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TIi WINGILAM ADVANCE-TIMIS FAQ, TEN WEDNESDAY, NOVIOIBIM I1, 1951
By William l, Fleuty
It was proposed to build a railway
that would run from Palmerston to
Kincardine. The citizens of Upper
Town were jubilant and new places
of business were springing up like
mushrooms, Then Lower Wingham
rapidly started to d ‘cline, but upper
Wingham was still in its infancy and
was yet only a part of Turnherry
Township.
Agitation to have the place incor-
porated as a village sprung up. but
met with strenuous opposition from
the residents of the original town
plot. However on January 1. 1874,
Wingham became an incorporated
village, the population having grown
to slightly over 700.
Wingham Past Pr n
The stage brought mail and travel- The writer of this article arrived lers to town from Clinton,In times of Wingham on September 6, 1573, so . spring floods the stage would stop at let's go on from that time. It Cassells' hill, just south of the river,
the driver would give a series of blasts
on a big tin horn, and a row-boat
would go out to bring in any travel-
lers and mail. The road across the
prairie was like an ox-trail over the
western prairies and With. gravel had
been put on to make the semblance
of highway. Some years later a con-
tract was given a man named Car-
radice to build up the road with gravel
which was a big help. It was a
county job. What a striking contrast
it was to the new bridges and im-
proved highway of today. JIM CAMERON
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FERRY BOAT ARRIVED IN 1873
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• character was a girl from. Lower
Town whose real name I never did I :know but who was called the "Prairie Saturday evening and I was taken Witch", when the teacher interrogated down the str«q to the Ath alive print- her one day as to who were her par-ing office, which was located in a , :exits and where did she come from, two-storey frame building owned by she told him she didn't have any par-Isaac Ireland, situated at the extreme 1 ents, that she came down In a rain southerly end of Josephine street. '
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when the spring flood was on, The first iS81.10 of the Advance had No further information could be elicit-come off the 'Washington hand press ed from her. She was a fairly good
the day previous. scholar, but her attendance was ir-
The Wingham Times was a year regular. She made her home with a
old then, having been first printed in family residing shortly west of Percy
Clinton by Mr. Robert Mathewson. Biggs' kennels. The arm off and the
The plant was removed to Wingham leg off. I was informed was the result
by the late R. A. Graham, four of of playing around in the saw-mill.
mortals
SLABTOWN AND ROWDY HILL
Prior to Wingham being incorpor-
ated as a village the children of
Lower Wingham attended the upper
town public, school. where was a keen
rivalry between the two factions of
Lower and Upper town pupils. Lower
Wingham was facetiously termed as
Slab Town and Upper Wingham, was
was a
CONSERVATION CORNER aS some boy would stoop down and
INVENTED SPRINKLER
An Upper Town boy was Leggo
Ireland an eccentric youth fond of
performing tricks in legerdemain and
who was the first inventor of the
sprinkler system for fire protection
Some person got the idea from him
had it invented, and Leggo was out
the $100,000 he had peen offered for
his invention.
The hunting season is now in full
swing. The days we were anxiously
waiting for have arrived. We have
made plans for this trip and that trip
and out guns and our dogs etc. are in
good shape. We have taken the odd
jaunt around the country looking for
likely places to hunt. Farmers have
been asked for permission to hunt on
their farms. However, have we gone
over the safety ruls and made sure
that evryone is famieliar with them-
such as keeping in line when going
across a field or through a bush, or
if we are in a thick swamp to signal
our positions to each other. Have we
made it clear that no one shoots until
it is clear what the target is. Now let
us take a look at our game. Let us
make sure that we have a good idea
of what fifty, seventy-five and one
hundred yards looks like. Don't start
blasting away at anything that is out
of good killing range and don't over-
estimate the killing power of your
shells. It is better to let a fox or rab-
bit or any game go, unless you can
stop it clean, If it gets away, there is
another day coming and you might be
in a better position next time. Don't
waste what we shoot, if you don't eat
it yourself give it to someone that
does, Don't hang those rabbits on a
fence or tree and then forget to go
back and pick them up. Later when
the season is getting on and game
starts to pair up, let us stop hunting
for the year. True conservation
means taking only the surplus, let's
make sure we leave enough parent
stock for nxt year's hunting. Finally
let us drive carefully both day and
night. Have you ever counted the
dead game killed on our highways
and byways as you are driving along!
A lot of this couuld have been saved
whose family still reside here. It was
located in the frame building, that
now constitutes the office of the Can-
ada Packers Mills..
with a little care. When you are
driving at night and youu see those
eyes shining at the side of the Too,
slow down — it might be one of those
valuuable game animals. We need
them all.
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Rowdy Hill. The school principal, at
this time, was a former Irish soldier
and in one of Britain s wars had lost
a goodly portion of the end of his
nose, giving him something of a grot-
esque and repugnant appearance.
Any boys loitering on the school
grounds after school hour would hear
his stentorian voice, "you boys go
home or I'll give you ten "
The teacher before him, as was com-
monly known ,was of a convivial dis-
position, and I heard it stated many
times that it was a common occur-
rence for one of the senior pupils to
slyly slip him a flask of whiskey, just
as a small boy or girl would lay a
rosy apple on the female teacher's
desk. Whiskey was cheap at that time.
INTERESTING CHARACTERS
I found some interesting characters
attending this school, a frame build-
ing, which was situated at the South
west corner of John and Leopold
streets. There was Ed. Hamilton, with
his right arm off at the elbow, and
yet withal the most beautiful penman
in the school; George Hutton with one
leg off short, boys and girls largely
went barefoot to school in warm wea-
ther, and a girl had six toes on one
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