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(By WIl-FREE BFIENTON KERR);
(Continued f'r0m fast Week)
James Kerr's Brothers and Sisters '
(1) Janet,.born, August.`. �, .x863, was
e oldest child of the fanallY, As a
been stated, she married Alex Card'*
3,ner in 1880, whoad had four Chit-
- siren' by bis first wife. Alley and Janet
lived en a fin farmon the 14th con^
cession, not far frtout Walton, in
which they did most of their bnsinees
and went to • churcb. in 1911 they
WOH
aget worded
soil; drag around each
�day. unable to do the
trvrk. cranky with
the cbidren—feeling
k'! - _ milserable, don't
: blame it on 'nerves'.
%) ' Taw kidneys may be
... .
®a out of order --for
when kidneys fail the system clogs with
nuprnipet-:and Iiedadies. backache, die -
imbed rest, frequently follow. To help
keep your kidneys working properly --use
DDadd's Kidney Piils--and see for yourself
if that `all -ie feeling is not soon replaced
by dear -headed energy and pep. Get and
use Dodd's Kidney Pills today. 140
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McCONNELL & HAYS
Barristers, Solicitors, Etc.
Patrick D. McConnell -' H. Glenn Hays
SEAFORTH, ONT.
Telephone 174
A. W. SILLER'-
Barri r, Solicitor, Etc.
SEAFORI - -ONTARIO
Phone 173, Seaforth
MEDICAL
SEAFORTH CLINIC
DR. E. A. MCMASTER, M.B.
Physician
DR. P. L BRADY,, M.D.
Surgeon
Office hours daily, except Wednes-
day: 1.30 -5 p.m., 7 - 9 p.m,
Appointments for consultation may
be made in advance.
JOHN A. GORWILL, BA., M.D.
Physician and Surgeon
1N 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
DR. F. J. R. FORSTER
Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat
Graduate in Medicine, University of
Toronto.
Late assistant New York Opthal-
mei and Aural Institute, Moorefield's
Eye and Golden Square Throat Hos-
pital, London, Eng. At COMMERCIAL
HOTEL, Seaforth.
53 Waterloo Street South, Stratford.
JOHN C, GODDARD, M.D.
Physician and Surgeon
Phone 110 - Hensall
4088x62
DR. J. A. MacLEAN
Physician and Surgeon
Phone 134 - Hensel]
VETERINARY '
J. O. TURNBULL, D.V.M., V.S.
L. C. HALL, D,V.M., V.S.
Main Street - Seafdrth
PHONE 105
Personal attention by either
Veterinarian'•when requested
(if possible).
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 phone
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 byphoning 203, Clin-
ton. Charges moderate and satisfac-
tion guaranteed. 4142x52
sold the .farm andA:retired to 94a1ti n,
-where they built a large house ,disk
ander died on . a, visit to the West,
in Gleichern, Alberta, in. 1923, but its
body was brought 'home and laid in
the cemetery between Walton, and
Brussels.. Janet was a womanof
sterling Character and much wisdom,
a zealolrs church worker. 'Site retain-
ed the Scottish characteristics of her
parents better than any of her bro-
thers and sisters, speaking in'a .dis-
tinetly Scots accent. She and .Alex
had four children; James Kerr Gard-
iner, 1881-1915, who died: of tubercul-
osis, unmarried; John Alexander Gard-
iner, 'born 1883, who went -to the, medi-
cal
edical' school of the University of Toron-
to, practised in Chicago, is n rW a
Professor on the medical faculty of
the University o -Chicago, married
Edith Mills, and has one son, Miles;
Grace Isabella, born 1887, who . mar-
ried Ernest .Scott, has sig children,
and lives near Elk Point, Alberta;
Wilhelmina Ada, 1894-1927, who went
to Seaforth Collegiate became a
teacher and married W. K. Graham
of the staff of the Bank of Nova Sco-
tia. Ada died of tuberculosis in 1927.
She bad two children, John Gardiner
Graham, born 1919, who lived with his
father•,at Acton and attended, Western
University, London, and Margaret
Jean, bora 1921, who is living in Chi-
cago with Dr. John Gardiner.
(2) Alexander Kerr, born Decem-
ber 7, 1854, was the first boy and
Ble&sijom
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Miss
E rowning knows
how easy it is to forge*
she's on a party line ...
and that others niay be
waiting. So she keeps a
watchful eye on the clock
-- and,limits the length
of her calls.
PARTY, LINE
COURTESY IS
CATCHING...
Putting it into practice
on every call you make is
your best guarantee that;
others will do the same
for you.
1. Keep calls brief.
2. Space your calls.
3. Give right-of-way
to emergency caps/
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COMPANY OF CANADA
Be Quick --Phone Dick
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RE -UPHOLSTERING
New Patterns and Colours now available to match
your room
o < . ighlp skilled workman on all our work.
CUSTOMER ON -EVERY STREET" is
your assurance of satisfaction.
Just pick up your phone and call 342-W
NO OBLIGATION
7 Day Service -- No Waiting
JACK SUDERMANN of JOHN DICK & SON
�ir�.rwrw�rmwr��r�r�r��r�lrl�r�►/�►�r�lfiliirii�llrr�
gave .valuable assistance to: ;'his father
14 the work of the farm•. He joIAed
the . Voluntters, as tite militia were
called, but it is not linea nhow hang
he kept ails name en the retie, 1•larly
in leis Youth he li'eeaine tlissatisfi,tjtl
with the :z►a<'sitipeiut-:of inheriting the
farms, alio east abaaut•fur:soave idler
Means,.Ot. aaniring a living, lie had, a
mechanlcaj turn and devoted,; ibis at-
tention' to the,, binders which -were
Net_ .eo>;4in :int use wiU tide f�trzaore
of Canada. He repaired' binders for
the people of McKillop, and varied
this occu,patiott'b ' a trip to.l entucl:y
to , purebaae . blood horses, which be
brought ,home .and sold to the neigb-
bors. -
So fires was his intention not to
take over the farm that his fatlherts
will made "provision for this event.
The
farms were to go to Peter and
Jams, d Peter was a P t
tF � to pay Alexan-
der $3,000 when, the .oun est, Wil-
liam,
liam, should come of age. But Mex.
ander might -borrow the money at any
time before this date, if he should
Choose, using .the $1500 on deposit in
Seaforth banks. It does not appear
that he borrowed the money, howev-
er; he waited until the stipulated
time had elapsed.
After ter the death of his Father in
1883, he went West to Manitoba, and
worked at. •Griswold, near Brandon.
Next year, however, he rete rned to
McKillop and stayed until 1886. In
that year he w%nt back to Griswold
and worked for the firm of A. Harris
& Sons. as binder expert and sales-
man. In 1889 he mond to Miami to
buy grain and operate an elevator for
the Martin & Mitchell Grain Com-
pany. This was the first grain eleva-
tor in Miami and he was the first
grain buyer in the district. He found
Miami quite to his taste, did well
there, and bought a house. In 1892
he ,married Kate Brown, of Souflr
Mountain, Ontario, and next year
their son, James Alexander, was born.
He tried his hand at a number of
enterprises in - and about Miami. He
and a Mr. Ironside built an elevator
in the town of Roland, fourteen miles
east of Miami. He managed it for
some years, continuing to reside at
Miami, but presently the partners
sold 'the 'elevator and Alexander was
rid of this out-of-town commitment.
He bought a farm near Miami which
he rented out at times and managed
himself at other times, hiring men
for the necessary labor. He started
a real estate and insurance office in
Miami, and this was his principal oc-
cupation until 1909. About that time
he took the Massey -Harris implement
agency, for farm machinery was his
first and last love. He •retained the
agency until 1929, and for some time
was, in years of service, the oldest
agent in Manitoba. In 1920 a local
creamery company went on the rocks
and Alexander took the plant over
and operated it successfully until his
death. He had thus a good range of
experience in industries subsidiary to
farming, and in farming itself. . In
1909 the rural municipality of Thomp-
son was formed and he- became the
first secretary -treasurer. He remain-
ed in this office until his son was old
enough to follow him into it. This
experience of public office indicates
that he had the trust and respect of
the people in and about Miami.
In church matters he remained true
to the family tradition and was a
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PHONE 138 SEAFORTH
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n
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more mileage than the big mileage
Goodyear it replaces. It'e Canada's
roost popular tire.
rE iON' OSITOR
Pv'csbyterian, •1.3[e : sang in- the choir
of the church in Miami and was Ioirg
#i«pretary-ttoaeurer pt the board, But
hef Elind it hard to afoept
• the Xlnian
of '1925, and after that' event lid lost
anuelt of his interest in church affaii ,
Re^ was,in the modern sense, a
Joiner such as his: '.fattier had -never
been, 11e :belonged , to the Workmen,
which. was - principally ;an insurance
society, but dropped ;sip before long,
He had joined the Masonic Socie.t in
'f$eaforth and was •thM
roe out: -his life
at, enthusiastic Mason;,;:; He was a
charter 'member of the Shiloh Lodge
at Roland and of the Midlothian bodge
at Miami. He w.' Master of the lodge
a number of times and eventually be-
came Past District PePuty Grand
Master. Needless to gay, he was a
Liberal' in politics.
Ike was a •good man for the com-
munity, anxious to help in sports or
nte
other r
t enterprises, but the only active
sport in which he indulged was curl-
ing, He was fond of .animals and at -
ways had a dog. Until 1912 he kept
horses, but in that year he purchased
a oar to take their place, and main-
tained it thereafter in first-class con-
dition, like a true lover of machines.
In his later life he .fount gardening a
source
u of pleasure. He did not do a
great deal of reading,: except in the
Masonic books which he fully mas-
tered. 'He loved range and encourag-
ed his son to acquire proficiency in,a
number of instruments: He visited
the East in 1904, 1908 and 1917, and
took his wife and -son to the west
coast in 1904 and 1905.
He was at all times• goodhearted
and generous, and made loans, of
some hundreds of dollars which his
family had to write off after his
death. He could not see a man in dif-
ficulties without doing something to
help if it was in his power. He al-
ways had a cheery word for every-
one around town, and even for the
travellers who came only occasionally.
He passed ,away of old age in 1930,
at seventy-five.
His 'son, James Alexander, succeed-
ed him• in the municipal office, as has
been said. He married Dulce 'Merger.
et Collins in 1921. They have, two•
girls: Ethel Margaret, 1922, and Zeila
Jean, 1924. Both are married—Mar-
garet, Mrs. Vernon North, and Jean
is Mrs. James Murray. Margaret has
two children,
(3) Mary Jane, born July 16, 1859,
bore much of the burden of the house-
hold's work from her teens, helping
with the other children and gradual-
ly taking over her mother's labors. In
1893 when James Kerr was married,
Mary went to keep house for Peter
on lot 24. When Peter, too, married in
1898, Mary went to keep house for
Joseph Worden, near Staii•a, south of
Dublin. In this way tike Kerr family
became friends with the Wordens, In
1903 Mary became the wife of James
Aitcheson, aged 57, who had a farm
within view of Seaforth to the north-
west. He had. a nephew and a niece
living with him; James, who inherit-
ed the farm when his father died in
1925, married Kate McDermid and has
a daughter•, Mildred; and Nellie, who
an
Lyle Worden and died of
tuberculosis. Mary continued to live
with her nephew 'by marriage in a
part of the house reserved to herself
until her death in. 1933. She was a
flee and helpful woman;. much inter-
ested in all her relatives and liked
by all.
(4) Peter, co -heir to his father's
estate, lived at home until 1893. One
of the unforgettable experiences of
his youth was an encounter with a
skunk in the smokehouse, whither the
animal had gone in .search of the
grease often left there by Isobel.
Peter did not wait for the visitor to
evacuate the premises, but assailed it
with -more courage than judgment.
After the encounter, Peter's clothes
were valuesless, and a prolonged per-
iod of burial did them no good; '1'he
smoke -house was also useless for
many a month. In 1893 when James
Kerr was married. the formal divi-
sion of the two farms took place and
Peter went to live on lot 24 in the
house built by Walker. In 1898 he
married Kate Johnston, a nurse, Her
people had come from Armagh, from
the area of Newry and Newtonhamil-
ton, where they had known the Hil-
lens. The migrating ancestors were
James Johnston and his son, Thomas
Johnston; James lived at Varna and
Thomas had a farm on the McKillop -
Grey boundary and married Jessie
Buchanan, a Nova Scotian girl. There
was a strong Orange tradition in the
Johnston family.
Peter managed the farm until 1914
when he sold it to John Webster, He
then moved to Seaforth and shortly
to Toronto, where he was for a long
time foreman to the Lundy Construc-
tion Company. About 1930 lie retired
and Lived with bis son-in-law at 69
Castleknock Road, Toronto, until his
death in 1941. There are two children.
Jessie Isabel qualified as a. teacher,
taught near Stouffville and on the
public school staff of Toronto, and
married James Gillespie, originally of
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Cromatty.:. They have a son, Neii
James 'Gillespie is Prineiva1 of ^. the
Central Technical , Schgoi, Torente,
-The other child'' of Peter a d Kate
Kerr, is Peter (=Orden Jatenston, born
1903, who is With gaclean s VOIlek,,
'Mg CompapY, ',I'orenile.. lde marded
ilfa,gat'et, MdGill in 1920- andhas a
daughter, Merg4ret, Ire, Peter ICerr,
timed ia, 19`f0,,
(0) ,Tobu TKerr, 'bo added the fnalne
Flodgsou• to Vise utpnosyllabtes 9 1x.4
baptisutaf:'n. r.„ es, ' )i.e wea.'t to Sea -
forth High Sohco1, taught in Grey
Township and went to University
College, 'Tonto, in the fall of 1586,
With sotfinancial help from his
uncle, John, be graduated in 1890. He
went to Vancouver and taught nxat'?e-
matics and bogjekeeping in the Molt
school on 'Cambie Street. He took to
politics a d spoke for the .local Lib-
erals, .an, as reward.... became chief
clerk
of toms forAL3 t e
s e im. In•
1899 be married Marion Cameron, of
New Glasgow, Nova Scotia, and they
had one daughter, Margaret Isobel,
born 1901, He died in 1927. Mar-
garet went through high school and
the University of British Columbia,
taught high school and married, Dun-
can Campbell Fraser in 1931. They
have three children and live in Van-
couver.
ancouver.
(6) 'James Kerr, born November 5,
1865.
(7) Isabella, born January 20, 1868,
married George Barr in 1892. He was
an expert in dairying and had man-
aged creameries at Black Creek and
Culloden. He came to ,manage the
creamery at Winthrop and in this was
became acquainted with Isabella
Kerr. Ike entered the civil service,
in the Department of Agricul:uue r•.
Ottawa, and finally changed to th.
el, il service of Ontario as directo,
dairying. %lis wife died of cancer • ..
19x5, and he in 1945. , There ,ls sou
syn, Georgie iarle;born 1.90`4, who rook
tine ecatorrdcs course in. the - Univers,
Ity" of, Toronto and' became account-
ant, Ile married, TUfargaiet Co04 ret -
`1937, has a- soot and an
adopted daughter.
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(C,.o ..nt n ed,Nex t Week)
-: neectlokfal Solutions
Various ineecticidai dusts a n d
sprays leave proven highly effective.
in the householder's war„ against in
9.eets and other pests but ,such agents.
lnclnrl;e Iiotentiaily .dangereAs elteiniq
cats including lead areenate, basic
•eopPen ' argienate, :paxds freer , vyanlde
and ffUoride dpm,ppunds, art-dpitur and'
nicotine. The pp:ispnous, effect of each
e
t e
of its insecticides varies acpArsiing
toe.
th nature ofitsGheniical c rnli o i•
p..P
tion but prolonged contact with most
of them may have harmful effects:
Care should therefore be taken when:.
handling all such toxic materials.
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