535-03 Page 17Y "3 gg MIX gy��@g+g� G }pq(`v� she rode through the swam s and _-- --
tr°m *,ec :olds
BROWN
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-out -and'-
@�u�+ �8�a 1HA +V woods on her home's back. Incident-)
4�'�r `j� ally, in her young days Grandma
REfIv y�y K j� p Y YOUNG
iPFtS .��.f$ L 1 l V`j aS of her time with her
of her pocket a long
p race of thread twisted and doubled
until considered of sufficient strength
�acn rai�i;randma goes
gathers the herbs and roots of na-
ture, from which she makes the win-
win
tarmedicine for her
�RA/�TfJ
1� � � � y -N � 1 � �y
spent much
for the trying ordeal. Mr.
own cthe
tion.
1 J 1 O
THOUGH 97 bir. WALKS TO.
horse in this way, and is said to have
been adept in the art riding.
Hill
told her he did not think the thread
She knows every root nd.
i herb —what they are best for and,
f CHURCH AND READS
Indian tribes had not yet disc p-
is y
would make a good
g d job, so he told
how to prepare them. No winter;
finds her without her her
l AND SEWS WITH-
e
pealed before the invasion of the
her that 11 'would get a pair of for-
"--
supply, and
g s
rand old are of over ninety-seven
GQ.`%•
OUT GLASSES
whites when Grandma was out
Y f
She was born at Brantford on Sep-
5.
Oh, have you forceps? Well
years ;s a tribute tabor judgment in
this regard.
ROPERTY ASSESSED VALL
19z0
tember 20th, 1823. Brantford at that
i tdat will be all right."
For forty-four years Mrs. Brown
"7 8 -
Venerable Resident of Folder
time boasted one store and three
houses —surely a contrast to the busy
The job the, had struck fear and
terror into the hearts of big
has been a member of Folder' Bap -
tist �
9 io n
Corners Lived in Brantford
and bustling Brantford the present
strong
men had no fears for Grandma. She
church. Although she lives a
mile and a quarter from the church,)
When Cif Had Only Three
y y
generation knows. At any. rate, purl.
"
took her place by the window and
iI the
. she quite frequently walks to sere-
`- E Value of Val°e '
No of Lot o'S v Total Value Person
Houses.
subject made the acquaintances of
the'
gave order to procee i. The
tooth, a„front lower
ice there and enjoys her walk and the
each Parcel
Clouse, em. o ° `= of Real of Real Proper
Property
the Red Man, and not just on one, was soon
surface either. She studied their before her eyes, between the Paws
sermons to the fullest extent. It
was only on Sunday
Pro art other ih
z°°° p r lucom
Out near Foldens Corners, Grand-
ways and themselves sufficiently t of the forceps, and the old lady emit-
morning last)
that a few drops of rein fell just as
ma Brown makes her home. She is
acquire their tongue until she was
i led nothing but a satisfied "um m."
"There's
Grandma was about to set out on her
known by this name to all the resi-
!
able to converse with some three or
I our tooth, Grandma —do
long walk to church. She decided ''i
k&. iA.u.L v," t�
dents there and many in Ingersoll too. four tribes in their own dialect. As, you
Until one becomes intimate) ac- a lie uist amon Indian tribes she" ���'o—I have had it loan enou h,,"
y g g g g
not to go. Then it cleared up and
she re regretted very
gr ` ry much that she had;
,)�,
f S.`
"g-[e ' y^'O"O'er' / L '�
i
1 uainted with the estimable old lady became very proficient. I, said the aged patient.
q p After cleansing her mouth
interesting
' not gone.
In this the
"(5"fie J bye' '40 ekk C« ww, a
common etiquette dictates that she be Remarkably are soma', with
some water, and in making
known Mrs.. Mary Brown. She estim-, g
way, evening of her life
is being spend It has been
+�+C
2 _ C.,,,. to vJ'O,
i'
as of the characteristics of ..his Prepare-
lions to go to her home, she drew
from
a long)
and life
t+i d.� [%�(���-",•,L
�+-fe#a L'v..l�#
I lives alone out there and goes about able lady even now. Apart a
? I the ways of her daily life with all little deficiency in her hearing she is from .little parcel a pound of nice
active —a life filled with in-1
terest in all that Dame into. it and
nw.o
>!Oew.$d a.`iwrk
g` the interest and care that Des with in the best of health and in full Poll frethish butter. I want you to take
full of interest to all who have known��
koati
d /` a Y7*•�.Pa-•fa awe
k�her long experience and her know- session of all her faculties.. Her her herd do notwishto take her but - told!
fledge of life... is described as being "as 'ter,
and all are holing ing that tlshe may abe
Jel' �� aw stir�n�L�-L•`�
memory as he was lad to rid her the,
Grandma Brown has seen many bright as a dollar" and she has many trcublasome tooth.
Pared for thecentu r' goal which is
'so
9a(y x>w+.c - J•4i
_
I justers at seventy four' m agog, wend friends and visitors nt a Sunday afternoon w with heo go rA just iso - But gee " said the old lady, "it I
ye g was much-
.near at hand.
_ _ '"___ I
�"'•°'� `�0 '7 � �i$d
worth
more than that toShe
ide,s of
saw in eshe knewr own meNo one would pull that tooth )
1 when bush ere as a rand rda She
yy�-
N. marl A -Svc
busied
was therulethetrict
, wood s ago.
y g term me, not even the dentists, who
w- 16 ,u
rather I the ls of Raw the real)ife and saw it
she said they feared I might bleed
WaYrt6 St Oe++t
cry- 6otc-tl• e�-fk�
meandering and tortuous design were beneath the surface.r Apparent)
g gn because age. I have,
have
suffered at de
�Iroughly laid out through the woods, took an active part in all the affairs. suffered a great deal with it, and
arcfwrcy w>,ear fke
read-Ra1e�-fotf.
"t but she knew every turn. Wolves of her times, for she knows full well because of It could hard) bear nr
in of the
da'
�
roamed' through the district those whereof she speaks on any plate in my mouth." She won he,
life the
lta- I fra3
f9l•F •�
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days, and it is altogether likely that incidents or modes. of of point and left the butter, departing
-~�
!'.hey were not the timid minority that olden days: t for her home in a happy frame f
we of today know as wolves, but the Her grand -son, Bert Hill, resides at mind. Mr. Hill quite recalls the
!Beachville Recalls
Earlier
!sneaking, skulking packs that made Folders Corners, and about a mile unpleasant feeling he experienced
i I life more or less game of sharpened from her house.. Mr, hill takes when she told him of the dentist's
I arts beck in thosee times. Yes, bears, great delight in telling of one of her fear of her bleeding to death, but
Days When Stage Travel
no, came under Grandma's notice at characteristic visits to big home somewhat all turned out to be a profession-
Limes, and she must have known full four years ago. Grandma had onl+ al mistake. -
I
Made
well their ways and natures, for she one remammg tooth at that time, Roo] "'- ' " '-
- -;
�w Village
g
Busy D
PIG
apparently is unable to say that she it had been giving her considerable,
.`1
1..I
ever had any trouble with them trouble for some time.
I-
BY M. E. Oropp
Doers, too. were plentiful in those 'I would like von to pull this for',,
drew
In 1832 Beachville became a stop on
the regular stage
d s acid she saw man of there as me.,, she sold to him as she
„ y i
route from Queenston to Chatham, with lake
coach
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and river connections
at either end, At first the at ago followed the Ingersoll -road to
f
4 -�
9 as more concentration of figure skat
6 c T +smming and Shinny Were ing, The old rocker skates were in
general use.,.These were fastened,
jd$� �s lT iTy in most cases to the heel of knee-
"Aah e's7 and � Attracti®fis f" high boots by means r a screw
in the heel and wide straps, while
the toe of the boots also were grip-
6-• By GEORGE JANES
+ S - Staff Writer
The Mention of 141abee's vond
r brings up interesting and pleasant
mer,ories to many residents of
Best Oicford townsgiip and those
tl v- o did not have intimate know-
¢]�ledge of it in earlier years have
(� hAd handed down to them much to
con v,nce them ,of: the important
tl'pu pose it served.
ZIabee's pond, was a large body
of clear, sparkling water, its source
of supply being springs in the
FVolden's Corners gwamp. T h e
e�stream which supplied the pond
was in later years known as the
w "Reynold's Crack."
Tan pond, according to informa-
tion obtained, was created by the
'late S. Mabee on the Mabee farm
i one mile south and less than two
miles vast of Ingresoll.
e The pond supplied power for a
r L mill which served the district.
for many years and was a great
ell convenience to the majority of the
re cents:
Flood waters many years , ggo
swept the dam away and it wa^
never rebuilt, it is, understood
bowever, that part of the old mill
As still on the farm.
YOPOLAR PESORT
In toe cariv days of settlement
there were large tracts of forests)
z the district grid in both sum-1
mer and winter, it has bee; related;
i,y grime of the remaining p]oncc s, {
ha; Ma.! ee s pond was a popula,
r It was customary at that
_r rr and youths` of the!:
to g-ather regulary for a{,ped by the tightening of wide
Pdistrict
dip in the pond at the close of a
,leather straps.
hot summer's day.
Some of these old time skaters
It also has been emphasized triad
became experts through their own
through their experience in the,
diligent efforts. It has been related
Pond many became expert swim-)
that they could cut their initials, a
'Users, despite' the fact that there'
heart, and do the "grapevine" and
was generally a complaint that the
"scissors" on the ice surface and
water was cold.
it was. not uncommon for many of
The breast stroke was the gang-
them to join in a waltz. "
era] style of swimming in those
In this connection it is fiting to
days and even up to the present
mention here that the. late Arden
time names areocasionally men-
Carroll, of Ingersoll, was a mem-
tioned of a number who were noted
ber of the old "school" of skaters.
for their prowess in swimming.
When in his seventies he frequent-
The enthusiasm that was put into
ly 'brought out his old "rockers"
swimming was also characteristic
and amazed spectators at local
of the spirit with which skating
ponds by his figure skating.
was carried on in the winter. One
OXFORD PARK
of the vigorous tasks to make skat.
! In the nineties, it was learned,
ing possible was to clear the pond
Mabee's pond became known as
Of snow but it has been related
"'Oxford Park." Special accommo-
there were always many willing
dation for swimming and boating
workers. •r wot of. X4
was provided and the park became
SHINNY f r*: 04.r
(popular. for holding Sunday school
"Shinny" was a popular game
Picnics and other gatherings.
I In connection withthe pond it
during the winter and many of
has been said that in the early days
the oldtmers have.. related how
it was a paradise for trout fish.
they visited a. neighboring bush any
ing. Many Ingersoll anglers as well
cut suitable hickory "crooks.' A
as others from a distance visited
is frequently the case news--,
"shinny"
the pond regularly and few return -
the crooks were offer
ed disappointed.
wielded with undue vigor to the
discomfiture of an opponent.
It as a matter of tradition that
many of the oldtimers of the dis-
trict were proud of tneir -skating'
ability. In those days there was f
not the same attention to speed as l
at the present time, but there was
yvrw.�+ Vm•o4. LAW
;...lge8• D
p � Cw.rtns 5�••*t e*/
Martins Tavern, then down the: been 'removed and" rebmTtin$
aideroad to Beachville, thus miss-
ing Woodstock, to the immense
chagrin of its citizens, and thence
westward. By 1844 one section of
the plank road had reached
Woodstock, so the route was
changed to include that city.
• k
A Beachville diarist, born in
1848, later wrote:
"For.. a'young boy there were
some very wonderful things hap-
pening. The arrival of the stage
coaches were a never-ending
source of -interest. Spanking
teams of four or sib horses pull-
ing up with much noise and
shouting atthe corner -tavere
i gave all us boys a thrill — whrtt
boy doesn't like smart horses!"
Often six stages a day went
through the village. To the music
of the horn and the flourish of
whip the equippage came jolting
and careening in on its leathern
supports. Inn fires were built up
and hospitality set forth. Horses
were changed every 1,3 miles.
The roads were kept up by toll
paid at gates set every few mile.
along the 'mad. One of these
gate
s s was four
miles
east of
Beachville, and another at the
west end of the village, by the
first quarry road.
k N y
All travel at this period was
by horse-drawn vehicles
. All ex-
port and import was by wagon
train. At one time 30 taverns
gave service between• London
and Brantford.' iumcabe+ %.'6,
- Part of the tavern mentied
by the Beachville diarist is now ,I
the home of Mrs. B. N. Downing. ,
It is listed in Sutherland's Gazet-;I'
teem for 1862 as the &ford]
Hose. It was then twice its
Present size, a large wing having
I
the present home of Mrs. J. Mar-
tin. The hotel originally had a
wide verandah across the front
and along the south side. The
original entrance remains, and
the private entrance to the bar,
though not now used, is around
the corner on the south side.
• • k
The Oxford House was a fine
hotel, with well kept stables. A
son of the proprietor of those
days has told the writer that
their meat storage room was like
a modern butcher shop. Whole
carcasses of beef, pork, mutton,
r sometimes venison, with fowl of
all kinds, hung from the rafters.
Every winter ice was cut and
stored for the summer. T,"A1
Sutherland's Gazetteer �• eta
lists three other hotels in Beach
ville in 1862. The Royal rue_
change still stands just north of
the CNR tracks, with its name
FIER
visible' in far
w-malers upon
FRout&guelye .
n
Proprietor. It is now a duplex
It once had a verandah across
the front, and the private door
to the bar, in this case, was to
one side of the main entrance.
e k
There was also the Railway
Hotel, just south of the Royal
Exchange, across the tracks.
This was a large white frame
building, ,later burned. In its
barns were stabled some of the
horses used on the construction
of the railway road bed, so- it
must have been operating for
some time. The first engine went
through in 53. These barns
were moved abou 1901 to their
present location behind J.
Smith's store. Jame Ram- was
the proprietor. RyMyi-WwW