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PAGE EN TE. CANADIAN STATESMAN. ROWMANVILLE. ONTARIO THURDAY APIL -thio ej fi Bowrnanville Letter Written .99 Years Ago Cornes To Light 4-e-. 1e el el- // ;%wÏ 4/S e-0- IN - N r- t W We are indebted to Norman Scott, manager of Brookdale- Kingsway Nurseries, for bringing f0 our attention the accompany- ing article and printed letter, ap- pearing in The Stratford Beacon- Herald, which was written in Bowmanvjlle just 99 years ago, being dated June 26, 1853. From the names mentioned in this let- ter it would appear the writer was a relative o! the Windatt Zamly-probably related to Rich- ard Windatt, town clerk for many years, or Mrs. Thos. Tod, whose maiden name was Windatt. We are indebted to The Stratford Beacon-Herald for the loan of plates used in this- article. Text of 2-Way Letter Following is the text o! the 99- year-old letter reproduced on this page. Horizontal Lines "Bowmanville, June 23/53. My ever dear Parents and Friends: 1 amn thankful to inform you that through much mercy we arrived at Darlington on Sunday morning June 19 about 5 o'clock and be- tore our luggage was ail out of the steam boat Uncle wifh bis son John and cousin Thomas Windatl were on the wharf f0 meet us. We had been anxiously expected for some time as Father's letter writ- ten 9 days after we sailed had corne to band a month previous. We met with a very warmn recep- tion. It was quite time for us to have rest. Baby was very bad. I fhink the beat was f00 much for hlm coming up in the sfeam Boats but if is quife astonisbing to see how much he is recovered in this week. Joe also had got a very bad head wbich is now nearly bealed & we are ahl now in the enjoyment of a good degree of heaif b. The news quickly flew around that Mr. Jones's friends were corne and during the day many called f0 see us, amongst the rest cousin R. Windatt and his wife also cousins Mary Ana & Eliz'tli with their husbands & 2 o! Mary Ann's children, also Cousin Wm. Windatt. Thliz'th is comfortably married, she has no children. She stopped here the CLOSETS JAMMED WITH WINTER CLOTHES?...JUST CALL US! Let us Sanitone clean and store your winter clothes! You get the best in dry cleaning and, best of ail, ciothes will be safely out of your *ay-alI summer long. Ca.1i us today! Local Agent:. HOOPER'S LADIES' WEAR PHONE: OSHAWA ZENITH 13000 first three days of this week f0 help wash up our clothes as Aunt bas no servant. They would not allow me f0 touch it as I had an inflammation in my legs. Last Thursday Aunt Jones and I took Eliz'th home in the buggie on our way we called on Wm. Windatt, be has a very nice farm o! 75 acres with a very good frame bouse furnished in good style with carpets, sofa, etc, he also drives a spant o! horses in a very neat buggie, his wife is from Scot- land she seems a very nice pers- on." Vertical Lines will order some means f0 fget if. I hope Mrs. Crocker & Baby are doing quite well. You will give our united love to our dear sister & brother and ahl the child- ren also f0 My much love rela- tives at Trebartha Village. I hope to receive a letter from home soon when I shall expect ail partic- ulars. I do most sincerely hope that you are comfortable and en- joying a good measure o! health. The whole o! the family here seem unifed ini their efforts f0 make us comfortable. Aunt is suffering from a bilious attack, the rest o! the family are pretty well. I must not omit f0 mention the anxiety felt here on our ac- count as a report was spread that the Dahlia was lost. Uncle was in telegraphic communication with Montreal for more than a week and bad got bis carpetbag packed up to set off in pursuit when he receivèd intelligence that the vessel was arrived af Quebec. The friends all desire to be kind- ly remembered f0 you. Wm wish- es you f0 have the money made payable at the Montreal Bank as there is a brancb o! that at Bow- manville." Deneau Remnanded To Whitby Hospital Under Mental Act Harold Deneau, 16, who has been charged with the hammer-1 slaying o! Sidney Gof!, 37, Cart- wright Township farmer, appear- ed before Magistrate R. B. Bax- fer in Cobourg court Frîday and was remanded for a peri od in Ontario Hospital, Whitby, of up to 60 days. Earlier this month he had ap- peared in Bowmanville court but it was explained b * the magistrate on Fridav that he was now being remanded under a different sec- tion of the Mental Hospitals Acf. The youth was arrested affer Sidney Goff*s body was found on March 16 partly covered by straw in bis father's barn. Believed by psychiatrists f0 be a mental case, the boy bas been remanded for observation. None o! the court spectators were aware o! bis identity and the shy-appearing boy dressed in a grey sit atracfed liffle atfen- fion until bis name was read and some then linked bis name withi the alleged 'slavin.g. Dencau shioWed litt le inter est during the proceedings. Thc average journey of a pass- enger on the Canadian National Railways during 1951 was .931 miles, an increase of nine miles over the figcure for 1950. 1 r PAPER WAS SCARCE on the day 99 years ago when a pioneer Englishwoman, newly arrived -in Canada, wrote home to tell her people in the Old Country that she was safely arrived in Upper Canada. When Mrs. William Smith came to the end of her one sheet of paper, she went back to the beginning and wrote crossways; before she was fin- ished, she had written a six-page letter on the four pages made by folding one sheet once. Reproduced here is Page 1 of the letter, written normally, and Page 5, superimposed and written across the letter is now in the possession of Sidney Smith, R.R. 2, St. Pauls, a great-grandson of the pioneer who wrote the two-way letter; reading the old docu- ment, Above is Sidney's son, Franklin Sidney Smith, great- great-grandson. Mrs.. William Smith came to Canada in 1853 from Cornwall; her maiden name was Mary Ann Davey. Her grave is in the old Methodist cemetery in the 6th con- cession of Fullarton Township. (Text of the portions of the letter on this two-way page is reproduced on this page. lowing morning he wondered why his hens were ail out in the yard. When he opened the hen house Ed door he knew the answer-he had unwittingly closed a red fox Y ou um a in the hens' boudoir the previous -~ The fox had apparently fright- Cotum n d the hens so badiy that they Columnhad broken most of the windows, _________________________allowing them to escape. In spite of being in the hen house ahl Last week, in Pontypool, a night, the fox had only killed small gru f farmers wr dis- four chickens and caten one, out grou o \ere of a total of 300. cussing depredations of the wily. Stranger still. the invader could fox. when George Chapman told1 have easily fled through the this classic. Swears it is true, broken windows, yet hadn't. Mr. too! One evening. about 8 p.m.n Chapmnan called to Cliff to bring Mr. Chapmoan closcd the trap the gun. But Mr. Fox decided to door of bis hen house. The fol- make a break for freedom, so ran Some months ago I handed out a tip as fa how one mnigbf antique an old picture franie. This must have aroused considerable interest for the mat ter bas continued fa po up from tume ta tume. If is a pleasure fe repeaf the formula. TO ANTIQUE A PICTURE FRAME Old picture frames, heavily ornamented with deep carvings are ideal for the purpose. in applyijng the glazing fiuid fthe ftrick is te brush if, on evenly, f hen wipe off immediafely by working fr<m the centre towards the edges, or removing if from the bigh points of the for a hole in the fence, but Mr. Chapman beat hlm to it and clamped his legs shut on the animal's neck. He then bent forward, and grasping the fox by the tail, lifted hlm into the air, where Cli!! whacked him (the fox) on the noggin with a stick, thus ending the chicken stealing career o! poor old Reynard. The moral o! this story is-if you spend the night %vith a friend- ly chicken, don't let anyone catch you. Mr. Chapman ought to shake hands with the negro who was charged with chicken stealing. He told the judge that when he was passing a farmer's hen bouse affer dark. he thought he heard a chicken moaning. Being a kind- hearted man, he decided f0 in- vestigate. The only way he could explain the chicken in the sack, was that if must have been look- ing for grain in the empty sack, and he, being strong, neyer sthe ude gave him 30 days in UNJIX.lbA> the poky. AKR Precise workmanship and When our children were young-J carcful attention to detail er and living at home, they were are your assurance when usually quite indifferent to ris- v'ou choose from the wide ing early six days per week. But selection o! imported and on the seventh day, when mother dornestic Granites and and I feit like having an extra 40 Marbies in stock. winks. those littie monsters would be up and about hours before -- they should have. Last Easter Sunday morning, when Bob was sleeping off a Sat- urday night dance, and mother and I weren't fussy about getting up because we figured nobody would be driving in over the < muddy roads, in such heavy rain, I~ we were caught in our nightics. Everything xvas nice and quiet, \' \(. we were snoozing, when suddenly, 1 the do-- barked, the kitchen door opened, and up the stairs tramnp- ed Art, Jean and their three sons,1 with enough noise to waken the dead. Well, there wasn't much we Says: "Too sma)1 to hld al could do about it, except leveLjwe'resavirg using Marathons!', our comfortable roosts and cooK up a hot dinner. Becaus'e w knew from past experience tha;d Slash truck tire cosis with that gang from Tyrone had flot 1 corne primarily to wish us aD Happy Easter, but rather, to O A sponge a big free feed off' the A littie later our fears were realized. I tried to keep JeanM RR O much. That was a mistake, theý exercise of talking only whetted her appetite. Anyone would, Come in soon and think to see those kids pod them- 1 let us equip your selves that their parents had in-j truck with long- structed them to eat ail they mileage, low- could at Grandpa Youngman 's so priced Goodyear they wouldn't need too much dur- Marathons! They ing the coming week. run and Run and When Helen, Don and children RUNI arrived, we didn't ask if they needed dinner for fear they ~ 9 9 would say yes. And, when Don suggested going home before sup- Oxl per, we didn't ask them to stay. Fortunately for us. Art had somne 'phoning to do for the Odd Fel- LOOI< FOR THIS lows, so we didn't have to feed "HIGH SIGN' that crowd.supper. OF QUALITY We can kid ail we like. ButR- the truth is, we were deeply touched by their spontaneous visit, : g as well as the beautiful Easter liY presented to us, and incident- aliy the first we ever owned. We had looked foIrward to a duli , quiet day. Instead, we enjoyed a happy Easter Sunday in the companionship of lively, interest-, ing young people who were kind coou'th to think of others rather than themnselves. and who braved bad roads and inclement weather to bring a ray of sunshine into the lives of a couple of old fogies. And don't think we dldn't ap,- preciate the nice cards cont ing such kindly expressed s ments fromn those who couldntJ with us, but who hadn't forgotten us. Makes us think of that line- 'We will remember when the world forgets." It is easier to do a job right than to expIlain why you didn't- Martin Van Buren. Stafford Bros. Monumental Works Phone Whitby 552r 318 Dundas St. E., Whltby FINE QUALJTY carvings. A light coat of varnish gives the inishing touch. BEDROOM SCREEN Wa bave a new neighbour on our streat. Hae tomns ouf fo be quifa handy wifh fools. His firsf job affer moving in was to construcf a fine bedroom scraen osing B.C. Fir Plywood, and when finishied ha starfed f0 construct a second one for his sistar, but this finie he utilized scrap wood from packing cases. If in a question which is most attractive. BIRD FEEDING STA TION A nafuralist friand has consfrucfed a bird feeding station fromn an old piano ffeat, the top being of glass to permit full view of the birds. An old coffee. table might serve the same porpose. Hie endeavoured f0, impress upofl his visitors that the closed end should always face the prevailing wind as this pro. vented the fed froin being blown away. STRETCHER FOR SOCKS Necessity is the mot ber of invention, s0 my friend George turned a coat-hanger info a stretcher for socks. To make if more attrac- tive he gave if a côat, of enamel by simply dipping it in the can an.d then hanging it up to dry. TO ANIUQUE AN 0WD PICTURE FRAME IBRUSH ON AN "ANTIQUE GLAZE, COMPLETELY COVERING THIE SURFACE - THEN WIPE IT OFF IMMEDIATELY, EXCEPT THE rt PORTION THAT NATURALLY .: j REMAINS IN DEPRESSIONS. IF POING LARGE OBECTn SUCH AS A TABLE. DO A PORTION *-. -~ AT A TIME, ENDEAVOURIN& TO SECURE A UNIFORM SPREAD. RECIP£ FOR GLAZE W"l TABL.ESPOON 09 CLEAR VARNISH 3 TAIBLESPOONS 0F PURE TURPENTINE IY2 TrEASPOON4FULS CIL COLOUR RAW UMBER ADO MORE OR LE.SS OIL COLOUR FOR A DEEPER OR LIGUTER ANTIQUE. STIR THOROUGHLV. IF IN DOUBT CONSULT YOUR LOCAL PAINT MERCHANT. EASILY MADE PFROM OLO METAL COAT HANGER. THAT CAN BE MOVED TO AN'? DESIFRED LOCATION. UPPER PORTION MAY SE MADE OF GLASS FASTENED INTO &ROOVE5 OR 8TRIeS 0F MOULOING. You'i fiIndil any aihtl , r Ii,ig and In.tif.d s4îgj Aga in". Writ. for v, ropv .t., .mGurd. oMOSYq <O 4RI>) lt ;;71E, P.0. Box 490, Adelaide St. Statin, Toronto. FROM 7/8"PLVY4OOD. HEI<,HT 64" PANELS 17-V2"WIDE STRIPS 0F /21'MOULOMNr1 FOR TRIM. STRONG HINCES. PAGE TEN TRURSDAY, APRIL 24th, 1952 di