Lake Scugog Historical Society Historic Digital Newspaper Collection

Port Perry Star, 3 Jul 1912, p. 1

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: high "wind was ng Hon the west this 'thé piano and] {#100 in cash He had only $goo in: rane e house and $200 on Maple Leaf Ins. 'him $3000 to replace the house' 'and ' contents and much ipathyagfelt for Mr. Hartod "and osifig their fine home." The hore', proved its "usefulness in J calling help, 4nd probably saved . the fives of Mr. Hottop and family. SCR * Roadwork is the order of the 'day with the fartiers herd at present. It seems a5 though somfic people aref - never sa he very ones that a ere wishing for, dry praying for a shower Rev and Mrs: McKay havé arrived home their trip 16. Ednionton : 1 igre Mr. McKay hud been Assembly of the Presby:| Mrs. Rich Fajrman yisited friends in Toronto recently. ames Leask:is visiting friends} tek. or afew days. A picoie, of Wick, and] Schools in Mr, Had- . his .marnage by a trip _to Edmonton, is visiting friends hin 1 ihe became: superannuated: fr TRAVELOGUE. vd ic B i H 2 pL [Registered in accordance with the Copyright Act] Edmonton, the great 'tiew 'clty of our own' North West, the | capital of. Alberta, is one whose name carries our thoughts over the: ocean to the now bustling, but once quiet and peaceful, Edniontom in Middlesex, some ten miles horth of London. Surely there is no one in Canada' who 'is hot familiar' with Cowper's 'rollicking. ballad, "John Gilpin," in which the worthy linen-draper of Cheapside celebrates the twentieth anniyersary of We ¢an almost see the Preparations:; His wife and children, * sister-in'law and child Jour neyed on abead, "all in 4 ¢haise. and. pair," while John Gilpim sought to mount the horse borrowed from his. friend the /calender- Eventually he succeeded, but the borrowed beast, ignoring its rides's wishes, galloped all up this road, past villages, through Tottenham, and even Edmioriton, to its master's country house at Ware. We have a picture of the cloak flying Gilpin, hanging on to the: animal's neck in an undignified position as the steed passed through i Edmonton, refusing 0 stop, and of his wife and family hailing hing from the inn balcony : ! "Stop, stop, John Gilpin! here's the house, They all atonce did cry; The dinner waits, and we ate tired ' Said Gilpin--' So dm 11" The "Bell * iin has no 'semblance to the old inf long simce demolished, from the balcony of which Mrs! Gilpin. watched hei' spouse gallop past to Ware, then back again to Cheapside; but the sign bears a pictorial representation of the famous rider; to remind ihe visitor of that fateful anniversary, : 7 The electric cars and those splendid motor busses ply for miles through' the myriad country 'roads from all sides of London smd .and they bave not overlooked this one. In: England the people. loye the country, and the amount of time and money ! beautifying the country homes, from the humble cottage "to the stately mansion, is an object lesson to all the world. The road to Edmonton may not be of the imposing width of Jasper but its teeming with traffic and bordered by a number of esque buildings and noble shade trees for which the Mother Land gn i TT 4 ; ey It was in Bay Cottage, Ednionton, a retinng little place at the' 'end of a strip 'of garden; that Charles and Mary Lamb lived "aftes he 34 Was here he disd, and it is in the: "church "ina rose grown grave, that they ie buried, : This ordinary man spent almost his entire life thin the: -

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