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J j spill Repairing SATISFIED HUN DREDS DO yours aiX work- guaranteed A If ft JACKSON JACKSON weekMroulatj6n during y advance o S A No paper sent outside York unless paid in I 1 I Ann 3 v Reductions on all Heaters Hobos and Winter Goods A Table Odd wo want to Clear Out PRICES NEWMARKET I A B g V LETTER Skaters who art Particular Buy the Auto lighter and Any oilier- PHONE NEWMARK In the Heat Produced By will Have Comfort and Happiness Mod oal tor the Cold Season Is Always Procured at W H EVE Cart Manning Ed Order by Phono or Held or i j OF Capital and Reserved Funds Joint Savings Accounts In the HANK TORONTO arc proving to be a very convailcnce to many our friends With accounts either of two persons of the household may deposit or withdraw money Interest is paid on all balances twice year In the event of death of either arty the survivor withdraw the may j Branches in Ontario Quebec and the West NEWMARKET BRANCH FIELD Manager End Lumber Yard THE SMALLEST SCUTTLE Of our free burning coal go as far as the largest of the other kinds There arc as many grades of coal as there of eggs and t be sure best you should buy where only the best is handled That is right here as many large coal users can tell you P Pearson Cor Carters All Bishop and George Close Phone and Every Thin in Lumber Lath and Shihcrloa ON SEA You Need an Odd Pairs of Trousers To wear out that old Coat and Vest We I just secured some Bargains in Trouserings ALSO L at Reduced Prices inve At the Central YM A lust week J Hughes delivered n Interesting address before the Century upon the subject W rancblse The recital Wod produced by women franchlo United States was dealt with Mr Morrow passed last week aged years Seventeen years he was Chief Inspector In he Inland Department in In religion he was a Meth odist in politics a Conservative Mr J Molaughlin who is said to bo the first man to Introduce soda syphon In tills oft passed away this week throw Japan excursion ty toves Toronto on via Canada for The Land of the Rising Sun Tickets for the full trip 35 Three City fakers had to hand out fines las week for working on Sun day Superintendent in his re port of the Institution says that per of hoys receiv ed by Industrial School are defective Rolling tenpins is recommended for who desire to have nicely roun- ed Guess the broom would ac complish the same thing Tho express service is to be-ex- tenjdod in this city Dominion Rriilway Commission that the companies will bo to ex tend their Service into outlying sec tions where permanent pavements exist although the exact extension to be ordered was not Taft of the United States delivered an eloquent ad dress before the during his visit to Toronto last week He declared Great Britain was teaching lessons of selfgovernment time brings is just wonderful On Wednesday of- last week Sir George Ross was carried into the Private Patients Pavilion on the same floor and opposite to the room occupied by Sir James I Whitney Neither have a knowledge of each others location These two after nine years of separation are now under the same roof and not many feet apart Sir James is slowly recovering rem heart disease and Sir George is severely from kidney disease and Friends of both men are anxious regarding the result of their illness The Citys appeal in the Vonge Sunday case was dismissed tty the and the city must pay the made accessary by the headway from to Mr Herman accompanied by his wife was goods at AAulds warehouse one day week and while to the next floor in the elevator Veil through the opening into the bascocnt His injuries will likely prove fatal A man named A Bally men I was sentenced in the Police Court last week to 30 days in for assault ing his old baby- irkx Singer charged with smug worth of diamonds from the States into Canada was lined WO besides having the diamonds con fiscated A Toronto girl years re siding on Agues Street tired of her home went to MLtreal for a change the piddle- of lost week she was found wandering on tin in Vit city and sobbing Wonderful Invention of the Twentieth Cenivcy Installed in the Bra Office tho made AGO Newmarket Era its appear ance and during the in tervening years has never missed Its weekly issue When it was firbt Issued it was 4page sheet columns to a page and inches it is ft pages with columns 22 inches long By strenuous manual labor the first press was able to copies per hour that time lira has been printed on five presses each in succession with larg er capacity and increased speed and today it Is printed at the rate of per hour the press being a ca pacity of copies per hour For over years every letter in the Era was picked up individually by hand but when setting type by machinery was the Era in stalled the the most per fected machine 14 yeats ago It was a very great on the old method but today the type for Era Is set on the most modern ma chine the Century The lino type a perfectly new machine tight out of the factory with all the lat est Improvements and installed at a cost of nearly As soon as we get aej with THE LINOTYPE TypeSetting in Era Office for newspaper mag- and all kinds of job work this machine we will be in a posi tion to do any kind of work to the best in Toronto have no hesitation in saying that the Era Is best equipped office Toronto and Winnipeg and shall pleased to have our friends call and see in a few weeks Years Ago than half back over a period of more a century the change is marvellous Prom a small village of about inhabitants Newmarket has slock of odds and ends on the corner of Water and Eagle Streets opposite the present Presbyterian Church Mr Kirkpatrick had a to 13 not only an incorporate eery in a building on Main town but a large about where Mr Blizzard is doing center with a population exceeding business and next door Mr Sullivan any town the metropolitan county bad a customs tailor shop The of York Sitting the office here late John Davison owned the pre- cannot recall the name of now known as the Central o- any married man or woman who and had a shoeshop in the front was the head of a family in New- room now occupied as a- barber shop market in Juno who is now and it was in the same shop the first alive and too who in the telegraph in Newmarket was village or surrounding Townships located in August of but some cupied positions- public trust and months later was moved to the confidence in Parliament in Town- north front room of the New Royal ship Councils on or Gram- Hotel then the residence of Dr mar School the number Ford daughter was the today is exceedingly limited and who some Indeed nearly all have passed over to the Great Beyond entered upon their eternal destiny Yorkville was the first incorporated village in York County Sixty years agq the Era was print ed in the premises now occupied by Mr T Watson jeweller and in tho fall of that year was removed to premises erected that summer the late Joseph Wood on tho south west corner of Main and Queen streets married Mr The next building north of the Central Hotel was the premises now occupied by Mr T Watson jeweller and it was in premises Mr Porter conducted a stationery store and started the publication of the Era in February 1852 where ihe was located when purchased by Messrs Jackson Henderson on the of June of the following year The late James Allan father of the- where the paper was published for present Mayor of Newmarket had a five when office was again foundry on Tiihothy Street and in moved to the premises built by the those daya devoted considerable proprietor on- the southwest corner to the manuiacturc of plows Main and Ontario streets and rows etc late Joseph Millard and running North to the North the store or Mr A Buiris old North American Ho tel owned by the late Joseph Hew itt and was conducted with large appreciation by the general puMIc TCo now known as the King was Conducted also with dignity and propriety by Mr James Forsyth known as the Railroad Hotel A small millinery shop about where the of Is lo cated was the only business between Mr Porters stationery and pre wnt Shop Across the street from this sliop Mr a wagon and carnage shop anrf on the south east corner of Mftin and Queen- St where stands the present marble works tlfc bad a carpenter shop It should be in this connection however that on the premises whore Mil lards Cabinet premises are located stood wooden structure formerly used as a shop but at the time we of was vacant and where the residence of Dr now stands was large wooden dwelling occupied by Dr Nash in which lie conducted an apothecary trade in connection with his medical practice In the fall of the late Samu el Road house erected a dwellingand shop on the NorthEast corner of Main and Queen now occupied by his son Mr N J as a Cabinet Factory a few rods fur ther North on Main Street on the lawn of the late Samuel res idence stcod a small one storey wooden structure occupied by a butcher who did the chief meat trade of the village until tbe late Mr Vincent Donne started in premises about where Messrs laivJ Hill now in the same line of trade There was no busi ness between Ontario Street and Queen Street till reaching the rail way depot The building on West corner of Main and now ocrupiod as a grocery by Mr Elvidgo erected a year or so later and for a time was run as a grocery Afterwards Mr Eli Spenc er occupied the premises as a residence and tailor shop The next year the railway started the Eagle Hotel was erected by the late Geo of Mr Eli Irwin be ing the contractor At this date there were not half a dozen houses on Main Street- between Queen Street and the Railway depot On the north Part of the lot on which the residence and store of the were located on Main Street where Dr Scott is now electing a residence stood a Ho tel kept by Mr Mosier fatter of the Henry and John called the Mansion House The next building north was the residence of Dr Peck dentist and it was in the uppsr of building that Tuscan Lodge No 99 A A was organized The old wooden building on Mr lot oast of the of present Christian Church at this date stood the present commodious brick Church of ibat de nomination now stands ard was their place of worship The Methodist Church was a rough cast located on the South- East corner of the present Public School grounds Prospect Ave The Church on Street now own ed by the Friends was then held by the late Jo seph Millard James Caldwell and Smith being the most promi nent officials Presbyterian YEARS AGO Roche Co open ed store in Barrie last Saturday Mrs Armitage of Toronto spent over Sunday in town and vi Master Geo Stevenson was visiV 1D over Sunday Mr John Kyles A of To- spent in Town with Mr J CoL MqrljUa DDGM visited Salton at Kottleby last Wright who is She had thoro to the carried a lar Cabinet factory TAILOR PHONE NEWMARKET MAIN ST her and sent in Toronto to A WHAT IS WORTH AT ALL IS at Right Prices LUMBER LATH POSTS SHINGLES SASH DOORS Veneered Doors Material and Trim in Oak Cypress etc A Goods properly Kiln Dried pine Wwood Flooring- OaJc IT WORKS TO BETTER ADVANTAGE REQUIRING LESS TIME AND LABOR THUS THE DIFFERENCE IN COST IS SO SLIGHT THAT IT SHOULD CUT NO FIGURE YouMl Find Pay to Use the Best Kind place to go and was cared for word to her friends help her return home It is stated in the City press that while Toronto arc not to blame the Corporation is losing a great deal of money by present method of financing local improve ments All for new Toronto General Hospital is in the hands of the Board except about Mr J W has elected Chairman Governor Chambers of the Toronto Jail had a confab with the Board of Control a few days ago at which it is sad he came off with flying colors trouble was all aWout the lunatics now In the jail which jail Governor cannot control An unidentified woman while mak ing in a store on St days ago had an attack of heart and died at Hospital later on in the evening- Flossie Brillirger of River- dale had a close call one day last week from terrible injuries when she was struck by a Parliament St car She was rolled over by the fender which she grabbed with both hands the fender she was drag ged eight or ten yards before the car stopped Her escape was miraculous On Wednesday Thursday and Fri day February 25 20 and in Mas- soy will be held tbe annual con vention of the Ontario branch of the Dominion Alliance Anunseemly scene occurred one last at an inquest held by Coroner Cotton when threatened the expulsion of Mr a lawyer from room The Inquest was held on the body Payne who was fatally Injured falling down an elevator shaft at the Don Storage Co On Re 1 Coroners were too present premises I in premises about where Mr Sixty years ago Brothers tons store is now located but after- ital used as fishing expeditions conducted a general store on the cor ner of Main and Water streets now occupied by the Public Library On the opposite corner was located the general store and postoffice kept the late Roe On the site of the Newmarket Water Works plant was a flour mill managed by Col Cotter who resided in the premises now occupied by Mr Schmidt A twostorey stood at a little west of the mill facing up Main Street which was a storehouse for the mill little farther west on Water Street facing the present residence Mr Roche stood a frame dwelling which now is located a short distance west of the bridge on Eagle street on the south side of that street One other dilapidated old frame building locat ed on the opposite side of Eagle St several sods westward constituted all the buildings on lUit street east of the cemetery Coming back to Main Street Mr ft Smith conducted the largest general store in the place was located on thfe North West corner of Main and Timoihv Streets wards burned a fire which swept almost every building from the Cen tral Hotel south to where the late Mr conducted a bakery op posite the King George Hotel Mr J Caldwell had a Chair Factory and Paint Shop where Mr B Hunters store now stands the se cond storey being used as a Hall lor public purposes and also by the Sons of Temperance Where the Toronto Jobbing House is located the late Wallis had a Harness Shop with dwelling in the rear and it was with him the late Timothy Botsford learned his trade Joseph lVtsford and Samuel Road- house had a Furniture Factory at the corner of Timothy and Streets where now has a general grocery and iu the rear of the premises of where Mr Wallis had his was a large tannery Timothy Street was not opened from Main Street Prospect Ave till after Newmarket became an in corporated village but it was open ed from Main Street to the creek as a soro of lane The corner on which Davis kept a grocery and mlscelln- tho Bank of Toronto now stands NO MACHINE in iourteei I then known as the Old Kirk was located on Timothy St opposite the of the late James Allan and is now a private dwelling The Anglican Church occupied its present location It was a wooden structure and is now used by Sunday School of that denomination The Roman Catholic Church was then a wooden building near where the Se parate School now stands The Pubic School building was lo cated on the present school grounds on Prospect Ave just North of the old Methodist Church and pretty close to the street It had a cot tage roof Mr J Moulton was the teacher whose daughter married Rev George Meacham Both Mr and Mrs Meacham a few years later went to Japan as missionaries of the Methodist Church where Mrs passed to her eternal reward Mr Welter Dudley was the first station master on the Ontario and Huron Railway now called the Grand Trunk at Newmarket and enjoyed the esteem of the communi ty during the winter seasons trains used to be and people would fre quently remain at the depot enjoy ing pleasures erf local gossip till trains arrived from Toronto Messrs Henderson took possession of the Era on the day June 1853 arriving in Newmarket on the first regular train of the newly opened railway between Toronto and Holland River bridge over the river bad not been completed turnstile was constructed on the couth side of the river and a passenger train there- regular daily trips to and from the city The following Satur day night the stage Hue Holland Landing and Toronto yl a was discontinued and the succeeding Monday the first mail was brought to this town by rail- In a vvoodtm building on St where far Webb now resides abar- Continued rial gathering last Friday evening Mr and Mrs Mat Brown are vii- her parents in relatives at Whitby and I are representing North York Farmers Club at the Institute meet- in Toronto this week Mr and Mrs of Winni peg are attending the Montreal car nival week and expect to ar rive in Newmarket next Monday Several visited with Miss Walton Mr v who is suffering from a lame back took a trip to Hamilton and Guelph last week Rev Smith and Meters A Davidson Lehman and C Webb are representing Newmarket at the S S Convention today After id months service in the Ontario Bank Lindsay congrzt- Mr J Montgomery of New market upon bis promotion Mr Harry and wife of Win nipeg attended the Montreal carnival this week Thd Globe this week commends the speech of Mr E J Davis in the and He made a splendid Impression About members partook- of sacrament in the Methodist Church last Sunday Farmers are now getting from SIS to a ton for hay in Newmarket Constable Rowland was accidnetal- locked in at Cards factory re cently The boys had lots erf fun out the circumstance A span of horses ran away from mill on Tuesday but were stopped before doing much damage J Etf Clerk and Treasurer of Whitchurch has pur chased a very pleasantly situated residence on Second Street just side Newmarket corporation The closing meeting of the Union Evangelistic Meetings by Rev place in Christian Church last Friday evening The Union Committee proposed the following resolution which was adopted unanimously That a pub lic record be made of the prolonged and generous hospitality extended Mayor Cane Reeve Jackson Mr J Millard and others to the Evan gelists Rev and Prof while conducting services in the town A am i 1 I I I I I k I Prof was Quickly Relieved of Both Afflictions by Rheuma If you sutler from any form of Rheumatism remember that RHEU goes to work quickly to remove the cause not simply to relieve the distress Many years use has dem onstrated that it goes to the seat ol the and expels the poi sonous matter through the natural channels kidneys bowels liver and skin For many years I was troubled with Rheumatism also with of the Kidneys I suffered awfully Tried many advertised After using your truly re- markable preparatron I was fully cured Prof J Bud- ling Sound View Conn is guaranteed by W Patterson a bottle I i I i who soUs it cents J J A teacher was examining his class and he will give a quarter to any boy can tell what nothing is A small boy at the back of the class put up hand Well WUHe and what would you say it fs Please teacher it is a bung hole without a barrel around Willie got the quarter Best StdardmIlymiMM 4dfor60 i ties a oar- Sre ARCHIVES OF