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The leading County Paper well as the Oldest No paper out of North York unless paid in advance bring In friendly way THOSE WHO BUY nd THOSE WHO SELL I Editor and Proprietor NEWMARKET ONI FRIDAY FEU 8 It a I The Calendar BY JACKSON Observatory Staff- Nowmarkot Christian Church The Eighth Birthday Party On evening dite Christian of last week llio Inter Christian Endeavor of in the of ils by very fine llmiMiici decorations of white 1 in the school room the tables candles and a huge birthday cake on the centre of the head table About were present and a happier group of vuimfi people would be hard to find The Banquet was served the mothers of lho amidst the music of a very fine or of nine pieces led by Mr Austin HAT IS MEANT by the is iiucrvnl of time that event from some definite epoch or era For measure of such intervals of connected with civil life wo two natural units the solar day ami the tropical The solar day is the successive of light and darkness and the tropical ar is the periodical changes of the seasons The first essential of a unit suitable to these is that it be invariable and the solar day is not so Another condition where several units are employed is that they should be York County Council school educational war uc5 to wage in York an allday session education In the county were discussed the members were still dis agreed when council adjourned Thurs day evening the clause contained in the education report recommending that one high school board he appointed report of the county member Toronto and York coin in presented by Ex- Wardens As the President of the Endeavor is a her of the Orchestra the duties of fell on Mr Kenneth Bennington his maiden effort but the honor of cutting the birthday cake was reserved for the President Through out the serving many original ditties set to familiar tunes were lustily sung and heartily enjoyed The chief speaker of the evening Tungsten of Toronto and his address was full of stories jokes and earnest solicitations First of all he congratulated the Society on its ideal situation the youthful energy and optimism manifested by the brief speeches of the officers which his address and congratulated the Society on its strength of members and spirit of service The speaker proceeded to depict the splendid work of D Clark in organizing the was and international and has a membership of four throughout the world Its motto is For Christ and the Church and the E meeting is a nice place for the young people to be He urged the to appoint a historian and keep a record from year to year Above all he appealed to young people to submit their lives to God Illustrations were given of others who were let by ttie the Spirit to do evangelistic worl and closed saying God wants you Other speakers were Rev Dr Harper of An who provided a witty ten minutes Miss of the local In- Mr Jack Stephenson the first In termediote President of the Lulu the organizer of the local Society and the pastor of the church Rev Mea dows whose jokes put everybody in laughing humor The speeches were interspersed with selec tions the orchestra vocal solo by Miss Jose phine Smith piano selection by Mrs worth and a clarinet duet by Messrs mer and Belfry A most enjoyable and long to be Banquet came to a close by about brief prayers and he Mispeb benedict and this is not the case the- solar day mid the tropical year The first difficulty was overcome taking a unit the mean of all solar and this with its division into hours minutes and sec onds is the unit short intervals of time The difficulty with ho larger unit was different nature The tropical year very nearly uniform It is the interval included successive passages of the vernal equi- the sun but unfortunately it does contain an exact number of solar days- More- would be inconvenient to have a of a day belong to one year and the re- tinder of the same day to another year It is necessary to adopt a length for the civil consisting of an integral number of days d still retain a clone connection to the tropi cal year which contains day tit to School Assoc one of the that the i line Canada to keep the mill rate down During this year the report types of roads jurisdiction of the municipality and In a grant of elgli ha United given Home and Foreign times in Canada the Great Britain Central Europe and the of Nations will be by artistically colored lantern slides This being the of the lecture by Sir the league of Nation of League of iade at the close For full cnt in tills issue Society MISS ON This can be done by having years of two different lengths less and the other great er than the tropical year The object of the Calendar to give definite rules for the order of succession of such years This duly was assigned by Julius Caesar in A3 to an Alexandrian astronomer by the name of who established the Julian endar which- with slight modifications- in use among civilized nations Previous to time the Cal endar was in the hands of the priesthood and mainly based on lunar periods since so many religious ideas and observations were based on changes of the moon In order to the seasons in their proper places was had to the insertion or removal of a as the need arose abandon ed all this and adopted days as the true length of the year and ordained that every fourth year should contain days the extra day being inserted by repeating the sixth day before the calends of March He also trans ferred beginning of the year to January Before this the year begun in March as can be seen by the names several of the months September the seventh month for instance Caesar at the game pie took possession of the month and named it July after him self His successor Augustus to satisfy his vanity appropriated the following ll not to be outclassed by Caesar February and added it to August equal in length to July The Julian Calendar remained changed up to the A It equinox had been by v the of March instead of the at the time of the Council of and the Festival of Easter wag gradually occurring more and more in the summer sea whereas ecclesiastical regulations re- it should be celebrated just after equinox Pope Gregory therefore on the advice of his astronomer d that the Calendar should be restored by adding ten days so that the day following LETTER OF APPRECIATION Rev J Hector St Johns Rectory NX for and for roads under Towns and villages no county will re of fifty and each for road will be administered by the commis sion and financed equally by county and department of public high Ago From Era Feb largely attended A bonfire was kindled on Garbutt Hill last Tuesday night as a result of the election trial which confirmed Dr Strange in the Dominion seat The In the Mechan ics Hall on Friday evening under the of the Mechanics Institute eat success Program by j local talent assisted by the Band Church was held Wednesday and was largely attended by Revs Rose Hunter and of China and John Smith Music by the choir Methodist Church at dedicated last Sunday and The Albert In the The Altar At the residence of Feb by Rev in the Arctic Waller Jackson an applicant he position now occupied by Frederick Stupart as Superintend if the Toronto Observatory wli resignation takes effect on the June nest He has been in the be paid both and brides father Carts Miss Mai both of King Tp At the residence of the brides fa of Uxbridge to of Pine Orchard At the Baptist parsonage in the Tp Smith Co of Feb Ess Mary Ann of Smith to of Whitchurch On Feb by Rev Jas E to Ambrose At the residence of the brides fa- Feb Rev Curts Temple Louisa Griffiths of An tra to Adams of Newmarket The Tomb In Aurora Feb 2nd Phoebe in her year Scot left Quebec and Feb aged In East Feb aged 85 years Feb Mi of Peter Edwards ife of John 25 Years Ago number occurred nth and day from it of Pope Gregory vus observed that the vernal gradually falling earlier When did they begin about tht J really think thai Royal the Idsides the captain and fire iin till Buffalo Feb Miss Agnes Camp bell member of tire Canadian Parlia ment told the Erie County League of Women Voters here yesterday that President Armistice Day speech urging increased arma ment is doing much to create hard and mistrust on the part of Great Britain Expressing fear of hostile relations between the United States and Great Britain Miss Mac- Jh prevent further also declared hat a high protective he that hereafter such on imports in tins country is likely to prevent divisible In should be nternntional harmony ntj years In years the ears instead pet be calfedtlie instead spoke highly of the Briand- but asserted that the President lei- As done much to weaken its effect Canadian she said I feel that the and the Ahole world owes a debt of gratitude to the country that produced a Wilson We never could understand why his own nation did not back him up in his great idealisfctdl dream of world cooperation Mr is another like Wilson a splendid mi But we cannot see how the same countryj that produced a Wilson and a Kellogg produce a Coolidge WOMAN FATALLY BURNED Stood Too Near The Stove- erage length be and days is compared with the cal determined by there will be only 97 leap as in the Julian reckon year will days length of the trap of 365S42216 days This makes the Wo long by days which will produce on error of one day on the eve of the direction and Halifax and as it make British aea the tide a their heart has direction of or children- all over of the sured force addition ffered bee of coral for the made of lookout of the Frt ra Feb Ho J Davis and ami Mr Mrs H 1 At Home last El- left id a jc li HISS Mab C ne Mi int ilgour of 1 Mrs It Monda Chi spent I in ho Ihe Miple Lej about Melbourne Feb 1 Mrs- Joseph Hardy aged near Melbourne was fatallv burned at the home of her son Harry at 4 oclock afternoon when her clothing caught fire from which she was standing She new style Gregorian Calendar was in England until the year when days had to he omitted and these wen omitted between the 2nd of of that year Some minor nations still use the Julian and at the present since the years and were leap years in the Julian and not Gregorian Calendar the difference two Calendars the died at midnight The aged mmnan was burned from head to I foot her clothing being consumed completely the flames The of the room ignited her clothes and damaged the home Mr and Mrs Harry Hardy son and daugh- Misunderstanding 1 injured A than either burned severely about the when they went assistance In order to get Hardy occupied part of the house andidoing without thirteen days By WW Eves while standing close to a her livingroom that her dress took fire Beating at the flames the aged woman gave a piercing ollapsed Hearing the cry her son rushed to her as sistance and with the of his wife wrapped blankets about the aged the out separate friends rapri or space must learn the art o miles t We all hope i McMillan with a helper ith to seeks provisions On the last day of their on this trip that the himself with hut of the Indies Aid of Church Mrs E G Jackson Mrs Ed father- J Farncomb Miss Mary Ann Kay to H both of East At Toronto Jan by Rev Miss Gertrude Atkinson of New- to Arthur of Kettleby In Ket low of Stephen Our fuel is the real article properly conditioned pro perly weighed properly priced and promptly delivered Let us deliver a ton to your door i Southall mother was a knickerbockers They Whats the matter with the of Oelobi The handle to the of lords and arc immense An tells of the way in which young woman solved the problem the sort is an unsophisticated country in the service of Duke of Rutland at llrlvolr as thus instructed I Era to Frio ARCHIVES OF TORONTO