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Interesting History of ' | The Solina District (By The Times' Own Cukrosjdulion dent) ¢ Solina, May, 1929.--A brief history of Hampton, its activities and names #79f early inhabitants appeared in The ~Daily Times recently. By request 1 will "attempt to give the names of "he early settlers and the occupa- . tions. the inhabitants of Selina *"and S.S. No, 20. ; _ The carly settlers east of the vil- ®"lage - were: Tole, Mason, Colton, # Cryderman, McLellan, Elfords, Wm. ~ and Jonathan Brown and Baker. - South: Linton, Hogarths, John, Dan- o-icl and Stephen, Wm. and John Cole- oman and George Washington. West: , Peter Elford, Anthony Washington, , Syers and Pascoe, Peter Werry, B, . F. Perry and John Bennett. Perry 7 later was a member of Congress in Minnesota and a,man called Tyler, 'who owned a farm and run a sawmill near the village, George Wilbur and a man called Croft lived north of El- "dad Church, North of the village there were Bice, L. Wammiman and rgue, \ 8 Early School Teachers The school teachers, as far as memory goes, were: Sweetman, D. Lick Gather of Mrs. E. Hinkson, Oshawa), John Hughes (father of Dr, J. Hughes, Sir Sam and Major Hughes), who taught six years. He was succeeded by Wm. Beer, latex ~a B.C. minister, later R, McCalbough, who became a Methodist minister, who died recently in Toronto, then Wm, Bice, followed by J. C. Grant, who taught several years. A son is living in Oshawa, Scott followed, then Drimmie, Doidge and McLaren, who I believe is now a doctor in Whitby, then Tonkin, who is now a resident of Oshawa. Brown taught some time and the present teacher, R. J. McKessock followed in 1900 at midsummer and has taught continu- ously since, with the exception of one "term, Mrs, E. Taylor and a youn "Mr. Thornton supplied on account o &'the serious illmess of MeKessock. " McKessock will probably teach until © he retires, He has become active in © church, social activities and his pro- * fession, apparently indispensable to the community, y A Live Village : Seventy years ago Solina was a live village. There was a wagon shop, asually employing three men, busy all the time making wagons, sleighs and thany other lines, also coffins for the departed. Simeon Lee was the roprietor, a splendid citizen and a rst class workman. A grandson talled Oke, I believe has a furniture swore in Oshawa. Sam Cole was the fhckemit, followed by the Beers, ather and son. They usually kept another man or apprentice. They manufactured harrows, horseshoes, ron weapons, sleighs and did gen- pral blacksmithing. I have watched them making horseshoes, also horse- shoe nails, The First Merchants »~ The first general merchant I re- _agmember was Daddy Law, grandfa- « ther of W. L. Law, Oshawa, Law was followed by many others. A man named Libby had a shop and manu- Sfzcrured--churhs, cHairs, bullt' rakes and other useful articles. There are two grandsons in Oshawa, C. and T. Hooper. We also had a tailor employing three hands and always busy, mak- ing fine and other clothes for the community. There were also three masons, *White, a father and two sons, Wil- fiam and Dan. The latter was the father of Dick White of Milton Re- former, There was also several car- penters who built many of the houses ~and barns in this locality, John Ruse was the contractor, Working with him was R. Worth, John Giles, Wm. w Trimble and others, Solina also had a peddler selling tins, etc., and gathering sheep skins, rags, etc, and for a time there was a doctor located in the village called Bigham, There was also some dressmakers who went to the houses of their patrons and sewed about ten or twelve hours a day for 30c per day, That was before sewing ma- ~chines were introduced. There were also several farm workmen employed on farms the year round, in the summer doing general farm work, and in the winter cut- ting wood, rails, saw logs and thresh- ing peas and oats with flails. There ---- In never too tired to sleep now ~ Rested nerves make all the difference Your doctor will tell you how chewing relieves nervous tension, "how the cleansing action : of Wrigley's refreshes the mouth Wrigleys does' much--costs little. FOR RENT Furnished Apartments Apply W. Shackleton Phone 2989) | Children's Running Shoes. Special 69c Dominion Clothing Store i} 08 King St. W. Phone 214% was Leach, Colwill "and. Westlake, thers-in-law, who married three ters, also Wiliams ja. Nelshman, and Treleaven, a handy man, butcher and shearer stacker, a good workman, dfather of Mrs. C. ar : E40 5 # Families In the early days, there were sev- eral large families, Daniel Hogarth raised fourteen children (nine girls and five boys) and never had a doc- tor in their house until the family had grown wh John Ruse raised thirteen, F. L. Mason of the Ped- lar firm, is a grandsos. M. Cryder- man had fourteen, one died at six years of age. Thirteen attained ma- turity, Anthony Washington haa seventeen, Several died young, but twelve survived. One was a Metho- dist minister for fifty years. Another resident was left a widower 'with four. He married a widow with two, then they had nine. He again be- came a widower and married a wi- dow again with four or five more. Quite a combination! } y Became Prominent Several who were born or spent their early life here entered 'profes: sional life, The Hughes spent six Jars jn Solina in their. early days, Their later activities are well known, | one son named " THE OSHAWA DAILY TIMES, MONDAY, MAY 20, 1929 8 few days § was subscribed, a an attempt 1 4 Tals to fai k 45d balance this fall, wi 1 believe; will be successful. hy Bie, Another church was built in 1840, or. about then, a mile west of the Village. of the Episcopal Methodist religion. Another church was built about the same time a mile and a half west and south. It was a Wes- leyan holm ciurch, so a fii tan 1s ce. t 1805 Se ER" Citreh was bait in the 7th con. Jot 27, and the little EN, Church was sold and removed. The cemetery is occupied by the re- mains of many of the early settlers, but the opments and grounds are in a disgraceful condition. Two from this locality enlisted and served through the Civil War in the United States in the early 60's of the last century, Askett, the son of the wagonmaker, and Noah Baker. The latter was wounded and received a nt or deed of 160 acres of land in Dakota and for many years a pen- sion of $12 a month, Industrial People 1 don't think there was a more in- dustrious, frugal, intelligent class of falk in any country than the early settlers in Solina and surrounding country, nearly all English, An Trish- man named Jimmy Tole' owned 100 acres adjoining the village, He had Hugh. ny Toie was a good neighbor but liked whiskey. - He often got drunk and when full had a choice vocabulary of bitter and stinging adjectives, which were used freely on anyone who dis- pl d him. Tugh, being an only Chas. Bice became a pre t law- yer and located in 'Denver, US.A. Mark was a doctor, also located in Denver, later near London," W. Bice was a teacher, George was a music teacher and bandmaster, Jim re- mained a farmer. Nelson Washing- ton was a doctor and died some years ago in Milwaukee quite wealthy. W. owle and C. Reynolds became preachers. A. J. Reynolds taught for many years in Solina. J, B. Rey- nolds became a 'B.A. and taught at Ontario Agricultural College, Guelph, later was president of Manitoba Ag- ricultural College, for several years, president of Ontario Agricultural College, Guelph, retiring about a year ago, - Walter Wilbur became a doctor, and, I believe, is located in Washington territory, He has a brother, Frank, with the Motors, Oshawa. Franlk is supreme with the fiddle, Settlers from England I can remember when Solina was called "Pilchardtown," The early settlers were from Cornwall and Devon, England. One of the Cor- nishmen was boasting about the Cor- nish fish called pilchards, The spec. tacular Kit Mitchell named the vil. lage after Cornish fish and the name was used until a post office was start- cd about 1860, I believe John Hages was the author of. the name "Sol- ina," For awhile we only got mail once a week, later tri-weckly. Later, after Mulock became postmaster- general, we had a daily mail. Several years ago the post office was abol- ished and we had R.M.D, Pigs Caused Rivalry Over sixty years ago many citizens of the village kept a cow, also a pig, and there was great rivalry as to who would have . the heaviest pig, which was slaughtered before Christ- mas. John Ruse out-distanced all competitors, killing a pig which dressed over 750 Ibs. That hog made a record that was never beaten. Three grandsons of James: Rey- nolds are located in Toronto. One is a B.A, a teacher in a Collegiate, another is superintendent in a large school, another in a responsible posi- tion in a bank and will ultimately go to the top, irst Schoolhouse The first school house was a log building on the north side of the village, In 1860 the second school was built of brick just south of the village, It was demolished in 1899 owing to faulty foundations, A splen- did new schoolhouse was erected on the same grounds and some more land purchased a few years ago. Three acres adjoining were purchased for an athletic field where football, etc, is played. Solina, in the 60s, had one of the best baseball teams anywhere in the surrounding county or towns. Later it had a great foot- ball team and were champions for twenty miles around. Solina now has a good football team that was cham- pion for this district, including Bow- manville, last year, Community Hall In 1881 a community hall was built which has been a home for Temper- ance Society, Institute and other meetings, and was used several months for church services, also as a school room in the fall when the new schoolhouse was built, The hall was opened July 1st, 1881. Ball games and sports were indulged in in the afternoon and Dr. McLagh- lin was the speaker in the afternoon. I remember 'hé spoke on the deli- rious influence of alcohol on the hy- man system, to a crowded meeting. Dr. J. Hughes kindly offered to as- sist at the opening of the hall, also offered to bring one of the best tem- perance speakers in Toronto with him, There was an overflow meet- ing. The hall and schoolhouse were both filled at night, and Dr. Hughes and Spence spoke at both meetings. Spence made one of the most inci- sive, clear cut temperance speeches I ever heard, and Dr. Hughes was in good form and recited niany hu- morous incidents of bygone days, and his speech was interspersed with considerable humor, The Village Churches In the forties of the last century a small Advent church was erected west of the village, which is still standing, but no service has been held in it for several years, About the same time a B.C. small framg church was erected on Lot 27, Con. 6 on the Werry farm. It did duty several years, In 1855 a brick church was built and in 1928 the brick church was raised over three feet and a. splendid basement for a Sun- day school and other meetings was built. It is a very fine, commodious room. The church was re-decoratod and a large brick porch added at the opening last fall. There was such a large crowd they could neither ac- commodate or feed the vast throng. Many missed a splendid supper and the opening service, owing to the unexpected crowd. The cost of the improvements was $3300. The deci- sion of the Committee was to take three yedrs to raise the amount but with the receipts from the supper in him, The late Frank Spence came with | son, was supplied with a pony to ride and money to spend, He was rather a fine looking young fellow, married young but became a notorious drunk- ard, He frequently engaged in fights and when drunk abused his young wife shamefully.' In one of his drun- ken tantrums he shot at her. He was arrested, convicted and C. Merril, a constable, had him handcuffed and taken on G.T.R, to Cobourg jail near Newtonville, He jumped off the train FELT MISERABLE ALL THE TIME cE FERRE K is 7 4 [13 ul i i E now I * And ! | selected a sandy spot to light in and made a getaway. Now Scattered In a stretch of seven miles from Kedron church east there are only four of the early settlers representea by their descendants. The third gen- eration are on the Leask farms, the fourth generation on the Baker farms, also the fourth generation on the Werry and Cryderman farms. It seems a pity that the farms that some of the old heroes, women as well as men, who cleared and burned the forests, fenced, built barns and school- | 12] houses, roads and bridges, houses and churches, apd were 'proud and rightly so of their hard earned possessions, an' today their descendants are scattered and the old homes are owned and occupicd by strangers, and with all our ad- vantages with more education, farm papers, farm advisers, agricultural "| colleges, Ministers of Agricultuce, literature to advise and instruct the farmer galore, on many farms build- ings and fences are decaying, farms are polluted with weeds and there are. a few farmers, but many «careles bs tless farmers than Shore re or. seventy years ago, Al- we have improved machinery 'of all kinds within three miles from where the writer lives there are over twenty less families than there were seventy years ago, and families arc smaller. One or two seems to be an ayerage' family of children, In the winter months from ninety fo 'a hun- dred scholars attended Solina sehool. Today I think an average of thirty is the limit. In Solina there is noth- 'ing doing. No shop of any kind, no store and the only life in the village is Bush's pomeranian' dog that will yelp at you as you are passing through, t There are many amusing incidents and much history that could be re- counted but time and space will not permit to lengthen out this narra- ve. Henry James, a carpenter, 'and grandfather of your late assessor, Stephen Cole and William Handcock, laborers,' and a Mr. Elson, retired, were also early inhabitants of So- lina, Matthew Cole, laborer, east of the village, was also an early settler, GRAVE 8,000 YEARS OLD FOUND Believed te be more than 3,000 years old, an Early Bronze Age grave was found recently en a farm near Edinburgh, Scotland. It con- tained a small food urn in which, archaeologists say, a child had been buried, the sandy soil having eat en away the entire body. Eo H Helpful Hints = for Harassed Housewives Place candies in the refrigerator for a few hours before using and the usual dripping will be prevent d. 8 LJ] LJ LJ If you cannot get grass for your pet house cat, plant some oats in a flower pot and let the cat nibble as soon as the blades grow a few inches. Grass, : other green is essential to a cat's health and happiness. ; ¥ % » It your pet goldfish is ailing try a teaspoonful of salt to a quart of water, Sometimes salt water brightens them immeasurably , ° > * When preparing to set the table have you ever had that unhappy experience of finding the cloth has acquired several unexpected spots and the other cloths are not big enough or are at the laundry. tub the spots with chalk or crayon and: no one will be the wiser and the' cloth will be all right for the meal. * * x To make a pretty dessert, candy pears, using a few old fashioned cinnamon drops to color them and serve either with mousse or with soft custard and' whipped cream. - LJ * parsely, for sal- When chopping chives, olives or other garnishes ads, use a board and cut with an empty baking powder can, It chops easily and well. When you haven't time to slice the potatoes for frying and just wish: to have them chopped then the baking powder can, with a few holes punched in the bottom {is also an ideal chopper. catnip or some' PAGE NINE en E oat ¢ 8 8 g ee Si Catinot Express Her Gratitude British Columbia'Lady Praises Dodd's Kidney Pills irom keep all Dodd's eines DODD'S KIDNEY PILLS Yh KIDNEY . cheese. To sluff off avoirdupois, live on milk, eggs, lean meat, dried fruits, coarse vegetables, whole wheat cereals and fruits in endless yari- ety.. The-Girl Scouts have a song: ""The less you eat and the more you chew the better you will feel." There is something to it. Eat slowly but do not Mnger at the table" after + you have hau your quota. - Eschew, not .chew, pies, cakes, and all rich desserts, Ld " . CHEESE TOAST FINGERS _ Spread bread on the loaf witn creamed hutter. Slice one-eighth ineh thick trim crusts and cut in- to finger lengths. 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