“Dan is fishing with us. We got a dory built last spring, 20 feet 
     
     long, for the purpose of carrying lobster shells from Boughton 
     
     island and Dan rigged her in great style, sloop rigg. She sails 
     
     verry well she will carry 67 cart loads we don’t have to pay 
     
     anything for the shells." 
     
    
   
   
    
     Ms seen earlier in Nat Mair’s listing of Boughton island 
     
     news items, the first radio came to Boughton Island 
     
     when Lem Allen returned from Halifax following his time in the service 
     
    
   
   
    
     in the First Great War to be with his father, Joe Henry. With reference to 
     
     this historic event, Muriel MacKenzie adds some details to the story: 
     
    
   
   
    
     After the Halifax Explosion and his wife‘s death from its effects, 
     
     Lem and daughter Muriel took the train to Boston. The reason for 
     
     the trip was to visit with an army friend, Gordon Pye. The time 
     
     in Boston stretched into several months. On one occasion they had a 
     
     visit from a man and while he was there most of the talk was about the 
     
     wonderful new gadget called “radio". Lem and Gordon, his host, went 
     
     to see one of these new inventions and Lem bought one. It was housed 
     
     in a mahogany box. In size it was 10 x10 x 18 inches with three buttons 
     
     and a dial in front. It 
     
     was battery operated 
     
     and when Lem set it 
     
     up after coming back 
     
     to Boughton Island he 
     
     set up a very high pole 
     
     for the aerial. The year 
     
     was 1923. Boughton 
     
     Island and most of 
     
     Prince Edward Island 
     
     had never heard or 
     
     seen anything like it. 
     
     It was the center of 
     
     attraction for years. 
     
    
   
   
    
     he da ‘ 
     
     @ . y, Martha King injront ofiier old home on Boughton Island 
     
     s o m e t l m e 
     
    
   
   
    
     Courtesy,i\rli1rthu (King) Kinnmr 
     
    
   
   
    
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