The mail couriers from Emerald included John Croken, Mrs. Michael Lambe, Arthur Lambe and Earl McCarville. Mail couriers from Kensington included Robert Dunphy, William Dunphy, Tho- mas Dunphy and Percy Driscoll. This route was Kensington RR. 8.

In April 1970 Emerald post office was closed, the routes were rearranged and since then, Mrs. Francis Croken has been the mail

ocurier for allof Clinton, the post office address being Kensington RR. 6.

(ILLUMINATION AND HEATING

Our ancestors did not enjoy the luxuries and the conveniences of our present day, which we consider necessities. In the earl; days there were no matches, and fire was kept burning by bank- ing coals with ashes Neighbours sometimes had to share thei1 live coals. Fire was started by striking sparks from a flint upo1 a dry combutible substance or by rapidly rubbing one dry piece of pine against another, but this was used as a last resort. No doubt the first settlers in our community lit their homes with candles. Among the antiques we see are candle moulds, and the candles made in these were an improvement on the original candles that were used. Then came kerosene lamps with wicks of differert widths as well as the round Wick in the Rayo lamp and the Alladin lamp with a mantle that produced a very bright white light. These lamps were first used about 1910 or 1912. A little later, gas lamrs and lanterns were used. These burned naphtha gas and produced a White light similar to that of the Alladin lamp. Many homes had Alladin or gas lamps until 1954, when the Maritime Electric had a line run through the community and, in the fall of that year, the electric power was turned on, which provided light in all the homes at the push of a button, as well as many more conveniences. In the early days, homes were heated by an open fireplace and stoves were unknown.

About the middle of the nineteenth century, stoves were ac:- quired and older residents can remember the Yarmouth and Wat- erloo stoves, with their low fireplace, and oven higher up at the back, which, around the turn of the century, were replaced by the Home Comfort and several other similar makes of stoves, There was a reservoir on either end of these stoves for hot water which was a great improvement. Soon, piped water systems came into being with hot and cold taps, and the stoves could be geared and connected up with the tap system, or the stoves that were being built had the water front, as it was called, built in.

Until the middle of the twentieth century, fuel used for stoves was mostly wood, which could be had for the cutting and splitting,

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