HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Citizens News, 1970-01-22, Page 3THURSDAY, JANUARY 22, '1070
ZURICH CITIZENS NEWS. PAGE THREE
ST. JOSEPH and DRYSDALE
(ALFRED DUCHARME, Correspondent)
The past weekend at yours
truly and Mrs. Ducharme's
home were visitors from Wind-
sor, Mr. and Mrs. Cyril Duch-
arme in company with Mr.
Nelson Papineau. They return-
ed to their home on Sunday,
after their visit to Mrs. Duchar-
me who has been confined to
her room and bed for several
weeks. Also at the Ducharme
home from Grosse Pointe, Mich.
was Mr. and Mrs. Ty Stansberry,
the latter being a daughter to
the Ducharmes, who will help
to care for her mother. Mr. and
Mrs. Jerry Hartman and son of
London also were callers.
Sister Roselle Ducharme who
has helped to care for Mrs. Du-
charme left on Sunday last for
Tecumseh, in the Urseline Con-
vent. She will be absent for
sometime.
Not much let up in snow
flakes coming down, so the
month of January may continue
to its end.
In the 1850 decade they built
their homes, they cleared some
land, cutting down large trees
to make way for croping purposes
Their crops at that tune were
mostly Buck -wheat. Of course
anyone who had more than five
acres were considered fairly
large farmers. Buck -wheat crops
were cut with a hand operated
instrument called a sickel and
then bound into stooks and when
dry was placed on hard ground
and flailed. That too was a
hand -made instrument with two
well smoothed sticks, one larger
than the other and put together
with the short one attached to
the longer one, and when swing-
ing it in the air or above your
head the short one would loosen,
pounding the grain until all was
loose and away from the stock.
Theythen hadtowait for a
windy day to clean the grain by
flooping it in the air. This
thrashing operation was slow.
After they had bought their
small their small and larger
farms, the first for them to do
was to build their log houses.
Even though some had large
families, they built only small
houses. This task was accompl-
ished by helping one another in
bees. There was nothing fancy
about their homes, but at that
time they could not go above
their financial means and that
was small. The first and sec-
ond year was hard for them for
notet had they any land clear-
ed for croping. They spent
much time in the winter fishing
which helped them through the
winter months and in the sum-
mer most of the settlers had
lime kilns, Burning lime stone,
a kiln when well filled would
burn about twenty bushels of
lime and the time it took to
burn' a kiln was about nine days
and nights, and when finished
they had ready buyers comin
from the front concessions bring-
ing them about nine cents a
bushel and that mostly in trade.
In our last comment on the
early settlers of this parish, if
they were not the inventors of
the afore said smoking process
and also, the freezing one of
today they did good to human-
ity. The sore part of it they
cannot collect any bounty for
it but at least they are worthy
of a pat on the back. After
living in almost starvation
for four years along the lake,
the change of time, their new
ideas and in the year of 1850
when they thought all was lost
that decade meant the begin-
ning of prosperity for them.
There was much hard work
ahead of them but being cour-
ageous, they bought land from
the Canada Company, parcels of
twelve acres, twenty acres,
thirty, fifty acres and the odd
ones bought ahundred acres.
They were the lucky ones and
after their plot was cleared and
paid they were considered rich
people.
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