The following text may have been generated by Optical Character Recognition, with varying degrees of accuracy. Reader beware!

i F'ire Last Week YOUR PropAerty Sufficiently Insure'd? What position would YOU be in if YOUR home or business block burned down to-night? Have you sufficient insurance to enable you to carry on should a fire visit your place? We represent some of the best and most reliable Fire Insurance Companies in Canada Consuit us and learn how littie it will cost to properly insure your buildings against FIRE. j. J. MASO'N &SO Iiisurance Brokers & Real Estate Bowmanville ENNISKILLEN PIONEER LIFE IN ONTARIO Mr. Win. Bentham, ThornIhilI, Quaint and Interesting Reminiscen- Man., and Dr. W. G. Bentham, Tor- J ces of Days Gone By in This onto, visited at Mr. R. Ben.1tam'S. 1Province. .Recent visitors: N,.r. and M-Nrs. nftems neetn ok Stanley Avery and Miss Dorothy, Oeote nsitrsigbok and Mr. Gilîdeer, Toronto, at Mr' we read in our youth was Mms. Mood. Wesley Oke's; Mr. Stewart Rodman, ie's "Roughing it in the Bush". If Scugog, and Mr. Stanley May, Tor- you have not read it, get it fromn your onto, Sundayed at Mr. E. C. Ash library and enjoy ber racy narra- ton's; Mrs. Redpath guest of Mrs. H. tives of the joys, hardships and ex- J. Werry and Mrs. L. Ashton; Misses periences of the sturdy pioneers of Annie and Susie VanCantp, Blaick- this country. Every thing referring stock, at Mr. James A. Werry's; Mrý ta early life in Canada appelis to us and M1rs. Wm. Ingles and babe, Tor-:1 as, altho not a pioneer, we do kno'a onto, guests of Mr. and Mrs. Sidney ifrom experience considerable about Tei;Mr. and Mirs. Jeffrey, Miss- I hife ia the f orest, clearing the land ewin; n yrl ndMse and the conditions as far back as the erey L uehI? an Mtesss ai Mat 50's of hast century. This article ane r Scugog, at MDr. Gordo fiom H. Old-Timer" in Toronto Ferguson and babe, accompanied -byl vrigTlga itrse svr Mrs. J. Pye, motored ta Toranto and imuch. Read it-Editor C. S. visited Mrs. A. Stainton; Mr. and O f commuunity life as it is being Mrs. Sidney Trewin and family at develaped todlay no one dreamed. -Mr, S. Malcolm's,' Nesztietoni; Mr.The cammiunity s;pirit, however, was $opr, ra.Paton nd r. oskn nt wanting. It expressed itself in 4 RedalMr. andi Mrs. BradleyI "Neighborliness." People were ready Broolin, and Mr. and Mns. Rossj to do a good turn for one aniother, Myrtle, at Mr. James Bratdley'.s; Mr. 1 Iendïng and borrowing were Coin- ai$d Mrs. D. Bourgmnaster anûý Missesi mort; there were even those who ex-. L. Andrew and G. Siniith visited Mr,_ celied in the latter art! J. Brown, town, and attended theý There were no paid nurses, but evening service of the Methodist' when sickness or death entered a churcii ta hear a formier- pastor, Rev.l home there was no lack af sympathy J. Garbut.... Mrs. F. Gourlie, Tor- and help. There was always a kind onto, purchased the beautiful quiht neighbor ta weicome the new baby, that the Ladies' Aid offered for sale, ta share the night watching in ser- Pastor E. C. Belknap gave Sunday iaus ilînesis 'or ta do the hast offices, a very instructive and beneficial ser- for the dead. The Irish "wake" mon on "The ThTree-Fold Faith",- survived for a tisse amnong the early faitb in ourselves, faith in others, settlers and was an occasion of much and faith in Go-d. Textý-"Oh, Ye, canviviality af a soleman kind. of little faith !" If we would make We had no organized games until a succesg of our ]ives he said we' about the end of the fifties -when a must have faith in ourselves. If cricket club was formed. I recol- we are ta be trusting others our, hect as a very smaih child seeing men faitb should be iasting, and we pitcb quaits in the sumnmer evenîngs. sýhould have everhasting and stead- Coasting on the hills was en 'oyed by fast faith in Jesus Christ. the boys and girls of the aid tisse as All are sincerely sorry f oo the in the present. sudden critical condition of Mrs. H.The homie-made hand-sleigh didi Rogers wha has been ailîng for sasse nat pravide suchi excitipg thriils as time. 1the toboggan, but it sufficed. The A number froni here attended the first skates I ever saw were madle by evening service in ýBowrnanville a handy young boy out of two fiat Methodist church ta hear a former files ground ta shap-e, set in wooden pastor, Rev. John Garbutt, preach. _________________ Counttry people certainly welcom- ed Monlday's rain as it wihl1 replenish rend'ered by Miss Elva Orchard ac- the ,,oft water supply of cisteras and companied by Miss Velma Orchard. rain barrels, as the general cry 'bas Recitatian "How we should know the Sbeen "It ain't gonna ramn no more." baoks of the ..Bjble", was given by Everybody came and 8hare our Mr. Arthur Symons. A solo was Christmsas spirit at Enniskilen-_ seeh sung by Mrs. Lloyd Ashton, gL>od music, plays, choruses, drills, and a reading was given by Miss Soxjcdialogues and Santa Claus. Maud Ashton. Rev. E. C. Belknap Rese1ýve the date: Friday, Dec. 19. gave a very beneficial talk on the la- nfarget, corne and bring one teresting subi ect: "My Ideal Man", you. and meeting closed by Mizpahi Bene- Wednesday evening's League wa-s diction. in charge of First Vice-President, The W. M. S. held its quihting in ,Miss May Werry. Opening hymn the church batement Wedne-sday af- was 269. Mr. Frank Orchard led ternoan with a very gaod attendance. ia prayer. Bible*reading: Luke 6 Thýey finished five beautiful qulîtsl 20-38, was taken by Miss Mary Wal- for Victor Home Mission, Taronto.j lace. The topic, "Second Period of Ail thexn joined in a very pheasant the Gahilean Ministry", was ver>, social tisse while they eajoyed a very ahiy taken by Miss Edna Lamb. appetizing supper served by theý Two violin saolas were excellently ladies. soles which were strapped to the ergy abounded, everyone was livingý boot. By and by most of -as obtain-i an active, laborious life. They were ed the clumnsy skates then in use, engaged in workç which was neces- and when the pond waë clear we had sary to the community. With f ew skating and sliding. exceptions everyone was bis own Occasionally dances were held, master, ownEýd his sinalhouse and generally at weddings and mostly in garden, and conducted bis affairs barns, though one of the taverns according Vo his own ideas. It was fboasted a "ball-roomn." The village a centre of business for many miles1 rcarpenter was a fiddler and knew ah Of suri!ounding country, and its - he reels and jigs of the day. Hle street was a thoroughfare for loads -also played a fife. I recall one con- of grain on the way Vo distant cert,. t was giveni in the school-house markets. by a travelling musician and his During the Crimean Wa.r, wheat daughter. They carried about a went up Vo týwo dollar& a bushel for small harmonium which the father a short time, causing a wodfl played and the girl, who appeared in boom among the f'armers oý Ontario. 1full evening dress9, sang sentimnentalý Some ridiculous things happened. sans, "Oft in the Stilly Night," A thrifty and wel-to-do fariner, near "Last Rose of Summrer", "Lily Dale" the village, bethoughthisf thatý etc., and in lighter vein "l'il'Paddleý this wouhd be a suitable time Vo buy My Own Canoe." a piece of fine choth to make Sab- ~The singing scliool was anotherý bath-day suits for himiself and his fealýure of that earhy time; an itiner- ,sons and being in Toronto with a ant singing master would formn a Ioad of wheat, made the purchase.f class and carry on for six weeks or Fin'ding that he coufld get it anta so, giving reafly good instruction in ittie hower price by taking the whohe the elemnents of vocal music and af_- boit of bloth, he did so,, and paid for f ording an opportunity for the young' it, and having other errands to do, people to meet and enjoy themselves. Ieft his package in the place, intend- The class met in the evening in the !'g to return for it later, but not be-) scho ol-house, each one brought his i1ng accustomed Vo city streets, Mr. owYn candle, a smail block of Wood Poor Man lost his way and eould not wwith a hale bored in it serving a find the shop, and as he kniew neither aaitihe naine of it nor the street where candletick.it was situated, no one was able ta It was an exciting event when the help him. Sa he had Vo wend bis flrst church social tlook place, late 11n w\ay homeward minus his good mon-i the -fifties, and soon after the Sun- ey and his boît of choth. 1day school picnic was introduced. The village of the present time is But the crowning diversion of the quieter, duler in some respecýta. year was the "Orange walk," eager-,iRoads are better and it boastsaa Iy looked forward to by .young and concrete sidewalk iùstead of the ohd. 1 have seen Orange processions straggling hoardwalk of earlier days. Lni Toronto in recent years, but they Motars whirl throug'h it, and you diff ered little fro-m those of my child- can buy picture postcards- at the post hood. The same georgeous regalia,. office. There is much imaprovement. the tall black hats, the W~çhite trous- Drunken men are no longer met ers, the pranci.ng white steed, the in the streets. The inhabitants arel piercing fife and druin band-, the moitiy elderly, and the school baýs onhy difference was in numbers, but but a mere handful of children Thse even in this respect there was aý cities have swallowed up the young goodhy show in the old time. 1 ife, and the factories have done Most of the farmers in adjacent away with the handicrafts. townships were North of Irelandi Tere is less individuAlity in these men, and the arder was highly pop- days, but everything is better order- ular. We children were allowed tVo, ed and more convenient and perhaps' cimb the gate at the road and watch 1 the fevel of culture is higher, but the procession as it marched in theý there were some things in the old blazing heat of July, amid clouds ofj regime whicb nothing can replace, dust, with banners flying, the fifel and on whic~h emory lingers fond- playing "Boyne Water," drums beat-I ly and regretfully. ing, and now and a9gain a muttered ________________ anathema against the Pope froin some excited rider. It was thrilling! The village of those far-aif days Storm W indows has completely passed away, though the naine and place remnain. It hall been namied in honor of a distin- JAMES McCARTNEY guished colonial goveIrnor of the BuMrndCnrat, tilnse. It was swept by fire in the BidradCýtatr early seventies, an'd the buildings Tyrone, Ont. which replaced the first bouses were; of a different order. Only in the We are now in a position to churelhy"rd will you find the namnes give you pirices on all sizes of of the pioneers* who founded the StrWnos tei Ae- village and whose lives made itstr WidsneirAle- early history. 'Most of these names nations, Hairdwqod Floors. Estim- are unfamiliar to the present in- ates free. Phone 196-r6, habitants, Ir£ its early yeara, youth and en- E; -~----- PLEASING INDEED! Corbett's X« GIFT CANDY Santa Claus gives his sweetest senti- ' ment in the form of a box of delicious Ganong's (G. B.) Chocolates-"Finest in the Land". There's a reason--these Chocolates tempt the palate as nothing else-and at the same time they formi the ideail impression of Christmas sentiment. $ Man-y assortments of Ganiong and Martha Jane Chocolates to choose f rom in choice gift boxes--sensibly priced from 30c'to $5.25. Ail fresh stock f or Christmas business. Special Ghristimas Mixture of Candy and Chocolates at 48e IL Christmas Cakes, pain or iced at 50e IL Almond Paste, ready for use 50e lb. W. P. Co..wrbett (Successor to Thomas Tod) Baker anid Confectioner Bowmanville Bowmanvi1Ie Had a Bad Is Il--