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1 THE OTTAWA JOURNAL TODAY. OCTOBER 3. 1952. "1 highest Wraoer of point were Deaths I nM cUm Now Otrowo Vollty Eoyi Carp Plowing Match Reflects. Riissell Public School Stages Field Day Pioneering Saga of Carleton ST.

JEROME. Quo. ladge Herasaaa Barrelte. 13. of the of Sesstona of tha Peace.

TORONTO Prelesoer George R. Aadersea, former head of the! engineering physics department! of the University of Toronto, I NEW YORK Beward Carwla; loldeeV book publUhing firm, in the United eutea. i NORANDA, Quev Cordea Caldcr, one of the first prospectors in the Northwestern Ouebee snlnine area aineo 1 S2.t mi by Joyce McDowell and Bert Morrow. i- In the junior grades, first firiie winner were BlUy Buck-ey, Jimmy Legge, Erie Loucks, Ma a rea a- MeArthur; three-legged, Eric Loucks and Ronald Paul Ralph and Jimmy Legge; ether teres, Billy Buckley, Jimmy Legge, David Donna -Thompson: wneciDanw rare, nonaia wer-, "7. f.

DUnn Hay Unita Shahan. U.S. Vice-President Carrier Boy for Day- i ii PADUCAH. Ky. 1 Vlce-Preeident Alben Berkley will become a carrier boy for the Padueeh Sun-Democrat today.

In honor of tha newsboys of America, the Vice-President, 74, will eerry part a route be longing to hi great-nephew. Johnny Dysom Oct RUSSELL, Oct S4(8peeUl). Annual field day of Russell Public" School was eld on the school grounds under the super vision of rrmcipel Charles Kenny, and Louise Steam and Dork Warren, teachers. In the senior grade. first prize winners were Jimmie Walker, Ronald Gamble, Gerald Gamble; girls, Anne-Marie Hall, Nancy Legge and Diane Cochrane (tie Gail Buckingham; boy, Billy Rombough, Robert Hsll; three-legged Ronnie Gamble a ad Bruce Loucks, Robert Hall and Gerald Gamble; Anna-Mario Hall and Eleanor Phair; Nancy Leite and Jeenerta 10-yard dash.

Jesnelte MacDonakt In the intermediate grades village wa named from fUh served on friday at a stopping plae "on the old train two mile east of the aettlo-ment 1. Namea were bestowed loose-ty the early eettlera both on people and en localities. There waa an eld frame inn near Klnbum which eld-timer called the "Swamp Hour because it was located on the fringe of the Kin burn Tho swamp Wis drained many yeara ago and ia now Ana farming land. Township Laadaurka. Similarly, a road which led off from tha present Highway IT near South March wa called tha "Whlakev Roan" t- MAUT t.

WALKS. It far cry from the esooked tick" plow and the "threshing floor' of the early Zgyptisns to the trartoe and the combine -of the Canadian farmer of ItM. Butst apana in tha whole life a -mankind. i'. Throughout the agea.the plow haa been tha Wt Lfa the oo basic loot- thajt vouchsafed to men-theinstru-; moot of his perpetuity unless he destroys himself by- nil own nadnaaa or la buoipad Into oblivion by a atar.

And ao thara come to our district nasi week an ovent ml more thar passing im- 4 well-known la mining BEGINNERS' SPECIAL fas net sere I Ilk thia exchange aehelarsJilp p-lley!" When Car Rams Pole MfPK II 67 becauae it wa dotted with tavern with the welcoming TtUerta-the-wlndow, Alao a familiar landmark on Highway 17 on the way to Carp "la till known Today a the "Klondike It waa ao 'named became one night at the turn of tho century number of the most adventurous of March -township boys were entertained et a dance there on the eve of their do-perture, for the Yukon and the "Trail Of '98' Carp village waa a email settlement about 1815 but it was not until 1831 when it waa on the map aa a post of-flee. Tho courier, William Tlagg, brought mail from By-town on boreebeek. Tragedy struck Huntley township in 1848 when It waa wept by a cyclone. If took the life of heroic Christopher Armstrong who waa riding hard to the log school on the town line to get the children to safety. The cyclone cut a swath through a clump of bush, toppling the treea which killed Armstrong and hla horse.

His body wa tar. il ried through the sorrowing village on the school door. leaser Hesbaadry. The plowing, next week will be a tribute to Carp', pioneering epic when the first settlers tamed the wilderness. In that far-off time when men toiled from dawn' to Jlttftlr ajfltrtMil kesnjaff ail circles, SECOND BLOSSOMS.

AYLMER. Ont, Oct. 1. (BUP Apple treea have blos somed this week for tha second time thia year, -farmer Jack Robert reported today. eIW Telephone 2-984 1 ILIll a on Arthur Murray's Dane lesion i- portaneo in in awn mw naUonal Plowing Match at Carp.

There, li tha master r- plowmen compete in turning1 the good 'brown earth in a test of craftsmanship In and "in out of' ends" and in furrow "finish" -eaa can aenae the impor- tance of this basle Ullaio Yoperstion not only to bounti-- "fuT Canada but to the whole itarved world. Hbtarie Carleton. for ptnvueMv we will gow lake you on journey pack to these same Belde when they were atudded with blackened atumpa and when leg cabina clustered little settlement in the valley of jneendertng little river known the for the background of this atory wa have drawn on our researches In-a chapter from our own forthcoming Saga of Carleton County. The setting is one of the moat hlstorle In Canada. after the third Britiih Governor General of Canada, Sir Guy Carleton (Lord Dor-; cheater), gallant soldier who defended Quebec again the combined of Mont gomery and Benedict Arnold, Carleton la among toe first 1 counties of Ontario, dating from the Proclamation qf Lieutenant Governor John -Grovee Slmeoe, of 'Upper Canada, in 1781.

(Incidentally, Slmeoe -wa continually "Jockeying and trying to by-pas over Guy Carleton In mattera of thia kind because Carleton la re- puled to have made aoma sort of a wise crack- about the performance of Slmcoe't ref ment at Quebec.) Townships Nokia Title. i t. i Don't 1st food rianee and popubrky pas von by hast becanss ytm don't know bow to dance. Enroll sMKAnriurMiirnr'swluyocaasaT20eai Wl 5 M-VVtS ksMOsB IOtTOllKtOf tiuiOs) CWksTML Vsnc the studio, there's no obligatioa, aod meet sat expert instructors. They do snort than toad (he West seep.

They toon bring east yowz doemars! pcfsosalir aye you new roniiirar and poise voa fans new pupulaiity. Aad how vasjH enjoy thai coarse! Yon learn aa sauch aod kav aa it ik V- 8MITH5 Dei J. (Staff) Two person were In jured Iter Tbursdty when the car ia which they were travelling struck a telephone pole, breaking it off. at the corner of Beckwith street and Kensington avenue. Injured were Gordon Commodore, 18 Running avenue, owner and driver of tho cary and a passenger Ronald McCreary.

McCreery required three ititchea to close a cut on hla forehead and one stitch to his nose. Corn-mod re received alight facial in juries. They were treated by Dr. R. J.

Walker. The car waa proceed ing souths on Beckwith street when the accident occurred. Constables Fader and Leclairl investigated. An estimated B31TO damage waa caused. Lidies Heat JosnsI Going Up ia Prici For two mora issues the tingle copy price of the Ladle Home Journal -will be 15c.

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1 1 th ItUnrur HH1 1 hand among the blackened stump. To cover hi grain planting the pioneer mad a drag from a tree crotch, Later, when he had a clearance to plow, the settler hitched oxen to a log, shaped to a point with' an upright mortised to it, or would fashion wooden plow with a atrip of iron nailed to the mold board. Hla plow often succumbed to an elm root or a rock, or would bound back on him. Thia usually provoked an outpouring of his troubled spirit to the Almighty and it was not always complimentary. Wltbeat Benefit of Tractor.

His hay he cut with a aeythe. Hla grain waa reaped with a sickle, and later on waa cut with a cradle, raked with a hand rake, usually made by himself. His fork, a rather uncouth waa almply the forked end of a sapling. Thia waa a fairly good article, and for all practical purpose quite useful. It had also thia advantage, that in ease of mishap it could be cosily replaced from the adjoining woods.

With his oxen and aled he drew hla harvest to a place Hence, we get Gloucester, named In 1198, after William Frederick- (nicknamed "Silly Billy" and you ran guess why). Duke of Gloucester, TVnephew of George the Third. Nepean waa celled after Sir Zvan Nepean. Secretary for Ireland in 1804, (The family r- et Nepean waa historic in Cornwall and the name was originally Nanspean.) Harlboreugh was called after tho Great Duke -and ancestor of that great world statesman, Winston Churchill. March got its nomenclature after the Earl of March, the title being derived from the Idarchee of Torbolton vu named from the second title of the Duke of Richmond, Baron Matheun -jet Torbolton a village -in -v Scotland where the poet Burns of his "Highland Guidt News ''t Training Classes Set For Renfrew coNtTANcn nor.

Blue and Brown training classes will bo held In Renfrew Oct and and will Include leader and prospective leaden from all tha upper Ottawa Vsl towns, Pembroke, Deep River. Arn prior, as well smaller places. It will also be hho first time that leaders from Denbigh will attend anything of thia kind in tha St. Lawrence Denblfh actually belong to Quint, but HI so far from its homo base that It seem more practical to include it in our area. These classe will be eon- ducted by Mise Ann Wickware and Miss Marion Brown and all am nee merits are being attend' ed to by Mrs.

George BurwelL district Commissioner' for Ben with her committee and tha assistance of tho local as sociation of Renfrew. Mrs. A Tosland. area -secretary, will eneak to the local association taking the Little, area commissioner, who will be out of town pi tha time. 0 i 5 0 The Provincial Executive far Ontario will hold a meeting thia year in Preston, Ont and those who will attend from Ot tawa are Mrs.

X. C. Little, area commissioner for St Lawrence; Mrs. A. R.

Mldgley, division commissioner for Ottawa; Mrs. J. P. Devenney, district com missioner for Nepean. near the shanty, where he threshed It with fls.il, Hla grain was by the' breeze of heaven aa he lifted ft up; and letting It tall slowly, the wind removed all light material, leaving hi little (tor in fair condition for use.

Such waa the system adopt, ed by all our settlers for a ember of years until the (tump could be removed. On a dark October night, everything dry aa tinder, the spectacle of 10 or. 19 acre of burning atumpa wa a most enjoyable one to tha pioneer this primitive husbandry ware developed the fine farm of the Valley of tho Carp. i. "rrJ (.

lMtley af Flteroj, m'MrTKt66eX nonon the mem- ry of Chief Justice Osgoodcr Bus Passengers for Bingo Brockville, Oct. 6th 17t(i Special bug will leave the Kuasell Hotel ia Smiths Falls, JO pjn. Fare 12S return. who, in 1103, gave a aecuuon. fr-which abolUhed aUvery Canada.

North Gower Is derived-f the family of Gowera from which cam tha Dukes of Sutherland. Gouroeurn got ita -name from Henry Goulbourn. Un-i der-SeereUry of State for tha Colonies in 1811. And lastly- we. come to Huntley, host township of tn Stylish ho cs That Suit Your Wardrobe, and tnousanas wno er go 10 rp week.

Thia township waa named after Lord Hunt rJ 'aO MODEL V-507. (SUghtly Higher In Mahogany) TrTeavle-Cfg fnm ej yet rtcersit I ley, only brother of the Dueh- of Richmond, wno gave the famous "Waterloo Lord Huntley waa afterwarda Duke of Gordon and Pltiroy and hence two of Carleton' township bear hi nam. To thia Valley of the Carp about 1820-11 earn a aturdy breed the Manions, the Ken- nedys. the Whites, the for- esta, the O'Keefec tho er. thai Cavanaihs, tha Workman, the MoBrldea, the MeCords, the Rivlngtons, the Acre, the the Me- Daniels, tha Armstrongs, the Just slip a tired foot Into ona of tha wonder- fully buoyant shoes and float oS an your ooiy' round of activities! For walking, working, relax--, Ing nothing equal their good-looking comfort.

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the McCwena and other whose descendant still are family name in Carp end and Huntley. l- Why the village wa nam-ed Carp ia uncertain. All available records are unanimous that there never wer any carp tsh In the river. The stream ia spelled Carp on a land petition map of 1821. Tha Carp waa noted forhe enormous quantity of grey tuckers thst used to be taken from It In the Sprint floods rTor tha people who lived beside the tortuous Carp river In the pre Confederstion veers the Spring "run" of euckert meant literallv "meat the UWe'V By night the fish were trapped each veer in thousands up the tributary creeks by besters with torches who forced the nsh Into cunningly-devised trap and nets.

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