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: 4 L 5% 1907 . 1957 : 0 Congratulations - We are pleased to congratulate the Port Peryy Star on the occasion of their 50th anniversary. They have handled our advertising and printing, and we have heen more than satisfied. Howard 'Motors -'CHEV. CARS and TRUCKS OLDSMOBILE - TEXACO PRODUCTS 0.K. USED CARS Phone 74, Port Perry, Ontario We congratulate "The Star" and the Farmer Family on their record of 50 years' successful service to the community. We wish them many more years of continued success and prosperity. We are proud of the fact that "The Star" has used our "Printed Services" over all these years. The Wilson Publishing Company 123 EIGHTEENTH STREET Established 1878 - " NEW TORONTO os | 0 1 a od 5 =u, . tions - Co On behalf of the people of Port Perry, the Reeve and Council wish to offer congratulations to the Port Perry Star on attaining 50 years of successful business | REEVE J. J. GIBSON COUNCILLORS "T. W. HARRIS ART COX FRANK GODLEY I. A. BOYD We are happy to extend our good wishes for continued success to The Port Perry Star Sweetman's Garage ESSO STATION VOLKSWAGENS Phone 4J PORT PERRY APO ARI SE PORT PERRY STAR HISTORICAL and MEMORIAL EDITION -- Page 18 NEWS ITEMS of PAST 50 YEARS The Year 1955 JAN. -- Bell Telephone reports 60 phones added to Port exchange in '54. FEB.--Epsom school damaged by, fire, 32 pupils have holiday.--Scugog Chap- ter LO.D,E. dedicate memorial shelf in honour of members who have died. Memorial Library. -- Fidelity Lodge AF. & AM, present Rt. Wor. Bro. H. G. Hutcheson with jewel to com- memorate 60 years in lodge. MARCH -- Anglican Church receives gift of organ and other items from Catholic Apostolic Church in Toronto, which is closing. APRIL--Pee Wee Hockey team cap- tures Peterboro District Champion- ship.--Memory Hall, Utica burned to ground. MAY---Believed to be largest nomina- tion meeting ever held in Canada. Dr. M. B. Dymond is named candidate for Progressive Conservative party, Ont, Riding. = Meeting held in Memorial Gardens. JUNE--Friday night shepping is gi- ven try-out.--Lions Club conduct elec- tion centre in the Memorial Gardens, All three candidates for the election are from Port Perry district. Dr. M. B. Dymond is elected M.L.A. Ontario Riding. JULY--Reach Twp. niakes last Fri- day 'before the last Monday in Nov. Nomination Day. Election Day to be first Monday in December. SEPT, -- DeNure Bus Lines Limited awarded $18,000 for business adverse- ly affected by City of Oshawa taking over suburban bus travel formerly supplied by DeNure. -- C.N.E. Speed Boat Races held on Scugog, owing to bad weather on Lake Ontario. OCT.--Ray Hobbs Garage, Manches- ter, burned down. DEC. -- Geo. and Harold Emmerson open motel on Queen St., opposite the Post Office.--Howard Motors hold of ficial opening. - Bought out Bryden Motors.--Mr. R. D. Woon honoured for many years of service to Port Perry Reach and Scugog Agricultural Society.--F. W. Brock and Son be- comes A. W. Brock Department store. Have been in business 756 years. The Year 1956 JAN.--Port Perry, to form Chamber of Commerce, (inaugurated Feb. 28.) FEB.--James Hunter, Albert Fulford and Clive Boyd first Queen Scouts in Port Perry. MARCH -- Irvin Tripp sells garage business to Robert Archer.--William Lowcock purchases refrigeration busi- ness of late Reg. Boundey. APRIL -- Brooklin Hockey win All- Ontario Junior "D"" Title. 4 of these players live in Port Perry. JUNE--The Elizabeth Shoppe opens in new location opposite Post Office. --Lawyer A. W. S. Greer passes in Oshawa home. AUG. -- Port Perry Stationary Stove opens next to Theatre. SEPT.--R. B. 'Smallman retires from business. Blacksmith here for 46 yrs. OCT.--Interfational Plowing Match at Brooklin draws huge crowds. Hugh Baird, Blackwater is Canadian Cham- pion Plowman. -- Cartwright Council approves issue of $50,000 debenture for school addition. -- Ron Lowcock starts Port Perry Motors, sells-Volks- wagen. One ofthe Boys Who Gave Their Lives in World Warll EDITOR'S NOTE -- These pic- tures and others that are placed throughout this special edition are a few pictures that we have. PTE. CLIFFORD JOHN WILSON of Raglan, killed in action Sept. 28th, 1944. Son of Mr. and Mrs. J. Wilson. The Year 1957 Reeve -- J. J. Gibson, Council-- Art Cox, Frank Godley, W, T. Harris, I. A. Boyd. JAN.--C. Popert re-opens former Del Restaurant and moves poolroom to same premises.--Owen Reader com- pletes course in electronics and sets up Radio and T.V. repair shop. FEB.--Dr, B. N. Smallman, son of Mr. and Mrs, B. Smallman has been ap- pointed chief of the Division of Ety- mology Science Service in Ottawa. MARCH-+Miss Audrey Kent, featured in a double page spread of the week- end Tely, Article regarding her an- gora rabbits.--"Tug" Wilson has re- turned to Port Perry and set up a TV and radio repair shop. ' APRIL -- Lake Scugog Lumber Co. Ltd. remodel and renovate store.-- Midtown Appliances buys out Phoenix Electric.--Gary Edgar, Scugog Indian Reserve, P.P.H.S. student, wins "Tom Long Boat Medal" for poficiency and sports, MAY -- Causeway Investments open new summer cottage area on Scugog Island. Named Scugog Village.--Phoe- be opens new hairdressing salon next to Van's Men's Wear.--Miss Lillian Mestan becomes hairdrbsser at Mulli- gan's Beauty Salon. JULY--Dr. M. B. Dymond, M.L.A,, Ontario Riding, appointed Minister of Reform Institutions.--Final arrange- ments made to bring new supply of fresh water into Port Perry. Well is on Oshawa Road. AUG.--Dr. M. B. Dymond, withdraws from active practice. Will remain in Port Perry.--Dr. Jack Diamond, will take place of Dr. M. B. Dymond. The Bell Telephone As Recorded In Nov. 1932 "Star" The history of the telephone in Port Perry dates back 47 years. In 1885 the Bell Telephone established a local agency under the supervision of 8S. E. Allis®n, druggist. - There were four subscribers in that year listed in the telephone directory. At that time Oshawa had 27 telephones in service. A copy of this early tele- phone book is preserved in the Bell Telephone Historical Museum in ¥on- treal. This directory shows that in ad- dition to Mr. Allison, the Ontario Bank, the general store of A. Ross & Sons, the flour mills of Trounce & Co. were the earliest users of the tele- phone. These four subscribers were gegved through a small switchboard and associated apparatus set up in a section of the S. E. Allison Drug Store on Queen Street. Service was available from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. week days. Legal holidays the usage was confined to four hours, ten to twelve in the morning and two to four in the afternoon. : Sunday there was just the two hour period in the afternoon. It is apparent that the value of the telephone connections was early rea- lized by local residents. In December of that same year, the Bell Telephone Co. published another directory con- taining the listings of telephone users added during the months since Jan, 1885. Six new listings appeared: Curts and: Henderson, Flour and Feed merchants, Queen; Grand Trunk Rail- way, Water; Lawder, Jno, Grain Merchant, Queen and water; Oriental Hotel, J. J. Risdon, mgr., Queen and Water; Patterson, N. F., Q.C., Barris- ter, Queen; Sangster, Dr. J. H, Queen. A year later 3 more names were added: Lawder, Jro., Grain Mer- chant, Manchester; Lawder Jno., Ele- vators, Manchester and Paxton, Tate and Co., Founders, Perry St. From then on there was a steady growth of subscribers. In 1893, W. H. Mc- Caw, then living on Cochrane St., suc- ceeded the former agent, S. E. Alli- son with a title of Local Manager. For many years Port Perry has been the central point of telephone activity throughout the wide area ex- tending from Blackwater Jct. to Bur- keton. In July, 19381, the former store-type front of the Queen St. Central Office, opposite the Post Of- fice was completely remodelled and improved in appearance. Re-decorat- ing the interior, some re-arrangement of equipment and installation of mo- dern office appointments brought the local exchange into the category of '| up-to-date telephone 'premises. In a territory, much of it compris- ing rural communities, the Bell Tele- phone Co. is faced with severe prob- lems of maintenance not common to urban centres. For example consider the heavy expenditure annually to prevent s| «damage to telephone lines and the large outlay necessary 3 -- & each winter to repair: disrupted cir- cuits when the fury of sleet, wifid and now have wrought unpreventable da- mage in certain open country locali- ties. ? It is not unusual for heavy winter sleet and ice storms for ice to gather on the wires to a diameter of 4 to 6 inches. One such new years storm telephone men estimated that 50 wires stretched 110 feet between poles pro- duce a dead weight of more than three tons on each pole. Followed by a 650 mile gale such weight can add up to more than 7 tons. Little wonder that these storms cost the Telephone Co. thousands of dollars yearly. At such times the Spirit of the Service by tele- phone repair men is demonstrated. (Editor's Note, 1957--The Bell Tele- phone Company are installing the dial system and work is mow in progress on a new building next to the Public School on Queen St., and also install- ing new underground cables along Queen St. To Locate Places In order to help you figure out where various business places were located we list the following, as near- ly as we can as they were about 1907, with notes about 1957 business places, starting at the lake on the North side of Queen St. The Mill--Now Master Feeds. West of Water St. The Sebert House--Neow an apart- ment house. _Gerrow's Barber Shop -- Now Hooey"s Barber Shop. Observer Office -- Now Popert's Coffee Shop and poolroom. McGregor's Butcher Shop (new). Hope's Tobacco & Confectionary (new). Bank of Commerce. Carnegie Hardware. Short's Liquor Store--Now Levin- son's Drygoods. The Blong Block W. H. Doubt, tailor--Now Greer & Kelly. Miss Walker Millinery, followed by Greenberg Jewellers--Now Jackson's Pastries. T. C. Forman, grocer--Now Lake Scugog Lumber Co. Stonehouse undertaker -- Now Mid-, way Appliances. Star Office--Now Dominion Store. Geo. Davey, Grocery-- McCaw Block > McCaw, Jeweller -- Now Bentley's Jewellery. Brock's store--Now Bell Telephone. Jones & Dunk, later F. W. McIntyre --Now Taylor's be. to $1.00 and Tay- | lor's Restaurant. | Parrish Block Parrish Hardware -- Now Peol's Hardware. ' A. J. Davis, druggist--Now Law- rence's Drug Store. T. J. Widden, grocer--Now Mulli- gan's Hairdressing. West of Perry Street. The Leonard Block Now McLean's Radio and McEach- eran Millinery. Jeffrey & Taylor's, Harness -- Now Flamingo Restaurant and Van's Mens & Boys Wear. Rolph Block Chinese Laundry--Now Phoebe's Hairdressing. - Rolph Harness--Now Seiffert's res- taurant. ; The Jessop Block W. G. Monet, general store--Now The Star Office Graham's Garage--Now Ted Jack- son's Implement Shop. Doubt's Shoe Repair--Now George Stephen's Shoe Repair. Formerly Dr. Mellow's home and Office--Now Tom Sandiland, Jeweller and Ballard apartments. The new Carnegie Block containing Beauty Salon; Western Tire Associate Store; Kayvan's Ladies Wear; Simp- son Sears Mail Order Office. West of John St. Memorial Public Library. Bowling Green. The South Side of Queen St. Starting at Lake . G.T.R. Station--Now Palmer Mem- orial Park, West of Water St. St. Charles Hotel -- Now Lakeview Theatre. : Jackson's Imfilement Shop -- Now Herb. Brooks Hatchery office. Beatty's Harness -- Now Dowson's Red and White Grocery and the Town Office. The Ebbel"s Block years, THE LATE REV, W. P. BROWN who celebrated his 100th birthday in June 1947, was honored by many friends and dignataries at this time. He had served the Methodist and United Church as minister for some 40 Rev. Mr. Brown died a few days later. partment Store. A. Ross & Son, Drygoods -- Now Brock's Department Store. + Adam's Insurance and Real Estate --Now Gilson & Sleep. Collin's Barber Shop--Now H. H. Stone, haberdashery. Bakery--Now Cawker's Meats. Purdy Block Purdy Grocery and Feeds--Now Pickard's Hardware. Henry Doubt, Tailor--Now I. G. A. Grocer. Flints Drugstore Grocer. Post Office. Allison Drug Store--Now Bruton's Now LI. Gi. A. Drug Store. Dawes Bakery -- Now Gerrow's Bakery. Post Office -- Now Beare's Show- room. Willard Grocery, ete.--Now Beare's Showroom. West of Perry St. Town & Spears, undertaking, furni- ture--Now McDermott & Panabaker. At the next corner (John)--Tum- monds Feed Store--Now Beare's Gar- age. : South on Perry St. Swan Carriage Shop--Now Morrow Implement Shop and across the road where Mr. Letcher's home stands was Vickery's Planing Mill. North on Perry Allin's Blacksmith Shop --Now Cau- sley Machine Shop. North of Causley's is now Franssen Tailor Shop and South of Causley's is the "Knitting Mill" now closed. Foundry--Now Port Perry Bottling Works. THE MILLS The History of the mills goes back to the earliest days of Port Perry but we shall start with Mr. James Carne- gie who purchased the bankrupt busi- ness in 1888 and turned it into a suc- cessful enterprise. In 1907 Mr. James Carnegie sold out to his sons D. and A. J. Carnegie. The transaction involved the flour and grist mills, the planing and saw mills, the timber limits and the tug "The Stranger". In 1908 this tug was burned and sunk, later in the yeav some parts of it were salvaged by divers. In October of this year the Carnegie Milling Co. erected a new saw mill and wharf and in 1910 they purchased another tug "The Cora" from Captain Bowerman, and also 8000 acres of timber in Arkansaw, In 1917 The Farmer Union Milling Co. purchased the business, and in 1918 Mr. A. J. Carnegie became man- ager. In 1930 Mr. S. N. Griffen purchased part of the milling business and be- came the Lake Scugog Milling Co. They moved their office to Queen St. in 1939. Some time around this time Mr. Waridel owned the grist mill la- ter selling to Jas. Goodall Co. which was burned out. | : THE HISTORY OF THE HOSPITAL About the year 1920 Mrs. James Swan started a hospital in Iori Perry. She rented the rooms above the Star Office using the large airy front room for the operating room and the other part as bed rooms. She later pur- chased the fine large home of Mr. Jas. Ward on John St. and carried on there until" selling the hospital to Miss Margaret Fisher. In 1933, Mrs. R. N. Whitmore, R.N., was conduct- ing the well baby clinic every two weeks, she having bought the hospi- tal. In 1948 the Port Perry Hospital was forced to close its doors, the building not being adequate to. the needs of modern medicine and surgery. In- terested folk started at once to raise funds for a new hospital and in 1953 the new Community Memorial Hospi- tal opened its doors. This building was moved from Ajax to Lilla Street North in Port Perry, where it was rebuilt and furnished by government grant and local subscrip- tion as a modern up-to-date 32 bed hospital. Since that time it has been kept at a high level of efficiency by the interest of local folk, augmented by township and town support. WHITE ROSE PRODUCTS Phone 522-W Standard Bank--Now Brock's De- We extend congratulations and all good wishes to The Port Perry Star Jack Pargeter PORT PERRY, ONT. REPAIRS _ TOWING Perry Street S. ¥ rene rea SB \ a oA" i ry AF No "> = Sak es Wt tt oa i gatos a rey J Ev i pn a . rt Spe 8 A a Yienfli gd fri Lain gpd " Ce i Ar dy gb i 53! !