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1 Weekend Edition, Saturday, January 1, 2000 â€" Page 3 / memmmmememmmmmmmmmmuummmmmmummmmmmmmm mm memmmmmmmmmmmmmmnmommmmmmummmemmmmmmmmmmomunummumze omcs â€"â€"â€" _ > MIELENNIUM. â€"â€"â€"~â€"â€"â€"â€"oâ€"â€"â€"â€",..,â€" William Gibson made an impact on the community The following people ] C _ the skins of the fruit. Even politicians, including Prime _ Queen Mary. have all made a significant M ~a s today, some of the very first _ Minister Sir Wilfrid Laurier. Sen. Gibson brought the impact on the communities h h | CN â€"graders and deâ€"fuzzers are As the largest employer in _ first chartered bank to that make up Lincoln. Space + o :+ Still in use, and Bartlett . the area, the quarry and its â€" Beamsville, and was either limits us to only featuring a F F T olX C « | _ graders are an industry stanâ€" â€" owner had a huge economic _ president or a director of handful of people, so the ° E .\ ufs «Wl _ dard. impact on Beamsville. To _ dozens of corporations and Weekend Edition apoloâ€" s e\ ;s Mr. Bartlett died in 1970, _ ensure a supply of water for _ organizations. He gave genâ€" gizes in advance if you feel F 3 F @ % but the firm is still known _ fire protection in the town, erously to Knox someone else. should have § e NSE %}* for agricultural innovation. he gave a lot of his own Presbyterian Church, and graced these pages. If you F \ f ?f(« Today, two more generaâ€" money to bring running _ was a 33rd degree Mason have ideas for a future issue, ; | N B# WO | _ tions of Bartletts are mainâ€" water to Beamsville. who in 1903 was elected please call us. 1 2 «i9 m | _ taining the reputation estabâ€" He _ was elected _ to Supreme Grand _ Master NORMAN BARTLETT . K264 * l lished so long ago. Parliament in 1891. and _ Sovereign, Grand Priory of It used to be that peaches s \ / <1d SENATOR WILLIAM 1896 as a Liberal candidate. _ Canada. were purchased as they pase â€"< P \ k GIBSON After losing the 1902 elecâ€" Senator Gibson died at came off the tree, with all pGs : ® The Gibson family had _ tion, he was appointed to the _ Inverugie on May 4, 1914. their fuzz intact. But nowaâ€" P ] _ been an important fixture in Senate and accompanied In 1951, his former home ) days, _ most storeâ€"bought â€" 3 Lincoln since the midâ€"1800sâ€" Prime Minister Laurier on a was purchased by Great peaches are smooth and _ Senator William Gibson William F. Rannie as a result of their stone railway trip across Canada. Lakes Christian College, f Sl“\gh o a § were paying to import lime he created a fruit di quarry business. The most He also attended the coronaâ€" which still owns it today. 0 figured out how to c creates ruit grading prominent er i ing George V and See Page 5 deâ€"fuzz ag peach? Norman _ Sulphur spray from the machine to sort all sorts of lf’amilynwas {?nV?l'lr::m C‘gfbsg}'le. enc t ns k. .,‘g.__ Bartlett of Beamsville. United States, he fig!.lred out . fruit, including cherries, who served as a Member of In the 1930s, a grower a Way to buy local lime and peaches and apples. The Parliament and later was near Lake Erie had a probâ€" _ Sulphur and boil it together graders caught on very appointed to> the Senate. lem. Winds off the lake to create a locallyâ€"made, quickly, and growers were Senator Gibson School in were blowing grit into his â€" Cheaper spray. That was the â€" thrilled by the gentle and Beamsville is named after peach orchard, and the dirt Start of the N.M. Bartlett efficient way the machines pim, was sticking to the peach _ agricultural chemical comâ€" treated â€" the fruit and the Sen. Gibson was born in fuzz like Velcro®. He asked _ Pany. . e ; quiet _ operation. Orders 1849 jn Scotland, and joined Mr. Bartlett, who was wellâ€" __ But chemicals weren‘t poured in from all over the _his uncle in Ontario at age known for agricultural innoâ€" _ Mr. Bartlett‘s only interest. . world from South America 16. When heâ€" was 35, he vation, to figure out how to _ When presented with a _ to Europe to China to New took . over the Gibson deâ€"fuzz his peaches before _ problem, he felt compelled _ Zealand.It was because of Quarry in Beamsville upon | they went to market. to invent a way to fix it. the graders that Mr. Bartlett the death of his uncle. He _ ._ Mr. Bartlett learned about _ While still a boy, he created _ was asked about a peach deâ€" built a large house named innovation at an early age . A mechanical eggâ€"counter so _ fuzzer. Sure enough, he figâ€" Inverugie on King Street in while working on his parâ€" _ his father would know how ured out a way to use horse~ Beamsville, and there he ents‘ farm. In 1912, after many eggs the family hens _ hair belts to gently brush the entertained members of the noticing how much farmers _ Were laying. In the 1930s, fuzz off without damaging peerage and wellâ€"known | \ William F. Ranni i miam F. Rannie loved Beamsville From Page 3 community by attending all council Albright Gardens i comâ€" | WILLIAM F. RANNIE ‘ meetings, taking part ing many local munilby for United (Cah:(:'lc‘}rlcgecrngtys(?lwd Few people have had as much influâ€" _ activities, pushing for the installation Albright Manor for senior citizens. ence, and at the same time earned the of sewers in town, and helping to He also served as Beamsville Reeve friendship and respect of so many organize the Chamber of Commerce. _ and was an Ontario Hydro commisâ€" pcnpl_e, as the late William E. (Bill) In 1957, he purchased the Vinelandâ€" _ sioner for 35 years. For his communki- Rzy]mc. . f Jordan Post and later added the ty work, he was named the 1984 lhe Queens Umvel"sx\y graduate Smithville Review, creating Rannie â€" Citizen of the Year. worked as a reporter for the Qt}a_wa Publications in 1958. > Mr. Rannie was the author of many Journal, then in the fur trade division In 1969, the three papers were sold books, and worked especially hard to of the Hudson‘s Bay Company, and _ to Bill Burgoyne of the St. Catharines â€" promote; preserve and record the hisâ€" served in the Royal Canadian Standard, but Mr. Rannie stayed on as _ tory of Lincoln. He died on April 22 O.â€"_gnz)nncl Corps during the war. He editor of the amaigamated Lincoln _ 1995, at the age of 80. 4 art l}/bdw‘lfl Beam§v1llg: I‘.Ighl after Postâ€"Express until he retired in 1980, At the end of his book, Stone From World War II, bearing in his pocket a _ and after that he continued writing _ the Mountain, Mr. Rannie summed up (\\,v<>-‘yf:§râ€"old. we|l~lhumped option to _ columns, editorials and news stories. _ his feelings for the town. ;7L1rLJ1‘\se‘ the Bcam_svxlle Express Mr. Rannie affected the town in "Beamsville has been good to me nC‘_NbPa.P‘-r-‘ }?Uylljlg l}ls own newspaâ€" _ many ways. He was the main player in _ as a place to work, to mcakc friend%y S:,i:]\]/]as the culmination of a me-long lhe creation of many Lincoln instituâ€" and to raise a family," he said. “Givén| s d s tions, including the Twenty Valle a choice in any reâ€"incarnati n, I "1[} J 1411105; learrl);) qaysl, Mr. Rupmc Golf Club, the Lincoln Cilizz’ln of lhfi for weekly nei’vspflpcring alr?d’alrlcllsg: 3 made a L)t int 0 .eluimmg part of lh.c Year awards, the Lincoln Choir,â€" _ to Beamsville." â€"» Smithville got its name from first area settlers ( We live in Smithvill is e ithville? iffi § j {eanti According to Our LinkseM‘;il;/‘z :;/IEYP;;;;?]T:?fl‘::'lclll‘lL“’lllliâ€"): onfiyn\l;l/::]v(;vzsi? 'lllnncr anfdi'h:élq l()a'ded ts pilg Fanes 5111i}l?l\'|11[]c }VC(IJ’C Richard and Mary (Smith) Griffin. » grist mil%s‘n i iee e eer cce loceyniinnhis â€" l{-II'Li:?rl7§'ll] mlm \’\"lfc Mary left Nine Partners, New Their first home in Smithville was located where the y \);_‘: o oovlg m?\’n t_o» Canada. s ‘ home of John and Ruth Nicol is located now. "LI)lh old n.«') E)cn eleven children with them. The For further details about the settling of Richard and e [C;\ :n]\(m J \;ayn? ]l;chmd bCL“dLllSC ‘she had married Mary Griffin you can pick up a copy of West Lincoln Our _!,.7)‘)} : one followed her family to Canada in Links With our Past at the Smithville Historical Train M se . Station or check it out at the Smithville library. C \\_\--