The Wingham Advance-Times, 1979-07-25, Page 42tea• �_a�e. Cnntenaial Edition, 1979 Lots of phones
in 1937 a r the HappyBirthda Wiinghal1937) P pe
Telephone News' has made its
r y L er recalled e I bow to Bell Telephone sub-
scribers in this district. Thi` one hundred years is a long, long time - but the residents of the
eft district is composed of the
changes at Durham, Hanover,
town who have gone before us built wisely for a good communityLucknow, Mount.
perWalkerton, Harriston, Coargill,
Holstein, Southampton and It Is a real pleasure to be a part of the business life of Wingham and
tory of newsphis Wingham. The manager of these to serve Its people. Best wishes for the next centuryl
exchanges is Mr. C. F. Holland of
town, with offices located here. A
A letter to the editor in the Cassel's Hill when a flood was in suit entered against The News this J. T. Mitchell came in from picture of Mr. Holland appears in
and The Advance, which, Blyth and started a thud paper, -
this first issue of the News.
April 17, 1924, issue of The evidence.
Wingham Advance Times (The There were some bright lights however, never came to trial. The Wingham Vedette. It was a That Wingham is telephone- - " -"�""
Advance had taken over The in the employ of The Times in The Times had been removed race to the death between The minded is shown by the number k
of telephones in use as compared t
Times earlier that year) shed those days: Bill Scott, now a to a building near the corner of Times and The Vedette and they 3� '
some light on the early days of government employee in Scott Street on Victoria, upstairs, both passed out the same week with other exchanges in the •� �** � ��a��
Jryctt�`
newspapers in the town. The Toronto; Billy Risdon, Bill when another peculiar incident The Times, however, was district. Witlgham comes second s-
writer. signing himself simply Stewart, W. E. Groves and lastly occurred. What the argument resuscitated at once, but 'Rte in business phones with 154.
"Old Timer", recalled the history Tommy Newman, the celebrated was about is beyond my ken, but Vedette plant was taken Walkerton has first place with
fAr
of the town's three papers tramp printer who was at that the late Thos. Holmes and J. M. elsewhere. Some years later the 178 Wingham leads in home
ns, who
through personal recollections time as clever a young man as Leet, two of Wingham's int Wee learned what he knewc- late Archie oof the art phones however, with 489.
and some amusing anecdotes. could be found anywhere. These tual giants of those days, Walkerton is second with 356.
Editor of The Advance, last named have all gone to their indulging in a wordy war through of preservation at The Advance There were 4.1 per cent more
Sir: eternal rest. Bill Scott, Billy the columns of the two papers. office, started a job office and business phones here in 1936 than
So Wingham has only one Risdon and Ed Groves were three Their pens were not poisoned afterwards a newspaper. It, too, in 1935 and the increase of 1936 ,
paper because The Advance has of the athletic ball team, and pens but they surely were dipped had a precarious existence and over 1935 for home phones was 6.5
absorbed The., Times! Surely Postmaster Musgrove was in wormwood or vitriol, so finally collapsed,per cent.
scathing were the arguments. I wonder how many Wingham
truth is stranger than fiction. another. g I
When the writer heard this and The Times was established in The Times was ready to go to Tories will remember the
started to think over it his mind 1872. and for a short time, it seems • ' press with a column in from the barroom incident when the late $ l
went back half a century ago. I to me, was printed in Clinton. pen of one of the writers. The Thos. Farrow, MP,.was standing
Latest fad
must be getting old, your readers Your venerable grocer, R. A. publisher decided to leave the on the Queen's Hotel bar, situat- .�
ears
ago Graham, will know all about this. article out and have more type ed on the corner where the The latest fad is a poverty .
will say. Anyhow,50 y g
The Advance and The Times The Advance was started in 1873 set the next day to fill up the The
store now is. It was a social, The Wingham Times
were both located on Victoria by C. Cliffe of Kincardine, still space. Somebody spilled the happy throng of victors. All at reported in 1894. Every woman WORLD
Street, which was at that remote living and quite actively engaged beans and the news t'mn a the once the floor gave way and the mut wear a calico dress ,and HOLIDAY
period as important a thorough- in newspaper work at the author of the column afore crowd, with a big box stove y
nearly red hot, went into the ever man his' old clothes. In
fare as Josephine Street. The Canadian Soo. mentioned. By some mysterious
post office was on Vicria Street Just here is a good place to tell means The Times edition was run cellar. Nobody was seriously ad
fftodition each one is fined 25 cents 357-2701
too, ff the corner to Leopold the tale of a shirt. The Times off during the night and when the hurt, although bruises and burns if he or she does not have a patch Wingham
on his or her clothing and a prize
Street, and what a rumpus was editor was A. C. Osborne. The boss got around in the morning he were plentiful. is given to the one wearing the
kicked up when it was removed to editor of. the Teeswater News was was a very much surprised man. So The Times, once a powerful rest clothing. A good chance Margaret Burkhart - Rosemary Fischer - Lori Snyder - Cindy Campbell
the stand now occupied by Robert Geo. Hagyard, a protege of the Nobody knew how it had hap political organ, has gone the wayfor newspapermen to shine, the �
Mooney. The Lower Wingham then editor of The Advance, the pened. of many another good old party. i 1
people were, of course, the ob- late James Fleuty. Mr. Osborne The Times changed stands paper. Throughout Ontario editor noted. r
jectors. stopped overnight in Teeswater, frequently. The plant was being during the war, when paper.
The Advance was located in a and that particular night a removed now from a stand in the prices went soaring to hitherto - / / - / - - / / / / 1011/ / / /
building since demolished that clothesline was robbed and some Queen's Hotel buildings to the unknown heights, both dailies ,
stood next to the old Abraham men's shirts disappeared. The room over ral cFlacases music and weeklies of type down into oblivion,
the score went on, and since the ; , ,
property; The Times was in a News inserted a four -line local store. Seveases r0W' O�double shop frame structure that about the theft and added that the slipped off the load into a foot of war many more have either been IereWith,
stood, I imagine, between the editor of The Wingham Times mud. Shovels were secured and eliminated by absorption, bank- ' ,
was in the village that night. Too about a wagon load of the road ruptcy or by amalgamation. The
Exchange Hotel stables and
Bradley's bakeshop. The mail good a joke to let it go, The Ad- was scraped up, but at that much day of the party press, more
from the east was brought in by vane copied it, and added that type was never recovered. especially since the formation of , stage from Clinton in those days Mr. Osborne hadn't been seen Finally the late Robt. Elliott got the union government, has gone WiFigham' • ,
wearing any new shirts since he
and sometimes passengers and possession of The Times and put by. The readers of weekly papers
the mail came by rowboat from was in Teeswater. Result, a libel it on a substantial basis. Prior to are not now looking to them for ' �� _
political leadership or guidance, � � " An expandi.^.g :ori oetnta firm like
nor yet for such mud slinging and ,
slangwha t articles between
ng ours is a reliable barometer of the
w; rt newspapers ed es.
rival n papers as used very � growth of the community it sere �
:•
frequently to be a disgrace to , 1
journalism. The people are As Wingham grows, so do we.
looking for news, live items of It's a real pleasure to pay our
interest, and one paper in a town
like Wingham can be made to fill _ = respects to the founders of this town ,
the bill, thus proving a saving to on whose beginnings the citizens have ,
man citizens and especially to.. -- _ �1'
y so wisely built for 100 years.
merchants who advertise their
r wares. It is up to The Advance- Time§ to make good and I believe ' �' — �' '% I Keep -up the Good Work
it will under the present able ,
leadership of yourself. - The Next 100 Years
Yours, Old Timer ,
3 .� .I X_ Will be even Better
DIONNE QUINTS 1
SWEETHEARTS , C Contact:
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F s, The Dionne quintuplets were
OFFICE 357-1341
the sweethearts of the country in ,
Md�xy 1936 and were filmed, read about STAN CHADWICK 357-2497 ,
, Coast to C Oast MARGARET DAY 357-2196
and gawked at in great numbers.
rs,.� n rn�row Real Estate Seri ice JOHN PHIILION 357.3896 ,
Syndicated pictures of the five , ,� ,
young girls appeared often in The
Advance -Times and hundreds of MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM
GEORGE & AMBER LAD—Many Iocat people followed the late George Galbraith's
career at the trotting races. This picture taken around 1972-3
shows
of Mrs. Verne Amber br Lad,
one of his horses.
Happy 100th Birthday - Wingham
Welcome old and new friends
Left to right: Sherry Bradley, Jill Hayden, Julie Hayden, Gail Delmage, Kevin Netterfield,
Sandra Anger, Angela Lockridge, Brenda Foxton, Marlene Hastings, Caryn Mann, Sandy
Brenzil, Florence and Don Delmoge.
Absent from picture - Mary Jenkins.
Where People Meet and People Speak 11
Come and relax with a quick snack.
Don and Florence Delmage (nee Harris) and staff say Hi to ail visitors.
Riverview Drive -In
Josephine St. North end of town by the River
For take-out orders phone 357-1360
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