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The Huron Expositor, 1967-11-16, Page 9• • M s r • M • a • • Seafortit'o Cemetery • - Memorials OPEN DAILY -All Types -o# Lumens RDE 84.. SONInquirtes.are invited •– Telephone Nuxn,bers: EXETER ,2 S 620 C1.lN_tun 482,9421 SEA�ORTHs Contact W111is..Dundas' WANT ADs BRING QULG.+I RESrThTS: Ilial 527-0240 new °light Ii.ghtweight., , . extra low price for casual users 5 PIONEER CHAIN SAWS See Your Nearest Pioneer Dealer NELSON MARKS WALTON, ONTARIO NOMINATIONS Township of Stanley • ` NOTICE is hereby given to the Municipal Electors of the Township `of Stanley, that a Nomination Meet- - ing will be held in the Township Hall, VARNA, on FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 24th, 1967 _ at the hour of j p.m. to 2 p.m. for the purpose of nominating persons fo4r the offices of Reeve, Deputy Reeve and Three Councillors for two- year terns ; also Two School Area Trustees for two- year terms. If an election is necessary, the polls will be open in the following places with the following Deputy Re- turning Officers: Poll Place. " DRO No. 1 — Cal Horton's Residence — Ken McCowan No. 2 — Ted Robinson's Residence — George Dowson No. 3 — Varna Town Hall — Bill McAsh No. 4 — Melvin Greer's Residence — Bert !Dunn , No. 5 --Former Blake School — Philip Durand ons MONDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1967 will be open from 9 o'clock a.m. until 6 o'clock p.m. and no longer. Please'. note that when a proposed candidate is not present at the nomination meeting, his nomination paper will not be valid unless there is satisfactory evidence that the proposed candidate consents to be. so nominated: DATED at Varna, the 10th day of November, 1967. MEL GRAHAM, "Clerk a History by Isabelle Campbell North of here was the general store of George and was a writer, and excelled in the writing of poetry, Her Henry Jackson from, the 1850's, Another store was to last book of poems, "Be Of Good Cheer", was published thehnorth of it with only a narrow passage between the in November, 1939. II. Isabel Graham, was:acclaimed two. In this one the Jacksons sold liquor and wine. The .by y critics as one of the greatest of the minor poets of Egmondville post office has been in the ..general store ,her .day. for over one hundred years. For the long Period of Had it not been for her home. handicaps, she might v.. nicety -five years a Jackson was .postrinaster. Thomas possibly, have been named today among the major - Poets, was the bast of these to hold this office. such as Lampman, Carmen and Jean Blewitt, With each; The . Elgmondville post office was first established of whom she had cultivated a close friendship. When on March 1, 1855, with" Thomas J. Marks the .postmas- writing about her, one said: "Bliss Carmen and Jean ter. The following is the length of time he and those who Blewitt visited her frequently in her little brick cottage followed him were in •charge of the mail: Thomas J. with its quaint surroundings of old fashioned flower Marks, March .1, 1855 --June, 1866; George E. Jackson, gardens, latticed fence, and wooden sidewalk leading July 1, ,1866 — November 19, 1878; Henry R. Jackson, up to a small conservatory, a rose garden and a mound December -1, 1879 --April 2, 1887; George E. Jackson, ofmyrtle which, in the -little village, was 4efinitely a May 1, 1887 --- February 16, 1919; Thomas T. Jaeksoni, sign of distinction." Today this old historic home is May 15, 1919 "—August 1, :1961;• Aubrey Eickmeye;r•, owned and occupied by William R. Smith.. November 8, 1961 — August 08, 1966. The present post- l' piaster, Alex Finnigan, took over in October, 1966. ' ' West of the church was the home of Mrs Harry. A partnership of this old reliable Jackson firm, Mason' who knit socks by machine for sale. She , also which had lasted for over thirty- years, was dissolved kept the Presbyterian Church spotlessly clean for many in July, 1886. Fi'rom then George and his family careied'c earedears. Tand stoves stoked his was no small w with woodk when .aIplate had,s years, on the business. William J. ,Finnigan took over in the farther west on this street, William Henderson opened 1920's. He was followed by his 'son, Harold `Buzz' a chicken hatchery, Finnigan,, Clare Haney, Aubrey Eickmeyer and Alex . Finnigan, who has been doing business here since 1966; • -Herman Bubolz was the first to haveh a cobbler sho Next carne Levi Tinkess, the pump maker. Later in the village. His successor was John Sleet. The shop in a frame building" near the sidewalk was a butcher was in the second block south of the church. It was a shop. John Somerset was the first village butcher, and lean-to at the south of the house. The shop is gone, but he was followed here by' Thomas and George Allen'. the house is now occupied by Harold Workman. Bubolz. Leopold VanEgnriond's home, now occupied by Ken was of German' descent and stories are still told of his Moore, came next. Leopold was anything but a timid, broken English. One customer, for a special occasion, or - fearful man, not one likely to take flight when faced dered a pair of,boots to be. made., The day arrived and with danger. But once he did just that and it all came the customer could not come across with the cash. With about in this way. One day when walking down by Bubolz it was 'no money, no boots. The man'pleaded, but the dam, near bis sawmill, carrying his gun, he, heard the cobbler was obstinate. The .customer offered to pay a squeaking noise." Soon an otter popped out of the wat- half. and the balance the next' week.a;For half," said er. He took aim and • fired, and, -when about to lay ^ in B the zend h° f man went u one off 'withou his words -followed, but, claim to his prey,. he spied an Indian emerging from the nearby woods, with a' glaring look in his eyes. Miss Ina Gray for a few years from the '1940's, Leopold hurriedly disappeared in the, other direction, after doing business in Seaforth, had' her Beauty Shop knowing then that he had broken a rule in the Indian in the Gray home. She is now retired. code. The'Indians squeak had enticed the otter from the water, -and to shoot his prey was a serious offence.. South of here and north of Hills' blacksmith, shop, The offenders penalty was death. The Indian, for three Jacob McGee had a store in his residence' from,an early of four days, continued to prowl throughout the Eg- date. After being used as a pri'..vate home for many mondville neighborhood in search of his offender. Leo- years, it was destroyed by fire in August, 1941. On pole all this time remained under .cover, knowing well the vacant lot Harry Pretty built a modern bungalow, what his fate would be if, the Indian caught sight of now the home of Donald Eaton. When the farmers him. •. opened a store on the street across from the cemetery, At the north side of Leopold's home Was the Am- leading down to the river, Jacob McGee *as one who erican Hotel 'owned by William A. VanEgmond. By the was in charge of it. This was known as the Grange. 1890's it was being used as a private home. At least part Thomas Dills' blacksmith and carriage shop was of it was still standing as late as 1944. Beside the hotel; the next place of business. South of it was David Andrew Smith had a brick home and saddler shop. `Sproat's home. He was an early village carpenter and Here he made and sold harness, riding bridles, collars, built many of the early houses. George Soole was an - trunks, valises, etc. Next to Smith was the home of ,.other early carpenter. Before and soon after the turn William McDougall, the reliable fur dealer. Raw furs of the century, John McCaa built several substantial were bought and delivered at -his home as late as Nov- two-storey brick houses for *sale. The first of these he ember; 1911. This brick cottage was burned in August, built is occupied now by Thomas Grieve, the oldest 1945, when it was still owned by his daughter Helen,' area resident. On September 30 Mr. Grieve celebrated but, at the time of the fire, it was occupied by Peter his 101st birthday. and James Roach. On the corner across the street from the VanEg- Two doors from the McDougall cottage was the mond Reserve' — Constant L. VanEgmond's home — Allan home, where Mary Allan, later Mrs \ Frank Kling was a shoemaker shop near the bridge, and also�ry- and still later Mrs. Will Manson, had her dressmaking don's Hotel,known at one time as -"The.Bummer's shop for many years. Many a bride took her marriage Roost". In 163 a Mrs. Robinson and• J. Neff were both vows attired in a beatuifully created arid well -made listed,,as hotelkeepers, but the location of these hotels gown that came from this Shop. Just as a few of the 'is not known. guns made by Leopold VanEgmond are still in. eircula- •i+ tion, sohave a number of the, gowns made by Mary By March, 1898, there- was not a licensed hotel in Allan been kept as prized possessions.- A few of these the village. T-uckersmith Council felt a licensed hotel have been worn this- year at Centennial gatherings. necessary for the public convenience, and requested the Among them was the one she wore on her own first board of license commissioners to grant a license pro- weddi; g day. - vided, a legal and proper application was made by a George Baffle, who lived at the next corner„ must suitable person. - have been a man of influence among the villagers. While • West of "Bummer's Roost" was the home of John there is no reason given for this contest, nor :.what his Fleurscheutz, who had the first and only tailor shop duties would be when elected, but mention was made for many gears. Sam Cameron came later. Fleurscheutz in a news item that in January, 1885, after a very ex- came from Saxa-Coburg-Gotha, the home town of Prince citing contest, George Baile was elected mayor of Eg- Albert, 'husband of Queen Victoria. One of John's char- mondville for the current year. acteristics, like 'that of marry of his countrymen, was After the Kruse store, already mentioned, the next thoroughness in whatever he undertook to' do. He ac - place of business was. August VanEgmond's woollen mill on the east side and his storage building across the street. These were at the boundary line between Eg,- mondville and Seaforth. The building on the, west side was burned in. 1907 when W. E. Southgate Co. was making clothing in it. By 1872 the Dexter. Horse. Training and Sales Stables were south of Van Egmond's storage building.- of almost a mile. • complished his objective by a perserverance which ig- nored all' obstacles. For example, a ,hollow in his yard, just south of the VanEgmond home, proved, to be an eyesore to him till he Ieveled it. This he did by dumping into it one hundred wheelbarrows full of earth. Till he got a well of spring water on his own property, he carried his drinking water from a spring creek on the John Gemmell farm, which made a round trip for him Ilt the brick stables there was also the office and liv- ing quarters of the ones who cared for the horses. Dr. A. H. Bailey was, in charge of the training. Later John McMann, the "Horse King", owned this.; prdperty and Shipped horses to many distant .points. The bank "barn 'Was burned in December, 1921, when Jonathan Merner and Wellington Fee were using .it to store flax. Men :tory, who were then young lads, remember how inter.- William N. Cresswell, a.short distance west of here, .'estuig it was to see George Dixon lead from the Me-' became a well known painter., He had his paintings ex - Mann Stables eight horses haltered together in a •hibieed in the Art Gallery in Toronto and Ottawa. He straight line, as they proceeded to the .stockyards to was a charter member of the Royal Canadian Society be shipped. It was in the McMann home that the 1905 of Artists. In 1882 he and Mrs, Cresswell were favored small pox, scare originated. Fortunately tine disease did with • an invitation to. the Governor -General's ball at not 'spread to other homes. John's daughter Emily, wife -Rideau Hall, in honor ofA the Ontario Artists' Associa- of Dr. Thomas L. Ryan, succumbed to the dread disease. tion. His remains rest in the Cresswell vault in Malt - landbank Cemetery. Back in the hamlet, we come to the bridge span- ning the Bayfield River, which meanders through from east to west. Like most othe p ces, the first crossing, no doubt, was felled trees, rocs the . stream . till a wooden bridge replaced the trees. This -wooden one was replaced in 1876 with one more substantial, which rest- ed on- stone. abutments. Piles were driven in to protect these abutments from the floating ice. These stood the trafficand the spring freshets for_ many years. When this bridge was opened for traffic in October, a great concourse of teams passed over it bringing grain and produce in from the south. The next, a construction of steel and cement, opened in September, 1909. Harr Tyndall's traction engine and threshing outfit gave this bridge its first test and the weight of it did not cause a tremor. If the 1876 bridge had a concourse of teams to test it, the present one of modern concrete construc- tion has its mettle tested daily by a constant stream of heavy traffic -- motor cars, school buses and vehicles laden with tons of construction material and 'machin- ery. As stronger structures have been required for each Succeeding bridge, clever minds always have found a means to meet that need.• ' 4(Continued next week) Dayid Duncan;. in thenext home; was the first un- dertaker. He made his own coffins in his carpenter shop. Farther west, John–W. Modeland, from. the 1,920's for many years, , did an extensive electrical business and also sold electrical appliances. He has retired now and winters in Flbrida. "CLIFTON COTTAGE" A special word might be said about the quaint brick cottage only a short distance from the McMann home and north of the present United.... Church and manse. When Rev. William `Graham retired in 1878 from the active ministry, it was here in "Clifton Cottage" he and his wife, a cultured lady of the old school, spent their sunset years. Rev. Graham never really retired. As, late as 1892 he ministered again for a short time at Bruce - field to the devoted followers of the late Rev. John Ross, well known during his ministry aso "The Man with the Book". For a number of years ' after the death of Rev.. Graham in Decen"iber, -189.3, Mrs. • Graham was an invalid. She passed away in July, '1907. It was after Rev. Graham's death that his daugh- ter Hannah Isabel' assumed the full care of the 'cottage and gave patient and faithful nursing to her mother. She inherited some of her mother's artistic character- istics, having a We for beauty, music"and .poetry. In addition to her other duties, to eke out a living, she taught music•at.ridiculot1sly low rates, and to do this traveled from .horse to Koine of her pupils. She also 4 rri .i tJnfl en wont ' MP* n ACCIOINT ' - SICIOIE.s r NAJOIt ',PENSIONS ��y*.{�,},y{ANNOIT IIIS -AtiptinS V Msu ange _eompan ' of Vanada' r 17 .GODERJCH sr, TEkEPHONi 5274$4:10 'WANT A DS BRI Higher Interest . 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