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Grimsby Independent, 6 May 1936, p. 5

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grinned, clucked to the horses and joined the boys with the apples. "I hear you are going to ship quite a few winter apples this year from your fine orchard. You‘re shead of the rest of us in quality alright," said ter that. Your boy is growing fast." Mr. Calder?" he asked. "You‘re always so gencrous with the use of your cider press every year I thought I‘d bring these up. Linus here came along to help." "Yes, indeed, the boys will look afâ€" "What‘s all this crying about that I hear. Are you boys fighting?" asked Mr. Calder coming from the barn. There was sudden silence. "If you boys want to stay and help 1 don‘t want any more of that," he added, goâ€" ing over to a new arrival coming up the lane. It was Charles E. Woolverâ€" ton, and he had in the back of his waggon big boxes of cutâ€"up apples. . WEDNESDAY, MAY oth, 1936. 72 James §t. N. â€" Hamilton, Ont. versity training has helped a gr Our Secretarial course for y people with a High School or 12 months. Free cataiogue. Enroll | g[est%rwar GRIMOSBY PARK | The HOME PAGE "Yes, they‘re young trees yet, but What do you intend to do with leftâ€"over articles? Do not clutter up the cellar or atâ€" tic with articles which have lost their useâ€" fulness for you. No doubt there is someone who wants just that very article, whether it be stoves, cots, odd pieces of furniture, books etc. Get some ready cash for a small HOUSEWIVES . . . By Myrtle A. Bean Including Haircut, Shampoo and Finger Wave â€"â€"â€" PHONE 516 FOR APPOINTMENT â€"â€" In the Midst of Spring Cleaning L"\" \P|CKINGO (Crokinole, Spiral or Combination) REGULAR $53.00 _ PERMANENT WAVE "I agree with you," said Mr. Caldâ€" er. "The church is the backbone of the nation, and the young people are the future nation. "I understand you though. Our stone road up the moun» tain to Smithville cost us.too much. We‘ll be a long time paying $40,000 and we‘re paying well for our drill sheds. NM.‘nll'chn'“ his hand on the other man‘s shoulder, "what I‘m most interested in is our young people and our Union Bible School. T guess you know that. After all, the greatest fruits come from there, spiritual fruits that nnlyl _ "Fine, fine," Mr. Woolverton declarâ€" ed. "I hope 1 can save a few dollars for our people now and again. We "It did remarkably well this spring. We shipped out a good many crates of them too this spring and got 10c a quart. Not so bad was it? A. M. is the farmer though. 1 never was at heart I guess, 1 like it and don‘t neg» lect it but now he‘s come in with me the farm ought to go right ahead. He has most optimistic Ideas and wants lhwdh&-mhfl.“ in New York state." | _"I hope he‘s not disappointed," said Mr. Calder, "And now that you have more time I suppose you‘ll be turning into a politician and be an M.P. like your illustrious father first thing we know. How do you like being on the "So they say. We got $2.00 a barrel last year for our stuff. Now that A. M. Smith, my good brotherâ€"inâ€"law has come in with me, we expect to build up quite a fruit business. He‘s very enthusiastic about this Niagara Penâ€" insula, especially here around Grimsby where the Escarpment is highest and nearest to the lake." "How is the big strawberry bed are bearing pretty well, although the cold winters of ‘55 and ‘36 were hard on them too. How did your grafts eome through that Peasley put on your big trees ?" "Oh, they‘re fine. Come over and see them." ‘The two men walked over to the orchard. "We find it‘s a great help not to have to haul the fruit out to Mamilton over that road. ‘The railâ€" road is a Godâ€"send now so many apâ€" ples are coming on and we‘ll be shippâ€" Ing more every year." "I guess you‘ve got the best and biggest apple orchard coming on in from our official church paper, The J| Christian Guardian, of the camp 21 | meetings in Upper Canada besides our ewn held this month, and found there was one held at Brampton, Oakville, WellauiMa Wsitaacl Anktarich Whit. "You don‘t know me, Mr. Beamer, but you will know my Uncle Smith Griffin of Smithville." "Know him? I guess I do. He cheated me out of $200. 1 ought to know him," he said gruffly. Griffin said he gave up after that \feeling be better know a little more Both men laughed heartily at the story. ‘That would be just like grandâ€" father John Beamer. He‘d be past ninety then," said Mr. Calder, "and was before you came to Grimaby and married into this iMustrious family." Me always keeps a gang of them hanging around here." Griffin thought he‘d be an interest« ing old man, so tried to make friends "Oh yes," he answered without look» ing up, "It will be my son you want. "Well, he had just come to the cirâ€" éult and was sent up here to call on Wm. Beamer, your fatherâ€"inâ€"law. When he came up he found a very old gentleman sitting at the ravine with a biunderbus, waiting to shoot rattle snakes that might come up." "I guess it was, but what was this joke he told on himself ?" Methodists had. Let me seeâ€"It was in ‘S1 that he was stationed on the Grimaby Circuit, a young probationer meetings in Upper Canada besides OUr| . ‘The two men sat on a fallen tree in own held this month, and found there | deep thought. ‘"The Pettits and Smiths was one held at Brampton, Oakvill¢,| went through that time too. 1t must Belleville, Woodstock, Goderich, Whitâ€" | have been terrible. It was the Pettits by and many others and the Sunday/got my grandfather, Jonathan Woolâ€" congregations mounted up into the yerton, interested in coming over. thousands just like ours did. Do you|They‘re related. T‘ll tell you more know Rev. W. 8. Griffin? He sent in |about that some day." quite an account of the one held in\ "Op yes, your people came not long Simcoe where he is stationed." . after that, didn‘t they ?" Mr. Wooiverton . smiled . broadly.| "It was quite a little while before he "Yes, I know him.. He‘s quite a jOKerâ€" | came the second time to settle." I‘H always remember a joke he told| Nathan O‘Neil was about to pass on himself at a tea meetiny Y94/ them with a whecibarrow of apples Methodists had. M-omâ€"lt'u;mlr.'m-v-w in ‘S1 that he was -ufh-d-mumwu-'inmm Canada, the United States and of suffering and privation, Woolverton, eourse in England where that cxtraâ€"\ and how thankful we should be to mmmt-aumm'mâ€"mmm got now. Yet from our official church paper, The| grandmother lived to be ninetyâ€"seven, Christian Guardian, of the camp | deticate as she looked." meetings in Upper Canada besides OUr| . ‘The two men sat on a fallen tree in own held this month, and found there | deep thought. "The Pettits and Smiths was one held at Brampton, Oakvill¢,| went through that time too. It must Belleville, Woodstock, Goderich, Whitâ€" | have been terrible. It was the Pettits by and many others and the Sunday/got my grandfather, Jonathan Woolâ€" "Well, of course you know a-‘ Wesley was the founder of our faith. Me lived practically throughout the whole of the last century from 1703 to 1701. The big churches of the Estaâ€" blished Church of England wouldn‘t let him preach in their halls when he [b-nlmhydnâ€"-lulfl-h' reach all classes of people, and no ’-IlprflMc-llmhth‘ big congregations so he had to resort to the fields and . outâ€"ofâ€"doors. m' was the beginning of the Camp meetâ€" ing ldea, and it has led to a great! spiritual awakening | throughout l.: "I might just do that, I‘m pretty busy as leader of the class meeting on Friday nights, but I think I will. How did you like our Camp meeting ? I saw you down there several times." ‘ "Glorious," said Mr. Woolverton deâ€" cisively. "It almost made me wish I were a Methodist. If I weren‘t such a dyedâ€"inâ€"theâ€"wool Baptist, that -" meeting might have turned me. I They got pretty excited sometimes, but we need to get excited. Where did your camp meeting idea originâ€" "That‘s what they call me." ‘Then he said, "I‘m the new Methoâ€" Mr. Griffin said, "Is this Mr. Beamâ€" "And a splendid work you are makâ€" ing of it," said Mr. Calder, "Then when was it you built the Bible School on Adciaide St.?" "I built that nine years after I start« od in ‘47. We needed a building of our own, and I have felt greatly repaid for the money 1 put into it. I have eight excellent teachers now and need anâ€" other one, the school is growing so. By the way, Calder, would you consider taking it ?" gave up the ministry idea, and dediâ€" cated my life to the children and young people of Grimaby." training. The Anglicans had their own church and Sunday School, but the children of the Baptists, Presbyterians and Methodists had no place to go. We each had our separate church serâ€" vices as we do now, the Presbyterians meeting in the morning, ours in the afternoon aud yours in the evening in was nothing definite for the children. So strong did the conviction come to have had that Sunday School on Ade» laide Street for a good many years ?" _ _Mr. Woolverton stroked his beard in meditation. "It is quite a while since 1 began it. Twentyâ€"one years ago to be exact, in 1838. 1 had been going to *umnmmâ€"‘ didn‘t realize till 1 went away to a larger place how much the children of THE INDEPEXMLENT. GRIMSBY. ONTARIO of us. Funny thing about that tree. The boy accepted with alacrity. "That‘s good quick work," said Mr. Woolverton. "What kind of apples are those?" He picked out a large good looking apple and started eating it. *That‘s a little hard to say. We call it the twist apple. The tree is right ahead When grandfather planted out the from, my lad? lauun..'.-[mm-nnu-y. One was at || you before, have 1?" Vinemount and the other near . the| "No sir, I come from away up counâ€" black bridge near the civic waterâ€" try over there," he said throwing his works plant, Stoney Creek. ‘They are head over sideways. quite attractive in their brown and "That‘s rather indefinite," smiledSlate plumage with scariet bill and, Mr. Calder. "You‘d enjoy Mr. Wool| Ereen legs. ""“"""""“‘Mnh"!_â€"_â€"i you down with me if you‘d like to Growers‘ Assn. meeting held in Hamilâ€" ___""'.':""""""-""""‘!muthla-urmmum'! [ ‘We ate roots and greens from the woodd‘ said grandfather‘, and noticing :-hlo.(-' pigs ate we avoided getting anything that was poisonous. We had to kill our dogs for food and a horse that we needed to do our farm work.‘ Oh what do we know of suffering and privation, Woolverton, and how thankful we should be to "It evidently was but the beginning|i" UanUc City attending the meet of their trials," continued Mr. Calder, !N&® 0# the Society for Clinical Inâ€" “uuwmm;m" the Association of year after their long trek of unbeliev.| Am®rican Physicians. Dr. Gordon A. m,-nd:m-a-muni â€"â€"â€"â€"â€" terrible hungry years throughout Upâ€"| Mrs. Harvey Lambert, Ontario St., per and Lower Canada. ‘There was no| ¢ntertained on Friday evening at her harvest, and when they had used up|home at a miscellancous shower in the few supplies they had brought Bonor of Miss Doris Lambert, whose mhdhnmnnm'wmnnmfiuh away, the spring of 1788 found them | Mr. Raiph Locke of Beamsville. About almost devold of food and s««!. Disâ€"| twenty friends were present and spent tress was general but in Niagara Penâ€"| & happy evening playing cards. The [â€"...‘._‘g.uam,m-mmndm suffering was most intense. Food was lovely and varied gifts from her everywhere in great demani. One friends. Refreshments were served neighbor traded 100 acres o( !and for , during the evening. a few pounds of flour, a cow for 8} =â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"_â€" ‘ bushels of potatoes. : _ Miss Jean G. Furrell, 80 Maple Ave., mmâ€"mw.mlwupnâ€"mmu wells, -_q-M cattle M‘u-dl'e-flâ€"!h'ull game and wild birds disappeared and forest fires added to their terror and Iâ€"u_.tdlmun.é' Sflas Detty Farrell, nurseâ€"inâ€"trainâ€" Jersey with the Smiths and the Pettits| !E at the Woodstock Hospital, is in November, thinking they could tra. | *P¢®ding two weeks‘ holidays with her vel better in the winter over the ice| PATCDt® in Grimsby. ‘ and wanting to be here in the spring. | rermmmam ‘They didn‘t arrive here until April) -lfl.'.'hmh."..‘ when she had her fourth child a month | BAKe ber home at Toronto. Her many later. That‘s the log cabin they built | fri@nds will regret her removal from up there on the hill." im-â€"-.-mt-u- "That‘s a story of heroism in a few | 1¢¢med resident for many years. words," said Mr. Woolverton. "What 1| ns can‘t understand is how | the women| _ Drâ€" Gordon A. Sinciair, Grimsby and "I remember her quite well," said Mr. Woolverton. "A little woman, dainty, with small hands and feet. She was wiry though." . Calder. "She came over with him to this unbroken wild country in 11-‘ and they had three small children, carrying them in baskets on the sides this homestead. He was a staunch Presbyterian, you know, and had much to do with the building of that church in 33. But when the time came he wanted to be buried in the Oild St. Andrew‘s churchyard where in those first early days he had carned a lot, along with other first settiers, clearing .~~~mxmâ€"u.' ed for that first log cburch in 1704. So m-l..hhlnukhhfit' who was 97 when she died a few years | ‘You didn‘t come to our first Fruit erotchety if he wanted to be. They say he used to wear & straw hat in the Imfl-hfllnmm just to show his contempt for fashion. l-nv'*flvmn-m&| son Will changed Over to the other church on marrying 8 Methodist girl, yet he liked bis EW Gaughterâ€"inâ€"law well enough to want them to live with them when he and his son Will built | _ "Yes, I do. If we grow fruit to any extent in Upper Canade, I think we mneed to get together. it‘s too bad though the man we made our Presiâ€" dent died a few months ago. He took the real initiative for the whole thing. St. Catharines, Rev. Dr. Burnet of Hamilton and Judge Logie of Hamilâ€" ton, all very prominent men, so it is most unfortunate that Judge Campâ€" bell died. 1 went to Hamilton with A.I.Mlmlluuum-‘ wvention. ‘There weren‘t many of us there, considering it took in such a big territory and he was disappointed but it was a beginning." ‘ "You mean Judge Campbell of Niâ€" garaâ€"onâ€"theâ€"Lake? I thought they‘d make him President." "Yes, you see he had been thinking about it for some time and last year had a small organization meeting at "No," said Mr. Calder, "It was hard getting down the mountain about that time. Too much snow. Do you think it will amount to anything?" euu-rn.m.ou-raumnl Star, was held on Tuesday evening. May 5th in the Masonic Hail, 8Sis.| u-tl-u.'-nyh-.mt siding. Arrangements were made for| the installation of officers to be held at a special meeting May 19th. 'I\ci annual reports were received and apâ€" mmwmmm’ the officers and members for their coâ€" | somewhat unusual visitor to these SKY BIADS HERE ‘Two specimens of the Common Gaiâ€" linule also known as the Blue Rail, a The refreshment committee served lunch at the close of the meeting. | spending the Dr. Gordon A. Sinciair, Grimsby and Dr. John C. Sinclair of Toronto, are in Atlantic City attending the meetâ€" ings of the Society for Clinical Inâ€" GRIMSBY CHAPTER were served. mm-m, recipient of many dainty gifts from her friends. I ing. Four tables of bridge were in play after which dainty refreshments will be At Home to their friends and nelghbors on the afternoon and evenâ€" ing of Monday, May 11, on the occas« sion of their goiden wedding. ‘ Wdh“-l» Mrs. Mogg, mother of Reeve Mogg. is seriously il at her home in Gait. Mer condition is somewhat improved although still critical. | left last week after spending a month in the south. Friends of Mr. John E. 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