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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 9, 1929 THE FLESHERTON ADVANCE K^^- Pioneering in Simcoe i' (By Mr*. Alex. HcGowan) In the year 1828, John Weldrick was bom in Yorkshire, England, and at the affe of twenty-three was mar- ried to Rachel E. Shipley. Uav- incr spent a week with their friends, they set sail for America, and, after a rough voyage of six weeks and three days on the ocean, landed at New York, then came by rail to Mud- dy York, now the city of Toronto. Soon after they applied to the mag- istrate for work, a kind hearted building a fire, as it waa father'a axe Father then cut down some broase' it out to them, but they would not; afraid, they started to run, and then' later to bury little brother, he started to build bis shanty. It for the cattle, tied them to the aleigh waa made ten feet by twelve, for they I at the door, and started to make a had to lift the logs. He cut hemlock | bedstead by boring holes in the logs, the right length, split and peeled them for the roof. He split up ced- ar, and, with leather-wood bark, bound it, and hung it for a door. He let their baby eat it until she fed I a piece of it to her own child. They came again, and brought some bask-' eta with them. They would hold to gallop, as the wolves came nearer. One night, while hunting the cows. He hung on tight by the yoke, but mother got frightened by hearing a .. . . , ..,, . ... I growl. She turned and ran, then they had a long bill to climb, ana f. , . . ,„. . , . ' thought she was lost, and an awful then carried stones for a fireplace, and clay from the creek with a piece of bark. Thus, three days were spent, and, aa their provisions were getting lower, he went around three using a crotched stick for the third 4^,^ ^^j ^^ mother, point at their ''*'« '""T^ *"«'<*• '"'*"' ^' » '*'«« fear 'came over her, for father was * â- â-  '^ ' "' »««•'â-  «''0"t twenty or more, howhng ^^,y ^„y„g .„j the three children and gaining on him; he unhooked post, sharpening the other end and; souths, and making a mournful noise driving it down into the mud floor. | Cedar branches formed the mattress; I , were alone, the babe in the cradle, the logging chain,_ unwound it_ from the others tied to the bed. She to tell her they wanted bread, for which they gave her a basket. They ._ -„- on these were put their blankets, andip;^^^ „^ ^^^ cow-cabbage andate'*'** y^^' » *»»* " tfa»l«* »"<* ^ept ^,d „p ^^^ ^ands, looked to the they were soon fast asleep. But ; jj. ^^e vonnirest ran down to the creek 1 *»»« ''o'^" from biting the oxens' ,^y „„d g^y uq^^^ g^d, will you ^"*j it; the youngest ran down to the creek I***® .„,, , , ,__ when they awoke in the morning the I „^ ^^^ ^^^^ ^^er cress, came back *•««'â- â€¢ ""» y«\'«<'' »»«' mother. having t^^^ ^^ i^^,, ^o my children?" Then baby waa sick, and with all that diet- 1 g„j ^^^^ ^^^ ^ ance between them and a doctor! ate some herself. the papoose, and' •'®*«' t***â„¢' "'^ *"" torches and ran g^e remembered where she was, got to meet father, waving the torches. ^„ ^o another foot-path, and ran hall B^.â€" .K .-/"â€", ..,; "^..v -.u-uu v...,^ ,--- Then they camei ° â€" hundred acres, chopped off the bark | *?,°*''" ''"'^ »""* *.'"'"!'' "* ^'^^t"' I another day and brought two menj I*'!!.^ »"? ^*<"! ''"**. *"'"**^ "<>'"«' a mile'home. other man went by stage to Barrie, ed home. The next winter father ' - t „ 4. : 4 1 J . <»li one of goose oil, and water. For „_„:__ „,„-. w,,* whan mnthar anH'^o fight, but when they saw mother, ~. « .^ . . . from trees at intervals, and wrote ^. . . ^ i carrying guns, dui wnen moiner ana â- Â» ' ,...,' These are some of the hardshina .. ._ ... ». ., _. .. 'three days she sat by, wringing out f-xL . t „ * thev lifterf them off *•»*> 'a" *« her. She could hardly ,. ,. ^ .., , ^ ' naraanips his name with the pencil. Then they , ^ ,,„ •^_^ ,_,_ ^^^ _^ ^^„ ' father went out, they lilted them oti ^^^ ^^^^ ^^^ ^^ ^^^ ^^^ ^^^ ^^^ the first settlers had to go through she opened the shanty doo'r they «n^ *** ""** goo d homes for u s. in and nearly broke it. Father took' „ „ „ „. , , „ . , „, off the yoke and let them stay in' ^f' %^ft\ "'"^'^ ?""''' all night. M^ n»r«,t- fh^n^hf »,„ Durham, is ill, but hopes to be able â€" , - »â€" "â€"-„.„ n.„e w..n vne pencil. Then they I *'*"*,''*"" f'l'' "* ^J^' ^""«'"5 f"* ' father went out, they lifted them off Scotchman came and took them out gathered up their traps and started ' ''*""*'* *'"^ '"^'"? * " a"^**""** J^e t^eir shoulders, and laid them across toScarboro. where they lived for two i back. It was near midnight wheni^^^'/ " • ""*' "1' *"" .,* their feet, which meant peace. The years. Hearing of the free land they got to SUyner, nad two days I *"". ^"'^ in warm water anxiously ^ ^,j ^^„^„ ^^^j^^ ^^,5^ ba^y to in Osprey township, father and an- later, footsore and hungry, they lancN I "*""'^ .^**^ *° "P*."'* /^^ .^- ^. : "nother. She took it in her arms and â-  - ' ^y. tneyi <?- .^„ „„.„„^ ^^^ ,,„^ experience in j^ „ ^^^ ^^^ that seemed to she gained taking with them an axe, a pair olj bought a yoke of oxen, one cow, a ' """'"*^' j please them greatly, for, throwing blankets, half a bag of food, a flint! sleigh, a 1-inch and a '2-inch auger,) After two months, father had to their arms up, they all laughed. They and steel and a lead pencil; as they .two axes, and what household goods) '*a^* them alone and go back to Bar- all peeped in at the door for mother's had to walk about fifty miles, this the oxen could draw. With my mother '''^ f*" ^ouf and provisions; butter baby, and when she brought it, they was all they could carry. When the and a baby girl, they started again ^^as then ten cents per pound, and gave it a basket, beautifully made and sun began to get low in the west they 1 for the wilderness. The journey *"Kar fifteen. As the snov/ was painted, about the size of a bowl, would start to gather wood for the | took thrss days. They stayed at *^^P' he was four days away, and And mother taught them to say "white night and strike the flint and steel] Barrie and Stayner. From the lat- ' """thcr's heart leaped for joy when baby." They showed her the elm to start their fire, one keeping watch! ter point there was only the blaze 'the woods resounded with his sing- mushrooms, which arc good food, and while the other slept. Once they j to go by, and the sleigh upset about '"K' away in the distance. Father , often only for these our family would saw the eyes of some beast staring six times, throwing them into the at them, and heard the sticks break- ) .snow. Mother often told us how thankful she was when father said, "Yonder is the shanty!" He soon made a roaring fire, carried in two boxes for a table and the ox yoke had to chop every day to get a field not have had enough to eat, for the ready for seeding, and mother had frost was so bad that they could to take the baby and go away out scarcely grow potatoes, and the wheat from the cabin, for fear a tree might was often frozen, so that the bread fall on the shanty. Father would was black and sticky and a little draw the fallen trees into heaps and sweet. for a seat Thus, the first white ' ^®t fire to them, and often they had jn the spring a man brought his ing as it walked away. As soon as the sun was up to guide them, they pressed further into the forest. At last they came to a concession blaze and a nice creek, and, being tired and _ _ _ _ hungry, they decided to go no fur- 1 woman, as far as we know, ate her't" stay up all night to keep the fire bride and settled about two miles "-'- -'"' â- â€¢ from spreading into the bush. Father from our home. Father left mother made a plow, all of wood, and as alone and went out for them about he had not time to make a harrow, twenty miles, kept them over night he used the top of a small elm tree and got two dollars for it; thus the , to drag the first year. Later he first money was earned. Then father I made a drag by boring two-inch holes went and got the same woman to j through a crotch stick, and making come to nurse mother when her boy elm pegs, and driving them in for was born, the^ first one in Osprey, harrow teeth. He took bent saplings and they gave her back the two doli- for runners and made a "jumper" ars for that service. She only stayed for drawing in the grain, which was two days, for, she said, her husband all cut with the sickle. He sharp- might burn himself with the teapot; ened the end of a small pole, put on' a cross piece about two feet long,' drove pegs in, and mother raked with it, and bound the grain They made a stack, and covered it with beaver-meadow hay, and in the win-' ther. 'While the other man was! first supper in Osprey For Gold WEATHER r MEN'S FELT SHOES & OVERSHOES them stay in j^ , „ , ,, ... Durham, is - oâ€" My parents thought, by . , . ^ , the sound of the wolves in the nigh;, ' ^ """'"' ^" P"'*"^' ^*"'' '» a few that they were trying to break into ^** ^' the log stable where the cow and calf were. The first sheep that our peo- ple got were torn to pieces by the wolves. Then sickness came and their first boy, seven years old, leaned his head on omther's breast and said: "Mara- mie, I am going to live with Jesus." She asked, "How do you know, George?" He looked up, smiling, and said, "Oh, Jesus came in the niglit and he took hold of my hand and' said, 'Come with mc.' " He died that night. The other three were sick with measles. There was no min Earl Vessie has been appointed as school caretaker at Rocky Saugeen at a salary of $110 per annum. Meafordites are agitating for the establishment of an hospital. FARM FOR QUICK SALE 114 acres in the T-iwrship of Protcn nearly all cleared, good buildings, two miles from Proton Station, will sell with last year's crop or without; or { would consider a small property in exchange. R. T. WRAGGEIT. R. R. No. 1 Proton Station. Small Advertisements LOST, FOUND & STRAYED LOST â€" In town, on Monday, Dec- ember Slst, small gold watch with Maple Leaf fob.â€" Finder please leave at this office and receive reward. Several families moved in the next year. The wolves were dread- fully bad then, and in two years more a large pack came. The cattle were bawling; father lit a torch and BEN'S, BOrs & LADIES' UNDERWEAR (Coton, Wool or Mixed Material) ?':_ MEN'S HEAVY SOCKS x^, I A. E. HAW CEYLON, Ont. t » Store open on Wednesday and Saturday evenings v â-  4 . J „ ., .„ , ... ran out; they gathered around him: • ter he made a flail with two sticks u- * ! * ^i. ,J X. , .„„„*. ... , . , . . , he got upon a stump so they could tied together with leather-wood bark „„> *^^„i„ 1.1^ ♦!. v j *». ti. „„ . „ ,..,., .not trample him; they had the three- and every evening would thresh out u 1. •* j j ^i. ,.• > „ , ,. , ^. ,, ' -"^ year old heifer down, and the hind I some of the wheat on the shanty ^ , ^- ^ • v . fir.,, u 41. 11.^ » XV J- f'l quarters nearly stripped bare; but floor by the light of the fireplace. 1 A. „ * j .» *• j •^1 they are afraid of fire and ran away Mother was a year and two months howling. The heifer bawled when fa- without seeing a white woman, but ther got to her, and died. They were one day in the summer two Indian j worse after that. The snow had women, carrying a papoose, stole piled up at the back of the shanty, cautiously near and nearer the shanty | and one night they got on the roof. Mother was so pleased to see themj Father and mother sprang out of bed she opened the door, when they to stir the fire to keep them from turned to flee, but stopped as she coming down the chimney. One held up her baby, smiled and beckon- 1 day in the spring, father had been ed to them. They came part way ovfj* two mi^^ away, heJ^ing o back. She got a piece of bread, held man to log a fallow. When he got about half way home he heard THE STORE WITH SERVICE F. T. HILL & CO., Ltd. Nlarkdale, Ontario OUR BUYING POWER SAVES YOU A LOT OF MONEY Special Purchase & Sale Men's High Class 2-pant Suit THE MANUFACTURER NEEDED THE MONEY AND, AS WE ARE CASH BUYERS, EXPLAINS THE VERY LOW PRICE. ALL SIZES IN THE LOT. DO NOT FAIL TO PROCURE ONE. THEY WILL NOT LAST LONG AT THIS PRICE Regular Value up to $25 Men's Overcoats $16.75 16 only. Men's Overcoats in all the newest shades and cloths, sizes 34 to 46 in this lot. reg. value up to $24.60, selling at $16.75 Men's Overcoats $19.75 20 only, men's hikh calss Overcoats in all the newest shades and cloths. Sold regrularily from $28.60 to $32.60. Selling at $19.7b Boy's Overcoats $6.75 ^i 16 only, Boy's Overcoats, all the newest shades and cloths, all sizes, regular value up to $11.95 Selling at $«.7» - Selling at $15.75 Grocery Department 10 pounds granulated sugar 59c. Jelly Powders, assorted flavors, 5 for 25c. Fig Bar Biscuits, reg 25c 19c. Snider's Catsup, reg. size 25c. for 19c. Toilet Soap, reg. 10c. line, 4 for 23c. Stuart's Jam, 16 oz., Respberry and Strawberry, reg. size 25c., 2 jars for S5c. Campbell's Soup, assort, flavors, re» 16c. sel- ling at 2 for 21c. Aylmcr Soups, assorted flavors, reg. 10c. line, ' aelHng for 4 jars 29c. Little Gent's Overcoats for $3.95 10 only, little gent's Overcoats, beautiful cloths regnlar value $5.76, Selling at $3.9S Flour and Feed Snowdrift Flour, pure Manitoba Hard Wheat, every bsg guamteed, per cwt $3.95 Ooldies' Best A Blended Flour, every bag guarnx tecfd, per cwt „ $3.65 Shorti, per bag $1.75 BnMi| per bag m~.~ ^.m.... $l.7S Shoe Department News Men, Ladies, Boys and Girls, we have just what you are looking for in skating or hockey shoes and at atomst any price you want to pay. Am- ong those lines we are featuring McPherion's double lightning hitch, also their professional hockey boot, in genuine elk. Also the men and boys will be fitted very reasonable with all rubber laced or leather top- ped of the best kuality that money can buy. Among many lines you will find the famous Miners Invincible attached to the well known John Bull top as that Dominion white rolled edge botom in Men's 16 inch John Bull at $6.35 and Men's 12 inch JohnBu 11 and white sole at $5.46 a "whe-e-ett" and soon another voice coming nearer. He mounted Lamb, one of the oxen, and, as they were FOR 8ALB SALEâ€" Oat chop, $1.40 per C. Muir, Ceylon. FOR hundred weight. â€" ^A FOR SALE â€" Good set of logging sl eighs. â€" Lome Wrigh t, Eugenia. FOR SALEâ€" 10 Bred-to-lay Rocks and 6 White Leghorns, all yearlings. $1 each.â€" S. Myers, Flesherton. FOR SALE â€" Cow 9 years old due this month. â€" Wilfred Magee, Eugenia, Phone Feversham. FOR SALE â€" Durham Bull, b months old, will exchange for heifer or steer. â€" H. Patton, Flesherton, Phone 42 r 5. FOR SALE â€" Two young cews, due in January; hard and mixed wood also one 11-inch grain chopper. â€" A. Harrison, Phone 41 r 4, Flesherton. Health Service - of the • CANADIAN MEDICAL ASSOC. THE PUBLIC HEALTH NURSE During the past few years, a great I deal has been learned concerning the I prevention of disease and the Im- I provcment of health. To-day wei ^*"^*' Eugenia, will positively be pro have a fund of knowledge which, itT»ecuted. we were to use it, would result in less â€" ^- ^- OUCKEH'T, sickness, fewer deaths and better , health, thereby increasing the well- MISCELLANEOUS NOTICE â€" Chopping done on Tues- days and Saturdays. â€" Graham Bros. Eugenia, Ont. NOTICE â€" No tresspassing, hunt- ing or trapping on lots 194-5>6-6!S, 2nd range E. T. & S. R., Artemesia. â€" S. McMnllen, Flesherton, R. R. 2. PUBLIC NOTICE. AH parties are hereby notified that all trespassers on lots 24, 9th Con., 15, 16 and 17, on South street nortn lots 15, 16 and 17, en St. Arnaud st., FARM FOR SALE 200 acre farm in the township ol Osprey, lOO acres under cultivation remainder good pasture and excellent bush; 2 frame bank bams, one with hard water, fine spring creek; 2 frame â-  houses with hard and soft water. -^AS. McKENZIB. Phone. FEVERSHAM. FARM FOR SALE 200 acres, lots 24 and 25, con. 6,. Osprey, situated on County road no. 52, 160 acres under cultivation, bal- ance pasture and hardwood bush. . First class grain farm, well fenced.. bam 48x74, straw shed, 40x30, cem- ent stables, blacksmith shop, garage and work shop, 10 roomed eemrat blocked house, nearly new, good cistern, telephone, well and wind mill water piped to the bam, 60 rod* from school. Priced raasonable. E. C. PEDLAR, SINGHAMPTON, R. R. 1. 'Phone Feversham 1 r 2-y. SHORTHORN BULL FOB BERVICS Begistared Shorthorn bull for mw â-¼fcse at lot 6, Con. 9, Ospzty, "Many Marquis" No. 179,136; Sire, Bonais Marqnis 142.881; Dam, Red Butterfly 181,078. Terms â€" PureBreds $&00. grades $2.00. Cows not returned will be charge full price. â€" S. R. HAWSmS. Buienla. MIDDLEBRO A. BURNS Barristera, etc. Ofices â€" Owen Sound, Durhan and Flesherton. Flesherton eveay south, and lots 18 and 19, on Ragl-»n Saturday afternoon and evening. iBa F.T.HlLL&Ce.,Ufnfted,llllarMale : being of mankind. The problem that faces public health workers is, : first of all, to see that this knowledge is imparted to every individual, and then, that it is put into every-day I practice. ! I The most succeusf ul method of ca:- j rying the health message ta the incii- I vidual is through the Public Heaita Nurse. She might well bo called the Health Teacher of the community, because that is what she is By wora of mouth she impart.s health know- ledge; by demonstration she shows how to put such knowledge into pract- ice; by encouragement she helps through difficult times that require berseverencc by planing with the mother, she aids securing proper food for the family Because her work is done mostly with individuals it is not seen by the masses Because it is not seen, be- cause it does not advertise itself, there is not the general appreciation of it that there should be. It is not known, as it deserves to be, that the education of mothers as to the care of their babies, by public health nur- ses, is the greatest factor in the re- duction of infant deaths. Mothers do not know by instinct how to care for their babies; they must be taught. Friendly neighbors and the woman who knows all about babies because "she has buried six" do not make good teachers. The Publis Health Nurse is trained, she has modem knowledge to impart. The citisen who desires to have the babies in his community protected from disease and their health pro- moted, should see that there is a suf ficient number Nurses to icrvs , which li« Htm. FARM FOR SALE Lot 192 and 193, Con. 1, Proton township, S. W. of Highway no. 10, 100 acres of which 95 is already cleared and workable, good build- ings. ROBT. R. LEE, PROTON STATION, Phone Dnndalk 83 r 31. FARM FOR SALE Lot 13, Con. 12, Osprey Township, 100 acres; 70 acres good arable land, balance hardwood bush and pastiire. Good bam and driving shed, log house, 30 rods from school, good well and windmill. Telephme available; rural mail delivery. Apply to WM. L. KAITTING, Feversham, or H. W. KERNAHAN. Maxwell. BULL FOR SERVICE Shorthorn bull, Cedardale Duke No. 189,318, for service on lots 184-36, E. Toronto Line, Artemesia. Terms: $2.00; if paid before January 1, 1929, only $1.60. â€"ALEX. MILLER. R. R. No. 5 Markdale. GEO B.<DUMCAIC DUKDALK LICENSED AUCTIONEEK For the County o* Grey. Terms: I per cent Satisfaction guamteed Dates made at The Advance offlcfc BULL FOR SERVICE For service on lot 80, Con. 18, Art- emesia, Durham Bull Royal Lad No. 178,773. Terms :-$2 if paid before January 1929, otherwise $2.60. â€"DUNCAN WILLIAMS, Eugenia. BUSINESS CARDS Dr. E. C. Murray, L. D. S., dental surgeon, honor graduate at Toront* and Royal College of Dental Srrgeona of Ontario. Gas admbiistsrwl for teeth extraction. Office at rtiideiie* Toronto Street, Fleshertpn. ..BOAR FOR SERVICB Prince Arthur Lodge, 883, AJ". A AM. meets in the Masonic Hall. Arm- strong Block. Flesherton every M- d«y on or before the full noon. W. G. Watson, W. M., C. F Lawienea. Secretary Lucas A Henry, Barristsn. Solicit. ors, etc, I. B. Lucas, K. C, W. D. R«»ry, BA. Offices, Markdale Locm Block, Phone 2. Branck offlcw at _ . Dundalk and Dnrhsin. Registered Torkshirs Boar for ser* â€" ^â€" â€" â€" â€" â€" â€" â€" .^«.,.. Tfceâ€" Edgely Bright Vim, No. 99,998 1 Telford * Bimis, Barristert, soil. â€"Property of Saugeen Bacon Btg ^^"'^ ***• Oficti Gray ud Bnw* Club, "" "' »..•-_ Terms $1.00. . ^C. HINDLE, " *" Ptoton StatioB BOAR nM URTIOa. â- â€¢â€¢irtwid Yorkaliin Bmw Ut •» tW by fi«h«t0B Btttm Hog OMb^ of Public Health t<M Vpopoty «t tlia Oftnl* the community hi iP«B$ pfAcriraltoe. - .^ Block, Owen Soimd; Staadaid i»»^f t Block, Flesherton. (Satoidayt.) W, P. TeUdrd. Jr., J. P. p. Birale.