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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1958-07-23, Page 33g• e, ,s e, rq re it, he u• [r. fr, !Is ke ig) , ck ". an v. 1 • • wEDirEsrmx, JuLY ooth, 1958 THE.' ,iNE.1411A RIVER It's a long way 'back to LucknoW, Where the Nine Mile'River flows. don't know where it comes from Nor exactly 'Where it goes, But in its nice cool current rd. like to dip, lily toes.. It's a long way back toLnocriow Where the Nine. Mile River runs: It's babbling Crystal waters ,Have rolled by, ton,. and tons; • And furnished -real enjoyment. • To thousands, of her sons, .• It's a long way back to Lucknow• • Where I Jived as a boy And in that Nine .Mile River played with childish joy.n eeded not a' plaything The river was my .toy. • It's a- long way baak tO'LuCknow. Three thousand miles or more• lake and plain and mountain Td have to cross before' ,I could reach the old home , y, •: I think of happy .rnoinents— ('Twere better to so hours). • I waded in its waters, •• • ., Or on itisl'-banks • Plucked' flower • 'As 'fair as any , One gets ' from garden bovirers: see the little bridges:• That crossed the babbling brook, Whereon at •basking fishes ' • I loved to stand and look, Or, with the. urge:of Walton To land them with a hook: And then • there were the deep Where we bays loved to' sWim.- :Pel dive. in frOm the, 'grass' bank • To rade, .with Dave. and jiin, •And: some of hs were well. -built •And sarrie. of UsWere' .• , , • , • • And when the. ice had. covered. The • pond • from shore to :s shore,• , "We'd have the Merriest kind of. 'Upon '.its glassy floor;•• • • 'As shod with skate;When school - • • was �t,: • • • We'd. skirn t o'er' and o'er. . • , If that river,had. been deeper, Or. had run with swifter *tide, •if it had been farther- Acrass from, side to side, • Po you think I'd like it.. better? catildn't if I tried..:.• • . It's a long way back, to LucknoW Thirty, forty, fifty, YearsL-:• Some filled. with lots of pleasure And some, alas, with teats, And. some: were :bright, With hopes • And some were black with fears. It's a long' Way back ..tci:LuektioW Beyond those fifty years,: And '1Ooking back.; I seem to see • :Far; more 'of smiles ' than tears, .And among.:the brightest Mern'iles' : • That Nine Mile Creek appear:. • • • • • Back fifty. years to 1,-ucknoW,• .My thoughts :take rne, forsooth, -To when the Nine RiVer, • 'Made,. glad the'. year§ 'Of . YOuth. ,..That's why I'm singing. of. it, And all' my song is truth•-:: F. •ODLUM. • • • "A.• MODEL VILLAGE" • , IDESPIllig FOUR HOTELS • ,Withina feW years :of . its LuCknoW was rat- et:11,•. as. "a triode" 1t• .:'! • Was. referred' to -as 's,liCh an article written '95 years' • agO.andWhich Was.published, i9T.110:Hiirati Signal .of Oh October 15th 1863. ..• • • The .. article: Statedo, that .• "LuChnow's. inhabitants 'are ' progressive.vricl they live to- •gether.in hartrionk and peace. The best- part nfthe village has been built within' the last' three years. It now- .contains fiVe'storet,. „three blacksmith • Shops, • three cabinet shops,. -a bakery, two butchers, one•. . shoe shop; one, chair factory,. •grist and sawmills, a .carding; wagatihOps; a fine „ new. School hott8e, a Meth- • •„OdiSt Church antI four hotels”, Ther Ws a doctor ,there, too, •. and a daily stage, running 'to Oodricii. • ' beSpite. the four fiotets„ the- articld pointed out, "We are • assured that,LucknoWthe' •r.most temperate .villagein •.tahmia". ' • aa" 0 1' • LAK...W S“VISTTINEL, LUCKNOW, oNTARIO ecalls Days of High WheeI Bike, _pet Street Lights • ,04,440RIge bGeoge .W Ailhstrofig: ROW many people in Luckriow and, .What /a different aYStern to could :tell nrip the *name of the that now used. They'were eorhon man who., •when on official busi- lamps, 'gave a VeTY, ‘go9d light but nesS, Wore plaid.trousers — and rounds had to be made daily and he was not a Scotsman either. 1 carbon recl?ved, and they Made refer. to John/ ;NobleRoss, for as a . loud hissing, noise. The striall° Many years as I can reMeniber Pieces �f carbon discardedwere • oVilagen fficial collector -of taxes; for the , eagerly pickeclAip_a_nclAioarded- whiek-capacitrit-WWW7thesmall The plant was generally considered he gave ser- powered from Stewart's, Mill, ° v eydnd"' the call -of duty. down past theFurniture Factory.. When john .was aria* could now ,put on , aprogram of Ilighland sports and clanWig like was.1,Pafurd at the' Caletion- ian grounds. over 70 years 'ago., The .61 cit ib• cover. the event and, it was The.....Toronto *Globe which called the 10Cation. natural amphitheatre"- 1 ihave .a • ivid recollections of Jimmy. Hu.nter an-. riouncing .the results. He could be diStirictly :heard even at the top of the hill,. ands nearly every, person present sported a Glen, garry• or Tarn-o'-Shanter that day:• Also a standout. with me was. the year the' 48th Highlanders. 'bag-• pipe band was there for the day,, and ,the tug -o' -war was not de- cided until , the, early morning menand'a couple Of ladjes. What' When it was finished they a furore •thee was in „Own, one had to dig two participants out of fine Sunday 'morning When, °a the ground • and ' conveyances number of them started out for found to convey ihem• their Kincardine, the ' wearing. limes or hotel and some of them, bleomersthe first seen in among them: Kenny McLeod, Someone was thean. eapugh. to :anchor.man, • OOnfined to phone ahead.' and on arrival : at their beds :for weeks or their destination the: travellers • , months people lined up all along ..the plaid trousers ...he really meant • ' ' - : ' '* ' ' business.. He ' had a very Pirr : "1 don't 4elie//e arly. city in Opinion, of Scotsmen and claimed they were rtin, out of the Emerald , Isle, which, accounted for the fact .that both .'s-fitilse. Gaelic. 7 ' - .ounger days we lived' 'on Havelock Street which had a gravel 'sidewalk, so hard on our Shoes that many2patents had the Children .use the dusty road. This was the route' used 'by the riders of high -wheeled bicycles. when out .for a ,s.pin, But I quite . re- • meniber the excitement in town when a demonstrator salesman,. Visited it and. gaire*:`litoexhibition on a "safety" bicycle; and inci- dentally. secured- • Orders... from, some of the more affluent young werie given a great reception ---, • • • g route , verything but a 'brass band., • , ,What was Perhaps the first cith- ,ered.,ripk (also Used :as. an 'agrii not the*village should sell: cultural was located on the back 'to ,the %City. of London,the old .manntial fire engine. They 'wanted' it as a museurh. piece. It required •a'streaiii•or a shallow well: for ,watez? supply and was oPe.rated by 8 or. 10 men :On each After the . ihitallation. of a water sy-stem:fOi fire protection and about the lime I,,was..leaving for.: PritiSh • there Was some' ContrOVersr, as •to whether first corner north of. McGarry's Hotel (then the Whiteley. House). bill it , collapsed, over 70. years .ago. Later' a building to serve' •bothopurpases was erected at the race track .on. ithe •Fair Gkotwas: side, •working :a.- long' handle the Being''' too far/ but •for :•walking, length of the Machine. When one, two employee's' of the'. Furniture side pushed ..down .:" the, opposite Factory,. Jim Gay and jack Jew- handle came up, but it .Worked itt,... put up a large. rink west a pretty well 'al that.. - ... • - •:, , ••••• . ' town and • great' interest was • ' '' - .. - aroused in 'skating,' hockey and • ' Having b 6 e n out of touch with -urling.The proprietors put. 'up the . t.0:‘,t,rh so many years I of en large Money .prizes for the raCes wonder if there -has since been: and contestants Came quite a tance to corr1pete---In7 fact, I' don't, remember that local Skater' ever,. got, into the Money. I have reason to remember one race in which Harley, Davidson,. ;champion • of Canada, was defeated. Only the. Person who brought him, to town • , ,knew •Who•lhe. Was there ,to com- pete 1111t soon. 'a feW. knew . there . was a "dark' hOrse" ',in town .afid Offered to cover nearly any kind, of:' a bet in which they •were al- lowed the „field. •I, had ,:Wagered Much' More than , -,1 could :afford and nearly c011apsd when •he went onto the, ie i But Davidson didn't even get into the money -- and this 'practically cured, me' Of betting. • : It ' must , be • at leaSt 70 years , since street lights Were put in :•• A prodOf: growth eqUat'qb that ofaround 1888 to 1890 for it must. .have ,been ,about • that 'time that the, I:resbyteriari ' and Methodist •Churches, the!, Town. Hall •and: :what used to be known as the Murray: and ' Alin.): blocks were built: ,The . first .theiltioued. con-:' .. ... gregation worshipped., in, a sing e... storey, barracks- 7 dike : ' building 1 whenr: for. a snaa4.amotint, of rags, nearly back of the John 'Orli/Idyl bones, bottiles-ay.scrap.. iron Itieh House and the Second. in a frame :a`. a ,5,:or 6-year-old.,cotilcl:carry 1 structure On Outram Street, 'moV- he would 'cover. a 15all, quite well, ed to be used as a-blaCkSmith'arid 'using, material. Made °of rags or carriage. works by Adam: ThOmp, striag: He lived ina: house.4o-, -Son, and. located on Campbell St. wards the river off liaVelack.St. The. Murray 'block :replaced an. ,and . his',:hinnerauS :canaries were old frail* hotel and 'Was, occu:- .a116WLed to fly- about all through. pied by FL 1D ,Cameron, Berry's the house Latterly he had an old Drug Store and Wm. ..Connell's, team of horses and a. dray but: dry goods., .Cribbing and : piles I; never. saw ' hinr, with a load :on Were :replaced by a • stone pier to it, •certainly never More than one furnish , fatindatiens:, for -the' Al,-; .trunk, :so ..I expeet, hewas still .,....0".•.:god•.#•••44-...444.-04.444•44-444.4. • cENTENNTAL sPzutr. (.< .. • • • a• 3 1.• ennial Luc inti, Ontario 1 99,!;,• • , • . , • , • MORGAN :;DONALD lin Block which. spanned the in' -the. juhk..hUsiness, rt. Waa'., river.. All; these buildings, as .W.eil. Stated. that Jock first.apPeare4 lit., ... at the Town Hall, were of brick LucknOw' -A8 the ..contractor for construction and .considered ,quite carrying the mail from. 00deiick,- pretentious. at that time. ',.,." ' ,..,. with a passenger service a .very . , . . ' • * :i. ' * • remunerative •side -line. He was::. : •In a. Previous ,story • in ' connec•••• titilerbid on ;the , mail ,estnitiact •,,..- tion,....- ,,with my apprenticeship ,on arm. cut :the: passenger fare td‘'' . . get that trade.: For ' a: while :he. •• AThdem•TIS:nutsienrieloI vrii.:inyt.io:ofni6ntlfautJrnOichk, 01:1...n.otfare ,to0 badly., but event-.. . .. .. -...-- tJi e power,for the cYlii nder Pres ually h, turned his l'hand to any - on : ". •,::;;. which the paper, Was printed. 'honest job to get the where.with-; • character, I Would judge Many,' - Jock as ...quite ' a well known all to survive ° • : ' ' . ' ,... .0eo. W. Armstrong. ''•'' many yearS ,ago.'.My recollection '' ., '. ' ' • ,. . of hini goev.back ,over 75: Years '‘"' •.'4.''','":"I''''.*.•,4."°-14-1.',1',4-#4,-.001,--* . • , GAVILLER, - 1VIcINTOSH d WARD Chartered Aceoutatit Bell Telephone B1dg., • Walton, Ont.. 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