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Port Perry Star, 21 May 1913, p. 8

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members of the Schaal, 15¢ _------ Seagrave + On Wednesday afternoon at the Dr, Ernest Wooldridge, V. S. 'has --_-- an officein Mr. Brown's show ! m where he will attend to all calls My. and Mrs. John Short and Miss M. Harding came very near a bad accident on Sunday tetnoon Avhien Feturning from Zion. When ssing Mr. Mclean; of landsay, his auto the horse became Snmitagable and upset the-rig. He got away from Mz, Short and ran over a mile with the rig, which was a new one that Mr. Short bought the evening before. Mr. Short escaped serious injury, also the fadies. The rig was only scratched a dittle. You were lucky John. "The John Decre Plow Company, of + Welland, are certainly getting 'the farmers of this surrounding country interested 1 their low down manure 'spreaders. J. H. Brown their local agent having received a car load (and more to follow) with the assistance of Mr. Breen, of Lindsay, is busily get-} ting them together and operating 'in the field: Mr. Will Watson wa¥ in the city a wxouple of days last week. Miss Eva Holtby, of Manchester, with Mrs. Fred Lyle over Sunday. re] Manchester Miss Mabel Lambe spent last Sat- wrday in Toronto. Mr. Wa Stone is building « kitchen '20 his house, Our popular - minister - Rev. Mr. Woodger preached a excellent sermon w Sunday" last taking for his text a of life", it was enjoyed very I everyone present. May 25th, a Free Will i oil be held. Services after- at 2.30 and PE Conducted by the Rev. Mr. E. Tink. Frospiect | choir will furnish the the war against bar-rooms appear st be soon a thing of the past. The- following officers have 'been elected by the Centre Sunday - School: Supti--~Mr. Wright Crozier Asst supt.~Mr. John Platten Sec'y--Mr, Stanley Gerow - Asst sec~--Clifford Platten Treas--Mr. Crozier Organist--Mrs, Sweetman Asst organists--Bessie ~ Jackson, Veda Platten. We dre pleased tosee. Mr. Chas. Gordon again taking his daily trips to Port Perry. with his bus. During~his illness the friends and neighbors have assisted in taking the mail to and fro, biit he was greatly missed. - The peo- ple find his daily stage a great con- venience. 'His fares are very low. On Tuesday, May. 13th, the ladies of the Union Aid gathered at the home of Mrs. Prentice, whose hospi- tality is well-known, and nothing had been forgotten i in hex; preparation. for the occasion, Owing' to the rush of | *¥ Spring work ' the attendance was not as large as otherwise it would have} been; yet some of the ladies remarked that they never enjoyed one of their monthly meetings quite so well, Mr. Hodgson, who since the death of his wife has stayed with Mrs. Wan- amaker, isill.. His home in Port Perry is being closed up, Myrtle BORN---To Mr and Mrs. Clarence Harrison: on Wednesday, May 14, a Miss E. Hezalewood, of Raglan,' is Wisiting her sister, Mrs. Long: " Mr. J. Pringle, of Brooklin, ~spen Sunday with his patents. Mr: J. Beamish has 'improved hel appearance of his place with a new} fence. Messrs, B H. C. Body wete in Toronto, erst, of good roads. The working. miracle is due to the vision Sam Lancaster-was Cl : for a hundred years. ts 80 with occasional sand 3 it rained the roads were putty and impassable 50 | great oumoes' of Taimilied through Jackson in' Co going to the new lands Men that pilgrimages. © These men. plained of the bad roads out land: They saw 'no hope native haunts. None of the ever. Hopped for long in Mad The boy fead-ail he conld ind | the time he became' a young man hel was full of his subject. It wi as" then that he came to Bea lork'el county court. - In this position; be held for years, he became well quainted with all the men who.e tuted: the governing board community. To: 'these he co preached his gospel of the ne good roads.' 'They were all to tiyese conditions, without. from. the outside and whom 1

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