The Goderich Signal-Star, 1959-03-19, Page 4+1:
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THE GODERICH SIGNAL�STAR
octor; Practices 50 Years
a ' child, ene of his favorite
'Games was playing at "bei
tolr." Later, as a young ;.
anui Goderieh, he repeatedly said he
'41913. `4.oing to be a doctor when
b*egrew up."
On Saturday; March 21st, a party
Asill
be "held at Milverton to mark
Sbo 50th anniversary of the day
the aforementioned youngster, now
. 1
Ie.. Tye, started practising
Ledicine at Milverton which he
Jkas done in the same area ever
since. Next June he will be hon,
eyed guest again. at a community
Celebration marking his half cen-
zry ,in community service at Mil-
verton.
ilverton. This is being organized
by the Milverton Chamber of
Commerce.
Al h born at Brantford, he
same wi his parents, the late Mr.
and Mrs. William' D. Tye, to Gode-
irzch in 1891 when they purchased
the house at the corner of Stanley
greet and Elgin avenue. In it
'Today lives Mr. and Mrs, R. D.
Carey, the latter the former Edrie
Tye, sister of'wDr. Tye, of Milver-
ton. Another sister, Elise, later
Ws. Thorns, who taught at the
Conservatory of Music at Ottawa,
died in 1952. A brother, R. H.
Tye, a building contractor in Col-
borne Township, died in 1956.
ft is said that as a boy of 15 in
Goderieh, the present Dr. Tye was
a great admirer of the family doc-
tor who was the inspiration in
finally making up his mind to be-
eome a doctor, too.
Ws il•Popla
This month Dr. P. L. Tye, of
Milverton—nobody ever calls him
anything but P. L.' or '`Pop" even
his wife refers to him as P. L.
biit says she -sometimes finds her- ;''and the Nigh school speech also
self calling him "Pop" too—has recalled that Dr. Tye was one of
set something of a record. -the .pioneers who.ha¢-okay- kitchen
- - e' ra been the family doctor, � tables as operating tables and had
"specializing in everything," he to recruit his own staff of operat-
says, to scores of families in a ing roam assistants from members
*nearly 200 -square -mile area in the of family and neighbors.
Ndilverton section of Perth County
and part of adjoining Waterloo
County for 50 'years.
.And in that half century P. L.
has. become everything that his
boyhooddoctor-idol was—general
practitioner; -24-hour-a-day-365-days--
of the year guardian •and even
father confessor sometimes, but
• above all a man who developed a
philosophy that kept high going
W id atillalceeps him active -at -16-
"You have to always see; some
thing humorous in any situation
and enjoy What you're doing," Dr.
Tye\ 'said otie" Sunday recently
when he had a few minutes to
spare between calls and had a
chance to sit in his favorite chair
beside his private library where,
his wife says, he fails asleep three
minutes after starting to read.
There are three generations of
many families in the 'Tye area"
whose entry into this world has
been attended by the family doctor
who has managed to keep strong
and healthy in 50 years of scouring
the countryside in all kinds of
weather and all kinds of convey-
ances.
"I think I've ridden just about
everything there is around Milver-
ton, even flown to attend cases,"
he recalls.
He's been transported to patients
on railway freight trains, railway
snowplows,, climbed aboard "jig-
gers" in the. days when they were
hand -propelled along the rails, rid-
den in road snowplows, used an
aircraft owned by a Milverton man
to reach places cut off by snow—
"just about everything except the
helicopter and that's coming one
of these days," he said. He had
the first snowmobile in Perth
County.
Bert The(
on the family borne-
- They have three sons, John Her -0
Bert (Jack) on tlhe Tamil home-
stead at R.R. 2, New Hamburg
near Haysville, William ' Daniel
(Bill) of Dundalk, and Francis Mac-
Donald (Mac) in Winnipeg. The
sons did not follow their father
in the medical profession.
When he started to practice in
Milverton he had his own stable of
four horses, sold the last one about
10 years ago but still longs to
hear again the friendly whinnying
of his horses. A man cannot talk
to an automobile.
Dr. Tye found time to serve in
several municipal bodies. He was
a Milverton councillor for .11 years,
seven years as reeve and county
warden in 1927; first president of
the Milverton Lions Club; South
Huron Masonic Ledge district de-
puty grand master; chairman of
the county Old Age Pension Board
for a couple ;of years; Perth County,
representative ' on the Milverton
District High School Board for
over 30 years and board chairman,
for 12 years.
`� Bible Reading Is
Stressed At W.A.
The Woman's Auxiliary of St.
George'k Anglican Church met in
the, Guild Room on March; 10th:
As Mrs, Tichborne was ill, the first
vice-president, Mrs. K Hunt, pre-
sided and read the opening pray-
ers. The Litany was ,taken by, Mrs.;
J. Middleton and the Scripture by
Mrs. H. Dodd.
This year, the Anglican Church
of Canada is stressing more Bible
reading and Dr. K. E. Taylor gave
an informative talk on one of the
Chapter's from St. Mark's Gospel.
W.A. members and friends of the
W.A. have been busy quilting.
There are three quilts done, one
of which is for the deanery bale.
As the slides for the study book
may be obtained during the week
of April 6 to 11, it was decided to
hR d �. hold the April meeting during that
is ug arse
time; also to invite W.A. members
The name "Tye" has been givenw from various neighboring churches
to more than one child in his
the Deanery.
district, an indication of the affec- From Harbor Grave Members were asked to collect
tion in which the "country doctor" for the Cancer Blitz in April. Pre-
is held and the doctor was once After lying at the, bottom of vious to the meeting, Mrs. H. Tich
even the subject of a top-rated Goderieh Harbor for about four borne had given in' her name, and
oration composed by David •Whit- I days, the fishing tug, Vary Broth Mrs. Blay and Mrs. D. Wilson also
ney •a few years ago when the bob ers, was raised from its'temporary volunteered.
was a• 'grade eleven student at cold water grave last Thursday. It is expected that Bishop Green -
Milverton high school, 1 Its owner, Ed, Siddal found the woad, Bishop of the Yukon, will
A Pioneer '', I tug • had sunk at . its moorings on be the guest speaker at the spring
David said: "Our .family :doctor j the north pier oe. Saturday, March Deanery.,
is d man respected in his profes- 17, when he visited the harbor to At the conclusion of the meeting
sion both at home and abroad," check on its safety. . . ' lunch was served by Mrs.Munday,
A broken brass valve • on the Yrs. Riley, Mrs. Sillib and. MU. D.
bilge pu ip is believed to have Wilson.
been the \cause of the tug's- sinking. ' v met with
Three large cranes from Water Diamonds had to compete e
loo, Ontario, were brought to glass as h4 girls best friend in
-the
ancient Egypt, where glass objects
,Goderich for the raising, of
tug. On Wednesday of last week, were considered as valuable as
jewels. •
DANCE
EVERY
FRIDAY NIGHT
at OLD FORGE
Music by Grant Edighoffer's
Melody Masters.
75c per peraon, - Lynch Counter.
"Dr. Tye is interested in you as Bruce and Allan MacDonald, in
a person as well as a patient,
said David. "You are dot just,
numbea-in .a file bat maybe ane
of the babies whb got him out in
the middle of the night."
--There' are about 5,000 -of those.
"babies" now in this part of the
world, Dr. Tye has "guestimated"
and most of them managed to
arrive during the hours of dark -
When he arrived at Milverton
to ja4n forces with Dr. Fred Parker
on March 21, 1909, he spent his
first seven Stindays delivering
babies:- The first was Mahlon
Schultz, pow farming on 19 High -
Parker retired about two years
after Dr. Tye arrived.
Graduated In 1907 A former member of The Har -
Da, Tye 'Enrolled in 1903 in Ifni-
bouraires until his return tO his
native Germany last fall to attend
graduated in 1907, interned at
. college, Karl Sievert, has written
Ottawa . and.. Ruff al.c_until 1909.,
to- Mra-George Bucha-nart of
He was married in 1:912 to Edna
his missing the singing group. L•
Be-ekett a Owen Sound, whoa he
'Mr. Sievert worked on:the farm
says,- helped 'him through so:Yee
of Tom Webster,at R.R. 3, Auburn,
tough situations and still answers
and is now taking an agritultural
the telephone at home to take
course at a college in Celle, Ger-
callS and plan routes for him when
many. His address is Celle, Rul-
several demahds are made while'
he is touripg the countryside. lenberg, 25, Germany.
skin suits, went down into the icy
water to hook cables on to the
Sunkeri boat. Assisting in the sal-
vage operation on Thursday was
Fire Chief John Hoggarth and the
town hose truck. The boat was
raised -in about 1.1,a hours. ,
Damage to the boat, despite its
dunking .in the cold water for
about four days, is not believed
dried out and the boat is expected
tap be in operation this week. ,
Editor's Message .For Merchants
THURSDAY, .A'L , 1
i i ap -.ILktAti ` effri - -":` R Tgsg 'e h op,,er
the -~Express fur aseVenayeatsiatva
during that time he had made a
capital 'outlay of close to $80,000
in
Meaford. In addition to that,
$105,000 had been spent in wages.
He said he was a little puzzled
When several merchants had told
him they needed more industry
here, especially so when they had
never once been in his place of
business, or used the service pro-
vided.
Talking about circulatipn Mr:
Manore said that one Paper some-
times serves as many .as. W three
homes. He quoted the case of one
business man who had never sub •
-
scribed 'to ,the paper (but quite
often came into the office to Om -
plain about , something that had
been printed. On Checking it was,
found that he received one from
a relative. '•
"Just one mistake," the publish.,
er said, "and you know how many
read the paper." The Home Town
paper, he said, gives the average
citizen service from the cradle .to
the grave. Many times, without
a penny earned or a kind word
spoken for the favor. Birth and
funeral notices are printed free of
charge. "There would be an awful
howl made," he said, "if one ,stuck
to the whole truth in the final
story in some cases."
Meaford,-~-Mraai'i Ma are;'#editor
and publisher- of The Meaford Ex:
press, said, "Local merchants are
allowing .a, great deal of business
to slip out of town just because
they do net take the trouble to
tell the people about the goods
they have to sell."
"Some merchants," he said, "feel
that they have all the business
they can handle. Others want to
add to their yolume but make no
special effort except to wait in
their stores forpeople to .come in.
Some even fail to take the ice off
their sidewalks to provide safe
and easy entrance • and others fail
to dress their windows, and sonie
fail to let people -know when they
are open."
The result is that people shop,
the easy way. They pick up the
morning and evening papers carry-
ing , the ads of aggressive mail
order houses. They prder where
they get quick service through
local outlets.
The merchant who uses dodgers,
Mr. ,Manore said, must prepare the
copy, must have it printed and
then pay two cents to have it put
through the mails. Many times
the one waste basket in the post
office is overflowing with bills -and
unwanted mail, but never a, news-
paper.
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Ian St. John's Brigade
As 22 Complete Tests
Twenty -1 wo men end women
completed St, John's, Ambulance
first aid exami"nations at Alexandra
Marine and general Hospital on
Sunday. ...
Dr. J. R. Leitch was the examiner
for- the tests
Using these people (and others
who have . completed at least a
certificate examination) as a nuc-
leus, a St John's Ambulance Bri-
gade will be formed in Gbderich.
Last week the above' 'Classified
Advertisement appeared in The
Signal -Star.
• It' was read by potential buyers
on Thursday morning.
Less than 24 hours later—at
10 A.'M. Friday the oar was
sold.
An organization meeting will be
held in the board room at the hos-
pital on Sunday, -April 5, at 2 p.m.
At that, time, it is hoped to select
a regular meeting night.
Membership in the local brigade
will be open • to women as well as
men.' 'Future plans ineliide a St.
John's home nursing course.
Jack Cory _and Charles Breckow
have been instrumental in arrang-
ing for the formation of the local
brigade;
Former Auburnite
Novv In Germany
, 4,The letter, in part, read:
The flavour and
colour of bUttei
is N ature's secret.
ONTARIO CREAM PRODUCERS'.
' MARKETING BOARD
REPRESENTINa 50,000 CREAM PRODUCERS
(c- 4'.%•
of Go6
AS A SERVICE TO THE PUBLIC,
Mayor E. C. Fisher
WILL SE AT THE TOWN HALL,
Monday ,to Friday,
FROM 4 TO 5 P.M.
Parties. wishing to contact the Mayor may phone 200-W.
"This is a lovely little town of
about 45,000, with very old houses
and even old-fashioned people. It
Used to be the' seat of a duke.
The streets are narrow and buili
all around the castle. There' is a
yery high 'cultural feeling in this
place, I've seen grand operas,
operettas ahd plays, very cheap
at that. I've joined the church
chair and a male chorus. 1 haVe to
admit, however, I don't get to prac-
tice as regular as to Sky Harbor.
The fellawship ,As net athe same,
either. _
"Well. I don't kavow Whether the
Tig ,$ing' at Port Huron is past
or Whether it lies ahead yet. If It
does, I wish you all the very best
of luck and a few great hours of
fellowship. .
"Tm telling you, when I read
The. Signal -Star which 'George
Buchanan -so kindly sends to • me
I become jealous. A big smorgas-
bord dinper, a great practice, and
I have to sit here and study. Darn-
ed" it! But I'm , getting my turn
some day. I have ''a lot of fun
here, too, The girls are very
pretty and entertainment is rather
cheap compared with your prkees;
Food is the most expensive and
•clothes about the same as long as
you pay with dollars. ,
"Thanks igain for sending the
keynote and , the Goderich Signal.:
Star. Best of luck to all the gang." ,,
KARL SIEVERT. :
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