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�iATUPiDA�Y, APItIL 13, 1929 '��Yactois to the rise in dairying in this � ,
- the senior minister of e�-c ��ien The��dairybueinesrg+�ew:'t':'�- pj(" 1!-„ alp 11�
I which included Ingersollatthat time, man named Farrington came over 1 U Bost Oxford's Y y 13
EARLY DAYS ARE
ADDRESS S'UBJEG
Col. T. R. Mayberry Gave
Some Very Interesting Rem-
iniscences to Kiwanians'Yes-
terday—Very Large Attend.
ance.
Salford was also- on the circuit then.from New York -state and built. the
GREAT GRAIN MARKET � first: cheese factory at. `Norwich in While the "Fathers of Confeder-
»'Ingersoll boasted a great grain mar-'1864. In 1865 the first co-operative
ket 1n those early days,. Itwas a{factory in :Norwich was erected, and ation" were drafting the constitution
��. common sight to see sewn or. eight, 1867 the big cheese was manufact- of Canada in Quebec City in 1864,
buyers waiting- on the market ht,fired. Col. Mayberry said he was the people of Ingersoll were planing I
or
grain to be brought in and offered.'.probably the Only man present: who the production of the world'$ largest
LThe first one to see a grain -laden rig was at the shipping of that mammoth Cheese. ,
j causing would approach it and climb cheese from the factory south and.. Each of these things was signifi-
up onto the load to sample the grain: east of Ingersoll. He was present as a' cant to Ingersoll, the first in that it
He was, usually accorded, by an:un-;barefoot boy that day, and recalled the established : the trade-,. of an entire
written law, the first privHege. of five beautiful teams of horses which continent, and the second' because is
bidding. .pulled. the cheese into Ingersoll formaiked the beginning of many years
The grain wasoftenstored In the railway shipment, and of. the big par -of commercial prosperity in Ingersoll.
storage, quarters on Victoria street, ade that was formed to accompany it The town henceforth was known as
where it was a common sight to see in. He said that riding Immediately the "cheese town," and has to this day
ined the centre of one of Canada's
A most _Interesting address was
that before the Klwanis Club'!
I{
twenty or thirty teams lined up at
I, once waiting to have their,grain In.
behind the big cheese were Messrs- iema
Harris, - Cha ick, Phalan and Cas- finest dairy districts.
Mammoth Cheese
. given
-; yesterday by Col. T. n Ma berry •i
.
.loaded. -
-
wren; the latter the first export-
'or. of cheese to•England. The cheese:
By the time the
was produced, under the supervision
,,,..Whose remarks were reminiscent' of !
Ingersoll' early days, and as such, re- �
The speaker mentioned also the
- grist mill of$, and told of
was made at what wasthen known as
of James fr-arris, the fenians repelled
Ing-
,marksthatfound a sincerer response 1
the .primitive weighing me -
the Ingersoll Cheese: factory,but
and confederation authorized,
had already passed through its
the part of his hearers: Col. May=
•were is evidence there. A great
which Is now referred to as the Har-.
ersoll
hardest times.
"on
.berry dwelt; upon. many, of the old
with eizty-pound -iron 'weights were
rig factory. It stood just near the
in West and
Major T mas In ersoll made his
scenes, the'old-names, and she old
F
h rt
used to a ba]"nnne sense. Fort a pa
JerfVey farm .Oxford,
- ens a resent Dome of J, C Har-
p
way north from. assachusettes in
conditions, indicating that In his ad-
c :Vanced age his memory as
'bushels there were other Iron Weights,
'but
ris. And of course; just to complete..
1793, two years after the first lieu-
Canada
was good
k as his observations by boyhood days.
widely differing In their weight,
i
It was EreguenUy found that owing
t a picture; Col. Mayberry told of and,
tenant-gove rnor of Upper
had been appointed. He was an Amer-
N
ONLY TWO R MAIN
to the small range of the weights
quoted bits of some of 'James Mainn-'
the bigcheeses d
lean by birth, but the settlement which
'
The. speaker said that at. the pies-
�ent
that the rain could not be weighed
g
tyre's odes to
cheese aetivltiea.
he and other Americans with British
time, there were but two business
:
within five pounds of Its ;proper.
' weight when the part' bushels came
other
. - LIFE Iy BETTER.
-
sentiments established on the upper
breaches what is now the Thames
places which were carried on by rep- ;
resentatives o4 tkeYamltiee which had '
he,f whit
resentcti
'' into. effect.
The speaker said that there had
been a great change to the mode of
of
River was to become one of the most
- co them his boyhood days.
them In is boy
CHAMPION BASEBALL TEAM �.
CHAMPIONBASEBALL
life since he was a boy, and he was
British of all Western .Ontario com
spoke of .or who carried
-twin
Passing Col: 'told of
g Y
not slow to say that. in his opinion the
munities.
married three
on a coal,and wood es In his i.
"
the baseball team from' Ingersoll:.
world was.a better place in which to
Major Ingersoll was
11`-9 ildren.' A son by
early days, and whose sign he could
which .won the championship of Can-
live "today. ` There - was but limited
times and had
In
,•- still remember distinctly:.: That busi-
ads in 1867. lie recalled very clearly:
communication. In those days without
his third wife, Charles ersoll,
Thames se t ant ng-
ness to-dayis carried on by WJIU@Ln
Ross, his He
the team coming back from Wood-
telephone, .the radio, the automobile
p
named the
after the pioneer
son." could remember
stock and of the possession of the
but limited telegraph comunica-
andm
a sollville"sometime
that business for sixty years.
The other place was --well, it was
silver ball which was Indicative of
the He told late
He told of the mounted runners
died in 1812.
Thus, a very prominent name was
close] associated with the finest
y
championship. of the
Josenh Gibcon and other members
r who patrolled the roads. between here
who
and Port Burwell to make sure that
perpetuated. The Ingersoll family had
fy.his boyhood days hadeverknown.
of the team, and of seeing them play
due notice would be given If the Fen -been
in America for many years.
of the
He said the .store where this taffy.
his boy-
ball on a spot which later becamelans
get Burwell
_rnred Ingersoll was collector
tea time of the
was made and asold
the more northerly. section of Welling-
c rse, no
There were, of course, 'no electric
There a
import tax on at .the
' Another Jared
n Thames
hood days, situated on Thames street,
near .where Cairn's store now Is. He
.ton street.
THE
`
-lights or other commodities such as
'lighter
"Boston Tea Part y
Ingersoll was a member: of the ctQ1
we sure there never was such taffy;
VOTING SYSTEM..
make .life and more pleasant
I
ncil which 'framed the -0onstitutiou-
��(( and ha was sure, every boy In In The voting system had seen great today, Then he saw much tha was
a[ .changes since those days. At one,ofdeeper sentimentdnthe Mothers' of the United States. Robert Inger-
madel thought the .came. It was time the entire riding of South OX--,
mesa and sold by the late . It Not, g Allowance Act;antIthe-Old Age Pension loll was=siominated or vice-prceiitent
who also sold. toys and simlIar n--o-f%`nd. ford had only some three thousand Act, the better upkeep of Houses of of the U.S. The familymust have been
The Yiasmegs to -day is carried on by eligible voters because of a regulation (;,'Refuge and so on, all of which indl- ;made of the stuff that heroes are made
his daughter, Miss Frances Noe, on that. stipulated each man must be 'cated to him that the people of today of, because they became as prominent
King street east.. assessed for 'four hundred dollars at -were 'all their brother's keeper to alin Canadian life as, they had been
least bebdre he could vote, and also more or less degree, and. more so than Iin American life. Major Thomas Ing-
` THOMAS BROWN. '- 1,ersoll was an intimate of both Joseph
I a regulation which kept farmers' sons In the days of the past.
In the early days of Ingersoll, ' Col I from : 'voting even after they were I The chair was occupied by Dr. . -B—rant and f'overn_�� S mco Ada°s
Mayberry said that :Thomas__rzz f twenty+bne unless certain financial =
was one of the most public-spirited I status could be shown. Then In later
of: men. He had served his, town and 'years this., was regulated, and since
his county In many wayle, He was 'r that again the women were privileged
Warden of Oxford in 1898.. He served to vote unlit at the present time the
nn- Inger__-___sotl's_council in many"capa= ' riding has about fifteen thousand -vot-
cities, and was chairman out most of, ers. -
the committees formed in Ingersoll In]
.chose Jaya, He Dad also been an ar-,
!dent worker with theAgrlcultural so-
�clety.
FIRST MAYOR WAS OLIVER
i•,. Col.. Mayberry] then stated that he
ecalled when Ingersoll wag a village,
` }nd`. recalled its first Mayor when. It
(vas made a town. That mad was
Z.
am Oliver who conducted a lumber,
'bus n�7 ess on .Victoria street on' the..
property where 2. E obinson now.
conducts his business, Brown was op-',
.Posed by John Gallfocd,a shoe mak--
er;-in the elec io far Ma town of In-
gersoIl's first. Mayor. Galiiford was;
made Mayor by acclamation the next.
year however. `
THE ANGLICAN CHURCH
The speaker said that he well -re-
membered when the present Anglican•
church was built. He had good rea-
son to remember It, • as he .drew the j
first twenty'' thousand bricks, which'
were used In Its construction. These
bricks were made on the Wiseman
farm in West Cxford. - ' -
Col. Mayberry said he also remain=?
bered-the building of the King street.
Methodist church., Thiswas the orig-i
Just'. church as it -stood prior to the
alterations which made it appear the
modern ediflee It is to -day.. He gavel
a. number of very Interesting incidents''
in connection with the opening cere i
-monies of the building under the Ill-,
rection: of_Rev. Mr. Warner' who was
THE DAIRY INDUSTRY.
Thespeaker gave some very inter-
esting facts regarding the early dairy-
ing efforts in this county-. He said
that. about. 1835 there had been to
Hagle's corners a man with a wife and
some children who had as his sole fin
anchil possession, one English shilling.
His name was Hiram Ra He
was found to be ve andy in taking
thestraw away from the old-time
threshing separators of those days,
and he soon found favor with Mr.
Hagle who operated a threshing
Col."Mayberry %Se s[ncere thanks of aeeer9, it
the club for the most Interesting ad- tory. One
dress, and said that he hadalways white chi
had the kindest regard for Col. May-1 Settlem
berry, one of the most whole-sbuled -Place sloe
and kindly characters he had met le
ds of t
since coming to Ingersoll, and Whom was well
he had known almost from the time dustries
he came. - dished an
by Amer!
in Canad,
By pro
�,o7 51 YEARS AGO
Thursday, Feb. 9, 1899
In 1831, James Ingersoll was
master of Ingersoll, and was
fiiling that position when the
lion occurred and the nostoffm
machine In those districts. This `�
ing near the market'tosthe corner of
machine was operated. by horse -power,. !
ing and Thames streets, in the
and was known asthe open -cylinder
spot now' occupied bythe corner
type. It did not get rid of the straw :
rug store. The next postmaster
during the threshing operation. Ran-'.
was Daniel Phalen; and the office
was remove to a corner of King
ney.. was especially adept at keeping
and Waters streets.. When Mr.,
the straw back; and Hagle used him
Phalen gave up - the office, C. E:
throughout the district, insisting to
all the farmers for whom he threshed
Chadwick was appointed and-M-6
that Bonney be paid the sum of $1
liwest.
! o cf > as removed to King street
per day. ,.
As a result of denouncing.the
LATER BOUGHT LAND.
government in a political address,
Mr. Chadwick was dismissed and the
By dint of hard. work and saving
date Joseph Thirkle was appointed
Ranney'.later bought some fifty acres
and filled the ,position for about 25
of land on the site where the Baptist
years. He 'built -the postoffice now
Church now stands at Salford. He
. Ile died in-1882 and Jose istartedd
also with a few cows. In a
was appointed mid has since
few years Ranney, sensing the graz-
rnu
n I+ ailIng
osition: red
qualifications of the country, ow-n-the
over six -hundred acres and had.onehundred;cows.
✓f.
0
Sl.u.:, P+N�St_0
nd.. - '
Il • 4{t
1 tiul - (Zoyof. 0 Qn..tl: un
it of Ingersollville took
f, but after the second de-
all9th century the village
established. The -usual in.
Id businesses were estab-
homesteads were founded
ins who made their homes
following the war of I1812.
smatian'of 1851, Ingersoll
. meantime the
by a splendid
by the
Town-
settled by Irish
and the Nor-
1 group, mostly
of these people
a of the best, and their co-opera--
n in cutting and clearing the land
to a thriving grain industry.
Ingersoll had no sooner become a
lage when Russia declared war on
eat Britain and the already great
nand of grain from Britain was
-reared by the closing of Russian
its through which most of Eng-
id's grain had formerly come.
This great advance in price and the
timism of the farmers was to have
disastrous effect, however, as over-
ipping of the soil has robbed it of
fertility when the war was over
d the demands from the other cow-
ries levelled out. This condition of
e country was one of the principal
uses for the adoption of the dairy-
; system in Ingersoll, which pro-
d to be a source of relief. Scientific
rming - also had its beginning'. at
is time in Oxford County:
At this point the progress of time
with Ingerso]l's advancement
certainly did provide the entire
vincewith a topic for discussi
seems that some imaginative sou
posed an alligator to be swig
about in the vicinity of the v
The word got around, and a pi
age of 10,000 curious people
their way to Ingersoll only to
of the greatest hoax of the era
The. American Civil War h
effect on Ingersoll as well. L
however, a' good one. The vessel
the United States were being 1
by Confederate ships which in
impassible for American - dair;
ducts to get to British market:
was an opportunity for Can:
establish her own products in I
A program in which Ingersoll p
considerably.
Ingersoll was known as the
of Dairying. And the villages
irience in that field resulted
establishement of many busi
By 1865 Ingersoll had become r
F ^aaaaeil, born in Wil
England, in 1830, was the mai
notable in the growth of Oxfor
nty's dairy industry. He is s
have crossed the ocean 55 th
the interests of this trade. Hi',
together with the support and
nistration of Sir OIIY9T M
30 years .premier OT Ontario,
Ingersoll, Oxford County,' al
province in general, Canada's i
dairying_ district -_
v
V,
of
Of
0%raid (i ,bxrs -1974' �r Fta2s
[ri ern ll S..- 1461-G.IZ'•4r'I
Y iris mot_—r.A.a.,f.
�wyLCllCI -'Ty
ore the Edite
Toronto, February 7t
Dear Mr. Editor:
The enclosed item appeare
j recent issue of. "The Band'i
published here in Toronto.- Y
free to make any use of it yo
As an Ingersoll old -boy and
scriber to The Tribune I 1
you might be interested.
r Sincerely Your;
_, ,w 40y3. Kennec
ilr,Js: t s, ,j-,_.,.Toron
"Rearm g` the inscription,
penheim, Mansel 85, Londor
. Flageolet was brought to Ne
City from London in 1815 t
Uren, a native of Penzance
wall, England. History recor
this i letrumeniti'and the own
60 days making the crossing
Atlantic. It was first played
Uren when a young man in
don band. After some years s
j North Carolina he came to
taking up: a homestead in
County, and one of his first i
tances, was James Ingersoll
wards Squire Ingersoll, Regi:
' the County of Oxford fron
4 the present town of Ingersoll
its name. On his farm Mi
3 frequently played this' F
a which could be heard for mil
1 quiet summer evening. About
t in length it is played with
9 It has six brass keys and six
s keys with six ivory ferrules.
it resembles dark cherry. Tb
y ument is approximately 1603
and is now the property of
son, Alfred E. Uren, a Tom