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Phone is ~ HAROLD W. EN L neRY veway, omy 2 Mecetive Syru of Pepsin for constipatio sour ir Sp ot Pop adache, on, he flatulency, etc. Five po bottles sold in the Un ted States last year. Peroxide _ Parke Davis & Co. A handy and useful bottle to keep always on hand. Fresh Supply of Moir's Chocolates 3 MORRISQN'S DRUG STORE Don' t Fail To, et your 'share of our argains this week This is Your Opportunity * J. F. McCLINTOCK PORT PERRY, ONT. WE SELL BOTH anc Lm that a church might be Since ry time the following ministers have served the Wick Rev. niel Anderson, Rev. Robert McArthur, Rev. John Me- Clung, Rev. uel Acheson, Rev. T. T. Johnston, Rev. John M Millan, Rev. . Cameron, Rev. N, N.D. Keith, R fo W. A. McKay, | and the A I minister, Rev. D. D. M 1 Ho said the injur- ed man never a chance life, which the operating sur- geons discovered at the hospital. The inquest was adjourned until August 11th. Br . OAKWOOD RINK WINS PORT PERRY TOURNEY. Twenty ing tournament. The chief feature, the Jeffrey Cup, was won by Dr. Sellery's Oakwoods, of Toronto, at present camping at Scugog Island resort. The rsonnel of the team is George , Dr. Sellery, J. McDo! ol and . Breton. Their struggle was with the a joan skipped by R. Loughleen, h G. F. Turney, vice-skip, d F. Cochrane and F. Turney. ' Prel _ Sunderland rt Perry P. St. John..,12 E. H: Purdy...11 Oshawa Whitby C.C. Stenhouse 10 W.E. Sturgess 16 Bowmanville Port Perry T. W. Stanley 13 J. McClintock 11 Port Perry 9 8. Jeffrey ....b Birch Cliff Oshawa R. Loughleen .. F. Hall Uxbridge W. E. Vanstone.10 J. Kennedy..17 Oshawa Port Perry C. W. Detenbeck 16 Jas, McHoull 16 Uxbridge if Port Perry C. McNabb ....13 M. Letcher .. § Port Perry 18 W. H. Harris 7 Orillia E. B. Walker .. 7 Jack Miller..19 Oshawa Port Perry D.AJ. Swanson 27 W. S. Short..21 Uxbridge ' Port Perry - . Tipper....18 D. Carnegie.. 9 First Round R. ! -nine rinks were enter-|. ed in the Port Perry lawn bowl- On the anniversary occasion, Rev. John McClung, B.A,. of Hamilton, preached in the morning and Rev. W. A. McKay, of Stretsville, delivered the sermon in. the evening. An excellent supper was served in the evening of Monday, August 4th, and a fine program was given. The event will long be remembered with pleasure, and a great deal of credit is due to the pastor, Rev. D. D. McDonald and his daughter Jor - lf work. 8p e rain, the anniversary celebration on Nonda was very successful. The total receipts were about $345.00 y For lack of authentic records, of the early settlement of this section of the County of Ontario, it is difficult to give exact dates of the events, con- nected with the invasion of the forest wilds, of Brock and Reach Townships, by the first settlers. It seems to have been somewhere about 1830, that those townships were opened up for sale and settlement. At any rate, we find that soon after this Jute; the pioneer settlers began to move in with their families, to occupy e land. Many heart rending stories are told about the hardships, struggles and privations endured by the first settlers. How they fought against adverse conditions and cut down the forest, so as to put the land under cultivation: how they were obliged to adapt th lves, to cir tances that were entirely new and uncongenial. How they contrived to protect themselves, from winter's frost and summer's drougth, and worse than these, from the hungry inhabitants of the forest. In those days, neighbours were usually neighbourly, changing work and helping each other, in times of emergency. People going away from home used to carry horns, so that, if they lost their way in the woods, they could make signals of distress. Anyone hearing a horn, answered it, according to well d d arrang ts, If any member of a family was belated, and did not yeach home when expected, at night fall the horn was sounded to guide the wanderer, or to give the signal for searchers to turn out. A general "tattoo" was the joyous signal, to cease from searching, These were by no means unnecessary precautions, when the woods were scarcely tracked, and were infested with wolves and other wild beasts. Mr. Joseph Gould, a pioneer of Uxbridge Township, connects a tragic little story with the spot where now stands the town of Beaverton. "An ex-soldier, Corporal Crawford, when hunting with an Indian friend, was attracted with the beauty of the situation, and, putting up a little log cabin, took his wife and two small children to live there, far from any other human habitation. The wife wished to return for the winter to York, but late in the autumn another child was born, and it seemed impossible for her to take the journey with a small baby. The winter proved exceptionally 'severe. The father was obliged to go hunting to provide for the family. One night he was very late, and his wife sounded the horn again and again. He was indeed scarcely a mile from his home, and had just wounded a buck, when he was overtaken by a pack of wolves and had to climb into a tree. But the wolves took up the chase of the buck, which fled toward the little cabin, and the wife hearing their howling, and fancying, it was supposed, that they were in p it of her husband, opened the door. At daylight the Corporal hurried home, to find his little daughter safe under a heavy crib, which apparently had been overturned in the first mad rush of the hungry brutes. But their were many signs that his wife and two little one had met a fate too dreadful for words, The wretched man lost his reason in the horror of it, but was adopted and kindly cared for by his Indian friends." This little incident occured, no doubt, prior to any settlement of the township of Brock and Reach. Among the first to become permnament settlers were Peter Leask, John Johnston, William Baird, Malcolm Smith, Thomas Gillan, Neil McNeil, Mr. Truax, Sandy McLean, Charles Rennie, John Shedden, William Ewing, Mr. 5 Stiffins, George Brabazon, John McDonald, Robert McCully, George Hill, and ou DAIRY ICE. CREAM Final Sellery ........26 Loughleen ... 1 ~*~ CONSOLATION First Round revall Stenhouse va12 McClintock Sar Jeffrey . Tuck ..........18 Porter Vanstone...» 14 'McHoull Purdy .. 10} apg Church in the Héme." It was not very long h others. Some of them came from the already settled districts to the south and west, some from across the border, and others from England, Ireland and Scotland. This part of the country was then almost in its primeval state, and for that reason, the new comers had many hardships to contend with-- the want of roads, distance from market, how and where to get sup- plies and other difficulties too numerous to mention. They built log cabins in the wild and settled dowh to the business of hewing out homes for them- selves, They had like other pioneers, their joys and festivities, as well as their trials and hardships. Fast friendships were formed in those days; they trudged their common way together and no doubt, were more happy and oontalt than people are tugay with their luxuries. pit INGO THE FIRST RELIGIOUS SERVICES. There were, at that time, no regular public services in the settlement, | for there was no minister. In all probability there was family worship in 10] the homes. We know that many of them, if not all, were accustomed to er, until student | missionaries from Knox College made their way into the settlement, and the | people were delighted when they heard, and joined in the singing of those Psalms, so dear to the hearts of Scotch and Irish people. We are at this time called upon to celebrate the 76th Anniversary of the organization of what has ever since been known as "The Wick Presbyterian DO, ov se pom A newer of branches whole Dominion nto offer You 4 highly Deion enables collection service ad rpesilize] eolesion ' Paper" STANDARD BANK ps pis | an et Port Perry Branch, Jon H. G. Hutcheson, Manager faith strong and their courage was beyond compare. Peter Leask was ordained to the office of elder at that time, by Dr. Burns. Mr. Black a student from Knox College, is believed to have been the first who ever preached the Gospel to the early settlers in this ity. Mr. Black, in after years, b an outstanding per ge in the life and history of the Presbyterian Church in Canada. He is still lovingly remembered by the sons and daughters of the first settlers, in the Province of Manitoba, as the pioneer missionary to the Red River Settl A ber of other students and probationers in those early days, were associated with the work in this section of the country, but we have no record of their names. Ser- vices were often held in what was then known as John Johnston's barn, now owned by William Heron. Services were sometimes held in Robert McCully's home and also in the old log school house. REV. JAMES LAMBIE, A MISSIONARY There were also individual minister and missionaries, who made special tours among the settlers in the townships lying east of Lake Simcoe. Among those was the Rev. James Lambie, a minister of the Church of Scotland. He came to Canada in 1840. After spending a considerable time in visiting the scattered settlements, he accepted a call, issued by the settlers, in the town- ships of Whitby and Pickering. He made his home at the Village of Duffins Creek. In addition to his labor there he made frequent visits to the town- ships of Brock, Mariposa and Eldon, holding sacrament services, baptising children and solemnizing marriage, He was in sympathetic touch with the needs of the people, and his visits were looked forward to with genuine pleasure. These journeys were very laborious and fatiguing. The primieval forest was only here and there broken by the little clearings of the pioneers, and the roads connecting them were of a still more primitive type. His only mode of travel was on horseback. On these journeys services were often held in John McTaggart's barn at Sonya, in Robert McCully's home, and in the old log school house at Wick. After Mr. Lambie, Rev. William Brown from Quaker Hill, made fre- quent vigits as far north as the township of Brock. He would conduct ser- vices in Greenbank, Wick and Jones' Corner (now Sunderland), in one day. FIRST MINISTER AND FIRST CHURCH Rev. John Mitchell, was the first settled Minister at Wick. It was his first charge and was ordained and inducted in 1853, by the Presbytery of Toronto. He was married to Miss Christie, of Manchester and they began life together, under conditions, which to say the least, did not seem reassur- ing. "Everything was in a primitive condition, and their home far from any centre of population. About the only thing they were sure of was plenty of hard work and exposure to danger. But they were young and full of hope, and that, together with the warm hearted sympathy and good will of the people, made up for much that was inconvenient. It was in Mr. Mitchell's time, that the first church was built and dedi- cated. The building was a frame structure, not very protentious, but served the purpose for which it was intended, and the people rejoiced to think that 'at last, they had a place of worship which they could call their very own. It was not altogether finished when it was opened for public worship. For some years they were obliged to sit on hard rough planks without any support to their backs. But all the same, it was a great luxury in those days, to have a place of worship where they were sheltered from the ele- ments. The land on which the church was built, was secured from Peter Leask, for the handsome sum of five shillings, lawful money of Canada. When it became necessary to build a Manse, another half acre of land had to be secured from the same source. This time the land was not sold, it was leased for the use of a minister, so long as a minister should require the use of it. And the Trustees of the Church, covenanted to pay a yearly rental of sevenpence half-penny, payable on the 1st day of April, each year, Alexander Carmichael, was the contracter, architect and carpenter combined, who built the church. The Trustees were William Hunter, William Baird, William Ewing, Robert McCully and Alexander Leask. For many years Alexander Leask was precentor. There was no choir, and no organ in those days. THE CHOIR In the early days there was no choir and no organ. The service of praise was led by a precentor, who took up his position, in a small pulpit in front of, and a little lower than the minister's desk, but raised a little higher than the main floor occupied by the congregation, The moment the precentor started the tune the whole congregation began to sing. Many of the older people, who were familiar with the singing thus lead by a precentor, declare even now, that those were the days of good congregational singing. Of course, the present generation is not in a position to dispute the claim because they were not there; but we all know that they made the best of conditions as they found them. So far as can be ascertained, John Moore was the first precentor. It is not known how long Mr. Moore continued to officiate in this capacity, but we have reason to believe that he did his duty faithfully. The next to assume the duties of pr tor was Al der Leask, and after him Andrew Chalmers. After Mr. . Chalmers, John Clark took up the work. Mr. Clark is still remembered by his faequent use of the tuning fork; sometimes to the amusement of the younger people; but much appreciated by those who derstood the purpose of it. It was in Mr. Clark's time that the choir was Church." To the late Dr. Robert Bums, of Toronto, belongs the credit and introduced, and the church has never been without a choir since. John Kirton assumed the responsibility of choir leader, after Mr. Clark's time. Mr. Kirton gave faithful service as a member of the choir, before he became leader. As leader Mr. Kirton continued in unbroken connection with the choir until he removed to Sunderland. Joseph Stone, like his predecessor, was a member of the choir before he took upon the duties of choir leader. Mr. Stone gave faithful service as a leader for a considerable time, but the time came when he too felt the strain of the duties imposed by the position. | Consequeritly the Session was obliged to regretfully accept his resignation. | Fortunately for the choir and the congregation, Mrs. George Johnson was induced to accept the position of choir leader. Mrs. Johnson had had a long experience as choir leader-and organist; she was a most capable leader and thorough musician. The choir soon recognized her ability and began realize that her teaching and training were their opportun nit they tried to take advantage of the teaching that every practice Mbp hed pn dr imma Yigg made it