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It is with pleasure
that we welcome back
former residents & visitors
to Winghamrs
100th
Anniversary
May your stay be pleasant and
your memories happy.
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WINGHAM MERCHANT—The late Harry Angus in front of his Josephine Street grocery
store. The picture was taken in August, 1951.
TIIRTLF RACE—We're not sure whose turtle won but back in 1954, these Wingham mer -
h t J ck Alexander Pearl Angus, Jack McKibbon and Hugh (Mike) Carmichael held
Old fashioned SerWce .. .
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Jan Benninger, Boo Hayes, Jock Hayes
For 18 years, we have been dealing with the public in Wingham; usually on a first name basis, in a store which
has been altered very little over the years. Quality clothing at sensible prices is our stock in trade.
Wingham is a good community with a promising future. That's why we say -
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
Mr. and Mrs. Jack Hayes, daughter Jan Benninger and staff.
Hayes ClothingLimited
2.22 Josephine Street, Winghom
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Gorrie , Wingham
335-3525 357-2636
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INSURANCE AGENCIES LTD.
Congratulates Wingham on its 100th Birthday
■� c an s, a HISTORY OF OUR AGENCY
a race on main street. i
1917 ... Agency started by August Keil.
1930 ... Automobile insurance becomes available.
. • 1956 ... William Harold Keil Sr. replaces August Keil as agent.`�� ` v
Ladies'Wear m Armour of Wingham, Willie g Wonder drug used in hospital
went to bed in a London hotel one Companies represented is now 3.
1966... Purchase of Norman Klegg Agency in Gorrie adds
night last week with the gas im- (1945) Mary Louise Towne, 1ery ill with a high temperature. 4th company.
properly shut off. The next day heyoung daughter of Capt: and Mrs.
l'enc•illin, the wonder drug, was �' 1968 ... Bill and Peter assume the running of Keil Insurance Agency.
DeWitt, Bertha and Staff was found in an asphyxiated administered and she has shown �"' 1972 ... Keil Insurance Agency purchases the W. B. Conran Agency Helen Stephens
Harry Towne. of townn is con in Win ham. Companies represented now total 13. Accounts Payable
252 Josephine St., condition but was soon brought marked improvement which will Bill Keil, Agent g p p
Win ham fined to the hospital here, with a 1973 ... The addition of Formosa Mutual area portfolio and the
s P Winghorn medical skill. —News he splendid news for friends of purchase fRobinsonbone i4fection. The little girl was the' anvil p e o Alex Robinso Agency and Herson Irwin Wind
item IBM. Y th& ut.of'lttim `ilouifp6nies leave
�f This is the third time that Agency7lus., weedin�o
M� the agency representing J 2 companies.
wrtieillin has been used at the 1975 ... Purchase of the William Reid Agency and the loss of one
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tical hospital and in each case it company increases representation to 13 companies.
ias proved to be the wonder drug
1978 ... A life underwriter and general agent, Bruce McDonald
is claimed. is added to staff. (Three agents ono} six girls).
Last fall it was used for the
irst time here when it was given 62 Years of
o Mrs. James Purdon of West Continuous Service
Atawanosh, and in December it Sue Wingfield,
was administered to Mrs. Mark peter Keil, Agent Wingham
;ardner of town.
The local -hospital is given a
luota of this drug and it is kept in
;tock so that it is ready for im-
'nediate use when • necessary.
This is a type of service that the
iospital is making every effort to ay,.
maintain.
Pollution aA.
Bruce McDonald Alma Hetherington Fern McConnell Kathy Haasnoot Betty Anne Stapleton
concernAgent Gorrie Gorrie Gorrie Wingham
not new m
So much concern has been
expressed in recent years over
pollution of the oceans by oil
We've eome along wa
spills it would be easy to think it y
is a phenomenon of this 0 ,
generation. Not so. however, as since Grano,mothers day!
evidenced by this article which
appeared in the Feb. 14. 1929.
edition of The Wingham Ad-
vance -Times.
"Oil cast on the seas of. the
world by •oil -driven ships is Yes, Grandma was pretty
causing terrible destruction happy when Grandad lugged
among sea birds. The released oil her new Enterprise cook stove
forms a film over large tracts of in from the wagon.
water and results in thick sheets
of floating black sludge of tar -like What would she say if
consistence. The birds. while she could see the new
swimming. accidentally enter Enterprise Electric Ranges
this and their feathers are soon and Microwave Ovens?
soaked and clogged to such an
extent than they can nei!her fly -
-' - You can see the very
nor obtain food
GanneIs, razorbills. ,. latest in electric
guillemots. scoters, ducks. appliances on our
cormorants and grebes are showroom floor.
caught in the oil and thousands
:ire ca -t ashore either dying or Our town has also changed
dead. For days. even weeks. they a lot since the days
Iloat on the surface. being driven of the wagon and the
here and there by the winds and
tides Then. after sloes' star sleigh. Wingham is a
%ahon, death comes to their good town ...
relief one we are proud to
This peril does not concern call "Home".
birds alone. Some of our popular
seaside resorts ha'%'e been made
impossible for bathers owing to
the fil h on the water. says an Old
country paper. Fish are being
killed b\ the hundred thousand. '° � Appl'i*ance
also their eggs V. hat is perhaps �' ��
more important. the food on
which mane fishes live is being
destroyed, with the, result that
fish wanted b} fishermen are
being driven farther afield Josephine Street, Wingham
Some haunts of seabirds have
been seriously depleted of their
population by this menace
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