Lake Shore School

I got these images last week from cousin Gene Arnold.  The Lake Shore School was located northwest of Roberts, and four of my Grandpa, Ernest Arnold's, brothers are listed on the student page. 

Death Certificate

I received the death certificate for Clyde Arnold that I ordered from the Minnesota Historical Society a few days ago.
I was hoping to get a clue to the birthplace of his mother, Rebecca (Zwig) Arnold.  But the certificate information provided by his brother, Roger Arnold, is not accurate.   Rebecca was born in Germany.  It appears Roger was living in the same area as Clyde, as he notes his address as Wanda, Minnesota. 
It does show that Clyde lived for two days after his accident.  The cause of death being shock.  With notes "Burning house - kindled fire in stove with gasoline.  And a contributory factor being burns of skin.

Hard Winter up Here in Canada

Jan 21st 1911
Dear Uncle:
How are you all well, getting ready for spring work I suppose.  Nice sunshiny weather here now but not thawing much yet.  It has been a hard winter up here in Canada.  A few homesteaders in different localities were lost and frozen to death.  One of the pollocks living a mile and half northeast from me let his two small children freeze their faces by staying in such a cold shack he tried to make a ton of coal last him all winter.  A lot of teaming going on now while the sleighing is good.  Two new settlers came in last week and have section five just west from me.  There was seven quarters open in this township last week.  A lot of land to be thrown open for homesteading just north of Edmonton the first of March sixty townships.  So you see there is land for the landless.  The papers have been booming lately for the great peace river district.   You know the Grand Trunk is building in through that country now across by Fort George and Prince Rupert.  I am figuring on buying a team of horses this spring if I can manage to do it.  The horses are selling pretty high around Carlstadt.  But they are far more reasonable up towards Calgary.  I guess will be able to get a fair team for $325 to $350.  I have got to get busy to cut down expenses.  I did not have to pay too much for hired work last year and don't want to start now if I can help it.  I am going to have you send that money up now as I will want part of it.  When I wrote you once before I intended to leave it down there another year but have been compelled to change my mind since then.  If I remember you said once for me to tell you how to send it.  Send it the safest and cheapest way.  I guess that will be by bank draft and registered mail will that be as good a way as any?  Try and get it here by the first Friday in March if you can with out too much bother.  As you know the mail comes out here to the post office on Fridays and I will get it over there you see and then pick my day to go to town and in doing that can catch a ride in.  Seed grain is also high here, oats are 65 cts a bushel wheat $1.25 a hundred pounds, flax three dollars a bushel.  I intend to put in ? what ground I have broke.  Trusting to hear from you I will ring off for this time and give you my address which is Clyde Arnold.  Tide Lake.  P. O. Via Carlstadt, Alta, Canada.

Clyde Arnold Post Card

 

Mrs. Cora Arnold

Roberts, Illinois
U.S.A.
R.F.D. #1
Jan. 30th
Dear Aunt.
I am home again once more after having been away for some time it seems good to get back as there is no place like home.  How are you all?  What is Seward doing these days. This card is a view of Carlstadt.  There is one elevator but it is not shown on this picture.  We are having fine weather here now.  Plenty of snow good sleighing.
Yours truly,
Clyde Arnold
Tide Lakes

Clyde's Accidental Death

Children of Johnson Arnold & Beckie (Zwig) Arnold:

1. Amos Silas b. 11 Jan 1887 d. 17 Jul 1887
2. Clyde Chester b. 10 May 1888 d. 23 Feb 1918.
3. Michael Ralph b. 1890
4. David Johnson b. 1892
5. Roger b. 1895
6. Henry Stuckley b. 1897
7. Ernest Linn b. 1899
8. Samantha Elizabeth b. 1901.

--Paxton Record.  28 February 1918.  Page 7. 

--Roberts Herald.  27 February 1918.  Page 1.

--Buried Lyman Township Cemetery.  Roberts, Ford County, Illinois.

Some other newspaper clippings:

--Paxton Record.  4 December 1913.  Page 7.

--Paxton Record.  25 December 1913.  Page 6.

--Gibson City Courier.  24 September 1915.  Page 3.

--Paxton Record.  4 November 1915.  Page 3.

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https://amosarnoldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2016/06/clyde-chester-arnold.html

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Post Card from Clyde to Cora (Yackee) Arnold, his aunt.

 

Some Dates

Lonesome in Canada

Carlstadt Alta
Dec 28th 1910

Dear Seward.

As I have nothing else to do will write you once more. How
was your corn this year? Did you get any results from that phosphate yet?  The crops throughout Canada were pretty short this year. Hundreds of acres of grain up around Gle??, Strathmore, ?amaka, on the C.P.R. irrigated land that was never cut at all. Wheat they reported before threshing would go twenty bushel to the acre went eight and ten. There was nothing raised around here (Carlstadt) except a little green feed, and some potatoes. Some as nice spuds as you would ever want to see. I didn't raise anything but then it wasn't the ground's fault. But wait till next year I will try my luck at it.  I am getting a long fine this winter so far. A little lonesome sometimes, but is not bad living out here. People living all around here now. A family now living on the west half of four came since the last time I wrote you. Some snow here on the ground most all the time more snow here than over by town.
Quite a few antelope around here. I saw a band not long ago with 35 or 40 in the bunch. The redcoat was out after a man over west for killing one as he thought the other day, but he couldn't prove anything on him. A fifty dollar fine first offense hundred dollars the second offense and so on. A few jackrabbits around here but not many. Mrs. Stevenson who lives 4 miles southeast of here died last week of typhoid fever. Age forty years. Was buried at the place as Stevenson didn't have enough money to ship her to Ontario. A family over west here have Scarlet Fever the three small children. I heard yesterday they lost their little girl aged seven years was buried at the place. We have a post office over west at the store. They commenced carrying mail first of December once a week. You was asking once if there was much scrip located around here I only know of 5 scrips located here within a radius of ten miles. They had quite a scramble at the land office in ?? week before last. There was a piece of land thrown open eight mile west of the hat, two men camped on the steps for two day and nights, it was nearly zero weather in the mornings. They filed when the office opened. There was fifteen or twenty men there and all made a rush for the door and tore it from it's hinges, but one of the fellows who camped so long filed on it. They claim it was worth five thousand dollars, was quarter section but I don't think it worth that much. But how it was there came to be land so close to the hat for homesteading yet I do not know.
The people talk about land getting scarce I see only the other day where they have ten million acres ready for homesteading up in the Peace River district. I was talking with a man this summer who said he had pear and apple trees on his place bearing fruit. He said some valleys up in that country were fine to live in but most places the land was poor, lots of this kind they call Muskeg land without any bottom to it as one might say, and also plenty of mosquitoes in the summer. There was hardly a mosquito around here this last summer it being too dry for them.
I have my shack fixed up so it is warmer than a good many others are out on the prairie. I hauled in two tons and quarter of coal from the mine likely will get another load towards spring. Pretty fair coal this winter.  ??nite a soft coal $2.75 at mine. They sell lots of it all around the country. I have a good little heating stove set up and do not use the cook stove much. The railroad where I was working this fall was the ?egreville - Calgary line of the C.N.R. that goes from ?egrevaille via Camrose and Stettler to Calgary. The last one-hundred and twenty six miles from Stettler was graded this last summer. They are going to lay the steel this winter and have it ready for trains in the spring.
Railroad building is just getting a good start here in Alberta and it won't be long we will have as many roads as Saskatchewan. They have a school house built now in the township north of that one. The land over there was taken up a little sooner over there because right next to C.P.R. irrigation block. And the people thought they would have a railroad sooner then here. Maybe they will a little but if they have a road there it will probably build further.
I see my letter is getting long so will stop and take it over to ? or he is going down to Trays in the morning to get the mail there as it is nearer that the post office.

Clyde Arnold
Carlstadt
Alta Canada

Clyde Chester Arnold

Born 10 May 1888
Died 23 Februay 1918
Buried Lyman Township Cemetery
Never Married.  No Children.
Son of Johnson David Arnold and Beckie Zwig Arnold

Clyde Chester Arnold

Clyde Arnold is the second child born to Mr. and Mrs. Johnson D. Arnold, near Roberts, Illinois, Mary 10, 1888.
When Clyde was 21 years old he went to Alberta, Canada, where he filed a claim to homestead. 

Creelman Oct 22nd 1909

Dear Parents:

I got your letter the other day lots of news.  And I see you all want to know more about the homestead. I don't think you have been getting near all the letters I have written as I see you are asking questions that I have already told about. 
Wheat is pretty good averaging about twenty bushel to the acre.  Have heard from Mike twice. And from what I could find out from him I don't think he is coming home. I may see him before I go to Calgary or maybe he will come to see me. I haven't seen any papers from the states but the Winnipeg and Montreal, and other eastern Canada papers have quite a lot of news from the states.  I do not sleep in the straw pile. We have a sleeping car that moves along with the outfit. Today is your birthday, is it not Mother? It is raining and sleeting here today. I wrote a letter in Calgary reading something like this did you not get it? Homestead and Preemption information. The grass does not grow very tall would average about twelve inches high. Prairie wool 6 inches high. Spear grass a couple of feet in patches. Slough hay foot and half sometimes more or less. One or two other small grasses. A fair good stand of grass on the land. A few little pond holes on it that is where the slough hay grows. There are some of the them on any farm. Longview is only a small station with a depot, a few shacks and a couple of stores.
Where land is situated.  Now take that last best west pamphlet and find Tide Lake, you see the township to the north part of that lake.  Well the next township east is where my land is right in the bottom row of sections. The east half of section 4.

About twelve miles south of the of the nearest part of the Red Deer River.  3.4 miles west of the South Saskatchewan River. I don't think the rainfall is way too much there.  But over on the fire break six or seven miles southwest of my place, there was moisture enough on the ground when I was there to sprout grain. A person could take some of the dirt squeeze it together in the hand and it would stick together. There is a farmer living just south of the red deer river who has lived there thirteen years. Having had one failure in nine years. And if I remember right I think they said he got his grain in late and a hot wind caught it before it ripened. The terms under which I have to pay of for the 160 are this. 3 dollars an acre. One third of the purchase money must be paid three years after the date of entry for the preemption, and the balance in five equal annual installments with interest at five percent from the date of the preemption entry. Reside six months in each of three yrs for homestead. Reside six months in each of the three yrs for Preemption. Taking six yrs times to get a half section. If anything more you want to know ask me.  Good bye from Clyde.