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AFEMERATION’ NEWSLETTER |

Annual Meeting Linked With 25th Anniversary

Janization meeting was |sentatives of the Dairymen's As- held- on March:25, 1941 thus the |sociation, Credit Union’ League, first annual meeting would have

By J. MNCOLN DEWAR |) The org.

ration of Agriculture to be on Jasiyary 1) ‘will be the anniversary meeting

ACROSS THE ISLAND |

been in 1042:

- Trust Of People Campbell s- Goal

By NEIL A. MATHESON Provincial-F arm Ether

THE PEOPLE TRUSTED HIM”.

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_ Tne insertion is on the beodetels i a Premier .

alter Lea, U'ms told, atd'.a ‘probable tities of: this: epee that as his guide, apparently, as he ‘heads

the difficul —at least I think it's difficult—of. success-

pas Sdgeaieg tee Liens "cert in this.

has followed now —s more ‘than five yéars. I did a column once ‘on Sameer. indeed the Premier. and his charming Seacpath Enos ace rehady wal tivsoed ze nee comment on other. political per seals,’ segs ee ee nsalties tes that iy and hig ard for truth are often ealizing i a red are ked” upon- as old-fas letely impossible in

litical life, T -was happy to tind ‘that Alexander Campbell inks otherwise.

+ The .young leader told ‘the Liberal convention here

the province. leader,”’ he said, “must lead the party in way that will inspire the confidence of our people.’

Confidence, Trust of Peop le.

MR. ae he oC ce didn’t think victory could be achieved, or words to that effect, “without the confidence of the people, without the trust of the

This part of our talk was personal but I hope that Alex and Ma lovely_youne wite will forgive ‘ate, i 1 -use just this pert

: ‘i wan while we were dlcusing the reference to that, the young léader told me that on several occasions \

ti bussed. his ever I

concerning some cussed, his wile had “indicated that if should

~task of drafting a~ petition to the legislature, and” ‘hand. writing, revels the skill of the Bb craftsman ne -THERE WAS a matter of five pounds

a pany were British, American and West India Goods”. The terms were “six months’ running account, settled January -1 and July 1, with interest charged on accounts that run longer.”’ Charles Bell was~proprietor of -Bell’s Clothing Store on : Queen Street. Included was a tailor shop and the. charge for “making and lining pants’’ was one pound. The price for a pair of gloves was three shillings ang. six pence. That was dated December 26, 1863. A legal document dated July 26, 1861 comimanded Henry Pope Walsh to appear in police court to answer a charge of assault on Peter Francis. The complaint was ‘knocking the

hat off the man’s head. and throwing it in the river.” ‘Pete

Macgowén was city clerk. Southport Ferry Gorecuinianie

apparently it was. the Southport ferry service, across the Hillsborough River, to which they were referring. One docu-

é pets indicated that “Passengers going to church are ferried

free between the hours of 10 o'clock in the morning and three o'clock in the afternoon on Sunday.’ This was an extract from Bon ferry tender of February 5, 1856.” in, Actin larhp And copper spout for the ferry costa’ shilling, <A “copper steam pipe’’—they were using ¢

: copper for that~ “purpose in those days, apparently—cost two shillings, |

sixpence.

‘Another document commanded the to take into custody Henry Pope Walsh and William C. Bourke. The charge in the legal language on a printed for the purpose was that they ‘‘with force and arms broke the close’ of

sheriff of Queens County

~ one Joshua Thorne at Charlottetown and “‘other wrongs to him

did to the great damage of the said Joshua Thorne.” were several references to ‘‘The eee Ora’? in

There’s nothing’ to indicate the éxact date, bit a newspaper

' Stem, I found refers in critical fashion to the inadequacy of. ser-

vice ‘on the Southport ferry. ‘The terms of the. ‘contract have

On the’ founding date repre-|the Old Agricultural Hall oo Pit. ; new * organization. The

m not deporting from the rele of impartiality this eolumn

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“General iseataea. at

THERE WAS considerable correspondence on ‘'The- Ferry”

‘ oe: dent Canada bas developed: an economic system and tied to it a | welfare state which in most cas- es provides very Well indeed for civil servants employed ~— generally, for business and industry, in addition, it has giv-

be another solution. has

told that his prices must | Tuled by the law of supply’ -a law that was re- |

lomén’s Instituie, Horse Breed- | er’s end Swine Breeder's met launched the

mtoy Street and

president was Capt. John L.

{Reid of Borden and the first sec-

am ‘of expansion which. led to the setting up;.of county Federations, ‘a full

membership by

Board and eventually in the’ minds of many potato growers it was a to separate

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MARITIME FEDERATION On January 14 and 15 in Mone- ton the Manitime Federation of | eae will hold its annaal ‘The ‘Maritime body represents a co-ordination of effort the

| part of the three Maritime Pro- |

vinces. Actually the union -is | much closer between Nova Sco- |

riculture and their, dues are fun- — through” ‘the Moncton of- |

ya our own observation we | would. form the conclusion t bh at there is new activity in the New Brunswick group and that the ‘Nova Scotia Federation always

grading its service to the farm-

ers of. that province.

EASTERN CONFERENCE ‘ Prior to the annual meeting

of the Camadian Federation

Agriculture in’ Toronto during

“ |the last week of Januaty farm

representatives from the East- ern Provinces meet together for a pooling of ideas and a consol- idation of resolutions. Similarly the Western Provinces go: through-a=ike exercise. This | maysound “as. if --the east and west met and organized: ‘to do battle with each other, actually this is not the case. However, the! east has learned from ee @ that it is well to have -

The theme for this year's. an- mual meeting of the Federation is “A Better’ Deal. for honed: 4 | ure’’- end. basically this means a better deal fory farmers and

. in several*respects been almost wholly distegarded,”’ it charged. |their families.

Neglect-in providing good service, it-said, ‘‘must be regard-. ed as a serious loss to both town and country.”

~ Tourist Travel 100 Years Ago

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: There was a charge that the ferry people were using their own discretion on the charges for certain loads. .From what I

“gould find, though, these charges were iris! refuted ‘in

«a Tetter_written_to_the Government.

And. how about this?,-

“Besides our weekly communications with the United: States will naturally bring an increase of travelling.’ Apparently. they

~ were thinking in terms of American visitors even then, and that

was Pie years before construction of the railroad tax notice indicated that'H’ * Walsh was asse

seed ‘the sum pode shillings” on his hou

is ititeresting—G. W. DeBlois was the agent, a The invoice lists 30 tons of Pictou large coal and 30 tons

of Pictou small, The large coal was billed at 12 shillings, six.’

pence per ton. The small coal was six shillings, three pence. The above amount was in Halifax currency, the invoice in- dicates, and an exchange of 20 per cent was added to transfer

«the money into Prince Edward Island currency. The amount at Coe was five

12 shillings and six pence, for a total value of 33 pounds, 18 shillings, '

in ‘ward three, block six,” the, Jocation déscription at that tiie. William Shepherd was” tax collector.

An invoice from the ‘General Mining Association Agency” | parently.

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