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5 me ile pie a tie ei Oe wl sy Mo 1018, ie to shareholders of record of 23rd of October, 1018, hey By order of the Board. : * GEO. P. SCHOLFIELD, General Manager. 155 Toronto, 16th September, 1918, { to. Toronto. wih shel a ~ 10 Toronto; and of Jewetts hotel, about as 'many as $ there are to-day; but the business section ended at the corner. : | Across the road lived John Nott, cabinet maker, who turned out good werk, and who is still a fagiliar figure about town. His picture appears herewith. John Nott is very widely known and is remembered ! by every former resident of Port Perry as he for a number of years was b ve been various views of the police magistrate. He had a busy time during his term of office, as the ain that Port Perey lost consid- Scott Act enforcement gave much room for legal difficulties. Most of his life has been spent at Borelia, where he had both his home and his i ion of the road was worse than place of business, although for a time he did have a shop down town in the amount of the bonus. was later years. ~ Elmore Crandell had a cabinet factory at Borelia. Among other furniture manufactured by him were those old fashioned wooden bed- steads that were fastened by ropes to hold up the bedding. On the corner was Shehey's hotel. Speaking of Shehey, one is reminded of the story of the runaway slave told by John Rolph, who was then a telegraph operator. One day a young negro came to Shehey's hotel and asked for shel ter. He had not been in the locality more than a day or two before telegraphic messages were received by John Rolph enquiring about a runaway slave. The messages gave a description of the man, and word was sent back that he was in the neighborhood. Negotiations were opened with Shehey by the slave owner, who promised $300 for the negro's safe delivery on United States tertitory. So long as he remained in Canada he was perfectly safe. During the time these arrangements were going on Shehey treated the negro royally, and one day he proposed that they go for a little trip. Before they started they called at the telegraph office where arrangements were finally made for the owner to meet his slave at the Niagara frontier. While here Shehey had occasion to leave the office, and the negro was alone with John Rolph. For some time John had been struggling between a telegraph operator's duty not to divulge telegraphic messages, and a desire to help the young negro out of the danger which threatened him; so when Shehey was gone John said= "Don't you cross any water when you go on your trip." * "Oh, Massa! Massa!" cried the negro, "is there anything wrong?" "I can't tell you anything more." was the response, "but mind you don't cross any water or you'll be in great trouble" Shehey and the negro started on their journey, and in a few days the former was back again thoroughly disgusted with the turn things had taken. When they reached the Niagara frontier the negro had re- fused to cross, and nothing could induce him to leave Canada. So the $300 remained in the hands of the former slave owner. A few weeks later the negro came back to Borelia. He had trac:p- all the way from Niagara to thank John Rolph for his warning. Next to Shebey's hotel was J. W. Allison's drygoods store, and be- side that was a general store run by Wm. Mackie, who also bought 'grain... Next came J. D..Cottingham's dental parlors. J. A. Mur- ray was associated with Cottingham for about five years. Then there: was a storehouse, and beside that were a blacksmith shop and a woodi working shop. James Swan ran the former, and Oliver Gerow the latter. These two men worked together considerably. Beside these shops were some dwellings, and now we have come down the north side of Queen St ; . as far as Mrs Whitfield's store. Here we could then have found an alley the somingiof the railwsy. It was not leading to the school where James Baird taught some of the men who- live here to-day such as Charles Kellett and Wm, Beatty, "More houses. followed. "While we are passing, it ¢ might be well to ho note that the Metho- dist Episcopals built the present primary school for a church in 1861. claimed thateventually the road . There Was not enough busi- ay, and the probability was that as the lumber was gradually ars would not buy the railway ded, close watch was kept on the was able to show 'a margin of Railway bought the road, and it r, Here J. W. Gamble lived and kept 'a little 'store. . He: of Scugog. where he owned a small farm. Beside the bowling ere for many years Andy 'Camybell's carpenter shop stood, was. s hotel, On the other sid of the flat Henry Gordon later