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Pelham News
[Welland Tribune and Telegraph, 3 March 1921]
Born, on Tuesday, Feb. 22nd, to Mr. and Mrs. R.I. Lampman, a daughter.
Died: on Thursday, Feb. 24th, the infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R.I. Lampman, aged 2 days. Funeral on Friday 24th, at 10 a.m. at the house. Burial at North Pelham cemetery.
[The Welland Tribune and Telegraph, 10 June 1921]
A marriage of great interest to many of our readers took place Wednesday afternoon, ( 8 June 1921) at 4 o’clock, when Miss Beatrice May Whalley, eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. P. Whalley, 91 Young Street, became the bride of Gerald William Festing, son of Mr. and Mrs. John T. Festing, St. Catharines. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. L.B. Broughall, rector of St. George’s Church, St. Catharines. The bride was given away by her father, P.R. Whalley. She looked exquisite, dressed in white duchess satin, trimmed with sequin and pearl. A wreath of orange blossoms and pearls adorned her head. Her long tsain was carried by Master Jackie Glennie. The bouquet carried by the bride was a large cluster of white bridal roses, mingled with green ferns. Streamers of satin ribbons with little sweetheart rosebuds, looked very pretty. The whole bouquet was tied with white tulle. The bridesmaid, Miss Winnie Festing, sister of the groom, looked charming in a dress of honeydew organdie. A large picture hat completed the costume. The little flower girl was Marion Whalley, a sister of the bride. She looked very dainty and cute in a pretty white dress. The best man was Reginald Whalley, brother of the bride.
The residence was very prettily decorated with white flowers. Especially notable was the arch over the fire place. The arch made of snow balls, ran from the floor to the ceiling banked behind with the same beautiful flowers. A huge bell containing rose petals hung over all this beautiful arcade. When the final words were said the bell was opened and the couple were showered with sweet smelling rose petals. During the signing of the register, Mrs. J. Smallback sang “Because” in a very pleasing manner.
After a very dainty buffet luncheon served to the many guests, the happy couple left for a three weeks’ trip to Detroit, Cleveland and other points. Mr. and Mrs. Festing, will, on their return spend the summer in a cottage at Port Dalhousie and afterwards will reside on Welland Ave., St. Catharines.
Many beautiful and valuable gifts were received.
The artistic array of decorations were done by Walter A. Dixon, who also took a number of photographs of the bride, the bridal party and a group of the entire wedding guests.
[The Welland Tribune and Telegraph, 28 January 1921]
St. Augustine Post Office, Florida
Elmer Misener, who went south a couple of weeks ago, to escape the blizzards and chilling winds of the Welland Canal zone, returned on Friday last, and reports a pleasant sojourn in the land of continuous sunshine and occasional earthquake to change the monotony of the sluggish days. He spent a week at the beautiful summer resort, St. Augustine, Florida. While there he had the pleasure of meeting H.W. Hobson, of Niagara Falls, Ont., and Capt. Gordon, formerly of Fenwick, who now has an orange grove at that place. The thermometer registered 85 in the shade on his arrival-but registered a little higher before his departure owing to the much “hot air” that had been dispensed during his sojourn, and which was a great surprise to the natives as they thought the visitor came from a land of ice and snow, and where no hot vapors existed. He reports the orange crop in a high state of cultivation, and that he had a plentiful supply of the delicious fruit picked freshly from the trees. He was shown the alligator and crocodile farm which maintained thousands of these reptiles of all sizes and which is a great commercial industry in the state-the alligator and crocodile hide being used for the manufacture of many articles. He saw many of these reptiles about 14 feet long. Mr. Misener says it is all right in the sunny south, for a short stay, but for him the land of the “Maple Leaf.”
[The Welland Tribune and Telegraph, 21 April 1921]
Word has been received in Welland of the death in Astabula, Ohio, on Monday of Judge A.P. Laughlin, formerly well known in Welland. Judge Laughlin was a Wellander a decade ago when the Laughlin Reality Company began operations here. He was 52 years of age and is survived by a wife but no children.
[The Welland Tribune and Telegraph, 26 April 1921]
The funeral of the late Maude Evelyn Hagar, daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Franklin M. Hagar took place on Wednesday last from the home of Mrs. Mary Hagar, West Main Street. Services were conducted by Rev. J.H. Wells and burial was at Woodlawn. The pallbearers were J.H. Crow, O.H. Garner, J.E. Cutler, H.W. Macoomb, J.W. Teskey and J.W. Hagar.
[The Welland Tribune and Telegraph, 4 January 1921]
W.J. Reynolds, foreman in the news room of the Brockville Recorder and Times, yesterday celebrated the 47th anniversary of joining the staff. He has since been continuously with the same newspaper; a record which is believed to be unsurpassed by any other printer in the province Exchange.
We congratulate Mr. Reynolds on his years of service and the distinction it has gained him, but it is only fair to state that we have a printer in our own office, a man still on the case, and still simply “h ll” on “pikey” who was a full-fledged journeyman when Mr. Reynolds was in petticoats.
George Wells, of the Tribune and Telegraph, composing room, began his career with the Welland Tribune fifty-two years ago. Some say he was setting type at the time of the MacKenzie Rebellion, but that is only a tradition, and has no foundation in historical fact.
Mr. Wells has seen transition in the printing business, the Washington transplanted by the Duplex, the hand type replaced by the Monotype and Linotype, but all these changes have made no inroad on the value of his art as a compositor and the demand for the product of his stick.
[The Welland Tribune and Telegraph, 11 January 1921]
Many friends will regret to learn that Mrs. B.J. McCormick has been bereaved in the death of her mother, Mrs. Martha Beamer, who passed away at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Burt D. Cady in Port Huron, on Wednesday evening after a short illness.
Mrs. Beamer was 79 years of age and had been comparatively well until New Year’s Day when she was taken with an attack of heart failure and had been partially unconscious until her death.
She was born in Almont and later, after her marriage to the late Robert Beamer, made her home in Lapeer. Ten years ago she went to Port Huron to live with her daughter, and had many warm friends in that city. Three daughters survive, Mrs. Cady, Mrs. Kirk Clark of Dayton, O., and Mrs. McCormick, all of them being called to the city by their mother’s illness. A son, Clarence Beamer lives in Detroit.
Funeral services were held from Mr. Cady’s residence Saturday morning at 10.30 o’clock and burial took place at Lapeer on Saturday afternoon.
Died: 5 January 1921
Mount Hope Cemetery, Lapeer. Michigan
6 February 1842-5 January 1921
Heart Failure
Father: James M Gutches
Mother: Mary Gutches
By Thomas Conlon, St. Catharines
A Partial Account
[The Welland Tribune and Telegraph, 17 March 1921]
About 1842, Montreal, then in its infancy as a schooners, began dredging their harbor and ship channel to deep water about 100 miles below, but the job was too heavy for the city and the government took over the work and they are still dredging that ship channel that is now 400 feet wide and 30 feet deep, and improved with numerous light houses, buoys and other aids to navigation, and it is now considered safe for ocean ships and with miles of docks and the best of facilities for handling cargoes. Montreal is now considered one of the leading shipping ports on this continent, and now sending out ships carrying twelve to fifteen thousand tons.
The five lower canals were, at first only 9 feet deep but enlarged to same size as the present Welland and now the whole system of the six canals, with locks 262 feet long, 45 feet wide, and 14 feet deep and permits a vessel carrying 2500 tons and all finally completed in 1881.
The first Welland Canal was begun in 1825 and completed in 1829 and lasted until 1849. The capacity was a vessel carrying seventy tons. Its enlargement opened in 1850, permitted a vessel car carrying six hundred tons and that canal was further enlarged and completed in 1881 for a vessel carrying twenty-five hundred tons, and now our government has expended 20 million to the new Deep Waterway Canal for a ship carrying form 12 to 15 thousand tons, being the fourth Welland in my seventy years, starting at 70 tons and ending with fourteen thousand tons, when the fourth is completed.
Erie Canal
Erie Canal was opened in 1825 for a vessel carrying 40 tons, but enlarged for a boat carrying 240 tons and now they are opening their barge canal with capacity of about the same as our present Welland Canal (2500 tons). The Erie is owned by New York State and has paid for itself long ago, and will always be a strong competitor with our St. Lawrence Route, especially as they are so selfish that they won’t allow a Canadian boat to navigate it outside of the Buffalo Harbor limits, although they have enjoyed the free use of our Canadian Canals.
[The Welland Tribune and Telegraph, 23 June 1921]
The funeral of the late Robert (Scotty) Anderson, was held from the residence of his brother-in-law, Reginald Rothwell, 33 Ryerson Avenue, Sunday afternoon at two-thirty. There was a large attendance of friends and the floral tributes were many and beautiful. The Shredded Wheat Pipe and Brass bands were present and acted as a guard of honor beside the hearse. The deceased was a member of the pipe band. Rev. James Barber officiated. Interment was in Fairview cemetery.
[The Welland Tribune and Telegraph, 23 June 1921]
Robert (Scotty) Anderson, Heywood Avenue, was instantly killed Friday morning at the Montrose sub-station on the hydro canal. He was very badly burned. He was at work on a big switch and had opened it when he received 12,000 volts through his body, killing him instantly. It was some time until his body could be removed from the wires. The deceased who was twenty-nine years of age was married. His wife, formerly Miss Dorothy Rothwell, is in Simcoe and Mr. Anderson was to have gone for her to bring her back home Saturday. Mr. Anderson was well-known around the city. He was employed at the Ontario Power House but was sent to the Montrose station which was a rush job. He played in the Shredded Wheat pipe band.