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HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1962-05-10, Page 9Auction Sale Of Pioneer Items A large crowd of interested buyers came to the farfn auction at C, Brown Lindsay's in mid-April. The history of the farm goes back to 1860 in the Lindsay name. Uncovering old implements stored in „farm buildings brought memories of pioneer days. (News-Record Photo) Tictiftur genK ty from the' office of the Federation Fieldman '56 DODGE Regent Sedan Wm. Reid says . . . SEE OUR LARGE RANGE OF TOP QUALITY COVERINGS Chesterfields, Occasional Chairs, Sofas, Antiques Re-done. Choice of Quality Coverings. Pick-Up and De- livery. Estimates ' Given. Correctly' Done, 35 years Experience. Terms ! Arranged. UPHOLSTERING East St. (Coloo:iprositiiilas iPh Post Office ) 48, East JA 4-8422 REID oar La ntern Battery RUSSELL L. JERVIS COMMERCIAL RESIDENTIAL REMODELING HU.2-9390 68 ALBERT ST_ .414. the :famay, 1V rs, George. Sr.,, kept e )grwn with -14rPa glass. panes which: Grandma 14.41.4g4y 440 g4410 when .She walked' to elur~+h at night (they yvoiv• 144.5) .or went le week-night meetings in, the $he recalled hearing that Grandma .L 3.41$ y' load walked to 401 in the early days and car- pied hcorne a Oag of flouri Her grandmother Simpson had phce. ridden a horse to .Goderich and led. it home with the 1)a'g of flour and other ,supplies. on the saddle, ' Brown' Lindsay is building a. new hornO for 'himself and his mother on the farm across' the rOad from the hnineStead, known locally as the "FrIpser' farm, He has established, a fruit farm here, and also has maple 'bush so that he can cone,- tinge to make maple syrup. 4e WW1 /4* SOMEWita ?Mr VERY OFTEN for we WWI( WilfeREATION ALUMINUM WINDOWS ALUMINUM DOORS ALUMINUM AWNINGS Tsars,..Mgy 10, -1902,4tinton. .NOWA,.Record. ...PEOle rown .1.„4rodsay- Farm Safe emonesAntiques Ford Fairkihe ohd Falcon Sales end Service South Street GOL*R1CH JA 4-7308 Goderich Motors Ltd. THIS WEEK'S SPECIAL AT GODERICH MOTORS LTD. . 'V-8, standard transinission, two-tone yellow and black, chrome wheel rings, seat covers. Ontario egg. producers have taken exception to a statement that appeared in a Toronto (daily paper dealing with the current' investigation of certain food products by the Federal Food and. Drug Directorate. The story carried the opinions. of representitives of Several :leading cake mix manufactur- ers after the Food and Drug Directorate had • announced plans to implement regUlations requiring these companies to use only pasteurized egg pro- ducts 'in their mixes and froz- en desserts. The director of n111.1114. control for one of these companies is quoted by this daily as saying, 'the problem goes right back to the egg pro- ducer. If they made sure all eggs sold' were pasteurized there would be no salmonella". "This man is either misquot- ed or badly mistaken," said Tem. RObson, Leamington, pre- sident of the Ontario Egg Pro- ducers Association. "Ontario egg producers market their eggs in shell form and we know of no way that shell eggs can be pasteurized. The pasteuriza- tion process takes place after the eggs have been broken by the processor Who turns this product into powdered or froz- en. form. Thus' the gentleman is obviously referring to these firma who manufacture such proctucts for the• baking and confectionery trade." This flurry of publicity has Magnified the problem fair ibe- yend its true Signitieance, and it could have adVerse effects. ncovers The Story gees that James Lindsay, a. shoemaker, George 414 TOM. Lindsay, stonemasons born on a farm near Edinburgh !eqnliRriated to Canada .in 1860. Tom Lindsay didn't borne to Ontlarie. He didn't like the country arid decided to go tb Anstralia. He went to Mont- real .anci. disappeared, George located at Wardsville, He was .thrice married and each time 'went back to Scot- land for a Wife„ After his sec, and wife died, he wrote to a young woman and asked her to come eat to marry .him, Her mother objected to her corning out here before marriage, so.he was 'forced te make the tile again, D. Lindsay, Rodney, is his son. Ames, Lindsay found work in Paris, but twice a year he walked up to the Bronson Line to visit 'the Sparks family and. ncidentally, Margaret Brown, daughter of John Brown. John Brown 'and his brothers William and Alexander were stonemasons from Stirling, Scotland. Joinn was' employed 'by a titled Scottish nobleman to do some marsonry at his castle. He and the nobleman's daughter, Ca- therine Wilson, fell in love and eloped. She was subsequently disowned by her father. John Brown lived in Glasgow where his three children, Mar- garet, Janet and John were (born. The family emigrated to Canada and three weeks after arriving in Hamilton, 1VIrs. Br- own died. While in Hamilton the Brown brothers built two Presbyterian churches, one of which was F !s t Knox. Presbyterian Church. John Brown settled on the Bronson - Line and he built the first brick house on the line (long since demolished on the farm owned ;by Alan S,teckle). It is ^reealled that it was one of the houses' in the district said to have been picked out for seizure by the Fenian spies, in 'the Fenian raid scare. William Brown built the resi- dence of Mrs. Charles Marks and her son John. John .and William Brown also built St. Andrew's Auld Kirk, Hayfield (demolished in 1946). On February 21, 1862, James Lindsay married Margaret Br— own. The ceremony was per-, formed in Bayfield by the Rev: Mr. Kirby. They lived on the 13v ninon Line. Their daughter Margaret (the late Mrs, Rich- ard Smith) was born there May 17, 1866. Janet Brown married James Sparks. They lived on the. Bronson Line for awhile and then located on a farm in the Princeton and Drumbo area. John Brown, Jr. married Margaret Tough. They lived on the Bronson Line until 1885 when they moved to North Dakota, finally locating near Dtins'eith. He carried on in the family tradition by 'building 'the first stone house in that dig- In June .1866, the Baroness Von Tuyll sold lot 6, containing 94 acres, Hayfield Line, East, Goderich Township to James Lindsay. He gave her a, mort- gage ,for $296 which was dis- 83 Years Old.. Mrs. George Lindsay, Sr.., Hayfield, is sitting in as rock- Mg chair in the home she had' occupied for over half a cen- tury. She had ,celebrated. her 83rd birthday ,oh April 3 with members of her family, (News-Record Photo) charged .in full October 8, 1870, Aided by 'his father-yin.-taw, who lived with them, James Lindsay cut. a clearing in the bush . build a log shelter where the 'present 'house stands, Later a frame house replaced the log, and an apple orchard planted between it and the road. A ba n was built with the clearing of the land, Their 'second daughter 'Janet (the late Mrs. W. W. Higgins() was born here. March 10, 1869. The late George, Lindsay was born October 15; 1872, and the late John Lindsay July 15, 1874. James Lindsay, always, a delicate man, died of pneu- monia in 1887. Mrs. Lindsay"s father, John Brown, continued to live with 'the family until his ,death in his 95th year. George. Lindsay had done the' ploughing when 11 years of age owing to his father's ill health, but he took over the management of the farm, with" the help of other members of the family, at the age of 15. In 1893, Mes. Margaret Lind- say bought lot 5 to increase their acreage. Baroness Von Tuyll had deeded this .lot, all 85 acres, in 1867 to Hepsibeth Calloway (Mrs. J. Calloway) in apprecia- tion for great kindness extend- ed ,td her. Hut according to records at the registry office, R. H. Gaird- ner had' bought the S.W. part, 24 acres for taxes and re- ceived a deed November 29, 1866. But on September 21, 1868, Robert H. Gardner deed- ed this 24 'acres to Hepsibeth Calloway. (Dr. Robert H. Gairdner owned the adjoining land. He 'built the home now known as the old Thomson house.) This lot 5 recalls talks • of early days. One cold wintry Morning when J. Calloway went out to do -the chores, he found a new born 'baby girl, snugly wrapped in, swaddling clothes, in the sheep fold. She received a good home, was named Lenore and lived to be a very fine parson. Then there was the search far gold. The old diggings are still there, 1).+4.Qcw.g.'g 440, say's .o,1414rm 'Were 'Warned. never to go near Notwi%- ,standing the ppTeptai warping,. they occasionally threw a long pole down the hole just tO ,,see it bounce back up again, .Some mysterious pewer, probably gas, .doe5, the trick, After the digging 'was Stepped pioneers were of the opinion that, it had been a ruse, OR the part: of the ,Q411lada Company to attract settlers to the .distdet. On January 20, 1872, ,Tehn _Govenlock .(who married Len- ore) pnreliased 'thefartre Then it. came into -possession of F, 1W„ Kingston, June 4, 1881, and (Justin Lapp, March 24, 1890. James' F, V.anderburgh, James Wails, Emma G. C. Bond, Ern- eSt A. Macdonald and W. Kingston were other owners until Mrs, Lindsay acquired' it. A lime kile was established on lot 6 which for years sup- plied lime for bank barns and other buiidipgs, All the lime for the building of S't. 'Andrew's United Church came from this kiln'. There is still lime in the pit. Following the i r mother's death in 1905, George and John Lindsay came into the proper- ties. But John Lindsay prefer, red sailing the Great Lakes to farming , and so in 1916, he sold his share 'to his brother. But the place was always "home" to Jack. In 1906 George Lindsay mar- ried Eliza Switzer, daughter of Mr. and Mrs, aumee Switzer, 6th Concession and, Hayfield L i in e , Goderich Township, whose grandparents, Mr, and Mrs. !Rem Simpson were pion- eers on the Hayfield Line, They lived at the farm for a few years and then occupied -their willllage house (now owned by Licyd Scoteihmer) for five years before returning to the homestead. To them were born three sons, George, Paris; John', Hay- field and C. Brown "Doc" at home and. five daughters—Jean (Ides. Charles Bell), Isabel Lenore (Mrs. William Orr), Jessie (Mrs, Robert Blair), Pearl ,(Mrs. -James Hutchings) and Phyllis (Mrs. George Heard). George Lindsay, ;besides far- ming, raising sheep and cattle, etc., worked for Huron County as a road builder. He had the reputation of doing thoroughly whatever task he undertook. He rebuilt the home, incor- porating the original frame structure into the larger hawse. George Lindsay was the head of the .here in that not, only his own children, .but 'his sister's and their children NOTICE Tuckersmith Municipal Dump will be open until further notice on Wednesday and Saturday afternoons, from 1 to 5.30 p.m. J. 1. McIntosh Clerk 14tfb SaUght '114 wdise advice, Iii POAtiPS he was a *launch COWriPaMtYP.,, He •PeWed PA the village c9111101 and w4s mew for several years • He saw like need for a font 14rIgge across the Bayfield river, and was. strntnental in having it added tO the old iron bridge. While he Was. reeve, the roads which OrOsSed in Clan Gregor Square were taken ent and built around the square according to the original plan. When Brown Lindsay sold the homestead and lot 5, his ;brothers and sisters rallied around help him and their Mother a0 ready for the sale. And then was that early pioneer tools, implements and household furnishings, careful- ly stoned in the chlveshed came to light, The old spinning wheel and carder. Grandma Lan' disay did the spinning and Aunt Maggie did the carding. Their grandfather Lindsay's last far making shoes; tools vvhileh„Ilhe toys had never seen turned up. Equipment for making maple syrup recalled the Sugaring-off parties of old,- en days. George Lindsay picked up a bit of old paper 'in the passage way in the barn which he is having framed, It was his gr, andparerit's wedding certific- ate. How it got there, no one knows. A farmer's auger put up at auction just brought 25 cents, because those attending did not know its use. In the sale were 'the flails, cradle, 'reapers and pioneer ma- chinery right up to the modern 'tractor and equipment used to- day. Also there was a fine matched team of Percheron mares, the pride of their own- er. These 'animals did their daily work about the barn and farm in good spirit, But they weren't too happy with the fine harness which was' put on, them the 'day of the sale and they didn't show off to advantage. However, they went to a good home in Colborne Township, so Brown Lindsay was happy. Many of the articles remair- Combine your home-grown grains with NATIONAL' CHICK DEVELOPING CONCENTRATE the fresh mix with the meat meal besot mixed with• National Developing Concentrate. It's rich in meat meal protein, so it fogs a perfect balance with the vegetable :nutrients in the grains you supply! Want to start each young egg-factory off on the right road in life? Then feed 'em your own home-grown grains fresh- Whether you have your own grains or we supply them, we can custom, blend the finest fresh-mix you cnn buy right here at the mill ... using National Concentrate, of course. P.S. New fiom National—National Poultry Grower, a complete feed, plain Or medicated! PRODUCT OP CANADIAN INDUSTRIES LIMITED 41120 J. H. F, BROM Phone HU 2-9219 Varna, Ont, H. F. WETTLAUFER Phone HU 2-9792 Mary Street L. Clinton, Old Shingle Mill Now In Museum J. H. Neill, curator of Huron County Museum points at shingle mill that was purchased from the Lindsay farm near Bayfield, April 11. The shingle mill was purchased by George Lindsay from William R. Jowett between 1938 and 1940. Mr. Jowett had received it as part of a large saw mill purchase at the turn of the century. The shingle mill required extensive repairs at the time Mr. Lindsay acquired it and was last used in 1946 when the Lindsay barn was re-shingled. Mr. Neill of. Huron County 'Museum paid 820 at the auction sale for it, Bystanders at the auction thought the mill was quite valuable and bid Neill's price up when he showed interest in it. The mill will be reburnished. and put on display in the Huron County Museum in Goderich. , • (News-Record Photo) Upon the sale of eggs said Mr. Robson. Down through the years considerable research and bkiod testing of breeding flocks in Canada has led to almost complete extinction of • the Sabnoneilla Puliorm, virtually the only way this bacteria could be transmitted from the prodncer's flock. "Just yesterday," Mr. Rob- son said, "Dr. C. A. Morrell, head of the Food and Drug Directorate in Ottawa is quot- ed as saying, "Salmonella al- most never occults in fresh eggs. The food and drug people have indicated that they intend to bring in 'regulations requir- ing all processors of eggs to pasteurize the product." He went on, "We, as _egg producers approve wholeheart- edly with. this proposal in the interests of protecting the gen- eral public but we resent being cast as the villain of the piece, when it is' quite clear that any danger to !consumers through the use .of fresh eggs. is not only quite remote, but almost non-existent." "In the course of 'defending their own position it appears that some - people have, per- haps, inadvertently, cast asper- sions on 'the fine quality of Ontario eggs," said, Mr. Rob- son. 0 Safety is as simple as ABC— Always Be Careful. PATFIMP — When Charles BreiWn L'incliSaY I'VeentlY sold his faun, Lot 6, and 5, East, -v4 Hayfield Line, Goderich ship Ito Anthony Blok, manly conneetionS With early nierieer days were recalled.. ALWAYS LOOK TO IMPERIAL FOR THE BEST AVAILABit ONLY PROM:THE IMPERIAL ESSO ABENT WHOSE NAME APPEARS BELOW H. M. 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