HomeMy WebLinkAbout461"Article copied from the Pickering News, October 28, 1892.
DUNBATON.
Miss Sylvester, of Ingersoll and Misses Hudson, Allison and Thom, of Toronto, students,
were visiting in our burg the past week.
Quite an interest was manifested in the Crew-McGary footrace which took place at
Norway on Tuesday last. Crew who was the favorite and winner is our genial stage driver
and very popular in this neighborhood.
On Tuesday evening the friends of John McIntosh met at his place and spent a pleasant
time during which the following address was presented together with a beautiful easy
chair and lamp.
To John McIntosh, Esq.,
Dear Sir: —The members and adherent of Dunbarton Presbyterian church,
having learned, with deep regret, of your intention to take up your residence outside the
limits of their congregation, desire before your departure to give expression in some
tangible form to their appreciation of the great zeal and singleness of heart and mind
displayed by you in everything connected with the interest of the church and the good
of the community. There fore you are requested to accept this chair as a token of their
affection and esteem and they sincerely hope and pray that God may spare you for
many years to occupy it in administering the affairs of your devoted family,
and studying what is best adapted to advance the spiritual and moral condition -
of the locality in which you are about to reside. The sorrow they feel because of you
removal from among them is also shared in a like degree for your devoted wife and
family, and they ask Mrs. McIntosh to accept this lamp as an assurance from them that
her industry, thrift and hospitality were appreciated and admired by them all.
It is their earnest desire and prayer that the divine Providence, by whom you have been
led hitherto, may grant you wisdom, strength, courage and success in every department
of work to which your attention may be directed.
Signed on behalf of the congregation we have the honor to present you with this
address.
Agnes Thom, Maggie Holmes
Oct 25th, 1892.
Mr. McIntosh made a very feeling reply when after a few speeches by the pastor and
others, the company were treated to a handsome tea by the ladies.
The company breaking up shortly before midnight.
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