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til 11383 James Kerr tPO , u ex: t ,1 '�,wateZ1 rka; eyatem,
3tad: had ten years' ,expe�rlett+�e,; o� 4A-, p?'irpA � ,byil o2deeB#I:; elite :for. minor
crating the farm and w$s Weil.:0,0W,N ti rru alt an'• O fst in• the winter.
Of Oeit for it,' Ile continued the :Methods,: a e P
save that, he dt. °,pat Ife used the •e* ht alart fox such Jobe
ke,(rts father, ep,:,;,aa ,orushin• oatti . lip, cemented the
on a p, and be relied:,. t x: et} • ., able ofrsr plod " ie!re:much i4npro'ed
on .x�heaf; barley, &poles andev : at .
tttetn, ' 1r'•fnln �i;�e t'u time be eonsid-
ered.the tnatePatlon of a litter ear -
(cohabited #I%t nisi week)'
Chapter int
,James' Sort 1865-1938 slid,.'
Brother and Slaters
o stock, cattle and pigs, Per PtVereet,
tion of the soil, be Used t (I natural
fertilizer and rotation of crop.Qn
occasion he experimented; with, $Pring;
wheat or beans, but generally, ke- .t4.
the proved policies. He did;; not ase,
the facilities of the Agricultural Col"'
lege at Guelph or the aindee'of the
district representatives of the;epartMerit of "
analyyes .of Agriculture;
soil folIpw the :re-
searches in husbandry. In hl" time.
there was probably no great need of
change in methods, as the ,et'iginal
fertility of the soil persisted, Ile paid:
careful attention to the crops and 'the
property, rigorously kept down the
weeds, maintained the fences and the
drains. Inonly one way did he slack-
en :in his cake;. he tool only a slight
interest in. the fifawer, gardens and in
his last years on the farm permitted
them to grow over in grass, to save
l'a'bor. Apart from this, the farm re-
tained its trimness upder his man-
agement.
He showed his bent by developing
the mechanical equipment of the
farm. In 1896 he drilled the barn-
yard well anew, carrying it down
front 37 feet to 187. At 'this depth
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LEGAL
MICCONNELL & HAYS
Barristers; Solicitors, Etc.
Patrick D. McConnell - H. Glenn Hays
SEAFORTH, ONT.
Telephone 174
A. W. SILLERY
Barrister, Solicitor, Etc.
SEAFORTH - ONTARIO
Phone 173, Seaforth
rfer,, but xefral� ped, and 'though know
-
Mg -well tine Use Q.R slings for unload-
;:ing alt +ave0,, 4d.ISI i of think 'enough of
Ahern -0 ptitoh a $� set. Had tlractors
been as good, and cheap in his day as
twenty,yea}re:later, he would undoubt-
�dy have had one, For years he toy -
e$ ,with the thougb,t of owning a steam
i,hreehing engine,••.. but • diad no more
about it. Re"did not fail to obtain a
creme separator when these machines
became ;popular. -
The •iiew +public services found a
really welcome in his time. He had
a daily maii delivery from the stage
which ran between Seaforth and
Brussels and back every week -day.
When the rural free delivery arrived,
he took that instead..'- a Was active
in the formation of `a eilepilone com-
any in the township about 1910, and
had an instrument in the house. He
did not get an automobile in this
period, considering . that they were
toys for rich men•and would never be.
for farmers. He had a well-equipped
Workshop and took especial pleasure
in his collection of tools. He was at
his happiest doing carpentry'or re-
pairing a machine, and made some
money at it, by setting up binders and
other machines and putting them
right when they went wrong. But he
never looked on the farm with the
pride and joy of his father. The hard
labor of the summer and the cold of
the winter distressed him, and he
thought of faruring only as a rather -
distasteful way„ of earning a living.
He listened readily to would-be buy-
ers, and in 1918, at the height of war
prices, he sold the farm' to Angus
More, a Scotsman, who bad worked
as a mason in Pittsburg, but was anx-
ious to acquire property in Canada.
The price was $7,300. James prompt-
ly went to Seaforth with his wife. and
family. at that time the two younger
0 4 to # !
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�tti ' t#e j(egir1ea O ►!
et4r ')4ut tfOra laa,F%:;1�Iaa't a 's'li'•e1
tt ted ' or `, tirla l� , xi e
1�lteli,'.#e A cit to toivti li0'' be:
a ma fl°
or $etafclt tit 'te id'.
(1l * c 'tKh�Z ,u t at t at t a t
baa 0 l n'frensd �ranK ,..,.
ved� 15h the',ilgard of anagera tet:
aofl : sears and lent the elibrelt VOA
larortgabe. .we0 ue,Yer an
Mier,:.4ltbal.t(gh pressed „te. accept the
sn Ice, for he shrank frons ;p While re-
ponsibi•14ty. "When tate Union .,witti
aIle Methodist. and Ontgregatienal.
:Phurches was first mooted., he was in-
clined to favor it ail voted to that
effect, But t iia the .1020. Tris attach -
inept to P'resklyterianiam had the up-
per hand and led hire to oppose tits
union whew it Was. brought about in
1825 Seaforth Church remained Pres-
byterian,, which Was irighlY satisfac-
tory to him, but the Wallop church-
es "went union," incInding.Duff's. For
some years he refused opportunities
to gq baek.to Dutra for a viait, but
in 1837 be was ready to go to their
anniversary celebration and much en-
joyed
njoyed the. coM.Pany ,of his old friends.
Ile: took his recreation chiefly -in
trips. While on the farm he liked to
go to the exhibition at Toronto in the
fail. • He could see the machines and
enjoy city life for a few days. After
he 'came to town . 'he made no long
journeya, but liked to visit his dough-
ter- and sons: He enjoyed especially
the summers at Acton Island and
found the air of Muskoka invigorat-
ing. On occasion he went with others
of the family to Detroit to visit John
Hillen, who was a regular •summer
visitor at Seaforth. At home in the
summer there were picnic trips to
Goderieh, Bayfield, or Grand Bend, all
by Lake Huron, or to London on busi-
ness. After his retirement a radio
came to him as a present from his
family; it was not the first that had
entered the house, but the first that
proved reliable. He enjoyed it much
and liked the news brpadcasts, and
for lighter vein, Amos and Andy. For
music he always preferred the old
tunes of Scotland, which he had
learned from his mother in his youth,
or those of the "corn -huskers" who
reminded him of the barn dances. He
read some current magazines, espec-
ially Maclean's. He used the Seaforth
Public. Library a good deal, taking
out novels to read. Hg would on oc-
easiou spend a Iittle time around
town, watching the horseshoe pitch-
ing, or sitting in the blacksmith's shop
or seed store" where the Ieisured of
Seaforth would gather and exchange
gossip. After 1930 his interests nar-
rowed and centred chiefly on visits to
his children and grandchildren and
MEDICAL
SEAPORT CLINIC
sons. He bought a house of cement
blocks at the junction of Centre'St.
and Hospital St., and here on April 1,
1918, he took up his new abode-
as va..sa. av
DR. E. A. McMASTER, M.B. He was now free -to- devote his full
Physiclan attention to mechanics. He became
DR. P. L- BRADY, M.D. agent for -the International Harvester
Surgeon Company and took an office and ware -
Office hours daily, except Wednes- house
y in
oan
old
dte tframe he Dick uil building niag—
day : 1.30 -6 p.m., 7 - 9 p.m.
tel on
Appointments for consultation may i Lower Main •St. Here he kept a few
be made in advance. complete machines, but principally
parts for purposes of repair, and twice
u final'y prefe
JOHN A. GORWILL, BA., M.D.
Physician and Surgeon
IN DR. H. H. ROSS' OFFICE
Phones: Office 5-W; Res. 5-J
Seaforth
MARTIN W. STAPLETON, B.A.,'M.D.
Physician and Surgeon
Successor to Dr. W. C. Sproat
Phone 90-W - • Seaforth
he tried. a partner, b t r
red to manage by himself. He was
very busy in July and August repair-
ing binders, mowers, loaders, or al-
most any sort of agricultural imple-
ment. From time to time he would
sell a machine; but this was, only a
minor part of his business. The oom-
pany required pay every month for
the parts which it sent him, but he
could not collect from bis customers
in the same way. Most of them paid,
DR. F. J. R. FORSTER but late, being farmers and often
short of ready money. Much of the
Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat business was done on credit and led
Graduate in Medicine, University of to debts, a dozen or more of which
Toronto- were outstanding at the time of his
Late assistant New York Opthal- death. Occasionally :he took a case
These Are Tender •
Is*to "be ai ed b la"lrtbig
or ,aettin5 .,alt OM rsady tensier, tow,
era 'and vegetables until ail:'dattgor
frost is Over, and air aad Soil begin
to warm up,. They slml4y >a�t'Prew
if the weather iP cold, . (ifd„ Burse,
Where seed ..ia sown, or 1J?ota.;l;'r tab-
ere used, these are protected • until
the Plans: get above ground. Pota-
toes, gladiolus and ' dahlias, for in-
stance,
n
stance, are all pretty tender; but be-
cause it takes at least several days,
and sometimes a week or se!, before
the sprouts •appear above, ground,
they have that extra protection and
can go in a little while before•'danger
of the last light frost. With started
plants such as cabbage, " tomatoes,
peppers and scores of other dowers,
however, hold until the weather turns
warm or, if one simply cannot wait,.
then be prepared to protect' against
frost; with some light. cover' at night.
Vine Plants
Air important line in, the tender
the return visits which they paid to
Seaforth. Christmas, 1936, he spent
at his son, Leslie's house in Toronto,
and there every member of the fam-
ily was present—three eons and their
wives, one daughter, and her husband
and six grandchildren.
In politics he was Iike his father
and grandfather, a Liberal, and keen-
ly interested, but took little part,in
the work of the party. In the 1930's,
however, he voted for Robert McMil-
lan, the Independent Farmer candi-
date, and was in general less sure
that the Liberal party held a mon-
opoly of political wisdom. He took
the Toronto Globe throughout his life
and when it became the Globe and
Mail, he continued it, although not too
well pleased at the innovations, like
many others. For aome years he
audited books for the local' fire insur-
ance companies, but the Hepburn
Government took this petty job away
from him.and the $25 a year which
it brought.
On one occasion his car took him
to the courts. In the summer of 1926
he was driving away from in front of
his office and was turning into the
road when a car from Walkerton
mei and Aural Institute, Moorefield's to the town magistrate and obtained 1. came from behind, sideswiped the
Eye and Golden Square Throat Hos- an order for distraint, but could not Ford, swerved over and came to a
pita!, London, Eng. At COMMERCIAL do this often in the interest of good -1 stop against. the Dick Hotel, having
HOTEL, Seaforth. will. On paper the agency showed a crashed through the Dick pump on
53 Waterloo Street South, Stratford.fit but • reality it merely met i the way. James Kerr took his car
ed him a picture of his son, Leslie.
He said with delight, "Oh brother,
John,” the name of the favorite bro-
ther whose death some years before
had been a severe blow. He was get-
ting the better of the pneumonia but
the strain was too much for the - heart.
This took a weak spell on Sunday,
May 1. It recovered, but he was very
low and on Monday morning, May 2,
was given up. On a' beautiful spring
afternoon he expired about 2.30. The
funeral was held May 4 and conduct-
ed by the Reverends D. Carswell and
F. H. Larkin, to whom he had been
much attacked. The body was inter-
red in the family plot in Maitlandbank
cemetery. He was in his 73rd year.
He left behind frim his wife and chil-
dren—Ethel Gertrude, now Mrs. Jas.
Partridge, born 1894; Wilfred Bren-
ton, 1896; Howard Hillen, 1900, and
James Leslie, 1902. Mr. and Mrs.
Partridge have a daughter, Joan;
Brenton has two girls and a boy,
Janet, James and Catherine; Howard
has a similar family, Esme, Ian and
Betty; Leslie has a boy, Douglas, and
a girl, Heather. The families are at
present in Toronto, except for the
author, • who lives in Kenmore, N.Y.,
north of Buffalo.
. (Continued Next Welt)
eategOrn are lrnenabera Of i e
,fatnaiy iloutnbetn, tnelpis, squab•
c rtOn, OM These: slioul net i?e
blamed ted vine t the 204 as .well ae, the.
air, is wav4, and they require apeci22.
earn. J4igbl very rich .soil is bent for
them and if that is not avaikat ,it gs
beat to loosen clay with plenty of
strawy material. They are''test plant-
ed in hi11s: .
Rills are supply: loose soil built alp
in mounds two or three feet• across
and about six inches deep, Into these
should be worked plenty of well -rot-
ted manure or black ., mulch. This
keeps the, soil open se'that the soft,
fibrous roots can penetrate eas}ly and
the daaikish color of the muck or well -
rotted manure absorbs the heat of the
sun which these plants love. 1eep
weeds cleared away, wateh out for
bugs, and, to encourage early fruiting
nip off end of vines when half a doz-
en melons or a dozen or so squash
or cucumbers are on the way.
If insects. or disease really get well
developed in a garden there is liable
to be heavy damage before control
can take effect. To guard against this
experienced gardeners. are always on
the watch for signs of pests and at
the first indication they open, an of-
fensive. These experts are suspicious
when they see' a wilted or curled or
eater • leaf, even' If the'insects re-
sponsible for same are too small to
be noticed by the naked eye.
Generally signs are easy to read
and cures are readily available. Holes
in the leaves mean that bugs that
chew are present- These are destroy-
ed with poisons. If the leaves wilt
and dry up, sucking insects are ex-
tracting the plant juices. Sprays or
dusts that burn them, but not the
foliage, will control. If leaves turn
reddish or greyish this usually indi-
cates the presence of a fungus dia-
ease. It is common with climbing
roses and hollyhocks especially dur-•
ing muggy weather. Finely ground
sulphur and other chemicals will
check it.
One can mix his own sprays or
dusts but as a rule it is cheaper and
also far more convenient to buy
ready -mixed preparations. Many of
these are combined to control sev-
eral different types of pests,•the new-
er DDT dusts and sprays being par-
ticularly effective
JOHN C. GODDARD, M.D.
, Physician and Surgeon
Phone 110
Hensall
4068x52
DR. J. A. MacLEAN
Physician and Surgeon
Phone 134 - Hensall
VETERINARY
J. O. TURNBULL, D.V.M., V.S.
L. C. HALL, p.V.M., V.S.
Main Street - Seaforth
PHONE 105
Personal attention by either
Veterinarian when requested
(if possible).
pre , u in to the garage and had it repaired for
the yexpenses of house $4.00. The other man demanded dam-
ages and took the case to court. It
Moreover; the management of fin-
ance, though conservative enough for was heard in Seaforth in November.
the adventurous spirit of the first Judge Lewis from Goderich presid-
quarter ofthe twentieth century, ing. The judge listened to the evi-
proved defective in some respects. On dence and withheld pulgment. After
a trip to the West in 1912 he became considerable time, R. S. Hays, who
it terested in the irrigation- develop- was the defendant's lawyer, asked the
trent at Bassano, Alberta. He bought judge for a verdict. The judge refus-
town lots there and persuaded friends ed it ,on the ground that the parties
ir. McKillop to do likewise. The af- were about equally at fault, which
fair was a total loss and the lots were was no doubt correct. The Budge died
given up in the end to save taxes. He some years after without having ren -
bought two lots in Regina also at dered a judgment, and nothing could
$1600, paid the rapidly increasing tax- be done, as the amount of damages
es for more than twenty years and was under $100 and not subject to ap-
finally gave• them up too, for a total peal.
heeostthe tolJames Kerraddewas
five
toss of $3,000. In the end this t.r'p to dollars
the West costthe family between our four above.
and five thousand dollars. He lent Though of the average in strength,
rather. freely to friends and neighbors he was never a robust man. After the
in trouble and lost some hundreds of retirement from business, he had a
Ill dollars in this way He kept clear of throat cough, but this disappeared in
the ail of Acton Island in 1932. He
was reasonably well thereafter. In
February, 1936, he went downtown
one afternoon without his rubbers, an
unusual piece of forgetfulness. He got
the mail, went into a store where
several of his friends were sitting
around, and said nothing but was ob-
viously unwell. He managed to reach
home and was compelled to go to
,bed. It was a paralytic stroke which
had overtaken him. For two weeks he
was in a precarious condition, but
cared fon. by Dr. Ross he effected a
fair recovery. He was never strong
after this event, and did little work,
not even cutting the lawn in the sum-
mer. In March, 1937, he worked too
long over the car one day in the cold
and went to bed again, but only for a
few days. He took care to have his
blood -pressure tested frequently to
ward off another stroke and was suc-
cessful. But a different disease over-
took. him. On Easter Sunday, 1938, he
attended the two .services as usual,
and that night he complained of a
slight chill. Next morning he felt Well
enough to drive his car downtown. in
the afternoon he went to Walton with
bis son, Howard, and two of his
grandchildren. Returning, he felt
chilled again and went to bed. His
wife called the doctor, E. A. McMas-
ter, and shortly some nurses. The
chill was obviously serious, and be-
fore the end of the week it had tt7rn-
ed to pneumonia. For a week he
fought a gallant battle• against this
disease. He coughed violently • and !
was uneonscious and delirious prac-
tically all the time, murmuring uni s
AUCTIONEERS
HAROLD JACKSON
Specialist in Farm and Household
Sales.
Licensed in Huron and Perth Coun-
ties. Prices reasonable; satisfaction
guaranteed.
For information, etc., write or pbone
HAROLD JACKSON, 14 on, 661, Sea -
forth; R.R. 4, Seaforth.
, EDWARD W. ELLIOTT
Licensed Auctioneer
Correspondence promptly answered.
Immediate arrangements can be made
for sale dates by phoning 203, Clin-
ton. Charges moderate and satisfac-
tion, guaranteed.
C.N.R. TIME TABLE
GOING EAST
(Morning)
A.M.
Goderich (leave) 5.40
Seaforth 6.20
Stratford (arrive) 7.16
(Afternoon)
P.M.
Goderich (leave) 1 3.00
Seaforth 8.46
4.40
'Stratford (arrive) .. L
GOING .WEST
(Morning)
Stratford (leave) ........
'Seaforth,
Goderiieln (arrive)
(Afternoon)
Stratford (leave)
Seaforth
43odericb (arrive)
the speculation iii mines in the 1920'x,
but bought Beauharnois and Chile
bonds which proved partial or total
losers. With so many losses, the to-
nt! assets stood still and was no more
in 1938 than in 1918. He helped with
the education of his children, but was
repaid. Toward 1928 be felt the busi-
ness too much for him and gave it
up. Thereafter he confined himself to
a•little repair work and to the collec-
tion of debts.
He kept the house in repair and
improved it in severaI ways. He add-
ed a veranda in front and converted
it Into a sunroom; he built a porch at
the back and put new shingles on the
roof. In 1931 he installed a bathroom,
during most of the work himself. In
1921 hire built a 'barn at the back of
the lot with a stall for the horse and
a loft for the hay. The horse soon
disappeared, being of more trouble
than value in town, and the stall be -
came
o -came a workshop, fitted up with lov-
ing care. 'The rest of the ground floor
served as a garage for the car. He
.had three Ford Model T's in all, the
first acquired in 1919. He did a deal
of repair Work on the cars and ground
the valves himself. He put an elec-
tric light system in the garage; he
kept a fine vegetable garden between
the house,and garage and maintained
an excellent appearance of house and
lot. He also helped build bis son
Howard's summer cottage on Acton
Island, Muskoka.
He had little in the way of outside
interests. He never sought public of-
fice, joined no lodge and attempted
nothing of the sedater sports such as
golfing or bowling. He did, however,telligibie words. Once his wife shdW"
A.M.
10.45
11.36
12.90
P.M.
9.86
10.21
12.00
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