The Wingham Advance-Times, 1954-03-17, Page 2JPWTb Two Th® Whigham Advance-Times, Wednesday, March 17, ISM
KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK
The splendid showing put on by the . Lions Midget j
hockey team is another reminder of the calibre of hockey!
which is being played by the youngsters of town. And
the fact that this same team has already won two Ontario
championships, in Bantam hockey and in midget softball
would seem to show that the work of the recreation coun-|
oil in minor sports is paving off. ’
Through the whole picture of championships can be
seen the hand of one Vic Loughlean, who has spent much
time .and travelled many miles to put the kids in shape
for their honors. No accident in coaching could put the
team where they are today.
During this winter Vic has commuted back and forth
from Walkerton to coach the team every week, and be
sides that he has been on hand for every game'the team
has played, in or out of Winghafn.
For ourselves, we think that such services to minor
sport and to the town of Wingham should be recognized
in some tangible way. And the best way we can see of
doing it would be to offer him some incentive to come
back to Wingham and keep up the good work.
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SHOULD BE A BIG YEAR
Judging from the portents of the first three months,
1954 is going to be a big year for Wingham.
Present signs seem to indicate that a full-fledged 75th
anniversary celebration will be held this summer. A start
on the work of erecting a new district high school should
be made before too long, and if minor detail^ are cleared
up in the near future, the new wing of the hospital should
be going up at the same time as the high school. At the
time of writing there seems a strong possibility that we
may have a championship hockey team before the season
ends.
Wingham may not be expanding with the same start
ling rapidity that Toronto and London are, but she is cer
tainly not standing still.
Those who think that nothing ever happens in Wing
ham should have another look at the situation.
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A TOUGH JOB
At a meeting of the Business Association last Friday,
committees were set up and the machinery put in gear
for organizing the town’s 75th anniversary celebrations.
The whole thing will entail .a lot of work for all con
cerned, but to our mind one of the most important jobs
will fail to the programme committee. For upon their
work .and imagination will depend, to a great extent, the
success of the venture.
Somebody once had some sage advice to the effect
that one should make no small plans, because they have
no power to fire a person’s imagination or enthusiasm.
We think the anniversary celebrations might well be a
case in point.
If the usual things are planned—carnival rides at the
park on Saturday, a church service on Sunday, and a base
ball game Monday afternoon— few people will pay any
further attention to the proceedings. If, on the other
hand, an original, novel and interesting program is pre
pared, the thing will be halfway to success.
The choice is up to the program committee. Frankly,
we don’t envy them their job.
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SO WHAT?
A great number of Canadians were highly incensed
by the fact that the Russians walked off with the interna
tional hockey championship this year. What is theoreti
cally supposed to be a friendly game of amateur hockey
turned out to be something in the way of an international
incident.
We doubt if it’s as important as all that. Hockey
games are apt to be chancy affairs at the best of times.
And the fact that the Russians won proves neither the
superiority of the Soviet way of life, or for that matter, the
Soviet brand of hockey. The world has been full of such
upsets, ever since David shied the stone at Goliath.
Whatever the relative merits of Canadian and Rus
sian hockey, there seems to be no doubt that the Canucks
were beaten fairly and squarely—this time. What happens
next time may be an entirely different story, so why get
upset about it?
TIME TO WORRY
A U.S. weekly takes the British press to task for
making toO much fuss about McCarthy, says he is a little
man “who is becoming .a public nuisance and is wasting
public time.”
Maybe that is true, comments The Financial Post, but
the press in Britain and other countries have reason to
remember that some of the world’s greatest trouble mak
ers were also little men making a nuisance of themselves
in their early days.
When a demagogue smears and browbeats all and
sundry, forces a U.S. Secretary of State to make impos
sible pledges and finally defies the U.S. President and
insults America’s best friends and allies, it is no wonder
the British press gets alarmed.
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I REMINISCING |
SIXTY YEARS AGO
Mr. A. J. Irwin, dentist, who recent
ly passed his examination in the Den
tal College at Philadelphia, was in
town this week. There is a possibility
he may locate in Wingham.
Mayor Hanna is having the old
English Church pulled down and will
erect two fine brick residences on
the property this year.
Mr. Jos. Bradwin of the Electric
Light Works, has been laid up for a
short time, but is again on duty.
Some time ago when Hon. J. C. Pat
terson, Minister of Militia, was in
Wingham, Mayor Hanna asked him to
present the town with a couple of
cannon to place in our town park.-The
other day the Mayor received notifi
cation'that one cannon had been ship
ped from Quebec to his address for
the town. Surrounding towns can now
take a back seat. Mayor Hanna is de
termined Wingham shall be at the
head of the procession.
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FORTY YEARS AGO
Wednesday night Wingham people
saw a lunar eclipse. It was worth not
ing as it was the only eclipse that will
be seen this year, according to those
who make a study of the heavens.
There will be a short eclipse on Sept
ember 4th, early in the morning, but
it will be visible only on the west
coast of the continent. Wednesday
night's eclipse was not complete. The
surface of the moon was not wholly
in shadow, but about 11 o’clock nine
tenths of the orb was covered.
Mr. A. Young is having the interior
of his hardware store entirely remod
elled. Mr. W. H. Rintoul has complet
ed the carpentry work and the paint
ers are now doing their work. When
the work is completed Mr. Young will
have one of the best hardware stores
in Western Ontario.
At Clinton, on Thursday, Jack Steep
a hostler at Graham’s Hotel in Clin
ton was fined $100 and costs for selling
a bottle of whiskey. The cases against
Reuben Graham and James Burne
were adjourned for a week.
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TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO
A rain in the early evening turned to
sleet and snow, with a rapidly in
creasing wind from the west that
developed into a perfect cyclone be
fore morning. Roads were rendered
impassable, the railways completely
blocked, while no small amount of
damage was done to property by
blowing in of windows, knocking
down of chimneys and doors wrench
ed from hinges.
A party of about 20 young people
drove down to Bluevale to a dance
on Wednesday, but when they started
on the return journey home they
found an altogether different tune.
The horses floundered around in the
deep snow and finally quit a short
distance out, so the young people re
tired to the hall until morning. Kind
ly disposed people provided them with
breakfast and they whiled away the
time for a train, which finally reached
our suburb about 8 o’clock at night.
Clinton has one citizen whose iden
tity will be carefully concealed. In a
recent money by-law to assist a local
concern, the vote stood; For 375;
against, 1. That chap will not crave
publicity, for it might be just a trifle
embarrassing.
“Doc” Howson of Wingham, who
plays first base for Teeswater, is the
announcer now at Wingham broad
casting station.
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FIFTEEN YEARS APO
Blinded by snow flurries as he
strugged through a gale in walking
his section of the Canadian National
tracks, a half mile east of Hyde Park,
about ten o’clock on Thursday morn
ing, Joseph Yeo, 64 years old, of Blue
vale, was so severely injured by train
163, which left London at 9.40, that
he died on the way back to London
on the southbound Bruce. Mr. Yeo was
unmarried, but has a brother living
in Bluevale. He was born on the old
Yeo homestead near Eluevale, but
had for a number of years been rail
roading.
Just as we gave the March Lion a
little credit for his absence of roars,
he showed his appreciation in bad
form by coining back th tough the
night with a perfect cyclone of fury.
Among those who attended the Tor
onto Skating Club Carnival last week
were: Mr. F. R. Howson, Mrs. (Dr.)
George Howson, Miss Doris Trail,
Miss Jean MacKay, Mr. and Mrs.
Wallace Gurney, Mr. F. E. Madill, Mr.
John P. McKibbon, Mr. Alton Adams
and Mr. Ken Somers.
Mr. Alf. Lockridge and son, Tommy,
Mr. Walter Lockridge and soil Buddy,
and Mr. J. O. Habkirk and son, Mac,
took in the Leaf-American game at
Toronto on Tuesday.
The Bell Telephone Company of
Canada will this year spend over 15
million dollars on construction work
in Ontario and Quebec. Wingham will
share in a portion of this expenditure
as the Bell Company will remove their
poles off our main street this year
and install an underground service.
All main street as far north as the
CNR tracks will be serviced from the
rear of the buildings and all Bell Tele
phone lines in the Wingham section
will be reconditioned.
Messrs, Harvey and Elmer Ballagh
of Belmore, have purchased the Mac-
Lean farm at Wingham Junction
from the John MacLean Estate,
Mr. and Mrs. G, L. Dunlop, Wal
laceburg, arrived in town on Tuesday
and have taken up residence in the
house formerly occupied by Mr. Har
old Garlick, on Shuter Street. Mr.
Dunlop has accepted a position at
Greer’s Shoe Store.
When the King and Queen visit
London on June 7th, members of the
local Legion will be present. Veterans
of Western Ontario will line the route
of the procession taken by the King
and Queen, An invitation was extend
ed to the local branch, in fact all
branches of this zone, to take part in
this duty, through Major Ken Weaver,
the Zone Commander,
< CHURCH OF ENGLAND IN CANADA J
s== Wingfjam
Third Sunday in Lent
8.30 .a.m.—Holy Communion
11.00 a.m.—Morning Prayer and Sermon
2.30 p.m.—Church School
7.00 p.m.—Evening Prayer and Meditation '
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Wcdnesda’y—-7.30 p.m.—Midweek Lenten Service
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Thurs., March 25th—3.00 p.m,—Ladies’ Guild in the
Parish Room.
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Wingham, Ont,
March 1st,, 1954
Wingham Advance-Times,
Dear Mr, Editor:
Regarding ideas for the 75th anni
versary celebration of our town this
year, I would like to suggest Town
Beautification Projects by Service
clubs and individual citizens,
The planting of a few ornamental
trees, more flowers and anything thut
would help to make the town attrac
tive, would pay dividends in beauty
for years to come,
With best wishes for a worthwhile
celebration.
Sincerely
Mrs. Norman Keating „
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Editor, Advance-Times:
In answer to comment in last week's
issue of the paper, “A Walk Through
Town”, regarding the streets and side
walks of Wingham being slippery and
never sanded.
This past winter' to date, there has
been approximately 300 yards of sand
put on streets and 10 yards on side
walks.
Good constructive criticism is al
ways welcome, but at least keep this
criticism honest,
Signed
J. Angus, Street Foreman
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NOTE—According to the number of
favorable comments received by the
Advance-Times 300 yards wasn't
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way indicate that Street Foreman
Angus was falling down on the job.
He’s about the most hard-working
fellow we know.
Similarly the council has its own
problems for street work of all kinds
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payers have to be considered. Perhaps
the only answer will eventually lie in
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To the Editor of the Advance-Times:
Dear Sir:
When my brother, Louis Duff, of
Welland, asked me to try to get him
information about Honore Jaxon, for
merly Willie Jackson, Wingham, one
of Louis Riel’s three secretaries, and
suggested placing an ad in the Wing
ham paper, he had little ide^ of the
consequent response, proof that thp
paper is widely read.
Mrs. John Kelly telephoned that she
remembered her mother telling her
of the Jackson family. Mrs. Frank
Angus telephoned that she remember
ed playing with the Jackson children,
Sicily Jane Ann, Willie and Thomas.
Leon Canteion wrote that Sicily Jane
Ann’s married name was Mrs. Plax-
ton, and her address was Prince Al
bert. Miss Kathleen Pringle's loan of
Thomas McLean’s Historical Edition
of the Advance-Times, including an
earlier History of the Times by Rob
ert Elliott, lists the head of the Jack-
son family as T. G., druggist and
grocer, having arrived in Wingham in
the early sixties.
Mrs. T. G. Jackson was a very fine
person. Her piano was among the
first in Wingham. She helped her hus
band in the store, gave music lessons,
and on Sundays played the organ for
the Methodist congregation, which
met upstairs over a hotel.
Archibald F. Morrison, 1916 Clarion
Avenue, Cincinnati wrote that he
came to Lower Wingham in 1878,
knew the names of all the school
children and there wasn’t'a Jackson
among them. All the Lower Town
stores were vacant, the owners having
gone West. The last business man to
leave was a Mr. Thom.
From McKenzie Paterson, White
church, came a Calgary magazine,
“The Cattleman,” containing a mis
sionary’s account of the first North
west Rebellion in 1869-70, Charles
Jackson, mentioned in it is not the
man we are seeking.
Mr. W. J. Fleuty sent the most val
uable contribution just before his 89th
birthday, February 25th. He will join
the Over-Ninety Birthday Club on
Don Fairbairn’s Neighborly News
next year, we hope. Mr. Fleuty knew
all the Jacksons and remembers Willie
as a very eccentric boy.
Mrs. Benson Cruikshank lent “The
Story of Louis Riel, the Rebel Chief,”
published hurriedly by Hunter Rose,
Toronto, soon after Riel’s execution at
Regina, November 16th., 1885, At the
trial the previous summer “Thomas
E. Jackson, called as a witness, and
examined by Mr. (B. B.) Osler, de
posed that he was a druggist at Prince
Albert and a brother of Wm. Henry
Jackson, an insane prisoner of Riel’s.”
This is the only mention of Wingham
Willie Jackson in the book.
Mr. Barry Wenger turned my in
tended “advertisement” into a “Letter
to the Editor,’ for which I am grate
ful; To him and all the other kind
friends I send my grateful thanks.
. Sincerely
Mary Duff
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