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THE VILLIAGE
OF KINKORA.

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As the train rolled into the pretty
village oiKinkora bearing us back
to the home of our fathers the other
evening after an absence of no short
duration we had some difficulty at
first to realize that it was the Sum-
merset of old,

From an humble rustic settle-
ment inhabited by sturdy. lrishmen
from the “Old Sod," it has grown
into as pretty and up-to-date a
village as our Island province can
afford, inhabited by well-to-do young
Irish farmers and business men.
Kinkora was ever and is yet one of
the strongest Catholic centres in
the province, and our hopes were
more than reaszed in that‘line when
we visited the beautiful new church
of St Malachi, and beheld the im-
mense congregation that attends it
on Sundays. The present incumbent
of the parish, Rev J J McDonald, is

an ideal priest. one ever solicdltous
for the welfare of his flock, both

spiritually and temporally.

 

 

 

A stroll through the cemetery

had its pains as well as its pleasures.
There sleep the ancestors of the

whole. community those who
faced the trials of pioneer life,
who toiled hard all their lives and
who have long since passed to their
reward. Here too we find the tombs
{of several distinguished sons of the
:parish, such as Dr Wall, who was a
practitioner of repute and Dr Geo
Cahill, who practised most success-
fully in Lynn Mass. and died at the
comparatively early age of 50
years.

Alarge, commcdious cheese fac—
.tory, Operated by a boy from ,the
parish is now doing good work in

 

.aidlng the agricultunsts of the com- 'termln
munity in turning their milk into

money in the easiest manner possi-
ble.

Messrs I PSmith and T A Mciver.
both engaged in the mercantile
business are doing well in that line

and‘ receive an extensive patronage .

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Dr. St. Clair Gallant one of our

ceverest young medical men a‘-
tends to the requirements of the

s?ck.

A neat new station house has just
been completed by the Federal
Government and we say without an
fear of contradiction that it willnot
be many years until the business oi
the place will necessitate a
first class booking station.
A well finished hall and a large
public schcni add their quota to the
beauty and convenience of the place

.A more kind hospitable and God
fearing people is not to be found.
“Neither locks have they to their
doors nor bars to their windows.”

We understand that a°drop of the
"creater" is not to be had in the
whole community, and even the de-
scendants of those who one time

kept it, tremble at the name of
Father Doyle, the stout priest who
waged an incessant war for its ex-

We shall always have a
tender word for Kink lra and where-
ever we wander will ever remember
to “return to Kinkora some more."
Son'wssrnn.

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