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-
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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
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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. Dither . it g`atliriaag
s'4sea gebir after her recent repo nikie
far,
from
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