Perth Courier - Comings and Goings
supplied by Christine M. Spencer of Northwestern University, Evanston, Il., USA.
Miss Maggie Scott, missionary, China and sister of Rev.
A. H. Scott, St. Andrew’s Church, Perth, is returning to Canada on account
of poor health. Her many friends
here and elsewhere hope she may reach her destination safely and improve in
health after her arrival. Miss Scott
arrived in
James Chaplin, who not long ago bought the James Noonan (Reeve) farm on the 3rd Line Bathurst died on Sunday after a short illness. He was an honest, respectable farmer.
Watson’s Corners: We are sorry to learn Andrew Machan is suffering from a stroke of paralysis.
Return of Convictions for the Quarter Ending
Vagrancy:
William Harper, 2 months in gaol
William Meir, 6 months in gaol
Robert Bradley, 6 months in gaol
Patrick Quinn, 6 months in gaol
George Wylding, 6 months in gaol
Drunk and Disorderly
M. Cromwell, $2
Herbert Kindrick, $1
Hugh Breninach, $1
Assault and Battery
Martin Lang, $4
Joseph Mason, $4
John O’Connell, $4
Malicious Injury to Property:
Michael Doyle, $1
Assault:
James Lytle, $1
Archibald Calhoun, $1
Maurice Close, $1
Henry Cockroit, $3
Robert Grant—Assault and Battery $5 and willful and malicious damage to property, $10, imprisoned by default of not paying
Begging:
M. Zulz, $1, not paid, committed to jail in default
Disorderly:
John Inwood, $3
Profane Language:
Peter Archambault, $1
Selling Liquor without a Licence
Hugh H. Dickson, $50
Thomas Foy, insane, committed to gaol
Christie’s Lake—The body of that unfortunate young man Mr. Hollerin, who was drowned in Crosbie Lake, was found by Mr. Smith while fishing on the 21st.
Miss Francis Morris, daughter of Mr. W. J. Morris of this town, graduated in music at the late examination at the Toronto Conservatory of Music making 92 marks out of a possible 100 at piano studies.
Miss Edna Elliott a pupil of the Perth Collegiate Institute, wrote on the first year examination at Trinity University, Toronto, during the early part of this month, and passed a very creditable examination taking first class honors in modern languages. Miss Elliott deserves great credit for the stand she took because a part of the work required for this examination being beyond the limits of the course prescribed for high school by the Education Department, and could not be taken up in the classes of the Institute and had to be done by private study.
Preston Vale: Joseph Miller and James Close went to Perth the other day and the former was taken with a dizziness which caused him to become unconscious and he did not know how he got home or when.
A nice young man named William Burleigh who gave himself out as a “bad debts collecting agent” was sent up by a Smith’s Falls magistrate for trial for obtaining money under false pretenses. On Saturday Judge Senkler took his case in hand and finding him guilty sent him to 6 months in the Central Prison in Toronto.
Hopetown: The picnic on Friday, 24th June under the auspices of the R. T. of T. was a success as to the numbers, pleasure and finance. A good program was given constituted of addresses from Rev. Mr. Colclough and W. C. Caldwell, M.P.P. Lanark, Rev. Mr. McIlraith, Balderson, Mr. Lowe and Mrs. Donaldson of Middleville and Mr. Young of Hopetown. The Middleville choir under the leadership of Mr. Rankin rendered some very fine selections. Stewart Craig and his daughter Miss Maud Craig again delighted the audience with music from the violin and accordion. Mr. McIntyre played quite a number of selections on the bagpipe. On his way home Mr. McIntyre stopped before the house of Hugh Stewart and played a parting salute to Mrs. Duncan Stewart who left on Tuesday the 28th for Manitoba. The old lady who is 85 years of age and has gone to spent her last days with her family who are all in that province except her son Hugh.
Peter McPhail, Reeve of Lavant, will start for Brandon, Manitoba with his family on Tuesday next to reside there permanently. He has a farm near that town.
Watson’s Corners: Mrs. A. McGonical, Clyde Forks, is at present spending a couple of weeks with her mother Mrs. A. Craig.
Middleville: The funeral of the late J. McFarlane took place on Tuesday the 12th July. The remains were interred in the cemetery at Rosetta.
Maberly: Mary, infant daughter of Robert Wilson, hotelkeeper, took suddenly and dangerously ill on Friday p.m., 8th inst. Dr. Parson has poor hopes of her recovery.
Lanark Links: Last week Dr. Scott of this village was called home his father having taken suddenly ill. He died within 48 hours of the doctor’s arrival on Wed., 6th July. Mr. Scott was a strong, able bodied man, 54, and his death caused quite a shock to all in his neighborhood.
School of 50 Years Ago
By “O”
Among the Knights of the Birth of the past figured not only Mr. McKay but Mr. Dawson Kerr. The former I never saw in my youth but the latter most even of the present generation know for he lived to be a nonagenarian. When he was a “gassoon” the stories told about him made your hair stand on end. Cowhide filled a large space in their teaching and in that of my younger days. I began my school days in the old school under Malcolm McPherson’s, Mr. Scott being the teacher. He was a kindly man. Yet even his serenity of temper was at times disrupted by the obstreperous boys of those times. Well do I recollect a day or two after I had turned Ellis’ Corners and escaped Brooke’s dog “Briscoe” and put in my first day at school, seeing a boy “hoisted”, i.e., put on the back of another boy and taunted. The Misses Fraser followed as teachers. Then began the reign of one whom we irreverently named “Old Daddy Morrison” who was a “terror”. No children were spoiled by him for want of a rod. Subtraction, multiplication, the pence and other tables, etc., were indelibly graven in the memories of his scholars by cowhide. How many lickings I would have got if all the solemn vows of his graduates had been fulfilled I do not know. At times I caught it. Poor Dunc Haggart got his also. I hear now the “Come here Duncan Haggart”. “Hold out your hand.” I see Dunc’s sow, twangy Highland reply “I didn’t do anything”. This hastened the war for Dunc’s Highland blood got raised and he fought like a tiger to the great detriment of the master’s “barn door pants”. Poor Dunc passes as a hero in our eyes until his untimely death. For the tannings and other wrongs (all or imagined) I suffered a rod. Even now I wince and almost grow mad when I think of the yard long tawac. Graduating, Mr. Morrison entered the ministry and rose to be a moderator. Next in order was John Somerville, invincible in athletics, mathematics, and geography, etc., who made heavy draughts on Templeman’s and other tanneries for cowhide which he dispensed with an even hand to those of high and low degree. I had another teacher who welted us with a cane whom we knew as Toddy Walter McDonald whose reign was unmarked by anything more exciting then certain pitched battles with obstreperous scholars. He took the law and still survives hale and hearty. Graduating from the common school I entered the Grammar School then ;presided over by John McIntyre whose government, while strict, was enforced by word or look only. I remember also the days of the Royal Mail, with horn blowing, which lumbered up Main Street bringing all and sundry to their doors and came with flags flying and much loud bawling of commands and swearing. It was the time when Bill Matheson and Paddy Curly, Anthony Wiseman and “Coveyan”, the polite Frenchman and sundry other celebrities flourished.
The town of Smith’s Falls is in ferment again. It seems the site chosen by the Dominion Government for the new post office is a long way from the central and business section of town being a lot belonging to the good Conservative William Corbitt, opposite the Methodist Church. The News admits the site is not a convenient one and says that owing to the feelings proceedings have been stayed in the meantime.
The strawberry season is now over and the growers can now tell pretty accurately how much of the fruit they have raised. The season has been a most bountiful one and some time ago John Hendry, Scotch Line, estimated his crop to be about 100 crates or 5,400 quarts. This quantity has probably been surpassed since he made his estimate. Among the other large growers in this vicinity – Messrs W. V. Scott, Scotch Line, George Ritchie and Norman Miller, 3rd Line Bathurst, Richard Gould, Ferry Road all of whom have raised large quantities. In Middleville, Messrs. A.R.. Borrowman and John James have grown a great many crates.
For Sale: Grist and Saw Mill on the Tay River five miles from Perth, formerly occupied by John Laurie. Peter McLaren
West End Harness Shop—Summer Dusters, Fly Nets, Screens, Hoof Paste for Sores and Galls, Trunks and Valises, Rages all Styles and Prices. William Farrell
Hopetown: Mrs. William Baird presented her husband with a young son Friday. Both are doing well. -- Misses Nina and Maggie O’Reilly, Brooklyn, New York, are visiting their cousin John McCann of this town.
Lanark Links: By an oversight we missed last week the marriage of Mr. Matthes (hair dresser of Lanark) to Miss Warrington of Lanark, formerly of Fallbrook on the 12th July. The wedding took place in Perth, Rev. Mr. Jackson conducting the ceremony.
Lanark Links: On Wednesday, 20th July, Mrs. McCreary of Arnprior left for home after an extensive visit wither daughter Mrs. Bates of Lanark. Mrs. McCreary intends taking a trip to Winnipeg shortly.
An old resident of Carleton Place, John R. McLaren, has decided to leave that town for St. Paul, Minnesota with his family.
Cash Flour Store
I have reopened a flour store in Perth in the building known as the Weatherhead Property on the sough side of Foster Street. By paying strict attention to business we hope to merit a share of the customers of the town and surrounding country. My store will principally consist of the following articles: Roller ground flour, stone ground flour, oatmeal, cornmeal, potbarley, brosemeal, cracked wheat and graham flour. In the lines of feed I will have pea hash, pea and oat hash, oat hash, bran and cannel. As I belie e too much credit is a great source of bad times I am going to try the cash principal and give my customers the benefit of the difference between cash and credit prices. William Lees
In the list of successful candidates for cadet ship in the Military College, Kingston, A. Clyde Caldwell of Lanark is the 6th.
Warning to Wheelmen: The Town Council having passed a bylaw prohibiting the owners of bicycles from running them on the sidewalks the undersigned has received instructions to see that it is carried out and hereby warns the owners of such vehicles. John Keays, Chief Constable
William Dunlop, who lives on the 11th Lot, 8th Concession Dalhousie, brought us in a few days ago an Indian skinning knife made of soap stone, finely formed and polished and perfect in preservation. It was found on his farm by himself and it would not be a bad contribution to the Ontario Institute Museum in Ontario. The locality about Mr. Dunlop’s farm, which is near the beautiful Dalhousie Lake seems to have been a favorite camping place for the Redmen in old times—perhaps the site of one of the villages. In ploughing the fields and in making roads aboriginal skulls, broken pottery, chunks of flint for arrows, spear heads, etc., have been found and turn up. A tradition exists believed by some that a pot of gold was buried by an Indian by the head of the lake and on the farm of John McLaren. The Indian who buried it died when near Oliver’s Ferry on a hunting expedition and was unable before death to explain clearly to those about him the exact location. Searches have been made by red and white men for the treasure but no one has ever been able to locate it.
Mrs. Avison, after a residence of 14 years in Carleton Place has gone to reside in Cornwall. Parting presents were made by employees of the Hawthorn Woolen Factory and by fellow members of the Methodist Church.
The Carleton Place Herald notes the drowning of Mabel, infant daughter of Mr. Merilees of Rosebank Flour Mill. The little one was only 16 months old.
Lanark Links: Evangelists Scoby and Deachman are at present engaged in religious work at Playfairville holding nightly services at that place. The meetings are largely attended by the people in and around Playfairville. Mr. Scoby is from Ottawa and his work lately has been in the principal towns and villages in eastern Ontario.
We have received from the family of the late William Fraser, Esq., of this place some volumes of the Parliamentary Records of the years 1832-33 embracing the times of his father the late Col. Fraser, who was a member of the Canadian House of Assembly. Col. Fraser who was an officer in the militia and also a subaltern officer in a Highland Regiment in the regular army represented the Bathurst District in parliament and lived in that well known cottage villa about a mile this side of Lanark on the Perth Road.
Mrs. J.R. Beal (nee Miss McKerracher) of Pembroke has been visiting for the past month her friends in Drummond, Perth, and Bathurst.
On Saturday evening about 5:30 two young girls names Elmire Osbourne and Martha Court were bathing in the river above the dam. They went into the farther boathouse at the upper bridge and having put on their bathing suits they entered the water apparently unaware that the river very near the shore was beyond their depth. Two little boys were on the shore and one was in a boat in the vicinity and it seems they saw the two little girls going down and crying out but being frightened they ran away neither giving help nor raising the alarm. The small boy on the boat heard them cry out “Oh My!” and then disappear but he was too small to know what to do. Very shortly after a man named William Richardson passing, noticed a girl’s hair ribbon floating on the water near the shore and rushing in he brought out the body of Martha Court to the shore even yet breathing. The water here was only three feet deep and she was partly floating and not beyond her depth. Richardson being strongly excited hastened at once for a doctor leaving the body on the shore being ignorant as unfortunately most people are, of the manner of treating a person found apparently drowned. Drs. Hanna and Grant accompanied by the mother and sisters and a crowd of other people arrived in a little while but when restorative measures were adopted life was extinct. The body was taken at once to the house of Mrs. Samuel White. All the time Elmira Osbourne was supposed to be in one of the houses as reported by one of the boys but when the crowd moved away her clothes were still in the bath house and some stayed behind to hunt her up. Not being found in any dwellings search was made in the river in about 9 feet of water. A young man named Haley dove down after it and after several attempts succeeded in bring it to the surface but all life was gone. The town was therefore again startled by the report that another child had drowned with the first and the body was soon conveyed to the home of its agonized mother. This father is away for the summer fishing in Newfoundland or Labrador waters and being 400 miles away from a telegraph station could not be reached. A sister who is in Sault Ste. Marie was telegraphed for and she arrived on Monday afternoon in time for the funeral. The parents of both the unfortunate girls were engaged in the occupation of fishing in and about Newfoundland up to about 1882 and coming to Perth have been here ever since, Osbourne returning to his old occupation this summer on finding work dull here. Martha Court was 13 and was buried on Sunday afternoon and Elmira Osbourne, 13, was buried on Monday afternoon.
The great thunder and lightning storms on Friday did not pass away without doing a certain amount of damage. One house visited was that of John Hagarty of North Elmsley. During the 2:00 storm a bolt of lightning went down the chimney, followed the stove pipes through the rooms to the dining room and then descended by the stove on foot of which was burned off, the electric visitor then shot through the floor and the cellar and made its exit somewhere in the wall. The chimney flue and stove pipes were torn to pieces but no furniture was destroyed and no life lost.
Drowned, two little grandchildren of Mr. and Mrs. Willoughby, Fred and Harold, aged three and six years who were drowned at Prescott on Friday last while playing at fishing at the Labatt brewery wharf there. The grandparents went to Prescott to comfort the bereaved parents. The family was about to remove to Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Business for Sale: Dry Goods and Grocery James Sheridan
Drowned, a young man named William Stewart who was drowned in the Rideau Lake near Oliver’s Ferry on Thursday evening of last week.
We regret to learn of the death of P. Vance Georgen, barrister of Portage-la-Prairie, Manitoba. He leaves a widow (formerly Miss Ida Mowat of Perth) and one surviving child.
William Richardson, who took the drowned girl Martha Court from the water states that he did not happen to be passing along at the time but left his work at the grist mill on observing the accident and pushing off in a boat near the spot drew the body to the shore with the aid of Charlie Moore. He was not a bit excited, he claims, and did not run away for a doctor but did his best to bring the girl back to life but to no avail.
Balderson—Old Mrs. Lee who lives on the 8th line, now being nearly 90 years old, arose out of her bed to get a drink and broke her leg very badly at the ankle the other night. There is no hope of the leg knitting so that her chances of recovery are very low.
William H. Wylie of Carleton Place is about removing from that town and has offered his residence for sale.
The Central Canadian of Carleton Place of the 18th August says: “Mrs. Robert Miller received a message from Pakenham on Saturday that her brother Henry had been killed in Gillies Saw Mill in White Lake. A board from the edger struck him over the heart. He was carried home and died in about 30 minutes. He was 26.”
Mrs. J.A. Waddell of New York is visiting at her father’s James Allan.
W. B. Craig, Principal of the Arnprior High School and sister of Miss Janet Craig called to their sister Mrs. W. H. Grant on Friday on their way home to Toronto.
Albert Leach of Smith’s Falls went to sleep while being shaved. Waking with a start he caused the infliction of a severe wound in his face.
R. Drysdale, Renfrew Village Clerk, who came home last week for a few days returned this week to Kingston for further treatment of a cancerous growth on his tongue.
A syndicate composed of Messrs. F. T., W. H. and C. B. Frost, J.M. Clark, Capt. Foster and F.A. Bethune have purchased the Ward Mill and Water Power at Sly’s Rapids, Smith’s Falls for $10,000. There are 40 acres of land, the old mill, a double house and one of the finest water privileges in Canada. The syndicate intends to use it for electrical purposes and machines will be placed that will furnish running power for Frost & Wood’s large establishments. It is also the intention to build an electric tramway from the Frost & Wood’s establishment on which will run flat cars carrying freight from the ships to the freight shed.
Lanark Links: The many friends and acquaintances of John Bothwell will be glad to hear that he has returned from the hospital in Montreal and is feeling a great deal better.
Lanark Links: We are sorry to record another of those sad drowning incidents which happen so frequently in our midst. This is one which happened in Playfairville on Friday evening in which Robert Park, 19, son of John Park of Sherbrooke, lost his life. It seems Mr. Park, was at work driving boom timber together at the bottom of the rapids about 5:00 in the evening for the purpose of making a crib. He had just succeeded in getting part of the timber in the place he wanted it when by some mishap he fell into the water and was whirled out of sight in a moment. One of his comrades on the shore saw his head come up out of the water for a moment but he had no way of giving him any assistance as there were no logs near by which could be put out into the stream in time. When his comrades on the timber drive saw that he was drowned they at once started out to look for the body. Search was made for him along the shore of the river but without success. They were compelled to give up until the next morning. In the meantime the friends of the deceased man had been sent for and arrived about 9:00 on Saturday morning. For another whole day the men continued to search for the body using grappling irons as well as dynamite but with as little success as the day before owing no doubt to the very heavy clouds which hung above their heads. On Sunday morning the body was found about 100 yards from where the poor man fell into the water. It was at once taken to the friend’s home in Sherbrooke and from there to the burying ground on Monday, a number of shanty men being present at the funeral.
Benjamin Cameron, Lanark, left last week for the Northwest.
John G. Campbell returned from Sarnia on Saturday taking the steamer Cuba and the lake and canal route. He visited also Petrolia and much of the country around Sarnia where he passed some years of his early manhood in the ‘40’s. The country has vastly improved since his stay there and in his estimation is the garden of Canada and Sarnia is one of the finest towns in the Dominion.
Rev. S. Mylne and family of Smith’s Falls have returned from their trip to California and have become so infatuated with the sunny climate that they will shortly remove to Los Angeles to reside.
Mrs. Elizabeth McDonald (nee Cass), mother of John D. McDonald a barrister of Renfrew, died in the County of Prescott on the 11th Aug., aged 93 years. Her parents were U. E. Loyalists of Welsh(?) descent.
A deaf and dumb citizen of Almonte named McGregor was in town last week hunting for his 13 year old daughter who had gone away from him. She had expressed a wish to visit some friends near Beachburg and it was supposed she had come in this direction. The father enlisted Chief McDermott’s service and he discovered the child had spent Wednesday night in town and had gone down the line again by train the next morning. At last account the child had not been found.
Middleville—Mrs. R. Miller returned home from Manitoba on Saturday accompanied by her daughter Mrs. N. Whitton.
The Smith’s Falls News last week contained a summary of the proceedings of the coroner’s inquest held to consider the fatal accident at Avonmore Station a few days before by which a Smith’s Falls man named James Woods, brakeman, came to his death. It says: “On Tuesday an inquest was held at Avonmore and a verdict was returned to the effect that W. J. Woods came to his death by the colliding of two freight trains on the C.P.R. caused by negligence of duty and violation of the (illegible word) orders by four of the train hands and one night operator. The verdict censured Conductor Laval for sleeping while on duty; Brakeman Taggart for taking orders from the operator and registering the train and for misinterpreting the order to the engineer; Engineer Pring for receiving orders from the brakeman and carelessness in reading them; Brakeman Empey for receiving orders from Brakeman Taggart and not waking Conductor Laval; and Operator Robinson for giving orders to Brakeman Taggart and allowing him to register the train instead of Conductor Laval. The five above named were discharged from the employ of the company; the only hand on the west bound train not being guilty of misdemeanor being the fireman.
Mrs. (Dr.) Patterson of Winnipeg is in town having been called here by the illness of her mother Mrs. Robert Gemmell.
Mrs. (Rev.) A.C.. Crews of Toronto is in town and is
stopping with her sister Mrs. Charles Austin.
Mr. and Mrs. J.T. Noonan returned to Brockville on Saturday last. Mrs. Noonan was accompanied by her sister Miss Josephine Young.
Archibald Thomson, Pembroke, Clerk of the Renfrew County Court, stopped on Friday at his cousin’s Robert Grenier, Elmsley and gave us a call on his way.
Mrs. H. H.(?) (Dr.) Stone of Durhamsville, New York, is visiting her mother Mrs. G. L. Walker, Craig Street. Miss Lizzie Walker who had been visiting her for some weeks returned home with her.
Mrs. D. Kippen went to Kingston Monday on a two week visit
to her daughter, Mrs. A.B. Campbell.
The owners of cows are busy just now fighting a new plague called the Texas Cattle Fly which lays its eggs in the hair around the root of the cows horns into maggots and if left alone will kill the cows. The application of tar is the most popular remedy.
Scotch Line—The lawn social held under the auspices of the Brookside Mission Band was a decided success. The cool evening did not prevent a large crowd from assembling not a few of whom came from Perth, Glen Tay and the Ferry. When refreshments were over a short program was rendered consisting of addresses by the Rev. Mr. Scott of Perth and Mr. S. Wilson, Chairman, by the band and a couple selections by the choir after which the crowd dispersed, well satisfied with their evening’s pleasure and social intercourse. Proceeds amounted to about $32. The officers of the band have a grand and noble objective in view—the initiation of a missionary spirit in youthful minds and should receive every encouragement. Mr. Jno Wilson seems to think so for he quietly placed his handsome house and grounds at the disposal of the band and did everything he could to further the enjoyment.
At the departmental examinations in Kingston in both pass and honors, being held by Queen’s University, the following matriculation scholarships were awarded upon the results of these exams: Prince of Wales, $60 to J. B. McDougall of Almonte; Mackerras Memorial, valued at $100, to F. Playfair of Almonte, Gunn, valued at $100 to W. H. Cram of Carleton Place; Forbes, valued at $30 and exemption from class fees for one year to J. H. McArthur of Almonte.
James Conlon is to be appointed postmaster at Manion, Bathurst in place of Francis Allan, removed to town and is putting up a building wherein to keep his office.
J.F. Gardner of this place intends taking passage on Tuesday next from Montreal on the Allan Steamship Circassion for Great Britain. His parents live in Greenock, Scotland and he will make that his principal resting place in the land of the heather.
Darling: The Darling picnic is over once more. Although the weather had been somewhat threatening for some days the morning of the 13th advanced with a fair degree of sunshine and a good number took advantage of the holiday enjoyment afforded by the picnic. The tables were laden beautifully, the music was melodious and the addresses were both very interesting, substantial and brief. Mr. D. McIntrye manipulated the bagpipes with ability and good will. His stirring notes and the rhythm of the humorous Scotch reading by A. Rankin of Middleville warmed the Scotch blood present. The high reputation of the Middleville choir was well sustained by a number of appropriate selections equally cheerfully donated. Misses Brown and Clayton rendered a choice duet in a masterly manner. The Club swinging of Misses Bone and Rankin of Middleville was a most attractive feature. The layman speech was that of Mr. Robertson, merchant, Lanark, who presented “Footprints” in a did active setting worthy of a full fledged cleric. Mr. McAulay, pastor of Middleville gave a spicy and forcible address on “Determination”, Rev. T. S. McIlraith handled “How to Succeed” for the benefit of the young folks and dispensed practical hints to his native township friends on the undertaking of the church building. Rev. J. M. McLean of Ramsay dealt with “People and Their Relationship to the Church” in a comprehensive and telling address affording much subject for thought. The pleasure of the day’s proceedings was partially marred by pugilistic efforts at reconciliation on the part of some roughs from some distance although this disgraceful combat was of short duration it tends to leave its stigma upon a part of the township which behaved most creditably. In this case, the demon of drink was master and a sad view of the slavery of his devotees and of the servant of angry passion was presented, thrown into strong relief by the peaceful festivities of the picnic. The opposites are strangely mingled in life. Shortly after 4:00 tea, the sprinkling clouds burst in earnest sending the large part of the crowd homeward. However, several of the young men remained long enough to rejoice in the possession of trophies won in various sports. A promising feature of the management of the picnic throughout is the fact that the committee was comprised entirely of young folks. Doling out its watery dismissal, a day, profitable and pleasurable to many, winded to its close leaving the Building Fund $75 fatter than at its opening.
Miss Alice Taylor (Certified from the Toronto School of Music) is prepared to take pupils for Church organ, piano, harmony and light singing. Terms made known on application at her residence.
Middleville—Westroppe McDougall, 14 years old, youngest son of Hon. William McDougall, former M.P. for N. Lanark, was accidentally shot while on a fishing expedition at Rice Lake and it is felt that his arm may have to be amputated.
Middleville—Mrs. James Stewart, Carleton Place, formerly of the 7th Line Beckwith, died at the residence of her son-in-law W. H. Cole, aged 85 years. She was a daughter of the late Donald Stewart and was the mother of 8 children. Her husband died about 13 years ago. She was born in Paisley, Scotland.
Carload of Potatoes Wanted
Austin & James
Mr. G.G. Publow made a milk test at the Bathurst Mutual Factory last week and found the milk all of good quality except that of Samuel Gamble, which was found to contain added water. Mr. Publow made an investigation of the case and found that the water had gotten into the milk by the leaking of the milk cooler they were using. Mr. Publow was satisfied that the case was purely accidental and that Mr. Gamble knew nothing about it. Mr. Gamble made it right with the patrons by making a reduction of 10% of his milk for a back payment.
On the 22nd July, 1818, Mr. G. C. B. Roberts, merchant, was buried in the old Presbyterian burying ground on Brock Street after a short career in this life of 25 years. The headstone long since moss grown and discolored by time was placed at his grave by his younger brother the late John Roberts of Ottawa; and by the will of the latter, opened and proved last month, it was engrained(?) on the executors to remove the remains to Ottawa and there lay them by the side of the brother who survived him just 44 years. On Tuesday last Mr. Roberts’ heir, John Roberts Allan came up from Ottawa to have the removal carried out. The disinterment was made by David Hogg, undertaker, who placed the remains—now only a collection of bones—in a new coffin and they were sent by rail to Ottawa. They now lie in Beechwood Cemetery there as ordered in the will. Mr. Roberts’ mother was buried in the old cemetery at Ottawa and her remains will also be taken up and placed beside those of the two sons. A substitute sarcophagus will mark the last resting place of the three.
G. R. McLaren has sold his bakery and confectionary shop at Westport to his sister Mrs. T. P. Castle, Glen Tay and will removed to the Canadian Northwest. Mrs. Castle, of course, will remove to Westport.
The property of John Munro, at Perth and Watson’s Corners, is offered for sale. The family are about to remove to the Northwest.
Messrs. Montgomery and Dennis, drovers of this town, shipped on Tuesday 100 steers for Glasgow, Scotland. They were bought in this neighborhood. Mr. Dennis will go and take charge of them across the Atlantic.
The subscriber has just received a cargo of Manitoba flour, Manitoba Strong Baker’s Flour, Manitoba Hungarian Patent Flour. The Hungarian is allowed to be the best on the market. M. R.. Dodds
Messrs. Barrie and McLenaghan this week shipped 1,000 calves to Calgary, N.W.T. Mr. Heald, the purchaser, was here and went out with the shipment. It required about 16 cars to accompany this number. 650 out of the 1,000 calves were shipped from the Perth station the balance having been shipped from other adjacent locations. The average price per calf to the farmer was $6. They are to stock Mr. Heald’s ranch near Calgary.
Lanark Links: Mrs.
D.M. Farmer of Almonte is at present visiting her mother Mrs. B.
Caldwell.
The Carleton Place papers contained a lengthy obituary of Alexander Stewart of Beckwith, 9th Concession, who died in his 100th year on the 15th inst.
Robert Menzies of Westmeath Township died at the residence of his son-in-law Mr. Little, Beachburg, on Wednesday aged 71 years. He was at one time superintendent of bridges on the Canadian Central Railway and lived in Perth for some years. He was a Presbyterian.
With half an eye one can see the beneficial effects of Scott’s Emulsion of Pure Norwegian Cod Liver Oil and Hypophosphates of Lime and Soda upon the face and form of those who, from a state of disability and weakness, have been brought by its use to a full state of vigor of body and mind. It cures coughs, colds, consumption, scrofula and all anemic and wasting diseases. Prevents wasting in children. Almost as palatable as milk.
Dr. William Neilson of Winnipeg, Professor in the MacNeal College, arrived in town last week to visit his mother, brother and sister and brother-in-law, while here his brother John E. Neilson, jeweler, Almonte and sister and brother-in-law Mr. and Mrs. A.M. Greig, barrister, Almonte came to town also and had a family gathering of 13.
The fire department will on Friday proceed to flush the drains of the town. Parties knowing of any drains that need to be flushed please notify D. Noonan, Chief of the Brigade. J.T. Henderson, Chairman, Fire Department
A. Robertson, general merchant has assigned for the benefit of his creditors. Great sympathy is felt on all sides for Mr. Robertson who after 16 years of hard work and his careful attention to economy has been compelled to give way at last. NO reflection can be cast upon his honor or integrity in his career and we hope his creditors will see their way clear to grant him an honorable discharge. Hard times and severe competition were the case of his failure.
Return of Convictions for the Period 14th June to 13th September:
Assault and Grossly Insulting Language:
Michael Tovey, $3
Drunk and Disorderly:
James Noonan, Jr., $5
Richard Walker, $5
Lawrence Barrie, $3
Patrick Rogers, $3
Peter Bennett, $1
William Connors, $1
Arthur Cook, $2
Robert Walker, $1
Robert Stead Jr., $1
Fred Cowan, $1
Disorderly:
William Wilson, $3
Michael Gulligan, $1
Mrs. Jas. Hoges, $2
Thomas White, $4
Ann Cooper, $4
Selling Liquor in Prohibited Hours:
James Presley, $25
Peter P. Satler, $25
Alexander Hunter, 6 months in gaol
Trespassing:
John McEwen, $2 and $1 in damages
Breach of Master and Servant Act:
John Cleland—Defendant Ordered to Complete Engagement
Open Exposure of Person:
Wesley Beck, $2
William Wilson, $2
Supplying Diluted Milk:
John Forrest, $30
Carrying a Pistol:
Eliza Jones, 30 days in gaol
Pointing a Firearm:
Eliza Jones, 30 days in gaol
Walter W. Kibbe, $20
Fast Driving on a Bridge:
George Ward, $4
Assault:
George Scott, $2
Vagrancy:
John Thomas, 6 months in gaol
Henry Driscoll, 6 months in gaol
Joseph du Pont, 6 months in gaol
Neglecting to Attend Drill:
William Grattan, $5
Fighting:
Patrick Galvin, $3
Robert Young, $5
James Hastie, $5
Hawking with No License:
William Bownes $20
Insulting Language:
Abel Cohen, $2
Selling Without a License:
H. H. Dickson $50
Assaulting A Constable:
Patrick O’Brien, Jr.
Obscene Language:
James Farrell, $1
Last Saturday John Mitchell of this town received word that his oldest son George Mitchell of St. Louis, Missouri, would arrive here on a visit by the early morning train from the west. When the train arrived, Mitchell (son) came out of the car, gave Andrew Robinson, driver of the Hicks House bus, his overcoat and two valises, asking him to take care of them that he was going to Smith’s Falls and would return by the 8:00 local the next morning. The articles were taken charge of, Mr. Mitchell stepped back on the car and the train sped off into the darkness and in the midst of a very heavy downpour of rain. He did not return by the morning train and his parents were more or less wondering that he did not reach their home. On Tuesday morning, after the arrival of the 8:00 local, the railway man noticed in the ditch a little beyond the water tank something in the water that looked like a bundle of clothes. He went back to the place to investigate it and was startled to find the body of a man. The corpse was lying in the water face down, feet towards the track with only a portion of the face visible. He at once went to town and notified Chief Constable Keays and he had the body taken out of the ditch which was full of water from the heavy rain and removed to the station. The remains were then recognized as those of George Mitchell by several including his father who was hastily summoned to the sad scene. Dr. Kellock, coroner, was notified of the occurrence. He had a jury summoned and held an inquest. The body and locality were examined after which evidence was taken. Certain circumstances were very suspicious and suggestive of foul play. The remains were found in the ditch on the left hand side of the track looking towards Smith’s Falls. Now, where the accident or tragedy occurred was a point 40-50 yards nearer the Perth station and on the other side of the two tracks. Here blood was found on the ground on the small stones laying about and on the end of the railway ties by the tracks. Here poor Mitchell must either have fallen from the car from the swaying motion in going around the curve or been knocked from the platform by someone near him. There was a large hole on the side of the head four or five inches in diameter and another on his forehead with other injuries on the head. If the car struck him on falling, it might account for the fracture of the skull but what was to take him across the two tracks and forty yards further on and placed him in a deep ditch full of water? We think the idea that he might have walked there may fairly be abandoned, with his skull crushed as it was. It would be next to a miracle if this could happen. Besides, there are faint indications of a path made in the grass by the ditch where the body was as if two men had dragged it there. But one of the most suspicious circumstances in the case is that another man’s overcoat was found near the vicinity too small for Mitchell and too good an article to have been thrown away by anyone. Some had a theory that in some way or another, one or two men were instrumental in the victim’s death and before the train could and before the train could get under good headway the deed was committed and the perpetrators got off the train to attend to the victim and that the overcoat belonged to one of these. When found, there was only $6 on his clothes though he was a man of good circumstances. Of course, the murder theory is only a surmise but if pure accident was the cause of the death there is much to be explained to account for the facts plain to the eye. On the other hand, a closer examination of the head by Dr. Kellock reveals the fact that although the skull was badly fractured the brain was conjured(?) almost and that the copious bleeding might have revived the injured man and enabled him to grope his way blindly across the tracks and then finally perished in the water. The finding of the jury is fixed for this Friday night at which time they adjourned. It is probable the case is one that will as far as this world is concerned, be forever buried in mystery. Poor George had a great many friends and acquaintances in Perth where he was born and bred and his dreadful end has created general sorrow and horror. The deceased’s wife and brother (James Mitchell) from St. Louis are coming in time for the funeral.
J. F. Kellock, druggist and Mrs. Kellock left last week on a trip to the Canadian and U.S. Northwest.
Word came to town last week to his mother that Frederick Lafferty, formerly of Clarendon Station had died in California a short time ago from Bright’s Disease.
George Campbell, auctioneer, will sell at the residence of Robert Ellis near Clarendon Station, near Oso, on Monday, 3rd Oct., a lot of farm stock and household furniture, potatoes, etc.
J. H. Martin, auctioneer, will sell at the residence of George R. McLaren, Westport, on Saturday, 1st Oct., a lot of household furniture, a fine Bell plane(?), a good horse, etc. Mr. McLaren intends leaving for the Northwest right away.
The master cheese made in Perth for the World’s Fair at Chicago by J.A. Ruddick was finished on Monday last and was a complete success. The quality was #1 and is every bit as good as the smaller one as determined by boring tests. The cheese was made by a special press and mould procured at an Ottawa foundry and the press was worked by jack screws to give a pressure of 35 tons. The mould stood 7 feet high and 9 feet in diameter. The monster will be shipped to Chicago this spring.
Many friends in Perth will be interested to know that Mary Howden, Winnipeg, youngest daughter of Dr. Howden, was married a short time ago to Mr. Jons (?) of the Prairie City.
Lanark Links: On Sunday evening last, Rev. Colclough preached a very interesting sermon taking for the subject of his remarks “A House To Let”. Next Sunday his subject will be “Mind Your Own Business”.
Preston Vale—Mrs. Alexander Somerville presented her husband with a charming little daughter.
Roots Wanted—In exchange for a registered thoroughbred Ayreshire Bull calf. The subscriber wants a few tons of sugar beets, carrots, or turnips. R. Jamieson, Perth
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Are finding chairs to suit them at James Young’s store. Largest stock and lowest prices in town.
Lanark Links: Here is something to attract the farmers’ attention: A. Affleck has invested in a grain hasher which is of the latest improved style. This will be running in connection with his planning mill and is expected to do good work. It will be set up and in working order in a few days.
Auction Sale Farm Stock and Implements: William Hughes, Lot 21, 5th Concession Bathurst.
Watson’s Corners: Mrs. John Johnston presented her husband with a young son last week.
The stock and bank debts of A. Robertson, merchant, were sold to Frederick Gilroy, traveler for Messrs. Coverhill and Hughes of Montreal.
Mrs. Anna Davidson (not Miss McKerracher) of Jamestown, Dakota is visiting her sister Mrs. R. Burris in town.
Word has reached here on Monday that John McDonald, not long ago conductor on the Perth local and a resident of this town, was killed in Wisconsin while on railway duties leaving a wife and 5 or 6 children.
We regret to learn that the wife of Joseph McDonald, Iowa, son of Duncan McDonald, Perth, died last week and was buried on Saturday.
Hopetown—Mrs. Charles Stewart, Sr., who has been seriously ill for some time is slowly recovering. Her daughter Mrs. A. Boyle, near Mitchell, Perth County has returned to her home.
Benjamin C. Wright, youngest son of Benjamin Wright, of this town, left on Wednesday for Denver where two of his brothers are now.
James Anderson’s farm, being the East ½ of Lot 23 in the 3rd Concession of Bathurst, within one mile of Perth, is for rent.
Biliousness, Constipation, Sick Headache, are all caused by disorders of the stomach or liver. Kellock’s Stomach and Liver Pills are composed of the choicest vegetable extracts and especially made to act in these organs. They are very small and prompt in action and do not gripp. They rouse the torpid liver, create healthy action in the digestive organs and cure sick headache.
Friday seemed to have been the day for the medical students at McGill in Montreal to have a gay and festive time. In the evening 300 to 400 “meds” followed in the procession and marched through the streets of the city and brought it up at the Academy of Music where they greatly assisted the actors in bringing out showy parts of the drama and the audience applauding. They serenaded the professors afterwards and the Herald Office and roused sleepy citizens generally with their singing and their calls. Among the meds at McGill this quarter are Messrs. W. F. Drysdale and Fowler from Perth and J.F. Warren from Bathurst.
James McFarlane, 7th Line Beckwith was taken to the Rockwood Asylum last week by Chief Wilson. He seemed very ready to go being under the impression that he was just starting on a glorious trip around the merry world. At the same time he warned the Chief to be cautious lest he slip away and become invisible. Central Canadian
Among those who passed in the late exams at the College of Physicians and Surgeons in Toronto were Messrs. I. J. Foley of Westport and F. L. Switzer of Carleton Place. This is their final exams in medicine.
Oliver’s Grist Mill—All sorts of grinding done at rock bottom prices. Hashing $1 per ton. First class corn meal and flour. Grists weighed in and out. F. M. C. Porteous, Miller, Oliver’s Mill, Scotch Line
Lanark Links: On Monday last Miss Parker of London, England arrived in the village to make an extended visit with her uncle, Mr. Prentice.
Lanark Links: Mrs. John Drysdale of this village attended the funeral of her sister in Toronto last week.
About a week ago, Mrs. Foster of Almonte, insane, was brought in and committed to gaol.
When the advocates of temperance reform point out the evils of the liquor traffic and hold up to the public gaze the demoralizing results of excessive indulgence in intoxicants, many well meaning people thinking the picture is overdrawn or at worst the horrors portrayed are confined to the alums of the great cities should read on. Last Monday night in moral, church going Perth, there occurred an exhibition of human depravity and squalid misery—the direct result of drunkenness—which rivals the most vivid pictures of even the extremists of the temperance parties. Patrick Flood, a well known character of the town, took home with him that night a quantity of whiskey and sat down with his wife to celebrate Halloween in characteristic style. As the fumes of the fiery liquor mounted to his brain, the bestial disposition of the man began to show itself and he was soon actively engaged in pummeling his weaker but equally guilty “helpmeet”. After receiving a pair of black eyes and sundry other injuries the woman managed to escape from his grasp and herself very much the worse for liquor reeled out into the street and besought the protection of passers by. Meanwhile, the husband proceeded to vent his insane fury on the inanimate objects around him and soon the stove was reduced to a ruin and much of the scanty furniture broken and thrown out the door and windows. On that cold, bleak night the wretched woman wandered, shivering, about the streets for some time, afraid to get even the meager shelter afforded by the wrecked home until the aid of the law was invoked and the besotted husband locked up for the night. Next morning he was called upon to pay a fine and costs amounting to about $5 and in default of same was sent to gaol. Such a disgraceful scene furnished the strongest possible arguments in favor of prohibition.
P.C. McIntyre, M.P.P., North Winnipeg and an old Balderson boy, left Winnipeg on Monday for Minneapolis where he was to be married to Emily Kerr, late of Winnipeg. The School Board of which Mr. McIntyre is chairman went as a body to the railway station to see him off on his pleasant errand.
We are sorry to state James Donald, Reeve of Dalhousie lies at his residence there seriously ill with blood poisoning. Some time ago he got a scratch on his thumb while attending to his lamb buying at Cobden, Renfrew County and in consequence of this was taken down sick two weeks ago yesterday. Drs. Bradford of McDonald’s Corners and Munro of Perth are attending him.
Mrs. Matthew Bell has sold her house and lot on Gore Street west to Miss Graham. Mrs. Bell left yesterday for Irish Creek to live with her daughter Mrs. John Ballantine.
Mr. and Mrs. William O’Brien left town on Thursday to live in Prescott after being residents of Perth for 40 or 50 years. Their children now live in Prescott which is the reason for the change. Mrs. Thomas Devlin and her niece Miss McEachen two residents also much respected left yesterday to reside in the village of Douglas, Renfrew County where their friends live.
The remains of Mrs. W. S. Bell (nee Lizzie Hope) arrived from Vancouver, B.C., on Monday and were laid in Elmwood Cemetery that afternoon. The deceased’s two brothers William and Andrew Hope came with the body. The cause of Mrs. Bell’s death was given as paralysis of the brain and her illness lasted only from Saturday until Monday.
One of the oldest families in the village of Renfrew that of Mr. and Mrs. McAndrew, are about to leave there to reside in Toronto where their son John A. McAndrew, ex M.P.P., barrister, is a resident.
Auction Sale of Farm Stock and Implements: William Gardner, McDonald’s Corners.
Auction Sale of Farm Stock and Implements: Archibald McTavish, Lot 3(?) 5(?), 9th Concession Drummond.
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The undersigned having purchased from Charles Simpson a thoroughbred large improved Yorkshire boar—Crowned Prince—will have him for service on Lot 9 10th Concession Drummond. J. S. Borrowman
Auction Sale of Farm Stock and Implements John S. Tullis, Lot 1, 9th Concession Drummond.
John Glenn, who left N. Sherbrooke in the summer for Mamton(?), Manitoba, has returned to his old township not liking the Northwest we suppose. We are glad to see an old and esteemed resident like Mr. Glenn back again among his friends.
On the 16th November, Messrs. James Hughes and J. B. Hughes, father and son, 3rd Concession Bathurst, shipped to Montreal Brewing Company 11 tons of hops grown in their yard. The shipment realized $4,000. The hops were a first class article.
Charles Rice, clerk of the county court, left Friday for Fargo, Dakota where Mrs. Rice was staying with her daughter and was taken dangerously ill there with inflammation of the lungs.
G. E. Armstrong has beautifully decorated Christmas windows full of holiday goods. A striking novelty is a miniature copy of the front store in gelatin with doors, windows, fine counters, etc., all complete, and electric lights inside lighting a good show of Lilliputian Christmas goods. It is the work of the ingenious William Armstrong, Jr.
James Williams has returned to Almonte form North Dakota where he had been engaging in farming and will remain all winter. He was formerly from Armstrong’s Corners in Drummond.
James F. McLaren of Preston, Man. Arrived here on Saturday. He will stay during the winter at his father’s, Donald McLaren, Drummond. His brother Archie McLaren will reach here in about three weeks to also stay the winter.
Preston Vale: Matthew Gould has sold his farm to his son-in-law Mr. Weir of Bathurst for $4,000 and Matthew Gould has purchased Joseph Medler’s for the sum of $800. We understand that Joseph is going to take a trip to Ireland to visit old friends.
Watson’s Corners: Mrs. Thomas Craig is at present helping to care for her brother, Stewart Craig of Brightside, who is very low with consumption.—Andrew Machan, Sr., is suffering from the effects of a stroke of paralysis.
Althorpe: James McMunn arrived home from the Canadian Northwest with the remains of his sister who died some time ago, and was buried in the Scotch Line Cemetery.
The Windsor (illegible word follows) Record says: “There is indignation at the (illegible word) Mills over the conduct of a man named George W. Sayers. About 13 years ago George married Elizabeth McDougall, daughter of Mr. Allan McDougall, Lavant, County Lanark, against the wishes of her parents. Shortly after the marriage they moved to Blenheim, Quebec, to Bath- - - - from where they came to this place. According to Mrs. Sayers’ story, the hardships that she and her family of five small children have endured is something terrible to relate. The eldest child is a girl of 12 years and the youngest a boy of 2 and a half. She says Sayers frequently would go away and stay for months, leaving the family to the (illegible word) of the public with very little food, no (illegible word) and no much clothing. On one occasion when he left his family was nearly destitute and he followed the Salvation Army around the country preaching and fiddling. Early in the Spring two years ago he left his family, pretending that he had secured work as a clerk on a boat (?) and that he would return again in the Fall but he has not since returned neither has he sent a penny to his family. Sayers did not go on a boat(?) at all this time but has been laying around Detroit and going from one saloon to another fiddling for crowds that would gather there. Mrs. Sayers is a week, sickly woman and has been an object of charity. Her sickness she claims she contracted while moving from Blenheim to Bothwell in an open lumber wagon the weather being stormy and cold. She says her clothes were actually frozen to her body since which time she has been failing in health. For about 12 years Mrs. Sayers has not heard from her parents nor they from her but such was not the case for on Wednesday morning her father arrived in town having through a brother of hers heard of her whereabouts and circumstances. You may imagine his joy at finding his daughter again and she found that her father was still alive and had come to take her and her family back with him.”
J.R. Dickson has sold the farm on Indian Hill, Pakenham, known as the Stephen Dickson farm, to Thomas McCann for the sum of $3,000.
James Donald of Dalhousie is slightly improving and his friends have hopes of his final recovery. It is even said that his eye, which was said to have been completely gone, is likely to recover.
Port Elmsley: The farm of the late John Elliott of this place has been sold to Mr. Woods from near Lombardy. Possession is to be given we understand, some time in the spring. – We are sorry to lose the Elliott family from our midst and we are sure the vacancy they will leave in our community will not be easily filled.
A young man named James Mackenzie of Sharbot Lake, who stood trial on Friday last for stealing a horse from a Carleton Place liveryman was discharged by the judge who though of the opinion that the young man had acted injudiciously could find no positive proof of any intention to steal the horse.
John McCarter, principal of the Almonte Public School for the past 23 years, has retired from teaching altogether. At the close of the teaching year he was presented by his pupils with a handsome and costly easy chair. Mr. McCarter has taught school for 40 years and at three places—Bennie’s Corners, Arnprior and Almonte.
On Tuesday afternoon, Mrs. Duncan McNee, President of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union, and a number of other ladies of the same society, paid a visit to the gaol and made the hearts of the prisoners glad by an elaborate tea comprising fruit cakes, tea, etc., and on Christmas they also had a sumptuous dinner which was made all the more luxurious by a large turkey contributed by Sheriff Thompson. For the general thoughtfulness of the kind donors the prisoners return their heartfelt thanks. There are now 18 prisoners confined in the goal, chiefly for vagrancy.
Posted: 16 June, 2004