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[Welland Tribune February 3, 1940]
Bismarck, Feb 3- Mr and Mrs Shantry and daughter Joyce spent Thursday with Mrs Jack Shantry who has been quite ill with pneumonia.
Mr and Mrs Andrew Cohoe and son Billy of Port Colborne spent Monday with the latter’s parents, Mr and Mrs Wm Piper.
There are quite a number of cases of measles in the community.
Mr and Mrs Samuel Putman are attending the funeral today of the latter’s sister Mrs McCay who passed away quite suddenly in Moulton on Tuesday.
Mr and Mrs Charles McPherson spent Wednesday in St Catharines.
Mr and Mrs Percy Holding spent Thursday with friends in Toronto.
[Welland Tribune March 23, 1940]
Boyle, March 23,-Mr and Mrs Ted Barry of Hamilton were recent guests of Mr and Mrs Clifford Gee.
Mr and Mrs Charlie Berry of North Pelham spent Friday with Mr and Mrs Paul Comfort.
Mr and Mrs Chas. Gilmore of Wainfleet, also Mr and Mrs Emery Gee spent Thursday with Mr and Mrs Jack Pearl.
Mr and Mrs Wm. Schwoob of Fenwick called on Mr and Mrs Sidney Heaslip also Mr and Mrs Joseph Schwoob on Saturday.
Mr and Mrs George Comfort of Dunnville called Mr and Mrs Paul Comfort on Tuesday.
[Welland Tribune June 30, 1947]
The Salem United Church band will hold their first meeting of the year at the home of Mr and Mrs M. Beamer with their new leader Mrs George Metler in charge. All members and others interested are asked to attend the meeting on February 5.
Personals
Neighbors and friends attended a shower at the home of Mr and Mrs George Metler recently in honor of Miss Catherine Hippwell and Donald Cook who were married on Saturday. A number of lovely gifts were received. Also on display were a number of beautiful gifts from a shower held for the couple at the Wainfleet township hall on Saturday January 18.
Burton Ware of St Catharines and Arnold Wilford and daughter Karen of Welland were guests of M.A. Ware and Mr and Mrs Clarence Willford on Sunday.
Little Gray Bruce Stokes is able to be out again after his illness last week.
Miss Edna Strawn of Detroit is expected this evening to spend the weekend with her parents, Mr and Mrs C.E. Strawn
[Welland Tribune February 19, 1947]
Salem Feb. 19- The Young people of Salem and Forks Road and Salem United church at Salem on Sunday; Leo Robins took the leading part, James Fan lead in prayer Marie Farr read the scripture lesson and A, Campbell spoke on the week he spent with Boys’ Parliament in London. The Young People were in choir. This Sunday; Sunday school at 11 a.m.; church at noon.
Mr and Mrs Earl Strawn of Welland were supper guests of the former’s parents Mr and Mrs C.F. Strawn Little Barbara Anne Willford attended a birthday party of her cousin Karen Willford in Welland on Friday afternoon.
There was a large attendance at a social evening of Salem United church W.A. held at the home of Mr and Mrs Asa Chambers on Wednesday evening.
Miss Venita and Jacqueline Gent were hostesses to the C.G.I.T. on Thursday. After a delicious supper the meeting was called to order by the president, Venita Gent. Marie Farr read the scripture lesson Joan Hewitt read from the study book. The girls made plans for the mother and daughter banquet to be held in March.
The World Day of Prayer at Salem United church will be on Friday at 2 p.m.
The Salem Baby Band are holding an afternoon tea and children’s fish pond at the home of Mrs George Metler on March 12. All members of the W.A. and W.M.S., as well as ladies of the community are invited.
[Welland Tribune March 20, 1940]
Wellandport, March 20- The Young People’s Society of the United church was entertained at the home of Miss Donna Lampman on Friday evening. Three new members were received into the society. The spacious rooms were then made ready for playing progressive crokinole. There were eight tables in play and prizes for the highest scores were won by Miss Blanche Barwell and Allen Thomas while the consolations were taken by Miss Doris Disher and Patrick Lappin. Delicious refreshments were served by the hostess assisted by Mr. and Mrs George Southwick.
Easter Cantata
An Easter cantata will be given in the Smithville United church on Easter Sunday evening by the joint choirs of Wellandport and Smithville United churches under the leadership of Robert McPherson of Wellandport. The cantata will be repeated in the Wellandport United church on Sunday evening, March 31.
The Mission Circle meeting which was to have been held on Saturday afternoon at the home of Mrs Stanley Cavers was postponed on account of bad roads and will be held on Saturday afternoon March 23.
Personals
Sunday visitors at the home of Mr. and Mrs James A. Ross were Major Janke, Mr and Mrs Rudolph Janke and Mr and Mrs Don Eaton of North Tonawanda N.Y.; Mrs William Barnes of New Brunswick N.J. and Mr and Mrs B. Robins and family of Fenwick.
Mrs A. Hodgkins has returned home after spending the past few weeks with relatives at Beamsville.
Bay Stayzer and family spent Sunday with friends in town.
Mr and Mrs Norman Hodgkins and family visited at the home of Mr and Mrs John Johnson on Sunday.
Harry Glaves of Kitchener spent the weekend at home.
Mr and Mrs Paul Brooks and family attended the funeral of the late Isadore Krivy of Welland who was killed on a level crossing in Crowland township. The funeral was was held in Toronto on Sunday.
Several ladies attended a quilting party on Tuesday afternoon at the home of Mrs. P. S. Carson.
[Welland Tribune December 2, 1943]
Wellandport, Dec. 1- A school for leaders held in the United church at Wellandport under the auspices of the W.M.S. and Niagara Presbyterial was a grand success in every way. Each church in the Fenwick area was well represented and great enthusiasm shown. The vice- president for the district, Mrs Norman Gifford of Wainfleet, presided over the opening and devotional periods.
The meeting as then given over to Miss Wilna Thomas, secretary for younger groups of the Dominion board. For the first hour she conducted a questionnaire on auxiliary work which was followed by a recreation period in the basement. During the last hour she addressed the younger groups. The table of literature was well patronized and Mrs George Bowman, secretary of literature, spoke on the work of her department. The beautiful chrysanthemums which were used for decoration were presented by Miss Ada Coleman in honor of her mother.
[Written by Milton M. Sundy, unknown date]
The 81st anniversary of the Bismark Evangelical Brethren church was observed with a good attendance on October 25,, Rev. J.C Weller in charge the history of the church was written by Charles Swingle at the morning service.
On October 22nd, 1933 we celebrated the 100 anniversary of the Sunday settlement, as many you will remember. The occasion also marked the 50th anniversary of the building of the present Evangelical church.
Following is the history of the Sundy Settlement, read by the Mr. Milton Sundy, at the Sunday night meeting. There were 175 people, past 50 years of those with us who were residents of Bismark 50 years ago :There in Mr. Sundy words.”
Mr Pastor, Ladies and Gentleman I am very glad to be with you here to-night at the large gathering of people to do honor for the one hundreth anniversary of the beginning of the Sundy Settlement.The occasion also marked the Fiftieth anniversary of the building of the church. I am glad of the opportunity to meet so many of the old friends and schoolmates and neighbors of long ago. There are many recollections of olden times that I would like to recall, but time will not permit. We have with us to-night, Pastors of this church of 30 to 50 years ago and I know they have plenty words to say to us. I will therefore keep my talk as short as possible. Mr Sundy said I believe the part that I am to take in the program is to go back into the past 100 years and bring the past 50 years forward the present or up until the building of the church in 1833
I would like to say that anything that I may say to you upon the subject is gleaned from information of things that were told to me by my parents and grandparents and the older people of my neighborhood days but more particularly by my grandfather. He and I were pals I had the benefits of his companionship for 13 years. I was the oldest grandson and lived in the same house with him, and we were constantly together. As we worked side by side and as we drove along the road together, going to and from Beamsville, Smithville and Wellandport, to the store or to the mill he told me many things of his early life here, and of his childhood days. In the old land. By piecing together all these things that I have bee told in my boyhood days I can tell you the following story. In the year 1830 there came to this country from Germany, a man, his wife and children, seven girls and two boys also a brother named Jacob. This man’s name was Christian Sundy. “My great grandfather.” and he was I believe the founder of the Settlement in this vicinity which was afterwards known far and wide as the Sundy Settlement. They landed in somewhere along the Niagara Frontier and by working here and there at short intervals, they in the course of a year. They worked themselves back to the township of Pelham near where now is situated the village of Ridgeville. They remained there two years but not being
satisfied with the light land of Pelham they set out in search of heavier land and in the search came here and settled upon the block of land upon part of which this church now stands and extending north for the next wood 200 acres of dense and very heavy timbered land. I never heard that they ever complained of this land not being heavy enough to suit them.
Mr Sundy said”Now I am not going to claim for my ancestors that they were the only people in a vast and endless wilderness because I do not believe that is a fact. We all know that in the settlement of a new country where there are no railroads or colonization roads, that the settlements almost always follow the lakes and streams and I believe that is what occurred in the settlement of this territory. We all know that long before the war of 1812 the country all around lake Ontario was settled from around old York to Burlington and Stoney Creek an in Niagara and Queenston. Along the river to the Falls, Lundy Lane and Chippawa and so on up the shores of Lake Erie. These settlements followed back to the Chippawa Creek and on to the 20 mile creek and there were people then living in St Ann’’s and Wellandport. (which was then known as The Narrows) because the narrow strip of land between the two creeks. This was a block of unsettled land lying between these two small settlements and was known at the time as the “Big Bush.” The present highway was then a trail or path connecting the two settlements. The eldest of the children was a girl of about 18 years and the boys were aged 16 and 14 when they came for this land. They at once started to hew out for themselves a home in this solid and densely timbered bush. I would like to say just here that I do not think it is all possible for the people of the present day who have never seen the original virgin forest as it stood here 100 years ago this summer when these people first set foot upon it, to realize the enormity of the task they were facing. I do not think it is possible for the people of today, to recognize the toil the hardships the suffering and deprivations these people endured in the building of their home and cutting and logging burning grubbing and clearing of the land . They built their buildings of logs of course a house and a stable. They were located just over here where now stands the old frame home and barns I remember seeing the old log building still there when I was a small boy. After they had cut enough trees to build the buildings they continued to cut and piled and burn as many as they could to clear the land for wheat. In burning they buried over pulled and dragged out what few stumps they could and sowed wheat between the stumps that were left right on the burned soil and made it in a homemade wooden rake . When this crop had ripened, they cut it with a sickle, threshed it with a fail and then threw it up against the wind to separate the wheat from the chaff. When they wanted flour they took this wheat all the way to Niagara to mill. This work of home building and clearing covered a period of 15 to 20 years, and during that time many other people some friendly and some relatives came over from the fatherland and settled here. The children had grown up married and started home building themselves. The girls of the family, all but two married husbands who settled in close by the old homestead, so by that time they had quite a large settlement with better implements an d more comfortable ways of living They had saw mills near by and a flour mill at St John’s or Effingham. It was at this time that the second set of buildings, which wee of frame construction. This farm was divided between the two boys John got the south half and built the old frame house and barns yet standing over here and Christian my grandfather got the north hundred acres he also built frame buildings. The shingles in those days they split out of blocks of pine and tapered them down with a draw knife. In the settlement at this time were tradesmen of all kinds carpenters, masons black smiths, cabinet makers and joiners, coopers, weavers, taylors and shoemakers. The wool as it was taken from the sheep was taken to the carding mill, which was in Pelham township and carded made into strips about 3 feet long and a half inch thick. These were brought home to the farm and the women spun in into yarn. Knitted stockings, mittens or other garments. When they had the family supplied they knitted for sale to the stores and traded them for groceries. What they did not knit they took the weaver and had it woven into cloth and when the boys needed new suits or the girls needed the dresses they did not jump into a car and drive to a big department store and dig up 25 to 50 dollars for a suit. They sent for the taylor or the dressmaker, who came to the house and mother out the large bolts of beautiful cloth which was made in dresses and suits. U believe the people were well and comfortably dressed at least I know they were effieciently dressed in those days. The boots were made in the same way. The hides were taken to small tanners and the leather brought home. The shoemaker also came to the home and made shoes for the whole family. During all this time of strenuous clearing and building these people’s religious duties were never neglected quarterly meetings were very largely attended, by people from Pelham, Campden Worship was held in the homes or in warm weather in groves. There was always some one among them who was capable of taking charge of the services. The quarterly meetings were very largely attended, by people from Pelham, Campden and South Cayuga and was usually held in my ancestors barn. Throughout the years they felt the need of a church very keenly and somewhere about the year 1850 they decided to build one, but were in the same fix in those days.
That we find ourselves today. They had very little money. At that time however they had plenty of timber, they had a carpenter made out a bill of all the material they would require to build the church they so much wanted and each member who would not give money, agreed to supply so many sticks of timber or lumber or sand. My grandfather’s brother John gave the land and grandfather being a good shingle shaver made most of the shingles required in this way they got their first church.During the next 29 years, in the natural course of events the settlement grew and prospered, In this period thev next generation, the children’s children grew up and married and started home building. They then stared the third set of buildings fine large accommodation houses and barns many of them still standing here today.
About 1871 my grandfather built the large brick house part of which my father and mother occupied when they started life together. Mr Sundy said I can now speak of events that happened with in my own memory and my if you could only see his head and shoulders. There was a row of long seats on each side and just one centre aisle about eight feet wide. It might be amusing you people to know that the women all sat in the left hand row of seats and the men in the right hand row. This was not only a custom it was a rule of the church which was very strictly enforced and I can remember upon several occasions that young men who attempted to sit by their best girl were quietly escorted to the other side. About the time there began to spring up much dissatisfaction from the younger people as to the use of the German language exclusively in the church services. They had learned the English at school and talked it much of the time. A large number of English speaking families had moved in and in order to satisfy these young people the pastor spoke both English and German. After a year or so it was changed t o Germany every other Sunday. Then to German once a month then to English every Sunday with about five minutes in German and finally shortly after the new church was built the German was cut out altogether, but it was a struggle that lasted 8 or 10 years. For several years to 1883 the agitation for a new church arose. This grew stronger year by year in face of much opposition but finally early in 1883 a meeting was called and a vote taken which resulted in a majority for a new church A subscription list was started right there and several hundreds of dollars were subscribed. They had the money this time. The plan as drawn the contract let and the church completed that fall. This brings me to the end of fifty years that I was to talk about. I believe other speakers will take the story up from there and bring it up to the present. Just in conclusion I would like to remind you that this fifty years tells of the evolution of a densely timbered wold and and inhabited territory to a well settled well cleared well farmed happy contented and prosperous country side and believe at no time within my memory was this district better farmed and most productive tan right now.
(Unknown Date)
The camp meeting near Canadasville is expected to be much larger than it was last year. There are seats for 2,000, yet we expect them all filled, as it was estimated that there was 1,500 present last year. There are a few more tents, 12×14, yet to be rented at $2.16 a piece.
Passengers and baggage will be hauled from Perry station free on the first day of the meeting. Remember the time, June 3 to 12.
G.T. Clayton
(1897)
There will be an old fashioned camp meeting beginning Sept. 4Th, at Candasville, near Canboro road, southwest of Fenwick. The motto of this meeting will be holiness to the Lord. No Sunday traffic, gate fee or public collections, no boarding tents or refreshment stands allowed on or near the grounds, people coming to this meeting must come prepared with tents, bedding and provisions or depend on the generosity of their friends. Tent lots will be free and there will be some free tenting room for those who can furnish their own bedding and provisions.
D.S. Warner, of Grand Junction, Mich., G.W. Shell of Belfountain, Ohio and other evangelists are to be there.
(1889)
Mrs. D. Coleman is visiting relatives in Philadelphia…. We have had to use the creek for driving on, as the roads have been drifted full of snow… The surprise party season is now at hand and the young people are taking advantage of it…Mr. W Moore contemplates learning the art of telegraphy. May success attend him.
Mr. Wm. Robinson is still very sick and little if any improvement can be seen in him.
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