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(Home Economics and Health Ben C4hisholm. thanked Dr. Ross.
was the theme of the July meet-
ing of the Tiger Dunlop Wo-
men's Institute which was in
charge of Mrs. Lloyd Young.
i)r. J. C. ,Ross, of .Goderich,
was guest speaker and gave an
interesting talk on the T.B. sure,
vey, explaining the importance (.Mrs. Elmer Hunter asked for
of 1.1124 test. He said it was ,ta `�
r c y .6AniNin g f!"c' jx`Ste 4'ilj�t�tat•,
`ti�ti`'°nit'�tt���3abiti'Yba Dungannon July 29 and August
stamp oUt T.B. Mrs. Lamb in 3.. ,help was willingly offered.
troduced the speaker and Mrs. i Roll call was answered Qay
�_.,
;naming a Canada food rule.
!Everyone had been' asked to
bring one old. flat, wrapped to
ellL•-Ifor. 40e, After the,�,sale
the buyers were expected to.
model their ipurchase. It was
quite amusing most of ,the
hats were in style a fe�v years
ago. Guests from Dungannon
were present to enjoy. the lec-
ture and show.. Branch direc-
tors served a ,pot luck, lunch.
The president, Mrs. T, Hunter,.
was in the chair. She asked for
vottinteers to 'help .with lunch a
the picnic for the blind on
August 3 at Harbor Park. • Marty
offered to help. A menu was
planned.
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COMPLETE
SERVICING
OF LAWNS, GARDENS
AND SHRUBS
GOOD TOP SOIL SOLD,
Also Sod Cutting and Laying;
Power 'tolling for Lawns.
IMMO
IVAN'S
NURSERY
t'bp of Dunlop Mill
Phone JA 4-7171.
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Before Hawaii. became the
fiftieth state of the Union last
year, no less than 48 Hawaiin
:tatchood bills had been intro-
driced unsuceescifully in CCon-
gress. Hawaii is a state 'made
up of twenty island's in the Paci-
fic,, nearly 2100 miles southwest
of San Francisco. The popula-
tion is 600,000, of whom pure-
bred Hawaiins, descendants of
the Polynesians, comprise a very
elan percentage.
CUT MONTHLY
PAYMENTS?'
Let us show you how: say you /low, owe about
$500 and the monthly instalment payments are
taking too big a bite out of your pay check. Simply
arrappagn IJFC Payne n Reducer Loin for. thatr:..,
deb
amount and pay off all your ts. Ohanees are
you pay HFC much less per month than you're
paying now ,(see table) . Drop in or phone.
- - . -tow cost life Insurance available on all loans
you get more
p� money
AMOUNT
aF
LOAN
MONTHLY
myths
PAYMENT
mon hs
PLANS
months
0
months
1 00
'
.6.11
_ . O' 0T"
9. 45
46.72
- . P
_ -
_1000 -
. , ...
41.45
58.10
91.55
from HFC
1600
2000
.....
72.30
66.62
- 83.21
93.19
116.49
146.68
183.35
. '
2200
79.53
91.60
128.14
201.69
2500
90.38
104.09
145.61
229. i J
Qr
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Above payments include principal and infer st, and are
basdd on prompt repayment, but do not Include the coat of
life Insurance.
HOUSEHOLD FINANCE
.M. R. iJenkins, Manager
35A West Street Telephone JA 4-7383
GODERICH
a3 3:zz:
This is the old home of.- Andrew Heddle, who years ago u
Wilt ' many frame houses in -Colborne to - take-tt•?t ce of -'
log cabins. It stood a little back from Maitland street in
Benmiller until a few weeks ago and then was demolished.
It had long been unoccupied. -The Heddle family scattered
to many. parts of the U.S. and 'Canada. James, born at
Benmiller, died at Ann Arbor, Mich., last January. 4,
Recall s People, Trades
In BehmillerfJf 1$60s
By John Elliott, B.A. igrist mill, and now you know
(Written, in 1925) :where the -modern hamlet get
The passing last week of An,
name. Benjamin liter, an
drew Heddle, the •93 -year-old
carpenter of Benmiller, prompts
one to recall the community he
served for so long. In the evol-
ution of rural homes, the stages
have been: shanty, log house,
frame home and modern brick
or stone. Mr. Heddle built the
tidy mansions that replaced the
log cabins on many a farm in
the Benmiller neighborhood,
and the condition of some of
them today is testimony to his
mechanical skill and honest
,workmanship.
Where is Benmiller? Let us
turn back the -clock 60 yearsectr-
e. and _-strsit- chi sAlear 7toerir
it was in pioneer days.
Travelling the Huron road
westward, stop --five" miles short
of Gederich at Duggan's tavern
and turn to the right, then to
the left at McCa'be's corner and
with '-VfcGib:bon's Writ ds on your
right and Rody Slattery's on the
left, you will -glimpse the beauti-
ful Maitland, at that timq, a
Writer of this article (in
1925), John Elliott was born in
Colborne in 1855, attended the
first No. 3 school and later lived
at Benmiller. Teacher or prin-
cipal of many Ontario schools,
he spent hi; retirement years in
London, and wroth many rem-
iniscent articles for 'the Signal.
as
lordly stream. Facing you, a
charming village nestles in The
Hollow, for which it was form-
erly named. Cross the wooden
bridge and on your right, at the
mouth of the creek that meets
the river here, is Ben Miller's
Englishmen, was -,its founder, a
member of the first Colborne
council and a great man in his
day. After his death the milli
property passed into other)
hand ; David Rodges, YI° Pfrim-
mer and others, but the name
of .alter stuck.
Dan Miller's Tavern
Up a little way from the mill
is the indispensable tavern kept
by Dan Miller, a brother of Beesee
He in time was succeeded by hi
son, afterward known and es-
teemed far and wide as big
Jonathan Miller, for years the
genial host of the.. Bedford
To your left from the tavern
The old Woollen 1Vri ,at Benmiller is a favorite spot for
tourists to visit. Above is seen Ray Moore operating one
of the weaving machines. The present mill is 83 years old.
It was preceded by another one which was bought 103 years
ago by Thomas Gledhill, great grandfather of Clyde and
Vern Gledhill who now operate the mill. The brothers
report that competition in the blanket selling field is
getting tougher all the tine, an'd not as many blankets are
sold now as there once was. Also, people don't buy as
many blankets today, as they once did. S -S Photo by R. H.
44,0
is a crowded little street, par- the river, is the first farm set- in Kincardine. These were
allel to the river. On this are tied in the township of Colborne i sons of "Black Joe" Fisher, so
the tanneries of Geisbush ad by Michael Fisher, who built his' called to distinguish him from
Maedel, the former being the shanty in 1831. As we would `big'' -Joe Fisher, pioneer horse
pioneer whose 'first York shill- see it now, many years after, it+breeder and importer, who was
ing in Canada, after coming is the Martin farm, from which.lc'f a different Fisher family.
from Germany, was earned at l went John, Isaac, Henry and � To get out of the Hollow, we
The Hollow, when he tanned a Elijah.- Martin, the last-named cross the creek once more,
coon skin to make a pair of being father ,of the late John i north of the sawmill darn, and
mitts. Here, -too, is De Gray, C. Martin, prominent in thea short way up we find the fain -
the coa„per,and Rodney Adams�tpu'blic life cf Gcderich. J. Coos old school at the corner of
famous maker of grain cradles.' Le'I ousel afterward owned 'tl•te 'lie- `-"iir" T' concession and the
Looking, past the tavern on same farm.
the other side you see, on the Barking away from this hill,
brow of the hill, up- past the we go „to the left, over a shaky
division line. Over the way is
the Canada Company's Falls Re-
serve, nearly 1,000 acres of vir-
shop of the Scotch blacksmith, 'bridge, past the carding mill cin forest, with a small fringe
Sinclair Meiklejohn, the garden' end its darn, and there, over cleared along the division line,
and young nursery of John another small bridge, crossing toward the village, anal owned
'Stewart, who afterward supplied the creek for a third time, we by Joe Miller, a bachelor bro-
the 'homegrown strawberries to.camp to the sawmill on the I they of Ben, who ended kir days
IGod'erich stores when the, first right and another dam on the !here, at the home of Heddle the
Dominion Day - was _celebrated loft. What hiding places_there
carpenter.
in 1867. . are for speckled trout- along Soldier -Schoolmaster
Firs+ Colborne Farm this creek! Past the mill yard, But our interest is in the
with dts piles of logs, is the
We shall turn, however, to
building, which is voting place,
the right, over the millrace, Fisher blacksmith shop, trair>ing meeting house and school corn -
with the gristmill dam ori the ;Mound of the Fishers, after- bined, and in the schoolmaster,
/'eft. Beyond another hill, along ward well known foundryiiren ArthurMolesworth, a Crimean
- r, The Goderieh ° Signal -Mars Thursday) 1A t 4fh, t14000
r . Clark Heads The ushers
Twilight Meet
More than 40,0 'Huron farm
people attended, the annual twi-
light meeting of the Huron Soil
nd Crop Improvement Associ-
ation, Tuesday night. of last
week'- at the Huron County
f n „I 13ceauseU'of.:,„a..-steady.
downpour of rain, the program.
started at '7.30 p.m., with the
men taking cover in the barn.
'Clarence aw, •Wingham, first
vic.e�president of the association,
Was chairman for the men'sypr�os:
gram, assisted.b.yeG urge. Wheat-
ley,; R.R. 2, Dublin, second' vice-
president.
Dr. Stanley Young, of the
field husbandry department,
O.A.C., 'Guelph, spoke on the
rod -row tests of barley and oats,
shown in demonstration plots at
the Huron County farm;,, Alex
Chesney', Seaforth, weed inspec-
tor for Huron, explained spray
programs followed with . the
plots; C. H. Kingsbury, of the
field crops branch, OAC, Guelph,
spoke on hay and pasture; Jack
Murray, London, regional soils
supervisor for Elkin, !Middlesex,
Perth and Huron, spoke on fer-
tility.
Miss Beth Tillman, home
economist for Huron County,
conducted the ., women's pro -
units., held- in. the .H011. audi-v
torium. A talk on flower -garden-
ing was given by Prof. J. Weal',
horticultural department, QAC,
Guelph.
The president of the associ`a-
tion,..,,....William Clark, R.R. 5,
Goderich, conducted a joint pro -
';ram, at which....greetings from
Huron County were extended by
Warden John Durnin, reeve of
West Wawanosh; from the HCH
committee of county council, by
Reeve William Morritt, Blyth;
the Huron agricultural commit -
tem; -Tte ei rrientine_Becker;
Har -Town sh ip eee
The event was arranged 'by
Douglas Mils, agricultural rep-
resentative for Huron, with the
assistance of the HCH superin-
tendent, Harvey Johnston, and
the county farm manager, Stan-
ley Collins.
War veteran and heft to an
entailed estate in the north of
k -la -rill. Beside the- school,
ward the village, stands the
master's house. His wife ;is a
cultured lady, a relative of the
well-known Lizars family. A
little book could be written
about this pioneer ° soldier -
schoolmaster. Early in the 70s,,
after Mr. Molesworth had. taught
for a short' time at St. Helens,
undcf%`•'P'nspector J. . Miller, the
estate in the Old Country re-!
verted to him and with his lam-'
ily he assumed his former sta-
r tion, and the Canadian (Tommie
became one of the Ulster gen-
1 try. I had always been a.
I gentleman. ;
WALES BRENTWOOD aF the' gr+ o , r, +c 'be .
mere 110. Iritvit
Archdeacon F. H. !Wase oiliel- Owen and 71(x. rrank lxj ha
ated at the 'Weddingin Christ's A reception was held t .
Church !Cathedral, Hamilton, on Rainbow Room. Mto r wedditkft
July 23rd twhen Sandra Evelyn, trip. to !Qttrawa and alone, the
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Leon- St. Lawreaee River toQi e *e
and A. Brentwood and grand- City, i'MIr. -alut Mrs. 'Wales' Will
daughter of Mrs. H. Lednor, live on Mountain Park twenuee •
Port Albert,became the bride Hamilton.
of David 'William Wales, spa of Prior to . her wedd'it g 'the
Mr. and Mrs.-R,olberat. J. -Wales, 'bride,.., was 'honored at num
Hamilton. Mx. Brentwood gave erOus,Shosirers. The bride's eo.'
his daughter in marriage and workers on the clerical stair 04
'd-. fko,l�tnuit,„sue; f, . r,. azred4-1.12e. the Hamilton Board of thea
wedding tion entertained at a,. shower
The 'bride wore a dregs of and presentation party at the
white silk organza with a por- board, of education 'building.
trait neckline and long sleeves. Mrs. Roy Shirtier, aunt o f tl
An inset --Cf organza trimmed bride, entertaine4 at a, ;buffet
with. .nquilas enhkaneed..s.,t, - sup! -.- r.. kz 31l~ d: :,par', c c ,•.
bodice,. .a i „anatelling_ white lowing the rehearsal. • .
bow ,headdr trimmed with
sequins held °Flier' finger-tip
veil: She carried red roses,
white feathered carnations and
stephanotis.
Attending the bride were her
s'ister, Miss Lucille Anne frent-
woodt as maid of honor'; Mrs.'
Lawrence Furlong, of . Burling-
ton, and Miss Jennie Zilany.
Their dresses 'were of pink chif-
fon with matching 'bolero jack-
ets, and they wore tiara head-
dresses with circular `veils:
White and pink carnations form-
ed their bouquets.
(38 EAST St. • JA 4.7b12
" 1:Vfr: 'Robert A. Wales, brother 22t.
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THURSDAY, AUGUST ll
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Tom Thumb" and Billy The 'laid
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