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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1937-01-21, Page 3?1HUR:SPAY, JANUARY 21, 1937. THE SEAFORTH . NEWS PAGE THREE, ''‘/Cilliof FE YOUR uRNACII�/M!AN Imo`OW-MFiilrM l nails CORE (5 L so aHT'' Trust this youngster to see the difference, He's strong enough to lift a heaping shovel of Hamco Coke—and he doesn't mind taking out the ashes because they are so few, And "mummy" likes the extra heat in every room —and the quick way Harsco responds on zero mornings. And she's glad she can save money for other necessities by paying less for fuel. Make your work and your bills lighter this winter by choosing Hamco Coke. REMEIM1BER-- e0KQ will haat ryoat hum¢ at a lower eodt than othet haul aja¢1.1. tt-se HAMILTON BY-PRODUCT COKE OVENS, LIMITED—HAMILTON; CANADA HAMCO COKE sold in Seaforth by: WM, AMENT N. CLUFF & SON ERNEST L. BOX JOHN J. SCLATER Vicks Pussy Willows— Strange as it may seen: for this titre of the year pussy willows were picked ray the son of \I r. and \Irv, I3, Stich on 'Tuesday. ,lan. 1112th, They \Ware to be seen at the library that (Vetting where they were used for de- coration far the 1\'. 1, card party. It is odd indeed to see these "harbingers of spring" at this season of the year,— Brussels Post. Winter Brooding of Chicks The ,poultryman with proper equip- ment can handle chi'ks in mid -winter with as little mortality as with April chicks. 'He may• not get as high per- centage hatch as later on, but even the hatch -ability tri eggs is being -con- trolled by the feed. 'January chick; will Cost more as -eggs are higher priced to start with. 'Then it will take more fuel than -with spring 'brooding: lint there is more time for looking after the chicks: there may be less cli cease and mortality: broilers will catch a high market and pullets should be lay- ing in the full or even in -late summer when egg prices are at their peak. Of corse, if many started hatching all their chicks in ,1annnry the higher prices for broilers and egg: woad be wiped ant, and •chicks hatched at sante other -season would find the best market. Brooder houses unsuited for mei:longed zero •weather and the 'high- er price for chicks will limit the nrnt- ber,going in for January chicks. Nev ertheless there chotrld he goad returns for -the few who do, and they can pro- long the use of their equipment, as those who have 'January chicks usual- ly have another batch in the spring so as to have pullets enuring into pro- duction at different seasons. ,laniiary chicks will go on to mange early in the season, or they may be raised in- doors until ready for the laying pen, Little Tianmie: "Say, mother. how ranch am I worth?" \I other: "\\''hy, you're worth a million dollars to -me, Jimmie," ,lianntie: "canot you advance me a dime on hl, mother?" Want and For Sale ads., 3 times, 50c, I SERIOUS RIOT AT THE GUELPH REFORMATORY prom the riot -ridden Ontario re- f.,rniatnry at Guelph police hurried early' -Monday to round up nearly- two score prisoners which were still inose after a night of wild ctislt -baste in which convicts fired bedding and wrecked the interior of the big. gray - walled institution. Not since• the Kingston I'et itentitu'y outbreak in i)-ctn'ber. 11 )312, has at riot Hared so ominously behind the walls of any nail institution in the province. Nearly all of the 701) convicts hous- ed in the reformatory broke loose in Bounce demonstration: that lasted raid-aiternonn till 10 o'clock Ile• •fore it was c1 ictorl• .•guard and po- i.e called from u'e)�t.: ride,, \Cittrl- ow-, were smashed no ap smoke rolled :rom the reformatory into a dreary, r,.ainr night as the cocculins prison - bent on destructi,*1, milled about clorin Tories. Score, nimbly scaled r,,ofs and scurried away in the dark- ness. ;tot one time 1t was reported as :natty as 150 were missing. Inside the milling's. the rioting went .on, un- ncoeked 'for hours. 'Fables and bens c re wrecked anal pieces of the brok fmmittire wielded as chips by the 'ren'ied mots, The rioters surged through dormitariet, •chapel, library, kitchen, hospital and recreation rnohn. I:limit:ire was smashed to kindling. \latches were set to bed clothing and mattresses and flaming masses were t t'sed throtigh the 'broken windows. Library hook: wore .piled on the flotdr andnl burned, !Pieces of tables and ihtirs were ied to .the flames. 'drat ;mild lie .ecu 'by hundreds of watch- er. gathered outside. \lore than a Imam fires blazed at one time, witlh dances shooting from winditws of both wings of the main building.. The prisoners could be seen ttash.ing about like dervishes, shooting an de- rision tat guards and. police. There were no serious injuries itt .the brief clashes between officials and rioters. Sergeant A. T. •\laguire, chief cus- todian t;f'ticer, was reported to have been .mohhed by 40- prisoners. Ht suffered a severe cut when sta'nek over the head and \vas knocked tan- conscious 'hut returned to cIaty short- l' afterward, 1'rovincial Cnnstahlt 1<. '1', Kehler was struck with a baseball bat but was not seriously hart. Ont convict suffered a fractured ankle when he junpecl Troon a kitchen motif in 'attempting to escape. Some -pris- oilers were reported 'to have suffered minor bruises during the clashes. 1)thers were Overco,nte by smoke fronts the Conrirt-set fires. '.n few tear -.,gas bombs trere tossed by police be- fore the disturbance dinally was quell- ed and. the prisoners herded into cells. •1)atnage to the institution was placed trnonficially as 'high as .(2(10, - 'lilt Al the height of -tlte disturbance •113 influenza patienfs in the reformat- ory hospital were, taken to safety when stnolcc and 'flames threatened them with suffocation, (Firemen from Guelph were enlled and aen•t inns of water .streaming' into the buildings. They said if the building had not been Of high lire -resisting constric- tion many lives would have been Books are Well Made, Carbon is Clean and Copies Readily. All styles, Carbon Leaf and Black Back. Prices as Low as You Can Get Anywhere. Get aur Quotation on Your Next Order. The Seaforth SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, Inst. The 75 ;_cards of the institution, the full complement. carried no arms, the ,usual practice. Police had guns and truncheons 'batt did not Ilse them; -Niter .the uproar died down annoy of the prisoners talkitI freely, kecp- ing a wary rye on. ,wards. They, said the trouble arose ager pour quality of food and because they were not al- lowed delivery of parcels at Christ- ina;. ('. F. Neefands, deputy provtnc• ia1 secretary, caller) 'from Toronto at the firs' outbreak of trouble denied that dissatisfaction, with quality of food cancel disorder. elle called the disturbance an outbreak of -youthful exuberance.,, \lane of the escaped prisoners erre caiit-ed on the reformatory ground- and in the city of Guelph it mile away. :Some were drunk. who) taught. Two antnmohiles were re- ported stolen in. 4;nelpb during Si n- tlay night. I'wo imitates were picked up. ;dons the raih•ootd tracks in Guelph wait- ing (or a train. Others were caught by police patrolling the countryside on foot call in motor cars. A GLIMPSE AT • NORWAY HOUSE •I'Ite old F ir-posts of the West, sug'uu.R, in thein' very mmnes, chapters fu Cainadian history. 'Think of Port Chippecc:vten, and itu•)1ediately one's mind is back With .Alexati ler Mack- enzie, preparing 'for his trip across the Rockies, when he sought the \\astern Sea. Pith Garry takes ,me thong/its to the st.te of 1Vtnnipeg as it was hong 'before ,the Deputy ernor left h1 name to be given to the new fort, a•nd the .same might he said of the Peace River forts, or those on Hodson Bay, or the 'Saskatchewan. Norway Hoose was a .place of im- portance in its day, even. if its hist- ory does nut stretelt bark as fag' its some of the others. lis hey -day was dnrittg that long period when Sir t eorgc 5fnt,psnu ruled the west, --hr. --tiveen est,--hr- -tween 11is?tl and hitillt and it served the same intrpose that Fort William had done 'before the union- of the North \\'est Company with the 'Hod - son's Bay Company. It was not only the half -way house for goods on their way to and •from the sea. but - .the Mace where the. )bourgeoisie held their great councils. 'Writing in the diary which - has since beconu• famcnt:. Nicholas Garry said on the tenth of .\ moist, 1E31: "Norway 'louse is an establiithnten1 situated at the norlh-east end of the lake and is so called 'irrmt its having been built by the Norwegians. 14. situation is very line: some line tim- ber and about fuer acres of land in cultivation wlhicii produces exeel)em itheat, potatoes, etc." :The Norwegians n1tt tiancd. were recruits brought out by the Com - pally." to enter the Hudson's Ray Company's service, ,The latest Gnv- emiient map of the locality shows the old site of Norway House as be- ing, on \Fussy :Point, just where the mighty waters of Dake \Vinnipeg contract to enter Nelson River by way of Playgrecn Lake. It was there when Nicholas Garry visited this country. Tit his diary Ire writes: "Sunday- .\:gust 112, 11.121, --Nit'. \\'est performed divine service. \dar- ned 1I r, Kennedy's daughter to Mr. pisco•, "'ton -lacy, the It•lth. Peter pillet nat•ecl," l'.ri,t• tdevrrrnrl \ir. \\'est was the -hist Protestant clerfiynr,ut in \\`est - Canada. Ile cats sent out in 1594 1: .rd r.•ikirk, to minister to the •c tiler. in the Red River Colony. Peter hider was a fttnious su•rcecor Alto arrived in the West in 17-43, and ,vas one of the ,original sureeyars of :''.ie Red River settlement. The year ,after ire met Barry at Norway Hoose m• died there. \I r. Fidler ryas evidently' ntanrird u:rre dont nowt for lie ir'it four .ons girl ,t err curious will. :\ few Acre paid, •raid, and all his note -hooks aryl Journals given 't, the H•ndson's PosyConrrtny: C\iter that, his will directed that when his youngest son hee•ante of age, the 'balance of his es - oto, ,vets to he placed in the public funds and allowed to accumAtte tin - t:1 toot hundred years. from the rla'te of his o,rn birth. Then the whole -11:11 was to be given to t!he heir of .his youngest son Peter. That will he in 1%9. The Norway Hacnse where Deputy • invc•rnor Garry wa. welcomed in - 1821, n18'1)1, was burned down in a few years, and as the fishery of the fort - had been at a pot -farther north, it was derid- ed that .the new establishment should be erected adhere. Mr, Robert \\'arson• the weal -know", Canadian writer who is no's in. Hollywood .malting a name for himself in the production fo fam- ous i ieture lived at Norway L-Touse some years ago, and he. •de chihed its prose tt situation a being on what is kio wl, lorali• as Ross Island. On the i-iciovertanenl map •it is called Fort Ts- 11lata. •i'_c,-rlia,0 to the .came authority, the 'roe name for th'e Hruse is Kee- ' 1ntu aq.••yn Seepee, and means Fish 1Rivor,. The waters about the post are sometimes referred to as "Jack River" but Jack !Fish River is in a afferent place. The whole island on which the post is built comprises seven hundred and seventy-five acres. 'Ittowns also nuc .seventy-five acres across the narrow river where .1111y_t-reen cent- etery is located. Chief Factor Pruden began the er- ection of the new esteblis'hment in IIS?Ki and John :McLeod, Itis son-in- law Finished it in 18125• That year Sir :George Siunps:on made a tour of in spection of the place, and field .there the annual meeting of the ;Northwest council, hr post called Norway House was as large as an ordinary village and en- closed in a picket palisade 1115 feet high forming a ,quare •150 yards on each side, with a gate an the water and at the rent. inside were two large -tures or warehouses each '60 feet long, on each side of the train gate. In the middle of the square was the main row of balding.. 200 feet in length comprising the Chief Factor's residence, . ti htr11 50' feet long for the great general sonnei'. and a number of spare rousts far the gentlemen of the council, A special house was as- signed to the (Governor. tAnother building housed the clerks. 'The kitch- en was a huge affair as it well needed to be where, on the average, 200 mouths had to he filled. Other build. in;gs were offices and workshops. A quarter of a mile in the rear were the nu•n's Houses, two long strairtures div- ided into tenements. Boat building was a stain industry and the shop for the purpose was the busiest corner of thio village or fort. lu the neighbor - 'mod was a birch sugary. 'There the slquaws tapped the birches and from. the sap made a very palatable syrup. They feasted well at Norway House on sturgeon royal, weighing a hun- dred pounds, pike, whitefish, and the buffalo pennntican of the plains. The crews of the sailing crafts that carried supplies to and front the Red River wintered at Norway Nouse, and both that place and York 'Factory pro- vided brigades, principally Swampy C'rees, for the freighting between these two places. 1•latty visitors to the place left their ' impressions in writing, among them the fantotts writer o'f boys' stories, R. M. Bablantytte "On the left of the 'building," he wrote in 1141, "extends a flat grassy park or green, upon which, during the summer months there is often a'pic- turesque and interesting scene. Spread out to dry in the stat may be seen the snowy tent of the chief factor, lately arrived. A little farther off, on a ris- ing .ground, is-ing'.ground, stands a dark and: almost imperceptible wigwam, the small wreath. of white smoke issuing 'from the top proving that it is inhabited. On the river hank three or 'four boats and a North canoe are hauled up; and just above them a number of sun - "burned voyageurs and a 'few- Indians amuse themselves with various .games, or recline ,upon the grass, basking in the sunshine. Behind the fort stretches the thick forest, its outline brnlden here and there by cuttings of :fire- wood or ,small clearings for farming. "'From the rocks on which the flag- staff stands, we had a fine view' of Playgreen Lake. There was nothing striking or hold in the scene, the country being low and swamity, and no hills rose on the horizon or cast their shadows on the lake: but it was pleasing atiel tranquil and enlivened by one or two boats sailing on the water," 'The fur -trailers of outer clays used to cult ict-ate tine gardens, and when Robert \\'ats,m was there several years ago, he enjoyed eating floe red currants 'front bushes planted a cent - try ata by Chief Faetur i)onalit ,Ross, Mr. \Vtttsatt qu+''te.s from the fort journal of Octoitcr, 1830: "Thnr'ri ic, '111th --!tot the last of our potatoes taken up . , , Three hundred and sixty kegs of eight gal. Ions from fifteen 'kegs planted in spring..,., equal to twenty-four fold return," John n1cLcan, author of "-Twenty live Year: Service in the .H,ttdsnn's Bac 'Territory," was at Norway House in June of that year, He arrived ,on the twent7-llitli, and these were his tlnitressinus: "I found myself at breakfast with a number of chief factors and chief traders, just arrived from their respec- tive district., and on their wtty with their valuable returns to York Fact- ory, Captain Back wasalso here, hav- ing sent his sten and baggage in a light canoe, after having forwarded cis despatches to '.Europe, "The clay after my arrival, I was notified by one ,of the oiificials, that it was arranged that rl should pass the summer here, ;giving such assistance to the gentlemen in charge as might be required of rte; and that my fut- ure de ti•nation should be determined . aipon at \ onk Factory. 1 now passed my Utile very agreeably, having just enough employment in the day -time to keep off ennui, and the eonnpa:ny of several getttllenlen, ,and what I thought still better, that of t fair coun- trywoman, in the evening. I was grat- ified to find that there existed here a (Continued' on Page Seven)