The Seaforth News, 1930-08-07, Page 4GE"l0'O1JIR'
THE SEAFORTH NEWS.
THURSDAY, AUGUST • 7, 1930,
:THE SEAFORTH NEWS
Snowdon 'Bros„ Publishers.
WALTON.
Miss A, Love of Toronto is spend-.
:ting two weeks at her home here.
Mrs, H. Sohier and family of Sim -
recce are visiting with Mr. and Mrs. A.
.`;Sohier.
Mrs. Jenny Clarke spent the week
-wend at Bluevale.
Mr. and Mrs. Curley and Miss Amy
'Love of Toronto are spending their
"holidays with their parents, Mr. and
'Mrs. Joe Love.
Dr. MdRae of Brussels took little
scan Farquharson to Listowel on
Monday 'for an operation for appen-
,rlucitis and abscess. She is getting
.along nicely since the operation, Mr.
and Mrs. Farquharson accompanied
-them and Mrs. Farquharson remained
served by a dumber of the bride's l'
cousins, Misses Elva and Agnes Metz
and George IVIetz of New Hamburg;
Miss Vera Gardiner, Albert Clark,
James O1ark, Wesley Clark, all. of
Walton; assisted by Miss Lois E.
Naylor of Roohester, N.Y., Miss Fan.-
ny Ross,. Miss Lottie Champion of
Brussels, Miss Anna Stewart of Wel-
ton,
al
ton Walter01x1 of, West Monkton
and Alexander Clark of Walton. Fol-
lowing luncheon the guests gathered
on the spaciouslawn and Rev. Dr. D.
B, Marsh .,acted..-. as toastmaster.Photographs of the bridal couple and
of the wedding guests were taken.
Later Mr. and Mrs, Gill left for Mus-
koka, the bride travelling in a dahlia,
blue silk crepe dress with accessories
to match. On their return they will
reside on 'pHickory Lane Farm;', Mc-
Killop. Among the guests were Mrs.
Goodrich, of Saginaw; Dr. Joint A.
Gardner, wife and family, Chicago;
Mrs. J. W Mosvhray, Detroit; Dr.
-.Ior a few days and Mrs Marsh, Norwich; Rev. W.
Gardiner, London Dr, and ;ViTs.
Gemmell, Stratford, Mt. and Mrs, Ar-
thur Gardiner and Mrs. James Gard -
Inter Sr., Exeter; Mr. David Gardiner,
Miss Ethel Dennis of McKillop'Killop has Gardiner, ner Thedford• Mr. and Mrs, P.
gone on a trip to the West,
Mr. and Mra, R. G. Parke of Sea-
eiorbh visited friend's at Walton on
'Sunday.
A party of six, Mr, and Mrs, jos. Cromarty. The bride was the recto -
',Bennett and their daughters, Mrs, fent of beautiful pieces of silverware,
Watson: London, and Mrs. Jos. Dav- cut glass and other handsome ` and
,•idsion, Mr. Davidson and son Murray,
..`London, and Mr. Rogers of Saskatoon
',who spent two weeks at a summer
a:cmttage at Limns Head, returned home
".Saturday evening.
Miss Muriel Farquharson of Gode
---rich is' spending a Few days at the girls, who ar-
r!tome of, her parents. Bend, by the following
Mr. and Mrs. Ivy Henderson of rived home last Friday: Misses Mae
McKillop visited friends in Walton Aberhart, London; Florence and
on Sunday. Mary Beattie, London; Blanche
h�a tle Annie and Cora Strong
end and lire. Hugh Fulton are'Wheatley, n Carolyn Oke
•spending a few days this weeik with Louise and Betty Mills,_ y
Mr, and Mrs, D. Crawford in Mc- and Danalda Adams.
Kill
useful gilts, as well as several substan-
tial cheques: A. reception for the
young couple was held at their home
upon their arrival, Wednesday even-
ing, August 6th.
A most delightful week was spent
a't "Squirrel Haven" Cottage, Grand
op.
Miss Linnie Fulton returned to her
some in Toronto on Monday after a
wo weeks' visit at the home of Mr,
• and Mrs, John Balfour, MCKillop,
The new bridge at Bethel church
has been completed end isnow open
for traffic. Two new wide cement
bridges have just been finished on the
' .9th line Morris which connects Wal-
ton and Blyth, now making an ex-
cellent county road. This road will
'he dropped from the county road sys-
tem at the end of this year and will
• be replaced by the .McKillop -Morris
boundary, hall a mile south of it,
which is in a straight line with the
through road now under construction.
Gill -Clark.• -A happy event took
-place Wednesday afternoon, July 30,
at three o'clock at `Hickory Lane
Farm,' Walton, when Janet, only
laughter of Mr. and Mrs. William G.
'.:_dark, WAS united in marriage to Fran -
is A. Gill. fourth son of Mr, and Mrs.
Z. E. Gill of West Monkton, The
ceremony was performed by Rev. Dr.
D. B. Marsh of Norwich, uncle of the
bride. Rev, Dr. Marsh also married
- the bride's parents twenty-seven years
ago. The house wa.s artistically dec-
-'rated with roses, snapdragon, baby's
.swath, .ferns and palms for the occa-
'-ion. The wedding music was played
by Miss Vera Gardiner, cousin of the
bride. The bride, who was given in
• marriage by her Father, looked win-
- some in her gown of white georgette
over satin, Fashioned on new Iines
•.'a*ith closely fitted waist and was ankle
tcngth. It was trimmed with rose
,hint lace and brilliants. She also
wore shoes of white satin. Her veil
of embroidered tulle caught in cap ef-
• fect with orange blossoms. She car-
ried e bouquet of Sweetheart roses
and baby's breath. After the cere-
•.•nony a dainty buffet puncheon was
BLYTH.
Threshing Coale—Reduced price for
soft coal off car that arrived Augus
6th. Call H. McELROY, Coal Dealer
Blyth, phone 129, 32
Miss Cleta Watson spent Thursday
with her aunt and uncle, lir, and Mrs
Geo, Potter.
Messrs, John and Cliff Yeo were
Mitchell visitors one day last week.
Miss Ruth Yeo is visiting with bar
cousins, Mr. and Mrs, Amos Smith
of Listowel.
Death of Mr. A. B. Carr.—There
passed away on Sunday evening in his
84th year, a very well known and
highly esteemed- resident of Blyth
Mr. A. B. Carr, who tools seriously
ill two or three weeks ago. Mr. Carr
passed away at his home on Dursley
street shortly after seven o'clock on
Sunday evening. Several weeks ago
Mr. Carr was taken suddenly ill with
what was believed to be a paralytic
stroke and complications developed.
Mr. Carr lived in Blyth for many
years. coming here from IWestfield.
Soon afterwards his wife, formerly
Miss Hoare, died and he was later
m.arrfed to lire. Wilford of Blyth,
who survives him. When deceased
t rst eante to Blyth he lived on the hit
at the north end of Queen street, and
kept bees there. Besides his widow,
he is survived by one son, Frank Carr
of Ingersoll, and three daughters,
firs, Ernest Bender and Mrs. Robert
'\Wightman •ti Blyth and Hiss Lilly
Carr of Calgary, all of whom were et.
his bedside except the last named,
Mr. Carr is also survived by one sis-
ter, Mrs. Sclater of Blyth, and one
brother, lir. Will Carr, Los Angeles
City. The funeral was held on Tues-
day afternoon. August 5th. In the.
absence of Rev, E. L. Anderson o
Queen street United Church, the ser -
MASSEY-I3ARRIS BINDER
Giles you the most: In Long Service In Ease of Handling
In Economy and In Harvesting Ability
JOHN GALLOP
AGENT FOR FROST FENCE SUPERTEST GAS and OILS
All Repa rs and. Labor Cash. Open Evenings.
ion Twio fields of soy beau's and a
11 lumber of table turnip experiments
•re•aeing carried Out. The effects of
ertl izer on spring . grain, are being
tudied finder tate supervision ti Prof,
H. G. Bell and Mr. J. Dryden of the
O.A.C. On 'otte :farm a mixture of
oats end barley'was. sown in two'
strips, one-half acre each. The first
had been given an application of
0-14-6 ,fertilizer and the other. e-
10-5, in both cases 250 pounds to the
acre, The fertilized oats and barley
were decidedly stronger in grow't'h
and taller than the unfertilized por-
tions of the fields. At harvest time
equal representative areas of these
plots will be carefully ,harvested end
yields oonnpared. Whether or not it
will pay to use nitrogen will be gath-
ered feom'a comparison of the re-
sults of the two fertilizers.
Sow Thistle Spreading.
That the perennial sow thistle, re-.
cognized as the world's worst weed,
.is spreading at on alarming rate in
some parts of Ontario is' '-the ' state-
ment of A. R. G Smith of New Ham-
burg, who as district weedinspector
for Western Ontario, advises farmers
to be on their guard. M•r. Smith re-
ports that many fields sown to.spring
grain in districts where the weed was•
hitherto comparatively unknown, are
at present a source of worry to far-
mers. He points out: ".df a perennial
sow thistle comes to bloom it will ma-
ture its seeds unless the plant is
burned, Farmers should not thresh
their grain outside because -the blooms
will spread over adjoining areas, each
seed having a 'parachute bloom'
which will carry for miles and stay up
iii the air ,for many hours. He advises
farmers- to cultivate, gang plow or
plow immediately after harvest on
fields that are not seeded down. ' It is
important to keep sow thistle from
blooming or going bo seed wherever
possible. More than 850 weed in-
spectors are now at work in 'Ontario
and every farmer should snake a point
to report the presence of this weed to
the nearest representative.
Canada to The Fore
The fourth 'World's Poultry Con-
gress, which has been its session at
the Crystal Palace, London, Eng„
holds a special interest for Canadians,
particularly poultrymen. This coun-
try's participation takes the form of a
national exhibit, a live stock exhibit,
a commercial exhibit, and a substan-
tial contrihtution 'front Canadians in
the form of scientific papers read at
the Congress. The keynote or Cana -
's National Exhibit is the economic
worth of Canadian poultry breeding
stock, This is graphically presented
in a novel and impressive exhibit
which is in every sense a master-
piece of exhibition ert,
vices were conducted by. Rev, W. J.
Maines of Walton and Rev. Dr, Mor-
timore, Auburn, returned. missionary
from Shing. A solo was .beautifully
rendered by Mr. Stanley Sib•thorpe.
The pallbearers were Robert Nesbitt,
David Floody, Benjamin` Taylor Ez-
ra` Bender, John Maines' end fames
Moody. The restrains were laid to
rest in Westfield cemetery. Among
those From a destance attending the
funeral of the late A. B. Carr were:
Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Beese, Kitchener;
Mrs, Dr. Wilford, Toronto; Mr. and
Mrs, A. Wilford, Windsor.
Two car accidents happened in this.
vicinity on Saturday night but there
were no serious results. A car with
four Blyth ladies, driven by Mrs.
Howard Brunsdon, .collided with a
car driven by Mrs. Russell Fear, of
Morris, who was returning front a
picnic at Bayfield. The mishap oc
cstrred near the bridge north of Lan-
desboro. The occupants of the two
cars were shaken up and the cars,
both new models, were somewhat
damaged. The same evening a car
driven by Mrs. Duncan Laidlaw
struck Mr. J. Taylor's car while driv-
ing on the 9th lime of ilorris.
Mr. and Mrs. August Saunders are
visiting friends in Toronto.
Mr. and Mrs. Beck, Miss Beck and
Mrs. Lasham, Goderich, and the
Misses Shafer of Toronto were guests
of Mrs. G. Collinson on Thursday.
lir. and Mrs, Cliff Yen of Wallace -
burg returned home Sunday after
spending their holidays with their
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Potter
and Mr. and Mrs. John Yeo.
lir. Thos. Million and children
from Detroit and Mrs. Million Sr.,
Goderich, were guests of Mr. and
Mrs. Irvine Wallace during the week.
Mr. Martin Armstrong hes been
quite poorly.
Mrs. Herb. McElroy and sons Bar-
rie and Jack are spending two weeks
at Kincardine.
Mr. and Mrs, James Kibble and
con Henry and Cyril Stewart, all of
Paris, were guests on Monday of Mr.
and Mrs. Irvine Wallace.
Mr. and lire, Archie Collinson of
London spent the week -end and holi-
day at the home of Mrs. Geo, Col
iinson.
Mr. and Mrs. D, O. Colclough and
Master jack of Waterford spent over
the holiday with the former's mother,
Mrs. A, Colclough, • .
The postponed meeting of the W.
M. S. of the Queen et. United Church
w ill be held at the home of Mrs, C.
Grasby on Tuesday, August 12.
A former well remembered pastor
of Queen street Church, in the person
of Rev. A. C. Tiffin, died on Wednes-
day evening, July 30,suddenly Y at his
home, 48 West avenue, St. Thomas.
A former minister of the Methodist
Church and more recently of the Un-
ited Church, he was widely known by
preachers and laymen alike through-
out Western Ontario. Born in Huron
county, he was educated in Goderich
Collegiate and at Victoria College, To-
ronto. in 1897 he was ordained and
his first charge was at Walton. He
had always been in the London Con-
ference. About a year ago, because
of poor health, he was superannuated.
His wife died while they were living
at London about nide months ago
About a month ago he commenced
active duties again, taking charge of
St. And'rew's Church in St, Thomas..
Thereare surviving him a daughter,
Gretta, and `two sons, J. B of Wind-
sor, and Robert, of ,Toronto. The fun-
eral service was held on Saturday at
1 o'clock in St. Thomas and interment
took place in Woodland cemetery,
London,
Mr. Will Smith, Mr.: and Mrs,
Amos. Smith and Miss Edina Smith of
Listowel, and Mr, Doherty were visit-
ors at the home of the former's cous-
in,
ousin, Mr. John Yeo, on Sunday
SAFETY --
ab ANY speed
Cl/
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BALLOON
With the new Firestone Heavy
Duty Gum -Dipped Balloon Tires
you have a wide margin of safety
at ANY peed. Built in advance
of today's car requirements, they
withstand rougher usage than any
car on any road at any speed,
can give them.
Firestone Heavy Duty Balloons
are made of Gum -Dipped cord
construction—the strongest and
safest method known. They have
a deeper safety tread, extra
side-wall thickness and two extra
plies of Gum -Dipped cords just
beneath the tread to absorb
road shocks. They are the
strongest, safest, toughest tires
that Firestone has ever built.
MakeY our car safer for travel.
Equip it with a set of new
Firestone Heavy Duty Balloons.
See your nearest Firestone
Dealer today. '
FIRESTONE TIRE AND RUBBER COMPANY
OP CANADA, LIMITED
Hamilton Ontario
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Highway
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11\LWiLI0TT Service Station
McKILLOP.
Mrs. John Boyd entertained the
Ladies' Aid on Wednesday.
Mr. Peter Connelly had the mis-
fortune to ,break his wrist while
cranking a car,
Mr. Eddie Godkin spent Sunday
evening near Seaforth.
Mr. Joe McLaughlin spent Sunday
in Bayfield.
Mrs. Pat. McLaughlin is visiting
her son Peter.
Mrs, Robs. Miller is visiting her
daughter, Mrs. Wm Boyd.
Mr, Geo. Welch has purchased a
new M. H. binder. Watch Geocge
step now.
Sister Florence and Sister Joseph-
ine, Mrs, Jim Leach, Miss Nellie O'-
Rourke and Mr, McCormick, all of
Toronto, visited the home of Mr. and
Mrs.
Jos. O'Rourke over the Week-
end.
Irene OIRourke accompanied her
sister back to Toronto for a week.
Sister Florence and Sister Jioseph
ine of Toronto are spending a week
with the former's brother, Mr. Pah.:
O'Rourke, '
Mrs. Leach and two children of
Toronito are spending a week with
iv£r. and Mrs. Jos. O'Rourke.
r, O'IRourke made a success-
fulbusiness trip to Kitchener over the
week -end'
ST. CbLUMBAN.
Mr. Martin McQuaid of Toronto
spent the week -end with his biBshers
here. •
Mr, Joseph Moylan of Ottawa is
spending his vacation with his par-
ents, Ivor. and Mrs. Thos. Moylan.
Mr, Harold Maloney of Detroit was
hare over the week -end,
Mr. Thos. McQuaid of Stratford
visited, his brother, James McQuaid,
over the week -end,'
Mr. and 'Mrs, Thos. Holland and
family of Windsor are visiting friends
here.
Mrs, James L. Dorsey of Duluth,
Minn., visited at the home of her
sister, tire. James Carlin, last week.
Miss Margaret Williams of Detroit
is visiting her parents, Me. and Mrs.
Pat, Williams.
Miss Dorothy Melady of Kitchener
spent the week -end at her hone here,
BRODHAGIEN.
Miss Vera Rock, teacher of Ivan-
hoe Public School, is spending her
holidays with her sister, Mrs, George
Eickmier.
Mr. loy Steiss and Mr. Irving
Trombley of Detroit spent the week-
end at the home of their mother, Mrs.
Steiss. Miss Elsie Querengesser,
echo ivas hone for a ,three weeks'
vacation, returned evith them to De-
troit.
Rev. and Mrs. Peters of Ayton
spent Sunday with Rev. and Mrs, Al-
berti.
Mrs, Maude Scherbarth of London
spent a day in our village.
Mr, Fred Scherbarth of • Detroit
spent the week -end with his parents.
On Sunday, the 10th of August,
Rev. J. Alberti of St, Peter's Luth-
eran Church will preach about the
subject: "God Still Lives," his tett
being Acts 12: 1-11. On Sunday the
17th of August a Mission -Festival
will be held on the lawn of the
School grounds just opposite the
Church, in the afternoon. The service
will start at 2 p.ni, The Brodhagen
band will give a sacred concert. A
German and an English address will
be given by two speakers about the
Missions of the Lutheran Church it
the Hosie and Foreign Fields. "What
we all need is not a reconstruction of
religion but a rededication of our-
selves to the saving objective of the
program of the Ch'aegeless Christ."
CROMARTY.
Mrs. M. Barr of Stratford spent
Monday with friends in Cromarty and
5taffa,
Mr. and Mrs. S. A. Miller spans
Sunday with lir. and Mrs. J. Bolton.
Master Wilfrid Scott spent a few
days with his cousin,Gordonorcn M
c
-
Kelar, Seaforth.
lir. and Mrs. John Grieve spent
Wednesday with Mr. and Mrs. Dunc-
an McKeeilar.
WEST BRODHAGEN,
Mr. L. Looby of Dublin, contractor,
has completed the bridge on the &th
concession on the Hoegy drain and
made e fine job and after the old
bridge is filled in and the approaches
fixed up will make a nice level road.
Mrs. Fred Koehler is nursing Mrs.
Henry Ahrens Sr., who is' not well.
The doctor claims cancer in the stom-
ach is the trouble.
Mrs, John Kiehtie of Rostock is
nursing her mother, Mrs. Christian
Regele for a few days, who is not
well,
Mr. Geo. Regele tools a motor trip
to Fullerton last Sunday to visit his
sisters, Mrs. Alex, Stoskopl and Mrs.
Wes Fisher, -
Mr. Henry Dietz and son John
Dietz of the 10th concession, bought
a little threshing outfit to do their
own threshing.
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'i'- NEWS AND INFORMATION *
* FOR THE BUSY FARMER *
'* (Furnished by Ontario Depart- *
ment of Agriculture.) *
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F. C. Paterson, district, agricultural
representative at Sintcoe, reports Nor-
folk County's apple crop- at two-
thirds that of last year, with the qual-
ity apparently good. The new $100,-
000 cold storage plant at Simcoe will
he finished shortly and in readiness
to take care of the apple crop this
fall,
Labor Cost Important.
It is said that the cost of feed is
the most important item in the cost
of producing milk, I1 will amount to
about orae-hallf of the total costs. 'La-
bor, however, is a strong second, Ac-
cording to numerous surveys on. this
continent, the average cost of labor
involved volved inn the production of 100
pounds of milk will constitute about
t?5 per cent of the selling price.. The
same survey indicates that the labor
oer cow ranges from ,150 to 170 hours.
The'targer the herd the less labor per
cow is a very general rule.
Fertilizer Experiments.
Thirty-two field exiperiinents of var-
ious ns lcinds are being conducted in
Wellington this summer under the
Soil and Crop Inuprevemretnt 'Associa,
Better Bull Areas
At the close of last year the follow-
ing counties had, by by-law of the
county'council, proclaimed themselves
Better Bull Areas: Bruce, Perth,
Oxford, Wellington and Peel, In
order that this bylaw may be passed
it is necessary that at least eighty per
cent. of the bulls maintained within
the county are purebred. The work
has been slow hut the events accru-
ing are such that public sentiment is
behind the movement.
To End Uncertainty.
Don't let uncertainty worry you—
turn to the telephone. An outeof-
town call is es easy to make as a local
one and almost as quick. The tele-
phone will take you anywhere and
the cost is surprisingly low. After 7.00
p.m., when. evening rates begin, you
can talk a hundred miles or more for
about the price of a movie,
WOLVERTON FLOUR MILLS CO.
LIMITED
SEI FORTH, ONTARIO
WE ARE PAYING
75cper er
Bus.
(Standard)
FOR WINTER WHEAT
WE HAVE ON HAND
Sreenings Chop, Mixed Chop, Oat Chop, Barley Chop, Corn Chop,
Cracked Corn, (Coarse and Fine) Oyster Shell, Whole Oats, Barley,
and Bran and Shorts.
PHONE 51
Hensall, on the London road, now
owned by his grandsoat,l\Wliliiam,Bclli,
son o'i the late Robert Bell, Jr.
On this farm they set to workat
once to snake a small clearing htoand
erect a log shanty, [large enou E
accommodate 11 persons. rom g
ntondville they carried enough pro- mlade a Familiar picture for the few
visions on Monday morning to last settlers along the road. He always
till Saturday night, when all walked spent one night with Mr. Bell on
black to Egmondville for Sunday, This, these trips. As a result, these two
lasted three •weeks and then Mrs. men became good friends and . later
Bell ,aid she could not allow her idr. Jones offered Mr. Bell the chance
daughter to go again,' because she was to rust the Kippen flour, mill and saw -
afraid of what might happen to her mill for them, The mill dam had been
from wolves bears or Indians.
was named the London Road: that
from Guelph to Goder'ich, for which
they were,also responsible, was, and
is still known as the Huron road.
Mr. Jones, the commissioner for
the company, lived in Goderich and
his spam of ponies and light wagon.
washed out so many tunes that Mr.
She said 'they would all move ' out, Jones was glad to get rid of the res -
even if the shanty weren't finished. ponsibility of keeping it running. The
The walls were top, but the roof was Company. felt that they had to pro -
not on. However, they nailed up an vide means in the shape of ills for
old carpet in 'lieu of a roof and it did the early settlers to provide lumber
very well until the shanty was corn- and flour for their needs, hence the
plete. The space between the logs Kippen mills.
of wood lir. Bell accepted the offer' and at
and flu
were nixed first with piecesshed with moss and
nd mad.once set to work to build a dam that
There was an open fire place in which stood for many years and for more
they burned .good-sized logs from four than half a century afterwlards these
to six feet long, which made a spiels- mills were supplying the needs of tit
did fire. The shanty, when finished, surrounding country with these goods.
may not have been very fine, but it The last pian to run these mills was
was the hone of a very happy family. the late John licNevin, who died in.
In those days •there were no rotads. the early part of this century.
They found their way by means of a When Mr. Bell took over the mills
blazed trail, which means that a piece he had to look for a flour miller, and
of bark was chipped off trees along being told' that a miller lived some a'
the path -so that travellers could fol- where on the Thames Road, he made
low by keeping these marked trees in a trip through the forest, his only
sight. - guide being a compass, but he found
For two years they had no oxen and his man, a Thomas Oke, who ran the
if course, no horses. Everything mill for him for many years. It was
was done by hand. Trees were chop here fleet his family grew up and his
ped down, cut into logs, rolled togeth-
er and burned. 'Some of the trees take the place of men and women.
t The boys, at the age off 12 and 13,
man and boy was at 'work at day- were able do take their place as chop-
pers and loggers like meta, and did it,
darkness
clearing up a number of the farms in
chase early clays.
His son, the late ohn Bell isrrn
on December 15, 1835, remembered
taking the timbers for the bridge aver 1
the Bayfield river, at lin an, with
three yoke of oxen, when he was only
14 years of age. The sticks of timber
had one end loaded on a crotch and
the other trailed behind' on the road.
The crotch was made from a natural
crotch cut from a tree, two limbs be-
ing left about' five or six feet long,
and across the,tn was pinned a bunk
with wooden pins all parts being
about eight to ten inches square. On
the bunk was placed one end of the
lo, attached to it bya chain which
g,
assed through a hole oe at the front o.
p ort f
g
the crotch and was continued up be-
tween the oxen, Where it was fasten-
ed to the staple in their yoke. In this
were four feet fat diameter. Every
there was no cessation untilar •ness
set in.
'In the third year •a yoke of oxen
was secured by Mr. Bell. lir. Rod-
gers, of Rodgerviile, and Robert Pat-
terson
at
terson also got a yoke each and every-
body thought good times were com-
ing, This in spite of the fact that they
could not get flour nearer than Lon-
don. '38 stiles away, or Goderich,
about 25 stiles distant. They lived
principally upon potatoes, meat and
fish, though, when their -first crop of
wheat ripened and was threshed with
a Rail, they boiled ft with staple sugar
and milk. The day they got a cow
was a wonderful day for them. She
wIas the beginning of their stock. The
as caught sap � v c• s ht ie handmade black
-ash troughs and the spiles, for a time,
were made of the sante material.
Their first wheat was cut with a
reaping hook and threshed with, a tire way this same John d
hail, Times gradually grew better
the timbers dor the first church built
began to long for ,more intsaBrucefield, afterwards kBellnoavnrew as
and the people
bread, even though it was to be got the Ross Church, and also 'the timbers
at such a distance. Once in the foe the first large bridge built in Mit-
EARLY DAYS
IN HURON.
the early ettlers 'n this
Among ea y t
community were the -Bell family who
dame out to this country in 183,6. Last
year Mr, John 'Bell passed away in
Exeter in his 94th year and just pre-
vious to Isis death a sister, Mrs. Hunt,
died. in Hensall. They were children
of the late Mr. and Mrs. Robert .Bell
of Kippen. The -following interesting
Story of their early years in Huron
appeared recently in the ,London .tree
• Press:
11 is Si very interesting record of
the trials undergone and the vicissi-
tudes through which those pioneers
passed in the early days in Hucon
county. The whole country at that
date was clothed in the primeval for-
est and.they.began the herculean task,
of hewing out a ,home and a compet-
ence for themselves.
The late Mr. and Mrs. Robert Belt
were natives of Kippen, 'Stirlingshire,
Scotland, and in the year 1836 they
sailed for Canadla with their nine chil-
dren, To this flock were added four
more t the next four years. They
carne in a sailing vessel, being twelve
weeks on the water on account of the
stormy weather they encountered,
Upon reaching Montreal they were
met by Mrs. Ball's aunt, who invited
them to her.home For tett and a rest,
The 'house was so small, the family
could not be accommodated, yet it
was a very Welcome invitation after
so Many weeks on shipboard, eating
the provisions they had brought svith
:hent from Scotland,
From Montreal they came to To-
ronto, then kno'wn as- Little Yorlc:
From 'Toronto they travelled west to
l;gruondville in wagons •drawn by"
oxen. They reached Silver Creek,
past of Egmondvilie, one cold night,
November• 6th, 113;36, with six inches
of snow on the ground and there they
were dumped with their. children, and
el their belongings, From there ev-
erything had to be carried to a log
shanty on CountVan
iE frond's pro-
perty
g po
perty On the other side of the creek
,and 'where the towit...oF Seaforth now
stands,
Th •
is was a rude awakening from
the roseate t
veate creams they were enjoy-
ing
ing as a result of reading the wonder-
ful descriptions given by Dr. Dunlop,
the commissioner for the Canada
Company, which described Canada as
a most delightful country, with or-
anges and other tmdpical 'fruits waiting
nbe picked by the incoming settlers,
However, Mr. Bell ,and his wife were
not deterred, and finding a good
friend itt the late Count VanEgmond
Mr: Bell left his family at the Count's
home for three weeks until he harplo-
cated a homestead one mile south of
•
month of Judy Mr. Bell went to Go-
derich with his oxen and sleigh to
buy some, When the boat came in
with a load of flour it vias found to be
all caked in the barrel because it had
got .wet. Great was the disappoint-
ment when he returned without the
flour.. •
In those early days oxen evere used
altnost altogether and farmers made
their own sleighs, using them winter
and summer for all their needs. Some
farmers had as much as 60 iacres of
land cleared before they bought a wa-
gon. After some years, Mr, Bell
went to London and bought a horse.
.\Fter this, his eldest daughter used
to take half a bag of wheat and go on
horseback all the way to Siddalit'il'le,
in the Township of ,Lobo, and return.
the next day with the flour,
The first wheat sown by Mr. R.
Bell was bought in Exeter and car-
ried home on the backs of Mr. Bell
and leis two sons, he baking four bu-
shels and each of the boys one. This
may seen incredtbde, but he .was a
John used to tell many interesting
stories of ,hose early days. One told
how he went for the cows one morn-
ing and getting lose, he came out
near Staffa, seven miles from home.
Another tells that one day; while he
was returning from Clinton,. he spied
a band of Indians that seemed in his
boyish eyes, to stretch for half a vile
down the London Road, However, he
didn't wait to scrutinize them- •too
closely, but wishing to retain his scalp
he took to his heels and didn't stop
till he was hidden deep in the woods.
Another very stormy winter clae he
was coming down the London Road
from Kippen to the old homes?ead, .
south of 'Hensall, Re was overtaken
by a man named Whiteford, who had
lived one and a half miles north of
Kippen and who was driving this day
a span of horses and sleigh. eer. Bell
asked hint fa• a ride and was refused.
Mr. Whiteford had not gone far when
a tree, blown down by the storm, fell
across his sleighs, between hind and
powerfully befit roan and his sons the horse, but doing him no harm.
were, too, whets they ,grew up. In
truth, it is a well-krvown fact that
when the Caledonian gtaines were an
e sleigh was smashed in two and
the horses ran away. Some years af-
ter this ter. Whiteford moved't, the
annual occurrence in Ltteknow, the United States, and the early traditions
County of Bruce always beat Huron say he was hanged for horse -stealing.
in hie hug -o F- war until one year three Stich i, the irony of fate. One 'thing
of Mr. Robert Boll's sons were on the is certain, Mr. Bell was very glad he
Huron team and the ,Broca team wa's had refused the ride.
vanquished. But returning to the Many good stories were told oh the
,wheat, when they had any to sell, it Famine of black bears in bear traps;
had to be teamed to Goderich or in fact, Robert Bell, jr., who lives just
London.
Ln the clearing of his farms, Mr.
Bell was ably t y assisted by .his son,
William, who was 14 years of age
when lee cane to this country, and
Il
e° by his other boys and girls as
they grew up. In fact, at 12 years of
e his children were e strorr
and.
able , The late John Beall, who died
in Exeter recently, told many stories
of hard work while still in his early
teens.
The present London road was then
a 'blazed trail and later when it be-
came a road, waso in spring and fall,.
in. very poor condition. Through the
swamps and swales, corduroy .roads
were the rule and as the, country set-
tled, the Canada Company mtade a
brave attempt to• make a passable
road from London to Clinton and this
st of Hensali, still owns one of the
traps in which the bears were caught.
The rivers and creeks were full Of
fish and speckled trout were caught lit
large numbers.
To -lav mane farms in. this district
are owned and farmed by deeeencfan%s
t
o this
same Robert
Reil who y stare
here in 1'836, almost a .century ago.
They are good citizens, quiet, thrifty
and industrious, and may well be
proud of the pari the family had taken
in the settlement of this pn.rt of `South
Huron, John Bell, who died recently
and who gave much of the informa-
tion in this ,article, left one son,'.Rob-
est• who founded and is still at the .
head of the Robert Bell Engine ,&
Thresher Go., of Seaforth; ?ifiss Bell:
and Mrs. Ke'tchuni, widow of the late
A. P. Ketchum, deputy minister dfi
agricud'ture, Saskatchewan _a