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= 130TH ANNIVERSARY ISSUE -- the name was change | | the Port Perry Star, | also incorporates th | Perry Standard. ; W.H. Cline was re | to in many articles as | | Cline and records show he "| | was a guest preacher at | | many churches around the area during his | time as publisher. / News reports fi indicate Mr. Cline { leased a residence on Cochrane St. for some time before his family arrived from Toronto in | April 1907, so it is quite probable Mr. Cline had not been publisher of the Standard for a very long time before their arrival. : 1883, which leveled the north side of Queen St., the Standard relocated across the street. on the second floor approximately where Hanks Pastries (204 Queen St.) is located today. A few months later, publication of the Standard was inter- rupted again, due to a second fire in July 1884. Once again Mundy was faced with finding new premis- es and- moved the Standard office to the Laing and Mehary building (area of Pentland Jewellers - 174 Queen St.). THE NEWTON BROS. In announcing he Brothers Seville : was going to sell the Martineau (Sam) Newton, and George {yo boys and three girls. newspaper, Mr. Cline wrote "having been Henry Newton. Sam became publisher George Newton took an early interest called somewhat unexpectedly to assume and George the editor of the Standard inj, the newspapers, publishing the Ailsa the pastoral oversite of a certain church : 1889 Joes Craig Banner and the Port Perry in the vicinity of Buffalo, N.Y, the writer Although records indicate the Newton Giandard before the turn of the decided a few weeks ago to dispose of Bros. purchased the Standard about century. ™\_ the newspaper and return to the 1889, a reference is made to the fact Geo. In 1901. Geo. H. Newton work of the ministry." pa H. Newton was working for the paper as noved to North Bay to take SAMUEL FARMER early as 1883. It's not known exactly ,yer The Despatch from his 1t was towards the end of when the Newtons sold the Standard, prother E.A. Newton who September 1907 when although S.M. Newton was still listed as },44 started the publication Samuel Farmer purchased editor and publisher in the Nov. 15,1900 five years earlier. He con- the Port Perry Star from issue of the paper. *» tinued to publish The W.H. Cline, and com- In 1901, the town of Port Perry experi- pegpatch for 26 years, menced publication of the enced yet another fire on the south side of +i] he retired in 1927. paper as publisher and Queen St. which once again interrupted Geo. Newton died in May proprietor on Wedneday, publication of the Standard. Following 1949 at 79 years of age. October 2, 1907. this fire, the Standard moved to new An article in the Mr. Samuel Farmer offices on the north side of the street again, gaptember 11, 1907 issue of was described as a former this time into office in the Blong Block the Port Perry Star says "Mr. resident of Reach Township above what is now Native Perspectives g (Sam) M. Newton, former who had attended Port Perry (191 Queen St.) completing a cycle which ooh retor of the Standard had High School. He was connect- began 35 years earlier. purchased the Kingston News, ed with the Uxbridge Journal The Newtons came from a family of ghich he had been managing for a considerable time and nine brothers and were born in Lindsay. gor some time." Records SAMUEL FARMER for the past two years had George was born in Feb. 1871, married in show he sold the Kingston been on the staff of Saturday Whitby in 1893, and had five children, News on April 10, Night in Toronto, one of the highest class 1908, about seven papers in the Dominion, the reportsays. months after purchas- In January 1920 the Port Perry ing the paper. Star moved its offices from the W. H. CLINE Blong Block (Settlement House 4 It is believed Sam shops) to the Jessop Block (235 Newton sold the Port Queen St.), and in October 1922 Perry Standard to Mr. became the first business in W. H. Cline sometime town to install hydro and oper- in 1906. Mr. Cline ate motors by electric power. published the paper Over the next 40 years Mr. until late September Farmer saw the Star grow and 1907 when he sold it to flourish under his capa Samuel Farmer. dership. The Port Perry ; While there is no Was described as a "labour of documentation to love" for Mr. Farmer and he was prove it was S.M. proud of the community and Newton who sold the always strived for its best aper to Cline, it interests. : a unlikely there Mr. Farmer successfully pub- & were any other own- lished the Star until his death on er/publishers between April 30, 1948 at which time his Newton and Cline. family took over the publication. This photograph taken after the devestating fire of 1884 shows how the | entire business section of Port Perry was destroyed. The only thing left after the fire was extinquished was the grain mill at the end of the street. i " oo SUS It was also during THE FARMER FAMILY Following the fire of 1884, Mundy moved the Standard 10 | this period, (we expect For the next 15 years, the family com- the second floor of the Laing & Mehary building. when Cline purchased bined forces to carry on the business. The the Standard), that company consisted of Mr. John Farmer,