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the georgetown herald wed neaday evening june 26th 1 940 for value received by b n smith tr la mott looked at the small exquisite woman in the chair beside his desk vaguely he sought to bridge the chasm of those ten intervening years you knew harvey died didnt jou louis no i didnt dolores im sor ry he stopped abruptly hed al ways known that she was not for hun and of course dolores being dolores it was no doubtbest still if she had loved him instead of harvey perhaps ten years is long time dolores he said slowly tell me abput yourself what have you been doing im afraid i havent been useful like you louis then her face lighted her eyes became eager ani mated but i ve tried to make a good job of raising harvey jr i wish you could see him she added softly lets see how old is he now hes fourteen she looked into her handbag and took out a small photo heres his latest he has bis mothers eyes but not his mothers disposition ive trained him away from that she said moodily then her eyes were eager again he finishes high school this month from there he goes to the university then hex vard and oxford his teachers say he has a wonderful mind and will go a long way if he has a chance her voice trailed off wearily i dont doubt it dr lamott said seriously with such a mother but you dolores how have you been any more trouble with that lung oh ive been up and down if you hadn t been so far away id have bad one of your famous diag noses louis i ve never met any one so unerring the same old flatterer he laughed but he was pleased suppose we try one now he reached for the stethoscope and adjusted it to her chest spot by spot dolores you must take a rest take it here in my sanitarium he pleaded oh that would be lovely i she said in pleased surprise then thoughtfully i have some things i must attend to first i dont want to frighten you but if you drive back to yuma his voice was infinitely tender as he bent over her let me take care of you dolores he begged give me that much her eyes opened as though waking from a dream and aghast he saw a soul in tor mentl the next instant the veil was drawn i really must go louis she said but ill come back then you must go by train dolores he said decisively she looked and saw his eyes rest on the expensive coupe at the curb she shook her head started to speak then suddenly she was the radiant dolores of his dreams if i please you to that extent you ii have to help me cash a check for expense i didnt know i was to travel in state thats easy come around here and make it out ill endorse it and have miss johnson bring you the cash again the shrill siren of the am bulance sounded and once more dr lamott was called to the re ceiving room the nurse pushed back tangled hair from a white face and he looked into dolores eyes her lips were moving but no sound came as he bent over her she realized it and laid her finger on his lips with a weak negative movement of her head he watched her puzzled then sud denly he recoiled she was sinking fast the pulse was weaker every beat an effort her eyes moved in a last desperate plea he leaned over her yes dolores he whispered faintly her lips returned his kiss as her heavy eyelids closed shut ting out the glad light of course dr lamott said the investigator from the insurance company were not doubting your report her death was apparent ly accidental all the eyewitnesses agree on that point but if she had been killed the day before we would have saved thirty thousand dollars because the money to cover her past due premium was wired from this town about an hour before she was ruck and here a an other strange thing the finance companies had taken everything she d ca furniture even her furs were mortgaged now he paused thoughtfully what id like to know is where did she get the money for the pre mium is your company going to con test the claim asked dr lamott quietly no our evidence would seem nothing more than a coincidence to a jury when the door had closed on his visitor dr lamott picked up an en velope and extracted a check to which was attached a pink slip marked no funds he struck a match and watched the flame consume both check and slip reminiscences of georgetown twenty years ago c w young wrote these axtieles for the herald and we take pleasure in reprinting them for the next few weeks where c w young was living when these were written or what has since be come of him we have not been able to find out perhaps some of our readers will be able to tell us anyway we know you will all enjoy these glimpses into the nostalgic past whence georgetown had its origin bjc w young a native son an old friend alluding in rather too flattering terms to some reminiscen ces of mire of acton recently publish ed in the acton free press has sug gested that some recollection of geor getown of old would be interesting to readers of the herald well considering that georgetown was the spot where i was born there should be plenty of them though na turally having left the village in 1866 and seen but little of it since they will be but fragmentary and disjointed and possibly in some cases not absolutely accurate especially as to names but here goes the first settler the first settler in georgetown was george kennedy who built a saw null on the branch of the now credit which flowed 1 through the townslteto be and from which the place took its name of the village proper however ray father james young was the founder he located there about 1843 soon after his marriage coming from the sixteen on dundas street near oakvlue where he had lived with his uncle alexander proudfoot since eml grating from scotland as a boy some vears before aftei a terrible journey for roads were then nonexistent he and his young bride pitched their tent where georgetown now stands then a dense pine wilderness in course of time he built his homestead in what is now the centre of the village a general store and dwelling on the comer of main and mill streets behind the house was a large stable and on the north east corner a hard ware store the remainder of the block afterwards became a garden and a good one for those days oposue on the main street prank barclay built a general store facing the young homestead there was a tavern on each of the other corners one kept by benjamin thompson the other by robert jones who moved to guelph and after him thomas clark the clark tavern and the barclay storewere built within my recollection lily jones daughter of robert jones was the village belle and was loved by everybody she died in guelph whre sh was a general favorite as tn georgetown and a number from our village went to the funeral bimnrng tut grand trunk one of my earliest impressions is the building of the grand trunk railway which on account of the deep excava lions and high embankments near georgetown required a very large number of workmen principally irish immigrants orange and green who agreed pretty well in the main but boiled over occasionally as on st patricks day and the twelfth of july there were lashions of whiskey in those days the memory comes faintly of rows and ructions when ev en the women pulled off their stock ings and filling them with rocks sail ed in and struck out regardless one time there was a fatality and the wife of th assailant came to the magts trate james young aforesaid hop ing to buy her man off with a pile of sovereigns which she laid down on the store counter later after things had settled down better feeling prevailed and on the twelfth of july the good old priest used to fill a basket with lilies and distribute them to the man on the white horse and his followers georoetovfn a grain market as the back country settled up georgetown assumed importance as a grain market and teams came from as far as erin and garafraxa and cal edon and even further grain laden mr young employed a large force of clerks and the delivery went on con tinuously night and day stopping only for sundays some of this grain was milled at stewarttown where there was a grist mill and saw mill and some of it was shipped out ungrouno but all before the railway went to oakville where there was a fleet of schooners to take it to toronto oswe so or montreal at first it was only winter transportation but subsequently a plank road was built down the sev enth line from stewarttown some 18 or 20 miles to oakville there were cedar stringers and threeinch pine planks crosswise which cost a mint of money even in those days but now would ransom a king this plank road was a dandy for one or two seasons but the frost heaved it and the planks became loose and even the thought of it is a nightmare till it was replaced by a gravel road the first train a very early recollection it must have been in 1835 or 1856 was being taken by an old gentleman mr leon t ard to see the first passenger train go west on the grand trunk we went to the white bridge along with a number of the villagers and after waiting for a good while the train came puffing up the grade und bridge and was lost to sight in the di eotlon of the rock now umehouse early travelling soon after that came the provincial exhibition the event of the year in toronto and an excursion to see the wonders of the world there were very few passenger trains then plain wooden benches were nailed on the floors of freight cars the only light was a dim clan tern hung in the centre of the car but people thought tt was a great stride forward to make the journey of thirty miles in a couple of hours instead of being an allday job as it was before the coming of iron horses another notable excursion was one evening to see a circus the first to travel by rail in canada this par ticular circus had been in toronto a day or two previous and trouble bad arisen the upshot of which was some thing like a riot the call of hey rube by the circus men and a gen eral free fight most of the canvas was burned and it was a crippled cir cus that came to brampton but the ride on the cars at night was excite ment enough for one night ridiculous and toyuke would the locomotives look beside the mammoth machines which haul the enormous trains or today the smokestacks were high and surmounted by a kind or inverted runnel they burned oordwood cut in hair and it was necessary about ev ery forty miles to woodup engineer fireman conductor brakeman and baggageman and sometimes the pas sengers took part thousands of acres of the finest maple and beech fed the insatiable maw df the iron horse the formal opening of the grand trunk was celebrated by a grand ball in montreal in 1856 i think my ra ther and mother and a cousin went to the ball and their perilous journey as it was considered created more talk than would a trip around the world in 1920 the roadbed was new and poor ly ballasted and in place of the mas she t rails of 80 or 100 pounds to the yard now in use there were light u rails of perhaps 50 pounds the speed was slow but a railway journey was not without its dangers my wife tells me that there was a grand ball in guelph on the opening of the grand trunk but doesn t recall the date and that is all i know about it many things come to mind as i think sometimes of the iron bridges that spans the ravine a mile or so be low georgetown at the bottom of which flows the river credit very clearly do i remember going with my father and mother and some others to see the unfinished work the piers were up and very tall they looked tow ering up to a height of 160 feet from the water and such a lot of them for the bridge is over a quarter of a mile long and with the exception or the victoria bridge at montreal the long est on the grand trunk system ir canada at any rate it is also clear to me that the grown ups were shown over the work by general lee but whether he was engineer of the bridge or its builder i cannot say i have heard that the road from toronto to guelph was projected as a separate corporation and it was in tended to erect a wooden trestle across the credit ravine when the road was taken hold of as part of the grand trunk wiser councils prevailed and it was decided to build a tubular bridge of iron similar to the victoria except that the tracks run on top of the tube instead of through it as on the original victoria which was re placed by an open structure some years sinct william barber and james young had the contract for the iron work of the trstl which mostly consisted of long iron rods with a head on one end and a thread and nut at the other to bind the woodwork these were to be brought from oakville as return freight fur the flour and wheat teams when the change of plan was made the company wanted to cancel the contract tor the rods but eventually had to pay for them my father used to say that the price was 12 cents a pound which a few years ago would pay for a modern bridge erected and painted though it would cost much more thnn that nowadays as school boys we used often to hike to the credit bridge and it was con sidcred a daredevil trick to walk were all smashed and the freight scattered all over the landscape a brakeman in uie caboose was killed and was found with his head cut off as cleanly as if done with an axe i often think i would like to be geologist enough to be able to record struct the scene when the credit was a big river and tearing from solid rock at the cataract from softer material elsewhere the tremendous gorges that are encoun tered as it comes down from the cale- don hills continued next week dominion day with prde comradeship and con fidence the people of canada prepare to celebrate the dominion s 73rd birth day at no time since confederation has the nation earned such a burden but from the strenuous days of early pioneer struggles to this hour in 1940 her people have faced their trials heir duties and their daily tasks with the courage born of a clean heritage today energy and faith are manliest on the face of this land strengthened not sappea by the struggle which lies ahead that canada today may be of good cheer birthday honours will be mar ked bj a pause to remember our yes terdays and the men and women who set the path for the future the canadian broadcasting corpor ation has planned for its national net work listeners a special dominion day programme our home our native land which will be heard on mon day july 1 at 8 30 to 9 00 p m edst this wii take the form of a music dramalogue a history in sound and story or canada s achievements a statement or what we have to fight for why we iland on guard for thee the story of our home our native land was written by harry foster canadian author ard native of char lottetown prince edward island and will be produced by j frank willis of tl- cbc features department a new approach to history wll be em ployed in this story of canada her history wll be told in the lives of sim pie men whose individual efforts have contnouted their infinitesimal part to the plorious whole te draeger men or stellarton the heroes of the running trades homesteaders of the wist trappers of the last frontiers lumberjacks prospectors sallormen on the inland seas men and women of the prairies valleys and mountains all had their share in the canada being honoured today and through whom t salute the tomorrow for friendship one surn day last week the post man arri ed at cbc s toronto studios in the usual way on foot and at tle usual hour about 3 o clock pnd no bod knew then lhat he carried in his pack one of the most welcome letters ever received at davenport road but shortly after the mail bag had been spilled on a clearing table the word ran round like lightning and anyone passing might have thought an off ice bov had fallen heir to a fortune but it was good fortune far greater than that the fortune of friendship for canada in an envelope postmarked milwaukee and addressed simply to station cbl there was a 1 000 coupon bearer bond of the phllllplnes islands a gift to the imperial mun ttlons board from yes you ve guessed it incognito we salute you incog nlto or milwaukee and to show the bes way possible its gratitude the cbc acknowledged the girt over coast tocoast network during the re gular weekly broadcast or carry on canada sundaj at 903 pm edst the time and the place canadian snapshots has moved to its new hcur on wednesdays at 1030 pm edst this programme from toronto is familiarizing canadians witn many of the advantages or stay ing at home for vacations and with its stories of the many magnificent play through the tube and if a train hap- grounds so easily available by road pened to go over it while we were in side it was a matter to be bragged about even if we were half dear with the racket when this boy became possessed or a gun the early morning sometimes found nim in that locality after pig eons and black squirrels and on an ever to b remembered day he saw a freight train coming down the grade and something seemed to be the mat ter with it an axle was broken or omcthlng of that kind and several cars at the rear of the train were ofr the track and smashing the piping and chains that made a fence across the structure down tumbled the cars into the ravine and it ddn t take long for the boy to be on the spot they regarding enlisted men in order to enable this paper to prepare a complete and accurate list of the men from geor and district who have enlisted with the casj the publisher requests the relatives of memb of the cana dian fighting forces in england and those in training in canada to fill in bbe following form and return ltto this office name in full rank unit place and date of enlistment birthplace and age names and address of parents or next to kin other particulars print surname first with a snake in the grass or a dog that reverses the headline man bites dog antidotes ror poisons caused by various animals will be given and also hints on the emergency measure to be taken immediately after the at tack novelties in music a new cbc programme bows in on saturday july 6 at 705 pjn bdst novelties in music will be the title and the order with doris ord alleen stevens and doris scott giving a new lift to familiar popular tunes flanked by marjorle dalnes at the piano and stan wilson with guitar on knee names make news beatrice sullivan whos just like a page out of the bluebook herself will tell how this famous volume is writ ten in a talk on the social editor at work piiday july 5 at 515 pm edst no member of toronto s news paper fraternity knows more import ant names by heart than miss sulli van w hose own family history runs awaj back in the affairs of canada and who as social editor has preen at many historical functions v parti i presents ions to civic welcomes for many years past miss sullivan has a keen wit a knowing eye for faces and fashon and an energy for her job of reporting which should make her story good listening a century of stamps obcs feature department announ res a broadcast on friday july 5 at 8 00 to 9 00 pjn edst which should thrill all philatelists a century of sumps will deal with the establish ment and subsequent development or the postal service throughout the civ ilized world which all began with the penny black in may 1840 or special interest to the stamp collectors will be the dramatized stories of the worlds most precious stamps andrew allan of cbcs staff at vancouver is author of the script their valiant deeds what nas been done before can be done agaii and to remind canadian listeners that many hard battles have been fought many dangers faced and overcome is the object of cbo s drama feature they shall not pass which has been written by william strange and will be heard next on wednesday july 3 at 10 00 pjn edst sydney brown is the producer of this series which retells uie glorious stories of victory won by british people of an earlier age when lesser breeds would have faltered railway plane and water it makes an appeal too to the visitor from over the border each broadcast features special music played dy samuel her- senhoren s orchestra recalling happy holidays in years gone by if dog bites man there are nice bites and nasty bites to the first belong the bites that go wlih steak when ones hungry to the latter belong snake bites and dog bites which may be painful and quite dangerous on thursday july 4 at 5 15 p m edst over the national network of the cbc a prominent toronto woman doctor will tel what to do if you come up canadian maestro honored percy fath the brilliant young can adian arrangerconductor whose rec ent concert with oscar levant as guest artist packed massey hall toronto has accepted an invitation to arrange and conduct three programmes ror the contented hour mondays at 10 00 pjn edst mr faith has departed for the nbc studios at chicago where he will be engaged in preparatory work untu his opening date july 1 he will conduct the programmes also of july 8 and 15 the musical toasts will include denver mexico and eng land in new york last week faith named a new song he was a supper guest at the lincoln enjoying chales bar- netts music barnett joined the can adian maestro asked him to give nun a name for a musical number he was introducing that night he played it over and its humour delighted faltti claire de goon said faith and clalre de goon it was called there and then in brief gregor piatigorsky the emlnant russian cellist will be guest artist for the prom concert played by the tor onto philharmonic orchestra under the direction of reginald stewart thursday june 4 with the broadcast hour 9 00 to 1000 pjn edst 1753 is the date marked on eugene jack kashs guadagnini violin which he will play when he appears as a redt- allst for tne cbc friday july 5 at 130 pjn edst 23yearold stanley solomon toronto violinist now a scholarship student at the jullliard in titule new york is home on vacation and will be heard in recital over hie cbc national network monday jury 1 at 730 edst additional do minion day programmes include a special broadcast in honour of can ada s birthday from cbcs overseas unit at 8 00 pjn edst and an inter- je bc i lo this land at 5 15 pjn edst and at 7 45 pjn a talk by sir t w glas gow from ottawa rekt forseev new question box begins wednesday july 3 at 9 00 pjn with a panel of ex perts on a variety of subjects sched uled including those in the know en science art literature and music dave miller formerly in canadian ra dio and brother of yvonne miller at lets go to the music hall has been placed in charge of bbc s variety programmes his first show had am brose s orchestra and bebe daniels featured the cbo reports a most encouraging response from listener who are following the war effort broadcasts carry on canada sun day nights at 900 pjn ed6t many excellent suggestions nave been made by listeners and all show a keen de sire to increase individual participa tion in the civilian work being promo ted throughout the country lil lian jones the gifted coloured con tralto who has been heard by many thousands of church and concert aud 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