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The Seaforth News, 1949-12-29, Page 1HURON COUNTY'S LEADING NEWSPAPER WHOLE SERIES, VOL. 72, No, 52 SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1949 $1 a year GOLDEN Mr. and Mrs. J. Hugill cele- brated their golden wedding anni- versary on Tuesday, Dec. 27. At noon a dinner was held at their home when their son and daughter and families and friends and rela- tives from Clinton, Seaforth and Stratford and surrounding districts sat down to a well laden and decor- ated table. The family presented Mr. and Mrs. Hugill with a basket of golden chrysanthemums and a trilite floor lamp. Mr. and Mrs. Hugill were married fifty years ago at Harlock by Rev. J. P. Copeland at the home of the bride's parents, the late Mr. and Mrs. Lancelot Tasker. The bride's sister, now Mrs. Abraham WEDDING Hugill of Clinton. was present at the ceremony fifty years ago and also present at this anniversary. Mr. and Mrs. Hugill have a son, J. T. Hugill, of 'Hullett, and a daught- er, Mrs. Gordon Wilkinson of Strat- ford; also five grandchildren. In the afternoon a large nurnber of friends and neighbors called and extended best wishes and brought gifts and re- membrances. Mrs. Abe Hugill poured tea and Mrs. Jos. Hugill, Mrs. Geo. Miller and 'Mrs. Frank 'McCutcheon assisted. They were the recipients of greetings from the Prime Minister of Canada and from the Premier of Ontario, and telegrams from the West. Egmondville United Church Rev. A. W. Gardiner, B.A., 13D. 10 a.m,, Sunday School. 11 a,m., "Tbe best way to make 1950 better". 7 p.m., "Our days and our strength". • Anglican St. Thomas', Seaforth. Rev. T. Dale Jones, Rector. Saturday, Dec. 31st, 11:30 p.m„ Watchnight Service. . Sunday, January 1st. 10 aon., Sunday School 11 a.m., Holy Communion .3 p.m.. St, Marys, Dublin 7 p.m., Evensong A Happy New Year to all. The World's Finest Anthracite BLUE COAL E. L. B ® X PHONE 43 VARNA :Dr. Harvey and Mrs. Reid and daughter, Toronto. spent the Christ- mas week end with his mother;- Mrs. M. Reid. .Christmas service and holy com- munion was observed in St. John's Church and throughout the parish on Sunday. Dec. 25th, with Rev, Laverne Mogan as celebrant and guest speaker. We have been reading and bear- ing a great deal this fall about the berries that were picked and enjoy- ed on various occasions. So not to be out done we wish to report that a lady in Varna picked a beautiful bouquet of pansies in her garden Christmas week. ELIZABETH JANE ECKERT Elizabeth Jane Kenny, widow of the late Conrad J. Eckert, died on Friday following an illness of three weeks. She had been an invalid for three years. She was born at Dublin, the daughter of the late 'Mr. and Mrs. John Kenny, and was married to the late Conrad Eckert in 1878, Mr, Eckert died in 1942. She is sur- vived by one son, John M. Eckert. McKillop township, and six daligllht- ers,•Mrs. W. J. Manley,(Mar'y), Wal- ton; Mrs. W. J. McKay (Margaret), Seattle, Wash.; Mrs. Thomas McKay (Anne), Galt; .Mrs. Gordon. Hays ‘(Catharine). Detroit; Mrs, Monica Klinkhamer, Eloise, Michigan, and Mrs. C. P. Sills ((Lucy), Seaforth. 41 grandchildren and 32 great grand- children. One sister, ,Mrs. John Shea, Duluth, Minn., also survives. Two sons. Uoseph C. and Clavier, and one daughter (Elizabeth) Mrs. R. Bral'1, predeceased her, She was a mem- ber of St. James' Church. The fun- eral took place on Monday, Dec. 26, from St. James' Church at 9,30 a.m. with Rev. T. P. Hussey singing re- quiem high mass. Rev. Father Thomas McQuaid and Rev. Father Frank Moylan were in the sanctuary. The pallbearers were six grandsons: Conrad M. Eckart, Joseph Manley, Clement McKay, Conrad J. Eckert, Gordon Brall, Ronald C. 'Sills. Inter- ment in St. James' Cemetery. ELECTION FOR REEVE COUNCIL IN TUCKERSMITH All nominees having qualified by 9 o'clock Tuesday night, there will be a three-way contest in Tucker smith for the reeveship, between Ar- thur Nicholson, Harold Jackson and Gordon Richardson. Mr. Nicholson has been reeve for the past six years, and Messrs. Jackson and Richardson have been councillors. Running for Council are Roy Bell and Wm. Rogerson, present council- lors, and three new candidates, An- drew Crozier, Ray McKinnon and Alfred Moffatt. Nomination was held in the town- ship hall Friday afternoon with a good attendance. Everything went off very quietly resulting in all the old officers being returned to office by acclamation. ' The Christmas Sunday school con- cert of the United Church was held in the township hall Friday evening. All, especially the children, report a good time. Nominations for Tun k e r s toi th Township on Monday were as fol- lows: For Reeve: Arthur Nicholson. nominated by- Janes McIntosh and L. D. Clark. Harold Jackson, by Peter Simpson and Ivan Forsyth. Gordon Richardson, by Robert Al- lan and J. A. Petrie. For Council: Ray McKinnon, by H. Caldwell and 2. McLellan. Andrew Crozier, by L. Carter and R. McGregor. Roy Bell, by L. Clark and R. Thompson. Wrn. Rogerson, by Wm. Pothering - ham and 1, Walters. Alfred Moffatt, by C. MacKay and Alex. Pepper. For School Trustee: (acclamation) James McIntosh. by J; Landshorough and R. Broadfooi. Wilfred Coleman, by Cecil Oke and Ivan Forsyth. Mr. S. Whitmore, former reeve and retiring sec.-treas. of the school Area. was named chairman of the ratepayers meeting following nom- inations. The first speaker was Reeve Ar- thur Nicholson, who paid tribute to the memory of four outstanding citi- zens of the township who passed away during the year, Mr. and Mrs. William. R. Archibald, the late Mrs, Sam Whitmore, and Mr. Roy Brown, who had run the township crusher for many years. Mr. Nicholson reviewed the six years he had been reeve. Snowplow- ing had been started and improved each year, the township shed had been built at a cost of 57200, and a grant made to returned soldiers amounting to over $6000. The Broad - foot bridge had been built at a cost df 539,000, school busses are run- ning and a lot of roads had been levelled. The township has $13.000 bonds in the bank. The Reeve discussed county mat- ters, pointing out that the county rate bad been raised, •which raised the township rate. $9000 had been spent on the Kippen road by the county this year and the work was practically complete now. The county health unit was prov- ing more, costly than the reeves had expected,' $54,0.00 this year. The old Board of Health had cost the town- ship only about $200 a year and bad given good service. The county pro- perty committee is looking for a suitable place to house a collection of antique articles purchased two years ago from a Gonrie man and the registry office will have to be enlarged this year at a cost of around $50,000. Mr, Nicholson said he was unde- cided whether he would stand for reeve again. Mr. Harold Jackson said the town- ship was in good financial standing' with no commitments outstanding. He said the new assessment is •a touchy point as assessments had been raised considerably. However it really is under government regula- tion and one yard rule,is used every, where, there are different rates for different types of buildings and land. The assessment had been ,raised more than $400,000 but is still lower than the equalized assessment for county Purposes. Now the county assessment will be the same as the township assessment. Mr, Jackson pointed out that the township had lost from $500 to $1000 every year, in the grants from the provincial government which were based on the assessment. Continued on Page 4 MoKILLOP REEVE, COUNCIL RECEIVE ACCLAMATION The Reeeve aucl Council of :\Ic- Killop Township were returnee] to office by acclamation for 1950 at the nomination meeting held in \Vintlu'opI Hall on Monday afternoon, Dec. 26. The meeting was largely attended. Township Clerk J. M. Eckert. pre- sided as returning officer for the no- minations. At the close of the nomi- nations at 2 p.m. one candidate was nominated for reeve and six for councillors. For reeve: • Daniel Beuermanu, gloved by Wil- liam Boyd and Stephen Murray. Re-elected by acclamation. For councillors: Wilson Little, moved by John R. Leeming incl Stewart Dolmage. Matthew Murray, by William 0'- Reilly and Clem Krauskopf. JkUneB T. Scott, by William Storey end William Kerr. Albert E. Simon. by Joe McLanglr lin and Carl Leonhardt. Jerry Doerr, by Charles Dietz and Fergus Horan. Earl Mills, by Thos. H. Ilackwell and W. G. Elliott. At the close of meeting. the n1„n- bers of the 1049 conned, Wilson Little, Matthew Murray, James 'C. Scott and Albert Simon, qualified and were declared re-elected by ac- clamation. At the ratepayer's meeting which followed the nominations. Mr. Eckert was named chairman. Sympathy was extended to Mr. Eckert In the pass- ing of his mother. Reeve Dan Beuermarnr thanked the electors for honor of au acclamation. The township had done a lot of work during the year, he said. Three bridges had been built, and live or six culverts. Everything was paid, and there was a good surplus. The tax rate had been raised one, luill during the year. Mr. Beuerntaun their turned to, county affair's. He thought the ex- penditures of the county had been pretty well below tite estimates. lie read the financial statements of some of the county's activities. The road commission had spent $15,000 on the road south of Brussels. 52,005 had been spent in McKillop on the road from the )Inllett boundary to Winthrop for gravelling. He thought the road would be finished from Win- throp to the Logan boundary during the coating year. He said the county honor near Clinton had bought the farm across the mad for approximately 51,000. The farm had becu under lease to the home for several years In answer to a question he said hi believed there were 100 acres in the farm. Considerable drainage work was be- ing done on this fa.rnr. The health emit was a good thing, said the Reeve, but costly. 'Three More of a staff hall been added, and a veterinarian. Illi furniture for the unit had been purchased and was In place. Free offices had been provided by Winghanr, Goderieh and Exeter for the use of the various nurses: The cost of the unit was 505,000 from July to December. Reeve Beuerunan said that Dr. Aldis of the health unit had asked that the county pass a bylaw licensing eating establishments in the county. How- ever this did not most with the ap- proval of the county council, as it offered difficulties in dealing with church suppers, etc, and would be going too far. Any municipality in the county that wished to pass a by- law licensing eating places, could do so, the reeve said. The reeve said that Ottawa. had "disaffiliated" the Huron County Fly- ing lying Club. This meant that the county had had to draw a supplemental lease for the flying field at .Sky .I-Iar- bor, and would keep one building. The flying club will continue to operate. The reeve drew attention that practically all woodlots now came under the tree eating bylaw. Previ- ously woodlots less than two acres in extent did not come under the bylaw, Councillor Wilson Little was the first speaker for the councillors, He gave some of the expenditures on the roads. The operation of the machine had cost $6,075; new culverts $7,015, Continued on Page 4 Watches Fine China Expert Watch Repairing JIMMY REYNOLDS A very'sad death occurred on Sunday, December 25th, in the passing of James Leonard Reynolds, son of Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Reyn- olds, in his 13t11 year. The popular young boy had got his fingers crushed in machinery at the faun two weeks ago and complications set in. He was a student at St. James' Separate School. Besides his parents he is survived- by three sisters and one brother. Nora, Mary Ann, Joan and Bobby. The funeral was held on Wednes- day morning from Inc late residence on the Huron Highway West, to St. Janes' Church where 'requiem nwss was held by Rev. Father Hussey. Interment was in St. James' ceme- tery. The pallbearers were Mervin Lane, Albert Verbeem, Leonard Ver - been, Peter Verbeem, Robert Vep- lreem, Frank Reynolds. hatter's parents, Mr. and Mrs, Lawson, Donald Stephenson of Ottawa spent Christmas with his parents,. Mr. and Mrs. Leo Stephenson. 1 Mr. and Mrs. Borden Brown and Joyce spent Sunday with relatives at Allan Park and Monday in Tor- onto. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Riley and fancily and Mr. and Mrs. Jos. Riley spent Monday with Mr. and Mrs. Thos. Riley in Clinton. Mr. Wm. Britton spent Christmas with his family at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Robt. McMillan. Mr. and Mrs. Kelso Adams of Saltford spent Monday with Mr.. and Mrs, Ernest Adams. Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Wilkinson' and daughter of Stratford spent a few days with Mr. and Mts. James Hugill, Earl WEEK OF PRAYER The schedule is as follows: Mon- day, Jan. and in the Salvation Army. Barracks, with Rev, Gien Campbell as speaker: Tuesday, Anglican Church, with Rev. D, A. 11Iacafillan: Wednesday, Egmoindville, with Rev. T. D. Jones; Thursday in Presbyter- ian Church, with Lieut. Morrow; Friday, Unit ,d Church,- with Rev. W. A. Gardinc The offerings from all these service, are being -donated to the British and For 'ign Bible So- ciety. Meetings will begin at 8:00 P.m, sharp INSURA'OCE AGENCY CHANGE Mr. Do , Brightrall of Seaforth has entered into a partnership with Mr. J. H. Scott in the General Instil- ance business. The 'firm will repre- sent "The Wawanesa Mutual", "The Canadian Fire Insurance Company" and other Companies, CONSTANCE Visitors with Mr. and Mrs, Alfred Buchanan over the weekend: Mr. and Mrs. Wilfred Buchanan and family of Nilestown:. Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Buchanan of 'Toronto; and 14[r. Ken Buchanan of North Bay. Mr. Milton Moore of Toronto spent the holiday with liis brother, Mr, Win. Moore. Mr, and 11Irs. Fred Riley and Mr, and Mrs, Bernard Riley and family of Kitchener. and 3Ir. and Mrs. Al- vin Riley of Seaforth, spent the weekend with Mr. and Mrs, Chas. Riley. Mr. and Mrs. Edward Warren of London, spent a few days with the STANLEY lilr, and Mrs. Perce ,Johnston, Phillis and Babhy of Wellington are spending the holidays with their friends in Stanley. Mrs. David Stephenson of lig- niondville is at the hone of her slaughter Mrs. R. Erratt, confined to bed with a heart condition. We hope for a speedy recovery. Miss tRev.) Reba Earn is spend ing the Christmas holidays at the home of her parents at Sault Ste. Marie, consequently the service at Goshen was withdrawn last Sunday. DUBLIN GEORGE R. HOLLAND After a short illness, the death occurred of George R. Holland. 43, eldest son of J. J. Holland, St. Co- lumban. Until a `few weeks ago, he was in his usual good health but while visting his grandmother, Mrs. G. K. Holland, at the home of J. V. Flynn in Dublin, he suddenly became ill and was confined to bed. He seemed to be improving until early Tuesday moaning_ when he died sod-: denly. Born in St. Columban, July 27, 1906. he spent all his life in this district. His mother died in 1909. The hody is resting at the home of his father at St. Columban. The fun - 01'01 will he held 'Thursday with re- quiem mass at 9:00 a.m. at .St. Co- lumban Roman Catholic Church. Rev, F. J. O'Drowski will officiate. Burial will be in' St. Coluinban ceme- tery. Mr. and Mrs. Jas, Ackroyd and family, Toronto. with Mr. and Mrs. Joe O'Rourke.