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THE CANADIAN 9STATESUAN. BOWMANVILLE, THURSDAY, MARCE Srd, 1932 PAJU a No chlied flirs or corners, no damp roins, no slw- hesting nooks in homes warmed by this efficient fuel. LEHIGH VALLEY ANTHfRACITE 71. Coal T7atSatàfi. Hee's cool that makes turnaces behave. Here's cool th14 keeps homes dlean, comf attable, and healthy. Here's coal that protects pocketbooks. Order a load today and enJoy deUghtful warmth the test of the chili J.A. HOLGATE & SON BhJILEES UPPLIES PHONE 153 BOWMIANVILIZ FOR THE LENTEN FAS SHREDDED READY-COOKED THE IDEAL LENTEN FOOD-UGHT AND NOURUSHING Mode jin Canada witl, Canadian WIeat THE CANÂDIÂN SHREDDED WHEAT COMPANYI, LTD. Persian Balm the creator and created. ivaluable for softenlug preserver o! beautiful complexions. the hands and making tbem flaw- Tonte lu effect and wonderfully lessly white. Truly the perfect toil- stlmulatlug. Safeguards and beau- et recjuisite for the woman wbo tilles the mosi delicately-textured cares. skins. Cools and relieves aIl skis A a vermifuge an effective pre- flushed or lrritated by weather con-paration is Mother Graves' Worm ditions. Magical lu resuits. A lit- Exterminator, and it can be given tie gentle rubbing and a youtbful to the mosi delicate child wlthoui freshisess and daintines 1 instanily1 f exir o! ina ury te the constitution. 1 COUCH, JOHNSTON & CRYDERMAN present New Spring Dresses Authentie Spring models - the very latest word in color, fabric and fashion, to wear right now. See these now at prices within the limita of ail budgets. Priced from $6.95 Up. New Spring Coats The moment you see these Coats you'1l recognize them as extraordînary values. Ail the new, ever-so-smart furiess fash- ions are here in semi-dress fabries and tweedy sports textures. Fuli range of sizes. Priced from $12,75 up. To those who took part in our Wabasso Cottons demon- stration we wish to extend our thanks for the help in making this one of the most successful events in our store in many years. The winners of the prizes are announced in the news columns. The Men's Store Announces THE ARRIVAL 0F THE NEW SPRING SUITS AND COATS Garments that will aid you in being leaders of the style in the Easter Dress parade. These new clothes are the last word in smartness and they represenit new values in men's clothing. Suits with two pair of pants from $19.50 up. Made to Measure Suit&s.......... $19.00 up MEN'S FELT HATS FOR SPRING FROM $1.98 UP New Tics - New Shirts - And ail the New Accessories Coucli, Jolinston & Cryderman Phone 104 LIMITED King Street~ Bownmvil.e HISTOEY 0F WEST DURiHAM £ETOW AT WoM±2'N'S INSTITUTE Prei¶ared a"Ud ead by Mms J. LiuicKson a& Women's insuiule fIjurliaisicouiLy, calleci aiter a couis'.y on tace saine naine un me lnortui o1 jisgiaisa, is neariy a com- paicL square, înree toWnnmpa WIîe anu two un ceptis, ana untu recent years was aiviaLca ito two ndiigs kâ~sLi, Jurisaisicomnprliiisg n.ope, manvers ana Cavan townships; anci 'West .uurisam comprxsiisg Uarlisg- ton, Cartwrignt ana Clarke tOwn- siups. liariungton ana CL;arite toWn- ships have a water mrontage an Lakte O)ntarlo wfle Cartwritit 15 lulai ana north of Darungton. Darling- ton andL Clarke have qn area o! about 74,000 acres eacmi, while Cart- wrigflt 15 about 50,000 acres. Tne eariiest o1ficiai records we have o! Durhami CountY were lu 17b8. Bel ore then the countrY Was known as the oid province o! Que- bec and was divided luto Upper and Lower Canada.DI 1792, Durbain County was especially mentioned anci cescribed lu a proclamation 15- sueci by the Lieutenant Governor. The firsi survey of Darliisgton was made by a Mr. Hambly lu 1793, and in 17l97 Mr. A. McDonald surveyed parts o! Darlington and Clarkce, but il was lu 1816 and 1817 that Mr. Wilmot compleied these townships andi also Cartwright. Cartwright was named lu compli- ment o! the Hon. Richard Cart- wright o! Kingston who helti a seat lu the Legislative Couiscil. It was Iargely settled by Irish, most o! whom madie for themselves comfort- able homes and a competence. Be- f ore 1820 the early settiers received large grants f rom the Crown. Lat- er more settlers arniveti and we te- cognize many nanies whose des- cendants stil resitein l Cartwright. The eariy settiers o! Clarke were mostly English and Irish wiih a !ew Scotch anti maisy amusiug exploits o! encounters witb the idians and other ativentures were experienced. Richard Lovekin, an Irishman !rom County Cork, was the earllest pion- eer lu the dense f orests o! Clarke lu 1796. I 1819, Mr. Asa Wailbridge set- iled lu Clarke, bringing witb hlm $1900 lu gold which was considered a suce lile capital lu those days. He punchaseti 600 acres o! lanti at $2.00 an acte ai Newcastle anti quite a portion o! Newcastle is buili on landi wbich was owned by the Wall- bridges. The Bellwood f amily came f rom England and were the firstinl the district te liroduce the un- proved breed o! Shorthonn catile. Othen promineni early setilers in- clutiet the Renwicks, Fosiers, Redi- dicks. Bowens and others. The Av- erys ai one time owned ail o! Bond Head wbere the firsi iwo acres o! Clarkie were cleared. They sold a part ta Charles Clarke lu 1838 and he expended a fortune o! £2i5.000 on $100,000 lu building a wharf and cOnstructing a barbon. The !irst cburcb built lu the township was tbe o]d Cburch o! Englanti buili in 1840. i was neyer used on account of dissensions among the members as te ibe loca- tion. A Congregational Church fol- lowed soon ai terwards and was tbe firsi church to be regularly occup- uu±uvuîe is locatecl on land whlch and know for yo.jrself how quickly was owned by the Cubiti family and thy sto th ai. Col. Cubiti was mayor for 10 years and some 20 years a school trustee. The firsi school lu Bowmanville was taught by John Scott lu 1827 and sometime8 the copy was set on white blrch bark. A very important personage lu the 1 early hlstorY of this tewn was the *. Hon. Sen. John Simpson of Scotch Oatnueal's th~ for Big, Sti Chieks Re Feed rong IN THE DIM andi DISTANT PASTI FIFrY YEARS AGO TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO From The Statesman, Mlar. 3, 1882 From The Statesman, Mar. 6, 1907 Richard Osborne, Town Line, Employees of the Dominion Or- Clarke, purchased a farm of 963/ gan & Piano Co. sprang a surprise acres from Norman Sais at $95 visit on Geo. Downey and presented per acre. him with a set of harness and an E. Burk's horse ran from Mar- arctic rug on the occasion of bis tyn's corner to the Ruebottom quitting the factory and gomng House, on Monday at a lively rate. f arming. The buggy came to grief somewhere Wedding: Vanstone-Cawker-At on the Journey. hvn the residence of the bride's parents, Funeral services hai t elerence on Wednesday, February 20th, 1907, te the death of Rev. Dr. Ryerson by Rev. W. Jolliffe, Mr. Frederick C. were held in town on Sunday. The Vanstone, eldest son of the late J. puipits were draped in black. C. Vanstone and Mrs. Vanstone, and Two persons, supposed to be Miss Alice May Cawker, eldest dau- tramps, broke mnto the Star Housd ghter of Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Caw- Sunday nlght and stole two entire ker, both of Bowmanvilie. outflts, boots onuy excepted. Mr. This Paper was gotten out wlth Jeffrey's Ioss wiIl be about $60.00 dlfflcuity owing to members of our On fflday, February 24th, Messrs. 'staff having the fashionable lnflu- J. W. Hlggingham, Grand Vice Pres- Da ident. and J. W. Carter, Grand Sec- F. W. Klrkendall had three fin- retary, of the Sons of England Ben- gers of bis right band badly crushed efit Society, asslsted by the breth- bY a drop hanimer at the Foundry ren o! Oshawa Lodge, l.nsttuted a on Frlday. lodge in that order in Bowmanville Editer James was in Toronto on wth 13 charter mnembers. Thiis Moiiday and brought home !rom St. lodge is known as Wellington Lodge, John's Hospital bis niece, Miss No. 19. Officers elected were: Pres- Anianda E. Bond, Oshawa. where ident-J. Nott; Vice President-B. she spent three weeks. D. Fogg; Sec'y.-P. C. Trebllcock; Darlington: Mr. S. Allun lost a Treasurer-M. A. James; Surgeon- valuable horse f rom pneumonla. J. Fieldlng, M. D.; I. G.--J. Stollery; Maple Grove: Social and enter- O. Q.-Jos. Taylor; Managing Com- tainmient under auspices o! Epworth mlttee-Messrs. Sandercock, jas. League was a decided success. Ad- Gale. Levi Morris and R. Nn. dress given by Rev. S. F. Dixon was Solina: Bart Lammninan starts for very interesting and instructive. Manitoba this week Satina de_ Those taking part lu prograni were !eated Leskard at football, 4 to 0. Fred R. Foley, Miss Florence Emery, Miss Aima Plckle, Misses Aima and ied. The Presbyterian Church was May Courtice, Mrs. A. E. Rundie and completed in 1846. and the Meth- Mrs. W. R. Courtice. Odist Church the followlng year. A Mr. and Mrs. J. E. MeMillan of great deal af credit goes to the Victoria, B. C.. celebrated the 6fth Massey famiy for the early comple- alnniversary of their wedding day tion of the Methodist church. In on Feb. 6th. Mr. McMillan was a 1857 the Church of England people former publisher o! the Bowman- put up another building. There was ville Messenger and later the States- an early Indian settiement along man. the lake shore lu Clarke, most of Newcastle: Jonas Samil has pur- whom died from smalipox and were chased one o! the latest lmproved burid a Bod Had.Power sprayers. Geo. Gray and bThed at nd ed John Beflwood visited the Toronto Th rnipal villages in Clarke Horse Show ....ilbeck Is home are Newcastle, Orono, Newtonville, from Alabama. KirLby, LeslLard and Kendal. Newcastle village was f ounded in 1828, and was f irst cailed Cranidell's Corners. The first store was open- descent, who at the age of 23 was ed lu 1833. in 1846 Newcastle had manager of the Bowman estate and a Population o! 300, and 3 churches, Who contiuued lu this important a Post office, 8 stores, 1 druggist, 2 Position for 32 years. tanneries, 2 taverns, 1 axe factory, In 1848, the flrst branch of the 2 saddlers, 4 blacksmiths, 2 wagon Bank of Montreal. between Mon- makers, 4 tailors, and 2 shoemakers. treal and Toronto was established at By 1851 there were 6 churches and Bowmanville. lIn 1851. two barrels a population o! 500 and several o! flou.r ground under Mr. Simpson's more facteries and stores are men- supervision f romn wheat grown lu tioned. Clarke, received the prize at the Near Newcastle was the Dominion London (Eng.) Exhibition and these Fish Breeding establishment which were presented to ber majesty was owned and operated by Mr Queen Victoria by Mr. Simnison. Te Samuel Wilmot and where extensive people of this district wpere ver raising of salmon and whitefish was proud of winning this prize as it al- carried on. lowéd them te command higher The village of Orono originated in prces for their wheat and flour lu 1832 or just 100 years ago, but no the overseas markets. POst office Was established uintil The perxod between 1830 and 1850 twenty years later, although there coiltains the real seriaus settlement were churches, grist mills, tanner- of Clarke and Darlington townships. ies. etc., as early as 1835. Kirby ap- I 1846 Bowmanville was spoken o! Pears to have been established be- as a village prettily situated on the fore Orono. sides o! two hills with a mill stream Cozing te Darlington Township running through the hoilow. There the first actual settiement occurred were 500 inhabitants with 5 church- lu 1794. Many familles crossed f rom es, a post Office with mail every day, the United States and settled upon 1 physician and surgeon, 1 grist the most favorable locations on the MIE., 1 oatmeal miii, 1 tannery, 1 shore of Lake Ontario. Among distillery, 1 carding and cloth f ac- these were the f amilies of John tory, 1 axe f actory, 1 ashery, 7 Burk, John W. Truil and Roger stores, 4 t.averns, 1 brewery, 1 drug- Conant Who landed near Barber's gist, 1 pottery, 2 wagon makers, 3 Creek, now Port Bowmanville. i a blacksmiths, 1 chair factory, 2 bak- letter written by Mr. Burk he said ers, 2 watchmakers, 6 shoemakers, they had no neighbors but the I- and 6 tailors. dians for two or three years except It is interestlng to note by 1877 Beni. Wilson and the Truils. There there were 8 well buill churches, al- was not a bouse except these wlth- 1so good achool buildings and wel lu 30 miles te the west and none built brick stores and three news- east until Smith's Creek. now Port Papers-The Canadian Statesmnan, Hope. They llved by trapplng and The Observer and The West Dur- huntlng, both bear and deer belug ham News. The flrst paper to be very plentiful and the skins of these Published was the Messenger lu animals were about the only things 1850 but this was absorbed by the that could be sold f or money. it Statesmnan lu 1855. The principal was 60 miles east te the nearest miil factories were the Upper canada and this trip usually required about Furniture Factery and the Domin- two weeks. They went by canoe on ion Organ Co. There were also four Lake Ontario and the trip was at- grist and flour mi]]Inl operation. tended bY manY obstacles and perils. Port Darllngton, later known as Other very early settlers were the Port Bowmanville, situated 1 ',à Miles Sopers who came lu 1798. Timotby south o! the village On the lake Soper was the flrst white child born shore. lu 1846 contained a few lu Sydney township near the Bay of bouses, store bouses for storing pro- Quinte. This branch o! the f amily duce and a tavern. and was said te moved to Darllngten lu 1805 and have the longest pier on the north erected the flrst sawmiil. Thos. side o! Lake Ontario. Exports from Lovekin, another eariy settler. used tbis Port sbowed a brisk trade lu to relate an incident of shootlug a lunuber, flour, wheat, potatoes, but- bear on the brow o! the bull where ter, wbiskey, etc. Bowmanville cemetery is now locat- Hampton origlually known as ed. As it was so large be had the Melville and later as Elliott's Mils skin dressed and Made luto an over- in 1846, contalued 150 inhabitants coat. anid the usual grist milis and stores. Samuel Wilmot, wbose father was The P. O. was opened lu 1852 and an early settler lu Clarke, was one the Population had then lucreased o! the surveyors te mark out the to 200. noW Toronto. The first mail taken for the last sixty and seventy years, over this road was taken on a mule it wlil be !ounid that the population and arrived every two weeks f rom wýas greatest about 70 Years ago. adhve early layersansd market birds. ~q For a grain ration to go with FuI-O-Pep Growing Mash we recommend Ful-O-Pep Coarse Chick Feed. We cau supply yau wlth both. Q ae FUL-O-PEP ~qGRowiNG MAsH A W. GLENNEY, P hone 26r12. NEWCASTLEF, RONTM 4 BUYTHEFEEDS IN STRIFED SACK EIGHT 1 is i e w DSPHOSPHODINE!> :Ook's R.gulating Compound Thfle Great English Prepaatuia c j sfa, ,haUe~ V~~!bnrvous sysrem. maires imwDIO ~~~1 L UW d in oW W S. B' n olaid Ued for Nor~Oa petboality. Mental aMd o&.ilW"f L fisdrm~ or 1 oI b Iseo.isor m.i edI 1THKCOOK MiDICINrIca e etemo w e We've studied the chick feed business, and we know that the best and most nounishing grain feed is pure, fresh oatmeal. It is the bas of Quaker FuI-O-Pep Growing Mash. lIn addition, Quaker FuI-O-Pep Growiný Mash contains MOLASSES IN DR FORM-rich in potash and vitamin B, it keeps chicks free from digestive troubles. C7dLiver Meal, alsa, which sends the nourishment of ail the other ingredienta right ta the spot. Quaker Ful-O-Pep Growig Mash la moat economical, because it produce the great- ID&tllp javr ý 1 "ILIL