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DOWNTOWN GEORGETOWN Rev Henry Caldwell remembered for his kindness We thought the world of Mr Caldwell says a former Georgetown resident He was very kind to us all the time my brother was in the hospital prior to his death He knew there was no money for baby sitters in our house when my parents went to Guelph to see Floy I was 13 but my sister was inly He knew it was scary to be atone and he d come and slay with us when he heard Mother and Dad were to he hospital even If It was midnight before they got Henry Caldwell brought his wife and four daughters to the Georgetown Methodist par in 1923 from Iturrles Crossing south of Woodstock Kerr the youngest of his daughters remembers their life in Georgetown as being busy but much simpler than the way people live today Their world revolved around the church but they enjoyed it wholeheartedly Ministers were moved every four years she says There was a furnished parsonage in each charge in those days so when they moved it was just their father desk and books as well as their personal things to pack up He never received more than Lydia says but we had a good garden and our own chickens In earlier days we had a cow Sometimes he got hay for the horses or oats or a load of wood as part of his salary it was a rare treat when someone gave us steak Mr Caldwell was the minister at as well as at Georgetown when he arrived He held morning and evening services in the town and afternoon services in Up until he travelled by horse Then he got a Model A Ford He still had to rent a horse and cutter If the roads were too bad In the winter Lydia says Some of the fa always accompanied hi to the afternoon service although they t all go because the car was too small to hold them In addition to all the Sunday services there was a Young People group he attended on Tuesday evening a mid week prayer service which everyone attended on Wednesdays and choir practise on Thursdays There was also a Bible Class prior to Sunday morning service which everyone at tended to pray for the success the day she says and Sunday School after church Mr Caldwell could name by tune any hymn In the nary says although he use his musical ability It was his wife who sang and played both the piano and auto Mrs Caldwell came from a musical family and loved to put on concerts with old time music and costumes She used them to raise money for a new dining room suite and a carpet In the parsonage Lydia re- A new law practice developed slowly during the 1930s When M came to Georgetown in 1930 there were already three lawyers here Clarence Wiggins lived in Brampton and commuted to Georgetown on behalf of the firm of Lawrence and John A Thompson practised here until the Law Society took away his gown for some trouble he got into The third lawyer was Dale Georgetown first mayor Judge KM It was Mr Dale who was Mr com petition He had been Using in Georgetown since 1919 and what little business there was went to Mr Dale Mr says In those days people always In trouble he says It was almost a disgrace to be seen going a lawyer office If someone wanted to make a will they Shone up and I go to their instead of them coming to my office Mr Langdon first office was on Main Street In what now the Book Store He hired Lillian Watson as his secretary but keep her She had been earning a good wage In Toronto when the Stock Market crashed in 1929 and the firm she worked for closed up She came to work for for a week After two months there waan t enough money to pay her so had to drop her salary to a week Two more months and I pay her at all so I lost the finest secretary a person could ever have had Mr Langusn says he was here 13 years before he was able to take holiday The office was open seven days a week There was a half holiday on Thursday but he wns open until 10 clock on Wednesdays and Saturdays The rent on his office was a month but it was reduced to to keep him there Room and board with Miss Young on Main Slrcet cost him a week He did bookkeeping and filled out Income tax returns to meet his expenses E A a local real estate agent let Mr take over his listings and they were a Godsend Finally he got the appointment to collect water rates and taxes for Georgetown The salary Was a year When I turned in my roll at the end of the year I hod collected every dollar of tax arrears and water rates plus the current ones There one dollar owing to the town says Mr Langdon He achieved this by putting the properties owing back taxes up for sale Conditions were so bad during the depression he says that the banks allow the town credit to pay the teachers For two or three months they had to live on script given by the town There were 10 teachers on the staff at that time I Mr Langdon married in 1932 and they lived in a house on Charles Street which they rented from a Mrs Bailey for a month Slnclalrs own the house now Mr says he was in the habit of giving his clients a detailed account of what he had done on their behalf and then setting a fee on the work Apparently this didn suit them as well as the method Mr Dale used for billing He could almost tell what a client expected to pay and charged a bit more or less according to what they could afford Mr Langdon says Sybil Bonnet who wound up as Mr Dale partner went to law school with Mr Langdon Ills practise consisted of real estate transfers criminal and division court cases wills foreclosures and general practise he says He might have handled two or three adoptions In a year Mr father was lawyer at Brighton although the family lived on a farm His three brothers also went through law school To be a lawyer In Mr time required Honour Matriculation Grade 13 articling to a law office for three years and then three years at Hall He only attended two hours day but the rest of the time was spent In he law office where he was articled In the beginning he received a week from the law firm but he was getting 15 a week by the end of his third year Times have changed in years but Mr Langdon won forget the days he walked to Hornby or Li chouse to servo a notice or sale or something such as that because he afford a Besides I had nothing else to do because I had no clients Imlghtaswellwalkas sit in the office Mr Langdon retired as Juvenile and Family Court Judge last year at he age of colls Visiting a large part of a minister duties and one month Mr Caldwell travelled 1 000 miles making his calls Sometimes the minister was notified before he performed a wedding ceremony but often people Just came marriage licence In hand remembers one such required a three day wait between buying the licence going to the minister An older couple turned up ex peeling to be married and Mr Caldwell had to call the Parliament Buildings In Toronto to get permission to perform the service because they waited three days The man had come in by train from somewhere in the West and the woman had come from somewhere In he south western port of Ontario she says They had arranged to meet and bo married In Georgetown because this was a train junction and easy to get to but apparently they were unaware of the changes In the law regarding marriages 1 remember the couple because the woman was wearing the first raw silk dress I had ever seen Lydia It was very pretty but the material was easily mussed and I t understand why she didn change when she had to wait around so long Tor the wedding It was late in the evening before permission back for Papa to marry them and they had had to wait around all day Many private ceremonies were performed In the Cald well home Mrs Caldwell always served lunch says Often the girls were asked to act as witnesses but sometimes a couple Would ask to have the family excluded Then we d go out to the garden and stand on chairs so we could sec In the window Lydin chuckles The Methodist and Presbyterian churches united in IMS Mr Caldwell went to Llmchouse in 1927 He served LI chouse Churchill Glen Williams and in the summer time Terra Cotta Since those churches had never had a parsonage the Caldwells bought heir own furniture for the first time He got only there and often wonders how he managed to pay for her train to go to school She was in Grade 11 when they left Georgetown and she took Grade 12 here Then the radial train timetable changed and it more convenient to go to so she took her Grade 13 there Besides attending meetings Mr Caldwell Mrs Caldwell belonged to the Women a Missionary Society and the Women s Christian Temperance Union The WCTU was a very active organization In Georgetown in those days Lydia says and her mother was connected with their head office in Toronto members were at nil the stations In the large tres to provide information for strange women who might get into trouble in an unfamiliar city These women always wore a white bow so girls could Identify them as friends if they needed help in a strange town Drink was not he only evil they fought Lydia says hey were interested In all aspects of morality Lydia remembers a time when her mother was phoned by someone from the Toronto office of the organ and asked to locate a certain man She was lo report him to the police when he was tracked down He was travelling for a seed company she says Mrs Caldwell found him reported him and the police gat him out of town she says He had already set up his shady business with several women though by the time they caught up with him With ladles like that on the Job the white slavers didn stand much of a chance did they BUY THE PAIR Purchase both the Gas Range and the Admiral Refrigerator HARDWICK 30 GAS RANGE Silastic oven door seal Panoramic oven Lightweight removable ont piece turn burner Lift cooMop surface Adjustable levelling legs Patterned glass background Time ol day clock and one hou limer Choice of colours White Avocado Goldlone MODEL PM 310R Colour charge 28 FREEZER REFRIGERATOR w lor hard to fit areas ere mix mum use available space is a cons deration cubic feet 10 74 in FRIG 26 Freezer Frost dp out shelves 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