The Wingham Advance-Times, 1967-09-28, Page 5F. Rowland aallogh,
Lot 3, Con. 2, Culross
Century farm in Bellmore area
THE FAMILY of James Ballagh, taken
about 1908, front: son Rowland, Katie
Rowland Ballagh, James Ballagh and daugh-
ter Mae. Daughter Margaret is standing
behind her parents.
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Wingham District High School
Evening Classes1967-68
The Advisory Vocational Committee of the Wingham District High School is
planning to offer a programme of Evening Courses again this year. Classes
will be held only if a sufficient number apply (at least fifteen) and qualified
instructors are available.
PROPOSED COURSES
GENERAL COMMERCIAL TECHNICAL
Conversational Frenci Typing
Oil Painting (Beginners) Bookkeeping
Oil Painting (Advanced) Senior Typing and
Millinery Business Machines
Physical Fitness Shorthand
(Ladies)
Sewing (Basic)
Upholstering
Suggestions for other courses will be considered.
INSTRUCTION PERIODS
Classes will be held each Wednesday evening from 8 to 10 p.m. The Fall
term will start on October 11th and end December 13th. The Winter Term
will begin on January 3rd and end March 13th.
FEES
Each course will require the payment of a registration fee. The fee for each
course will be $5.00 except welding, where the fee will be $10.00, No materials
are provided in this fee. Fees are not refundable unless the course is cancelled.
REGISTRATION
Applications for courses should be mailed or phoned to the school. Registra-
tions will be accepted on opening night between 7 and 8 p.m. for those courses
not already filled. Fees will be collected on the first night of classes, October
11th, 1967.
R. S. MacRAE,
board Chairman
W. HARRIS, F. E. MADILL,
Chairman, A.V,C, Principal
Drafting Fundamentals
& Blue Print Reading
Electricity (Part I)
Electricity (Part II )
Welding
Woodworking (General)
Work Simplification
NOW AVAILABLE
A History of the Township and
its People from Early Settlers
to the Present Day.
—The Advance-Times
Wingham, Ontario.
—Harris Stationery
Wingham, Ontario.
—Amos Smith Store
Belgravia, Ontario.
—Or from Members of the
Historical Committee
*Airs. Ivan Wislittman *Mrs. Gordon Mollurnay *Harvey McDowell
Flesrting Ballagh came from
the County of Monaghan in Ire ,
land, The exact date is not
known, hut it Was about 1850 or
1857. He came to the Town-
ship of Hope, east of Toronto,
thence to Teeswater where he
purchased land where the south
half of Teeswater now stands.,
He built a log house and stable
north of the location where the
station presently stands. After
staking his claim he returned to
Hope, purchased a yoke of oxen
and a wagon, and headed back
to Teeswater to make a home
for himself and his family.
They travelled by way of
Guelph and Elora to Walkerton
and then to Teeswater. Being
the oldest of the boys, James'
task was to drive the oxen most
of the way, while his father
walked ahead to remove trees
that were in their path. They
arrived at their destination on a
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Optometrist
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9 PATRICK STREET W.
WINGHAM
Phone 357-1282
Saturday night, crossing the
Teeswater River just west of
where Thompson's Creamery
now stands.
Their stay in Teeswater was
not long as they had a family of
growing boys and needed more
land, In 1800, Fleming pur-
chased Lots 1, 2, and 3, Con-
cession 2, of Cuiross Township,
containing 300 acres,
In 1880, James, the eldest •
son, bought Lot 3, Concession
2, from his father, Seven
years later he married Margaret
McDaniel but the marriage was
short-lived, for she passed away
within one year. After her
tragic death, James rented the
farm for a few years and lived
with relatives in Teeswater.
Near James' home lived
another young couple, Katie S.
Rowland and Albert Theobald.
Katie had married Albert in
September of 1880 when he was
a young school teacher in Cul-
ross. In January, 1881, four
months after he had married
Katie, he passed away; he was
23 years of age. A friend of
Katie's, Mrs. Archie McIntyre,
wrote a poem in honour of Al-
bert, in which she said, "Al-
bert the good .... He gave to
God the morning of his years..':
It was not strange that two
who had shared similar grief
should understand and acquire a
deep affection for each other,
and so it was with Katie Theo,
bald and James Ballagh. In
1890 they were married and to-
gether they returned to his farm
to begin a new life.
Four children were born to
them -- Mae Lyons, Margaret
Lendrum, Clara Mildred, and
Fleming Rowland.
In 1901, Clara lost her life
in a farm accident. She was
six years old. Her brother Row-
land still has in his possession a
lock of Clara's hair, and a hand-
written letter which she wrote
to her aunt. In it she wrote;
"...When will you come home?
It is nice winter here....
I am sorry our good Queen is
dead...." And about her little
brother, she wrote; ...."Rowlie
is a bad boy." She signed the
note "Your luveing friend, Clara
M. Ballagh." It was to be the
last note she would write.
James died in June of 1920,
his wife Katie only one year lat-
er, leaving Rowland on the farm
alone. He is still the owner of
the farm. Mae is now Mrs.
George Fischer of Carman, Man-
itoba. Margaret is Mrs. Carter
McKee and lives in Galt, On-
tario.
In 1923, Rowland married
Nelda Wolfe of Howick Town-
ship. They are the parents of
three daughters - Mildred, now
Mrs. Claude Bronson of Elmira,
Ontario; Velma, on the teach-
ing staff in Hamilton; and La-
vonne, secretary in an insur-
ance office in Belmore. There
being no sons in Rowland Bal-
lagh's family, the farm which
has borne the Ballagh name for
101 years, will in future years,
be owned by others.
Bible Society
elects G. Inglis
BELMORE—Mr. B. L. Wal-
den, of Brampton, district sec-
retary for the Bible Society,
was guest speaker at Knox Pres-
byterian Church and Belmore
United Church on Sunday morn-
ing.
In the evening, Mr. Walden
presided at an annual meeting
of the Society, when an excel-
lent film entitled "Canada
From Ocean unto Ocean" was
shown. The use of Bible So-
ciety memorial cards at local
funeral homes was also discuss-
ed.
Election of officers for the
Society in this area took place
as follows: President, George
Inglis; secretary, Thomas In-
glis; treasurer, John Rutherford.
Collectors were also appointed.
St. Peter the Apostle Angli-
can Church, Elliot Lake, was
decorated with tinted pink shas-
ta daisies and pink snapdragons
on September 16 for the wed-
ding of Allyson Jean White of
Elliot Lake and Wayne Leslie
Caslick of Wingham. Rev.
William Stadnyk performed the
ceremony.
George Conn of Whitechurch,
organist, played "Praise My
Soul” for the processional and
"The Father All Creating" for
the recessional, which were
sung by Charles Congram of
Wingham. Mr. Congram sang
"0 Perfect Love" during the
signing of the register.
The bride is the daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. E. Mtirra White of
Elliot Lake and the groom's par-
ents are Mr. and Mrs. C. Wilford
Caslick of Wingham.
The bride was given in mar-
riage by her father. Her em-
style gown of white satin-back
crepe with front panel of im-
ported rose lace applique had
puff sleeves. Her train fell from
two large bows of the same lace
at the high waistline and her
scalloped bouffant tulle veil
was held by a rosebud head-
piece. She carried a Julien
bouquet of pink roses and pink
tinted shasta daisies.
Mrs. R. N. Bullock of Ot-
tawa was her sister's matron of
honor and the bridesmaids were
Alicia Zavitz of Toronto, Cyn-
thia White of Elliot Lake, sister
of the bride and the groom's sis-
ter, Dianne Caslick of Wing-
ham. The flower girl was Hea-
ther Sutherland of Elliot Lake.
They wore identical gowns of
pale pink imported brocade,
empire style with puff sleeves.
Their headpieces were pink ros-
ettes with pale pink tulle veils
and they carried baskets of tint-
ed pink shasta daisies and pink
snapdragons.
The groom was attended by
his brother, Brian Caslick of
Wingham and the ushers were
all brothers of the bride and
groom. Ross Caslick and Tom
White were assisted by the jun-
ior ushers, Stephen Caslick and
Ted White. Tim White, broth-
er of the bride, was the ring
bearer.
The reception and dinner
were held at the Algoma Inn
Motel, Algoma Mills. Guests
from Wingham, Ottawa, Tor-
onto, Kitchener, Hamilton,
Whitechurch, Blind River, Wal-
lacehurg, Sault Ste. Marie and
Woodstock were received by the
parents of the young couple.
Mrs. White chose an ice blue
peau de charm jacket dress on
princess lines, Pale blue feath-
er hat, silver purse and shoes.
Her corsage was a lavender
Cattleya orchid. The groom's
mother wore a mink brown fit-
ted crepe dress with matching
feather hat, brown alligator
shoes and bag and beige gloves.
Mrs. Caslick's corsage was a
beige Cymbidium orchid.
The groom's grandparents,
Mr. and Mrs. Ross King of
Wingham and Mr. and Mrs. Earl
Caslick of Whitechurch attend-
ed.
Mr. and Mrs. Caslick are
both in their final year at the
University of Western Ontario
and will reside in London. They
went to Eastern Ontario and Ex-
po for their honeymoon, the
bride travelling in a Kelly
green floral print nylon chiffon
tent dress with matching Kelly
green tent coat in heather wool.
She wore black accessories and
a corsage of pink roses.
CAS Board, Staff
Hope to broaden
scope of services
Mrs. Douglas Bartliff, a
member of the board of direc-
tors of the Children's Aid Soci-
ety of Huron County, was host-
ess for a meeting of the board
and staff at her home in Clin-
ton on September 20, to set up
a system of organized volun-
teers who will co-operate with
the board and staff to broaden
the scope of the Children's Aid
Society's work.
Peter Collis, a provincial
supervisor from the Child Wel-
fare Branch, was present and
contributed to the discussion.
Miss Clare McGowan, local
director, opened the meeting.
Mrs. Ewan Ross, supervisor of
Protection Services, outlined a
suggested plan for volunteer
transportation services. A tent-
ative system was drawn up and
is to be presented at the Octo-
ber meeting of the board.
With Miss McGowan presid-
ing at the tea table, those pres-
ent became better acquainted
while enjoying a delicious buf-
fet luncheon provided by the
hostess.
-Miss Mary White, daugh-,
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Wilfred
White, Miss Margaret Craig,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs, Mel
Craig and Miss Betty Hethering-
ton, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
George Hetherington, Bluevale,
nurses-in-training at St. Jo-
seph's Hospital, Guelph, spent
the week-end at their respec-
tive homes,
—Mr. and Mrs. N. M, Ged-
des have returned to Toronto af-
ter visiting relatives in Wing-
ham and Blyth.
—Miss Leah Currie and Miss
Olive Currie visited with Mr.
and Mrs. T. K. Bibb at Harrow
over the week-end. Miss Olive
Currie remained CO spend a few
days.
—Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Ire-
land spent the week-end with
Miss Edna Moffat in Sudbury.
—Mrs. Douglas Campbell
and her daughter, Miss Ann
Campbell of London, visited
over the week-end with Mrs.
A. M. Crawford, Minnie Street.
—Mrs. Annie Nicol is visit-
ing with her son and daughter-
in-law, Corp. and Mrs. Alan
Nicol at Chatham, N.B.
—Mr. and Mrs. Jack Gaize
of Timmins and Miss Margaret
Moffat of Toronto visited on
Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Far-
ish Moffat. Gordon Moffat of
Toronto spent the week-end
with his parents.
--Miss Sheila Gibbons of Lon-
don spent the week-end with her
parents, Mr. and Mrs. James
Gibbons. Mr. and Mrs. War-
ren Weber and family of Strat-
ford visited at the same home.
-Mr. and Mrs. Walter
Sharpe of Teeswater visited on
Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Ed-
win Smyth.
--Miss Katherine McGregor
of Clinton was a visitor in Wing-
ham on Saturday.
—Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Litt
of London spent last week with
Mr. and Mrs. Barry Wenger and
family.
—Mrs. Mary Vickers and
Mrs. Harry Tichborne of God-
erich visited the latter's sister,
Miss Annie Kennedy oh Sunday
afternoon.
—Mrs. Lillian Lamb and Mr.
and Mrs. Elgin Johnston spent
the latter part of last week with
Mrs. Isabel Christensen and
family of Streetsville, and with
Mr. and Mrs. John Lamb and
family of Scarboro and Mrs.
Mary Murray of Milton.
--Mr. and Mrs. Michael
Cummins, who spent the past
month with relatives at Saska-
toon, Sask., returned home
last week,
—Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Tay-
lor of Kansas City and their
cousin, Mrs. Rose Johnston of
Windsor spent a few days last
week with his sister, Mrs. Ber-
tha McGee, John Street and
with Mr. and Mrs. George Mc-
Gee and family of East Wawan-
osh.
—Mrs. Alex Leaver, Edward
Street, is a patient in Wingham
and District Hospital.
—Mike Farley and Doug
Winters, students at the Univer-
sity of Waterloo, were Sunday
visitors with David Wenger.
—Mrs. Joseph Brophy, Jerry
Brophy, Barbara, Frances and
Catherine White were Sunday
visitors with Mr. and Mrs. Eu-
gene Devereaux and family in
—Mrs. Parker Smeltzer of
Guelph spent a few days this
week with Mr. and Mrs. Hugh
Mundell.
—Mrs. D. Scott of Toronto
spent the week-end with her
mother, Mrs. R. Hueston.
—Mr. and Mrs. Percy Stain-
ton returned home last Friday
after visiting relatives in Lind-
say, Black Water and Wilcox
Lake for a few days.
--Mr. Bud Lott of Vancou-
ver, spent the week-end with
his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Carl
Lott. He came east on a busi-
ness trip and met his father in
London, where the latter has
been in hospital.
—Mr. and Mrs. Ed Yeoman
and family have moved from
Waterford to 55 Duke St., El-
mira. They are former resi-
dents of Wingham, Mr. Yeo-
man having been on the staff of
the Toronto-Dominion Bank.
—Mr. Kenneth Dickson and
son Allan of Belmore, Mr. Stan-
ley Moore of Woodstock and
Mr. Basil Thompson of Preston
spent the week-end with Mr.
Arthur Moore, On Saturday
they organized a wood bee and
cut the winter supply of wood
for Mr. Moore.
Candy stripers
receive caps
. The Auxiliary to the Wing-
ham and District Hospital met
on Monday with 12 members
present.
Several members had at-
tended a regional meeting at
Guelph held in St. Joseph's Hos-
pital. Six volunteer Candy
Stripers had given 50 hours of
help at the hospital during the
summer and received their caps
Some had served 75 hours
which merits a red velvet cap
strip and one volunteer receiv-
ed a pin for 100 hours. Letters
of appreciation were read from
Mrs. Morrey and the director
of the Nurses' Assistants Course.
Donations of children's books
or pocket books in good condi-
tion to be distributed from the
hospital library cart may be
left at W. B. Conron's office.
The rummage sale will be
held on October 14, Please
have all sale merchandise at
the arena on the Friday for
price marking.
Hi-C elects
BELGRAVE--The Hi-C group
met in the church basement,
September 24 for the election
of officers which resulted as fol-
lows:
President, Audrey Coultes;
vice-president, Luuk Muilwyk;
secretary, Mary Grasby; recre-
ation directors, Joyce Coultes
and Ivan Wheeler.
Group leaders this year are:
Group 1, Rhonda Fear; Group 2,
Ruth Ann Pletch; Group 3, Gary
Jamieson; Group 4, Ronald Tay-
lor; Group 5, Richard Anderson.
Recreation followed, closing
with Taps. The next meeting
will be October 1st.
.
THE SUB-LIEUTENANT joined the naval
invasion simply because she likes being
decked out in brass and men's wear tail-
bring. One of the season's few true suits,
it is by Bobbie Lane of Canada,