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ballinafad review early history at cemetery memorial alan neelon student minister at ballinafad preached an inspiring sermon on the passing and the permanent at a memorial service held in ballinafad cemetery on sunday ballinafad choir and churchill orchestra contributed several mus ical numbers those who spoke during the serivce included harold griffin reeve of erin township albert wheeler f w shortill the chairman of the present board of trustees and earnest root f w shortill richard shortill sr f j shortill and miss beat rice hilfe comprise the present board of trustees and along with matt shortill caretaker were re sponsible for the decided improve ments in the cemetery grounds du ring the past few years during the service ernest root orton whose ancestors were dis trict pioneers presented a resume of early history prepared by miss hilts nathaniel rouell a native of pennsylvania was the first settler in erin township he came with his family from smlthville in nov ember 1821 and settled on lot 1 between the 6th and 7th lines hut son benjamin was the first white child born in the erin dis trict november 11th 1821 the first revival meeting of the settlers was held in mr roszells home he gave land for the first school for the first methodist church cemetery parsonage and a temperance hall rev tyndall and hu wile and family lived in the parsonage for a number of years abraham buck was another ear ly settler william havens was ap pointed clerk of the local munici pality thomas merry a native of ireland is credited with giving bal linafad its name a mr hopkins was the first tax collector appointed in 1824 the first store was opened by james and thomas stevens john frank opened a hotel peter ferguson tc sons operated the first blacksmith shop william hilts with his brother joseph moved into the northern part of esquesing about the same time the roszell family came jos eph jr was born on the hilts farm just one mile east of ballinafad on november 23rd 1821 rev joseph hilts wrote in one of his books the following about four years after the founding of the settlement the scattered population decided to put up a log building that would serve the double purpose of school and meeting house the building was erected on the corner of nathaniel roszells farm just across from where the store now stands in this school religious services were held for a number of years professor pitcher was the first schoolmaster and with his son pe ter boarded with the various fami lies his small balary was a stated sum for each student to be paid by the parents the school was built around the year 1825 about 1869 it was closed and the pupils who lived in erin township attended peacock school and those living in esquesing went to blue mountain in 1845 a meeting was held for the purpose of appointing three trustees for the cemetery on may 0th 1845 a deed was drawn up be tween nathaniel roszell and his wife hannah in the township of erin in the county of waterloo nw heavyweight 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the wellington district in the province of canada the trustees were obadiah roy archibald patterson and joseph hilts witnesses present were don ald mcbain and arthur thompson the sum of five shillings was paid for the land mrs t p cunningham hornby pioneer family a descendant of early pioneers of halton county lizzie cunning ham 84 of milton died at muton private hospital born in hornby in march 1872 she was the daughter of the late james coulson and joan tingle in 1897 she married thomas p cun ningham who died in december 1901 she moved to brandon ma nitoba in 1911 returning to mil ton in 1946 active in the womens mission ary society mrs cunningham was also a school teacher she taught bible class at the first united church in brandon and also taught at the hornby methodist church from 1904 to 1907 in brandon she was president of the womens liberal party organization surviving are her sister mrs maggie preston of charles street milton and a son james of horn by a brother john predeceased her she was educated at hornby public school and georgetown high school and received her degree at normal school she was a mem ber of the united church interment was made in hornby presbyterian church cemetery with mr n a russ and the rdv e orsborn officiating on july 14 pallbearers were gear sinclair dewart lindsay william neilson clcbert mcdowell george cat- braith and clifford wriggles- worth flower bearers were nel son robinson t j brownridge edward brigden william t ran dall russell king t e robinson james brooks and m s sproat farm news 14h club members see toronto sights j e w i tuesday of last week saw some eighty of halton 4h agricultural members on their annual one day bus trip the two bus loads of young people with art bennett and a number of club leaders in charge had an outstanding days program in toronto in contrast to former years when the club members visi ted such points of interest as a fo restry station outstanding farms etc the programme this year as a result of the recommendations of the halton club leaders council was all centred in the city of tor onto some of the points of inter est included a visit fnrough one of torontos large newspaper plants a visit to the canadian bank of commerce building where they viewed the city from the ob servation tower a trip through the recently established toronto buil ding centre then on to the parlia ment buildings where they took seats in the legislative assembly elected their speaker premier and leader of the opposition etc at this point they were met by llaltons member stanley l hall and gordon bennett associate dir ector of extension then follow ed a visit to sunnysidc a dip in the enclosed swimming pool and finally on to the maple leaf stad ium where montreal and the tor onto maple leafs staged an out standing game for their benefit it was a tired but happy group who returned to their respective ho mes in the small hours of wednes day morning the only report we have heard to date is the best ever next public holiday will be that of labour day this year fall ing on monday september 3rd as usual local businesses will close your new dealer for scott atwater outboard motors sales and service 159 end up ashgrove welding h m barnes tr 73877