Dunrobin WI Tweedsmuir Community History, Volume 2, [1972], p. 10

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_ - ' 1012 1 , il.l‘..t.-..Ls‘...h;; in. my attended warp Continuation School. As they grew. up they began to ‘ 1 drift surrey. caud married Beware. yr:ounghusbtund, tho had: lived across I i the road and went to Ottawa to live. Kellie married dock .iaye of , Dunrobin but they soon went to Ottawa. nernice married Fred. Taylor _ I at “Sinnipeg but they have lived for many years at ccrt Credit. ._ oilfield went fleet and married sellie 7adie. ne lived first in ft g: . Icortage la irairie and later in loosejaw where his wife died leaving‘\ V \ r vit'),,,::,,)";:,),':] three small children. These children, -olly, Pat and Irving, came _l,,,iaiil, / r- A . to Lunrobin to live with their grandparents. myrtle, who had been 'aef""ccrl' ‘l Tai 'Pl (lic': living in Yfinnipeg, came home to help her mother. George and .Stuart t 'r"--'--"-':,-,-,--"]' C w" _ had meanwhile gone West. Stuart became a diamond driller and worked If: =, _ _ _ 74,-1.3 v" I in various mining fields. Beatty always stayed at home and worked -fgitvég 1517;: A“; __rc' the farm or worked for the Suburban Road Commission. He had a mail ..catty .uriel s/Lrrciircg.ts contract from 1930 and drove it during the winter when horses would be used. ,._rnest Travers, who had acquired the nickname of "Joe" from a Joe Murdochwho had dug drains for the Younghusbands and whom he had tagged around after, was le when the First World War broke out. "Lie enlisted with a number of others and spent the next four years in nngland and France. ifihen he returned he settled down to the business of keeping store with his father. .sfuriel, the youngest, became a school teacher and after a couple of terms in local schools, went to Eastview where she taught for over forty years. Ey 1920 there were enough cars around that gasoline tanks were installed at the store. The gasoline was brought in from Stittsville by horses. It was pumped up by hand to the tank above. The Younghus‘oands got their first car, a Dodge touring, in 1921. Emeline, besides bringing up her family and assisting in the store, performed the duties of midwife for many women around Dunrobin. In the early days it was rare for a doctor to be called in such cases but later she worn-ed with the doctor. She was also very active in church and "x’u'omen's Auxiliary work. Che even tenor of events was rudely . L,.s-:,aLc1r; " interrupted on a February night in 1926. Myrtle tells the story.... 'i.",.):::::,:::'-",:)-;-;'-""', "I was wakened between ll and 12 by a loud noise which proved to be q e Fu' tty )2. glass breaking in the window of our beck store. I got up and saw , kit ' lllEilll flames in the store and called the other members of the family. Then I , l. Etigil' I phoned Central and asked her to ring the "tVe-alarm. Soon all the , g it ll Tr 1 gr? neighbours, as well as many people from a distance, were there to “I : ll fife“ help. :uckily it was snowing heavily and this helped put out the u .- - 1 Irlii, fire. in spite of what we thought was a tragedy we had a laugh when my lidnfield :fyrtvl]: 5’” “Olly: our n1e0e, Singing from a perch on the gate, "keep the

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