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The Huron Expositor, 1979-02-22, Page 10..04..1rHE.,14V.1101( '.EXPOSIT011,...FEBRPARY2Z 1On Rebeccoshave, vatentinw euchre. A Valentine Euchre for Edelweiss Rebecca Lodge Was held On Wednesday PebruarY 14 when prize win- ners were; Most games - Mrs.. Grace BreadfOet: Lone hands Mrs. Alice 'apple: Consolation M. Jessie Orey: Men* most game* - Percy AdarnS: Lope hands Jack Rivers; Coga. ation ., James; McQuaid; Draw on a cashion, .• Mrs. JAWS. McQuaid: Luck' Op . ,MtS. Agnes Eyre and Iticky. Sanger' - Bili Kelley. ; ; • ' . L •.....,.„,....„ . ,.. ••• ••'. ' •• .'• 7 • ' •-heWs . Brotherhood Night begins at 6:30 today with dinner at' p.m. The Legion hopes to have a good turnout dur ing its 500 Anniversary year. Imitation will be on March • ,• 15,th with a. total of 50 new •' members being introduced into the Legion,. Come On out ' to the meeting, and welcome these new •members into Branch 15e. Public Speaking will be held on Feb. 28. The public is invited to attend this event. Winners of the Hockey Night. DraW were Mt. and Mrs, T. Johnston of R„.11.2. Seaforth, LEGIONS SPORTS Zone Bowling was held in Seaforth on Sunday, February 11, when six teams took part," Results were, in order of placing: Clinton. • Exeter, Goderich, Seaforth, Seaforth. Seaforth. The winning team beat out Exeter by one pin. All had a • good time and the ladies • served supper, 38 Iawn bowlers meet The Seaferth Lawn Bowling Club held their February Social at the _Masonic Hall on Tuesday evening with 38 members present. High scores for bridge were held by Marjorie Lingelback 6850 and Dave Cornish with 0. For euchre Katie Phillips won most games for th• e„ Ladies' while Jack Sinclair was high • for the men. "Happy Birthday was sung to Jack who also celebrated • his birthday on. Tuesday. • Thelma Dale was in charge and convenors for the evening were Florene.e Kay. Viola Taylor. Dorothy Townsend. Ann Agar. and Lillian Pepper. • The next social will be held March 20th at the Masonic • Hall. Thelma Dale reminded the ladies' of the quilting at Helen ConneIrs on Wednesday and Thursday and asked for volunteers to •• help quilt. - • Lions Every Saturday Blyth Memorial Hall 12 reg. 10 each 3 share the'i ralth 5150 jackpot 60.‘alls• ; evert) Sat at 8p.m. SUPERIOR. MEMORIALS ESTABLISHED OVER 50 YEARS' " emLalles. aintoe.Seaforth • Are* Representatkr MICHAEL FALCONER: • 153 High Street ° Clinton 482-9441 • by *Ice • NOTE: This Week, i'm itsing,the *page 1ifletendiPitY•f0; reprint a story written by Mabel Sands Callunt. • neighbour of mine w he 1 was growing tip. whom I quilted in an earlier column about the 4th of November storm. Mrs. Callum, Who is now in her 80's and lives in a nursing home, wrote** gent abOnt her family's moving day, which took plaee the late 1890s. Several year$ agO for a family history. Then aboin fear cit it began to drizzle rain and as; the roads were N'grY rnOddY alteady the rain made them mint worse. The mether wondered many times about the wagons and bow far They were•on their way and also about the boy Ric:111110nd and the eattle and tried to keep us: children front: getting wet. Then we met a man walking wearing rubber boots. Be regarded our load and then the - road and then he said°. "The bottom. is coming out.- "Ohniy! what tie' said mother. thinking he meant the; bottom of the' demoCrat but. he only meant the bottom out of the road. It had been a wet spring; and at this time it seemed as though ,the bottom was really coming up. Well it continued to drizzle and with two umbrellas we tried to keep dry and we Were all watching now for the new home for the driver told us his w atch said it was four o'cleek in the afternoon: All at once my sister *aid i*There is the -ehurch, It's called 'Burn's Church' and the house is, just a little farther on," My sister knew for she had been to the new farm and kept house for my father the fall before when; they were doing the fall work. 1 was still looking at the church and wondering why it was called 'Burn'sfor it did not look like fire to me nor did it look like our old church for it had been frame and looked more like a .school. This one was brick irnd had a high steeple. 'Well tny sister called us all to attention by saying, "There is the house and that's where we are going to live." And mothet added, "Well soon be there now," as she too looked at the big white house With the green shutters' for the first time. This was the house that was to be our home. Well in a few minutes re were there -and the back door key which had been carefully put some place could not be feued„ The ram had ceased.. We children were quite excited and able to enjoy the new sights and the tnud for some ,.time. At last the key was located and the door opened and we all went in. Things Were taken. out of the. democrat as it ,was now supper time, .Mother and sister Irk • ANNUAL MEETING, Farmers' Mutual • Fire Insurance Company Wroxeter, Ontario • The 106th Annual Meeting of the Company will be- hed at tate Co,st‘ty ai'Y Head Office, Wroxeter, • Ontario on • TUESbAY FEB. 27 at 1:30 p.m,. PURPOSE: , • 1. To receive the Annual. Statement and Auditor's Report. • 2. To elect two Directors to replace Lloyd Michie and JimMair, whose term of office expires. Both • retiring Directors are eligible for re-election, 3. To approNe the adoption of the following by-law:- ' #30 - Meetings, #61 & 62 -Hold Harmless Agreement. , 4. To appoint an Auditor for 1979. 5. To transact any other business which may rightly corrte before the meeting. ; RON NIcMICH.AEL RANDY HUTCHINSON • _ • Presidint Manager Legion Public Speaking Seaforth Legion Hall . ireL)..2/3 , at 8 p.m. pices Seaforth Branch 156 Royal Canadian Legion The wthner trt each category in competitions conduCted by ,Seeatth Public School, Seaforth Separate School.— St, COlunlban Separate SthoOl. bubIi Shoot and Centennial School. 131rutelield willCompete. The public is invited to attend Winners will compete in the Zone C 1 Finals ,to be Held in Brussels Saturday, March 3rd, 1979 at 1:30 — Admission Ere Ge6orge Miner drinttutrith • President Secreta*, Wm Dairynipie Committee Chaitmei vin prepared the supper for us children and after we had bee* fed they got supper ready for the men and boys on the wagons. With: the approach of darkness the rain came on again. The Mads had been heavy and the Wagons loaded.. So it was long after dark When roY father, three neighbours and two hungry brothers arrived with the w,agonS. Needless to say all of them were tired, wet and hungry. In fact at Coles hill, just a little over a mile away, one f the horses. was so tired he just lay dbwn'on the read bet they persuaded him to get up and it was almost ten p.m. when they tuned in the gate. They pulled the wagon S to the 490174d while senae of the men took the horses to the harn, fed and made thern comfortable, the rest all helped unload. AS it was still raining it was a difficult task. However by the light of the lamp and lantern, the job waS $00,n one and the men sat down to their supper. 1 have often heard mother ari0 father say it was almost twelve midnight when they finished their supper and the'lberi again went to the barn to care fpr the tired horses, Well at last the family and nien.were all in and seme of the men who were too wetlat close to. the one stove in the kiteben. • A good fire was kep alive by rnY mother and the house was quiet when Ed. Lewis, one of the men who had his, feet in the oven, said, owboys. ifyou smell meat burning. pull me out,'" At last the dawn appeared and with it a beautiful clear morning. The storm was over; the rain was past; the sick 1 -part 11 horse was better. After breakfast thestOveS.were put up in the ether part of the house. The whole bruise warned up. ;allele Were six, retains upstairs and six rooms down.) One Of the men said. "Mrs. Sands, "You won't be quarrelling with your neighbours I hope." "Well," said mother, I never did quarrel with, the neighbours and these ones -seem a long way from here." "No", said Mr. Bolton. "I mean the close ones, the dead ones." Burn's Ceineterr was just across the road, That afternoon Richmond, the fourteen year old 'son, arrived; with the cattle and the collie dog but no goat, The dog, we ehiltlren greeted warmly,but where was the' goat? All inquired at once and Richmond in explanatiOn to our many questions said, "Iold it for fifty cents for it was more bother than all the cattle for it just would not stay on the road and the night I stayed over night on the road a boy offered me fifty cents for it so 1 sold it.'" Well we did not feel very badly for we again had our beloved collie dog. Well the men, after resting for one day, left early the following morning with their horses and wagons to return, to their homes by way of the tenth line to Petrolia to, see ; the oil wells. SCHOOL 1 can still recall the strange experience of those first days in the new school. You see I was only eight and everything and everyone was strange to me. I saw an Indian for the first time as there were two going to school but they did not wear feathers as 1 had seen them in, picture books. Still the other children were all kind to us and for the most part we enjoyed our school days at S.S. No. 14 Moore and Sarnia. Nevertheless there was no one just like my three girl chums of S.S. No. 2 Adelaide whom I had left so recently. I know that we were strange to the pupils there as well , as they were to us and one daffdr want of a game to play, Elva Miller said, "VVel'll just sit under a tree in the shade ,=; and have Mabel Sands tell us the funny names of the people atStrathroy School where she came from." 1 said, “Weiljil tell you, but Giffen. McKeen, Nettleton, Bolton and Pedden are no funnier names than Miller, Gibb, Bessie, Pacquette and Cole." These names were very new and strange to us. One day a neighbour came to see my father. He asked my brother, Howard, "Where's your father?" "Well", said Howard, "He has gone to see a man by the name of Mr. Leggett or Footit. 1 forget which." "Oh", said the neighbour, "I g,tiess he had gone to see - Sam Leggett," School was over for the week and Saturday came• We children had a very interesting time exploring around the • new farm and when evening came it was indeed a Saturday night for the shoes were all cleaned, polished and placed in a row along the kitchen wall, All the clothes were made ready for Sunday and we children each took a bath in the laundry tub, FEBRUARY 24th St 25t Saturday, February 24th SKATE-A-THON Adults welcome to participate *LUNCH SERVED AT NOON •REGISTRATION -8:30 a.m. at the Mitchell & District CommunityCentre, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. , • -•. • and 9 p.nt. to 1 ci.m. MUSIC BY • Chris SWINGiNG BRASS •... • • ••••Oit' the. ' • • • • . • • - Mitchell & District Comm. Centre TICKETS '1.00 PER COUPLE • ADMISSION RESTRICTED TO PERSONS 19 TEARS & OLDER - Sunday, February 25th 100 KMSNO1 M:BILE, MARATH.0 ANDPIPTIONAL POKER RALLY. Registration 9 0.M.:to 12:30 p.m. at Conununity Centre CASH PRIZES - for most pledges & best Poker Hand Sponsor cords available at area snowmobile dealers and merchants in Mitchell area. FREEPANCAKE BREAKFAST FOR PARTICIPANTS PANCAKE BREAKFAS'! 9 a.m. fa) 2 p.m,. Inside the comfort of the community centre at '2.00 per pirsoti WINNER FOR 30-50 DRAW WILL BE MADE AT.4 P.M. ON SUNDAY IN THE COMMUNITY CENTRE 0 . 7 • PROCEEDS FROM CARNIVAL WEEK -END FOR SWIMMING POOL FUND AND OTHER LIONS COMMUNITY PROJECTS. r 1. • • 1 ' • 'mad"