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Len Coles’ Scrapbook Index
1950
Page 1 Newspaper photograph of Reeve Grant Sutherland of East
Nissouri, Robert Rudy, Reeve of Tavistock and County Warden,
Ex-Warden George Fewster and Reeve Arthur Maedel of Norwich
Newspaper photograph of Robert Rudy and the Little German
Band of Tavistock (Conductor E.C. Selzer, Otto Welker, Fred
Weston, Lome Ausie, Main Klein, Spencer Weston and Harry
Boyd)
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Newspaper articles re. election of Warden
Newspaper article and photograph of participants of a public
speaking contest held at the Court House (Janet Anderson, Joanne
Reist, Marianne Moore, Shirley Reeves and Wanda Boss)
Newspaper articles re. County Council Committee
Newspaper article re. Refuse Engineer Salary increase
Page 4 Newspaper articles re. endorsing resolutions, Report on County
Home, forest expansion program, and birth of Warden Robert
Rudy’s second son
Page 5 Newspaper articles re. Hospitals grants/debentures across the
Province, Road budgets/appropriations across the Province, and
County Library Grant
Page 6 Newspaper articles re. election of Bob Rudy as Warde, Oxford
Grants aid Hospitals, near accident for Reeve Arthur P. Maedel of
Norwich, Simcoe County coffers, and Reeve Alster Clark wearing
tartan for Robbie Bums day
Page 7 Newspaper articles re. winner of Kiwanis Safety Contest, allotment
for road work, County deficit, plans for the plowing match,
Federation of Agriculture seeking County Grant, and election of
Junior Farmer President
Page 8 Newspaper photograph of Blenhein Township Clerk, Irvin J.
Haines
Newspaper articles re. A.D. Robinson elected as President of the
Oxford Plowmen’s Association, first meeting of County Council,
fox bounties, epidemic of measles, oxford cheese products and
Tillonsburg’s new arena
Page 9 Newspaper articles re. Blandford, East Oxford annexations,
Thames River, Douglas Hart elected president of the Oxford Crop
Improvement Association, International Plowing Match, wolves,
and Norwich Council surplus
Article by Louise Krompart, Oxford County Library entitled “A
Village Librarian”
Page 10 Newspaper photograph of the Oxford County Library Co-
Operative (L.K. Coles, H.L. Kipp, Robert Rudy, C.D Sutor, H.A.
Little, R.C. Brogden, S.L. Krompart, G.A. Lees, W.J. McDonald
and R.G. Groom)
Newspaper articles re. death of R.B. Fry of Blenheim, warble fly,
annual meeting of the Oxford County Library Co-operative, county
roads, fox bounties, plowing match
Newspaper photograph of Ross Carroll, head of Norwich Fair
Society
Page 11 Newspaper photograph of the Tillsonburg Memorial Arena (inside)
Newspaper articles re. plow match, County Home, pension for
County employees, deer/car accident, J.C. King appointed tax
collector for East Zorra, and Wilfred Bishop elected executive
member for division four of the Oxford County Hog Producer’s
Association
Page 12 Newspaper articles re. Oxford County Health Unit, measles,
“Milkmaid’s Wrist”, roads, and hog producers
Newspaper photograph of telephone poles toppled due to excessive
weight of ice
Page 13 Newspaper photograph of ice storm damage on Baldwin St.,
Tillsonburg
Newspaper photograph of Bernice Eleanor Klein and Colin Angus
Forbes, engaged
Newspaper articles re. crime, Blandford annexation, and
entertainment at the County Home
Page 14 Ontario Good Roads Association 48th Annual Meeting Programme
(February 21st and 22nd 195)
Newspaper photograph of Len Clerk, Town Clerk of Tillsonburg,
Burt Neale, Assistant Clerk and tax collector, and Phyllis Green,
town stenographer
Page 15 The Ontario Association of Rural Municipalities Annual
Convention Programme (February 20-21,1950)
Newspaper photograph of telephone wires just south of Ingersoll to
Ostrander effected by the ice storm
Newspaper article and map showing Ontario’s give year road plan
to build a four land Windsor to Cornwall Highway.
Newspaper ad for County Tenders for insurance on roads, county
equipment and employer’s liability.
Page 16 Newspaper photograph of Bernice Eleanore Klein and Colin A.
Forbes signing marriage registry
Newspaper photograph of car accident involving ex-mayor L.B.
Currie of Tillsonburg
Newspaper articles re. entertainment at the County Home, fox
bounties, 1950 budget, health unit, holding police courts in the
County Court House
Page 17 Advertisement/schedule for the Oxford County Seed Fair and
Provincial Hay Show - March 15th and 16th, 1950
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Newspaper articles re. seed fair, hay king, truck load restrictions,
re-stocking Crystal Lake, Lakeside, mobile x-ray unit, Oxford
Warden appointed to UTVA Reforestation Body and Brownsville
Institute
Page 18 Newspaper photographs of the Grand Champion in Hay and Seed
Competition (top: A.H Martin and Douglas Hart, bottom: Harry
Ellery, George Bell and W.B. Blancher)
Newspaper photograph of Oxford County delegation being led in
by pipe band at the Ontario Plowmen’s Association annual
meeting
Newspaper articles re. traffic and school buses and new bank in
Norwich
Page 19 Newspaper articles re. Health Unit, March Session of County
Council, grant sought by the University of Western Ontario, list of
licenses issued for 1950 by the County, Winter Assizes and school
traffic stand endorsed
Page 20 Newspaper photograph of Mt. Elgin Students visiting Oxford
Council (Bernice Prouse, Evelyn Hammond, Warden Robert Rudy,
Isabel Kloepher and Grace Dutton)
Newspaper articles re. County grant for Alexandra Hospital, Paris
Hospital requesting assistance from the County, school accounts
given approval, reforestation, County Council sessions, Len Coles
reappointed as representative to the senate of the University of
Western Ontario, fox bounties, and delegations and
correspondence to Council
Page 21 Newspaper photograph of delegation from Mount Elgin
continuation school attending session of County Council (Wilfred
Bishop, reeve of North Norwich; Clarence Stover, reeve of South
Norwich; Arthur Maedel, reeve of Norwich; Oscar Sippel, reeve of
Blandford; George Wright, reeve of East Oxford; Fred Killing,
reeve of East Zorra; William McDonald, deputy reeve of East
Zorra; and Robert Clark, reeve of Embro)
Newspaper articles re. Huron College asking for grant, County
Roads, County Health Unit, farm prices, grant requests from the
Dairyman’s Association of Western Ontario and the Trustees and
Ratepayers’ Association of Oxford County, bat in Court House,
and city of Woodstock using Court Rooms
Page 22 Newspaper articles re. County’s tax rate, Thames River, Health
Unit, Mount Elgin Continuation School delegation attending
Council Session, X-ray examination of all food handlers in Oxford
County, and grant for Paris Hospital
b/w photograph of six unknown gentlemen smoking, drinking and
viewing booklets
Page 23 Newspaper articles re. Oxford Mill Rate, grants received by
County Council, newly proposed plumbing codes for the province,
County pension scheme, and report cards
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Page 24 Newspaper articles re. pension plan for County employees, County
Health Unit, new food handlers’ course, pelt marking, county
roads, resolution on school buses, and County Council picture for
1950
Page 25 Newspaper clip and photograph of the jury of the Birchall Trial
(Robert Murray, Joseph Longfield, D. McLean, A.S. McKay, A.
Bushell, J.D. Smith, James McKay, Donald Murray, A. Clare,
George Christopher, A. McCann, and John McKay)
Newspaper articles re. condition of County Roads and fixing Court
House tower
Page 26 Newspaper articles re. condition of County Roads, Jack Cockbum
elected new president of Young Farmers
Newspaper advertisement for Public Health Course, Ingersoll re.
food handling
Newspaper photograph of road west of Ingersoll flooded by the
Thames River
Photograph from the Wardens’ Luncheon - 1950
Page 27 Newspaper articles re. new Homes for the Aged Act, entertainment
at County Home, annual convention of the Ontario Educational
Association, County Home board, fox bounties, and repairs to
Court House
Newspaper photograph of damage to Herb Dunn’s car after being
hit by train
Newspaper photograph of students of food handlers’ public health
course in Tillsonburg (J.L. Griffith, senior sanitary inspector of the
Oxford County and Ingersoll Health Unit and G.E. Crandall of the
Health Unit)
Page 28 Newspaper articles re. smuggling of fox pelts in Lambton County,
Tillsonburg Hospital contract, Traffic Act Amendment concerning
traffic and school buses, municipal school to held at Court House,
and appointment of committee from the board of the Oxford
County Health Unit
Page 29 Newspaper articles re. Massey Probe for more museum support,
new Homes for the Aged Act, Woodstock joining Health Unit,
assessment of portion of the Township of Blandford to be annexed
to the City and new sigh for the Oxford Museum
Page 30 Newspaper articles re. city of Woodstock’s use of the
Council/Court rooms
Page 31 Newspaper articles re. city of Woodstock’s use of the
Council/Court Rooms, meeting to discuss new Homes for the Aged
Act, Tillsonburg Soldiers Memorial Hospital deficit, County
Public Schools Immunization program and semi-monthly meeting
of the Road Committee
Page 32 Newspaper photograph of attendees of the municipal school on
assessment (T.R. Maxwell, county assessor, Brant; Bates E.
Manzer, assessor for Embro; Fred H. Cade, of Toronto, assessment
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advisor, Department of Municipal Affairs; T.R. Hunter, of
Toronto, department assessment advisor; Robert Rudy, Tavistock,
warden of Oxford county; and H.E. Buchanan, city assessor and
collector, Woodstock)
Newspaper photograph of the Town Council Bowling Team
(Archie Anderson, deputy reeve; Charles Honsberger; Reg
Kennedy, Lawrence Smith; Len Waller, town clerk; Mayor Ken
Anderson; Burt Neale, tax collector and relief officer; and Owen
Thatcher)
Page 33 Newspaper advertisement for Oxford County and the International
Plowing Match 1951
Page 34 Newspaper articles re. proposed Health Unit agreement between
Oxford County and Ingersoll and the City of Woodstock,
immunization clinics, tree planning, fox bounties, meeting of the
equalization committee, and addition of two nurses to Health Unit
staff
Newspaper photographs of Helen Dee Ubelacker and James Allen
Sinclair Kneale, to be wed in June
Page 35 Newspaper articles re. support for Food Relief Fund for flood
victims in Manitoba and fire disasters in Quebec, approval of
Woodstock’s inclusion in the Oxford Health Unit, Aid. A.V.
Downing as the city’s representative to the Oxford Health Unit,
and special meeting of County Council
Magazine images of fires at Rimouski and Cabano, Quebec and
flooding in Winnipeg
Newspaper article and photograph of plant crash on the farm of
Wray Prouse, Dereham Township and death of two Tillsonburg
youth (Bob Laur and Dalton Murr)
Page 36 Newspaper article re. Ross Tuck appointed Oxford Deeds
Registrar (includes photograph of Ross V. Tuck)
Newspaper article re. death of Harold Bishop of Norwich (includes
photograph of Harold A. Bishop)
Newspaper artless re. grass silage day date set, fox bounty, and
Blenheim school area
Newspaper Public Notice re. special meeting of County Council on
June 20“
Newspaper photograph of students from Woodstock Collegiate
attending the general sessions of County Court (Deputy Sheriff
John Martin, Florence Batford, Joan Barnard, Shirley Odell and
Annie Laurie Hilderley)
Page 37 Newspaper articles re. equalized assessment County Bylaw passed,
June Session of County Council, County Council barbershop
quartet, and grant to the Tillsonburg Soldiers’ Memorial Hospital
Page 38 Newspaper photograph of Annual Ladies’ Day held at Council
Chambers (Mrs. George Fewster, Mrs. Doris Rudy and Mrs. J.N.
Meathrell)
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Newspaper articles re. Annual Ladies’ Day, removing section of
North Oxford Township from the Ingersoll district high school,
equalization, development of reforestation property, repairs to
County Court House, agreement with Ingersoll and Woodstock,
forming the Oxford Health Unit, grant for the North Blenheim
Horse Breeders’ Association, and grading on Highway No. 100
Thamesford
Page 39 Newspaper photograph of inspection of County Home on
Council’s annual ladies’ day (Mr. and Mrs. George Fewster, North
Norwich, ex-warden; Mr. and Mrs. Robert Rudy, Tavistock,
Warden; and Mr. and Mrs. R.J. Forbes, superintendent and matron
of the County Home)
Newspaper articles re. Annual Ladies’ Day, County reforestation,
County Council accounts, repairs to County Roads, library aid,
hospital deficits, and creation of a fact-finding committee to study
council procedure
Page 40 Newspaper photograph from the Ingersoll Sentinel-Review
showing crows at the opening of the new hospital
Newspaper photograph of two forest insect investigators probing
Oxford County woodlands (A.S. Danard and A.G. Donaldson)
Newspaper articles re. entertainment at the County Home, report of
the equalization committee, meeting of the County Home Board,
quarterly meeting of the Board of Audit, annual meeting of the Ex
Warden’s Association and Robert Alexander Chance of Blandford
sent to the County Home
Page 41 Newspaper articles re. new Alexandra Hospital open, Brant County
Court House, oil for road west of Hickson, Woodstock’s inclusion
in the County Health Unit, meeting of the County Home Board,
and a grant request from the Tillsonburg Memorial Hospital
b/w photographs for the Annual Ladies’ Day(?)
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Newspaper advertisement for Grass Silage Day, June 21,1950
Newspaper advertisement for Grass Silage Day, June 21,1950
Newspaper articles re. Grass Silage Day, quarterly meeting of the
Board of Audit and first meeting of the Oxford Health Board
b/w photograph of eleven unknown men posing in front of
vehicles, possibly from Grass Silage Day
Page 44 Newspaper article and photograph from Grass Silage Day held at
DeMontmorency Farm, north of Woodstock
Page 45 Newspaper photographs showing scenes from Grass Silage Day
Newspaper photograph of meeting of the Oxford Ex-Wardens’
Association (W.J. Weir, James Pullin, William McIntosh, Charles
Beagley, James Innes, Alvin McKay, J.F. McDOnald, Milton
Betteridge, H.B. Atkinson, George H. Hollier, L.E. Peterson,
Henry Hanlon, Alex McCorquodale, Robert Rudy, George
Balkvill, George Fewster, J.C. Eichenberg, L.K. Coles, Winston J.
Nicholas)
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Page 46 Newspaper photograph from Ex-Wardens’ Association annual
meeting (J.N. Meathrell, county road superintendent; C.F. Beagley
of Embro; George Fewster of North Norwich; H. Hanlon of North
Oxford; J.F. McDonald, West Zorra, first vice-president; Milton
Betteridge, East Nissouri; and Len Coles, County Clerk and
Treasurer)
Newspaper articles re. meeting of Ex-Wardens’ Association and
death of Gordon Ross, Ex-Warden (includes photograph of Gordon
Ross)
Page 47 Newspaper photographs of Embro Highland Games
Newspaper articles re. Embro Highland Games, physicals for pre
school children, attendance at the Oxford County Museum,
financial set-up of the Oxford Health Unit, meeting of the County
Council’s property committee and new fire truck for Tavistock
Page 48 Newspaper articles re. Ema and Willis D’Eon and Carelton County
informal party
Newspaper article and photograph re. H. Roy Hughes
Newspaper photograph of the Thamesford Garden Party Beauty
Contest (Edith Spicer, Warden Robert Rudy, Mollie Landon,
Patricia Priddle and Patricia Johnson
Page 49 Newspaper photograph of Millie Landon, Miss Oxford County
Newspaper articles re. Roger Hawkins heading the new Health
Unit Board, M.O.H. Reports, Health Unit staff salary schedule,
coal tenders, increase in phone rates, and use of the second floor of
the market building for the Oxford Health Unit
Page 50 Newspaper article and re. passing of W.L. MacWhinnie, former
Register (includes photograph of W.L. MacWhinnie)
Newspaper articles re. polio cases, fox bounties, musical evening
at County Home, County Crop picture and John C. Blair named
Deputy Registrar
Newspaper photograph of Jon C. Blair, Deputy Registrar
Page 51 Newspaper photograph of Prime Minister St. Laurent standing at
the graveside of his former chief - William Lyon Mackenzie King
Newspaper photograph of the first meeting oft the Oxford Health
Unit Board (Roger Hawkins, reeve of Tillsonburg and chairman;
Dr. O.C. Powers, County M.O.H; Aid A.V. Downing, city
representative; A.R. Horton, Ingersoll; Len Coles, secretary
treasurer; E. Juli, Norwich, provincial representative; Warden
Robert Rudy, Tavistock; and Reeve Arthur Maedel, Norwich)
Page 52 Newspaper photograph of truck hauling the home of Claude
Wright of Ingersoll
Newspaper photograph of crowds at the Old Boys Reunion,
Drumbo
Page 53 Newspaper photograph of pylon marking the 100th Anniversary of
the Blenheim Township Agricultural Society to be unveiled during
the Drumbo Old Boys’ Reunion (Jean Vance and Joyce Markle)
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Newspaper photograph of John Prichard, secretary of the North
Norwich Public School Board; Arm Palmer, Laurie Hyde and Mrs.
Hyde at a concert in honor of Mr. and Mrs. Laurie Hyde
Page 54 Newspaper photographs showing field of oats and com and section
of the 7“ concession of Blandford flooded by recent severe rain
storms
Newspaper articles re. construction work, school room loans of
books by the Oxford County Library Co-operative, mechanical tree
planter for reforestation work, Oxford Health Unit Board may buy
camera to supplement reports and number of jurors for duty on
Supreme and petit courts during 1951
Page 55 Newspaper photograph of new officers of the Oxford Clerks,
Treasurers, Assessors and Tax Collectors Association (William
Agur, Tillonsburg, president; S.J Dundas, North Oxford, program
committee; F.G. Jackson, Oxford Centre, secretary-treasurer; A.P.
McKessock, East Nissouri, vice-president; L.B. Curry, West
Oxford, program committee; and A.L. Bushell, Norwich, program
committee)
Newspaper articles re. 58th Annual Meeting of the Oxford Clerks,
Treasurers, Assessors and Tax Collectors Association and
government grant to cover expenses for special equipment for the
Health Unit
Page 56 Newspaper photograph of preliminary work on a boundary bridge
between Oxford and Norfolk Counties
Newspaper articles re. school visits by Oxford Health Nurses,
violent storm effects Embro, entertainment at the County Home,
fox bounties, new school in Princeton, Railway Strike and possible
Child Health Conference with the Mission School
Page 57 Newspaper photograph of Oxford Health Unit stenographers
(Betty Smith, Jeanette Bell, Myrtle Waterland and Dorothy
Overholt)
Newspaper articles re. Federal help given to the Oxford Health
Unit, coal tenders, Oxford Health Unit activities, annual meeting of
the clerks, treasurers and assessors of Oxford County, Health Unit
conferences, reforestation committee activities, and fourth annual
meeting of the Ex-Reeves’ Association
Page 58 Newspaper photograph of George Write, reeve of East Oxford;
Allan Kneale, reeve in 1907; A.T. Walker, reeve in 1914; Frank
Jackson, clerk and treasurer 1900-1946; and Rev. J. Ure Stewart at
the East Oxford Centennial celebrations
Newspaper articles re. East Oxford Anniversary Celebration and
appointment of Dr. L.E.L. Taylor as Health Unit Veterinary
Programme for the thirty-first Annual Convention of the Ontario
Association of Managers of the Homes for the Aged and Infirm -
September 4th, 5th and 6th
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Page 59 Newspaper articles re. Tavistock fair, International Plowing Match
in Alliston, Anti-flu serum offered to students, Woodstock fair,
Drumbo’s Centennial fair, ominous yellow cloud, and Council
Session
Newspaper photograph of the death mast of Tommy Cook
Programme for the dinner in honour of the Thirty-first Annual
Convention of the Ontario Association of Managers of the Homes
for the Aged and Infirm - September 4th, 1950
Page 60 Newspaper photograph of Ex-Reeves’ Association executive
(Alvin McKay, West Zorra, committee member; Clair Peers, East
Oxford, past president; John Smith, Dereham, president; John
Wallace, East Oxford, vice-president; Thomas Costello, Blandford,
committee member; and LeRoy Curtis, Dereham, secretary
treasurer)
Page 61 Newspaper photograph of Woodstock’s oldest horse
Newspaper articles re. Oxford Plowing Match, notice of special
meeting of County Council, election of John Smith as president of
the Ex-Reeves’ Association, and wolf and fox bounty rates
Newspaper photograph of special meeting of the Upper Thames
Valley Conservation Authority to discuss work on the Fanshawe
Dam (Dr. J. Cameron Wilson, T.V.A. chairman; Leonard Johnson,
T.V.A. secretary-treasurer; Alster Clarke, West Zorra and newly
appointed member to the T.V.A.’s executive; R.C. Dunn, London
Township; and M. Messerschmidt, Ellice Township)
Page 62 Newspaper articles re. Oxford Barber Shop Quartet and Tom
Sutherland, turnkey at Oxford Jail
b/w photograph of the Oxford County Council Barber Shop
Quartet
Tickets to the Woodstock Agricultural Society Fair and the
Tavistock Fall Fair
Page 63 Newspaper photograph of the Oxford Barber Shop Quartet
Newspaper photograph of the scotch pines planted in Winnipeg as
part of the Palm to Pine highway
Newspaper articles re. Oxford Barber Shop Quartet, Oxford
County Museum, St. Marys Memorial Hospital, 16th Annual
National Convention of sanitary inspectors in Montreal, and
meeting of the County Home Board
Tickets to the Ingersoll North and West Oxford Fall Fair and the
99th Annual Exhibition of the North Norwich Agricultural Society
Page 64 Newspaper articles re. T.V.A. area projects, fox bounties and
tobacco price
b/w photographs of those touring T.V.A. conservation projects(?)
Page 65 Newspaper photograph of Members of the Ontario Conservation
and Reforestation Association gathered around a mechanical tree
planter
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Newspaper photograph of extensive framework of steel tubing
around Court House
Newspaper photograph of speedster in soap box derby down the
King Street hill
Newspaper articles re. repair work to the Court House
b/w photograph of three unknown men and a baby in a pram
Page 66 Newspaper photograph of delegation from Oxford County leaving
Woodstock by bus for the 1950 International Plowing Match near
Alliston, Ontario
Newspaper articles re. Oxford delegation to the International
Plowing Match, Sheriff Alfred Bishop’s mother in hospital,
resolution from Welland County to legalize sweepstakes in Canada
for hospital purposes, pension plan for County employees, grant
request from the Embro and West Zorra branch of the Canadian
Red Cross, hospital grants and the quarterly meeting of the Board
of Audit
Page 67 Newspaper articles re. County Council session, reforestation bylaw
and equipment for plowing match
Three b/w photographs of the delegation to the International
Plowing Match
Page 68 Newspaper articles re. new Registry Office on site of bowling
greens, upkeep of County Roads, plaque in memory of the late
G.R. Green, agriculture representative in Woodstock, International
Plowing Match in 1951 at John Hargreaves’s farm, Warden
speaking at the Tavistock Women’s Institute, grants given to
Junior Farmers and the Oxford County Plowmen’s Association,
immunization against flu, and items of business for County
Council including registry office and pension plan
Page 69 Newspaper advertisement for the Ninth Annual Oxford County
Plaiming Match
Newspaper articles re. by-law for payment of orders and accounts,
petition of the Women’s Society of World Service and Ladies’ Aid
of Zion Evangelical Church of Tavistock opposing Sunday sports,
Welland County resolution, grant request from the Embro and
West Zorra Red Cross Society, and office for the county magistrate
Newspaper photograph of the new Tillsonburg District High
School
Page 70 Newspaper articles re. entertainment at the County Home and
review of Health Unit sick leave policy.
Newspaper article re. Al Lawrence resigning position with the
Ontario Provincial Police (includes photograph)
Newspaper photograph of Alfred Dickie, fourth man in the annual
Oxford County plowing match
Two tickets to the International Plowing Match
Page 71 Newspaper photograph of the new channel in the Nith River
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Newspaper articles re. student patch test, official opening of the St.
Marys Memorial Hospital, and items acquired by the Oxford
County Museum
Newspaper photograph of Health Board Members getting their flu
shots (L.K. Coles, Aid. Downing, Roger Hawkins, Mr. Horton,
Miss Margaret Grieve and Dr. O.C. Powers)
Page 72 Magazine article(?) re. Woodstock
Newspaper photograph of the Oxford Health Unit Board (A.V.
Downing, Dr. A.P. Taylor, Miss Norah Hicks, Miss Margaret
Grieve, Roger Hawkins, L.K. Coles, A.R. Horton, Bob Rudy, W.E.
Juli, Dr. O.C. Powers and Ken Anderson
Newspaper article re. proper methods of handing food
Page 73 Newspaper photograph of road and bridge construction in West
Oxford and East Zorra
Newspaper articles re. County Roads, meeting of the County
Home Board and meeting of the Road Committee
Programme for the Official Opening of the St. Marys Memorial
Hospital - 2 November 1950
Page 74 Newspaper articles re. Health Unit sick leave, construction and
repairs of small dams and farm ponds through the Thames Valley
watershed, workshop meeting of Oxford County librarians, grant to
the Oxford Health Unit, Jack Callendar of the provincial police
dismissed, and food handlers’ course
Want-ad for married man to work at the County Home Farm
Newspaper article re. death of Francis G. Jackson, former East
Oxford Clerk (includes photograph of F.G. Jackson)
Page 75 Newspaper photograph of U.T.V.A. Executive Officers from
Oxford County (Reeve Alster Clarke, Robert Ruby, Dr. J.
Cameron Wilson, A.H. Richardson, Reeve Grant Sutherland and
G.W. Pittock)
Newspaper articles re. Hikory Hill Bridge, fox bounties and a
redecorated juvenile courtroom
Newspaper photograph of Woodstock General Hospital nurses
celebrating the birthday of Saul Huntsburger (Mr. Huntsburger,
Miss Fry, Miss Daniel, Miss Loosemore, Miss Harris, Miss
Deschmond and Miss Hanley)
Page 76 newspaper articles re. Warden’s Dinner, entertainment at County
Home, meeting of the Oxford County Library Co-operative, public
notice of a meeting of County Council, selection of jurors to serve
on courts, tour of Court House, survey for the town of Tillsonburg,
county roads, paying of accounts over $200, new registry office,
and fox bounties
Page 77 Newspaper photograph from the Warden’s Dinner (Robert Ruby,
Mrs. Ruby, Mayor Wilson Milbum, Mrs. Milbum, Reeve W.A.
Anderson and Mrs. Anderson)
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Newspaper photograph of head table at Annual Warden’s Dinner
(Henry Vogt, Rev. O.T.C. Stockmann, Mrs. R.G. Groom, R.G.
Groom, Mrs. Robert Rudy, Warden Robert Rudy, Mrs. L.K. Coles,
L.K. Coles, Joseph Connnell, Mrs. T.R. Dent, and T.R. Dent)
Page 78 Newspaper articles re. County Council final session, grant for
Willett Hospital in Paris, Tavistock Continuation school students
attending Council, indigent patient rates at the Hamilton General
Hospital, assistance for Victoria Hospital in London, term of office
of Norman Marshall for the Norwich District High School Board,
Norotto Gas Company, meeting of Education Committee, accounts
and payments of expenditures
Newspaper photograph of delegation of students from Tavistock
Continuation School to County Council (Mary Mallon, Fred
Currah, Warden Robert Rudy, Clare Ruby, and Jane Taylor)
Page 79 Newspaper photograph of the County Council Barbershop Quartet
Newspaper article re. William Henry Sutherland attending Council
Session.
Newspaper photograph of Reeve Alster Clark, West Zorra; Reeve
Grant Sutherland, East Nissouri; Mr. Sutherland; Reeve Robert H.
Clarke, Embro
Newspaper articles re. courses covering all phases of farm
management, 1951 Convention of the Canadian Federation of
Mayors and Municipalities, Council Session, Council
representatives on School Boards, rent fee to be charged to the
Oxford County Library Co-operative for use of a room in the Court
House and a financial request from Victoria Hospital in London
Page 80 Newspaper articles re. agricultural floor prices back by County
Council, reduction of Woodstock General Hospital deficit, Council
session and interest owing to local municipalities for prepayment
of county rates during 1950
b/w photograph of County Council Barbershop Quartet
Page 81 Newspaper photograph of County Council Session (reeve Alster
Clark, West Zorra; deputy-reeve J.K. McLeod, East Nissouri;
reeve Grant Sutherland, East Nissouri; reeve Herbert Dunn, North
Oxford; reeve Thomas Pellow, West Oxford; deputy-reeve W.A.
Anderson, Tillsonburg; reeve Roger Hawkins, Tillsonburg and
deputy-reeve Harley McBeth, Dereham)
Newspaper article re. presentation of a sterling tea service to
retiring Warden Robert Ruby
Newspaper photograph of presentation of a sterling tea service to
Warden Robert Ruby (Reeve Arthur Maedel, Reeve Oscar Sippel
and Warden Robert Ruby)
Page 82 County of Oxford Handbook - 1950
Newspaper articles re. Tavistock elects its first Woman, Mrs. A.B.
Flach to Council
Newspaper photograph of Mrs. A.B. Flach
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Page 83 Newspaper articles listing events 10 years ago, 15 years ago and 25
years ago
Page 84 Newspaper article re. providing information to the public off the
activities of the Oxford Health Unit
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