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L ~ | t! i | ; / 5 cénts single copy Watch your label; it tells when your subscription expires. $1.50 per year in advance PORT PERRY STAR PORT PERRY, ONTARIO, THURSDAY, JUNE 21, 1934 SAMUEL FARMER, Editor and Publisher Sinclair Vindicated by Ontario Riding SINCLAIR'S MAJORITY OVER MARKS---5068 COMPLETE TURNOVER. LIBERALS WIN 65 SEATS CONSERVATIVES 17. SUCCESSFUL CANDIDATES LIBERALS ELECTED TW. E. N. SINCLAIR, K. Cc lalnk £4 sixlalalidal BY LY( LIBERAL-PROGRESSIVE 4. U.F.O. 1. INDEPENDENT 1. C.CF. 1 LIBERAL-LABOR 1 Five years ago the Conservatives swept the Province and won 87 seats out of 112, Since then the number And since then the of seats has been reduced to 90. voters have changed their minds, and on June 19th they elected 66 Liberals, and 16 Conservatives. The election of Mr. Sinclair, with a majority of 5068 over Marks, gave® complete vindication of the record of the Ontario Riding representative, and evidence of the high esteem in which he is held by the people who know him. "The vote in Ontario Riding was as follows: REACH TOWNSHIP. Polling Sub-Div. Epsom ___..__. Marsh Hill_____ Greenbank _._. Seagrave _____. 2 Prince Albert. __ Cedar Creek.__. Manchester -__. Saintfield _.____. ; | Totals oak "PORT PERRY No. 1... No. 2, Ato K __ "No: 2, LitoZ... Glen 6 4. Marks 63 3b 41 3b 36- 66 17 91 36 9 2, 19 18 2 2 2 64 409 / 84 60 49 103 Sinclair 119 136 67 189 99 102 45- 107 67 J 930° 110 79 63 126 °} son. Colter. Roberta, Munro, . .OTTAWA EAST--Paul Leduc. Roebuck. Glass. . | Schwenger. Miller. 8 OOo Wo SCUGOG ISLAND_.80 OSHAWA ___. E. WHITBY .. . PICKERING . WHITBY TP. WRITBY....... 1686 408 133 48 8b 296: 66 ©3087 670 809 331 718 . 871 y r~ 130 5616 1106 1636 766 956 Grand Totals. . 2876 6336 11404 Sinclair's Majority over Stacey in 19262414 Sinclair's Majority over Mason in 1929--1370 . BRANT--Hon. H., C. Nixon GREY NORTH--D. J. Taylor. HALTON--T. A. Blakelock. KENT EAST--Duncan Campbell. ELGIN--M. F. Hepburn. 'ONTARIO--W. E. N. Sinclair. SIMCOE CENTRE--Dr. L. J. Simp- 'LAMBTON WEST--Wm. Guthrie. HALDIMAND NORFOLK -- R. 8. SAULT STE. MARIE -- Dr."E. D. ~ PERTH--Angus Dickson, WELLINGTON SOUTH--D. Paul PORT ARTHUR--C. W. Cox. .WINDSOR-WALKERVILLE--D. J. Croll, WATERLOO SOUTH--N. O. Hipel. 'WELLAND--E, J. Anderson, SIMCOE EAST--Dr, G. E. Tanner. NIAGARA FALLS--W. L. Houck. » VICTORIA--William Newman ESSEX NORTH--H. A. Trottier "HURON--James Ballantyne LINCOLN--F. H. Avery. TORONTO BELLWOODS -- A. W. TORONTO ST. ANDREWS-- J. J PEEL--Hon. Duncan Marshall. NIPISSING--Theo Legault. 'HAMILTON CENTRE -- W. F. BRUCE--John Sinclair. . BRANTFORD--M. M. McBride. MUSKOKA--J. Frank Kelly. ALGOMA-MANITOULIN -- W. L. LEEDS--G. T. Fulford. RAINY RIVER--Randolph Croome. NORTHUMBERLAND--H. N. Carr DURHAM--V. J. Bragg. HURON-BRUCE--C. A. Robertson. SUDBURY--E. A. Lapierre. YORK NORTH--Morgan Baker. YORK WEST--VW. J. Gardhouse. WELLINGTON NORTH--Dr. Geo. A. McQuibban, KENT WEST--A, St. C. Gordon. HASTINGS WEST--J. A. Faulkner WINDSOR-SANDWICH -- J. H. Clark. TORON&O ST. Fraser Hunter. COCHRANE NORTH--J. Habel. OXFORD--P., M. Dewan. ESSEX SOUTH--L. P. Wigle. PATRICK'S -- F. DUFFERIN-SIMCOE -- Dr. W. B. Smith. PARRY SOUND--Dr. M. T. Arm- i strong. | RENFREW NORTH--J. C. Bradley RENFREW SONTH--T. P. Murphy GLENGARRY--IJ.' A. Sangster RUSSELI--Dr. Arthur Desrosiers PRESCOTT--Aurelien Belanger TIMISKAMING--W. G. Nixon. ! PRINCE EDWARD -- Lennox T. Bowerman. LAMBTON EAST--M. D. McVicar MIDDLESEX NORTH--IJ. W. Free- born. LONDON--Dr. A. S. Duncan. I WENTWORTH --George Bethune. TORONTO RIVERDALE--Robt. A.. - Allen. TORONTO ST. GEORGE -- Ian Strachan. MIDDLESEX SOUTH--C. M. Mec- Fie. COCHRANE SOUTH--J. Rowland- son. ! | CONSERVATIVES ELECTED KINGSTON--T. A. Kidd YORK SOUTH--Hon. Leopold Mac- aulay. YORK EAST--Hon. Geo. S. Henry. GRENVILLE-DUNDAS -- Hon. G. H. Challies. LANARK--John A. Craig. TORONTO BEACHES--T. A. Mur- phy. TORONTO BRACONDALE--A. R. Nesbitt. TORONTO DOVERCOURT -- Wil- liam Duckworth. «+ C. C. F. ELECTED HAMILTON EAST--Sam Lawrence TORONTO HIGH PARK -- W. A. Baird. TORONTO PARKDALE--Hon. Ww. H. Price. TORONTO ST. DAVID -- Wilf Heightington. "TORONTO WOODBINE -- C. C. Elgie. CARLETON--A. H. Acres. ADDINGTON--VW. D. Black. OTTAWA SOUTH--A. E. Ellis. PETERBORO--T. P. Lancaster. HASTINGS EAST--J. F. HILL U. F. 0. ELECTED GREY SOUTH-- Farquhar Oliver. LABORITE ELECTED KENORA--Earl Hutcheson. BLACKSTOCK The regular monthly meeting of the W. M. S. of the United Church was held on Wednesday afternoon of last week in the school room of the church with an attendance of 60. The pro- gram consisted of a solo by Miss V. Saddler, a temperance reading by Miss Ferga Johnston, a reading by Mrs. E. Dorrell, a vocal duet by Mrs. Jabez Wright and Mrs. Newell, and an in- spiring and educational address by Miss Laura Hambly, returned mis- sionary from China. An invitation had been extended to the ladies of the community to be present to hear Miss Hambly, At .the close lunch was served by the members of the W.M.S. The following will be of interest to many of our readers--The marriage of |: Miss Adele M. Patten and Mr. Leslie A. Smith will take place in Knox College Chapel Toronto, at 8.30 o'clock on June 80th, The bride-to-he is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. a Patton, of Toronto, and formerly of 'Blackstock, and Mr, Smith, who is on the staff of Harbord Collegiate is the son of the late Mr. and Mrs. George Allan Smith, of Uxbridge. We are sorry to learn that Mrs. Frank Stinson is ill in Toronto Gen- eral Hospital. We hope she will soon be better. We also sorry to know that Mrs. Wm. Crawford is under a doctor's and nurse's care and hope for 'her speedy recovery. The regular monthly meeting of the W.A. of St. John's Church will be held at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Hamilton on Thursday evening of this week, the 21st, and the meeting of the A.Y.P.A. will be held at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Creighton Devitt, on Wednesday evening of next week, June 27th, A number from here attended the Decoration Services in Prince Albert on Sunday last. The annual "Ginn Picnic" will be held' at Hampton Park on Saturday afternoon, June 23rd. Relatives and friends are cordially invited to be present and share in this family re- union. Two slides installed in the park by the Athletic Society were enjoyed by the children. » Cartwright's Centennial Celebrated at Blackstock Address Given by Dr. Herbert Bruce Lieutenant-Governor of Ontario History was made for the Township of Cartwright on Saturday, Sunday and Monday, June 16th, 17th and 18th, 1934, when it celebrated the close of its first One Hundred Years of Peace, Happiness and Prosperity. Black- stock, gay with its banners bearing the words "Welcome" and "Remember the Deeds of Our Forefathers" was the centre of activities. On Saturday afternoon at 1.45 the celebration opened with a parade of the school children from the following schools of the Township: Archer's, Devitt's Mahood's, Cedardale, Caesarea, Cad- mus, Purple Hill, Egypt and Black- stock, and their teachers, led by the Port Perry Band, to the Park where a beautiful cairn bearing the following inscription was unveiled by Mr. Wm. Hall, a grand-son of the first settler: "1834-1934, In Grateful Remembrance of Our Forefathers, the Pioneers of Cartwright. This Memorial is erected by the Municipality, June 16th, 1934. o Addresses interspersed by "selections from the band were given by the fol- lowing: Dr. Herbert Bruce, Licutenant- Governor of Ontario, Fred W. Bower, M.P., W. J. Bragg, Rev. Walter Creighton, of Lakefield, Rev. R. J. Fallis, Toronto; Rev. T. H. Ferguson, of London; M. J. Elliott, of Bowman-| i Mrs. Wm. Beacock, wife of the Township Clerk, "pregented Mrs. Bruce, ! wife of !the Lieutenant-Governor, with' a sheaf of roses. Mr. Hall had on ex-| hibition the first cowbell ever seen in| the township and a Phot of his | grandparents. Girls' Softball Tournament Port Perry 30, Blackstock 13. Honeydale 16, Greenbank 12 Port Perry 25, Honeydale b. |] At five o'clock supper was served in the armouries by the Nestleton In- stitute, after which a concert was put on in the Community Hall by a Minstrel Troup from Oshawa. } Winneis_of Races: Girls under 7--1 Dorothy Wright, 2 Patricia Marlow, 3 Audrey Taylor. Girls under 12--1 Mae Hood, 2 Grace Hood, 3 Gwenieth Marlow. Boys under 12--1- Gordon Hood, 2 Gordon Kersey, 3 Ernie Swain. Girls under 16--1 Madeline Marlow, 2 Mary Wilson, 3 Dorothy Brown. Boys under 16--1 John Nesbitt, 2 John McDonald, 3 Fred Stinson. Ladies' race--1 Mrs. Geo. Hood, Miss F. Fallis, 3 Miss Gayton. Men's race--1 Lorne Bradburn, 2 N. S. McNally, 3 H. Beacock. School parade--1st No. 5, Cadmus, Miss Helen Fowler, teacher; 2nd, No. 7, Caesarea, Miss F. Fallis, teacher. On Sunday the services in the dif- ferent churches in the township were taken as follows: Blackstock United, Rev. Harry Ferguson, of London, with solos by Mrs. Houston, of Toronto, (nee Carrie Beacock);" Blackstock Anglican, Rev. Walter Creighton, of Lakefield; Cadmus, Miss Laura Ham- bly, returned missionary from China; Nestleton United and Nestleton Presbyterian, Rev. C. Ferguson, of Northport. Monday afternoon a boys' baseball tournament and tug-of-war had been arranged for but owing to the very unfavorable weather the sports were all cancelled. However, the Bowman- ville Band was in attendance, supper was served in the armouries by the Victorian Women's Institute and a play entitled "Mary Made Somé Mar- malade'" was put'on in the Community Hall. At the close a dance was held the music being provided by "The Merry-Makers, from Oshawa. 2| many Friends of Cartwright: -- I have often heard the lives of the pioneers whose memory we honour to- day described as lives of grinding toil. That is certainly an appropriate and exact description. But their lives were "grinding" 'in more senses than one. One of their most important tasks was, for example, the grinding of corn. Man must have bread even though, in scriptural phrase, he shall not live by bread alone. How did these hardy forefathers of ours of Cartwright and of the county of Dur- ham get bread once they had harvest-|. ed the grain? Because I know of no better way to illustrate how strenuous and diffi- cult were the lives they led and how rrateful we, their descendants, should befor the gigantic labours they un- dertook so heroically, I want to read you a description of how bread was madé or, at least, how grain was ground by the' earliest citizens of Dur- ham County. This i$ how Captain James Dittrick describes the laborious process of grinding grain. "The mills of rude workmanship' he "writes "were thinly scattered about the country, so that we had to content ourselves with a hollow stump to pound our grain in, which was done with a cannon-ball, fastened to a cord] or bark of a tree and affixed to a long pole which served as a lever. The bread or cakes thus made were not particularly white, but were eaten with a good appetite and proved wholesome." I imagine any man would have a good appetite after grinding toil of that kind and, remembering the, Bibli- cal injunction to turn the weapons of war into the tools and instruments of peace by beating swords into plough- shares, I really think the pioncers of this township and this county went one better. They actually found a new and most original use for cannon- balls. Instead of dying and being killed by cannon-balls men and even women and children were kept alive and fed by cannon-balls. Cannon-balls made their bread! And that is not by any means the most remarkable of the remarkable features of the lives led by the pioneers. I mention it because it will, I hope give you an even deeper insight into the conditions in which they lived and laboured. But the story of the making of the bread by which they live doesn't end with that. No, they weren't content with such rough and ready methods. So, far away, near Kingston--they called it Cataraqui then--the govern- ment set up a grist mill. That was away back in 1782--more than 150 years ago. For four years there wasn "t another mill available to the inhabit- ants in this part of Canada, and the pioneers from the county of Durham and you may be sure from the very spot on which we are now standing and where later, exactly 100 years ago, the township of Cartwright was founded-- from here, from there, from every- where those old settlers used to travel through forest, over rough roads and by boat to Cataraqui to grind their corn. A man called Roger Bates, for example, used to go regularly from Darlington Township--ax little trip that took five or six weeks by boat and at night he used to pull the boat up on shore and sleep under it. Those were hard days and nights you may be sure. But it's no good having grain unless you can grind it for bread. And there was at least one good thing about such journeys. There was no charge made for grinding grain at the Cataraqui mill, of course; there were no trans- portation charges, either, since they had to transport Bieselves as best they could. - If you want to know, by the way, how strong and hard and tireless these old pioneers were, let me tell you the story of the old Scotch settler who once carried on his back 100 Ibs. of flour for fourteen miles and when somebody asked him how he felt after it all, he replied that he wasn't tired "but she'll be a little pit sore apoot the back." I'm not at all sur prised that he was "a little pit sore apoot the back" but I know that when I tell you of such men, this historic occasion will have for us all a new meaning and we shall understand even more clearly what manner of men these pioneers were and perhaps,recognize with a profound admiration their splendid qualities of enthusiasm, hardihood and endurance. I should add, before passing on to another aspect of the lives they led, that by the middle of the last century, even when Cartwright was already a township and the conditions of life had improved--even then those who lived in Durham county used to carry their grists 80 miles or more to the mill at Guelph. And 80 miles over such roads as they had then was a great deal more than 200 miles would be in this day and age. Tw I A a aa WEP i ha So AW wn FP a A Won: Ap ts Se *, Sap It was after ali the spirit-of-co- operation and mutual helpfulness that made life in those days bearable. In- deed it was probably the one great thing that made life possible at. all amid such difficulties, surrounded as they were by a country that offered none of the amenities of civilized tife such as, thanks to their early labours, we are able to enjoy. Let me give you an example of their generosity to each other, their belief that they should bear one another's burdens. In 1831, the home of a certain Mr. Hart was destroyedt by fire. It was built of cedar logs. There was, of course no So what happened? Was Mr, Hart to be allowed to bear all the loss and start the battle for life in a compara- tive wilderness all over again. Never! Here is an item from the little news- paper that reported the fire. "The loss of Mr. Hart, including upwards-of £60.00 in cash," the newspaper report- ed, "must dt least amount to $150.00. guage the praiseworthy liberality that has been displayed by the inhabitants of our village upon this occasion. A subscription already amounting to up- wards of £70 has been raised, and we have no doubt the entire loss of Mr. Hart will be made up. to him." So life in those days wasn't so ter- rible, after all. Indeed life anywhere would be a joyous experience if the same splendid public or community spirit was always being manifested. Or consider the "Cavan Blazers." Everybody, of course, has heard .of the Cavan Blazers -- those ardent Orangemen, who, here in Durham County, had many a "run-in" with the Irish Roman Catholics of Peterboro County. And yet--despite all their religious animosity what do we find? Well, when the only. Roman Catholic (continued on 'back page) such thing as insurance in those days.' We cannot express in too strong lan-- I endl BLE Fo ye Zen E