Lucknow Sentinel, 1910-08-11, Page 7aeart
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LUCKNO tis• BRASS BAND
JOSEPH LITTLE.
Herewith is presented a picture of the
oldest man in Lucknow. Mr. Joseph
Little was born in the county of Armagh,
Ireland, nearly ninety years ago' Com-
ing to Canada with his parents at an
early age, he learned his trade as a shoe-
maker with his brother in Port Hope ;
and in 1869, removed to Lucknow and
commenced business in that line. After
a number of years the business was
transferred to his two sons, John and
William, of whom the latter is now, and •
has been for twenty years, proprietor.
Mr. Little bears in a remarkable
manner his burden of years. At the
Reunion that has just been held, he had
home with him a Great Grand Daughter,
Miss Luverne Powlison, seven years of
age, from Wheatland, North Dakota.
IL. D. CAMERON
What shall 'we say, other than
what has been often said, concerning
this man of silvery eloquerrcel We
have our local Sheridan, our local
Rufus Choate;—here surely is our
Roman Cicero.
Mr. R. D. Cameron, merchant,
orator, man of influence and ability
along many lines, was born in 1857
in`the County of Huron, the eldest
son of Alexander and Grace (Ander-
son) Cameron. Leaving the farm at
an early age, he entered Owen Sound
.academy and Toronta'Normal School,
and, qualifying for a certificate, taught
school for eight years. In 1895 he
commenced business as a merchant at
Belfast, .where he remained for three
years. In 1888 he formed a partner-
ship with Mr. J. G. Murdoch, and
together they opened up a Dry Goods
store in Lucknow. In 1896 this
partnership was dissolved: Mr. Cam-
eron withdrew and resumed' business
on his own account. This arrange-
ment .continued until 1906, in which
year the partnership now in effect
between himself and Mr. D. R. Mac
IT
Intosh was entered into. In the
matter of mere business chronology
no other fact need be mentioned
here.
But Mr. Cameron, as already in-
timated, is not a merchant only.
His surpassing platform abilities have
won for him many arid enviable honors
along other lines. He wigs, for a
number of years, intimatelyconnected
with the Independent Order of For-
esters being, in 1905 elected High Chief
Ranger—a position which requires
executive and forensic ability of a
high order. An ardent liberal in
politics, he has been a power in many
election campaigns• In tI a summer
of the present year he received an
appointment which is, in certain re-
spects, the crown and compliment. of
his career—that of lecturer on Govern-
ment Annuities, with western On-
tario for his field. In a more local
connection he takes a leading part
in Church and social matters; being
a member of the Presbyterian Church,
and, in the other connection, greatly
in request as chairman or speaker at
public gatherings.
SIR. R. IJ: CAMERON'S RESIDENCE
Lucknow's Business Men
THOMAS REID.
The b tkery and•confeetionery busi
nes, of Thomas Raid was established
nearly thirty-five yeareaago. Himself
a native of Irelan 1, Mr. R aa. on his.
first !cleating in Lucknow, worked for
a number of years with Mr. Neil
Smith. Afterwards he purchased _ tF-e
business of his •ernplover; and there, in
the same old:. place, Supplying • the
"staff of life' to some of the,sai,me old
customers and many new ones, •we find
him at the present day.• • A limited -
history, this, you may say: lTrue; but
it is precisely •these establishments of
long standing and few changes that
are the land -marks of the town and
the demonstrators of their own stabil-
ity.
W. 'L. MACIENZIE.
With feelings of peculiar pleasure
we write the name of William Lyon
MacKenzie. In the ordering of Pro-
vidence, that name was cut too short:
they should have added `King'. But
we pardon the deficiency now; for,
personally, he is a `prince' of rod fel-
lows, and, in a business way, he is
one of the shrewdest and yet most
liberal-rninded hen in Lucknow.
Besides the curtailment of his name,
one other thing William Lyon Mac-
Kenzie could not he p: he could not
help, being a medicine man. He was
born that way. His play house in
iufai,cy wa:: a minature drug store,
and his favorite play toys were axe
saws, and all things else in the like
ness of surgical tools. His first order
for drugs (and he has taken thousands
�teuLawas solicitetd aata4Lay
isurdoek r4ots and tried to sell ti u
in a Lucknow drug store, That order
was never hooked.
To such a youth, we may presume,
a farm was too limited a field; and we
find him at an early age departed
from his old home in Ashfield and
working in the laboratories of a whole-
sale drug house in Toronto. He went
through various degrees of progress
there, amassing a large fund of infor-
mation, and eventually becoming
traveller for the firm. That p nition
he held for.five years. Then he sud-
denly resigned one day to put a
medicine'of his own on the market—
he had perfected a formula that was
worthy of such confidence.
Hence we find him established in
Lucknow—the first Proprietory medi-
cine house in this village, or in any
other village for miles around. The
medicine he had to offer was a COM-
BINATION PILL for the Blood and
Kidneys. Since then he has sold
thousands of boxes of t'rem; he has
increased his line of medicines to the
number of nearly a dozen; his busi-
ness is rapidly extending; and in all
probability it will not be long before
all Ontario will be included in his
field of trade.
J.' E. AGNEW.
Clerk of the village df Lucknow.
Mr. Agnew is well known to residents
of Lucknow and vicinity in several
capacities, being manager of the Joynt
Shoe store, a Conveyancer, a Commis-
sioner in the High Court of Justice, a
Notarary Public, and representative of
several well-known insurance Companies.
R. V. MA
To bake good b
humanity. Viand
Christian phi lent
ICFNZIE
ea l is to benefit
for ns of s:, -called
Ty have Tess to
recommend them than this.
The bakery buscess now being
conducted by Bober: 'tlachenz r wa:
purchased by hiar- hiee wars ago
front Arius \l;acey lungs
he had beeenle iillnwn in Luck -
ow thron:;lt an. c i, a,; e::.;•••' connec-
tion, as clerk, an'lor in
the lard>'arr 1> iia -, I- business
!Ow is an exte'd; e dust°,`' d under
the capable b ag of the present
man in charge, r 11.` McKay, is
growing in po y sty.
I.
Not great
principles o
hich •. is
OFA
bu
aCr•1
here - twc n ,
in partnership; fir
later with John Elliott, and again with
Mr. B. McClure; and eleven years alone.
in his present stand. Personally a man
whom to know is to respect, -he has
made and retained a circle -of friends
and customers such as few men in a
similiar position ave.
n the
sailing
mess
•r� "1,,rlktisluess
yells,— ten.. years
aatji his brother,
JAMES LYON.
An ex -Reeve of Luckanv; member
of the Lucknow School 3oard ; and
recently appointed one of le valuators
for Bruce County. The stendid resi-
dence and farm'property Mr. Lyons
in Lucknow have been ofte remarked.
ALEX. ROS'
In the records of buses houses
may sometimes be found ets of more
than passing interest..The first
Marshal and Constable tit the Cale-
donian Society ever had : Lucknow
was the man concerning aom this is
written. -
Forty seven years ago st March,
Alex Ress''eatne to Lunow. He
came here from Smith'sflill near
Goderich, - an earlier reaval being
from the Town of Galt wre he was
born sixty-two years ago. kfter his
arrival he • carried the rvernment
mail for two years • betweehere and
the "Black Horse", now Moss P. O.
Later he commenced \tic at his
present trade of harm making,
with R. Proctor, and reined with
him until 1877, in whi year • he
took over the business. ithful as
any servant to a mast( he has
been at the work -bench ever since;
a nard-working, genial, popular man
known to everyone who pretends to
any •acgcaintance with the business
men or the members of the Fu, esters,
the Workmen, or the 0 Idfellows, in
Lucknow.
MUItDIE & SUTHERLAND.
Among the younger business men
of Lucknow, William Mtn die an -1
John Sutherland have ;attaine:I i
five years to al pesitiou of more that.
passing importance.
Both gentlemen cnrnc' originally
f cm Seaforth, their home ala i
place -11r. Murdie in 1905, in which
WM.zMURD1E.
year he purchased the present Hard-
ware business from Mr. D. C. Taylor,
and Mr. Sutherland one year later.
In Seaforth Mr. Murdie has been en-
gaged in the Hard are business, and
Mr. Sutherland's experience was gain-
ed in a large hardware store in De-
troit.
JOHN SUTHERLAND -
By pleasing personal manners, by
enterprise and close attentiol, to busi-
ness, the firm of Murdie and Suther-
land has grown '-and prospered, and
their store is one of the most com-
plete hardware establishments of its
size in the county.
J. G. ANDERSON.
To be, for one year, the largest ex-
porter of apples in the Dominion of
Canada, and to be for a number of years
one of the largest, is the record estab-
lished by Mr. J. G. Anderson.
Mr. Anderson is one of the best known
business men in Lucknow. Success in
no ordinary degree has attended his
efforts. Born near Dungannon forty-
four years ago, he lived and labored on
a farm until twenty-nine years of age.
In 1895 he removed to Lucknow, and
entered into the Apple export trade,
which, in the midst of risks and dis-
couragements which seem peculiarily
common to the business, he has develo-
ped to its present large proportions.
-'-One year a Council -elan and three
years Reeve of Lucknow, is Mr. Ander-
son's municipal .record, In the latter
capacity, he performed a work of no in-
considerable importance to the villiage :
he was instrumental in persuading the
Lucknow Furniture Co. to continue
operations at a time when Lucknow was
likely to lose this, its leading industry.
Mr. Anderson ir, a member of the
Methodist Church. In politics he is a
man of sane and liberal views, with an
extent of information that few men
possess.
REEVE JOYNT
In the career cf the present Chief
Magistrate of *he village of Lucknow,
one fact stands prominently out: he is
an Irishman. An Irishman in wit,
an Irishman in wisdom, a loyal, true
blooded son of the Emerald Isle, with
all that such implies in the life and
character of a man.
John Joyot was horn in the county
of Mayo, Ireland, in 1856. In 1857
his parents, with their family, emi-
grated to Canada, and took up resi
dente in the township of GVhithy and
Darlington. Nineteen years later
they removed to the township of West
1•Vawanosh, torose,;; up by way of
Goderich and settling at St. Helens.
1t:Ul way faeiiities in those days were
mire limited than now: transportation
to St. Helens was effected by team
and wagon.
Until twenty years. of age, the sub-
`roffie TM-tre'e 1211 ';
father was engaged in the manufac-
ture of Potash; and the son, when he
went forth r n his own responsibility)
commenced the . Wood -Ash business
in a small way. Wonderful changes
and wonderful success have followed
that 'venture. ' Twenty seven years
ago, John Joynt was his own teamster
and collector of ashes; now he has
over one hundred men and teams so
engaged in Karious-parts of the pro-
vince. Tweilty•seven years ago, he
was his own manager, stenographer
and office assistant, using only plain
pens and paper for the w riting of let -
tors; now he has a manager, a Steno-
grapher, two type -writers, with a- cor-
respondence that sometimes runs into
one hundred thocsand letters annual-
ly. Twenty-seven years ago, when a
journey was made between Goderich
and T.ucknow, he' came in a .,tage-
coach driven by Jocic Adams; in June
of the i resent year, Jock Adams rode,
to Goderich and back again in a
special train chartered by John Joynt
A catalogue of business interests,
if indicat've of growth and develop-
ment from small beginnings, is not
uninteresting. It is still more inter-
esting if that growth and development
has occurred along lines cf Manliness
and business integrity. Hence it
may be said that besides the exporta-
tion of woad ashes Mr. Joynt is also JOSEPH GRENACHE
engaged in the evaporating and ex- For thirty-five years a shoemaker
Lucknow.
porting of apples, having evaporating
plants in Lucknow and Walkerton;
and is proprietor of 'Mayfield' Farm,
at St. Helens, a property containing
four hundred and fifty acres, where
its owner repairs at times to enjoy in
agricultural pursuits, change and re-
laxation from the cares of business.
Further reference to John Joynt in
a biographical •.vay, would necessitate
a reference to his municipal activities.
He has been, since the beginning of
1909, Reeve of the village. In that
capacity, with its consequent conn -c -
tion With the County Council of Bruce,
the was instrumental in bringing to
pass an event unique in municipal
history • the holding of the June ses-
sl,n. of the County Council in Luck -
now. That session was a memorable ,
ene, not merely as a seis�ion or b..cause
held in Luckro L , but becaus 1 of two
eveilks inside tyt;yLt`--tl
the ,nesting of hree County Councils
in lxod
erich. a th latter occasron,,f,;
the members „of the Bruce County
Council and residents of Lucknow be-
came the guests of Mr. and MIS.
Joynt, and journeyed to and from the ;;,
County town of Huron in a train
sheciallychartered by their host for
the occasion. -
Mr. Joynt, feeling the time drawing
near when he would wish to be reliev-
ed of some responsibilities, has dele-
gated in large measure the oversight
of his affairs to his son-in-law, M r.
Robert Johnston, whose picture ap-
pears in another column.
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