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Ad By Jim Bell We are writing about Church Street West this week. Although this is one of the nicest resi. ‘dential streets in town, the ‘south side has never been over- crowded with houses. I have mentioned Edward’s Cooper ‘Shop on the corner a number of times. It always brings a aig Jing of nostalgia. In memory, I jean feel the heat of the stove, |smell of the scorching barrels | and hear the boys whistling and | the incessant tap tap of their |hammers as they drove the | hoops on the barrels. But I must ‘| leave and go on down the street. I'There is no walk on that side of the street so we will have to itake the road for it. The first ‘| house we come to is Jerry Serip- ‘| ture’s. That is the Earnest Mec- ‘| Donald house now. On down the ‘I street we goto the big house 1] that was converted into a double -| dwelling a few years ago by the tl late Bert Franklin. It was built 1 by Mr. W. Bellamy, the High t School Principal, a short time - before 1900. I remember pass. f ing there one day during sum-~- ; mer holidays when he was paint- » ing the house. He was almost to ¢, the top of a pretty long ladder |} and as I was always an imperti- nent young scamp, I told him to stay up there as he might never get any higher. He took it. in good part however and in- formed me that I would never get that high. There was a long stretch of vacant property then Kd. ;\ Jewell’s with the Rutherford C house right next. T call it the "Rew grasa eh house because it 9 was the home of Mr. Rutherford | who had the jewellery store | where H. J. Mayhew learned. his trade and also married the jew- eller’s daughter. There was one other house near the corner of Ontario Street. Jas. Tuck lived there. I noticed his name in an old Express as working on the streets. The amount paid him was $5.00. I do not know how long he worked for this amount but I imagine it was five days. Right across the street, that is Ontario Street, in the late Charlie Post house the two Miss Snetsingers lived. They were sisters of Mat and Noah Snet- singer, both prominent apple men and also in municipal af- fairs. And now we come to the north side of the street. This side had a board walk all the way to the corner. The corner house was occupied by the Hawkins famity. 1 do not remember a Mr. Haw- kins but there were two boys, George and Ward and two girls, Annie and Jennie. The next place was Billy Connors. He was a very short man. I did not know any of the family except Jim. He was some older than T and was one of the fastest skaters in town, I remember him skating an exhibition mile at a carnival in the old rink. T do —————— not remember the time that he >) )\ REMEMBEn Reminiscences of as made it in but it was pretty good for an amateur. The next place was the Jewells. My first school teacher in Colborne lived there. a The big brick house that comes next has had quite a long list of tennants. First was the Caseys, then the Purdys. It was from there that W. Bellamy and F. M. Brintnell were married. They each married a Miss Purdy. W. C. Griffis, the Drug- gist, also lived there for quite a while. Then, not so long ago, our present Reeve, Mr. Frank Harding, lived there. I do not know if I have the following places in their proper order but from there was Miss McKenzie, Tom Connors, then one of the Algers. The brick cottage that was remodelled by Don Suther. land and later purchased by the Bings, was the home of two Miss Whitbys. Then came the Mickle home and Jastly the Blacks, later the F. M. Brintnell home for a number of years. Just a word about the Black family. There were five boys, boys that have made good, two of them in par- ticular. Arthur, the oldest, was head designer for Leishman Clothes and also for ‘Tip Top Tailors and was looked on as one of the best in his Hine. Bill, as we called him when we were boys, has reached the millionaire ‘tlass. At one time he practically owned the entire Hamilton Street Railway. A few years ago, he was Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Bank of Canada, Colborne has _ really some sons to be proud of. Someone has asked if I ever knew a Dr. Massey who had an estate in East Colborne. The only one that I can recall is D. W. Massey, who succeeded Mr. Abram Gould as Public School Principal. He later took up denistry and as a Dentist as- sumed the title of Doctor. He never lived in East Colborne that I know of nor had any Page: erty there.