Children for Adoption
[People’s Press, 20 June 1905]
Bedford Cook, an old resident of this section, died at the County Home on Tuesday last at the advanced age of 81 years of hemorrhage of the kidneys. He was committed from Crowland and had been in the Home for five years and four months. The body was claimed by relatives and buried at Port Robinson.
There are three little boys in the Home that are offered for adoption. One is a baby, the others aged six and seven years respectively.
Sixty inmates in the Home yesterday.
[Welland Tribune, 29 September 1905]
St. Catharines, Sept. 26-Eward J. Odlum, B.A., C.E., of this city, one of the best –known civil engineers in Canada, died very suddenly at his home this morning after an illness of about one hour, the supposed cause of death being syncope from acute indigestion. Mr. Odlum was born in Dublin, Ireland, 58 years ago, and came to Canada in 1870. He has been on the engineering staff in the department of railways and canals for the past thirty years, the greater part of which he spent on the Welland Canal at St. Catharines. He was of very quiet disposition and liked by everybody. He was a member of St. Barnabas’ Anglican church and leaves a wife and two daughters.
Mr. Odlum was the local officer in charge of the Welland Canal during the construction of the new aqueduct here and married a daughter of Rev. Mr. Morton, English church clergyman, whilst here. His widow and two daughters, who survive him, will have the sympathy of all who knew him.
[Welland Tribune, 18 August 1905]
The death of Richard McGarr occurred at his home in Merritton Tuesday morning after a continued illness of tuberculosis. Deceased was well-known in this city, having conducted the Arlington’s hotel on Bridge street for over six years, as was popular around this district. Some few months ago he retired and moved to Merritton, owing to ill-health.
[People’s Press, 5 September 1905]
A sad combination of marriage and death occurred last week in the family of Adam Myers, Clifton street. On Wednesday evening Miss Pearl Myers, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Adam Myers, was united in marriage by rev. J.W. Magwood to Mr. John Stewart. The happy pair left for the east for a wedding trip. On Thursday morning at eleven o’clock, Mrs. Myers, mother of the bride, was stricken with paralysis and at noon she passed away. The over-excitement of her daughter’s marriage had put too much a strain on her nervous system with sad results. The newly married couple were summoned home from Rochester by the sad news. Mrs. Myers was 62 years of age and is survived by a husband, one son and two daughters. The funeral was held on Saturday afternoon to Drummond Hill cemetery.
[Welland Tribune, 1 September 1905]
This community was shocked to hear of the very sudden death of Master Harry Teeter, son of Chas. Teeter, which occurred here on Saturday August 26th, after a brief illness of only a few hours, caused by a blood vessel bursting near the brain. Harry was a particularly bright little fellow, 8 years of age. For one so young he was well advanced in his studies at school, a regular attendant at Sunday school and a general favorite among the companions by whom he will be greatly missed.
The funeral took place on Monday afternoon from the residence of his grandfather, Mr. A.W. Teeter, where he resided, and was largely attended. Rev. D.N. Robertson officiated. The bereaved family have the sympathy of the community in their hour of affliction.
[Welland Tribune, 12 May 1905]
Niagara-on-the-Lake, May 19-Mrs. Mary Ball Servos, an old and highly esteemed resident of the Niagara District, passed away this morning at her residence, Palatine Hill, Niagara township, aged 77 years. Mrs. Servos was a daughter of the late Capt. John O. Ball, and granddaughter of the late Capt. Bernard Frey of Butler’s Rangers. She is survived b a grown-up family, two sons and two daughters.
Wonder if the Twentieth will keep up with the Nineteenth
[Welland Tribune, 15 September 1905]
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The nineteenth century received the horse and bequeathed the automobile.
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It received the dirt road and bequeathed the railroad.
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It received the sail boat and bequeathed the ocean liner.
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It received the fireplace and bequeathed the steam and gas range.
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It received the staircase and bequeathed the elevator and escalator.
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It received the hand printing press and bequeathed the Hoe cylinder.
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It received hand-set type and bequeathed the linotype.
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It received the goosequill and bequeathed the typewriter.
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It received the painter’s brush and bequeathed lithography, the camera and color photography.
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It received ordinary light and bequeathed the Roentgen ray.
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It received gun-powder and bequeathed nitro-glycerine.
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It received the flintlock and bequeathed the automatic Maxim.
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It received the tallow dip and bequeathed the arc light.
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It received the beacon light signal and bequeathed the telephone and wireless telepathy.
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It received wood and stone buildings and bequeathed twenty-storey steel structures.
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It received letters sent by a personal messenger and bequeathed a world’s postal union.
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It received the medieval city, a collection of buildings huddled within walls for safety and bequeathed the modern city, lighted, paved, sewered and provided with five-cent transportation.
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It received a world without free public schools and left no civilized country without them.
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It received a world in which men voted only in America, and left them voting in every civilized country.
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It received a world without a voting woman, and left it with some measure of woman suffrage in nearly every civilized country and full suffrage in a large section of the earth’s surface.
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Is the twentieth century going in for breaking after this style? If so, it will have to hustle.
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But, really at times it seems as if the twentieth century would usefully employ itself in just utilizing the discoveries of the nineteenth.
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Steam heat, gas ranges, elevators, bath tubs and other nice things are in the world. Why not make them available for everybody?
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Then there is the land. That has always been in the world. Why not make that available for everybody?
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The nineteenth century discovered the kindergarten.
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The twentieth could usefully make it available for all children.
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It discovered the Roentgen ray, but lots of people can’t afford to pay for just plain, ordinary sunlight in their houses.
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The inventors are a very wonderful class of gentlemen-women, too, now-a-days-but it really seems as if the twentieth century didn’t need them so much as some plain, practical people to utilize what they’d done already.
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And then, again, it sometimes seems as if the little, young twentieth century had all it could do to manage the problems which the nineteenth bequeathed along with its blessings.
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The nineteenth century discovered how to make people live in perpendicular layers instead of beside each other on the ground, as they used to, and bequeathed the problem of congested population.
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It discovered the ocean liner and bequeathed the steerage.
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It took the weaving out of the hands of women and sent her to the factory.
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It discovered how to make things by steam, and bequeathed trusts, unions, strikes, lockouts and child labor.
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It did away with the slave and the serf and bequeathed the proletarian.
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It discovered the automatic Maxim and bequeathed imperialism.
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The nineteenth century yelped gleefully over the attainment of political rights.
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The twentieth century sees wearily that political rights are only a step on the road to economic rights.
Which took place on Mr. Ware’s Birthday, Oct. 7th
(By the Crowland Post)
{Welland Tribune, 13 October 1905}
It was a real surprise last week,
Thorold township’s reeve can tell;
The one that had the thing in hand
Sure did the work right well.
A goodly number came in time
To have a social chat,
They brought their baskets with them
All filled with this and that.
Now Mrs. Rodgers first came in
Says “Mae what’s on the go!”
She rarely comes to visit us
With her “fix up” just so.
But soon the rigs came wheeling in
Drove sleep from Charlie’s eyes,
He says, “I think that they have got
On me a big surprise.”
There’s Tommy S. of Methodist road
Came walking in at nine
With half a dozen others
A trailing in a line.
Well, here comes neighbor Vanderburg,
He drove his carry-all,
Because his family must come down
And some of them are small.
From Crowland too, came Cecil H.,
He brought his maw and paw,
He seemed so very bashful-
But then you know-O pshaw!
The Overholts were there in force,
Came with a double team
And brought me peaches for to eat,
Forgot to bring the cream.
Some of the Misener’s invites got
Or rather word was sent,
So this is how we’ll fix it-
Three generations went.
The two Miss Hagar’s, too, were there;
We hope that none are missed;
With Charley Clark and his two boys
To finish up the list.
[Welland Tribune, 13 October 1905]
Did keep the Secret.-Mrs. C.T. Ware concluded to surprise her husband on his birthday on Saturday evening last, and quietly invited a few friends and neighbors. It proved a complete success, as not even the family had any idea of what was on the “boards” until the guests began to arrive, about 7 p.m. Strange as it may seem there was just one guest for each summer Mr. Ware had witnessed. To be modest, we hardly like to tell his age so we will place the figures his way, cc. To say the company was royally entertained would not be half telling it, as we are all acquainted with the host and hostess. When the hands of the clock began pointing towards upstairs to bed, we all took the hint and left for our respective homes: Fonthill, Allanburg, Crowland, Port Robinson, Niagara Falls and other places.
Two Houses and Cheese Factory Entered-Money, etc., Stolen
[People’s Press, 22 August 1905]
An unusual number of burglaries and thefts have been committed throughout the county lately, and it behooves property owners to be on their guard.
Monday night last week the cheese factory was entered for the second time lately, but on this occasion the thieves failed to make a haul.
The same night Alex Hurst’s house in the same locality was broken into and a watch and razor carried away.
The burglar was heard moving around by the head of the house, who supposed it was a member of the family entering, and called down that he would find a pie in the pantry.
On Tuesday night Mr. H. Egerter’s house near Brookfield Station was entered and a purse containing between $15 and $20 stolen. The burglars secured an entrance by breaking a pane of glass in the parlor, thus enabling them to unfasten the window and raise it. The purse was taken out of the bedroom in which Mr. Egerter was sleeping. Some in the neighborhood have suspected an Italian who recently worked for Mr. Egerter of being the thief, but this Mr. Egerter desires to flatly contradict. He says the Italian was a hard-working, honest man, and the last one he would suspect of the theft.
A few days’ previous two men came to the house, one of whom carried a revolver. Under pretext of wanting to do some mending with a needle they almost forced themselves into the house, and it is now thought possible they were on a prospecting tour, with the burglary in view. Other than this suspicion there is not the slightest clue to the identity of the thieves.
A good dog is about the best protection against night prowlers. They generally find out where dogs are kept and give such places a wide berth.
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