The Seaforth News, 1924-09-25, Page 4PAGE FOUR.
TMS tiEAFORTSk SEWS
DIE aEM KIU
3. F. SNAWDON, Proprietor.,
year 1867, when the site of the present
Seaforth Methodist church was
bought, and a frame chinch was built
on it.
,p But 'let us linger fora while about
�z 'the little Maitland church opposite
4ienera Obse.�Y�}}1�Q�S. the cemetery. Here services were
held as re tlarlyy as Possible being
sometimes conducted by ordained
ministers, and sometimes by' local
preachers.
In those days •that peculiar, insti-
tution of early Methodism -that dis-
tinguishing feature of •early Meth-
odism — which was originated
by John Wesley himself —
the class meeting was itt vigor-
ous existence. In those days, through-
out world-wide Methodism, attend-
ance at class nee,ting was insisted on
es a condition of meinbership, The
class leaders were, in a subordinate
way, the pastors of their respective
classes. It was their duty to watch
over the members of their respective
classes as those who tuust rive an
account -- to enquire after their
siitds' welfare --advise, reprove, corn -
fort or exhort. as occasion might re-
quire. We may be sure that Wren
with such responsibilities would .be
careful that their- own lives were
examples of holy living; and i; it too
touch to say of each one of those
faithful men that "He watched and
The weatherman had wrong in-
formation on the date of the Seaforth
Fair and sent the usual supply of rain
on Saturday instead of Friday.
s*
lou may tell fish stories and get
away with it, but you will hardly
beat that wolf story from the Soo,
telling of a man who shot a wolf,
skinned it, and put the skin inside
his camp and went to sleep. When
he awoke the wolf skin was gune
and marks of a wolf's teeth in a box
of cheese partly eaten would nidi
care the skin had made a big meal_
before leaving.
**
The teen of t'ochi'ane in New
Ontario t, justly incensed by a re-
port sent from North Bay that the
town was blockaded by a heavy
stiotvstnr•m, last week. There was
.only a light iluury of snow at the
Place. tt .tits only a cheap effort
to be funny and is not only an
injury to Cocihran but to Canada.
familia tate past few weeks the
ueathuiman las been giving people
real thrills by s.•eiug irow hear the
freezing point he enuid curie without
actually ceoasing it. However, there
,vas sonic relief in tate pleasant dis-
appointment of finding the d,.,vc.e
and vegetables nninjnred after de-
ciding
de-cidin* :hey 'amild l.r ent off befate
• morning.
'lite children's parade on Friday I
last on the race .tack was easily"
the best feature of the Fall Fair.
The children and teachers deserve
great credit for the care in the prep-
arations and the applause from the
,spectators was well deserved. 'Ihe
directors in charge of the parade
should stipulate that no horses be
allowed on the track during the par-
ade or a section should be roped off
for the children. Several seri-tus ac-
cidents were narrowly avoided nu
Friday by letting horses be driven
past the parade.
Boys who are given to teasing
others are seldom aware cif what
chances they take in doing so. An
instance occurred last week when a
man who lives alone in the vicinity
laf
Seaforth, came into town and
told a inerchant he wanted to buy
a rifle as he was being annoyed by
'-hove of the neighborhood. Needless
to say. snider the circumstances the
merchant diel not sell him a gen.
The incident, however, serves as a
warning to hays that teasing may
provoke an unexpected result.
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I GENERAL OBSERVATIONS I
11 By W. IL T.
1*
On the 3tlt 'instant, the writ n' was
notified that a committee of the Me-
thodist church had tleri•.lel t, ask 1, •n
to gather Met- att.tut the early
t
tory and der ei ,potent of ).lAlealreUieti
in connection with Clinton, Holme'—
Ville, Seaforth and Velma, anal t
present these facts it a 15 tile.,.'
address at tIte District iueet:tt; at
six
Goderich on the 17th instant,
Now. as the write. 1ta, ii' :t _ t
heree and iaig gy, uor auto. 0.w a,+, -,,-
plane. he ,'.,ttitl r t visit the outlying
places. so he concluded to getlita `
what facts he could about the t i
tory of 11eth.adism in Seaforth and
its vicinity. Fut, as i2 the tater were
against Inst, he could find na demi-
meats or record earlier than 18.6
whereas Methodism was planted here
more than thirty years before this
date. What was the writer to do ?
Why find the oldest inhabitant of
this persuasion. and get from hint as
much of this early history as he
could remember, and the writer bund
this oldest inhabitant in the person
of Mr Henry Cash, who is to -day
76 years, 6 month and 19 days old,
and whose memory goes back about
71) years. What follows, down to
1867, is furnished by him.
Seaforth Methodism had ' its be-
lnnit g outside of the present limits
of the town, The first church was
tailed the Maitland church, and it
was an offshoot of the Clinton
church.
The 'Maitland church meant et first
a body of Christians who had no
dedicated building in which to wor-
ship. '!'die neighbors' houses' 'ere
the meeting places.. At last, In tate
early fifties, a small frame church
was built right opposite the present
Mainland Bank cemetery, and in this
church the 'Methodists of Seaforth
gu, 1 a, -t •en itv, worshipped Until' the
wept, he prayed and felt for all"
Some oaf the class leaders of the
little Maitland church were Alexaede
Love, George Sperling, Jame
Sperling and lames Young.
Workers of anather class, who
were more in vogue in the -early
days than they are prow, were the
local preachers. They are worthy of
,ii honor: they filled a gap; they
did their best; and "Who does the
besi his claictunatance affords, ,foes
well, a t, nobly, angels could da no
more." Among the local preachers
eere Ralph Stevenson and Philip
Sperling. The latter went as a rt,s-
t •, the I dhttts on the Christ-
ian Iland in Georgian 11a3•.
But, however acceptable the minis-
trations of the local preachers may
have been, it was a red letter day tor
this little flock when an nrdt:tied
minister came and conducted the
.erti ea.
The fallowing are some of the tnin-
istcra who preached in the Maitland
church, though it is not claimed that
5. Galloway . . , 1892-1895-
S. Bond 1895-1898
'A, L. Russell, 1LA, B.D., 1898-1901
I. B. Walhwu, B.A., , . ..1901-1904
\. K Birks, B.A., LL.B... 1904-1907
D. Rogers .. .. .. •. 1907-1911
A. \V. 'Barker „ .. ,. 1911-1915
Geo. McKinley,. B.D. ,, 1915-1918
H. D, Moyer .. 1918-191.9
E.W. Edwards, M.A,B.J)„ iVIC 1919-'32
R. Fulton Irwin . .. „ 19.E
MANLEY,
Mr. and Mrs. Thos. Purcell has
moved ,to Stratford where he has se-
cured a position with the C. N. R.
Mr. Martin Purcell has returned
front Dublin to resume his farm
duties.
!Miss Es -a LaRue has left far her
home in Port Arthur asher grattd-
niother, Mrs, O'Hara, is somewhat
improved from her late illness, al-
though not out of danger.
The Indianflax puller are busy
pulling Mr, Thos. Johnston's Rax for
the- Brussels flax mill
Mr. Clever Eckert has returned
home after a month's sojourn tvith us,
NORTH McKILLOP,
Thr chilly weather which usually
hits us at this season put in an ap-
pearance do the early part of this
week.
Potatoes as a rule are a fine crop
hut apples are not as plentiful as
ttsual,
Mr. J. J, Irvine has been suffering
from a severe cold for a number of
?.ala
'Mr. \Villituu Leeming was taken to
Seaforth hospital on. Saturday and op-
r erated on for appendicitis. At last
s accounts he was progressing very
well.
There is not much being said about
the coming vote on the liquor gttes
tion. It will not he surprising if the
eastern half of the township gives -a
majority for Government control and
the west half Inay go the other. way.
they are arranged in their- proper
order:
Revs. -- - C'Ieghorn, Alexiteder
Sutherland, G. H. Cornish, ----
Hough, --Gregg, Alexander Camp-
bell. \V, S, Blackstock. -- Hurl -
hurt.
At an early date in the history the
Maitland church, a missionary so-
ciety was formed in connection with
-it, and it is a pleasure to Mr. Cash
to remember that he and J Imes
Sparling, Jr„ were the first col-
lectors. Mr. Cash remembers that he
collected 2 shillings. 6 pence.
True to the doctrines and tradi-
tions of Methodism, the 'Maitland
church took a decided stand on the
question of 'temperance A temper-
ance society was formed, which af-
terwards merged with the Good
Templars.
\Ve have now reached the year
1867, and we are about to take leave
of the little 'Maitland church: but
before doing so, we will record the
name of some of those who con.stt-
toted its Membership:
James Young, Tames Snarling,
George Spar] -ng. Jame. Thompson
Sr, and %ambo, James Beattie, John
P.ea tie 1i`ilham P.lack,• father of
\\`iliraut Slack, M.P. Four families
.,f Clods. several families of Law-
rences, James Dohnage. Ado.:sander
Love.. e, 3\9-Matn Cash, father of cur
t.+rian, 1-Icnry Cash.
in the year 1867. the -Methodists of
lie village of Seaforth and its
vicinity, who had been .attending the
:Maitland church bought the laird
m which - the present Meth„cyst
ehtncln- and- Parsonage are built, and,
is before stated, erected on it a
frame church, which became their
place of worship.
The frame church on the cornua+
of Church and Goderich streers,
built, as we have said, in 1867 and
was used as a place of worship until
the present beautiful and commodious
brick church was built in 1877.
The present church was built ac-
cording to plans prepared by Lang-
ley. Langley and Burke, architects,
Toronto, in the year 1877. But as
to the contractors who bulli it, ':nd
its costs, the writer has not yet
ironed any record: and there is a
complete gap of nine years in its
recorded history, as far as the writer
knows at present. Should there
come to light,' in the near future,.
the documents that will give the
history of these nine years, the writer..
will be pleased to contribute the.
contents of then to a fu`ure issue
of The Seaforth News,
The following ministers have 'serv-
d the Seaforth Methodist church
coin 1886 to the present time:
5, 12. Howell, M.A: .. 1886-1889.
W. Casson . • , . 1889-1802
LONDESBORO.
Mr. and Mrs. Benson Tyerman
anti Miss Adeline, of Seaford!, also
Mrs. Bradley and Mrs. Walters, of
Orono, were guests at the home of
Mr, and Itir•s. Fairscrviee this last
week.
ItIi•:s: Fred Jofinstou, who has been
all for some untie, 'is recovering nicely,
Mrs. A. Wells who has been visit-
ing friends at 'Carleton for the past
month, returned home this week.
Ret', Mr. Abery and Mr. John
Ringland motored to Toronto on
Saturday and intend returning home
this week. •
Mr. and Mrs. John Melvile spent
Sunday at hone of Mr, and Mrs.
Lawrence 'Melville, Seaforth,
HARLOCK.
The weather Etas been rather back-
ward this week out in this district,
Miss Kathleen McElroy, of Blyth,
is spending the week -end with the
Misses Amy and Ena Parson.
Mrs, Allen has returned hone from
visiting friends in Toronto,
Quite a uutuber -from around here
attended the street dance in Blyth
on Wednesday. evening.
Miss Irene Gownlock and Mr. Mil
100 A/ft:Gregor, of Walkerton, spent
the week -end with his cousin, Mrs,
Thos. Appleby,
•
HIEBERT.
The regular .meeting of the Coun-
cil VMS held on Wednesday the 17th
Sept. Members all present. Minutes
of last meeting read and confirmed.
The following' orders were issued on
the Treasurer: Wtn, Dohms, final esti-
male Liffe chain contract $288; H.
Britton grading and other work, $21.-
75; McLean Bros., advertising $1120;
J. Jordan re revisions of voters' lists,
$6; James Shea, farm bridge Liffe
drain $30, Thomas Austin, gravel $12;
James Hart, sewer, $207.90; C.N. Ry.
Liffe drain, $80.; Wm, M. Sproat, tile,
$40; A. J. Jeffry, 'grant to Stratford
hospital, $50. \ communication from
the Clerk of Hay township re Black
creek drain was read and filed. Franc
Murphy and M. Thompson were ap-
pointed inspectors on the Downey
and 1)cDngall drain contracts re-
spectively. P. Morris was appointed
foreman and inspector on the cleaning
out of a portion of the Geary drain.
The Council then adjourned to meet
again on Wednesday, Oct. 15th at 1
o'clock.—JAMES JORDAN, Clerk,
Friday's Program of Collegiate Sports
BOYS' EVENTS.
. 1,15—Heats, 100 Yards, Junior
—Standing Broad Jump, Senior...,,... ,..
1.30 --Standing Broad Jump, Junior
—Heats, 100 Yards, Senior
1.45—Finals, 100 Yardy, Junior
--+Shot Put, Senior
—Running Iiop, Step, juump, Senior
2.00- -Shot Put, Junior
---Running Hop, Step, Jump, Junior
—Finals, 100 Yards, Senior.
2.15 ♦Heats, 220, Junior
---Standing High Jump, Senior
2,30—Standing High Jump, Junior
—Running Broad jump, Intermediate
—Heats, 220, Senior •
2.45—Finals, 220, Junior
--Running High Jump, Intermediate
--Standing I -lop, Step, Jump, Senior
3.00 --Standing Hop, Step, Jump, junior
-Finals, 220, Senior
-=Runnhtg 'l-ligh Dive, Senior
3,15—Pole Vault, Junior
—Chariot Race, Senior
3,30—Chariot Race, Junior
--Pole Vault, Senior
3.45 -Running High Jump. Junior
—Standing Broad Jump, Intermediate
-Half Mile. Senior
4.00—Inter-Forut Relay, Junior
—Running High. Jump, Senior
4.15—Running Broad Jump, Junior
---Running High Dive, Intermediate
'--Inter-Form Relay, Senior
4.3U --Running llroad Jump, Senior
---Pole Vault, intermediate
_Obstacle Race, Junior
--Running High Dive, Junior
GIRLS' EVENTS.
1.15 ---Standing Broad Jump, Senior
- :Needle and Thread Race. Junior
-75 Yards Dash
1.35 -Needle and Thread Race, Senior
--Standing Broad Jump, Junior
—75 Yards Dash, Senior
1,55 --Running 'Broad Jump, Senior
--Three-legged Race, Junior
—Book Race, Junior.
2.15---Three-Legged Race, Senior
---Running Broad Jump, Junior
—Book Lace
2.35 --Hop, Step, Jump, Senior
--Balloon Race, Junior
—Biscuit Race,. Junior
2.55 --Balloon Race, Senior
--Hop, Step, Jump, junior
=Biscuit Race
3.15 --Putting the Shot, Senior
—Chum Race
—Sack Race
3.35 -Chum Race
—Sack Race
—Putting the Shot, Junior
3,55 --Throwing the Ball, Senior.....,..
—Graceful Walking, Junior
—Obstacle Race,- Junior
4,15. -Graceful Walking, •Senior
Throwing the Ball, Junior
—Obstacle Race, Senior' -1,30—Inter-Form Relays
-Chub Relays
Running Relays
BOYS' OPEN
4.50-100 Yards Dash -
-Relay Race
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THURSDAY, FRIDAY and SATURDAY
The eall of the Cerny
A PARAMOUNT PICTURE -
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WITH
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Please Note, On account of an engagement by the Collegiate
students our programme will not begin on Friday evening
until 8:30
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attention to diseases of the eye, ear,
nose and throat. Office and resid-
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Phone No. 5; Residence Phone 106,
DR. F. J. BURROWS, Seaforth.
Office and residence, Goderich street,
east of the Methodist, church. Cor -
eller for the County of Huron. Tele-
phone No. 40.
.DR. C. .MACKAY.—C. Mackay,
honor graduade of Trinity Univers-
ity and gold medallist of Trinity
Medical College; member of the Col-
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James Evans, Beechwooci, Vice Pres-
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Sec. -Treasurer,
Directors.
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Beechwood; 1f, McEwen, Clinton;
James` Conolly, Goderich ; ;Alex.
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