CASSIE MARSHALL A much valued, and the second-oldest, resident of Stanhope , Cassie now resides at the Provincial Home for the Aged. Not long ago we celebrated her 90th birthday with an Open House at Beth and Bruce Ellis ' home. It was a most happy occasion, and the guest of honour was in tremendous form, giving two of her delightful rec?? itations, remembered word-perfect from her youth. With her wonder?? ful memory, we have consulted her regularly on Stanhope 's past, and she has been a great help in gathering material for this book. She was born on September 21, 1892 to George Henry Douglas and his wife Charlotte Marshall , in Stanhope . Cassie went to school in Stanhope , and her first teacher was Alfred Lawson , a very severe and stern man ??? "he was as cross as hell" ??? Her other teachers were Eustace Vessey , Mrs. Allie Mutch , and Archie Auld . Cassie attended Stanhope Sunday School and her first teacher was Mrs. Alexander MacLauchlan . In 1912 Cassie moved with her parents to Charlottetown , where her father was janitor and messenger for the Bank of Montreal; she lived there until she married her cousin Walter Marshall in 1927. Walter's father Robert Marshall lived in Stanhope in the house he built (later Leslie McCabe's) and the newly- weds resided with Robert and his second wife Mary Ann Carr , Walter's stepmother; they moved in 1949 to Cassie's recent home, which had been Frank Marshall 's and then his son Edgar's. Cassie is a long time member of the Stanhope W.I . and attended regularly until recently. She has great memories of the old- time winters: the snow-filled roads, "broken" by men with shovels, fences taken down to make winter roads through the fields, and of herself wearing high laced boots ??? no snow boots then ??? or heavy knit stockings and rubbers. Her mother wore skirts down to her ankles, made of heavy homespun, while Cassie's skirt would be halfway between knee and ankle; no pants for women then. Cassie has memories of much hard work, with no modern conveniences, but of lots of good times and fun as well; Cassie's reminiscences will be found throughout this book. Community concerts were among the "fun things" of old days, and both Cassie and her father were noted for their recitations, given at these concerts; we give a favourite one here. The Two Little Kittens There were two little kittens, a black and a gray, And Grandmother said with a frown, 'It never will do to keep them both; The black one we 'II have to drown.' 426