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CIRCULATION of the ERA 2250 Copiei ABKET FRIDAY DEC 2ND fall AND WINTER SUPPLIES and Wood Heater and 8love Boards Flndlaya Ranges oval Banner Ash 8hovels Shovels Storm Doors Wealhor 8lrlpplng Window Glass and Putty Rowlands Hardware THE PAINT STORK 000 Addition to the Industrial Home at Newmarket WORK TO COMMENCE AT ONCE At Die WedncHday morning session County Council In Toronto ml neck Die report of Hie Industrial Business Accounts We have many small bus- tine j accounts opened in this Bank grow Wo could cite instances when the small business has grown to be the leading industry in the commun ity in which it is established The service of the officers of this Bank may assist your business to become a leading industry IMPERIAL of Newmarket and Deputy Reeve J M Well- of Scarboro was received Their for on addition to llio County Home at a cost of was ap proved Reeve Lundy lliat Tench an architect of Newmarket had prepared plans which were shown to council The addition In cludes refrigeration system to coat Something must he done said Itceve We are Buffering from the policy of the Provincial Gov ernment In the weeding out process going on In the Institutions Provincial Institutions ore overcrowd ed patients and relumed lo their respective counties Aire The us than It has been for a number of oars With the new arrivals In- are sleeping in the garage and room We have- a good CAN will approve of the dddi- Situation The situation Is a serious one and I think we should start the work at once We should also take up the question with the government of send ing patients when we are Overcrowd ed said Warden Graham Reeve Price of moved thai the recommendation of the Comr he adopted and that the work start at once This was Tlie commissioner reported that up to male this year there lias been new committals to the home During the year deaths have took place patients were discharged In Ihe home now there arc men and women The new addition will pro vide ample accommodation for more patients introduced by Reeve York requesting tticFinance Committee to consider the claims of veterans of his munici pality was passed He staled that his lownship did not come under the VeU Association of the Federal Ing of North York HEWUARKFT BRANCH Smiths Hardware NEWMARKET IN FARM OF ALL KINDS OIL AND 8TOVE8 SCREEN DOOM AND WINDOW MINTS OILS AND VARNISHES LET US SHOW YOU WHAT WE HAVE Phone SMITHS HARDWARE If You Want to go to the Country on Pleasure or Business CALL UP B L PHONE Let- us make you Comfortable Prompt Service Charges Reasonable A BOYD Prop Night I Promptly Attended SlUiOUETTB ay Folks know hat we live up to promises we make and they give t us quite a 111 We York Countys Cause Concern HOME AND HAVE FAILED SAYS KBITH P P i child for one halfhour every week J majority of children Friday night by William Keith P P for North York and at present Commissioner for York County Mr Keith was speaking at the annual dinner or the York County Council was tendered to Warden He charged thai In spite the great advance that had been made in the Inst years In educa tional rachitics In the county the population of the prisons and liable was still slated lhatthe demand for lew prison accommodation new laws nd aid from was never so as the present day In a situated as Onlarlo Is little Jail accomodation nd llille charity said Mr Keith Iteccnlly I read a statement In a that the press was the guardian of public morals continued the publishing news of rime the press guarded Ihe morals people I wonder If thai editor a Sunday School it be done In the public where you have a qualified teacher a curriculum compiled by great The dinner which was attended by nearly persons was a highly County Council On the recommendation of a special commutes appointed lo consider the adding and of a number of county roads to the Toronto and York Commission system York County Council at Its session Thurs day approved of a number of Recommendations approved by the with street road at Hol land Landing Don Mills road from York road northerly lo and GRANT OF The committee recommended that Ihe village of Richmond Hill be grant ed Ihe sum of lo assist in the laying of a pavement through ihe The highway engineer was In structed to locale a road from Mal vern lo connect with Kingston road In Ontario CountyL The warden and commissioners were Instructed to Interview ihe To ronto and York Roads Commission with regard to the subway of bringing It I Railway Board the Into Magistrate Brunlons day if be knew the number of which cannot be published in newspapers which Magistrate on has to take Into his private office of character Hie home and I able to do the work properly he that only place where Ideals be inculcated was the public schools The Sunday School t do it properly said the speaker They have control of the iflTJf in toast to- the Province of Onlarlo which Mr Keiths address was a re ply Hon Geo Henry Minister of Works and Highways for On tario and a formed warden paid a fine tribute to the late A James for many years engineer of the coun ty Mr Henry Stated that Ontario was blessed with almost boundless natural resources but the greatest resources Ontario had In his opinion were the wonderful men and women of York County W J Reeve of Weston and exWarden York County pro posed the toast to the county McGregor responded A Cameron of St Church also spoke briefly The toast to the ladles was proposed by Major A A Mackenzie Reeve of Woodbridge and was responded to if termination of the speeches Warden was presented with a goldheaded walking cane by Reeve J R Price assisted by Reeve E Warden Graham In delivering his speech paid touching tribute to the Arthur a former warden and to ihejajte A James An entertaining musical was a feature of the evening Maple into a police village fotlowlng the ri of a duly signed petition bylaw was passed from the Counly Council of and Russell requesting that delegates be appointed to attend a conference in February for the pur pose of approaching the Minister of Highways asking that all roads be taken over by the Government was aid over until the January- session The bylaws committee was by resolution to bring In a by law guaranteeing debentures for the erection of a High School at Islington Owing to the educational commit tee and the finance committee being unable to complete their reports the County Council on Friday until Tuesday The reception and the adoption of the report presented by Ihe county members of the To ronto and York Roads Commission Messrs Wm Keith and J M was the principal business transacted They reported that the seasons program hid been completed with the exception of a Waterbound macadam Public Speaking Contest for County of York COUNTY FATHERS SHOWED HOW TO SPEAK Council since Confederation carried a change from ransaciing the am the chambers greatest county In Ontario Canada r to a number of proud I has grown from a colony toaDominlon bays girls winners In their stretching from sea to sea mtys business of the public speak- On Wednesday afternoon of last ore a large gathering the gathered to uiiLe with each other for the championship of Hie county The County Fathers were given a back seal and the young people were to the front while mothers and fathers looked on as clearly seen that it was no easy task for Ihe majority of the nine ml the dais and de ls speech before the taking pail how- afraid and all spoke d and their rang I the Id Compete Each contestant was given a most attentive healing and on was heartily applauded The Judge were p Miss Elbe Chapman and Meek The winner was Katharine Keating I who delivered an address on the subject Reforestation I liUllls in York Other Winners Love of Weston won third prizes His subject was The Ad vantages of Rural Lire Muriel Deb- man of speaking on the same subject was fourlh of was fifth His subject was fore ion of the County of YoiS Alice subject The Progress of York since Confederation was sixth Clara Phillips Woodbridge speaking on The Advantages of Rural was seventh Marlon ONell of Lloydtown subject The Progress irk County since Confederation eight and Doris Luck of Newmarket subject The Advantages of Rural Life ninth Clare of Oak nidges another contestant was un able to be present owing Illness During the speeches Inspector A A Jordan presided He spoke high ly of each address and slated that to Ids knowledge only one word mispronounced during all the held spoke We the grading of the bill immediately west of Corners These jobs are under way Many Roads Paved Thoroughfares that work has been done on during the past season in clude Queen St maintenance work Kingston road maintenance Kennedy Road widened Dawes road paved St paved Vaughan road paved Weston road widened Don red Mount Albert road paved Scarlett road maintenance road graded Stouffvilie road paved Aurora road resurfaced Wilson avenue mainten ance Browns road maintenance Ave maintenance Thistle road paved Road paved Bridges looked after were Sutton Bridge which Is completed Bridge Dixons Hilt culvert The repoit concluded by staling that general maintenance was carried out over the whole system during the Grant of A grant of made to Wood- bridge to assist In repairing the abandoned county Reeve Mackenzie pointed that he road wa- formerly a part of the system and was thrown bark Ihe village During the past few- weeks seventy car loads of stone were Appointments Made Mr Keith who Isalso a member of the Childrens Aid Society expressed the deep Toss the county and the Childrens Aid Society mel in the death of Rev Pickett of Lan sing have two vacancies In the now and I would suggest that the secretary and the silting warden be appointed lo fill them he said Mr and Warden were appointed MR JOS MeCULLEY of College An Older to follow till jot in the paper by Wilfred of Angus appeared In police court at on Monday afternoon on a charge of result of falling to comply with a order to piy his wife a week made last May when he first appear- On Monday last be lold the court quite boldly thai he had no money for his wife and child that be had p chased a thresher and that It look his money to meet his payments and to pay his help His wife who summoned simply told court that she had not received a cent for herself child The Magistrate said that in of a man could get away with what was tempting His wife and his child must come first Evidence was that had been living part of the time with woman His ordered that Mapes pay his wife forthwith representing back went to jail and remained there until Wednesday when he released after t80 bad been pa Eight which prior lo Onlarlo Act In were under local option will wit lie next seven weeks decide by whether they wont government stores or not Of these eight Renfrew Bracebridge laeefcurg Alexandria and Port Row are sure starters Hill ist only doubtful case Like the other towns it has made application for vote under the provisions of the Li Control Act but while had the application approved by the Hanna Commission hasnt made up to several splendid stories of outdoor life as well as numerous in teresting on subjects articles departments on Outdoor Talk and Along the Trap most useful Renfrew and on Dec The other lo decide the question on Jan formal question they will put to their electors is Are you in favor of the of government for the sale of liquor under Control Act A threefifths be required present dry lo wet ones These votes are Ibe first to be held since the of the In plebiscite Perl Rowan Renfrew Bracebridge and Hill voted by majorities of 326 167 and respectively for con tinuance of the T A in prefer- d Alexandria went own by of a ma- City by and the Municipality by PECULIAR TEST CASE P Watson is plaintiff in a very interesting test the con gregation of Presby terian church Toronto before his honor Judge In the County Cowrt While the present suit covers an amount or approximately oilier Judgment was reserved was retained by the continuing Pres byterians The United church lie ehu Unfed Church The defense asks whether there Is any liability upon the part of he present congregation to repay tills loan or if Ihere Is any liability does fill Ilk- 50 Years Ago rom Era December Beautiful Christmas Cards are now Geo A Hitman Co have in Sutton L G Jack- llaker It was decided a Reading was scribed the meeting The Mrs Mrs Thos Morti mer A M Cane The Railway Boarding House at Mount Albert kept by Peter Huff destroyed by Sunday Partridge left on Monday for the Old Country T H closed Ml Tem perance meetings on Sunday evening and left on Monday evening for To ronto He was escorted to the depot by a torchlight procession headed by the brass band Over signed the temperance pledge during the 1 for Rosa Louie Fisher Frank Millard Jos Wesley Heber Brown Henderson The Fox Stave Factory was gutted by fire on Friday morn ing about oclock The machinery slued cases at the Division Court last Tuesday Judge Boyd presiding defended suits The Altar At the Eagle Hotel Newmarket Nov by Rev John Brown Miss Charlotte Cain of To ronto to John Holford of Kingston At the Manse Newmarket Dec John 25 Years Ago From Era December the guest of Robt A E Coombs enter- day night of last week and Tuesday of this Hon Big The town hall was Friday night when Hon discussed Ihe Tempers Break Break Break ramie Millard gave a Hall Miss Maud It on gave a synopsis of Kno en Evelyn McKay evenge Walter Stephens and Miss 1 by the Royal id Miss Dec the Vr Only 3 Weeks Till Christmas ARCHIVES OF ONTARIO TORONTO