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h Oxford W.1.‘ : " North Oxtford W.1.‘s inromse seneh 3 Saturday morning at A. J. : @ t Mee"’ At C' rcle K Bak'er. School, the Kintore Bro Wns Optimists ran their second & md" 31 /77 gonnual Bicycle hogebgand Brown‘s Women‘s Instiâ€" Representa}iv%s faorrfr 1; available to stugfints Ifln <ion- ;‘fign gas j eg:s eg;rt%gi(;:fle ;’; th”; tute held its June meeting ranches 0 . Oxford ~sumerism. e Helen fls § 3 %istrict met with other diss MecKercher award for post activities. _ _ ; f iffésidTé’ff E N}’;Ehtfigféf,h Cff}ff trict and area represenâ€" graduate work in Home _ The following is a list of yaf preéi ding‘ tesdine tatives, the district Home Economics is alsoavailable. theâ€" winners from first to poem, "Midâ€"Summer‘" : Economist and their board _ Hon. Pauline McGibbon third place in each group: A letter was read from the director at the Circle K, on will be guest speaker at the Ages 6 & 7, Jennifer Torbet, St. Marys Agriculture Socâ€" May 24 for their annual special County Anniversary Karen _ Rodenburg, _ John lely, requestine entrantsifor| _ meeting. Conference, Nov. 6. f Caie Abns 8 Lo 10, Stoven they “Ie«igir Pri%cess Contest A presentation ‘"The _ _A quilt competition open Arthur, Alisa Rodenburg, Antlual" and mentioned the Rights of the Child," and _ to anyone will be held in conâ€" Peter Tucker; Ages 11 to 14, Curators‘ Meeting to be at colorful displays and posters junction with the Oxford Carol Knight, Keith Quinn o c play po 1 3 and Ken Ball. Simon Tucker the Friendship ‘Centre on helped to portray the theme â€" County Plowing Match Sept. ° O & August 14, and the London of the meeting â€" "The Child 30 â€" Oct. 4, 1980. For inforâ€" was the only winner in the ' Area Convention at the St of today will be the architect . mation contact Mrs. R.C. under age 6 group. Marys Arena in Novem:â€" of our Country‘s Destiny â€" Matheson, RR 3, Embro. Congratulations to these _ Te ‘ Tomorrow." District Histories and young people who particiâ€" The "Course on Cannin A musical program by the Cookbooks are being comâ€" pated and showed interest in and Freezing" will be agt Senior Citizens from St. piled for the District 75th anâ€" Bike Safety and to the ‘ Tevietoes ons June 35. .A Marys Friendship Centre, niversary in 1980. The Optimist Club for making Retirement D ill â€"b _added a touch of humor to Cookbooks are now this event available lto the > oo V\Illood anclt(e will «be the afternoon program. available for $4.00. children in‘ the areasuinei3/y 2(? . z:]t sftoc i on June The business session inâ€" Gas Alert Program has . Rem ggg:ll‘doT;elg‘;ngMAg. ‘ _cluded many reports and anâ€" been initiated, with the hirâ€" Ma%tin also annoyncéd thrsi nouncements. ing of four students â€" e Midraffern du t.a The Erland Lee Fund goal _ organizations are asked to ® Â¥ th: ha en ef 13[ meta] m}% has not yet been reached, help make up for the extra i & ts ome of Mrs. da(i and donations are being $4,000. needed that is not f Browns 8 Séfv;]r son, Im tretg}iir 1988 accepted by sending to covered by the grant. Mrs. _ Marion Munca : of 2 hg m;/ailst 12;1 e > Erland Lee Fund in care of Everyone is welcome to M edma Hended th a £ I(\)/;1g ing da ch. ‘Margaret Zoeller, FWIO, free course on ‘‘Food e Ja Itlitl? k ‘% g:'a â€" rs. Audry Durst, of Toronto. _ _ Preservation‘‘ sponsored by nation June 3th at Western Stratford, gave an informaâ€" W.1. Week is June 48, and _ the Ministry of Agriculture University of her‘â€"grandâ€" tive talk on "Life Insurance, the W.L. Hall, Milton will be and Food, to be held in daughter Nancy Gates with in many different life open weekends from Aug. 18 Tavistock â€" June 25 â€" 7:30 a Bachelor of Science situations" and compared it to Sept. 23. p.m. or at Fairview Centre, degree in Occupation Therâ€" with a sense of humor in Agricultural Museum, Woodstock Fairgrounds, apyfi#m value, and also stressed the Milton is open daily 10 a.m. _ June 28 at 1 p.m. or at 7:30 value of wills. [4g to 5 p.m. Scholarships are p.m. June 2t 1749 2 _ St. Marys Journalâ€"Argus, Wed., July 4,; 1979 £ f glllllllllllllllllllllllllllllIIIIllIIIIIIIIlllIllllllllllllllllllIllllllIIlllllIIIIllIlllllllllllllIII|IIlllllIlIIlIIIIlllIluu|n||||llmmuul|nlu||muuuulmulunummuuunmuuumuullullllmullulmIulnIllllmll||||||munllmunu||mmmul|||lu|||unumunlllllmllmnu||||ulllmmlnuu||1|lllullmullllullIlEl § , d e Y } will begin by naming Hon. E. J. McMurray, K. = E hk igks hk C. famous labour lawyer, and former Solicitor = & It Happene 7 & General in the King Government, and eldest son of Z 5 * * ‘ , â€"N Sara Leadman, a former teacher in the school. Rev. = & > 6 |â€" «* o HomerBrown well known missionary, who is at Z S Rl h‘t : Here > 5. â€"a2 i# present rendering his services in war stricken China. = 5 g i _ & ‘ John E. Brown M.D. I believe former Comptroller in = 2 â€" %%% aiz, the Yukon, and former Supt. in the General Hospital S & n â€" â€"ii#" ./ Toronto, and Ford Hospital, Detroit. The late Frank â€" 2 5 s4en y wel C m Uren M.D. famous surgeon at the Toronto General _ 5 The following account was written sometime in Concession had been surveyed, and a plot was leased Hospital, the late Wilbér Brown, M.D. beloved S 5 the 1920‘s by Thomas Leadman, father of Mrs. Ed from the late John Uren for nine years. A new practising physician, for many years in St. Marys. S S _ Carr of St. Marys. Mr. Leadman passed away in 1969. building was erected, of little larger construction and The late Dr. Jamgs Brown of Oklahoma, pr. Fred C 5 ~OUR PUBLIC SCHOOL more in keeping with the advance of the times, but the Brown M.D. of Chicago, Frank B. Brown, insurance = S long wooden bench seats were still in vogue for a time. executive of Toronto, Dr. John Purdy, Alpena, 2 s Away back in the dim past, about the year 1840, Some time later the late Jonathan Wells built seats, Michigan, Dr. J..Purdy, Philadelphia, John Roberts, S } 2 _ we trace over the blazened trail, and through the and installed desks for the pupils. Numbered among noted railroad contractor and manufacturer of = z _ thickly wooded virgin forest, to find the origin of S.S. the teachers of that era, of which we have record are Chicago, Edward, George and James Roberts, 5 z â€" No. 3, East Nissouri, now commonly known as Andrew Near, Thomas, Kelly, Ichabod Horseman,â€" manufacturers o( Chicago, Cecil Brown, General S ‘ 2 Brown‘s School. About that time a sturdy rustic Emily Brown, Charlotte Johnson, Mary Allen, J. D. Secretary of Hapnlton, Y.M.C.A. and a nou.ad speaker 5. 2 _ structure.came into being on the rear portion of Lot Nutting, Elizabeth Rose, Montgomery Waldon, James at youth functions throughout the province, H.L. P _â€"_ s _ 26, Con, 8, East Nissouri It was of pioneer _ V208 C. W. Haycock, and Sarah Leadman. Leadman, Engineer, Ottawa, in charge of one of the 2 z _ construction, <crudely built of heavy logs, about This was the second cyele of our schools history, Governments Hydrographical survey ships for work S 5 _ sixteenfeet by twenty feet in size, with one door in the and it too fades into the past. In 1868 the old building from coast to coast, Carg] Showers, Engineer, & = _ west end, and one lone window sixteen inches square. was wrecked and auctioned and a brick building put connected with C.IL.. people. at Windsor, Miss = 5 There was the foundation of an institution of up by contractor Wm. MacDonald. No further change Frances, and Miss J,ane McMurray teachers of long S _ & dearning that was destined to found a heritage of was made until the year 1928, when a basement, standing in Winnipeg‘s graded schools. Other teachers _ = 2 _ which any community could well be proud. A school modern heating, and other equipment was installe_d. included Ida Brown, the late Jpseph Brown, Lottie S 5 that through its product has wriften history Among the teachers of later dates we recall quite Brown, Mrs. Joseph Showers, Migs.M. Hawkesworth, > 5 _ throughout the entire Dominion of Canada, as well as a list, including E. Pike, Geo. Patterson, Elizabeth L. Brown, Cha_rlotte_Showgrs, Jean Brown,' Alice = z â€" in many States in the Union to the south of us. Commander, A. B. Walker Agnes, Exebby, Ethel McMurray, Susie Muir, Sadie Uren, and Antionette = 5 Among those nation builders whose influence, and Robinson, Frances McMurray, V. E. Stevens, D. L. Uren, John. Hawkesworth B.A. and. Joyce S i _ effort moulded the characters and future destines of vI\gf:lCellanéJilFit;gfi;a:d, Mat;}e Wir‘llter, s‘ Mfimes, Gi Hawkesworth were also among students of later 5 E& all the j 4 4 ilson, Belle Johnstone, Nina Jacobi, Margare years. § R s S 1. feacuet, dohn Bonman, followed by Margere Beig. _ Campbell Greve Puller , bure leason, : Ooeaiy â€"â€"â€" (COo the nursing profession our sehool contributed 2 i â€" Sarah Jane Thackberry, Tryphenia Vini Ei beg}; Wood, Helen Conveney, and the present teacher Jean Miss Maud Brown, Miss Hattie Purdy, Grace Purdy, _ 5 $s Brownd and Jugee Bryéml‘;,yl? n 10ing, l liza t ~Coates. the late Allie Uren, L. Gallinger, and Clara Leadman, _ 2 © Ab;)ut ine yeuy '1350 tt;e d ce : There you have the history of the institution and Pubhlc Health Dept. Jackson, Mich. and now Los S E formed and land cleared on the front portion of.the lot now for a list of its prqduct, and it is so long and Anggoesén(dlgl;fg:n sl?o and still more power for our 'E- é forming the site of the present school. The Eighth Z?)mgjls’ that I ask your indulgence least I over look . school milte future.ry penerâ€"to S n‘mmmmllummmnmllmmmmulmnmmmumlmummmumlmmmmmmnmum|uu|muu|uuunnmu|||unmmlu||mmm|||||m|mmmmn||||nuunu|u1lnmmun||u|lllllmn|||nmuuu||muuummmmumnumvu|uuu||1||nmnmunun|nlumummu|mu|umnlllmllmlmmlfi