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ORONO WEEKLY TIMES Vol. 1. No. 5. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1937. Subscription, $1.25 Per Year. SUBSCRIBE TO YOUR COMMUNITY PAPER If You Are Buying Land, Buy In Clarke Township and Prosper Cheap Taxes, Good Land, Ideal Opportunities For Prosperous People About seventy-five per cent, of the people living in Orono, own their own homes without a mortgage, have no debts and live comfortably; on less than fifty dollars a month. A majority majority of the people living in Orono are retired farmers that are living off the profits that they have made farming farming in, Clarke . Township, so there can't be much wrong with a farm in Clarke Township. And on top of all this neither Clarke, Township nor the Village of Orono has any bonded debt and we have as low taxes as anywhere in ; Canada. There isn't- -any doubt that Orono is "A Good Place to Live," and: our farms are- as productive as they are most anywhere. But for fifty years or more the population of ' Clarke Township and Orono has been getting less and less, farms have been getting larger, and larger, and farm values "lower and lower, with' the result that good farms sell for less than the improvements improvements cost. In Orono, oil account of low farm product prices in the past six years, there hasn't been any farmers retiring, retiring, and it xvou Id nit appear that there would be for another six years, eo when we have a funeral we have another vacant house. On the other hand:, with the cost of living going tip and up, and a talk of housing shortage, in most cities, there is a large retired class living In cities on limited incomes that are finding it harder and harder to make ends meet. Every year there are thousands of city policemen and firemen firemen retired on -a life time pension of half pay which doesn't allow them to live as they have been accustomed to. The question is how are we going going to get some of the city retired class to buy a small farm in. Clarke Township or a home in Orono where they can live comfortably on their present income. We think that the Orono Chamber of Commerce, the Clarke Township Council and the Orono Police Trustees Trustees should join hands and devise a plan to get some of this city retired class to buy a home here, and would suggest, that our Police Trustees and Township Council sipend a reasonable amount of money in the classified section of city newspapers to let people people know about real estate opportunities opportunities for sale here. Property owners with property for sale should be able to advise the Chairman of the Police Trustees or the Township of'Clarke so that buyers buyers could be directed to the owners of property for. sale. If we arc going to niaintain property property values'-something has got to be done and it can't be done for nothing. nothing. Everybody has: got to boost, -and it -can be truthfully said that nobody nobody ever had a better place to boost Charley Miller Writes Home Temperature Ranging From 72 to 80 Degrees The following is a letter received by Mr. Jack Armstrong, from Mr. Charley Miller, who is wintering at Clearwater, Florida : Dear Jack. I see by the Orono Paper that things are really booming around Orono since 1 left. New Chamber of Commerce is a real jump. Had a good trip down and the weather has been hot even for -here. It was over 80 degree- every day in January, -but has been some -cooler since the first of the month, running about 72 degrees- now. Tom Co-wan wouldn't stop over in Jacksonville, and 1 -had social things to do so he went on and we haven't seen him since. Think he is probably in iSt. Petersburg, which is 18 miles from here. Don't pull off that Hydro vote before-he gets back:. This town is about 7000 and has the finest beach on the Gulf. They are in swimming every day. Water is always warm. We are right in the midst of the orange and grapefruit growing. The blossoms are just coming coming on now and it seems funny to see the blossoms with grapefruit and oranges still on the trees'. They just pick them off as required. Get the Toronto Star here two days late, but it keeps us in touch with what is going on. If you see Mrs-. Anderson, -Newcastle, -Newcastle, tell her I met a friend of her father and -mother from O'akwood a few days -ago. Have met a lot of people from O-shawa, Ottawa, Belleville, London and Toronto. Hope you are feeling fit and if any think startling happêns, let me know. Will be: glad to hear from you. Sincerely CHARLEY for we have never had a drouth or a hailstorm that- cleaned up everything, everything, and all we know about earthquakes, earthquakes, hurricanes, tornadoes, floods and. etc., is what we read about in the papers. We have no very rich: and no abject poverty, so nobody is going going broke "trying to keep up with the Jones's." , If there: is one place on top of this green earth that is "A good place to live," this is -surely it, and everybody everybody should be proud of that fact -and tell it to everybody that comes hero-- -Our slogan should be : ORONO "A Good Place To Live." JOHN ARMSTRONG World News of the Week in Brief Eight Hon. -B. B. Bennett, Pierre Casgrain, Et. Hon. Arthur Meighen,, Hon. lia, m! Dandurand, have been invited by Premier King to accompany accompany the liberal delegation to the Coronation. * * * * Do you know that Canadian planes carried three-fifths of all the airborne airborne freight of the British Empire for the past four years and five times as much as the United States lines combined. The E. T. Jones Lumber Company, North Tbnawanda, New York, buys $500.000 of Northern white pine from J. J. McFadden i.umber -Company -Company operating in Blind Biv-er. Consort, Alberta : John Heaney, 106 years old, is anxious to secure a job.' He jg the oldest man in Alberta Alberta and possibly in the Wast. Heaney is active despite his years, 'has > keen memory, needs no spectacle^ spectacle^ and is a hearty eater. He attributes attributes his' great age to his Irish blood and plenty of hard work. -X- -X- -X* * Excerpt from Sir Bobert Borden's address at the annual meeting of the Oro-wn Life Insurance Company: "It is important to- remember that a certain type of unemployed, especially especially the unemployable, will always be with us. -Care for the sick, the destitute, the helpless, the unemployed, unemployed, and provision for the unemployable unemployable must find a permanent place in our social order. Out of the unsystematic unsystematic methods of the past there has developed a marked tendency with a certain element, to consider themselves themselves as permanent pensioners of the State to -decline work on any convenient convenient pretext and to regard idleness on relief not only as highly desirable but as an absolute right. This tendency, tendency, not less detrimental to the individual individual than to the 'State, should be discouraged and correceted by effective effective and, if necessary, severe measures." measures." * * * » Would you believe that in Toronto there are very nearly as many dogs and cats as there are people ? Consequently Consequently with the shrill yapping of a neighbour's pet poodle, and the alley alley oats chorus on the back fence no wonder the nervous tension of Torontonians Torontonians is usually close to breaking breaking point. * -X- * X- Historian, educationalist, and. noted noted p-ublic speaker, Dr. George IT. Locke. 67, chief librarian of the Toronto Toronto Public Libraries since 1908, died Jan. 28th, in the Wesley Hospital. Hospital. x- * x x New York is said to be an Eden for husbands. Statistics show there are at least fifty thousand there who are supported wholly by their wives and who never work if it can be avoided. Their only duty is to take the- Fido out for an airing. * x- x * iShortly after Faster, Lord Tweeds- muir will return the 1 .visit, paid to him in Quebec last summer by President President Roosevelt, and in so doing will set a ' precedent. He will be the first Canadian Governor-General to pay an official visit to the head, of the American Government. L. O. County Lodge Elect Officers For 1937 EL. O. County Lodge of Durham West was held in Enniskillen on Tuesday, Feb. 2nd, 1937, with an attendance attendance of approximately seventy from all parts of Durham West, (Officers elected for 1937 were as follows : I.P.M. -- Herbert Hoey. W.M.--Charles A. Brown. ED.M.---Leslie Brooks. Chap.--Rev. Harcourt. Bec. Sec.--George Brown. Fin, See.--Earl B'yam,- Treasurer--Henry Thompson, Mar.--T. A. Eeid. Lecturer--Leslie Thompson. D.v. Lee, for -Cartwright--Bussell McLaughlin. D-y. Lee. for Clarke--George B. Morton. Auditors--E. J. Hamm and W. E. Davey. Discussing the subject of the July 12th celebration the meeting favored joining with' East Durham for local county celebration. The Women's Association of Enniskillen Enniskillen United Church provided the banquet in the evening- to which about sixty people -sat down,' To-asts were honored to the King and Country Country and the Orange Order. The guest speaker of the evening being Bussell Nesbitt, M.L.A. for Braeon- dale, Toronto, who stressed the need for united Protestant action- in Ontario. Ontario. John Thompson, Past Grand Marshall Marshall of Ontario West, regaled the gathering with selections on a , tin horn. MISSIONARY SOCIETY MEETING Financial Statement Of Durham Central Agricultural Society RECEIPTS Bank balance as per last statement, 1935. $ 254.98 Outstanding cheques, 1935 166.78 Actual Balance $ 88.17 1936-- Credit balance $ 88.17 Legislative grant 353.00 Newcastle grant 26.00 County's grant 211.12 Township of Clarke grant 200.00 Township of Darlington grant 75.00 Donations, Specials, etc. 58,60 Membership arid entry fees 190.30 Membership fees retained for 1937 114.00 Gate Receipts- "Fair Day" 733.75 Space rentals 79.25 Grand stand receipts 69.58 Concert receipts .". : 155.11 Prize List, advertising receipts . ...... 130.00 Building receipts .......... .......... .. . ...,. >> ..... 113.00 Refreshment. booth receipts, gross ........ 393.77 Amateur night, 43.16 Miscellaneous receipts 14 v 70 The February meeting of the Park St. Woman's Missionary Society was well attended and the program interesting interesting and helpful. The president was in charge -of the worship 'service, the theme being Jesus, the pioneer of life. Short readings on this topic were given by Mrs. Osterhouf. Mrs. W. XL Stuff and Misa M. Taylor. An . nommément was made of the World Day of Prayer, 'service to be held o-n Friday, February 12th, in -the school ro-qm, from 3 to 4 o'clock p,m„ to which 'all women are invited The 4th chapter of the 'Study Book was ably presented by Mrs. W. O. Lynch. Her interesting review of the life and labors of-devoted- workers was- much •enjoved.' Mrs. ' F. Kelly and Mrs. 0, McLaren gave temperance readings-, readings-, and Mary Baldwin a recitation. Mrsi A. A. Drummond-contributed. a beautifully rendered istilo.. The oro- eram committee for March is--Mrs. J. TamibTyn. Mrs. M. Tamblyn and Mrs. 'ft. H. Brown. Pilzi-s paid,, -- Heavy Horses Light Horses -Beef Cattle Dairy Cattle . iSheep Swine ............. Poultry Grain and Beed Vegetables Fruit Flowers and Plants Domestic Mfg. .... SidièS' Work ...... Fine Art Domestic Science . . Baby -Show ....... Boys' Calf Club.... EXPENDITURES $ 3,047,41 .X. 164.50 180.50 148.00 157.00 17-8.00 75.50 74.55 18.50 22.00 :45-7A 4-8.50- 43.00 20.00 .20.00 Cash paid: in 1936 for previous -award ■Fee to Ontario Fairs' Association ■Paid for judges .......... Paid for races, -concert, music, etc, . .. ..' Erection of poultry building, insurance, etc. Interest Secretary's salary Hall Rentai Meals . Ivighting i. . ........ Printing - Postage, Excise and Exchange -Badges/Trophies, etc. ....... Supplies for Refreshment B-ooth Labour for building, police and help -Amusement Tax paid Miscellaneous Expenditure . , Total Expenditure . . : Prize cheques outstanding from 1935 ...... Balance on Hand ASSETS Cash on hand, including retained membership County's grant, approximately Due tin rent of rink Land and Buildings Due on. Prize List advertising LIABILITIES $ 1285.55 3.00 2.00 36.00 $ 1326.55 235.00 359.18 54.70 100.00 16.50 I'jSO 22.30 2-34.07 33.29 74.41 270.05 116.50 17.38 13.48 $t 2674.91 1.00 171.50 $ 3047.41 171.50 2-00.00 50.00 6575.00 6.00 $ 7002.50 Due on Note $ 650.00 TO GIVE SUPPORT TO NEW PAPER The regular monthly meeting of the Directors of Orono Chamber of Commerce held Monday evening showed, that the new -board were alive to their responsibilities, and anxious to promote -the best interests of the community. Several committees' reported, reported, showing steps taken to give effect to resolutions passed at the annual meeting, until' some tangible results 'are obtained, however, there is little of interest to report to the public. . The'Directors unanimously decided decided that. for the present every support support should be given the new "Orono Weekly Times,", as it was explained, that until* the paid for subscription list reached respectable proportions, the benefits' of Postal preference could not be -obtained, and the financial financial load of paying postage op sample copies, could not be carried for very long. GOOD TURNOUT AT OYSTER SUPPER Despite slippery roads and sidewalks sidewalks a large number turned out to enjoy the oyster and cold meat supper supper at Park -Street United Church on Wednesday evening. Six gallons of oysters were ordered for the occasion, occasion, and- / after the , supper was over, it was- found that only -one gallon gallon was left, and this gallon was soon sold, to individuals. We lake this opportunity to -say that the ladies of Orono and surrounding country know how to stage a appetizing appetizing supper. A wise lien knows full well that an egg a day keeps the axe away. * « * » < -Under a dictator any little hoy has a chance to grow up and some day become become an unknown soldier.