Pigot, Buddy MacIntyre, Garth Affleck, Ernie Crane, David Jay, G. Smith, G. MacEachern, G. Jay and Roy Coffin. As recently as 1969,} due to the pitching ability of Harry Crane and the batting performances of such team members as Brenton Coffin and Kent Clark, the Mount Stewart Juniors advanced to the P. E. I. Junior Baseball Finals. The championship, however, in spite of “stubborn resistance” eluded them.

Although it was not intended, the old-time joint political meetings were often vastly entertaining affairs; at least, the slanted coverage given them in the newspapers of the time make them appear as such to the modern reader. At a meeting held at Mount Stewart on August 17, 1911, Mr. A. A. McLean, the candidate favoured by the Examiner, was reported to have shown up strongly “the graft and deception and general maladministration of the Liberal Government within recent years . . .” His opponent, Mr. Prowse, on the other hand, “told a little story and referred to his work for P. E. Island while in Parliament, which work consisted of getting a position as senator for his brother.”

“Hail to that grand old Journal The Examiner by name, Whose visits now diurnal Deserve the widest fame, O’er sixty years the faithful friend To all that suffered wrong, The poor man’s cause did oft defend When oppressed by the rich and strong”.

The above paean in praise of the Examiner appeared in 1908, and the author’s political sentiments are, of course, scarcely in doubt. One gathers that individual party meetings could also be lively events. The “verbal fur” was reported “flying” at a Liberal nominating convention in Mount Stewart Legion Hall, held on April 10, 1951. As “the smoke of battle cleared away,” however, Hon. Eugene Cullen and his running mate, veteran parliamentarian, Mr. Russell C. Clark, had both been re- nominated.

At the turn of the century, in consideration of an initiation fee of ten cents paid to secretary-treasurer, Mr. John McAskill, one could join the Young Men’s Gymnastic Association. The group, with Mr. Ross Pigot as instructor, met twice weekly and, for a time, enjoyed a great rush of popularity. The club’s greatest triumph was a long-remembered concert and athletic show presented on February 13, 1900. One wonders, however, if the audience was not more enthusiastic over “Little Jack” McKenna’s step-dancing or a superb rendition of “Pat Casey of Tracadie Hall” than over the chest drills and the action on the parallels, no matter how skillfully done. At least two other such organizations, the Mount Stewart Athletic Association of the mid-twenties and the Mount Stewart Recreation Committee of the late sixties, were formed. The former was concerned with the establishment of a tennis court in the village, while the latter was involved in matters connected with the community rink.

The private house party is an aspect of entertainment that cannot be overlooked, and, as an illustration of this, the following is quoted verbatim from the Examiner for August 29, 1906:

‘ “There was a sound of revelry by night’ at Cherry Hill on the evening of Friday, the 17th inst, when the beauty and chivalry of Cherry Hlll, Hillsborough head and Mount Stewart gathered at the house of Mr. Robert Affleck and chased the glowing hours with flying feet

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