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'Beare; Vice-President--Mr. appy Harold Pérteons; Sec'y-Treasurer-- Mr, Arthur Somerville. The Sec'y- Treasurer gave his financial report as follows: » Receipts and Expenditures Total gate receipts nd | pal. for Rural Clubs $169.59 * | Membership fees ...... PPRERLEE 1) | Collection at banquet ........ 11.65 € | Rink's share of prize money .- 10.00 | Total Receipts -. Expenditures - eerie $198.74 96.48 One of the most pleasing features | of the whole evening was an informal | "quiz" of John Ross Roach by the players present. They felt that this was the time to get some first-hand | information from a man "who kno the ropes." 5 . > ked the travelling part of the | business and where he had been. His reply was: "That takes in a lot of territory." He said that at first to travel in style seemed to be a fine lot of fun but after awhile the novelty wears off and sometimes it is not so {good. Some of the teams have a | very heavy schedule. ? ~The training which started some {| three weeks before the games began | was fairly strenuous and lasted some | hours each day, As oe ; In talking about the great players of the League, Ross said that usually the papers referred to them nearly always as col from the big cities. experience he had not heen tacked gn- to Toronto, but was always referred to as John Ross Roach of Part Perry. "hat little touch from Ross was great- ppreciated hy his apdience. He further said that he was surprised how many people knew Part Perry. +=" | He could always tell when he met gne | of these folk because while other re | ple called him "Jack" or "John" | Perry people always addressed him as "| "Ross." . * Asked as to the hardest shooter, he from the players of the old "St. Pats" 'at the time they won. the Stanley. Cup. long time ago--1922. Some of the hoys wanted to know A house party gathered at a time- Prince of Wales, afterward Edward | host, Lord B--, set forth on a ramble in silver lacery the -bracken and '| emerging upon a: grassy 'lane they that in his wn '| real. . [ Presently she encountered the turkey, -| that!" among the boys| just how things go| ackey. By Julian B. Arnold honoured hall of Buckinghamshire, in the late eighties, included the then) VIL One morning the Prince and our together. It was November, and a sharp hoar frost had spangled the leafless trees and bushes and tangled brambles. Distances were veiled in haze and landmarks hard to distin. guish, whereby the two men soon were lost in the woodland mazes of Lord B--'s wide estates. They wandered far, through grades and thickets, until followed it to its ending at a small thatched cottage. At the door of this humble abode they knocked, and:it was opened to them by a bent and ancient. woman. To her the Prince said: a "Good dame, we are two tired and hungry way-farers. Can you direct] ug to some inn where we could rest and procure some food?" "Poor lads," exclaimed the old cot- tager, "it'll be a long ways from here to anywhere. Ye'll just come in and bide the whilst Mother Robin, as they call me, gets ye a bite." So the wanderers sumptuously lunched on bread and cheese, Mother Robin not knowing who were her guests. When hunger and weariness had been forgotten and they sought to testify to their gratitude in practical form, their. hostess would accept nothing but thanks. Happily the ex- pression of gratitude may take many forms, Early next morning, when the woman went out into the neighbour- ing wood to gather faggots for her fire, there arose from their hiding places in the surrounding coverts several gamekeepers in the employ of Lord B--. These men silently un- loaded from a cart waiting in the thickets, sundry heavily. laden crates, baskets and sacks, and hore them to the cottage. There they hastily filled every nook and 'corner with all imaginable viands and groceries. Lastly they spread upon hér table a roasted turkey. On its breast bore a card inscribed: "From your two grateful guests of yesterday. Later the Prince was told how Mothew Robin' returned. Depositing her bundle of gathered faggots at the threshold of her cottage, she pushed] open its door and stepped within, but drew back in alarm as she beheld the interior, glittering like Aladdin's cave with piled treasures of colored tins, bright bottles, shining jars, and gayly wrapped packages. Shyly she ap- proached and touched some of the nearest objects--and found them very bearing like an ambassador_its cre- dentials on it breast. With difficulty she read the inscribed message: "* From your two grateful guests of yesterday.! "Ah, no! Dear bodigs! Ye were just] | fairies--pretending. Ive heard it said that spmetimes they. come like *| Nusa {mie -- |riving ti ;rt| AS I KNEW THEM--EDWARD Vil i Spain {ee Bo, Tome oe 3 great road, long own as » oe aga Ontario to the Detroit River. 3 urveyor was up his instruments, suppose a stranger id to him: hundred and forty years from now this will be a broad, stret h of eonerete, It will be called with inflated rubber, vehicles propelled by ! heir power from vaporized, explosive liquid. them will bear the name of your great-great-grandson. He will be a it rin a giant industry producing these vehicles. At Windsor and Detroit he will hate factories covering thousands of acres of ground and employing many thousands of men. Through him, your name will be familiar-to every man, woman and child." It is altogether likely that that surveyor would have tapped his forehead significantly and gone on with his work. His name was William Chrysler. His great-great-grandson is Walter P. Chrysler, '" : : Today the name Chrysler is a synonym for daring achieve- ment in the field of automotive engineering and design. One of the main reasons is that through the veins of Walter P. Chrysler there pulsates the blood of generations of Canadian pioneers. - In 1796 the William Chrysler who had surveyed Dundas Street received a"'grant of land in Kent County, near Dolsen's, a thriving little pioneer.community named after the United Empire Loyalist family which founded it. In 1820, with his two sons, Henry and James, he moved a few miles farther up the Thames to the site of Governor Simcoe's war-time navy yard. There he erected a log house and established himself as the first permanent settler of what is now Chatham. On the site of that log cabin there stands today a residence, once the most imposing in the city, built by the late Dr. Holmes, Around it the Chryslers cleared land. They planted tobacco, and in 1822 raised=2,000 pounds of it. Their success had a bearing onthe development of tobacco in Kent and Essex Counties, now one of Canada's important agri- cultural industries. : . The Chatham Pioneer. Stimulated by that first tobacco crop, William Chrysler built a new home on King Street, and it was there that in 1826 the first private school in Chatham was opened, with James, the youngest son, as teacher. - But it is to the eldest son, Henry, that Walter P. Chrysler's mechanical strain goes back. Henry's youth was spent in stirring tiles, As a lad, he saw Brock and Tecumseh stem the tide of American invasion. Too young to soldier, he flung his energies into the auxiliary services and became a blacksmith and toolmaker. Today, on the seventy-first floor of the Chrysler Building in New" York, in a glass case, is exhibited a chest of tools. They would serve well a journeyman mechanic today. They were made forty years ago by a seventeen-year-old boy just out of high school who was earning five cents an hour as an apprentice in the Union Pacific shops at Ellis, Kansas. There was something of great-grandfather Henry in Walter P. Chrysler. To revert to the family tree, Great-Grandfather Henry mar- ried Martha Dolsen, daughter of a United Empire Loyalist family which, in transplanting itself from New Amsterdam to Kent County, dropped the aristocratic "Van." Through his great- grandmother, Walter P. derives a Knickerbocker strain that goes back to Tuenis Van Dolsen of New Amsterdam. That fact is mentioned in the American "Who's Who;" his Canadian ancestry is not, « : - Henry and Martha Chrysler had four daughters and three sons. Caroline Juliet was, in fact, the first white girl born in Chatham. And when Henry died, the third son, John Matthew Chrysler, grandfather of Walter, succeeded to the blacksmithy business, He also formed, in partnership with his brother, George Dolsen Chrysler, a general merchandise and hardware business. But shortly afterward John felt the lure of the Covered] Wagon Trail. fre departed for Kansas City, taking his second wife and two small sons born of his first,' Hannah (Schooley) Lundy--another of Canada's pioneer names. Henry, one of those two small Chatham boys, was to be the father of Walter P. Chrysler. Tools for the New Era. : In 1856 the whole of North America was rapidly falling under the shadow of the approaching war between the States. While Canada was not directly concerned, its destinies were to be in- volved in and largely shaped by the bloody agency of a great civil conflict. Kansas was already. "Bleeding Kansas", and even darker chapters were soon to be added to its story. : Kent County in Canada, still wet with the dews of pioneer dawns, was playing a part in all these events. Slavery, to these deeply-religious and law-abiding people, was abominable. - Henry Chrysler grew to swift maturity on Kansas soil. Though born at Chatham en September 17, 1851, we find him, not fifteen years later, mustered out of the victorious Federal Army of the United States as a veteran of the bloodiest conflict in history up to that time. He had enlisted as 4 drummer boy in a Kansas regiment. For a time after his honorable discharge he worked at 8 father's store in Kansas City. But when the years of man- | hood laggardly caught up with the man developed by war, Henry Chrysler turned te railroading, and that career claimed the re- mainder of his days. Early in his career, already a locomotive eer on the Kansas Pacific Railway, he married Anna Maria Breyman, the daughter of a Missouri farmer living near Kansas City, e young couple made their home at Wamego, Kansas, oq there on April 2nd, 1875, Walter P. Chrysler, the third son, | was-horn, L = os alter grew up in the period of United States history when o Wor vos Still a fact, not something cherished between covers of a book which could less grandeur. The heroes the new, quick of both wit alive or li egerve only a little of its the Old West now merging and were i ad - vi of one amazing epoch -into him, was able 'new one that was just t never before is all the more holding steadily | BLACKSTOC An appeal was presented from the pulpit of St. John's Church by the rector, Dr. C. E. Whittaker, on behalf of the Dominion-wide effort inaugur- ated among Anglican Churches for the Restoration of the Lost Endow- ment Funds. The special message of the Primate, Dr. Worral, was also read by the rector, An earnest effort is being made by the congregation to meet its apportionment of $100. Those in charge of the canvas are the rector, the two wardens Messrs. F. Willan and T. Smith, Messrs. Robt. Hamilton and F. A. Bailey, Mrs. Whittaker, Mrs, R. Mahood, Pres. of the W.A., Mrs. A. L. Bailey, Sec. of the W.A., Mrs, H. McLaughlin, Sec. of the A.Y.P.A. Dr. and Mrs. John McArthur visited the latter's brother, Mr. Donald Me- Arthur, at Greenbank, on Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Jas. Ginn, of Cadmus, were Sunday visitors of their son Mr, Harvey Ginn, Mrs. 8. A. Devitt has returned home after a two week's visit with her sister Mrs. Hill, of Richmond Hill, Misses Vera Forder and Florence Fair are in Toronto this week attend- ing the annual meeting of the W. A. Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Glenny, Mr. and Mrs. Norton VanCamp and baby of Elmira, spente the week end with Norton's parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. A. VanCamp. Mrs. Naysmith Henry and two daughters of , Janetville, are visiting her parents Mr. and Mrs. F. A. Bailey. Mr. and Mrs, Wallace Marlow and family motored to Toronto on Sunday. Mrs. Marlow remained to spend a week with her sister Mrs. R. Heaslip. 'Durham County's second annual Music Festival will be held this year in the United Church, Port Hope, on May 17th, 18th and 19th. Last year the first Festival of this kind was held in Bowmanville and was a decided suc- cess, It is to be hoped that this year it will be quite as successful. Mr. and Mrs. Mervyn Graham and family Roy and Grace, visited recent- ly with Mts. Graham's parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. E, Flett, Bowmanville, Mrs, Clarence Marlow and her mother Mrs. 8. Swain have returned home from Toronto where they were visiting Rev. and Mrs. M. Sanderson. Recent visitors in our midst were: Mr. Marwood Dickey, of Toronto, with Mr, and Mrs. F. Bailey, Miss Mar- garet Swain with Mr, and Mrs. Car- ley, Bowmanville; Messrs. Merle and Harvey Thompson, with Mr. A. Dever; Mrs, J. Marlow and Doris and Mrs. R. Archer, with Mr. and Mrs. M. C. Smith; Mrs. F. Stinson with her mother Mrs. W. Nixon, Clarke Union; Mr. and Mrs. Harry Vincent, of Windsor, with Mrs. Robt. Mahood; Mrs. W. Montgomery, Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Ferguson and baby of Enfield, and Mr. Lorne Thompson, with Mr. Alex. Dever; Mrs. Wm. Dixon and son Mr. Jos. Nixon, and grandson Master Henry Nixon, of Clarke Union, with Mrs. F. Stinson; Mr. and Mrs. Jas. Henry and Gertie, Mr. and Mrs. Lorne Griffin and Jean, with Mr. and Mrs. Melville Griffin, Cadmus. Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Galbraith and Marjorie visited Mrs, Galbraith's father Mr. T. Patterson, of Orono, who is ill. Mr. Fred Waldon of the T. T. C,, Toronto, spent the week end with his cousins, the Smith Bros. On Wednesday evening of last week about 40 of the members of St. John's AY.P.A., Bowmanville, were enter- tained by the Blackstock Branch in the Community Hall. The meeting was opened by the president, Mr. W. Hamilton with devotional exercises and Bible Reading by the rector, Dr. C. E. Whittaker, After an address of welcome by the president the neces- sary busi was disp d with and the remaindef of the evening devoted to the following program: piano duet by Mrs. Campbell and Miss Newell; a solo by Mr. Jack Smith, short speeches by Rev. Mr. Spencer and Mr. Bert Mortlock, president of the Bow- manville A.Y.P.A, a solo by Miss Gladys Newell. A sketch entitled, "Hand Me My Coat", the characters taken by Mrs. A. L. Bailey, Miss F. Parr, Mrs. (Dr.) McArthur and Miss Doris Marlow. A contest entitled "A Foolish Young Man" was won by Miss Isobel Cawker and Mr. Norman Taylor of Bowmanville. The gather. ing was then divided into seven groups, each group being asked to verse. the chorus of "Old Black ihe Joe"; Gladys Newell, Mr. Jack Eraas stand and sing without music one} group had more parts, more harmony and started in a better key. Lunch was served and appreciation expressed by the' visiting branch to the locdl A. Y.P.A. for their hospitality and en- joyable evening. There were 85 pre- sent, Jam Mr. and Mrs. John Rahm and baby Allan have moved to the village and are occupying rooms above Mr, Al- bert Wright's store as temporary quarters until the erection of their new house on their lot in North Blackstock. Miss Laura McGill, of Yelverton was a week end guest of Miss Grace Mountjoy. A fire scare came to our community on Monday, when it was learnéd that Mr. Stanford Swain's fine brick resi- dence was on fire. A spark from the chimney had ignited the roof of the summer kitchen. Fortunately it was noticed by the family in time to be. able to extinguish it before reaching the main part of the house and little damage was done. On Tuesday evening, May 9th, a musical festival will be held in the community hall by Miss Ward, the "Singing Teacher" and the pupils of the different schools in the township. The purpose of the entertainment is to give the parents and other inter- ested ones an opportunity to judge for themselves the value of music taught in the schools. A cordial invitation is extended to every one. A silver col- lection will be taken. xchange of Min- istersand Choirs St. Andrew's United Church, Oshawa Port Perry United Church The second exchange this year by the Port Perry United Church Min- ister and Choir was effected on Sun- day evening last. A few weeks ago the exchange was made with Whitby United Church. Last Sunday evening St. Andrew's United Church Choir and Minister came to Port Perry and the local United Church Choir and Min- ister went to Oshawa. Rev. A. D. Robb 'was the speaker here, and took as his text--*"We love Him because He first loved us". From this text was developed the thought that God is the inspiration of all our development--mental, moral, spiritual --He leads the way. He made us and made the World in such a manner that if we live well we can think His thoughts after Him in degree. So, "We love Him because He first loved us." There is a school of thought which teaches the idea that man has developed his religion from his own consciousness. The speaker Kis- agreed with this idea. God loved us first; religion naturally followed. Daily He continues to give evidence of that love and care. Mr. Robb's address was much appreciated. St. Andrew's Church Choir is a well trained organization, and the leader, Mr. Henley, secures remarkably fine results in volume, and well controlled tone. The soloists showed wide range of voice and good expression. The program was varied in character and showed fine work both by the choir as a whole and its individual members. These fraternal visits are greatly enjoyed, and itis likely that some other exchanges will be made soon. Lindsay is expected to be the next place where the exchange will be arranged. (From Oshawa Daily Times) Rev. R. T. Richards, of Port Perry United Church, occupied the pulpit of St. Andrew's United Church at the evening service on Sunday, making an exchange with the Rev. A. D. Robb, who preached in the Port Perry Church. The two choirs also ex- hanged, and an excellent choir of forty voices from Port Perry led: in the service of praise at St. Andrew's Church, under the leadership of Mr. Victor P. Stouffer. Mr Richards preached an inspiring message from the text, "For all our days are passed away in thy wrath, we spend our years as a tale that is told." People, he said, were apt to look on their lives as just ordinary and commonplace, but yet the smallest and most significant things were apt to be of great importance. Each one was an author, he said, who had to' write his or her own life story, and no one knew what the end was going to be. ' Using the parable of the prodigal son, Mr. Richards sketched effective word pictures of what might have happened to give this story a different ending, showing in many ways how | (Continued on page 4, col. 2)