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I REMEMBER Reminiscences of Colborne By Jim Bell COLBORNE’S CONUNDRUM Did you ever think of it? As early as 1900 and in fact long hefore that, the population of Colborne was practically the same as-it is to-day, And yet, in the last ten or fifteen — years, there have been a considerable umber of houses built, I have not tried to count them yet but 1 would not be afraid to venture a dime to « hole in a doughmut that it will run pretty close to a hundred. Now, how can one re- concile the fact that with such an increase in residences, the population remains so near static? If anyone can answer that one, 1 wish that they would for I cannot, Perhaps some of you doubt that there has been such an in- crease in houses in the last ten or fifteen years. Well, let us run over the village briefly and make & hurried estimate, We will take East Colborne first, | know that pes tg built Ais own home _ than this in the East En Rnd Baeif “there is it only. makes the. pony undrum more baffling. AS a “von: servalive guess, Jet us say that there aye twelve new honses’ in East Colborne. Now, coming toward the west! end, there are two. houses, one is Geo. Westrope’s, I do not know the occupant of the other, Com- ing on up the line, the next one is the lovely bungalo built last year by W. Kimberley. Then Mrs, MeLaughlin’s on the south side of the street, The remodel- led little bungalo, owned and occupied by Mr, and Mrs, Daryl Cuthbert is next. Then there was @ little white bungalo built on the south side, just east of Ri- gin Street a few years ago. John Bell's house, Mrs. Papinean's and) E. Rowsome's can all be d as pr lly new houses, That makes ten more to add to our list, Now, let's look down Elgin Street and its adjoining streets, First is Mr. Wannamaker’s. There is another house and a duplex next. 1 do not know the occupants, then comes Lawrence Spencer's, On down Elgin and on the side street is Al Cam- macks, Al Dale's and Tom Me- Donald's, Then Del MeLaugh- lin'’s, Aime MeCracken’s and farther down, the Greshams. Coming back to Simmons Street is Mr, P. Hartwick's, I am near- ly forgetting one, Ernie Kemp built on the street east of Elgin a couple of years aga. That makes fourteen more to add to our. list, North Street has four and Di- vision Street at least ten, among them Leonard Gordon's, Rev. Mr, Mahaffy's, Dr. Pember's and W. Heckbert's. King Street has Miss Ashbridge, &. MeManus, Ea “ Gillespie F a few years ago. That makes another eighteen, Church Street) west has at] } least six. Three built by Albert Waller and three on Chureh and one on Ontario by the late FB. Turpin., On Church Street east there are six more, 1 am finding that this article is taking more space than J anticipated so 1 am not going to specify any more. On Toronto Street there are six and on Robertson, form- erly Robertson's Lane, there are three. Percy Street has five. Pork Street four and Cedar Street two. Now we come to Burnham Ave., the street that has really eclipsed them all. On the cast side there are nine and on the west side there are seven, That makes a total of sixteen on Burnham alone, I know that this list is not absolutely correct but it ig near enough to make my point, My total adds up to 103 new houses, built in the Tast ten or fifteen years, Now here is my conun- ‘drum. With the population prac- ‘Ueully the same as it has been Reunion In Gillespie Family ReUnion A reunion of the family of the late William Thomas Gilles- pie and Sarah Elizabeth Arkils was held at the Legion Centre in Colborne on Saturday, June 17th. William Gillespie and Eliza- beth Arkils were married in Vernonville on December 2nd, 1891, with Rev. Lord officiat- ing. From this union there were nine children: Mabel, Mrs, Vernon Taylor, Grafton;. Hazel, Mrs, John Bell, Colborne; Will- jam, on the homestead in Shel.) ter Valley; Lulu, Mrs. Gordon) Rutherford of Haldimand Town- ship: Muriel, Mra. N, J. Rich- ards, Rochester, N.Y.; Lily, Mrs. Evan Kanous, Hilton, N.Y. Clifford of Haldimand ‘Town- ship; Vera, Mrs. Fred Smith of Niagara Falls, N,¥,; and Marie.) Mrs. Frank Simmers, Canton, | NY, | These nine children were all) | im attendance. Of the twenty- | eight living children of thet following generation, all were} able to attend; and of the third. generation of sixty-five child-) ren, fifty-two were present, os) well as four children of the fourth generation. At one end of the hall a tahte| displayed snapshots and photo-| graphs of the family in earlier. days, and the family tree show- | ing 105 living descendants. Registration began at four, i o'clock with 124 people signing the register, followed by visit- ing among the adults, and gam-| es for the 56 children attending. | ’ ‘ : F. C. Michell. R, Pacey and F. Harding on the south side and A. W, Chisholm, a house built by or for the Bank af Commerce and another by Mr. Sam Dudley i A. buffet supper was served: at! six o'clock, after which Mrs.| Ciifford Gillespie read “The Gillespie Story”, which she had written, and which told of a