HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News Record, 1954-07-22, Page 3THURSDAY, JULY 22, 1954
CLINTON NEWS -RECORD
PAGE THREE
AUBURN .CENTENNI
Memorial Service
At Ball's Cemetery
On Sunday, ,Aug. 1
The memorial service held at
Ball's. Cemetery at three o'clock
on Sunday, August 1, will include
a remembrance observance by the
veterans. The sermon will be
preached by Rev. W. J, Maines,
Brucefield. The organist will be
Mrs. Wilfred Donaldson (Ella
Robertson), Goderich, -a grand-
daughter of Eneas Elkin who
made the first, survey of Auburn
in 1854.
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Early Grist Mill
Operated by . -
John Cullis
(By {banes E. Asquith, Auburn)
" For many. years the •Cullis flour
Shill was a real grist mill. The
fanner took his wheat or grist to
the mill and returned with his own
flour, shorts, bran, etc less the
toll allowed the miller by law. In
those days the bran was consider-
ed to have no nutritional value as
feed and was left on the floor of
the mill except what small amount
the farmer or the welcome vil-
lagers took home to make brown
bread. Excellent bread it was!
The bran not wanted was easily
disposed of by the miller who
shovelled it through a hole in the
floor into the tail race. It was a
great convenience for the settlers
of this area to have a mill so near
home, It was with sentimental
satisfaction that the farmer and
his family ate bread, pastry, bak-
ed from the flour made from
wheat grown on land recently.
cleared by 'their own hands.
John Cullis died in 1892, aged
72 years. The writer can just re-
member him as a rather stout
jovial man with some white dust
on his clothes truly typical of the
jolly old miller portrayed by a
writer of poems for children,
a
Canadas public hospitals oper-
ated at nearly four per cent above
rated capacity in 1952, average
103.6 beds set up per 100 capacity.
ALJCU$T. 1
Early Well; First Electricity; New Mill
Recalled As Auburn Has 100th Year
(By Charles E. Asquith, Auburn)
A short time ,ago, Jack Baker,
Wingham, whose mother is Mary
Ann Gravinston, an old Auburn
girl, and who is employed by
Davidson, . of Wingham, drilled a
well for Robert Turner who now
lives on the old Cullis farm along
side the race. Almost from the
time he started to drill the well
we in Auburn could hear his drill
banging away on something very
hard, On being questioned about
this, Jack informed us that they
had to drill through aver 60 feet
of glacial drift of (clay and gran-
ite boulders). This nice biground
hard head had been one tat the
glacier had (when digging out
Lake Huron) made u
a round byrol-
ling
o -Iing it around a Iot with th
rocks. We guess the last roll
brought it up close to the surface
where the dredge found it, AIbert
E. Cullis was always very pro-
gressive. In the saw mill he had
installed a d s fan system for taking
the shaven
and saw from
the headingsmachines rightto
boiler room. This was considered
a supersystem stem at
that time.
Y
About thei
m idle s ni emi e he
brought electricity
or electric
lights to Manchester. A. direct
current dynamo was installed in
the office of the grist mill and e
transmission line' was run up to
the village with sufficient round
transformers. placed on the poles
where needed Service was given
from dusk until ten pm. In case
of some special event the service
was continued. News was con-
veyed to the operator by a one -
wire telephone' line placed on the
electric light poles. Many a rest-
dent of Manchester enjoyed one of
his first telephone conversations
over that line. The rates were
two cents per light per night and
the bills were collected weekly,
The electricity was used only for.
nighting and no motor or ap,
phance,was ever as much as con-
sidered by any user. The people
of Auburn enjoyed the electric
lights, as they were then common-
ly called, very much and when
the grist mill was destroyed by
fire in 1903 the loss of such good
lighting was very keenly felt.
After the loss of the saw mill,
Albert Cullis built another one.
just above the dam which he sold
to James Young in November 1896.
Mr. Young's fine saw and planing
mil
1 situated ua on and
west of
Thomas McMichael's property had
been destroyed by fire the prev-
ious June. Although Albert Cullis
had learned the flour milling un-
der his father he never operated
the grist mill himself but leased it
to a miller. After the sale of his
saw mill to Mr. Young, he was
somewhat undecided as to what
to do and at one time considered
entering the saw milling business
in British Columbia. The previous
year his foreman and sawyer,
Thomas Asquith, had left here and
taken up land at Fibre, Michigan,
not far from Sault Ste. Marie,
and on hearing of good reports
from him regarding saw milling
opportunities me there, decided to
make a trip to the Soo and in-
vestigate conditions for himself.
His trip impressed him and he and
Thomas Anderson, uncle. of Oliver
Anderson, with their families left
for Sault Ste, Marie Michigan, in
the fall. of 1898. After quite a
number of successful years there
Mr. and Mrs. Anderson returned
and retired to live in' Goderich.
Mrs. Anderson (Belle Young) aunt
of Mrs. John Houston, William
Straughan and John Hanna, Wing -
ham, now lives With her son, El-
win, in Brantford, and hopes to
be at the centenary.
After being in the saw milling
business for some time at the Soo,
Albert Cullis bought out a small
woollen mill at Pickford,' Mich.,
moved it to the Soo aid had a new
mill constructed. Business went
well with him and he organized
the, Soo Woollen Mills, securing
for his associates some of the best
businessmen in •.Sault Ste. Marie.
This moved gave him the prestige,
and guidance needed—A new •com-
pany, and under his management
things went well from the start
and the company became one of
the city's most successful indust-
ries, Albert Cullis was the most
successful businessman Manchest-
er ever produced. We feel certain
had he remained here, Auburn
would have bad one -or two in-
dustries,
Two Tragedies
Mar History of
Old Flour Mill
(By Charles E. Asquith, Auburn?
Tragedy came twice to the
Manchester Flour Mills, first in
1895 when Willie, the nine-year-
old son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert
Webb, and the brother of Mrs.
John Shobbrook, Londesboro, was
drowned when he fell off the tim-
bers at the head of the race. Some
men had been working on the dam
and his parents thought he was
with them. hem. lie was not'sse
mi d
until
he didn't come homefo•
m
supper, Dragging operations were
started immediately but it was
not until early the next morning
that his body was found,
The other tragedy occurred about
1901 when two men by the name
of Dennis andTone m had the mill.
leased. 'Apparently Mr. Dennis
was not mechanically minded and
left the operation of the electric
light
plant to Mr.
Tom but when
MrTom was awayon avmsm
visit over
a Sunday,
Mr. Dennis volunteered
to operate the plant. Ed. Mole,
who later became manager of the
Seaford] Electric Light Plant and
superintendent of the Seafcrth
Public Utilities Commission, had
for many years dropped in at the
mill tit: give Mr. Dennis a hand.
Mr: Dennis started the water
wheel and generator and tried to
throw the switch to send the cur-
rent to the village when Ed Mol
saw his body, was swaying, E
grabbed his coat tail and pulle
him away from the switch bu
was extinct. He had put hi
hands too far down on the handle
of the switch. -and had come in
contact with the brass part of the
switch to which the handles were
fastened. Mr. Tom continued to
operate the mill until it was de-
stroyed by fire early in 1903.
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Need 'For Good
Fire Protection
Forced Action
Saw" Mill Was Boon To Settlers; They
Used Elm Lumber For Barrel Staves
(By Charles E. Asquith, Antrum)
The saw mill was a great boon
to the settlers whose log buildings
were being replaced with frame
and brick structures but it was
not a source of great profit to
the owners as It was difficult to
make outside sales on lumber even
if hemlock sold for $4 per thous-
and feet. • However the discovery
of salt in. Huron and the coming
into bearing of many fine young
apple pp
orchardscreated demand
mend
for staves, and heading for
making salt and apple barrels.
The staves and hoops were made
of soft elm of which there was an
abundance. The logs, lots of them
five feet or more in diameter,
were first ripped into. cants. These
cants were a t w e the
ncu into to len s
gth
as the staves required..This work
of cutting up the logs continued
in the afternoon of each day until
all the e vats were filled.. To soften
the blocks the vats werefilled
sled
with live ve steamll '
a night and
next forenoon the blocks were cut
into staves on a machine with a
wide heavy, knife the full length
of the staves. The blocks were put
on a pivoted iron table in front of
the knife. A crank Was attached
to the table which caused it to go
up and down at a rate which en-
abled the operator to cut about
130 staves per minute. The staves
e were taken out to a yard where
d
d
s
s
'By Charles E. Asquith, Auburn.)
The destruction of the Cullis
saw mill, and several buildings ldings in
the village, ume, caused the citizens to
demand some sort of fire 'protec-
tion. This led to a movement to
have a police village established.
Albert E. Cullis was one of the
prime movers in presenting a
petition to the comity column of
Huron for this purpose. On the
6th day of January, 1895, a by-
law was passed by the Council of
Huron creating the Police Village.
of Manchester. On the 30th day
of December of the same year,
the first nomination meeting was
held in Joseph Stevens' carriage
shop, situated on the present Bank
of Commerce site. Among those
present were; Samuel Caldwell,
clerk; William. Symington, Robert
Cummings, John Ferguson, John
Mills, G, F. Youngblut, George
Lamp, W. D. Wilson, Alf Asquith,
Temple Clark, William Stec, Jo-
seph Lawson, Robert' Stalker, J. C.
Clark, Samuel Clark, John Mole,
D. E. Munro end 'Jacob Kuntz.
With the probable exception of
William Stice, all present are now
deceased,
George . Kemp, A. E. Cullis and
William Symington were elected
the first trustees of the Police Vil-
lage of Manchester by acclama-
tion.
At a meeting held on August 4,
1896, on a motion by George Lernp
and William Symington, A. E. Cul -
lis was granted the right to erect
electric light poles on the side of
any street or highway in the vil-
lage. -
At the same meeting a motion
by A. E. Cullis and George Lamp
was passed instructing the clerk to
purchase a fire engine from J.
Evans & Co., of Amemee, Ont., for
the sum of $260.00.
This action perhapswas hasten-
ed by the disastrous fire 'which
caused the loss of James Young's
saw and planing mill in June of
the same year. The little red
hand pumper which did good ser-
vice on many occasions, 15 how a
highlytprized exhibit' in the Ox-
ford County; museum, in Wood-
stock
they were piled in square piles,
the length of a stave in length and
the same length in breadth, ten
staves • in eaoh lift.* Each pile
contained 1,000 staves and was
nearly ten feetin height. The tops
of the piles were protected from
the weather with pieces of bark
peeled off the stave blocks. Plac-
ed concave and convex they pro-
vided a water proof roof until the
staves were dry enough to use.
Shortly after John Cullis died,
the sawmill burned down with a
very heavy loss but the grist mill
was saved by the precaution of
having a stout ladder attached to
the side of the mill. Men mounted
to the roof (0. E. Erratt was
among the number) and with buc-
kets of water kept it from ignit-
ing. At one time the side next to
the fire became ablaze but this
was extinguished by a well -direct-
ed pail of water, delivered from an.
up -raised window.
John. Cullis left six sons, • The•
one to assume leadership was Al-
bert E., .who had the Hungarian
or roller system for making flour,
installed at a cost of several thou-
sand dollars, He also had the race
dredged out from the darn to the
mill These were days of real
sport for the, writer and his com-
panions and many -of- the events
stand out as clearly as had they
happened yesterday. The scow
part of the dredge arrived one
evening hauled on wagons. Other
wagons were loaded with a steam
engine, the dipper, boom, etc., and
all the other paraphenalma belong-
ing to a dredge, It didn't take
long for the crew to bolt together
the two sections of the scow which
was moved under the timbers at
the head of the race - and the
equipment was then installed. One
day when about half the task of
dredging was completed the buc-
ket runner got hold, of a round
large hard' head stone. It was a
ticklish job to hold it in the mouth
of the bucket as it was much larg-
er than the bucket itself. When
the bucket came out of the water
the rock fell off. We shall not
record what the boss called the
shovel runner for losing it after
having it in the bucket. The run-
ner didn't swear in return but
said "Never mind,. I'll get it next
time", which he did and no doubt.
it is still •up there on the west
bank of the race where the dredge
put it.
SAVE WATER, PLEASE
PUC ASKS IN EXETER
Exeter Public Utilities Commis-
sion this week urged householders
to conserve water "during this dry.
period and while the canning fac-
tory is operating." The notice said
water consumption of the town
on Monday reached 650,000 gal-
lons, which "is more than the.
system willsupply continually."
Exeter Times -Advocate,
Rake Factory Once
Prosperous; Now
Prosperous;
Ancient History
(By Charles E. Asquith, Auburn)
Mr. Cullis' people also operated
a saw mill and rake, factory at
the Saratoga Swamp in West Wa-
wanosh. Here much pine ne 1
umber
was cut. At that time a hand
rake was an essential harvesting
tool used in gathering the grain,
cut by the cradle or reaper, into
small bundles which were bound
into sheaves with two lengthe of
small handfuls of straw spliced to-
gether, r then
placed round the
sheaf and the sheaf held by the
two ends of the band twisted into
a knot and tucked underneath to
keep
itfrom coming omen
g aP ar
t,
The
meth '
amt '
al bi
the hand'rake factoriessoout put
business. A hay or hand raise is
seldom procurable in a hardware
store now,. This mill later became
the property of Henry Wilson.
William McVittie, an uncle of
William McVittie, Blyth, operated
a very successful rake factory at
the Nile for some years,
•
No Anaesthetic In
Early Surgery;
Dr. Ross 'Operated
(By Charles E. Asquith, Auburn)
In the mid -nineties; Mrs, C. Baer
whose husband operated a brick'
yard on the former H, Mogridge
farm, moved to Auburn with her
three sons, Menno, Gilbert, and
Oliver, Menno bought an old clap
boarded' house on the lot east of
the Baptist- Church, had it torn
down and erected -the home now
that of Ezekiel Phillips, After
they were here a year or so, Oliv-
er, the youngest, decided to learn
• the trade of a miller and started
to work, we believe, when' Mr.
Eidt had the mill leased. One
morning well on toward noon he
put his hands into one of the rolls,
through an opening in 'the ma-
chine for that special purpose, to
secure a sample of flour to test
its fineness. By some error his
hand came in contact with two
rolls that drew in Inc hand and
flattened it out. On being releas-
ed, he was brought home and Dr.
H. H. Ross decided to 'amputate
the hand,
Sometime about two o'clock, Joe
Carter and the writer and his
father met on the street. The
writhey were takinather informed
Oliver's hanus d that
in oheof the upstair bedrooms of
his home and that it was quite
permissable for us to go over and
watch the surgeons. He said he
had just come from there: Over
we went, and went upstairs quiet-
ly. In the southeast bedroom they
had Oliver on his back on a table
with his hand already removed.
The 'doctor from. Blyth Was as-
sisting Dr. Ross. Both of them
had aprons on but wote no masks
or rubber gloves. There were no
pretty nurses in nice white uni-
forms. The main part of the op-
eration now seemed to be to trim
off part bones that formed the
elbow joint. Dr. Ross took a pair
of bone forceps or clippers, put it
on the protruding part and it
took the two of them to put en-
ough energy on the handles to cut
it off. By this time Oliver made a
queer noise which we thought was
a groan. I guess he was having a
little difficulty with his breathing.
Dr. Ross said, after they got the
piece of bone off, "I guess we had
better take a half a day off and
sharpen these things," We thought
i'
t was
quite a casual
remark to
make
when
poor Oliver was in so
Much pain. We had had enough,
and soon got out. Oliver was soon
well and wearing an artificial arm.
DROP IN FROM SKY
TO
HELP
WITH
HAYING
Not many farmers have help
drop from the skies to give them
a hand.
That is
what happened at
P
the James
S.
Armstrong's s
fa
g sur
when his son Jim and two of his
air -minded friends landed on the
Armstrong farm 'after flying from
Sky Harbour, Goderich, They
were Eugene Lutz' and Robert
Glavish, instructors in radio at
the f1ewRCAF iti a StationeClinton.it which
Mr.' Lutz owns and keeps at Sky
Harbour Airport,—Brussels Post.
f
1
Holds the set longer
than any other
permanent.
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lives on the old Cullis farm along
side the race. Almost from the
time he started to drill the well
we in Auburn could hear his drill
banging away on something very
hard, On being questioned about
this, Jack informed us that they
had to drill through aver 60 feet
of glacial drift of (clay and gran-
ite boulders). This nice biground
hard head had been one tat the
glacier had (when digging out
Lake Huron) made u
a round byrol-
ling
o -Iing it around a Iot with th
rocks. We guess the last roll
brought it up close to the surface
where the dredge found it, AIbert
E. Cullis was always very pro-
gressive. In the saw mill he had
installed a d s fan system for taking
the shaven
and saw from
the headingsmachines rightto
boiler room. This was considered
a supersystem stem at
that time.
Y
About thei
m idle s ni emi e he
brought electricity
or electric
lights to Manchester. A. direct
current dynamo was installed in
the office of the grist mill and e
transmission line' was run up to
the village with sufficient round
transformers. placed on the poles
where needed Service was given
from dusk until ten pm. In case
of some special event the service
was continued. News was con-
veyed to the operator by a one -
wire telephone' line placed on the
electric light poles. Many a rest-
dent of Manchester enjoyed one of
his first telephone conversations
over that line. The rates were
two cents per light per night and
the bills were collected weekly,
The electricity was used only for.
nighting and no motor or ap,
phance,was ever as much as con-
sidered by any user. The people
of Auburn enjoyed the electric
lights, as they were then common-
ly called, very much and when
the grist mill was destroyed by
fire in 1903 the loss of such good
lighting was very keenly felt.
After the loss of the saw mill,
Albert Cullis built another one.
just above the dam which he sold
to James Young in November 1896.
Mr. Young's fine saw and planing
mil
1 situated ua on and
west of
Thomas McMichael's property had
been destroyed by fire the prev-
ious June. Although Albert Cullis
had learned the flour milling un-
der his father he never operated
the grist mill himself but leased it
to a miller. After the sale of his
saw mill to Mr. Young, he was
somewhat undecided as to what
to do and at one time considered
entering the saw milling business
in British Columbia. The previous
year his foreman and sawyer,
Thomas Asquith, had left here and
taken up land at Fibre, Michigan,
not far from Sault Ste. Marie,
and on hearing of good reports
from him regarding saw milling
opportunities me there, decided to
make a trip to the Soo and in-
vestigate conditions for himself.
His trip impressed him and he and
Thomas Anderson, uncle. of Oliver
Anderson, with their families left
for Sault Ste, Marie Michigan, in
the fall. of 1898. After quite a
number of successful years there
Mr. and Mrs. Anderson returned
and retired to live in' Goderich.
Mrs. Anderson (Belle Young) aunt
of Mrs. John Houston, William
Straughan and John Hanna, Wing -
ham, now lives With her son, El-
win, in Brantford, and hopes to
be at the centenary.
After being in the saw milling
business for some time at the Soo,
Albert Cullis bought out a small
woollen mill at Pickford,' Mich.,
moved it to the Soo aid had a new
mill constructed. Business went
well with him and he organized
the, Soo Woollen Mills, securing
for his associates some of the best
businessmen in •.Sault Ste. Marie.
This moved gave him the prestige,
and guidance needed—A new •com-
pany, and under his management
things went well from the start
and the company became one of
the city's most successful indust-
ries, Albert Cullis was the most
successful businessman Manchest-
er ever produced. We feel certain
had he remained here, Auburn
would have bad one -or two in-
dustries,
Two Tragedies
Mar History of
Old Flour Mill
(By Charles E. Asquith, Auburn?
Tragedy came twice to the
Manchester Flour Mills, first in
1895 when Willie, the nine-year-
old son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert
Webb, and the brother of Mrs.
John Shobbrook, Londesboro, was
drowned when he fell off the tim-
bers at the head of the race. Some
men had been working on the dam
and his parents thought he was
with them. hem. lie was not'sse
mi d
until
he didn't come homefo•
m
supper, Dragging operations were
started immediately but it was
not until early the next morning
that his body was found,
The other tragedy occurred about
1901 when two men by the name
of Dennis andTone m had the mill.
leased. 'Apparently Mr. Dennis
was not mechanically minded and
left the operation of the electric
light
plant to Mr.
Tom but when
MrTom was awayon avmsm
visit over
a Sunday,
Mr. Dennis volunteered
to operate the plant. Ed. Mole,
who later became manager of the
Seaford] Electric Light Plant and
superintendent of the Seafcrth
Public Utilities Commission, had
for many years dropped in at the
mill tit: give Mr. Dennis a hand.
Mr: Dennis started the water
wheel and generator and tried to
throw the switch to send the cur-
rent to the village when Ed Mol
saw his body, was swaying, E
grabbed his coat tail and pulle
him away from the switch bu
was extinct. He had put hi
hands too far down on the handle
of the switch. -and had come in
contact with the brass part of the
switch to which the handles were
fastened. Mr. Tom continued to
operate the mill until it was de-
stroyed by fire early in 1903.
0
Need 'For Good
Fire Protection
Forced Action
Saw" Mill Was Boon To Settlers; They
Used Elm Lumber For Barrel Staves
(By Charles E. Asquith, Antrum)
The saw mill was a great boon
to the settlers whose log buildings
were being replaced with frame
and brick structures but it was
not a source of great profit to
the owners as It was difficult to
make outside sales on lumber even
if hemlock sold for $4 per thous-
and feet. • However the discovery
of salt in. Huron and the coming
into bearing of many fine young
apple pp
orchardscreated demand
mend
for staves, and heading for
making salt and apple barrels.
The staves and hoops were made
of soft elm of which there was an
abundance. The logs, lots of them
five feet or more in diameter,
were first ripped into. cants. These
cants were a t w e the
ncu into to len s
gth
as the staves required..This work
of cutting up the logs continued
in the afternoon of each day until
all the e vats were filled.. To soften
the blocks the vats werefilled
sled
with live ve steamll '
a night and
next forenoon the blocks were cut
into staves on a machine with a
wide heavy, knife the full length
of the staves. The blocks were put
on a pivoted iron table in front of
the knife. A crank Was attached
to the table which caused it to go
up and down at a rate which en-
abled the operator to cut about
130 staves per minute. The staves
e were taken out to a yard where
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'By Charles E. Asquith, Auburn.)
The destruction of the Cullis
saw mill, and several buildings ldings in
the village, ume, caused the citizens to
demand some sort of fire 'protec-
tion. This led to a movement to
have a police village established.
Albert E. Cullis was one of the
prime movers in presenting a
petition to the comity column of
Huron for this purpose. On the
6th day of January, 1895, a by-
law was passed by the Council of
Huron creating the Police Village.
of Manchester. On the 30th day
of December of the same year,
the first nomination meeting was
held in Joseph Stevens' carriage
shop, situated on the present Bank
of Commerce site. Among those
present were; Samuel Caldwell,
clerk; William. Symington, Robert
Cummings, John Ferguson, John
Mills, G, F. Youngblut, George
Lamp, W. D. Wilson, Alf Asquith,
Temple Clark, William Stec, Jo-
seph Lawson, Robert' Stalker, J. C.
Clark, Samuel Clark, John Mole,
D. E. Munro end 'Jacob Kuntz.
With the probable exception of
William Stice, all present are now
deceased,
George . Kemp, A. E. Cullis and
William Symington were elected
the first trustees of the Police Vil-
lage of Manchester by acclama-
tion.
At a meeting held on August 4,
1896, on a motion by George Lernp
and William Symington, A. E. Cul -
lis was granted the right to erect
electric light poles on the side of
any street or highway in the vil-
lage. -
At the same meeting a motion
by A. E. Cullis and George Lamp
was passed instructing the clerk to
purchase a fire engine from J.
Evans & Co., of Amemee, Ont., for
the sum of $260.00.
This action perhapswas hasten-
ed by the disastrous fire 'which
caused the loss of James Young's
saw and planing mill in June of
the same year. The little red
hand pumper which did good ser-
vice on many occasions, 15 how a
highlytprized exhibit' in the Ox-
ford County; museum, in Wood-
stock
they were piled in square piles,
the length of a stave in length and
the same length in breadth, ten
staves • in eaoh lift.* Each pile
contained 1,000 staves and was
nearly ten feetin height. The tops
of the piles were protected from
the weather with pieces of bark
peeled off the stave blocks. Plac-
ed concave and convex they pro-
vided a water proof roof until the
staves were dry enough to use.
Shortly after John Cullis died,
the sawmill burned down with a
very heavy loss but the grist mill
was saved by the precaution of
having a stout ladder attached to
the side of the mill. Men mounted
to the roof (0. E. Erratt was
among the number) and with buc-
kets of water kept it from ignit-
ing. At one time the side next to
the fire became ablaze but this
was extinguished by a well -direct-
ed pail of water, delivered from an.
up -raised window.
John. Cullis left six sons, • The•
one to assume leadership was Al-
bert E., .who had the Hungarian
or roller system for making flour,
installed at a cost of several thou-
sand dollars, He also had the race
dredged out from the darn to the
mill These were days of real
sport for the, writer and his com-
panions and many -of- the events
stand out as clearly as had they
happened yesterday. The scow
part of the dredge arrived one
evening hauled on wagons. Other
wagons were loaded with a steam
engine, the dipper, boom, etc., and
all the other paraphenalma belong-
ing to a dredge, It didn't take
long for the crew to bolt together
the two sections of the scow which
was moved under the timbers at
the head of the race - and the
equipment was then installed. One
day when about half the task of
dredging was completed the buc-
ket runner got hold, of a round
large hard' head stone. It was a
ticklish job to hold it in the mouth
of the bucket as it was much larg-
er than the bucket itself. When
the bucket came out of the water
the rock fell off. We shall not
record what the boss called the
shovel runner for losing it after
having it in the bucket. The run-
ner didn't swear in return but
said "Never mind,. I'll get it next
time", which he did and no doubt.
it is still •up there on the west
bank of the race where the dredge
put it.
SAVE WATER, PLEASE
PUC ASKS IN EXETER
Exeter Public Utilities Commis-
sion this week urged householders
to conserve water "during this dry.
period and while the canning fac-
tory is operating." The notice said
water consumption of the town
on Monday reached 650,000 gal-
lons, which "is more than the.
system willsupply continually."
Exeter Times -Advocate,
Rake Factory Once
Prosperous; Now
Prosperous;
Ancient History
(By Charles E. Asquith, Auburn)
Mr. Cullis' people also operated
a saw mill and rake, factory at
the Saratoga Swamp in West Wa-
wanosh. Here much pine ne 1
umber
was cut. At that time a hand
rake was an essential harvesting
tool used in gathering the grain,
cut by the cradle or reaper, into
small bundles which were bound
into sheaves with two lengthe of
small handfuls of straw spliced to-
gether, r then
placed round the
sheaf and the sheaf held by the
two ends of the band twisted into
a knot and tucked underneath to
keep
itfrom coming omen
g aP ar
t,
The
meth '
amt '
al bi
the hand'rake factoriessoout put
business. A hay or hand raise is
seldom procurable in a hardware
store now,. This mill later became
the property of Henry Wilson.
William McVittie, an uncle of
William McVittie, Blyth, operated
a very successful rake factory at
the Nile for some years,
•
No Anaesthetic In
Early Surgery;
Dr. Ross 'Operated
(By Charles E. Asquith, Auburn)
In the mid -nineties; Mrs, C. Baer
whose husband operated a brick'
yard on the former H, Mogridge
farm, moved to Auburn with her
three sons, Menno, Gilbert, and
Oliver, Menno bought an old clap
boarded' house on the lot east of
the Baptist- Church, had it torn
down and erected -the home now
that of Ezekiel Phillips, After
they were here a year or so, Oliv-
er, the youngest, decided to learn
• the trade of a miller and started
to work, we believe, when' Mr.
Eidt had the mill leased. One
morning well on toward noon he
put his hands into one of the rolls,
through an opening in 'the ma-
chine for that special purpose, to
secure a sample of flour to test
its fineness. By some error his
hand came in contact with two
rolls that drew in Inc hand and
flattened it out. On being releas-
ed, he was brought home and Dr.
H. H. Ross decided to 'amputate
the hand,
Sometime about two o'clock, Joe
Carter and the writer and his
father met on the street. The
writhey were takinather informed
Oliver's hanus d that
in oheof the upstair bedrooms of
his home and that it was quite
permissable for us to go over and
watch the surgeons. He said he
had just come from there: Over
we went, and went upstairs quiet-
ly. In the southeast bedroom they
had Oliver on his back on a table
with his hand already removed.
The 'doctor from. Blyth Was as-
sisting Dr. Ross. Both of them
had aprons on but wote no masks
or rubber gloves. There were no
pretty nurses in nice white uni-
forms. The main part of the op-
eration now seemed to be to trim
off part bones that formed the
elbow joint. Dr. Ross took a pair
of bone forceps or clippers, put it
on the protruding part and it
took the two of them to put en-
ough energy on the handles to cut
it off. By this time Oliver made a
queer noise which we thought was
a groan. I guess he was having a
little difficulty with his breathing.
Dr. Ross said, after they got the
piece of bone off, "I guess we had
better take a half a day off and
sharpen these things," We thought
i'
t was
quite a casual
remark to
make
when
poor Oliver was in so
Much pain. We had had enough,
and soon got out. Oliver was soon
well and wearing an artificial arm.
DROP IN FROM SKY
TO
HELP
WITH
HAYING
Not many farmers have help
drop from the skies to give them
a hand.
That is
what happened at
P
the James
S.
Armstrong's s
fa
g sur
when his son Jim and two of his
air -minded friends landed on the
Armstrong farm 'after flying from
Sky Harbour, Goderich, They
were Eugene Lutz' and Robert
Glavish, instructors in radio at
the f1ewRCAF iti a StationeClinton.it which
Mr.' Lutz owns and keeps at Sky
Harbour Airport,—Brussels Post.
f
1
Holds the set longer
than any other
permanent.
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