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The Huron Expositor, 1978-11-09, Page 10A new league is being formed in the area involving Hewick, Listowel ,and Wingt ham for girls Ringette. His hoped that a team of girls 9-13 yrs. can be formed in town ,and compete in the league. THe first step will be to obtain help., for a manner and a coach and anyone hwo would be interested is asked to contact the Recreation Office. Interested players Curlers active Don't miss Canada's foremost mentalist Voe"cle MIKE MANDEL at S.D.H.S. Tues. Nov. 28 Presented by SDHS Student Council 8 p.m. air SATURDAYS. Blue Movies, MP Matinee 1111 Entertainment Blue Movies Highway No. 8 Dublin 345-2820 l pm 3 pm 3 pm - 5 pit) 5 pm - 7 pm 0 3-5 ,p.m. e:tsi at St. Thomas Anglican Church Parish Hall •"he SPECIALITIES: Christmas cakes & puddingi 4 '040 404:0:00:0:040 A 4,1 111111 !Ito 1 bpi 0.0.1 I I E 01 0.11.1611110 1 1 1 i/ r a 2 sq1,..16 • gioggpii I • sloe, 3W11 VZZId 3W1.1. HD11111 111115 0 4,1111 (01111111 I I 111,11.10sis 1.0:01:01rleiror01olsom01lailv1 11 • I 11111.11 ,24 • A festive on Wed. Nov. 15 Boviders have high scorers High Ladies' Singles and Triples Marg. Ungarian, 290, 650. High Ladies' Average' Leanne McKay 198. 9 Triple Mary Van Den High 'hens Single, John Hengel, 226, 604. Vn Bakel, 281, High Men's Town and Country Bowling Triple , and Average, Terry Team Stkailings ' ' Young 697, 216. Cheeta 22 St. James Bowling League Rang A tangs 19 Men's High Singel and Gazelles ' 19 Triple 303, 804. Panthers 19 Ladies' High Single and 15 Triple, Paula Marcussen 225, 11 584. 070.0, :01040v• 0.:0A0.94P Men's Hlgh Single Peter CHRISTMAS BAZAAR 6H4f.hjardirelse;HIhn Licreaannde Rhinos Baboons Commercial League DANCE TO Chris Black and the Swinging Brass cosponsored by Branches 156 and 128 of the Royal Canadian Legion. PROCEEDS FOR SQN. 843 ROYAL CANADIAN AIR CADETS • Sat. Nov. • Van Vleit 275 (Spare), Men's Seaforth Legion Hall Dancing 9-1 a.m. Tickets at door or phone Mitchell 348-9977 or Seaforth 527-0103. Tickets $6.00 a couple. AGE OF MAJORITY CARDS REQUIRED. e)117 1 111n 0A 1! Ail LUNCH: Mon. to Fri. 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday all day. EVENING HOURS: Sun. thru Thurs. 4 p:m. to 12 midnight Fri. and Sat. till 2 a.m. Election Night Dance . All Tuckersmith Electors Are Cordially Invited To ALL CANDIDATES PARTY Mon. Nov. 13 • 9:00 -1:00 At Vanastra Recreation Centre MUSIC BY WONNETTA TRIO LADIES PLEASE BRING LUNCH PECIAL FALL DANCE Fri. Nov. 10 9 P.M.-1 A.M. At The Stratford Fairgrounds DUBLIN' CORPORATION' Tickets $5 per person -i$vailabie at The Huron Expositor or at the door SEAN FAGAN . Refreshments Available r loam limo al.. main Lora miaow dojos doom SEND THIS COUPON WITH PAYMENT TO: 1 eouPP11 Stratford Fairgrounds I Good for Box 204 Stratford I AND RECEIVE S1 DISCOUNT PER TIMET SAVE $ 1 per ticket , .1' 41 ' THE HVRON EXPO4ITOri, NOVEIVMER 9, 1978 scboon The November came and went and Captain Schuen mann's wife and the families cif the crew waited anxiou ly for some word- on the fate of husbands and father.. Then on December 5th, fishermen off Two Rivers. Point north of IVa.ritowoc, Wisconsin pulled in a unwanted haul - the tops of spurce trees which were badly tangled in their nets. hel word was relayed to Chicago and, it was officially .announced .that the Rouse5immons and its crew had been lost, Serendipity Perso By Alice Gibb ; The November 9th. Storm' in 1913 on the Great Lakes still holds the dubious record of claiming both the most ships and the most lives ,of maritime disasters on the lakes. In. December, 1913, the Marine Review said in its • assessment of the tragedy, "It must be borne in mind that the situation which existed on Lake Huron was unprecedented. Since the lakes have .been commercially navigated, no such condition has ever been met with before and centuries may go by before such a phenomenon may agina be experienced." But whiel there had nevevr been a storm on the Great Lakes which came up with quite the violence Of the great 9th. of November storm, the autumn has always proved treacherous for sailors. • La Salle's sailing ship the Griffon, recently discovered off the coast, of the Bruce Penninsula, went down in the fall. Also, another of the Great Lakes most famous trauedies took place in November, 1912 and the story still resurfaces every Christmas. Christmas Tree Voyage Herman Schuenemann,, a jovial man who was almost as much a part of a Chicago Cristmas as Santa Claus, captained a beautiful three-masted sailing schooner known as the Rouse Simmons. Every year in November or early December, the captain and his crew brougl to load of spruce trees across Lake Michigan from Maniistique to Chicago and sold their load of trees to buyers waiting oh the dock. Buying a tree from Captain Schuenemann had become a tradition for' many families in the city - a tradition which Captain Schuenemann carried on even after his brother and his •crew were lost with their ship in 1898. • • -Now when Capt aThi-Selfuenemarin-and his crew set out in 1912, they didn't expect the ee.ather would be any more hazardous than usual, although there was always the threat of a sudden squall on the lakes. But when the ship had only been out from port for a day or' so, one of the treacherous autumn snowstorms blew across the lake. The winds battered the Rouse Simmons about and the lines on the schooner were soon coated With ice. Captain Schuenemann ordered the distress flags hoisted up the mast and undoubtedly the crew_ did some heavy praying between battling the winds and icy lin es. Although the crew didn't know it, their diStress signals were spotted by another ship off the coast of Kewanunee, Wisconsit. But the ship which saw the signals couldn't reach the Rouse Simmons and when they reached port, they reported their findings to the coast guard. Unfortunately, the coast guard failed in their attempt to' locate the COMMERCIAL. HOTEL SEAFORTH FRIDAY SPECIAL Salisbury Steak Chicken Wings FINE FOOD FINE ENTiERT.1INMENT ADVANCE POLL — Helen and Jim• Crocker mark the official forms as one of the first voters in the municipal election casts his of in last Saturday's advance pail. This year 22 voters voted in th .adva ce poll, compared with 14 last year, and the rest of the town's voters c n cast their ballots on November 13. (Expositor hoto) New fin gqtte league Planned for Seaforth girls By Wendy Tremeer Curling 'is under wayonce again. The ice and the curlers are both keen.. • We would like to welcome 13ayfield and Vanastra Curlers to the club. They 'are' renting the Ice on Sunday nights until Christmas. "They are hoping to be back in their own club by the New Year. The Pot Luck Supper on' Sat., Nov . 4 was a smacking success. Over 50 were there for dinner withmore couples coming later for the dance. Ladies curling startled Tues: Nov. 7 We have a full draw. The first time in a long time we've had nine teams in the ladies' draw. , Thursday night draws are fell and 'Friday haS a good m. Huron SI‘t:coc)%ce‘( Hotel fai ft Dublin st •proudly presents / \ FOOLS' GOLD *I * Monday Night MOVIE NIGHT it Tuesday Night EUCHRE PARTY 4 it Friday Specials Saturday Special 5 pm - 9 pm 1 pm -9 pm .ft 2 IN THE LOUNGE SPARERIBS I I _ OR it , , SPAGHETTI 4 * /- Et * Is 4 MEAT SAUCE . $ complete Dinners • * The Last Word But Captain Schuenemann was yet to have the last word. Some time later, a man walking along the beach spotted some papers which has washed ashore., The papers turned out to be, ship's log ef the ill fated Rouse Simmons. 'The last entry was still legible. "Friday: Everybody good-bye. I guess we are all through. Sea washed over our deckload Thursday. During the night the small boat was washed over. Ingvald (crew member) and Steve (first mate) fell overboard Thursday. God help .us. Herman Schuenemann." • Twelve years later, the lakes turned up another message " from the captain. Another man, walking along the lake, noticed a watersoaked wallet washed up on some stones When he pickcdup the wallet, it was tightly wrapped in a rubber band. When he removed the bands the' papers inside were wet, but stilllegible. Once again, the papers .• belonged to Captain Scheunema,nn. They were returned to the captain's wife, who, on the eath of herhusband,-had t a 1,,m up the. Christmas tree ri4n herself and for 22 years delivered her load of spruce trees to the Chicago docks every year in time tbr the Christmas holdiay. • • Ice, Wind Ice and bitter winds were also one ofthe main factors, in claiming -the, lives of sailors in the great storm the following year. One of the saddest tales of the storm is that the Plymouth barge sighted in distress on Lake Michigan off St. Martin's Island. When the coast guard learned of the distress signal they managed to get to the barge. There they found the crew still on board. The• seven men had lashed themselves to the barge to prevent them being washed overboard in the high .seas and each man had frozen to death. The barge weathered the' storm but, her unlucky crew did not. The bulk freighters who were lost in the storm, like the ' Regina, the Charels S. Price and the modern James S. Carruthers, fell victim tothe lake, pounding waves. As a marine publication said in assessing the storm, "No lake master can recall in all his experieme storm of such ENTERTAINMENT:, Thurs. Fri. Sat. CLAUDIA DAY TRIO turn out, too. Welcome to all the new curlers. should also contact the of- fice. Ringette is game ex- clusively for girls, a non contact sport played with a rubber ring and broken hockey stick. No special, equipment • required except for skates and 'a helmet. With the formation of tis new league it will bring new life to the sport of ringette in the area and it is hoped that some parents or individuals will come forth and help look after a team. storm stories unprecedented violence with such rapiri changes in the direction of the wind and its gusts of such fearful speed. "The testimony of masters is that the waves were at least 35 feet high and followea' each ler in quick succession, three waves ordinarily coming b e right after the other. They were considerably shorter than the waves that are formed by the ordinary gale . " Usually in rough weather, lake captains headed thee ships into the wind in the hope of reaching the shelter of. an east shore. Unfortunately, in the Nov. 9th storm, the boats were pounded into the trough of the great waves, often losing their pilot houses and other structures which were swept off the deckds. The strain on the ships' hull and engines were also tremendous since the waves and wind were often pulling in the opposite direction. Even a number of the freighters which managed to survive the brutal pounding were later classed as total losses since it • would have costs thousands of dollars to repair their battered hulls. On Land Now while the storm certainly took it's greatest toll on the lakes, the snow squalls also marooned .thousands on land in 'whatever shelter they could find. Trains were forced to stop, and telegraph lines were down. News of the shipping disasters often didn't reach families of the crews for days. Mrs. Callum An neighbour. who lived,,in the small town where I was raised often told the story of the Nov. 9 storm at her home. Mr, Callum's family (*rated -a small store and post office at a rural crossroads named Kimball, some miles inland from the St, Clair River. Before the Saturday night Was over, the house and stere were both filled -with-people, who were caught in the storm and forced to. take shelter Mrs. Callum recalled spending the night of the great storm finding food and blankets for their unexpected guests. Today, Great Lakes towns • like Goderich and Point Edward, at the mouth of the St. Clair River, still hold annual services to commemorate the great storm, and the toll it took in lives. In Goderich, five unkown sailors were buried in the Maitland Cemetery, and today a plaque reads, "A memorial to the unidentified seamen whose lives were lost in the Great Lakes disaster of November 9, 1913." Also, somewhere in the records of the U.S. Weather Bureau is this small notice sent out on Nov. 7, 1913: ','Hoist Southwest storm wearnings ten a.m. . . warnings . ordered throughout the Gteat Lakes." But most ships masters were accustomead to autumn squalls and besides . . .there was money to be made if they could just deliver the year's one last cargo.'