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Home My WebLink AboutThe Brussels Post, 1967-05-11, Page 3J'il 'itie•DAY, MAY 11th, 1907 4110w 7C;;':'11.11 -ifEargitistamaati 1 OE. Bli1713814148 POE'a, ONTA.11.10 EXCELLENT CAR BUYS I. DE,M. 2 DB. HT .E.N..,;11`,..L, AU10. 11'8, 1S66 ';;OP.i.) COS OM 1300 V8, AUTO . TRANS, RADIO PUNTIAC, RADIO METhOk, i<ADIO 1965 FORD VS, AUTO. TRANS. 196;5 PONTIAC 4 DR., FIT, V8, AUTO. TRANS., FS. RAIAO ;Tr ked grA.7.1 Ask about convenient d and return times parture 40 ONE WA, RE!) F For information, phone the local CN Passenger Sales Office YOUR :viUiTANU. FALCON, FAIRLANE, FURL) and THUNDERBIRD DEALER PHONE 249 BRUSSELS i-1-10NE 357-346 0 WINGHAM ,*.03ifeltlVill.M. • CANADIAN NATIONAL gees CENTURY FARms .ANC OTHERS ON CON. 14 GREY t :1100111100 from page one) five. sons, Jane married John ...Nit:, Tiq:..gari and lived. on Lot. L, con 15. Susan married Andrew 11 is- lop and lived on 1:011. a, 01)11. 151 Margaret. married David Doull and lived on Lot 27 eon. LG. Their Son JauWOn tauter took Lot 22 con. 10. 2.:examier, .01 COL. nt.LILCall, Lot 21 con 1.-1, wheve nis two daughters Jane and. Janet perished in a giro that burned their hoUse Dec. 1951. Don- McNair died whoa a young man, and John took over the home place. When, he passed on his son James A. Look over the place. lie died in, 1(45. His only son Stuart, manied Eloned Wilimms, (daugh- ter 01 1tev. and Mrs. W. A, MI- hams). and their daughter Myra is the fifth generation to live on this century old farm. letki Joint V. Steiss moved his family(rent 'Waterloo County near ,iiehileberg, to Lot 15, con 13 Grey. There was a fluidly of seven sons, Jacob, Louis, Adam, John, Rob- ert, William, and Lia.niel and two daughters, Lydia and. Sophia. Jacob. and William were black7 smiths at Molesworth. Louis was a tailor having a tailor shop Ayton and later at Cranbrook, Robert had a sawmill at Revel- stoke 13.0., John and Adam were tanners, and Daniel was a. mail- carrier, drawing' mail out of Wal- ton for years. Many tines Mr. Steins walked to Heidelberg to visit relativeS. His son Louis took over the farm, Who in turn passed it on to his son Alex. Last year Alex retired to Brussels, his son Stewart taking over the farm. This is a century farm, having been in the Steins name :for over a hundred years. These. are the tour century 'farms, but I will try and tell a little about the other farms from Lot 11) to 22 inclusive. In the fall of 1353, William McInnes, his wife :alai family arrived locating on Lot '21 and 22 on the 13 con. There were two sons, Andrew and hilte, can, who farmed there fOr years after their fattier patieed There were four daughters, viz, Nab ella, who married Doligald Wrap:v.1A, liVed on lot 21, con. 16, , alllll J01101 Who 111.:L rr I Lila.: 111 etl OIL Lot. 11.10 0th con. Nary and \gauss mar- ried two broi hers .lack anti Robert Sceti and lived at Vrestene Lot 20 alt Lre Lith was °wiled by Steels l'aothers and later suld to jaines AleNair who li‘ eel alone nutil his parents came from Scot land lie married MIS6 Se.rah Martin and 1,11Qy had a family of ViZ Joines Martin., William, John and Archie and four daughters, Sara Jane who married _Ilex ,E41gar„10 ssie wor- ried J aloes Verde, Margaret, married Alex Perrie and .Rebecca taught school, Later Mrs. M.eNaii"s father, (William Martin) came to live with them. lie was an ac- complished weaver, and seiered the coeurinnity for several years, An item worthy of note is the tact that Mr. McNair brought a Orandtather's Clock from Scot- land, and when he died gave it to his daughter41)4aw in gratitude for the care she bad given nim, IL pasSed on to _Martin McNair then to John 111,eNair ..and now keeps perteet time, at John Per'. rte's, a great grandson of the original owner. Lot 1$, con. 14, was taken up by Lauchlan McNeil, selling it later to James Shaw, who sold to Robert Logan, who sold it to Win, Ziegler. He lived there for sev- eral years being killed by falling from the hay mow in :1905. His son William lived there until 192.5 when he moved to Ethel. In 1934 Lynn Evans bought it, living there until 1944. His son Stewart owned it and lived there until his death in :1958. Now his son Doug- las and wife Jean with their daughters, Cynthia, and Bonnie own this farm and live on it. Lots 19 and 20 on the 13th con were taken up by the McNeil brothers, later selling it to Robt, Scot(, He ha.d a family of two sons and two daughters. His sons Jack and Robert Married Matt and Agnes McInnes. One daughtet inarried Andrew McinneS and the other a Mr. MlieS Ilvifig iii. Morris Twp. in 1885 lie sold the farni to McNabb Of Mc:, Milo]) Twp. He nee a family of 'five sons and one daughter. When he died in 1909 his son Duncan took over the place, selling it to JaheS Xtiight in 1903. Later hie Ills son. Alfred and \Vaiter bought lilt farm, seliing it to l'otei. nini >n o\ 01g to in Lot 17 run iU, Was tall1011 •il, -0; L man named .Fryfogel. Leiter iL was sold to David Taylor, Dieu to Wta. Zieglou Sr. ais son Joeub -took over fin' farm, and htt!Trted. Miss Marton Clark in 1912, They had two children, Kathleen (Mrs, aid who >"'v with his wife .I.Jorethy and throb daughters, ari Joy, i! and Shirley. Lot IG, con. 13, was taken up by Themes Ennis. A peculiar 'ince detit befell eine when lie got 'ea the boat in Quebec he got sep- ar aeee from his family and never saw Or heard them, again. He married 11155 Fanny 'Taylor,- had several suns and daughters.' The only descendants ming here are. Mrs, Ross Cunningham and Doug. Rruns. In 1903 he said the farm.. to john McNabb who lived on it until his death in 1959. It is now owned by his daughter . and husband, Martin and Margaret 1ItteDon.ald., Mr. McNabb was' 'ollector,. Assessor, Deputy-Reeve and. Reeve for a number of Years The Caunelian Medical Assoc- iation notes that more line been learned about arthritis in the last 15 years than in, the previous 1,500. 16TOWEL THEATRE FRI, - SAT. MAY 12.13 Hod Taylor, Trevor Howard Jill St. John :HE LIQUIDATOR') ict is Laibrrie-oti Color plus "MADE IN PARIS" Ann (Margaret, Louis Jourdan Richard Crenna, Edie Adams Chad Everett "Liquidator" will play twice Color NOT TOO LATE FOR SOIL TEST Approximately 14,000 of Ont- ;trios farmer's send 54,000 soil samples to the Soils Department ' for analysis each year, says Ontario _Agriculture College Soils Specialist. Professor T. J. Hegg. In the year ending dune 30, 1966, the Soils Department tested soil samples 'from every county and district in the province. N'Or- folk County bad the most samples tasted — 3229 samples from 793 farms, Hut on County ranked second with 2850 samples from Chi tx rsA CASH FAO WITH CLABSIFIIED AOC 4.4 THE titiUSSELS POtT i.,1 inn, r'hih.,' \\'eiL ingtou wItti third \Vit. h tia111.- iaralS, sanipics in a week yet the any ft:riaer had to wait for his soil report was. six to eiphi woeks, during Olt winter rush." "Spring is the soil testing labs stack seiison. if a farmer sends in soil samples now, he should 'have his soil report back within ton days. it's too late to test soil for small grains in most areas, but it's a good time for corn, hay or ilasture," adviSes Professor Hoeg. Soil boxes and information on how to take soil samples are vilitable from agricultural re- 'osoniatives: CUSTOM WORK DONE — Planting of corn and beans with. •L-row planter; also equipped with liquid , fertilizer attachments. Apply to: Sohn Cronyn, 1.3Iyth, Phone 523-9440, "As of Jammry 1st this yew., env testis; I.litorotory is r.npped pri ,. es: more thou .,ainples. f t week. says Pro- fes-er .'70f;, of the st.onple, • .,.ent ut: in (ICI< bur, Nov- : ember, and Itor.ionhpr. Last, your we wore only alne to handle 2000