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Ft I I Save Your Eyes laws of the land do protect you from The quaes spectacle pedlars Protect yourself by deal ing with resident and qualified opticians We can fit you properly No fancy prices WATSONS Jewelry 8tore -v- I Vc The Era gives more home news every week than any two other papers TERMS per annum if paid in advance to the United States in North York combined and is acknowledged to be the Leading County Paper No Paper sent outside of North York unless paid advance We will repair your promptly and properly All T0WAT Graduate Optician i f I JACKSON Editor Prop JACKSON AssistJAtEditoc J Newmarket Friday Jan 13 Say Automobile to a real uptodate skater and hell tell you that the name stands for the best thing in the Canadian skating world for topnotch quality for she lightest and most serviceable skate made strength and durability insuring Model Aluminum top other- skates from up Every skate is tested it leaves the factory and guaranteed against breakage for one year Automobile Hockey Sticks will stand the tost PHONE 28 IB NEWMARKET ONT SAVINGS THE receive Savings or and and interest to all twice year- Deposits upwards Safe Convenient Profitable Assets BRANCH WELD MANAGER I P W PEARSON Try a Ton of Pea Coal fl It laC CO Of HOOKS SASH TRIM ALWAYS ON HAND South End or or give Lumber Yard J Bowman or Oaf Toronto tetter An increase of patients at the General Hospital is the record of The figures show that no less than patients had typhoid of whom died In the year there were 200 cases of typhoid and only deaths Why does the farmer only get 23c for his butter that costs the city Among the Inventors By Frank Dobbin I From Busy Mans Magazine The study of inventors and their previous Inventions is interesting In no field of human endeavor and experiment do we find energy and work expended with such earnestness and hope of re ward as in the devising of things to consumer is a question- that is do things to accomplish much puzzling some people lately The through little effort To bring to difference goes into the pockets of the our use processes machines devices middlemen Thats dead easy j with the object of lessening human Free breakfasts are now being sen- labor and of accomplishing infinitely in certain places of this city larger work in shorter time There gets tug at the is the prospect ever dancing before of Richmond Hill but the the eyes of the inventor of reward MPP for have esca Whitchurch will it to the ally very seldom in proportion to the County Council without taking a number of inventions made is there Baker along tangible remuneration too often Rev A with his loss and disappointment by now wife and two children sailed last so well has the range of effort been week from New York on their way covered that most inventors arc real- back to India where Mr has reinventors old ideas brought in been laboring as a missionary under by new people for the past never direction of the Church of to posterity all the past has land in Canada seen Indulging too freely in booze at When I attend service of a Sunday rim nui ma eyes inventor of reward Manitoulin appears to His work parallels the eager search Premier Whitneys of the gold or silver miner for a pay for a Cabinet sit stread or successful lead Jewish wedding feast led to the arrest of Joseph Atkins Being his first offence he was let oft Atkins was onlv years old Three young men were recently in jured very seriously by a collision on a toboggan slide at High Park The Goods Roads bylaw in this city was carried by a majority of It is now up to South York and the Ontario Government 10 do their part to secure good roads en tering the city I Single Copies each I YEARS AGO va VjJ REV J SIMPSON Pastor of the Methodist Church whose excellent ser mons draw large congregations morning and place my new stiff hat underneath the seat of the pew in which I am sitting I am followed with the painful reflection that the fellow in the pew behind may kick it If I place it under the seat of the pew in front then am I bothered with the anticipation that in a moment of forgetfulness I may kick it myself Now what is a poor man to do I questioned a friend one day and had reply that the judicious thing was to wear a cloth cap and sit on of time to be first when the tool box is opened Give us more or well have a fight dozen were put Five in hand and delivered Seeing this great and glorious country ought I to suit its Government The hooks were made and put on a cover In fact so sure were the 1 thing doing a patent was secured and contractors that they finished up a a tripartite agreement made of the j batch One cover was put on a wagon navy the manufacturer and the con- that stood in the factory yard and was applied so easily and looked so From Era Kyle Jan Some considerable space is devoted to returns of municipal elections The Councils lor the year are as fol lows King Messrs J P Wells A E Davis A Webb Moore and A Thompson East Messrs born Stiles and Whitchurch Messrs Ironside Ran dall Harrison and Newmarket Messrs Sutherland Smith Trent and Hunter North Messrs Henry Draper Evans Morton and the name not given Holland Landing Its first election after incorporation Messrs Parsons and Wilson In Newmarket Messrs J Mars- den and Jacob were elect- trustees of the public School Board in place of 1 Caldwell and Samuel the retiring mem bers King Township voted against the Township Hall bylaw This year the census of Upper and Lower Canada is heing taken by the Government Mr Edwin Irwin has been appointed enumerator for New market The ChapmanAlexander campaign Hut growing out of the Convic- commenced on Thursday even ing of last week in this city was- attended by over people on the first night Jack Frost is getting in his work all right this winter but the result is furnishing the best crop of ice for next summers demands that Toronto has seen for many a year Hon Mr Borden leader of the Op position at Ottawa addressed the Canadian Club last week was large and included a lot of people looking for something along political lines Abe Staunton had a little jangle about street car fare a few days ago and had the impudence to punch summoned tion hammered in by experience of most men that once one lays down his hat in a public place it is a mat ter of uncertainty to find it again we have that neat and serviceable in vention the wire hat rack This is found underneath the seat at the the atre It holds a hat securely It fills the bill and the man that de vised it is in receipt of a very fine income from royalties for manufac ture of the device Inventions may be roughly classed so far as their inception is concerned under three of four heads Those that have come up seemingly as a matter of inspiration There are many such Others that are the outcome of long and tractor When the man who made the suggestion died he left an estate 1 the detail was assumed valued at over the proceeds alright They rolled the from royalties on the manufacture of down to the inspector It using the patent Under which the cool of the evening and of the four classes will this invention rai dark that functionary said to he registered let it stand until morning It so stood I had the pleasure of turning unfortunately During the night a the conductor When summoned patient study and effort to bet- fore the Court Staunton was of conditions Still another quite so pugilistic but the range not so much invention as de- soaked him for 15 just to let and improvement Still a him know that rowdyism dont pay fourth which includes several pro- Hamilton had a vote on the inventions combined to pro of when their rc Probably more the first practical sewing machine made on the American continent that of Howe and the one on which he based his patents Howe was not really the first to essay invention in this field Hereon In had made a machine for sewing and had devised an arrangement of two pairs of pincers one above and below the cloth that pushed and pull ed the needle and thread through machine of was of somewhat similar construction but had the eye of the needle in the mid dle In France some progress had been made during the forties but nothing positive Further on when Howe was by lawsuits in an endeavor to overthrow his patents all sorts of claims were brought to light But his success was based on his pa tent of Howe has worked long and I heavy rain set in The goods of the cover while waterproof were not dampproof as well In the morning when the inspector set about inspect ing the cover was pulled up so tight and firm that they could not unhook it In fact it could not be pried off It would neither stretch nor give and to be cut off Then the hooks were put on allowing plenty of room for contraction but when the wagon was driven at a lively pace the hooks came undone and the cover flapped off in several places evidently the glorified hook and eye was a failure Several changes were made in the proportions of the hook with little if any success and the superintendent bothered with the problem came to the manager and laying on his desk a handful remarked that there were a few of the last lot and they were little use Half an hour afterwards young women took veil and vow which binds them forever to the life of he cloister Rev officiated Quite a number A it clergy were in attendance This is how Toronto real A property tin- corner and Belmont Streets was sold for The were at J and the land itrlf at thai Ik If than it sold for A Miiall place worth or 1000 would he within i of value Great is Diana the I The County Council does about the thing when it lower York and increases the on North York Mr i Robertson of the Tele gram has elected Honorary Pre sident of the Toronto Press Club I tin Lit may Is look at a few years ago a number men were at work on the roadbed of a line of railway being laid be- Birmingham and Manchester They were cutting through a hill and moving the material the good old way by loorcnlng it blunt needle pass the yarn through the web of the stocking with the eye of the needle first Carrying the wool He remarked to his wife that with loose goods was possible And with womans she at once said I do that if you had the eve of tour needle at the point you could make that contraption with picks shovelling into barrows fc Thai and wheeling away The shovel In the the practical use wan Ol the shape known years Hove worked it some ago as an Irish shovel used for bog digging the blade narrow a matter of fifteen inches long and with a straight handle The in charge of the gang came along and 1 pitched Into the men for not makin more of a show on he work One of the men said If to lake of these shovels and grind off the corners so as we could shove em Into the stuff easier we could machine IIOWC out and contrived furl her on Mich arrangement as- the weaving shut lie which carried a second thread land bound the first in place Ills machine gave the form of stitch known the- chain which had the defect that it the end of the thread was not fastened the sewing was like ly to Come undone Indeed for years after the coining ill of the chainMitch a precedent lor so iter was gushing feel Into the you wish Id jerk an at West and off a beaten path lie always wants to a Venue Idranl the spindle of which was en by the firemen attending a fire in carpenter shop there The water gushed steadily You Need a Good Overcoat Every Man Does You ft for protection from sake We to ftXtA the you cold well Aft A We waro We you Lfbrar r beaut durability and you to choose them for the same W I L L I S Ibis was from a Ore -by- consult the authoritic But I In- navvy was a thoughtful man When the job wan finished he went to a friend of His in Sheffield into he air drench- and laid the suggestion before him ling Wirt and the roofs of The friend in his I urn a friend nearby budding in an increasing who was In the way of making picks mound of ice III the roadway until such Ironmongery He it finally turned oil the Ice had looked him up and together they con- reached a of five feet the idea The handsome of To Ihe Hunt were by Which broke out from a defective furnace pipe In that on the th In the fire at the Raid he would make a dozen or so as ail experiment The blade was given ft Wished form The corner moulded Into a sort of oval outline pretty ninth as we now see the shovel made The handle was and the club within a time dub house being some shortened and a hand grip put on the hounds the handle curved I he manufacturer were Is at The Be Italian chapel and mission the corner of Kim and a struts was opened Sunday ago Fortunately the hounds the handle curve p Uninjured The damage Offered the lot to a contractor with whom he had business dealing in thi- way of such tools the contractor agreeing to put the shovels the of men and report Rev Superintendent admitted he had hit doubts for Methodist Italian Missions jtheKnUMiman he he host or work preached th dedicatory pennon pod conservative and hates was followed by dedicatory rvls changes conducted by Key About a week after the cobtraptoi Icame back He had Oft his Rev Albert Moore has Hay said he how many the work of editing the more of shovels can give hi My men are fairly quarrelling iitttver have one Some get fUeu minute ahead the suggestion of his wile Nearly a score of years ago the army transport department the United States gave on order for a large number of coverings munition wagons supplies carriages etc The coverings were to be sup plied under a pretty rigid contract They should be waterproof flexible durable and an important point readily attached slay 00 under any condition of service and be easily re moved The contractors undertook to 111 the bill The material was wa terproof canvas or duck and seemed to promise to meet the conditions The matter of a fastening that would go on stay put and come oil readily proved perplexing The inspector wouldnt accept anything that had special machinery about it He said they wanted simplicity with effi ciency about per cent of each ot both Buttons thumbscrews patent catches of all kinds were offered and rejected rtoposJ loops and snaps were barred the contrac tors approached a firm making hooks and eyes and such supplies as used In the manufacture corsets and asked to have the itiurces of turned loose jfY problem easier make you eyes eye be answered the call found he had to go down to the city threw the hook on his desk and went away Returning In the afternoon he was presently waited on by the superin tendent all smiles and cheerfulness You fixed the book line Mr Murchl- it works to heat hand what was needed Its simply great Hooks up easily holds secure ly and as far as weve tried wont jar loose Weve given it a pretty good test and they tell US logo ahead and rush Yin out The manager was nonplussed He said he only tried to cut an Inch or so oil the hook and failed at that It developed that in his hammering ho had beaten down the form ing a bulge which allowed the eye to slip past and yet prevented it coming undone That was the genesis of the famous hook and eye presently after ward put on the market and exploited under the advertising caption See that Hump The annals of invention are full of Instances which show that some pro cess enshrined In a theory and which when worked out In practice lacked some small essential of being com pletely successful Treatment would go along Up to a certain point then came uncertainty And it would re main for some suggestion to come alien made by one wholly apart from the business In hand to complete the and supply the missing link The cutting of rubber by knives In machines was done with difficulty til some one Mowing a stream of water over the knives and rubber and the thing became easy It is related that the great after he had invented and put in man ufacture his process for making steel was never able to guarantee the pro duct turned out from day to day It was all but varying degrees of hardness What was wanted as much as anything was a or quality and without this the new process that was the iron trade lacked stability Continued on page Man Jan The weather reports have overlooked the coldest spot In Manitoba when they did not recoru the temperature 25 YEARS AGO from Era Kyle fan At the Newmarket municipal elec tion Mr lack son was elected reeve by majority and for Council Messrs Robertson fane Scott and Terry Win Cane Mayor by acclamation King Reeve 1 Davis 1st Deputy has Irwin 2nd Deputy James Cherry 3rd Deputy Robert Norman For Councillor John Whitchurch Reeve C J 1st Deputy I 2nd John Irwin Councillors and 10 Reeve J A Ramsden 1st Deputy A J Hughes 2nd Deputy Holhorn For Council and Reeve R Van- Norman 1st Deputy J- Davison For Council Winch jloag and Tra- vlss j Georgian Reeve J Stevenson Deputy Armstrong Council Park and Hidden Holland Landing Reeve Council Mills Shields and Watson Division Court today no less than cases on the docket besides several adjourned cases The Hand serenaded the town on New Years The death of Dr Ramsay of lla an old Newmarket hoy is this week His father was Canon Ramsay of St Cauls Church Newmarket Deceas ed was in the 1Mb- year of his age The annual meeting of the Fanners Institute was Jills week when Mr Webb was chosen Presi dent and Mr John Randall Treas The The executive were as fol lows Irwin 1 Way ling Iloake C Dennis and It Phillips No snow for yet I RHEUMATISM BOOTHS KIDNIOV PILLS 10 of St John St Nays have found more actual relief from Kid ney Pills than in all else I have ever tried for rheumatism The pains in my limbs have lessened great ly am better stronger and I and than in years previous My ap petite lias gone up and I eat and sleep hotter than have In over three years My general health is greatly Im proved and I can credit this to Booths Kidney Pills This is the Month Kidney Pill way These wonderful Pills are sold under a guarantee to refund your money If they fall to relieve any sufferer from Rheumatism or any trouble having Its origin In the 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