as a elnh
effort by-all participating groups.
These performances are an
entertainin-g and educational
summary of the whole project.
- At the conclusi( n of the-
prttgram. special wards and
certificates are 1 resented to
members who have satisfactorily.
completed ',required 4-1-1 home-
naking,-
-Everyone is invited.' Your
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Occasionally some of our store managers buy a little
too much of some items and find themselves
over-stocked.
And because each store, manager is different, in
almost every store, the over-stocked merchandise is
different. - •
So we decided to have our first-ever RED TAG SALE.
This gives every manager a chance to clear the
over-stock which is costing him money, while YOU get
in on some greatly-slashed prices ... not just 'Sale
Prices' but 'CLEARANCE PRICES'.
Because that's the wthvle purpo-se of the RED TAGS
you'll find in every Radio Shack Store.
When you've spotted • a RED TAG, you'll know
you've really spotted a bargain.
RED SALE
is • m effect
From April 24 to 29, 1978
at Radio Shack Stores and Participating. authorized
Sales Centres IDEALERSI.
YOU CAN'T BUY SERVICE, SELECTION
AND EXPERIENCE —HITT AT
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• WE PROVIDE ALLTHREE Main Street, Seaforth
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Get Your Planting Equipment
READY NOW!
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We' Are Now Doing Pre-Season Checks On
Planting Equipment .Call Glen McLure 527-0120
For An Appointment And Scheduling Of' Service.
"SEAFORTH 527-0120 11111
Now the words chui reunion have always conjured up one
v pieture and one picture only in my slig,htly distilled Scots blood. I
can see a group of kilted !kilts, proudly sporting the family-
tartan, standing on a heather carpeted s lope. .1'0g :curling around
them, as the swirl ofbagpipes suddenly snells over the crest of
the hill.
In my dreams. the (Ion reunion Caine right from an 1940'5
MGM Movie - and rivaled Gone With the Wind in stirring the
-heart chords.
Last weekend, the Jardine don (my mother's family) held the
first meeting of the Ontario chapter of the Clair Jardine and it
proved ,a rousing suceess„but it %%amt .! quite -like.nix dream.
While I've til.n.ay.s luidAttal a Scots background gave a man an
extra advantage on the ,road of life. my interest in family
geneology has inner been vu r strong. I know our branch of the
Jardine'; settled in Westminster Township, outside Folidmi .
Ontario in the early, 1)30's and about a year later, re•set dud in
Lamborn (.'otoity.., outside the farming conimunity of
Now the Jardine., ha\ e usually been good, honest reasonably
• hard4vorking peopl(:, nhich means - they've nevOr gained. tinz
notoriety they might haVC. I CiOideti if nothing. eke, the elan
reunion might turn up some remarkable ancestors., ,41 pirate. an-
tic tor, tor, a millionaire farmer - and it couldn't .fielp-but pro( ide me
with a firmer grasp of my roots. Also, the reunion (+mid
certainly confirm whether or not 1 wanted to lay claim to sty
Jardine ancestry•in. the future.
When my editor agreed u-c let -me write a-column 4)0--4-1nn
rOmion, it seemed only fair to try and discover a local angle.
There hinl king keen rumours dun some ()I' the Jardine clan had
migrated us far north ,as Goderich. 'NO with the index to past
issues of the Huron Expositor it hand, I began a search for ci CII
IN' Inn', 54% (Willy ;1:11111111.1. •
A Black Sheep
It didn 't take long. In 191 I, one Eduard ,lardine managed to
featured on the front, pages of the Purim ...Expositor twice
within'a matterofmonths. When located the I real.c,ed
Edward was one of the pboverbial black sheep that most Families
prekT to leave buried. It seems during the Goderich Fall Fob'.
the lad had lured a Miss Anderson .( age WI stated) to a vacant
11011SC, all'(1 When she resisted his compliments. he lashed' out at
het with a jack knife- a blow. which proved fatal both to Mass
Andersonokl later. to her -attacker. •
_ .... young Man eventually confessed to his crime, so tht.:
• onicOno: of his-trial was preordabied and on Juju: lb, 1911 .-the
execution (of Eck% ard) was a Model of completeness of
order and quickness but the gruesome scene within the jail yard.
• in lite bright stoklum. and Indnix air 4vtts On a'\
cotis.equetives of sin,"
Nitot, the sin in question 44asn't only the girl's dittohd.
certainly an tin esonie crime ill itself. It %%as also Illy 1.1 ,1 011,1(
i.da aril, born a l)res1)4 turbo), had sttiplicd ad( luting church on a
'1 ,.•.111111. basis • 011(1 %%lie .' he did sit in 'Inc 0 Sunday 5115 1(14111, it
-11, Ohl 11 iii the Sletliittlist or Baptist churclit..-s d()4.4 II the street, a
SOD crime kik tok one tit Siato, lierito.,(.• in the 4 ;irk 14.40(rs.
1 111. last 44(irt1,) of his ).»Iiti..ssitin, !tic ) )1 hi the Pi k icrj of
.111111 .1 1,1 1.• I 111t.ilitititt tilt 1.\ 1‘,11 Oka -,111 111‘ L'1111 lir, 11, ill in( ;111(1
tic' ,1,.(1)4 )i1 Id. dm! in Oft- Savior I II, \.er le driRli to knovy y
llhou h In, I d .;oil (1.1)1,CI sac it ,i114 . it \ki*, 1/1"1‘ 10111,1 \
,1 1.1 11 14(111 hi' \\ a rt.:II:rimy to.
y41 1H, ,1.11.1,11ii. 111 III in I • (Iiitorio, pro\ ‘,11 11,
t h, 1,4 . I 11:0, \\ :1;50 11,14.1 tutu 14 1.11i
1,11I11iT,V (14 1Iit . 0 'sit In Sir \\lib-du
. dii .))..1(1. hrlidil,It I \Nilo liu, s in .Luchne
Oth t ifs i3(»1'...,it))11.15
• 4(1(11(4 I ;111(1 stieeessful beef l'acnier. as-
II *II'. OR' aulhorty Intl the 111,,u,•%
kl• it!) mum
rcollio, 1-11-t L. been. a.
h •• • •• oil. that
''do 1,111 is ,,i0(1,•1 '-oil inc II 111. I I 111tkirS,
oil' lilt! in !Odin!, I
, - • 3:14-1.-i:1-.41-***0*,,,, , it? 1 Its rini -11111V
,••1101'1«1 poil in rt.:1,A, Lrtli,lc tartan. 0
Icio-11 1.1ii.
Not (itilv neve use forced to abandon the kilt. but Sir Williain
11111111 ,1 ,t ; 1 ;ic t, t.
'1,'01.,„ 0,, /1 t ,T \ nc 0r tic tilt I border.-and
the elan tended to side i4 it11 the foreign English king in more
than one campaign -- as.Sir William pointed' out, ''out' motives
nere good, we wanted to ,be on the winning side." To make
matters even worse, sonic 0,1' the clan nitgrated south the
border to live, •,,
,\ (.host.
11111 the kilt and our itt.o, twain asilc, the 1,1edine clan cJii
boast both a castle. a ghost and a i•olorful pas. startod he om•
Norinatt‘ancustors o ho came (s i'i' wit h 'Niihau) the Continertir in
j•(lnti,. 1.11th, .Sir rd (I). Gandino Itornitois de Apilgirtli
witnessed q charier of Kin1, 1):14 id I l's and guaranteed:the
Haim: Irdine, or at 'least 0 r'oilidi•approximotion. would have a
plocc in-British Iiistor\
Non‘ cc bile Sir Willialin assured us the clati.liad their share of
Int) Jardine., beheaded for murdering
their neighbours tI didn't bring up, the sad topic of F(144 ard of
(ioderich).•-•"it-seems someone in the dynasty was. a 110111 Of
mart built. or at least assumed tmnership of Spedlins
(',',le, a eentthue stone castle. built in 142(1 near I ockerbie,
'roll:intl. The castle hos nails 44bieh are nine feet thick, a huge
lir. 111.1, ). +4 her, ,i1.1.1*n. %.1.1)--.C(111 :1`C.InaSt d 'a SO, and it new owner
11.1 .1 Oran`, to IT'S1(11'4 the ru ins In thl,4 past glory.,
-lb, (Ian'', ghost story is a 1:11 arul1mf SiVtlinS and Voncertis
.1. Hill, slot. ho rementhered a set of keys when he
skink! ba forgotten them!. •
It ,l,1c1 111,. the Aord of the easd+.4`-bad. imprisoned 0.1111111 called.
Porteous. the 1(11111 miller, in the castle dungeon after Porteous
s11 fire to bk mill. Then the lord set off lilt Edinhorgh
horsebin.k, Unfortunately tying. the dungeon keys to his belt.
When the lord realized the plight of pow Porteous he turned
Nick ilomt'di,441-1,\.1?,4 11 sonic days hacl elapsed and the miller had
become so hungry, he'd ripped the flesh, from his hands and
arms. before (king in the locked cell, :
Haunted
From that day. the castle of Spedlins was haunted 1) the
minor's ghost until finally in desperation the Jordines coiled in a
priest to exorcise the unwanted spirit 44 ith the black,
leat•herbound copy of the fa mil) Intik..
The exorcisiii was .succesd'ill, and the ghost temporarily laid to
tx•-•,1; Then. sonic-many years,Inte'r•-alardine -deseendant set the'
family bible out to a bookbinder 1.01' repairs :111d Porteous' ghost
IL turned with a vengeance.
Ex en though Sir non occupies a manor house some
distance from the castle. he,assured us the Jardine family bible,' •
11(11'1.1)1(1. irl:ftli‘i&il''ont,i.lt-a'tthet t'itc.Z(.1 by Jardim's from across the province,
, r
.as well as Sha'‘‘aigan, Quebec, proved to be a succe,tis. It seems
the clOti aren't such a had lot. One branch -of the-rOity•who
settleA----hy the- Nitariturn-es Emitted cucke-,stein ship building
oampany and their iimsted schooners 11'01.1 1.1141-14k1 s on both sides
of th( oce•ol. Another ancestor is credited with founding HOng
Kong and 'his exploit ti ha 4"C been the .tilthjeet, of works by two
British authors. Finally. Sir assured us the new owner of
.Spedlins Castle has p'ro'd any Jardine is welcome to come and
,Otir'-tlit: ancestral holm.,
T'his summer the clan is gathering in Apilgirth ScOtland 00(1
there will be even noire rousing tales of past Jardine adyentiirs.
think I'll even Order a clon badge and start mentioning-. the
tali tic casually in comersotion. It doesn't -.quite make up• for
losing the kilt tind having to claim jr,Na• Edword, bull( helps,
Thank You
The Canadian Red Cross Society
sincerely thanks- everyone for the fine
effortput forward during our campaign.
Our thanks goes to contributors,
committee members, captains and our
Seaforth Banks,• who made it possible.
to come within a wink of reaching an
increased goal of $2500.
Chairman
Bob McMillan
,INEDDIRG
, THE HURON. EXPOSITOR
PHONE 527-0240 SEAFORTH
2A THE HURON EXPOSITOil, APRIL 120, 1978
Serendipity by Alice Gibb
•
blood
Fo us 0'0tiVit4f0dture.4-H -itvork
1 The 4-1-1 Horn ulking AChieve-
mein Pays f Foct,•on Living"
represent - (the end of another
homemaking unit presented by
the 1-1nie• Economics' Branch of
Ontario Ministry td' Agrieulture••
and Food ill c(i-01)(1110On with
local county' leadees'
The- olub,,-"FocuS on Living"
inclikled a wide range of topics.
Some of the topics, in this club .
were: It's.Your Life; Learning
Through Leisure; People, Ideas
and Cam's: Who Cares About Our
Environment: Safety: l'.'inergeney
First Aid aud 11:thysitting: Food ,'
and Fitness; Mid ()votive Use of
Leisure. —
The club members. were able
do -- quilting.- knitting and
crocheting. •'Phis chilt aliso helped -
- the girls hi heeome more ;Mare of
.An evening of fellowship and
fun wils held on Monday. April 10
for 1.11,1:11-- two or die tieos:w, ,
w hen games, .ebniests
and a "Fashion Show - were
enjoyed 1w the 25 women present.
Plans 1(11" the Beef BarB-9 on
April 20 were finalized and' the
dates I'M: Westminster Weekend
and Alma .College Conference
sere ,e(atted-:--,Avrieles for-the •
auction sale on June 3. -are
reqitired and unit two is to 'be.
responsible for the bake sale that
day. .-
A• letter from the Catholic
Women's League 'regarding the
recommended Fng,lisli Literature
books, With excerpts. was read
the cOmmunity and environment.
. County home ecOnomists Gra,ce
Bird turd Bea Mc5Le:Taghttif will
'be, conducting MI. tieventent Days
throughout the County as follows:
Exetcr,South Huron High Schocil..
Saturday. April 29, 1978; Blvd), •
Blyth Public School, Saturday,
May b, 1978; Ethel. Grey Central
Public School,, Saturday, May' 13,
1978; Clinton, ...Ontario Street
-United church, Saturday, - May .
13, • 1978.... Seaford), Seaford)
Publit School,'Sziturday. May ,27,
1978, Alt afternoon • programs
start at, 1:15 p.m.
• • Friends and relatives areo.
invited • to atteild this afiernpon,
•program. • Menibers will have
projeet• books, and handcrafted
. items will be on 'display. The
highlight of • the program,
..has ,sh.ow
letters of protest about the books
-to Thoinas Wells, the minister of
education, Jack Riddell,
the school board and school
. principals. ,
!FUNERAL Or
PETER, JOSEPH JORDAN . '
' Funeral services litr the' late
• Peter Jordan who died on
April I I in Seaforth Community
were held :at St. •
Colo in ban 12 ct ma Catholic
Church on Friday April 14, 11
ami. 11(1 1VOit.• cOndocted by Rev.
P, A. Oost wen. Interment
folloned in St. Colunthan
Cemet cry. Pallbearers 4yere:
F'ergus Feeney, Jack •D'If illy,
•
Correspondent • .
1VIrs..H ugh BOO;
Ttiekersmith Group 1.11.C.W.
Bruce field United Church met
.Monday of List week V. it the
-penny contest' ladies served
dinner with Mrs: Stoll and her
helpers in charge. Before dinner
Mts. Elsie Henderson
'entertained with piano music.
Mrs. Jean Henderson and Mrs,.
Elsie Keys were in charge of the •
Devotion, in the absenCe of Mrs.
Keys, the President, Mrs.
Broodloot assisted. "This is My
Fatlic,;r's World" was sung with
Mrs. Elsie HenderSon at the
piano.
The t'oIl call nas•onswered by .
'25' members and a visitor. The
offering was received by
Broltdfoot and dedicated by Mrs.
Henderson.
Mrs. Broadfoot gave a residing
"A Good friend".
March meeting., The•treasurers
report was fend by Mrs. Berry.
Mrs. Steil reported for cards
se iff,-161 n`refr,. misc: , Grace
Thonison,. Sympathy cards Mrs.
Elsie Henderson and Mrs, H. M
eNaughton.
Thankoffering invitations were ,
accepted from Seaforth Presby-
terian Apr. 25, Wesley Willis,
Clinton, Apr. 30th.
Gordon Wright of Seaforth. will
show' pictures of his trip, to
Scotland sponsored by Grgitp 2
Sanley on Friday,, April , 21.
, A lively social hour with Miss
114.c.E.we4(_and-.Nits------14a41----------
Henderson in -charge cloed an
interesting fun night.
The May meetrng will be a
plant and hake sale,
Mrs. Muriel Allan and Mrs.
Doris Sillery will be .in charge of
DevOtion. ,
Hensall UCW
Joseph 0'44:01115% Menheere, and memlitsrs (.1(icided to send .
Fed Doyle. flionilis
Mrs. Broadfoot chaired the •
httgi'ness portion and secretary,
Ma's. Doris Sillery reported On the
Festivcd Drapery
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