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0O1RONO WEEKLY TIMES, THURSDAV, M.1RCH l2th 1970 Essay On The Life 0f (continued from Iast week) A good scrappy dog was a prîz- cd addition to a settier family. The dog's keen ears and lis abil- ityto "sleep light'! was the own- er's early warninfg system. The success of a hunt often turned on the skill of the dog. A young dog was sure to attack a pordupine and corne home bowling with his mouth and lips full of quilis. Grandfather often toid of the nasty job of extracting those quilis. They are barbed like a fish-hook and the operation was most painful for dog and man. Only a wise oid dog could kili a porky and flot get hooked, but sorne learned the trick. The porc- upine has no spines on his belly so the trick was for the dog to chase the porky tililihe ' had to jurnp a log. Then the mucli faster dog nosed him on his back and porky was a meal. ~The story mwas told of a settier who 'shot a bear and nailed the skin to the gable end of his cabin in preparatiQn for makrng a, fur robe.> In the niglit there came a thunderous sma ck that shook the building. fhe man rushied out to find the bide in tatters and the ma rks of a bear's claws on tle wall. The graduai increase of a set tler's livestock, like tle increase in cleared acreage, was the meas ure of lis weaith and well being. Horses and oxen greatly increas ed, lis capacity to clear land and larm productively. During the firsi winters Samuel often walk ed with a sack of wheat on lis back tg the npearest grist miii and returned with: the whole-wheat flour, lis load iightened by the miller's tîthe. The nearest f-rist miii was owned by Charles Bow- man at what later became Bow- manvîlle. It was a 5 mile trip. wlen sleighs were bùiit, such Septict TankJ Service GENERAL PUMPING 24 Ï"tOUR SERVICE LORNE HARDY Lmîkad, Ontario Telephoee "3,526 or 983-5728q Oxford . 11 BIICKLAYERS STONEMASONS «'. Schmahl 9"-5606 Bpeeiallzlg ini ail kinds of WTONEWORK and FIREPLACES we J do chlixrnev Re.irs SAMIS RESTAURANT Htghway 115 and 35 /2Mile suotl of Oronô Phone 983-5651 Specializlng -in Pizza and work, which took ail of a winter's day, wenb off tle hardship lisi. Oxen, thougli much slower than horses, lad merits which madle them wideiy used by the early setiers. In winter, the principal work was logging. The brees were felletI, trimimed andI cut into logs by axe. The logs had to be puiied througl bhe snow bo where tley could be piled for burning in the spring. A well brained voke of oxen,,, strong and surefoobed, could'do a fine job of log moving. At meal trne the -setbler would eut clown a young tree (maple or basswood wcre bcst) and the ox- en wouid have a good meal on the swelling buds., The first gen- erabion of settlers in C1prke Township, used oxen almost en- tirely, as draft.- animnals. Thomas Thornton is rcported in "Pion- cers of OltI ýOntario" bv W. L. Smith, as saying thiat there were only three horses in- Clarkenorîl of thie it conceýsion in the late eighteen thirties. In 1839 Saimuel found the country sotlf of Orono too set- tied for hlm, or perhaps lie feit theu need for, larger acreazé, Whtvr t1' e reason, lie sold . to hisb"olerEtsil and moved into tldý tall woods again, buyiin« 100 acres in tle seventh concession, from Jeremiah Or 'ser of Port Perry for $850. This farm 21/ miles north of Orono lecame to, us of thc t hird generation, birth- place and homt-stead. Grandfath- eir said that the thing that at- tracted him to that location was the taîl, straigît maffie. o& iP-"1 beedli brees whicl indicated deep, fertile soul. Ilere a frame house and hqrn w cre built, on level. weldr_ýin.d ]and, a quar-ter mile lane led ln from tle sideroad. A well was duga and stone wvalled. Allbough on higli land it was only 21 feet dep. the water cold, lard and * plentiful for many years. Here tle pioneering starteci all ouer a- gain - île cutting, and logging of trees in, tle winter, the burning off' and preparabion of new land for cropï ini île sprinig. On frigid winter, days in île. woods wvhen Sam's feet got cold lie wouid Pull off his long-legged boots, mount the fallen.trees in socked feet1 and make tle big sappy chips fly. Thc tljck socks of nat- ive wool tha,' Julia lad knit for hlm were good insulabion and with the added freedom fo'- ; -- culation lis feet would warm up. The Young sisters and brothý,rs ilat Samuel brought to Clarke lielped to found and fashlon- many of its families. Maria married Nelson Powcrs. Theli- chhîdren were Melvin, Wil- liam, Wellington, Thomas, Susan- na, Marcini, 'Louisa, Rebeuea and Mary. Hariiet married Their sons were and Benjamin. Mark Raper. George, Albert Hannali married AlfredI flrif- fin. Children wcre Alfred J. (marnied Adella Truli). Sarahi (married William Davidson) and Jennie (married W. Marshall), H1-annal Agusta died at age seven. 1Edsil andI Matilda lad t"'-e sons, Norman M., George Wash- ington Walter, Edsil Jr., and two idaugîters, Bartrama- Ann andI Silvina. Rufus, Josephi S. andI William ST. SAVIOIIRS ANGLICAN Established 1869 Regular Sunday Wership Ser-vices - 9:30 a.m. Holy Communion- FIrst and Third Sundays Morning Frayer- Second and Fo)urthSuaday- 1901Y -Baptism hby appoitment with Rector 987-4745 The Rev. H Rohert H1ayne, B.A., L.Th. sec'ured farms in the 7t1, 8th and 9th concessions. William later moved to Gooderham i , T ton. Samuel married Julia Anm i Y hi er. Their children wcre: Elv,,ira xvho dccl at agc thI 'ee. T ,famnes, George, Daniel' M. and Samuel M. Both Henry and Dan- iel served as local nreae1'- the Mtbodist Church. Grandfather died in 1903' at age 94 having lived with us for lis last nine years. As a lad of 15 1 had found the stories of lis early life of' absorbing interest. When an old friend would drop in on a winter evening hie was ai his best. Afier dînner, before the open cook stove, the pipes would appear. Tobacco was, jack-knife hewn from the plug, kneeded in the palm and thum-ranuned in the bowl. A smnaii live coal 'ex- pertly fished from the ashpan was tle favorite ignition. As smoke encircled white heads thc conversation would drift back over the vears f- 0 early days when assets were low but hopes high, when fortune and fortitude alwavs qeernert to y pand to match emergencies. On sucli occasions. 1 generally oni- trived to be within earshot. TItis much recorded here came first band. 1 also hasten to ci- gratitude the exhaustive re$earcl,, as to dates and facis supplicd by Mrs. Helen Schmid of, Orono. Her work was connected witl the Can- adian Centcnnial in 1967. Mrs. Lina Cobbledick and many others contributed essential information. The earlv settiers lived undeir the necessitv of using materials available for their primiative needs. Thcy macde maximum use of -techniquTes and ills anded down fromn previou generations but there-were always a few es- pecially blessed with imagination UNITED CHURCUl Orono Pastoral Charge Iinister ISUNDAY, MARCH l5th, 1970 Orono Unitep Chrch- ¶undâ, SeIood at 10:00 Sel-vice at 11-15 a.m Kirby- .dorning Service ai 9-45 a.m Sunday Sûbool ai 11-00 and inventiveness who could in- no3vate processes and extend the fields of applieation. Grandfathcr Billings was one so blessed 'TP~ macle his firsi wagon, excepi the '"rouvTit iron tires and forgeings, from hardwood lie had se- rIp madle sloes for the family, ppgging the soles with maple pegs. Siigîs were made, harness stitcled'. Soap was madle by leacl- ing lye from ashes and boiling in animal fats, Ontario.forests were well supplicd with sugar maple. in the spnin g these werc tapped and the sap bolled in large iron kettics to produce syrup and sug- ar for tle year's supply. Shecp's wool was spun int yarn and of- ten woven into loth as a home industry. I recail one time whcn 1 lad shot, some, woodchucks, grand- father then past ninety, looked them over, seiected a large one., shac-pened lis pocket knife aniiC skinned it. He soaked the skin ,in lye bill the hair came off, hung it on the fcence for several davs toý dry and tan, then kneaded i tilt, it was sofb and pliable. He blen backed it-to aboard and cut nar- row strips for shoe laces. He didn't paricuiarly need shoe laces but tlere was the urge tbc, produce in the oltI way using thcý pioneers techniques. One day when lie was ninetv- four, mother expressed the neechi for a new clothes pole to behung over bIc summer cook stove- Brother Carl was five blen "-e thc twq proceecdcd bo tbe, cedar swamp to cut a pole. I recall sec- inr- the pair toiiing up tIe 1onk:, hli with the neatly barked Carl proudly carrying one endI. 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