Clinton News-Record, 1970-01-01, Page 6Explorers busy
at year-end
During the month of
December the Explorer Girls of
Ontario. Street United Church
were 011Sy with many Gbristmas
activities,,
on Dec. 6 they were in charge
Of the used toys booth at the
United Church Women bazaar.
On. Dec. 7 they sang two
numbers at the Sunday School
White Gift. Service and also
Presented'special Explorer White
Gifts which they had bought. In
the afternoon the girls went out
to Huron view where they went
through the halls singing
Christmas carols.
At one of their meetings they
made decorations for the
Sunday School Christmas tree
and favors for shut-ins.
On Dec. 10 the girls sang
several numbers at the general
meeting of the United Church
Women and on Dec. 16 they
enjoyed a Christmas party with
games, worship service, lunch
and exchange of gifts.
Beg Cpl or London is
Spending the Ohristinas holidays
with relatives and Mewls in
Own.
with. Mr, and. Mrs. 444 Garter
155, James Street.
Visitors at the home of Mr
and Mrs. Howard ...q4nio P.
Rev, Roy CPO, DiP, visited Ch and foxing Day Were:
his mother, Mrs, Ellen 0091s,. one Mr, and MP. Ken :Currie and
day recently, Sherri cf Walkerton; Mr, and Mrs- Doug Currie and R4Y0190
Q.P.P. Lorne and Mrs. Carter, of Goderich and an aunt, Mrs,
4W and. Jodie from Princeton Jean Cairns of- .S.aaf9r(li„ spent the Christmas Holiday
Clinton personals
Middleton
The annual. Boxing Day
get-together of, the Fred
Middleton family was held at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. J. W,
Counter of Clinton.
Among those present was Miss
Agnes, Middleton of Goderich.
Forty-two persons in all sat
down to the sumptuous dinner.
Misses Cindy and Shelley
Middleton are holidaying in
London with their Grindlay
cousins.
The regular meeting of the
A.C.W. of St.. James, Middleton,
will be held at the home of the
honorary-president, Mrs. Fred
Middleton on Wednesday
afternoon, Jan. 14.
Miss Oney Flowers of London
and Ross MacDonald of
Hamilton were guests over
Christmas with Mr. and Mrs.
Arthur Tolchard.
Mr. and Mrs. Stewart
Middleton and Stuart McEwen
spent Christmas Day with Miss
Jean McEwen of Stanley along
with 20 members of the
McEwen clan.
The whining noise of the
snowmobile is heard on the
Hayfield Line scaring deer and
rabbits and women drivers into a
Ringing
in the New Year
with happiness and
success to all. Thanks for your good will!
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KINGS‘AYALSTVIRDING
spending the remainder of 1969
with Mrs. Knight.
Mr. and Mrs. Bernard
Sturgeon, Jeff and Roland
visited their parents, Mr, and
Mrs. Jack Sturgeon and Mr. and
Mrs. Edgar Rathwell over the
holiday season,
Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Parker
visited their sons and families
Mr. and Mrs. ft, Parker,
Dorchester and Mr, and Mrs. W.
Parker, London over Christmas.
Guests at the Albion Hotel
over the holiday season were:
Mr. and Mrs. S. Carver and Tony
of London, Mrs. William Smale,
and Art Rennie, Grosse Pointe
Farms, Mich., Mr. and Mrs.
Norman Brown and daughter,
"Buffy", London, Mr. and Mrs.
Neil Mustard • and family,
Toronto and Mr. and Mrs. Barry
Reilly of London.
Spending the festive season at
their Bayfield homes were: Dr.
and Mrs. William Tillrnann and
family, Mr, and Mrs. Joe Beechie
and family, Dr. and Mrs. J.
Walters and family, Mr. and Mrs.
Ron Chapman and family, Mr.
and Mrs. Hugh Gregory and
family and Mr. and Mrs. Art Bell
all of London.
Mr. and Mrs. Sterthen
scotchmer and daughter Jodie of
Appleton, Wisconsin were
holiday visitors with the
former's parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Alf Scotehmer,
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Cluff and
Robbie of London and Mr. and
Mrs. Fletcher McLaughlin,
Megan and Alfie, of Toronto are
visiting Mr. and Mrs. Fred Le
Beau.
Mr. and Mrs. Harold Weston
spent the holidays with their
family in Detroit.
Mr. and Mrs. Doug
Gemeinhardt and Mr. and Mrs.
Mel Martin are vacationing in
Florida,
Mr. • and Mrs. Wilson Carrick
and Shawn of Teeswater were
guests on Boxing Day with Mr.
and Mrs. E. W. Erickson and
family.
Mr. and Mrs. Harold Stuart
and family or. Strathrby were
weekend visitors with Mr. and
Mrs. Ken Mackie.
Mr. and Mrs. George Wright,
London • and Ken Wright,
Toronto, were guests of Mr. and
Mrs. Arnold .Makin on
Christmas Day.
Mr. John Sturgeon is now a
patient in Clinton Hospital.
Summerhill club meets
The December meeting of the
Summerhill Ladies Club was
held Dec. 10 at Jean Cumming's
house.
Lorna Ellis opened the
meeting with prayer, followed
by everyone singing Christmas
carols.
Twenty-three members
answered the roll call with the
exchange of Christmas gifts.
Thank you notes were read.
from Gordon and Gina Jenkins;
Angus and Rose Hummel, the
Children's Aid Society of Huron
County, Mr. and Mrs. Albert
Colclough and Mr. John
McGuire.
Everyone was in favor of the
club carrying on with their card
parties once a month through
the winter months starting in
January.
Donna Gibbings conducted a
Christmas contest won by
Barbara Lovett. Verna Gibbings
conducted a Christmas scramble
contest won by Donna Gibbings,
Margaret Good gave a,reading.
The January-meeting is to be
at Laura Forbes' and the roll call
is to be a shopping hint,
Those on program are Ruth
Jenkins, Barbara Lovett and
Edith Lovett, ,
Lunch: Verna Gibbings,
Donna Gibbings and Viola
Farquhar.
The Meeting closed with the
Queen and grace was sung. A
lovely lunch was then served,'
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Looking
to the
year ahead,
we hold
high hopes
for our
community
and all the
wonderful people
in it. To you, our
gratitude and good wishes.
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BY LUCY .R...WP.OPS.
A Happy New Year to all l
l'Ott*Elo.1,14 who use the Julian ,calericlari the New Year .begins
on January 1, It is called Julian since it was Julius .VaPaar. whq
0.1440 the ealendar yaar to POiltaill, 365 days, six hours of time,
New Year's Day is something jest arrived, and is frequently
represented by a.„new born babe, In this ,generation to those infants
who commence life on. this day in hospitals, the first arrival is
frequently .showered with. gifts from the hospital and merchants of
the diatrict, while others later in the day in the same hospital are not
counted, And the first child after midnight makes news headlines. in
the province for that hospital in. which he or she was born, And so
honor is brought to that particular hospital, regardless of whether a
MO father iii passing out cigars for a son or the child is just a girl,
Lucy was no New Year's hatoy, Nor wa:a she born in a hospital but
at her present home "The kint,'-- lioapitals were few and far between
in those days and the only mode of travel by a horse-drawn vehicle,
PQ in this area births took place at the parents own home with a
practical nurse in attendance with the Doctor, or the expectant
mother could have gone home .to her mother for the delivery of the
child. Lucy wonders whether the Doctors of those dayS relished
being taken from the feast of the New year, to preside at a birth.
A young married doctor once told Lucy that he never ceased to
be thrilled by the miracle of the birth of a child. And when his first
born son arrived, he was so thrilled that he wanted another child
immediately. .. Lucy was no pleasingly plump, smiling babe, over which one
could "coo." She had feeding problems and one relative who saw her
at about six weeks of age told her that she had been a long thin
baby, so wizened up that she didn't.thinic she'd live long. And for
awhile her mother carried her around on a pillow. But her father was
inordinately proud of his baby daughter and showed her to a good
many of his patients. One woman who had viewed this infant was
asked who she resembled: "I don't know. She has a head like a
foot." she replied.
It was rather significant Lucy felt, that on her last birthday when
she was reading over old letters, she should come across two from
her mother to her father in April 1903. Evidently, •Dr. Woods had
taken his wife and baby on the train to Durham and then returned
home on the next train. Mrs. Woods was to spend two weeks with
her parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. Ewing Buchan of that town.
- They were the letters of any happily married young matron full o
concern for her baby and lonely without her husband, hoping he was
himself proper meals etc. Of course the first grandchild was
the. centre of attraction. She wrote: "There have ,been no less than
six people in this afternoon to see me, or rather babe, for I guess I
stand second now. Father took her out for a walk this afternoon and
he said that so many wanted to see her and would pull her veil down
that he was afraid she would take cold, the wind being pretty
strong."
"I am afraid' we will have a spoiled baby when our visit is done.
They will not leave her alone. If she makes a sound as if to cry up
she comes."
"Do you know I am so sore today that I can hardly walk. I think
-it is from walking down and up that hill yesterday morning. These
pavements are dreadfully hard on a person's-lower limbs." (Town
walks after Hayfields good gravel sidewalks). .
The parson's wife called and offered her'baby carriage and cradle
but Mrs. Woods explained that she didn't use a cradle.
"The Parson's wife sent over her perombulator yesterday a.m. but
we haven't taken Lucy out yet as it has been so windy. The carriage
looks as if it had come out of the Ark. but still it is better than
none.
I went down town to get some stuff for summer ties for you but
could not get anything very fine, so only purchased enough for'four
ties. I went to see the photographer about having baby's picture
taken and to see the mounts. The cheapest I can get are 52.50 a
dozen. It was dreadfully windy this morning. It blew my veil
completely off and nearly carried my skirts over my head. I actually
had tothOld them' down 't pot people L eouldn't laugh, at me hecause
they k. predicament themselves. 4,A1 .i-,•:. 4
Thisr OfternooitUmade the four ties (Dr. Woods always wore -.fine
white cotton rep ties in summer) a kitchen apron and a shirt waist —
not so bad for an afternoon, is it?"
Evidently she was getting her summer sewing done on her
mother's machine during her two week's visit, for she sent to
Stratford for enough navy blue patterned muslin for a dress for
herself at 121/2 cents per yards.
: . "Baby is feeling better than when she arrived here but does not
sleep very well at nights. I have to get up and feed her and give the
comfort besides." (Lucy was quite surprised that the child of a
doctor and a nurse would: be given anything so unhygienic as a
`comfort') Mother won't give' her anything but I left Landoll to
watch her when I went upstairs and when I came down babe was
smeared with sugar from head to foot -,but I scolded her (Landell I
mean) and she understands that baby is to have nothing but what I
give her. We weighed Lucy and she is 121/2 without her clothing and
is 2 feet 4 inches long" (about seven months of age); Landell. would
be about seven and a half years of age. She was known to many in
Bayfield as Mrs. E. P. Lewis of Toronto. •
There appear to be no more letters but Lucy has often heard how
her parents took her up to Durham for Christmas that year. Her
uncle Ewing Buchan was home from the west. Dr. Woods stayed a
day or so and then left his wife and babe for New Years.
It was very stormy and cold. Four foot of snow fell that winter.
The trains were all late. Lucy lost a gold charm bracelet just like her
Mother's. The latter locked the little padlock and tried the bracelet
before leaving. But she' was amused by two girls in the seat ahead
and they took her to relieve Mrs. Woods. At Palmerston the trains
were all late and snow piled up. The babe was fussy in the crowded
station so mother wrapped her up again and was walking up and
down the platfOrm when a conductor came along and •said: "Lady
you'd better get that child inside or she'll be forzen." That was
Lucy's debut into her second New Year, Owing to the weather Dr.-
Woods could not meet the Durham train at Palmerston as planned.
Lucy doesn't recall the rest of the story. They may have stayed over
in Stratford where Mrs. Woods trained as a nurse and had many
friends.
And if the last Friday in the month governs the weather for the
next month, We may be in for a repetition of that year.
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James Carter was born in
McKillop December 25, 1879,
the son of the late John Carter
and Margaret Dodds.
Shortly after, the family
moved to Hullett and he grew up
'on the farm now occupied by his
son, James.
He was married to the former
Mary Jarman in 1916 and since -
his retirement from active
farming he and Mrs. Carter have
lived with their son, Lorne in
Tuckersmith.
Following recent illnesses, the
couple has been at the home of
their other son James in Hullett.
turkey dinner arranged by the
family was held in his honor.
'In •addition to his two sons,
Mr. Carter has eight
grandchildren and eight great
grandchildren. There are also
three sisters,, Mrs. Margaret Dale,
Lily, Mrs. M. McKellar and Mrs.
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A long-time resident of 'w, Gladys Flynn and a brother,
Tuckersmith and Hullett, was 90 John W. Carter, all of Seaforth.1
on Christmas Day,
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It's time for pitching wishes that the New
Year will be a ringer of success, with plenty
of real good luck, for you and your family
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Rosamond and Bert
Mr. and Mrs, J. H. Higgins
spent Christmas.in Georget own
with• their son and
daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs, W,
J. Higgins and also visited with
Mrs. W. Chesney in Toronto,
--Mrs. T. Cobb spent christmas
with Mr. and Mrs. Jack Couch of
Kitchener.
Guests of Reeve elect, Mr. E.
W. Oddleifson and Mrs.
Oddleifson over the holidays
were Mr. and Mrs. R. Hughes,
London and Mrs. Moore of
Brampton.
SfElaine Marshall and As:'
daughter, Tracey of London
were holiday visitors with Mr.
and Mrs: Fred Weston.
With Mrs. Myrtle Parker from
Friday 'til Sunday were Mr. and
Mrs. Charles'Parker; and Mr. and
Mrs. Ian Stewart of Toronto.
Mr. and Mrs. Don Johnston
and Ricky joined his parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Johnston in
Wheatley for the Christmas
holidays.
Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Larson
and Karen, spent Wendnesday
until Friday with his parents,
Mr. and Mrs. R. J. Larson.
Mr. and Mrs. Eric Earl spent
Christmas with Mr. and Mrs. R.
J. Stevenson and family,
London.
Mr. and Mrs. Ed Rowse and
family of Welland are visiting
Mrs. Rowse's mother, Mrs. L. B.
Smith.
Mrs. Gilbert Knight spent the
past week in Toronto, and
returned on Sunday with her
daughter and family, Mr. and
Mrs. Art Latimer, Bill, Gil and
Christy. The Latimer family are
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Mr. and Mrs. G. N. Rivers
joined J. S. Rivers and family in
London for Christmas. Guests of
Mr. and Mrs. Rivers on Boxing
Day were Mr. and Mrs. 0.
Poulter of Ottawa.
Mrs. Gerald Mansfield is
staying with her parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Grant Turner. She returned
recently from Izmir, Turkey
where she has spent the past
seven months, her husband is
returning in January and Mrs.
Mansfield will rejoin him in
Syracuse, New York.
Mr, and Mrs. J, H. West of
London, joined their son and his
wife, Mr. and Mrs. Paul West and
family for Christmas Day.
Mrs. M. J. Butler, Clinton and
Mr., and Mrs. Doug Dellar and
little daughter' of Orangeville
joined other relatives for a
Christmas dinner with Mr. and
Mrs. Delbert Haw on •Thursday.
Recent callers at the Haw
residence were Mr. A. Crich
and son William of Sarnia.
Mr. and Mrs. Don Haw and
family spent the weekend with
the latter's parents, Mr, and Mrs.
H. Redell of Hopeville and also
visited other relatives.
Mrs. R. B. Menerey spent
Christmas with her nieces, Misses
Kathleen and Marie Elliott of
Clinton.
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Arkell were
recent visitors with Mr. and Mrs.
Bryan King in London.
Mrs. John MacKenzie was
the guest last week or her
son-in.law and daughter, Dr. and.
Mrs. Manley Thompson and
child f ren b Chicago..
'Mrs, Jowett is a patient
i',YLat 4r, in Clhitoi41bspital.
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