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Home My WebLink AboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1918-09-26, Page 5i %.. d. '.: lE •l��v 1'i:.t�4.:.:.'�I G,:.ii+ii�f i".. +.:.�.'�JCwhtArt `1110.4 -100 P� ik.K • Sa 1.) e8 0 it ey For The Farmer RICES of farm products have reached a high level.. - The farrier can take full ads vanta. e- of-this.situation-.only_ - b adding to his equipment of time and labor-saving ma- chinery.. Time and labor are money. When time and labor, are '' saved, mosey is saved. Time and labor-saving de- vices, for working the land do not produce compete results:. in themselves he farmer must have rapid and depend- able means .of placing his products on the market. The Ford One -Ton Truck will make trips to town so much more - quickly, than the, horse that you will - have many extra hours of time to • devote to productive. work. A large number, of farmers have proven the Ford. One -Ton Truck to be -a time and money-saver—have you? '. Price (chassis only) $750 `* • F. O B. Ford, Ontario ✓. •RENWICK Q,i. lin ala G -.- ,� 10"1' Runabout $-660 Coupe, •- - $•875 '1 Touring • • • 090 ' Sedan. . - - 1075 F. 0. a. Ford, Ontario • Ali des rtub$ect.tp war. too. charge sxcept truck and ahatria • Ail pricel sub7eot to orange without nouns Dealer LUCKNO • • rien inNee The, Pandora Range is your real r friend on wash. day. CIL .a n g e the top. around, set the boil- er on the far side • and use the three nearest holes— you can boil on all of them., ' Dinner on. time; no extra fuel, , no rush or" conf usion.' Full information about the Pandora Range, will')k sent free to any address upon request to nearest branch office. McCiap% London Toronto • St, jfbhn, N.B. Hamilton Montreal Winnipeg' •- . Vancouver. Calgary Edmonton -Saskatoon 44+ ,uRiEt `i,�l<D l a.al �CJI:A�'iAA.�, lihOkill, 1tit his hens, AlexanderPVilliakid, John and Murdock; -Donald Mean. - tyre; George and Donald Roos with las wife; John MacRae with lois souari Donald. Duncan and .l lexender, who settled on the farm now owned. by John. AlacRa,e; .Donald and Rodriek MacKenzie; Peter MacKenzie with his son Dan. R.; Kenneth Gillis; Donald Matheson with his son Angus;: Duncan Campbell with .his sons Alexander and Rodrick; John McKenzie with his sons Donald, Murdock. and Rodrick; Kenneth MacKay with his sons Angus,' Donald, John and Duncan. • In 1854, John Cameron with his' sons Sohn, Duncan and tt.odriek, took up the b;omestead now the h"ome nff,his z unison Pme. t.. -and- Tan els.;• .:the brothers John;:. Donald and William t otcher; Laughlin ¥acDougai. 'nvltln his brothers Archie and John; and Archie Pletcher and family with hiss sons 'Duncan, John (senior),, Jehn (junior), Andrew and Peter. In 1855, Donald Stewart, Donald MacCharles with his sons Farquhar, Angus, John, Frank and Rodrick. Then, in 1851, Kenneth Ross settled on the farm 'now owned by his son A John', Ross,.. ijn the second eorices- Mon of Huron„ Duncan MacRae with his sons John., Alexander and . John Alexander, All' these took . up land now held by ,their, heirs surrounding what is now Lochalsh. How these hardy sons frons the . Highlands were welcomed by 'the pearlier. pioneers as family after family tramped , thru swamp and slashing and climbed over fallen trees, ever grasping tighter, the preciousbundle conimitted to their care, even folk -lore does not tell us but the imagination pictures scenes of now ,owned .by Re4rick MacKenzie, i --'st twit: -compani n I:el:meth•-.Mac 1 `Oes: t, s:it:•.1d on the 'arm no'w pos-- sensed by John MaC1Say. • ' •' 1• The satne year Alexander Tohnston il'flt� jiollesZ' 0f nisi tlist 3igttienlittlt was ilugh (Utile) MaeDellaid, who came in. 1858, thein the following year 2804, A.ngus_MacLean With hig sons Donald, Ewan, Allen and Ueetor, took up lot 48 Lake Range, near Aanbcrly and near the homy of the eldest son. Donald. The Boyd brothers, Donald senior, John,. Alexander, and Donald Pinker, with their- smother and sister Mary, settled at the mouth of the Eighteen Mile River in 1855. Donald Ferguson and his son Hugh took tap• the•corner lot'at Amberly between the giaysl.road and the boundary; also Janes MacDonald,. father of ,JanteS and Neil. • In 1,864 dates the .coning Of Ed- mund,Ross (the singing,.teacher).and Alen MacDonald, Angus and Donald McDonald. and, last but not lest, Angus MacLellan, the Gaelic' precent- or. The foregoing pioneers . of the north --west part • of Ashfield ' spoke their mother tongue, which was as. dear to then an. the apple of , their eye, but to be separated by the Caaelte from their English, -speaking Yellowy citizens was far from the purpose of such loyal ,and 'progressive Canadians. ''Pus-we'tindbeginning-ifinlf •gaud" stalwart -men as David Cowan, ,Toon; Johnston, William Pagan, Henry Hill, Andrew. Carrick; Francis Scott, Daniel MacNain, Robert Beller, and Peter Edwards . as the pioneers of such as did not come from the Highlands of Scotland and therefore did not speak Gaelic, but who cast in their lot with a. people with whom they,.' labored, bought and sold and learned to love so well, that to the' third generation they still remain on the old. home-, steads and in the community where iT 010 • • The Busy Hardware House Phone Sixty -Six for Prompt Delivery joy and rejoicing true to the custom their ancestors settled: • - of °the age and the occasion of their These are but a Pew of the names meeting in the New World . of the heads of families who have , But how these early -comers reach- made the north-west part of Ashfield ed this new land of plenty, may be and the• south-west part of. Huron strange reading to the dwellgrs of this Township one ;of "the finest agricul- age of steamshilps, railroads, palacetural districts. in Ontario. cars, motor "cars and airplanes. They ; The fathers have gone, -but the fer-. came from Scotland by sailing vessel, Chef chis, well stocked barns atom Often taking ten or twelve weeks ,for fortabla homes remain; as nn evidencend of all but. universal prosperity, and an. the ocean voyage,. all the.. while • One monument-to the character, during,the discomforts and necessar- ily,coarse. fare.of the. now .forgotten thrift and manly: independence of the en .who: blazed the way steerage passage.of severity;years ago, mien and women They first landed at Quebec, thence tor, the present.prosPereus generation., again' by boat to Montreal, Toronto But, themonuments. of thsefathers and Hamilton,: and. frons. Hamilton by this :district go far ,afield. Their de- and over smooth inacada scende,its of neeessity,'and of the in-' „sized ros"is—to ,Gods lch, Atte' f u hesatpd and acquil'ed bent of, their' :c::hiericn along• the Raters' ut Lake, mind, reit the' crowded environment of Huron in a. row boat owned and man their Godly homes: to' seek an oppor-' ued by the two dist settlers, Donald tunsty +o better. their material con- MacRae- and Kenneth MacGregor, and dition and serve the 'new land accord-. _afte.L-safer sage they; rested for' a, • in; to their natural and acquired abili -ties:- ..:We 'find them occupying honor tine in one:, or � other of the-shin-ties. he shanties owned by Duncan MacLennan, F nla able positions in. commerce aridaexpert-, .1%./acLennan or Donald MacLean north tradesnnen in many o the cities in. he of Kintail. But to the weary emig United 'Slates, in the leading cities in Canada' the sante is also true, but in the great North West the praire is rich -and blessed with. the splendid; men and women who have gone from, A hfield, rhe art hs of s the• Chris tio seeurail the farm -now owned. by Me rant the: end was not yet; he must Dalton, and perhaps. the following f,nd a permanent resting. place: Rav- i year Douala'MacGregor took up the ing found such a piece of land, he town fat, now a part of tieproperty must carry his , - old=country .: chest, of Dan. ttcDenald=orKintail: In 1.842 . the MacKenzie brothers arrived, Colin Alexander' cnd•.Roderick, and . with them John MacKay. 'These settled on the farm'' now owned' by Roderick and Murdock MacKenzie and Dunean •' and Alexander MacKay. Thenfellow- ed Roderick MacDonald; Dunca . Mac. 'Lennan with • his cons Malcolm and Sohn; ' Finlay `. (Piper) MacLennan ,,with his -family; John,MacLean with his sons, Donald: Alexander anti Char- lie; Kenneth MacKenzie; Hector-Mac- Gregor; ector•Mac-,Gregor; John Douglas with his family 'who settled:on;';the farm now owned by his son John;, and David Stewart. • the father of D. M. - and Charles • Stewart These all settled onthe Lake which`. Wass made of heavy material, solid and enduring, sometimes' weigh 'Ing 200 pounds, for many miles'thru, the unbroken bush, guided .only by the: blaze, on..,.the trees Thus our ;fathers and mbthers were born' to a new life, a new labor, and a new hop'. The solid blush challenged the metal of. which they were- made.' The handling of an axe, the', pioneer's necessary companion, had to be . •la- boriously learned. The clearing for the first log cabin was an obvious, • as. Wellas an arduous: task, but. the con- seiousness of the fact that every tree felled IMP -roved' the- hope of a house built and a farm cleared, lightened the labor of the 'undaunted first settl=' Mange to the north and east of the. er. The building, of a log cabin, for' MacKenzie's'. Then, in 1844, John endurance as well •as for reasonable MacGregorarrived, the father • of comfort, ,taxed their mechanical skill James on the old homestead. During and ingenuity. 'But all these things the same year Murdock MacDonald were as nothing when the home was . with his family settled at •Kintail on finished, for when with pardonable the' farm ;now owned by John and pride. they iooked'ppon the evidence 14 urdoek-MacLeod., -- 4 . int -their rof their ••first-forest._handty'orK . they Fin In 184.7 there arrived Kenneth, Fin said w'It is *within „themselves, good' lay, straight Donald and lame Donald and even allowed their -Highland res - MacDonald.. who -settled Onthe lands _erre to be broken when they further • • now owned by. their sons. Said,='This home an'laid Jlei ..,..�,.�. , Two years afterwards, in. 1849, ani own' for truly they were not only rel - E.— .otlier, accession to the settlement took igions, but very human aS well. DAYSIK.,ASDV1EL EARLY. D stored minds, unbending wills, faith • w f ' theMettle t AN. ACCOUNT OP T11E'ARRIViaa'AND- SET.. "TLEMI;NT OP THE PIONELRS 'Three ' leierationsJ of • Standard- •I3earerte is the title of a 45 -page book- let gotten: out for -the 70th miniver: of -the .. _.. b t"erian easy of the Ashfield Pres ,y church, the present year :marking the completion of 'T0 years' history of this. congregation. ' The book contains It great deal. of historic nformation. as to the settlement of ,Ashfield and of the (pioneer life of the people apart from the mere history of the congro• gation; and we take the liberty of pub- dishing that portion of the book deal - ling With the arrival and settling. of the `pioneers, as follows:' These Pioneers • canoe from the High lands of $eotland,• gener,iily. bringing with them only the bare essentials for ti`ansportatot . More they could hot . • bring as honest hien. But with the necessaries for beginning' a new lifo Xn Canada, they carried 'unseen more precious treasures—the essentials Of 'material and spiritual stability and i geetlll, namely r�oftud. 1)0dlo00 well up' land on the boundary of. During the year 1849 and .the sac - in the future of ,Canada, love or ' Ashfield •and the south of Huron, seeding years to'1854, the se emep house of God, The-if$Toir, Baxter's among whom-: were FinlatabLense4vas augmehted,by other' worthy mien. Sa'int's' Rest Boston's Furfold State, nan with his, sons, John, Donald and and women'With their families, some The Confession of Faith,and a high Alexander; Andrew Macitae' with. hie of whom , remain to this day: Many . Duncan an ' " 'descendants 'are. occupying sense of 'the. Divine Mission of the sons d Donald; Malcolm of their Presbyterian Church in Canada,. With MacRae with his family,: his son, Dan- positions of honor and tru ' t in, the ' h '1 mental and -spiritual can with• his family, and with 'thee church and community, such as John such a T yatca h us Morrison with.. ods' conquered the hard -son, h i still with us; also Ken• man Morrison g broken woods; q ships peculiar, to first settlers; hies ,d nett• MacKenzipe, Big Donald g , a1. pith thru the thick forest, and ever zit)! Alexander Black, Sandy'MacKen- Dougal, Matheson and his• son John; i Bi Dou old Matheson 'with his Mrs. Charles '1VfacLean with her song" famlh his ands'on Duncan 'Finlay -:..MacLean and his son Alexander;_ Nor-. equipmen`t;. they braved the wild; un -y � _ who Ths� histot,y of the congregation is no less' Interesting than the history.of the settternent. special interest, . as showing the peculiar ,religious fervor of these" pioneers is the acount of the co,r'.a!ntnion seasons; whch in the early days in Ashfield lasted for five' days, following the cnstonl.of the Highland Presbyterians, beginning with service on Tbursady. and continuing thru Fri- day, Saturday, 'SSabbath and Thanks- giving on Monday. -'.The clans would gather from" far and near within. a radius of 1hi ty or .forty miles,: and on rare occa�Lonb they would come• to Ashfield from Wierton to Woodstock;. to be present at the . great feast • of, Christian. love and comradeship:' The booklet is profusely illustrated with portraits of. former and present day notables in the history .of. the church. Among them we notice . one of Neil Bain. MacKenzie, • our 'vener= able townsman. ',For- the frontpiece there Is a gbeed Ytrait a thel present ,.}minister of Ashfield,, Rev. J. S: Hardie Soon you will be think - Mg it is time to get that New Range. We have a full line. of :Ranges on our floss at present. This High OvenRange has been thej leader ''�$�L o rp some y • why. . We might say that we cannot replace'these stoves at the same price at which we are offering .sameto- day. „'Stove:manitfact • carers tell us that sup- plies up plies are very hard to _ get and, that iron: anti. steel is going up 111 price by leaps . a bounds. • Stoves .have taken "anotl eeadvance of About 10 per cent, during -the last two weeks. We strongly advise you to man e , your purchase before the:price goes' still h;goer. Thes•• cuts are a. me of the many design of which we carry. We will be pleased to show .ye),t our f 11 linea: • McClary and Perfection 011 Heaters • -British American. Gael Oil and Gasoline- Rogers' Per land Gement -Lime and.Piaster- Window Sash . Primed and Glazed. McLECD & JOY.NT The Store 'Where -Your Mone Goes.Farthest J. s r us Kenneth •and Robert; MacKen- his sons An following the gleam, they were led to z e,, g ug ald • courage and the; things unseen son: Donald; the, Fnlayson brothers, Donald; James MacDonald (Lothian). Leet to the Highland mind, 'very real. Roderick, Alexander and Angus Rod- Sandy Laidlaw MacKenzie, (Big) Don. We gather,, from the memory'of the rick (Burnoch)" Mackenzie with his ald MacKenzie, Donald Sutherland, passing and present generation that in 'son John; the Mackenzie brothers, Archie MacDonald, Angus and Colin Kenneth, Jon a who owned the property. ' nneth MacGregor and Donald �itodrick � Nicholson, 1838 1{Qh , Allenand Bri. Bucltin ham, . - the' Then,in 1860, we recall the follow- now possessed by g Maei$ae came first to mouth of what vats then known as the Baroness "iii additions; Donald Bain MacKen- Joseph Bell, Farquhar Mathieson with g rr Creek,which"' zie° with, his sons Rodrtiek and Alex- his sons Rodrick, Kenneth and Doug- Creek, and now Ifio y.is i west adder Peter Bohn -and Alexander old, Neil - Balm ivlacKenzie, who . empties into Lake 11u. on d,ree e 1 es , ' bTurra the still'in the flesh, Archie and Murdoch of iiintait. The 1 -slowing yoar they Murray, and William Yu eth Campbell with ch ' took up land on 'the las:+' shore, fon wheelright, with his sons Peter, Don-" MacInnus, Ken p they Sohn. • + sons Norman, Alexander and Rodrick, his J were 9isheri�en aril It ed to be al and . • near the water whet' + fish wet a plenti- 1 'The following dates are only ap- and Rtsbert itfaclntosh, father of . es ar r'' art (if the proximate, as they are largely front l ,ui h and the Item. W. 11, of London fill and a tory hes s . p p Ont. These all settled on the twelfth atilt of life in these ca:., daY�. Don- memory;. --•; c'oricessiora Of Ai3lnAeld The fele o& t'a 111aclt:io took ill.' the lot' on the 1 in 1862, Kenneth (Sohnan) Mac- , Lake Ransc west el' iriatlii . and Kenzie with his sons 1 odrick and $incl. . `. .» There are"33 members of Bruce County ,Council and already 27 have sent" in replies, to Geo D. McKay of Walkerton,. County Secretary of the Navy League, that they will support a levyof, three•quarters of a mill at" the December session amounting to $21,000 for " the support of the 'sailors of the Mercantile Marine and their depehdents, The "extra tax will, mean --about $4B0 to the ayerage 'ratepayer in this county, and it wall save ail the work and ex pense of a canvas.. Besides, it is the fairest: way. A 'WORD FOR MOTHERS sit is wrong for mothers to neglect their aches and: pains and suffer in silence -Allis leads to chronic sicknnessl and often shorten§' life. . If your work•is tiring; if your nerves are excitable; if you feel languid, weary or depressed, Scott's Emulsion over COMP just such conditions. It possesses in Concentrated form the 'very elements to invigorate the blond, strengthen they tissues, nourish the nerves and build up your strength. 9 neott tit, $owns, Toronto. Qat. .,.+..I Sought our Ladies' Coats for Fall ths ago This_ guarantees our prices are. •. less than the present . market " values. The __styles are gopd' and so are.the : cloths. In Black Plush Coats we have good values: , See what we have to show be- fore you .buy. • Linoleums are Practically off , the Market • •Wehave •still some good paiterts.' Also in .._... _. inlaid' in twopattern's. Now is the time to buy before .we are sol$•out. • We have a'well assorted stock in the Millinery' De- partment. The' early buyer will, fare best as to price and choice. All who visit our showroom will receive the best 'a'tten-tion, ; Our aim is to please our cus- toners. WILLIAM CONNELL V4li%44/4h�l�1%�11AtL .."11171 (ESTABLISHED 18 72) -- A . " i i AN1 .O F SI AN VERY' dollar saved now 'aiid �•. means r in a bank a dollar - -:amu _. _ IILT.O.N•: deposited .: _more for the _ ul• _._.. . :. .. .. �,_�.._-yv _L -c �a'Ys'cs -�'� 1_',..."•C Government wlieri it. -ls recif lire to ptrosF- - cute . the war. To'postpone. the purchase of ie andsave the money.'is worth and . luxuries worthy patriotic, atrioti, It is also :good. business policy c during the high price period. • :Open a Says - in "s Ac count with the Bank of Hamilton. , ,.LUCK - OW BRANCH :_ • .. ,._- _- --J1.. A. _GLVINIE, btanaaer .__. _ _. _._ . s . _ __ MANURE SPREAYiERS, We sell•. the Deering: Light Draft Spreaders, with the wide spread, the most durable and up -'to -date machine on the market. Don't tail to see it before buying. BUGGIES -The latest styles with either steel or rubber tires. FE,12 I l.itZ T EI2-Use some Homestead Fertilizer on your roots and potatoes. It pays to fertilize. . - . Coiled Wire and Woven Pence an hal4i: Frost No 9 % VV. Q. ANDREW 41