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J Watson GRADUATE DETROIT OPTICAL INSTITUTE CANADIAN COLLEGE Let Us Eyes We Have the Knowledge Equipment The Leading County Paper as well as the Oldest and Best 1055 copies each per annum if paid in advance Paper Sent out of North York unless paid to United Slate in advance GET A GOOD ALARM CLOCK OURS ARE GUARANTEED At Wessons J i- n sOT SMtS JACKSON Editor and I JACKSON AssistantEditor A Y NO V 5 H i 5 Vol No iO Single Copies each- i mm Heres the place for it WALl BOARI Mad ana da Neponset Wall Board over your cracked plaster- There will be no more repairing no more unsightly cracks You can have rich panels by using battens You can paint the white finish any color you wish Two other colors oak and burnt leather need no dec oration Comes in large wide sheets of substantial thickness easily and neatly put up low in cost permanent Use Neponset Wall Board in your attic rooms in bungalow or house Use it also for par titions in home office factory Send for our new free booklet Repairing and Building Tells all about Products Wall Boards Roofings Waterproof Build ing Papers and other Products BINN8 HARDWARE NEWMARKET The Paint During October men were handled at the recruiting depot of this City The City is having placed in Cottage No 2 at the Jail Farm I for male prisoners at an cost of During the past the Board of Control ratified the recommendation tie Special Committee Council Group Towns From the Shoe and Leather Journal passed from the French into the hands of the English a century and a half ago there was trading post where Toronto now stands called Fori from which radiated Indian trading various directions One of- ran due north to the Holland River above into Lake a branch that a Christmas present of a box j continuing oh north passing the point where of chocolates and biscuits valued at and now stand and reaching back into the wilder- eighty cents be to every Toronto ness beyond After the English conquest the Hudsons soldier with the overseas forces Bay Company established a post at the Holland Last week Judge Winchester reports River and improved road for the pass- that he had registered convictions age of its goods to and from Lakes Ontario and against six defendants who recently Governor in his regime early in the last century developed appeared before him charged with this trail into a military road that became known as far as the fortunetelling I Holland River as Ybnge Street and its further extent ion was called A drunken party of motorists were the Road the early days it consisted of stones and logs the construction being known as corduroy and formed the connecting link between he settlers and civilization Along this road in course of lime developed the towns of Aurora Newmarket Barrie and other smaller places About thirty miles from Lake Ontario was the first real stop ping place in the journey north known as Mitchells Corners and in those days it constituted a good days journey from Toronto or as it was then called York The surrounding inhabitants were largely Pennsylvania Dutch and Loyalists including goodly repre sentative of Quakers who still have their meeting houses the dis trict In or a little over fifty years ago Mitchells Corners took on the more dignified name Aurora and has now a population of twentyfour hundred It has since that time manifested a pre disposition towards manufacturing and boasts today a large ag ricultural implement works as well as a leather factory and two shoe factories Early in its history it look advantage of ils posses sion of a small stream of water to establish a tannery Mr my iwum- being the first In introduce the art of leather manufacture j mm found on the road on Thurs day evening of last week the driver badly hurt the motor in the ditch Whiskey pot the upper hand On Sunday next Hon J Minister of Marine Fisheries and Naval Services will be the speaker at the special Memorial Meeting to re held under the auspices of the Citizens Recruiting league in Masse Hall Four firms suffered in the Street fire last viz Candy Co 5000i J la dies tailor Dr S Bass dentist dapiage to I South End Lumber Yard total Defective wiring is said to have been the cause- son afterwards took charge but subsequent- According to a statement made by president Marshall in cash has been raised by Cana dian Red Cross Society In lieu of rations and of county passing away only a couple of years ago LEATHER COMPANY The Davis Leather Works Newmarket to concrete examples of the saying sees thou a man diligent in bis business he shall stand before kings men who have made their mark through the steady application of those principles that we been told from earliest youth underlie all true success In the leather trade of this country there is no figure better known than that of J Davis and no career that exemplifies so well the fact thai industry and integrity backed by that genius that has been described as an infinite capacity for taking pains always reaches the goal Willi half a century of leather manufacture behind him Mr Davis can look back Willi pride over a course that has developed a little onehorse tannery in the hack woods into an establishment that covers acres and rep resents an investment in the neighborhood of a million dollars Mr Davis gathered his first practical and business experience when a lad in his fathers tannery at King Ontario and tells with great of his first visit to the Toronto hide market when be bought twentyfive bides and carted them home himself lie he has bought twentylive thousand hides at one time since but has never had the- feeling of pride he experienced he brought home bis first purchase The business which came down to Andrew Davis from Mr Davis grandfather Mr Pease soon was known s x HI BRICK it is announced that over seas will he paid as fol lows Unmarried men 50c a day I for field ly removed l Toronto and established a wholesale leather business with his two sons- as Pease Sons Mr Pease Sr cele brated his birthday recently He was succeeded at Aurora by MrT P Da vi lie J whose product was well known to the Canadian trade for many years and who left the tanning business to become i Him a day unmarried j Three years ago this concern was organized a joint wdowru company Under letters patent from the Ontario Legislature The pay men if only support of a day The allowance is not clear The Treasurer the Toronto Cross received from Madame Mdte a for the gross CEMENT i LATH LUMBER P PEARSON Order from Carters Bishop John E Murphy Office Phone prime spirit in the organization was the late Waller Col I is who for some eighteen years previously was superintendent of the Leather large plant at Newmarket bead of T Shoe Id in Aurora is one of the oldest shoemakers in Canada and there are few more of her concert in Hall men connected with the indostry It fiftyone years since Mr The entire expenses of the concert signed his apprentice papers in England and the seVen were borne by I spent in learning his trade him to make a start with Hon Walter Scott Premier of the old Win St Toronto when he decided to Saskatchewan was in the City last make Canada home and left England In the course of his way west from Ottawa several years he worked for a number of firmsin various positions which enabled him secure a fund of practical knowledge that gave him a solid foundation on which to build his efforts as a man ufacturer when a of years ago he decided to start busi ness in Markham Not a great while later he moved to Aurora and for many years has been a leading citizen of that place A INCORPORATED OF Asset Men on Salary TORONTO where he was one of the western free wheat delegation Canadian airmen accepted for train ing for the Royal Flying Corps it is win have their overseas paSSae paid by the Dominion Government The proposed Hydroradial between Toronto and was en dorsed by the between these I place in each municipality in January to decide whether or not the project will he undertaken v It nil 1 I UNDERHILLS LIMITED AURORA AND BARRIE There are few shot- manufacturers in Canada who operate two factories Limited Aurora is one of lie few JniJcr- in the shoe industry as a custom shoemaker under his father J Inderliill over years ago in the village of It was not a great while afterwards when lie a manufacturer giving to the ana limited Aurora is one of he fev fifteen municipalities hj which has a capacity in ties of 500 pairs a lay first became interested I Newmarket Post Office Deposits man earning a open ft Saving Account as boat of methods for saving smalt and of developing the thrift The of To ronto Deposits of J and upwards added to halfyearly on the Dally Branches in Ontario Quebec and the A LISTER Manager NEWMARKET BRANCH On Wednesday of last Week the village a shoe factory which was in those days quite an Sunday School Association for the place he removed the factory to Aurora con at Hall j where for many years he has heena prominent citizen The present endowed the plan of the company was organized live years ago with Underbill as ject and plans of the Com- dent Webster secretarytreasurer It hill 1 mi tec of One Hundred to secure pro- dent and manager of the Factory for Ontario Dominion Day I NEWMARKET By way of stimulating patriotic About four miles north of Aurora on St is the thriving sentiment In the minds of pupils in- of Vewniarkel is situated on a branch of the Holland River tending- Schools in Oft ami dates its existence from the beginning the lasl century It the Education Department will issue is a manufacturing place a population of thirtyeight chiefly to- day as the home of the Davis pioilucls arc well known the Canadian It was Incorporated its avliingc in 1857 as A Davis Son and in the five years of Ihis partnership J who was named after his grandfather put in the firsl licks that were make the of Davis a household word the shoe trade of Canada The development of the business until it became too straightened at King and the branching out at Newmarket and Kingston into the present colossal proportions are matters of business history taken up elsewhere in Ibis issue We wish In speak more particularly of the personal side of Mr Davis career and refer to some In connection with It that may point a moral not only to the younger members of the trade hut Are you with your Flour If not try our Flour MADE BY THE BRADFORD ROLLER MILLS All our Flour is made from old wheat Try IMPERIAL Tho Beat Manitoba Flour RELIANCE The Best Family Flour known ROYAL The Beat Pastry W H EVES Order by Phone 22 or from Carters Jerry Harrington MoKen- or Ben Manning Or KINDS LUMBER LATH SHINGLES ALSO i ETC DO OR MOULDINGS AND TRIM Inside Trim Pal Through Our and Will Wot Shrink After It la Put Up 61 lii days when sensational and seeni so strong to rising ambition it is refreshing to In a regulation providing and is known Ringing three verses of the- Company Anthemmaking thin a and enlh- or the morning exercises of a fullfledged town in the Province A IN LEATHER A man named Kelly who sent to the Jail Farm made his es cape hut recaptured and Was sentenced to two years in the peni tent at Kingston- Tho address at tie Convention on Friday evening was ftioi by Mr Marion Lawrence Chi cago During the evening Informed the the number delegates who enrolled was 2222 of whom were from the city Jm last the York County appointed rain the new chief of Aurora to he County Constable I And of Newmarket and A of Aurora at their own request were lion the list of County Con It Is that the British Red Cross will total for Ontario At a meeting of Mystic last Friday sons the desert the of teni- on its tovanls Mecca About image was done by fire to the Barber Candy Works- ori Francis Street Co Abrahams seriously In jured on Friday by the explosion of an appliance attached o a rifle Mis jaw bone was broken On Friday last Mr Leader of Ontario addressed the Hamilton Womens Lib eral Club on Social Problems of the War dealing with such issues as the liquor womens and care of the returned soldiers He at tended a Liberal Club dinner In the evening and delivered an address on Liberal Federation For a big like Toronto Its public men make many Through neglect of th Hoard of no less than nonresident pupils were- found In attendance at the publ he school of which number School Trustees or some official paying nothlDK The City lots appeal to point Main looking south from Era Offloe Newmarket the fact that business success does not necessarily or essen tially mean llir placing of other talents in or the disregard of ones to his fellows Farly in life Mr Davis realized I the nhilOHoohfc as well as religions iruth of the staying great apostle no man lo himself While lie was in his teens he interested in the work of the community in which he lived and took an active part in Sunday chinch and social work lie has maintained do this day his active and vigorous in all these and from being a humble member and official in a little country church he formerly attended he has become an honored member of hi of the Ob of Can ada with important positions on various hoards and councils lie lias been prominent from tin very in emperanei work and was the representative social reform in In while ho was in the Onl alio He took a prominent pari in the recent local option campaign in Newmarket And a large stockholder in hotel in I hut town which was he in Ontario demonstrate fail hat abolel may he made to pay dividends with out the bar adjunct To these well as other charitable enterprises he has devoted a vast amount of time and means his philanthropy extending to many private as well as public channels Mr Davis political career has shown the same characteristics of keen insight indefatigable energy and sterling integrity that have helped In make his business and social success He was elected to the King Township Council at Ihe age of twenty 4wn and passed sue from Hie position of councillor to deputy reeve and finally warden of the County of York being the youngest reeve and youngest- warden ever elected in the history of liie ship From municipal life he passed into politics and for nearly years represented the county in the Ontario Legislature His business ability and above all his good common sense soon marked him oul for preferment and he was into the govern as Provincial Secretary which office ho filled credit to himself audio the benefit of be province until he politics at the age of for business life The growing demands for a rapidly increasing business and necessity for training those who would take up the burden when should no longer be available led him to reluctantly leave work thai was naturally most attractive to mentality such as bis and bend all his energies to the establish ment of his leather enterprises on such a footing as would ensure stability and further progress wsm about per Hon J Leather Manufacturer and Statesman Mr has by no means his interest am hold upon outside interests and is identilled with number of social and projects outside of his business He is one of two Ihe oldest nonresident members of the National Club which be join ed in the other being Sir John Gibson one of bis former col leagues in the Ontario Oovernment He is also a member of the York Pioneers which body he addressed quite recently upon the developments of the county He is proud of the live sons who fol low him in the leather business Messrs Aubrey Andrew rind K J Jr at Newmarket and Messrs and Harold Davis at Kingston and is not only tasting of the fruits of organization but the placing of the business in hands that will make the name Davis in the next generation or two even more essentially than now a part of Canadian shoe and leather history Continued on Page v iSEl J mm OF