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HAROLD W. EMMERSON The Peoples' Meat Market We sell everything you want in choice, clean, palatable, nutritious and satisfying meats. 3 If you want it good BERT MacGREGOR Will do the rest. Ring up Phone 12. | -.SEED CORN Our Seed Corn is here. We have the following varieties: * IMPROVED LEAMING EARLY BAILEY MORTGAGE LIFTER GIANT WHITE LONGFELLOW. All No. 1 grade: Our list of Field and Garden Seeds is Sompletes Mangel, Turnip and Rape Seed. A good variety of each. Have you tried Blatchford's Chick Mash for your little chicks. Keeps them healthy and makes them grow, and when they are ten days or two weeks old give them some Scratch Feed. We have it also, BOOTS & SHOES GROCERIES CROCKERY J. F. McCLINTOCK - PORT PERRY, ONT.. = = | : ?| Clugstin, of Dunbarton. A big day has been planned for Wednesday, June 9th at Brooklin. Boys and girls from every Town- ship in the County have been invited to come together and t¥y their skill in judging of Live Stock for the young men and judging cooking and sewing Yor the young women. Registering will commence at 8.30 a.m. at Brook- lin Inn. These Competitions are encouraged by the Ontario Department of Agri- 'culture throughout the Province. An endeavour is made to make them as educational as possible by having the contestants explain their placings and afterwards having the official judges give reasons for the placing of the various classes. This is the first that a Girl's Competition has been arranged and is due partly to the apparent desire of so many girls throughout the County last fall to enter similar Competitions at the C. N. Exhibition. Cash prizes are to be awarded as prizes and in addition a Free trip to the Royal Fair in November is offered by the Robt. Simpson Co., to forty young people, twenty high men and twenty high girls from as many dif- ferent communities. A. supper will -be served bythe Brooklin Women's Institute at which the prizes will be presented. Trip to Guelph Plans have been made for a large party of contestants and their parents and others to motors to Guelph June 10th, going as far as Toronto on Wed- nesday evening and on to Guelph in the morning. Sl) Ores SOME CHANGES MADE AT THE CONFERENCE AT KINGSTON. This conference of representatives of the United Churches which has just been held at Kingston includes five Presbyteries, embracing some 300 or more charges. Some changes which affected the churches of this locality were made. "Rev. B. F. Swayne, formerly pastor at Prince Albert, becomes, by unani- mous invitation, pastor at Manchester and Myrtle. Rev. Wm. Higgs, of Port Perry, takes charge of the work 'at Prince Albert. Rev. Mr. Lattimer goes to Green- wood in the Renfrew Presbytery. Rev. R. J. Fraser, of Columbus and Kedron, exchanges with Rév. Mr. a ad " » "5 - - 3 | WE SERVE TO PLEASE | Try our Bread, Buns and Confection- ery and you will be pleased. - EH. GERROW & SON . Cottage ge on Lake Scugog, one mile East of ry sélectelocation, 250 feet lake frontage, 150 for use this year) plenty of : '| dent of the Conference; and Rev. Mr, Baldwin, also of Kingston, was elect-| . yoffice_ has been made permanent, and | University. The service was largely | attended, seven United Churches of Rev. Mr, Jull goes to Brooklin and Rev. R. A, Delve goes to Lynn. .. Rev. Mr. Lee of Greenwood, goes to Wolfe Island. Rev. Jos. Barnes goes to Greenwood. : "Rev. Wesley Elliott continues at Campbellford, and is given two months vacation. Mr. Beech, teacher at Scugog Cen- tre School, has become a candidate for 'the ministry and goes to the Mission at St. Ala, north of Madoc. Rev. G. M. Brown, of Chalmers Church, Kingston, was elected Presi- ed conference secretary. This latter a small salary is to be granted for this service. "Three yoyng ministers were ordain- ed at the Sur service held at the Grant Memorial Hall in Queens the City closed, and the massed choirs] of these churches furnished the music for the occasion. J w discussion arose in the :Con- ference as to increasing the propor- ardwood floors, st d balcony and furnishings ir area, 8ix he water, electric light in cottage, all "furnishings go with the cottage including an al electric We have a good list to buy from in Port Perry properties |'tion of representation at 'the General Conference; but the matter has been handed on to the General Conference for further consideration without re- (commendation from the Bay of Quinte Conference. ' Janetville is to be moved from the DIED. by, on Saturday, May 20th, ry | Mitchell, aged 75 At Wh arg Presbytery to the Lindsay oo -employed is pine-wood--or shytery.. a : i deal--of on) he two inches thick and one foot in breadth, and {laid down longitudinally, each causeway being four planks broad ~ "And yet I kind uv like our back'ard Springs, That sort uv haggle with their greens and things; And when you "most give up, 'thout more words, Toss the Eields full uv blossoms, leaves and birds. That's Northern nature--slow, an' apt to doubt; | But when it does get stirred, there's no give out." ~James Russell Lowell. ot Out Into the Open | It begins to look as though the liquor question is to be brought into the political arena once more. Well, if we have te fight the battle again--we must fight ; but we would like a fair statement of the facts by the Moderation League. For instance--please consider the meaning of this little speech by a member of the Moderation League, as reported in The Toronto Daily Star of Monday last. "Ex-Premier Hearst has abandoned Government control. The whispering policy is played out. Now we will see what the people really want. According to geometrical progression there should be sixty per cent. of the people in favor of Government Control. Those who do not wish the bar to return will take this opportunity of cleaning up the Province and adopting a reasonable policy." Here is to be the plan of campaign for the Moderation League. They are to assume the role of reformers--who are going to clean up-the Province and rid it of the drink evil. And any person who opposes their policy is to be considered as working to bring back the bar in the Province of Ontario. . Things are pretty badly twisted in the minds of the people if the Moderation League can so pull the wool over the eyes of the voters as to lead them to believe that the Prohibitionists will work either directly or indirectly for the return of the bar, or that the Moderationists are vitally interested in the suppression of the liquor traffic. Those who love temperance; who are feally interested in their fellow men, will look with suspicion on any legislation proposed by the Moderation League, if for no other reason than that it is proposed by them. The Moderation League doubtless has in its membership many fine people, who are keenly interested in preserving the utmost freedom of human conduct. It is well known that there is a revolt against paternalism in Government ; and were the world the ideal place which it should be their policy of individual liberty would have much to commend it. The policy if individual liberty might also be favorably considered if it merely concerned adults-- if no new crop of boys and girls was required to feed the dis- tillery profit mill. Then some topers might drink themselves to 'death----with resulting family suffering--bad enough in all con- science. But the real price we pay for this individual liberty is much bigger than that. The new crop means the debauching of a new set of boys and girls in order that distilleries and brewerie may reap their profits. . e ought at least to make it possible for the young folk to grow up in clean surroundings, to develop proper will power, wholesome ideals, and good bodies. The real charge against the liquor traffic is that it does not allow this, but makes wholesome- ness difficult to attain! It ruins young people before maturity-- before they have good judgment and developed will power. They are taken unawares, caught in the current of events. Having given in to the temptation of intemperance the chances are against them. It will be a pretty fight if Premier Ferguson should, together with members like minded line up with the Prohibition cause. We shall know "who's who" then in both Conservative and Liberal ranks. Mr. Ferguson has not had an easy time with the extreme "wet" section of his following, and only a strong man would have "carried on" as he has done. - A fight upon a great issue is much better than a fight for mere party. This will be the time for the temperance people to make a real job of this effort to keep the Province clean for the young folk. SCUCOG and its ENVIRONS By REV. F. G. WEIR THE MUNICIPALITY Roads and Bridges The present generation can form only a dim idea of con-= ditions when the first settlers blazed the trails by which they moved from place to place, nor is it possible to estimate at what expense of energy we have our great highways and good roads of the present. Very few stop to think of the changes that have taken place in the last hundred, or even fifty, years; or of different methods of road building that have been tried and abandoned. The Rev. James Beaven, D.D., writing of Canadian roads as he knew them says "I donot despair of even passing down the whole of King Street, Toronto, without any danger to the springs of my waggon or possibly any inconvenience to my rheumatic limbs." Again, "In Toronfo where considerable portions of some of the streets have had their carriageways planked under the direction of the Corporation." Concerning plank roads he says: "The late Judge Powell was the first person who made a boarded footway on the public street. Living in a cross street he laid down planks supported by sleepers, from his own door to King street, the footways of which were then paved with irregular flags so far as any assistence was afforded the pedestrian. A year or two before the rebellion, the notorious fire-brand, Mackenzie being then Mayor conceived and carried out the project of extending Judge Powell's accommodation to all the thoroughfares of the ~The plank: as we say in-Eng- 'and.secured by nails." Later the planks were laid transversely. | But though the plank road had many advantages, as Dr. Beaven pointed out, being always pretty clean, and dried quickly after rain it needed a great deal of repairing after the second or third year and patching a plank road was very much like sewing new cloth on an old garment. A great deal more could be quoted and oe AE al MODERN LIFE * B wen Service is one of the essentials of modefn life. It . "===" assists in the production of ~ every article 'and in the transporta- tion of every commodity. Without it distribution would be impossible. Yet Banking functions so smoothly that we are scarcely aware of our de- pendence upon it. By taking Bank- ing service for granted we pay our greatest tribute to its efficiency. Each year am increasing number of de- positors and clients affords evidence of the character of service offered by the Standard Bank of Canada. STANDARD BANK PORT PERRY BRANCH--H. G. Hutcheson, Manager Branches also at Blackstosk, Little Britain, dtd de said concerning road building in Ontario, but this will suffice to give some idea of changes that have come about in road conditions, and the different methods that have been tried in the endeavour to secure a serviceable and enduring roadway. We cannot say when the trail that later became the centre road was blazed through the Island, or when the first bit of road was built, but it is on record that in 1851 the township had not three miles of road fit for travel. It is also on record that in 1877 there were good roads throughout the island. , The first action taken by the independent municipality in the matter of road building was at the first meeting of the Council when Mr. Reader introduced a by-law to appropriate £125 toward the erection of a bridge between Scugog and Reach. As to road making on the Island the first business done in the Council was at the second meeting in June, 1856, when Mr. Yarnold brought in a report of the survey of a road commencing at Daniel William's place and running to lot 4 in concession 8, The property where Gordon Collins"lives was at that time--i.e. 1856--known as the Williams property and Daniel Williams lived--as we have before remarked--in the house now occupied by Mr. Collins. The land- ing there was known as William's Landing. It was later known as Tibit's Landing, after a man named Tibit who lived on the shore. The road here described as running from Daniel William's place to lot 4 is the road that runs from Gordon Collin's place to Charley Samell's and which at that time went straight on to lot 4. The Centre road and also the Pine Point Road are mentioned as being in use in 1856, but it was not until 1861 that the surveyor was ordered to survey and establish the Centre road at a width of fifty feet from the front of the 6th concession to Nesbitt's Landing. At the October meeting of the Council of that year a by-law was passed authorizing the pathmasters to open the road. There are perhaps not many who remember when the old Centre road ran straight on from the road leading down to the Adams property, across the Adam's field, and Collin's field until it struck the 6th concession line somewhere near John Reader's place. Thé Council in- October, 1861, also authorized the surveyor "To lay out the Pine Point road to a width of fifty feet, the road to commence at the west side of lot 28 to be on the centre of lots 23 and 24 twenty-five feet off each lot; from the town line to follow the present travelled road unless some advantage can be gained thereby, to the 8th concession line, then to follow the survey made by Wm. Powson to Pine Point." Many speak of the ninth concession line as the Pine Point road, but from the foregoing it will be seen that while this is correct in the sense that the ninth does lead to Pine Point and is in fact the only road that does go there, the real Pine Point road is that which begins at the Head School and runs around the east side of the Island meeting the 8th at Carter's gate. It will be seen also that this road was supposed to continue on to Pine Point. Many years ago-when the road from Gordon-Collin's place past Charley Samell's place went straigt. on, to lot 4, the Pine Point road jogged west and north from its junction with the eighth until it met the road leading to lot 4. from the corner at the east, runs west at present and then swings north to meet the other old road, if i continued on the line it would come to the Centre road somewhere near Mr. John Collin's place. In 1862 Mr. Harper came before the Council requesting that the road between the tenth and eleventh concessions be opened to the west shore of the lake. In 1867 a petition was presented ask- ing the Council to open that part of the road allowance known as the old town line south of the Pine Point road "Now enclosed by and in possession of Henry Rodman and Joseph Thompson." At the following meeting a by-law was passed to open the road according to petition. In December, 1867, Mr. Yarnold was instructed to survey and set out the west line of the original road allowance between lots 6 and 6 in concession ten. r In January, 1872 a committee was appointed to inspect the hill on lot 2 in, concession nine as to whether it would be advisable to repair the hill or make a new road. A committee was appoint- ed again in January 1874 to investigate the hill and report as to repairing the hill or changing the route. This committée advised cutting down the hill and the placing of a rail along the road. This advise was acted upon and the job was let to James Hurlbert for $450. It was resolved by the Council in January, 1888, that "The Reeve and Clerk petition the Lieut. Governor to appoint a Provincial Land Surveyor to survey and establish the line between lots nine and ten in concession eleven; and that stone monuments be placed at the front and rear angles thereof and that J. Dickson of Fenelon Falls be recommended to perform the work." In 1885 a petition was presented from the Jogth of the Island praying the Council not to open any more roads for public use in that part of the township but "dispose of the allowances that are not required for roads." In 1904 there was a bad washout at Jackson's hill that cost about $100 to repair. Afterward tenders were let to Henry Demera and Geo. Aldred to build a culvert at a cost of ninth concession line in 1920. ~~ Mr, Michael Walsh, who was present at the Council seating of April 1871 undertook to advise the Council in the ma: J choosing pathmasters. "The most man to who he may, for he wont work anyway and if he is pat he is not d to work" The Council proceeded to Mr. Walsh, but he would not concent to act. Se The eighth concession line, - $276. | Apparently the last bit-of road opened was the east end of the pathmaster of any beat", he said, "is the laziest man on it, be he glee