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As au illisteation of what Individ
wal enter'prise can accomplish, even
.iii the building el a large and prosper-
ous town, , When 'supplemented by the
••advantages of that modern civilizes,
the .railway, Wingham is one of the
most successful examples to he round
probably+ in all Canada. Though set
tiers located in its limits many
y eau's ago yet the place Was scarce
gro;;lvn to an importance to give it a
nape beyond the bordering town-
ships until the great Impetus Induced
by the railway excitement in the ear-
ly; seventies cine which time it has
g}i+own from what might be literally
classed as a backwoods village to
be. one or the foremost towns of the
.Province ; offering facilities as a
manufacturing centre, and possessing'
advantages as a shipping point for
grain, flour and manulaetured pr'o-
ducts or raw- material, which rank in school and nearly 500 ,inhabitants. to his removal from Wingham in
with the highest 'class of our coin- 'The Gregories above mentioned 1877.. The other officials chosen by
niacin! towns and insure for it in the were the original builders of the the council to fill the various town
ordinary course of human events and mill afterwards owned and carried on offices for the first year on its new
by the inexorable logic through which j by Rnceley & Sons,
trade seeks its "natural outlet" a: Following the advent or the apace
future little drowned of by. the most named gentlemen come other's in
enthiisiastie of its admirers even at 'yore or less rapid succession, and
the beginning of the. t decade. though Wingham cant.inued to grow
But to begin with the early his- «tpane,,its .;rowttt was not purely or
tory of Wingham. "We might ;ay
that the,. Ctovernment, as in many
mthcr cases during the surrey of the
newtmvnships, laid out a town, plot.
t r Wingham consisting of several lots
in concession • "A" of the township
.of 'Turnberry where the confluence is
f'orme'd by the North and South
branches or the Maitland River. IVe
have had reason to remark on other
occasions that city making" was a
business at which Governments, and
particularly the Government of Can-
ada, had not been very buceessrul. it
thought however, that b"canse
OUflt1
Long, John and 'Phomas Gregory,,�a.t?td' files 59, S. Kent 38. W. te-
st t+wo d t ',McI{ibbon 18 J
I homas Abraham. The ,la lyra one 39, G
named .settled at the plot and built Snell 17, G. P. Wells, 2..
the iltit'mull at the place or in I therefore declare the following : to
:the neighborhood, and . were the means be the duly elected members of the
Of concentrating quite a lot of trade municipal domicil of the' town. of
at the spot and building up a 6f1- Wnghaim. for the ensuing year ;
lage which at one time promised to Mayor, Benjamin Wilson, Esq.,
fulfil the calculations of the Gov- el-
crntT'ent engineers by makin bower ected by acolantation of the 30th
Wingham the real. town. In fact day of December last ;/Reeve, P.
for several years it war the thiel. Macdonald, M. D. ; Councillors,
Ward 1, J. Neelans, J. Ritchie; R.
place of the two in size and int- M Robinson, Ward 2, H. Leminsx,
pentane, By the inipetrrs Wingham I. L. Jobb; Cr, Mackay. Ward 3,
received by the' proposed railways,
which afterwards became a reality,
lower town commenced. to retrogade,
but it became an incorporated vil-
lage of no mean importance.
containing grist and sawmill, cloth
factory, three general stores har-
ness store, cooperage, two hotels,
T. Bell, W.. Aerr, L. Kinne; Wart
d, W. W. Inglis, W. McClymont, G.
filer.{ibbon.-B. Flynn, Returning Of -
flees, Wingham, Jan. 781 , 1879.
Mr. Flynn had succeeded Mr. Hay-
ward as clerk of the municipality
on the latter's resignation, pervious
existence were • .'Treasurer, John
Dickson, Assesset, Joseph Young,
Collector, and Chief C'otutiblc, Jam-
es Davidson ; Auditors, John Wil-
liams and Robert 0lcludo•
We have already•stated that up to
the time of. the building of these
even largely or a speculative eb:u•-'roads the progress of Wingham had
actin', and it was not until • flit the humdrum and monotony al the
year 1873 that the people began see -
been slow and its history confined to
iously to consider incorporation as a everyday experience of the ordinary
village. The object was attained in country • village. The impetus given
the usual way, under the (tonere' by the above movement, however,
Act, by bylaw of the county- council, •was simply wpridef finl and the lietuti-
during the above scar rend 1Vingham fol and' busy town which now greets
became a village on .1 an. -1st; 1871, its ex.penienced the greater part of
the population 01 the time hehig its entire growth •and development
slightly in advance of 709. w•il.hin the past hall' dozen years and
The village records shod• that Den- 1 this during the period of • time the
iainin Wflsun was the lO•sl reeve ; most 'or which was a season of al -
Dr. 'I'amblye, .1I. Davis, George most unfrcrsal coieheercfal dcpres-
the Government had laid out a town Pei typieee and P. Gregory were the cion, not only throughout Canada
plot that was all that was required to first councillors ; and Walter 11 Ll - hut throughout the United States
• take the place a town and With this ward was chosen the first cli t c. Sr, -,and even the entire world, a [act
�. Wilson Was again reeve hr 1875 and that snakes the progress of Wing -
1 many people settled on the plot Tienrr Davis in 1870, folio re
at an early date. The abuse which hath. all the more to be wondered
the Government sustains at the again •by nenjamin Wilson in 1877 at. ,1I the tipsy of its incorpora-
hands of some ,of, these worthy eft- and 1878, which was the last year tion as a village, 1873-1, the pop -
inns for being,induced to cothe and Wingleut remained a village. elation was just sufficient to war -
settle in a. frogpond, as Lower Wing- ilnr,n; the previous year, 1877, an rant it, barely over 700, while at
ham was afterwards and continued effort wets made to incorporate gas a the close of 1876 it haul increased to
for years to be called, is explained town. A special act [vas mode and 2000, and rt is now estimated that
when We look around us and "take submit led to Parliament but was de- It contains at least 23.00.
in" the' extraordinary stepidtty of leated by i.he alternates 07position
the Government engineers, who set- of the inhabitants of Lower 1\'ing-
oeted that locality in preference to bane who wished to be included in
the beautiful and advantageous pits- the incorporation. 'Pile extent of
i'tirnt which Wingham proper posses- ,terrilmy, had they been included,
'ses. would have been greater than the
The first settler within the lint- Municipal Act allowed without Ices-
„fng nut another portion of the pre -
°t the 'Town Plot 01 fng'nun sent incorporation, • that to the
.end before anyone had turned their
northward, which was ooni;irlered as
attention to the place occupied by much more valuable than the Idw
lands adjacent to the north and soui.h
ihf present, town, was I'7dward Far-
ley, An Irishman, who had previoais
ly resided at Owen Sound, which
place he left for the ['lot in the
spring of 1858 and arrived al, the
spot where he a1 Lcmwamds resided on
the 17th of March of that year. Ili:
relates some extreructy amusing in-
cidents in connection with his journ-
ey, which lay by water to Coiling -
wood, thence. by the Northern Rail-
way to the City of Toronto, Grind
Tunic to Stratford arta no wheels as
Inc as he could gra 1811 la(trr
point proved to lie I1.dnt'n, a little
Settlement in t8' township of 'Mor-
ris. On his way his "freighters"
'abandoned him, disgusted with the
awful condition,01 ihn road at Blyth.
It happened to be on Sunday and
he had to hunt around for a wagon
which he managed Co secure, togeth-
er with two yoke of oxen and with
thein he continued to Botlmin, where
he built. a d'art, embarked his ef-
fects thereon aied floated down the
river to his destination where lie
• landed on the clay indicated, and he
at epee went to work to cleas lend
and build the first house, a log one,
which, with annexes since anticea!d,
lung formed his residence. The - dd.
ficulties
1-
ficulties 'and expenses of travelling
1n those days' may be judged from
the fact that Mr. Farley paid, firs)
and 'last, in the neighborhood of
81r00. in freight and transportation
charges of various kinds, on about
one ton 61 household goods. It is
no rondos Mr. 1r`.a,rley is one of
ihnse' who thought .hewas right anal
everybody else wrong in building
Wingham Where it is and leaving the
swamps of the Plot: out in the cold.
As the oldest inhabitant 58r. lFar-
ley had a historical interest in
everyone
'Phe; first settlers in what is now
called Wingham were John C'ronyn.
and family, edmnprising liis sons,
It,obert, William mind Thomas. They
built the first house in the place,
en the spot where the 'Queen's hotel
now stands, in the summer of 1859.
It Was a log building at first but.
was subsequently added' Sri and used
originally as a hotel being the first
public ,house in the locality -tilt
1.873, ,when it was pulled down to
Make room for the more pretentious
building which was erected over its
ruins. lmTr: Cronyn had originally
lived in Morn.tngton, Perth County,.
bet came.to 't'urnberry in 1856, set-
tling on lot 4, con. 1 of that town -
:ship, where, he lived until 1859 when.
she settled in Wingham. Old- Mr•
e'ronyn died an 1868.
Next after the Cron,yns in Wingham
was Edward Foley, the early part
.of the succeeding year, 1860, who
bui11 a log house , used first as a
stone, and subsequently as a public
Changes In The Municipal
Act.
Al the pressed. sess!omc or lire Leg-
isature the Municipal Act is to he
revised, and, in order that 'munici-
pal officials may acquaint themselves
with the proposed changes, the bill
has been printed and distributed with
branches of the Maitland. !!cu',.e an invitation• to forward any sug-
the opposition, the lower lawn peo- gel1inn that they may have to, W.
ple actin;; on the do;-in-the-mamtger B. Wilkinson, law clerk of the unut-
icipal bills.
principle of keeping others out of a The present maim re comes from
good thing because I. hey resold not. the Statute .Revision Commission,
procure it for themsehrs• but besides consolidation and verbal
When the Special Act ivas defeated revision, many changes have been
work people went to notwith awi11 imado will a view of siinalif ht'
and secured the necessary loc;tl leg -•I e 6 beefed•
illation in the county council to -en- .procedure in such cases, and clear- `V here postage is inSuftli lent the deli-
inla them to inr..opru'alc undo[ the ling up difficulties that have arisen eienry- will he collected ['rum thead-
Gcneral Act. '!'he various, petitions ,in the administration of the present dremsec by the camber,
1 act •New postage mast be paid each tune
and bylaws on the subject were c!ulyt Some or the more Minortantchrr.n_ alir'telisfor•wterded,
ped It'.rl,liu1 by en error of the ell- Parcel111C' trappers uuty indicate the
lege clerk • thrc neer lorvartied in grs arc as follows : I'stnull letters the occupation of Lhe
Instead of being • vested in
the Governor General instead of the i the sender land describe the character of
crown the soil and freehold of every em4tents. Lrseriptions such as "Yeast
Chris! inns," "Do not open until Christ -
AN HISTORICAL
BAYI'IELD WILT.
NEXT:-
SKITOII OF
1L PUBLISHED
EXPERIMENTALI UNION AN-.
NUAL.ML"o] T'IN1i.
The 'Ontario 'Agricp'1tusral and Ex-
perimental Union w(1i,l hold its. An-
nual Meeting at'ttl'e Ontario Agri-
ettltural College, G `ulph, on the 7th
and 8th of January .next.
'l,'he bo-operativ experimental.
work of the Union Lias been. more
extensive during th past year than
at any previous tiin'. Six different
Committeeb have nducted active
work in 1912. In griculture. alone
experiments' were co ducted on 5,027
farms in Ontario. rho summary re-
sults of these expe iinents will be
presented and discu sed at the An
-
Wel Meeting;
Besides the pies talion of the
results of exporime is there will bo
addresses and ;discussions on the fol-
lowing 'special subjects': "Possibili-
ties of Intensive le rming in Ontar-
io," "Division o Labor on the
„
1
,' Federal
a
• r') part i n g e r
I axm "Ontario' � a
1
Agricultural Co-operation" etc;
These Meetings Inc open to any
one interested' in Agriculture; Cheap
rates have been ardanged for on the
certificate plan. For fuller particu-
lars apply to the Secretary, 0. A.
Iavitz, Agricultural'. College, Guelph,
Ontario.
1ViiA'J' AlAY AND WHAT MAY
NOT 1111 SHIPPED UNDER A5118111-
CA\ PARCEL• POST 1t1:G'LJLA-
TIONS.
)'greets -must not, exceed eleven
pounds, •nor cevenly-t we itches com-
bined length and girth. •
Parcels must lie so parked that con-
tents c an easily he examined.
Name ol'sender must, appear on par-
cel, thus: "From John. Suliih
%Vest(I$rd street, New Yoe k City.'
Depcisit your parcel la a. post -office,
branch offlee or station -if you live in a.
town or city; give to the rural carrier
if you are in the country.
All parcels 'mist be wrapped or peek-
ed to prevent eon 1m n is escaping or dtun-
ging:other marl inn t em'.
Butter, Lod nod other perishable at-
deIes. such as 11 lm men I s, dressed poul-
try, fruits nod vegetables, will be ac•-
repled fm' lural d,-livei7 in telcos and
cities or on I oral romps.
When enclosed in nn inner cover
and outer cover of Wood, metal c,'
heavy corrugated. pasteboard remit
Which contents cannot escape such ar-
ticles will he accepted for moiling in
any office within the first zone, or
within a radius of fifty utiles.
Butter hard or any other greasy cc
oily substance fpr delivery beyond
the First zone must he suitably paelced,
1'egatctbles and fruits that do not (le-
vity rapidly will be acec'pted for may
zone fl'so packed as to prevent damage
to other mail.
lleggs will be accepted for local de-
liyery when securely packed in a bas-
ket or other container. \Vhen each
egg is wrapped separately and packed
in container eggs will he accepted for
any zone. •
Fresh meat will he transported only
Within the first zone. •
1 r perishable matter becomes offen-
sive and in;jumous to heal( It, it may be
dem royed by the postmaster,
Perishable goads must be :larked
"P.er!shmthle"; fragile articles must be
mucked "Frngilel'
No unloxietiting lining's, poisons or
ci i'ticlem lir enlilposc LiminS Containing
poisons, poisonous animals insects of
reptiles inflammable articles, infernal
mttchinesdt explosives, disease germs
or ttr•tificutl ii1' leles. 0(111 positions
which inns, kill rat iej1)re it person or
damage the. mails shaft be mailable by
parcel post. Pistols oe revolvers,.
whether dcmtatched or othecivise,'ire
FIELDS OF USEFULNESS. ■
The good physician occupies a field
of great usefulness in the World. No
one questions this, and no one would
think of eliminating him.
It is equally true that the good pro-
prietary tnedicine occupies as wide a
Held' of usefulness not only because it
,ie convenient anti economical, bit also
because it is always, most carefully
compounded from the best quality et
ingredients, by the same process; and
by the same experienced chemists,
which given it an advantage over the
ordinai'-f preset iption in uniformity of
strength; quality and effect.
Anyoue .who reads the letters that
voluntarily tells of cures effected by
Hood's Sarsaparilla, even when every
other means of releif,-other medi-
cines, hospital treatment and physi-
cian's prescriptions --have been ex-
hausted. cannot but be convinced of its
great value,
The benefit derived from its use for
the diseases and rum -down conditions
for which itis reccommended,, has been
inestimable in ,many thoesands of
cases.
A0111,-t;ovcrnor e
The Governor General was at the lhw;htgay will be vested in the mon-
tinge absent from the seat ni gov-
efpality
eminent. and the delay which arose Municipalities are to be given gen-
erab powers of expropriation instead
M consequence so shortened the of Having to secure special legisla=
time that the three months provided
by the Municipal Act as necessarfon whenever that power is needed,
y
to intcrve.ne. between the. date of the as at present.
issueing of the Lieut.-Govet•nor'e ''or the purpose of voters' list,
prociamaticn was encroached upon the occupant of land cooler agree-
aatcl thereby I he incorporation was inept for sale is regarded as Lhc
deferred for another year, except hy' owner.
the passage of a Special .Act, which
was again prepared and was again
defeated by the political influence
the people of Lower Wingham
brought: to bear against its pas -
:;age.
Steps were again taken, however,
in dote' time, in .1878, to accomplish
the end' sought lom hp time beginning
of the ensuing year and this time
with better success. The regular
petitions, resolutions, and bylaws,
etc., were forwarded in the month
of July- 'soon after the " midsummer
sessionof the county council, and
The power Ie) et:cet a village into
a torch or a town into a city is
transferred from the Lieutenant Gov-
ernor -in -Council to the Ontario hall-
way and Municipal hoard.
Where disputes arise over signa-
tures or petitions far annexation
of Partin of , n. township to town
or city the Ontario il.ailway
and Municipal Board may order a
vote to be taken in that portion or
the township. lir case or annexa-
tion, factories, etc. enjoying fixed as-
sessments are to retain such privil-
eges,
the, proclamation of the Lieut. -Got•- All persons in the public service of
(tis-
anes incorporating 1j'fngham as a the Dominion.., or province are town was in due course issued qualified from being members of ntun-
and bore date. the 6th October, 1878. Icipal councils.
The enumeration of the census pre-
paratory to incorporation resulted in
the return of 2072 as the actual
number of inhabitants then ,within
the present limits of, the town.
We find the following proclamation
issued by the clerk of the municipal-
1try , ayhlcli bears on its face the
particulars and personnel of' the new
municipality :
Public Notice. - 1
I hereby give notice thatthe fol-
lowing is a correct statement of
the n'amber of votes polled for the
several candidates` at the municipal
election `for members of the council,
on yesterday-, the 8(8 day of Jan-
uary, .1879,
For Reeve.
L. J. 13race 134
Dr. Macdonald 148.
For Councillors.
Ward .J, Green 56, Neelans 00,
Ritchie 62, Robinson 67: Ward 2-
H. Guest $7,'1'.1,,. Juba 49, R.
;house, known as the Commercial Knox 13, H. Lemmex 40, Cr Mc -
1
:Hotel. '.iA child bozo in his family Kay 38, Ward 8-A. Bell 15, 1.
_teas the iciest child horn in Wingham. Bell 74, G. McKenzie 27, W. Ketr
He was accompanied, or followed ai 14, L. Kinne 67, C Lloyd 36. Ward
a very short interval, by Peter and A -J. Anderson 24, J. Elder 26, 1'.
Archibald Fisher, Peter and Thomas (iregony 3, T. T•Iolmes 1, W. W. To -
Nominations for municipal candid-
ates are net to be invalid because
not in 'writing. If a candidate is
prevented through illness or absence
from filing written qualifications,
some other; person acquainted with
the iaetsnnay matte declaration for
him.
nuns." may be offixed, but 11111S not
iutet fere with legible address.
lay affixing ten cents extra in parcel
post stamps a prircel may be insured to
the extent of 350,
•
Heslsall
Far removed front sue scenes of his
early lire and Anal urer years. ,John
Ifoeton one of the early setettlers or this
section, entered Lne sph'it laud on .lair-
uati , 141 h., rig( r) 70 yeare. He had
spent some time in the west where his
naught'!" ,resided at Brock, Sask., re-
turning [about three years ago to his
home here, where he lived until a. few
mouths ago, when he again went back
to the West. tits wife predeceased hits
`ern yen ago. The remains sorivcd
here on Tuesday evening and the fune.r-
•al took place from the residence of
his son Flank, on. Wednesday atter
1)0011;
The Rebekah Lodge installed officers
Wednesday night. This lodge will
hereafter - be knois'n as "(Jampenna
Lodge" the name being taken from the
initiate of the first list of officers of
that institution. The installation was
conducted by D, D. 0, P• Morrison and
his team, with the following changes
D. O. 31. Miss B Reynolds, O. W. Miss
A. Consett, O. T. Mrs. B; Parlmer, G.
1.
0; itt's.,'l'. Manns. Five new Mem-
bers were initiated among them two rat
the fat her of Odd Fellowship in this sec-
Iion, John Fit'gerald.and Dr, ll;acdian'-
mid,
,dvortising in The News -Record pays.
0 goods purchased abroad
are cheap that take e the'.
place of our own labor and our
own raw rnatcrial.
A FARMER'S PARADE 1N OWJ N
SOUND:
11 any citizen of. Owen Sound is in
doubt as to the stand of the farmers in
the townships adjacent to Owen Sound
ern Local Option, he or she should have
seen the parade of reenters who carate
to town on Saturday afternoon to cen-
t, edict the slander of the anti -local op-
tionists that formers do not come
to town because there are no bars,
Farmers' by hunclt'eds in sleighs and
cutters front the neighboring town-
ships of. Keppel, Sarawak, Derby and
Sydenhmun 'ts welt as several frolic
Holland tend Sullivan lined up at the
Queens hotel at, 2 o'clock on Saturday
afternoon rind from there with over 3011
rigs entrain !Auricled through an sect-
ions of the town, cover'ing4th Avenue
Last as tar as Seventh Street, and also
3rd Avenue and and •Avenue. Across
the river the long stream lined through
.all t. he principal thoroughfares, both of
Brooke and south of the Pobawataunie
In giving this parade the farmers
certainly showed a good.pirit, When
they undertook such 0 precarious
undertaking they did it in the most
celebratiugrstyh'. litany of the horses
were decked with flags andstreamern
all designating in 00 uncertain terms
the opinion of the parader, "We favor
no Burs," "Business, not Bats," "Bars
do not draw us," and so 00 were the
slogans of the farmers, -Sun.
38 PONS OF PAPER.
•
This euurumus quantity of papal'
was used in printing the 1013. Edition
or the Na -Deo Cu Almanac, just of the
press. As each Almanac weighs a
little less than two ounces, this means
that 700,000 copies were printed-one
copy for every 11 individuals, or for
every two families, in Canada. Strong-
er evidence could scarcely be given of
the wouderful popn!arity tvluch• has
Already been won by the Na -Den Co
Almanac now only in its fourth Edi-
tion. This is doe to the rich fend of
useful infnrtuatinn which 11 contains,
and to its valuable hints on health and
physical comfort. Your druggist has
a copy Inc'you. :lee that you get it
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