•aL^- . ■. t/ 7 -'^- •-->•.-• Sp .>"--r-fe.'-..' ; t--' sr-'pv •_rVfâ»r' *•. 'v.,~'* rr/C-^-'-- X :; X ."•- .,_ ... -. ■•. . ■•x'Xr : . r'Jc^X-vf-r *-j; r -:xi -- v «-••■ ••>• .• -. v.'.•••; : -', . N- "" /.•_; - \ - r :V - ' ' , -'V' ; g : ; 7 ^ '.x : ' ~ - gg ■: ■;'WÊm. 1 •' ' :y; ' - : *Wm. •y J r H"<$k \ ■ . i #* > . I Si.oo a year in advance ; $1.50 to United States. BOWMANVILLE, ONTARIO, T H U RS DAY, JULY 24, 1913 Vol. LIX. No. 30. M. A. J AMES & S ON, Proprietors. , A Big Sale of COUCH, JOHNSTON & ORYDERJLAN will during' July and August give Great Bargains in Ladies' and Children's white and colored Cotton Dresses and will sell a lot of Colored Voiles and other Wash Goods at about........ •-piece Suits Men's 2-piece Suits, regular SS.50 for ' :. " . " " 11.00 " " 14 44 19.JS0 61 - and 20 PER CENT OFF all Men's and Boys' Suits during this sale . $6.00 7.50 9.00 All Ladies Suits at Greatly Reduced Prices BOWMÀNVILLE Phone 104 'X'X'zX'zrX' N ITU A:# W E are just going to-mention a few of ou r SPECIAL VALUES in "High Class" Furniture and "invite You to come" then it's up to you. All these prices are given on absolutely nothing but the best Furniture that money will buy and something that to see it means to love it, Come early as many of the choicest bargains are going. a m 3-PIECE GENUINE MAHOGANY BED-, ROOM SET. The dresser is very large and massive, full swell front, two small and two large drawers, fitted with beautiful oval French Mirror Plate. Washstand to match. The bed is a large massive bed, having heavy rolls, on head and foot. Everything set off with large claw feet and - brass casters. This set was regular $115.00. • It now 50 goes for only 2-PIECE SET--DRESSER and STAND-- This is genuine goods. Princess style, full serpentine front, large mirror. § A bargain for both ............ 1 VERY PRETTY PAIR, ■ consisting of DRESSER and STAND in pure white enamel. Just the thing. Rush $^> | ' w n price for both... ; We have two other sets consisting of Dresser, Chiffioner, Dressing Table and Somnoè. One in French Enamel the other in Solid Fumed Oak. Space will not permit a full description! but you will be made welcome if you call. - *■ Prices are cut one third. Two Dozen more kinds at all similar prices. Still a few left of our "OSTERMOOR RIVAL- MATTRESS. Sale price ...............$9.00 39 00 CHAIRS. . We have 3 dozen of these in all styles for parlor, sitting room or den. W You'll SAVE MONEY If you Buy;; Complete Home Fumishers PHONE No. 9 Funeral Directors Furniture Dealers PHONE No. 9 Private Ambulance Enniskillen's Last Pastor Passes Away Suddenly. ' With startling suddenness the call came to Rev. J. E. Robeson who left the parson- age early in July to go to his new, circuit at Shannonville. A despatch says he had been in his «suai good health. The evening evening previous he-attended a lawn social at Emmons. Next morning he arose early and was busily engaged about his place preparing for the arrival pf his son, Rev. John Robeson and wife, Chicago. About ten o'clock Mr. Robeson complained of severe pains and Dr, Moore .was immediately immediately called in and pronounced it a case of acute indigestion and, heart failure. They were in constant attendance, but in spite of their best efforts death came at midnight. midnight. -XuV'X-' X-: - The late Mr.; Robeson was born at Athens, Ont., 67 years ago, and has been a minister of'the gospel for 40 years. He travelled the following circuits : Beech- burg, Renfrew, Riceville, Aultsville, Milford Milford Bay, Sidney, Little Britain, Bethany, South Monaghan, Greenwood, Northampv? ton, Ivanhoe,; Enniskillen, Shannonville, His two weeks' work on the Shannonville circuit was appreciated. Xx .. Deceased leaves a wife, four<^ugbters and six sons. Two of the la tier'are in the ministry of the Methodist Church, as well as two brothers, Rev. J. C. Robeson, Lanark, Lanark, and Rev. E.B. Robeson, Hannah, N.D THE EDITOR TALKS The great and mighty mayor of. Bow- mart ville, has come down ■ like . Darius Green and his flying machine,--Kerflop! After all his trips with his pets to Ottawa, Toronto and Ostiawa at meetings of the Dominion Railway Commissioners " every claim he put up .has been disallowed and the hundreds of dollars paid to lawyer, railways and hotels has been Wasted, for Kingston Road has been diverted, citizens citizens in the north ward are kept without bridges and High stree: is to be closed. Was there ever such useless expenditure of the people's money by any previous Town Council? And every effort abortive. Verily, our town is to be taxed high for its legislators' folly. SCHOOLS AND TEACHERS. EXCURSION TO FALLS Cobourg Harmonic Society will run a cheap excursion to Toronto and Niagara Niagara Falls bv the C_N, R. on TUESDAY NEXT, July 29th. Train leaves Bowmanville Bowmanville G.N.R. station at g.io a.m; fare from station,, adults $2.05, children $1.05; fare from town including bus,'$2.30 and $1.30. Arrive at Toronto 10.40 a.m., hence by steamer Dalhousie City leaving Yonge-st. wharf at 11 a.m. to Port Dalhousie, connecting connecting with electric cars for Niagara Falls, going through the renowned fruit belt. Mr. and Mrs. Thos. Beckle, Canton, visited visited her mother, Mrs. Williams, at Mrs. Richard Bragg's, Concession-st. ' Mr. and Mrs. John Allin, Whitby, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Allin, Pickering, Mr. and Mrs. F. W. Lee, Enniskillen, Mr. and Mrs. John Baker and Helen, Solina, were Sunday Sunday guests at Mr. W. J. Bragg's, Providence. Providence. Rev. Dr. S. J. Shorey, Lindsay, had fish •'or dinner of his own catch last weèk. He was do wn the Scugog, with - Dougall Sinclair Sinclair and John Jackson and caught a 'lunge that caused the natives wonder, thus adding anothèr. ring to v his record as a nimrod-in the deer season. BANK OF ES7 ABLISHED 1817 Incorporated by c4ct of Parliament Capital -- $16,000,000 Rest --• -- $ 16,000,000 Undiv. Profits $802,814.94 Savings BanK Head Office, Montreal, J. A. McClellan, Manager, Bowmanville Branch. What is a Continuation School ? Orono has a good one, Miss Wise, Principal, a *1000 a year. Now a continuation schoo is the old type of school with a few higher or additional subjects added to the curriculum. curriculum. In our school days all the rura £*®ools were continuation schools to the extent of the teacher's knowledge and the teachers of those days wrote the headlinés ion our copy books almost like copperplate Since we started to write this article a letter has come to us from-Mr. John B. Martyn, merchant, who was a schoolmate of the writer jand we doubt if there is a teacher or any otheu educated man in Bowmanville who can write a better hand and he is well on the ' way to the "three score and ten"; years. We were taught Latin and Greek roots---a most valuable study, too,-higher mathematics, mensuration, mensuration, four books of Euclid, bookkeeping, astronomy, geo ogy, botany, physiology, drawing, and mental arithmetic to an extent extent that we never hear in the schools I to-day. When _we tell our readers that ! under the tuition of the present Dr. E. Jessop, M.P;P., St. Catharines, th_g writer took a First Class Teacher's Certificate when a scholar in Enfield public school at 19 years of age and a First Class Grade A the highest obtainable---the yéar after while teaching in S.S. No. io, Cavan, and this was no exceptional record either in those days, pur present-day readers may think that continuation schools 45 to 50 years ago were a success.J Country boys only attended school in the winter time in those days, too. The writer never remembers remembers atténding school in summer* so I that to make a record like many boys in those days did while working hard on the farm all summer and doing the chores, cutting the year's supply.of wood, making sugar and helping at pig-killing, turning the fanning mill to clean the grain, and doing all kinds of work about the stables in winter was à credit to the teachers and the school system- of -those days. - The winter attendance in the Enfield "school then ran from 50 to 70 scholars, and we didnt have 50 cubic feet of air each either in the little old frame school hoüse with its tier above tier of seats the highest one being in quite close proximity to the ceiling. , This is the kind of school in which Rev. R. McCulloch, late Rev. W.K,McCulloch, the late Rev. James McCulloch, Dr. James Bray, Dr. J. C. Mitchell, John B. Martyn and scores of others including equally successfully farmers were educated. Enfield Enfield school was no exception for most of the schools in Darlington have a similar or better record. Principal W. Scott of Toronto Normal school* Dr. James L. Hughes and his brothers, Dr. W.E. Tilley, and his predecessor.in the Public school inspectorship of Durham county, and hundreds of other prominent professional and business men and agriculturists were products of the country schools of the I sixties and . seventies--the continuation schools. And we would have such schools to-day but for the efforts of those who ran the Educational Department of this Province in Toronto some years ago who introduced the entrance examinations for the purpose of- feeding the High schools from the rural schools. This policy has been the curse of the rural schools and is responsible for the conditions that exist to-day. VERY FINE STORE. West End House Transformed Into „ A Commercial Palace. Every*Auto owner should insure insure his car against Fire ; v- : : Liability ' ' Property Damages Collision relieving owner of all worry* All information and rates gladly gladly furnished by . Harry Cann, The Insurance arid Real Estate Man Phone 50 - Bowmanville Of all the recent improvements in Bowmanville Bowmanville business houses perhaps there have been none greater than the West End Department Store. It has undergone various changes in its 81 years of continuous continuous existence but it was reserved for this year of grace 1913 to witness the most radical transformation. Congratulations have been showered upon Mr. John Mc- Murtry and sons; Messrs John Howard and W. B. McMurtry on their good taste in remodelling their well-known establishment. establishment. The old.fronts have been replaced by most modern city plate glass fronts that increase the light almost two-fold in the two main departments. The effect from the outside is very striking and the pleasure of shopping has been greatly increased increased by the superior interior lighting. The exclamation- "What a beautiful. Store" is an every day compliment. Painters Painters have given excellent effect to the work of carpenters and * in the Dry Goods Branch several "Silent Salesmen" have been added to adorn and make more display display space. Hardwood floors are another another improvement. The business office has been made bright and cheerful by paper and paint so that thruout the estab- j lishment good taste and attractiveness are ' strongly in evidence. We sincerely congratulate congratulate McMurtry Company Limited on their valuable contribution to the architectural architectural improvement of Bowmanville's main business street, for the Old Reliable Business House never looked so spic and span and exteriorally attractive as now. Saturday nights when it is illuminated it looks fairy-like in its loveliness. Visitors to this town cannot but bè attracted by the city-iiké appearance of the popular West End House. Oshawa public schools sent up 52 en trance candidates and only 37 passed. -Peterboro records show that 192 candidates candidates trie I entrance exams and only 119 passed--62 per cent. A large number of Durham county schools are still unsupplied with teachers altho some of them are offering $600. Cecil Found, Ebenezer, shares Oliver Hezzelwood's $15 scholarship with W. Collins at Entrance exams in Oshawa Good boy, Cecil. / Miss Greta M. VanNest of this town has been engaged to teach Union S.S. No. 4 Wh'tby--iy 2 miles west of Oshawa sta- tion---at $600. : Port Hope centre passed 57 entrance candidates, 9 of whom won honors--75°/ of total marks Florence Bennett making 569 marks out of 650. Orono entrance candidates were two- thirds successful, 8 out of 24 being "plucked." "plucked." Half f II in the fray at Janetville, only 3 out of six making the required 60 per cent. The Globe had an editorial Wednesday on the weakness of public schools as shown by the small percentage of successful successful entrance candidates and the low marks made by many who wére passed. _ Orono has some reason for crowing a. bit over the results of the village schools. Eight of Miss Wise's pupils wrote at Lower School exams and six wère successful successful beating several High School records and ten of Principal John G. Staples' wrote at. thè-Entrance exams and eight passed successfully . Jack Kirkconnell, son of the principal of Lindsay Collegiate, won the scholarship in that town with 524 marks, ten others taking over 500 marks and yet they tell us that the entrance papers were too difficult. Possibly" better teaching and more study would have shown différent results in many schools. Elderly Teacher" says that if the On- :ario Department of Education will provide provide an annuity for teachers in their old age the. scarcity of teachers would disappear. disappear. This begging for aid from a poor und. for teachers in this aid must be very îumiliating to the more respectable members of the profession. To many it is disgusting. Roman Catholic separate schools have fad remarkable success at the entrance exams, and city papers call attention to the.high records they have invariably made. Lindsay separate schools sent up 19 and 17 passed. Now the question arises, Why should R. C. schools make better records in the same exams than the public schools? "Teachers Wanted" advertisements occupied. occupied. nearly ten columns in Saturday's Globe, showing the demand increases I rather than abates as vacation time advances. advances. No doubt the 832 new Normal graduates have secured schools in antici- ! patiori of passing successfully. No teacher good, bad or indifferent, need go without a school next term evidently; The -Globe says school teachers are scarce in Ontario and many schools are likely to go unsupplied. It opines that small salaries and the lure of the West are the reasons why thé profession is so ' unattractive. The lucrative, positions in ' commercial life are also more alluring* than the pedagogic calling. The GIobe adds that it is a very hard examination paper which has been set for the minister ; of education and his staff during the next few years. No wonder they are looking worried and scratching their heads. j In another column will be found ah article from the Bowmanville Statesman on the present condition of rural schools in Ontario. It is deserving of consideration consideration because its editor spent ten years as j public.school teacher, and that in the days when the rural public school and its 1 teacher, generally a man, were a real j power in the community. There are ' hundreds of others who think that the educational machinery of Ontario is out of gear. The Statesman may not have suggested the best remedy for the general condition, but there is crying need for a rèmedy of some kind.--Stratford Daily Beacon. A writer in Orono News is advocating centralized schools--one at Newcastle and another at Orono and strikes a v'cious blow at the present system which he declares declares is not economical when the poor results are considered, but rather costly, especially for the children. The present rural school system has served its day and must, to keep pace with the advancement of the times, give place to something more progressive. Yet he adds with strong emphasis, some people are so retrogressive that they would return to the old Model School for a supply ot teachers for our children. The shame of it! The Churches. Disciple Sunday School picnic will be. held on Mr. John McClellan's lawn, Port Bowmanville, Thursday July 31. 1 Ficher Staples of Albert Col- lege, Bowmanville, preached in Cam- bridge-st Methodist church, Lindsay, Sunday Sunday evening. „"°X Qr Against His House" will be Rev. W. N. Arnold's theme at the Discipîe Church next Sunday morning. Subject of evening sermon : "Not Yet." Oliver Darwin, Superintendent c f Missions, Saskatchewan, is visiting in On- tano in quest of 40 men to go to the. Northwest as missionaries to English speaking people. The many friennds in Bowmanville cir- - cuit of Rev. J. E. Robeson were greatly grieved to léârn of his sudden death. He was a faithful pastor, a good preacher and : a pleasant man to meet always. Mrs. Robeson and family have the sincere sympathy sympathy of their hosts of friends hereabouts. 0% Moore, pastor of King-st., Methodist church, Oshawa, and family are enjoying five weeks holidays at Belleville Belleville and the Kawartha Lakes. This is the first holidays Mr. Moore has taken in six years arid after the strenous work he las had, especially with the building of :he new church at Oshawa, he is deserving deserving of all the pleasure and profit that à rest of this kind affords. The Sunday School picnic of St. John's church took place on Wednesday July_ 16th. A large party of adults and children children made their way to the lake in the course of the afternoon and all met on Mr. and Mrs. Gooch's lawn which had- been kindly loaned for the occasion. A most enjoyable afternoon and evening were spent there and everybody had a thoroly good time. The picnic was a great success and the kindness of the host and hostess in loaning the lawn was much appreciated. On Sunday splendid congrégations greeted Rev. Dr. G. C. Workman of Toronto Toronto in the Methodist Church. His morning morning subject was "Divine Care" and the evening "Divine Guidance", both addresses addresses being thoughtfully prepared, clearly presented and were spiritually helpful. Dr. Workman.always receives a cordial welcome in this town and though thirteen years have passed since he preached to this congregation, everyone was greatly pleased to- have the privilege of once more listening to his earnest messages and hope it will not be long before he will be heard here again. Rev. John Harris, Port-Perry, for some years after Rev. J. H. Nott's death editor of The Observer, the organ of the Bible Christian Church in Canada, celebratèd his 50th year in.the ministry on Sunday, . July 6v In giving some reminiscences of his life he referred to his first charge at Medcalf-st., Oshawa. Later he succeeded Rev. W. S. Pascoe in Charlottetown, P. E. I. Returning to Ontario, he' was under • Rev*. Jesse Whitlock's - superintendency. Big circuits and much work were common in those days. Take the one at Bowmanville Bowmanville with its eight churches, including the outlying points of Tyrone, Leskard and Orono. On this circuit Mr. Harris lab- ed, assisted by Rev* A. Richard and Rev. S. T. Bartlett, later Secretary of Sunday School work. A church paper -- The Observer--was at that time published at Bowmanville and it editor died. This work, too, was assigned to Mr. Harris who found that work was plentiful. Bowmanville r Epworth Leaguers were greatly interested and edified Monday evening by a very concise yet compréhensive, compréhensive, report of the Summer School recently held at Albert College, Belleville, presented presented by their delegate. Miss Florence Rickard. Rickard. It was a capital resume of the sessions. sessions. Miss Young and Miss F. E. Conley also gave some personal impressions that were alike interesting.. All agreed that Rev. R. Bamforth's addresses were real gems among the many good things heard there; one remark made by the speaker was that everyone should enjoy life to the full but, to be complete, there must tie- a serious vein running thru it. Rev. John Garbutt, our former pastor, gave some instructive talks, and Miss Wise, Orono, received praise of the delegates for her good services. Miss Florence Allin sang "The Rosary" very nicely. The next League gathering- will be in the form Of â picnic on Mr. H. J. Knight's lawn, Port Bowmanville, on Wednesday afternoon _ July 30. Free rigs will leave the church at 3.30 and 6.15 p.m. All young people of the church come and bring your baskets. Should you require the services of an ambulance phone 10. L. MORRIS & Son. FATAL ACCIDENT TO MR. C. OSBORNE Fell From Wagon and Died Soon Afterwards. Citizens and acquaintances were terrib- y shocked Tuesday afternoon to hear of the sudden death of a well-known citizen thru an accident. While Mr. Cornelius Osborne and Mr. Gordon Johnston . were riding on the Gunn, Langlois & Co., waggon waggon just before noon returning from the | j. T. R. station one of the empty egg crates started to slip and Mr. Osborne in attempting to adjust it other crates gave way and he fell to the road striking on his head. He was hurriedly taken to the hospital in the ambulance in an unconscious unconscious condition and Drs. Hazlewood and Tilley were summoned, but he passed away a few hours later, it is supposed from concussion of the brain, without regaining consciousness. Besides a widow, he leaves a son, Edward at Springwater, Sask., four daughters, Eva, Violet, Bertha and F earl, the youngest, Mrs. (Rev.) C. A. W1 ight. who was home on a visit, left only last week for their distant home in Fort George, B. C., after spending a few months at home. Stay In Bowmanville CIVIC HOLIDAY, AUGUST 4. Big Day of Sports and Festivities ' Arranged by Bowling. Citizens will be delighted to know that the Bowling Club has arranged a big day of sports; a carnival and band concert for the evening in the Agricultural grounds. Morning and afternoon baseball games between The Vermonts, a fast senior aggregation aggregation from Toronto and our own Goodyears; an exciting five mile motorcycle motorcycle race; a football game between Enniskillen Enniskillen and the Fleetfoots of Bowmanville. Bowmanville. Band -will be in attendance all day and in the evening. -In thé evening at "the Agriculture Grounds the B wiers will put on a Hum- Bug Circus. Grand, glorious, gladsome gaiety gathered from all parts of the globe. Phenomenal prodigies procured from Tyrone, Blackstock and Plaster of Paris, France. Largest Salaried Artists in the world, salaries being paid every second Tuesday of each - wêek. A line of side shows that are all side-splitters and money-getters. money-getters. A small admission charged tor each. This will be absolutely the most novel entertainment ever put on in Bowmanville. Bowmanville. Keep the date in mind, Aug tth. Stay in Bowmanville and enjoy -vourae.f. m . v : ) : • = 5sSs - .
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