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By Ross Haugh from the
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Exeter Times Advocate
10 YEARS AGO •
September 25, 1985 - She-
ryl DeBoer was crowned Ex-
eter Fair Queen Friday night.
With the Focus on Fowl,
Huron county warden Paul
Steckle easily won the rooster
crowing contest over Exeter
inayor Bruce Shaw, Gerry
Prout and Alan Walper, the
reeves of Usborne and Ste-
phen, respectively.
Jobs are in doubt at the
Ilensall plant of General
Homes Systems Ltd. after the
firm was declared bankrupt in
London, Friday.
25 YEARS AGO
September 28, 1970 - Seven
area municipalities agreed
Thursday night to ask the On-
tario Department of Health to
do a survey on the various
dumps in the district and
come up with suggestions for
a central site or sites for waste
disposal.
Being crowned a Queen at
district events is nothing new
to Miss Jean Jennison of
Grand Bend.
After being named Queen
of the Ball at South Huron
District High School in April,
the 19 year-old daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Bob Jennison
was named Miss Midwestern
Ontario Saturday night at the
Lucknow Fall Fair.
A pair of Exeter horses won
top awards at the Canadian
National championship class-
es held at Fort Erie over the
weekend. The winners were
Raffzarette owned by Delton
Finkbeiner and Shalid from
the barn of Mr. and Mrs. Don
Ecker.
40 YEARS AGO
September 26, 1955 - Mari-
on Creery was chosen Huron
Agricultural Queen at the Jun-
ior Farmer variety show in
connection with the Exeter
Fair Wednesday night. Run-
ners-up were her two cousins
Perla Hern and Rosemary
Dobson.
Twenty children from Exeter
public school are taking part in
the Safety Patrol program or-
ganized by principal Arthur
Idle and police chief Reg Tay-
lor.
50 YEARS AGO
September 27, 1945 - After
58 years in business R.N.
Rowe has disposed of his fur-
niture business and funeral
home to his grandson Robert
C. Dinney.
Out of 37 persons sum-
moned to police court in Exet-
er Friday of last week for fail-
ing to secure radio licences,
and all but two were convicted
and paid fines of $5 each.
75 YEARS AGO
September 25, '1920 -
Twelve autos containing mem-
hers of James street church
choir visited the peach or-
chards about one mile west of
Thedford Thursday. The jour-
ney, a distance of about 33
miles was made in about an
hour and forty minutes.
The large water tank on the
corner of Main and John
streets is being filled in with
carth this week. The tank is
36x 14x 14 and was used to
hold water in connection with
the old waterworks system. A
portion of it gave way under
the weight of a road roller re-
cently.
Exeter will he put on the
hockcy map this winter by Zu-
rich and Exeter going together
and cntering a team in the
OHA and the Northern Hockey
League.
100 YEARS AGO
September 26, 1895 - Mr.
Robert Leatherland of Tucker -
smith township has a hunch of
six stalks of peas, all grown
from the one pea. On these six
stalks arc 70 pods, and thc
pods average six peas ea: h,
thus making a yield of 420
peas from thc one sown. These
peas arc of the Golden Vine
variety.
The annual fall show of the
South Huron Agricultural Soci-
ety in conjunction with the
Stephen and Usborne branch
was held in Exeter Tuesday
with favorable weather attract-
ing a larger than usual atten-
dance.
Winners in the horse classes
were Jas. Routly, S. Smillie, J.
Duncan Jr., R. Hicks and W.
Brock Jr. while top sheep com-
petitors were L. Smith, George
Penhale and Jas. Cooper. Best
in vegetables were Jacob
Roeder, Thos. Brock,. A. Bb. -
sett, Josh Heywood, Mrs. John
Gaul, R.N. Rowe, George Pah-
ner and Weekes Bros.
IT'S YO1JR R!IS[1\JFSS
Times -Advocate, September 27, 1995
Page 5
Strathroy Museum opening
STRATHROY - An official re-
opening of the Strathroy Middles-
ex Museum will take place Sun-
day, September 17.
The ceremonies will take place
between I:30 and 4 p.m. wi • e
ringing of the bell from
Corvette HMCS Strathroy, herald-
ing the completion of nine months
of work at the museum.
Since last December the mu-
seum building has undergone
many changes and upgrades
thanks to funding from all levels
of government.
New public program space has
been created, accessibility has
been improved, facilities for hous-
ing the permanent collection along
with climate controls that are so
important to any museum have
been upgraded, fire and safety sys-
tems have been improved, and the
structural stability of the building
which is more than 120 years old
has been assured.
The official opening also marks
the opening of a new exhibit "The
War Years" which examines the
impact of World War II on Strath-
roy and area.
The re -opening of the museum
Owners of the No. 6
School House Glft Shoppe
held an opening party on
Thursday night. Cheri
Shaver poijlts out some of
the dried flowers and other
handmade gift items avail-
able at the store located
on County Road 10, south
of Staffa.
School House perfect
setting for gift shop
Local artisans contrib-
ute to the unique com-
bination of gift items
STAFFA - It's worth the drive to
Staffa where Cheri Shaver has
opened a gift shop adjacent to the
old No. 6 School House she and her
family call home.
Shaver hosted an opening party
on Thursday and the shop opened
for business on Saturday. The
school house is located on County
Rd. 10, just south of Staffa and
Cromarty on the west side.
The shop is filled with "beautiful
sights. scents and textures," said
Shaver.
Many local artisans have created
items for the store including hand-
made aromatic soaps. dolls and doll
dresses, rustic wall hangings and
snowmen, dried flowers, baskets
and ceramics. There is also a selec-
tion of Anne Geddes gift cards.
Some of the many contributors
are: Pam Reid, Lily Thalheimer,
Alice Watson, Tammy Weber.
Marg Schrader, Joanne Brown,
Paul Wurdell. Charlene Ducharme
and Plain and Fancy Ceramics.
Most of the items can be in-
corporated into personalized gift
baskets and floral displays for all
occasions, especially for Christmas,
hostess gifts and births.
The store hours are Tuesday to
Wednesday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. and
Friday to Saturday from 10 a.m. to
5 p.m. :f these hours are not con-
venient, appointments can be made
by calling 345-2788.
An appearance by Snoopy and a complimentary hotdog
were part of the open house on Friday for Mark Mcllwain,
Metropolitan Life. The office is located at 183 Main Street.
QUALITY TYPESETTING
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For more information
please phone Deb Lord at
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and opening of this new exhibit is
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For further information and de-
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Strathroy Middlesex Museum and
the official ceremonies September
17, please contact museum direc-
tor, Muriel Kew at 245-0492.
General
Coach layoff
HENSALL - Due to a de-
crease in demand in the recrea-
tional vehicle industry, General
Coach in Hensall has laid off ap-
proximately 40 full-time em-
ployees.
The action by management
leaves one of the area's larger
employers with 100 workers.
General Manager John Pryde
hopes the layoffs will not be per-
manent.
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