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A we WY At P. G. MORRISON's DRUG STORE, PORT PERRY. The Peoples' Meat Market et ( \ a If-you want it good. A #» © BERT -MacGREGOR ~ Will do the rest. Ring up Phone 72.' |G HERRIES "1 In a few days we will be getting our Cherries. We § have always had the best we could-buy in the Red, Black and White varieties. This year we expect they will be fully up to the standard. If you require any leave your order and we will do our best to fill it. = ip At present we are in a position to fill orders for Straw- berries. This is the week to-buy them if you wish the best oh quality. They will only last a few days longer so do not delay in placing your order. . . - J. F. McCLINTOCK ~ PORT PERRY, ONT. 1 : hs WE SERVE TO PLEASE ~~ Tryour Bread, Buns and Confection- _ery and you will be pleased. » i i ERROW. & SON - ; Port Perry. - r Stone, (equal) Cécil Nichol! Ruth Hall Jean McDermott Bett Cawker Allan Oke Isabell Ewers Jr. Ita Sr. 1 Honours \ Wilson Figary Jimmy Wilson Marian Kight Pass + George Dowson Angus Bethune Edith Fielding Malcolm Nasmith ~Harry DeShane Lloyd Harrison Grace Switzer, Merle Switzer Frank Scott Fred Cotter Jack Beare Sr. Ito Jr. 11 Honours Virginia Nasmith Mildred Crosier Allin Turner Jack Cooney : Kathleen Carnegie Florrie Figary Pass . Harry Brookes Violet Read Jimmy Cockburn Clarence Beare Harold Hall Harry Cockburn Garnet Weir Harold Woon Jr. 911 to Sr. 11 Honours ~ = Maxine Beare Pass : - Marjorie Tinsley Campbell McMaster Butler Walker Id Moray Jean Wakeford George McKay Sarah Naple Wyatt Kent Promoted Conditionally 'Robert Sutcliffe Harold Prentice Sr. 11 to Jr. HI. 1 Honours Pass |, Anderson . 1 arjorie Palmer and Grace + It is wonderful to think that in the "city of the dead" there lie the hundreds of men and women who made this place what it is, and that we have ~ taken possession of the fruit of their labor. They struggled: we enjoy. They worked with a restless energy: we live in the houses they built: and plow the farms that they cleared. They travelled the rough roads of pioneer days: we skim over surfaced highways that they would have deemed impossible. Their whole lives were given to producing the rich heritage that we enjoy, and for that wealth that comes to us so eagily they endured hunger, poverty, loneliness, privation. * Such were the pioneers. ~~ Is-there .nee® to name them? Not here. Not now. We need not single out this one and that one. They all lived out their lives. Some were good and some were bad; some did their work joyfully with a vision of things to come and some were grudging in their industry. What a place all-those people now quietly sleep- ing had in our lives. How they loved us, strug- gled with us, were jealous of us, mastered us; in- -spired us; urged us up"or down. They were the stuff from which our characters were built. We - could not think of them as dead. That was im- possible. They were very real, and then-- When fath®r died and Jim had the whole weight of the family on his shoulders it did not seem right. Dad must surely only be gone for a little time--he MUST come back. Jim needed him. Then mother slipped away. Mother who thought of everything. Mother who was a fix- ture in the home--just as dependable as the sun- shine; ap sure as the seasons. But she left us and Mary did her best to take her place. Then a big man died--one so strong and sure of himself that he overawed us all. e had his way. He commanded, bullied, gave orders, threatened, and we were afraid. But death took him; and he lies there so quiet, so forgotten, so unloved. When he went we breathed more freely. Our hearts grew stronger--we ceased to be a- fraid. Father, mother, brother, sister, husband, wife, son, daughter, old age, helpless infancy, strong ménhood and glorious womanhood--all have been quietly gathered by the great. reaper, and we remain with our memories of the parts they --! played in the drama of our lives. * So that endless procession has been wending its way up the hill and out among the pines, There we have laid as the years passed--friend and foe, those who helped and those who hindered ; those f whose memory is the richest treasure of our lives, and those whose lives seemed to mean nothing to us. And in that silent place of beauty their bodies rest; and their spirits unfettered go on to a fuller understanding of life eternal. We decorate their graves. We do well. We owe much to them--more than we can ever repay, and the few flowers are but an emblem of the tribute of our hearts, The end comes to all. Then why fear? Why refuse our duties, or lose our courage? Why not live calmly--loving where love can be, hating I none, fearing none, courageously helping all, and ever ready by kindly word to show that the love | that is showered upon us is 'accepted in a spirit of gratitude? Our decoration days are a real evidence of our belief in immortality. Our friends yet live. [SCHOOL QUESTION MUST GO TO VOTE Council refuses to recognize petition as expression of ratepayers' will. An analysis of the Voters' List revealed the fol- lowing figures: There are 577 freeholders, 380 of whom signed the petition. Of the remaining 197, 64 refused to sign the petition, 33 are dead or have moved from town, 47 are living out of town, and 63 are yet to be asked to sign. THE BOARD OF EDUCATION PRESENTED A PETITION TO JG THE COUNCIL ON TUESDAY EVENING : reading as follows: "We, the undersigned ratepayers of the V of Port Perry, respectfully request that the Council pass a by-law authorizing the issue of debentures up to $65,000, for the building and equipping of a combined High and Public School, --approved by the Department of Education." The petition bore the signal res of 880 ratepayers. } gan in presenting the petition on behalf of the | Board pointed out that every person who had signed the petition had | n fully informed upon the subject, and that no person had urged to sign, but the petition fully represented the will large : | of a large majority of the ratepayers. Mr. Walker, the chairman of the Board, made a formal pre- | sentation of the facts regarding the cost of the school, the assets likely to be received: and the mill rate required the Schoo . These facts were fully set out in our issue of SRS Te ¢ dou then Took up the financial loss to the town if no were to be built, B the fi facts: assumed by ly with th ons as new schools. But there is another in an Agent HE Bank-.is an agent whose T duty it is to make the market a thousand miles away as acces- sible and profitable as the market BANKING which lies at your door. --- This Bank maintains Branches throughout Canada and agents in every commercial centre of the world. STANDARD BANK PORT PERRY BRANCH--H. G. Hutcheson, Manager Branches also at Blackstock, Little Britain, Nestleton Station, Sunderland | IDD D DIDD D D D D EE At the present time 'there are some fifty-five Port Perry students attending High School here. Assuming that fifteen of these would be deprived of High School training because their parents could not afford to send them out of town. Board costs $6.00 per week, 40 students would pay $200 per week and in 40 weeks $8000. Transportation and incidentals would easily cost $2,000 more, making a cash loss of $10,000, and fifteen of our children deprived of the opportunity of High School training. At the presént time Port Perry pays about $3,000 annually * for its High School. This amount varies a little from year-to year, sometimes a little higher, sometimes a little lower; but averaging about $3,000. It cogt some $13,000 to run the High School, so that by the investment of $3,000 we bring from outside sources $10,000 largely to be spent in Port Perry. With the new High\School Port Perry will pay about $5,000 instead of $3,000, and the probable cost of operating the school will be about $18,000, being an investment that will bring to us some $13,000 to be spent largely in Port Perry. If one cares to see how this matter operates the following figures from the County Council Minutes of the January Session will be iluminating. At that session the Council voted to Port Perry $2975.62, but at the same time they voted to the Uxbridge High School $9,765.51, a difference of $6,201.11 in favor of Ux- bridge. Let us for a moment assume that Port Perry has no High School. In that case we forego the County grant, which will go toward building up Uxbridge, Whitby, Oshawa, etc. But we do not forego the need of paying the County rate. We shall have to pay our share of that whether we have a high school or do not have one. At present the rural municipalities are substantially assisting to maintain our High School, under the other plan we should assist other towns and then have to pay $10,000 a year for the privilege of getting back the educational advantages we now enjoy and--our children would be away from home, at an age when they should be under parental care. There is scarcely need to stress the fact that in the spendin, of $85000 to $90000 to build and equip thé schools, Port Perry will reap an immediate benefit. Workmen will find jobs and merch- ants will find customers, who will leave many thousands of dollars here before the work is completed. In the discussion about the school care has been taken to con- fine the arguments to the matter of cost as largely as possible, as the question before the people is one of taxation, After hearing the representatives of the Board of Education, a general discussion took place in which the questions of the Council were answered by the Board. Reeve Sweetman and Councillor Somerville urged immediate action by granting the request of petitioners, and Mr. Somerville presented the follow- ing resolution, but did not get a seconder: "Whereas the Public School building and the High School building of the Village of Port Perry has been destroyed by fire, and Whereas there has been received for insurance on the said building and equipment of the said High and Public School the sum of approximately $32,000; and Whereas part of this sum is available for building a Public Schol and the remainde? for building a High School, and Whereas the School Board of the Village of Port Perry has had plans prepared for the construction of both High and Public Schools for this municipality, and Whereas the estimated cost for school construction is the sum not exceeding the sum of $65,000--in ad- dition to the insurance money now on hand, and Whereas the School Board has presented petitions to this Council showing that the present construec- tion meets the approval of a large majority of the ratepayers; and Whereas an election to determine the approval of the ratepayers for the proposed school erection would be unnecessary and would entail a large expenditure of money and a great loss of time, -- : Robert Somerville moves, and Seconds that this Council approve of the plan to construct the said Public School and High School as speedily as possible; that this Council approve of the expenditure of such sums as the Trustee Board may think necessary for that purpose up to but not exceeding $65,000--in addition to the insurance monies now on hand." That this Council will pass the necessary by-law to raise the money required by the issue and sale of debentures as soon as the exact sum needed is ascertained by the Trustee Board, and that this Council will not require a vote of the people to approve the by-law before passing the said by-law. The Board then retired and passed the following motion. This was submitted immediately to the Council and agreed to by them, Moved by 8. Farmer. seconded by Z. M. Jackson, "that the Port Perry Board of Education request the Council to sub- mit a by-law tothe r yers for their approval for the issue of debentures up to $65,000 for the rebuilding of the High and Public Schools, and that immediate action is requestedr' J An interesting comparison of costs was presented by Mr. Smallman. Uxbridge High School cost about $90,000. Shelburne built a wing to its Public School to be used-for High School Jirposes at a cost of $65,000. Whitney School in Toronto, a Public School of 9 rooms, cost $96,000, with $33,000 extra for land. - The combined High and Publie School in Port Perry "will cost, including equipment, not more than $35,004 the High School portion being between $55,000 ane $60,000. These fi should effectually the ge of extravagance } - & ol { = Lt x; 4 % ¥ AY if € 5 oH Bi § & & a pn a nr Spa a re Ap dk SS RE AER A ba