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Citizen Phones: Queen 5500. THE EVENING CITIZEN, OTTAWA, CANADA, SATURDAY, AUGUST 18, 1934 TWO tffTT II 1 II 1F7 Iff" IIU1 (O 111 I.L REMftlSClNCES OF THE OTTAf A OF EARLIER DAYS I ((! 11 I I III I Vm I 1 Personages, Scenes, Incidents RecaUed for Evening Gtizen Reader I pk IB II JL JllvJILJLj JL mUJIL JL M.M,mt. 1 aunr.r.ffi-,:r,.ll.,J.,i, ,1 nil iTXUirmn tj- i n. A Lower Town Corner of 60 Years Ago I More About Rochesterville Perth "Courier" Has Completed 100 Years Of Community Service I As It Was In Early 70's ii i Tv- us Ij i resu lenans oruippcu i civs. First Erskine Church Was Modest Frame Buildin Cows, Geese and Pigs Paraded Through A History Of The Courier I lilt! Founders And Successors Plenty of tree Slumps on vacant lois.

memories Of Alex Brown, Great Fiddler and Cornet Player. Penny's Bush Was Playground. many before we could build the house we are living in now. "We had no form of public' amusement in the district, no skat-' How The Pioneers Made "Black" Salt IN her delightfully entertaining reminiscences of her girlhood days in the Ottawa district, Mrs. Annie Em-bry Young told how they made black salt on the farm.

This was obtained from the heaps of ashes left after burning great piles of hardwood logs, which had to be burned when clearing the land. The ashes were put in a leach and the lye from this was boiled until thick and black. This product was sold in kegs, for the purpose of manufacturing soda and other things. 4wNwttW Being The Interesting Tale of Ten Generations of Newspaper and Community Building. Intimate Biographies of Some of Its Publishers and Editors.

Has Been in Walker Family For Period of Eighty Two Years. Was Known as Bathurst Courier Until 1838. ing rinks, dance halls or anything! oi mai Kina, duo we aia nave some merry parties and dances in prtvat houses and there were some grea fiddlers around the city in those days, who provided the music aj IN the mind of the average man, one hundred years is a long time. Vet 1 this Is the record of the Perth Courier one hundred years 01 mmnnitii sprvirp Knmethine to be miEhtv Droud of. On the those affairs.

Alex. Brown, brothe of the late Joe Brown, forme leader of the G.G.F.G. band, wa and VUJ occasion of this notable anniversary, O.T.S. extends Its greetings lipart.v rnntrratnlfttions. one of the greatest fiddlers of tha day and also a splendid cornet As the story of the proprietors of the Courier for a hundred years player.

Temperance Society. j.My,-sii:ir,a:w I "The Rochesterville Temperance press, with a "little giant" steam engine, was Installed by the next proprietor. Society held its meetings in whal was known as Woodland's Hall, onl the southeast corner of Cedar ancq Legislative acts changed the coun Looking north on Sussex street at the corner of Rideau in the early seventies. St. Johnl Anglican church at the left.

This venerable edifice, as well as the shoemaker's shop and hack stand, were on the site of the present Daly building. Across the street Flngland and Draper kept a dry goods store where the Plaza building now stands. See story about Sussex street on this page. Preston streets. The hall was owned by Stewart Woodland, who had a back is in a degree the story of the town or Pertn ana us environs, a ie of the historical facts and current events of the community are dovtalled In this narrative in their definite place.

The first location of the Courier office cannot be traced now, since all those who knew of it are dead long years past, but there is an idea that it had its home in a picturesque one-storey granite building on the "Little River" bank, at the foot of Colborne street, once owned by Mr. Charles Rice and now the property of the family of the late David Lowe. The original structure passed away long ago and was replaced by the present modern two-storey residence. Eighty years ago the office found a new resting place in the Likely building, now owned by the Wright family. Still later, it was removed to the O'Brien building, higher up the "Little River" branch, on Gore street, and about 1894 a more permanent abiding place was found in the Kellock block, purchased by the present proprie sash and door factory right nexi ty and municipal boundaries and names of Upper Canada into counties and townships about 1852.

The term "district" disappeared from the maps, but still the Courier held to its original designation "Bathurst" door, on Preston street. "Over on the northeast corner off Sussex Street Once Ottawa's! Cedar and Preston streets, William! until 1858, when the word "Perth" Rochester had a large frame dwell ing, surrounded by shrubs and gar displaced the term and thus it has Main Business Thoroughfare dens and an apple orchard in thA tor, Mr. Walter W. Warner. rear.

I remember he had quite aj THROUGH the courtesy of Mr. Clement McKechnie, of 106 Preston street, was able last week to present some interesting facts about. Rochesterville in Ithe early seventies. As told last week Mr. McKechnie, who is now in his seventy-seventh year, has been residing in the district since he was fourteen years of age.

He is a son of the late Mrs. James McKechnie, who kept store at the corner of Preston and Somerset streets for more than forty years. We will let him continue the story where he left off last week: "About the time we moved to Rochesterville, the Presbyterians of the district were organizing into what is now the Erskine Presbyterian congregation, but they had no church building. For a time they held services in the old Cedar street school, located on Cedar (now Somerset) just west of Preston. "In 1876 they erected their first church on Cedar street, just a little east of where the Somerset street bridge is now.

It was a modest frame building, and I can remember that J. R. Booth's lumber piles reached close to the rear of the building. Some time in the eighties, a second church was built at the coiner of Pwton and Elm streets. This was a much more substantial structure, being of brick veneer construction and containing a large Sunday school hall.

Waddling Geese. "It was a common thing in those days to see farm animals parading the streets. Several of the residents kept cows and pigs and occasionally these animals would get out of their pasture and wander around the various streets. There was a Mrs. Timmins who lived over on Spruce street and who owned a flock of geese.

It was a common sight to see the flock waddling along Preston street, or down towards the lumber piles at the west end of Spruce street. "Another interesting tact is that in the seventies there were still plenty of tree stumps on the vacant lots. We had to clear away a great continued since. Change In Ownership And now came another change in the Courier's life. Mr.

Rice was ap time keeping the lads of the disJ trict out of the orchara when ma Tells Of Notable Pioneer Family Correspondent Goes Way Back in History, to Trace Ancestry of Pioneer Church Family of Merrickville. Tells That Col. By's Historic Residence Was Home of Church Family Down to End of Nineteenth Century. Letter to the Editor Follows. changes until his retirement In 1893.

Mr. Thompson's home for long years was in the two-storey stone house on Gore street at the "Little River," now owned and occupied by apples were ripe. A Pioneer Newspaper The Perth settlement was Just eighteen years old when the first attempt to establish a newspaper in the town is recorded. The venture "The southwest corner of Prestoti and Cedar streets was used by tha Mr. A.

V. McLean, and this Is where Export Lumber Company as a pil Historic Street Boasted Many Fine Stores and Hotels. Memories of a Bygone Day When Cabmen and Draymen Dashed Up and Down Street Carrying Passengers and Freight From The Outer World. Many Fine Landmarks Have Disappeared. Some Old Names Recalled.

was made by a schoolmaster named he died. This house was built by ing ground. They had two loni Stewart and an Irishman of somejMr j.rancla Halliday, harness maker sheds, which were destroyed in tha (TUUiaLlUlJ, pointed to a permanent and lucrative office under the government, namely clerk of the county court and local registrar. He had consequently to give up publishing of a political, or any paper. He sold plant and business to his wife's nephew, George L.

Walker, in 1862. and so he retired to a quiet official life after his active business occupation of so many years. The fourth owner of the Courier local repute and some one of the old-time residents, who named Tully. The paper was called big fire of 1900. Where the Bread ner building is now, on Somerse moved from Perth previous to 18ti0 to the Pakcnham neighborhood.

street, west of Preston, the Public Many of the leading editorials in School Board built a large briclj the Courier in Mr. Thompsons day school in 188S. THERE was a time, back in the forties and fifties, when Sussex LET me begin my story by recalling a historical event, nigh as manager and owner were never "In the seventies the district wed street was the busiest thoroughfare two centuries ago, when King of Preston, where Laurel and Oa! written, but standing at the case, he evolved them out of his own mind streets run, and where the circusd are usually held, was a grov and set his thoughts out in type as they came to him. Some of his in Ottawa; the home of some of the city's finest stores; the street that led to the St. Lawrence and Ottawa station and the Queen's wharf (the only rail and water known as Penny's bush.

Severd cows were kept pastured there ani "thoughts" were quite vigorous and were none the worse because of the the boys of the neighborhooi routes by which Ottawa could be played hide and seek there. fitting and plumbing shop. And now we pass St. John's Anglican church (old Chapel of Ease) where Rev. William Pollard is the rector.

Between St. John's church and Rideau street there is a new two-storied flat roofed brick row which has recently been erected by Senator Prank Clemow. In this row we find F. one of the pioneers of the Italian fruiterers; Sam Lee, laundryman, lately from China; George E. Gotland, fruits; the L.T.C.

Railway (Lake Temis-camingue Colonization) and Henry G. Roche, plumber and gasfitter (later inspector of weights and measures) of honored memory. "There was an old building reached at that time). It was a street where cabmen and draymen Philip with his native Indians raided the early colonial settlements. The settlers of that period were intrepid enough, but not skilled in organized military tactics for defensive purposes.

The situatiofi was alarming, and called for a leader who could control it. As often happens in an emergency the leader unexpectedly appeared in Colonel Benjamin Church, an Imperial military officer of experience, who organized the Eettlers, and was bom in the village of New Hartford, N.Y., in 1838, of Scottish parents, but soon after his birth they moved to the town of Napanee. In 1852 he moved to Perth to learn the trade of printer with his uncle in the Courier office. Space will not permit a detailed outline of the activities and accomplishments of the succeeding proprietors of the Courier save to mention the notable fact that the newspaper has continued In the Walker family for a period of eighty-two years. Mr.

W. W. Walker is the present the west side of Preston strec north of Cedar, occupied by a ma passed and repassed each other the Perth Examiner. It had its life in the historic Adamson building, yet tanding, on Craig street, and It rubbed shoulders with religious gatherings, hotel accommodations, this edifice evidently having been a sort of all-round rendezvous lor various public and private occupations. The name of one Whatcom appeared at one time as publisher, and with him probably the paper came to an end and the plant lay dormant Until 1834.

The necessity of a newspaper In the growing community was manifest and when the time had fully come, the occasion brought forth the man to undertake the work. A young man named Malcolm Cameron had by this time become a lorce in the town. With a fund of energy and ambition, he saw how a newspaper would assist his aims tnd the aims of his party in the political contests at a time when great issues were at stake and political feeling was strong. So the by the name of Dan, who was with passengers and freight from the outer world. sailor and who was away frori home most of the time.

His wi absence of pen and ink in their composition. This is the testimony both of himself and his apprentice and successor, Charles Rice. In the Courier office during Mr. Thompson's time was an apprentice, who rose to the position of a county Judge. Tills was a young Irishman named D.

J. Hughes, who afterwards studied law and became Judge of the county of Elgin. He died in the county town, St, Thomas, at an age near 100 years. Charles Rice kept a private school for boys am It was the boast of the merchants of Sussex street that their stores held in finery everything that could be found in the stores of Montreal; many of them imported girls. The family were there whe after a prolonged struggle, finally we came to the district in 1870." disposed of King Philip and his In proprietor and publisher of the Courier.

He was born in Perth and direct from Europe. Great Hotel Street. It is on the west side of the street that we find (fifty years ago) even greater evidence of the early solidity of buildings than on the east side. We see stores which dian allies. Colonel Church's methods were perhaps ruthless, but brought peace and prosperity to the is the eldest son of Mr.

George Used Harsh Methods In Carrying Out Robber Walker and Hannah Allan, the In the forties and fifties Sussex was a great hotel street, To get settlements. prominent Bytonians built and oc Colonel Church for a time was father preceding him as proprietor since 1863. He learned the trade of Gradually the Courier became enlarged and improved its appearance NEWS item in The Citizen of Od tober 16, 1893, reads: "Mr. Burl a good idea of what kind of hotels they had in those early days, all cupied in the forties, fifties and idol-worshipped as a colonial hero printer in the Courier office and af and literary merit, and in 18dU, sixties. nell, the well known confectioner but it happens in life as a certain poet wisely wrote, "none will nail when a new owner stepped in, It was ter a few years working as Journey you have to do is take a look at the old government museum at the corner of George and Sussex streets.

(The building can be seen man printer from Kingston to Win Rideau street, returned on Saturda; his name so high, time will not nipeg, began the newspaper business evening at about 9.30 from a sup lor himseir when he started a com tear it down," -so it required one more emergency to lift the Churchs out of colonial obscurity, and into plying trip throughout the su mercial daily paper in Kingston, in the picture on this page.) That building was once Bytown's leading hotel, The Lion at one time it had the finest ballroom Ottawa could with A. C. Black as editor. He continued this for a few years, then opened a Job printing office In boast. Mysterious Death Of Missing Lumberjack No One Saw Him Leave Party.

IP you were a lumberjack back in the sixties and seventies, and hired out to work in the shanties of the upper Gatineau district, you rounding country. As usual he let his horse into the dark little lane his stable in the rear of the 'Bishopl Block' and little did he then iu pect four stoutly built ruffians werj awaiting a favorable opportunity tl Brockville, which he sold in order The Origin Of A Polite Custom THE custom of raising the hat to a woman arose in the days of chivalry and knight errantry during the period between the elevenffi and fourteenth centuries when a youth's great object was to be admitted to the order of knighthood, one of the qualifications for which position was tenderness and gallantry toward women. Each woman, in those days, had her chosen knight, prepared to do battle on her behalf, who on entering the lists would raise to her his helmet as a mark of respect and obedience to her commands, and it gradually became a mark of respect and deference to raise the hat to all women. Then take a look at some of the solid stone buildings which decorate nearly every corner of the east side of the streef all the way to Queen's wharf. Most of these stone build to assume the proprietorship of the Perth Courier, which he purchased from his uncle, Mr.

J. M. Walker, In 1901. pounce upon him. "Mr.

Bunnell unharnessed horse and seeing nothing unusua could expect to do plenty of walk First Agreement With Government ing after you left the stage at Mani- Bathurst Courier was launched. When Mr. Cameron left Perth he old his newspaper to his manager. James Thompson, a native of Newton-Gore, County Leitrim, Ireland, who came to Canada when a lad of ieven years, learning the trade of printer in Montreal. The first few years of the Cour- ler'i existence were distinguished more by hard work without profit! than by financial results.

There wasj little money In the country and Mr. Thompson, in talking of the long bygone days as manager and owner, told of the trade he was compelled to accept as payment for all lines In his business. The inevitable cord-wood and farm produce were the chief items and long after when he was on "easy street" he recalled to his friends the trials and difficulties that beset his daily routine. A Mbfl Suit In the course of his newspaper career the second proprietor of the Courier had to meet libel suit brought by the Hon. William Morris tor a letter written by a correspondent.

The newspaper proprietor won. but this was about the last exciting event in his newspaper life for In 1852 he was appointed sheriff of the United Counties of Lanark and Ren-Irew, a position he held during all waki forty or fifty miles of trudging well worthy of the name of the representative of the old Bathurst district. The new owner was a young man named Charles Rice, who was a thoroughly trained printer, had literary tastes and improved his mind and knowledge by a nightly study of school books, even classics, from boyhood on. Mr. Rice was a master of editorial work.

Editors in those days had to be fighters and his pen had the necessary acid touch, though In other respects he was a peaceable and genial man. In his hands the Courier berame more and more a power In the community and as the field was a wide one and the circulation equally so. it became a household visitor all over the counties of Lanark and Renfrew. It was about 1855 that the Courier added to its equipment a power-press; that is a cylinder machine lor printing a paper, leaving the old hand press for Job work. A boiler and engine from the local machine works of Charles Miller and Sons was added to drive the press, but the latter proved unsuitable for the primitive cylinder construction and the strong arms of the apprentices were substituted at the driving wheel.

This method continued until about 1870. when a new cylinder over the rough forest trails was a about the place he did not eve' take time to provide himself with lantern but led the horse into th stable in the dark. No sooner ha he entered than he was surroundc by four men who threateningly manded his money. "Mr. Bunnell was probably i slow in complying with the request common occurrence.

And you would trudge these many miles heavily laden with packs, axes and all the rest of the paraphernalia you had toted along in the stage. as the fiends brutally pummelle Well, one day in the middle se and kicked him to the floor. It luiy an nour oeiore ne recovert venties, according to a story related by John Reynolds, of Old Chelsea, a crew of tenty-seven shantymen consciousness and managed to dra set forth on a long tramp through the wilderness to the scene of their winter's activities. All went well durlngr the first day and night. Grand Kermesse ON JUNE 1885.

there was opened on Major's Hill Park a grand kermesse, conducted by the charitable ladles of Lower Town. The kermesse was in the nature of a street fair and, when illuminated at night, looked like a veritable fairyland. The ladies in charge all wore fancy costumes. On the opening night every member of the city council was present. On the second morning of the himself along to a nearby druggit where his wounds were attended It waa then that he ascertained he had been robbed of a consider able amount of money.

Happil' the injuries Inflicted are not cot. sidered very serious and he wi; aoon recover. The ruffian are known to him and he has no cli. to their identity." joumey a count of the men was made before they broke camp and it was found the party was intact. But at noon when they halted to partake of a meal, it was found one man was missing.

No one had seen him leave the party and his disappearance was regarded as little short of a mystery. Five men were sent back along the trail to look for ings once held hotels, and very good ones. There used to be many other hotels on Sussex street of which today there is no reminder, as when the government took over the west side of Sussex street it tore them all down. When the lumber trade was at its height, some of these hotels, and other hotels around the market were filled at certain seasons with shantymen and then business was extra good on Sussex street and the street was extra lively. Even Fifty Years Ago, Even fifty years ago Sussex street was a pretty good business street.

There were stores continuously from Rideau street to St. Patrick street, on both sides. There were still good stores on the street and much business was done. The zest, so to speak, had. it is true, gone out of the old street.

It was slowly but surely being sidetracked. When the government expropriated the west side and tore down all the historic buildings there, the street metaphorically turned over on its side and breathed its last, or nearly its last, as a business thoroughfare. Today 8ussex street is but a shadow of its former self. Today it Is largely the home of wholesale houses and stores which deal in goods which do not require front street stands. A few, but only a few, of the old stores remain as evidence of the former glory.

A Busy Corner. It is not the purpose of this story to deal at length with the entire street as It was fifty years ago, but we will endeavor to paint a pen picture of the block between Rldenu and Cieorge streets. On the east side. Just north of Rideau street, In the solid stone building occupied ten years pre-Uously by Pingland and Drapers dry goods store, we find Mrs. A.

B. Beckett's millinery store, John MiPyke's news stand and P. A. Egleson's merchant tailor shop, in the upper part of the old Flngland and Draper building there are located M. J.

(lorman, the rising young barrister; A. A. Adam, also a barrister; J. B. Donon's well known photo studio, and J.

A. Pis-sault, who hnd quite a reputation him. but without success. Editor's Description, Perth, In 60's Not Very Flattering Former Proprietor of th "Courier' Told of Swamp Says 'Ghost' Accompanied Him On Walk In Lonely Forest John Reynolds Tells Story of Hair-Raising Experience Of Bygone Shanty Days. Spectre Appeared As Though Out of The MUt and Then Did Sudden Fadeaway.

"Quickened Its Pace Whenever I Did," Sayn Narrator of Slorv. When the party reached camp the next day they reported the incident Was Mude Fifty Years Ago. Looked Like Fine Bargain. ABOUT fifty years ago U885) the City Council woke up to the fact that the federal government was not doing enough for the city in return for the freedom from taxation and other privileges it enjoyed. So early In the year it appointed a special committee to wait on the government and try to arrange some sort of equitable bargain.

Like most special committees, the 188S committee moved slowly and it was July before they were able to get the government to put In writing what It was prepared to do in the way of relieving the civic burden. The committee reported that the government offered: 1. To take back and keep up Major Hill Park, which the corporation was at the time looking after. 2. To maintain all bridges over the canal within the cltv limits.

This meant Sappers and DufTcrin bridges and the bridge over Maria street tLauricr avenue). 3. To keep Wellington street In repair between DufTerln bridge and Bunk street. 4. To keep In repair the bridges over the slides at the Chaudlere.

5. To lay (when required by the corporation) sidewalks on Marls and Elgin streets, around Cartler Square. In return for these concessions the corporation was to continue to exempt the Incomes of civil servants from taxation. City Council agreed to these proposals almost without debate and It was not long before the formal aitrfemeiit between the city and the government was signed. That agreement remained in force till a com- to the foreman.

He Immediately sent two Indians out to look for the lost man. Two days later they returned, bearing his dead body between them. They had found the the light of events. The revolutionary war found an important section of Colonel Church's descendants steadfastly loyal to the Crown, and who, in consequence of adverse circumstances, took an active part in the movement to Canada, organized and led by the loyalist, Colonel Beverly Robinson. Space will not allow the writer to follow this important movement, and it is not necessary in the interests of sthis story.

Small Methodist Settlement. However, many years later, long after another war had been successfully fought out, and the Imperial water-route lo the Great Lakes completed, a descendant of Colonel Church, travelling down through the new waterway, arrived at the village of Merrickville. originally a small Methodist settlement. The village owing to its situation on the main travelled route to the upper country, was rapidly becoming an active business, and even a manufacturing center. Dr.

Basil Church impressed by what he saw remained over, and hearing that Colonel By's late residence was for sale, purchased it, and the historic residence became the home of the Churchs of Merrickville, down to about the end of the nineteenth century; Dr. Mills Church being the last occupant. In the space available it is only possible at the moment to recall the memory of a brilliant line of eminent physicians, long associated with Merrickville, who not only skilfully relieved suffering humanity, but served the public faithfully in the legislative halls of the province, and even attained the highest offices in the courts of supreme Judicature. Dr. Ronald Church.

There are still living in Ottawa, many who will not readily forget the brilliant services of the late Dr. Ronald Clarence Church, a native of Merrickville, as a consulting and practicing physician. In the ancient order of Freemasonry Dr. Church will long be remembered. Dr.

Churrh was burled in the family plot In Merrickville. and out of respect to his memory the business men closed their shops as the funeral cortege passed down the main street to the cemetery. The present writer stood at the open grave while the Masonic insignia was laid on the coffin with the Impressive pronouncement that this emblem Is more anclont than the Eagles of Imperial Rome. The Masonic Hand THE Ottawa Masonic Band was a virile organization in the eighties. In July.

1883. the band put on a dramatic entertainment for the benefit of its funds, at the Grand Opera House. A number of leading amateurs 1 presented the drama. "Better Than Gold." Those who took part in the cast were: Messrs. Stevenson, T.

Johns. Maurice Ahearn, James Tcrrent. J. McArthur Miss Maggie O'Brien, Miss Maud Thornton. Miss Belle Stevenson.

Mrs. C. J. Btevcnson. A feature of the evening was a recitation given bv little Miss Dodee, a niece of the Stevenson from BrockvilUi.

And Nauseous River Basin. Wooden Shutters oc Store Windows. Residents Were Using Tallow Caif dies and Coal Oil Lamps. Old Pioneer GraveyanS Had Given Place To Park-I ike Cemeteries in 19()J body In a thicket of bushes about ten yards off the side of the road. The dead man had five hundred dollars in his pockets and there was trarked railwnvs then, and such thing as steel rail wa existence to bear up the pondcroi rolling stocK.

Nauseous Batin. "The winding Tay river and ninvnui basin have been chane intn a utrcteh of navieable waiel between Perth and the Rideau a narimi and cleanly turnlnl place for steamers, in the heart the town. The old wooden rau station, eood enough for orlmltiv uayn, nun aiiii ytmw enl handsome and solid building the beautiful and unique moit.ei freestone. Th CPU. ear-town, now perntivrly few years back, when had walked about four miles (it was pitch dark by this time) when a figure resembling a tall man dressed in black, suddenly loomed up beside me.

"The figure seemed to appear out of the mist no footsteps or other warnings of Its approach. Not a word as spoken, but that figure aalked right beside me. Whenever I qulrkened my pare It did likewise; If I swerved to one side of the road. It followed suit. I niiut admit that chills ran up and down my spine and mr hair stood on end at times, but I kept right on walking, all the time wondering what the climax to Ui is weird experienre was going to be.

Vanlthrd "Well, lo make long story short, after 'we' had walked about a mile and a half we came to an opening In the forest, and the moment we entered that opening the or whatever you rare lo rail It van txhed. ss though into thin air. "When I reached a point about three miles further on. where 1 saaken'd a men who was to row nie arrowi the Hiver LVert. I told him of my experience, 'Vou aere vetv brsve man to venture forth on thnt piece of road alone at he said, 'A great many yems am man was found dead on the aide of that road and was burled where he found.

Ever since thrn. his thft has haunted the dulrirt and ered the divrl out of many beautifully shaded: shop have li ANOTHER one of that splne-chllllng, hair-raising "ghost" rlsodea of the far-away shanty day of the upper Gatincau district, has come to light. It Is related by John Reynolds, one of the real old timers of Old Chelsea, who claim to have seen and heard many range things In his long stretch of jcara wventy-elght of them to be exact. One of those "strange' hapiien-lng a personal experience in his more youthful days, when he Has employed in the GUmour lmn-tlea in the Manlwskt district. We Hill let him teli the story: "It wu toward the end of the shanty season and I had started out to make my way home alone.

1 hnd to travel over a lonely stretch of road through dense fore.t in the Jd of the night, In order to be on time to catch the stage for Maul-aki the next morning. I had brrn smcd ageinst travelling that piece of road alone at night-all snrts of aelrd atorlei were circulated, one of them having to do with a 'ghort' that patrolled the rnsd all night But I d'termmed to travel, and I set forth, igure Loomed "It was early evening when I left the ewnp. Just before dusk I came to a hou on the tde of the rod and the occupant implored to put up there for the night. Mo. eier.

I Ignored hi warnings and puadir.gs and kept on my I more accrptable arrangement were made, no sign of foul play. But the mystery of the affair wm that no one one had noticed him leave the road. One Mishap When Hens Took Lengthy Jov Hide CHICKENS will come liome to roost, but the ones told about In this itory were slightly delayed for reasons herewith described. Back In 1882. Mr.

W. J. Powers or 118 Pretoria avenue possessed a flock of hens and a rooster which, for reasons unnecessary to recount here, were being quartered at the home of his father-in-law, the late Thomas York, on Bell street (then Mount Sherwood). One evening a certain resident of Mount Sherwood rented a horse and express wagon from Mr. York for the purpose of fetching a trunk from the old St.

Lawrence and Ottawa depot in Lower Town. As roads were in bad condition In those days and travel not easy, it took him about three hours to make the Journey to the depot and return. When he finally arrived home with the trunk, after dark, a cackling noise wu heard under the body of the Upon Investigation It was found that the entire flock of hens minus the rooster, were perched on the supports. They had made the round Journey without their presence being noticed. The roster fitvw lound, A FTER hU life work in the edl-torlal anctym of the Perth "Courier" (which 1 now celebrating Its 100th anniversary), Mr.

James M. Walker left Perth in October. 1902, to reside in Cananoque, and before his departure he was honored by the citizens of Perth in the presentation to him of a complimentary address. In replying, he said, among other things: "It is now forty year lnce I became a resident of Perth and looking backwards, it 1 interesting to note some of the many changes In the town and neighborhood during that period. "At that time there wu no town hall In the place, no town clock, no light in the streets, no telephone.

Plate glass for window or door wu unthoughl of, but every night heavy wooden shutter were (lammed upon 7x9 pan.id window to help the door key the Inside. No electric light turned night into day but the tal.ow candle or coal-oil lamp illuminated shop end dwelling with It dull radiance. The street of the town were almost Innocent of tree and the rolled and rounded macadam on the road and the granolithic sidewalk tnd crossings were undreamt of, "There bJt on Ineffectual telegraph line. nd a twelve mile branch railway was alt that con-nrctc with tin mam linn of twenty years covered me wie jan anri th sand hill south Cf tl malarlou alder swamp, and tj- old pioneer graveyard wunin lifniti nr th town have eiven rlat to the park-like beauties of Eln wood cemetery ana me expanse St. John cemetery.

"Th roller process for maklt flour ht pushed out the old ml. tone, nd cheese tactorle ai. creameries in nd about the tow hftvn driven nut the dash Chun as an expert aentist, In the brick building at the corner of Oeorge street, we see H. H. Pigeon's dry goods store and T.

P. llarkin and Company's boot and shoe store. Croiing over to the wet side of Sussex and strolling up towards Ritleaii we find, almost facing the old Lion Hotel, the St. Leon Mineral Water Company; the Canadian Hotel, kept by John Johnston; Trudel confectionery store iwlKiloale and retail), and the stme in which the J. II.

Connor washing machine got Its start, Next to the Connor store and factory Is the "Stanley Arm" hotel, kept by Wm. Ready. Then, lit the lmt of the old time building we Me Wm. Keanush's paint shop and Fred 0. Johnstons ilcam- Heard i.lcpliant 1WH CLEMENT McKECHNIE, of 106 Preston street, now In his seventy-wventh year, tells that when he was a boy and living in Lower Town, the circuses used to come, not by trsin as they do now.

but on foot all the way from Montreal and the people living In Lower Town would hear them coming when they were miles away. "We rould diMiiuiiy hear the elephants tramping alnng they were stih ay out on the Montreal mad," he sold "If it in the day time, all the bm and girU of the neighborhood touid risfh out to Rideau street match 'em coming in." and the old style butter businei; Ox team would now be a phenome nnn on our thoroughfare, end tl lo arhoolhousei on the countrf wayside have been thrown bar into oblivion by our tchool Innpx tors." if.