Ontario Community Newspapers

'Old Timers of '59' recalled 50 years ago, p. 2

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.' "John Kerr collected taxes; Jimmy Wills was o»n the force; John Roadh and old Pat Salmon, I remember 'them, of course. 4<I remember Kennedy's drygoods store, HolitonX and Nathan Jones* . . , You had to do your trading face to laoe For then there were no 'phones, "I remember IX , Holclen; I remember Dr. Power; I remember Wallace, the miller, W!ho ground the wheat to flour. "I rememiber Mr, WannaeotJt, Wfho lived on Meyers* Hill; I also rememmber Wheedon, Who owned 'the wooden mill, "At the station was Bill Docter, . . . At the upper bridge, John Doyle; And Sylvester Hannan's shoe stoop Was very near Sam Kyle. "I'm writing of old-timers Wtoo were here in '59 . . . There was the joker, Barney GofHogly And jolly $fce$hen O'Briien, "I remember Wellington Murney And Edmund Murney, too, And! Edward Briton, a butieiiefv Like Leo Gibson and Jim MeGue, "I rememiber black John Highitower, And Sailor Hurley, too; And bold Bill Young, the 'cock o* the walk,1 And Florence Donahue, 44And Turner Boyd, the barber, And * Untile Amos* Fry; Bill AMord, Tobe Mink, also, And Alf. Bruneaus the spy. "Yes, I remember both good aaid bad And could call them all by name, But, just like a drive of sawlogs, We are playing the same game . . , '*We are floa«tiing dloWn the stream ol life. Some wise men and some fools, Some safely run the rapids, Some are caugfM in tihe whirlpools. "But let us work with a will up iMuimey*s Hill, Bye and bye we'll take a nap, And the good and bad will be sorted out, When we (arrive at the Gap." i

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