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NORTH ONTARIO OBSERVER, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1906 5) J. A. Lane ance of Lis duties. He was honored Groceries, Crockery, Confectionery a oy yes 20 LP Toe. hose by Bakery ' the Dominion Commissioner of Live Stock to inaugurate a series of Pro 1t was a well established business | vinefal Auction Sales of live stock that Mr, J. A. Lane secured when he which are still earried on. He has purchased from Mr. E. H. Purdy n ccmducte ese sales at Woodstock Jaly. 1905. Elsewherc wili be found N. B wa, Toronto, Hamilton a brief history of the establishm Guelp! oderich, North Bay and Port and growth of the business under the Perry nd a sale is to be held here ownership of Mr. Purdy To-day M h 2, next Locally Mr. Jack flourishes under the new manag 8 in greay demand, and om ment, and Mr. Lane enjoy 1 ember (ill April ne 18 pre slice public palronage erally kept Lu 8 In 1 grocery departmer ¢ jucting a series ol wou 8 may be found everything y yl horses, vehicles ( i kept id that as good as ti sale stables, Lind Thess le Phe finest quality of teas and y re growl +» 10 iuteves wre heve found, and this sto 10 Mr. Jackson is a er of a il v large trade In these The has mad dy « i! 81 goods ave largely cked, tr 1 onsequenc sted MR. JAS. CARNEGIE JAMES CARNEGIE'S STEAMER ON LAKE SCUGO( joty being wide and well he po I a good ar H The floar and feed trade wh M ke ond 3 npl . vssumed consider.hle propo t ess gO, h olf 1 hed Union Flour and Lumber Mills. yinre, aul oe Hlaetiite ie optlaton | tion Toll roth. | oer on Wer Hr is ag James Carnegie, Prop. have proved of much value to the | ery, china and glassware a 1 for the ¥ & ) town stock is carried 11 111 kinds A ple The flour, lumber and planing mills | the mill does an tmmense business in When in the year 1897 tho prece In his bakery department A 1 mach v and blud wir of Mr. Jas. Carnegie constitute one feed grindiug Farmers from a dis-| tystem of elecling Couunly Cound La takes consid pride 1 Mr. Jack ome \ dA of the main industries of the town | tance of twenty miles bring grain | wae instituted Mr. Carnegie was | he \& a good business. He em] et where he may be wched by ! of Port Perry. The mills are lo- | here to be chopped, getting it home ; elected to represen* Port Perry and two bakers and one driver tor wag rane No od a on | cated side by side on the shere of with (hem the same day Scugog division, and he has been re- | In high grade sake | pastry ; be For ye Lake Scugog, to lhe north of Queen Ihe head miller 1s Mr. Jas. Hortop, | turned regularly five consecutive store excels i ) 1k ' street, They are, also, ou theline | a thoroughly practical and capable | times I'ne second yzar of his ter Lane claims to do the ice ere ym » . of the G.T.R.,, with which they are | man, who hag been in the mill for | ure oi office he enjoyed the is-| business of the tow the sum . . . connected by a switch. (The flour | gixteen vears tinction of being elected Warden of | senron For (hat rpose he C. H. Allison . ) Ca mill 18 a three storey brick build Mr. Carnegie buys all the wheat he | the Ccunty. During (he balldiog of off a large room at the rear Druggist \1so a men ho ing, 40x70 feet; the pianing mill | can locally, and brings the residue | {he County House of Refuge Mr gives ample mmodation His partoer af Is of frame, as is also the saw mill required from the North-west. His | Carnegie was chairman ol the build fr. Lane caters balls, banque . The ge ' . Le ! I. hir Pp ts . This industry was eetabiished a | market Is a lscal one ng Committee, and has been chair rties, picoics, ldings, etc. a "on bhneoe Lh " oe have gathe great many jears ago, and came| fhe saw mill owued by Mr. Car-| man of the Board of Managem: equipment for § omplete he ' ! y, and legged I into the possession of Mr Carnegie | pegie is kept busy during the sum- | since the Home was established ur The store is ex ally larg fon the hey and on in April, 1888, he having purchased | mer reason. It has a capacity of | thie year, when he voluntarily r d is handscmely !itted up, affor oh i : ! ' it from the Ontario Baok, who had | 1 500,000 ieet hore i also a od For five OF Bix years y z ample space { . , . ) : ed : I vod Hig > ---e- } as manager of the plant Mr. W. J.| shingle entter, which manufactures | Carpegle has been charms rtme ' oon Orr Graham, V.S. Trounce At that time the flour | 5 comsidersble quantity of shingles. | Finance Ccmmittee of th County Mr I a I he ash I » pl " mill was a {rame structure, with the The saw mill Js driven by a separate | Council-~the most important com | , Car og 1 a I 11 ¢ i stone system of grinding The busi- | engine, but the flour and planing | tee of the Council right township lowed black- | > ' ' oe goon ness done wus small, because of the | mills are operated by a splendid 150 | It will thus be seen that the sul nithing f ome years, tt wa ! y PI ot inferfor quailty ol (he flour made. | horse power engine. The logs for | ject of this sketch is recognized as a ma het ere tra oe r ' Soon after Mr. Carnegie took pos-| the saw mill are largely cut on Mr. | being an able, shrewd, astute busi- | cller for nine veal Le for the ' ne session he remodelled the mill, chang- | carnegie"s timber limits in Durhan --.------------ ee . € ® 1 b = 1 d ing [rom stone to roiler system. | county, and are brought to the mill ) { y Je : -o eived Mr. Carnegie eet himsell 10 winning | ip rafts drawn by Mr. Carnegie's tug { ! pres . ne ! ! back the trade of the dlstriet which | «Stranger," a picture of which is ( € | k1 © A « 1 a had been diverted to other places, ghown on tuis rage ) k h side of Juet g } and it was not long before he had The planing mill, adjoinlag and to { 1 x \rge and g 1 succeeded in his forpoase, and prac- | the north of the flour mill, is well { i" ng ene , tically all the trade for the town | equipped with all the necessary ma ) les a regula ck of d 1 ck L 1 ' and district fcr wany miles was dove | chipery for plaving, as well as 2 iries y h ree C k at this mill. The capacity after re-| making cach, doors, mouldings, et { ! 8 vhile a boy ove modelling was 75 barrels per day in fact anything in woodwork re { I € re give ed bably i In June, 1902, a (ire cecurred in the | quired in modern building vod eclal pref rations | jaar A ! mill, which completely destroyed the Just here it may be said that se lune I lo Food "and se o building and the costly equipment eral of the ewployees of the flonr \elean's od Pill Ee I ¢ which bad been put in. Mr.Carnegle | and planing will have been in Mr great sellers because they buve gre wag away Ircm home at the time, | carnegie's employ since he acquir or Perry 1 € but was immediately summoned. eq the mill, eighteen years ago. ir. Atlisc clan as w 12 & wa o There was no use "crying over spilt | while some of them have heen with s druogyist, and he 4 A specia ce 18 } milk," nor of being discouraged at | (ho mill for a longer period. Alto om tes eg t, a ! he t i 1d the very heavy loss entailed, 80 | gether Mr. Carpegls employs some ppli ont ! He has lence a . Mr. Cavpegle at once set himsell to twenty hands. The saw: mill em- en this munch study 0 » the tack of re-building The present ployees spend the winter in the In onevy y good ol i sabstantial brick structure is the | \cods getting oul timber for the 2 Allis tore is splendidly stocked el 1 1 Presby ! result The lire occurred In June, | following summer's eut All the nd the child ire | ie i k and in September of the same year | rocdudt of the saw and planing mills he boos. Piet 2 ) the new mill wag in operation, equip- | rjnds a local market OE cn a ped with the most modern and per Biograph fea x ' fect willing machinery, having a Rraphy ! : W. L. Parrish capacity of 90 barrels per day. Th Mr. Ja-. Catnegie 1s a Scotchman ) er, and he ! ! ' Hardware Merchant mill has been steadily running ever by birth, drawing his (irst infant ) of tow € C £ v since, and is taved to the utmost | breath io Kiocardiveshire, He was | he ha 1d ked y e larg to keep pace with the demands made One of seven brolhers, and his father PETER CHRISTIE, ES { Of these he sells a g ua rd upon ft Besides the makin of flour | before him was ope of seven, all of M. Soutt / Mr. All 1d 1 1 whom were millers Mr. Jas. Car { ers d ha 1¢ 5 negle is the only one of his father's via Te - laily This he cl y i sons who has Toilowed tke vocat nese ma wid fils as useful a |S ( ids the bigge d ' of miller, but be can fairly say that | niche in County affairs, as he do wn All t . ; he comes [rom uw miliiag family He in town matiers pre % * t 1 cand his way to Causada in 1865 br 1 APL y vhen years of age. His first - I es his i ha business enterjrise was In Reach F. D. McGrattan 11 Jbserver's € township, where he conducted a flour ha € Y 1 be I - mill west of Manchester Selling Dentist larg € iblic patronage € ; this he went to taglan, in gy i ---- vd 5¢ 1 y R. G. Vansickler : i . | The comfortable and well-equippe d : , Ber le Whitby 1ownehip, where he owned dental parlors of Dr MoGrattan are Geo. Jackson I and opera'ed flour and saw mills and he ison block, south side of x a a farm of 50 acres He remained at | the Mien pe Auctioneer A lendid eng M ) Queen street Dr. McGrattan was i Raglan for eleven years, during | <0 To oOo Uxbridge, and | The cor yz engraving of pps eT which tine lie galned Lis [ir t exper- | =o" qucated there He gradoated | Mr. Geo. Jack the popular auc- |" lence of muncipal affairs in the town- ror the Royal College of Dental | tionee I Por fry, will be in > wo 20 ea sale Connat) Surgeons roronto, in 1896. Hefim- | stantly by thousands who H. L. Ebbels T? ok ! ' 8 ! 308 In April, i868, Mr. Carnegle, hav- 4/0 0 ome here, finding an of-| will see Mr. Jackson and Sol € " € ing sold Ms property at Raglan, | "= Coo y\ocaw's store, where hel was bon on Scuzog Usland, and liv Barrister and Solicitor g t wrdware § a0 came to Port Ferry and purchased Se out his sbingle He moved to|ed om a [farm ive years ago Mr. Ebbe's la the oldest practicing ' Jt re, and + g the floar mills from the Ontario the present premises ta 1902. This Aboat ten years aga he bega his | barrister in Por¢ Pery. He ca to ety It ke f H ¢ \ REV. B. (G. GREATRIX. Bank. He has been a valued and young dentist hag already worked work as auctioneer, and his natural Canada (rom England when a boy € ot ! A e 3 Pastor of the Methodist Churel byetnl Slfsen SOTIOE these sightesn up a good practice, W hich is stead- | ability for the work has been splen- of seven years 1Iis ambitic vag In th re and 3 t ily increasing. He ls a member off | didly develope practice during to be a lawyer, and he studied to Ir F se I ness the lwcal Maronic and Oddfellow's the years, sc wat to-day thers ls | that end In due time he was call A a ! ! i k ) lodges. ne auctioneer mc popalar or suc-|ed to the Bar sand to-day, one off | "0 ! Ir k 1 € y y cessful nn this part of the Province. | the best-known and mest successful | [dea ( 1a de r when > mre Indeed his reputation is wider than | practitioners in Ontario County. As Tilder ! WS ke 8 Geo. A. Coates, V.S. | the previuce, for he Las frequently |a citizen of lie town he i3 highly | FOWs of ha n g and € gone outside Ont o in the perform- | esteemed, and as a lawyer his opi THE METHODIST CHURCH. Dr. Coates was born near Port Perry, and after deciding to adopt veterinary eurgery 8s a profession, took a course of study at the On- tario Veterinary College, Toronto, 1902 from which he graduated In He bagan the practice cf his profes- sion In Lindeay, but only remained there six months. He then came here and purchased the practice of Dr Elliott, who had been hero for about four years. Dr. Coales has now a very nice practice, and as he is a young mau of ability, he will no doubt go on ivcreasing his list of patrons. He treats all diseases of lomeriicaled animals, dentistry be- ing given special atlentlon. His of- fice 1g at the livery rtable of Jamie- gon & Dennison, and his home is on Lilla street, three blocks south of Queen street. Fle can be called up at either place by telephone. | jon is greatly valued. = -- George Pettet, sr. Mr. George Pette who has reacl ed the age of 81 years, and is yet remarkably smart and strong, is one of the large land owners of Scu gog Island Mr. Pettet was bor in 1825, in the cily oi London, Eug He cam: to Canada in 1558, and lo cated near Prince Albert, where he lived for two yeare. He then pur chased a farm of 50 acres on Scugog Island, lot 2, con. 2 This small farm has been extended till now Mr Petiet owns 30U acres His farm abuts on the lake, and at the water's edge Mr. Pettet erected some eight cottages, the first one about twelve yea~s ago. These are for the ac commodation of tourists who wish to spend a holiday near the water RESIDENCE OF MR H BROWN