Rex Dawson and Florrie Matheson Dawson in their Model T. Myron Dawson collection.

Although it was now legal to operate cars, some residents still resented the use of automobiles. Wellington Thomas was one of the opposers and expressed his opinion in the newspaper in poetry. Archie Thomson replied. Wellie, assuming a neighbour, Lila Gamble, was the authoress of the poem, responded with:

Contretemps

Friend, you gave my poem an answer And it sure was very good.

You are bound to eat potatoes,

If you can’t get other food.

And your man may run the auto, Work the levers with his toes, You can still sit pert beside him, With the powder on your nose.

I have seen you, my good neighbour in the summer driving past,

While you make your money easy, Why, I’m sure you’ll still go fast.

You will still run old tin Lizzie, As you think it is no harm Never thinking of the sparrows,

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