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Powerful Bear TISSUE -* Killed HisOwner| cpiey 39°
By NEIL A. MATHESON Provincial-Farm Editor : } THIS STORY goes back 92 years and it was told to me |
by Cairns MacCallum of Brackley Beach, as it was told to ; 3
him by his mother. Morses
~-“4My mother was the ddughter of John MacCallum and 6. o. C his wife, Mary Cairns. She would be 98 were she alive today. ‘
She was born in the old stone house, as it is called, that | btl.
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was built from Island sandstone 140 years ago." “As a little girl of six, my mother was surprised one
evening to see a man coming up the lane leading a large
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keeper to let the creature dance’', Cairns’ mother told him. bags “The man played a mouth organ as the bear sort of kept time to the music,‘then as the dance ended, the keeper aced
for something to feed the bear. | ' si aa ‘ YOU Taal 3
Mr. MacCallum—this would be Cairn's grandfather, “went
to the pork barrel ‘and produced a piece of the meat, and t °
keeper and his dancing bear departed,’’ the stery said. Carnation Inst. 1 Gq Man Found Crushed To Death | MILK
NEXT MORNING as John MacCallum was on his way to his mill, he was walking along the Mill Road, he was horrified to find the keeper of the bear lying lifeless on the ground. He was scarcely marked, John MacCallum related later, but ‘he was quite dead.”
On examination by a doctor it. was found that the man’s ribs had been crushed by the powerful animal.
A part-of the chain that had been used to lead the big bear was found tied to a tree, the other part went with
the bear, as the powerful brute broke it before killing his keeper
The bear was found on ‘the McLure farm" ‘saee later as Gregor's—many people know it today as Gregor’s Hotel is on the property.
When a number of people came upon the bear the animal became fierce, and had to be killed. Charles Gregor fired the shot, and he was the grandfather of Charles. Gregor. who lives now at-Cornwall, Cairns MacCallum tells me
The keeper's body was taken to Gregor’s eae ‘and every 1 effort was made to learn the identity, or where the man had - | come from: But all were unsuccessful. So the man was laid to rest in the litéle-cemetery at Brackley Beach.
Young Lad Delivered Twins
A NEWS story a few days ago told of two cemen in’ a Detroit suburb delivering a baby in the middle of the street—it was during a snow storm and they couldn't get transporation to the young mother quickly enough to get _-her_to hospital. The story. reminded me of a told to
“me _by my. friend" Daniel McLean when I visited him at DeGros Marsh last summer.
; Father Francis MacDonald who was-born at.East Point was parish priest at St. Georges for some years. Gregory McLean—he was Dan’s uncle, was a youngster of 17 years. Father MacDonald had a medical book and the reverend clergyman often helped-at a sick bed when a doctor was not available. oe
Gregory stayed for a time with the priest at St. Georges and the Reverend Father saw that the youngster often was studying the medical book very seriously.
When a call came to the priest to help at a confinement case, in Georgetown, he sent the young lad instead. The .youngster was understandably reluctant to do so. But finally he heeded the priest's urgent request, and he helped to deliver’ a. set of twins.
Gregory McLean died at the age of 97 years, and that was about 20 years ago, Dan told me. But never again did he preside at a birthing, as some of the older folks called it.
Onec in a lifetime was enough for him, even in such an unusually long lifetime.
- Ghosts Reported In Stanchel Woods
MY FRIEND Charles MacDonald who lives now in Lower Montague should ‘enjoy this story, for it happened just. across the road, almost, fron—the“farmi 2m which be wes bors in Stanchel. : :
It was John Willie MacKenzie, as I used to know him as a boy, who told me the yarn. For Mr. MacDonald's benefit, | this..man—is.a—son ofthe. Malcolm MacKenzie who was-a_ trustee, along with my father, John A. Matheson, when Mr. MacDonald taught once in- Rose Valley. He lives_on_the old Rose Valley homestead on the road going to Breadalbane.
There had been stories told during the summer of the most unnatural sounds being heard fairly deep in the woods that are just East of Stanchel church. As the ‘summer pro- gressed the ly association grew by leaps and bounds.
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young lads, perhaps in. the middle teens, were eat: home --~~eone night from a religious service which was held either in - 6prington, or Hartsville. Any way they would have to pats the haunted woods on their way to Rose Valley.
With the young lads on this occasion, though, was a mature man, Donald Bethune, who lived, 1 believe, where Murdock MacKinnon lies now.
Mr. Bethune was a fearless, no-nonsense » type of man. When he and the lads came close to the wood, the young- sters started to talk about the ghostly noises. As they came wpposite the ‘wood, they said ‘There it is, listen’’ and sure enough there were some of the most unusual noises coming trom the wooded area.
Sharp Shrieks - Awful Roars
THERE WERE sharp pitched shrieks or squeals, there were deep throated roars as though they came from the fiery mouth of.a ‘dragon. Understand the imagination and
terror which struck the youngsters’ hearts added to the
x of the awful sounds they heard coming from the wood.
. . Bethune wanted to get to the source of the sounds. He liste closely at the edge of the woods, then said ‘I’m going in there, to see what this is all about.’’
The young lads—one was Malcolm MacKenzié, his son told me—were really scared. They didn’t know whether it would take more courage to go into the woods with this fearless man’ who must have. inspired a measure of confid-
ence in them, or to wait outside on the road.
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