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Gord'g View .0aaa How do we coilee t our collectibles? Now this is a modem word that lias arisen frorn the past. Today people gather collectibles, and pay good prices for them as well. It is then, that you begin to wonder where you sliould start te fmnd and assemble your own collectibles. Where te look? Well, if you have a very old lieuse and you haven't junkud everything in it in the past century you rnay bu lucky. Is it in the attic, or in the basement, or perliaps it is in some strange old eut building that lias rufusud te fail down? This tiien is about a few of the collectibles. First, the bouse is old and a collectible i itself. Our eariiest ancestors were in a liurry te get a shelter and in doing so ail of our first homes wure log cabins. Trees were close by, large, and easily notchud and assenibled. A fireplace of stone stood at one end - usually the eust side of the log shanty. Prevaillng winds hure are wusterly and the srnoke more often than not biew away frorn the deorway. The single door was on the south side te catch the warmner sur,. Now for collectible number one It is an old iron crane. The crime was hammered into a ('Z') modified Ilz". shaped form and it swung out ovur the iron coeking kettie on the hearth. Ail I recovered from the mound cf eartl wliere the cabixi sat is the crase, buried in the eartli, a fuw breken pieces cf a lieavy pottery of a beautiful ricli dark blue in colour and a fuw blackened stones from the liearth and its chimnuy. Have you looked for the first cabini on your site? MNine is close te thu first dug wull. t was cf stonu crib, and thé pump, wull ovur one hundred years will still pump water - hencu collectibie numbur Ljy. This cabin wus the initial home of onu Samuel Larue, a frenech Hugenot, wliose migration from France, to Arnurica, to this site and thun back te Amurica ail of bis Canadian rusidency occurred in the puriod cf about thirty years. Oniy onu member of lis family reniainudi Canada. She wes Rebucca Larue and lier reason for rumaining wus that she was niarriud te Nathaniel Powers. Nathaniel Powurs camne te Kirby in 1832.' Rebecca ivud a year in lier log lieuse before she rualizud she had another womnan living oniy onu mile away in the bush. Hur neiglibour wus Ann Ruddock wio lias immigrated from Yorkshire. Surely any descendants of the Ruddocks or the Powers would know some "lcoilectibles". The problem hure is te fmnd asy descendants. If fire or rot and decay have ieft axiy evidexicus cf tlie log shanties, theru are fuw evidencus te fmnd them., Now came the era of ruai lieuse building. Or is that era, the onu we are in teday with our row heusing, our sub-divisiens, and even our condominiumis? No the ruai bouse building was donc by local artisans wlio built frame homes, stone bouses, and fmnaily brick homes. Since 1 am thinking Ilcollectible" I shall deal with the stone homes. Aithougli the builder may have been local, the stone was field stone from local fields, the cutting of the stone was done by itinerant stone masons. LI almost ail cases the stone masonis were Scottish. LI this era the stone masons had been brouglit from Scotland to aid in the building of the Rideau Canal. The canal fmnished, some pruferred to stay 'in Canada, rather than returu to the depressed economy of Scotiand. Tliey eut stone for rusidences because landowners wantud to replace their cabins. They worked their way westward, building as tbey went and you cas trace the resuits of these early masons from Eastern Ontario, then here to Central Ontario and finaiiy into Western Ontario wliere tliey suemed to run out of field stone in a line from Niagara, tbrough the Guelpli area up to Owen Sound. There are few field stone homes west of that area. Thexi back te the stone house. If there were any treasures kept i the log cabins, they were moved to the stone house when it was built. Sureiy there would be a few collectibles in the eld stoxie homes. Their walls were at ieast a foot thick and of solid stone. Hure is collectible number ib=~. t is a Ilwoofing iron". I have oniy seen one othier tlan this one, and it was i the "stone bouse". If you were guussing its use you miglit think it to be an iron poker inside an iron liolder. Wrong again. The woofmng iron was a must for our Scottisli Ancestors. aleh day of the week tliey wore a black bonnet over their hair. The bonnet had ruffles and each momning a fresh bonnet required the crimping of the ruffles. Hence the woofing iron and its liot rod. Onu exception, on Sunday the bonnet and its rufflus were white. My woefing iron is weli worn. I also have a large framed picture of the lady with her bonnet. Shu wears it as proudly today as she did whien shu moved into lier new stone lieuse (Circa 1845). Well this story will bu a continued one. I will try to coilect more old, old, coilectiblus for you and ut the samue time give you a tiny glimpse into that dim and distant past. To bu continuud - ad infmnitum? No, 1 wouid flot inflict that puriod of urne on the editor, just until onu of us runs eut of trne. P.S. - Theru is a "woofing iron" on disp1ay at the "Henry Housu" at Cullen Gardens. Vehicles being used as battering rams Two break-mns i Oshiawa and thruu in Port Hope were made by using vehicles to bush ithe front door of stores. A Jeep was used in three incidents in.Port Hope with the Jeep latur buing found bumning just off the Wesluyvillue ut-off from 401 Highway. by Gord Milîs ~P Durham East Does "Manners rnaeketh mian?" Like mnany of tllp readers of the Orono Timies, I was raised in an era when good manners - politenless, civility, decorum and gentility, were the norm. The~ things 1 have just named wure taren for granted because we didn't really notice that we were wull mnmlred. t wus ail part of o)ur generai makeup; it was part of whiat we were taught to be and how we were g~ught to act. I have corne to relifiscu about somu of the things from my pust upbringing tlirough living five days a week in a higli-rise apartmunt building. In my building, if you hold a door open for a woxnan, they no longer tbank you for it. "Wliy dous a wornan have to demean herseif by allowixig a mnaxite open the door for lier, as if she basn't the slrengtli or ability to do it hurself'" These days if you stand up when a wornan cornes into a room you are classed as sorne sort of 'odd-ball". I have also leamued that onu neyer gives up ones seat on the subway te a woman anymoru. I mean get a grip on yourself. If you ruisu your hut to a woman these days you are positively linkud immediately to having somu awful motive on your mind. People these days, wernen especially, no longer expect good manners, se tliey don't miss thern. Pity isn't it? 'Me new generation is right I suppose. Maqnners don't do anything and yet they do everything. The old saying, Imanners rnaketli the maxn" are now even suspect because they don't say "Iwomnen". But, does it sound riglit te you, "Manners maketl i te person?" 1 ask you, it isn't quite riglit is it? My mother always used te tel mu that baving good manners wunt a long way in life. Thatïs good unougli reason for mu te remuin wuli mannered - the way I sue it. YothDance #5 "Operatelon Gom"' by Sandra Haggett and Jaset.Ougemna As Dorothy in "1The Wizard of Oz" said, "There's no place like home!" A frightened cofifused runaway teen is faced wi th many dhoices and decisions that will iffect bis or ber iife for years to comu. Somne decisions are not wisu. Somne are. But a teenager who lias chosen to flue the safety of lis or lier home may fmnd himnsulf or hurseif facing a reality cf loneliness, destitution, street dangers and heipiussness instead cf the uxpected fun and freedomn. Home may bu htindreds of miles away. To a confusud teenager witliout finances, it may seem a lifetime away! The Great Pinu Ridge Kinettes and Kinsmen are greatly concemred about your chldren and thuir cbildrexi. Kinuttes and Kinsmen al aeross Canada have joinud togethur te make a sucess of the program - Opuration Go Home - initiated te ussist runaway teuns rutum home te their families or a support group. On Friday, Januury 10, 1992, The Great Pine Ridge Kinuttus wili host thuir 5th Youth Dance cf the Suason which wil bu field ut the Are you looking for a Bridai Show thati Newcastle Village Conununity Hall beginning at 7:0(0 p.m. All monies raisud at this dance will go directly te "Operatioxi Go Home", a non profit charitable organization with a mandate te reunite runuway youth asd streut kids with their families or te direct thurn te a support systemt that can best lielp tlium become contributing mnembers of socity- Tliey have been operuting in Ottawa since 1971. LI 1990 Opuration Go Home becume a National erganization asd a 1-800 number (1-800-668-4663) is now in use acress Canada for Yeuth ICrisis. On any day in Canada thuru are ovýer 1,000 youtli reported missing. I Toronto thuru are 10,000 struet youth at asy Urne. I. Ottawa thure are 400 to 1,000 kids on the streuts depunding on the suason. The numbur of youngur struet kids is incruasing ai an alarming rate. Parents report missing youth te Opuration Go Home and thuy have buen instrumnental in the return cf sortiecf tliur by contacting thuir struet network in Ottawa and other aguncies in other cities. Parents cf students in Newcastle, Orono, Newtonville, Bowmnanvilue and area, your heipis vury mucli neudud art his dance. We are averaging 145 students pur dance' held in Newcustle need at luast 10 chaperonus. If you can help out pieuse cal Janet at 987-5341. The students are weii behaved and unjoy thusu evunings eut. Students in Grades 6, 7, & 8 are weiceme te join us with, admission of $4.00 pur student. Pop and chips are available for a minimal charge. The teexiage huart years for happiness, strives for indepundence, asd is tempured by its nued for a constant in life. Kinettes and Kinsmun of The Great Pine Ridge are preud to assist runaway teens on die return road to home. Witli everyonu's help, Operatiexi Go Home wili bu a, wonderful Tliere's ne place like boe becausu home is whure the huart is. Fatal accident on 401, Monday uvuning of this wuek, 7 p.m., a fatal accident, on the east lanu of 401 wust of Bowmanviiiu took the livus of four persens. The accident was a huad-on collision witli a haîf-ton truck travelling on the eust lune in a westurly direction. Durham Region's Most Unique "ýRE" BmridaiF-ashnion Show Wednesday, January 29, 1992 7:00 p.m., The Lions Centre, 26 Beech Ave., Bowmanviile Door Prizes * Refreshmenits * Free Giveaways Admtittance by Pre-Registration OnIly Cail Nov>! 623-0351 offers you more? teIDAL 116 King St. W. (at Scugog St.) (The Vanstone MIII) Bowmanville