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Office ani 844 ice Newmarket Hours Except Weal It Evenings by Appointment MISCELLANEOUS A- SONS Evenings By Appointment at Barrister Solicitor Notary Public Etc St Barristers Solicitors Notaries BA N MATHEWS Joseph Vale NEWMARKET OFFICE A MILLS Barrister Solicitor and Notary MAIN ST VIOLET ROBINSON Conveyancing Insurance St Newmarket JAMES BARRISTER SOLICITOR ETC MAIN ST PHONE NEWMARKET St 1 LOCAL REPRESENTATIVE RUSSELL GLIDE Aurora Phone 59r4 On Yonge St North End Oak A HAWKS Contractor For BULLDOZING GRADING CELLAR EXCAVATIONS Gravel Sand and Fill Phone SAND for approved stone of various si grave sand concrete gravel and pit ram Delivered or at bin Plant phone 125 Office phones and 126 ELECTRICAL CONTRACTOR House and Farm Wiring B A I General Repairs Oil Burners Space Heater All Electrical Household Appliances Phone Box Ontario St W Newmarket DR W O NOBLE DENTIST Over MUNICIPAL OFFICE Office Residence 1344 113 STEWART Ratio Service RADIO PARTS TUBES BATTERIES ETC Main St Phone Dr G VanderVoorV DENTIST Main St Newmarket mm J fa IEDIC f SJ BOYD Indian TORONTO Physician and Surgeon Phone Appointment At residence corner of and Sis and MARGARET AR KIN STALL Physic Im Office Prospect Consultation by Appointment TELEPHONE Office A STOUFFER 19 Raglan St Expert Piano Tuner and Repairer Pianos Bought Sold and Rented PHONE Janes J Wall PLUMBING HEATING CONTRACTOR Dealer for Delta Water System Oil Boners Cement Tanks Constructed OAK RIDGES Phone King 111 Phone Aurora The Story Of SHARON ETHEL This is the twentyfirst instalment of a continuing Story of Sharon from its founding to the present The story was written after almost two years of research and will toe believe be a major contribution to know ledge of the past The remaining instalments will follow weekly EVANS FIBS NEWMARKET Coal Coke Wood and Stoker Coal Phone S Orders taken for Gravel Sand and Crushed Stone and General Hauling Watch and Clock Repair Gorham St Phone fiMM Newmarket ALL WORK GUARANTEED In the days of the pioneers very few schools existed in Up per Canada These were mainly private and attended only by children whose parents were able to pay the fees When grammar schools were establish ed the situation was similar The result of ail this was that child- of early settlers received little or no education and grew to maturity without being train ed to read and write By grammar schools and 350 com mon schools had been establish ed The outlying districts fared badly Incompetent teachers often old soldiers ignorant of any but the simplest rudiments and who generally ruled by use of the rod were employed to train the young mind Salaries paid were but a pittance and parents of the scholars in turn boarded the teacher The aver age salary paid to teachers in in the Home District was six pounds eleven shillings Frontier Schools At a teachers convention in Newmarket in June 1860 an es say written by T Peck was read An from this paper portrays the educational situa tion before the establishment of Common Schools The first set tlers cleared away the forest trees and tilled the soil until they knew by experience that if they reap and gather in they must also sow the seed When we glance upon the past history of Canada as to education we are astonished at the change which has taken place The darker stages of education on the frontiers have passed away Converse with some of the oldtimers and hear of the log school house the long benches backless and then im agine the ruddy little boy as he conies trudging his way through the unbeaten snow for two or three miles and seats himself with his associates who can play unmolested until the teacher has his nan out still drowsy from the influence of old neck tea or his pipe of tobacco View the winding path as it wends from one settlement to another tra velled only by footman or man on horseback Then wend your way from the City of Toronto to the north at a distance of 30 miles and look upon these log cabins and shanties reared by the first set tlers Here mid hardships Old John Cross kept the village school And a queer old man was he For he spared not the rod and he kept the rule As he beat In the ABC Every letter in the little boys noddle Was driven as fast as fast could be So after followed through the noddle Like nails all the ABXV Free Schools Luckily the days of old John Cross have been left far behind After the Union of the Conadas by Lord Sydenham in one of the first acts passed by the parliament which met at King ston was the setting aside an annual sum of for sup port of public schools A super intendent of education was also appointed It was in that the first free schools were open ed In Ontario and thanks INVISIBLE MENDING AND ALTERATIONS Prompt and Service NEWMARKET Phone Newmarket I J- INSURANCE MAI ESTATE LUtion Invited Client AUBREY STEWART BE SURE INSURE JOHN ST BRADFORD Lot DARCY MILLER ST NEWMARKET t a rf KEN iWANO TUNER AND TECHNICIAN For New Onus Bought and Sold GRACE ST NEWMARKET Estimate Free SONS and Nock Laying FIREPLACES BUILT REPAIRED Stiffen JACK SMITH WRITES Ottawa Letter fa A weekly letter from the member of parliament for York North There was keen interest in the British elections and a new government at Westminster at this time is a matter of great import here at Ottawa The Newmarket En Nov I ISM to the Rev all the public schools of the prov ince were made free and all children in Ontario under a spe cific age were compelled to at tend This was indeed a triumph for public schools and free edu cation had not come about with out a great deal of opposition So long as the socalled upper classes had control it was not desirable that the mass of the people should be educated The story is told by an advocate of free schools that in a town to the north at a meeting to dis cuss the question a Family Com pact champion stuttered What do you want such schools for There will always be enough welleducated Old Countrymen to transact public business and we can leave the Canadians to clean up the bush Three hundred schools were in operation in 1847 13 of them in East Gwillimbury Extant is a minute of a meeting of the Council of the United Counties of Peel and York held Feb 13 In that minute it is re corded that Mr Jones consid ered that Common School edu cation was the most important and believed it would be pro ductive of greater advantage to the counties to devote any spare funds that could be raised to Common Schools rather than to Grammar Schools It was impressed on members of the council that because of rapidly increasing popula tion every exertion should be urged to extend the Common School for if any department of our public instruction is to be free it should be the Common Schools the poor mans acad emy and not free education for those able to pay for it School Opening It was approximately when the torch of education was lighted in Sharon At about that time the Friends had returned to David the land and meeting house David made use of this building for school purposes and in this the first school was opened and boys and girls were taught to read and write as well David a thorough craftsman himself trained these hoys and girls in some practical handi craft He long had advocated the theory that children of both sexes should be taught some exercise to fit them for economic and industrial living When in the lower or town meeting house was about to he built this log structure was torn down and the school was transferred to the first church building later known as the music hall The west side of this building was used as com mon school and separated by a partition the east half served for township meetings This ar rangement continued until the present school house was built in Some considerable time after the construction of this lat ter the music hall In turn was torn down and it is said that the material was used to build a store The music hall still ex isted in First Teacher In so far as can be learned Wakefield was the first teacher to officiate in the Sharon school David W Hughes tells in his recollections that he was born in and began his school life when five years old In the little school house in Sha ron and that Hugh Rose Mc- an uncle of Mrs Arthur of Newmarket was the teacher They slates and slate pencils slate pencils cost one cent and lead pencils cost five cents Quilt pens were used also In those years and the was expected to keep these pens in condition Stu dents addressed the teacher as Master In January a teacher was wanted for the vill age of Sharon school The trus tees were J Willson William and Charles Haines In the trustees were Charles Haines Reuben Early in 1858 plans were set in operation to provide com pletely new school building and a lease bearing date Nov 11 and recorded Nov was given by William to Charles Haines for threequar ters of an acre at per annum for school purposes This rental continued until March and recorded April when Charles Watson who had pur chased the north half of the Kitely property sold to Raker secretary of the school board the three- quarter acre of land for Again on April and re corded in May of year Stephen and Amelia to the trustees of school section No East a part lot for There had been other schools in Sharon David Willson had established two girls whoola Ellen had conducted a school for girls where in the morning they studied the print ed lesson and In the afternoon they trained in needle work Tho girls of thoe years to Sharon became adept with The international situation is of such major concern these days that apart altogether from political considerations there is something heartening in the news that the great Churchill will again have an authoritative voice in the world affairs Elections are very much the business of the people directly concerned who cast the ballots Nevertheless I must confess one could discern here a consider able amount of satisfaction with the results It is quite within the realm of possibility that the change will have farreaching importance in shaping world history I think we all hope that under Churchill Britain will regain economic stability and her former place of leadership in the world Pensions The main purpose of the pres ent session was to pass legisla tion providing universal pen sions for all at the age of It was a momentous hour in Canadas history when the new legislation was presented this week It was a great honor and privilege to have some small part in framing this legislation and I know the feeling of satis faction which I felt is shared by all people of the riding It demonstrates our progress as a nation and our adherence to the principles of social justice It is introduced at a time when the weight of national and inter national responsibilities for joining in firm measures to pre serve our way of life lies heavily on all our people This measure marks our reso lute determination to give new meaning and value to our cher ished concepts and to press for ward toward our ideal of social the needle and the women of the village long were famous for their fine work John Stokes also held private school at his house School Picnic In July of a picnic was held and the account relates that about the pupils in number wiih their teacher Mr marched in proces sion to the beautiful grove of Mr Charles Haines where they found their parents and friends 150 people waiting to receive them After partaking of the dainties the ladies of Sharon know so well how to provide they betook themselves in right earnest to the sports of the day Amongst other amusements provided for the children were two swings one of which was of the most magnificent propor tions being suspended between two trees about 30 feet from the ground The parents and guests from adjoining sections were waited upon by the older pupils and after all were satisfied there taken up several baskets of fragments Original Poem As soon as order was restored Mr David Willson addressed the children and read the following lines which he had composed for the occasion and which were sung by the children Ol that I were a child again Like unto these I see But could not there remain A I was born to be Ol Then did fortuno on me smile My father did provide And mother blessed this little child When I was by her side Or Could these little children know How richly they do fare They are too young to plough or sow Or toil for what they wear To read their books and go to school Is all that they can do And learn right well to write by rule And and figure too And they da have time to ploy As age cannot afford Youthful life moat happy That la to us restored At home we do our basket fill And along to school And so joys were living still Nor learn to play fool It Is to us a blessed day When wo such laws can see For from school that stay away Are foolish like to be Now children come our Joys to sing Our masters good kind And childrens lifes a pleasant thing For joy and peace we find And sure our diets sweet and good And such our bounties are We re little children in the wood birds wo fare Mr was next Intro duced and In a speech of length referred to the superior by youth of the day and urged jnts to spin no pains to secure to their children a sound com school education betterment The new old age security leg islation represents the of many years of public con cern and government action with respect to the needs of our senior citizens Exactly 24 years ago the first old age pension cheque was paid in Canada It is a far cry from those days to the present The quarter century that has elapsed since then has taken us through a great economic depression a- second world war and following that years of international ten sion We now have in Canada in ad dition to the universal pension for all at the age of the Un employment Insurance Act the Veterans Charter and the Fam ily Allowance Act In addition we have an overall Health pro gram which provides extensive services at public expense by and for the people of Canada These forward steps have been a natural development of national consciousness of our responsibilities as our brothers keeper They have been the in evitable response to a growing awareness of social need among our people to an ever increasing acceptance of the principles of social justice and to an enlarg ing sense of social responsibility on the part of Canadians in common with likeminded peo ple in other democratic coun tries of the world Registration has been proceed ing in a very satisfactory man ner Proof of age is essential and if any of our people have difficulty in this regard if they will write me I will be glad to be of assistance in searching records here Some times the necessary regulations seem irk some but it is a big undertaking responsibility to do this job and the officials are doing the best they can under the circum stances It is hoped that every thing will be in shape for the first cheques to go out early in the New Year POLLOCK HEADS KESWICK The organization meeting of the Keswick Hockey Club was held last week Claude Pollock was elected president Vicepre sidents are and Edwin Mahoney Ted Anderson was named secretary and Mrs Hearty Clark treasurer The ex will meet next Monday at the Keswick arena at 8 pm to name the coaches and managers of the teams mi M fc uwttfi8 MOST i 5iA Our Policy represents the most in Life Insurance because both father and son in the one providing if you die before your son or if your son dies after he 21 or a rev V 10000 when You omit to your son to a unit for a ia1 ion irii