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The Wingham Advance-Times, 1979-07-25, Page 26--own r t�.lti P Hin*cW on steps, straighten your backbone, p 18—Advance-Times Cencdnnial Edition, 1978 throw back your shoulders and inhale the exhilarating, an- shovelling tiseptic winter air. Now look up and down the From the Dec. 19, 1884, issue of street until you see a boy. 4' The Wingham Times comes this Beckon to him. lecture on the art of shoe `�? snow, borrowed from The When he comes strike a bargain with him; give him the YhiladWphia Press • ,; �e job and Ito In to breakfast. ..First, borrow a shovel. Next, procure a pair of warm _ X: a mittens, a neck wrap of some �a ?' kind, a bottle of arnica and a , ? chest protector. Ar Now you are ready for work. Open the front door and push some of the snow from the front step. Now, having donned overshoes, which we forgot to mention, slip s out and close the door after you, • z ;;:,� � �A� , being careful to fix the deadlatch s�� n so it will not lock. Take the shovel a ; z in the right hand, the thumb E upward and the fingers clasped r.t� �, `r firmly but not too tightly around h x`$ the handle. Many persons cramp a.a their fingers by taking too close a grip, a practice which also tends to irritate the tender skin on the inside of the palm. Rest the steel end of the shovel on the step, placing one foot a �. little behind the other, and lte the handle sink of its own weight to a� an angle of 45 degrees. Be careful "'�� hi 1 f to this IF Welcome to Wingham Congratulations gingham! about t s ang e, or up time the principle of a pivot is The Kenyon -Herb, Theresa, Ernestine and Paul being used and if the angle is more acute than 45 degrees it will MODEL BRIDES—A group of young ladles modeled bridal Smith); Edna Carr; Vern Galbraith. The back row Included be a sign that you are obtuse. wear on the steps of the United Church some years ago. In Caroline McDonald, Mrs. Harry Brown and Hazel Wilson. Now bring forward the left eluded In the group are Evelyn McKay, died -front; Mrs. The youngsters in front are Ken Hingston and Sally Lou hand and gently grasp the handle Hugh Mundell ( Elaine Small); Mrs. Jack Reavie ( Florence McWilliams. (Photo courtesy of Mrs. Ross Anderson) just two thirds of the way from the top, raising the implement about seven and a half inches into the air for that purpose. If you take hold too low you force your • • right arm to do double work as ��� your left hand is merely a �o'� Of moveable fulcrum. If too high this evil is increased. The shovel, IX if properly made, will nearly • balance when the left hand is in S an 30s just the right spot and after a few unngthel920 experiments this point can be determined and if 'necessary indicated by a pencil mark. (Caren Smyth In this fascinating and bars, always, as I can still recall, and buttered corn made it im- There was the old post office It is well now to slowly swing possible to ass. The first hot where I was sometimes sent for the shovel backward and forth in beautifully written article a local wrapped in blue and silver paper. the air with the hands in the Ip woman, who chooses to remain. On occasions when I didn't go dogs and ice cream cones sold for stamps or money orders to five cents each from outdoor Eaton's and Simpson's. Order position indicated until you anonymous, recalls her ex- into town my grandfather always periences as a .child with the came home with his overcoat booths here and at Merkley's offices were unheard of then. acquire the proper motion. shops and the people up and down pocket full of these delicious garage (Texaco) across the haiss red dis lady diminutive ite-gracious Next, in order not to get out of Wingham's main street. In doing goodies. I remember climbing up street. breath, rest the shovel on the Wshe succeeds in conjuring up his legs to look in his pockets for a Just south of George Moir, Mr. manner, or Dorothy (Piper) so nostalgic visions of an era now bar, while he used his magic trick Haugh had a shoe repair shop. I Manuel, with her friendly smile, remember his kind face and big usually made out the orders. It so kept quiet. gone by. of switching them to the other back. For moustache. He walked with a was a very warm building where Holmdale Creamery in the 0-0-0 pocket from behind his ba It is a remarkable fact that as many years I thought ck. Forrds limp and scarcely came out to the many people & .:. ,,:,ted to get southern part of Josephine and made the bars in some kind of warm and chat over the steam counter. The front of the shop, the UFO at the northern end re - we grow up and get older places huge empty and gloomy, ran radiators as they looked out the ceived the farmers' produce, the and buil ' s, inside and out, secret chocolate factory. large windows across to the town dung down hill to the back where he g money from which was mostly . seem to shrink both in size and worked. Here you picked up your hall. Above the Post Office on the spent in the stores along the main importance. GENERAL STORES own shoes. The charge was second and third floor Mrs.,- street. This centennial year, with allOn shopping days when we re- usury 25 The regardless of George Hanna lived. I remember The CNR station was a busy its nostalgic pictures and talk, quired dry goods such as clothing what he did. A small amount of going up the long winding stairs hub and for me an adventure in has stimulated my memory of or yard goods, my mother just sewing was usually "on the to get my piano lesson. At the top itself. The ticking of the tele- . �Ilbe good old days. For those who went to one store, perhaps Mills house". I could never understand of the third stair section I picked grams coming through and the Darlene Murray Ohare my age group, how much of ( now The Advance -Times) , why he didn't work by the win- up a brass mallet and struck the advertising posters lured my toymusings can you remember Kings (Walter's) or Isards dow in the front. bell to announce my arrival. She imagination to far away places. I Lipp (Hayes). Here one could pur- appeared and sent me to the remember leaving, on what 1 'As a child that grew up outside chase everything under one roof. JITNEY DANCES drawing room to await my thought was a huge train, before the town, my memories may not These stores also bought your lesson. daylight one morning in late be as vivid as some who lived in eggs and butter by simply count- When I grew older (at least t- The Walker Store (Cameron's) December to spend Christmas Wingham. Our trip shall not be in ing the eggs and weighing the or more) we all had fun at the jiwas a dry goods and clothing a direct line down the street. The butter. The produce usually paid ney dance on Al s dance floor (old chain. Miss Murray, a clerk in with relatives south of Detroit. curling rink). Arthur's and Mr. Rich used to drive a bus that brightest spots in ,my memory for the groceries and dry goods. Farrier's orchestras played on that store, brings warm transported passengers to and gain will be the places I fre- If they exceeded the farm pro- dmemories of shopping there. from both stations to the two quented the most. duce by a small margin, the dif- the Platform area, surrounded by Gibson's Bakery (Mclntyre's), hotels. I never had an occasion to A 1920 trip ,for any child down ference was usually forgotten as cedar bows. For five cents a Hanna Haselgroves SmSmokedance we had fun for the evening s, ride on that bus, but I would have Josephine Street was sure to clerks Herb Jobb and Annie Shop (restaurant), Sturdy's Pool liked to. begin or end at Mrs. Cummings' Baker in Mills' store or Alex before joining our families for home. Room (north of the Lyceum A familiar sight on Josephine little shop (now Bondi fruit mar- Coutts in King's store nodded Theatre) Adams' Feed Store Street was Mr. Sanderson with ket). For a nickel I could leave their approval. If mother Pur- Carter's Bake Shop (Tom ' (Maitland Redi-Mix), Foxton s his � cart and broom, sweep - with a large bag of penny, 2 for a chased print material and a half Miller real estate) always had P penny and 4 for a penny candy, yard remained on the bolt it was stacks of huge warm loaves of Store (Dominion MBank) Band ing up the horse manure and gar - not to mention what was already usually "thrown in with the lot bread, which Mrs. Carter or one bage. Bill Stokes with his one - Dominion Stores (Miss Harris), horse wagon and tub on the back in my mouth. I had also had the as it wasn't worth rpuch anyway. of the family wrapped in white are all stores I remember very atheredg u the garbage and Darlene Snyder delicious experience of picking I can remember doing my entire paper tied with string. Since four well. g p out the peppermint and cinna- Christmas shopping in Mills' loaves were baked a one large Bill Davidson's implement and waste products from the stores. mon sticks with the added bonus store with one dollar. And in- pan they usually were sold to Sa a hot day in summer Mr. ether. Mr Carter had a little well -drilling shop (Howson's), Sanderson's big tank wagon, of a ring with a colored stone eluded in that price was a gor- g where my father often went for a drawn b a team of huge Cl des- settin marshmallow -sha ed eous le silk handkerchief Pekingese dog, which used to Y g Y g' p g pm'P accompany him in the car in visit, revealed a harrow being _dales, sprinkled water on the peanuts, red strawberries, hore- with a lace edge for my mother. Pa Y fitted with teeth or cleats being main street to keepit clean and hound sticks, licorice pipes, I remember times, #o in the summer when he delivered put on old-fashioned steel tractor cool. I envied the children who toffee bars and chocolate ani- winter, when our horse was bread. The bread paper made an wheels. •mals. Maybe I changed my mind stabled in the Anglican church excellent source of white, paper to lived. in Wingham, for they in write and draw on, for in those NEEDLES AND PINS their bare feet followed the and replaced the toffee bars for shed. When shopping was cod days nothing was wasted. Miss Weir on Victoria Street wagon, running in the cool water. pink gooey suckers. pleted we met dad at Alex Ross's Mrs. Cummings didn't mind. hardware (Maitland Restaurant) Jack Fryfogel (Burke's and was a dressmaker. I remember I always had to wear my shoes to She sat on her stool behind the where many men sat around a Simpson's) had a car salesroom going there with mother for town, so for that sport I was an glass candy case, her voluminous pot-bellied stove and chatted on here. Although Jack sold new and fittings for dresses and coats she onlooker. long dark skirt acid white apron Saturday afternoon. Alex was a used cars, he also bought hay and made for me. I can always re- And so, in this centennial year, straw for the cows and horses member laughing as I declared 1979, I salute Josephine Street in enveloping the whole area. I can jolly, stout man with a head of still see that kind face with thick white hair and a round which were often part of deals she tickled me when she pinned Wingham. May you and all your glasses slightly off her nose and smooth smiling face. Dad would made with farmers. For a period in the seams. I didn't laugh when merchants and people continue to wisps of soft brown hair curling go for the horse and we would of years he owned the livery 1 got jabbed with a pin once in a prosper and build memories for around the white collar of her watch over the snowbanks at the stables (bowling alley) that had while. I thought that went with the next 100 years and the Vicki Beasley dress. That amount of merchan- door until they arrived. It was previously been owned and the price of a new dress or coat, generations that are to come. dise for a nickel was bound to im- important that we be ready, for operated by Bob Beatty. Here he press any child. Of course she our horse didn't like standing and kept horses as well as providing a also sold bread and groceries at was always anxious to be on her place for horses to be stabled the back of the shop. Often I had way home. while in town. to wait while my mother or Isard's store (Hayes and the Further north on Josephine, grandmother purchased gro- store north of it) was a fascin- the Misses Graham had a gro- ceries. Those times I had the ating place for me as a child. eery store (north of Bailey's Dairy). Todayit would be called opportunity to mentally prepare Many stools throughout the aisles a '`Health Food Boutique". It was my combinations of candy with provided seats for customers. my nickel and change the order Miss Taylor is also very vivid in small but stocked all the staples. care- invariablyas I sought out the m memo as one of the clerks. These commodities were Y memory full weighed and packaged. The k� best buy. From both the men's store, the Y g P g Winters in the ZOs and early 30s ladies' department upstairs and store also sold crockery used in did not involve travel in a car. the household department down- homes for storing butter and prej The quantities. large I Our faithful trotter and the cutter stairs, a series of wires con- serves in g q I rIU1 bring back memories, if not the netted a little trolley that carried fondest memory I have of this warmest, of trips to Wingham the cash to the screened -in office little store is the pots of ivy and through, up and over the various where Miss Isard, the cashier, creeping plants that completely pitch holes and ruts that were sat. She sent the change and bill covered the front window and then Highway No. 4. Our horse back. I could have sat all after then were trained overhead to the was frequently stabled in noon watching that magic cage hock of the store. la rd's shed, behind their hotel goingand coming.I thought she New shoes are an event for any anddx�pping mill (The Home was most kind d generous to child and my memories of having t Place, now). always give people back some of shoes fitted seem to be equally When m mother and l com- their money.divided between Willis's and y� pleted our shopping we usually Summertime brings back Greer's shoe stores. Mr. Willis y met Dad or grandfather inside slightly different memories. was a short man, endowed with° ,. the hotel sitting room, where we Saturday night all stores on the enjoyable. Irish wit, who liked of warm and bundled u for the whole street were o until 11 joking with children. Mr. Greer B p 1 drive home. Mother often talked and 12 o'clock. The street was a was a tall stately man with thick to Mrs. Lepard and exchanged buzzing beehive of activity from grey hair and rimless Pince-nez recipes and flower slip@. From a Red Front Grocery, Wept's spectacles. His smile as he fitted small kind of shop here Charlie. Pizza) to George Moir's little you with shoes revealed gold Lepard, his son Bill and later his booth (Laidlaw Appliance) filled teeth, which I thought grandson Bill sold chocolate nut where the smell of freshly popped meant he was very wealthy. o Pat Grazier Wilf Cote Debbie Fisher Magdalene Stangen Lucille Cote Jean Pattison The management and staff of Turnberry Tavern invites all former residents and visitors to drop in for a meal or a quick coffee snack during your visit. Turnberry Tavern Highway 86 East Wingham - Remember the Old Queen's Hotel - Housing the stationery store operated by Jack Mason, now the home of Harris Stationery? Miss Harris and staff would like to welcome everyone to join in our 100th Birthday Cele- bration. We wish one and all a happy time reminiscing with old friends and neighbours. Please feel free to drop in and browse while enjoying the gala events. Best Wishes Wingham from Harris Stationery 4 1 A