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1 started ortt , by saying how
sensible It X if we all
F" rester Oourt Benmiller had,
o minrabedcach would btrrifhe-rrininv
to the cl' les- ke the birds--• when in v
the pleaisure o�#°playing Bost. 1 n li l
members of Court Brant No• 85' ear caught something' on `1°°. V.
and thei'i' wives of Brantford,
.. - � about the lairds, 'butterflies etc
Ontario, who journeyed by bus toerr long,long ,
and rth ` • 1 trips .each
Benmiller on the evening of year.
January 22• Al' , " 1 rushed in in time to see
• Durtngthe evening a plaque was a Arctic Snowgeese
resented to the two local courts pictut e5 of the
P q migration.
OF, Srotaher' Otis Edgar, • • Taken from aircraft 'hundreds. e ati ' the gift ofho ever of feet above the: birds, the
comm mor ng e g Head? a Y •
-.,, furniture to the local lodge by a ' ' looked like tiny flower petals-
"`Coe tr Lite iS rie of thos cho Q 1 of • the noted that the "authorities .were thousands'.-
...Court Brant. ;, n .y f � e Engineering, .. S o. ti h ousands'.••of
° -,= v°u t 'r.y s l -pub inti tea-blSltes tfi if .a cr a ,--opa t i thj li; .:; l rig ars e
supplying music And ,-other every week, and y week it detachment 01;the the Lancashire. lookouts stationedortbpth Side$ of Such sights as this always m:a•ke
a4 � Y every. ,. ��p- g � ..
GerryGinn as emcee, it proved to amazes with the diversity of the Fortress", Royal Engineers, the track. This only. proved a ` ;rile realize how very fortunate we
be a• Very, enjoyable social get, treasures that it turns up- Why on Territorial Force, and it was this •., more compelling challenge•Wnich are, since very few people would
' together. * earth Should the issue -' for detachment which provided the demanded an answer' just toprove aver see such .a sight from the
The evening of February 17 was ""December 2nd 1971 have a .,'personnel to.ma'n and operate the ' to ourselves we had not lost, our ground. It is a lot different looking
one tube remembered by district photograph of ".:Fanad Head .� searchlights and ' telephone . ~cunning. 1,.......,:.... -1 Down,on such a sight, too, aS the
Foresters when the degree team Lighthouse, Co. Donegal, at the communications of the Mersey Thosewere the days wheri:both earth patterns were just beaptiful
'from Court Constance jfk...rneyed entrance to Lough Swilly? About ' Defences as well as those of the the postal and telegraph sei"vices and you sure wonder how the
to the Benmiller lodge tosist in the same time' Volume 3 of the North Irish Coast. As a result, _functioned with despatch, farmer ever managed to arrange
, the initiation of seventeen new Life of Churchill, covering., the . each summer from, 1911 onwards otherwise the telegram which such patterns in his fields.
members into the Court. .years 1914 to 1916 is published, wq spent 14 days at Dunree and , eachtf us received on August 4th . Ttie fields trorn above look like
Present, •- also, were the and we are bidden to relive the ' Lenon, so that we would fit into would never have reached us. It a colorful patchwork' quilt with
members of the Huron District hopes and fears which beset the place when mobilisation was would be interesting to find 'out . tirriyaniesfa.ricv v stitches around
Council of this area who held their early. days of World War I. ordered,' what steps the War Book takes
regular meeting the same Churchill was First Lord of the Reading my penciled remarks today to call up its reserves in Earlier this winter I saw some
evening. One main item 'of Admiralty and saw that the Fleet after nearly 60 years, it is very w a r . T h u s w e pa r a d e d a t fantastic geometric. designs in
business being the hosting'.of the was ready and in position on certain I had mastered the easy. Tramway Road H•Q. to draw our shades of grey to `white when
1973 Dominion' Curling Finals ° August 4th. As Lord Fisher said art of writing a non -diary; a -r i'f I e s, 5 0 rounds of ba 11 ' f 1 v i n g ov e r t ti e A ni e r i c a n
being held at the Maitland Country to him: "They can't take that away ; .colle tai n of acts', with seldom, if ° ammunition, identity discs and • ' mountains and plains. 'It actually
Club. • .. from you." And then, on October" ever, a mention of thought or undergoa very informal medical looked like something, an engineer
Lunch was ably served by • 2 7th 1914, the battles hip argument. No spiritual relief exam. ' o r a r• t i s t fi a d ,1'00 n e , s i n c e
, members of Court Fascination. "Audacious" was sunk by from the boring materia 1 _ . : Arrived at Dunree, three of us l Verything had been n covered with
. This all added up to a full house German mine just outside Lough whatsoever. And yet, perhaps were the next day by the, VV'D• snow and the Auec�i circles,
.
and' an enjoyable evening for all. Swilly andCburchill..was to write. after all it does convey a'vivid launch ,"Abercorn,' to Fanad squares, triangles and trvery
On Saturday, February 19, later on: ( ")'`'`I do not`remember•^'r impression of an eventless . Head where wv were to•relieve the shape you c0i,1 1 think ot, were
members of the ladies' and men's any period when the weight of the routine of watchkeeping night five coastguards of all telephone d
` courts travelled ' to Norwich -to War - -seemed-- -to- press -more--- -after--night, •-all•-seemingly to: no duties: We shared a bell-tent.with
compete in the Southern Ontario .heavily on me than these months purpose. I can recall how we some. Special Reservists of the '
curling play -down. This covers of October and November 1914." prta.yed for gun to loosed off to Royal Inntskilling Fusiliers who
four zones, Oshawa, Fergus,- On August 6th 1914 by some , catch some unsuspecting ,were nominally doing guar`cduty
Brantford and Goderich being strange concatenation, -I found minelayer with its pants down. and t on the installation, but whose
represented..:' . . myself in a bell •tent •just outside ' to see him in:our beam blown sky main form of exercise was to -get ,
The local curlers wee highly • the Lighthouse and Coastguard high. gloriously tight every time they
successful with both' ladies' and quarters at Fanad Head, ant} for . Hall started for mein 1912 and were paid. AltogetherFanad was
men's teams coming out on top, several boning months to follow, thereafter Bach August, we would a God -forsaken. h o 1 e , t h e
This gives these winning. teams the Lough Swilly Defences were to ' assemble in full marching order monotony' - be i ng broken_
the right to compete .in *the • be our Mobilisation. Station. ' at Princes Dock, Liverpool and occasionally when. the. night
Dominion Curling. Finals °in ' • To carry the train• of thought there embark on ' the Belfast ' sentry would challenge the
Portage La Prairie, . Manitoba, one Stage further, I unrolled some ' steamer "Heroic." Our send 'off rotating light in a stentorian voice
held the"latter part of March. , papers which had.not-heen touched was invariably punctuated by which could be heard abdve th'e
` ' Benmiller had the distinction of for 57` years, only to find ''they-- shouts from the Liverpool Irish of waves dashing on the rocks below.
•, romPeting in the Dominion Finals were my diary for , the period `a To hell •with the Pope" after Eat, sleep, go on watch, for 8
last year in Lloydminster, Sask, spent in, Ulster in 'happier days • which we steamed out past the hours; hear tall tales. of 'the
- ' .The`winning teams in Norwich than those of the present. Lough • forts at Seaforth and New. , progress of the war, never
were as -.follows: ladies', -rink • Swilly is a'long, narrdw inlet into Brighton, docking, invariably ,in • forgetting the Cossacks who were
skipped ' by Eileen Bowman, °. the north 'coast. of Donegal,- rain, at Belfast at 6 arm. From "landed" in £Scotland' where
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-vicois--V•anstone; second— -
----exte.n-di-ng- 3-0- m-il_e-s-.p-a-st--._the.rewetook train_forDerry via 'clouds of witnesses saw them d
Eleanor Fisher, lead -Betty" , Buncrana, a vi Wage of some 3000° An -rim Ballymena , & brush the snow' off their hoots . as
Moore.. to •Letterkennand it is deep Ballymoney. At Derry we took the they landed., Com e to think of it, it
7 Men's rink skipped by Ivan water all the way. Because of this metre gauge railway to Buncrana must.have been amazing snow too,
Rivett, vice-J•Leonard Bowman, • and the doglegging of the.Lough it on the . Lough, ?reaching Fort because it "had not melted when
second -Ver -dun Vanstone,
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as a Fleet anchorage `Dunree in a procession of jaunting they • got to London, where
in time•ef Waf,,for-it was possible .:..-.=ear-s; -r- a- 1i gh1y unmilitary hundreds -more saw.them--and bore
to accommodate the whole of the . operation! p wrtne s., "
• Q, -an. Fleet of 1914 without any The rail portion of this journey , re was an'occasion when the4
,
portion of it being visible from the was not without its moments for it light cruiser Juno shepherded
still Su
youhgroup-';: -
The St. Peter's Youth Group.is
off, and is going at a smooth rate
now. It" has been in effect for
almost a month, and the support of
the teens is still great.•
Last Sunday they held a variety
night at St. , Mary's School. Bruce
Heath as guest speaker was the
main interest of the:_ night. He
brought an interesting film based
on the work of a social 'worker. response was unsatisfactory, to
c ,Thegroup is trying to organize phone the batteries to sink the
aa trip't th
Science Centre and when the_ was much morethan a light which the few railway servants whose
executive "council asked who blinks in the darkness, and the wrath was sufficient to make our
wanted to go, everybody reacted five coastguards; could on effort worth while•. -The pre-war
to show they did. Fattier ,Hayes is occasion, hold the safety of the years gave us success, which we
conducting the mission this week whole Battle Fleet in their hands. repeated at Derry with the metre
for the. teenagers, ,Some of the students of 'the gauge line. But'by 1914 it was
Such a superb natural hideaway (i.e. in 1911, 1910, 1909) had "Attila," and the prisoners' were ,
needed protection which took the annually prepetrated a nuisance marched through" Derry. There
form of two forts on4'the east bank which took the form of uncoupling was also the. occasion 4v, -lien
and close to the mouth. These 4 some 80 per cent of the carriages, ,t r a w 1'er p o p ped into o u r
--,were°Lenan, -the•-more•-nerther1-y;. --just sear.c.bui,gb,t_,_,bea.m,.. failed to- .
• with two 9.2 inch guns and Dunree p r oc, e e d . The locomotive - satisfy the m,en at Fanad, 'was '
with two 6 inch guns. Fort Dunree surprised and encouraged by its fired on by the gips at Dunree,
also housed the searchlights light load ,,would rush ahead, only whereupon the skipper ran his
which were called upon by the to be halted by most of -the station vessel ashore near Portsalon.
battery commander to illuminate staff running after it. Arrived at* It was notuntil late October that
any ship entering the Lough which the -thriving linen manufacturing
did not give the appropriate code town --"of Ballymena (14,000 pop,)
signal.' This was where, , the this artifice would be. repeated
Coastguard at. Fanad Head came and more • especially here,
into the picture, for it was their because of the presence of a red -
responsibility to challenge any headed and bearded station
intruder by signal lamp and if the master who ''invariably came
close to apoplexy when a
d y to Toronto to visa a successful uncoupling had been
vessel Thus it was that Fanad
effected. Actually he was one.. of
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to our absolute surprise the White
Star liner "Olympic," with
• hundreds of American
passengers, sailed into the Lough
by day with all portholes blacked
out, continuing down' the Lough to
moor somewhere near-
Letterkenny where few would see'
her. Speculation.became rife but
it was clear that every effort was
being made to hush up scone
disaster. Inevitably there were,
those who now recalled seeing an
orange flash on the horizon, well
to the west and there were sounds
of gunfire.'As everyone came to
know five weeks later, that is five
weeks after October the 27th,
Admiral Jellicoe had withdrawn
the Fleet to the north of Ireland
far a spell of "make and mend"
and', perhaps, a little - gunnery
practice. 'By chance the Fleet's
arrival coincided with a visit
from a German minelayer, whose
real objective was the Liverpool
trade route. But the shot at a crow
had brought down an eagle'
"Audacious" was only launched
In 1912, displaced 23,000 tons
(c.f. "Iron Duke" 25,000 tons)
mounted ten 13.5 inch and, sixteen
4 inch guns and had a speed of 21
knots and now she had been
-
ignominiously sunk just•off the
mouth of Lough Swilly.
Our boredom -was soon to be -
relieved..Kitchener was already .
busy raising his second 100000,
while Lord Derby managed to
recruit a complete -battalion in
just one lunch hour in Liverpool.
The boredom of a beautiful Irish
lou h was soon exchanged for the
Q' mu ;*'desolation and stench of
Belgium and Prance.
+ Page 397, The World Crisis
1911-1914,' by Winston. Spencer
Churchill. Thornton Butterworth
Ltd• 1923.
When You Shop
Say...
I SAW
-IT IN THE
SIGNAL
lying there like sodnethirtg on a
1,1ec e of Ii�itaez
The, reason for the .shades :of
grey ----it was after* -unset and the
twilight surely helped to create
such a sight as l will probably •
neves' see again. •
So I thank°the Lord 1•' mw living in
such a wonder4ul world where you
can view Such. things from above,
or below. •
Another thing --roost of us.
never see the rli`arvelous sets and,
arrangements fol this terrific
photography`. We don'tt stop to
of him". So you see, Antos; they
still love you. • fl
They hare- -beers :irery-:;busy,:,
everything is. spic and span and
they have promised to save some
dirty° dishes sp you Will have
something to do when '• you get
back. Can't have` you, getting.fat
and lazy, you know.
With all the.bad' storms, huge:
snow' drifts and` ail• the s.et of
, hiter--it -is •hard to belve the°
sun is ski. hot -,-when it dpes get
through, but Mary tells erne her
crocus and snowdrops are. poking
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are blooming before this month is
out `wanna a' -bet?. '
things are created -•Unless you
are an inquisitive creature, like
roe, always pulling things apart to
see what makes them tick.
I'trr•
,forever pointing out'
something in' the': background,
which' no one -was interested in
seeing anyway -interrupting the
flow of the, story Sorne day
someone will' give. me a polo and
shut rne -up-but that's, o.k., so
long as it isn't a poke ithe eve -I
don't want toe miss anything. "
So ---back to the migrating to ttie
sunny South, Amos and Mars.
Andrew are visiting son. Bill, in
Tampa, Florida -and just in case
they happen to get the Signal -Star,
1
wanted' to tell Amos everything
is just great at the Dairy. I
happened ---on one of my frequent
stops the-r`e-to say -when does
' Amos get back" when the girls
exploded ---.'Gosh. we just got rid
G�derlc
Hornern
Martha
A note from the Art Club -to .
those of yoU whoare interested in,
the Ando .cots �to the Studio
some Sundry evening -Your .
interest and',knowledge. will help
the club 'expand .to the Useful
v ,arksh0p it should be.
Think About it we NEJ1 'Y:ou'
'There are : many interesting
things besides oil -painting' to be
eneouraed-�sa co* out, . .
Don't forget°°Wed. . Martht 1.
The .-Fashion Shove °at North St•
Church° a
Frid •MVfareh S-- Wovvd'Day of
aY,
The first meeting of the
Dungannon Ill 4-H, C for
sleepwear got urlc er wa.v,
February 15 at Port A • rt.
MissCathy Culbert is'flie club
leader and'assisting her is MrS.
•Aileen Tigert. The meeting was
held at Mrs. Tigert's home. Seven
of eight members were present.•
After the election of officers
and other business, the topic for
discussion vas yWhat to look for
in buying sleepwear''. ,
The next meeting is to be held
Friday, February 25. at Mrs.
Tigert's home and the, members
are, expected • to have , their
material and patterns. ,
curlers, -on
the-
> clubs
'Goderich 411 Club
The second meeting of . the
Goderich 4H Club was opened with
-"the pledge, follov'ed by Rall Call •
The name "Sleeping Beauties"
was put forth by Viargiriia'Such, as.
the name for. thein group and
adopted. Minutes of the last
meeting were read by• Lynn
Mansell- and- approved. -
Members were shown how to
straighten material and to place
pattern on it. The home
assignment was to complete_
marking and cutting out patterns,
and to work on the record book.
Lunch was served at the' end of -
the meeting.
Marth.
This`curling'team from the Maitland Country Club-in-Goderich will
represent this community on February 25 and 26 wfiien they trove,! to
Owen Sound and play in the Southern Ontario Business Girls `.
Competition's there. Left to right are,Maxine_Martin; skip; Kay
Graf, vice, -Bev Wright, second, Wilkinson, Wilkinson, lead. and , Effie
Gilbert; spare. ..-staff photo
k of left to right, Bernice and trio Moore and Bertha end Bonspirldist, Nl'Marys nti urdey. in ddition ► thv trophy, 1 cilli
Ape rink Q e . , thewinnrngrink members resent with a watch, halos
9 t
Alvin McGee, defeated two London ,-silk- to=,thin• the first draw and � � +� . �'
were over all trophy winners by 14 points in the 'Smiths Jeweleit . -. bon McGee