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¥ 7 rw frm ----ee ¢ mb + a. ~~ seldom left his net. _ Several times K of! i ¥ ' an EY ¢ --other side of the-net; then Switzer § time to notice whether it was in or "out ; # ~ Mac Harper sent a hot one in for a . lead and. the period ended ~ "for Port. * sa 8400 during 8 scramble; but that: was the \ ov 1 3 i Plat Ev "3 = ri ( <f * to the tune of 4:3 by the local hockey team" ¥ - when a high shot went behind Henry »g: S ME CALLED IT A HOCKEY MATCH AND SOME WATER POLO, Canadiens 4, Detroit 1. BUT PORT PERRY CALLED IT ~~ AVWIN-4te3 : Bobcaygeon was defeated in the Port Perry arena last Friday night ~The weather, the onditions under which the game was won were far from easy for either side. Bobcaygeon was the first to score Dodd -and bounded back on the ice 'before the goal umpire hardly had The rest of the first period was plugged . through with no further score being chalked down, 'In the second period, Switzer scored with Jack Beare's assistance. Then with the Port boys one up, Ta 'Bobcaygeon succeeded in regaining the lead in the first few minutes of the tihrd period; but not for long as Bill Heayn took the puck right through and although he nearly placed' himself in the nét he out-witted the Boheaygeon goalie for a third goal The fourth goal was gained on a well-timed combination play. The puck was passed from Heayn to Bill Cawker who passed to Switzer on the shoved it in. 7 Bobcaygeon fought back hard and finally landed one in the Port net repassed back to Bill Cawker who rE Raa xtent. of their goal-getting for the night and soon the gong rang for the end of the period. AC \ H. 'Dodd played a very good game in the net for his second game this year, He kept his head and very he blocked the puck when he was the last man to beat. : The rest of the team were there RR RR RRR ORON Games Tuesda _ National League Chicago 4, Boston 2 Americans 4, Maroons 0. "+ National League Standing International Section-- 3 ; . L. T. Pts. Canadiens .,........14 9 2 80 Maroons ............ 9 10 6 24 Toronto ............8 12 2 18 Americans ,,........ 7 16 8 [7 United States Section-- Detroft 7... 18 7 4 30 Rangers ............12 7 4 28 Boston ,..... ..,.....11 9 8 25 Chicago. ........,.... 6 11 6 18 Thursday this week -- Chicago at Maroons; Detroit at Rangers. ~ Saturday this week--Chicago at To- ronto; Maroons at Canadiens. Sunday games -- Boston at Ameri- cans; Detroit at Chicago. -. v9, H. A. Intermediate "B" Cannington 5, Bobcaygeon 4 Grimsby 8, Smithville'3 Brant St. Judes 7, Caledonia 2 Sundridge 4, Huntsville 1 Lindsay 9, Port Perry 0 London East 7, Ingersoll 2 Newmarket 2, Bolton 2 (overtime) "OHA. Junior "A" St. Michael's 2, Oshawa 1 Consols 7, Native Sons 2 Stratford 6, Port Colborne 2 ' O.H.A. Junior "B" Cobourg 7, Port Hope 4 'Whitby 6, Bowmanville 1 Georgetown 4, Acton 2 'Oshawa 6, Port Hope 1 Elmira 8, Arthur 8 New Hamburg 2, Clinton 2 ~ Markham 9, Bradford 6, . Aurora 8, Scarboro 4 : 'Listowel 7, Drayton 4 @ - -- FUTURE LOCAL, GAMES 'Woodville comes" here on Friday 'night and the. boys will test their -skill- with this good team. with everything they had as usual, - and, despite the sticky ice, made some, 0 8ee how they fare on the larger nice plays, - For the next game on January 22, 'Guy Raines, the "old war horse" will! have recovered sufficiently to be back on the ice, and we hope the weather will also recover and-allow us to have a little-hard ice after having two games on soft ice. : + General News SELF OR Py ) > EL : The strike of automobile workers continues with but little apparent hope of immediate change. are now said to be idle. Pope Pius XI is that the end is near. io? 5 0» Events in Spain move gradually toward a victory for Loyal- its. - Fortunately the rest of Europe fears 'war, and a major out- break is likely to be averted. $s on : possibility that Ontario car license fees may be * lowered in 1938. Ai There is a rest in the mausoleum at tended the funeral, 3 * * . Mr. Fred Draper was elected Benevolent Society in Oshawa. % gentences of death. for violation have been carried out, 80 SA < : gradually sinking, and the pontiff realizes J : i A lower tax rate is expected for Whitby Township this year. Oshawa City Hall is to be adorned by a picture of King George 4 : - SL BR BN 4 - The body of Charles Mattson, ten year old kidnap victim, has been discovered in a woods' 60. miles from his home in Tacoma. Brother Andre, of 8t. Joseph's Oratory, Montreal, was laid to the church there. * Many thousands at- * * 9 Heads of Standing Committees in Oshawa Council are-- nce, Stewart R. Alger; Fire Protection and Property, John C. eman; General Purpose, Wm, J, Lock; Board of Works, Alex. } 0 McLeese. PALE + ' Sales for General Motors cars in 1936 totalled 2,087,690--an increase of 18.8 per cent over 1935. 3 : Chinese dope fiends are being cured by execution. Many LA Mrs, B. C. Colpus was elected On the 22nd Cannington will come foe. = EET a, - THE CARNIVAL? We hear that it is intended bring on the Carnival earlier this year. Get your costumes ready. "112,000 General Motors men * = * * President of the Sons of England of the law. against using. opium chairman of the Oshawa Board JI did not get punished. | east of 'the village near where Walk- er's used to live. 'was planned originally. PORT PERRY, [Early Greenbank Sck Letter to Wm. Phoenix from H. W. Bassingthwaite . "42386 S. Olive St., Los Angeles, | Calif., May 10th, 1036. Mr. Will Phoenix, Greenbank: letter from me at this time. As you! are the only ohe of the old timers who | have stayed by the old place through all the years, I think you should be re- warded. I claim to be the first one that weds born in Greenbank on March 14th, 1846, If there is any one who has a prior claim I would like to hear from them. My sister Sarah and Sarah Jane Lee and some of the Smith girls were older but I do not think they were born there, Your father 'was 10 months older than I but he was born on the farm. I was born in a small log house on the corner where Anfos' Stone was living when'I was there last in 1008. When about five years old I went to school in an old log building just at the foot of the hill west of the old Church on the corner where the old Brock Road used to go through, James Copperthwaite had a blacksmith shop on the other corner on the east side of the road. The seats of the school house were made of slabs with pins in the round side for legs and the desks were built close to the wall so you sat with your back toward the teacher.' Fly There was a. large box stove in the centre. One winter ddy at noon some of the older boys and girls got one of the benches-and were teetering across the stove and broke down the stove, 80 there was no school until it was re- paired. The first day I went to school Robert Herrington sat in front of me. He wore a waist with a belt. I was barefooted and caught my toe in his belt and pulled him over backwards off the seat, Jim Truax was teacher. He was usually very strict about de- portment but as that was my first day After about five years they built a new school house on-the hill east of the church about half way between the 'Church and the "little creek. In the spring of 1866 I helped A. Beecroft move and rebuild that School House I often wonder where -all- the-boys are that I went to school with. There were Will; Bob and George Allen, Cornelius VanAllen, Joe Watson, Ed- ward, David and Timothy Cragg; and Alexander, Timothy and Isaac Cragg, | You perhaps were not expecting a 19500, George a | Horn, Edward Phi only one any ways near my size I Jack and William Henry Warren, ONTARIO, - £4 - Billie Me¢Mullén, Will and Andrew Gordon, Jim and Frank McLaren, Jim and Archie Johnston, Alexander Jam- Lewis O'Leary, {Ji Robert" H ¥ Peter Ganton, John! , Richard Mark-- will® mie, Tommy and Will lanson, Will} Jack bad Dunk McMul- len, Jabez Bagshaw, Not many of the older boys wet 4 1 after we left the old log school'h ue AES After I had beet i} Michigan about five years I went baek one winter. One night I. was at some kind of a party at the house of "the storekeeper. I. started to go hom® with Lizzie Beans, She lived at the old Grist Mill, We got about half waybitween the corner | and Ianson's gate when we met Geo-' rge Real, Bob Walk fellow named: Ganton. Each one as they went by on thé other side threw ' his: arm around and kissed the girl and said good night Lizate. It was a new game to me. I stood there like a totem pole, I did not know whether I should resent. su¢h familiarity or whether it was a joke they were in the habit of playing on each other. I in- tended to find out the first time I met any of the boys but I never saw one of them or the girl afterwards. I am still wonderng what it was all about. We have had cloudy weather but. it is sunnier now. "Would like to hear from you at your eonvenience. This is Mothei's day.. That is pro. bably why I am telling you about old times. "I do not need to tell you the writing is bad. My. hand is slightly paralized and I never could write good. Your father and I played to- gether for several years and he is-the never had a scrap with. = If you haa trouble with John Lee you had to fight the whole family including Bob Walk- er, when he was a kid. When any two fellows had trouble John Lee would always help the one he though would win. Remember me to your wife or any others who might possibly remember me for-my- good or bad conduct. I think there was a good looking sister of your attending the Post Office when I-was there in 1903. I am wondering if she ever married. If so who was the lucky cuss? Admiral Richard Byrd isolated him- self for seven months of 1984 in a nine by seven hut buried in the ant- arctic snow wastes. Deliberately cut- ting himself off from his expedition 'and from the comparative comfort and safety of his base in Little America, he went 128 miles south, to be alone in the cold and the dark of the ant- arctic winter. No one could reach him there if he needed help.. No one could lift a hand fo aid him until the long winter night ended. One¢e -and again he faced death; only by a miracle of human endurance did he come through alive. He isolated himself for two reasons. The first was a reason of necessity. Little America is on the seacoast. It was esential to have an inland base to get important meteorological data. But unforeseen difficulties arose which made it impossible to equip the base with supplies for three persons, as And, since one man had to go alone, Byrd, follow- ing his rule of never asking one of his men to do a job he would not do_him- self, chose to be the one to go, ~~ The second reason was a more per- sonal' one, ; : "For ten years," he said, "I've lived a crowded life--one expedition after another. I've had no time for leisure or contemplation, But out there I can live in utter simplicity, can sit still and think things over. I'd like to see the world from a different angle and take stock, perhaps, of the things we live and die by." In the middle of March, 1934, four tractors left Little America, carrying provisions for this Advance Base and the sections of the shack in which Byrd was to bury himself. On the 20th of that month they ¢ame to a halt 123 miles south of the last post ~ of civilisation, on the rolling white Some Experiences of Admiral Byrd Paper read before Scugog Chapter of the I. 0. D, E. By Mrs. R. A. Peel, Port Perry. something of a fire hazard, . . Hope plain of the Ross Shelf Ice, which sweeps up the horizon in a vast, un- broken expanse. And:there the ad- vance base was constructed in waning daylight, with the thermometer at 65° below zero. Two days later Byrd flew from Lit- tle America to begin his isolation, and soon the tractors and the plane re- turned. If Byrd had any deep mis- givings, he did not express them. In the first formal entry in his diary he wrote: SRE : March 28th, 1934. The tractors are off at last; and at 12:10 noon I commenced my isolation. For more than 20 days I shall see no living thing. The base is already functioning as the world's southern- most meteorological outpost; outside on the pole the anemometer cups are gently turning, and the red-ink traces telling of weather are lengthening on half a dozen instruments, But I'm in the middle of chaos, with a very lame shoulder. I wrenched it when'I fell while lifting a heavy. box onto the tractor. It's very painful and an unfortunate handicap just now, because everything is in confustion and-days--even weeks--of hard work are needed to put things to right. Boxes, loose clothing, books, and odds and ends past counting are strewn about. 1 haven't the fainstest idea where anything is. I've searched conscientiously for the alarm elock and the cookbook, and the suspicion 1s growing that I left them at Little America, It would be an ironic joke if, in the prententious planning for every contingency, we forgot these 'most commonplace and vital neces- sities, : Another thing: The fuel line from the tank to the stove is leaking and is HURSDAY, JANUARY 14th, 1987 | Days Y STA my shoulder mends soon. to do anything with it. > March 29th. Four: possibilities hang over my ex- istence lke swords of Damocles: (1) The danger of fire destroying the shack and my stores. (2) The chance 'of being buried alive as a consequence of drift deepening over the roof, (3) The risk of being suffocated by fumes from the stove. (4) The final hazard of being rendered helpless by illness - or accident, If any one of these things came to pass; it might be just too bad. I've carefully considered these things and am taking steps to reduce the danger, My greatest porblem, I imagine, will | be to keep peace with myself. March blustered out in a blizzard, and the rising tide of drift completed the submergence of the shack. Only Byrd's radio antennae, the beehive- shaped instrument pole with its silver vane and tireless. wind cups showed above the surface. Northward a line of small orange flags matking the , Jobin Lee and a'trail to the Advance Base, fixed to knee-high bamboo sticks, vanished in the direction of Little America. For months only blizzards would travel that highway, - Underneath, though, was a snug re- treat. Nine by thirteen by seven, the whole shack could have been stowed in the corner of an ordinary living- room. A folding bunk swung from one wall. The glass-enclosed, battery powered triple register, which meas- ures wind direction and velocity, stood at 'its foot. On a rack built into an opposite corner the radio gear was disposed. . Cans of food and books were stacked on wall shelves, and the stove stood near.the center of the room. A step in any direction fetched you up hard against something. Sky- lights were let in the roof; but drift]: filmed these, and there was just a hint of daylight dying with lovely erup tons of rose-colored flames. - Hardly a fortnight of - daylight re- mained, and Byrd, handicapped by his lame shoulder, labored to shore up his defenses. The shack had been built in a deep hole, and the roof was flush with the snow. The shack faced west, It lay about forty paces from the seven-foot snow beacon marking a food depot on the southern trail. "A projecting roof: along the front formed a- storeroom, from which two tunnels were mined through the hard snow. In one the food boxes were cached; in the other, upright in alcoves hollowed in the walls of fine-grained. crystalline snow, the fuel drums stood. A trapdoor, set in the projecting roof and reached by a ladder, was the only exit. Byrd immediately started an escape | » Which would give him an emer- gency outlet, in the event drift block- ed off his trapdoor. The roof in the fuel tunnel started to sag, and he had to strengthen it. Kerosene in the big drums congealed in the cold and poured with difficulty, giving him something serious to think about. = Though he never found the alarm clock, he came upon the cook- book amidst the navigation gear. "When I discovered it" he said later, "I"gave a whoop of joy. Then re- membered, with a queer self-conscious- ness, that it was the first word I had uttered in more than a week." . Meanwhile, he had little leisure time for contemplation, says the diary. } April 4th. . It's surprising how swift I've been caught up in routine, I had rather imagined that life out here would be casual and flexible; but I find myself committed to responsibilities as press- ing as any I ever found in civilization. The difference is that here the small things are the important things, and none can be ignored. You wouldn't believe how much time they take, I 'have a daily round of meteor and auroral observations .to make, com- mencing 'at 8:00 in the morning and not ending till midnight; eight instru- ments to read and keep adjusted; and records to keep. The five auroral observations are timed to coincide -with similar obser- vations at Little America, I give sev- eral hours a day to this work. In be- tween I try to squeeze in time for the innumerable small tasks claiming at- tention--digging snow and melting it for water; getting fuel for the stove; shovelling drift from the hatch; wash- ing pots and dishes; straighening out the stores in the shack and the tun- nels; thawing frozen food and clothing stiff with rime -- I could fill a page with such details. It's 2:30 in the morning before I put my light out and turn in, It's dificult SCHOOL DAYS . BY ANNABELLE BAIRD le Students are back in Port Perry High School for the second phase in the struggle against the Gauls with Caesar, and the Persians with Alex- ander, * 0» One 'bright spot in- the prevailing gloom, however, is the Literary meet- ing to be put on next Friday by first form. They are planning to present country dances --an English folk dance, a square dance, a Belgian folk dance, a Danish dance, and a polka. The presentation. of these picture- sque dances by the graceful maidens, and gallant knights of first form is anxiously awaited. LJ » » * Does Greenbank need a new car or a new driver that she cannot arrive on time for school? * * * motor and grinder for the sharpening of tools, have been purchased for the farm mechanics' department. LIE I 3 A tearful farewell party was held in Middle School last Thursday morn- ing for Marjorie Byers on her removal to the front seat of "Honour?" al J LJ * The hockey season will open Jan- uary 12 at 4 p.m. in the rink with a clash between team I with captain Ernie Gilroy and team II with captain George Emmerson. a --leoo -- -- EAGRAVE Mrs. J. S. McFarlane visited her mother, Mrs. Dure, in Toronto a few days last week. Toronto spent the week end with. Mr. and Mrs. A. L, Orchard. Mr. Elgin Frise and Mrs. Grose of Toronto were week end guests of their parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. Frise. Mrs. L. Branning and daughter of Toronto visited friends in the com- munity a few days this week. Mr. and. Mrs. H.-Wannamaker are spending a few days in Toronto this week, Miss A. Holdershaw of Uxbridge is spending sometime at the home of her brother Mr. J. Holdershaw. * Mr. A. Hood of Toronto was a week end guest of his-aunt-Mrs. O. Stone. Mr. and Mrs, S. J. Wooldridge and Dorothea visited friends at Greenbank on Sunday. # We are sorry to report Miss Norma Urquhart unable to resume her duties as teacher of Bethel-Seagrave public school. Mr. M. Moase is acting as teacher during Miss Urquhart's ill- ness. We wish Norma a speedy re- covery. Quite a number from here attended the dance in the Community Hall at Sonya, on Thursday evening. The Quadrata Girl's Club held their January meeting at the home of Miss Helen Short with a gplendid atten- dance. Revi Mr. Flindall was the speaker for the evening. The Sunday School orchestra with its new members supplied an excellent musical program for the Sunday School service on Sunday morning. For the benefit of thise who read the home news in the Port Perry Star, with. interest I will give a list of the members of our orchestra: Organizer and Leader, Mrs. C. Sleep, Musical Director--Mr. L. Scott, Flute Mr. L,. Scott, First Violin, Mr. Grant Orchard and Miss Fern Moon, Second Violin, Mr. Glenn Wannamaker, Clarinet, Mr. | Joe Grantham, Bass Violin, Miss Nor- ma Moon, Guitar, Miss Sina Irwin, Silver Triangle, Miss Gloria Harding, Pianists, Misses Marion Eagleson and Jean Harding, Soloists, Mrs. \S. J. Wooldridge, Miss Dorothy Reynolds. The first selection was a duet by Mrs. Wooldridge and Miss D. Reynolds, en- titled "Love that Passeth Knowledge", with orchestra accompaniment, Mr. J, Grantham sang as his number "Love Divine", A selection by the orchestra "Songs of Joy", Miss D. Reynolds sang the hymn "Children of Jeru- salem" with the Sunday School join- ing in the chorus. Messrs. Glenn Wannamaker and Joe Grantham, Miss Fern Moon and Mrs. Wooldridge sang as a quartette "Come Ye Disconso- late", "The members of the orchestra have enjoyed the work in connection with the Sunday School and from the comments received after the service on Sunday morning the effort has not been in vain. -A new forge, anvil, and electric |- 'Mr.. Fred Brown and lady friend of |- SAMUEL FARMER, Editor and Publisher. The Yoyhig People's Society and the | Women"s{Guild are putting on a sup- per and _toncert on Wednesday even- ing;-January 27th, : Li Devotional « night _at "the Young Peoples' Society was held on Sunday evening at 7.30, Jan. 10th. Mrs. G. Fisher, convener, Mr. John Leask attended the fun- eral of Mr. Alex. Leask, at Uxbridge on Monday afternoon. ® We are glad to report that Mrs. Stuart Bryant is recovering from her operation at Lockwood clinic, To- ronto. The community was suddenly shock- ed to lean of the death of Jas. Wigh- ton, on January 4th. Deceased was in his 79th 'year and lived at Dagmar. He was predeceased by his wife, Elizabeth Williams, about five years ago. He leaves one brother George in Alberta and two 'sisters in Winni- peg, Mrs. Diman and Mrs. McRae. Rev. D. A. Ferguson took charge of the service, The annual Sunday School conven- tion was held on Tuesday. in Brooklin. Several from here attended. The Young People's Society enter- tained Mount Zion Socity on Tuesday evening. Mrs. Allan Ross, social con- vener, was in charge. We are pleased to report that Mrs. Gordon Fisher, who met with a pain- ful accident last week is recovering successfully, Mrs. Geo. West is spending a few days with Mrs. Roy Hall. The Mission Band was held on Tues- day afternoon under the leadership of Mrs, Allan Ross, who told the children a story of the life of Mr. J, Moffatt. : Mur, and Mrs. Herb Ashton were the guests of Miss Hamill one day last week, We are pleased to report Miss G. Lynde is much improved from her recent illness. Mrs. Edgar Heron and Doris May spent Saturday in Toronto. -- Port Hope, Jan. 6--Evidence of the distress in the western drought area is found in a letter of thanks sent to Ernest Holdsworth, who was in charge of the Port-Hope-Cobourg car of food, clothing and books, by James R. Mec- Cannell, - chairman of the committee at Bracken which received the dona- tions. "I have been in business here for 13 years," state Mr. McCannell, "and the last seven years have been too tough for any person to make jt go. A lake near here covering about four sections of land and averaging about 26 feet of water eight years ago, is now dry and the only river in our district shown on the may has stopped tunning. It is 26 miles from here. Wells have gone dry and water is at a premium. Our water for the village is hauled in tanks from a point six miles away at a cost of eight cents a pail. No grain or feed grew this year and the people are depending on the government for feed and fodder. Thousands of cattle were shipped as canners. this fall because the farmers could not feed them. "The people whom .we have aided include: Scotch, 47; Indians, 5; Negro, 5; Yankee, 51; Canadians 171; Bo- hemian, 39; Dutch, 15; English, 115;. Irish, 24; Austrian, 10; Polish, 14; Swedish, 64; Norwegian, 46; German, 39; Australian, 5; Assyrian, 5; Fin- nish, 3; Danish, 3." County Council COUNTY OF ONTARIO The first meeting of the Council of the Corporation of the County of Ontario for the year 1937 will be held pursuant to statute in the Council Chamber in the Court House in the TOWN OF WHITBY, on TUESDAY, the 19th day of January, 1937, at the hour of two o'clock in the afternoon. All accounts to be laid before the Council should be forwarded to the Clerk, properly certified, at least three days before the meeting of the Council. : Dated at Whitby, this 5th day of January, A.D. 1987, R. DONALD RUDDY, P nn 9 = aves: RIE ABR RAE 5 AGN ae Ea - ae ™ Rts. SN B County Clerk. -