Daily British Whig (1850), 21 Sep 1921, p. 9

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WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 21, 1021. v \ Salesman' "We sell considerable by Long Distance. It Ig the cheapest selling process we have. It enables us to buy raw material quickly if we run ghort. Is very use- ful inkeeping in touch with our Toronto plant. Wouldbegreat~ ly handicapped with- © out it" * Comadian Woollens Lid. (Sed.) J. W. Worth, Manager, - HAD AN INTERESTING TRI Rev. Barry Pierce Writes About His Visit to Gaspe. Rev, Barry Plerce of this eity | writes as follows about Gaspe: | "My first trip to Gaspe was as a ie Methodist church missionarygof- t terry OTTERS 4E0 TRE TUNE "THe conference that year was in Syden- ham street church, Kingston, Ont, The late Rev. William H, Graham, chairman, said: 'Brotfier Plerce 1 can't find a man willing to go to $aspe; will you g0?' Some hesitated to go, seeing there little else but snow, cold, poverty, hardship and peril, I was young, strong and felt it my duty, and a joy to preach the gospe] anywhere on 'God's green earth.' I was also prepared to endure hardness for Christ, and welcoming a taste of what others-dreaded said: 'I will go.' With my wife, also young and strong, and our t%o boys (three and one years old) -wé went from Windsor Mills, Que., by the Quebec Central and Intercolonial Railways, got to Dalhousie, N.B. Then by the stgamer Admiral for some 200 miles we arrived at Gaspe Basin, the prin. cipal village on the coast, Gaspe is waters of the gulf.' Gaspe Bay off the f You digestive disorders, fe " discomfort shies sat. constipation, id vf Ary Ary e a course of the famous Beecham's Pills. Prompt relief often follows the first dose. People everywhere =. are proving the value of EECHAM'S In boxes, 25¢, 50¢. gult 1s some twenty miles long, and from six to two miles wide, It is one of the best natural harbors on the Atlantic ocean. vessels with thousands of Canadian ed there in safety on the way to Bay. "Our future' work was all around this bay, I had eleven appointments. One Sabbath on the north coast I preached four times, at Pt. Navel, Rosebridge, Cape 0zo. and St. Geor- ges or Indian Cove; journey forty poor, The next week I left Cape Ozo, Friday, am. rode up the bay to Rosebridge, waded and swam the mare one and one-quarter miles ae- ross the Nevbst river (later I had a scow to cross in.) Then rode to Gaspae Basin. In a scow crossed the S. W. river, then proceeded dowa through Sandy Beach to Haldimand, making calla on the way, Here in the home of John Miller (now 88 and dying) I preached to a full house. Soon after we erected a church seating aboyt two hundred, and with a good organ all complete, we dedicated it to God's Laugh no the at the Cold "Zero Weather" terrors for the hows warm coldest weather You ean Gr ad weomepisis a up the beautiful Bale de Chaleurs, | { miles on horseback, the roads being | HUNGARIANS CELEBRATE NOVENA OF ST. STEPHEN During (he religious ceremony, a casket containing a relic of Hungary's patron sunt {is carried through the streets of Budapest on the shoulders of six members of the higher elergy, as shown in the above | Life Guards. albay, and sometimes recalls, Return Sunday a.m., we i preached in a school house at Mal-| bay. In the fall of my first year we | { finished 'and dedicated a church here | The great w also free from debt, throuzh the gen- | Basin. Mr. Samuel Le Huguet, in E ar q ' | erosity of the late Samuel Alcorn of soldiers and their equipment, anchor- | Toronto. After service and lunch, we {bay to his well-furnished home at rode back to Douglastown (home of | France. The late Joseph Shaw ang | the late James Baird) for 3 p.m. ser- |sicep, his aged mother kindly entertained | Vice, After the erection of Haldimand | ty years ago, and of past thirty years us over night at Gespe Basin, and | church, service was there, Then we | followed. the next day we got to the parsonage | rode to Gaspe Basin for 7 p.m. ser- | supplemented by that of his charm- at Cape Ozo on the north side of the | Vice. Then crossing the N. W. river | ing wife, and Mies Isabell, like the we rode home to Cape Ozo, arriving | {about midnight, all being well, my | | wife usnally still, up to greet me, the journey being some geventy-eight i milgs. Bometimes all did not go well. | One cold damp night in the fall, I | found the tide out, and the scow pn the sand, No shelter near,'I had to walt til] daylight for the tides re- turn. I got home about 8 a.m. Mon- day to greet my wondering wife. Another time crossing in the night, the tide, wind and wave, doing my best, drove the scow, mare and rider some four miles up the river before we gained the north bank, wheres we secured her, and mounting again my faithful mare, surprised my watchful wife at Cape Ozo just befove the 'dawning of the morning,' People Were Kind. "We found the people very appre- clative, hospitable and kind, saw many improvements in church pro- perty, among them six organs plee- ed in different churches and paid for and many souls converted to God and join the church. The weak mission grew to a self-sustaining eiveuit for a young pan on the south coast, pay- ing his full salary, while I for the fourth year remained on the marth coast as superintendent; oar four yecrs' stay was a bright spot un life's pathway, and for thirty years I wish- ed to revisit the place and people, but the spirit euffered me not to go. "My visit to Gaspe was the long- ast and best of my life. On July 4th, 1921, at the C. N. R. station, King- ston, Ont., I purchased a retarn tie- ket (price $48.50) and with only two gripe of luggage, I took the 1.15 p. m, tralp east, changing at Montreal, I went on east all night, passing Lev- is, opposite Quebec city, about mid- night; and on to River du Loup. What a change from the sweltering heat! Already as we speed on 'to Rimouski, we feel the need of warm- er clothing. Arriving at Metapedis at cashmere, silk and cotton hosiery in all popular shades. MERCURY MILLS, LIMITED, HAMILTON - - SK your Haberdasher for them. He carries a full stock of Mercury CANADA Children. { All day and night to 1 a.m. July 6th, and home of our people, and photograph, bec Oriental Railway, aud for 202 eéea shore, enjoying the magnificent viegs of mountain, river and sea, we journey till we arrived at Gaspe his motor boat, brought mé down the Cape Ozo. Refreshments, prayers, stories of thirty-four and thir- His gentle good nature, roses of May, did my poor nerves and heart good. I was again at home am- ong the dear friends of Gaspe. This was only a 'foretaste' of the great kindness and happinéss I experienced in each of the 122 families I vieit- ed, some of them several times, mak- ing 206 visits in the sixty-one days I spent on the coast, The genera) invi- tation was: 'Come at"any time by day or by night, and do as you would at home; the key is always outside for our minister and you are the only one who ever visited us.' Space pre- vents further mention of visits, A few names were: Peter Lenfertey, now eighty-eight and blind; F Le Huquet, Moses Simon, William B. Simon, Abram Simon, William Lang- lois, M. Le Huquet, E, J. Collis, A. Collis, A. Borgaize, E. Handy, N. Guigmon, James Guigmon, E. Rose, J. N. Rose, N. Simon, C. P. Simp] son, R. Simpson, A. Stanley, L. Stan- ley, Ed. Le Tonzel, J. N. Phillips, Mrs. Charles Phillips, M. Miller, P. Davis, L. Roper and M. Le Touzel. My desire to visit every appointment td be a blessing to them wae voalized. I preached ten times and helped In the Sunday school at Rosebridge. Some erected family altars, others stood up in the services for Christ, some, I at first knew not, with families, said: 'You baptized me'; gthers: 'You mar- ried us,' and others You helped me 'to find Christ,' 'Your visit has been a blessing to our home,' ete. I sor rowed over the many departed ones we hope to 'meet on that beautiful shore," ---- Some Changes Noted "With grest pleasure I noted machine and horse. The fishing boat rowed or sailed bas al- river. e; why was it not pat the pulp mill at Gaspe Baain and the Shepherd and Morse Lumber Com- pany give employment and good monument i gif x . § ; B- The men in uniform are officers of the Royal A AA A AAA A AAA A AA AAA As | worship free from debt. Next day in } 10.15 a.m. July 5th, we changed, that great 'peninsula of eastern Que-:8 ScQw crossigg. Donglastown river, {from the Ocean Limited to the Quo- bee lying between the St. Lawrence | We rode on to and La Baie de Chaleurs facing the [to the cornepfof the beach, making | miles more we still go east along the cupies som> three adjoiming houses, and another fine hotel is being eract- ed. Then mail twice-a week, in win- tor often none, through snow and storms, and drgwn on a hand sleigh by a dog, the man going behind, Now it comes daily in a motor car, with passengers, mark you. The small poor churches awd parsonage are gone. Now large fine structures, with seats, orgar;, pulps and pulpit chairs equal to many in city churanes are seen. Then we had to get win- ter supplies before navigation closed or suffer, and if we had to get away for sickness it meant a journey of 200 milés over the snow to Dal- housie, N.B,, the mezrest railway, Now the Quebec Oriental Raklway makes it casy to get supplies, and to po and come at any time or season. Two fine Odd Fellows' halls, one at Peninsula and one at Sandy Beach. Those and other marks of progress I noted with satisfaction. A Summer Resort. "In the summer seasom, Gaspe has its sea, tides and water to bathe in, its gentle sea breezes, 00ol nights to sleep, and comfortably warm days, its fine fish, salmon, mackeral, cod, lobster, trout and other variet'es in abundance, also its moose, caribou, inyitin vors Keep 2 them easily pi everyone. ofteg. colate, 1%c. "Pure_Gold Desserts . 99 "Mother said I could The little ones think "thereiis nothing so good as Pure GaldQuick Puddings. They want them "'betwefn meals' as well as at dinner-time. folks share theirrenthusiasm too. The appearance and delicious fla Pure Gold Quick Puddings are a constant source of delight. N . The grown in the house and serve hey' re so wholesome-- ~ and enjoyed thy Tapioca, custard and cho- a package at all grocers. Pure Gold Mfg. Co., Limited deor, pariridge, duck, suipe anc other game to be got eimost any- where; its grand 'sea and 'mountain scenery; ite boating and romantic drives along ibe coast. To the righ: water, to the the tef: green momn iain side. Ahead at times, you wonder if the road ends here, or if the car nay BO over the clitf 200 feet. On to Ship Head, some 360 feet above 'the ses. You tremble gg you look ower tha cliff, and marvel as you to sight view the shoreless ocean. Mr. Smith; tho genial Yight house keeper, brings you up and shows you all about the light kept Burning lest the mariaer be shipwrecked. Here you have = still grander view of the ocean, and as you leawg he shows and fires the sun. "Along the railway high up oh ihe olilfs are beautiful views, The Port Daniel turmel bored $00 feet under a mountain, the Douglastown steel bridge §00 feet Jong, the deep gorges you pias ower, high up abowe the lofty trees that grow there make you again shudder and think "ef B.C Rocky mountain railways. All tas Terento ~------ and fudh more, with the good hotel accommodation, and the homes open fer tourists, and the g.ea' kiniiness of the people, make Gaspe for the spertsman, traveller, invalid, or the tired city dweller, an aftmirable, Go- sirable amd profitable place to go for the summer menths. Yparly it is growing in popularily. We met per. sons from: Quebec, Montrenl, and as for west as Torento amd Hamilton, all 'enjoying Guspe,' as I cemaindy @id. It will be another bright spot to look back to the mest of life's jomr- ney. "Our journey and return to King- ston was by raflway 1,660 miles, plus 100 for visits, some 1,760 miles. 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