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-Paul West in New York World
[Welland Telegraph, 31 May 1912]
TEN little SUFFRAGETTES, arrayed in battle line.
One saw a “Bargain Sale,” and then there were but nine.
NINE little SUFFRAGETTES, in a fighting state.
One lost her servant girl, and then there were but eight.
EIGHT little SUFFRAGETTES, by angry fervor driven.
One went to manicure’s, and then there were but seven.
SEVEN little SUFFRAGETTES, armed with stones and bricks.
One had matinee seats, and then there were but six.
SIX little SUFFRAGETTES, determined still to strive.
One’s new gown did not come home, and then there were but five.
FIVE little SUFFRAGETTES, parading as to war.
One’s shoes began to pinch, and then there were but four.
FOUR little SUFFRAGETTES, still craving to be free.
One found a milliner’s, and then there were but three.
THREE little SUFFRAGETTES, resolved to see it through.
One got an auto car, and then there were but two.
TWO little SUFFRAGETTES, their mission yet undone.
One couldn’t hook her waist, and then there were but one.
ONE little SUFFRAGETTE, still answering to the call.
She got married, and then there were none at all!
[Owen Sound Sun Times]
[The Welland Tribune and Telegraph, 26 April 1921]
Every few days one reads with regret, and often with a sense of personal loss, of those who came in the early years to the town, or to some of the townships round about, and contributed through their lives to the making of the town a city, and the townships among the finest in the county or Province.
Of them, there appears often but a brief biographical note, giving little beyond a bare outline of a life bravely and worthily lived. It seems a pity that there should not be made and preserved in every municipality, at least a worthy sketch of such lives, in recognition of the contribution they made in their day to the general welfare of the community. Such a record would in the course of time furnish materials for historical sketches. They would be an incentive to the next generation to do as well or better than the previous one. They would develop civic consciousness and civic pride. They would help set a standard that no one would care to fall short of, and many would try to surpass. The rising generation would emulate the virtues and achievements of those who went before and blazed the way, and made it easier for those who came after to go further and do better, even, than they had been able to do.
When one thinks of the handicaps of the earlier days and how bravely and cheerfully the first and even the earlier settlers faced their tasks, and how heroically they stayed with it, one feels ashamed to grouch and whine when one has to deny one’s self this or that, and even sometimes to be content with a horse when one’s father or grandfather was thankful for-sometimes indeed proud of-a good yoke of oxen. There were compensations even in the earlier years. There were fewer diversions and distractions. More time was spent socially. Fewer books were read, but they were more carefully read. There were fewer religious services, but they were on the whole more highly prized. Clothing was plainer and coarser, but it wore longer, and one didn’t feel quite so embarrassed if he wasn’t able to buy a new suit or hat every year. It seems a pity, a shame that the stories of pioneer life should not be written, before all the pioneers have passed, with all the wealth of literary material they have stored in their memories of the past. Local papers, perhaps without exception, would be glad to publish any such sketches if brief, graphic and artistically true-real pen-pictures of real life.
Subject of Rev. McBain’s Next Sermon-Last Sunday’s Sermon Was to Young Men
[People’s Press, 14 December 1909]
The subject of Rev. J.H. McBain’s sermon to be delivered in the Methodist church next Sunday will be, “Why men do not attend church.” Rev. Mr. McBain announced the subject in church last Sunday. “There seems to be an impression abroad,” said the reverend gentleman, “that a good many men do not attend church.” Mr. McBain asked the congregation to assist him in preparing the sermon. “You probably have heard of reasons given why men do not attend church,” he said, “and I would like you to send them to me during the week, either through the mail or tell them to me, and I shall be greatly obliged. I will treat the communications confidentially.”
Rev. Mr. McBain preached to young men last Sunday evening. The subject of his sermon was, “The Secret of a Successful Life,” illustrated by the life of David.
The minister said that knowledge was a great advantage. It was a crime for a young man to grow up in these times without knowledge, and if this were neglected it would be a source of regret in the days to come.
Hard labor was another essential. “If we are to become a success we must be willing to pay the price, and one essential condition of success is hard labor. There is genius, but genius alone would not give true success. Edison, for example, attained success by close application of study. He had gone without rest for 30 and 40 hours, and they do say, he even forgot his wedding day, and when the time came for him to be married he had to be hunted up and was found in his laboratory.”
Dissipation and luxurious living were other points Mr. McBain touched upon. “These are very prevalent at the present time and growing much more prevalent,” he said. “There are thousands of our young people jeopardizing their lives by that very thing. Late hours, midnight carnivals, luxury of the dance hall, wine suppers, card tables. All these things waste the energies of our young people and unfit them for life, upon which they have started out with very fair prospects of reaching the highest pinnacle of success. Their lives have been wrecked by intemperance and impurity.” The speaker referred to Antony, whose downfall was caused by sensuality and corruptness, and to others. He recalled the reference made to a number of business men reported in Dunn’s. They were set down as being prosperous, clever and prompt, with the additional information that they all drank. In a few years they all failed. He said a young man will never be selected for a position because his fingers are stained with tobacco or his breath smells of liquor. If Daniel were alive today he would not enter a bar-room or let the contents of a bar-room enter him. Nor would he smoke.
Moral back home was also necessary. The power to say no at the right time was a very good thing.
Mr. McBain concluded by stating that such splendid nobility of character as is manifested in David is not possible without faith in God.
Terrible Accident Near Marshville
Runaway Clashed With Railway Train
[People’s Press, 14 December 1909]
A terrible accident occurred near Marshville on Monday morning.
George Dayboll and his four children were hurled against the side of fast moving west bound mail train.
One of the children is dead., and another was yet unconscious on Monday evening, with no hope of recovery.
The accident happened in this way: The children were being driven by their father to the Elephant school near Burnaby. They were in a democrat wagon and, as it was raining, an umbrella was raised in the rig. It is said the approaching train was heard and in shifting the umbrella the horse became frightened. At any rate the animal was unmanageable.
The horse, rig and those it contained all crashed into the train.
The horse was killed, the rig demolished and the occupants thrown into the ditch, probably a distance of twenty feet.
One of the boys is dead, Joe, aged seven years. His skull was fractured and he lived but four hours, never regaining consciousness.
Alonzo, aged eleven, received a concussion of the brain. He is also unconscious and it could not be told until this morning whether he would live or not. Clifford, aged nine years, received a scalp wound requiring a couple of stitches. Herbert, aged five years, was not hurt at all. Mr. Dayboll was badly shaken. There were no other injuries.
Medical aide was administered as quickly as possible by Dr. Park.
Mr. Dayboll lives with his wife and family about two miles from Marshville. They have other children beside the ones in the rig. The school to which he was taking his children is about a mile and a quarter south of his home and the Buffalo and Goderich branch of the Grand Trunk railway lies between. This crossing is about a mile east of Wainfleet station. Mrs. Factley’s residence is right near where the accident occurred.
Died: 13 December 1909
27 September 1901-13 December 1909 (8 years old)
His Adventures Formed Basis for many Hair-Raising Plots
[People’s Press, 10 February 1920]
Los Angeles, Cal., Feb. 9-Richard Bullock, said to have been the original “Deadwood Dick,” died Saturday night in a hospital at Glendale, after a year’s illness. He was 75 years old.
It was Mr. Bullock’s genuine adventures in the ‘70s, it is said, that formed the basis for many hair-raising plots for dime novels. He was the driver of the famous Deadwood Coach which bore shipments of gold from the Colt Homestake and other South Dakota mines to Omaha, Nebraska, and achieved such a reputation for bravery and for sureness of aim with six-shooter and rifle that the outlaws permitted the coach to pass when “Deadwood Dick” was driving.
Died: 7 February 1920
[People’s Press, 10 February 1920]
The practice of “listening in” on rural lines does more, perhaps, than any other to lessen the usefulness of the telephone to the farmer and his household.
Upholding the action of the Sandwich West Telephone Company in removing telephone equipment from the home of Albemy Meloche because, it claimed, members of the family had “listened in” on party lines. Justice of the Peace, Joseph White, at Sandwich, Thursday, January 22nd, dismissed the suit brought by Meloche against the company.
Testimony of 27 witnesses was heard before a decision was reached. Some of the witnesses told the court the Meloche family had interrupted calls on party lines, during which strong language was used.
The court held that Meloche had violated the Company’s rules in allowing his family to intrude on busy lines.
[Citation appears to be: Bru Can Sim. August 1, 1888]
Wednesday morning during the storm eight men took refuge in the G.T.R. bridge shanty at the Air Line Junction near Welland, when without a moment’s warning a terrible crack was heard outside as of some explosion; instantly a flash of light flew past the window; and in another moment the sand and gravel began falling on the roof of the shanty.
The terrified men were breathless. When they revived a little they found that an electric thunder bolt had struck within twelve feet of the door, ploughed the ground about 3 feet long, 18 inches deep and 2 feet wide, and melting a dent in the steel rail about the size of a silver dollar. Those who saw it coming say it came from the southwest in the form of a chain and when it struck it burst and smoke and fire flew in all directions.
[Simcoe Reformer, August 4, 1932]
Leo W. Sullivan, aged 35 years of Welland, well known to many in Jarvis and district, was almost instantly killed early in the evening of Jul 25th, when the gasoline jigger on which he was riding was struck by an automobile at the Wabash crossing near Chambers Corners, six miles from Welland. Mr Sullivan, who had been for some years past the signal maintenance man on the C.N. and Wabash lines in this territory, was traveling eastward toward Welland on the jigger, while the car which struck him was carrying a number of girls from Welland to Dunnville where they were to play a softball game. It is stated that neither the driver of the car nor any of the passengers could see or hear the approach of the jigger, nor could Mr Sullivan see the car approaching until both met at the crossing. Mr Sullivan was thrown from the machine and fatally injured. The deceased had been in Jarvis a great many times on duty in past years.
Charles A. Cole, of the Wabash killed at Welland
[Simcoe Reformer, November 17, 1905]
Mr. Charles A. Cole of St. Thomas Conductor of the Wabash railway was instantly killed at Welland Monday night at 7 o’clock.
Mr. Cole was in charge of a west bound freight. Engineer J. King, fireman McGow, The train was approaching the ‘D’ rail at Welland when the engine left the rails and toppled over in the ditch. Conductor Cole was riding on the engine and when it was derailed, he jumped, but to the wrong side and the engine toppled over on him. The engineer and fireman jumped from the other side of the engine and escaped injury.
The steam derrick and auxiliary crew from Niagara Falls cleared up the wreck. Traffic was delayed for some hours.
The body of the unfortunate Conductor was taken to Welland and was brought west on No. 13 Wabash Express on Tuesday.
It is alleged that the accident was caused by the signal being given the train to go on, and that the signal was changed to hold them there, thus opening the ‘D’ switch and derailing the engine.
Conductor Cole was a general favorite with all his fellow employees and held in the highest regard. The statement of an official of the Wabash was that he was one of the best men on the road. The deceased was between 35 and 40 years of age and came from Buffalo where he was employed on the Erie Railway, four or five years ago. He leaves a wife and children, the youngest four days old.
[Citation appears to be Bru Can Sim, September 3, 1884]
Brakeman Pearl, of the Loop Line Railway, met with a painful accident on Wednesday evening. He was coupling cars at Welland when he got caught between the bumpers and his shoulder was terribly crushed.
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