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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1912-11-21, Page 9' The etependuoes progress 'i%ili'de by- railways 411., 9anada .when once ' tite building et them h:id'been ' entered into is even at this late day''of i,tap- eiiouous Public works considered a most remarkable 'epoch in the ' his- tory 'of the deiclopment of .the eopxitry. This stage of development dh'd not, however, fn1Ill ediately sec need .the '`invention so to speak„ of railways. In fact twenty years had passed sincethe memorable .6th of • October, 1820,` when the performance of; Stephenson's "'R.oclFet' ... on the, neweline front Manchester to,, Liver melee en ale sides of the county -all experts ie ,histesared and ee ikons town, thea the chief lieu •of the situtistics-who' were employed ' ill whole '',Huron Tract" scarce a hum- coahection with- rhe !mpg:anent ed an habitation existed, 'or had a Agriculture' of [ anauu roc 18115 white elan taken, up his abode in until the census of • :,:,71 -hes rain-, What was then the undisputed hunt- plet,ed,>sodee years foilow61g the "las- ung ground of the aborigines. ter: datein searching,„ revising and Coming down a little : later, how arranging statfuties as applied to' lire many can recall the time when the several territorial divisions through - first little clearings began to. dot out the cbuntry. In regard to 11ur the landscape at scattered points •on' their part ,of the task was neither alone the Huron `Road, when Cinder- so tedious nor so difficult as to ice was for years', the only, settle- leave the slightest room for any in - Meet of any account within the accuracies ia the figures resulting whole limits of•;the district, when from their labors pool first electeified'the world, he- roads scarcely existed, when' schools i o i sl , thought z of • ., .the, ° pot .ch sero t S foie scarce a move was made'. to had , 0 be Y direction of placirig`,that great teed- and churches were anteing the pleas- vilir r as the ,has been ant reniembra)tc(is, of a former • ciat li- ern et t .e , Y . aptly named, the reach i t of the' zatinn' abandoned for the 'Igo of !the within, North American' Provinces, and ,yen 'back'woods pioneer, and later as late Still, ns 1850 there was ,scarce ' a 'when .neighborhoods !began to half hundred ' Miles ,en operation 'forn'ted by the gathering together .of throughout .the whole country; a few families 'within the radius +..of 'tin down to our own sourly as many miles and the ,settlors first Coming : the shies road traversing it -though' began Cthink of the necessity cif inttoelleetttal training of their not the one owning most miles with- s, it ' as hest its limits -is the. Jeuffalo':and take "eltildrpn and to iepply zn they could • by the temporary winter Railway, A of the Gra ad'. Trunk hool-tau ht probably by"one of Rarltvay. ,Anything lil a complete so g cabin- history$1f the Grand 'Trunk, which' is the settlers in his own log, of the one o['. the utast powerful , railway when .the risieig generation whole world, settlement;f}rst learned' the'r.udi- corPorations in the 3 o hld require a large ' .volume and , meets oP "reading, 'rating, and c i n rith h otic," which 'was all that eerie work. Suffice it o a. simple Q6 env ever: got a chance . to local' work, Suoicc it to 'say that .many of them itis an afnal'gaenatioft of several lines,, learn. each very important in itself, among Even as late as 1852 a celebrated while was the or'ig'inal Grand Trunk descriptive author wrote thus of the between Montreal and Toronto; "which new nagnifrcant'country lying on an was first, composed, howevet,.of the adjacent to - the London Road • Ksiw,a4',Kingston.,' and ` Montreal". and "There is no semblance to even a 'K'ingston'.and Toronto" and the •tillage in the whole extent of the f'`Toront0,'Mt:atfprd and Godericha Londoli and Goderich Road. •An at- the coui`sm oP.which 'teas; however, tempt has lately becn made to start changed to rim from iltratford to one, to which the name of Bruce - Sarnia. 1n the cast the "Ste Law- field has been given, at the spot fence and Atlantic" and, the "Quebec where the Bayfield Road crosses the •and Trois Pistolcs", and.in the west London Road, eighteen miles front again the "Buffalo,' Brantford and Goderieb. Most of the land along Goderich", a['terwards the "Buffalo the road is very flat and probably no and Lake Huron," beside, the . ex- road of similar length in the county trema eastern and western divisions has so much corduroy on it. The clear lying respectively in the States of Ings arcfor the most part small, and Maine and Michigan, 14Iost . of t e the 110118e8, etc., very inierior, as above roads were amalgamated by might be expected from the general the 16 Idea,. cap. 39, passed at the surroundings." Even yet, in a session of. 1852,. and it was not tin- very few instances, the bogs and til 1869 that the "Buffalo and hake swamps which separated the embryo Huron" became part of the Grand settlements remain to tell us of the Trunk System. early lack of facilities or intercom- ' This road. enters the county at the munication and to remind us of the towniinc of Ilibbeet and Tucker- many disadvantages under which the smith, and :runs -through the entire pioneers of Iluron labored ; while the lengthofthe latter township and splendid highways on all hands oh - the township of, •.Goderich to servable are existing monuments of (loderich town, where the Com- the energy, 'perseverance and well parry have splendid 'terminal directed iriaustry of 'those who have facilities, including docks ,.and eleva conquered a desolate and inhospsl;= tees. The distance traversed within n.'Wetness and made it v hal. . it l e i desirable n most nest anal' ' the In O. .l county i s h etrvea ifsof the cotnt t the ban Y is arts o- av ' and twenty-eight olFk s. rns efts of 11 the counties di a gat a road' 1t tlho'proposed'•yeti tlerneet Ives l,a prone'necessity, so , a company. of,shrheyorg ` rind' . aketnen were coileeeted at,'ll1alt e arid" under the ;direction of De,' Dunlop.; oervey- ed and out nut tad Hilton Road al- ludii to at Sonic' ;length in: pug. Highways History. In the mean- time Mr. Galt pt`oeeeded trent York to Penetanguishene on the . Georgian Bay, •where the f1riti5h gun boat,. Bee, was placed et his disposal_ Mr. Galt had received a letter from. the Admiral in which that functionary had displayed his knowledge -or more correctly his'j'gnorance-of geography. Folliowin the develo snort of, . the" 1 -carr !; p I by stating ;that lite flee aroµ d Y country -of ',that *part of, the district Me,' Galt "ott ".eke Ruron to Lower which is now the 'county of Huron= Canada." down throtigh the several', years ' for The' object oh the Caovcrneidnt ;,in which reliable official figures have P a 1 census" was taken 1834 "which make surveys neeesaary: .the es - been gathered we find that another the,y t°. shows the population to have'in- creased. by 483, making a total r. of 1,168, of whom: 681 were 'males :and 1,87 females. We then . have state_ meets of the increase each year un til 1842, the date of the union of Up- per and Lower Canada, as follows 1835, 1,016 males, 756:' females, total. 1,772 ; 1836, 1,783 males, 1,383 fe- males, total 3.,106 ; 1837, 1,929 nha1- es, 1,566 females, total, 3,49a ; '1.838; 2,027 males, 1,827 females, total, 3,854 r 1839, 2;,160 males, 2,060 fe- males, total 44520 ; 1840, 2,801 inai- es,4 2,443 ,females, total, 5,224,; 18.41, 2,996 males, 2,419 females, total 5,415; 1812, 3,995 stales, 3,195 fe- males, total, 7,100. In 1i871 the county contained 60,1.63 souls, of whom 94 ')07 were males and 31- 't r t i T t is iutiihessary to o : 'than Provincc admitted t r rvely- refer to the local sketches ' of the thing pertaining to prosperity and carious points "along the line of this national greatness within the hroad road to be convinced of the:immence Dominion. boon it offered to the county at Many hear living Witness to .the large and meet partictilaely to those changes which have occurred under : sections tying ad;iacsot' to its route. their own oyes within a generatiorr- The next railway in point of time, changes so Fast as to rival fiction in though not of importance, whish was their: wonderful reality; who have built he the county °was what, is call- seen large towns arise From the „ed the western, division of the Tor- forest and a wide expanse of track - onto Grey and Bruce, a narrow guagc Mess wilds give place to wealthy and road organized in 1887 to run from populous communities ; and a impute- , Toronto to.Owen ' Sound, with a tion which would not theta exceed :branch frons Orangeville to 1 eesw'at- that of a suburb for a country town,. Cr. This' branch is the western div"- now augmented until over a score of slier referred to. It enders the conn- independent niufnaipalities within the ty at the eastern •boundary of flow- county count then inhabitants by •icA, runs through Yordwicll, Gerrie the thousands; who have seen , the end' IVroxeter in that township and miseries and sufferings incident to bears away' northwest through the the settlement of a wilderness re- toweehip of Turnberry, placed by comfort, plenty and al - • ill em e ut the ttucncr• and the embryo sr 'that i. tit time About the swim under road a h breeder. and more above division, was built the 'South grow l'ixtcnsion ••of .the Wellington, Grey the blow ea the woodsman's axe un - and, Bruce • railway was also con- 111 riow in' Inane parts only an oc-' structed. This was really• but an ex- casional grove _al native forest dots tension of Ube Guelph branch of the the landscape embracing lab-strctele Great western. 3''.ntering the country fug areas eel waving ewe and ltuxer- a.t dim. eastern limit of the township lent meadow;' instead of an almost of Grey, it traverses Haat township tmbroken wilderneSS, leterspersed and the townshir5 of Morrie and at no oA i'ecttrring intervals with Turnherry, taking lyrussels, Blucvale clearings: surrounding primitive log and R'inglram irf its coarse, halts: atent as t0 late London; Huron and Butes div -div- These idiots so are' all o l l ision in the Great Western is per- leave little to be said in their, sup - baps at tier present titne..the most port ; yet as some say ,figeres are fmpor.tattt '' , t Y from s' count point of the most subbore [acts -though all view., of ell the railways which are ' are agneo8 that statistics are "dry" located within its limits. Entering -we will endeavor 110 Wive a few at its extreme southern boarder, it witch 'hear upon the case and 'alibis - traverses` the townabips o1 Stephen, ten" their dryness so' fair- ale may 5)e 13a , Stanley, a corner of Goderich, by Peaking the colleens short a d Yr I•Iullett;, Morris and para; of .'Puri"- we nnight premise thin by .saying berry, , ,joining thsesouth exteredoti of the 1Veltisagton, Grey and Bruce div- ision at Winghain, and passing en route the, villages of Centralia, Ili 0tee, Elensal!,, and lirticefteld, . the toren: of Clinton and further on the villages of Londesboro; Blyth and, t Belgrave-the entire 'distance traverse ell within the -county living fifty mil - PH. '11 is an irdlcation of: Ode- ', aonlparative benefits cr , ed from this road :. to • repeat what is stated by 'those who know whereof they speak; • that the ' 1,en- do.n, Ilylren and Bruce 'Raafway, is fn proportion to its ]eua`th and the oost of consttuotion, the best paying piece of railroad proper -ay 09 the • Dominion of Canada }S5ysieal Developeseet-and Material Resources.' 11 persuai of 'the shove remarks will tablishment of a permanent harbor. Trois Mr. Galt's.description of the; sail around, Cabcit's .F1ead and ` down Lake Huron 'we.1quote' as follows "On the afterifoon of the following. day' we saw ,fat MI by our telescope a, small clearinglin the forest and on,the brow of the rising ground a cottage delightlitlly`- situated. The of. stiOh a Sight ere smile a place was unexpected and we had some debate it ft could be the loca- tion of Dr. Dunlop, who had guided the land exploring party alluded to. Nor were we lout long in doubt; -tor on approaching the place we were met by a crime; having on board a strange combivaition 'of;tnilians, vel- veteens and whiskers anal discovered within the soot$ of the rod Bair the 958 were Jfemales. Of these 20,166 living features of the Ur. Here we 3vere married, 533 widowers, 1,050 landed and cheerfully spent the night widows, and 44,418 unmarried and .in the log cottage which the Dr. had children. This population lived in raised." • It appears that altet giv- 11,379 houses -there being other 125 Ing the surveyors the necessary in - in course of erection and 222 unin structibns 415 to the course of the liabi'ted. The division of the above road, Dr. Dunlop had gone forward population at that time was as fol- with a small party and met .Mr. Galt lows :Goder.ich, , (town) 3,954 ; as described by that, gentleman. 1t is Clinton, (village) 2,016'; Seaforth, from this time that Mr. Dunlop's (village) 1,368 ; Ashfield, 3,893 ; Col- settlement at (loderich,. dates, and as borne, 2,429 ; Grey, 3,855 ; Goderich he was for many years closely iden- (townvhip) 3,6) 5 ; Hay, 3;897 ; 'flow Lifted not only with local but also ick, 5,417 ; Flullett, 3,678 ; Morris, with public affairs, a brief sketch of 3,952 ; McKillop, 3,808 ; Stanley, 3, his character„ achievements and 304 ; Stephen, 3,349 ; Tuckersmith, peculiarities may be interesting. The 3,699 ; Turnherry, 3,201 ; Usborne, first record we have of hint. is that 3,831 ;' 1'i'a.wanosh Nast, 2,651 ; 1Fa- at Galt, the evening before the pres- wanosh West, 2,748 ; All the other est city of Guelph "was founded, he existing independent municipalities niet Mr; Galt, the founder of that were then within the municipal lee- city, by whom he is described as isdiction of the several townships in "holding et roving commission . under whose geographical limits thew were the ('`seises Company.'' The nest - -• •..samev_'-1(1pi11t,.'3rd, 1890, he accompan- ied ied Mr. Galt''T511.lhis party to the -kC)SirY' Of; G0)1,1RI(fi'. site of Guelph and aeon after sunset, tb use Mr. Galt's language, "a large More than two centuries previous maple tree was a olectod n n which, > to the first settlement of a repieer a taking an axe from a woodsman, I tative of the Anglo-Saxon race at struck the first stroke and the the place where the handsome etow.n silence of the wnods that echoed to of Goderich now, stands, the locality the sound was as the sigh of( the was visited by Samuel de Cliam- solemn genius of the wilderness de - plain, the most daring adventurer parting forever. The DY'. followed who ever held his way through he ilio, if 1 remember rightly, and then unbroken and unexplored forests et Mr. Prior and the woodsman finished paddled his canoe up the noble 331'- the work." 'Thus it appears that 'elm 'or over the magdficarh lakes of Goderlelt was not the first Canadian Canada, Canada. town that the Dr. was 'instrumental That famous explorer landed at in founding; From that time ' for - the month of the Menesetung-as the ward we have no special record of Maitland River was called by the his deluge until he assumed .barge Indians -in the oar' 1618 while on of the survey of the Huron Road his way ficoni the eastern , part of nodding of special interest marked the present province. to Detroit: ':he ids career from that period until the route taken by hint on this occasion, Rebellion broke out ]a 1837 when he a,nd ireiced the only one known for warmly espoused the cause of the scores of rests afterwards, befog Loyalists. In 1811. he was elected to from Upper Ottawa to Georgian Bey the Assembly and •at the close of whence be coasted around into and his term in that body received an down l,alce Huron, through the Riv- i'niportaut appointment to the 1,5- er and Lake St. Clete and Detroit chine (:anal, then in process of con-, Itiver to Detroit. After this visit of tttruchiou, When the District of received ed 41 he re ' ed' in 18 •act `S 1 as hva. c I eneset uu' o mouth N g Hue - Champlain o ten mo 's. ion grew to be a Frequent calIwg place from the gohcrmnent the comms s for those indefatigueahle workers, the of .Warden of the District, an office Jesuit Priests, in their expeditions- held until wardens were Made elective to and fro between their settlement. in 1817, The Dr. rur as ablefiripnc'friend 1 eii Georgian Bay and those further. and enjoyed a vas both facetious l down toward, Detroit. But it is not popularity. Fuc v our purpose to give in this place a and eccentric and his will o refloat history of the Jesuits, who hi:Tiled, fair share of bout these slow the or the Hume Indians, who inhabited We quote from it to ap- the present town of (4odcrich„•fur- parent levity with which he regarded thio than ,to say that the lliir,,as approaching dtssolutiaota. He says : -were exterminated by their erectus, "I leave all the landed property I and the Jesuits, who were l:raet,.1- may die possessed of to my sisters, ly thea. allies, .became rcN,h'a abs et Helen Boyle Story seri 3'li'zatetth' the same ,Boyle Dunlop ; the tanner because the naane time i Hier -n11lirch toa minister, . wham, ma nnor 'as the I3ur.ons 11'or very site is married years efterwards.the visits' of (God 5)011) him) she henpecks ; the whet ye.are n to the 1f cnesnUwtg were latter because she is, nn:arriea to no - few ment)r 111 she likely to be for she Pew and kir between' and we have. no. body, rowl of a settlement being -rade is an old maid and not marketable ec Qi Mr. 1a7, fila 8tevene of £#.e'',4;ee,acda Plow Mille •Compaoi Chathr iu heat the following 'to say in std to the; bean eLi p ltd rr Pricey. Same parts of the bean,grpwirig sec; tiara have suffered ;severelyfront too wtuh writer aa a result of the heavy:, effected the " e d th a basal h et't Tails and I average ut the territory ohas ont rod uct'i been eitended outside of the old dfs tract quite eilfficienteto make,vp'any shortage that Wight be cansed hhraiee., The new territory heti prodriced' good . drops of fail' reality; whilai the crop is: siz eeks Yand owing to the wet` • wether tinsate not hardened edmciehtly for'threshing they'are noverthelese.in good condition. ome are .Starting to• thresh now ' and the quality is The old beaus have been alneo3t. cleaned out of the entire Oominiou, snaking as good demand for the new beans. No doubt this will only lest. for ono or, two weeks until sufficient: have been shipped for early require- ments, :Therice- then-reit{ likely' be lower. The price on the Detroit rear - Ica for November delivery is $280' per' bushel end for Decetnber etivery•$2.2f1 with the 'beans put in good cotton bags. This he for choice band picked beans which grade at least 15 cents a bushelrnoie Chian ours. It would cost 10 cents at bushel to, put the ..beaus: in the cotton sacks, 5 cents for freight, and another 5 cents' for weighing, storage and reloading niekihre 21) cents,: difference on each bushel. 'Then if you add 15 rents a bushel foe extra quantity. of the American beans it would make •i, difference of 35 cents to be, deducted fruut their price of $2,20; leaving $1,85 for picked benne in bulk at Mae buyer's warehouse in Michigan, ;',Phe buyer would want to make 5c. a bushel and then if he psid for twopnun'd pickers it would mean further reduction of 15 cents as bushel and it would leave $1.60 to pay the farmer for two pound pick - ere, •The prices Wee been declining on the Detroit market and they may go lower. 1t.looks to me as though our prices will he much 'lower here next month. The threshing will sun this ,yes. from 10 to 35 bushel to the acre, the crop being very uneven." have dtinsoastratedd to even those pos- tic'85ing ne previope iseowl'odge of .the facts,:that taw development and pro,- xces of the (Sourley ort I` enna whether coesidenei by oonhpae•ison er simply in the abstract, 'Sas of a nest remarkable character, i 8ule to s" be ccs finceil c f tete easiness ,and'.maarif- fieen ie of its 'present material' re- sources only the, heist casual' aa•- qurieneenee )vitil the too-eaI is ncces sar'y;, It 11151111 wileain the memory ,of :aeu when nought; but nature's eo1-„ itni5es aeswea ed back the sereasi of tt}ie eagles or Mac ,yein o8 the wolf -1hrou;ghoul• '(bus splendid district. How matey r dam remember when for Talking of Appeals Against the Assessment of Their Farms. Some farmers in the sectio» of Herr - un Township which voted a guarantee of $75,0.X) Coward the West Shore Elec- tric Railway rare discussing a test ap- peal next year against the assessment of the properties. The failure of the railway has increased theft, taxes by :Mont $20 for every hundred acre farm and has accordingly decreased its valu- ation. On this latter ground there will probably be litany appeals next year if the assessment is the same sad this yeah. -Khmer dine Review. that the description of the prescitx b}„ white "nen at that place: until two otiuditionof the various 100511tiGe to banrired and ten years alter the 'ne- in found in the respective local, i4, of do dbannp]ain ,shove referred` 130, sketches will lie sufficient exempt -Oa catioe-taken in connection with the date and circumstances of the early settlement eV the 5513)0-ol the devel- opment 01 their: metal:iat res0tnce with such goods as they -considered so heat we ase left the simple U1180ask lieeessar}' for the estabiishment of sal Of here. s1onI I the. "riot ce of the ind33aw'trading post, and s'ail'ed along tr1 pirllulail0'a of tee da5ln:ict In the year 1826',x. P; Gooding ac- companied by A. Peenohtnan named Prank Dochaanp, left the mouth of the Grand River in a small vessel loaded suvorrrol stag;ss of trim Liner atsetlente d the southern coast of southwestern Canada 111) thtoiigh 115)0 St. Clair an Detroit Rivers, and Lakes St. Glair and Hairen to the mouth o1 the Men- esetung-1honceforward ctailed the "Maitland River in Donor ea Sir Pete - pane Maitland, Lieut• Gelvern,er of Upper Canada-amd:'here 45)03' disem a l}, melee a n Uarlced, secured thele vessel and er- Of r Ofthese feted a small cabin er "satire'" whew 1 theses latter six were y 5335°veand Ggilv,ie's A9'ail wars atterwards excel- ]iY were under sixteen wears of.age and of tae former 289 were 'over red ed, • :`no grewl a ` e, official record we have of ;I'he,. hr.1 0 8017- white settlers within the limits y af Huron Oaamtiti' is in the oensrts re- turns s ' Upper Canada for 1833, at valifsk rutile there appears to have been a total 'population of, 685 souls, hill '281 females. 1.e5 under, that age. • Here they temannecl rot„f :e thee Area it. fsi in order 'hale (0 velene,rle three mohtbs before 800151g'ths face that c1soLagos in Ul10 1138016( of 1331.11- el a wI to man and it was n'ci un • alivistosa-Whether i`rmrairaipa:l, tel 1828 thfU an}' othal settlers carie poltwliicai or e 1'Aaea'n'ise-wb-:h zre in, hitt in that rest: Ma'. C3•a1t, like rilg 12or ss nest eoiistarnti3, taking P neceeearfly' tae tee. ease m a;lfc e11 11130-' stanoes of, the country rendes: i{f ex, t,utemsly, tlitfjcwlt it not .in soile cases iee,itoetablea Iso make' one canine, ''ma form to preeeeing ones , a tl2'.safioaa •tient dY territorial dietet6ns, difficulty bee eeee. oveecn.tt1, howev er, as fat: as 11 was at all ;lac, sable to din so, by limesr't{. 4 ler ap'ea5, V9'- superirilientlenL al the Canada Com- pany, fiy whom the entire R'ul'er 'Brent was owned, determined opt. [dant, settlement at' gibe mouth else Maitland River. Tide clescrntina tion was prabeb11y formed by the necp)nmendati0n'of ,;l)r, tinniop, who liatl preeioesly visited the place; guid- ed by an Indian named' Captain Jac- ob, and Who *as very iht9,aaiate 94111 TI. ,7e1}iatsir, uad ;flee, ter. %l'>lnius.ty ;bar. Galt. A Gift with a Thought in It. There's•one very supple way Out of the Christmas shopping problem: dotal, shop, out sit quietly rat home aid sub- scribe foe The Youth's Conontniou• The chances are, too, that no present you could buy for the young friend or the taunily you delight to honor could confer so 1111IDli pleasure as this gift of a whole ( m au' The Youth's on foru i p round year -fifty-two weeks' issues, and the filly second as keenly antici- pated and enjoyed as the very hest. There will be stories for every age: Hund advice ars to athletics; sugges- tions for the girl at college leaking her own way in ' the world; good things foe every member of the tastily ••-nil for $291 --less than live cents as week. The one to whom you give the sub- scription will rewire free 111l•the re- maining. e.mainin„, issnee of 1012, ars well as The (impenitent 'Window Transparency and Calendar for 1018, in ricin, trans- lucent colors. It is to be hung in the window or over the lamp shade. You too as giver of the present, will re- ceive a 0013v of it. THE YOUTH'S' COAIPAN{ON, 144 Berkerlcy St,. Boston, 09188x, New Subscriptions Received at this Office. I leave taw silver tankard to the eld- est son of 01d ,John -I would have heft, it to Old John himself but he would obeli it down into temper- ance medals and that, would be sac- rilege ;. however, 'I lease my big horn saufl box .to liter 140 can only maize temperance here spoons- .out el that. I leave my brother: hien my big silver . snuff how as I ant in- formed nformed he, is rather a decent Christian with a swag belly aid a Telly face -I leave Johnutldle a silver: teamed; to Hie end tlrs't be may drink tea therefrom to comf0ut Idea uhidcr the affliction of a ;slatternly The manner in W'bic1 {loderich re- ceived 'its name wok as follows : Af- ter Guelph was . located and named by Mr. (13011, the diireetors of *le Canada Company in ,England diaap- proved of his. action ' and nst'rwlited Mee to piranha flue, name ref Guelpb to that of: Y.oierich`_in honor of a noble- man of :that slime Who was a prone - Went member, of the Coriifraxy-. Mr, Iulont5osd'er6F 10 Toe nit `motive -swear Ogee 3o euoes said m(1 aPea:r1 Pug aaeld 5115 su 'Vag. p3i11(aa Mel) Parliernent weeld be ne.eadary to effect 'trite cbaelgo';brit as they 'ting 1'eeted to apply for the Aot that trove detained .the ewe .and baa. halt bee:towed tete' harem et-elederiefa ' erre eke Lake Hearou screttememt as a "peace 'efteriig" to tie Diameters, • nt1aao(1 ea }sage heft.) Bluth Another (113 the pioneers of this sec. Hon has crossed the Great Divide fu i er, ame Potter one of the parson of J s the oldest residents ilt Poet Waw,aznosh who died on Sunday week a'Ite deceased was born in Ountber- lnnci, rngland, 111 l!'ebruary 1840 and ton.exiilently va•as in the 84th year of his alae et the time of his demise, I''itty-six years ago, in company with his wife, he eanhe to Canada and for six years resided near let aampton,1e11v- 10g there he crone to l set Wawauosh mud took up lot 40 COucessioit 2, where he underwent all the trials incident to pioneer lire. Ile was rt public spirit- ed 331511 and for 1a nein bee of years sat et the Council 130er d both as a Gonna - 101 sed 'Reeve alae also was a. member of the Oouretry Connell.' In politics he wile y Conservative of the oltl school 'and Naas faithful to the principles of: that party to the time of his d581311.. Ile was a man r)f "broad thougiht and his opfni':ans while a member of the municipal hoard were sound and the municipality to ai considerable extent Was benefited by his judgement in the early days, To Mr. and Mrs, Potter, ware Born a family cif seyen, five 110ys` stud two girls pronely, Thomas of Mackville, Mich., M. John Johnson, of Salmon Ann, 13, 0; James Wallace, on the homestead, Last V'9awanosh : 301111 of Blyth, Dr. William, of Galt, Iowa; George, of Hallett: and Mrs. Chris, Johnson, of East W awanosh. Mrs. Potter died seventeen years ago Inst 'alert+. since which time the late Mr, Wetter hasmade his home with his son armies. ,The funeral ' was 15lidneted by the rncerhees of Slyth Lodge No 303, A 19' ,l A. 51. of which deceased was the old- est member, interment took placoab Trinity (amerce Cemmetery, JRev:,T, 11. Fate, of1}s sting, 18N9¢LLPIit. The Pitbillado boys returned the West last wreak. litre tomperauee Wernrons of Rev, R. A.. Miller, of Aubure, oa Sunday at i1et$niile,t and Bethel were eajoy ad, Miss 1'9esid Walters -115 Oaari95 ;Llys. Jesse Gledhill: 1 Mr. and Mrs, White are spending. a;; week of ;two with Mr. and Srls., 1483,884, rata heaping in the lawge ap- ple Harvest the ,131 geielrlenian lass to die with. • Miss, Peetl. 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