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Several ancestry trees attribute Ruth Boothby's parents as Henry and Innocence. The England, Select Births and Christenings, 1538-1975 database includes baptism records for four children baptized between 1745 and 1753, but not for Ruth. Need to determine the validity of these attributions.¹

Several ancestry trees attribute Ruth Boothby's parents as Henry and Innocence. The England, Select Births and Christenings, 1538-1975 database includes baptism records for four children baptized between 1745 and 1753, but not for Ruth. Need to determine the validity of these attributions.¹

The death occurred last evening at the residence of Mrs. Lipsett, 393 Cumberland avenue of Mrs. Rebecca Mather, wife of Christopher Mather, who is at present in Saskatchewan, being connected with the elevator business. The deceased was 30 (sic) years of age. The remains were removed to Thompson's undertaking rooms to await the arrival of Mr. Mather, who is expected in the city today.⁵

ALBON--MATHER
     Miss Agnes Richardson Mather, only daughter of Mr. Christopher Mather, of Asquith, and the late Mrs. Mather, and Capt. Charles J. Allbon M.C, also of Asquith, were married at 6.30 o'clock Saturday evening, August 5. at the home of the brides uncle and aunt. Mr. arid Mrs. C. L. Mather. 215 Eleventh Street, Saskatoon. Rev. H, Hamilton, of Bradwell, performed the ceremony.
     The bride, who walked with her father, was attended only by a little flower girl, Erie May Peat. Mrs. H. D. Gay, sister of Captain Allbon, played the Wedding March.
     Captain add Mrs. Allbon left on the 11.40 tram Saturday night for the Maritime Provinces, where they will spend their honeymoon. Upon their return west they will live tn Asquith, where Captain Allbon is editor of the Asquith Record.
     These were guest at the wedding; Rev. and Mrs. H- Hamilton Mr. and Mrs. 8. F. Butzer, Mr. and Mrs. Sydney Peat. Mr. and Mrs H. D. Gay, Miss Jessie Millar. Miss Nellie Sillers, Miss Evelyn McLaughlin, Miss Jean Mather, Miss Marguerite Mather. Miss Muriel Wilson, Mr. Robert Millar, Mr. Jack Bowles. Mr. Hartley Mather. Mr. Cecil Mather, Mr. R. P. Cuspie.¹

Peats Bachelor Farm At Asquith One Of The Best
     The farmstead of Thomas Peat, Guild, Canadian National Railways, the man who usually wins the grand championship at Saskatoon and Regina bull sales is surely the most extraordinary bachelor farm layout in Saskatchewan. The house itself is quite modest but it Is surrounded by 20 acres of lawn, yards, garden, orchard and root fields, the whole enclosed in one of the tallest, thickest and finest shelterbelts to be seen in the province.
     The belts and cross belts include in all over 11.000 trees, maple, ash, elm, Cottonwood and come conifers and the greater part was planted in 1904 and 1905 and has been given careful attention. The fruit trees include big crab-apple trees with trunks of at least seven inches diameter, large numbers of plums and cherries. Along with these are bush fruits, currants and gooseberries.The plum trees are well covered with fruit but there are not many crab apples this year. Last year the crop was heavy and Mr. Peat finds that one seldom gets two good crops of apples in successive years.
     FARMS 1600 ACRES
     This farm of 1,600 acres is situated four miles south of Asquith and was on Wednesday the scene of a field day arranged by the Asquith Agricultural Society. Nearly 400 people gathered to honor Mr.Peat and to hear demonstrations by Rupert Ramsay of the extension department of the University of Saskatchewan and W. McGillivray of the provincial livestock branch on agricultural horses, Shorthorn Holstein, Angus, and Ayrshire cattle. The evening was spent pitching horseshoes and playing Softball.
     The Peat farming activities centre around the beef Shorthorn herd which usually numbers about 100 head, on the majority of Asquith farms dairying is the main stay, but beef is the aim in this herd. And there is no doubt that these cattle are built to produce beef.
     Seen in the brome pasture the cows seem built to just clear the grass and are broad as well deep with short beef type necks and heads.The present herd sire is Village Brown, a bull of Browndale breeding. Mr. Peat has chiefly confined his show activities to the Saskatoon and Regina bull and cattle sales but may show at Saskatoon fair this year. He has had a brisk demand for young bulls this year and has sold all the eleven that were ready and has had to disappoint later inquirers.
     130 ACRES WHEAT
     On the whole 1,600-acre farm Mr. Peat has only 130 acres of wheat this year. Oats occupy 600 acres. He usually feeds some oats in the sheaf but the bulk are threshed.
     He has three-quarters of a section in brome grass of which a half section will be cut for seed and a quarter section for hay. There are also brome pastures of 30 and 40 acres
     This successful feeder believes in the use of roots and men were at work this week with the hoe on the turnips and mangolds. There is a two-acre field of each inside the shelter belt. He finds the turnips easier to grow than the mangolds which require more moisture for germination. Some of the latter were slow in starting this year.
     He usually Keeps about 20 Yorksnire sows and explained that the reason he was growing no barley this year was because he had some granaries full of it.
     Among the 500 visitors on Wednesday were Sid Johns, Saskatoon; Robert Thomas, Grandora: A Schleedy, Maple Creek: A. G. Sinclair, Canadian National Railway colonization department and J. D. Guild, Canadian National Railway agricultural agent. Local stockmen who helped by loaning cattle were C. R. Wade, H. McNab and A. Wheeler, who loaned Aberdeen Angus, Holstein and Ayrshire cattle respectively.⁵

Asquith Pioneer Is Laid to Rest
     Thomas Peat Had Large Farm
     Holdings in District;
     Brother In City
     ASQUITH. — The funeral service of Thomas Peat, one of the best known end most highly respected pioneers of th Asquith district, was held at hie farm home July 14, with th Rev. W. Bank of Asquith United Church officiating.
     The service wee held on the lovely grounds, characterized by the speaker as his bit of this world, made beautiful." The soloist, Miss Edith Cooke, sang My Task," and the pianist was Miss Verla Forsyth. Pallbearers were all neighbors of the deceased: Messrs. C. A. Young, A. E. McGowan, C. R. Wade, W. H. Shaw, H. Harris and A. M. McMillan.
     Mr. Peat was born In 1866 at Bright, Ontario, farming as a young man there with his father. In 1895 he came West to Deloralne, Man., where he farmed for a short time, coming to th Asquith district in 1902 to homestead on a farm four miles south of the present townsite, Her during th ensuing 87 years he added greatly to his holdings, beautifying his home with a grove and orchard, and from the original stock brought from hie fathers farm in Ontario, built up a herd of Shorthorn cattle well known throughout Saskatchewan, A large circle of friends attended the services.
     Surviving members of hie family art one sister, Mrs. A. T. Calder of Asquith, and one brother, Sidney Peat of Saskatoon. A sister, Mrs. D. Burke of Yorkton, predeceased him recently. Interment took piece in the Asquith cemetery.⁴

Famous Herd to Be Dispersed
     (photo) CLIPPER DANNY II
     One of the best known herds of Shorthorns in the West, that of Sidney Peat and the Thomas Peat estate, is to be dispersed at public auction Friday, November 6, t the Peat farm four miles south of Asquith. The purebred herd comprises 16 cows with a similar number. of calves, seven two-year-olds and nine yearling heifers, two yearling bulls and one herd bull, Clipper Danny 2nd, five years old. The herd was started from a single cow shipped from Ontario by Thomas Peat; who came to the West In 1902, and was bi ought by him to a high state of perfection through the use of the best sires obtainable in Canada. Bulls produced in this herd have won top honors and commanded high prices at some of Western Canada's important bull shows and sales..⁶