My mother kept a lot of newspaper clippings, and pasted them in scrapbooks. These ones date from the 1940s on. They are about family and our towns as well as random people and events that struck her. Of those she kept, these are ones that also particularly struck me.
Belmont Clubs, late 1940s
Oddfellows photo with my dad George Anger, granddad Austin Anger and uncle Wallace Jackson. The Mary Hastings’ Bluebirds (below) with my mother Ruby Anger.
Belmont Arena 1949
The parents of Jake Bradburn (at left in photo) were Flo and Wes Bradburn. A few years after this, when my parents moved to the big old house at the corner of Main and Odell, Flo and Wes lived in the front apartment.
Tillsonburg
In Mom’s earliest scrapbook, she has a clipping of Tillsonburg kids at Christmas in 1935.
Following that are two clippings about Floyd Kyte. The “horseradish king of Tillsonburg” was my mother’s uncle. He married Marguerite Lymburner, sister of Minnie Lymburner Burwell. They lived near Tillsonburg with their eight children.
Port Burwell
The top clipping is from 1950 and tells the story of a young Port Burwell teacher, Mary Anne MacMath, a century earlier. The next is about the 1960 historical plaque for Col. Mahlon Burwell. Below that are stories about a faith healer in Port Burwell in 1951. I can’t find any information on the Rev. Orland Bailey but I found Harvey Vaughan’s 2013 obituary.
Opinions
My mother was quick to send off a letter to the editor if need be.
Newspaper Announcements
Obituary for Mom’s uncle Eddie Lymburner, 1948
Miscellaneous Newspaper Clippings
In this 1951 story of Woodstock cat Herkimer, the writer mentions “the wealthy” Rhubarb. Googling told me that Rhubarb is a 1951 movie about a stray cat who hits the jackpot when he is given a home. It is based on a 1946 novel by H. Allen Smith. You can watch it on YouTube (for a fee). Tap the title to get Rhubarb the book on Amazon.
My father was also an Edward – Edward Wray Lymburner, son of Otto from London ON.
I remember hearing about the horseradish company owned by family in Tilsonburg.
Thanks for posting all this!
Hi Lori, and thanks for writing. Nice to meet my 2nd cousin 🙂 There’s a couple pictures of your grandfather on my Lymburner photo page. I remember him at my grandparents’ house – a lovely man. Kyte’s Horseradish was started by our grand uncle Floyd. He married Marguerite, sister of Otto and my grandmother Minnie.
Hi Dawn, thanks for writing. I don’t think I ever met your grandfather Harold. But if I’m figuring it right, I think we’re sort of 2nd cousins. Floyd was my mother’s uncle by marriage. So nice to meet you!
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Lori (Lymburner) Thwaites
3 Dec 2020My father was also an Edward – Edward Wray Lymburner, son of Otto from London ON.
I remember hearing about the horseradish company owned by family in Tilsonburg.
Thanks for posting all this!
Dorothy
4 Dec 2020Hi Lori, and thanks for writing. Nice to meet my 2nd cousin 🙂 There’s a couple pictures of your grandfather on my Lymburner photo page. I remember him at my grandparents’ house – a lovely man. Kyte’s Horseradish was started by our grand uncle Floyd. He married Marguerite, sister of Otto and my grandmother Minnie.
Dawn Burns
7 Nov 2016Mr. Floyd D. Kyte was my fathers uncle. my Father was Charles R. Kyte, his father was Harold Kyte Floyd’s brother.
Dorothy
8 Nov 2016Hi Dawn, thanks for writing. I don’t think I ever met your grandfather Harold. But if I’m figuring it right, I think we’re sort of 2nd cousins. Floyd was my mother’s uncle by marriage. So nice to meet you!