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13 Miles in 14 Hours on
London to Clinton Road
LETTER WRITTEN BY THE LATE
HENRY RANSFORD IN 1834
ELLS OF JOURNEY OF THE
PIONEERS MAKING THEIR WAY
INTO NEW DISTRICT FOR
SETTLEMENT.
"Things are different now to what
they were when the first settlers
made their way in here," remarked
Major Combe of Clinton at the meet-
ing of the Huron Tract Association
in Seaforth. "It did not take us
very long to come here from Clinton,
but I have a letter that tells of dif-
ferent days. It was written by the
late Henry Ransford, father of John
Bansford, an esteemed citizen of
Clinton, and tells of the hardships!
faced by the people who first came
in and settled in this district.
The letter, written in 1834, and a
highly prized document in the Rene-
ford family, states:
London docks, first week in May,
in the Canada, Capt. Britten (the
same ship I went by in 1832)—
Several friends came to see us off,
my father, brother, Peter and Caro-
line Benwell, Edward Woolsey and
my wife's brother and uncle. We
bad a good passage of 28 days, but
my ,wife suffered dread3ully from
sea sickness and was so ill I thought
once she would have died. Our fel-
low passengers in the ladies' cabin
were Admiral Vansittart, wife, two
sons and two daughters and very
pleasant companions we found them.
We remained three or four days in
New York and my wife saw her
aunts, Mrs. Curtis and Mrs. John
Bolton, We had to go up the Hnd.
son in a gorl; steamer having all
our things with us. At Albany we
transferred them to a canal boat
which took a week before we reach
ed Buffalo on the 14th of June.
"We had to wait at Buffalo a day
or two for a small steamer that took
us to Port Stanley as it would have
been a long journey overland through
Hamilton. At Port Stanley in June
1834, I hired wagons to London but
they would not go on further, he
lieving the roads to be impassable
and they were not far wrong. At
London I found a man to undertake
the job, but the roads were in a
dreadful state. The first day we got
as far as the Widow Connor, a small
tavern in the N.W. corner of the
Township. %Iere we slept and the
next morning I hired a horse for my
wife to ride as the wagon jolted her
too much. This day doing our hest
we were 13 hours going 14 miles,
Half, the road was swamp and once
we turned over and a precious job
we had to right the wagon and load
kala again. At once place we had to
cross a narrow deep creek; we found
three or four logs of the bridge had
been floated away. I thought our
journey was ended but looking round
we saw the logs a little ways down
the stream, so we carried them back,
laid them across the stringers and so
got the wagon aver.
In the evening we arrived at a
log house in Lrsborne, kept by a
Devonshire man named Balkwell,
where we got something to eat and a
place to lie down. One side of the
house was a raised piatirorm, the
whole Length covered with bedding
of some kind, divided by curtains
into four or five beds. My wife and
I lr,d one compartment. Next day
the- roads were a little better and we
reached Vanderburghs corner (now
Clinton) before night.
We had one breakdown, the pole
broke and while the teamster was
getting a sapling ready, I had to
walk 2 miles to try and borrow an
auger, and was only too happy to
get one and walk back to where all
were anxioxusly looking out for me.
The 2nd Tune, 7834. thus ,ended the
journey of seven weeks from Lon-
don, and on the whole it was a very
favorable one, many persons being
that time on the ocean."
Next mornine T walked down to
Ctanlrenn end there to my dismay
although the wheat, grass and potat-
oes were all growing well the car-
penter had done nothing hut put up
the siding at the house,"
SCHOOL FAIR DATES
Following are the dates of the ver
rious school fairs to be held in Hur-
on
uron County this year:
Sept. llth—Hensall.
Sept 12th—Zurich.
Sept. 13th—Grand Bend.
Sept. l6th—Colborne Township.
Sept, 17th Ashfield Township.
Sept. 18th— St. Helens.
Sept. 19th—Wroxeter.
Sept. 20th—Howick Township.
Sept. 23rd—Ethel.
Sept. 2 4th—Tl elgrave.
Sept. 25th—Goderich Township.
Sept 27th—Blyth,
Oct. 3rd—Clinton Rural.
Oct. 4th—Clinton Town. '
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There Is Nothing Quite Lilce it Any-
where in Central Afnertc t.
People have a habit of ape ultitg of
"Mice little Costa Rica," and after
two visits to the country et Intervale
of slightly More than itdosen.year$,
1 sen no reason for changing 'the
habit. The Costa Means tlietnselves
have a Maud way of eettirtix thew -
selves it bit aside from the rest of
Central America. At a dance at the
San Jose Golf Club, already referred
to, a young lady, hearing the' I was
about to travel northward Through
the live republics, exclaimed: "How
interesting: 13ut what a pity that you
didn't save Coats Rica until the
last!" writes Arthur Ruhl, In "The
Contr•ttl Americans."
Various facts of geography and of
past and present hiatury give a cer-
tain basis for this. . Practically
all the "real" COMM Rica, the couti-
}` c'id people hat utast c duvet, ;1
Costa Ricans think of as home, Iles
In the wide, fertile, mountain -rimmed
table -land known as the "Meseta
Central," The banana -lands of the
East Coast, with their Jamaica Negro
laborers and United States superin-
.eudents, make almost a separate
English-epeaking country. The Pact -
fie slope is "native," but has none of
the important towns.
On this central table - land has
grown up a homogeneous tittle na-
tion (there are only about half a mil-
lion people in all of Costa Rica, which
is about twice the size of Holland)
of industrious, prosperous, and liter-
ate citizens, white or nearly so, with
few large landowners and many peas-
ant proprietors. There le nothing
quite like it anywhere else in Cen-
tral America.
It is often said that the original
Spanish settlers of Costa Rica were
"Gallegos," and a more sober and
law-abiding type than most of those
who drifted into the neighboring
colonies, Instead of a land filled with
sizable towns and thickly populated
by docile and easily enslaved Indians
—as was the case, for Instance, in
Guatemala—they found a compara-
tively uninhabited region where they
had to shift for themselves. They are
thus supposed to have developed
some of the same virtues as our own
pioneers.
18 CAREFULLY READ.
Obligatory to Read Official Daily In
Rio de Janeiro.
"Ignorance of the law excuses no
one," le an old precept, almost uni-
versally in vogue, but in Brazil to it
must be added another: "Ignorance
of the contents of the Official Daily
excuses no one."
The Official Daily is much more
than the equivalent of the United
States Congrerelonal Record. It is di-
vided into sections, the first of which
is devoted to Presidential decrees,
followed, by orders and communica-
tions from the various Ministries;
next come all official and legal ad-
vertising; thou reports on activities
of the President and the names of
persons who called on him; there is
also a weather report and a list of
incoming and outgoing ships. All this
makes up the first big division of the
Official Daily.
The second division is the Justice
Daily, and the third the equivalent of
the Congressional Record, with re-
ports of proceedings in Congress and
in committees.
The Daily has such a wide scope
that its reading is virtually obligatory
to a person engaged in any sort of
business.
As an example of how this works,
take the case of an American who
applies for a concession of some
sort. He never receives a written
reply from the Government Bureau to
which he sent the petition, but in-
stead it is either granted, denied or
deferred, or the petitioner Is asked
to present further facts, or consult
one of the Government functionaries.
A notlea of this is placed in the Offi-
cial Daily.
Failure to read the notice and com-
ply with it necessarily brings about
failure in the negotiations, so that
reading of the Official Daily becomes
virtually obligatory to a. person so
situated.
Banks, law firms and big business
houses, therefore, have in their em-
ploy one person whose important
duty is to read the Daily carefully
every day, and note if there is any-
thing in It pertaining to the company
for which be works.
MUST WEAR A BEARD.
Some People are Compelled to Leave
Face Unshaved.
I1 wenld be easter, I fancy, writes
"Looker-on" in the London Daily
Chronicle, to recall ins ances of
beanie being forbidden by law than
of their being made rornpulsoty, as
le the race in Afghanistan, aceording
to a message from Kandahar.
Beards often have a religious sig.
ni6 attr t, The really atriet adherent
of the Jewish faith is always bearded,
while priests of the Russian Ortho-
dox Church must wear beards and
allow their hair to grow as well.
More strie ly speaking, the canon law
trays that thea hair must never be cut
from th,' day en which ordination
takes place, and so the Orthodox
, tee!r 1, free — aanuiflciallp — to re.
strain e.r, inconventent growth of his
tr ,see by judicious singeing from
time. to time!
Oil kh'ont Goal.
A new process and plant for ex-
traetir:; oil from coal, which Is open-
. 00,1 is a tnueh lower temperature
than 'teal, has 18001 invented, The
..asst le said to be adaptable to coal
Oust, raratel, shale, and other low -
grad. materials of little value at
present. It is claimed that from one
11,a of averae.r• quality coal thirty gal -
lens et 'xeellent all, 14 Cwt. of
rrrnkelr•ss fuel for domestic grates.
Tori algae' 1,700 cubic feet of gas can
be obtained.
Color 1lllnd,
One man In every twenty -Ove le
more or less color bund, but few we -
awe suffer from this disability.
ONTARIO KNIGHT
CHOOSES TITLE
Sir Harmer Greenwood Becomes
Baron Greenwood of Llancistor
London, Aug. 22.—"Baron Green
wood of Llanbister, in the county: of
Radnor," is the title chosen by the
former Sir hamar Greenwood, na-
tive of 'Whitby, Ont., who was trlva-
ted to the peerage in the honor list
announced on dissolution of the for-
mer parliament two months ago.
Sir Hamar, who was formerly
chief secretary for Ireland and the
last to occupy that office, resigned
from politics in the recent elections,
declining to again stand for East
Waltamstow which elected nim to
parliament in 1924.
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Visited , Oil Fields
The following letter was written
by W. L. MaQuarrie, Secretary of
Saskatchewan Provincial Board of
the Retail Merchants Asso., to his
mother„Mrs. Hector McQuarrie, of
Grey Township:—
My Dear Mother: You will be glad
to know that I have jusr 'eturned
from a very short visit, . . We lett
here on Thursday morning last, by
car, going to Swift Current where I
had business and where we stayed
until the following morning. From
there we drove to Vulcan by Maple
Creek, Medicine Hat, Lethbridge,
making about 380 miles that day.
Jack and I stopped at Mabers' We
had a nice visit and on Saturday
afternoon the . men folk drove itt
Len's car to Turner's Valley when
we spent the afternoon and evening
looking over that wonderful oil
field. I was there in 1925 and was
much impressed then, but I was
amazed to find the progress that had
been made during the last three
years. Derricks are rising every-
where in the Valley for miles up
and down. At night from somewhere
probably from 25 to 50 wells there is
flames caused by the gas burning
from pipes which are not under con-
trol. These flames shoot 25 to 30
feet in the air, and I believe that one
well which, had been burning for 8
months when, I was there in 1825, is
still burning. It seems impossible to
control this sorplus gas. Many wells
are producing and it looks like as if
money will be made from invest-
ments there. Of course, like every
other good thing, there follows a lot
of wildcat speculations which cannot
hope to make a good return to the
investor for his money. It is for the
investor to select the proper com-
pany in which to invest.
From informatiop I was able to
gather, it seemed to me that the
Calmont, Epconne and Dalhousie
and Mill City shares were probably
worth investigation.
We returned that night, and while
tired, enjoyed the dinner which the
girls prepared for us, We spent a
nice Sunday, and on Monday morn-
ing at 5 p.nt. we left for home, com-
ing by way of Lomond, Brooks, Em-
press, Alsask, K.inderaley, Rosetown
and Saskatoon. We arrived here a-
bout 8 o'clock, having covered 446
miles and having laid over at differ-
ent points four hours at that time.
On our whole trip we covered 1003
miles, and got between 15 and 16
miles per gallon for the whole trip.
The roads were good and, no rain
fell on any part of the trip to in-
terfere with us.
I guess this is all I need say. We
are thinking of you all at home and
realizing what a wonderful Province
that you have to live in. I am sorry
that it will he impossible for us to
get East this year, but we hope next
year to see you all, Probably if I
have time we will drive down. Mary
is talking of going down now.
We wanted Mary to come along on
this trip, but she thought that it was.
too strenuous for ther, and I think
probably she was well advised, for
while we enjoyed it all, it Was mov-
ing pretty lively.
With much love.,
Will.
an Ki
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Ctatistics gathered by t " • to
3lrunswlcIt Ontrrr,tunr:t t,nei;iu .:tt
inint•tuatlun and intim( t e • 1. •+v/ .
an iner'ease of 25 Per cent in 'ba
number of motor ialtlate from the
United States onterine (a 'r At '
border paints501 the p,•nriere start -
Ing their vacation In Canada.
Iffs Excellency tate Geventer-
Oenerel of Canada will extern hI8
Patronage to the Canadian tieille
series of Concerts of British acid
Canadian music t0 he ghan across
t'arade, beginning In Se"'erneer
and continuing until 8p'ine of
1930, according to Information giv-
en out by J. hurray Gibbon, gen-
eral publicity agent of the rail-
way.
Fishing bowed tochivalry one
clay ,recently at St, Ignacs Island,
C:anadiun Pacific angling resort Ip
the Georgian Bay, when Judge B.
Williams of Jackson, Mich., got a
bite simultaneously :with his wife,
both fishing from the same boat
The guile couldn't handle the canoe
so that both anglers would have a
chance to land a fish, so the judge
put pressure 011 his catch which
brake away Mrs, Williams, atter
a half-hour fight landed a fine fish.
Lord Luke of Pavenham, chair -,man of Bovril Ltd., arrived in Can-
ada
recently on the Empress of
Australia en route to Australia.
Ilis Lordship. is operating a settle-
ment scheme in the Argentine
whereby farmers rent lands from
a company, paying 15 per cent. on
the company's marketing of their
crops. He is contemplating a
similar' company in Australia in
connection with sheep raising. He
will also examine possibilities in
the Prairies for a similar settle-
ment organization.
Heavy entries ere reported for
all classes of athletics, piping and
dancing events to be decided at the
Highland Gathering and Scottish
Music Festival to be held at Banff,
August 30 -September 2, as also for
the Dominion track and Field
Championships to be held there
Labor Day. A practically new
track has been built at Banff to
accommodate flat sports scheduled.
Dissolution of the present Japan-
ese Government and the advent of
a new one within a year is predict-
ed by Viscount E. Mushakojl, Jap-
anese Minister to Scandinavia, who
arrived at Vancouver recently
aboard Canadian Pacific steamer
Empress of France on his way to
resume diplomatic duties at Stock-
holm. The present Japanese Pre-
mier Is in minority control of the
Diet.
William Baird, steamship pas-
senger traffic manager of the Can-
adian Pacific Railway who inspect-
ed the Bremen in New York re-
cently, said that in view of the
shorter distance between Cher-
bourg and Quebec as compared
with Cherbourg and New York, the
40,000 -ton new Canadian Pacific
liner Empress of Britain to be
placed in Atlantic service next
spring, might make a strong bid for
the blue flag of the Atlantic. This
giantess will be an oil burner 730
feet long, 97 -foot beam and will
carry more than 1100 passengers
in first, second and third class,
Paul Scull, all-American half-
back and star of the university of
Pennsylvania, has added to his .au-
rels by earning in comneny with
Jay Gates and Ed Hopkinson the
coveted gold button of the famous
order of Trail Riders of the Can-
adian Rockies. With a conk +nd
guide, the trio made an expedition
from Banff to the Columbia ice
Fields, said to be the largest body
of ice south at the .cola Circle.
A block of granite weighing more
than two tons cans be placed in a
new rock crushing machine and re-
duced to fragments in 55 seconds.
The Church of Scotland was es-
tablished in 1560 and confirmed in
1688. It is Presbyterian, the minis-
ters all being of equal rank,
With only 829 industrial disputes
during 1928, that year saw fewer
than any other year since the 13. S,
Bureau of Labor Statistics was or-
ganized in 1916.
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Crea
Wanted
We pay Highest Gash Price for
Cream, 1 cent per ib. Butter Fat
extra paid for all Cream delivered
at our Creamery.
Satisfaction Guaranteed
Brussels Creamery Co.
Phone 22 Limited
viesmusieumanimermeszonatsinr
Value and Disposal
Of Weed Seeds
From Thresher
;he botanical composition of
weed seeds as accumulated from the
thresher is extremely variable ; it
may be of such a nature as to he
palatable and nutritious or on the
other hand of so undesirable a char-
acter as to be distasteful or even in-
jurious. The great variability found
in accumulations of weed seeds from
Ontario farms is illustrated by two
samples recently examined by the
DIvision of Chemistry, the make of
which was found to be as follows ;-•
BOTANICAL COMPOSITION
Laby No. 95216x
Wild muster
Yellow foxtail
Green foxtail
Black Meddick
Lambs quarters
Miscellaneous ...
(non -injurious) 6
100
50 %
20
10
10
4
x should be burnt.
Laby No 94665xx
Wild mustard 3 %a
Yellow foxtail 50
Barnyard grass 30
Lambs quarters 8
Miscellaneous ........ ...... . . .
I (non-injurions) 9
100
xx Might be used after boiling or
fine grinding as a feeding stuff.
The botanical composition of No.
95216 shows it to contain such a
large percentage of wild mustard, a
seed considered injurious tq the
health of animals, that in spite of a
protein content of 18.63 per cent.,
this sample must be considered as
quite unfit for feeding purposes.
'l.'he other sample No. 94665, by
reason of its content of seeds of a
desirable character, combiner with
fair feeding value (protein 15.75
per cent.) was used successfully in
the ration.
It is most desirable that an exam-
ination be made of these .weeds
seeds from the thresher, where their
use as a feed is being contemplated
If found to be of a desirable char-
acter one of the following methode
should be used to destroy the viabil-
ity of the seeds. If three is an ap-
preciable percentage of unpalatable
or injurious seeds present the whole
mass should be burnt.
in the feeding of weed seeds care
must first be taken to destroy then•
viability, otherwise their use as e
feed would prove a means of their
distrfbuton over the farm. Thera
are two ways of doing this (1)
steeping them in boiling water 05
boiling and (2) very fine grinding
I, e., grinding which thoroughly
"breaks down" the smallest seeds in
the material. The ground or boiled
seeds may be used with chop for
cattle or swine.
1930 CAR MARKERS
WILL USE LETTERS
B YTHAT MEANS LOCATION BY
DISTRICTS WILL BE EASY
TO DETERMINE.
Toronto, Aug, 31—Ontario's 1930
license markers will bear a combina-
tion of letters after the English
fashion, it was disclosed yesterday
by Hon. George S. Henry, minister
of highways, in announcing the a-
warding 08 the tenders for next
year's plates,
The contract, whcih will run into
about 500,000 pairs of markers, went
to General Steelware, Ltd., and the
Canadian Color Type Co., at a total
price of 12.9 cents per pair. Tho
first firm makes the plates and the
second does the lettering.
The new markers, which will be
white with black lettering, will bear
no more than five digits each, in-
cluding the initial letter or letters.
Thus 9,999 will be the highest num-
eral which any motorist may attain.
For instance, all Toronto and York
county markers will begin with one
of the letters from P to Z inclusive.
:As other populous counties, such
as Wentworth and Middlesex, may
have to be awarded two or more let-
ters there will not be enough letters
in the alphabet to serve the re-
quirements of all counties. Thus
some of the smaller counties where
cars are fewer will be given a com-
bination of two letters. On all mark-
ers the punctuating dash will be
placed between the letter and the
number.
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Most of the 3,200,000 people of
India live on six or eight cents a day.
Powdered seals' liver was recently
exhibited at a London show. It is
used in connection with heart trou-
ble and amentia.
One-half of Alaska is as inhabit-
able as Norway. It could sustain a
population of 10,000,000.
The Rock of Gibraltar was under
the dominion of the Moore until the
15th century. It is at present un-
der English control,
Students of the English language
at a summer school in Cambridge in-
clude 630 foreign visitore, represent-
ing 23 natonalities,
Climbs Mountain Named After Him
Rt, Hon. L. C. M. S. Amery,
secretary for the Dominions in the
late Baldwin Administration, who
arrived in Canada recently on the
Empress of Australia, had as his
objective in thiscountry the
climbing of the 11,0.00 -foot Mount
Amery, named after `him, in the
Canadian Rockies. There is no
official record of this mountain
ever having been climbed before
this attempt which was under-
taken with the famous Swiss guide
Edward Feltz. Colonel Amery at
once took the 2500 -mile trip
across Canada to Lake Louise
whence in company at Feuz and
A. 0. Wheeler, honorary president
of the Alpine Club of Canada,
he set out for the peak Ideated near
the Great Columbia Icefields near
the junetion of the Alexandra and
Saskatchewan Rivers. Lay -Out
shows (1) the vast rampart of
Mount Amery with the great ice -
field below. (2) Edward Feuz
Swiss guide, all set for the ascent
and (3) A.O, Wheeler (left) and
Rt. Hon. L. C. M. S. Amery,
chatting outside the iianf( Springs
Hotel Inst prior to setting out
north with a pack train to locate
and climb the peak.
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