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apanw ^ 7 r* •' /ledherticrn TRUTH BEFORE FAVOR." â€" •• PRINCIPLEU vmu. ^ MEN.' \ roLso, lio 1 Flesticrton, Out., Thursday, Juoe 2 19 lO Our Jubilee Number r.- y.-^ The Advance Has Completed Its Twenty-Ninth Year The Founder ot This Paper Tells His Story â€" Reminiscences ot Other Days â€" Some Facts Concerning the Present Propri- etor and a Word from Him. With this issne The Advance commences the thirtieth year of its pablioation. On June Ist, 1881, Mr. A. B. Fawcett pablished the fii-st issue, and since then it has appeared rcsolaily, with but one change of ownership. In consideration of this we t'uoaght a Uttle jafailefl might not be oat of place. Many of the present readers of The idvance have very kind niMnories of the founder, >Lr. Fawcett, and his reminiscences on this f age will be found vrey interesting. The Advance's history is one of gradual, and at times almost impercep-> tible, growth but the past year and a half has shown a remarkable incieasse in the number of readers. Today the circulation is over the 1000 mark. «nd we hope to see it touch 1 100 before the present year is oat. To do so we must produce a paper worth reading â€" and we are trying to do so. If yon receive a copy of this iaue and are not already a subscriber you are hewtily invited to become one. .K. U. FAWCETT Fuundsr of The Flesherton Advmiee Xft. B. THl"UST< »N I'lOrteiif Puiprletot of TwH Ailvmu'o Ed. LJ^' #'â-  â- **^/ Mr. FaWCett's ReminiSCeilCes from the joumaiiatic boruion, but The JAdvmice w atill wiilt uoâ€" ^trongvr, . ISacIy on the inoruing of Thursday, i brighter, and more euargette thim ever, iiarch aut, 1881. I w.ilk«d from Thorn-. I am gUd to see that it stiU bus the old bary to my {father's f Aim, a short disunce I colors nailed to the Dmstheadâ€"'l rath before Favor, Priuciptes n«t Men." la the twenty-nine years of its exist ence The Advance has clmui;ed hands only oiice, but so frti- as its priticipks are con- cerned it has never changed. EstablLsbing a country weekly Is mie of the most strenuous jobs a luan ever tack le<lâ€" especially with limited capital, or laiher, shall I cay, williout any capital at all save a stout heart anU an uiilimiiod amount ofâ€" well, call it nerve, although that is not precisely I lie ^word I intended to use. And yet some of the happiest iiioments of my life were experienced in that little town nestling among the hills of Centre Grey, and where I cut iiiy eye teeth in journalism with a hdr measure ot success despite my youth and inexper- ience. 1 must certaiuly have been a juvenile looking editor, for I remember one irate lady fi-ora Markdale dropped into The Advance office one day, and, after looking at nie »ery sternly a few moments, exclaimed fietcely, " Boy, go and tell your pa, the edithur, that 1 want til see hiinimmajetly." a^ wuth of Heathcote. The distance walked waa eight miles and t^e road* were decid- ^•dly "sloppy," but H^ was young and op- aot"-^ »*â- >,â€" .'JinvBr, I was about to embark in business for myself. Borrowing a Iwrse and bugay from my father, I drove t j FleKherton the aame day. , uriviiig tfiere early in the evening. Mr. Jack Ma'hewson, who was teaming grain to Fleshertou Station for R. J. Spj-oule, was just .starting out with a load and I accompanied liim. After unloadinji the grain the first consignment of Fleah- erton's pioneer piinting plant, consisting ef a treadle press, .sevetal fonts of job type, etc., was loaded on the vehicle and safely conveyed to the village. lu going down the " Orange hill, " however, the wheels of the wagon slid on some ice, and only by great exertion was the top- heavy press saved frem being dumped into the diteli. That night we unloaded the phiBt in an old lean-re on Sydenham street, but next morning it was removed to what was then known as the Sullivan bloek on CoUuigwood street. On" FriaayTT^pnl Jst, 1881. the first job of printing ever turneS -outjn FJwh- •rton was aacceeafully accomplished. It was a sixteenth sheet dodger for Mr. Fred Serjeant, wbo was in the meat bus- â- ees in Fleshertou at that time. When the first sheet came off the presa was, I Ibink, one of the happiest moments of my life. And what a flood of memories sweeps over me as I recall that, to me at least, memorable event. In a flash the interveutnii yeais are bridged, and the kindly faces of those dear old friendsâ€" Ifaktthew Kendall Richardson, Dr. William S. Chrisloe, Wesley Armstrong, William CUyton, John Heai-d, Septimus j ^g^j^. Good, Fred Sarjeant^ Robert Trimble, 1 fear I have li-espeaaed loo freely upoj;^ youi- space, Bfr. Bdiiur, but i>ermit tne Ui, I'emai'k in cL)S'ng, that I havealway." telt^ iaya«H under a debt of i^ratilude to old and vt>ry duar Criende-in Fleslidrton and ueighurhood; and the invitation kindly extended. to me :o pfi. down a few reniin: isceiices for your aniiUeriMry unmber was HO j^rucioualy itiven, that I wife onl5* U>o pteaiied with the uppoitunity thus pre- sented of once inure getting in touch with them through the cnlunina of The Ad- vance. To the one ehpecially dear old friend to whiiin 1 owe more th;iu tu any other man living the success achieved in establishing The Advance upon a solid fuuudaii<in â€" to .say n-ithing of hia helpful syniiwthy and cheering w<irds of encourageiuenl d uring Home of the darkest hours uf my lifeâ€" in short to my noble old friend, .Afrttihewfc KendiiU Ricimrdaoh~-tho fol- lowing lines are appliuable- "I live for tJiosewhu love niu. For ihtitie who kuuw ma true. Fur the Ueavua that smi!e<i atiove niu. ' /.nd iiw-iifs uiy spirii, to it For the cause tliat utcks .vsislaiice. For ilie wroiig.s tliat need re-sist^nce. For the futuie.iM the diiitance. And (he g'xid thai I'cun du." K*ithfully yogi-s, - A. K. F.*wt.Trr. The Ikoky o» F.^tb* What i>eciiliHr t « i.st<( fate )>erfurmF in (he atfitiis uf timn ! The iteo. til The t}»eu .Simnd Tribune refen-Hd lo by Mr. Fawcett above, in which The .\dvaiice was quoted at* a candidal) f >i- tile )><»<>r- housp, WAS pqlili.shed at-ihe lime nlit.n \V. H. Tliu»>t<in was editor of The Tii buiii', and wriit«u ty him. T>-day he is cdil^M.' of "the candidate for the p<«ir- f^-boutse " and The Tribune hits been detid this lonir since. â-  â€" •'^. I think it was on the tweniy-fouitb of May, 1885, that the famous sham battle I came eff in Fleaherton and neighborhood. Excitement in connection with the sec- ond Riel rebellion was at ita height just then^ and it was decided to have t sham fight between Her Majesty's loyal Volun- teers of No. 6 Co., 31«t Batt., uuder command of the late lamented Lieut. Field, and the rebel forces under com- mand of the writer as " Louis Riel " and Mr. Sept. Gjod as "Gabriel Dumont." Hundreds of people came in from all parts of the country to witness the A Sketck of Tht. Present Editor THE HOME OF THE ADVANCE was really the case. The volunteers had made good their entiance into the park and had cornered the rebels at the west- think you .' It was thisâ€" Mr. Blackburn caught 48 speckled beauties, the writer 3C, Mr. Richardson 34, Mr. Sept. Good William Barnbouse, W illiain Richardson, WiBiara Elder, Wil- ihn Gordon, Robert Keefer, and others â€" stand forth as vividly and cheerily as they did twenty-nine years ago. Alas, some WiUiam Wright, Aaron Munshaw, Solomon Daniude, liam J. Bellam; J. Sproule, Geo" Several skirmishes took place on the outskirts of the village, but fiually the rebels were compelled to fall back upon " Flesber's Park, " upon the highest em- inence of wliich many citiisens stood eagerly watching the movements of the opposing forces. One prominent citizen hava passed away since then, but thank '""d swung his hammock high up between God there will be a glorious re-union •oute day. two trees at the highest point in the Park and was enjoying hia pipe aud the • K ».:„>:»<> 1 iwi **•*"* battle at the same time. a0d occas- After carrying on a job printing busi- . • -^ ' ° tonally giving vent to shrewd but some- what sarcastic observations a.s to some of the movements of the volunteers and rebels. Suddenly a ctowd of spectators em extremity when somebody thought- ; 32. and Master E. K. RJchsMlson 28. lessly gave the order to "char^." In- j What do you think of that for.a catch, oh stantly, aud with the fierce Ught of battle i ye disciples of I<<a«c Wuiteo > \ total of in their eyes, the Volunteers dashed fur- > 178 speckled (Mut from one tishiug place, ward towards the rebels many of them , and all caught within the short -space of (the Volunteers) actually with bayonets fixed. For the moment the mimic war- fare had become very real to the Vnlun- te«rs and they did not recognize in the painted and be-feakhered Indians aud half-breeds in front uf them their own neighbors aud fellow-citizens. At this very critical juncture, Lieut. Field arrived, took iu the whole situation two hours, is a rectird, I Uiink, that would l)e hard to beat even at eiie of those " preserves " we hear so umch about these days. ♦â-  » » T io not know bow tbiugs are now, but I well remember when the fame of FleohRrton as i mu-sicalceiitrelifld .spread " abroad throughout the land." It uSerf at a glance, aiid called out in rin^'ingl to be my delight to walk about oa the tones the one word : streets on some of those piiiuincingly " Halt! " btatitifiil mo<mlightnightaiii June, when Tiishmtly, and when wtthiu fifteen tot f""" zephyrs rustled soft 1, among the twenty feet of the rebels, ever, member ' 'â„¢'«"! •« """'s'* ^""•"^ ^^ "" '^'"K» ^^ of this splendidly disciplined Volunteer i '=«'^,'",'"' ^'^'"^ f""" "'« t'"«ht «'-"->y Company ovme to a lialt-asai^lered. And I'"'.'.''' '*"y "»* "" "'" ''"t'^''' '""'"'^ it wa.s then the Volunteers realized how narrowly they had escaped converting a; God's preat dome. .And wherever 1 walked my ears were greeted wilh music sham battle mto something very closely I -\"*^'' insnu.nental, and sometimes resembling the red thing. < )ne of the, '"'^'» ^"Vfithev The whole place seemed volunteers actually cjtnie within the *'''"^'*^ ^'' ^ "'"y ""e the term) wilh '. sweet sounds. nea« exotuaively for two months, the first Kwnber of The Flesheiton Advance was iasaad to the public on June 1st, 1881. By making a special oSw of the infant jottmal to the end of 18tKt for one dollar The Advance bad soon k bona fide cir- •nlation of more thaft"^ tour hundred ooptts. And although the village coii- t^ined a population of bai^ 400 at that thne. The Advance carded twelve col- ^uiN^ii of advertising at the outset, and at sjo' time ui its history has^it carried rushed past, and one of their number â€" who shall be nameless here â€" whip[)ed out his knife aud cut the strings ai one end of the hammock in a twinkling. Down came the promioeut citizen "ker- flop " on the ground, and he rolled half way to the bottom of the hill before a conveniet hollow arrested his progress. .As he started back up tlie hill lo recover «». ij^ J •» bis pipe and his euuiUbrium, he was ShortW after The Advance made its . \\ , . ' . . ' . . " ' . ... ,v^.,. o 1 heard to exclaim with much emphasis Bral bow to thepublic^tj^ Owen Sound ^.g g j.^ like to know the chap tribune »«de th.. briet but cheering . J^y^^,,. «««nient "Another oend^ate f'>r the po«-houae," which was'itrue, but it It is not generally known that a. serious wasn't the pallet Th»i^iiS(une thonghtjmwhapâ€" perhaps a ti-agedyâ€"was narrow- ♦||*t eventually matte iooii the prophesy, ly averted by the presence of mind and Tb»T»ib«meha»long i^c^disaf^ieared | prompt action of Lieut. Field, but such length of bis gun and bayonet of "Gabriel Dumont' but was suddenly brought to his \ It was twt surprising, therefoie, when senses when the laUet good-natured ^ ">e ambitious pi-oject of presen ling the Yorkshire giant grabbed his gun by the \ fine oratorio '• Queen Esther " was sug- barrel, swung it over his head and yelled jgested. Vet, and it was actually carrred "Stop ripht theer, I tell you, or I'll 'to a successful conclusion iu t lie drill knock you into a cocked hat! " I shed before an audience of one thousand # « » people. By «{tccial ret^uest the per- And talk about your trout fishing, fonuance was repeated in the same Why, one fine afternoon in oaily summer I place the following evening id thepre»> Mr. a.K. Richardson, Master (now Dr.)|ence of an audience of nearly six hundred E. K. Richardson, Mr. Sept, Good," Mr. j people. This performance was given John Blackburn, and the writer drove 1 under the auspices of the I.iadies Aid of over to where the bridge croeees the Fleshertou Methodist church, during the Beaver river near the Meld'um farm, ajpastoist* of the Rev. Walter .\yers, an- short distance above the justly famed and other very dear old friend of the writer's, beautiful Eugenia Falls. Four ot us .\nd of the one hundred persons who stood on that bridge and Mr. Blaokburn took i>art in " Queen Esther, " every took up a position on the shore close by, one, including tlie musical director (Mr. and fished fur perhaps two hours without > D. S; Munroe) resided in or adjacent to shifting our i-elativepoeitionsoneeduriBgi Fleshertou. It was really a wonderful that time. And what was the result, j piece of work for a small cotintry village. â- Qvw thirty-years ."(go. a young niau left liis luime on a farm iu £he Kimberley v:vl- ley en rout«! for OruigeJi^ille to b«'giii his life work, and to make his fort^uifeâ€" att a pi-inter. He Wits light .iljoiit the '*iife work, " hut a.-* for the fortuneâ€" veil, the roseate di-eains of youth do nut always meet witji fultilinent. The young man, (hen seventeeh yeass'ui age, was. W. H. Thurston,' who had lieen attiacted, as so many olhers have lieeii. by the halt) whicli suri-ounda the uewspa()er oflice -• and esjiecinlly »-j Jii the older days when the Iiersonality of the editor dominated to » greiUer extent- the cidumns of the news- pa)«er. \ few weeks â- sufficed to rub <»ff the glamour which was, .so to sp«>ak, re- iJaoed by the URual "Devil's" coal of ink, but the case and' i>en"have alw.-iys i-atained a portion of tlieir chanu, and the iwtii of fifty is as fast> at the ctse and as ready with the <|uill 4s the youth of twenty, .\fter a year in Cb'aogeville tbe tirni by which he wa-s engaged dissolved jiartuor- ship and Mr. Joseph TSwusend, one of the meniljers of the firm, st.-urted the Dundalk Guide, taking with him the .subject of this sketch. Those, were changing days in newsi)aperdum and the new journal lasted less than a year, when the s'art" and plant moved- over to Dur- ham, wliere The Grey Review was started â- by Mr. Townseud. .Some time later Mr. Thurston's connection with The Review ended. HoMWver.The Review apjieivred to lie unatfected by the chang» and is still lieing published in Durham. In tlie spring of 1871' he .â- ittaclied hiiii- .self to Tlie Owen Sound Tribune, ami one year later, the owuers failing, lie and .^rtjjiir Peatce altached the j>apcr to themselves. Newspapcrdom iu the county tow%at this {leriiHl was a stretui- ous affair, esiMjcjally for a young ehap of twenty. Mr. Peanje looked after the mechanical end of the joint, while the subject of this sketch haiidletl'the quiU and .staved off creditoi's. Life here had its dajk brown tones, but there were cer* tain redeeming fSatui-es (otieot which he marvieil five yeai-s later) •und while the berth of aik editor in Owen S««i<'l in tl»e paluiy. days of old was not a remunei'a- tive one, yet it was g<wd training for t he young and auibitiuus uewsiw^ier man. However, the demands of creditors be- came 90 pre«>iiig that the partuei-ship was dissolved after two years' business. Leaving Owen Sound, Mr. I'hiirstoii dropped in on Toronto one day and went to work the .same night on The Daily World, wheie he hammered away for al)out seven years at night work. While working at the case iu Toronto his lines were oast in pleasant channels, and in leisuie hours he contributeil verse and proae to v.^rious jourualK. (We hesitat« to make tht* **ct ki^wn, but " niur<l^r will oat.") 'W. H. THUBSTOH ^SJITbor;«w» hi the summer of 18e»,*.believing Iha Toronto did not appi;ecukt« him sufficient- ly, he^'^retii^d in good form and aequireil The Fleshert«m Advance, which was then seven yeans old. For twen^-two 'years be has l>eeii a fixture in the town. In that time tie lias made indhy friendh ^md a few. enemies, but has always acted in good faith. The editov n-ho euuld plefsA everybody never wsis and ueViBe will be. Oftentimes hatxl wrords were *schange<l wiien the editor wa.s tiit blame »nd some- times when ho wa.s uutT-at least so ia apiHsara to him,- aud he >f<wU notshay^ it otherwise. To be"a live iHlifcor, he be- lieves, b fo eiidat^r friendships, but: after all it is not a true friuntUihip which fidlk before honest criticism. ' ,L. In liMjking IkicTj, the iJd' -days liavo a wonderful (hann. ' The r<High .s|>ot« have been sinmithed down : the old time friendships are ilearer ; the diMU>ree;tble has faded uito mistiness and leaves the agree:»l)le â€" isuch is the magic touch of father time. But in spite of the mystic happiucHS >f the {iast,> the pre-sent in worth while. Life never meant mure ihiMi it does t<Mlay, and to have the old ilays b.tck aj0in would lie to sixdi a pleas- ant meuioiy. Tl'o nm^h .si».its wo^d crop up :i->aiii ajold i>e rougher than ever. It is a kind piinidtMlee' which tones dowu the iMKt. -.\..S.T. o o o .V-WORU Oy THE Kl-iioR. ,' Mr: Jl S. Thur'tton of khfi..:*^^*^ in- ^.sted Oil writing vhat lkeoall.s h4 '^"bii*^ uary " of ihe'pixiprietor of tliiy pn\iet, and huN succee^led in dvin^ so acvpidvng to his be.st litjhts. We let it go, sii^ldj l>ecaase, like the cas« of Hailtiy'-s cewat, ««â-  won't lie here when iF comes around Hgain,--jind curiosity is a sti-ong factor iu these things. < ine likes to sue iu Ufa what .some things hnitt like. Mr. Fawcett has written a cha^jng desci-ipMon of the founding uf this p*'^ aud incidents connected therewith, wfaSc will uiiike very interesting reading t.' many. J^iiice taking over the piiier there has been a steady, though |>erha(i:< slow, ad- vance along all lines. For yearfy( ' ever, the stall' •• lioked " along with ma old Hoe hand press, ca|>able outnrnin T^- ri r..- / :: otit, only abmit 200 copies [ler li^^. -t. year and a liidf ago the installation o{ a ninchfne callable of printing 1800 ciipiea {)er hour uiade it [Kntsible to enlarge tfao lia|>er and- business, resulting in a very great tncrease to our suliecriplion list, and the goiwth continues. ,Teu.years:aga.the premises, sliown .ui our eiigiaviiig, wmi-purchatied from Mr. R.' Pedliu',>iow of Manit<.ba. Tlie buiU- iog was erected by M]a C.. Leit«h, whoteV also uow living in the West-. Nothing further ne«ds to be said. UQ^ means change and nothintr living canA^. main changeless. W^ move almig. wlQi^.^ all the rest. Contradiction and Wann||^«^ Mr. Editor, â€" Allow me space id^yonc valuable paper to contradict Lha suite- meots I understand have been inad*' by Metars. Rolison Fawcett aii4.«>.Th<>aia8 Black as to French Negro not baii^ a French horse, and that bjK, i» fi-om a bronco mother. Now, doft^ g«^ sore, boys, because Negro is doing~'<tM busi- uet.H, .-M he will du it anyway, and I say without fear of successful coBtradictiou that when those parties make suchjtKaie- inents they aru talsihers and I can prtjve it. If this is not sufhcicnt to -stop il; I will take another course to do so.^ .^h for Mr. Long, proprietor of the hors» that Thomas Black is managing, be i% a < gentleman in every respect so far as E know, but as a friend I wpuM advise him to get a man with his horse that talks his own hoi-se and does not ridionl^ - othsi 'horses. Your-s J.X't FiNDtav. 4 GET YOUR \VEDDIN«- RINGS JEWELLERY Cl^OCKS REPAIRED W.VTCHES REPAIRED FOUNT.UN PKN» SILVERWARE .\nd everything in tj>4~ Jewellei-y Line, fjjjhi ARMSTRONG THE FLESHERTON JEWELER \ '^;. «^a^ 5pMiaMs( In diaeaMalial IIm Eye, Ear,Nose.andTI OXtlce 13Froat8t. . Owwal .\.t. the Revere house, Mavk«i Friday each iminth fimii 8 to 12 iw j N