Perth Courier - Comings and Goings
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On the morning of the 11th inst., a brutal assault was made by a man named Thomas Arnold on a young girl named Innes about 15 years old in Bathurst about three miles from Perth on the C.P.R. The girl had gone out in the morning to look for the cows and when near the railway track Arnold, who was passing on a railway velocipede jumped off the velocipede and chased the girl, accomplishing his purpose after a desperate resistance on her part during which he struck her repeatedly blackening both eyes and putting his knee on her chest. It appears that Arnold the night before attempted to assault a girl in Smith’s Falls after which he broke into the section tool house stealing a railway velocipede. After committing the assault in Bathurst he went to the next station where he left the velocipede. A warrant has been issued for his arrest. He is said to be a farmer of Markdale and is supposed to be heading for Owen Sound and Ste. Sainte Marie. His height is about 5’6” and light hair and he wore a silk cap.
A. Boyle of Hall’s Mills has fallen heir to $4,000 through the decease of his brother.
Among the graduates of the Toronto School of Music last week was Lizzie L. Walker of this town, who received the first prize and a diploma for vocal attainment. Miss Edith Taylor came out first among the 4th class pupils and Miss Fanny Morris and Miss Mamie Hogg also passed good exams.
A blind inmate of the Perth gaol Michael Watters died within its walls on Thursday last week and was buried in the plot for the homeless in the old cemetery. The deceased was about 40 years of age and was committed a few years ago for vagrancy.
Lanark Links: Dr. Scott of Kingston, M.D., has bought out the practice of Dr. William Kyle of this village. Dr. Scott will open his office in Mr. Drysdale’s residence. Dr. Kyle will continue in the drug business.
Watson’s Corners: Mrs. Richard White presented her husband with a young son on Tuesday last. We are sorry to say the baby has since died.
Watson’s Corners—Mrs. John F. O’Neil, Perth, is visiting her sister Mrs. J. A. Craig at present.
Christies Lake: Miss Lucy Noonan is visiting her home after two years absence in Bay City, Michigan.
On Saturday afternoon last, about 6:00, William Holliday, youngest son of Mr. David Holliday, Almonte, was drowned in the “Bay” of that town. He was out trolling in the river with a lad named Horton and after putting him ashore for the purpose of getting bait, rowed out a little distance to renew his fishing. The line was fastened to one hand and he seems to have stumbled over it in the boat for the lad heard a cry and a splash and saw young Holliday in the water. A man named Walker had a boat nearby but had to get it over a boom before reaching the place and when he got there the young man’s feet or hands which prevented him from catching on to the boat or swimming, for the water being only about six feet deep here it would have been easy for an unencumbered man to regain either the boat of shore. The deceased was 24 years of age and was born in Perth. He was the youngest brother of Mrs. Robert Jamieson of this town.
The Central Canadian says that Col. Summer of Carleton Place and daughter left this week to spend a couple months in Great Britain. This is the Colonel’s 14th trip across the Atlantic.
We regret to learn that William Ewart who has been the chief man in J. F. Cram’s tannery for a number of years is about to sever his connection with Carleton Place. He goes to Smith’s Falls where he plans to start a tannery and wool pulling house on his own account. Carleton Place Herald
The Brockville Times says: “Alexander Ferguson writes from Stafford(?) to George Merrill of Belleville to the effect that he was a volunteer in the Perth Artillery in 1837-38. The Colonel was Henry Graham, a half pay officer of 1812. David Hogg was captain and Simon Robertson lieutenant. During the disturbance the soldiers marched from Perth to Brockville a distance of 42 miles. On the following morning they were countermarched back to Perth and then disbanded but holding themselves in readiness for recall. They were called out again in a few days and marched back to Brockville where there were trains ready to take them to Kingston. They left the city on one of the coldest days the writer ever felt and paraded the principal streets. Later they were stationed in the old artillery barracks and remained there three weeks. Then they moved to Ft. Henry and took charge of the big guns. They were about six months in service. They left Kingston in June. The band escorted the company until the soldiers boarded a Rideau Canal boat. They were landed at Oliver’s Ferry and marched to Perth and again disbanded.
The Central Canadian this week published a real and spicy narration of elopement and subsequent proceedings which will be of interest to Perth readers as the parties all belong to our town. It says: “There was a large sensation in town last week. In Caroline Village, a suburb of Perth, lived George Steele and his wife. With them boarded Robert Bell. The men are shoe makers. Domestic storms which generated out of the elements of jealousy frequently aroused and overwhelmed the little household. The husband raged, the wife raged. Finally, Bell and the woman stole silently away from the home and came by train to Carleton Place. The husband soon got on the trail and located them at Mrs. Cox in the double tenement owned by Mr. Willoughby on the town line. The two were sitting on the stairs with the front door open full on them when Steele suddenly appeared. The two fled in terror and hid. Steele being bound to make a capture, tarried around until his presence became a nightmare to his wife who sent for the Chief to remove him. This was done whereupon Steele telegraphed into Perth for a constable to come out and arrest Mr. Wilson. A few months later when near the Carleton House Steele and Bell unexpectedly met. In an instant war was proclaimed to the amusement of many citizens. Bell protested that he did not interfere with the woman’s affections nor skip out with her; but nothing could appease the outraged husband who at this stage made the threat that caused his arrest and for which he was bound over to keep the peace for six months. Failing sureties he was sent to the gaol in Perth. With Steele stoned up the others are no doubt happy.
Word from Smith’s Falls says that James L. Coleman, Dominion Express Agent there was arrested on Thursday night for embezzling about $600 belonging to the company. He was taken to the Perth gaol on Monday to await his trial. The Ottawa Free Press says that inquiry on the above item in Ottawa goes to prove that Coleman has hitherto been an exemplary agent and stands highly connected, his wife being related to a leading bank official in that city. Considerable business is transacted between Smith’s Falls offices but no knowledge exists here as to any defalcation.
Mrs. A. M. Greig, Almonte, is visiting her mother Mrs. Neilson on Herriott Street.
Misses Ida and Stella Kerr, daughters of Mr. George Kerr, Toronto and Miss Levie (?) McDowell are visiting their grandmother Mrs. George Kerr, Craig Street.
Albert Morris, P.L.S. left on Monday for Winnipeg having secured a job from the C.P.R. to do some surveying work in the Northwest.
James Court who is leaving town for Cornwall will have a sale of his household effects.
Mrs. Joseph Moorhouse, S. Elmsley, celebrated the 22nd anniversary of her marriage by presenting her husband with a young daughter. It was the first born in 22 years of married life.
Lanark Links: Richard Hall and his sister, who accompanied him from Port Sarnia, is visiting old acquaintances at Lanark and vicinity. Mr. Hall is an old resident of this place. He left here about 35 years ago after which he carried on a leather business in Sarnia from which he has lately retired.
Lanark Links: Mrs. John McCall, Saratoga Springs, is the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Jno. Trainor. Mrs. McCall is a sister of Mrs. Trainor.
Lanark Links: Mrs. J. Drysdale and her daughter Lizzie left Tuesday morning for London. They will also visit at Niagara Falls before returning home.
David Brownlee, Harper, has gone to Manitoba perhaps with a view of locating there with his farm. Archibald McLaren, 4th Line Bathurst, took a trip to that province with him.
A dispatch from Montreal on Sunday says: “As the Winchester local on the C.P.R. was coming down the line this morning, the driver’s eye caught the sight of a man lying beside the rails and waving his arms as if signaling the train to stop. The train was brought to a standstill and down on the gravel they found a poor fellow in a pitiful condition, he had one leg cut off at the knee and the other foot crushed and there he lay in the sun helpless and alone with only sufficient strength to wave his hands as a mute signal for help. He was a young man, Davis by name, and his home he said was near Perth where his father is a farmer. He was trying to reach home and had boarded an early freight train. He did not remember falling off but thought he had gone to sleep while riding between the cars and fallen off. He did not remember how long he had been beside the track. The unfortunate young man was brought into the city and taken tot eh General Hospital. The young man’s full name was James A. Davis and he is a son of Mr. Cyrus Davis of North Elmsley near town. Being short of funds when away from home, he secretly boarded a meat train getting next tot eh caboose. Falling asleep he dropped off and besides having one leg ground off by the car wheels the other leg was also bruised and he had also one arm injured more or less. He is still in the hospital and likely to get better. His father on hearing of the accident went down to Montreal and left him in a fair way to recovery.
George Pollard from Carleton Place was placed in the Perth gaol on the 28th May on the scare of insanity, but was discharged on Monday having got the better of his misfortune.
Dr. W. A. Gray of Harrowsmith, County Frontenac, has removed from that place to Smith’s Falls to take the place of the late Dr. Lavell. Dr. Gray is a Bathurst man.
There seems to be an epidemic of insanity in this county at present. Last Saturday Mrs. Emily Gallagher of North Elmsley was brought in and committed to the gaol for insanity. The same day James Patterson, a S. Sherbrooke farmer, was confined in gaol while laboring under the same dispensation. He had the day before attempted to take his life by stabbing his neck with a pen knife. On Monday, John Miller, a respectable farmer in Lanark Township, near the Dalhousie boundary, was brought into town by the neighbors and was committed to gaol for insanity. He was laboring under an attack of insanity of melancholia and being under the impression that his family were in dire want, his relatives were afraid he might try to take their lives and then his own and so sent him to Perth for care. The poor man was aware of his condition and himself suggested his own incarceration. Mr. Rice committed the foregoing in his capacity as Justice of the Peace. The same day a man named Lamont from the Carleton Place way was brought in by George Pattie under committal for insanity to the Perth gaol.
J. L. Coleman, late express agent at Smith’s Falls, was tried for embezzling money from the company and others on Tuesday last before Judge Senkler without a jury. The prisoner pled guilty to the charge made and was sentenced by the judge to two years imprisonment in the Kingston Penitentiary on each charge. The terms are to run concurrently which means simply the two year sentence. This is a sad break in anyone’s career and the penalty should be a warning to any who might be weak minded enough to sin in the same way. The prisoner was taken to Kingston on Wednesday.
Mrs. Fox of Hamilton is visiting at her uncle’s John Hendry, North Street.
Lewis Anablo, late of Carleton Place, was killed by accidentally discharging a pistol in Parksdale, Toronto on the 15th inst.
Mrs. C. W. Wright, wife of Alderman Clark Wright of Kingston is in town visiting her father George Devlin with her family.
Robert Finlayson having sold his farm (the homestead) in Drummond to his brother Charles who lives in Ramsay, has purchased a fine farm in the county of Grey near Mt. Forest of 200 acres and will remove there this fall.
Robert Stone, constable, brought on Tuesday from near Fallbrook an insane man named Malcolm Foster and brought him before Charles Rice, J.P. who committed him to gaol for safekeeping. His insanity was of a dangerous turn.
Mrs. G. W. Rogers of Toronto is visiting her parents Mr. and Mrs. Stewart of Darcy Street.
Mrs. John E. Code of Carleton Place is visiting her sister Mrs. Thomas Elliott of Foster Street and with her father in Drummond.
Mrs. H. H. Stone of Durhamville, New York, is visiting her mother Mrs. G. L. Walker of North Street. Her husband, Dr. Stone, accompanied her and left for his practice on Monday.
Lanark Links: Edward Craig, grocery salesman of Montreal, is spending his holidays at Lanark with his sister Mrs. A. McLaughlin.
Lanark Links: On Tuesday Mr. J. D. McInnes drove six men to Carleton Place and they left the same evening for different parts of Manitoba. They are Jas. Strang, John Buffam, Jr., Charles L. Baird, Frank Deachman, Thomas Culbertson, William Stevens.
Watson’s Corners: Thomas Deachman, of Lanark, spoke at the Endeavor from Galatians 6:9 with his usual earnest manner and gave great encouragement to Christians to not grow weary in well doing and also pointed out some of the glorious promises in God’s world for those who overcome through the blood of the Lamb.
George Paterson has purchased D. C. Lochead’s store and residence on Mill Street, Almonte for about $4,000.
George A. Keefer, C. E., once of this town, has gone to Siberia on behalf of the Canadian Syndicate which has been asked to tender by the Russian government for a section of the 5,000 mile railway Siberia to the Pacific Ocean.
Frank Lavalle(?), Smith’s Falls, put some cartridges in a tumbler with paper and set fire to the stuff. There was an explosion and Frank was rendered unconscious. His face was cut and burned.
Among those who left the station on Tuesday for Manitoba
were Messrs. John Glossop, and Fred Stone of Perth; Dyre, Dodds and Walker of
the Scotch Line; Hagarty of North Elmsley; and Jones and Roberts of Balderson.
W. F. Ritchie, Grafton, North Dakota, merchant, is visiting his brothers in Bathurst.
Dr. Tremaine of Michigan who is an old Smith’s Falls boy, and friends, were visiting William Johnston, C.P.R. freight agent, here.
David Mitchell, Jr., after an absence of 23 years, is visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Mitchell of Darcy Street. He is following the occupation of farming in southern Kentucky. He finds a great many of his old friends in town either away or dead and strange faces in the shops and streets.
Last week on charges laid by John McCann, license inspector, Michael Wood, hotel keeper, Smith’s Falls, was brought before Ogle Carse, Mayor, and fined $20 and costs for selling liquor after prohibited hours on a Saturday night.
Lanark Links: Jas. McCurdy has sold his tinshop and tools to Peter White who intends to start a business in this line at once.
Lanark Links: Michael Murphy has bought out the Lanark Stage owned by C.A. Farmer, formerly owned by John Wilson. Mr. Murphy now owns both stages.
Middleville: Mrs. Yuill of Sand Point is visiting her daughter Mrs. A. R. McIntyre.
Hopetown: Messrs. W. Bulloch, J. Bulloch, and D. Reynolds and others of this vicinity left on Tuesday of last week for Manitoba. We wish them success in the prairie province.
Hopetown: William Somerville has sold his farm to Mr. Harding.
Dr. Kirkham of Maberly spent Saturday and Sunday
with his father-in-law Thomas Jackson.
A dispatch from Winnipeg says: “W. S. Affleck, a Crystal City farmer, was drowned while crossing Crystal Creek near Pilot Mound with his team. The creek was swollen by recent rains and Mr. Affleck attempted to drive through. Mr. Affleck came from Middleville and was a respectable and prosperous farmer.”
Alexander McNab and wife of Fallbrook leave this week for Dakota to settle on a farm.
We regret to learn that Mrs. Joseph Lamont, formerly of Lanark, who has been ill for more than a year, was smitten with another stroke of paralysis a few days ago and is now in a very low condition.
Dawson Kerr, late proprietor of the Volunteer Review and the Lachute Watchman, has retired from the printing business and intends removing to Perth in September and becoming a permanent resident. He is a brother of the late George Kerr, Esq., of our town.
For Sale: House, lot and household furniture of Mrs. Joseph Oakley, Cockburn Street.
Rev. W. G. Henderson was aroused this morning at 3:00 by messengers from Westport who brought him the sad tidings of the drowning of Rev. Robert Bailie, minister of the Methodist Church at that place. The accident occurred yesterday and the funeral service was conducted today by Rev. Mr. Henderson in the Methodist Church. Mr. Bailie was a young man with great promise. Although a student yet (not having completed the curriculum required to be a Methodist minister) he was placed by the Conference in the congregation of Westport as it was vacant . The selection of the Conference proved wise as Mr. Bailie proved very successful in his work. The particulars of the calamity we have not heard but the event has cast a gloom over the entire community.
Mrs. Edward Hudson of Chicago is visiting her mother Mrs. Edward Tovey, 3rd Concession Bathurst.
Farm For Sale: Jas. J. McIlquham, Lot 3, 9th Concession Drummond.
Watson’s Corners: Mrs. James Barrie has a young daughter.—Mrs. D. Kirkham has a young son.—Mrs. R. McChesney who has bee very ill for some months has been considered worse for the last week.
N.D. McCallum of Carleton Place has struck a bonanza. He held the lottery ticket in the Quebec lottery and won a $15,000 prize. He went to Montreal last week and secured the cash.
Andrew Arbuckle, injured in his mill at Merrickville, died from his injuries and was buried at Wellington Village. By having his life insured in several accident insurance companies and having connected with the Oddfellows Society he leaves $30,000 to his wife and child.
John McKay, a farmer from the area of Cobden was brought to this city on Tuesday last to be placed in the insane asylum. Some time ago he was confined in the Pembroke jail but was released. His mental condition did not improve with his freedom and admission was secured for him in the Kingston asylum.
Lanark Links: Dr. William A. Kyle, proprietor of the “Pharmacy” here assigned last week for the benefit of his creditors. This was an unexpected event to a great man.
Mrs. M. Layden, a number of years ago one of the fair maidens of Lanark was back for a few weeks to see some of her old friends. She is now a widow, her husband having died a few years ago. She has been living at Tacoma, Washington and has prospered.
George Craig and Miss Craig of Arnprior, father and sister of Mrs. W. H. Grant of Perth arrived home from Scotland on Tuesday per the steamer Sarnia of the Dominion Line.
Rev. A. H. Scott, pastor of St. Andrew’s Church, Perth, is expected home from Holland on Friday of next week and to resume the pulpit on Sabbath, 6th September.
Robert Blair, a former resident of Drummond near Ferguson’s Falls, died at Goderich, Ontario on 7th Aug., aged 77. The deceased was a brother of Mrs. Robert Lochead of this town.
Mrs. J.K. Fairbairn of Brockville, a resident of Perth 30 years ago was visiting her sister here lately, Mrs. R.A. McLean.
Mrs. J. McCandlish, her two daughters and son, Ottawa and niece from New York are in town visiting her mother Mrs. Bond.
Miss Emily Consitt, Scotch Line, left here on Monday for Worcester, Massachusetts where she will enter the hospital in that place as a sick nurse.
Miss Minnie Chambers, B.A., Queen’s University, has headed the list of successful candidates for certificates in B.C.—she secured Grade A, First Class.
Lanark Links: George Patterson, visitor at T.B. Caldwell’s during vacation, returned to his home in Kingston on Friday last.
The ball at Mr. A. Darou’s on Friday last had a disgraceful closing after the services of the constable had to be applied for.
Edna Elliott passed both the Junior Leaving and Matriculation exams. The report in the daily papers died not make this clear.
The unfortunate man Richard Rowsome who fell from the town scaffolding to the exhibition grounds a few weeks ago died on Friday night and his body was taken for burial to his former home in New Dublin, Leeds County.
Miss Bell Patterson of Hamilton is visiting her cousin Miss Lizzie Hendry in Perth.
Mr. George Murray of Homer, N.Y., President of the First National Bank and Mrs. Murray, uncle and aunt of Messrs. Walker Brothers of the Courier are visiting at J. M. Walker’s.
John Mackay the Cobden man who was taken out to the Kingston asylum last week was brought back again. There was no room for him especially as the preliminary forms of asking for his admittance through a medical certificate had not been complied with. Mercury.
Farm For Sale—Lot 14, 3rd Concession and East ½ Lot 14, 2nd Concession Drummond. If not sold the farm will be rented. Richard Murphy
Farm For Sale—Three double lots, 18, 19, and 20 on the 2nd Concession S. Sherbrooke. The farm will be rented out if not sold. Miss Agnes McMunn.
Farm For Sale: Duncan Gunn, 200 acres, west ½ lot 24, 2nd Concession and west ½ Lot 26, 1st Concession Lanark.
W. G. Allan of Smith’s Falls has returned from Manitoba after selling his farm there near Crystal City for $2,700 to L. Brown of Wolford. Mr. Allan, the News says, never in his experience in the Northwest saw such crops as they are this year though the frost has done some injury.
Two tramps giving their names as Thomas Donohue and John Ward were arrested in Almonte for vagrancy and pled guilty
On Tuesday last an old man 71 years of age, William Armstrong, died in the gaol from paralysis of the brain. The usual inquest was held and after his body was taken to Almonte for burial by his friends. He had been an inmate of the gaol for ten months having been committed for vagrancy and was weak minded.
Walter H. Sim of N. Sherbrooke has sold his farm to his brother-in-law Alexander Duncan and intends leaving for Vancouver, B.C. on the 12th inst., Sat., remaining over Monday to visit his brother in Renfrew. His family will follow him in about two months. The removal of Mr. Sim will be a loss to the township of N. Sherbrooke and his departure will be regretted by his neighbors and friends and by ourselves who have known him for years.
The estate of Alfred Shepherd, merchant, Smith’s Falls, has been divided 20 ½ cents on the dollar.
Some time ago we inserted a local inquiry on behalf of a Duluth lawyer for the heirs of Michael Jennings, once a shoemaker of Perth. Thomas J. Brennan, another former resident of this town and now paymaster of the Virginia Mining and Investment Co., Vesuvius, Virginia, writes us that Michael Jennings oldest son Jamieson, who left Perth 19 years ago, is now engaged as a railroad foreman by the firm Winston and Hill of Minneapolis and that a letter addressed to the Hon. P. B. Winston, Mayor of Minneapolis will reach him.
Lanark Links—We regret to record the death of Mrs. Abraham Jackson who died at Lanark on Wednesday of last week. We understand Mrs. Jackson had been ailing for some time.
Lanark Links—We are sorry to hear that William Darou, Manitoba formerly of Lanark, has been compelled to return home on account of sickness.
Elphin—A sad accident occurred near Robertsville last Saturday evening which resulted in the death of John McDonald. Mr. McDonald, together with his wife and son, started to drive over to a neighbor’s to spend the evening and only got a few yards when they were thrown out as they were going down a very steep hill. Something about the buggy caught Mr. McDonald’s clothes and he was dragged a considerable distance by the now thoroughly frightened horses. When he was picked up it was found his body was bruised almost to a jelly, his back broken and his head badly cut. He suffered terribly for about an hour and a half when death relieved him. The remains were buried at Crawford’s burying ground the following Tuesday. Mrs. McDonald was also considerably upset but is recovering.
Lanark Links: William Bolton of Wilbur who was killed by an accident at the Sudbury Mines, was buried at Lanark Village Sunday last.
On Monday Constable Robert Stone arrested James Free, an escaped lunatic and lodged him in the gaol in Perth from where he will be sent back to the asylum as soon as he can be examined by medical authorities. He was captured at Oliver’s Ferry having been a roving vagrant for some time. In a way he had been a terror to whatever community his wanderings took him especially to women from his rough way of ordering food and lodging and his confinement will be a relief to this part of the country. He had once served a term in the central prison for breaking into the house of William McLenaghan of Drummond.
Joseph Nichol, the well known gardener and stock raiser of Cataraqui near Kingston is visiting his cousin Davie Lowe in town this week.
Harper: Mrs. Smith of Barrie is visiting her parents after an absence of 15 years.
Master Arthur Massey who had been visiting his aunt Mrs. Henry Taylor in town, returned to his home in Montreal this week.
Mrs. Threlkeld, Parkdale, Toronto and Miss Muller, relatives of Mrs. William(?) Meighen, returned home after visiting some weeks.
Miss Emma Conboy, Erin, Ontario, who has been visiting her aunt Mrs. T.W. Weeks for several weeks returned home Tuesday.
John Roberts, druggist, Ottawa, his nephew and clerk John R. Allan and James Allan of Balderson returned home from their European tour last week after spending a most pleasant time in Great Britain, France, Germany, Italy, their trip consuming four month’s time.
Mr. George Patterson, barrister, Winnipeg, arrived in town last week on a visit to his parents Mr. and Mrs. James Patterson, returning Wednesday.
Mr. and Mrs. John McArthur of Aberdeen, S. Dakota are visiting with Duncan McNee and J. G. Campbell. They left this county many years ago for the western States where they have prospered. Mr. McArthur also is visiting his brother on the old homestead in Dalhousie near Watson’s Corners.
The death is announced at Stirling, Illinois on the 9th September of Mrs. James McKim, formerly a resident of Perth, aged 61.
John Gunn, Sr., Lanark Township, has sold his farm of 250 acres, Lot 21, 1st Concession about two miles beyond Hopetown to Thomas R. Bulloch, for $2,150, the purchase to include the crop. The farm will be occupied by Mr. Bell’s son.
Wednesday last week a man named George Dale, about 45 years old, after enjoying a prolonged spree, imagined he was beset with devils who tried to torture and call him. To fly from these ills Dale proceeded to cut his own throat but only succeeded in making an ugly gash in the front of his neck. He was then taken into custody, sent to Carleton Place, where Mr. P. Struthers, magistrate, committed him to the Perth gaol for safekeeping and for further action. On Monday, Dale appeared before Judge Senkler for trial and being found guilty was let go on suspended sentence. The unfortunate man was un upholsterer by trade and formerly worked in the furniture shop of David Hogg, Perth. He is a married man with a family.
Lanark Links: We understand that Mrs. Wrathwell of Glen Tay, wife of William Wrathwell, who formerly lived at Lanark, has come to reside here.
Once I was blind but now I can see that Abel Cohen is selling first class stock at bottom prices. Gent’s clothing and boots and shoes.
Wanted: A general servant. No washing or ironing. Apply to Mrs. T. A. McCullough, corner Drummond and Foster Streets
Auction Sale Farm Stock and Implements: John Gunn, Sr., Lot 21, 1st Concession Lanark.
Rev. A.R. Mitchell was inducted into the pastoral charge of St. John’s Presbyterian Church in Almonte on Thursday of last week.
The Herald announces that Mrs. Andrew Baird of Hopetown was found dead in bed on Friday morning it is supposed by heart failure.
Clyde Forks: Our law abiding citizens were surprised to hear of a case that was aired before Justices McPhail and Dunlop last Saturday. William Hartwick, section boss in Flower Station was cited to appear at the instance of Robert Lyon of the same place. Lyon was accused of having driven Harwick’s cattle on to the track of the C.P.R. Hartwick threatened to shoot Lyon and used very unbecoming language and also was charged with carrying on his person a lethal weapon. After the pros and cons had been debated the charge of threatening to shoot was proven. No district proof was given in support of the charge. Hartwick was fined the sum of $1 and costs in all amounting to $10.15 and $200 to keep the peace for six months.
Some 27 years ago John D. Abbey, brother-in-law of Jas. Thompson of this town, left his home in Clayton on a Sunday afternoon and was never heard of again by his relatives until last week when he arrived in Almonte and began making inquiries for his friends. The family had long since mourned the missing one as dead thinking he had gone over to the U.S. and enlisted about the close of the U.S. Civil War. Mr. Abbey’s career has been an eventful one. He did go to the States and settled in Michigan. He enlisted as a soldier but never had occasion to go out not being called up. He went into the lumber business after some years of success attending his labors became rich, when forest fires devastated his limits and swept away properties valued at a million dollars. Although almost ruined by this catastrophe he was not disillusioned and went to work again with renewed energy. Success once more was his lot when he sold out his lumber interests and went over to Minnesota where he went into ranching and where he now resides. Mrs. Thompson was quite a young girl when her brother went away and her joy on finding her long lost brother may be easier imagined than described. Carleton Place Herald
An old man named James Morris from Beckwith or Carleton Place confined in the Perth gaol for vagrancy, died there in that institution on Monday at the age of 83 years.
Thomas Hands, Reeve of Drummond, who a few weeks ago had to undertake an operation for removing a tumor, is able to go about again and is rapidly recovering his health.
Auction of Farm Stock and Implements: Michael Byrne, Lot 13, 7th Concession Bathurst and John Meredith, Lot 13, 3rd Concession Bathurst.
J.E. Dettertel, traveler for H. Shorey and Company, wholesale clothiers of Montreal, arrived in town last week on a visit to his mother after a trip most of the summer to Jamaica. He sold a lot of goods in that island and other parts of the West Indies and brought back with him a collection of tropical curiosities which are of no small interest to people in this temperate country.
Dawson Kerr of Lachute, P.Q., arrived in town last week to reside with his sister Mrs. Mutton. Mr. Kerr is an old newspaperman—one of the oldest in the province in fact, having served his time in the Perth Examiner office about 1833 and worked in the Courier office over 55 years ago. Mr. Kerr also published a newspaper in Perth called the Dispatch after graduating from this office.
Hopetown: Mrs. D. McNichol, Sr., gets no rest either day or night because of a pain in her jaw.
John H. Corr, a young man in the employ of the C.P.R. and a brother to Eli Corr of Elizabethtown, was killed at Jacques Cartier Junction on Friday last. His remains were taken to his home in Carleton Place where they were buried on Sunday. Another brother who was making his first trip as brakeman recently had his hand badly smashed and lost all his fingers but one.
William Dobson, 2nd Line Drummond, was stricken with paralysis on Tuesday last on one side of his body being wholly affected. This was the second attack the first being 8 days previous. Mr. Dobson is in his 91st year and was born in 1800 and came to this country in 1820. He is living with his son John on Lot 16 and very general regret is expressed in this neighborhood at this serious stroke of affliction which has overtaken one of the oldest settlers in this district.
Messrs. D. G. McPhail and Robert Corskery are back to their studies at Queen’s, Alfred Wade to McGill and Ernest Butler to Trinity, Toronto.
Jas. Hali left on Friday as a new student at Trinity.
Mrs. Crawford and daughter of Darling were lodged in the county gaol on Wednesday—the first for assault getting 15 days; the latter for abusive language getting ten days. They must be a nice pair. They were committed by Reeve MacLean of Lanark Village.
Are you bilious? Dr. Willliam’s Pink Pills for Pale People are a purgative medicine. They are a blood builder, tonic and reconstructive agent as they supply in a condensed form the substances needed to enrich the blood curing all diseases coming from poor and watery blood or from vitiated humors in the blood caused by overworked mental worry. Available at Kellock’s.
Auction Sale of Farm Stock and Implements John Meredith, Sr., 3rd Concession Bathurst
Board of Education Teachers: Miss Drysdale, 7th Department salary $400; Miss McKinley, 6th Department, salary $300; Miss Walker, 5th Department, salary $300; Miss Bowen, 4th Department, salary $205; Miss Hogg, 3rd Department, salary $200; Miss Stanley, 2nd Department, 4200; Miss McKinnon, 1st Department, salary $200. Mr. Meighen said it was well known that Miss Drysdale was a very efficient teacher and Miss Walker deserved promotion from her long and efficient service. No doubt a male teacher would be better but he thought with a principal so judicious and painstaking as Mr. Jacques all would go well.
Clyde Forks—Mrs. Robert Campbell, Jr., presented her husband with a young housekeeper a few days ago. Robert is proud of the prize.
A man named John Henry Mussell living near Merrickville is charged by the Kemptville Advance with having knocked down his sister and stabbed her several times. Blood poisoning is said to have set in and it is reported that the unfortunate victim cannot possibly recover. No arrest has yet been made.
Emma Cockfield left on Monday morning for Albuquerque, New Mexico intending to remain for a year. Her brother Joseph Cockfield accompanied her as far as St. Joseph, Kansas.
John L. Clark, son of James Clark of Bathurst, arrived home on Friday last from Duluth, Minnesota and will spend the winter with his father. He has been on railway construction in different parts of Minnesota and Montana during the past year and saw many fine sections of the country particularly in Minnesota.
Auction Sale Farm Stock and Implements Walter H. Sim, Lot 10, 2nd Concession N. Sherbrooke
Auction Sale: Village Lot, household furniture, estate of the late William Gardner, and Lot 12, 8th Concession Dalhousie farm stock and implements.
In the old Methodist Burying Ground in Perth stands a monument erected to the memory of “Thomas Haggarth, who died 23rd December, 1872, aged 106 years”. The deceased was a native and died at the residence of his daughter Mrs. Labron, North Elmsley, whose remains now rest at the side of her father. This great age has been attained by no one else as far as we know in the Ottawa Valley and we doubt if the records of Ontario can show any figures to exceed his age. The deceased was born three years before Napoleon and Wellington and died 51 years after the first and twenty years after the second.
Mr. and Mrs. Archibald Henderson of Lochwinnoch, County Renfrew, both died within the past few weeks. The Mercury says they were among the pioneers of this neighborhood having come out from Argyleshire, Scotland, over 50 years ago. They left four sons and five daughters, Thomas, ex Reeve of Renfrew; Robert of McNab Township; Mrs. Robert Storie of Horton and four daughters living on the homestead.
Lanark Links: Robert Finlayson of Drummond has returned from his visit to Scotland and Europe. Mr. Finlayson’s parents came from Glasgow to Canada and he has had in this trip the opportunity to visit the home of his ancestry.
The next case on Mr. Justice Robertson’s list is Potter versus Potter, a suit made remarkable by the fact that the two defendants, Thomas and John Potter of Perth have been absent years from town and no tidings of their whereabouts have been obtained since they disappeared. After they had gone, a legacy of $500 each was left them by their grandfather, Alexander Potter. His grandchildren about a dozen in number are the plaintiffs in the present case. They are children of the two missing men and they seek to put aside the clause in their grandfather’s will which gives the $1,000 to the absent parents and thus obtain possession of the money. The suite commences this afternoon. (note, name could have been Patter.)
Auction Sale Farm Stock and Implements and farm: William Pierce, Lot 22, 4th Concession N. Burgess
Auction Sale Farm Stock and Implements: James J. McIlquham, Lot 3, 9th Concession Drummond.
Auction Sale Farm Stock and Implements: Mrs. Michael Bowes, Lot 17, 8th Concession Bathurst.
The Smith’s Falls News says: “A very serious accident occurred Tuesday evening last on the Perth Road just outside of town. While Mr. Ed Moore, blacksmith, was speeding his horse, the sulky struck a cow and he was thrown violently to the ground sustaining serious if not fatal injury. Dr. McKenzie was summoned and dressed the wounds about the head after which Mr. Moore was removed to his home on Main Street where he now lies in a semi-conscious state. Concussion of the brain is feared and the doctors in attention give very little hope of recovery. Mr. Moore was married two years ago to a daughter of Deputy Reeve Lewis and the young wife has the sympathy of her numerous friends in her sorrow.
Farm for Sale: David Boyle, West ½ Lot 15, 1st Concession and west ½ Lot 16, 1st Concession Lanark.
Last Friday James Mahon of S. Sherbrooke was arrested and placed in the county gaol for contempt of court. Some time since he was ordered by Judge Senkler to pay a certain sum at certain periods into the court on a debt for which judgment had been entered against him but failing in meeting the obligation he was ordered to be jailed for forty days.
The Pembroke Observer of last week says: “The 15th anniversary of the wedding day of Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Douglas was last Monday, 19th inst., and Mrs. Douglas in order to celebrate the day presented her husband with a son.
Joshua Adams, barrister, Sarnia, is visiting his brother F. M. Adams, Glen Tay and his brother-in-law H. Moorhouse of Perth.
Mrs. Thomas Devlin of this town has gone to spent the winter with her sister Mrs. Simon McEachen of Osceola, Renfrew County.
George McElliott, night ticket agent on the C.P.R. office at Smith’s Falls, was in town Monday and Tuesday to attend the funeral of his brother John McElliott.
Mr. and Mrs. Archibald McNee of Windsor, Ontario were in town on Monday visiting friends. Mrs. McNee proceeded to Drummond to visit her brother P. D. Campbell and sister Mrs. James Gould.
Lanark Links: We are sorry to record the death of John Montgomery, who died in southern Manitoba on Monday last. He was the son of the late Oswald Montgomery of this place.
Hopetown—William Pretty has purchased the farm of Thomas Harding.
Hopetown—We are sorry to hear that Rev. Mr. Andrews is going from our midst. He will preach his farewell sermon in Hopetown on Sunday, 8th November. To show their love and respect for their pastor, a few of the Hopetown people presented him with a purse containing a handsome sum of money.
Auction Sale of Farm Stock and Implements: Sydney Miller, Lot 8, 2nd Concession Bathurst
On the 11th inst., Mrs. F. C. Inderwick and children sail on the City of Paris from New York to England joining her husband in London where they will embark afterward for Ceylon, India. Three daughters of the Hon. Peter McLaren and Miss Chamberlain will accompany her to England.
Charles Foy, student in J.A. Allan’s law office, passed his first intermediate examination at low at Osgoode Hall in Toronto on Tuesday without an oral.
David Brownlee of Harper arrived home from his trip to Minnesota on Friday of last week and reports a very wet time there for threshing. He brought his mother Mrs. David Brownlee from Fisher, Minnesota with him and the old lady, now 81, will end her days with her son. She will be remembered by the people of N. Sherbrooke and Dalhousie.
Dr. James Lafferty, Calgary, N.W.T., though improved since his illness last month, intends taking a trip to Great Britain in a short time with a view of improving his health thoroughly. His banking partner will accompany him.
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Mr. and Mrs. Edward O’Kelly, County Galway, Ireland, are visiting Pembroke at present at the uncle of the former, Christopher O’Kelly. Mrs. O’Kelly is a sister of Mr. Thomas Murray, M.P.
Middleville: Mrs. A. Q. Lawson and Miss Jessie Lawson left here on Monday for Manitoba.
Lanark Links: Miss Jennie Robertson leaves for London next week where she intends visiting friends for a time.
Lanark Links: Last Tuesday evening the home of Miss Alcorn was made quite lively being the occasion of her marriage to Mr. W. Campbell, retired farmer of Paisley.
The Kellett farm on the 6th Concession Bathurst has been sold to Mr. Truelove of Drummond for $2,200.
Carleton Place: Henry Beamish a brother of Allan Beamish of Carleton Place left from this point yesterday for Horse Plaine, Montana via the Soo. He is on his way to the Montana home of his son William Beamish.
Mr. H. Cole, barrister, Newboro, has gone to Moosomin, N.W.T. to reside.
Clyde Forks—Some weeks ago John Guthrie of Almonte came up as a teamster for John Gonegal who has a shanty near Clyde Lake. Last Wednesday morning, not feeling well he said he would not go to work, the cook made him a hot drink and then he went back to bed, from which he never rose. At noon, when the men came in he was unconscious and continued getting worse. His wife, his brother John and Mr. McInnes of Lanark were telegraphed for. Two medical men were summoned but they held out no hope. Dr. Mann of Renfrew pronounced it paralysis. He died on Sunday morning t 6:00, Mrs. Guthrie and his brother being with him to the last. Jim was a man of robust and rugged constitution and was well known in different parts of the county. He leaves a wife and four children.
Watson’s Corners—James White, Jr., is moving to Darling.—William McChesney has rented Mr. White’s farm. – Robert Purdon has gone to reside at McDonald’s Corners.
Scotch Corners—We see by the Herald that many of our farmers are offering their farms for sale. Since then John McDonald and Colin Sinclair, merchant tailor, Carleton Place are offering their firms for sale.—Mrs. Rathwell, who has been visiting at her mother’s at Scotch Corners, intends leaving for Rathwell (P.O.?), Manitoba on Monday. Her sister, Miss Susan Appleby, is going with her.
Andrew Gemmill of Lanark Village vouches for the statement that potato rot may be stopped by burning corn cobs in the cellar. He says he has tried it for 30 years and has always been successful.
Auction Sale: Robert Finlayson, Lot 8, 11th Concession Drummond, farm stock and implements
Elphin—There was a sad and fatal accident on Thursday last when Duncan Buchan, son of Donald and Isabelle Buchan was out with his brother hunting and in some way unknown discharged the contents of his gun into his mouth. It is supposed that in an attempt to fire it the gun hung fire and he proceeded to blow into the muzzle to find out if there was a charge in it when it went off causing instant death. The deceased was only 11 years of age. His remains were interred in the Crawford Cemetery on Wednesday.
Elphin: We are sorry to hear that Mr. McKinnon of Snow Road is at present ill with typhoid fever.
Elphin: The family of W. H. Sim left for British Colombia on Monday last.
In renewing his subscription last week Christopher Coulter of Mallory, Minnesota tells us he has been taking the Courier 48 years and the Toronto Globe for 46 years. Mr. Coulter is an old Dalhousie man but some 15 years or more so ago he moved west and though he has prospered he has fond memories of Dalhousie.
Thomas Scott, Scotch Line, returned from Manitoba and N.W.T. trip on the 31st October having made an extensive tour. He visited Winnipeg, Calgary, Edmonton, Souris and the intervening country. He was much impressed with the vastness and fertility of our great northwest country and with its magnificent grain crop the whole land is fairly brimming over with wheat yield. Threshing mills all over Manitoba were running constantly. One man with 700 acres at Souris had already 10,000 bushels thrashed and he was not yet one half done. He saw very little frosted grain and no wheat stacks growing green again with the rain as reported in Ontario. He met James McMunn, late of S. Sherbrooke, who traveled from Winnipeg to Edmunton more than 1,000 miles in an oxcart. Mr. McMunn gave him $1 to have the Courier sent to him. W. V. Scott, his brother, returned home on the 26th October and the other members of the party the three Messrs. Ritchie arrived back about three weeks earlier than this.
An old resident of Smith’s Falls and Montague, John Shields, was stricken down with paralysis resulting from a stroke last week and is very low.
Lanark Links: Mrs. Dr. McIntyre left for her home in Chicago on Friday afternoon. Her many friends will be sorry to hear she left sooner than expected because of an illness in Dr. McIntyre’s family.
Auction Sale Farm Stock and Implements Thomas McKinley, Scotch Line, Lot 29, 10th Concession North Elmsley.
Miss Dr. O’Hara of Port Elmsley who has been ordained as a medical missionary to India is now on her way to that land.
James Armour in E.G. Malloch’s law office has passed his final exam as solicitor before the examining board at Osgoode Hall in Toronto.
The farm of Mr. Ferrier, 100 acres, Lot 4, 4th Concession Bathurst, was sold by judicial sale Saturday last to John Churchill, late of Manitoba for $1,490.
The Gazette’s Pakenham correspondent tells of the death of William H. Giovens at Sioux City, Iowa on the 12th October. He was born in Lanark in 1851 and left for the States about 1873.
John Hollaran, N. Crosby, was drowned in Crosby Lake on Friday evening while hunting. The body has not been found although the boat and gun have.
Mrs. J. K. Affleck of Middleville is visiting her father William Wodden.
Mrs. William Murray, daughter of Mr. James Devlin of Drummond, is home from Dakota after an absence of 14 years. Two of her children accompanied her. Mrs. Murray will spend some weeks in this vicinity visiting friends.
Auction Sale Farm Stock and Implements: Robert Murphy, Lot 26, 6th Concession Bathurst; Patrick Fagan, Lot 18, 9th Concession N. Burgess; Jas. Wilson, Lot 21, 7th Concession North Elmsley.
A dispatch from Lanark says: “About 5:00 in the evening of the 5th November, Robert Barr’s barn and stable in Lanark Township were burned and two of his children aged 5 and 2 were burned to death. It is supposed that the children had been playing with matches and ignited the barn and being surrounded by fire had not been able to get out. Two horses were also burned as well as the entire season’s crops. Mr. Barr was attending a threshing mill about a mile distant and saw the fire but arrived too late.
The Carleton Place Herald of 1st December says that Mr. and Mrs. Jos. Andrew and their daughter of Middleville left this morning for Pilot Mound, Manitoba. Mr. Lawson, one of the old men of Lanark Township who has passed his 86th year was on the same train bound for Pilot Mound and Miss Jennie Thomas, formerly of Lanark was of the same party. Miss Thomas was on a journey to Ardock, N.D. Hugh McIlraith of Lanark Township has gone to Escanaba, Michigan.
Presbytery of Lanark and Renfrew: The Middleville and Dalhousie re-arrangements have been completed. D.J. McLean was appointed moderator of the Dalhousie side in place of J. Wilson, whose state of health prohibits his acting. D.J. McLean is to preach the whole charge vacant on the 29th November.
Middleville—Mr. Pritty attended the funeral of Mrs. Rintoul of Darling and the Rev. Mr. Stilwell preached the funeral sermon.
Middleville—Edmund Anderson of Hopetown has gone to western Ontario. He took a great interest in raising bees and had several of the finest specimens of Queen’s of this country and Europe. He had some of the most modern machinery for extracting honey from the combs and making a foundation comb.
(Transcriber’s note: A large fire occurred in Perth and the article was extensive but not transcribed here, but only the losses incurred.)
Douglas Estate, loss of $8,000, insured for $6,000
Henry Taylor, loss of $16,000, insured for $10,000
M. R.. Dodds, loss of $3,000, insured for $700
W. H. McIntyre, loss of $2,000, insured for $600
J. H. McCulloch, loss of $1,000, insured for $500
J. M. Poole, loss of $5,500, insured for $3,600
Andrew Barrie, loss of $3,000, insured for $3,000
Malloch estate, loss of $150, no insurance
Mrs. Mair and boarders, loss of $300, no insurance
Miss Wallace, loss of $400, insured for $400
Mrs. Jordan, loss of $100, no insurance
Matheson Estate, loss of $150, no insurance
Mrs. Rivington, an insane person, was brought from Beckwith on Saturday and placed in the Perth gaol.
On Thursday last a young man named Badour living near Newboro noticed ducks on a lake close by. He proceeded to load his shotgun, an old fashioned muzzle loader. Some time previous he had placed a cap on the gun but seems to have forgotten about it and as a result the charge exploded while it was being rammed down. Badour received the whole charge in the breast and was instantly killed. Whig
Farm For Sale: Malcolm Fisher, West ½ Lot 16, 10th Concession Bathurst, 100 acres
John Donher(?), an old resident of S. Elmsley died in Lombardy on the 15th Dec., at the age of 70 years. He was born in Connaught, Ireland and was much respected by his neighbors.
The Almonte Gazette chronicles the death of Mrs. Gilbert Mair of that town last Friday at the age of 64 from paralysis. The deceased was a sister of William Snedden of Almonte.
J. H. McKerracher, harness maker, has removed to Grand Forks, Dakota. He was an active worker among the temperance and the Oddfellows and will be missed by them as well as a large circle of friends generally.
Those who knew him will regret to hear of the death of Robinson Harper of Smith’s Falls on Thursday, 17th inst., at an advanced age. The deceased was a staunch Liberal. He was an old time clerk of the Smith’s Falls Council for a long time. The Record says he was one of the best read men of his time.
Posted: 24 April, 2004.