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Farming in
Grey in 1 9 19
Editor's Note: George We-
senberg, of R.R. 3, Brussels
has been writing up some of
the history of the township of
Grey since it, is the town-.
ship's 125th anniversary. In
this story he recalls some of
his own experiences while
living and working in the
township.
BY GEORGE WESENBERG
Away back_ in 1920, my
father had bought a ford
tractor, the fifth one sold by
Golightly Brothers in Monk-
ton, so that I could be
farming, as. I wanted to.
I had inflammatory rheu-
matism in 1919, which
was improperly treated in the
first few days of the high
temperature, and great pain,
until my right leg fell over
and caused the hip to be out
of place, as well as the
bottom vertebrae of my
backbone. The hip joint
fused and became stiff, so
naturally I couldn't follow the
team in ploughing, harrow-
ing, and the like. A tractor
was the answer. "Get on and
ride", was a lot harder on my
system and body than walk-
ifig would have been if one's
legs were okay.
Well, the township of Grey
wanted some grading done
on the road just north of
Moncrief. They had used
steam engine power on the
big grader, so the reeve
came to see us and asked if
we would use the tractor to
pull the big grader to turn-
pike this sideroad at $1.10 an
hour. So I was sent with the
tractor to work for the
'township. Naturally we
didn't have the power a 20
H.P. steam engine had but
we got the work done any
how, with Wilson Evans on
the grader.
The road, or travelled
portion was really lower than
the sides and this raising of
the road bed began, so we
used the sides to build up the
centre which drained the
roadside and also made
better roads in the winter-
time. Gravel was put on this,
pit run, about 4 inches deep,
then 2 inches of crush on top
and that portion of road is,
still in good condition. The
next year we did a portion of
the 12th concession.
Then in 1924 we did some
on the Cranbrook sideroad at
$1.20 per hour for tractor and
man. In 1927 when the job of
-road superintendent was in-
troduced, I got the job of
running the grader at 33c per
hour. Grey Township bought
a scarifier to fit the grader.
The scarifier was used to dig
up the travelled portion of
the road where logs, stumps,
stones etc, had been put to
make the road solid in all
kinds of weather. Back in the
1850s some soft spots had
develOped as the wood rotted
or poor drainage held the
water which caused hog-wal-
lows as some people called
them. In many places one
had to drive from one side Lb
the other to miss these deep
dugouts. So the scarifier
levelled all these places and.
then we put on the blade to
carry the loose gravel into
these holes and we had good
roads.
My legs wouldn't stand for
this rough ride on this kind of
implement, as one had to
stand up to manipulate the
levers and lifts, so in 1928 1
bought a truck to haul milk to
Ethel Cheese Factory. I
trucked for 6 years.
In 1934, the reeve wanted
'me to open up a new
sideroad between hits 5 and
6, concession 16, so again I
was on Grey's grader for
some time.
In 1936, I helped
Martin MacDonald build a
few culverts for Grey town-
ship. More modern machin-
ery was used and contractors
got the jobs for road building
etc. But in 1949, the new
Equalized County Assess-
ment' was started and I got
the job of Grey township
assessor at $800.00 per an-
num.
Assessments were appeal-
ed by Goderich town and
Please turn to page 9
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teenager at the fashion show sponsored by the
Brussels Figure Skating Club at the arena on
Wednesday night. (Photo by Langlois)
People we know
CAPITOL THEATRE
291-3070 Listovvel
Mr. and Mrs. Peter
Tilburg of London were sup-
per guests Saturday night
and Sunday with Albina Gu-
lutzen, Brussels and Anna
Stratychuk.
On Sunday Mr. and Mrs.
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LAST TWO 'NIGHTS (WED. & THURS.)
Michael Gulutzen and their
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with Albina Gulutzen, Paul-
ine Gulutzen and her three
children. We missed Alex-
ander Gulutzen, who went to
Alberta, April 13th.
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Recent Sunday guests with Albina Gulutzen.
were Mr. and Mrs. Paul
Ponomarenko, Walton, Ont.
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