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The Goderich Signal-Star, 1961-05-11, Page 8$ "4 Goderich Sign 1 -$to, Thursday, May 11th, 19611 Watch .Qut ForInvaSi9fl Scare For Bayfield & Goderich Falser Alarm In 70's Spring brinks more than just April showers and May flpwers. it also -brings strangers to your ctoor selling doubtful services. Keep your eyes peeled if you don't want to be swindled. sL ire s �; tt pened in a nearby town: ee eQnp1e efeen, Pe e,?W ea: fertilize a. lawn.. for lust cfive I cents a foot. ,The tot was just 140 by 100 feet but the lady dict I not figure it out because it sounded like a bargain. It cost $200. Later she learned the "fertilizer" was just sand and water. Another pair offered to make a , the asphalt driveway as good as new. They put on old crank- case oil. A "nurseryman" plant- ed shrubs that did not grow because they were discards with no (decent roots. ' Most people have heard of the ,r wandering repair men who fix chimneys and roofs that don't need fixing and then collect all they can get. Some of them are now in jail. Obviously, it is farbetter to buy at home. Goderich and other towns around have plenty of honest workmen. After the job is done, you know where to find them. The duty of man is plain and simple, and consists of but two points: his duty to God, which top flavor approval of a every man must feel, and his giving it the official stamp duty to his neidone bhbby , to do as he ':�iiM1 7"�",' L# t cdYJ'� .1J.:Y'.P•YYA'e? +9itFi ld W. "f"1C+l.oiee4`itti '.i't artie1e, a former resident of Tuekerse4tIteeeleeeekieeeeeeee? tions in <r"Huron duxeng e seventies.) Canada butter, eirst grade! With Marlene Oldfield, Toronto, sharing infedera governmentthe ri- ence, C., A. •Morrison, grader, registers pound of butter, of • quality. I the spring of 1•$65, at the age' of six years, I started to at- tend school in ,S.S. No. 2, Tuck- ersanith. Nearly every leg house et that time was well .filled with strong lusty boys and girls who were attending school. There were no old maids going around then advocating (birth control, !or telling mothers how to raise their !child'ren. I did not attend schoalethee follawing winter, as the snow w!as so .deep that a little chap could notget through en 'account of there being high nces on both sides of the d the snow sometimes the top of them. rail road, drifted force. I was not able to attend eve ,,clear *tete ,-.af,tgxnQon,, and -Merl' tot ''h'atYle`I''became <nideb worse and my brother, Andrew, was sent to Brucefield :for. Dr. Munroe. The doctor thought that (my skull was fractured, and it was some time before 1 got better, •olid he advised my par- ents not to send rue to school any snore that year, and told 'my father to take me out with loin as much as 'he could. He was a member of both 'the township and county councils that year and he started to take me out to the meeting,$ of the township councils, They met quite often in . Egmond'v+iile, either at• John Daly's or at Widow Robertson's Hotel, 'and sometimes in Seaforth; as all of See'.forth south of the. (Huron gttently 'togetbher. I remember a few Of the Rulon men, one of whom 'being Thomas Gibson, of Wroxeter. He was a fine singer, andtI believe the only member of the -council who was a total abstainer. Haimphrey Snell, of Hul1'ett, was a meneber, and a fine big jolly man he was. He invited me to came up and visit his boys, but I 'never saw them until 1 reached manhood. • The Fenian Raid Excitement r A ejl e' -, t';d .. It 1thi elliM the time of the Fenian 'Raid, d:., arge,. cul he _QUM/4. volunteers With' red coats from Huron and Bruce were in Gude- rich to repel the Fenian in as - ion, should they attempt to land there or in Bayfield. The town of Goderich was fortified with Dille pits, and sentries were on duty both day and night. There was also a gunboat, which had arrived from England, (with blue jackets, rifles and Armstrong guns. About noun one day we got a proper scare. The -town bell was rung and a cannon was fired, and the reason given was that a suspicious looking vessel ,was coming in. Very black smoke was issuing from het funnel, and they were certain' it was the Fenians, for the Canadian ves- In the spring of 1866, when the weather got warm, I again started up to No. 2 in my bare feet, and my dinner in a little tin pail.. There was a large at- tendance, many of thepupils being big boys and girls. One day at noon, while the 'teacher was gone, two of the big boys got into a fight and one knocked the ` other down, and in falling hefell against me and knocked rile clown, and the back, of -my sels sburntwoad t3iose days. But all fears were allayed when it Was learned that 'the vessel was a United. States revenue cutter, under the -command of General Sherman, commander -in- chief of the American ,Army. The ves- relewas ,fully equipped, with tuti- formed men belonging to the naval service, and had the ap- pearance of a regular warship. road was then a part of Tucker - smith. The late William Muir was the township clerk and 'treas- urer. Ile 'was a bachelor; he had lost out in a love affair, as his girl ,, had married another suitor. Nevertheless, he was a hne man and had some of the finest apples 1 ever tasted, and which I very much admired in my boyhood day's.. Council At Meeting Of County The county council was to meet in June that year, and I wasvery anxious to go up with my father to the meeting. My mother was very much opposed to my going, as she was afraid that 'I might .get hurt or— -w.ne„d.;..at, the =counit ' "'''' and`; fake neat. ters worse, it was the .time of the Fenian Raid, and the battle of Ridgeway had been fought about ten days prior to the meeting of the county council, and a number of splendid young men-.hadebeen slain on that day. A report had circulated that the Fenians 'had `larided-at Bayfield, eft We visited 'both boats. The happened' and said that bis anier sion 'w'as to prevent 'any more rants from being made, and that they were patrolling the lakes and of that rivers ture would a occur t in the tutu're. Misfortune strengthens our fise would be- come weak and whichrflabby through non-use. American leoa't was: f.aebeauti• ulAtSallbitanarethA► x. , t �in�i4�i=���x'�{St'titi"g.wa�'•���1�- 10 times. Afresh herr fiend. ed. General Shertnman was seat- pd ie'teeh d of ithe-:t k . e, ing IvunCIi with- his- of cern and men. The British boat also yeas well equipped and manned" by a hardy ,looking let of British seamen; who no doubt 'would have made short work of the Fenians had they got an oppor- tunity. That night there was a ban- quet in Goderich, and Col. A. M. Ross told General She man' about the raid that the Fenians had made, and about the young men;:.who had' beer—Slain, and warned him if,they came again they would be treated al murd- erers and hanged. Sherman ex- pressed sorrow for what had which was not true, but there was more excitement in Huron' .County at that timethan during- -did' not to©k as if I (werg going to get, to iGodenich, (but by pro- mising to keep 'within sight of my dad all the tine, I was fin- ally allowed to go. We drove over to Seaforlh in the 'wagon, as there were very few -buggies- amiang the farmers inthose days, and one 'of my Qisters drove the team back home. Quite a few members of the county ,council got on the train at Seaforth, and 'a good many more .at Clinton,as that WOOL Jackson Aluminum Ltd. SEAFORTH 'WE CAN FINANCE YOU! Own Your Own Licensed WESTINGHOUSE LAUNDROMAT* Unattended Laundry Store Be your own boss while main- taining your present business, profession or job. No experi- ence necessary. 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Toronto BUSINESS DIRECTORY ,Roy N.13entley PUBLIC ACCOUNTANT Phone JA 4-9521 in Huron was the only railway County at that time. When we got to ,God,erich, we (went to the hotel and it (was somewhat crowded, end the pro- prietor said (we -would have to „sleep two in 2 bed. In the room ellotted to us were tevo beds. My father and I slept ein one, and Archie Bishop, the reeve of Usborne, and another councillor occupied the other bed. Slept- With His Boots On had gone:to bed, Mr. 'Bishop and his b9d,fellow came in. °At that meeting I believe nearly every member wore long boots and ieg to pull off his friend's long boots, but was (beatere. He then called to father and said; "John, you ere a strong man; get up end pull off his boots," Father get up and pulled long and strong, but could not budge the boots. Mr. Bishop said he would call Tames Gibson, and as he was a millwright he would sure- ly be able to pull them off: So he routed Mr. Gibson out of bed, and he came in with a de- termined look on his face, and started at the boots, first one and .then the other, (but could riot move them. He then said, "You will have to go to bed with your boots on," which he did. Next morning when I awake the boots were still on and stick- ing mit over the faot of the bed. When he got up he was not feeling very well and father told him that he had better not come ever to the ,council meeting, but he insisted that he was all right, and over he. went. They were discussing something that morn- ing and -up he jumped to have, his say. He stood speechless for a time and then scratched, his head and said, "I 'have lost my point," and sat down, .much to the amnsem,ent of the other members. The night he slept with his boots on wee (the last night we were in Godecich, and how he got Them off when he got home I never heard., Some Of The Old Time Members The county colincil et that time included HaT,On .and Bruce which were united', but that was the last year of the union, as the - following yen* the Bruce members met at Walkerton. The. members of that. council, I be- lieve, were a very (able body of mere both physically and Mental ly. They were nearly all, of British birth and pioneers. The' werden was Robert Gib bons; -le-aunty elerk was Peter Adamson, and the county trees= recollect, some of the Bruce members 'were fine speakers, Pnd I liked to listen to them. Quite a few of them were High- land Scotch and could's-peak the Gaelic, end several of them were fine singers. ',remember .bwo of them quite dietinotly. One was John! Gillies. 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