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feTJS v THE ARE SAYING tayner Has Three Wins lawn Bowling Finals Newmarket Takes Trophy There are people who say that lawn bowling is I a simple game where little skill is demanded of the players People who say this do not know anything about the art of lawn bowling A good billiard player needs a sense of touch but not more so than a good lawn bowler That perhaps is a first requisite After that comes many other things such as stance delivery sense of distance as the kitty is moved around from place to place and above all selfconfidence Lawn bowling reveals a mans temperament more perhaps than any other outdoor game That fact makes final playoffs very interesting to see The harder going the tougher some become Others fall away through lack of selfconfidence and the game is as good as over This lack of selfconfidence was not present at the finals we are to describe These were district 13 finals comprising teams from Richmond Hill and Newmarket and they were played at Aurora on neutral greens on Thursday evening July Victorious It was night They carried off all the triumphs in the singles doubles and trebles None would begrudge them their victories They deserved them At the conclusion of the games there were cordial hand- shakes all round It was lawn bowling carried out in the spirit of the game ess and friendliness The first result to be declared concerning the singles in which Richard Wood defeated A Emperingham 21 to playing 25 ends This was a finelyfought contest Mr Wood has every reason to take pride in his victory for Mr is a beautiful lawn bowler and one who is never beaten until the game is over The scores were small and the margin of victory equally so hav ing regard to the 25 ends play- Congratulations to Mr Richard Wood Trebles Result The next result to come in was i that of the trebles where per Andy opposed skip- per Wood Other members of the Newmarket finalists were Jim Law Bert and Jack Luck J Linn J Wood and were the supporting members of Mr Woods team This was a hardfought test with the Stayner team gradually pulling away from Newmarket and keeping its lead This was competitive bowling at its best with no noise no over- done directions from the skips and keen concentration on the game throughout A yapping skip is the bane of our existence the skip who leaves nothing to the player but is forever telling him what grass to take even to the extent of putting his foot fw Gordon Duckworth that this years Lions carnival should be bigger and better As chair man of an organizing committee working with carnival chairman Lion Bill MacGirr he and his committee put in a lot of hard work The bigger and better ideal was realized on Wednesday even ing July when record crowds filled up the Main St between Wellington and We heard from Lion Bill Morris that more than 2000 was taken in gross receipts Considerable ex penses have of course to be de ducted from this intake but even so it is a fine result After the crowds had departed past midnight some more real hard work needed to be done in street sweeping In the early morning hours Lion Bill Morris told us groups of Lions were street cleaning and busy with little bonfires burning up the rubble None worked harder on the job Lion Bill informed us than Lion Dr Crawford Rose His remarks reminded us of the old country saying After the lord mayors show come the street cleaners New Carpet in Town You may see it at the Royal theatre When you walk on it you will experience luxurious sensations With reports from manager Clifford Griffiths that capacity houses have been the rule for many weeks past it is easy to understand that manage ment is doing everything possible to improve services for patrons The new carpet provides one of those services It is rich in color and delightful under the feet Manager Griffiths is doing every thing possible to increase ameni ties for his increasing clientele We understand that some very fine entertainment is corning along at an early date Fine Tomato Display Speaking of beautiful gardens we looked in the other day to see how the tomato bed in Dr N Madges garden on St was getting along We were surprised to see their height some stems in the vines reach ing from five to six feet with clustering bunches of fruit or is it vegetable giving promise of a good harvest Dr Madge has of course one great advantage over the ordin ary layman as a doctor in chemistry he has expert know ledge in the use of fertilizers out to show the player the road a he has an abundance of to come Quiet concentration marked the struggle between Newmarket and There was one exciting moment towards the end with much in the rear when skipper got in a score of five The excitement however and at the tend Mr conceded vic tory to his opponents to By the way Jim Law gets away a lovely bowl with no effort at all It cleaves to the from the moment it leaves fc his hand with never a ripple Showing as it makes its journey longest possible end And they were mostly the possible in the trebles snatch Wins Again The last result to be announced showed that in the doubles won again to after a hardfought brilliant struggle Here was lawn bowling at its beautiful best This game ended in real excitement with many spectators gathered around the final bowls Young Richmond Hill is a lawn bowling artist who gets each bowl away easily and truly and with astonishing accuracy He was ably supported by anoth er bowler in the first class Floyd Councillor Perkins of the Hill Mr Perkins is another bowler whose delivery is of a velvety quality Their opponents Joe Bessie and Stanley Cranston are also very skillful players so that this contest was a joy to watch Stay- players pulled away quickly but Richmond Hill quickly bore down on them There was really nothing definite about the game until the last end when excite ment was keen However In the end went home with all the wins the singles the doubles and the trebles players deserv- their victories- Good luck to It was our pleasure during these games to make the of the chairman of district Mr Palmer who is tenhams postmaster and who took time out to enquire about our own postmaster Mr George whom he knows well look forward to meeting Mr ambition of Lion flowers some of them alas like the two rows of sweet peas which we saw suffering from the seasons decline An excellent lawn bowler Dr Madge has not had much time this season for the greens lie and Mrs Madge spent some time in the United States and since their return to St have been busy entertaining friends and relatives for the past several weeks His presence has been much missed from the greens and we hope he will soon find time for a return Era and Express Trophy t wf JfG SINCLAIR Editor PAGE ELEVEN THE NEWMARKET ERA AND EXPRESS THURSDAY AUSUST 2ND The lawn bowling contests for The Era and Express Trophy took place on the Newmarket greens on Saturday July and attracted players from Aurora ville Toronto and Newmarket In weather the games were greatly enjoyed As it happened the Newmarket trophy was won by a Newmarket team composed of skipper Bob supported by V Gor ing and Their score was three wins for plus five A Newmarket team skippered by and supported by K McCaffery and Scott won second place with a score of three wins for points Two high wins were won by the Al- team skipped by John son with a score of One high win was won by skipper Ken Ashmans team from Toronto with a score of plus 13 Prizes were awarded to the winning team consisting of alu minum chairs the second prize consisted the third prize coffee percolators and the fourth prize bed linen To the oldest player taking part Harry Aurora a spec ial prize was awarded and a prize also went to the youngest com petitor Alvin Allandale The spider contest was won by Adgey President Congratulations In making the presentations the president of the Newmarket club Mr Courtney said they had all had a most enjoyable day and he looked forward to a future occasion when their visit ors would be back with them again He congratulated the lad- Page Col EDITORIALS DOES IT RING TRUE- We have heard the question asked more than once Do people read the editorial articles in their We have always thought the question unnecessary for the reason that it allows of no doubt subject to one fundamental condition That condition is confidence in the sincerity of the views expressed by editorial writers There are other contingent conditions of course But sincerity is what we believe readers set most store on They like to feel that what they read is written out of conviction Mere cleverness and trading in words are not the signs of opinions sincerely held Many writers have such qualifications as cleverness and a copious vocabulary The question is Does the article ring true Has it that imponderable quality which causes the reader to feel that right or wrong the writer is saying that he believes in himself and that he thinks others should know The first quality of good writing is we think sincerity A newspaper without an editorial is like a body without a soul Good as it may look at first sight it is lacking in essential substance News is always attrac tive News must come first We all want to know what is going on in our neighborhood Then we want to know something more We look for the opinions which the weekly newspaper has to offer on subjects that are of concern to our neighborhood On such subjects local editorials should offer dir ection as well as comment These help the reader to form his own judgment Such assistance is one of the basic reasons for all editorial writing A CLEAR CONSCIENCE An editorial writer who sits on the fence waiting on the turn of events is of little use to readers He performs no better service to his community than a member of the local council who does not take sides because of the fear of losing a vote Actually both are losers For the editor who has no definite opinions to offer is in the same plight as the councillor who is scared to move lest he lose a vote In the end both are losers in public confidence We like the man who has opinions and does not fear to express them His opinions may be wrong but he has the courage to express them Courage is a positive quality But there is nothing positive in ster ility It is an end in itself We deplore the growing tendency on the part of some weekly newspapers to import into their editorial columns secondhand stuff gathered up from miscellane ous sources Not only is this shipping of shopsoiled material unfair to the reader it is also bad for the prestige of the weekly press We would rather read a poor if sincere editorial from an original source than a good editorial purporting to be original Above all let us have honesty in our editorial columns Which brings us back to our first premise sincer ity That we believe is the first and last test that readers apply to writers If readers arc satisfied that they are getting honest opinions in editorial writings they will read them For such writings compose the soul of a newspaper The editorial writer must be honest with himself His comment on local affairs must be absolutely free from personal bias He must be fearless in his out look motivated only by a disinterested desire to serve the community in which lie works If in that pursuit his criticism may sometimes sound harsh his conscience remains clear in the performance of duty as he sees it DOWN THE GARDEN PATH One of our supreme pleasures at this date is to take a walk down the garden path Passing under a garland of crimson rambler we have on our left a patch of beautiful roses now in the budding stage of a second blooming On our right there is an infinite variety of color varying from flamboyant reds and yellows to the most delicate shades of pink and blue The care and devotion which have brought this profuse delight for eye and heart into existence does not belong to us but to another Small as is this area of floral decoration it must take its rightful place among the best that Aurora can show The weeds have gone and only the variegated bloom remains Continuing our walk we come upon a patch of vegetable garden which has given us both pain and pleasure Although the aching back is now but a memory the memory remains acute enough to have taught us we hope a lasting lesson The pleasure consists of what we may now behold and even of what has already gone like Omars rose to final oblivion Our tastes being simple and our ambitions limited we can rejoice at the sight of little things such as carrots and beets and green beans A few potatoes for homeboasting some Swiss chard and cabbage and what have you Oh yes A row of corn now fashioning its tasselling not for our own consumption but for a member of our family more Canadianized hi physical palate than we And of course the tomatoes the garden path there is rest if only for a few moments of contemplation Or is there rest For even now the tall potato tops have lost their white bloom and there are signs of elsewhere in the rows But the scarlet runners have not yet bloomed so there is still something more to look to for cheer AURORA NOTES Mysteries Of Nature Are Exemplified In The Simplest Things By Observer On looking from our upper window this morning we noticed a few familiar things and suddenly became aware that they were all remarkable We have seen them so often over the years that we had come to take little or no notice of them It was not that familiarity had bred contempt for them It was merely that we had ceased to be specially interested When we saw these things this morning it was as though we were seeing them for the first time First our eye caught an immense display of dande lions in bloom They seemed to have blossomed out overnight for do not remember seeing them yesterday In the early morning sun the yellow blooms scintillated with divine radiance Yet the dandelions are derided as a pernicious weed that spoli ates our precious lawns How many limes have we seen indus trious womenfolk small garden- tool in band uprooting the dan delions that destroyed the beau ty of the closelycut turf adorn ing the fronts and backs of their homes This morning that bounteous spread of dandelion bloom seem ed to us as if it were as it truly was a gift from heaven There is no mortal who could manufacture that lovely display of yellow bloom The men of science have wrought wonders but there is not one among them who could create a dandelion I We suppose the real reason why we have ceased to see beau ty in the common flower or weed as it is disdainfully describ ed is because as the years have passed by we have become more and more mentally corroded by things of lesser worth than flow- gives rise to the question How did butterflies come to be made And why It was Wordsworth who wrote that if he could un derstand the flower in the cran nied wall he would understand something of the mind of its Maker But no one has solved such riddles All of them are clothed in deep mysteries that the mind of man cannot penetrate We go through life surrounded by mysteries and seldom give a thought to any of them We are in the struggle to live and those who have no cause to enter that struggle are often cluttered up with a multi tude of superficial engagements that in the end are of no im portance whatever The butterfly that rose from the petals of the blooming dan delion had passed from our gaze and our eyes once more turned earthwards And on the early morning sunshaded carpet of lawn where stands the tall maple tree across the way there was ebonycoated m Three mysteries we had already seen the flowering dandelions the white butterfly and how ebonycoated Malcolm Malcolm is a member of a very ancient family perhaps older than humankind For while there are disputed records theologians always right We leave our question unan swered and turn for a moment to Malcolm In the shade of the leafing maple tree he was work ing assiduously at some small object he held in his paws We did not know what he was doing but Malcolm did We did how ever know something that Mal colm did not know wc could see the Persian cat crouching behind a small bush waiting for Malcolm to come nearer But Malcolm did not go nearer to his enemy and the danger passed We came back from our fleet ing world of daydreams to the realities of a grimlooking type writer and a few sheets of white paper It had been our inten tion to write a eulogy on the pleasures of washing dishes at a kitchen sink But what we had seen by a casual glance through an upper window banished such happy thoughts as filled our mind a moment Our happy thoughts we will hold for another time We will add only one more thought evoked by what we have already written Those who complain of being bored should try the sim ple cure of looking through a window at home They may often see sights that have inspir ed poets and puzzled the philoso phers and metaphysicians through the ages AURORA SAT AUG 3 A child is seldom lof when man inherited the earth to flowers and childhood is I there are not so far as we know I near to God For a few radiant moments we were enthralled at the spectacle of the flowering dandelions Too soon the mood would pass and we would be back to com mon earth again But as looked from the window we saw another miracle of the Divine Mind From one of those count less dandelion blooms a white butterfly ascended rising into the sunlit space A butterfly is a very common sight But what is not so com mon is the mental curiosity that any records at all of the origins of the squirrel family For what purpose were squir rels created What useful pur pose do they serve These things we cannot answer nor do we imagine that many people even give such things a thought Yet a squirrel is a very remark able creature The Creator fa shioned him and what the Cre ator in His wisdom thought it was worth while to create is not for us poor mortals to question At any rate such is what the theologians tell us But are the KNOW YOUR MERCHANTS Hobby Craft Shop We began our series of Know Your Merchants by introducing to our readers the oldest personal business in Aurora This is the wellknown and popular J Willis store now represented by three generations of the Willis family It is the oldest indivi dual business in town The youngest personal busi ness in Aurora we believe to be owned by 18 yearold John Mar tin who lives with his parents Mr and Mrs George Martin at Wellington street Johns sister Dorothea completes the household There is a solid reason why we should introduce John Martin to our readers for on June 26 he successfully graduated as a woodworker gaining a certifi cate from the Standard Engin eering institute in Toronto This talented young man will be years of age in December next High School Tuition Aurora folks take pride in their talented youth There is a great variety of talent among its youth besides including mu sic in which it has a fame all its own inspired by its director Mr Harris It possesses much youthful sporting talent as its director Mr Tom Dickson could abundantly prove In John Martins case consid erable credit must go to Mr It for inspiring in his pupil at Aurora High school a love for woodwork which there is every reason to believe will prove a lifetime study and business ca reer I has already sold enough of his own merchandise to enable him to buy costly equipment of the latest types to produce fine work His Hobby Craft Shop is on premises at the rear of his home The building was erected by father and son It is not large comprising some ft by ft but its contents are impressive There you will see his variety of very expensive mechanical equipment all of which has been paid for out of Johns earnings in the shop You will see also a varied assortment of the orig inal work turned out by this talented young man Needless to say Mr George Martin has every faith in his sons future as a woodworker encouraging him in whatever way he can Creative Work It was at High school that John found that he to create things with his own hands and the best woodworking equip- ment Creative work strongly appealed to him So after High school he curried on with the woodworking business at which he so recently gained a certifi cate of competency Among other work in which he specializes are coffee and end tables table lamps desks and for the summer season or naments for lawns We were especially interested to hear that Mr George the brilliant sports writer on the Era and Express had recently called at the Hobby Craft Shop and given John an order for lawn orna ments We take pleasure in encourag ing youth In the instance of John Martin his work provides the best of reasons why he should be encouraged The of his shop valued at some thousands of dollars are the best proof of his early success at woodwork He is another exam ple of Auroras talented youth and we wish him all future suc cess His single complaint appears to be that his present premises are already proving too small for his equipment and activities Time will no doubt cure that complaint HOBBY CRAFT SHOP SPECIALIZING IN Coffee and End Tables Table Lamps Lawn Chairs And Lawn Ornaments General Woodworking W WELLINGTON ST AURORA Show IS OF THE PAUL HEHREIL PRECEDES NEWMARKET LIONS Monster BINGO Thurs Aug 9 MUTT SHOW AT Newmarket Memorial Arena SEVEN BIG EVENTS Largest Dog 200 Smallest Dog Best Dressed Dog Dog with Longest Tail Dog with Shortest Tail Dog Doing Best Tricks Dog Eating Dish of Dr Ballard Health Food In Shortest Time Prizes for all entries FREE ADMISSION Sponsored by Dr Ballard Plus LAUREL AND HARDY in The Matinee Saturday SUNDAY AFTER MIDNIGHT SHOW AM AUG MONDAY and TUESDAY lie funniest idea fhi RONALD REAGAN DIANA LYNN TOlf Plus CARTOON TRAVEL and MARCH OF TIME Monday doors will open at Show starts WED AUG 9 Grand double feature presentation Ann Sheridan Victor Mature David Wayne STEILA Showing and PLUS Vaudeville on the screen mm Showing at only COMING SOON James Stewart in HARVEY BUFFALO BILL SUSANNAH OF THE ROCKIES FATHERS LITTLE DIVIDEND or etc WE ARE LOOKING FOR TALEN FOR AN AMATEUR to be held in Newmarket lATtR DATE AND PUCE TO BE PROGRAM TO CONSIST OF NEWMARKET AND DISTRICT ENTRIES ONLY SPONSORED BY NEWMARKET LEGION BRANCH Valuable prizes and opportunities for contestants and winners DO THIS Send your name age ami address along with the type talent by mall only to Legion Amateur rv r J i j -av- i I i 1